1 00:00:25,651 --> 00:00:28,320 49 years and thousands of miles 2 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,540 removed from the room we shared in San Francisco. 3 00:00:31,590 --> 00:00:35,900 I offer for your journalistic pleasures my life story. 4 00:00:35,953 --> 00:00:37,190 _ 5 00:00:37,246 --> 00:00:41,320 Take us back to the beginning of this story of butchery. 6 00:00:41,375 --> 00:00:43,209 - I love you, Louis. - I love you, too, baby brother. 7 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:46,620 I could not join the transformation of those in attendance. 8 00:00:46,670 --> 00:00:51,310 - He would not let me. - Come to me. Be my companion. 9 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,570 Session ten the vampire Louis and the vampire Armand. 10 00:00:56,620 --> 00:00:58,250 I failed Louis once in my life. 11 00:00:58,309 --> 00:00:59,720 It wasn't in San Francisco. 12 00:00:59,770 --> 00:01:02,220 Why did I owe you my one act of cowardice? 13 00:01:02,270 --> 00:01:04,840 - Silence! - You broke one of the great laws. 14 00:01:04,890 --> 00:01:07,820 I don't know any great laws. Lestat never told me shit. 15 00:01:07,850 --> 00:01:09,810 We were on trial for murder. 16 00:01:09,862 --> 00:01:12,570 - You were forced to watch. - Or they'd kill me. 17 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:14,326 His name was Magnus. He took me from my room 18 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:16,940 - as I kicked and screamed. - I want to get out alive. 19 00:01:16,990 --> 00:01:18,300 You want a book. 20 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,800 What say you, for the vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac? 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,300 - Banishment. - Banishment. 22 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,336 Banishment! 23 00:01:26,337 --> 00:01:27,910 A sentence worse than death. 24 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:29,330 - You saved Louis. - Yes. 25 00:01:29,380 --> 00:01:32,580 - No, no! - But not her. 26 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:35,020 I could not prevent it. 27 00:01:37,014 --> 00:01:38,830 I could not prevent it. 28 00:01:48,250 --> 00:01:53,250 - Synced & corrected by MementMori - -- www.addic7ed.com -- 29 00:02:02,130 --> 00:02:07,550 _ 30 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:48,980 A quiet, easeful death. 31 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:54,020 What else would it be? 32 00:02:55,820 --> 00:02:57,480 I had nowhere to go. 33 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:01,620 No one to talk to. 34 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:05,920 She was dead. 35 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,220 I knew it. 36 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:12,440 Claudia was dead. 37 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,060 I could feel it. 38 00:03:16,060 --> 00:03:18,140 Like I couldn't feel my hands... 39 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:20,900 or my back. 40 00:03:23,210 --> 00:03:25,120 Like I could feel my heart... 41 00:03:27,780 --> 00:03:29,840 pumping slower every night. 42 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,510 Or my broken arm resetting itself. 43 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,220 My ankles... healed in the coffin, 44 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,520 the flesh having... 45 00:03:43,550 --> 00:03:47,000 circled around the insulating rocks of my death bed. 46 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,980 Are they still there, right now, in your feet? 47 00:03:55,020 --> 00:03:58,310 If you took an X-ray, they'd look like little cancers. 48 00:03:58,363 --> 00:04:01,650 He could remove them anytime he wanted to. 49 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,410 Or maybe he has 50 00:04:04,450 --> 00:04:07,410 and he's been lying to you all these years for effect. 51 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:14,370 What were the consequences of you saving Louis? 52 00:04:16,530 --> 00:04:17,800 Demotion. 53 00:04:19,010 --> 00:04:20,160 Ridicule. 54 00:04:21,490 --> 00:04:24,180 Santiago had suspected I had rigged the audience 55 00:04:24,230 --> 00:04:26,290 to spare Louis's life. 56 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:28,360 So he made certain I would not forget 57 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,430 my insubordination as part of my penance. 58 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,580 Darkness was delirium. 59 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:39,740 I tried to paint alternatives. 60 00:04:43,890 --> 00:04:47,100 Lucid what ifs. 61 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:50,440 Wear a different suit the night you meet Lestat at the Fair Play. 62 00:04:51,820 --> 00:04:54,490 Snatch the piece of candy back from the barber 63 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,040 when you're seven years old. 64 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,290 Would I have been stronger sooner? 65 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,000 Would I have resisted Lestat two decades later? 66 00:05:08,190 --> 00:05:09,960 Snatch the candy! 67 00:05:12,187 --> 00:05:14,130 Be the man in the different suit. 68 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:19,890 But the suit changes nothing, 69 00:05:22,250 --> 00:05:23,350 and again... 70 00:05:23,407 --> 00:05:24,770 _ 71 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:27,520 I'm kissing Lestat on the altar. 72 00:05:30,620 --> 00:05:33,200 I'm killing Lestat, but won't burn him. 73 00:05:35,878 --> 00:05:37,950 I'm dragged off stage... 74 00:05:40,290 --> 00:05:41,980 and buried alive. 75 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,250 Penny candy's not the answer. 76 00:05:51,180 --> 00:05:53,010 Claudia is dead. 77 00:05:55,750 --> 00:05:58,760 The worst nights were the pragmatic ones. 78 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:01,890 A rock shifts by my knee. 79 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:04,590 Could I make another rock move? 80 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,540 Could I free my knee 81 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,980 to exploit the craftsmanship of the coffin? 82 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,290 But it was all ravings. 83 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:15,580 The rock hadn't moved. 84 00:06:15,620 --> 00:06:17,740 The craftsmanship was solid. 85 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,060 Claudia is dead. 86 00:06:21,450 --> 00:06:25,370 When a vampire starts screaming from starvation, 87 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:27,620 he hasn't much time left. 88 00:06:27,670 --> 00:06:30,030 I didn't know I was screaming. 89 00:06:31,620 --> 00:06:34,210 I had no energy to scream. 90 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:38,480 If I had I would have used it 91 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,680 to ignite the clothes on my body, self-immolate. 92 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,300 What was left to endure for? 93 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,330 Claudia is dead. 94 00:06:54,498 --> 00:06:56,406 Good day, master. 95 00:06:56,430 --> 00:06:58,860 And as Louis withered away, 96 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:01,950 life in the theater returned to abnormal. 97 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,000 The old plays were remounted, 98 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:08,330 the pack hunts revitalized, 99 00:07:08,387 --> 00:07:13,260 all under the increasingly self-satisfied eye of Santiago. 100 00:07:13,310 --> 00:07:14,860 You ruined his play. 101 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,590 They didn't get to kill Louis on stage. 102 00:07:17,646 --> 00:07:21,360 And Santiago improvised a worse death. 103 00:07:21,410 --> 00:07:23,470 He had outwitted me... 104 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,520 hurt me deeply. 105 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,150 And I played up that hurt. 106 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,480 My subjugation cemented his power amongst the coven. 107 00:07:34,530 --> 00:07:37,110 So how did you get him out? 108 00:07:40,740 --> 00:07:43,720 I placed a sacrifice in an old vault coffin. 109 00:07:43,770 --> 00:07:45,500 Swapped that coffin for Louis's. 110 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:49,290 I was the defeated vampire, Mr. Molloy. 111 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,300 No one was looking. 112 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:55,210 Uh-huh. 113 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,640 Does anyone ever ask Lazarus if he wanted to be woken? 114 00:08:03,110 --> 00:08:04,970 I don't read the Bible much anymore. 115 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:07,650 No one gives a shit about Lazarus's point of view 116 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,480 is what I remember. 117 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:11,370 I tasted the blood. 118 00:08:11,420 --> 00:08:12,951 I knew it was his. 119 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,400 "Why?" I thought, "Claudia is dead." 120 00:08:17,456 --> 00:08:19,190 I was dead. 121 00:08:21,501 --> 00:08:23,910 I was dead. 122 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:27,410 But my rage... 123 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:33,150 My rage had risen. 124 00:08:35,380 --> 00:08:38,850 Followed closely behind by my madness. 125 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,440 They moved from shadow to shadow, 126 00:08:43,490 --> 00:08:46,440 towards the cemetery in Montmartre. 127 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,690 Why that place, it wasn't certain. 128 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,500 It wasn't safe to return to the apartment. 129 00:08:55,550 --> 00:08:57,730 That would imply it was rational. 130 00:08:58,180 --> 00:09:00,650 Proximity to the theater? 131 00:09:02,070 --> 00:09:03,570 Maybe. 132 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:12,290 My rage had been denied blood. 