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'True Blood' Season 6 Recap: In the Evening

Becca Grumet |
July 29, 2013 | 2:22 a.m. PDT

Staff Reporter

Last episode, things were looking up (ish), as Billith killed the Governor. But “In the Evening” proved to be a lot about grieving and making amends as we head into the last few episodes of the season.

At vamp camp, the scientists cart some Hep V infected Tru Blood onto the trucks and also into “gen pop” where they're housing the vamp prisoners. Eric instructs Willa (who still weirdly looks like Nora) to go off and warn Pam not to drink the blood while he escapes with his sister. He’ll be back for Willa later, he says, and sneaky-master Eric takes Nora and hitches a ride on the bottom of a Tru Blood truck right out of vamp camp like a boss.

Sneaky runs in the family, and Willa uses the severed hand from last episode to get into Pam’s solitary unit. She’s not all tied up like Eric was cuz the psychiatrist has a thing for her. Willa can certainly handle her own against Pam’s sass, and delivers Eric’s warning. “Tell Tara and Jessica,” Pam says, “But f*ck everyone else.” The more vamps that stay clean the easier it’ll be for the scientists to figure out the vamps are onto them. Willa agrees, and I squeed through this scene because these two are sisters now and it’s kinda awesomely cute. Willa runs away and lets herself back into the female gen pop, also like a boss.

 "OMG I love that severed hand, where'd you get it?" (carpe-amor/Tumblr)
"OMG I love that severed hand, where'd you get it?" (carpe-amor/Tumblr)

Eric shows up at Compton Mansion and begs Bill/God/Billith/whoever the hell he is to give Nora his magical blood and cure her. Nora’s not about it, and Bill says to honor her dying wish.

Sarah Newlin, jammin’ to some “God is our savior” self-help tapes, drives up to the Governor’s house and finds his head super separated from his body. She collapses to the ground and decides to kiss her old bald guy boyfriend’s decapitated lips, vowing to him that she’ll continue “God’s plan.” Right now, actually, because she calls a Louisiana senator over (also a bald guy) and says they have to cover up Burell’s death. Then, the good senator will cover for Burell in legislature and Sarah will take over on “everything vampire.” They’ll all be dead soon from Hep V anyway, she reasons.

Cut to naked people! Sookie and Warlow are basking in the afterglow of their sexy times, but also literally basking in the sunny brightness of faerieland. “We just wrote our wedding vows,” Warlow says, and Sookie’s all what now? But she can hear Arlene crying in the cemetery of real-life-land, and immediately leaves to comfort her. Arlene's appropriately a mess, especially since she’d gotten a glimpse of life with a carefree Terry before he got shot.

Sam, still at a motel, calls Lafayette from a payphone and gets the news of Terry’s death. Sam tells Nicole that he’s going back to Bon Temps, no other option, and that her mom should come get her. Doesn’t she need to go back to college or something? Well, I guess they’ll have one more romp in the shower set to sad music while they stare into each other’s eyes. Nicole gets picked up by her mom middle school style from her extra long running-away-date with Sam and they hug each other goodbye.

Arlene blows up at Lala, thinking he’s hiding something from her about Terry’s deposit box. Sookie and Lala decide to go check out the box for themselves. There better be a letter that explains everything in that box... and there is! A life insurance policy issued three days before the murder.

Lala for the win always. (supagirl/Tumblr)
Lala for the win always. (supagirl/Tumblr)

Jessica is called by a guard, and led to a room with none other than... Jason! He’s here to rescue her! But Jess doesn’t necessarily wants to be rescued, she thinks she deserves vamp camp for killing Andy’s faerie daughters. There is...  something Jason can do for her though. Remember that super hot blonde vamp that wouldn’t have sex with her? James? Could he bring him to her? She’d really like to say thanks and maybe hump his bod.

Alcide drops his dad off at Trailer Town in the parish of No One Cares. Dad tries to convince Alcide not to go back to the pack, that they’re family isn’t meant for that kind of life. Didn’t Alcide feel the same way just a couple seasons ago? Oh well, now he enjoys all the wolf ladies he wants. But maybe not, because when he returns to the pack, he lies and says he took care of everything, and Rikki calls him out. The pack proudly reveals that they've caught Nicole and her mom. Uh oh.

Jason does as told and brings vampire James to meet up with Jessica. She asks for some privacy, and we spend the entire scene waiting for these two to have sex on the conference room table. Aaaand they do, right after a heart-to-heart about not being monsters and selflessness and James showing off his new fangless dental work. Jess tells James about the Hep V, and they decide some lovemaking is how they’d like to spend their last moments. Plus, Jess is into James because he has “humanity coursing through him.” Uhhh Jess? Jason is literally outside the door. He’s got some humanity, too, like the kind that wanted to rescue you?

Okay fine we get it he's pretty. (sookiesteeth/Tumblr)
Okay fine we get it he's pretty. (sookiesteeth/Tumblr)

Eric is willing to trade Bill anything for giving Nora his blood. He believes Billith is divine. Really, Eric? Anywho, Bill fills Eric in on his white-circular-room-everyone-meets-the-sun vision, and how they need to bring Warlow (well, just his blood really) with them to save everyone. Eric will help with that later, he says, but for now they try some Billith blood down Nora’s throat, and alas, nothing. Plan B: Bill goes off to find Warlow.

Sookie and Lala return to the Bellfleur’s, and Arlene is druuuuunk. Sookie meets Adilyn and Holly’s sons just as Bill decides to make an appearance. A daytime appearance. Everyone is scared of him, and he gives Arlene and Andy his condolences. Bill tries to tell Andy how important it is for fathers to protect their daughters, and basically tells him that trying to mess with Jess would be a mistake. Aka Bill is once again a huge douche. He takes Sookie outside for a chat about Warlow. They need him to save all of her vamp friends at camp. “Pam’s my friend?” Sookie asks, and everyone lols.

Speaking of Pam, she’s got another appointment with her psychiatrist. He’s very interested in her sexual power over humans. Pam agrees to get sexy with him if he’ll let her inside gen pop.

Sarah delivers the news to Jason: the Governor is dead. Which means he’s got nothing on her. After a good stabbing, Jason gets thrown in female gen pop, where the ladies are ready to pounce on him. Tara comes to his defense, and that rando vampire we saw “help out” Tara and Jess a few episodes ago claims Jason as “mine.”

Seriously who are you?! (bilith/Tumblr)
Seriously who are you?! (bilith/Tumblr)

While Bill’s out, Eric calls out to Godric to save Nora. Nora reminds Eric it was he who saved her in the first place, back when she was dying from the plague in 1600’s London. He came to her in the hospital and offered her infinite immunity through his father. “And so we end as we begin,” Nora tells him, the hep V starting to break apart her skin. Eric grabs onto her just as her body melts into vampire-corpse-goop. He looks up to see Bill in the doorway: these assholes are going down. And once again, I'm reminded of just how likeable they made Nora this season compared to last, and this is a pretty sad moment for the Northman clan.

:( (askarsswedishmeatballs/Tumblr)
:( (askarsswedishmeatballs/Tumblr)

Catch a sneak peak of next week's episode here.

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