Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Would Die 4 U
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.02.2010
Slater's Place: Elena is feeling terribly for the poor, mourning Alice, at least until Rose informs Elena that Alice is just a vampire groupie who was just using Slater in hopes of getting turned. Once Elena knows the score, she approaches Alice in hopes of obtaining Slater's password. Alice tries to play the offended widow at first, but Elena persists and promises that Rose will turn Alice if only she'll do their bidding. Alice eagerly accepts, proving herself a heartless fake, and horrifying Rose who has no intention of turning this ninny, and I don't blame her. When they have a moment alone, Elena reassures Rose that she doesn't expect her to turn Alice -- she's just using Alice. Rose is impressed. Slater, a vampire, was obsessed with vampires, so his password turns out to be "Kristen Stewart." Ahahahaha. I love how this show tweaks Twilight all the time.
Anyhow, they discover Slater's Satan Klaus/Elijah contact is Cody Webber. It's then that Elena reveals she doesn't want more Satan Klaus intel. She wants to die. As brave and foolish as can be, she instructs Alice to email Cody. "Tell him we're trying to get a message to Klaus. The doppelganger is alive and she's ready to surrender." While Rose is horrified, Alice gets all fan-girly. "Oh my GOD! I knew I recognized you." Rose follows Elena into the other room and reminds her that if Klaus knows the doppelganger is alive, he'll kill her. And then it hits her: "...which is exactly what you wanted all along!" Elena explains that since it's either her or her family. She's the anti-Katherine. I love her so much, even if I want to slap her for trying to get herself killed.
Ye Olde Tomb: Jeremy arrives alone, shoots Katherine in the gut with a stake, using one of Alaric's handy-dandy weapons, throws the ash in her face, incapacitates her, enters the tomb, finds the stone, poses with it for an Indiana Jones kind of moment, and then takes far too long getting out. Katherine rises and sinks her fangs into his neck and drinks deep. Jeremy does not escape, but he does manage to throw the moonstone out of the sealed portion of the tomb.
Up above, Stefan and Damon are waiting by the steps down into the tomb. And even with their super-vamp hearing, they don't notice that their girlfriend's brother is screaming in pain down below. Allow me to roll my eyes: @_@. There. That's better. Anyhow, Bonnie arrives with the grimoire, and is surprised Jeremy isn't waiting for her. Oh, but Bonnie, he is. As she and Stefan descend the stairs, Rose calls Damon and tells him he's got to get to Richmond and Elena, right away. Down below, Bonnie and Stefan find the moonstone, and discover Jeremy suffering in Katherine's clutches.