1 00:00:32,567 --> 00:00:40,067 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 2 00:00:41,269 --> 00:00:43,366 There are stories out there that need to be told. 3 00:00:43,371 --> 00:00:45,203 There's shit out there that's just... 4 00:00:45,208 --> 00:00:47,833 - you know, wrong. - _ 5 00:00:47,843 --> 00:00:50,908 People need to know about it. That's the job. 6 00:00:50,913 --> 00:00:52,376 It's not a complicated job, 7 00:00:52,381 --> 00:00:55,979 - other than how it'll mess with your life. - _ 8 00:00:55,984 --> 00:00:59,049 News used to be a bunch of guys who look like me 9 00:00:59,054 --> 00:01:01,084 huddled around a desk at a Page One meeting 10 00:01:01,089 --> 00:01:03,687 - _ - deciding what the news was. 11 00:01:03,692 --> 00:01:06,967 This little fucker changed all of that. 12 00:01:06,977 --> 00:01:08,221 _ 13 00:01:08,231 --> 00:01:09,860 I've been fired from three papers, 14 00:01:09,865 --> 00:01:11,127 hired back at two of them. 15 00:01:11,132 --> 00:01:12,830 Third got gobbled up by Knight Ridder. 16 00:01:12,835 --> 00:01:13,897 So, to be clear here, 17 00:01:13,902 --> 00:01:16,667 I'm a goddamn reservoir of do's and don'ts. 18 00:01:16,672 --> 00:01:19,069 Your sources are your Sherpas. 19 00:01:19,074 --> 00:01:20,971 Your editor is your priest. 20 00:01:20,976 --> 00:01:23,746 Honesty is not a tactic. 21 00:01:23,756 --> 00:01:25,538 _ 22 00:01:25,548 --> 00:01:27,077 You still want this job? 23 00:01:27,082 --> 00:01:28,946 It's your money. 24 00:01:28,951 --> 00:01:30,748 I'm Daniel Molloy. 25 00:01:30,753 --> 00:01:32,451 - This is my... - The Russian backed 26 00:01:32,455 --> 00:01:34,452 separatists have been waging guerrilla warfare 27 00:01:34,457 --> 00:01:37,054 - since 2014. - Can he make his fantasy 28 00:01:37,059 --> 00:01:38,456 a reality? 29 00:01:38,461 --> 00:01:40,158 Walker at the top of the key. 30 00:01:40,163 --> 00:01:43,461 Pick and roll from Jones. Walker drives and finishes. 31 00:01:43,466 --> 00:01:47,765 With a tough left hand. That's seven straight for Walker... 32 00:02:05,888 --> 00:02:08,851 Yeah. Hey, doc. Yeah. Thanks for getting back to me. 33 00:02:08,856 --> 00:02:11,854 I, uh... Yes, that's right. I have... 34 00:02:11,859 --> 00:02:13,725 I have an appointment scheduled for later in the week, 35 00:02:13,729 --> 00:02:15,859 but the... the thing I'm trying to figure out is, 36 00:02:15,864 --> 00:02:18,328 what's the deal with this sub-variant business? 37 00:02:18,333 --> 00:02:19,830 I mean, is that more contagious? 38 00:02:19,835 --> 00:02:21,465 Is it... 39 00:02:21,470 --> 00:02:22,933 Uh-huh. 40 00:02:22,938 --> 00:02:26,504 Yeah, 'cause, I mean, there's no reason to get more... 41 00:02:26,509 --> 00:02:29,139 Okay. So you think... Yeah. 42 00:02:29,144 --> 00:02:30,508 I mean, that's what I'm thinking. 43 00:02:30,513 --> 00:02:32,810 Why get any closer to the bug than I... 44 00:02:32,815 --> 00:02:34,645 than I need to? 45 00:02:34,650 --> 00:02:38,216 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 46 00:02:38,221 --> 00:02:38,998 Uh-huh. 47 00:02:39,008 --> 00:02:41,508 _ 48 00:02:42,458 --> 00:02:44,327 I gotta call you back. 49 00:03:08,951 --> 00:03:11,349 Um, first question. 50 00:03:11,354 --> 00:03:14,785 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 51 00:03:14,790 --> 00:03:15,819 No. 52 00:03:15,824 --> 00:03:20,029 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire. 53 00:03:21,229 --> 00:03:22,993 How did it come about? 54 00:03:22,998 --> 00:03:25,629 There's a simple answer to that. 55 00:03:25,634 --> 00:03:29,467 I don't believe I wanna give simple answers. 56 00:03:29,472 --> 00:03:31,435 I think I want to tell the real stor... 57 00:03:39,415 --> 00:03:41,379 "Dear Mr. Molloy. 58 00:03:41,384 --> 00:03:45,082 I hope this letter finds you safe and thriving, 59 00:03:45,087 --> 00:03:47,250 if such a thing were a possibility 60 00:03:47,255 --> 00:03:50,053 in this bleak hour. 61 00:03:50,058 --> 00:03:52,490 I've been following your career with some interest 62 00:03:52,495 --> 00:03:54,324 since our last meeting. 63 00:03:54,329 --> 00:03:58,396 Please allow me to congratulate you on all your successes, 64 00:03:58,401 --> 00:04:02,906 those professional and those personally redemptive. 65 00:04:03,572 --> 00:04:05,936 The passage of time and the frailties 66 00:04:05,941 --> 00:04:10,040 that accompany it have provided me perspective. 67 00:04:10,045 --> 00:04:14,077 And I suspect the same might be for you, as well. 68 00:04:14,082 --> 00:04:15,946 I'm hoping health and pride 69 00:04:15,951 --> 00:04:19,450 won't deter you from the following proposal. 70 00:04:19,455 --> 00:04:23,621 In a week's time, in a setting of my choosing, 71 00:04:23,626 --> 00:04:25,188 we revisit the project 72 00:04:25,193 --> 00:04:28,291 boyish youth prevented us from finishing. 73 00:04:28,296 --> 00:04:31,028 49 years and thousands of miles 74 00:04:31,033 --> 00:04:34,765 removed from the room we shared in San Francisco, 75 00:04:34,770 --> 00:04:38,769 I offer, for your journalistic pleasures, 76 00:04:38,774 --> 00:04:42,506 my full attention and my life story. 77 00:04:42,511 --> 00:04:44,141 All affinities, 78 00:04:44,146 --> 00:04:47,277 Louis de Pointe du Lac". 79 00:04:47,282 --> 00:04:50,113 I told my editor I was meeting with the, uh, 80 00:04:50,118 --> 00:04:52,916 most dangerous man in the world. 81 00:04:52,921 --> 00:04:54,217 Gave him two choices. 82 00:04:54,222 --> 00:04:57,488 He came back with "Bezos. Putin". 83 00:04:57,493 --> 00:04:59,389 He thinks I'm in Praskovéyevka. 84 00:05:01,964 --> 00:05:04,500 You've grown old, Daniel. 85 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:10,206 Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum. 86 00:05:11,406 --> 00:05:13,937 I wasn't sure you'd remembered me. 87 00:05:13,942 --> 00:05:17,480 Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting. 88 00:05:18,781 --> 00:05:21,812 Gritty memoir, drugs, humiliation, 89 00:05:21,817 --> 00:05:23,947 self-pity kind of thing. 90 00:05:23,952 --> 00:05:26,183 Mention vampires in one of those, 91 00:05:26,188 --> 00:05:27,885 readers tend to call bullshit. 92 00:05:27,890 --> 00:05:31,522 You've had some health concerns of late. 93 00:05:31,527 --> 00:05:33,957 Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say. 94 00:05:33,962 --> 00:05:36,231 You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel. 95 00:05:38,667 --> 00:05:39,863 Yeah. 96 00:05:39,868 --> 00:05:42,399 And you've got your own hangar at the airport, 97 00:05:42,404 --> 00:05:44,334 privileges on the Royal Meydan Bridge, 98 00:05:44,339 --> 00:05:45,936 and zero presence online. 99 00:05:45,941 --> 00:05:48,606 Have I hit a nerve? 100 00:05:48,611 --> 00:05:51,273 I know the Emirates are big on privacy, 101 00:05:51,278 --> 00:05:52,543 and that's probably important to you, 102 00:05:52,547 --> 00:05:55,178 but I gotta ask, what does it cost, 103 00:05:55,183 --> 00:05:58,081 this haven't-aged-in-half-a-century, 104 00:05:58,086 --> 00:06:00,350 killer-views-in-all-directions anonymity? 105 00:06:00,355 --> 00:06:01,891 Quite a lot. 106 00:06:04,693 --> 00:06:07,825 Only my family and my doctor know I'm sick. 107 00:06:07,830 --> 00:06:09,459 I don't dig the one-way hack. 108 00:06:09,464 --> 00:06:11,361 Yeah? 109 00:06:11,366 --> 00:06:13,897 And here's another question. 110 00:06:13,902 --> 00:06:16,366 That's the sun out there. 111 00:06:16,371 --> 00:06:19,002 Where's your coffin? 112 00:06:19,007 --> 00:06:20,843 You're standing in it. 113 00:06:26,715 --> 00:06:30,586 I have to be very careful whom I let in. 114 00:06:43,165 --> 00:06:46,429 Yeah, well, things didn't end well the last time, 115 00:06:46,434 --> 00:06:50,005 so forgive me if I'm a little nervous. 116 00:06:52,269 --> 00:06:57,274 This, after all I've told you, is what you ask for, boy?! 117 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,043 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like. 118 00:07:00,048 --> 00:07:02,946 I mean, you've forgotten, man. 119 00:07:02,951 --> 00:07:05,382 I mean, you don't even understand the meaning 120 00:07:05,387 --> 00:07:07,155 of your own story! 121 00:07:09,024 --> 00:07:12,222 No! Hey, stop! 122 00:07:15,230 --> 00:07:17,628 You were disrespectful. 123 00:07:17,633 --> 00:07:18,896 I was high. 124 00:07:18,901 --> 00:07:21,531 You were not worthy of my story then. 125 00:07:21,536 --> 00:07:24,139 Maybe your story wasn't worth telling. 126 00:07:27,242 --> 00:07:29,973 You've got the tapes. Hire a transcriber. 127 00:07:29,978 --> 00:07:33,410 I don't do puff portraiture anymore. 128 00:07:33,415 --> 00:07:35,613 And yet, you got on a plane, 129 00:07:35,618 --> 00:07:38,721 with an auto-immune disease, in the middle of a pandemic. 130 00:07:41,990 --> 00:07:43,659 Alright. 131 00:07:46,161 --> 00:07:49,231 That's my voice, but I don't remember it. 132 00:07:50,666 --> 00:07:52,495 I ask all the wrong questions. 133 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:53,931 - Yes. - There's contradictions 134 00:07:53,936 --> 00:07:55,599 in your story I never follow up on. 135 00:07:55,604 --> 00:07:56,604 Yes. 136 00:07:56,609 --> 00:07:58,535 The few good ones I do manage to get out, 137 00:07:58,540 --> 00:07:59,970 you steamroll over them. 138 00:07:59,975 --> 00:08:02,572 It's not an interview. It's a... 139 00:08:02,577 --> 00:08:05,776 It's a fever dream told to an idiot. 140 00:08:05,781 --> 00:08:07,845 Yes. 141 00:08:07,850 --> 00:08:10,580 And you? 142 00:08:10,585 --> 00:08:13,651 Why again? What's changed? 143 00:08:13,656 --> 00:08:17,354 The world, circumstances. 144 00:08:17,359 --> 00:08:19,127 Me, I've changed. 145 00:08:22,197 --> 00:08:25,996 And I, too, find the tapes lacking. 146 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:28,766 So... 147 00:08:28,771 --> 00:08:30,472 a do-over. 148 00:08:34,176 --> 00:08:36,311 Truth and reconciliation. 149 00:08:39,014 --> 00:08:41,311 I ask the questions. You answer the questions. 150 00:08:41,316 --> 00:08:44,948 Anything that can't be verified, I send to my researcher. 151 00:08:44,953 --> 00:08:47,150 - No third parties. - I write it. 152 00:08:47,155 --> 00:08:49,319 You get to see it before it goes to print. 153 00:08:49,324 --> 00:08:50,420 I get the final edit. 154 00:08:50,425 --> 00:08:52,055 That is not the agreement you signed. 155 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:54,524 And one more thing. 