1 00:00:25,693 --> 00:00:28,562 Louis and Claudia, the Théâtre des Vampires. 2 00:00:29,163 --> 00:00:30,398 Daniel: What about the others out there? 3 00:00:30,531 --> 00:00:32,133 Louis: Giddy to increase their numbers. 4 00:00:32,266 --> 00:00:33,634 The great conversion. 5 00:00:33,767 --> 00:00:34,968 Man: What you're about to see 6 00:00:35,136 --> 00:00:36,670 is for you, an outrage. 7 00:00:36,804 --> 00:00:38,139 You were amazing. 8 00:00:38,272 --> 00:00:40,040 Who's your maker? His name was Brent. 9 00:00:40,174 --> 00:00:41,675 We don't talk about him much. 10 00:00:41,809 --> 00:00:43,244 Who's that handsome man on the wall up there? 11 00:00:43,444 --> 00:00:45,513 Armand: Our co-founder, Lestat de Lioncourt. 12 00:00:45,646 --> 00:00:47,981 Daniel: That means you knew Lestat before he did. 13 00:00:48,116 --> 00:00:50,050 Yes, Armand knew Lestat. 14 00:00:50,184 --> 00:00:51,585 You both fucked Lestat. 15 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:52,986 Louis: What if they find out we killed him? 16 00:00:53,121 --> 00:00:55,323 I want to go back. It's not safe there. 17 00:00:55,456 --> 00:00:57,191 I do believe I felt some trepidation 18 00:00:57,325 --> 00:00:59,493 when the name Lestat presented. 19 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:01,562 Daniel: Who? Armand: We could simply return to the interview. 20 00:01:01,695 --> 00:01:05,032 If you're willing to ask your questions and then listen, 21 00:01:05,166 --> 00:01:06,500 which is your job. 22 00:01:07,868 --> 00:01:09,503 What happened next? 23 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:46,807 Here we go. 24 00:01:52,546 --> 00:01:53,881 Oh... 25 00:01:54,882 --> 00:01:59,653 Partial to the non-wriggling items. I should've said that. 26 00:02:04,958 --> 00:02:06,994 The perils of Omakase. 27 00:02:08,296 --> 00:02:10,631 We cede power to the chef, submit to his whims, 28 00:02:10,731 --> 00:02:13,834 to his eye at the fish market. A series of risks. 29 00:02:15,269 --> 00:02:17,405 - Right. - 'Under the Burning Sky.' 30 00:02:17,471 --> 00:02:20,107 The one about Enron, 'Black Blood' was it? 31 00:02:20,208 --> 00:02:22,843 You're Daniel Molloy. I've read your books. 32 00:02:22,943 --> 00:02:26,347 A reader. Well, prepare yourself for disappointment. 33 00:02:29,550 --> 00:02:32,720 I see they've separated you from your laptop. 34 00:02:32,753 --> 00:02:34,288 They? 35 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:36,524 Off your game a touch yesterday. 36 00:02:36,624 --> 00:02:38,759 Perhaps they believe you've been humbled. 37 00:02:38,826 --> 00:02:40,828 Clever on their own, now there's two of them. 38 00:02:40,961 --> 00:02:42,863 Of course, there was always two of them. 39 00:02:42,963 --> 00:02:44,532 You just came to that late. 40 00:02:47,335 --> 00:02:49,370 Going to stop looking at you now. 41 00:02:51,472 --> 00:02:53,474 A little pale for Mossad. 42 00:02:53,507 --> 00:02:55,676 Although that could be very Mossad. 43 00:02:55,776 --> 00:02:58,279 I wish. I'd be better funded. No, no, no. 44 00:02:58,412 --> 00:03:01,615 I work for another watchful shop, the name of which 45 00:03:01,682 --> 00:03:04,985 has not come up in your conversations with them. 46 00:03:05,085 --> 00:03:07,288 A stake in the story I'm writing. 47 00:03:08,155 --> 00:03:11,825 You have me bugged, or you want me to think you do. 48 00:03:11,925 --> 00:03:14,828 We were tracking 900 of them a month ago. 49 00:03:14,928 --> 00:03:18,466 We're tracking 1,600 now. 50 00:03:18,532 --> 00:03:20,067 The Great Conversion. 51 00:03:21,134 --> 00:03:22,903 It's real. It's happening. 52 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:25,639 Well, then you have a more immediate problem 53 00:03:25,706 --> 00:03:27,741 than a book being researched. Got a name? 54 00:03:31,178 --> 00:03:33,914 You're not the first to attempt this, Mr. Molloy. 55 00:03:35,283 --> 00:03:37,418 I could give you the names of four others who have 56 00:03:37,451 --> 00:03:39,720 and they're all dead, or undead. 57 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:42,590 The name is Raglan James. 58 00:03:42,690 --> 00:03:45,158 Got a real name? 59 00:03:45,693 --> 00:03:49,162 Files have been placed, with proper encryption, 60 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:52,433 on your comically vulnerable laptop. 61 00:03:52,533 --> 00:03:55,569 Most are primary sources that your infamous friends... 62 00:03:55,669 --> 00:03:58,205 Anyone here a fan of intelligence officers? 63 00:03:58,306 --> 00:03:59,773 We got a live one. 64 00:03:59,807 --> 00:04:01,509 Gochisousama, Taisho-san. 65 00:04:23,331 --> 00:04:25,966 How was your walkabout, Mr. Molloy? 66 00:04:26,066 --> 00:04:29,537 Michelin fish in the desert. I burned my entire per diem. 67 00:04:30,671 --> 00:04:33,407 How many people in the world know what you know, Rashid? 68 00:04:33,507 --> 00:04:36,009 How many Rashids, Rashid? 69 00:04:36,043 --> 00:04:38,679 I suspect just enough to help them stay hidden. 70 00:04:38,712 --> 00:04:41,315 No, that's how billionaire vampires do it. 71 00:04:41,415 --> 00:04:43,951 How does your average Jo Mo vampire 72 00:04:44,051 --> 00:04:47,287 keep people like you in line? Unspoken threats? 73 00:04:47,388 --> 00:04:50,958 The threat is always there. He could kill us both now. 74 00:04:51,091 --> 00:04:53,627 But he doesn't. They are peaceful beings. 75 00:04:53,761 --> 00:04:55,496 They drain and disappear us. 76 00:04:55,596 --> 00:04:57,264 They have a biological imperative 77 00:04:57,365 --> 00:04:59,933 that is in conflict with human morality. 78 00:05:00,067 --> 00:05:02,636 But what is that morality other than rules agreed upon? 79 00:05:02,736 --> 00:05:04,171 Thank you, Rashid. 80 00:05:08,642 --> 00:05:11,445 A romantic answer to your question. 81 00:05:11,545 --> 00:05:14,982 The average vampire has minimal contact with humanity. 82 00:05:15,583 --> 00:05:19,019 When exposed, they feed or run or kill themselves. 83 00:05:19,119 --> 00:05:21,522 And I'd say we're multi-millionaires. 84 00:05:21,622 --> 00:05:23,691 Not quite a billion. 85 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:28,529 It was wrong of Louis to enter your memories yesterday. 86 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,131 You were invited here as a guest. 87 00:05:31,231 --> 00:05:33,834 - Cell phones. - You were rude, but he crossed a line. 88 00:05:33,934 --> 00:05:36,269 Artificial intelligence crunching improbable data. 89 00:05:36,404 --> 00:05:38,439 - I offer my apology... - How do you hide from the cloud? 90 00:05:38,472 --> 00:05:39,873 ...on his behalf. 91 00:05:41,141 --> 00:05:42,876 We should probably wait for him. 92 00:05:44,745 --> 00:05:46,046 Probably. 93 00:05:50,918 --> 00:05:52,553 He'll awaken when the sun sleeps. 94 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:04,598 Your cell phones make you slaves to your fetishes 95 00:06:04,632 --> 00:06:07,735 and data retrieval is primarily about profits, 96 00:06:07,835 --> 00:06:11,672 so I suspect no one at Amazon is trying to sell us blenders. 97 00:06:11,805 --> 00:06:14,174 You kill, nightly. 98 00:06:14,307 --> 00:06:17,578 And sometimes you've watched that kill on the local news. 99 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,682 You've never been easier to distract. 100 00:06:21,782 --> 00:06:24,652 You're at the height of wilful ignorance. 101 00:06:24,718 --> 00:06:27,254 We exploit it. This is, was... 102 00:06:28,989 --> 00:06:31,592 Lestat's prophetic vision. 103 00:06:34,895 --> 00:06:38,098 - Lestat de Lioncourt? - Yes. 104 00:06:39,667 --> 00:06:42,570 We were shadows crouching behind stone 105 00:06:42,670 --> 00:06:44,772 prior to his transformation. 106 00:06:46,073 --> 00:06:47,608 I'm listening. 107 00:06:48,742 --> 00:06:50,444 That's my job, right? 108 00:06:52,379 --> 00:06:56,083 It was 1556 when the Roman coven sent me 109 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:59,286 to lead the shambolic Paris coven. 