- After their encounter with the racist policeman, Sookie tells Bill that she won't be seeing him anymore. The next day, Bill keeps his promise to Sookie's grandmother, Adele 'Gran' Stackhouse, to speak at the monthly meeting of the Descendents of the Glorious Dead. Bill becomes very popular when he reminiscences about the Civil War and the Mayor gives him an old photo he found in the archives. Bill also recalls the circumstances of how he became a vampire. Meanwhile, Sam asks Sookie out on a date, but things don't go as he planned for she tells him that she is not ready to commit. A little later, Sookie is shocked by what she finds when she gets home. Elsewhere, Jason gets more vampire blood from Lafayette, and he also takes an interest in Tara after he hears she has a thing for him. But Jason instead sets his sights on a local woman, named Randi Sue, as his latest sexual conquest.—garykmcd
- Bill drops Sookie off at home to a loud, humming buzzing noise. She lectures him about threatening police officers, telling him that's not very good mainstreaming. Neither, she notes, is hosting orgies. Chastened, he says he won't call on her again.
From the bushes, the ever-present dog watches.
Lafayette gets up to loud knocking on his door. It's Tara, yelling at him for dealing V. She says giving Jason V is like giving H- Hos to a diabetic.
Gran listens to someone on the phone ranting about Jason. She tells Sookie that everyone is excited about meeting the town vampire that night. Sookie tells Gran that Bill isn't all that nice. She says she doesn't think they have much in common. He doesn't think or feel like they do. The phone rings again. Gran doesn't answer.
Jason recreates his procedure for Lafayette using a sausage and a meat thermometer. He tells Lafayette to stop dealing V. He says Tara will be damaged forever, but Lafayette tells him her enduring love for Jason will help her get over it. It's news to oblivious Jason. Jaosn swears off V but Lafayette says if Jason can learn to control it, it might open him up to everything around him. Lafayette brings out his V kit and waxes poetic about its powers. He drips blood drops on squares of tissue as Jason watches, rapt. Lafayette says it's from a new vampire. He can feel him in his muscles, making him strong. He says it might affect Jason differently. Jason takes a square and puts it in his mouth, having sworn off vampire drugs for less than a full day.
At Merlotte's, Sam eavesdrops on Sookie telling Arlene that she won't be going out with Bill again. Seizing his moment, Sam asks Sookie to go to Bill's talk with him that night. Sookie sees everyone staring and says yes. Andy Belflour asks Sookie about Tara and Jason. When she says there's nothing going on, she hears Andy's suspicions about Tara lying confirmed, swearing in his head about it. When Sookie tells him to watch his mouth he realizes she heard it and the rumors about her must be true.
Sookie goes to find Tara, who tells her about giving Jason an alibi. Sookie asks Tara if there's something else she's not telling her. Sookie tries to listen in, but hears Tara going la,la,la,la. Sookie tries to resell Tara and Jason to Andy, who knows she's lying. She tells him if he's going to accuse her, he should at least do it outloud, leaving Andy dumbfounded.
At the church, the town waits to hear from Bill. Rene and Arlene show up, as does the mayor, sheriff Bud and Andy. Bill waits in the dark, drinking the Tru Blood Gran gave him. Hoyt tries to remove the cross on stage, just in case. Sookie arrives with Sam and they sit next to Tara.
Jason wanders around outside, seeing the world for the first time while hopped on V. Jason comes in and sits next to Tara. He tells her he's feeling strong and alive.
Gran introduces Bill, saying his family was among the first to settle in Bon Temps. Bill comes out. The first thing he does is remove the flag Hoyt's mom draped over the cross, returning it to its flagpole. He teaches the crowd a thing or two about vampires, that they can stand before crosses and in churches. He tells them they can coexist. Then he talks about serving in the infantry in 1862. Andy and Bud pontificate on Bill's guilt. Jason hears Bill's talk in 3D. Sookie sees three goof-offs in the audience crush garlic.
