Picking right up where we left off, Pam vamp-zooms over to the salon and pulls Tara out of the tanning bed. The baby vampire is a mess, burned and bubbling, and she spits hate into her maker's face. Pam goes uber-bitchy and commands her, as her maker, to stop trying to kill herself. Tara is furious but helpless. Looks like Pam is going to have to be a little more hands-on with her obstinate progeny than she had hoped.
Lafayette comes out of Merlotte's right as Alcide drives off in a fury, leaving a weeping, guilty Sookie behind. Lafayette is pretty furious too, saying that all he wanted was for her to keep her mouth shut. He snaps at her that she's the fucking angel of death, leaving a trail of bodies behind her. She whimpers, feeling sorry for herself, but the thing is, Lafayette is not wrong. Sookie flails about, getting people to save her, and she always makes it through, but she brings death and destruction wherever she goes. Next, she goes to Jason's house and confesses to killing Debbie - she's freaking out but she asks her brother to arrest her. He tells her to calm down and stop acting crazy. She keeps talking, telling him about Lafayette being there, and Tara getting shot and turned into a vampire. Then Jessica comes into the room, wearing Jason's sweats: Tara's a fucking vampire?
After having let Bill and Eric go to start tracking down Russell, the Guardian and Salome discuss what to do with Nora, who is shrieking in a basement cell. He wants Salome to get Nora to open up, give him some names of accomplices who have infiltrated the Authority. Yawn.
Pam takes the rapidly-healing Tara back to Fangtasia and is surprised (and thrilled) to see Eric there. She's less thrilled to see Bill, of course. While Eric and Pam talk - and Eric gets a little nasty, trying to learn if Pam knows anything about Russell Edgington, but Pam knows nothing, and cries, telling him that she is loyal only to him, and he relents, but doesn't tell her anything about the Authority - Bill and Tara go into the club's office. He talks to her a little about what she's feeling as a newbie, then he asks if Sookie is okay. Tara tells him to stop, stop asking about Sookie and worrying about her, gotta move on: "She's always safe, because there's always some fool there to take a bullet for her. Always." Out in the club, Pam steels herself and lashes out at Eric, snarling that she would die for him and if she means so little to him - if he trusts her less than Bill, "or a werewolf, for Chrissakes," then he should release her and let her go. Later, Eric and Bill regroup, trying to figure out who knows about Russell since Pam and Tara know nothing. Tomorrow they'll cast the net wider.
At the Bon Temps sheriff's office, the mayor swings by and, to thank Andy for clearing a ticket for his son, invites him and Jason out to party that night. Over at Merlotte's, Sam notices a couple of his shapeshifter friends in one of the booths. They invite him to go for a run with them tonight and he agrees to meet them later. When he does meet them, they're both death with bullet holes in their heads. Oops. Sookie tries to get through her shift at the restaurant but she can't block out all the customers' thoughts as they see her and think about what happened to Tara. (How did the whole town find out? Small town gossip, I guess, after Tara busted out of the walk-in.) Meanwhile, Lafayette goes outside for a smoke and see Sookie's little yellow car. Before he can stop himself, the brujo demon bursts out and it looks like he curses Sookie's car.
Alcide finds Debbie's parents at their motel and tells them what happened to Debbie. Well, he doesn't really: he lies to protect Sookie. He says that their daughter was killed but tells them it was Marcus who did it and that he killed Marcus for it afterwards. Everyone gets all upset and Debbie's dad starts to wolf out, lunging for Alcide's throat. His wife talks him down, telling Alcide to get out and leave them alone.
And then we have this epic fail of a scene that is so out of place for this foolish show. Patrick and Terry are driving through South Dakota, looking for the former squad member who may be setting the fires, when Terry has a flashback to Iraq. Through a terrible mistake, his squad ends up killing a whole bunch of innocent villagers. Then Patrick shakes him and Terry snaps out of it. The scene is so jarring and so far removed from any of the regular True Blood silliness. Not cool. Hopefully this storyline won't take up too much more time this season. At any rate, they find the guy's bunker and, judging from the weaponry and the general decor, he's batshit crazy. Also, he's behind them with a big ol' gun. Oops.
