1 00:00:25,484 --> 00:00:28,600 This is the part of my story back in San Francisco 2 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:33,730 where you said, and I paraphrase, "Give it to me." 3 00:00:33,784 --> 00:00:36,036 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 4 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:37,659 Hey, stop! No! 5 00:00:37,660 --> 00:00:39,581 That's my voice, but I don't remember it. 6 00:00:39,582 --> 00:00:42,310 The boy we met in San Francisco, he's still in there. 7 00:00:42,330 --> 00:00:44,820 We can have him saying what happened next in no time. 8 00:00:44,878 --> 00:00:46,004 Would you like to join us? 9 00:00:46,005 --> 00:00:48,510 You go ahead. Have your fun. 10 00:00:48,549 --> 00:00:51,120 I see they've separated you from your laptop. 11 00:00:51,170 --> 00:00:53,850 Tapes are an admitted performance. 12 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:55,290 Give it to me. I won't waste it. 13 00:00:55,330 --> 00:00:57,390 This is the premise of our interview. 14 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,260 The odyssey of recollection. 15 00:00:59,430 --> 00:01:01,900 I let you whine and have your say. 16 00:01:01,950 --> 00:01:04,063 I used to be real good at running things. 17 00:01:04,064 --> 00:01:05,340 Yes, Maitre. 18 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:06,800 What about me and you?! 19 00:01:06,859 --> 00:01:08,810 Picked another one over me! 20 00:01:08,861 --> 00:01:11,020 You and fucking him! 21 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:12,730 Memories just keep bubbling up. 22 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:14,260 I want this. 23 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:16,779 To remember. 24 00:01:16,780 --> 00:01:18,119 _ 25 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,896 - Things got a little heated. - With a boy! 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,520 Things got heated with a boy. 27 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,240 - Synced & corrected by MementMori - -- www.addic7ed.com -- 28 00:01:43,890 --> 00:01:47,800 _ 29 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,970 We had it figured out, didn't we? 30 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:53,030 Mmm. 31 00:01:53,070 --> 00:01:54,640 What we needed from the other. 32 00:01:54,698 --> 00:01:56,180 Our proper roles. 33 00:01:56,230 --> 00:02:00,620 A less dictatorial approach to the coven is embraced by my love. 34 00:02:00,663 --> 00:02:02,900 A dreamy kind of balance. 35 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,190 Ah, July, 1949. 36 00:02:05,270 --> 00:02:07,120 - The reading room. - Mmm. 37 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:10,460 We broke into the same library every night that month, 38 00:02:10,510 --> 00:02:14,070 hypnotized security, as one does, flipped the lights, 39 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,990 laid our backs on long tables and stared up at the ceiling. 40 00:02:18,070 --> 00:02:19,240 Hot. 41 00:02:19,290 --> 00:02:21,630 Iron pillars holding up terracotta domes, 42 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,062 a light trick that made the ceiling appear higher than it was. 43 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,160 And why not pass a month that way? 44 00:02:28,210 --> 00:02:31,090 An effortless, eternal life ahead of us. 45 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,570 Funny thing, trying to remember what occupied one's time 46 00:02:36,630 --> 00:02:39,360 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him. 47 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:41,760 Grab that. 48 00:02:41,810 --> 00:02:44,230 Santiago had broken into our apartm... 49 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:47,126 I'm sorry, grab what? 50 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:50,870 Hmm? Oh, it's just a note to my assistant. It's nothing. 51 00:02:50,921 --> 00:02:53,120 What did you want to grab, Daniel? 52 00:02:58,137 --> 00:03:00,810 Eternal life ahead of us. 53 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,320 Funny thing, trying to remember what occupied one's time 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,490 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him. 55 00:03:08,540 --> 00:03:10,390 Grab that. 56 00:03:10,470 --> 00:03:13,080 It's a thing with syntax. I see it a lot. 57 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:17,190 The impersonal pronoun "one", "one's time", "one didn't". 58 00:03:17,250 --> 00:03:19,870 Becomes the third person "him". 59 00:03:19,908 --> 00:03:21,770 Stops being "I" or "me". 60 00:03:21,827 --> 00:03:23,690 And that indicates what? 61 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:27,800 You're circling something. 62 00:03:27,833 --> 00:03:30,890 You're getting close to something you want distance from. 63 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,690 Language as a chicken exit on a roller coaster. 64 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:37,610 Or it's daytime and a vampire of Louis's age 65 00:03:37,630 --> 00:03:39,810 is fighting the narcoleptic pull of the sun. 66 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:41,540 Or that. 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,700 Ah. 68 00:03:46,420 --> 00:03:48,090 Is this Malik? 69 00:03:48,145 --> 00:03:49,563 It is, sir. 70 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:52,800 - You're the guy? - Mmm. 71 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:54,290 You're gonna chase me down 72 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:56,430 in your little Jimmy Choo sneakers, huh? 73 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,189 Shall we take our business to the living room? 74 00:03:59,190 --> 00:04:01,410 - Who are they? - They are not your concern. 75 00:04:01,460 --> 00:04:02,640 Oi! 76 00:04:02,690 --> 00:04:03,900 Who are you? 77 00:04:03,952 --> 00:04:06,660 - Friends. - If you'll excuse us? 78 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,670 Your friend here is a hot-headed young man, hmm? 79 00:04:11,710 --> 00:04:13,360 Good thing to be. 80 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,300 Tell him to buy a Bugatti, 81 00:04:15,350 --> 00:04:17,060 crash it into the guardrails. 82 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,260 What was that? 83 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,960 Armand rarely eats. 84 00:04:28,010 --> 00:04:29,360 So when he does, 85 00:04:29,410 --> 00:04:32,680 - he prefers to hunt for it. - Does Malik know he's lunch? 86 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:35,010 - Are you recording? - No. 87 00:04:35,070 --> 00:04:38,280 Malik knows if he makes it on foot 88 00:04:38,330 --> 00:04:40,960 to Jumeirah Mosque by evening, 89 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,950 he'll be paid enough crypto to, 90 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,860 well, most anything he wants. 91 00:04:47,450 --> 00:04:49,360 Has anyone ever cashed in? 92 00:04:49,420 --> 00:04:51,920 Often it's someone carefully chosen 93 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,580 for the harm he does the world with his chosen profession. 94 00:04:55,629 --> 00:04:57,790 And when he can't find an arms dealer dumb enough 95 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,216 to answer his ad? 96 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:05,580 Someone half in love with an easeful death. 97 00:05:08,870 --> 00:05:10,130 He's ditching us? 98 00:05:10,180 --> 00:05:13,040 He'll have Malik begging for it in an hour. 99 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:18,010 His methodology, it's never violent, I assure you. 100 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:20,480 Mm-hm. 101 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:27,410 Follow up with the vampire Armand about diet and exercise. 102 00:05:27,411 --> 00:05:30,720 And once again, Louis alone with himself. 103 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,260 So, everything in its right place 104 00:05:34,310 --> 00:05:36,169 before the theater burns down. 105 00:05:37,129 --> 00:05:40,360 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazines. 106 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,670 - Sold them at recess. - I'm sorry! 107 00:05:42,750 --> 00:05:44,674 Little dirty, little deceitful, 108 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:45,940 but it's enterprising. 109 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:48,339 - Is that what makes you fascinating? - The coffin! 