1 00:00:15,749 --> 00:00:16,784 You are getting access 2 00:00:16,789 --> 00:00:19,291 to very precious items from the archives. 3 00:00:19,295 --> 00:00:21,597 Anne Frank meets Stephen King. 4 00:00:23,647 --> 00:00:24,730 We're a family? 5 00:00:24,735 --> 00:00:26,819 Yeah, with no secrets. 6 00:00:26,824 --> 00:00:28,778 Uncle Les got secrets. 7 00:00:28,783 --> 00:00:31,085 How's Antoinette? 8 00:00:31,090 --> 00:00:32,956 I don't see that happening again. 9 00:00:32,961 --> 00:00:34,840 His name is Charlie. 10 00:00:34,845 --> 00:00:36,768 He's got veins like rivers. 11 00:00:36,773 --> 00:00:37,804 Charlie? 12 00:00:37,809 --> 00:00:40,006 This is why we never get close to mortals. 13 00:00:40,011 --> 00:00:43,227 Let me tell you something. I'm doin' just fine. 14 00:00:43,232 --> 00:00:45,104 I'm just getting started. 15 00:00:50,793 --> 00:00:58,293 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 16 00:01:19,225 --> 00:01:23,430 "Man with green vest... 'Please, no'. 17 00:01:23,825 --> 00:01:27,215 Man with fat fingers... 'Please, stop'. 18 00:01:27,220 --> 00:01:31,349 Window washer... 'I can't die like this'. 19 00:01:31,354 --> 00:01:35,527 Woman with purple shoes... 'Please'. 20 00:01:43,423 --> 00:01:48,128 Boy with inner tube and dog... 'Let my dog live'. 21 00:01:48,776 --> 00:01:50,207 'Please, no'. 22 00:01:50,212 --> 00:01:51,687 'Please, stop'. 23 00:01:51,692 --> 00:01:52,775 'Stop'." 24 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:54,246 Oh, here's a good one. 25 00:01:54,251 --> 00:01:58,289 "Man in the last row of 'The Son of Sheik' picture show... 26 00:01:58,294 --> 00:02:00,422 'You said you had cigarettes'." 27 00:02:00,427 --> 00:02:03,773 It's a kill list. 28 00:02:03,778 --> 00:02:04,861 Yes. 29 00:02:04,866 --> 00:02:07,081 In a teenager's handwriting. 30 00:02:07,086 --> 00:02:10,301 The final words of her victims. 31 00:02:10,306 --> 00:02:13,092 There are 42 pages, if I remember correctly. 32 00:02:15,629 --> 00:02:18,061 "Schoolteacher... 33 00:02:18,066 --> 00:02:19,894 'Guard your heart'." 34 00:02:21,393 --> 00:02:22,718 I'm trying to think of something 35 00:02:22,723 --> 00:02:24,981 more fucked up than this. 36 00:02:24,986 --> 00:02:27,505 And how is your work any different? 37 00:02:29,556 --> 00:02:32,336 Well, what do you think will happen to Mr. du Lac 38 00:02:32,341 --> 00:02:34,412 when you publish this book, 39 00:02:34,417 --> 00:02:37,372 when the other vampires of the world get their hands on it? 40 00:02:37,377 --> 00:02:39,678 As long as they pay full freight. 41 00:02:39,683 --> 00:02:42,986 They will make their way to Dubai. 42 00:02:42,991 --> 00:02:45,641 They will scale the sides of this building, 43 00:02:45,646 --> 00:02:47,443 force their way inside, 44 00:02:47,448 --> 00:02:49,363 and paint the walls with his blood. 45 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,093 You are chronicling a suicide. 46 00:02:59,098 --> 00:03:01,835 Do not look down on Claudia. 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,956 Look in the mirror. 48 00:03:04,961 --> 00:03:07,319 Rashid is an opinionated young man. 49 00:03:07,324 --> 00:03:08,973 He lives to share these opinions, 50 00:03:08,978 --> 00:03:10,980 even when they are not solicited. 51 00:03:14,026 --> 00:03:15,662 What's he taste like? 52 00:03:15,667 --> 00:03:17,155 I didn't ask that. 53 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,939 You were thinking it. 54 00:03:18,944 --> 00:03:22,291 - Stay out of my head. - Honey and pineapple. 55 00:03:22,296 --> 00:03:24,075 He stuffs himself with both for days 56 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,251 before he offers himself to me. 57 00:03:26,256 --> 00:03:27,731 Would you like to sample? 58 00:03:27,736 --> 00:03:30,212 I'll wait till Damick comes around again. 59 00:03:30,217 --> 00:03:32,431 I'm a savory man most days. 60 00:03:33,616 --> 00:03:35,905 I care for him more than he cares for himself. 61 00:03:35,910 --> 00:03:37,884 And I wouldn't let you near my neck if you were... 62 00:03:37,889 --> 00:03:40,948 62 1/2 kilograms. 63 00:03:40,953 --> 00:03:44,313 - What? - 138 pounds for the metrically challenged. 64 00:03:44,318 --> 00:03:47,185 Daniel here was wondering how much you weigh, Rashid, 65 00:03:47,190 --> 00:03:48,795 - so I told him... - Stay out of my head. 66 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,005 Sleep, pray, eat, pray, swim, pray, et cetera. 67 00:03:53,010 --> 00:03:57,053 On days he's a plump 139, I believe he swims twice. 68 00:03:57,058 --> 00:04:00,056 Metronomic, my Rashid. 69 00:04:00,061 --> 00:04:01,192 Refill. 70 00:04:08,851 --> 00:04:11,327 Louisiana's a closed records state. 71 00:04:11,332 --> 00:04:13,764 - And that means? - It means that 72 00:04:13,769 --> 00:04:17,694 I can't browse the mortality data for 1923. 73 00:04:17,699 --> 00:04:20,000 You wouldn't find the corroboration you were seeking 74 00:04:20,005 --> 00:04:21,263 even if you could. 75 00:04:21,268 --> 00:04:23,482 We burned. We buried. 76 00:04:23,487 --> 00:04:25,267 And a convention city is not motivated 77 00:04:25,272 --> 00:04:27,443 to advertise grim statistics. 78 00:04:30,625 --> 00:04:32,404 Session five, 79 00:04:32,409 --> 00:04:34,798 - Louis de Ponte du Lac... - For Claudia, 80 00:04:34,803 --> 00:04:38,323 all humans died with Charlie. 81 00:04:38,328 --> 00:04:40,412 As for scale... 82 00:04:40,417 --> 00:04:42,289 I was skeptical, too. 83 00:04:43,507 --> 00:04:46,244 I thought she was on a hunger strike. 84 00:05:10,352 --> 00:05:13,206 It's been months. Her meals are too meager. 85 00:05:13,211 --> 00:05:15,274 What if you bring one of your kills into her room? 86 00:05:15,278 --> 00:05:16,883 We could tie him up next to the coffin... 87 00:05:16,888 --> 00:05:19,760 She's not surviving on birds or nocturnals, Louis. 88 00:05:19,765 --> 00:05:21,371 She waits for that slither of time 89 00:05:21,376 --> 00:05:23,096 when I'm on the hunt and you're gone round the back 90 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:24,853 to make nice with the ratcatcher. 91 00:05:24,858 --> 00:05:26,681 Or she's slowly starving herself. 92 00:05:26,686 --> 00:05:28,135 Bon. 93 00:05:28,140 --> 00:05:30,355 I know what I'd do, but you've cut my hands off. 94 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,574 - My parenting is... - Sadistic? 95 00:05:34,190 --> 00:05:36,709 So save your words when it comes to Claudia. 96 00:05:36,714 --> 00:05:38,706 She's in there 'cause of you. 97 00:05:38,711 --> 00:05:40,409 Ca suffit! 98 00:05:49,573 --> 00:05:50,848 Voilą. 99 00:05:50,853 --> 00:05:53,024 Comme je dit. 100 00:05:53,029 --> 00:05:56,619 She's dining out, as I said she was. 101 00:05:56,624 --> 00:05:57,624 Ah. 102 00:06:00,758 --> 00:06:02,268 Ah. 103 00:06:02,273 --> 00:06:03,791 Don't do that. It's private. 