Of course, Scarlett’s life gets only more complicated when her father tells her that “this is your purpose now. “Your mother would be proud,” Harker tells her, but that’s of little consolation to her at this point. And whether it’s the reality that her father’s predictions are coming true, or that she’s possessed by the sheer terror of the situation, the act of cutting off its head with her sword is a life changing experience. It’s critical that we see this stage in her development so that we have a better sense of the adult she’s grown into. “That my dear was a vampire, and you’re going to kill it,” he tells her, hoping to make this momentous act easier by pointing out that it’s already dead. Not ready to take him on at this point in her training, her father fortunately arrives in time to shoot him and force Scarlett to learn the most painful lesson of her education. “Scary Scarlett” has clearly had a difficult childhood, and it becomes even more challenging when the vampire from the diner approaches her in the loft. The timeline gets a little fuzzy here since the episode opens in 1986 as a partially concealed vampire goes into a small town diner and orders a raw steak to which the cook responds, “We serving Doberman’s now?” Do the waitress and cook know he’s a vampire? Are vampires common knowledge in this world? Regardless, he asks for information about the Harkers and is directed to a farm on the edge of the county. After establishing the shadow organization’s involvement with vampires and Dmitri in particular in “Everything Changes,” tonight’s flashback moves forward 10 years to 1986 and a teenage Scarlett engaging in knife training in her family’s barn before later fending off a teenage boy in the front seat of his parents’ car.
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