"Please, call me Katherine."
Stefan reveals the truth to Elena and tells her about his past with Katherine.
Meanwhile, Vicki is turned into a vampire by Damon and has to deal with her new undeath.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Abnormal Ammo: Sheriff Forbes give Logan wood bullets to use against vampires.
- Asshole Victim: Vicki's jackass stoner friends from the last episode are sucked dry by Damon.
- Back from the Dead: Vicki, when Damon turns her into a vampire.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Katherine is shown putting it on the morning after she first bit Stefan.
- Courtly Love: Katherine's romance with Stefan and Damon.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Damon turned into one when Katherine chose Stefan over him in the past.
- Disposing of a Body: Damon drains the blood Vicki and her friends and then burn their corpses to cover his tracks. When he notices Vicki is still alive he spares her and takes her back to his mansion.
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Katherine does it when introducing herself to Stefan for the first time.
- Fanservice: Vicki dancing in her undies and Damon dancing with his shirt open in the Salvatore manor.
- Flashback: The episode has several flashbacks to Stefan and Damon's life in Mystic Falls during the Civil War, when they first met Katherine.
- Flash Step: Stefan does this when Elena runs away from him when he admits he's a vampire and she freaks out.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Vicki herself feels she's the foolish sibling compared to Matt.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Katherine in the flashbacks who looks like a Proper Lady but plays sports with Stefan and Damon.
- Horror Hunger: Vicki when she's in the process of becoming a Vampire.
- I Love You, Vampire Son: Katherine turned Stefan and Damon into vampires so they could be together forever.
- Internal Reveal: Elena learns that vampires exist, and that Mystic Falls was a haven for them.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: Katherine outfit during the Civil War Flashbacks.
- Killed Off for Real: Logan is killed by Damon when he rescues Stefan from him.
- Love Triangle: Stefan tells Elena the specifics of the relationship between him, Damon and Katherine, in which Katherine made both believe she chose one of them and used her vampire powers to make sure the other would never find out.
- Magic Compass: The Gilbert Family watch turns out to be a compass that points to vampires, which the council uses to track down Stefan.
- The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Elena breaks up with Stefan once she learns he's a vampire.
- Mind Manipulation:
- Damon does this to Vicki after he rescues her, so she forgets he's the one who attacked her in the first place.
- Katherine used her powers so she could have both Salvatore brothers at the same time, without one knowing about the other.
- Neck Snap: How Damon kills Vicki.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: After rescuing Stefan, Damon tells him if anyone is ever going to kill him, it will be him.
- Secret-Keeper: Elena becomes one for Stefan and Damon.
- Vampire Bites Suck: Stefan is horrified the morning after Katherine bites him.
- Vampire Hunter: Logan and Sheriff Forbes use the Gilbert Compass to hunt down the vampires in Mystic Falls.
- Villainous Rescue: Damon saves Stefan from Logan after he shoots him with a wood bullet and was about to stake him.
- In Vino Veritas: Played With, while it's not alcohol, Vicki does act like she's inebriated after drinking Damon's blood and pours out her heart to him.
- Wooden Stake: One way to finish off a vampire is with one. Logan had wooden bullets to paralyze a vampire and a stake to finish it off.
