"But, why? Emily was..." Her eyes narrow, finding Stefan. "Burned at the stake. Wasn't she?" Could Emily do that? She knows Emily could've done what she wanted no matter what. But, she also remembers Emily being in Katherine's pocket. Could she have taken the time to curse the Gilbert family line?

"So, right now we have Samantha Gilbert's journal which stretches past the day she was supposedly killed." They should slow down the process, really dig into it. "Was there any indication past then that she had changed? Any anti-council diatribes?"