104 00:06:06,234 --> 00:06:07,235 Ah. 105 00:06:11,203 --> 00:06:14,506 "Dear Diary, am I gonna be a virgin 106 00:06:14,511 --> 00:06:16,595 every single time I do it? 107 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,016 Won't my skin down there grow back like my hair 108 00:06:20,021 --> 00:06:21,034 does when I cut it?" 109 00:06:21,039 --> 00:06:22,645 Jesus. 110 00:06:42,974 --> 00:06:45,276 What... 111 00:06:45,281 --> 00:06:47,496 What night is it? 112 00:06:47,501 --> 00:06:49,889 I couldn't hear you over the tugboat. 113 00:06:49,894 --> 00:06:52,288 What... What night is it? 114 00:06:53,332 --> 00:06:55,242 January 5th. 115 00:06:55,247 --> 00:06:57,723 January. 116 00:06:57,728 --> 00:07:00,552 Always thought it would be summer. 117 00:07:18,214 --> 00:07:19,253 Aah! 118 00:07:24,176 --> 00:07:28,262 A whole lot of concern's been wasted on you these past months. 119 00:07:28,267 --> 00:07:30,569 - You read my... - All of it. 120 00:07:30,574 --> 00:07:33,006 Whole families, half a parade crew. 121 00:07:33,011 --> 00:07:34,673 The incinerator will be overflowin'. 122 00:07:34,678 --> 00:07:36,401 The smoke alone would blot out the moon. 123 00:07:36,406 --> 00:07:37,837 What did you do with 'em, Claudia? 124 00:07:37,842 --> 00:07:39,330 Did you read my other ones? 125 00:07:39,335 --> 00:07:40,710 - No. - I did. 126 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:42,146 Inked with ungratefulness. 127 00:07:42,151 --> 00:07:43,382 Where are the bodies? 128 00:07:43,387 --> 00:07:45,150 Well, then, I guess you better hope and pray 129 00:07:45,154 --> 00:07:46,654 you taught me how to clean up good. 130 00:07:47,939 --> 00:07:49,109 Where are they? 131 00:07:49,114 --> 00:07:50,589 You gonna let him do this to me? 132 00:07:50,594 --> 00:07:52,765 I read some passages out loud, I'm afraid. 133 00:07:52,770 --> 00:07:55,394 Hurtful words for both your guardians. 134 00:07:55,399 --> 00:07:58,497 I didn't mean harm, a-and the bodies are just preten... 135 00:07:58,502 --> 00:08:00,351 Stop lying, Claudia! 136 00:08:00,356 --> 00:08:02,440 I buried them, okay?! Way out of town. 137 00:08:02,445 --> 00:08:03,689 Nothin' out there for miles. 138 00:08:03,694 --> 00:08:05,299 No one's ever gonna find 'em, 139 00:08:05,304 --> 00:08:08,781 except maybe criminals burying bodies of their own. 140 00:08:12,616 --> 00:08:14,613 I'm never gonna forget what happened here. 141 00:08:14,618 --> 00:08:15,688 I hate you both. 142 00:08:15,693 --> 00:08:17,133 - Where out of town? - Chalmette. 143 00:08:17,138 --> 00:08:18,487 Now get out of my room! 144 00:08:18,492 --> 00:08:20,724 Chalmette's three feet below the river line. 145 00:08:20,729 --> 00:08:22,878 - So what?! - Get out of my room! 146 00:08:26,313 --> 00:08:29,236 What happens when the next storm comes out the gulf? 147 00:08:54,005 --> 00:08:55,654 Over here! 148 00:08:55,659 --> 00:08:56,960 Over here! 149 00:09:10,935 --> 00:09:12,845 The Christian ran to Atlanta. 150 00:09:23,165 --> 00:09:24,983 I've been tapped on the shoulder 151 00:09:24,988 --> 00:09:27,586 from the long arm of Baton Rouge, I'm afraid. 152 00:09:27,591 --> 00:09:29,472 They're promising I only have to be in session 153 00:09:29,476 --> 00:09:32,909 'bout a third of the year, but a promise for Baton Rouge 154 00:09:32,914 --> 00:09:36,390 is what my wife would call "a pig in a turnip field". 155 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:40,046 I don't know what it means either. 156 00:09:40,051 --> 00:09:43,354 I mean, you can't count on it, is what I'm getting at. 157 00:09:44,582 --> 00:09:46,432 And when you have been tapped on the shoulder 158 00:09:46,437 --> 00:09:48,141 - from Baton Rouge... - You want money? 159 00:09:48,146 --> 00:09:52,232 I mean, it's always a straight line with you, Louis. 160 00:09:52,237 --> 00:09:53,756 Yes. 161 00:09:53,761 --> 00:09:55,571 Yes, I am asking for your 162 00:09:55,576 --> 00:09:59,518 and Mr. Lioncourt's support in my campaign 163 00:09:59,523 --> 00:10:03,026 for the Louisiana House of Representatives. 164 00:10:03,031 --> 00:10:04,680 A grubby business, politics. 165 00:10:04,685 --> 00:10:06,773 Also devoid of dignity. 166 00:10:06,778 --> 00:10:08,802 But there's one of those Temperance fartknockers 167 00:10:08,807 --> 00:10:09,934 runnin' again. 168 00:10:09,939 --> 00:10:11,588 And, well, look at us... 169 00:10:11,593 --> 00:10:14,895 a city of a thousand saloons shamed into the shadows. 170 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:17,698 Look, that's Chief of Police Bardeen. 171 00:10:19,717 --> 00:10:22,436 Maybe I should buy him a round, ask him why 172 00:10:22,441 --> 00:10:26,023 there's double the cops walkin' the Quarter lately. 173 00:10:26,028 --> 00:10:29,722 Our recent unpleasantness in the Ninth Ward. 174 00:10:29,727 --> 00:10:31,768 The floaters. 175 00:10:31,773 --> 00:10:33,422 I read about that in the papers. 176 00:10:33,427 --> 00:10:34,771 Six bodies, was it? 177 00:10:34,776 --> 00:10:36,207 Six? 178 00:10:36,212 --> 00:10:37,817 Try 56. 179 00:10:37,822 --> 00:10:40,516 Fleet of corpses like it was a judgment come. 180 00:10:40,521 --> 00:10:43,066 - But they're still digging. - Drowned? 181 00:10:43,071 --> 00:10:44,676 "Must have drowned in the hurricane". 182 00:10:44,681 --> 00:10:47,958 First words out of my mouth when I got the call. 183 00:10:47,963 --> 00:10:50,221 But I'll tell you both somethin', 184 00:10:50,226 --> 00:10:52,397 because we're old friends. 185 00:10:52,402 --> 00:10:55,687 Every single one of those corpses 186 00:10:55,692 --> 00:10:59,865 had some soft part of it lopped off. 187 00:10:59,870 --> 00:11:02,999 Finger here, a foot there... 188 00:11:03,004 --> 00:11:04,179 a toe. 189 00:11:05,833 --> 00:11:08,575 Hell, one poor woman was missing her left... 190 00:11:11,186 --> 00:11:12,574 Mama! 191 00:11:12,579 --> 00:11:15,254 Only the left. Don't be shy. 192 00:11:15,259 --> 00:11:18,405 Go on ahead, just take the whole set. 193 00:11:18,410 --> 00:11:20,756 Sounds like there's a maniac on the loose. 194 00:11:20,761 --> 00:11:23,323 Most of the poor fools they hooked out of the bayou 195 00:11:23,328 --> 00:11:24,934 are former inhabitants of the Quarter, 196 00:11:24,939 --> 00:11:27,819 so don't be too startled 197 00:11:27,824 --> 00:11:29,778 if the police come knockin' on your door. 198 00:11:29,783 --> 00:11:32,128 It's just a routine look-see. 199 00:11:33,948 --> 00:11:36,336 You didn't invite us here for a campaign donation, 200 00:11:36,341 --> 00:11:37,860 now, did you, Tom? 201 00:11:37,865 --> 00:11:40,558 Tapped on the shoulder from Baton Rouge. 202 00:11:40,563 --> 00:11:44,170 Tapped on the shoulder from the Fraternal Order. 203 00:11:44,175 --> 00:11:46,134 Both things can be true, Louis. 204 00:11:48,179 --> 00:11:49,828 One each. 205 00:12:26,043 --> 00:12:29,581 Good evening, sirs. My name is Deputy Habersham. 