Season 6 Promo
Does it seem to you that TRUE BLOOD's sixth season has had a softer premiere than all the previous seasons? It has seemed that way to me. But then, I have been busy reading like a fiend and watch very little TV.
Maybe it's Alan Ball's having left the show, and then the next producer leaving as well. But here I am waiting to see what's become of Billith, Eric, Sookie and the gang. I hear not everyone is going to live through the night.
Need a recap? Check this out.
RECAP (13 minutes long) for HBO.
At the end of last season, Nora, Pam, Tara and Jason are on the roof, Sookie and Eric are running from Bilith. Sam and Luna are in the TV studio
First they do a slightly quicker version of the recap above.
Bill’s POV -- Bill is coalescing into Bilith – Ina red haze, s/he sees Sookie and Eric. Sookie says “Fuck” and as she speaks Bilith’s vision shows that her mouth produces Eric screams “RUN” and she and Eric run, Sookie slips in vampire remains – gooey! They get on an elevator to get to the roof. It stops and the power is cut because Bilith is destroying the panel and pretty much anything s/he sees. Sookie makes her hand light up like a flashlight (Eric says, “Handy”) and Eric starts punching through the sealed elevator cabin. Bilith is in the utitlities area of the Authority building.
Outside Nora, Jason, Pam, Tara and Jessica are shooting their way to safety. Nora calls for them to fall back. Jason shoots one more and is treated to a shower of bloody vamp goo. Nora says, Nice.” He tells Nora he has a lot of experience killing her kind. She retorts that she wagers it is not as much as she’s had killing his. She tells them to get upstairs now and Jason goes. Pam comes up and says, “Excuse me bitch sergeant, who the fv¢k are you and why are you telling me what to do?” Nora responds that she promised her (Pam’s) maker (Eric) she would get this group of fv¢k ups to safety. As to who she is perhaps that’s some thing Pam should ask Eric, if he makes it. The building shakes; frightened and off balance Jessica exclaims.
“Everybody out now come on, let’s go!” Nora yells.
Sam/Luna/Emma
Sam is dragging Luna out of the Authority. Luna is dying, Emma is crying "Mommy, No!" Luna makes Sam promise to take care of Emma. He promises and she dies. Sam grabs Emma and they run off just before a vampie guard comes out and says, “It’s dead.”
Reddened Bilith POV
Growling as we pan in on High-Pressure Gas pipes -- they fracture and ignite.
Except for Sookie and Eric, the gang is all out as the building has an explosion. Nora won’t let them go back in and everyone thinks they are gone. Eric and Sookie pull up in a large vehicle - everyone (Pam, Nora, Jessica, Tara, and Jason) gets in. Jessica asks, Bill?” Sookie shakes her head no. They peel out as the building has a secondary explosion. Bilith comes out and walks through the flame. Looking bhind them Nora says, Eric stop. He does and the car turns so that the gang can see out. A figure emerges, visibly covered in red. Lilith? Jessica says? Is that Bill? Tightlipped, Sookie says, “Not anymore.”
The Bilith creature levitates, or flies like Eric has before. This is something Bill was not able to do before. Someone shuts to get the fv¢k out of there and they leave quickly.
OPENING CREDITS
The team is in the car – It seems to be a black Escalade, Eric is driving. Tara says she doesn’t think he’s following them
Jason says “Unless he’s flying over our heads like a naked, evil superman?” Sookie is sad, she is pushing her fist to her mouth says if what that is wanted them dead they would be dead. Eric concurs that Bilith has let them get away. Nora says For now, but if Bill has been reborn in Lilith’s image,…” Eric objects, We don’t know that!” Radio – urgent press conference
Press Conference -- The Governor of Louisiana. He says he swore an oath to protect the people of Louisiana but not vampires. Hold on he says, he has nothing against vampires – when they came out Louisiana welcomed them and that’s why they have the largest population and why the True Blood shortage has hit them so hard. What appears to be a crowd of people and press cheers. But since the destruction of the True Blood plants 246 Louisianans have been killed. When human, tax-paying Louisianans can no longer walk on the streets it’s time to take them back. He imposes a statewide curfew for vampires; All must remain indoors or underground after sundown. All vampire-run businesses are to be closed by his executive order. If you have financial and legal means to buy a gun, buy as many as you can, and stock up on wooden bullets. You still have the right to defend yourselves and the people you love.
