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Wednesday 2 April 2014

The Vampire Diaries 5.12 "The Devil Inside" Review

                                             
This time round we get Katherine who removes Matt's (Zach Roerig) vervain bracelet to get him to divulge on Elena's (Nina Dobrev) character traits and how to act like her.  Otherwise, we'll see it's Nadia (Olga Fonda) who will do most of the compelling to keep Katherine's secret and the others from finding out she's taken over Elena's body.  She also needs to know where Damon (Ian Somerhalder) buried/hid Katherine's DB but he's not giving anything away.  You see, the traveller's need the body so that the switch is permanent and Elena won't be able to get her body back.  Which sounds good to me, I mean the longer we don't have to see/endure Elena the better.

Tyler (Michael Trevino) tells Matt his revenge plans are finished and he wants to start afresh, which will probably mean getting back with Caroline (Candace Accola).  To this end, Matt thinks he should throw him a party, oh really, another party and they're not even at college!  So how many does that make for the show now into its 101 ep?  Maybe they should rename Mystic Falls as Party Central or something, ha!

Aaron (Shaun Sipos) tells Caroline that he's cut off Maxfield's funding and so his plans should be awry now, but that won't really stop him, he's too determined to continue.  Elena realizes what's happening to her as she's handcuffed to the bed, but not for long.  Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline wonder what's happened to Elena especially since Stefan convinced Damon to return to Elena.  Well shouldn't have bothered, for starters there was no point, they weren't a good match and secondly cos Katherine's got her now and won't be leaving anytime soon.  As Elena manages to escape her cuffs she's caught by Nadia. Bummer, ha.

Stefan tries to get Damon to return Katherine's body who also wants Elena back but she's not answering his calls.  Katherine gets the notion to attend the party and find out the whereabouts of her own DB.  Here she asks Caroline about her and Klaus and how they did the dirty so that Tyler hears.  Oops, Katherine really pulled a fast one there.  Well there go his plans on getting her back!

Enzo (Michael Mularkey) brings Aaron to the mansion and he wants to kill him but is giving Damon the option of doing it himself. Katherine asks Stefan where the body is cos she wants to leave some flowers there but he doesn't know.  Damon chooses to snap Enzo's neck instead cos he won't kill Aaron, since he's Elena's friend and she won't be too thrilled about that, nor will she forgive him for it either and take him back. So he compels him to leave town and never return.  Katherine finds her body in the tomb under the church.

As they try to perform the spell on the body, Elena escapes and tries to call but there's a lock on Katherine's phone.  She gets to Damon but the spell is completed and Katherine has her body.  Damon wants her back cos she's good for him but Katherine breaks his heart telling him she doesn't want to be the only one he lives for and nothing else.  Stefan punches Tyler when he tells her about Caroline and Klaus.  She asks Stefan if she's horrible for doing that and Stefan agrees jokingly.  Katherine wants Nadia to stay and they can be a real mother/daughter, yeah believe that when I see it, ha!  Cos she really wants Stefan to continue the doppelganger prophecy.

Enzo stops Aaron from leaving and Damon kills him cos he's Elena's friend and he's got nothing to lose now. In a reversal we get Damon playing Stefan, mercilessly ripping him to shreds, so ends the Whitmore line, or does it? Just seems at the first sign of any trouble, Damon turns to his ruthless instinct, no matter what.  So he was rejected by Katherine as Elena, it's not the first time he's had to suffer this.  All the time she was with Stefan and he pined for her, wanting to turn her into a vampire against her will and everything.  Now Damon is hard done by again and just loses the plot, seems strange to keep going round in circles like that, he's a big boy after all.  Seems he relies too much on people to keep him in check, he did the same with Alaric.  Guess you do gotta feel for him when he's let down so much when trying to come good.  The same thing with Tyler and Caroline, they have caused so much pain to each other that Tyler thought cos he wants to, he can just come back and get her back after letting her down when she needed him.

As for the title which is a reference to Katherine inside of Elena, it could just as easily be more appropriate for it to refer to Damon, lashing out as usual.  Also why didn't Elena have the sense to kill the traveller, she staked Nadia but left the traveller alive who was more of a threat to her.  Seems nothing will come of the knife that Nadia leaves with Matt, as yet, which can kill Katherine, since he's been compelled so much he doesn't knowi f he's coming or going.

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