Having gone crazy for human blood in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 19, Stefan found himself caged up by Elena and Damon.

It’s so hard to see him locked up like this, which she could have avoided by not locking him up in the first place.

Stefan is remembering when he and his brother were shot as Katherine was dragged away. Lucky thing he’s wearing his invincibility ring. There’s a catch. When he died, he had Katherine’s blood in his system, since she’s been compelling him to drink it for weeks. Damon, too, has been drinking, albeit willingly. They aren’t vampires yet, but they will be soon enough if they complete the transition by feeding.

Anna’s decided to go through the torture of high school in order to hang out with Jeremy. Good luck with that.

Alaric has been doing some digging on Uncle John. John has been receiving calls from someone, who Alaric believes is Isobel. Sharing this information with Damon, they both decide they don’t trust each other. Alaric tried to kill Damon. To be fair, Damon did kill Alaric. Nonetheless, they’re going to go together to track down Isobel.

John’s question for Elena: what does she think her mother would say if she knew she were dating a vampire?

Stefan just wants it to end, so he doesn’t intend to survive.

Pearl meets John, who plans to change her mind about giving him the device… with his charm.

Alaric would like to not kill anyone tonight, although if that were true he wouldn’t have brought Damon along. Finding the blood in the fridge, they know they have company, a vampire named Henry who was in the tomb.

Elena opts to not be afraid that Stefan could break through the bars and kill her. Taking it a step further, she unlocks the cell, daring him to do his worst if he pleases.

John has been helping Henry out. Henry doesn’t know an Isobel, but he helps keep an eye on the others from the tomb. When Henry gets a call from John, Damon grabs the phone. Is he going to answer that? Nope, they’re going to kill Henry.

John’s idea of charm is to pretend that Jonathan loved Pearl, then tell her that he hated her and wanted to be the one to drive a stake to her heart. So much for the pleasantries. She gave the device to Damon. With that, may John rot in Hell.

Stefan’s father was there to see his sons get shot. He pulled the trigger himself. Well, Stefan had decided to not complete the transition and just die, until his father’s blood started spilling when he tried to kill him for a second time.

Alaric doesn’t want to waste any more of his life searching for answers that he really doesn’t want.

Pearl has decided to leave. Too much history. It’s Anna’s decision if she wants to stick around for the boy.

Elena blames Damon for making it his life’s mission to make Stefan’s life miserable.

Back to the past, Stefan has brought his brother a present, a girl to feed on so he, too, can complete his transition. After hearing this story, Elena goes downstairs, where she discovers Stefan is now missing.

Waiting for Jeremy when he wakes up, Anna’s just there to say goodbye.

Emily sensed that Stefan’s heart is pure, even in death. That will be his curse.

For all the drama to the contrary, the conclusion is obvious. Stefan has decided he’s got an unlife to live.

Harper is going with Pearl, or at least he would be if she weren’t just shot through the heart while exiting her house. Anna returns home to find both of them on the ground.

Damon hated Stefan, and he still does. Not because he forced him to turn. Rather, because Katherine turned him, too. It was just supposed to be Damon.

Sitting at the bar, Alaric turns around. There’s Isobel.

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As much as he would try to fight it, Stefan was unable to resist his urge for blood in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 18. The brothers also found out there was another ring, which belongs to Elena’s creepy Uncle John.

Unlike before when he was opposed to the idea, Stefan’s now got himself a trunk full of blood. The hospital inventory records were altered, although the guy who did it did not remember altering them.

Anna stops by to apologize to Damon for nearly getting his brother killed. The other vampires are all gone. It’s just her, her mother, and Harper. With that information, Damon now knows who the blood bank culprit is.

The girls signed up for Miss Mystic Falls a while back. Elena and Caroline have both made the cut.

John is seeking an invention, which can now be retrieved since the vampires are free. Does the name Pearl ring a bell to Damon? Not convinced John can help him, Damon goes to Anna. Whatever this invention is, he doesn’t want John to have it.

