S1 Ep 7: Burning House of Love

AIR DATE: October 19, 2008
PLOT:
As this episode begins, Bill and Sookie are still making love by the fire as he continues to drink from her. When they finish, they take a bath. Sookie is surprised to see his reflection in a mirror. He clarifies some of the folklore about vampires, such as holy water being just water, having a reflection proves that they are real and crosses are just geometry. Sookie thinks on their consummation and says she never thought she would be able to have sex with anyone. Bill is not only flattered, but honored that she chose him.

Sookie than has a vision of her childhood, about Uncle Bartlett and how he abused her. She told Gran about what he did and she ran him off to never speak to him again. After the most perfect moment in her life, she hates the fact that she can't help but think about him. Bill pulls her close, telling her to think about what ever she wants and that she is safe with him.

Lafayette starts to strips for his Web cam show as Jason comes in, seeing what’s going on, tells him to put on the breaks. He has come by, hoping to get more V. He offers to pay Lafayette what ever and even dance for his website again. Lafayette becomes angry, telling him no and critizes him for telling Tara where he got it in the first place. He tells Jason to leave. Jason asks him what he's going to do, call the police? He goes for Lafayette's stash and Lafayette grabs him and throws him out, as Jason asks where he can get V and Lafayette tells him to go to the morgue as that is where he will end up.

Bill shows Sookie his hidden resting place, under the house. She asks if anyone ever gets in there with him. He turns to her, concerned, saying that this is not a place for her. Deeply thoughtful, Sookie remarks that they can never sleep beside each other as Bill climbs down into dark. Before shutting the door, he says that no one else knows where he rests. As the sun rises, Sookie makes her way home, dressed in one of Bill’s shirts.

Tara helps her mom figure out how to dodge bills. Coming in with her coffee spiked, Lettie Mae asks for $445 to exorcise her demon, which also told her to drink all the booze in the house that day because it doesn’t want her to get clean. Tara tells her she needs to go to AA and Lettie Mae says they’re nothing but a cult. Tara tries to take the coffee from her and when it spills, her mom sucks the booze from her clothes and skin. Tara looks on in complete repulsion.

Sookie returns home to find Jason trying to take a bag of Gran’s possessions as well as two silver candle sticks which were given to her as a wedding present. Jason says he’s only taking half of what’s his and refuses to tell her why. He takes a good look at her seeing the bites marks and belittles her for her actions. Saying she saved it (her virginity) all these years to waste it on a fucking vampire. Sookie insists that Bill is a gentleman and would never hurt her, which is more than she can say for Jason. He says he tried to apologize for hitting her and that she wouldn’t let him. He than tries to leave as Sookie grabs the bag he's carrying and jewelry falls onto the floor. She looks at him as he leaves with just the candlesticks.

Tara goes by to see Sam and the friendly dog is outside. He is getting angry at the repairs he has to make on his trailer and about how she left him in that seedy motel. He expresses that she's not very good at being in a relationship. She says that she hasn't had much practice. "Maybe I'm un-boyfriendable." He's trying to fix something and she tells him needs a certain kind of screwdriver. He asks how she knows and she remarks, “No daddy and a drunk mom. All the fixin' fell to me.” At that point she gets a phone call and leaves.

Her mother is at the bank, trying to get a loan for an exorcism. She tries everything to get the money. When sexual advances and sitting in the manager's lap do not work in her favor, she accuses him of being prejudiced against her because she's a Christian. Tara comes to get her. Her mom screams that she can't take the demon inside her much longer. Breaking down in front of everyone at the bank. She takes her home. As her mother goes to lay down, Tara takes some money out from under the sink and begins counting it. That night at Merlotte's, the crowds are noisy and Sookie is working. She wears a scarf around her neck to hid the marks that Bill left and she is in a harmonious state of mind.

Terry Bellefleur informs Sam that Tara called and says she's not coming into work that night. Jason's one-nighter, Randi Sue calls him and tries to get him to come to the bar, but he says that he’s heading to Shreveport to the vampire bar. She than reprimands him for low moral character and hangs up the phone.

Sam sees Lafayette starting to fume at the rednecks who refused to eat his food earlier, come back in to Merlotte’s. Sam tells him that he is paying him to cook, not beat on customers. He relents, wanting a raise for this. Lafayette does get his revenge by cooking a spoon over the burner and putting it in their soup.

Arlene can tell something is different about Sookie. She guesses what has happened, but hopes it was with Sam and not Bill. Sookie says it was Bill and she thinks she might be in love with him. She asks Arlene not to tell anyone and Arlene immediately tells her husband Rene and hopes Sookie doesn't get pregnant. How will she nurse a baby with fangs? Sam overhears this and loses his cool. He goes and rips the scarf from Sookie’s neck, exposing the marks and expressing his strong disapproval in front of the whole bar. She screams that what she does in her own time in no concern of their and walks away.

Jason’s search for more V juice leads him to Fangtasia. At the front door, Pam discovers that he is Sookie's brother and glamours him to find out his intentions and he says the reason he's there is to get vampire blood. She allows him to go inside, telling him good luck getting out.

