Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C+ | 7 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Real Slim Shady
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.29.2012
Jeremy isn't even thinking. Instead, he stabs his palm with the stake until he begins to bleed. When she sees the blood, Elena starts getting into game face, despite herself. She shakes it off and tells Jeremy to get the blood away from her. When he comes after her, she throws him off. Jeremy lands on the ground and appears unconscious, but when Elena kneels over him and begs him to wake up, he surprises her and sticks a small stake into her neck. Partially immobilized by the wood, Elena can only clutch at her neck as Jeremy readies his full-sized stake. When he raises it above her chest, Matt enters the room and yells Jeremy's name. Jeremy tells Matt to leave, but Matt tries to reason with him. Jeremy hesitates, but he still looks determined to stake Elena. It's then that Stefan swoops in, pulls Jeremy off Elena, and tells Matt to get Jeremy out of there. After Stefan tosses Jeremy to Matt, he tends to Elena. When he gets the wood out of her neck, Elena, still struggling, looks up at him.
Party. Hayley is impressed that Carol Lockwood parties harder than Tyler, and wonders if she too carries the lycanthropy gene. Tyler explains that he got it from his dad. We get some Hayley backstory. She was adopted. Her adoptive parents found out she was a werewolf the night she did -- when she tore apart their living room. When Tyler asks what triggered he transition, Hayley says it was a drunken boating accident. I think she's lying. Is she lying? Tyler prods Hayley in an effort to get her to admit that she knows Professor Shane. She insists she doesn't. Don't believe her, Tyler. Don't believe her. Pudding Pup, I'll tell you right now, what I think her deal is. I think Shane has convinced Hayley to break the hybrids' sire bonds to Klaus so that Klaus will be more vulnerable, and while that isn't a bad thing, I suspect that by helping Hayley free the hybrids, you're helping Shane harm your town, your friends, and maybe yourself.
Tyler doesn't listen to me because he's trained his werepire hearing on Klaus and Caroline. Klaus is telling Caroline that there was one moment he wanted to be human. "Once, I was on a trek in the Andes and a hummingbird flew up to me, and just hovered there, staring at me. Its tiny heart was just pattering like a machine gun. And I thought what a thing, you know -- to have to work that hard every day, just to stay alive. To be constantly on the verge of death -- and how satisfying every day must be that it survived. And that was the only time I thought about being human." Caroline smiles, but her expression is opaque. When Hayley notices that Tyler is listening in, she asks what Klaus is saying. Tyler: "A bunch of B.S. about being human. The sooner we get rid of this guy, the better."