The Masquerade Ball enmasked villain who captures Elena at the end of episode 2-7 isn't a vampire or any monster at all. He's just a furry, enthralled human. He delivers Elena to a vampire named Trevor, pays with his life and dies promptly. I appreciate that in a tertiary character. Trevor brings Elena back to his BFF Rose aka Rosemarie. They're 500 years old and have been on the run from "The Originals" who sounds like the love children of The Replacements and The Commitments. Elena, like Katherine, is a Petrova doppelganger, and while the moonstone is useful for binding the curse of the sun and the moon, sacrificing the doppelganger is the key to breaking it. Rosemarie and Trevor dangle Elena in front of "original" (and really cute) vampire Elijah, in hopes of getting him to pardon them for a centuries old faux pas.
Bonnie, who is hanging with the Germ, gives herself a bloody nose locating Elena for Damon and Stefan. Elijah swipes Elena's vervain necklace and gets some info from her about Katherine and the moonstone, but do not fear. Although the Brothers Salvatore spend a lot of time sharing some lovely brotherly bonding moments, they save our girl like we knew they would (and our Elena retains her agency throughout. Hooray). Once they bring her home, Damon sneaks back in to see her, dangles her vervain necklace before her, tells Elena he loves her, but that he knows Stefan is best for her. He then compels her to forget their interlude -- leaving Elena to wonder how her necklace was returned to her, and the fandom to cry a million tears.
Elsewhere and when, Bonnie and Jeremy grow closer. Caroline (in direct opposition to Damon's orders) fesses up to Tyler that she's a vampire and knows all about him and his lupine kind. She swears him to secrecy, which Tyler emphasizes is no problem, because he's totally alone in this world. In the space of a year, I've gone from hating this boy to loving him, and Michael Trevino is so very much to blame, but I'll cover that in depth in the full weecap.
This is again A+ work from the cast; you know the drill. I'm holding off on my grade, until the weecap is published. Don't let that stop you, though. Grade the episode at the top of the page, now. And grade it when you come back to read the weecap too, which I'll put up, ASAP. Until then, please join us on the boards where we're wiping up Damon's tears -- with our tongues.
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