Jonathan Gilbert left behind even more journals, which are locked away. He was writing all his life.

Damon warns Elena that Stefan’s drinking human blood. Because he’s spent all this time fighting it rather than learning to control it, he’s unstable at best.

With Stefan off going insane, Damon is Elena’s only choice to fill in for the dance that she and Stefan had learned. Could be worse. While they’re doing that, Stefan’s making a decision, a decision that he will drink human blood straight from the source. The chick he’s with totally doesn’t mind that he’s trying to kill her because he told her not to be afraid. So now he wants her to run and be afraid. Be very afraid.

After Caroline is crowned Miss Mystic Falls, they realize that Amber is missing. The screaming may lead someone to them. That someone is luckily Damon, Bonnie, and Elena. At least the authorities don’t arrive until after the bite mark evidence is gone.

John has learned some useful information. Jeremy’s friend Anna has a mother named Pearl. Speaking of, they meet with Damon to discuss what Pearl stole. Now it’s his, though he’ll need to figure out what it is on his own. They’d like to stay in town, and this offering is an apology.

Stefan’s gonna be okay. Once Elena and Damon lock him up anyway.

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Hurley started dating a possibly crazy Libby in Lost Season 6 Episode 12. Meanwhile, on the island, he was leading Jack and Sun to join Locke’s group.

Jack wants to catch up. What the hell is Locke anyway, and why him? Locke was stupid enough to believe he was brought there for a reason, a belief he pursued until it got him killed. Oh, and Jack was kind enough to bring his body back in a nice wooden box. Yes, he was Jack’s dead father, too. All the black smoke wants to do is get everybody else off the island.

Having been run over by Desmond, Locke is on his way to the hospital. He’s being wheeled in alongside Sun with her gunshot wound. All she can keep repeating is “It’s him!”

Claire’s following her brother Jack. Whether he likes it or not, he’s with Locke now.

Sawyer has an alternate plan. They’ll take the sub. Hurley’s invited. So is Sun. Sayid’s over on the dark side and can’t be brought back no matter what Star Wars would lead Hurley to believe.

Kate is in the police station with Sawyer. She doesn’t strike him as the murdering kind. Doesn’t she think it’s weird they keep meeting like this? Almost like someone’s trying to bring them together. She thinks he let her go at the airport because he went to Australia and didn’t want anyone to know he was there. Miles pulls him away from his flirting/blackmail so they can pursue Sayid, who they believe is responsible for Sun being shot.

Locke took something from Widmore, which he would like back. Or else they’ll blow everyone up. Locke has until night to call, which will be difficult seeing as he takes the phone and smashes it.

Claire has an appointment with the adoption agency, where she happens to run into Desmond. It just so happens he’s on his way to see a lawyer, and it may help if she has one to help with the adoption contract. His lawyer: Ilana. The all too convenient coincidences continue. They’ve been looking for her.

Because the others are threatening to attack, they’re going over to the other island. Sawyer is sent to get a boat. He will take Freckles with him. Before leaving, he instructs Jack to double back and grab Hugo, Sun, and the pilot who looks like he’s from a Burt Reynolds movie. No Sayid, no Claire.

Sayid’s mission will be to kill Desmond. In return, he will be able to get back the woman he loved, who is currently dead. So what will he tell her when she asks what he did to be with her again?

Mainland Sayid has to leave, and he’s never coming back. Nadia might consider stalling the LAPD while he packs. Too bad Sawyer’s waiting in the backyard.

Claire trusts Locke because he’s the only one who didn’t abandon her. That does not bode well for Jack’s escape, which she witnesses. When they arrive at the boat, Claire’s right behind them, and she has a gun. Change of plans then. She can go with them. Kate promises.

And it continues. Jack’s at the same building as Claire and Desmond. He, too, is meeting with Ilana, who wants to introduce him to his father’s other child.

Jack doesn’t feel right leaving the island. If that thing wants them to leave, maybe it’s afraid of what happens if they stay. Is he with them, or is he going in the water? Water it is.

