TRUE BLOOD: Will Mr. Doggett see the light?
Season 4, episode 7: “Cold Grey Light of Dawn”
Last week we ended with a few big story lines hitting their stride. Tommy shifts into Sam and plays big brother. Sookie and Eric get their groove on in the middle of the woods. Pam catches up to Tara and Naomi outside of Merlotte’s and Jason realizes he’s got the hots for Jessica. Marnie gets possessed by Antonia and gets ready for revenge.
This week gives us some more movement on each of these as well as a lesson of how history tends to repeat itself. Let’s start with the easy ones first and then we’ll move onto the big event that will carry over for the weeks to come.
First up, Jason Stackhouse. After his little midnight chit chat in the woods with Jessica last week Jason is doing all that he can to keep the recurring sexual thoughts of her out of his mind. He’s holed up in his house working out like a fiend in an attempt to block everything else out. Too bad it’s not working very well. Add to the fact that Hoyt shows up to check on him and to talk about his own problems with Jessica and Jason is stressing. Turns out Hoyt has got nothing better to do since Jessica got called away with Bill on vampire business.
Eric and Sookie take their lovemaking session back to the house and proceed to romp through several different rooms before finally ending up in her bed with some pillow talk. Reunited and it feels so good.
Tara and Naomi are getting tossed around by Pam out in the parking lot. Why is it that when someone is getting ready to kill someone they insist on talking their ear off first? Pam had every opportunity to finish them both off but instead chose to gab and play around long enough so that the commotion they were making drew the patrons of Merlotte’s outside to suddenly turn into the paparazzi. With Tara in her grip Pam finds herself being mistaken for a zombie due to her ever-rotting face. It’s funny how offended she is at being called a zombie. She tries to hide her face because the last vampire that got caught killing a human on camera was punished by King Bill with the true death. Realizing she’s being watched and recorded she vows to come back for them later and then off she rots, I mean, runs.
Having come close to death (again) Tara tells Naomi she can’t do this anymore. Everyone around her gets killed and Naomi needs to get out of town because the vamps won’t give up until she’s dead. Realizing Bon Temps is one crazy place Naomi agrees and takes off.
Jesus and Lafayette are still locked in the room where grandpa left them last week. After much yelling and such grandpa finally returns to let them out. Jesus is not pleased that he let Lafayette get possessed just to prove to him that Lafayette was a medium. He says he didn’t do it to prove it to Jesus but to prove it to Lafayette. So now everyone is on the same page and all agree that Lafayette has got some mojo. Good to know. We’ll touch more on this in a bit.
The next day Lafayette is back slinging hash at Merlotte’s when Arlene walks in with kid demon on her back. Cooing at the baby he notices that the baby is not looking back at him. In fact, the baby is looking past him. Turning around to see what’s captured demon spawn’s attention he sees a pretty black woman is old style clothes standing there smiling. He’s stunned obviously because she sneaked up on him but she also seems surprised that he can see her since we all know she’s not really there. Lafayette and the baby can see her though. She motions to Lafayette to shush and then starts singing to the baby in what I assume is French. Freaked out Lafayette yells for her to go away and poof she’s gone. There’s a touch of that mojo I mentioned.
Alcide and Debbie get initiated into their new pack. While Debbie is all giddy Alcide seems like he could care less and Debbie assumes his frowny face is because he’s still worried about Sookie out in the woods by herself. To make him feel better she takes him out in the woods to look for her. It doesn’t take long to find her though because they quietly spy Sookie and Eric while they’re still rolling around nekkid in the woods. The look on Alcide’s face says it all and Debbie notices it too. In fact, later during their own roll in the sheets she confronts him about her fear that he is in love with Sookie. It’s an accusation that he quickly denies (big liar).