110 00:05:48,340 --> 00:05:49,940 In high school, you told a girl 111 00:05:49,990 --> 00:05:51,460 you'd only do her... Rest. 112 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:53,413 - ... if she had a paper bag over her head. - Daniel? 113 00:05:53,437 --> 00:05:55,880 - She agreed and you did it... - Daniel. 114 00:06:01,650 --> 00:06:03,870 _ 115 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,990 _ 116 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,980 How long is your boyfriend's lunch again? 117 00:06:10,037 --> 00:06:12,690 An hour. Two at the most. 118 00:06:20,170 --> 00:06:22,200 _ 119 00:06:24,010 --> 00:06:25,660 _ 120 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:27,179 _ 121 00:06:29,020 --> 00:06:30,170 Let's change it up. 122 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:32,790 I was going over my notes last night. 123 00:06:32,810 --> 00:06:35,340 Something he said on his initial flight 124 00:06:35,380 --> 00:06:37,490 to the book shelves caught my ear. 125 00:06:37,540 --> 00:06:40,550 "This time I won't save your life." 126 00:06:41,540 --> 00:06:44,020 Armand saved you from me in 1973. 127 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:46,110 Yeah, you bit me, I blacked out. 128 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,900 He ripped you off me. Dumped me in a drug den. 129 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:51,330 - Yes. - Five hundred years, 130 00:06:51,380 --> 00:06:53,940 hundreds of thousands of kills. 131 00:06:53,997 --> 00:06:56,580 How often has Armand spared a life? 132 00:07:03,860 --> 00:07:06,720 Armand could see I was partial to you. 133 00:07:09,230 --> 00:07:14,490 Armand preserves my happiness even when I don't or can't. 134 00:07:14,540 --> 00:07:19,340 He had a hunch you might prove fruitful in later times. 135 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:24,350 Okay. Sure. Let's go with that. 136 00:07:24,403 --> 00:07:29,560 Um... Our first interview... It's a fog. 137 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,240 I mean, it's the '70s. All a blur. 138 00:07:33,290 --> 00:07:35,300 Woke up in a parking lot in Milwaukee once. 139 00:07:35,350 --> 00:07:38,540 - Don't know how I got there. - What's the question, Daniel? 140 00:07:40,430 --> 00:07:42,240 We had drinks, you paid. 141 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:46,216 We cabbed to your place on Divisadero, you paid. 142 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,210 That's right. 143 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:49,620 Did we... ? 144 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:06,800 I like what you've, uh, done with the place. 145 00:08:06,850 --> 00:08:11,940 Getting some bail bondsman, post-divorce vibes. 146 00:08:11,990 --> 00:08:13,690 I own a few of these places. 147 00:08:14,810 --> 00:08:17,070 Oh, yeah? How many? 148 00:08:17,122 --> 00:08:18,650 Many. 149 00:08:19,820 --> 00:08:22,660 Are you a real estate mogul? 150 00:08:22,711 --> 00:08:24,670 Oh, I'm a lot of things. 151 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,760 Does that scare you, boy? 152 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:53,350 So you climb in it, close the lid, and bang? 153 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,230 Sometimes. 154 00:09:00,820 --> 00:09:02,070 Okay. 155 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,780 I mean, I'm into counter-cultures. 156 00:09:05,837 --> 00:09:09,370 So am I the first guy that you've brought back here? 157 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:12,760 The fifth. 158 00:09:14,554 --> 00:09:16,030 Backgammon? 159 00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:17,840 Well, that's wholesome. 160 00:09:17,891 --> 00:09:21,140 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire. 161 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:24,540 Oh, wow! 162 00:09:24,590 --> 00:09:27,720 Cheeseburgers or chicken chow mein, take your pick. 163 00:09:29,150 --> 00:09:30,810 Oh! Oh, well... 164 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,070 All your slickness at the bar, all that's gone. 165 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,622 What do I seem like now, boy? 166 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,450 A veteran of many wars. It's yours. 167 00:09:46,420 --> 00:09:48,280 Cocaine's a fun boy's drug. 168 00:09:48,330 --> 00:09:51,160 - I'm not fun. - Alright, suit yourself. 169 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:54,880 Mm! 170 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:58,849 I prefer you like this. 171 00:09:58,850 --> 00:10:01,420 All dark and real. 172 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:04,120 Maybe I could cheer you up? 173 00:10:07,820 --> 00:10:09,470 What are you doing? 174 00:10:10,980 --> 00:10:13,910 Fulfilling my side of the social contract. 175 00:10:14,650 --> 00:10:18,060 Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off? 176 00:10:18,869 --> 00:10:20,260 No. 177 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,110 So we didn't? 178 00:10:26,780 --> 00:10:27,800 No. 179 00:10:30,990 --> 00:10:34,900 I really... I really thought we did. 180 00:10:34,950 --> 00:10:36,250 Do you want to now? 181 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:39,040 He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor. 182 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:43,380 San Francisco. 183 00:10:43,430 --> 00:10:46,060 Psychedelics, disco biscuits, 184 00:10:46,110 --> 00:10:48,760 angel powders and young men. 185 00:10:48,815 --> 00:10:51,350 Just about every night I lived there. 186 00:10:51,401 --> 00:10:55,180 You offered something... off the menu. 187 00:10:55,230 --> 00:10:57,780 Louis de Pointe du Lac, from New Orleans. 188 00:10:57,830 --> 00:11:00,610 You specialize in low-end real estate? 189 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:05,300 I like predicting what overlooked product will flourish in time: 190 00:11:05,350 --> 00:11:07,610 low-end property, little-known art. 191 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,230 Worth is often miscalculated 192 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:11,671 - because of... - Hue? 193 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,190 Minor factors. 194 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,120 You can squeeze profit out of that margin. 195 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:25,760 Did you gravitate to San Fran as a hub for homophiles? 196 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,930 Paris in the 1940s, 197 00:11:31,983 --> 00:11:36,400 with its permissive laissez-aller sexual atmosphere, 198 00:11:36,450 --> 00:11:39,270 was the more formative liberation for me. 199 00:11:39,930 --> 00:11:41,410 Take this seriously. 200 00:11:41,460 --> 00:11:42,810 I am. 201 00:11:46,180 --> 00:11:47,340 Shit! 202 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:52,240 I forget to put a tape in. 203 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:59,710 - I'm a vampire. - Okay. 204 00:11:59,761 --> 00:12:04,460 I mean, I'm really interested to know why you believe that. 205 00:12:09,660 --> 00:12:10,840 Fuck! 206 00:12:12,774 --> 00:12:14,220 Are those fangs? 207 00:12:15,380 --> 00:12:17,340 - Hi. - Fuck, man... 208 00:12:18,060 --> 00:12:19,770 are you the Zodiac killer? 209 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,640 Don't be afraid. 210 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:55,850 Just start the tape. 211 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:03,180 Okay. 212 00:13:03,230 --> 00:13:04,690 It's on now. 213 00:13:06,450 --> 00:13:07,780 Uh... 214 00:13:08,820 --> 00:13:10,220 First question. 215 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:14,440 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 216 00:13:14,490 --> 00:13:19,580 No. I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire. 217 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,120 And how did it come about? 218 00:13:23,020 --> 00:13:25,070 There's a simple answer to that. 219 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,960 I don't believe I want to give simple answers. 220 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:30,740 I wanna tell the real story. 221 00:13:31,436 --> 00:13:35,590 You smoked shaky cigarette after shaky cigarette. 222 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:37,570 You shook more than you do now. 223 00:13:37,590 --> 00:13:40,660 What I remember most, other than that you were an alien, 224 00:13:40,710 --> 00:13:44,310 five feet from me, was how eager you were to spill. 