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Marie L’Angelle is not going to stand for insubordination from anyone, not Jesse and especially not Tulip, whom Marie likes to remind that every breath she takes — among other things — is owed to Marie. But that’s not going to stop Tulip from trying to break the curse, based on the advice of Madame Boyd, bu killing Marie. But it ain’t going to be that easy.
After helping Cassidy escape from The Tombs in his skin suit, TC and Jody are dispatched to take care of Jesse and Tulip. Jesse is no match, again, for Jody but Tulip did manage to take down TC and make her way to Marie, gun drawn. But TC and Jody again gained the upper hand with their own firepower and Tulip found herself with a chain around her ankle, confined to the bedroom. But where’s Jesse?
Jesse is sealed in a coffin in the swamp, having hallucinations of John Wayne in an old black and white movie, with his Wayne stand-in commenting on the ‘commie’ movie High Noon. But the conversation, and an oncoming train, snaps Jesse back to reality and he figures out a way to blow up the generator providing him with oxygen using a cigarette. It takes him a couple of tries but he finally manages to escape.
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While he’s working on that, Tulip and Marie are engaged in some serious hand-to-hand combat (after a rather stomach-churning game of romantic role playing by TC and Marie), with the old lady whipping off her wig to let Tulip have it. But Tulip got the upper hand and killed Marie just as Jesse ran into the door … to see Tulip collapse, dead again. While Jesse attempted CPR, Tulip had a vision of God telling her that she messed up yet again, and TC told Jesse that because Marie drank a potion that included Tulip’s fingernails when she brought her back to life, that Tulip’s life was connected to Marie’s. He’s working on the the wrong person.
Jesse manages to revive his Gran’ma, and Tulip as well, but Marie’s heart is weak because they went all Pulp Fiction on her and shot adrenaline into her heart. The only way to get her back in tip-top shape, and prevent Tulip from dying as well, is to feed her. She needs a soul.
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Meanwhile, Starr is reluctantly showing off what little progress he’s made with Humperdoo as they are eager to present him to the world as the new Messiah since God is still missing. During a practice run of meeting the Queen, Humperdoo may have swallowed the stand-in’s ring because it was shiny. All Father wanted to see what Starr has accomplished and all Humperdoo was capable of was a bit of tap dancing to a song performed by F.J. Starr insisted they were a year, or five, away from introducing Humperdoo to the world but All Father was tickled pink by the dance and wants Humperdoo revealed immediately, saying the Second Coming was going to be even greater than the first.
And Cassidy is finding the single like in New Orleans is not all it’s creacked up to be. Signing up for a dating app called ‘Bite Me’, which he believes is a real vampire dating app, he meets a young woman who claims she’s been a vampire for 200 years. They hit it off and head to the rest room of the restaurant for some quickie sex and she stops for a second to put in her plastic fangs. Realizing he’s been duped, Cassidy shows her his real fangs and threatens to rip her throat out. But he lets her go. (By the by, they’ve really decided to forget about the results of vampirism, with Cassidy in full sunlight and casting a reflection in the rest room mirror.)
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Drunk and stoned out of his gourd on painkillers, Starr and his people descend on the restaurant to force Cassidy to read a prepared statement, sort of like a hostage, with the video to be delivered to Jesse. Starr thinks (and it was Lara’s plan) holding Cass hostage will get Jesse to come back, reclaim Genesis and emerge as the Messiah. But before they get very far — because Cassidy is incapable of sitting upright at this point — a group of black-robed people burst into the room, knock out Starr and take Cassidy.
Cassidy wakes up and sees the woman from earlier, fangs in place, and sees that the room is full of people in robes. Whether real vampires or not, Cassidy is now a ‘prisoner’ of Les Enfants du Sang, the Children of Blood — a cult that his son Denis had been interested in, first mentioned in Season 2’s ‘The End of the Road’.
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