206 00:12:29,586 --> 00:12:31,801 Uh, am I speaking with the owners of this townhouse? 207 00:12:31,806 --> 00:12:32,993 You are. 208 00:12:32,998 --> 00:12:35,065 And can you explain your presence in it? 209 00:12:35,070 --> 00:12:38,007 Well, we've had a few citizens go missin' from Rue Royale... 210 00:12:38,012 --> 00:12:40,052 a young maid, not two doors over. 211 00:12:40,057 --> 00:12:42,925 Oh, dear. 212 00:12:42,930 --> 00:12:45,623 We're goin' door to door, looking for malefactors, uh, 213 00:12:45,628 --> 00:12:46,668 lurking about. 214 00:12:46,673 --> 00:12:48,221 Your daughter let us in. 215 00:12:48,226 --> 00:12:52,431 I was in the middle of cleanin' when they knockered. 216 00:12:52,436 --> 00:12:54,129 "Us"? "They"? 217 00:12:54,134 --> 00:12:56,958 Oh, I have a few deputies searchin' the premises. 218 00:12:56,963 --> 00:12:59,874 Uh, makes for a more efficient intrusion. 219 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:02,553 Why don't you finish your chores upstairs, young lady? 220 00:13:10,784 --> 00:13:12,271 You often leave your daughter alone 221 00:13:12,276 --> 00:13:14,347 with access to illegal spirits? 222 00:13:14,352 --> 00:13:15,702 Deputy Habersham! 223 00:13:17,007 --> 00:13:18,438 Found this, sir. 224 00:13:18,443 --> 00:13:19,570 What is it? 225 00:13:19,575 --> 00:13:20,963 It's an incinerator. 226 00:13:20,968 --> 00:13:23,139 What is it incineratin'? Yard clippings? 227 00:13:23,144 --> 00:13:25,402 Waste. 228 00:13:25,407 --> 00:13:26,582 Refuse. 229 00:13:28,671 --> 00:13:31,065 We sell incinerators. 230 00:13:32,414 --> 00:13:34,280 To various American cities. 231 00:13:40,117 --> 00:13:41,940 Mm. 232 00:13:44,426 --> 00:13:45,771 Where garbage collects, rats congregate, 233 00:13:45,775 --> 00:13:46,815 infection breeds. 234 00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:48,120 The problems can waylay 235 00:13:48,125 --> 00:13:50,253 even the most formidable municipalities. 236 00:13:54,741 --> 00:13:56,041 And we bring our clients here 237 00:13:56,046 --> 00:13:57,782 - to demonstrate the product. - Hm. 238 00:13:59,484 --> 00:14:02,744 No, no, no, no, no, no! 239 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:12,362 Shh! 240 00:14:12,367 --> 00:14:14,490 This one's locked, sir. 241 00:14:14,495 --> 00:14:16,061 That's my daughter's room. 242 00:14:16,066 --> 00:14:18,411 Well, what are you waitin' for? Knock it down. 243 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:23,099 Oh! I'm getting ready for bed! 244 00:14:23,104 --> 00:14:24,766 - Excuse me, miss. - Oh, my! 245 00:14:28,078 --> 00:14:29,727 Now, it is my sworn duty 246 00:14:29,732 --> 00:14:30,989 to notify the dry agents 247 00:14:30,994 --> 00:14:33,109 as to the wine cellar on the premises. 248 00:14:33,114 --> 00:14:36,199 I will refrain from contacting the Child Welfare League, 249 00:14:36,204 --> 00:14:38,114 but I don't like what I've seen in this home. 250 00:14:38,119 --> 00:14:40,682 And we'll make sure Police Chief Bardeen is informed 251 00:14:40,687 --> 00:14:42,292 how his men conducted themselves 252 00:14:42,297 --> 00:14:45,351 in the home of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens. 253 00:14:47,706 --> 00:14:49,660 You know, I'd add a second bed to the boudoir 254 00:14:49,665 --> 00:14:51,531 before you two go making accusations. 255 00:14:51,536 --> 00:14:53,403 I have no doubt you could carry the fines, 256 00:14:53,408 --> 00:14:54,757 but crimes against nature, 257 00:14:54,762 --> 00:14:57,755 that comes with a five-year prison term if convicted. 258 00:15:05,289 --> 00:15:09,467 We'll be watching you, Mr. du Lac, Mr. Lioncourt. 259 00:15:13,384 --> 00:15:15,773 Have you lost your goddamn mind? 260 00:15:15,778 --> 00:15:18,863 - Souvenirs. - Overnight in a jail cell with no coffin. 261 00:15:18,868 --> 00:15:20,647 We do not bring souvenirs into the house! 262 00:15:20,652 --> 00:15:22,533 - All be dead by mornin'. - Of course, that's what she wants. 263 00:15:22,537 --> 00:15:24,651 So much wine in his blood. 264 00:15:24,656 --> 00:15:27,089 You wanted her, you fix her! 265 00:15:27,094 --> 00:15:28,525 And beer and whisky. 266 00:15:28,530 --> 00:15:29,909 We're doin' this together. 267 00:15:29,914 --> 00:15:32,821 Do you remember our life, how happy we were before her? 268 00:15:32,826 --> 00:15:34,213 Happy? We were not happy. 269 00:15:34,218 --> 00:15:35,954 An anvil, tied around our ankles, 270 00:15:35,959 --> 00:15:40,424 pulling us towards the pitch-black ocean floor. 271 00:15:40,429 --> 00:15:42,104 Who am I supposed to love? 272 00:15:44,981 --> 00:15:46,722 You two have each other. 273 00:15:48,637 --> 00:15:50,291 Who's my Lestat? 274 00:15:51,727 --> 00:15:52,989 Who's my Louis? 275 00:15:54,991 --> 00:15:57,554 I'm not human. 276 00:15:57,559 --> 00:16:00,301 Wh... What human would want me? 277 00:16:02,564 --> 00:16:04,866 Perverts? 278 00:16:04,871 --> 00:16:06,650 Like the uncle at the roomin' house 279 00:16:06,655 --> 00:16:08,347 who used to watch me pee? 280 00:16:10,398 --> 00:16:12,525 Or little boys? 281 00:16:14,663 --> 00:16:17,617 And 40 years from now... 282 00:16:17,622 --> 00:16:20,446 still little boys? 283 00:16:20,451 --> 00:16:22,622 How are you gonna fix it, huh? 284 00:16:22,627 --> 00:16:25,625 Which one of you gonna fuck me?! 285 00:16:25,630 --> 00:16:27,914 Well, you're not my type. I like a fuller figure. 286 00:16:27,919 --> 00:16:30,369 - Lestat! - She's being impossible. 287 00:16:30,374 --> 00:16:32,023 Why can't I make one? 288 00:16:32,028 --> 00:16:33,677 No matter how much blood I give them, 289 00:16:33,682 --> 00:16:35,461 they just lie there gaspin'. 290 00:16:35,466 --> 00:16:38,073 What is this? Look at me. What have you done? 291 00:16:42,082 --> 00:16:43,861 Did you try to make another? 292 00:16:43,866 --> 00:16:45,950 Boy from Ponchatoula. 293 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:47,734 Boy from Hollygrove. 294 00:16:47,739 --> 00:16:50,159 Boy with the bow tie out in Algiers. 295 00:16:50,164 --> 00:16:53,858 Claudia, how'd you figure this was gon' go? 296 00:16:53,863 --> 00:16:56,208 - Make me one. - Because you turned out so well. 297 00:16:56,213 --> 00:16:57,802 'Cause if you don't, I'm gonna go out there 298 00:16:57,806 --> 00:16:59,355 and find other vampires. 299 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,661 If you could find them, which you won't, 300 00:17:01,666 --> 00:17:03,446 they would shred you to strips, 301 00:17:03,451 --> 00:17:05,448 because you are built like a bird, 302 00:17:05,453 --> 00:17:08,407 because you are a mistake. 