WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Imprisonment. Flashbacks. A Dark Past Revealed. Revenge.
This week’s episode, leading up to the mid-season finale of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ had these edge-of-your-seat ingredients, but not all of them pertained to Damon. Katherine and Caroline help Stefan face his demons. Elena walks into a trap. Aaron learns his family’s secret legacy.
The episode opens, it is June 11, 1953 in Mystic Falls, at the Salvatore house. Enter a James Dean looking Damon (Ian Somerhalder), complete with leather jacket, white t-shirt, and hair, asking a maid where he can find Joseph Salvatore (Judd Lomand). A man appears and identifies himself as Joseph. He tells Damon he’s glad he got his telegram and that he’s waiting for Stefan to arrive, even though he hasn’t heard from him. Damon acknowledges Stefan hasn’t spoken to him since he abandoned him at a train station during World War II. As Damon offers his glass for a drink, Joseph sticks him with a vervain injection and apologizes because the money was too good to pass up. Before Damon collapses, he stabs Joseph in the neck. Enter a mysterious man who injects Damon in the neck with more vervain. Damon asks what the hell is he doing to him. Standing over him, Whitmore announces that he will be Damon’s doctor from now on.
