TRUE BLOOD
Series 4, Episode 10
Series Episode 46
Burning Down The House
Last week's episode ended with all hell breaking out as Antonia ensorcells
Eric and all the vampire sheriffs. They kill all the human guards at the tolerance event
True -blood.net repports that HBO's synopsis is:
As all hell breaks loose in Shreveport,
Sookie summons her most potent powers yet to save Bill, in the process breaking a spell and leading Marnie to re-evaluate her mission.
Jason urges Jessica to glamour him for Hoyt’s sake; Terry drags Andy to “Fort Bellefleur” for an intervention;
Alcide reconsiders his allegiances after Marcus’ fight with Tommy. Jesus, accompanied by Sookie, Lafayette and Jason, tries to breach the Moongoddess Emporium’s defenses to liberate Tara and Holly, while Bill leads a brigade of vampires committed to blowing the place to kingdom come.
From 8:45 to 8:55 I get the above ready, use the loo, set up my post for the most comfort.. At 8:58 last night, as I had predicted all day, my cable service died; I got to "And now, the HBO,..." And. so, as soon as my husband gets out of bed this is what I am going to do, watch TB and get my recap done.
SHORT VERSION
Antonia is controlling the vamps to murder and mayhem. Sookie breaks the spell stopping Eric from killing Bill. Antonia, pulled from her blood lust is horrified by what they caused. She disappears with Roy and Vampires.
Jason feels guilty about Jessica and insults her by asking her to make him forget. She leaves.
Alcide is trying to get Tommy to the hospital. He tells Alcide they can't help and wants to go to Merlottes.
Holly and Tara confer about what they can do, Holly says they might be able to break the spell. Antonia comes back. She is in conflict internally but instead turns on the coven finally leaving. Sookie and Eric at Bill's they express love, everything and nothing's changed. She says she loves them both. Pam comes in. Nan and Bill fight for control. He says they are taking out the witch. Sookie begs him not to and he tells her she can't help. Tommy and Alcide make it to Sam's, he refuses vampire blood. After apologizing and expressing brotherly love Tommy dies.Hoyt goes to Jason's and asks if he can stay. Andy is confronted by Terry and Arlene about his addiction. Jason goes to Sookeie sto get away from Hoyt. Sookie tells him she needs help averting disaster at Moon Goddess.
Terry and Andy go to the treehouse. Terry proves to Andy that V is not making him better. Jason and Eric enlist Jesus and Lafayette in operation Moon Goddess. Holly and Tara agree to try to free themselves and other hostages. Antonia separates from Marnie and expresses horror. We learn that Marnie is looking to settle newer old scores and she convinces Antonia to work with her. Nan does not agree with Bills's plan and says she will have them all executed. Eric tells Bill not to listen. Sookie and her gang are outside Moon Goddess. She isolates Tara's thought. Jesus says he is going in. Marcus is with Debbie getting high. They are discussing Alcide. She and Mrcus don't see things the same way as Alcide. Sam and ALcide go to Marcus' shop he isn;t there. Alcide helps Sam beat up the guy who is. Jesus breaks in to the barrier Marnie/Antonia has up The y talk and he realizes it is Marnie driving the darkness. Holly and Tara break the spell . Sookie and Lafayette run towards the shop as Holly, Tara and Jesus run towards it. She curses them and they disappear. Jason is left alone. Terry helps Andy hit rock bottom.. He makes him walk home. In the last scene Eric is Driving himself, Bill, Pam and Jessica to Moon Goddess. They are decked out in black and all tactical. They walk toward the shop.
SCENE BY SCENE
Antonia and Roy are in the balcony of the auditorium of the Dorchester Hotel during the Tolerance Rally.
Roy says it's like pouring boiling water on fire ants.
Antonia says, "Hear me slaves, kill the king." The young woman, who in the last episode spoke about her vampire sister tells one vampire, her sister I think, that they are their friends. She slaps her aside. All around this is happening as humans try to get out.
Eric and Bill are fighting on the stage. Sookie yells to Eric,
Eric No. He tells her to go home. He propels Bill away from him, Says he must kill the king and jumps off the stage past Sookie. reaching him starts to work on Bill's head saying something I couldn't get. Sookie jumps on Eric's back he tosses her off him and then Bill pulls a Gun probably loaded with silver and saying
but not for me, shoots Eric and at least two other vampire sheriffs. Nan, stakes the "youngest" one with a pencil.
Eric rises as he pulls silver out of his body; Sookie says,
don't let her control you he pushes her away and throws Bill who lands on some chairs.
