1 00:00:38,473 --> 00:00:41,780 [Orchestra tuning] 2 00:00:41,824 --> 00:00:50,746 ♪♪ 3 00:00:50,789 --> 00:00:57,927 ♪♪ 4 00:01:03,802 --> 00:01:05,717 There are stories out there that need to be told. 5 00:01:05,761 --> 00:01:07,676 There's shit out there that's just... 6 00:01:07,719 --> 00:01:09,243 you know, wrong. 7 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:13,116 People need to know about it. That's the job. 8 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,900 It's not a complicated job, 9 00:01:14,944 --> 00:01:18,774 other than how it'll mess with your life. 10 00:01:18,817 --> 00:01:21,559 News used to be a bunch of guys who look like me 11 00:01:21,603 --> 00:01:23,779 huddled around a desk at a Page One meeting 12 00:01:23,822 --> 00:01:26,390 deciding what the news was. 13 00:01:26,434 --> 00:01:30,873 This little fucker changed all of that. 14 00:01:30,916 --> 00:01:32,179 I've been fired from three papers, 15 00:01:32,222 --> 00:01:33,789 hired back at two of them. 16 00:01:33,832 --> 00:01:35,051 Third got gobbled up by Knight Ridder. 17 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:36,705 So, to be clear here, 18 00:01:36,748 --> 00:01:39,316 I'm a goddamn reservoir of do's and don'ts. 19 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,449 Your sources are your Sherpas. 20 00:01:41,492 --> 00:01:43,320 Your editor is your priest. 21 00:01:43,364 --> 00:01:45,888 Honesty is not a tactic. 22 00:01:48,195 --> 00:01:49,587 You still want this job? 23 00:01:49,631 --> 00:01:51,502 It's your money. 24 00:01:51,546 --> 00:01:53,417 I'm Daniel Molloy. 25 00:01:53,461 --> 00:01:55,245 This is my-- Reporter: The Russian backed 26 00:01:55,289 --> 00:01:57,073 separatists have been waging guerrilla warfare 27 00:01:57,117 --> 00:01:59,510 -since 2014. -Can he make his fantasy 28 00:01:59,554 --> 00:02:01,251 a reality? 29 00:02:01,295 --> 00:02:03,210 Announcer: Walker at the top of the key. 30 00:02:03,253 --> 00:02:06,213 Pick and roll from Jones. Walker drives and finishes. 31 00:02:06,256 --> 00:02:10,521 With a tough left hand. That's seven straight for Walker... 32 00:02:10,565 --> 00:02:13,568 [Sirens wailing, horns honking in distance] 33 00:02:21,010 --> 00:02:24,622 [Cellphone buzzing] 34 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,368 Daniel: Yeah. Hey, doc. Yeah. Thanks for getting back to me. 35 00:02:31,412 --> 00:02:34,328 I, uh... Yes, that's right. I have -- 36 00:02:34,371 --> 00:02:36,199 I have an appointment scheduled for later in the week, 37 00:02:36,243 --> 00:02:38,332 but the -- the thing I'm trying to figure out is, 38 00:02:38,375 --> 00:02:40,769 what's the deal with this sub-variant business? 39 00:02:40,812 --> 00:02:42,118 I mean, is that more contagious? 40 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:43,815 Is it... 41 00:02:43,859 --> 00:02:45,730 Uh-huh. 42 00:02:45,774 --> 00:02:49,169 Yeah, 'cause, I mean, there's no reason to get more... 43 00:02:49,212 --> 00:02:51,780 Okay. So you think -- Yeah. 44 00:02:51,823 --> 00:02:53,216 I mean, that's what I'm thinking. 45 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:55,305 Why get any closer to the bug than I -- 46 00:02:55,349 --> 00:02:57,177 than I need to? 47 00:02:57,220 --> 00:03:01,006 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 48 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:02,704 Uh-huh. 49 00:03:05,097 --> 00:03:06,882 I gotta call you back. 50 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:11,060 [Sighs] 51 00:03:25,030 --> 00:03:26,902 [Inhales deeply] 52 00:03:28,425 --> 00:03:30,035 [Static crackling] 53 00:03:31,602 --> 00:03:34,170 Daniel: Um, first question. 54 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:37,260 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 55 00:03:37,304 --> 00:03:39,044 Louis: No. 56 00:03:39,088 --> 00:03:43,875 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire. 57 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:45,703 Daniel: How did it come about? 58 00:03:45,747 --> 00:03:48,402 Louis: There's a simple answer to that. 59 00:03:48,445 --> 00:03:52,144 I don't believe I wanna give simple answers. 60 00:03:52,188 --> 00:03:54,016 I think I want to tell the real stor-- 61 00:03:54,059 --> 00:03:55,322 [Clicks] 62 00:04:02,024 --> 00:04:04,200 Louis: "Dear Mr. Molloy. 63 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:07,856 I hope this letter finds you safe and thriving, 64 00:04:07,899 --> 00:04:09,814 if such a thing were a possibility 65 00:04:09,858 --> 00:04:12,861 in this bleak hour. 66 00:04:12,904 --> 00:04:15,037 I've been following your career with some interest 67 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,213 since our last meeting. 68 00:04:17,257 --> 00:04:21,217 Please allow me to congratulate you on all your successes, 69 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:26,266 those professional and those personally redemptive. 70 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:28,529 The passage of time and the frailties 71 00:04:28,572 --> 00:04:32,837 that accompany it have provided me perspective. 72 00:04:32,881 --> 00:04:36,667 And I suspect the same might be for you, as well. 73 00:04:36,711 --> 00:04:38,756 I'm hoping health and pride 74 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,282 won't deter you from the following proposal. 75 00:04:42,325 --> 00:04:46,198 In a week's time, in a setting of my choosing, 76 00:04:46,242 --> 00:04:47,852 we revisit the project 77 00:04:47,896 --> 00:04:50,942 boyish youth prevented us from finishing. 78 00:04:50,986 --> 00:04:53,815 49 years and thousands of miles 79 00:04:53,858 --> 00:04:57,514 removed from the room we shared in San Francisco, 80 00:04:57,558 --> 00:05:01,388 I offer, for your journalistic pleasures, 81 00:05:01,431 --> 00:05:05,130 my full attention and my life story. 82 00:05:05,174 --> 00:05:06,697 All affinities, 83 00:05:06,741 --> 00:05:10,135 Louis de Pointe du Lac." 84 00:05:10,179 --> 00:05:12,747 Daniel: I told my editor I was meeting with the, uh, 85 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:15,489 most dangerous man in the world. 86 00:05:15,532 --> 00:05:16,794 Gave him two choices. 87 00:05:16,838 --> 00:05:20,145 He came back with "Bezos. Putin." 88 00:05:20,189 --> 00:05:21,930 He thinks I'm in Praskovéyevka. 89 00:05:21,973 --> 00:05:24,541 [Louis chuckles lightly] 90 00:05:24,585 --> 00:05:26,848 You've grown old, Daniel. 91 00:05:28,850 --> 00:05:32,854 Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum. 92 00:05:34,072 --> 00:05:36,727 I wasn't sure you'd remembered me. 93 00:05:36,771 --> 00:05:40,035 Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting. 94 00:05:41,253 --> 00:05:44,126 Gritty memoir, drugs, humiliation, 95 00:05:44,169 --> 00:05:46,563 self-pity kind of thing. 96 00:05:46,607 --> 00:05:48,609 Mention vampires in one of those, 97 00:05:48,652 --> 00:05:50,393 readers tend to call bullshit. 98 00:05:50,437 --> 00:05:54,223 You've had some health concerns of late. 99 00:05:54,266 --> 00:05:56,312 Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say. 100 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:58,488 You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel. 101 00:06:01,099 --> 00:06:02,666 Yeah. 102 00:06:02,710 --> 00:06:04,973 And you've got your own hangar at the airport, 103 00:06:05,016 --> 00:06:06,931 privileges on the Royal Meydan Bridge, 104 00:06:06,975 --> 00:06:08,411 and zero presence online. 105 00:06:08,455 --> 00:06:11,283 Have I hit a nerve? 106 00:06:11,327 --> 00:06:13,460 I know the Emirates are big on privacy, 107 00:06:13,503 --> 00:06:14,765 and that's probably important to you, 108 00:06:14,809 --> 00:06:17,464 but I gotta ask, what does it cost, 109 00:06:17,507 --> 00:06:20,423 this haven't-aged-in- half-a-century, 110 00:06:20,467 --> 00:06:22,817 killer-views-in- all-directions anonymity? 111 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:24,819 Quite a lot. 112 00:06:27,474 --> 00:06:30,433 Only my family and my doctor know I'm sick. 113 00:06:30,477 --> 00:06:31,782 I don't dig the one-way hack. 114 00:06:31,826 --> 00:06:33,915 Yeah? 115 00:06:33,958 --> 00:06:36,439 And here's another question. 116 00:06:36,483 --> 00:06:38,920 That's the sun out there. 117 00:06:38,963 --> 00:06:41,575 Where's your coffin? 118 00:06:41,618 --> 00:06:43,185 You're standing in it. 119 00:06:49,496 --> 00:06:52,934 I have to be very careful whom I let in. 120 00:06:57,155 --> 00:06:58,853 [Sizzling] 121 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:03,248 [Groans] 122 00:07:05,990 --> 00:07:09,211 Yeah, well, things didn't end well the last time, 123 00:07:09,254 --> 00:07:12,562 so forgive me if I'm a little nervous. 124 00:07:14,999 --> 00:07:20,178 Louis: This, after all I've told you, is what you ask for, boy?! 125 00:07:20,222 --> 00:07:22,659 Daniel: Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like. 126 00:07:22,703 --> 00:07:25,749 I mean, you've forgotten, man. 127 00:07:25,793 --> 00:07:27,838 I mean, you don't even understand the meaning 128 00:07:27,882 --> 00:07:29,449 of your own story! 129 00:07:31,668 --> 00:07:34,671 [Clattering] No! Hey, stop! 130 00:07:34,715 --> 00:07:37,805 [Shouting] 131 00:07:37,848 --> 00:07:40,111 [Clicks]You were disrespectful. 132 00:07:40,155 --> 00:07:41,635 I was high. 133 00:07:41,678 --> 00:07:44,246 You were not worthy of my story then. 134 00:07:44,289 --> 00:07:46,466 Maybe your story wasn't worth telling. 135 00:07:49,991 --> 00:07:52,689 You've got the tapes. Hire a transcriber. 136 00:07:52,733 --> 00:07:56,040 I don't do puff portraiture anymore. 137 00:07:56,084 --> 00:07:58,478 And yet, you got on a plane, 138 00:07:58,521 --> 00:08:01,002 with an auto-immune disease, in the middle of a pandemic. 139 00:08:04,527 --> 00:08:06,007 Alright. 140 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:11,665 That's my voice, but I don't remember it. 141 00:08:13,362 --> 00:08:14,929 I ask all the wrong questions. 142 00:08:14,972 --> 00:08:16,408 Yes.There's contradictions 143 00:08:16,452 --> 00:08:17,975 in your story I never follow up on. 144 00:08:18,019 --> 00:08:19,586 Yes. 145 00:08:19,629 --> 00:08:20,891 The few good ones I do manage to get out, 146 00:08:20,935 --> 00:08:22,371 you steamroll over them. 147 00:08:22,414 --> 00:08:25,287 It's not an interview. It's a... 148 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:28,203 It's a fever dream told to an idiot. 149 00:08:28,246 --> 00:08:30,335 Yes. 150 00:08:30,379 --> 00:08:33,251 And you? 151 00:08:33,295 --> 00:08:36,254 Why again? What's changed? 152 00:08:36,298 --> 00:08:39,867 The world, circumstances. 153 00:08:39,910 --> 00:08:41,521 Me, I've changed. 154 00:08:44,959 --> 00:08:48,484 And I, too, find the tapes lacking. 155 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:51,226 So... 156 00:08:51,269 --> 00:08:52,836 a do-over. 157 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:56,710 [Computer beeps] 158 00:08:56,753 --> 00:08:58,668 Truth and reconciliation. 159 00:09:01,845 --> 00:09:03,847 I ask the questions. You answer the questions. 160 00:09:03,891 --> 00:09:07,590 Anything that can't be verified, I send to my researcher. 161 00:09:07,634 --> 00:09:09,853 No third parties.I write it. 162 00:09:09,897 --> 00:09:11,812 You get to see it before it goes to print. 163 00:09:11,855 --> 00:09:13,204 I get the final edit. 164 00:09:13,248 --> 00:09:14,554 That is not the agreement you signed. 165 00:09:14,597 --> 00:09:17,165 And one more thing. 166 00:09:17,208 --> 00:09:19,515 I do my best work one-on-one. 167 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,518 Would you see to Mr. Molloy's room? 168 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,172 Have Chef prepare a meal for him. 169 00:09:24,215 --> 00:09:26,609 I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest. 170 00:09:26,653 --> 00:09:29,438 I am not your fucking boy. 171 00:09:29,481 --> 00:09:33,834 I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it. 172 00:09:33,877 --> 00:09:35,705 And I'm ready. 