I Wanna Do Bad Things With You: True Blood Recap: S3, Ep 10

Whitley | August 26, 2010 | No Comments

So sorry for the lack of posts this week. Jeremy and I are still busy little bees working on Fresh Squeezed Lemons, so please forgive me.

Before we get into it, let’s catch up with a little cast news. I don’t know if you heard or not, but Anna Paquin (Sookeh) and Stephen Moyer (Beel) got married! Congrats to the happy couple! You can read about their wedding here!

Also, today is Alexander Skarsgard’s birthday! So let’s all wish a Happy Birthday to the sexiets hunk of man meat on TV (Um..besides Alcide.) Check out some suit porn involving him here to celebrate!

This week, we’re going to discuss Episode 10, “I Smell A Rat”. To check out all the recaps I’ve done for past episodes in Season 3, click HERE.

The theme of this episode, I think, was confessions. Everyone was coming clean, or they really needed to and chose not to instead (I’m glaring at you, Bill Compton!).

This episode opens with a bang. Literally, the first sentence is the big reveal they’ve been building up to pretty much over the entire series.

It finally comes out that Sookie is a fairy, something I’ve known for awhile because I deliberately read spoilers online (I have no self control, really). Sookie has mixed emotions as Bill explains that she is only half-fairy (fae), and that is possible one of her ancestors was raped by a fairy in the past. If that’s wasn’t enough of a shock to process, Bill also confesses that it’s believed that fairies were wiped out of existence by vampires, due to the fact that fairy blood is so damn tasty. Finally, Sookie starts to wise up and asks Bill if this was the reason he fell in love with her. He denies it, and gives a sappy speech about how much he loves her fo’ real. I have been on Team Bill up until the last few epiosdes (um, possibly due to reading more book spoilers), and at this point, I was just like, “Wah fucking wah, Bill. Just shut it already.”

Over at Fangtasia, Eric is writing out a will with his lawyer, leaving everything he owns to Pam. Pamela Swynford de Beaufort is pissed.

Eric is a little testy himself, facing the fact that Russell (who, as we saw last episode, has clearly gone cray cray) will probably kill him in some gruesome way that hasn’t even been thought of yet. In fact, he manages to take out on poor Yvetta, who thought maybe she had a bigger role in Eric’s life than he did.

That was way harsh, Tai.

But Eric is working on a plan. You know what he’s up to when he pays a visit to Sookie and Bill.

He wants to know if Sookie’s blood will allow him to spend some time in the daylight. Bill explains that it’s only effective for a few minutes and won’t work after that. They get into it (“you are his butt boy.”) and Eric speaks the best line of the episode:

Of course, this is the perfect moment for Sookie to overhear. Bill covers his ass of course, and Eric leaves, leaving Sookie to wonder who she can really trust between Eric and Bill.

Back behind Merlotte’s, Tara and Jason are trying to pull themselves together after Franklin gets murdered…again.

Jason is freaking the eff out, flashing back to the vampire he killed in Season Two and Eggs. You can tell he’s close to the breaking point. He and Tara hastily cover up the vampire goo they left on the ground, and he brings her to his house to relax. Unfortch, Sookie and Bill are already there, making themselves at home. Just the thing for Tara’s nerves, right?

Once Bill leaves, Sookie (being the good friend she is /sarcasm) starts to lay into Tara for being so mean to Bill. Only when Tara goes through each step of what happened to her does Sookie show some sympathy and support.

While Sookie is finally acting like a normal human being toward her best friend, Bill and Jason have a man to man talk about how Jason needs to make sure Sookie stays put while he sleeps during the day.

Over at Merlotte’s, Tommy and Jessica are handling the cleanup while Arlene is glued to the TV, where cray cray Steve Newlin is dealing out the backlash against all vampires due to the Russell incident. His entire segment was the Post Mortem this week.

Steve Newlin is one of my favorite characters on the show. I think it’s because he’s so realistic. Being from the South, and Louisiana especially, I know people exactly like this in real life, except they hate minorities not vampires. I must say I thought of all those people when he got blasted in the head with the paint ball by Jason last season.

Anyway, because Arlene lacks critical thinking skills sometimes, she’s nodding along in agreement and starts to rant about vampires. Jessica, like the rest of us, is totes fed up.

Tommy is loving it. (“It gave me total wood!”)

Shut the hell up, creepster Tommy. No one cares about your boner, I promise.

Hoyt is having his own problems. Summer has cornered him in his truck, (“I was thinking, Bear…” “BEAR?!”) and unbuttoned her blouse. I fall in love with Hoyt a little more when he makes a real effort to continue looking her in the face.

At Lala’s house, some crazy shit is about to go down. Instead of bringing Crystal’s dad Calvin to the hospital, they stop by Lafayette’s house and completely cure the injuries he incurred when Sam opened up a can of whoop-ass on him last time.

Of course, he’s not thankful. He slaps Crystal across the face, and tells her that since she’s going to stay with Jason, she’s dead to him.

This episode also brought some new totally unexpected revelations about Sam. As Jeremy said when we watched this episode, “Thanks for telling us this so late in the season!”

It seems that kicking Calvin’s ass has brought back all these memories of his past life before he made his way to Bon Temps. Through flashbacks, we see he had a cute blonde girlfriend, and they made their living by stealing high class jewelry.