Bill yells to Sookie to go as Eric picks up a stake, a flag pole I think and prepares to throw it at Bill. Yelling out "No MOre!" Sookie calls on her faerie powers to throw a blast of her white energy. Roy yells
WTF! Antonia grimaces and says "Broken." Eric comes to, with an obvious sizzle of magic falling off of him. He has a flashback of his life and much of it on Sookie, When Bill introduces her and making love. Also his Viking past and killing Talbot. Looking a bit like sweet Eric he looks at Sookie. She looks back at him wide eyed in terror. She looks about 15.
Opening Credits
What have I done? Antonia Marnie says, coming out of her blood lust. There is a little girl trying to get someone, her father, perhaps to awaken. Antonia fully flashes into Marnie's body and is overcome, saying Oh.
Bill has Eric by the neck on his knees. Sookie sees him aboout to stake Eric and says Bill, runs over, I think he might be,...
Eric growels out "Get off me." Bill realizes that Eric is not under Antonia/Marnie's power any longer.
Roy says, Marnie, There is a flash as the POV pans out and Marnie raises her arms saying something that sounds like "Per fluous." She Roy and several others (Vampires) disappear (I want to say disapparate, but this ain't no Harry Potter movie!). Sookie looks amazed as Nan comes forward saying ,We have to help these poor people." Coming up to Bill she says, "Bill, image." Eric retracts his fangs. Nan announces that help is coming so people should stay calm down, and that she is a certified first responder.
Bill turns and walks away leaving Eric and Sookie looking at each other.
Jess and Jason in his truck bed, dressing. She says that they didn't do anything wrong. He asks if she is sure. She tells him, as he knows that she and Hoyt broke up with each other and that she is free. He says he didn't break up with him. She says Talk about bromance. Jason responds that Hoyt is his brother and tells how he had to protect Hoyt all through school. How Hoyt always needed him. Jessica tells him it is perhaps time that Jason let Hoyt walk on his own now. He is bad as Maxine. But Jason says knowing about the them will kill him. Never would it happened if he hadn't had her blood. She is insulted. He says he wanted her and still does but he'll never be able to face him again. He wants her to wipe his memory. Even more insulted she says she isn't going to glamour him so he won't feel guilty. what about her guilt, who is going to relieve her guilt. She vamp speeds from the truck bed. Effing Humans she saysI 'm going to go find somebody to eat.
Tommy and Alcide . He is trying to get Tommy to the hospital. Some stitches, duct tape, a pretty nurse and he'll be fine. Tommy says they can't do anything, it's not just the beating; turning into Sam it did something. Shifter to werewolf, I'm dying. Tries to shift but can't. he just convulses, begs Alcide to take him home to Merlotte's.
At Moon Goddess Emporium Some Wiccans are comparing cell phone strength. Tara says, "People, we are locked the fuck up and incommunicado Face it."
One tells her magic is not stronger than technology. Tara walks up to Holly to say she is not dying there. Holly is reading through grimoires. She tells Tara that there is not a spell that cannot be undone if you got the juice, Marnie or Antonia is just another witch. Tara says she is not some ancient pissed off witch. Antonia is not more pissed off than she is, that using their own rage they can,..
Antonia/Marnie(A/M or M/A depending on who is dominant at the moment) comes in with a bang as the doors fling open. Roy says it was a blood bath and they scored a one. A/M tells him to put the vampires inside. Saying, "Come one Robots," he leads them off. Holly asks Is anything wrong? Marnie is starting to fight the possession (at the event I thought it was that Antonia who was feeling compassion ) she says(M/A) No-oo, (A/M)Yes, (A/M)No. One male says she can't hold them hostage. A/M asks why they are so ungrateful, she is protecting them, she has put her soul at risk to destroy the night beasts for them . (M/A )And at what cost.
Young female says we won't say anything to anyone. A/M says that they'll all stay together. and then the possessed witch/medium walks away mumbling crazily. Tara and Holly exchange a raised eyebrow WTF look.
Nan and Bill at his office. She tells Bill that he has been keeping secrets from her (like he doesn't know he has, but now he knows she knows). "What's the deal with your little dairy maid and her lightening trick," she says.He responds that they have more important concerns. She tells him there are glamour squads all over Shreveport, if anything leaks, remember the civil rights movement, sweeping social change, violence. That's the spin.
Bill tells her she is not in charge. She says she is and threatens his position. He says that he will report to the authority that this was her fault, that had he killed the witch when he wanted,...