225 00:13:44,366 --> 00:13:45,912 No coaxing on my part, 226 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,940 - no journalism per se. - You were terrified of me, Daniel. 227 00:13:48,995 --> 00:13:50,480 You were lonely, Louis. 228 00:13:51,150 --> 00:13:53,730 It was gratifying to tell you what I was, 229 00:13:53,780 --> 00:13:55,800 after mingling with humans for so long. 230 00:13:55,850 --> 00:13:58,930 You weren't thrill-seeking, you were floundering. 231 00:13:58,980 --> 00:14:01,110 Tape after tape of emotional upchuck. 232 00:14:01,140 --> 00:14:02,670 Where's this leading, Daniel? 233 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,860 I have some outstanding questions about 1973. 234 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:13,170 Like... why you talked to me in the first place? 235 00:14:13,220 --> 00:14:15,260 You had curiosity, swagger. 236 00:14:15,310 --> 00:14:17,560 - Nah! - I would chat for a few hours, 237 00:14:17,610 --> 00:14:18,940 and then who would come looking 238 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,220 if another drug-addled-homophile disappeared. 239 00:14:22,270 --> 00:14:23,655 The Berkeley Barb? 240 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,460 Malik will be dead in two hours. 241 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,500 You've made me an accessory to murder 242 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,480 and you've had 13 sessions. 243 00:14:31,538 --> 00:14:35,040 I want 20 minutes, for me. 244 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:40,160 I'd like to know, for me, what happened between us. 245 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:41,740 Okay? 246 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,200 Okay. 247 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,440 Okay. 248 00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:51,580 Then let me ask you this, Daniel Molloy. 249 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:54,340 What's the next thing you remember? 250 00:14:57,740 --> 00:15:00,470 You eviscerating Lestat. 251 00:15:00,942 --> 00:15:04,900 He had a dark pull, a numbing effect on the senses. 252 00:15:04,950 --> 00:15:07,026 - He was a handsome Satan. - Yeah, I mean, I know the type. 253 00:15:07,050 --> 00:15:11,440 When you stripped away his superficial charms, 254 00:15:11,490 --> 00:15:15,170 beneath his flimsy gentleman's veneer... 255 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,740 - Mmm. - ... Lestat was trivial, 256 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:22,660 - vapid, vulgar. - Mmm. Vulgar? 257 00:15:22,710 --> 00:15:27,670 Maniacal, blind and sterile and contemptible! 258 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,630 - Big time asshole. - He appeared frail 259 00:15:30,670 --> 00:15:32,460 and stupid to me. 260 00:15:32,510 --> 00:15:36,840 A man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice. 261 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,300 And for all that Lestat boasted about his love of music, 262 00:15:42,350 --> 00:15:48,350 he played without an iota of feeling, 263 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,800 nothing, no one home, 264 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:54,940 like an automaton plunking away at the notes 265 00:15:54,990 --> 00:15:59,070 with all the emotional acuity of a monster! 266 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,840 Yeah, but you were suggestible, 267 00:16:00,870 --> 00:16:02,750 I mean, he lured you in. 268 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,330 You know? He's a faker, but you figured that out. 269 00:16:06,382 --> 00:16:11,000 Just by then you'd paid a biblical price for your first love. 270 00:16:15,183 --> 00:16:18,260 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... 271 00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:22,390 No, that was astute, boy. 272 00:16:23,130 --> 00:16:24,220 You see. 273 00:16:24,270 --> 00:16:26,350 You were nimble-minded, even back then. 274 00:16:26,402 --> 00:16:27,810 I was a moron. 275 00:16:27,862 --> 00:16:31,480 Will you, uh, do the fang thing again? 276 00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:38,300 I love that, man. 277 00:16:38,350 --> 00:16:40,360 Just for reference that was Louis de Pointe du Lac 278 00:16:40,410 --> 00:16:44,140 just now making his fangs... come out. 279 00:16:44,190 --> 00:16:46,170 Oh, shit! 280 00:16:46,220 --> 00:16:49,140 The tape ran out. It's just a small 30 minute thing. 281 00:16:49,190 --> 00:16:51,900 If I had been an actual journalist and, you know, 282 00:16:51,950 --> 00:16:54,920 not fried on coke and ludes, I would have realized 283 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:57,630 what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with. 284 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,440 Because the next thing that happened was, you detonated. 285 00:17:01,490 --> 00:17:02,936 ? Oh, the sewing machine ? 286 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,800 ? The sewing machine ? ? A girl's best friend ? 287 00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:09,060 I sat on that bench in Jackson Square, 288 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,320 watched Claudia disappear into the night. 289 00:17:12,370 --> 00:17:15,300 I'm kinda with her. Get off that bench, brother. 290 00:17:15,350 --> 00:17:18,190 I pictured her on the platform, 291 00:17:18,246 --> 00:17:23,010 boarding the train, carrying her off into her future. 292 00:17:23,060 --> 00:17:25,790 A future I would be absent from. 293 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,560 - Or you just pick yourself up. - Stay behind with Lestat. 294 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,740 And I knew within seconds it was the only choice, 295 00:17:36,550 --> 00:17:38,210 the wrong choice. 296 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:39,710 And then what? 297 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,800 Then... what?! 298 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,430 I had nothing. 299 00:17:46,482 --> 00:17:49,160 Nothing but the bench I was sitting on. 300 00:17:49,210 --> 00:17:53,520 So, I stayed on it... for hours. 301 00:17:54,140 --> 00:17:57,980 All I had to do was watch the sun come up. 302 00:17:58,030 --> 00:18:00,080 Let it bleach my bones. 303 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:05,100 - Purify the putrid soul. - Are you kidding me?! 304 00:18:05,150 --> 00:18:06,627 What, you were just going to end it? 305 00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:08,879 I mean, what about life? 306 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,950 Like, joyrides and night swimming, 307 00:18:12,008 --> 00:18:14,250 and marriage and cancer, 308 00:18:14,302 --> 00:18:16,330 and all of that till the death rattle. 309 00:18:16,387 --> 00:18:19,590 I mean, we gotta carry all this shit and you had a ticket out. 310 00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:21,550 And you were just gonna throw it away? 311 00:18:22,470 --> 00:18:24,660 - You've overstepped now, boy. - Listen, no. 312 00:18:24,690 --> 00:18:26,240 Obviously you didn't do it, 313 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,380 but you were given the gift 314 00:18:28,410 --> 00:18:31,180 and I've been hearing you bitch the night away about it, 315 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:33,630 and since you use the past tense about her, 316 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,480 - I figure she's... - She's what? 317 00:18:36,390 --> 00:18:38,560 Well, I can see where it's going and... 318 00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:39,650 And what? 319 00:18:39,702 --> 00:18:42,110 And... give it to me. 320 00:18:42,163 --> 00:18:45,130 I won't waste it. I think you could use me. 321 00:18:45,180 --> 00:18:47,570 I think we have an energy, you and me. 322 00:18:47,590 --> 00:18:51,160 I could be your Lestat, your Claudia, but better. 323 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:53,410 I mean, I got a little bit of both of them in me, 324 00:18:53,466 --> 00:18:55,800 plus a few things they don't. 325 00:18:55,850 --> 00:18:59,370 This, after all I've told you, 326 00:18:59,420 --> 00:19:01,420 is what you ask for, boy?! 327 00:19:01,470 --> 00:19:03,540 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like. 328 00:19:03,590 --> 00:19:06,380 I mean, you've forgotten, man. I mean, you don't understand 329 00:19:06,437 --> 00:19:08,130 the meaning of your own story! 