1 00:00:02,741 --> 00:00:04,197 Watch "The Vampire Lestat: After Dark" 2 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:05,861 on AMC or wherever you get your podcasts. 3 00:00:06,745 --> 00:00:09,357 Previously on "The Vampire Lestat"... 4 00:00:09,531 --> 00:00:12,273 We were only planning to do one concert. 5 00:00:12,447 --> 00:00:13,970 It has to sound like death approaching, 6 00:00:14,144 --> 00:00:15,841 like life emerging. 7 00:00:15,972 --> 00:00:17,452 You need to be a vampire to hear it. 8 00:00:17,626 --> 00:00:19,193 -We want it. -Make more. 9 00:00:19,323 --> 00:00:20,759 What does he know about me? 10 00:00:20,933 --> 00:00:22,935 That you died in 1794. 11 00:00:23,110 --> 00:00:25,460 I knew her as Gabriella. 12 00:00:25,634 --> 00:00:27,114 Lestat lays with his mother. 13 00:00:27,244 --> 00:00:29,029 There's one thing that I most fear 14 00:00:29,159 --> 00:00:31,205 above all else, and that is loneliness. 15 00:00:31,379 --> 00:00:33,019 You take this feeling away from me, Louis. 16 00:00:33,163 --> 00:00:35,557 52 years, I've watched you. 17 00:00:35,687 --> 00:00:38,386 I want to be your maker, help you walk in the sun. 18 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,667 Plenty of brooms down the street 19 00:00:39,691 --> 00:00:40,851 at the Mayfair sisters' home. 20 00:00:40,953 --> 00:00:43,217 We played out scenes. 21 00:00:43,391 --> 00:00:44,609 I called her Claudia. 22 00:00:44,783 --> 00:00:46,176 Is it her? 23 00:00:46,350 --> 00:00:47,482 You're hurting him. 24 00:00:47,656 --> 00:00:48,656 I'm hurting Louis? 25 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:50,050 I carried her home. 26 00:00:50,224 --> 00:00:51,660 I made you turn her. 27 00:00:51,834 --> 00:00:52,878 Don't know why I bother. 28 00:00:53,009 --> 00:00:54,228 Never been about me! 29 00:00:54,402 --> 00:00:55,707 You chose Lestat over her 30 00:00:55,881 --> 00:00:57,927 time and time again. 31 00:00:58,058 --> 00:00:59,885 You cursed her into the darkness. 32 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:18,687 You are listening to "The Failures,". 33 00:01:18,817 --> 00:01:21,864 Album 52, Side A. 34 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:28,064 At the intersections of my many selves... 35 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:32,701 the stutterer, the ape, 36 00:01:32,788 --> 00:01:37,358 the actor, the keeper, 37 00:01:37,445 --> 00:01:41,013 the tourist, 38 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,191 the recluse, 39 00:01:44,321 --> 00:01:49,326 the rock star, 40 00:01:49,413 --> 00:01:52,982 the nesting dolls of identity... 41 00:01:53,069 --> 00:01:58,466 there is a period of stasis, a hibernation in shabby robe. 42 00:01:58,553 --> 00:02:01,991 The autumn of 2025 was one of these periods. 43 00:02:02,122 --> 00:02:04,143 At the time, I thought it a bow 44 00:02:04,167 --> 00:02:06,691 on the goodbye box of Lestat. 45 00:02:06,822 --> 00:02:11,696 But here I am, dictating for you, 46 00:02:11,827 --> 00:02:14,743 still Lestat. 47 00:02:14,873 --> 00:02:17,180 I was back in my halfway home of Montreal, 48 00:02:17,311 --> 00:02:19,115 back in hiding across the street 49 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:21,029 from my vampire band, 50 00:02:21,053 --> 00:02:24,056 bizarrely back rehearsing a memorial show 51 00:02:24,144 --> 00:02:25,797 for myself and the vampiric ears 52 00:02:25,884 --> 00:02:28,060 I had reworked the album for. 53 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:30,498 Two years to the day, we formed. 54 00:02:30,628 --> 00:02:33,631 Now a dark, gifted quartet. 55 00:02:33,718 --> 00:02:36,939 But Larry's then mysterious suicide wove itself 56 00:02:37,069 --> 00:02:40,377 into our bond, and the Vampire Alex became 57 00:02:40,464 --> 00:02:43,772 the muted center of a haunted reunion. 58 00:02:43,902 --> 00:02:46,078 Early risers like us are few. 59 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:49,038 You should take advantage of the head start. 60 00:02:49,125 --> 00:02:50,866 City's already swamped with vampires. 61 00:02:53,564 --> 00:02:55,566 See you at rehearsal. 62 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:01,505 Hello there. 63 00:03:01,529 --> 00:03:05,576 Me again, in a car, on my way to Moisant Field. 64 00:03:05,663 --> 00:03:07,230 If you're having second thoughts... 65 00:03:07,361 --> 00:03:09,101 and you should be having them... 66 00:03:09,232 --> 00:03:10,581 let me know 'fore I pass security. 67 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:13,975 'Cause if I get on that plane... 68 00:03:17,980 --> 00:03:20,243 I was just listening to your voice message. 69 00:03:20,330 --> 00:03:21,679 How was customs? 70 00:03:21,766 --> 00:03:23,942 -Still in it. -Oh, dear. 71 00:03:24,073 --> 00:03:26,312 Gotta get on that global entry. 72 00:03:26,336 --> 00:03:28,730 -We still on for the midnight? -We are. 73 00:03:28,817 --> 00:03:30,558 I have a driver waiting for you at baggage 74 00:03:30,688 --> 00:03:32,342 and a room at Auberge du Vieux-Port 75 00:03:32,429 --> 00:03:33,604 for your comforts. 76 00:03:33,735 --> 00:03:35,954 You have dem items we discussed? 77 00:03:36,085 --> 00:03:37,478 I do. 78 00:03:37,565 --> 00:03:39,001 OK, then. 79 00:03:39,088 --> 00:03:41,762 I'ma need two hours in the room alone. 80 00:03:41,786 --> 00:03:44,485 Leave a key. 81 00:03:44,615 --> 00:03:47,159 The album had fallen flat with mortals, 82 00:03:47,183 --> 00:03:49,403 but the songs quickly became a rallying 83 00:03:49,533 --> 00:03:52,928 for the disastrous movement, the Great Conversion. 84 00:03:53,015 --> 00:03:56,037 And now 50,000 vampires were descending upon Montreal 85 00:03:56,061 --> 00:03:57,889 to hear me sing it live. 86 00:03:57,976 --> 00:04:01,850 Lestat's final gift to the Vampiress Gabriella. 87 00:04:01,937 --> 00:04:04,374 Obligations met. 88 00:04:04,505 --> 00:04:09,291 Good luck and fuck off, everyone, everywhere. 89 00:04:10,946 --> 00:04:14,012 The future, my new distraction. 90 00:04:14,036 --> 00:04:16,014 Who next? 91 00:04:16,038 --> 00:04:17,866 How next? 92 00:04:17,953 --> 00:04:20,782 I was tying off loose ends, 93 00:04:20,869 --> 00:04:26,483 coming out of a coma, feeling alive. 94 00:04:26,570 --> 00:04:28,592 Or maybe it was him. 95 00:04:28,616 --> 00:04:31,725 I don't think we should do this. 96 00:04:31,749 --> 00:04:34,250 It's a bad idea. 97 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:37,538 It's a terrible idea. 98 00:04:37,625 --> 00:04:39,322 Was the coffin uncomfortable? 99 00:04:39,453 --> 00:04:42,040 Yeah, I don't sleep in coffins much now. 100 00:04:42,064 --> 00:04:43,694 -It's a Hastens. -It's not the coffin. 