The Vampire Diaries 4x03: Recap and Review

 

The Rager

 

 

The episode begins with Tyler waking up in hospital, but new vampire hunter, Connor is on the prowl. He steals Tyler’s werewolf venom which means trouble for all the vamps in town.

Stefan has decided Elena needs some fun, and buys a motorbike. Damon asks if he is having a mid life crisis. He announces that he is planning to leave after killing Connor, to honour their deal regarding Elena’s choice.

Elena is keen to live out her senior year but is finding school difficult; she is still feeding off Matt and is having rage control issues after being provoked by Rebekah. She decides to go to her anti-curfew party and takes the white oak stake with her.

Hayley, Tyler’s friend from the mountains shows up, something tells us that he has not told Caroline about her.

Jeremy learns that he is a potential vampire hunter as he can see Connor’s tattoo. Connor is keen to train him and Jeremy seems interested. He uses this to lure Connor to the hospital later in the episode in order for Damon and Klaus to kill him.

Damon checks out Connor’s trailer and becomes trapped, he phones an unlikely source for help, Meredith, (I sense a new Ric?) Meredith tells him that he is a good brother pretending he does not care that Stefan and Elena are together. She encourages him to make things right with Stefan and Elena as she insists she cannot be his new sidekick. He then walks into his room and catches Elena looking for the white oak stake and an intimate moment occurs as she watches him as he undresses in front of her.

Klaus returns and brings hybrids to protect Tyler. He uncovers who Hayley is and uses this to his advantage against Tyler and to possibly win over Caroline. It is pretty convenient that he is back in town as the drinks at the party are spiked with Tyler’s venom. Both Elena and Rebekah are affected and suffer hallucinations. Elena sees Damon and asks why she is thinking about him, he replies ‘because you are a vampire now and you are a lot more like me than you are like him’ meaning Stefan.

Damon and Klaus join up to kill Connor. Klaus knows about the tattoos and states that Connor is one of the five (???) We think that Connor is blown up in the hospital but Klaus saves him, it seems that Klaus knows more about Connor and his past than he does himself.

Stefan and Caroline sit down for a serious chat, Stefan confesses that he is afraid when he is around Elena as he wants her to enjoy being a vampire but if he lets her do this he will become ripper Stefan. A blossoming friendship is forming here, or maybe something more which will add to the Tyler/Klaus dynamic.

Elena again feeds off Matt and cannot stop herself, Damon intervenes and has to compel Matt to forget that she did this to him. Elena is beside herself that she has hurt Matt and Damon promises to teach her how to ‘right’ way to be a vampire.

So that is another week in Mystic Falls. Who are the Five? And how will Damon teach Elena how to be a vampire, personally I am hoping for some more snatch, eat, erase.