303 00:17:08,412 --> 00:17:09,843 How 'bout you shut the fuck up?! 304 00:17:09,848 --> 00:17:11,628 He treats us like shit and you take it! 305 00:17:11,633 --> 00:17:12,721 Why is that? 306 00:17:12,726 --> 00:17:14,501 And you, cruel as the devil ever made, 307 00:17:14,505 --> 00:17:16,589 to refuse me one love when you've got two. 308 00:17:27,692 --> 00:17:32,397 White girl, down in Algiers, sings torch songs with a flat, 309 00:17:32,402 --> 00:17:33,808 no-nothing ass. 310 00:17:33,813 --> 00:17:36,087 Been following you, Uncle Les. 311 00:17:36,092 --> 00:17:38,307 You ain't been your careful self. 312 00:17:40,401 --> 00:17:42,659 He's gotten tired of us, Daddy Lou... 313 00:17:42,664 --> 00:17:46,358 the housewife and the mistake. 314 00:17:55,894 --> 00:17:58,240 I've been entertaining myself. 315 00:17:58,245 --> 00:18:00,751 Amusing my... 316 00:18:00,756 --> 00:18:02,989 - I don't know if you remember... - Antoinette. 317 00:18:05,426 --> 00:18:06,988 I'll kill her soon. 318 00:18:16,815 --> 00:18:19,509 Don't. Don't... Don't run off. 319 00:18:19,514 --> 00:18:22,860 - I know we made some... - Mistakes? 320 00:18:22,865 --> 00:18:25,919 I remember the night I was made, the fire chokin' me, 321 00:18:25,924 --> 00:18:28,661 you carryin' me out through the flame and the smokes. 322 00:18:28,666 --> 00:18:30,272 But then why'd you take me home? 323 00:18:30,277 --> 00:18:32,013 Why not a hospital? 324 00:18:32,018 --> 00:18:33,536 You... You were barely breathin'. 325 00:18:33,541 --> 00:18:35,494 But I was breathin'! 326 00:18:38,694 --> 00:18:40,909 Maybe I'd have a handsome husband by now. 327 00:18:40,914 --> 00:18:44,086 Or maybe he'd be plain but with a good disposition. 328 00:18:44,091 --> 00:18:45,914 That'd be fine, too. 329 00:18:45,919 --> 00:18:50,124 I'd be sweepin' floors, makin' dinners, nursin' babies. 330 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:51,647 Maybe I'd go to church. 331 00:18:55,824 --> 00:18:57,516 You think on that some. 332 00:19:02,091 --> 00:19:04,380 I had no words for her. 333 00:19:04,385 --> 00:19:06,251 What words were there? 334 00:19:06,256 --> 00:19:07,818 "It all happened so fast". 335 00:19:07,823 --> 00:19:10,212 "I was trying to save you". 336 00:19:10,217 --> 00:19:13,519 "All vampires are born out of trauma". 337 00:19:13,524 --> 00:19:17,697 We made her out of remorse... 338 00:19:17,702 --> 00:19:19,835 out of selfishness. 339 00:19:23,112 --> 00:19:24,848 Poor dear. 340 00:19:24,853 --> 00:19:27,590 She wasn't held enough in between ritualistic murders. 341 00:19:27,595 --> 00:19:30,854 She spent every night for half a decade with no friends, 342 00:19:30,859 --> 00:19:33,265 locked in the emotional storm of puberty. 343 00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:36,399 Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. 344 00:19:36,404 --> 00:19:38,644 Still, he was Charlie Manson. 345 00:19:38,649 --> 00:19:40,559 Is that all you think of her? 346 00:19:40,564 --> 00:19:42,648 Mostly. 347 00:19:42,653 --> 00:19:44,520 I also think she makes you and Frenchy 348 00:19:44,525 --> 00:19:47,175 look like a couple of whiny, existential queens. 349 00:19:47,180 --> 00:19:50,265 Probably why she's a fuckin' gold mine. 350 00:19:50,270 --> 00:19:52,763 The girl who moves a million books. 351 00:19:52,768 --> 00:19:54,965 I won't have her exploited. 352 00:19:54,970 --> 00:19:57,663 Won't matter what your intentions are. 353 00:19:57,668 --> 00:19:59,361 It's the world out there now. 354 00:19:59,366 --> 00:20:01,232 She's the... the... 355 00:20:01,237 --> 00:20:05,267 single-shooter, Xbox, mouth-breather shit they crave. 356 00:20:05,272 --> 00:20:09,184 You can put the diaries in a proper context. 357 00:20:09,189 --> 00:20:11,012 Context? 358 00:20:11,017 --> 00:20:12,796 Sure. 359 00:20:12,801 --> 00:20:16,321 Warn the world about a forthcoming apocalypse. 360 00:20:16,326 --> 00:20:21,295 Or maybe inspire a line of sexy Claudia Halloween costumes. 361 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:23,515 Or a cool dismemberment trend 362 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,561 amongst the suburban Sylvia Plath set. 363 00:20:26,566 --> 00:20:31,088 Once you put it out there, they decide what it is. 364 00:20:31,093 --> 00:20:32,485 It can get away from you. 365 00:20:34,663 --> 00:20:35,783 _ 366 00:20:35,793 --> 00:20:38,443 Keep reading. 367 00:20:38,448 --> 00:20:40,967 Keep talking. 368 00:20:40,972 --> 00:20:43,709 Claudia's night rambles had exposed us. 369 00:20:43,714 --> 00:20:46,146 Assume we are under suspicion. 370 00:20:46,151 --> 00:20:50,356 Assume our finances no longer provide us protection. 371 00:20:50,361 --> 00:20:54,665 Make your kills outside the city, one a night, 372 00:20:54,670 --> 00:20:58,712 no persons of note... unfortunates, undesirables. 373 00:20:58,717 --> 00:21:02,363 No more incinerator, new locks on the doors, 374 00:21:02,368 --> 00:21:05,774 shutter the windows, no parties... 375 00:21:05,779 --> 00:21:08,050 - no friends. - But her absence would lay bare 376 00:21:08,055 --> 00:21:09,909 who we were without her... 377 00:21:09,914 --> 00:21:11,911 a simmering pot of resentments. 378 00:21:11,916 --> 00:21:13,739 We should leave the city, start anew, 379 00:21:13,744 --> 00:21:16,263 turn a betrayal into an opportunity. 380 00:21:16,268 --> 00:21:20,006 New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. 381 00:21:20,011 --> 00:21:22,574 - Paris. - No. 382 00:21:22,579 --> 00:21:25,625 Mm-hmm. 383 00:21:25,630 --> 00:21:28,059 - We should dismantle her room. - You don't touch her room. 384 00:21:36,114 --> 00:21:37,719 - She'll be back. - No, she won't. 385 00:21:40,510 --> 00:21:43,334 There would be no Roaring Twenties for us. 386 00:21:45,123 --> 00:21:48,753 We would be underground for seven years. 387 00:21:58,702 --> 00:22:01,178 Emotionally, I was vacant. 388 00:22:01,183 --> 00:22:03,262 I longed for Claudia. 389 00:22:03,267 --> 00:22:05,530 I ached for her. 390 00:22:05,535 --> 00:22:07,745 I walked the streets of New Orleans 391 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:10,230 with the shifting masses of the unfed, 392 00:22:10,235 --> 00:22:13,364 the addicts born of despair... 393 00:22:13,369 --> 00:22:16,280 ... sending out telepathic thoughts of remorse 394 00:22:16,285 --> 00:22:19,152 in every direction. 395 00:22:19,157 --> 00:22:22,808 But she had shut her mind off to me for some time then. 396 00:22:24,467 --> 00:22:27,943 And so I was left to revisit old haunts, 397 00:22:27,948 --> 00:22:31,556 desperate for connection. 398 00:22:31,561 --> 00:22:34,254 "Claudia, come home". 399 00:22:34,259 --> 00:22:36,735 "I know I hurt you". 400 00:22:36,740 --> 00:22:40,260 "I know I can make it right again". 401 00:22:40,265 --> 00:22:44,434 Little girl. Little girl, I'm talking to you. 402 00:22:44,439 --> 00:22:45,870 I don't talk to strangers. 403 00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:48,660 Now, what were you doin' in the library? 404 00:22:48,665 --> 00:22:50,096 You're not allowed in there. 405 00:22:50,101 --> 00:22:52,490 My mama works here. She cleans classrooms. 