Vampire Diaries Season 2 Episode 8 “Rose”-- Original Air Date: November 4, 2010
By OBS staff member Annabell CadizThis installment of Vampire Diaries starts off the man who has taken Elena captive. He drives into a remote area and gets out of the car. He approaches a second car which had been waiting for his arrival. The window to the second car rolls down only a few inches and another man is revealed, he‘s all incognito with his face covered in black shades and a dark nay blue baseball cap on his head. He asks Elena’s kidnapper where is the girl. The kidnapper explains she’s in the car. He had done exactly as he was instructed. The second man orders him to put Elena into the back of his car. The kidnapper opens the trunk of his car, lifts the unconscious Elena, and carries her to the second vehicle, depositing her into the back. Once that’s done, the kidnapper returns to the rolled down window and the second man thanks him for his help. The kidnapper asks if there is anything else he can do. The dude in the black shades there is one more thing and tells him to go closer to the window. Once the kidnapper is close enough the second man reveals himself to be a vampire and sinks his fangs into the kidnapper’s neck. After he finishes killing Elena’s kidnapper, he rolls up his window and casually drives off, leaving the kidnapper’s body forgotten in the dry heat.
Jeremy is in the bathroom, finishing up getting ready (insert swooning from all girls watching--myself included *hehe*). He knocks on the door leading to Elena’s bedroom from the bathroom that connects their rooms but get’s no response. He opens the door and finds Elena’s bed empty and still made from the day before.
Caroline is explaining the events from the night before with Tyler to Damon. Sara had attacked Tyler, Tyler had acted instinctively and pushed Sara away. She ended up tripping, falling and hitting her head against the desk. (Queue Damon! Let the nonstop giggling, squealing, and otherwise pure hysteria begin!) Damon asks Caroline if Matt remembered anything from what happened the night before. Caroline tells him no, Matt thinks he blacked out. But Caroline believes that Matt and Sara were both compelled by Katherine and that’s why she covered for Tyler and told the police the night before was an accident. Damon as usual cannot keep his opinion to himself: “Yeah, I don’t understand that, the guy’s a tool.” Caroline agrees but tells Damon if Tyler got blamed for Sara’s death that would just open up questions he wouldn’t be able to answer and does Damon really think it would be a good idea for Tyler to tell his mother he’s a vampire. Damon in his usual sarcastic manner: “Well, no.” (Obvious pointed look on his face). Caroline agrees, telling Damon, “werewolf road leads straight to vampire boulevard” and she was thinking fast on her feet. Damon switches the subject and asks Caroline where he mother is. Caroline explains Liz is leading a search party for Amy Bradly (the girl Katherine had killed the night before) because they haven’t found her body yet. Damon: “Ohh, teens today and their underage drinking. Tragic.” He then returns to talking about Tyler and asks Caroline if she saw his eyes turn yellow. Caroline tells Damon Tyler’s eyes are more like gold with amber highlights. Damon scoffs, slightly disgusted. Caroline asks Damon if that means Tyler can now turn into a wolf. Damon explains to her only when there’s a full moon and now Tyler has increased strength and who knows what else. He wonders out loud how much Mason could have told Tyler about being a werewolf. Damon asks Caroline if Tyler knows about them. Caroline is absently listening since she’s texting on her phone. Damon (in true “I will not be ignored”) fashion commands her attention and demands to know what Caroline told Tyler. Caroline tells him Tyler doesn’t really know much of anything. Tyler seemed more freaked out and she felt bad for him. Damon looks at her like she’s crazy for caring about him. Caroline walks out of her room and heads for the front door. Damon watches her go and tells her Tyler HAS to know something. Caroline agrees to ask Tyler what he knows. Caroline appears in front of her in lightning speed and grabs Caroline by the shoulders rather roughly. He looks at her with the famous Damon crazy eyes and tells her there is no way Tyler can know about them. A bite from a werewolf can kill a vampire so Caroline is NOT to be his friend. Caroline says she understands, voice turning small, looking up at Damon timidly. She tells Damon she needs to go, she’s going to be late for school. Damon let’s her go and pats her on the shoulder. He heads for the door and tells Caroline, a little too nonchalant, if she wants she can give her mother the hint that Aimee’s body is the bottom of the ravine that will help save her mother some time. He opens the front door and smiles at Caroline. Caroline walks out the door, Damon following.
