Elena catches a glimpse of Damon in the buff… gotta find ways to pass the time while Stephan is MIA I guess.

And here is a new promo for season three. Looks like some time passes after Stephen takes off with Klaus and Damon isn’t too torn up about being left all alone with Elena.

Yippee! Two of my favorite shows.. The Vampre Diaries and Supernatural have been renewed. TVD will get a third season and SN will get a seventh. I am not surprised about either show getting another season , they are both awesome Sci-Fi TV specimens.

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After a long hiatus we are rewarded with a great new episode. It begins with Isobel showing up at the house and letting Aunt Jenna know that Elena has been in contact with her birth mother and that Alaric knew about it. Jenna decides to leave and stay on the college campus for a bit, which may be a blessing in the long run but Elena rightfully blames John.

John allows Isobel into the house and they confront Elena. John tells them that Isobel has always been working in the background to protect Elena, which Elena finds hard to believe. Isobel tells her she has a safehouse arranged for her but Elena orders Isobel out of the house.

Meanwhile Bonnie, Jeremy, and Damon search out the place where the ancient witches were executed so that Bonnie can harness their power. Caroline is trying to find Matt who found out Caroline was a vampire and freaked out due to the memories of his now deceased sister, who claimed she was attacked by vampires.

Isobel tracks Katherine down and tells her she has made a deal with Klaus that will save Katherine by turning Elena and the moonstone over to him. Isobel has told two different versions of this story and claimed to be aiding both Elena and Katherine. Where does her allegiance lay?

Katherine tries to get Damon to tell her where the moonstone is but no dice so she immediately starts hunting it down and finds it hidden in a soap dish in the bathroom.

“Don’t mistake the fact that we haven’t set you on fire in your sleep, for trust.” – Damon to Katherine

Bonnie, Jeremy, and Damon find the place where the old witches died and Bonnie is able to channel and harness their power. Unfortunately they give her a warning that using her power to kill Klaus will likely kill her as well as him. Jeremy is distraught by this news and wants to tell Elena who will surely put a kibosh on Bonnie’s involvement but Bonnie makes him swear not to tell.

Isobel finds Rick in a parking lot and she tells him that she needs him to know she loved him very much then she turns him over to Klaus’s witch who incapacitates him. Then she goes to the Founder’s Lunch, bites John and throws him down the stairs to create a distraction. Katherine nabs Elena in the process and switches places with her. Stefan notices almost immediately but Katherine injects him with vervain.

After Damon helps clean up the mess created when John looked as though he died, Matt confronts the Sheriff and spills the beans about Caroline.

Katherine goes back to the house where she and Isobel met earlier and calls to check in. Isobel apologizes to her for betraying her. Klaus wanted the moonstone and Katherine… not Elena, and Isobel was compelled by Klaus to deliver them. Katherine is promptly seized by Klaus’s witch. Isobel must have been compelled to deliver Alaric as well.

Matt finds Caroline and asks her to tell him everything and then make him forget. She does only Matt was given vervain by the Sheriff so he doesn’t forget, he only pretends to. Then he tells the Sheriff (Caroline’s mom) EVERYTHING, including the identities of the other vampires in Mystic Falls.

Isobel takes Elena to the cemetery and they look at Isobel’s empty grave. She tells Elena that she used to dream about getting to know her daughter and admits that Elena only ever got to see her dark side. She is interrupted by a phone call from Klaus’s witch. He tells her to let Elena go for now and that she is done with her assignment. Isobel breathes a visible sigh of relief that she is no longer under compulsion and that she is not going to be forced to her turn her daughter over. She apologizes to Elena for being such a disappointment and then she rips her protective necklace off and burns alive in the sun. Elena watches in horror as Isobel kills herself rather than be used by Klaus against her daughter ever again. A final act of love.

After that Elena decides to make peace with her biological Dad, John. The episode closes with Klaus taking possession of Alaric’s body.

The cliffhangers from season one of Vampire Diaries were essentially the facts that Jeremy downed a vial of vampire blood followed by a bottle of pills so that he will die and reawaken as one of the undead. Downstairs on the front porch Damon and Elena share a kiss before she goes inside to attack her Uncle John by stabbing him. As the last episode closed we see that it was not Elena at all, it was Katherine and we also wonder what will become of Jeremy. We are also left not knowing why the vampire weapon affected Tyler Lockwood causing him to crash his car and if his passengers are all right.

Thus we “Return” with episode one of season two. Elena (the real one) enters her home and finds John on the floor struggling for his life. She calls 911 and then suspecting her brother might also have been attacked she goes upstairs to find Jeremy. As the paramedics take John away Stephen evaluates Jeremy and determines that Jeremy didn’t take enough pills to kill himself and the the vampire blood helped heal him, rather than allow him to die.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Carolyn is fighting for her life after Tyler’s car accident. Liz shares with Damon that the weapon effected the Mayor and that he was killed along with the vampires in the fire and that her daughter’s situation is precarious. Bonnie talks Elena into allowing Damon to give Carolyn his blood so that she can be healed and while they are discussing that Damon and Elena trade stories about their evening and they don’t match up. After seeing the same thing play out with Elena and her Aunt, Damon realizes in dismay that it was Katherine at Elena’s house that night and it was Katherine he kissed.

Katherine returns to Elena’s home pretending she has come home from the hospital and tries to fool Stephen in much the same way she did with Damon. Stephen almost immediately senses that it is Katherine though and they fight until Elena and Damon walk in. Katherine flees and they bring each other up to speed. Damon admits that he kissed Katherine thinking it was Elena and this enrages Damon. They almost fight before Elena implores them to focus on their bigger problems… such as Elena’s psychotic doppelganger.

Stephen: What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena?

Damon: To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead.. we kissed.

Elena points out that John may know something about why Katherine has returned so Stephen and Elena go the hospital to interrogate him and check in on Carolyn who has made a miraculous recovery thanks to Damon’s blood. Damon goes to the Mayor’s wake to smooth things over with Liz. Tyler’s Uncle Mason makes an appearance and Damon is suspicious of him.

Katherine shows up at the wake as well and tells Stephen she is back because she loves him and wants him back. When his response is less than kind, she stakes him in the gut.

Elena and Damon have it out about the “kiss” and she hurts Damon when she tells him she never would have kissed him back. He is somewhat calmed when Stephen tells him they need to stand united and strong, not letting any of this come between their bond as brothers. Stephen also tells Damon that he doesn’t want to lose the side of his brother that cares for Elena, because it shows his humanity is still in tact.

Damon is okay briefly until Katherine comes to his home and makes a pass at him. But when Damon tries to get her to profess her love she tells him that she has only ever loved Stephen. This sends him over the edge and he visits Elena to and try force her into admitting that she has feelings for him but she too insists that Stephen is the one she loves. This means the two women who Damon has cared for in his long life both love his brother instead. Jeremy walks in on the conversation and Damon snaps his neck and throws him to the floor dead, walking away as Elena screams.

Elena cradles Jeremy’s body and Stephen arrives. Elena notices that Jeremy is wearing the family protection ring that belonged to Uncle John and he revives after a short time. Elena claims she hates Damon and will never forgive him.

Katherine goes to visit Carolyn in the hospital and tells her to deliver a message to the Salvatore brothers, “Game On”. Then she suffocates Carolyn.