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2. The First Taste

Bill returns Sookie's favor by rescuing her from the Rattrays' revenge, healing the wounded waitress with his own blood and leaving her, temporarily, with heightened senses. After being invited into Gran's house for a "get-to-know-you" gathering with Jason and her family, Bill joins Sookie for a nocturnal sojourn. They end up at Bill's dilapidated antebellum estate, where Bill fights off his primal vampire urges for the acquiescent Sookie. Later, Sookie's desires get the better of her as she returns to Bill's - and is greeted by a gaggle of his bloodthirsty vampire friends.

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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.

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