True Blood Recap: I Got a Right to Sing the Blues

Sookie is dragged back to Russell’s abode, along with Bill. Bill foolishly tries to stake Russell, and Eric continues to play his part, even as he protects her. Talbot throws a hissy over his soiled house, and Lorena is distraught over Bill and ordered to kill him. Sookie threatens Lorena, and she bars her fangs.

Arlene deals with a difficult customer. Lafayette and Jesus continue their flirtation. And Jessica drops fang, scaring Arlene.

Jason and Crystal are still groping each other in woods, Jason is too sweet, and Crystal too broken. She stops suddenly. Sniffing at the air? And leaves in a hurry telling Jason to forget her.

Sookie tries to reason with Eric, as he paces. Again we get a great impression from Sookie, this time of Eric. But he doesn’t appreciate it, he says he doesn’t care about her, he’s after the crown. Sookie issues another threat. Russell tries to find out what Sookie is, but she tells him she’s a waitress.

Jessica feels a little bad about having all the customers stiff Arlene, and makes the difficult customer tip Arlene, and head to the bathroom where she waits to feed on her. Arlene goes to check on her, and the customer leaves in a very pleasant mood.

Lafayette and Jesus get to know each other, and Lafayette discovers a couple of things about his “Satan in a Sunday dress.” And they share their first kiss.

Sookie and Russell ask each other questions. Sookie asks Russell questions, if he’s the king of all vampires, if he has a crown. And Russell asks about her heritage. Back to Sookie, she asks if Lorena will actually kill Bill. And he shows Sookie the secret file Bill kept on her. Russell asks about her microwave fingers, and she doesn’t know. But Russell is done playing games, and reveals that there is a Queen too.

Lorena plays 30’s music as she tortures Bill. Lorena enjoys making others suffer because she was made to, and Bill asks for a quick death, but Lorena has no plans for that. And Bill tells her “I wish I had known you before you were made, before you turned hard. I would have liked to have seen you smile with light in your eyes, instead of darkness. That would have been something.” Lorena doesn’t know how to deal, feeling trapped and she hurts him more.

Tara continues to play eager for Franklin, who reveals that Sookie is also at Russell’s. She seduces Franklin and he unties her. She tells him that she wants to drink his blood and have sex during her last night as human.  But as he begs her to rip open his throat, she cringes but does it.

Eric toys with Talbot, when Russell takes Eric away. Sookie has a little breakdown alone. She hears Tara’s thoughts, and knows that Tara is coming for her come daylight. Russell tries to get to the bottom of Sookie and Eric, though Eric claims that his taste lies elsewhere. He asks Eric about the werewolf he killed, but Eric tells him that the werewolf attacked him when he was questioning Sookie when it attacked him. Eric asks him how he uses the werewolf, and Russell tells him about his dream of vampire dominance.

Lafayette brings Jesus home, and Jesus tells him a little about the idols on his mantle, they share a little moment before the dumb rednecks from Hotshot come busting up his car. Lafayette loses it on them, and Jesus learns that Lafayette deals V. He asks to be taken back to his car, and Lafayette shuts back down.

Sophie Anne sits playing scratchers when Russell comes to call, asking for her to marry him. She claims to be above everyone because she is Queen, Eric pins her to the ground. He’s older and stronger and pissed as he renounces his allegiance to her. Sophie Anne reluctantly accepts.

As the sunrises, Lorena continues to torture Bill, as he continues to speak truths trying to get her to kill him. But she has equally horrible truths for him, and he continues to break her down. He welcomes death to escape her. Coot and Debbie come in, interrupting, looking to score some V. And Lorena leaves him at their mercy, even though it hurts her to watch them.

Sam tries to find out what’s going on with Joe Lee, and Tommy tries to play the hard ass, avoiding the questions. Melinda brings some corn fritters, trying to play the good momma, and asks to speak to Tommy alone, Tommy gives his ok. Once Sam leaves, Melinda talks about being in the ring, laying a huge guilt trip on Tommy’’s shoulders. She tells him not to trust Sam, because he looks down on the rest of them, and she says what she has to feed his fears.

Tara awakens, still untied, and beats Franklin’s head in with a mace. Talbot is gonna have kittens when he sees what she’s done to this room. She runs, grabbing clothes and escapes.

Jason brings flowers to Crystal in Hotshot. But when he knocks someone else answers the door. She pretends to not know him, telling him to leave her and her fiancé alone.

Tara comes baring almonds, to feed to Sookie, the Were on guard lets her in, and she and Sookie beat the crap out of him, knocking him out.

Lafayette is having a bad day. And Arlene is all emotional, and tells him about the dog his parents have at his house. Sam runs, knowing that she meant Tommy.

Tara and Sookie go to leave. Sookie wants to find Bill, even though Tara tells her that Bill left her to the vampires.

Sam contacts Andy about dog fights, and Andy tells him about the fights in the area. Sam races off to the nearest one, nearly running Jason off the road. Jason sees Kitch banging a girl in his mustang. He slaps him on the ass, and throws him on the trunk of the car. Pinning his arm behind his back, he tells him he’s keeping an eye on him, he knows that something about the kid is wrong.

Coot and Debbie are high as a kite, as Sookie goes to find Bill. Tara makes a run for it, running right into a wolf, who turns into a naked Alcide. Sookie finds Bill, unconscious. He says her name softly, and Lorena throws Sookie against the wall blaming her and feeds from her.