She tells him he has no idea of the politics within the authority. He tells her that this is what is going to happen they are going to take out the necromancer by what ever means necessary.
Eric and Sookie. I am not sure where they are at Bill's—in the parlor? They are sitting on a bench or couch at varying distances during the conversation. Eric's dialogue is in Italics. Kudos to Alexander Skarsgard for blending the "two Erics" into post-emo Eric.
I remember everything, us, nothing's changed.
Except you.
I haven't changed. I am just more, the other Eric is still here,
Uh huh, she says shakily.
Sookie, he moves to her, look at me.Can't you see him in my eyes?"
Yes, replies Sookie, near tears, trembling chin.
So what's the problem?
With a voice cracking with emotion she says: Bill. When you were about to kill him, i just couldn't bear the thought of a world without him in it. I think it was how I was able to stop you. I love you, I dont want to lie to you. But I can't help it, I love him too.
How is that possible?
Sometimes I think it's that you've both given me your blood. Maybe it's just chemical.
Huskily, You gave yourself to me completely. You're mine.
I never promised that; and you gave yourself to me completeky.
Yes I did. I love you.
Sookie smiles
Pam comes in,I think she says :
Luke told me are you back is it you
She missed him and thought she had lost him.
Sookie broke the curse
Oh well thanks dont mention it why didnt he summon her hey
Hey talk about it later Sure, fine. He walks out.
Nan and Bill walking to the foyer of his place and he is off to prepare, she is arguing. Fire killed her once it will hopefully work again but Nan says it is not a twenty-first century solution. Sookie comes in and exclaims, "Blowing up Moon Goddess?" Nana says something rudely sexual about her agenda and storms off. Sookie says they can't do that there Tara and other humans are inside. Eric says they bet on the wrong horse. Shame.
Bill takes control, saying he summoned Jessica, and Pam will stay there. They will silver themselves and go to ground there. Sookie tells him that if it weren't for Tara telling him about the hotel Eric would still be a Zombie and he would be dead.
My kind is still in danger and that he can't risk genocide to save one person because she is her friend. Eric says, "Lovable isn't he?"
She asks to help, but a concerned, avuncular Bill says the last time she helped she got shot and almost died. Stay away he warns her. They will finish Marnoe once and for all and that casiuaoties are part of war
Tommy and Alcide are at Merlott'e's Sam drives up and runs over to where he is in Alcide's arms
Sam says they have to get him vamp blood. Tommy says no. Alcide says her has the right to choose his time. Sam acquiesces.
Lying down on pool table in bar. He says he can't feel anything. Sam says don't be afraid. Folks who pass on and come back say it's beautiful. and want to stay. Alcide concurs. Tommy says you really believe that shit. Tommy says there aint no heaven and hell's a dog fight he's going to disappear as if he never was and that's what he wants. Sam says he will be surprised when angels lift him up and carry him up.
Tommy apologizes, Sam says nothing was his fault, that he is sorry he should have been a better brother but didn't know how.
Tommy says Sam was the best part of his life. He asks Sam not to forget him right away. Sam tells him, he will never forget him, he is in his heart always, he is his brother, he's loved, he loves him.
Choking on on his blood, Tommy stops breathing and dies, Sam cries. He looks at Alcide and says Marcus Boseman is a dead fucking wolf
Jason at home a game is open he has a beer. Jason answers a knock at his door, it's Hoyt. Jason doesn't want him to come in. Hoyt does anyway. Asks what's on. Jason say s its us against them. and asks Hoyt, if he want a beer. Hoyt says he had a beer for breakfast but when Jason says there's nothing else he says he will have a beer then.
They sit Hoyt says that his house is pretty empty, too full and too empty all at once. He sees Jessica around a corner or smells her perfume. Smells will take you back in time. Shes gone for good thank god,he's lucky to be out. He can't stay. He can't there he doesnt want her back but keeps thinking he'll see her. Hoyt is crying. Asks to stay with Jason.
Andy sleeping. Terry tells him to wake up and shakes a vial of v in his face. He and Arlene can't believe he has it. They have kids, what if they had gotten into it. Andy says he thinks there's a safety cap. He denies it. Arlene says are you going to let him lie. Andy reminds her that it isn't even her house. Terry tells her he's got it and to go back to bed. Realizing that Terry and his cousin have some talking to do she says okay, but tells Andy he's not going near her kids til he is straight.
