HOYT
Is completely lost. He calls the driver of the pickup that stops a "friendly face," perhaps it is known to him perhaps it is not, but then that person sticks a gun in his face. Oh, remember when Hoyt getting kidnapped into various cars every week would have been so scary and sad?
You know who smokes, actually, is Jane Bodehouse. I think she smokes, doesn't she? Who has like 99 problems, and has slept with Mike the Coroner. Doggie-style, actually, in front of us, with her face covered in pie. She's so cult-susceptible she cut her own finger off just to make Maryann happy, and has continued to be a problem drinker: Two signs of a racist teabagger off the top of my head. I dunno, that doesn't seem like that big a reveal, but I just can't wrap my head around Maxine. I guess it would be funny to see her cockin' shotguns again, though. Maybe that's all it takes. Maybe the endless ads for GCB, a show I loved by the way, took their toll and they thought, Maxine with a gun, hilarious every time. And they are not wrong.
SOOKIE
Is brushing her teeth when a ghostly hilarious vampire face forms out of CGI smoke and menaces her until she screams. Until today, I thought that was just kind of dumb for a hallucination because I was thinking of him as a memory-ghost who might still be alive, but going back through Claude's dialogue I think Sookie has just laid out the welcome mat for this Warlow, right? Unless it is somebody we (used to) know... All very intriguing.
AUTHORITY
Salome: "Hey Bill and Eric! Join us for our meeting about crushing the mainstreamers."
Bill: "Ah'm hep to that."
Eric: "Huh."
Nora: "Think globally, act locally. We've got guys in the British Parliament that can help there..."
Roslyn: "Russia's always good for a pogrom."
King Russell and Steve Newlin flirt, I am told, at this time. I won't acknowledge it, and I won't respond to it, but those are the reports.
After somebody mentions the Joker Gambit -- "bankrolling gangs of vigilantes willing to stake mainstreamers on sight" -- a lightbulb goes off over Bill's head because of what Salome said earlier, about sucking down TruBlood.
"Fuck politics. Concentrate on the TruBlood. Bomb the factories -- there are only five of them -- destroy them publicly, and you force mainstreamers to feed on humans. As they were meant to."
That's... That's actually really awesome. Unravel the whole show, and suddenly the vampires are out of the closet and murdering people because they can't help themselves.