Finally, True Blood has restarted. And ‘Pack of Wolves’ is a wild ride. Last season ended with Bill disappearing and this season starts out with Sookie frantically searching for him. Jason is drowning his sorrows with a beer since he killed Tara’s boyfriend, Eggs, and Andy took the credit for it. Jessica drags a body in for dinner – remember, she keeps getting her virginity back after every time she has sex, that’s a fate worse than death. And, Bill is shown being driven away, a silver chain around his neck. That’s not good.

The police blow off Sookie’s concern about Bill, they won’t take it seriously – there’s obviously some vampire prejudice going on here. Arlene tries to show Tara that she cares about her and that goes wrong when Tara freaks out – screaming at Arlene, who answers her screams with a great line – ‘who here hasn’t fallen in love with a serial killer’? Quite true since Arlene was in love with the serial killer from season one.

Jessica has killed her ‘dinner’, she appears to have a little control problem. She tries to give him her blood and bring him back but I don’t think it works that way. And it doesn’t, people notice the smell which gets attributed to a dead possum under the porch.

Bill is being eaten ‘alive’by his kidnappers, they’re all drinking him for the ‘V’ rush. It’s really gross. Looks like he’s just about to really die this time.

Andy sneaks in to see Jason, telling him that he has to stick to their story – they have to act like everything is perfectly normal and that Andy killed Eggs, not Jason. Jason has got to be his usual self – conscience off, dick on – Andy makes Jason repeat it several times. Hilarious. I can imagine quite a few men for whom this is their mantra.

Sookie is in Fangtasia, looking for help from Eric to find Bill. Pam half-heartedly tries to stop her when she demands to see him and she busts in on Eric while he is going at it with the new dancer. Wow! He’s got her tied up, hanging from the ceiling while he does his thing. Sookie handles it quite well, maintaining eye contact and not looking down. Eric walks up to her and he stands there naked while she accuses him of kidnapping Bill. He says it wasn’t him, he’s been screwing for the last six hours. Sookie looks shocked, and that gives Eric the chance to make a nasty comment about Bill’s stamina. Thank goodness this scene is on my DVR! Since he’s the sheriff, he is duty bound to help her find Bill – or so he says….

Flash back to Bill and the ‘drainers’ as he pops one’s neck, wrecking the car and getting away. Good, those guys needed to die. It comes out that Eric had wanted Bill taken since Bill can link the Queen to the dealing of vampire blood. Pam says Eric is starting to lose it, why would he get in this nasty business anyway?

Bill comes to Sam for help, standing shirtless on the doorstop. There is certainly some nice male flesh on view this season when Bill asks if he can get into the shower and borrow Sam’s shirt. Bill asks him to join him in the shower. The water in Arkansas is ‘very hard’. Yikes! They are about to kiss when Sam wakes up from a ‘dream’. Wow, I wonder where this is going to go this season. Bill and Sam are attracted to each other?

Tara is just running around screaming at everybody in her grief over Eggs’ death. Tara’s mother shows up at Lafayette’s house and she starts her usual whining, promising to take care of her ‘baby’. Yeah, she’s done such a good job to date. I imagine this lady might get the worst mother of the year award. The reverend comes over, talking to Tara, saying Eggs was a demon who led her astray and she starts to finally relax. Or so you think.

The police are still blowing off the search for Bill. Sookie thinks it’s Lorena but they don’t care. They aren’t going to waste their time and money looking into ‘vampire-nappings’. A new phrase…

Bill emerges from the dirt, looking angry and feral. Jessica is still sleeping under the house with her dead friend, her attempt to make him into a vampire is not working. Hoyt wants to reconnect with her but she is to freaked out by her dead body to talk with him. You would think a dead body would not bother a vampire so much.

Jason tries to hook Hoyt up with a couple of women he’s picked up at Merlotte’s. One of them is studying to be a dog psychologist. Jason wants to know what kind of dog he is…he says, ‘what am I thinking of right now, you know, in my brain’…you gotta love Jason.

Pam shows up at Sookie’s house, commenting on the lovely decorating job that the maenid did on her house since it is so trashed inside. Pam gives her Eric’s check with a nice hefty bonus for her work in Dallas last season.

Bill ends up at some old lady’s house, and when she lets him in, his teeth come out and he jumps her. Most excitement she’s seen in years I suspect. Bill chows down on the old lady – he looks better already. Although I’m not sure how much nutrition he got from her, she looks to be at least ninety. He erases her memory of his visit and leaves her some money. Bill discovers he’s in Mississippi, and you keep hearing wolves howling in the background. Have the werewolves settled in Mississippi?

The Reverend lets Tara’s mom hug him as he gets ready to leave and she gets a little to cozy, rubbing up on him – gross. Tara goes to get in the shower after her hours of being prayed over and her momma says, ‘let it all wash away baby’. Then you see Tara in the bathroom popping pills like there’s no tomorrow – and I guess there won’t be tomorrow for her. I knew her mother would screw this up.

Sam is looking for his parents, asking a local mechanic if he knows the Milkins. The kid says no but Sam knows he is lying. Sam follows the mechanic named Tommy back to his house and he pulls their mail out, confirming that it is the Milkins address. Doesn’t he know that going into someone else’s mail box is a federal crime?

Jason is trying to have a sex party with his Merlott’e s pickup girls and he can’t quite seem to get into it. He’s in bed with both girls, but he keeps seeing bullet holes in their foreheads. Jason unable to have sex? What will the girls in Louisiana do?

This episode ends with Bill racing through the woods when he is suddenly surrounded by a bunch of wolves and the show ends with his final words…”I should warn you, I’ve fed”… and he goes on the attack. An excellent start to the new season.