Posted by Dustin on 09.01.2010 at 4:00 pm

There is only one episode left in the season, and this episode seemed to set the stage for it on many fronts.

As I guessed from the promos last week, Eric used Sookie’s Fairy Blood to set Russell up to Day Walk into the light, where he’d meet the true death. However we were left with Russell and Eric handcuffed outside of Fangtasia. Will Sookie come rescue Eric? Will she heal him with her blood? My guess is yes . . . but also knowing the story for Book 4 . . . my guess is this might be how they are going to concoct that major issue involving Eric.

I’m also guessing after Bill deceived her yet again, with Eric’s plan and pretending to be complacent in giving her up to Russell, that Sookie’s going to have major issues with Bill and soon. This again might help facilitate pushing her towards Eric, and the story for the 4th season? If you want to know the spoiler, I’ll post it at the end 🙂

Sam was an angry SOB in this episode, pushing everyone away. Sam is one of my favorites on the show, so seeing him act like this is annoying to me. Also as posted by CG in last weeks comments, this just seemed to come out of nowhere. I guess learning about his own crappy family made him dredge all this up? I dunno. I did like that it allowed him and Tara to bond. Well okay, they just *bleeped* as they put it. But I would love to see them get back together.

Jessica came clean with Hoyt, saying she accidentally killed a guy, and she can’t live on Tru Blood. He then told her to drink him, which she did. Meanwhile we learned Hoyt’s mama was behind trying to set Hoyt up with Summer, to get his mind off of Jessica. This probably won’t end well at all. I could see the mom, in trying to kill Jessica, shooting Hoyt! Maybe we’ll get lucky and she’ll shoot Tommy, who seems to be up to no good after Sam threw him out (during his drunken fit). He was trying to break in somewhere.

Jason worked through his various issues, or tried to, and agreed to give things with Crystal a shot. She however wanted to stop her dad and half-brother, who were apparently going to endanger some people with their drug dealing. I didn’t catch all of this, mainly because I’ve grown bored with Crystal. It looks like they’ll have a gun blazing showdown in the finale though.

Arlene tried a magic tea concoction of Holly’s to spontaneously abort the baby. She began bleeding and thought it worked . . . but it didn’t! She’s still pregnant, which Terry is thrilled about. Will Arlene have the baby? Will it be possessed by Renee’s spirit? Who knows. One thing is for sure, not much time has passed, so it should be a long time before we see this kid born! Unless they speed up things soap-style, or claim he’s a supernatural baby and speed the process up that way.

Finally after the V-trip, Lafayette began seeing Jesus in a whole new light. He had this scary face to him. To me that means he’ll probably start going down a dark path like his grandfather.

SPOILER for SEASON 4! Read on . . .

In the fourth book, so I’m told, Eric loses his memory and this is when Sookie begins to really fall for him. As I said above, I could see them leading up to this from Eric’s last stand with Russell.