In the car, Jason pats Sookie’s arm reassuringly.
Yelling, “Stop the bloodshed, Governor!” A woman with streaked hair pushes through the crowd and throws a bag of blood on the governor. She is dragged away. He says he is okay but his suit is not. Wiping his glasses the Governor quotes Andrew Jackson, “Peace above all things must be desired, but blood sometimes must be shed to obtain it on equitable and lasting terms.”
In the car Jason says it’s about time someone did something about their kind [Vampires]. Sookie, Jessica and Tara tell him, in unison, to shut up!
Eric is driving fast.
Nora says, “We did this: we bombed the True Blood factories, we destroyed the Authority, we turned the world against us. There’s no one left to protect us now.”
Pam says, “If that slimy suit comes near me or any of my shit,… “
Nora turns and yells, Will you shut up about your shit when the world’s about to end!”
Pam, “Honey I don’t know about the world, but I’m about to end your face!”
Eric comes to a screeching halt splashing dramatically in a puddle. Addressing everyone in the rear view mirror he says, “Nora and I need to talk. Privately.” He gets out and Pam is already there saying, “Who the fv¢k is Mary Poppins and can I please kill her!?”
“She’s my sister.” He replies walking away from her.
She catches up to him, gasping, upset, “In over a hundred years you never thought to mention, ‘Hey by the way I have this super-irritating sister; wait’ll you meet her, you’re really gonna hate her guts?”
Dismissively, in a Eric-ish, I-am-being-uncommonly-patient-with-you way, he replies,” I had no reason to.”
“Other than the fact that I shared my entire life with you and all you do is lie to me, over,..” He spins around on her, “Bill is out there and could be coming for us, the state of Louisiana basically just declared war against us – this is not the time!”
She hounds him with, “Why, don’t you trust me?”
Him, “Get over it and have my back or get out of my face.” He walks off and she swallows, collecting herself. Back at the car’s fender Tara calls him an Asshole. Pam turns and walks away from both the car and Eric.
Other side of the parking area.
Eric approaches Nora who paces back and forth.
Eric asks Nora if there is anything in the Book of Lilith that explains what they just saw? She tells him No, She doesn’t know, she repeats herself. Disbelieving he says “All those years at the authority on your knees praying to that bitch and you don’t know?! “
“No, I don’t know. I read the book a thousand times, I devoted my life to that god- fv¢king religion; if there was any mention of a resurrection in the book, don’t you think I’d know about it? One drop of the blood is all it took for me to turn my back on my own family and the world; he drank the whole fv¢king thing, If Lilith is walkng the earth in any form we have to destroy her.
Jessica, overhearing, “Destroy her?” she questions tearfully, walking towards them with Sookie and Jason following, “You mean you want to kill Bill?” Jessica vamp speeds towards the water, Sookie turns to Jason and tells him Jessica needs him, he refuses to go.
Nora says there is nothing in the book and they have to destroy Lilith. They both express outrage about the Lilith cult.
Pam stomps on the beach kicking over a sandcastle, she plops down on the sand. Tara comes up behind her and Pam says she hates the beach, fish piss and sand in your cooch.” Fighting a smile at Pam’s turn of phrase, Tara says life/love doesn’t have to be a competition between her and everyone else. Not nicely, Pam tells her to go away.
Pam is crying because she is pissed. Carefully, Tara puts her arm around her. Sobbing, quietky, Pam leans in to her for comfort.
Jessica is washing in the surf. Sookie comes to a spot a ways from the surf. Jessica asks Sookie if she still loves Bill. Sookie says he was her first, pause, everything, loving him is just in her blood now. Jessica says hers too. She gets up and walks back to Sookie.
Jessica tells Sookie she is afraid of Bill. Sookie says she is too, she saw Bill die and then turn into something else. Whatever that thing is, it’s not Bill.
Jessica asks what are they going to do and Sookie says she thinks they have to let him go. Jessica says that without Bill she is completely alone. Sookie tells her she is not.
