Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 8 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT New York Dolls
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.21.2013
So yes, Elena settles on a nearby woman, dances up to her, compels her not to scream and takes a bite. Damon joins in. We flash back to 1977. Damon is sharing a female victim with Lexi. Back the the present, Damon unlatches and tells Rebekah it's her turn. He licks his lips as he watches Elena and Rebekah draining the life out of their victim, then heads off to Will's office. This does not escape Elena's notice. We cut to...
Mystic Falls. Woods. Night. Bonnie finds a witch, Aja (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) waiting for her and asks if she's friends with Abby Abandoner. Aja says, "I was. After she became a vampire, we didn't have much in common." Bonnie says, "So she's not coming?" Of course not, Bonnie. Your "mother" gets the word that you're in terrible trouble with magic and rounds up her ex-friends, but don't think she actually cares about you. She's just trying to get Interim Dad to stop calling her.
Aja writes of Abby's disinterest with a, "This is witch business." Aja has dealt with Expression before, and tries to reassure Bonnie. Bonnie says it's just that she's strong. "You won't be able to do this alone." Aja is not alone. On cue her witch friends (some of them are even white) walk out of the woods. Including Aja, there are twelve of them, which Aja says is a full coven. The magical Google machine indicates 13 witches are the traditional number, so I'm fanwanking that Abby was part of their coven. I don't even know why I'm paying attention to this. I guess it's because of that pin I stuck into Bonnie's earlier scene with her dad, in which neither she nor Silas specified how many witches were needed to strip Bonnie of Expression. They never even said they needed a full coven. The just said they needed "a lot of them." What if only ten witches had shown? Could they have later killed two more? What if 15 had shown up? Would that have screwed up the Triangle of Terror, or would it have just been like extra dressing on the side? Nobody cares but me, because we've already cut back to...
NYC. Billy's. Elena, bless her, wipes her mouth and then compels her victim to leave. When Rebekah notes that Damon has given them the slip, Elena says she's hoping he finds whatever he's looking for, so she can take it. Rebekah offers to help. Since Elena wants the cure out of her life, and Rebekah wants to take it, they can work together. Elena scoffs at this. "Don't you hate me?" Rebekah says, "I hated the moral, self-righteous version of you, but this one's not so bad. Maybe it's your new haircut." It doesn't hurt. I have half a mind to print out a screen cap of it, for my next trip to the salon.