406 00:22:52,495 --> 00:22:53,878 I read while she's cleanin'. 407 00:22:53,883 --> 00:22:55,188 You can read? 408 00:22:57,891 --> 00:22:59,236 Oh. 409 00:22:59,241 --> 00:23:01,094 Just as I thought. 410 00:23:01,099 --> 00:23:03,545 Little thief. You're comin' with me. 411 00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:06,460 What are you gonna do after that? 412 00:23:06,465 --> 00:23:09,246 - What? - After you turn her in, 413 00:23:09,251 --> 00:23:12,162 after it makes you feel like a big man, 414 00:23:12,167 --> 00:23:14,207 what's your next move, you think? 415 00:23:14,212 --> 00:23:18,417 You are not allowed to ride one of those things on campus. 416 00:23:18,938 --> 00:23:20,282 You can't read. 417 00:23:20,287 --> 00:23:21,649 I can't ride. 418 00:23:21,654 --> 00:23:23,782 This guy knows all the rules. 419 00:23:23,787 --> 00:23:27,660 This is our school. Where is your fightin' pride? 420 00:23:28,748 --> 00:23:30,359 You hungry? 421 00:23:35,538 --> 00:23:38,226 As the depression set in on the nation, 422 00:23:38,231 --> 00:23:41,316 I barricaded myself within the dilapidating walls 423 00:23:41,321 --> 00:23:43,715 of 1132 Rue Royale, 424 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,892 educating myself from Lestat's library, 425 00:23:46,897 --> 00:23:49,515 ignoring all other duties of the role 426 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,725 Claudia once mocked me for... the unhappy housewife. 427 00:23:53,730 --> 00:23:56,249 Flaubert's style is so dense. 428 00:23:58,474 --> 00:24:02,679 Louis Armstrong's in town tonight, playing at the Pelican. 429 00:24:03,435 --> 00:24:05,911 Should we make it a night of the two Louis? 430 00:24:05,916 --> 00:24:09,654 The absence of metaphor is so striking. 431 00:24:09,659 --> 00:24:11,346 You sound like ever pompous 432 00:24:11,351 --> 00:24:13,092 Sorbonne student I've ever eaten. 433 00:24:17,057 --> 00:24:19,490 Should I do like you instead? 434 00:24:19,495 --> 00:24:21,883 Read the first 10 pages of every book, 435 00:24:21,888 --> 00:24:24,234 pass myself off as cultured? 436 00:24:24,239 --> 00:24:26,759 - Well, at least, you're listening. - Use my middling command of literary canon... 437 00:24:26,763 --> 00:24:28,956 I sit there thinking, "Light yourself on fire, 438 00:24:28,961 --> 00:24:30,993 - see if he would notice". - ... to impress some hapless human 439 00:24:30,997 --> 00:24:33,130 I'm gonna kill in a few hours anyway. 440 00:24:37,774 --> 00:24:39,684 You draw me into your gloom. 441 00:24:39,689 --> 00:24:42,948 It's your fault she's gone. 442 00:24:42,953 --> 00:24:45,298 - If you hadn't pushed her... - Claudia. 443 00:24:45,303 --> 00:24:47,866 - If you hadn't done your... - Claudia, Claudia. 444 00:24:47,871 --> 00:24:52,443 I cannot listen to this insanity about Claudia one more time. 445 00:24:58,969 --> 00:25:02,802 I took an unsavory delight in provoking Lestat... 446 00:25:03,974 --> 00:25:06,276 ... but it was a cheap satisfaction. 447 00:25:06,281 --> 00:25:08,974 As the tourist carriages rode by, 448 00:25:08,979 --> 00:25:13,784 whispering tales of the weird brothers who encamped inside. 449 00:25:18,162 --> 00:25:21,726 Used to work for Mr. Henry Ford in Detroit. 450 00:25:21,731 --> 00:25:25,029 Sent about 20 of us over to a place called Copenhagen 451 00:25:25,034 --> 00:25:27,340 and build a factory. 452 00:25:27,345 --> 00:25:29,429 Met my maker walkin' the harbor one evening. 453 00:25:29,434 --> 00:25:32,476 Trouble punchin' the clock after that. 454 00:25:32,481 --> 00:25:33,781 How'd you get back home? 455 00:25:33,786 --> 00:25:35,305 Faked my own death. 456 00:25:35,310 --> 00:25:37,045 Shipped back on a boat in a coffin. 457 00:25:37,050 --> 00:25:38,308 Nah. 458 00:25:38,313 --> 00:25:40,484 Got to hear my own funeral. 459 00:25:40,489 --> 00:25:42,176 - Nah. - No lie. 460 00:25:43,230 --> 00:25:45,140 Only a couple dozen people showed up, 461 00:25:45,145 --> 00:25:47,229 most didn't have much to say. 462 00:25:47,234 --> 00:25:49,536 Started talking about the weather a few minutes in. 463 00:25:49,541 --> 00:25:52,191 Almost got myself buried alive. 464 00:25:52,196 --> 00:25:55,803 Poor fella diggin' my grave lies restin' in the family plot. 465 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,033 What was he like, your maker? 466 00:26:05,557 --> 00:26:07,772 Strange. 467 00:26:07,777 --> 00:26:09,991 European. 468 00:26:09,996 --> 00:26:13,212 We didn't get on much. 469 00:26:13,217 --> 00:26:15,780 You and I are runnin' from the same thing then. 470 00:26:15,785 --> 00:26:18,051 Is that who's callin' out your name every night? 471 00:26:18,056 --> 00:26:20,567 Is that Louis? 472 00:26:20,572 --> 00:26:22,308 You heard his voice? 473 00:26:22,313 --> 00:26:24,702 I thought I was the only one stateside. 474 00:26:24,707 --> 00:26:26,791 Then I heard him callin' out. 475 00:26:26,796 --> 00:26:29,620 "Claudia, I'm sorry. 476 00:26:29,625 --> 00:26:32,218 Claudia, come back". 477 00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:33,467 It ain't like that. 478 00:26:33,472 --> 00:26:35,365 - He's more like a dad. - I thought, 479 00:26:35,370 --> 00:26:36,975 "Oh... 480 00:26:36,980 --> 00:26:39,369 now there's three of us". 481 00:26:39,374 --> 00:26:41,371 Got me wonderin' what it'd be like... 482 00:26:41,376 --> 00:26:44,156 ride with others, hunt in a pack. 483 00:26:44,161 --> 00:26:46,245 Mm, a little gang of vamps. 484 00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:48,290 Little fang gang. 485 00:26:49,775 --> 00:26:50,815 You got a name? 486 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:52,251 Parents named me Bruce. 487 00:26:53,344 --> 00:26:54,906 Bruce? 488 00:26:54,911 --> 00:26:58,126 You don't kill like a Bruce. 489 00:26:58,131 --> 00:27:00,128 What do I kill like? 490 00:27:00,133 --> 00:27:02,522 You kill like a... 491 00:27:02,527 --> 00:27:04,181 like a killer. 492 00:27:09,708 --> 00:27:11,836 You like books, right? 493 00:27:11,841 --> 00:27:13,085 I got a book. 494 00:27:19,370 --> 00:27:21,933 You're welcome to it. 495 00:27:21,938 --> 00:27:25,676 Got it off a girl a little older than you. 496 00:27:30,539 --> 00:27:31,739 _ 497 00:27:35,299 --> 00:27:37,296 Not the kind of book I'd read. 498 00:27:37,301 --> 00:27:38,602 Thanks, killer. 499 00:27:38,607 --> 00:27:40,647 There's good things in that book... 500 00:27:40,652 --> 00:27:43,694 manners, how to be a nice young lady. 501 00:27:43,699 --> 00:27:45,304 I manage just fine. 502 00:27:45,309 --> 00:27:46,827 Mnh-mnh. 503 00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:48,655 You've been sloppy out in Jefferson City. 504 00:27:48,660 --> 00:27:50,048 How long you been followin'... 505 00:27:50,053 --> 00:27:51,702 You shouldn't dump bodies in the Missouri. 