That tomb they’ve been talking about for most of the season was opened in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 14, leading to some vampires getting out, as well as Bonnie’s grandmother unconscious on her couch.
A new vampire in town, Harper, wants to know what year it is. Then he wants to eat the first person he sees.
Aunt Jenna believes she’s found Elena’s mother, who also happens to be Alaric’s wife. If that is true, aside from the coincidence, it would mean that her birth mother is dead. Perhaps Damon knows something about this woman, Isobel (yeah, that’s apparently how you spell it). Oh, like he can remember every woman he’s killed.
Matt and Caroline decide to do something a little more bachelor paddy than watching TV. Until his mom walks in.
Alaric says that Isobel never had a baby, but he changes his mind once he sees a picture of Elena’s birth mother.
Elena goes to visit an old friend of Isobel’s, who tells her that she doesn’t know who her father is, and she hasn’t seen her mother in about 17 years. Then she goes and sends a text to alert someone that “She’s here.”
Stefan warns Alaric that Damon’s not exactly stable right now. As if he ever were.
Isobel was convinced that she found vampires, and it was her intent to prove it, no matter how much of a joke Alaric may have thought it was.
Elena hasn’t touched her tea, but when she does, she realizes it’s been spiked with vervain. So why is Trudy serving her this? Whatever the reason, she begs her to leave right away.
The sheriff is short one bachelor for her auction. In return, Damon wants some information about Alaric.
Trudy’s greeted by some maniac. She did her part, but that won’t stop him from killing her.
At the bachelor auction, Damon starts talking about Isobel. He had a drink with her at Duke once. She was a great girl. Delicious. So did Elena forget to mention earlier the name of her mother?
Matt’s mom tells Caroline to stop this fake nice thing. She doesn’t like her, even if her son fell for her for some reason.
Elena gets a message from the creepy guy. Stop looking for her. She doesn’t want to know her. He’s done now. Now he can get runned over by a truck.
Alaric arrives to pay Damon a visit, stake in hand. Damon says the truth is he turned Isobel because she was pathetic and begged him to. Then Alaric gets poked by his own stake and appears to die. Well, that doesn’t last long. Luckily, he’s got a ring on that was a gift from Isobel.
Elena makes a phone call to a woman who she believes may well be Isobel, who hangs up when she realizes who she’s talking to.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 16 There Goes the Neighborhood, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.