S1 E4 Escape from Dragon House

As Sookie screams for help, Jason shows up with a bouquet of flowers. Dawn’s neighbor answers Sookie’s calls and, upon seeing Dawn’s body, accuses Jason of killing her and he storms off. Later, a large crowd of police and onlookers has gathered, including Arlene Fowler, another Merlotte’s waitress, her boyfriend Rene Lenier and Hoyt Fortenberry, both of whom work on Jason’s roadworks crew.

Sam, who owns the block of houses, shows up to comfort Sookie just before Mike Spencer, the county coroner, and his assistant Neil bring Dawn’s body out. Andy Bellefleur takes Jason in for questioning again and Jason, remembering that he has a vial of illegal vampire blood on him, swallows the whole thing. Halfway through his questioning, the overdose of “V-juice” gives Jason a severe case of priapism. He is rescused from the cops by Tara and, after she takes him home, Jason tries to rid himself of his erection, but nothing will work.

Adele asks Sookie to read the townspeople’s thoughts in order to find any evidence that will clear her brother’s name. Desperate for relief, Jason goes to Merlotte’s to see Lafayette, who cannot help him. After deducing Jason’s use of V-juice, Tara insists on taking him to the hospital. In order to help in Sookie’s investigation, Bill agrees to take her to a vampire bar in Shreveport named Fangtasia. Sam warns Sookie of the dangers of hanging around in such places, but she ignores them and goes anyway. When they arrive at Fangtasia, Bill and Sookie are admitted by an old vampire acquaintance of Bill’s, Pam. Sookie describes the bar as it would be like if it was a ride at Disneyworld.

At the hospital, Jason lies to the doctor about taking any drugs and, not wanting to risk a drug reaction, the doctor uses a large syringe to drain the blood out of Jason’s penis without anesthesia. On the ride home, Jason sleeps and Tara reminisces about their childhood together, when Jason would protect her from her mother’s drunken violence. It seems that Tara is in love with Jason.

At Fangtasia, Bill and Sookie are summoned by Eric Northman, a thousand-year-old Viking vampire and owner of the bar. Sookie shows him pictures of Maudette and Dawn and Eric reveals that he slept with Dawn, but rejected Maudette. Sookie senses that a human is being fed on in the bathroom just before a police raid on Fangtasia, and she, Bill, Pam and Eric manage to escape just in time. On their way back to Bon Temps, Bill is pulled over by a police officer and the situation gets out of hand when Bill glamours the officer. Sookie is afraid Bill is going to kill him, but instead he simply drives off after warning the officer to be careful the next time he pulls someone over on suspicion of being a vampire. The episode ends with Sam letting himself into Dawn’s old house and rolling around in her sheets, sniffing and writhing as though in sexual ecstacy.