Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C+ | 367 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Race For The Cure
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2012.11.01
Whitmore College. Professor Shane is babbling about how Grams left an original edition of Stephen King's Cujo, which must be a shout-out to Tyler, who isn't in this week's episode. He soon turns the conversation to witchcraft and wants to know if she practices. Plagiarismtime. Bonnie confesses that while she did practice, she no longer does because she took it too far and there were consequences. The professor says he's learned a lot about magic in his travels, and there are other ways for her to practice her art. Bonnie is understandably intrigued. I see some fans have a problem with this, since Bonnie watched Grams suffer spiritual torment, just a few weeks prior, but since in the very next episode, Bonnie confessed to trying (and failing) to do a nature spell, I have no trouble buying it.
Damon's dancing with, kissing and feeding off of a young woman, while Elena is doing the same with a young man...oh no wait, her prey is female, too. Maybe there's no kissing, but there's dancing and feeding. Interesting. Sheesh, Elena, wipe your mouth on your arm, or your victim's shirt, or something. Once Elena and Damon have fed, they find each other and dance. Any episode that features Damon dancing can't be all bad, but why does he look like he's on heroin? Maybe he fed off of some other poor girl who's been roofied. Anyhow, when Elena spots Bonnie glaring at her from across the room, she (sadly) comes to her senses and rushes outside.
Red Room of Pain. When Jeremy shows Klaus his tattoo sketch, Klaus throttles the boy. He's seen the tattoo in the flesh and knows there's more to it. Jeremy insists that's all of it, then remembers that Connor says the tattoo spreads each time he kills a vampire. Klaus summons a hybrid Nate and tells him to get a girl to see Jeremy home. Meanwhile, Nate should keep Connor alive at all costs. Alone, Connor struggles against his bonds. He seems to loosen something or other, but Nate returns and decides to tighten things up. When he gets too close, Connor bites Nate's ear. Nate recoils in pain. Connor spits out the hybrids earring. Is it still an earring when it's one of those bar thingies? I don't know what to call it. My piercing knowledge is limited because I hit my gross out threshold right around those spacer things. This is a little bar or rod that pierces Nate's cartilage, but why am I even talking about this? Nate whacks Connor, tells him he's lucky he can't kill him and then storms out. Connor spits out the ear jewelry. I gag. Commercial.