alaric knocks on pearl's door and when frederick answers he tells him that he needs to use his phone because his car broke down. frederick lets him in and when alaric is led to the kitchen, he stakes the vampire who'is there and leads miss gibbons (tiffany morgan) to the door but she refuses to invite damon in since she is compelled not to do it. damon asks if there are any other living people who live in this house and when he is sure that there are not, he breaks her neck and gets in.