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My daughter suggested that we re-watch episode 2-16, to drag our brains out of hiatus mode, but between her and her brothers, there were two doctor appointments, a baseball scrimmage, a practice and cheerleading registration (that would be for her) and no time for such preparation. So my first foggy thoughts about the action-packed "Know Thy Enemy" ended up being along the lines of: "I'm really not sure what just happened there, but I do know I don't like the wording of that title. Shouldn't it be thine instead of thy. Isn't this like the an versus a choice?" And I'm kind of stuck there, mostly because my head is still spinning from last night's events. So this is a quick and dirty recaplet to hold you over until the weecap is published. You ready? Okay.
Isobel is back in Mystic Falls. She makes her presence known to Elena and Jenna, discloses that Elena already knew she was alive (a betrayal that devastates Jenna so that she will not talk to either Elena or Alaric, and in fact leaves Gilbert Gables), gets Uncle John to invite her in the house, teams up with Katherine to supposedly turn Elena over to Satan Klaus, double-crosses Katherine to secret Elena away, turns Alaric over to one of Satan Klaus's manwitches and finally self-immolates (right in front of a horrified Elena) while standing on the empty grave her parents bought when Isobel supposedly died. It appears she is under the compulsion of an Original when she does all this, but since she's now ashes, what does it matter? That, my darlings, is that for Mommy Highest.
Meanwhile, Matt is at first avoiding Caroline, but then shows up at her house and demands she tell him everything about Vicki's death. Once she finally complies, Matt claims the knowledge is too much for him and insists she compel him to forget. Caroline resists for as long as she can, but Matt is so upset, she finally agrees. And then -- when he leaves -- he walks right out and climbs into Sheriff Forbes' cruiser. It seems that when he went to the Sheriff about Vicki's death, talk of vampires and the claim that Caroline was one, the Sheriff believed him, so she dosed him with Vervain and together, they set up Caroline, so that they could bring down the whole Fangy Fellowship of the Falls. This is HUGE. Now the Council knows/will know about Damon, Stefan, Caroline, et al, but our Fellowship won't know the Council knows. See? HUGE.
In other news, Damon and Stefan ask Elena to sign the deed to Mossy Manse, which had been in the late Zack's name. Once Elena is the rightful owner, no vampire will be able to enter without her permission. Of course Damon snarks that if she refuses to invite him in, he'll be pissed. It's a cute moment, but I'm still too stunned to fully enjoy it right now. And I'm stunned, because, because...
Remember how I said Isobel gave Alaric over to one of Satan Klaus's manwitches? Yeah, well that manwitch also captured Katherine. He's got them both (and I think the moonstone, too) at some undisclosed location. When Katherine wakes on the floor, she looks up to find the manwitch doing some weird blood spell on Alaric. Once the deed is done, Alaric channels Satan Klaus, or is possessed by Klaus or OMGWTFANGS!!!
Oh and meanwhile, with Damon's help, Jeremy and Bonnie locate the site where 100 witches were massacred back in the bad old days. Bonnie raided Senior Manwitch's grimoire collection and found the spell to suck up the power so she can defeat Klaus. And guess what? She'll have to expend all that power and give her life in the process. She tries to make it sound like her sacrificing herself is different from Elena sacrificing herself, but I'm going to have to give that some thought.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Welcome back, everyone! That long hiatus was of the suck, yes? I was ready to be all, "Yeah, the show is back, whatever..." but then it came roaring back with a vengeance leaving me but putty in its hands. If it had hands, which is doesn't, on account of being a show. I mean the characters aren't handless, but...oh who even knows where I was going with that.
Show, you've knocked my socks off yet again. I know, I know. You're looking at that B+ grade up there and wondering why it's not an A. I'll get to that, I promise, but a B+ on this show is not a B+ in sixth grade remedial reading; it's a B+ in a high school honors class. My expectations are high; my curriculum is demanding. I know how I've jumped from hands to socks to grades, so I'll continue in this non-sequitur-ial manner, and take a moment to note that I mentioned in the recaplet, my first foggy thoughts about the action-packed "Know Thy Enemy" ended up being along the lines of: "I'm really not sure what just happened there, but I do know I don't like the wording of that title. Shouldn't it be thine instead of thy? Isn't this like the an versus a choice?"
