Season 2 Arcana

From the S2 Blu-Ray edition

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2.1 Nothing But the Blood

(transcribed by Renée)

As Sookie and Tara scream and Andy tries to make sense of the body in his car
FOTS Propaganda: This murder and mutilation was clearly the work of vampires. Only a creature without a heart could have the evil callousness it takes to desecrate a human body in such a way. This is just another example of why vampires cannot assimilate into normal society. They are not and will never be civilized enough to walk among us as equals.

Right before Sookie reads Tara’s mind and finds out that she can identify the victim
AVL Propaganda: To accuse vampires of this heinous crime is nothing more than the usual scapegoating we’ve become accustomed to from the Fellowship of the Sun. Vampires have no inclination towards random acts of violence. They stand to gain nothing from torturing a human being. Furthermore, the removal of an organ can literally serve a vampires no purpose.

When Sookie tells Sam the only reason to cut out someone’s heart is to see them suffer
FYI: Hearts are often used as sacrificial offerings in supernatural cults.

During Bill’s recycling lecture
Pam: Sentimental vampires–and yes, they do exist–will tell you there is no more rewarding experience than becoming a maker. I tried it in 1906, just a year after I’d been made myself. His name was Collin. He was a farmhand in Cornwall, and, I’ll admit, it was a pleasant diversion at first, taking a boy in his sexual prime, immortalizing him, having command over his every move, but the glow wore off as it always does. I cut him loose; he wasn’t happy about it, but…whatever. I can tell that Bill Compton will always consider himself responsible for Jessica. It’s another thing to torture himself over.

In the dungeon
Pam: We call this little contraption The Carousel. It’s something Eric picked up during the Inquisition. Fun times. It reminds me of one of those little wheels hamsters run on. It’s the perfect contraption for imbeciles like Lafayette. He fancied himself so clever, never considered that his entrepreneurial ways would catch up with him. What a moron. When will these humans learn that whatever semblance of a clever idea they have was thought of by us and perfected millenia ago?

As Royce recognizes Lafayette, flashback to the AIDS burger incident.

While Lettie Mae and Tara talk outside the police station
Karl: Lettie Mae has spewed nothing but negativity since the day she was born. The destructive force field around her is so strong it’s a wonder Tara even survived, but Tara has a special quality, the kind that Maryann is so astute at detecting, an ability to dig into life and extract the marrow. With Maryann’s guidance, I dare say, Tara will one day be a force to be reckoned with herself.

After Sookie asks if Bill had sex with Jessica, flashback to the magister sentencing Bill and a terrified human Jessica emering from the trunk of a car.

When Jessica realizes that Sookie is to blame for her becoming vampire

Pam: I wonder how this personal ad would read. Genteel sugar daddy and low rent goody-two shoes seeking to adopt repressed socially maladjusted Jesus freak. Heart warming, isn’t it?

After Sookie asks if Jessica could have anything to do with Ms. Jeanette’s murder
Pam: In case you were wondering, this isn’t the work of a vampire. We don’t need to rip hearts out. It’s so…show-offy, wouldn’t you say? If I had to guess, this was done by someone or something that needs to prove his power and worth. Overcompensation. That’s why a Jaguar, asshole.

When Sookie asks Bill what else he is keeping from her, flash forward to the Chicago couple’s murder.

During the interview with Steve Newlin and Nan Flanagan
Pam: Steve Newlin likes to think he’s a threat. In his dreams, and another thing, that clean cut pious act doesn’t fool us for a second. You just know that when he is out of the spotlight, he is one kinky little freak. They always are.

While Steve and Sarah debrief
Steve: My mission on this good earth has been clear to me since the day I watched my first sunrise atop Christmas Mountain in Big Ben National Park. My daddy, the late great Reverend Theodore Newlin took me to see the awesome power of the light in its purist form when I was eight years old, and it was that day I knew I was being called on to protect the sanctity of God’s light and defend it against any and all things that threatened it. And what could be more of a threat than the children of darkness themselves? Vampires.

As Jason is being introduced to Steve and Sarah
Steve: Jason Stackhouse is a perfect candidate for the Fellowship of the Sun because he is so newly awakened to the powers of God’s light. While it is a shame he had to experience the evils of vampires, in order to find the light, this path often makes for a more clear minded, devout follower, and I believe Jason will be incredibly devout and clear minded in his practice. Well, he will be tremendously devout in his practice.

When Sam enters Maryann’s with a bag of money
Karl: Maryann always has such an array of colorful visitors. People are drawn to her like moths to a flame. Who else is basically given carte blanche by a town sheriff? Receives callers bearing cash gifts? Takes in a house guest who just weeks ago had a death wish and now feels hope for the first time? Indeed Maryann is an extremely special…woman.

When Sam picks up the statue on the coffee table:
Hint–This statue is a symbolic representation of the very thing Maryann is seeking, which ultimately explains her visit to Bon Temps.

As Sookie’s lawyer tells her that Uncle Bartlett has passed on, flashback to the bathtub scene when Sookie tells Bill what her uncle did to her.

When Sookie is told that Uncle Bartlett’s death is being called accidental
Hint: Sookie begins to question whether Bill could have murdered her uncle.

While Maryann tells Tara and Eggs about the god Pan
FYI: In Greek mythology, Pan is the god of shepherds, hunting, and music. With the legs and horns of a goat he was capable of arousing inspiration, sexuality, and panic.

When Jason tells Hoyt that the Fellowship came to visit him when he was in jail, flashback to the FOTS lawyer condoning the murders Jason was accused of.

After Jason asks Hoyt what the local church teaches
FOTS Propaganda: The FOTS does not believe in spreading hate. Our singular goal is to do the exact opposite: root hate out once and for all. That is why our mission is to eradicate the very origins of hate: Satan and his children, vampires. We hope to free the human race from the ungodly hatred that is vampire.

When Sookie’s car pulls up
Hoyt: I’m worried about Jason with the Fellowship of the Sun. I’ve known Jason a long time, and the only thing he’s ever inspired about are sex and football. He seems so riled up about this leadership conference. It reminds me how I felt about joining the Junior Ranger Scouts. I don’t really want to go into what happened. It’s a bad memory involving a rapid loss of body hair, but it made me realize that any club, no matter how high minded its purpose, can turn into a breeding ground for hate.

As Maryann vibrates with her arms in fifth position on top of Young Sam
Hint: This pose of Maryann’s resembles the statue in her living room.

After Sam meets Daphne
FYI: In Greek mythology, Daphne was a nymph who was pursued by Apollo and transformed into a laurel bush.

While Royce is telling Lafayette how his hip was shattered
Hint: This story could save Lafayette’s life.

During Jason and Hoyt’s conversation at Merlotte’s about women
Hoyt: Jason and me, we come from two very different camps when it comes to women. He sorta gets what he wants when he wants it. Always has, which means it ain’t so special to him, but me, I like to take my time, take in all the good stuff like getting to know a girl, figuring out what gives her belly laughs, or sitting together in quiet without it being awkward. Anyway, ‘hitting it’ doesn’t really let you do any of that. Well, in my experience anyway.

As Jason tells Sookie about the leadership conference
Hoyt: Jay and I have been friends since the third grade. Well, it was his second time doing the third grade, but it was my first. Anyway, he’s a good buddy. Ah, we don’t have too much in common actually, when you think about it, but something about the way he is so comfortable with himself. Like when he says the totally wrong thing, and he doesn’t blink. That kind of confidence is contagious.

When Jessica and Bill have a True Blood tasting
Pam: True Blood is an acquired taste, or so I’ve heard. It takes some trial and error to find out which flavor suits you. I imagine a little bit like dieting humans with their meal replacement drinks: chocolate, banana, strawberry shortcake. All just fancy names for what it really is, a substitute for real food.

During Sookie and Sam’s conversation about him leaving
Karl: Have you ever heard the expression ‘Saturn’s Return?’ It’s an astrological phenomenon when the planet forces one to face their unexamined life. Maryann is a bit like Saturn. She enters your life, and suddenly nothing looks the same. Sam is clearly feeling the effects, and they can be quite difficult. I’ve been their myself, but rewards far outweigh the initial costs. My advice to Sam would be to take the journey, surrender because, quite frankly, he really doesn’t have a choice.

After Bud tells Andy to stop interrogating people in Merlotte’s
Hoyt: Andy hasn’t had a drink in over nine years. I know it’s been that long because the last time I saw him drunk was after a homecoming party in 2000. A bunch of us were at the gorge having a good time when Andy came around in a squad car to clear us out. He was still wearing a uniform back then. But when Sheri Lynne Harper offered him a beer, he didn’t say no. In fact, he didn’t say no for three weeks straight. That’s when Bud told him it was AA meetings or his badge, his choice. Hope it don’t get to that place this time round.

When Sam tries to pay Maryann back, and she scoffs at the money
Karl: Maryann has never wanted for money. It just seems to find her, but quite frankly, she could care less. She’s of a certain mindset that the less one is consumed with the accumulation of material wealth, the more one enjoys the natural resources of life whether it be love, laughter, or wild ?its.Then the universe will provide the rest, and indeed the universe continues to provide her with abundance.

After Sookie tells Jessica that she wants to get to know her, flash forward to Jessica confrontation her father and throwing Sookie across the room.

After Sookie asks Bill if he had anything to do with Uncle Bartlett’s death, flashback to Bill dumping Uncle Bartlett’s body.

After Sookie tells Bill that he made her feel like a killer
Pam: Bill and Sookie are about as solid as an ice cube in a Louisiana heatwave. No matter how human Bill likes to think he is, his vampire nature will always win out. Back in the sixties during the summer of love, I thought I had found my soul mate. Let’s just say that the thrill of meaningful sex didn’t last long, and neither did he. Now I view humans exactly as I should as pets and food.

When Bill tells Sookie that he loves her
Hoyt: This is a little embarrassing, but I think if I could have anybody’s relationship, it’d be Sookie’s and Bill’s. I mean, you can tell by the way they look at each other that they can’t live apart, and that’s love, man. I know they got their problems, but they seem like quality problem, if you ask me.

As Eric informs Royce why he’s being held, flashback to setting the house on fire.

When Royce attacks Eric
Pam: A silver cross? Really? Eric Northman is a thousand year old vampire. That means he was 6 foot 5 in the year 1000 A.D. What kind of inbred moron do you have to be to think a dinky piece of silver could bring down a force of nature such as that? Sadly it’s the kind of moron that seems to grow on trees down in Bon Temps.

2.2 Keep this Party Going

(transcribed by Renée)

As Eric hauls Lafayette upstairs– Hint: These body parts could be of use to Lafayette.

While Sookie and Bill have a post coital chat–FYI: Bill’s bedroom furnishings are a mix of Civil War-era pieces and family heirlooms collected by the Comptons who have lived in this home for centuries.

When Luke and Jason are chatting on the bus–Steve: Luke McDonald, an all American boy with a good heart, good mind, and a good sense of devotion to a higher purpose. Back in school he could catch a football and dated a sweet little cheerleader, but let’s face it. His life was never truly remarkable until he heard the call to serve the human race by eliminating evil lurking in the the hideous blood sucking form of a vampire.

When Tara and Eggs are flirting by the pool, again–Karl: Benedict Talley…or Eggs was a troubled young man looking for a purpose, and who better to rescue him than Maryann? She swept him up from the depths of despair and gave him food, shelter, a guitar in his hand, and hope in his heart. I’m quite pleased any time Maryann finds anyone with such potential, and, if I do say so myself, he is possibly, possibly, the most polite house guest we’ve ever had.

While Sookie is watching tv, and Jessica’s mom says, “We just want to see our baby again”–Flashback to Jessica pleading to be taken home

As Sookie looks at photo with Gran and Tara–Hoyt: I sure know that Gran, Sookie and Jason’s, was just about the kindes woman there ever was. When you talked to her, it felt like anything missing in your life was suddenly found. You were just all filled up–and not just with her tipsy cake. I sure do miss her, and I know Jason does, too. Even though he don’t talk about it too much.

While Sarah talks about the honesty rings–Steve: I was working over at the VA hospital in Appaloosas where I was volunteering as a chaplain, trying to bring the holy word to those in need, when I swore I saw an angel walk right by me, my sweet Sarah. Peas and carrots, peanut butter and jelly, oreos and milk. All those silly cliches don’t come close to the holy bond my wife and I share. That’s because it’s rooted in the single most important thing in life, honesty, and we’ve decided to bring that honesty to the LOD leadership conference, so that it might protect each one of our members just as it protects us every single God-given day. Ah, I love her.

As Maryann places her order at Merlotte’s–Karl: When it comes to Maryann and food, I can think of only one word for her, insatiable. The finest fruits, the most delectable desserts. Nothing is too good, too rich, or too much for Maryann, and that’s just the way I like it.

During the LOD touch football game–Steve: The LOD leadership conference was the brainchild of my father’s who knew that the future belonged to our youth, and what better way to prepare them for the impending holy war than to bring out the natural strengths, pinpoint their weaknesses, and train it right out of them in the name of the Lord. Ya gotta get ‘em while their young and lost and looking for a way out of the darkness. These are the souls who are crying out for discipline and commitment and a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves, and there is no better example than Jason Stackhouse.

While Lafayette fishes the metal plate out of Royce’s leg–Pam: I’ll hand it to Lafayette. When the going gets tough, he can be quite creative, but the begging is a bit unseemly.

When Sookie asks Tara to move in–Karl: In my experience, females living together never amounts to anything but trouble with a captial ‘T,’ and no doubt if Tara left us, it wouldn’t be too long before she found herself begging to return. After all, very few can resist Maryann.

When Maryann meets  Sookie and says that she is very special–Hint: What does Maryann see that is special about Sookie?

As Sookie tunes in to Maryann’s mind–Hint: Maryann’s thoughts are not in English. What language are they in?

After Ginger shoots Lafayette–Pam: Ginger is loyal like a dog that yaps away the night…and day apparently, but I suppose she’s useful enough. Dumb as a sack of wet hair, and looks like her parents were first cousins. But, never the less, when we want something done, Ginger does it, or at least attempts to.

During the LOD concert–Steve: Sugar and spice and everything nice. That’s our own Amanda Jane. Sure she may look like one of those Britney, Christina, Paris pop tarts, but this gal is genuine pure gold. Now I don’t care too much for her type of music–I’m a Kenny Rogers fan myself–but the kids love her. And I say, it’s high time this little peaches and cream rose to the top. Any way to get God’s holy word out.

As Steve warns about vampire sympathizers–FOTS Propaganda: The FOTS’s Light of Day leadership conference, the brainchild of the dearly departed Theodore Newlin, was designed to help young men and women become formidable forces against the evil that vampires bring into the world.

