Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Writing's On The Wall
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.27.2011
Torture Emporium: Stefan is sweating now, which seems like a weird thing for a vampire to do, detoxing or not. He tries to appeal to Elena's love and sympathy by telling her he's hurting. When he promises to change, Lexi reminds Elena he's lying and would say anything right now. Stefan says, "Elena. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Just make it stop. Please make it stop." Lexi counsels Elena to separate herself from her emotions. Stefan: "Hey look at me. Look at me. Elena, I love you. Okay? I love you. I love you so much. I love you so much, Elena." Elena says, "I'm sorry Stefan, I just don't believe you." Stefan gets all growly. "You know what? I don't want your help, anyway. I wish I'd never met you. Every single moment I ever spent with you has been a complete and total waste."
Lexi tells Elena, "That's the Ripper talking. Once he's weak enough, you have to cause him pain -- make him feel things, anger, rage, anything. You have to make him see past the blood." At that, she stakes him in the arm. Oh, great, more torture. "Think of it as a regimen, day in and day out, like running the treadmill, like making coffee -- until he's ready to be saved." Stefan threatens to rip Lexi apart. Lexi: "You can't, I'm already dead." She stakes him again on the upper righthand side of his chest." Elena shakes her head and starts backing out of the room. "I can't." Lexi turns to watch her run away. Out on the street, Elena tries to catch her breath and then is distracted by sirens, cops cars and the ambulance parked at Illumination Night celebration. When she sees EMTs wheeling a covered corpse out of the festivities, she heads in that direction.
Mossy manse: Caroline is in Damon's beauteous bathroom. I want to spend the rest of my life in that room. Caroline wants to find the stupid necklace. She's having no luck -- neither is Bonnie, in his adjacent bedroom, which is nearly as beautiful. There's a great fire burning in the fireplace, which seems really dumb. I mean hasn't Damon been with Mason for hours? What -- did he pop home, light a fire he wasn't going to be around to enjoy, grab a shovel and then head out?
Bonnie's phone buzzes. She's got an incoming call from Jeremy. She looks at Caroline, who realizes what's going on and picks up the phone. "What do you want, Jeremy?" He asks Caroline if they found the necklace and tells her that the ghosts of the tomb vampires killed Tobias Fell. "You might want to find that necklace before they start going alphabetically through the Founding Families." Caroline: "Well, it's not where it's supposed to be, unless... someone took it." Jeremy asks, "Who?" Caroline: "Who do you think?" Jeremy turns to Anna who says she didn't take it. When he tells Caroline, Caroline says, "Oh and you believe her?" Anna insists she didn't take, so Jeremy says he does indeed believe her. Caroline: "You're an even bigger idiot than I thought, so wake up, Jeremy -- before you lose everything." She hangs up on him and puts the phone down behind Bonnie, who stands there in disbelief. Back in town, Jeremy turns to find Anna has disappeared. Elena sees him standing alone and walks over. "Jeremy, what happened?"