Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 80 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Doppelgängbang
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.14.2013
Whitmore College. Since Katherine is chowing down on chips, Nadia says, "You hate junk food. You call it toxic poison." Katherine lies that she's decided to "live a little." She really wants to leave, but Nadia doesn't like that mama has been avoiding her and she can't figure it out, since they shared a moment. She felt the bond, but then there was nothing. "You abandoned me all over again." Katherine corrects her daughter. She never abandoned her. Katherine's father, who thought she was a shameful slut (maybe he could see the future), ripped the baby from her arms. "Second of all, it's been 500 years. Do we really have to do this whole mother-daughter bonding thing?" Oh Kiki, you're being brave and freezing out Nadia, so she won't have to lose you. I think you and your daughter are now my official endgame for this show. Caroline interrupts. Katherine and her doppelgänger blood are needed elsewhere. Nadia says, "We're not done." Katherine: "Oh yes we are." We cut to...
Mossy Manse. Q mocks Damon for living with two doppelgängers who are destined to end up together. "I swear there's a sitcom in there, somewhere." You're trying too hard, Show. Damon leads Q-Tessa down to Amara's cell. Wait. No. Upstairs, Damon is the one who tells her, "This way," but when the cell door opens, Amara looks up to see Q and Elena. Why the host/hostess switcheroo? As soon as Q gets an eyeful of her former handmaiden, she dismisses Elena, enters the cell and shuts the door. She menaces Amara and demands an apology. Finally, Amara says she's sorry. She tells Q that she's suffered every moment. She has learned her lesson. Q has won. "Now please kill me. Please. Please." Q says, "Don't worry. When I make someone else the anchor, I will." Elena's listening outside the cell. Q blahs about how after swapping the anchor, she'll kill Amara, and then she and Silas will spend eternity apart. Do they have whole dialogue chunks they just copy and paste, from script to script?
Katherine enters Mossy Manse and announces, "The cute one's here." Caroline tells Q, "She's all yours," and leaves the bitch to face off with the witch. Katherine doesn't care about Bonnie, or the Other Side or anything Elena wanted, ever. When Silas sucked the cure out of her, she started aging faster than normal. "You made the cure. Now make something that stops the aging. Otherwise? No blood for you." I don't have to acknowledge that Soup Nazi reference, do I? Q says once the swap is done, she'll find something to stop Katherine from dying. Then looking down the hall, she says, "Now where's Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum?" We cut to a...