Andy lashes out that they had no right in his private bedroom. Terry says he had tried to catch him before to apologize for some of what he said when they were saving Mikey. Andy shrugs him off but Terry says I don't think so. The two have some where to go Fort Bellefleur.
Jason drives up to Sookie's. She gives him breakfast and says she can't understand why he doesn't have more sympathy for Hoyt. Basically, he says he has more sympathy for him than anyone else in the world but Hoyt is being whiny as one might be after a break-up and won't stop talking about Jess. Love doesn't leave in a second if it goes deep. It takes a long, long time. Jason says Hoyt drank beer and passed out passing gas. Sookie says that was TMI as Jason asks if he can stay there. She says of course but needs his help. Hesays he'll sleep in his truck if it has to do with vampires. She tells him about Bill's plan and that Tara is inside. He says that he can't do that and why does he want to? Cause what happened at the Dorchester. He hasn't heard about it.
Terry and Andy are at their old tree house. They argue a bit about the V. Andy says that when Terry got back from the Marines he lived there a whole year. Terry says that Andy checked on him and brought him food got the family off jhois back. He did drugs but a little anti psychotics. Andy says V keeps him sharp and strong. He is a better man. Terry uncovers a cache of weapons and tells him if he is stronger on V, if he is a better man to pick his weapon and prove he's a better man.
At Lafayette's Sookie, LaFayette, Jason and Sookie are on the porch. Sookie has gone there for help. Lafayette says he can't believe what Bill is planning. He tells them that they can't glamour all of Shreveport but Sookie says that is just what they have done.
Can't the police help? Even a swat team can't stand against magic. Lafayette tries Tara's cell, and expresses anger at Marnie. Jesus says it isn't her fault. Lafayette says if she had just let her parakeet rest in peace then the vampires wouldn't be planning to blow up Moon Goddess with his only cousin inside. Jesus he can try to get Marnie to push Antonia out and send her back to wherever she came from;he thinks it is the only way.
Tara and Holly are looking at a book of spells. It's in Latin, Tara doesn't speak Latin and after some sarcasm Holly admits she doesn;t either and they'll have to wing it. Tara worries they'll say something wrong and make it worse.Holly tells here that it might go wrong but that Magic is about energy and intention and that's hopefully what the Goddess will hear. She says she needs faith from Tara, not attitude. Tara expresses her disdain for faith. Reminds tara what she is experiencing and she doesn;t have dfaith in magic? She has to believe.
Antonia pulls out of Marnie. Anotnia wants to quit In her day the world was smaller. The blood, violence and panic makes them as bad as their enemies. It's not her. Marnie can't believe Antonia wants to quit, she is a fighter, a great necromancer. Antonia says she only turned to necromancy to save her village from a fever, to control death. She was a healer, she saved lives. delivered babies. She did not come back to shed the blood of the innocent. Marnie says they aren't innocent. They are sympathizers, collaborators Antonia recognizes that Marnie hates them. Marnie says not anyone. but that Antonia has been away too long to remember what people are really like, they are cruel, they are bullies, treat like a pariah, mocking, judging shunning. tThey did the same to me ANtonia says. Marnie reminds her that the people she healed did nothing to prevent her execution. Antonia says no she hasn't forgotton that. They watched her agony and nothing to help her. Antonia, knowing that anyone who stood against the inquisition couldn't help her says so Marnie says they wouldn't the only thought of themselves. Marnie says they have a communion of souls. She knows Antonia feels it. Fate brought them together. Didn't she think someone would get hurt? They need her , Marnie says. Antonia finishes with "for a life without vampires," and reenters Marnie. Interesting as to who here is more unprincipled.
Nan, Bill Jessica. Nan is saying that when it's over she promises him a slow painful execution. He's asking someone what has the biggest thermobaric payload, they will take two. Eric tells him not to listen to her, her time is over and she doesn't know it. SHe promises him the true death and then Pam too. Jessica yells that she doesn't care what happens as long as she gets to kill some shit. Still talking to somoene unseen, Bill says that price is no object if it is all ready by sundown.
Lafayette, Jesus, Jason and Eric are outside Moon Goddess. The streets are as empty as Time Square during Hurricane Irene. Lafayette says he feel somebad ju ju. Antonia used a repelling spell to clear the area Sookie is trying to isolate Tara's thoughts from the people inside. Drag her in a cage and beat her up good. Tara is pissed. Jesus wants to go in and get Antonia to leave Marnie's body. He doesn't know the true issue is Marnie and not Antonia. Lafayette doesn't want him to go in. Jesus says he has experience. Jason sees them arguing and says he'll go Sookie stops him. Jesus tells Sookie to listen for him Jesus hits a wall of magic. He is knocked out. Marnie/Antonia walks out some of the Wiccans try to folow, we hear sizzling. M/A talks to Jesus through what he says is amazing energy. She says it is a simple protection spell. He begins to tell her who he is she says she knows and that she and Antonia share everything.
