S1 Ep 12: You'll Be the Death of Me

AIR DATE: November 23, 2008
PLOT:
Jason sits in jail, telling Rene about everyone that will get his possessions. Hoyt will get his ‘lucky’ leather jacket. Sookie will get all of his money. And Rene gets his truck. Rene says he’s giving it back once Jason gets out. Jason hopelessly replies that they will never let him out after what he’s done. Rene says it ain't like he killed a bunch of innocent women and that if he hadn't done it, it was just a matter of time. He calls the women that were killed, fangbangers. Jason angrily objects to his grandmother as a "fangbanger." Sookie charges her way back to see Jason, telling him she wishes she'd gotten there sooner before he confessed to something he didn't do. She tells him to shut up because she's close to finding out who the real killer is. Rene in thought wonders if she knows all this, how come she hasn't gone to the cops and gotten her brother out of that cell? She snaps back that she has tried that and so far the cops have done didly squat to protect her and her family. She tells Jason about Drew Marshall and how he killed his sister Cindy. She hears Rene wonder why she just doesn't go to the cops and she tells him she doesn't even know what he looks like, but she's been inside his head. Not wanting to hear anymore, Jason calls for Andy Bellefleur to remove her. As she is being hustled out, she asks Andy if she got the fax of Drew Marshall. He says he knows nothing about a fax, and to why bother since he's got the real killer. She tells Andy he's a poor excuse for a cop and a human being and it's just a matter of time before everyone knows it.

Tara wakes up in a plush bed and sees a robe laid out for her. As she is coming out to the terrace, a man sets out her breakfast and Maryann joins her. Tara is figuring out she's not just a social worker. She is something more. Tara feels completely lost that she didn’t just totaled her car, she totaled her whole life. Maryann sees Tara's situation as an opportunity, that maybe life has just cleared out all the things that weren't working for her. Now she’s got room to rebuild. Decide exactly what she wants her life to look like and make that happen. Feeling slightly uncomfortable, Tara makes an excuse to leave, but Maryann says her clothes are not dry yet and they both know she's got nowhere to go. She says she just wants to help.

Making Tara's bed, a manservant, picks up her ringing phone. It's Sam. He hangs up and puts it in his pockets as she finishes making the bed.

As Sam finishes leaving Tara a message Sookie comes into work, telling him she plans to hire a PI to find out who Drew Marshall is and goes out to start her prep.

Jason gets a visitor, Orry Dawson. He's there on behalf of the Fellowship of the Sun church. Orry says what Jason did can’t be officially condoned by the church. He took the lives of four women. Women who had tainted themselves and their race. But still human women. They do recognize that even thought his methods may have been flawed, his intentions were pure. That it was a service to his race and to Jesus. He should be proud of it. The church has started a fund for Jason's defense. In the meantime, the man slips him some church literature and calls him a "brave soldier."

At Maryann's mansion, Tara walks out to the pool and excitedly jumps in with a cannonball and begins swimming around. She comes inside to find an enormous spread of food laid out. She hears a guitar being played and finds a young, attractive black man on the couch. He introduces himself as “Eggs” but his real name is Benedict. He's staying there until he gets back on her feet. "So, collecting stray black people, that's some sort of hobby of hers?" Tara asks. He laughs, saying that Mary Ann was right about her. She is funny. Eggs also reveals that he was told she crashed her car with a gallon of whiskey in her lap. Chagrined, Tara sits and fesses that it was cheap vodka. But he is not judging, stating that when Maryann found him he was a lot worse off than Tara. He calls Maryann a "miracle worker." He starts playing his guitar again and Tara tries to relax.

Outside, Maryann vibrates, with the hog munching on grass. She sits in a chair moving in place at hyperspeed. There is truly more to her than meets the eye.

Back at Jason’s house, Rene switches the radio station and is really enjoying the truck. He drives off to Merlotte's. As she is serving customers in the bar, Sookie hears Andy loudly telling the story of Jason's confession, but Sheriff Dearborne immediately corrects him, saying that Jason didn't exactly confess. Bud excuses himself. Rosie, who sitting next to Andy offers to buy him a beer and show her appreciation. Andy is eating up the gratefulness.

