True Blood

Season 1

1. Strange Love

In the two years following the invention of the synthetic plasma TruBlood, vampires have made their presence known to mankind. In the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, 25-year-old waitress Sookie Stackhouse struggles with being telepathic, unable to control hearing others thoughts. She soon meets 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton at Merlotte's bar where she works, becoming drawn to him. Mack and Denise Rattray, a pair of local thugs attack Bill with silver, attempting to drain his blood to sell on the black market. But Sookie rescues Bill, driving the Rattrays away. She learns Bill's interested in her, and that she cannot read his thoughts as his brain is technically dead. Meanwhile, Sookie's best friend Tara Thornton is hired by Sam Merlotte as a bartender after losing her job while Sookie's brother Jason has a fling with Maudette Pickens, who shows Jason a sex tape of her with a bald-headed, tattooed vampire. The next day, Jason is arrested by Sheriff Bud Dearborne and Detective Andy Bellefleur for Maudette's murder. Sookie's grandmother Adele asks if Sookie thinks she can get Bill to speak at her Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting. When Bill agrees to meet with Sookie, Sam and Tara are apprehensive about them being involved. After work, Sookie is attacked in a parking lot by the vengeful Rattrays.

2. The First Taste

Bill comes to Sookie's rescue, killing the Rattrays and takes Sookie to a lake, healing her with his blood. Sookie asks Bill about being a guest speaker at her grandmother's next meeting, and Bill agrees, asking if he can visit her house to meet her family. Meanwhile, Jason is shown a tape of him with Maudette, with Jason thinking he choked her to death during sex, when it turns out she was only fooling around with him. Dearborne and Bellefleur release Jason, but are still suspicious of him. Tara returns home to find her alcoholic mother passed out on the couch, and she asks her flamboyant cousin Lafayette, a cook at Merlotte's, to take her to a party. Jason meets up with an old flame and Merlotte's waitress, Dawn. The two sleep together. Jason discovers vampire bite marks on Dawn's neck the next morning. Sookie learns the Rattrays' bodies were found in their wrecked trailer, covered up as being killed by a tornado. Sookie also notices her sense of smell and taste have been enhanced by Bill's blood. That night Bill meets with Adele, Jason and Tara at Sookie's house, before taking Sookie on starlit walk and sharing a kiss. The next day Dawn heads for work, leaving Jason tied up on her bed. At Merlotte's, Sookie learns that Reverend Theodore Newlin, founder of the anti-vampire church the Fellowship of the Sun, along with his wife and daughter, were killed in an accident. Sookie heads to Bill's house to question him, and is set upon by three vampires, Malcolm, Diane, and Liam the bald vampire in Maudette's sex tape.

3. Mine

To rescue Sookie from the other three vampires, Bill claims Sookie is his human. Malcolm offers to let Bill feed on Jerry, a young man they feed from. Sookie reads Jerry's mind, learning that he has Hepatitis D, which infects only vampires. Jerry sought to avenge his boyfriend, who was lost to vampire blood addiction, and attacks Sookie, but Bill knocks him unconscious. Diane questions how Sookie knew this, but Bill makes them leave. Sookie is left shaken and questioning her relationship with Bill. At Merlotte's, Sam and Tara close up for the night and discuss their loneliness, agreeing to a one night stand. Jason becomes put off by Dawn having sex with vampires. After an argument, Dawn kicks Jason out of her house, which is witnessed by Dawn's neighbor. Bill tells the other vampires to leave Sookie alone. They criticize him for "mainstreaming", suggesting that vampire's revealing themselves was a bad idea. Tara leaves home after an argument with her mother, and goes to stay with Lafayette. After a discussion with Adele, Sookie decides to give Bill another chance. Jason goes to Lafayette's to get some Viagra and is given a vial of vampire blood, instructed to take one or two drops of blood at a time. In return, Jason must dance on camera for Lafayette's website, with Tara getting a view of Jason's performance. When Dawn doesn't show up for work, Sookie visits her house and finds Dawn's remains in her bed.

4. Escape from Dragon House

Upon Sookie's discovery of Dawn, Jason shows up with a bouquet of flowers, as Sookie screams for help. Dawn's neighbor, upon seeing her body, accuses Jason of killing her. A crowd of police and onlookers gather, including Arlene Fowler, another Merlotte's waitress, her boyfriend Rene Lenier, and Hoyt Fortenberry, who both work with Jason's roadworks crew. Sam, who owns the block of houses, shows up to comfort Sookie. Bellefleur takes Jason in for questioning, and Jason remembers that he possesses a vial of illegal vampire blood and swallows the whole thing. The overdose gives Jason a severe case of priapism. Jason is taken home by Tara, who insists on taking him to the hospital to treat his erection. Adele has Sookie read the townspeople's minds to find evidence to clear Jason, and Bill agrees to take her to "Fangtasia" a  vampire bar in Shreveport. They encounter Bill's acquaintance, Pam and the bar's owner, Eric Northman, a thousand-year-old Viking vampire. Eric admits he slept with Dawn, but not Maudette. After Jason is treated, Tara reminisces about their childhood, when Jason would protect her from her mother's abuse. At Fangtasia, Sookie senses a human is being fed on in the bathroom, before a police chase ensues. Sookie, Bill, Pam and Eric escape just in time. On their way home, Bill is pulled over by a police officer, who Bill glamours into leaving them alone. Sam visits Dawn's and rolls around in her sheets, sniffing and writhing.

5. Sparks Fly Out

Bill visits Sookie, and the two have an argument about their encounter with the police officer. Bill confesses that had Sookie not been there, he would've killed the officer. Sookie asks Adele about her problem, and Adele suggests that she not be afraid or suspicious of him just because he is different. Tara is furious at Lafayette for selling V-juice to Jason, but Lafayette convinces Jason to give it another try, instructing him on how to take it properly. At Merlotte's, Sam asks Sookie to go with him to the Descendents of the Glorious Dead meeting. Sookie becomes suspicious about Tara and Jason, learning that Tara lied to the police for Jason's alibi. At the meeting, a crowd gathers at the church for Bill's speech. Bill recounts the loss of his friend Tolliver Humphries during the Civil War, and becomes emotional when the Mayor presents Bill with a photograph of his former wife and children. After the meeting, Sookie and Sam share coffee, and Sam insists that Bill is dangerous, regardless of Sookie's feelings. Jason, Rene and Hoyt dine together, where Jason (high on vampire blood) professes his love for Tara, who waits until he is sober for the conversation. Bill is visited by Sheriff Dearborne and Andy, who question him about the murders. Bill claims vampires can't resist a body full of human blood; the victims were not exsanguinated, so the killer couldn't be a vampire. After they leave, Bill remembers how he was turned by a vampire named Lorena, who separated him from his family. Tara becomes angry when she catches Jason having sex with another girl. Sookie returns home, finding her grandmother dead in a pool of her own blood.

6. Cold Ground

Sam and Bill watch over Sookie, who refuses to leave the house she and her grandmother shared. As coroner Mike Spencer has Adele's body removed, Sookie scrubs up Adele's blood. Andy and Bud discuss the case; Andy regrets releasing Jason Stackhouse, Bud doubts Jason could murder his own grandmother. The next day, Sookie holds a wake for Adele in the house, which is full of nosy townspeople. Sookie loses it when Maxine Fortenberry attempts to make room in the fridge by moving the last pie Adele made before she was killed. Tara and Lafayette take Sookie upstairs and Sookie confesses that she doesn't think she is feeling anything at all. Jason, oblivious to his grandmother's death, learns the news at work, and races to the wake. Jason smacks Sookie, blaming her for the death, but is forced out by Tara. Andy confronts Jason, practically accusing him of murdering Adele, and Jason shoves Andy down as though he weighed nothing. At Adele's funeral, Jason invites their estranged uncle Bartlett, aggravating Sookie; Lettie Mae makes a speech about a woman she barely knew; Jason struggles with his V-juice addiction and Sookie lashes out when she cannot block out the townspeople's thoughts. After the funeral, Lettie Mae tells Tara that she's possessed by a demon, forcing her to drink and needs money for an exorcism; after sleeping with Sam, Tara becomes conflicted about her mother's problem. Sookie returns home, eating her grandmother's last pie, sobbing over every bite. Sookie goes to Bill's house, where he takes her virginity and she tells him to drink her blood.

7. Burning House of Love

After sleeping together, Bill and Sookie soak in a warm bath. She feels comfortable enough to reveal a very dark secret. After sleeping with Bill, Sookie becomes comfortable with him to reveal she was molested by her uncle Bartlett. Unbeknownst to Sookie, Bill plans to kill Bartlett as revenge. Meanwhile, Jason desperately tries to score more V from Lafayette, going as far as to take some of Adele's old silver to sell, before Sookie stops him. Jason visits Fangtasia, foolishly attempting to buy from the vampire bartender, Longshadow. A young woman named Amy pretends to be Jason's girlfriend, getting out of trouble with a promise of V. After her mother makes a scene at the bank, Tara agrees to pay for Lettie Mae's treatment. They visit Miss Jeanette, a witch doctor, who "exorcizes" Lettie Mae, but tells Tara that she has a worse demon than her mother's, but is dismissed. At Merlotte's, Sam and Arlene are very critical of Sookie's decision to sleep with Bill and let him feed, and she tells them to mind their business. Meanwhile, Bill visits and kills uncle Bartlett, dumping his body in the river. Merlotte's is crashed by Malcolm, Diane and Liam who menace the patrons before Bill shows up in time to stop them. Bill agrees goes with them and stops messing around with humans, leaving Sookie heartbroken. Jason takes Amy home, and the two do V. Chuck, Wayne and Royce, furious at the trio of vampires, plot to kill them. Sookie tries to get Sam to intervene, but he refuses to get involved. The next morning, the three rednecks set fire to the vampire trio's safehouse. Sookie races to the vampire trio's house, finding rescue workers pulling four burnt coffins out of the charred remains.

8. The Fourth Man in the Fire

Sookie thinks Bill was killed in the fire, while Jason wakes up with Amy, thinking they had sex, but it turns out that they were simply V-tripping. Jason opens up to her about his parents' tragic deaths. Tara is amazed at Lettie Mae's seemingly instantaneous recovery and fights with Sookie about Bill. That night, Sookie takes flowers to Bill's grave. As she is walking back, she is attacked by Bill and they have sex. The next day, Jason introduces Amy to Merlotte's and she is hired as a new waitress, but Sookie tries to warn her about Jason. Tara lashes out at her mother's [born-again] Christianity and, after sleeping with Sam again, snaps at him. Sookie and Bill babysit Arlene's kids and Rene proposes to Arlene, who accepts. Mike Spencer, the coroner, identifies the fourth body in the fire as Neil, his assistant who was secretly a "fang banger". Sam is interrogated by Bud and Andy. Sam claims that he comes from a family of naturists and runs naked through the woods once a year to honor them. But Andy checks and finds out Sam was lying. After talking with Lafayette, Tara starts thinking that she may need an exorcism. Jason sees Amy's darker side when she reveals that she needs more V, but Lafayette won't sell it to him. They decide to follow him and discover that he gets his V-juice from a gay vampire, Eddie. Bill finds Eric in his bathtub who needs Sookie to work for him. Tara goes to Miss Jeanette to get her exorcism. After Lafayette leaves, Jason and Amy kidnap Eddie and shove him into Jason's truck. Sookie reluctantly goes to Fangtasia, where Eric uses her telepathy to find who has embezzled. Sookie learns that a woman named Ginger knows the money was taken, but her memory has been wiped, which means a vampire must have stolen it. At that moment, Longshadow attacks her.

9. Plaisir D'Amour

Bill kills Longshadow, saving Sookie, and Eric warns Bill that there will be consequences. A distressed Jason and Amy take the kidnapped vampire, Eddie to his house, using his blood to get high. Tara is unconvinced that of her demon, and Miss Jeanette gives her a test: to look in the mirror and count backwards to ten, she's wrong. When Tara attempts so, she's interrupted by her mother. Sookie and Bill return home, finding her cat slaughtered. At Merlotte's, Sookie snaps at Andy for not finding the killer, and starts to bond with Amy. Meanwhile, Jason talks to Eddie, discussing his human life. Eric and Pam summon Bill to vampire tribunal for killing Longshadow. At Merlotte's, Bill asks Sam to watch over Sookie in his absence, while Eric warns the patrons about becoming too comfortable around vampires. With tearful goodbye, Bill and Sookie part ways. Sookie and Tara briefly reconcile, but Sookie soon finds Sam and Tara making out. When Andy confronts Sam for lying, about the naturist colony, Sam disappears into the bar, and a border collie runs out past Andy. Against Amy's wishes, Jason delivers TruBlood to Eddie. Sookie goes to Bill's house, finding the dog, which she decides to keep with her. Sleeping with the dog in her bed, Sookie soon awakens, finding a naked Sam in the dog's place.

