The Vampire Diaries does another flashback episode, but this time concentrates more on Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and his time as the Augustine vampire. Elena (Nina Dobrev) also gets caught as she tries to speak with Aaron (Shaun Sipos) not realizing that his uncle, Maxfield (Rick Cosnstt) would be around to catch her. This time the action centres on Augustine and how he experimented on Damon in the 1950's. In his cell he meets Enzo (Michael Malarkey) another vampire who's been tested on. He's been here since at least the war. Together they come up with a plan to escape. Playing rock, paper, scissors, Damon wins meaning he'll get all of Enzo's blood rations and build up his strength to escape. One of Damon's family sold him to the Augustine 'cause' and we learn that the Whitmore's were behind it all.
As Elena learns Aaron's parents, at least by several generations removed, were part of the same Whitmore clan and the college is named after the Whitmore's. Aaron sees pictures of his murdered parents which Maxfield tells them were killed by a vampire and he assumes this was Elena. Damon tells him it was him who killed them. At the Augustine/Whitmore New Year Party, Damon gets out and reeks havoc, killing everyone there. A fire is lit but he can't break the bars to release Enzo, they're lined with vervain. He leaves Enzo there and saves himself, despite his pleas. As he tells Elena, he turned off his humanity and just left. Thus posing the question as to whether Enzo will want some sort of revenge on Damon. As we discover Enzo is alive and is being experimented on when Elena is also strapped to the chair. Elena also having seen her father in the Whitmore photo. Yes let's see whiny Elena get some torture treatment too, maybe it'll give her a backbone.
Damon left a survivor of every generation of the Whimore family, this was Aaron later, so they can get married, have children and he can go on his killing spree every generation, leaving one behind. May sound callous but then Damon's not into niceties, especially since he is a vampire after all and also he was tortured too. So you know exactly where he's coming from, besides who wouldn't be on Damon's side.
Caroline (Candace Accola) decides Stefan's (Paul Wesley) therapy for PTSD isn't really getting anywhere and so speeds it up by locking him in the safe. Yes the safe he spent all Summer in. He gets anxious when he's in there alone and can't breathe but Katherine and Caroline leave him in there. Katherine however takes to getting locking in beside him and tells him to "suck it up" just like he told her to do. They get close in there and once they're out, well one thing leads to another fling and Caroline can hear them together.
This ep was our Christmas break ep, but there wasn't that much of a cliff hanger posed for us. Is it me or are these storylines coming out of nowhere just to make the show last. There isn't any substance to them at all, so Elena's father had secrets and was part of the Whitmore legacy or whatever you want to call it, but it's just tedious. Hasn't Stefan and Katherine been done a million times over, so he can't have Elena but he can satisfy this by getting Katherine instead.
Suppose there's scope for Aaron to either become an ally or to side with Maxfield, which doesn't seem likely, but he didn't exactly let Elena go even after Damon told him he ripped his parents to shreds.
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