156 00:08:54,529 --> 00:08:57,060 I do my best work one-on-one. 157 00:08:57,065 --> 00:08:59,863 Would you see to Mr. Molloy's room? 158 00:08:59,868 --> 00:09:01,564 Have Chef prepare a meal for him. 159 00:09:01,569 --> 00:09:04,034 I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest. 160 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:06,536 I am not your fucking boy. 161 00:09:06,541 --> 00:09:10,546 I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it. 162 00:09:11,379 --> 00:09:13,210 And I'm ready. 163 00:09:13,215 --> 00:09:14,783 So let's do this. 164 00:09:18,253 --> 00:09:19,549 I'm Daniel Molloy. 165 00:09:19,554 --> 00:09:24,688 It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2022. 166 00:09:24,693 --> 00:09:28,391 I'm in the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers 167 00:09:28,396 --> 00:09:31,161 across from Mister... 168 00:09:31,166 --> 00:09:33,897 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 169 00:09:33,902 --> 00:09:35,699 So... 170 00:09:35,704 --> 00:09:37,935 Mr. du Lac... 171 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:40,337 how long have you been dead? 172 00:09:45,580 --> 00:09:49,612 The year was 1910, the fall of the fifth year 173 00:09:49,617 --> 00:09:52,750 of my father's passing and the fall of the fifth year 174 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:54,084 as the executor in charge 175 00:09:54,089 --> 00:09:56,119 of the de Pointe du Lac family trust. 176 00:09:56,124 --> 00:09:59,156 - The eldest son. - The favored son. 177 00:09:59,161 --> 00:10:02,425 And a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence. 178 00:10:02,430 --> 00:10:05,062 Capital accrued from plantations of sugar 179 00:10:05,067 --> 00:10:07,965 and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather 180 00:10:07,970 --> 00:10:10,133 but did not have his standing. 181 00:10:10,138 --> 00:10:11,969 But then decades of Jim Crow 182 00:10:11,974 --> 00:10:14,371 and the electrified light of a new century 183 00:10:14,376 --> 00:10:17,474 had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. 184 00:10:17,479 --> 00:10:20,243 So it followed the only place in New Orleans 185 00:10:20,248 --> 00:10:23,380 a gentleman of my complexion could do a righteous business 186 00:10:23,385 --> 00:10:25,783 was a neighborhood called Storyville. 187 00:10:25,788 --> 00:10:28,551 That was the old red-light district. Yeah? 188 00:10:28,556 --> 00:10:31,088 20 blocks of drinking, gambling, 189 00:10:31,093 --> 00:10:33,156 and gluttonous whoring. 190 00:10:33,161 --> 00:10:36,026 Okay, so as the honorable executor 191 00:10:36,031 --> 00:10:37,995 of the family's estate, you were in 192 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,263 what business exactly, Mr. du Lac? 193 00:10:40,268 --> 00:10:43,366 You could say I managed and operated 194 00:10:43,371 --> 00:10:46,804 a diversified portfolio of enterprises. 195 00:10:46,809 --> 00:10:48,305 You were a pimp. 196 00:10:48,310 --> 00:10:50,273 The product was desire, 197 00:10:50,278 --> 00:10:53,310 and it came in as many forms as there were ways to move it. 198 00:10:53,315 --> 00:10:56,479 Of the two dozen sporting houses on Liberty Street, 199 00:10:56,484 --> 00:10:58,148 I owned eight of them. 200 00:10:58,153 --> 00:11:01,284 Modest in proportion to the venues on Basin Street. 201 00:11:01,289 --> 00:11:03,486 What they lacked in size and elegance, 202 00:11:03,491 --> 00:11:07,190 they more than made up for in efficiency and reputation. 203 00:11:07,195 --> 00:11:08,358 Mr. du Lac. 204 00:11:08,363 --> 00:11:09,898 Finn. 205 00:11:11,033 --> 00:11:14,364 You hiding any bills in them fat fucking rolls of yours? 206 00:11:14,369 --> 00:11:18,001 I was, admittedly, a rougher thing then. 207 00:11:18,006 --> 00:11:19,269 Mr. du Lac! 208 00:11:19,274 --> 00:11:22,005 You had to be if you wanted to survive. 209 00:11:22,010 --> 00:11:24,207 You couldn't look weak on Liberty Street. 210 00:11:24,212 --> 00:11:25,675 Damn, Doris, you gon' lose your 211 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,510 good leg runnin' out like that. 212 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:31,114 Mr. du Lac, sir, we got bad trouble. 213 00:11:31,119 --> 00:11:35,552 I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. 214 00:11:35,557 --> 00:11:37,888 I was only tryna show you my love. 215 00:11:37,893 --> 00:11:39,189 Fuck you. 216 00:11:39,194 --> 00:11:40,858 What happened? 217 00:11:40,863 --> 00:11:42,759 - The cunny hit me! - Oh, I'm a cunny now? 218 00:11:42,764 --> 00:11:44,227 A minute ago, I was his love. 219 00:11:47,335 --> 00:11:49,332 - Alderman Fenwick? - Hmm? 220 00:11:49,337 --> 00:11:52,535 You hit an alderman? God damn it, Bricks. 221 00:11:52,540 --> 00:11:54,371 He stuck it in my shitbox. 222 00:11:54,376 --> 00:11:55,705 I did no such thing. 223 00:11:55,710 --> 00:11:57,508 Gave him a chance to pull out, and he kept on fucking, 224 00:11:57,512 --> 00:11:59,476 so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner 225 00:11:59,481 --> 00:12:00,510 for going there. 226 00:12:00,515 --> 00:12:02,379 Don't believe me, check his dick. 227 00:12:02,384 --> 00:12:05,048 Who the fuck you talkin' to? I ain't checkin' no man's dick. 228 00:12:05,053 --> 00:12:06,884 - Oh. - Oh, goddamn. 229 00:12:06,889 --> 00:12:09,052 Hell, I mighta even said yes if you would just ask. 230 00:12:09,057 --> 00:12:11,089 But I don't care who you is, you put a dick in an asshole 231 00:12:11,093 --> 00:12:12,890 without asking, that's against Jesus. 232 00:12:12,895 --> 00:12:13,895 Fuck you. 233 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:16,059 What y'all laughin' at? 234 00:12:16,064 --> 00:12:18,028 Someone go and fetch Doc Johnson. 235 00:12:18,033 --> 00:12:21,036 And you, get some clean water and a towel. 236 00:12:23,838 --> 00:12:27,304 Get your hands off me, nigger! 237 00:12:27,309 --> 00:12:30,107 You gon' make me regret my support, you repeat yourself, 238 00:12:30,112 --> 00:12:32,547 Mr. Fenwick. 239 00:12:33,415 --> 00:12:36,279 Louis de Pointe du Lac, sir. 240 00:12:36,284 --> 00:12:39,116 Oh, Pointe du Lac. 241 00:12:39,121 --> 00:12:42,219 Oh, forgive me. I... 242 00:12:42,224 --> 00:12:44,721 It was... There's so much wine. 243 00:12:44,726 --> 00:12:47,457 Don't worry none. We'll keep this here 'tween us. 244 00:12:47,462 --> 00:12:49,731 Someone got the good doc on the way. 245 00:12:51,399 --> 00:12:55,798 Oh, Miss Williams. Isn't she a vision? 246 00:12:55,803 --> 00:12:57,901 I ain't cleanin' his dick. 247 00:12:57,906 --> 00:12:59,402 Oh, Jesus, Mary. 248 00:12:59,407 --> 00:13:00,937 Got a situation here, Finn. 249 00:13:00,942 --> 00:13:03,140 Yeah, well, you got another one outside 122. 250 00:13:03,145 --> 00:13:05,208 Man acting the maggot, driving away business. 251 00:13:05,213 --> 00:13:08,045 Ain't that what I pay you for? 252 00:13:08,050 --> 00:13:10,547 It's a citizen priest. 253 00:13:10,552 --> 00:13:12,415 Do you not realize, sister, your body 254 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:13,616 is part of Christ the Lord? 255 00:13:13,621 --> 00:13:15,518 - Second time this month. - When you take that body 256 00:13:15,522 --> 00:13:17,055 and enjoin in harlotry you are defiling the Lord. 257 00:13:17,059 --> 00:13:18,490 And I could give two moons if he's your brother, Mr. du Lac. 258 00:13:18,494 --> 00:13:20,158 I'm gonna knock his skull in the Pontchartrain! 259 00:13:20,162 --> 00:13:21,925 ... you deny your victory with Christ. 260 00:13:21,930 --> 00:13:24,294 He shall come again to judge the living and the dead. 261 00:13:24,299 --> 00:13:26,596 And who has come and gone will rise again 262 00:13:26,601 --> 00:13:28,398 and throw their bodies into everlasting fire. 263 00:13:28,403 --> 00:13:30,900 Go on home. Tell Mama not to wait up. 264 00:13:30,905 --> 00:13:32,736 There's blood on your shirt. 265 00:13:32,741 --> 00:13:34,437 What wickedness is it tonight? 266 00:13:34,442 --> 00:13:35,939 You're not helping me here, Paul. 267 00:13:35,944 --> 00:13:37,807 Oh, but I am. 268 00:13:37,812 --> 00:13:40,610 The Lord told me to come, Louis. 269 00:13:40,615 --> 00:13:43,113 In my head, like a family of birds, many voices, 270 00:13:43,118 --> 00:13:44,347 but also one voice... 271 00:13:44,352 --> 00:13:46,083 Saying it a second time. 272 00:13:46,088 --> 00:13:47,150 Listen to me, please. 273 00:13:47,155 --> 00:13:49,252 I'm having a fucking night, okay? 274 00:13:49,257 --> 00:13:50,520 I can't have it with you foo... 275 00:13:54,629 --> 00:13:58,928 Get on home, else I'll bleed ya like a kochon, bruh. 276 00:14:05,807 --> 00:14:08,671 Did I want to pull a knife on my brother? 277 00:14:08,676 --> 00:14:10,173 No. 278 00:14:10,178 --> 00:14:12,875 But as I alluded to before, 279 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,613 you couldn't look weak on Liberty. 280 00:14:16,618 --> 00:14:19,121 You never knew who was watching. 281 00:14:24,659 --> 00:14:26,556 He pulled his knife on me, Mamaw. 282 00:14:26,561 --> 00:14:28,858 You were disrupting mother's business interests. 283 00:14:28,863 --> 00:14:32,029 D'you hear that, Mother? He's made you a madam. 284 00:14:32,034 --> 00:14:33,296 Oh, Paul. 285 00:14:33,301 --> 00:14:35,365 Profiting from the damnation of souls. 286 00:14:35,370 --> 00:14:37,567 Let's not fuss on the particulars. 287 00:14:37,572 --> 00:14:41,338 Mornings with my family followed a pattern that year. 288 00:14:41,343 --> 00:14:43,873 My mother consumed herself with preparations 289 00:14:43,878 --> 00:14:45,808 for my sister's wedding, 290 00:14:45,813 --> 00:14:47,977 while Paul confused the dining table 291 00:14:47,982 --> 00:14:50,147 with a pulpit none of us would recognize. 292 00:14:50,152 --> 00:14:52,015 We should tithe that o'er to St. Augustine's 293 00:14:52,020 --> 00:14:53,550 'fore this house falls in on us. 294 00:14:53,555 --> 00:14:55,385 This is just a temporary situation 295 00:14:55,390 --> 00:14:58,855 until Louis can find us a more respectable business. 296 00:14:58,860 --> 00:15:00,990 Daddy was here, we'd still be in sugar cane. 297 00:15:00,995 --> 00:15:02,759 Daddy was alive, you'd still be locked up 298 00:15:02,764 --> 00:15:04,027 in that hospital in Jackson. 299 00:15:04,032 --> 00:15:05,995 Louis, let's not have that talk. 300 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,998 A month from my wedding day, and what do I dream about? 