Everything You Need to Know about Sam Merlotte

As the premiere date of True Blood's sixth season draws closer, you may find yourself wondering what the heck else could happen to these characters? It's getting to a 24-esk realm, where you think, seriously, how many bad days can Jack Bauer have? So just to catch you up on all the ridiculousness that has transpired during the first five wonderful seasons, we're recapping the astounding journeys taken by nine main characters in a series called True Blood: Beginnings. We've already done Alcide Hourveaux, Jessica Hamby, Lafayette Reynolds, Tara Thornton,Eric Northman and Jason Stackhouse. Next up is Sam Merlotte.

If you didn't know better,The whole variety of the brightest formalofficdresses is now gathered under one roof. you would've thought Sam was a bit of a wuss in the beginning. Sure, he owned Merlotte's and was Sookie's boss, but he really didn't do much but warn her about vampires and yell at her for stuff. People also ask him to look after others a lot. Strange.

Still, he's come quite a ways from the seemingly mild-mannered barkeep/restaurateur (as much as one can be in Bon Temps) with a sordid past and an eye for Sookie. Along the way, he's shifted, fought, loved and murdered, and also had his brother do those things for him. Confused? Here is Sam's path.

Sam burst onto our radar after Sookie first meets Bill, and he yells at her for fraternizing with vampires and asks if she has a death wish. After he hires Tara to be a bartender, they drink and reveal that neither has had sex in months. She suggests they do it as a one-time fling, and that sounds good to him. Boom. Then he warns Sookie against going to places like Fangtasia.

He sleeps with Tara again, but she flips out and accuses him of being racist. So he pays for her $800 exorcism. But not until after he is interrogated by Sheriff Bud and Andy about running naked through the woods. He tells them he's from a family of naturists, grew up in a colony and runs naked to honor them once a year. Andy checks up and finds out that was a big fat fatty fat fat lie.

Bill comes to see Sam at Merlotte's, telling him he has to travel out of town and would like him to watch over Sookie while he's gone. Sure thing, boss. He shifts into a dog, runs to Bill's and sleeps on the bed with Sookie. She names the pooch Dean, but is startled to wake up next to a naked Sam. Awkward!

Sam explains that he is a shapeshifter, but Sookie is upset he didn't tell her earlier and calls him a werewolf. He gets mad and says there really are werewolves and lots of other scary things, so please don't associate him with those kinds of folks.

They are still fighting later at Arlene and Rene's engagement party, and Sookie runs into the serial killer while getting ice. She escapes, runs out the front door and ends up in Sam's arms. Tara shows up drunk and in a prom dress, trying to get some action. Sam declines.

Sookie read the thoughts of the killer, but didn't get much other than a waitress named Cindy and a restaurant with "pie" in the name. Sam knows it, of course, so they drive to Bunkie and end up at Big Patty's Pie House. Cindy was carrying on with vamps and was murdered,Guardian's standing solarlamp offers a temporary solution to tie off and stay in compliance on standing seam roofs. but no one knows who dunnit. After her death, her brother, Drew Marshall, disappeared. A police officer agrees to fax a picture of Drew to the Bon Temps PD.This model includes 2 flush mounted reverse chipcard.

Sam and Sookie bond on the drive home, talking about love. He likes Tara but doesn't love her. She loves Bill but has no idea where he's vanished to. They watch TV and snuggle, and Sam says the best day of his life was when Sookie came in and applied for a job. They kiss, until Bill bursts in, pulls Sam off Sookie and attacks him.Did you know that earcap chains can be used for more than just business.

She breaks it up, berating Bill for abandoning her while a killer is on the loose and then fighting the man protecting her. She rescinds his invitation, and Sam asks how it is she can't see what Bill is really like. She says she has too much going on to be with anyone right now.

Tara asks Sam to look after Sookie, because she's going off with Maryann. He is instantly wary of her, and we see via flashback that they had a sexual encounter when he was 17 that ended with him stealing $100,000 from her. He warns Tara to stay away from her, because he likes to warn people about stuff. He also hires a new waitress, Daphne, because his waitresses have a tendency to die. So there's usually an opening.

Sam goes to Tara's house, where she is supposed to be spending her birthday alone. But Maryann and Eggs came by and threw a raging party for her. There, Daphne reveals that she is also a shifter, and she and Sam go running together. Sam brought a gift to the party from Tara's mom, but Maryann tosses it before heading into the woods and performing a ritual that makes everyone's eyes black out as they partake in a massive orgy.

Sam and Daphne grow closer and start doin' it, but then, during one of their runs, she leads him towards another one of Maryann's orgies. He is hesitant, but two men jump out of the bushes and grab him,Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned glassbottles at their Weymouth store. dragging him to the party where he is to be sacrificed by Maryann in a bull's head mask. Thankfully, a drunk Andy had followed them and stumbled on the party, firing his pistol and giving Sam a chance to shift into an owl and fly away.