10. I Don't Wanna Know

Sookie panics at seeing Sam, briefly thinking he's the killer, before Sam reveals he's a shapeshifter and that there are other supernatural beings in the world. Tara visits Miss Jeanette for her exorcism, and is fed a solution making her hallucinate a young version of herself, representing her negative feelings. Tara kills the hallucination, apparently succeeding her exorcism. However, Tara soon learns that Miss Jeanette is a fraud, who gives her patients ipecac and peyote. Tara decides to keep the news from her mother. Amy discovers Jason's deception, but forgives him, suggesting they treat Eddie more like family. Sam reminisces about the first time he shapeshifted as a teenager, and how his adoptive family left him. At Merlotte's an engagement is held for Arlene and Rene with almost the whole town turning out, while Sookie feels lonely without Bill. At the party, a drunk Tara gets into a fight with Sam and leaves. On the road, Tara swerves to avoid a naked woman walking a large pig and is arrested. Sookie has a vision of a young woman being murdered, when the killer attacks her, but Sookie manages to escape his clutches. Lafayette learns Jason did something to Eddie, and lashes out at his recklessness. Jason and Amy argue about freeing Eddie, but Amy is scared of them, and stakes Eddie in front of Jason. At the vampire tribunal, the Magister punishes Bill, by having him turn a teenage girl named Jessica. Despite Bill's pleas, the sentence is handed down, and Bill feeds on Jessica.

11. To Love Is to Bury

After turning Jessica, Bill buries her body, waiting for her to turn. After her attack, Sookie has Sam stay with her, and the two grow close in Bill's absence. She searches for the woman she saw in her vision learning her name was Cindy; a fangbanger whose brother, Drew Marshall, disappeared shortly after her death. Jason helps Amy clean up after Eddie's death, demanding she get rid of their remaining V-juice. Jason talks to Rene and Hoyt about Amy's V-juice habit. Sam and Sookie look into Drew Marshall, persuading an officer to fax a photo through to the Bon Temps police station. On the way home, Sookie tells Sam that she thinks she loves Bill, but has doubts over his loyalties to other vampires. Amy and Jason make up over dinner, and to do V together one last time; while they're passed, the killer breaks in and strangles Amy to death. Lafayette confronts Senator Finch about campaigning against vampire and gay rights despite their affair. A fully transformed Jessica awakens, and Bill tries to impart his wisdom to her, but she turns out disobedient, and overly-excited. Lettie Mae refuses to bail out Tara. claiming she is a danger to her soul. Instead, Tara is bailed out by a woman named Maryann Forrester, taking Tara into her lavish home. Bill returns home, leaving Jessica with Eric. There, Sookie and Sam wind up sharing a kiss as Bill walks in and attacks Sam. Sookie rescinds Bill's invitation and kicks him out. Believing himself to have killed Amy, Jason turns himself in. At the station, a distracted secretary ignores the fax of Drew Marshall's photo before burying it under a pile of paperwork; the photo reveals Drew Marshall is Rene.

12. You'll Be the Death of Me

Sookie tells Jason that she believes she has found the identity of the killer, but Jason ignores herA representative of the Fellowship of the Sun named Orry visits Jason in jail, trying to convince him that even if he did kill the women, his motive was pure because they were vampire supporters. Maryann bonds with Tara, gaining her trust, and introduces her to Benedict "Eggs" Talley, a young man Maryanne is "helping". Sookie, working at Merlotte's, becomes overwhelmed with the hateful thoughts the patrons have about Jason. When she tries to leave, she is unable to start her car. Rene shows up and offers her a ride home. Sam finds Rene's vest and, smelling it, realizes a connection to Rene and the murders. At her house, Sookie discovers that Rene is Drew Marshall from reading his mind. She tries to shoot him, but Rene has emptied her gun, and chases her into a cemetery. Bill risks his life by emerging into the sun to help Sookie, but is quickly weakened and injured by the burning. Rene catches up to Sookie and overpowers her, but Sam attacks him in dog form. Sookie then decapitates Rene with a shovel. Sam and Sookie find Bill, weak and burning, and quickly bury him. Later, Sookie who believes Bill dead is comforted by her friends and by Jason, who was released and exonerated. Bill appears at Sookie's doorstep, completely healed. Two weeks later, Sookie and Bill become an item. Andy becomes depressed over his failure to solve the case, and begins drinking. While cleaning outside Merlotte's, Lafayette is attacked by an unknown entity. As the Merlotte's staff help Andy to his car, they discover a dead body on the back seat.

Season 2

1. Nothing But the Blood

The murder of Miss Jeanette – Tara's fake exorcist – leaves Bon Temps reeling. Tara is reluctant to reveal she knew her, believing her mother, Lettie Mae will relapse if she knew the truth. When she comes forward, Tara's fears are realized when Lettie Mae is told everything. When Tara is released, Maryann Forrester picks her up, and she gives Lettie Mae some harsh words. Meanwhile, Lafayette has been kidnapped and held in a basement somewhere with other captives – including Royce, who previously burned three vampires to death. Sookie and Bill's relationship is tested by his recently turned, and impatient charge Jessica. Jason impresses Steve and Sarah Newlin, leaders of the Fellowship of the Sun anti-vampire church. and is offered a place at their retreat to serve God. Sam is troubled by the presence of Maryann; it is revealed when he was a teenage runaway, he was raped by Maryann when he got caught burgling from her. In the present, Sam meets with Daphne, another young waitress. Tara is taken to Maryann's, getting involved with "Eggs" Benedict Tally. Sookie discovers that Bill murdered her sexually abusive Uncle Bartlett, but soon forgives him. It is revealed that Eric is the one keeping Lafayette captive, along with Royce. Royce attempts to escape, but is killed by Eric.

2. Keep This Party Going

After reconciling with Bill, Sookie suggests that he take things easier on Jessica as she is just a teenager. Bill explains that a new vampire is dangerous due to how erratic they are. En route to the Light of Day Leadership conference, Jason befriends an anti-vampire zealot named Luke. However, after Jason makes a good impression on the Newlins, Luke's good-natured friendship turns to bitter jealousy. Eric approaches Bill, demanding that he and Sookie help find a vampire sheriff named Godric, who disappeared from Dallas. Tara discovers Eggs' past as a criminal, and he shows interest in her. After a failed attempt to escape from the basement of Fangtasia, Lafayette is shot; he asks Eric, Pam and Chow to turn him into a vampire, and is ferociously bitten, but they refuse to turn him. Jessica misses her family, and sees her parents - who think she is missing - on TV. Jessica asks Sookie to take her to see her family. When Jessica's father comes home, he angrily accuses her of putting the family through hell. Despite Sookie's attempts to stop her, Jessica attacks her father for his past abuse. However, Bill shows up and glamours his way into the house just in time, forcing Sookie out of the house to "clean up her mess".

3. Scratches

After glamouring Jessica's family and beginning the drive back to Bon Temps, Bill and Sookie argue fiercely about the night's events, and Sookie storms out of the car. As she walks off, she is attacked and poisoned by a mysterious creature with the head of a bull and a humanoid body. Bill rushes to Eric for help and, with the assistance of a goblin woman named Dr. Ludwig, Sookie is saved. At the Light of Day camp, Jason confesses his true feelings about vampires, and bonds with Sarah Newlin, letting out some of his grief over his Gran and Amy's deaths; Sarah reveals that she used to be a vampire sympathizer but now suspects they murdered her sister. At Merlotte's, Jessica and Hoyt become interested in one another. Sam warns Tara to stay away from Maryann and later, after snapping at Daphne, decides to take off for a while. At Fangtasia, Sookie takes Bill's blood to heal, and discovers Lafayette has been held in the basement. She manages to arrange his freedom in exchange for helping locate the missing vampire Godric in Dallas. Tara and Eggs' relationship hits a rough patch at one of Maryann's parties, when the guests become strangely sexual with one another, including Eggs and another girl. Lafayette, who has been traumatized, returns home and cries. Bill and Sookie walk in on Jessica and Hoyt making out. Sam and Daphne make peace with one another. Meanwhile, Daphne appears to have been attacked by the same creature that poisoned Sookie.

4. Shake and Fingerpop

Bill throws Hoyt out of his house, Jessica storms off. When Sookie invites Jessica to accompany them to Dallas, Bill reluctantly agrees. Tara agrees to move into Sookie's house, and Maryann appears supportive. Jason becomes the victim of a cruel prank, but is invited to stay at the Newlins' lavish mansion. Sarah and Jason become more attracted, and Steve offers Jason a position in the Soldiers of the Sun, his elite army. It is revealed that Miss Jeanette was murdered by the same creature that attacked Sookie. Sookie, Bill and Jessica arrive in Dallas, where a limousine driver attempts to abduct Sookie, before Bill saves her. Through glamouring, Bill learns the abductor was sent by the Fellowship of the Sun. A traumatized Lafayette is visited by Eric, who offers some of his blood to heal. Sookie, Bill and Jessica arrive at the lavish Hotel Carmilla, and Bill meets with Eric. They discuss Godric's disappearance, and what this means for their safety. Sookie encounters a bellhop named Barry, who is also able to read minds. Back in Bon Temps, Tara spends her birthday alone, before Maryann shows up with Eggs to throw her a surprise party. Sam shows up with a gift to Tara from her mother, Lettie Mae, which Maryann throws away. Sam connects with Daphne, who reveals to Sam that she knows what he is. As the party goes on, Maryann performs an incantation, filling the party with an intense sexual energy. Maryann turns into a beast, while Tara and Eggs have sex.

5. Never Let Me Go

At Tara's birthday party, Sam follows Daphne out into the woods, where she reveals she is a shapeshifter. They start to make out, but are interrupted by Terry and Arlene, before Daphne wanders off. In Dallas, Sookie chases Barry, who tells her that if the Dallas vampires discover his abilities, it would mean trouble for them both. After Bill reprimands her for ordering a young man off of the Carmilla Hotel menu, Jessica calls Hoyt and the two talk about comic books. At the Light of Day Institute, Jason and the others are put through an intensive training course by Sarah, and a very demanding drill instructor. When Luke has trouble completing one of the exercises, Jason helps him out and is commended for it. Sookie tries to connect with Barry, learning he is ashamed of his abilities and can't control his telepathy. When she offers to teach him, Barry tells her to leave him alone. Meanwhile, Maryann tries to move into Sookie's house with Tara, who rebuffs her. Maryann casts a spell on Merlotte's patrons, turning them all against Tara to isolate her. Eventually, Tara concedes and invites Maryann to stay with her. In Dallas, Sookie offers to infiltrate the Fellowship of the Sun, posing as a convert in order to see if they are holding Godric. Bill disapproves of the plan, until Eric reveals that Godric was the one who turned him, saving Eric's life. After Jason walks in on Steve and Sarah having an argument, Steve shows Jason the seriousness of their mission with a bunker full of deadly weapons. Sarah later approaches Jason in the bath tub, and gives him a handjob. Lafayette resumes work as the Merlotte's cook. Sam and Daphne have sex. Sookie is saddened to learn that Barry quit his job, and Bill tries to comfort her. As they start to make love, a woman appears outside their room; Bill's maker, Lorena.

6. Hard-Hearted Hannah

Godric's minion, Isabel, visits Bill and Sookie with her human boyfriend, Hugo, who is to infiltrate the Fellowship with Sookie. Eric summons Lorena to drive Bill and Sookie apart. At Bon Temps, Sam and Daphne continue to bond, while Hoyt tells his mother that he is dating Jessica, a vampire. Andy interrogates Lafayette about his disappearance, and Lafayette has a breakdown and is comforted by Andy's cousin, Terry. The Fellowship have Luke and Jason build a crucifix platform for a "Meet The Sun" ceremony; wherein a vampire is tied to a cross and burns in the sun. Sookie and Hugo are greeted by the Newlins, where Sookie learns they have a captive vampire. Sam and Daphne go on a shape-shifting run; Daphne shifts into a pig and is chased by Andy, who thinks he recognizes the pig from Maryann's parties.  At the Fellowship, Sookie learns someone tipped the Newlins about their mission, and is taken captive with Hugo. Shortly thereafter, Sarah seduces Jason.  Pam visits Lafayette, ordering him to start dealing V again. Meanwhile, Bill resists Lorena's advances, sensing Sookie's in danger, but Lorena overpowers him. Hoyt visits Dallas to see Jessica. Returning from an errand, Tara and Eggs discover Maryann is hosting an orgy with the townspeople and are pulled into a sexual trance. Daphne tries leading a hesitant Sam into the orgy; he is abducted and witnesses Daphne putting a bull mask on Maryann, while Karl approaches with a sacrificial knife.