301 00:15:09,003 --> 00:15:10,900 Dancing in my husband's arms? 302 00:15:10,905 --> 00:15:13,503 Children running in the yard? No. 303 00:15:13,508 --> 00:15:16,138 I dream of what a quiet breakfast might look like. 304 00:15:16,143 --> 00:15:19,042 Your man Levi's a Baptist, no respect for the Holy Mother. 305 00:15:19,047 --> 00:15:20,047 Paul! 306 00:15:20,052 --> 00:15:21,384 He's gon' make your daughter jump a broom. 307 00:15:21,388 --> 00:15:23,081 - I'm sitting right here. - Plenty of brooms 308 00:15:23,085 --> 00:15:25,082 down the street at the Mayfair sisters' home. 309 00:15:26,221 --> 00:15:27,584 He's calling me a witch, Mamaw. 310 00:15:27,589 --> 00:15:30,287 Paul de Pointe du Lac, you walk that back. 311 00:15:32,294 --> 00:15:34,791 Your brother sounds like a pain in the ass. 312 00:15:34,796 --> 00:15:37,560 Fragile, stubborn, indulged. 313 00:15:37,565 --> 00:15:39,562 I'd promised our father on his death bed 314 00:15:39,567 --> 00:15:41,064 to look after him. 315 00:15:41,069 --> 00:15:44,934 But when Paul's mind was right, he was no burden. 316 00:15:44,939 --> 00:15:48,571 Point of fact, I loved him more than anyone on earth. 317 00:15:48,576 --> 00:15:50,873 And our daily stroll to St. Augustine 318 00:15:50,878 --> 00:15:54,111 was the measure of a good day started. 319 00:15:54,116 --> 00:15:57,447 - Good morning, Paul. - Good for you maybe. 320 00:15:57,452 --> 00:15:59,216 Morning, Louis. 321 00:15:59,221 --> 00:16:00,717 Pew's got a good shine. 322 00:16:00,722 --> 00:16:03,953 If it wasn't beneath you, I'd send shoes your way. 323 00:16:03,958 --> 00:16:05,722 Nothing is beneath me, son. 324 00:16:05,727 --> 00:16:07,495 I'm ready, Father. 325 00:16:09,464 --> 00:16:12,229 I wanted to thank the family for last Sunday's donation. 326 00:16:12,234 --> 00:16:14,797 Baby-sitting money. Church calms him down some. 327 00:16:14,802 --> 00:16:16,299 Well, we're always here for him. 328 00:16:16,304 --> 00:16:18,968 And the money goes a good way towards the renovation. 329 00:16:18,973 --> 00:16:21,838 I want Father Matthias. Thank you. 330 00:16:21,843 --> 00:16:24,006 You ain't got nothing to confess to anyhow. 331 00:16:24,011 --> 00:16:25,975 Wasting a good man's time. 332 00:16:25,980 --> 00:16:28,878 Be right there, Paul. 333 00:16:28,883 --> 00:16:31,548 I haven't seen you in confession of late, Louis. 334 00:16:33,421 --> 00:16:36,691 You know, you can always come here if you're in need, son. 335 00:16:39,861 --> 00:16:44,161 My business and my raised religion were at odds, 336 00:16:44,166 --> 00:16:46,863 and the, uh... 337 00:16:46,868 --> 00:16:50,533 latencies within me, well, I beat those back 338 00:16:50,538 --> 00:16:53,503 with a lie I told myself about myself... 339 00:16:53,508 --> 00:16:56,139 that I was a red-blooded son of the South, 340 00:16:56,144 --> 00:16:59,176 seeking ass before absolution. 341 00:16:59,181 --> 00:17:03,146 And you maintained this delusion how exactly? 342 00:17:03,151 --> 00:17:06,516 A particular woman who worked for the competition. 343 00:17:06,521 --> 00:17:09,386 As if rickety shacks were a competition 344 00:17:09,391 --> 00:17:12,222 for Tom Anderson's Fairplay Saloon. 345 00:17:12,227 --> 00:17:15,492 Ah, Louis du Lac. The night begins. 346 00:17:15,497 --> 00:17:17,660 Miss Carroll, Miss Lily working tonight? 347 00:17:17,665 --> 00:17:19,296 Miss Lily's on the terrace. 348 00:17:19,301 --> 00:17:22,899 It was a palace of opulence and splendor. 349 00:17:22,904 --> 00:17:24,634 A Sazerac, Mr. du Lac? 350 00:17:24,639 --> 00:17:26,169 That'll do fine, Miss Carroll. 351 00:17:26,174 --> 00:17:28,338 And catered to an almost exclusively 352 00:17:28,343 --> 00:17:30,139 Caucasian clientele, 353 00:17:30,144 --> 00:17:32,441 which helped me separate the locals 354 00:17:32,446 --> 00:17:36,078 from those visiting from other southern states. 355 00:17:36,083 --> 00:17:38,147 Shakin' the money tree tonight I see, 356 00:17:38,152 --> 00:17:39,349 Mr. Anderson, sir. 357 00:17:39,354 --> 00:17:41,718 Can't see the dirt for the dollars fallin'. 358 00:17:41,723 --> 00:17:44,554 Private game on Friday if your datebook is free, Louis. 359 00:17:44,559 --> 00:17:47,857 Can do, Mr. Anderson. Can do. 360 00:18:03,578 --> 00:18:06,276 I don't know much what you're saying. 361 00:18:06,281 --> 00:18:08,110 But it sure sounds nice. 362 00:18:08,115 --> 00:18:11,047 "Only the impossible can do the impossible". 363 00:18:11,052 --> 00:18:13,850 Miss Lily. 364 00:18:13,855 --> 00:18:16,953 Bonsoir, monsieur. Do you speak French? 365 00:18:16,958 --> 00:18:19,922 We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans. 366 00:18:19,927 --> 00:18:22,091 It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it? 367 00:18:22,096 --> 00:18:24,699 How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door? 368 00:18:25,933 --> 00:18:27,063 Excuse me? 369 00:18:27,068 --> 00:18:28,498 I mean that as a compliment, 370 00:18:28,503 --> 00:18:31,133 a man of your race to have privileges here. 371 00:18:31,138 --> 00:18:34,237 Louis has a small empire of his own down the street. 372 00:18:34,242 --> 00:18:35,773 It gives him privileges. 373 00:18:36,878 --> 00:18:39,876 Somethin' funny about that? 374 00:18:39,881 --> 00:18:41,978 Your name is Louis. 375 00:18:41,983 --> 00:18:44,213 Of course it's Louis. 376 00:18:44,218 --> 00:18:46,321 I didn't get your name, fella. 377 00:18:46,712 --> 00:18:50,132 _ 378 00:18:50,292 --> 00:18:51,988 I know who you are, sir. 379 00:18:51,993 --> 00:18:54,891 You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the quarter. 380 00:18:54,896 --> 00:18:57,599 I owe you everything. Please, join us. 381 00:18:59,634 --> 00:19:02,799 I know sometimes men of my race, 382 00:19:02,804 --> 00:19:05,468 we all look alike to you people. 383 00:19:05,473 --> 00:19:07,169 But I didn't sell you no townhouse. 384 00:19:07,174 --> 00:19:09,472 Louis, have a seat. 385 00:19:09,477 --> 00:19:10,840 Let me explain. 386 00:19:10,845 --> 00:19:13,876 New to the... the New World, I am. 387 00:19:13,881 --> 00:19:15,345 That explains the clothes. 388 00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:17,980 A 19th-century man at heart, yes, 389 00:19:17,985 --> 00:19:20,817 making his, uh, trans-Atlantic journey by ship, 390 00:19:20,822 --> 00:19:24,020 planning very carefully on settling myself upriver. 391 00:19:24,025 --> 00:19:25,322 The Sazerac, sir. 392 00:19:25,327 --> 00:19:26,756 Put that on my account, thank you. 393 00:19:26,761 --> 00:19:28,058 And two more for us. 394 00:19:28,063 --> 00:19:30,240 And another round for the musicians, whatever they want. 395 00:19:30,250 --> 00:19:31,756 _ 396 00:19:31,766 --> 00:19:33,596 Yes, sir. 397 00:19:33,601 --> 00:19:35,432 Oh, where was I? 398 00:19:35,437 --> 00:19:37,434 On a boat. 399 00:19:42,777 --> 00:19:44,241 So, I'm out on 400 00:19:44,246 --> 00:19:46,643 the Crescent coast, floating past your village, 401 00:19:46,648 --> 00:19:49,145 when I hear music playing, 402 00:19:49,150 --> 00:19:53,516 and the shadows of men and women dancing by the water's edge. 403 00:19:53,521 --> 00:19:58,855 I disembarked for the music, but then there was the food. 404 00:19:58,860 --> 00:20:00,990 What's been your favorite this year, Mr. Lioncourt? 405 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:02,224 A favorite? 406 00:20:02,229 --> 00:20:03,260 - Mm. - Mm. 407 00:20:03,265 --> 00:20:06,195 She puts a pistol to my head. 408 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,898 I couldn't believe it. 409 00:20:08,903 --> 00:20:10,833 Staring me down as his hands 410 00:20:10,838 --> 00:20:14,671 went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress. 411 00:20:14,676 --> 00:20:16,405 I wanted to take the end of my cane 412 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,141 and slit his throat with it. 413 00:20:19,146 --> 00:20:22,011 Why didn't you? 414 00:20:22,016 --> 00:20:23,913 I couldn't move. 415 00:20:23,918 --> 00:20:27,550 My body was seized with weakness. 416 00:20:27,555 --> 00:20:32,760 His gaze tied a string around my lungs, 417 00:20:33,495 --> 00:20:36,726 and I found myself immobilized. 418 00:20:36,731 --> 00:20:40,936 And the women, all shades of skin... 419 00:20:41,536 --> 00:20:45,835 white, Black, cinnamon. 420 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,071 I've emptied a bank vault sampling, I must say. 421 00:20:49,076 --> 00:20:52,547 But it was not until a few nights later... 422 00:20:53,165 --> 00:20:56,545 _ 423 00:20:56,555 --> 00:20:59,845 _ 424 00:21:00,455 --> 00:21:04,354 ... that I said to myself... 425 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,188 "Lestat, unpack your trunks. 426 00:21:06,193 --> 00:21:08,329 You're home". 427 00:21:09,263 --> 00:21:12,228 What did he say just now? 428 00:21:12,233 --> 00:21:14,096 A little more than he should of. 429 00:21:14,101 --> 00:21:18,267 I had planned to make a new life for myself in St. Louis. 430 00:21:18,272 --> 00:21:21,804 That was to be my destiny. 431 00:21:21,809 --> 00:21:24,607 And now I know I was right. 432 00:21:24,612 --> 00:21:26,809 Only it turns out the saint is not a city, 433 00:21:26,814 --> 00:21:31,719 but a handsome man with a most agreeable disposition. 434 00:21:32,219 --> 00:21:35,117 You're his destiny, Louis. 435 00:21:35,122 --> 00:21:37,324 Destined to be very good friends. 436 00:21:39,126 --> 00:21:41,624 The Orient room is available for the next few hours, 437 00:21:41,629 --> 00:21:42,859 Miss Lily. 438 00:21:42,864 --> 00:21:44,160 The gentlemen are swappin' 439 00:21:44,165 --> 00:21:46,463 andouille sausage recipes, Miss Carroll. 440 00:21:46,468 --> 00:21:48,130 Hmm. 441 00:22:03,284 --> 00:22:05,648 The Orient room is yours, monsieur. 442 00:22:05,653 --> 00:22:08,284 Please get my friend here anything he wants. 443 00:22:08,289 --> 00:22:09,519 Wonderful to meet you. 444 00:22:09,524 --> 00:22:13,022 I do hope I run into you again, Louis. 445 00:22:13,027 --> 00:22:17,832 Emasculation and admiration in equal measure. 446 00:22:18,933 --> 00:22:23,438 I wanted to murder the man, and I wanted to be the man. 447 00:22:28,342 --> 00:22:31,107 I had come there for Lily. 448 00:22:31,112 --> 00:22:34,511 But I left thinking of only him. 449 00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:15,489 Come now. 450 00:23:18,159 --> 00:23:19,889 Who the devil... 