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
Mystic Falls Lab. Elena hallucinates about her seven-ish year old self entering the clinic basement. You can tell that it's Elena, because she's wearing a blue Henley, like she did back in the good old days of this show. I always liked that Elena wore the same thing more than once, provided it wasn't a ball gown for a formal Event O' the Week. Wee Elena (Kayla Madison) hears scary sounds coming from behind a door and runs back up the stairs.
Back in the present, Elena asks Wes when he met her dad. He says Grayson was working with Augustine to craft a magical cure-all to fight disease, cure cancer and save the world. She asks if Grayson ever brought a vampire down there. Wes doesn't answer, so Elena says she remembers being creeped out by this place when she was little. She also tells Wes she saw Enzo when she woke. "I know he's alive. Where is he?" Wes says he sent him on a day-trip to find Damon. Elena strains against her bonds. "What did you do? What did you do?" We cut a few hours away, to...
Whitmore College. Aaron leads Damon and Stefan into a lecture hall. Enzo is already waiting there and greets his old friend and Judas as, "21051." Damon is all Enzo? Enzo says, "It's been a while, mate." Commercial.
When Stefan asks who he is, Enzo says, "Lorenzo, but my friends call me Enzo. Kidding -- I don't have any friends." He holds out his hand, but Stefan refuses to shake it, and instead turns to Damon, in hopes of an explanation. Damon says Enzo is another Augustine. "Our cells were next to each other." Damon then tells Enzo they're there to meet Maxfield. "Do you know him?" Enzo: "That's your first question to me -- not how are you? How did you survive in that fire I left you to die in?" Aaron asks what's going on. Enzo would love to elaborate. He's been waiting 70 years to tell his story.
Back at the lab, Elena asks Wes if Enzo is the Augustine and if he killed Megan. Wes tells her to conserve her energy for Phase 2. Elena figures he's not going to tell her what that is. He says if it works, she'll be the first to know. Elena asks why Megan had a picture of herself with Dr. Gilbert. Wes says Megan's family helped fund a lot of Dr. Gilbert's projects. All they knew was that Gilbert had an unregulated compound where he could cure most injuries. Elena whispers, "Vampire blood." I want Meredith back on this show, stat. I know it probably won't happen, but she should be here. Wes says as Megan grew up, she grew suspicious, went to Whitmore, roomed with Gilbert's daughter, went to a party at Whitmore house and stuck her nose where it didn't belong. Elena figures she found Enzo in his cell. Think Elena. Think. I bet Megan was onto Wes, and he sent Enzo after her.