Sun wakes up in the hospital. She’s fine, and so is the baby. Yeah, Jack’s there, too. He was called in for an emergency so he could operate on Locke.

Sawyer arrives on the island, where he’s given the customary gun waving greeting. It’s here that Sun and Jin are reunited. She can speak English again now. If they would all get on their knees now, Widmore can proceed with blowing up the others.

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Stefan was busted out from the vampire lair by Damon in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 17, then Jeremy found out Vicki is not really still amongst the living.

Having drunk Elena’s blood, Stefan’s now putting himself through detox. Damon wants to know why he can’t just grab some blood from a blood bank. It’s not as if he’s killing anybody.

Uncle John arrives at the house. Jenna wants him to pretend to be sensitive, seeing as Jeremy just found out that his friend is dead rather than undead. It seems nobody likes this guy.

Vicki’s death has been officially ruled a drug overdose.

John is there to go meet with the sheriff and her posse. A hospital blood bank has reported break ins recently. Nothing’s been solved, and their problems are not over.

While preparing to get busy with Elena, Stefan’s face goes funny, and he flings himself off a wall. Until the cravings go away, his best plan is to be drunk.

Jeremy’s curious if there’s any more information about Vicki. Her body was buried. Dead people don’t typically do that to themselves.

It seems there’s a thin line between fun drunk Stefan and potentially psychopathic drunk Stefan.

Damon may have everybody else fooled, but John knows he’s not just a vampire but the one who set all the others free. Time to snap his neck.

Tyler has decided to hook up with Matt’s mom at the founders party. The kissing is interrupted by punching. With the ensuing bleeding, Stefan opts for a taste.

As for Uncle John, he doesn’t look so dead after all. He’s got a ring on his finger.

After the party, the guy Damon made apologize to Elena for being a jerk is looking to pick a fight. There’s a stupid idea. At least he only gets knocked out rather than eaten.

Searching for answers, Jeremy breaks into Elena’s room to read her diary.

Ty’s father hits his son, with a message that he won’t embarrass the family again.

Matt wants his mom out of his house and life by morning.

John and his brother both inherited their rings. His brother gave him his, so he gave one to Isobel, who in turn gave it to Alaric. Of course he knew Isobel. He’s the one who sent her to Damon when she wanted to become a vampire.

Although he doesn’t want to get too close, Elena has decided she’s not afraid that her boyfriend may be a lunatic.

When Damon goes to bed, he leaves his blood on the table, just in case his brother would like to partake. That would be a yes.

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Lost Season 6 Episode 11 went on and on about Desmond trying to find his wife Penny and the rest of her family.

Now, everybody loves Hugo, owner of the Mr. Cluck’s franchise of restaurants and the man of the year. If only he could get a date, then his mama would be happy.

On the island, he’s standing over the grave of Libby, where he’s greeted by Michael, who’s there to stop him from getting everybody killed. Seeing as he’s the guy who murdered Libby and Lucia, he may not be the most trustworthy source.

He also happens to meet Libby on the mainland. She knows his name, although he doesn’t remember her. Then she gets dragged away by Dr. Brooks. Seems she’s mentally ill.

Ilana’s on a mission to blow up that plane. In her last moments, she learns an important lesson: be careful when handling dynamite, or you may get blown to bits.

The only way Locke, Kate, and Sawyer are getting off this god forsaken rock is if their friends return. Kate doesn’t see that happening, but Sayid has returned with the package, Desmond.

Having seen his girl carted off to the mental ward, Hugo decides to drown his sorrows in a bucket of chicken, family size. It’s there that he meets Desmond, who advises him to go with his gut and try to find out where he supposedly knows Libby from.

With Ilana out of the picture, Richard goes to the Black Rock with the others. He wants to be the one handling the dynamite. Too late. Hugo’s already there blowing it up. No dynamite, no more blowing up the plane. He always listens to dead people who yell at him. They’re more reliable than alive people.

