We start with a quick scene outside the Dallas vamp camp, with Lorena trying to salvage her relationship with Bill, crying those nasty blood tears and everything. Bill: "You are dead to me."
Then Luke, the walking time-bomb from Light of Day, (hey, that pretty much describes everyone in that place, right?) pulls the trigger and rocks the vamp camp house.
Bill races back inside, searching for Sookie, and he finds that Eric has protected Sookie by shielding her from the silver bullets, taking them himself. (A little part of you is all, that is SO sweet, but it's Eric, so who knows what's up.) Eric tells Bill to "get the humans" who did this before they get away.
Bill zips outside and rips open some human necks. He saves the life of the last one, telling this guy to get his ass back to Light of Day and let them know that the vamps are the ones that held back, and it's the God Squad that kicked it up a notch. Game on.
Meanwhile, back in the vamp house, it appears that Eric is dying. He convinces a skeptical Sookie that he can't heal himself because silver bullets were used. Okay then, she'll go get Godric. NO, there's no time for that. You'll have to suck the silver bullets out of me.
Sookie, who clearly has no love for Eric, goes against her better judgement and starts a suckin, spitting the bullets and the blood out as she works away. There's an extended scene where she has to use G-force suction to get a bullet out of his chest, and once again we have a True Blood moment that mixes erotica with oh-my-GOD this should be nasty and wrong. Is it hot in here?
Bill shows back up, and he is none too pleased with Sookie playing candy striper. He lets Sookie know that Eric didn't need any help, he was already healing. He did this just so you would drink his blood and now he's in your head. Now he nows where you are and what you feel. Eric just smiles and says "it was good for me".
Great.
Later, at the vampire hotel, with Sookie and Bill. Sook: "I sucked his chest, what is WRONG with me?" Bill: "The worst thing is that you'll now feel sexual attraction for him" on top of, you know, him knowing exactly what you are doing at any given time.
Lovely.
Jessica and Hoyt at Bill's house, discussing her eternal virginity. Jessica: "Maybe there's an operation." Hoyt: "That thing that grows back? It's just a thing." We'll deal with it. Awww. Then Hoyt says he wants Jessica to meet his Momma. She's all gushy and excited about that, but I'm thinking, girl, you don't want Momma in this equation. Seriously.
But the sun is rising, and Jessica needs to get her beauty sleep. Hoyt offers to sleep with her, but that's still a private thing, it's dirty and creepy down there in the cellar or whatever it is. So they compromise. She wanders down to the crypt, and he stays outside the door, singing to her a song he makes up so she will know he's there while she falls asleep.
Okay, if the tenderness of THAT doesn't grab you, you have no heart. Word.
Then we have Tara and Eggs at Sookie's house, covered in bruises from their little rough-sex encounter spurred on by eating Daphne's heart. (Do you think you'll ever see a sentence like that again?) Mary Ann wanders in and babbles on about how "we need to be out of control" and that nothing is finer than when people "lose themselves and unite with their god".
Okay, we (or at least I) still don't know what the scoop is with Mary Ann, the twitching demon of carnality at campfires, but don't you think it's about time that a somewhat-sane person arrives on the scene to kill Mary Ann. She crazy. Then again, she's got some wild-ass powers, so make sure she's really dead when you take her out.
Brief scene of Sam still in jail, along with half the clueless townsfolk who don't know why they're in the slammer. Someone screams out "All I did was lose my pants, there's no law against that." Well, there probably IS, but that's the least of your worries.
Scene with Sookie and Jason, they can't sleep, and they finally open up to each other. Jason was tired of being known just for "my sexual abilities", that's why he went to Light of Day, where "Steve and Sarah stopped my mind from going round." He just didn't know about the rest of the mess they were up to. "Our whole family's gone." It's just us. Sookie: "Then we gotta be good to each other." Tears everywhere. Very touching.
Then they turn on the TV (which everyone does at a really emotional moment, right?) and we see crazy Steve and Sarah on a talk show, arguing with Nan Flannagan, the spokesperson for the American Vampire League that we've seen from time to time.
Steve and Sarah are over each other, even though they're trying to represent their god. Sarah about Steve: "If he's not the center of attention, he just flips out." When Nan tries to present a valid point about Light of Day taking deadly action when the vampires were trying to make peace, all Sarah can come up with is "I hate your hair."