506 00:27:51,707 --> 00:27:54,574 Even if you weigh 'em down with rocks, river's too fast. 507 00:27:55,179 --> 00:27:57,611 I find you build a shallow grave, 508 00:27:57,616 --> 00:28:00,537 sometimes a prairie wind'll catch, burns faster. 509 00:28:00,542 --> 00:28:05,847 - How long you been... - About five, six colleges or so. 510 00:28:08,027 --> 00:28:10,460 How'd you do it? 511 00:28:10,465 --> 00:28:13,201 I had good ears when I was alive. 512 00:28:13,206 --> 00:28:15,726 Got great ears now. 513 00:28:15,731 --> 00:28:17,815 Heard your name in the air. 514 00:28:17,820 --> 00:28:21,296 Somethin' about the way it sounded. 515 00:28:21,301 --> 00:28:25,506 Clau... di... a. 516 00:28:30,071 --> 00:28:32,024 How old are you, Claudia? 517 00:28:32,029 --> 00:28:34,000 104. 518 00:28:34,005 --> 00:28:36,002 Always had a fondness for older women. 519 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,055 You're gettin' a little close there, Bruce. 520 00:28:41,060 --> 00:28:42,448 Aah! 521 00:28:42,453 --> 00:28:46,234 You are bein' rude! 522 00:28:46,239 --> 00:28:48,854 Wha... What'd you do that for? 523 00:28:48,859 --> 00:28:52,062 'Cause you were gonna run away, and I knew you'd regret it. 524 00:28:53,769 --> 00:28:55,635 Ooh, mama. 525 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,145 "Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, 526 00:29:00,150 --> 00:29:04,355 shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment... 527 00:29:05,215 --> 00:29:07,081 no matter what happens". 528 00:29:11,924 --> 00:29:14,200 _ 529 00:29:14,224 --> 00:29:16,961 There are four pages torn out. 530 00:29:16,966 --> 00:29:18,653 I'll repeat myself. 531 00:29:18,658 --> 00:29:20,355 I will not exploit her. 532 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,166 Did she tear them out? 533 00:29:22,171 --> 00:29:23,820 Doesn't seem like something she would do. 534 00:29:23,825 --> 00:29:26,100 It's clear what happened. 535 00:29:26,105 --> 00:29:29,900 And she wrote about it, and I'd like to read it. 536 00:29:29,905 --> 00:29:30,993 No. 537 00:29:33,412 --> 00:29:36,915 When you do that, Louis, when you editorialize, 538 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,343 however noble the reasoning, 539 00:29:38,348 --> 00:29:41,459 it calls into question the other shit you're shoveling my way. 540 00:29:41,464 --> 00:29:43,748 Or... Or... Or maybe you can recite it from memory, 541 00:29:43,753 --> 00:29:45,163 as you've demonstrated before. 542 00:29:45,168 --> 00:29:47,034 Uh, let's see. 543 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:53,244 "Bruce walked back from the fire and leaned down over me and..." 544 00:29:53,837 --> 00:29:55,094 Torn out pages... 545 00:30:04,143 --> 00:30:06,793 Don't ask again. 546 00:30:17,809 --> 00:30:22,314 Mr. du Lac occasionally finds it difficult to talk about Claudia. 547 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:23,593 Got that. 548 00:30:23,598 --> 00:30:25,812 Mr. du Lac would like to apologize 549 00:30:25,817 --> 00:30:29,904 and continue with the interview, if you are in... 550 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:46,882 Still recording. 551 00:30:59,416 --> 00:31:01,334 "Rash of mysterious deaths 552 00:31:01,339 --> 00:31:04,050 at university libraries perplex authorities". 553 00:31:04,055 --> 00:31:05,260 Listen to this. 554 00:31:05,265 --> 00:31:07,854 "Housekeeping staff of Vanderbilt University 555 00:31:07,859 --> 00:31:10,230 tried to rouse students who appeared to have 556 00:31:10,235 --> 00:31:11,797 fallen asleep at their studies, 557 00:31:11,802 --> 00:31:15,514 only to discover that they were, in fact, deceased. 558 00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:17,568 Similar incidents have been recorded 559 00:31:17,573 --> 00:31:19,196 at the College of Charleston, 560 00:31:19,201 --> 00:31:21,719 Lincoln University in Jefferson City, 561 00:31:21,724 --> 00:31:23,295 and the University of Alabama". 562 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:26,046 It's her. It has to be her. 563 00:31:26,051 --> 00:31:29,136 It could be her. 564 00:31:29,141 --> 00:31:31,334 But I am the one who is presently 565 00:31:31,339 --> 00:31:32,949 standing in front of you. 566 00:31:34,625 --> 00:31:36,970 And unlike Claudia, 567 00:31:36,975 --> 00:31:39,221 I am a full-blooded adult... 568 00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:43,703 ... with all the right appendages. 569 00:31:46,929 --> 00:31:48,995 So, if my considerable considerables 570 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,302 continue to be squandered... 571 00:31:51,307 --> 00:31:53,957 Two crime scenes, seven deaths. 572 00:31:53,962 --> 00:31:55,567 Close proximity. 573 00:31:57,226 --> 00:32:00,311 Cause of deaths, for reason, under investigation. 574 00:32:00,316 --> 00:32:03,445 Coroner's office... 575 00:32:07,367 --> 00:32:10,055 I'm sitting on the same balcony where you used to write... 576 00:32:12,633 --> 00:32:14,412 ... and I'll sit here forever... 577 00:32:17,551 --> 00:32:20,114 ... looking down both ends of Royal Street... 578 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:23,943 ... waitin' for your return... 579 00:32:27,038 --> 00:32:29,253 ... for your forgiveness. 580 00:32:40,970 --> 00:32:43,750 Hello? 581 00:32:43,755 --> 00:32:45,752 Sorry, I... 582 00:32:45,757 --> 00:32:48,625 No, no. It's good to hear your voice. 583 00:32:48,630 --> 00:32:50,496 Yeah, I-I could meet you. 584 00:33:01,756 --> 00:33:03,144 We're, um... 585 00:33:03,149 --> 00:33:05,537 We're headed north. 586 00:33:05,542 --> 00:33:07,844 Crash cleaned us out. 587 00:33:07,849 --> 00:33:11,761 And don't offer, because I'm not asking. 588 00:33:11,766 --> 00:33:14,416 Levi found some work near Boston. 589 00:33:14,421 --> 00:33:15,944 We feel blessed for the work. 590 00:33:17,772 --> 00:33:18,973 You look good. 591 00:33:18,978 --> 00:33:21,584 Don't need that either, Louis... 592 00:33:21,589 --> 00:33:24,643 or whoever you are that took my Louis. 593 00:33:24,648 --> 00:33:27,516 It's me, Grace. 594 00:33:27,521 --> 00:33:31,726 I sat across the dinner table from him my whole life. 595 00:33:31,731 --> 00:33:35,600 The pews in St. Augustine's on Sunday. 596 00:33:35,605 --> 00:33:39,125 Hid my fourth-grade report card on purpose. 597 00:33:39,881 --> 00:33:41,312 'Cause his was so bad 598 00:33:41,317 --> 00:33:43,189 and he didn't want our parents to find out. 599 00:33:46,496 --> 00:33:48,885 You're not my Louis. 600 00:33:48,890 --> 00:33:50,278 You can't be. 601 00:33:58,792 --> 00:34:01,752 _ 602 00:34:01,762 --> 00:34:04,722 _ 603 00:34:04,732 --> 00:34:08,818 I prayed myself old, beggin' what to do about you. 604 00:34:12,479 --> 00:34:14,780 God never talked back, so... 605 00:34:17,048 --> 00:34:19,611 ... this is how it has to be, 606 00:34:19,616 --> 00:34:23,702 for me, for my family. 607 00:34:23,707 --> 00:34:24,834 You understand? 