133 00:09:13,650 --> 00:09:17,130 My rage was lightheaded. 134 00:09:17,180 --> 00:09:21,720 My rage killed without a single measure of satisfaction. 135 00:09:23,670 --> 00:09:26,400 My rage found a forgotten crypt 136 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,280 amongst the forgotten dead. 137 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,930 My rage hid its killings there. 138 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:34,250 Do your job. 139 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:37,400 And conspired with my madness 140 00:09:37,450 --> 00:09:39,680 on a plan for retribution. 141 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:42,360 Hans. 142 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,570 Sam... Sam. 143 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,830 Quang. Hans. 144 00:09:52,470 --> 00:09:54,380 Luchenbaum! 145 00:09:54,420 --> 00:09:56,050 Du-du-du! Tuan. 146 00:09:56,090 --> 00:09:58,430 Basilic. Planche. 147 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,500 Eglee. Merde'em. 148 00:10:00,550 --> 00:10:02,760 Santiago! 149 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,970 Armand... Sam. Sam! 150 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:08,940 Sam, Hans, Tuan, Quang! 151 00:10:12,487 --> 00:10:15,940 Meow! Sam, Hans, Tuan, Quang, Planche, 152 00:10:15,990 --> 00:10:18,540 Estelle, Quang, Sam... 153 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:31,420 Oh... 154 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,450 _ 155 00:10:43,610 --> 00:10:45,400 There's a lot of 'em in there. 156 00:10:45,450 --> 00:10:47,680 Some'll wake before it gets 'em. 157 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:49,130 _ 158 00:10:49,170 --> 00:10:52,560 I should think about taking heads. 159 00:10:52,610 --> 00:10:54,390 _ 160 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,810 - _ - Speak English! 161 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,480 You're not a farmer. I would use the machete. 162 00:11:01,180 --> 00:11:02,760 One of them tries to escape? 163 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,150 You should stand at the top of the stairs. 164 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,030 Behind the stairs. 165 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,340 Cut their feet off if they go up, 166 00:11:14,390 --> 00:11:17,300 but in range if they run downstairs for the sewers. 167 00:11:17,330 --> 00:11:18,780 That's better. 168 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:21,820 Louis. Louis. 169 00:11:21,870 --> 00:11:25,510 Planche is a big boy. Gustave is strong. 170 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:27,906 - Why haven't you left Paris? - If you get in a fight or delay, 171 00:11:27,930 --> 00:11:30,720 - you'll be consumed with them. - Pour more gas on this, 172 00:11:30,770 --> 00:11:31,942 and this one... 173 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:34,106 I'm gonna need to borrow your truck. 174 00:11:34,130 --> 00:11:36,080 - Louis. - I don't have any use for it now. 175 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,100 I know you can hear me. You must leave Paris. 176 00:11:39,150 --> 00:11:40,830 Maybe you should answer him. 177 00:11:40,850 --> 00:11:42,226 He knows the theater more than you. 178 00:11:42,250 --> 00:11:43,720 Maybe you should shut up! 179 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:46,990 Louis, save yourself. 180 00:11:47,820 --> 00:11:49,584 - They're going to find out what I did. - Shut up. 181 00:11:49,585 --> 00:11:53,410 - Do not worry about me. - I ain't fucking worried about you! 182 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:01,800 Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 183 00:12:06,180 --> 00:12:08,670 A-huh. A-huh. 184 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,600 Sam tossed her in the rat box, in the rat box was Sam. 185 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,920 Hans hauled me off, ugly costume. 186 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,740 Tuan wants to die. Quang hauled me out. 187 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:18,330 - Wants to die. - Louis. 188 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,420 Louis, please listen to me. 189 00:12:23,994 --> 00:12:27,030 If I could explain to you the events, 190 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:32,170 I think you would understand why it was I acted as I did. 191 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,110 I know you will never forgive me. 192 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,850 - I am not seeking forgiveness. - Shhhhh! 193 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:40,280 Shh-shh-shh. 194 00:12:41,261 --> 00:12:44,280 Louis? Is that you? 195 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,380 Did you save me at the trial? 196 00:12:48,650 --> 00:12:50,000 Yes. 197 00:12:51,820 --> 00:12:53,910 Did you pull me out of the wall? 198 00:12:53,930 --> 00:12:55,180 Yes. 199 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,930 I could not save her. 200 00:12:57,986 --> 00:12:59,880 If I thought there was a way, I would have... 201 00:12:59,930 --> 00:13:01,340 Shut up. Shut... 202 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:04,880 How ever you manage it, 203 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,360 do not find yourself at the theater tomorrow night at curfew. 204 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:14,240 - _ - Okay. 205 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,990 Uh, did you know he was going to burn it down? 206 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,466 No. 207 00:13:20,070 --> 00:13:21,460 But I could sense the fatalism 208 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:22,590 - in his thoughts. - _ 209 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:26,170 - You warned him. - Yes. 210 00:13:26,220 --> 00:13:27,880 He'd already betrayed you once. 211 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:29,940 They were his coven for hundreds of years. 212 00:13:29,990 --> 00:13:31,520 - Why risk it? - _ 213 00:13:31,550 --> 00:13:33,688 My rage and madness were asleep? 214 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:35,840 It was a test? 215 00:13:35,890 --> 00:13:37,380 _ 216 00:13:37,420 --> 00:13:38,526 I don't remember. 217 00:13:39,740 --> 00:13:41,700 If you're wrong, you're dead. 218 00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:44,810 There was 13 of them and one of me. 219 00:13:44,866 --> 00:13:47,190 I was going to die either way. 220 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:49,360 Same question to you. 221 00:13:49,410 --> 00:13:51,860 They were your coven for hundreds of years. 222 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:53,400 You had no feelings for any of them? 223 00:13:53,450 --> 00:13:55,160 I had complicated feelings. 224 00:13:55,210 --> 00:13:57,530 But you didn't warn any of them? 225 00:13:57,587 --> 00:13:58,870 No. 226 00:13:58,922 --> 00:14:00,670 Thirteen to one. 227 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,660 Maybe you were hedging your bets? 228 00:14:02,710 --> 00:14:04,580 See who emerges from the ash heap. 229 00:14:04,630 --> 00:14:06,513 - I didn't know his plan. - _ 230 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,250 I had shut my mind off to him, Daniel. 231 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:11,140 My prevailing thought was... 232 00:14:12,170 --> 00:14:15,800 if I am not with him, I am nothing. 233 00:14:15,850 --> 00:14:18,040 "... him, I am nothing." 234 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:19,180 _ 235 00:14:19,230 --> 00:14:21,486 Okay, so what was the plan? 236 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:24,160 The plan? 237 00:14:25,790 --> 00:14:27,930 I was going to die 238 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,840 and I was going to take as many of them with me as I could. 239 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,500 When a vampire commits himself to coffin, 240 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,360 all the senses collapse into submission 241 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,020 and the dark boundaries of the world begin to stretch out 242 00:14:46,070 --> 00:14:47,740 in all directions. 243 00:14:47,770 --> 00:14:49,920 And in this state, 244 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:52,642 in the lair where they slept, 245 00:14:53,220 --> 00:14:55,820 I could have been a marching band, 246 00:14:55,870 --> 00:14:59,460 or a jet engine taking off a tarmac. 247 00:14:59,490 --> 00:15:03,390 Until Paris spun back round to the sun, 248 00:15:03,420 --> 00:15:05,420 the advantage was mine. 249 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:21,337 _ 250 00:15:51,540 --> 00:15:55,320 Six by fire, two by blade, 251 00:15:55,370 --> 00:15:58,240 one by a combination of the two, 252 00:15:58,290 --> 00:16:02,410 no legs, one arm, still clutching onto his clarinet. 253 00:16:04,690 --> 00:16:06,300 Nine in all. 254 00:16:07,175 --> 00:16:10,690 And with no sign of Armand or Lestat, 255 00:16:10,740 --> 00:16:13,130 that meant four had escaped. 256 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:17,010 Two out the front, two through the sewers. 257 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,680 But I had planned for contingencies. 258 00:16:21,731 --> 00:16:23,800 It had to be the London coven! 259 00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:25,990 They have always been jealous of us! 260 00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:27,950 It's because we started speaking English. 261 00:16:27,980 --> 00:16:29,710 It's because we took over from Armand 262 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:31,560 and they smelled weakness, you idiot! 263 00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:33,535 - Or maybe it was Eglee? - Eglee?! 264 00:16:33,536 --> 00:16:36,320 She never got over you stealing Santiago. 265 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:38,440 You try drinking from Gustave after... 266 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:42,085 - It was London! - Arson is an act of passion. 267 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,820 Celeste? Estelle?! 