101 00:04:43,718 --> 00:04:46,218 The coffin's good. 102 00:04:46,242 --> 00:04:47,809 We should cancel. 103 00:04:47,896 --> 00:04:49,027 Cancel the dinner? 104 00:04:49,114 --> 00:04:50,594 Not the dinner. Her. 105 00:04:50,681 --> 00:04:52,335 -Oh, the bad idea. -Yeah. 106 00:04:52,466 --> 00:04:54,026 Because we should cancel the dinner too. 107 00:04:54,076 --> 00:04:56,034 That was your idea. 108 00:04:56,121 --> 00:04:57,993 He's come all this way for the concert. 109 00:04:58,123 --> 00:04:59,690 Also a bad idea. Cancel that too. 110 00:04:59,777 --> 00:05:01,257 50,000, Louis. 111 00:05:01,344 --> 00:05:04,391 If it was a dozen coming, you should still walk. 112 00:05:04,478 --> 00:05:05,957 I'm gonna cancel this. 113 00:05:06,088 --> 00:05:07,848 Do you remember cornstarch? 114 00:05:07,872 --> 00:05:09,047 -Hey. -Rue Royale doorstep? 115 00:05:09,178 --> 00:05:11,441 Cancel the dinner. Cancel the reckoning. 116 00:05:11,528 --> 00:05:14,749 Let's stay inside and answer the begging doorbell. 117 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:17,336 Something wrong? 118 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,320 Drake dropped 50 songs today. 119 00:05:20,450 --> 00:05:22,322 Oh, yeah. I saw that. 120 00:05:22,409 --> 00:05:24,411 I liked him in "Degrassi." 121 00:05:24,498 --> 00:05:26,432 It was a show on cable, when there was still cable... 122 00:05:26,456 --> 00:05:27,849 You know, if I woke up 123 00:05:27,979 --> 00:05:30,417 in a custom-built Hastens coffin, 124 00:05:30,504 --> 00:05:32,767 the first thing that I would say to my host is, 125 00:05:32,854 --> 00:05:34,246 "Thank you, Sheridan." 126 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,616 I'm not calling you Sheridan. 127 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,642 Clarence. 128 00:05:38,729 --> 00:05:39,817 I prefer Lestat. 129 00:05:39,948 --> 00:05:42,100 -Lestat is dead. -OK. 130 00:05:42,124 --> 00:05:43,754 You gon' get on that mic tomorrow and say, 131 00:05:43,778 --> 00:05:46,302 "We are the Vampire Clarence Oddbody. 132 00:05:46,389 --> 00:05:48,086 Let's make more"? 133 00:05:49,827 --> 00:05:51,046 It's a bad idea. 134 00:05:51,133 --> 00:05:53,527 It is a very bad idea. 135 00:05:53,614 --> 00:05:55,833 -But conversely... -No, no, no. 136 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,158 -A moderately good one. -No, no, no. 137 00:05:57,182 --> 00:05:58,358 No good's gonna come of this. 138 00:05:58,488 --> 00:06:01,273 I can feel it in my fingers. 139 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:04,059 There's also a third possibility 140 00:06:04,189 --> 00:06:05,582 that nothing will come of it. 141 00:06:05,669 --> 00:06:07,976 You know, these things don't always take. 142 00:06:08,063 --> 00:06:11,545 Sit around the table thinking that you feel a chill 143 00:06:11,675 --> 00:06:13,523 or somebody's eye twitches. 144 00:06:13,547 --> 00:06:16,506 And really, it's a radiator or too much coffee, 145 00:06:16,637 --> 00:06:18,310 and nothing happens. 146 00:06:18,334 --> 00:06:20,118 And then the witch or medium lays blame 147 00:06:20,205 --> 00:06:21,748 -on someone's divergent energy. -Maybe that's it. 148 00:06:21,772 --> 00:06:23,184 But, still, it is a fun night. 149 00:06:23,208 --> 00:06:24,795 It's the witch part of it. I don't like witches. 150 00:06:24,819 --> 00:06:26,298 I don't get on with 'em. 151 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,320 And you reached out to the worst kind of witch. 152 00:06:28,344 --> 00:06:30,477 Oh, Merrick is different. 153 00:06:30,564 --> 00:06:32,392 She is not like the rest. 154 00:06:32,479 --> 00:06:35,046 And her and the uncle, they're the same. 155 00:06:35,177 --> 00:06:37,005 How do you know the uncle? 156 00:06:39,616 --> 00:06:41,575 We were in a book club for a moment. 157 00:06:41,705 --> 00:06:43,968 You were in a book club? 158 00:06:44,055 --> 00:06:45,535 With Cortland Mayfair? 159 00:06:45,622 --> 00:06:47,624 And Merrick too. 160 00:06:47,711 --> 00:06:48,799 And Mayor Nagin. 161 00:06:48,886 --> 00:06:50,105 And James Carville. 162 00:06:50,192 --> 00:06:51,672 Everybody hated him. 163 00:06:53,369 --> 00:06:55,521 It had been months since he called me in a panic. 164 00:06:55,545 --> 00:06:57,939 And he had done his best to stay clear of the girl... 165 00:06:58,026 --> 00:06:59,331 Fraudia, as I called her. 166 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:02,398 But the wound hadn't closed, 167 00:07:02,422 --> 00:07:04,138 and the bad idea evolved 168 00:07:04,162 --> 00:07:06,426 from texts and phone calls and connections 169 00:07:06,556 --> 00:07:08,428 I maintained in New Orleans. 170 00:07:08,515 --> 00:07:11,343 You know, we read your memoir in it. 171 00:07:11,431 --> 00:07:14,671 Everybody loved Tom Anderson. 172 00:07:14,695 --> 00:07:18,022 "Topeka!" 173 00:07:18,046 --> 00:07:21,223 That was my line, you know. I said "Topeka." 174 00:07:21,310 --> 00:07:22,485 Give me some credit. 175 00:07:22,572 --> 00:07:24,313 It was clever doing it this week. 176 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:25,836 Everyone blending in. 177 00:07:25,967 --> 00:07:28,012 ♪ Oh, no, are you having a bad hair day? ♪ 178 00:07:28,099 --> 00:07:31,015 They gon' kill half this city when you're done singing. 179 00:07:31,146 --> 00:07:33,670 It's happening already. I didn't start it. 180 00:07:33,757 --> 00:07:34,952 Nah, you're the face of it now. 181 00:07:34,976 --> 00:07:36,823 Obey the Five Laws. 182 00:07:36,847 --> 00:07:38,487 "Charlie Brown gets rocks" agrees with me. 183 00:07:38,588 --> 00:07:40,372 -Make more! -Make more! 184 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,374 It's the largest gathering of us 185 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:45,508 in the history of the world, and they're here to see me. 186 00:07:45,595 --> 00:07:48,206 You could, for a moment, as a friend, 187 00:07:48,293 --> 00:07:49,817 say, "Look what you've done here. 188 00:07:49,947 --> 00:07:52,689 Congratulations." 189 00:07:52,776 --> 00:07:53,995 Hey. 190 00:07:54,125 --> 00:07:56,388 -Lem, we're almost there. -"Lem"? 191 00:07:56,476 --> 00:07:58,608 -Ooh, that is cozy. -Tell them to keep it simple. 192 00:07:58,695 --> 00:08:00,741 Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy. Lick me, Lem. 193 00:08:00,828 --> 00:08:02,240 Yeah. 194 00:08:02,264 --> 00:08:03,787 OK. You too. 195 00:08:03,918 --> 00:08:06,026 Oh, you too? What "you too"? 196 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:08,096 Miss you too, or love you too, or... 197 00:08:08,183 --> 00:08:09,880 Are we really gonna do this? 198 00:08:09,967 --> 00:08:12,883 I feel like I could just go on as I am. 199 00:08:12,970 --> 00:08:14,232 Venmoing Fraudia. 