TEXT: Scene 1: The queen's place - Bill, Sophie-Anne, hadley Bill: Your majesty. Is this a bad time? The queen is feeding on Hadley. Sophie-Anne: A bad time? There's no such thing as bad. Or time, for that matter. Want to join me? Scene 2: Bill's house - Jessica, Hoyt, Maxine Hoyt: Get up! Have you lost your mind? Jessica: Didn't you hear all the nasty things she said about you? And me. Hoyt: She's my mama! She gets to! The hell are you from? Mama? Jessica: I'm sorry. Hoyt: Mama, you all right? Maxine: Oh, yeah. Jessica: Hoyt? Hoyt: I should have listened to vampire Bill when he warned me about you. (To Maxine) Now, come on. Come on, mama. Maxine: Do we have to? I think I actually enjoyed that. Hoyt: You see what you did to her? Come on. Hoyt leaves with Maxine. Jessica cries and screams. Scene 3: The queen's place - Bill, Sophie-Anne Sophie-Anne: What gives you the right to say no to the femoral blood of a good woman? You know what your problem is, William? You are a snob. I hate snobs. Tiny, tiny souls, or penises. Or both. (To Hadley) Get out. (To Bill) Have you eaten? Bill: Not tonight, but... Sophie-Anne: I have several new members of court. A Latvian boy. Has to be tasted to be believed. Not polluted like most humans. Tastes exactly the way they used to taste just after I was turned, before the Industrial Revolution f*cked everything to hell. Should I summon him? Bill: No, thank you. There are a pressing matters at hand I need your help with. I need to know how to kill a maenad. Sophie-Anne: A maenad? In Bon Temps? That's random. Bill: Yes. She seems to have caused some
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Bill walks in on Sophie-Anne, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, feeding from the femoral artery of a young girl. Bill asks her advice on how to defeat Maryann, but Sophie-Anne makes Bill reluctantly spend the entire day lounging with her and playing Yahtzee before she will tell him what she knows. She eventually reveals to Bill that Maryann is waiting for her god to come and bring her "true death" and that she can be killed only when she believes her god has come for her. Bill departs for Bon Temps, running into Eric on the way out. He threatens to reveal to Sophie-Anne that Eric is making Lafayette sell vampire blood unless he stays away from Sookie. Hoyt takes his mother Maxine away from Jessica after seeing her more violent side, and says he should have listened to Bill's warnings about her. Jessica, heartbroken, screams in rage and hurt. Tara proves difficult for Sookie, Lafayette and Lettie Mae to handle as she insists on going after Eggs. Tara manages to convince her mother that God wants her to let her go. Lettie Mae holds Sookie and Lafayette at gunpoint while Tara makes her getaway. Sookie and Lafayette manage to liberate themselves from Lettie Mae and go after Tara, who goes to Sookie's house and finds Eggs in the kitchen. Tara shows Maryann that she can no longer be convinced through words and also that she refuses to let herself be influenced by Maryann's "vibrating" energy, so Maryann resorts to punching her in the face which has the effect of once again putting Tara under her influence. Sam finds Coby and Lisa Fowler - Arlene's young children - wandering around the woods hiding from their mother and the rest of the townspeople. Sam takes them in and feeds them lunch as they tell him they have not eaten in a couple of days. Jason and Andy, meanwhile, decide to take action against Maryann and, ignoring Sam's advice that Maryann cannot be stopped with violence, they go to the police station to arm themselves. All of the staff at the police department are under Maryann's influence and behave obnoxiously and dangerously, but Andy and Jason still manage to arm themselves with plenty of guns and ammo. Jason and Andy put aside their differences and decide to work together to defeat Maryann. Sam takes the kids to Fangtasia and reluctantly asks Eric for help. The Viking vampire agrees to ask Sophie-Anne's advice about stopping Maryann. The townspeople tell Maryann that the god came and smote Sam, but Maryann deduces that the mob has been tricked by Sam's shape-shifting and angrily orders them out. Hoyt tries to deal with Maxine on his own, but she continues to insult him and even reveals that his father killed himself because he was weak, and that he was not shot by burglars as Hoyt believed. Sookie and Lafayette arrive at her house and, while Lafayette distracts Terry and Arlene with drugs, Sookie sneaks inside. After a brief and disturbing encounter with Mike Spencer, she makes her way upstairs. Lafayette runs into Maryann and Carl. He attempts to shoot Maryann; however, she effortlessly deflects the bullet into Carl who dies as a result. Sookie finds Tara and Eggs in her Gran's old room, building a large nest on the bed in which sits a large, unhatched egg. Sookie screams for help as Lafayette, now also under Maryann's influence, advances on her.