608 00:34:51,853 --> 00:34:55,460 "I spend time following Louis and Lestat 609 00:34:55,465 --> 00:34:59,116 now that I am my own woman... 610 00:34:59,121 --> 00:35:03,326 with no obvious sense of why I follow them, 611 00:35:03,331 --> 00:35:07,081 other than meaning slowly disintegrates without them... 612 00:35:09,175 --> 00:35:11,563 ... my companions in immortality. 613 00:35:14,832 --> 00:35:17,613 But today, at the cemetery, 614 00:35:17,618 --> 00:35:21,660 I finally understood something so obvious, 615 00:35:21,665 --> 00:35:24,881 which I pondered for a decade... 616 00:35:26,235 --> 00:35:28,276 ... why they made me. 617 00:35:31,893 --> 00:35:33,629 To be Louis' sister". 618 00:36:00,226 --> 00:36:01,526 Thank you. 619 00:36:13,965 --> 00:36:17,573 The prodigal daughter. 620 00:36:17,578 --> 00:36:19,618 I've come to apologize. 621 00:36:19,623 --> 00:36:21,577 I put you both in a bad spot. 622 00:36:21,582 --> 00:36:23,057 I wasn't right in my head. 623 00:36:23,062 --> 00:36:24,585 I am now. 624 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,937 Apology not accepted. 625 00:36:30,243 --> 00:36:32,209 How was college? Magna cum? 626 00:36:32,214 --> 00:36:33,632 Summa cum? 627 00:36:33,637 --> 00:36:35,069 Phi Beta Kappa? 628 00:36:35,074 --> 00:36:36,592 I've read a lot of books. 629 00:36:36,597 --> 00:36:38,346 Started with Persia and Babylon, 630 00:36:38,351 --> 00:36:40,944 the old gods who longed for blood. 631 00:36:40,949 --> 00:36:43,599 A lot of it was popcorn, but a few old tomes. 632 00:36:43,604 --> 00:36:45,818 A Romanian tract on "vampirs". 633 00:36:45,823 --> 00:36:49,822 A strange old Hungarian text, "Masticatione Mortuorum", 634 00:36:49,827 --> 00:36:52,116 the "chewing dead". 635 00:36:52,121 --> 00:36:54,689 I plan to leave for that part of the world as soon as I can. 636 00:36:56,921 --> 00:36:59,832 So, quick stop home to do laundry 637 00:36:59,837 --> 00:37:01,617 before you fuck off for good. 638 00:37:01,622 --> 00:37:03,624 A quick stop to pick up Louis. 639 00:37:13,373 --> 00:37:15,761 Oh. 640 00:37:15,766 --> 00:37:18,677 Perused a few folklore anthologies, 641 00:37:18,682 --> 00:37:22,028 and now you're going to cross the ocean 642 00:37:22,033 --> 00:37:24,640 and take on a society of monsters. 643 00:37:24,645 --> 00:37:26,555 If what I've read is lies, 644 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,214 then tell me what's true. 645 00:37:34,437 --> 00:37:35,955 Seven years and what's changed, 646 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,870 other than you need a housekeeper? 647 00:37:40,965 --> 00:37:43,702 The vampires out there... 648 00:37:43,707 --> 00:37:45,840 are vicious. 649 00:37:50,149 --> 00:37:51,319 Oh... 650 00:37:53,152 --> 00:37:55,714 ... but you've learned that already. 651 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,188 Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland? 652 00:38:00,376 --> 00:38:01,807 Read her, Louis. 653 00:38:01,812 --> 00:38:03,082 That's it, keep 'em scared. 654 00:38:03,087 --> 00:38:04,175 That's his way. 655 00:38:04,180 --> 00:38:07,073 The vampires in Europe are much, much worse. 656 00:38:07,078 --> 00:38:08,640 But I think he's scared. 657 00:38:08,645 --> 00:38:10,816 I never asked. 658 00:38:10,821 --> 00:38:12,905 How did Charlie taste? 659 00:38:12,910 --> 00:38:15,256 Like the love you'll never really know? 660 00:38:15,261 --> 00:38:17,475 And when he's scared, he ridicules. 661 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,956 She was a destitute little girl, 662 00:38:19,961 --> 00:38:22,959 destined to live an inconsequential little life. 663 00:38:22,964 --> 00:38:25,875 And we took it from her. 664 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,572 We cursed her. 665 00:38:27,577 --> 00:38:29,966 Come with me! 666 00:38:29,971 --> 00:38:31,625 Come with me, Louis. 667 00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:35,972 - Lou. - I thought I could live without you, 668 00:38:35,977 --> 00:38:38,071 - but I was wrong. - Louis. 669 00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:43,284 - Louis! - His love is a small box he keeps you in. 670 00:38:43,289 --> 00:38:44,502 Don't stay in it. 671 00:38:44,507 --> 00:38:46,212 A thousand nights of sulking, 672 00:38:46,217 --> 00:38:47,667 and the first sight of her, 673 00:38:47,672 --> 00:38:49,495 you are just gonna up and leave me?! 674 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:50,844 Please, come with me! 675 00:38:50,849 --> 00:38:53,194 Let's be vampires worthy of your love! 676 00:38:53,199 --> 00:38:54,456 Aah! 677 00:38:54,461 --> 00:38:55,892 Get the fuck off her! 678 00:38:55,897 --> 00:38:58,112 Aah! 679 00:39:14,394 --> 00:39:17,566 Stop! Don't you touch! 680 00:39:21,401 --> 00:39:23,137 Aah! 681 00:39:23,142 --> 00:39:24,238 Aah! 682 00:39:35,415 --> 00:39:37,225 - Aah! - Cheri, let's stop this! 683 00:39:37,230 --> 00:39:39,196 You don't want to fight like this anymore. 684 00:39:39,201 --> 00:39:40,820 I am trying to restrain myself! 685 00:39:40,825 --> 00:39:42,361 Stop! Please, stop! 686 00:39:42,366 --> 00:39:43,666 Don't do it! 687 00:39:43,671 --> 00:39:45,233 Please! 688 00:39:45,238 --> 00:39:47,061 Stay back, Claudia. 689 00:39:47,066 --> 00:39:49,063 It's okay. It's all good. 690 00:39:49,068 --> 00:39:50,673 Daddy Lou... 691 00:39:50,678 --> 00:39:51,892 It's okay. 692 00:39:51,897 --> 00:39:55,287 We're done. 693 00:39:55,292 --> 00:39:56,692 I'm... I'm right here. 694 00:39:56,697 --> 00:39:57,998 I'm... 695 00:39:58,003 --> 00:40:01,436 It's over. S-Stay where you are, okay? 696 00:40:01,441 --> 00:40:03,469 We had enough. 697 00:40:03,474 --> 00:40:05,688 We just... 698 00:40:05,693 --> 00:40:09,257 need a moment here. 699 00:40:09,262 --> 00:40:10,785 Just... 700 00:40:12,191 --> 00:40:14,318 Aah! 701 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:20,547 Louis, no! 702 00:40:22,406 --> 00:40:25,852 I fought myself a million times, 703 00:40:25,857 --> 00:40:27,331 fought my nature... 704 00:40:28,729 --> 00:40:31,627 ... controlled my temper. 705 00:40:31,632 --> 00:40:33,294 I never once harmed you. 706 00:40:33,299 --> 00:40:34,426 Uncle Les! 707 00:40:37,825 --> 00:40:40,301 It's "Uncle Les" now suddenly? 708 00:40:40,306 --> 00:40:42,259 Let him go. 709 00:40:42,264 --> 00:40:43,478 He didn't do nothin'. 710 00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:46,220 Let him go. It's me you want. 711 00:40:46,225 --> 00:40:47,700 Listen to me, 712 00:40:47,705 --> 00:40:50,703 and listen very carefully, my infant death. 713 00:40:56,714 --> 00:40:59,625 It was never you. 714 00:41:05,074 --> 00:41:06,810 I chose you. 715 00:41:09,466 --> 00:41:10,636 Louis! 716 00:41:10,641 --> 00:41:12,464 Louis! 717 00:41:12,469 --> 00:41:13,552 Louis! 718 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,325 I have waited, Louis. 