110 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:00,821 A face from the subcontinent, 111 00:07:00,854 --> 00:07:04,257 French my fourth and poorest language, 112 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:06,594 I had never led anything in my life. 113 00:07:07,895 --> 00:07:10,931 We called ourselves the Children of Darkness. 114 00:07:11,098 --> 00:07:13,433 We lived in squalor, hunted in shame, 115 00:07:13,534 --> 00:07:16,169 all in strict obedience to medieval laws 116 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:19,439 put in place to protect us from humanity. 117 00:07:20,173 --> 00:07:22,075 And though I managed to maintain 118 00:07:22,175 --> 00:07:28,882 a discipline and humility for 239 years as Satan's fool, 119 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:32,085 by the time Robespierre was beheaded, 120 00:07:32,185 --> 00:07:35,489 I was, by any measure, failing. 121 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:44,097 - Our ways were finished. 122 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:46,166 We were embers on a waning pyre. 123 00:07:47,935 --> 00:07:50,037 Lestat was the wind to scatter. 124 00:07:50,203 --> 00:07:52,506 I really gotta meet with this guy. 125 00:07:52,606 --> 00:07:55,676 I felt his presence before I saw him. 126 00:07:57,244 --> 00:07:59,613 Sired by one of my deserters, Magnus, 127 00:07:59,713 --> 00:08:02,282 this was something new, 128 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:04,918 something I hadn't felt before. 129 00:08:07,788 --> 00:08:10,423 The fourth of our Great Laws was writ: 130 00:08:10,591 --> 00:08:14,027 "No vampire shall ever reveal his true nature to a mortal 131 00:08:14,127 --> 00:08:16,129 and let that mortal live." 132 00:08:16,296 --> 00:08:21,301 And here he was, prancing and preening 133 00:08:21,401 --> 00:08:23,571 in front of 500 mortals a night, 134 00:08:23,737 --> 00:08:26,473 like some patronized, tarted up dervish. 135 00:08:28,308 --> 00:08:29,943 To hear Louis tell it... 136 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,212 Lestat becoming a vampire was a horror show. 137 00:08:32,312 --> 00:08:33,847 That may be. 138 00:08:33,947 --> 00:08:36,850 But he made a remarkable recovery shortly thereafter. 139 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:41,221 How else could you explain his hand feeding the audience? 140 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:44,992 How words came out like canaries, 141 00:08:45,092 --> 00:08:47,995 summer fruit in the dead of winter. 142 00:08:48,028 --> 00:08:50,363 They were all in love with him. 143 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:52,766 He had that effect on everyone. 144 00:08:53,433 --> 00:08:55,435 - He... - Was a natural? 145 00:08:55,535 --> 00:08:57,437 Entirely un-natural. 146 00:08:58,105 --> 00:09:03,143 Using the Dark Gift for what? His vanity? It was heresy. 147 00:09:03,176 --> 00:09:06,747 I had to bring him under my control by any means. 148 00:09:48,355 --> 00:09:50,490 I followed him for weeks. 149 00:09:50,523 --> 00:09:53,794 His rejections only inflamed me. 150 00:09:53,894 --> 00:09:56,764 And the longer I allowed him to exist outside the coven, 151 00:09:56,864 --> 00:10:00,701 the more unsettled my children became. 152 00:10:00,868 --> 00:10:04,337 They watched in secret, fascinated by his disregard 153 00:10:04,504 --> 00:10:07,975 for the laws I told them could never be broken. 154 00:10:09,877 --> 00:10:12,913 He took a mortal lover. More heresy. 155 00:11:38,298 --> 00:11:41,268 I'd tolerated his presence too long already. 156 00:11:41,301 --> 00:11:44,337 I had to act or he'd destroy what little I had left. 157 00:11:44,437 --> 00:11:46,239 Lestat! 158 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,915 Lestat? 159 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:57,017 Nicky! 160 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:38,458 Uhh! Uhh! 161 00:12:56,109 --> 00:12:57,310 Nicky! 162 00:13:32,579 --> 00:13:34,614 Uhh! 163 00:14:34,774 --> 00:14:36,243 You let it happen? 164 00:14:37,610 --> 00:14:38,545 Yes. 165 00:14:39,212 --> 00:14:41,648 You led him there, so he could destroy it. 166 00:14:41,681 --> 00:14:44,351 His words had been my thoughts for half a century. 167 00:14:45,185 --> 00:14:47,587 If it had come from me, they wouldn't have believed it. 168 00:14:55,662 --> 00:14:56,763 Hmm? 169 00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:16,549 My children left. 170 00:15:16,649 --> 00:15:17,985 They roamed the streets of Paris, 171 00:15:18,085 --> 00:15:19,919 wreaking havoc with mortals. 172 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:23,290 Some could not reconcile the life I had made for them 173 00:15:23,390 --> 00:15:26,426 with the life Lestat had told them was possible. 174 00:15:27,227 --> 00:15:30,897 They went mad, ended themselves. 175 00:15:34,201 --> 00:15:36,636 The only thing that kept me from the fire... 176 00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:39,739 were the old rituals. 177 00:18:10,423 --> 00:18:12,625 Au contraire, Maitre. 178 00:19:48,855 --> 00:19:50,189 Lestat. 179 00:20:12,445 --> 00:20:15,715 That's it? You're just going to end it there? 180 00:20:15,815 --> 00:20:18,318 They went at it on the floor. 181 00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:20,887 Armand taught Lestat the Mind Gift. 182 00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:24,391 And a week later, Lestat was gone. 183 00:20:24,491 --> 00:20:27,727 The question was how do vampires hide from Google, 184 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:30,363 not how did Lestat break his heart. 185 00:20:30,463 --> 00:20:32,932 But because you were a good listener, you got answers to both. 186 00:20:33,032 --> 00:20:35,067 When he went to open the theater the next night, 187 00:20:35,167 --> 00:20:37,437 he was met by the lawyer, Pierre Roget I. 188 00:20:37,537 --> 00:20:40,072 Waiting for me with a trunk full of cash and instructions 189 00:20:40,172 --> 00:20:42,409 to cover the theater's cost in perpetuity. 190 00:20:42,509 --> 00:20:46,713 He abandoned Nicky. He abandoned Armand. He abandoned the coven. 191 00:20:46,813 --> 00:20:51,951 Lestat is, was, and will always be, for Lestat. 192 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:54,554 Never say I love you to a raging narcissist. 193 00:20:54,654 --> 00:20:58,057 And I locked away those words for another 150 years. 194 00:21:00,693 --> 00:21:02,295 And then he arrived... 195 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:05,131 and shattered that lock. 196 00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:10,603 This is what... frightened me most about you. 197 00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:17,544 He's in Copenhagen 198 00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:19,211 working at a car factory. 199 00:21:19,346 --> 00:21:22,315 He hates his maker, takes the boat back to America. 200 00:21:22,449 --> 00:21:24,717 He gets me on an El train to Chicago. 201 00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:27,787 I said outside of Chicago. He said he didn't like big cities. 202 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,722 He gets me outside Chicago. 203 00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:32,992 - A diner on the way to Gary. - You find me in Springfield... 204 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:35,161 Selling chestnuts outside the train station. 205 00:21:35,261 --> 00:21:37,229 By the train station. 206 00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:39,666 He kills himself in Cincinnati. 207 00:21:40,533 --> 00:21:42,502 What the hell do we know about Cincinnati? 208 00:21:42,602 --> 00:21:44,837 What do they know about Cincinnati? 209 00:21:46,072 --> 00:21:48,140 - What's he look like? - They won't ask that. 210 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,610 - They will. - It's been weeks, it's enough. 211 00:21:50,743 --> 00:21:53,346 I'm finally working backstage tonight, I don't wanna be late. 212 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,515 You're the one said he was our maker. 213 00:21:56,248 --> 00:21:58,250 I need this cold for myself. 