1 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:38,413 Keep reading. 2 00:00:38,418 --> 00:00:40,894 Keep talking. 3 00:00:40,899 --> 00:00:42,983 You wanted her, you fix her! 4 00:00:42,988 --> 00:00:44,942 You refuse me one love when you've got two! 5 00:00:44,947 --> 00:00:46,901 - I don't know if you remember... - Antoinette. 6 00:00:46,905 --> 00:00:47,988 I'll kill her soon. 7 00:00:47,993 --> 00:00:50,164 Don't run off. 8 00:00:50,169 --> 00:00:52,514 You're gettin' a little close there, Bruce. 9 00:00:52,519 --> 00:00:53,689 Aah! 10 00:00:53,694 --> 00:00:55,300 You are bein' rude! 11 00:00:55,305 --> 00:00:57,128 The prodigal daughter. 12 00:00:57,133 --> 00:00:58,607 The first sight of her, 13 00:00:58,612 --> 00:01:00,958 you are just gonna up and leave me?! 14 00:01:00,963 --> 00:01:02,220 Louis! 15 00:01:02,225 --> 00:01:03,743 Let go of me! 16 00:01:03,748 --> 00:01:05,663 Anything for you. 17 00:01:16,544 --> 00:01:24,544 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 18 00:01:40,654 --> 00:01:43,652 A few shattered vertebrae, 19 00:01:43,657 --> 00:01:45,442 a punctured lung... 20 00:01:46,660 --> 00:01:49,963 ... blind in one eye for five weeks. 21 00:01:49,968 --> 00:01:52,188 Two months, was it? 22 00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:55,447 I took naps at night then. 23 00:01:55,452 --> 00:01:57,710 I would feel the air against my skin 24 00:01:57,715 --> 00:01:59,668 as though I was still falling. 25 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:06,588 And then I would land all over again. 26 00:02:06,593 --> 00:02:10,636 Excruciating pain was the proof I was still alive. 27 00:02:20,103 --> 00:02:21,473 He could fly? 28 00:02:21,478 --> 00:02:22,648 Yes. 29 00:02:22,653 --> 00:02:24,302 Like Superman? 30 00:02:24,307 --> 00:02:25,938 Not like Superman. 31 00:02:25,943 --> 00:02:28,741 Superman is a fictional character. 32 00:02:28,746 --> 00:02:30,308 But in the air, 33 00:02:30,313 --> 00:02:33,050 with a "fuck you to Newtonian physics" flying? 34 00:02:33,055 --> 00:02:35,878 He said it was more like floating, 35 00:02:35,883 --> 00:02:37,402 arising at will, 36 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:41,275 propelling in a direction by the decision. 37 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,364 He called it "the cloud gift". 38 00:02:43,369 --> 00:02:47,281 Hey, Doc, did you know there's a flying vampire apocalypse 39 00:02:47,286 --> 00:02:49,109 coming your way? 40 00:02:49,114 --> 00:02:52,939 Most vampires do not possess the cloud gift. 41 00:02:52,944 --> 00:02:56,185 With a few exceptions, only the most ancient of us have it. 42 00:02:56,190 --> 00:02:58,318 You know he's a vampire, right? 43 00:02:58,323 --> 00:03:00,015 I do not discuss my patients 44 00:03:00,020 --> 00:03:02,209 with anyone but the patients themselves. 45 00:03:02,214 --> 00:03:04,903 That's the voice of Dr. Fareed Bhansali. 46 00:03:04,908 --> 00:03:06,405 That is not my voice. 47 00:03:06,410 --> 00:03:09,190 He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and... 48 00:03:09,195 --> 00:03:13,046 - And I am not here. - ... the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. 49 00:03:13,051 --> 00:03:15,117 He's officially off the record. 50 00:03:15,122 --> 00:03:18,425 NDAs signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh? 51 00:03:18,430 --> 00:03:19,835 Is your medicine taking? 52 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,186 It's cold and itchy. Thanks for asking. 53 00:03:22,191 --> 00:03:25,219 Are you still dreaming about our first meeting, Daniel? 54 00:03:25,224 --> 00:03:27,552 I keep waking up just before you ask me back 55 00:03:27,557 --> 00:03:28,906 to your shitty apartment. 56 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:31,591 Can you fly, Louis? 57 00:03:34,942 --> 00:03:36,852 No. 58 00:03:36,857 --> 00:03:40,987 So for 20 years, you lived with the vampire Lestat, 59 00:03:40,992 --> 00:03:43,337 and you didn't know he had the flying gift? 60 00:03:43,342 --> 00:03:45,339 The cloud gift. 61 00:03:45,344 --> 00:03:49,630 And yes, it was a remarkable bit of restraint he managed. 62 00:03:49,635 --> 00:03:51,568 Why would he do that? 63 00:03:54,422 --> 00:03:59,527 I suppose he thought if he exposed all his power to me, 64 00:03:59,532 --> 00:04:03,488 I would never feel his equal and the relationship would suffer. 65 00:04:03,493 --> 00:04:06,138 "He only beat me the one time, Officer. 66 00:04:06,143 --> 00:04:08,319 It's not his fault". 67 00:04:08,324 --> 00:04:10,856 Classic Stockholm, eh, Doc? 68 00:04:10,861 --> 00:04:11,949 I am not here. 69 00:04:14,368 --> 00:04:17,458 Are we the sum of our worst moments? 70 00:04:19,161 --> 00:04:23,334 Can we be forgiven if we do not forgive others ourselves? 71 00:04:23,340 --> 00:04:27,930 _ 72 00:04:30,433 --> 00:04:33,735 Lestat had disappeared after that awful night... 73 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:36,303 vanished out of a profound sense of shame 74 00:04:36,308 --> 00:04:38,505 he would later confess to. 75 00:04:38,510 --> 00:04:41,769 Which was just as well, since Claudia and I 76 00:04:41,774 --> 00:04:44,224 were in no mood to receive his apologies. 77 00:04:44,229 --> 00:04:47,580 I made pride my blanket. 78 00:04:48,842 --> 00:04:53,364 And she dedicated all her energy to my rehabilitation. 79 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:56,802 You ready? 80 00:04:56,807 --> 00:04:59,239 This is humiliating. 81 00:05:29,927 --> 00:05:31,706 We'll try again tomorrow. 82 00:05:37,927 --> 00:05:40,927 _ 83 00:05:46,056 --> 00:05:48,575 If you ever want to talk about what happened to you 84 00:05:48,580 --> 00:05:50,664 while you were gone, you know you can, right? 85 00:05:50,669 --> 00:05:52,292 Uh-huh. 86 00:05:52,297 --> 00:05:55,643 Or you could just tell me his name, 87 00:05:55,648 --> 00:05:57,471 write it on a scrap of paper. 88 00:05:57,476 --> 00:06:00,909 You gonna be my knight in vengeful black? 89 00:06:00,914 --> 00:06:03,265 I am the knight. 90 00:06:05,075 --> 00:06:06,201 Don't move it. 91 00:06:06,206 --> 00:06:07,394 I didn't. 92 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:09,401 Save your charity for the needful. 93 00:06:31,858 --> 00:06:33,855 Claudia, hello. 94 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:35,770 I've been calling quite often. 95 00:06:35,775 --> 00:06:38,474 I don't know if the operator is patching me through correctly. 96 00:06:42,391 --> 00:06:46,390 I brought something from Louis's favorite bookshop. 97 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:50,437 "The Book of Hours". Extremely rare, 15th century. 98 00:06:50,442 --> 00:06:54,459 Silver and gold in the vellum, palettes of blue and old rose. 99 00:06:55,491 --> 00:06:57,749 No one here wishes to speak with you. 100 00:06:57,754 --> 00:07:00,708 Well, I know he's upstairs. I can see his silhouette. 101 00:07:00,713 --> 00:07:03,847 Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not. 102 00:07:06,632 --> 00:07:08,977 How's that for an answer? 103 00:07:14,174 --> 00:07:15,867 "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain". 104 00:07:15,872 --> 00:07:18,422 She also wrote one called "A Coffin Is a Small Domain". 