330 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,600 No! Hey, stop! 331 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:18,770 Suicide hotline 101. 332 00:19:18,825 --> 00:19:20,876 Don't say to the person on the other end of the line, 333 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:22,577 "Hey, why don't you cheer the fuck up?" 334 00:19:22,578 --> 00:19:24,740 - I overreacted. - Not sure that killing me 335 00:19:24,790 --> 00:19:26,630 was a totally warranted response 336 00:19:26,670 --> 00:19:28,710 - to my idiocy. - I took a scoop out of your throat. 337 00:19:28,750 --> 00:19:30,870 I deserved to have my ass kicked 338 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,580 for the sheer number of times I said, "And then what?" 339 00:19:33,630 --> 00:19:35,646 All the drugs in your blood, it all went back into me, 340 00:19:35,670 --> 00:19:38,166 - probably why I can't remember... - Cornerstone of prize-winning journalism. 341 00:19:38,190 --> 00:19:39,520 And then what? 342 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,170 I, um... 343 00:19:44,220 --> 00:19:46,920 _ 344 00:19:46,970 --> 00:19:48,640 - Hmm. - Daniel? 345 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,400 Daniel? 346 00:19:55,420 --> 00:19:56,980 Yeah, uh... 347 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,406 _ 348 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,310 A hesitation. 349 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:09,709 I have a surprise for you. 350 00:20:09,710 --> 00:20:13,350 A curveball which will seem like less of a surprise, 351 00:20:13,370 --> 00:20:16,840 and more like an ambush. 352 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,670 Is that our original interview? 353 00:20:25,370 --> 00:20:28,110 Turns out I had a copy saved in the cloud. 354 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,670 - You're a liar, Daniel. - So are you, Louis. 355 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,356 Whether you know it or not. 356 00:20:32,357 --> 00:20:37,330 You remember the last nine minutes at the end? 357 00:20:37,380 --> 00:20:39,550 Betty Hutton drowning out 358 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,730 the indecipherable moaning and yelling. 359 00:20:44,170 --> 00:20:45,690 - Yes. - Well, um... 360 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,570 My researcher, uh, assistant, 361 00:20:48,620 --> 00:20:51,960 uh, she's a bit of an audiophile, 362 00:20:52,010 --> 00:20:55,160 and, uh, well, she cleaned it up a bit. 363 00:20:55,900 --> 00:21:00,960 Press pause on the betrayal of it all and... listen. 364 00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:15,720 Louis? 365 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:19,790 That wet thud? 366 00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:22,440 That's Armand saving me. 367 00:21:33,501 --> 00:21:34,940 What? 368 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,450 - What?! - It's morning! 369 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:40,200 I lost time. 370 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:42,830 - Things got a little heated. - With a boy! 371 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,180 Things got heated with a boy. 372 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:47,250 I was at home picking lint off the sofa! 373 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:49,130 - I said to join us! - The night's gone. 374 00:21:49,183 --> 00:21:51,280 The room's soiled and once again, I'm here 375 00:21:51,330 --> 00:21:53,480 with mop and mindlessness to clean it up. 376 00:21:53,530 --> 00:21:56,220 So the room got dirty, so what? I'll clean it up. 377 00:21:56,274 --> 00:21:59,810 No, I clean it up! You make the mess and I clean it up! 378 00:21:59,861 --> 00:22:02,180 Mark it on the calendar, align it with Ursa Major. 379 00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:04,640 Louis' tri-annual fuck off and find me 380 00:22:04,690 --> 00:22:06,626 - with apologies to follow. - I'm sorry. 381 00:22:06,650 --> 00:22:09,520 Seek comfort in the arms of lowlifes and unfortunates, 382 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,430 - and broken children, fine. - Oh, fine! 383 00:22:11,450 --> 00:22:13,610 The fine that doesn't sound like... 384 00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:15,780 But revealing our nature to a reporter 385 00:22:15,830 --> 00:22:18,619 you met in a bar ten hours ago? What if it was published? 386 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:20,276 - I was having some fun! - You don't have enough to fear 387 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,326 - from Paris? - I was in the middle of ending things, 388 00:22:22,350 --> 00:22:23,856 - when you... - You'd have been passed out 389 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,670 on the floor next to him, Louis! 390 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,466 Out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed him with! 391 00:22:28,490 --> 00:22:31,580 Oh, this is boring! You're boring! 392 00:22:31,630 --> 00:22:34,060 You are so boring! 393 00:22:34,061 --> 00:22:35,590 - And here come the drugs. - Colorless. 394 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,800 - Up the fangs, down this road. - Flavorless. 395 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:38,850 - Dull! - Into the heart 396 00:22:38,870 --> 00:22:39,980 - and off with the fingers, feet. - Dull! 397 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,460 - Dull nights, dull weeks! - And wallowing brain. 398 00:22:42,490 --> 00:22:44,730 Dull months, dull as fuck! 399 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:51,070 Suffocation by the world's softest, beige-est pillow! 400 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:57,360 The ten hours I spent with that boy were more exciting, 401 00:22:57,418 --> 00:22:59,520 more fascinating, 402 00:22:59,570 --> 00:23:03,080 than decades with you! 403 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:09,270 Oh, there it is! 404 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,420 The half-blank, half-apocalyptic look! 405 00:23:13,476 --> 00:23:15,930 But what does it mean tonight, huh? 406 00:23:15,980 --> 00:23:20,790 Does he want to lick my boots or chop my hands off? 407 00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:23,930 Is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight? 408 00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:25,270 Huh? 409 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,570 Okay. 410 00:23:27,730 --> 00:23:28,980 Okay, perhaps. 411 00:23:29,030 --> 00:23:31,770 But am I as boring 412 00:23:31,820 --> 00:23:34,950 as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes 413 00:23:34,970 --> 00:23:37,560 of your fascinating boy? 414 00:23:37,610 --> 00:23:39,820 "Oh, it's so, so hard to be me." 415 00:23:39,877 --> 00:23:42,490 - Picking lint off the sofa?! - "It's so hard to kill humans." 416 00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:45,960 "I can feel their feelings as I drain them." 417 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,080 You sat on your hands and put your ear to the wind. 418 00:23:49,136 --> 00:23:51,830 - "Everyone I know wrongs me." - Okay. 419 00:23:51,889 --> 00:23:55,670 Okay, let's wake the boy up and let's try you. 420 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,000 "I'm the vampire Armand and my daddy vampire 421 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,050 groomed me into a little bitch." 422 00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:03,836 - "My brother tossed himself off a roof!" - "Vampires who murdered my daddy 423 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:06,150 - made me pretend I didn't have a dick... - "My sister buried me alive. 424 00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:07,195 ... for 240 years." 425 00:24:07,196 --> 00:24:09,330 My daughter was my sister was my throw pillow. 426 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,940 Well, he wouldn't look at me kindly. 427 00:24:10,970 --> 00:24:13,020 Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. 428 00:24:13,070 --> 00:24:15,270 Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat." 429 00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:17,400 I talked shit about him the whole time. 430 00:24:17,450 --> 00:24:19,110 - So what?! - The name!! 431 00:24:20,620 --> 00:24:21,700 The name! 432 00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:25,080 Unuttered in our home for 23 years, 433 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:26,640 said over and over again 434 00:24:26,690 --> 00:24:29,420 until it was pounding in my brain like a hammer. 