When Jessica tells Sookie that she misses her parents and cries on the sofa–Pam: Why shed tears over a boring existence full of disappointments, wrinkles, and mediocrity? I never once cried over my dreadfully boring human life. Then again, I never cried period. It smears your makeup; makes you look desperate.

As the salesclerk at the mall flirts with Bill–Pam: The last thing that sad little vampire Jessica  needs is Bill running around trying to make fashion decisions on her behalf. She’d be better off sneaking back into that house of hers and borrowing one of her mother’s sad bargain basement ensembles or something from her rodent little sister’s closet, but no, instead she has Bill Compton hoping to find dresses that’ll make her look like she’s about to guest star on Little House on the Prairie. Sure, for himself he looks presentable enough, that took him what? A good 70 years at least.

When Jason and Sarah role play a vampire staking–Steve: Every night, after Sarah and I have said our prayers and I’ve put on the moisturizer, we like to act out a few leadership impovs about the many faces of evil vampires can take on in our daily lives. It keeps us focused on our goals to use our holy union to help eliminate all that is unholy about vampires. Sarah and I can get a little heated, but it’s just part of the fun. Come to think of it, Jason was so powerful and passionate about his role play with Sarah; it might help develop his skills if maybe he and I tried acting out a few some time.

At Merlotte’s–Hint: As a waitress, Daphne often looks like a deer caught in the headlights.

When Daphne asks which one is table four, again–Hoyt:  I ain’t never been a waiter myself. Mama never let me take a job with night hours cause she said she needed me at home. And I don’t like to talk bad about anyone, especially someone real pretty and super sweet like Daphne, but if you’re ever at Merlotte’s and she’s your waitress, get ready to be hungry and real real thirsty cause if turtles ever had a race to see which was the slowest turtle ever, she’d be the winner…or the loser, I’m not sure how that’d go.

After Daphne delivers Maryann’s order–Hint: Check out the look Maryann and Daphne give each other.

When Maryann sidles out of her booth and starts dancing–Karl: Frankly Merlotte’s never appealed to me. It’s dark, loud, and the music is extremely unsophisticated, and everything smells of hot grease. And if ever I do have the opportunity to sit and enjoy a meal, I’d much rather indulge in a delicious melon poolside than by a dead stuffed gator head. Then again, I don’t recall the last time I did sit down and enjoy a meal. Maryann has me quite busy. I’m sure you know.

When Eric reminds Bill that Sookie made a deal with him, flashback to Sookie and Eric making their bargain.

As Sookie and Jessica sit in the car–Steve: Jessica Hamby was an innocent God fearing child of light plucked from the prime of her life, savagely drained against her will, and brought into the unholiest of worlds. I pray for Jessica’s soul. I pray for her family. I pray for all of us. If a delicate flower, a decent Christian, and dutiful daughter like Jessica can be taken from us, what is to stop those evil doers from reaching in to your homes and your backyards to make a meal out of your children?

After Jane Bodehouse hits on Eggs–Hoyt: All I’ve ever known of Jane Bodehouse is she likes to drink…a lot. And any time I’ve seen her around town, she kind of had this sad sweet look in her eye like she lost something but she ain’t given up looking yet. Maybe she’ll never give up looking. Ain’t seen her husband since he went on a fishing trip about 10 years back. I know her son Marvin’s really embarrassed by her getting drunk at Merlotte’s and hitting on loser guys, but Jane’s always been real sweet to me, which is more than I can say for my mama.

When Jane dances and her pupil’s dilate–Hint: Note Jane’s black eyes. Have we seen these before?

After Maryann forces Sam to shift into a collie–Hint: Shapeshifting is a common theme in Greek mythology.

When Eden brings sandwiches to Sookie and Jessica–Pam: Why, for the love that is all evil and unholy, would I have wanted to return to my family once I was made vampire? Eric gave me an ultimate gift. I took it and ran as fast as I could away from that dreadful excuse of a life. Daddy was a wealthy business man, and mama raised me to be a proper lady. Lotta good that did. Didn’t take me long to make me realize I was living in an impossibly small world with even smaller men lining up to court me. With Eric my world was split wide open. He likes to snear that my legs were, too. Mama and Daddy would find that talk unpleasant, but uh…they’re dead.

When Lafayette suggests that Eric make him a vampire–Pam: Lafayette may be human, but he is right about one thing. He would make a fantastic vampire. His dancing may do nothing for me, but I know plenty of sadly closeted middle aged accountants who would pay good money to see him shake his thang. I say if he can bring us some more money, why the hell not, but Eric’s never been trigger shy when it comes to turning virile humans, so if he’s holding off on making Lafayette one of us, I’m sure he has his reasons. He always does.

While Jessica confronts her father–Pam: Jessica is what we call a very unhappy accident. The magister knows how to hit a vampire right where it hurts, so when Bill killed Long Shadow, we knew his punishment would be, shall we say, thorough. Nothing would cut to Bill Compton’s tragic tortured core more than to make a vampire, and, in my experience, good little Christian girls doing naughy things at night is a no brainer. Throw a rock in any town in America, and you’ll find some little plaid skirted upstart doing the dirty deep in a dark corner or sneaking out to some lame kegger. So the magister’s henchman threw a rock, and whala, Miss Jessica Hamby.

2.3 Scratches

(transcribed by Renée)

While Bill and Sookie fight in the car–Pam: Bill had very little choice in the matter. He couldn’t kill the entire Hamby clan; it’s too risky. He definitely didn’t want to turn them and have three more of those freaks on his hands for eternity, so he glamoured them, heavily, which means they are now even more brain dead than they were before.

As Sookie turns to peer at the bull headed creature–Hint: Take note of the claws and horns.

When Sookies goes into convulsions after taking Bill’s blood–Hint: Something seems to be preventing Bill’s blood from healing Sookie.

After Daphne tells Sam that she’s short for the night–Hoyt: I’ve never seen Sam put up with such bad waitressing before. Yesterday Daphne served me nachos that were ice cold, literally; there were ice chips floating in them.  Maybe he’s turning a blind eye cause he’s stressed out about something. He’s been looking a little jumpy and pale lately. Sometimes it seems that guy carries the weight of the world on his shoulders, I swear.

When Dr. Ludwig introduces herself to Sookie–Pam: Dr. Patricia Ludwig, an actual M.D, a real trailblazer in her field, I’m told. All I know is she usually gets the job done. She’s not know for her bedside manner, but she does appreciate the challenge of a diagnosis when something supernatural is involved. But such loyalty does not come cheap. She charges an arm and a leg, and I don’t mean that figuratively.

After Eric admits to not recognizing the creature Bill describes–Pam: Woulduncha know it? Everyone and everything wants a piece of Sookie Stackhouse. Leave it to her to be attacked by something Bill’s blood can’t fix, and it’s almost unheard of for something to be out there that Eric can’t instantly identify. Yes, that girl brings everyone out to play.

As Dr. Ludwig cleans Sookie’s wound–FYI: The medicine Dr. Ludwig uses is a secret antidote to certain kinds of supernatural poison. Considering she doesn’t know what kind of creature attacked Sookie, she gets lucky that her antidote works.

When Dr. Ludwig examines something she scraped out of Sookie’s back–Hint: Dr. Ludwig pulls a claw fragment out of the wounds in Sookie’s back.

When Jason awakens in the middle of the night and prays–Steve: Doubting what is right and wrong is a very important part of the process. My father taught me an invaluable lesson before he was murdered. When a disciple is questioning his own faith, that is the most important moment for a leader, such as myself, to seize because only I can explain to Jason that his doubt is the function of the darkness. Think about it. When someone is confused, they say they’re in the dark. When they gain clarity, they say they’ve seen the light. Therefore if doubt is darkness then it is a function of evil. The more doubt ones feels and the more I can point that out, the more closer to the light they will eventually become.

As Maryann tastes Karl’s soup–Karl: My culinary skills really flourished with Maryann. I, of course, was always a decent chef but had not nearly the breadth of knowledge Maryann has acquired through her years of travel. She mixes all the great herbs and spices of the world in a truly unique way, and the more recently the ingredients have come out of the ground or off the vine,  off the bone, the better. Umm, and a very important detail, Bon Temps is not exactly a culinary Mecca, so frequent trips to Shreveport and constant trawling of online sources are necessary, but it’s well worth it.

When Maryann rolls a joint for Tara–Karl: Much like her food, Maryann demands the finest quality cannabis. It, too, is seasonally grown, so in the autumn we have it shipped in from Oregon. In the summer it comes from a small farming ???, and a friend in Jamaica supplies us in the spring and winter.

While Sara conducts group–FOTS Propaganda: Sharing stories of one’s life is one of the most important components of the leadership conference. We must understand that as children of God, we’re predisposed to seeing good in the world. It’s in our nature to be thankful rather than critical, hopeful rather than suspicious.

As Sara tries to persuade Jason to return to group–Steve: A gentle kind soul, my wife is. Empathy, that’s what sets her apart form the rest. I know the words that need to be said, which sentence comes after the next, how to speak to move people to see the truth, but she goes on an emotional journey with every last soul we bring to our flock. And someone like Jason who isn’t very good with words and ideas, he needs that. Sometimes I wish I had Sarah’s gift, not that often, but every now and then.

While Sookie and Ginger talk–FYI: Fangtasia is open for business from sundown until roughly one half-hour before sunrise. Ginger can be found at Fangtasia during most daylight hours. There are a few coffins in the back room as a precaution but most vampire employees return to their homes or nests for rest.

When Sookie sees Lafayette–FYI: Lafayette has outlasted all the other prisoners he started with in the basement. Some of them met Royce’s fate. Others were let go under specific conditions.

After Eggs finished playing the guitar–Karl: Maryann is drawn to people with raw talent, people who never quite fulfill their potential, diamonds in the rough, if you will. It’s part of her intuitive nature and her gift for helping people unblock themselves. It’s marvelous. I liken it to removing pebbles in a flowing stream of creative energy, which is why Eggs has really been growing as a guitarist of late.

When Tara tells Eggs about her mother’s drinking, flashback to Lettie Mae hitting Tara over the head with a Bible.

As Eric informs Sookie and Bill of Lafayette’s transgressions, flashback to Lafayette telling Eddie what he wants to hear as Lafayette takes his blood.

While Sam leaves a message for Tara–Hoyt: I got a whiff of something about Tara and Sam being involved for a while. It makes sense; they both spend so much time at the bar. Neither of them get into relationships so easy with other people. Huh, I don’t know. I wonder who had the upper hand in that one. Whatever. Doesn’t matter now cause Tara’s with Eggs, and Sam will always hold a torch for Sookie, hard as he tries to move on.

While Jessica emerges from the crawl space under the floor–FYI: Bill has yet to arrange permanent sleeping quarters for himself. Until he does, he will sleep in the ground; though this is not a long-term solution.

After Jessica and Hoyt make eye contact at Merlotte’s–Hoyt: You know when you’re on a roller coaster, and you’re heading up the hill, and it sorta starts to slow down as you’re getting near the top of it, and the waiting is just so intense that you think your head is going to shoot off into space? That’s how I felt when I first laid eyes on Jessica, and then when she smiled, well that felt like going down that hill at 12o miles an hour. And I mean that in a good way, the best.

As Sookie and Eric are making a deal–Hint: This vampire in Dallas seems strangely important to Eric.

When Eric tells Lafayette that he will see him around, flash forward to Eric standing in Lafayette’s window.

As Karl serves the orgiasts–Karl: This soup is a recipe that dates back to ancient times. The Romans served it at various festivals and rituals. It’s actually best served cold. It’s perfect for a summer treat, and the alchemy of the ingredients really stir the blood up. It seems that everyone is in the mood for earthly pleasures after partaking of this soup.

When Andy spots the pig in the playhouse, flashback to him chasing after a pig and a dog.

While Steve and Jason wait for Sarah to come to dinner–Steve: Jason’s potential was clear from the moment we met him, but to see how he’s flourished since being here, his physical prowess, his sheer determination, his spiritual growth. Sarah and I both knew we’d found a true leader, a man among boys. That’s why he was invited into our home, why we served him pudding, and why he will make a great soldier.

When Steve asks Jason what kind of man he would be if he didn’t try to avenge his father’s death–Steve: My daddy always had a clear mission during his short time on earth, to protect the human race from the forces of evil, but he ran into speed bumps because he believed whole heartedly that traces of God could be found even among the most evil doers of people such as drug dealers, embezzlers, even homosexuals, but when vampires came out of the coffin, it was clear there was no hint of God in those weapons of Satan. My daddy’s mission became much easier after that point, and it’s why he became such a trailblazer in his field.

When Steve comments about Sarah’s pudding, flash forward to her whipping it out for Jason in the loft.

While Hoyt checks out Bill’s house–Hoyt: She’s pretty great, just out of the gate great. If it’s easy to have fun with her on any old night of our lives, think about how great it could be if I planned an actual date, like a midnight picnic or something. Hope Vampire Bill will be cool with that, and by the way, his house is pretty cool. It’s got character like a wise house, just like the man, or the vampire. Wise, and with character.

After Jessica’s fangs pop out–Pam: Unlike human males who spend their lives afraid their appetites will betray them in the form of a bulge in their pants, any vampire worth his or her salt doesn’t fear the reveal of their fangs. Why should we? Our appetites are not a source of shame for us. If Bill were a decent maker, he’d have told this hysterical infant that her power resides in what she wants and her unlimited ability to get it.

When Sookie explains to Bill how she’s seeing evil where she didn’t before–Pam: What is obsession humans have with good and evil? Such a young mentality. Trust me. If you stay alive for more than a hundred years, the line between those two reveals itself to be very manufactured. Deep down Bill knows this, but he’s so attached to his identify as a good boy it’s sickening.

After Bill tells Sookie that he would glamour it away from her if he could–FYI: Sookie’s telepathy renders her impervious to glamouring. Though it is not entirely understood why this is so, it is a phenomenon consistent among all telepaths.

When Coroner Mike and Jane Bodehouse get black eye syndrome–Karl: It’s a rather common occurrence for friends of Maryann’s to experience a dilation of the pupils. We associate dilation in this culture with drug use, but it’s a naturally occurring phenomenon associated with emotional arousal. In fact, women intentionally dilated their pupils in Medieval Italy as part of the courting process because it suggested a heightened sexual interest. Maryann’s influence is like a drug in that regard. People feel naturally aroused in her presence therefore…the eyes. I, myself, am immune due to a freak incident I was victim to as a child. It’s not something I care to discuss.

