The House Guest
The Vampire Diaries S2.16 Recap
I’m back!! OMG, stop the presses and get this girl some medication because something must be up… 
What can I say? Last night’s episode inspired me – or maybe it was the fact that I wouldn’t be doing a recap for a new episode until April 7 that motivated me (WTF)… ^_^
However, you know that Nina Dobrev is getting better at being Katherine when one looks at “Elena” in the above picture and wonder when she became such a snide-looking snot… As one can tell, I am not a fan of Katherine.
The House Guest
Although Stefan is a lot more carefree in this season, he still manages to take me by surprise sometimes. Like, in the opening of last night’s episode when he mischievously grabs Elena for a little romp on his bed. I mean, the man actually picked her up and literally fell on top of her, so eager was he. I mean, that was so hot in so many ways that I’m still blushing even now. And given our current “standards” for TV – and what we’ve already seen on VD so far – it wasn’t even anything actually to blush about but yet I was still all googly-eyed…
However, in waltzes Katherine to disturb Damon downstairs – or is it Elena? Because she sure looks and acts like Elena, which means that whoever Stefan is macking on upstairs isn’t Elena… Fortunately for Stefan though, Elena was the one with him, although now both he and Damon realize just how good Katherine has gotten at mimicking her doppleganger.
“You mean she’s not gone or dead yet?”
I do love how completely open and antagonistic both Stefan and Damon are towards Katherine now. Elena wants her out but Katherine dangles her knowledge and her badass vampire skills in front of the boys – they need her in order to defeat Klaus. Elena begs to defer, but the brothers realize that with Katherine on their side, they do have a stronger advantage. However, it would work even better if they could get some more witches – I mean, warlocks – too…
While Damon pours over the Gilbert journals to find the site of the witch massacre that Elijah had been previously asking about, Stefan enlists Bonnie’s help to arrange a meeting between him and Jonas Martin. Luka trudges along but Jonas is not hearing any of it – I mean, he may as well just said that Stefan was an insignificant pup next to Elijah because wow, the vibes said it all. Dr. Martin is so not interested.
Jonas
Casting a spell on Luka, Jonas astro-projects his son to find Elijah’s body and remove the dagger. Things get a little spotty though Katherine senses Luka’s presence and running straight to the dungeon, sees the dagger in Elijah’s heart being moved by an invisible hand. Luka panics, thinking it’s Elena but Jonas tells him that it’s Katherine, and orders his son to stake her through the heart now. Luka takes his chance but misses (still ow!) and Katherine screams for Damon’s help. When Damon arrives, he only sees Katherine bleeding on the ground while the dagger is being pulled and thinking fast, grabs the nearby flamethrower (that he had been using to try to burn Elijah’s body) and sprays the room.
Unfortunately for Luka, his projection is susceptible to physical harm and he lights up like a candle, his physical body back at home instantly engulfed in flames. Jonas tries to save his son but it’s too late – Luka is dead and we now have one extremely pissed warlock hellbent on revenge. Jonas quickly casts a tracking spell to find Elena – the Salvatores took away his son. He’ll take away what they most prize also.
Caroline
The girls (Elena, Bonnie, Caroline and Jenna) are bonding tonight at Mystic Grill while Caroline struggles with the hot/cold behavior from Matt and Jenna mopes over her quasi-relationship with Alaric. Finally deciding to take a stand on her feelings for Matt, Caroline rushes up to stage and belts out a song to him, declaring her love to the world. The girls are impressed with Candice’s – I mean, Caroline’s – vocal chops and Matt is touched. Running up on stage, he grabs Caroline and lays a kiss on her. And then they proceed to make out on stage while everyone whistles and catcalls.
Elena gets a frantic call from Stefan though, warning her that Jonas is on a rampage. When he arrives at the grill, Bonnie tries to intercede him but without her powers, she’s no match for him and he starts destroying the place, looking for Elena. Caroline provides a distraction to allow time for Stefan and Elena to slip away but Jonas mind-freezes her and she crumples to the floor in pain. Matt sees her and being the sweetie that he is, rushes over to save Caroline from Jonas – and so Jonas stabs him in the neck with a broken glass shard while Caroline screams. Omo, I was stunned. I don’t care how pointless Matt is to the story – you cannot kill him!!!
Left with no other option, Caroline briefly changes into vamp mode before biting her wrist and feeding Matt his blood. Disoriented from the blood loss, Matt weakly accepts although his eyes are wide in fear and horror. When he wakes later in her room, poor Caroline is just glad that he’s alive and well now, and excitedly exclaims that everything is okay now – they love each other and they’ll be together. Sweetie pie, this ain’t Twilight; Matt’s not just going to be thrilled and beg you to turn him into an immortal undead. Massively freaking out, Matt makes a run for it while Caroline tries to calm him down. And suddenly it dawns him.
“Oh my god, what did you do to Vicki?!”
Vicki who??
Katherine
Elena and Stefan rush back home to hide from Jonas but when she heads upstairs to clean up, she is surprised by Jonas behind her. As Jonas lunges for her, she screams – and then her face changes as she sinks her fangs into his neck, killing him. Huh. Go Katherine.
Bonnie heatedly states that she didn’t have to kill him, which Katherine deadpans that it was necessary. When Bonnie leans over Jonas’ still body, he suddenly bounces back up, clamping both hands on her head, much like what he did when he first took her powers away. Later in Jeremy’s confidence, Bonnie tells him that Jonas had returned her powers to her – and also told her how to kill Klaus. Cue ominous music.
Although Stefan and Damon still don’t trust Katherine – and it appears that they have secretly found the site of the witch massacre – they grudgingly accept her presence. Not that they really have a choice about it anyway. Katherine being Katherine, decides to try her hand at seducing Damon later that night, slithering herself all over him while he reads the journals in bed.
“Katherine. There are six bedrooms in this house. Go find one.”
And Damon unceremoniously shoves her off the bed and goes back to reading. OMG, I love Damon.
Mommy Dearest
Jenna and Alaric are still on the outs although he does walk her back from the grill. Alaric tells her that there are just things about Isobel’s death that he can’t tell her but that Isobel is dead. And that he loves her. Alaric’s heartfelt admission doesn’t touch Jenna though (I may have seen an eye blink…) and she calmly bids him a good night.
However, the gods aren’t not on Alaric’s side because when Jenna is taking out her frustration on a tub of ice cream while Elena watches, the doorbell rings – and guess who’s come back to Mystic Falls now?
“Hello. I’m Elena’s birth mother.”
Alaric is so screwed.
Comments:
Okay, I don’t even know why, but I liked this episode. Maybe it was because it had such an AWESOME first five minutes… 
Sadly, as I mentioned earlier, we have a whole month to go before a new episode of VD… Maybe I’ll go back and recap the ones I missed, although that seems a little strange in my head… Who knows though? Stranger things have happened in there…