105 00:07:18,427 --> 00:07:20,989 - I mean, come on. - Emily Dickinson is not a vampire. 106 00:07:20,994 --> 00:07:23,165 - How do you know? - 'Cause she's dead. 107 00:07:23,170 --> 00:07:24,471 How do you know? 108 00:07:24,476 --> 00:07:26,865 She got a grave. She got a tombstone. 109 00:07:26,870 --> 00:07:28,501 So do you. 110 00:07:41,026 --> 00:07:45,231 25-horsepower Rolls-Royce six-cylinder engine 111 00:07:45,236 --> 00:07:47,433 and a front end they call a "coffin nose". 112 00:07:47,438 --> 00:07:49,409 Isn't that rich? 113 00:07:49,414 --> 00:07:51,673 This one's yours. 114 00:07:52,617 --> 00:07:54,527 Mine's back at home in blue. 115 00:07:54,532 --> 00:07:56,224 I'm back in town permanently. 116 00:07:56,229 --> 00:07:59,028 - Were you gone? - Across the river, in Algiers. 117 00:08:02,993 --> 00:08:05,251 Louis, I don't know what possessed me that night. 118 00:08:05,256 --> 00:08:06,774 Three years ago. 119 00:08:06,779 --> 00:08:09,734 That night three years ago, he means. 120 00:08:09,739 --> 00:08:12,650 I was someone I don't want to be anymore. 121 00:08:12,655 --> 00:08:14,396 I've changed. 122 00:08:17,311 --> 00:08:18,835 Let me prove it to you. 123 00:08:20,793 --> 00:08:23,100 I'm nothing without you. 124 00:08:24,231 --> 00:08:25,880 I'm nothing without both of you. 125 00:08:29,802 --> 00:08:32,626 If you want me to go away, just say so. 126 00:08:32,631 --> 00:08:34,590 I'll obey you. 127 00:08:35,591 --> 00:08:37,035 I'll leave your life forever. 128 00:08:40,117 --> 00:08:43,550 This silence is cruel. 129 00:08:43,555 --> 00:08:45,900 And you were never cruel, Louis. 130 00:08:55,262 --> 00:08:57,042 For six years in all, 131 00:08:57,047 --> 00:09:01,652 these raw and desperate mea culpas came like the tide. 132 00:09:01,657 --> 00:09:06,062 And for six years, they were greeted with silence or fire. 133 00:09:06,807 --> 00:09:11,012 We burned more gifts than bodies in that decade, 134 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:14,189 but they would not stop coming. 135 00:09:14,194 --> 00:09:16,422 And Lestat's relentless determination 136 00:09:16,427 --> 00:09:19,430 began to crack my considerable armor. 137 00:09:21,158 --> 00:09:22,937 Perhaps it was the modesty of the gesture. 138 00:09:26,816 --> 00:09:31,621 But in the spring of 1937, one broke through. 139 00:09:32,256 --> 00:09:34,906 - _ - He had written it himself in the music of the hour. 140 00:09:34,911 --> 00:09:38,767 His first composition in 100 years. 141 00:09:41,765 --> 00:09:44,110 Rashid, please play the song in question 142 00:09:44,115 --> 00:09:45,786 for Mr. Molloy and the doctor. 143 00:09:45,791 --> 00:09:47,484 I'm not here. 144 00:09:47,489 --> 00:09:50,661 ? Come to me ? 145 00:09:50,666 --> 00:09:53,359 He had engaged a local record company. 146 00:09:53,364 --> 00:09:57,569 And when the musicians they hired proved unsatisfactory, 147 00:09:58,674 --> 00:10:00,876 he played all the instruments himself. 148 00:10:01,851 --> 00:10:03,412 That's his voice? 149 00:10:03,417 --> 00:10:06,328 - Yeah. - ? Come to me ? 150 00:10:11,295 --> 00:10:14,249 He pressed only one album. 151 00:10:16,213 --> 00:10:18,798 Had the master recordings destroyed. 152 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:23,781 You're listening to an inferior rerecording now. 153 00:10:23,786 --> 00:10:25,522 ? Star-crossed lovers ? 154 00:10:25,527 --> 00:10:27,654 The audacity of it all 155 00:10:27,659 --> 00:10:31,440 was matched only by its sincerity. 156 00:10:31,445 --> 00:10:34,282 He had made the near-perfect valentine, 157 00:10:34,287 --> 00:10:35,544 with one flaw. 158 00:10:35,549 --> 00:10:36,724 Pathetic. 159 00:10:36,729 --> 00:10:39,761 One perfectly premeditated flaw. 160 00:10:44,633 --> 00:10:47,513 Six years of begging. 161 00:10:47,518 --> 00:10:50,416 You think a song's gonna get a rise out of me?! 162 00:10:50,421 --> 00:10:52,113 Did you like it? 163 00:10:52,118 --> 00:10:54,154 This her singing? 164 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:55,852 It's a clear voice. 165 00:10:55,857 --> 00:10:57,819 I wanted no obstacle to the lyric. 166 00:10:59,565 --> 00:11:02,019 Write me a song and put your lover's voice on it? 167 00:11:02,024 --> 00:11:03,716 What the fuck is wrong with your head? 168 00:11:03,721 --> 00:11:05,823 Louis, you're soaking wet. 169 00:11:05,828 --> 00:11:07,843 I swim faster than I drive. 170 00:11:09,540 --> 00:11:11,537 Put some clothes on and get the fuck out. 171 00:11:11,542 --> 00:11:13,395 This is my house. 172 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:14,919 Do I look like I care? 173 00:11:14,924 --> 00:11:16,660 Lestat. 174 00:11:18,405 --> 00:11:19,880 Leave. 175 00:11:25,935 --> 00:11:29,286 You swam the Mississippi to find me. 176 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,289 I hate you. 177 00:11:33,638 --> 00:11:35,243 As you should. 178 00:11:39,458 --> 00:11:41,543 Alavida, Dr. Bhansali. 179 00:11:43,811 --> 00:11:47,287 Pleasure never meeting you, Mr. Molloy. 180 00:11:47,292 --> 00:11:49,170 He said to no one. 181 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:52,173 Quick and clever, despite two bags of fluid. 182 00:11:52,178 --> 00:11:56,383 Legal dope makes me constipated, but the wit flows like a river. 183 00:11:56,388 --> 00:11:59,050 You took Lestat back. 184 00:11:59,055 --> 00:12:01,095 The vampire bond. 185 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:03,445 There is no human equivalent. 186 00:12:03,450 --> 00:12:07,455 Lover, murderer, maker. 187 00:12:07,890 --> 00:12:09,364 You took him back. 188 00:12:09,369 --> 00:12:13,195 It's a bond that can never fully be severed. 189 00:12:14,026 --> 00:12:16,415 A bond like that makes you believe 190 00:12:16,420 --> 00:12:18,983 there are only two of you on the planet. 191 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:21,638 Freedom and chastity wrapped in one person. 192 00:12:22,992 --> 00:12:25,293 But there were three of you. 193 00:12:27,518 --> 00:12:29,733 Yes. 194 00:12:29,738 --> 00:12:31,653 Yes. 195 00:12:33,393 --> 00:12:35,347 Rule number four. 196 00:12:35,352 --> 00:12:36,958 Kill Antoinette. 197 00:12:38,489 --> 00:12:40,095 Antoinette is my own private... 198 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:41,231 Affair. 199 00:12:43,363 --> 00:12:48,268 Said child, interfering in the romantic lives of her parents. 200 00:12:48,273 --> 00:12:49,883 She's coming up on 33. 201 00:12:49,888 --> 00:12:52,190 It's a lick and a promise in vampire years. 202 00:12:52,195 --> 00:12:54,801 Maybe, but I'm not your child anymore. 203 00:12:54,806 --> 00:12:56,542 That's rule number five. 204 00:12:56,547 --> 00:12:58,675 I'll be your companion, your sister. 205 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:02,574 It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. 206 00:13:02,579 --> 00:13:04,489 "Now I'm your cousin". "Now I'm your aunt". 207 00:13:04,494 --> 00:13:05,712 I am your maker. 208 00:13:05,717 --> 00:13:08,063 But not my uncle or my daddy. 