Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 398 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT They Say That Cracking Up Is Hard to Do
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2011.11.15
Shane's Office. Shane asks Bonnie if Damon got everything he needed from his files. Bonnie says yeah and thanks him. She asks how Shane knows all this stuff. He says he's been around the world ten times over and studied every known supernatural. Witches are the most powerful, so he's in her corner, all the way. "When your new hunter -- and I know you have one -- when he completes his mark, you're going to want to come to me, 'cause I'm going to be the only one who can help. Trust me on that, okay. The only one."
Gilbert Gables Porch. Elena comes outside and apologizes to Stefan for stabbing him. He laughs that he probably had it coming. Well yeah, but not in that particular moment. He knows Damon told her about the cure. He's glad to be free of the lies and secrets. They all want the same thing and just have to work together for it. When Stefan sits on the steps, Elena follows suit and then asks him why he sent Damon to look for her instead of coming himself. Stefan: "I sent him because lately, it seems like he's able to get through to you in ways that I can't. You'll listen to him. You trust him, even when you can't trust me." Elena tries to explain that she didn't mean to not trust Stefan, but he cuts her off. "After everything that we've been through, you can admit it." Elena just nods. Finally she tells Stefan he's been so strong for her. "Helping me. Fighting for that girl that chose you -- the girl that I was when I died on the bridge. And I love you so much for wanting to find this cure because I'd like nothing more than to get her back. The girl that she's become -- that -- that I've become is different, somehow. Darker. Who I am. What I want..." Stefan: "What you want, or who you want." You mean whom here, sweetie. He goes with who. Him goes with whom. She doesn't want he. She wants him. Get it? Got it? Good. Let me just pause here to apologize to editorial, and all of you gentle readers, because by picking on Stefan's grammar, I've just doomed myself to missing a bunch of embarrassing errors when I proof, and cursed editorial to miss them too.