Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 106 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Human Diary
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.05.2013
Damon asks Enzo about his love life. Enzo says that while he's had too many to count, there was one kind, stunningly beautiful girl, Maggie, who used to work for Dr. Whitmore. She wasn't part of the torture or experiments. Maggie thought Whitmore was only observing Enzo's behavior and he didn't have the heart to tell her otherwise. Enzo was just grateful for her company. Once she realized what was going on there, she left. If she ends up looking just like Nina Dobrev, I'm gonna scream.
Damon offers that it never would have worked between a vampire and human, anyhow. Enzo mocks Damon's positive outlook. The men share a smile until Whitmore comes in and asks who is next. He chooses Damon (#21051), because he seems to have more energy. Enzo decides to take that as an insult and says he's far more energetic in an obvious ploy to spare his new friend. After Whitmore leads Enzo down the hall, we and Damon hear the vampire groan in pain. Damon paces, sits, paces, sits, paces and sits until the lights go out.
After a time cut, Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight" plays again. This is either the second or third time and I don't expect it's the last. To me, even upon first watch, the song seems like a pretty big textual clue that Enzo is the vampire who killed Megan and that he's not what he appears to be. Whitmore returns Enzo to his cell. Damon growls, "Why are you doing this to us?" Whitmore says, "...Once I can understand you from a cellular level, I can put you to use." We flash forward to the...
Present. Elena Oh my gods at Damon's story, but says once Stefan realizes they're missing, he will find them. Oh really, Elena… like you and Damon noticed Stefan was missing? Damon gives her points for optimism, but says Stefan doesn't even know this place exists. Elena reminds Damon he was there for five years. Damon says for the first year, he thought Stefan would rescue him. "He didn't. Once I escaped, there was no point in giving him more to feel guilty about, so I never told him what happened here. I never told anyone." Elena asks Damon how he escaped. Damon says, "They let us out of the basement once a year." We flash back to...
New Year's Eve, 1957. The Augustines host a party so Whitmore can show off his research. A caged Damon and Enzo serve as I don't know -- decoration. You think someone would have washed their faces. Dr. Whitmore takes Enzo out of the cage, slices his palm and captures his blood in a goblet. A Mrs. Fell volunteers as Whitmore's human guinea pig. You can keep the founding families out of Mystic Falls, but you can't keep them out of Events O' the Week. Whitmore slices Fell's hand then gives her the goblet of Enzo's blood. After drinking it, she instantly heals. From the cage, Enzo and Damon watch as Whitmore shows off the results to his applauding guests. Not one of them hurls.