The age of innocence, more like the age of duplicity with Lily (Annie Wersching) and her new 'family' all harbouring secrets of their own and betrayal in their hearts.
Three Years From Now Stefan (Paul Wesley) calls Tyler (Michael Trevino) telling him his scar's opened up and he tried to warn Caroline (Candace Accola King) but she won't answer. Tyler doesn't want to get involved and he tells Tyler to keep safe, as Stefan burns his car
Now Caroline reads about Valerie ( Elizabeth Blackmore) in Stefan's journal and he calls his phone, Caroline answers and mentions Valerie to him, dirty blonde hair, blue eyes" (lousy accent! Ha) As Valerie comes in, cue bad flashbacks and tedious too. Valerie met Stefan back in 1863 (year of choice for this episode, or rather year of revisit) at the Mystic Falls fair. They meet, talk, hit it off and before you know it they're all over each other. This being Stefan's first time and he just wants to undress her himself (yawn!) Taking her to Lily's grave where he used to put flowers there every week. He told her how when he was ten and his father sent him to get some flower for a tonic to help with her consumption, but she was sent to the sanatorium. Valerie tells him the cream violet wouldn't have helped so he can't blame himself. That she worked at the sanatorium and nursed the patients there. The flower was just an old wives tale, bit like her.
Today Lily turns up and parallel parks knocking the bumper off a BMW. Stefan tells her she can have his house but she's not getting the car, or wrecking it, strange since we've just seen him destroy it three years later. He tells her Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) left town and they're not talking. Then he takes her for a driving lesson and she tells him about sending Valerie to check up on him cos her sons thought she was dead. Only Valerie fell in love but didn't tell Lily this. Then we meet Julian (Todd Lasance) who turns out to be Lily's boyfriend, which Stefan finds hard to believe and she's been looking for him sever since.
Valerie left, was sneaking out to be with Stefan, but Julian beat her up and killed her baby in the process, Stefan's baby. She awoke in the ship and Julian told Lily she was beaten up. Lily gave her blood and made her better. She tried to kill herself, succeeded and came back to life cos of Lily's blood and he was the first hybrid. Valerie goes to meet Stefan where he waited for her the whole day like a fool and tells him of the baby. So if Stefan didn't have any feelings for her now and doesn't want to think of the past as he later tells Caroline, why was he there and how easy was it for Valerie to find him there. Maybe Stefan was thinking, "Valerie, call on me...I'm the same boy I used to be..." Ha. Had to get that in!
Caroline gives Lily Stefan's journal saying he loved her and wrote about her all the time. She reads an extract and lets Caroline go cos Stefan was honest with Lily. Oh don't tell me Stefan will have a change of heart and side with Lily, cos that'd be too much of a betrayal. After all she was the one who deserted them.
Damon tells Alaric (Matt Davis) and Bonnie they're going on a road trip to Myrtle Beach which is where he found Oscar (Tim Kang). Bonnie asks Alaric about the stone and he tells her he destroyed it in hydrofluoric acid, which of course he didn't. Oh Damon can never keep any clothes on or that towel either! Ha. Bonnie is still having visions of those people being killed and wants Oscar to siphon those feelings from her. Oscar recalls Damon from 1863 and the Civil War, but Damon feigns to forget. Oscar senses the stone and Damon tells him if he helps her, he won't tell Lily where he is. He's been hiding out from her cos he wants his 'freedom' and not be ordered to do what she wants like the rest of her family. Oscar tells Damon he didn't compel him back then when his entire regiment was slaughtered. He spoke with him and he did what was in his heart. Damon wanting to desert but that wouldn't look good in his father's eyes. Damon also saying he couldn't tell his friends he fought for the South. Well wouldn't they already know he fought for the South.
He manages to subdue Oscar along with Bonnie and Alaric and he is put under vervain. Before Damon calls and tells Lily about having Oscar and using him as leverage to get Elena back. He's got a new family too just like her. Valerie does a locator spell and finds Oscar weeding out how he knows where Julian is from him and kills him cos she can't let Lily find Julian as he's a demon. So presumably Lily will think Damon killed Oscar if she finds out.
Bonnie knows about the stone and Alaric tells her he wants to bring back Jo. The only person he ever loved (what about Jenna?) Anyway Bonnie gives him back the stone and tells him not to lie to her again. He shows Bonnie where he's keeping Jo under ice, so to speak. Bonnie telling him he's getting into necromancy.
Caroline returns and finds Stefan asking if he can remember the first time he saw her. Especially after Valerie told her she didn't have any powers to compel Stefan back then. But she says he'd only remember Elena. Stefan saying he doesn't live in the past. Couldn't tell if he was being honest here or not, but he's had so many others after Valerie and before Caroline. I am tired of where this season is going and the introduction of these new characters that I can't care less about. There's just something missing in this season and I don't mean Elena either. With this too-ing and fro-ing and flash forwards and flashbacks. Even Damon's lost his funny edge.
It appears in the future the producers want to 'pair off' as many couples as possible like Bonnie and Enzo are together in the future, but Caroline and Stefan aren't and part of this will be cos of Valerie. Don't ell me Caroline goes back to Tyler, since Stefan made that call to him in the future. Which is all going back to the past if that's the case, but what about Bonnie and Jeremy.
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