There is a cure for Hep-V in Bon Temp, and it's in the form of the very person who has caused the vampire epidemic.
The virulent, and almost fatal Hepatitis D virus strain that has been hounding vampires, and even Sookie's (Anna Paquin) love Bill (Stephen Moyer), can now be found on Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp), People Magazine reported. As Weekly Citizen recalled, Newlin had swallowed the antidote to the virus, which makes her the number one target of sick vampires who wish to be freed from the slow, and almost humiliating mortal fate the virus brings.
Writer Angela Robinson, who penned and directed the "Karma" episode last July 27, told Entertainment Weekly about the idea of Newlin being the cure for Hep-V.
"We really wanted to bring Anna Camp back, and Sarah Newlin was still out there. We didn't really want to create a whole new Big Bad for this season. Instead of having the story spiral out, we wanted to bring it in and center it around Bon Temps and all the characters we already knew and loved. So the idea was to continue her story, and then there's this really fun development that she hid out at an ashram and decided that she's gonna be a Buddhist. We were trying to figure out how to follow through on the plot of Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Pam (Kristin Bauer Van Straten) searching for Sarah, and then I don't know who came up with the brilliant idea that Sarah had drunk the antidote and was in fact the antidote-but it came up when we were breaking story in the early part of the season, and everybody loved the idea."
Camp, who is also filming the sequel of the acapella hit "Pitch Perfect," was surprised about the story arc for her role in the hit HBO series. She said to Vulture, "It's definitely been a fascinating part to play. There's a lot going on for her now - Sarah decided to become a Buddhist, and she truly believes that she is now, and [that] doing so sort of absolves her of all guilt. She thinks that it's getting her off the hook. She truly believes that. And she's losing her mind."
As for the various groups of people who have been hunting her to provide the cure after she healed her vampire sister of Hep-V, Camp told Vulture that she believes her character would be threatened by Eric and Pam more than the Yakuza and the other infected vampires who are looking to milk her of her blood for personal and for business reasons.
TVGuide has quoted Camp in another interview, somewhat confirming that Newlin will not survive in the season, considering the fact that there is a threat that her blood could be very well sucked dry to treat infected vampires.
"I think I get what I deserve," Camp said.
However, she did say earlier ahead of the show's Comic-Con panel in San Diego this year that her character was able to escape from Eric.
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