In the back, Hoyt empties the fridge and takes a whiff of the Tru Blood, curious.
A man in the audience asks Bill if he remembers his great-grandfather who was in the 28th. Bill says they fought together and Tolliver Humphries was a brave man.
Flashback to a battlefield, as Bill tried to stop Tolliver from rescuing an injured young soldier, only to be shot down. The boy lived. In the audience, Andy's cousin Terry, an Iraq war vet, seems affected by the battlefield tales. Mayor Norris asks a question. He shows Bill a tintype he found inscribed W. T. Compton and family. Bill looks at it. It's his family. He last saw them when he left for war. Rene asks why he couldn't go back to his family after he became a vampire. Bill says it wouldn't have been possible. Bill gets choked up and Sookie seems moved. (He dabs blood away from his eyes.) Terry finds Bills after and hugs him, vet to vet, telling him to stay strong. Mrs. Foytenberry asks for a picture. Sookie congratulates Bill and Sam gets possessive, putting his arm around her.
At Merlotte's, Hoyt, Jason and Rene shares drinks. Jason looks at Tara and sees a veritable Venus de Milo goddess. He goes over to her and touches her arm, saying the sparks feel like he's peeing on an electric fence. From this terribly romantic declaration she deduces he's high again. He acknowledges he is, but then says he's realized how he feels about her. She tells him to come to her when he's sober. He takes her hand and asks for one chance. She seems to consider it.
Over coffee, Sam asks her if she has listened to his thoughts. She says that unlike with other people, from him she just gets odd sounds. She asks him why no one knows anything about him. He continues to be generally charming.
Arlene brings Lafayette back a burger ordered by the three rabble-rousers from the church. They sent it back saying it might have AIDS. He confronts the idiots, dumping the food in their laps.
Leaving the coffee shop, Sam says hes glad Sookie can't hear his thoughts because she'd know what was coming. He kisses her. He asks if he's going to fast. She says its too soon since.... Sam puts it together and is upset when she says she kissed Bill. He gets angrier, pinning her against the car and saying there's nothing he won't do to keep Bill from hurting her. She says they're not like humans, they can turn on you. Sookie points out he's doing a pretty good job of that himself. She storms back into the restaurant and says she'll call a cab.
Hoyt goes to talk to a randy divorcee. She rubs on him and he walks away, thinking about her offer to come home with him. He tries some Tru Blood, served at 98 degrees, and finds it nasty. He succeeds in alienating the chick when she sees him with it.
Bill goes home and sees his late family on his porch. Andy and sheriff Bud show up, asking to speak with him. He's surprised to hear Andy's last name Belleflour. He invites them in and offers them a Fresca.
Bill says he didn't know Maudette, but had seen Dawn. They ask him for an alibi. He asks them if the girls were exsanguinated and tells them no vampire would have left those women with a drop in them.
Flashback to Bill stumbling through the dark during the war, knocking on a cottage door asking for help. He breaks in and a woman puts a rifle to his head. Then she feeds him. He says he look a shortcut but got lost. She's the widow of a colonel Gibson. She wipes the blood off Bill and suggest he spend the night. She goes into kiss him and he pulls away, saying he has a wife waiting. She says he's an honorable man but the others haven't always been. He thanks her again but says he wants to leave. She cuts him off at the door, fangs bared. She feasts. He wakes up in bed with puncture wounds in his neck, the prim widow sitting over him and the corpses of the others laying around. She climbs on top of him and cuts her throat, telling him he has to drink if he wants to live. He does and she says he's hers.
He returns to his home as the vampire tells him he can't ever go in and that his family is as good as dead. He cries a bloody tear.
Tara takes the trash out and hears panting. He finds Jason on the ground with the divorcee bent over in front of him. He graciously invites Tara to join them. Tara can't believe what she's seeing and douses them both in the garbage she's carrying. Unfazed, they continue.
Sookie arrives home and slips on blood. She finds her grandmother lying ashen on the floor, covered in blood.
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