1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,001 You go ahead. Have your fun. 2 00:00:04,356 --> 00:00:06,484 Be my companion. 3 00:00:06,489 --> 00:00:08,025 If you're going to beat Lestat.. 4 00:00:08,029 --> 00:00:09,330 This is not a life! 5 00:00:09,335 --> 00:00:11,001 You took my life! 6 00:00:11,006 --> 00:00:12,898 ... you have to think like he does 7 00:00:12,903 --> 00:00:15,162 and then five moves ahead of that. 8 00:00:15,167 --> 00:00:17,790 She is poisoning Louis against me. 9 00:00:17,795 --> 00:00:19,227 Kill Antoinette. 10 00:00:19,232 --> 00:00:21,794 We're his slaves, and I shall free us both. 11 00:00:21,799 --> 00:00:22,995 You have won. 12 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,301 You want to kill him, too. 13 00:00:24,306 --> 00:00:25,781 Finish the game! 14 00:00:25,786 --> 00:00:27,640 We were going to kill Lestat. 15 00:00:34,521 --> 00:00:39,581 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 16 00:01:05,419 --> 00:01:08,759 _ 17 00:01:20,219 --> 00:01:22,912 So... 18 00:01:22,917 --> 00:01:24,740 question. 19 00:01:24,745 --> 00:01:27,786 Can an immortal meet mortality? 20 00:01:31,682 --> 00:01:35,533 Technically, yes. 21 00:01:35,538 --> 00:01:37,231 How? 22 00:01:39,629 --> 00:01:42,049 Several ways. 23 00:01:42,054 --> 00:01:44,399 Starvation. 24 00:01:44,404 --> 00:01:47,315 Deny the body the blood. 25 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,493 Conversely, drink the blood of the dead. 26 00:01:51,498 --> 00:01:55,703 He told me as much my first night reborn. 27 00:01:55,708 --> 00:01:58,750 Then, there's fire. 28 00:01:58,755 --> 00:02:02,960 Consume the body with fire and it can house no spirit. 29 00:02:02,965 --> 00:02:05,180 Decapitation. 30 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:08,205 He confided that to me one blood-drunken night 31 00:02:08,210 --> 00:02:11,817 in Baton Rouge. 32 00:02:11,822 --> 00:02:16,027 Theoretically, it can be done. 33 00:02:16,032 --> 00:02:20,037 But could it be done by us to him? 34 00:02:20,744 --> 00:02:23,525 Could the children murder the father? 35 00:02:25,706 --> 00:02:29,748 He was stronger than us, quicker than us, 36 00:02:29,753 --> 00:02:31,707 in possession of ancient powers 37 00:02:31,712 --> 00:02:33,622 that had been passed on to his progeny 38 00:02:33,627 --> 00:02:36,668 only in a diminished form. 39 00:02:36,673 --> 00:02:41,378 Add to the toxic air a new ever-present paranoia, 40 00:02:42,244 --> 00:02:45,851 and now, you are with us. 41 00:02:45,856 --> 00:02:47,562 We were compelled to sleep 42 00:02:47,567 --> 00:02:51,074 in the same chamber together again. 43 00:02:51,079 --> 00:02:52,902 He would have it no other way. 44 00:02:54,952 --> 00:02:58,168 We would spend our hours enduring, 45 00:02:58,173 --> 00:03:01,258 with little pretense of getting along, 46 00:03:01,263 --> 00:03:04,044 locked together in hatred. 47 00:03:04,049 --> 00:03:07,612 He would have it no other way. 48 00:03:07,617 --> 00:03:11,486 Our only opportunity to plot would be telepathically. 49 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:14,663 And Claudia, for reasons she would not yet divulge, 50 00:03:14,668 --> 00:03:16,795 used our advantage sparingly. 51 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,754 Knowledge is the ocean's edge. 52 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:21,683 I mean, to think it could somehow be gathered 53 00:03:21,688 --> 00:03:23,498 by a mere 20 volumes. 54 00:03:24,739 --> 00:03:28,894 But make no mistake, Claudia was plotting, 55 00:03:28,899 --> 00:03:31,114 quiet in her deer blind. 56 00:03:33,208 --> 00:03:35,684 A relic before it's even gone to the print shop. 57 00:03:41,086 --> 00:03:43,170 Aww... 58 00:03:43,175 --> 00:03:46,260 There's three of us you must provide for tonight. 59 00:03:51,139 --> 00:03:54,006 I've had my fill. 60 00:03:55,709 --> 00:03:59,308 Louis's never honored the blood as he should. 61 00:03:59,313 --> 00:04:02,833 Blame the teacher, not the student. 62 00:04:03,238 --> 00:04:05,496 Lestat de Lioncourt. 63 00:04:08,287 --> 00:04:12,492 179 years in the Savage Garden. 64 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:20,424 148 years the blood-drinker, the bringer of death... 65 00:04:23,432 --> 00:04:25,782 ... the deer come up the trail. 66 00:04:27,784 --> 00:04:29,482 Another approaches. 67 00:04:46,673 --> 00:04:48,322 It's you. 68 00:04:48,327 --> 00:04:49,584 Oh! 69 00:04:49,589 --> 00:04:50,976 Are you the new postman? 70 00:04:50,981 --> 00:04:52,587 I'm sorry. I'm sorry! 71 00:04:54,246 --> 00:04:56,199 Come to deliver letters of salvation? 72 00:04:56,204 --> 00:04:58,462 I did... I did not mean to disturb. 73 00:04:58,467 --> 00:05:01,509 This is a private house, and we find it disturbing 74 00:05:01,514 --> 00:05:03,902 when things are abandoned on our doorstep. 75 00:05:03,907 --> 00:05:05,426 You misunderstand. 76 00:05:05,431 --> 00:05:09,125 I-I'm an admirer. I-I've come seeking help. 77 00:05:09,130 --> 00:05:10,822 Hmm. 78 00:05:10,827 --> 00:05:13,521 Well, you came to the wrong house. 79 00:05:13,526 --> 00:05:16,001 They say that Satan lives in this house. 80 00:05:16,006 --> 00:05:17,699 But I say it different. 81 00:05:17,704 --> 00:05:22,009 I say angels... angels live at 1132. 82 00:05:23,318 --> 00:05:25,359 Does anyone know you came here? 83 00:05:25,364 --> 00:05:28,013 No. No one, I swear. 84 00:05:28,018 --> 00:05:30,799 I-I live alone, over on Ursuline. 85 00:05:30,804 --> 00:05:32,192 I'm your neighbor. 86 00:05:32,197 --> 00:05:34,150 Well, send Saint Peter our regards. 87 00:05:50,215 --> 00:05:51,920 "Dear sirs and madam..." 88 00:05:51,925 --> 00:05:53,474 Cancer of the blood. 89 00:05:53,479 --> 00:05:56,346 "What is your secret? Can it be shared? 90 00:05:56,351 --> 00:05:58,753 I have the means to pay you. I'm dyin'. 91 00:05:58,758 --> 00:06:00,611 The medications aren't taking and my..." 92 00:06:00,616 --> 00:06:03,484 Enough! 93 00:06:03,489 --> 00:06:05,964 Two in one night. 94 00:06:05,969 --> 00:06:11,374 Dolls, Bibles, letters become torches and pitchforks. 95 00:06:13,442 --> 00:06:15,757 We have to leave this place. 96 00:06:15,762 --> 00:06:18,150 We have to leave New Orleans. 97 00:06:18,155 --> 00:06:20,718 Clean up the mess and come to coffin. 98 00:06:20,723 --> 00:06:22,720 We have plans to make. 99 00:06:22,725 --> 00:06:24,940 There were plans to make, 100 00:06:24,945 --> 00:06:27,116 but the architect of those plans was... 101 00:06:27,121 --> 00:06:28,813 Claudia. Right. 102 00:06:28,818 --> 00:06:32,344 Cold, calculating, on mission. 103 00:06:39,829 --> 00:06:41,078 I-I interrupted. 104 00:06:41,083 --> 00:06:43,219 Uh... S-Sorry. 105 00:06:43,224 --> 00:06:44,829 I-I got caught up in it. 106 00:06:44,834 --> 00:06:46,401 You were saying? 