200 00:08:14,363 --> 00:08:17,342 I did it once, blocked her number. 201 00:08:17,366 --> 00:08:18,778 And then you picked up when she called you from a new one. 202 00:08:18,802 --> 00:08:20,214 -I didn't know it was her. -You knew. 203 00:08:20,238 --> 00:08:22,371 You absolutely knew. 204 00:08:22,458 --> 00:08:25,635 She's been dipped in the River Styx. 205 00:08:25,722 --> 00:08:28,614 Probably dove in, swam the butterfly. 206 00:08:28,638 --> 00:08:31,249 She'll be angry. 207 00:08:31,380 --> 00:08:36,428 Maybe Claudia would like a goodbye with you too. 208 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,692 Why are you being nice? 209 00:08:38,779 --> 00:08:40,737 I don't like it. 210 00:08:42,522 --> 00:08:44,262 We could talk about the proximity 211 00:08:44,349 --> 00:08:46,240 of your restaurant to my home. 212 00:08:46,264 --> 00:08:49,398 It's... catastrophic coincidence. 213 00:08:53,054 --> 00:08:55,273 Ah, Monsieur Pitt, very nice to have 214 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,319 your attendance tonight. 215 00:08:57,406 --> 00:08:58,712 Your guest has already arrived. 216 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:03,238 And Monsieur Lioncourt, such an honor. 217 00:09:03,325 --> 00:09:05,738 Mr. Blackwood. 218 00:09:05,762 --> 00:09:08,416 I see. Yes, this way, please. 219 00:09:26,566 --> 00:09:29,263 May we take your coat, Mr. Blackwood? 220 00:09:44,061 --> 00:09:45,628 -Make more. -Make more. 221 00:09:45,715 --> 00:09:47,108 Make more. 222 00:09:47,238 --> 00:09:48,694 -Make more. -Make more. 223 00:09:48,718 --> 00:09:49,893 Make more. 224 00:09:54,768 --> 00:09:59,294 Taylor and Travis. Congratulations. 225 00:09:59,381 --> 00:10:02,316 Have you set a date yet? 226 00:10:02,340 --> 00:10:03,472 Ah. 227 00:10:11,698 --> 00:10:13,613 ♪ I'm the little killer ♪ 228 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:15,702 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 229 00:10:15,789 --> 00:10:17,442 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 230 00:10:17,529 --> 00:10:19,575 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 231 00:10:19,706 --> 00:10:21,708 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow ♪ 232 00:10:21,795 --> 00:10:23,753 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 233 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,233 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 234 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,627 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 235 00:10:27,714 --> 00:10:29,585 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 236 00:10:29,716 --> 00:10:31,674 ♪ We're the good time ♪ 237 00:10:31,761 --> 00:10:32,825 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 238 00:10:32,849 --> 00:10:33,913 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 239 00:10:33,937 --> 00:10:37,351 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 240 00:10:37,375 --> 00:10:39,290 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 241 00:10:39,377 --> 00:10:41,051 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 242 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:42,250 ♪ Bang, bang 243 00:10:42,380 --> 00:10:46,515 ♪ All fall down ♪ 244 00:10:46,602 --> 00:10:50,451 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 245 00:10:50,475 --> 00:10:54,175 ♪ All fall down 246 00:10:54,262 --> 00:10:56,960 ♪ Burn the ♪ 247 00:10:57,047 --> 00:10:59,049 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 248 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:01,051 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 249 00:11:01,182 --> 00:11:03,010 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 250 00:11:03,097 --> 00:11:07,797 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 251 00:11:07,884 --> 00:11:10,104 Please, turn Larry down. 252 00:11:11,540 --> 00:11:13,605 And we were where? 253 00:11:13,629 --> 00:11:15,936 I believe you were mid-antagonizing us 254 00:11:16,066 --> 00:11:18,329 about Hurricane Odette. 255 00:11:18,416 --> 00:11:20,767 Testing to see if you two were listening. 256 00:11:20,854 --> 00:11:24,161 Sitting across from each other, bonds re-bonding. 257 00:11:24,248 --> 00:11:26,816 Odette, category 3. 258 00:11:26,947 --> 00:11:31,212 What did you say to him after a 77-year ghosting? 259 00:11:31,299 --> 00:11:34,389 I don't remember exactly. 260 00:11:34,476 --> 00:11:36,391 What did he say to you? 261 00:11:36,478 --> 00:11:38,891 I couldn't hear anything. It was a hurricane. 262 00:11:38,915 --> 00:11:40,893 Yeah, I was just pretending to understand what you said. 263 00:11:40,917 --> 00:11:42,179 Same. 264 00:11:42,310 --> 00:11:43,350 Just did a lot of nodding. 265 00:11:43,398 --> 00:11:44,747 You assholes. 266 00:11:44,834 --> 00:11:46,594 I don't have an ending for my doc. 267 00:11:46,618 --> 00:11:48,620 Give me something. 268 00:11:51,885 --> 00:11:55,453 It was enough that he showed up. 269 00:12:02,547 --> 00:12:04,636 -That's it? -Yeah, sure. 270 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,832 I'll just run credits over footage 271 00:12:06,856 --> 00:12:08,007 of Riddley gunning him down. 272 00:12:08,031 --> 00:12:09,119 No "Where's the trash go?" 273 00:12:09,206 --> 00:12:10,599 I can see the poster. 274 00:12:10,686 --> 00:12:13,123 "All Jarda Klapek wanted was love," 275 00:12:13,210 --> 00:12:15,212 and slap it over a big herpes sore. 276 00:12:15,343 --> 00:12:18,868 No big gotcha questions? 277 00:12:18,955 --> 00:12:21,001 Now that you mention it, I do have one. 278 00:12:21,088 --> 00:12:23,655 I knew we weren't gonna get off that easy. 279 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:27,007 The fog of vampiric love, is that a thing for you, Louis? 280 00:12:27,094 --> 00:12:30,967 Was love the reason why you and Armand never saw 281 00:12:31,054 --> 00:12:33,143 any of my gotchas coming? 282 00:12:33,230 --> 00:12:35,972 I tried to respect you, Daniel. 283 00:12:36,059 --> 00:12:39,212 I tried not to delve into your thoughts. 284 00:12:39,236 --> 00:12:40,890 I appreciate that. 285 00:12:40,977 --> 00:12:45,677 I appreciate you respecting my privacy, Louis. 286 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:47,003 Gotcha, smotcha. 287 00:12:47,027 --> 00:12:48,637 We're both here for the last mic hump 288 00:12:48,724 --> 00:12:50,987 and the end of the world. 289 00:12:51,074 --> 00:12:53,598 Is the 3 out of 10 from "Pitchfork" 290 00:12:53,685 --> 00:12:58,536 easing the transition from niche rocker to dark monarch? 291 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:00,692 I gifted the Great Conversion an anthem. 