Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 80 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Doppelgängbang
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.14.2013
After the break, Stefan is taking his fool time taunting Silas as he throttles him. Finally, Silas whammies him with a mystical migraine. Silly Stefan -- don't taunt happy fun evil immortal dead living original not-pire witch. Stefan falls to the ground in pain. Silas mojos him some more and taunts him right back. "I hear every emotion is heightened for a vampire. All those memories must be eating you alive right now, Stefan. What's it like to die? I've never done it. You must have done it -- what -- a thousand times over the summer." Stefan tells Silas to stop it. Silas says, "Stop? I spent 2,000 years alone in a tomb. You were locked up for what -- three months? Look at you. You're a mess. The safe was the easy part, wasn't it? Being forgotten about -- that's the real torture, isn't it?" As Amara is in the background, still struggling with the ropes around her torso, Stefan spots Silas's knife on the ground. He grabs it and throws it square into Silas's chest. The witch gasps and slumps to the ground. Amara screams his name and runs to him. It's too late. He's dead.
Amara grabs at her stomach and screams in pain. While she's upset about Silas, something else is happening to her. We cut to the...
Mossy Manse Study. As Q seems to silently pray or chant over the grimoire, Elena watches. They're found by Damon who reports neither Stefan nor Amara are inside. Elena says, "That's because Stefan took her. You have to go find him, before he gets himself killed." Damon says Stefan is just luring away Silas so they can finish the anchor swap. He's sure his brother will be fine. Elena says, "He's hurting." We cut back to the...
Property Line. Stefan falls to the ground. I don't know why. I guess too many memories have an adverse effect on your balance. Huh. Then someone explain falling down drunks to me.
Back in Mossy Manse, Elena tells her currently primary boyfriend, "Damon, he's not thinking clearly. Okay, Silas may have been the one who put him in that safe, but we were supposed to get him out of it. Please, go find him." Damon groans and rolls his eyes. Right now, I bet he wishes it was he and Elena who had broken up, while their doppelgängers Ian and Nina had stayed together. When Elena adds, "We can't lose him, again," Damon relents. As he walks out, Q finally starts chanting aloud.
Back at the property line Amara kneels beside Silas. She pulls the knife out of his chest, caresses his dead cheek and says, "Our eternity starts now." Yes, I know the closed-captioning reads "journey" rather than "eternity." I've been telling you for years, the closed-captioners are lying liars who lie. Amara takes the knife in both hands and stretches her hands out in front of her. She gasps and shoves the knife into her gut, just as Damon arrives on the scene. He yells, "No," zoops to her side and pulls out the knife. He bites open his wrist and forces his blood into her mouth. Amara coughs and gags, much like Katherine did on Caroline's blood, but perhaps a little less violently. Damon lays her down and begs Amara to stay with him. She says, "I've been in hell for 2,000 years." Damon says, "What's another five minutes, huh?" She asks him to let her die. Damon's voice is nearly a grunt as he says, "No. Amara. Come on." It rises when he adds, "Please?" We cut to...