107 00:06:51,493 --> 00:06:53,882 You already have your plan, don't you? 108 00:06:53,887 --> 00:06:57,799 I have a plan, and it's gonna take both of us. 109 00:06:57,804 --> 00:07:00,067 Maybe start by telling me the plan? 110 00:07:07,901 --> 00:07:10,072 You share a coffin with him. 111 00:07:10,077 --> 00:07:11,769 I don't talk in my sleep. 112 00:07:11,774 --> 00:07:13,902 You share a heart with him. 113 00:07:13,907 --> 00:07:15,207 I can cut it off. 114 00:07:15,212 --> 00:07:17,340 No, Louis. You can't. 115 00:07:17,345 --> 00:07:19,168 You spend an hour alone with him 116 00:07:19,173 --> 00:07:21,039 and you're breathing in sync together. 117 00:07:24,831 --> 00:07:28,177 The plan only works if he's distracted. 118 00:07:28,182 --> 00:07:30,135 I can pretend. 119 00:07:30,140 --> 00:07:33,400 I used to see this woman, Lily, just to keep appearances. 120 00:07:33,405 --> 00:07:35,184 - I can... - He'll know. 121 00:07:35,189 --> 00:07:37,317 It'll only work if you give in. 122 00:07:37,322 --> 00:07:39,884 Give him all your heart, and I'll do the rest. 123 00:07:43,719 --> 00:07:45,586 I can't do that. 124 00:07:45,591 --> 00:07:49,024 I'll lose myself in him. 125 00:07:49,029 --> 00:07:52,157 Leave a little shelf inside there for me. 126 00:07:52,162 --> 00:07:56,161 I'll jump back in and pull you out before I kill him. 127 00:07:56,166 --> 00:07:57,989 Can you do that for us, Louis? 128 00:08:02,204 --> 00:08:05,289 Louis? 129 00:08:05,294 --> 00:08:07,639 Yeah, I can do it. 130 00:08:13,836 --> 00:08:16,399 It's best to travel light, I think. 131 00:08:16,404 --> 00:08:20,403 Reduce our valuables to a few trunks each. 132 00:08:20,408 --> 00:08:22,840 What about Greece? 133 00:08:22,845 --> 00:08:25,539 Cradle of Western Civilization. 134 00:08:25,544 --> 00:08:29,749 Sun worshipers, hot springs. 135 00:08:30,331 --> 00:08:32,502 Those who must be kept. 136 00:08:32,507 --> 00:08:33,764 What was that? 137 00:08:33,769 --> 00:08:34,844 Nothing. 138 00:08:34,849 --> 00:08:37,420 Uh, if I know Italians, they'll be in Santorini 139 00:08:37,425 --> 00:08:39,422 with their guns out by the end of the year. 140 00:08:39,427 --> 00:08:43,632 No, we must follow the geese to Buenos Aires. 141 00:08:44,345 --> 00:08:47,299 Bach. Always back to Bach. 142 00:08:47,304 --> 00:08:49,084 Bach is beyond you. 143 00:08:49,089 --> 00:08:51,608 Yes, the music of the master race is... 144 00:08:51,613 --> 00:08:55,133 not made for these mongrel ears. 145 00:08:55,138 --> 00:08:59,343 You irritate me. Your very presence irritates me. 146 00:08:59,348 --> 00:09:02,041 I came to make peace with you, Uncle Les. 147 00:09:02,046 --> 00:09:03,912 Mm. 148 00:09:03,917 --> 00:09:07,002 Sister, daughter, infant death, you must think me an idiot. 149 00:09:07,007 --> 00:09:08,308 Could you two please just... 150 00:09:08,463 --> 00:09:11,595 _ 151 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:17,457 Hmm. 152 00:09:32,654 --> 00:09:35,304 I've a present for you, Lestat. 153 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:37,175 - An idea. - Hmm. 154 00:09:37,180 --> 00:09:39,439 An idea of yours? 155 00:09:39,444 --> 00:09:42,964 It must be a small gift, then. 156 00:09:42,969 --> 00:09:45,183 A weak man slips a letter under his door, 157 00:09:45,188 --> 00:09:47,925 and the glorious vampire Lestat 158 00:09:47,930 --> 00:09:51,712 runs like a rat to his hole. 159 00:09:51,717 --> 00:09:54,366 It's not fear, but wisdom that guides our departure. 160 00:09:54,371 --> 00:09:57,326 It's heroic that we've lasted as long as we have. 161 00:09:57,331 --> 00:09:58,980 Agreed, but... 162 00:09:58,985 --> 00:10:01,112 shouldn't we leave on our own terms? 163 00:10:01,117 --> 00:10:05,622 Shouldn't we mock the city like we mock our victims? 164 00:10:06,253 --> 00:10:08,729 You have something in mind, obviously. 165 00:10:08,734 --> 00:10:10,426 Do nothing different, 166 00:10:10,431 --> 00:10:12,384 settle our affairs, prepare to leave, 167 00:10:12,389 --> 00:10:14,865 but on our last night, throw a party. 168 00:10:14,870 --> 00:10:17,651 We're pariahs, sister. 169 00:10:17,656 --> 00:10:20,001 No one's comin' to a party thrown by freaks. 170 00:10:20,006 --> 00:10:21,306 Precisely. 171 00:10:21,311 --> 00:10:23,004 It's in the dying man's letter. 172 00:10:23,009 --> 00:10:25,572 They want to know our secret. 173 00:10:25,577 --> 00:10:28,749 They think we've got the fountain of youth in here. 174 00:10:28,754 --> 00:10:32,579 They don't know they're the fountain. 175 00:10:32,584 --> 00:10:35,886 An amusing... 176 00:10:35,891 --> 00:10:38,585 but needful idea. 177 00:10:38,590 --> 00:10:40,238 I guess you're right. 178 00:10:40,243 --> 00:10:42,327 It was just a thought. 179 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,159 The page, Louis. The page. 180 00:10:51,472 --> 00:10:53,818 In the five years since Adolf Hitler took command 181 00:10:53,822 --> 00:10:55,427 over a people reduced to despair 182 00:10:55,432 --> 00:10:57,342 by World War defeat and its aftermath... 183 00:10:57,347 --> 00:10:58,648 They may be nasty little beasts, 184 00:10:58,653 --> 00:11:01,825 but they do have excellent tailoring. 185 00:11:01,830 --> 00:11:03,566 Well-dressed tyrants. 186 00:11:03,571 --> 00:11:07,135 - Where have I seen that before? - Hmm... 187 00:11:07,140 --> 00:11:08,528 Well, this idea of yours, 188 00:11:08,533 --> 00:11:11,008 what kind of a party did you imagine? 189 00:11:11,013 --> 00:11:12,444 A ball. 190 00:11:12,449 --> 00:11:15,304 A lavish, decadent ball. 191 00:11:15,309 --> 00:11:17,232 - To what end? - Shh! 192 00:11:21,284 --> 00:11:25,489 We invite the most beautiful, the most gluttonous, 193 00:11:25,494 --> 00:11:29,405 seduce a choice few for a feast to remember. 194 00:11:29,410 --> 00:11:31,246 Hmm. 195 00:11:31,251 --> 00:11:32,856 Shh! 196 00:11:40,695 --> 00:11:42,779 Buenos Aires, as fast as we can. 197 00:11:44,699 --> 00:11:47,436 ... and its demigod, Adolf Hitler. 198 00:11:54,391 --> 00:11:56,954 Happy New Year! 199 00:11:56,959 --> 00:12:00,480 Keep pushing this party, he's gonna be on to you. 200 00:12:00,485 --> 00:12:02,351 I want him suspicious. 201 00:12:02,356 --> 00:12:04,092 I welcome it. 202 00:12:04,097 --> 00:12:06,964 You're gonna try to kill him at this party? 203 00:12:06,969 --> 00:12:08,400 There's no "trying". 204 00:12:08,405 --> 00:12:10,293 Mardi Gras is early this year. 205 00:12:10,298 --> 00:12:12,766 February 6th. 206 00:12:12,771 --> 00:12:14,594 Say it's ridiculous. 207 00:12:14,599 --> 00:12:16,857 That's not how it works. 208 00:12:16,862 --> 00:12:19,250 They plan Mardi Gras balls a year out, 209 00:12:19,255 --> 00:12:20,948 sometimes years in advance. 210 00:12:20,953 --> 00:12:24,995 Everyone in costume, everyone drinking, 211 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,390 chaos in the streets for an easy escape. 212 00:12:28,395 --> 00:12:30,261 It's not worth the risk. 213 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,482 Told you. 214 00:12:33,487 --> 00:12:36,441 Although, if we starved ourselves for a night 215 00:12:36,446 --> 00:12:38,144 or several nights prior... 