eric's awesome awesomeness reaches epic proportions in this one. let me count you the ways:
1. eric shelters sookie from shards thrown by suicide bomber (he's a better protector than you, BILL). then bill nances in and the following dialogue ensues:
eric: go hunt humans or sth, bill.
and bill DOES IT.
eric: omg sooooookieeeeeee, i will die, am so injured from protecting you, i got shards of silver under my skin...
sookie: fine, i'll fetch godric to save you.
eric: no such time. suck the silver from my veins.
sookie: it's ...ewwww (*actual line. i was laughing so hard at this point)
eric: DO IT, WOMAN, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M DIEING HERE???
sookie - stares
eric: i mean....pleasee... i'll...die? *bats eyelashes
sookie: does it
bill - comes back from hunting zee eevil humans. has very understandably the WTF are you doing with my woman stare
2. eric - smirks. because there was a very sexless sex scene. OMINOUS
bill: but he wasn't going to die sooooooooookieeeeeeeeeeee!!! and you just drank his blood and that means you'll have freaky nasty thoughts with eric! (i'd like to point out that bill did give some blood to sookie early in the first season so it's a pot calling the kettle black moment)
sookie: NEVER! I hate you so much eric northman, wish you were dead!
eric: i love you too, baby.
3. then sookie has a freaky nasty dream with eric and there we discover that he has a heart and he's so in love and seductive. no really, we didn't see that coming... also, eric thinks sookie vampires better than bella swan! actually, she will vampire better than anyone! yay! and then he kisses her.
4. eric gets a punch from bill-the-pot and he doesn't punch back. under sookie's eyes. and in his head he's doing victory laps with a huge crowd yelling U.S.A! U.S.A! I'M DA MAN!!!!!
5. eric cries tears of blood because godric wants to commit suicide by sun. under sookie's eyes (again). then, before he dissipates in a cloud of sparkles, godric asks sookie to take care of eric (and we know she will do it, by all the gods, because that's a vamp's last wish. also because eric is totally hot)
6. eric is hot and this must be mentioned with a separate number. he's also taller than bill, blonder and with awesome shoulders. it doesn't hurt that he's very badass and devious. like i said, i'd love an eric northman to just waltz in and glower at all the things that are not right in my life. they'd magically disappear (a girl can dream, can't she?)
also, lafayette is completely awesome at kicking eggs and dragging tara away from evil maryann. and y'all know lafayette has some eric blood in him and not even maryann wants to mess with that.
also, sam turns into a fly and jessica meets hoyt's mom and the old bat gets bitchy but hoyt is a man and stands up for his tru luv.
like i said previously:
best.series.ever