Now that I've watched the episode about a half dozen times since, I'm no longer foggy, but that still bothers me, so there. You know what else is bothering me? Well, real life family stuff, but really, you don't want to know. Believe me. What's bothering me that is of concern to you -- is writing this weecap. I've struggled with my approach to this episode, so I've asked some very special people to help me with the weecap. And the three of you who have read my No Ordinary Family weecaps now know what to expect . I hope you enjoy it, or at least tolerate it. I'm pretty sure things will be back to normal week. You ready?
Readers: Oh just get on with it already.
Jenna: Sniff. Yep, I just need to find the tissues.
Elena: I've got them, Jenna. Here. I'm so, so sorry. If you'll just let me explain.
Isobel: Damn. Where's my lighter? My joint went out.
Recapper: Ladies, can we get on with it please?
Evening, at Gilbert Gables...
Isobel: [Tokes] Sure. Whatever. Knock knock.
Jenna: Um hi?
Elena: Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
Isobel: [Exhales] Elena, my bio-daughter. so good to see you. Again. And Jenna, the woman who is dating my HUSBAND, did you notice how pointedly I said again to Elena, who -- clearly -- already knew I was less than dead and didn't bother to tell you, even when you were boinking my husband in the room?
Jenna: Sobs.
Isobel: [exhales] Ah, this is good shit. I think it's Sativa.
Recapper: I hate working with 'heads. God Isobel, get your act together, or I'll write around you.
Isobel: Chill. Okay, so like aren't you going to invite me in?
Elena: No no no no no no no. [Slams door].
Jenna: You could have at least let her pass me the joint. I haven't sparked one up since I became the world's most crap guardian. I mean... Sob. You knew Isobel was alive?
Elena: It turns out the definition of alive is trickier than you'd think.
Jenna: Even though you're crying too, and even though I know that Isobel is your bio-mom and so this must all be traumatic for you as well, it is time for me to stomp upstairs and have an enormous hissy fit. When I slump to the floor behind my locked door, take a good look at my boots, because they're hot.
Recapper: They are, and Jenna, I know you're hurt, but you kept what knowledge you had of Elena's adoption secret from her for a long time, and you are the putative adult here. Couldn't you hear her out before you have your hissy fit? Or at least during?
Jenna: Not so much, no, because it's not time for me to find out about vampires, yet. It's hissy fit time. Look at the script!
Elena: It's all right, Recapper. I can deal. This is all my fault. Everything is always my fault.
Recapper: If you get suicidal again, I'll kill you myself. That said, I know you can deal. You are the true adult in this relationship.
Elena: I wasn't suicidal so much as martyr-ific.
Recapper: Fine, let's move on. The scene wasn't nearly this long.
Morning, at Mossy Manse...
Stefan: [on phone] No way! Poor Jenna.
Damon: Pay attention to me! What's going on? Talk to me.
Stefan: Isobel showed up at Elena's last night and let Jenna know Alaric's less of a widower than he puts on.
Damon: Sucks to your ass-mar, Ric. We should probably let him know, huh?
Morning at Gilbert Gables...
Door: Knock knock.
Elena: Who's there?
Alaric: Your bio-mom's husband and your adoptive aunt's lover. Who's your Uncle Daddy, now?
Elena: Crap. I'm always my own grandpa. But Lucy, we got some 'splaining to do.
Jenna: You do, and if I could make myself stop for two seconds and listen, I'd probably hear some vital information, but there's this script, see? So even though I've been begging for information for months, I'm going to pretend that you two would just bullshit me.
Alaric: Well, it's possible we might. Why tell the truth? It's far too simple and useful.
Jenna: Now get out of this house.
Alaric: Since you're hefting that duffel and moving toward the door, it looks like you're already leaving, so why do I have to?
Jenna: Seethes.
Elena: Where are you going, Jenna?
Jenna: I'm going to stay on campus because in Mystic Falls, grad students can get on-campus housing, mid-semester, at a moment's notice.
Recapper: I think that's why people are so good looking here. They have the big-ass problems of vampires and werewolves, but they really don't have the everyday stressors.
Dorothy Parker: Word. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
Jenna: Am I not even allowed a tearful, dramatic exit?
Recapper: Have at it, girl.
Jenna: SLAM.
Door: Ow!
Uncle John (sic) "Snark Daddy" Gilbert: Hey Ric, sucks to your ass-mar.
Ralph: Enough.
