Eric Northman

2x07 Release Me

[Eric and Isabel stand outside, watching the Fellowship of the Sun church]

ERIC: You have got to be joking me. This is the Fellowship of the Sun? That's their army - scared little boys with Bibles and crossbows?

ISABEL: Don't underestimate them. Support for their movement is growing. Their leadership camps are overflowing with self-righteous extremists, all willing and ready to die for their cause.

ERIC: That can be arranged quite easily.

ISABEL: Not until we know for sure the Fellowship has Godric.

ERIC: What about your boy, Hugo? And Sookie? They've been in there too long.

ISABEL: There's no sign of alarm, and if Hugo were in serious danger, I would know it. I felt something earlier, but it passed. He's okay now.

ERIC: Tell me, what is it that you find so fulfilling about human companionship?

ISABEL: They feel much more strongly than we do. Everything is urgent, exciting... maybe because their lives are so temporary.

ERIC: Yes, they certainly don't keep well. Don't you find the prospect of him growing old, sickly, and crippled somewhat... repulsive?

ISABEL: No. I find it curious, like a science project. How does Bill Compton feel about your interest in Sookie?

ERIC: I am not interested in Sookie, and even less in how Bill Compton feels. My only interest is finding Godric.

ISABEL: Of course.

ERIC: Don't look at me like that. Do you really believe these fools could overpower a vampire such as Godric and hold him for weeks?

ISABEL: Stan is sure of it, but I have known Godric a long time. It's hard to imagine anything could overpower him.

ERIC: Not anything human.

STAN: Maybe the little rats have run off - or joined the Fellowship themselves.

ISABEL: Careful. Hugo is mine.

STAN: Oh, please. If you cared about him so much, we'd have been in that church hours ago.

ISABEL: With no plan, no exit strategy? That's why you'll never be sheriff, Stan. You don't think.

STAN: And you're too chickenshit to act. That's why we've been getting Godric's coffee for the last forty years. [to Eric's back] And you. Fellowship has your maker and your telepath, and still you do nothing.

ERIC: [whirls around and pins Stan to the wall] Are you questioning my loyalty, Stan?

STAN: Just trying to return Godric to his rightful position.

ERIC: Oh, really? 'Cause I think maybe you have another agenda. Maybe you think starting a war with the Fellowship will distract us from the truth: that you're so starved for power, you murdered Godric for his title.

STAN: That is a lie. How dare you accuse me?

ISABEL: Eric, we don't know this. There's no proof.

ERIC: Not yet. But I will find it. And when I do, there will be no mercy. [steps back] In the meantime, you two can stand here and quibble over his position or run into that church and kill them all - I no longer care. [turns away] If Godric is gone, nothing will bring back what I have lost.