216 00:12:40,233 --> 00:12:43,927 ... the hunger would be transcendent. 217 00:12:43,932 --> 00:12:46,151 A meal fit for a king. 218 00:12:46,156 --> 00:12:48,324 It's over! I'm through with you! 219 00:12:48,328 --> 00:12:49,629 Come on, baby! 220 00:12:52,027 --> 00:12:53,197 Come here. 221 00:12:53,202 --> 00:12:55,330 - Whoo! - Fine! 222 00:12:55,335 --> 00:12:57,549 You want the mister or the missus? 223 00:13:07,390 --> 00:13:09,300 For a king. 224 00:13:14,354 --> 00:13:16,830 We're gettin' out, Tom. 225 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:18,832 Out of New Orleans? 226 00:13:18,837 --> 00:13:20,790 But you just got here. 227 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:25,795 Uh, seeing as it's been 17 years since we've spoken, 228 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,005 what makes you think I give a corn-peppered shit? 229 00:13:30,010 --> 00:13:33,704 We'd like to engage your services, Mr. Anderson. 230 00:13:33,709 --> 00:13:36,110 We wanna throw a Mardi Gras ball. 231 00:13:36,115 --> 00:13:39,635 Pay our respects to society before moving on. 232 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,985 Hmm. 233 00:13:41,990 --> 00:13:43,857 Mm. Where to start? 234 00:13:43,862 --> 00:13:47,599 Uh, one, I'm not in the party-planning business. 235 00:13:47,604 --> 00:13:50,254 Two, it's January. 236 00:13:50,259 --> 00:13:52,430 You're a little bit behind the gun. 237 00:13:52,435 --> 00:13:54,133 And three... 238 00:13:58,659 --> 00:14:04,064 This is me and your two-tone daddies circa 1910. 239 00:14:04,709 --> 00:14:06,836 But can you tell me, little girl, 240 00:14:06,841 --> 00:14:08,495 what's wrong with this picture? 241 00:14:10,671 --> 00:14:13,451 You didn't have that funny X on your face back then. 242 00:14:15,981 --> 00:14:17,804 Hmm. 243 00:14:17,809 --> 00:14:20,371 I mean, this is all good and... 244 00:14:20,376 --> 00:14:22,069 sufficiently creepy. 245 00:14:22,074 --> 00:14:23,287 What do you want? 246 00:14:23,292 --> 00:14:24,593 I want... 247 00:14:24,598 --> 00:14:26,464 to be Raj. 248 00:14:26,469 --> 00:14:27,944 King of Mardi Gras. 249 00:14:27,949 --> 00:14:30,120 Him? 250 00:14:33,302 --> 00:14:35,517 We know you're on the committee. 251 00:14:35,522 --> 00:14:40,427 The Committee of Raj is a secret and sacred group of citizens... 252 00:14:42,877 --> 00:14:44,744 ... bound by honor and tradition. 253 00:14:44,749 --> 00:14:46,267 Get us a price, get back to us. 254 00:14:46,272 --> 00:14:48,399 These things are planned years in advance. 255 00:14:48,404 --> 00:14:51,185 Louis, you're a native. 256 00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:53,883 You've expanded your export business, 257 00:14:53,888 --> 00:14:57,191 shipping coffins from port back to Europe? 258 00:14:57,196 --> 00:14:59,236 Shipping and manufacturing. 259 00:14:59,241 --> 00:15:00,803 Double dip. 260 00:15:00,808 --> 00:15:03,414 Good margin, product in high demand. 261 00:15:03,419 --> 00:15:06,113 You lost one of your ships recently. 262 00:15:06,118 --> 00:15:09,856 Took a torpedo in the rear from one of the Fritz's U-boats. 263 00:15:09,861 --> 00:15:11,509 Would you like a new one? 264 00:15:16,911 --> 00:15:20,867 Wait, just one question before I attempt 265 00:15:20,872 --> 00:15:25,377 your no doubt humiliating and reputation-destroying ask. 266 00:15:28,618 --> 00:15:30,746 Where do you meet the Devil, 267 00:15:30,751 --> 00:15:32,835 and what are the terms of the agreement? 268 00:15:46,201 --> 00:15:48,416 The Krewe of Raj had been three years 269 00:15:48,421 --> 00:15:50,853 - _ - in planning their Mardi Gras theme, 270 00:15:50,858 --> 00:15:52,637 and they abandoned it within a week 271 00:15:52,642 --> 00:15:55,249 once the Parisian law firm of Roget and Albert 272 00:15:55,254 --> 00:15:59,459 had transatlantically wired their bribes. 273 00:16:00,041 --> 00:16:02,082 From the Marais to the Mississippi, 274 00:16:02,087 --> 00:16:04,824 money flooded the town. 275 00:16:04,829 --> 00:16:07,652 Unavailable vendors became available. 276 00:16:07,657 --> 00:16:10,699 And the gossip that followed broke through the levees. 277 00:16:14,795 --> 00:16:17,488 The weird brothers and their doll-like sister 278 00:16:17,493 --> 00:16:19,403 were coming out. 279 00:16:19,408 --> 00:16:21,405 And the paper ticket to the event 280 00:16:21,410 --> 00:16:24,539 was a brick of gold for the insatiably curious. 281 00:16:24,544 --> 00:16:27,150 I've chartered us a plane to Havana. 282 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:30,197 Three cabins on the SS Dundee from Havana to Rio, 283 00:16:30,202 --> 00:16:34,407 and two sleeper cars from Rio to La Reina del Plata. 284 00:16:34,412 --> 00:16:36,681 We'll sell what we no longer want to Max Simon, 285 00:16:36,686 --> 00:16:38,640 and we'll leave the rest to the auction house. 286 00:16:38,645 --> 00:16:41,164 We'll need trunks that'll fit our coffins. 287 00:16:41,169 --> 00:16:42,557 Make sure they have locks that... 288 00:16:42,562 --> 00:16:44,689 Locks that trigger from the inside. 289 00:16:49,382 --> 00:16:52,249 It was a masterful month of preparation. 290 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:58,703 You aimed at the navel, seduced the seducer. 291 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,246 _ 292 00:17:01,276 --> 00:17:04,144 By the time we began our fasting, 293 00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:06,320 Lestat would have told you the entire endeavor 294 00:17:06,325 --> 00:17:08,322 had been his idea to begin with. 295 00:17:08,327 --> 00:17:09,889 When is it? 296 00:17:11,983 --> 00:17:13,588 Yeah. 297 00:17:13,593 --> 00:17:15,029 Yes. 298 00:17:18,946 --> 00:17:22,205 We'll go without the blood for three nights preceding the ball. 299 00:17:22,210 --> 00:17:25,774 At the ball, Louis and I will be following your leering eye. 300 00:17:25,779 --> 00:17:28,429 Maybe pluck one or two for ourselves. 301 00:17:28,434 --> 00:17:30,474 We'll ask them if they wanna be young forever. 302 00:17:30,479 --> 00:17:33,608 And if they say yes, we'll pin them with one of these. 303 00:17:33,613 --> 00:17:35,523 Hmm. Amaranth. 304 00:17:35,528 --> 00:17:36,828 Perfection. 305 00:17:36,833 --> 00:17:38,656 We'll invite them to our home, 306 00:17:38,661 --> 00:17:42,138 we will lock the doors, shutter the windows, and... 307 00:17:44,841 --> 00:17:48,362 And let the flesh instruct the mind. 308 00:17:48,367 --> 00:17:50,494 Let the flesh instruct the mind. 309 00:17:50,499 --> 00:17:53,280 Let the flesh instruct the mind. 310 00:17:53,285 --> 00:17:56,370 So, fire? Behead the bastard? 311 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:58,285 She wouldn't tell me at the time, 312 00:17:58,290 --> 00:18:00,635 as I was slipping back into old feelings, 313 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:01,941 as she said I would. 