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People die around you. How could it not matter? It matters, and you know it.
Elena to Damon

Haunted is the seventh episode of the first season of The Vampire Diaries and the seventh episode of the series overall.

Summary[]

A HALLOWEEN VICKI CAN SINK HER TEETH INTO — As Vicki's behavior becomes more infuriating, Stefan tries to help her. Elena tries to convince Jeremy to stay away from Vicki. Caroline gives Bonnie a necklace she took from Damon to wear with her Halloween costume, and when Damon tries to take it back, he is surprised by Bonnie's abilities. Bonnie discusses the incident with her grandmother and comes to learn more about her family's past. Trying to cheer Vicki up, Matt takes her to the high school's haunted house, but the evening soon takes a terrifying turn on everybody.

Plot[]

Vicki attacks Tyler but Damon and Stefan stop her, and Damon compels Tyler to forget it all. Jeremy tells Elena that he will be joining the search party for Vicki. Vicki calls Matt and tells him she's okay. Stefan tries to get Vicki to drink animal blood, but Damon convinces her that she needs human blood instead. Elena arrives and Stefan promises her that he will get through to Vicki.

Bonnie talks to her Grams about witchcraft before she leaves for school. Damon overhears Richard and Carol discussing the vampire in town. Caroline gives Bonnie Damon's crystal and tells her she doesn't care what she does with it, as long as it's gone.

Stefan gets Vicki drinking coffee and leaves briefly. Vicki tries to call Jeremy, but Elena refuses to let her, so Vicki pushes her against the wall and threatens to kill her unless she lets her see Jeremy. Stefan assures Elena that Vicki will calm down eventually.

Damon tells Vicki that he only turned her because he was bored. Damon and Stefan take Vicki outside, and Damon teaches her how to use her super speed. Vicki uses it to escape. She goes home where Matt's happy to see her. Stefan shows up, looking for Vicki, but she doesn't want to see him, so Matt sends him away. Elena convinces Jeremy to attend the Halloween Party with her and tries to convince Jeremy to let go of Vicki. He and Vicki text each other and plan to meet up at the party.

Damon flirts with Carol to get information. He tries to compel her, but she's wearing vervain. She tells him about the Founder's Council and he offers to get vervain for her when he explains that Zach is out of town. She tells him that anybody who showed up during the day to the Founders' Party and Heritage Display was eliminated as a suspect of being a vampire.

At the party, Matt tells Elena that Vicki's with him and she realizes that Jeremy's gone. Stefan finds Vicki and confronts her. Elena and Matt find them, and Vicki tells Matt that Stefan won't leave her alone. Vicki escapes, and Stefan tells Matt that he's trying to help Vicki. Vicki finds Jeremy and they kiss. Damon discovers Bonnie has his crystal, but when he tries to take it from her, it burns him. Elena finds Vicki and Jeremy kissing outside just as she loses control. Annoyed by Elena, Vicki bites her, and Stefan arrives and stakes her.

Grams tells Bonnie that the crystal belonged to her ancestor and a very powerful witch, Emily Bennett. Grams tells Bonnie that it is now hers and she has to protect it. Elena, blaming Damon, slaps him. Matt asks Elena if she's seen Vicki, but she says she hasn't, calls him a good brother, and then cries in her car.

When Elena gets home, she comforts Jeremy over Vicki's death, and he begs her to "make it stop". Stefan arrives and Elena asks him if he can compel Jeremy to forget that Vicki died, but he says he isn't strong enough. Damon then appears and volunteers to do it, asking Elena what she wants Jeremy to remember. She tells him to make Jeremy believe that Vicki left town, he'll miss her, but knows it's for the best. As Damon compels Jeremy, Elena explains her existing feelings for Stefan to him, but when Damon exits the house, she walks back inside alone.

Cast[]

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Trivia[]

  • Antagonists: Vicki Donovan and Damon Salvatore
  • This is the first holiday episode which celebrates Halloween. The timeline takes place on October 31, 2009, roughly a span of two months since Pilot, which took place in early September.
  • For Halloween, everyone dresses in costumes. Bonnie and Caroline dress as witches, Vicki dresses as a vampire, Matt and Elena reuse their costumes from the previous year and go as a doctor and a nurse, Mrs. Lockwood dresses up as Daisy Buchanan, and Tyler dresses as a Spartan warrior from the film "300". Jeremy, Stefan, and Damon are the only ones who do not wear costumes to the party.
  • The Lockwoods know Zach from the Founders' Council, and Carol Lockwood suggests that Zach has been in charge of providing them with vervain since the Council was once again pushed into action following the suspicious "animal attacks."

