Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Little Of Both
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.05.2012
Hospital Parking Lot: Jeremy asks Alaric what's up with the newest kink in the protect-o ring. Alaric doesn't know, either, and says, "I guess I have Damon's blood to thank for the fact that I'm still walking." Jeremy laughs. "Yeah, he said to say you owe him a drink." Alaric: "That's funny. I'd rather have head trauma." Alaric waits a beat and asks Jeremy if he's okay. Jeremy: "Why wouldn't I be? I shot a hybrid in the back and chopped his head off with a meat cleaver. Typical Sunday, huh?" Alaric says he can always come to him, to talk. Jeremy: "What could you tell me that I don't already know? This is the way things are. It sucks, but I've just got to get used to it."
Gilbert Gables: Elena is ringing out a bloody cloth into the sink when Damon returns from getting rid of Tony the Hybrid's corpse and getting his blood to Alaric (either directly or via Jeremy, I'm not quite sure how he had time for either). When Damon asks Elena how she is, her voice is weak as she answers that she got most of the blood off the porch. Damon tells her to look at him. "It's going to be okay." Elena lies with her nod, and then rubs her eye with the heel of her still blood stained hand. "I have to tell you something. I made a deal with Klaus. I gave him Rebekah." Damon is all no, no, no because he's afraid Rebekah will return and kill Elena. Elena says, "Klaus won't let her, because he needs me." Damon: "And suddenly you trust him?" Elena doesn't trust him, but she was out of options and she doesn't trust Stefan, either. "Do you think he's gonna just give up the coffins?" Damon winces as he covers his own tracks. "My brother's sort of running his own show, right now." Elena: "Yeah and my brother just chopped off someone's head. It's not right. It's not fair. He's 16 years old. He shouldn't have to live like this. There has to be another way. We have to fix it." She's back at the sink, scrubbing the blood off her hands when Damon comes up behind her and assures her they will.
Klaus Haus: Klaus talks to Rebekah's corpse about how he'd been counting on her being with him, but that's all ruined now. Just then, her hand moves, and some of the corroded mottling disappears from her skin. Klaus leans over her, caresses her cheek and says, "I'm so sorry, sister. We'll meet again, one day." He reinserts the dagger into her chest and blinks back his tears.
Gilbert Gables: Alaric and Elena go up to Jeremy's room. She says, "I've been thinking about what you said earlier, about how we should pack up and go. [...] Well you were right. You shouldn't have to give up a normal life, just because of me." When Damon appears at the doorway, Jeremy says, "Hey, what's going on?" Damon: "Your sister thinks we should have another one of our talks." Jeremy, instead of immediately rubbing vervain all over his body and then swallowing some more whole, looks at Elena like dude, really? Is he giving tacit approval of his own compulsion or does he really not get what is going on, here?