# True Blood: "I Smell a Rat" 8/22/10 (open spoilers)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 23, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138 "2010-08-23T05:07:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/41 "2010-08-24T17:17:21Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Yes, Jason’s actions were completely justified and he was legitimately defending Andy’s life, but I’m not sure Jason himself is really able to understand that, or that Tara will be willing to listen to it.
So why didn’t Jason and Andy come clean right away? Was there a reason given?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/42 "2010-08-24T17:20:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> > Yes, Jason’s actions were completely justified and he was legitimately defending Andy’s life, but I’m not sure Jason himself is really able to understand that, or that Tara will be willing to listen to it.
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> So why didn’t Jason and Andy come clean right away? Was there a reason given?
Um, they’re idiots?
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/43 "2010-08-24T17:20:48Z")
They’re in Louisiana, though, which allows the use of deadly force to prevent someone from “using unlawful force” or trying to cause “bodily harm” to another.
It doesn’t matter in this case because Eggs had a knife, but in Lousiana, it probably would have been justified even if he had pepper spray or a stick.
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### Author:  [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/44 "2010-08-24T17:21:36Z")
My guess is that Hadley told Sophie-Ann her cousin was a mind reader. Sophie-Ann investigated Sookie through Bill. Bill reported back to Sophie-Ann what he found out, but it hasn’t been explained if Sophie-Ann knew explicitly that Sookie has fairy blood.
Spoiler from the books:
[Spoiler]Jason has fairy blood as well. His fairy trait is his attractiveness. Fairies are not just irresistible to vamps, but to humans as well, so that explains how he pulls all that tail. In the books, Sookie’s grandfather was a full-blooded fairy. He was not the man that Sookie knew as her grandfather, he was infertile. Gran snuck around with a fairy and had her two kids by him. I don’t know how the show is going to explain where the fairy blood came from.
Also, Sookie’s parents weren’t killed in a flash flood, they were killed by in a fairy war.[/Spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/45 "2010-08-24T17:22:57Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> > Yes, Jason’s actions were completely justified and he was legitimately defending Andy’s life, but I’m not sure Jason himself is really able to understand that, or that Tara will be willing to listen to it.
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> So why didn’t Jason and Andy come clean right away? Was there a reason given?
I don’t remember the exact conversation, but I think Jason was kind of in shock and Andy just took over. Also, they’re idiots. I’m not sure that Jason really understood that his actions were lawful, and he really didn’t want Tara to know, in any case. He felt awful about it, regardless of how justified he might have been.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/46 "2010-08-24T18:28:35Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> So why didn’t Jason and Andy come clean right away? Was there a reason given?
Assuming the writers were thinking ahead to this season, maybe they thought Jason blackmailing Andy and becoming a Junior Policeman would be a fun story line. Otherwise, it makes no sense at all.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/47 "2010-08-24T18:41:33Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> > [@Joey\_P](#):
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> > So why didn’t Jason and Andy come clean right away? Was there a reason given?
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> Assuming the writers were thinking ahead to this season, maybe they thought Jason blackmailing Andy and becoming a Junior Policeman would be a fun story line. Otherwise, it makes no sense at all.
I wish I still had that episode (does anyone remember which one it was). The reasoning IIRC seemed logical at the time.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/48 "2010-08-24T18:48:19Z")
It’s Beyond Here Lies Nothing (I think), but HBO only has the full episodes on iTunes.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/49 "2010-08-24T22:38:40Z")
> [@Minnie\_Luna](#):
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> Sam’s backstory didn’t really move me. Boo-hoo, he got taken advantage of, it seemed like a flashback from \*Lost \*with Sawyer. I guess we know where he got the money to open Merlotte’s. I also think it’s a little late in his character’s development to bring in such a major revelation about his abhorrence of violence.
I wonder why they included that- is it just filler or will it be relevant to a later episode? Perhaps the girl wasn’t really dead and will be back.
In any case, jewel thief and bankrobber- _that’s_ how you illegally make money from shapeshifting, not frigging dog fighting. I could accept finding out my biological folks are supernatural outlaws better than I could accept them being stupid white trash.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/50 "2010-08-24T23:12:49Z")
Here’s the relevant paragraph from the TWOP recap, picking up right after Jason shoots Eggs:
"But of course Jason goes into shock because of the previous murders and deaths and bullshit that has happened to him, and the whole “I am a killing machine” thing that comes with paramilitary training, which causes Andy to overreact in turn and take the gun away and send Jason running into the forest for no real reason so that when everybody comes running out of the bar to see what’s going on, he can say, “Eggs did all the murders and tried to kill me – or committed suicide by cop – and now we don’t have to worry.”