Where was he if he is a friend. He says they were in Mexico, his grandfather is sick, he should have told her. Marnie trusts him but Antonia is a=hard to convince he needs to prove himself by ging throught= the wall or she has no use for another weak link. Jesus tries but he goes into a demonic form and gets through. M/A says welcome back
Macus Boseman is with Debbie at Alcide's house getting high. Marcus needs him to have a frank discussion they don't see eye to eye.. Him and her have the same problem she is a pack animal who wants kids and he is a lone wolf. Marcus says his little girl is his reason for living. Debbie says she would do anything for a baby but Alcide said it was too hard to be a wolf and he didn't want to put a kid through it. Marcus says that's total bull shit. And Debbie says that's what she said. They are moving closer and closer. She doesn't know what to do. Marcus seductively tells her to hook up with a differrent wolf. I'm just about ready.
Alcide and Sam at motorcycle shop. One of the other pack-members says Boseman isn't there Sam pulls a gun. Lots of denial, Alcide has a strong sense of fairness and four on one seems wrong. Alcide says he told pack-members to stop. Sam says Marcus is the one he wants but he'll settle for him and starts to pistol whip him. Alcide holds him so Sam can hit him again.
Andy and Terry. Andy is trying to sight on a can but can't hit one. Terry hits it right off. Doesn't prove anything. Terry says he wants Andy to admit he is a drug addict and get help. He says Terry's wants to humiliate him. Terry says he was the humiliated one. Andy says bull, when Terry was born it was as if he, Andy, fell off the earth.. Terry says that's not what he remembers. Terry and Andy have family baggage. Andy says how could he remember anything he was a baby, stupid. Terry says not to call him stupid. Andy felt loss of attention when Terry was born. Terry was cute, Andy says words don't put food on the table. What was he talking about, Terry's family was poor. Got hand me downs. They fight about the past, who had money, who didn't. Andy says he wins they start to fight physically.
Antonia/Marnie and Jesus alone at Moon Goddess. Antonia says he shouldn't have been able to breach her boundaries, he must have new abilities and the demon to help. Jesus says he wanted to talk to Marnie about it. ANtoia says was most faithful ally. If they were stronger could exterminate the vampires more easily. She would like his friend, the moor (Lafayette) to rejoin them for his gift.
Jesus says no, he is too scared If she let them out he could bring around the protection spell is their strongest fence. He asks to speak with Marnie. She says she speaks for them both. I know, he saysbut she is friend and teacher he misses her and would like to say hello in person for a minute. A kind man she says so rare she isn't surprised. Marnie, Jesus, she is magnificent, ever seen him looking so happy. She tells him this is not against her will. She and Antonia are in union not in possession. Let me show you . we have our very own vampires. Jesus mentally tells Sookie that Marnie is behind this now. Outside Sookie repeats that to Lafayette and Jason who are upset. Back inside, Holly and Tara are chanting. Marnie is showing Jesus the vampires boasting they will do what ever she wants: slaughter their friends, eat chocolate, go to the beach.
Meanwhile Holly and Tara are chanting. Wind moves. They break from each other and make for the door. Antonia feels it. Outside Sookie reports that Jesus says they should run. But they can't leave their friends. They run towards Holly, Tara, Jesus with SOokie and Lafayette in the lead. Marnie yells a curse and as they hit the barrier they all disappear, except Jason. who is left standing.
Back to Andy and Terry wrestling. Say you'll give up and not do V any more. Andy swears to it and says please I'm so scared. Terry lets him up. Andy says he is seeing things you look like a monster. The visions aren't real he says, what he sees though is what happened. Andy is ashaned, doesn't want to be who he is What if it ate his soul. This is rockbottom, men without souls don't cry. Who knows you better? they declare their cousinly love and embrace. Andy looks at the treehouse. Says it's a good place to think.. When his dad died and his mother left he went there to think. Terry tellds him to wak home anad lock up the guns. Eric and other vampires cruising into Moon Goddess. All tactical, all in black they get out and walk, in slow motion, like some old TV Show, towards Moon Goddess.
Playing: A cover of Burning Down the House.
