Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Rebekah (Claire Holt) show up in a small Pennsylvanian town and Rebekah thinks they should move on. Elena's hungry and hones in on a woman and goes to bite her neck. The woman calls her Katherine and tells her to bite her wrist instead like she told her. Apparently Katherine's compelled her to listen to her voice and blank out anyone else. Elena can't believe her luck. Katherine is meant to be on the run and yet she can't be bothered to change her name. They find her in a diner where Rebekah torments her by putting a fork through her hand. They want the cure but she's not talking. Her phone shows she's meeting someone, an "EM" at 2. Oh look his initials and still no one would have guessed who that really was. Elena takes her jacket and shoes and will go in her place. So much for Elena being different to Katherine and acting differently she still looked the same and sounded like the same old whiny Elena!
The sheriff has located Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) abandoned car and Damon says he'll send her muffins. Stefan (Paul Wesley) adds she also found the location of the car they stole, in creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. So he'll send her champagne too. Elena meets Elijah (Daniel Gilles) and he kisses her. Katherine's using him to pave the way forward for her with Klaus (Joseph Morgan) so she can give him the cure and gain her freedom. However he realizes Katerina is Elena. She hasn't told him about killing Jeremy and we learn that Katherine and Elijah are intimate.
Klaus is in agony over the white ash left in his back and Caroline (Candace Accola) turns up, he needs help. Only it's not really her but Silas, still tormenting Klaus. The real Caroline does turn up after countless calls to her, phone stalking, whilst she's in the middle of planning proms. She will help him if he gives his word that Tyler can return and he won't kill him. She can kill twelve witches for Bonnie but she can't help him he tells her. She wants him to learn what it means to be a friend. Caroline doesn't find any ash in his back and after their little argument Klaus realizes the pain is gone. Silas was in his head and she helped him once more. As for Tyler he tells her he's not exactly chasing after him. Even if he gives his word now, he could take it back.
Damon and Stefan find Katherine and Rebekah and Stefan goes in search of Elijah to talk and Damon and Rebekah hunt for the cure. Katherine takes them to a house with a fishtank and a quilt which neither believes could be hers. Katherine opens the safe and tells them the cure's not here. Damon notices a treasure chest in the fishtank without fish and the water's filled with vervain. She dunks Damons' head in, cos once again he's foolish enough to turn his back on her and she takes the cure. Rebekah stops her and drinks it herself as Katherine escapes. Rebekah passes out and when she awakes Damon says he can kill her now and throws a letter opener at her. She catches it and her wound heals, realizing it wasn't the real cure.
Elena tries to convince Elijah that Katherine will always be Katherine and will never change, that she's only using him. Katherine breaks Elena's neck and gets the cure from her friend. She gives it to Elijah since he was right and she wants to change and no longer use him, wanting to find who she really is. She leaves and Rebekah wants the cure but he doesn't give it to her. He asks why she wants it since will things really be so different to now. She's had twenty lifetimes with him and she wants to be normal. Instead they head on back to have a family meeting with Klaus.
Damon admits to Stefan he had a lapse for a second and wanted Rebekah to take the cure but he realized it too late. Stefan wants to move on after Elena gets the cure and he's fed up of making the same mistakes over again. They fall for the same women, Stefan says they used to fall for the same women and they need to move on, Stefan needs to move on. Before he goes riding into the sunset they have to help Elena. Finding her back at the diner she wants them to leave her alone. Killing the waitress and telling them it's their fault. Stefan reminds her how she didn't give up on him but she's not Stefan. Though they're really trying hard to
make Elena into her own special kid of ripper. Everytime they try to talk her round and help here she'll leave Vics in her wake. Seems Stefan won't be riding into the sunset just yet.
So Elijah returned in a bid to get back his beloved Katerina but did he think it would be so simple. Even if he is lovesick, he still manages to keep his cool and get the cure too, showing why he is big brother and why he's still around. Being compassionate about Jeremy since he's lost a brother too, isn't that more than one he's lost. So why does he still want Katherine and get back something from his past? He's the one who always takes the moral high ground and Katherine is his opposite, she's ruthless and vain, so how is Elena also different to her now. Doppelgangers unite in their manipulation of men, yet are we meant to believe that Katherine truly wants to turn over a new leaf and develop some sort of vampiric conscience.
Elijah hates how Katherine took away Elena's only family in the same way hers was also killed and seems the lesson in conscience and compassion could go both ways and he should have given the same to Elena also. Elena has no emotions yet she was trying to convince Elijah of what Katherine's really like or was that all for show.
Caroline also shows her real character when she says she should have turned her back on Klaus a long time ago, but can't, for reasons of attraction and others.
Katherine: "You don't know Katherine at all. Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?"
Damon: "Did it ever occur to you that you're not that deep." Great line as always from Damon.
Hey we've caught up with the US screenings of the show, we're one ep behind, that's 5 days away until we watch ep 19.
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