209 00:13:09,429 --> 00:13:11,518 I'm your sister or that's the door. 210 00:13:13,533 --> 00:13:16,009 - Rule number six... - And know I'm doing this for him. 211 00:13:16,014 --> 00:13:18,520 I wouldn't want to confuse you. 212 00:13:18,525 --> 00:13:22,394 Rule number six... no lies. 213 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:24,752 And that includes lies of exaggeration 214 00:13:24,757 --> 00:13:26,132 and of omission. 215 00:13:26,137 --> 00:13:30,794 For instance, if you can fly, tell us you can fly. 216 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:32,230 Assez. 217 00:13:32,235 --> 00:13:36,016 Grand proclamations and portentous looks. 218 00:13:36,021 --> 00:13:37,888 Do you think I'm withholding? 219 00:13:37,893 --> 00:13:42,098 Go on. Ask your questions. 220 00:13:42,103 --> 00:13:43,714 I'll answer them. 221 00:13:47,990 --> 00:13:50,378 Did you have anything to do with Paul's death? 222 00:13:50,383 --> 00:13:51,907 No. 223 00:13:54,178 --> 00:13:56,210 I would never hurt your brother. 224 00:13:56,215 --> 00:13:58,647 It's just something I always... 225 00:13:58,652 --> 00:14:00,606 Never, Louis. 226 00:14:02,656 --> 00:14:04,119 Who made you? 227 00:14:12,314 --> 00:14:14,881 His name was Magnus. 228 00:14:14,886 --> 00:14:17,014 He took me from my room in Paris, 229 00:14:17,019 --> 00:14:19,930 as I kicked and screamed. 230 00:14:19,935 --> 00:14:24,140 He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses... 231 00:14:24,145 --> 00:14:28,350 some freshly killed, some bloated and black. 232 00:14:29,644 --> 00:14:35,249 But they all looked like me... my coloring, my physique. 233 00:14:36,952 --> 00:14:41,757 My own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. 234 00:14:44,873 --> 00:14:46,957 He fed on me every night. 235 00:14:46,962 --> 00:14:48,697 And then he put me back in the tower 236 00:14:48,702 --> 00:14:50,351 with the look-alike corpses. 237 00:14:50,356 --> 00:14:52,484 I thought for sure I'd be one of them, 238 00:14:52,489 --> 00:14:55,704 but instead he turned me into this. 239 00:14:55,709 --> 00:14:58,820 No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, 240 00:14:58,825 --> 00:15:02,755 no rules, no counsel. 241 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,801 Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money 242 00:15:04,806 --> 00:15:08,761 and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. 243 00:15:08,766 --> 00:15:11,242 And then I was alone. 244 00:15:11,247 --> 00:15:13,292 I thought... 245 00:15:16,469 --> 00:15:18,471 ... "I can't drink hot blood. 246 00:15:20,473 --> 00:15:22,514 I can't feed on others". 247 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,953 I cried. 248 00:15:26,958 --> 00:15:29,129 I called to God. 249 00:15:32,442 --> 00:15:34,569 I didn't want this. 250 00:15:39,057 --> 00:15:42,142 But I have a capacity for enduring. 251 00:15:48,893 --> 00:15:52,022 It's why I don't particularly like being abandoned. 252 00:15:55,073 --> 00:15:56,896 Kill Antoinette. 253 00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:03,921 Years accumulated in the small city 254 00:16:03,926 --> 00:16:06,384 were catching up to us. 255 00:16:08,870 --> 00:16:11,606 Our home was often vandalized. 256 00:16:17,052 --> 00:16:21,138 Cowardly warnings suggesting we were no longer welcome. 257 00:16:23,623 --> 00:16:27,187 "Please return to the dark place you came from". 258 00:16:27,192 --> 00:16:29,755 Don't look, Eunice. 259 00:16:32,502 --> 00:16:35,108 It was an awkward time, 260 00:16:35,113 --> 00:16:37,197 but I loved Claudia with all my heart, 261 00:16:37,202 --> 00:16:39,852 and I loved Lestat with a wounded one. 262 00:16:39,857 --> 00:16:41,767 The work would be convincing the two 263 00:16:41,772 --> 00:16:43,769 to find room again for each other. 264 00:16:43,774 --> 00:16:45,814 Concessions would be needed. 265 00:16:45,819 --> 00:16:47,773 I would have to lead by example. 266 00:16:47,778 --> 00:16:51,733 I'd like to ask a question, if that's amenable to you both. 267 00:16:51,738 --> 00:16:53,170 You don't have to ask permission. 268 00:16:53,175 --> 00:16:55,433 Oh, of course I do. This is the new paradigm. 269 00:16:55,438 --> 00:16:57,304 The lambs herd the Beauceron. 270 00:16:57,309 --> 00:16:58,740 An apt metaphor. 271 00:16:58,745 --> 00:17:02,005 I always took you for a dog, Lestat. 272 00:17:02,410 --> 00:17:04,189 Ask the question. 273 00:17:04,194 --> 00:17:08,599 Is it still four legs for Louis and two legs for Claudia? 274 00:17:09,191 --> 00:17:11,605 I eat what I eat. She eats what she eats. 275 00:17:11,610 --> 00:17:13,799 - We respect our differences. - Mm. 276 00:17:13,804 --> 00:17:16,236 Well, it's always made me feel loathsome, 277 00:17:16,241 --> 00:17:20,762 like I'm... looked down upon for my body's needs. 278 00:17:20,767 --> 00:17:22,721 Well, you don't actually need it. 279 00:17:22,726 --> 00:17:24,201 Mm. See, there it is. 280 00:17:24,206 --> 00:17:27,826 It's an air of superiority when you say that. 281 00:17:27,831 --> 00:17:29,423 I didn't say you couldn't. 282 00:17:29,428 --> 00:17:31,469 I'm just saying you don't have to. 283 00:17:31,474 --> 00:17:33,253 I agree. 284 00:17:33,258 --> 00:17:36,131 I know you don't mean to, but I feel the same, 285 00:17:37,523 --> 00:17:39,530 I feel tolerated. 286 00:17:41,246 --> 00:17:42,895 Why didn't you ever say something? 287 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:45,027 Well, it's obvious. She doesn't want to upset you. 288 00:17:45,032 --> 00:17:48,292 I can speak for myself. 289 00:17:48,297 --> 00:17:50,729 Every night, we hunt. 290 00:17:50,734 --> 00:17:53,993 And every night, these feelings arise. 291 00:17:53,998 --> 00:17:56,082 - It breeds resentment. - I don't want that. 292 00:17:56,087 --> 00:18:00,042 Well, then, at the risk of paralyzing this household 293 00:18:00,047 --> 00:18:04,052 with more compromise, may I propose another rule? 294 00:18:04,617 --> 00:18:08,191 When we hunt, we hunt human. 295 00:18:25,812 --> 00:18:27,896 We are vampire. We should not... 296 00:18:27,901 --> 00:18:29,860 Ba-a-a-ah! 297 00:18:31,544 --> 00:18:33,672 Call me a dog. 298 00:18:33,677 --> 00:18:35,771 But an honest dog. 299 00:18:36,867 --> 00:18:41,072 ? In the night ? 300 00:18:41,077 --> 00:18:44,391 ? For we're apart ? 301 00:18:44,396 --> 00:18:46,306 Do you think you could try a little harder 302 00:18:46,311 --> 00:18:48,265 to get on with him? 303 00:18:48,270 --> 00:18:50,876 Have you asked him the same question? 304 00:18:50,881 --> 00:18:52,747 He's trying. 305 00:18:52,752 --> 00:18:56,098 Teaching you piano, the chess board, isn't he? 306 00:18:56,103 --> 00:18:57,535 He hasn't taught me to fly. 307 00:18:57,540 --> 00:19:00,320 It's... It's not something you could teach. 308 00:19:00,325 --> 00:19:02,496 You're born with it or you're not. 309 00:19:02,501 --> 00:19:04,106 Another one of his lies. 310 00:19:11,684 --> 00:19:13,072 Hello. 311 00:19:13,077 --> 00:19:15,117 We were wondering where you were. 312 00:19:15,122 --> 00:19:17,859 It's his nature to lie. 313 00:19:17,864 --> 00:19:20,035 Claudia. 314 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,776 Lestat. 315 00:19:25,750 --> 00:19:27,510 _ 316 00:19:29,630 --> 00:19:32,521 _ 317 00:19:32,531 --> 00:19:35,747 I remember you like souvenirs. 318 00:19:41,497 --> 00:19:42,933 Thank you. 319 00:19:45,544 --> 00:19:47,672 We should really think about repairing that mantel. 