292 00:13:00,823 --> 00:13:04,827 It's up to them, you, what's done with it. 293 00:13:04,958 --> 00:13:07,525 Christ sees the hammer and nails, says, 294 00:13:07,612 --> 00:13:09,484 "I forgot my keys to the car." 295 00:13:09,571 --> 00:13:12,269 Ugh, alarmists, the both of you. 296 00:13:12,356 --> 00:13:16,249 And Sheridan Blackwood... dumb name... 297 00:13:16,273 --> 00:13:18,362 he's going to do what after? 298 00:13:18,449 --> 00:13:19,668 Rest? 299 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:22,540 Hmm. 300 00:13:22,627 --> 00:13:24,716 I've been dreaming of forests. 301 00:13:24,847 --> 00:13:26,022 Forests? 302 00:13:26,109 --> 00:13:27,478 Hmm. 303 00:13:27,502 --> 00:13:30,742 Every night this month of pumpkins. 304 00:13:30,766 --> 00:13:33,876 I own a cabin right next to a forest. 305 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,773 And I walk a path nightly with paper and pen, 306 00:13:37,904 --> 00:13:41,168 transcribing birdsong. 307 00:13:41,255 --> 00:13:43,213 I could do that for a decade. 308 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,650 From Iggy to birder. 309 00:13:47,348 --> 00:13:49,219 I grow bored, of course. 310 00:13:49,306 --> 00:13:52,396 Slug my way back to the waking world. 311 00:13:52,483 --> 00:13:57,314 Get a job plunking out Sondheim and Sakamoto in a hotel lounge. 312 00:13:57,445 --> 00:13:59,316 You know anyone who owns hotels? 313 00:14:00,752 --> 00:14:03,949 Gentlemen, compliments of the chef, 314 00:14:03,973 --> 00:14:08,499 something he has been holding for this special evening. 315 00:14:08,586 --> 00:14:11,546 An amuse-bouche. 316 00:14:11,633 --> 00:14:15,202 Francine Lucien-LaChapelle. 317 00:14:15,289 --> 00:14:17,595 She is, in fact, a distant descendant 318 00:14:17,726 --> 00:14:20,685 of the Lioncourt line. 319 00:14:20,772 --> 00:14:26,082 Immigrés who came to Montreal in 1749. 320 00:14:26,169 --> 00:14:31,218 A delicate, flowery flavor. 321 00:14:31,305 --> 00:14:32,654 Bonsoir. 322 00:14:32,741 --> 00:14:34,612 Mademoiselle. 323 00:14:55,155 --> 00:14:57,200 You still fanging Sofia? 324 00:15:00,595 --> 00:15:01,944 I don't know. 325 00:15:02,075 --> 00:15:03,467 Maybe. 326 00:15:03,554 --> 00:15:05,532 Why? 327 00:15:05,556 --> 00:15:07,732 Has he met her yet? 328 00:15:07,819 --> 00:15:10,170 I'm gonna meet her tonight, I think. 329 00:15:10,257 --> 00:15:13,521 Sofia. He met her in the 1980s. 330 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:16,916 I can see her in those big shoulder pads. 331 00:15:22,095 --> 00:15:26,795 One has to ask, what is with the tan, Dan? 332 00:15:26,882 --> 00:15:30,494 Did you indulge and overshoot your coffin again? 333 00:15:30,581 --> 00:15:34,324 Sirs, Mr. du Lac, bon appétit. 334 00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:36,370 I'm seeing someone. 335 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:37,719 -What? -Oh. 336 00:15:37,849 --> 00:15:39,349 -Ooh. -Well... 337 00:15:39,373 --> 00:15:40,940 The fog of love. 338 00:15:41,027 --> 00:15:43,159 The tan of "whatever you want, sweetheart." 339 00:15:46,162 --> 00:15:48,817 To Daniel Malloy, 340 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:52,473 our biographer, our documentarian, 341 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,302 our shared ex's abandoned offspring, 342 00:15:55,389 --> 00:15:57,565 all those things at once. 343 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,221 Ready to eat your own? 344 00:16:04,789 --> 00:16:06,095 He seemed off. 345 00:16:06,182 --> 00:16:07,749 -Dan? -Mm. 346 00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:09,098 Always. 347 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:11,057 He's an awkward man. 348 00:16:11,144 --> 00:16:13,624 He has that "you think you're better than me" chip on him. 349 00:16:13,711 --> 00:16:15,167 And we are. 350 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:18,107 It is exhausting to pretend otherwise. 351 00:16:20,588 --> 00:16:22,198 I owed him an ending. 352 00:16:22,285 --> 00:16:23,983 And it worked out for both of us. 353 00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:26,246 You walking in probably just made the joint. 354 00:16:29,684 --> 00:16:31,903 Could you feel him trying to read our minds? 355 00:16:32,034 --> 00:16:33,862 Mm-hmm. He got in mine. 356 00:16:39,868 --> 00:16:42,349 Oh, my God, Lestat! I love you, Lestat! 357 00:16:42,479 --> 00:16:43,587 Oh. 358 00:16:43,611 --> 00:16:45,091 -Go on. -No. 359 00:16:45,178 --> 00:16:46,701 Give 'em a taste. Why not? 360 00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:49,095 Arturo, would you mind? 361 00:16:49,225 --> 00:16:51,184 ♪ This is a song ♪ 362 00:16:51,271 --> 00:16:54,187 ♪ For all the Beautiful Unwell ♪ 363 00:16:56,232 --> 00:16:57,973 ♪ Be damage ♪ 364 00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,844 ♪ Be cabbage ♪ 365 00:16:59,931 --> 00:17:03,283 ♪ When the curtain drops, be baggage ♪ 366 00:17:03,413 --> 00:17:05,546 ♪ This ain't no goddamn crime of passion ♪ 367 00:17:08,114 --> 00:17:10,464 ♪ Oh 368 00:17:10,594 --> 00:17:12,031 ♪ Be broken ♪ 369 00:17:12,118 --> 00:17:14,468 ♪ Unlovable ♪ 370 00:17:14,598 --> 00:17:16,905 ♪ Be lost and irredeemable 371 00:17:20,561 --> 00:17:22,887 Fake Death Sheridan Clarence, 372 00:17:22,911 --> 00:17:24,608 you really have done something. 373 00:17:24,695 --> 00:17:26,784 Congratulations. 374 00:17:26,871 --> 00:17:30,286 Thank you for the Hastens coffin. 375 00:17:30,310 --> 00:17:31,702 Hmm. 376 00:17:38,013 --> 00:17:41,147 Can I ask you a question? 377 00:17:41,234 --> 00:17:42,931 Yeah, I'll risk it. 378 00:17:45,542 --> 00:17:48,521 In Dan's book, which I do not need to discuss... 379 00:17:48,545 --> 00:17:49,696 -the book is not the point. -We can discuss the book. 380 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,852 It's not the point. 381 00:17:50,982 --> 00:17:55,857 When you arrived in Paris, 382 00:17:55,944 --> 00:17:59,295 I was a spirit. 383 00:17:59,382 --> 00:18:02,274 And I walked with you and Armand along the Seine. 384 00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:03,952 And you also ate a photograph. 385 00:18:07,869 --> 00:18:12,917 And was that your psyche churning up... 386 00:18:13,004 --> 00:18:17,705 Uh, guilt. 387 00:18:17,792 --> 00:18:21,012 Sharing a coffin, slitting your throat guilt, 388 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:24,886 or you being in a garbage dump gone, 389 00:18:24,973 --> 00:18:28,977 or the other kind of gone guilt. 390 00:18:29,064 --> 00:18:30,935 I didn't know which. 391 00:18:32,676 --> 00:18:35,157 Hmm. 392 00:18:35,288 --> 00:18:40,554 Did you see me, too, those years? 