Piggy: Yeah. Besides, it sucks to my ass-mar. I mean asthma.
Ralph: And possibly your auntie.
Piggy: Ew.
Recapper: Yes. Ew. Let's move back to The Vampire Diaries. Thank you though for your cameo, um..."gentlemen." Now where were we?
John: I was just going to give Alaric a little I told you so crap about keeping secrets from Jenna.
Alaric: And then I was going to punch this little twit right in the face and bloody his nose.
Elena: And then I was going to laugh and laugh.
Recapper: DONE! And scene.
At Fortress Forbes, at some point...
Caroline: Stefan, hi. This is Caroline. We've got a problem. Matt knows all about vampires and that I am one, and he knows what happened to Vicki, too.
Stefan: I should have let Damon kill you. Clean it up, will ya. Find him. Compel him. Just fix it.
Caroline's Car's Product Placement: I have a hands-free phone, but you're still not going to get through to Pudding Pop.
Caroline: Sigh.
Later, at Gilbert Gables...
John: Elena, Stefan, I have a surprise for you.
Isobel: Snerk. Cough. Giggle.
Elena: You invited this vampwaste in my house? Okay, Uncle Daddy, now you're just trying to make me hate you. Trust me. I already do.
Audience: So do we!
Isobel: Ahem. I need to have a serious conversation with you about snicker Satan Klaus. He like...um...wants to kill you and stuff.
Elena: No duh.
Isobel: So like... [tokes] I'll keep you safe, in a safe house that's as safe as houses and shit. It's not the place I'm currently staying. 'Cause that's where I'm meeting up with Katherine and plotting against you, so that would just be all awkward and whatnot. It's another, different house nobody will ever see.
Elena: Are you high?
Isobel: Bwah ha ha.
Elena: No. Seriously. What's all this stuff about meeting up with Katherine?
Isobel: Oh, we're like totally besties and so when I'm not in scenes with you, I'm in scenes with Katherine, explaining to her that I'm going to give you to Klaus to save her skanky ass.
Katherine: I love you, descendant.
Elena: I don't think I'm supposed to know any of this. Um, Recapper?
Recapper: No. You're not. Just ignore them, Elena. I mean Katherine isn't even in this scene. Now turn your back cover your ears for a second, okay?
Elena: Gladly.
Recapper: Great. Now that she's gone, Katherine, I just want to say, I'm really disappointed in you.
Katherine: How so?
Recapper: Why are you buying that Isobel would betray her own daughter for your sake?
Katherine: Did you not see our hug-filled reunion?
Recapper: Yes, but you are the least-trustworthy person on this show, and generally the less trustworthy someone is, the less trusting she is.
Katherine: Oh come on. Everyone loves me. I mean look at Damon.
Damon: No bitch, I'm pretty well over you.
Katherine: Well, there's Stefan.
Stefan: Have you been bogarting Isobel's weed?
Katherine: Okay, well I'm pretty popular. Besides, what kind of vampyress would turn on her best vampyress friend?
Recapper: Well, there's you, for starters.
Katherine: What? I never...
John: Um, you did screw over Pearl. You know. Twice.
Katherine: Oh.
Recapper: Right, so I'm just saying, I find it unbelievable that you trust Isobel so very much. It's why the episode didn't get an A.
Katherine: So, it's my fault. But look how sexy and evil I am.
Recapper: You are, but you're also supposed to be smart. And here? Not so much. But really, this is not your scene. You need to leave.
Katherine: Fine. I can tell where I'm not wanted.
Stefan and Damon: If only.
Recapper: Elena, you can listen again now.
Elena: La dee da.
Recapper: [pulls Elena's hands off her ears] It's okay now. Where were we?
John: Well, Isobel and I were just trying to get Elena to trust us as parents.
Isobel: Right. Snort. As if. I mean, yeah. We've got your back honey, just like always.
Elena: Dear Lord, I know I'm not all that religious...
The Lord: Seriously, my child. You don't call. You don't write. Where's the love?
Elena: I know, and I'm sorry about that, because honestly, if you never do anything else for me, seeing to it that I was adopted away from these two was the best thing ever. Thank you. Amen.
The Lord: You're welcome. Now excuse me, but there's trouble in the Middle East, and the Far East, and the Midwest, and well, all over.
Elena: I hear ya, brother...I mean Father. Thanks again.
