Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | 160 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Back To School
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2013
Whitmore Hall. Jesse spots the girls heading toward the party and introduces himself. Caroline looks through him as if he weren't human (and hey, maybe he's not). Once the girls head off, Elena reminds Caroline of her manners, but Caroline snaps, "I'm with Tyler." Elena wonders if that's true, since he hasn't even called. She hopes her friend's hopes aren't too high, since Tyler has shown little interest in joining them at Whitmore. Stung, Caroline snaps at Elena and asks if she told Damon she's having dreams about Stefan. When Elena doesn't answer, Caroline smiles and says no relationship is perfect. Thankfully, all this bickering is interrupted when Elena and Caroline realize they can't enter Whitmore Hall. Elena whispers, "Someone must own this place. We have to be invited in." And if the show stays true to its mythology, they have to be invited in by the owner or other person entitled to do so. Damn the luck, who happens to pass by the door at the time, but Megan. As the girls stand there awkwardly, wondering how they're going to talk their way out of this one, Jesse comes up from behind them and asks if they're going in. Elena tells him to go ahead, so he does. Megan asks the girls why they're just standing there. Elena says, "We were just...Caroline?" Caroline says they're waiting for a friend. Megan returns to the party. Caroline is more sure than ever that Megan knows they're vampires. We cut to the...
Mystic Grill. Damon berates Jeremy and asks for just one day he doesn't screw up, then reminds the boy he's lucky the guys he fought didn't end up in ICU. Jeremy: "Says the guy who once killed me." Damon: "Yes. In the privacy of your own home." Heh. He informs the Germ that he originally got expelled, but Damon compelled the principal into reducing his punishment to a three day suspension. He then tells Jeremy his sister doesn't need to know about any of this. Damon is about to leave, when he turns to find Stylus (who he thinks is Stefan) behind him. He welcomes his brother home and gives him a hug, but clearly feels uncomfortable.
Back at Whitmore, outside the party, Elena calls Megan and leaves her a voice mail message. "Hey, Megan, it's Elena. I'm just calling to let you know why we left, so call me when you get a chance." Caroline says when Megan leaves the party, they have to grab her. Elena suggests that instead they just lie that Caroline wasn't feeling well. Elena can't believe that out of thousands of freshmen (really, Whitmore doesn't seem like a thousands of frosh sized college) they were randomly paired with the one who knows about vampires. Caroline suggests it wasn't random. While I agreed with Elena at first, I think Caroline's right about it not being random. I'm not sure Megan knows they're vampires, though. I suspect she just knows about vampires. Just then, Elena's phone rings. It's Megan crying that Elena has to come help her. Someone is chasing her. Elena puts the phone on speaker and lies that they can't get inside because the line is too long. All the time, Megan is crying. When she screams for help, Caroline grabs the phone and tells Megan to come outside where they can help her. She does so immediately, in a manner of speaking. Megan's lifeless corpse falls out of or off of the building and to the ground. Her throat bears a vampire bite. Commercial.