Eric Northman

2x05 Never Let Me Go

[Eric, Bill, and Sookie are in Godric's compound with Stan and Isabel]

STAN: You shoulda told me Eric hired a fucking human, Isabel.

SOOKIE: Now wait just a minute!

BILL: Respect her!

SOOKIE: Thank you.

ISABEL: I couldn't tell you, Stan. You've been off on your own for days.

ERIC: Are you certain Godric was abducted by the Fellowship of the Sun?

STAN: Yes.

ISABEL: [at the same time] No.

STAN: They're the only ones with the organization and manpower.

ISABEL: But they're amateurs. It doesn't make any sense. This is Godric we're talking about - two thousand years old.

STAN: Old don't make you smart.

ISABEL: Besides, there's no proof.

SOOKIE: If they've got him, I'll hear it. That's my job.

STAN: There's no reason to wait. We need to take these fanatics down. Full-out attack. Exterminate them like the vermin they are, leave no trace.

ISABEL: Hmm, vampire-hating church annihilated. Wonder who did it? Fucking brilliant.

BILL: I doubt the king of Texas would approve the destruction of our international political agenda.

STAN: Fuck that. The Great Revelation is the biggest mistake we ever made.

ISABEL: Don't use Godric to make your own little power play.

ERIC: You're completely incompetent! What's happened to Godric that he surrounds himself with clowns?

ISABEL: We invited you as a courtesy. This is not your territory. You have no voice here.

STAN: Yeah, Sheriff. Why don't you run on back down to Louisiana? We don't need you or your puppets.

ERIC: Oh, I'm not going anywhere.

SOOKIE: And I'm nobody's puppet.

BILL: What we need is a plan.

STAN: I have a plan.

ISABEL: It's not a plan. It's a movie.

STAN: It's not a movie. It's a war!

ERIC: Idiots.

ISABEL: Of course. So the federal government can bomb us back into the Middle Ages!

STAN: Ha! Things were better then.

ISABEL: Then go to Romania and live in a cave, you ranchero poser.

ERIC: [throws a vase against the wall with a roar] Godric has protected you, made you rich, and you stand there spitting and scratching like infants.

BILL: Don't any of you care that there's a traitor in your midst?

STAN: No.

ISABEL: Impossible.

SOOKIE: Someone tried to kidnap me from the airport.

BILL: You were the only ones that knew she was coming.

ERIC: Explain.

STAN: Unless it was you.

ISABEL: Unless it was you.

SOOKIE: Look, if y'all argue any more, I'm either gonna fall asleep or start screaming, so this is what we're gonna do. I'll infiltrate the Fellowship of the Sun.

BILL: Absolutely not.

ERIC: Let her speak.

SOOKIE: Since Bill glamored the kidnapper, no one there knows who I am. I'll pretend I wanna join the church, and check out all their thoughts.

BILL: No. During the day, none of us can help you.

SOOKIE: It'll only take a little while. Really, Bill, it's simple.

STAN: Waste of time. Or we could drink them all. I want no part of this. [stalks out]

ISABEL: There's no easier way to find out if they're involved.

ERIC: If it leads us to Godric, we'll do it. The decision is made.

BILL: A few words.

[Eric and Bill leave]

ISABEL: [to Sookie] So tell me, how goes your human-vampire relationship?

[outside the room]

BILL: You knew it would come to this. She was just clawed and poisoned by a creature we don't know and we can't find, and now in Dallas, you're playing with her life.

ERIC: It's no game to me.

BILL: All this for a colleague... for the sheriff of Area 9? Why?

[flashback - two Vikings help a wounded Eric walk. Eric falls to the ground]

ERIC: Fortsätt ni. Det är över för mig. Fortsätt ni. (Go on, you two. I'm finished. Go.)

SOLDIER 1: Nej, det är det inte. (No.)

SOLDIER 2: Erik... Du räddade våra liv hundratals gånger. Vi skulle inte lämna dig åt vargarna. (Eric, you saved our lives a hundred times. We wouldn't leave you to the wolves.)

SOLDIER 1: Vi inväntar slutet med dig. (We'll be with you until the end.)

BOTH: Ja. (Yes.)

SOLDIER 2: Du ska få en hjältes avsked. (We'll give you a hero's farewell.)

SOLDIER 1: Och Gudarna väntar på dig i Valhalla. (And the gods will be waiting for you in Valhalla.)

SOLDIER 2: Det kommer att vara fest med mat... och guld... och mjöd! (There will be a feast with food... and gold... and mead!)

SOLDIER 2: Mjöd! Och kvinnor... Kommer det vara kvinnor där? (Mead! And women? Will there be women?)

ERIC: Var än jag befinner mig... finns det alltid kvinnor. (Wherever I am, there will always be women.)

SOLDIER 2: Kom. (Come on.)

[Eric's friends laugh and help him back up. The scene shifts to Eric lying on a pyre while they stand guard]

SOLDIER 1: Allt kommer gå väl. Känn ingen fruktan. (All will be well. Feel no fear.)

ERIC: Jag känner ingen fruktan. Jag känner vrede. (I feel no fear. I feel wrath.)

[Godric kills Eric's friends and jumps onto the pyre, hovering over Eric]

ERIC: är du Döden? (Are you Death?)

GODRIC: Det är jag. (I am.)

ERIC: Men du är ju bara en liten gosse. (But you're just a little boy.)

GODRIC: Det är jag inte. (No, I'm not.)

ERIC: Mina männer? (My men...?)

GODRIC: Döda. (Dead.)

ERIC: Ditt svin. (You swine.)

GODRIC: Jag såg dig på slagfältet igår natt. Jag har aldrig sett någon strida så som du. (I watched you on the battlefield last night. I've never seen anyone fight like you.)

ERIC: Jag skulle strida mot dig nu om jag kunde. (I would fight you now if I could.)

GODRIC: [laughs] Ja, jag vet. Det är vackert. (Yes, I know. It's beautiful.)

ERIC: Vad väntar du på? Dräp mig. (What are you waiting for? Kill me.)

GODRIC: Skulle du kunna vara dödens följeslagare? Vandra vid min sida genom världen, genom mörkret? Jag ska lära dig allt jag kan. Jag blir din fader, broder, din son. (Could you be the companion of Death? Could you walk by my side through the world, through the darkness? I'll teach you everything I know. I'll be your father, your brother, your son.)

ERIC: Och vad får jag ut av det? (And what's in it for me?)

GODRIC: Det du älskar högst - liv. (What you love most: life.)

ERIC: Liv. (Life.)

[Godric bites Eric, and the flashback ends]

ERIC: Godric is my maker.

Thanks for the Swedish, Kristina!