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by Ryan Downey

You’d think after how things turned out for his character on "Lost," Ian Somerhalder would know better than to go cavorting about on remote islands. Of course, Damon Salvatore was a reluctant participant in the little expedition led by Professor Shane as most of the gang set off to unlock Silas. We learned that Damon doesn’t want the cure for himself (sorry, Elena!), Stefan does (shoulda guessed that one, Elena) and Klaus is still carrying a torch for Caroline, even as he very nearly killed her.

Damon squeezed out a bit more of Shane’s overall machinations via some interrogation that would make Dick Cheney proud, but the episode ended with the senior Salvatore laying in the woods with a broken neck at the hands of a hunter.

Bonus points to "The Vampire Diaries." writing team for naming this episode after a cool contemporary movie; last week’s "A View to a Kill" shared a name with a semi-awesome ‘80s James Bond flick (and accompanying Duran Duran theme song), which was apropos given Stefan and Rebekah’s bodacious dance to the The Cure.

Speaking of Rebekah, one of the episode’s biggest moments was when she broke down and declared, “We’re all screwed.” But we’re getting ahead of ourselves...

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by Cassie Title

Well, folks, we’re one step closer to the cure. It all seemed a bit too easy, but considering our show is set in the falling-apart Mystic Falls, the gods were probably just trying to cut our characters some slack.

Damon was still locked up; as long as Kol was kickin’ it, Damon was compelled to kill Jeremy, which would've been disastrous for teenage girls everywhere.

You’ll remember from last week's episode that Elena came up with a brilliant plan: Jeremy was going to kill Kol. Seriously. That was her plan. He’d only have to kill one person, and then every vampire that had stemmed from him would die. Assuming there were as many as we thought there were, the deaths would complete Jeremy’s mark. And, Jeremy would stay alive.

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by Cassie Title

To answer your biggest question of the evening: Yes, Shane doubles as a yoga instructor. (Oh. That wasn’t on your radar? Hm.) There can be no other reason for why he told Bonnie the following: "Just because you close your eyes doesn’t mean you’re meditating. Breathe." Because if he isn’t a yogi, I don’t know why he’d ever think such words should be uttered from his mouth.

Anyway, your second biggest question concerning the episode must have been whether Leonardo DiCaprio guest starred. Unfortunately, the answer is no. The title was not a reference to his film of the same name. It was merely referring to the fact that people were chasing each other. Which is not grounds for episode title prizes. (Just saying.)

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