Tyler is walking through the hallway at school. People are all standing around, worried and some crying. He sees the missing poster of Aimee’s and hugs his backpack more tightly to himself. He continues walking the hallways and sees a girl placing flowers at Amiee’s locker. A guy bumps into him and Tyler jumps back, ready to attack. The guy just keeps walking by and Tyler calms down, realizing he’s too on edge. He quickly walks over to his locker and starts putting in the combination when he ends up breaking the lock from his locker. He looks at his locker, growing more on edge, then looks around himself to see if anyone had noticed. The scene moves to Stefan closing his locker and Jeremy approaching him as he heads to class. Jeremy tells Stefan that Elena needs to let him know when he needs to cover for her. Jenna’s cool with the two of them but they’re pushing it. Stefan simply looks at Jeremy confused and asks what he’s talking about. Jeremy tells Stefan he’s happy both he and Elena are back together but if Elena’s gonna sleep over they’re-- Stefan cuts him off and explains he and Elena aren’t back together. Now Jeremy is the one who looks confused and asks Stefan if Elena stayed at his house the night before. Stefan explains he only saw Elena at the party but that was it, Elena hadn’t slept over his place. Jeremy explains to Stefan that Elena’s bed hadn’t been slept in. And Mrs. Lockwood had told him Elena’s car was still in the driveway of the Lockwood residence. So where could Elena be. Stefan just gives him a very worried look.
The black SUV that Elena’s unconscious body was transported to drives up to a beautiful mansion. Viewers are given glances into the rooms within the mansion. They are covered in dust and broken pieces of furniture, moldy drapes and chairs, antique tables. The wood paneling on the walls are splinted and rotting. The staircase breaking apart. Elena gets carried in by her new kidnapper who is still wearing black shades and a baseball cap. But viewers get a much better shot of him: he’s tall and young, looks to be around Stefan or Damon’s age (you know if they were ACTUAL humans), he has on a dark black jacket and skinny jeans with black gloves covering his hands. Elena is slightly awake and is begging him in a pleading whisper to let her go. Her new kidnapper drops her onto a couch and takes off his black shades and cap to reveal a rather handsome face. He throws his stuff on the couch along Elena and starts untying Elena’s bond hands. Elena is visibly upset and asking him who he is and what does he want. There is a huge blood stain on her arm. Her new kidnapper tells her to shush as he continues to untie the ropes around her legs. Elena begs him again: “Please, I’m hurt.” Her new kidnapper, now excited, a devilish gleam in his eyes tells her: “Yes, I know, just a small taste.” Elena backs into the couch as her new kidnapper reveals his fangs and leans down to bite her. Just then another voice echoes from behind calling his name sternly, “Trevor!” It’s a woman’s voice, she has a British accent. She commands Tyler to control himself. Tyler gets off the couch and calls the woman a “buzz kill.” Elena asks the woman what she wants with her, clinging to the couch, terrified. The woman walks closer to her, telling Elena she looks “just like her.” Elena starts trying to tell the woman she’s isn’t Katherine but the woman commands her to be quiet. Elena sits up on the couch and tells her she isn’t Katherine. She gets off the couch and walks over to the woman. She tells her her name is Elena Gilbert and she doesn’t have to do this. The woman, rudely, tells Elena she knows who she is and she said to be quiet. Elena asks her again what does she want. The woman slaps her across the face (oh no she didn’t!), sending Elena back onto the couch. She tells Elena she wants her to be quiet. Elena is already unconscious once again, slumped against the couch.
