Tangent: Before Kevin Williamson created Dawson’s Creek and The Vampire Diaries (Damon’s Creek?), he wrote the screenplay for the 1994 hit Scream (and the sequals). Williamson is clearly a fan of the horror and soap opera genres. His wit sometimes shines through on Diaries.

Katerina Graham, Katerina Petrova, two for the price of one.

Lots of stories going on in this ep, lets break it down.

Numba one: Katherine Pierce, aka Katerina Petrova, was born in Southern Europe in the year 1473. We begin in Bulgaria, 1490- where a human Katerina, age 17, gives birth to a daughter- thus beginning the lineage that leads to Elena. Nina Dobrev was actually born in Bulgaria, in the capital city Sofia – how accurate.

According to my calculations, Katherine is 537 years old. Katerina met Klaus the vampire in England in 1492. Klaus is the oldest of the originals, the first generation of vampires. Today he’s powerful and dangerous and is able to compel vampires. He wanted Katerina so he could break the curse by sacrificing the Petrova doppelganger. So Katherine is the doppelganger of an even older woman who looks just like her. Katherine explains that “the curse was bound by the sacrifice of Petrova blood…witches are crafty with their spells…[and] the doppelganger was created as away to undo the spell.” Created by whom, a witch? So both Katherine and Elena are created doppelgangers of some unknown Petrova woman? Are there going to be three Nina Dobrevs on this show?

So Katerina ran from Klaus and met Rose who refused to help her [bitch!]. Katerina stabs herself because she would rather die than go back to Klaus. Rose is so afraid of Klaus that she makes Katerina drink her blood with the intention to heal her not turn her. But Trevor is fond of Kat and doesn’t want sister to give Kat to Klaus. Katerina then kills herself so she would turn because Klaus needed a human doppelganger. Kat then returns to Bulgaria to discover that Klaus has just killed her family, that bastard! Katerina, Rose, and Trevor (who met the true death) have been running from Klaus since. Katherine looks really pale in present day and she has a great smokers’ voice.

Big revelation people: Katherine returned to Mystic Falls to hand Elena, and moonstone, over to Klaus so he could break the curse…he’s obsessed with this mysterious curse. This must be a really damn good curse for Katherine to go through the trouble assembling the doppel, the stone, a werewolf, a witch, and a vampire.

On a side note: why didn’t Stefan just take the moonstone from Katherine when it knocked her out at the Masquerade Ball? Hmmm.

Sorry for all the plot summary but this ep was packed with back story and I was trying to wrap my mind around it. The rest of this will go faster.

Story 2: Rose is a babe. Can we all give kudos to Rose? Please Kevin let her stay around for a while. She and Damon will make good lovers; they even bicker like an illogical couple.

Damon: I’ll drive.
Rose: No, you forget that not all of us can do sun.
Damon: Ok then you drive.

So she gets exposed to the sun in the passenger’s seat but not in the driver’s seat?? Aren’t all the windows tinted? Damon and Rose road trip to see a vamp named Slater who used his eternity to acquire 18 degrees, three Masters, and four PhDs- and no one has noticed? He’s also good with Craigslist, too bad he dies by the episode’s end.

Klaus throwing the coins and shattering the window is one of the coolest moments in the history of the show; it’s definitely in the top five.

Damon and Rose celebrate their survival by getting in on by the fire.

What else? Caroline makes too many promises because she’s too nice, but we love Candice anyway. Ian Somerhalder likes to make his eyes big. Elena blames herself. Nina gets an Emmy nom.

Story number three: Jeremy likes Bonnie and plays it cool but will Bon Bon go for a younger guy when new man Luca the warlock enters the drama? So why are all the witches on this show black? Bonnie, Grams, Lucy, Luca, Dr. Martin- no Sabrina in this voodoo stereotype- what about a Salam…that could be fun.

Also, Dr. Martin is working with Klaus! Two teams seem to be forming. It is so on.