393 00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:53,349 The songs might have shook loose a bone or two. 394 00:18:53,436 --> 00:18:55,177 Ah! 395 00:18:55,264 --> 00:18:56,700 This is it. 396 00:18:56,787 --> 00:18:58,702 No, this is your thing. 397 00:18:58,833 --> 00:19:02,097 All this shit I sense, but you never share. 398 00:19:02,184 --> 00:19:03,533 No. 399 00:19:03,620 --> 00:19:05,535 All that shit. 400 00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:08,799 How many operas did you drag me to? 401 00:19:08,886 --> 00:19:10,212 Those are wonderful memories for me. 402 00:19:10,236 --> 00:19:11,691 And not once did you say, "Hey, Louis, 403 00:19:11,715 --> 00:19:13,302 -I used to be onstage." -When you say dragged... 404 00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:14,762 "I played a heartthrob named Lelio. 405 00:19:14,849 --> 00:19:16,285 "Me and my ex-boyfriend started 406 00:19:16,372 --> 00:19:18,113 a murderous theater company together." 407 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,682 I wanted to live with you like I had been 408 00:19:21,812 --> 00:19:24,965 dragged out of the bayou, gills to lungs, 409 00:19:24,989 --> 00:19:26,643 for you and you only. 410 00:19:26,774 --> 00:19:29,124 Oh, me, you, Antoinette. 411 00:19:29,255 --> 00:19:31,953 -Oh, a voice I could fuck. -I know. I know. 412 00:19:32,083 --> 00:19:34,042 Actually, that's not fair. She was a good time. 413 00:19:34,129 --> 00:19:35,769 And the book's prose reveled in making her 414 00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:38,133 smaller than she was. 415 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:40,720 Justice for Antoinette. 416 00:19:40,744 --> 00:19:42,268 You made her cut off a finger. 417 00:19:42,355 --> 00:19:43,878 Oh, she did that on her own. 418 00:19:43,965 --> 00:19:45,595 She thought the gift would help her grow it back. 419 00:19:45,619 --> 00:19:47,684 -She was very impulsive. -You dangled her. 420 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:49,797 To provoke you out of a depression. 421 00:19:52,843 --> 00:19:55,411 -And then to punish. -Why? 422 00:19:55,498 --> 00:19:58,284 -I have the blood of Akasha. -No, it ain't the blood. 423 00:19:58,371 --> 00:20:00,286 It's what you do with the blood. 424 00:20:10,992 --> 00:20:13,864 Are you opening vampire gymnasiums next? 425 00:20:13,951 --> 00:20:15,736 Vampire Equinox? 426 00:20:15,823 --> 00:20:19,585 "It's what you do with the blood." 427 00:20:19,609 --> 00:20:21,220 Why? 428 00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:27,748 Because, Louis, 429 00:20:27,878 --> 00:20:29,489 I'm a monster. 430 00:20:35,538 --> 00:20:37,061 Sludge! 431 00:20:41,065 --> 00:20:42,676 Lestat! 432 00:20:42,763 --> 00:20:44,175 I'm fine. 433 00:20:44,199 --> 00:20:45,461 That her? 434 00:20:45,548 --> 00:20:47,289 That's her. 435 00:20:47,376 --> 00:20:48,812 You want to introduce me? 436 00:20:48,943 --> 00:20:50,510 You'll do fine. 437 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,139 I think that you are not understanding. 438 00:20:52,163 --> 00:20:56,037 -What is this? -Exactly. Ciao. 439 00:20:56,124 --> 00:20:58,126 Buona sera. 440 00:20:58,213 --> 00:21:00,563 Hello, handsome man. 441 00:21:00,650 --> 00:21:01,695 Sofia, right? 442 00:21:01,782 --> 00:21:03,218 The famous Louis. 443 00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:05,481 The infamous Louis. 444 00:21:05,612 --> 00:21:07,831 Everything he said is a quarter-half lie. 445 00:21:07,918 --> 00:21:11,008 Oh, so also a quarter-half truth. 446 00:21:11,095 --> 00:21:12,445 Mind if I sit with you and watch? 447 00:21:12,532 --> 00:21:14,315 -Prego. -Alex, play it. 448 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:19,365 No, we need to rehearse. 449 00:21:19,452 --> 00:21:20,714 -Sing it. -Snare. 450 00:21:20,801 --> 00:21:22,169 Just sing. 451 00:21:22,193 --> 00:21:23,760 Sing it! 452 00:21:23,891 --> 00:21:26,197 ♪ On the floors of Tokyo-o ♪ 453 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:28,983 ♪ Or down in London town to go-go ♪ 454 00:21:29,070 --> 00:21:31,831 ♪ With the record selection and the mirror's reflection ♪ 455 00:21:31,855 --> 00:21:33,640 ♪ I'm a-dancing with myself 456 00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:35,337 He's shy. 457 00:21:35,424 --> 00:21:37,426 ♪ When there's no one else in sight ♪ 458 00:21:37,513 --> 00:21:40,168 It's hard being him. 459 00:21:40,255 --> 00:21:42,692 ♪ Well, I wait so long for my love vibration ♪ 460 00:21:42,779 --> 00:21:44,955 ♪ And I'm dancing with myself ♪ 461 00:21:45,042 --> 00:21:47,871 ♪ Oh, oh, dancing with myself ♪ 462 00:21:47,958 --> 00:21:49,438 You the one putting the show together? 463 00:21:49,482 --> 00:21:50,787 One of many. 464 00:21:50,874 --> 00:21:53,897 50,000 of us out in the woods together. 465 00:21:53,921 --> 00:21:55,314 What could go wrong? 466 00:21:55,444 --> 00:21:57,011 Yes, he said that you said 467 00:21:57,098 --> 00:21:59,990 you don't think he should sing tomorrow. 468 00:22:00,014 --> 00:22:01,581 Doesn't matter what I think. 469 00:22:01,668 --> 00:22:05,193 He's gonna do what he's gonna do. 470 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,328 Maybe you are the one who should not go. 471 00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:11,025 And why is that? 472 00:22:11,112 --> 00:22:12,959 They are coming from all over the world... 473 00:22:12,983 --> 00:22:17,510 Dubai, Paris, Detroit. 474 00:22:17,597 --> 00:22:22,210 You have many admirers, but also others. 475 00:22:22,297 --> 00:22:23,646 ♪ And there's nothing to prove ♪ 476 00:22:23,733 --> 00:22:26,388 ♪ And I'm dancing with myself, oh, oh ♪ 477 00:22:26,475 --> 00:22:29,173 I... I think he'd be hurt if I didn't show. 478 00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:31,785 I think he'd be more hurt if you were hurt. 479 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:34,701 ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh ♪ 480 00:22:34,788 --> 00:22:37,051 -You should stand by me. -♪ Paso doble! ♪ 481 00:22:37,138 --> 00:22:39,682 I will protect you. 482 00:22:39,706 --> 00:22:41,185 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, 483 00:22:41,316 --> 00:22:42,752 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ 484 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:44,450 ♪ Trap ♪ 485 00:22:44,537 --> 00:22:46,669 All right, enough of that. Let's rehearse. 486 00:22:52,153 --> 00:22:54,634 We're trying to work out if we're gonna do 487 00:22:54,764 --> 00:22:58,594 this one or not, Mr. du Lac, Mademoiselle Vecce. 488 00:22:58,681 --> 00:23:01,597 Salamander here calls it a... what did you call it? 489 00:23:01,684 --> 00:23:03,904 -Dick salt. -Mm. 490 00:23:03,991 --> 00:23:07,473 And the Vampire Tough Cookie, she's on the fence. 