173 00:09:35,749 --> 00:09:37,533 So let's do this. 174 00:09:40,797 --> 00:09:42,364 I'm Daniel Molloy. 175 00:09:42,407 --> 00:09:47,499 It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2022. 176 00:09:47,543 --> 00:09:50,938 I'm in the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers 177 00:09:50,981 --> 00:09:53,680 across from Mister... 178 00:09:53,723 --> 00:09:56,291 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 179 00:09:56,334 --> 00:09:58,162 So... 180 00:09:58,206 --> 00:10:00,600 Mr. du Lac... 181 00:10:00,643 --> 00:10:02,776 how long have you been dead? 182 00:10:02,819 --> 00:10:05,605 [Chuckles] 183 00:10:08,477 --> 00:10:12,307 Louis: The year was 1910, the fall of the fifth year 184 00:10:12,350 --> 00:10:15,353 of my father's passing and the fall of the fifth year 185 00:10:15,397 --> 00:10:16,833 as the executor in charge 186 00:10:16,877 --> 00:10:18,835 of the de Pointe du Lac family trust. 187 00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:21,621 The eldest son. The favored son. 188 00:10:21,664 --> 00:10:25,102 And a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence. 189 00:10:25,146 --> 00:10:27,714 Capital accrued from plantations of sugar 190 00:10:27,757 --> 00:10:30,455 and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather 191 00:10:30,499 --> 00:10:32,719 but did not have his standing. 192 00:10:32,762 --> 00:10:34,764 But then decades of Jim Crow 193 00:10:34,808 --> 00:10:37,027 and the electrified light of a new century 194 00:10:37,071 --> 00:10:40,291 had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. 195 00:10:40,335 --> 00:10:42,816 So it followed the only place in New Orleans 196 00:10:42,859 --> 00:10:46,036 a gentleman of my complexion could do a righteous business 197 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,473 was a neighborhood called Storyville. 198 00:10:48,517 --> 00:10:51,259 That was the old red-light district. Yeah? 199 00:10:51,302 --> 00:10:53,653 20 blocks of drinking, gambling, 200 00:10:53,696 --> 00:10:55,872 and gluttonous whoring. 201 00:10:55,916 --> 00:10:58,570 Okay, so as the honorable executor 202 00:10:58,614 --> 00:11:00,442 of the family's estate, you were in 203 00:11:00,485 --> 00:11:02,836 what business exactly, Mr. du Lac? 204 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:05,969 You could say I managed and operated 205 00:11:06,013 --> 00:11:09,364 a diversified portfolio of enterprises. 206 00:11:09,407 --> 00:11:10,800 You were a pimp. 207 00:11:10,844 --> 00:11:13,194 The product was desire, 208 00:11:13,237 --> 00:11:16,197 and it came in as many forms as there were ways to move it. 209 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,982 Of the two dozen sporting houses on Liberty Street, 210 00:11:19,026 --> 00:11:20,984 I owned eight of them. 211 00:11:21,028 --> 00:11:23,987 Modest in proportion to the venues on Basin Street. 212 00:11:24,031 --> 00:11:26,337 What they lacked in size and elegance, 213 00:11:26,381 --> 00:11:29,689 they more than made up for in efficiency and reputation. 214 00:11:29,732 --> 00:11:30,820 Mr. du Lac. 215 00:11:30,864 --> 00:11:32,517 Louis: Finn. 216 00:11:33,954 --> 00:11:37,174 You hiding any bills in them fat fucking rolls of yours? 217 00:11:37,218 --> 00:11:40,525 I was, admittedly, a rougher thing then. 218 00:11:40,569 --> 00:11:42,179 Woman: Mr. du Lac! 219 00:11:42,223 --> 00:11:44,704 You had to be if you wanted to survive. 220 00:11:44,747 --> 00:11:46,836 You couldn't look weak on Liberty Street. 221 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:48,359 Damn, Doris, you gon' lose your 222 00:11:48,403 --> 00:11:50,144 good leg runnin' out like that. 223 00:11:50,187 --> 00:11:53,843 Mr. du Lac, sir, we got bad trouble. 224 00:11:53,887 --> 00:11:58,326 I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. 225 00:11:58,369 --> 00:12:00,371 I was only tryna show you my love. 226 00:12:00,415 --> 00:12:01,764 Fuck you. 227 00:12:01,808 --> 00:12:03,766 [Groans]What happened? 228 00:12:03,810 --> 00:12:05,289 The cunny hit me!Oh, I'm a cunny now? 229 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:06,726 A minute ago, I was his love. 230 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:08,815 [Groans] 231 00:12:09,903 --> 00:12:12,035 Alderman Fenwick?Hmm? 232 00:12:12,079 --> 00:12:15,169 You hit an alderman? God damn it, Bricks. 233 00:12:15,212 --> 00:12:16,866 He stuck it in my shitbox. 234 00:12:16,910 --> 00:12:18,520 I did no such thing. 235 00:12:18,563 --> 00:12:20,087 Gave him a chance to pull out, and he kept on fucking, 236 00:12:20,130 --> 00:12:21,871 so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner 237 00:12:21,915 --> 00:12:23,351 for going there. 238 00:12:23,394 --> 00:12:25,309 Don't believe me, check his dick. 239 00:12:25,353 --> 00:12:27,616 Who the fuck you talkin' to? I ain't checkin' no man's dick. 240 00:12:27,659 --> 00:12:29,705 Oh.Oh, goddamn. 241 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:31,881 Hell, I mighta even said yes if you would just ask. 242 00:12:31,925 --> 00:12:33,709 But I don't care who you is, you put a dick in an asshole 243 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:35,363 without asking, that's against Jesus. 244 00:12:35,406 --> 00:12:36,973 Fuck you. 245 00:12:37,017 --> 00:12:38,758 [Laughter]What y'all laughin' at? 246 00:12:38,801 --> 00:12:40,760 Someone go and fetch Doc Johnson. 247 00:12:40,803 --> 00:12:43,763 And you, get some clean water and a towel. 248 00:12:46,461 --> 00:12:49,986 Get your hands off me, nigger! 249 00:12:50,030 --> 00:12:52,467 You gon' make me regret my support, you repeat yourself, 250 00:12:52,510 --> 00:12:54,904 Mr. Fenwick. 251 00:12:55,992 --> 00:12:58,821 Louis de Pointe du Lac, sir. 252 00:12:58,865 --> 00:13:01,650 Oh, Pointe du Lac. 253 00:13:01,693 --> 00:13:04,827 Oh, forgive me. I... 254 00:13:04,871 --> 00:13:07,308 It was... There's so much wine. 255 00:13:07,351 --> 00:13:10,224 Don't worry none. We'll keep this here 'tween us. 256 00:13:10,267 --> 00:13:11,965 Someone got the good doc on the way. 257 00:13:14,141 --> 00:13:18,406 Oh, Miss Williams. Isn't she a vision? 258 00:13:18,449 --> 00:13:20,582 I ain't cleanin' his dick. 259 00:13:20,625 --> 00:13:21,801 Oh, Jesus, Mary. 260 00:13:21,844 --> 00:13:23,454 Got a situation here, Finn. 261 00:13:23,498 --> 00:13:25,935 Yeah, well, you got another one outside 122. 262 00:13:25,979 --> 00:13:27,807 Man acting the maggot, driving away business. 263 00:13:27,850 --> 00:13:30,592 Ain't that what I pay you for? 264 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:33,247 It's a citizen priest. 265 00:13:33,290 --> 00:13:34,857 Do you not realize, sister, your body 266 00:13:34,901 --> 00:13:36,424 is part of Christ the Lord? 267 00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:38,208 Second time this month.When you take that body 268 00:13:38,252 --> 00:13:39,862 and enjoin in harlotry you are defiling the Lord. 269 00:13:39,906 --> 00:13:41,472 And I could give two moons if he's your brother, Mr. du Lac. 270 00:13:41,516 --> 00:13:42,865 I'm gonna knock his skull in the Pontchartrain! 271 00:13:42,909 --> 00:13:44,736 ...you deny your victory with Christ. 272 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:47,043 He shall come again to judge the living and the dead. 273 00:13:47,087 --> 00:13:49,306 And who has come and gone will rise again 274 00:13:49,350 --> 00:13:50,960 and throw their bodies into everlasting fire. 275 00:13:51,004 --> 00:13:53,571 Go on home. Tell Mama not to wait up. 276 00:13:53,615 --> 00:13:55,530 There's blood on your shirt. 277 00:13:55,573 --> 00:13:56,836 What wickedness is it tonight? 278 00:13:56,879 --> 00:13:58,402 You're not helping me here, Paul. 279 00:13:58,446 --> 00:14:00,491 Oh, but I am. 280 00:14:00,535 --> 00:14:03,407 The Lord told me to come, Louis. 281 00:14:03,451 --> 00:14:05,714 In my head, like a family of birds, many voices, 282 00:14:05,757 --> 00:14:07,020 but also one voice -- 283 00:14:07,063 --> 00:14:08,630 Saying it a second time. 284 00:14:08,673 --> 00:14:09,849 Listen to me, please. 285 00:14:09,892 --> 00:14:11,851 I'm having a fucking night, okay? 286 00:14:11,894 --> 00:14:12,982 I can't have it with you foo-- 287 00:14:13,026 --> 00:14:14,505 [Grunts] 288 00:14:14,549 --> 00:14:17,421 [Crowd gasping] 289 00:14:17,465 --> 00:14:21,382 Get on home, else I'll bleed ya like a kochon, bruh. 290 00:14:21,425 --> 00:14:23,950 [Crowd shouting] 291 00:14:23,993 --> 00:14:28,606 ♪♪ 292 00:14:28,650 --> 00:14:31,044 Louis: Did I want to pull a knife on my brother? 293 00:14:31,087 --> 00:14:32,828 No. 294 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:35,570 But as I alluded to before, 295 00:14:35,613 --> 00:14:39,313 you couldn't look weak on Liberty. 296 00:14:39,356 --> 00:14:41,706 You never knew who was watching. 297 00:14:44,796 --> 00:14:47,364 [Horse neighs] 298 00:14:47,408 --> 00:14:49,149 Paul: He pulled his knife on me, Mamaw. 299 00:14:49,192 --> 00:14:51,542 Louis: You were disrupting mother's business interests. 300 00:14:51,586 --> 00:14:54,502 D'you hear that, Mother? He's made you a madam. 301 00:14:54,545 --> 00:14:55,982 Oh, Paul. 302 00:14:56,025 --> 00:14:57,984 Profiting from the damnation of souls. 303 00:14:58,027 --> 00:15:00,595 Let's not fuss on the particulars. 304 00:15:00,638 --> 00:15:04,120 Louis: Mornings with my family followed a pattern that year. 305 00:15:04,164 --> 00:15:06,470 My mother consumed herself with preparations 306 00:15:06,514 --> 00:15:08,516 for my sister's wedding, 307 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:10,605 while Paul confused the dining table 308 00:15:10,648 --> 00:15:12,737 with a pulpit none of us would recognize. 309 00:15:12,781 --> 00:15:14,652 We should tithe that o'er to St. Augustine's 310 00:15:14,696 --> 00:15:16,219 'fore this house falls in on us. 311 00:15:16,263 --> 00:15:18,221 This is just a temporary situation 312 00:15:18,265 --> 00:15:21,529 until Louis can find us a more respectable business. 313 00:15:21,572 --> 00:15:23,705 Daddy was here, we'd still be in sugar cane. 314 00:15:23,748 --> 00:15:25,359 Daddy was alive, you'd still be locked up 315 00:15:25,402 --> 00:15:26,621 in that hospital in Jackson. 316 00:15:26,664 --> 00:15:28,797 Louis, let's not have that talk. 317 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,582 A month from my wedding day, and what do I dream about? 318 00:15:31,626 --> 00:15:33,497 Dancing in my husband's arms? 319 00:15:33,541 --> 00:15:36,718 Children running in the yard? No. 320 00:15:36,761 --> 00:15:38,807 I dream of what a quiet breakfast might look like. 321 00:15:38,850 --> 00:15:41,505 Your man Levi's a Baptist, no respect for the Holy Mother. 322 00:15:41,549 --> 00:15:43,029 Florence: Paul! 323 00:15:43,072 --> 00:15:44,378 He's gon' make your daughter jump a broom. 324 00:15:44,421 --> 00:15:45,814 I'm sitting right here.Plenty of brooms 325 00:15:45,857 --> 00:15:47,468 down the street at the Mayfair sisters' home. 326 00:15:47,511 --> 00:15:48,860 [Laughs] 327 00:15:48,904 --> 00:15:50,384 He's calling me a witch, Mamaw. 328 00:15:50,427 --> 00:15:52,777 Paul de Pointe du Lac, you walk that back. 329 00:15:52,821 --> 00:15:55,128 [Laughing] 330 00:15:55,171 --> 00:15:57,478 Daniel: Your brother sounds like a pain in the ass. 331 00:15:57,521 --> 00:16:00,263 Louis: Fragile, stubborn, indulged. 332 00:16:00,307 --> 00:16:02,004 I'd promised our father on his death bed 333 00:16:02,048 --> 00:16:03,875 to look after him. 334 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:07,836 But when Paul's mind was right, he was no burden. 335 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:11,318 Point of fact, I loved him more than anyone on earth. 336 00:16:11,361 --> 00:16:13,537 And our daily stroll to St. Augustine 337 00:16:13,581 --> 00:16:16,801 was the measure of a good day started. 338 00:16:16,845 --> 00:16:19,979 Good morning, Paul.Paul: Good for you maybe. 339 00:16:20,022 --> 00:16:21,763 Morning, Louis. 340 00:16:21,806 --> 00:16:23,504 Pew's got a good shine. 