451 00:23:33,908 --> 00:23:35,605 Our friends in the police tell me there's 452 00:23:35,610 --> 00:23:38,007 an outbreak of fever in town. 453 00:23:38,012 --> 00:23:40,577 It's unfortunates living near the wharf, mostly. 454 00:23:40,582 --> 00:23:42,511 If you find yourself riverside of Decatur... 455 00:23:42,516 --> 00:23:43,747 ... you have only yourself 456 00:23:43,751 --> 00:23:45,281 to blame, I say. 457 00:23:45,286 --> 00:23:46,583 Agreed. 458 00:23:46,588 --> 00:23:48,250 Still, very peculiar, they say. 459 00:23:48,255 --> 00:23:51,320 Each one the same... small wounds to the body, 460 00:23:51,325 --> 00:23:55,330 and upon examination, entirely devoid of blood. 461 00:23:55,763 --> 00:23:57,927 It is their theory some new kind of rat 462 00:23:57,932 --> 00:23:59,195 has come ashore. 463 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,798 Of the six-foot variety. 464 00:24:01,803 --> 00:24:04,533 We call those bureaucrats in France. 465 00:24:07,108 --> 00:24:11,473 Gentlemen, well, you all know Louis du Lac. 466 00:24:11,478 --> 00:24:15,277 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 467 00:24:15,282 --> 00:24:17,279 We met already, Mr. Anderson, sir. 468 00:24:17,284 --> 00:24:19,582 In front of a florist, wasn't it? 469 00:24:19,587 --> 00:24:22,423 We both wanted the last bouquet of lilies. 470 00:24:24,291 --> 00:24:26,789 Aren't you gonna ask the alderman how his head is, Louis? 471 00:24:26,794 --> 00:24:29,626 Now, why would I do that, Mr. Anderson, sir? 472 00:24:29,631 --> 00:24:32,895 You see, Mr. Fenwick, just as I told you, 473 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:34,731 a most discreet Negro. 474 00:24:34,736 --> 00:24:37,767 Would that his doctor had the same standards. 475 00:24:37,772 --> 00:24:39,907 Gentlemen, show your cards. 476 00:24:42,677 --> 00:24:45,107 Hoo! Mr. Lioncourt, 477 00:24:45,112 --> 00:24:47,744 your hand is incomprehensible. 478 00:24:47,749 --> 00:24:50,579 Oh, yes. 479 00:24:50,584 --> 00:24:52,281 I'm terrible at cards. 480 00:24:52,286 --> 00:24:54,416 Did I not mention that to everyone? 481 00:24:54,421 --> 00:24:58,254 Would you mind getting me some more of these money chips? 482 00:25:00,294 --> 00:25:03,793 Louis, did you know that Alderman Fenwick here 483 00:25:03,798 --> 00:25:05,828 recently purchased both the title and deed 484 00:25:05,833 --> 00:25:07,697 to the Horton rooming house on Villere Street? 485 00:25:07,702 --> 00:25:09,498 Yeah, Mr. Anderson believes it could make 486 00:25:09,503 --> 00:25:11,000 a fine sportin' house. 487 00:25:11,005 --> 00:25:14,003 I recommended the alderman find a managing partner 488 00:25:14,008 --> 00:25:15,537 before he commits his money. 489 00:25:15,542 --> 00:25:18,040 I recommended he think of you, Louis. 490 00:25:18,045 --> 00:25:20,509 Very kind of you, Mr. Anderson, sir. 491 00:25:20,514 --> 00:25:23,112 What do you think of the location? 492 00:25:23,117 --> 00:25:25,014 It ain't Basin Street. 493 00:25:25,019 --> 00:25:27,617 But throw enough Edison bulbs on the facade, 494 00:25:27,622 --> 00:25:29,318 get a good margin on the alcohol, 495 00:25:29,323 --> 00:25:31,653 no-nonsense madam to keep the girls clean, 496 00:25:31,658 --> 00:25:33,722 I reckon a man could make a decent sum. 497 00:25:33,727 --> 00:25:35,291 Yes, sir, Mr. Fenwick, sir. 498 00:25:35,296 --> 00:25:37,794 I said you'd do it for 10 percent. 499 00:25:37,799 --> 00:25:40,429 A-all respects, Mr. Anderson, 500 00:25:40,434 --> 00:25:43,666 but you proposing 10 percent for all the work? 501 00:25:43,671 --> 00:25:45,968 15%? 502 00:25:45,973 --> 00:25:48,537 There's capital investment, 503 00:25:48,542 --> 00:25:51,007 and there's labor. 504 00:25:51,012 --> 00:25:53,175 Both has its seat at the table. 505 00:25:53,180 --> 00:25:55,249 Wouldn't you say, Mr. Lestat? 506 00:25:57,018 --> 00:25:59,381 Well, I can only speak of my experience, 507 00:25:59,386 --> 00:26:01,918 which is, I'm sure, different in my country. 508 00:26:01,923 --> 00:26:04,653 Par exemple, you fine gentlemen have heard of the success story 509 00:26:04,658 --> 00:26:07,924 that is Le Bon Marché, shopping experience like no other. 510 00:26:07,929 --> 00:26:09,526 Aristide Boucicaut invests in a new vision... 511 00:26:09,530 --> 00:26:11,327 These men look down on you. 512 00:26:11,332 --> 00:26:15,064 I have to say, I find it appalling how men like yourself 513 00:26:15,069 --> 00:26:17,099 are treated in this country of yours. 514 00:26:17,104 --> 00:26:20,002 It is undeniable. I came to my wealth honestly 515 00:26:20,007 --> 00:26:21,770 and at great sacrifice, I might add. 516 00:26:21,775 --> 00:26:24,040 However, it was not the sacrifice of many. 517 00:26:24,045 --> 00:26:25,774 I had no partners in my various... 518 00:26:25,779 --> 00:26:27,844 - 10 percent. - The financial risks... 519 00:26:27,849 --> 00:26:30,384 15 percent. 520 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,923 Do you not know your value? 521 00:26:39,293 --> 00:26:43,726 Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose? 522 00:26:50,905 --> 00:26:54,041 And do you think two pair will win the hour? 523 00:26:59,814 --> 00:27:03,479 I believe there is great opportunity in this city, 524 00:27:03,484 --> 00:27:07,689 but to seize it, I'll need protection from the wolves. 525 00:27:23,170 --> 00:27:24,333 And that's all to say, 526 00:27:24,338 --> 00:27:25,768 forgive me, Mr. de Pointe du Lac, 527 00:27:25,773 --> 00:27:27,570 for my bias, but where is the business 528 00:27:27,575 --> 00:27:28,771 if there is no capital? 529 00:27:28,776 --> 00:27:30,940 - It does not exist. No? - Alright, boys. 530 00:27:30,945 --> 00:27:32,546 Show 'em. 531 00:27:35,649 --> 00:27:37,413 Ooh. 532 00:27:37,418 --> 00:27:40,516 Full boat, Mr. du Lac. 533 00:27:40,521 --> 00:27:43,019 Got you beat, Tom. 534 00:27:43,024 --> 00:27:45,254 He wouldn't tell me how he did it, 535 00:27:45,259 --> 00:27:48,157 his trick to make the world stop. 536 00:27:48,162 --> 00:27:50,859 "In time, Louis. Patience, Louis. 537 00:27:50,864 --> 00:27:52,995 Ask me next week, Louis". 538 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,663 You started hanging out? 539 00:27:54,668 --> 00:27:56,298 He was in love with my city 540 00:27:56,303 --> 00:27:58,700 and wanted to know everything he could about it. 541 00:27:58,705 --> 00:28:02,171 So you played docent to the gentleman vampire? 542 00:28:02,176 --> 00:28:05,842 He had not revealed his vampire nature yet. 543 00:28:05,847 --> 00:28:08,010 I'm assuming you only met at night. 544 00:28:08,015 --> 00:28:09,345 It's New Orleans. 545 00:28:09,350 --> 00:28:12,548 Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage. 546 00:28:12,553 --> 00:28:14,483 Perfect cover for a vampire. 547 00:28:14,488 --> 00:28:16,953 Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy. 548 00:28:16,958 --> 00:28:20,489 Let the tale seduce you. 549 00:28:20,494 --> 00:28:22,897 Just as I was seduced. 550 00:28:24,365 --> 00:28:26,728 Money would arrive, wired from France, 551 00:28:26,733 --> 00:28:29,665 and the shopkeepers, who would usually close at sunset, 552 00:28:29,670 --> 00:28:32,368 were very happy to accommodate him. 553 00:28:32,373 --> 00:28:36,505 He ransacked the import houses to furnish his town house, 554 00:28:36,510 --> 00:28:39,141 ravaged the booksellers of their oldest volumes 555 00:28:39,146 --> 00:28:40,542 for a library, 556 00:28:40,547 --> 00:28:44,880 and, with encouragement, updated his wardrobe 557 00:28:44,885 --> 00:28:47,516 to the fashion trends of the season. 558 00:28:47,521 --> 00:28:52,226 It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. 559 00:28:52,726 --> 00:28:55,557 And I found myself for the very first time, 560 00:28:55,562 --> 00:28:57,659 to anyone other than Paul, 561 00:28:57,664 --> 00:29:00,834 confiding my struggles to another man. 562 00:29:04,005 --> 00:29:07,103 I was being hunted. 563 00:29:07,108 --> 00:29:10,912 And I was completely unaware it was happening. 564 00:29:13,915 --> 00:29:14,977 I'm switchin' rooms. 565 00:29:14,982 --> 00:29:17,414 I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise. 566 00:29:17,418 --> 00:29:18,916 You'd have to be home to hear that. 567 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,550 - I come home nights. - You come home some nights. 568 00:29:21,555 --> 00:29:23,920 Out cattin' with some white man, I hear. 569 00:29:23,925 --> 00:29:25,221 He ain't white, he French. 570 00:29:25,226 --> 00:29:28,024 Oh. That's a new kind of white, is it? 571 00:29:28,029 --> 00:29:29,291 French white? 572 00:29:29,296 --> 00:29:30,526 He different. 573 00:29:30,531 --> 00:29:32,561 Invite him over for dinner. 574 00:29:32,566 --> 00:29:34,530 Mother loves European. 575 00:29:34,535 --> 00:29:37,199 I'm gon' tell Levi you fishin' for a richer man. 576 00:29:37,204 --> 00:29:39,902 Don't. Don't deny your sister. 577 00:29:39,907 --> 00:29:42,138 I wanna meet this French white. 578 00:29:44,111 --> 00:29:46,108 I'm just trying to give you the word of the Lord. 579 00:29:46,113 --> 00:29:50,046 Understa... Yes. Yes. No. That is never my... 580 00:29:50,051 --> 00:29:52,949 Paul crawled up on my bed last night. 581 00:29:59,060 --> 00:30:01,590 Wept for good near an hour. 582 00:30:01,595 --> 00:30:03,830 He ain't takin' it, you gettin' married. 583 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:10,066 Levi told me of a place over in Gretna, 584 00:30:10,071 --> 00:30:11,634 takes in men like Paul. 585 00:30:11,639 --> 00:30:13,402 It's not some crazy person's house like... 586 00:30:13,407 --> 00:30:15,304 How'd that work last time, huh? 587 00:30:15,309 --> 00:30:17,506 He come out worse than before. 588 00:30:17,511 --> 00:30:20,442 Gretna. It ain't happenin'. 589 00:30:20,447 --> 00:30:22,311 He died on the cross for you. 590 00:30:22,316 --> 00:30:23,845 Yes... you. 591 00:30:23,850 --> 00:30:25,314 I worry. 592 00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:29,151 - I worry so much... - Worry about your own life. 593 00:30:29,156 --> 00:30:31,693 Worry about being a bride. 594 00:30:33,127 --> 00:30:36,192 Worry about what you gon' wear 595 00:30:36,197 --> 00:30:40,202 in London, in Paris, Florence. 596 00:30:40,834 --> 00:30:42,999 Now, y'all gon' be in steerage outta New York, 597 00:30:43,004 --> 00:30:44,466 but once you get to Europe, 598 00:30:44,471 --> 00:30:46,768 it's first class on boats, trains, and hotel rooms. 