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True Blood, Season Four
Episode One
June 26, 2011
As we ended the last season Sookie poured Talbot down the drain after bargaining with Edgerton to get 5 million, his house and the assassination of Bill and Eric. The King is embedded in concrete, Bill embeds Eric too but Eric uses his mental link with Pam to get rescued. Bill and Eric both banned from Sookie’s house. Sam, shoots at his brother who is running off with Sam’s money. Sookie is crying at her house and runs out to her grandmother’s grave Bill opens the door to the Queen, she thinks she is getting a drink of Sookie but Bill challenges the Queen – they fly at each other
At Gran’s grave Sookie tells her she is lost and that she followed her heart but it lead her down a dead end.. She feels alone. The fairy appears (readers assume Claudine) and offers Sookie succor and she goes off into the light…
DAMN! DO NOT HAVE HBO GO AND AM UNABLE TO GET IT….Curse you Time Warner!
Running out the promos for other shows.
• Alcide just made Sookie turn around as he took his pants off in a promo.
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A word from Alan Ball
Alan Ball excited about Season 4
Russell changed the relationship between humans and vampires by punching his way through the TV host’s chest on the air, live.
Sookie learned Fairie is every bit as whacked as Bon Temp, LA.
They do a replay of Season 3.
So, we have all seen the first eight minutes or have been living in a cave.
Sookie, and her Faery friend touch down in Faery. The set is an garden exterior, an outdoor room with Columns, People all around with cocktails and light fruit. Light fruit looks like blown glass lemons with an led light inside. Sookie’s asks her fairy, Claudine if she is the head of the fairies. Claudine laughs and says she is her fairy godmother. Sookie says that as a fairy godmother Claudine sucks. Claudine says, You’re alive aren’t you? You’re not exactly miss trouble-free.
Someone cals out to Sookie, they’ve run into Barry, the telepath from the Dallas vampire hotel with his fairy godmother, Lloyd, he is wearing a fabulous neck torc.
Barry and Sookie try to catch up, but he eats a Lumiere as she tries sto stop him. She is noticing that people are acting a bit weird as they eat it.
Sookie doesn’t eat any, sees her garndaddy Earl, has a fuzzy flashback, and walks to over to him and introduces herself just as he bites into the fruit .
He is confused by her age difference of 20 years. He thinks he’s been away a few hours. Time in fairie, as we know, moves differently that the human plane.
Intro song
Fairie
Earl and Sookie are chatting. He asks if Gran pass gently ? Sookie says it was peaceful, she lived a happy life, but she doesn’t know about parents, they died in a flood and she tries not to think about it.
He doesn’t understand how so much time could have passed, He must have lost track of time, everything seemed so lovely.
Sookie sees glamour fading, cracks and decay, some of the fae look hideous, are misshapen. Sookie mentally tells Earl that they have to get out; it’s a trap. Everything stops. Another voice, who we learn is Queen Mab says, “A trap?! The trap is the world you left behind.”
Mab is the one who sent for her, she continues:
Their kind is endangered. A vamp breached realm because he had a taste of her blood. They had almost been drunk to extinction and were forced to live there. Had planted too many seeds on the human side an now it was time to harvest.
They try to force the lumiere fruit on Sookie, she refuses and then does her light thing pushing Mab back and destroying the illusion. Mab and all the fairies are hideous and their world is a wasteland. Earl and Sookie run. The fairies chase and throw ordinance at them. Suddenly a fae is helping them get away. Mab is trying to close the portal between worlds and they have to jump off a cliff into what looks like the grand canyon. Only Sookie can go because she did not eat the fruit, but Earl jumps with her too.
Back at the cemetery and her house
They land back at the cemetery. Sookie is fine but he is nearly convulsing, aging, dying, he says.
He asks if Gran and her parents are in the cemetery and she takes him to them. He collapses, in a rush he tells her he never meant to leave. She replies they never believed he had and they never stopped loving him.
Earl gives her his watch for Jason, and then he poofs out of existence. She is alone in the cemetery crying.
Then she walks back to her house. There are a bunch of guys working on it. It’s all painted. Worker on the porch tries to stop her from entering and threatens to call the police. She tells him to go ahead. She is in the kitchen crying when the deputy comes, he shouts hello. It’s Jason. Cut to Eric, suddenly opening his yes and smiling.
He tells her that he can’t believe it’s her, they all thought her dead.
Sookie asks the date and Jason tells her it’s October 21st and she’s been gone 12 ½ months. He couldn’t stand seeing the house but her stuff is all still there.
A real estate company bought it, AIK, they paid cash and offered more than he was asking.
Sookie cannot believe he gave up on her after she left.
She explains that where she went time works differently
He tells her she cannot tell people she went to Fairie.
She gives Jason the watch from Earl.
