History Recap / TrueBlood

At Authority HQ, things are going a bit OffTheRails: Bill begins seeing hallucinations of Lilith the naked woman covered in blood, telling him that he is TheChosenOne who will lead vampires into a new era of global domination. It doesn't take long before he realizes that Salome is seeing the same thing, as are the remaining chancellor {{Mauve Shirt}}s. Those Bill kills without breaking a sweat, but Salome is different: to her, he swears fealty. But the result is that the whole place is consumed by infighting, which makes it all the easier for Sam and Luna to sneak around. Sam hatches ThePlan: Steve Newlin returns to take his dog for a walk. Since the existence of shifters is barely common knowledge -- Bill has to brief the Security Mooks after he catches Sam -- and the existence of skinwalkers still a secret, nobody but the audience realizes that it's Luna in disguise. Unfortunately, the escape attempt goes awry: "Newlin" is caught by Rosalyn Harris (Creator/CarolynHennesy), the Mauve Shirt Chancellor, and roped into a press interview to do damage control after video leaked of Russell and Newlin (the real one) breaking into a fraternity house and slaughtering the inhabitants. Luna is still weakened by her stint as Sam, and she downshifts to her real form -- before taking the opportunity to announce, live on television, that they are being imprisoned in New Orleans. Harris moves to attack, but is prevented by some quick thinking by Sam, who apparently has access to internet from a decade in the future: he was doing the Ant-Man Thanos Butt Theory ''long'' before it was cool. Of course, skinwalking is CastFromHitPoints, and Luna begins to vomit blood.

Bill doesn't need help: he's staying with Salome while she ritually ingests all the remainder of Lilith's blood. Of course, [[TheChessmaster Bill planned ahead]]: the stuff in the ceremonial vial is a fake, laced with silver, while he kept the real deal for himself. Bill stakes Salome; Eric and Sookie arrive right as he opens the vial of Lilith's blood. None of their protestations make a difference, and Bill drinks all the remaining Lilith blood. He then explodes into LudicrousGibs.

At Authority HQ, things are going a bit OffTheRails: Bill begins seeing hallucinations of Lilith the naked woman covered in blood, telling him that he is TheChosenOne who will lead vampires into a new era of global domination. It doesn't take long before he realizes that Salome is seeing the same thing, as are the remaining chancellor {{Mauve Shirt}}s. Those Bill kills without breaking a sweat, but Salome is different: to her, he swears fealty. But the result is that the whole place is consumed by infighting, which makes it all the easier for Sam and Luna to sneak around. Sam hatches ThePlan: Steve Newlin returns to take his dog for a walk. Since the existence of shifters is barely common knowledge -- Bill has to brief the Security Mooks after he catches Sam -- and the existence of skinwalkers still a secret, nobody but the audience realizes that it's Luna in disguise. Unfortunately, the escape attempt goes awry: "Newlin" is caught by Rosalyn Harris (Creator/CarolynHennesy), the Mauve Shirt Chancellor, and roped into a press interview to do damage control after video leaked of Russell and Newlin (the real one) breaking into a fraternity house and slaughtering the inhabitants. Luna is still weakened by her stint as Sam, and she downshifts to her real form -- before taking the opportunity to announce, live on television, that they are being imprisoned in New Orleans. Harris moves to attack, but is prevented by some quick thinking by Sam, who apparently has access to internet from a decade in the future: he was doing the Ant-Man Thanos Butt Theory ''long'' before it was cool.

Eric convinces Sookie to help him (try to) snap Bill out of his religious obsession. She still cares for him, but even more than that, Tara is asking on behalf of Pam, and Sookie owes Pam. So Eric, Pam, Tara, Jessica and Sookie set out, armed to the teeth with stakes, crossbows, wooden bullets and more (Sookie even has an M4 Carbine, though she never once uses it). Jason holds the lobby, GunsAkimbo, while Nora and Eric disable the security systems and Sookie and Tara free Jessica and Pam... and Tara and Pam immediately start kissing. (Sookie: "Oh, okay." Jessica: "IKnewIt!") Pam and Jessica then escort Nora, Jason and Jessica out of the building, but Sookie and Eric stay behind to go after Bill.

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[[folder:Season 5 (IN PROGRESS)]]

JC Carson emerges as the primary candidate for leadership of Marcus Boseman's pack. Alcide challenges him, with help from Rikki Naylor. In general, JC wins: he's hopped up on V and he's interested in a level of savagery which Alcide (and Martha) derides but the rest of the pack seems fine with. However, they take some objection during the ritual challenge: JC announces that the leader of the pack will be the first one to hunt down and kill a college track star who has been kidnapped for the occasion. Alcide fights JC to let the boy escape, and JC gets the leadership spot... But his pack reacts with considerably less enthusiasm than he expected.

