Sam Trammell credited as playing...
Sam Merlotte
- Sam Merlotte: [about her party] What do you want it took look like?
- Terry Bellefleur: A débutante ball.
- Arlene Fowler: [happily] Hug your neck! You know exactly what I'm talkin' about. I'll be right back. Thank you, Sam!
- [walks off]
- Sam Merlotte: How'd you know what she wanted?
- Terry Bellefleur: My cousin Portia was a deb, in Shreveport when she turned 18. Every Bellefleur woman's been doin' it since they started having 'em before the Revolutionary War.
- Sam Merlotte: Must be nice to come from such an old family.
- Terry Bellefleur: All families are old, Sam. Some just keep better records.
- Sam Merlotte: [transforming] I'm not the killer, I swear. I'm a shapeshifter.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [thunderstruck] ... Shut the fuck up.
- Andy Bellefleur: Sam... where the hell did you come from?
- Sam Merlotte: I come from exactly the same place everybody else comes from, Andy.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [finding Sam naked at the foot of her bed] What the hell are you doing here?
- Sam Merlotte: Nothing. Sleeping.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did you touch me?
- Sam Merlotte: Hell, no, I swear. Sookie, listen. Bill... Bill asked me to look after you while he was away.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did he ask you to do it buck naked?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [after he told her about shape shifting] What else is there?
- Sam Merlotte: More than you can imagine.