8. Dead Meat

Complete story — includes the ending

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.