True Blood (TV Series)
The First Taste (2008)
Anna Paquin: Sookie Stackhouse
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Quotes
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Sookie Stackhouse : So I guess you've killed a lot of people.
Bill Compton : I killed a few by accident at first. I was never sure when I was going to get my next feed. But it's all different now. There's Tru Blood, I can get donor blood from a clinic in Monroe, or I can glamour someone into letting me feed on them for love, and then they'll forget all about it.
Sookie Stackhouse : Did you feed on the Rattrays?
Bill Compton : Yes, after I'd given you my blood while you were healing. You drank a lot of my blood.
Sookie Stackhouse : What will that do to me?
Bill Compton : Well, you'll have keener senses.
Sookie Stackhouse : What else?
Bill Compton : [pauses] Your libido will be more active.
Sookie Stackhouse : [blushes] Is-Is that it?
Bill Compton : I'll always be able to feel you. I'll be able to find you fast. If you're ever in trouble, that could come in quite handy.
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Mike Spencer : Your grandmother lets you associate with a vampire?
Sookie Stackhouse : You can take that up with her, Mike Spencer. I'm sure she'd just love to know that somebody thinks she's not takin' proper care of me.
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Sookie Stackhouse : [awakes to find Bill licking at her open head wound] Do I taste different from other people?
Bill Compton : Yes. What are you?
Sookie Stackhouse : Well, apparently I'm not dead. What I am is telepathic. I can hear people's thoughts.
Bill Compton : Even mine?
Sookie Stackhouse : No. That's why I like you so much. I can't hear you at all. You have no idea how peaceful it is after a lifetime of "blah, blah, blah."
Bill Compton : May I ask you a personal question?
Sookie Stackhouse : Bill, you were just licking blood out of my head. I don't think it gets much more personal than that.
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Sheriff Bud Dearborne : [about her getting into trouble] Sookie, you're a good girl. I hate to see you go down this path.
Sookie Stackhouse : [snapping] Well lucky for you, Sheriff Dearborne, nobody's forcing you to watch.
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Sookie Stackhouse : Can you turn into a bat?
Bill Compton : No. There are those who can change form, but I'm not one of them.
Sookie Stackhouse : Can you levitate?
Bill Compton : No.
Sookie Stackhouse : Turn invisible?
Bill Compton : Sorry.
Sookie Stackhouse : Well Bill, you don't seem like a very good vampire. What can you do?
Bill Compton : I can bring you back to life.
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Jason Stackhouse : [about Maudette's murder] I don't even know why they suspected me. I think somebody heard I'd been with Maudette.
Sookie Stackhouse : Had you?
Jason Stackhouse : No.
Sookie Stackhouse : Are you sure? She *was* a woman.
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Tara Thornton : [uptight] Did you own slaves?
Sookie Stackhouse : [shocked] Tara!
Bill Compton : I did not. But my father did.
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Bill Compton : [laying her on the ground] Sookie... Sookie.
Sookie Stackhouse : [choking] I can't feel my legs.
Bill Compton : [bites his wrist to give her blood] Quick, drink before the wound closes!
Sookie Stackhouse : Would I be a vampire?
Bill Compton : You won't be! God damn it Sookie! Do you wanna live or not?
Sookie Stackhouse : [drinks a little before stopping] No!
[he forces her to drink]
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Sookie Stackhouse : How old are you? Am I allowed to ask that?
Bill Compton : I was made vampire in 1865, when I was thirty human years old.
Sookie Stackhouse : Wow, you look older than that.
Bill Compton : Life was harder then.
Sookie Stackhouse : Were you in the Civil War?
Bill Compton : [apprehensive] I was.
Sookie Stackhouse : Would you be willing to come and talk to my grandmother's club? It's mostly a bunch of old people who had family in the war. They call themselves, The Descendants of the Glorious Dead.
Bill Compton : [incensed] The glorious dead? There is nothing glorious about dying in a war. A bunch of starving, freezing boys killing each other so the rich people can stay rich. Madness.
Sookie Stackhouse : I'm sure it was awful.
Bill Compton : Would it make you happy if I did this?
Sookie Stackhouse : Oh, it would make my grandmother ecstatic.
Bill Compton : Would it make you happy?
Sookie Stackhouse : Well... yes.
Bill Compton : I'll do it, then. I look forward to meeting your grandmother. When may I call on you?
Sookie Stackhouse : I'm off work tomorrow.
Bill Compton : Just after dark then.
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Sookie Stackhouse : Aren't you gonna tell me to be careful?
Adele Stackhouse : You're always careful, Sookie, about what counts and I can depend on that.
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Sookie Stackhouse : I went to the Rattrays' trailer.
Bill Compton : I told you I was strong.
Sookie Stackhouse : I don't believe I fully gauged the extent of your strength.
Bill Compton : Over the years, we become stronger and more skillful at hiding what we've done.
Sookie Stackhouse : You might wanna remember for next time tornadoes hop. They don't just land in one place.
