TRUE BLOOD Episode 4:"Escape From Dragon House" - Review
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In the fourth episode of HBO's "True Blood", events pick up where they concluded in episode 3, "Mine". Jason and Sookie discover that his girlfriend Dawn has been murdered. The cops show up, and of course with the relationship between Jason and Dawn...and a neighbor's eye witness testimony that Jason and Dawn had a fight right before she was killed, the police take Jason into custody for the crime. Despite having no factual proof he did it. Now Jason has to clear his name somehow, but that won't be easy with Dawn's murder now making two women that Jason has had "relations" with, dying shortly after. The town begins to suspect that he's a killer, all the while Jason downs the entire vile of "V" (vampire blood)...that Lafayette gave him in episode 3 so the police won't find it on him.
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This produces some comical yet expected "results"...which are a source of humor throughout most of the episode. Meanwhile Sookie, with her brother being under suspicion of murder and all, wants to help but feels there's very little she can do. That is until Gran tells her to use her mind-reading gift to see if she can pick up any stray thoughts about who the real killer might be, as she doesn't believe her grandson and Sookie's brother Jason, is capable of such a haneous act of murder. Sookie agrees to do this, but doesn't come up with anything of substance right away. Meanwhile Tara helps get Jason released from police custody in quite a clever way, obviously furthering the soon-to-come storyline of Tara and Jason possibly getting together. But we learn more about the relationship between Tara and Jason in Episode 4 through a flashback moment in Tara's car while she's driving him from the station.
Sookie meanwhile enlists Bill's help when he enters the bar, to assist her in finding out who really killed Dawn. This as the towns divide between vampires and humans grows larger and more bitter with so many deaths happening left and right. And issues between the vampires and the humans being to float to the surface more clearly. This revealed in a scene where Sookie is reading the minds of some of the bar patrons before Bill comes in. Bill eventually tells Sookie about a vampire bar outside of town named "Fangtasia"...where vampires hang out, as well as humans who either have a death wish, want to be turned, or are looking to lure vampires into a trap...something that's revealed when Sookieand Bill arrive, and Sookie begins scanning everyone there.
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While at "Fangtasia"...Sookie meets a vampire named Eric, who's much older than Bill, and so finally we're introduced to the metrosexual vampire in this series. Whereas the vampires in this series up until this point have either been shy and brooding like Bill, or confrontational and violent like Bill's friends from episode 3...Eric is more of the pretty boy/brooding type. At first he seems like he might have it in for Sookie and Bill, but eventually he's revealed to be for the most part, just another vampire...atleast so far. But things remain unchanged as Sookie and Bill fail to get any information out of him about the murders beyond both girls having been at the club at one point. This is all revealed before Sookie's mind-reading reveals that there's a police raid about to descend upon "Fangtasia". And so her, Bill, and Eric have to flee.
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The ending of episode 4, "Escape From Dragon House", is when it really shines however. As it is revealed that another party might be possibly responsible for Dawn's murder. Whether that person is a human or a vampire, I won't spoil here...but it is certainly an interesting twist in events which sets up a whole lot of possibilities and other story twists later on down the road. There's not much comedy in this episode beyond the "problem" that Jason encounters when he downs the whole vile of "V" he was given. But with problems like the one Jason comes up against, there really wasn't much need for comedy in episode 4 anyhow.
Watching Jason try and solve his "problem" throughout the entire episode was comical enough. But at the same time, it was also sort of cool watching him and Tara bond more throughout the episode, and it really kind of puts into perspective how much she may like him, or how much she pity's him...whichever one it is revealed to be later on. Episode 5, which airs next Sunday looks like another suspense-filled entry as the real killer of Dawn may or may not be revealed. But either way, I'm pretty sure whoever gets too close to figuring the whole mystery out is gonna be next in the killers sights, that's for sure.
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