491 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,607 Sam does not get a vote. The Vampire Alex abstains. 492 00:23:11,738 --> 00:23:15,655 So on the block, will it be chopped? 493 00:23:15,742 --> 00:23:20,660 We are seeking brutal truth for a brutal song. 494 00:23:20,790 --> 00:23:24,838 ♪ Whoa ♪ 495 00:23:24,925 --> 00:23:29,233 ♪ I can feel it ♪ 496 00:23:29,364 --> 00:23:31,366 ♪ The pull on my thread ♪ 497 00:23:31,453 --> 00:23:36,327 ♪ From a distant, restless hand ♪ 498 00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:40,114 ♪ Whoa ♪ 499 00:23:40,201 --> 00:23:44,335 ♪ How I need it ♪ 500 00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:47,164 ♪ Just to know that you're out there ♪ 501 00:23:47,251 --> 00:23:51,952 ♪ Pulling all you can ♪ 502 00:23:52,082 --> 00:23:56,260 ♪ Show me that bitter star ♪ 503 00:23:56,347 --> 00:23:59,525 ♪ I want it ♪ 504 00:23:59,612 --> 00:24:04,007 ♪ Give me that brutal love ♪ 505 00:24:04,094 --> 00:24:07,141 ♪ I want it all ♪ 506 00:24:07,228 --> 00:24:11,841 ♪ I am the meteor ♪ 507 00:24:11,928 --> 00:24:14,820 ♪ Above it ♪ 508 00:24:14,844 --> 00:24:18,805 ♪ Writing your name in dust 509 00:24:18,892 --> 00:24:22,635 ♪ As I fall ♪ 510 00:24:22,722 --> 00:24:24,637 ♪ Oh ♪ 511 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:32,601 Strings, you could do more. 512 00:24:38,215 --> 00:24:41,741 ♪ Whoa ♪ 513 00:24:41,828 --> 00:24:46,572 ♪ I can feel it ♪ 514 00:24:46,659 --> 00:24:49,638 ♪ Every atom like a planet on fire ♪ 515 00:24:49,662 --> 00:24:53,448 ♪ Raging at the sun 516 00:24:53,535 --> 00:24:58,105 ♪ Show me that bitter star ♪ 517 00:24:58,235 --> 00:25:01,587 ♪ I want it ♪ 518 00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:06,200 ♪ Give me that brutal love ♪ 519 00:25:06,287 --> 00:25:09,246 ♪ I want it all ♪ 520 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:13,729 ♪ I am the meteor ♪ 521 00:25:13,816 --> 00:25:17,124 ♪ Above it ♪ 522 00:25:17,211 --> 00:25:20,823 ♪ Writing your name in dust ♪ 523 00:25:20,954 --> 00:25:24,653 ♪ As I fall ♪ 524 00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:29,005 ♪ Show me that bitter star ♪ 525 00:25:29,092 --> 00:25:32,356 ♪ I want it ♪ 526 00:25:32,487 --> 00:25:36,926 ♪ Give me that brutal love ♪ 527 00:25:37,013 --> 00:25:40,210 ♪ I want it all ♪ 528 00:25:40,234 --> 00:25:44,673 ♪ I am the meteor 529 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,676 ♪ Gliding ♪ 530 00:25:47,807 --> 00:25:51,680 ♪ Writing your name in dust ♪ 531 00:25:51,811 --> 00:25:57,381 ♪ As I fall ♪ 532 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:05,520 You are listening to "The Failures,". 533 00:26:05,607 --> 00:26:08,784 Album Number 55, Side A. 534 00:26:08,871 --> 00:26:10,457 ♪ I'll be fine ♪ 535 00:26:10,481 --> 00:26:14,050 ♪ Get in line 536 00:26:14,137 --> 00:26:15,637 ♪ I'll be fine ♪ 537 00:26:15,661 --> 00:26:17,532 ♪ I'll be fine 538 00:26:17,663 --> 00:26:19,118 ♪ Get in line ♪ 539 00:26:19,142 --> 00:26:24,017 ♪ Get in line 540 00:26:29,283 --> 00:26:32,112 ♪ Someone in trouble 541 00:26:32,199 --> 00:26:36,159 ♪ Like a star-crossed ♪ 542 00:26:36,246 --> 00:26:39,530 ♪ Lover of mine ♪ 543 00:26:39,554 --> 00:26:42,383 ♪ Of mine 544 00:26:45,691 --> 00:26:48,694 -I saw you on your phone. -I was... 545 00:26:48,781 --> 00:26:49,825 You were on your phone. 546 00:26:49,956 --> 00:26:51,194 I was seeing how the restaurant did 547 00:26:51,218 --> 00:26:52,218 the rest of the night. 548 00:26:53,524 --> 00:26:55,701 It's rude. 549 00:26:55,831 --> 00:26:57,180 Yeah, it was. 550 00:26:57,311 --> 00:26:58,617 You were great. 551 00:26:58,704 --> 00:27:00,314 The show was great. You shouldn't do it. 552 00:27:00,401 --> 00:27:02,142 It's a bad idea. 553 00:27:02,272 --> 00:27:04,318 It's 11:00. 554 00:27:04,405 --> 00:27:07,234 We got an hour to decide. 555 00:27:07,321 --> 00:27:08,714 Can I have a moment? 556 00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:16,199 How did you two get on? 557 00:27:16,286 --> 00:27:17,505 I'll tell you in the car. 558 00:27:23,598 --> 00:27:25,339 -Ciao, bello. -Ciao. 559 00:27:30,866 --> 00:27:32,389 He liked Sofia. 560 00:27:32,476 --> 00:27:34,782 He likes his phone. 561 00:27:37,438 --> 00:27:40,397 You left your scarf on my piano bench. 562 00:27:40,528 --> 00:27:41,877 Marking your territory? 563 00:27:41,964 --> 00:27:43,420 I stopped by to say hello. 564 00:27:43,444 --> 00:27:44,750 You were in coffin. 565 00:27:44,837 --> 00:27:46,641 I saw you had company. 566 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:48,275 So you left your scarf? 567 00:27:48,362 --> 00:27:50,190 And small books for travel. 568 00:27:50,277 --> 00:27:52,279 Have you packed? 569 00:27:52,366 --> 00:27:54,368 I can't pack if I don't know where I'm going. 570 00:27:54,498 --> 00:27:55,891 Cádiz. 571 00:27:55,978 --> 00:27:57,719 Oh? 572 00:27:57,806 --> 00:27:59,416 What's in Cádiz? 573 00:27:59,503 --> 00:28:01,897 A slumbering, drunken populace, 574 00:28:01,984 --> 00:28:05,118 a great wave of making more, 575 00:28:05,248 --> 00:28:09,383 a room with a view to watch it all from on high. 576 00:28:17,565 --> 00:28:20,152 Does the room have HBO? 577 00:28:20,176 --> 00:28:21,806 Armand's in town. 578 00:28:21,830 --> 00:28:23,266 I sensed that. 579 00:28:23,397 --> 00:28:25,225 He's going to try to disrupt things. 580 00:28:25,312 --> 00:28:28,073 Oh, maybe I should bring him up onstage, 581 00:28:28,097 --> 00:28:29,969 put him over my knee, and give him five whacks 582 00:28:30,056 --> 00:28:32,101 for the five Great Laws. 583 00:28:32,188 --> 00:28:33,494 Maybe I should... 584 00:28:33,624 --> 00:28:37,498 -Show Alex some affection. -Avoid an appear... 585 00:28:37,628 --> 00:28:39,500 He could use his mother. 586 00:28:44,679 --> 00:28:49,878 I'll have Arturo bring you to the hangar after. 587 00:28:49,902 --> 00:28:52,426 Don't forget to pack. 588 00:28:52,513 --> 00:28:54,080 Back home, Arturo. 589 00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:57,257 Absolutely, Mr. de Lioncourt. 590 00:28:59,694 --> 00:29:03,369 I think we got to cancel. 591 00:29:03,393 --> 00:29:05,091 What happened to the hour? 592 00:29:10,792 --> 00:29:12,663 What's this? 593 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,076 How did you get that? 594 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:15,841 A link someone sent me. 595 00:29:15,971 --> 00:29:17,973 A link? 596 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:19,887 This is on the internet? 597 00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:29,942 Well, it's obviously one of those fakes. 