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Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (True Blood)
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ "
Nothin’" Plot
True Blood episode Maryann appoints Sookie as the "Maid of Honor" at her
sacrificial ritual, much to Sookie’s disgust. Maryann asks
Sookie to repeat her "electric" touch, but Sookie fails to
do so. She is restrained by an entranced Lafayette. Jason
and Andy Bellefleur try to advance on the crowd with an
arsenal of weaponry, only to become quickly entranced
themselves. Meanwhile, Eric meets Sophie Anne who has
heard through her guards that Bill knows that Eric is hav-
ing Lafayette deal Vampire blood. It is revealed that So-
phie Anne is the one who ordered Eric to have Lafayette
Maryann meets her God
start dealing again. Eric assures her that Bill is not aware
Episode no. Season 2 of the connection between them and promises to take
Episode 12 care of him.
Directed by Michael Cuesta Bill finds Sam at Merlotte’s and orders him to come
with him to see Maryann. Bill offers Sam to Maryann in
Written by Alexander Woo exchange for Sookie’s safety. Sookie strongly objects to
Original air date September 13, 2009 this, but Bill asks her to trust him. Eggs stabs Sam and of-
fers some of his blood to Maryann, who rubs the blood
Guest stars
on her body. Sam has not died, however, and tells Sookie
Evan Rachel Wood as Queen Sophie Anne to destroy all of Maryann’s ritual offerings, which Sook-
Dale Raoul as Maxine Forteneberry ie does by using her powers to push to the ground the
Lindsey Haun as Hadley large tree-like totem. This angers Maryann who chases
John Billingsley as Mike Spencer
Alec Gray as Coby Fowler Sookie with her poisonous claws, but she is stopped by
Laurel Weber as Lisa Fowler the appearance of a large white bull who she believes to
Patricia Bethune as Jane Bodehouse be the God Who Comes. Offering herself to the "God", the
Lauren Pritchard as Coralee bull stabs her in the chest with its horns, and as Maryann
Episode chronology starts to die, the bull transforms back to Sam, who fin-
ishes the job by removing Maryann’s black heart. Bill re-
← Previous Next → veals to Sookie that he allowed Sam to drink his blood so
"Frenzy" "Bad Blood" he could recover after being stabbed. Bill also thanks Sam
for his trust and for helping save the town of Bon Temps.
List of True Blood episodes
Bill comforts a visibly disturbed Sookie.
The next day, Hoyt learns that his mother was not ly-
Beyond Nothin’"
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ is the 12th and final episode
ing about his dad having committed suicide. Deeply dis-
of the second season of True Blood and the show’s 24th
turbed by this, he walks out on her again to go find Jessi-
overall.[1] The episode, which was written by Alexander
ca. When he arrives at Bill’s house, nobody is there. Jessi-
Woo and directed by Michael Cuesta, originally aired in
ca, after telling Bill she is going to apologize to Hoyt, in-
the United States on HBO on September 13, 2009. Like the
stead goes to a gas station and feeds on an unsuspecting
first season finale, the episode is divided almost in half
truck driver.
structurally; the first half focusing heavily on Maryann
Sam goes to visit his adopted parents. His adopted
and her attempts to bring new life to the god Dionysus
mother cries and still can’t accept that Sam is a
by sacrificing Sam Merlotte in a strange ritual, while the
shapeshifter, while his adopted father, who’s bedridden
second half deals with the aftermath of those events and
and appears deathly ill from an unknown terminal ill-
how Maryann’s presence in Bon Temps has affected their
ness, writes a response to Sam’s request; to know who
lives. The episode received generally positive reviews
his real parents were, despite his step mother’s warnings
and received an Emmy nomination.[2]
that they were bad people.
Back in Bon Temps, Eggs is deeply disturbed by the
recent happenings and begs Sookie to help him uncover
1
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (True Blood)
his actions during his blackouts. With her help he learns Ball said of the finale, "...the first part of the season
that he was the one who murdered Miss Jeanette, Daphne we had a lot of different storylines taking place in dif-
and also the one who stabbed Sam. Incredibly distraught ferent places and then we wanted to bring them all to-
over the things he’d done with Maryann, he holds Andy gether ... where everyone was fighting the same fight for
Bellefleur at knife-point begging to be arrested. Andy the last episode."[6] He also commented on the scene in
tries to explain that all of his actions were not of his own which Jessica feeds on a truck driver, "She’s still a fairly
free will, but Jason, seeing the hold-up from afar, does freshly-made vampire. Bill hasn’t been much of a maker
not realize what is happening and shoots Eggs. Jason is and she just had a really emotional experience with Hoyt
afraid after realizing he killed Eggs, but Andy takes his walking out on her. It’s part of her instincts as a vampire
gun, wipes it off and tells Jason to leave and that "he and her need to feed ... she’s just got rage."[6]
was not here and he didn’t see anything." Tara arrives
along with many others to see Eggs shot and dead, and
she breaks down in tears.
