Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 241 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT In Which Everyone's Pretty And Nothing Hurts
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2013.03.28
Willoughby. Post Office. Rebekah and Elena stop a letter carrier, who asks Elena what she did to her hair, "...in the last two minutes." When Elena says, "I was here, two minutes ago," the letter carrier asks, "Are you feeling okay, Ms. Pierce?" Elena lies she's fine. Once the letter carrier walks off, Elena tells Rebekah if Katherine was just there a couple of minutes ago, she can't be too far. They split up to find Kiki. Instead, Kiki finds Elena, throttles her, and tells her she's chosen a beautiful place to die. Rebekah swoops in to the rescue and taunts Katherine with her own threat. "I couldn't agree more. You've chosen a beautiful place to die." Commercial.
Willoughby. Diner. Elena and Katherine ask where the cure is. Big hair Kiki turns to Elena and says, "What? No I'm here to avenge my annoying little brother speech?" Elena is stone cold. "People die. We move on." Katherine knows the score, so she announces it: "After turning off our humanity switch. So sad for the boys, though. Their special snowflake of human frailty -- gone." When Elena remains silent, Katherine adds, "Well, if we're going to be a while, I'm going to grab us some menus." Rebekah sticks fork through Kiki's hand and into the table, like she's the latest entry in Becky's butterfly collection. "You're not going anywhere." Rebekah and Kiki bicker. When the waitress comes to their table, she freaks at sight of Katherine's hand. After a kick from Elena, Katherine compels the waitress to forget what she's seen. Rebekah wants the cure and tries to compel Kiki to tell her where it is, but Kiki is smart enough be on vervain, unlike the rest of these chuckleheads. Becky wonders if Kiki is going to use the cure to kill Klaus. Katherine says she has no intention of being within "sniffing distance" of Klaus, but thinks the cure makes a great bargaining chip in exchange for her freedom. Elena smirks at that. "Oh, you poor victim. Where's the part of your plan where you screw us over and somebody dies?" Kiki says she has no plans to screw them over. I'm sure she's ready to improv, though. Rebekah snags Katherine's cellphone and tosses it to Elena. On the calendar app, Katherine has scheduled an appointment at 2:00 to meet "em." As background, I'll mention that somewhere in there, Rebekah reminisces how Katherine inserted herself as if a wedge, between Klaus and Elijah. Also in there, Katherine makes some claim that she's not bad; she's just drawn that way.