A Few Good Men

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Joshua Butler

**A Few Good Men** is the fifteenth episode of the first season of *The Vampire Diaries* and the fifteenth episode of the series overall.

## Summary

**MOTHERS, BACHELORS AND BLOOD** — Matt and Caroline are surprised by the sudden reappearance of Matt's mother Kelly. Stefan and Alex are worried about Damon's new attitude. Damon is asked by Sheriff Forbes to take part in a fund-raising bachelor auction. Alaric discovers shocking secrets from his own past. With help from Jenna and Stefan, Elena and Alex are determined to find out everything they can about their birth mother, but the truth may be more than they can handle.

## Plot

The episode starts with Harper, the vampire who got out of the tomb attacking a hiker and then stealing his clothes. He gets out of the woods and gets to the town looking lost in the modern world. He sees a woman sitting on a bench who nods to him and he nods back.

Jenna found information about Elena and Alex's birth mother and she informs them. There is a friend of their mother who lives nearby, Trudie Peterson. Jenna also tells Elena and Alex that Alaric's wife's name was also Isobel and she is dead but she does not know if it is the same person. Alex tells Stefan about Trudie and Alaric's wife and he asks her if they will go to visit Trudie to let him go with them. Meanwhile, Jenna meets Alaric at school and tells him about Elena and Alex's birth mother. He says that his wife didn't have any kids but when Jenna shows him a picture of Elena and Alex's mother he leaves in shock.

Damon tries to deal with the truth about Katherine on his own way; partying with girls. Stefan interrupts them because he wants to ask him about Isobel but Damon says he does not know her and goes back to partying. Meanwhile, Caroline is with Matt at his place and while they are making out, his mother Kelly gets in. Caroline leaves and Matt catches up with his mother.

Elena and Alex go to Trudie's house to ask about Isobel and Trudie, who realizes that they are Isobel's daughters, lets them in. Trudie texts someone: "They are here" and while they are talking, she makes some tea to drink. Elena and Alex figure out that she put vervain in it and realizes that Trudie knows about vampires but when they ask her, Trudie asks them to leave. As Elena and Alex makes their way to their car, they see a man standing in the road looking at them. They take off before the man approaches and later Alex tells Stefan all about it. Stefan tells Alex that Alaric thinks his wife was probably killed by a vampire but does not mention that it was Damon and asks her to wait a little before talk to him.

In the meantime, Alaric meets Stefan to talk to him about his wife and if he found out anything since he promised to help him. He wants to know what Damon did to Isobel but Stefan tells him that Damon says he does not remember her and he asks for a picture of hers to show it to him. Stefan shows the picture to Damon but he still says that he does not know her. In a flashback, we see that Isobel was investigating vampires and she was obsessed with finding the truth.

Damon goes to the Grill's bar for a drink and Alaric is there. They talk for a while before Alaric leaves and Liz appears. She wants to ask Damon to be one of the bachelors at the Founder's fundraiser and he accepts. In return, he asks her help on finding information about Alaric because he does not trust him. Meanwhile, the mystery man Elena and Alex saw outside Trudie's house now knocks Trudie's door asking about Elena and Alex. Even though Trudie tells him what he wants, the man kills her.

At the Founder's fundraiser, Liz gives Damon the info he wanted about Alaric and he realizes that Alaric's wife is the woman Stefan was asking him about. The Bachelor Raffle begins and Mrs. Lockwood introduces the bachelors. When she goes to Damon, he starts talking about Alaric's wife and that once they drunk together and that she was delicious. Alaric tries to stay calm and Elena and Alex are horrified while they realize that Damon was the vampire who killed their mother.

Elena and Alex run outside and Stefan follows them telling them that they do not know for sure if Damon killed Isobel because her body never found. While they talk, the mystery man who killed Trudie, shows up and tells Elena and Alex to stop looking for her because she does not want to know them. Elena and Alex try to ask him about Isobel but Stefan figures out that the man in under compulsion and they just tell him that they will stop. As soon as they tell him that, he steps in the middle of the road and a truck hits him. Elena and Alex take his cell phone from the ground and they and Stefan go back inside. There Alex runs into Damon who can't understand why Alex is so mad at him, until she tells him who Isobel was.