268 00:16:56,620 --> 00:16:58,440 Hello, Francis. 269 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,774 You! 270 00:17:05,730 --> 00:17:07,026 Did I wake you? 271 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,620 I tried to be quiet coming and going, 272 00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:13,340 but all those iron joists cracking 273 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,360 and load-bearing beams falling down on you, well... 274 00:17:16,390 --> 00:17:19,440 - Is your companion with you? - Didn't you hear? 275 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:21,860 We broke up. 276 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:24,270 Oh, I rather doubt that. 277 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,180 Hard to hold hands after he killed my sister 278 00:17:26,230 --> 00:17:27,650 and fledgling, but think what you want. 279 00:17:27,670 --> 00:17:30,720 Don't let him take credit for the workman role he played, Louis. 280 00:17:30,770 --> 00:17:34,280 It was me that planned their deaths. 281 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:40,690 It was me that gave Claudia that hot exit from the garden! 282 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:42,050 Come to me. 283 00:17:42,103 --> 00:17:44,206 Did Armand tell you what we did with her ashes 284 00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:45,960 after he pulled you from the wall? 285 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,430 Come to me, Francis. 286 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:48,870 We used her as eye shadow 287 00:17:48,890 --> 00:17:51,000 for the next month's performances. 288 00:17:51,050 --> 00:17:53,290 We put them in the pepper shaker for the popcorn 289 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,820 we sold in the aisles. And some nights, Louis... 290 00:17:55,870 --> 00:17:58,790 - Come to me, Francis. - ... I put a pinch of them in my fist 291 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,940 before I closed my coffin at night. 292 00:18:00,990 --> 00:18:02,890 I would spit in them 293 00:18:02,940 --> 00:18:07,669 and I'd use her hot, wet ashes to pleasure myself. 294 00:18:07,670 --> 00:18:09,580 Come to me, Francis. 295 00:18:09,630 --> 00:18:13,400 It's Santiago to you, you firebug bugger! 296 00:18:13,450 --> 00:18:16,620 Nah! That's a Spaniard's name you took. 297 00:18:16,670 --> 00:18:19,100 Took it to forget who you were, Francis. 298 00:18:19,130 --> 00:18:22,640 Took it to compensate for what God denied you, Francis. 299 00:18:22,690 --> 00:18:24,850 That joke in between your legs 300 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,540 and that farm girl Lenora who couldn't keep quiet about it. 301 00:18:28,590 --> 00:18:32,000 She only thought it was small 'cause my testicles are so enormous. 302 00:18:32,030 --> 00:18:34,530 Then maybe it was the limp applause Francis got 303 00:18:34,550 --> 00:18:37,157 when Francis finally got on stage in London. 304 00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:41,150 For a week, as an understudy for Osric. 305 00:18:41,204 --> 00:18:43,630 Or was it the nature of your transformation 306 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:45,500 that made you change your name? 307 00:18:45,550 --> 00:18:47,500 The desperate begging, 308 00:18:47,550 --> 00:18:49,640 the urine racing down your leg 309 00:18:49,670 --> 00:18:53,800 as Francis desperately tried to take back his wish to be a vampire. 310 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,011 I can see your maker's face now, 311 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,680 the embarrassment washing over it as you ask... 312 00:19:01,730 --> 00:19:09,880 "Can I be c-called Santi-a-a-a-go?" 313 00:19:11,310 --> 00:19:15,180 Your maker's voice as he walked away. 314 00:19:15,230 --> 00:19:17,532 "I don't care what you call yourself." 315 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:19,410 Come to me! 316 00:19:50,980 --> 00:19:53,660 Say that shit about Claudia to my face. 317 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,010 Pre-dinner martini, a touch more vermouth 318 00:20:05,060 --> 00:20:07,620 and the newspaper you asked for this morning, Mr. Molloy. 319 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,880 Santiago's failure to protect his coven, 320 00:20:11,930 --> 00:20:14,950 how quickly he ran to save his own flesh, 321 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,410 - filled him with unworthiness. - _ 322 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,540 And it made him an uncomplicated seduction. 323 00:20:20,590 --> 00:20:22,960 He brought a cloak to a knife fight. 324 00:20:23,010 --> 00:20:26,400 And all my rage and madness exited my body. 325 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,580 And nothing replaced it. 326 00:20:59,070 --> 00:21:01,020 When did you start lying to me? 327 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,590 The night of Madeleine's transformation. 328 00:21:13,860 --> 00:21:15,500 A while back, then. 329 00:21:15,550 --> 00:21:17,390 We parted at Sacré-Coeur. 330 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,400 I went back to make sure the coven would keep curfew. 331 00:21:20,450 --> 00:21:24,230 Let you do what you were going to do in safety. 332 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,460 They were all on stage, waiting for me. 333 00:21:28,510 --> 00:21:30,690 Told me they had done a rewrite, 334 00:21:30,740 --> 00:21:33,060 tossed the script at my feet and... 335 00:21:33,970 --> 00:21:35,480 I saw the title. 336 00:21:37,190 --> 00:21:38,680 And I thought... 337 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,020 it's my coven of 200 years... 338 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,750 or him. 339 00:21:47,860 --> 00:21:51,670 And at the time, I could not count on your love lasting as long. 340 00:21:52,460 --> 00:21:54,010 You rehearsed it with Lestat? 341 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,700 They rehearsed it with him. 342 00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,680 I stayed in my coffin when I was there. 343 00:21:59,730 --> 00:22:01,140 Hmm. 344 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,560 And when you spent nights over here? 345 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:10,030 I lied to you, over and over. 346 00:22:10,060 --> 00:22:14,260 Didn't once think, in all that time, telling me? 347 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,370 Make a different plan with me? 348 00:22:19,380 --> 00:22:21,840 I will spend my life making it up to you. 349 00:22:37,140 --> 00:22:38,470 You'll never make it up to me. 350 00:22:41,130 --> 00:22:42,310 I know. 351 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,060 Is Lestat still in Paris? 352 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:50,230 You'll never be able to kill him. 353 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,480 That wasn't my question. 354 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:55,360 Yes, he's still here. 355 00:22:57,335 --> 00:22:59,160 Wake me when it's night again. 356 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,120 Ask for it, child. 357 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,500 The light's going out of your blue eyes... 358 00:23:18,140 --> 00:23:21,600 like all the summer days are gone. 359 00:23:43,660 --> 00:23:45,340 Was it a good day's rest? 360 00:23:49,420 --> 00:23:51,180 Does it take a lot out of you? 361 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,800 Destroying everything in your wake? 362 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,050 Well, almost everything. 363 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,420 You look small. 364 00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:06,260 Hmm. 365 00:24:10,020 --> 00:24:11,300 He's come home. 366 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,200 This was Magnus's lair. 367 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,030 Some distance between the happy couple. 368 00:24:26,580 --> 00:24:30,169 Details left to work out after the homicidal frolic? 369 00:24:30,170 --> 00:24:33,770 Is this where he kept you, chained to the wall? 370 00:24:33,820 --> 00:24:35,230 No. 371 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,420 This was for the disappointments. 372 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:39,760 The ones before me. 373 00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:45,600 He had a knack for design. Nordic blonds on walls. 374 00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:47,340 Dirty blonds in piles, 375 00:24:47,380 --> 00:24:49,980 right about where the gremlin stands now. 376 00:24:50,031 --> 00:24:51,600 I don't care. 377 00:24:53,390 --> 00:24:54,560 Oh... 378 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,080 I came here to have a think... 379 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,180 on my origins. 380 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,180 Why I do what I do. 381 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:10,080 - Why I... - Burned your daughter alive? 382 00:25:12,020 --> 00:25:14,040 Why you rehearsed a play 383 00:25:14,090 --> 00:25:16,210 that would burn your daughter alive? 384 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,840 Why you crossed an ocean to rehearse a play 385 00:25:20,890 --> 00:25:23,380 that would burn your daughter alive? 386 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:25,140 The Great Laws. 387 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,510 What fucking law did you ever follow, Lestat? 388 00:25:32,281 --> 00:25:33,980 I've come to kill you. 389 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,960 I have the blood of Magnus in me. 390 00:25:42,990 --> 00:25:44,740 Magnus burned. 391 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,330 I have the blood of Akasha in me. 392 00:25:53,540 --> 00:25:54,870 He doesn't know who that is? 393 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,660 But the fact, in and of itself, 394 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,630 makes your immediate desire an impossibility. 395 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,300 And I have to be willing... 