598 00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:39,690 Hey, cinema geeks, vamp-o-philes, 599 00:29:39,821 --> 00:29:41,692 and false-flaggers of the dark web. 600 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,607 It's your boy, Daniel Molloy, 601 00:29:43,694 --> 00:29:45,392 back with another salacious clip 602 00:29:45,479 --> 00:29:47,196 from my upcoming documentary, 603 00:29:47,220 --> 00:29:50,876 "Interview with the Vampire Lestat." 604 00:29:50,963 --> 00:29:56,838 And so when did you first meet his girlfriend, Sofia? 605 00:29:56,925 --> 00:30:00,494 In 1793, when Lestat and I formed 606 00:30:00,581 --> 00:30:02,539 the Théâtre des Vampires. 607 00:30:02,670 --> 00:30:06,935 We all knew her then as the Vampire Gabriella, 608 00:30:07,022 --> 00:30:08,458 Lestat's mother. 609 00:30:08,545 --> 00:30:10,634 -Huh. -Mm. 610 00:30:10,721 --> 00:30:16,118 And so here he is, two months after his "murder," 611 00:30:16,249 --> 00:30:18,251 taking a break from recording his posthumous album 612 00:30:18,338 --> 00:30:19,881 to bone his mom 613 00:30:19,905 --> 00:30:21,906 on the Bon Sasquatch studio couch. 614 00:30:25,301 --> 00:30:27,651 Well, that's your answer, then. 615 00:30:27,738 --> 00:30:30,176 That's obviously why Daniel was off. 616 00:30:30,263 --> 00:30:32,613 He was sitting on this... sending on that... 617 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:36,138 this AI deepfake. 618 00:30:36,225 --> 00:30:38,140 Was that your mom I just met? 619 00:30:40,534 --> 00:30:42,362 That was Sofia. 620 00:30:42,492 --> 00:30:45,539 OK. Is Sofia your mother? 621 00:30:45,626 --> 00:30:47,212 My mother is dead. 622 00:30:47,236 --> 00:30:49,412 Let me... let me put it this way. 623 00:30:49,499 --> 00:30:51,893 Are you hitting the same vagina you spent 624 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,982 the first nine months of your mortal life in? 625 00:30:54,069 --> 00:30:56,506 Anatomically, there's the womb... 626 00:30:56,593 --> 00:30:58,204 -Stop the car. -And there's the cervix. 627 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:00,597 -And there's the uterus... -Are you jumping the cervix? 628 00:31:00,728 --> 00:31:03,557 Stop the car. My shoes! 629 00:31:03,644 --> 00:31:06,647 It's not one thing, Louis. 630 00:31:06,734 --> 00:31:08,736 Stop the goddamn car. 631 00:31:17,092 --> 00:31:19,225 Louis! Louis! 632 00:31:19,312 --> 00:31:20,791 Fuck! Fuck! 633 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:21,899 Louis. 634 00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:23,316 You don't eat where you shit, 635 00:31:23,446 --> 00:31:25,294 and you don't come inside the door you came out of. 636 00:31:25,318 --> 00:31:27,774 What on God's savage Earth is there to talk about? 637 00:31:27,798 --> 00:31:29,438 She was dying, Louis. I gave her the gift. 638 00:31:29,496 --> 00:31:31,802 No. No, it's basic. It's fundamental. 639 00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:33,500 No, it's a complicated, 640 00:31:33,587 --> 00:31:35,589 multifaceted set of circumstances. 641 00:31:35,676 --> 00:31:38,635 No, there's no circumstance that leads to, "Oh, yeah, 642 00:31:38,722 --> 00:31:40,811 I can see how that would happen." 643 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:42,465 You're being very judgy. 644 00:31:42,552 --> 00:31:44,554 "Come to Montreal. See me sing. 645 00:31:44,641 --> 00:31:47,731 Hey, meet my friend with incestual benefits." 646 00:31:47,818 --> 00:31:52,780 This is all... all-time, Armand-level deceit. 647 00:31:52,867 --> 00:31:56,716 Oh, do not walk away and... and... and say his name. 648 00:31:56,740 --> 00:31:58,612 Do not compare me to him. 649 00:31:58,699 --> 00:32:00,788 How is this any different? 650 00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:04,444 This is a century-long lie. 651 00:32:04,531 --> 00:32:09,536 You hung her portrait over our coffins in New Orleans. 652 00:32:09,623 --> 00:32:12,800 -It's sick. You're sick. -We are unnatural beings! 653 00:32:12,887 --> 00:32:15,194 And this... this is the half-human soul 654 00:32:15,281 --> 00:32:17,022 that you conveniently whip out 655 00:32:17,109 --> 00:32:19,546 whenever you want to win an argument! 656 00:32:19,676 --> 00:32:22,027 What argument you got for fucking your mother? 657 00:32:22,114 --> 00:32:23,506 It's sickness. 658 00:32:23,637 --> 00:32:25,702 Maybe the source of all your sickness. 659 00:32:25,726 --> 00:32:27,119 But my God. 660 00:32:27,249 --> 00:32:28,574 You... you... you call me out of nowhere... 661 00:32:28,598 --> 00:32:29,817 Seek a professional! 662 00:32:29,904 --> 00:32:31,142 And you say that you're paying a girl 663 00:32:31,166 --> 00:32:32,515 to pretend to be Claudia! 664 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:33,971 You're paying a girl to pretend to be Madeleine! 665 00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:35,040 And what do I say? 666 00:32:35,127 --> 00:32:36,452 Do I say that you're sick, Louis? 667 00:32:36,476 --> 00:32:38,826 Do I see sickness? No! 668 00:32:38,913 --> 00:32:40,871 I spent a month and a half talking you back 669 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,699 from unimaginable frenzy 670 00:32:42,786 --> 00:32:46,312 in the middle of my own fracturing! 671 00:32:46,399 --> 00:32:50,969 -I offer you room under my roof. -OK. 672 00:32:51,056 --> 00:32:53,014 I offer you the possibility 673 00:32:53,145 --> 00:32:55,495 of reckoning your crippling guilt. 674 00:32:55,582 --> 00:32:57,671 I offer you... 675 00:32:57,758 --> 00:32:59,716 I off... 676 00:32:59,803 --> 00:33:02,110 -OK. -I offer you... 677 00:33:02,241 --> 00:33:05,287 It's OK. It's OK. 678 00:33:05,374 --> 00:33:07,115 It's OK. 679 00:33:07,202 --> 00:33:08,899 It's OK. It's OK. 680 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,379 It's OK. 681 00:33:10,466 --> 00:33:13,078 It's OK. 682 00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:16,385 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 683 00:33:16,472 --> 00:33:18,605 It's all right. 684 00:33:18,692 --> 00:33:21,086 It's all right. 685 00:33:21,173 --> 00:33:23,392 It's OK. 686 00:33:23,523 --> 00:33:25,655 It's OK. It's OK. 687 00:33:25,742 --> 00:33:27,222 It's OK. 688 00:33:27,309 --> 00:33:29,398 It's OK. 689 00:33:39,974 --> 00:33:42,020 Ridiculous night. 690 00:33:45,414 --> 00:33:48,939 So Sofia is your mom. 691 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:51,246 Gabriella was my mom. 692 00:33:51,377 --> 00:33:52,552 Just... 693 00:33:52,682 --> 00:33:55,685 Is now a vampire. Huh? 694 00:33:55,816 --> 00:33:58,340 I'm just trying to reset here. 695 00:33:58,471 --> 00:34:01,430 I'm just asking about her. 696 00:34:01,517 --> 00:34:03,737 She was born in the wrong century. 