As much as I miss Percy, the show had always been flowing forward with such pace, and throwing status quo altering twists that I can see why they didn't want him to become stagnant as a villain.

"Wait a moment: cats and mice? Is there some sort of correlation between the two them? Have cats evolved in intelligence?"

Can Birkoff/Ichabod please please please be a thing.

I kinda hope that the machine is a massive 100ft Robot that Fusco takes down with an uppercut to the gut and a speech about morality.

If he turns into Elliot from Leverage in that he can walk into a room off-screen and then everyone falls down. I'm okay with that.

If he turns into Elliot from Leverage in that he can walk into a room off-screen and then everyone falls down. I'm okay with that.

It's interesting to see whether Reese would have reacted differently. There was a thread in season one they dropped very early in which Reese was trying to dig into Finch's background or try and goad some backstory out of him.

Ahh - I'd forgotten about all of that.

I did wonder if Enzo would then think he killed Damon by throwing him into the sunlight. But no…

Was it Stefan? Was it Aaron? Was it Wes? I kept thinking where that syringe was and then awaiting for it to appear in Wes' arm or something. Or Aaron to jab Wes with it.

I kinda suspect that Dobrev is having much more fun with Katherine, as it shows. Elena seems pretty much bored with everything; and it kinda sucks that a central female character who at one time was the anti-Bella Swan in a similar premise is now slowly morphing into her…

@avclub-9e3b631d801e19a9e92a405ea759e09f:disqus I was almost expecting a Friends-like whole episode story in an alternate universe in which the characters would've been shown living their lives differently.

They so need to replace Chunky McChestmuscle with a motormouth wise-ass who annoys everyone but would be the first to pick to go in the field because he's that damn good.

Thud McCrunchcrunch!

"…he's uber-scary and he's probably going to punch a hole in this plane and we'll all fly out and die and we'd be all 'bleehhh' and Fitz will die a virgin and I never got to finish the Harry Potter series and — "
*beat. stops*
"— he'll kill us all."
*turns*
"You were meant to hear that. All of it."

Which I guess means that Matt won't be in the next couple of episodes. Zach Roerig was clearly overworked this week and needs a rest.

Isn't Klaus aware that Katherine is human now and —