Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 325 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Breakfast Club
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2013.01.17
Lake House. As Jeremy works out with Matt (and both guys are wearing sleeveless T-shirts; I love you too, Julie Plec), Damon listens to a saved voice mail message from Elena. She must have left it before Rebekah broke her neck and kidnapped her, because the message is all about the sire bond and missing him and blah bitty blah. Let's watch the boys spar instead. Matty has some swagger, so he must have forgotten that he's seen how strong new, improved Jeremy is. When Jeremy gets Matt to the ground and nearly snaps his arm, Matt slaps him off and declares him a badass.
Damon is unimpressed with what he deems Jeremy's "slow-motion" skills, so Jeremy tells Damon to teach him something worthwhile. Damon tosses Jeremy a stake. The boy rushes at him, but Damon has no trouble spinning him around. As he holds the Germ by the neck, Damon taunts him about how easy it would be to snap his neck. Their session is interrupted by a pizza delivery. Clearly, nobody on the writing staff or in the prop department has teenaged boys, because one large pizza would never suffice. The woman teases the boys about ordering a double pepperoni three days in a row, and wonders if they eat anything else.
Damon startles the woman when he appears behind her and asks if she's "offering." The driver is appropriately creeped out and I feel bad for her. Damon quickly dials down the menace, pays the driver and bribes her to cut off the pizza pipeline for a couple of days. Jeremy wonders if Damon is going to starve them now. Damon says he will, if that's what it takes to make Jeremy a hunter and then orders him to run around the lake, twice. When Damon orders Matt to keep Jeremy company, Matt says he doesn't have to listen to him. Damon: "You do if you want to eat." Poor old Matt trots off after Jeremy. How did he get roped into this scheme? Pudding Pop, you should run right back to Mystic Falls, pack your bags and move to pretty much anywhere else.
As Damon goes back to listen to Elena's voice mail, we cut to the Mystic Grill, where Stefan is getting a call from Rebekah who announces she is back and is holding Elena hostage at the school. I wrote "hospital" there for some reason. If it's anywhere else, please excuse the overwhelming stupidity that infected me over the holidays. When Stefan wonders who was stupid enough to pull the dagger out of her, Rebekah says she'll be asking the questions today and then hangs up with a "See you soon."