341 00:16:23,547 --> 00:16:26,594 If it wasn't beneath you, I'd send shoes your way. 342 00:16:26,637 --> 00:16:28,248 Nothing is beneath me, son. 343 00:16:28,291 --> 00:16:29,858 Paul: I'm ready, Father. 344 00:16:32,339 --> 00:16:35,037 I wanted to thank the family for last Sunday's donation. 345 00:16:35,081 --> 00:16:37,474 Baby-sitting money. Church calms him down some. 346 00:16:37,518 --> 00:16:39,085 Well, we're always here for him. 347 00:16:39,128 --> 00:16:41,609 And the money goes a good way towards the renovation. 348 00:16:41,652 --> 00:16:44,655 I want Father Matthias. Thank you. 349 00:16:44,699 --> 00:16:46,614 You ain't got nothing to confess to anyhow. 350 00:16:46,657 --> 00:16:48,572 Wasting a good man's time. 351 00:16:48,616 --> 00:16:51,662 Be right there, Paul. 352 00:16:51,706 --> 00:16:54,100 I haven't seen you in confession of late, Louis. 353 00:16:54,143 --> 00:16:56,363 [Chuckles] 354 00:16:56,406 --> 00:16:59,105 You know, you can always come here if you're in need, son. 355 00:17:02,804 --> 00:17:06,677 Louis: My business and my raised religion were at odds, 356 00:17:06,721 --> 00:17:09,680 and the, uh... 357 00:17:09,724 --> 00:17:13,075 latencies within me, well, I beat those back 358 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,296 with a lie I told myself about myself -- 359 00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:18,776 that I was a red-blooded son of the South, 360 00:17:18,820 --> 00:17:22,084 seeking ass before absolution. 361 00:17:22,128 --> 00:17:26,045 Daniel: And you maintained this delusion how exactly? 362 00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:29,309 Louis: A particular woman who worked for the competition. 363 00:17:29,352 --> 00:17:31,876 As if rickety shacks were a competition 364 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,966 for Tom Anderson's Fairplay Saloon. 365 00:17:35,010 --> 00:17:38,187 Ah, Louis du Lac. The night begins. 366 00:17:38,231 --> 00:17:40,320 Miss Carroll, Miss Lily working tonight? 367 00:17:40,363 --> 00:17:42,104 Miss Lily's on the terrace. 368 00:17:42,148 --> 00:17:45,238 It was a palace of opulence and splendor. 369 00:17:45,281 --> 00:17:47,196 A Sazerac, Mr. du Lac? 370 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,893 That'll do fine, Miss Carroll. 371 00:17:48,937 --> 00:17:50,852 And catered to an almost exclusively 372 00:17:50,895 --> 00:17:52,854 Caucasian clientele, 373 00:17:52,897 --> 00:17:54,899 which helped me separate the locals 374 00:17:54,943 --> 00:17:58,816 from those visiting from other southern states. 375 00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:00,601 Shakin' the money tree tonight I see, 376 00:18:00,644 --> 00:18:02,081 Mr. Anderson, sir. 377 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:04,518 Can't see the dirt for the dollars fallin'. 378 00:18:04,561 --> 00:18:07,173 Private game on Friday if your datebook is free, Louis. 379 00:18:07,216 --> 00:18:10,176 Can do, Mr. Anderson. Can do. 380 00:18:10,219 --> 00:18:16,486 ♪♪ 381 00:18:16,530 --> 00:18:22,840 ♪♪ 382 00:18:22,884 --> 00:18:26,279 [Man speaking French] 383 00:18:26,322 --> 00:18:28,846 Woman: I don't know much what you're saying. 384 00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:30,935 But it sure sounds nice. 385 00:18:30,979 --> 00:18:33,547 "Only the impossible can do the impossible." 386 00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:36,550 [Laughs]Miss Lily. 387 00:18:36,593 --> 00:18:39,770 Bonsoir, monsieur. Do you speak French? 388 00:18:39,814 --> 00:18:42,730 We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans. 389 00:18:42,773 --> 00:18:44,949 It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it? 390 00:18:44,993 --> 00:18:46,995 How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door? 391 00:18:48,431 --> 00:18:49,693 Excuse me? 392 00:18:49,737 --> 00:18:51,130 I mean that as a compliment, 393 00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:53,958 a man of your race to have privileges here. 394 00:18:54,002 --> 00:18:57,136 Louis has a small empire of his own down the street. 395 00:18:57,179 --> 00:18:58,224 [Chuckles]It gives him privileges. 396 00:18:58,267 --> 00:18:59,442 [Laughs] 397 00:18:59,486 --> 00:19:02,358 Somethin' funny about that? 398 00:19:02,402 --> 00:19:04,534 Your name is Louis. 399 00:19:04,578 --> 00:19:06,797 Of course it's Louis. 400 00:19:06,841 --> 00:19:08,669 I didn't get your name, fella. 401 00:19:12,977 --> 00:19:14,892 I know who you are, sir. 402 00:19:14,936 --> 00:19:17,634 You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the quarter. 403 00:19:17,678 --> 00:19:19,984 I owe you everything. Please, join us. 404 00:19:22,422 --> 00:19:25,555 I know sometimes men of my race, 405 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:28,079 we all look alike to you people. 406 00:19:28,123 --> 00:19:29,733 But I didn't sell you no townhouse. 407 00:19:29,777 --> 00:19:31,996 Louis, have a seat. 408 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:33,563 Let me explain. 409 00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:36,523 New to the... the New World, I am. 410 00:19:36,566 --> 00:19:38,177 That explains the clothes. 411 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:40,657 [Chuckles] A 19th-century man at heart, yes, 412 00:19:40,701 --> 00:19:43,660 making his, uh, trans-Atlantic journey by ship, 413 00:19:43,704 --> 00:19:46,620 planning very carefully on settling myself upriver. 414 00:19:46,663 --> 00:19:47,969 Waiter: The Sazerac, sir. 415 00:19:48,012 --> 00:19:49,231 Put that on my account, thank you. 416 00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:51,233 And two more for us. 417 00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:53,017 And another round for the musicians, whatever they want. 418 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,064 Yes, sir. 419 00:19:56,107 --> 00:19:57,892 Oh, where was I? 420 00:19:57,935 --> 00:19:59,894 On a boat. 421 00:19:59,937 --> 00:20:01,548 [Chuckles] 422 00:20:05,769 --> 00:20:07,423 [Gasps]So, I'm out on 423 00:20:07,467 --> 00:20:09,251 the Crescent coast, floating past your village, 424 00:20:09,295 --> 00:20:12,080 when I hear music playing, 425 00:20:12,123 --> 00:20:16,389 and the shadows of men and women dancing by the water's edge. 426 00:20:16,432 --> 00:20:21,698 I disembarked for the music, but then there was the food. 427 00:20:21,742 --> 00:20:23,352 What's been your favorite this year, Mr. Lioncourt? 428 00:20:23,396 --> 00:20:24,701 A favorite? 429 00:20:24,745 --> 00:20:26,007 Mm. Mm. 430 00:20:26,050 --> 00:20:28,923 She puts a pistol to my head. 431 00:20:28,966 --> 00:20:31,491 Louis: I couldn't believe it. 432 00:20:31,534 --> 00:20:33,623 Staring me down as his hands 433 00:20:33,667 --> 00:20:37,279 went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress. 434 00:20:37,323 --> 00:20:38,976 I wanted to take the end of my cane 435 00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:41,675 and slit his throat with it. 436 00:20:41,718 --> 00:20:44,460 Daniel: Why didn't you? 437 00:20:44,504 --> 00:20:46,636 I couldn't move. 438 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,292 My body was seized with weakness. 439 00:20:50,336 --> 00:20:56,255 His gaze tied a string around my lungs, 440 00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:59,562 and I found myself immobilized. 441 00:20:59,606 --> 00:21:04,088 And the women, all shades of skin -- 442 00:21:04,132 --> 00:21:08,615 white, Black, cinnamon. 443 00:21:08,658 --> 00:21:11,879 I've emptied a bank vault sampling, I must say. 444 00:21:11,922 --> 00:21:14,925 But it was not until a few nights later... 445 00:21:23,194 --> 00:21:27,024 ...that I said to myself... 446 00:21:27,068 --> 00:21:28,678 "Lestat, unpack your trunks. 447 00:21:28,722 --> 00:21:30,593 You're home." [Laughs] 448 00:21:31,899 --> 00:21:34,815 What did he say just now? 449 00:21:34,858 --> 00:21:36,947 A little more than he should of. 450 00:21:36,991 --> 00:21:40,821 I had planned to make a new life for myself in St. Louis. 451 00:21:40,864 --> 00:21:44,477 That was to be my destiny. 452 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,393 And now I know I was right. 453 00:21:47,436 --> 00:21:49,482 Only it turns out the saint is not a city, 454 00:21:49,525 --> 00:21:54,878 but a handsome man with a most agreeable disposition. 455 00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:57,881 You're his destiny, Louis. 456 00:21:57,925 --> 00:21:59,666 Destined to be very good friends. 457 00:22:02,016 --> 00:22:04,105 The Orient room is available for the next few hours, 458 00:22:04,148 --> 00:22:05,498 Miss Lily. 459 00:22:05,541 --> 00:22:06,977 The gentlemen are swappin' 460 00:22:07,021 --> 00:22:08,892 andouille sausage recipes, Miss Carroll. 461 00:22:08,936 --> 00:22:10,503 Hmm. 462 00:22:10,546 --> 00:22:18,554 ♪♪ 463 00:22:18,598 --> 00:22:21,340 [Indistinct chatter] 464 00:22:25,996 --> 00:22:28,434 Carroll: The Orient room is yours, monsieur. 465 00:22:28,477 --> 00:22:30,784 Lestat: Please get my friend here anything he wants. 466 00:22:30,827 --> 00:22:32,263 Wonderful to meet you. 467 00:22:32,307 --> 00:22:35,876 I do hope I run into you again, Louis. 468 00:22:35,919 --> 00:22:40,663 Louis: Emasculation and admiration in equal measure. 469 00:22:41,882 --> 00:22:46,234 I wanted to murder the man, and I wanted to be the man. 470 00:22:50,934 --> 00:22:53,763 I had come there for Lily. 471 00:22:53,807 --> 00:22:56,984 But I left thinking of only him. 472 00:22:57,027 --> 00:22:58,551 [Fog horn blows] 473 00:22:58,594 --> 00:23:01,554 [Singing in French] 474 00:23:05,819 --> 00:23:09,562 [Singing in French] 475 00:23:17,744 --> 00:23:21,269 [Singing continues] 476 00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:33,542 [Singing stops] 477 00:23:35,718 --> 00:23:37,764 Come now. 478 00:23:40,636 --> 00:23:42,290 Who the devil... 479 00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:49,689 ♪♪ 480 00:23:49,732 --> 00:23:51,647 [Growls] 481 00:23:51,691 --> 00:23:53,954 [Screaming] 482 00:23:56,957 --> 00:23:58,524 Our friends in the police tell me there's 483 00:23:58,567 --> 00:24:00,787 an outbreak of fever in town. 484 00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:03,311 It's unfortunates living near the wharf, mostly. 485 00:24:03,354 --> 00:24:05,269 If you find yourself riverside of Decatur... 486 00:24:05,313 --> 00:24:06,270 [Knocking]...you have only yourself 487 00:24:06,314 --> 00:24:07,750 to blame, I say. 488 00:24:07,794 --> 00:24:09,230 Agreed. 489 00:24:09,273 --> 00:24:11,058 Still, very peculiar, they say. 490 00:24:11,101 --> 00:24:13,930 Each one the same -- small wounds to the body, 491 00:24:13,974 --> 00:24:18,457 and upon examination, entirely devoid of blood. 492 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,459 It is their theory some new kind of rat 493 00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:21,721 has come ashore. 494 00:24:21,764 --> 00:24:24,506 Of the six-foot variety. 495 00:24:24,550 --> 00:24:26,987 We call those bureaucrats in France. 496 00:24:27,030 --> 00:24:29,903 [Laughter] 497 00:24:29,946 --> 00:24:34,385 Gentlemen, well, you all know Louis du Lac. 498 00:24:34,429 --> 00:24:37,911 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 499 00:24:37,954 --> 00:24:40,043 We met already, Mr. Anderson, sir. 500 00:24:40,087 --> 00:24:42,263 In front of a florist, wasn't it? 501 00:24:42,306 --> 00:24:44,787 We both wanted the last bouquet of lilies. 502 00:24:47,181 --> 00:24:49,575 Aren't you gonna ask the alderman how his head is, Louis? 503 00:24:49,618 --> 00:24:52,447 Now, why would I do that, Mr. Anderson, sir? 504 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,406 You see, Mr. Fenwick, just as I told you, 505 00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:57,539 a most discreet Negro. 506 00:24:57,583 --> 00:25:00,586 Would that his doctor had the same standards. 507 00:25:00,629 --> 00:25:02,457 Gentlemen, show your cards. 508 00:25:05,286 --> 00:25:07,723 Hoo! Mr. Lioncourt, 509 00:25:07,767 --> 00:25:10,247 your hand is incomprehensible. 