Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Working At The Car Wash
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.08.2009
Mossy Manse: Stefan cradles Zach's corpse in his arms. We jump back to Gilbert Gables, where Elena continues: "It's not possible. I'm not a believer. I can't be. But how can I deny what's right in front of me. Someone who never grows old. Never gets hurt. Someone who changes in ways that can't be explained. Girls bitten. Bodies drained of blood." She flashes back to all those events from the past episodes, including Matt telling that Vicki said her attacker was a vampire. Elena looks at herself in the mirror, trying to come to terms with what she knows is true, even though it's nothing she would ever have claimed to believe in a million years. At the cemetery, Langer's song is playing on the car tape deck, I guess, because it just stops. All the small-town lifers say, "Not it," before Vicki, so she jumps up, goes over to the car, and pops the tape back in. When she pulls her head out of the car (or truck), she hears someone coughing down near the rear bumper. She asks if he's okay. It's Damon. He coughs and tells her, "Come here," and "Come closer." When she notes that he doesn't look good, he says he has something he has to tell her. As Vicki approaches, he seems about to do a header. Vicki catches him in her arms, reassuring him that she's got him. As she tries to help him steady himself, he bends her head back and sinks his fangs into her neck. CHOMP! Vicki struggles and cries out, but the small-town lifers don't hear her. Soon, she falls silent. Damon allows himself a moment to take a deep breath he doesn't need, and then returns to his meal. Vicki's hand slips off of the vehicle and drops out of sight. Is she dead? I don't think so, but we'll find out on Thursday, won't we?
Mossy Manse: Stefan strides purposefully toward a set of shelves, and opens a wooden box to remove a stake. MR. POINTY! Once it's in his grasp, he runs for the door, stake at the ready. When he opens it up to take off into the night and find his murderous brother, he instead finds Elena. She looks up at him and says, "What are you?" Title card!
Confession: early last year, I was eager to cover Rob "Not the Singer" Thomas's remake of his own original series, Cupid and was thrilled when I got the chance. Like many fellow TWoPpers, I adored Rob's Veronica Mars, and was more than ready to give him a second chance to tell his fantastical god-or-lunatic story. By episode four, I was praying for Cupid's cancellation (sorry Rob), so my guardian angel, Angel Cohn, offered to spell me for an episode. I immediately took her up on the offer, because I knew the show *had* to be cancelled sooner or later, and I didn't want to cover one more second of it than necessary. Flash forward to...