Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 249 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Yeah, I Don't Do Teen Drama
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2012.11.08
Out in the restaurant, Dean pushes himself up off the floor. Venom-coated nails are sticking out of every part of him, including his head. It reminds me of a messy Hellraiser, even though I've never seen Hellraiser. Why do I even know what that is? Seriously, my brain is its own worst enemy. There's stuff I need to know that I can no longer recall, but show me nails sticking out of someone's head and I'll reference a film I've never seen, based on a book I've never read, featuring a character about whom I know nothing. No, I'm not going to read the Wiki link. I just tossed that up there for you all, 'cause that's how I roll.
So yeah, Hellraiser rises up to his knees. Connor trains some sort of rifle-like weapon on him, but the shot is dark, and when I pause my TiVo, there's junk on the screen blocking my view. No, I don't want to try over 70 digital magazines, free, TiVo. I just want a look at that gun so that I can then fail to accurately describe it to my readers, anyhow. Thanks. So, I think it's got some sort of cage or basket-looking thing on the end. When Connor fires it at Dean, it cuts right through him, leaving a gaping hole where his heart would be. Gaping -- as in you can see right through him to the wall behind him. Dean falls dead to the floor. I wonder is the show being more gory this year, or am I suddenly Suzy Sensitive? Commercial.
Mystic Grill. Kitchen. Stefan gives Damon's phone to Matt. "Follow this map. Get out of here. Take her to Caroline's so she can..." Stefan looks at April. Looks like Auntie Care Bear is going to be doing some compulsion. As the kids are leaving, Matt warns Stefan that Connor is armed. "If you go out there, he's going to kill Jeremy." Stefan says, "No one's killing anyone," which is how we know someone's killing someone, and my money is on Elena doing the killing, which -- YAY!
Cut to Connor's tattoo. Thanks to Dean's death, it's growing, again. Jeremy's watching in disbelief, and even Connor is so impressed with his own arm, that I think Stefan might have a slim chance of sneaking up on him, but no. He hears Stefan, grabs Jeremy, throws him onto another mat that's rigged to a bomb trigger. Stefan is trying to reason with Connor, who's training a handgun in the direction of Stefan's voice. Jeremy yells out, "Stefan?" Stefan looks and realizes Jeremy's standing on a bomb trigger.