Mossy Manse; Present Day: Katherine tells Stefan that she knew George would be a problem, right away. She and Stefan then discuss werewolves a bit more. The gene runs in the Lockwood family, but they're not all wolves. (It is a curse or a gene? Why, I guess it's a cursed gene, or a gene curse.) Katherine soon tires of this conversation because it has little do do with her, so she grabs Stefan's journal again, pulls out her portrait from 1864 and asks why he kept it. She also wants to know why he came back to Mystic Falls, since she can't believe it was for Elena. Katherine posits that it was to fall in love with her (Katherine), all over again. Stefan Stealth-Salvatores up in her grill, grabs her face, looks at her like she's a long, tall glass of O+ and says, "What is it about you that makes me still care?" And although I kind of believe his words, as they kiss, I know I'm supposed to be screaming, "No," at the kiss. In actuality, I'm screaming "No," at how obvious this all is. And sure enough, Stefan stabs her in the back with a vervain dart. Stefan is the most painfully perfect vampire, ever. You didn't think he was really going to kiss the evil dead this early in the season, did you? Commercial.

Stefan brings the vervain-disabled Katherine down to the dungeon and shackles her to a wooden chair. A wooden chair? That wouldn't hold my ten-year-old. She doesn't seem nearly as debilitated as she ought to, so my mind flashes back to how she wasn't vulnerable to Bonnie's vamp-migraines, and I wonder why I'm watching tonight, because it's clear that vervain isn't going to affect her the way it affects the rest of them. Mostly it's clear because of that damned wooden chair. When Stefan and Damon were shackled down in the Mossy Manse dungeon, weren't they attached directly to the walls or to a concrete slab? I'm going to need wine for this, aren't I? Good point. Be right back.

Stefan asks again why Katherine came back. She insists it was for him. Oh my word, stake me. They've been having this conversation since the season premiere. Ooh, he then walks over behind a dirt mound and grabs a sprig of vervain, and scalds her face with it. That's new, plus I like scary-ass Stefan, so hooray! My wine-plan is working. Katherine screams as smoke rises from her cheek. Her flesh turns red, but instantly heals, unlike the mark Caroline got when she put on her vervain-laced necklace, so yep, Katherine's not so vulnerable to vervain. She knows it and I know it, but Stefan is as thick as the concrete to which he should have shackled the bitch. Oh, wait, new scene. Katherine again brings us back to...