Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Working At The Car Wash
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.08.2009
Kitchen: Stefan gives Elena the lowdown on his favorite books (adores Fitzgerald, particularly The Great Gatsby, but is not above Grisham); movies (Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a favorite); music is pretty much "across the board. Dylan, Hendrix, Patsy, Willie. Oh, Kanye. You know what? I even like that one Miley song." Oh and as far as TV goes, it's Seinfeld and I Love Lucy. No Buffy? For shame, Stefan. For shame. I bet Damon likes Buffy.
Now, we know either Elena or Stefan is going to cut themselves with that knife they're using for prep, and it looks it's going to be Elena, because she's taken over the slicing and dicing, but they drag it out a little and give us a MYTHOLOGY MOMENT: Stefan loves garlic, so that's not a problem for these vamps. As Stefan heads to the fridge, Elena finally cuts her finger. He asks if she's okay and she goes to the sink to rinse it off. Stefan keeps his cool until he puts his hand down on the counter and ends up dipping it in Elena's blood. Finger licking good, right? Wrong. Oh, he wants to. He holds up his dripping hand and looks long and hard at it -- so long and hard that he vamps out. Elena's got her back turned to him, but it's nighttime, so his face is reflected in the kitchen window (we learned last week these vamps have reflections) and Elena watches his transformation. As she turns towards him saying, "Your face," he turns from her claiming he has something in his eye. He won't let her see him until he reclaims his Zen. Once he does, Elena looks at him, laughs and says, "I think that my paranoia has turned into full-blown hallucinations." Stefan says that's part of her charm, and moves in as if to kiss her, but then waits. Eventually, Elena takes the lead and kisses him.
Mossy Manse: Down in the dungeon, Damon chants Caroline's name.
Caroline's bedroom: she's on the phone with "Tiki" whose name we last heard when Caroline was correcting her on banner positioning at the pep rally. Caroline forbids Tiki from wearing her one-piece swimsuit. "We're going for stripper pole vibe." Yep, my kids still can't watch this. We cut to Damon who is still calling out to her. Back in the bedroom, Caroline's joking about washing the cars in slow motion. She hears the chanting and it throws her off her game so she ends the call. When the crow lands on her windowsill (what is behind the disturbing lack of window screens in Virginia, people) she shoos him away with her pillow. The camera cuts to a fantastically creepy shot of Damon's face, before we cut to commercial.