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Wednesday 20 March 2013

The Vampire Diaries 4.14 "Down the Rabbit Hole" Review

Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) have another heart to heart about the cure and how he wants to take it since he's seen every side of being a vampire: power, guilt, which basically sums up Klaus (Joseph Morgan).  Rebekah (Claire Holt) sees Elena take his hand when he says they'll be friends.  Elena calls Caroline (Candace Accola) and tells him Klaus must have the sword hidden somewhere since he can't get to it.  SO she and Tyler (Michael Trevino) find the sword in his attic, not a very good hider is he just like Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and his soapdish!  Tyler notices the writing on the hilt and Caroline says you have to decipher it like a decryption, she's seen The Da Vinci Code.  Klaus can help anytime he likes but he prefers to smirk for a while.  Especially since the language is Aramaic, to which Tyler asks what that is, Duh Tyler, a dead language.  Klaus claims it was Kitsia's language.

Anyway he can't resist helping and translates for them,  When Caroline comes up with a serious of symbols which don't mean to her. She calls Caroline with a map and location of the cure and Klaus tells her there's only one cure and Tyler hangs up, too late.  Klaus is adamant he will still go ahead and kill Tyler in vengeance for turning his hybrids against him and for Kol.  SO it would have been okay if he had killed his own sibling.  Yet he killed Carol Lockwood so thought they'd be even now.  Caroline tells Tyler she will beg Klaus for mercy since Tyler is worried about himself being killed.  He'll have to leave Mystic Falls again.  Klaus finally relents and says he will forgive and show 'mercy' if he leaves now.  Then adds he'll give him a headstart before he hunts him down and kills him.

Tyler and Caroline have a bit of an emotional farewell with Tyler saying it won't be forever, they're immortal and will find a way of being together one day.  She makes him promise to be happy, to lead a full life and to forget about her.  Klaus also telling Caroline she wouldn't take the cure since she loves the power of being a vampire, of being strong.  Damon actually being selfless for once, ha and Rebekah commenting on thinking how he's becoming a person.

Elena, Stefan and Rebekah arrive at a lake and Elena suggests Rebekah leave the phone incase she can't cross it.  Stefan makes her go first and Rebekah tells Stefan there's only one cure.  Even if she felt pity and let him take it, he'd only give it to Elena so she breaks his neck.  Elena and Stefan have yet another heart to heart and he tells her of the cure  being just one.  She then recalls Bonnie's (Kat Graham) spell won't hold Klaus for long and they should forget their "pity party" and get down there.

Damon is being man handled (ha) and led by Galen (Charlie Bewley) the Scottish hunter and he also tells him he needs to give Silas the cure before he kills him.  Also telling him there's only one cure.  Damon doesn't want it.  He asks Damon about the tattoos and Damon says he knows nothing about them, he has a "flawless body."  Shane (David Alpay) leads Bonnie and Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) down into the cave, having taken care of Massek, or was that Caitlin who did it,  Wait no, it was the surprise visitor to the island who did it.  Since neither Damon or Galen are claiming prizes for taking out the islanders.  Bonnie cuts her hand when she gets it the bottom of the rope.  Then once again has a great time pawing a shirtless Jeremy.  Enjoy it while you can since he may not be around for long.

Bonnie works her spell and Jeremy's tattoo disappears.  She also tells him she'll take care of Shane even if she has to kill him herself.  There's a rock slide as the magic works and Shane injures his leg.  They leave him behind.  She finds it amusing that a "newbie hunter and a witch who needs adult supervision" made it this far. She then sees Grams (Jasmine Guy) who tells Bonnie she's close to bringing her back for good since the dead can communicate with the living here.  Jeremy snaps Bonnie out of it to tell her Grams wasn't here since he couldn't see her.  Silas was in her head and she has to keep him out.  She should only listen to Jeremy's voice.  Oh man, juts had a thought what if Silas was inside Jeremy too somehow, oh scratch that it sounds far fetched.

Caitlin appears to Shane and he realizes she isn't real either.  Just like The First in Buffy when it appeared to her and others in the form of their dead loved ones.  Damon is about to be killed by Galen and Rebekah arrives to stop him but he uses his new fangled gadgets on her.  Didn't we see something similar to that device in Blood Ties.  Damon is trapped by a noose round his neck and Stefan needs to help him.  Elena is sent ahead whilst Stefan tells Damon he's just going to give up on her without a fight.  If she becomes human she may not love him.  Damon helps Rebekah, don't know why, and she she says much the same thing of giving up.  He needs a siesta.

Elena is attacked by someone and Bonnie finds they need to feed Silas their blood to awaken him and to release the cure from him.  Elena arrives and saves Jeremy from Galen killing him and then she bites Jeremy's neck and uses his blood to feed Silas.  Bonnie is helpless after being stabbed by Galen but couldn't she still use some of her magic to help.  Stefan finds Elena and we realize it's Katherine.  What a way to bring her back. She's been hiding somewhere but knows all about the cure and where to be, so who clued her in?  She takes the cure and leaves Jeremy to Silas who breaks his neck.  There lies Jeremy, a Gilbert who keeps getting killed over and over.  Will it be for good this time?  Will his ring work to save him?  Will he become a vampire too?  Will Bonnie use magic on him?  This will be a huge blow for Elena who has lost all family members, not to mention she became a vampire for his sake and wanted the cure for his sake too, kind of but also for herself.  It's a bit of a cheap shot having Jeremy being killed like that, if he's dead in much the same way Damon is the one to be tortured and captured most of the time.  Wonder why he bothers.

But the cure couldn't be given to everyone and we wonder just who would have actually taken it since it would have altered the dynamic of the show so much.  What does Katherine want with the cure anyway, thought she liked being a vampire.  Maybe cos no one really likes her.  Is she going to use it on someone or herself.  She bit Jeremy and killed him so anyway how will she deal with the hunter's curse and even if she takes the cure and becomes human it won't affect her.

Oh and Klaus gets out too seeing as Bonnie's spell won't work now as she's injured.  He tells Caroline he saved Tyler all for her, "love."  Showing mercy for Tyler and walks off.  We also got to see Klaus trying to convince Caroline they're both alike which is why she asked for mercy for Tyler as she'd show Klaus the same, but would she?  Stefan and his torch thought vampires could see in the dark.  Oh and the show gets an Alice in Wonderland title too.

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