Thoughts and murmurs become even louder as Sookie hears everyone looking at her, judging for her for Jason's actions and condemning the family. Rene comes in and takes a seat, sitting nearby, but she hears nothing. She rushes up to Sam, telling him maybe she shouldn’t have come into work and that she needs to get out of there and those thoughts out of her head. He offers to let her lay down in his trailer and she declines. She says that she’s just going to drive around and not even get out of the car. Sam tells her to go, that he will cover her table. She gives him a hug, thanking him for everything.

Outside, Sookie gets in her car but it won't start. She tries a few more times, giving up as she vents her frustrations. Rene walks up, surprising her and asks if everything's OK. He offers to take a look, but later confesses he doesn't know much about cars. He offers to give her a ride home and when she says she can't be alone, will stay with her until Sam gets off work. Terry drives up, telling Sookie that he told Andy he's known killers and Jason ain't one. "No one ever listens to me, but they should," Terry says. As Rene closes Sookie's hood he glances at the cut wires.

Rene gives Sookie a ride and when he asks her if she can really hear what he's thinking, she hears him thinking that he should think about nothing. She tells him not to bother, you always eventually think of something. She tells him it's weird, but his thoughts don't have an accent. He says it must be hard living with her gift and she comments that you have no idea how sick and twisted some people are. She tells Rene that Jason is all she's got left, she's lost everyone. He hands her a tissue as she begins to cry. Rene says he's lost people too. It doesn't get easier, but you find ways to cope.

In a living room, Lisa and Coby are watching a tape of the crazy vampire having bondage sex with Maudette. Arlene walks in, stopping the tape, demands to know where they found this. Coby doesn’t answer as Lisa admits that it's Rene's and they found it in the garage. Arlene orders them to their rooms as she looks through the box of videos and finds a cassette on Cajun dialect for actors. She is utterly stunned.

As Sookie arrives home, she offers Rene some iced tea. As she goes into the kitchen, Rene looks around the house, noticing the rifle leaning against the fire place.

Lafayette busses tables and curses the half eaten food that he is throwing away. He tosses Rene's work vest to Sam that was left behind. Sam holds the garment and takes a sniff of it. He flashes to when he rolled around sniffing Dawn's sheets after she was murdered. Immediately, he recognizes the scent. Dropping the vest, Sam runs outside and asks Terry where Sookie is. He tells him she left with Rene about 23 minutes ago.

At her house, Sookie is preparing iced tea. As Rene stands in the doorway, watching, he fails to not think of nothing. Sookie than sees him thinking about Gran and how he came in to find her. After attacking Gran, he bursts into tears, saying she wasn't supposed to be there. Realizing that he is indeed the killer, she drops the pitcher of iced tea. Rene asks if she is alright. She tries to play it cool, telling Rene she's just jumpy these days and she’s going to get a mop. She calmly walks into the other room, looking back once. She picks up the gun, turning around, and aims it in his direction.

Rene advances a step and she pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. Holding up the shell casings, he tells her she's not going to shoot him. She tries again. Nothing. She hears him switch voices in his head, cursing, condemning her for sex with a vampire. Screaming, Sookie hauls off and bashes him in the head with the shotgun and he drops to the ground. She runs out of the house, tossing the rifle into the bushes as she heads for the cemetery through the woods. Rene gets up and goes after her. As she is running through trees, she has a vision of Drew finding out about the bite marks on Cindy's neck, belittling her for being a whore for vampires. She argues with him to leave and he attacks, strangling her with his belt. Sookie keeps running as Rene stops, screaming that he can feel her in his head. Sookie than sees Rene attacking Maudette, Dawn, and Amy as she slept next to Jason.

Sensing her terror and hearing her screams, Bill wakes up in resting place. He knows it’s daylight outside, but he has to do something because she is in trouble. Sam arrives at Sookie’s house and sees a belt, blood on the floor, and signs of a trouble. As he goes back out on the porch, he sniffs the air and takes off toward the woods for the cemetery. Bill unlocks the door of his resting place and goes out into the sunlight. It is like treading through fire. His skin immediately starts to burn as he walks.

