We hate to think about The Vampire Diaries slipping into reruns until January 5, 2012. But if our show has to have a seven-week mid-season hiatus (which it does), we’re glad it took us places we never thought it would go first. Seriously. Klaus hijacking the homecoming dance? Stefan working against his fam? Tonight’s episode was full of surprises. And that whole Klaus vs. Mikael vs. Damon vs. Stefan fight was… Well, wait. We’re getting a head of ourselves.
Think About the Master Plan
To take it from the top, “Homecoming” opens with Elena, Damon, Mikael, and Stefan premeditating a serious murder — the death of Klaus, to be more exact. Their plan is for Stefan to call Klaus to tell him that Original Vamp Daddy Dearest is dead. To make it real, Mikael even agrees to let someone stab him with an ash wood-dipped dagger so that he can play dead to bait Klaus into coming back to Mystic Falls.
But, as always, there’s a catch. “A vampire can’t dagger an original without dying,” Mikael says. So Elena has to do it. Our girl’s a bit freaked. But she rises to the grisly occasion.
Still feeling betrayed by the brother who lied about killing their mother, Rebekah agrees to help, too. In fact, when Klaus doubts that Stefan’s telling the 100 percent truth, K’s little sis is the one who sells the story. “It’s true. He’s finally out of our lives,” Rebekah tells Klaus about their father. “I miss you brother. I’m miserable here.”