214 00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:02,355 Black wavy hair... smile crooks up to the left. 215 00:22:02,489 --> 00:22:04,657 Buncha moles on his crotch and thighs. 216 00:22:04,757 --> 00:22:06,426 I don't need that. 217 00:22:06,459 --> 00:22:08,828 Well, he didn't keep you under floorboards for a week. 218 00:22:08,928 --> 00:22:10,697 I don't know what it is that you need. 219 00:22:10,797 --> 00:22:13,032 I remember what I remember. 220 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:21,207 I pry to keep us safe. 221 00:22:22,308 --> 00:22:24,711 You might be having a good time now, 222 00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,380 but there's danger if they find out we lied. 223 00:22:30,583 --> 00:22:33,185 Maybe not Cincinnati. How about Shreveport? 224 00:22:35,922 --> 00:22:39,125 Caddo Lake. My daddy took me and Paul there to fish. 225 00:22:39,158 --> 00:22:41,828 There's a drawbridge there. He burned on the bridge. 226 00:22:41,961 --> 00:22:44,797 Shreveport, Caddo Lake, burned himself on the bridge. 227 00:22:53,606 --> 00:22:54,741 Armand. 228 00:22:56,476 --> 00:22:57,877 The door was ajar. 229 00:22:58,811 --> 00:23:02,415 Uh... If you open up the windows and the doors, 230 00:23:02,515 --> 00:23:04,684 you get a little breeze. 231 00:23:04,784 --> 00:23:07,954 Cavalier. But I'm sure you're being careful. 232 00:23:07,987 --> 00:23:09,088 A-huh. 233 00:23:11,824 --> 00:23:14,260 Maitre, welcome to our lair. 234 00:23:15,327 --> 00:23:18,230 - Shouldn't you be in the lobby? - I got three minutes. 235 00:23:18,865 --> 00:23:20,933 Did I give you consent to look me in the eye, Puce? 236 00:23:21,067 --> 00:23:23,335 - No, Maitre. - My fault, I was keeping her. 237 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,337 Have I been late once, Maitre? 238 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,874 Have you been early once is the question I'd be asking myself. 239 00:23:36,382 --> 00:23:37,784 How's she doing? 240 00:23:39,385 --> 00:23:41,621 She's taking the abuse in stride. 241 00:23:41,721 --> 00:23:44,123 - I've never seen her happier. - Mmm. 242 00:23:45,558 --> 00:23:48,595 The coven has grand designs for her. 243 00:23:52,565 --> 00:23:54,366 You're drawn to portraiture. 244 00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:56,636 Hides the cracks in the walls. 245 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:06,479 Show me where you go at night. 246 00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:14,086 Unconscious death is the fate of all mortals. 247 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:17,323 Up. 248 00:24:18,224 --> 00:24:19,258 Up. 249 00:24:19,859 --> 00:24:20,927 Up. 250 00:24:21,561 --> 00:24:25,031 We are conscious death, Rolf Wangler. 251 00:24:25,131 --> 00:24:28,801 And that would make you a groom. 252 00:24:30,036 --> 00:24:35,107 Do you know what it means to be loved by death? 253 00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:37,409 No pain. 254 00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:39,245 This is my favorite part. 255 00:24:39,378 --> 00:24:40,880 No pain. 256 00:24:40,913 --> 00:24:42,448 No pain. 257 00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:44,016 No pain. 258 00:24:44,116 --> 00:24:46,352 How does he get 'em to beg for it? 259 00:24:47,086 --> 00:24:49,421 Eyes down, Puce, eyes down. 260 00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:51,290 No pain. 261 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:53,793 No pain. 262 00:24:58,164 --> 00:25:00,299 Did you fucking sneeze at the end? 263 00:25:00,432 --> 00:25:01,934 I tried to stifle it. 264 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,503 It's the bloody fucking moment of quietus. 265 00:25:04,604 --> 00:25:06,205 It's hay season. 266 00:25:06,305 --> 00:25:08,140 It's not a farm, Estelle! 267 00:25:08,975 --> 00:25:12,278 It still sounded terrifying, Mr. Santiago. I got chills. 268 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:14,280 Of course you did because I'm a... 269 00:25:14,313 --> 00:25:16,115 Fucking professional! 270 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,650 - Puce! - Coming, sir. 271 00:25:18,150 --> 00:25:21,387 You know, Clau, this is what's called the wet room. 272 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,956 A hateful place. You never get over the smell 273 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:26,458 and I'm glad to Garryduff it's your job now. 274 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:29,495 Keep the sacrifice in there till ten minutes to the stage. 275 00:25:29,629 --> 00:25:32,231 - Mm-hm. - This is the body box. 276 00:25:34,801 --> 00:25:38,037 And this is the rat box. You put your freshie... 277 00:25:38,971 --> 00:25:40,439 in the body box. 278 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:43,009 You close the lid. 279 00:25:43,109 --> 00:25:45,244 You take the safety off the funnel. 280 00:25:47,113 --> 00:25:49,982 And, begosh and begorrah, the rats do the dirty for ya. 281 00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:53,019 Now on a Tuesday, this is the body box and that's the rat box. 282 00:25:53,152 --> 00:25:56,488 On Wednesdays, that's the body box, this is the rat box. 283 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,726 Back and forth, back and forth. Keep track. 284 00:25:59,826 --> 00:26:02,494 These rats are smart. They can go quiet. 285 00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:04,597 You open up the wrong box, they go running up the stairs 286 00:26:04,731 --> 00:26:06,098 into the green room, into the theater 287 00:26:06,232 --> 00:26:07,600 and Maitre punishes the entire coven, 288 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:09,368 which does not win you friends and furain. 289 00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:11,070 We had an incinerator at home. 290 00:26:11,170 --> 00:26:13,039 - How'd that work? - Throw 'em in. Watch 'em burn. 291 00:26:13,172 --> 00:26:15,041 Hmm. Feels a bit German. 292 00:26:15,174 --> 00:26:17,409 You can piddle a week before you have to empty the bones. 293 00:26:17,509 --> 00:26:20,613 This door leads to the sewers, catacombs and various ossuaries 294 00:26:20,747 --> 00:26:22,448 we've got hidden around the underground. 295 00:26:22,481 --> 00:26:25,217 - What are these? - Burial vaults. 296 00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:28,621 Coven members past. Mostly heretics and law breakers. 297 00:26:28,721 --> 00:26:31,423 - What are the laws? - Not till the ceremony, Puce. 298 00:26:31,523 --> 00:26:34,460 They found the heart! 299 00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:37,429 Rats love hearts. 300 00:26:39,866 --> 00:26:42,401 I walk a new part of the city every night. 301 00:26:42,534 --> 00:26:44,203 I try to get lost. 302 00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:47,573 Somehow I always end up back by the river. 303 00:26:48,775 --> 00:26:52,178 The waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful. 304 00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:53,245 Mm-hm. 305 00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:56,816 A vein winding through the heart of Paris. 306 00:27:01,187 --> 00:27:03,322 There's much talk of your camera in the coven. 307 00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:05,324 Is that right? 308 00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:07,226 They say you're mad in love with humanity. 309 00:27:07,259 --> 00:27:10,129 Thieving their private moments with light and shadow. 310 00:27:10,229 --> 00:27:12,598 They pester Claudia about it. 311 00:27:12,699 --> 00:27:14,600 They should ask me if they're curious. 312 00:27:14,701 --> 00:27:17,403 How could they when you're so rarely present? 313 00:27:17,436 --> 00:27:21,007 I saw enough theater back home for several lifetimes. 314 00:27:21,107 --> 00:27:23,409 - No offense. - None taken. 315 00:27:23,442 --> 00:27:26,145 Nothing worse than being dragged around unwillingly 316 00:27:26,278 --> 00:27:29,181 by a companion. This was Bruce? 