Back with Eric, Nora says that she needs to talk to Jason; she thinks he knows something he isn’t telling the. Eric’s eyebrows raise in disbelief, “Jason?”
“Uh huh”
“He’s never read a book in his life. I sincerely doubt he knows more about the book of Lilith than you do.”
“So how else would he know about Warlo, then?
Who’s Warlo?”
“So, The brother whose never read a book does know more than you,” Nora replies with an unspoken Mr. Smarty-Pants.“ She walks past a dumfound Eric to talk to Jason.
Eric turns his head and shouts after her, “Who the fv¢k is Warlo.”
Jason is out on the pier, staring into the water. Nora walks p and firmly commands, “Tell me what you know about Warlo.”
Why don’t (sounds like “Whyindch”) you tell me what you fv¢king know and we’ll go from there. Moving with vampire reflexes, Nora strongarms him and uses mental compulsion. He says, “He’s a vampire, he murdered my parents, he ruined my life.” Nora questions, about Warlo killing Jason’s and Sookie’s parents. Jason says, “Yeah, the Faeries channeled Sookie’s memories and then he was floating in Sookies bathroom.” From behind Nora, we hear Eric say, “Ridiculous,” This distracts Nora giving Jason a chance to pull a gun on her. He screams, “ I am sick as fv¢k about you bloodsuckers brain raping me against my will. Tell me where Warlo is, or I’ll put a wooden bullet into your dead, stinkin’ heart, so help me Jesus.”
Fangs, out, Eric encourages him with a “Yeah? Try it.”
Jason, “Boy you think I’m afraid of dying, I’ve been dead inside since I found out that vampre killed my parents. So you’re gonna tell me where Warlo is or we both die. Either way works for me.”
Nora proclaims, she can't tell him where Warlo is because she has never laid eyes on him. He’s in the book of Lilith, the vampire Says he has been dead inside since he found out Warlo killed his parents. Nora explains that Warlo is in the book of Lilith, the Vampire bible. He was Lilith’s progeny, one of the first of their kind.
Sookie and Jessica run up yelling at Jason. Eric explains, “Apparently our siblings don’t get along, the only reason yours is still alive is out of courtesy to you,” Sookie tells Jason to put the gun down.
Tara comes up and tells Jason to listen to his sister. He tells her that it’s none of her business and calls her Fanger. “What did you just call me Jason Stackhouse?” Jessica says he’s been out of his mind all night, he doesn’t know what he’s saying. Eric grabs Nora pushing his gun into her chest, Eric growls and Sookie, using some apparently blood-acquired vamp speed, steps between him and Nora
She tells him if he is going to put a bullet through Eric’s sister it’s going to have to go through her first. He yells that she keeps taking their side, over and over. They killed our parents.
“They didn’t do it,” she tells him, “Warlo did, and I want to find him as much as you.” She says he’s acting crazy.
Your crazy, he retorts and continues that she loves these vamps more than her own blood, He proclaims that as far as he’s concerned she is as dead to him as they are.
He turns and walks/runs away which is interesting since he is on the water s ide of the pier.
Suddenly, Jessica is painfully summoned by Bill, her maker. Eric asks where he is, and she says she doesn’t know but her body sure does. Eric stops her and she pukes blood all over him – she is being compelled and to not obey causes excruciating pain.
Pam says, this is none of their business, are they agreed. Nora says of course it’s their business Lilith incarnate will bring death and destruction to humans and vampires alike.
Jessica is in terrible pain, pleading for Bill to stop; it’s like his fist is squeezing her heart. Pam says whoever Bilith is he’s not worth dying for. Sookie says she will take her to Bill with or without Eric. He tells her to be careful. Tara says, Seriously, if no one else will go with them she will. Eric grabs her and hands her to Pam, telling Pam to go back to Fangtasia with Tara and wait. Sookie and Jess peel out in the Escalade or Envoy – a big, black SUV. He turns to Nora and says, let’s go, Pam begs Eric not to do this but Eric interrupts her and says to get out of his way, how many ways does he have to say it, he asks her. He and Nora fly off.
Wolf pack -- directly after Alcide has fought and killed the packmaster, DJ. According to their custom they eat the dead packmaster , which Alcide is not into. Alcide’s father says you have to eat him to officially be packmaster. He does reluctantly. They all cheer.
