Vampire Diaries Season 3 Epi 2 Recap

The Hybrid – Summary and Review in 1474 words orless The Least You Need to Know: Stefan bad. Damon good(er). Elena sad. Ric sadder. Jeremysees dead people. Matt clueless, but cute. Tyler and Carolineluvahs. Ty's mom (aka Mayor Lockwood) pissed. And where the eff is Bonnie?
The Set-up: Int. Damon's room. AndieStarr's long walk off a short bridge courtesy of Ripper Stefan is tonight's topstory. Damon is all broody. Enter Elena with questions about finding Stefan again and Damonfills her in on Andie's demise. Give it up, Elena, he's gone, Damon reminds. No,he's not, she assures. She tells him about the heavy breather who called her—sheknows it was Stefan, it came from TN.
Cut to a bed. Pounding on door.Rumpled Ric rolls out. (Where is he? Hotel? Or is he crashing at Damon's? Can'ttell.) It's Elena; she wants his help because she knows that whatever Damonknows then Ric knows, too, because of their bromance. He's out of the vampireslayer game, he says. But, we know he can't turn his back on his dead gf's deadsister's kids.
Klaus and Stefan are hiking in thewoods, werewolf Ray Sutton slung across Stefan's shoulders. They find a camp—it'sRay's pack. Klaus introduces himself but apparently there's no need because hishybrid rep precedes him.
Mayor Lockwood pulls out a syringeand empty's into a sterling coffee urn. (Um, who still still serves coffee inan urn and has a breakfast buffet at home?) Ty comes in and pours a cup. Yuck,what's in this? Mayor Mom deflects, saying something about makingsure he takes out his trash. Hey, Caroline is not trash, he defends. By the waywhere is she? Mayor Mom shrugs, but makes a call to someone for help with thevamp infestation at her house.
The Sagging Middle: Int. The Grill. WickedHot Jeremy tells Matt he saw Dead Vicki again. Jere wants to hold a séance orsomething to contact her because she said she needs help. This tears up poorMatt. Okay, he's in.
In a booth, Ty is downloading toElena about werewolf habits and habitats. Does he know any packs in TN? Sure.He'll tell her where to go. Cause it's his fault Stefan's in this mess, sincehe bit Damon and Stefan had save his big bro. By the way, has anyone seenCaroline? Ric's at the bar. Elena tells him she's going to TN to huntwerewolves. No way, he says, it's a full moon tonight. She's going with orwithout him, though. Fine. He'll help, but with extreme prejudice.
Back at camp, Ray wakes up.Apparently Klaus has turned him into a hybrid and all he needs to complete thetransition is to feed on a human. Luckily there's one in the camp and the feastbegins, but save some for the others. Hope one dude is enough to feed an army, cause that's what Klaus is planning.
Meanwhile, Tyler's playing pool. Mattpours him another cup of coffee. They have a moment, but it's brief cause, yaknow, the Caroline thing. Yuck. What is with the coffee today? Ty wants toknow. Vervaine is the special ingredient Matt tells him—to sniff out the vamps. Mom!
Mayor Mom answers the door. It's aguy named Bill, maybe from the council? She's conflicted about what to do withCaroline. That's easy, he says. Vamp=monster=death.
In the mountains of Tennessee, Elenaand former boy scout Ric are looking for the werepack on foot. Ric's armed to theteeth (pun intended). E hands him her dead father's ring (the one that protectshumans against supernatural death), the one he used to wear because his deadwife gave it to him. No, it should stay in the family, he says. E says he canborrow it. Okay. Next thing Elena knows she's in the drink without a paddle. What the… Heeeerrrrrre's Damon. Ric sold her out.
By now, Klaus has bitten all thewerewolves at camp. He's wants loyal hybrid soldiers. But something's wrong becauseRay starts bleeding from the eyes ala that Angel episode from Season 5 whereHarmony goes psycho on Spike during their nooner.
Elena accuses Damon of giving up onStefan. So she refuses to get out of the water because he'll make her go home.Damn skippy. No, she wants to find Stefan and bring him home. Damon thinks she'snuts, but okay, he'll do it on one condition: they head home before the full moon.
