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
NOW; Woods: A solo young, white male takes our Victim of the Week spot. He's hiking through the woods when he is approached by Harper, the vampire who escaped the tomb at the end of "Food Me Once." Harper, an African-American male from 1864's Virginia, asks Whitie VotW what day it is (Saturday) and what year it is (2010). When VotW wants to know what's up with Harper's oh so dated clothing, Harper doesn't know about historical reenactments, so he abruptly changes the subject. "You seem very nice. I'm sorry." VotW says, "Sorry for what?" Harper swoops down on him and drains him dry.
Harper trades his civil war era clothing (which seems to include a Union jacket, but I'm confused and my research isn't helping) for that of the late, great VotW's. But when VotW's cell phone rings, it freaks Harper out. He grabs it from VotW's pocket, looks at it like it is from the devil (good call, Harper), throws it to the ground, and takes off.
Gilbert Gables Porch: Journal in lap, Elena sits on her porch swing as she leaves a message for BFF Bonnie Bennett, who has gone to stay with her aunt while she recovers from Grams' sudden death. When Jenna arrives home, Elena confides in her that attending Sheila Bennett's funeral brought back a lot of painful memories about her own parents' death. She then asks Jenna if she's had a chance to dig up any information on biological mother, Isobel.
Inside, Jenna tells Elena that Dr. Gilbert's records identify Elena's birth mother as Isobel Peterson. Since Isobel was a pregnant teen runaway, Jenna figured the last name to be an alias (perhaps from a classmate or best friend), and decided to search for other Petersons in the area. And in product placement most egregious, and yet, so much better than Eureka shilling for Degree deodorant, Jenna loads the Bing search engine on her computer as she says, "I Bing-ed it." And um, yeah. Not to bite the hand that feeds me, but that word's so not happening, guys, because it will never not look like the past tense of binge We'll ignore how ridiculous it is for Jenna to be reliving her search, when she could have just printed out or written down the information, or hell, at least bookmarked the webpages relevant to the search for Isobel.