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: Sookie’s best friend, Tara Thornton, quits her retail job and convinces Sam Merlotte to hire her as a bartender.

: Based on Dead Until Dark , the first novel in Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries . Strange LoveTrue Blood : Season 1 Episode 1

: The episode ends with a cliffhanger as the Rattrays brutally attack Sookie in the Merlotte’s parking lot as revenge for her interfering in their earlier plot against Bill. Episode Details Director/Writer : Alan Ball. : Sookie’s best friend, Tara Thornton, quits her

: Sookie's brother, Jason, becomes the primary suspect in the murder of Maudette Pickens, a woman with whom he had rough sex and who was known to associate with vampires. Episode Details Director/Writer : Alan Ball

: Anna Paquin (Sookie), Stephen Moyer (Bill), Ryan Kwanten (Jason), Rutina Wesley (Tara), and Sam Trammell (Sam).

" Strange Love " is the pilot episode of the HBO series True Blood , which premiered on September 7, 2008. It introduces the town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, two years after vampires have "come out of the coffin" following the invention of synthetic blood, Tru Blood.