396 00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:08,050 and I'm not in the mood. 397 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,430 - My blood is your blood. - Hmm. 398 00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:15,140 And yet... 399 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,720 Here's your death, Lestat. 400 00:26:55,140 --> 00:26:57,940 He and I are going to spend the rest of our lives together. 401 00:26:57,992 --> 00:27:01,420 And wherever your miserable life takes you, 402 00:27:01,470 --> 00:27:04,070 whoever you find to endure time with, 403 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,000 whatever pale proxy of me, 404 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,740 I'll be with him. 405 00:27:11,860 --> 00:27:13,450 Just wanted you to know that. 406 00:27:18,530 --> 00:27:19,720 Well... 407 00:27:26,660 --> 00:27:27,880 Enjoy him. 408 00:27:33,940 --> 00:27:35,930 Let's see how long it holds. 409 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,900 An odd phrase. 410 00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:45,230 What do you think he meant by that, Louis? 411 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,080 It's fairly obvious. 412 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:49,640 He didn't think we would make it. 413 00:27:51,620 --> 00:27:53,450 Seventy-seven years. 414 00:27:54,570 --> 00:27:57,660 - Almost to the day. - We left him there. 415 00:27:57,710 --> 00:28:01,380 Walked Paris one last time, completely silent. 416 00:28:01,430 --> 00:28:04,480 Stopped for a moment in the Place de la Concorde, 417 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:05,960 the Luxor Obelisk. 418 00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:10,740 I stood staring up at it as cars and carriages circled us. 419 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,260 I said, telepathically... Was it telepathically? 420 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,380 I don't remember. 421 00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:20,900 I said, "Let's go see Egypt." 422 00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:22,770 Then sailed port to port. 423 00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:25,200 Settled in New York a good while. 424 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,860 San Francisco. 425 00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:28,400 And we did. 426 00:28:28,450 --> 00:28:31,690 Here, there, everywhere and Dubai. 427 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,840 And that's the end of it. 428 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,400 There's nothing else. 429 00:28:50,060 --> 00:28:51,800 End of session. 430 00:29:05,990 --> 00:29:07,480 Ah! 431 00:29:10,291 --> 00:29:12,418 _ 432 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:16,830 He loved you. 433 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:21,540 _ 434 00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:23,140 I can say that now. 435 00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:26,940 He loved you a great deal. 436 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,380 It must have been terrible for him to see us off that night. 437 00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:39,210 Mind if I ask a few follow-up questions? 438 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,520 There's just some things I've been jotting down along the way. 439 00:29:42,573 --> 00:29:43,930 Yeah, of course. 440 00:29:43,940 --> 00:29:47,160 It's just small stuff like, um... 441 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,320 Like, you and the tractor salesman 442 00:29:51,380 --> 00:29:54,740 in the bar in New Orleans, before you killed him. 443 00:29:54,790 --> 00:29:58,660 You said that Lestat telepathically told you 444 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,900 that you were scaring the salesman. 445 00:30:00,950 --> 00:30:03,140 But a maker can't do that anymore 446 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,830 after transformation, right? 447 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:07,300 Uh... Yeah. 448 00:30:07,350 --> 00:30:09,960 I don't know. Maybe he whispered it to me. 449 00:30:11,860 --> 00:30:14,800 Yeah, I figured as much. 450 00:30:14,850 --> 00:30:16,470 Uh... 451 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,800 You said that four escaped the theater. 452 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,770 Celeste, Estelle, Santiago and... 453 00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:22,821 Sam. 454 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,700 Right. 455 00:30:24,750 --> 00:30:26,960 - The vampire Sam Barclay. - _ 456 00:30:26,980 --> 00:30:28,980 We never quite figured out how he did it. 457 00:30:29,030 --> 00:30:31,760 Did you ever... get to him? 458 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,760 No. Time heals, Daniel. 459 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,080 - I believe he's a DJ now. - A DJ? 460 00:30:37,110 --> 00:30:39,350 He wears a decorative helmet on his head when he performs. 461 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:44,160 Does he? It's funny 'cause, Sam's in two places at once 462 00:30:44,210 --> 00:30:45,500 at one point in your story. 463 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,830 He's guarding Armand in the theater box. 464 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,300 But you also have him helping to bury you below stage. 465 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,500 He was with me in the box. 466 00:30:53,550 --> 00:30:55,670 Yeah. He was with Armand in the box. 467 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,140 Oh. Maybe he did a quick vamp back and forth? 468 00:30:59,670 --> 00:31:00,818 I just got it wrong. 469 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,060 Rashid, shall we begin dinner preparations? 470 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:06,480 - Yes, sir. - I do hope you'll join us. 471 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:08,240 I'd be honored. 472 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,940 Okay. Um, let me just look at my list one more time here. 473 00:31:13,990 --> 00:31:15,860 Another New Orleans thing. 474 00:31:15,890 --> 00:31:18,980 I'm... I'm sorry, I'm jumping all over the place here, 475 00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:23,580 but the night that Lestat brings all those soldiers home 476 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,250 and you tell him to throw them out. 477 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,320 How many soldiers did he mind fuck out of the townhouse that night? 478 00:31:28,340 --> 00:31:31,140 - I don't know. - Ten? Fifteen? 479 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:33,750 Uh, more like 30. 480 00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:35,090 Huh. 481 00:31:38,450 --> 00:31:39,760 "Huh"? 482 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,640 Oh, well, it seems to me, I mean, back to the trial again, 483 00:31:44,690 --> 00:31:48,400 it seems to me that there was more than one person 484 00:31:48,450 --> 00:31:51,020 in the theater that night who could have saved you. 485 00:31:58,300 --> 00:31:59,460 Dan... Daniel. 486 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:02,890 I know. I know. It's my job. I'm built this way. 487 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,190 I know. It's a stretch, but... 488 00:32:05,220 --> 00:32:07,100 It's in your nature, Mr. Molloy. 489 00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,896 Couldn't get out the door without lobbing one more bomb. 490 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,340 You said it yourself just now, he loved Louis. 491 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,432 Lestat would have tried to save him as much as you did. 492 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:17,526 And he certainly would have made it known that he had. 493 00:32:17,550 --> 00:32:18,645 Shall we takes these follow-ups 494 00:32:18,646 --> 00:32:20,740 and specious theories to the dining room? 495 00:32:20,790 --> 00:32:24,040 We have something special prepared for you, Daniel. 496 00:32:24,090 --> 00:32:25,140 - _ - Uh... 497 00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:30,930 "Santiago should... hand the diary into the audience. 498 00:32:30,950 --> 00:32:34,240 Have them feel the evidence in their hands. 499 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,940 This is too early for Lestat 500 00:32:37,990 --> 00:32:39,850 to acknowledge Louis. 501 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,570 Keep the tension. 502 00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:42,910 Have him look at Louis later, 503 00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:45,660 the moment he describes meeting him in New Orleans." 504 00:32:45,710 --> 00:32:50,540 These are just some notes along the margins here. 505 00:32:50,590 --> 00:32:53,710 Uh... "We need an animation here. 506 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,550 It's not clear how extreme the hoarding was." 507 00:32:56,570 --> 00:32:57,890 Where did you get that? 508 00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:01,380 Read it for yourself. 509 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,560 _ 510 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,740 _ 511 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,300 That's when the black angel came! 512 00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:50,500 But he came back. 513 00:33:51,340 --> 00:33:53,060 He did. With her. 514 00:33:53,110 --> 00:33:54,866 Oh... 515 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,440 And now you rise from your chair and walk towards Claudia. 516 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:08,490 Hmm? 517 00:34:11,940 --> 00:34:15,830 And how do suppose that you will keep her quiet in this moment? 518 00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:17,380 Hmm? 519 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,220 One of your cheap theatrical... 520 00:34:22,270 --> 00:34:24,760 The judges will fog her mind. 521 00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:33,390 You have no idea of Claudia's strength! 