Guess what was on my front porch tonight when I got home from work?  All I can say is:  Mix a cocktail…roll one up…grab the Oreos and please don't shoot the messenger.

The 4th issue of The French Quarter left of with New Orleans police detective Killian West returning home.   He was greeted by Le Deux, the vampire in dire need of an update to his 18th century wardrobe.  Le Deux needs his help.

NEW ORLEANS

The vampire serial killer they're chasing turned out to be a copy cat of the original madman Eric knew in 18th-century Paris-but just as crazy.  The answer to his identity could be in this book, if they can find it.  Eric who's been infected with Hep-D, isn't making the search any easier.

Eric leans towards Sookie and asks her not to shut him out because he is sick.  Sookie says:  "Oh…Eric.  You're helping.  Bill and I are gonna keep looking through this book, but as soon as we get an answer, we're gonna need all your help.  Okay?"  Eric replies:  "Whatever you say, Sookie."

Hep-D doesn't kill vampires, but it sure makes them whiny.

Sookie is single again, with complicated feelings for Bill and Eric-But she remembers the sweetness of the love-making she and Eric shared when he was cursed, and she allows herself to enjoy the familiar feel of him against her body.

"Sookie…do not play into his hand.  Eric is exaggerating his illness in the hope of regaining your affections."  "Bill Compton, my compassion for Eric's situation does not mean I'm jumping into bed with him…anyway, you should be more sensitive to his illness.  God forbid, this could happen to you."  Bill says:  "You are right, Sookie.  I am sorry."  Sookie tells Eric:  "It's going to be okay."  Eric admits:  "It was nice, having you hold me again, Sookie.  I miss that."  Sookie says:  "Oh, for heaven's sake, Eric;  Don't push your luck."

"People are dying, and the two of you are still trying to get into my pants!  I suppose there are a lot of girls who'd find that flattering.  But not me.  And you both know it.  It just makes me heartsick and wish I'd never met either of you."

Sookie's given this speech a dozen times, and she's determined to keep giving it…until she finds a man who listens.

Bill ties to take the book from Sookie.  Sookie clutches the book to her chest and tells Bill:  "Give me that…I'll see you at the hotel."  Bill meekly says "We should go."  Eric remarks:   "The sun will be up soon."  Sookie takes the book and walks away from Eric and Bill.  Eric calls to Sookie:  "Can we talk about this?  I am sick."  Sookie throws up her hand and says:  "Say good night, Eric."  Eric parrots back:  "Good night, Eric."

She hears the door locks click.  And then nothing.  Silence.  Sookie thinks:  "Stupid Man-pires."

With Bill and Eric out of the way, Sookie can get some well deserved (and long overdue) alone time.  Maybe sit at a cafe and have a cup of coffee.  Or read a magazine.  Or look for shoes.  Sometimes she has to remind herself that she doesn't need to live in the dark.  That's the great thing about daybreak – all that sunlight really clears the streets of vampires.

MILHOUS ESTATES

A lot of people made money on this deal, even after the developer was indicted. 

"Cchhhkkkk…in progress, four-five-nine willow…cchhhkkkk…copy?"  A cop car sits beside a building with the door ajar, radio blaring.  "In pursuit of a tan cchhhkkkkk…east of downtown, requesting…cchhhhkkkkk"

A cop enters the dark building with his flashlight and crawls down a sewer.

The New Orleans police department lists Le Deux as "freelance consultant #19574…" ?!?  A snitch.   But his information on New Orleans' vampire community has led Det Killian West to  a 95% conviction rate, and two promotions.  So when Le Deux says "Jump, " West crawls into a sewer at the edge of town in the middle of the day, no questions asked – even if it means breaking the law. 

West opens the box just to make sure, what ever it is, it's all there.  And to take a little off the top for his trouble.

"What the f—?  Ham?"  Splooooosh, plooooosh, thhhwwwwippp.

Alligators don't normally eat human flesh, but they love the smell of pork.

