Vampire Diaries - Let the Right One In, S01E17

And a Darkness fell over the inhabitants of Mystic Falls as the season finale quickly approaches and things start to get a lot more serious, and a lot more interesting.

When Stefan (Paul Wesley) gets kidnapped by the idiotic Vamps recently escaped from the church, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) refuse to sit by idol. And since Damon can't get into the house, and he refuses to allow Elena to put herself in danger, they acquire an unlikely ally - Alaric (Matt Davis). And, with a vampire at his side, he makes a good showing, even though not everything goes according to their plans.

The most irritating moment of the sequence was when Elena went in the house after Stefan, even though Damon had asked her not to and explained that it was because he wouldn't be able to save Stefan if he was also worried about protecting her. Stupid women trying to be heroic; she's lucky that it worked out despite her efforts.

That is, if you consider "worked out" Stefan almost dying and being forced (by Elena) to drink her blood so that he might live. Of course, after drinking the blood, he was strong enough to protect them both, though not necessarily with any control.

And while all this was going on, we had some bizarre plot line going on with Caroline (Candice Accola). She got her car stuck in the mud while trying to drive around on back roads. But Vampire Diaries is to clever to do anything that pointless - in her attempt to walk back to town and to help, Caroline fell in the ditch and discovered a body - Vicki Donovan.

While Vicki's disappearance did not cause a great disruption to life, the discovery that she had been dead the entire time will cause painful repercussion to all involved. Matt's bond with Elena is much more poignantly felt, but his relationship with Caroline is still too new for him to trust her with his pain. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) has now betrayed Anna (Malese Jow), since she figured out he wanted to be a vampire so that he could be with Vicki, not with her. Regardless of how old Anna is, the pain of feeling used, even if Jeremy is actually confused about his feelings for both women, is likely to have very very bad results.

The only question is, will that be as bad as what is likely to happen to Stefan now that he's fallen off the wagon? Can't wait to know the answer to that!