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True Blood Season 7.02 Review: I Found You

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The group sees what became of Saint Alice. Photo courtesy of HBO.com.

Once upon a time, a vampire walked into a bar, and one telepathic waitress’ life was forever changed. With this being the very final season of

, we will constantly be reminded of where we began as the focus returns to Sookie and her connection with the supernatural, the connection that has always starkly separated her from the humans with whom she has lived her life. Tonight, we got a visual reminder and auditory reminder of this beginning as Sookie herself took a look at how she has gotten to where she is today. While the reflection was a nice and necessary touch, I found the episode a bit slow. Funny how a season that started with an all-out battle could pump the breaks immediately the following week. With that said, there were still plenty of revelations that we should get to.

Right after the church service where Sookie pleads for people to let her help during this crisis, she steps up to provide some direction for their search for a solution. When she was walking through the forest, she had come across a dead girl that she did not recognize. Since Sookie knows everyone in this town, that means the vampires must have brought her with. They just need to figure out where she was from so they can search her hometown for clues. What they find is her ID, which points to a town nearby called Saint Alice.

“Sometimes not being clever makes you a better detective” – Jason as he hands over Jane Doe’s identification.

The challenges facing Bon Temps are about to get worse if Saint Alice is any indication. Photo courtesy of HBO.com.

When Sookie, Alcide, Sam, Andy, and Jason arrive, they find that Saint Alice is a ghost town. Messages of fear and pleas for help are spray painted on any available surface, and there is no sign of life in sight. The reason becomes clear when they stumble upon a mass grave; no one is left. At the girl’s home, they find signs of someone having lived there recently. Jason uses his knowledge of “Pizza forensics” to determine that the vamps must have taken her not long ago. With this information, they search the rest of the house, and Sookie finds a diary that reads like her story. Girl meets vampire. They fall in love. Something tragic separates them. In this case, it’s Hep V. Her vampire gets sick, and all she can do is stay at home with the baby, hoping that the vampires will have enough compassion not to kill an infant.

With all of this depressing news, the group heads home. Sookie despairs, seeing the similarities in her tale and that of the dead girl. Alcide tries to reassure her that they would be in this situation no matter what, but Sookie seems to rest all of the responsibility for their plight on her own shoulders. Like I have said in my review of the

season three finale, I truly appreciate the time to look back to where we first started and reassess everything with new eyes. That’s why marathoning a beloved show from beginning to end can be so rewarding. With everything you now know, don’t you look at Bill and Sookie’s first meeting differently? I hope we will have more time to revisit the past in future episodes, because how can we bring this lovely show to an end without remembering why we fell in love with it in the first place?

Sookie should listen to Alcide and try to get some rest with a clear conscience before night falls, but she goes to visit Bill instead. She wants to know if he can still feel her. She is about to do something incredibly stupid, and she needs to know if he will be able to sense her distress and come to her rescue. I admire her bravery, but I do not condone the whole “waiting for a man to save me” vibe. At least it means we should see Bill some more next episode. Even with the flashback, there was not enough Bill tonight.

Arlene and Holly try to find a way out. Photo courtesy of HBO.com.

When the infected vampires were first introduced, they appeared nothing more than vampiric zombies, intent on the scent of blood. What we learned tonight is that this is only true when the Hep V infected vampires feed. Without blood, they are able to exert control over their instincts and think rationally. Once they come into contact with blood, they are prone to overeating and accidentally killing their food source. The gang holed up in Fangtasia even has a leader of sorts. Jerome (

’ Eugene Byrd) has assigned roles and even doles out punishments when his rules are broken. So when one vampire accidentally kills Kevin (RIP), Jerome punishes him by making him feed last. The plan is to ration their food source, after all.

This leads to Betty being designated as the keeper of the captives. And when she goes down to get another snack, Arlene recognizes her as a teacher who has taught both her kids and Holly’s. Arlene gets her moment to shine as she tries to plead with Betty to help them escape. Her pleas get through, and Betty arranges a 12-minute window for their escape. But first she needs to feed. Arlene is the lucky volunteer. Betty starts to feed, but her instincts take hold and threaten Arlene’s safety. Luckily, Betty disintegrates mid-feed, saving Arlene but leaving her covered in vampire entrails. Beyond the opening scene, this was the best moment of the episode. Only

would show something so gross and absurd. And I loved every disgusting second.

