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Bonnie is supposed to be dead, but continues to pop up and have conversations with Jeremy, sometimes about helpful topics such as Silas.
Katherine staggers out of the woods and onto the highway, looking trashed. She sees a minivan and goes into her best damsel in distress routine, waving her arms. The woman stops and gets out, but then recognizes her and whips out a cell phone. Katherine catches on and barely manages to knock her out. Matt shows up with a shotgun.
Stefan is still hallucinating and drowning.
At Whitmore Caroline and Elena are cleaning up after their dead roommate. Elena says the death certificate lists cause of death as suicide, and fails to mention the gaping neck wound. The doctor was Wesley Maxfield. He also teaches a class at the college, and Elena tells Caroline she signed them up. The girls go to class, but promptly get busted for talking and then kicked out for being freshmen.
Elena is on the phone telling Damon about it when she runs into Silas. She thinks it’s Stefan and hangs up on Damon to jump into his arms. He tells her he’s sorry for being gone, but reminds her she did start dating his brother. She spends a second looking contrite before Silas tells her Jeremy was expelled and that’s why he came.
Matt, Jeremy, and Katherine are on a roadtrip/secret mission. They pull over for gas and Katherine bitches about needing cold medicine (how annoying, to spend hundreds of years as a vampire in perfect health and then get a cold) and having to use the bathroom. They let her go. Matt goes inside for cold medicine and Jeremy “watches” Katherine.
Oh, Jeremy. This is Katherine Pierce, the same wily vampire who snapped your neck and consistently gets away with everything. You’re REALLY going to turn your back while she uses a rest stop bathroom?
Anyway, Katherine being Katherine makes a run for it and nearly gets away (good work, Jeremy) when the gas station cashier spots her and pulls a shotgun from underneath the counter to shoot her. Matt takes care of him while Jeremy berates Katherine for trying to run away.
Damon shows up at Whitmore and finds Caroline and explains that, oh shit, Silas is walking around as Stefan and Elena doesn’t know because he didn’t quite tell her. They go searching for Elena.
Elena, still thinking Silas is Stefan, tells him where Jeremy might be going on Route 9 when he asks.
Damon finds Silas and they have a brief confrontation, during which Silas wonders what Elena could possibly see in him. Damon says Silas doesn’t understand it because he hasn’t slept with him. (Everyone who would like to test Damon’s theory, raise your hand.)
Jesse finds Elena and offers to explain the deal with Professor Maxfield if she helps him carry wood to the bonfire. They go into a shed and he picks up a very stake-like piece of wood while he goes on about Maxfield’s participation in a secret society. The way he plays with it while he talks tells me he knows more about the secret society than he lets on.
Damon and Caroline show up and Damon, already agitated, knocks Jesse out cold.
Katherine, Jeremy, and Matt are at a campground in the woods. Matt goes looking for extra firewood. Katherine is super bitchy about being sick. She complains about after everything she’s survived, she feels like she’s being beaten by a sinus infection. Jeremy, momentarily forgetting that she killed him/maybe mistaking her for Elena, wraps her in a blanket.
Silas finds Matt and tries to use mind control, but Matt is already under some kind of witchy woo woo effect and screams at Jeremy and Katherine to run for it. Silas is perturbed. He grips Matt’s head and looks into his eyes. He says AHA, he couldn’t get inside Matt’s head because someone - Traveler - was already in there. He snaps Matt’s neck.
Matt, on the other side, meets up with Bonnie. She explains that every time he dies his spirit gets further and further away from his body, and he has to find his way back to it. He asks why she can see him when no one else can and she has to confess that she’s been dead for a few months.
Damon and Elena are back in Elena’s posh dorm, all over each other. Elena pushes him onto a chair and climbs on top of him.
You’re welcome. Anyway, Elena douses him in vervane and ties him to the chair. Damon comments that Silas must’ve gotten into her head. She says YEP, her job was to get him alone and end his life.
She makes him guzzle vervane and he spits it on her. She temporarily snaps out of it, distracted by the pain. She demands to demand to know where Stefan is and WTF is going on. She gets pissed and starts trying to light a match. Damon explains that her anger is triggering her desire to kill him. She doesn’t argue.
Caroline is still in the wood shed tending to Jesse’s wound. (The fact that Jesse is allowing it is suspicious as far as I’m concerned. “Oh, sorry my friend has anger issues and knocked you out cold.” “It’s okay, you’re so pretty I’ll sit here and assume you’re normal despite your association with him.”) They share a steamy moment and Caroline quickly confesses she has a boyfriend. (No you don’t, Caroline.) Jesse says he gets it, and he knows how it is because he thought he had a girlfriend until BLAH BLAH BLAH. Jesse is a nice distraction, Caroline, accept it.
Back in the woods with Silas, Jeremy and Katherine reach the pickup. He leaves her alone with the keys (REALLY, Jeremy?) and says he’s going back for Matt. She pops off about not surviving because she was a vampire for five hundred years, but because she never looked back. He hurts her feelings by telling her that’s why nobody gives a crap about her.
Jeremy finds Matt’s body and Silas makes himself known. Jeremy, however, isn’t worried. He says, “I’m a Hunter, and I work out.” CUE SEXY AND I KNOW IT. (I totally pictured Jeremy in the leopard print banana hammock from the video and if you say you didn’t you’re LYING.)
He and Silas scuffle, and Jeremy is doing pretty great until Silas stakes them both and reminds him, “I’m immortal and you’re not.” Na-na-na-na-na-na.
Silas is about to throw a hatchet at Jeremy when a shot rings out. Katherine has the shotgun, and is looking pretty helpful all of a sudden. (FACT: Over the entire span of this show, many people have said hurtful things to Katherine that in NO WAY influenced her sense of self-preservation or made her think she should save someone else’s ass. She repeatedly left, screwing people over and OVER. I find it exceedingly far-fetched that she suddenly developed a soft spot for Jeremy and showed up to save the day. But whatever, Jeremy and Matt will live to see another Silas showdown.)
In the dorm, Elena is still weighing the pros and cons of killing Damon. He tells her to think of Stefan, and she does. He doesn’t look very happy when it actually works, and fuzzy thoughts of Stefan stifle Elena’s rage.
Silas shows up at a gas station and gets busy drinking from the clerk. The two witch-types who put the woo woo on Matt show up. Silas addresses them as gypsies, or Travelers. The man pulls a knife and makes a lot of noise about wanting Silas back in his tomb forever and ever. The woman pushes his knife into his throat and smiles at Silas and says she has her own agenda.
Elena and Damon get ready to leave Whitmore; Elena is going back to Mystic Falls to help find and rescue Stefan. Professor Maxfield shows up and says, “Oh, I didn’t know you were Elena Gilbert, that changes everything and by the way I’m sorry I was such a prick. Sure I’ll help you out, because I cannot begin to fathom the possibility that Grayson’s daughter is a vampire!” or something to that effect. Elena says she has more important things to worry about but she’ll stay in touch.
Back in Mystic Falls, Liz tells them she found the safe but didn’t open it because hungry Stefan is definitely something to worry over. Damon opens it and there’s a body inside, but it isn’t Stefan. Uh-oh.
And oh boy, they should be worried because THE RIPPER IS BACK. Apparently three months of starvation sucks, not to mention the torture of imagining Elena and Damon happily frolicking without him, having forgotten all about him. Not only do we have Silas to worry about, but we have Ripper Stefan on the prowl. See you next week!
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