2.4 Shake and Fingerpop

(transcribed by osterby)

Jason enters the bunk house at the LODI conference to find his bunkmates are dead smeared in blood and Luke attacks Jason pretending to be a vampire.
Banner: Fellowship of the Sun
The Light of Day leadership conference features separate living quarters for men and women affording out members the opportunity to live and grow together as a community, bound by a single purpose, without being distracted by sexual attraction.  Boarding together brings our leaders of tomorrow closer together and closer to the light.

Sookie and Bill return to his house from Fantasia after Sookie has been cured by Dr Ludwig, they find Jessica and Hoyt kissing on the red velvet couch.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“Back when I was in High School and I was home on a Saturday night and I was playing Jenga with my Momma, I knew Jason was out on some date with some cheerleader, kissing her, buying her stuff, and all I could think was that maybe, someday, I’d be lucky enough to meet someone sweet or pretty or someone who made me smile.  And then I met Jessica and wow.  It was like I got al those things in one perfect redheaded package.  So I don’t even mind if Vampire Bill tells me to go home or come back later.  Cause he’s just trying to do right by her, like I am.  I waited my whole life to find someone like Jessica and one more night don’t bother me a bit.“

Hoyt leaves Bill’s house and Bill says to Jessica “We established there is to be no hunting in this house.”
Pam (Character Perspective):
“The ‘no hunting rule’ for a vampire is about as idiotic as fat free mayonnaise.  If you’re gonna do it, do it right.  Now I know a thing for two about parents forcing perfectionism onto their unfortunate children, praying every Sunday their progeny will stay squeaky clean but what’s the point of being dead if you can’t get your hands dirty?”

Sookie and Bill are discussing how Bill can teach Jessica to walk the fine line between human and Vampire after Jessica has run upstairs embarrassed.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Sure, I miss the hunt, I miss the challenge.  Sneaking up on unsuspecting humans, delicately drawing them into my web.  It was an awfully messy life, literally.  And I cannot tell you how many shoes I’ve ruined chasing after some poor soul who tried to inch away at the last minute. And now, sure I can have what I want, when I want it.  But what’s the fun of that?”

Swimming in the lake with Sam, Daphne is discussing the lack of things to do in Bon Temps.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“Maryann says travel is an enlightened man’s necessity, which is why I don’t mind each time we pack up and move somewhere new and thrilling.  Even the tiny nook of the world like Bon Temps has its treasures to behold. Indeed they may be buried deeply, very, very deeply but Maryann is on a mission of the utmost importance, for what, I couldn’t say, but she likens it to a fine stew, finding just the right ingredient is one’s biggest challenge and greatest delight.”
Daphne and Sam still swimming, agree on the best sweet potato pancakes are in Arcadia.
Hint:Sam and Daphne seem to have a lot in common.

Daphne tells Sam that she has seen boy parts before and climbs to dock ladder while Sam is watching her.
Hint: Sookie had the same scars on her back.

Tara tells Maryann she was moving in with Sookie. Tara tells Maryann she doesn’t feel like dancing.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“I will tell you one thing, I haven’t known a single one of our baby birds ever truly wanting to fly Maryann’s nest.  I’ve cooked every meal to Maryann’s taste and to Tara’s desires as well.  I do believe Tara’s wanted for nothing since her arrival and she couldn’t seem more smitten with Eggs well, last I saw. I should think he alone would be reason to stay around.  I do hope it wasn’t something I’ve done.  Humph, Maryann wouldn’t be please if that were the case, not at all.”

Jason and Luke are discussing who the first Vampire was with a fellow LODI: Lazarus, Dracula, Jesus, Cain.
Banner:Fellowship of the Sun
The Fellowship of the Sun was founded to focus on eliminating evil in the name of our lord Jesus Christ.  And with our commitment to obliterating vampires, along with our stimulating church activities and successful Light of Day leadership conference, our reputation speaks for itself.

Jason is called outside over the loud speaker to meet Reverend Newlin outside in this Arctic Cat, all terrain vehicle.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“Morning, I was never really a contact sports man myself.  Bowling, miniature golf, now they were two sports I excelled at.  Didn’t exactly help me excel with the ladies, but I just never saw the point in sweating and grunting like farm animals, wasting precious time I  could be honoring my Father’s and the Lord’s good works.  Now, when it comes to weaponry, you  point me in the direction of a Vampire and my shots will ring out with a fervor of God’s holy light, obliterating evil, bullet by wooden bullet, amen.

Sookie gives Tara a framed picture of Tara, Gran and Sookie for Tara’s birthday.
Flash Forward: To reveal the next time Sookie will see this picture.
Sookie and Bill come back from Dallas and enter Sookie’s house after Maryann has trashed Sookie’s house, Sookie sees now tattered, framed birthday gift picture on the stairway.

Andy enters the morgue where Bud, Kenya and Mike Spencer are discussing the scratches on Nancy Levior’s back.  Andy asks Kenya about the pig Tara claimed she saw when she was drunk and ran off the road.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“I couldn’t even begin to tell the tales of that pig and all it’s been through with Maryann, except to say this.  As long as I’ve known it, it’s never once cleaned after itself.  Not once.  And if you think I’m pleased with that well, I am most certainly not.  But, don’t tell Maryann I said so.”

Tara pounds on Lafayette’s door to ask Lafayette why she had to hear he was back (from Club Med) from Sookie.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“Now I didn’t know Tara too much, short of running into her sometimes at he old Stackhouse place was we were growing up but, I do know Tara loves Lafayette something awful.  It’s the kinda family I always wished I had.  Like a brother you could tease and piss off, and make up with, share a couple secrets with. As long as I’ve known them, they always had each others backs.  No matter who’s hurting them or who’s leaving them behind, even if sometimes it was their own mamas doing the hurting and leaving.”

Lafayette tells Tara that he has just spent the last two and a half weeks thinking he was going to die, he doesn’t have it in him to take care to Tara that night.
Flash Forward:To reveal if this is something Lafayette will regret.

Lettie Mae and Lafayette took Black Zombie Eyed Tara back to Lafayette’s home after they hauled Tara away from Maryann and Eggs at Sookie’s house. Lettie Mae is putting a compress on Tara’s forehead. Lafayette says he kicked Tara out on her birthday because he was feeling all po, po pitiful me.

Sookie follows Sam out of Merlotte’s asking him if he was going to tell her that he was leaving town.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“I can’t even remember the day when Merlotte’s wasn’t her in Bon Temps.  I had my first drink here on my twenty first birthday.  Sam served it to me himself.  He sold Jason beer way before that.  The truth is I probably coulda got away with it too, but I was fine to wait, to have Sam serve me up proper.He didn’t make me pay for the whole week.  Sam’s just that kinda guy.  I just hope he finds someone and looks at him the way the looks at Sookie sometimes when he thinks no ones lookin.”

Steve Newlin is driving down a dirt road with Jason riding shot gun with a paint gun shooting at vampire targets….
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“If you want your soldiers to do right by you, you gotta do right by your soldiers and that starts with training them to understand discipline, leadership, brotherhood and loyalty, above all.  These are the cornerstones of any army worth it’s salt.  Now, some may say we push a bit too hard here at the leadership conference but we’re lookin’ in that ruff and we’re finding our diamonds and we will not stop until they are lean mean vampire destroying machines. (Chuckles) Praise his light, amen.”

Steve Newlin is telling Jason that it must be something to see a vampire explode when staked, and Jason tells Steve they just sort of fall apart like a water balloon.
Flashback: To see when Jason sees a vampire die.
To Jason’s basement on the night when Jason tried to release Eddie from the lawn chair and Amy stakes Eddie.

Tara is having a cry on the couch at Sookie’s house.  There is a knock on the door, Tara answers it, to a birthday surprise from Maryann, Eggs and Karl.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“Ah, this is perhaps my best cake to date, not that anyone noticed especially.  But I created alternating layers of yellow butter cake with white chocolate mousse with and English lemon curd filled with fresh blackberries and coated with white chocolate drizzle.  That Barefoot Contessa website has the eye for decadence, but don’t tell Maryann.  She prefers me to whip things up and create my own delicious concoctions from scratch.”

Sarah Newlin is giving Jason a grill dance, licking her fingers, flinging her hair, while Jason leers over Steve’s shoulder.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“It takes an amateur to prepare a meal for someone that tastes good, but it takes a real woman like my Sarah to leave you feeling good too. Famous ribs, her favorite pudding dish, what melts in your mouth is nothing compared to million dollar smile that will melt your heart and leave you begging for thirds.”

Daphne tells Sam that Andy wants another cocktail, and Sam goes over to Andy’s table to cut him off.  Sam tells Andy that Portia would be upset if Andy crashed her car.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“I haven’t talked to Portia since Jason and I were in high school we got kind of busted for trying to, ah, take her fancy car on a joyride. And I ain’t never talked to his Grandmama because she don’t talk to nobody.  But when Andy’s drinking, you can hear both of them screaming from miles away.  Like one of this whistles that only dogs and Sam Merlotte can hear. Because I guess his hearing’s real good. But I guess, last I heard if Andy drinks one more time, he’s gotta find a new place to live.”

Lettie Mae shows up with a birthday gift for Tara at Merlotte’s.  Sam tells Lettie Mae it’s Tara’s day off. She asks Sam to give the birthday to Tara for her.
FYI:
Lettie Mae struggles for a long time to figure out what to get Tara for her birthday.  In the end, she took the department store saleswoman’s advice and purchased a selection of bath salts and moisturizers so Tara could pamper herself.

The Anubis Air jet opens to the waiting limo, Sookie staggers out of the door saying she drank ten teeny bottles of Grey Goose vodka.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“After hundreds of years of traveling in just about the worst circumstances you could possibly imagine, a little bit of Anubis luxury goes a long way.  Sure, the travel coffins aren’t exactly stylish, but they serve their purpose and are surprisingly comfortable.  And cornering the vampire market gives them all too good a reason to gouge us for every hard earned penny.  But finally, a travel schedule, that’s convenient day or night.  And anytime Eric and I have flown, we have been pleased.  And that’s saying a lot.”

Sam arrives at Tara’s birthday party at Maryann’s-technically Sookie’s- Sam is greeted by Maryann and is told the gift table is in the dining room.  Sam takes the gift in and Maryann follows and threatens to reveal Sam to the partiers as a dog.
Flash Forward:To reveal if Sam learns what Maryann really is.

Sam is stands the dock holding a gun while a floating and swimming Daphne explains to Sam what Maryann is.
Tara and Eggs are Dirty Dancing at Tara’s birthday party.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“They say a good party always reflects its hostess.  And nothing could be more true of Maryann and each one of her gatherings.  They’re delightful, engaging, hedonistic and full of surprises.  Come to think of it, I couldn’t pick a favorite one if I tried.  It’s as if for every party she throws is the very first and the very last one she’ll ever throw.”
Sookie, Bill and Jessica are still in the airplane hanger inside the limo with driver Bill glamours the driver and teaches Jessica how to glamour.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“I’m not exactly one to pay Eric a compliment seeing as though his self-esteem is quite intact, but when it comes to makers, I doubt you’ll find better.  Without training, a vampire would most likely starve, wither to nothing and waste the most precious gift of eternal life.  When I was made vampire, I was taught to hunt, feed and thrive by the very best.  And it’s made me who I am today.  That, and my own innate sense of style.”

Sookie and Bill are checking into the Hotel Carmilla. Bill confirms with the hotel desk clerk that the accommodations have been taken care of by a Mr Northman.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Luxury sleeping accommodations?  I’ll take a clean solid coffin over a fine lined bed any day.  When we sleep, we’re dead.  This is all just for show to make the humans comfortable. You know how they make dog food look appetizing in TV commercials so humans will buy it? Hotel Carmilla operates on exactly the same principal. Only, the stupid humans don’t even realize they are the food.  I do appreciate the Hotel Carmilla’s discreet body removal service however.”

As Tara’s birthday partiers are dancing, Maryann chants behind the bushes lo, lo, bromios, etc
Karl (Character Perspective):
“It’s not unusual when Maryann is at her very best and buoyant to bring together her nearest and dearest.  And others who are simply craving pleasures in its many forms.  At the height of their ecstatic joy, we chant together in reverie.  It’s really not a party without it now is it? As to it’s meaning, only our innermost circle understands.”

Eric vampires up to Lafayette’s window to offer Lafayette the elixir that is his thousand year old blood.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“With me by his side, Eric certainly doesn’t want for vampire loyalty.  But a human with equal parts loyalty and fear?  Now, that’s something worth keeping in your back pocket.  Works with Sookie sometimes and now with Lafayette.  I never know exactly why Eric does what he does but he always has his reasons.”

In their Hotel Carmilla suite, Bill and Sookie are questioning the limo driver to find out how hired him.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“If the driver was hired by the Fellowship that means Eric was probably right about them having something to do with Godric’s disappearance, not that I surprised, when is Eric ever not right?  After all these years, you’d think he’d screw up once.  Just to break the monotony.”

Lafayette suckles Eric’s wrist in Lafayette’s living room while Eric watches an actor on the television wearing a genie costume.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Eric doesn’t offer up his thousand- year-old blood to just anyone if he is not gonna turn them.  Hell, even when he was brand-spanking new he was something special.  And you don’t stay special by giving yourself to just any old hag. So if you ever find yourself tasting the blood of Eric Northman you can rest assured, he either likes you or wants something from you or, in some special cases, both.”

Eric finishes his telephone conversation with Bill and Lafayette is dancing up a storm, Eric tells to Bill if he is displeased, he should take it up with the magistrate or the Queen.
Flash Forward:To reveal a glimpse of the Queen.
Bill is standing inside Queen Sophie Ann’s day room, hearing the panting of Hadley while the Queen is sucking her femoral artery. Bill asks “Is this a bad time?”

Eric and Bill meet in the Hotel Carmilla Bar after Eric knocks on Bill and Sookie’s suite door interrupting Sookie and Bill’s make out session.  Eric tells Bill he admires him for admitting he cannot protect his human.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“Vampire airlines. Vampire Hotels. Anubis. Carmilla.  Just fancy words for dens of evil, my friends.  It should come as no surprise collaborating humans have seized upon the lecherous nature of vampires who have become leaches themselves draining good American dollars for their own capitalistic gains and validating vampire existence in the process.  Being a vampire shouldn’t be convenient, accessible or even possible.  The more we seek to accommodate vampires and their hideous ways, the more dangerous they will become.  Well, what’s next, True Blood fountains right nest to your son’s and daughter’s water fountains on the playground?”

Eric and Bill are discussing the disappearance of Godric, Eric explains to Bill that, If one as powerful as Godric could be taken, then not of the vampire are safe.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“For as long as I have been vampire, Godric has been sheriff of area nine in Texas.  And he is one among the most highly regarded sheriffs I’ve ever heard of.  And while Eric is not exactly known to have emotions, let alone reveal them, I dare say he’s overly fond of Godric.  Why else would he go through some much trouble to find him?”

