Damon has slaughtered everyone – he rushes around feeding
everyone vampire blood (Bonnie – YAY. And Matt – not so Yay) which means
everyone is not dead but it looks like he might be out of the stone.
He comes back to himself and they chain him up and we
have some recaps of what’s been happening since Damon has been in the stone –
apparently several weeks have past and now Julian has taken over the town and
filled it full of biker vampires. I’m not entirely sure how a vampire who has
been imprisoned for so long I’m not even sure he knows what a motorcycle is
manages to gather such a huge following. Or how a following of 80 gazillion
vampires manages to exist in a town with no people to eat, but hey so it is
Bonnie and Matt are now patrolling the town picking
vampires off (which Julian apparently doesn’t care about, though he gets so mad
when Damon kills a token Black vampire). Which is funny because Matt is
pretending he actually adds something to that little group. Alas, no-one kills
him and he continues to hate all things supernatural
Tyler’s also back in town for Alaric’s baby shower (no,
really) and he actually speaks sense that no-one is listening to: why keep
Mystic Falls? Really, why does everyone care? They’ve evacuated all the people
from it, it’s full of Julian’s cronies (and why they’re there I do not know)
why is it worth spending all this effort trying to protect?! Matt’s response is
basically “RAWR NO!” He also manages to run into another cop outside of town
who agrees that Mystical Falls falling apart is terrible and also would really
like to know about all the hunting equipment he has
Alaric also seems to have the same idea, planning to
leave vampire central and raise his kids without the constant threat of death.
Caroline is super saddened by this
Anyway, the main plot is that being imprisoned in the
stone causes hallucinations. And, like just about every depiction of Mental
Illness on TV ever, that makes you super dangerous and murderous.
As an added frustrating bonus, Damon is chained up when
Stefan warns him about the killer hallucinations. He then has one and STILL
asks Stefan to unchain him. While Stefan sees several examples of Damon talking
to himself and still think it’s a good idea to go on a tour of the town
This show has never been known for its critical thinking
skills
Stefan is having his own hallucinations of Damon with the
overarching moral being that if Stefan wants to be a good person and move on
with his life he really needs to abandon his evil brother. This is not inaccurate,
to be honest. The hallucinations even drive him to try and burn Damon’s body
when he was unconscious but Caroline (of all people! Oh how far has Damon been
redeemed?!) stopped him
Burning bodies seems to be a theme – because Damon’s
hallucinations drive him to become more and more of a monster and destroy
anything stopping him. Which would be Elena. Yes, Damon’s hallucinations
apparently convince him to burn Elena’s body (are we ever going to really
address how broken a morality system it is that Damon’s only threat of humanity
is basically a What Would Elena Do bracelet?)
Damon is now convinced he’s the worst most evil thing
ever because MANPAIN while Stefan is equally convinced he’s going to stand by
his brother no matter what. Let the trainwreck commence.
Along the way, Mary-Louise also drops in to give us a big
bad warning about someone called The Huntress. She hunts down vampires and she
is the one who has the terrible possession sword and hunted down Julian
(y’know, actually killing them would be more effect, I’m just saying) and she’s
terrified that they’re all next.
Which leads to the worst possible revelation – we have
another flashforward to three years into the future where Caroline has been
kidnapped. She is rescued by Matt who reveals the one after them all is the
Huntress and he’s working for her.
Yes, Matt is going to live for 3 more years…. The horror.
