Blood Lust: Episode 12, "Beyond Here Lies Nothing"

POSTED: Monday, September 14, 2009, 6:54 PM

Filed Under: TV | True Blood Last Night

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Maryann sees the glory
of the coming of the lord.

True Blood, re-capped. See you next season.

Damn, what happened True Blood? The show saw more suspense five episodes ago than it did with its season finale.

Maryann gets her followers to trap Sookie for the Dionysus summoning ceremony. Instead of replacing Sam with Sookie as the supernatural sacrificial vessel, Maryann uses her as Sam-bait. Her plan works, sorta.

Bill brings Sam to Maryann and gets Sookie in return. Maryann then has her muscleman Eggs gleefully stab away at Sam's heart. But before any type of God can appear, Sookie attacks the mob's meaty-tribute to Dionysus. Pissed, Maryann reaches her hands into the dirt and they turn into claws. She chases Sookie through the woods. Suddenly, a majestic bull appears from the shadows, stopping and stunning both ladies. Maryann is ecstatic at the sight of what she believes is her God. She doesn't mind when the creature begins gutting her with its horn, honored to be his 'vessel' instead of Sam. But Maryann doesn't realize that Sam is the bull. While the girls were busy running, Bill let Sam drink his blood and heal. He tears out the maenad's heart, plopping it on the ground. Maryann implodes into a tar-like mess of skeleton. Hopefully she's gone for good, no need to weigh down the plot with that much crazy anymore.

With Maryann's death, Bon Temps comes out of the spell, and all former conflict is wrapped up in the first half of the episode. Eggs, distraught over his blackouts, asks Sookie to help him remember using her mind reading abilities. Flashes of Eggs cutting peoples hearts out horrify both. Sookie dumbly tries to soothe him by insisting that it wasn't the real Eggs that murdered all those people, but to no avail.

A distraught Eggs approaches Andy in the parking lot of Merlottes with the murder weapon ' a giant knife. He begins to demonstrate how he killed people with it, leaning over Andy in hysterics. Suddenly, Eggs is shot in the head, the camera panning to reveal Jason as the culprit. Andy helps out his ol' buddy, grabbing the gun from the Jason's hand. Wiping the weapon down Andy tells Jason to run and pretend he was never at Merlottes.

Sam takes off to find his parents, stopping by the home of his adopted folks first. His mother warns him that his bio 'rents are 'bad people,' which is neither all that intriguing nor surprising. Also, Jessica is off playing the 'innocent virgin' so she can get a gulp of trucker blood. Hoyt meanwhile finds her not at home when he stops by with 'Sorry I went with my mother' roses.

Meanwhile, Sookie and Bill go out to a French restaurant. Pretty in a purple dress that Bill bought, Sookie gets flustered when her vampire beau pushes a little black box across the table towards her. She flees to the ladies room to collect herself. Deciding to say, 'yes' to the proposal, she returns to find Bill gone, his chair strewn on the floor and the door ajar.

What Sookie doesn't know, is while she was contemplating her life as Mrs. Compton, someone took a silver chain to Bill's neck and dragged him away. Probability is high that it was Eric or a minion. Vampire Queen Anne, who is secretly having Eric sell vampire blood, requested Bill be 'taken care of' since he knew something about the enterprise.

Even with some questions left needing answers, the second season's final episode is tied together pretty neatly. So much for the 'I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT SEASON!' cliffhanger.

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