317 00:27:29,949 --> 00:27:32,151 Yeah, Bruce. 318 00:27:32,251 --> 00:27:36,155 - The opera-loving motorcyclist. - Yeah. 319 00:27:38,157 --> 00:27:39,692 You should talk with Tuan Pham about cameras. 320 00:27:39,826 --> 00:27:42,194 He's very learned. Perhaps the two of you could... 321 00:27:42,294 --> 00:27:44,363 I'm not doing the coven. 322 00:27:45,397 --> 00:27:47,399 Trying to save you a sales pitch. 323 00:27:47,433 --> 00:27:50,536 You got Claudia, she's happy, I'm happy. 324 00:27:51,237 --> 00:27:52,705 But me... 325 00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,341 - not much of a joiner. - Mmm. 326 00:27:55,441 --> 00:27:58,010 Yes, you have made that clear enough. 327 00:27:58,144 --> 00:28:00,046 So if that's why you're here. 328 00:28:01,247 --> 00:28:02,949 It's not the whole reason I'm here. 329 00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:04,951 - No. - No. 330 00:28:04,984 --> 00:28:07,820 It's most definitely not the whole reason he's here. 331 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:11,190 I like you. 332 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,994 I like you, isn't that obvious? 333 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,900 We really must work on blocking your thoughts. 334 00:28:21,868 --> 00:28:24,136 - Excuse me? - Bruce. 335 00:28:24,971 --> 00:28:27,706 - I sense him now in your mind. - A-huh. 336 00:28:27,807 --> 00:28:29,909 Maybe I'm guarding my thoughts just fine. 337 00:28:30,009 --> 00:28:32,411 Maybe I let you into my head on purpose. 338 00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:35,848 Oh, that's nice, mon cher. Lovely. 339 00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:52,598 Ha! 340 00:29:05,344 --> 00:29:07,880 If we were the only vampires in Paris... 341 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,951 For a second I felt like we were. 342 00:29:15,421 --> 00:29:18,290 The coven is envious of your independence. 343 00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:21,627 It's a problem. You outside looking in. 344 00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:25,397 Your problem, not mine. 345 00:29:26,265 --> 00:29:28,134 You want me, I'm here. 346 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,369 But I'm here, here. 347 00:29:30,436 --> 00:29:33,105 In the streets, cafés, 348 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:35,207 the salons, the bars, ripping hot jazz. 349 00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:37,676 The whole place feels like it's born again. 350 00:29:37,709 --> 00:29:40,079 Everyone's asking, "What's next, what's next?" 351 00:29:40,179 --> 00:29:44,450 Not, "Where were you?" Or, "Be careful." 352 00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:46,485 I had enough of that back home. 353 00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:49,488 I'm out here finding myself. 354 00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:53,292 Then what room is there left for me, 355 00:29:54,293 --> 00:29:56,362 if you have not found yourself? 356 00:29:56,395 --> 00:29:57,663 Hmm! 357 00:29:59,932 --> 00:30:01,433 Oh, there's room. 358 00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:10,910 We were circling each other. 359 00:30:11,043 --> 00:30:13,179 I was putting him in a very difficult position. 360 00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:15,147 I was supposed to be luring him in, 361 00:30:15,281 --> 00:30:17,116 but the opposite was happening. 362 00:30:17,216 --> 00:30:18,985 I started spending less time at the theater 363 00:30:19,085 --> 00:30:21,153 and more nights strolling the boulevards with Louis. 364 00:30:21,253 --> 00:30:24,023 The conversation was easy and flirtatious... 365 00:30:24,123 --> 00:30:26,458 - And combative. - And combative, yes, 366 00:30:26,558 --> 00:30:29,195 but only in the most stimulating ways. 367 00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:32,331 Arguing as foreplay. 368 00:30:32,464 --> 00:30:34,934 Some of my most profound feelings 369 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,103 and thoughts were taking shape. 370 00:30:37,169 --> 00:30:41,207 When my mind was touched by Armand's, 371 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:45,311 I became deeply excited and driven 372 00:30:45,411 --> 00:30:47,779 to form new conclusions about myself 373 00:30:47,846 --> 00:30:50,816 and vampiric life in the abstract. 374 00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:56,889 - Something wrong, Daniel? - Mmm... 375 00:30:56,989 --> 00:31:02,128 Oh, no. It's... It's the, um, the computer, uh... 376 00:31:02,161 --> 00:31:06,165 Something you were saying made me think of, um... 377 00:31:07,433 --> 00:31:08,700 Think what? 378 00:31:11,003 --> 00:31:12,671 Oh... It's... 379 00:31:12,771 --> 00:31:15,741 It just flew out of my head there. It's gone. 380 00:31:15,841 --> 00:31:18,744 So where's Claudia at this point? 381 00:31:18,844 --> 00:31:21,180 How's she doing? What... What's she doing 382 00:31:21,313 --> 00:31:23,916 at this stage of things? 383 00:31:26,852 --> 00:31:28,854 How do you do it? 384 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:31,057 How do you get them to accept death? 385 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,427 They'll never hear you in the front row with your head down. 386 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:44,536 First thing I do when I creak open the lid 387 00:31:45,704 --> 00:31:48,774 is have a chat with my scene partner for the night. 388 00:31:49,675 --> 00:31:53,579 Muck about in their heads, find their shame. 389 00:31:53,679 --> 00:31:55,847 In short, an actor prepares. 390 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:58,217 See you on stage, Claude. 391 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:02,454 Who's Francis Naughton? 392 00:32:07,994 --> 00:32:11,030 The best Iago to walk the York Royal. 393 00:32:11,063 --> 00:32:12,464 That was you? 394 00:32:12,598 --> 00:32:15,634 And what was your shabby life in Chicago 395 00:32:15,734 --> 00:32:19,471 before the vampire Bruce bit down on your wee neck? 396 00:32:19,571 --> 00:32:21,140 I was in Springfield... 397 00:32:22,041 --> 00:32:24,476 selling little trinkets at the train station. 398 00:32:24,576 --> 00:32:26,712 - You were an orphan? - You could say that. 399 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:30,249 And an orphan again. We have that in common. 400 00:32:30,382 --> 00:32:32,951 - I thought Maitre made you? - And why would you say that? 401 00:32:33,052 --> 00:32:35,287 Estelle told me you were the youngest. 402 00:32:35,387 --> 00:32:38,457 But you're also the strongest. Figured you got the best blood. 403 00:32:39,558 --> 00:32:40,659 No. 404 00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,296 My maker lies in the walls downstairs. 405 00:32:45,764 --> 00:32:47,433 Maitre put him there. 406 00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:49,768 Woodcutter, three minutes. 407 00:32:50,536 --> 00:32:52,004 Thank you. Three. 408 00:32:52,704 --> 00:32:54,440 - Sorry. - Oh, don't be. 409 00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:56,642 He deserved his death... 410 00:32:58,410 --> 00:33:00,512 and his blood was exquisite. 411 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,416 I'm a good mimic and I can fly. 412 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,986 - And you kill with panache. - Hmm. 413 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,089 And your dearly departed maker, 414 00:33:10,789 --> 00:33:14,360 what gifts did he bequeath the moppet vampiress? 415 00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:18,197 He taught me how to lie well. 416 00:33:22,901 --> 00:33:25,171 You'll make a fine actor, then. 417 00:33:27,073 --> 00:33:30,842 It's Louis who's from Chicago, yes? 418 00:33:31,777 --> 00:33:34,346 Just outside it. Gary, Indiana. 419 00:33:36,815 --> 00:33:39,818 Stick with it, Puce. You're almost there. 420 00:33:49,928 --> 00:33:53,299 I'm evil, evil as any vampire who ever lived. 