Bill walks in on Sophie-Ann, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, feeding from the femoral artery of a young girl. Bill asks her advice on how to defeat Maryann and Sophie-Ann makes Bill reluctantly spend the entire day lounging with her before she will tell him what she knows. 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. 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 and Lettie Mae holds Sookie and Lafayette at gunpoint while Tara makes her getaway. 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. 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. Sookie and Lafayette manage to liberate themselves from Lettie Mae and go after Tara, goes to Sookie's house and finds Eggs in the kitchen, but is unable to get him out before Maryann shows up and soon Tara is once again under her influence. Sam takes the kids to Fangtasia and reluctantly asks Eric for help, and the Viking vampire agrees to ask Sophie-Ann'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, who winds up getting accidentally shot and killed. Sophie-Ann finally reveals to Bill that Maryann is waiting for her god to come and bring her "true death" and that Maryann can be killed only after she thinks her god has come for her. Bill departs for Bon Temps, running into Eric on the way out. He threatens to reveal to Sophie-Ann that Eric is making Lafayette sell vampire blood unless he stays away from Sookie. Jason and Andy put aside their differences to defeat Maryann and Bill shows up threateningly at Sam's place. 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.