- Sookie Stackhouse: Jess, I feel like we got off to a bad start and it is totally my fault. I never got to hear your side of things, find out what you're like. None of that. Can you forgive me?
- Jessica Hamby: [skeptical] You really wanna get to know me?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Of course I do. You deserve that and frankly, I'm curious about you. I've just got one huge favor to ask. Give me tonight with my boyfriend and we'll have all night tomorrow to ourselves. Just us girls.
- Jessica Hamby: Sure. I mean I guess I got nothing but time now, right?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [as Jessica leaves] Good night.
- Bill Compton: Must say I'm impressed. It's almost like you glamoured her.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did you have anything to do with Uncle Bartlett's death?
- Bill Compton: ...He hurt you.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [stunned] Oh my god. Is it that easy for you to kill? Does human life mean so little, you can just kill on command? Toss someone in the water? I can't have people dyin' every time I confide in you. I never felt more inhuman than when I had to kill Rene. It still haunts me and now you're made me feel like I killed another person. I feel sick... I always thought as different as we are, some how we can still be together. And now I don't know. I don't know anything...
- [almost crying]
- Sookie Stackhouse: Please says something, Bill.
- [walking away]
- Bill Compton: [catching her at the door] Sookie... I cannot and I will not lose you. For all the ways I have dismayed, aggrieved or failed you, I swear I will atone. But I am not sorry. I refuse to apologize for what you have awakened in me. You, you are my miracle, Sookie. For the first time in a hundred and forty years, I felt something I thought had been lost to me forever... I love you.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [crying] God damn it, Bill Compton. I love you.
- Tara Thornton: [outside] Momma, I'm sorry. I didn't wanna tell you all that stuff. 'Cause in spite of everything of everything you've done, there's still some sick, sick part of me that can't bare to see you suffer. And I thought if you found out Ms. Jeanette was a fraud...
- Lettie Mae Thornton: No, girl. There wasn't no fraud. I am living, breathing, thrivin' proof there wasn't no fraud. I'm still healed. Healed stronger than ever.
- Tara Thornton: You are?
- Lettie Mae Thornton: The good lord tested our faith by taking Ms. Jeanette away from us. I stayed true. I wish I could say the same about you. I'll pray for you.
- Tara Thornton: Don't. I'm actually doing better than I have in a long time.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: [about Ms. Jeanette] She saved my life!
- Tara Thornton: [trying] Momma? There was no Ms. Jeanette. She was just some woman who worked in a pharmacy. All-All that stuff on the buss wasn't real.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: Don't lie to me!
- Tara Thornton: She told me so herself.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: You don't know what you're talking about!
- [to the Andy and Kenya]
- Lettie Mae Thornton: She's just sayin's all this 'cause she still angry with me!
- Tara Thornton: No! I mean yes. But no, it's true. She gave me ipecac and peyote and made me think I was killing my demon.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: No, no! It is a sin to speak of the dead like that! She was a good woman!
- Tara Thornton: [still trying] No, momma. It was a scam. She stole from you and from me. So sorry.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: But she cured me! She cured me. I'm alright now, ain't I? Ain't I still right?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Bill about Jessica] You killed her?
- Bill Compton: Not entirely. No.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Well you obviously did something to this... this...
- [to Jessica]
- Sookie Stackhouse: How old are you?
- Jessica Hamby: Seventeen.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Oh my god. Where your parents?
- Jessica Hamby: [to Bill] Is she always like this?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Bill] So what then? You bit her?
- Bill Compton: Yes.
- Sookie Stackhouse: You drained her?
- Bill Compton: Yes.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did you have sex with her?
- Bill Compton: No!
- Jessica Hamby: Eww! Gross!
- Bill Compton: Jessica was brought to me as a condition of my punishment. I had to create a vampire as reparation for the one I destroyed to save you.
- Jessica Hamby: [to Sookie] So this is all your fault?
- Bill Compton: [about Jessica] We can't turn her out. Not yet. She a very young vampire. At her age, with her impulses, she could be quite dangerous.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Where has she been tonight?
- Bill Compton: Here with me and before that with with Eric and Pam.
- Sookie Stackhouse: So there's no way she could have anything to do with that woman at Merlotte's with her heart missing?
