As Nadia (Olga Fonda) lies dying (thought I'd paraphrase a previous Vampire Diaries ep from the season 2 finale, As I Lay Dying, when Damon (Ian Somerhalder) was bitten by the werewolf and they needed Klaus's blood to save his life. We had Elena (Nina Dobrev) by his side and spending time with him, whilst Stefan (Paul Wesley) was put through the rigmarole of having to play Klaus's lackey so he could get Klaus's blood to cure Damon. Ok a little off point there, but still relevant for many reasons, read my review for that ep to find out why. http://mila255.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/vampire-diaries-222-as-i-lay-dying.html)
Here Nadia doesn't get a cure since Katherine tells her she can't ask Klaus cos he'll be after her. Instead she enlists the help of Maxfield (Rick Cosnett) which was not only stupid but dangerous, I mean he's really going to help. He takes Nadia's blood sample so he can juts whip up something, a magic cure. Don't think so.
The others meanwhile are on the hunt for Katherine and Nadia and this involves Bonnie (Kat Graham) asking Liv (Penelope Mitchell) for help again with the scrying spell, but seems she only has eyes for Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) which perturbs Bonnie no end. Many have liked Jeremy and wanted him, many will continue to do so, so get over it Bonnie. They need to locate Katherine so they can use the gypsy dagger on her and expel her from Elena's body. Even Damon tries to get Katherine to meet him, but she sees through him, of course she would. One minute she doesn't want to know him and vice versa and the next he just expected her to come running! Caroline (Candace Accola) and Bonnie also come up with a plan to reel her in for Bonnie's birthday but Katherine isn't biting. She knows it's a trap since none of them wanted her around or called her and now everyone's bugging her. Figuring out they know she's not Elena.
Damon also tells them the same eventually, that she knows he was trying to get her to come down under false pretences. Nadia has flashes of looking for her mother over the centuries, which was very Katherine orientated in the sense of how she also had flashes when she was on her deathbed of having Nadia taken from her so cruelly and losing her parents. As well as having eyes only for Stefan. Maxfield doesn't show up with the cure and Katherine goes looking for him. That's cos Damon's escaped his chains by luring Tyler (Michael Trevino) in after telling him how he couldn't stop Caroline from sellping with Klaus and he can't resist being baited by Damon. So Damon arrives at Maxfield's after Enzo tells him where he is but we don't know what Enzo's last deed for Maxfield was. They fight and Maxfield tries to get his hands on the syringe with the all magic potion, the Augustine serum; but Damon gets his own back by exacting the same torture he endured for five years onto him, but in less time. A fitting end, ha.
Katherine didn't even look all that distraught, unless she was keeping up a front for appearance's sake. But she arrives at Salvatore mansion after all to say farewell to Nadia. Though it doesn't really look like she was really that sad to see her daughter go, not until the last minute. She tells Nadia she was taken from her and so couldn't be a good mother. Right, any old excuse. Nadia dies and Bonnie helps her to cross over. Katherine attempts to escape but is cornered by Damon who's outside the front door. So that was the only way in and out was it. She accepts defeat in the only way Katherine could and asks who will do the dirty deed. It won't be Caroline, Jeremy or "Matty Blue," or even Damon or Bonnie.
Katherine tells Damon she sorry him for turning him, for taking him away from his family but it's just a speech to get him angry, cos she's glad of everything she did to him and he went through. She turns to Stefan, the love of her life and they share a kiss, before he brings out the dagger and stabs her. She had to really expect that didn't she, knowing his heart always belongs to Elena and not to her. So Katherine's gone, or is she? Probably she will return in some way, shape or form and she gets to the church where Bonnie lights a candle for her father, but Katherine doesn't pass through her and not for want of trying either. Before she goes she has a nice surprise in store for them and for Elena. She stole the syringe and injected Elena's body with it, so now Elena's got the ripper virus too, but many times worse since it has werewolf blood. That should spice Elena up a bit seeing we can't really have the old, boring Elena back. So she's in league with Damon now, having got what he's got and her turn to play ripper for a change. As for Katherine, she's dragged to that other side, the hell below.
Tyler tells Matt (Zach Roerig) to bury Nadia in the woods but he tells him she's going to have a proper burial as she deserves better. We also got to see how he and Rebekah and Nadia spent the Summer together. Matt even pretended to be Gregor so that Nadia could have a less painless passing. Finally though Tyler's werewolf bite is actually lethal and if Katherine really wanted to be the mother she claimed she was, she should have found Klaus to save Nadia even if that meant losing her life in the process, which she did anyway. At least she gave Nadia her last perfect day/memory which involved her playing outside and coming home with her. Just like Stefan did the same for Katherine by removing the death of her parent's from her mind. Although Katherine didn't go gently, she left them with a parting gift that'll make them remember her.
So Bonnie doesn't know what was happening to Katherine or where she was headed, that can only mean one thing, she's not really gone for good, right? She's an intricate part of the show and can't really be written out. She made the show more interesting than the ever-eternal, confounded, continuing love triangle, which this show should never have gotten too bogged down with, drawing away from the real story. It's not always about love.
Tyler and Caroline faced that inevitable showdown where she wanted to know why he and everyone was down on her for sleeping with Klaus. Yes, she did it, she tells him, it's in the past, but now get over it. Adding that no one riled on him for killing Nadia with his werewolf bite. Recall he told Matt he only just nipped her. Also Tyler bit Damon in season 2 when he was trying to help him. Thus passed a well loved character in Katherine Pierce. Leaving us to ponder what lies in store for Elena, but who really cares? Ha.
As sated int he opening there were similarities to Damon's werewolf bite ep where he had flashes and they always involved Katherine. Vowing he could chase her forever, which he did and finally got to see her die now. Stefan had to turn into a ripper once again in order to save Damon and here Damon was a ripper too and Elena, well she'll probably be a super ripper, ha. The title of that season 2 episode alluded to Homer's The Odyssey and mentions the woman wouldn't close his eyes as he descended into hell/Hades, somewhere Katherine is right about now. I also mentioned in that review about Supernatural making a great cross over ep with Vampire Diaries and didn't Katherine remind you just a little of Dean (Jensen Ackles) and his being dragged into hell for making that deal and selling his soul to save his beloved Sammy (Jared Padalecki).
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