Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 325 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Breakfast Club
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2013.01.17
High School. Carrying the Son of White Oak stake, Caroline is walking down the empty corridors and peering in rooms. Right after she texts Stefan that the second floor is clean, Rebekah Stealth-Salvatores by her. As penance, I'm going to refer to "Stealth Salvatoring" as "vamp running" here. Stefan looks up from his phone and peeks into another room, when he senses that someone has vamp run by him. In a Samsung product placement, Stefan sends a text to Caroline which reads: "1st floor. I'll distract her. You stake her." As soon as he's done typing, Rebekah shows her face. She gives him a little (deserved) crap about him helping Klaus dagger her, makes it clear she wants the cure and pushes Stefan up against the lockers. Stefan spins Rebekah around and pushes her up against the locker, then holds her there with a trademark throttle. Should he be able to do that? Well, maybe she's letting him, because Rebekah smiles, pulls out the Son of White Oak stake and lets him know she already found Care Bear. Commercial.
Rebekah leads Stefan into the library where April, Elena and Caroline are waiting. Rebekah declares class is in session, but I'm so referring to this as her very own Breakfast Club. Noting that her captives have all been compelled, she tells them she has a few questions and wants some honest answers. Everyone is to stay and remain obedient. When Rebekah tells April to take notes as, "...this is how you get answers in this town," the girl takes her literally and starts scribbling.
Playing exposition fairy, Rebekah talks about how back in 1114, the Originals met the Brotherhood of Five -- vampire hunters. She asks the kids what the tattoos are (a map leading to a cure for vampirism). After some more exposition involving the sword, Rebekah notes that since they're all still vampires something must have thwarted their search for the cure. It's then that she asks April what she's doing. The girl looks up. "Taking notes." Rebekah says, "I wasn't being literal, darling, but now that you mention it, a flowchart would be nice, which means index cards and pushpins. Go fetch." I'd laugh harder, but I'm a little bitter that the flowchart never materializes. You can't just promise flowcharts all willy nilly and then not follow through, Show.
Stefan proclaims this a waste of Rebekah's time. Rebekah can't believe Stefan would just give up and rubs in the fact that he was prepared to do anything so that he could take the cure with Elena, which meant that they could grow old and die together. Elena looks appropriately sheepish at that, as she should. Rebekah interprets sheepish as surprised and asks what's going on. Caroline cracks first and blurts out that Stefan and Elena broke up. Rebekah taunts Stefan about his epic love and compels him to explain what happened. When Stefan says, "She slept with Damon," it's then that Elena truly looks surprised... at least until she looks at Caroline and turns on the stink-eye. Then it's Caroline's turn to look sheepish. We cut to the...