- Bill Compton: No!... probably not.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [baffled] Two weeks and you never said anything. We've laid in bed for hours talking about my life, your life, the weather, and rules of football. And not once did you mention that you slept with and killed...
- Bill Compton: I did not!
- Sookie Stackhouse: ...a seventeen year old girl.
- Bill Compton: Sookie, for a century and a half, I never turned a human... because I couldn't bare to inflict the suffering I felt when I was turned. The pain of that is not an easy thing to share.
- Sookie Stackhouse: If I'm with you and she's with, then she's with me. And I'm sure as heck sharing in that.
- Bill Compton: If I with held anything, it was only to protect you.
- Sookie Stackhouse: And if she stayed with Eric, I still wouldn't know. Would I? That's not protecting me. That's lying to me. How am I supposed to ever trust you if you keep something like that from me? What else are you keeping from me?
- Bill Compton: ...Nothing.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I can't stay... not tonight.
- Bill Compton: Sookie?
- Sookie Stackhouse: I've shared every dark, horrible corner of my life with you. What makes you think I couldn't handle every bit of yours?
- Eggs: [about MaryAnn] Doesn't it seem like she's got an endless supply of tropical fruit?
- Tara Thornton: [passing him a joint] And pot?
- Eggs: Now that I didn't notice. I'd been smoking pot since I was ten. My first kumquat, three months ago.
- Tara Thornton: [laughing] I thought I was bad. Sneakin' cigarette's when I was twelve.
- Jason Stackhouse: [to Sookie] When you love someone, you gotta love it all. Otherwise it ain't love.
- Lafayette Reynolds: I pray to God you ain't the last motherfucker I meet before I die.
- Royce: Come on, come on. What about you? You must've done all kinds of shit you regret.
- Lafayette Reynolds: Well, I got in trouble with my boss once for punching out three stupid rednecks at the bar.
- Royce: You regret that?
- Lafayette Reynolds: [Faces him] Hell, no, you fucking deserved it.
- Royce: [Bashful] Yeah. I'm sorry I hassled you about bein' gay. If it makes you feel any better, once when I was fifteen at Safety Patrol camp I let my bunkmate blow me.
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: You're overworked, Andy. And you're drunk.
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: I am not. Overworked.
- Bill Compton: I need you to go upstairs and get cleaned up. Remove your makeup and make yourself presentable. I will not have you looking like a slattern.
- Jessica Hamby: A what?
- Bill Compton: A... lady of the evening.
- Jessica Hamby: Awesome!
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: [to Tara and Sookie as the continue screaming] Will you shut up? I can't think!
- Sookie Stackhouse: [frantic, to Andy about the body] Check for a pulse.
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: Forget it. There ain't no pulse.
- Sam Merlotte: What? Why?
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: [lifting the tarp from the body] Because there ain't no heart!
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: Andy, over here.
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: [walking] Body's in full rigor mortis, Bud. Which is consistent with the victim being killed else where and brought here to the scene sometime in the past four hours.
- Sam Merlotte: I don't know about you, but I think I've seen enough dead bodies to last me a life time.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [perplexed] Except this one, I just don't get. With everyone Rene killed, you could see his rage. But this?... Cuttin' out that poor woman's heart? Someone just wanted to see her suffer! Every time I think I know what's what, it turns out... I don't know anything.
- Bill Compton: [to Jessica] Your bed-time will be at 4 a.m. and not a minute later. And whilst you're under my roof, hunting is completely forbidden.
- Jessica Hamby: [snapping] Like I'd know where to find people in the bum-fucked town! Are we even in a town?
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: Okay, you're done for the night.
- Detective Andy Bellefleur: I know what I'm doing. I got it under control.
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: You're material witness to a homicide and at worse, you could be a suspect.
- Royce: [after being chained up] What the hell you doing here?
- Lafayette Reynolds: I wish I knew.
- Royce: [looking around the dungeon] Where the are we? Who are those people?
- Royce: [after a guy is dragged up stairs] Where are they taking that guy?
- Lafayette Reynolds: I don't know. But sometimes there's screams.
- Maryann Forrester: [to Lettie Mae] Ms. Thornton. MaryAnn Forrester. I've heard all about you. What a rare opportunity this is. I've always wondered what it'd be like to gaze into the eyes of some one so devoid of human compassion. That she would abandoned her own child when she needed you the most.