7. Release Me

Andy, still chasing the pig, stumbles upon Maryann's orgy. Firing the pistol, Andy partially breaks up the orgy, allowing Sam to escape. Andy then gets his arm broken by Terry, under Maryann's influence. The next morning, Tara and Eggs wake up with no memory of the orgy. In the Newlin's basement, Sookie realizes someone sold her out. Meanwhile, Lorena won't allow Bill to go to Sookie's rescue; it's revealed that Bill left Lorena when he grew tired of killing innocents. Eric talks to Isabel about her relationship with Hugo, and she suggests Eric is coveting Sookie, which he denies. Stan confronts Eric for not directly dealing with the Fellowship, and Eric accuses him of killing Godric to become Sheriff. Jason convinces Sarah to keep their affair a secret, but when a claustrophobic Hugo reveals Sookie is Jason's sister, Steve suspects he's a vampire sympathizer. Steve sends Gabe to deal with Jason, who overpowers him. Sookie reads Hugo's mind, discovering he sold her out. Sam confronts Daphne and she explains to him that Maryann is a Maenad; an immortal creature from ancient Greece that is a follower of Dionysus; Daphne likens her to both God and Satan. Tara becomes suspicious of Maryann when Arlene reveals she blacked out as well. Andy confronts Terry at Merlotte's, raving about Maryann's orgy, but Sam being the only one who remembers. During their visit, Hoyt and Jessica lose their virginity. At the stream, Maryann thanks Daphne for her services, before having Eggs kill her. Fellowship church goers arrive for a "lock in". As Jason flees, Sarah shoots and incapacitated him. Sookie reaches out to Barry telepathically, sending a message to the hotel. Eric overhears and races for the church. As Gabe beats up Hugo, and attempts to rape Sookie, but is pulled away by Godric.

8. Timebomb

Under Godric's orders, Eric and Sookie struggle to leave the Fellowship compound without bloodshed, and are cornered by Steve and his followers. In the woods, Sarah, who has been using a paintball gun, accuses him of betraying her, revealing that Sookie is a prisoner of the church. At the Carmilla hotel, Bill escapes Lorena, and orders Jessica and Hoyt back to Bon Temps. Jason overpowers Sarah, and along with Bill, creates a stalemate with Newlin's mob. The mob is overwhelmed by Stan and the Dallas vampires, but Godric orders a peaceful end to the conflict. In Bon Temps, Sam is lured to his bar to find Daphne murdered. The police arrest him with Maryann's revelers despite Andy's outlandish corroboration. At Sookie's house, Maryann feeds Tara and Eggs a meal made from Daphne's heart, driving them into a violent and sexual frenzy. After they arrive at the Compton manor, Jessica and Hoyt's have sex and realize Jessica's hymen has regenerated to its virginal state, to her chagrin. At Godric's Dallas nest, the vampires and Stackhouses recover, Godric shares his nonviolent ideals with Eric, and banishes Hugo out of mercy. Lorena stirs trouble between Sookie and Bill, and is then banished by Godric. Bill tells her that they will never see each other again, but she believes that she will see him because of their immortality. A mysterious intruder is revealed to be Luke; who has a suicide bomb wrapped in silver chains and bullets, and pushes the detonator.

9. I Will Rise Up

Eric, wounded in the explosion, tells Sookie that he can't heal with silver in his body. Sookie sucks out the bullets, ingesting some of his blood. Bill tells Sookie that Eric he will now be able to sense her, and she may become sexually attracted to him. A bruised Tara and Eggs wake up, once again blacked out from the night before. Maryann tells them the importance of losing control and becoming closer to their god. In Dallas, Sookie and Jason bond over being the last of their family, and find the Newlins on TV, bickering with Nan Flanagan (leader of the AVL). It's revealed Godric was taken voluntarily. Eggs and Tara go to Merlotte's, and Lafayette suspect Eggs of beating Tara, getting into a fight. Sookie begins dreaming of Eric and doubting her feelings for Bill. Maryann looks for Sam at the jail, but he shifts into a fly and escapes. Jessica meets Hoyt's mother, Maxine, who belittles her, causing Hoyt to tell Maxine he won't be coming home. Lafayette and Lettie Mae visit Sookie's house to get Tara to come home. Tara's eyes turn black and she attacks her mother, but Lafayette grabs Tara, and helps take her away. Sam, as a fly in Sookie's house, witnesses this, and arrives at Andy's in his human form. In Dallas, Eric and his vampires defend themselves to Nan Flanagan, who fires Godric from his Sheriff position. Godric accepts his demotion, apologizing and swearing to "make amends". Eric is approached by Bill, who punches him in the mouth. Sookie tells Bill she must go and help Godric. On the roof, Godric intends to die by the sunlight, despite Eric begging him not to. When Eric is ordered to leave the roof, Sookie promises to stay with Godric, watching in tears as he dies.

10. New World in My View

Sookie has an intimate dream about Eric, before she, Jason and Bill return to Bon Temps. They find the town in chaos; at Bill's house Hoyt and Jessica tend to Maxine, who is under Maryann's influence. Sam hides out with Andy Bellefleur, but is tricked into coming to Merlotte's by a desperate call from Arlene. There, the townsfolk trap both of them in the walk-in fridge. Jason arrives at Merlotte's with power tools, getting the citizens to leave by threatening to shoot a nail-gun into Arlene's head. Jason goes to help Sam, but the townsfolk recognize his deception and try to recapture Sam. Jason, wearing a gas mask, pretends to be the God Who Comes, while Andy uses a tree branch to make it look like he has horns. Jason pretends to smite Sam (who turns into a fly – seemingly vanishing), allowing them to escape. Bill and Sookie find Maryann at her house. When attacked, Sookie realizes Maryann is what attacked her in the woods. Bill bites Maryann, but finds her blood is toxic to him. When Sookie pushes Maryann away, a burst of light shines from her hand. Sookie and Bill escape as Maryann wonders what Sookie is. Bill and Sookie reach Lafayette's, finding Tara under Maryann's spell; they use Bill's glamor and Sookie's telepathy to break the spell. Tara wishes to rescue Eggs, but her family prevents her from leaving. Bill remembers reading about Maenads, and their worshipping of Dionysus, and realizes Maryann is one. Bill the vampire Queen of Louisiana, to learn how to destroy Maryann. Meanwhile, Maxine continues insulting Jessica and Hoyt, before Jessica's attacks her in a fit of anger.

11. Frenzy

Bill reaches out to Sophie-Anne, Vampire Queen of Louisiana, asking how to defeat Maryann, but Sophie-Anne makes Bill spend the day with her in return. Sophie Anne explains Maryann is waiting for her god, and can only be killed if she believes he's come for her. Returning to Bon Temps, Bill runs into Eric and threatens to reveal that Eric is making Lafayette sell vampire blood. Maxine survives Jessica's attack, and Hoyt makes Jessica leave. Tara convinces her mother to let her go, having her hold Sookie and Lafayette at gunpoint to escape. Tara runs to Sookie's house, where she confronts and is assaulted by Maryann, putting her under her influence. Sam finds Arlene's children, Coby and Lisa, hiding in the woods from their mother and the townspeople. When Sam takes them in, Jason and Andy decide to take action against Maryann and, against Sam's advice; Jason and Andy find the police department are under Maryann's influence, but they manage to steal some weapons and ammo. Sam takes the kids to Fangtasia, going to Eric for help. Hoyt tries to help Maxine, who reveals that his father killed himself, and wasn't shot by burglars as Hoyt believed. Sookie and Lafayette arrive at her house, where Lafayette tries to shoot Maryann, who uses her henchman Karl to take the bullet. Sookie finds Tara and Eggs in her Gran's room, building a nest on the bed with a large, unhatched egg, before being cornered by a now brainwashed Lafayette.

12. Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

Taking Sookie captive, Maryann decides to appoint Sookie as the "Maid of Honor" at her sacrificial ritual. Jason and Andy try to advance on the crowd with their weapons, but become entranced themselves. Eric meets Sophie-Anne, revealing she ordered him to have Lafayette sell V again, and doesn't like that Bill knows what they're doing. Eric promises to deal with him. Bill finds Sam at Merlotte's and takes him to Maryann, against Sookie's objections. Eggs stabs Sam, offering his blood to Maryann. Sam survives, and tells Sookie to destroy all of Maryann's ritual offerings. Maryann pursues Sookie, but is stopped by a bull, believing it to be a manifestation of Dionysis. The bull gores Maryann's chest, and is revealed to be a transformed Sam, who rips Maryann's heart out. Bill gives Sam his blood to heal. Hoyt learns his mother wasn't lying about his father's suicide, and leaves her. Jessica leaves to apologize to Hoyt, but ends up feeding on a truck driver at a gas station. Sam visits his adopted parents asking to know who his biological parents were, despite his mother's warnings that they were bad people. Eggs, disturbed by his blackouts, has Sookie uncover his memories, revealing he killed Miss Jeanette and Daphne. Distraught, Eggs holds Andy at knife-point to get arrested; Jason witnesses this, and mistakenly shoots Eggs; Tara witnesses this and breaks down in tears. Bill takes Sookie to a French restaurant and proposes to her. Sookie is overwhelmed and excuses herself to the bathroom; after a moment, she decides she wants to marry Bill. However, Bill is abducted while Sookie's out. When she returns, she finds the place in disarray.

Season 3

1. Bad Blood

In the third season premiere, Sookie enlists the help of Eric in her search for the missing Bill. Sam begins his search for his birth parents. Tara falls into despair following Eggs's death and attempts suicide. Lafayette invites Tara's mother to help watch over her while Jason and Andy work to cover up the truth regarding their role in Eggs's death. Jessica attempts to save a man whose blood she drained. Eric is paid a surprise visit by the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne. Bill frees himself from his captors but finds himself in unfriendly territory in Mississippi.

2. Beautifully Broken

Sam Merlotte gets to know his shifter birth family in Arkansas. Meanwhile, Bill is an unwilling guest at the home of Russell Edgington, the vampire King of Mississippi, who has ambitions to take over Louisiana. Jessica seeks advice from Pam on feeding off humans and on the disposal of bodies. Lafayette and Tara visit Lafayette's mother Ruby Jean in a psychiatric institution. Eric arrives at Sookie's home to protect her from werewolves.

3. It Hurts Me Too

Still searching for Bill, Sookie heads to Jackson, Mississippi, with Alcide, a werewolf bodyguard assigned by Eric to protect her. Sam's birth family pay him an unexpected visit at Merlotte's. Jason decides to become a police officer. Sheriff Bud Dearborne resigns in frustration. Arlene discovers she is pregnant and fears that the baby's father may be Rene. Franklin charms Tara and disposes of a body for Jessica and wants information on Bill in return. Eric buys Lafayette an expensive new car as an incentive. Haunted by visions from his past, Bill pledges his allegiance to the King of Mississippi. Bill and his maker Lorena have a violent sexual encounter.

4. 9 Crimes

Bill breaks up with Sookie and tells her not to try to find him. Alcide and Sookie attend the werewolf initiation of his former fiancee, Debbie Pelt, and discover that Russell is in league with the werewolves. Sam promises to give his brother Tommy a job at Merlotte's and his family a new home. Jessica begins working at Merlotte's. Sheriff Bud Dearborne retires and Andy takes his place. Jason blackmails Andy into making him a cop. Franklin kidnaps Tara and takes her to Jackson. Bill reveals to Russell that Sophie-Anne is selling vampire blood. The Magister leads a raid on Fangtasia and finds vials of vampire blood. Eric and Pam tell the Magister that Bill is responsible for the crime. Bill procures a stripper as a meal for Russell and Lorena and, at Russell's command, joins in the feed.

5. Trouble

Eric visits Russell, who catches him in a lie and forces him to admit that the Magister is holding Pam prisoner and will kill her unless he turns in Bill Compton for selling V. Franklin gives Russell information on Sookie's genealogy that he stole from Bill's home. Franklin continues to keep Tara prisoner at Russell's mansion, telling her that he intends to make her his vampire bride. Alcide and Sookie visit packmaster Colonel Flood, who advises them to keep away from Russell and his werewolves. Bill goes to Alcide's apartment to tell Sookie to leave but the King arrives and thwarts his plan. Russell orders his werewolf Cooter to grab Sookie, who protects herself with her mysterious powers. A Viking crown in Russell's possession makes Eric realize that Russell was responsible for killing his family many centuries ago. Lafayette and Jesús begin to get to know each other. Tommy begins working at Merlotte's. Jason starts work as a cop and falls for the enigmatic Crystal Norris. Terry moves in with Arlene.

6. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues

Russell takes Sookie and Bill to his mansion, where Bill kills one of the bodyguards and attempts to kill Russell. Russell orders Lorena to take Bill to the slaves' quarters and kill him. Eric refuses to help Bill when asked by Sookie, and denies that she means anything to him. Russell tries to learn what Sookie really is. Jason discovers that Crystal has a fiancé. Sam suspects that his parents are using Tommy for dog-fighting matches. Lafayette and Jesús fall out over Lafayette's drug dealing. Eric accompanies Russell to Sophie-Anne's mansion, where Russell blackmails her into accepting his marriage proposal. Eric renounces his loyalty to the Queen and pledges his loyalty to the King of Mississippi. Tara escapes from Franklin's clutches by beating his head to a pulp and tries to rescue Sookie and escape. Sookie tries to save Bill, who has been tortured nearly to death by Lorena, and had his blood drained by Cooter and Debbie. Lorena thwarts Sookie's plan and attempts to kill her.

7. Hitting the Ground

With Bill's help, Sookie stakes Lorena. Alcide and Tara attempt to help Sookie get Bill to safety. Debbie tries to thwart their plans but Tara concocts a plan in Sookie's head to get the upper hand. Alcide kills Cooter, causing Debbie to vow vengeance on Alcide. Sookie lets Bill feed on her blood to help revive him, but he ends up attacking her, putting her in a coma. While in her coma, Sookie visits a magical place and meets Claudine. Learning that Sookie does not have a blood type, Bill uses his blood to save her. Sam rescues Tommy from the dog fighting ring and persuades him to leave his parents. Jason attempts to learn more about Crystal from her jailed cousin. At Maxine's urging, local girl Summer declares her feelings for Hoyt. Eric forces Sookie's cousin, Hadley, into revealing Sookie's secret. Eric, Russell and Sophie-Anne go to Fangtasia to rescue Pam. Russell forces the Magister to marry him and Sophie-Anne, killing him immediately afterward.

8. Night on the Sun

Sookie and Bill break up when she regains consciousness in the hospital. Bill releases Jessica as her maker, but she refuses to leave him, so he trains her to help him fight the werewolves bound to come after Sookie. Alcide takes Sookie home, but he can't stay with her after the werewolves attack his sister Janice. Lafayette's mother escapes from the psychiatric institution and pays Lafayette a visit; Jesús comes looking for her and reignites his relationship with Lafayette. Arlene hires Holly to be the new waitress at Merlotte's. Crystal goes to Jason's house to seek refuge from her relatives. Hadley, acting on Eric's orders, warns Sookie that Russell and the werewolves are coming for her and that she should not trust Bill. Jason warns Crystal's father to stay away from her. Russell, Debbie and two werewolves attack Sookie in her home. Eric stakes Talbot, drawing Russell back to Jackson. Bill and Sookie have passionate makeup sex.

9. Everything is Broken

Sookie tells Bill that she knows about the secret file he's been keeping on her family. Nan Flanagan visits Eric at Fangtasia to investigate the disappearance of the Magister. The Authority gives Eric the green light to kill Russell. Tara seeks therapy for her trauma. Hadley introduces Sookie to her son, Hunter, who is also a telepath. Bill meets Claudine in the mysterious dream world and finally discovers what Sookie is. Hoyt admits to Jessica that he doesn't care for Summer. Jason and Crystal tie up and plant V on her fiance, who later savages one of Andy's deputies. Sam beats Calvin nearly to death. Arlene admits she doesn't want Rene's child. Tara attends a rape survivors' group where Holly reveals she too is a survivor. Franklin comes back for Tara, but is shot by Jason with a wooden bullet. Russell appears on TV, killing the news anchor, and pledges to wage war against humans and the American Vampire League.

10. I Smell a Rat

Bill reveals to Sookie that she is part faerie. Eric makes a will, leaving his fortune to Pam. Sam ponders his dark past when he was a jewel thief. Arlene struggles with what to do with her unborn child. Jesús and Lafayette do V together and share hallucinations involving their grandparents. Jason confesses to Sookie that he killed Eggs, and then has to reveal it to Tara. Sookie confronts Eric about not trusting Bill. Eric responds by kissing her. Hoyt tells Jessica that he broke up with Summer, and wants to be with her again. Russell picks up a male prostitute who resembles Talbot and stakes him to recreate his dying moments so he can say goodbye. Crystal reveals to Jason that she is a were-panther. Eric detains Sookie.

11. Fresh Blood

Sookie is rescued from Fangtasia's basement by Bill and Fangtasia dancer Yvetta. Lafayette continues to have frightening visions after his recent V trip. Jessica confesses to Hoyt that she killed a trucker, but Hoyt does not care and allows Jessica to feed from him. Eric confronts Russell and suggests that Sookie's blood will allow them to "day walk." Arlene believes Holly's potion has induced a miscarriage, but the baby survives. Sam goes on a drunken rampage and closes Merlotte's for the night after firing Tommy and insulting Terry and the waitresses. Jason finds out that high school football player Kitch is using V to enhance his athletic abilities. Tara tells Andy that she knows about Eggs' murder and the cover-up. As Tara and Sam hook up, Tommy breaks into Merlotte's safe. Bill and Sookie are stopped by Russell and Eric, who take them to Fangtasia. Russell and Eric drink Sookie's blood. Eric walks outside into the daylight. Russell follows but Eric handcuffs him to himself and they lie on the ground awaiting their burning.

12. Evil is Going On

Sookie saves Eric from dying in sunlight, despite Bill's protests. At Eric's insistence, Sookie saves Russell, and ties him to a pole inside Fangtasia. Hoyt's mother and Summer stage an intervention to get Hoyt away from Jessica, but it backfires and Hoyt asks Jessica to marry him. Sometime later, his mother buys an anti-vampire rifle. Tara not only learns that Sam is a shapeshifter but also discovers her mother is having an affair with a minister; she leaves Bon Temps. As the DEA stages a raid on the Norris clan in Hotshot, Crystal convinces Jason to join her to warn the residents. However Felton kills Calvin, takes the V, and leaves with Crystal, which leaves Jason in charge of the defenseless residents. Lafayette discovers that Jesús is a brujo (male witch). Bill and Eric bury Russell alive in concrete, but afterwards Bill throws Eric into another pit to do the same. Eric escapes and tells Sookie that Bill was originally sent to Bon Temps to procure her for Sophie-Anne and that he purposely allowed the Rattrays to beat her nearly to death so that he would be able to feed her his blood. Sookie banishes Bill and Eric from her house. Sam chases Tommy down but he refuses to return Sam's money. After vowing to kill anyone who knows about Sookie's faerie heritage, Bill invites Sophie-Anne to his home for a duel to the death. Sookie visits Gran's grave, where she accepts Claudine's invitation to join her and the other faeries to their world.

Season 4

1. She's Not There

The fourth season begins after Sookie is transported to the faerie world, where she is reunited with her grandfather, Earl. She quickly learns that the fairies have lied to her and that she, and possibly other humans, are in danger. Sookie manages to escape back to Bon Temps and discovers that she has been missing for a year. Jason, who has become a police officer, has sold her house to a mystery buyer. Sookie hires Portia Bellefleur, Sheriff Andy's lawyer sister, to buy back her house from the buyer. Andy has become addicted to V, which only Jason knows. Meanwhile, Bill and Eric work the media to win back human public opinion after the Russell Edgington incident. Jessica learns that living with a human may not be such a good idea as Hoyt continues to rely on her to cook and clean for him while he is at work. Bill has deposed the Queen of Louisiana and become its king. Lafayette's new love interest Jesus takes Lafayette to a witch's coven meeting. The coven's leader, Marnie, soon takes a keen interest in him. Arlene's baby displays disturbing traits. Sam has become friends with a group of shapeshifters. After town-hopping for a year, Tara has settled into a life in New Orleans as a cage-fighter named Toni and is romantically involved with a fellow fighter, Naomi. Jason returns to the Hotshot commune, of which he is now sole guardian since Crystal's disappearance, but he is betrayed and locked in a freezer. At the end, Eric visits Sookie and reveals that he bought her house in order to own her: he declares that she is his.

2. You Smell Like Dinner

Eric tries to persuade Sookie to become his. Sookie visits Bill for help in dealing with Eric, only to find out that Bill has become King of Louisiana. A flashback reveals that Bill first met Nan Flanagan of the AVL in 1982 England, and on its orders infiltrated the Queendom of Louisiana and arranged for the execution of the previous monarch, Sophie-Anne Leclerq, by AVL snipers. Back in the present, Bill tells Sookie there is nothing he can do to stop Eric. Tara returns to Bon Temps and pays Sookie a visit, but Sookie soon leaves for Fangtasia to seek Pam's advice, angry that Eric has altered her house. Meanwhile, Tara joins Lafayette and Jesus as they attend another witches' meeting, where Marnie announces she plans to resurrect a human. Eric, on Bill's orders, tells Marnie to dissolve her witch coven. As she refuses and Eric attacks her, she is taken over by a strange entity and successfully curses Eric into losing his memory. In Fangtasia, Sookie encounters Jessica feeding on someone who isn't Hoyt. In Hotshot, Felton and Crystal Norris tell Jason of their intentions to turn him into a werepanther so he can breed for their community. Sam's romantic interest in fellow shapeshifter Luna grows as she reveals she is able to shift into another human. Sam's manipulative younger brother Tommy speaks of mending their bond. On her way home from Fangtasia, Sookie comes across Eric walking down the street with no shirt, no shoes and no memory.

3. If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?

Jason is being kept alive by Crystal as a potential werepanther breeder. Pam asks Sookie to hide the amnesiac Eric from the witches at her house, and she reluctantly agrees. Afterwards, Sookie visits Alcide, now living in Shreveport with Debbie Pelt, and asks him to house Eric for her. Debbie tells Sookie she wants to make amends for trying to kill her. Andy, high on V, gets into an altercation with Sam outside Merlotte's. Meanwhile, Portia Bellefleur propositions Bill. Jessica confesses to Hoyt that she has fed on another man and then glamors him into forgetting about it. Jessica gives Arlene's baby the creepy doll that keeps showing up in their house. Lafayette goes to Fangtasia to beg forgiveness from Eric. Tara and Jesus follow him and find Pam threatening him in the basement dungeon. Pam demands that they bring Marnie, the coven leader, to Fangtasia within 24 hours. Marnie performs a ritual for the spirit to possess her body so that she may be an instrument of its power. Elsewhere, Jason wakes to find Crystal raping him, while other female werepanthers are watching or waiting their turn. Tommy forges a scheme to defraud his guardian Maxine Fortenberry. At the climax, Claudine shows up at Sookie's house and tells her to return to the faerie realm. Sookie refuses, and Eric attacks Claudine and drinks her to death.

4. I'm Alive and On Fire

Eric becomes drunk on Claudine's faerie blood and runs away from Sookie: he is able to daywalk in sunlight well into the daylight hours and takes a swim in a lake. Sookie enlists Alcide's help in finding Eric. Meanwhile, Jason escapes from Hotshot, pursued by werepanthers. He kills Felton and runs away from Crystal, and eventually collapses next to a highway where he is discovered by Hoyt and Jessica, who gives Jason some of her blood to help heal his wounds. Nan Flanagan tells Bill that she does not believe the witches pose any real danger. Bill discovers that Portia Bellefleur is his descendant and ends their relationship. Meanwhile, Marnie is possessed by a witch named Antonia, whom she sees in a vision burned at the stake centuries ago. Lafayette, Jesus and Tara urge Marnie to reverse the amnesia spell she has put on Eric. When Pam gets fed up with Marnie's slow progress in reversing the spell, she threatens her; Marnie is once again taken over by the witch's spirit and curses Pam, causing the flesh on her face to begin to decay. Elsewhere, Arlene and Terry are frightened when their baby appears to write "baby not yours" on a wall. Sookie refuses to let Bill into her home to search for Eric. Also, Sam learns that Luna's ex-husband, the father of her child, is a jealous werewolf. Tommy goes to see his mother, but his evil father prevents him from leaving so that he can be used for dog-fighting again.