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Sookie Stackhouse : [after everything he has told her] You're gonna have to give me a minute here, Bill. I'm feelin' a little overwhelmed.
Bill Compton : Of course.
[they start walking again]
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Sookie Stackhouse : You said you could glamour somebody into letting you bite them? What is that? Hypnosis?
Bill Compton : Kinda. It's similar. All humans are susceptible to it.
Sookie Stackhouse : Have you done it to me?
Bill Compton : [affronted] No. And I never will.
Sookie Stackhouse : Really? Try it.
Bill Compton : No. I don't feel comfortable with that.
Sookie Stackhouse : You chicken?
Bill Compton : [stops walking and stares intensely into her eyes] Sookie?
Sookie Stackhouse : [hypnotic] Yes?
Bill Compton : Can you feel my influence?
Sookie Stackhouse : [laughs] No! Not a bit! Sorry.
Bill Compton : [confused] Sookie, this is very strange.
Sookie Stackhouse : You don't like not being able to control people, do you? That's not a very attractive trait, Bill.
Bill Compton : Humans are usually more squeamish about vampires than you are.
Sookie Stackhouse : Who am I to be squeamish about something out of the ordinary?
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Sookie Stackhouse : I was diagnosed with ADD. They tried to put me on drugs, but my momma wouldn't let them. She knew that wasn't it. She tried to protect me even though I scared her.
Bill Compton : [knowingly] When did you lose her?
Sookie Stackhouse : Just before I turned eight. Both my parents, flash flood.
Bill Compton : I lost my wife and my children. Everyone I knew from my human life. Most of them are buried here in this cemetery.
Sookie Stackhouse : You really don't consider yourself human at all?
Bill Compton : I'm not human.
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Sookie Stackhouse : I swear I try not to listen, but I can't always keep my guard up.
Sam Merlotte : Is it true can't hear the vampire's thoughts at all? God, that's- I mean that must be very relaxin' for you. You know, not having to work so hard not to hear.
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Diane : [opening the door] Well, hey there, little human chick.
Sookie Stackhouse : Hi. I'm-I'm here to drop off some information about an electrician for Bill Compton. Is he here?
Diane : Maybe.
Malcolm : [inhaling] She smells fresh.
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Sookie Stackhouse : [seeing his home] This is where you live?
Bill Compton : Since old Jesse Compton had no living heirs when he died, ownership reverts back to me.
Sookie Stackhouse : I thought that wasn't for sure unless the VRA passes.
Bill Compton : Well, I haven't been getting in any trouble with the renovations I've been doing. Although, of course I've been doing them myself in the night. I need an electrician, but I can't get anyone to return my calls.
Sookie Stackhouse : Maybe if I made a few calls tomorrow, I could come by after work and tell you who to contact.
Bill Compton : Thank you.
[stops walking and stares at Sookie standing in the moonlight]
Bill Compton : Take your clip out.
[she removes her clip]
Bill Compton : May I?
[touches her hair; leans forward and takes a deep breath]
Bill Compton : I can smell the sunlight on your skin.
[they kiss passionaty]
Bill Compton : [pushes her away and turns, his fangs drawn] I should see you home.
Sookie Stackhouse : All right.
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Tara Thornton : Did he bite you?
Sookie Stackhouse : No!
Tara Thornton : Are you sure? Cuz you know they can hypnotize you!
Sookie Stackhouse : Yeah, and black people are lazy and jews have horns.
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Sookie Stackhouse : [standing outside her house] Well, since you're here...
[opens her door, but Bill hesitates]
Sookie Stackhouse : What's wrong?
Bill Compton : You have to invite me in. Otherwise, it's physically impossible for me to enter a mortal's home.
Sookie Stackhouse : Seriously? Well, come on, try.
Bill Compton : I-I can't. I can't even try.
Sookie Stackhouse : That is so weird!
[playfully]
Sookie Stackhouse : Oh Bill, won't you please come in?
Bill Compton : Thank you.
Sookie Stackhouse : [blocks his path] So, if I were to withdraw my invitation, would you have to leave?
[Bill nods, embarrassed]
Sookie Stackhouse : I'll have to remember that.
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Bill Compton : There must be some people who know about your talent.
Sookie Stackhouse : The people closest to me. But, we never talk about it. And I do my best to stay out of their heads. Over the years, I've learned how. I figured it's kind of unethical to listen into my family, and my friends, my boss. But, they know. Other people suspect or they think I'm psychic. Most people just think I'm crazy.
Bill Compton : [intrigued] What does it sound like?
Sookie Stackhouse : It's sort of like a stream of consciousness. Gets weirder when people are mad or upset. Sometimes... sometimes it's just images. I should be gettin' home.
[moves to sit up, surprised]
Sookie Stackhouse : Wow, I feel completely healed.
Bill Compton : [definite] You are.
Sookie Stackhouse : Do doctors know that V juice can do this?
Bill Compton : No. We wanna keep it that way. I should show you to your car.