599 00:30:46,773 --> 00:30:49,038 What did you go and do? 600 00:30:49,043 --> 00:30:50,606 You should put the band by the deck 601 00:30:50,611 --> 00:30:53,147 and the food by the fountain. 602 00:30:58,185 --> 00:31:00,016 Mamaw! 603 00:31:00,021 --> 00:31:02,851 I'm goin' 'round the world! 604 00:31:11,798 --> 00:31:14,363 I can't thank you enough, Mama du Lac. 605 00:31:14,368 --> 00:31:15,797 I never been east of Alabama, 606 00:31:15,802 --> 00:31:17,833 and now I'm going to see the pyramids. 607 00:31:17,838 --> 00:31:20,101 Oh, I think every young family deserves 608 00:31:20,106 --> 00:31:21,903 a little adventure. 609 00:31:21,908 --> 00:31:23,705 Wouldn't you say, Monsieur Lioncourt? 610 00:31:23,710 --> 00:31:25,107 Oui, Madame. 611 00:31:25,112 --> 00:31:28,210 My mother, she gave me every advantage in life 612 00:31:28,215 --> 00:31:29,245 as a young man. 613 00:31:29,250 --> 00:31:32,448 My first Mastiff, first flintlock rifle, 614 00:31:32,853 --> 00:31:34,316 the means to make my way to Paris. 615 00:31:34,321 --> 00:31:36,885 It was Louis that purchased your holiday, Levi. 616 00:31:36,890 --> 00:31:38,254 It's Louis who controls the money. 617 00:31:38,259 --> 00:31:39,288 Pay no mind, Levi. 618 00:31:39,293 --> 00:31:40,657 And I don't know who gave you the right 619 00:31:40,661 --> 00:31:41,691 to call our mother your mother. 620 00:31:41,695 --> 00:31:42,891 She's not your mother yet 621 00:31:42,896 --> 00:31:44,961 and will never be your scientific mother. 622 00:31:44,966 --> 00:31:48,197 Paul. 623 00:31:48,202 --> 00:31:50,199 I do love this bouillabaisse. 624 00:31:50,204 --> 00:31:52,734 Wha? 625 00:31:52,739 --> 00:31:54,636 Down here, we call it gumbo. 626 00:31:54,641 --> 00:31:56,838 We had a gumbo the other night, didn't we, Louis? 627 00:31:56,843 --> 00:31:58,240 Uh, right after the opera. 628 00:31:58,245 --> 00:32:00,276 Oh, we've got Louis to an opera. 629 00:32:00,281 --> 00:32:02,911 - "Iolanta". - 'Bout some blind princess, 630 00:32:02,916 --> 00:32:05,013 didn't know she was a princess. 631 00:32:05,018 --> 00:32:07,116 Stomach got grumbling, left half way through. 632 00:32:07,121 --> 00:32:09,618 And what exactly is the nature of your relationship with 633 00:32:09,623 --> 00:32:12,126 my brother, Monsieur Lioncourt? 634 00:32:18,765 --> 00:32:21,263 Your brother and I have been discussing 635 00:32:21,268 --> 00:32:23,699 a few investment opportunities. 636 00:32:23,704 --> 00:32:26,302 The birds asked me to ask you. 637 00:32:26,307 --> 00:32:28,075 I wasn't being rude. 638 00:32:30,611 --> 00:32:32,774 Monsieur Freniere, would you tell me 639 00:32:32,779 --> 00:32:35,711 how you came to propose to this delightsome young woman? 640 00:32:35,716 --> 00:32:37,078 Oh, that's a good yarn. 641 00:32:37,083 --> 00:32:39,315 Are you one with Christ, Mr. Lioncourt? 642 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,950 How 'bout you shut your damn mouth? 643 00:32:41,955 --> 00:32:43,785 - Louis. - That's alright, 644 00:32:43,790 --> 00:32:46,493 Louis, Madame, the birds speak for him. 645 00:32:49,563 --> 00:32:52,599 I came to know Christ in a monastery. 646 00:32:54,801 --> 00:32:57,799 I wanted to be a priest. 647 00:32:57,804 --> 00:33:00,469 Just like you, Paul. 648 00:33:00,474 --> 00:33:03,038 And under the guidance and discipline of the monks 649 00:33:03,043 --> 00:33:07,248 who lived there, I came to memorize both the testaments, 650 00:33:07,253 --> 00:33:09,311 the writings of Assisi, 651 00:33:09,316 --> 00:33:13,821 Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars. 652 00:33:17,824 --> 00:33:23,429 My father, a vulgar man, did not think much of this education, 653 00:33:24,298 --> 00:33:28,503 and so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out, 654 00:33:29,102 --> 00:33:33,001 lock me away, where, between beatings, 655 00:33:33,006 --> 00:33:35,471 starvations, and the failure of Christ 656 00:33:35,476 --> 00:33:37,473 to intercede the beatings and starvations, 657 00:33:37,478 --> 00:33:41,377 I slowly forgot all about the testaments, Assisi, 658 00:33:41,382 --> 00:33:44,145 Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it. 659 00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:45,514 - Stop. - And so to answer 660 00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:47,449 your boring question, there is an ocean 661 00:33:47,454 --> 00:33:49,454 - between Christ and myself. - Stop! 662 00:33:49,464 --> 00:33:52,674 _ 663 00:33:52,826 --> 00:33:54,895 Don't do that shit here! 664 00:33:57,364 --> 00:33:59,428 Not with my family. 665 00:33:59,433 --> 00:34:01,502 You understand? 666 00:34:09,876 --> 00:34:14,081 I am cursed with my father's temper at times, 667 00:34:14,815 --> 00:34:17,045 and the rudeness is all mine. 668 00:34:17,050 --> 00:34:18,380 That's alright. 669 00:34:18,385 --> 00:34:20,882 It's the humidity. It does that sometimes. 670 00:34:20,887 --> 00:34:22,684 Why don't we have some ice wine? 671 00:34:23,890 --> 00:34:26,488 And Levi here can tell us all again 672 00:34:26,493 --> 00:34:30,163 how he won my joychild's heart. 673 00:34:33,934 --> 00:34:38,033 I fear your family has taken a permanent offense at me. 674 00:34:38,038 --> 00:34:39,835 When Paul ain't pickin' at his plate, 675 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,270 he pickin' a fight. 676 00:34:41,275 --> 00:34:44,072 If I had your tricks, I'd have done the same. 677 00:34:44,077 --> 00:34:45,607 You must envy him. 678 00:34:45,612 --> 00:34:48,244 The boy thinks God speaks to him through birds in his head. 679 00:34:48,249 --> 00:34:49,911 How you figure envy? 680 00:34:49,916 --> 00:34:52,047 The liberty he has with his thoughts. 681 00:34:52,052 --> 00:34:53,715 However misshapen they may be, 682 00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:55,751 your brother has no shame in sharing them. 683 00:34:55,756 --> 00:34:57,419 You sayin' I got shame? 684 00:34:57,424 --> 00:35:00,256 The lie you told about leaving the opera house early. 685 00:35:00,261 --> 00:35:02,424 You were near weeping when the curtain fell. 686 00:35:02,429 --> 00:35:04,360 Why hide that from your family? 687 00:35:04,365 --> 00:35:06,628 Don't everybody need to know what I do. 688 00:35:06,633 --> 00:35:08,564 Dishonesty breeds dishonesty. 689 00:35:08,569 --> 00:35:10,266 They sit in judgment. 690 00:35:10,271 --> 00:35:12,133 Paul is the only one to say it to my face, 691 00:35:12,138 --> 00:35:14,603 but I know my ma and Grace think it, too. 692 00:35:14,608 --> 00:35:16,905 My daddy ran our sugar business into a swamp. 693 00:35:16,910 --> 00:35:20,075 When he passed, we was four months... 694 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,112 four months from going bankrupt if I didn't do something. 695 00:35:24,117 --> 00:35:26,615 You don't need to defend yourself to me, Louis. 696 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:28,584 I know what you go through to keep your family 697 00:35:28,589 --> 00:35:29,985 ignorant in their comfort. 698 00:35:29,990 --> 00:35:32,288 It ain't easy, the work I do. 699 00:35:32,293 --> 00:35:34,055 Nothing but broken souls around me, 700 00:35:34,060 --> 00:35:37,293 and the ones that ain't broke are greedy. 701 00:35:37,298 --> 00:35:39,961 Bone-tired. 702 00:35:39,966 --> 00:35:42,097 Drink up, my good man. 703 00:35:42,102 --> 00:35:44,170 The Earth's a savage garden. 704 00:35:49,142 --> 00:35:52,508 You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. 705 00:35:52,513 --> 00:35:55,644 St. Louis is dull as dishwater. 706 00:35:55,649 --> 00:35:59,815 Yes, I feel quite at home here. 707 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:02,484 Shall we have a nightcap? 708 00:36:02,489 --> 00:36:04,653 Um... 709 00:36:04,658 --> 00:36:07,022 Probably had enough for tonight. 710 00:36:07,027 --> 00:36:09,625 Gotta make my rounds back on Liberty. 711 00:36:09,630 --> 00:36:11,693 You must, Louis. 712 00:36:11,698 --> 00:36:14,496 I bought you a gift. 713 00:36:14,501 --> 00:36:16,698 A gift? 714 00:36:16,703 --> 00:36:18,434 A flower. 715 00:36:46,633 --> 00:36:49,030 That's a nice music box you got there. 716 00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:50,733 It's one of the few things I brought with me 717 00:36:50,737 --> 00:36:53,335 from the continent. 718 00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:55,070 What's that lil' song playin'? 719 00:36:55,075 --> 00:36:56,872 Do you like it? 720 00:36:56,877 --> 00:37:01,009 I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, 721 00:37:01,014 --> 00:37:03,850 a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity. 722 00:37:06,353 --> 00:37:09,017 I believe that is for the lips, Miss Lily. 723 00:37:09,022 --> 00:37:12,320 I don't like the way mine look plain. 724 00:37:12,325 --> 00:37:14,590 And Mr. du Lac don't mind when I do it. 725 00:37:14,595 --> 00:37:16,224 Mm-hmm. 726 00:37:16,229 --> 00:37:19,395 A pair of misfit beauties. 727 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,764 I can see why you both run to the other. 728 00:37:22,769 --> 00:37:25,334 Miss Carroll know you're here, Lily? 729 00:37:25,339 --> 00:37:27,202 I can assure you, the Fairplay has been 730 00:37:27,207 --> 00:37:31,239 handsomely compensated for the evening. 731 00:37:31,244 --> 00:37:33,842 Sent a two-horse carriage to pick me up. 732 00:37:33,847 --> 00:37:36,049 Felt like the queen of the quarter. 733 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:44,219 I told Mr. Lioncourt, you and me usually just talk. 734 00:37:44,224 --> 00:37:46,087 And why is that, Louis? 735 00:37:46,092 --> 00:37:49,530 What kind of a man wastes this waist with words? 736 00:37:51,332 --> 00:37:53,033 A beautiful man. 737 00:37:59,540 --> 00:38:01,703 There's nothing to be nervous about. 738 00:38:01,708 --> 00:38:05,941 The curtains are closed, the servants sent home. 739 00:38:05,946 --> 00:38:09,110 Even the planets and stars are blindfolded. 740 00:38:09,115 --> 00:38:12,186 That's your thing, then? You like to watch? 741 00:38:14,588 --> 00:38:17,653 I've been watching you for some time now, Louis. 742 00:38:17,658 --> 00:38:21,222 From river to lake, lake back to river, 743 00:38:21,227 --> 00:38:23,225 looking for my companion heart. 