5. Me and the Devil

Tommy fights his devious father, Joe Lee, and manages to kill him, but accidentally kills his mother, Melinda, as well during the struggle. Sam helps Tommy dispose of their bodies in a swamp. Eric dreams that his maker, Godric, forces him to drink Sookie's blood, but Eric vows not to hurt Sookie. Meanwhile, Bill glamors Portia into making her afraid of him, in order to put an end to her romantic advances for good. Naomi discovers Tara's real name and confronts her over the phone over why she lied to her about her entire life. Tara discovers that Eric is staying with Sookie and reels off a list of Eric's crimes against Sookie before running away. Eric leaves, guilt-ridden, but Sookie calls him back and the two kiss. Before the night of the full moon, Jason has erotic dreams about Jessica, in which Hoyt also appears. Elsewhere, Arlene and Terry have Reverend Daniels cleanse their house of ghosts, but paranormal activity still lingers as they fear that the evil entity is in Arlene's baby. Alcide is visited by Marcus Bozeman, the head of the local wolf pack, who scolds him for not having registered with them. Also, Lafayette and Jesus travel to Mexico to visit Jesus' witchcraft-practicing grandfather to ask for his help to combat the threat posed by Pam and Eric. Sookie's dead grandmother's spirit warns her that Marnie is dangerous and cannot be trusted. Marnie is later arrested by Bill, who glamours her to find out if her powers are genuine. At the end, Bill meets with the four vampire sheriffs of Louisiana and they discuss the persecution of witches by vampires in Spain in the 1600s. Pam accidentally tells them that Eric has lost his memory, and that he is staying with Sookie.

6. I Wish I Was the Moon

Bill has Eric arrested and, using the excuse that necromancers may use him as a weapon against vampires, gets the Vampire League's permission to sentence him to the "true death"; he later decides to release him when Eric appeals to Bill's love for Sookie. Meanwhile, Arlene and Terry's house catches on fire while they are sleeping: Arlene panics when she can't find Mikey, but he and the mysterious doll are already outside the house. The baby is able to see Mavis, an enigmatic woman waving at him from a distance. Jason fears that he may turn into a werepanther on the night of the full moon, but Sookie finds out from Alcide that you can be a 'were' only if you were born of one. Debbie registers with the local pack without telling Alcide. In Mexico, Jesus' grandfather tells Jesus and Lafayette that they must find him a sacrifice. They find a rattlesnake, and Jesus' grandfather makes the snake bite Jesus, but Lafayette is able to heal him when the spirit of "Tio Luca" enters his body. While imprisoned, Marnie is once again possessed by the spirit of the powerful witch Antonia, and turns on her vampire captor, the same vampire who had raped and fed on Antonia many centuries ago. Tara's girlfriend, Naomi, shows up in Bon Temps and they rekindle their romance after Tara finally comes clean about herself. Pam's face continues to rot. She later shows up at Merlotte's and attacks Tara and Naomi in a fit of rage. Tommy - who has gained the ability to shift into other people due to killing his mother - shapeshifts into Sam, fires Sookie, and has sex with Luna. The real Sam later finds Tommy passed out in Sam's trailer. Sookie, while out in the woods looking for Jason, runs into Eric, and they have sex for the first time outside by the light of the full moon.

7. Cold Grey Light of Dawn

Antonia escapes by controlling the vampire Luis, who tells Bill that she is planning a resurrection. Bill has his vampires flee Louisiana, but those who are staying should bind themselves in silver during the day. Alcide and Debbie join Marcus's pack; they check for Sookie, but discover she is having sex with Eric in the woods. Pam fights Tara and Naomi but retreats when she is filmed by bystanders. At Fangtasia, she undergoes skin surgery from Dr. Ludwig. After sending Naomi back to New Orleans, Tara meets Antonia, who persuades her to join her circle to wage war on vampires; she recruits Holly. Don Bartolo, Jesus's grandfather, reveals that he performed the snake ritual to demonstrate Lafayette's ability as a medium: Tio Luca, the spirit that entered Lafayette, was Jesus's uncle. After Sam and Luna realize that Tommy shapeshifted into Sam, he kicks Tommy out. While Terry and Arlene argue about bringing Mikey to work, Lafayette spots a woman spirit singing to Mikey. Antonia and the witches gather and cast a spell to bring the vampires to the sunlight. While Bill and Eric struggle with the chains, Jessica frees herself, and after killing the guard, opens the front door.

8. Spellbound

Jason saves Jessica from the sunlight. Bill offers to meet with Antonia to negotiate a peace between the witches and vampires. Sookie and Eric feed on each other, and then pledge their support to Bill. Lafayette is possessed by Mavis, the spirit woman responsible for Arlene and Terry's problems, and kidnaps Mikey. Marcus, who is revealed as the father of Luna's daughter, threatens Sam when he finds them at Luna's house. After Hoyt and Jessica break up, Jessica is shocked when Jason banishes her from his place. Tommy, skinwalking as Maxine Fortenberry, gets money from a businessman by selling Maxine's natural gas rights. At midnight, Bill proposes that Marnie reverse the spells cast on Eric and Pam and leave the vampires alone and, in return, the vampires will never harm her again. However, when Sookie senses that Marnie is casting a spell, the vampires and witches fight in a cloud of fog. Sookie is injured by a stray bullet to her abdomen, but Alcide rescues her. Eric runs into Marnie, who casts another spell on him.

9. Let's Get Out of Here

Alcide takes the severely wounded Sookie to her house, where Bill gives her his blood. Unconscious, she dreams about having both Eric and Bill in her life. Marnie has cast a spell on Eric which puts him under her control. Lafayette, still possessed by Mavis's spirit, takes Mikey to Hoyt's house (Mavis's house when she was alive) and kicks him out. Jason and Andy go to Hoyt's to recover Mikey, and Lafayette threatens to shoot them with Andy's stolen gun. Jesus arrives and is able to convince Mavis that Mikey is not hers and that her baby is dead. They find the bodies of both Mavis and her baby buried in Hoyt's yard. Mavis's spirit leaves Lafayette's body. Debbie offers to help Sookie get Eric back. Meanwhile, Sam and Luna and her daughter go camping. When Luna's daughter Emma is asleep, Sam and Luna make love. Alcide tells Marcus that he wishes to rise in the pack hierarchy to please Debbie. Marcus goes to Merlotte's and tells Tommy that he wishes to meet Sam at night. Tommy, skinwalking as Sam, goes to meet Marcus. Tommy (as Sam) tells Marcus that he did not touch Luna, but that his brother did. In a jealous rage, Marcus has some wolves beat up Tommy, but Alcide puts an end to the fighting and takes the unconscious Tommy, now back in his true form, home. Jason goes to Bill's mansion and gives Jessica a box of her belongings from Hoyt. He and Jessica have sex in the back of his truck. Debbie goes to Marnie's hideout and distracts her while Sookie finds Eric and discovers Marnie's plans to use Eric to kill Bill. Sookie and Debbie escape and go to find Bill at the Festival of Tolerance in Shreveport, where Marnie/Antonia uses Eric and some other bewitched vampires to attack Bill, kill humans, and create chaos in an effort to discredit the vampires.

10. Burning Down the House

The violence at the Festival of Tolerance comes to an end when Sookie breaks the spell cast on Eric and restores his memory by using her faerie special powers. Jason wants Jessica to glamor him into forgetting they had sex so he won't accidentally hurt Hoyt by telling him about it. Tommy dies from his injuries, and Sam goes after Marcus and his friends for vengeance. Meanwhile, Bill tells Nan Flanagan that he intends to kill Marnie at the Moon Goddess Emporium, and Sookie worries that Tara will die in the fighting. Pam is also apparently freed from her own curse by Sookie who worries about Eric and about their future, now that he has his memory back. Terry finally discovers Andy is on V and tries to help him overcome his addiction by appealing to their lifelong relationship and by taking him to an old clubhouse in the woods. Marcus and Debbie begin to get closer. Marnie and Antonia have a conversation about their goals, and Marnie convinces Antonia to continue to possess her so they can work together to kill all vampires. Jesus wants to save Marnie. Jesus, Lafayette, Jason and Sookie stand across the street from Marnie's lair, where Sookie is able to eavesdrop on Marnie. Marnie has cast a spell of protection around her headquarters, but Jesus is able to penetrate the boundary of fire, turning into a demon to do so. Once inside, Jesus realizes that Marnie herself is the true danger and transmits his thoughts to Sookie. Holly and Tara work to cast a spell so they can escape from Marnie. They do so, but Marnie spots them and casts a spell on them, causing Holly, Tara, Lafayette and Sookie to go up in flames and disappear, leaving Jason alone outside. At the end, Bill, Eric, Jessica and Pam march on the Moon Goddess Emporium, aiming to destroy Marnie.

11. Soul of Fire

Trapped inside the Moon Goddess Emporium, Sookie and her friends are held captive by Marnie. Marnie kills Casey, one of the members of her coven, maintaining she was attacking her. Antonia attempts to leave Marnie's body, but Marnie binds her to her with a spell. Bill and the other vampires abort their attack on the Moon Goddess Emporium when they discover Sookie is inside as a captive. Marnie strikes a deal with the vampires to free Sookie: their lives for hers. Bill and Eric are on the point of killing each other for Sookie's release when Pam fires a rocket at Marnie which is blocked by the barrier. Jason is severely injured, but Jessica gives him her blood again to heal him. As Marnie and her coven begin casting a spell to prevent their deaths, it controls the vampires outside: they begin walking into the barrier, which would bring the True Death, but the spell is broken by Sookie discharging her special powers. Jesus and Lafayette harness the energy in Casey's body to give Jesus enough power to cast a spell which successfully breaks the bond between Marnie and Antonia. Bill and Eric rush inside the Emporium and kill Roy, another member of the coven, and Marnie. Meanwhile, Sam and Alcide track down Marcus and Emma at Alcide's home, where Marcus is attempting to seduce Debbie. In the fighting that follows, Alcide kills Marcus. Alcide ends his relationship with Debbie. Also, Andy has a romantic interlude with a faerie named Maurella on his way home. As Lafayette begins to fall asleep that night, Marnie's spirit possesses his body.

12. And When I Die

In the fourth season finale, as Bon Temps celebrates Halloween, Marnie's spirit possesses Lafayette's body and kills Jesus to take control of his magic powers. Sookie and Sam make up and Sookie gets her job back at his bar-restaurant. Alcide asks Sookie to be with him and have a normal life together. Sookie, Tara and Holly find Bill and Eric being held captive by Marnie who has tied them to stakes to burn both of them alive. After Antonia and other spirits, including Adele Stackhouse, rise from the dead and persuade Marnie to let go, they lead Marnie to the afterlife and everything is resolved. Adele tells Sookie that being alone isn't a bad thing. Meanwhile, Terry receives an unexpected visit from an old friend, a marine named Patrick. Rene's spirit appears to Arlene to warn her that the ghosts of Terry's past will not stay buried forever: Patrick is not what he appears to be and cannot be trusted, and Rene also tells Arlene to "run." Pam admits that she is jealous of Sookie. Luna and Sam have a funeral for Tommy where Maxine is the only mourner. Holly and Andy begin to get closer. Sookie tells Eric and Bill that she loves them both but cannot choose between them, so she chooses to be alone. Jason tells Hoyt that he slept with Jessica, after which Hoyt beats him up. Afterward, Jessica shows up at Jason's place dressed as Red Riding Hood where they have sex again, but she tells him that she doesn't want a relationship, only sex. Just after she leaves, the thought-to-be-dead Steve Newlin appears at Jason's door as a vampire. After an outing with Luna and Emma, Sam finds himself confronted by a werewolf. Alcide discovers that Russell Edgington's cement grave in a parking garage is empty: somebody or something dug him out. Nan Flanagan tells Eric and Bill that she has been fired as spokesperson of the AVL and wants to start a mutiny against the Authority. She also tells them she knows that Sookie is part faerie. Bill deals her the True Death and Eric kills her guards to protect Sookie's secret. In the final scene, a jealous and strung-out Debbie breaks into Sookie's house and tries to kill her with a shotgun. Trying to save Sookie, Tara pushes her out of the way and is shot by Debbie. Sookie wrestles the shotgun away from Debbie and uses it to kill her. Sookie cradles Tara's body, screaming for help.