719 00:41:43,330 --> 00:41:48,235 I have patiently waited in vain... 720 00:41:50,198 --> 00:41:52,026 ... for you to love me... 721 00:41:54,902 --> 00:41:56,682 ... as I love you. 722 00:41:59,128 --> 00:42:01,735 Just say it. 723 00:42:01,740 --> 00:42:04,794 Say, "Lestat, I am never going to love you". 724 00:42:08,629 --> 00:42:11,714 It would help me a great deal... 725 00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,325 to hear that from your lips... 726 00:42:16,376 --> 00:42:18,808 ... your quivering... 727 00:42:18,813 --> 00:42:20,506 hateful lips. 728 00:42:23,078 --> 00:42:25,275 Let go of me! 729 00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:33,588 Anything for you. 730 00:42:56,181 --> 00:42:57,873 Louis! 731 00:43:29,221 --> 00:43:34,221 CREDITS 732 00:44:46,595 --> 00:44:48,795 Are we the sum of our worst moments? 733 00:44:50,198 --> 00:44:53,500 Can we be forgiven 734 00:44:53,505 --> 00:44:55,251 if we do not forgive others? 735 00:44:56,823 --> 00:45:00,082 "He only beat me the one time, Officer". 736 00:45:00,087 --> 00:45:03,390 And she is poisoning Louis against me. 737 00:45:06,167 --> 00:45:07,947 Checkmate. 738 00:45:07,952 --> 00:45:10,571 We're his slaves, and I shall free us both. 739 00:45:22,762 --> 00:45:26,495 "Woman with purple shoes, please". 740 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:28,981 Please, no. Please, stop. 741 00:45:28,986 --> 00:45:30,896 It's a kill list. 742 00:45:30,901 --> 00:45:35,248 Episode 5, "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart". 743 00:45:35,253 --> 00:45:37,598 What do you do with a teen out of control? 744 00:45:37,603 --> 00:45:39,121 Claudia has come up with a hobby, 745 00:45:39,126 --> 00:45:42,081 and it is not helpful for certain vampire rules. 746 00:45:42,086 --> 00:45:43,560 Hey, boss! Over here! 747 00:45:43,565 --> 00:45:45,259 What you don't want to do is leave evidence, 748 00:45:45,263 --> 00:45:48,000 and when you're a teen vampire, that's hard. 749 00:45:48,005 --> 00:45:50,519 You're dropping bodies, taking souvenirs. 750 00:45:50,524 --> 00:45:52,004 No, no, no, no. 751 00:45:52,009 --> 00:45:54,397 And doing it without the knowledge of our parents, 752 00:45:54,402 --> 00:45:56,617 because we are pissed-off teens. 753 00:45:56,622 --> 00:45:58,575 Have you lost your goddamn mind? 754 00:45:58,580 --> 00:46:00,939 And a teen that is becoming a 25-year-old, 755 00:46:00,944 --> 00:46:03,450 a 30-year-old, a 35-year-old in a teen's body. 756 00:46:03,455 --> 00:46:06,018 And she asks a very profound question. 757 00:46:06,023 --> 00:46:07,454 Who am I supposed to love? 758 00:46:07,459 --> 00:46:09,469 How are you gonna fix it, huh? 759 00:46:09,474 --> 00:46:11,980 This is why, ultimately, this is a vampire rule... 760 00:46:11,985 --> 00:46:14,413 you do not make children vampires, 761 00:46:14,418 --> 00:46:18,423 because there will be problems growing up with this body. 762 00:46:18,428 --> 00:46:20,772 Don't... Don't run off. 763 00:46:20,777 --> 00:46:22,817 - I know we made some... - Mistakes? 764 00:46:22,822 --> 00:46:25,977 And it is something she throws back in Louis's face. 765 00:46:25,982 --> 00:46:27,517 You think on that some. 766 00:46:27,522 --> 00:46:31,217 "Why was I the thing to make up for your mistakes?" 767 00:46:31,222 --> 00:46:33,222 I think that haunts Louis. 768 00:46:33,227 --> 00:46:35,743 I had no words for her. 769 00:46:35,748 --> 00:46:37,614 What words were there? 770 00:46:37,619 --> 00:46:40,208 Claudia goes out to discover 771 00:46:40,213 --> 00:46:42,489 a world that Lestat warned her about. 772 00:46:42,494 --> 00:46:44,186 She has a real want and need, 773 00:46:44,191 --> 00:46:46,928 there must be somebody other than Louis and Lestat out there. 774 00:46:46,933 --> 00:46:48,930 She's going through all these libraries, 775 00:46:48,935 --> 00:46:50,497 trying to read about ancient history, 776 00:46:50,502 --> 00:46:52,107 and seeing if there's any evidence 777 00:46:52,112 --> 00:46:53,340 that there are others out there. 778 00:46:53,344 --> 00:46:55,415 And she comes across one. 779 00:46:55,420 --> 00:46:57,286 You hungry? 780 00:46:57,291 --> 00:47:00,433 This is where we start building the Anne Rice universe. 781 00:47:00,438 --> 00:47:02,726 She meets another vampire named Bruce. 782 00:47:02,731 --> 00:47:05,251 You don't kill like a "Bruce". 783 00:47:05,256 --> 00:47:07,906 What do I kill like? 784 00:47:07,911 --> 00:47:09,864 You kill like a... 785 00:47:09,869 --> 00:47:11,226 like a killer. 786 00:47:11,231 --> 00:47:13,402 As Lestat rightfully warned her, 787 00:47:13,407 --> 00:47:15,043 there are wolves around the corner. 788 00:47:15,048 --> 00:47:18,133 You're getting a little close there, Bruce. 789 00:47:19,444 --> 00:47:22,572 You are being rude! 790 00:47:24,101 --> 00:47:26,098 It's a horrible thing that happens to Claudia, 791 00:47:26,103 --> 00:47:28,927 but it has toughened her up, and she ultimately comes back home. 792 00:47:30,916 --> 00:47:34,393 It's the kid that goes, "My parents weren't all that bad. 793 00:47:34,398 --> 00:47:35,890 I have gone out and seen life. 794 00:47:35,895 --> 00:47:38,066 It is not all easy and conquerable". 795 00:47:38,071 --> 00:47:40,547 And she comes back with hat half in hand, 796 00:47:40,552 --> 00:47:42,854 but with a mission... to take the good vampire 797 00:47:42,859 --> 00:47:44,594 and continue on with her life, 798 00:47:44,599 --> 00:47:47,815 and that is at odds with the other vampire in the house. 799 00:47:47,820 --> 00:47:49,948 You're going to cross the ocean 800 00:47:49,953 --> 00:47:52,393 and take on a society of monsters? 801 00:47:53,526 --> 00:47:56,215 It is about the fight of Louis, the fight for Louis's soul. 802 00:47:56,220 --> 00:47:58,173 Come with me. 803 00:47:58,178 --> 00:47:59,627 Louis! 804 00:47:59,632 --> 00:48:02,738 A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, 805 00:48:02,743 --> 00:48:04,623 you are just going to up and leave me? 806 00:48:04,628 --> 00:48:07,743 Please, come with me. Let's be vampires worthy of your love! 807 00:48:07,748 --> 00:48:08,749 Ahh! 808 00:48:08,754 --> 00:48:10,143 Get the fuck off her! 809 00:48:11,626 --> 00:48:13,433 I mean, in the end, it's "Everybody Loves Louis", 810 00:48:13,437 --> 00:48:14,494 isn't it? 811 00:48:14,499 --> 00:48:15,887 Let him go! 812 00:48:15,892 --> 00:48:18,101 He didn't do nothing. Let him go. 813 00:48:18,106 --> 00:48:19,586 It's me you want. 814 00:48:22,986 --> 00:48:25,722 It was never you. 815 00:48:25,727 --> 00:48:28,142 He tells Louis that he loves him, 816 00:48:28,147 --> 00:48:30,031 and Louis never says it back to him. 817 00:48:30,036 --> 00:48:31,641 So it's all just coming to a hill. 818 00:48:31,646 --> 00:48:34,122 Let go of me! 819 00:48:34,127 --> 00:48:35,558 Anything for you. 820 00:48:43,789 --> 00:48:45,789 Louis! 821 00:48:47,488 --> 00:48:50,399 No!