510 00:25:10,291 --> 00:25:13,120 [Laughter]Oh, yes. 511 00:25:13,163 --> 00:25:14,904 I'm terrible at cards. 512 00:25:14,948 --> 00:25:17,341 Did I not mention that to everyone? 513 00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:20,693 Would you mind getting me some more of these money chips? 514 00:25:20,736 --> 00:25:23,086 [Laughter] 515 00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:26,481 Tom: Louis, did you know that Alderman Fenwick here 516 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,614 recently purchased both the title and deed 517 00:25:28,657 --> 00:25:30,398 to the Horton rooming house on Villere Street? 518 00:25:30,441 --> 00:25:32,052 Yeah, Mr. Anderson believes it could make 519 00:25:32,095 --> 00:25:33,793 a fine sportin' house. 520 00:25:33,836 --> 00:25:36,578 I recommended the alderman find a managing partner 521 00:25:36,622 --> 00:25:38,275 before he commits his money. 522 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:40,756 I recommended he think of you, Louis. 523 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,324 Very kind of you, Mr. Anderson, sir. 524 00:25:43,367 --> 00:25:45,805 Fenwick: What do you think of the location? 525 00:25:45,848 --> 00:25:48,024 It ain't Basin Street. 526 00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,461 But throw enough Edison bulbs on the facade, 527 00:25:50,505 --> 00:25:52,028 get a good margin on the alcohol, 528 00:25:52,072 --> 00:25:54,161 no-nonsense madam to keep the girls clean, 529 00:25:54,204 --> 00:25:56,119 I reckon a man could make a decent sum. 530 00:25:56,163 --> 00:25:57,817 Yes, sir, Mr. Fenwick, sir. 531 00:25:57,860 --> 00:26:00,471 I said you'd do it for 10 percent. 532 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:03,039 [Chuckles] A-all respects, Mr. Anderson, 533 00:26:03,083 --> 00:26:06,042 but you proposing 10 percent for all the work? 534 00:26:06,086 --> 00:26:08,567 15%? 535 00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:11,047 There's capital investment, 536 00:26:11,091 --> 00:26:13,615 and there's labor. 537 00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:15,574 Both has its seat at the table. 538 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:17,445 Wouldn't you say, Mr. Lestat? 539 00:26:19,795 --> 00:26:22,189 Well, I can only speak of my experience, 540 00:26:22,232 --> 00:26:24,626 which is, I'm sure, different in my country. 541 00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:27,150 Par exemple,you fine gentlemen have heard of the success story 542 00:26:27,194 --> 00:26:30,719 that is Le Bon Marché, shopping experience like no other. 543 00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:32,242 Aristide Boucicaut invests in a new vision... 544 00:26:32,286 --> 00:26:34,157 Lestat: These men look down on you. 545 00:26:34,201 --> 00:26:37,552 I have to say, I find it appalling how men like yourself 546 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:39,902 are treated in this country of yours. 547 00:26:39,946 --> 00:26:42,688 It is undeniable. I came to my wealth honestly 548 00:26:42,731 --> 00:26:44,298 and at great sacrifice, I might add. 549 00:26:44,341 --> 00:26:46,474 However, it was not the sacrifice of many. 550 00:26:46,517 --> 00:26:48,389 I had no partners in my various... 551 00:26:48,432 --> 00:26:50,304 -Lestat: 10 percent. -The financial risks... 552 00:26:50,347 --> 00:26:52,698 15 percent. 553 00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:58,791 Do you not know your value? 554 00:27:02,229 --> 00:27:06,059 Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose? 555 00:27:06,102 --> 00:27:13,675 ♪♪ 556 00:27:13,719 --> 00:27:16,330 And do you think two pair will win the hour? 557 00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:26,340 I believe there is great opportunity in this city, 558 00:27:26,383 --> 00:27:30,692 but to seize it, I'll need protection from the wolves. 559 00:27:30,736 --> 00:27:38,178 ♪♪ 560 00:27:38,221 --> 00:27:45,707 ♪♪ 561 00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:47,100 And that's all to say, 562 00:27:47,143 --> 00:27:48,754 forgive me, Mr. de Pointe du Lac, 563 00:27:48,797 --> 00:27:50,320 for my bias, but where is the business 564 00:27:50,364 --> 00:27:51,626 if there is no capital? 565 00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,323 It does not exist. No?Alright, boys. 566 00:27:53,367 --> 00:27:54,760 Show 'em. 567 00:27:58,067 --> 00:27:59,939 Ooh. 568 00:27:59,982 --> 00:28:03,029 Full boat, Mr. du Lac. 569 00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:05,814 Got you beat, Tom. 570 00:28:05,858 --> 00:28:07,990 Louis: He wouldn't tell me how he did it, 571 00:28:08,034 --> 00:28:10,732 his trick to make the world stop. 572 00:28:10,776 --> 00:28:13,256 "In time, Louis. Patience, Louis. 573 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:15,606 Ask me next week, Louis." 574 00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:17,086 Daniel: You started hanging out? 575 00:28:17,130 --> 00:28:18,827 Louis: He was in love with my city 576 00:28:18,871 --> 00:28:21,612 and wanted to know everything he could about it. 577 00:28:21,656 --> 00:28:25,007 Daniel: So you played docent to the gentleman vampire? 578 00:28:25,051 --> 00:28:28,489 Louis: He had not revealed his vampire nature yet. 579 00:28:28,532 --> 00:28:30,534 I'm assuming you only met at night. 580 00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:32,406 It's New Orleans. 581 00:28:32,449 --> 00:28:35,148 Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage. 582 00:28:35,191 --> 00:28:37,106 Perfect cover for a vampire. 583 00:28:37,150 --> 00:28:39,500 Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy. 584 00:28:39,543 --> 00:28:42,982 Let the tale seduce you. 585 00:28:43,025 --> 00:28:45,245 Just as I was seduced. 586 00:28:47,203 --> 00:28:49,640 Money would arrive, wired from France, 587 00:28:49,684 --> 00:28:52,252 and the shopkeepers, who would usually close at sunset, 588 00:28:52,295 --> 00:28:55,298 were very happy to accommodate him. 589 00:28:55,342 --> 00:28:59,302 He ransacked the import houses to furnish his town house, 590 00:28:59,346 --> 00:29:01,565 ravaged the booksellers of their oldest volumes 591 00:29:01,609 --> 00:29:03,350 for a library, 592 00:29:03,393 --> 00:29:07,397 and, with encouragement, updated his wardrobe 593 00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:10,444 to the fashion trends of the season. 594 00:29:10,487 --> 00:29:15,536 It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. 595 00:29:15,579 --> 00:29:18,147 And I found myself for the very first time, 596 00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:20,323 to anyone other than Paul, 597 00:29:20,367 --> 00:29:23,109 confiding my struggles to another man. 598 00:29:26,590 --> 00:29:29,985 I was being hunted. 599 00:29:30,029 --> 00:29:33,293 And I was completely unaware it was happening. 600 00:29:36,644 --> 00:29:38,428 I'm switchin' rooms. 601 00:29:38,472 --> 00:29:40,126 I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise. 602 00:29:40,169 --> 00:29:41,736 Grace: You'd have to be home to hear that. 603 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:44,260 I come home nights.You come home some nights. 604 00:29:44,304 --> 00:29:46,567 Out cattin' with some white man, I hear. 605 00:29:46,610 --> 00:29:47,960 He ain't white, he French. 606 00:29:48,003 --> 00:29:50,484 Oh. That's a new kind of white, is it? 607 00:29:50,527 --> 00:29:51,790 French white? 608 00:29:51,833 --> 00:29:53,139 He different. 609 00:29:53,182 --> 00:29:55,141 Invite him over for dinner. 610 00:29:55,184 --> 00:29:57,317 Mother loves European. 611 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,841 I'm gon' tell Levi you fishin' for a richer man. 612 00:29:59,885 --> 00:30:02,539 Don't. Don't deny your sister. 613 00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:04,715 I wanna meet this French white. 614 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,892 [Indistinct talking] 615 00:30:06,935 --> 00:30:08,894 I'm just trying to give you the word of the Lord. 616 00:30:08,937 --> 00:30:12,811 Understa-- Yes. Yes. No. That is never my -- 617 00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:15,596 Paul crawled up on my bed last night. 618 00:30:15,639 --> 00:30:17,946 [Paul continues indistinctly] 619 00:30:21,776 --> 00:30:24,300 Wept for good near an hour. 620 00:30:24,344 --> 00:30:26,172 He ain't takin' it, you gettin' married. 621 00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:32,613 Levi told me of a place over in Gretna, 622 00:30:32,656 --> 00:30:34,702 takes in men like Paul. 623 00:30:34,745 --> 00:30:35,964 It's not some crazy person's house like -- 624 00:30:36,008 --> 00:30:37,923 How'd that work last time, huh? 625 00:30:37,966 --> 00:30:40,142 He come out worse than before. 626 00:30:40,186 --> 00:30:43,102 Gretna. It ain't happenin'. 627 00:30:43,145 --> 00:30:44,799 He died on the cross for you. 628 00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,322 Yes...you. 629 00:30:46,366 --> 00:30:48,020 I worry. 630 00:30:48,063 --> 00:30:51,806 I worry so much --Worry about your own life. 631 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,374 Worry about being a bride. 632 00:30:55,766 --> 00:30:58,857 Worry about what you gon' wear 633 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:03,644 in London, in Paris, Florence. 634 00:31:03,687 --> 00:31:05,602 Now, y'all gon' be in steerage outta New York, 635 00:31:05,646 --> 00:31:07,256 but once you get to Europe, 636 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,345 it's first class on boats, trains, and hotel rooms. 637 00:31:09,389 --> 00:31:11,782 What did you go and do? [Laughs] 638 00:31:11,826 --> 00:31:13,219 You should put the band by the deck 639 00:31:13,262 --> 00:31:15,743 and the food by the fountain. 640 00:31:17,527 --> 00:31:19,181 [Laughs] 641 00:31:20,617 --> 00:31:22,663 Mamaw! 642 00:31:22,706 --> 00:31:25,231 I'm goin' 'round the world! [Laughs] 643 00:31:25,274 --> 00:31:27,233 ♪♪ 644 00:31:27,276 --> 00:31:30,410 [Door opens, closes] 645 00:31:34,544 --> 00:31:37,156 I can't thank you enough, Mama du Lac. 646 00:31:37,199 --> 00:31:38,548 I never been east of Alabama, 647 00:31:38,592 --> 00:31:40,594 and now I'm going to see the pyramids. 648 00:31:40,637 --> 00:31:42,378 Oh, I think every young family deserves 649 00:31:42,422 --> 00:31:44,598 a little adventure. 650 00:31:44,641 --> 00:31:46,382 Wouldn't you say, Monsieur Lioncourt? 651 00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:48,080 Oui, Madame. 652 00:31:48,123 --> 00:31:50,734 My mother, she gave me every advantage in life 653 00:31:50,778 --> 00:31:52,345 as a young man. 654 00:31:52,388 --> 00:31:55,435 My first Mastiff, first flintlock rifle, 655 00:31:55,478 --> 00:31:57,089 the means to make my way to Paris. 656 00:31:57,132 --> 00:31:59,656 It was Louis that purchased your holiday, Levi. 657 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:00,788 It's Louis who controls the money. 658 00:32:00,831 --> 00:32:02,181 Pay no mind, Levi. 659 00:32:02,224 --> 00:32:03,225 And I don't know who gave you the right 660 00:32:03,269 --> 00:32:04,226 to call our mother your mother. 661 00:32:04,270 --> 00:32:05,662 She's not your mother yet 662 00:32:05,706 --> 00:32:07,577 and will never be your scientific mother. 663 00:32:07,621 --> 00:32:10,841 Florence: Paul. 664 00:32:10,885 --> 00:32:12,582 I do love this bouillabaisse. 665 00:32:12,626 --> 00:32:15,368 Wha? 666 00:32:15,411 --> 00:32:17,631 Down here, we call it gumbo. 667 00:32:17,674 --> 00:32:19,285 We had a gumbo the other night, didn't we, Louis? 668 00:32:19,328 --> 00:32:20,895 Uh, right after the opera. 669 00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:22,766 Oh, we've got Louis to an opera. 670 00:32:22,810 --> 00:32:25,334 "Iolanta."'Bout some blind princess, 671 00:32:25,378 --> 00:32:27,684 didn't know she was a princess. 672 00:32:27,728 --> 00:32:29,991 Stomach got grumbling, left half way through. 