744 00:38:23,230 --> 00:38:24,793 How you do that? 745 00:38:24,798 --> 00:38:25,827 Do what? 746 00:38:25,832 --> 00:38:27,496 Do what? 747 00:38:27,501 --> 00:38:29,898 Get in my head like that. 748 00:38:29,903 --> 00:38:32,468 Such a pretty head. 749 00:39:21,888 --> 00:39:25,186 That's fine, love. 750 00:39:34,748 --> 00:39:37,048 _ 751 00:39:44,578 --> 00:39:48,376 Ah. Ah. 752 00:41:06,793 --> 00:41:09,825 It bears repeating, I did not consider myself 753 00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:12,265 a homosexual man at the time. 754 00:41:13,133 --> 00:41:16,064 I mean, I had had experiences. 755 00:41:16,069 --> 00:41:18,466 Guilt, shame, 756 00:41:18,471 --> 00:41:22,676 floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. 757 00:41:23,076 --> 00:41:27,108 Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. 758 00:41:27,113 --> 00:41:28,343 Course, you know that. 759 00:41:28,348 --> 00:41:30,311 We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel? 760 00:41:30,316 --> 00:41:31,880 It was a good place to score. 761 00:41:31,885 --> 00:41:33,982 I did what I had to. 762 00:41:33,987 --> 00:41:35,817 You've been married? 763 00:41:35,822 --> 00:41:37,986 Twice. 764 00:41:37,991 --> 00:41:41,127 But we're not here for me, are we? 765 00:41:42,295 --> 00:41:45,927 When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, 766 00:41:45,932 --> 00:41:50,331 do you remember the best you ever had? 767 00:41:50,336 --> 00:41:52,033 Berkeley, 1978. 768 00:41:52,038 --> 00:41:56,004 Some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging. 769 00:41:56,009 --> 00:41:59,007 So imagine that 770 00:41:59,012 --> 00:42:01,147 flowing inside your veins again. 771 00:42:02,649 --> 00:42:07,154 Now multiply it by miles, 772 00:42:07,654 --> 00:42:11,157 to the rings of Saturn and back. 773 00:42:15,395 --> 00:42:19,027 He had taken what he called "un petit coup"... 774 00:42:19,032 --> 00:42:20,796 the little drink. 775 00:42:20,801 --> 00:42:22,530 Not enough to kill me, 776 00:42:22,535 --> 00:42:26,201 but just enough to keep him fit. 777 00:42:26,206 --> 00:42:30,638 It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, 778 00:42:30,643 --> 00:42:32,373 the little drink. 779 00:42:32,378 --> 00:42:36,277 For a human, experiencing it for the first time, 780 00:42:36,282 --> 00:42:37,879 it was... 781 00:42:37,884 --> 00:42:39,715 unsettling. 782 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,650 And not for the physical toll on my body, 783 00:42:42,655 --> 00:42:44,385 which was significant, 784 00:42:44,390 --> 00:42:48,695 but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. 785 00:42:51,597 --> 00:42:54,229 I had never allowed myself 786 00:42:54,234 --> 00:42:56,732 to feel emotionally close to anyone, 787 00:42:56,737 --> 00:42:58,566 much less a man. 788 00:42:58,571 --> 00:43:02,237 I had no room for feelings like these in my life. 789 00:43:03,676 --> 00:43:06,742 You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, 790 00:43:06,747 --> 00:43:10,952 but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em. 791 00:43:13,219 --> 00:43:16,517 I vowed never to return again. 792 00:43:16,522 --> 00:43:19,755 I shut that night out of my mind 793 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,691 and turned my attentions back to life as it was before. 794 00:43:25,298 --> 00:43:29,530 One, two, three, jump! 795 00:43:45,118 --> 00:43:46,547 Hold still now. 796 00:43:46,552 --> 00:43:48,984 We are missing my father today. 797 00:43:48,989 --> 00:43:51,119 He's supposed to dance with me to start the night off. 798 00:43:52,458 --> 00:43:55,123 I'm trying not to cry now. 799 00:43:55,128 --> 00:43:57,425 And I thought the best way to honor Daddy 800 00:43:57,430 --> 00:43:59,660 would be to make my brothers do the work. 801 00:43:59,665 --> 00:44:01,329 Mm! 802 00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:02,764 Mm-hmm. 803 00:44:02,769 --> 00:44:04,632 Half of y'all don't know this, 804 00:44:04,637 --> 00:44:08,937 but these no-good boys used to shuffle for pennies on Sunday. 805 00:44:08,942 --> 00:44:11,973 Called themselves "The ABCDEFGs". 806 00:44:11,978 --> 00:44:14,409 Remember that, Father Matthias? 807 00:44:14,414 --> 00:44:15,944 Oh, yes. ABCDE... 808 00:44:15,949 --> 00:44:17,578 "Alter Boys Come Dancing 809 00:44:17,583 --> 00:44:19,114 - Every day For God". - "For God". 810 00:44:19,119 --> 00:44:20,182 That's right! 811 00:44:20,187 --> 00:44:22,317 I remember their collection hat 812 00:44:22,322 --> 00:44:24,252 didn't always make it to the collection plate. 813 00:44:24,257 --> 00:44:26,487 That's right. 814 00:44:26,492 --> 00:44:27,588 Paul, Louis? 815 00:44:27,593 --> 00:44:29,590 - Oh, come on, now. - Please! 816 00:44:29,595 --> 00:44:31,764 - Hey, now. - Come on, please! 817 00:44:32,499 --> 00:44:33,862 It's for me 818 00:44:33,867 --> 00:44:35,630 - on my wedding day. - Come on, brother. 819 00:44:37,270 --> 00:44:39,467 Alright! 820 00:44:48,348 --> 00:44:49,777 Shoes are tight. 821 00:44:49,782 --> 00:44:51,947 Oh, the shoes is fine. It's the feet that's fat. 822 00:44:53,786 --> 00:44:55,550 Hey, what kinda rhythm you want, boss? 823 00:44:55,555 --> 00:44:58,053 Just play it loud so they can't hear our feet. 824 00:45:02,628 --> 00:45:06,361 Alright. What you remember? 825 00:45:06,366 --> 00:45:08,329 Um... 826 00:45:09,802 --> 00:45:10,966 Hey, come on. 827 00:45:14,207 --> 00:45:16,671 - Hey! - Go ahead now! 828 00:45:21,882 --> 00:45:24,417 - Whoo! - Hey! Hey! 829 00:45:25,518 --> 00:45:27,854 You still got it! 830 00:45:30,924 --> 00:45:33,159 Alright! Okay! 831 00:45:37,263 --> 00:45:38,927 They still got it! 832 00:45:43,369 --> 00:45:45,166 - Oh! - Yeah, Louis! 833 00:45:49,242 --> 00:45:52,812 Okay. You ain't gon' do it. You ain't gon' do it. 834 00:46:05,225 --> 00:46:07,088 That's right! 835 00:46:23,109 --> 00:46:24,906 Amazing. 836 00:46:45,298 --> 00:46:46,461 We gonna miss it. 837 00:46:46,466 --> 00:46:48,601 Quit talkin'. I have to concentrate. 838 00:46:49,069 --> 00:46:52,633 It's them three pieces of checkered cake holding you back. 839 00:46:52,638 --> 00:46:56,571 Five pieces of checkered cake, the Pompano fillet, 840 00:46:56,576 --> 00:47:00,008 three boudins, dirty rice, 841 00:47:00,013 --> 00:47:03,844 beef, green beans, five, six wines. 842 00:47:03,849 --> 00:47:06,181 Eat anything else, 843 00:47:06,186 --> 00:47:07,983 the buttons on your vest gon' pop off 844 00:47:07,988 --> 00:47:09,284 like cannon balls, 845 00:47:09,289 --> 00:47:11,619 take down the neighborhood. 846 00:47:20,666 --> 00:47:24,165 9,517. 847 00:47:24,170 --> 00:47:26,467 That's how many days we've been in his house. 848 00:47:26,472 --> 00:47:28,608 You do that math all by yourself? 849 00:47:29,809 --> 00:47:31,373 You remember the day I got taller than you? 850 00:47:31,377 --> 00:47:32,507 Always bringin' that up. 851 00:47:32,512 --> 00:47:34,509 Shot up like a Nuttall oak. 852 00:47:34,514 --> 00:47:37,245 Daddy said I was gon' look down on you for the rest of days. 853 00:47:37,250 --> 00:47:38,446 Yeah, yeah. 854 00:47:38,451 --> 00:47:39,547 Half an inch. 855 00:47:39,552 --> 00:47:41,849 That was a good month, that month. 856 00:47:46,126 --> 00:47:48,789 I think you should get married next. 857 00:47:48,794 --> 00:47:50,025 Do you now? 858 00:47:50,030 --> 00:47:51,359 And you should marry Hazel. 859 00:47:51,364 --> 00:47:53,328 Hazel? Who that? 860 00:47:53,333 --> 00:47:55,563 The one you were dancing too close with. 861 00:47:55,568 --> 00:47:58,499 You dance that close, you ought to be married. 862 00:47:58,504 --> 00:48:00,701 I didn't catch her name. 863 00:48:00,706 --> 00:48:02,837 Well, it's Hazel. 864 00:48:09,882 --> 00:48:12,919 You still doing business with that man Lestat? 865 00:48:14,020 --> 00:48:16,756 Nah. Didn't work out. 866 00:48:18,424 --> 00:48:20,921 That's good. 867 00:48:20,926 --> 00:48:22,023 'Cause he the Devil. 868 00:48:22,028 --> 00:48:23,524 You think everyone's the Devil. 869 00:48:23,529 --> 00:48:26,327 He's here to take souls. He told me so. 870 00:48:26,332 --> 00:48:28,763 He spoke to me without moving his lips. 871 00:48:28,768 --> 00:48:30,771 He got tricks is all. 872 00:48:32,372 --> 00:48:35,069 Mortal sins must be confessed, Louis. 873 00:48:35,074 --> 00:48:37,277 Ain't never gon' see him again, Paul. 874 00:48:42,548 --> 00:48:44,679 You think Levi loves her enough? 875 00:48:44,684 --> 00:48:47,582 You know, Grace needs a lot of love. 876 00:48:47,587 --> 00:48:48,921 I do. 877 00:48:49,755 --> 00:48:53,393 Do you think he's givin' her everything he's got inside him? 878 00:48:54,627 --> 00:48:55,895 Mm-hmm. 879 00:49:03,436 --> 00:49:05,733 Mother made a good party for Grace. 880 00:49:05,738 --> 00:49:06,902 Mm-hmm, yeah. 881 00:49:06,907 --> 00:49:09,270 Yeah, they gon' talk about this one for years. 882 00:49:09,275 --> 00:49:10,938 Yeah. 883 00:49:16,949 --> 00:49:18,446 I love you, Louis. 884 00:49:18,451 --> 00:49:20,581 And I love you, too, baby brother. 885 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,625 I ate too much checkered cake. 886 00:49:34,634 --> 00:49:35,963 Paul. 887 00:49:37,937 --> 00:49:39,339 Paul! 888 00:49:41,707 --> 00:49:42,804 Paul! 889 00:49:44,244 --> 00:49:46,641 - Oh, my lord! - Paul! 890 00:49:48,981 --> 00:49:51,684 That was the last sunrise I ever saw. 891 00:49:52,818 --> 00:49:55,916 Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. 892 00:50:00,926 --> 00:50:04,459 I don't miss the sun, 893 00:50:04,464 --> 00:50:06,427 the reminders it carries. 894 00:50:26,619 --> 00:50:30,151 I have seen death over and over 895 00:50:30,156 --> 00:50:33,559 and over and over again. 896 00:50:34,527 --> 00:50:36,191 It's boring. 897 00:50:36,196 --> 00:50:38,359 That'll make a great blurb. 898 00:50:38,364 --> 00:50:41,229 The diagnosis you received, Daniel, 899 00:50:41,234 --> 00:50:44,165 it winds your clock. 900 00:50:44,170 --> 00:50:46,667 This virus has turned the world sideways. 901 00:50:46,672 --> 00:50:47,902 I get it. 902 00:50:47,907 --> 00:50:49,237 I'm gonna die. 903 00:50:49,242 --> 00:50:51,406 They're gonna die. 904 00:50:51,411 --> 00:50:52,840 But not the vampire. 905 00:50:52,845 --> 00:50:55,181 The vampire is bored. 906 00:50:56,649 --> 00:50:59,185 The human was destroyed. 907 00:51:00,586 --> 00:51:03,318 Utterly destroyed. 908 00:51:03,323 --> 00:51:05,220 I was at the funeral home. 909 00:51:05,225 --> 00:51:07,154 Everything is going as it should. 