Andy warns Adilyn not to invite Jessica in. Too late! Photo courtesy of HBO.com.

While everyone in town who has any love of vampires leaves to look into Saint Alice, Adilyn is stuck with everyone else. For a little bit everything is fine, as it seems that people are willing to follow Sam’s directions and put their energy into bettering the community and cleaning up Bellefleur’s for Arlene’s eventual return. But then Vince walks in. He instigates the crowd by divulging that Sam is a shifter. Together they stop cleaning the place up and instead start breaking furniture apart into convenient stakes. Guns would be better weapons, and Adilyn overhears 911 operator Rosie thinking about the nice stash of weapons at the police station.

Thinking quickly, Adilyn takes Wade Cleary away from the growing mob and straight to the police station, where they try to convince Kenya that trouble is coming their way. They succeed, but the mob that enters the doors after them succeeds in turning Kenya away from duty and toward their cause. Kenya goes to restrain Adilyn, but she uses her fairy power to blast her away. Now that that cat is out of the bag, I am sure the gun-happy hooligans will be even crueler to her. That whole situation cannot end well. What is most disturbing, though, is how quickly order has been lost in Bon Temps. I wonder if the same thing happened in Saint Alice. Perhaps the vampires were not the only problem the town faced.

Feeling Adilyn’s distress, Jess wakes up in the Bellefleur’s house and panics, trying to figure out a way to get to the girl that she knows is in trouble. When Andy returns home, he finds no daughter and a vampire in his house. Jess is able to convince him that she only wants to find Adilyn and save her, not hurt her. We will have to wait and see what comes of that. The only worry is that Jess notices that her bite marks haven’t healed from the night before. Is she infected?

Eric should have taught Willa to be less gullible. Photo courtesy of HBO.com.

While the rest of the town goes a bit crazy, Lettie Mae visits Lafayette and shares her own brand of crazy with him. She needs to see her daughter again, which means she needs more blood. Lafayette will not get it for her, so the crazy bitch burns her hand just to get some of Willa’s blood. The blood works, and Lettie Mae immediately has a vision of Tara upon the cross with a snake winding around her body and speaking in tongues. It’s nice that we still get to see Rutina Wesley as Tara, especially given how we were not afforded the proper time to grieve, but I am not sure about the direction in which this is going. I can identify the Biblical references, but the significance goes far beyond my head. My main concern is whether these visions are useful. Do they have a meaning that will aid our heroes in fighting this plague of vampires, or is this simply a cheap way to keep a fallen friend alive on our screens?

Boy, am I glad that they did not make us wait long. Most importantly, they reintroduced Eric with the hands down best blood-induced dream we’ve had in all of the seasons. At the very start of the episode, we had Jason find Eric, who was apparently staying away to gain time to think about his relationship with Jason. The perfect mixture of ludicrous and sexy, this scene was everything I had hoped for when I first heard that there would be an unexpected same sex pairing early on this season. Even better, Jason had this dream while in church.

Of course we were not given the pleasure of discovering the real Eric until the end of the episode. They just had to draw it out as long as possible without angering us too much, right? At the very least, Jason’s dream did let us know with more certainty that Eric was alive, if there had ever been any doubt. And poor Pam couldn’t be left to search forever. So in Rhône Valley, France, Pam finally finds her maker. There is Eric, alive, but infected. Not what anyone wanted to see.

Despite his infirm state, I hope that Pam will be able to transport her maker back to Shreveport. She needs to get Fangtasia back, and I need to see her and Eric interacting with Sookie. Most of my favorite characters are vampires, so given that this episode took place primarily outside and during the day, there wasn’t too much to really grab onto. More Pam, Eric, Jessica, and even more Bill would go nicely next time around. The humans are all well and good, but if we are going back to where we truly started, then we must rediscover our vampires. Because as we were reminded tonight, that is where we began.

By Megan Kathleen on June 30, 2014   /   Reviews   /   Leave a comment

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