Martha, the mother of the pack master Alcide killed, Marcus, is talking to Rikki, Alcide’s sort of Beta and last season girlfriend. She says the V will wear off but that the power is worse – it eats away at a man’s decency.
Another wolf shifts to human offers to serve Alcide however she can – she is pretty luscious. She kneels at her feet and he thanks her. She says her name is Danielle. The wolves all end up shifting and run off.
Back at the Bellefleurs Andy, Arlene, Terry
Last season Andy’s one time fairy lover has given birth to 4 babies and skedaddled. Andy is sitting on the porch or patio and we hear babies crying from inside. Arlene comes out.
Andy Bellefleur, if you think you can sit out here all ladeedah while Terry and I raise your litter of alien babies, you got another think comin!” She angrily wipes spitup off her top.
I’m sorry he tells her – he did not ask for any of this. It ain’t fair to expect me to give up my whole darned life and just become a father from one minute to the next.”She says what may be Arlene’s best line ever – it ratchets from sweet Southern sugar to battle ax-wielding : “Well, I got news for you, Andy life ain’t fair and there ain’t no Santa Claus neither and when you stick Mr. Happy inside someone’s hooha without a raincoat on, babies come out! Now get your butt inside and face your responsibilities!”
He says he is ignorant of parenthood. Paraphrase: I don’t know how to take care of his own babies,… Look at me Arlene; do I look somebody’s parent? She says he looks scared -- like all halfway decent parents. Arlene says some days you’ll want to push them back in but most days you’ll thank your stars for them and there’s nothing more rewarding in this life. He cries, and he goes in with Arlene.
They teach him how to diaper. He holds up the infant he just diapered and says he’s Sheriff Andy Bellefleur and he’s gonna be her daddy. He smiles and the baby screams….
Merlotte’s Bar, dark, closed.
Sam, carrying a sleeping Emma sneaks in the side door by the pool table. Sam hears clanking in the kitchen She is asleep and he puts her on a booth bench. Sam is covered in blood. He grabs a cue off the pool table and heads towards the noise. Is it behind the bar?
It is LaFayette. He comes out with a gun. They yell. Sam says to forget he saw them. Lafayette says now Vampires turn into other people. Huh? Lafayette turns on TV News showing Luna as Steve Newlin shifting to Luna. She is all that is on TV he says. Emma wakes up and sees that. She tells LaFayette her mom is dead and she is hungry. LaFayette takes her into the kitche offering something deep fried, dipped in sugar and fried all over again. Sam says Emma’s life depends on him not having seen them, asks if he can trust LaFayette. Wrong place at the wrong fv¢king time oughta be my middle fv¢king name. He pats Sam’s shoulder and goes off to feed Emma. Sam’s stands in the dark and whimpers.
Jason
Jason is on the road walking; he’s dragging. An ancient, mis-firing station wagon comes up and pulls over to pick him up. The man asks if he needs help and Jason says he sure does. The man invites him in. He’s dressed in a suitcoat, paisley vest and String tie – like Colonel Sanders. It is an old guy played by Rutger Hauer he looks at Jason, covered with blood and gore, dressed in black with a watch cap and asks if it’s been a long night. Jason says he was attacked by a vampire, long story. He says he didn’t think anyone would pick him up. Rutger Hauer tells him he isn;’t scared by a little blood.
We happen to know Rutger Hauer is playing Warlo, so surprise! We know something Jason doesn’t.
He asks where Jason is headed. Jason is still holding his semi-automatic pistol. He says it’s a little town named Shreveport. Rutger’s character asks if the old Bellefleur’s steakhouse is still there. Jason says it has been gone for a long time; now it’s Merotte’s. Jason asks if he knows Bon Temp. Long ago he had family there, but they are gone. Jason says most iof his family is gone too. Rutger’s character says tell me about it. Says he’s been driving a while and it’ll pass the time.
He starts to talk about his family and Warlo realizes who he is.
Sookie and Jess get to Bills house. Jessica is being pulled to the house following Biliths bloody footsteps. Sookie grabs a rake handle and easily snaps it in half.
