Duh. Bill owed Eric a favor for taking the annoying girl. Eric announced in Merlotte's that they knew when they were wronged and would seek retribution. Lafayette sold V. Bill needed blood, owed Eric a favor, killed Lafayette, and told Sookie he fed to recover.

Whose foot fell out of the car... THAT is a mystery.

It's all good

Sharpened stakes

Horny adolecence girl awakes

Jus' lookin' for that

Too blue 'n misunderstood

Hush now honey

"True Wood"

A perhaps a little insulting too. Almost as if the actors didn't bother even practicing it beforehand because "pfffffft! Any idiot can do a Southern accent."

Then they procede to use a cartoonish Foghorn Leghorn sort of accent, or something they saw on TV that was written to mock Southerners by people who have never lived here.

But we've come to expect that sort of thing here. Other than that, it's an entertaining show.

I was thinking last night. If I were a vampire, I might purchase a haz-mat suit and a welder's hat/face mask just to have on hand for those emergency daylight trips. Nothing too major, just enough for a short jaunt into the sun. Or at least, maybe I'd even keep a good sturdy umbrella or two by the front door?

Bill could have save himself a lot of trouble if he just had something sensible to put on.

I think that might be one of the first things I buy when I'm changed into a vampire.

It could have been newly turned teenage vamp whose too uncontrolable even for Eric.

It also could have been MaryAnne and/or her creepy pig.

It also could have been the creepy political/religious client who wants a little LaFayeete when he isnt't railing against evil.

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MaryAnne has to be the devil herself, after watching her being weird in the field, you got to see the serial killer in the truck singing "She's the Devil in Disguise" at the top of his lungs. Come on.

Though why MaryAnne's after Sam (who I agree is a better catch than Bill) I don't know.

I agree with gezelligtexas, from the first episode these accents were the equivalent of the proverbial nails on the chalkboard for anyone from/lived in the south. Horrible.

In addition, I had very high hopes for this show even after some of the actors disappointed early on. But after a few weeks, I realized that the scripts are hamstringing the entire cast. The show just does not come anywhere close to the Sopranos, The Wire, Six feet Under, or basically any thing else that used to be in this time slot. Thankfully, Big Love returns in January, it is probably the only reason I will keep HBO, as I try to find a reason why I pay extra for it. A cleaned up True Blood would be just fine for the CW next to gossip girl and the rest. But shows like this dent the legacy of HBO's once amazing programming.

Didn't Arlene find a cassette tape, "Cajun accents for actors"? They all must have different ones, like "Antebellum Coastal Carolina accents for actors" and "Deep south Jim Crow-era drawl accents for actors" and "Mush Mouth Scarlett O'Hara accents for actors".

Love the show though! Once I got over the accents (I live in Tennessee, where my born-and-raised husband gets baffled looks for his lack of one), I accepted them as part of the campy scenery. Now, if the actors take voice lessons, I'll be disappointed!

And books, schmooks Lafayette better live!

Got Caj'on vampires..I gar-on-tee!

I don't think it was a vampire and it most definitely wasn't Bill (if that was indeed Lafeyette's body left in the back of Bellafleur's car.) First of all, Bill wouldn't leave Lafeyette's body lying around. All vampires know how to dispose of bodies; it's probably the second skill you learn after how to get the most blood out of a human being. (Per Bill's conversation with Sookie after the Rattree's disposal)

Secondly, the sounds the creature made when it was hiding in the bushes and the way Lafeyette reacted were more like he was seeing a wild animal. Who may or may not have been there to see Sam, perhaps. I'm thinking a werewolf. Sadly, though, it was kind of comedic, and isn't the kind of death I think Lafeyette, one of my favorite characters, deserved.

I didn't, however, care much for this episode. It was all over the place. And yeah, if Jason becomes a born again Fellowship of the Light wacko (again falling in with people who have a dubion morality, like Amy) I will be very mad at the show. I didn't read the second book in the series (so maybe Jason does flirt with the church for awhile), but I have the last four of them. I was hoping they would give him the story line he has in the last three books, especially since the next season will deal with other supernatural creatures than vampires.

Now that I think about it, I think Jason did become a born again Fellowship of the Lighter for a hot second.

I really don't think the accents on True Blood are so bad, and I'm someone who's usually really bothered by that sort of thing. For example, Kira Segewick speaks in an accent used by no known human on the Closer, and that really drives me nuts.

But mostly I think the accents are pretty good on True Blood. Jason and Sam really speak like plenty of people I've known, and so do the smaller, peripheral characters. Bill uses a stilted cadence because he's supposed to have been a gentleman soldier in the Civil War, so that actually makes sense. Anna Paquin's accent is probably the worst--she doesn't exactly sound like Scarlett O'Hara, much more realistic than that. I'm prepared to give her a pass. Really, the only accent that sticks out for me is Tara's. I've never known of a African American girl from the south (or anywhere else for that matter) who spoke that way.