Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Someone Just Shot A Panda Bear
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.16.2012
Back at Mossy Manse, Damon finds Stefan mooning over an unopened bag of blood. Our beautiful Brothers Salvatore try to brainstorm. Damon's willing to kill Bonnie and/or Abby, if worst comes to worst. Stefan is more hesitant. Damon then suggests a "less diabolical plan." If they dagger one of the Original vampires, that should disable all of them (except Klaus), and will allow the Salvatores to save their girlfriend. They get Ric and Caroline to help. Klaus and Kol are already at the Grill, so Caroline shows up to distract Klaus. Ric daggers Kol. Back in the caves, Rebekah falls to the ground and starts to desiccate, as though she too had been daggered. Elena runs.
Meanwhile, outside the Which House-Witch House, Esther has drawn a pentacle. She has the self-loathing Finn at the center of it. Bonnie and Abby are there. Esther explains that since she cast the spell that made her children vampires, she can unvamp them with this spell. Once they're human, they're killable. She praises Finn for his brave willingness to serve as her sacrifice. Finn says, "It's not a sacrifice. It's a gift." When Alaric daggers Kol, as mentioned above, Finn collapses and starts to desiccate. Esther says something has gone wrong. Gee. Ya think?
Outside the Grill, Klaus is trying to chat up Caroline. It's a great scene. The chemistry between Candice Accola and Joseph Morgan continues to dazzle. When Klaus senses that Kol has been daggered, I suspect the linking spell is what tips him off. He finds Ric, Mere, Stefan and Damon dragging brother Kol out behind the Grill. Klaus quickly undaggers him. Alaric is injured in the scuffle. Damon tells Klaus about Esther's plan to off him and his siblings. Kol comes back to life, almost immediately. Elijah arrives and stops Klaus from killing the Salvatores.
Back in the cave, Rebekah soon returns to life, but fortunately, she throws Elena into the No-Vamps-Allowed chamber. Eventually though, Rebekah returns with a can of gasoline. She can't enter the chamber, but the gasoline can. She splashes it all over Elena and her surroundings, and then starts lighting matches and tossing them at Elena.
Elena Haters: Yes! Die in a fire. Die in a fire. She's gonna die in this fire, right?
Recapper: No. Elena manages to talk Rebekah out of ending her life, by reminding Rebekah that if she kills her tonight, she won't be able to torture her tomorrow.
Elena Haters: *Pout*
Along with Elijah, Kol and Klaus set out for the Which House-Witch House, to stop mummy from killing them. When Esther sees them coming, she tells the Bennett women to hide inside. Esther is standing inside her magic circle/pentagram, so her spawn can't get to her.