435 00:24:29,470 --> 00:24:32,460 Our problems aren't about him. 436 00:24:32,513 --> 00:24:34,266 And you threw her name around just for cover, 437 00:24:34,290 --> 00:24:35,840 but it always circled back to him. 438 00:24:37,140 --> 00:24:40,170 - I loved her. - But she didn't love you. 439 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:43,320 Not like he did, not like I have. 440 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,540 I know. 441 00:24:45,540 --> 00:24:47,350 I know! 442 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,980 Yes! 443 00:24:49,030 --> 00:24:50,640 I know. 444 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:52,380 Thank you for saying it. 445 00:24:52,430 --> 00:24:54,260 It's all creeping back. 446 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:58,800 Paris and the, uh, what, what, what? 447 00:24:58,850 --> 00:25:01,940 But there's... all of it coming back. 448 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,530 There's, uh, Paris. 449 00:25:05,580 --> 00:25:06,910 Paris. 450 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,600 Can you hear that? 451 00:25:08,650 --> 00:25:10,430 Can you hear that, hm? 452 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,450 Can you hear her? 453 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:13,760 She's calling me. 454 00:25:20,936 --> 00:25:23,380 I think that's you running out of the room. 455 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:25,360 Hear that? 456 00:25:26,060 --> 00:25:28,970 Second door slam further off? 457 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,480 What's that second door slam? 458 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:34,540 I don't... I don't remember. I don't remember any of this. 459 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:35,810 First door opens. 460 00:25:36,750 --> 00:25:38,120 Slam. 461 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,440 Footsteps. 462 00:25:40,690 --> 00:25:44,480 Second door slams, metal door. 463 00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:48,640 - Armand calls your name. - Louis! 464 00:25:50,050 --> 00:25:52,170 He runs after you. 465 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:56,210 Metal door opens to screams. 466 00:25:56,260 --> 00:25:58,640 A few more seconds, 467 00:25:59,310 --> 00:26:01,380 tape runs out. 468 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,230 Where is Armand following you, Louis? 469 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:07,600 It's morning. 470 00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:10,920 You went out of the room. 471 00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:14,840 Door opens. 472 00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:18,290 Slams. 473 00:26:18,340 --> 00:26:19,880 Steps. 474 00:26:22,210 --> 00:26:23,540 Metal door. 475 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:25,990 Louis! 476 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,940 No! No, no, no! No! 477 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:03,980 I walked into the sun. 478 00:27:06,950 --> 00:27:08,600 You remember that? 479 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,880 I'm remembering it now. 480 00:27:21,020 --> 00:27:23,810 Let me ask you a really loaded question, Louis. 481 00:27:25,180 --> 00:27:26,470 And then what? 482 00:27:29,140 --> 00:27:33,180 My skin burnt to the color of pitch. 483 00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:37,530 Char coming off me. 484 00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:38,640 The pain? 485 00:27:38,690 --> 00:27:41,150 Like a siren. 486 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,000 Like a noise in my body. 487 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,200 I walked out into the sun. 488 00:27:50,380 --> 00:27:51,740 I think so. 489 00:27:51,790 --> 00:27:55,120 Pieces of my life, gone. 490 00:27:56,620 --> 00:27:59,120 I knew who I was without those pieces. 491 00:27:59,170 --> 00:28:02,460 Wait. Sidestep the big picture. 492 00:28:02,510 --> 00:28:04,630 Get the story straight first. 493 00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:19,880 The pain! 494 00:28:20,574 --> 00:28:23,130 Must be exquisite. 495 00:28:25,550 --> 00:28:26,900 What happened? 496 00:28:28,020 --> 00:28:29,720 You drained a drug fiend. 497 00:28:30,420 --> 00:28:32,840 You said the worst things you've ever said to me. 498 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,300 - No. No. - And then you ran outside. 499 00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:37,290 And now you're a convalescent. 500 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:40,660 So... so... 501 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:42,170 What is it? 502 00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:43,880 I'm sorry. 503 00:28:44,610 --> 00:28:46,020 Meaningless word. 504 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,440 Meaningless. 505 00:28:50,220 --> 00:28:52,510 The floor slants slightly north. 506 00:28:53,270 --> 00:28:55,010 The boy's blood flowed that way. 507 00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:58,770 We should fix that before we sell. 508 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,310 He's alive? 509 00:29:03,340 --> 00:29:05,190 The boy? 510 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,710 The fascinating boy? 511 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,020 He's fine. 512 00:29:13,050 --> 00:29:14,085 Don't... 513 00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:15,540 He's just fine. 514 00:29:16,210 --> 00:29:19,540 - Don't! - Oh, he's fine. Your fine! 515 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:23,960 This is fine! We're all fine! 516 00:29:24,013 --> 00:29:26,880 You two kept me in that apartment for how long? 517 00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:29,000 - You were there, Daniel. - I don't remember. 518 00:29:29,020 --> 00:29:31,670 I... That's why I'm asking. 519 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,900 I can remember a few things, like... 520 00:29:36,940 --> 00:29:38,890 He's just fine. 521 00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:40,446 - There's someone else there. - He's fine. 522 00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:43,320 We're all fine! 523 00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:48,710 A cellophaned corpse on the floor. 524 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,610 Meaningless word. 525 00:29:50,664 --> 00:29:53,150 Meaningless. 526 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,500 A neighbor saw you while he was taking out the trash. 527 00:29:55,540 --> 00:29:57,200 I had to chase him down. 528 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,070 The floor slants slightly north. 529 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:06,710 The boy's blood flowed that way. 530 00:30:11,935 --> 00:30:15,500 There's a TV in the corner near the corpse. 531 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:18,670 Some kind of sock or shoe commercial? 532 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,310 There's sheets of plastic tarp, some duct tape, bleach. 533 00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:26,690 Surely, I'm next. 534 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,270 Armand! 535 00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:34,030 I can see him walking out of the bedroom. 536 00:30:34,083 --> 00:30:37,410 I can hear you, but I can't see you. 537 00:30:37,461 --> 00:30:39,590 The doorframe is blocking you. 538 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,350 Okay, yeah. 539 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,330 Armand puts the table back and... 540 00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:49,360 finds the recorder under the TV. 541 00:30:50,432 --> 00:30:53,370 Brings it to the table. Huh. 542 00:30:53,860 --> 00:30:55,420 He ejects the tape. 543 00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:58,540 Yeah. Flips it over... 544 00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:03,700 and... presses play. 545 00:31:05,190 --> 00:31:08,330 I hear my voice on the recorder. 