522 00:34:41,180 --> 00:34:43,360 He didn't witness the play. 523 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,950 He directed the play! 524 00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:56,350 What say you for the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, 525 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,960 guilty or not guilty? 526 00:35:01,016 --> 00:35:04,650 - Guilty! - Guilty! 527 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:10,180 And the sentence? 528 00:35:10,230 --> 00:35:11,600 - De... - De... 529 00:35:11,650 --> 00:35:14,946 - De... - De... 530 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,190 - De... - De... 531 00:35:23,705 --> 00:35:25,670 - De... - De... 532 00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:31,700 Banishment. 533 00:35:31,755 --> 00:35:33,120 Banishment. 534 00:35:33,170 --> 00:35:35,290 - Banishment. - Banishment! 535 00:35:35,340 --> 00:35:37,690 Banishment! 536 00:35:37,740 --> 00:35:40,460 Banishment! 537 00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:50,510 Where does the bullshit start, Armand, Amadeo, Arun? 538 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,800 You were supposed to die with Claudia. 539 00:35:53,850 --> 00:35:57,180 He didn't save you, Lestat did! 540 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,000 He just took credit for it 541 00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:05,020 when the opportunity presented itself. 542 00:36:05,060 --> 00:36:07,220 And you wasted everyone 543 00:36:07,250 --> 00:36:08,291 who could have told you differently. 544 00:36:08,292 --> 00:36:12,200 Seventy-seven years based on a seismic lie. 545 00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:14,790 - It's a forgery, Louis. - It's from the Talamasca. 546 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,785 Sam was their guy in Paris, 547 00:36:16,820 --> 00:36:18,060 he gave it to them, 548 00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:19,290 they gave it me here. 549 00:36:24,830 --> 00:36:25,880 Louis. 550 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:42,400 Louis. Louis! 551 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,420 Louis! This was Santiago's doing. 552 00:36:45,450 --> 00:36:47,770 Just like he put me to work in the wet room after. 553 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,426 - He wanted me to suffer. - Don't! 554 00:36:49,450 --> 00:36:52,160 One night, 70 years ago. You are over this, Louis! 555 00:36:52,190 --> 00:36:53,360 The pain of it has left you. 556 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:55,910 Don't let an insignificant detail, 557 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,370 delivered from am insignificant mortal... 558 00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,629 You have forgiven me 559 00:36:59,630 --> 00:37:01,260 - for what part I played in her death! - _ 560 00:37:01,261 --> 00:37:03,100 And time has opened back up to us 561 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,140 and we are once again teachers of one another. 562 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,780 Louis, everything that gives you happiness 563 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,290 - gives me... Louis. - _ 564 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,640 Rashid? 565 00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:26,260 Rashid? 566 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,220 Rashid? 567 00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:44,540 I'm guessing Rashid left after he brought me the newspaper. 568 00:37:51,260 --> 00:37:54,010 You're not to touch him. Do you understand? 569 00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:02,740 You harm him in any way, I will kill you. 570 00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:04,100 Do you understand? 571 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,300 I'm leaving now. 572 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,640 When I return, you need to be gone. 573 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640 You should gather your things from your room. 574 00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:25,580 I'll arrange a car and a plane to take you home. 575 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,700 I'll see there's ten million dollars wired into your account. 576 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:40,560 Thank you. 577 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,630 I was hoping the 'canes would wait until July. 578 00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:07,040 I had two on the floor for New Edition at the Essence Festival. 579 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,960 But that's all shuttered up now. 580 00:39:08,990 --> 00:39:12,170 Two on the floor, must have cost ya. 581 00:39:12,225 --> 00:39:14,440 Wasn't cheap. 582 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,434 Me and my babe was on the bad side. 583 00:39:16,435 --> 00:39:19,380 Then I see they got New Edition headlining the festival. 584 00:39:19,420 --> 00:39:21,240 She had a thing for Ralph when she was young. 585 00:39:21,260 --> 00:39:24,519 Can you believe that, Ralph? 586 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,280 Then I think, well, each one on the floor 587 00:39:27,330 --> 00:39:28,909 is gonna open back the door. 588 00:39:28,910 --> 00:39:31,740 - She'll be back. - She'll be back for Ralph! 589 00:39:35,050 --> 00:39:36,860 So, answer me this. 590 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,840 How come you coming in when everybody else is gettin' out? 591 00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:45,690 This Odette, said too be at least a three. 592 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:47,180 Could be a four. 593 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,960 First time in New Orleans? 594 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,120 No. Did my luggage arrive? 595 00:39:55,170 --> 00:39:56,240 Yes, sir. 596 00:39:56,290 --> 00:39:58,900 Two bags and an oversized crate, early in the morning. 597 00:39:59,810 --> 00:40:01,680 It's all waiting for you in your suite. 598 00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:03,850 Thank you. 599 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,489 Very generous, Mr. du Lac, thank you, sir. 600 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,060 Your card. Your key. 601 00:40:11,110 --> 00:40:13,690 We're happy to have you as long as you'll have us, 602 00:40:13,740 --> 00:40:16,390 but we are boarding up the hotel for the hurricane. 603 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:18,270 So, we're asking our guests 604 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,530 to fill out this liability waiver. 605 00:40:20,580 --> 00:40:22,040 No problem. 606 00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:27,936 Now, everybody, if you want to turn your attention 607 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,850 to the right, at them bit green pearly gates, 608 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,681 this is 1132 Royal Street, 609 00:40:33,682 --> 00:40:36,977 home of the most infamous party ever thrown in New Orleans. 610 00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:40,540 This is where two dozen members of high society, 611 00:40:40,590 --> 00:40:42,600 they walked in them doors right there. 612 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,599 Ain't nobody ever seen them again. 613 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,380 Take a picture if you need to. 614 00:40:46,430 --> 00:40:48,640 The year is 1940. 615 00:40:48,690 --> 00:40:52,300 The man that owned this townhome and that year's King of Raj 616 00:40:52,340 --> 00:40:55,070 went by the name Sebastian Melmoth. 617 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,180 Now, now, history's going have him go down 618 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,279 as a little somethin' different. 619 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,780 A Monsieur Lesander Lioncourt. 620 00:41:00,820 --> 00:41:02,990 He was a so-called Frenchman. 621 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,000 A so-called seller of industrial machinery. 622 00:41:06,050 --> 00:41:09,060 But now tell me, tell the Crime Dawg, 623 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:13,000 why would a man, a known hoarder and an infamous recluse, 624 00:41:13,050 --> 00:41:15,940 be named King of Raj in the first place? 625 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,599 Why, Crime Dawg? 626 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,852 Sebastian knew a fella by the name of Tom Anderson. 627 00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:23,560 He was a former Louisiana State Representative 628 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,180 and a full-time Bourbon Street gangster. 629 00:41:26,230 --> 00:41:29,350 Mr. Melmoth, he wasn't alone in 1132. 630 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,400 Also, in residence was a local Creole hustler 631 00:41:33,450 --> 00:41:36,820 and his little child bride, they were running a voodoo cult 632 00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:40,260 in the back rooms above the courtyard garden. 633 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:44,160 Yes, they were. Now, it's Mardi Gras, 1940. 634 00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:47,910 Mr. Melmoth and Tom Anderson, they brought back 635 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,320 the who's who of who dat. 636 00:41:50,370 --> 00:41:52,450 The next morning, couldn't nobody find head 637 00:41:52,470 --> 00:41:53,720 or hairpiece of none of 'em. 638 00:41:53,770 --> 00:41:54,960 What did they find? 639 00:41:55,010 --> 00:41:58,420 Blood in between the floorboards of three different rooms, 640 00:41:58,470 --> 00:42:01,330 bits of indeterminate pieces of bone 641 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,460 inside the factory-sized incinerator. 642 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:07,600 Why did Tom Anderson, Mr. Melmoth, 643 00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:11,250 the hustler and the child bride lure these particular citizens 644 00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:14,400 to this house of lies and intrigue? 