Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT At This Point, I Miss The Vampires
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2010
Gilbert Gables: Elena picks up a picture of her and her parents and clutches it to her chest. She then picks up her cell phone, except it's not her phone, it's Horseless Headman's. She looks at the list of previous calls and they're all to the same number, so she dials it. A woman answers. I can't tell if she sounds like Isobel or not, but that's my guess for now. The woman asks, "Was there a problem? Did you find her? What's going on?" Elena says, "Isobel?" The woman promptly hangs up.
ASIDE: If you call that number, you'll have a lot more fun than Elena did. Seriously, dial: (919) 399-2507. You'll hear Damon tell the people on Team Stefan that Stefan is not as perfect as they think, and that they should know what he did once he was turned into a vampire in 1864. And then Stefan gets on and tells Team Damon to think of everything Damon has done since that time. "He never looks back at the people he's killed and the lives he's ruined." But eventually it all comes together like a perfect storm, or something like that. Anyhow, you then can leave a message, but I didn't because I chickened out. I'll just note that 919 is the area code for the section of North Carolina that includes Duke, and leave it at that.
End Tag: Harper walks through the foggy night until he reaches a house in a clearing. The woman from the bench answers the door, smiles knowingly at him, and calls for Pearl. Pearl and Anna come to the door, as does her host, a Miss Gibbons. Any friend of Pearl's is welcome in her home, so Miss Gibbons invites Harper in. Anna's reaction, as she looks out the door, is inscrutable. Is she satisfied, concerned, on alert? Just before she shuts the door, something else flashes across her face, which I believe is best described as the what have I done what have I done expression. That's right, toots. You're a 150-something-year-old teenager, stuck with your mother and her weird-ass friends, Forever. DUN!
Well, do you think that was Isobel on the other end of the phone? It almost seems too easy, but the voice sounded more like Isobel's than Katherine's so it probably is Isobel, right? If it was Isobel, how nasty is she -- killing her old best friend, and then compelling her minion into a suicide mission?!
In thinking back to what Damon said about Katherine sending Isobel to him, I think he was in the right church, but the wrong pew. My guess is Isobel was researching vampires, realized she had some in her family tree, and hunted down Damon hoping to get the goods. My burning question right now though is -- who is Elena's father? Did someone set out to genetically engineer a new Katherine? Was Elena planted with the Gilberts as the first step in a long, complicated plan of revenge against the Mystic Falls? Was Isobel under a vampire's thrall when she arrived at Dr. Gilbert's office, or when she abandoned her baby? For that matter, was she under Damon's thrall when she slept with him? Poor Alaric. Someone's going to have to tell Jenna what's going on, so she can take care of him.