True Blood Season 4 Ep 2: You Smell Like Dinner

True Blood starts out this week with Jason tied to the bed. He feels somebody licking his head and it appears to be Timbo, which is pretty disgusting. Jason says he just uses band-aids. Jason persuades Timbo to let him go but then Felton, the super redneck werepanther, comes in and sends the kids away.

Last week left off with Sookie standing there naked, clutching a towel to her body as Eric looks on – might appreciative of the view. He’s arrogant and demanding but you can also see that he wants to protect her from the other vampires who will come for her fairy blood, which is why he bought her house. And he can now come and go as he pleases. He proceeds to explain why having his protection is the best thing for her, to which she asks – does he think she will magically open her legs for him now that he owns her house? He likes her saucy side.

Bill gets an update from his witch spy who tells him that the wiccans were able to bring a dead bird back to life. This concerns him because he fears necromancers, they might be able to control vampires and he cannot have that. Bill and his witchy woman are finishing up recreational sex in his bedroom when Sookie storms in – she had no idea that he was the vampire king. She has come to ask for help in getting Eric off the deed of her house. But, Bill has no ideas to help her and they just stand there looking uncomfortable around each other.

Baby Mikey is still creeping Arlene out – she swears that he stared at her and hurt her eye. Terry defends the baby and tells him to ignore his momma. What’s with this baby? He’s starting to creep me out.

Sookie comes home to find that Eric has made a few changes. He’s left blood in the refrigerator, he’s bought her a new microwave, and he’s built a “cubby” under her living room so he can have his vampire rest during the day. It looks like Eric has truly made himself at home but what he’s actually done is make Sookie very mad. She heads to Fangtasia to demand that Eric leave her house. Pam is there instead and she cannot understand why Sookie won’t simply accept Eric’s offer of protection. After all, he’s rich, he’s handsome, and “in his way”, he cares for her. Jeez, what more could a girl want? Perhaps a little romance?

Sam’s potential love interest, Luna, tells their shape-shifting group about the time she shifted into her mother. It was pretty traumatic for Luna and you can tell that this woman has some secrets. The group is interrupted when Sam smells another shifter nearby – it’s Tommy – and that’s when he finds out Tommy has been faking his hurt leg to gain sympathy. That guy is such a schemer. Once again he asks Sam to trust him but how can he do that when he just caught him spying and lying?

The wiccan coven wonders where to get a human body to reanimate. Eric zips in, freaking them all out. Lafayette is especially distressed to see Eric, the vampire who chained him in the basement at Fangtasia and tortured him.

In his own arrogant way, Eric tells the witches that he won’t kill them all if they promise to never meet again. Marnie is having none of it – she stands up to Eric and demands to know why he is harassing them. Next you see Eric in full vampire mode chomping down on Marnie’s neck. You think she is dead until the chanting from the other witches causes Eric to stop his killing and stare at them in fear. Marnie starts to yell at Eric in another language and he runs out of the room.

Poor Jason – he’s still tied up on the bed and he does not know why. But, he finds out when Crystal and Felton tell him that he is going to be their stud for new baby werepanthers. He’s totally mystified but it all becomes crystal clear when they tell him they are going to make him into a werepanther and the way to do that is to bite him, over and over and over – he lies there screaming in pain as the two shift into panther mode and start the transformation.

Episode two of True Blood ends with Sookie driving her little car home at night and she sees Eric shambling down the road. He has no shirt on, his hair is messed up, and she is going to give him a piece of her mind – how dare he build a cubby in her home? As she pulls up next to him, he does not appear to recognize her. In fact, as she presses him, he doesn’t seem to know her at all. However, what he does know is that she smells good – too good – and that’s where we are left, wondering if Eric will be able to resist the pull of Sookie’s fairy blood.