314 00:18:01,946 --> 00:18:03,681 Laudanum and arsenic. 315 00:18:03,686 --> 00:18:05,161 But I would know soon enough. 316 00:18:05,166 --> 00:18:06,267 Thank you. 317 00:18:06,272 --> 00:18:08,643 Poison the bait was the game. 318 00:18:08,648 --> 00:18:10,906 Make it appear as if the flesh was drunk 319 00:18:10,911 --> 00:18:13,953 when, in fact, his victim's veins were swollen 320 00:18:13,958 --> 00:18:17,478 with a paralyzing brew of laudanum and arsenic. 321 00:18:17,483 --> 00:18:19,741 Claudia could taste her freedom, 322 00:18:19,746 --> 00:18:22,091 suffered the hunger with a cold joy, 323 00:18:22,096 --> 00:18:26,601 matched only by the sun-hot ego of the vampire king. 324 00:18:27,623 --> 00:18:33,625 And here comes the Krewe of Raj! Hail the Krewe of Raj! 325 00:18:34,108 --> 00:18:37,628 All hail to the Realm of Raj! 326 00:18:48,209 --> 00:18:49,771 Is that a baby? 327 00:19:04,530 --> 00:19:07,876 The ball that followed was an assault of the senses, 328 00:19:07,881 --> 00:19:10,270 an extravagant waste of money. 329 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:12,489 And while Lestat's poor taste on the float 330 00:19:12,494 --> 00:19:16,102 drove away most every member of the Raj Committee, 331 00:19:16,107 --> 00:19:18,626 there was plenty of bait to choose from. 332 00:19:24,506 --> 00:19:27,026 The blood was everywhere. 333 00:19:27,031 --> 00:19:30,768 The veins and arteries of a few hundred hearts 334 00:19:30,773 --> 00:19:33,597 ringing out like air raid sirens, 335 00:19:33,602 --> 00:19:36,997 drowning out the rhythm section of the hired band. 336 00:19:39,347 --> 00:19:42,563 I followed Claudia's lead as best I could, 337 00:19:42,568 --> 00:19:45,870 scouting the rooms for varietals of death. 338 00:19:53,579 --> 00:19:56,316 Would you like to know the secret of immortality? 339 00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:58,013 Well, of course, my dear. 340 00:19:58,018 --> 00:19:59,710 Who wouldn't? 341 00:20:02,327 --> 00:20:04,846 Good seeing you out of uniform, Chief Bardin. 342 00:20:04,851 --> 00:20:06,717 - I think you've mistaken me... - Pardon me. 343 00:20:06,722 --> 00:20:08,893 I saw your mask in the bathroom. 344 00:20:08,898 --> 00:20:11,144 I won't deny, won't confirm. 345 00:20:11,149 --> 00:20:14,582 You are a man who appreciates power. 346 00:20:14,587 --> 00:20:17,989 Tell me more, Mr. du Lac. 347 00:20:17,994 --> 00:20:19,382 You have been missed 348 00:20:19,387 --> 00:20:21,515 in the Lower Garden, Mr. Lioncourt. 349 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,561 We heard you'd been ill all these years. 350 00:20:24,566 --> 00:20:27,564 Pardon me, madams, is there a history between us? 351 00:20:27,569 --> 00:20:30,306 Uh, the Women's Opera Society. 352 00:20:30,311 --> 00:20:31,916 Prytania Street? 353 00:20:31,921 --> 00:20:33,788 Well, it has been over a decade. 354 00:20:33,793 --> 00:20:35,398 Of course. Yes. 355 00:20:35,403 --> 00:20:38,314 You don't appear ill. 356 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:40,577 Rumors, envy. 357 00:20:40,582 --> 00:20:42,231 Oh. 358 00:20:42,236 --> 00:20:44,799 Now, which one of you did I pull under the stairs 359 00:20:44,804 --> 00:20:47,671 during that dull lecture on Don Giovanni? 360 00:20:47,676 --> 00:20:49,095 That would be me. 361 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:53,142 And that was my late husband giving the lecture. 362 00:20:53,147 --> 00:20:55,057 And did he talk himself to death? 363 00:20:55,062 --> 00:20:56,363 Oh. 364 00:20:59,662 --> 00:21:03,557 Your Majesty, I'd like to introduce you 365 00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:07,767 to the MacPhail brothers, Matthew and his brother Mark. 366 00:21:08,523 --> 00:21:10,651 Well... 367 00:21:10,656 --> 00:21:12,261 And where are Luke and John? 368 00:21:21,654 --> 00:21:25,044 Is there rosemary in your garden? 369 00:21:25,049 --> 00:21:29,254 Uh, yeah... just below the porch. 370 00:21:29,259 --> 00:21:33,040 Our mother planted a whole bushel this past summer. 371 00:21:33,045 --> 00:21:34,694 Did she? 372 00:21:38,790 --> 00:21:42,795 The king finds himself suddenly famished. 373 00:21:43,428 --> 00:21:45,251 Would you excuse me? 374 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:52,083 A cascade of feelings came over me 375 00:21:52,088 --> 00:21:56,087 as I watched him sponge up the adoration. 376 00:21:56,092 --> 00:21:58,612 I wanted him dead. 377 00:21:58,617 --> 00:22:02,006 I wanted him all to myself. 378 00:22:02,011 --> 00:22:04,444 The fasting was a mistake. 379 00:22:04,449 --> 00:22:06,707 I wasn't thinking clearly. 380 00:22:08,844 --> 00:22:12,016 Something was off. 381 00:22:12,021 --> 00:22:14,497 You miserable dog. 382 00:22:19,812 --> 00:22:21,678 What about a dog? 383 00:22:21,683 --> 00:22:23,550 What dog? 384 00:22:23,555 --> 00:22:26,030 You just said something about a dog. 385 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:28,946 I said no such thing. 386 00:22:28,951 --> 00:22:31,862 I see you, Louis du Lac. 387 00:22:31,867 --> 00:22:33,429 There's another one. 388 00:22:33,434 --> 00:22:35,562 You're just hungry, Louis. 389 00:22:35,567 --> 00:22:38,782 You heard what I said just now, didn't you? 390 00:22:38,787 --> 00:22:41,655 It's the dome. 391 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:45,865 The architect that built this place made the US Capitol. 392 00:22:45,870 --> 00:22:47,301 Mm-hmm. 393 00:22:47,306 --> 00:22:49,173 He made it so you could hear the sniping 394 00:22:49,178 --> 00:22:51,360 and whatnot across the way. 395 00:22:51,365 --> 00:22:54,102 Calls it a "whispering gallery". 396 00:22:54,107 --> 00:22:56,147 Course... 397 00:22:56,152 --> 00:22:59,238 how you heard me over the band... pfft! 398 00:22:59,243 --> 00:23:00,761 It's got to be one of those tricks 399 00:23:00,766 --> 00:23:04,895 that you and your fag pederast satanic trio 400 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:06,549 got in your pocket. 401 00:23:10,764 --> 00:23:12,543 It's a hell of a party! 402 00:23:15,072 --> 00:23:19,202 Do you know the secret to immortality? 403 00:23:19,207 --> 00:23:20,943 Never get married. 404 00:23:22,819 --> 00:23:25,295 That's a good joke. 405 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:27,384 And now that you have your boat... 406 00:23:31,599 --> 00:23:33,422 ... don't you want more? 407 00:23:44,244 --> 00:23:48,449 The king's hair has betrayed the king. 408 00:23:48,454 --> 00:23:50,103 Hmm. 409 00:23:50,108 --> 00:23:54,150 Was that a witticism from the Duke of Gloom himself? 410 00:23:54,155 --> 00:23:56,109 Hunger's got me light-headed. 411 00:24:12,228 --> 00:24:14,487 I'm going to miss this place. 412 00:24:20,962 --> 00:24:23,017 There's not an inch of this city that wasn't built 413 00:24:23,022 --> 00:24:27,195 from the fierce wilderness that surrounds it. 414 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,503 Hurricanes, floods, fevers. 