320 00:19:47,677 --> 00:19:50,275 - No. - Enjoy living in a ruin, do you? 321 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,417 We leave the damage so we never forget the damage. 322 00:20:01,517 --> 00:20:04,297 If you could just give him an inch. 323 00:20:04,302 --> 00:20:06,038 One sob story about his birth, 324 00:20:06,043 --> 00:20:08,910 and you're back to eating from his hand. 325 00:20:08,915 --> 00:20:11,739 Magnus could be a sous chef in Switzerland for all we know. 326 00:20:11,744 --> 00:20:14,786 I am all sincerity and humility. 327 00:20:14,791 --> 00:20:16,631 I cannot wear it any longer. 328 00:20:16,636 --> 00:20:18,894 She's just stubborn. 329 00:20:18,899 --> 00:20:22,446 She is a wall. The cliffs at Etretat. 330 00:20:23,930 --> 00:20:26,326 Lestat the vulnerable becomes Lestat the irritable 331 00:20:26,331 --> 00:20:28,061 - become Lestat the controlling. - We're all making compromises 332 00:20:28,065 --> 00:20:29,931 - You watch! - ... to make this right again. 333 00:20:29,936 --> 00:20:32,325 I'm drinking the blood. He ended it with the singer. 334 00:20:32,330 --> 00:20:33,587 - Mm-hmm. - What are you doing? 335 00:20:33,592 --> 00:20:35,138 I'm enduring. 336 00:20:37,509 --> 00:20:39,463 Do more. 337 00:20:41,774 --> 00:20:44,076 She's grown very protective of me. 338 00:20:44,081 --> 00:20:47,993 That's what this is. It's why it's hard. 339 00:20:47,998 --> 00:20:52,203 She came back altered when she left us. 340 00:20:52,208 --> 00:20:55,299 There's a darkness in her that wasn't there before. 341 00:20:56,485 --> 00:20:58,612 Give her a little time. 342 00:21:03,970 --> 00:21:06,925 In many ways, they were more like each other 343 00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:08,609 than they wanted to admit. 344 00:21:08,614 --> 00:21:10,698 They both sought out weakness. 345 00:21:10,703 --> 00:21:13,179 They reveled in the exploitation of it, 346 00:21:13,184 --> 00:21:15,703 and they romped with joy as I played audience 347 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,414 to their joyless exchanges. 348 00:21:17,419 --> 00:21:19,720 Tell us about your first love, Nicky. 349 00:21:21,858 --> 00:21:23,463 Nicolas. 350 00:21:23,468 --> 00:21:25,931 Louis said that you called him Nicky. 351 00:21:25,936 --> 00:21:28,599 That's the song you wrote for him. 352 00:21:28,604 --> 00:21:30,731 'Tis. 353 00:21:30,736 --> 00:21:33,343 Do you write songs for all your lovers? 354 00:21:33,348 --> 00:21:37,353 I think this one might be better than yours, Louis. 355 00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:40,741 Does that mean you loved Nicky more than you love Louis? 356 00:21:40,746 --> 00:21:42,026 Ignore her, Louis. 357 00:21:42,031 --> 00:21:46,312 She asks these naughty questions to gain advantage in the game. 358 00:21:46,317 --> 00:21:48,836 It won't work. 359 00:21:48,841 --> 00:21:50,047 I ask these questions 360 00:21:50,052 --> 00:21:52,927 because I'm trying to understand you better, Lestat. 361 00:21:52,932 --> 00:21:56,161 I played three games at once in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 362 00:21:56,166 --> 00:21:58,576 and one of my opponents was Johannes Zukertort, 363 00:21:58,581 --> 00:21:59,581 who, you know, of course, 364 00:21:59,586 --> 00:22:01,461 won the Paris championships of '78 and who... 365 00:22:01,466 --> 00:22:02,466 Of course. 366 00:22:02,471 --> 00:22:03,991 - ... later that afternoon, I dueled to a draw. - Who doesn't know 367 00:22:03,995 --> 00:22:05,629 who won the Paris Chess championship of '78? 368 00:22:05,633 --> 00:22:06,987 - So please continue... - My mama taught me that 369 00:22:06,991 --> 00:22:09,577 - before I started crawling. - ... with your tedious interrogations. 370 00:22:09,581 --> 00:22:13,295 And I, once again... put you in check. 371 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,124 Did Nicky kill himself like your maker, Magnus? 372 00:22:23,876 --> 00:22:25,264 Check. 373 00:22:25,269 --> 00:22:27,962 Or did you kill him, like you did Antoinette, 374 00:22:27,967 --> 00:22:30,443 - and how you tried to do with Louis? - Claudia. 375 00:22:30,448 --> 00:22:34,653 Nicky passed on after he and I parted ways. 376 00:22:36,367 --> 00:22:38,103 It took me over a century to try again. 377 00:22:41,807 --> 00:22:43,674 Mm. 378 00:22:43,679 --> 00:22:45,772 Checkmate. 379 00:22:47,030 --> 00:22:49,244 I'm sorry for your losses, Lestat. 380 00:22:49,249 --> 00:22:52,887 Oh, it's you who lost, Claudia, for the many hundredth time. 381 00:22:52,892 --> 00:22:55,020 I admire your steadfast pursuit 382 00:22:55,025 --> 00:22:57,644 of a game you clearly have no acumen for. 383 00:22:57,649 --> 00:23:00,125 My massa taught me how to play, 384 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:03,202 but only enough to occupy his time. 385 00:23:04,121 --> 00:23:06,971 - I think I'll hunt alone tonight. - Mm. 386 00:23:06,976 --> 00:23:09,208 Massa's had so much loss in his life. 387 00:23:09,213 --> 00:23:11,745 Lord couldn't ask him to bear any more. 388 00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:13,355 I'll come with you. 389 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,357 Thank you. No. 390 00:23:15,362 --> 00:23:17,055 Poor massa and his pain. 391 00:23:17,060 --> 00:23:19,449 It's an honor just to sleep under massa's roof. 392 00:23:19,454 --> 00:23:21,456 And I know she's talking to you. 393 00:23:26,461 --> 00:23:29,241 You're ugly when you act like that. 394 00:23:29,246 --> 00:23:31,596 Better ugly than blind. 395 00:23:33,468 --> 00:23:36,814 She's an affected, self-absorbed, 396 00:23:36,819 --> 00:23:38,885 nasty little creature who's fooled herself 397 00:23:38,890 --> 00:23:40,383 into thinking she's smarter than she is, 398 00:23:40,387 --> 00:23:43,211 and she is poisoning Louis against me. 399 00:23:43,216 --> 00:23:46,954 You don't need her, and you don't need him. 400 00:23:46,959 --> 00:23:49,496 They don't appreciate you like I do. 401 00:23:49,501 --> 00:23:53,047 I have given her so many gifts, so many incalculable gifts. 402 00:23:53,052 --> 00:23:56,298 And you're right. It is both of them. 403 00:23:56,303 --> 00:23:58,779 He broods. She snipes. 404 00:24:03,454 --> 00:24:04,755 That's why I need you. 405 00:24:07,371 --> 00:24:09,887 You fortify me against them. 406 00:24:12,711 --> 00:24:16,449 You're like me. You like to laugh. 407 00:24:16,454 --> 00:24:19,147 You make me laugh all the time. 408 00:24:19,152 --> 00:24:20,714 Hm. 409 00:24:26,072 --> 00:24:28,330 We should go away, Lestat. 410 00:24:28,335 --> 00:24:32,347 New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. 411 00:24:32,352 --> 00:24:34,915 You want to be a movie star? 412 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,125 Well, now that I'm dead, I can be whoever I want. 413 00:24:39,838 --> 00:24:41,853 I've been working on a new name. 414 00:24:41,858 --> 00:24:46,063 What do you think of... Marie Lepere? 415 00:24:47,585 --> 00:24:49,091 Don't be ridiculous. 416 00:24:50,501 --> 00:24:53,107 There's no place for me other than New Orleans. 417 00:24:53,112 --> 00:24:55,849 New Orleans? 418 00:24:55,854 --> 00:24:58,839 You got me stashed away here at Ponchatoula. 