- Having found Russell Edgington, the former King of Mississippi is taken prisoner and is put in a cell at the Authority. Not quite knowing what might be in store for them on their return, Bill and Eric are happy to see that Roman welcomes them back with open arms. Roman decides that he's going to execute Russell immediately. Russell has his own plans of course. Jason tells Sookie what he heard about their parents death and they head off to the faerie nightclub. There they're told their parents picked up a vampire who killed them. Terry tells Arlene that everyone's life is in danger; she thinks he's just off his meds. Sam and Luna survive the attack on them and Sam tells Andy he wants to help find the shooters. Jessica is at her wits end when Hoyt interprets her intervention as a sign of affection.—garykmcd
- Alcide is being dragged away by a wolf before he can transform and take it on. Wolves also attack Eric and Bill, leaving Sookie exposed. A still-weak but hungry Russell closes on Sookie, and is about to bite her when she suddenly manifests balls of faerie light from her hands, sending him flying against a wall.
Before he can recover, Eric and Bill subdue their wolf attackers, and Eric grabs Russell by the throat. But before he can end him, Bill comes up behind Eric, holding him at bay with a stake. He proposes that they take Russell alive, reasoning that if they succeed, the Authority might spare them. Eric doesn't believe him.
"Maybe you are ready to die. Maybe you're just bored after a thousand years. But you do not make that decision for me," Bill says. Before Eric can answer, the Authority's strike team lead by Councilman Kibwe swarms the building and tells the group that they'll take over from that point.
At Fangtasia, Tara and Jessica are in a knock-down fist fight, which Pam watches for a bit with an amused smile before calling it off. Tara barks at Jessica for attacking her in "my house," which Pam doesn't like one bit. She drags Tara into the back and reminds her progeny that Fangtasia is her house, that Tara just works there. But then she smiles.
"You did good out there, the fighting. Made me proud," Pam says, adding, "proud the way a human is proud of a well-trained dog. Nothing more."
Terry and Patrick are leaving their comrade's compound when they see the smoke and flame of the efreet, and break into a run.
Russell hurls curses at the Authority's team and Kibwe, and assures them they'll have to pay once he's fully restored. As Russell is being led away the council member asks Bill and Eric why Sookie and Alcide are there, and they make up a story about finding them, and Doug, along the way. "They know too much," Kibwe says, but Bill assures them that they'll be glamoured. The councilman agrees, leaving one of the team behind to witness it.
Bill goes to Sookie and tells her to look him in the eyes. Eric approaches Alcide, bares his fangs and bites his finger to heal him with his blood. "We owe you, wolf," Eric says. Then he glamours Alcide. He tells Alcide that he'll remember nothing of the evening, but he'll always protect Sookie with his life. Alcide drowsily agrees. Then Eric adds that Alcide will keep his hands off of Sookie, romantically speaking and, in fact, from this moment on he'll find Sookie a bit disgusting. (Now that is what we call a c---block, ladies and gents.)
Bill tells Sookie that she'll remember nothing of the night, nothing of him or Eric. It will be as though we never met, Bill tells Sookie. But from her facial expression, it looks like she'll remember perfectly. Bill tells Sookie to live her life as she was meant to live it, in the sun with others like her. As a human. Meanwhile, Councilman Kibwe finds Doug and Russell's other victims. He tells them that he wishes to question them and then, at their request, says he'll glamour their memories away.
As Luna and Sam are wheeled into the hospital -- both alive -- Emma runs to a house as a wolf pup and yelps at the door. Martha Bozeman, her werewolf grandmother, opens it and takes her in.
Hoyt finds Jessica sulking in the corner at Fangtasia and tells her that he knows that she still loves him. Jessica adamantly insists that it's over. Jessica aggressively jumps on him and he tells her that she can do whatever she wants to him, but a defeated Jessica instead gets up and leaves. "Hoyt," she says before she exits, "this is not you."
