Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 5 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT A Proverbial Coin Toss
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.10.2012
Sophomoric Elena is walking away from the bonfire when she calls home. Jenna is good-natured as she complains that Grayson Gilbert (Jason MacDonald) is making her play Pictionary. "I suck at Pictionary." Aw. Me too, Jenna. Me too. Elena wants a ride home and needs to talk to a real grown-up anyhow, so Jenna puts Miranda on the phone. Matt and Elena had a big fight. He's being too pushy about their future. Miranda says he doesn't mean to be; he's just trying to suss out how she feels about him. Elena claims she doesn't know how she feels. Mama isn't buying that any more than I've bought that she doesn't know if she has feelings for Damon. Elena is afraid if she's honest with Matt, she'll lose him. Miranda wisely says that she won't be losing Matt. She'll be setting him free. We cut back to the...
Present. Matt's Truck. That's right, Matt "Pudding Pop" Donovan, co-captain of tonight's awesome Team Human, drugged Miss Elena Gilbert and is driving her out of town. She doesn't have any parents to tell her what's right and wrong. "You've got me and Jeremy, and a bunch of vampires fighting a war you shouldn't be in the middle of." I realize my blatant hypocrisy here. I hate it when the Salvatores (usually, but not always Damon) take Elena's choice away from her. I love that Matt and Jeremy do so tonight. It's different. They're not these immortal creatures waiting to see who gets the next slice of Elena Pie. They're just her old sweetheart/dear friend and her brother, who are sick and tired of this vampire crap. Getting her out of town is the only way to keep her safe.
SFTiCEfBRaAtRaLbiFtFfDtL. Vamparic strolls the halls, opening random storage lockers but hasn't found Desikklaus before he hears the Rebekah arrive. In a truly chilling scene, he stalks her through the facility as she calls out for Damon. Finally, Damon grabs her, muzzles her with his hand and tells her what is the what. Vamparic arrives in front of unit 1020. When he opens it, Desikklaus's corpse is not in there. Now, Vamparic had walked by a whole bunch of units. What made him stop at this one? It's just a little too pat for me. I'm getting ahead of myself. Wait. Okay, we cut to the parking garage. Damon and Rebekah wheel Desikklaus's casket toward a car. Vamparic pops out of nowhere, grabs Rebekah, smashes her head against a car and throws her across the room, even though he should not be stronger than she. Next he kicks Damon across the room. Before Rebekah and Damon can recover, Vamparic whips out his ISoWOs and throws open the lid on Desikklaus's coffin. Damon and Rebekah scream, "No!" Desiklaus can see what's coming, too. Alaric raises ISoWOs and plunges it into Desikklaus. Rebekah tries to run to her brother's aid, but Damon holds her back. Desikklaus starts to burn. Vamparic looks at Rebekah and Damon, pulls the stake out of Desikklaus, and slams shut the casket lid. He starts toward Rebekah, but Damon orders her to run. He charges Vamparic to buy Rebekah some time. Vamparic easily throws Damon off and Stealth Salvatores after Rebekah. Commercial.