Episode 16 Synopsis "There Goes The Neighborhood"

The episode starts with a view of the house in the woods, where many vampires are accumulating and feeding. The house owner feeds those vampires. Anna isn't happy at all about that.
It's morning. Matt calls his mom, who's been partying at home all night. He offers to help her find a job and settle down. Matt offers her a bar tending job. She promises to check it out. Caroline came in and was really polite (as always) but Ms Donavan was rude and just walked away (as always).
Damon doesn't talk to Stefan. Every time as he tries to talk to him, Damon just shuts down. Elena doesn’t want to think about vampire mothers or brothers. She just wants to live one day with a spark, like Stefan. They just want to have some fun.
Matt invites Caroline to watch some movies at his place. She is pretty skeptic about it, because there is going to be his mother and her rudeness, too. Matt thinks that she doesn't help the situation at all when she thinks like that.
Pearl shows Harbour the new techniques, like, cell phones. She opens a voice mail from Jeremy. When Harbour asked, is Jeremy her boyfriend, Anna’s mother quickly answered – of course not.. Pearl starts dressing up like new people, looks very respectable. They had to leave, to do some business in town. The vampires have to cooperate to do their plan, so she leaves Harbour in charge.
Caroline offers Elena and Stefan a double date - dinner at the Grill, maybe a movie. She thinks it's a good idea. They had some awkwardness before between her, Elena and Matt, and she just wants to get over it. Looks like Elena didn't want it, but Stefan agreed and thought that it will be a good thing. So date it was!
Damon walks into the Boarding house and sees Pearl inside. She and Anna are surprised, that there are no living people in that house - just Stefan and Damon. Pearl is hoping to have a word with Damon.
Jeremy searches and asks in a chat room for answers about vampires, like "How do you become a vampire?" and "How do you kill a vampire?" but no one is taking him seriously. When he asked for serious answers, somebody wrote about a stake in vampire’s heart. That person is probably a believer, he finds out.
Pearl tells Damon about their home - for now. There aren’t all 25 vampires, just some. She thinks that few already left the town, but others are still in the woods, or like them - acclimatizing. When Pearl says about the Founders Council, Damon denies that he's a part of it. Pearl needs to know everything, what they know - names, facts, how many of them have vervain from Damon. That would have to stop immediately. When Damon asks what they are trying to achieve, Pearl reveals that the vampires wants Mystic Falls back. That is their home, which people have taken away from them. Damon is against that thought (it’s the 21st century, for god sake...). Then she offers him help to find Katherine. They were best friends for a long time before they came to Mystic Falls and she knows her thoughts and plans. She knows where to find her. Damon claims that he has no more desire to see Katherine anymore, so he won’t help them with their plan. But Pearl wasn’t asking him for help. She was giving him a command. Then she pushed her thumbs in to Damon’s eye balls (ouch!). She threatens Damon, that she will kill him any time, if he doesn't help her.
Stefan comes to Elena with beautiful flowers. Elena starts thinking about canceling the date, but Stefan encourages her and cheers her up. When he decided to stay in Mystic Falls to know Elena better, he thought about normal things - like, giving her flowers, taking her out on a date. He likes things like that, and (as I can see :o)) it makes Elena feel better.
Anna and Pearl meets Jenna in town. She showed them a little drink shop. Anna saw Jeremy, but didn't get a chance to meet him - because of her mother.
At the Grill Damon meets Matt's mother. They start talking about different things. Kelly didn't get a bar tending job. Then Jenna comes in. Matt's mother just to babysit Jenna and then they start to party together. Ms Donavon asks her to sit down and drink together, she agrees. Then all three of them get drunk together (funny view :D ).
At the vampires house things aren't so calm. One of the vampires, Frederick, isn't satisfied about sitting trapped inside the house. He challenges Harbour. Then Pearl comes and calms things down. Fighting each other is against the rules, and they can’t go out in the city, because it's dangerous that the Salvatore’s know about them. Frederick wants revenge on them, because it's their fault that they were trapped inside the tomb.
At the double date things are pretty cool - talks are going but it gets pretty awkward when they notice that Damon, Kelly and Jenna are drinking together.
Some vampires, not following Pearls rules, leave the house to go to the town. Harbour can't stop them.
Anna comes to Jeremy.  He is pretty shocked, but excited. When she comes in, Jeremy shows his emotions... He looks a bit scared.
