SPOILER ALERT: This
is a recap of the episode, so if you haven’t watched it and don’t want to know
what happens, exit now… Also, the
style of this blog is written scene by scene to keep the same artistic
narrative as the show (with a few exceptions).
QUICK LOOK: The Bellefleur’s try to manage their
pain, as does Eric. Billith works
on saving the vampires and Jason gets more than he bargained for.
The end of the last
episode was very hard for me, and not just because I had to watch Sookie and
Ben have kinky fairy sex. I read
rumors that at least one main character would die this season. It had been rumored that it would be a
vampire and would be Eric. I am
relieved that Eric did not bite the dust (at least not yet), but even though
they gave us clues for the last few episodes I was prepared and surprised at
Terry’s passing. A moment of
silence for Terry Bellefleur, one of my favorite characters from the books and
the show. The loss feels even
harder because even though he wasn’t without sin, he was pretty damn close and
was genuinely a nice guy.
Still in mid-breakout, Eric
is watching the bottlers put Hep-V in the TruBlood supply. He tells Willa to get back into general
population and tell Pam, Tara, and Jessica not to drink the Trublood they are
handing out. He promises to come
back for them, but for now he must get Nora out of there. One of the guards finds the dead doctor
and glamored guard in Eric’s cage.
He tips off the rest of the compound, which causes a distraction that
helps Jason break out of the group so he can find Jessica. Eric and Nora hide under a delivery
truck, but a guard stops it before it drives off and uses a mirror to look
under the truck. The guard catches
a glimpse of Eric’s face, but before he can do anything Eric pulls him under
and imitating the guards voice, tells the driver it’s okay to go. Eric hangs on to the guard until they
are safely out of the building, then drops him and holds Nora closely.
Pam has been put in
solitary as a reward for helping the shrink. Willa finds her in her room doing yoga. Pam is appalled that Eric sent Willa to
save her. Willa asks her to keep
her sarcasm down or the guards will hear and passes the message on about the
contaminated TruBlood. Pam wants
to know why and Willa explains it has been contaminated with Hep-V, which is
some new disease that the doctors injected Nora with. Eric has taken her from the compound to try and save
her. Pam cautions Willa not to
tell any of the other vampires other than Tara or Jessica about the blood
because the guards will know something is up if all of the vamps stop drinking
the rations. Willa offers to use
the lady doctor’s severed hand to get Pam out of solitary, but she tells her
she is fine there for now. Willa
sneaks back in to gen pop throwing the jacket and arm in a trash receptacle
before the gate closes.
Eric arrives at Bill’s
house with Nora. He begs Bill to
let Nora drink his blood to see if it will heal her. Nora protests.
She doesn’t want any of Lilith’s blood and would rather die. Eric yells
at Bill to do it, but Bill says it is her dying wish and he can’t take that
from her. Eric asks Bill to leave
them alone.
Sara is practicing her
“elocution classes for teaching the gospel” as she arrives at the Governer’s
house. She is suspicious, noticing
the absence of the guards. She
finds Truman’s severed head declaring he was a decent man whose death will not
be in vain and she kisses him.
(YUCK!) She proclaims that
his death was part of God’s plan and “God is good”. (Well, God may be Bill…) The senator from season 1 (Lafayette’s “good friend”)
arrives at Sara’s beckon call. She
wants to stay the course with Truman’s plan. The senator reminds her that the person who will become
Lieutenant Governor is a vampire sympathizer and he doesn’t see Burrell’s
vision coming to light. She
reveals that her plan is to cover up the Governor’s death for a few days until
they can get the contaminated TruBlood on the store shelves. They will tell the press that the compound
was attacked, but the Governor got away and is at another facility. She knows the Sentator has “fixers”
because of his sinful lifestyle and she proposes he cover in the legislature
while she will be Burrell’s presence at camp and take care of all vampire
issues. The Senator is impressed
with Sara, and she declares that when God’s message is clear she is a truly
unstoppable woman.
Ben and Sookie are all
cuddles in the sunny fairy plain. They
talk and joke. He assumes she is
accepting his proposal because she gave herself to him. They have a joking tiff about women’s
rights, but Sookie hears someone crying.
