True Blood (TV Series)

Frenzy (2009)

Stephen Moyer: Bill Compton

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• Ludis : I can have the sex with you!

  Bill Compton : That will not be necessary.

• Bill Compton : I need to know how to kill a maenad.

  Sophie-Anne : A maenad, in Bon Temps? That's random.

  Bill Compton : Yes. She seems to have caused some sort of mass hypnosis. The whole town has devolved to a primitive state in a matter of days.

  Sophie-Anne : Oh my. She's an old one. Well, they're all old. Relics.

  Bill Compton : Ancient Greece, correct?

  Sophie-Anne : Before that even. Orgies, sacrifice?

  Bill Compton : Yes.

  Sophie-Anne : Cannibalism?

  Bill Compton : We suspect.

  Sophie-Anne : Oh, fun!

  Bill Compton : So, how do I kill it?

  Sophie-Anne : You can't. She's convinced herself she's immortal and so she is.

  [Bill looks confused] 

  Sophie-Anne : William surly you know everything that exists imagined itself into existence.

  Bill Compton : Umm... I'm not entirely familiar with that theory, no.

  Sophie-Anne : [musing]  Well, think about it. Imagine that you're a wild young girl who's married to some jerk who treats you like property and is also fucking some 14-year-old boy. And along comes this religion which encourages you to get hammered, run naked through the woods, have sex with who ever, what ever, and it's all part of getting closer to God?

  Bill Compton : I can see how that would have it's appeal, especially to humans with their tendencies towards puritanism.

  Sophie-Anne : Exactly! So you're fucking everybody in the dirt, why not kill something and eat it raw? Hey, you're super pious. There's nothing you can't do and each time you do, it brings you one step closer to the divine.

  Bill Compton : Isn't that delusional?

  Sophie-Anne : Never under-estimate the power of blind faith. It manifests in ways that bend the laws of physics or breaks them entirely.

  Bill Compton : I bit her and it poisoned me.

  Sophie-Anne : Of course it did. We can only drink human blood, and she's no longer even remotely human.

  Bill Compton : But she started out as human?

  Sophie-Anne : Hello. Evolution? We started out that way too.

• Sophie-Anne : Maenads are sad, silly things... the world changed centuries ago and they're still waiting for the God who comes.

  Bill Compton : Does 'he' ever come?

  Sophie-Anne : Of course not. Gods never actually show up, they only exist in humans' minds, like money and morality.

  Bill Compton : If I can't kill her, how do I get her to leave Bon Temps?

  Sophie-Anne : She has to believe she successfully summoned forth Dionysus in hope he will ravage her and quite literally devours her until she is lost into oblivion.

  Bill Compton : So she seeks death? The true death. The only thing she has evolved beyond.

  Sophie-Anne : Ironic, isn't it? You know, they're really not that smart, these maenads.

  Bill Compton : So how does she summon this non-existent god of hers?

  Sophie-Anne : I never said he was non-existent. I just said he never comes. She believes if she finds the perfect vessel, sacrifices and devours part of him or her, plus surrounded by the magic of her familiars then her mad god will appear. At that point when she willingly surrenders herself to him...

  Bill Compton : That's the only point she can be killed.

• Bill Compton : [as he leaves the Queen's house]  What are you doing here?

  Eric Northman : Hopin' the Queen knows how to kick some maenad's ass.

  Bill Compton : [skeptical]  Now why would you do that? So that you look like a hero to Sookie?

  Eric Northman : [smoothing his hair]  Oh Billy, this paranoia is really quite unbecoming. Has she, uh, mentioned me?

  Bill Compton : No. That was really quite desperate of you. Tricking her into drinking your blood, so that she'd become attracted to you.

  Eric Northman : Unlike you, who fed her your own blood the very night you met.

  Bill Compton : How do you know that?

  Eric Northman : So you're not denying it.

  Bill Compton : I was saving her life.

  Eric Northman : Isn't that convenient.

  Bill Compton : You stay away from Sookie, Eric or I will tell the Queen you are forcing humans to sell vampire blood for you.

  Eric Northman : [ominous]  You wouldn't.

  Bill Compton : I won't... as long as you never come close to Sookie ever again.

  Eric Northman : I don't like threats, Bill.

  Bill Compton : Neither do I.

  [walks away] 

• Bill Compton : [watching Sophie-Anne feed on her female slave Hadley's thighs]  Uh... is this a bad time?

  Sophie-Anne : [straightening]  Bad time? There's no such thing as bad or time for that matter. Wanna join me?

• Sophie-Anne Leclerq : Have you eaten?

  Bill Compton : Not tonight, but...

  Sophie-Anne Leclerq : I have several new members of court. A Latvian boy. Has to be tasted to be believed. Not polluted like most humans. Tastes exactly the way they used to taste just after I was turned. Before the Industrial Revolution f****d everything to hell. Should I summon him?

  Bill Compton : No, thank you.