673 00:32:30,035 --> 00:32:32,167 And what exactly is the nature of your relationship with 674 00:32:32,211 --> 00:32:34,561 my brother, Monsieur Lioncourt? 675 00:32:41,481 --> 00:32:43,962 Your brother and I have been discussing 676 00:32:44,005 --> 00:32:46,312 a few investment opportunities. 677 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:48,836 The birds asked me to ask you. 678 00:32:48,879 --> 00:32:50,446 I wasn't being rude. 679 00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:55,321 Monsieur Freniere, would you tell me 680 00:32:55,364 --> 00:32:58,193 how you came to propose to this delightsome young woman? 681 00:32:58,237 --> 00:32:59,716 Oh, that's a good yarn. 682 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,023 Are you one with Christ, Mr. Lioncourt? 683 00:33:02,067 --> 00:33:04,634 How 'bout you shut your damn mouth? 684 00:33:04,678 --> 00:33:06,462 Florence: Louis.That's alright, 685 00:33:06,506 --> 00:33:08,856 Louis, Madame, the birds speak for him. 686 00:33:12,294 --> 00:33:14,949 I came to know Christ in a monastery. 687 00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:20,346 I wanted to be a priest. 688 00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:23,262 Just like you, Paul. 689 00:33:23,305 --> 00:33:25,699 And under the guidance and discipline of the monks 690 00:33:25,742 --> 00:33:29,964 who lived there, I came to memorize both the testaments, 691 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:32,010 the writings of Assisi, 692 00:33:32,053 --> 00:33:36,623 Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars. 693 00:33:40,714 --> 00:33:47,068 My father, a vulgar man, did not think much of this education, 694 00:33:47,112 --> 00:33:51,855 and so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out, 695 00:33:51,899 --> 00:33:55,337 lock me away, where, between beatings, 696 00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:58,079 starvations, and the failure of Christ 697 00:33:58,123 --> 00:34:00,255 to intercede the beatings and starvations, 698 00:34:00,299 --> 00:34:04,085 I slowly forgot all about the testaments, Assisi, 699 00:34:04,129 --> 00:34:06,348 Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it. 700 00:34:06,392 --> 00:34:08,089 Stop.And so to answer 701 00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:09,960 your boring question, there is an ocean 702 00:34:10,004 --> 00:34:11,745 between Christ and myself.Stop! 703 00:34:15,357 --> 00:34:17,316 Don't do that shit here! 704 00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:22,277 Not with my family. 705 00:34:22,321 --> 00:34:24,323 You understand? 706 00:34:32,722 --> 00:34:37,423 I am cursed with my father's temper at times, 707 00:34:37,466 --> 00:34:39,686 and the rudeness is all mine. 708 00:34:39,729 --> 00:34:41,122 Florence: That's alright. 709 00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,646 It's the humidity. It does that sometimes. 710 00:34:43,690 --> 00:34:45,126 Why don't we have some ice wine? 711 00:34:45,170 --> 00:34:46,519 [Bell ringing] 712 00:34:46,562 --> 00:34:49,130 And Levi here can tell us all again 713 00:34:49,174 --> 00:34:52,438 how he won my joychild's heart. 714 00:34:56,833 --> 00:35:00,794 I fear your family has taken a permanent offense at me. 715 00:35:00,837 --> 00:35:02,317 When Paul ain't pickin' at his plate, 716 00:35:02,361 --> 00:35:04,102 he pickin' a fight. 717 00:35:04,145 --> 00:35:06,626 If I had your tricks, I'd have done the same. 718 00:35:06,669 --> 00:35:08,497 You must envy him. 719 00:35:08,541 --> 00:35:10,760 The boy thinks God speaks to him through birds in his head. 720 00:35:10,804 --> 00:35:12,588 How you figure envy? 721 00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:14,677 The liberty he has with his thoughts. 722 00:35:14,721 --> 00:35:16,157 However misshapen they may be, 723 00:35:16,201 --> 00:35:18,246 your brother has no shame in sharing them. 724 00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:20,248 You sayin' I got shame? 725 00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:23,033 The lie you told about leaving the opera house early. 726 00:35:23,077 --> 00:35:25,079 You were near weeping when the curtain fell. 727 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:27,081 Why hide that from your family? 728 00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:29,257 Don't everybody need to know what I do. 729 00:35:29,301 --> 00:35:31,085 Dishonesty breeds dishonesty. 730 00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:33,000 They sit in judgment. 731 00:35:33,043 --> 00:35:34,828 Paul is the only one to say it to my face, 732 00:35:34,871 --> 00:35:37,396 but I know my ma and Grace think it, too. 733 00:35:37,439 --> 00:35:39,659 My daddy ran our sugar business into a swamp. 734 00:35:39,702 --> 00:35:43,010 When he passed, we was four months -- 735 00:35:43,053 --> 00:35:46,927 four months from going bankrupt if I didn't do something. 736 00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:49,277 You don't need to defend yourself to me, Louis. 737 00:35:49,321 --> 00:35:51,149 I know what you go through to keep your family 738 00:35:51,192 --> 00:35:52,628 ignorant in their comfort. 739 00:35:52,672 --> 00:35:55,065 It ain't easy, the work I do. 740 00:35:55,109 --> 00:35:56,763 Nothing but broken souls around me, 741 00:35:56,806 --> 00:35:59,853 and the ones that ain't broke are greedy. 742 00:35:59,896 --> 00:36:02,508 Bone-tired. 743 00:36:02,551 --> 00:36:04,727 Drink up, my good man. 744 00:36:04,771 --> 00:36:06,512 The Earth's a savage garden. 745 00:36:11,995 --> 00:36:15,173 You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. 746 00:36:15,216 --> 00:36:18,306 St. Louis is dull as dishwater. 747 00:36:18,350 --> 00:36:22,310 Yes, I feel quite at home here. 748 00:36:22,354 --> 00:36:24,878 Shall we have a nightcap? 749 00:36:24,921 --> 00:36:27,315 Um... 750 00:36:27,359 --> 00:36:29,796 Probably had enough for tonight. 751 00:36:29,839 --> 00:36:32,102 Gotta make my rounds back on Liberty. 752 00:36:32,146 --> 00:36:34,235 You must, Louis. 753 00:36:34,279 --> 00:36:36,846 I bought you a gift. 754 00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:39,197 A gift? 755 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,807 A flower. 756 00:36:40,850 --> 00:36:48,075 ♪♪ 757 00:36:48,118 --> 00:36:55,256 ♪♪ 758 00:36:55,300 --> 00:37:02,611 ♪♪ 759 00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:06,180 [Music box playing] 760 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:09,314 ♪♪ 761 00:37:09,357 --> 00:37:11,838 That's a nice music box you got there. 762 00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:13,143 It's one of the few things I brought with me 763 00:37:13,187 --> 00:37:15,929 from the continent. 764 00:37:15,972 --> 00:37:17,626 What's that lil' song playin'? 765 00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:19,541 Do you like it? 766 00:37:19,585 --> 00:37:23,719 I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, 767 00:37:23,763 --> 00:37:26,244 a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity. 768 00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:31,727 I believe that is for the lips, Miss Lily. 769 00:37:31,771 --> 00:37:35,078 I don't like the way mine look plain. 770 00:37:35,122 --> 00:37:37,080 And Mr. du Lac don't mind when I do it. 771 00:37:37,124 --> 00:37:38,865 Mm-hmm. 772 00:37:38,908 --> 00:37:42,085 A pair of misfit beauties. 773 00:37:42,129 --> 00:37:45,524 I can see why you both run to the other. 774 00:37:45,567 --> 00:37:48,266 Miss Carroll know you're here, Lily? 775 00:37:48,309 --> 00:37:49,745 I can assure you, the Fairplay has been 776 00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:53,967 handsomely compensated for the evening. 777 00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:56,535 Sent a two-horse carriage to pick me up. 778 00:37:56,578 --> 00:37:58,406 Felt like the queen of the quarter. 779 00:38:02,541 --> 00:38:06,806 I told Mr. Lioncourt, you and me usually just talk. 780 00:38:06,849 --> 00:38:08,895 And why is that, Louis? 781 00:38:08,938 --> 00:38:11,811 What kind of a man wastes this waist with words? 782 00:38:14,030 --> 00:38:15,554 A beautiful man. 783 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,476 There's nothing to be nervous about. 784 00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:28,741 The curtains are closed, the servants sent home. 785 00:38:28,784 --> 00:38:31,874 Even the planets and stars are blindfolded. 786 00:38:31,918 --> 00:38:34,964 That's your thing, then? You like to watch? 787 00:38:37,489 --> 00:38:40,448 Lestat: I've been watching you for some time now, Louis. 788 00:38:40,492 --> 00:38:43,973 From river to lake, lake back to river, 789 00:38:44,017 --> 00:38:45,888 looking for my companion heart. 790 00:38:45,932 --> 00:38:47,281 How you do that? 791 00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:48,326 Do what? 792 00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:50,066 Do what? 793 00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:52,417 Get in my head like that. 794 00:38:52,460 --> 00:38:54,854 Such a pretty head. 795 00:38:54,897 --> 00:39:00,120 ♪♪ 796 00:39:00,163 --> 00:39:01,948 [Moans] 797 00:39:01,991 --> 00:39:10,260 ♪♪ 798 00:39:10,304 --> 00:39:13,133 [Breathing heavily] 799 00:39:13,176 --> 00:39:20,967 ♪♪ 800 00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:28,801 ♪♪ 801 00:39:28,844 --> 00:39:36,722 ♪♪ 802 00:39:36,765 --> 00:39:44,686 ♪♪ 803 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,602 That's fine, love. 804 00:39:47,646 --> 00:39:56,829 ♪♪ 805 00:40:00,049 --> 00:40:07,056 ♪♪ 806 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:10,843 Ah. Ah. 807 00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:13,802 [Shudders] 808 00:40:13,846 --> 00:40:22,681 ♪♪ 809 00:40:22,724 --> 00:40:31,603 ♪♪ 810 00:40:31,646 --> 00:40:40,481 ♪♪ 811 00:40:40,525 --> 00:40:49,490 ♪♪ 812 00:40:49,534 --> 00:40:51,318 [Breathing heavily] 813 00:40:51,361 --> 00:41:00,806 ♪♪ 814 00:41:00,849 --> 00:41:10,337 ♪♪ 815 00:41:10,380 --> 00:41:19,825 ♪♪ 816 00:41:19,868 --> 00:41:29,487 ♪♪ 817 00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:32,446 It bears repeating, I did not consider myself 818 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,579 a homosexual man at the time. 819 00:41:35,797 --> 00:41:38,539 I mean, I had had experiences. 820 00:41:38,583 --> 00:41:41,194 Guilt, shame, 821 00:41:41,237 --> 00:41:45,720 floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. 822 00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:49,681 Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. 823 00:41:49,724 --> 00:41:51,073 Course, you know that. 824 00:41:51,117 --> 00:41:52,684 We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel? 825 00:41:52,727 --> 00:41:54,207 It was a good place to score. 826 00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:56,557 I did what I had to. 827 00:41:56,601 --> 00:41:58,298 You've been married? 828 00:41:58,341 --> 00:42:00,561 Twice. 829 00:42:00,605 --> 00:42:03,521 But we're not here for me, are we? 830 00:42:05,087 --> 00:42:08,613 When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, 831 00:42:08,656 --> 00:42:12,834 do you remember the best you ever had? 832 00:42:12,878 --> 00:42:14,662 Berkeley, 1978. 833 00:42:14,706 --> 00:42:18,536 Some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging. 834 00:42:18,579 --> 00:42:21,756 So imagine that 835 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,497 flowing inside your veins again. 836 00:42:25,281 --> 00:42:30,286 Now multiply it by miles, 837 00:42:30,330 --> 00:42:33,551 to the rings of Saturn and back. 838 00:42:35,465 --> 00:42:38,251 [Both breathing heavily] 839 00:42:38,294 --> 00:42:41,602 Louis: He had taken what he called "un petit coup" -- 840 00:42:41,646 --> 00:42:43,343 the little drink. 841 00:42:43,386 --> 00:42:45,214 Not enough to kill me, 842 00:42:45,258 --> 00:42:49,044 but just enough to keep him fit. 843 00:42:49,088 --> 00:42:53,222 It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, 844 00:42:53,266 --> 00:42:55,224 the little drink. 