Recap: True Blood 2.03 "Scratches"

Bill, Sookie and Jessica are in a car and Bill's driving like a bat out of hell (what does that expression even mean?).  Sookie begs him to slow down as Jessica whimpers in the back.  Bill abruptly pulls over and Sookie apologizes for taking Jessica to visit her family in the previous episode.  Bill is seriously pissed that Sookie did what she did and reveals that he only glamoured Jessica's family, he didn't kill them.  So….is the show wimping out on all the gratuitous violence then?  Will these words come back to haunt me?

Bill hurls some harsh words at Sookie and she storms out of the car and down the road.  Jessica tells Bill to go after Sookie, but he says she'll be back.

Sookie is not coming back.  She's actually walking through down the appropriately foggy and creepy road, bordered by foggy and creepy forests.  She turns and sees some sort of demon (I think) behind her and takes off in a run.  But the demon catches up and scratches her back (and when I say "scratch" I mean "seriously gouge her").

Alerted by her scream, Bill runs towards her and sees her bleeding to death on the ground.  He feeds her some of his blood, but she goes into horrible spasms, complete with foaming at the mouth.

Bill takes Sookie to Fangtasia and orders Jessica to go back home.