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
Accident Scene. Jeremy has been thrown from the SUV and lies suffering, on the road. He reaches out his hand to Katherine, who is also injured, but at least she's on her feet. She sneers at him and hobbles away. Commercial.
After the break, Bonnie's ghost tries to encourage Jeremy to live. Damon arrives on the scene, opens a vein, tries to feed his blood to the boy and with a sob-choked voice, begs the "little punk" to live. Finally, Jeremy comes to and groans that Katherine is gone. Damon heaves a sigh of relief, hugs Jeremy's head and says, "I don't care."
Back at Whitmore, Caroline listens to a voice mail from Tyler. He's decided to defer school for now and continue helping the werewolf pack he's with. Caroline sobs. I can't muster up the will to care about this. As I said in the recaplet, the show needs to either fish or cut bait with the Tyler character. I enjoy the character, but I don't enjoy having him matter when he's not even going to be on screen. Caroline settles down in her bed and weeps. Elena, who'd been feigning sleep, asks Caroline if she's okay. When Caroline lies that she's fine, Elena says she's sorry. They end with a touching moment where they both confess they're glad they are there together. We cut to...
Stefan. Gurgling out air bubbles and pissing me off. He dreams again that Damon is convincing him to flip the humanity switch. Dream Damon almost has Stefan convinced, when Dream Elena appears and begs Stefan to stay with her. "I know this is torture, but stay with me. Your humanity is the one thing that makes you who you are. Don't let go. Please, Stefan. For me." Stefan nods. We cut to the...
Accident Scene. Damon calls Elena and lies that it took him so long to call because he had car trouble. "Based on your voice mail, it sounds like your day sucked worse than mine. Are you all right? Do you want to come home?" Elena says that she can't do that, especially if all that's happened is somehow connected to her father. Damon lies that's probably for the best. "It'll give me more bonding time with your brother." Elena smiles. "I love you, Damon." He doesn't say the same, but instead bids her goodnight and ends the call. Since Damon didn't tell Elena about Silas, or Katherine, or Stefan, or Jeremy's trouble at school and accident, Jeremy accuses him of lying. I like to think of it as "editing." Damon's with me. He doesn't want Elena dropping everything and coming home to help. He says he'll figure it out. We cut to the...