419 00:24:58,844 --> 00:25:00,593 How am I supposed to make a career here? 420 00:25:02,295 --> 00:25:05,859 I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear. 421 00:25:05,864 --> 00:25:09,899 I know that, but promises were made. 422 00:25:11,609 --> 00:25:13,737 And promises will be kept. 423 00:25:13,742 --> 00:25:15,652 I am withering here, Lestat. 424 00:25:15,657 --> 00:25:19,046 Who's gonna hire a singer who don't sing, who's a cripple? 425 00:25:19,051 --> 00:25:20,744 No. 426 00:25:20,749 --> 00:25:22,833 That's what gloves are for. 427 00:25:25,667 --> 00:25:29,883 I know. I didn't mean to make you mad. 428 00:25:31,716 --> 00:25:33,887 I love you, Lestat. 429 00:25:33,892 --> 00:25:35,802 I love you, too. 430 00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:40,024 It wasn't shocking. 431 00:25:40,029 --> 00:25:42,504 It was perfectly consistent with his nature. 432 00:25:42,509 --> 00:25:46,514 He'd been told to do something and, brat that he was, 433 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:48,591 didn't like being told what to do. 434 00:25:49,952 --> 00:25:53,646 The effect, however, was numbing. 435 00:25:53,651 --> 00:25:54,865 I'm sorry, Louis. 436 00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:57,128 It's all what it is. 437 00:25:57,133 --> 00:25:58,564 He's the father of lies. 438 00:25:58,569 --> 00:26:00,218 And if that's the kind of desperate trash 439 00:26:00,223 --> 00:26:01,828 he wants to love, then let him have her. 440 00:26:01,833 --> 00:26:03,308 He doesn't love her. 441 00:26:03,313 --> 00:26:04,831 You heard him say it. 442 00:26:04,836 --> 00:26:07,268 Spit in the sandwich and serve it with a smile. 443 00:26:07,273 --> 00:26:08,592 What? 444 00:26:08,597 --> 00:26:11,638 It's only fun if you get to watch them take a bite. 445 00:26:11,643 --> 00:26:14,424 Hides her a town away. Done by design. 446 00:26:14,429 --> 00:26:16,077 He wanted us to discover him. 447 00:26:16,082 --> 00:26:17,684 But why? 448 00:26:19,677 --> 00:26:22,849 Because he's all kinds of fucked up. 449 00:26:22,854 --> 00:26:24,677 'Cause he would've killed her in a second 450 00:26:24,682 --> 00:26:27,549 if he thought I'd take him as he is. 451 00:26:27,554 --> 00:26:30,291 And I probably will. 452 00:26:30,296 --> 00:26:32,995 So you ain't gonna tell him that you know about her? 453 00:26:34,374 --> 00:26:37,285 What difference would it make? 454 00:26:47,444 --> 00:26:50,355 There's a train leaves every night for New York. 455 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:53,532 We could hide out in Harlem for a few, then hop on a boat. 456 00:26:53,537 --> 00:26:55,447 Take us anywhere we want to go. 457 00:26:55,452 --> 00:26:57,841 "Anywhere" sounds like nowhere. 458 00:26:59,761 --> 00:27:03,237 Prague. Bucharest. Varna. Silistra. 459 00:27:03,242 --> 00:27:04,848 Ploiesti. 460 00:27:04,853 --> 00:27:06,880 Funny-sounding towns. 461 00:27:06,885 --> 00:27:10,449 Ancient towns with more like us living in them. 462 00:27:10,454 --> 00:27:14,496 And they can't all be like him... or him. 463 00:27:16,765 --> 00:27:18,949 We can get on that train, Louis. 464 00:27:18,954 --> 00:27:20,951 Louis. 465 00:27:25,166 --> 00:27:27,337 The numbness remained, 466 00:27:27,342 --> 00:27:30,525 hardened somehow into a dissociative shell, 467 00:27:30,530 --> 00:27:35,135 a vessel of acceptance, tortured rationalization. 468 00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:41,032 This life, it does a number on the head, 469 00:27:41,037 --> 00:27:45,242 on the soul... if we even have a soul. 470 00:27:45,981 --> 00:27:48,152 We could say, "That won't be us". 471 00:27:48,157 --> 00:27:52,362 But every night, I feel a little crazier. 472 00:27:52,367 --> 00:27:54,712 And off to Antoinette. 473 00:27:58,329 --> 00:27:59,772 I'll see you both at dawn. 474 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,085 I love you. 475 00:28:07,163 --> 00:28:09,651 Give us a hundred more years of this, 476 00:28:09,656 --> 00:28:11,305 taking anything we want, 477 00:28:11,310 --> 00:28:13,220 killing anything in front of us, 478 00:28:13,225 --> 00:28:15,645 no one says shit about it. 479 00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:17,951 I can see us just like him. 480 00:28:17,956 --> 00:28:19,866 I can see it, Claudia. 481 00:28:19,871 --> 00:28:21,751 Well, I can't. 482 00:28:21,756 --> 00:28:25,934 Train's leavin' in an hour. Get off that bench. 483 00:28:26,710 --> 00:28:31,720 _ 484 00:28:32,810 --> 00:28:35,117 I can barely speak French and English. 485 00:28:37,293 --> 00:28:39,686 I'd just hold you back. 486 00:28:40,995 --> 00:28:45,600 When he hurts you again, and he will, come find me. 487 00:28:45,605 --> 00:28:47,129 - I'll be in... - Prague. 488 00:28:48,347 --> 00:28:50,475 Bucharest. 489 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,260 Varna, Silistra. 490 00:28:53,265 --> 00:28:55,349 Ploi... Ploi... um... 491 00:28:55,354 --> 00:28:57,308 Ploiesti. 492 00:28:57,313 --> 00:28:59,092 Pff. 493 00:28:59,097 --> 00:29:03,302 I could never get that one to tumble out right. 494 00:29:09,325 --> 00:29:10,625 Hey, sis. 495 00:29:17,550 --> 00:29:20,592 You don't need me. 496 00:29:20,597 --> 00:29:23,464 You think you do, but you don't. 497 00:29:23,469 --> 00:29:26,424 You're smarter now. 498 00:29:26,429 --> 00:29:28,905 You see trouble coming a mile away. 499 00:29:52,629 --> 00:29:56,323 Dark woods and bridged rivers. 500 00:29:58,243 --> 00:30:00,762 Then the lights of the city depot. 501 00:30:02,726 --> 00:30:05,202 Birmingham. 502 00:30:05,207 --> 00:30:06,986 Atlanta. 503 00:30:06,991 --> 00:30:08,727 Greensboro. 504 00:30:08,732 --> 00:30:11,034 Washington, D.C. 505 00:30:13,084 --> 00:30:16,213 She, of all things on the Earth, 506 00:30:16,218 --> 00:30:19,433 deserved a nice seat and a wide window 507 00:30:19,438 --> 00:30:22,915 to watch the countryside blur before the glass. 508 00:30:26,744 --> 00:30:31,049 But it was 1939, and the only Negro allowed in first class 509 00:30:31,054 --> 00:30:32,316 was the porter, 510 00:30:32,321 --> 00:30:35,710 and the Negro passenger rode the rear. 511 00:30:35,715 --> 00:30:39,720 The Negro vampire made do with what was left, 512 00:30:40,590 --> 00:30:43,027 which was fine with her. 513 00:30:45,987 --> 00:30:49,768 This is the part of my story, back in San Francisco, 514 00:30:49,773 --> 00:30:53,293 where you said, and I paraphrase, 515 00:30:53,298 --> 00:30:55,078 "Give it to me. 516 00:30:55,083 --> 00:30:57,167 Make me a vampire now". 517 00:30:57,172 --> 00:31:00,610 In the eyes of a 20-year-old, you were wasting the gift. 518 00:31:07,008 --> 00:31:10,441 You're in your 20s, Rashid. What do you think? 519 00:31:10,446 --> 00:31:12,878 Well, Mr. du Lac presides 520 00:31:12,883 --> 00:31:15,272 in the most desired real estate in the country. 521 00:31:15,277 --> 00:31:18,492 I do not see the waste Mr. Molloy sees. 522 00:31:18,497 --> 00:31:22,458 Yeah, well, he lived in a dump the last time we did this. 523 00:31:25,474 --> 00:31:27,762 I'd give it to you now. 524 00:31:31,206 --> 00:31:34,639 A still hand, time to watch your daughters marry. 525 00:31:34,644 --> 00:31:37,642 And divorce. 