421 00:33:53,332 --> 00:33:57,103 I've killed over and over and I will do it again. 422 00:33:57,136 --> 00:34:00,038 Why does that make you as evil as any vampire? 423 00:34:00,172 --> 00:34:01,640 Aren't there gradations to evil? 424 00:34:01,707 --> 00:34:03,642 Is evil a great perilous gulf 425 00:34:03,709 --> 00:34:05,477 one falls into with the first sin? 426 00:34:05,511 --> 00:34:09,715 I mean, kinda. It's not as logical as you're saying, 427 00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:11,850 but it's dark and it's empty, 428 00:34:11,950 --> 00:34:13,585 and I can't see the bottom of it. 429 00:34:13,685 --> 00:34:16,988 But if evil is without gradation and it does exist, 430 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:19,325 this state of evil then, 431 00:34:19,458 --> 00:34:21,527 only one sin is needed. 432 00:34:21,660 --> 00:34:23,329 That's your argument. 433 00:34:25,831 --> 00:34:30,035 Evil is the product of the ability of humans 434 00:34:30,136 --> 00:34:32,771 to make abstract what is concrete. 435 00:34:32,871 --> 00:34:35,607 - Jean-Paul. - Armand. 436 00:34:35,707 --> 00:34:38,210 - This is my friend, Louis. - Bonjour. 437 00:34:38,310 --> 00:34:42,414 Now, will you two kindly shut up, 438 00:34:42,514 --> 00:34:45,117 so I can hear the music, hmm? 439 00:34:46,885 --> 00:34:49,488 Your argument assumes God exists. 440 00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:51,457 I don't know that God exists. 441 00:34:51,490 --> 00:34:53,825 From what I saw in the war, he doesn't. 442 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,928 Then surely, there are degrees and variations to goodness? 443 00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,631 The goodness of the child which is innocence. 444 00:34:59,731 --> 00:35:01,633 The goodness of the nun who lives a life 445 00:35:01,733 --> 00:35:04,270 of self-deprivation and service. 446 00:35:04,370 --> 00:35:07,739 The goodness of the saints, the goodness of the midwives. 447 00:35:07,906 --> 00:35:10,176 And how is this evil achieved? 448 00:35:10,209 --> 00:35:12,311 How does one fall from grace? 449 00:35:12,478 --> 00:35:16,748 * You little whore * 450 00:35:16,848 --> 00:35:21,487 * You only want him cos you're feeling blue * 451 00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:25,557 * Come to me * 452 00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:32,364 * He'll never run his fingers through your hair * 453 00:35:32,531 --> 00:35:36,402 * The way I do * That's quite good, hmm. 454 00:35:36,435 --> 00:35:38,670 * You'll fumble each other * 455 00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:40,105 Louis? 456 00:35:40,206 --> 00:35:42,941 * Impotent lovers... * 457 00:35:43,041 --> 00:35:45,944 I don't... I don't know. 458 00:35:46,044 --> 00:35:47,613 Maybe you're right. 459 00:35:48,747 --> 00:35:50,015 There he is again. 460 00:35:50,682 --> 00:35:53,084 * Come to me * 461 00:35:53,219 --> 00:35:54,520 I'm sorry. 462 00:35:54,653 --> 00:35:56,922 And we were having such a nice conversation. 463 00:35:56,988 --> 00:36:01,026 I was with Bruce for 30 years. 464 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,361 "Bruce"? 465 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:06,298 How long are we going to play games, Louis? 466 00:36:10,902 --> 00:36:13,104 - Lestat... - Before you say it, 467 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:15,307 let me tell you a little something 468 00:36:15,341 --> 00:36:17,843 about 18th-century Armand. 469 00:36:18,410 --> 00:36:20,479 - Lestat. - Oh, dear. 470 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,682 - Finally. - I'm tired of holding onto it. 471 00:36:24,416 --> 00:36:27,653 Lestat was my companion in America. 472 00:36:27,786 --> 00:36:31,390 - And where is he now? - Mm, still a bookbinder's wife? 473 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:33,959 - He knows. - You know where he is. 474 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:36,027 I want you to say it. 475 00:36:37,463 --> 00:36:39,865 I killed him and he fucking had it coming. 476 00:36:39,965 --> 00:36:42,534 - Well, that's debatable. - I've known for months. 477 00:36:43,168 --> 00:36:44,970 I've just waited for you to say it. 478 00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:48,073 And that means what? You gotta kill me now? 479 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,078 What does that mean for Claudia? 480 00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:54,680 - Did she help you kill him? - Yes! 481 00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:56,882 - No. - You broke one of the Great Laws. 482 00:36:56,982 --> 00:36:59,685 I don't know any Great Laws. Lestat never told me shit. 483 00:36:59,818 --> 00:37:02,254 - I told you I loved you. - Go away! 484 00:37:02,354 --> 00:37:03,689 - Calm down. - And you said nothing. 485 00:37:03,822 --> 00:37:05,757 Back to hell with you! 486 00:37:07,659 --> 00:37:09,361 Louis... 487 00:37:39,658 --> 00:37:43,562 Even now, I'm still the only one you trust. 488 00:37:45,731 --> 00:37:46,932 Kill me again. 489 00:37:47,733 --> 00:37:50,135 Go on, kill me again! 490 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:56,475 Show me the only way you know how to love. 491 00:38:05,417 --> 00:38:08,086 Aah! Uhh! Aah! 492 00:38:21,867 --> 00:38:24,102 He was a loner. Had fickle moods, 493 00:38:24,202 --> 00:38:26,405 switched between 'em real fast. 494 00:38:26,472 --> 00:38:28,507 We can take a night off. 495 00:38:29,575 --> 00:38:31,510 Uh, you're probably right. 496 00:38:31,610 --> 00:38:34,480 Probably let it go after we said he burned himself. 497 00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:37,282 No, we should do this. We should be real careful, like you said. 498 00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:42,120 Louis? 499 00:38:47,125 --> 00:38:49,361 Three of us were a little gang for a while. 500 00:38:51,129 --> 00:38:54,766 The open road, roaming America. 501 00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,302 Killing at truck stops, motels. 502 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,939 Till one day he set himself on fire. Shocked the shit outta us. 503 00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:02,941 Did it with a lighter. 504 00:39:03,008 --> 00:39:05,210 Held it up to a rag hanging out his gas tank. 505 00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:07,779 Thought we'd be on that road for a long time. 506 00:39:07,846 --> 00:39:09,347 His last words were... 507 00:39:10,816 --> 00:39:13,184 "Had enough of your gloomy faces." 508 00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:15,053 Good. 509 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,029 Lestat could have said, 510 00:39:24,162 --> 00:39:27,533 "Put your coffin on a boat. Go to Paris. 511 00:39:27,633 --> 00:39:29,234 There's a beautiful coven there, 512 00:39:29,334 --> 00:39:31,403 I know cos I fucking founded it." 513 00:39:33,772 --> 00:39:36,207 But he said the vampires out there are vicious. 514 00:39:36,341 --> 00:39:38,410 I should tell you something. 515 00:39:38,510 --> 00:39:42,247 And then I met the motherfucker, and, yeah, Lestat was right. 516 00:39:45,283 --> 00:39:47,519 It was better when he broke my bones, 517 00:39:49,788 --> 00:39:52,057 crammed me under the floorboards. 518 00:39:53,959 --> 00:39:56,862 I fought him, kicked him, 519 00:39:56,995 --> 00:39:59,097 clawed him, bit him. 520 00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:02,934 That was fine. 521 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,405 It was when he had me pinned, 522 00:40:10,041 --> 00:40:11,910 and he'd tell me he loved me. 523 00:40:15,313 --> 00:40:17,949 Before, during, 524 00:40:18,684 --> 00:40:20,118 and after. 525 00:40:21,052 --> 00:40:23,622 Before, during, 526 00:40:25,023 --> 00:40:26,291 after. 527 00:40:27,192 --> 00:40:28,960 That fucked me up. 528 00:40:33,064 --> 00:40:35,901 One day he said, "Had enough of your gloomy face." 529 00:40:37,002 --> 00:40:38,970 Drove off on a motorbike. 