Once again, this is a review of the episode so there will be
SPOILERS!
I thought this was the perfect title, considering it mimics the fight for power going on in America right now, but I won't get into "real" politics... I will however open the debate over why there is a fairy names "Claudija".
The vampire take-over is well underway. They start with a TB factory-fire in Houston, TX. It also happens to be the largest TB factory in the world. The new regime are standing around some poor human who is about to be there victory dinner. Russell says they should pray to Lilith, and good old Steve Newlin joins in. Bill seems to be going along with the whole re-coming of Lilith, but Eric thinks it's a bunch of BS. Something's not right about the blood in that vial. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think it is pure fairy blood and that's why they feel so great when they drink it. Eric follows Molly (who wants no part of this holy war as well) and asks if there is a way to get out. Since Eric is actually loyal (and someone I'd want on my side), he does not want to leave Bill behind. They need a chancellor's blood to get into the elevator to get out of the compound. Eric also wants to save Nora and talks to her about how she found her faith. She says Salome snuck her into the chamber one day and let her taste the blood, and then she had an overwhelming sense of purpose and belonging. Eric seduces her and knocks her out, but Bill has sold Eric out and when the elevator opens Salome is there. Salome believes she has been chosen by Lilith with Bill as her partner. Being the smart, self-sustaining vampire Eric is, he submits for now.
I am loving Lafayette! Although I miss Jesus, and think that he and LaLa are the cutest couple, I am glad to see Season 1-2 Lafayette. The "bitch, pay me" Lafayette. Why shouldn't he be paid? I believe it's a lot of work having dead people jump into you. We find out that the "alleged" (sorry, I'm just not ready to believe the fairies yet) vampire who killed the Stackhouse's, was named Warlow. It doesn't have any connection for me, so I have no idea who it could be. I do NOT think it was Bill, which is the common theory right now... In the last episode the mysterious and scary Warlow appears to Sookie in some sort of ghostly form, so she has Lafayette come over to see if he can see or talk to this vampire spirit. Lafayette is getting burned out on being the ghost whisperer and tells Sookie, "I'm not Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost, though I am way better-looking". You go LaLa, I agree. He also adds that he "is not gmail for dead people". He starts hearing a multitude of voices and tells them to shut-up, then he filters out Gran. Gran says that she is happy that the fairies are watching out for Sookie, and leads them to a box under the bed. Sookie finds the accident report that the departed Sheriff Bud Dearborn filled out when he was just a deputy on the Bon Temps police force. LaLa wants to know why ghost's are so cryptic, why can't they just say what they want. Sookie decides to go see Bud and ask him if it were possible that vampires killed her parents. He says yes, there were bite marks on them, but at the time they thought it was gators. She gets a funny feeling and starts listening into his mind, but then Bud's mysterious girlfriend knocks her out.
Deja-vu. The Shreveport wolf-pack is totally under Russell's control, thanks to the stupid J.D.. Russell brings Steve to see them and offer them his blood. Russell and Steve rank as second cutest couple on TB. Of course the werewolves are still in the barn (do they hang out anywhere else?, I mean real wolves don't hang out in barns), when Russell and Steve walk in. The wolves clamor for the blood. Poor Martha is there with Emma (who is the only one that is shifted). Steve thinks the puppy is so cute, so Russell gives her to him as a present. Martha pleads with Russell and even J.D., who tells Russell she is a member of the pack and he can't take her. Russell tells him, you didn't think my blood was free and leaves.
To continue with the werewolves storyline, we see Alcide driving back to Jackson, MS. He has flashbacks to his teen years where he was very awkward looking. Thank Lilith that worked itself out. He is in the woods with some other teen weres getting a speech from his Dad about how pack life is important. Debbie is in the group and you can see that Alcide is already enamored with her. She had the same $2 hooker fashion sense back then. Alcide didn't have much to choose from, she was the only girl around. Okay, I'll quit beating up on the dead Debbie, as I do sympathize with her somewhat. Alcide chooses pack, and we see where that has gotten him. We finally get to meet Jackson Herveaux (the Terminator, in Terminator 2, as he will always be known to me). He lives in a trailor in the middle of nowhere, on disability, with a gambling problem. Werewolves have tough lives. Alcide tells the older Herveaux that he lost packmaster and was abjured from the pack. Does this mean that he and Ricki can't see each other anymore??? I think we're going to see a new side of Alcide in the last three episodes. He's not gonna take any shit from anyone anymore. He'll finally let that Alpha gene take over.