Season 5

1. Turn! Turn! Turn!

Lafayette and Sookie are in the kitchen with the bodies of Tara and Debbie when Pam appears. Sookie and Pam make a deal: if Pam resurrects and turns Tara, Sookie will help repair Pam's relationship with Eric in addition to "owing her one." Meanwhile, Bill and Eric are arrested by the Vampire Authority for Nan Flanigan's murder, when Nora, Eric's "sister," rescues and hides them. The former Rev. Steve Newlin glamors Jason and declares he's a "Proud Gay American Vampire" and has been in love with Jason ever since he met him, Jason turns him down and is rescued by Jessica before Steve is ready to attack him. Outside Merlotte's, Sam is confronted by Marcus' wolf pack, who take and torture Sam, until Alcide reveals he killed Marcus, not Sam. Meanwhile, Jessica throws a party with the local college students. Jason arrives and becomes jealous of Jessica, and later realizes his friendship with Hoyt will never be the same. Andy hooks up with Holly, but her two sons catch them asleep in bed. Terry's old Marine friend, Patrick, visits a distracted and abrasive Terry, and Arlene is again caught in the emotional crossfire. Alcide asks Sookie to live with him, due to Russell Edgington's escape, but she declines. Eric, Bill and Nora are ambushed and arrested by the Authority. Sookie and Lafayette wait for Pam and Tara to awaken, and are upset when it seems that Tara is dead. Suddenly however, a reanimated Tara pops up and lunges for Sookie.

2. Authority Always Wins

Eric and Bill are locked-up and interrogated at the Vampire Authority headquarters in New Orleans. Meanwhile, Pam recalls her first meeting with Eric, in 1905 San Francisco when she was still human and running a local brothel, when he saved her from a rapist/killer. Alcide turns his back on the traditions of the wolf pack and as Marcus' successor. Steve Newlin wants Jessica to sell Jason to him, but Jessica chastises him for thinking she would give up her friends. Sookie and Lafayette have considerable difficulty keeping the newly turned Tara under control. They manage to get her in Eric's day chamber with silver before the sun rises. However, when the sun falls, Tara wakes up and runs off into the woods. Jason's womanizing comes back to haunt him when he tries to apologize to Hoyt about seducing Jessica, but Hoyt refuses to accept it. Hoyt's overbearing, vampire-phobic mother, Maxine, however, is secretly grateful to Jason for breaking Hoyt up with the vampire Jessica. Emma's grandmother puts a strain on Sam and Luna's relationship because she is certain that Emma will be like her son, an idea Luna rejects but which soon turns out to be true. Eric and Bill propose that the Authority spare their lives in exchange for their assistance in stopping Edgington, the former king and now-reviving fugitive.

3. Whatever I Am, You Made Me

In New Orleans, Bill successfully barters with the Authority Chancellors and their leader, Roman, for his and Eric's lives in return for hunting Edgington down again. Roman and his closest confidante, Salome, enlist a new ally, Steve Newlin, to be their new spokesperson in the face of Edgington's return and the emerging threat of The Sanguinista Movement. Meanwhile, Andy's relationship with Holly comes back to bite him, when revealing photos of him are posted by Holly's sons over the Internet. Searching for Tara, Sookie goes to Fangtasia to ask for help, but Pam is still caught up in her memories of the brothel murders back in 1905, when Eric meets Bill for the first time, and when she is turned. Tara turns to Sam for help after feeling betrayed by Sookie and Lafayette for making her a vampire. Later, Andy and Alcide are visited by Debbie's parents who are searching for her. Jason bumps into an old high school teacher, who was his first sexual partner, but their reunion re-enforces his conflicting feelings about himself. When Tara makes a scene at Merlotte's, Sookie finally decides to tell Alcide the truth about Debbie, and Tara attempts to commit suicide in a tanning salon.

4. We'll Meet Again

Eric interrogates Pam regarding Russell's escape to find out what she really knows, and believes her when she says that she didn't tell anyone of Russell's whereabouts. In the encounter, Pam demands to be released, Eric realizes that to ensure his legacy continues on (incase he dies by Russell's hand or the Authority) he decides it's best to release Pam (his only progeny) whereby having no hold or dominion over her and ensure Pam's safety, Eric decides to release Pam. An irate Lafayette unwittingly puts Sookie's life in danger after using his brujo blood to curse her car. Elsewhere, Terry flashes back to a deadly night in Anbar, Iraq, as he and Patrick travel to South Dakota to find their former service buddy, who turns out to be the suspected arsonist. Meanwhile, Pam forces a reluctant Tara to embrace her nature and feed as a vampire. At Authority headquarters, Roman and Salome continue interrogating Nora, and using information from her they find and execute a traitor within the Council. Two of Sam's shifter friends visit and invite him for a run, only to end up mysteriously murdered later that night. In an attempt to protect Sookie, Alcide tells Gordon and Barbara Pelt that Marcus murdered Debbie prior to being killed himself. Bill returns to his home and meets Jessica (who had glamored Andy into forgetting Debbie's murder case). He then decides to visit Sookie, but finds her drowning her sorrows and becoming intimate with Alcide. Meanwhile, Andy and Jason are invited by Judge Covers to a party, only to discover it to be a faerie burlesque, before getting kicked out after Jason learns more about his parents' death.

5. Let's Boot and Rally

Sookie and Alcide are getting intimate, and as they enter her bedroom, Alcide whispers to her that he has been waiting for this for a long time. They are caught off guard by Bill and Eric, who ask Sookie for her help with their search for Russell. She reluctantly agrees, accepting that her life will never be normal. In South Dakota, Patrick and Terry are held hostage in a bunker by their squadmate Brian Eller, who claims to be protecting them from a dying Iraqi woman's ifrit curse. Lafayette, unable to deal with the demon magic inside him, calls out to Jesus' spirit for help, and later wakes up to find Jesus' head on his table with its lips sewn shut. Meanwhile, Jason wakes up from a disturbing dream where his parents are having breakfast with a young Sookie, but vampire marks suddenly appear on their necks. Later, Jason and Andy are sent to investigate the murder of Sam's shifter friends. Sam warns Luna about the attacks but before he leaves, a truck with masked gunmen appear and shoot them, incapacitating both of them, but Emma escapes. Terry realizes Eller is right and persuades him to free them. However, Patrick assaults Eller, believing he's a nutcase. They leave him tied up, but the ifrit appears and kills him. Elsewhere, Tara begins tending the bar on Pam's orders, and Jessica gives her advice on coping with vampirism, but when she later discovers Tara feeding on Hoyt, she attacks her. Sookie uses her faerie powers to discover that a woman from the Vampire Council glamored Alcide's employee and released Russell. This leads Alcide, Eric, Bill, and Sookie to an abandoned hospital where they find humans being used as food, and soon locate a recuperating Russell. But as Eric closes to attack him, Alcide is ambushed from behind.

6. Hopeless

Wolves attack Eric, Bill and Alcide while Russell attempts to feed on Sookie until she repels him with her powers. Fortunately, the Vampire Authority soldiers appear and take Russell to the Authority -- after Bill and Eric glamor Sookie and Alcide to forget everything -- where they are praised as heroes. At Fangtasia, Tara's fistfight with Jessica over drinking Hoyt's blood ends quickly after Pam intervenes. Meanwhile, Lafayette visits Ruby Jean in the hospital after realizing they both received the same message from Jesus. Sam and Luna are taken to the hospital where Sam tells a frantic Luna that Emma escaped. Just then Emma and Marcus's mother arrive, and Luna accepts that Emma should stay with her until the shifter murders have stopped. Sookie learns more from Jason about their parents' death, and they go to the faerie night club, only to learn her parents died because of her blood. Elsewhere, Sam chooses to help Andy with the shifter murders, and at the specialized weapons store that arms humans against "Supes", Sam saves Andy's life. After sighting the Ifrit, Terry rushes home and explains to Arlene that she is no longer safe with him because of the curse. Alcide returns to challenge J.D. as pack leader. Eric and Bill realize that either Nora or Salome must have dug up Russell. As the Authority gathers to witness Russell's execution via iStake, the device fails to operate, and Russell suddenly kills Roman with the Judas tree stake.

7. In the Beginning

Russell is soon subdued, and Salome reveals to everyone at Authority where her true allegiances lie, admitting she was the one who dug up Russell's grave after following Eric and Bill, and that Nora was her patsy to divert suspicion away from her. Meanwhile, Alcide prepares for a fight with J.D. for leadership of the pack, and rejects the idea of using V. At Fangtasia, Tara, now a dancer at the club, is visited by her estranged mother, Lettie Mae, who quickly disowns her for being a vampire. Hoyt finds a new group of friends, the vigilante "haters" hunting down non-humans. Elsewhere, Lafayette travels to Mexico to search for Jesus' body but ends up getting held hostage by Jesus' uncle. Bill, Eric, Nora, and The Chancellors, now under Salome's lead, drink the sacred blood of Lilith. In Bon Temps, Sookie considers life without fey powers: after discovering they are finite, she decides to drain them on the night sky. After a fight with Jessica over his parents, Jason runs towards the light in the sky emitted by Sookie. At the hospital, Sam locates one of the shooters after catching his scent. The head vampires, now on a blood-induced high, crash a private wedding party on Bourbon Street and feast on all of the humans present. Soon a naked hallucinatory Lilith appears, and seems pleased with the vampiric orgy. Godric then appears in a ghostly vision to Eric, telling him that he knows what he is doing is wrong, but since his sister does not he must save her.

8. Somebody That I Used to Know

An emotional Luna escapes from the hospital after morphing into Sam and she cannot change back, and Sam continues to help Andy try to find the vigilantes. At Authority headquarters, the Chancellors revel in the afterglow of the recent events. Bill is shaken by a century-old memory of his dying daughter when he is persuaded by Salome to feed on a young mother. However, Eric sobers after his message from Godric, but Nora will not back away from her newly found dogma. Helped by Claude and his faerie sisters, Sookie and Jason visit the site of their parents' deaths in an attempt to learn the identity of the killer. Meanwhile, Tara has a run-in at Fangtasia with an old high school rival, whom Pam glamors to be Tara's personal blood bank. Hoyt's new friends bring him a present: Jessica, whom they try to persuade him to kill. Hoyt instead frees her and refuses to associate with her any more. Elsewhere, Lafayette returns home from Mexico, and Arlene and Holly pay him to lead a séance, during which the dead Iraqi woman demands the death of either Terry or Patrick. Also, J.D. increases the stakes of his fight with Alcide when he decides their prey will be a college athlete. Alcide, while protecting the man, loses his right to leadership, and is saved from death by pack matriarch Martha. In the war against mainstreamers, Bill proposes destroying all five Tru Blood-producing factories, telling Eric that he is "evolving."

9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World

At Authority Headquarters Eric continues to plot to save Nora from herself, and news of the bombings of Tru Blood factories arrives. Sookie, with the help of Lafayette, receives a clue from the ghost of her deceased grandmother connecting the retired Bon Temps Sheriff Bud Dearborne to the investigation of her parents' deaths. Meanwhile, Andy and Jason brutally interrogate their prisoner. They discover, via a hater website, the existence of "the dragon", the hater leader, and suspect that Bud is the mastermind behind the shifter murders. Sookie goes to Bud's house to investigate but is assaulted and held captive in a pigpen with Hoyt. Elsewhere, Alcide reflects on his new life as a "lone wolf", and Russell goes to the pack gathering and takes Emma as part of the cost of his patronage. In Fangtasia, Pam refuses to be spooked by the Tru Blood crisis, but is angered by the arrival of a new vampire sheriff named Elijah. Also, Terry confronts and fights Patrick, and kills him with Arlene's help, and his body is then claimed by the Ifrit as payment of the blood debt. Andy and Jason track Bud and his girlfriend, the hater leader, down to his farm and, aided by Sam, shoot him in time to save the drugged Sookie and Hoyt from being eaten by the swine. At Authority Headquarters, Eric attempts to kidnap Nora, but is discovered and captured after Bill betrays him to Salome.

10. Gone, Gone, Gone

As the Tru Blood shortage crisis continues, Molly is iStaked with her own creation, and Steve Newlin goes on the air to spin the story in favor of the American Vampire League. Hoyt decides to head off to work in Alaska, much to his mothers chagrin, and asks Jessica to glamour him to forget her and Jason. Sookie survives another attack in her home, and with Jason's help they find a mysterious scroll under the floorboard of her bed. Meanwhile, Nora and Bill "persuade" Eric to believe in Lilith after she appears then destroys Godric. Sam and Luna track Steve to a news station, and sneak into the AVL in mouse form to try to find Emma. Tara, rejecting the directive to create 30 new baby-vampires or lose the bar, tricks and beheads the new sheriff. Bill summons Jessica to the bunker and asks her to read the vampire bible with an open mind. Russell, now romantically linked to Steve, goes on a killing spree, then defects from the Authority over his dream of walking in the sun by drinking fey blood. Unable to read the document, Sookie and Jason go to the fey haven and learn from a 500-year-old faerie that the document is actually a contract written on 5 August 1702 by John William Stackhouse, promising the first fey-bearing heir of the Stackhouse clan to Mr. M. Warlow, the vampire who killed their parents.