It’s Arlene, who is at the cemetery crying on Terry’s fresh grave. Sookie
tells Ben she has to go comfort her friend, but promises to come back for him. Arlene tells Sookie that Terry was
shot. (Do we not get a short
funeral to say goodbye? I mean he’s been here since the beginning of the show. It just feels wrong.) Arlene explains how she had the vamp
glamour Terry and how happy he had been the day he died. She doesn’t know how she is going to
tell her kids that Terry is dead.
Sookie reminds Arlene that she is tough and she can get through this
because her children will need her to.
Sam calls Lafayette from
a pay phone to see how things are going.
Lafayette tells Sam about Terry and he is speechless. He decides he must go back to Bon Temps
for Terry and his friends. He
suggests Nicole have her mother come pick her up.
Arlene returns home and
asks Holly how are kids are. Holly
says they are okay, but they know something is going on. When Arlene walks in she notices
Lafayette and goes off on him. She
demands to know what else Terry told him and what is in the box. She calls him a liar and a voodoo
queer. Andy takes her in another
room to calm her down while Sookie and Lafayette go see what is stored in the
box. Lafayette jokes that “maybe
this time yo ass will be kicked”.
They go to the bank and open the safe deposit box finding a life
insurance policy Terry had issued three days before. They realize he planned whatever happened to him and now
they have to go share the news with the family.
At the compound, Jason
gets Jessica alone. He says he’s
there to help her, but she tells him he doesn’t have to do that for her. He says his heart is clear and he wants
to do right by her. She keeps
refusing and says she belongs there so Jason wonders if she has Stockholm
syndrome. She reveals to him that
she knows what is going to happen and she is okay with that. He confesses he was in the room earlier
when they were going to force her and the other vamp to have sex. She explains that he can’t stop bad
things from happening to her. She wants
him to go on being the sweet loveable man that he is. She requests his help so she can find James and thank him
face to face.
Before Nicole’s mom picks
her up, she gets in the shower with Sam and they say goodbye. She promises never to forget Sam or to
tell anyone about the shifters or weres.
She also gives him her phone number in case they want to see each other
again under different circumstances.
Jason brings James into a
conference room where Jessica is waiting.
Jess asks Jason for some privacy.
She confides in James that until she met him she thought all vamps were
monsters and wonders why he didn’t give in to the guards and have sex with
her. He doesn’t believe that
becoming a vampire forfits your soul.
He tries to do what he thinks is right. As punishment for not succumbing to their rules, the campers
pulled one of his fangs. Jess gives
him a gift in return by warning him about the contaminated TruBlood. He claims he feels like a fool because
he never really believed he would live for an eternity, but now that death is
so close he wishes there were things he could do before he dies. She tells him that she really wants to
make love to him. She has never
had sex with a vampire before and would like to do so with him because she
likes the humanity within him and wants to feel it. (Poor Jason, having to stand guard outside while your girl
is getting it on in the conference room.)
Eric finds Bill leaving
the house during the day and wonders how he can day walk. Bill says he will have to tell Eric
later, but right now he needs to find Warlow. Eric declares he will do anything Bill asks if he will give
Nora his blood. It was the last
place he wanted to go, but he was desperate. Bill had a stake through his heart and survived. Eric even stoops by telling Bill he
believes he is divine. Bill
confides in Eric his visions of the future and asks Eric about the white
room. Bill insists he must go get
Warlow, but Eric says he doesn’t care about Warlow. (Of course, he has no idea who or what Warlow is exactly.) Bill explains that drinking Warlow’s
blood has allowed him to walk in the sun, not Lilith’s and that one way or
another Eric will end up in the white room when the roof opens. Eric agrees to help Bill with whatever
he wants once he gives Nora his blood.
Bill concedes and let’s Nora drink from him. Eric explains to Nora that he had to do something to try and
save her and she says she understands.
She doesn’t feel any different after drinking Bill’s blood so Eric
thinks Warlow’s blood may help.
Nora doesn’t believe it will, but Eric demands that Bill go get
him. He turns away and Bill and
Nora exchange a look mentally with her saying, “Please take care of Eric” and
Bill responding “I will”. (At
least that’s what I thought it was about.)
