Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Family Ties That Bind And Gag
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.04.2010
Mystic Falls; Present (night); Giuseppe's Grave: Stefan and Elena dig away. Commercial.
Anna's Place (which looks like a motel room): Anna tells Damon she arrived, "Around half-past comet," and has been watching Damon screw up every step of the way. She has let others do her work. Damon asks if that means people like Logan Fell. "Little bastard shot me." Anna says Logan was being such a poseur-slayer with the ACTUAL VAMPIRE COMPASS that they slipped him some blood because she couldn't let him die when she needed his family's journal. She thought it would contain the location of Emily's grimoire. She then shows him Jonathan Gilbert's journal and says he should help her find the grimoire, because they both want the tomb open. Damon skims the journal until he finds what he needs, and then closes it and wraps the bindings around it. "Sorry. I work alone."
Bonnie's Karaoke Date: Ben has paid the check and asks Bonnie what she'd like to do now. She grabs his face and lays a big kiss on him, but the sound fx guys let us know he gives her the heebie jeebies. When he asks what's wrong, Bonnie lies, "Nothing," but we don't believe her -- neither does Ben. She does her best to cover though, and says she should have waited until the end of the night to kiss him. When she adds that she's tired, Ben assumes she wants to go, but she suggests they stay, load up on coffee and then go out and do something crazy. When Ben asks, "Like what?" Bonnie flirts at him: "Like anything." She then takes off her coat and says she's headed to the rest room. She walks off and to the (our) right, but when she's confident that Ben's not looking, she reverses direction. I have no idea where she intended to go or why she didn't just frigging call Elena and I'm a little annoyed, so we'll move right along. As she goes wherever, Ben vamps out, Stealth-Salvatores her, covers her mouth, and drags her off.
Grave: Stefan digs as Elena stands around holding a shovel, a flashlight, and looking cute. Utterly tone-deaf tonight, she sighs and says, "Not many girls can say they've done this." Stefan must be completely whipped, because he just smiles sadly and gets back to his digging. Almost immediately, he scrapes against the casket lid. He clears it off and starts to open it, when Elena asks, "Is that it?" No, Elena. It's the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Stefan's more gracious than I. He opens the lid without a word to reveal his father's skeleton. He removes the grimoire from his hands (hand bones?) and closes the lid.