Sookie holds a stake. They come to a pile of red powder. Is he dead? Jess falls Jess points Sookie towards the porch where Bill is sitting in a chair. They startle. He says he just wants to talk. Nora and Eric come, our first indication of which is Bill throwing Nora across the porch into the railing. Eric lands stake in hand, Bill has him by the throat against a column. Eric has a stake to Bill’s chest. Fearing for Eric, as it seems Bill is stronger, Sookie rushes forward and stakes Bill. No Blood Expolsion. It hurts but Bill pulls it out. Apparently he is now stake resistant.
He stands and snaps his fangs back in. He turns to Sookie and says, “Now, can we talk?” He is oddly Bill with a different, more feminine tone. He looks at Eric who retracts his fangs.
He says he brought them to see for themselves that he is not a monster. He doesn’t wish any of them harm. But if he needs to defend himself again they will be sorry. “What are you?” Sookie asks, Nora questions whether he is Lilith.
He says he is Bill Compton but clearly something more, “I see that now, I see everything so differently now.” He knows he is what has put the fear in their eyes, but he promises the man who did that to her is gone.
She says she knows, he died, she felt it, “So whatever the hell you are, if you really mean us no harm, then prove it. Stay away from Jessica, from all of us. Leave Bon temps tonight and never come back.” No Jessica says, Bill is staying and so am I you’re the ones whi should leave. She says they should leave. She wants them all out. Bilith says, “You heard her, get out.” The house rumbles, they leave.
They leave
Limo with tag “TruBld1” comes to a Bottling plant. The Governor is there with others and greets them. Greets his guest as Miss Suzuki and apologizes for bringing her out at 4 AM. She says no one at her company is sleeping But it isn’t getting fixed fast enough he tells her. And the curfew won’t hold murder at bay. He wants to talk about a goverment bailout for True Blood at this bottling plant he owns. She says it is crazy. It’s a PR nightmare to partner with Vampire enemy number one. They can use the plant free of charged to run the facilities. Partnership can be silent. He doesn’t want the credit. He is not the new big bad everybody needs to fear. Once the vamps have sustenance he hopes they will be taxpayers again. Louisiana and Governor needs revenue for being re-elected. They make a deal.
Wolves running in the woods.
Alcide shifts back we see his backside all nekkid. Another wolf runs up and shifts to human. It’s the girl from earlier, Danielle. They embrace feeverishly, but Rikki shoes up. Danielle says it’s her fault and starts to leave. Rikki cuffs Alcide’s neck and claims him with a kiss as he smiles. Rikki invites her back for a ménage, apparently and then bites and kisses her. Alcide watches then Rikki forces Danielle to submit on her knees to Alcide and her. He acts like Danielle is giving him head. She tells him, I am you number one bitch and don’t you forget it.
Tara and Pam at Fangtasia – Tara doesn’t get Pam and Eric, since he released her. Pam tells Tara that she’s right, Tara doesn’t get it. Tara says she knows what it’s like to be betrayed by the people you trust the most. You have to lose some shit to make room for something new. It’s just them now, right so fv¢k Eric. Pam snaps back that if she ever says that again Pam will slap the fangs right out of her face.
Tara says fv¢k Eric and Pam goes to slap her Tar grabs her arm before it connects, surprising Pam. Pam tells her that they are not girlfriends forever, she was with Eric 100 years, and they only were together once. Pam searches for the rest of the True Blood.
Banging on the door. Pam yells they’re closed. Police SWAT come in with an order to close the bar.
Pam says she can work something out with them. Back off on your knees. Many laser sights hit her on the chest. Tara jumps up threatening them and they shoot her
but not with wood because sh is writing in pain on the ground holding her thigh.
Eric and Sookie are walking to her house. Eric tells her he has money, enough for her to go wherever she wants, start a new life. She says there’s no point, she’s had his blood and can find her if he wants her.
Eric says, “You staked him, to save me. I never expected that from you.”
Sookie smiles at him, tightly, “I never expected it from myself. Bill’s not the only one who’s changed. My life? It’s so different from how I thought it would turn out. I’m not who I thought I’d turn out to be.”