845 00:42:55,268 --> 00:42:58,576 For a human, experiencing it for the first time, 846 00:42:58,619 --> 00:43:00,360 it was... 847 00:43:00,403 --> 00:43:02,536 unsettling. 848 00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:05,060 And not for the physical toll on my body, 849 00:43:05,104 --> 00:43:07,236 which was significant, 850 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,632 but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. 851 00:43:11,676 --> 00:43:14,287 ♪♪ 852 00:43:14,330 --> 00:43:16,942 I had never allowed myself 853 00:43:16,985 --> 00:43:19,248 to feel emotionally close to anyone, 854 00:43:19,292 --> 00:43:21,424 much less a man. 855 00:43:21,468 --> 00:43:24,645 I had no room for feelings like these in my life. 856 00:43:24,689 --> 00:43:26,473 ♪♪ 857 00:43:26,516 --> 00:43:29,607 You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, 858 00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:34,350 but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em. 859 00:43:34,394 --> 00:43:35,874 [Door opens] 860 00:43:35,917 --> 00:43:39,225 I vowed never to return again. 861 00:43:39,268 --> 00:43:42,620 I shut that night out of my mind 862 00:43:42,663 --> 00:43:46,145 and turned my attentions back to life as it was before. 863 00:43:46,188 --> 00:43:47,929 [Door closes] 864 00:43:47,973 --> 00:43:52,064 Crowd: One, two, three, jump! 865 00:43:52,107 --> 00:43:54,240 [Cheers and applause] 866 00:43:54,283 --> 00:44:00,899 ♪♪ 867 00:44:00,942 --> 00:44:07,775 ♪♪ 868 00:44:07,819 --> 00:44:09,255 Photographer: Hold still now. 869 00:44:09,298 --> 00:44:11,823 Grace: We are missing my father today. 870 00:44:11,866 --> 00:44:13,651 He's supposed to dance with me to start the night off. 871 00:44:13,694 --> 00:44:15,000 [Flash bulb pops] 872 00:44:15,043 --> 00:44:17,829 I'm trying not to cry now. 873 00:44:17,872 --> 00:44:20,135 And I thought the best way to honor Daddy 874 00:44:20,179 --> 00:44:22,137 would be to make my brothers do the work. 875 00:44:22,181 --> 00:44:23,791 Woman: Mm! 876 00:44:23,835 --> 00:44:25,401 Mm-hmm. 877 00:44:25,445 --> 00:44:27,490 Half of y'all don't know this, 878 00:44:27,534 --> 00:44:31,581 but these no-good boys used to shuffle for pennies on Sunday. 879 00:44:31,625 --> 00:44:34,759 Called themselves "The ABCDEFGs". 880 00:44:34,802 --> 00:44:36,978 [Laughter]Remember that, Father Matthias? 881 00:44:37,022 --> 00:44:38,545 Oh, yes. ABCDE -- 882 00:44:38,588 --> 00:44:40,199 "Alter Boys Come Dancing 883 00:44:40,242 --> 00:44:41,591 Every day For God.""For God." 884 00:44:41,635 --> 00:44:43,593 That's right! 885 00:44:43,637 --> 00:44:44,986 Father Matthias: I remember their collection hat 886 00:44:45,030 --> 00:44:46,771 didn't always make it to the collection plate. 887 00:44:46,814 --> 00:44:48,947 That's right. [Laughs] 888 00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:50,209 Paul, Louis? 889 00:44:50,252 --> 00:44:52,254 Levi: Oh, come on, now.Please! 890 00:44:52,298 --> 00:44:54,039 Hey, now. Come on, please! 891 00:44:55,301 --> 00:44:56,781 It's for me 892 00:44:56,824 --> 00:44:57,956 on my wedding day.Come on, brother. 893 00:44:57,999 --> 00:44:59,740 [Laughs] 894 00:44:59,784 --> 00:45:02,047 [Groans] Alright! 895 00:45:02,090 --> 00:45:04,397 [Cheers and applause] 896 00:45:10,882 --> 00:45:12,579 Shoes are tight. 897 00:45:12,622 --> 00:45:14,407 Oh, the shoes is fine. It's the feet that's fat. 898 00:45:14,450 --> 00:45:16,539 [Laughter] 899 00:45:16,583 --> 00:45:18,367 Hey, what kinda rhythm you want, boss? 900 00:45:18,411 --> 00:45:20,543 Just play it loud so they can't hear our feet. 901 00:45:20,587 --> 00:45:22,807 [Laughter] 902 00:45:22,850 --> 00:45:25,244 [Up-tempo music plays] 903 00:45:25,287 --> 00:45:28,769 Alright. What you remember? 904 00:45:28,813 --> 00:45:30,684 Um... 905 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:32,251 ♪♪ 906 00:45:32,294 --> 00:45:33,556 Hey, come on. 907 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,036 [Indistinct chatter] 908 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,777 [Laughs] 909 00:45:36,821 --> 00:45:39,127 -Hey! -Go ahead now! 910 00:45:39,171 --> 00:45:40,781 [Music stops] 911 00:45:40,825 --> 00:45:42,217 [Crowd cheering, whistling] 912 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,744 -Whoo! -Hey! Hey! 913 00:45:48,310 --> 00:45:50,225 [Cheers and applause]You still got it! 914 00:45:52,010 --> 00:45:53,489 [Shoes tapping rhythmically] 915 00:45:53,533 --> 00:45:55,448 Man: Alright! Okay! 916 00:45:57,363 --> 00:45:59,800 [Music resumes] 917 00:45:59,844 --> 00:46:01,410 They still got it! 918 00:46:01,454 --> 00:46:04,631 [Cheering] 919 00:46:04,674 --> 00:46:05,937 [Tapping continues] 920 00:46:05,980 --> 00:46:07,634 -Oh! -Yeah, Louis! 921 00:46:07,677 --> 00:46:09,854 [Cheering] 922 00:46:09,897 --> 00:46:12,030 ♪♪ 923 00:46:12,073 --> 00:46:15,076 Okay. You ain't gon' do it. You ain't gon' do it. 924 00:46:16,164 --> 00:46:18,036 [Cheers and applause] 925 00:46:18,079 --> 00:46:27,697 ♪♪ 926 00:46:27,741 --> 00:46:29,525 That's right! 927 00:46:29,569 --> 00:46:34,879 ♪♪ 928 00:46:34,922 --> 00:46:40,493 ♪♪ 929 00:46:40,536 --> 00:46:43,452 [Cheers and applause] 930 00:46:45,498 --> 00:46:47,239 Amazing. 931 00:46:47,282 --> 00:46:50,242 ♪♪ 932 00:46:50,285 --> 00:46:51,896 [Music ends, applause] 933 00:46:53,549 --> 00:47:02,602 ♪♪ 934 00:47:02,645 --> 00:47:04,865 [Dog barking] 935 00:47:04,909 --> 00:47:07,825 ♪♪ 936 00:47:07,868 --> 00:47:09,043 We gonna miss it. 937 00:47:09,087 --> 00:47:10,958 Quit talkin'. I have to concentrate. 938 00:47:12,046 --> 00:47:15,441 It's them three pieces of checkered cake holding you back. 939 00:47:15,484 --> 00:47:19,184 Five pieces of checkered cake, the Pompano fillet, 940 00:47:19,227 --> 00:47:22,927 three boudins, dirty rice, 941 00:47:22,970 --> 00:47:26,452 beef, green beans, five, six wines. 942 00:47:26,495 --> 00:47:28,758 [Groans] Eat anything else, 943 00:47:28,802 --> 00:47:30,499 the buttons on your vest gon' pop off 944 00:47:30,543 --> 00:47:31,936 like cannon balls, 945 00:47:31,979 --> 00:47:34,068 take down the neighborhood. 946 00:47:34,112 --> 00:47:35,635 [Paul groans] 947 00:47:35,678 --> 00:47:43,121 ♪♪ 948 00:47:43,164 --> 00:47:46,907 9,517. 949 00:47:46,951 --> 00:47:49,083 That's how many days we've been in his house. 950 00:47:49,127 --> 00:47:50,868 You do that math all by yourself? 951 00:47:52,608 --> 00:47:54,045 You remember the day I got taller than you? 952 00:47:54,088 --> 00:47:55,089 Always bringin' that up. 953 00:47:55,133 --> 00:47:57,396 Shot up like a Nuttall oak. 954 00:47:57,439 --> 00:47:59,528 Daddy said I was gon' look down on you for the rest of days. 955 00:47:59,572 --> 00:48:00,921 Yeah, yeah. 956 00:48:00,965 --> 00:48:02,314 Half an inch. 957 00:48:02,357 --> 00:48:04,229 That was a good month, that month. 958 00:48:04,272 --> 00:48:08,842 ♪♪ 959 00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:11,236 I think you should get married next. 960 00:48:11,279 --> 00:48:12,628 Do you now? 961 00:48:12,672 --> 00:48:13,891 And you should marry Hazel. 962 00:48:13,934 --> 00:48:16,067 Hazel? Who that? 963 00:48:16,110 --> 00:48:18,373 The one you were dancing too close with. 964 00:48:18,417 --> 00:48:20,985 You dance that close, you ought to be married. 965 00:48:21,028 --> 00:48:23,248 I didn't catch her name. 966 00:48:23,291 --> 00:48:25,424 Well, it's Hazel. 967 00:48:25,467 --> 00:48:28,209 [Church bells toll in distance] 968 00:48:28,253 --> 00:48:29,863 [Grunts] 969 00:48:32,605 --> 00:48:35,347 You still doing business with that man Lestat? 970 00:48:36,652 --> 00:48:39,090 Nah. Didn't work out. 971 00:48:40,961 --> 00:48:43,442 That's good. 972 00:48:43,485 --> 00:48:44,660 'Cause he the Devil. 973 00:48:44,704 --> 00:48:46,010 You think everyone's the Devil. 974 00:48:46,053 --> 00:48:49,013 He's here to take souls. He told me so. 975 00:48:49,056 --> 00:48:51,319 He spoke to me without moving his lips. 976 00:48:51,363 --> 00:48:53,626 He got tricks is all. 977 00:48:55,106 --> 00:48:57,499 Mortal sins must be confessed, Louis. 978 00:48:57,543 --> 00:49:00,241 Ain't never gon' see him again, Paul. 979 00:49:05,203 --> 00:49:07,379 You think Levi loves her enough? 980 00:49:07,422 --> 00:49:09,990 You know, Grace needs a lot of love. 981 00:49:10,034 --> 00:49:11,470 I do. 982 00:49:12,775 --> 00:49:15,735 Do you think he's givin' her everything he's got inside him? 983 00:49:17,128 --> 00:49:18,216 Mm-hmm. 984 00:49:22,089 --> 00:49:26,093 ♪♪ 985 00:49:26,137 --> 00:49:28,182 Mother made a good party for Grace. 986 00:49:28,226 --> 00:49:29,836 Mm-hmm, yeah. 987 00:49:29,879 --> 00:49:31,707 Yeah, they gon' talk about this one for years. 988 00:49:31,751 --> 00:49:33,361 Yeah. 989 00:49:33,405 --> 00:49:39,454 ♪♪ 990 00:49:39,498 --> 00:49:41,108 I love you, Louis. 991 00:49:41,152 --> 00:49:42,936 And I love you, too, baby brother. 992 00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:50,335 ♪♪ 993 00:49:50,378 --> 00:49:53,033 I ate too much checkered cake. 994 00:49:53,077 --> 00:49:57,081 ♪♪ 995 00:49:57,124 --> 00:49:58,386 Paul. 996 00:49:58,430 --> 00:50:00,258 ♪♪ 997 00:50:00,301 --> 00:50:01,694 Paul! 998 00:50:02,825 --> 00:50:04,175 [Thud] 999 00:50:04,218 --> 00:50:05,306 Paul! 1000 00:50:05,350 --> 00:50:06,873 [Woman gasping] 1001 00:50:06,916 --> 00:50:09,049 Man: Oh, my lord!Woman: Paul! 1002 00:50:09,093 --> 00:50:11,660 ♪♪ 1003 00:50:11,704 --> 00:50:14,011 That was the last sunrise I ever saw. 1004 00:50:15,708 --> 00:50:18,276 Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. 1005 00:50:18,319 --> 00:50:23,455 ♪♪ 1006 00:50:23,498 --> 00:50:27,024 I don't miss the sun, 1007 00:50:27,067 --> 00:50:28,808 the reminders it carries. 1008 00:50:28,851 --> 00:50:35,554 ♪♪ 1009 00:50:35,597 --> 00:50:42,300 ♪♪ 1010 00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:49,220 ♪♪ 1011 00:50:49,263 --> 00:50:52,745 I have seen death over and over 1012 00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:55,922 and over and over again. 1013 00:50:57,054 --> 00:50:58,794 It's boring. 1014 00:50:58,838 --> 00:51:01,014 That'll make a great blurb. 1015 00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:03,756 The diagnosis you received, Daniel, 1016 00:51:03,799 --> 00:51:06,846 it winds your clock. 1017 00:51:06,889 --> 00:51:08,935 This virus has turned the world sideways. 1018 00:51:08,978 --> 00:51:10,458 I get it. 1019 00:51:10,502 --> 00:51:11,764 I'm gonna die. 1020 00:51:11,807 --> 00:51:13,940 They're gonna die. 1021 00:51:13,983 --> 00:51:15,333 But not the vampire. 1022 00:51:15,376 --> 00:51:17,552 The vampire is bored. 1023 00:51:19,206 --> 00:51:21,513 The human was destroyed. 1024 00:51:23,167 --> 00:51:25,995 Utterly destroyed. 1025 00:51:26,039 --> 00:51:27,867 Father Matthias: I was at the funeral home. 1026 00:51:27,910 --> 00:51:29,869 Everything is going as it should. 1027 00:51:29,912 --> 00:51:33,220 Good men there. Promised me that -- 1028 00:51:33,264 --> 00:51:35,353 You musta said something to him, Louis. 1029 00:51:35,396 --> 00:51:37,137 You musta said something to him 1030 00:51:37,181 --> 00:51:39,357 to make him do that to himself. 1031 00:51:40,662 --> 00:51:43,752 Paul slipped and fell, Florence. 1032 00:51:43,796 --> 00:51:45,363 I don't think this is something you want to pursue. 1033 00:51:45,406 --> 00:51:48,366 He was a fragile boy. 1034 00:51:48,409 --> 00:51:50,281 He always was. 1035 00:51:52,805 --> 00:51:56,156 And you, you always had to have the last word, 1036 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,636 didn't you, Louis? 1037 00:51:57,679 --> 00:51:59,377 You always had to take him down a peg. 1038 00:51:59,420 --> 00:52:02,031 Mamaw. 1039 00:52:02,075 --> 00:52:04,033 What did you say to him? 1040 00:52:04,077 --> 00:52:05,731 Why was you even up there? 1041 00:52:06,949 --> 00:52:09,561 Watchin' the sun come up, Mama. 1042 00:52:09,604 --> 00:52:12,651 [Sighs] 1043 00:52:12,694 --> 00:52:17,177 You don't get past the gates iffen you kill yourself. 