Sam and Daphne are in Sookie’s kitchen feeding each other cake and kissing, Daphne tells Sam she knows what he is. Daphne leads Sam out of the kitchen by the hand  while Tara and Eggs get naked nasty and while Maryann is doing her vibrating thing in the yard.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“Maryann’s always got her eyes on something bigger, stronger, more fabulous than what’s right in front of her.  But if you were to ask me, and really, who ever asks me, I should say she is more satisfied tonight that I have ever seen her.  Perhaps this is the place where everything she’s ever dreamed of comes true.”

The Black Eyed Zombie people are dancing, eating dirt, smearing food all over each other, Tara and Eggs are doing the deed, Maryann is digging in the dirt, coming up with her clawed appendages.
Hint:Where have we seen these claws before?
Sookie is scrolling the x-rated viewing choices of the hotel suite flat screen, she hears a knock on the door, she turns off the flat screen, answer the door to a bell boy, who is escorting a male, strait, B-, Jessica approaches stating “Ah, that’s for me.”, much to Sookie’s dismay. Sookie and Berry answer each others non verbal questions.
Hint: This is the only person Sookie’s ever met who can read her mind.
Barry bolts.  Sookie chases Barry done the corridor yelling for Barry to wait.

Pam (Character Perspective):
Pam: Sentimental vampires–and yes, they do exist–will tell you there is no more rewarding experience than becoming a maker. I tried it in 1906, just a year after I’d been made myself. His name was Collin. He was a farmhand in Cornwall, and, I’ll admit, it was a pleasant diversion at first, taking a boy in his sexual prime, immortalizing him, having command over his every move, but the glow wore off as it always does. I cut him loose; he wasn’t happy about it, but…whatever. I can tell that Bill Compton will always consider himself responsible for Jessica. It’s another thing to torture himself over.

2.5 Never Let Me Go

(transcribed by osterby)

Sam follows the trail of Daphne’s clothing to find a doe.  Sam greets it and the doe shifts into Daphne. Sam asks Daphne how she found out about him.  Daphne explains that she saw a dog jump in the water and it came up as Sam.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“Maryann has a special fondness for shape shifters I suppose because they’re a hybrid of animal and human but never entirely one or the other.  She enjoys their energy, wild at times, quite contained at others.  She finds them fascinating, a little mysterious and sometimes a challenge.”

Sookie runs down the corridor of the Hotel Carmilla, chasing after Barry the bellboy while reading each other’s thoughts.
Hint: Barry seems to have telepathic abilities, just like Sookie.

Sookie re-enters the hotel suite while Bill lectures Jessica about not ordering room service.  Bill orders Jessica to her room. Sookie explains to Bill that she was gone from the hotel  suite because she was asking the bell boy about candy machines and continental breakfasts.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“The vampires of Texas are just what you’d imagine, a cliché:  Loud, arrogant, cowboy hats and boots.  They all think it’s still the Wild West.  Hell, it’s surprising they don’t smear their humans in barbecue sauce.  Godric is the exception, of course.  I’ve always found it ironic that such a quiet, gentle spirit should be sheriff in Texas.  All right, even a vampire at all, for that matter.”

Sookie seductively reminds Bill that they are staying in a vampire hotel, that is light tight, and for once Bill doesn’t have to leave the bed in the morning. Bill admits to Sookie, while she is feeling him up, that keeping her safe is not his only desire.
Flashback:To see what might happen if Bill stayed with Sookie through the morning in Bon Temps.
Sookie’s enters the kitchen at her house to find Bill sitting at the table reading “The Bon Temps Bugle” in the daylight. Bill has made breakfast.  Bill turns towards the window and bursts into flames.  Sookie wakes up in her own bed.

Hoyt is in bed and answers his cell phone and is pleased that it Jessica calling him from Dallas.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“What’s amazing about Jessica is when I hear her voice on the other line I get nervous for a second, but then it goes away.  It’s so easy with her.  It’s like talking to Jason, it just flows.  But a much softer, smarter, prettier Jason, you know?  Who doesn’t make jokes at my expense or tell me to get lost every time a pretty girl’s around or buy a tank of gas on my ATM card and forget to pay me back.”

Jason’s sound asleep when Gabe blows an air horn to wake Jason up and hauls him outside to line up with the other cadets for LODI training.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“Gabe is a true soldier.  A man whose loyalty you never have to question.  He used to be a big time bounty hunter.  Brought some 2000 felons to justice in his day.  His specialty was tracing bad guys across the border into countries such as Belize, Honduras and Nicaragua.  He also spent some time doing K and R for a few private companies down there.  He rescued some very important oil executives from mean militia groups.  Made some very good money.  Which is what freed him up to follow his dream of joining the Fellowship.  We got him.”

Tara and Eggs are sleeping in bed at Sookie’s house.  Tara wakes up, looks over to Eggs then leans over and places her ear to his chest.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“It seems everyone who comes into Maryann’s world finds a new awareness of the heart both metaphorically and literally speaking.  Life becomes so much more alive.  And what symbolizes that more than the ever beating pumping organ that propels us forward each day?  As a matter of fact, I had a heart murmur that disappeared when I came into Maryann’s service.  And she so in tune with the heart that she knew this before I did.  Maryann believes that being near the hearts of other living organisms is a way to keep all life forms together and a way for us to feed off the energy of each other.”

Sookie wakes up to a sleeping Bill and gets out of bed.  Sookie enters the empty hotel bar to find Barry setting up a continental breakfast.  Sookie tries to talk to Barry about their telepathy, saying they need to stick together.
Flash Forward: To reveal how two telepaths might ‘stick together’.
Sookie locked up in the storage cage in the basement of the FOTS and reaches out telepathically to Barry asking him to contact Bill to let him know where she is and who else is being held there.

Sookie climbs back into bed with a still ‘sleeping’ Bill.  Bill wakes up to tell Sookie that he dreamed she was gone.  Sookie tells Bill all about her meeting another telepath.
Hint: By being able to communicate telepathically.  Barry and Sookie might be able to help each other out should they ever find themselves in trouble with the Texas vampires.

Bill scolds Sookie for revealing her gift to someone else, stating that it will be harder for him to protect her.  Bill expresses his lack of trust with Eric’s being strangely intense about the missing Texas vampire.  Sookie tells Bill not to worry about Eric.  They will do the job and go home. Sookie tells Bill the Eric needs her and wouldn’t want to make her mad.
Flash Forward: To reveal how Eric might try to keep Sookie happy…
Sookie and Eric are in bed.  Sookie tell Eric that she thinks he’s a big faker and that there is love in him.  Eric tells her “only for Sookie”.

Daphne tells Arlene that she hopes she is enjoying her Coca-cola and cigarette at the bar in Merlotte’s while Daphne is doing her closing prep from the previous night. Daphne asks Arlene if she would give her a hand in her prep work.  Arlene refuses and tells Daphne that she is thinking about Daphne’s future as a server by not letting her slide by like other people around Merlotte’s do.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“Arlene does not take kindly to most strangers especially ones who show up on her turf.  I kind of get it.  Daphne’s pretty much the worst waitress I’ve ever seen and she definitely does not respect Arlene’s years of experience.  But still, it seems like these two are a little cattier than average.  If I had to guess, I’d bet Arlene doesn’t like her on some gut level.  One of those women’s intuition things.  Or maybe she don’t like the way that Terry looks at her.”

Lafayette, a shadow of his former colorful and creative self, meekly follows Sam into Sam’s office where he apologizes for his absence.  Sam says it’s not good enough.
Hoyt (Character Perspective):
“Everyone noticed something was different about Lafayette.  For a guy who’s usually more colorful that a 4^th of July fireworks show well, he looked beat down for the first time in his life.  I can’t imagine who or what was able to beat that guy down but I think that gay cruise is probably last on the list.”

Jason and the rest of the LODI cadet are out jogging down a dirt road while Sarah and Gabe are riding in the Arctic Cat.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“Quite simply, the military training in LODI separates the men from the boys. In this program there’s no room for weak individuals.  I need warriors who will die for me in battle.  And this here’s the testing ground.  So if they die right here in training well, it’s just God’s way of telling us they’re not Soldier of the Sun material.  And they all signed a release agreement when they applied for the leadership conference, in the first place, so we’re covered.”

Tara enter Sookie’s kitchen surprised to see Maryann there.  Maryann tells Tara that she, Eggs and Karl will be staying with her, for a while. Tara is reluctant and tells Maryann that that isn’t going to work.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“Tara has trust issues.  We all know that.  Maryann expects it to be a bumpier ride with people who have suffered extreme abandonment in their developmental years.  So it came as no surprise that Tara had a setback when Maryann asked to move into Sookie’s house.  But despite her wisdom, Maryann can be a very sensitive soul.  And at this particular moment when she thought Tara was making such tremendous progress I believe her feelings simply got the better of her.  Alas, she is made of human stuff just like the rest of us.”

Tara enters the living room from the kitchen to find Eggs playing his guitar after Maryann sadly opens the kitchen door implying she understands why Tara feels she cannot invite house guests to a house that is not hers.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“It’s true, the owner did in fact just return from Peru.  While Tara may think it’s strange, we’re accustomed to following the bounty of hospitality offered to us.  It’s the living manifestation of “Go with the Flow.”, we always relish unique details of each new lodging.  For instance, the towels at the last home we were at, best quality I’ve ever come across.  And the Stackhouse place well, the sense of history that permeates it, it’s invigorating.  You can almost smell and taste all the events that have unfolded there for the last 150 years.”

Gabe has Jason and his fellow cadets lined up to a very high chain link fence which the cadets are to climb over.
Banner:  Fellowship of the Sun
The Light of Day Institute prepares cadets for a lifetime of dedicated service to Jesus Christ and his holy light.  Just as a shepherd learns to guard his flock from marauding wolves, every LODI participant masters techniques to defend humanity from the unholy menace posed by vampires.  Our soldiers join as children and graduate as men.

Jason rises to the occasion by climbing the fence and offering Luke a hand to get over the fence,  after Luke’s two unsuccessful attempts to climb over the fence, after Gabe’s prodding.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“That right there.  What Jason did to help Luke?  That’s what I call a Sarah Newlin moment.  The rigor and intensity it takes to make it as an LODI cadet can harden a man in ways that can even sometimes blind him.  I believe I can fall victim to such a thing myself at times but Sarah’s ever present compassion reminds me—Reminds the soldiers that weakness and failure are not the same thing.”

Sookie, Bill and Eric meet with Isabel and Stan at Godric’s home to discuss the possibility of Godric’s capture by the Fellowship of the Sun.  Stan presents his Rambo strategy to storm the church and exterminate the fanatics like the vermin they are.  Isabel dismisses Stan’s plan sarcastically saying the plan is brilliant if their goal is to have vampires blamed.  Bill dismissed Stan’s plan as it would jeopardize the Vampire International Political Agenda. Stan simply responds:  “Fuck that.”
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Stan, nee Stanley Baker, also known as Texas Stan which pretty much says it all, started as a pioneer in the 1700s.  Then in the Civil War, he became a scout and went on to become a trail guide for the U.S. Cavalry.  When he settles down in Texas, h began to build his reputation as a cowboy.  He wrote self-aggrandizing pieces for The New York Herald about his exploits and even starred in a show about himself called ‘Texas Stan’s Scouts on the Prairie’.  He couldn’t stand it if he wasn’t the center of attention.  He thought becoming vampire would always give him an upper hand and the power he craved.  But these days, it ain’t all about rodeos anymore.”

Sarah argues with Steve over Gabe knowing more than she does while Gabe lurks on the other side of the room.
Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“I love my darling Sarah.  But sometimes, she’s just a little too much of an eager beaver.  I think even for the traditional gals the whole feminist thing really poisoned the well.  Got all the good women confused in the head about what their roles really are in their man’s life.  I appreciate her commitment to the cause.  But every now and then, I have to remind her of her place.  And her gender.  Simple as that.”
Steve introduces Jason to the weapons cache of the research and development department of the Fellowship of the Son: guns, ity bitty wooden stakes more commonly known as wooden arrows, silver bullets, silver bullets with holy water, wooden bullets.

Steve Newlin (Character Perspective):
“The Fellowship works with very a sophisticated R & D group out of Wyoming.  I shouldn’t be telling you this but they’ve been commissioned by the U.S. Military to develop new defense technology.  I can’t go into too much detail about what the future of anti vampire weaponry looks like.  But I will say WMD’s are not just for Iraqi leaders anymore.”

Maryann and Karl drive up to Merlotte’s in Maryann’s Jaguar.  Arlene grumpily asks two men sitting at a booth for their order.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“I haven’t seen Maryann this worked up in ages.  When she gets into these moods, it’s best to do as I’m told, no questions asked.  But it’s evident just how important Tara has become to her.  Maryann is pulling out all the stops utilizing all her many gifts as a teacher to expedite Tara’s growth.”
Sarah enters the bathroom to find Jason who is soaking in the bathtub.  Jason asks Sarah if she would like his to leave.  Sarah tells Jason “Please don’t.”, locks the door behind herself and tells Jason she can help him.
Banner:  Fellowship of the Sun
Celibacy is an important step in preparing oneself to fully embrace God’s message.  Abstinence detoxifies the body and soul and allows the various powers of the church’s teachings to be absorbed more effectively.

Stan still argues the validity of his Rambo plan to recover Godric with Isabel.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“I’ve always had a soft spot for Isabel.  She’s got that Latin temperament.  But with that comes emotion and sentimentality, which gets tedious fast.  Good thing she’s smoking hot to compensate.  She was born in Castile in 1551 the granddaughter of the great Queen Isabella of Castile.  She had some pretty shitty luck in the marriage department.  In order to strengthen Castillian power she was first married off to some duke in the Plantagenet line.  He died, not six months after the wedding.  Then came the king of Leon, a Flemish count and a Spanish prince, all dead within a year of saying their vows.  Done with marriage and being treated as a pawn in her family’s royal chess game she asked her French vampire lover to turn her so she could live with him outside the parameters of the life she was given.  She’s been doing so ever since but has always remained a sucker for love.”