910 00:51:07,159 --> 00:51:10,358 Good men there. Promised me that... 911 00:51:10,363 --> 00:51:12,727 You musta said something to him, Louis. 912 00:51:12,732 --> 00:51:14,395 You musta said something to him 913 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,436 to make him do that to himself. 914 00:51:18,037 --> 00:51:20,601 Paul slipped and fell, Florence. 915 00:51:20,606 --> 00:51:23,037 I don't think this is something you want to pursue. 916 00:51:23,042 --> 00:51:25,906 He was a fragile boy. 917 00:51:25,911 --> 00:51:27,947 He always was. 918 00:51:29,949 --> 00:51:33,614 And you, you always had to have the last word, 919 00:51:33,619 --> 00:51:34,949 didn't you, Louis? 920 00:51:34,954 --> 00:51:36,917 You always had to take him down a peg. 921 00:51:36,922 --> 00:51:39,420 Mamaw. 922 00:51:39,425 --> 00:51:41,356 What did you say to him? 923 00:51:41,361 --> 00:51:43,396 Why was you even up there? 924 00:51:44,264 --> 00:51:47,094 Watchin' the sun come up, Mama. 925 00:51:49,869 --> 00:51:53,874 You don't get past the gates iffen you kill yourself. 926 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,071 Don't you know that? 927 00:51:57,076 --> 00:52:00,441 Paul gone down the other way. 928 00:52:00,446 --> 00:52:02,682 Paul's in Hell because of you. 929 00:52:14,327 --> 00:52:16,657 Storyville lowered their hats, 930 00:52:16,662 --> 00:52:19,794 gave their propers, because it was custom. 931 00:52:19,799 --> 00:52:22,630 But if you look past those lined up on the sidewalk, 932 00:52:22,635 --> 00:52:25,165 you'd see the bars hadn't stopped serving, 933 00:52:25,170 --> 00:52:27,668 the whores hadn't stopped whoring. 934 00:52:27,673 --> 00:52:29,804 What was Paul's life worth to them? 935 00:52:29,809 --> 00:52:31,806 What was my life worth? 936 00:52:31,811 --> 00:52:33,841 The big man of Liberty Street, 937 00:52:33,846 --> 00:52:38,346 trailing the satin-lined evidence of his failure. 938 00:52:38,351 --> 00:52:41,186 Easy prey for the discerning predator. 939 00:52:41,211 --> 00:52:42,591 _ 940 00:52:42,921 --> 00:52:44,177 _ 941 00:52:45,190 --> 00:52:47,688 An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased... 942 00:52:47,693 --> 00:52:48,789 Move on. 943 00:52:48,794 --> 00:52:50,491 I wait on my balcony every night. 944 00:52:50,496 --> 00:52:52,460 - You've been avoiding me. - I have been occupied. 945 00:52:52,465 --> 00:52:54,995 Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute. 946 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,931 And I don't take kindly to being avoided. 947 00:52:56,936 --> 00:52:58,032 It's my brother's funeral! 948 00:52:58,037 --> 00:52:59,500 Believe me when I tell you, 949 00:52:59,505 --> 00:53:01,368 your brother longed for that flagstone. 950 00:53:01,373 --> 00:53:02,870 What'd you say to me?! 951 00:53:02,875 --> 00:53:05,606 I got it, boss. Keep walking. 952 00:53:13,386 --> 00:53:17,151 Lestat's ambush had disoriented me. 953 00:53:17,156 --> 00:53:20,292 The sermon that was given, I could not hear. 954 00:53:21,627 --> 00:53:24,725 And when the gathering cut loose the body, 955 00:53:24,730 --> 00:53:26,494 I could not join the transformation 956 00:53:26,499 --> 00:53:29,797 of those in attendance. 957 00:53:29,802 --> 00:53:32,805 He would not let me. 958 00:53:33,373 --> 00:53:34,574 Come to me. 959 00:53:37,042 --> 00:53:38,177 Come to me. 960 00:53:39,178 --> 00:53:40,207 No. 961 00:53:47,753 --> 00:53:49,550 Walk you home, Mama? 962 00:53:49,555 --> 00:53:51,852 No, thank you. 963 00:53:51,857 --> 00:53:53,826 Levi, do you mind? 964 00:53:55,528 --> 00:53:57,697 Of course, Mama Du Lac. 965 00:54:01,333 --> 00:54:02,597 She didn't mean nothin' by it. 966 00:54:02,602 --> 00:54:03,731 Oh, but she did now. 967 00:54:03,736 --> 00:54:06,239 She just needs to put it somewhere. 968 00:54:07,072 --> 00:54:08,641 Don't let it inside. 969 00:54:13,112 --> 00:54:15,410 See you back at the wake? 970 00:54:20,753 --> 00:54:22,388 Come to me. 971 00:54:23,589 --> 00:54:26,291 I did not go to the wake. 972 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,225 I did not want to face my mother's blame... 973 00:54:33,232 --> 00:54:35,300 ... my sister's pity. 974 00:54:36,301 --> 00:54:38,904 I wanted to grieve alone. 975 00:54:40,773 --> 00:54:44,310 But he would not allow it. 976 00:54:47,312 --> 00:54:49,214 Come to me, Louis. 977 00:54:52,251 --> 00:54:53,948 Come to me. 978 00:54:59,625 --> 00:55:00,788 Hello, handsome. 979 00:55:00,793 --> 00:55:02,022 Sazerac. 980 00:55:02,027 --> 00:55:04,892 My heart broke when I heard of your brother's passing. 981 00:55:04,897 --> 00:55:06,461 Miss Lily. 982 00:55:06,466 --> 00:55:07,662 Oh, my dear. 983 00:55:07,667 --> 00:55:09,397 I don't care if she busy with someone. 984 00:55:09,401 --> 00:55:10,498 I'll pay more. 985 00:55:10,503 --> 00:55:13,267 'Cause I like Miss Lily, and I need Miss Lily. 986 00:55:13,272 --> 00:55:15,975 Miss Lily died, Mr. du Lac. 987 00:55:17,142 --> 00:55:18,606 Two weeks ago. 988 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,478 Police found her under the docks. 989 00:55:23,483 --> 00:55:27,347 Said she contracted the fevers that's been going around. 990 00:55:27,352 --> 00:55:30,150 Blood went and dried up inside her. 991 00:55:30,155 --> 00:55:31,691 Viens à moi. 992 00:55:34,426 --> 00:55:37,157 Father! Father Matthias! 993 00:55:37,162 --> 00:55:38,425 Help me! 994 00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,936 Help me, please. He's in my head, Father. 995 00:55:45,938 --> 00:55:48,503 The Devil is in New Orleans. 996 00:55:48,508 --> 00:55:49,870 Calm down, son. 997 00:55:49,875 --> 00:55:51,038 Catch your breath. 998 00:55:52,712 --> 00:55:55,543 Bless me, Father, f-for I have sinned. 999 00:55:55,548 --> 00:55:58,145 Grievously sinned. 1000 00:55:58,150 --> 00:56:00,180 Sign of the cross, son. 1001 00:56:09,361 --> 00:56:10,791 I'm a drunk, Lord. 1002 00:56:10,796 --> 00:56:12,126 I'm a liar. 1003 00:56:12,131 --> 00:56:13,560 I am a thief, Lord. 1004 00:56:13,565 --> 00:56:15,495 I profit off the miseries of other men, 1005 00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:16,564 and I do it easy. 1006 00:56:16,569 --> 00:56:18,733 Drugs, liquor, women. 1007 00:56:18,738 --> 00:56:21,669 I-I-I-I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord. 1008 00:56:21,674 --> 00:56:23,638 I take daughters with no homes 1009 00:56:23,643 --> 00:56:27,074 and I-I put 'em out on the street, Lord, 1010 00:56:27,079 --> 00:56:29,877 and I lie to myself, saying I-I'm giving them a roof 1011 00:56:29,882 --> 00:56:31,879 and food and dollar bills in they pocket, 1012 00:56:31,884 --> 00:56:34,214 but I look in the mirror, I know what I am... 1013 00:56:34,219 --> 00:56:35,983 the big man in the big house, 1014 00:56:35,988 --> 00:56:38,886 stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries. 1015 00:56:38,891 --> 00:56:42,361 And Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me. 1016 00:56:43,395 --> 00:56:46,226 I shame my father. 1017 00:56:46,231 --> 00:56:48,195 I f... I failed my brother. 1018 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,263 No, son. 1019 00:56:49,268 --> 00:56:52,099 I lost my mother and sister, 1020 00:56:52,104 --> 00:56:55,335 and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord, 1021 00:56:55,340 --> 00:56:57,572 I run like a coward. 1022 00:56:57,577 --> 00:56:59,339 I run to the bottle. 1023 00:56:59,344 --> 00:57:00,741 I run to the grift. 1024 00:57:00,746 --> 00:57:02,910 I run to bad beds. 1025 00:57:02,915 --> 00:57:05,412 I-I laid down with a man. 1026 00:57:07,119 --> 00:57:09,850 I laid down with the Devil. 1027 00:57:09,855 --> 00:57:12,519 And he has roots in me, 1028 00:57:12,524 --> 00:57:16,090 all his spindly roots in me, 1029 00:57:16,095 --> 00:57:19,059 and I can't think nothin' anymore 1030 00:57:19,064 --> 00:57:22,129 but his voice and his words! 1031 00:57:22,134 --> 00:57:24,298 Please, help me! 1032 00:57:24,303 --> 00:57:26,433 I am weak! 1033 00:57:28,107 --> 00:57:29,937 I wanna die! 1034 00:57:32,277 --> 00:57:33,774 Oh! 1035 00:57:51,263 --> 00:57:53,293 No! 1036 00:57:57,002 --> 00:57:59,266 Do you think God heard you, Louis, 1037 00:57:59,271 --> 00:58:03,070 in that tawdry box, through this pig vessel, 1038 00:58:03,075 --> 00:58:05,645 this... this charlatan? 1039 00:58:07,146 --> 00:58:09,977 Do you not see how unworthy he is? 1040 00:58:09,982 --> 00:58:12,813 How can you humiliate yourself like this?! 1041 00:58:22,828 --> 00:58:24,825 You killed Lily. 1042 00:58:24,830 --> 00:58:28,162 Cut short that magnificent life she was living. 1043 00:58:28,167 --> 00:58:29,697 What a tragedy. 1044 00:58:29,702 --> 00:58:32,667 Ain't no fever out there. That's you. 1045 00:58:32,672 --> 00:58:34,501 You bringin' the death to town. 1046 00:58:34,506 --> 00:58:36,336 I give death to those deserving. 1047 00:58:39,011 --> 00:58:40,875 I'm not the Devil. 1048 00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:42,682 You were wrong about that. 1049 00:58:44,183 --> 00:58:45,646 But I can give you death. 1050 00:59:38,237 --> 00:59:41,201 This primitive country has picked you clean. 1051 00:59:41,206 --> 00:59:45,706 It has shackled you in permanent exile. 1052 00:59:45,711 --> 00:59:47,574 Every room you enter, 1053 00:59:47,579 --> 00:59:49,243 every hat you are forced to wear... 1054 00:59:49,248 --> 00:59:51,912 the stern landlord, the deferential businessman, 1055 00:59:51,917 --> 00:59:53,247 the loyal son... 1056 00:59:53,252 --> 00:59:55,249 all these roles you conform to 1057 00:59:55,254 --> 00:59:57,918 and none of them your true nature. 1058 00:59:59,424 --> 01:00:03,062 What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. 1059 01:00:05,597 --> 01:00:07,962 The first time I laid eyes on you, 1060 01:00:07,967 --> 01:00:09,964 your beautiful face, 1061 01:00:09,969 --> 01:00:12,432 I saw that sorrow. 1062 01:00:12,437 --> 01:00:13,934 I did not know how it got there 1063 01:00:13,939 --> 01:00:16,809 or why it was so voluminous. 1064 01:00:19,311 --> 01:00:22,882 I can take away that sorrow, Louis. 1065 01:00:23,783 --> 01:00:26,280 I can give you that death 1066 01:00:26,285 --> 01:00:29,817 you begged your feeble, blind, degenerate, 1067 01:00:29,822 --> 01:00:33,788 nonexistent god for. 1068 01:00:33,793 --> 01:00:36,891 But I can do it... 1069 01:00:36,896 --> 01:00:38,931 joyfully. 