Panic seizes control of West's brain.  He's alone, underground, and with no cell reception, and the desk sergeant thinks he's at the dentist.

BON TEMPS

Lafayette is about to go on break, just after he takes out the trash…until life reminds him who's boss.

"I can think of three things I'd rather be doing in this position."

If he wanted to clean up garbage, he could go back to Merlotte's. 

"Oh, hell no…

Amazing what you find in other people's trash.

Lafayette re-enters Fangtasia.  Ginger is behind the bar and yells to Lafayette "Where's the –?"  Lafayette answers:  "Top drawer Ginger, in the back."  He breaks up a bar fight.

Lafayette thinks about how fast things have changed.  Just a few days ago, he was scared shitless of this place, almost killed by the first vampire he served…now, it's just another  day at the office.

 Lafayette enters Pam's office with the bag of trash he just picked up.  A swanky dressed Pam says:  "I asked you to take the trash out, didn't I?"  Lafayette says:  "I found these blood bags."  Pam:  "Not on the fucking desk.  Your powers of observation are astonishing, really.  More importantly, is my car here?"  Lafayette continues:  "The bar only sells Tru Blood.  And you like it fresh from the source.  Only way you're drinking this is if you're afraid of the local supply.  Maybe because that supply's infected with something…"  Pam says:  "When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me-and I don't do ass."  Lafayette tells Pam:  "I've heard bits and pieces about it around the bar.  Nobody's buying V…because everybody's afraid of getting Hep-D."  Pam is "Still not listening."  Lafayette wants to know:  "Why don't you just tell me?" Pam:  "Maybe because it's none of your fucking business?  Or, was it because it's really none of your fucking business?  No…you know what it was?  We don't need you to know, because it's none of your fucking business."  Lafayette says:  "Mutherfuckin' vampires didn't think I need to know.  Here!  Take it."  Pam take the piece of paper from Lafayette and realizes that it is Lafayette's Will.

"…A 1972 doll beach house is an asset?"  Lafayette adds:  "Convertible's included.  In mint condition.  Last one sold at auction for $15,000."  "Good for you,"  Pam says.  "The point is, Ginger ain't gonna be helpin' me run this place while you're gone.  You and I both know that bitch is only good for two things, and one of them is screamin'.  So if I get killed, well, I've made arrangements.  And either way, when you and Eric get back, my debt is paid in full.  To both of you."  Pam tells Lafayette:  "That's not the way it works."  "It does now.  If  I live, we're done.  Over.  Finished.  I go back to my life, and you leave me the fuck alone for the rest of eternity."  Pam asks Lafayette:  "And what if I kill you right now?"  Lafayette:  "Then you're left with Ginger.  And last time I checked, she was near brain dead.  You kill me and we're both fucked."

Miss Agatha said she was special.  Sookie's part-faerie, which means she can read minds.  Despite this talent, she's never really felt special.  Not in that way.  If she was special, she'd be able to figure out who the killer is.  It's here in this book.  Miss Agatha said so.

Sookie studies Miss Agatha's book in a cafe.  She overhears another cafe patron say "Look at that graffiti over there…it's been six years, and they still haven't gotten the city back on it's feet!"

"Fuck me…"

"There was a list of names.  Some  kind of vampire painters.  Where was  it?"

 "Check please!"

Maybe she is special, after all.

"Information?  In New Orleans, please?  Can I get an address for Victor Le Deux?"

"Gran always used to say 'If you want to make an omelette–you gotta break a few eggs.'"

Its like a museum in here.  With all the vampire drama, and the werewolves and witches, and the shifters and the were-panthers, Sookie hasn't had a lot of time for fine art…but she knows what she likes.

That Fangtasia matchbook.  The thing that got her down to New Orleans in the first place.  And all those killings.  This whole time she thought it was Eric.  That Guerra was back.  But this is about Bill–about his past coming back to haunt them.  Again.

Lorena.

