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Saturday 27 February 2016

The Vampire Diaries 7.14 "Moonlight on the Bayou" Review

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Three Years From Now

Caroline (Candace King) arrives at Klaus's (Joseph Morgan) bar looking for him with the twins, it's their first and last time in a bar until they're 21.  The bartender tells her he's gone and no one's seen him.

Stefan (Paul Wesley) heads for New Orleans as Valerie's (Elizabeth Blackmore) given him the heads up on the same bar frequented by Klaus et al, which will help him keep Rayna (Leslie_Anne Huff) off his scent.  He stops at a station for a phone charger and Valerie tells him to keep moving cos Rayna will find him if he stops, which she does and he manages to escape just in the nick of time.  He arrives in New Orleans and sits at the bar until Klaus sends a drink his way. Stefan lies and says he's got family troubles with Damon (Ian Somerhalder) well it wasn't really a lie cos he has and he's on some R'n'R as they drink.  Valerie tells Matt (Zach Roerig) they've got to find Rayna and Caroline tries to speak with Matt over the phone as she's trying to keep the twins from crying.  She's decided she'll accompany Alaric (Matt Davis) to Dallas and get him settled in, when really she just wants to stay with the twins.

Valerie has a map which may pinpoint Rayna's position and Matt reminds her how he needs help from her and that's ironic since she killed the entire sheriff's department.  She sees the irony of it but then she did help Caroline deliver the twins.  Matt will see if there's any stolen vehicles reported. Damon calls Stefan and he hangs up on him.  As Damon and Bonnie (Kat Graham) head out to meet Enzo (Michael Mularkey) at some mansion called The Armoury.  Apparently he's been working for them for four months and tells Damon he needs to call Stefan back here so they can trap Rayna here and they can lock her up.  The place collects supernatural artefacts.  He's working for them in
exhange for information on his family.  As he later tells Bonnie after Damon finds out from Valerie that the Armoury can't be trusted and are just using him to get Stefan there.  That they should leave. Yes, Enzo tells Bonnie he was left in the workhouse and thought a trip on the Italian line might help him, but he's got no one left, not Lily or anyone, so he needs to help them.

Damon refuses to get Stefan back here and Enzo injects him.  Oh come on Damon you could've done a better job of lying than that.  He also knocks Bonnie out.  Damon wakes to find himself in a glass cage with Tyler (Michael Trevino) who's in a coma after the Armoury people found him and bought him back here.  He'll recover as soon as he becomes a werewolf and surprise, surprise tonight's a full moon.   That's why Enzo has Elena cos Tyler was working with the Armoury all along.  Oh here we go now we've got this Armoury business.  Anyone thinking Buffy and that awful season 4 with the Initiative.  Damon tries to keep Tyler from morphing and injects him with a sedative which plays havoc on his body.  As Enzo offers Bonnie an icepack she doesn't want.  He asks her why she always wants to save Damon.  After everything he's put her though she jumped at the chance when she heard he's in trouble with Tyler.  She hits him over the head and manages to find Damon.

Tyler warns him not to open the door cos he'll kill Bonnie too, which she doesn't listen to as she goes back and chops off Enzo's hand so she can access the panel.  Damon and Tyler fight and scuffle and Bonnie's pushed against the glass, passing out.  Damon tells Tyler to leave or he'll kill him.  But he can't revive her with his blood cos of what Enzo injected her with.  At the hospital he tells her he can't break in a new drinking partner and he can't let her die for him.  The same thing with Stefan.  He can't let them keep destroying their lives and putting themselves in danger for him, which is what Klaus says to Stefan too.  So Damon decides he's going to do something about it tomorrow and take himself out of the picture.

Back in New Orleans, Stefan and Klaus reminisce about old times when Stefan asks if he can spare any blood for Damon incase he gets bitten by Tyler.  As Klaus notices the blood cross come through his shirt and tells Stefan to leave.  He's got his family to protect and the rest of the city.  Stefan leaves his phone and Caroline calls.  Having a heart to heart of sorts as Klaus hears the baby crying. He tells her she can't give them up, is sorry to hear about her mother and realizes she loves Stefan. Stefan drives on route 90 and Valerie tells him to keep off that cos that's where Rayna is on a motorbike.  Well, too late.  She wounds him with arrows and tries to stab him with her sword until Klaus finally arrives.  She's dead for now but they have to leave cos it's werewolf territory.  Stefan wants to be dropped off at the train station but Klaus takes him back.  He needs to stop doing that for Damon if he really loves Caroline.  It's the same thing Elijah does for him over and over.

Oh and the gruesome twosome, Mary Louise (Teressa Liane) and Nora (Scarlett Byrne) well they get caught by Rayna as they stop in a store for too long, so much for keeping moving.  Enzo gets his hand sewn back on but he tells Alex (Mouzam Makkar) he's out.  She's told him nothing about his family.  She tells him she was testing him and she knows about his father.  He started the Armoury and she's his family, Alex St John.  Oh here we go, as I said, they're going to get Rayna now and whether they help or hinder remains to be seen.  But as she's still on the loose three years later, doesn't look like they're successful.  Wonder what plan Damon has to stay off the grid, as we know everyone ends up in New York in three years.  Is he going to put himself in a coffin and wait for sixty years to pass.  Of course Caroline wants to stay with Alaric, but she's not going to come out and tell him that.  He tells her she's done enough for them already.

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