True Blood (TV Series)

Gone, Gone, Gone (2012)

David Dean Bottrell: Professor Kannell

Quotes 

• Professor Kannell : Either you two are a couple of jokesters sent by Louisiana Tech, don't laugh, it's happened. Or you're the victims of a not particularly sophisticated hoax.

  Sookie Stackhouse : Hoax? Why would anyone plant a hoax under my gran's bed?

  Professor Kannell : I can't speak to that, but whoever it is is long dead because this vellum is at least 200 years old. Maybe more.

  Jason Stackhouse : What does it say?

  Professor Kannell : I don't think it says anything. You've got glyphs on a page arranged in groups of four or five so, at first glance, it looks like words. But here's the problem. None of these characters repeat. Every alphabet known to man has a defined set of characters, not 300 different ones. This is just a set of hundreds of unique squiggles.

  Sookie Stackhouse : If it doesn't mean anything, why bother writing it down?

  Professor Kannell : Why does my ex-wife name her toes? Maybe as a joke. Maybe 'cause she's nuts.