Recapper: Should we move on to the civic event o' the week?
Elena: Huh?
Recapper: Whatever that scholarship thing is -- you know, the one in your mother's name. Jenna asked you to take care of it before she swanned off.
Elena: Oh, right. It's off to the Lockwood Mansion we go.
At the Lockwood Mansion...
Mayoral Mama Mulva: And so this week, we're gathering to give a check to the Miranda Gilbert Scholarship fund. Elena?
Elena: Thank you.
Meanwhile, upstairs...
John: Isobel, what are you doing here? Do you still like me? Do ya? Do ya?
Isobel: Well, you're not sinsemilla, but you'll do as a distraction.
John: Goodness, woman. Are you ever not high? What are you talking about?
Isobel: [vamps out] First, I'm going to bite you on the neck and drain your blood, then I'm going to send your corpse tumbling down the staircase.
John: Oh, I can see how that would... THUD.
Audience: [laughs]
Civic Event O' The Week Attendees: GASP!
Mayoral Mama Lockwood and She's The Sheriff: Nothing to see. Move it along. It's only a flesh wound.
Civic Event O' The Week Attendees: We're not as dumb as we look, we just want to get the hell out of here.
Recapper: So noted.
Katherine: Hey Elena, nice dress.
Elena: Why are you wearing the same...
Katherine: [snatches Elena]
Stefan: Is blind.
Isobel: [absconds with Elena]
Katherine-As-Elena: Stefan my honey bunny, I'm just going to call Damon and tell him about Uncle John's sorta-death.
Stefan: Sure thing Sugar Lips. [...] Hey, you're not my Sugar Lips. You're my Venom Lips. Where's Elena?
Katherine: I could tell you, but I'm much rather inject you with Vervain and shove you in the brush and then speed off.
Stefan: Shoulda seen that coming.
Recapper: Aren't you supposed to be more tolerant of Vervain because you've been dosing yourself with it?
Writers: Hey, that was just tiny amounts. This was an injection, right into his bloodstream.
Recapper: All right. I'll give you a pass, but we will be having words about Katherine's out-of-character gullibility in this episode, after I submit this weecap.
Writers: Damn it. Can you be bought off with shirtless Damon.
Recapper: No comment.
Meanwhile, back at Lockwood Mansion...
Damon: Never fear, old Blue Eyes is here.
Mulva and Liz: Damon, John is dead.
Damon: Sadly, he's only a little dead. He's got a protect-o ring. He'll be alive again in another couple of hours.
Recapper: Don't you think it was a little risky of you to bring up his ring? I mean, it's not like yours is subtle.
Damon: Honey, I just do my eye thing and the women are putty in my hands. Watch. Eye Thing.
Recapper: Ahem. I see your point, you Evil Pixie Monster. I need a glass of ice water.
Damon: And I need to hide this body and then go do witch stuff with Bonnie and the Germ.
Recapper: Call me!
Meanwhile, outside the mansion...
Matt: Sheriff Forbes, I demand to see Vicki's file and see what you've been covering up about her death.
Liz: Well I never... and I will prove it by performing some police brutality.
Matt: I don't believe you.
Liz: Crap.
Stephanie from No Ordinary Family: You need to get a move on. You're late.
Recapper: I know. Sorry I'm late. There was this big problem...and I'm late because of it.
John Cusack: SHOUT OUT!
Recapper: Hi, you cute thing.
Stephanie: This is not getting a move on. I'm going to take the reins.
Recapper: But you're not even on this show. The readers will be confused.
Stephanie: Only the ones who didn't watch No Ordinary Family.
Readers: That's all but three of us. And only two of us liked how Cindy did those weecaps.
Recapper: Yeah, Stephanie. Sorry. But thanks for the reality check. I'll speed it up. So anyhow, we forgot to tell you about how, earlier Isobel meets up with Alaric in town. She says she wants to have a heart-to-heart, but he's not so interested. She explains that's because she compelled him to give up on her. He doesn't care. Isobel then takes great pains to apologize to him and tell him she really did love him and she wants him to know that. He's still all whatever, at least until one of Satan Klaus's manwitches comes up behind him, puts the whammy on him and drives him to the ground. Isobel walks away with tears in her eyes. I think we're supposed to think she still retains human feeling for her husband, but you know, all that smoke is bound to make the eyes water from time to time, so who can tell. Now, after the big distraction at the Civic Event o' the Week, Isobel drives off with an unconscious Elena in the back seat of her car. When Katherine gets to Isobel's pad, the BFFs talk on the phone. Isobel's conversation with Katherine is really not all that different from the aforementioned one with Alaric. It becomes clear that Isobel has been under compulsion from Klaus to set up Katherine, John, and Elena. Elena wakes and hears a little of this. Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone, Satan Klaus's manwitch puts the same whammy on Katherine.