Hugo heads to see the doctor. Perhaps he would make an exception and let him see Libby if he were a family. Or maybe if he donated $100k. Where is it she thinks she knows him from? Once she saw him, she saw all the memories of her life, only it was another life. She also has a memory of him being there at the psych hospital. Although he doesn’t remember her, he’s okay with her being crazy, and he’d like to go out on a date. Fine by her.

Locke sees a boy, one he wants to ignore.

Hugo’s plan is that they have to go talk to Locke. Either Richard can go with Hurley, or he can keep trying to blow stuff up. Blow stuff up it is then. Ben and Miles are with Richard, but Jack and the others stick with Hugo. During their walk, Hugo admits that he didn’t really see Jacob back there, which Jack already knew. It’s a good thing Jack trusts him because he has no idea where he’s going.

Michael is stuck on the island because of his murderous past, and there are others on the island like him who can’t move on. He’s very sorry for what he did to Libby.

When they kiss on their picnic date, Hurley remembers everything. Not so crazy after all.

Locke’s destination: a well. A very old well. So old that the people who dug it did so completely by hand. They weren’t looking for water. Rather, they were looking for answers, which they did not find. His lesson for Desmond is that Charles Widmore is not interested in answers, just power. Why isn’t he afraid being out there in the middle of the jungle with Locke when nobody knows he’s there? What is the point of being afraid? That question is simple to answer by throwing him down the well.

Hugo arrives to meet Locke, and with him are both Jack and Sun. That about completes the set.

Desmond heads to the school pretending he’s there to find a school for his son. In reality, he wants to run over the man in the wheelchair.

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While Stefan and Damon were busy finding out they’re not the only vampires in town in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 16, Jeremy decided he wanted to join their fun and be turned by Anna.

Anna tells Jeremy that he shouldn’t believe anything he reads about vampires. So why does he want to be a vampire anyway? Because…

Frederick’s plan is to kill everybody. Pearl suggests that maybe that’s not the best plan.

Stefan goes out for some food of the non-soccer mom vareity, and he’s promptly stabbed by Frederick, who kidnaps him and takes him back to their lair. They intend to torture him for a while before they kill him. After stabbing him a few more times, they tie him up with vervain soaked ropes. Harper disagrees with these tactics, but he’s told that Ms. Pearl is no longer in charge.

Elena and Damon go to Alaric. If he helps, the woman in charge may be able to help find his wife.

Jeremy’s come up with a reason why he wants to be a vampire. He doesn’t fit and doesn’t have anything else. That’s all he needs is an eternity like that. Anna’s response is that she doesn’t need him to do her dirty work, doesn’t want revenge, isn’t bored, and doesn’t love him. Not just yet anyway.

Pearl and Anna meet Mayor Lockwood. Maybe they will stick around at the restaurant for a while.

Damon doesn’t want to be distracted by concerns for Elena’s safety, and he insists she does not go with them.

Caroline insists on going out in the middle of a terrible rainstorm that’s washed out Route 5. She’s one of those people who, rather than pay attention to the road during potentially dangerous driving situations, hops on her cell phone to chat and get distracted. Shortly after her phone reception dies, she gets stuck in the mud.

Alaric pretends his car broke down. He’d like to use the phone. They invite him in with plans to kill him. Alaric escorts Ms. Gibbons outside to Damon. He confirms she doesn’t have any family or anyone else living there. That’s sufficient for her to die. Now it’s free for anyone to enter. This is a surprise to Alaric, who expected him to compel her, rather than snapping her neck.

As Pearl and the mayor are discussing how his family owns a lot of property, much of which they came into in 1864, she sees a boy smiling more than she’d like at her daughter. That would be a Gilbert, the people responsible for trapping her for 150 years.

Not one to follow instructions, Elena leaves the car to go check out the situation at the house. She heads to the basement, where she’s lucky Damon is there to ask her if she’s insane.

Wandering around in the downpour, Caroline slips and falls and then slips some more.

Since her mom is angry at her for hanging out with Jeremy, Anna decides she’ll turn him.

