Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 91 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT 50 Shades Of FanFic
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.12.2013
Outside, Damon has landed on the hood of a car. Shards of the windshield surround him. Enzo comes at him. Damon says he's not going to fight. Enzo asks if he's going to run, then. "You're good at that." All Damon wants is to find his girl. Enzo says his only thought for the past 50 years was killing Damon. He throttles Damon, but then is overcome by pain. Damon tries to help him, but it's too late. Enzo immediately desiccates. This college must be home to the most incurious students in America, because not one person has noticed any of this. We cut to...
Aaron's dorm. Aaron pretends he's going for his files, but instead grabs the gun. Stefan outsmarts and disarms him. Throttling Aaron, Stefan tells Aaron he will kill him. "Do not test me." Aaron tells Stefan how Damon already planned his death since before he was born. He runs down Damon's 60-year-long revenge plan against the Whitmore family. "So go ahead and do it. Kill me, because I don't want to give Damon the satisfaction -- so do it. Do it!" Stefan says not all of them are like Damon and starts to walk out. Aaron calls him back and hands over everything Wes gave him on Augustine. "I saw Elena's last name on a few pages. Maybe it will help." Stefan opens the file, and then looks at Aaron. We cut to the...
Mystic Falls Lab. Elena hallucinates/remembers her childhood. Wee Elena sneaks down to the basement, where she hears screams and all manner of racket coming from behind the door of a creepy room. Her dad (Jason MacDonald) stops her and reminds her she's not supposed to be down there. Wee Elena tells him she heard screams. Dad assures her today is a good day. He's going to save a little girl's life -- a girl who's just about Elena's age. Megan, anyone?
In the present, Wes tells Elena he has good news. The sample cells mutated. His compound worked. Did he give her cancer? Oh, no, he conditioned her to salivate at the smell of vampire blood. All right, that's pretty cool… until I think about it. How did hemodialysis accomplish that? Did he even give Elena any blood to sniff? How come it took less than a day? He had Jesse for something like two weeks. Whoa, why did I just talk myself out of liking this development? I am my own worst enemy. Anyhow, the problem (from Elena's perspective) is that this will make her a ripper who craves vampire blood. Sorry, Team Delena. Commercial.
After the break, Wes narrates into his recorder that Subject 83182 is ready for compound injection. Why is her number so much higher than Jesse's number was? I can't remember it exactly, but I remember I Googled his number and found out it was the zip code for (I think) Auburn, Illinois. I never bothered sharing that, because who cares? And no, I don't know why I'm sharing it now. Look, I want my hiatus, bitches.