Isobel (guest star Mia Kirshner) returns to town and stuns Alaric (Matt Davis) with her attitude and her demands that he arrange a meeting with Elena (Nina Dobrev.) When mother and daughter finally meet, Isobel refuses to answer most of Elena’s questions but reveals that she will stop at nothing to find the mysterious invention Johnathan Gilbert has been searching for. Isobel’s dangerous actions lead Stefan (Paul Wesley), Damon (Ian Somerhalder), and Bonnie (Katerina Graham) to step in and help Elena deal with the situation. Candice Accola, Steven R. McQueen, Sara Canning, Zach Roerig, and Michael Trevino also star. J. Miller Tobin directed the episode written by Caroline Dries and Brian Young.

- Debi Moore

Ironically, this new piece of information also makes Damon more, well, human. Of course he’s bitter and angry. Katherine chose to turn his brother, and then that same brother caused Damon to live in a world in which Katherine does not exist or does not want him.     TVFANATIC

Let’s begin with the story of how the Salvatore Brothers were turned. As Stefan detoxed/starved himself, he flashed back to the night that Katherine and the other vampires were captured and supposedly burned in the church. He and Damon found the vampire paddy wagon, created a distraction, and tried to free Katherine. Damon was shot, then Stefan. Both died. How did they become undead then? Well, Katherine had Emily make the brothers rings to protect them, and she’d been using compulsion to make Stefan drink from her for weeks. He died with her blood in his system, as did Damon, who we already knew drank from her willingly. Ever since we saw Vicki have to make the choice of whether to feed on human blood to complete the transformation or starve to death, I wondered how each brother made that decision. The guilt of choosing immortality is what made Stefan want to go hungry now. “No more. After what I’ve done, it has to end,” he told Elena. “I just want it over.”     POPWATCH

Tonight on Vampire Diaries, there are more flashbacks to the past (are we alone in really loving the flashback episodes?!) as Elena finally learns the truth about how the brothers Salvatore became vampires.

Meanwhile, Pearl has a nasty run-in with Johnathan (guest star David ‘I’m going to appear in every network show’ Anders).

Hit ‘play’ below to be rewarded with two sneak peeks from tomorrow’s episode:

The Vampire Diaries continues Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

If you look at the picture below from blood brothers it reminds me of the story of how both Stefan and Damon died a human death in the books?  Right?

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