The ever concerned Stefan, the victim of a jump and dump—over a photo no less—is frantically calling Elaina to make sure she’s ok. As if to thumb her nose at Stefan, Elaina leaves her vervain necklace on top of Katherine’s picture—the only thing she’ll prove is that her neck is not puncture resistant; but I digress. Elaina has just run over a mystery man and is up-side-down in her car, freaking out as he peels himself off road and approaches her; but then we see his feet retreat and Damon’s face pops into view. Damon gets Elaina out of the car and our sweet little drama queen faints after breathlessly exclaiming, “I look like her”. Awww, for crap sake, let it go.
We get a little more insight on the history teacher; he’s neither vampire nor hunter—just a man with a vendetta. We are treated to a flashback of him and his woman, madly in love. One day, our educator returned home to find Damon nibbling the neck of his beloved—and not in a good way.
Meanwhile, Elaina wakes up with Damon driving– a quick round-robin of I’m not going to Georgia /you’re already in Georgia ensues—Elaina finally grasps that she’s indeed in Georgia. Stefan calls her, yet again, but she refuses to answer the phone –god Elaina, you’re such an a-hole sometimes…
Damon brings Elaina to a bar where Bree, the bartender, tries to suck his face off … or kiss him. Then they’re doing shots to the fact that Damon broke her heart. Damon asks Bree (a witch) to help him get into Katherine’s tomb – but he still needs that elusive crystal (the one Bonnie destroyed).
Elaina steps outside; Damon looks for her and gets taken out by a vampire – who beats him with a bat and covers him in gasoline—compliments of Bree. Turns out, it’s Lexi’s boyfriend—just a little pissed that Damon staked his girlfriend. Elaina begs for Damon’s life. Damon confronts Bree; before ripping her heart out again—only literally this time.
On the ride back, Elaina gloats that she saved Damon’s life and that he shouldn’t forget it—I’m sorry, did you forget that Damon saved your skinny ass from being eaten by a vampire, while you were upside down in your car screaming like a little bitch?
Jeremy is in the library and meets a girl named Anna. The two discuss the history of the town and the possibility of vampires. Suddenly he starts spouting something about the town and union soldiers, her eyes gloss over—oh, wait, that was me… She mentions a relative who keeps a journal… yawn. I’m bored with them already and she’ll probably be dinner at some point; so let’s not get too attached.
Elaina goes back to Stefan’s house, still nagging—he breaks her neck… sorry, that was me again... Then Stefan drops a bomb—he saved Elaina when her parent’s car went off the bridge. Also freaked by the resemblance, he spent months making sure she wasn’t Katherine and by then he couldn’t leave without knowing her (I’ll bet he’s sorry now). Still whining about Katherine, another bomb is dropped—Elaina is adopted.
When Elaina gets home, Aunt Jenna is yelling at her for being a dirty stay out and lying. Elaina calls her a hypocrite. Jenna denies it. Elaina asks if she’s adopted. Touché Aunt Jenna. Touché.