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Quentin Tarantino would be spinning in his grave if he were dead. But operation kill-caroline’s-psycho-father didn’t go as planned, and a lot of people got screwed. Screwed over big time. From daddy issues to burning necklaces to a vampire who’s last fashion choice was in 1920 (Rebecca DOES NOT approve of showing her legs, BTW), The Vampire Diaries packed the punches, twists, turns, and cliffhangers we’ve become addicted to.

Oh, and Damon goes off the deep end and kills his BFF.

Find out just how powerful Alaric’s ring is HERE, then click on for the full TVD 411.

Stefan Salvatore / Katherine Pierce / Originals Klaus & Rebecca

So what’s up in Chicago? Well, the days of schmoozing with Klaus in bars are sure as hell done. After an enjoyable little fashion scene where Rebecca decides all modern women are prostitutes, they try and find the necklace again. Gloria the witch finds it dangling on Elena’s neck, but keeps it to herself because she’s a selfish, two-timing-double-crossing witch.

Which Stefan learns the hard way. After trying to persuade Gloria to keep Elena secret, she thinks about it, then goes on to almost torture Stefan to death to get the necklace (it’s a witch heirloom or some nonsense). But who swoops in for the rescue? Katherine.

Katherine gives him some advice – shut out Rebecca to make her want him more. Then, when Rebecca is practically begging for it, Stefan should ask her about the man who was hunting them 100 years ago.

I actually believe Katherine was giving him good advice to stay ahead of Klaus…but it backfires. Horribly.

Rebecca knows Stefan’s still jonesing for Elena. She tells Klaus Stefan’s hiding something, so Klaus knocks him senseless and brings him back to Mystic Falls to see why Stefan won’t give up his humanity and just go evil for Pete’s sake.

And no, this will not end well for Stefan or Elena. And that’s how Stefan got screwed over.

Caroline, Liz & Bill Forbes / Damon Salvatore

Even though Caroline was tortured last week by her own father, she still loves him. So does his ex-wife. Instead of having Damon kill him (which he really wants to do really badly) they decide to compel him to leave town.

Easy-peezy. Except he can’t be compelled and threatens to reveal Damon as a vampire to the founding families and kill him. That actually sounds like good revenge. But Damon decides to go with Plan A and kill Bill first, against Elena, Alaric and Caroline’s wishes.

He brushes Elena off, kills his only friend Alaric (but he has his trusty ring, so he’ll come back) and goes to kill Bill Forbes. But Caroline holds off on sex with Tyler long enough to rescue her father and beat the living s**t out of Damon.

It was AWESOME.

In the end, everyone shuns Damon. Bill however, is not grateful his vampire daughter saved his life and still thinks she’s a monster. I’m sure this moment will come back to bite Caroline in the ass.

But there is some good news to come out of this. Alaric demands a place on the council to represent the Gilberts. Isn’t Alaric just the best!

And that’s how Caroline got screwed over. And Alaric too (with Damon killing him like Jeremy and all).

Jeremy Gilbert / Vampire Anna / Bonnie Bennett

Apparently, this whole ghost thing works both ways. As long as, let’s say Anna, is thinking of Jeremy, and Jeremy is thinking of Anna, Anna can appear to him in the real world and touch things and hold hands and all that jazz.

Bad news – how to you explain to your girlfriend you’re thinking about your dead exes? Good thing Bonnie has her hands tied up figuring out why Elena’s necklace keeps going haywire. She can’t figure it out in the end so she gives the necklace back to Elena.

Except that isn’t Elena. It’s Katherine, finally getting the one item Klaus wants, and skipping town with a newly friendless Damon.

And that’s how Bonnie got screwed over. Oh, and she tells Katherine Jeremy can see dead people. I think that peace of news is going to screw him over too.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s episode when Klaus takes all the high school seniors hostage!

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Posted on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 5:07 pm by Michael and is filed under Blog, Recaps, tv, vampire diaries, We <3 TV.

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