Stefan and Damon are arguing. Stefan thinks Elena’s disappearance has to do with Katherine. Damon tells him he shut Katherine in the tomb. Stefan gives him a skeptical look and ask him if he really did. Damon gives him a look teetering on anger and asks Stefan did he do what. Stefan explains he knows the hold Katherine can pull over Damon. Damon tells him Katherine is in the tomb, that’s the end of the story. Stefan goes back to pacing and Damon says, slightly quietly, that Katherine had said something to him before he locked her in the tomb but he had believed she was lying. Stefan asks him what she had said. Damon looks at him, face full of concern and a bit of guilt, and tells Stefan Elena is in danger. Stefan snaps at him and sarcastically asks Damon he didn’t think he should have had Katherine elaborate. Damon just yells how was he supposed to know Katherine would actually start telling the truth. Stefan thinks they need to go talk to her. Damon, right away, believes that will be a very bad idea: “Let me tell you how this going to go. We’re gonna go ask her for help. She’s gonna negotiate a release. We’re gonna be dumb enough to give to her. She’s gonna get out and kill us. That’s exactly what she wants.” Stefan tells him he doesn’t really care but Damon is adamant that going to see Katherine is a very bad idea. Stefan just turns and looks at him, telling him it’s Elena and walks away.
Caroline is standing in the middle of a hallway at school. She looks around and sees the missing poster created for Aimee’s disappearance and her locker surrounded by flowers. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Tyler approaches her from behind. Caroline asks him how he’s doing. Tyler tells her he isn’t doing too good. Caroline changes the subject quickly and asks how his mom is doing, she had heard Tyler’s mom had gotten pretty freaked out over what had happened with Sara. Tyler wants to know how Caroline knew about him. Caroline attempts to play it off, she just asks him does she know what, that he was upset. She thought she had done a good thing by covering for him. Tyler looks at her unbelieving and tells her that isn’t what he’s talking about. Caroline tells him Sara’s death was just an accident. She has go to go but he shouldn’t blame himself. Caroline turns and walks away. Tyler watches her leave, still skeptical about Caroline lame attempt at covering up.
Elena is still unconscious on the couch. The woman who had slapped her asks Trevor (the cutie British vamp) how Elena is doing. Trevor explains she’s still sleeping. Elena is waking up and hears them. They are arguing about a message the woman was supposed to send to someone named Elijah. The woman says he already got the message. Elena is up off the couch. She slowly walks over to where she hears the voices. Trevor is still arguing with the woman. He’s telling her they can just leave Elena there and leave. But the woman tells him no, she’s tired of running. Trevor says running has been what’s kept them from dying. The woman explains that Elijah is old school type; if he accepts their deal, they’ll be free. She spots Elena trying to sneak out of the room. She explains to Elena there is nothing around them for miles and if she thinks she’s escaping that house she’s tragically wrong. Elena asks the woman who Elijah is. The woman looks at her coldly and replies: “He’s your worse nightmare.”
Stefan has gone to see Bonnie. Bonnie is explaining she cannot undue the tomb spell, even if she wanted to. It took both Bonnie and her grandmother to do it the first time. Stefan says fine but he can still open the tomb and speak to Katherine. Bonnie tells him yes but agrees with Damon, Katherine isn’t going to tell him anything, not without something in return. Stefan says he knows but he has to do something, he has no idea who took Elena. Bonnie asks him what if there was another way to find Elena. The scene switches to Bonnie lighting candles, Jeremy laying a map on a desk. Bonnie explains that she will need a drop of his blood for the tracking spell, it will make the connection stronger to find Elena. Stefan walks in and tells them Alaric said they have to be out of the classroom in ten minutes. Bonnie slices Jeremy’s palm and Stefan turns his face away. Jeremy’s makes his blood drop around the Mystic Falls area on the map. Bonnie starts chanting. The three droplets of Jeremy’s blood form on big drop and start sliding across the map, stopping at a town called Reidsville. Jeremy explains that’s three hundred miles away (beautiful and smart, what more can a girl ask for!). Stefan said they need a more precise location. Bonnie explains that’s as close as she can get. Jeremy explains they can map the location and get an aerial view. Stefan tells him to do that and call him with any information he finds then heads to leave. Jeremy chases after him, telling Stefan he’s going with him. Stefan tells him no. Jeremy is determined to go with him, telling Stefan what if Elena’s hurt. Stefan says as soothingly as he can Elena is fine, she’s not hurt. The screen switches back to Bonnie as Jeremy and Stefan argue, her nose is bleeding. She wipes the blood from her face just as Stefan tells Jeremy to go back to his house with Bonnie and wait there. Jeremy tells Stefan he can’t go alone to rescue Elena. The door to the classroom open and Damon announces Stefan won’t be going alone, he’ll be going with him (such white knight he is *wink*).
