5. Let's Boot and Rally

Complete story — includes the ending

Sookie and Alcide are getting intimate, and as they enter her bedroom, Alcide whispers to her that he has been waiting for this for a long time. They are caught off guard by Bill and Eric, who ask Sookie for her help with their search for Russell. She reluctantly agrees, accepting that her life will never be normal. In South Dakota, Patrick and Terry are held hostage in a bunker by their squadmate Brian Eller, who claims to be protecting them from a dying Iraqi woman's ifrit curse. Lafayette, unable to deal with the demon magic inside him, calls out to Jesus' spirit for help, and later wakes up to find Jesus' head on his table with its lips sewn shut. Meanwhile, Jason wakes up from a disturbing dream where his parents are having breakfast with a young Sookie, but vampire marks suddenly appear on their necks. Later, Jason and Andy are sent to investigate the murder of Sam's shifter friends. Sam warns Luna about the attacks but before he leaves, a truck with masked gunmen appear and shoot them, incapacitating both of them, but Emma escapes. Terry realizes Eller is right and persuades him to free them. However, Patrick assaults Eller, believing he's a nutcase. They leave him tied up, but the ifrit appears and kills him. Elsewhere, Tara begins tending the bar on Pam's orders, and Jessica gives her advice on coping with vampirism, but when she later discovers Tara feeding on Hoyt, she attacks her. Sookie uses her faerie powers to discover that a woman from the Vampire Council glamored Alcide's employee and released Russell. This leads Alcide, Eric, Bill, and Sookie to an abandoned hospital where they find humans being used as food, and soon locate a recuperating Russell. But as Eric closes to attack him, Alcide is ambushed from behind.