The Vampire Diaries 7.4 "I Carry Your Heart With Me" Review

                                        
Three Years from Now
We see Alaric (Matt Davis) tinkering like a mad scientist (as I said last time) but he's carrying out surgery on a doll.  His twin daughters walk in and he tells them to go to bed.  Hearing a noise he finds them staring at Damon (Ian Somerhalder) who tells him no one's dead yet but unless he helps someone will be.

Today
Damon searches for Oscar (Tim Kang) and finds him stuffed in the locker, so now he won't be able to exchange him for Elena.  Getting bored of this back and forth nonsense now, really clutching at straws to get some sort of credible story going here, but I'm not pleased with Lily (Annie Wersching) or the Heretics being included.  Now is not really the time to start a completely different plot with new cast in tow.
Damon needs help to resurrect Oscar or else Nora (Scarlett Byrne) and Mary Louise (Teressa Liane) threaten to kill a Whitmore student every hour until he's returned, smelling blood in the dorm room, they didn't track him back to dangling out of the window.  They're just sooo tedious and those cheesy fake Brit accents add further insult to injury!

As Bonnie (Kat Graham) attempts t bring back Jo cos it's (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) ehr last day of being able to be kept on ice, Damon needs to revive Oscar first.  Bonnie finally manages to do so with the Phoenix stone and a spell and then the sets her sights on Jo.  Nora and Mary Lou have a tiff going on with their insecurities, especially Mary Lou who doesn't seem able to adapt to modern life with all this skin on display as she thinks it's just temptation for Nora and Nora doesn't want Mary Lou hanging off her every minute.  Newsflash don't care about either of them and let me add Valerie (Elizabeth Blackmore) too.  Acting all innocent making mushroom omelette as if she didn't sneak back late night as Enzo (Michael Mularkey) tells her.  The lovesick puppy is looking out for Lily, until Valerie tells him about Julian and he doesn't want to know who he was, Lily hasn't told him.

Matt (Zach Roerig) warns off the ghost tour bus from Mystic Falls, especially as it's Hallowe'en and Enzo looks at the surveillance cameras.  Finding out Valerie drove to Whitmore and back in a stolen car.  She told him what she did to Oscar and then Enzo asks her about Julian, who was Lily's first love.  Of course I said Enzo wants Lily so Valerie telling him that wasn't a big deal.  Enzo asks how he can help Valerie with Oscar since she doesn't know he's back yet.

Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candace King) scheme to find a way to get the ghastly Mary Lou and Nora to siphon off the vervain from Caroline, or at least get Valerie to do it but they refuse.  They also devise a Heaven and Hell ball so they can keep an eye on them and save any students from them both.  Which just leaves to Caroline telling him about her insecurities when it comes to Stefan and Valerie since he won't speak to her himself and tell her to remove the vervain.  Stefan trying to convince Caroline that even if she was his first love, he's over her, a 150 years over and doesn't want her back.  As Valerie lies to Lily about Oscar and about wanting to tell her anything.  Stefan takes Mary Lou hostage and Caroline holds Nora until she burns and must siphon off the vervain, so they can spend the night together.

Damon sends Lily a photo of him with Oscar and takes him back to Mystic Falls, but Oscar has a blood lust and gets away.  Ending up killing the people on the bus tour, well they were warned about heading there.  Lily gives back Elena and Damon wants to return to Mystic Falls, Lily saying she'll ask the family but he doesn't want to see Matt get hurt and have that on his conscience too.  As well as asking for another thing. The bottle of wine he's been hiding for 65 years.  He writes in the journal about how he will wait a 100 years for her and she'll always be in his heart.  How Damon's a jealous brother, horrible son.  How he waited for that bottle of wine and wouldn't drink it until he was ready for it.  SO he's ready for it now and that explains why he's a bourbon drinker.  As he gets Tyler (Michael Trevino) to drive Elena's coffin away, let's hope she won't be mentioned again!

Guess the highlight was Bonnie setting fire to Oscar cos the rest of it sure didn't impress and now Alaric has Jo back, will she be normal or harbour certain dark tendencies.  From the Gemini Coven we came to the Heretics this season and really don't know why they chose this storyline and in some ways if they did, it'd be better if they could get a cast with authentic accents at least.  Not any old dropkicks they could find, as they say Down under!  Agent Cho aka Oscar, you have been relegated to a vampire!!  Damon telling Lily she has a particular love for sons who are rippers!  The other best part was Damon writing the journal as it's not something that we'd expect him to do, though he had to begin, 'Dear Elena...'  Now can he change that T-shirt already!  Ha.