Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 122 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.24.2013
Stefan wonders since Damon spent the afternoon convincing him he was a vampire, why he won't let him act like one. Damon gets into Stefan's ripper propensities. Stefan suggests that the trauma of killing their father is what makes him rip people up, put them back together and then throw away girls' cell phones. Now that he's free from his memories, maybe he won't have the same problem. Damon suggests they not take the chance.
Elena joins them, and from the tone of her voice, I at first thought she was Katherine, which got me excited, because seven minutes into the episode this week means I'm seven minutes into nothing but exposition. When Stefan asks Elena to remind him of her name, it punctures her vanity and wipes the smile off her face, which does tickle me a little. Elena turns to Damon. "You haven't told him about me." Damon cringe-smiles and says that 200 years is a lot of time to cover. We cut to...
Mossy Manse. A shirtless Jeremy is working out when Bonnie enters, and makes it clear she appreciates the view. She reports the girls on the Other Side are enjoying the show too. Leave it to Germ to have dead groupies. I wonder if Vicki is there and why she's not popping in to see him more. Oh, right, she was written off the show. Jeremy tells Bonnie all their friends are waiting for her to help them restore Stefan's memory. Since she's dead, there's not much she can do. Jeremy gets that, but it's getting harder and harder for Germ to put off their friends. Before their conversation goes much further, Matt calls Jeremy. His voice is all choked and he says he's freaking out. We cut to the...
Lockwood Mansion. Jeremy looks at the knife Matt found on himself when he woke in the foyer, covered in mud. Matt says, "I blacked out and I'm pretty sure it's not the first time." Jeremy wonders if the Gilbert protect-o ring could be to blame, but Matt doesn't think it's the ring that is messing with him. "It's gotta have something to do with why Silas couldn't mind-control me. He saw something, or someone, or whatever that Czech freak put in my head. I think it's still there." Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas, Matty.
My poor Pudding Pop has set up cameras all over the house, to figure out how he's losing time. Matt figures Bonnie is probably the only person who can help him. Talk about being shit out of luck. Jeremy lies that she's in D.C. with her mother. Raise your hand if you can't, for the life of you, understand why Jeremy ever agreed to lie to every single living (or undead) person he knows about this. I mean, I know he has deep feelings for Bonnie, and I know he did enough drugs to diminish his brain capacity, but this seems a bit much, even given his circumstances.