526 00:31:37,647 --> 00:31:39,600 And die. 527 00:31:42,652 --> 00:31:44,306 Save it for the rent boy. 528 00:31:45,524 --> 00:31:48,740 May I be excused, Mr. du Lac? 529 00:31:48,745 --> 00:31:51,699 Are you planning on slapping me again, Daniel? 530 00:31:53,358 --> 00:31:54,964 No. 531 00:31:59,930 --> 00:32:03,233 I teased the sun that night in Jackson Square. 532 00:32:03,238 --> 00:32:06,758 Thought about the walking cane and pile of ash 533 00:32:06,763 --> 00:32:08,455 they'd find in the morning. 534 00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:12,590 But Paul had forever ruined Grace's wedding night, 535 00:32:12,595 --> 00:32:14,784 and I would not do the same to Claudia 536 00:32:14,789 --> 00:32:17,334 on the anniversary of her escape. 537 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,779 If I was to join Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered, 538 00:32:22,784 --> 00:32:25,216 it would be another night. 539 00:32:25,821 --> 00:32:28,519 And so I endured my way home... 540 00:32:31,179 --> 00:32:33,176 ... back to the crypt. 541 00:32:36,923 --> 00:32:39,965 Back to the undeserving Lestat. 542 00:32:41,263 --> 00:32:42,621 Lestat, I'm home. 543 00:32:42,625 --> 00:32:44,274 Louis, come. 544 00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,928 Listen here. 545 00:32:46,933 --> 00:32:49,279 What is it? 546 00:32:49,284 --> 00:32:51,411 Germany's invaded Poland. 547 00:32:51,416 --> 00:32:53,631 Tanks rolling through the countryside. 548 00:32:53,636 --> 00:32:55,198 Horrors unleashed. 549 00:32:55,203 --> 00:32:58,418 Since when do you care about humanity? 550 00:32:58,423 --> 00:33:01,682 Well, I don't. 551 00:33:01,687 --> 00:33:04,903 But to think our sister, 552 00:33:04,908 --> 00:33:06,383 impulsive tot that she is, 553 00:33:06,388 --> 00:33:09,386 was on her way to holiday in Europe. 554 00:33:09,391 --> 00:33:12,084 I'm so glad she decided the better of it. 555 00:33:16,615 --> 00:33:19,787 We'll have to make it up to her Stateside somehow. 556 00:33:23,448 --> 00:33:25,445 Won't we, Louis? 557 00:33:47,472 --> 00:33:50,340 Hey, what you doing here?! 558 00:33:59,906 --> 00:34:01,821 Tickets, please. 559 00:34:05,181 --> 00:34:06,748 Tickets, please! 560 00:34:09,190 --> 00:34:11,952 You are riding the New York Limited. 561 00:34:11,957 --> 00:34:14,743 Next stop... Birmingham, Alabama. 562 00:34:23,117 --> 00:34:24,678 Claudia. 563 00:34:26,772 --> 00:34:28,122 Claudia. 564 00:34:29,427 --> 00:34:31,685 Shh, shh, shh, shh. 565 00:34:37,174 --> 00:34:42,379 Claudia, you left without saying goodbye. 566 00:34:43,611 --> 00:34:44,786 Again. 567 00:34:46,749 --> 00:34:50,954 I'm sure it was an oversight, but still. 568 00:34:50,959 --> 00:34:53,597 You'd think your creator had earned the courtesy. 569 00:34:54,757 --> 00:34:56,667 You didn't want me. 570 00:34:56,672 --> 00:34:58,669 You made me for Louis. 571 00:34:58,674 --> 00:35:01,976 And he needs you now more than ever. 572 00:35:01,981 --> 00:35:03,413 He's in a terrible state. 573 00:35:03,418 --> 00:35:06,155 He said I could go. 574 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,157 He picked you over me. 575 00:35:08,162 --> 00:35:11,377 Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state. 576 00:35:21,305 --> 00:35:22,706 He'd grip it, tug at it, 577 00:35:22,711 --> 00:35:24,782 and, weak as he is, the stem would hold. 578 00:35:24,787 --> 00:35:26,871 Let me go, Lestat. 579 00:35:26,876 --> 00:35:30,309 In Louis' hour of need? 580 00:35:30,314 --> 00:35:33,791 I'm afraid I can't allow that. 581 00:35:33,796 --> 00:35:37,316 He's very fragile right now, 582 00:35:37,321 --> 00:35:40,972 worse than the last time you abandoned him, 583 00:35:40,977 --> 00:35:42,887 when you filled your head with knowledge 584 00:35:42,892 --> 00:35:45,708 and hitched a ride on a motorbike. 585 00:35:49,028 --> 00:35:51,287 Well, you wouldn't talk of it. 586 00:35:51,292 --> 00:35:54,464 Louis insisted I not ask. 587 00:35:54,469 --> 00:35:58,674 I love our family, but the rules are "no secrets". 588 00:35:58,679 --> 00:36:02,461 Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, 589 00:36:02,466 --> 00:36:04,289 I can hear the thoughts of other vampires 590 00:36:04,294 --> 00:36:06,563 at a very great distance. 591 00:36:06,568 --> 00:36:09,522 Bastard. 592 00:36:09,527 --> 00:36:12,395 He thinks of you often. 593 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,644 Bruce. 594 00:36:13,649 --> 00:36:15,385 Fucking bastard. 595 00:36:15,390 --> 00:36:17,256 I couldn't agree more. 596 00:36:17,261 --> 00:36:19,576 What he did to you was in very poor taste. 597 00:36:22,236 --> 00:36:27,441 Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? 598 00:36:28,764 --> 00:36:31,327 Louis would never forgive himself. 599 00:36:31,332 --> 00:36:33,503 Back in your cage, sweetheart. 600 00:36:39,688 --> 00:36:43,893 We endure each other for Louis' happiness. 601 00:36:46,912 --> 00:36:50,520 So come home and make him happy. 602 00:36:53,789 --> 00:36:56,874 Because if you try this again, Claudia, 603 00:36:56,879 --> 00:36:58,745 I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket, 604 00:36:58,750 --> 00:37:01,922 and zoom off on a motorbike. 605 00:37:01,927 --> 00:37:03,968 I'll turn your bones to dust. 606 00:37:10,022 --> 00:37:11,976 I had hoped against hope 607 00:37:11,981 --> 00:37:14,383 that some miracle would prevent 608 00:37:14,388 --> 00:37:16,589 a devastating war in Europe 609 00:37:16,594 --> 00:37:21,399 and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany. 610 00:37:21,404 --> 00:37:24,576 The Dutch Defense. Naturally. 611 00:37:25,094 --> 00:37:29,167 I've been having a thought the last few days, Louis. 612 00:37:29,172 --> 00:37:31,212 Yeah? What's that? 613 00:37:31,217 --> 00:37:33,650 I think he killed Magnus. 614 00:37:33,655 --> 00:37:35,956 I think the vampire made him a slave. 615 00:37:35,961 --> 00:37:38,611 And he would be a slave no more than I would, 616 00:37:38,616 --> 00:37:40,396 and so he killed him... 617 00:37:40,401 --> 00:37:42,249 killed him before he knew all the things 618 00:37:42,254 --> 00:37:43,321 he couldn't know. 619 00:37:43,326 --> 00:37:46,193 And now he's gone and made us slaves to him. 620 00:37:46,698 --> 00:37:48,260 Stonewalling again. 621 00:37:48,265 --> 00:37:49,940 You've become quite predictable, 622 00:37:49,945 --> 00:37:51,624 my sister, disappointment. 623 00:37:51,629 --> 00:37:54,627 We're not slaves. Maybe mindless accomplices. 624 00:37:54,632 --> 00:37:58,396 No, we're his slaves, and I will free us both. 625 00:37:58,401 --> 00:37:59,589 Claudia. 626 00:37:59,594 --> 00:38:01,460 We have no more use for him. 627 00:38:01,465 --> 00:38:04,268 And he causes us misery with no horizon. 628 00:38:06,688 --> 00:38:08,380 What are you gonna do? 629 00:38:08,385 --> 00:38:11,457 Pout and mimic me until I grow empathetic? 630 00:38:11,462 --> 00:38:13,864 Is that your strategy tonight? 631 00:38:13,869 --> 00:38:16,301 ... the teachings of religion, 632 00:38:16,306 --> 00:38:19,217 the continuation of efforts to restore peace... 633 00:38:22,007 --> 00:38:24,004 One bishop can be captured, 634 00:38:24,009 --> 00:38:28,214 but... I see the trap. 635 00:38:28,219 --> 00:38:30,564 I don't like what you're feeling right now. 636 00:38:30,569 --> 00:38:32,479 You cannot kill... 637 00:38:32,484 --> 00:38:34,319 I love you, Louis. 