Reception
Bill takes Sookie out to a French restaurant and pro-
poses to her. Sookie is initially confused and afraid be- Critical response
cause of all of the recent happenings in her life. She takes Michelle Zoromski of IGN awarded the episode 8.8 out of
a moment to retreat to the ladies room to recompose her- 10[7] and felt the "second half of the episode wasn’t inter-
self and decides that she does want to marry Bill. Howev- esting, but it felt like a bunch of random scenes clunki-
er, when she returns, Bill is gone and the place has been ly thrown together", however she did praise the way the
ransacked. Bill is captured with a silver chain and kid- episode "set up some interesting plotlines for next sea-
napped by an unknown character. son". Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly praised the
episode saying it "made good on most of the stories it
told this season".[8] Phil McCall from BSC Review also
Title reference praised the episode, describing it as "definitely worth the
The title is taken from the song of the same name, which wait"[9] and praising Maryann’s death scene in particu-
was written and recorded by Bob Dylan for his 2009 stu- lar, saying it "was pure genius on the part of the writ-
dio album Together Through Life. In the episode, the song is ers." Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe thought the fi-
used over the end credits. The song was also used in sev- nale "satisfyingly tied up the season-long plots in the de-
eral promos for the second season.[3] The original title for mented first half, and then suggested new mysteries for
the episode was Before the Night Is Over, which is the name next season in the quieter second half. It wasn’t a full-on
of a Jerry Lee Lewis & BB King song playing during the amazing hour, but it did the trick for me."[10] The episode
scene when Sookie and Bill share a dance in the French received a negative review from The Wall Street Journal’s
restaurant. Michelle Kung, who called it "underwhelming"[11] and
The title is similar to an ancient warning to sailors: said "the structure of the episode was a bit of a mess",
Non Plus Ultra, ("Nothing Further Beyond"). which was comparing it to the "unnecessary final hour of the Lord
said to have been enscribed on the Pillars of Hercules to of the Rings trilogy."
warn sailors against exiting the Mediterranean Sea into
the Atlantic Ocean and towards the edge of the world. Ratings
When originally broadcast, the finale gained a total of 5.1
Cast million viewers, more than double the audience for the
season one finale.[12] When additional broadcasts, on-de-
The episode marked the final appearance of Michelle mand viewings and DVR numbers are factored in, an av-
Forbes and Mehcad Brooks. Charlaine Harris has a cameo erage of 12 million viewers saw this and other episodes in
in this episode as a patron at Merlotte’s. the second season.
Production References
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin’" was the fifth episode of the [1] "Official True Blood episode guide". HBO.
series to be written by Alexander Woo and the first to be http://www.hbo.com/trueblood/. Retrieved
directed by Michael Cuesta, who had previously direct- 2009-09-15.
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Feet Under, including that show’s penultimate episode.[4] [3] "True Blood Season 2 Trailer (HBO)". YouTube.
Charlaine Harris, author of the series of books upon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qufAFY7FL0U.
which True Blood is based, makes a cameo appearance as a Retrieved 2009-09-14.
Merlotte’s patron in the second half of the episode.[5]
2
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[4] "Official Six Feet Under episode guide". HBO. 2009/09/review-true-blood-beyond-here-lies-
http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/. Retrieved nothin-2-12/. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
2009-09-10. [10] Gilbert, Matthew (2009-09-14). "’True Blood’:
[5] "True Blood - Charlaine Harris cameo". SpoilerTV. Goodbye for now". The Boston Globe.
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2009-09-15. [11] Kung, Michelle (2009-09-14). ""True Blood" Finale:
[6] ^ "Blood bath: Televisionary Talks to "True Blood" Season 2, Episode 12 Recap". The Wall Street Journal.
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2009/09/blood-bath-televisionary-talks-to- Retrieved 2009-09-15.
true.html. Retrieved 2009-09-15. [12] "’True Blood’ finale audience doubles last year’s
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External links
[9] "Review - True Blood: Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ at Internet Movie Database
(2.12)". CBS Review. http://www.bscreview.com/
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