The Vampire Diaries: Season 2 Episode 3 Recap

How fitting that on the night of the harvest moon, Vampire Diaries dives deep into the werewolf storyline.

While Alaric's knowledge is limited to second hand stories from his wife's thesis, Tyler is doing some digging into his uncle's activities. Apparently the old Lockwood estate in the forest has a cellar filled with bondage apparatuses and claw marks on the wall. Wolfman much?

Alaric, Elena, and Damon travel to Alaric's home town to find info from his undead wife's thesis. They seem to have no troubles getting in, but the assistant quickly pulled a crossbow on their asses! You just can't trust anybody!

And now for the full mythology: 600 years ago, Aztecs were plagued with werewolves and vampires. They travelled into North America hunting and farming. They could no longer deal with the fighting and deaths, so they cursed them. These curses lead vampires to be slaves to the sun and werewolves bending to the will of the full moon. Hundreds of years of vampires hunting werewolves have left them nearly extinct, leaving the Tyler family among the last ones on Earth. The Salvatore brothers better watch out, the werewolf bite is lethal and their instincts will lead them straight to our resident vampires. 

Meanwhile, Caroline finally gets a daywalker ring and can act like a normal teenager again. Well, close enough anyway. Apparently, vampires are what they were as humans, times a hundred. So unforetunately for Caroline, that means she'll be an neurotic, controlling freak on crack. Also including jealous girlfriend personality traits.

Tyler's party at the old estate could very well lead to a massacre. After being warned to end the party before nightfall, of course that little punk didn't listen. His party of two in the cellar caused his uncle to fail at locking himself up - leaving him loose upon the city of Mystic Falls. Caroline and Matt sneak off into the woods, where he cuts himself on a branch. She can't resist his blood and ends up biting him! Luckily, Stefan stopped her before she killed him. Whew, Matt is way too adorable to die just yet.

Stefan and Caroline run through the woods to try to escape the werewolf, but he finds them and attacks. Just when I thought Caroline was going to die, Tyler orders the werewolf to stop and he obeys. I wonder if the bloodlink makes it impossible for him to ignore the command.

Upon returning to Mystic Falls, Alaric does something he should have done episodes ago - finally kissed Elena's aunt! She definitely needs more to do as a character, so this will help. Although, it makes me wonder if Alaric's time on the show is limited: her last two love interests both ended up dead.

Damon confesses to Elena hat he didn't know that Jeremy (where was he this episode?) was wearing the magic ring, but is so glad that he was because it was an impulsive, stupid thing to do. While the honesty is refreshing, I don't know if their friendship will ever recover.

After feeding off Matt, the one person she never wanted to hurt, Caroline pulls out the drama to make him break up with her. It's the only way to keep him safe, but this will definitely not help her maintain her humanity. And if she is joining up with Katherine, we can kiss good Caroline goodbye. I don't know if vampire Caroline is long for this world.

There is never a dull moment on this show! Tune in next week when Katherine and Elena finally meet face to face.