415 00:24:33,075 --> 00:24:35,246 The damp climate on every painted sign, 416 00:24:35,251 --> 00:24:36,900 every stone facade. 417 00:24:42,084 --> 00:24:45,169 High windows, 418 00:24:45,174 --> 00:24:48,521 through which enameled bits of civilization glitter. 419 00:24:53,578 --> 00:24:59,183 Silhouettes emerging, wandering out to catch 420 00:24:59,188 --> 00:25:01,272 a silent flash of lightning. 421 00:25:03,845 --> 00:25:06,060 The silky warmth of summer rain. 422 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:11,924 Desperately alive... 423 00:25:15,976 --> 00:25:17,756 ... and desperately fragile. 424 00:25:25,301 --> 00:25:29,431 The hunger has me too, it seems. 425 00:25:29,436 --> 00:25:32,652 The boutonnieres have all been given out. 426 00:25:32,657 --> 00:25:34,393 We're ready when you are. 427 00:25:48,586 --> 00:25:51,279 A last dance before the feast. 428 00:25:53,721 --> 00:25:55,544 I'd like that. 429 00:25:55,549 --> 00:25:57,416 I'd like that very much. 430 00:25:59,771 --> 00:26:03,976 So much would be written about that grim night in New Orleans, 431 00:26:03,981 --> 00:26:08,186 but not a single mention of our last hour at Latrobe's, 432 00:26:08,823 --> 00:26:11,778 as if the only crime unfit to print 433 00:26:11,783 --> 00:26:14,084 took place on that dance floor. 434 00:26:51,866 --> 00:26:55,604 It was my sole duty to distract Lestat, 435 00:26:55,609 --> 00:26:57,345 but in his mirrored eyes, 436 00:26:57,350 --> 00:27:00,740 the distraction reflected back onto me. 437 00:27:00,745 --> 00:27:03,699 And in the dead center of the whispering gallery, 438 00:27:03,704 --> 00:27:06,615 I lost the thread to my plotting 439 00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:10,825 and fell once more into the well with no bottom. 440 00:27:10,830 --> 00:27:14,667 I was his, and he was mine. 441 00:27:36,041 --> 00:27:37,864 May I finish this dance? 442 00:27:40,045 --> 00:27:41,911 If he'll have you, sister. 443 00:27:48,836 --> 00:27:50,441 We shouldn't do this. 444 00:27:50,446 --> 00:27:53,096 Too late. I've done it already. 445 00:27:53,101 --> 00:27:55,185 When? Who? 446 00:27:55,190 --> 00:27:57,536 Just now. One of the twins. 447 00:27:57,541 --> 00:27:59,538 He'll be dead on his feet in an hour. 448 00:28:01,588 --> 00:28:03,454 - Ah! - Wake up! 449 00:28:17,952 --> 00:28:20,471 In the 14th century, 450 00:28:20,476 --> 00:28:23,039 in the third arrondissement of Paris, 451 00:28:23,044 --> 00:28:27,087 on the Rue de Montmorency, there lived a seller of books, 452 00:28:27,092 --> 00:28:30,481 who found, in an otherwise regretful purchase 453 00:28:30,486 --> 00:28:34,355 at a private library, a twenty-page manuscript 454 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,565 written in a text he could not decipher. 455 00:28:39,147 --> 00:28:42,237 So, he traveled to Spain to have it translated. 456 00:28:42,242 --> 00:28:44,539 And on his way... 457 00:28:44,544 --> 00:28:46,872 ... he met a Jewish converso who told him 458 00:28:46,877 --> 00:28:51,111 he was in possession of the Book of Abramelin the Mage. 459 00:28:51,116 --> 00:28:53,287 We're all pretty drunk here, Lestat. 460 00:28:57,470 --> 00:29:00,903 The bookseller dedicated the rest of his life 461 00:29:00,908 --> 00:29:03,863 to reproducing the alchemy within that book, 462 00:29:03,868 --> 00:29:10,173 and one in particular sits before you all now. 463 00:29:14,443 --> 00:29:16,397 That's what's in the punch bowl? 464 00:29:16,402 --> 00:29:20,607 Amrit Ras, Chasma-i-Kausar, 465 00:29:20,612 --> 00:29:22,913 the Philosopher's Stone, 466 00:29:22,918 --> 00:29:24,698 the elixir of life. 467 00:29:28,271 --> 00:29:31,151 I drank it as a young man... 468 00:29:33,201 --> 00:29:37,406 ... and I recently passed its powers to my friends here. 469 00:29:37,411 --> 00:29:41,497 Claudia, born 1903. 470 00:29:41,502 --> 00:29:45,239 I drank the water in 1917. 471 00:29:45,244 --> 00:29:47,198 I'm 36 years old. 472 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:53,605 Louis de Pointe Du Lac, born in 1878. 473 00:29:54,135 --> 00:29:57,438 I drank of the water in 1910. 474 00:29:57,443 --> 00:30:00,484 I am 61 years old now. 475 00:30:00,489 --> 00:30:04,694 Lestat de Lioncourt, born 1760. 476 00:30:05,756 --> 00:30:09,785 I drank the waters in 1794. 477 00:30:09,790 --> 00:30:14,324 180 years old... 478 00:30:14,329 --> 00:30:15,978 this coming November. 479 00:30:15,983 --> 00:30:17,545 Give me that ladle! 480 00:30:19,247 --> 00:30:21,157 - Pfft! - Ah! 481 00:30:24,513 --> 00:30:27,598 The bucket's got a hole in it. 482 00:30:27,603 --> 00:30:29,296 It's empty! 483 00:30:29,301 --> 00:30:31,385 Not for long, Tom. 484 00:30:37,004 --> 00:30:39,654 No, stay back! 485 00:30:56,502 --> 00:30:59,152 Let's go! Let's go! 486 00:31:06,773 --> 00:31:08,596 It's locked! 487 00:31:32,843 --> 00:31:35,188 We gotta go! 488 00:31:35,193 --> 00:31:37,581 - Go to the stairs! - No! 489 00:31:43,027 --> 00:31:46,590 Please... I don't wanna die. 490 00:32:03,482 --> 00:32:06,393 - No, no, no! - Get up! Get up! Get up! 491 00:32:06,398 --> 00:32:07,843 No, no, no, no, no! 492 00:32:07,847 --> 00:32:09,483 Help! Someone help! 493 00:32:15,873 --> 00:32:17,927 No. You don't have to do this. Please, don't do this. 494 00:32:17,931 --> 00:32:20,537 - Shh, shh, shh. - You don't have to... No, please. 495 00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:23,062 No, no, no, no, no! No, get up! 496 00:32:45,872 --> 00:32:47,303 Oh, dear. 497 00:32:47,308 --> 00:32:50,089 You broke up the pair. 498 00:32:50,094 --> 00:32:53,919 I know you wanted them both, but Louis couldn't resist. 499 00:32:53,924 --> 00:32:55,834 I'm sorry, my love. 500 00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:57,705 I saved one of 'em for you. 501 00:32:57,710 --> 00:32:59,011 Huh. 502 00:32:59,016 --> 00:33:00,191 Did you? 503 00:33:02,454 --> 00:33:04,233 How generous of you. 504 00:33:37,054 --> 00:33:38,702 Mm. 505 00:33:47,891 --> 00:33:49,539 Ah. 506 00:33:58,249 --> 00:34:00,072 Quite drunk, this one. 507 00:34:10,826 --> 00:34:12,475 Rosemary... 508 00:34:16,049 --> 00:34:17,741 ... and something else. 509 00:34:20,314 --> 00:34:22,703 What is it, my love? 510 00:34:22,708 --> 00:34:26,402 I-I think it's the gin. 511 00:34:26,407 --> 00:34:28,622 I wasn't talking to you. 512 00:34:28,627 --> 00:34:30,276 Laudanum. 513 00:34:37,188 --> 00:34:38,980 Arsenic. 514 00:34:45,165 --> 00:34:47,119 She was at the ball tonight. 515 00:34:48,952 --> 00:34:51,601 Like one of those girls on the telephone switchboard... 516 00:34:53,957 --> 00:34:58,162 ... eavesdropping in on things that she shouldn't. 517 00:34:58,167 --> 00:35:02,372 "Too late. I've done it already". 518 00:35:03,531 --> 00:35:06,181 "When? Who?" 519 00:35:06,186 --> 00:35:09,663 "Just now. One of the twins. 