Alcide is driving Sookie home, but doesn't remember how they got where they are, and doesn't know why Sookie's crying.
Councilman Kibwe puts Bill and Eric into the back of a truck and tells them that the Authority will be pleased that they captured Russell. They ask if this means they'll be pardoned, and the councilmember tells them it's in Lilith's hands. As Bill and Eric are taken away, the councilmember moves to another truck, filled with Russell's victims...and Doug, who led Bill, Eric, Alcide and Sookie to Russell. They just want to get home.
The Councilman smiles and asks them to fasten their seatbelts. After they comply, he bares his fangs and, with lightning speed, zips through the vehicle and slaughters everyone.
Jason is napping on the couch, but awakens to see a man who he believes to be his father. He reminisces about his mother and father, remembering that his father always used to call him "champ," and that it made him feel good. The man smiles and listens. "I swear to God, and to you both, I'm going to find that vampire that killed you, and make him pay for what he did you our family."
The man nods and says, "The only thing you have to fear, is --" and then Jason wakes up, for real, and alone.
Back at Sookie's, Alcide comes downstairs in the morning to find Sookie sitting alone in the kitchen. He asks if Sookie's OK, then has flashbacks -- false ones -- of the two of them having sex. Alcide asks what happened, and Sookie tells him that stuff happened. He obviously doesn't remember anything, so Sookie reaches for him. Alcide recoils, and Sookie realizes what Eric did as part of his glamour. She then makes Alcide hold on to her hand and returns his memories of Russell and the asylum to him. Alcide suddenly flares up at the trouble Bill and Eric have caused and storms off.
"Bye," Sookie sullenly mutters. "I'm just going to stay here and quietly slip into a coma."
At the hospital Sam goes to find Luna, right at the moment that Martha brings Emma to see Luna. Martha tells Luna he doesn't want to compete with her or take Emma away from Luna, but she just wants to be in her granddaughter's life. Luna tells Martha that someone is hunting shifters, and asks if she'll keep Emma safe. Martha agrees.
Terry and Patrick are driving down the road when Terry throws himself from Patrick's car, then tries to run away. Patrick chases him down, and as he wrestles Terry to the ground, we see Terry flashback to Iraq, and the woman cursing them. This time, Patrick gives the order and we see that it's Terry who shoots and kills the woman. Terry tells Patrick that they're damned and there's nothing they can do.
Lafayette goes to visit Ruby Jean, who tells him that Jesus appeared to her too and wants to talk to him. Lafayette asks why she saw him, and she says that she doesn't know, that the electricity has always run through her. She then tells him to save Jesus, sending him on his way with a few anti-gay epithets delivered in a loving voice.
At Merlotte's, Sookie, Arlene and Holly are complaining about men when Jason walks in and tells Sookie about the faerie nightclub. Sookie commands Jason to take her to the location.
Sam finds Andy and demands that he help him find the group of men hunting shifters. Alcide returns to the Shreveport pack, where Martha's husband is messing around with one of the younger females. Alcide announces that he's not going to let anyone take down his pack and asserts his right as Packmaster. Martha's husband has made himself Packmaster, unchallenged, and won't back down. Alcide formally challenges him and, although most of the room says nothing to support him, Rikki stands up to be his second.
Bill and Eric return to the council, where their harnesses are removed and Roman toasts them with rare, 18th century Austrian hemophiliac blood. Salome tells Eric that Nora confessed to being a Sanguinuista while they were gone, much to Eric's surprise. Roman tells Eric and Bill that by delivering Russell to the Authority, it means that they're with him. Bill plays along, but Eric will only say he's a "pacifist."
Roman laughs and tells Eric that he's too cool to admit he believes in anyone but himself.
Salome tries to excuse herself by saying that she wants to interrogate Russell, but Roman tells her not to bother, that they're just going to execute him -- as soon as possible. Salome seems upset about this decision, but offers to give him an extra dose of intravenous silver and bring him forth.