She tells Jason about meeting Earl but that he is gone, but that Earl wanted Jason to have watch so Jason would know he never meant to leave. Jason asks her the time and she says it’s 6:35 PM.
Which means it is dusk—She steps onto the porch.
Bill arrives; he has not felt her presence for a year.
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She replies that it is not his business to know she isn’t there.
Bill replies, questioningly, that she went with Claudine.
Eric arrives.
Bill kicks him out.
Eric says never gave up on her but he goes.
Sheriff Andy Bellefleur arrives and parks, stomps over saying, “You have got to be shitting me!”
She should come down to the station and say who had take her. She replies that she wasn’t kidnapped.
If she wasn’t kidnapped WHERE DID SHE GO?! They dragged the lake for her!
Bill says she was working for him on Vampire business. He couldn’t say what because it would endanger too many humans.
But he will repay cost of search effort Andy must clear name
Andy lost award he says. And storms off.
Split scene:
A. Bill and Sookie left on porch.
She knows she lost a year but to her only an hour ago that he broke her heart into a million pieces.
He says he understands.
She’s is glad he is ok as he withdraws from scene to give her privacy and time.
B. Cut to cop car
Jason says are you using again? [They are talking about “V” or Vampire Blood]
Andy had a drop this morning.
Jason finds vial and discards, says, you’re done now.
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Cut to Lafayette and Jesus parking a truck on the street.
Lafayette has a MOHAWK!
Lafayette says first it was his meditation group, then the Dallas pagan fair, now this. He’ll stay 5 minute—ten with a drink. They enter.
Lafayette remarks that it smells like where old air fresheners go to die.
Jesus says, look they’re cool – they even have a beaded curtain.
They enter to see women in a circle, including Holly from the bar. She and a woman named Katie come over to greet them. They talk about Marnie, the leader and that she had transported herself to the another plane to connect with spirits. Katie says that on nights they don’t connect there is vodka.
Marnie, sort of and beckons to Lafayette to come to her. He goes asking why she wants him.
He asks How y’all doing. It sounds like Marnie is choking. Her face an voice change,
Holly translates, Do you know an Edith”
No.
Someone who passed over recently with an E?
Eddy the vampire connects he has something for Lafayrte a rose Myna holds up empty had grabs his hand. Eddy says, in Marnie’s body, that it (couldn’t understand) was worth it to have a glass of merlot with him.
Lafayette goes off. He feels he was set-up.
Arlene and Terry’s house
Arlene gets home from work. Her baby, Mikey is on the floor with Barbies. He has pulled their heads off.
Arlene is upset and exclaims, “What kind of a baby does that?” Yells for Terry who is in the bathroom.
Terry says its normal that because of her being part of the baby he will be okay.
Arlene says that it is not her half she is worried about.
New Orleans
Tara is cage fighting, she wins.
Jessica and Hoyt
Jess is home watching TV drinking True Blood when Hoyt comes home. She asks how work was. He describes job and says how do you think it was and that he is starving. She says there is still his pizza. He looks in fridge which hasn’t much in it.
Hoyt is saying she should have food in the house and should remember he eats. She says he should remember she doesn’t and that human food is disgusting. He says that bleeding out into her mouth was gross for him. You get used to it. She says eggs you want me to make eggs and she sort of, and sloppily, cooks up a bunch for him shells and all just like his mommy. He says that his mother is dead to him. She says if she (Momma) had better aim she would be too. She throws the wet, loose eggs onto a dish and serves them. He starts eating them and they start laughing.
Sookie and Jason
Sookie is watching TV Jason comes in, regular clothes.
They have cocoa/
He says he is staying with her.
Having her back is happiest he has been in entire life and he doesn’t want it to end.
She says she is going to call the attorney, Sid-Matt and try to get the house back but that she is keeping the wide screen though. He agrees.
Pam at Fangtasia with AVL spokes woman, Nan Flanagan
They are trying to film a PSA but Pam is terrible
They prompt with questions which she answers with such haughty contempt that Nan yells cut. Shouts it’s a post Russell Edgerton world everyone, we win the human public back one smile at a time.
Split Scene
Eric walks in, takes over and does the perfect PSA (it was part of the promos).
Bill
He is opening a senior citizen center in wife’s memory. As the oldest member of community he says he could have lived there a 120 (?) years ago.
Cut to Eric
Who would you rather trust a vamp or a politician?
Bill
Thanks Portia Bellefleur who runs the local Chamber of Commerce
Happy to honor wife, Caroline.
Eric
Fangtasia always happy to serve humans and not for dinner
Bill
Cuts ribbon
Tara
Leaves cage fighting place and starts smoking cigarette
Opponent comes out says that’s a disgusting habit.
Tara says it’s her victory cigarette
Opponent says she totally let her win.
They start making out
Old drunk guy bugs them, offers them money to have sex in front of or with them.