520 00:35:09,668 --> 00:35:12,013 He'll be dead on his feet in an hour". 521 00:35:20,070 --> 00:35:23,155 She should never have been made, Louis. 522 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,157 Look what she did to us. 523 00:35:25,162 --> 00:35:27,363 She's corrupted everything. 524 00:35:27,368 --> 00:35:30,684 Antoinette will be much more agreeable to our life together. 525 00:36:11,730 --> 00:36:13,205 Lestat... 526 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,385 ... you must think me an idiot. 527 00:36:19,390 --> 00:36:23,084 "She was at the ball tonight". 528 00:36:23,089 --> 00:36:25,130 Not just the ball. 529 00:36:25,135 --> 00:36:26,870 Laudanum and arsenic. 530 00:36:30,662 --> 00:36:33,268 You're gonna try to kill him at this party? 531 00:36:33,273 --> 00:36:35,488 There's no "trying". 532 00:36:35,493 --> 00:36:39,698 I have a plan, and it's gonna take both of us. 533 00:36:40,063 --> 00:36:41,842 The train's leavin' in an hour. 534 00:36:41,847 --> 00:36:43,583 Get off that bench. 535 00:36:47,635 --> 00:36:50,590 You shoulda let that train go, Uncle Les. 536 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,906 How? Who? 537 00:37:09,788 --> 00:37:11,698 He who called you... 538 00:37:11,703 --> 00:37:13,003 - "him". - Him? 539 00:37:14,706 --> 00:37:17,443 Always the petty slights with you, Uncle Les. 540 00:37:28,981 --> 00:37:30,630 Have your goodbye. 541 00:37:45,128 --> 00:37:47,777 Louis. 542 00:37:47,782 --> 00:37:49,518 Louis! 543 00:37:55,094 --> 00:37:58,048 Louis. 544 00:37:58,053 --> 00:37:59,920 Louis. 545 00:38:04,135 --> 00:38:08,146 We are joined by a cord, by a cord that you cannot see, 546 00:38:08,151 --> 00:38:09,582 but it is real. 547 00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:11,236 It is real. 548 00:38:29,955 --> 00:38:31,647 I have loved you... 549 00:38:34,786 --> 00:38:36,391 ... with all myself. 550 00:38:51,281 --> 00:38:54,409 I'm happy it was you... 551 00:38:54,414 --> 00:38:56,237 here with me... 552 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:00,600 À la fin... 553 00:39:14,434 --> 00:39:16,170 The blood poured out of him 554 00:39:16,175 --> 00:39:19,042 as it might never pour from a human being... 555 00:39:25,619 --> 00:39:28,313 ... all the blood he had filled himself with. 556 00:39:28,318 --> 00:39:30,750 He lay now on his back, 557 00:39:30,755 --> 00:39:33,840 his eyes staring wildly at the ceiling, 558 00:39:33,845 --> 00:39:37,322 the irises dancing from side to side. 559 00:39:57,004 --> 00:40:03,609 "Mets-moi dans mon cercueil, Louis, Louis". 560 00:40:03,614 --> 00:40:07,613 "Put me in my coffin, Louis, Louis". 561 00:40:07,618 --> 00:40:11,573 His irises rolled to the top of his head. 562 00:40:11,578 --> 00:40:15,098 The whites of his eyes went dim. 563 00:40:17,628 --> 00:40:21,366 This horror that had been Lestat... 564 00:40:23,721 --> 00:40:27,926 ... I stared helplessly at it. 565 00:40:27,931 --> 00:40:29,765 The thing lay still. 566 00:40:32,512 --> 00:40:34,379 There was no point in lingering. 567 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,384 The house on Rue Royale would soon become the focus 568 00:40:39,389 --> 00:40:41,211 of all too many questions. 569 00:41:15,207 --> 00:41:17,552 For the very last time in New Orleans, 570 00:41:17,557 --> 00:41:19,293 we followed our training 571 00:41:19,298 --> 00:41:23,503 and cleaned up the evidence of our most elaborate kill. 572 00:41:23,868 --> 00:41:25,865 Well, almost. 573 00:41:29,439 --> 00:41:31,136 We need to burn him. 574 00:41:33,704 --> 00:41:35,793 I've killed so many, j-just... 575 00:41:38,926 --> 00:41:40,537 no one I... 576 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:48,801 I don't know if I can. 577 00:41:48,806 --> 00:41:51,847 Just load him in... 578 00:41:51,852 --> 00:41:53,724 like he's one of them. 579 00:41:55,856 --> 00:41:59,289 It was as if we'd expected Lestat to disappear 580 00:41:59,294 --> 00:42:03,499 in a puff of smoke, or get sucked back into hell. 581 00:42:04,299 --> 00:42:07,646 So, what did you do with it? 582 00:42:07,651 --> 00:42:10,083 We wrapped him in a carpet. 583 00:42:10,088 --> 00:42:12,259 We threw him in a trunk, 584 00:42:12,264 --> 00:42:15,828 and left him out with the garbage. 585 00:42:15,833 --> 00:42:18,744 We got in our car and drove away, 586 00:42:18,749 --> 00:42:21,181 headed straight for the port. 587 00:42:21,186 --> 00:42:22,965 The boat for Havana? 588 00:42:22,970 --> 00:42:24,532 Another boat. 589 00:42:24,537 --> 00:42:25,986 A merchant vessel, 590 00:42:25,991 --> 00:42:29,163 newly christened and headed for Europe. 591 00:42:29,168 --> 00:42:31,383 The boat you bought Anderson, 592 00:42:31,388 --> 00:42:34,951 a shipload of coffins for cargo. 593 00:42:34,956 --> 00:42:38,477 Plenty of cover for a couple of stowaways, 594 00:42:38,482 --> 00:42:42,687 ready to begin the adventure of our lives. 595 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,248 Well... 596 00:42:45,253 --> 00:42:48,469 isn't that neat and tidy? 597 00:42:48,474 --> 00:42:50,819 There was a ship. We did get on it. 598 00:42:50,824 --> 00:42:53,692 Yeah, I read that, the first 50 pages. 599 00:42:53,697 --> 00:42:55,563 Not exactly the, uh, 600 00:42:55,568 --> 00:42:58,305 adventure-of-our-lives feeling I'm feeling. 601 00:42:58,310 --> 00:43:00,525 It was a traumatic escape. 602 00:43:00,530 --> 00:43:03,745 Yeah, but she didn't say that explicitly. 603 00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:07,880 I mean, maybe in some of the pages that got torn out. 604 00:43:07,885 --> 00:43:09,272 Well, not torn out, exactly. 605 00:43:09,277 --> 00:43:11,797 More like with a ruler. 606 00:43:11,802 --> 00:43:14,887 But, um... there's a feeling 607 00:43:14,892 --> 00:43:17,977 that she hated your guts there for a while. 608 00:43:17,982 --> 00:43:19,544 Why is that? 609 00:43:19,549 --> 00:43:23,112 I was haunted by my brother's death, 610 00:43:23,117 --> 00:43:26,115 by the abandonment of my sister, 611 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,422 by the murder of Lestat, I... 612 00:43:28,427 --> 00:43:30,772 Murder? What murder? 613 00:43:30,777 --> 00:43:33,645 It was an act of mercy. 614 00:43:33,650 --> 00:43:35,603 You didn't kill Lestat. 615 00:43:35,608 --> 00:43:38,084 You spared him, out of some fucked-up idea 616 00:43:38,089 --> 00:43:39,781 you had about love. 617 00:43:39,786 --> 00:43:41,391 Love? 618 00:43:41,396 --> 00:43:44,264 I bled him like a pig and waited for the death rattle. 619 00:43:44,269 --> 00:43:47,180 You were shot point-blank by an alderman. 620 00:43:47,185 --> 00:43:49,748 You were dropped a thousand feet and survived. 621 00:43:49,753 --> 00:43:53,958 You torched Antoinette just to make sure. 622 00:43:53,963 --> 00:43:56,270 Where does the trash go, Louis? 