546 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:09,900 ... the more you liked it. 547 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,310 A fresh young girl that was his favorite food, 548 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,100 but the triumphant kill for a sadist like Lestat 549 00:31:15,150 --> 00:31:18,600 - was always a young man. - Armand! 550 00:31:18,650 --> 00:31:20,160 A young man like yourself 551 00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:22,320 would have appealed to him in particular. 552 00:31:22,370 --> 00:31:26,050 You see, they represented the greatest loss to Lestat, 553 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:28,560 because they stood on the threshold 554 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:29,959 of the maximum possibility of life. 555 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,920 - Rest. - Of course... 556 00:31:31,974 --> 00:31:33,810 Lestat didn't understand this himself. 557 00:31:33,860 --> 00:31:35,940 Lestat understood nothing. 558 00:31:36,970 --> 00:31:37,979 Curious. 559 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:40,140 Armand stands over you. 560 00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:41,860 He's commandeered your body. 561 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,220 Rise. 562 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,600 Armand. 563 00:31:51,530 --> 00:31:53,980 From Polynesian Mary's. I was with Louis. 564 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,580 - I can't move. - Move your body? 565 00:31:57,630 --> 00:32:00,080 Yeah. Yeah. 566 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,790 - I don't want... - To die? 567 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,460 On that item, 568 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,920 I think I know something you don't. 569 00:32:18,820 --> 00:32:21,510 I'm told you've lived a fascinating life. 570 00:32:21,565 --> 00:32:23,980 - I never said that. - No, Louis did. 571 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,310 Leave him alone, Armand! 572 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,230 - Armand! - You held Louis' attention. 573 00:32:35,340 --> 00:32:38,120 He confessed his innermost secrets to you. 574 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,990 I wanted drugs. 575 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,200 - We didn't even have sex, man. - 128 boys he's brought here. 576 00:32:44,250 --> 00:32:45,260 He said five. 577 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,560 And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain. 578 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,930 - This is so bad! - That makes you special. 579 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:53,221 Please, man, I'm just a shitty little kid from Modesto. 580 00:32:53,222 --> 00:32:54,700 That warrants investigation. 581 00:32:54,730 --> 00:32:56,900 I could be on my knees in a second. 582 00:32:58,180 --> 00:32:59,380 Bartering with desire. 583 00:32:59,410 --> 00:33:01,430 Is that what makes you fascinating? 584 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,900 He didn't even want me in the end! 585 00:33:03,950 --> 00:33:05,600 I mean, look at my neck! 586 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,220 I'm fucking bleeding down to my ankles! 587 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,860 - "Vera." - She's a single mother. 588 00:33:14,910 --> 00:33:17,360 Works in a titty bar on Market Street. 589 00:33:17,410 --> 00:33:18,560 "Kevin." 590 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,760 Some Vietnam vet who lives in The Castro 591 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,190 with his Vietnamese refugee boyfriend with no legs. 592 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,700 You think, in all these spools, 593 00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:28,150 you've arrived at some ineffable truth? 594 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,930 No, it's all bullshit. 595 00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:32,020 An instinct to self-efface. 596 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,820 Is that what makes you fascinating? 597 00:33:33,870 --> 00:33:36,180 Okay, yes. 598 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:39,530 I'm good at getting angles, 599 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,730 getting people to open up. 600 00:33:42,780 --> 00:33:46,400 I can't feel my body. It's freaking me out. 601 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,220 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 602 00:33:53,380 --> 00:33:54,500 Armand! 603 00:33:54,550 --> 00:33:57,440 You're going to teach me how to be fascinating. 604 00:33:57,494 --> 00:34:00,520 Leave him be, Armand! Stop! 605 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,030 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazines. 606 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,740 Sold them at recess. 607 00:34:06,790 --> 00:34:09,920 A little dirty, a little deceitful, but it's enterprising. 608 00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:11,790 Is that what makes you fascinating? 609 00:34:11,842 --> 00:34:14,050 - How are you... ? - In high school, you told a girl 610 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:17,790 you'd only do her if she had a paper bag over her head. 611 00:34:17,820 --> 00:34:21,260 She agreed and you did it even as she cried. 612 00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:23,220 A splinter of coldness in you? 613 00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:25,950 Is that what makes you fascinating? 614 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:27,550 My legs are starting to cramp. 615 00:34:27,608 --> 00:34:29,500 Even his transgressions are ordinary! 616 00:34:29,550 --> 00:34:31,560 Louis, the pinhole's closing back up. 617 00:34:31,612 --> 00:34:34,190 Okay, it's you who's fascinating! 618 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:35,600 You can read minds, right? 619 00:34:35,657 --> 00:34:37,600 Louis thinks I'm boring. 620 00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:40,453 - I have Charlie Horse, left leg. - Do you find me boring? 621 00:34:40,454 --> 00:34:41,570 No. 622 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,580 Do you want to hear my story? 623 00:34:52,630 --> 00:34:55,000 Yes. Yes! 624 00:34:55,670 --> 00:34:56,780 Yes. 625 00:35:00,590 --> 00:35:01,980 My first memory. 626 00:35:03,620 --> 00:35:06,270 I'm being run down by slavers in Delhi. 627 00:35:07,930 --> 00:35:09,140 My second. 628 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:15,950 Hmm. 629 00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:21,860 An eager black hole. 630 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,870 Oh, my God. 631 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,570 I'll keep digging. 632 00:35:31,780 --> 00:35:33,720 But I'm not... 633 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,420 not hopeful there's much more to you, Daniel, 634 00:35:36,470 --> 00:35:37,803 other than a hole. 635 00:35:45,727 --> 00:35:47,640 I was in Zheleznogorsk 636 00:35:47,690 --> 00:35:50,100 to interview an operative for the KGB. 637 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,500 Halfway through I tried to go to the bathroom. 638 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:54,940 He'd locked me in. 639 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,680 I was the one being interviewed. 640 00:35:57,730 --> 00:35:58,824 Your point? 641 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,780 I don't know. No point. 642 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,830 Other than, fuck your boyfriend. 643 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,870 Rage is an imprecise emotion. 644 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,240 I'd hurt him, but I was fragile, an invalid. 645 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,160 Spiro Agnew? 646 00:36:17,020 --> 00:36:19,060 Daniel? Daniel? 647 00:36:19,110 --> 00:36:21,020 Washington insiders are claiming 648 00:36:21,070 --> 00:36:24,620 this Saturday evening that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew 649 00:36:24,650 --> 00:36:26,380 may be close to resigning 650 00:36:26,430 --> 00:36:28,830 in light of ongoing investigations. 651 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,240 Federal prosecutors will soon present evidence 652 00:36:31,250 --> 00:36:32,940 - to a Baltimore Grand Jury... - Yeah, I'm with him now. 653 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,740 ... over the Vice President allegedly... 