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"Mine"
Season 1, Episode 3
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Air date September 21, 2008
Written by Alan Ball
Directed by John Dahl
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"Mine" is the third episode of Season 1 of the HBO original series True Blood, and the series' third episode overall.

Summary[]

Bill must suddenly lay claim to Sookie in order to protect her from a cadre of his vampire acquaintances. At Merlotte's, Sam and Tara seek refuge from their respective problems, and Jason asks Lafayette for medicinal help. Dawn is found dead in her bed after an intimate encounter and falling-out with Jason.

Synopsis[]


"...You're wearing gold pants."
― Jason Stackhouse, to Lafayette Reynolds


Sookie arrives at Bill's house to give him some electricians' phone numbers that were willing to come out at night. Sookie sees a car she does not recognize, with obvious vampire bumper stickers and license plate. Malcolm and Diane answer the door and are standing in front of Sookie, blocking her entrance into the house. Sookie asks if Bill is home when Liam comes up behind Sookie, rolling his eyes back into his head and baring his fangs. They try to glamour her, but she informs them that glamouring doesn't work on her. As they let Sookie into the house, she repeatedly asks to see Bill. While inside, they ask Sookie personal questions and at one point even try to bite her, which leaves her completely terrified. Before the vampires can feed, Bill interrupts them and declares, "Sookie is mine!", making them immediately halt. Malcolm goes to his fangbanger, a young man named Jerry.

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Diane, Sookie, Liam and Malcolm.

Liam calls over his female fangbanger, Janella, and proceeds to receive oral sex. Diane is upset and very annoyed that she cannot feed from Sookie, which leads her to have a go at Bill. It appears she and Bill had a past. Sookie reads Jerry's thoughts and hears him say he has Hep D as Bill was about to feed from him.

As she announces it to the room, Jerry attacks and tries to choke her. Bill intervenes and breaks Jerry's wrist. The vampires stop immediately, as they are curious to how Sookie knew Jerry's secret. The three vampires soon leave and take their fangbangers with them. After they have left, Sookie is visibly distraught and leery of what just occurred. She asks Bill what Hep D is. He explains it is harmless to humans but weakens vampires for several months, which puts them in danger of being harmed or killed. Sookie gives Bill the electrician's number and quickly leaves.

An upset Sookie drives home. Using his vampire speed, Bill arrives there first. Startled by his sudden arrival, Sookie tells Bill they shouldn't see each other anymore. She explains that he keeps putting her in danger. First with Mack and Denise and then with his vampire guests. He tells her that she will never find anyone more suited than him, as he is the only one she can find peace with.

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Jason masked and scaring Dawn

Dawn comes home from work and notices that Jason is not tied to the bed anymore. Rushed from behind by a masked man, Dawn seems a bit excited until the masked man says he killed Jason. Dawn begins to scream loudly, and Jason quickly reveals himself as the masked man. At first angry, Dawn quickly forgives Jason and soon begins kissing him.

During foreplay, Jason cannot get an erection, which leads to a fight between the two. Dawn tells him to get out of her house and grabs her gun. Jason, assuming Dawn was joking, hears a warning shot and is told to get out once again after she threatens to shoot him. He leaves, but not before Dawn's neighbor overhears the fight and sees Jason angrily leave Dawn's house.

Tara and Sam are seen at Merlotte's. As they drink and talk about their personal lives, they both reveal they haven't had sex in months. Tara suggests the two should sleep together, a one-time fling for fun. Sam, concerned it would make their work relationship awkward, eventually gives in to Tara's request and the two have sex.

Sookie, asleep in bed that night, begins to have an erotic dream about Bill. She awakens, and cannot get back to sleep. Bill visits the three vampires from the previous night and soon gets mocked for living a Mainstream life. They tell Bill they killed both Jerry and Liam's fangbanger in horrific manners. The next morning, Sookie is mowing the lawn when Gran comes out to ask what she is doing. Sookie tells Gran she couldn't sleep and has been working since dawn. Gran tells Sookie to come inside and join her for breakfast to cheer her up a bit.

Tara comes home and is attacked by her drunken mother, Lettie Mae. Tara berates her mother, making Lettie Mae cry. Feeling guilty for her harsh words towards her mother, Tara offers to help her take a shower. Drunk and belligerent, Lettie Mae hits Tara in the head with a liquor bottle. Tara leaves her mother's home and goes to her cousin Lafayette's house. As Tara and Lafayette spend time together, Tara finds out that Lafayette is now working as a prostitute, as one of his customers leaves soon after she arrives.

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Jason dancing for V

Sookie and Gran are sitting at the table eating breakfast when Sookie tells Gran she is apprehensive of her own personal relationship with Bill. Sookie explains that she fears a relationship because he is a vampire, yet suggests that maybe she is scared simply because she cannot read his mind.