Back at the Authority, the cabal of chancellors is keeping an eye on Bill and Eric's GPS markers, while the Guardian and Salome interrogate Nora. Y A W N. Lots of talking but then Salome gets in close, coaxing, and Nora whispers in her ear. In Bon Temps, as Sookie drives home after her shift, her car's brakes fail and the accelerator floors itself. She jumps out of the car just before it slams into a tree. Sookie is shaken but okay. She makes her way home on foot and starts drinking.
When Jason shows up at Andy's office that evening to go out with the sheriff, Andy is ranting about the Debbie Pelt case. Jason tries to calm him down but Andy is all het up ... until Jessica vamp-zooms in and glamours Andy into forgetting all about Debbie. She did it to protect Sookie and Jason thanks her for it, calling her a good friend. After Jessica leaves, the mayor shows up in a limo with three hotties. The girls put bags over the men's heads so they can't see where they're going. This is because the girls are fairies and they take the men to a "club" in the fairy dimension, full of light and color and sexy dancers. Fuckin' fairies. Andy finds that one fairy woman he made love to last season, while Jason forgets ALL about his new celibacy with a gorgeous fairy.
Pam finds Eric waiting for her when she gets up for the night. He tells her that the mission he and Bill are on is doomed and that he has to protect her. She is his only progeny, his one legacy, and he is going to release her so the Authority won't come after her. It's a very sweet scene, and they are both very good and sad about it. Eric says the words to sever their blood ties, to renounce his dominion over her, to release her. Pam bursts into tears when it is done, clutching at him. "You were born into greatness," he tells her, gently, "You're a maker now. Our blood will thrive." Meanwhile, Bill goes home and he and Jessica tear the place apart, looking for listening devices. Jessica tells him that she believes that he and Sookie are good together and that he should check on her, because she's a mess over what's happened with Debbie and Tara. Speaking of Tara, Pam wakes her up and brings her a willing human victim. Tara is reluctant at first but Pam encourages her (commands her, actually), teaching her to drink without draining, whispering about the power and glory of being a vampire. Aw, Pam's being a good mommy!
The Guardian and Salome join the chancellors. Without too much ado, the Guardian announces that Nora told him the name of the traitor in their midst. He walks over to one of the chancellors, the one that is the little kid (the others are the Doctore from Spartacus, the Texan woman and the scary Swedish dude from Hell on Wheels), and promptly stakes him, splashing blood and gore everywhere. Whatever. We didn't spend enough time with these vampire chancellors for me to give a shit about losing one, even one that looks like a child. I don't know if this is supposed to make the Guardian seem scary or unhinged, but really it's just making me dread every scene set at the Authority.
Sookie is pretty drunk - cutely singing the wrong words to The Pina Colada song - when Lafayette calls to see if she's okay. She tells him what happened and he realized that it was the brujo demon. He wants to tell her the truth but then Alcide shows up and she hangs up on Lafayette. Alcide: "You smell like mint and peaches." Sookie: "And you smell like Aqua Velva." They talk and she starts pouring him drinks. After quite a few of them, she climbs on top of him and they start going at it, because Alcide has always liked her. Just then, Bill and Eric show up, noting that Sookie seems okay. He decides that they're going to interrupt her (because she might be "useful" in the search for Russell) because he's a jealous dick.
Back at the fucking fairy club, Jason runs into his cousin Hadley who lets it slip that this place is a safe haven for fairies hiding out from vampires. She also lets slip that vampires killed his and Sookie's parents, not a flood as the Stackhouse siblings have always been told. Other fairies whisk Cousin Hadley away, ignoring Jason's questions. He gets agitated, Andy has his back and they both get thrown out of the place, landing flat on their backs in the meadow. They both yelp as two fairies appear, hands a-glowing and aimed right at them. End episode.
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