[1] The episode, which was written by Alexander Woo and directed by Michael Cuesta, originally aired in the United States on HBO on September 13, 2009.

This angers Maryann who chases Sookie with her poisonous claws, but she is stopped by the appearance of a large white bull who she believes to be the God Who Comes.

Jessica, after telling Bill she is going to apologize to Hoyt, instead goes to a gas station and feeds on an unsuspecting truck driver.

His adoptive mother cries and still can't accept that Sam is a shapeshifter, while his adoptive father, who's bedridden and appears deathly ill from an unknown terminal illness, writes a response to Sam's request; to know who his real parents were, despite his step mother's warnings that they were bad people.

Back in Bon Temps, Eggs is deeply disturbed by the recent happenings and begs Sookie to help him uncover his actions during his blackouts.

Incredibly distraught over the things he'd done with Maryann, he holds Andy Bellefleur at knife-point begging to be arrested.

Andy tries to explain that all of his actions were not of his own free will, but Jason, seeing the hold-up from afar, does not realize what is happening and shoots Eggs.

She takes a moment to retreat to the ladies room to recompose herself and decides that she does want to marry Bill.

which was said to have been inscribed on the Pillars of Hercules to warn sailors against exiting the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean and towards the edge of the world.

[4] Charlaine Harris, author of the series of books upon which True Blood is based, makes a cameo appearance as a Merlotte's patron in the second half of the episode.

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly praised the episode saying it "made good on most of the stories it told this season".

[11] When additional broadcasts, on-demand viewings and DVR numbers are factored in, an average of 12 million viewers saw this and other episodes in the second season.