Eric reveals to Bill that he is going to the trouble of recovering the Sheriff of area nine because Godric is his maker.  Eric flashes back to the events in Sweden leading up to when Godric made him vampire.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Eric may have technically once been human but he was always far more than just a man.  He was the kind of epic hero that great poets throughout time have tried to capture.  But Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Achilles never held a candle to Eric Northman.”
Eric’s flashback shows how Godric approached Eric while he lay dying after Godric killed Eric’s guards.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“Godric was captured as a small boy in the first century B.C. during one of Julius Caesar’s invasions of Gaul.  He was brought back to Rome and sold as a slave to a Roman master who eventually revealed him self to be a vampire.  Godric’s master was quite sadistic.  He branded Godric, abused him and used him until he was 16.  Then he finally turned him.  Godric continued to serve his master-maker for a while until he got the vampire gifts down.  He then murdered his maker.  Exactly how he was able to do this, he’s never said, but I suspect decapitation.  Very rare, that vampires kill their makers and understandably this got Godric in trouble with the ancient vampire community, so he went on the lam, traveling the world, hunting and feeding alone.  Ever since his capture as a young boy by the Roman army he was fascinated by armies and often followed them to watch the battles or fought in the nighttime raids for fun.  Then he would feed on and kill the wounded.  He was wandering around the British coast when he saw Eric and his fellow soldiers in a raid.  He was so impressed by Eric that he tracked him down and turned him when he was about to die.  Now, he’s just the goddamn sheriff of Dallas.  Talk about being overqualified.”

Tara enters Sookie’s kitchen to find Maryann dressed in a flowered shirt and Gran’s apron reading a book titled ‘Heart Sick”. Tara asks Maryann if she is waiting up for her.
Hint: Why is Maryann wearing Gran’s apron?
Maryann responds to Tara’s question, “I guess I am.”
Flashback: To see why this scene may look familiar.
Sookie enters the Gran’s kitchen after her shift at Merlotte’s to find Gran dressed in her apron reading her book and petting Sookie’s cat.  Sookie asks Gran to guess what happened that night. Gran incorrectly guesses Sookie got a date.  Sookie tells Gran that Merlotte’s had it’s first vampire patron.

Tara informs Maryann that she, Eggs and Karl may stay at Sookie’s and she will let Sookie know. Tara enters the bedroom to find Eggs stretched out on the bed reading a book.
Karl (Character Perspective):
“I believe Tara and Eggs share something quite special.  Maryann only plays matchmaker under very certain circumstances.  She wouldn’t have facilitated the blooming of Tara and Eggs’ love unless she knew somewhere deep inside her that their relationship had tremendous legs to stand on.”

Lorena sashays down the hotel corridor towards Sookie and Bills hotel suite.
Pam (Character Perspective):
“It’s not very complicated the reason for Lorena’s visit.  Eric wields his powers in all kinds of funny ways.  And Bill simply refuses to see that his hold on Sookie means nothing if Eric decides so.  Let the games begin.”

2.6: Hard Hearted Hannah

(transcribed by Serena)

Eric drinking from the blood whore
AVL Alert: With the advent of True Blood, a synthetic blood substitute which has been proven effective in satisfying all nutritional needs of vampires, there is no longer any need for vampires to seek blood though any other means. The concept of ‘blood prostitutes’ has never been proven; it is merely another example of malicious and exploitative propaganda, designed to perpetuate fear and hatred.

Isabella and Hugo at Bill and Sookie’s door. Pam: Isabella, in her hapless sap filled quest for love, met Hugo when he was doing some pro bono work for the AVL and found him equally passionate in the court room and the bedroom. She should have known that someone that good at manipulation was bound to turn the tables on her one day. I believe the phrase, ‘kill all the lawyers’, started for a reason.

Chicago 1926
Pam: In my humble opinion, get anywhere near Lorena you can practically smell the desperation oozing from her perfect porcelain skin. She is a thing of beauty. But chasing after Bill like that is just plain pathetic. I suppose years living out in rundown shack while your husband is out battling whatever madness humans dreamt up back then is bound to wear on a girl, but come on. Bill Compton? The little time I spend with him feels like an eternity so I can’t imagine anyone wanting more. Besides, what’s the point of being a vampire if you can’t have at least a little pride?

Same scene, after Bill walks over to the couple
FYI: Bill and Lorena had a variety of alter-egos, though Faviana and Guillaume were two of their favorites. While the characters they played often changed, the ritual remained the same.

Water heater scene
Karl: It may look like fun and games, but truth be told Maryann works very hard to please those around her, to bring them joy beyond their wildest expectations, so it’s not much to ask that she enjoy the simplest pleasures that life has to offer, a place to rest her head, freshly prepared food,  and a warm shower to soothe her after a long day, or to prepare her for a brand new one, ripe with possibilities. Hmpf.

Building the platform at the LODI.
Steve Newlin: In my experience guilty is as guilty does. Jason has the face of an angel and the body of one of the Greek statues my father regarded as high art. But there hasn’t been a single soldier of ours that isn’t grappling with a flaw or too, but none of our petty individual struggles matters to the awesome challenge the human race is about to face. We need Jason for his strength, his conviction, and his muscle. And whatever else is bothering him I’m sure is … well, silliness.

Eric shouting at Lafayette in Andy’s clothes
Pam: And here Lafayette thought he was ready for the life a vampire, going all fetal at the slightest kind of conflict. So, fine he was kept in a dungeon and drenched in a hick boy’s blood, find me anyone interesting who hasn’t been at one point or another. This world is bloody, disturbing, deliciously fun 10 percent of the time and damn boring the rest. He wants a lifetime of it, he’s going to have to suck it up and put on those gold-lame pants again.

Same scene with Terry now hugging Lafayette.
Hoyt: People been talking about Terry Bellefleur after he back from Iraq, like he’s always been damaged and mean, but he’s always been weird, even for Bon Temps. But I just think a guy like that’s been trained to keep all his feelings on the inside, instead of the outside. And the way he’s treating Lafayette, we’ll you get the feelin’ both of them have seen something real awful you’d never want to know about, but you’re sure glad there is someone around to understand.

Hoyt walks into Merlottes to confront Momma about his phone
Hoyt: I swear if there was a store where you could bring your mama in for a new one or even trade for a good lawn mower that worked when it was supposed to, I’d go to there so fast. There is only so far ‘she means well’ goes. Cause no matter what I do, no matter if I’m dating some one or not dating someone, or if I ate the last of her bite size snickers, I’m always wrong and she’s always right and there ain’t nothing I can do about it because she’s my mama, goddamit.

Jason building the platform
Steve Newlin: Ever since my daddy died, I’ve dreamt of the day we would bring evil to its knees. We held my daddy’s funeral in this very church. And it feels right to bring forth justice by watching evil obliterated right here on this land. Between you and me, I never even dreamt this would happen. Sure, I .. I fantasize about watching a vampire become nothing but a bloody pulp and bone, but I never imagined it  would happen quite so soon, this way, or so perfectly. God’s powerful wonder is sometimes more beautiful than even I can imagine, ahhh. Yep.

Faviana and Guillaume Part 2 where Bill gives Lorena the necklace and thru the bloody sex sequence.
Pam: Yes, there are men in my life – boring men with long stories and short attention spans, and even shorter… well, any way the point being, yes I’ve enjoyed the company of many a man, relatively speaking, but love, you have to wonder what the point is, with all its mess and impermanence.

Hugo and Sookie enter the church
FOS alert: The Fellowship of the Sun church is overflowing with God’s love and hopes to share it with each and every human being! Join this community dedicated to all that is pure and good on this earth.

Hugo and Sookie still entering the church
Newlin: It’s not the girls fault really, being lured in by those blood sucking creatures. Humans aren’t perfect and sometimes weak, and if we’re not careful we can fall prey to the evil forces around us. Just like whatever this blond cookie’s name is, but this is war. And in times of war there are no second guesses, or sympathetic ears, there is only right and wrong. Darkness and light. All of humankind is at stake, and if I am to accomplish our goal,  I cannot be fooled by wolves in churchgoing polyester standing in the way of salvation.

Sam and Daphne after shifting in the woods
Karl: After spending the best years of my life with Maryann, seeing what possibilities out there in the universe, I don’t believe anything would surprise me anymore, shapeshifters, werewolves, unicorns, fairies, talking monkeys, evangelical with honorable intentions, who am I to say what does and does not exist? Or what has a right to, there is far more in this world than we can ever dream of. And I do say that makes me more excited than scared. Then again, spend a few years with Maryann, and I doubt that anything would scare you.

When Pam visits Lafayette at Merlottes
Pam: A vampire selling vampire blood is curious, but you work for Eric Northman long enough, you learn a few very simple rules. No questions, no judgements, no problem. It’s only when I start sticking my nose in his sometimes … questionable business that I get myself into way too much trouble.  (Foreshadowing?)

Continuing the church tour
Newlin: I love giving church tours. When my father first had this church erected, in the names of God’s light and love, I would roam the halls practicing what I had to say whenever new sheep would look into joining our flock. Sure, we’ve had a few visitors, who are there to scoff and scorn but those who come to us are good honest true believers in the fellowship, well nothing brings me more joy. But except of course my sweet Sarah.

Newlin: My Sarah is many things, a beautiful bride, a really good cook, and one day she will be the most loving vessel through which our children will be born. But a woman of strength, she is not. When it comes to the cosmetics of endeavors, no one shines brighter, but she simply does not have the stomach for staying with the ugliness that is necessary for fighting an honest to god war. And do not be mistaken, this is a WAR!

Tara and Eggs return from their adventure on the road
Karl: Cleaning up after Maryann and her soirees is far more a blessing than a curse, to be honest. If it wasn’t for me, the joy would simply end. I keep the party going. Otherwise all we’d be left with is a truly bloody mess. And who wants to live like that?

Jessica pours the 45$ a bottle TB down the sink.
Pam: Ok lets just cut through this shit for once, vampires do not drink True Blood unless humans are around. Get it? We drink it so you will believe we pose no threat to you so we can get together at places like Fangtasia and get to know each other better. True Blood is just an excuse as if you didn’t know.

Sam being dragged to the orgy
Karl: Maryann once told me, fear is the body’s way of telling itself greatness is near. So it seems to me Sam should be reveling in the sheer possibilities of what lies before him, not fearful of what’s been left behind. Of course when you spend most of your time running away from Maryann instead of towards her, you don’t get the gift of her wisdom. Sad.

2.7 Release Me

(transcribed by Serena)

Karl: Opening orgy scene
This sacrificial dagger dates back to the Byzantine era, despite Theodosius’ crackdown on all things not Christian, or what the Romans called pagan. This dagger was secretly traded among various groups who practiced ritual sacrifice. That it still exists is quite extraordinary. Some attribute that to its tremendous power, it is said this dagger alone can cut the veil between worlds.

Hoyt: Same scene post credits
Back when the worst things going on in BT were a couple DUIs and the occasional BHS game kegger gone wrong, it felt like Andy Bellefleur took his job way too seriously. But now I kinda like it that he is always looking for trouble. He sure didn’t deserve what he got from his cousin Terry. Sure he came back from the war a little odd, sometimes mean, but never violent.  If he’s in worse shape now than when he got back from Iraq well that’ll tell you about the state of things in BT.

Newlin: Hugo is sweating it in the basement with Sookie
Now how did this bozo think he would make a decent vampire if he was claustrophobic? They spend 12 hours a day in coffins! Speaking of tight spaces, we have the blueprints all drawn up for  prison in the church basement. What you see is just the beginning. Soon we will be able to fit 100 blood suckers in here, caged up like the vile creatures that they are. Beat that.

Pam: Same as above
Vampire politics are pretty simple, follow your leader, at least look like you are playing by the rules, and enjoy all the power you have as a vampire on your off time. But Stan has been ambitious for as long as he has been around. Problem with ambitious people who are bad leaders  and  are poorer politicians is that they mess it up for everyone else.

Pam: Lorena at Bill’s room hotel Carmilla
Nice kicks, Lorena. I suppose if it were Bill’s time it would not be a bad way to go, staked by $600 stilettos. He knows fighting Lorena is a hopeless cause. A maker is always stronger than her progeny. Godric is one of the rare vampires in history to take on his maker and won. Which is why he is Godric and Bill is.. well, Bill.

Pam: Flashback 1935 Lorena and Bill and Frances
I often marvel at the so called growing pains of newly made vampires, all I can assume is that they were weak humans and then became weak vampires. When Eric turned me, nothing could have felt more natural. I dare say it was love at first bite, and that love affair hasn’t ended and it never will.

FYI: During the 1935 scene
Bill is 100 years old at this point. (Overall).

Pam: Eric and Isabella on the grassy knoll
Remember how I mentioned the tedious side to Isabella’s personality? Yeah, this is it. Her affection for a human, especially her affection for a human as mediocre as Hugo, really lowers her street cred–no matter how goddamn hot she is.

FYI: Jason is cuddling with Sarah
There several songs that include these lyrics, two of which are “Catch me I’m Fallin’ by Tony Gonzaga and “How can it Be Wrong When it Feels so Right” by Barbara Mandrell.

FOS alert: The Bible tells us adultery is a sin. But in these troubled times, in which basic Christian values have been so corroded, many have forgotten why: because the unit of husband and wife was the first skirmish against evil. Just as Eve was tempted by the serpent’s lies, so are many tempted by the permissiveness and sexual excesses of secular society, with its misguided and delusional acceptance of the vampire agenda.

Hoyt: With Jessica in her hotel room
I always thought waiting to do it with a girl this long, would be better than most people’s firsts, like it would make it all worth the wait. but if I lose it to Jessica and she’s not technically human am I really losing my virginity? Yeah it is. It’s even better. Jason’s sex with a 100 women doesn’t equal my sex with one vampire. Not that it is a competition.

FYI: Humans who belong to vampires are generally given respect by the vampires within that nest or immediate social network.

Pam: Eric is confronting Stan in the hotel hallway
“I’m not so surprised to see Eric so emotionally spent over Godric. Humans cannot possibly understand the relationship that can exist between a vampire and maker. Humans do what they always do; they try to project their own fleeting concerns onto a higher life-form. I can tell you this, if Eric were missing, I would not show nearly as much restraint as he has.

FYI: Same scene as above
This is the first time Eric has cried in over 90 years.

Karl: The blackouts are nothing to be afraid of, essentially  Maryann’s affect on Tara and Eggs reaches its height they start to feel pure emotion. And all that is cerebral and intellectual falls away. So there is no memory retained, little bit like a dream. And we often don’t remember our dreams, do we? Its a very evolved state, its therapeutic. Tara and Eggs will ultimately benefit from it very much.

Newlin: Sookie and Hugo in the basement with Newlin
I must admit, seeing these two locked away in the basement like that, it is thrilling.  I don’t think I’ve ever felt so alive!

Newlin: Again.
Glamouring and V are two weapons in the hell’s beasts’ arsenal. And what they deliver is more heinous than biological warfare and even more effective, because anyone exposed is rendered helpless and forever altered. Ruined in the eyes of God. And it makes him so sad. And what kind of twisted psychotic being wants to make God sad.