Damon: What about my story?
Recapper: You can tell it if you can cut through the b.s. I'm really late.
Damon: I'll Stealth-Salvatore this bad boy. You ready? Okay. So, early in the episode, Katherine was trying to find out where I hid the moonstone. Pssssh. Like I'd tell her. But it seems that later, while Stefan and I are out with various factions of the Fellowship of the Falls, she finds it. I had hidden it in a bowl of decorative soaps in my really awesome bathroom. She's washing up, when it dawns on her to check. Damn it. So, she has the moonstone when Satan Klaus's manwitch whammies and captures her.
Recapper: Yeah, and that can't be good. On the plus side, you're shirtless when you realize the moonstone is missing.
Damon: I am pretty, aren't I?
Recapper: The prettiest.
Stephanie: Tick tock.
Recapper: Look, you really have to zoop on out of here. I've been struggling all season with the spelling of Stefan versus Stephanie, and this is just making it worse. We're in the home stretch now. I promise.
Stephanie: I was *just* trying to help. Get going, okay?
Recapper: FINE. Just leave.
Stephanie: Zoops back to on-the-bubble-show-land.
Damon: Okay. That was weird. Anyhow, I've also been doing witch stuff with Bonnie and Jeremy. First, we go to Senior Manwitch's apartment. He's not there on account of the fact that he died at Gilbert Gables, before the hiatus. But Junior Manwitch's corpse is on the floor. I just want to burn the whole place down, but Bonnie's all softhearted and respectful. Besides, she wants to save Senior Manwitch's grimoire collection. She does a little spell to find the one containing the information she needs about how to harness the witch-energy from the spot where the Salem witches (and later Emily Bennett) were massacred, back in ye olde bad days. It's then I reveal that I know the spot. I take her and the Germ to it. Apparently a house has been built over it. I don't know. That whole thing seems weird to me. Anyhow, when we're at the exact spot, the dead witches immobilize me. Then they make my protect-o ring temporarily ineffective, and of course I'm immobilized in a sun spot, and start frying up, which really sucks.
Bonnie: Only from some perspectives. At first, I can't help giggling about how the dead witches really don't want Damon there, but I help release him and he stomps out of the house. It's then that I am able to do the spell to harness the dead witch energy.
Jeremy: But it's spooky, scary and obviously causes Bonnie a lot of pain. I can tell she's not exactly being forthcoming with me about this whole empowerment. She shows me how strong she is by whipping up this really cool windstorm, but also cops to the fact that the witches warned her about harnessing so much power. Later, I realize what else is going on. If Bonnie is able to use all this power to kill Klaus, she will be emptied of not only the power, but also her life-force. First my sister, now my girlfriend. Why do all the women in my life have these messiah complexes?
Bonnie: Look, it's different with me. Elena was ready to die only to save all of us. Whereas I'm ready to die not only to save Elena, but everyone.
Recapper: Um.
Bonnie: It sounded more convincing when I read it as written in the script.
Recapper: Yeah, but on closer inspection, there isn't a big difference, is there?
Jeremy: I know, right? I keep going over and over it, but I smoked too much pot back in the day. I feel like I'm missing something, but I can't put my finger on it.
Recapper: I never went in for the stuff. I don't think it's the pot.
Bonnie: [performs spell to end this conversation]
Writers: Bless you, Bonnie.
Caroline: Hey, you? What about me?
Recapper: What about you?
Caroline: Can I tell my story, now?
Recapper: Be my guest.
Caroline: Great. Okay, so I've been trying to get ahold of Matt all day, and where do I end up finding him? In my house, that's where. He tells me that he called my mother out on Vicki's death, and she brought him there to talk and calm down, but then got called away. He then demands to know the truth from me. So I tell him. I tell him EVERYTHING.
Recapper: Everything-everything?
