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Wednesday 10 April 2013

The Vampire Diaries 4.17 "Because the Night" Review

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) arrives in New York with Elena (Nina Dobrev) and we get a flashback of him being here in the 1970's.  A place where he tells Elena "a little death can go unnoticed."  She disappears to get her hair done which didn't suit her at all.  Anyway Damon's flashback involves killing two people and then walking away as if nothing happened.  Where the man calls him "Son of Sam" before he's killed.  Damon replies, "Son of Giuseppe."    Thus he garnered a name for himself as a notorious serial killer leaving Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) hearing about him all the way in Mystic Falls.  Stefan sends Lexi to keep an eye on him which was pointless really since Damon uses her, feigning being in love with her for six months just to get her off his back.

Damon's humanity is switched off and he and Lexi party hard in order for Damon to switch his humanity back on.  This is also Damon's plan but cue Rebekah (Claire Holt) into the picture when she tells Elena he's here for the cure and Damon tires to convince her otherwise.  Elena later tells Rebekah she's no fool as she knows exactly what Damon is doing here only she wants to find the cure before him.  Rebekah using that same old story of wanting the cure cos she wants her own family, so they team up here in order to dupe Damon out of finding where Katherine is.  Damon finds Katherine's file in the hoard of stuff in Will's office and has to ask Stefan what her date of birth is, which makes him the "better boyfriend," as Damon calls him. That being 5th June 1473.

Damon tells Elena he and Lexi did it on the bar, causing Elena to move her arm off it, as well as the stage and the roof, she heads for the roof bottle in hand and then tries to seduce Damon to reach into his pocket for the paper he found in the file with Katherine's whereabouts.  Oh Damon why were you so silly enough not to have read the paper.  Also how did Elena know he had found what he did and it was written on paper. All he had to do was make a note on his phone and burn it.  Ugh, no they make Elena out to be more intelligent than a centuries old vampire, especially considering she's so ruthless now.  It's true she doesn't care about him after all.  Damon tells her he was the one who invented seduction for ulterior purposes to begin with.

Flash to Lexi and Damon on the roof and how he took her ring and left her on the roof before telling her his humanity was never switched off to begin with.  He also tells Elena in the present how he regrets everything he did, the guilt caught up with him of killing Lexi and perhaps hate was the first emotion he got back.

In Mystic Falls, Stefan calls in Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to help them with Silas and to find the expression triangle location.  Where Caroline (Candace Accola) tries to resist her attraction to Klaus.  She finds a book in Shane's (David Alpay) office and draws where the triangle could be and Klaus draws another one.

Bonnie (Kat Graham) knows that she's with Silas and he tells her he didn't lie.  She's invited him in and she must carry out the third sacrifice of killing twelve people and she can bring them back.  Those twelve being witches and they try to convince her father (Rick Worthy) she still needs his help even when he wants Shane out.  He calls her mother but Aja (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) turns up instead since she helped with expressionism before and has been through it herself.  She's brought eleven witch helpers with her.  Bonnie tries to go through the process, but says it's too painful.  Stefan finds Bonnie and tries to get her to stop but he's thrown back.  Caroline takes the dagger and kills Aja thus saving Bonnie but unleashing Silas in the process and all the supernatural creatures from the other side, including those Klaus has killed.

Stefan tales Bonnie home who can't recall anything and he has to tell her about Jeremy and that they didn't get the cure.  Caroline realizes she's killed twelve people since Klaus would have let Bonnie die.  He says she's in need of comfort but she should find it with someone who is less terrible than him.

Shane turns up and wants Klaus to help him find the cure, he has the white ash dagger which he easily obtained by reading Rebekah's mind and leaves half of it in Klaus's back as a reminder.
Elena and Rebekah drive off in Damon's car in search of Katherine and he calls Stefan telling him he failed and Stefan couldn't stop the massacre.

The scenes with Damon and Lexi in 1977 new York were great to watch and Damon didn't have that much of a change of outfit.  He was trying to teach Lexi not to mess with him back then and doing practically the same to Elena, in that she shouldn't mess around when she has no humanity cos it'll come back to bite her, but she wasn't in any mood to listen, having the cure on the brain.  She played Damon liked he played Lexi, so who was the better teacher, ha.  Though that conversation Damon and Elena ha don the roof about whether his emotions were really off was a it off-putting (ha) since he was acting out revenge on Lexi, this being an emotion and thus was his humanity really off.
Stefan asking where Elena is, Damon replies, "exploring, maybe she's eating a hotdog...vendor." Oh he gets the best lines.

The title is a song written by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen from 1977 which isn't used here and the lines of the chorus include: "because the night..belongs to lovers."

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