But I wonder. I think the links between Maudette and Dawn and Adele are closer than we can admit, because sex is always implicit. Adele did more for vampires in Bon Temps than anybody: graciousness on a world-changing level. If the show's about a moment of social change, Adele signed her own death warrant. In the collapsed recollection of your children -- your life, told through a thousand soundbites and monochrome memories -- Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy died the same day. Marilyn, and Lennon. Your gods. Your nation broke, the way it's breaking now again, and any time you wonder why we are the way we are, remember that: We all wonder where we were when JFK -- or Lennon -- died, for a moment, before we remember that was before we showed up. We live in your dreams.

Sookie listens to the radio chatter, out on the porch, the youngest girl in the story. The innocent, the orphan, whose world got bigger until it broke. "I should probably call Jason." Sam offers to call him, and she swallows and nods, thanking him quietly. And off in a hotel room in town, Jason snores, and picks up his phone -- "Shake that ass!" -- and throws it through a shutter with v-juice power, shattering the blind. Randi Sue moves closer still; he clutches at her hand as he sleeps. Wanting her so much closer.

Bill precedes the procession from the house, as Sam listens to Jason's voicemail message. "Bill, what's going on?" He tells her they're moving the body. They're taking her -- it, the body -- out of its house. Her home. Andy tells her to sleep somewhere else, somewhere safer, and she doesn't give a single moment of thought to it. This is home. It smells like home, all the dishes are where she likes them. Even Bill protests but she persists, even as the parade passes by. "This is my house. I'm staying right here." Neil from Kentucky stares, head-on at her and us for the first time, and she flashes on him at Fangtasia. (Please God hope she didn't recognize me at the vampire bar I look different it was dark and...) She tears her eyes, her mind away, and Bud Dearborn -- a friend of her family forever, a person she was trained to trust and to rely on; the man who would have saved Jason from Momma Thornton on the day of the Captain Morgan -- is sickened. Just looking at her face. ...Dumb luck you're not in that bag right now screwing that vampire...