Blasts from the Past

I have to say I don't know another town that has more Founding Day celebrations. Bonnie, Caroline, and Elena are of course helping with the set up and just when things are getting back to normal (yeah, right), Damon tells Bonnie that Mason Lockwood is back. Jeremy is still talking to Anna and things are amplified when Elena finds them kissing in the bathroom of the Grill. When does a spell to get rid of Mason's foothold in the physical world, her Grams shows up, along with Lexi and the tomb vampires (not to mention that now that they, along with Mason, are visible to everyone). And guess what's needed to send them back? Yep, the necklace. Who knew a piece of jewelry could be so versatile?

Well, when Lexi shows up and offers to help Elena with Stefan, she has Bonnie postpone the necklace's destruction to keep her here. I was glad they brought Lexi back. They need to have more vampires like her on the show. She locks Stefan up in the basement of the city jail and repeatedly stabs him with a stake (ow). Then of course the tomb vampires are after revenge on the founding families; what else is new? Well for one, Mason and Damon team up to look for a solution to kill Klaus--AWKWARD. Bonnie also knows about Jeremy kissing Anna --DOUBLE AWKWARD. And unfortunately for Elena, the tomb vampires are causing to much hassle (not including killing Tobias Fell) and they have to send the ghost back, including Lexi.

Elena convinces Anna to give back the necklace she had stolen by telling her that she was holding Jeremy back from moving on with his life. What are you going to do? Love a ghost the rest of your life?" She asks Jeremy. But just before Anna goes back to being alone, I was brought to tears at her reunion with her mother. Bonnie destroys the necklace and finally, it seems, Elena gets through to Stefan. "Fight for it," she tells him. "Or you will lose me forever. I won't love a ghost the rest of my life." She leaves him locked up and there are no comments or snarks, just a quiet, serious, contemplative Stefan.

Damon asks Alaric to take Mason's place when he disappears after Bonnie's spell. He and Mason were searching for a solution in a cave and there was a spell preventing Damon from entering a certain part of it. Ric ends up finding a bunch of cave drawings and the necklace Bonnie destroyed reemerges from the fire. From the previews of next week, the cave paintings have something to do with the originals. That should be very interesting, and where the heck is Klaus?

Thoughts, comments, questions?