Eric, Pam and Gus all question Amber, Sarah’s
miraculously cured sister. Sadly, as well as being cured, Amber has fully
bought into her sister being a good and wonderful saviour – especially since she
IS the cure. Any further questions fail because Eric loses his every-so-fragile
temper and kills Amber. Pam and Gus are not impressed.
Holly and Andy are still seeking
their lost kids (Andy calling Adilyn’s phone on the assumption that no
teenager can ignore a ringing cell phone. Hey he may not have been a dad for
long but he picked it up quickly), and find Wade’s dad’s truck at the treehouse
and Adilyn’s phone. Andy calls Jessica (interrupting her, Bill and Sookie all
wallowing in Bill’s illness because wooooe. No I’m not sold on it because there’s
no way Bill will die, especially not with Eric on the track of the cure). She
confirms she has had Adliyn’s blood and would sense if she were in danger – and
hasn’t sensed it. Holly suggests that the kids have gone to Wade’s father’s
lakehouse –in Oklahoma.
They’ve actually gone with violet to her huge impressive
mansion (why was she slumming it with Jason again when she owned this?) and her
extensive vintage sex toy collection (really? This is ridiculously comic) and
sympathetic support for their love and totally understanding because she used
to sleep with her brother too. Uh-huh. Wade and Adilyn are all kind of
annoyingly cute about how they don’t want to use any of Violet’s toys but think
they have to play the other before mind reading solves the whole problem
Andy and Holly find that Wade and Adilyn aren’t at the
lake and Andy breaks down – Holly is there with some excellent reassurance.
Interlude in the Sookie/Bill/Jessica angst for Arlene to
have a sex dream about vampire Keith because she’s had his blood.
Back to Pam and Eric and Pam being very very impressed
with Eric – and Eric being more interested in killing Sarah than using her for
the cure. Gus has a plan – NuBlood, synthesised blood from Sarah with the cure
which he wants to cut Eric and Pam in. And he’s sure he can find Sarah because
the Japanese government is so eager to help businesses they will apparently put
spy satellites at their control (and, by extension, control of a yakuza. Oh True Blood). He needs Eric onside because he’s handsome
(yes we have a damn “no homo” moment) and can restore trust in a company which
has obviously lost a lot of public confidence with the whole plagued product
thing.
Back to the angst fest. Sookie encourages Jessica to get
in bed with her father figure and repeats her determined belief that there is a
miracle out there for Bill.
Time for a pointless flashback! Bill being forced into
marriage so they can have a stable family with lots of money to provide for his
mother’s old age. But luckily Bill liked Caroline, his wife
Sookie calls in Dr. Ludwig who could have improved this
whole show 8 bazillion times if she had been a regular character). She confirms
that Bill’s super-accelerated Hep V is due to Sookie being part fae – and she
heads for the hills when she hears that Niall is Sookie’s ancestor.
Sookie uses that inspiration to call Niall to come visit
and help. He helps herself to her cooking and explains that dwarfs like Dr.
Ludwig fear their royal majesty because of a whole lot of slaughtering caused in
the past. He’s also been sitting around watching things go wrong and letting it
because he quite liked Sookie and Bill to be separate. When she insists he uses
fae magic to show her the past – the birth of Bill’s child in the past. He
points out that’s a miracle and she was looking for a miracle. He points out
the miracles of everything all around and what can and cannot be changed
Hoyt has arrived in town with his new girlfriend Bridget
after his mother’s death; they go to Bellefleurs with a reunion with Arlene
(they haven’t had any problem with vampires in Alaska because of the near
constant summer daylight). Arlene is bemused that Hoyt doesn’t remember Jason –
and calls him; Jason quickly says to keep it that way. Jason joins them in
Bellefleurs and, most unnecessarily,
Jason can’t seem to take his eyes off Bridget. Even in the morgue while Hoyt is
crying. He does tell Hoyt a huge lie about how Maxine died but it’s a nice,
comforting lie
Sam has a big doubt moment to Arlene about Nicole leaving
Bon Temps and asks her if she’s right – are they all out of their mind to keep
on living in Bon Temps. Arlene responds with excellent wisdom, advice and insight.
It leaves her depressed though and Keith senses it. He goes to her when she’s
alone and they dance. She warns him she’s Hep V positive
Violet wakes up and joins Amber and Wade – and takes them
both prisoner. Jessica senses it and rushes to the rescue
Sookie goes to Bill and promises to stay with him to the end – and they have sex on the couch
Sarah Newlin is on the run and goes back to the old camp
of the Fellowship of the Sun. There she hallucinates a lot, seeing her old
activity with the Fellowship and Jason who tells her repeatedly how she’s going
to die. Her freaking out in the open field is seen by a Japanese satellite and passed
on to Gus. She continues to freak out in a corner while tormented by
hallucinations of Steve and Guru Sanbir Dutta and a weird Christian/Buddhist
conflict before she declares herself the messiah.
Not a whole lot happened this episode, I think it was
largely supposed to be an episode of development with a strong emphasis on
magic not curing everything and focusing on harsh reality. Arlene and how she
deals with the bad things in her life and living in Bon Temps. We have Andy and
Holly calling on her intuition and Jessica’s blood bond and still not finding
Wade and Adilyn
But most of all we have Sookie, faerie princess,
realising how little that means and that there is no magic bullet, no super
cure, no magic wand to wave and make all of her problems go away
And while everyone is facing the harsh realities of,
well, reality, Sarah Newlin is completely losing track
All of this aside, it was slow and pretty unnecessary and
felt, with Hoyt and Niall returning, more like a cameo of old-ish characters
coming back as a last nostalgia of the last season more than anything else. And
I have no idea why we’re being subjected to Bill’s flashbacks
