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The Vampire Diaries
Season 1, Episode 14

Air date	February 11th 2010
Written by	Brett Conrad
Directed by	Marcos Siega
Episode Guide transcript
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Fool Me Once is the fourteenth episode of the First Season and the series.

SummaryEdit

OPEN THAT DAMNED TOMB — Stefan helps Elena and Bonnie out of a dangerous situation. Jeremy asks Anna to a party in the woods, unaware that she has her own reasons for wanting to meet him there. When Stefan, Damon and Elena work with Bonnie and Grams to open the tomb everyone is shocked by what they come across.

PlotEdit

SPOILERS AHEAD

Elena wakes up to find that she and Bonnie have been kidnapped by Anna and Ben. Stefan has been trying to find her and asks Damon for help, but he refuses. With help from Grams, Stefan eventually saves Elena and Bonnie from the motelroom. Stefan later ends up killing Ben for not obeying his order to leave town. Jeremy asks Anna to a party in the woods, unaware that she has her own reasons for wanting to meet him there. With the help of Bonnie and Grams, the tomb is opened and Damon realizes that Katherine is not inside. Anna enters the tomb to find her mother Pearl and helps her escape by having her feed on Elena's blood. Stefan tells Damon that the seal of the tomb has only been temporarily broken and they must leave now in order to not be sealed in forever. Out of the tomb, Elena sees how upset Damon is and hugs him. Damon visits Anna's hotel room, where he learns that a smitten church guard had let Katherine go, and she was never inside the tomb. Anna admits to having seen Katherine in Chicago in 1983, but Katherine no longer cared about Damon. At home, Bonnie comes to check on Grams but realizes she isn't breathing. It is clear that she has died. Bonnie screams for Elena, who calls an ambulance to the house. The episode ends with one of the vampires (Harper) sealed in the tomb pushing open the door and escaping into the night.

CastEdit

Guest CastEdit

Co-StarringEdit

Justin Smith as Duke

TriviaEdit

Antagonist: Anna.
- This is the first and only episode to date to feature Anna as an antagonist.
This episode marks the end of the second chapter of season 1, The Tomb Chapter.
This episode had 3.51 million viewers in USA.
This is the first episode in which Matt Davis is credited as a series regular, and he remains such through the season three finale, The Departed. Interestingly, his character (Alaric Saltzman) does not appear in this episode.

Deaths:

Ben - killed by Stefan Salvatore.
Sheila Bennett - Died a natural death after being weakened from opening the tomb.

Cultural ReferencesEdit

Escape clause, any clause, term or condition in a contract that allows a party to that contract to avoid having to perform the contract.
Duke University, a private university located in Durham, North Carolina.
The expression "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" means that you should learn from your mistakes and not allow someone to take advantage of you repeatedly.
Damon was actually fooled twice by Katherine. In 1864 she fooled everyone, including Damon and Stefan, into thinking that she burned inside Fell's Church. Later, Damon believes Katherine's handmaid and witch ally Emily Bennett, when she tells him she used a spell to protect the vampires, including Katherine, inside the tomb. He waits 145 years for the return of the comet to free her, only to find out that she was never trapped inside the tomb.

QuotesEdit

Stefan: "It's Elena, Damon if you know something, tell me."

Damon: "I mean this sincerely, I hope Elena dies."

Anna: "Well, well. Elena Gilbert. You really are Katherine's doppelgänger. You must have the Salvatore boys reeling."

Elena: "Who are you?"

Anna: "I'm Anna. Your brother may have mentioned me? I mean, we're, like, practically dating."

Elena: "Bonnie's not gonna open the tomb."

Anna: "Oh, I think she will."

Elena: "Do you really want Katherine out that bad?"

Anna: "Trust me. No one I know wants to see that girl again. Except Damon, the love-struck idiot."

Elena: "Then what is it? Or who is it?"

Anna: "My mother's in there. Katherine couldn't help herself. She just had to toy around with both of the Salvatore brothers. Then when she got caught, so did my mother. I watched Johnathan Gilbert take her away."

Bonnie: "How did you know where we were?"

Sheila: "Many things can fuel a witches power. Worry, anger. After Stefan told me that they had taken you, I had a lot of both. A simple locator spell was easy after that."

Damon: "I didn't compel you in Atlanta, because we we're having fun. I wanted it to be real. I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."

Elena: "The Duke party. I forgot. I hope they stay clear of the church."

Damon: "Your hope, not mine."

Pearl (Damon choking her): "The Guard, the one at the church, the one who locked us in. She promised to turn him. He was obsessed with her. She had him under her spell like everybody else. He let her go."

Anna: "Last I saw her was Chicago, 1983. She knew where you were, Damon... she didn't care."

Damon: "Fool me once, shame on you."

Damon: "I told you, I work alone."

Anna: "Yeah, so do I. But you're minus a witch and I'm minus a spell book. So, what do you say?"

Damon: "Stefan will come after you, you know that. For messing with Elena."

Anna: "Then he won't be too happy if I kill her when I don't get what I want."

Damon: "When do you wanna do this?"

Anna: "God, it's like 1864 all over again. You Salvatores are truly pathetic when it comes to women."

Caroline: "So I have a speech. It is fully scripted and well-rehearsed. Are you ready for it?"

Matt: "You wrote a speech?"

Caroline: "Yes. It's a 'you kissed me and I don't want things to be weird' speech. It's pre-emptive."

Matt: "Pre-emptive?"

Caroline: "Yeah. You know, in case you were having second thoughts or regrets or were, like, ooged out..."

Matt: "Ooged,' huh?"

Caroline: "Can I just get on with the speech part?"

Matt: "Yeah, go for it."

Caroline: "So, I know that you don't think that this is going to work out between us. I just wanna let you know that right here and right now, I'm offering you an out. Like an escape clause."

Matt: "Why are you giving me an escape clause?"

Caroline: "I don't wanna make assumptions about what it is we are doing here."

Matt: "Got it."

Caroline: "So...if you would like to exercise it, just let me know."

Matt: "I'm good, but thanks."

Anna: "So you're finally ready to go out with me, are you?"

Jeremy: "It's been a while since I've been to a party, and I kinda wanna get back out there. You know, not be such a loner. And, uh, I like you. You're fun, and...you're also kinda strange and lurky, but, uh, I guess I like that too."