11. Sunset

As a result of vampire nesting behavior, Bill slips further into his religious fervor, receiving visions from Lilith commanding him to drink all of her blood. Nora begins to doubt the true religion and re-connects with Eric, and Bill orders Jessica to turn Jason into a vampire, but she escapes. Armed with evidence of the Authority's hand in the recent factory bombings and of Russell and Steve killing 22 college students, a U.S. military commander visits the Authority with an ultimatum to return to the agreed policy of mainstreaming, but this backfires when Eric suddenly murders the general. Eric and Nora then leave, on the pretext of needing to glamour parts of the military to get back the video evidence, but they kill their minders and fly away. Meanwhile, Pam takes the fall for Tara's murder of the new vampire sheriff and is taken with Jessica to the Authority. At the faerie sanctuary Sookie meets the "information overloaded" elder just as Alcide reconnects with his estranged father and they defend themselves against baby-vamps. Sam and Luna search the Authority to try to rescue Emma, but they are captured and locked up with other naked humans. After having similar visions, each chancellor of the Authority believes they are the one chosen by Lilith. Russell captures and glamors Jason to take him and Steve to the sanctuary. In the euphoria of the fey-scent, Russell battles then drains the faerie elder, leaving the haven unprotected.

12. Save Yourself

As Russell closes in for the kill, Eric stakes him and saves the faeries. Sookie runs out to check on Jason, and Eric holds Nora back from her intoxicating scent. Jason, suffering a concussion, sees his parents' images everywhere. Along with Nora and Tara, Eric persuades Sookie to assist them in overthrowing the Authority. Back in Bon Temps, Andy is forced by the pregnant Maurella to deliver her quadruplet half-faerie babies with assistance from Holly. Meanwhile, Luna skinwalks as Steve to rescue Emma and announces the Authority's crimes to the world on-air. Sam flies inside Chancellor Rosalyn and shifts, killing her. Alcide, with the help of some powerful vampire blood he got from his father, kills J.D. and takes over as leader of the pack, promising a return to pack basics. Sookie, Eric, Nora, Tara, and Jason assault the Authority complex and kill all of the guards in a huge bloodbath. Sookie and Tara free Pam and Jessica from the holding cells, where the reunited Pam and Tara share a passionate kiss. Bill, in his scheming blood-lust, tricks Salome into drinking blood laced with silver, and stakes her. Sookie and Eric arrive and try to reason with him, but he eulogises Lilith and drinks the vial of blood. His body soon dissolves into a pool of blood, only to reform as a powerful, Lilith-like vampire. Eric screams for Sookie to run.

Season 6

1. Who Are You, Really?

Picking up right where Season 5 ended, Sookie, Eric, Jason, Jessica, Nora, Pam and Tara flee the Authority compound after Bill's reincarnation. Sam, Luna, and Emma also escape from Authority headquarters, though Luna dies from her injuries, entrusting Sam to take care of Emma. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Truman Burrell declares war on vampires, but also secretly partners with a Japanese rep to manufacture Tru Blood. Eric says he is no longer Pam's maker, and she no longer follows his orders. Upset, Pam goes to Fangtasia with Tara, when some S.W.A.T. troopers arrive and shoot Tara, after announcing all Vampire businesses are closed. Elsewhere, the distraught Jason hitchhikes and is picked up by an old man, who he believes to be Warlow; Jason shoots at the man who disappears, while the faerie blood contract promising Sookie to Warlow starts to glow. Also, Alcide is about to have sex with a young woman in the pack to cement his new authority as alpha wolf when Rikki shows up, and they have a threesome. In Bon Temps, Andy agrees to take care of his four faerie kids with Arlene's help. However, the four infants age quickly from babies to three-year-old girls overnight. Jessica is summoned by Bill to his house, who now appears normal but more powerful. He is attacked by Eric and survives being staked from behind by Sookie. He demands they all leave, except Jessica. Eric signs Sookie's house back over to her in his blood, while she takes back her invitation, and Nora notices that Eric is in love with Sookie. Bill talks to Jessica in her bedroom to put her fears about him to rest, and after returning to his room, he sees Lilith (and three other nude and blood-covered vampire sirens like her), who appear to enter his body.

2. The Sun

Warlow manages to break through the dimensional barrier and enter Bon Temps. Jason learns that the mysterious driver who drove him back to town is in fact his fairy grandfather, Niall Brigant. Meanwhile, Tara recovers from being shot by a new high-tech anti-vampire silver UV bullet and Pam & Nora argue on what their next move should be; Pam suggests they kill the Humans before they actually began to fight back whereas Nora suggests they find Bill and kill him; Eric silences them both saying that he will take care of the humans and wants Nora to find a way stop Bill, while Bill enters a trance where Lilith warns him about the future. The next morning, Sookie is late for work and helps an injured stranger, named Ben, who is revealed to be another fairy-halfling. At the bar, Arlene is kept busy by Terry in explaining to Patrick's pregnant wife how he has left her. At the same time, a visitor and leader of a pro-vampire and shifter group, named Nicole, approaches Sam and tries to convince him to come out for the good of his kind. Jessica hires "food" (female prostitute) for an unresponsive Bill, but the encounter ends badly when the woman is drained by Bill's powers. Nora rereads the vampire bible in hopes of insights, while Eric unsuccessfully attempts to glamour Gov. Burrell who anticipated his arrival, and tells him that Vampire hunting is legal after they bombed the TruBlood factories, and proceeds to have him arrested which he escapes. Sookie meets her grandfather, who teaches her how to focus her light defensively. Later, Sam and Lafayette are attacked by Alcide and Martha who kidnap Emma after a brief fight. Jessica prays for Bill and her friends, and Bill realizes that he has the ability to see the future.

3. You're No Good

An irate Eric takes matters into his own hands by glamouring and then kidnapping the Governor's daughter, Willa. She reveals her father's secret detention and research camp, where vampires are experimented on - a camp where Steve Newlin now finds himself detained and confronted by his ex-wife Sarah, who is now Governor Burrell's henchwoman. Nora is captured by the Governor's soldiers and also taken to the vampire detention camp. Sookie learns that she is Fae royalty. Meanwhile, Warlow begins stalking Sookie's house and raids the secret fairy club. Elsewhere, Sam and Lafayette are helped by Nicole and her Vampire Unity Society (V.U.S.) friends. Bill, assured of his new powers, attempts to day-walk but is severely burnt. Andy attempts to renew a relationship with Holly. Jessica kidnaps the creator of TruBlood, Hido Takahashi, and Bill schemes to synthesize a new type of drink – based on Sookie's fairy blood. Also, Sam rescues Emma, but things go badly for the VUS activists. Sookie and Ben realize they share a connection.

4. At Last

Jason is injured and Ben (revealed as part-vampire) secretly feeds him his blood - a secret Sookie soon learns. Sam, Emma, and injured Nicole are helped to escape Alcide's werewolf pack by Lafayette. Gov. Burrell and his vampire SWAT team raid Ginger's house but Eric, Pam, Tara, and Willow are long gone. Meanwhile, Andy's daughters are aging unusually quickly into teenagers, and leave the house to party but are intercepted by Bill and Jessica. Bill gives Takahashi the task of synthesizing a new kind of blood by using samples of the fairy-hybrid blood from the teens. Also, Eric turns a willing Willa into his second ever baby-vampire. Sookie attempts to trap Ben by inviting him to dinner, while Jason and Niall realize Ben is a fairy-vampire hybrid too, and unsuccessfully try to raid his motel room which results in Jason being glamored to forget the incident and Niall is drained of blood and sent back to the fairy world. Willa goes home and attempts to influence her father, until she is shot by Sarah Newlin. Jessica loses control and kills three of the four fairy quadruplets.

5. Fuck the Pain Away

Sookie's plan to entrap Warlow/Ben fails when Bill arrives and reveals himself as Warlow's maker (through Lilith's blood memories). Andy arrives at Bill's house and find one of his daughters alive. Meanwhile, Sarah is kicked out of the governor’s Home for her actions and for how little she thinks of Willa after being turned, and turns her attentions to Jason. Pam is shot and taken to the research camp, and Eric and Tara allow themselves to be captured to be taken there too. Jessica despairs of her actions, and is confronted by Sarah at Jason's house where Jessica is captured and taken to the vampire research facility. Meanwhile, Terry asks an old marine corp friend to kill him, and Andy resigns himself to not taking revenge on Bill and Jessica. Also, Warlow has flashbacks to his making in 3500 BC. Sookie gets Lafayette to summon her dead parents to learn whether they had planned to kill her, but things take a turn for the worse when a possessed Lafayette tries to kill her. In the camp, Pam is psychoanalyzed, and later she is told to duel Eric to the true death.

6. Don't You Feel Me

Bill releases Warlow to save Sookie, and Eric's duel with Pam doesn't end as expected. Sookie then takes Warlow with her to a faerie-only plane to protect him from Bill and to question Warlow more about his intentions for her. Back in the real world, Sam, Nicole, and Emma hide out at a motel but their presence is detected by Alcide's father, Jackson. Bill glamours Takahashi into draining him in order to travel to another plane and seeks Lilith's advice on the escalating human–vampire crisis. Meanwhile, Jason tries to help Jessica by becoming a camp guard, but he is soon spotted by Sarah who decides to put Jason's loyalties to a test. Andy names his remaining faerie daughter, who becomes Adilyn Bellefleur. At the camp lab, Nora is infected with "hepatitis V" and Eric is forced to watch her suffer. Arlene and Holly hire a vampire to glamour Terry into forgetting his past, but he is shot and killed the next day by his former marine friend as planned. Elsewhere, Sam returns Emma to Martha, and he is told by Alcide to leave town forever. Bill daywalks after drinking Warlow's blood and kills Governor Burrell and his guards at his mansion. Eric plans an escape from the camp with a little of Willa's help, and discovers a TruBlood production facility making contaminated drinks tainted with the hepatitis V virus. Also, Sookie's "danger whore" instincts take over as she and Warlow have sex.

7. In the Evening

Eric escapes the facility with the ailing Nora where they hide out at Bill's mansion, but Eric is soon angered when Bill refuses to heal her against her will. Meanwhile, Warlow wants to get married, but Sookie isn't so sure. Sarah finds Burrell's corpse, and resolving that it was the will of God, schemes with a Senator to cover up the death as well as take over command of the late Governor's anti-vampire policy and detention camp. Sookie leaves Warlow to comfort Arlene and help her tell her children what happened to Terry. Sookie then travels with Lafayette to the bank and opens Terry's safety deposit box where they discover a $2 million life insurance policy and finally realize that Terry planned his death. At the detention camp, Jason meets Jessica and arranges for her to meet James, a vampire detainee to personally thank for not raping her. Bill daywalks and visits the Bellefleur house, seeking Sookie and asking her for the assistance of Warlow to stop his premonitions. Sam calls Nicole's mother to take her back to California. Alcide has a talk with Jackson over where Alcide stands with leading a wolf pack life. Also, Eric has a flashback to 1665 London where he first met and saved Nora from the plague, whereas in the present he fails to save her as she dies in his arms.

8. Dead Meat

Eric and Bill have a major fallout over Nora's death, as Eric believes Bill could’ve saved her but chose not to. Alcide and Rikki have a fallout over his lying about killing Sam or Nicole. Sookie returns to the faerie plane and asks Warlow to help her, but he is reluctant to do so without her promise of marriage. At the detention camp, Jason is thrown by the evil Sarah into the female vamp population where he becomes the "property" of a detainee named Violet who is an alpha female vampire in exchange for protection, while Jessica and James hit it off. Meanwhile, Sam and Alcide reconcile after Alcide realizes his pack-leader days are over with his ousting, and Sam detects that Nicole is pregnant. Also, everyone in the vamp-camp begins to drink the Tru Blood tainted with hep. V. Reverend Newlin tells Sarah that he knows about the tainted hep. V blood, and she is forced to kill the company's spokeswoman in a most brutal way. Sookie tries to reconnect with Sam, then visits and curses her dead parents. Sarah locks up all the vampires who refuse to drink it in the white room, in accordance with Bill's vision. Sookie reconciles herself to her vampire-fairy hybrid fate, just as Eric uses Adilyn's blood to pass through and attack Warlow in his fae sanctuary.