Alaric, leaves the fundraiser and goes to the Salvatore house to find Damon holding a stake and ask him about Isobel. Damon tells him that he did not kill her but turned her since Isobel came to him begging him to do it. Alaric attacks him trying to stake him but Damon gets the stake and kills Alaric. Stefan arrives and sees Alaric dead lying on the floor. Damon tells him that Alaric attacked him and now that he knows Isobel was related with Elena and Alex believes that somehow Katherine sent her to him for a reason and he leaves.

Stefan stays with Alaric's body when suddenly Alaric comes back to life. They are both shocked and Stefan believes that someone must have given him vampire blood and they turned him. Alaric remembers a conversation he had with Isobel when she gave him his ring and told him that it was a gift to protect him and he tells Stefan that it was the ring that somehow protected him.

Elena and Alex are back at home and dials the last number the mystery man called from his cell. A woman's voice answers asking if there was a problem and if he found them. Elena and Alex realizes that is Isobel but the moment Isobel hears that is Elena and Alex, she hangs up the phone.

The episode ends with Harper arriving at a house at the woods. He knocks and the woman he saw sitting on the bench opens the door and then calls for Pearl. Pearl comes and greets Harper with her daughter, Anna. Along with them comes a woman who Pearl asks her to invite Harper in.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert/Alexandria Gilbert
* Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
* Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
* Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert (credit only)
* Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers
* Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett (credit only)
* Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
* Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
* Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)
* Jensen Ackles as Alaric Saltzman

### Recurring Cast

* Mia Kirshner as Isobel Flemming (flashback/voice)
* Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes
* Malese Jow as Anna
* Kelly Hu as Pearl
* Sterling Sulieman as Harper

### Guest Cast

* Amanda Detmer as Trudie Peterson
* Melinda Clarke as Kelly Donovan

### Co-Starring

* Susan Walters as Carol Lockwood
* Mike Kalinowski as Hiker
* Maia Osman as Wasted Girl
* Jeni Perillo as Bethanne
* Dax Griffin as Bachelor
* Michael Showers as Mystery Man

### Uncredited

* Tiffany Morgan as Samantha Gibbons
* Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan (photo)

## Trivia

* Antagonist: Isobel Flemming.
* Isobel's cellphone number is shown: **919-399-2507**.
* This episode establishes it's now 2010 in the series timeline.
* Bethanne seems to have the only other daylight ring of the tomb vampires, Pearl and Harper, as she is seen seating on a bench in the sun as Harper walks through downtown Mystic Falls.
* Since Bethanne seems to have a daylight ring, this implies that the other tomb vampires may have had rings too but were caught without them on.
* Alaric learns from Jenna that Elena and Alex are his wife Isobel's daughters, which means that Elena and Alex are technically his step-daughters.
* Elena and Alex learns that Damon killed their birth mother Isobel and turned her into a vampire in 2007.
* Elena and Alex hear their birth mother Isobel's voice for the first time over the phone.
* The Gilbert Ring's abilities are first seen in this episode when Alaric was staked in the lung and killed by Damon after he attacked him at the boarding house, and was subsequently resurrected by the ring.
* This episode marks the first appearance of Kelly Donovan.
* This is the first episode of the third chapter of Season One, **The Lineage Chapter**.
* Elena and Alex meet Trudie Peterson in this episode, their mother's best friend from high school.

## Locations

* Mystic Falls, Virginia
	+ Woods
		- Miss Gibbons' House
	+ Gilbert House
	+ Salvatore Boarding House
	+ Donovan House
	+ Mystic Grill
	+ Town Square
	+ Grove Hill, Virginia
		- Trudie Peterson's House

## Body Count

* Hiker - Drained of his blood; killed by Harper.
* Trudie Peterson - Thrown downstairs; killed by unknown compelled man.
* Mystery Man - Killed by truck driver after stepping in front of it. (compelled to kill himself by Isobel).
* Alaric Saltzman - Staked; killed by Damon Salvatore, but resurrected by his ring.