Spoiler From E! Online - 18th December 2012

Any scoop on Klaus on The Vampire Diaries?!

Prepare for an epic showdown between Klaus and...Shane! You really didn't think those two would never come face to face, did you? Especially after Klaus learns that Shane was the mastermind behind the plan to kill 12 hybrids? Yeah, he's pretty mad. Watch out, Shane!

Spoiler From Zap2It - 10th December 2012

Did you catch Creepy Hot Professor Shane's little comment to Hayley about possibly seeing her (very dead) parents again? That may have sounded like the sort of thing people say to assuage grief, but Shane meant it a little more literally. Turns out, someone important to him has passed away, too... and he's pretty dead-set on reversing that, uh, condition.

David Alpay Teases Shane's Intentions And Drama

“Good” and “evil” are relative terms on The Vampire Diaries, and Mystic Falls’ newest resident Professor Shane (David Alpay) knows all-too-well what it’s like to exist in that gray area. In fact, he could literally teach a course on it. “The funny thing about this show is that even someone like Klaus, who’s seemingly so evil, does the things he does for a reason,” David tells HollywoodLife.com. ”I don’t even know if Shane is 
evil, to be honest.”

“It’s a little ambiguous; we’re not really sure, and I think that’s a big credit to the writing, which is getting more sophisticated as the seasons go by,” David continues. “The audience is demanding it. They 
want something more than just what you might see in a vampire movie, which lasts an hour and a half.”

(Suck on that, Twilight!)

That said, Shane is definitely someone who shouldn’t be underestimated, particularly by struggling-witch Bonnie (Kat Graham) and fledgling-hunter Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen).

“Shane, at this point, knows Bonnie and Damon have a hunter,” David explains. “He doesn’t know who it is, but he pieces that much together. He’s incredibly smart; he’s spent his entire life studying the occult.”

Though he can’t give away too much about tonight’s episode, “My Brother’s Keeper,” he does confirm a bit of a confrontation between Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Shane. He also notes that Ian’s “suspicious”
 eyes are mesmerizing.

But that’s not really news.

David Alpay Cast As Professor Shane

David Alpay has joined the cast of The Vampire Diaries in a recurring role.

Alpay has been cast as Professor Shane, an attractive and charismatic believer in the occult who has a history with Bonnie Bennett (Katerina Graham) and her family.

The Canadian actor, whose other credits include The Tudors and Fairly Legal, will first appear in the fourth episode of the upcoming season. He joins the previously cast Todd Williams, who will play a vampire hunter, Phoebe Tonkin, who may come between Tyler (Michael Trevino) and Caroline (Candice Accola), and Grace Phipps, who may be a possible new ally for Elena (Nina Dobrev).

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Spoiler From Zap2It

This season, the Mystic Falls gang will graduate from high school. In order to smooth the transition, viewers are going to start spending some time at the local university early in the season -- remember, the unnamed school that Jenna attended while writing her thesis? Expect to meet a new recurring character, Professor Shane, who knows a thing or two about the paranormal. We're hearing that initially, he'll work quite closely with Bonnie. The story plays on some threads spun in an early Season 2 episode, "Bad Moon Rising."