623 00:44:03,027 --> 00:44:05,024 You take the trash down to the street 624 00:44:05,029 --> 00:44:06,939 and some guys show up in a truck 625 00:44:06,944 --> 00:44:08,331 and they throw it in the back, 626 00:44:08,336 --> 00:44:09,855 and then, they drive it 627 00:44:09,860 --> 00:44:13,336 out to the middle of nowhere, right? 628 00:44:13,341 --> 00:44:16,078 No. 629 00:44:16,083 --> 00:44:19,734 They take the trash to the dump. 630 00:44:19,739 --> 00:44:22,432 And having lived two blocks away from the dump 631 00:44:22,437 --> 00:44:26,611 just outside of Fishkill, New York, with my first wife, 632 00:44:26,616 --> 00:44:30,821 I can state, with authority, what else you'll find there. 633 00:44:31,633 --> 00:44:33,194 Rats. 634 00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:37,404 Big fuckin' rats, the size of Kevin Durant's sneakers. 635 00:44:37,409 --> 00:44:39,885 Enough blood in them to bring back the dead. 636 00:44:39,890 --> 00:44:44,095 Especially one in a trunk with locks on the inside. 637 00:44:45,156 --> 00:44:47,153 You knew it, Louis. 638 00:44:47,158 --> 00:44:49,111 You had to. 639 00:44:49,116 --> 00:44:50,896 The biggest rat-eater of them all. 640 00:44:50,901 --> 00:44:52,550 This session is over. 641 00:44:57,081 --> 00:45:00,209 How many days in the Islamic year? 642 00:45:00,214 --> 00:45:03,125 How many names are there for Allah? 643 00:45:03,130 --> 00:45:06,520 355, and 99. 644 00:45:06,525 --> 00:45:10,730 Why does a 200-pound bouncer pass out after he sucks him off, 645 00:45:11,486 --> 00:45:15,311 and you, a wet T-shirt away from 130, doesn't even blink? 646 00:45:15,316 --> 00:45:16,617 I couldn't burn him. 647 00:45:16,622 --> 00:45:17,836 But Claudia could. 648 00:45:17,841 --> 00:45:19,098 No, she couldn't. 649 00:45:19,103 --> 00:45:21,317 She stuck a pen in his neck. 650 00:45:21,322 --> 00:45:25,321 She recorded his last words in his own blood. 651 00:45:25,326 --> 00:45:27,410 The girl did not have a fuckin' problem 652 00:45:27,415 --> 00:45:29,282 tossing him on the grill, okay? 653 00:45:29,287 --> 00:45:30,500 - The sun's comin' up. - No. 654 00:45:30,505 --> 00:45:31,719 - We have to burn him. - No. 655 00:45:31,724 --> 00:45:33,068 It's the only way we'll know! 656 00:45:33,073 --> 00:45:35,810 No! 657 00:45:35,815 --> 00:45:37,682 I said no! 658 00:45:37,687 --> 00:45:39,379 Was it raining, Louis? 659 00:45:39,384 --> 00:45:40,902 She couldn't burn him. 660 00:45:40,907 --> 00:45:42,978 You cursed her into the darkness. 661 00:45:42,983 --> 00:45:46,821 You chose Lestat over her, time and time again. 662 00:45:46,826 --> 00:45:48,606 You don't need a memoir, Louis. 663 00:45:48,611 --> 00:45:50,477 You need a hundred sessions of EMDR. 664 00:45:50,482 --> 00:45:52,132 You know, the shit they put soldiers through 665 00:45:52,136 --> 00:45:53,524 when they see one of their platoon buddies 666 00:45:53,528 --> 00:45:54,742 get blown up in front of them? 667 00:45:54,747 --> 00:45:56,265 You've only heard half the story. 668 00:45:56,270 --> 00:45:57,284 Stop. 669 00:45:57,289 --> 00:45:58,920 144 years of life, 670 00:45:58,925 --> 00:46:01,270 and you're still Louis the Pimp, 671 00:46:01,275 --> 00:46:03,664 paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with you. 672 00:46:03,669 --> 00:46:05,766 'Cause why? You got some story 673 00:46:05,771 --> 00:46:07,768 you wanna tell the whole world about yourself? 674 00:46:07,773 --> 00:46:09,118 When you hear it, you'll be ashamed, 675 00:46:09,122 --> 00:46:10,498 ashamed of what you say to him now. 676 00:46:10,502 --> 00:46:11,890 Please stop, Rashid. 677 00:46:11,895 --> 00:46:13,948 Ten million dollars. That's my whore number. 678 00:46:13,953 --> 00:46:15,502 Career's been over for years. 679 00:46:15,507 --> 00:46:16,582 Legacy? 680 00:46:16,587 --> 00:46:19,349 That's for board members and assholes in loafers. 681 00:46:19,354 --> 00:46:21,378 My daughters aren't even speaking to me anymore, 682 00:46:21,382 --> 00:46:23,292 so at least I can leave them some cash. 683 00:46:23,297 --> 00:46:25,817 But an honest reckoning? No. 684 00:46:25,822 --> 00:46:29,242 This is the same shit that happened in San Francisco. 685 00:46:29,247 --> 00:46:31,026 Not exactly. 686 00:46:31,031 --> 00:46:33,520 How is it any different, Louis? 687 00:46:33,525 --> 00:46:35,827 This time, I won't save your life. 688 00:46:37,790 --> 00:46:40,788 Louis can sometimes act out. 689 00:46:40,793 --> 00:46:44,052 I protect him from himself, always have. 690 00:46:44,057 --> 00:46:46,707 Stopped him that night in San Francisco. 691 00:46:48,888 --> 00:46:51,190 You were there. 692 00:46:51,195 --> 00:46:53,932 You don't remember, do you? 693 00:46:53,937 --> 00:46:57,849 No, I don't remember. 694 00:46:57,854 --> 00:47:01,940 What was that you said about memory? 695 00:47:01,945 --> 00:47:04,682 "A monster", was it? 696 00:47:04,687 --> 00:47:06,945 But I saw you standing in the sun. 697 00:47:06,950 --> 00:47:10,644 As we age, the sun loses its power over us. 698 00:47:10,649 --> 00:47:14,854 What's a mediocre star to a 514-year-old vampire? 699 00:47:22,649 --> 00:47:25,849 _ 700 00:47:25,949 --> 00:47:27,249 _ 701 00:47:27,349 --> 00:47:28,949 _ 702 00:47:29,049 --> 00:47:30,528 _ 703 00:47:30,538 --> 00:47:32,013 Daniel Malloy... 704 00:47:33,890 --> 00:47:37,192 ... I'd like you to meet 705 00:47:37,197 --> 00:47:39,891 the vampire Armand. 706 00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:47,072 The love of my life. 707 00:47:56,958 --> 00:48:02,508 _ 708 00:48:02,538 --> 00:48:11,510 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 709 00:49:24,739 --> 00:49:26,893 If you are really quick it can be done, 710 00:49:26,898 --> 00:49:30,088 but could it be done by us to him? 711 00:49:30,093 --> 00:49:33,134 Could the children murder their father? 712 00:49:33,139 --> 00:49:38,749 Episode 7, "The Thing Lay Still". 713 00:49:38,754 --> 00:49:40,795 We were promised the death of Lestat, 714 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,884 and so we must kill Lestat. 715 00:49:42,889 --> 00:49:45,191 Slowly, Claudia makes a pitch. 716 00:49:45,196 --> 00:49:48,890 I have a plan, and it's gonna take both of us. 717 00:49:48,895 --> 00:49:51,023 And she has to take the lead because Louis 718 00:49:51,028 --> 00:49:54,287 is too close to Lestat and at this point too weak. 719 00:49:54,292 --> 00:49:56,724 The plan only works if he's distracted. 720 00:49:56,729 --> 00:49:58,295 She does what any good plotter does. 721 00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:01,163 She makes it ultimately turn out to make Lestat think 722 00:50:01,168 --> 00:50:02,404 that it's his idea. 723 00:50:02,409 --> 00:50:06,414 If we starved ourselves for a night or several nights prior, 724 00:50:07,957 --> 00:50:11,565 the hunger would be transcendent. 