The House Guest

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The Vampire Diaries

Season 2, Episode 16 (38)

Air date

February 24, 2011

Written by

Caroline Dries

Directed by

Michael Katleman

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The House Guest is the sixteenth episode of the second season of Template:The Vampire Diaries and the thirty-eighth episode of the series overall.

Summary

A NIGHT OF CONFESSIONS - Katherine's mind games are getting on everyone's nerves, but Damon, Stefan and Elena realize that her knowledge of Mystic Falls history will help them stay alive. Frustrated with her relationship with Matt, Caroline finds a new way to get his attention. Alaric makes a surprising confession to Jenna, and Katherine makes a different kind of confession to Damon. Stefan and Bonnie try to convince Jonas and Luka that they should all be working together, but Jonas' lack of trust leads to violent and fiery confrontation.

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Trivia

Antagonist: Jonas Martin.
This is the last episode before a six-week hiatus.
Caroline demonstrates that she can sing when Candice Accola sings on stage at the Mystic Grill in this episode.
- The song she is singing is Eternal Flame by The Bangles.
Before his death, Jonas gives Bonnie her powers back and tells her of a way to kill Klaus.
Elena learns of Jeremy and Bonnie's relationship and gives Bonnie her blessing.
This is the third episode where Katherine has more screen time than Elena.
This is the last episode in which the journals of Johnathan Gilbert are seen in the series, after they are used to find the location of the Witch House so Bonnie can channel the power left by the deaths of one hundred witches there.
- In Season 3, Elena will come into the possession of the journal of her ancestor Samantha Gilbert, which, for some reason, was in the possession of Meredith Fell.

Locations

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Body Count

Luka - torched, killed by Damon.
Jonas - broken neck, killed by Stefan.

Continuity

Tyler does not appear in this episode.
Caroline was last seen in Crying Wolf.
At the end Isobel comes back. Her last appearance was in Isobel, a gap of 18 episodes. She was uncredited for this appearance, in order to keep her return a surprise to viewers.
This episode reveals Emily Bennett's fate immediately following the vampire round-up in Mystic Falls in 1864, during which time Emily used her talisman and the passing comet to seal the vampires in the tomb to protect them from being burned to death, and also helped Stefan and Damon through their transition into vampires.
- As it turned out, Katherine outed Emily as a witch to the Founder's Council before she fled town, and as a result, Emily was symbolically burned alive shortly afterward at the witch burial ground where one hundred of her witch ancestors had been burned before her.
Caroline confesses to Matt that she is a vampire in this episode after he was injured and needed her blood to save his life. She died with vampire blood in her system after being killed by Katherine in The Return and transitioned into a vampire in Brave New World.
- Upon learning that Caroline is a vampire, Matt remembers that Vicki mentioned that she was attacked by a vampire in the Pilot after being fed on in the woods by Damon, and he assumes that Caroline must have been the vampire who killed her. In reality, Damon turned Vicki into a vampire in Lost Girls, and she was subsequently killed by Stefan in Haunted to stop her from killing Elena and Jeremy.

Cultural References

The Notebook is a romantic film, based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks.
The House Guest is a 1995 film about a small time crook who poses as family's friend to escape persecution. Katherine usually passes as Elena, and is hiding in the Salvatore's house to escape Klaus.
House Guests is the name of an early 1970's American funk group.

Behind the Scenes

This episode had about 2.99 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.08 million less than the previous episode.
From this episode onwards, Kat Graham is credited as such ('Kat Graham').