Elena and Damon free Stefan. They leave Harper tied up but alive. Then the real battle begins as Damon heads inside to kill some more vampires and confront Frederick. In the melee, Frederick flees. Damon might want to hurry because he’s after Stefan. Luckily he misses the heart (so it can be assumed) before Elena stops him.

Following their time inside killing off the vampires that are there, Damon and Alaric head outdoors, where they see more vampires than they want to deal with, so they head back inside.

Caroline shows up at Matt’s door with the sheriff. Jeremy finds out from the mayor that they’ve found Vicki, or at least her body. This death thing is news to him.

Elena’s not going to just let Stefan lie there, so she offers him her wrist.

Alaric has realized something: the part about being able to find his wife, that was just a lie. Pearl shows up in time to prevent any further bloodshed. Within the house anyway. A deranged Stefan fully charged on human blood eliminates Frederick.

Now that he knows Vicki’s not a vampire, Jeremy seems to have lost interest in turning. He just wanted to be with her.

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Jin and Sun had their adventure in Lost Season 6 Episode 10, in which he was kidnapped and she ended up unable to speak English. Jin was brought to the package, who turned out to be Desmond.

Desmond wakes up to be greeted by Zoe. He’d like to see his wife, but instead he’s stuck with old man Widmore, who informs him he’s been brought back to the island. Violence ensues.

The crew is trying to get the generator running again, which it hasn’t done in 20 years. During the process, they inadvertently turn it on while somebody’s inside the machine. That somebody is now dead and extra crispy.

Having seen that, Widmore has a test for Desmond. He wants him to hop inside, too. His question is whether he can survive a catastrophic event again.

Flashing sideways, Desmond meets Claire at the airport. He offers her a ride, but she’s got a date with a cab driving felon. He doesn’t want a restaurant or any “companionship” when he meets up with the driver. He’s just there to work. For Charles Widmore. In this too coincidentally small world, Charles wants Desmond to get the drugged up bass guitarist of Driveshaft to his wife’s event. Charlie’s preference would be to get drunk and talk about the new love of his life, who he saw for a moment on the airplane when he was choking to death.

Charlie reluctantly agrees to go for a ride with Desmond. As they’re dirving along, Charlie grabs hold of the steering wheel, driving them directly into the water. The alert Desmond is now forced to save Charlie’s life. In doing so, he has a flash of a hand saying “Not Penny’s Boat”.

When he gets to the hospital, the CAT scan is inconclusive, so Desmond’s going downstairs for an MRI. 30 minutes in a cramped super loud machine. This should go well. And actually, it kinda does. He remembers Penny. This is the moment Charlie was talking about when he discussed being in love. He’s gotta find him. Perhaps Dr. Jack can assist. No need after all, though. Hard to miss the half naked man running down the hallway.

Since Charles is afraid of his wife, he sends Desmond to break the bad news that he’s lost the rock star. She’s taking this surprisingly well. What she doesn’t appreciate is his request to see the guest list when he hears the name Penny. He’ll need to stop looking for whatever it is he thinks he’s looking for. He’s not ready yet. For something.

As he’s getting ready to leave and/or get drunk, he’s approached by Daniel Widmore, the guy who was hoping to play with Driveshaft. Daniel, too, is going on and on about love. After he saw the women he loved at first sight, he wrote something in his notebook. Since he’s a musician, he has no clue what he wrote, but a friend of him says it’s quantum mechanics so advanced that only somebody who had been studying physics their entire life could have come up with it. What if this wasn’t supposed to be their life? What if they had some other life and somehow changed things? That said, he thinks he already did set off a nuclear bomb. Seeing as Desmond’s asking about a woman named Penny, he must have felt this shift, too.

Acting on a tip from half brother Daniel, Desmond heads to the stadium, where he finds Penny running. With that, he wakes up inside the machine. Not so dead after all. Now he says he understands that he’s there to do something important. When do they start?

Zoe is escorting Desmond through the jungle. Sayid comes up, kills some people, and tells her to run.

