Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Working At The Car Wash
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.08.2009
News Station: Logan babbles about digitized archives and whatever. Just leave Elena alone, Scum, so we can see if she's as smart as it's starting to seem she is. Once he asks her to put in a good word for him with Jenna, he's gone (he gets a call to cover the fire), Elena sets to work and we cut to...
Cemetery: Jeremy is having a little trouble coming to terms with being stoned in a cemetery. Vicki, still absolutely clueless that it might bother him, just snickers, "They don't mind. They're dead." Then she decides to kick the party up a notch, and throws a bottle of pills to her friend Tony, who seems to take great enjoyment in getting "Vickies from Vicki." When his girl reads Elena's name off the label, Jeremy is upset that Vicki took the pills from his house. He grabs them back, saying that Elena will notice the drugs are missing. Tony dorks that "Vicki brought the party police." She shushes him and goes after Jeremy, apologizing for making him mad, but when he grumps about partying in the cemetery, "With a waste of space small-town lifer," Vicki wonders what he thinks she is. Germ says she's different, but Vicki argues that while he is different, what with the big house, and the little period of acting out -- this is just who she is. It's not just a dark period for her. Jeremy tries to reach out to her, but Vicki tells him to go home. "If I want to feel like crap about myself, I'll just go back to Tyler."
Car Wash: Stefan asks Matt if he's seen Elena, but he hasn't and doesn't know if she's gone home. Stefan thanks him and starts to walk off, but Practically Perfect Pudding Pop calls him back. "I'm not saying this for you. I'm saying it for her, but... she's big on trust. So whatever you're holding back from her -- the more you try to hide it, the more she won't stop until she figures it out. Matt returns to clean-up duty and Stefan looks at him as if to say, "Cindy's right. He is a practically perfect Pudding Pop."
News Station: Elena finds an old clip reporting the death via animal attack of Joseph Salvatore. Franklin Fell reports. Have you noticed how everyone in this town does whatever their ancestors did -- be it the mayor, the sheriff, or the reporter? Heh. That's not what catches Elena's eye, though. It's the shadowed figure standing in the background watching the body being wheeled away. Elena zooms in on his face. It's Stefan! The music intensifies, to clue-stick those of you who have been hanging in the cemetery with the rest of the small-town lifers.