725 00:50:11,570 --> 00:50:13,567 A meal fit for a king. 726 00:50:13,572 --> 00:50:16,135 To get Lestat at his most egoistical 727 00:50:16,140 --> 00:50:18,659 and his most blinded, yes, maybe then 728 00:50:18,664 --> 00:50:21,183 I will buy this idea to lets go out with a bang. 729 00:50:21,188 --> 00:50:23,577 Let's not be these hiding, shrieking vampires. 730 00:50:23,582 --> 00:50:25,853 Let's leave rooms full of bodies and get on out 731 00:50:25,858 --> 00:50:27,929 on the last train. 732 00:50:27,934 --> 00:50:30,932 But Louis, you got to open your heart back up to him. 733 00:50:30,937 --> 00:50:34,283 That is the thing that will blind Lestat more than anything. 734 00:50:34,288 --> 00:50:37,156 A last dance before the feast. 735 00:50:37,161 --> 00:50:40,463 It is the swooning heights of the uber romanticism 736 00:50:40,468 --> 00:50:43,379 of ours is this dance in front of everybody and this kiss. 737 00:50:43,384 --> 00:50:44,902 Lestat cannot help himself. 738 00:50:44,907 --> 00:50:46,295 He's so in love with Louis. 739 00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:47,744 But in the middle of the party, 740 00:50:47,749 --> 00:50:49,555 we are picking our victims out. 741 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:50,779 We're gonna have the great feast 742 00:50:50,783 --> 00:50:52,519 of our life, so it can't just be one victim. 743 00:50:52,524 --> 00:50:54,609 It's gonna be like one of these horrible tasting menus 744 00:50:54,613 --> 00:50:56,450 where we're just gonna gather up all these people 745 00:50:56,454 --> 00:50:59,142 that know we have the fountain of youth 746 00:50:59,147 --> 00:51:00,831 and come back to our after party. 747 00:51:00,836 --> 00:51:03,312 Would you like to know the secret of immortality? 748 00:51:03,317 --> 00:51:05,749 Well, of course, my dear. Who wouldn't? 749 00:51:05,754 --> 00:51:08,970 There they are, but they are there only as the grand plan, 750 00:51:08,975 --> 00:51:11,507 get Lestat looking this way and now we have 751 00:51:11,512 --> 00:51:12,713 a little bit of fun. 752 00:51:12,718 --> 00:51:13,757 Give me that ladle. 753 00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:17,848 It's empty. 754 00:51:17,853 --> 00:51:20,024 Not for long, Tom. 755 00:51:21,857 --> 00:51:23,532 Most of them are sort of the ugly ones 756 00:51:23,537 --> 00:51:24,900 that we have seen throughout the show, 757 00:51:24,904 --> 00:51:26,466 but then, look at the twins. 758 00:51:26,471 --> 00:51:27,932 We all know the books. 759 00:51:27,937 --> 00:51:29,321 Go to the twins, go to the twins. 760 00:51:29,326 --> 00:51:31,645 You broke up the pair. 761 00:51:31,650 --> 00:51:35,431 I know you wanted them both, but Louis couldn't resist. 762 00:51:35,436 --> 00:51:37,477 I'm sorry, my love. 763 00:51:37,482 --> 00:51:40,536 And then there's this mysterious man in the tuxedo. 764 00:51:40,541 --> 00:51:43,570 What is that all about? Very strange little detail there. 765 00:51:43,575 --> 00:51:45,206 And, you know, you guys are all savvy. 766 00:51:45,211 --> 00:51:46,703 You know something's not right here. 767 00:51:46,708 --> 00:51:50,111 I can't be that easy, until you had that reverse line. 768 00:51:50,116 --> 00:51:53,784 I've always known Antoinette was out there. 769 00:51:53,789 --> 00:51:56,322 So, if you played everybody's sort of arcs, 770 00:51:56,327 --> 00:51:58,672 no one quite knew everything. 771 00:51:58,677 --> 00:52:01,849 How? Who? 772 00:52:01,854 --> 00:52:03,442 Claudia knew that eventually 773 00:52:03,447 --> 00:52:05,622 if we put Tom Anderson in there, make him drink 774 00:52:05,627 --> 00:52:07,985 poison blood, he would go after Tom Anderson. 775 00:52:07,990 --> 00:52:10,044 He who called you him. 776 00:52:10,049 --> 00:52:12,555 Him? 777 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,688 They don't quite know totally how to kill a vampire, 778 00:52:14,693 --> 00:52:16,820 but they think that'll do the job. 779 00:52:16,825 --> 00:52:19,432 Always the petty sights with you, Uncle Les. 780 00:52:23,963 --> 00:52:26,874 Back to Dubai, Molloy starts asking questions 781 00:52:26,879 --> 00:52:28,832 and some very probing questions. 782 00:52:28,837 --> 00:52:31,574 What actually did happen that night? 783 00:52:31,579 --> 00:52:33,446 So, what did you do with it? 784 00:52:33,451 --> 00:52:35,024 It's very, very simple. 785 00:52:35,029 --> 00:52:36,289 What you're supposed to do is you're supposed 786 00:52:36,293 --> 00:52:37,337 to clean up your dead. 787 00:52:37,342 --> 00:52:39,103 You're supposed to put the vampire 788 00:52:39,108 --> 00:52:40,844 in the incinerator. 789 00:52:40,849 --> 00:52:42,194 Why didn't you do it? 790 00:52:42,199 --> 00:52:44,613 There's a feeling that she hated 791 00:52:44,618 --> 00:52:47,111 your guts there for a while. Why is that? 792 00:52:47,116 --> 00:52:49,331 The girl did not have a fucking problem 793 00:52:49,336 --> 00:52:51,115 tossing him on the grill, okay? 794 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,291 - The sun's coming up. - No. 795 00:52:52,296 --> 00:52:53,596 - We have to burn him. - No. 796 00:52:53,601 --> 00:52:54,885 It's the only way we'll know. 797 00:52:54,890 --> 00:52:55,965 No! 798 00:52:57,605 --> 00:52:59,254 I said no! 799 00:52:59,259 --> 00:53:01,108 And I think Louis is remembering that 800 00:53:01,113 --> 00:53:02,518 for the first time in a long time. 801 00:53:02,523 --> 00:53:05,042 - You've only heard half the story. - Stop. 802 00:53:05,047 --> 00:53:07,654 This is the same shit that happened in San Francisco. 803 00:53:07,659 --> 00:53:10,874 It forces the vampire Armand to jump in. 804 00:53:10,879 --> 00:53:12,907 This time I won't save your life. 805 00:53:15,144 --> 00:53:17,707 Louis can sometimes act out. 806 00:53:17,712 --> 00:53:19,988 I protect him from himself. 807 00:53:19,993 --> 00:53:21,972 It's not, I think, just to protect Louis 808 00:53:21,977 --> 00:53:25,857 from maybe going ape shit and killing Molloy. 809 00:53:25,862 --> 00:53:30,067 I think there is a story that has been told to Louis 810 00:53:30,072 --> 00:53:32,269 that Louis has told to himself that maybe 811 00:53:32,274 --> 00:53:33,984 Armand has told to him, too. 812 00:53:33,989 --> 00:53:35,856 For those people who have ever read the book, 813 00:53:35,861 --> 00:53:37,697 this is a major player out there, folks. 814 00:53:37,702 --> 00:53:39,947 This is the leader of a coven of vampires 815 00:53:39,952 --> 00:53:41,688 and one who is very, very powerful. 816 00:53:41,693 --> 00:53:45,039 So, yeah, that last line, we were sort of looking for 817 00:53:45,044 --> 00:53:47,607 like the ending to the graduate, this sort of very 818 00:53:47,612 --> 00:53:50,144 unsettling wait, what? 819 00:53:51,442 --> 00:53:54,744 I'd like you to meet... 820 00:53:54,749 --> 00:53:56,659 the vampire Armand. 821 00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:04,014 The love of my life. 822 00:54:04,019 --> 00:54:07,104 And I think it really sets us up for 823 00:54:07,109 --> 00:54:09,498 a very provocative season 2.