- Tara Thornton: Giving vampire blood to Jason Stackhouse is like giving ho-hos to a diabetic. You know he can't control himself!
- Lafayette Reynolds: 'Scuse me. Who ordered the hamburger,
- [puts plate on table]
- Lafayette Reynolds: with AIDS?
- Royce: I ordered the hamburger deluxe.
- Lafayette Reynolds: In this restaurant a hamburger deluxe come with frimp fries, lettuce, tomato, mayo, AND AIDS! DO ANYBODY GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
- Royce: Yeah! I'm an American, and I got a say in who makes my food!
- Lafayette Reynolds: Well, baby, it's too late for that. Faggots been breeding your cows, raising your chickens, even brewing your beer long before I walked my sexy ass up in this motherfucker. Everything on your goddamn table got AIDS.
- Royce: You still ain't making me eat no AIDS burger.
- Lafayette Reynolds: Well, all you gotta do is say hold the AIDS. Here.
- [licks hamburger bun]
- Lafayette Reynolds: Eat it.
- [jams it in Royce's face]
- Lafayette Reynolds: [His friend stands up to help, Lafayette backhands him to the ground. Other friend steps up to help, Lafayette punches him in the stomach and he falls. Royce stands up, Lafayette elbows him in the jaw and he falls]
- Lafayette Reynolds: Bitch, you come in my house,
- [picks up the rest of the hamburger]
- Lafayette Reynolds: you gonna eat my food the way I FUCKING MAKE IT! Do you understand me?
- [dumps food in Royce's lap]
- Lafayette Reynolds: Tip your waitress.
- [Walks toward kitchen; high fives Jason; goes back to kitchen]
- Lafayette Reynolds: [cringing, while watching Jason demonstrate what he went through] Damn!
- Jason Stackhouse: Yeah, just like that and no anesthesia either.
- Lafayette Reynolds: [about using v-juice] You take this in, and you take in a piece of the vampire it came from.
- Tara Thornton: Why didn't you tell me you were going out with Sam?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Because it just happened and how did you know?
- Tara Thornton: Arlene. She works fast.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Alls he did was ask me to the DGD tonight. It's in a church, for crying out loud. And why shouldn't I? He's perfectly nice, and he's got a good job, and he's not a vampire! And-and why-why , why do I have to justify this to you?
- Tara Thornton: Well, I'm entitled to know what my girl's up to, ain't I?
- Sam Merlotte: Hey, sit back. It's ok to relax.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I thought I was relaxed.
- Sam Merlotte: I don't think you know how.
- Terry Bellefleur: [hugging Bill, near tears] They don't understand man. None of 'em will ever understand. You stay sharp, brother.
- Sam Merlotte: Sookie, you have no future with a vampire!
- Sookie Stackhouse: They don't die. I've got nothing but a future with one.
- Lorena: [taking him back home for a last look at his family] You know you can never enter. Do you wish to see them grow old, grow feeble and die while you remain the same year after year?
- Bill Compton: [beseeching as tears of blood start] They are my family.
- Lorena: They are as good as dead if they are found harboring a vampire. I've brought you here, and now it's time for us to go. Come.
- Woman on the phone: [ranting over the phone] You will go to hell for this!
- Adele Stackhouse: Alright, same to you. Bye now.
- Hoyt Fortenberry: She asked me to come home with her.
- Rene Lenier: So what you doing here, you?
- Hoyt Fortenberry: I said I'd think about it.
- Rene Lenier: Ahhhh, you a lost cause.
- Lafayette Reynolds: [swings a bat as Tara throws stuff at him] Bring it on, hooker. I was all-parish in high school.
- Lafayette Reynolds: Don't blame the Ferrari just 'cause your ass can't drive. You're gonna have to learn to ride the high, boyfriend.
- Rene Lenier: [about the kids attending the meeting] The minute they heard vampire, they had to come.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Andy] If you're gonna accuse me of lying, be a man and say it out loud for Pete's sake. Either way, I'm gonna hear you whether you look me in the eye or not. Let's face it, there's not a whole lotta ideas in there. Like mice in a cage.
- Tara Thornton: [to Jason, who is still intoxicated] Oh my god! You are still high. I'm gonna kill Lafayette!
- Rene Lenier: [watching Hoyt pick up a girl] It's like watching Animal Planet, yeah? Any second she's gonna bite his head off.
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: What the hell are you doing?
- Andy Bellefleur: He offered.
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: He's a suspect.
- Andy Bellefleur: Maybe to you.
- Bill Compton: Sookie, you cannot be frightened of everythin' you don't know in this world.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Well my world's openin' up mighty fast! And what I got here may be boring, but it's safe! And after the past couple of nights, safe sounds pretty good about now.
- Sam Merlotte: [wrapping his arm tighter around Sookie] Well, we better get going. We're gonna grab a cup of coffee before we call it a night.