Meanwhile, Jason visits Lafayette's house and asks him if he can buy Viagra. Lafayette informs him he does not sell it, but that he does sell something better, V. He tells Jason that the V will give him an erection, as well as the best sex he and his partner have ever had. Jason cannot afford to pay for the V, so Lafayette agrees to let Jason dance for it. Stripping down to his underwear and wearing a Laura Bush mask, he begins to dance for Lafayette's video camera. Tara snoops and gives a curious eye to Jason and Lafayette's antics.

During the day, Sookie goes to Bill's house. Sitting on his porch stairs, she begins to privately masturbate. She is interrupted however, when her cell phone rings. Sam calls Sookie and asks if she will go to Dawn's house and check on her. Sookie drives to Dawn's and knocks on her front door. When she gets no response, she finds the door is unlocked and walks through her house and goes into her bedroom. Sookie finds her laying in her bed, dead. Sookie lets out a sudden scream as the episode ends.

Trailer[]

Notes[]

Accolades[]

  • This episode currently hasn't received any awards.

Allusions[]

Bloopers and Continuity Errors[]

  • Forty minutes into the action, Sookie is at her Gran's kitchen table, talking about her feelings towards Bill. She has long bangs and her dark roots are showing. Gran mentions her "ability" and when the camera goes back to Sookie, she has shorter bangs, platinum blond hair and a softer makeup. Even the lighting looks all different from the previous framing. This look stays until she goes to Bill's house, peers into his window and then turns back: then, her black roots and longer bangs appear again.
  • When Sookie finds Dawn dead, Dawn's neck is pulsing.
  • When Jason sits down to watch TV after returning home from fighting with his girlfriend, he turns on his flat panel television. The TV clearly makes a sound when turned on and off as if it was an old tube TV whereas flat panel televisions do not make that sound when turned on and off.

Continuity[]

Flashbacks[]

  • There are no flashbacks that occur in this episode.

Miscredits[]

Music[]

  • "Snake in the Grass" - Vallejo
  • "Freefall" - Pitch Black
  • "Downtown" - Alex Chilton
  • "Far, Far Away" - Wilco
  • "From a Whisper to a Scream" - Allen Toussaint
  • "Mine" - Bing Crosby & Judy Garland
  • "Red Eyes & Tears" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • "Belly Disco" - Karminsky Experience Inc.
  • "Soccer Practice" - Jonny McGovern
  • "Good Times" - Charlie Robison

Production[]

  • There are no production notes available for this episode.

Title[]

  • The title and the song refers to Bill's growing relationship with Sookie and how he calls her 'Mine' throughout the episode.

Trivia[]

  • The movie that Jason was watching for a short moment was "Horror of Dracula" (1958).
  • One of the coffins in Malcolm's nest (specifically the green marble one) has "Gott ist tot" written repeatedly around its side. "Gott ist tot" is German for "God is dead".
  • This episode is the first mention of vampire Queen Sophie-Anne, however she is not named in this episode, only referred to as 'she'.

Memorable Quotes[]

Bill Compton:

  • (To Sookie) "You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle... which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all."
  • (To Diane, Liam, and Malcolm) "Sookie is mine!"

Dawn Green:

  • (To Jason) "Limp dick mother fucker!"
  • (To Jason) "You are obnoxious, and full of yourself, and dumber than a box of hair, and now you can't even get it up?!"
  • "Ugh, god, just because you lost your hard on doesn't mean you have to have a fuckin' meltdown! Believe it or not Jason, the world does not revolve around your dick!"

Jason Stackhouse: (To Lafayette) "You're wearing gold pants!"

Lafayette Reynolds

  • (To Jason) "Oh lover, you gonna make me clutch my pearls."

Liam McKnight: "Someone needs to get down on my johnson."

Sookie Stackhouse: "STOP HE HAS HEP-D!"

Tara Thornton: (to her mother, Lettie Mae): "You ugly, old bitch."

Memorable Dialogue[]

Sookie Stackhouse: "Bill, night before last I had to bury my bloody clothes because I didn't want my grandmother to find out I was almost killed, and tonight I was almost killed again! Why on earth would I continue seeing you?"
Bill Compton: "Because you will never find a human man you can be yourself with.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Starring[]

Co-Starring[]

Gallery[]

Trading Cards[]

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Episode Ratings[]

Episode # Episode Title Viewers (in millions)
#1.03 (3) "Mine" 1.82


True Blood Season 1
Season 2 >>Season 3 >>Season 4 >>
#01 "Strange Love"#07 "Burning House of Love"
#02 "The First Taste"#08 "The Fourth Man in the Fire"
#03 "Mine"#09 "Plaisir D'Amour"
#04 "Escape from Dragon House"#10 "I Don't Wanna Know"
#05 "Sparks Fly Out"#11 "To Love Is to Bury"
#06 "Cold Ground"#12 "You'll Be the Death of Me"
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