'True Blood' season 3, episode 8, 'Night on the Sun': Revenge is a dish best served to the cold-blooded.
It's payback time on "
True Blood"!
For Eric, it's been a thousand years in coming, and it couldn't have
come at a better time for Bill and Sookie, though Debbie Pelt lives to
crazy another day. We get a little movement on our subplots, some we
care about (Lafayette and Jesus, Tara's PTSD) and some we don't
(Arlene's baby daddy, the entire Mickens clan), but all quibbles fall
away in the last five minutes, with an epic showdown on two fronts.
(Well, one front and one back, if you know what I mean.)
From the beginning: Sookie comes back to life thanks to the blood of her undead boyfriend (who gave her the near-death experience in the first place). She's screaming, of course. Bill is incredibly sorrowful and tells Sookie that he couldn't stop from feeding on her because he had been starved, but Sookie says she doesn't know if she can ever
forgive him. Bill says he doesn't want (re: deserve) to be forgiven. It's a heartbreaking scene, with Bill telling Sookie that she deserves to live a full life in the light, and it's too bad he looks like Alice Cooper when he starts crying tears of blood, because it did ruin the moment a little for me. They break up. Sniff.
Talbot is not pleased when Sophie-Anne and her retinue of animals move into Russell Edgington's home, particularly after having he was up half the night burying werewolves under the gazebo and trying to get bloodstains out of the 500 threat count linens. Russell tells to Talbot that he killed the Magister, and when Talbot starts to freak out, Russell tells him it will be fine; he sent a huge check to the vampire rights group fighting for vampire rights amendment, so he's covered.
Eric, still wearing the same blood-splattered baby blue sweater, interrupts to tell Russell that Debbie Pelt is in his study: "They killed my Cooter!" Debbie says. Russell gives her his permission to go after Sookie, though when Eric questions the wisdom of this, Russell questions Eric's loyalty. Eric seethes that he's been looking for Russell for a thousand years ... that is, a leader to unite us all! How can Russell have survived three thousand years and not see through Eric? He's not that hot. Okay, he is. But still.
Rene returns! Sorta. Arlene dreams that Rene, her serial killer boyfriend dispatched at the end of the first season by one Miss Sookie Stackhouse, is with her in her bedroom, and he's mighty pleased that she's carrying his child. Drat. There goes my theory that Arlene got pregnant during one of MaryAnn's orgies and we'd get a black-eyed steer for a baby.
Bill comes back to Bon Temps; Jessica is thrilled because Daddy is home! Finally someone to clean up after her messes. But Bill releases her and tells her to leave. Jessica admits she drained someone in his absence, and she really needs him to teach her this whole vampire thing. When she breaks down in tears, he relents. He starts training Jessica, but they take a break for Jessica to urge Bill to get back together with Sookie. Bill admits he still loves Sookie, "which is why I have to let her go." Jessica admits she loves Hoyt, but she needs to let him be with
someone who's good enough for him.
Alcide takes Sookie home to Bon Temps, and she offers up her guest bedroom to him. Jason shows up with Sheriff Andy and tries to convince her to press charges "for domestic ... something" against Bill. Who else is sick of Jason's fake-deputy act? It stopped being cute a while back. Sookie defends Bill, but says it's over between them. Jason tells her he'll kill Bill, and Andy tells him he won't be killing anybody. Jason turns to Andy and tries to signal to him not to think about Eggs, which has the effect, of course, of tipping off Sookie. Jason tries to storm
out, saying he'll get that fanger, but Sookie takes him to task for being a bigot. He leaves. The next day, Jason is playing with his shotgun (and that is not a euphemism), when Crystal shows up at his door, wet all over with a nasty-looking black eye. She says she swam so they couldn't track her scent. (Hint! But Jason doesn't pick up on it.) Crystal tells him she got beat up because she told her fiance Felton she didn't want to marry him, which pleases Jason. Except for the beat-up part. They kiss. And then they do more. When Crystal goes into the
bathroom to take a shower, Jason grabs the shotgun and leaves.
Lafayette ministers to Tara, who won't yet talk about what happened with Franklin. Later, Tara dreams of Franklin and his nasty fangs, and they kiss, then she wakes up. Lafayette's crazy mother Ruby Jean shows up his house, saying the vampires are coming for him. But it's Jesus who comes by. He makes a few digs about Lafayette's drug dealing, but they're interrupted by Ruby Jean has knife. Jesus talks her down. Later, Lafayette tells him he's been trying to get out of drug dealing, but
he's interrupted by Jesus's lips.
Ma Mickens shows up in pitiful dog form at Sam's rental house. Sam makes her pack up her stuff and leave; she says she knows Joe Lee is no good, but she can't help loving him, and she'll always love Tommy. Then, of course, she asks Sam for some money. Sam, like a fool, gives her a ad of cash, but she has the gall to ask for more. Then she's gone. Sick of this subplot, too.
