Stefan (Paul Wesley) continues drinking human blood, but he lies and tells everyone that he stopped.
Elena catches up with her outside of class but Bonnie keeps her distance from her while she is more friendly to Caroline (Candice Accola) when she comes to ask her help to choose a dress for the Founder's Ball where she will compete for being Miss Mystic Falls for the year.
Anna (Malese Jow) appears in Damon's doorstep to apologize on behalf of her mother Pearl (Kelly Hu) for what the other vampires did to Stefan.
Stefan comes home from school and Damon starts asking him about the human blood.
He asks Damon to help him find one of Jonathan Gilbert's inventions that was lost in the church fire on 1864.
Bonnie explains that she feels like her grandmother died for nothing since the spell for sealing the tomb did not work and the vampires escaped.
At the Founder's Ball Anna runs into Damon who takes the opportunity to tell her about John and that he wants something that Pearl must have.
Mrs. Lockwood (Susan Walters) interrupts their fight and tells Stefan he has to wait for Elena downstairs.
In the meantime, the girls make their entrance one by one, Mrs. Lockwood notices that Amber is missing and Elena also can't find Stefan while she is coming down the stairs.
Back at the Founder's Ball, Mayor Lockwood (Robert Pralgo) announces the winner of the Miss Mystic Falls who is Caroline.
After the announcement Damon, Elena and Bonnie leave to search for Stefan while John finds out that the mother's name of the girl who was with Jeremy is Pearl.
Sheriff Forbes arrives to the scene and Elena, Bonnie and Damon hide what really happened.
But "Miss Mystic Falls" soon picked up the pace and Paul Wesley sent Ian Somerhalder a message: two can play scary!"
Damon may have learned to control his feeding habits and actually embraces his dark side... but Stefan still wants to fight it, scaring himself as much as anyone else when the urge kicks in.
"Quality execution lifts up an inauspicious premise, making this episode a winner, with good direction providing the crowning touch.
However, the execution of the episode along with the development of the serialized stories—Stefan’s spiral toward rock bottom, Damon’s growing attraction to Elena—make it top-notch.
We already had a sneak peek at the Miss Mystic Falls event, but seeing Damon and Elena actively dancing together with my own eyes was so much better!