FYI: Sookie has never attempted to communicate with a telepath before, so she’s unsure whether or not this will work.

FYI: Vampires get ‘the bleeds’ when they suffer sleep deprivation. Most vampires experience minor bleeding after losing one full day’s sleep.

Pam: Lorena and Bill getting the bleeds scene continued
Vampire 101. A maker always has control over their progeny, a given of course. But during those healthy petulant years ‘as your maker I command you’ reminder never hurts. They can roam the world without you, their obliged to you in every way, but of course, every rule has a loophole. set your progeny free and they are no longer yours to control.

Karl:
Maryann’s secret ingredient for rabbit stew comes from one of the great life sources in history, the Marquis de Sade himself. It was the Marquis who discovered holding the animal still after its capture then screaming in its face and terrifying it just before cracking its neck just right.. a hormone is released, that offers an extra pungency to the meat. Mmm. Yummy.

Newlin: Confronting Jason
Nothing rocks the earth quite so hard if what your standing on is betrayal. Jason Stackhouse had me fooled. And now I’m left to question what in this life is real and if you trust it. But one truth remains. The evil of these vampires and their human followers can only be responded to in one way. Elimination. I don’t have one iota of doubt in my mind or in my heart that wiping Jason Stackhouse from this earth will bring me closer to heaven.

Karl: Sam confronts Daphne
Maryann clawed Daphne at a vertigo/vampire (I can’t make it out) club in Baton Rouge in 2007. As I’ve explained, Maryann utilizes different tools for different people depending on what it is they need most. For Daphne, for at her particular stage in life,  she was needing to believe her differences were not disadvantages but rather gifts.  So Maryann marred her in her signature way – a true honor. This helped prove to Daphne that a scar, something deemed ugly by mainstream society if understood properly is one’s greatest asset.

Karl: Again
Daphne fell in line with Maryann with relative ease, she was very quick to manifest. Sam, well.. Sam is rather stubborn, as stubborn as a bull in fact. One of the most sacred of the animals to the god who comes. An irony which is not lost on Maryann.

FOS alert: Hugo is the traitor.
In order to be worthy of God’s light you must do everything in your power to eradicate vampires. Otherwise, you will suffer the worst of fates in the afterlife.

Pam: Hugo talking to Sookie about why he turn-coated
Humans disgust me for the most part, with their emotions and weaknesses. I’ve always only said they are only good for one thing, but this Hugo character, he takes disgusting to a whole new level. So needy of his vampire lover that first he wants to become one of us and then he when he can’t he wants to destroy us? Hunny, pull your shit together.

FOS alert:
Come one, come all to the Fellowship of the Sun lock in. Watch an actual vampire ‘meet the sun.’ Witness God’s glorious work at the dawn of day. Doors close at 7pm on Saturday.

Pam: Lafayette, street pharmacist
Lafayette talked such a good game when he was held captive but clearly he’s lacking in some much needed enthusiasm. I may need to jar his memory about his sales techniques.

Hoyt: Andy walks into Merlottes
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder around here. Bon Temps used to be  sleepy little town, now…well there’s no telling what kind of crazy that’s going to walk through the front door of Merlotte’s. I hope it doesn’t freak Jessica out.  New life, new body, new home, last thing she needs is this crazy place.  I really want her to stick around.

Hoyt: Jessica wakes up in hotel room
“I should probably be scared for a bunch of reasons, what if I don’t know how. Or what if my thing doesn’t work right. What if my girlfriend gets confused about whether she is turned on or hungry? But the truth is, I’m really not that scared. That’s what I always hoped for, that when it was the right time, I’d just know.

Pam: same scene as above
“There is very little I’ve retained in my vault about being a human. But I do recall that even then I had a voracious sexual appetite. I really had no interest in the savage repression of that era. Seriously, they expected me to remain pure for whoever they intended auctioned me off to, not for me. So I became quite adept at carrying on a complicated social life in secret. Maybe thats why Eric noticed me to begin with.

FOS alert
LODI teaches brave soldiers to become heroes. Anyone with weakness in their hearts will be exposed and weeded out.

Karl: Daphne’s death
It was simply Daphne’s time. We’re all given a certain allotment of time, and its exactly the amount of time for us to do the work that we are meant to do. For Daphne, that work was to be of service for Maryann, when she had filled her life’s purpose, it was time to set her free.

FOS alert
The ability to forgive is a virtue. But too often we are pressured by corrupt, secular forces to forgive people who do not deserve forgiveness. Here at the Fellowship we believe forgiveness must be earned by righteousness.

Pam: Lorena and Bill after Sookie screams because of Gabe
Sure Bill can be boring, but I will never ever understand what makes him go gaga for humans.  Or love at all for that matter. Sentimental nonsense if you ask me. But kill him? Please. Who wants to go to the trouble or the punishment? Guess when you’re raised a good little girl, some things stick.

FYI:
The only way a vampire can be set free by his or her maker is by having the maker say the words, “As your maker, I release you.”

Pam: still the  same scene
Being released by your maker so soon after turning is not common. But then what is with Bill Compton? Always playing by different rules, forging new ground fighting some sanctimonious fights that doesn’t even exist. Such drama. But in this particular scenario, he won. Lorena released him which means he’s as free as a bird. He will always sense her but he will no longer be obliged to follow her orders. I just lost a little respect for her.

2.8 Timebomb

(transcribed by Serena)

Opening Scene
Pam: Now I don’t know whats been done to Godric while he’s been kept in that basement. I don’t even know how long he’s been there, but there is white and then there is positively sickly. He’s not even feeding, true the older a vampire gets the less blood they need to sustain them but there is a difference between need and want. And not wanting a healthy taste of fresh blood? That’s a life I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. And trust me, I have a few.

Jason shot in the nuts with paint gun by Sarah
FOS alert: Those of us who seek to preserve and protect our families against vampires know all too well the story of Judas. Judas pretended to be a friend to Judas, but eventually led him to his death. Vampires, too, seduce you into believing they are your friends, neighbors, even lovers.  But believe in the Lord, believe in the light, and you have the armor you need to defense yourself against their betrayal.

Alarm sounding in the Church
Newlin: Jesus Christ Lord in Heaven, the moment has finally arrived. This is the moment I have been waiting for, working for, planning for, and its right before us all. And ohhh are we ready. Fully prepared with our arsenal filled with weapons and God’s love. And we will not fail.

Eric acting as a dork, let me borrow that stake
Pam: Please, even when Eric was human no one believed he was. He always looked as if he had dropped down from the gods. So why should now be any different? Fooling people into truly believing he’s human, thats the only thing Eric has never been good at. And why on earth would anyone want to be good at that?

Eric and Sookie are surrounded by the FOS
Pam: Boys and their toys. Get a bunch of idiot humans together and it won’t take long before they are wasting their time dreaming  up ways to kill each other, and blow things up, or slay a vampire. Wooden bullets, silver bullets, bows and arrows, the search for the perfect Vampire Kryptonite is over, and still they insist upon trying to  reinvent the stake. I liked it much better when humans were dumb enough to believe that garlic did the trick.

Newlin volunteers Eric to meet the Sun
Newlin: Sure it would be a vision to watch such a child of evil like Godric to burn to the ground,  a true sheep marching right to a slaughter. But to watch God’s love in our awesome devotion to him take down the giant throbbing hulk of a non-man  like Eric Northman. And unwilling at that? I could think of nothing more glorious.

Hint: “Sookie and Barry taste different than the other humans, but that’s not the only thing they have in common.

Hoyt and Jessica making luuve.
Hoyt: Omg, all I can think of is, you know, those cancer kids who are all bald and sad, and then get to make a really big wish before they die, like ride 20 ponies or see Garth Brooks live, or go to space camp, this is like somebody asked me what my cancer wish was, and gave it to me. Only its so much cooler because I’m not dying. I’m going to get to do this with Jessica over and over again. If she’ll let me I mean. If I don’t screw it up. Let’s hope I’m not screwing this up. Never in a million years did I think that making love to a beautiful dead girl would make feel alive for the first time, like ever. But OMG, it so does.

Jason, showing off his paint gun trying to pass through the FOS picket line
Newlin: Even the dimmest bulb brings a flicker of God’s light into this world.  So when Frank came to the leadership conference, i said, “Let’s challenge this soldier. See what he can do.” Like I said, get ‘em while their lost, they’ll be loyal for life. Frank’s a good soldier, wields a stake better than a steroid taking Russian dyke going for Olympic gold. Only this time, he’s doing it for God’s love. What can only be better than holy bonfire  at dawn.

Maryanne preparing “Hunter Souffle”
Karl: Normally I prepare all the ingredients that go into a delicious meal that is being prepared for our house guests, but lately Maryanne has been giving me some more unique tasks around the house, and I for one appreciate the variety. But of course I hate it when Maryanne is inconvenienced in my absence, but she does seem to derive some pleasure in getting her hands dirty now and again.

Eric on the alter burning from silver
Now I wake up every morning grateful for the air in my lungs, and the 24 hours ahead of me I have to give each and every human being on God’s green earth. So there isn’t even a moment to think about myself. But I’d be lying if  I didn’t tell you Sarah and I have spent a few nights doing our Katie Couric interview improvs, working out the kinks for when the bonfire catches on like wildfire on news and internets around the world. But I don’t do it for the glory, no siree.  I do it for the glory of God. May his holy light shine upon you.

Jason shoots Newlin with the paint gun,
Pam: Well, what do you know, here we thought those big hulking Stackhouse arms were just for show, silly me had the impression he was only good for scoring touchdowns on the field or in his tiny bedroom, but he’s a real life Rambo in a Brad Pitt package. Never had the thought that the boy had it in him to be such a man when it really counts. Now I’m interested.

Stan and his vamps march into the FOS
AVL alert: While Steve Newlin insists vampires are responsible for the death of his family, the exact cause of their accident remains a mystery. The AVL vehemently denies any involvement int the collapse of the overpass, and it was legally designated an accident by investigators.

Hint: Stan is referred to as an “underling” because politically, he is beneath Godric. Godric refers to Eric as “my child” because he is Eric’s sire.

Godric grabs Newlin by the collar,
Newlin: They say Godric is thousands of years old, but years don’t matter. He’s nothing but pure evil, wearing the body of a petulant manipulative child. He’s got everyone wrapped around his dead little fingers and soon enough they will all pay the price. They may have foiled our plans but they have not fooled us. Someday we will watch a vampire burn to the ground. And like a phoenix those of us with air in our lungs and blood pounding in our hearts, we will rise. WE WILL RISE. Filled with God’s loving light.

After Tara bites into Hunter’s Souffle
FYI: In Greek mythology, Dionysus was murdered as an infant and ripped to pieces. The Titans ate every part of him except his heart. His father, Zeus, took the heart and planted it in a woman, Semele. A new Dionysus grew from the heart and was reborn, or “twice born.”

Godric’s Lair
Pam: I’m a minimalist girl myself, classy, clean.. its all about the negative space. And I dare say taking a look at Godric’s lair, I’m surprised to find true elegance in a cow town like Dallas. Sure it could use a bit more color if you ask me, and it does lack a bit of a woman’s touch, but I have to applaud Godric for maintaining dignity in a totally undignified world.

Jessica upset about her hymen growing back
Pam: Oh the poor thing. How many times in my 100 years have I heard a girl being a permanent virgin?  I don’t understand why she’s being so damn annoying. A human virgin is an absolutely delicious snack, but a vampire virgin is just dangerous. One of the best things bout being a vampire is a lot of sex with no consequences. and instead she faces an eternity of rage all cooped up in her kitty, and every man she meets is going to pay the price for that. If I could stand being in the same room with Dr. Ludwig for more than 10 seconds, I’d ask her if she has got a cure for that.

Isabella admits to still loving Hugo
Pam: Why some vampires fall for humans, I’ll never understand. I myself could never stand having the same shoes for more than one month, so I can’t imagine being with another person longer. And by choice for that matter. As a vampire, if you know where to go, you’re in never want for attention, companionship, or some one to quench your ultimate desires. So why on earth would you put up with the tears and blah blah blah that seem so very necessary to keep those blood bags happy. Even eternal life is still too damn short for that.

Bud locks up Sam in jail
Hoyt: For my whole  life its been like the Andy Griffith show, no one is ever locked up except the town drunk, and he’s still there just sleeping it off.  This one time Bud pulled Jason and I down there for shooting Jason’s BB gun at beer cans in the middle of Parish Road, but as soon as we proved we weren’t the ones that drank the beers, we walked on home, no fingerprints. So the fact that this place is overflowing, something sure ain’t right.

When Eric offers to provide Godric a blood bag:
FYI: One percent of the population is AB negative.

Same scene.
AVL alert:  Over the centuries, vampires have evolved and adapted to the world around them. Culturally, spiritually, and practically, they have had the unique advantage of experiencing many world cultures and educating themselves in the vast variety of skills humankind has developed.  In fact, vampires could be great assets to any society in which they live. Support the Vampire Rights Amendment and their efforts to further serve and enrich their communities.

Tara and Eggs post  Hunter Souffle.
Karl: Whenever Maryanne prepares something, it’s always special. It always has ingredients I cant quite place. Each time I  ask she smiles and says I’ll be able to hear it, feel it,  for myself. It hasn’t happened yet, but someday. I don’t know how she has done it, but its as if she has spent a lifetime preparing food in every corner of the world. Her critiques of my life every single day and for that I am grateful, but sometimes it is I wonder if I’m the one doing the cooking if she has such a knack for it herself. But Maryanne is often quite busy. And after all she has taught me, I’m happy to oblige.

Lorena introduces herself to Sookie
Pam: for all her beauty, for all her power, Lorena is like a scared puppy begging to be kicked again and again. You’d think there would be a limit to her humiliation, but then again a human once told me he’d do absolutely anything for the person he luvvved. I thank whatever God there is that I’ve never felt and will never feel that.

Hint: Were Sookie to antagonize Lorena enough, Bill knows he would be unable to keep Lorena from attacking Sookie as she is older and therefore stronger than he is.

Bill escorts Lorena outside
AVL alert: Vampires have been unfairly portrayed as a having lost their humanity, but in fact, vampires feel love as deeply and painfully as human beings. Because their relationships can span centuries, sometimes their connections are even deeper and stronger than human connections.

2.9 I Will Rise Up

(transcribed by Renée)

As Bill chases FOTS terrorists–FOTS Propaganda: Leaving a fellow soldier during battle is cowardice, pure and simple. Desert your brother in arms, you might as well surrender, because it means the vampires have won.