I knew something was up when she was trying to get him to tell her exactly how he was able to get in to steal things undetected. Turns out, I was right.

Yep, Blondie has a boyfriend, a real boyfriend. They rob Sam and leave him alone on the hotel room floor.

Because of his outburst at Merlotte’s, all his employees (except Tommy) are tiptoeing on egg shells around him. Holly, the new waitress, even goes to far to offer him some pills she scraped up (she’s a Wiccan) for his “rage”.

After a tense moment at work, Arlene finally confesses to Terry that the baby is not his. When she tells him that the baby is Renee’s child and she scared of it, Terry’s reaction makes a tear come to my eye.

He tells her that he will raise it as his own, and they will both love it so much that who the daddy is won’t matter. Terry is too good for Arlene.

As sweet as this is, Arlene still wants to ask Holly about methods of “not being pregnant” anymore. I can sympathize. Who in their right mind would want to have a serial killer’s baby?

Back at La La’s house, Jesus is getting curious about V.

Watching the effects on Calvin has made him want to try it, and he and Lafayette each take one drop. Then shit goes down.

First of all, can they teach me to dance? I need this in my life.

Then the hallucinations start.

“Mary! Go girl!”

I’ll be honest. I enjoyed the flashbacks to Jesus’s and La La’s ancestors, but I think it went on a few minutes too long. But Jesus’s creepy grandpa makes me think that some evil stuff is headed their way.

Back at Jason’s house, he’s finally confessed to Sookie about Eggs. She urges him to tell Tara, and he says he can’t. Even Jason knows if there was ever a time to tell her, it’s not now, when she’s traumatized by Franklin still.

But…later, when he’s bringing Tara a tray of food and they begin to talk about everything that’s happened to her, they share a moment.

…that turns into this:

They both start freaking out over the kiss for very different reasons. Tara, because she thought she was over him by now, and Jason because it makes him feel extremely guilty knowing what he’s done. Of course, being Jason, he tells her NOW that he’s the one who killed Eggs.

Over at Bill’s house, there’s a very ugly incident of vandalism and terrorism.

Even though no one was hurt here, this scene scared the crap out of me. I got a sinking feeling in my stomach as soon as I realized what was happening, and if there are people out there who haven’t noticed the parallels in this show to civil and gay rights, this scene should have drove that point home. I hope that people took a second to think about the fact that things like this (and way worse) really have (and are still) happening to people in real life, and it’s horribly ugly and wrong.

Speaking of ugly incidents, back to Sam’s flashbacks. He remembers going after his fake girlfriend and her boyfriend to take back what they stole from him.

Puppy Sam is adorable, and I want to pet him.

In the confusion of trying to get his stuff back, Sam semi-accidentally shoots the girl, and once he realizes what he’s done, he has to shoot the guy too to get rid of all witnesses.

FINALLY WE’RE AT THE BEST PART OF THE EPISODE!

Sookie, who was worried about what Eric meant when he was acting all cryptic earlier, slipped away from Jason while he was distracted to go to Fangtasia and ask him what’s going on. Plus, she’s had another sexy dream about him, so he was definitely on her mind.

Eric doesn’t want to talk about Bill and why she can’t trust him. He wants her to understand that there’s a very real chance he won’t be around, and he at least wants to kiss her before he dies.

So…he does. And it is HOT HOT HOT.

Yes, this is for real, and no it’s not a dream!

Do you need to see this in video form? I think you do.

Another great thing about this scene? Pam:

As you could see from the clip above, Pam wants Eric to actually DO something, not just give up to Russell without a fight.

Speaking of Russell, he’s trolling the streets looking for companionship.

It didn’t escape my notice he picked someone who looked a bit like Talbot, and I knew where this was heading.

He killed the prostitute, and then used him as a substitute Talbot so he could say goodbye the way he needed to. This scene was very sad and beautiful to me. It made me think about what it would be like to be with someone for centuries, then lose them so suddenly.

Back at Merlotte’s, Hoyt is a man on a mission. He heads straight over to Jessica and tells her he broke up with Summer and he wants to be with her.

When Jessica doesn’t give him an answer right away, Hoyt storms out, not in any mood to deal with shit. Poor Tommy found that out the hard way.

BAM! If there had been no Eric/Sookie kiss, this would have been my favorite part.

Pissed, Tommy turns into a dog and attacks Hoyt. Jessica, who just happened to be running after Hoyt to tell him ‘yes’ takes charge.

Fly away, Tommy!

Because Hoyt is so badly injured, Jessica gives him her blood and UNF. It is very sexy. We better see more from them in the last two episodes.

After Jason realized Sookie ran off, he came back from looking for her to find a very pissed Bill up in his face. Jason just can’t take it anymore and rescinds his invitation to come inside in a very dramatic way.

Fired up from that, Jason hears glass breaking in the back of the house. He creeps back to his room to find this:

So it turns out Crytal is a shifter too! I wonder if they will explore this more this season or leave it for season four?

Back at Fangtasia, Pam’s talk must have clicked with Eric. He realizes that his only chance is to use Sookie, and he has never treated another person the way he treats her. It’s time to get back to his nature and use her as a means to an end only.

Here’s a video recap of this show by HBO:

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