9. Life Matters

Sookie and Bill clash over Bill's desire to use Warlow's blood, and she heals him using her blood. Newly empowered to daywalk, Eric arrives at Vamp Camp, killing all of its perimeter guards, and releasing its male and female captives thereby starting a successful riot. Meanwhile, Terry's funeral begins, and Terry's early battles with PTSD and his inner demons are shown in a series of eulogies and flashbacks. Sarah Newlin escapes; however, she opens the roof of the white room in order to burn the trapped vampires inside. Bill arrives to prevent this, offering himself so they are immune to the sunlight. Eric intervenes when Steve Newlin tries to get his share, forcing Newlin into the sun and to his death. Bill, weakened by his blood loss, is visited by Lilith's three sirens before being rescued by Jessica and James. The saved vampires, now all high on fae-blood and with the ability to daywalk, start destroying the infected TruBlood bottles, and Jason decides not to kill Sarah Newlin, letting her escape.

10. Radioactive

In the finale, Bill discovers that salvation comes at a price as he loses his powers inherited from the blood of Lilith. Sookie tries to talk Warlow into dating her first, but he turns violent. Bill finally releases Takahashi, and Jessica encourages him to save Sookie. With the help of Jason, Violet, Andy and Adylin, they rescue her. Warlow follows them and just as he is ready to recapture Sookie, Niall reappears and helps Jason stake Warlow. As soon as Warlow dies, the inherited power of daywalking diminishes. Far away in Sweden, Eric also loses the power, which causes him to burst into flames. Six months later, things return to normal in Bon Temps: Bill has become an author, Sam is the new mayor, Arlene has taken over Sam's bar, and Sookie and Alcide are in a relationship again, as are Jason and Violet. However, the hepatitis V virus has spread around the country and infected vampires begin to run amok. At a church meeting, Sam and Bill suggest that each citizen pair with a healthy vampire as protection. Tara's estranged mother, Lettie Mae, offers herself to "nourish" Tara in a reconciliation attempt. Meanwhile, Jessica asks for forgiveness from Andy and Adylin and promises to protect them. In the final scene, during the "pairing" meet at Bellefleur's, a horde of infected vampires gather and close in on the party.

Season 7

1. Jesus Gonna Be Here

Picking up immediately where Season 6 left off, a large group of Hep-V vampires attack Bon Temps in full force, leaving many casualties, but they are called off by an unseen person. They abduct Arlene, Holly, a heavily pregnant Nicole and several other people. Tara dies in the attack, leaving an injured and manic Lettie Mae crying for her daughter. Willa feeds her some vampire blood to heal her; this causes Lettie Mae V-induced hallucinations to take on the form of Tara. Meanwhile, Jason finally mans up to Violet and has sex with her. Elsewhere in Morocco, Pam is still looking for Eric, placing her own life in danger for information. Back in Bon Temps, Jessica tries her best to gain Adilyn and Andy's trust, while James keeps Lafayette company at his house. A local named Vince spots Sam shifting. Despite being able to hear all the hateful thoughts from the redneck townspeople, Sookie pleads with them to let her help.

2. I Found You

Jason has a sexual dream about Eric. At Fangtasia, Arlene and Holly come up with a plan to escape, but things don't go as expected as their captor Betty is reluctant to help. The insane Lettie Mae's obsession to see and talk to Tara's ghost causes her to take extreme actions by burning herself and asking Willa to feed some of her blood again to heal her. Meanwhile, Sookie, Andy, Alcide, Jason and Sam go to the small town of Saint Alice to find out if anybody survived. They find a mass grave and a ghost town. With their mayor and sheriff gone, the people of Bon Temps take matters into their own hands when Vince forms a vigilante group to kill all supernatural entities. Jessica tries frantically to help Adilyn, who has been captured by the rowdy townsfolk and is imprisoned in the town jail. Sookie seeks Bill's help. At the end, Pam finally finds Eric residing in France, but their reunion isn't a happy one as he has become infected by Hep-V.

3. Fire in the Hole

In France, Pam tries fruitlessly to convince the world-weary Eric to not give up on life despite that he is Hep-V positive and will die soon. Eric flashes back to 1986 France and remembers his involvement with the human daughter of a winery owner, and his choice to make when Nan Flannigan and The Vampire Authority showed up. In the present, Pam finally gets a reaction from Eric when she tells him that Sarah Newlin is still alive. Meanwhile, Sarah has settled into a new life as the lover of a guru, but she is forced to flee from a team of ninja assassins who come hunting for her. In Bon Temps, Sookie and Bill set their plan into motion to use her as bait for the Hep-V vampires. Meanwhile, Lafayette and James spend the night bonding and getting high once again. A shootout ends in tragedy when the Hep-V vampires find Sookie- and Alcide is killed in the crossfire, while Maxine Fortenberry and several townsfolk are killed when Hep-V vampires attack the vigilante mob. A traumatized Holly is used as bait by the Hep-V vampires, but is rescued.

4. Death is Not the End

Sookie and Jason each make phone calls to Jackson and Hoyt to inform them of the death of their family members. Meanwhile, Eric decides to make a detour to Bon Temps to see Willa (and Sookie), dragging a reluctant Pam along. Meanwhile, James stages an intervention for Jessica, who hasn't fed since she accidentally killed Adilyn's three sisters. Also, the origins how Eric became Vampire Sheriff are revealed which involves him and Pam forced by the Magistrate to operate a local video store in 1986, how Ginger came into their lives 10 years later, and how another 10 years later in 2006 that Ginger suggested opening up the Fangtasia nightclub for vampires (which Pam admits to stealing, but immediately forgiven by Eric.). Sookie probes Holly's mind and finds out that Arlene and Nicole are being kept in the basement at Fangtasia. She rounds up her friends, including Eric, to go and save them, but their attempted rescue coincides with an attack by the anti-vampire mob from Bon Temps.

5. Lost Cause

Lafayette and James throw a 'celebration of life' party at Sookie's in the wake of Alcide's death and convince her to get dressed and look appropriate. In Dallas, Eric and Pam pay Sarah Newlin's vampire sister, Amber Mills, a visit; they learn Sarah's in Dallas and will be at a gala party. Bill reminisces his past before going to war with the Yankees during the Civil War. Meanwhile, Lettie Mae drugs her husband so she can be present at the town party. Andy forgives Jessica for killing his half-faeie daughters, telling her he can't move on if she tortures herself and he gets help proposing to an ecstatic Holly. Arlene gives Sookie tips on getting over the loss of a loved one. Meanwhile Lafayette and James get really intimate much to Jessica's chagrin. While getting dressed, Pam and Eric discover his illness has worsened. Arlene gets noticed by 500-year-old vampire Keith, who saved her life in Fangtasia. Lafayette confronts Jessica telling her she doesn't deserve James because she doesn't care about him. Lettie Mae's obsession to talk with Tara causes her to take a violent action which in turn gets her thrown out of the party. Nicole gives the townsfolk a piece of her honest mind and leaves with Sam. Jason and Jessica have sex while Violet listens through the door unbeknownst to them. In Dallas, the Yakuza disrupts the gala party and leave many casualties. Sarah Newlin and her mother Nancy try to escape but Nancy ends up dead. At the end, Bill suddenly discovers he is Hep-V positive - due to drinking from Sookie, who had unknowingly become a carrier due to exposure through a cut on her wrist.

6. Karma

In Dallas, Eric briefly captures Sarah Newlin to torture and kill her, but he ends up fighting the Yakuza; he and Pam are captured, and Sarah escapes yet again. In Bon Temps, Lafayette indulges Lettie Mae with vampire blood and realizes she may not just be hallucinating about Tara's ghost. Meanwhile, Violet retaliates following Jason's infidelity by luring away Andy and Holly's children after Andy finds Wade in bed with Adilyn. Jessica makes a shocking discovery about Bill after she overhears him on the phone talking about his being Hep-V positive, and Sookie receives some bad news. Bill attempts to will his property to Jessica, but is confronted by multiple obstacles (including the unusually rapid progression of his illness) and vents his frustration before returning home, to find Sookie and Jessica waiting for him. Also, Nicole tells Sam that she wants to leave Bon Temps and return to her home in California, but Sam doesn't want to leave the only home he knows. Elsewhere, Sarah seeks shelter with her estranged vampire sister Amber (who is also dying of Hep V), where she reveals that because she drank the Hep V antidote during her escape from the labs, she is now a walking cure for it.

7. May Be the Last Time

Hoyt arrives in Bon Temps with his girlfriend Brigette to identify his mother's body. Violet invites Adilyn and Wade to her house to give them privacy, but her motives for doing so are soon revealed. Meanwhile, Eric and Pam agree to cooperate with Mr. Gus and the Yakanomo corporation in the search for Sarah who want to take her to Japan to put her on trial for the murder of their rep (earlier in Season 6), but Eric only has one real interest; to kill Sarah in the most violent way for everything she has done. Sarah, meanwhile, is hiding out in the former headquarters of the Fellowship of the Sun, hallucinating about her former husband Steve. Sookie attempts to get help for Bill first from Dr. Ludwig and then from Niall Brigand; the latter tells her even his magic cannot save Bill, and she must accept his oncoming death. Sarah faces the demons from her past. Also, Bill continues to reminisce about his life in the 1860s before he was turned. Nicole tells Sam she doesn't want to raise their unborn daughter in a place as dangerous as Bon Temps and gives him a choice: Bon Temps or her. At the end, Sookie returns to Bill, determined to be with him again before he dies.

8. Almost Home

Sarah is found and captured by Eric, Pam and Mr. Gus; upon drinking from her, Eric is almost instantly cured of his Hep-V. Meanwhile, Lettie Mae and Lafayette convince Reverend Daniels to join them in their search for Tara's spirit. Jason steps into a trap in an effort to save Jessica, Adilyn and Wade from Violet, but help comes from an unexpected source: Hoyt who suddenly appears, kills Violet and saves everyone. Sarah is kept prisoner by Eric, Pam and the Yakanomo corporation in the basement of Fangtasia, but neither the vampires nor the Yakuza trust one another. Jessica and Hoyt get reacquainted. Also, Eric reveals the existence of the Hep-V cure to Sookie and offers to heal Bill, but when Bill is pressured to drink from Sarah by Sookie, Eric and Jessica, he unexpectedly refuses.

9. Love is to Die

Sookie and Jessica are left devastated after Bill decides not to drink the antidote; as a result Jessica asks Bill to release her from his maker bond. Jessica visits Hoyt to tell him of their history together, causing Brigette and Hoyt to break up. Sookie and Jessica discover that Sam has left town with Nicole to start a new life. Afterwards, Jason looks after a heartbroken Brigette and they bond in an unexpected way, while at the same time Jessica and Hoyt reconcile. Bill asks Eric to help persuade Sookie to hear him out. Meanwhile, the Yakanomo corporation finds out that Eric and Pam have revealed the Hep-V antidote to Sookie.

10. Thank You

In the series finale, Eric and Pam slaughter the entire Yakanomo members as well as Mr. Gus (saving Sookie one last time in the process) and take Sarah Newlin hostage. Bill finally convinces Sookie to accept his decision to die, but she balks at his request to kill him with her Fae powers (which would reduce her to human and, in his eyes, give her the "normal life" that he believes she deserves). Bill meets with Jessica and Hoyt and requests that he be allowed to give Jessica away in marriage before his death; the wedding proceeds, with Jason, Andy, Arlene, Holly and Sookie attending. Bill makes his final peace with Andy (his last living descendant) by leaving him his house and land, with the condition that Jessica and Hoyt be allowed to live there for $1 a month rent. Seeing Jason's real connection with Brigette, Sookie gives him her approval. After getting some advice from Reverend Daniels, Sookie meets Bill at nighttime in the Bon Temps cemetery. She ultimately refuses to give up her Fae powers, saying that, like Bill, they are a part of her. After expressing her love for him one more time, she helps Bill stake himself as he lies in the coffin of his own grave from the Civil War. She then fills in the grave with dirt and walks home in tears. Four years later, Eric and Pam are running a multi-billion dollar corporation called New Blood; having claimed that they found a "sample" of Sarah Newlin's blood after she escaped them, they have synthesized a cure for Hep V and a new food source for vampires. However, Pam is seen to secretly keep Sarah imprisoned in Fangtasia's basement, charging vampires a fortune to feed on her, while Eric sits on his throne on the Fangtasia stage. Sarah is haunted by the vengeful spirit of her former husband, Steve. Meanwhile, Sookie (now married to an unnamed man and expecting a child) and Jason (married to Brigette, with three kids) host a Thanksgiving party in Bon Temps, which includes new and old faces (Sam and his family arrive for the party), and vampire and human couples alike. The series ends with the Led Zeppelin song, "Thank you", playing over the end credits.