530 00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:42,641 Thought I might as well go home, get Louis, head to Europe. 531 00:40:45,577 --> 00:40:48,113 They're gonna let me join the coven end of this week. 532 00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:53,752 It'd be nice if you come. 533 00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:57,122 I wouldn't miss it for the world. 534 00:41:07,198 --> 00:41:09,334 Excuse the interruption. 535 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:13,839 The lawyer for the buyer is ready for the teleconference. 536 00:41:14,606 --> 00:41:16,141 Uh, the lawyer? 537 00:41:16,274 --> 00:41:18,343 It's about the Bacon triptych. 538 00:41:19,778 --> 00:41:22,814 - Would you mind, Daniel? - I'll take a piss. 539 00:41:27,385 --> 00:41:31,690 A real cold cup of water there, Rashid. I was really in it. 540 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,662 - Mr. Philips, yes? - Hello. 541 00:41:36,795 --> 00:41:38,530 This is the owner, Mr. Du Lac. 542 00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:40,165 Mr. Philips. 543 00:41:44,603 --> 00:41:47,105 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 544 00:41:47,138 --> 00:41:49,307 witnesses to Christ's agony. 545 00:41:49,407 --> 00:41:52,477 Mr. Bacon also referred to these as the Three Furies, 546 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:54,479 punishers of human wrongdoing. 547 00:41:54,580 --> 00:41:56,281 And the matter of provenance? 548 00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:58,984 Is the buyer questioning the authenticity? 549 00:41:59,084 --> 00:42:01,152 The buyer wants it for her husband. 550 00:42:01,252 --> 00:42:03,589 She probably Googled what questions she should ask. 551 00:42:03,622 --> 00:42:06,858 The reverse on the right panel is inscribed Petersfield, 552 00:42:06,992 --> 00:42:08,927 which is near a cottage Bacon worked at 553 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,096 during the gestating years of the painting. 554 00:42:11,129 --> 00:42:13,965 An X-ray of the Fury on that panel would reveal 555 00:42:14,032 --> 00:42:17,235 the face of a man, likely Eric Hall, the owner of that cottage. 556 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:18,804 It's only had three owners. 557 00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:20,639 The research is basic but on you. 558 00:42:20,706 --> 00:42:22,540 We have to run. Thank you. 559 00:42:22,641 --> 00:42:24,409 I'll run it past my clients. 560 00:42:24,509 --> 00:42:27,746 - Woodcutter! - Who are you? 561 00:42:27,846 --> 00:42:32,751 I am who you think I am, woodcutter. 562 00:42:32,851 --> 00:42:36,521 - Go away. - The clock in your heart. 563 00:42:36,622 --> 00:42:40,425 The gears have stopped meshing. 564 00:42:44,495 --> 00:42:47,398 The vampires are real. They're going to kill us all. 565 00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:51,169 The vampires, they're real! 566 00:42:51,202 --> 00:42:53,004 - They're going to kill us all! - What is this? 567 00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:55,073 He's disrupted the performance! 568 00:42:55,173 --> 00:42:57,643 No, no, no, no. Let him speak, Sam. 569 00:42:57,676 --> 00:43:00,345 Look who's graced us with his presence. 570 00:43:00,378 --> 00:43:01,947 What an honor. 571 00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:03,749 He's here in support of the girl. 572 00:43:03,849 --> 00:43:07,185 - Finish the performance. - Gonna to kill you next. 573 00:43:07,252 --> 00:43:09,788 Why don't you tell us who you are? 574 00:43:09,888 --> 00:43:13,424 - Did you read Le Monde today? - I have not. 575 00:43:13,524 --> 00:43:16,494 A mutilated body found in a park three nights ago. 576 00:43:16,527 --> 00:43:19,765 Crushed skull, puncture wounds on neck, 577 00:43:19,865 --> 00:43:21,633 chest and shoulder blade. 578 00:43:21,733 --> 00:43:25,170 - Was that you? - Of course not. 579 00:43:25,203 --> 00:43:27,873 Because everyone was in coffin by curfew. 580 00:43:27,939 --> 00:43:31,677 Suppose we were to let you go? 581 00:43:31,777 --> 00:43:33,979 And I don't see our girl here 582 00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:37,148 at that particular park, do you? 583 00:43:37,248 --> 00:43:39,050 Speak plainly. 584 00:43:39,084 --> 00:43:41,152 You've had your time to recruit. 585 00:43:41,252 --> 00:43:43,254 It's not happening. 586 00:43:43,354 --> 00:43:46,992 He will be the ruin of us. Do what must be done. 587 00:43:47,092 --> 00:43:48,860 Are you making demands? 588 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,663 The coven would like to know 589 00:43:51,763 --> 00:43:53,765 what you intend to do with him, 590 00:43:53,865 --> 00:43:56,467 beyond comping him a fifth row center aisle ticket? 591 00:43:57,035 --> 00:43:59,270 And do you speak for the coven? 592 00:44:14,753 --> 00:44:16,654 After the ceremony. 593 00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:18,957 After she's committed herself to us. 594 00:44:19,557 --> 00:44:22,393 Then I'll do what must be done. Does that satisfy? 595 00:44:22,427 --> 00:44:26,631 - Did in my maker for far less. - Does that satisfy? 596 00:44:26,798 --> 00:44:29,434 - It does, Maitre. 597 00:44:29,467 --> 00:44:31,169 All respects. 598 00:44:32,603 --> 00:44:34,005 No pain. 599 00:44:34,773 --> 00:44:36,975 No pain. 600 00:44:37,976 --> 00:44:39,845 No pain. 601 00:44:46,317 --> 00:44:48,954 Puce! Puce! Puce! 602 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:52,390 Puce! Puce! Puce! Puce! Puce! 603 00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:02,400 Your first night over the footlights. 604 00:45:03,368 --> 00:45:05,904 - How did it feel? - Like home. 605 00:45:07,605 --> 00:45:10,341 Come, I have something for you. 606 00:45:11,509 --> 00:45:12,744 Sit. 607 00:45:22,988 --> 00:45:24,689 What is it, Maitre? 608 00:45:24,790 --> 00:45:26,758 It's a flea circus. 609 00:45:30,128 --> 00:45:33,698 May it remind you of your humble beginnings. 610 00:45:34,499 --> 00:45:36,234 Would you have us? 611 00:45:40,305 --> 00:45:42,107 Yes, Maitre. 612 00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:44,675 Come. 613 00:45:50,916 --> 00:45:52,350 The Five Laws. 614 00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:55,620 Let youngest read in the youngest. 615 00:46:00,258 --> 00:46:02,961 The ceremony is for members only. 616 00:46:03,895 --> 00:46:05,630 Shall we have a walk? 617 00:46:11,102 --> 00:46:12,804 The Five Laws. 618 00:46:14,172 --> 00:46:15,573 Law one. 619 00:46:16,241 --> 00:46:19,144 Each coven must have its leader 620 00:46:19,244 --> 00:46:21,012 and only he might order 621 00:46:21,179 --> 00:46:23,949 the working of the Dark Trick upon a mortal. 622 00:46:26,517 --> 00:46:28,419 Will you abide? 623 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,455 I will. 624 00:46:30,555 --> 00:46:31,756 Law two. 625 00:46:33,058 --> 00:46:36,962 The Dark Gifts must never be given to the crippled, 626 00:46:37,062 --> 00:46:38,964 the maimed or to children... 627 00:46:39,064 --> 00:46:42,067 - I'm gonna leave Paris. - Where would you go? 628 00:46:42,133 --> 00:46:44,602 I was thinking London. 629 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:46,637 If it's too large, maybe Dublin. 630 00:46:47,572 --> 00:46:49,507 You left a body in the park. 631 00:46:50,408 --> 00:46:51,943 More reason I should leave. 632 00:46:52,043 --> 00:46:54,645 No vampire must commit to writing 633 00:46:54,779 --> 00:46:56,614 the history of the vampires. 634 00:46:56,747 --> 00:47:01,286 You exposed us. Should I allow the London coven such exposure? 635 00:47:04,589 --> 00:47:08,026 No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature 636 00:47:08,126 --> 00:47:10,628 to a mortal and let the mortal live. 637 00:47:10,728 --> 00:47:13,698 You revealed yourself to the law firm of Roget and Abert. 638 00:47:13,731 --> 00:47:15,833 They do business with vampires. 639 00:47:15,934 --> 00:47:20,538 No vampire may ever destroy another vampire... 640 00:47:21,472 --> 00:47:23,808 except that the coven master 641 00:47:23,909 --> 00:47:28,813 has the power of life and death over all his flock. 