Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 104 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Ding Dong The Dead's A Witch
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.31.2013
Caroline finds Tyler packing up his stuff. She tells him she doesn't want to have this conversation again. She can't just sit there and wait for him to return. When Tyler says he doesn't want that either, Caroline tells him to stay. "Be the love of my life. Love me more than you hate him." Tyler says, "I'm sorry, Care. I can't do that." And I can't give this scene any more. Don't get me wrong. Both Candice Accola and Michael Trevino give great performances. And I'm fine with them breaking up. I'm just not fine with the how of it all. I went on about this in the recaplet, so since this is a casual thing for me now, I don't feel the need to repeat myself. In the end, all that matters is that Tyler is gone. I think his character deserved more than he got this season, even if, or especially since this was going to end in a breakup.
Back at Mossy Manse, Elena tells Damon about Maxfield's threat. She doesn't yet know if she will drop out. She knows finding out about Megan won't bring Bonnie back. It's clear from their conversation that she knows Damon was trying to finagle a way to do that. When there's a knock at the door, Damon smiles. He knows who it is, before he answers. It's Katherine. She's bitching about how she doesn't have time for this, but then she sees Silas's corpse and breaks out into a broad grin. "...Maybe I have all the time in the world. Katherine Pierce eludes death, yet again." She laughs and turns to face Damon and Elena. "And you two finally did something right, for once. How does it feel?" Damon smolders as he says it's thrilling. When he closes in on Katherine, she realizes she's miscalculated everything. Damon says Silas needs the cure to become a witch, then bites Katherine's throat. Katherine pleads her case, saying Silas needs all her blood, and that this will kill her. Elena's a little shocked, but she's not moved to intervene, and you know what? Good for her. Damon is not unmoved by Katherine's pleas, but he's not moved enough to change course. He says, "Goodbye, Katherine," then shoves her bloody neck down over Silas's mouth, much the way she fed Jeremy to Silas, back on Craphole Island Down East. The color starts to return to Silas's hand. He holds Katherine's head in place. Kather slumps the floor, lifeless.
Damon and Elena just stand there, and take it all in. Then Damon says, "Do you hear that?" It's a heartbeat. Elena shakes her head. "You've got to be kidding me." Damon says, "Takes a licking, keeps on ticking." Katherine opens her eyes. Once she can focus on Damon and Elena, she asks, "Am I in Hell." Ha! The Shocker Fairy takes a well-deserved bow, for what was a perfectly executed triple Lutz.