"You dumb, stupid vampire c-word."  Sookie walks into a low chest of drawers and falls to her knees.  "Oh, Shit."  Sookie realizes that there is someone behind her.  Sookie is blind-sided.

 "You shouldn't say those nasty things about Lorena–it makes me angry.  I have waited well over one hundred years for this moment, Sookie Stackhouse, and I will not be denied one more second…I want to taste me revenge."

It's all about Bill?  Again?  Arrrgggghhhhh…I am sooooooo over Bill. 

 

I'm thinking Le Deux's beef is with Sookie for killing Lorena, Bg.  Is Le Deux Lorena's child, lover or vampire sibling?  Lorena's maker in TB is Istvan, right?  Could this be a harbinger of things to come in season 5.  Russell's revenge on Eric for killing Talbot?

 

 

@osterby–"Wasn't there mention of Paris with the Chicago couple?… Could it link back to that? Could the connection be to Faviana and Guillaume?"

 

This has to be the connection. This killer is actually the vampire painter Victor Le Deux, right? And he painted Lorena in Paris 100 years ago and kept the painting all this time so Le Deux must have been in love with Lorena or otherwise intimately connected to her, and through her, Bill. I can't recall, but has Bill seen Le Deux in NOLA? Perhaps the point of this exercise is to play up Bill's shady connections, ala the terrible trio. If he used to swan around in Paris with a vampire serial killer what does that say about him?

But then the question becomes why is Le Deux serial killing all these vampires? And why now? Are the other killings a cover for his REAL purpose? Now I'm thinking that Bill planted the FT matchbook, then arranged for Eric to get sick with Hep-D in the vicinity of his good buddy Le Deux, who is conveniently killing vampires infected with Hep-D! It's all been a ruse arranged by Bill to have Eric killed without getting his hands dirty–or ending up a pile of goo on the sidewalk.

I always wondered at 'Istvan'. They could have picked any name for Lorena's maker–why did they have to connect him to Stephen Moyer? Is it a clue HE is actually playing Lorena's maker? For that to be the case however that whole conversation about "I am NOT Istvan!" would have to be gorilla shit. Although, I wouldn't rule that out.

I searched "The Two" in the prof and had two interesting results.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…..Two_Widows

A two-act Czech opera, the main characters are Caroline and Agnes, two widows.

 

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T….._Two_Jakes

The sequel to Chinatown, in Chinatown, Gittes discovers his mother is actually his sister.

osterby said:

I searched "The Two" in the prof and had two interesting results.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…..Two_Widows

A two-act Czech opera, the main characters are Caroline and Agnes, two widows.

 

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T….._Two_Jakes

The sequel to Chinatown, in Chinatown, Gittes discovers his mother is actually his sister.

OMG, that's fascinating!

 

So you DO believe Le Deux = Istvan? Could it be that Istvan made Bill but gave him to Lorena as a pet, thus making her Bill's mother figure even though she was in actuality his vampire sibling?

 

Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, shares a border with Austria, Lorena's home country. Just sayin'.

Oh, I've believed for some time that Bill's 'story' of his turning was complete horse shit. It was all part of a carefully constructed backstory for his character. He  needed it to convincingly play the part of 'Bill Compton'. Too many clues, one too many fluffed details, beginning with Lorena's tiny  cabin being full of rotting corpses yet human 'Bill' never let on he noticed the foul odor.

 

I just wonder how it will play out in the CB? Will crucial questions about 'Bill' be answered, or will we be left, yet again, to make our own inferences? It could be too soon to make that kind of dramatic revelation, but on the other hand if TB wants to prepare fans for some dramatic shit coming in s5 this is an excellent way to do it.

osterby said:

A two-act Czech opera, the main characters are Caroline and Agnes, two widows.

Does Agnes = Agatha?  As in Miss Agatha…

Holy shit, yes.

anna….it's not irrelevant….at all.  

Everything in the world is part of everything else, one is in both, the same way that the two are one.

How much more relevant can we get?  lol!