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Behind the Scenes[]

  • This episode had about 4.18 million viewers in USA, which was 0.3 million more than the previous episode.
  • In the original script, Jeremy kills Vicki. Jeremy is forced to choose between saving the love of his life or his sister, and he chooses his sister. Then they reshoot the death scene — only this time Stefan kills me.[1]
  • In the original script, when Vicki gets staked, you see her disappear into dust. But in the [reshot scene that aired], Stefan pulls the stake out and Damon takes me away. So, they left the ending open to interpretation.[2]

Cultural References[]

  • Bambi, a fictional deer and main character in Felix Salten's Bambi, A Life in the Woods, also in the Disney films based on the book.
  • Deepak Chopra, an Indian American endocrinologist, lecturer, celebrity and author of books on spirituality and mind-body medicine.
  • "The Rain in Spain," a song from the musical My Fair Lady.
  • Disneyland, an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company.
  • Anne Frank, a Jewish Dutch girl and diarist who lived during the Holocaust, spending the majority of her childhood hiding in an attic from the Nazis.
  • Daisy Buchanan, a romantic interest of the titular character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby.
  • "Haunted" is the title of a song by Taylor Swift and the name of a television series made in 2018 by Ben Silverman.

Quotes[]

Tyler: "Are you on drugs? Everyone thinks you're off on a bender."
Vicki: "I wish."

Vicki: "I can't control it. I am 'so' hungry."

Damon: "You-- don't talk."
Tyler: "Screw you, dude."
Damon: "Dude? Really, dude?"

Stefan: "Damon, don't!"
Damon: (about Tyler) "Oh, come on, who's going to miss this idiot?"

Damon: (reading the paper) "There's nothing about that Logan guy in here. Not a word. Someone's covering it up."

Vicki: (looks at the cup of blood) "What is it?"
Stefan: "It's what you're craving."
Damon: "Don't lie to the girl. It's so not what you're craving, but it'll do in a pinch."

Damon: "Yeah, what is it? Is it skunk, St. Bernard, Bambi?"

Vicki: "Why can't I have people blood?"

Damon: "Don't listen to him. He walks on a moral plane 'way' out of our eye line. I say, snatch, eat, erase."

Damon: "And good morning to you, Little Miss "I'm on a Mission."

Elena: "How can you be so arrogant and glib after everything that you've done?"
Damon: "And how can you be so brave and stupid to call a vampire 'arrogant and glib?'"

Elena: "If you wanted me dead, I'd be dead."
Damon: "Yes, you would."
Elena: "But I'm not."
Damon: "Yet."

Elena: "Where is Stefan?"
Damon: "He' s upstairs, singing "The Rain in Spain." Knock yourself out."

Stefan: "She's a very volatile and impulsive personality. [...]"
Elena: "So she's a vampire with issues?"

Grams: "You have to have more than ignorance to trap a real witch."

Bonnie: "We've been talking history for two days. I want to get to the fun part."
Grams: "It's not meant to be fun."

Caroline: "Can someone please be excited that it's Halloween?"

Bonnie: (to Caroline) "Don't be bitter, it provokes wrinkles."

Vicki: "Oh God, don't start with that whole "Twelve Steps" thing. School counselor has been down that road, and it doesn't work for me."

Vicki: "Where's your bathroom? I have to pee. Why do I have to pee? I thought I was dead."

Vicki: "And how long have you been preparing the "you're not good enough" speech? I'm assuming it predates the whole vampire-thing."

Vicki: (choking Elena) "Let's get one thing straight, you perky little bitch. You had my brother whipped for fifteen years-- fifteen years,-- and then you dumped him. When I look at you. that is all I see, just so you know. And I'm going to see Jeremy whenever I want to see Jeremy cause I have some fun new toys to play with, and I won't think twice about ripping your little head off. You got it!"

Stefan: "It's difficult to separate your feelings. Love, lust, anger, desire can all blur into one urge-- hunger."

Vicki: "You did this to me out of boredom?"
Damon: "It's one of the pitfalls of eternity."
Vicki: "Now I'm bored."

Damon: "Your life was pathetic-- your afterlife doesn't have to be."

Damon: "She's been cooped up in your room all day. She's not Anne Frank."

Stefan: "She could hurt someone."
Damon: "I'm not taking her to Disneyland! We're going to the front yard."

Jeremy: "For months after mom and dad died I felt like crap, like "nothing-really-even-mattered" crap. Now all of a sudden, I get these moments and things started to feel just a little bit better, and Vicki was in every single one of them. So you may not see it, but trust me, keeping me away from her is not for the best."

Caroline: "I am going to drink until someone is hot enough to make out with."
Tyler: "Sounds like a plan."

Matt: (about Vicki) "You can't miss her, she's a vampire."

Vicki: "I'm fine!"
Stefan: "Really? No headache? Your stomach's not screaming at you? You're not feeling light headed or anxious or cranky? Like if someone looks at you the wrong way you could just rip their head off?"

Stefan: "It's called hunger. And it's only going to get worse and worse every minute you pretend it's not controlling you."

Damon: (to Mrs. Lockwood) "Let me escort you to the school. It's not safe out there, alone. I mean, I've seen ten vampires tonight."

Vicki: (to Jeremy): "If you come with me, we can be together forever."

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Soundtrack[]

Last.fm_play.png "Open Arms" – Gary Go
Last.fm_play.png "Fading Light" – Final Flash
Last.fm_play.png "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake" – The Sounds
Last.fm_play.png "To Lose My Life" – White Lies

Last.fm_play.png "Open Hearts" – The Longcut
Last.fm_play.png "Fables" – The Dodos
Last.fm_play.png "Sleep Alone" – Bat For Lashes
Last.fm_play.png "The Weight of Us" – Sanders Bohlke

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