These episodes are poorly named. Yes, Katherine is the houseguest, unwelcome at that. Alas, as much as I love her, Katherine isn’t the most important part of this week’s show.
This week we are more concerned about relationships and really angry witches…warlocks…wizards? Whatever.
Our side stories include Alaric and Jenna. I’m so over these two and her utter cluelessness and uselessness. At one point she says to Alaric “I’m a parent” and I bark an incredulous “COME ON!” at the TV. Those three words uttered by a woman who doesn’t know where her wards are 95% of the time and is slamming tequila while hanging out with the girls (Elena, Bonnie and Caroline). Parent my ass.
The resolution to that whole thing is that Alaric tells her that Isobel is dead, but the rest isn’t his story to tell and they stay broken up.
Then we have Matt and Caroline. In the few moments that these children grace the local high school with their presence, Matt has unequivocally left the ball in her court. Only, Caroline doesn’t know what to do with it. She doesn’t want to tell him, because she wants to keep him safe, but keeping him in the dark makes him distrust her.
Turns out she should have left it alone, because when he find out that Caroline is a vampire, he freaks the hell out. If you remember, way back in the beginning of season one, Damon changed Matt’s sister Vicky into a vampire and then she got staked. But before that Damon attacked her and she told Matt that it was a vampire.
Now Matt is under the assumption that Caroline did something to Vicky. Poor Caroline. Not too long before that, she and Matt where macking in the bathroom of the Mystic Grill. Stupid Jonas went and ruined that bliss, but more on that in a minute.
Damon and Katherine have a dynamic that’s very fun to watch and throughout the night, it just gets better and better, with Damon (FINALLY) not falling for her tricks. The more he wanted her, in the past, the less she could care about him. Now, the worse he treats her, the more she falls for him. Falls in a deviant, slightly abusive way.
At one point, she tells him that she knew that the magical original vampire killing dagger would have killed him had he used it on Elijah. She also tells him that she was told that she could save one brother, meaning that once again, she picked Stefan. Instead of moping, he ends up staking her, just to let her know that he’s pissed.
Never once when he abuses her, does she appear the least bit upset by it. I’m still amazed at how well Nina Dobrev is at playing these two different characters. I don’t look at her and think – Elena. I look at her in these scenes and know – Katherine.
The main plot this week is about how our heroes killed Elijah with the magic-must-stay-inside-the-stake-vampire-to-work dagger and ruined the Martin men’s chance to get back the missing sister/daughter. Our heroes offer to help get her back, but Jonas isn’t having any of it.
He wants Elijah back and he’s going to use his magic along with his son’s to get the dead vampire back. So they set off to do a spell that has some serious side effects when it goes wrong which in turn causes a meltdown of witchy levels.
At the Salvatore house, Damon, Stefan and Katherine are going through the old journals searching for the place were the witches were burned.
Damon tries his best to get rid of Elijah once and for all so they can get back that magical original vampire killing dagger to use on Klaus. Of course that doesn’t work, which guarantees that Elijah will be back at some point to torment our heroes.
For now, we have to be content with the small glimmer of fear that appears on Katherine’s face when Damon turns his flamethrower on her and threatens to light it all up.
So poor Luka is astral projected to the Salvatore with a spell to locate Elijah. Damon seems to sense him but with nothing to see, he goes about his business. It’s Katherine that wanders to the cellar and spies that pesky dagger being removed from the corpse. She tries to keep it in, until a wooden chair is broken and she’s staked. Good thing Luka’s projection has horrible aim.
Bad thing for him, that Katherine was able to call for Damon. He turns that flamethrower on Elijah and in turn, Luka. Back in reality, the boy doesn’t survive it. I feel bad for him because all he wanted his sister back. Now he’s father wants revenge and Jonas does his best “Carrie” impression on Mystic Falls when he goes after Elena.
At the Mystic Grill, guardian Jenna does some tequila shots in a show of parental responsibility. Caroline decides that the best way to Matt’s heart is through song. Luckily she can sing and it works because he jumps on stage and sucks her face off.
Jonas shows up at the Grill, and things start to go downhill from there. Jonas sets the bar on fire and won’t let anyone out until he has Elena. He also knocks Bonnie on her ass with the magic hand touch of pain. Elena tries to talk Jonas down so people can get out, while at the same time, Caroline can jump in and try to stop him. Elena makes a break for it, but poor Caroline is rendered useless when Jonas uses his magic on her.
Useless Matt hear her scream and tries to come to her rescue only to get stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle. Wow, I kept saying he needed to die or become important and now I just feel bad. Thank you, Show, for reminding me that I am a horrible person.
Now he’s dying and Caroline has no choice but to give him her blood. Well, there’s one way to let him know that the secrets you’ve been keeping from him isn’t anything that he could have guessed. EVER.
Back at the Gilbert house, Bonnie is feeling useless without her magic, but they can’t dwell on it because Stefan and Elena show up and Elena goes upstairs all alone. Yeah, like that’s ever a good idea.
Jonas attacks her and Elena turns out to be Katherine. She solves everyone’s rampaging witch problem by eating him. Problem solved. Only he isn’t dead. Bonnie goes to shut his eyes and he lunges at her, giving her back her powers as well as giving her a way to kill Klaus. Then Stefan finishes him off by snapping his neck. Good lord, I actually jumped. No, I did not make a squeak, no matter what my husband tells you.
Now we rap up our show.
Katherine is looking very all un-Elena like in her underwear as she tries to get Damon to tell her his secrets while she tries to seduce him. She complains that he was mean and rough and monstrous and then she tries to kiss him and he plays into for a second before shoving her away. Wee!
Matt comes awake in Caroline’s room. They have “the talk” and of course he’s a bit freaked out and she tries desperately to keep it together. Matt flashes back to when his sister told him about vampires. He thinks that she did something to Vicky. Yikes.
Jenna and Elena eat ice cream and the doorbell rings and there stands Isobel.
That should be an interesting conversation, to say the least. But we have to wait because the show won’t be back until April.
Dawn Del Sontro lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. She’s been working on her best selling novel for so long that when it does come out, it’s going to end the world as we know it. In her spare time, she plays video games to wrack up her headshot count and prepares her family for the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse. As she likes to tell her friends and family, “Zombieland and World War Z aren’t just entertainment, they are guides for survival. Resident Evil is a prophecy of the future.”
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Dawn Del Sontro lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. She’s been working on her best selling novel for so long that when it does come out, it’s going to end the world as we know it. In her spare time, she plays video games to wrack up her headshot count and prepares her family for the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse. As she likes to tell her friends and family, “Zombieland and World War Z aren’t just entertainment, they are guides for survival. Resident Evil is a prophecy of the future.” 