1044 00:52:17,221 --> 00:52:19,745 Don't you know that? 1045 00:52:19,788 --> 00:52:23,140 Paul gone down the other way. 1046 00:52:23,183 --> 00:52:25,316 Paul's in Hell because of you. 1047 00:52:34,890 --> 00:52:37,066 ♪♪ 1048 00:52:37,110 --> 00:52:39,243 Louis: Storyville lowered their hats, 1049 00:52:39,286 --> 00:52:42,637 gave their propers, because it was custom. 1050 00:52:42,681 --> 00:52:45,336 But if you look past those lined up on the sidewalk, 1051 00:52:45,379 --> 00:52:47,947 you'd see the bars hadn't stopped serving, 1052 00:52:47,990 --> 00:52:50,428 the whores hadn't stopped whoring. 1053 00:52:50,471 --> 00:52:52,343 What was Paul's life worth to them? 1054 00:52:52,386 --> 00:52:54,432 What was mylife worth? 1055 00:52:54,475 --> 00:52:56,651 The big man of Liberty Street, 1056 00:52:56,695 --> 00:53:01,090 trailing the satin-lined evidence of his failure. 1057 00:53:01,134 --> 00:53:03,528 Easy prey for the discerning predator. 1058 00:53:08,141 --> 00:53:10,187 An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased -- 1059 00:53:10,230 --> 00:53:11,449 Move on. 1060 00:53:11,492 --> 00:53:13,190 I wait on my balcony every night. 1061 00:53:13,233 --> 00:53:15,192 You've been avoiding me.I have been occupied. 1062 00:53:15,235 --> 00:53:17,803 Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute. 1063 00:53:17,846 --> 00:53:19,544 And I don't take kindly to being avoided. 1064 00:53:19,587 --> 00:53:20,632 It's my brother's funeral! 1065 00:53:20,675 --> 00:53:22,242 Believe me when I tell you, 1066 00:53:22,286 --> 00:53:23,765 your brother longed for that flagstone. 1067 00:53:23,809 --> 00:53:25,593 What'd you say to me?! 1068 00:53:25,637 --> 00:53:27,987 I got it, boss. Keep walking. 1069 00:53:28,030 --> 00:53:30,468 ♪♪ 1070 00:53:30,511 --> 00:53:32,774 [Groans] 1071 00:53:32,818 --> 00:53:36,213 ♪♪ 1072 00:53:36,256 --> 00:53:39,955 Louis: Lestat's ambush had disoriented me. 1073 00:53:39,999 --> 00:53:42,567 The sermon that was given, I could not hear. 1074 00:53:44,438 --> 00:53:47,441 And when the gathering cut loose the body, 1075 00:53:47,485 --> 00:53:49,051 I could not join the transformation 1076 00:53:49,095 --> 00:53:52,446 of those in attendance. 1077 00:53:52,490 --> 00:53:55,232 He would not let me. 1078 00:53:56,058 --> 00:53:57,059 Lestat: Come to me. 1079 00:53:59,540 --> 00:54:00,541 Come to me. 1080 00:54:01,586 --> 00:54:02,630 No. 1081 00:54:02,674 --> 00:54:10,290 ♪♪ 1082 00:54:10,334 --> 00:54:12,118 Walk you home, Mama? 1083 00:54:12,161 --> 00:54:14,599 No, thank you. 1084 00:54:14,642 --> 00:54:16,340 Levi, do you mind? 1085 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,039 Of course, Mama Du Lac. 1086 00:54:23,999 --> 00:54:25,131 She didn't mean nothin' by it. 1087 00:54:25,174 --> 00:54:26,393 Oh, but she did now. 1088 00:54:26,437 --> 00:54:28,787 She just needs to put it somewhere. 1089 00:54:29,831 --> 00:54:31,137 Don't let it inside. 1090 00:54:34,009 --> 00:54:35,707 [Smooches] 1091 00:54:35,750 --> 00:54:37,839 See you back at the wake? 1092 00:54:37,883 --> 00:54:43,236 ♪♪ 1093 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:44,759 Come to me. 1094 00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:48,633 Louis: I did not go to the wake. 1095 00:54:50,591 --> 00:54:53,681 I did not want to face my mother's blame... 1096 00:54:53,725 --> 00:54:55,727 [Thunder cracks] 1097 00:54:55,770 --> 00:54:57,642 ...my sister's pity. 1098 00:54:58,904 --> 00:55:01,298 I wanted to grieve alone. 1099 00:55:03,387 --> 00:55:07,173 But he would not allow it. 1100 00:55:10,045 --> 00:55:11,482 Lestat: Come to me, Louis. 1101 00:55:14,746 --> 00:55:16,356 Come to me. 1102 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:22,144 ♪♪ 1103 00:55:22,188 --> 00:55:23,276 Hello, handsome. 1104 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,930 Sazerac. 1105 00:55:24,973 --> 00:55:27,454 My heart broke when I heard of your brother's passing. 1106 00:55:27,498 --> 00:55:29,021 Miss Lily. 1107 00:55:29,064 --> 00:55:30,588 Oh, my dear. 1108 00:55:30,631 --> 00:55:31,850 I don't care if she busy with someone. 1109 00:55:31,893 --> 00:55:33,460 I'll pay more. 1110 00:55:33,504 --> 00:55:35,941 'Cause I like Miss Lily, and I need Miss Lily. 1111 00:55:35,984 --> 00:55:38,117 Miss Lily died, Mr. du Lac. 1112 00:55:39,727 --> 00:55:41,076 Two weeks ago. 1113 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,252 [Table clatters] 1114 00:55:43,296 --> 00:55:46,343 Police found her under the docks. 1115 00:55:46,386 --> 00:55:50,129 Said she contracted the fevers that's been going around. 1116 00:55:50,172 --> 00:55:52,653 Blood went and dried up inside her. 1117 00:55:52,697 --> 00:55:54,046 Viens à moi. 1118 00:55:55,569 --> 00:55:57,005 [Pounding on door] 1119 00:55:57,049 --> 00:55:59,617 Louis: Father! Father Matthias! 1120 00:55:59,660 --> 00:56:01,009 Help me! 1121 00:56:01,053 --> 00:56:02,881 [Pounding continues] 1122 00:56:02,924 --> 00:56:06,232 Help me, please. He's in my head, Father. 1123 00:56:08,539 --> 00:56:11,280 The Devil is in New Orleans. 1124 00:56:11,324 --> 00:56:12,412 Father Matthias: Calm down, son. 1125 00:56:12,456 --> 00:56:13,500 Catch your breath. 1126 00:56:13,544 --> 00:56:15,415 [Panting] 1127 00:56:15,459 --> 00:56:18,070 Bless me, Father, f-for I have sinned. 1128 00:56:18,113 --> 00:56:20,681 Grievously sinned. 1129 00:56:20,725 --> 00:56:22,553 Sign of the cross, son. 1130 00:56:22,596 --> 00:56:28,515 ♪♪ 1131 00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:31,866 [Breathing raggedly] 1132 00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:33,259 I'm a drunk, Lord. 1133 00:56:33,302 --> 00:56:34,695 I'm a liar. 1134 00:56:34,739 --> 00:56:36,218 I am a thief, Lord. 1135 00:56:36,262 --> 00:56:37,916 I profit off the miseries of other men, 1136 00:56:37,959 --> 00:56:39,134 and I do it easy. 1137 00:56:39,178 --> 00:56:41,528 Drugs, liquor, women. 1138 00:56:41,572 --> 00:56:44,357 I-I-I-I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord. 1139 00:56:44,401 --> 00:56:46,359 I take daughters with no homes 1140 00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:49,884 and I-I put 'em out on the street, Lord, 1141 00:56:49,928 --> 00:56:52,626 and I lie to myself, saying I-I'm giving them a roof 1142 00:56:52,670 --> 00:56:54,411 and food and dollar bills in they pocket, 1143 00:56:54,454 --> 00:56:56,848 but I look in the mirror, I know what I am -- 1144 00:56:56,891 --> 00:56:58,676 the big man in the big house, 1145 00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,679 stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries. 1146 00:57:01,722 --> 00:57:04,725 And Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me. 1147 00:57:05,944 --> 00:57:09,034 I shame my father. 1148 00:57:09,077 --> 00:57:10,557 I f-- I failed my brother. 1149 00:57:10,601 --> 00:57:11,906 No, son. 1150 00:57:11,950 --> 00:57:14,692 I lost my mother and sister, 1151 00:57:14,735 --> 00:57:17,782 and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord, 1152 00:57:17,825 --> 00:57:20,132 I run like a coward. 1153 00:57:20,175 --> 00:57:21,916 I run to the bottle. 1154 00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:23,309 I run to the grift. 1155 00:57:23,352 --> 00:57:25,485 I run to bad beds. 1156 00:57:25,529 --> 00:57:27,922 I-I laid down with a man. 1157 00:57:27,966 --> 00:57:29,750 [Thunder rumbles] 1158 00:57:29,794 --> 00:57:32,405 I laid down with the Devil. 1159 00:57:32,449 --> 00:57:35,190 And he has roots in me, 1160 00:57:35,234 --> 00:57:38,716 all his spindly roots in me, 1161 00:57:38,759 --> 00:57:41,545 and I can't think nothin' anymore 1162 00:57:41,588 --> 00:57:44,722 but his voice and his words! 1163 00:57:44,765 --> 00:57:46,854 [Door opens]Please, help me! 1164 00:57:46,898 --> 00:57:48,943 [Metal clatters]I am weak! 1165 00:57:48,987 --> 00:57:50,554 [Thunder rumbles] 1166 00:57:50,597 --> 00:57:52,425 I wanna die! 1167 00:57:52,469 --> 00:57:54,645 [Rattling] 1168 00:57:54,688 --> 00:57:56,255 Oh! 1169 00:57:56,298 --> 00:57:58,562 [Crashing] 1170 00:57:58,605 --> 00:58:01,521 [Screams] 1171 00:58:01,565 --> 00:58:03,480 [Flesh tearing] 1172 00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:04,611 [Crack] 1173 00:58:04,655 --> 00:58:07,179 [Muffled groan] 1174 00:58:07,222 --> 00:58:11,052 ♪♪ 1175 00:58:11,096 --> 00:58:13,620 [Breathing heavily] 1176 00:58:13,664 --> 00:58:15,709 No! 1177 00:58:15,753 --> 00:58:19,757 ♪♪ 1178 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,933 Do you think God heard you, Louis, 1179 00:58:21,976 --> 00:58:25,589 in that tawdry box, through this pig vessel, 1180 00:58:25,632 --> 00:58:28,026 this -- this charlatan? 1181 00:58:29,810 --> 00:58:32,726 Do you not see how unworthy he is? 1182 00:58:32,770 --> 00:58:35,163 How can you humiliate yourself like this?! 1183 00:58:35,207 --> 00:58:37,165 [Groans] 1184 00:58:37,209 --> 00:58:39,124 [Thunder rumbles] 1185 00:58:39,167 --> 00:58:42,867 ♪♪ 1186 00:58:42,910 --> 00:58:45,347 [Breathing heavily] 1187 00:58:45,391 --> 00:58:47,567 You killed Lily. 1188 00:58:47,611 --> 00:58:50,657 Cut short that magnificent life she was living. 1189 00:58:50,701 --> 00:58:52,398 What a tragedy. 1190 00:58:52,441 --> 00:58:55,314 Ain't no fever out there. That's you. 1191 00:58:55,357 --> 00:58:57,185 You bringin' the death to town. 1192 00:58:57,229 --> 00:58:58,839 I give death to those deserving. 1193 00:58:58,883 --> 00:59:01,538 [Thunder rumbles] 1194 00:59:01,581 --> 00:59:03,496 I'm not the Devil. 1195 00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:05,237 You were wrong about that. 1196 00:59:06,804 --> 00:59:08,109 But I can give you death. 1197 00:59:08,153 --> 00:59:09,546 [Shoe squeaks] 1198 00:59:09,589 --> 00:59:11,635 [Thunder crashes] 1199 00:59:11,678 --> 00:59:17,031 ♪♪ 1200 00:59:17,075 --> 00:59:18,119 [Gasps] 1201 00:59:18,163 --> 00:59:19,251 ♪♪ 1202 00:59:19,294 --> 00:59:20,818 [Whimpers, grunts] 1203 00:59:20,861 --> 00:59:25,431 ♪♪ 1204 00:59:25,474 --> 00:59:28,608 [Footsteps echoing] 1205 00:59:28,652 --> 00:59:38,313 ♪♪ 1206 00:59:38,357 --> 00:59:48,019 ♪♪ 1207 00:59:48,062 --> 00:59:57,768 ♪♪ 1208 00:59:57,811 --> 01:00:01,032 [Breathing heavily] 1209 01:00:01,075 --> 01:00:03,904 This primitive country has picked you clean. 1210 01:00:03,948 --> 01:00:08,213 It has shackled you in permanent exile. 1211 01:00:08,256 --> 01:00:10,258 Every room you enter, 1212 01:00:10,302 --> 01:00:12,043 every hat you are forced to wear -- 1213 01:00:12,086 --> 01:00:14,436 the stern landlord, the deferential businessman, 1214 01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:15,916 the loyal son -- 1215 01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,875 all these roles you conform to 1216 01:00:17,918 --> 01:00:20,442 and none of them your true nature. 1217 01:00:20,486 --> 01:00:22,227 [Thunder crashes] 1218 01:00:22,270 --> 01:00:25,404 What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. 1219 01:00:28,276 --> 01:00:30,496 The first time I laid eyes on you, 1220 01:00:30,539 --> 01:00:32,498 your beautiful face, 1221 01:00:32,541 --> 01:00:35,066 I saw that sorrow. 1222 01:00:35,109 --> 01:00:36,415 I did not know how it got there 1223 01:00:36,458 --> 01:00:39,157 or why it was so voluminous. 1224 01:00:42,073 --> 01:00:45,163 I can take away that sorrow, Louis. 1225 01:00:46,468 --> 01:00:49,080 I can give you that death 1226 01:00:49,123 --> 01:00:52,344 you begged your feeble, blind, degenerate, 1227 01:00:52,387 --> 01:00:56,304 nonexistent god for. 1228 01:00:56,348 --> 01:00:59,351 But I can do it... 1229 01:00:59,394 --> 01:01:01,309 joyfully. 1230 01:01:02,876 --> 01:01:06,488 I can swap this life of shame, 1231 01:01:06,532 --> 01:01:09,056 swap it out for a dark gift 1232 01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:11,668 and a power you can't begin to imagine. 1233 01:01:14,409 --> 01:01:16,194 You just have to ask me for it. 1234 01:01:18,457 --> 01:01:22,287 You just have to nod your beautiful head... 1235 01:01:22,330 --> 01:01:23,941 and say yes. 1236 01:01:23,984 --> 01:01:27,988 ♪♪ 1237 01:01:28,032 --> 01:01:29,686 I love you, Louis. 