645 00:42:40,450 --> 00:42:42,300 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 646 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,240 Saw a crane smashed into a low-rise. 647 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,940 Big chunks of shit, trash cans, mail boxes, 648 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,520 blowing around everywhere. 649 00:42:56,650 --> 00:42:59,480 - It's fucking wild out there. - Shut up. 650 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:06,990 Out there, running rats. 651 00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:09,671 Goddamn hurricane out there. Shut up? 652 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,660 I mean, we should be, out of town is where we should be. 653 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:16,360 Shut up? Crazy old man, playing... 654 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,130 Who you? 655 00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:21,380 Hello. 656 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,630 - Who's he? - Louis. 657 00:43:25,687 --> 00:43:27,950 That's Louis? 658 00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:30,100 He's Louis?! 659 00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:31,460 Get out. 660 00:43:31,510 --> 00:43:34,160 Get out? Where?! 661 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,420 I mean, there's a mad hurricane outside! 662 00:43:37,460 --> 00:43:40,650 I keep fucking telling... Oh, shit! 663 00:43:40,702 --> 00:43:42,070 Goddamn it! 664 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,640 God! 665 00:43:44,820 --> 00:43:47,700 Enjoy your rats, you French fucking... 666 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:49,530 Motherfucker! 667 00:43:51,660 --> 00:43:53,740 The fire gift in your honor. 668 00:43:53,790 --> 00:43:55,920 A wearisome fledgling. 669 00:43:56,860 --> 00:43:58,440 All the millennials are. 670 00:43:59,429 --> 00:44:01,010 But... 671 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,710 he is an excellent rat catcher. 672 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,730 Would you like one? 673 00:44:21,740 --> 00:44:23,260 Hello, Lestat. 674 00:44:24,078 --> 00:44:25,770 Hello, Louis. 675 00:44:29,540 --> 00:44:31,200 Passing through? 676 00:44:31,252 --> 00:44:34,490 No. I came to see you. 677 00:44:34,547 --> 00:44:35,870 Oh... 678 00:44:37,260 --> 00:44:39,910 And what does your companion think of that? 679 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,540 I'm companion enough for myself now. 680 00:44:43,190 --> 00:44:44,380 Hmm. 681 00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:46,500 Good for you. 682 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,980 I'm sorry, I don't have much time. 683 00:44:51,020 --> 00:44:52,480 I'm in the middle of rehearsing. 684 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,140 - Rehearsing? - I'm going on tour. 685 00:44:56,190 --> 00:44:58,520 Argerich, she seems... 686 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,940 she seems to have retired and I thought... 687 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:10,470 who better than me to carry on the great work. 688 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,600 I just need about 50 more years of practice. 689 00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:17,520 Siri, pause. 690 00:45:36,630 --> 00:45:39,970 Did you save my life in Paris? 691 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:48,580 I gave you to Armand. 692 00:45:51,340 --> 00:45:53,240 You tell me if that was saving. 693 00:45:53,290 --> 00:45:55,020 Why didn't you say... 694 00:45:56,610 --> 00:45:59,540 it was me who saved you, not him? 695 00:45:59,590 --> 00:46:01,760 I don't like to point out my virtues. 696 00:46:03,050 --> 00:46:07,080 Besides... I knew you'd figure it out. 697 00:46:08,780 --> 00:46:10,010 And look... 698 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,600 you have, I was right. 699 00:46:13,650 --> 00:46:14,880 All hail me. 700 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,280 Been enduring here? 701 00:46:31,331 --> 00:46:32,860 Not enduring. 702 00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:36,100 Living. 703 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,330 Here in New Orleans the whole time? 704 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,320 It's my home. 705 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,250 I am she, she is me. 706 00:46:56,260 --> 00:46:58,180 I didn't know it was a gift. 707 00:47:01,150 --> 00:47:03,040 I wore it like a curse. 708 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,020 I was selfish. 709 00:47:07,630 --> 00:47:08,900 I... 710 00:47:10,260 --> 00:47:12,780 I tried to make nights awful for you. 711 00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,500 I see. 712 00:47:15,730 --> 00:47:17,120 I see. 713 00:47:17,170 --> 00:47:18,880 I wanted you to suffer. 714 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:22,480 Because I was... suffering. 715 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:27,420 Oh... 716 00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:31,020 Shall we list all the ways we have wronged each other 717 00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:33,170 and why it'll never be right between monstrous... 718 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,050 I came to thank you. 719 00:47:37,770 --> 00:47:39,540 For the gift you offered me. 720 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,540 The gift I denied. 721 00:47:44,310 --> 00:47:46,200 For the nights in front of me, 722 00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:50,980 where I might learn to live honestly. 723 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,760 Thank you. 724 00:48:08,390 --> 00:48:11,960 September 8th... 725 00:48:13,090 --> 00:48:14,840 1973. 726 00:48:17,540 --> 00:48:21,180 September 8th, 1973. 727 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,000 It was 11:07 here. 728 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,620 It would have been 9:07 in San Francisco. 729 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,280 Armand called me. 730 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,650 Were you there? 731 00:48:38,810 --> 00:48:40,100 Yeah. 732 00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:48,500 Did you hurt yourself? 733 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:51,920 I was lost. 734 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,000 I was in a dark way and... 735 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:01,310 I was thinking about... 736 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:12,020 I can't... I can't get her out of my mind. 737 00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,150 You have the same problem? 738 00:49:21,860 --> 00:49:23,340 Yeah. 739 00:49:25,860 --> 00:49:27,600 I can't, Louis. 740 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,800 - I can't... - Hey, hey. 741 00:49:31,980 --> 00:49:33,860 Hey, it's not on you. 742 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,170 You hear me? 743 00:49:39,140 --> 00:49:41,170 I carried her home. 744 00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,590 I made you turn her. 745 00:49:46,150 --> 00:49:48,040 And saved her from a fire... 746 00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:51,580 so a half century later she could... 747 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,980 She looked at me, at the end... 748 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:02,360 like a child... 749 00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:07,740 looking to her father. 750 00:50:11,050 --> 00:50:12,680 But I was never... 751 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,979 And we are back in five, four, three, two... 752 00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:08,450 Welcome back, Atlanta, and welcome to my next guest, 753 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:11,020 the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist 754 00:51:11,070 --> 00:51:14,540 and author of the current bestselling fictional memoir 755 00:51:14,590 --> 00:51:16,560 "Interview With The Vampire", 756 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:17,690 Daniel Molloy. 757 00:51:17,740 --> 00:51:21,020 Thanks, Leonard. It's a memoir, it's not fiction. 758 00:51:21,070 --> 00:51:24,890 That is one of the main topics of debate regarding your book. 759 00:51:24,940 --> 00:51:27,400 Is it true or is it a joke? 760 00:51:27,450 --> 00:51:29,710 Well, I've sold five million books 761 00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:30,920 - in four months... - Yes. 762 00:51:30,970 --> 00:51:33,893 You can't see the forest for the trees they killed printing it. 763 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,240 Hey, Atlanta, check out the book fair this weekend. 764 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,050 It is gonna be quite something. 765 00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:40,400 - The Washington Post... - The Bezos Bugle... 766 00:51:40,420 --> 00:51:42,160 That's a good one. 767 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,700 It called your book a sophomoric footnote 768 00:51:44,750 --> 00:51:46,560 in an otherwise stellar career. 769 00:51:46,590 --> 00:51:48,180 A conceptually weird... 770 00:51:48,230 --> 00:51:50,350 Middle finger to the publishing industry 771 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,580 that turned its back on him a decade ago. 772 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,960 - I don't read reviews. - Is it true you shopped this book 773 00:51:56,990 --> 00:51:59,320 to every major publisher in the country and the UK? 774 00:51:59,860 --> 00:52:02,270 - What is this? - It's a legitimate question. 775 00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:05,760 No, it's not. I mean, you haven't even told your viewers 776 00:52:05,790 --> 00:52:07,416 - what the book is about. - Oh! Good point! 777 00:52:07,417 --> 00:52:09,180 The book purports to be an interview 778 00:52:09,210 --> 00:52:10,680 with an actual vampire. 