654 00:36:34,770 --> 00:36:36,970 - I won't say where. - Saturday. 655 00:36:37,020 --> 00:36:38,200 It was Saturday. 656 00:36:38,220 --> 00:36:40,100 But we met on Tuesday. 657 00:36:40,157 --> 00:36:43,750 So, I was the house pet for what? 658 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,280 One, two, three, four days? 659 00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:51,950 - Your boyfriend... - I'm with him now. 660 00:36:52,002 --> 00:36:54,044 ... was in a trance of some sort. 661 00:36:54,045 --> 00:36:56,240 - I won't tell you why. - I don't know. I can't... 662 00:36:56,298 --> 00:36:58,830 - No. - Lunch is almost over. Try. 663 00:36:58,884 --> 00:37:00,580 - I won't say where. - You fucking try. 664 00:37:00,630 --> 00:37:03,500 - You were there. - Go back to the chair, the TV. 665 00:37:03,530 --> 00:37:06,000 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew may be... 666 00:37:06,050 --> 00:37:08,380 This feet in the block shit is bullshit. 667 00:37:08,435 --> 00:37:10,470 You're in the chair, the TV is on... 668 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,340 - Some service stations... - Armand, can you come?! 669 00:37:13,390 --> 00:37:14,796 I can't get up. 670 00:37:14,820 --> 00:37:17,760 It hurts! Put me in the coffin. 671 00:37:17,819 --> 00:37:19,520 Coffin. 672 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,400 Yeah, it's you. You keep saying coffin. 673 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,480 My nose is bleeding? 674 00:37:28,538 --> 00:37:31,360 - Some service stations... - Armand, can you come?! 675 00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:33,260 Where are you?! 676 00:37:33,310 --> 00:37:34,900 The pain is back! 677 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,920 It's like I'm still burning! 678 00:37:36,970 --> 00:37:40,410 Armand, put me in the coffin! 679 00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:42,120 Please! 680 00:37:42,177 --> 00:37:43,660 - Yes. - Thank you. 681 00:37:43,710 --> 00:37:46,060 Rest. 682 00:37:46,110 --> 00:37:47,800 Uhh! Oh! 683 00:37:47,850 --> 00:37:50,260 ... consumers and gas station owners. 684 00:38:09,530 --> 00:38:10,980 I listened to the tapes. 685 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,760 All of them twice. 686 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:17,430 - What? - Lestat, Lestat. 687 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,240 Claudia, Lestat, Lestat. 688 00:38:21,290 --> 00:38:23,780 And all I talked about him was trash. 689 00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:25,980 Yes, you said that. But why? 690 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,393 It's not exactly how you've talked about him to me. 691 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,580 Did I catch you in a fantasy, 692 00:38:33,630 --> 00:38:36,920 where the boy somehow fumbles his way to publication? 693 00:38:37,820 --> 00:38:40,640 Where Lestat strolls past a bookstore, 694 00:38:40,694 --> 00:38:44,160 your book displayed in the shop window, 695 00:38:44,210 --> 00:38:46,680 where he buys himself a copy, 696 00:38:46,730 --> 00:38:48,380 reads your nasty embellishments 697 00:38:48,430 --> 00:38:50,690 and comes chasing after you again? 698 00:38:57,350 --> 00:38:59,796 If you want the insanity back, 699 00:39:00,420 --> 00:39:04,770 if you wanted escape from this prison of empathy 700 00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:06,320 I've locked you away in, 701 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,210 all you had to do was ask, Louis. 702 00:39:16,460 --> 00:39:20,420 A final act of service I'd like to perform before I... 703 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,820 I leave you to yourself. 704 00:39:25,460 --> 00:39:26,770 I know where he is. 705 00:39:30,118 --> 00:39:32,360 I found his voice among the many. 706 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:34,770 No. 707 00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,540 I told him I was with you. 708 00:39:44,671 --> 00:39:46,080 Lestat. 709 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,550 No. 710 00:39:49,721 --> 00:39:52,820 I told him you were thinking of him again. 711 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:55,684 - Lestat. - No! 712 00:39:58,355 --> 00:40:00,740 Yes. I'm here. 713 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:03,580 He's waiting for you. 714 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,380 I'm with him now. 715 00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,200 He cannot hear you. 716 00:40:08,250 --> 00:40:09,850 He has injured himself. 717 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:11,840 Louis? 718 00:40:11,890 --> 00:40:13,000 No. 719 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,000 This is your chance, Louis. I am your maker's voice. 720 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,220 Louis? 721 00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:20,030 Louis. 722 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,370 - Mon cher. - Mon cher. 723 00:40:26,270 --> 00:40:28,750 You wanted to say something to me? 724 00:40:28,802 --> 00:40:31,120 You wanted to say something to me? 725 00:40:31,860 --> 00:40:35,140 Why are you ill? What's happened to you? 726 00:40:35,190 --> 00:40:38,300 Why are you ill? What's happened to you? 727 00:40:40,410 --> 00:40:41,950 I love you, Louis. 728 00:40:41,980 --> 00:40:43,620 Uh... 729 00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:46,460 Tell him I love him, Armand. 730 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:50,160 I love you, Louis. 731 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,540 Tell him, Armand. 732 00:40:55,250 --> 00:40:56,790 Tell him! 733 00:40:58,170 --> 00:40:59,650 Louis? 734 00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:01,480 Louis. 735 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:03,860 Louis! 736 00:41:03,910 --> 00:41:06,080 Louis! 737 00:41:08,130 --> 00:41:09,500 Uh... 738 00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:14,200 He was my maker. 739 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,270 It's nothing more. 740 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,340 You left me for death. 741 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:28,090 Will I be on suicide watch for the next 1,000 years? 742 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,830 Have I atoned for my part of... 743 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,500 Paris? 744 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,190 Have I crawled an inch forward? 745 00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:42,490 Or am I a reminder of the worst of it? 746 00:41:55,220 --> 00:41:56,514 I'll finish cleaning up. 747 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,300 Rest. 748 00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:03,310 Rest. 749 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,360 Rest. 750 00:42:07,410 --> 00:42:09,680 He said that to me too. 751 00:42:10,150 --> 00:42:11,780 Rest. 752 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:13,710 Shh, shh-shh-shh. 753 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,150 Rest now. 754 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,140 A bunch of words... 755 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,163 but it started with "rest". 756 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,990 "Rest" and then? 757 00:42:28,130 --> 00:42:30,410 Shh, rest. 758 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,380 I've been calling to you for some time. 759 00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:39,520 From every bad fix, 760 00:42:39,570 --> 00:42:42,730 from the unnamed malaise you feel Sunday afternoons. 761 00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:47,430 And now here I am, and you can rest. 762 00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:50,890 I don't want to rest. 763 00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:54,740 I am the quiet you've been longing for. 764 00:42:57,140 --> 00:42:59,400 After all the garishness of life, 765 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:03,680 - the jostling, the clawing... - I like my life. 766 00:43:03,730 --> 00:43:07,030 ... the dull thrum of desperation in you. 767 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,040 Will I get the fixes I need? 768 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:11,720 Will I be somebody? 