While Sookie sucks Eric’s chest–Pam: Oh, Eric! Such a tricky boy taking advantage of Sookie’s do-gooder sweet Southern girl  ways was particularly clever. I will say, pulling out the Lorena stop and now this, he is being more aggressive with her than I have seen him be with a human in many decades. Well, I suppose she’s tolerable. If she becomes his, I’ll find a way to enjoy her company. Something tells me he will not share her, however.

As Jason gazes down at the remains of Luke’s hand, flashback to Luke and Jason bumping honesty rings.

When Bill tells Sookie that Eric will be able to sense her emotions, flashback to Lorena telling Bill that Eric brought her to Dallas.

At the Hotel Carmilla, when Sookie tells Bill it’s impossible for her to be attracted to Eric, flash forward to Sookie and Eric kissing in the second dream.

When Hoyt tells Jessica that he  wants her to meet his mother, flash forward to the attack on Maxine.

After Hoyt says he’ll renovate Jessica’s resting place–Hoyt: No reason it should be hard to build a double wide bed. Just get in there with a few of Jason’s power tools, open up the cubby some, make it light tight. If it’s secure enough, you could even lay a mattress down and have a proper bed. I ain’t never been real clear about why it had to be a coffin to begin with. And then, um, add some glow in the dark stickers and maybe even some pictures of us together.

While Tara complains about blacking out–Karl: I find Tara’s and Eggs’s ingratitude irksome. They eat the food of the gods, rise to a higher consciousness, and they have the gall to be annoyed. What they don’t seem to realize is that the heightened state of the blackout for the Indian saints was actually described as an esctatic calm. Tara fears the unknown, but all she’s ever known is chaos. However, Maryann knows all this and is far more patient a soul than I would be.

As Bud comes to the holding cells–Hint: Note the fly that Sam watches crawl across the wall.

During Jason and Sookie’s talk, flashback to something he doesn’t want to rememeber, Amy’s death.

While Steve and Sarah are interviewed–Steve: Godric came to me plain and simple. He saw the light, much to his credit, I might add. While I wouldn’t go so far to call him a martyr because he’s a vampire and doesn’t really deserve that much credit, I do think it’s important for the public to know he thought his kind were bad, bad, bad, and he wanted to die to prove it. Far be it for me to tell him no. I’m just glad he made the Fellowship the place where he made his point. Sadly, from the way you can tell that’s unfolded, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

After Sarah tells Steve that she hates his hair–Steve: Well, there’s no doubt Sarah and I are being tested right now. That’s to be expected in all great marriages. The kind of union that’s working toward a much greater good. I have faith that God will steer us in the right direction, and if I ever find a juncture where Sarah is a hindrance, not a help, to the Fellowship, well, that too will be God’s will.

When Arlene and Lafayette pledge to look out for one another, flash forward to Arlene licking Maryann’s egg.

When Terry admits to Arlene that he doesn’t know what they did, flashback to them having sex while Maryann tries to sacrifice Sam.

As Eggs and Lafayette fight–Hoyt: Lafayette has always protected Tara. It couldn’t be easy for him to see her like this cause he’s always iced her down and sewn her up after Lettie Mae’s gone all Jack Daniels crazy on her. And now she’s taken up with some one doing the same thing. I know they say that these patterns repeat themselves, but it don’t make any sense to me.

When Maxine tells Hoyt that she wants the old Hoyt back–Hoyt: Everything you need to know about my mama is right there in her doll collection. There’s about forty of them little fuckers, most on shelves that she had specially built on my closet. She puts real lady’s lipstick on them and embroiders little hats for them and puts their little gloves on for the little tea parties she has for them. It’s a control thing. I know she wishes I was one of those dumbass dolls.

When Maxine says she objects to a girlfriend who will kill and eat Hoyt–AVL Propaganda: Like all hate, vampophobia has to be taught. It begins in the home, when children are conditioned to misdirect their basic human frustrations, like no getting an ‘A,’ towards a marginalized group. History has shown us that this home-bred hatred can grow into something much more insidious, leading to violence and tragedies far worse for humanity than anything vmapires have ever caused.

After Hoyt announces that Maxine isn’t going to run his life any more–Hoyt: Well, since meeting Jessica there have been a lot of firsts in my life: first love, first sex, first vampire, and now the first time ever I talked back to my mama. It’s like something in me changed, and I can’t go back, and I don’t want to. I just hope mama can get used to things changing around here.

After Sookie’s dream–FYI: The powerful connection a human feels to a vampire after drinking his blood will never be broken as long as both human and vampire are alive.

When Maryann goes to the jail to find Sam–Karl: I always get a tingling feeling whenever Maryann heads to the sheriff’s department. Good things often come home with her. In this case, the good thing is Sam. It’s been a long journey, but, I do believe, the time we’ve been waiting for has finally come. Oh, happy day!

As Maryann stomps out of the jail without Sam–Karl: Oh dear! Do you think I jinxed it? Well, this isn’t good at all. When Maryann gets upset, I usually the one who bears the…the brunt of the rage. I shall prepare the cold compresses I suppose.

While Maryann, Tara, and Eggs drink tequila shots–Hint: Notice the fly on the dining room table.

When Lafayette and Lettie Mae come in–Karl: Nothing to fear. Lafayette and Lettie Mae are not a threat to Maryann or Tara, for that matter, merely an inconvenience. She’s already peered into the beyond. She’s moved past any conditioning that would have her respond to them.

During the fist fight–FYI: Remember Lafayette has recently ingested Eric’s ancient blood, so Eggs is no match for him.

As the car drives away, flash forward to Tara returning to Eggs.

After Nan tells Eric to watch himself–Pam: If you ask me, Nan Flanagan is getting a bit too big for her britches. She started out as a spokesperson, a figurehead. She doesn’t have legit rank in the vampire hierarchy, but the way she wields her power as a media darling is beginning to change that. And I’m not sure I care for it, not one bit. Anyone with real power knows that fame is a fleeting thing in the life of a vampire. I prefer the disco lights of Fangtasia to the flashes of paparazzi cameras, and if Nan knew how much power I wield inside those four walls, she’d reconsider her crappy line of work.

When Maryann comes into Merlotte’s looking for Sam–Karl: It was a blustery day in October of 2005. The city was Munich, the location Hofbräuhaus, it’s the oldest and most esteemed beer hall at Oktoberfest. I remember I was savoring a delightful brew; it was Bavarian. I was feasting on knuckled pork, and the grand doors of the hall sprung open. There was a boisterous group of Australian rugby players.They paraded in, and atop their shoulders I saw the most divine image of Maryann. Her hair was down; her cheeks were ruddy from the autumn chill, and she wore a smile that warmed my cockles. As the hours passed and the merriment reached a fevered pitch, Maryann remained the focus of everyone’s attention. I’ve never seen a woman more alive in her own skin. It was an honor when she asked me to carry the train of her gown so that she could move more freely around the crowded hall. For the fist time in all my life, doubts subsided and the clear focus took over. I knew that from then on my purpose was to be near this creature in whatever capacity I could, just so I could breath some of her rarefied air.

When Godric says he’s sorry–FYI: Vampire apologies are extremely rare, especially when offered without drama and with sincerity.

After Bill punches Eric–Pam: It seems that Bill is turning into quite the cowboy in Texas. I’m wondering how this little rivalry between Bill and Eric will evolve. Just for the sake of keeping things in theme, maybe they should have a shootout and get it over with. I miss duels. Two young men dueled over me once before I was turned. They actually shot each other. Idiots.

When Eric breaks down on the roof–Pam: I won’t lie, it’s not easy for me to see Eric in this kind of shape. When he suffers, I suffer. As for Godric, I don’t endorse his actions, but I must commend him for the way he behaved for the two thousand years that proceeded them.

When  Godric marvels that a human has compassion for him–AVL propaganda: The AVL exists to help create a world in which humans and vampires can co-exist peacefully. We believe we come close to this goal each day…and night.

2.10 New World in my View

(transcribed by Renée)

As Maryann fusses over the meat tree–Karl: It’s a thing for the ages, building totems, honoring the gods up on high. The more important the god is to you, the more time and effort you’re liable to put into the totem’s creation. The only thing that Maryann cares more about than God is food, so it only seems fitting that this totem properly marry the two.

When Maryann tells Karl that he’s finally getting it–Karl: That’s quite possibly the first compliment she’s ever given me. Maryann always says that true enlightenment comes from service to others, and I have done so with much pride. But it’s true with every endeavor, a simple ‘thank you’ or ‘atta boy’ does more for the soul than you might expect. I think I’ve finally turning a corner with Maryann. I can really feel it.

After Sam explains to Andy that Maryann wants to cut out his heart–Hint: Does Maryann want Sam’s heart for revenge, or is it for another reason?

When Sam explains to Andy that Maryann is immortal–Karl: It should come as on surprise to anyone who has cracked open a history book or flipped through the American cinema channel that women of a certain stature, power, confidence, are often pursued and destroyed, most often at the hand of a feeble man, so it should stand to reason that people have tried to take Maryann down a notch or two from time to time, which is not to say that they’ve succeeded. Quite the contrary. Every time they take her down, she arises stronger and more glorious than ever.

After Hoyt explains to Sookie, Bill, and Jason about the town going crazy–Hoyt: I’ve seen my mama tipsy from too many Fuzzy Navels or Junior Mints sometimes, but the way she’s acting and those black eyes and clothing like some trashy street woman, that’s a horse of a whole different color. I never once saw her without her Southern manners plastered across her face, even if she’s saying what she really thinks under her breath.

When Sookie warns Jason to stay out of the woods, flashback her beign run down and scratched.

When Sam is at Merlotte’s and surrounded by Maryann’s followers–Hoyt: There are times in life when things are so freaking awesome you wish it were a movie so you could just pause it and soak in the awsome, like when I’m with Jessica and she kisses me or I get a really juicy burger. This is one of those times. If this weren’t my actual town and my friends and my mama, I think all this zombie shit is so cool, I could watch it over and over like I did Shaun of the Dead or Howard the Duck. I’m sure Jason would agree with me, making sure that our whole town doesn’t implode.

When Sam and Andy are trapped in the refrigerator, flashback to when Pam suggested that the refrigerator might be a secure place to hide.

After Lettie Mae laments that Ms. Jeanette would know how to help Tara, flashback her exorcism.

When Lafeyette admits that he still prays to Jesus–Hoyt: I ain’t never seen Lafayette in church. Of course we go to different churches, but lately I see him closing his eyes or putting a hand to his heart and thinking really hard about something. I couldn’t prove it, but I’d be as surprised as heck if he weren’t talking to God then and there right by the vat of onion rings and fried jalapeno poppers.

When Sookie and Bill drive up to the meat tree–Hint: Have we seen a statue shaped like this before?

When Sookie sees the state of her house–Karl: Maryann’s greatest pleasure comes from communing with nature, and there comes a point where the boundaries of domestic life and natural life are simply constricting. Why put up walls? Why define what is outside, what is inside? Maryann has taught me the beauty in letting everything be one. Of course, she’s not the one who has to clean up when she decides to put those boundaries back into place. Nevertheless, it’s quite a way to see the world.

As Bill ravages Maryann–FYI: Bill’s vampire strength is no match for the primeval power of a maenad.

While Sookie’s hand is glowing–Hint: Like Sookie’s experience with the chain wrapping around Mack Rattray’s neck, this power takes Sookie completely by surprise.

When Maryann asks Sookie what she is, flash forward to Maryann telling Sookie that she’s not human.

When Jason enters Merlotte’s with his chainsaw–Hoyt: Sure, people are roaming around with black eyes, and my mama has gone all native, but when Jason Stackhouse walks into a room full of half naked women and decides he’s going to police the joint, well that’s a true sign that things are seriously messed up. Except that one time when he turned down Shawnelle, I ain’t never seen him not want to party and, even then, he was just doing it to be nice, throw something my way, I think. I hope this isn’t a sign of the Apocalypse. I just got a girlfriend.

When Terry begs Jason not to hurt his special lady–Hint: Even though Terry is frenzy-eyed, his love for Arlene seems to be fighting through the frenzy.

When Jason disburses the crowd–Karl: If there is one thing Maryann does not like, besides cold showers, it’s having her plans spoiled, and whoever does the spoiling, well…I can assure you there will be repercussions. Maryann may have given a fairly simple task to a fairly simple group of people, but all appeared to be going according to plan. That is, until Jason turned out to be the ultimate buzz kill.

After Maryann’s blood makes Bill sick–Hint: After Sookie was attacked in the woods, she drank Bill’s blood and foamed at the mouth.

When Mike wonders what human flesh tastes like–Hoyt: People been picking on me my whole life, calling me weird just because I was quiet at times. So I don’t go around poking into quite people calling them weird, but Mike Spenser’s a whole ‘nother story. There’s weird, and there’s making the dead people you work with move around like…like marionettes weird. I saw him do it once, like he was a puppet master making funny voices and singing kids songs, putting the word ‘dead’ in them whenever they fit like, “Baa baa dead sheep, have you any wool?” People say that he lived with his mama his whole life, which is, like, just one of like 400 reasons I’m moving out just as soon as I can get the money.

After Lafayette tells Bill that he is dealing for Eric–Pam: There is stupid, and then there is monumentally moronic. Then there is apparently Lafayette. It’s no secret that selling vampire blood is illegal, but a vampire selling vampire blood, well, if that news were to get out, the repercussions could be catastrophic, and there Lafayette goes, mouthing off as if it’s some kind of party chatter. If I know Eric, this is not something he will at all take lightly.

When Sookie has trouble getting into Tara’s head–Karl: When Maryann sets her sights on something or someone, she has a certain knack for getting it. No one or nothing has eve stood in her way before, and if history is any indication, I don’t believe Tara will be any different.

As Sam tells Jason to smite him–FYI: To ‘smite’ someone is to strike or hit hard, to attack with deadly or disastrous effect.

After Jason smites Sam–Hint: Notice the fly buzzing around Terry’s head.

When the frenziers head back to Sookie’s house–Karl: I’m not one to disparage those around me, but let me just say this, throughout our entire history, there hasn’t been a single task that Maryann has entrusted to me that I haven’t completed quickly and swiftly. Yes, my hands are often filled with the laundry, the cooking, party planning, towel delivery, pharmaceutical procurement, and a myriad of other things, but you know what they say, “If you want something done right, ask the busiest person in the room.”

After Bill helps Sookie get into Tara’s head–Hint: Because Tara is still in a frenzied state, Sookie needs Bill’s help to enter Tara’s mind. Only after he glamours Tara is Sookie able to unlock Tara’s memories.

When Bill says that he knows one vampire who might help with Maryann, flash forward to Sophie Anne telling Bill that maenads can’t be killed because they’ve convinced themselves they are immortal.