Tyler’s playing basketball with a few of his friends. He ends up jumping into the air and dunking the ball into the net much to his surprise as much as his friends. He spots Caroline walking out of school, waving bye to friends as she heads toward the parking lot. Tyler tosses the ball to a friend and runs after Caroline. He manages to sneak up on Caroline. She looks at him surprised then concerned, asking him if he’s okay. Tyler accuses her of lying to him earlier and wants to know why. Caroline just tells him she understands how he feels about what happened at the party, it was a traumatic experience. Tyler once again accuses her of lying. Caroline purses her lips, getting annoyed, and once again denies lying and moves around Tyler to leave, telling him she’s late for something. Tyler grabs her arm and out of instinct Caroline twists his arm and holds him down by the small of his back with her other hand. Tyler looks up at her in complete shock. Caroline throws him to the ground and looks around to see if anyone had noticed. Tyler does the same thing. He gets up and rubs his arm, making more of a statement than a question when Tyler tells Caroline: “You’re stronger than me.” Caroline tires to brush it off again, saying it was nothing. Tyler begs her if she knows anything to tell him because he can’t handle what’s happening. Caroline again just tells him she thinks Tyler is in shock over Sara dying and it’s understandable. Tyler walks over to her until he’s a mere inch from her face, sizes her, and walks away. He kicks a garbage can in his rage and the garbage can goes flying across the parking lot into someone’s car.
Damon and Stefan are driving toward the area where Bonnie said Elena would be. Stefan asks Damon who does he think took Elena. Damon thinks it’s someone from Katherine’s past since Katherine had told him she’s running from someone but they got the wrong girl. Stefan turns to look at him for a moment and thanks Damon for helping him. Damon, trying to conceal his really feelings as usual, answers Stefan sarcastically, “Can we no do the whole bro road bonding thing, the cliché of it all makes me itch.” Stefan tells Damon he knows Damon having gone with him had nothing to do with wanting to help his brother. Damon: “And the elephant in the room let’s out a mighty roar.” Stefan says there doesn’t have to be an elephant in the car, they should talk about it. He’s either in the car to help his little brother save the girl that he loves or is it because he loves her too. Damon smirks and threatens Stefan that he can step out of helping him as easily as he stepped into helping him. Stefan says: “Nope, that’s the beauty of it, you can’t.” Damon turns his face and looks at Stefan, hard look to his eyes, sizes his little brother and returns his gaze back to the road.
Jeremy is using his phone to try to get a more precise location to Elena’s whereabouts. Bonnie comes in and tells Jeremy Alaric left with Jenna. Jeremy shows her this map he found of an old house in the location Bonnie’s tracking spell had pointed out. Bonnie asks if he’s sent that information to Stefan yet. Jeremy tells her yes. He grows serious and admits to Bonnie he hates just sitting around, waiting. Bonnie sits closer to him and rubs his arm (Can I please switch places with Bonnie!) and tells Jeremy Elena is going to be fine. Jeremy tells her she doesn’t know that for sure. Bonnie admits she doesn’t. She suddenly jumps off the bed and starts digging through her purse. Jeremy looks at her confused and asks what she’s doing. Bonnie explains there’s something else she wants to try, flopping back onto the bed and opening her spell book. Jeremy says he doesn’t understand. Bonnie tells him to get a candle and grab Elena’s hairbrush. Jeremy gets up to do as she’s instructed. Bonnie begins writing something on a piece of paper. Jeremy returns with everything Bonnie asked for and asks why she needs it. Bonnie explains she might be able to get a message to Elena. She crumples the note into a ball in her hand. She holds her hand over the candle, opening it and closes her eyes, beginning to chant under her breath. Blood starts trickling down Bonnie’s nose. Jeremy looks at her concerned and calls her name softly at first but as the blood continues to run down Bonnie’s nose and she isn’t responding, Jeremy grabs Bonnie’s arm, calling her name out more urgently and trying to get her to stop. The ball of paper with the message sets on fire and disappears. Bonnie opens her eyes. Jeremy sighs in relief thinking she’s okay. But Bonnie falls back, unconscious. Jeremy moves over to her and yells her name as he tries to wake her up but Bonnie won’t respond.
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