Bill drained the innocent young woman Jessica as ordered by The Magister for his punishment for staking a vampire in order to save Sookie. So here’s how vampires are made in True Blood:

• the human is drained of their blood until they’re almost at the point of death;
• the vampire then gives the human some of their blood;
• the human is then buried in the ground;
• the human rises as a vampire.

Pam is directed to ensure Bill follows through with making Jessica into a vampire. Bill, forever the gentleman, decides to help Jessica through her transformation. Initially, after Jessica rises she doesn’t understand what she’s become. But once she does, she’s ECSTATIC that she’s a vampire. She starts talking about killing people that have been mean to her. Actually, it’s clear that Jessica is a spoiled brat. In the last episode I felt sorry for her. I now hope she falls onto a wooden stake. It’s clear she’s going to be one of those vampires that attacks and kills humans just for the fun of it.

Sookie is afraid that the killer is now targeting her as his next victim. When reading the mind of her attacker in the last episode she saw the uniform of one of the murder victims. The woman in question, Cindy Marshall, apparently worked at a place called Big Patty’s Pies. Sookie enlists the aid of Sam and together they visit the pie shop where they obtain information about Cindy. Turns out she used to associate with vampires like the other victims.

Sookie and Sam later visit the police station where Sookie reads the mind of a police officer and blackmails him into faxing a photo of Cindy’s brother (Drew Marshall) to the Bon Temps sheriff.

Jason, upset with Amy’s staking of the nice vampire Eddie, helps her clean up the gross vampire residue. They were using towels but quite frankly, they needed to use a couple of shovels. Jason is finally seeing more of Amy’s dark side but appears to be unable to cut her off. As such he and Amy do “one last vial” of “V” together.

When Tara gets pulled over by a police officer she tells the officer, Kenya, that she had a car accident in order to avoid hitting a naked woman standing in the middle of the road with a large pig. As a result she winds up in jail on a drunk driving charge; she’s visited by her mother who not only refuses to bail her out but also kicks her out of the house. She’s eventually bailed out by a mysterious stranger named Maryann Forrester, who appears to be a very wealthy social worker. She also looks strangely like the naked woman that was in the middle of the road. She invites Tara to come to her home. Tara agrees.

Lafayette visits his state senator buddy at a political event. During a conversation with the senator Lafayette points out the hypocrisy of what the senator is telling the public. The senator is publicly anti-vampire and anti-gay but is privately both a “V” user and gay. Lafayette’s conversation with the senator is photographed.

Sookie Sookie Now. Didn’t Bill tell Sookie he’d be back as soon as possible? So please tell me why Sookie is convinced Bill will never return. And tell me why she decides to engage in some lip locking with Sam. Bill walks in on them, attacks Sam, pisses Sookie off, and gets his invitation to enter her home rescinded.

Meet Jason The Idiot. Jason calls the police and turns himself in for the murders of the local women. He thinks he may have killed them while on “V”. Jason tells them “I don’t want to hurt anybody else. Lock me up.”

The episode ends with a ditzy clerk at the police officer totally ignoring the fax that contains the photo of Cindy’s brother. Do you recognize him?

Funniest line:

“This is a Texas Special Sawdust Pie. Nobody ordered that.”

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See also:

True Blood Episode 11 Trailer