Take a Walk Down a Vampire-Filled Memory Lane with Our Top 50 True Blood Moments

20. Bill Goes to the True Death

Watching Bill as he succumbs to Hep-V is heartwrenching, especially knowing that he could have had the cure but chose against it. He asks Sookie to be the one to end his life, which shows how much he loves her.

Bill meets Sookie in the cemetery. She hugs him and says she doesn’t want to do this. “It’s time,” he says. They kiss. Tears stream down Sookie’s face. “Thank you,” Bill says. He jumps down into the grave and lifts the lid. Inside is a box. It’s a photograph of Bill with his daughter, the one we saw him take in one of the visions. Sookie cautions that he should get in before she loses her nerve. Bill clutches the photograph and says he’s ready. “Bill, I’ll never forget you,” she says. Bill can’t say the same — he doesn’t know what happens next.

She straddles him and asks if he’s sure he wants to do this. They kiss. “I love you, Bill Compton,” she says. “I love you, too,” he says.

She positions the stake over his heart. She hesitates, and so he helps her to stake him. He explodes underneath her, and she sobs. Sookie is covered in blood when she steps out of the coffin. She closes the lid and sits down on it, crying harder. She climbs out of the hole and starts covering the coffin with dirt using her bare hands.

It was one of the hardest scenes to watch. So many Truebies wanted Sookie and Bill to be together forever, but in so many ways this was the best way to bring things full circle.