Enzo and Damon are still servants to the Siren Sybil
though she’s getting more and more annoyed by Enzo’s resistance – even though
he seems completely compliant he’s just not eager to be her happy murder bot. Damon
also thinks Enzo needs to stop fighting and seems quite content to work with
Sybil to turn him into a happy murder bot (he also continues to live in terror
of the damnation she showed him). She pokes around in Enzo’s skill until she
digs out Sarah Nelson’s name as someone he cares about. So naturally they have
to kill her
Sarah Nelson? Let me put on my recap hat.
Some time ago when Damon was having his evil streak #9868757
he decided to kill lots of people including a large chunk of the Salvatore’s
last living relatives. This included a prgenant lady. There was much angst over
this death. Stefan decided to step in and save the baby, unknown to Damon and
she became Sarah Nelson, with a chunk of money from Stefan and some advice on
how to keep herself safe from vampires just in case Damon has yet another evil
streak and tries to kill her for funssies
Can we even come close to address this? I mean, really?
Because we’ve spent so many series trying to centre Damon as sympathetic and a
good guy but he still doesn’t know who Sarah is because everyone who knew about
her – including his own brother – feels that they can’t trust him not to target
her in yet another of his gazillion killing sprees
Bonnie, Caroline and Stefan even refer to it this week:
“the worst thing he ever did.”
“Debateable”
“it’s on the list”
Because, yeah, he has killed so many people and done so
many terrible things that they’re not even sure where massacre including
pregnant ladies actually stands on his moral compass. Yet here they are trying
to save him. Not the siren’s victims. Not even stopping the siren – actually no-one
has made that remotely a priority. The issue is saving poor Damon
Damon and Enzo go on a killing spree of several Sarah
Nelson’s tipping of Caroline and Stefan so it becomes a race to find Sarah
Nelson before she is brutally murdered.
Sarah Nelson is, unsurprisingly, super suspicious and really
really annoyed by all of this. She trusts almost no-one and is sick of all this
vampire nonsense. She’s also equipped with Vervain which she uses to try and
stop Damon’s initial murder rush with Enzo’s help
Since we’re all vervain drugging people, Bonnie decides
to do the same with Enzo so she can take him far away and save him from the
siren because she loves him. Apparently. Honestly I am still completely not
buying this relationship. And by “completely” I mean “not even slightly”. I’m
really not valuing Bonnie’s storyline chasing after a guy with no real emotion
or foundation behind it. It feels like a really convoluted insert to keep Bonnie
“invested” without actually working on investment.
Unfortunately for their reunion, Sybil’s control over
Enzo means he can’t go too far from her: she has to return. And, yes this would
be tragic but I still have zero investment in this.
Back with Sarah Damon arrives to try and kill her and
Stefan manages to talk him out of it – until Sybil arrives and stabs her then
uses siren woo-woo to prevent Stefan saving her. He tries to talk Damon into
saving her but Sybil realises that Damon has a crack in her control over him. A
bit of his mind that still clings to humanity – yep it’s Elena memories. It’s
always Elena. Sybil roots around in his memory, finds the Elena bits and
replaces them with him. Damon is officially hers and is happy to let Sarah
bleed out.
Returning to my point about how Damon is still presented
as good and redeemable: Stefan manages to convince Damon he’s redeemable
because he didn’t actually kill the baby when he killed the pregnant lady. So
he killed a room full of people including a pregnant mother but the baby lived
so GOOD GUY! YAY!
Uh-huh. Y’know I wonder how many people would by this is
everyone on this show wasn’t so ridiculously hot.
This is also a preview for Enzo – because he handed over
Sarah’s name to Sybil so he wouldn’t think about Bonnie. But now he’s spent so
much time with Bonnie he can’t keep her name from Sybil so it’s going to be
more memory raiding in Enzo’s head
Time to check in with Alaric and his intern Georgie. They
go through various research about artefacts being delivered and related to the
Armoury and the cell where the siren was kept. This includes the journal of the
dead guy they found who was apparently targeted in 1790. An artefact dating
back to 2200BC It also includes a symbol which freaks out snarky intern Georgie
because she’s seen it before and had it tattooed.
Georgie has a near death experience- after drink &
text driving and killing her friend in a car accident. Before she was revived
she describes a horrific and terrible experience of Hell – not dramatic, but
deeply sad and creepy which manages to be more effective. Kudos Vampire Diaries on that one
I have a feeling damnation and redemption are going to be
a theme this season. A terrible, awful, disastrous theme
We close with one argument that is both awesome and
terrible
Awesome because when Caroline calls out Bonnie for not
following the plan, Bonnie hits back about her plan, painfully telling Caroline
how she feels and how that has been sidelined. In response Caroline apologises
and promises to make Bonnie a priority in her life and acknowledges
And it’s terrible because this moment of Bonnie call out,
so needed, is about Enzo and the perfect family life she wants to have with
him. Aaargh, this is when Bonnie finally draws the line in the sand?
