True Blood Season 3 Ep. 2: Beautifully Broken

The second episode of True Blood, ‘Beautifully Broken’, begins with Bill Compton ripping body parts off werewolves like there is no tomorrow. Some guy rides up on a white horse and calls them all off. Bill calls him ‘your majesty’ and this guy is quite angry that his werewolves were draining Bill after they kidnapped him. Bill gets a good laugh that the lead werewolf’s name is Cooter. Bill and the king ride off, leaving werewolf parts scattered all over the ground.

Sookie goes to see Eric, asking for info about the Nazi werewolves who took Bill. She opens her heart, starting to cry in front of Eric and he asks her to stop that – she’s making him feel human. He lets her leave, staring after her as he flashes back to Germany in 1945. A soldier is attacked by a werewolf and Eric and Godric kill it. So, it looks like Eric is not in league with any werewolves.

Pam and Jessica share a little girl time as Jessica tries to find out how to feed without killing the person. Jessica is having a hard time figuring out how to get rid of the smelly body from her meal of several days before. When she brings home a chainsaw to cut him up, the body’s gone. Did it come back from the dead after all?

Lafayette saves Tara from her suicide attempt and the two of them are closer than ever before. A vampire comes into Merlotte’s, talking to Tara as she gets him a bottle of True Blood. Tara punches out two rednecks who are defacing the spot where Eggs’ was killed. The new vampire grabs them and lets Tara pound away on one of them, giving him just what he deserves.

Bill is taken to a beautiful mansion and being treated like an honored guest. The king and his consort take Bill to his room acting like he’s a guest when he’s really a prisoner. They are at dinner where the king says that he wants to make Bill a sheriff. The king’s consort leaves the table to ‘drain’ the second course. That’s when we find out the king plans to marry the queen of Louisiana. The king is surprised the queen allowed Bill to go to Bon Temps, a small backwater town in the middle of nowhere. Bill says he has no interest in being their sheriff and that’s when the king threatens Sookie just as Lorena walks in. Bill throws an oil lamp and sets her on fire. Unfortunately, I doubt that he killed her.

Sam sits outside a house in his car, waking up to a gun barrel aimed at his head. A young man takes him into their house, where he meets his mother. He finds out that she was sixteen when she gave him away to the Merlotte family. Sam tries to bond with his brother but he’s a sullen grouch who isn’t interested in being friends. But, it’s quite nice as the two of them start to strip, saying they need a run. Sam’s brother is covered in scars and you understand why when he transforms into a pit bull.

Terry makes a list of the 10 reasons Arlene can trust him with her kids. It’s to sweet and hilarious. He thinks Arlene is mad at him, he does not realize she’s pregnant. As she races back into the bathroom to throw up once more, Terry continues to yell his list of items through the door at her, saying “I never killed anything by accident”.

Sookie sees a werewolf outside Merlotte’s and she and Terry go into commando hunt mode. They chase the man down only to find he has turned into a wolf and disappeared. They take his clothes into the bar and Terry gives her a gun, asking her if she knows how to use it, to which she replies, “I ain’t that blond”.

Eric arrives on Sookie’s doorstep, telling her that he lied to her about knowing nothing about the werewolves. There’s another flashback to Nazi Germany as Eric interrogates the werewolf in the past, finding out from it that the head werewolf is a vampire. Eric tells Sookie this story, saying that these are not ordinary werewolves, they are fueled by vampire blood. He tells her that she is going to have to invite him in, so he can watch over her ….or have hot primal sex with her….or both. Yikes! Invite that man in! But, Sookie refuses to invite him in and next you see that he senses something is wrong so he forces her invitation just as a werewolf attacks. Now Eric can come and go in Sookie’s house as he wants, I’m sure Bill won’t like that when he gets back.