



"We will eat you, after we eat your children," he concludes. Oopsies! The episode closes with Nan watching in horror as Russell kills the anchorman and rants on national television about how, despite what the American Vampire League wants you to believe, vampires are killers, superior to humans, and don't need no stinking vampire rights amendment. (So did the Magister, until Russell killed him, which is what is Nan is doing in Louisiana in the first place.) Later, she tells Eric that The Authority wants him to get rid of Russell on the QT, lest he cause some major public relations problems just as the Vampire Rights Amendment is poised for ratification. We are also introduced to yet another layer of vampire bureaucracy called The Authority, for whom Nan works. Russell, with his small army of vampire blood-drinking Weres, inserts himself into the affairs of men during times of conflict so he can stop humans from destroying themselves? And now that there is Tru Blood, he doesn't feel he needs to try to co-exist with human any longer? Huh? Nan (who favors black leather, a smoky eye and a cadre of very silly-looking vampire stormtroopers in her down time) is not buying it. I'm on board with Eric's 1,000-years-in-the-making decision to off Talbot to get back at Russell for killing his family, and for coming clean to Vampire Rights League figurehead Nan Flanagan about it, although his exposition about Russell's nefarious plans didn't really make much sense.
