Eric Northman
3x02 Beautifully Broken
[Sookie and Jessica have gone to Fangtasia to show the "Operation Werewolf" rune to Eric]
SOOKIE: It stands for Operation Werewolf, some kind of secret Nazi commando force from World War II.
ERIC: You found this branded on a dead man's neck.
SOOKIE: Bill summoned Jessica there. I think he was trying to show us who kidnapped him.
JESSICA: Yeah, Nazi werewolves!
SOOKIE: That dead guy was strong and fast enough to take Bill - he had to be something supernatural. I was hoping you could tell us more.
ERIC: Never seen it before. Sorry.
SOOKIE: Why do I get the feeling you're blowing me off?
ERIC: (Swedish to Pam)
PAM: [to Jessica] Let's go to the ladies' room and stare at ourselves in the mirror. [they leave]
ERIC: Here's what I know about werewolves. There's a reason their existence has remained merely a myth to humans for thousands of years. They're territorial, vicious, pathologically secretive.
SOOKIE: Boy, does that sound familiar.
ERIC: And here's what I know about you. You're so blinded by your obsession with Bill Compton, you're likely to run through the streets, screaming "Werewolf bait!" - alerting whoever has Bill that we're onto them, or getting yourself killed.
SOOKIE: You think I'm that stupid?
ERIC: No, I think you're human.
SOOKIE: Don't underestimate me.
ERIC: Don't underestimate yourself! Your life's too valuable to throw away.
[long pause, then Eric moves away]
[cut to Pam and Jessica talking, then scene resumes with Eric and Sookie seated at a table]
ERIC: You have no connections in the Were community. They're not gonna answer your questions because they don't even want you to know they exist.
SOOKIE: Bill's out there somewhere - in danger. I can't just go on with life like that's not happening. You know that, maybe better than anyone. When Godric went missing--
ERIC: [snaps] Bill Compton is no Godric.
SOOKIE: But he's everything to me. [cries]
ERIC: Please don't do that. It makes me feel... disturbingly human.
SOOKIE: I risked my life to help you find Godric, and I don't expect you to do the same for Bill. But at the very least, I hope you'll help me if you can.
[Eric looks at Sookie quietly; Pam and Jessica return]
JESSICA: Sookie? You gotta get me home before dawn.
[Eric watches her leave, then the scene goes into a flashback]
AUGSBURG, GERMANY, 1945
ERIC: (It's here, Godric. I feel it.)
GODRIC: (Wait.)
[American soldier enters and finds a naked woman crying]
WOMAN: Helfen Sie mir. Bitte, helfen Sie mir. (Help me. Please, help me.)
SOLDIER: It's going to be all right. I won't hurt you.
[He takes off his jacket to give her, but she turns into a wolf and kills him. Disguised as Nazis, Eric and Godric leap from their hiding place, and Godric pins her arm to the wall with a bayonet]
WOMAN: [screams] Ah, wir sind doch alle die gleichen, Ihr Idioten! (We're on the same side, you fools!)
ERIC: [moves her hair aside to reveal Operation Werewolf rune] Nein, wir sind nicht gleich. (No, we're not.)
[flashback ends and returns to Eric sitting in Fangtasia. He crumples the rune card that Sookie brought to show him]
ERIC: Hello, Sookie. [she opens the door] They came for you.
SOOKIE: Just one, this morning. He took off before I could get anything out of him. That why you're here? Or do you know something about Bill?
ERIC: I lied to you.
[flashback resumes with Eric, Godric, and the Were]
ERIC: Wer ist dein Herr? (Who is your master?) [she doesn't answer, so Eric shouts] Wer ist dein Herr?
WOMAN: Gib mir dein Blut und ich sag's dir. (Give me your blood. I will tell you.)
GODRIC: (Eric, the blood is sacred.)
[Eric bites his wrist and lets the woman drink]
ERIC: Wer. Ist. Dein Herr? (Who... is... your master?)
WOMAN: Er ist einer von euch. (He is one of you.)
[She lunges and pins Eric to the floor before Godric kills her]
GODRIC: (A vampire is never at the mercy of his emotions. He dominates them.) [Eric stands] (We will find him. Patience.)
[flashback ends and returns to Eric and Sookie sitting on the porch]
SOOKIE: You and Godric were in the SS?
ERIC: We posed as whatever would help us in our search.
SOOKIE: But you were hunting the Nazi werewolves.
ERIC: The symbol is runic. This... pact dates back a lot farther than the Nazi party.
SOOKIE: So they aren't Nazis?
ERIC: They're much more than that. These are not ordinary werewolves. They're organized, well funded, highly trained, and fueled by vampire blood.
SOOKIE: Why didn't you tell me last night?
ERIC: A bigger question is why am I risking everything to tell you now? My loyalty is not to Bill. In fact, it would be advantageous for me in numerous ways if he were never found. But...
SOOKIE: But...?
ERIC: Now they're coming for you, and I... owe you.
SOOKIE: When you said you were risking everything to tell me, what did that mean?
ERIC: The goal tonight was to keep you out of danger, not put you in more of it. [stands and walks away]
SOOKIE: [walks after him] Eric, you can't just say something like that and leave.
ERIC: Oh, I'm not leaving. You're going to invite me in so I can protect you... or have passionate, primal sex with you. How about both?
SOOKIE: You're not gonna distract me while talking nasty.
ERIC: I already have. So? Are you going to invite me in?
SOOKIE: I'm still Bill's.
ERIC: [sees her ring] So you are.
ERIC: To have and to hold, to love and to cherish, to... blah blah blah blah blah 'til death do you part. It doesn't bother you that you're the only one doing the dying?
SOOKIE: I'm not gonna talk about this with you.
ERIC: Okay. So you'd really rather stay out here all night than invite me in?
SOOKIE: One minute you lie to me, the next minute you ask me to trust you. You do something generous, selfless, and then you follow that up with something nasty or downright cruel.
[Eric hears something in her house and backs her up against the wall]
ERIC: Invite me in.
SOOKIE: You can't bully your way into--
ERIC: [fangs] Invite me in. Now.
SOOKIE: Mr. Northman, will you please come in?
[He walks in and sees a wolf; they leap at each other. Sookie fires her gun, and the episode ends]
Thanks to Carina for the German!