Bonnie Expresses herself by magically breaking a lightbulb and tells her father to stop telling her what to do. When she gets to the door though, Abby Abandoner is on the other side and says no one is going anywhere. Interim Dad extends an invitation his erstwhile spouse. I want to go back and look at old episodes to see if this is the same set where Bonnie's home scenes have always been shot, because now I'm wondering who owns which Bennett/Hopkins dwelling, and if there is more than one (house and rightful owner), because Stefan has been inside (at least one of) Bonnie's house(s), as has Caroline, I think. The show is pretty specific (too specific, if you ask me) about how it's only a human owner who can extend an invite, and I'm wondering if the writers just Jossed themselves. Yes, I know Jossing is mostly a fanfic term, but after Kol's Mary Sue mention, I just don't care.

Abby Abandoner wants to know who Professor Shane is, and what he's been teaching Bonnie, but Jeremy insists there isn't time for this now, because his sister is in trouble. Abby quickly wins over the Elena haters by saying, "My daughter is through helping Elena Gilbert." It doesn't win me over though, because after helping Miranda Gilbert, Abby didn't pack up her baby girl and move to a safer town. No. She wallowed in self-pitying guilty and decided to mother someone else's child instead. When Abby continues her questioning, Jeremy's urge to slay her takes over. Bonnie has to put herself between her mother and her ex to keep him from slaying Abby. She sends him on his way with a promise that she'll soon follow, then turns to her parents and says, "Let's talk." We cut to...

Gilbert Gables. Since the gin is all gone, Elena returns with a bottle of wine. Kol wonders why he should believe that Elena is willing to give up the cure, when she so obviously wants to be human again. Elena says she'd do anything for her brother. "If what you're saying about Silas is true, what does it matter what I want, if it puts everyone else in danger?" Okay, I think that line of dialogue is a mistake. Elena's already running a likability deficit. In the last couple of episodes, she mentioned giving up the search for the cure if it meant danger to Jeremy or that he had to kill innocents, or something. And she said that not to Originals, but to Damon or friends. I don't have time to back and look for the specifics. My point is she said it and meant it. Now, I can see her not immediately buying into the Silas story, but since she's talking to a thousand year old vampire, and is herself a vampire, it's not beyond the pale that Kol's story could hold some truth.