Rene is running circles among the headstones, trying find where Sookie is hiding. Thinking to lure her out, he starts protesting that he didn't mean it. His thoughts begin list all the horrible things he's going to do to her. Sookie has taken refuge in an empty grave, trying not to make a sound. She than hears him assume that he must have lost her in the woods and should go back to check. Sookie cautiously turns to look over the edge, hoping he is gone. But he's standing right over her. Pulling her from the hole, he throws her against a gravestone, punching her in the face, and starts strangle to her. Bill, in extreme pain, still walks in the sunlight, all of his hair gone and his skin almost completely chared off. Sam, in dog form, comes running up and jumps on Rene, biting him in the neck. Rene throws the dog off and starts kicking it. He watches amazed as the dog, hurt, changes into Sam. He keeps kicking him, calling him a freak of nature. Bill, scorched nearby, can't make it to where Rene is still kicking Sam. He calls to Sookie as he falls down. She comes awake and grabs a nearby shovel. Sneaking up, she clobbers Rene on the back, sending him to the ground. Spitting out blood, he starts to get back up and grabs her ankle. Screaming again, she drives the shovel into his neck, almost completely severing his head.

Sam gets up behind her, dazed, but alright. Sookie, trying to catch her breath, sees a smoking body nearby and runs over. It’s Bill. His flesh is burnt black and he can barely move. With his last ounce of strength, he tells her he's sorry before collapsing. She cries over him as a naked Sam comes to help. Picking Bill up, they put him in the open grave and being covering him with dirt in an effort to save him.

Later at home, Sookie wakes up, her face black and blue. She finds Tara, Sam and Lafayette keeping visual over her. Sam says the hospital gave her pain meds and that she’s a little loopy. Tara begins to cry, saying that she would lose her stuff if anything ever happened to her. She says not to lose her stuff, that she is fine and asks them if Sam told how he saved her life. She explains how he turned into dog, but they thinks it’s the pain meds. She tells Sam to let people see the real him because there's nothing there not to love. "Right back at you," he says. Arlene comes in with an enormous bouquet of flowers. Seeing Sookie’s face, she burst into tears.

Sheriff Dearborne has just confirmed that Rene really did kill Amy as well as the others. He tells Andy the D.A. is dropping the charges. Andy is very upset, denying that it’s not true. But Bud tells him that it is and Rene nearly put Sookie in a body-bag as well. Bud tells Andy to let Jason go. Andy goes back to let Jason out, angry and cussing. Jason, who has been reading church literature all day wants a magazine. Andy unlocks the door as Jason asks if this is a joke. Andy barks out that it’s a fucking miracle.

Pacing, Arlene apologizes and pleads for forgiveness. She can't believe she didn't know. Sookie says no one did. Arlene professes that she brought him around her kids and slept in the bed every night with him and all that time, it was nothing but lies. Sookie says Rene kept that part of himself locked away in some dark corner of his mind. Arlene goes to Sookie, requesting that if she ever finds another man, she wants her to look inside his head and tell her everything that's in there. Sookie tries to let her know that it doesn’t work like that. Still, Arlene makes her promise to and than ask if Bill is going to be OK. Sookie begins to crumble, saying she doesn't think so, no, as Arlene tries to comfort her.

On the front porch, Lafayette says he’s going to head over to the bar. To make sure Terry's not p.t.s.d'ing all over his clam chowder, leaving Tara and Sam alone. Sam asks Tara where she's been, saying he left her five messages. She says she didn't get anything. She tells him she's glad he was there for Sookie. Tara says Sookie's right, he is a good guy and he deserves to get everything he wants, and so does she. Mary Ann pulls and Tara introduces them. But Sam already knows who Mary Ann is. Sam asks Mary Ann what she's doing there. She almost laughs, "Did you think I wasn't going to find you? You silly, silly dog," before leaving.

Arlene tells Sookie she should have known, because there were things he liked to do in bed that no normal man ever does. Jason comes in and hugs his sister tight. Seeing Sookie’s bruised face, he is furious, saying he can't believe he gave Rene his truck. When he says if Rene was still alive he'd kill him again, Arlene starts to cry again and leaves in a rush. He realizes too late that he shot his mouth off at the wrong time. Jason tells Sookie that he had a lot of time to think in jail. About how he's never done anything with his life but chasing women and booze. He says when he was in jail, he was saved and thinks the bad stuff happened for a reason. He just isn't sure what that is yet. He thinks he's meant to do something important with his life, and as soon as he figures out what it is, he's not going to screw it up. As he departs, he runs into the coffee table, declaring he’s OK.

At Merlotte's, Lafayette takes out the garbage in the back, complaining that the bags are all over the ground. As he is tossing it them in the dumpster, something unseen surges out of the trees, wigging him out. He jumps on top of the dumpster as it comes for him.