642 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,782 "I will not harm you." 643 00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:33,651 Those were your first words to me. 644 00:47:33,751 --> 00:47:35,820 "My maker was a vampire named Bruce. 645 00:47:35,853 --> 00:47:39,490 Who's Lestat de Lioncourt?" Your first words to the coven. 646 00:47:41,826 --> 00:47:46,631 And it is his obligation to finally seek the destruction 647 00:47:46,697 --> 00:47:50,101 of all those who have broken these five laws. 648 00:47:50,201 --> 00:47:51,669 Where are we going? 649 00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:53,371 We're going to get lost 650 00:47:53,471 --> 00:47:55,373 and end up back by the river. 651 00:47:56,341 --> 00:47:58,076 Like all our walks. 652 00:47:58,209 --> 00:48:01,546 Will you abide by this fifth and final law? 653 00:48:02,447 --> 00:48:03,915 I will. 654 00:48:04,782 --> 00:48:06,217 A flea no more. 655 00:48:10,956 --> 00:48:13,191 Take my head off if you're gonna do it. 656 00:48:14,059 --> 00:48:15,493 I saw what fire does. 657 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,428 I don't want to go out that way. 658 00:48:17,528 --> 00:48:19,397 Any other requests? 659 00:48:19,864 --> 00:48:21,466 Look after Claudia. 660 00:48:21,566 --> 00:48:23,401 She doesn't need looking after. 661 00:48:23,534 --> 00:48:25,436 She won't be here very long. 662 00:48:27,572 --> 00:48:28,773 What?! 663 00:48:29,507 --> 00:48:31,576 You made her at 14. 664 00:48:32,210 --> 00:48:34,379 A most turbulent chemistry. 665 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,816 Her mind, as fierce as it is now, will not endure. 666 00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:40,785 It will break apart in time. 667 00:48:42,020 --> 00:48:43,788 You don't know her. 668 00:48:45,890 --> 00:48:47,725 I don't have to. 669 00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:51,896 I've seen it all before. 670 00:48:54,032 --> 00:48:56,267 I've seen too much, Louis. 671 00:48:58,569 --> 00:49:00,638 Surprise! 672 00:49:02,273 --> 00:49:04,475 You didn't think we were going to 673 00:49:04,575 --> 00:49:06,411 leave you in the wet room, did you? 674 00:49:06,444 --> 00:49:08,146 You're a star, Claudia. 675 00:49:08,279 --> 00:49:10,648 A new play for you and the ladies. 676 00:49:11,716 --> 00:49:14,085 'My Baby Loves Windows.' 677 00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:15,653 I play your governess. 678 00:49:15,753 --> 00:49:17,622 And I play your mother. 679 00:49:18,556 --> 00:49:20,658 And I play the little girl? 680 00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:23,594 You'll be their little birdie for the next 50 years. 681 00:49:29,267 --> 00:49:31,269 What did he call it? 682 00:49:33,571 --> 00:49:36,141 'The Savage Garden.' 683 00:49:38,609 --> 00:49:40,778 Why is it, Louis, 684 00:49:41,412 --> 00:49:45,983 those with the most power are often the weakest? 685 00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:49,954 Don't give up on her. 686 00:49:50,721 --> 00:49:54,625 Tell her she's beautiful. Tell her that every morning. 687 00:50:26,157 --> 00:50:27,892 You walked me home. 688 00:50:29,694 --> 00:50:31,028 Did I? 689 00:50:31,829 --> 00:50:33,998 That's my building over there. 690 00:50:37,135 --> 00:50:38,903 Did he break you, Louis? 691 00:50:40,171 --> 00:50:41,906 Are you broken? 692 00:50:44,275 --> 00:50:45,410 No. 693 00:50:46,344 --> 00:50:48,079 But I carry him. 694 00:50:49,980 --> 00:50:51,749 And I don't know if I... 695 00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:54,085 if I can... 696 00:50:55,186 --> 00:50:57,255 The pain, the... 697 00:51:00,125 --> 00:51:01,559 You will. 698 00:51:03,661 --> 00:51:05,096 I did. 699 00:51:08,133 --> 00:51:09,567 You and him? 700 00:51:11,035 --> 00:51:12,903 A century or so ago. 701 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:15,540 Yesterday. 702 00:51:18,008 --> 00:51:20,044 What is time to a vampire? 703 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,829 You wanna come upstairs? 704 00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:18,269 Are you inviting me in? 705 00:52:20,771 --> 00:52:23,674 Depends. Are you gonna kill me? 706 00:52:45,730 --> 00:52:48,666 Claudia: I'm a fierce vampire trapped in the body of a little girl. 707 00:52:48,833 --> 00:52:53,003 I'm reminded of it every night of my existence. 708 00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:54,439 There's something broken in me. 709 00:52:54,605 --> 00:52:56,807 * 710 00:52:56,941 --> 00:52:59,977 Who am I? Am I my history I have endured? 711 00:53:00,110 --> 00:53:02,380 What is vampire life but poor decisions? 712 00:53:03,981 --> 00:53:07,117 What about you and me? Me and you? 713 00:53:07,285 --> 00:53:09,119 I want you. You sure about that? 714 00:53:09,287 --> 00:53:12,223 * 715 00:53:17,595 --> 00:53:21,499 Unconscious death is the fate of all mortals. 716 00:53:22,933 --> 00:53:23,934 Up. 717 00:53:25,570 --> 00:53:28,439 Up. Mark: "No Pain" is the name of episode three, 718 00:53:28,606 --> 00:53:32,743 and it is ironic because the whole episode is about pain. 719 00:53:32,910 --> 00:53:34,111 No pain. 720 00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:36,947 No pain. 721 00:53:42,219 --> 00:53:44,522 Adam: We jump back in time with Armand. 722 00:53:44,689 --> 00:53:47,091 What we get is Armand's back story, 723 00:53:47,258 --> 00:53:49,026 which pulls a little bit from the vampire, Lestat, 724 00:53:49,193 --> 00:53:50,795 which is the next book. 725 00:53:50,995 --> 00:53:53,130 So that's obviously exciting for our literary fans. 726 00:53:53,264 --> 00:53:54,799 Armand: Our ways were finished. 727 00:53:54,932 --> 00:53:57,201 We were embers on a waning pile. 728 00:53:57,368 --> 00:53:58,769 Adam: It also gives us an opportunity 729 00:53:58,936 --> 00:54:00,204 to learn a little bit more about the coven. 730 00:54:00,371 --> 00:54:02,239 Gets us some Lestat in there. 731 00:54:02,373 --> 00:54:04,642 And one of the best things is that for a long time, 732 00:54:04,775 --> 00:54:06,277 we get the Louis version of Lestat, 733 00:54:06,444 --> 00:54:08,713 and now we get the Armand version of Lestat. 734 00:54:08,879 --> 00:54:09,880 And how are they different? 735 00:54:10,047 --> 00:54:11,716 And you watch Sam do that stuff, 736 00:54:11,882 --> 00:54:13,418 and it's just exquisite. 737 00:54:13,584 --> 00:54:16,253 Ah! Madame. 738 00:54:16,421 --> 00:54:17,788 By this point, 739 00:54:17,955 --> 00:54:20,391 we've learned that who tells the story 740 00:54:20,558 --> 00:54:23,394 is often more important than how the story is being told. 741 00:54:23,561 --> 00:54:25,229 How much of it is true? 742 00:54:25,396 --> 00:54:28,433 How much of it is used to paint Armand in a good light? 743 00:54:29,967 --> 00:54:31,469 Lestat! 744 00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:36,774 Scott: Tonight, we have a little altercation 745 00:54:36,941 --> 00:54:39,577 between two vampires and a mortal. 746 00:54:39,744 --> 00:54:41,412 Man: Action! 747 00:54:41,579 --> 00:54:43,247 Assad: So I'm gonna be hurling Lestat 748 00:54:43,414 --> 00:54:45,583 up against that wall just over there. 749 00:54:45,750 --> 00:54:46,951 Levan, who's directing this episode, 750 00:54:47,084 --> 00:54:48,653 is detail oriented, 751 00:54:48,819 --> 00:54:50,988 and he's a massive fan of the books, as well, 752 00:54:51,155 --> 00:54:55,360 so he understands where this particular part of the story 753 00:54:55,493 --> 00:54:57,828 fits narratively in the next book. 754 00:54:59,464 --> 00:55:01,666 Levan: What I felt was important in this scene, 755 00:55:01,832 --> 00:55:04,702 we have a time freeze element that happens. 756 00:55:04,902 --> 00:55:08,005 We're using people who are good at standing frozen, 757 00:55:08,172 --> 00:55:10,941 and we're using fishnets to have dresses -- 758 00:55:11,108 --> 00:55:13,177 It's very analogue, which I like. 759 00:55:13,344 --> 00:55:14,679 It's pretty impressive I think. 