769 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,170 Will I get the fixes I need to be somebody? 770 00:43:16,220 --> 00:43:20,600 But, Daniel, you already know who you'll be. 771 00:43:22,020 --> 00:43:24,720 An ugly duplex back in Modesto. 772 00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:29,510 A job in an office with drab carpets and flickering lights. 773 00:43:29,566 --> 00:43:32,180 A woman in the mold of your mother, 774 00:43:32,230 --> 00:43:34,390 vacuuming on valium. 775 00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:38,480 A genteel drinking problem, like your father. 776 00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:41,650 Your wife counting down your thrusts. 777 00:43:42,850 --> 00:43:45,570 Your children shying away from you. 778 00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:50,530 All the confidence and hope of your youth 779 00:43:50,580 --> 00:43:55,670 replaced by a seething, boiling regret. 780 00:43:56,390 --> 00:43:57,980 Until one day, 781 00:43:59,350 --> 00:44:01,260 you're at a traffic light. 782 00:44:02,260 --> 00:44:06,330 The light turns green, horns honking. 783 00:44:07,050 --> 00:44:08,560 You don't move. 784 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,400 Horns honking. 785 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,260 You don't move. 786 00:44:13,310 --> 00:44:16,340 I have a thing happening in the city. 787 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,280 I'm a bright young reporter 788 00:44:20,330 --> 00:44:21,900 - with a point of view. - Shh-shh-shh. 789 00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:23,980 A comfortable chair 790 00:44:24,030 --> 00:44:26,610 in a room that slants to the north. 791 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,820 An easeful death. 792 00:44:29,876 --> 00:44:31,310 Rest. 793 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,200 It's okay. 794 00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:38,490 It's okay. 795 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,260 It's okay. 796 00:44:43,060 --> 00:44:44,960 It'll feel like a bath. 797 00:44:45,016 --> 00:44:46,430 Rest. 798 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,080 Like honey on your tongue. 799 00:44:49,130 --> 00:44:51,280 It is the comfort we all long for. 800 00:44:53,530 --> 00:44:56,780 - The end. - Rest. 801 00:44:57,980 --> 00:44:59,220 Rest. 802 00:45:02,540 --> 00:45:05,380 Come. Come. 803 00:45:05,430 --> 00:45:08,150 I'll hold you, you rest now. 804 00:45:20,060 --> 00:45:21,920 Stop, Armand. 805 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,960 I'm cleaning up the mess. 806 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,430 It doesn't need cleaning. 807 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,510 After what you've put me through here, I deserve this. 808 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:37,860 I know. 809 00:45:38,930 --> 00:45:40,980 But I need this one to live. 810 00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:45,440 As a testament to our companionship. 811 00:45:45,490 --> 00:45:47,100 Of its endurance. 812 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,440 This boy to live out the night. 813 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,080 Are you asking, Maitre? 814 00:46:02,135 --> 00:46:04,230 No, Arun. 815 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,210 I'm not asking. 816 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,180 Daniel? 817 00:47:03,750 --> 00:47:06,810 Page 484. 818 00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:09,660 "Listen as though I'm the voice of God 819 00:47:09,710 --> 00:47:12,280 or an angel talking to you. 820 00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:14,800 Telling you this room doesn't matter, 821 00:47:14,850 --> 00:47:16,900 this night doesn't matter. 822 00:47:16,950 --> 00:47:19,440 You're not inconsequential 823 00:47:19,490 --> 00:47:21,320 or a junkie. 824 00:47:21,370 --> 00:47:24,950 You're a bright young reporter with a point of view. 825 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,240 There are stories that need to be told. 826 00:47:28,290 --> 00:47:30,080 If things ever get bad again, 827 00:47:30,130 --> 00:47:32,760 these are the words you'll hear in your mind 828 00:47:32,790 --> 00:47:35,400 like a tape playing over and over, 829 00:47:35,450 --> 00:47:38,180 like a song stuck in your brain. 830 00:47:38,231 --> 00:47:42,030 These words will hold you up and carry you. 831 00:47:44,050 --> 00:47:46,040 They are your lifeline." 832 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,910 That's a free-baser I befriended 833 00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:59,260 for a few days at the drug den. 834 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:04,490 He told me to get my shit together 835 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,180 and then he Richard Pryor'd in front of me. 836 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,380 Everyone scrambled, but I stuck around, watched him burn. 837 00:48:11,431 --> 00:48:14,360 What's always confused me was that... 838 00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:21,800 You know, he said those words to me, 839 00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:25,590 and he was already all burnt up. 840 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,000 Figured I'd conflated the two events. 841 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:31,600 But I didn't. 842 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:35,920 Because it was you. 843 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:47,960 I destroyed two marriages. 844 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,400 I fucked up two daughters. 845 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000 But I stayed a journalist. 846 00:48:57,210 --> 00:48:58,620 I... 847 00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:03,470 I was never so lost I couldn't hold down a job. 848 00:49:10,110 --> 00:49:14,080 We, I think... gave you more drugs. 849 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,900 Distorted it all in your mind. 850 00:49:16,950 --> 00:49:18,360 You woke up in a drug den. 851 00:49:18,410 --> 00:49:20,070 Fed you a truncated version. 852 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,230 - He bit you. - He bit me. 853 00:49:22,250 --> 00:49:24,850 - You blacked out. - I blacked out. 854 00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:26,600 You woke up in a drug den. 855 00:49:26,650 --> 00:49:28,620 I woke up in a drug den. 856 00:49:28,670 --> 00:49:30,590 - He bit you. - He bit me. 857 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,940 - You blacked out. - I blacked out. 858 00:49:32,990 --> 00:49:34,460 You woke up in a drug den. 859 00:49:34,510 --> 00:49:36,500 Armand fogged my brain. 860 00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:38,400 - He bit you. - Redacted himself, 861 00:49:38,450 --> 00:49:40,470 which accounts for why I didn't remember. 862 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:41,880 Yes. 863 00:49:42,660 --> 00:49:44,970 And what accounts for why you didn't? 864 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,600 I was disfigured. I was in pain. 865 00:49:48,630 --> 00:49:51,430 But you remember right up until you bit me. 866 00:49:51,489 --> 00:49:54,460 And I remember right up until when you bit me. 867 00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:59,190 And then both our memories cut out. 868 00:49:59,247 --> 00:50:03,120 Same precise edit on two brains? 869 00:50:16,810 --> 00:50:20,240 - How was your lunch? - Entertaining. 870 00:50:20,290 --> 00:50:22,710 He made it all the way to the Burj Khalifa. 871 00:50:23,470 --> 00:50:25,050 How's Paris? 872 00:50:25,106 --> 00:50:26,730 We paused Paris. 873 00:50:26,780 --> 00:50:28,550 Reminisced about San Francisco. 874 00:50:29,610 --> 00:50:30,720 And? 875 00:50:30,778 --> 00:50:32,690 It started with Daniel. 876 00:50:32,740 --> 00:50:35,810 He asked why you saved him in 1973. 877 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:38,860 Hmm. 878 00:50:40,750 --> 00:50:43,140 I could see you were partial to him. 879 00:50:43,190 --> 00:50:46,410 I preserve your happiness even when you don't or can't. 880 00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:48,240 - I had a hunch... - I had a hunch... 881 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,460 Daniel might prove fruitful in later times. 882 00:51:07,410 --> 00:51:15,580 - Synced & corrected by MementMori - -- www.addic7ed.com --