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
Rebekah envies the fact that Stefan would do anything to save Elena. She envies the love the two have for each other. She admits she believed Xander loved her, and says they'd talked about marriage and even picked out a church. She knows Stefan wants her help, but she won't do anything that will help Klaus. Stefan presses his case and all of Rebekah's buttons when he says, "I never did answer your question. If it meant I got to be with her, have children, grow old with her -- if it meant that we'd die together, be buried together... then yes, I'd take the cure."
Eyes full of tears, Rebekah admits that even though Xander betrayed her, she buried him at the church where they were to be married. "What kind of hopeless fool does that?" As soon as the words escape her lips, she realizes she's been played. Stefan wanted to know Xander's final resting place because she buried him with his cure map-key/sword. Klaus appears from the shadows, dagger and White Oak ash in hand. Rebekah gets in a final dig at Klaus about never being able to love, then he daggers her. Stefan, the Judas, hangs his head. Klaus orders him to tell no one of the cure. Just stash Becky's body somewhere it won't be found, compel Jeremy to forget all he's learned, and keep his yapper shut. The hybrids will babysit Connor while Klaus flies off to Italy to fetch the sword.
Sidebar. You know, Stefan deserves a darned good staking from Rebekah. I understand him getting the information about the cure. I don't understand him not even trying to talk Klaus out of daggering Rebekah. Heck, even if he started to try, then realized Rebekah might jeopardize their quest for the cure, and changed his mind, I'd be okay with him here. I guess none of Elena's compassion has rubbed off on him. And what's with Klaus looking all shocked and pained when he daggers Rebekah? All this guy does is dagger his siblings. I'm having a hard time swallowing his remorse, and am having an even harder time enjoying it.
Arriving at their special spot on the Gilbert Gables porch, Elena apologizes to Damon. Things got heated at the party. I'll say. Anyhow, she shouldn't have let that happen. Blah blee bloo. Deep down, she believes he's right about what a vampire should be. She hates that feeling. She doesn't want to be... Damon finishes for her: "You don't want to be like me." Stefan, bless him, breaks up the awkward moment. He claims he just had a few things to discuss with Jeremy. I hope that, instead of compelling Jeremy, he is enlisting him as an ally because secretly teaming up with Klaus seems like the stupidest idea ever, and Stefan of all people should know this. He lies that he didn't learn anything new about the hunter. Damon declares the day a bust and goes home.