Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT How I Met Your Mother
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.06.2010
Town Square; 9:00 PM: Elena walks the path on the Common. When she reaches the statue of the Civil War era soldier, she pauses and looks around. When her hair is suddenly blown back, she knows she's been Stealth Salvatored by Isobel. "Where's the device?" Elena wants to know where her brother is. Isobel tells her it isn't a negotiation. "Where's the invention?" Elena doesn't care. "Where's my brother?" Isobel asks if she really thinks she came alone. Elena looks over her shoulder to find Frank and Cherie. Okay wait, are they vamps now? If so, how come they're not going through that spastic vampire adolescence? If they're not vamps, how did Cherie grab Jeremy so easily?
Anyhow, Elena nods past Isobel. "Do you really think that I came alone?" Isobel turns to find the beautiful Brothers Salvatore. She tells her daughter: "For God sakes (sic) call home." As Elena dials home, Stefan and Damon inch ever closer to Isobel. At Gilbert Gables, Jeremy answers the phone while Jenna tends to Snark's boo-boos. When Elena asks her little brother if he's okay, Jeremy tells her Uncle Snark hit his head, but it was an accident. Jenna: "We're all laughing." Ha. Love her. Elena tells Jeremy she'll be home soon. When they hang up, Jeremy and Snark exchange knowing looks.
Back on the Common, Elena says to Isobel, "You were never going to hurt him." Isobel says, "No. I was going to kill him. Don't look for any redeeming qualities in me. I don't have them." Elena: "But you took a risk with Damon. How did you know that he was going to give it to me?" Isobel blinks and smiles. "'Cause he's in love with you." Elena's all Aroo, while Damon steals a sidelong glance at Stefan and is all Oh shit, and Stefan's all, I can't hear you lalalala. Before Elena can get all incensed and stomp off, Isobel stretches forth her open hand. Elena begrudgingly approaches and slams the Gilbert Gizmo into her miserable birth mother's palm. "Thank you." Isobel asks, "For what?" Damon waits for it, but he knows -- he knows what's coming. Elena shakes her head. "For being such a monumental disappointment. It keeps the memory of my real mother -- perfectly intact." Isobel has a parting dig of her own. "Goodbye, Elena. As long as you have a Salvatore on each arm, you're doomed." The camera pans from Stefan to Damon and then cuts back to Isobel. "Katherine was smart. She got out, but we all know that you're not Katherine." Isobel moves in before she turns and struts away. Elena fights back disappointment's bitter tears as she watches half her gene pool walk off into the night. Once the bitch is gone, Stefan takes a devastated Elena in his arms. She can't help peeking over his shoulder at Damon, who cannot take his eyes off her. Elena closes her eyes and snuggles into Stefan's shoulder. None of this escapes Stefan's notice. None of it. He looks over at Damon, who has the grace to avert his eyes and walk away. Stefan caresses Elena's hair. Commercial.