1238 01:01:31,339 --> 01:01:33,167 You are loved. 1239 01:01:35,169 --> 01:01:37,824 I send my love to you, 1240 01:01:37,868 --> 01:01:41,523 and you send it back round to me. 1241 01:01:41,567 --> 01:01:44,744 And this circle, 1242 01:01:44,788 --> 01:01:47,878 this home we barely had a glimpse of... 1243 01:01:50,968 --> 01:01:53,666 ...know it frightens me as much as it does you. 1244 01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:56,103 Louis: It is difficult to explain 1245 01:01:56,147 --> 01:01:59,280 how his words disarmed me, 1246 01:01:59,324 --> 01:02:02,893 how efficiently succinct and impenetrable 1247 01:02:02,936 --> 01:02:04,982 his argument was. 1248 01:02:05,025 --> 01:02:06,940 All my conceptions, 1249 01:02:06,984 --> 01:02:09,943 even my guilt and my wish to die 1250 01:02:09,987 --> 01:02:12,729 seemed utterly unimportant, 1251 01:02:12,772 --> 01:02:15,035 and I completely forgot myself 1252 01:02:15,079 --> 01:02:18,778 and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. 1253 01:02:18,822 --> 01:02:24,610 For the first time in my life, I was seen. 1254 01:02:24,653 --> 01:02:27,395 Be my companion, Louis. 1255 01:02:28,875 --> 01:02:32,836 Be all the beautiful things you are, 1256 01:02:32,879 --> 01:02:34,838 and be them without apology. 1257 01:02:37,318 --> 01:02:38,929 For all eternity. 1258 01:02:38,972 --> 01:02:47,546 ♪♪ 1259 01:02:47,589 --> 01:02:56,424 ♪♪ 1260 01:02:56,468 --> 01:03:01,516 He drained me to the very threshold of death. 1261 01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:06,870 ♪♪ 1262 01:03:06,913 --> 01:03:07,958 [Groans] 1263 01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:09,829 Mm. 1264 01:03:09,873 --> 01:03:13,659 ♪♪ 1265 01:03:13,702 --> 01:03:16,401 [Sucking] 1266 01:03:16,444 --> 01:03:20,100 ♪♪ 1267 01:03:20,144 --> 01:03:22,842 [Breathes deeply] 1268 01:03:22,886 --> 01:03:30,937 ♪♪ 1269 01:03:30,981 --> 01:03:32,896 [Sucking] 1270 01:03:32,939 --> 01:03:37,726 The blood, it came as a dull roar at first. 1271 01:03:37,770 --> 01:03:40,555 And then a pounding, 1272 01:03:40,599 --> 01:03:43,515 like the pounding of a drum, 1273 01:03:43,558 --> 01:03:47,867 growing louder and louder, 1274 01:03:47,911 --> 01:03:51,523 as if some enormous creature 1275 01:03:51,566 --> 01:03:56,136 were coming through a dark and alien forest. 1276 01:03:56,180 --> 01:03:58,791 A huge drum. 1277 01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,706 [Heart beating slowly] 1278 01:04:00,749 --> 01:04:05,667 And then, there came a pounding of another drum, 1279 01:04:05,711 --> 01:04:08,540 as if another giant were coming behind him, 1280 01:04:08,583 --> 01:04:12,457 each giant intent on his own drum, 1281 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:15,895 giving no notice to the rhythm of the other. 1282 01:04:15,939 --> 01:04:22,946 Throbbing in my lips, fingers, and flesh of my temple. 1283 01:04:22,989 --> 01:04:24,861 [Heartbeats thrumming] 1284 01:04:24,904 --> 01:04:28,212 Above all, in my veins. 1285 01:04:28,255 --> 01:04:31,824 Drum, and then the other drum. 1286 01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:32,912 [Gasps] 1287 01:04:32,956 --> 01:04:35,828 [Breathing heavily] 1288 01:04:35,872 --> 01:04:37,264 [Sighs] 1289 01:04:37,308 --> 01:04:41,442 ♪♪ 1290 01:04:41,486 --> 01:04:44,706 I opened my eyes. 1291 01:04:44,750 --> 01:04:48,841 And it was then that I realized 1292 01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:52,801 the drum was my heart, 1293 01:04:52,845 --> 01:04:55,892 and the other drum had been his. 1294 01:04:59,243 --> 01:05:01,506 I saw him sitting a length away from me. 1295 01:05:03,421 --> 01:05:04,509 Radiant. 1296 01:05:05,989 --> 01:05:08,208 And we sat there for some time. 1297 01:05:10,384 --> 01:05:13,822 In throes of increasing wonder. 1298 01:05:13,866 --> 01:05:20,177 ♪♪ 1299 01:05:20,220 --> 01:05:22,005 The end. 1300 01:05:22,048 --> 01:05:23,963 ♪♪ 1301 01:05:24,007 --> 01:05:25,704 The beginning. 1302 01:05:25,747 --> 01:05:31,275 ♪♪ 1303 01:05:31,318 --> 01:05:35,583 ♪♪ 1304 01:05:44,462 --> 01:05:48,422 ♪ 1305 01:06:01,435 --> 01:06:10,749 ♪♪ 1306 01:06:10,792 --> 01:06:20,019 ♪♪ 1307 01:06:20,063 --> 01:06:29,376 ♪♪ 1308 01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:38,733 ♪♪ 1309 01:06:38,777 --> 01:06:48,047 ♪♪ 1310 01:06:48,091 --> 01:06:57,361 ♪♪ 1311 01:06:58,666 --> 01:07:02,757 ♪♪♪ 1312 01:07:02,801 --> 01:07:04,629 I'm a vampire. 1313 01:07:04,672 --> 01:07:06,370 ♪♪ 1314 01:07:06,413 --> 01:07:09,547 I walked my entire life as a dead man 1315 01:07:09,590 --> 01:07:13,377 and now could finally receive the secrets of existence. 1316 01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:17,294 You alone of all creatures can strike like the hand of God. 1317 01:07:17,337 --> 01:07:19,861 I did not readily take to killing. 1318 01:07:19,905 --> 01:07:21,298 You're ashamed of what we are. 1319 01:07:21,341 --> 01:07:24,170 And then my Claudia, my redemption. 1320 01:07:24,214 --> 01:07:25,737 We're a family? 1321 01:07:25,780 --> 01:07:26,955 No! Don't! 1322 01:07:26,999 --> 01:07:28,218 [Man shouts] 1323 01:07:28,261 --> 01:07:29,262 Daniel: For a killing machine, 1324 01:07:29,306 --> 01:07:30,611 I kind of like her. 1325 01:07:30,655 --> 01:07:33,788 Am I from the devil? 1326 01:07:33,832 --> 01:07:36,487 Is my very nature...[Baby cries] 1327 01:07:36,530 --> 01:07:37,749 ...that of the devil? 1328 01:07:37,792 --> 01:07:39,272 ♪♪ 1329 01:07:39,316 --> 01:07:40,708 This is not a life! 1330 01:07:40,752 --> 01:07:42,580 That is 'cause you took my life! 1331 01:07:42,623 --> 01:07:44,843 ♪♪ 1332 01:07:44,886 --> 01:07:48,281 Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis! 1333 01:07:48,325 --> 01:07:51,067 ♪♪ 1334 01:07:51,110 --> 01:07:52,633 Okay. 1335 01:07:52,677 --> 01:07:54,157 Did you eat the baby? 1336 01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:55,114 [Chuckles sinisterly] 1337 01:07:55,158 --> 01:07:58,074 ♪♪ 1338 01:07:59,336 --> 01:08:07,996 ♪♪ 1339 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,304 I'm Daniel Molloy, across from Mr... 1340 01:08:11,348 --> 01:08:14,046 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 1341 01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:20,226 So, Mr. du Lac, how long have you been dead? 1342 01:08:20,270 --> 01:08:22,446 [Laughs] 1343 01:08:22,489 --> 01:08:24,709 Hi, I'm Rolin Jones, Executive Producer for 1344 01:08:24,752 --> 01:08:26,189 "Interview with the Vampire," 1345 01:08:26,232 --> 01:08:29,496 and this is your Episode Insider. 1346 01:08:29,540 --> 01:08:32,282 There are stories at there that need to be told. 1347 01:08:32,325 --> 01:08:34,197 I'm Daniel Molloy. 1348 01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,590 Daniel Molly, he's a journalist who's sort of on 1349 01:08:36,634 --> 01:08:41,117 the nadir of his career, and a package arrives 1350 01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:44,032 and inside is a great deal of history 1351 01:08:44,076 --> 01:08:47,166 that he did not want to remember. 1352 01:08:47,210 --> 01:08:50,126 I got to call you back. 1353 01:08:50,169 --> 01:08:51,431 Jones: When he was a young journalist, 1354 01:08:51,475 --> 01:08:55,305 he made a series of tapes with a vampire. 1355 01:08:55,348 --> 01:08:58,003 Louis: I think I want to tell the real stor-- 1356 01:08:58,046 --> 01:09:01,093 He's sort of given an invitation to revisit this interview 1357 01:09:01,137 --> 01:09:03,269 and do it right and proper when both 1358 01:09:03,313 --> 01:09:05,010 have lived a little life and are way more 1359 01:09:05,053 --> 01:09:06,359 comfortable in their skin. 1360 01:09:06,403 --> 01:09:10,842 So...a do over. 1361 01:09:10,885 --> 01:09:13,061 Truth and reconciliation. 1362 01:09:13,105 --> 01:09:16,108 He's a very different vampire, so he's got a lot on his mind. 1363 01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,545 Lestat sees Louis de Pointe du Lac 1364 01:09:18,589 --> 01:09:23,028 for the first time pulling a knife on his brother, 1365 01:09:23,071 --> 01:09:25,378 and oh, that's intriguing. 1366 01:09:25,422 --> 01:09:29,295 There's some potential there to be a companion predator. 1367 01:09:29,339 --> 01:09:31,993 Then, in the middle of this poker scene, 1368 01:09:32,037 --> 01:09:34,387 you can see he has been on his mind. 1369 01:09:34,431 --> 01:09:37,085 There's a shot where he's sort of staring longingly 1370 01:09:37,129 --> 01:09:40,567 at Louis while Louis is shining his business acumen, 1371 01:09:40,611 --> 01:09:42,090 and he goes, "I'm gonna show him. 1372 01:09:42,134 --> 01:09:43,048 I'm gonna give him a little insight 1373 01:09:43,091 --> 01:09:44,876 about what I can do. 1374 01:09:44,919 --> 01:09:46,530 These men look down on you. 1375 01:09:46,573 --> 01:09:48,793 I find it appalling how men like yourself 1376 01:09:48,836 --> 01:09:50,577 are treated in this country. 1377 01:09:50,621 --> 01:09:54,538 So he does a little vampire parlor trick, as it were. 1378 01:09:54,581 --> 01:09:58,324 I believe there is great opportunity in this city, 1379 01:09:58,368 --> 01:10:02,459 but to see that, I'll need protection from the wolves. 1380 01:10:02,502 --> 01:10:04,243 [Bangs table] 1381 01:10:04,287 --> 01:10:06,724 Jones: There is a sort of predator angle to this. 1382 01:10:06,767 --> 01:10:09,727 Louis fully admits later I was being hunted. 1383 01:10:09,770 --> 01:10:11,468 Lestat would not see that. 1384 01:10:11,511 --> 01:10:13,948 Lestat would say I was courting him. 1385 01:10:13,992 --> 01:10:15,080 Lestat: Come to me, Louis. 1386 01:10:15,123 --> 01:10:16,777 That take Louis to a place 1387 01:10:16,821 --> 01:10:19,780 where he find the church is the only place he can go. 1388 01:10:19,824 --> 01:10:23,044 Help me, please. He's in my head, Father. 1389 01:10:23,088 --> 01:10:26,787 Lestat has entered his mind, heart and soul, 1390 01:10:26,831 --> 01:10:29,268 and he wants it out and he's feeling great regret. 1391 01:10:29,312 --> 01:10:31,531 I laid down with the devil. 1392 01:10:31,575 --> 01:10:33,490 Help me! 1393 01:10:33,533 --> 01:10:37,885 I am weak, and I want to die. 1394 01:10:37,929 --> 01:10:40,148 He just pours it out, screaming to a God 1395 01:10:40,192 --> 01:10:42,542 he hasn't talked to in a long time. 1396 01:10:42,586 --> 01:10:44,762 [Gasps] 1397 01:10:44,805 --> 01:10:46,720 [Screams] 1398 01:10:46,764 --> 01:10:51,072 Lestat has a very different idea about organized religion. 1399 01:10:51,116 --> 01:10:52,160 [Grunts] 1400 01:10:52,204 --> 01:10:54,685 This charlatan! 1401 01:10:54,728 --> 01:10:57,557 Do you not see how unworthy he is? 1402 01:10:57,601 --> 01:11:00,038 How could you humiliate yourself like this?! 1403 01:11:00,081 --> 01:11:02,083 We are catching Lestat at a very vulnerable 1404 01:11:02,127 --> 01:11:04,738 and emotionally out-of-control moment, 1405 01:11:04,782 --> 01:11:06,871 and he takes it out on these two priest 1406 01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:12,093 in front of Louis and then has to make a very, very 1407 01:11:12,137 --> 01:11:17,142 quick and aggressive 360 and try to really give the big pitch. 1408 01:11:17,185 --> 01:11:20,754 I can swap this life of shame, 1409 01:11:20,798 --> 01:11:23,322 swap it out for a dark gift 1410 01:11:23,366 --> 01:11:26,456 and a power you can't begin to imagine. 1411 01:11:26,499 --> 01:11:28,762 He manages to pull it off -- 1412 01:11:28,806 --> 01:11:32,592 the idea of being seen, the idea of him being loved. 1413 01:11:32,636 --> 01:11:36,770 Be my companion, Louis. 1414 01:11:36,814 --> 01:11:39,382 Be all the beautiful things you are. 1415 01:11:39,425 --> 01:11:43,299 And despite the barbaric scene, as he says, 1416 01:11:43,342 --> 01:11:45,344 he got him at the right moment. 1417 01:11:45,388 --> 01:11:49,130 ♪♪ 1418 01:11:49,174 --> 01:11:51,655 Louis: And we set there for some time 1419 01:11:51,698 --> 01:11:55,789 in throes of increasing wonder. 1420 01:11:55,833 --> 01:11:57,182 The end. 1421 01:11:57,225 --> 01:11:59,750 ♪♪ 1422 01:11:59,793 --> 01:12:01,012 The beginning. 1423 01:12:01,055 --> 01:12:10,587 ♪♪ 1424 01:12:10,630 --> 01:12:13,633 ♪♪