We are very excited to report this Vampire Diaries news: we’ll soon be meeting Grayson and Miranda Gilbert in a flashback!

E! Online reports that The Vampire Diaries is indeed going there and taking us back in time to meet Elena and Jeremy’s parents (as in, Jeremy’s birth parents and Elena’s adopted parents, one of which is her uncle by birth. Confused?).

Further, The CW is re-casting the roles from the photo we saw in season one, and is looking for actors to take on the roles who are willing to take scuba lessons for an underwater scene, so it looks like we’ll see the gruesome car crash which killed them – maybe as part of a scene that’ll show us exactly how Elena survived!

We are very much looking forward to getting the Gilberts’ backstory. E! Online also reported that in this episode we’ll learn that they were aware of Jeremy’s drug problems, so it’s likely that Steven R. McQueen will be appearing!