So Elena's (Nina Dobrev) being held captive by Maxfield (Rick Cosnett) and tells her he's using her father's research to condition other vampires into only feeding off each other. Elena doesn't think that's very humane, well vampires aren't human are they. She has flashbacks to her father in the basement of their house and hearing screams when she was little. No ep is complete without a flashback is it! We also get to see how Damon (Ian Somerhalder) escapes his cell and goes in search of Elena, using the bullet and a piece of rock from his cell to break open the door, which he managed to kick in. That seemed simple enough. He goes straight for Aaron (Shaun Sipos) in a bid to find out where she's being held.
He threatens Aaron's life and uses him for leverage, but Maxfield refuses to help him. Instead he sends Enzo (Michael Malarkey) with the promise of getting out of his cell for a while, but injects him with poison beforehand so he must return. Damon is shocked to see he is alive, surviving after he was saved by a scientist to conduct more experiments on him. But Damon isn't willing to talk. He just wants Elena. Aaron bargains for his life by telling them he has files which Maxfield gave him and may reveal her whereabouts. Aaron says he's done with his uncle since he won't rescue him and hands Stefan (Paul Wesley) the files.
Elena discovers Megan, her roommate at college, was saved by Grayson Gilbert (Jason Macdonald) and she was one of the people he had in his cellar. Her father was doing research on vampires in the hopes of saving humans. Katherine hires Matt (Zach Roerig) as her personal trainer cos she thinks exercising and drinking liquidized kale will prolong her life. There's more arguments between her and Nadia (Olga Fonda) but when have they not done that. Seems like Enzo had the perfect opportunity to kill Maxfield and end everyone's agony once and for all, but was more into following through on finding Damon and having some sort of tete a tete with him. Enzo it seems isn't big on brains and certainly won't be much of a foil for the Salvatore's or anyone else really.
Damon takes him back to the lab and injects him with the antidote which makes them even. Damon tells him he has no remorse cos he turned off his humanity when he couldn't save him and it didn't bother him after that. He was more hell bent on sacrificing the Whitmores, saving one of each generation and this is what Aaron tells Stefan. So he wants Stefan to kill him cos he has nothing to live for and will die anyway, well that was a bit of pre-emption on his part, ha.
Elena's storyline is as boring as ever, and fine the break up was coming we knew that, but it's Damon who ends it telling her he's ruthless and he can't change no matter how much she wants him to or tries to change him. She languishes over whether to burn her father's file or not. With everyone, meaning the rest of the cast, hanging on the sidelines with not much to do, this was the US mid-season finale, but luckily we didn't have to wait more than a week to watch it.
This show was fast becoming Buffy but has surpassed it in terms of bore factor. Remember that awful season 4 of Buffy with the Initiative! These numbers flying around for the Augustine vampires was too Dark Angel for comfort, since it was like the barcodes they had in that show. Need something different and exciting here soon and not something tired and tedious and done in other shows.
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