Andy and Jason are continuing the search for Hoyt. Jessica can't "feel" him anymore. Andy and Jason tell Sam and Luna that this is a police matter and that they need to stay out of it. Luckily they do not listen. As Jason and Andy are watching a video on line of the Obama-masked killers burning a vampire during the day, they find out there is a "dragon" in the group. A dragon, or grand-dragon was/is (unfortunately) a position in the KKK. They notice the boots that the dragon is wearing look familiar and figure out that they are the boots Bud Dearborn received at his retirement party. Bud is the dragon, or so they think! Sam and Luna are literally flies on the wall, or counter in this case, and hear this. They also realize that Bud is not at his house, but at his wife's families pig farm.
Back in Bon Temps proper, Terry goes to offer Patrick a fair fight to let the best man win, but Patrick proves he is a slime ball. Arlene goes in to open up Merlotte's (she does seem to be the only one that works). She gets to the door and Patrick puts a gun to her head and they go inside. He tells her to call Lafayette and tell him that Sam closed Merlotte's for the day. Patrick then tells her to call Terry and get him there. Patrick cannot be the one who dies. He has a child on the way, but Arlene's kids have their mother, so it's okay for Terry to die. Finally Patrick gets stabbed by Arlene with a hair pin, Terry gets the gun, and the dead Iraqi woman comes and tells Terry to do what is right, to kill Patrick. Patrick pleads with Terry and I almost thought he wouldn't do it, but he did. The woman released the Ifrit who consumes Patrick's body. Hopefully Terry and Arlene's ghost days are over now.
At Fangtasia Pam is watching the news about all of the TB factories that have been bombed. She is extremely worried about Eric, since she knows he went after Russell and she hasn't heard from him. Tara walks in with some boxes of TB and says if they store it now they should be good for a while. Pam tells her not to ration it, to keep giving it out so the vampires won't start feeding on humans. Tara doesn't understand Pam's rationale, but Pam tells her "we keep our heads down, our tits up, and the True Blood flowing". Tara realize's that Pam is worried about Eric and tells her that she can talk to her. They have a moment which is quickly interrupted by Pam telling Tara that they are not Oprah and Gail. Tara shoots back with "Suck me vampire Barbie". One point for Tara! I love this Pam/Tara banter. They go back out into the bar and some Marylin Manson, goth Sergeant Pepper looking vampire is on Eric's throne drinking from a human. Pam tells him to get off her maker's throne and out of Fangtasia. He tells her that the vampire monarch's have lifted the ban on drinking from humans in public, informs her that he is the new Sheriff of Area 5, and that all the vamps should grab a human and drink.
Sam and Luna fight over what to do about the Obama KKK, and in their arguing reveal that they love each other. Sookie wakes up next to a pig pen. She see's Hoyt in the next pig, but he's knocked out cold with oxycontin having wonderful dreams. Sookie's captors come in and we find out that it's not Bud who is the dragon, it is his lady friend Sweetie des Arts. I'm so glad they kept the name from the book, practically the only thing that matches up with the book. Sookie asks what happened to her for her to have so much hate. Of course her husband left her for a shifter. They want Sookie to drink ginger-ale with oxycontin and then throw her and Hoyt to the pigs to eat. That gave me a Hannibal flashback, creepy. They throw her in and whoosh, one of the pigs turns into a naked Sam. He catches her, gets her out and then fights Sweetie des Arts and her gang. Bud tries to kill Sam and Andy has to shoot him. Sweetie makes a getaway, but is caught by Luna who gives her a serious beat down.
Three episodes left? No, this season has felt way too short. To sum up this episode, no Andy, you are not the worst sheriff Bon Temps ever had, but you're the only one whose had his naked butt on Facebook!