- Steve Newlin: [over the TV] It's a beautiful sunny morning in America, Ms. Flanagan. I wish you were here.
- Nan Flanagan: [tartly] Give me twelve hours, Reverand Newlin. I'll be right there.
- Arlene Fowler: Hey, Sam. I don't know when you're plannin' on hiring another waitress, but me and Sookie are about to drop from exhaustion.
- Sam Merlotte: [kinda drunk, to Sookie] I can't be what ever you want, when ever you want anymore. I'm tired of charin' my ass on your back burner.
- Maryann: [standing in the door] You have something for me... Carl said you stopped by with a gift... I do love presents.
- Sam Merlotte: [takes out the bag of money and hands it to her] I don't know how you found me... I assume this is what you came for... I'm sorry. I was young and scared at the time.
- Maryann: [squating down, opening the bag] I remember... Oh, you sweet thing. It's not your money I want.
- Tara Thornton: [to Eggs] You are a lucky man and since the bartender likes you, the drinks are on the house.
- Maryann: Ms. Thorton, Maryann Forrester, I've heard all about you, what a rare opportunity this is. I've always wondered what it would be like to gaze into the eyes of someone so devoid of human compassion. That you would abandon your own child when she needed you the most.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: What?
- Maryann: Hmm, just as I thought, emptiness, nothing inside. It's always something out there that gets the blame or credit, whether it be Jesus or gin.
- Lettie Mae Thornton: Who are you?
- Maryann: What I can't believe is that your daughter still manages to feel any love for you. Since you've abused, betrayed and forsaken her love since the moment she could feel. That's extraordinary. She's a hell of a girl
- Terry Bellefleur: [slapping money down on the tables] That's for your drinks. Now ya'll need to leave! Up!
- [as the gossipers leave]
- Terry Bellefleur: Shake a leg! Out, go! Keep walking. Don't eyeball me!
- Arlene Fowler: [hugging him, crying] You didn't have to do that.
- Royce: [in the dungeon] I gotta plan. I'm bustin' us out!
- Lafayette Reynolds: Don't be an idiot... Shhh.
- Eric Northman: [coming down stairs] No. Shushing won't do any good, sweetheart. We hear everything. But since you made me come all the way down here, I oughta take out some of the garbage.
- [kneeling in front of Royce]
- Eric Northman: Royce Alan Williams, we have a few questions for you with regards to a fire which claims three of our kind.
- Royce: No fucking way man! I don't know anything!
- Eric Northman: [pulling Royce to his feet] Crimes against vampire are on the rise. We lost a sheriff just days ago. We seek answers.
- Lafayette Reynolds: All the shit I done in my life - the drugs... the sex... the web site. I did it so my life wouldn't be a dead-end, and this is where I end up. Now what kind of punchline is that?
- Royce: See, that's why we gotta talk - we gotta tell each other all the shit she we done; that way if one of us gets out, he can tell the world about both of us.
- [Weeping]
- Royce: I just hope it's me!
- Lafayette Reynolds: Whatever, if it make you feel any better, keep talking.
- Royce: Alright, then when I was twenty, my cousin Rufus he was going out with this girl who claimed she could crush a beer can... with her tits. And, one night when we were alone, I asked he to show me. One beer can led to another, and before you knew it, she was crushing my head... with her tits. Rufus came home, and he was so mad, he threw me out the window; my hip shattered into a million pieces, and they replaced it, with... metal.
- [Sobs]
- Royce: My ass is magnetic now.
- Bill Compton: Jessica, I'm gonna have a guest coming over shortly...
- Jessica Hamby: Can we eat her?
- Bill Compton: You may not!
- Jason Stackhouse: I don't drink no more. I don't do nothing that can screw me up. Them days are over.
- Shawnelle: You don't gotta be drunk to bang my brains out, do ya?
- Jason Stackhouse: I appreciate the offer, darling, but I'm happy hanging with my buddy tonight.
- Shawnelle: Oohh, are you two, like, gay together?
- Jason Stackhouse: No. Just turning over a new leaf.
- Shawnelle: Your loss, baby.
- [Turns to Hoyt]
- Shawnelle: How about you? Do you wanna party?
- Hoyt Fortenberry: Uhh...
- Shawnelle: Never mind. Time's up. I don't teach. I absorb.