Bill, Sookie and others in “Scratches”

Bill

[to Sookie] Are you still angry about our fight? Sookie, none of that matters anymore.

Sookie

You're right. I'm alive and in one piece. Unlike my friend Lafayette who Eric chained up like an animal and left to bleed to death.

Bill

What?

Sookie

You better not have known anything about this, Bill Compton. Because if you did, I don't think I could ever forgive you!

Bill

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Eric

[behind them] I imagine she's referring to the human in my basement... The human who traded sexual services with a vampire in order to sell his blood - which as you know is a grave offense.

Sookie

[to Eric] His name is Lafayette and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to him. [slaps him]

Bill

Sookie!

Eric

I'm glad you're feeling better and may I add that color suits you very well. [referring to her red shirt]

Sookie

Go to hell!

Bill

[holding her back] Sookie! Enough!

Sookie

Oh it's not nearly enough. They've tortured him and bitten him and shot him and kept him down there in his own filth for weeks.

Bill

[to Eric] Is this true?

Eric

There are others who would have done far worse and you know it.

Sookie

You're gonna let him go right now or I swear, I'm going to the police.

Eric

[angry, draws his fangs] I do not respond well to threats!... But perhaps we could come to some sort of arrangement.