760 00:55:14,845 --> 00:55:16,681 They've managed to freeze some horses 761 00:55:16,814 --> 00:55:19,350 in the background, so the horses are being very well-behaved. 762 00:55:19,517 --> 00:55:22,387 I get dragged on a rig, which was really fun to do, 763 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,154 and it's difficult to see all those 764 00:55:24,288 --> 00:55:26,624 beautiful velvet wolf killer coats get ripped up. 765 00:55:26,791 --> 00:55:29,126 It's lots of stunts. It's lots of French. 766 00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:37,034 We've done a system, we call it a slack line 767 00:55:37,167 --> 00:55:38,703 and a nitrogen ratchet 768 00:55:38,869 --> 00:55:42,239 to motivate our stunt performer toward the wall. 769 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,008 We always take what's on paper 770 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:46,310 and try to make it bigger and better. 771 00:55:46,477 --> 00:55:47,812 As the scene progresses, 772 00:55:47,978 --> 00:55:49,980 the anger and the emotion increases 773 00:55:50,147 --> 00:55:52,182 so the stunt becomes bigger and bigger. 774 00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:55,753 We go from a slide and a flick to flying against the wall. 775 00:56:02,527 --> 00:56:04,361 You're not the first to attempt this. 776 00:56:04,495 --> 00:56:06,431 I could give you the names of four others who have. 777 00:56:06,631 --> 00:56:08,766 And they're all dead, or undead. 778 00:56:08,899 --> 00:56:10,901 The Talamasca is very important 779 00:56:11,068 --> 00:56:13,604 to the Anne Rice canon. 780 00:56:13,804 --> 00:56:16,040 The files have been placed 781 00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:21,579 with proper encryption on your comically vulnerable laptop. 782 00:56:21,712 --> 00:56:24,449 It's almost like "Men in Black". 783 00:56:24,649 --> 00:56:28,453 This is an organization that oversees all of the demons, 784 00:56:28,653 --> 00:56:30,921 witches, vampires, 785 00:56:31,055 --> 00:56:35,092 all of this unexplained phenomena. 786 00:56:35,259 --> 00:56:38,929 Anne Rice's imagination seems to be limitless, 787 00:56:39,063 --> 00:56:41,699 and she's able to create a world 788 00:56:41,866 --> 00:56:43,801 and then add another world onto it. 789 00:56:44,001 --> 00:56:46,737 So the Talamasca world is -- it's just wonderful. 790 00:56:46,904 --> 00:56:49,774 It's a wonderful foil to the whole vampire world. 791 00:56:55,279 --> 00:56:58,783 Mark: Louis, who we met before he was a vampire, 792 00:56:58,916 --> 00:57:01,919 he's almost like an undercover agent 793 00:57:02,086 --> 00:57:04,655 in a world in which he can't be found out. 794 00:57:04,855 --> 00:57:06,957 Armand: There is much talk of your camera in the coffin. 795 00:57:07,124 --> 00:57:09,093 They say you're mad in love with humanity, 796 00:57:09,226 --> 00:57:11,796 saving their private moments with light and shadow. 797 00:57:11,929 --> 00:57:13,798 So Louis is very tentative 798 00:57:13,931 --> 00:57:16,601 and reluctant to join anybody. 799 00:57:16,767 --> 00:57:19,737 Perhaps the two of you -- I'm not joining the coven. 800 00:57:19,904 --> 00:57:22,139 I think the coven, it's a rejection of them 801 00:57:22,306 --> 00:57:24,642 and what a vampire should be and shouldn't be, 802 00:57:24,809 --> 00:57:27,978 while Louis is always teetering on ideas of morality 803 00:57:28,145 --> 00:57:30,848 and who he is and what's right and what's wrong. 804 00:57:31,048 --> 00:57:32,983 He can't commit in the way 805 00:57:33,150 --> 00:57:35,352 that they've committed to their set of rules, 806 00:57:35,486 --> 00:57:36,687 and that just makes him a target. 807 00:57:36,887 --> 00:57:38,756 I'm out here finding myself. 808 00:57:38,923 --> 00:57:41,492 Then what is there left for me? 809 00:57:41,659 --> 00:57:43,160 Oh, there's room. 810 00:57:50,901 --> 00:57:52,603 Stick with it, Puss. 811 00:57:52,737 --> 00:57:53,804 You're almost there. 812 00:57:53,938 --> 00:57:55,339 Puss. Flea. 813 00:57:55,472 --> 00:57:56,674 It's a horrible nickname, 814 00:57:56,807 --> 00:57:58,208 but Claudia doesn't take any of it in 815 00:57:58,408 --> 00:57:59,677 because she realizes what they're doing 816 00:57:59,810 --> 00:58:01,646 in calling her that, and it's flea, 817 00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:04,048 meaning little, like, bottom of the barrel. 818 00:58:04,248 --> 00:58:06,517 They're gonna let me join the coven end of this week. 819 00:58:08,586 --> 00:58:10,154 It'd be nice if you come. 820 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,156 As an audience, everybody roots for Claudia 821 00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:15,793 because she demands to be taken seriously. 822 00:58:18,462 --> 00:58:20,865 Delainey: Claudia is very intelligent, 823 00:58:21,031 --> 00:58:24,134 so I wouldn't say she completely changed herself. 824 00:58:24,301 --> 00:58:27,071 I'd say she molded herself to appease them. 825 00:58:27,204 --> 00:58:29,974 But I think she's always combating with being 826 00:58:30,140 --> 00:58:31,842 a second choice for people. 827 00:58:32,009 --> 00:58:34,478 So when she meets the coven and all these vampires 828 00:58:34,645 --> 00:58:36,213 are accepting her into the coven, 829 00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:38,549 she is fulfilled, 830 00:58:38,716 --> 00:58:41,151 and she's found what she's been looking for -- 831 00:58:41,318 --> 00:58:44,188 a group of people that put her first. 832 00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:47,324 Adam: To finally be in the coven, 833 00:58:47,491 --> 00:58:49,259 have an opportunity to go on stage, 834 00:58:49,459 --> 00:58:51,161 but to have to play a baby 835 00:58:51,328 --> 00:58:53,998 just reinforces all of the issues 836 00:58:54,164 --> 00:58:56,867 that she has about being taken seriously, 837 00:58:57,001 --> 00:58:58,869 being respected. 838 00:58:59,003 --> 00:59:01,371 Man: You'll be their little birdy for the next 50 years. 839 00:59:01,538 --> 00:59:04,675 Adam: Being able to make proactive decisions 840 00:59:04,842 --> 00:59:06,076 about her own life, 841 00:59:06,210 --> 00:59:07,411 it's a void that's created for her 842 00:59:07,544 --> 00:59:09,013 that she can never have that. 843 00:59:09,179 --> 00:59:11,515 Shall we have a walk? 844 00:59:11,682 --> 00:59:12,583 Assad: For all intents and purposes, 845 00:59:12,717 --> 00:59:15,753 Armand is going to kill Louis. 846 00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,455 I don't think it was preempted that he might not, 847 00:59:18,656 --> 00:59:20,524 because he feels he has no choice. 848 00:59:20,691 --> 00:59:22,727 His 200 years with the coven 849 00:59:22,893 --> 00:59:24,629 is a lot more important than this new person 850 00:59:24,829 --> 00:59:27,364 who's coming to his life, even though this person is... 851 00:59:27,531 --> 00:59:32,269 magnetic and making him feel all these amazing new emotions. 852 00:59:32,436 --> 00:59:34,639 I will not harm you. Jacob: Louis's in shock -- 853 00:59:34,772 --> 00:59:35,973 Those were your first words to me. 854 00:59:36,173 --> 00:59:37,574 ...in that moment. 855 00:59:37,742 --> 00:59:39,644 And so, they share a bit of their past 856 00:59:39,844 --> 00:59:41,245 and a bit of their trauma. 857 00:59:41,378 --> 00:59:42,446 What is it, Louis? 858 00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:43,981 I think the cogs are turning. 859 00:59:44,181 --> 00:59:45,549 Those who are the most powerful... 860 00:59:45,716 --> 00:59:47,051 Their power dynamic. 861 00:59:47,217 --> 00:59:49,553 ...they're often the weakest. 862 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,722 Louis: You want to come upstairs? 863 00:59:51,856 --> 00:59:54,558 Assad: He doesn't have a way out in the end, he chooses. 864 00:59:54,725 --> 00:59:56,727 Are you inviting me in? 865 00:59:56,894 --> 00:59:59,129 The choice in the end is... 866 00:59:59,263 --> 01:00:00,898 Depends. ...to pursue love... 867 01:00:01,065 --> 01:00:02,166 Are you gonna kill me? 868 01:00:02,366 --> 01:00:04,802 ...to pursue this feeling.