Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 122 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.24.2013
Once they're alone, Stefan tells Elena he hopes her family history is happier than his own. Oh, as usual, dear. Elena says, "Well, let's see. In the last three years I've lost my adoptive parents, my birth parents, my aunt, our guardian Alaric, and my brother Jeremy died, although he came back to life, so there's that."
Stefan asks if that's the Jeremy that lives in Mossy Manse. Elena says, "Yeah, after I had a breakdown and burned my house to the ground." They snicker and Stefan wonders how he is unable to remember this smart, pretty, funny, woman strong enough to get through all that. Elena credits all the great people around her for pulling her through. "Like you. You're one of those people." Stefan muses that they're bonded by death, then adds, "Please don't tell me that we met in a cemetery." Um, at least once. Elena cringes and laughs, then admits that they officially met somewhere else first and asks him if he wants to see.
Outside, Damon, ever the Stefan/Elena shipper is on the phone with Jeremy, and is demanding to talk to Bonnie, "...because I've got a hungry vampire who's forgotten he's the hero of the story." Jeremy tells him to come meet him, alone. Damon needs Jeremy to be less vague and weird. Jeremy's response doesn't really meet those standards. "I know where Bonnie is. Get over here and I'll explain." We cut to...
MFHS. Elena comes out of the men's room and runs smack dab into Stefan, just like she did long ago and far away, but it doesn't prompt any memories of her. She gets flirtatious and a little handsy, and wants to try again. Stefan doesn't figure it will work. Their warm discussion is interrupted when some football players enter the corridor. One boy is bleeding from the head. Elena is afraid it will trigger Stefan's hunger so she drags him...
Outside. Elena has Stefan close his eyes, then she jumps to the top of a building. She tells him to jump and is this fricking Twilight? Why do I have to cover this shit? Elena tells Stefan he once whisked her up to the top of a ferris wheel, before she was a vampire. Stefan says, "Right. You mean when we dated." Elena thought Damon hadn't covered that, yet. Stefan says, "I may have amnesia, but I'm not an idiot. I'm a hundred and sixty-four year old vampire who went back to high school." Still sure you're not an idiot? Who willingly returns to high school? Anyhow, Stefan guesses his return had something to do with Elena. He figures that his ripping people up and putting them back together must have been the turnoff that broke them up. Someone should tell him about the cell phone. Elena says ripping had nothing to do with it. He was the most compassionate and in control person she ever met. It wasn't his fault they broke up. It was her fault. Becoming a vampire changed her. They jump off the building and we jump to commercial.