The episode starts with Jules (Michaela McManus) waking up in the woods next to a camp after the full moon night when she attacked Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and bit Rose (Lauren Cohan).
She is surrounded by dead campers who she attacked the previous night and she starts trying to cover her tracks when an officer arrives and asks if she is fine.
He leaves Elena to take care of her while he goes to the Grill to meet Jules and ask her to tell him how to help Rose.
Caroline gets back home where she finds Tyler waiting for her and insists on his question of why she would stay with him and risk her life.
Off the dream, Damon takes a stake and stabs Rose in the heart killing her as a mercy to her pain, crying while he does it.
Elena tries to comfort Damon who insists he does not care about Rose's death but he finally admits that he does not like to feel because it hurts.
Damon is lost after everything that happened that he decides to go out and attack an innocent girl named Jessica (Ahna O'Reilly) after admitting to her that he misses being human.
Jules meets Tyler and tells him that Mason (Taylor Kinney) is dead and that Caroline and her vampire friends killed him.
He tells her that he called Isobel and did not find her but he found instead someone else to help them; uncle John (David Anders).
Goldman praised Lauren Cohan's acting and also commented on the human side of Damon we've seen on this episode.
The extended death scene and the pain she was in as a result of the werewolf bite was necessary in order to depict the stakes that are on the horizon during the impending werewolf/vampire war.
These kinds of focus issues require truly advanced writing skills, and I can’t fault the writers too much for not getting the fine-tuning right.
"Ian Somerhalder has been consistently great in this show, but rarely has Damon had the opportunity to have an honest and simple emotion as he did with his psychoanalyst-cum-victim.