Tara stops girlfriend (who calls her Toni) from attacking guy. Tells guy she is sorry for him and takes his money anyway. Saying that it’s payment for not turning him in.
Merlottes
Terri and Arlene hugging Sookie at Merlottes.
Lafayette hugs her says, Next time text a mofo and save world of worry.
Sookie asks about Tara.
Lafayette says Tara moved, keeps moving around but she seems to be doing good.
Sookie asks him to give Tara her regards. He says he will.
Sam says, “Vampire business, must have been important for her to take off like that. She says she can’t talk about it. He is mad at her.
Takes her on Part time to start because Holly and Arlene have kids and need the shifts.
Jesus and Lafayette are in the kitchen at Merlottes.
Lafayette asks Jesus why he wants him to join the coven.
Jesus says that it’s not a coven but a group and he wants Lafayette to learn that magic does exist and it makes Lafayette special.
Andy comes in to speak to Lafayette
Jesus leaves.
Andy says he has an undercover narcotics operation going and needs bait.
Lafayette at first denies but then says he gave his to Hot Shot people.
Andy roughs up Lafayette, but Jason comes in to stop him
Jason tells Lafayette that even if something happened nothing happened.
Hoyt's mother
She has Sam’s brother, Tommy all cleaned up. His leg is in a brace.
He says grace with her.
They start to eat
Tommy yells over to the bar it is super good. Sam asks how the PT Sam is paying for is going.
Tommy says fine, could use more and asks Sam how his anger management class is. Sam replies he feels he could use a few more.
Tara
Tara is in a relationship with the other woman fighter.
They’re in an apartment having sex.
Lafayette texts her that Sookie is alive
She tells her that grandmother passed
Girlfriend tells her she should go to Atlanta for family
Tara (Toni) says no.
Sookie
Sookie talking with a lawyer about the house. It’s Portia Bellefleur. Portia is saying that she has pretty much taken over Sid Matts practice.
That AIK corporation has a POBox in the Caribbean and an answering machine. Says that AIK has put at least fifty thousand in to the house and will want to recoup that investment. Sookie says that maybe they can work something out and appeal to their sense of compassion; that there’s a lifetime of memories in the house. Portia mentally thinks about the murder and such. Sookie “hears” that and Portia has to repeat a question, can she send Sookie a bill.
Hoyt and Jess at Fangtasia
Hoyt is at the bar/
A cute guy Matt tries to pick her up.
She hears his heart beating, she says she’s here with Hoyt. It seems reluctant, as if she is thinking of straying. He brings her a blood cocktail and starts dancing with her. She says she needs to freshen up.
Pam comes and kicks Jessica out of toilet says that the toilets are for humans only.
Pam sees reality and says she shouldn’t feel bad. Jess is a hunter, she has never been on her own.
At Anger Management Group
Sam is the angriest of the four people (2 men, 2 women). He finally cleaned out Tommy’s Apartment. Knew when he shot Tommy it was wrong. The group blames cortisol.
The anger mgt group getting toasted on wine and the otheguy asks if they should move on, but it’s not to more drinks. They all get up and begin disrobing. Next there are four horses running.
At Hotshot
Jason shows up
With Food, Hot dog,s, meat, pork and beans and ice cream—tells one kid to put the icecream in the ice box. The kids are eating raw meat and he stops them. Says they’ll get sic. Of course they won’t because they are were panthers.
Kid comes back out and says, “Ice box ain’t cold.”
He just fixed it, he says, starts inside. Says, you left this open? Kid says that’s their ac Jason says the cooling unit is gone. Reaches in to pull something out.
They knock him out and stick in freezer, closing the door.
Coven
Marnie crying over dead bird pet Minerva familiar.
Ritual to help bird cross to the other side. She get s group to chant it with her but starts to ask spirits to restore her to life. Group starts to speak haltingly. Marnie gets upset. Orders Lafayette to close the circle by grabbing his hand. He feels a shock. She continues the ritual, and bird comes back to life for a minute but flies up and falls down dead. Lafayette says e is sorry that after all that the bird is dead. She looks up, her eyes gleam crazily and says it doesn’t matter
Miss Pelham
Katie from coven says king is expecting her. She goes to his office.
It’s Bill.
He must have killed Queen to be King, therreforr he also was able to order Eric around.
Sookie’s bedroom
Sookie takes off bath robe to put on nightie, She is naked
Eric shows up in her room. She quickly covers herself but asks
Is this another dream, it’s been a year how much of his blood could be in her.
Eric says it is not a dream.
She rescinded invite, she says, how can he enter the house. He says sh no longer owns the house but that he bought it.
She asks why.
He says that he realized if he owns house then he owns her. He says, “Sookie, you are mine.”
End of Episode 37, Season four premier episode.
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