Because there's nothing like a melanoma to cure a broken heart, Sookie is sunning on the lawn. Tara joins her. Sookie is beating herself up for trusting Bill too much, but she seems to be considering going back to him. Tara calls her crazy and says she's going to wind up dead; that the look in Bill's eyes in the back of the van was just like what she saw in Franklin's eyes: cold and crazy. Tara stomps off, still refusing to talk about what happened with Franklin.
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Hadley, Sophie-Anne's consort and Sookie's cousin, is demuring tying a black lace robe over her unmentionables and walking down the hallway at Russell's when Eric, bleeding from his ear and his nose (?), tells her to deliver a message to Sookie. We don't get to hear that message, but next time we see her, she's at Sookie's back door (greeted by Sookie with a shotgun). Hadley doesn't even know that Gran died, like, two seasons ago, and Sookie clearly doesn't know where Hadley has been or
with whose company she keeps. Until now. The message from Eric is: Russell is coming for Sookie, and don't trust Bill. Sookie's like, yeah, right, I'm supposed to trust Eric? As Hadley flees, Sookie catches a snippet from Hadley's mind about how Hadley is so sorry she told them about Sookie. Apparently this has something to so with her visit to the magical spring.
Alcide finds out that Debbie burned down his sister's hair salon. Alcide says he's got to find Debbie before she hurts anyone else, but asks Sookie to find someone to protect her because Russell or the Weres could come back for her. She says Bill will protect her if anyone tries to harm her. They share a long, lingering hug goodbye and think pretty hard about kissing, but they don't.
Sam hires Tommy to work in Merlotte's, and Tommy's first order of business is picking a fight with Hoyt over Jessica. Sam gives Tommy a little pep talk, tells him to think about his future, maybe go to college, to which Tommy responds, "You really don't know me at all, do you?," and walks out.
Talbot is throwing a hissy fit about Russell leaving him again for work. He's smashing Russell's relics, but as he grabs Eric's father's crown, Eric stops him and suggestively says he'll keep Talbot company. That appeases Talbot, as it should. Eric puts away the crown. Later, Talbot and Eric are playing chess. When Eric wins, Talbot pushes aside the pieces and tells Eric to take off his clothes. "It's been a long time since I've done this," Eric says. "A man?" "A vampire." And they start kissing.
Crystal's father and fiance show up at Merlotte's looking for her. They're pretty nasty about it, and Sam asks them to leave, but when Felton comes in close and calls Sam a shifter and threatens to emasculate him, Tommy starts to go after them. Sam stops him, and the Hotshot duo take their leave. In Hotshot, Jason follows a trail of blood and some "Deliverance"-style banjo music into a garage, where he finds a mangy-looking man (woman?) feasting on some kind of animal. Freaked, Jason heads back outside to find Crystal's dad driving up. Jason points the shotgun at him and tells him that Crystal is never coming back. Crystal's father lets him go, but clearly he has plans for Jason.
Sure enough, the Weres, with Debbie in tow, show up at Sookie's house. But Bill and Jessica are there, and take the Weres down. Debbie makes it upstairs and breaks down Sookie's door. She finds Sookie holding a shotgun. Debbie tells her she's got nothing to live for anyway. Sookie says the only reason she hasn't shot her yet is because Alcide still loves her "for reasons I ain't even gonna try to make sense
of." Debbie wrests the gun away from her Sooke smacks her, but Debbie punches her back, harder. Bill tears himself away from one of the dead Weres and is about to come to Sookie's aid when he sees Jessica tear out the door after another Were; he thinks a moment about going upstairs but follows Jessica outside and finds her in Russell's clutches. Russell says he'll trade Jessica for Sookie but Bill tries get him to pick on someone his own age. Russell lets Jessica go; she takes off with a Were in hot pursuit, and Russell easily subdues Bill, searing his silver
spurs into his face.
Meanwhile, Debbie and Sookie are still going at it in the bedroom. Sookie manages to slice up her face with a pair of scissors, then grabs the shotgun. Cut to Russell clobbering Bill. Cut to Eric and Talbot writing in front of Russell's trophy case. Yes, you know where this is going. "Russell took my family," Eric whispers from behind Talbot. "Now I take his." And he spears Talbot. (That too is not a euphemism.) Russell feels Talbot dying, and flies off. Bill is, to say the least, surprised. Back upstairs, Sookie blows a hole in the wall next to Debbie
and warns her that next time, she won't miss. Debbie takes off. Bill rushes upstairs, and they embrace, Bill whispering his apologies between kisses. We see Hoyt driving home, and pan to Jessica in the woods, feeding on the downed Were. And we pan back upstairs in Sookie's house, where Bill and Sookie have reunited in the most intimate (and in this case, rather rough) way possible.
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