Jenna and Kelly are trying to cheer up Damon. They drink, and drink, and drink... Elena, Caroline, Matt and Stefan still watched them and play billiards. Elena and Matt talk about their childhood memories, but Caroline and Stefan feel pretty uncomfortable.
Anna is thinking about getting "back" in to high school, Pearl is going to open a small shop in the town. But first, Anna has to talk with her mother about that school thing. When Jeremy starts talking about his searches about vampires in Mystic Falls, she gets serious. Jeremy wants to get deeper in that entire vampire thing. He believes, that maybe there are vampires, but different as he thought before. He thinks, they might be good and kind, just outsiders. Anna claims that she doesn't believe in them. She got all that info just to make a good impression on Jeremy.
At the date are some complications between Elena and Caroline. Caroline thinks that Elena is trying to flirt with Matt, not to show her feelings to Stefan. Elena says that she was trying to make conversation. When Elena ran for Caroline, Frederick caught her hand and called her Katherine (that was a bit of a shock for me!). Then he understood that she isn't Katherine. Frederik noticed Stefan. Elena texted to Stefan about that accident. When he looked around, Frederick was already gone.
Elena, of course, didn't recognize Frederick. All she wanted was one night without stress and vampire things. She offers to deal with that tomorrow.
Matt and Caroline arrive at the boarding house, too. They are going to watch some movie. Caroline has a feeling that she had been there before. Matt notices Stefan’s car collection. Matt likes cars, too. Stefan calls him to go somewhere.
When Damon and Kelly start almost kissing at the bar, Jenna decides to leave.
Stefan leads Matt to garage, where he keeps a rare and old car. He says that it has been passed through the family, but it doesn't run. Then Matt got into memories again, and Caroline runs off again. Elena followed her. Stefan understands Matt’s and Elena’s relationship, because they have a history to share. Matt admits that he’s happy that Elena is happy with Stefan. Then they start to try to make the car work.
Jenna walked out of the bar and broke her heel of the shoe. Frederick sees that and offers her some help. He asked her about Damon - was it him back at the bar. He starts to flirt with Jenna and tries to compel her. It didn't work and she starts to laugh. He knows that she wears vervain. Then she left.
Elena tries to talk with Caroline. She's really hurt; she thinks that she's a backup for everyone and that Elena doesn't even care about that, because she's everyone’s first choice.  Stefan and Matt fixed the car. Stefan offered Matt and Caroline to take a ride. They accept it (but Caroline still looks sad...). Matt and Stefan really look like good friends now, and Elena notices that, too. Now she's concerned not about vampires, but about girlfriends...
Anna and Jeremy are making dinner together. Then Jeremy specially cut his hand and asked Anna for help. She couldn't. He goes closer to her, like challenging her. She tries to be as far from him as possible. She couldn't take it and pushed him against the fridge. Her eyes changed. Then Jeremy admitted, that he knew it and made her go for it - she drunk the blood out of his palm. Then Jenna came home. He hid his palm and smiled - like everything was normal. When he returned at the kitchen, Anna was gone.
Matt and Caroline stopped for a talk. Matt understood that all that double date was for Caroline to see what’s going on between him and Elena. He made her understand, that that was just two old friends and memories. He was there just because he wanted to be there with Caroline.  He made her understand, that he loves only her (sweet!).
Then Damon got to the house with Kelly. Then they kissed, and were going to make love when Matt and Caroline came into the room. Kelly left. Matt left too, Elena promised to take Caroline home.
Anna came home. Pearl needed to know where she had been.
Elena had just got home, when Frederick got into the house to attack Stefan. He stuck wooden stakes in him. Damon threw Frederick away. Then his girlfriend came and attacked Stefan, but he killed her pretty fast. When Federick saw that, he ran off.
Matt drove Kelly home. He was angry and hurt. She ruined all his good time with his friends and acting like some kind of kid.
Frederick told Pearl about his girlfriend and that she’s dead. Then she almost killed him to scare him, so he would listen to her next time.
Elena called Stefan to tell him that she's fine. Stefan lied to her by saying that nothing had happened - to make her day as normal as possible. They both had a really nice time at their date.
When Jeremy walked into his room, Anna was in front of him. She said that she would and should have killed him. Jeremy explained her how he suspected about vampires, about Vicki being bitten on the neck, the articles, Anna’s changing face.. When Anna asked why he risked it, he said that he wanted to know if it's true about Vicki and also because he wanted Anna to turn him.

Really interesting end, but what's going to be next – we’ll see on next episode! :)