March 31st, 2009 9:51 pm

‘True Blood’ Episode 8 Recap: “The Fourth Man in the Fire”

Bill is still missing and Sookie thinks he could be one of the ones who were murdered.

In the remains of the vampires burnt down house seen at end of the last episode four coffins with badly decomposed bodies are found. Bill is still missing and Sookie still thinks he could be one of the ones who were murdered. She calls his house when she gets home and receives no answer. Tara’s mum Lettie Mae is cured of her alcoholism much to Tara’s surprise. She makes Tara some pancakes which she has never done in her life and says she always knew how but the demon wouldn’t let her.

Jason and Amy wake up feeling relaxed and still the sense of togetherness after taking V together. Jason is amazed to find they didn’t have sex but is so in awe of Amy he asks her to stay around. She accepts. Tara goes to see Sookie to tell her about how her mum has changed. They fight as Sookie is in a bad mood because of the thought of losing Bill and makes Tara so angry she leaves. At Jason’s Amy learns about his life and his loss of parents in a flood when he was young and more recently his Gran. She sympathises and despite what Jason says she thinks he can’t be as a bad of a brother to Sookie as he thinks he is.

At Merlotte’s Terry Bellefleur (Todd Lowe) who is helping out around the place thinks he saw Sam running naked in the forest the other day when he was fishing with his brother Andy. Sam denies it. That night Sookie lights a candle and leaves her house to go place flowers on Bill’s grave. She thinks he is dead and as she slowly walks back to her house crying an arm pulls at her leg from the ground. It is Bill who is alive thanks to Sookie’s warning phone calls as he stayed in the ground overnight. In their passion at seeing each other they have sex right there in the dirt.

The next day Amy and Jason go to Merlotte’s for lunch. Sookie is late for her shift and when Sam asks about the fire she tells him Bill is alive and she is happy about it despite the fact that clearly no one else is. It turns out the 4^th coffin found contained a fang banger (vampire follower who they keep for sex and blood) not Bill. Lettie Mae comes home to find her daughter Tara looking at washing she has done. It turns out she has been at church and this doesn’t impress Tara who says that no matter what she does she is still “as fucked up as she is in the mind.”

Amy gets a job at Merlotte’s when she helps cover a busy Sookie’s section and shows how efficient she is. She is Dawn’s replacement and Sookie after having a pleasant conversation warns her of Jason’s womanizing ways but Amy isn’t having any of it and says Sookie underestimates her brother. Sookie volunteers to help a clearly flustered Arlene have a night out with Rene and volunteers to babysit her kids after Arlene apologises for her recent behaviour over Sookie seeing Bill. Sam pulls Tara into the back after she tells off Hoyt for complimenting her. Tara thinks she is in trouble but Sam just says both of them are the only ones who get how people are and who really get each other. This leads to sex. Everything is going great until after when Sam tells Tara that she grunts and she gets angry and leaves.

Arlene and Rene bring Arlene’s kids over to Sookie’s for the babysitting. At first she objects to Bill being there with her kids but after assurances from Sookie and putting some silver bracelets on her kids to prevent Bill from touching them she is fine with it. Everything goes well and on the way home from their night out Rene proposes to Arlene who accepts. When she gets back she has a chat with Sookie she asks to be her bridesmaid. Rene comments that it could be Sookie and Bill getting married soon with the new laws saying vampires can marry possibly getting passed. They just look nervously at each other.

Tara goes to have an exorcism from Miss Jeanette who has been expecting her. Eric visits Bill as he needs Bill’s permission to borrow Sookie for a problem he has been having. Tara and Jason follow Lafayette to find his source of V. His source is a vampire Eddie (Stephen Root) who he has sex with in exchange for V. When Lafayette leaves they kidnap him so they have a source for their V cravings. Sookie and Bill go and visit Fangtasia so Sookie can help Eric. She objects but has to help as Eric is the vampire area supervisor which means he is a powerful member of the community Bill can’t disobey and as Sookie is his she has to comply. Someone has robbed Fangtasia of $60,000. As Eric, Pam and Longshadow are owners they want to know who it is. Sookie reads the minds of their accountant who doesn’t know and a barmaid Ginger (Tara Buck) who does but her mind has been glamoured. The culprit is now known to be a vampire and Longshadow attacks Sookie when she announces this.