779 00:52:10,710 --> 00:52:13,090 Oh, I know what it's about, it's about you, Leonard, 780 00:52:13,140 --> 00:52:14,669 trying to go viral 781 00:52:14,670 --> 00:52:17,540 - with your dinky little provincial news desk. - Here we go. 782 00:52:17,590 --> 00:52:21,660 Yeah, I did... I did interview an actual vampire. 783 00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:23,876 Oh, here's the camera. I interviewed an actual vampire... 784 00:52:23,900 --> 00:52:25,393 Actually two vampires, 785 00:52:25,394 --> 00:52:28,800 a species that's lived among us for centuries 786 00:52:28,850 --> 00:52:32,000 and it's supported by a mountain of historical documentation. 787 00:52:32,050 --> 00:52:34,120 - You took a noble career. - You didn't even read it. 788 00:52:34,140 --> 00:52:35,861 - Put it in the shredder. - You didn't read the book! 789 00:52:35,862 --> 00:52:37,680 You were one of our finest, 790 00:52:37,710 --> 00:52:39,700 and now you're a Bigfoot hunter 791 00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:41,160 - chasing Jesus's bloodline. - Hey, man! 792 00:52:41,180 --> 00:52:44,120 I've sold... millions of these books, 793 00:52:44,170 --> 00:52:45,820 more than Johnny Grisham, 794 00:52:45,870 --> 00:52:48,580 or Prince Harry and the prisoner of Santa Barbara. 795 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:52,560 It's a great f-BLEEP read and you're a hack. 796 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,720 What a delight. 797 00:52:54,340 --> 00:52:56,026 Thanks so much for being here, Daniel Molloy. 798 00:52:56,050 --> 00:52:58,540 - Can't wait to read the book. - BLEEP. 799 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:04,880 _ 800 00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:08,130 Page after page of heresy. 801 00:53:08,180 --> 00:53:10,130 _ 802 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:11,590 _ 803 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,200 Run him down, all of us. 804 00:53:14,230 --> 00:53:16,510 _ 805 00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:17,910 _ 806 00:53:18,190 --> 00:53:19,760 _ 807 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,430 _ 808 00:53:22,470 --> 00:53:24,751 Rip out him fangs and cut out him tongue. 809 00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:26,270 _ 810 00:53:26,410 --> 00:53:27,440 _ 811 00:53:27,830 --> 00:53:29,930 - _ - Louis! 812 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,340 - Hunt him down! - Louis. Louis du Lac. 813 00:53:32,380 --> 00:53:33,750 It's me. 814 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,720 Listen, your royalty checks keep bouncing back to me, man. 815 00:53:37,770 --> 00:53:39,500 I need a forwarding address. 816 00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:42,870 Why not send them to your editors at the Talamasca? 817 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,520 The shit they made me take out. 818 00:53:45,540 --> 00:53:48,040 - _ - No editors next book, I promise. 819 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,160 There won't be a next book. 820 00:53:50,210 --> 00:53:51,820 There shouldn't have been a first book. 821 00:53:51,870 --> 00:53:54,340 You want the ten million back, just say it, man. 822 00:53:54,390 --> 00:53:56,020 Send me an address. 823 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,660 You know where I live. 824 00:53:57,710 --> 00:54:00,610 I really wouldn't be staying put if I were you. 825 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,800 I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker? 826 00:54:04,850 --> 00:54:07,109 - No. - Fucking asshole. 827 00:54:07,110 --> 00:54:10,280 I'm sorry you were burdened out of spite. 828 00:54:10,330 --> 00:54:12,320 I shouldn't have left you alone with him. 829 00:54:12,370 --> 00:54:15,410 Make it up to me. We'll do a follow-up book. 830 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:17,620 What do you want, Daniel? 831 00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:20,180 I'm worried about you. 832 00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:23,320 I'm fine. 833 00:54:23,370 --> 00:54:26,260 I keep hearing the other vamps talking about you. 834 00:54:26,310 --> 00:54:28,840 They're really fucking pissed off about our book. 835 00:54:28,890 --> 00:54:30,420 And you want to write another with me? 836 00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,440 Sequels, audio books, sex toys. 837 00:54:33,490 --> 00:54:34,700 Yeah. 838 00:54:34,750 --> 00:54:36,560 You've become a good killer. 839 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,220 You still haven't read it, have you? 840 00:54:40,660 --> 00:54:41,670 _ 841 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,340 It's the top of my stack. 842 00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:45,900 You said that last month. 843 00:54:45,950 --> 00:54:47,280 It's getting early here, Daniel. 844 00:54:47,330 --> 00:54:49,120 Get out of Dubai, Louis. 845 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,490 Hey, where did you get those headphones? 846 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:52,966 Kill him. 847 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,980 Stuff him in the oven like a... 848 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,490 _ 849 00:55:00,540 --> 00:55:03,360 _ 850 00:55:03,380 --> 00:55:05,450 We'll all get a chop. 851 00:55:05,470 --> 00:55:07,290 _ 852 00:55:07,590 --> 00:55:09,960 _ 853 00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:12,290 Burn him! 854 00:55:12,310 --> 00:55:13,340 _ 855 00:55:13,820 --> 00:55:16,360 A hairy, naked banquet! 856 00:55:16,390 --> 00:55:17,800 _ 857 00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:19,567 Burn it! 858 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,180 _ 859 00:55:23,690 --> 00:55:24,760 _ 860 00:55:25,180 --> 00:55:26,220 _ 861 00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:29,940 The skyscraper. The skyscraper. The skyscraper! 862 00:55:29,994 --> 00:55:32,913 - Quiet now. - Who is that? 863 00:55:32,914 --> 00:55:34,340 Is that him? 864 00:55:34,390 --> 00:55:35,660 All of you. 865 00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:39,560 - Is that him? - Shh-shh-shh. 866 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,660 This is the vampire Louis du Lac. 867 00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,120 I live in the penthouse apartment 868 00:55:46,150 --> 00:55:48,020 at the Al Sharaf Towers in Dubai, 869 00:55:48,070 --> 00:55:49,800 United Arab Emirates. 870 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,100 The security staff here is robust but mortal. 871 00:55:54,620 --> 00:55:56,780 My front door is always unlocked, 872 00:55:56,820 --> 00:55:59,100 as are the windows to my balcony, 873 00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,500 which were designed with a protective film coating 874 00:56:02,550 --> 00:56:05,430 for those of us "sun-challenged". 875 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,740 So for all you cowards out there talking shit, 876 00:56:10,660 --> 00:56:13,040 talking about taking a run at me, 877 00:56:14,380 --> 00:56:18,150 hear this now and hear it plain. 878 00:56:22,170 --> 00:56:24,060 I own the night. 879 00:56:27,590 --> 00:56:32,590 - Synced & corrected by MementMori - -- www.addic7ed.com -- 880 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,300 _ 881 00:56:43,350 --> 00:56:45,140 And that's the end of it, and there's nothing else. 882 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:46,780 That's the end of our season. 883 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:51,949 It would appear that all is lost. 884 00:56:51,950 --> 00:56:56,529 And these significant characters, who hopefully have entertained 885 00:56:56,530 --> 00:57:00,650 and fascinated us for all of this season, come to their end. 886 00:57:01,380 --> 00:57:03,829 Claudia is dead. I was dead. 887 00:57:03,830 --> 00:57:06,580 Louis feels deeply responsible for her, 888 00:57:06,630 --> 00:57:09,320 feels responsible for the good things that happen 889 00:57:09,380 --> 00:57:10,969 and the bad things that happen to her. 890 00:57:10,970 --> 00:57:14,431 My rage had risen. 891 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:18,880 Followed closely behind by my madness. 892 00:57:20,820 --> 00:57:21,894 However you meant it, 893 00:57:21,895 --> 00:57:24,780 do not find yourself at the theater tomorrow night at curfew. 894 00:57:24,820 --> 00:57:26,620 Burning the theater down physically 895 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,640 was really difficult because keep in mind, 896 00:57:29,690 --> 00:57:33,420 we were just lighting fires in an old wooden building, 897 00:57:33,460 --> 00:57:37,020 and we had firemen and everybody standing by. 898 00:57:37,070 --> 00:57:40,820 Every time a match was lit, there were three people there. 899 00:57:40,870 --> 00:57:43,126 We knew that there was going to be a fire. 900 00:57:43,150 --> 00:57:45,000 So the other thing that we did 901 00:57:45,050 --> 00:57:48,820 is we put a layer of cement board 902 00:57:48,860 --> 00:57:50,410 underneath all of our flooring. 903 00:57:50,460 --> 00:57:52,820 We put cement board behind walls 904 00:57:52,870 --> 00:57:54,960 so that even if our finishes were wood, 905 00:57:54,990 --> 00:57:56,900 there was something underneath it that was going to help 906 00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,768 with fire prevention in the existing structure. 907 00:57:59,769 --> 00:58:03,400 _ 908 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,850 The coven got what they deserved, every one of them. 909 00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:08,240 Burn it down. Let them burn. 910 00:58:08,290 --> 00:58:09,600 He did what I might do. 911 00:58:09,620 --> 00:58:12,570 That's his sister, his daughter, his companion. 912 00:58:12,620 --> 00:58:14,540 And they were very vengeful. 913 00:58:14,590 --> 00:58:17,300 So occasionally an eye for an eye. 914 00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:19,760 Nine in all. 915 00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:22,999 That meant four had escaped. 916 00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,276 In shooting that scene. 