Elijah is Back- Vampire Diaries Episode 18- American Gothic

I know this is late but I was on vacation and since we have some time before we get the new episode I figured I would write the review. At least it will be there before the next episode comes.

Episode 18- "American Gothic"

Elena and Rebecca are searching for Katherine and the cure in the small town of Willowbee. Damon and Stefan are trying to find them... after they find Damon's car. The girls ditched it after it ran out of gas and stole a new one. Klaus is at his home hiding away because he was stabbed by Silas with the white oak stake and left a piece in him. Silas is now pretending to be Caroline to get Klaus to realize he can be anyone he wants and he will haunt Klaus until he finds him the cure.

Back in Willowbee, the girls are finding out that Katherine has compelled the whole town to not remember her unless they are actual talking to her. This works for them since Elena looks just like her. The mailman says he saw her two minutes ago and wonders what happened to her hair; this is how they realize that Katherine is still in town. They soon find her and have a little heart to heart about where the cure is. 

Katherine's plan is to give Klaus the cure in return for her finally getting her freedom from him. The girls don't get any answers from her about where the cure is so they search her phone and find she is suppose to meet someone named "EM". Elena decides to go as Katherine to find out who it is. The boys end up finding Rebecca and Katherine at the diner. They ask where Elena is- Rebecca finally spills after she realizes Elijah is "EM". It take Elijah and little bit to realize Katherine is Elena once he sees her daylight ring. Stefan goes to find Elena and Damon and Rebecca take Katherine back to her place to get the cure. She puts Damon's face into a vervain fish bowl and tricks Rebecca into thinking she has the cure to let herself get away. Rebecca takes the cure and when she wakes up Damon throws a knife at her and she catches it to fast and realize she is still a vampire. The cure was a fake. In the end after a fallout with Elijah, Katherine gives him the cure hoping they can start over if he gives her the chance. Elijah and Rebecca head back to Mystic Falls together to have a conversation with Klaus.

Klaus get the real Caroline to help him remove the piece of stake in his back. They have a fight about Tyler and Caroline tells him she will help him if he lets Tyler come home. They fight some more and Klaus realizes the pain in his back no longer hurts- meaning Silas was only in his head and nothing was in his back. He tells Caroline that she helped him in this, she pulled him back. He thanks her and reminds her that he isn't searching for Tyler if she would notice that.

At the end of the episode Damon apologize to Stefan for not trying harder to stop Rebecca from taking the fake cure. Stefan informs Damon that once they get the cure and get Elena back to human he is leaving town. He doesn't want to keep repeating his life fighting over a girl with Damon. They meet Elena at the diner and she informs them that they need to stop trying to save her- that this is her now and they need to deal with it. They say no and she tells them there will be consequences if they don't stop. When they waitress comes back to fill her drink Elena gets up and snaps her neck killing her. She tells the guys "like I said consequences, that's one body your responsible for, keep trying to fix me and  there will be a second, a twentieth and a hundredth, it's your choice." 

No new episode until April 18th. Hang in there TVD fans. Tyler makes his return back to Mystic Falls in the next episode. Let me know your thoughts on the episode.