"With Stefan’s encouragement, Elena is trying to understand and explore this relationship that she’s developed with Damon. There is some series-wide epicness that goes down in this episode, for sure. We don’t tend to go on the road very often, and we’ve got Damon and Elena in a motel, It’s a dive motel by our production office that we called Crack Alley, It’s a very dingy, disgusting exterior, and Dave Perkal and Chris Grismer, who directed the episode, worked together to make it sexy and interesting and visual in spite of the complications of the location itself."