Character: Lexi Director: Rick Bota Writer: Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec Realese Date: 5 November 2009 Episode: Season 1, Episode 8 Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance	Useful Links Photos Videos IMDb.com Wikipedia Official

On his birthday, Stefan is surprised by a visit from Lexi, one of his oldest vampire friends. Still upset by the way events ended at the Halloween haunted house, Elena does her best to stay away from Stefan, but Lexi gives her some unsolicited relationship advice. Meanwhile, both Elena and Jenna are surprised by a change in Jeremy’s behavior in the wake of Vicki’s “disapearance”. But only Elena knows that Damon’s mind-wipe powers did something to her brother. At Damon’s insistence, Caroline tries to get his medallion back from Bonnie who continues to study her wican heritages with her grandmother’s help. Elsewhere, Damon’s offer to help Sheriff Forbes has sudden and tragic results since she does not know that he is the vampire that she and her circle of hunters are looking for.

About Lexi not beeing in the books and tells us a bit more about her:
She is about as much fun as anyone who’s 300-and-something years old. She’s this burst of energy, a complete life force. It’s safe to say she’s pretty much been everywhere, seen everything, lived every moment and that makes her even stronger, even more confident, even more sarcastic because she has all of this life experience behind her.

About playing a role that been around for a long time and have tons of knowledge:
It’s a lot of responsibility. What seems like simple dialogue — everything is twice as complicated because everything has a double meaning. I’m not playing a high school kid, so watching the different dynamic to how Damon and Stefan react to things to how Elena [Nina Dobrev] reacts to things; they live in completely different worlds. Nothing scares you or affects you in the way that a typical scary situation would. For example, if you’re getting hit with bullets … it doesn’t kill you or affect you. How does one react when getting shot with vervain? I had to figure that out and how a certain poison would affect my blood.

About Lexi’s and Stefan’s relationship:
They have been best friends for hundreds of years. [The producers] didn’t really want to uncover, in this particular episode, a lot of their past other than you really wanted the audience to feel like these two have been best friends and inseparable through thick and thin. We mention some of our past fun times together, but we don’t spend a whole lot of time on that in this episode.

About the relationship like among Stefan, Damon and Lexi:
I’m older than both the boys, and although I have unconditional love for Stefan, there’s also an unspoken understanding that I’m older, which means I’m more powerful. That comes as a huge threat to Damon, which I love. In a weird way, it forces Stefan to respect me and respect my opinions. I have more power than them, I have more strength, I’m more ferocious and when I turn I’m a force to be reckoned with.

Arielle’s talking about if Damon fear her:
Yeah, he fears her and it pisses him off. She knows it and loves it. She’s not scared of him at all and she likes to call him on his B.S. and meet him at his game. She likes to remind him that however evil he thinks he is, I’m still stronger and older and more powerful. I choose not to use my power the way he does because I choose to rise above it, but if push comes to shove, I will use it against him.

About Elena’s and Lexi’s relationship
I think anytime you first meet a girl in a towel in your ex’s house, I think it calls for a very awkward moment, which we definitely have. Towards the end of the episode, Elena and I have an exchange that hopefully will carry through for the next couple of episodes and help her figure some things out about Stefan that I don’t think she was able to really hear before.

About if Lexi approves of Elena and Stefan:
In the beginning, she’s pretty freaked out that she looks like Katherine, but we work through that. In the beginning, I don’t approve at all. As any best friend would do, once you see two people together and you pick up on what it really is, ultimately you want your friend to be truly happy no matter what. Lexi can tell how special it is, what the two of them have.

Arielle talkes about any evil sides of Lexi:
You betcha [Laughs]. Let me tell you something, the hours I spent getting red contacts and getting fangs made were all worth it. I got to do some pretty cool and pretty evil stuff in this episode. It’s not every day you get to toss around cops [Laughs].

If Arielle ever will come back to the show, playing Lexi again:
I would love to. It’s so much fun breaking a fang in Mystic Falls, but we’ll have to wait and see. We’ll leave that one up to the audience.