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
Gilbert Gables: Elena wakes and drags her diary off the nightstand to complain about being young and in love, but has seconds thoughts and slaps it back down on table, and heads to the bathroom, where she finds VICKI, brushing her teeth (gah, with whose toothbrush?). Vicki is wearing Jeremy's shirt and not much else. The girls have an awkward moment, after which Vicki informs Germ that they might be in trouble. He says that since he's a drug using delinquent, having a girl in bed barely registers. Oh, I think not, young man. Wait 'til your Aunt Jenna finds out!
Oh, right, Aunt Jenna is Aunt Jenna -- world's most crap guardian, who mostly giggles when Elena informs her of the monkey business going on upstairs. In fact, Jenna's main complaint is that Germ could have been "craftier" about sneaking a girl in. How crafty should he be when he sneaks in an addicted newborn, in about nine months time? Ahhh, forget it. Jenna's got other things on her mind. She's going out with Logan "Scum" Fell. Meanwhile, Elena hasn't heard from Stefan since he left her a vague message 3 days prior. She's not going to call him, either. She's not okay with it, but she's not going to cry about it, either. Her world is not going to stop spinning because of some guy. She says.
Mossy Manse: Zach's a little uneasy about Stefan going back to school and leaving him with the starving, man eating beast who's locked in their basement, but Stefan reassures him that the Vervain and lack of blood has hobbled our favorite bad boy. Besides, Stefan came back to town to live a normal life. Elena is part of that -- because it's so normal to date the doppelganger of your lover from a century and a half ago. He just hopes she's still speaking to him. Good luck to you, dude. She's not even talking to her diary.
Caroline's bedroom: She tells Bonnie what bits and pieces she remembers of the Founders Day Party, which amounts to Damon either kissing or biting her neck. There are holes in her memory, so she doesn't have a lot of details to give, which is just fine as Bonnie is paying more attention to the unlit candle in her hand than to her abused friend. The thrall is still working on Caroline, because she is uncomfortably adamant that she doesn't want to talk about anything having to do with Damon. Bonnie finds the amber crystal pendant Damon snuck out of the Mayoral Mansion, last week. Caroline says "Damon gave it to me or was going to give it to me." It's hers, now. Bonnie says it's ugly, so Caroline tells her to get her grubby hands off it and hangs it on the coat rack in her room.