The supernatural drama picks up directly where the dramatic finale to the fourth series left off, with Sookie and Lafayette struggling to decide what to do about Tara, who saved her best friend's life, but appears to have sacrificed her own in the process. Meanwhile, Eric and Bill are seemingly spared an audience with the Authority by the intervention of another of Godric's vampire children, and Jason is stunned by the return of Reverend Newlin, previously thought to be dead