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Updated: Tuesday Nov 24, 2009 | 06:00 AM EST By: Aaron Parsley

THE BATTLE FOR BON TEMPS

While Sookie was in Dallas with Bill trying to rescue a vampire from the fanatical Fellowship of the Sun church, maenad Maryann was terrorizing True Blood's sleepy Louisiana town of Bon Temps with her black eye-inducing orgies. In a final ceremony, in which she intended to offer up Sam to her god, Sookie gets a message from her shape-shifting friend to distract her, putting into motion Sam and Bill's plan to get rid of the maenad for good.