Nan: "How can you have meaningful dialogue with these people?"
Scene with Arlene and Terry at Merlotte's, where Arlene gets to have two great lines. About Daphne: "She was clumsy, stupid and mean" but she didn't deserve to die. And to Terry: "Please quit being more peculiar than you usually are."
Eggs and Tara wander in to Merlotte's, and when Lafayette sees the bruises on Tara, he lashes out at Eggs. Big fight. Tara finally pushed Eggs out the door and they run off.
Hoyt meets with his Momma, and she is none too supportive about Jessica. ("Vampires are devils.") Hoyt calls her out on her bigotry against anyone who isn't exactly like her. Good scene.
Odd, long scene with Sookie in bed with Eric, (girl is not afraid to flash her breasts, just sayin), and they are discussing what it takes to make a good vampire. Eric: "You killed a man." Sookie: "That was for self defense. Not for lunch." Then we see that Lorena is the one behind this induced vision, and Sookie wakes up.
Mary Ann saunters into the Bon Temps jail, and users her flutter magic on Sherrif Dearborn to get into the holding cells. She's looking for Sam. Luckily, Sam has been inspired by a fly buzzing around in his cell, and he's transitioned. He's gone. Mary Ann, pissed, releases all of her little acolytes in the other holding cells and she stomps off. Can't be good.
Then we have Hoyt, his Momma, and Jessica doing a meet-and-greet at Merlotte's. Momma can't be decent, and lashes out at Jessica, making sure she points out that Jess can't have any babies. Hoyt is done with Momma, and they leave.
Cut to Tara, Eggs and Mary Ann at Sookie's. (Note the fly on the table? Sam?) Laff shows up with Tara's mama, this is an intervention. Mary Ann promptly grabs some alcohol and tries to tempt Mama. (Laff calls Mary Ann a "soulless bitch". Yay!) Then Tara and Eggs get the weird eyes and come out fighting, slapping Laff and Mama around. Luckily, Laff is one strong queen and he snatches up Tara and throws her in the car while Mama floors it and they head off into the night.
Then we're back at the Dallas vamp lair, where Nan from the Vampire League is now running the show. She berates them all. Then fires Godric. (What? How do you DO that?) When several people protest this, Nan is NOTHING in the scheme of things, trying to get Godric to stand up for himself, she belts out "I'm on TV. Try me."
In case I haven't made it clear, Nan is a total bitch.
Sookie, always trying to do the right thing, confronts Nan about how Godric is good. This is so not right. Amazingly, Godric is fine with it. He'll give up everything. Happily.
Mary Ann stomps into Merlotte's, and turns everyone there into her weird-eyed servants. I want Sam Merlotte. NOW!
A fly buzzes up to Deputy Andy's house, the doorbell rings, he answers, and there's Sam, naked.
Back at the Dallas vamp camp, Godric apologizes to all. "I will make ammends."
Short scene with Bill and Eric. Bill: " We have a score to settle." Then he punches Eric with vampire force. Eric: "It's done. I'm part of her now. Now get out of my way."
People, this thang ain't endin here, tellin ya right now.
Scene with Sookie and Bill. Sookie: "I gotta do something for Godric." Bill: "It's not our concern." Sookie: "NO! What if it was you?"
Godric has gone up to the roof of the building, where he apparently plans to walk into the sun. Eric follows him. Godric: "We don't belong here." Eric breaks down, sobbing those creepy blood tears, begging him not to do it. Godric: "Father. Brother. Son. Let me go." Eric is devastated: "I won't let you die alone." Godric is not hip with this, wants Eric to leave: "As your maker, I command you."
It's actually very touching, very emotional.
Sookie shows up, tells Eric: "I'll stay with him as long as it takes." Eric finally stumbles away.
It's just Godric and Sookie now, with the sun rising.
Godric: "Do you believe in God?"
Sookie: "Of course I do."
Godric: "You will care for him? Eric?"
Sookie avoids a direct answer, instead asking: "Are you very afraid?"
Godric: "I'm full of joy."
Sookie: "I'm afraid FOR you."
Godric: "A human with me at the end. And human tears. In this I see God."
He walks into the sunlight. And is gone.
Peeps, I didn't dare make any snarky remarks during this last bit. It's a fundamental question that we all face. How much of what we have done with our lives is worthy? How much is golden?
Peace out.
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