Last week Marnie was held captive in Bill’s fancy dungeon and had taken control over Luis. Using Luis as her minion she breaks out of her cage somehow without Bill knowing about it. Security isn’t very good here. With her new freedom the first thing she does is plot her take down of the vampires. First on her list is to recruit some helpers. A strength in numbers tactic if you will. Walking alone in the dark of night is poor Tara. Will this girl ever learn? It’s like she wants to be killed. Fortunately for her Marnie, now Antonia actually, is the one who finds her first though. In order to convince her of what’s going on she ‘shows’ Tara how she was tortured and burned at the stake. I think they show us that same clip every week. We get it already. She was burned at the stake a long time ago and she’s holding a grudge. Tara decides to join up and help with the recruitment for the big battle.
Sam has taken Tommy to the hospital after finding him passed out on the floor last week. Tommy convinces everyone that he must have eaten something that didn’t agree with him and that he’s fine. Sam takes him back home to rest and then goes to call Luna to hook up. Needless to say she is surprised to hear from him and shuts him down quick. Confused he goes to see her in person where she proceeds to slam him. He’s taking a verbal beating with no idea why until she asks him if he even remembers sleeping with her last night or was he too drunk. And no sooner can she finish her sentence that it starts to hit him. As he is processing his thoughts he ask her what happened to her when she shifted into a human. Puked a lot – check. High fever – check. Now she’s starting to think what Sam is thinking. Yep, you slept with Tommy. Suddenly both of them feel sick to their stomach and have to sit down. It’s kind of comical but you really feel sorry for them. Sam confronts Tommy and has to fight the urge to not kill him for such a betrayal. Mad as hell he tells Tommy he has ten minutes to clear out and never come back. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Luis, still under Antonia’s spell, shows up in Bill’s office to talk and by talk I mean to try and kill him. He explains that Antonia has come back and what she intends to do. He then shoots Bill in an effort to slow him down enough so he can get his hand on the silver stake that Bill keeps in his office for some strange reason. They fight over the stake with Luis coming out on the loosing end.
Realizing that Antonia plans on pulling her little resurrection routine on the vampires during the daylight again he orders his Sheriffs to tell all of the vampires to get out of Louisiana so they’ll be out of her range. He then orders them to silver themselves when they go to ground so that they can’t be pulled into the sunlight and to their true death. They look at him like he’s crazy but he assures them that the alternative is much, much worse. Reluctantly they agree. Bill shows up on Sookie’s doorstep with a bag filled with silver chains. He explains what’s going on and insists Sookie help chain Eric up underground until the next night or he’ll be dead. She also agrees and straps Eric to his bed with the silver chains knowing that while she is causing him pain now she is also saving his life.
Knowing she has got to do something about her rotting situation Pam turns to the same woman who helped Sookie way back in Season 1. She puts Pam through a very painful procedure that, while it won’t stop her from rotting, will slow her outsides from rotting and return her previous beautiful looks. And to make it even harder on her after all the painful medical stuff she has to endure being silvered in her casket per Bill’s instruction.
Antonia has gathered Tara and all of the other Wiccans at Marnie’s and gets them back into the circle. Standing in the middle Antonia leads the troupes with some chanting mumbo jumbo that progresses until Marnie/Antonia starts to float up off the ground.
Jason is checking on Sookie at her house when she explains that she has got to get back to Eric to protect him from the witches’ attack. Just then the winds start whipping up as the resurrection chant begins to work. Realizing that it also means that Jessica is in danger Jason takes off for Bill to rescue her.
Back at his own house Bill is having himself and Jessica silvered in his own dungeon cell. He orders his guards to put twice as many chains on him as her. While that’s a good idea he just have put just as many on Jessica. While they’re sharing a tender “sorry I got you into this mess” conversation between vampire and maker Jessica being the newer vamp doesn’t have the ability to fight off Antonia’s powerful hex. She busts out of the chains and leaves Bill behind. Heading upstairs she makes her way to the front foyer just as Jason is running across the lawn to her aid only to be tackled by security. Jessica reaches for the front door and opens them wide to be engulfed in blinding light and bam! End of episode. I hate when that happens!
So we’ve got to wait until next week when Marnie/Antonia and her peeps face off against the vampires and their peeps. Here’s what I’m wondering. If Lafayette is a medium like Marnie is will he be recruited to the side of the vamps to get possessed himself and square off against Antonia? Just wondering.
