A drunken Sookie vomits on Alcide's shoes just as they're about to get it on, and if that ain't a mood killer, then her two other vampire love interests, Bill and Eric, show up to inform them they need to find Russell, and they need Sookie to do it. I'm loving her this season, and maybe it was just because she was drunk, but the way in which she hilariously resigned to the fact that even without Bill or Eric in her life that her life will always and forever more be a mess involving supernatural occurrences was a great character moment. Alcide takes them to Doug, an employee of Alcide who was glamoured the night Russell was broken free in the parking lot. Sookie uses her fairie powers (which she seems to have somehow skillfully mastered) to partially deglamour a very freaked out Doug, revealing that a woman with a necklace, a vampire Authority necklace at that, broke Russell free. They quickly move along to where Doug was glamoured to take Russell, because Eric and Bill receive a call from Molly saying find him by morning or die. It's the perfect horror movie set: the abandoned Babcock hospital/ asylum. Appropriately, a number of scary things occur, strange noises, rats, dead bodies, and live ones hanging from the ceiling. Y'know, the usual. But True Blood's style was to save the best until last, and that just what they did, after five episodes of waiting we finally got to see Russell! And he was all gentlemanly, seductive, creepy, and quite a bit angry all at the same time and I loved it all so much. Just as things got heated between a bed ridden Russell and Eric though, growling noises were heard, and it looked at though something has Alcide by the leg. Cut to credits. Oh, True Blood!
Tara took what seems to be a right of passage for a vampire on True Blood during this episode, working at Fangtasia. But as seems to be the way with Tara and Pam is that basically Pam has to force Tara to do everything as her maker which is getting old, and apparently for no pay either. Don't vampires have rights or something? Despite having worked at Merlotte's she wasn't very good. Number one rule of bartending, don't eat the the customers! Jessica takes pity on Tara and tries to tell her everything will get better with time, and that their urges aren't wrong, and I can't help but feel that vampires have never been a clearer metaphor for homosexuality on the show. I wasn't enjoying the vampire-gal pal thing, so I was glad that it didn't last long. A truly misguided Hoyt once again came to Fangtasia to get his fangbang on, and upon meeting Tara outside they both muse how unlike themselves they are. They moved this connection into the bathroom stall, but with Tara still learning, she took a little too much out of Hoyt. Jessica, who happened to be in the next stall with a female fangbanger of her own, heard this and was not impressed. Cue fast-forward vampire fighting. Also, what is someone actually wanted to use the bathroom in Fangtasia, to, y'know, go to the bathroom?
At The Authority Roman continues to have some inner turmoil of his own about the future of The Authority and their mainstreaming movement. Salome is acting increasingly suspicious and if it turns out she released Russell I will let out a long, indifferent and bored sigh. Nora also continues to praise Lillith and get punished with UV rays. Oh, The Authority, you're as useless as I always thought you were. After a long speech in which he considered giving in to the Sanguinista movement because they seem to have successfully infiltrated everyone and everything, Ramon reveals that no he, and the other members of the Authority with stay true to the cause of mainstreaming. Thanks for clearing that up.
After his little trip to faerie land Jason has a dream (or distorted memory) in which his parents suddenly have mortal neck wounds during breakfast on Christmas morning. He and Andy, both wake up naked at home to the call about the murder's of Sam's shifter friends, Suzanne and Emory. At the crime scene, Jason and Andy discuss and are both perturbed by their trip with the faeries, Jason saying that supernatural being have gotten away with murders for too long. They find wooden bullets, with a silver interior, and they conclude that however killed Suzanne and Emory may be after supernatural beings in general. After this, Jason visits his parents grave, and Sam goes to inform Luna of Suzanne and Emory's deaths. As Sam leaves, he is shot by a group of men with rifles on a pickup truck. Luna steps out to help Sam, but they shoot her twice, killing her. Emma then runs out to Luna, but Sam warns her of the gunmen. As the men aim their rifles, Emma shifts into a wolf and runs off, avoiding the bullets.
It seems Terry will be on the run for his life very soon, too. After Eller, their old navy buddy from Iraq, has Terry and Patrick tied to chairs in his creepy basement, Terry has some more flashbacks in which he sees a dying Iraqi woman, which Patrick tells him to kill. Terry does as he is ordered, but beforehand the dying woman curses them. When they burn the bodies he sees the face of the Ifrit fire demon in the flames. He tells Eller this and Eller is pleased that Terry believes him. Terry convinces Eller to untie them because otherwise the Ifrit will kill them all, he does so, but then Patrick knocks Eller unconscious saying that he and Terry are both crazy, and ties Eller up. Terry leaves and Patrick following him, telling him that they were on drugs that night and that he is just imagining everything. In Eller's basement he regains consciousness as a sudden rise in smoke surrounds him. In the smoke, a demonic looking creature reaches for Eller as he screams in terror.
Terrified of what his inner demon might have done to Sookie, Lafayette returns home and a bunch of crazy stuff happens, he sees the demon in the mirror again, and his praying statues come to life before he throws them to the floor. Scared, he calls for Jesus. Later, Lafayette wakes up on the couch to see Jesus' severed head, with his mouth sewn shut, on his coffee table. The head is also seen by Ruby Jean, Lafayette's mother, and she seems to understand what he is trying to say. She tells Jesus that she'll tell Lafayette what he's saying and screams for her son.
With Russell found, and a group intent on killing supernatural beings on the loose, this episode sets up a lot of interesting storylines. But others I'm still not so certain about, how much more can be done with Tara before it gets old? When will the Ifrit kill Terry and put us out of our misery? And can viewers really just be expected to pick up Lafayette's weirdo magic storyline when we just has faeries last week?
Rating: 3/5
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