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By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.08.2009
Gilbert Gables: Elena tells her diary that although she wants everything to be all right, her every instinct is telling her to be careful. "What you don't know can hurt you."
The Grill: She's-the-Sheriff and Scum have an ad-hoc meeting of the F'n CoW. She says they've gone over the entire west side of the lake. "All the caverns by the falls were clean. No sign of habitat." Scum figures they're staying in town, but She's-the-Sheriff says they canvassed all the abandoned buildings and warehouses. They've got nothing. They must not know about the magical rings, because Scum mentions that someone who only comes out at night should become obvious at some point. The Sheriff asks Scum about the watch. When he says he's working on it, she informs him that she knew the Gilberts, and that the watched is passed down from first-born male to first-born male, so he should focus his search on Jeremy. On cue, Aunt Jenna walks in making his plan that much easier. She tells him he has an hour and that he'd better make it count. He smiles and we cut to...
Gilbert Gables: Germ comes to Elena's room and asks if she's okay. When she asks if Vicki is in his room, he grins and blushes and says maybe, but pulls her back to his question. When she admits she's miserable, he strongly suggests she go get something to eat. As Elena makes her way downstairs she hears clanking coming from the kitchen. Did Scum screw up his date that soon? No way. He's too smooth. Like grease. It's Stefan. He is there, making her Chicken Parmesan, because Jeremy told him it was her favorite. He blathers about his Italian roots, which gives the book fans a happy and mentions that he even makes his own mozzarella (which he says like moot-za-rhell; my sisters-in-law would be so proud) but he had to use store-bought tonight. It's too soon for a shout-out, but I smile anyhow, because I'm cheesy like that. Next, Stefan gives Elena some sanitized backstory about his triangle with Katherine and Damon. She was beautiful and fun, but also impatient, entitled, selfish and impulsive. Damon claims he was with her first and Stefan admits he did some things he wasn't proud of, but his biggest regret is not being able to make things right before Katherine died. That's why he's making things right with you, Elena. Ahem.
Upstairs, Vicki tells Jeremy it was sweet and romantic of him to help out Stefan. He says he was feeling romantic. Vicki's feeling addicted. She's swiped Elena's pain meds -- left over from the car accident (which killed the Gilbert parents), so they can take them. Sensitivity is not her strong suit. Jeremy stops her from using his pocket watch to grind them up (are they going to snort them?), and tries to persuade her that they don't have to get high all the time. Vicki says, "I really hope that you're not one of those guys who -- now that we're together -- tries to change everything about me." How did she and the Pudding Pop spring from the same loins? Germ plays it cool, even though he doesn't want to, and we cut back to...