While Jessica threatens Maxine–Hoyt: I used to hear Rene talk about ‘his woman’ and keeping her in line, and I thought, even before I knew he was a murderer, he was just crazy. I always thought that if I was lucky enough to be with a girl, a woman, like Jessica, there’d be no reason to control her, that we’d be equals and real happy, and now look at us. Mama’s been out of control for what feels like forever, and now Jessica is out of control, and if I have to choose between the two, my mama or the girlfriend who is biting her…Well, Jesus! Never in my whole life did I ever think I’d be in the middle of this.

2.11 Frenzy

(transcribed by Renée)

As Sophie Anne feeds on Hadley–Pam: Queen Sophie Anne is my kind of vampire, but she’s not for the faint of heart. I think she once even made Eric blush with her creative euphemisms for genitalia. Her one drawback is that she’s bat shit crazy, so if you need something from her in any kind of urgent situation, you simply never know what you’re going to get.

Just before Hoyt pulls Jessica off Maxine–Pam: Good girl! Now she’s starting to take matters into her own hands. That kid might just make a decent vampire after all. Truthfully, I don’t know how she used as much restraint as she did; I would have drained that insufferable sack hours ago.

After Hoyt tells Jessica that he should have listened to Vampire Bill’s warning about Jessica–Hoyt: No one knows better than me how much my mama can provoke you, but I can’t believe Jessica just went ahead and bit her. I really thought that she could control herself. I’m such an idiot. I brought this on myself. I still can’t help but sort of feel that maybe my mama had it coming.

As Bill and Hadley stare at each other across the pool–FYI: Within vampire political hierarchy, each state is overseen by its own king or queen.

While Sophie Anne talks about the purity of Ludis’s blood–Pam: Sophie Anne Leclerq, five hundred years a vampire and originally from Northern France. Her maker was a real charmer; he saved her from a neighbor who was about to sell her for food only to go ahead and force her into prostitution himself. This lasted a few years, but eventually he was staked by some humans and dumped in the Seine. Sophie Anne, who back then was Judith, was always resourceful. She found herself an orphan, Andre Paul, roaming in the woods. He had also been forced into prostitution. She rescued him and made him a vampire and companion. He became her personal body guard for two centuries. She has quite a knack for finding strong young boys with accents. Some she turns; others she feeds on and then disposes of.

When Tara says that she finally found a good man to lover her, flash forward to reveal what kind of future Tara and Eggs will have together. The final moments of Eggs are shown.

As Jason give his speech about the Oral History of the Zombie War–Hoyt: I hope Jason knows he’s not actually in a zombie movie because, the thing is, most kids know the difference between make believe and real, and I’m not sure that Jason ever really did, and right now he’s acting like he still don’t. He got lucky with that chainsaw thing, but that luck’s bound to run out with these freaky ass, bug eyed…freakers.

After Arlene’s kids ask Sam to feed them–Hoyt: I’m feeling really sad for Coby and Lisa right about now. I know how rough it is to have my mama acting crazy, and I’m twenty-eight. They’re just kids, and they haven’t been fed in days because their mama has been humping Terry Bellefluer in all kinds of public places. I’ve been learning the truth about them.

When Tara uses the ‘Satan in a Sunday hat’ line on Lettie Mae–Flashback to see to see the last time we heard this line used. to describe someone. Eggs and Lafayette’s first meeting is shown.

As Sookie describes what it felt like to be in Tara’s head–Karl: Sookie’s description is fairly accurate. Her telepathic skills as quite impressive. This emptying out she speaks of while simultaneously feeling the fullness of possibility that is the ecstatic calm  associated with having one  primary goal, one mission to carry through. In this case, that mission is sacrificing Sam Merlotte to bring forth our god.

While Sookie and Lafayette discuss their dreams about Eric–FYI: It is very common for humans who ingest the blood of vampires to, quite literally, feel consumed by that vampire’s essence. As Bill states, a human can expect a heightened sexual attraction towards the vampire, as well as obsessive thoughts and frequent dreams about the vampire.

When the receptionist at the sheriff’s department accosts Jason–Hoyt: Thank you! This is the Jason I know. Hopefully he’ll get all distracted by sex and drop the whole killing zombies thing ‘caus as much as I want my town back, I don’t think Jason can get it back without getting himself killed.

As Bud and Andy square dance–Hoyt: Oh no. This is really bad. It’s not just zombies we’re dealing with. We got zombies who think they’re on Dancing with the Stars. This town is so fucked I think we’re going to have to call the National Guard.

After Sam bribed Ginger–Pam: Could someone explain to me why we’re employing a woman who care more about making a cheap buck than getting killed? She’s not the best employee for us to have at Fangtasia.

When Maryann reveals that the energy from Ms. Jeanette’s ritual called her forth–Karl: Maryann’s greatest gift is her innate ability to channel energy. We all know that energy never dies; it just gets catalyzed into another form. Tara’s exorcism was a deeply emotional moment for her. That energy was picked up by Maryann, and she came here to transfer that energy to a far more powerful purpose.

When Maryann excoriates the frenziers for letting Sam escape–Karl: I have spent much of my service with Maryann believing I was an addition to her great plan, an aid, her facilitator. But there are alternative ways to view those who come into her sphere of influence. Perhaps she’s not as interested in helping those around her as having them help her. Hm…I’m beginning to see matters more clearly. There is but a fine line between servant and slave, isn’t there?

As Maxine tells Hoyt that Maryann will remember this day for the rest of her life–Hint: It sounds like Maxine is going to a wedding.

When Sookie tells Lafayette about her misgivings about Maryann, flashback to see first time Sookie met her.

While Eric and Sam talk–Pam: Does my hatred of children really beg for an explanation? All of the weak, needy, and frail qualities of the humans that I hate so much are exponentially worse in children. In fact, children are nothing but those things. And yes, their blood has a certain je ne sais quoi, but there is zero tolerance for feeding on children ever since the Great Revelation, that is, so now there is not a single use for those things.

As Eric takes off–FYI: Can all vampires fly? No. Can all humans sing? Vampires, like humans, have different talents and skills.

When Coroner Mike grabs Sookie’s ankle and asks if she remembers Gran’s death, flashback to Sookie discovering her body.

When Sophie Anne offers Ludis to Bill–Pam: Occasionally I find Sophie Anne’s approach to things just a little heavy handed. I respect the power she holds and her world view, or lack thereof, but how many vintage fashions can one swim in? How many board games can one turn into an excuse to watch forced eroticism between straight men? I’m not jealous. It’s just that at times it seems a bit gimmicky. I just don’t want her to become a parody of herself.

During the Yahtzee game–Pam: Poor Bill always being held against his will by more powerful women. If I didn’t think he was completely to blame by being a chronic wet noodle, I’d feel sorry for him.

During Hadley and Bill’s surreptitious conversation–Pam: Yes. Hadley Hale can certainly wear a short skirt like no other, and rumor is she had a talent for dance. As far as I’m concerned, her greatest talent has always been finding herself at the right place at the right time. It’s gotten her to some pretty fabulous, if not dangerous, places.

As Jason and Andy bond in the truck–Hoyt: Who ever thought Andy and Jason would team up for anything? Andy always hated Jason for…well, being Jason, and Jason’s always hated Andy for hating him. I guess sometimes the lion really does lead the lamb, although in this case I guess it’s more like the hound dog and the bull dog.

As a frenzier admires himself in Sookie’s dress, flashback to the last time Sookie wore it and Bill called her vampire bait.

When Eggs and Tara trash Gran’s things, flashback to Sookie entering Gran’s room after her death.

2.12 Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

(transcribed by Serena)

Tara lifts up the egg
Hoyt: I swear to all the things that are good and holy in this world, if my friends stop acting like egg  carrying nest making black eyed zombies and my momma quits making nasty food for gods, I’m gonna do everything right from now on. I’m gonna clean my room better, and clean all the dishes, not just the real dirty ones, and I’m going to church every Sunday again. And I’m takin’ my momma with me, for her good for just as good as mine.

Hint: Once again, Maryann can’t control Sookie, why is that?

Maxine Fortenberry tries to make a run for it
Hoyt: When you’re a kid and your parents tell you stories, you believe ‘em, you never question ‘em.  Especially when its about something real serious like politics or swimming after ya eat lunch or how your daddy died. Sure when you get older and your momma looks at you  a certain way, it make you wonder things don’t add up so right, but you keep believin’ because its easier and sadder because you probably still want it to be true. I like things much better when I was just scared of burglars.

QSA’s Yatzhee equality diatribe
AVL: The Fellowship prefers to focus on our differences, but vampires are just like humans. We enjoy the same pastimes and pleasures as anyone. We watch TV, surf the net, play board games, enjoy sports and the company of others. The only thing that truly separates us from humans is that we enjoy these pastimes at night.

Eric tells the Queen he hasn’t tasted Sookie yet
Pam: “Sookie is  a pretty girl that has something that drives men and some women simply wild. But the way people go on about her, she’s like nothing they’ve ever seen or tasted before, they’re simply intoxicated by her, and anyone who tastes that good … its made even me curious and I don’t usually do ‘curiosity.’

Jason and Andy approach MA’s wedding festivities
Hoyt: “Jason is hands down the coolest guy I know, and the best friend a guy could ever hope for, and the truth is  I admire the guy for being so tough when it counts, that’s something I never seem able to do, but sometimes I sure wish he’d use his smarts, I know he’s got ‘em.

Bill and Sam in Merlotte’s talking strategery
Pam: “Let’s see, we’ve got a creature in a bull mask slashing people with poison, naked people doing nasty naked things in the woods, Sam’s being chased by a maenad, women with their hearts cut out are popping up in refrigerators and these boys are discussing little brats and their beauty sleep? Their annoying. Lock them in a room and move on. Try something noble for once like I don’t know, saving your town?

Jason comes into the house, “Sookie you look beautiful.”
Hoyt; “Back when Jason and I were younger, we used to sneak in on Tara and Sookie, see what they were playing or if we could scare ‘em. And wouldn’t you know it, they were never doing anything fun, just the same old game. Dressing up in Gran’s weddin’ dress, perttending they were gettin’ married. Only thing that ever changed was who was wearing the dress. They treated that dress like it was more special than anythin on the planet. Heck they didn’t even bother having a groom.. all they cared about was whose turn it was to wear the dress. Made Gran overjoyed to see that one dress make so many people happy. Girls never made much sense to me, til Jessica, but this? This kind of dress up? I don’t think its supposed to make any kind of sense.

FYI: In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the son of Zeus. Zeus is the most powerful of the gods.

After Sookie knocks over Dimitri
Pam: “Yes murder and violence are crimes.. blablabla, but the only true abomination I see here is the waste of good fresh blood. I may look like I’m high maintenance, but I am fairly easily to please, you know.

Sam throws Maryann’s heart to the ground (sweet!)
Pam: “If you want examples of petty and ugliness of the human race, take a gander at Bon Temps. Right now. Yes vampires thrive on satiating their desires, but we do so in private. With a sense of decorum, this madness is not only destructive, but its also terribly tacky.

Hoyt confronts Momma about Daddy committing suicide
Hoyt: “Momma’s done a lot of strange things in her life,  a lot of things that pissed me off, or that made me turn red when I didn’t want to be, she’s even hated on the one girl that I’ve ever loved, but nothing, Nothing compares to being lied to about your own Daddy. I could forgive her for being rude, and not letting me eat candy on Halloween, or her singing Broadway songs in her bathing suit at my birthday party, but this? Even if God tells me every Sunday that forgiveness is the best gift you can forgive someone, I just can’t give it to her. Not now, maybe not ever.

Egg’s washing his hands, out out damn spot.
Hoyt: “I used to think I was the only strange one in town,  stuck with my overbearing momma, who embarrasses me all the time, who made me wear sailor outfits til I was 16 because she said she liked the navy stripes more than just about anything. But I guess one thing about having your whole town go insane, you start feeling less like a freak. Navy stripes ain’t nothing compared to giant meat statues and giant eggs and people sacrificing each other on people’s front lawns.

Merlotte’s, after Terry talks to Arlene’s kids
Hoyt: I never liked surprises really. I always knew what kind of cake I was getting for my birthday,  I  studied every night when I had Miss Cluger because she liked to give pop quizzes in geometry. So I guess its not surprise my stomach finally stopped needing Pepto now that the town is right again. Yeah, I know I gotta go get my girl and make it all right with her. Cuz there ain’t nothing right until we’re right. But heck after all that chanting and Momma’s lies and all those lies and nasty ass casseroles, .. hearing Coraline and Vanetta talk stupid about this town is music to my ears.

Jane Bodehouse shows off her bandaged finger
Hoyt: Ok so about a whole day of cleaning decaying meat of Gran’s old lawn, and now everything is back to normal. Almost. yeah its weird, people have no memories of stuff, and it was really weird finding out Jane Bodehouse found a piece of herself in that nasty meat statue.  Seems like people should know what they were doing so they don’t do it again, But I don’t know. Maybe they think if we pretend our way back to normal, we’ll get there faster.

Eggs asking Sookie for help remembering
Hoyt: If I did something bad, even if it was jail kind of bad, I’d want to know so I could start saying sorry and makin’ up for it right away. People’ve got a right to know who they are, what they’ve done, or where they come from even if it ain’t their fault they can’t remember cause they were crazy at the time. Or too young to know any better. And they have a right to know as soon after something happens. It might hurt having a smaller of hurt than a whole lifetime of one. I should know.

Jessica and Bill preparing for a night out
Pam: “How adorable. Two vampires in love with blood bags. Its like Bill’s created his own little cult of wide eyed fang smiling fools, sad really on how they are so wrapped up on how everything looks now, but I doubt either of them truly understand how truly  ugly  love and gravity can be.

Jessica bites into the trucker
Pam: “Finally, that little dead tart is living up to her potential. Its high time someone around here started behaving like an actual vampire, fangs and all.  Whats the point of being a permanent Catholic school girl if you can’t screw the boys in a broom closet when Daddy isn’t looking. I had a hunch back at Fangtasia that annoying as she is, she has a knack for using her innocence to her advantage. No doubt Bill will soon worm his way into her life and make a mess of things by cleaning her all up. But until then the girl is finally going to live the dead life the way it was meant to be.

“Miss Stackhouse, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”
Pam: Honestly, haven’t we had enough weddings for one week? If I could vomit, I would. Right on top of Sookie’s chocolate mousse. And I know I’m not the only one who would have a terrible taste in my mouth if these too should actually flit off to Vermont to achieve wedded bliss. I can think of more than one vampire who’d be none too pleased about this unfortunately sappy turn of events.