The vampwolves are coming to. Raymakes a run for it. Stefan gives chase. Oh, shite, Ray takes a nip outtaStefan. This means curtains for our hero if Klaus doesn't heal him. Wait, whatsound down yonder mountain breaks? It's his love and his big bro. He gets moving soKlaus doesn't spy them, too. Klaus tells Stefan he won't heal him with his hybridblood unless Ray is brought back. Now, all the nascent vampwolves are cryingblood, too.
Tyler confronts Mayor Mom: what's withthe vervaine in my latte. Well, since he's sleeping with a vamp she thoughtmaybe…No. He's not. But there's something she need to know (Methinks Ty's goingto come outta the were-closet.)
A vampire, a doppelganger and ahistory teacher go hiking in the woods. Ray finds them. He and Damon tussle.Elena throws a wolfsbane grenade and Ric hits him in the back with an arrow.That'll do for now.
Matt and Jeremy are digging throughDead Vicki's things for the séance, but Matty's having second thoughts. Jereunderstands; he'll do it solo. But freaky things start happening around Matt.Vicki?
Ray is wrapped to a tree with chains.But the three hikers realize they won't make it out of the forest beforenightfall if they don't get moving. Oh, no. Ray starts changing early. Run!
Nighttime. Bonfire. Klaus is havingthe vampwolves feed but it's not working.
Everyone's running through the darkforest. Elena falls horror-movie-blonde style and Damon tells her don't move.Werewolf. Damon runs and the wolf chases. She doesn't want to leave Damonbehind, but Ric makes her go, cause someone has to be the adult here.
In the underground dungeon, Tyler'sall "show-don't-tell" with his Mom. He locks her in the cell and puts on hiswere-chains so she can watch him while he transfigures. Look ma, canines!
Ray catches up with Damon and theyfight. Ray is kicking ass. Good thing Stefan comes along to save his bigbrother. Again. He tells Damon to take Elena home and keep her there this time.His eyes plead with Damon to do this for him. Damon agrees.
Elena and Ric are hiding for theirlives in the car. She takes the opportunity to have a heart to heart: he'slost, she's lost, Jeremy's lost, so why can't they be a lost family together,she asks? Fine. But if they're family, he's keeping the ring. Damon comes out ofthe trees, she goes to him and he forces her back into the car. Time to get gone. Stefan standsin the shadows, watching her. She's dejected they didn't find him, but wait, whatwas that in the shadows? Nothing. He's gone. (So close, sniff.)
Matt shows up at the Gilbert abode to helpJeremy with the séance. They bond. Dead Vicki shows up, but only Jeremy can seeher. She needs help she tells him. Help coming back. What? But then the glassin the French door shatters, all Paranormal Activity-like, and she's gone. DeadAnna appears instead and creepily tells Jeremy not to trust Dead Vicki. Sounds likeex-girlfriends don't get along in the afterlife either.
Final Act: Stefan returns to camp,but all the vampwolves are dead. Klaus is pissed. He did everything right, hemoans. The curse is broken and he should be able to make his hybridsbecause he killed a vampire, a werewolf and the doppelganger, right? Right?  (Damn, work on that poker face, Stefan. Youdon't want Klaus to know Elena's still alive, boyfriend.) Klaus heals Stefan cause he's all he's got.
Damon's at Elena's. He was wrong:Stefan can be saved. He knows this because even Ripper Stefan will save his bigbrother. So he's going to save him back. But in a total douchebag move (IMHO), hemakes Elena admit that the reason she wanted to leave the mountain in a such ahurry was because she was worried about him getting hurt, and he wants her toremember those feelings even after he brings Stefan back to her. Ric is movingback in. Yay!! But he questions all this what-the-what between Elena and Damon.
Ty wakes up, shirtless (yum), inwere-chains. I am not a monster! Tearful Mayor Mom tells him she'll fix the Caroline situation.But, wait. The wheels are already in motion. Caroline is also in chains in somedark cell. Someone's coming. The door opens…Daddy? Dundundun.