917 00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:26,580 It's such an iconic part of the book, 918 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,870 but it's also, like, a very iconic part of the film, 919 00:58:29,940 --> 00:58:31,890 and I think we've done something different. 920 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,300 Hello, Francis. 921 00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,880 Louis has just left the theater. 922 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,960 Now he's on his way to get Santiago, 923 00:58:46,990 --> 00:58:48,858 who's the ringleader. 924 00:58:48,859 --> 00:58:52,470 - Come to me, Francis. - It's Santiago to you! 925 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,310 As an understudy for Osric. 926 00:58:56,380 --> 00:58:59,220 I think his main plan, 927 00:58:59,260 --> 00:59:02,330 really, with Santiago is to just, like, wind him up, 928 00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,300 is to bait him, lure him to Louis, 929 00:59:06,350 --> 00:59:07,950 and then chop his head off. 930 00:59:09,380 --> 00:59:12,500 I am about to film my death. 931 00:59:13,940 --> 00:59:15,410 Was that a big spoiler? 932 00:59:15,460 --> 00:59:16,969 No, it isn't, not if you've read the books. 933 00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:21,050 It's a combination of stuntman, me, and a fake head, 934 00:59:21,100 --> 00:59:24,840 which fortunately, I worked with the makeup designer, Tami Lane, 935 00:59:24,890 --> 00:59:27,560 on a different show and they did a full cast of my head, 936 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,890 so they had one in stock. 937 00:59:30,940 --> 00:59:33,020 He's made of rubber, so he's pretty solid. 938 00:59:33,070 --> 00:59:36,310 He's really hard to destroy, just like Ben Daniels. 939 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,990 So I was really glad I didn't have to do it again. 940 00:59:39,010 --> 00:59:40,780 It's so awful if you're claustrophobic. 941 00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,190 You're encased in gel and plaster 942 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,990 with just tiny holes through your nostrils for 15 minutes. 943 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,120 That's just what I sent him. 944 00:59:49,140 --> 00:59:53,070 That was our conversation about this scene, was that picture. 945 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,467 He just texted it to me. 946 00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,420 Three, two, one. Action! 947 01:00:08,850 --> 01:00:14,580 Given what a wonderful character Ben created with Santiago, 948 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,440 it was fitting to give him a sort of real cinematic death. 949 01:00:18,450 --> 01:00:21,160 Say that shit about Claudia to my face. 950 01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:25,038 Ask for it, child. 951 01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,760 The light's going out of your blue eyes... 952 01:00:29,790 --> 01:00:35,040 The Louis and Lestat relationship in episode 8 is lovely conclusion 953 01:00:35,090 --> 01:00:39,090 to the full two seasons of their relationship. 954 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,340 At the beginning in Magnus' lair, 955 01:00:42,390 --> 01:00:46,980 Louis doesn't know how much Lestat did to save Louis' life. 956 01:00:47,020 --> 01:00:48,604 He does... He's not aware of that at that point. 957 01:00:48,605 --> 01:00:50,435 That why you crossed an ocean? 958 01:00:50,436 --> 01:00:51,849 To rehearse a play 959 01:00:51,850 --> 01:00:53,460 that would burn your daughter alive? 960 01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:55,540 Louis really just does the thing 961 01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,360 that he thinks will most destroy Lestat, 962 01:00:58,363 --> 01:00:59,823 which is leave him... 963 01:00:59,824 --> 01:01:02,020 Here's your death, Lestat. 964 01:01:02,060 --> 01:01:04,286 ... and leave him for someone else. 965 01:01:04,287 --> 01:01:07,900 You know, Lestat's deep, deep insecurity 966 01:01:07,940 --> 01:01:12,420 is the thing Louis just pours salt on in that moment. 967 01:01:12,460 --> 01:01:15,580 Louis doesn't have all the information, just to clarify. 968 01:01:15,630 --> 01:01:19,250 Lestat really thinks that Louis knows that he saved him, 969 01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:20,980 so he's quite surprised 970 01:01:21,030 --> 01:01:23,700 when he turns up with Armand, and Louis' blaming him 971 01:01:23,750 --> 01:01:26,550 for Claudia's death, which is, you know, fair enough, 972 01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,180 because Lestat was a part of it, 973 01:01:28,220 --> 01:01:29,710 but they all were part of it. 974 01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,510 He and I are going to spend the rest of our lives together. 975 01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,596 There's a very interesting dynamic between Lestat and Armand, 976 01:01:34,620 --> 01:01:37,156 with Lestat looking at Armand, and Armand thinking, "Oh, my God." 977 01:01:37,180 --> 01:01:38,270 Enjoy him. 978 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,000 "You could just ruin everything for me right now." And he doesn't. 979 01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:43,020 Let's see how long it holds. 980 01:01:43,070 --> 01:01:45,680 Everything he's been playing up until this point... 981 01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:52,610 the facade of the stoic, wise, responsible 514-year-old vampire 982 01:01:52,660 --> 01:01:55,080 who sticks to his principles 983 01:01:55,130 --> 01:01:57,370 has been shown to be a complete lie. 984 01:01:57,420 --> 01:01:59,910 Back to the trial again, it seems to me 985 01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:03,500 that there was more than one person in the theater that night 986 01:02:03,550 --> 01:02:05,040 who could have saved you. 987 01:02:05,090 --> 01:02:06,660 Lestat would have saved Claudia 988 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,150 if he had the energy. 989 01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:09,851 I believe that to my core. 990 01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,130 Banishment. 991 01:02:12,180 --> 01:02:14,750 It's just that he had to save Louis. 992 01:02:14,770 --> 01:02:17,640 You were supposed to die with Claudia. 993 01:02:17,690 --> 01:02:21,310 He didn't save you. Lestat did. 994 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:40,700 What we discover in the course of the 15 episodes of these two guys 995 01:02:40,750 --> 01:02:44,060 is that they have such profound love for each other, 996 01:02:44,110 --> 01:02:46,500 but they are really capable of hurting each other 997 01:02:46,550 --> 01:02:47,960 in unspeakable ways. 998 01:02:48,010 --> 01:02:50,450 - Hello, Lestat. - Hello, Louis. 999 01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:52,380 And I think that that's where they get to 1000 01:02:52,410 --> 01:02:55,220 in the final embrace in New Orleans. 1001 01:02:55,270 --> 01:02:56,480 I don't want to speak for them 1002 01:02:56,510 --> 01:02:58,149 because we don't hear what they say. 1003 01:02:58,150 --> 01:02:59,780 As an audience member, 1004 01:02:59,830 --> 01:03:02,810 I see them forgiving each other for what they've done. 1005 01:03:02,860 --> 01:03:04,620 I carried her home. 1006 01:03:05,660 --> 01:03:07,190 I made you turn her. 1007 01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,610 She looked at me at the end... 1008 01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:12,164 like a child... 1009 01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,610 looking to her father. 1010 01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:18,800 It was a beautiful ending 1011 01:03:18,850 --> 01:03:22,840 for this whole chaotic revenge Louis 1012 01:03:22,890 --> 01:03:25,469 that we see in those last couple of episodes, yeah. 1013 01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:27,960 It's a beautiful scene. 1014 01:03:27,980 --> 01:03:31,840 And, yeah, there's things that are said at the end 1015 01:03:31,890 --> 01:03:35,840 that nobody will ever know other than me and Sam. 1016 01:03:40,730 --> 01:03:43,330 It is one of the main topics of debate 1017 01:03:43,380 --> 01:03:46,864 regarding your book. Is it true or is it a joke? 1018 01:03:46,865 --> 01:03:51,730 In this scene, we understand that Malloy is a vampire, 1019 01:03:51,780 --> 01:03:54,940 and I'm very excited about that as a fan. 1020 01:03:54,990 --> 01:03:57,880 The reveal really happens in a beat. 1021 01:03:57,910 --> 01:04:01,350 It happens in the taking off of sunglasses. 1022 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,160 I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker. 1023 01:04:04,210 --> 01:04:07,920 Eric Bogosian both was surprised and not at all 1024 01:04:07,970 --> 01:04:09,860 when he realized that his character, Malloy, 1025 01:04:09,890 --> 01:04:11,303 was to become a vampire. 1026 01:04:11,304 --> 01:04:13,460 I'm sorry you were burdened out of spite. 1027 01:04:13,510 --> 01:04:16,240 You get a sense in that, like, final interaction with them 1028 01:04:16,300 --> 01:04:18,300 in this season that Daniel has become 1029 01:04:18,350 --> 01:04:21,010 kind of like an annoying little brother to Louis. 1030 01:04:21,030 --> 01:04:22,930 You still haven't read it, have you? 1031 01:04:22,980 --> 01:04:25,020 It's the top of my stack. 1032 01:04:25,070 --> 01:04:26,330 You said that last month. 1033 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:27,630 It's getting early here, Daniel. 1034 01:04:27,650 --> 01:04:29,100 Get out of Dubai, Louis. 1035 01:04:29,150 --> 01:04:32,340 Louis' inviting all the vampires to come and get him. 1036 01:04:32,390 --> 01:04:35,350 - This is the vampire Louis du Lac. - It's his signing off. 1037 01:04:35,370 --> 01:04:38,360 So for all you cowards out there talking shit... 1038 01:04:38,410 --> 01:04:39,640 I think that... 1039 01:04:39,690 --> 01:04:41,700 ... talking about taking a run at me... 1040 01:04:41,740 --> 01:04:43,520 ... he needs that friction. 1041 01:04:43,570 --> 01:04:44,790 ... hear this now. 1042 01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:46,591 He needs something to fight against. 1043 01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,140 I own the night.