Caroline: Well, a lot of it happens off screen, so it's hard to say. Anyhow, after I tell him whatever I tell him, he freaks out and is really mean to me and says it's too much to know and demands that I compel him to forget. So that like...wasted an afternoon. I comply of course -- compel him to forget -- and then he leaves.
Matt: Right, I leave, and get right into Sheriff Forbes' cruiser.
Liz: Yeah, 'cause we're totally in cahoots. My daughter is dead and the thing that wears her face is in cahoots with a bunch of other blood-sucking fiends, so Matt and I are in cahoots, too. I doped him with Vervain before he went to talk to Caroline.
Matt: Yeah, that whole "Compel me, dammit," attitude? A farce. Now I know everything, but the Fang Gang will think I know nothing.
Recapper: Liz, on this show, the vampires are less, "the thing that wears [the victim's] face." Caroline is still your daughter, but with super strength, sun sensitivity, speed, and a different diet.
Liz and Matt: Don't muddle our heads with facts. We're in cahoots. For once, we are in cahoots. Everyone else is always in cahoots. It's our turn to be in cahoots.
Recapper: Fine. .
Elena: Okay, so Isobel is pretending like she's taking me to some safe house, but instead she takes me to some cemetery and shows me her own grave. It seems her parents needed closure when her body was never found, so they purchased a grave and put a headstone on it. They bring flowers and visit regularly. My poor bio-grandparents.
Isobel: Don't mind me. I just have a little smoke in my eyes. Besides, I have to talk to Satan Klaus's manwitch. He's got Katherine and the moonstone. I've completed my task. The good news is, I get to let Elena go.
Elena: Which is weird, right?
Isobel: I guess. All I know is I'm relieved, which bothers me, because I hate my human emotions. We vampires have no emotions, right? That's why I'm going to tearfully rip off my protect-o necklace, throw it to the ground, and let myself burn up in front of my bio-daughter. My ashes will settle into the ground and my empty grave and when my parents come to visit, they will actually be honoring my remains, even if they don't know it.
Elena: Yeah, that's not emo at all.
Isobel: Bye Elena. I maybe love you, but there's no time for that. I've got to die in a fire.
Audience: Ahahahahahahaha.
Elena: Oh, I'm getting a contact high. I'd better stand back. Crap. I hope Isobel left the keys in the car. I'm pretty far from town.
Later, at Mossy Manse...
Stefan: So, that happened.
Elena: It sure did.
Damon: Look, accept the deed to our house.
Elena: I am not sleeping with you Damon, although I really do dig this place.
Damon: Oh you'll sleep with me someday.
Stefan: Standing right here!
Damon: But this isn't about that. Look, as soon as you sign the deed, this place is yours and then no vampire can enter without your invite.
Elena: [smirks]
Damon: But if you don't invite me in, I'm gonna be pissed.
Elena: Oh, like that's a new mood for you.
Stefan: It's a pretty good plan, Elena. Plus, more sleepovers.
Elena: I'm starting to come around to this idea.
Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location...
Katherine: So, when I regain consciousness, I'm on the floor and my protect-o necklace is gone. But I only have a second to be miffed about that before I get really annoyed by some loud chanting going on. I turn around and see Satan Klaus's manwitch putting the whammy on some guy. And he's either draining some of his blood or giving the guy some blood. There's this whole thing with bottles and tubes and...your TV set sucks.
Recapper: I know. My husband and I were just saying we need a new one. But please, continue.
Katherine: So anyhow, the chanting finishes and the guy in the chair stands up. It's Alaric. But...it's not.
Satan Klaus/Alaric: It's totally me. Aren't you freaked? Aren't you confused? Aren't you just going "Oooooooooooh!"
Katherine: Personally, I'm crapping my pants.
Recapper: Yuck. I'm confused. What is going on?
Satan Klaus/Alaric: Well it seems that I am Alaric channeling Satan Klaus or possessed by him, or something along those lines.
Recapper: I can't even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Satan Klaus/Alaric: I know, right?
Recapper: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Satan Klaus/Alaric: Muahahahahahahahahaha.
I'll be back Friday with the recaplet of the upcoming "The Last Dance." Can you guess what week's event will be? Until then, please grade the episode at the top of the page and then join us on the boards, but please don't set yourselves (or anyone else) on fire, or get possessed by an Original. Feel free though, to bite John and throw him down the stairs, whenever you're in the mood.