- Bill Compton: Coffee? Sounds delightful.
- Elderly DGD Member: My great-grandfather was in the 28th. I wonder if you might have known him. His name was Tolliver Humphries.
- Bill Compton: Tolliver Humphries. Yes, I knew him very well. We fought together. Tolliver Humphries was my friend. He was a brave man, perhaps to a fault. I dare say it contributed to his death.
- Elderly DGD Member: What happened? Were you there?
- Bill Compton: I was.
- [flashes back to a battle field with wounded and dying men]
- Bill Compton: We were about twenty miles north of where I stand now. The federals outnumbered us 5 to 1 and they had better fire power as well. We spent much of the afternoon recovering the bodies of those we'd lost. There was a boy in our troop, no more than 13 or 14, who lay wounded in the middle of a field under poor cover. He called to us all day. He begged us to help him. He knew he would die if we didn't. I admit I had considered shooting the boy myself just to shup him up. But Tolliver convinced me that would be an act of murder, not war. He told me God wanted him to rescue that boy. I pleaded with him not to go. To think of his own wife and children back home. But he ran into that field like it was a cool spring day. They shot him just as he reached the boy. It was obvious to us that he was beyond help.
- Bill Compton: [awakens, very weak and looks around seeing 2 bodies] The others?
- Lorena: [meakly] They all presented themselves as gentlemen. Blame the war if you like. They proved to be no more than savages once I let them into my home. They deserved no better.
- Bill Compton: Am I dying?
- Lorena: Oh, yes. But I'm not keen to let you go quite so easily. I've waited a long time for a man such as you.
- [straddles his waist and cuts her neck]
- Lorena: Drink. If you do not drink, you will die as certain as I am speakin' to you right now. Do you wish to see your family again? Your wife, your children? You must drink from me.
- [Bill drinks with reluctance]
- Lorena: Take me in you. Feel me in you. We are together, William. Forever! You are mine!
- Adele Stackhouse: He seems like a very nice man.
- Sookie Stackhouse: He's not.
- Adele Stackhouse: He's not nice?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Or a man.
- Hoyt Fortenberry: [trying to remove the cross] This ain't gonna budge without a jackhammer or a blow torch.
- Bill Compton: [flashback] Is there anyone inside? I require help. I'm a soldier of the 28th Louisiana infrantry. I require food and water. Is there anyone who can help me?
- [cuts the door open and enters]
- Lorena: [holding a gun to his head] Do not move. I will shoot you!
- [scene flash forwards to a warm dinning area]
- Lorena: I wasn't even aware we surrendered.
- Bill Compton: Word came two weeks ago. We disbanded immediately. Most of the men marched back to Monroe. But I chose to take a short cut home by-by way of these trails. I over estimated my knowledge of the land.
- Lorena: You're not far off. The lake is 10 miles southwest of here and Bon Temps is 10 miles south of that. My husband was in the 13th infantry, under Colonel Gibbson. He fought at Shiloh. He used to write to me every few weeks. But I haven't heard from him in nearly seven months.
- Bill Compton: Many of the postal routes have been disrupted. I'm sure your letter simply got lost.
- Lorena: That's kind of you. But I've considered myself a widow for sometime now. You still have quite a lot of blood on you. You're a lucky man, Lieutenant. I doubt you would've survived another day without food.
- Bill Compton: I'm in debt to you for taking pity on me.
- Lorena: I think, for your sake, you best spend the night here, with me.
- [tries to kiss him]
- Bill Compton: [rising suddenly] I'm sorry. I apologize if I misled you. But I have a wife and two small children waitin' for me. And if Bon Temps is as close as you say it is, then I'll see them soon and I do not wish to sully our reunion.
- Lorena: You are an honorable man. The others have not always been so.
- Bill Compton: [surprised] There's been others?
- Lorena: From time to time. Deserters mostly. I offered them a crust of bread and a place to rest, and they would help appease my loneliness. It may not be moral, Lieutenant. But these are times of war.
- Bill Compton: I do not judge you. Your choices are your own, as are mine. I wish to continue on my way home. You have my gratitude for your hospitality. I will not soon forget it.
- [he turns to leave as she appears at the door, biting him]
- Lafayette Reynolds: [Jason sticks a meat thermometer slowly lengthwise into a sausage] Damn!
- Jason Stackhouse: Yeah, just like that. And no anesthesia, either. First, I get hauled in by the cops; then, I gotta let a dude drain my johnson. That's a fuck of a day.
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: That son of buck's been killin' since the 1860's. Why stop now?
- Andy Bellefleur: That don't prove anything; my cousin Terry killed 20 Iraqis in Fallujah. You sayin' we should lock him up?
- Sheriff Bud Dearborne: Your cousin Terry *should* be locked up.
- Adele Stackhouse: [on the phone, to the woman ranting] I suggest that you hear what he has to say before you take to lynchin' him.