Back in the stadium, Desmond fainted when Penny shook his hand. Perhaps she’d like to go for a coffee.

One last thing he needs from his driver George: the manifest from the flight.

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Lost Season 6 Episode 9 was the tale of Richard, bringing us back over 100 years to when he first arrived on the island. Upon arrival, he sided with Jacob over the black smoke, but now he’s changed his mind. Until Hurley told him that his wife said he has to stop the man in black, or otherwise they’re all going to hell.

Locke says that the only way they can leave the island is if all the uncrossed off names go together.

At the airport, Jin is told that they’re going to be “confiscating” his $25,000. He doesn’t ask any questions. He just does what Sun’s father tells him to do.

When they arrive at the hotel, Jin wants a second room. He knows enough English to say they’re not married.

Before Locke goes off on an errand, Sayid says he doesn’t feel anything. Anger, happiness, pain, all gone.

Jin takes Locke’s departure as his cue to bail. He’s going to get away from Locke and go find his wife. Well, he would, if he weren’t just tasered, along with everybody else. Lucky him, he’s the one they want.

Ilana’s plan is to wait until Richard comes back. Ben is skeptical about this plan, seeing as Richard went storming off into the jungle after he told them they were all in hell and he didn’t know what to do.

Deciding that Jin’s not just there on business and Sun’s not there just for shopping, they decide to get busy in her hotel room.

Locke has managed to find Sun with a message that he’s found her husband, but she doesn’t believe him, so she runs away. A chase through the jungle ensues. Sun loses, crashing into a tree.

Back on the mainland, Sun’s got an idea. They should run away together.

Later, Sun is awakened by Ben. As for Locke, he returns to find a bunch of people lying on the ground. Where is Jin? He’s locked up in a creepy looking room. Room 23. It’s where the Dharma Initiative was doing experiments on subliminal messages. There are some maps. Whoever signed them should be able to help. Looks like that would be Jin.

Claire’s name is not on the wall. Neither is Kate’s. Regardless, Locke wants both of them. Kate could be of assistance rounding up the others. Once she does, whatever happens happens.

Sun and Jin are busted partially clothed by her father’s contact, but he doesn’t really care about that. He just wants his money.

Having hit her head, Sun has forgotten how to speak an entire language, making her capable of only communicating in Korean now.

Richard returns with Hurley, instructing the others to pack their bags and get ready to leave. They’re going to destroy the plane so that Locke can’t get on it. Of course, if they destroy that plane, that means the rest of them won’t be able to get off the island, which does not sit well with the woman screaming in Korean.

Walking on the beach, Locke is shot at. I don’t think that’s going to work. He goes peacefully to meet Widmore, who denies having kidnapped Jin. A wise man once said that war is coming to the island. It just got there.

Sun had intended to get the money out of her bank account so that she could pay off her father’s associate. But when she arrives at the bank, her account is closed and empty. Her father had the funds transferred to one of his accounts. As for Jin, this would explain why he was tied up and in a refrigerator. It seems that $25k was this guy’s fee for killing him for not keeping his hands off the boss’s daughter.

Jin is handed a camera. It’s a picture of his daughter, who he’s never seen before. Widmore’s warning is that everything and everyone would cease to exist if that John Locke thing gets off the island. It’s time for him to see the package. It’s not a what. It’s a who.

The shooting outside the door catches us up to where we were before. Sayid opens up the door to discover Jin. He hands him a razor to free himself and wishes him luck. When Sun returns, we see a bunch of people on the ground, mostly dead. The guy with her might consider looking behind him and seeing Jin with a gun. In the shootout, Sun gets hit as well. And that news she wanted to tell him before they were interrupted in the room: she’s pregnant.

Jack has a theory. Just because Sun can’t speak English doesn’t mean she can’t write it. This theory is correct, but she’s gonna run out of paper pretty fast.

If Widmore didn’t blow Locke right out of the water, Saywer thinks they’re screwed. That makes him walking back to join them bad news then.

Who’s the package? That would apparently be Desmond.

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