(somber music)
- [Sookie] I'm not a star.
- [Bill] Aren't you afraid to be out here alone
with a hungry vampire?
Vampires often turn on those who trust them, you know.
- [Sookie] A lot of humans turn
on those who trust them, too.
- What are you?
- I'm Sookie Stackhouse and I'm a waitress.
- No, you're something more than that.
You're something more than human.
- I beg your pardon?
What's your name?
- Bill.
- Bill?
- [Bill] Sookie.
It's an unusual name, Sookie.
- [Sookie] Your hand is cool.
- [Bill] I'm afraid I'm not as warm
as the men that you must be accustomed to.
- What men?
- When may I call on you?
- I'm off work tomorrow.
- Just after dark, then?
- [Sookie] Well, I mean you've been doing it
for over 100 years.
Doesn't it get predictable?
- Not with you it doesn't.
You are entirely different.
And the beauty and the tragedy of it is
is that you don't know just how different you are.
I can smell the sunlight on your skin.
- [Sookie] Please tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
- There's nothing more natural than the act of making love.
Don't ever try to change what comes naturally to you.
- But if you could change something.
- I wouldn't change a thing.
(romantic music)
I should see you home.
(Sookie screaming)
(woman screaming)
- Ginger, enough. - Thank you.
- [Bill] I have no choice. I have to go.
- [Sookie] Why?
- [Bill] Because I killed a vampire.
- [Sookie] I know that. I was there.
Remember? He was gonna kill me and you were defending me.
- [Bill] If one of you killed another one of you
defending one of us, you don't think there would be a trial?
- [Sookie] I'll come with you, then.
- [Bill] No!
- [Sookie] I can and I'm going to.
I wanna testify for you.
- [Bill] Damn it, Sookie. You can't.
You can't come and you can't testify.
- You lied to me.
You said that everything was gonna be okay.
But it's not, is it?
- I honestly don't know.
(Bill growling)
- Stop!
(men fighting)
Stop, Bill!
Stop fighting, you stupid man!
- He had his hands all over you!
- She's not your property!
- Shut up, Sam. I can speak for myself.
You left me alone with no promise to come back
and then you attack the man who's helping keep me safe.
How dare you?
- He's helping keep you safe because I asked him to.
- Get out!
(somber music)
- If you knew what I had done to return to you.
- I rescind your invitation.
- Sookie, don't.
Please.
Sookie.
Please.
(door slamming)
I must say I'm impressed.
It's almost like you glamored her-
- Did you have anything to do with Uncle Bartlett's death?
- He hurt you.
- 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 cannot have people dying every time I confide in you.
I always thought, as different as we are,
somehow we could still be together.
And now, I don't know.
I don't know anything.
- 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'm not sorry.
I refuse to apologize for what you have awakened in me.
You are my miracle, Sookie.
For the first time in 140 years,
I felt something I thought had been lost in me forever.
I love you.
And for that, I shall never feel sorry.
- God damn you, Bill Compton.
I love you.