A wheelchair bound Uncle Bartlett takes out his trash. As he is coming back up to the house, he sees Bill waiting for him. He worriedly admits that he doesn’t have any cash in the house. Bill replies that he's not there for money but for Sookie, and bites him.

Tara and her mother are walking the back roads, on their way to meet Ms. Jeannette in the woods for her exorcism. Tara gives her the cash. They head into Ms. Jeannette's trailer where all sorts of voodoo and talismans hang. She tells Tara's mom to take off her clothes and for Tara to sit and be still. Jeanette places various stones and rock all over Lettie Mae’s body and begins the ritual.

Sookie raves about her night with Bill to Lafayette, who says he was always too scared to let them bite him and that when there's blood involved, a line been crossed. She happily exclaims that a definitely crossed a line and glad she did. He congratulates her for that, but calls her a skank under his breath as she walks away.

At Fangtasia, Jason tries unsuccessfully to get vampire blood from Longshadow. But a girl named Amy overhears all of this and steps in to save him. Posing as his girlfriend, she drags him away to a table and implies that she has what he’s looking for. Than suggests he keep quiet or he’ll get them killed. They both leave the bar together.

At Merlotte’s, the three cruel vampires Diane, Liam, and Malcolm come in and are looking to start trouble. Sam tells them to leave, saying it's locals only. Malcolm sees Sookie and notices that she has given up the goods. (Letting Bill feed from her). Malcolm than tries to take her and she cuts him off saying, “Don't you think for one second I would ever have anything to do with you! I am sure you were trash while you were alive and now you're just dead trash!” He replies that he is going to drain her so slowly, she will beg him to kill her. The patrons try to stand up to them. With Sam going as far to snap a pool cue into a makeshift stake. But the vampires are too strong.

Bill, disposing of her uncle's body in a backwoods lake, sense Sookie’s distress and heads for the bar.

Terry tries to help, but Liam knocks him out. Just as Sam and Sookie are about to be bitten, Bill appears in the door, telling the other vampires to stop. They are there for him, not the locals. They want him to join their nest. He agrees to go with them. Sookie says he's better than them, but he stares at her and says he's not human, he's a vampire.

Jason and Amy, are at a gas station talking, while he's anxious to get more V. They both decide to go to his house and peel out into the night.

Tara watches as Ms. Jeannette performs the exorsism on her mother. Tara's not taking it seriously, but Ms. J says she needs to. She has an opossum on standby for the demon to flee to. She starts humming and banging a drum as she chants. Tara watches as mom starts breathing heavily and heaving. When her mom is silent the opossum starts screeching in its cage. Ms. J picks it up and dunks it in a tub of water, drowning it.

The rednecks plan to go to the vampire's house and get rid them once and for all. Sookie wants Sam to stop them, but he says he doesn't care what happens to them. Sookie says Bill only went with them to get them away from the bar.

Back at his house, Amy is going on and on about the earth and Jason just wants to do the V. She slowly takes the stuff out, preparing it with aspirin for a fuller effect. She calls it nature's greatest gift. She grinds the blood on aspirin into a powder and puts it on a tray like its cocaine. She prays over it, honoring the earth. Jason plays along to get high. She snorts a line. Then Jason.They hear birds chirping and everything goes out of focus. She kisses him.

Sookie calls Bill and leaves a message, warning him that a lynch mob that is their way to the vampire’s nest.

In his bedroom Jason begins to fantasize as Amy joins him in bed. They appear to have slow, pleasurable sex, where each touch seems to send glowing sparks, like fire between them.

Tara is furious, exclaiming that she just spent four hundred dollars to watch Jeanette drown a opossum. Ms. Jeannette tells Lettie Mae her demon is gone, but they now have to do something about Tara. She's not buying it, but Ms. Jeannette asks about her life. Does she have many friends, trouble keeping a job, her own place. She tells Tara to find her when she's ready.

Sookie comes to Bill's house. She looks for him in his hidden resting place. He's not there. She sits and waits.

At daybreak, the lynch mob arrives at the nest and armed with Molotov cocktails. They surround the house and toss their bottles through the windows, setting the house on fire. One of them ignites his arm and his buddy puts him out as the house burns. They run away as the building goes up in flames, with the vampires screaming inside.

In the early morning, Andy and Terry Bellefleur are fishing in the swaps and talking about when they used to this as kids. Terry sees something in the woods and signals for Andy to be quiet. Stunned, they both watch as Sam Merlotte runs naked just inside the trees. Andy wonders where he is going and Terry just sits back, saying he’s done that before. Andy gets a call and not happy at the news.

Sookie wakes up at Bill's. Looking around, everything is quiet as she goes to the closet that conceals his resting place. He is not there as the door is still wide open. She hears sirens in the distance and runs from the house.

At the vampire’s nest, the house is in smoking ruins as the police pull four coffins from the building. Many voice their opinions about what and/or who may have done this. Many are happy that someone took action. Sookie arrives moments later, wondering if Bill was in the house.