Sounds like Andy panicked because Jason shot Eggs.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/51 "2010-08-25T02:46:44Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> Here’s the relevant paragraph from the TWOP recap, picking up right after Jason shoots Eggs:
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> "But of course Jason goes into shock because of the previous murders and deaths and bullshit that has happened to him, and the whole “I am a killing machine” thing that comes with paramilitary training, which causes Andy to overreact in turn and take the gun away and send Jason running into the forest for no real reason so that when everybody comes running out of the bar to see what’s going on, he can say, “Eggs did all the murders and tried to kill me – or committed suicide by cop – and now we don’t have to worry.”
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> Sounds like Andy panicked because Jason shot Eggs.
Okay, that’s what I thought. Andy was putting his job on the line to protect Jason, make sense. Or, to make it shorter Jason and Andy are idiots.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/52 "2010-08-26T08:48:29Z")
Was it me or did the previews show a demon?
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/53 "2010-08-26T14:14:38Z")
> [@ouryL](#):
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> Was it me or did the previews show a demon?
Probably you are thinking of
The black arts ancestor?
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/54 "2010-08-28T17:03:15Z")
[quote=“Sampiro, post:49, topic:551138”]
> [@Minnie\_Luna](#):
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> In any case, jewel thief and bankrobber- _that’s_ how you illegally make money from shapeshifting, not frigging dog fighting. I could accept finding out my biological folks are supernatural outlaws better than I could accept them being stupid white trash.
Thank you. What exactly was the advantage of having your boy shift into a pitbull to fight for money? You don’t have to train (beat and starve) a real pitbull? It fits with being stupid rednecks, I guess.
Question for the board:
Why does the 3000-year-old king affect a southern accent at all times? Even when he’s super-pissed. Eric doesn’t, and moreover reverts to his original tongue on occasion.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/55 "2010-08-28T17:09:44Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#):
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> Why does the 3000-year-old king affect a southern accent at all times? Even when he’s super-pissed. Eric doesn’t, and moreover reverts to his original tongue on occasion.
And why does a 3,000 year old guy have the name Russel Edgington, while a 1,000 year old guy has the (appropriate) name Eric Northman?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/56 "2010-08-28T17:12:07Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> > [@drastic\_quench](#):
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> > Why does the 3000-year-old king affect a southern accent at all times? Even when he’s super-pissed. Eric doesn’t, and moreover reverts to his original tongue on occasion.
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> And why does a 3,000 year old guy have the name Russel Edgington, while a 1,000 year old guy has the (appropriate) name Eric Northman?
This was discussed earlier. Russel constantly changes to keep himself current. I’d imagine if he wanted to move up north and be the king of Minnesota he’d start calling himself Sven and talk like Rose Nylon.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/57 "2010-08-28T17:16:29Z")
Russell Edgington is not his real name. Apparently it was something kinda/sorta similar sounding in his original language (he’s a Celtic Druid), and he just Anglicized it. In the books, he sometimes reverts back into Celt like Eric does with Norse.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/58 "2010-08-28T18:27:35Z")
The edge Eric needs to fight off Russel is Sookie’s blood. He will be able to attack during the day.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/59 "2010-08-28T18:39:56Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> The edge Eric needs to fight off Russel is Sookie’s blood. He will be able to attack during the day.
But he’ll still have a problem with the werewolves. In the last episode or two, they’ve made a point of showing us that werewolves are able to be out and about (and guarding Russel) during the day, and the are REALLY fast. Maybe not as fast as a vampire, but they’ll still give them a run for their money.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-i-smell-a-rat-8-22-10-open-spoilers/551138/60 "2010-08-28T21:09:18Z")
Bill took out an entire pack of werewolves without breaking a sweat, and he’s helpless as a kitten compared to the venerable Eric. Werewolves to Eric would be like puppies to a human.
**gonzo** is 100% right, especially when you consider that the older a vampire is, the more susceptible they are to sunlight.
EDIT: Will Sookie ever realize that it would be good for her health and well-being to start “donating” blood as frequently as possible to canisters in her fridge? “Wait, don’t eat me to within an inch of my life. Have this bag o’ blood from my fridge instead!”
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