Eric asks to visit Nora in her cell, telling Roman that she's his sister, which is a surprise to the rest. He's not happy that Eric will miss the execution, but Bill assures the council he'll be present.
Terry goes to Arlene at Merlotte's and tells her everything about what happened in Iraq, and that he's cursed. She's shocked, but not as shocked as when Terry tells her that he's being hunted by an evil smoke monster, and that he has to leave her to save her. Arlene says that she'll help him out, because her kids depend on them, but that he needs to get back on his meds. Terry tries to drive home the point that if he stays with them, they'll all die. Arlene tells him that he needs to go, and Terry thanks her for taking a chance on him. Then he leaves.
Jason takes Sookie to the field where the faerie club manifested, and at first she doesn't see anything. Then she senses it, and hears it and walks into what seems to be apparent nothingness. Jason can't follow her at first, but then she drags him in. Inside Sookie finds Hadley and Claudine's brother Claude as well.
Andy returns to the weapons store to investigate the shifter hunters, and as he's questioning the guy behind the counter, Sam walks in and starts looking at equipment. The man behind the counter suddenly seems very interested in Sam. As the clerk is talking to Andy and watching Sam, he slowly reaches under the counter and pulls out a loaded gun. Before he can aim it and pull the trigger, Sam puts a crossbow bolt through his chest. A shocked Andy thanks Sam for saving his life, and Sam explains that he could sense the man shifting into survival mode.
Outside of Fangtasia, a vampire is draining Hoyt. He stops because his heart is slowing down, but Hoyt shrugs and tells him to keep going. "To your funeral," the vamp says, and leans in to keep drinking. But a van pulls up and a man in an Obama mask leans out of the window and shoots the vamp with a wooden bullet, delivering the True Death. A surprised Hoyt's eyes fly open, and one of his attackers recognizes him. He grabs Hoyt and puts him in the van, telling him he's saved Hoyt's life.
As Jason and Sookie are talking to Claude, at the faerie club, Sookie asks if it's true that vampires killed her mother and father. Claude says that he only knows what Claudine told him: a vampire ambushed their parents because he was drawn to something he smelled in the back seat of their car. In a flashback, we see Sookie's parents in their car stopping on a bridge so they don't hit a man standing in the middle of the road. Then we see the man rifling through the backseat and finding a bandage with Sookie's blood on it.
Sookie angrily says she doesn't believe him. She tries to manifest her faerie fire but it fails, and a group of faeries in the bar shoot their beams at her as she screams.
At Authority headquarters, Eric is standing outside of Nora's cell, but Nora is so busy praying that she doesn't notice him until a harnessed, screaming Russell is dragged by, and Salome leans towards the bars, telling her Russell is going to be executed that very night.
Nora's eyes open and she suddenly looks ecstatic. "It's happening. It's finally happening," Nora says. "God's plan, made manifest by her. Thank you Lilith. Thank you, she who transcends death."
Eric, suddenly dismayed, asks Nora if she released Russell. She says no, that it's a miracle, all part of "her plan." Eric rushes back to the execution.
In the main chamber Russell is on his knees, cursing Roman and the Council. He yells that he gorges on blood because he likes it. Roman pats him on the head and checks his smartphone as Russell tells him he was an arrogant pain even in the Renaissance, and accuses Roman of executing him to satisfy his ego. Roman silences him with raging bellow.
"This is about honor, instead of chaos," Roman screams. "This is about mercy, instead of sadism. This is about balance. This is about peace."
Roman clicks the app on his phone that's supposed to activate the harness, but nothing happens. In a heartbeat, Russell is on his feet and slams Roman down on the table, and has a stake raised above his head.
"Peace is for pussies!" Then Russell slams the stake into Roman's chest. Roman's face screams and contorts as the True Death comes.
In her cell below, Nora throws her head back and raises her arms, her eyes closed in rapture. "Praise her," she whispers.
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