1070 01:00:40,265 --> 01:00:43,831 I can swap this life of shame, 1071 01:00:43,836 --> 01:00:46,400 swap it out for a dark gift 1072 01:00:46,405 --> 01:00:49,408 and a power you can't begin to imagine. 1073 01:00:51,743 --> 01:00:53,913 You just have to ask me for it. 1074 01:00:55,747 --> 01:00:59,814 You just have to nod your beautiful head... 1075 01:00:59,819 --> 01:01:01,581 and say yes. 1076 01:01:05,490 --> 01:01:07,426 I love you, Louis. 1077 01:01:08,828 --> 01:01:10,796 You are loved. 1078 01:01:12,631 --> 01:01:15,262 I send my love to you, 1079 01:01:15,267 --> 01:01:18,999 and you send it back round to me. 1080 01:01:19,004 --> 01:01:22,002 And this circle, 1081 01:01:22,007 --> 01:01:25,544 this home we barely had a glimpse of... 1082 01:01:28,147 --> 01:01:30,878 ... know it frightens me as much as it does you. 1083 01:01:30,883 --> 01:01:33,613 It is difficult to explain 1084 01:01:33,618 --> 01:01:36,516 how his words disarmed me, 1085 01:01:36,521 --> 01:01:40,354 how efficiently succinct and impenetrable 1086 01:01:40,359 --> 01:01:42,456 his argument was. 1087 01:01:42,461 --> 01:01:44,224 All my conceptions, 1088 01:01:44,229 --> 01:01:47,294 even my guilt and my wish to die 1089 01:01:47,299 --> 01:01:50,130 seemed utterly unimportant, 1090 01:01:50,135 --> 01:01:52,432 and I completely forgot myself 1091 01:01:52,437 --> 01:01:55,970 and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. 1092 01:01:55,975 --> 01:02:01,580 For the first time in my life, I was seen. 1093 01:02:02,214 --> 01:02:05,217 Be my companion, Louis. 1094 01:02:06,218 --> 01:02:10,184 Be all the beautiful things you are, 1095 01:02:10,189 --> 01:02:12,524 and be them without apology. 1096 01:02:14,726 --> 01:02:16,556 For all eternity. 1097 01:02:33,612 --> 01:02:38,417 He drained me to the very threshold of death. 1098 01:02:45,590 --> 01:02:47,421 Mm. 1099 01:03:10,115 --> 01:03:14,520 The blood, it came as a dull roar at first. 1100 01:03:15,220 --> 01:03:17,952 And then a pounding, 1101 01:03:17,957 --> 01:03:20,921 like the pounding of a drum, 1102 01:03:20,926 --> 01:03:25,159 growing louder and louder, 1103 01:03:25,164 --> 01:03:28,795 as if some enormous creature 1104 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:33,005 were coming through a dark and alien forest. 1105 01:03:33,672 --> 01:03:36,270 A huge drum. 1106 01:03:37,909 --> 01:03:42,514 And then, there came a pounding of another drum, 1107 01:03:42,982 --> 01:03:45,946 as if another giant were coming behind him, 1108 01:03:45,951 --> 01:03:49,649 each giant intent on his own drum, 1109 01:03:49,654 --> 01:03:52,987 giving no notice to the rhythm of the other. 1110 01:03:52,992 --> 01:04:00,197 Throbbing in my lips, fingers, and flesh of my temple. 1111 01:04:02,301 --> 01:04:05,599 Above all, in my veins. 1112 01:04:05,604 --> 01:04:09,136 Drum, and then the other drum. 1113 01:04:18,883 --> 01:04:22,116 I opened my eyes. 1114 01:04:22,121 --> 01:04:26,286 And it was then that I realized 1115 01:04:26,291 --> 01:04:30,057 the drum was my heart, 1116 01:04:30,062 --> 01:04:33,498 and the other drum had been his. 1117 01:04:36,535 --> 01:04:39,171 I saw him sitting a length away from me. 1118 01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:41,974 Radiant. 1119 01:04:43,208 --> 01:04:45,844 And we sat there for some time. 1120 01:04:47,646 --> 01:04:51,378 In throes of increasing wonder. 1121 01:04:57,722 --> 01:04:59,686 The end. 1122 01:05:01,493 --> 01:05:03,357 The beginning. 1123 01:05:12,806 --> 01:05:17,666 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 1124 01:05:24,383 --> 01:05:26,380 I'm a vampire. 1125 01:05:28,186 --> 01:05:31,184 I walked my entire life as a dead man 1126 01:05:31,189 --> 01:05:34,788 and now could finally receive the secrets of existence. 1127 01:05:34,793 --> 01:05:38,958 You alone of all creatures can strike like the hand of God. 1128 01:05:38,963 --> 01:05:41,461 I did not readily take to killing. 1129 01:05:41,466 --> 01:05:42,829 You're ashamed of what we are. 1130 01:05:42,834 --> 01:05:45,865 And then my Claudia, my redemption. 1131 01:05:45,870 --> 01:05:47,467 We're a family? 1132 01:05:47,472 --> 01:05:48,668 No! Don't! 1133 01:05:49,841 --> 01:05:51,071 For a killing machine, 1134 01:05:51,075 --> 01:05:52,406 I kind of like her. 1135 01:05:52,411 --> 01:05:55,309 Am I from the devil? 1136 01:05:55,314 --> 01:05:58,244 Is my very nature... 1137 01:05:58,249 --> 01:05:59,646 ... that of the devil? 1138 01:06:01,019 --> 01:06:02,316 This is not a life! 1139 01:06:02,321 --> 01:06:04,484 That is 'cause you took my life! 1140 01:06:06,325 --> 01:06:10,156 Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis! 1141 01:06:12,964 --> 01:06:14,361 Okay. 1142 01:06:14,366 --> 01:06:15,929 Did you eat the baby? 1143 01:06:29,113 --> 01:06:32,646 I'm Daniel Molloy, across from Mr... 1144 01:06:32,651 --> 01:06:35,181 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 1145 01:06:35,186 --> 01:06:40,991 So, Mr. du Lac, how long have you been dead? 1146 01:06:43,528 --> 01:06:45,959 Hi, I'm Rolin Jones, Executive Producer for 1147 01:06:45,964 --> 01:06:47,461 "Interview with the Vampire", 1148 01:06:47,466 --> 01:06:50,564 and this is your Episode Insider. 1149 01:06:50,569 --> 01:06:53,700 There are stories at there that need to be told. 1150 01:06:53,705 --> 01:06:55,301 I'm Daniel Molloy. 1151 01:06:55,306 --> 01:06:57,937 Daniel Molly, he's a journalist who's sort of on 1152 01:06:57,942 --> 01:07:02,241 the nadir of his career, and a package arrives 1153 01:07:02,246 --> 01:07:05,411 and inside is a great deal of history 1154 01:07:05,416 --> 01:07:08,515 that he did not want to remember. 1155 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,250 I got to call you back. 1156 01:07:11,255 --> 01:07:12,553 When he was a young journalist, 1157 01:07:12,557 --> 01:07:16,423 he made a series of tapes with a vampire. 1158 01:07:16,428 --> 01:07:19,058 I think I want to tell the real stor... 1159 01:07:19,063 --> 01:07:22,228 He's sort of given an invitation to revisit this interview 1160 01:07:22,233 --> 01:07:24,431 and do it right and proper when both 1161 01:07:24,436 --> 01:07:26,366 have lived a little life and are way more 1162 01:07:26,371 --> 01:07:27,734 comfortable in their skin. 1163 01:07:27,739 --> 01:07:32,205 So... a do over. 1164 01:07:32,210 --> 01:07:34,040 Truth and reconciliation. 1165 01:07:34,045 --> 01:07:37,276 He's a very different vampire, so he's got a lot on his mind. 1166 01:07:37,281 --> 01:07:39,779 Lestat sees Louis de Pointe du Lac 1167 01:07:39,784 --> 01:07:43,989 for the first time pulling a knife on his brother, 1168 01:07:44,389 --> 01:07:46,319 and oh, that's intriguing. 1169 01:07:46,324 --> 01:07:50,524 There's some potential there to be a companion predator. 1170 01:07:50,529 --> 01:07:53,292 Then, in the middle of this poker scene, 1171 01:07:53,297 --> 01:07:55,429 you can see he has been on his mind. 1172 01:07:55,434 --> 01:07:58,097 There's a shot where he's sort of staring longingly 1173 01:07:58,102 --> 01:08:01,768 at Louis while Louis is shining his business acumen, 1174 01:08:01,773 --> 01:08:03,368 and he goes, "I'm gonna show him. 1175 01:08:03,373 --> 01:08:04,438 I'm gonna give him a little insight 1176 01:08:04,442 --> 01:08:06,105 about what I can do. 1177 01:08:06,110 --> 01:08:07,607 These men look down on you. 1178 01:08:07,612 --> 01:08:10,243 I find it appalling how men like yourself 1179 01:08:10,248 --> 01:08:11,611 are treated in this country. 1180 01:08:11,616 --> 01:08:15,649 So he does a little vampire parlor trick, as it were. 1181 01:08:15,654 --> 01:08:19,318 I believe there is great opportunity in this city, 1182 01:08:19,323 --> 01:08:23,823 but to see that, I'll need protection from the wolves. 1183 01:08:25,296 --> 01:08:27,794 There is a sort of predator angle to this. 1184 01:08:27,799 --> 01:08:31,164 Louis fully admits later I was being hunted. 1185 01:08:31,169 --> 01:08:32,866 Lestat would not see that. 1186 01:08:32,871 --> 01:08:35,168 Lestat would say I was courting him. 1187 01:08:35,173 --> 01:08:36,302 Come to me, Louis. 1188 01:08:36,307 --> 01:08:37,804 That take Louis to a place 1189 01:08:37,809 --> 01:08:40,907 where he find the church is the only place he can go. 1190 01:08:40,912 --> 01:08:44,343 Help me, please. He's in my head, Father. 1191 01:08:44,348 --> 01:08:48,014 Lestat has entered his mind, heart and soul, 1192 01:08:48,019 --> 01:08:50,517 and he wants it out and he's feeling great regret. 1193 01:08:50,522 --> 01:08:52,986 I laid down with the devil. 1194 01:08:52,991 --> 01:08:54,721 Help me! 1195 01:08:54,726 --> 01:08:58,992 I am weak, and I want to die. 1196 01:08:58,997 --> 01:09:01,360 He just pours it out, screaming to a God 1197 01:09:01,365 --> 01:09:03,997 he hasn't talked to in a long time. 1198 01:09:07,706 --> 01:09:12,011 Lestat has a very different idea about organized religion. 1199 01:09:13,512 --> 01:09:15,875 This charlatan! 1200 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:18,678 Do you not see how unworthy he is? 1201 01:09:18,683 --> 01:09:21,147 How could you humiliate yourself like this?! 1202 01:09:21,152 --> 01:09:23,416 We are catching Lestat at a very vulnerable 1203 01:09:23,421 --> 01:09:25,852 and emotionally out-of-control moment, 1204 01:09:25,857 --> 01:09:28,187 and he takes it out on these two priest 1205 01:09:28,192 --> 01:09:33,226 in front of Louis and then has to make a very, very 1206 01:09:33,231 --> 01:09:37,936 quick and aggressive 360 and try to really give the big pitch. 1207 01:09:38,369 --> 01:09:41,401 I can swap this life of shame, 1208 01:09:42,006 --> 01:09:44,504 swap it out for a dark gift 1209 01:09:44,509 --> 01:09:47,707 and a power you can't begin to imagine. 1210 01:09:47,712 --> 01:09:49,843 He manages to pull it off... 1211 01:09:49,848 --> 01:09:53,980 the idea of being seen, the idea of him being loved. 1212 01:09:53,985 --> 01:09:57,917 Be my companion, Louis. 1213 01:09:57,922 --> 01:10:00,419 Be all the beautiful things you are. 1214 01:10:00,424 --> 01:10:04,524 And despite the barbaric scene, as he says, 1215 01:10:04,529 --> 01:10:06,860 he got him at the right moment. 1216 01:10:10,268 --> 01:10:12,899 And we set there for some time 1217 01:10:12,904 --> 01:10:17,270 in throes of increasing wonder. 1218 01:10:17,275 --> 01:10:18,672 The end. 1219 01:10:21,145 --> 01:10:22,508 The beginning.