- Isobel returns to town and stuns Alaric with her attitude and her demands that he arrange a meeting with Elena.
- Isobel returns to town and stuns Alaric with her attitude and her demands that he arrange a meeting with Elena. When mother and daughter finally meet, Isobel refuses to answer most of Elena's questions, but reveals that she will stop at nothing to find the mysterious invention Johnathan Gilbert has been searching for. Isobel's dangerous actions lead Stefan, Damon and Bonnie to step in and help Elena deal with the situation.—The CW
- Isobel returns to Mystic Falls and stuns Alaric with her friendly attitude and her demands that he arrange a meeting with Elena. When Elena finally meets her vampire birth mother face-to-face, the meeting is awkward as Isobel reveals that she has no desire to harm Elena or Alaric, yet she refuses to answer most of Elena's questions about where she has been and doing. Yet, Isobel reveals that she will stop at nothing to find a mysterious invention that Johnathan Gilbert has been searching for. Isobel's dangerous actions lead Stefan, Damon and Bonnie to step in and help Elena deal with the situation.—matt-282
- Alaric is disgusted to find Isobel is back but never considered his feeling when made to believe himself a widower, yet is forced to arrange a meeting with (actually willing, although revolted) Elena by kidnapping Jeremy. John having failed to get her by Jonathan's invention, Isobel obtains the pocket watch thus, which Damon only hands her when assured its powers as weapon against vampires are undone by Bonnie's reversal of Emuly's spell, but the unable witch faked that.—KGF Vissers
- Isobel returns to Mystic Falls and promises to kill Alaric's students if he does not schedule a meeting with Elena. When they meet each other, she forces Elena to bring Jonathan Gilbert's invention to her to avoid a crime spree in the town. Bonnie tells that there is a spell made by Emily in the invention to kill vampires but she also tells that she is able to remove it. The reluctant Damon delivers the device to Elena and Bonnie pretends that the spell was removed. But she lied to her best friend.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Synopsis Submitted by: BuddyTV.com
There are a lot of things going on in this episode of The Vampire Diaries but the main focus is on Elena. On one hand, she's dealing with the fact her spiteful birthmother is in town. On the other, she's also dealing with an angry brother who doesn't want anything to do with her. Plus, there's a bunch of other stuff like tainted friendships, hidden romantic feelings and some daddy drama.
Meeting Isobel The much-awaited reunion between Alaric and his dead vampire wife Isobel finally happens but it doesn't really reveal much except for the fact Isobel is now a different, more wicked person, and the main reason she's in Mystic Falls is to get Jonathan Gilbert's device, now in Damon's possession. Knowing Damon deeply cares for Elena, Isobel orders Alaric to set up a meeting with her daughter, who then agrees to face her birth mother since she doesn't have a choice. Unfortunately, the meeting doesn't go well because instead of getting answers on who her birth father is, all Elena gets is the burden of knowing if she doesn't get the device from Damon, Isobel will be going on a killing spree of the people she cares about.
Isobel's Game Plan
There's no such thing as a coincidence on The Vampire Diaries, so assuming Isobel's arrival in Mystic Falls has something to do with John Gilbert is pretty easy. What most of us didn't know is they're actually working together to recover Jonathan Gilbert's device as part of Katherine's orders. And Isobel's game plan is just part of a bigger game plan Katherine cooked up--which is to use the device (a weapon against vampires) to kill all the vampires from the tomb, including Damon and Stefan.
Jonathan Gilbert's Device
It turns out Jonathan never really invented anything but Emily made it look like he did because, although she pledged her loyalty to Katherine, she still couldn't stand the fact a lot of people were suffering. Of course, we learn this through Bonnie, courtesy of Emily's spell book. After Elena gets the device from Damon, Bonnie tries to help Elena by casting a spell on the device to rid it of its power before giving it to Isobel. But apparently, Bonnie is one devious little witch because she just lied to Elena and didn't do what she promised.
History Repeats Itself
The Damon and Elena pairing, though nothing official has happened yet, is getting more screen time even now Stefan is well from his human blood addiction and back to his boring old self. Damon obviously enjoys the banter between him and Elena whenever they talk on the phone and has made it pretty clear to Isobel threatening the people he cares about, especially Elena, is not OK. If that's not enough, even Isobel points out to Elena that Damon's in love with her that's why he easily gave her the device. All the Damon-Elena closeness is finally sinking in on Stefan, so he threatens Damon not to go down that road again. But it looks like Damon isn't about to give up that easily. Wow, this episode really does make you feel sorry for Damon and wish he and Elena can be together instead of Stefan. But maybe that's just me.
Daddy Issues
Damon was right when he said that things are going into an interesting direction on The Vampire Diaries. We learn Isobel and John Gilbert dated way back then and their relationship resulted into a daughter, also known as Elena. It's too bad (or good) Stefan will have to break this big bombshell to Elena while Damon will once again shine as the "friend" who's always there to listen.
Other Developments:
-Matt and Tyler are still at odds but are on the road to patching things up.
-It turns out Isobel isn't completely dead inside because not only does she want what's best for Elena (by getting rid of the Salvatore vamps), she also cares enough to erase Alaric's memory so his heart will be Isobel free once and for all.
-Jeremy tells Elena he knows what Anna is and he has been reading her journal, which reveals his memory of Vicki has been erased. He also learns more about his family's history through Uncle John.
-Anna tells Jeremy about her mom's death and feels helpless than ever.
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