However, no one in this family has any experience in how to be part of it. Bill knows Jessica is impulsive and undisciplined and therefore dangerous—but he has more trouble remembering she’s also a very sheltered young girl, having been homeschooled and dominated as a human by her harsh father. Last week we had a funny scene of Bill trying to buy Jessica some hip clothes, but he’s in full disciplinary mode tonight, unsympathetic to Jessica and to Sookie. Sookie knows Bill is probably right in keeping a tight rein on Jessica, but she can’t help but sympathise with the girl’s loss of her family, having just lost her own gran. And Jessica feels far more understood by human Sookie than vampire Bill. The conditions are ripe for a blowout and Sookie ends her argument with Bill by jumping out of the car and deciding to walk back to Bon Temps.
Unfortunately, she’s not alone in her walk in the woods. Within a couple of minutes, she’s been deeply mauled on her back by a weird bull-human with very large claws, which we soon find out via the adorable Dr. Ludwig were coated in poison. Bill finds Sookie about to die and to his astonishment realises his blood cannot heal her. He rushes her to Eric’s, who calls the aforementioned doctor, a feisty little old lady who encapsulates the kind of humans these vampires have to deal with. Dr. Ludwig sasses Bill and Eric with equal abandon, ordering them about as she very painfully removes the poison from Sookie.
Bill and Sookie have a very tender scene as he is finally able to give her his blood to heal her. Eric reveals he is intrigued with Sookie himself, as he first tries to give Sookie his own blood and then watches as Bill shows how much he loves her. I think we can look forward to the relationship among these three getting a lot more complicated, though at the moment Sookie would be hard pressed to admit it. Any grateful feelings she may have possessed toward Eric vanish when she mind-reads that he has Lafayette in the basement, badly injured and terrified. Of course, she doesn't know Lafayette is there because he illegally was selling V, vampire blood, which can be addicting to humans.
Sookie takes on Eric to Bill’s dismay, but the vampire Sheriff finds her interesting. To her demand that he release Lafayette, he lets her know he will not be threatened, but he can be bargained with. Sookie then strikes what she thinks is a very hard bargain—she’ll go to Dallas and help Eric find a missing vampire if Eric gives her ten thousand dollars and lets Bill come. Eric agrees and tells her she has surprised him, which hasn’t happened often in his one thousand years. But it’s been a surprising day altogether for him, as he also has never heard of a creature like this poisonous bull-man.
Article comments
1 - Mongo
I agree with your observations about Eric. Eric has been around a long time and while not the boy scout relative to Bill, he exhibits a kind of lawful wisdom.
Great write up, hope you do more of these!
2 - Gerry
Thank you, now that I've found the show, I do intend to keep writing about it. I'm hooked!
Yep, I think Eric will turn out to have a mix of good and evil, because I think the show is undercutting the notion the Newlins have of the choice between light and dark being easy to see and easy to make. I expect we'll see more of their dark side as we see more of Eric's light.
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