638 00:38:34,324 --> 00:38:36,756 I don't say it often enough anymore. 639 00:38:36,761 --> 00:38:39,332 If you love me, then listen to me. 640 00:38:39,337 --> 00:38:40,543 I beg you. 641 00:38:40,548 --> 00:38:42,327 If you're going to beat Lestat, 642 00:38:42,332 --> 00:38:44,042 you have to become Lestat. 643 00:38:44,047 --> 00:38:45,809 You have to think like he does 644 00:38:45,814 --> 00:38:47,680 and then five moves ahead of that. 645 00:38:47,685 --> 00:38:49,378 Bishop to G1. 646 00:38:49,383 --> 00:38:50,814 But he's not mortal. 647 00:38:50,819 --> 00:38:52,163 Queen to H2. 648 00:38:52,168 --> 00:38:53,686 No illness can touch him. 649 00:38:53,691 --> 00:38:55,371 You threaten a life which will endure 650 00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:56,546 till the end of the world. 651 00:38:56,551 --> 00:38:58,691 You will bring your queen, 652 00:38:58,696 --> 00:39:01,520 but the bishop cannot be ignored. 653 00:39:01,525 --> 00:39:02,782 The rook, the queen... 654 00:39:02,787 --> 00:39:04,871 I am done endurin'. 655 00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:06,482 I'm not moving my rook. 656 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:11,343 Knight takes the bishop. 657 00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:15,621 I'm going to kill him. 658 00:39:17,759 --> 00:39:19,108 Check. 659 00:39:19,996 --> 00:39:23,020 He'll destroy you if you try it. 660 00:39:23,025 --> 00:39:24,064 No, Louis. 661 00:39:24,069 --> 00:39:26,545 Rook protects the king, 662 00:39:26,550 --> 00:39:29,026 and your queen has been neutralized. 663 00:39:29,031 --> 00:39:30,810 It's a very spirited effort. 664 00:39:30,815 --> 00:39:32,464 I can kill him. 665 00:39:37,809 --> 00:39:40,603 Another baffling pawn sacrifice. 666 00:39:44,438 --> 00:39:46,260 Check. 667 00:39:51,432 --> 00:39:53,616 And I want to tell you something else now. 668 00:39:58,656 --> 00:40:01,698 A secret of all secrets between you and me. 669 00:40:03,966 --> 00:40:08,171 Now you're giving up bishops and knights for pawns. 670 00:40:19,951 --> 00:40:21,861 Wait. 671 00:40:21,866 --> 00:40:23,994 No, that can't be. 672 00:40:23,999 --> 00:40:25,983 The secret is, Louis... 673 00:40:25,988 --> 00:40:28,115 Queen on one side, 674 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,900 rook on the other. 675 00:40:29,905 --> 00:40:32,437 ... you want to kill him too, 676 00:40:32,442 --> 00:40:35,571 and you will enjoy doing it. 677 00:40:39,786 --> 00:40:41,217 You have won. 678 00:40:41,222 --> 00:40:42,578 I'm tired. 679 00:40:42,583 --> 00:40:43,962 We'll finish the game. 680 00:40:43,967 --> 00:40:45,642 I think I'm gonna go to bed. 681 00:40:48,867 --> 00:40:50,529 Move your pawn. Finish the game. 682 00:40:50,534 --> 00:40:52,662 - Good night, Lestat. - Finish the game! 683 00:40:52,667 --> 00:40:54,228 Good night, Louis. 684 00:40:55,334 --> 00:40:56,766 She was right. 685 00:40:56,771 --> 00:40:59,838 Spoiled, selfish, thankless. 686 00:40:59,843 --> 00:41:01,048 It was inevitable. 687 00:41:01,053 --> 00:41:04,138 Heedless, disagreeable, obnoxious, repellent, 688 00:41:04,143 --> 00:41:06,427 unkind, spoiled to the core! 689 00:41:08,609 --> 00:41:11,171 ... every ship that sails the sea, 690 00:41:11,176 --> 00:41:13,565 every battle that is fought 691 00:41:13,570 --> 00:41:17,600 does affect the American future. 692 00:41:17,605 --> 00:41:19,607 We were going to kill Lestat. 693 00:41:21,839 --> 00:41:24,425 We were going to kill Lestat. 694 00:41:29,020 --> 00:41:30,582 Rashid, are you awake? 695 00:41:30,587 --> 00:41:32,802 I can be. 696 00:41:32,807 --> 00:41:35,805 I think the medication has overwhelmed our boy. 697 00:41:39,048 --> 00:41:40,610 I would gladly wake him. 698 00:41:40,615 --> 00:41:43,743 No, we can pick it up again tomorrow. 699 00:41:43,748 --> 00:41:46,685 But fetch a cover, would you? 700 00:41:46,690 --> 00:41:48,992 Let him be warm with his dreaming. 701 00:41:56,265 --> 00:41:58,305 ? I see you walking ? 702 00:41:58,310 --> 00:42:02,515 ? I see you talking with all of my friends ? 703 00:42:28,863 --> 00:42:31,077 What's in the bag? 704 00:42:33,258 --> 00:42:34,951 Hello. 705 00:42:34,956 --> 00:42:37,257 Hi. 706 00:42:39,613 --> 00:42:43,002 Work. My work's in the bag. 707 00:42:43,007 --> 00:42:45,227 Is it a gun? 708 00:42:47,185 --> 00:42:48,660 Are you an assassin? 709 00:42:48,665 --> 00:42:52,272 Am I the man you came to kill? 710 00:42:52,277 --> 00:42:55,885 I did a terrible thing once. It wouldn't surprise me. 711 00:42:55,890 --> 00:42:58,235 I'm a writer. 712 00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:00,106 A journalist mostly, so... 713 00:43:00,111 --> 00:43:02,287 Do you have money tonight, Danny? 714 00:43:03,332 --> 00:43:04,759 Get the boy whatever he want. 715 00:43:04,764 --> 00:43:07,002 I'll have a grasshopper. 716 00:43:08,002 --> 00:43:09,041 Tom Collins. 717 00:43:13,472 --> 00:43:17,123 Louis de Pointe du Lac. That's an interesting name. 718 00:43:17,128 --> 00:43:20,300 Louis of Pointe du Lac Plantation. 719 00:43:20,305 --> 00:43:22,825 My great-great-grandfather owned one. 720 00:43:22,830 --> 00:43:25,175 All that remains is a name. 721 00:43:25,180 --> 00:43:26,698 Ah, that's the accent. 722 00:43:26,703 --> 00:43:28,595 I have an accent? 723 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,294 You have a slight sharpness of the consonants, 724 00:43:31,299 --> 00:43:32,486 that's all. 725 00:43:32,491 --> 00:43:34,401 An observant journalist. 726 00:43:34,406 --> 00:43:37,753 Yeah. I do interviews mostly. 727 00:43:37,758 --> 00:43:40,456 I have a series at the Berkeley Barb. 728 00:43:40,461 --> 00:43:43,323 Hey, you know, I could interview you. 729 00:43:43,328 --> 00:43:45,543 Well, I'm no one of importance. 730 00:43:45,548 --> 00:43:47,458 Well, that's my speciality. 731 00:43:47,463 --> 00:43:51,549 You see, I look for people in the cracks, you feel me? 732 00:43:51,554 --> 00:43:54,035 I do feel you. 733 00:43:55,732 --> 00:43:57,916 You know, it's about the people, you know, 734 00:43:57,921 --> 00:43:59,775 who make the city, right? 735 00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:01,777 You know, not a cop or a politician. 736 00:44:01,782 --> 00:44:03,343 Any asshole can do that. 737 00:44:03,348 --> 00:44:04,884 Look. 738 00:44:04,889 --> 00:44:08,914 You see, I get 'em on tape, and then I write 'em up. 739 00:44:08,919 --> 00:44:10,786 You didn't come here for that. 740 00:44:12,618 --> 00:44:15,399 I know you're struggling, Danny. 741 00:44:15,404 --> 00:44:17,706 It's Daniel. 742 00:44:17,711 --> 00:44:20,447 I have what you're looking for. 743 00:44:20,452 --> 00:44:22,275 High quality. 744 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,800 Befitting a man of my tastes. 745 00:44:24,805 --> 00:44:29,010 I have a room over on Divisadero, not too far a walk. 746 00:44:30,114 --> 00:44:31,159 Are you a narc? 747 00:44:32,203 --> 00:44:33,722 I'm a vampire. 748 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,863 I want to interview you. 749 00:44:44,868 --> 00:44:46,386 Sounds fun. 750 00:44:46,391 --> 00:44:49,676 I mean, if something happens, you know, I'm cool, 751 00:44:49,681 --> 00:44:52,784 but, yeah, 752 00:44:52,789 --> 00:44:55,221 I really want to interview you. 753 00:44:55,226 --> 00:44:57,528 Course. 