After retrieving the
insurance policy from Terry’s safety deposit box, Lafayette and Sookie go back
to the Bellefleur house. Andy
intercepts them telling them now is not the best time to talk with Arlene. She is drunk. Actually she had to be more than drunk because she was
flying pretty high. Lafayette
distracts her by taking her into the kitchen and putting together an old family
recipe guaranteed to help her not feel anything. Adalyn is in the room and Sookie picks up on her fairy
vibe. They have a short telepathic
fairy conversation, but Bill arrives.
Sookie responds to his walking in the daylight by saying “Holy fuck”,
which is probably what I would’ve said as well. Andy tells everyone to leave the room. Bill gives his regrets to Arlene about
Terry, but she thinks she is so wasted that she is imagining him there until
she feels him with her hands. Her
response is “Fuck me”. (So no one
seems too thrilled about his vampire day-walking thing. Does Bill intend to share this secret
with all vampires, or only a select few?)
Bill expresses his sorrow for Andy’s loss and says he knows there is no
greater pain in the world than losing a child. He lost one of his children when he was human. He sympathizes with Andy by saying he
knows Andy is protective of his children, but says he is protective of
Jessica. Andy reluctantly (and
without much choice) shakes Bill’s hand in a sort of truce. In the corner, Lafayette asks Sookie
how in the world Bill can walk in the daytime. She responds that all she has time to think about today is
Arlene and her kids. Bill
approaches her and asks if they can speak. Lafayette leaves the room saying, “I’m so fucking glad I
took my beta blockers today, deuces.”
Bill reveals that Tara, Pam and Jessica are being held at a vampire
death camp and are in trouble. He
needs Warlow to save them and imparts on her if she doesn’t help there will be
blood on both of their hands. (He
seems to be blaming her for the fairy girl’s deaths as well.)
Pam gets escorted to
another therapy session. She
confesses to the doctor that she is not hungry for blood, but instead is horny. She explains that she has a high sex
drive from her time as a human prostitute. He questions her about her sexual desires (and creepily gets
enticed by them) and she bargains getting into the general population by having
sex with him. Sara corners Jason
and tells him the Governer is dead and his leverage over her is gone. She orders a guard to cut his wrist and
throws him in the female vampire general population where there are plenty of
hungry female vampires. As all the
women go crazy Tara comes to his rescue, but the dominant vamp that’s been
watching Tara claims Jason is hers.
Alcide takes Jackson back
to his camper in Jackson. Papa
Herveaux tries to talk his son into staying there with him and not rejoining
the pack. He doesn’t think the
Herveaux men are cut out for pack life and one day Alcide will realize it. When Alcide gets back to the pack in
Shreveport he tells them Nicole and Sam are dead, but Rikki knows he is lying
because the pack abducted Nicole and her mother. The pack is pissed that Alcide has lied to them and he is up
the creek without a paddle.
While Bill is out Eric pleads with Godric to save
Nora. Godric doesn’t answer, but
Nora recalls how Eric found her so long ago when she was dying of the
plague. Eric asked Godric to make
her a vampire. We get a flashback
of London in 1665 (I love Alexander Skarsgard, but he needs to work on his
British accent). Nora is a
favorite mistress to the King who asks Eric to go fetch her from the depths of
the sick houses and bring her back to safety. By the time Eric finds her she has already contracted the
plague. He tells her the King
tasked him with taking her back to London, but she exclaims that her death will
be her own. Eric believes she is
courageous and Nora tells him he has a look of destiny about him. He promises that his father can heal
her fully and she will live forever.
Back in the present he says he promised her she would live forever, but
she reminds him that she only asked to live fully and he gave her that. He holds her as she turns into vampire
goo and once she is gone he breaks down.
He looks in the doorway and sees Bill standing there and Eric doesn’t
look too happy.
End credits…
So as I asked earlier, why didn’t we get some kind of
funeral or dedication to Terry? He
was already in the ground so it seemed to me that it had already occurred or
there wasn’t one. Arlene’s kids had no idea what was going on until she told
them later. Will Sookie hand
Warlow over to Bill to save her friends?
Will she be upset when she finds out what Warlow did to Niall? Is Eric going to retreat in darkness
and blame Bill for Nora’s death?
And what will happen to poor Alcide? He made it a few days longer than JD, but after that great
speech he gave the pack last season he didn’t seem to enforce his vision on
them. I think he can handle his
own, but I have a feeling Sam will show up to help.
Until next week, Bon Chance!
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