At lightning speed, something comes to Sookie's front door and rings the doorbell. She turns off the tv and gets up to open the door. She stands in shock as she sees that it's Bill. "You're alive," she says. "Well, technically, no." He says but he is healed and he has fed. He looks all better. She invites him in and they hug each other tight. Pulling back, he views her bruised face and starts to bite his wrist. She stops him. He insists that with out his blood it will take weeks for her to heal. She contends that she doesn’t care and that after everything she just needs to feel human right now. Bills says that he has failed her. She implies and is very grateful that he was willing to sacrifice himself to save her and states that her life is too short to be angry. They hold each other and kiss passionately.


Two weeks later

At Merlotte’s, that gang watches a news report that announces in the state of Vermont vampire marriage has been legalized. Arlene giddily taunts Sookie that maybe she and Bill will be able get married now. Back to being upset all over again Sam, interjects that he could throw them a party because it'd be cheap without food or drinks. Tara tells him he's about as subtle as a flying brick and starts quoting Maryann to him, which he couldn't care less to hear. Sam asks her if she's heard from Lafayette. She hasn't, but volunteers that this one time when Lafayette went to Marthaville for the night and ended up go-go dancin' in Palm Beach for like eight months.

Terry tries to smile for Arlene and sweetly tells her that people disappear all the time, but they're never really gone. The good parts stay put. She smiles back, telling him that she hopes he’s right about that. Then he tells her hair is "like a sunset after a bomb went off, pretty." Then he walks away, while Arlene is still enraptured.

Jason attends the Fellowship of the Sun church with Orry, where the preacher says they won't rest until they've brought God's light onto each and every "blood sucking abomination." The entire congregation starts chanting ‘Amen’ louder and louder as Jason gets more excited about it.

At the bar, deep in feeling sorry for himself Andy sits as he washes his sorrow with booze. Tara suggests that he head on home. He whines that his family used to own the entire town, even the land that the bar sits on. Sighing, she pours him one more drink and tells him that it’s his pity party. Drink up. Also that it's easier for her not to hate him, because that takes too much energy, and she’s saving hers for all the good stuff that’s coming her way.

Sookie serves Hoyt his food. He asks where Bill is and if they are going to celebrate. Blushing, she admits that they’re celebrating later. Hoyt says he'd marry a nice vampire girl if he could find one and asks if Bill knows any vampire girls his age.

At home, Bill plays the piano, waiting for Sookie. Suddenly, Jessica strolls in and plops down on the couch. She is followed by Eric and Pam. Bill demands to know what is going on and Eric replies that there are favors and there are... ‘favors’. Pam declares that Jessica is "extremely annoying." Bill is livid, repeating that they can't do this. They had a deal. Eric conveys that now the terms have changed. Jessica is his, unless he wants give him Sookie? Both have their fangs drawn as Eric affirms that it’s just a suggestion. Though a few nights with Jessica may change his mind. As Eric and Pam leave, they express in Swedish, O du ljuva frihet; meaning sweet freedom. Bill turns to Jessica, who has her fangs out as she asks who’s good to eat around here.

Back at Merlotte’s Andy is drunk and deep in self shame. Sookie hears him feeling sorry for himself, as she tries to get him to leave. She hears him thinking she must be happy that she was right about him failing and she smiles kindly, saying she's going to call his sister to pick him up and calling him Detective Bellefleur. This seems to lighten Andy’s mood.

In a hurried rush, Sam bolts into his office, opens the safe and starts shoveling bundles of cash into a garbage bag. We are left to ponder why he is doing this.

Out in the parking lot, a still drunk Andy is trying to find his car. Sookie and Tara chase after him, maintaining that the only thing he’s driving tonight is them crazy. Sookie stops and tell him that Portia is on her way to pick him up and to give her his keys. Andy stops and says he doesn't have them, that he left them in the car, right here underneath the light. Some s-o-b stole his car. Sookie, looking around, asks if he is sure this is where he parked it. Andy then argues that this whole town has gone to crap. Nobody use to go murder each other, stealing cars. That's what happens when you don't let a good cop do his job. Tara sees his car, not far away and points to the trees. Ain't that it over there? Trudging up to vehicle, Andy raps ‘that ain't where I parked.’ Tara believing him plastered, is not buying it. As they get closer, something is not right and the door alarm is going off. Andy walks up and opens the door as a legs fall out. He is in total distress. ‘That ain't mine. I swear!’ as the girls scream.