754 00:44:57,533 --> 00:44:59,138 We'll take it as it comes. 755 00:44:59,143 --> 00:45:03,316 That okay with you? Would you like to join us? 756 00:45:04,949 --> 00:45:06,929 No. 757 00:45:06,934 --> 00:45:09,061 You go ahead. Have your fun. 758 00:45:10,459 --> 00:45:12,238 ? Aah ? 759 00:45:28,999 --> 00:45:32,720 ? Come to me ? 760 00:45:32,725 --> 00:45:38,830 ? And let my everloving arms ? 761 00:45:38,835 --> 00:45:43,040 ? Surround you ? 762 00:45:44,156 --> 00:45:48,361 ? Come to me ? 763 00:45:48,366 --> 00:45:54,271 ? And let my infinite embrace ? 764 00:45:54,276 --> 00:45:59,306 ? Confound you ? 765 00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:07,424 ? And mourn each other like star-crossed lovers ? 766 00:46:07,434 --> 00:46:09,434 * 767 00:46:13,783 --> 00:46:17,988 ? Oh, come to me ? 768 00:46:20,398 --> 00:46:29,667 ? Come to me ? 769 00:46:33,583 --> 00:46:42,190 CREDITS 770 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,197 I wanted him dead. 771 00:46:44,202 --> 00:46:46,634 I wanted him all to myself. 772 00:46:46,639 --> 00:46:50,029 I wasn't thinking clearly. 773 00:46:50,034 --> 00:46:51,949 We have to leave this place. 774 00:46:53,341 --> 00:46:56,035 For a king. 775 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,641 Would you like the secret of immortality? 776 00:46:58,646 --> 00:47:00,343 Where do you meet the Devil 777 00:47:00,348 --> 00:47:02,563 and what are the terms of the agreement? 778 00:47:04,788 --> 00:47:07,612 A last dance before the feast. 779 00:47:18,105 --> 00:47:19,928 You think I'm withholding? 780 00:47:19,933 --> 00:47:24,240 Go on, ask your questions. 781 00:47:24,245 --> 00:47:25,764 Who made you? 782 00:47:25,769 --> 00:47:29,245 Episode 6, "Like Angels Put in Hell by God"... 783 00:47:29,250 --> 00:47:31,626 When you take 'em back, you know you shouldn't do it, 784 00:47:31,631 --> 00:47:33,206 and you do it anyway. 785 00:47:33,211 --> 00:47:35,991 His name was Magnus. 786 00:47:35,996 --> 00:47:37,863 He took me from my room in Paris... 787 00:47:37,868 --> 00:47:39,560 as I kicked and screamed. 788 00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:41,997 You know, whatever your feelings about Lestat are, 789 00:47:42,002 --> 00:47:46,132 here we get to finally hear what Lestat's pain is all about. 790 00:47:46,137 --> 00:47:49,135 And it is a fairly traumatic entrance into the world. 791 00:47:49,140 --> 00:47:51,398 For a guy who had been withholding for a long time, 792 00:47:51,403 --> 00:47:54,218 he resents having to do it, but does it anyway 793 00:47:54,223 --> 00:47:57,721 because his love and his intensity for Louis, 794 00:47:57,726 --> 00:47:59,114 he knows that's what he needs, 795 00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:00,929 it's the offering that he needs to give. 796 00:48:00,934 --> 00:48:02,801 He kept me for a week, 797 00:48:02,806 --> 00:48:06,065 locked in a room full of corpses. 798 00:48:06,070 --> 00:48:08,302 Some freshly killed, 799 00:48:08,307 --> 00:48:10,765 some bloated and black. 800 00:48:10,770 --> 00:48:12,636 But they all looked like me. 801 00:48:12,641 --> 00:48:16,553 Lestat has had to go through life figuring it out blindly. 802 00:48:16,558 --> 00:48:18,381 Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money 803 00:48:18,386 --> 00:48:20,819 and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. 804 00:48:20,824 --> 00:48:23,560 I cried. I called to God. 805 00:48:23,565 --> 00:48:25,176 I didn't want this. 806 00:48:27,700 --> 00:48:30,785 But I have a capacity for enduring. 807 00:48:30,790 --> 00:48:33,527 One reaction to that, which is Louis accepts it, 808 00:48:33,532 --> 00:48:36,064 and there's Claudia, who is still... 809 00:48:36,069 --> 00:48:38,980 "Yeah... Yeah, and what? 810 00:48:38,985 --> 00:48:41,187 You've had 200 years to get over your shit". 811 00:48:41,192 --> 00:48:43,276 Do you think you could try a little harder 812 00:48:43,281 --> 00:48:44,886 to get on with him? 813 00:48:44,891 --> 00:48:47,323 Have you asked him the same question? 814 00:48:47,328 --> 00:48:49,543 Trying to bring the family together, 815 00:48:49,548 --> 00:48:51,371 and the family doesn't want it. 816 00:48:51,376 --> 00:48:53,416 If you could just give him an inch. 817 00:48:53,421 --> 00:48:55,936 One sob story about his birth, 818 00:48:55,941 --> 00:48:57,725 and you're back to eating from his hand. 819 00:48:57,730 --> 00:49:00,162 She's just stubborn. 820 00:49:00,167 --> 00:49:01,642 She is a wall. 821 00:49:01,647 --> 00:49:03,296 And it's very clear that 822 00:49:03,301 --> 00:49:05,302 the family is not functioning well, 823 00:49:05,307 --> 00:49:08,949 that there is something very, very screwed up 824 00:49:08,954 --> 00:49:10,390 about the dynamics here. 825 00:49:10,395 --> 00:49:14,154 It's not fun, it's not pleasant, but you endure the years 826 00:49:14,159 --> 00:49:16,700 because you cannot have relations with humanity. 827 00:49:16,705 --> 00:49:18,659 We are only stuck with ourselves. 828 00:49:18,664 --> 00:49:20,087 I've been having a thought 829 00:49:20,092 --> 00:49:21,792 the last few days, Louis. 830 00:49:21,797 --> 00:49:23,142 Yeah? What's that? 831 00:49:23,147 --> 00:49:25,231 I am done enduring. 832 00:49:25,236 --> 00:49:27,634 The chess scene is quite interesting, it's based off 833 00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:31,541 a very famous, uh, chess game called the Polish Immortal. 834 00:49:31,546 --> 00:49:34,066 Basically, it's a series of moves by one opponent 835 00:49:34,071 --> 00:49:35,919 that sort of lures in a person 836 00:49:35,924 --> 00:49:37,678 who wants everything in the world, 837 00:49:37,683 --> 00:49:39,810 wants to take everything, and she can see 838 00:49:39,815 --> 00:49:41,464 this is the way into Lestat. 839 00:49:41,469 --> 00:49:44,598 Stonewalling again, you've become quite predictable, 840 00:49:44,603 --> 00:49:46,252 my sister, disappointment. 841 00:49:46,257 --> 00:49:48,384 She is slowly suckering him in. 842 00:49:48,389 --> 00:49:51,331 And she is wise enough to kind of look at the landscape 843 00:49:51,336 --> 00:49:54,464 and go, "There's only one way to do it, we have to kill him". 844 00:49:54,469 --> 00:49:56,827 I can kill 'im. 845 00:49:56,832 --> 00:49:59,465 She, through this chess game, sees it's possible. 846 00:49:59,470 --> 00:50:01,106 "We could do it, we can out-think him 847 00:50:01,111 --> 00:50:02,746 if we know his weaknesses". 848 00:50:02,751 --> 00:50:05,949 You're giving up bishops and knights for pawns. 849 00:50:10,020 --> 00:50:12,756 And she just needs Louis to be on board for it. 850 00:50:12,761 --> 00:50:14,497 The secret is, Louis... 851 00:50:14,502 --> 00:50:16,382 Queen on one side... 852 00:50:16,387 --> 00:50:18,588 ... you want to kill him, too. 853 00:50:18,593 --> 00:50:21,243 And you will enjoy doing it. 854 00:50:21,248 --> 00:50:23,803 You've won. 855 00:50:26,384 --> 00:50:30,889 She was right, we were going to kill Lestat. 856 00:50:35,990 --> 00:50:42,490 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com -