Gabe pleads for his life before Godric breaks his neck. Eric arrives immediately after and an alarm sounds through the church compound. Godric orders Eric to save himself and Sookie, while avoiding human casualties. Jason has an exchange with Sarah after being shot with a paint gun (twice). Sarah tells Jason that they’re holding his sister, and insults her, Jason flies into a rage and disarms Sarah, then drives back to the Church compound to help Sookie. Back at the Church, Eric attempts an act to get himself and Sookie past the gate guards, but their escape is blocked by a lynch mob headed by pastor Steve. Eric decides to give himself up to Steve in hopes of saving Sookie and Godric. Jason arrives back at the Church compound and lies his way in.



At the Dallas Carmilla hotel, while Lorena is feeding on telepath Barry, Bill uses the opportunity to incapacitate her and escape. He busts in on Jessica and Hoyt and orders them back to Bon Temps.

Eggs arrives at Merlotte’s in distress looking for Tara – he’s experienced memory loss again. Sam is woken in his car by a call from Merlotte’s; heading over there he finds Daphne dead with her heart torn out. Before he can act, the police arrive at Merlotte’s. At Sookie’s house, Maryann prepares a meal of a human heart. The sheriff and his deputy question Sam back at Merlotte’s; he fails to convince them of his innocence, even with Andy corroborating his story. At Sookie’s house, Maryann serves the souffle she prepared containing the heart to Tara and Eggs, who are delighted by the taste and begin scarfing it down.

Eric, lying bound by silver, lays on an altar, but Bill and Jason appear to save the day. Steve attempts to take Sookie hostage, but Jason shoots the weapon out of his hand. The Dallas vampires appear soon after and prepare to feed on the L.O.D. mob, but Godric stops the bloodshed. He pardons the humans, to the disappointment of his vampires. Jason reveals to Steve that he had sex with Sarah, and knocks him down with a hit. At Godric’s nest, Godric thanks Jason, and Eric pardons his previous use of V. Meanwhile, Sookie is trying to find out why Bill did not come to her rescue when he first knew she was in trouble. Back in Bon Temps, Jessica and Hoyt make love again, but they realize that Jessica’s hymen has healed, and that she will remain a virgin forever. Back at the Dallas nest, Bill demands Eric leave Sookie alone from now on, and the human Hugo, Isabel’s lover is presented as the traitor to Godric. Finding that Isabel still loves Hugo, Godric spares his life and exiles him from Dallas.

Sam sits in jail, and finds out that half the town has been arrested for various types of indecent behavior. In Dallas Jason takes the opportunity to apologize to Bill for his previous bigotry towards him. Privately, Godric shares his dismay with Eric at the cruel, brutish character of the vampire race, and wishes for a world that humans and vampires might share equally. Back at Sookie’s house, after gorging themselves on the heart, Eggs and Tara suddenly turn violent, first smacking then hitting each other harder and harder until they fly into an animal passion.

In Dallas an unidentified figure approaches Godric’s nest. Lorena appears at the nest also, and harasses Sookie, who discovers it was Lorena that kept Bill from saving her. Lorena turns violent, but Godric stops her from harming Sookie. He makes a speech in which he uses Lorena as an example of the kind of vampire who has no future in this new world. Godric orders Bill to take Lorena from the nest; outside, Lorena pleads her love to Bill, who rejects her. At the party, a mysterious intruder is revealed to be Luke, who calls for the attention of those gathered and opens his jacket to reveal a suicide bomb wrapped in silver chains. He pushes the detonator.