"The Fourth Man in the Fire"
Season 1, Episode 08
Air date	26 Oct 2008
Written by	Alexander Woo
Directed by	Michael Lehmann
Episode Guide
previous "Burning House of Love"	next "Plaisir D'Amour"

"Fourth Man In The Fire" is the eighth episode of Season 1 of True Blood, and the eighth episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Notes 2.1 Accolades 2.2 Featured music 2.3 Title 3 Memorable quotes 3.1 Jason 3.2 Bill 3.3 Sookie 3.4 Terry 3.5 Eddie 4 Memorable Dialogue 5 Trailer 6 Cast 6.1 Starring 6.2 Recurring cast 6.3 Guest starring 6.4 Co-starring

SynopsisEdit

"You're entirely different. And the beauty and the tragedy of it is that you don't know just how different you are."-Bill to Sookie

Sookie spends the morning helpless and worried, thinking that Bill was killed in the fire. Jason wakes up with Amy, thinking they had sex. It turns out however, that they were simply having an extraordinary V trip. The two continue to grow closer when Jason opens up to her about his parents tragic deaths years earlier. Tara is amazed at Lettie Mae’s seemingly instant recovery. Tara has a huge fight with Sookie about her relationship with Bill.

That night, Sookie takes flowers to Bill’s grave and cries. As she is walking back, a creature rises out of the dirt and grabs her. Sookie screams and tries to fight back until she realizes that it is Bill and the two have sex in the dirt. The next day, Jason introduces Amy to everyone at Merlotte's. Amy winds up being hired as the new waitress while Sookie tries to warn her about Jason’s tom-catting ways. Amy suggests Sookie not be so quick to judge him.

Tara lashes out at her mother and her mother's friend, Mable. After sleeping with Sam again, she snaps at him for being a racist. Sookie and Bill babysit Arlene’s kids. While pretending to have a flat tire, René proposes to Arlene who accepts. Mike Spencer, the coroner, identifies the fourth body in the fire. I turns out to be Neil Jones, his assistant, who was secretly a vampire groupie called a “Fangbanger”.

Sam is interrogated by Sheriff Bud Dearborne and Andy. They ask him some questions about the fire. Andy also has some questions about why he saw Sam running through the woods naked, to which Sam replies he comes from a family of naturists. Sam says he grew up in a colony and he that he goes running naked through the woods once a year to honor them. Andy later checks this out and finds that Sam was lying about having grown up in a naturist colony. After talking with Lafayette about her mother, Tara starts thinking that she may need an exorcism of her own.

Jason sees Amy’s darker side when she reveals that she needs more V, but Lafayette won’t sell it to him anymore. They decide to follow him that night and discover that he gets his V from a gay vampire named Eddie in return for sexual favors. Bill returns home to find Eric in his bathtub. Eric says that he needs Sookie to do some work for him. Tara goes to Miss Jeanette to get her exorcism.

After Lafayette leaves, Jason and Amy kidnap Eddie and shove him into Jason’s truck. Sookie reluctantly goes to Fangtasia where Eric reveals that he needs her to use her telepathy. He wants to find out which one of his employees has stolen $60,000. Sookie agrees, but only if they hand the culprit over to the police. She learns that a woman named Ginger knows who took the money, but her memory has been wiped with glamouring. This leads them to the conclusion a vampire must be responsible.

At that moment Longshadow leaps across the bar, his fangs bared and attacks Sookie.

NotesEdit

AccoladesEdit

• The episode was nominated for a Motion Pictures Sound Editors award for Best Sound Editing – Short Form Dialogue and ADR in Television

Featured musicEdit

• "Comes & Goes (in Waves)" - Greg Laswell
• "Give It Up" - Lee Dorsey
• "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me" - Mildred Anderson
• "All in Good Time" - The Swampires
• "Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
• "The Fourth Man in the Fire" - Johnny Cash
• "I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News)" - The Eagles of Death Metal

TitleEdit

The title of the episode and the song within the episode imply that Bill, who was thought to be the fourth person that was killed in the house, is actually alive.

Memorable quotesEdit

JasonEdit

• "I just want to lick your mind!"
• "I am the worst brother in the world."

BillEdit

• "And the beauty and the tragedy of it is... that you don't know just how different you are."

SookieEdit

• "You cannot check me out like a library book!"

TerryEdit

• "Look. It's a possum prick."

EddieEdit

• "I always look forward to Monday nights. First I watch Heroes, then I have you."

Memorable DialogueEdit

Coby: Bill, how come you can't have ice cream?
Bill: You might say that I'm... lactose intolerant.
Coby: Just like my Aunt Fern. 'Cept, she don't tolerate Mexicans. And Homosexuals.

Sookie: (After Tara came charging into the house) Watch you feet! I just waxed!
Tara: I hope you mean the floor."

TrailerEdit

CastEdit

StarringEdit Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton Recurring castEdit Chris Bauer as Detective Andy Bellefleur Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds Jim Parrack as Hoyt Fortenberry Adina Porter as Lettie Mae Daniels Carrie Preston as Arlene Fowler Bellefleur Michael Raymond-James as René Lenier William Sanderson as Sheriff Bud Dearborne Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman Guest starringEdit Lizzy Caplan as Amy Burley Stephen Root as Eddie Fournier

Co-starringEdit Aisha Hinds as Miss Jeanette Kristin Bauer as Pam Swynford De Beaufort Todd Lowe as Terry Bellefleur John Billingsley as Mike Spencer Raoul Trujillo as Longshadow Michael McMillian as Steve Newlin Elayn Taylor as Mable Michael McCafferty as Bruce Tara Buck as Ginger Mitchell Edmonds as Nudist man Alec Gray as Coby Fowler Laurel Weber as Lisa Fowler Stephanie McVay as Vampire talk show host Brian Ogilvie as Forensics tech

True Blood Season 1
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#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"