Nostalgically Eric says, “Well to me you’ll always be that girl in the white dress, the one who walked into my bar.” He takes the keys and walks ahead to unlock the house. She thanks him for walking her home and says she would offer him something to drink but he is all out of True Blood. He asks for a pen and paper and dramatically signs the house back over to her in blood. He says it’s not much but it’s the least hecan do. She tanks him.
“Stay away from Bill,” he warns her as he is leaving. She calls to him and he turns back to her. Smiling, yet tearfully she tells him, “I want to be that girl again, the one in the white dress, I want my life back. Which is why I’m rescinding your invitation to my house. He is pulled out. They stare at each other through the glass door’s lacy curtain. Emotionally he says, “Goodnight Miss Stackhouse.” She says, “Goodnight Eric.”
Nora is sitting on the porch and asks what that was about. He tells her it was none of her business and asks if she disposed of the vehicle. “Yes,” she replies, “In the swamp. What’s the plan with Bill?”
“We find his weakness.”
“Can’t we use the fairy?” Vamp speeding to loom over her he tells Nora, “Sookie stays out of this and we stay away from her from now on. Are we clear?” Nora realizes, “Eric Northman you are in love with her.”
“In a nother life.”
I don’t know about Bill’s weakness, but I think I may have just found yours.”
He takes her head in both hands and menacingly, sweetly says, “Nora, my darling sister, don’t stir this this post.” He leaves. Nora looks in at Sookie who is looking at Warlo’s scroll, then leaves.
Bellefleur House, Old dolls on the ground. We travel pan in, to the sound of pitter-patter feet, to Andy asleep on the sofa. He wakes up, there are four toddlers shouting “Hi Daddy!” The look on Andy’s face is pricesless. Arlene and Terry race down the hall to scream in shock and fear as well. They squeal and giggle.
In Jessica’s room, She is in bed, Bill knocks with a warm True Blood he brings to Jessica .
She drinks some.
He asks if she fills better. She says something abut it tasting better when it is in short supply. Like so many other things in life he says. She goes to put the glass up and it starts to spill.
Bill stops cup from spilling, something neither of them knew he could do. She is very tentative around him. His summoning almost tore him apart. He starts to speak. She sops him from interrupting her, “I want you to hear me. When we left you at the authority that was not Bill Compton that we were leaving. You were a fv¢king when your pull led me here I had no idea what I was gonna find, I had no idea what I was walking into and I still don’t.” She sounds panicked.
“May I talk,” he asks, that strange quality back in his voice? His had at his chest in supplication.
“If you have answers.”
“I don’t Jess, I don’t know what I am. I don’t know why I am. Which is why I need you; now more’n ever.”
“What could I do?” She asks.
He says I told you I was a soldier, he realtes how Sherman started out as a good man, a peaceful man but that the years passed he grew to fight uglier and dirtier. He was crazy. It was the power that turned him mad. Now he has these powers. Bill says he needs Jessica to keep Bilith honest; to tell it like it is. He trusts her. She says she will, though he won’t like it, and hugs him. She says she is really tired. He tucks her in.
Warlo and Jason in the car - he is telling all about “My sister’s ex-boyfriend might have just turned into this evil god monster thing. Maybe he was too hard on her, … whole Bilith thing. He feels like “that little gay boy” seeing dead people in that movie except says he only sees his parents and they are really racist and scary. He says she would have him committed and then who would keep Warlo away from her? Rutger Hauer’s character says, “You can not keep Warlo from Sookie.”
Jason asks how he knows his sister’s name. With and evil laugh, he says, “Who the hell do you think I am?”
He says he is Warlo - Jason shoots but there’s no one there, he shoots a phantom. The car swerves, Jason screams. Flash to Sookie in bed with the scroll on her bedside. The scroll goes all glow-y and 3-D.
Bill reading in his parlor, he starts to have violent flashbacks to Lilith being tortured. He is being called to his office. Three Liliths are there. “Who are you?” he querries angrily. “Shhhh,” she says from all the corners of room. His eyes widen as all of them super speed into his body.
What do you think? Loose ends, Discontinuity, new direction? How do you feel about the whole thing? Should humanity be at war with Vampires or should they try to find a peaceful solution? What do you think the outcome of Bilith and her progeny Warlo will be?
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