Hoyt falls in with some dudes. They turn out to be the MalevolentMaskedMen behind the Obama masks; the news labels them a hate group, and they don't dispute it, modeling themselves on TheKlan (only with masks of the current president instead of white hoods). To help Hoyt "get over" Jessica -- and encourage him to become TheFundametalist -- they ''abduct'' Jessical and leave her, silvered, in a room with Hoyt and a gun with wooden bullets. Hoyt can't find it in himself to forgive Jessica, but he ''does'' help her escape. As he attempts to walk back to Bon Temps, he is kidnapped.

Jason and Andy are taken by a local politician to the weirdest nightclub ever: "Hot Wings," which is in a nearby pocket dimension and is run by the fae. Here, Jason encounters Hadley, who has escaped to safety with her son; she accidentally lets slip that vampires killed Corbett and Michelle Stackhouse. (Jason and Sookie had been told that their parents drowned in a flood.) Jason takes it into his head to bring his parents' killer to justice; Sookie just wants to find out if it's true. She enters the nightclub with Jason, meeting not only Hadley but Claude Crane (Creator/GilesMathey), who has taken over for the slain Claudine as Sookie's faerie godmother, as well as some of his remaining sisters. Claude explains that he was the faerie who helped Sookie and Earl escape Queen Mab's realm at the beginning of the fourth season, and that those fae who disagreed with the Queen's decree came here to make their own way. Claude helps use fae magic so that Sookie can enter a PensieveFlashback of her parents' death, learning only two things: the vampire was named "Warlow," and her parents' bodies were found by Sheriff Bud Dearborne. She asks him if they might have been killed by vampires, and Dearborne admits that there was evidence to suggest it, though they did not interpret it correctly at the time. Sookie then receives a TapOnTheHead from Bud's new girlfriend.

At his ex-wife's pig farm, Dearborne is preparing a ritual slaughter: he will feed both Sookie and Hoyt to the pigs (who, [[TruthInTelevision like their non-televized counterparts]], will eat [[ExtremeOmnivore absolutely anything]]). Despite how Andy and Jason interpreted the situation, Bud is actually not the "Dragon" of the Obama Klan: that would be the girlfriend Sweetie (Creator/JenniferHasty). However, the whole situation goes sideways when one of the pigs turns out to be Sam, who engages the Obama mooks hand-to-hand. Meanwhile, the Sheriff's department arrives. Dearborne refuses to stand down, and Andy is forced to shoot him. Meanwhile, Luna -- now back to her original form and back in control of her shapeshifting -- helps apprehend Sweetie. Sookie and Hoyt are saved. The Obamas are done for. However, Luna's ability to retrieve Emma is complicated when Russell and Steve Newlin visit JC's pack and Russell forces Martha to gift Emma to Steve as a pet werewolf.

After killing Zimojic and declaring her true allegiance, Salome invites all the vampires present -- Nora, Eric, Bill, the remaining chancellors, Russell and Steve Newlin -- to engage with The Authority's most holy of holies: a vial reportedly containing Lilith's blood. Salome invites them to drink, and Eric whispers aside to Bill, "It's vampire blood. We're vampires. It's not gonna do anything." One GilliganCut later and the ''entire'' party is wandering down the streets of New Orleans, stoned out of their minds. They break into a bar and slaughter the wedding party happening there; while they do, they hallucinate Lilith returning. However, Eric is confronted by his conscience, Godric, who reminds him that this is wrong and begs Eric to save Nora from her fanaticism. Eric struggles with this as the episodes pass. Bill, on the other hand, seems completely committed; as Salome discusses how to reverse the mainstreaming agenda, it's Bill who suggests they bomb the only five [=TruBlood=] factories in the world, making the VegetarianVampire lifestyle impossible. Russell, meanwhile, is back to his obsession with daywalking; when Salome and the others refuse to support him, he strikes out on his own.

Hoyt gets PutOnABus, maybe because he's become a truly awful person this season. He decides to take a job on an oil rig in Alaska, and before he goes, he asks for one last meeting with Jason and Jessica. He asks Jessica to glamor him into forgetting both her and Jason; tearfully, Jessica complies. Hoyt Fortenberry leaves Bon Temps for his new life.