697 00:34:03,824 --> 00:34:05,715 Bitter life. 698 00:34:05,739 --> 00:34:09,482 There was a closeness between us. 699 00:34:09,569 --> 00:34:11,614 She was the only one growing up who showed me 700 00:34:11,701 --> 00:34:13,616 any kind of affection. 701 00:34:13,703 --> 00:34:16,271 She was not a doting mother. 702 00:34:16,402 --> 00:34:18,795 But I could picture a larger life 703 00:34:18,882 --> 00:34:21,581 outside of Auvergne because of her. 704 00:34:21,668 --> 00:34:25,367 Well, the cousin that stuck his fingers in me 705 00:34:25,498 --> 00:34:26,629 also gave me a dollar. 706 00:34:26,716 --> 00:34:28,544 -Louis. -Oh, sorry. 707 00:34:28,631 --> 00:34:31,243 Go. Go ahead. 708 00:34:31,373 --> 00:34:35,029 Nothing happened until she came to Paris, 709 00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:39,251 her blonde hair bone white, her body racked with disease. 710 00:34:39,338 --> 00:34:40,469 She was dying. 711 00:34:40,556 --> 00:34:41,731 Hours from it. 712 00:34:41,818 --> 00:34:44,430 OK, I hear that. 713 00:34:44,517 --> 00:34:46,519 So never before? 714 00:34:53,569 --> 00:34:54,849 Your mother called you the devil. 715 00:34:54,875 --> 00:34:56,181 Never had sex with me. 716 00:34:56,268 --> 00:34:57,549 Then she blamed you for Paul's death... 717 00:34:57,573 --> 00:34:58,724 You get that getting with family's 718 00:34:58,748 --> 00:34:59,986 gonna cross some wires in your head. 719 00:35:00,010 --> 00:35:01,075 Which you then blamed on me. 720 00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:02,230 I let it go. I took it back. 721 00:35:02,317 --> 00:35:03,555 -I was wrong. -The blame. The blame. 722 00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:05,929 If we can find the blame, if we agree on the blame, 723 00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:08,932 then it's all mapped, the why we are, the why we do. 724 00:35:10,412 --> 00:35:13,285 I conduct the chaos. 725 00:35:13,372 --> 00:35:17,419 She's one of the many chainsaws I juggle. 726 00:35:17,506 --> 00:35:21,119 A hill to climb, vamp or not. 727 00:35:21,206 --> 00:35:24,881 Hmm. 728 00:35:24,905 --> 00:35:26,124 Can you... 729 00:35:32,695 --> 00:35:34,393 Mm? 730 00:35:41,530 --> 00:35:43,402 Mm. 731 00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:51,932 Did you... did you notice in the video 732 00:35:52,062 --> 00:35:53,847 that Daniel was in the daylight? 733 00:35:53,977 --> 00:35:55,912 Mm. 734 00:35:55,936 --> 00:35:57,329 The suntan. 735 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:06,120 I left my phone in the car. 736 00:36:06,251 --> 00:36:11,125 Can you just check to see if it's everywhere? 737 00:36:11,256 --> 00:36:13,780 A week of ridicule, and then no one gives a shit. 738 00:36:13,910 --> 00:36:15,216 What's the matter? 739 00:36:15,347 --> 00:36:16,913 That was Lestat. 740 00:36:17,044 --> 00:36:20,308 Lestat is dead. 741 00:36:20,395 --> 00:36:23,268 It matters to you. 742 00:36:23,355 --> 00:36:24,530 Maybe. 743 00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:26,706 I don't know. I don't know. 744 00:36:26,793 --> 00:36:30,623 I am my own zip code of mess right now. 745 00:36:30,710 --> 00:36:34,670 And I'm not proud of how I just was. 746 00:36:34,757 --> 00:36:36,281 I'm sorry. 747 00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:41,373 We should cancel. 748 00:36:41,503 --> 00:36:42,417 We should probably cancel. 749 00:36:42,504 --> 00:36:43,504 -Hmm. -Hmm. 750 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,905 Or... 751 00:37:02,524 --> 00:37:04,613 I hope you don't mind. 752 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:05,851 I steamed me a cup of tea while you was out. 753 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:07,853 Mm, please, make yourself at home. 754 00:37:07,877 --> 00:37:10,184 Make yourself at home. 755 00:37:10,271 --> 00:37:13,231 This Papa Legba's make-do room of diablerie now. 756 00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:19,759 Louis de Pointe du Lac, the Witch Merrick. 757 00:37:19,846 --> 00:37:21,543 How do? 758 00:37:21,630 --> 00:37:24,285 Great Mama Ernestine sends her regards, 759 00:37:24,372 --> 00:37:28,158 says the du Lac boys walked past her porch 760 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:31,510 heads so high you wouldn't know their money came from flesh. 761 00:37:31,597 --> 00:37:34,077 Young, dumb, and mortal. 762 00:37:34,164 --> 00:37:36,254 Called her Satan's favorite whore. 763 00:37:36,341 --> 00:37:38,343 Ought to be run out of Nawlin' proper. 764 00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:41,650 That would have been my brother, Paul, Paul du Lac. 765 00:37:41,737 --> 00:37:44,000 Hear that, Great Mama? 766 00:37:44,087 --> 00:37:47,613 It was the other one. 767 00:37:47,743 --> 00:37:48,788 Have seats. 768 00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:57,144 Feets outside the line. 769 00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:01,888 Ah. 770 00:38:01,975 --> 00:38:04,586 Thank you for your patience these past months. 771 00:38:04,673 --> 00:38:06,216 There's been some hard thinking about this. 772 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:09,983 All spirits can be unruly. 773 00:38:10,070 --> 00:38:13,682 But those snatched out of life... 774 00:38:13,769 --> 00:38:18,383 a burned girl, a motherless monster, 775 00:38:18,470 --> 00:38:20,578 called up by her killers. 776 00:38:20,602 --> 00:38:23,431 I didn't kill her. 777 00:38:23,518 --> 00:38:27,827 The implication, I believe, was giving Claudia the gift. 778 00:38:27,914 --> 00:38:29,872 Oh, I thought... 779 00:38:30,003 --> 00:38:32,745 I thought you were talking about Paris. 780 00:38:32,832 --> 00:38:35,071 The implication there was that I killed her. 781 00:38:35,095 --> 00:38:37,445 -I didn't say that. -No, you implied it. 782 00:38:37,532 --> 00:38:38,968 Personal items. 783 00:38:58,814 --> 00:39:01,556 Wrote in that. 784 00:39:01,643 --> 00:39:03,297 Died in this. 785 00:39:03,384 --> 00:39:05,517 Skinny. 786 00:39:05,604 --> 00:39:08,737 Knees on cobbles, face bruised up, 787 00:39:08,824 --> 00:39:10,759 split like a peach. 788 00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:12,282 Madeleine. 789 00:39:12,306 --> 00:39:14,743 Sewed this dress? 790 00:39:14,830 --> 00:39:16,266 Loved Claudia. 791 00:39:21,054 --> 00:39:22,098 These got it. 792 00:39:22,185 --> 00:39:24,144 I can call with these objects. 793 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:48,690 Papa Legba, Virgin Mary, 794 00:39:48,777 --> 00:39:51,084 Angel Michael, Angel Gabriel, 795 00:39:51,214 --> 00:39:53,826 I cannot do this without your blessings. 796 00:39:53,913 --> 00:39:58,613 Virgin Mary, Angels, Papa Le... 797 00:39:58,744 --> 00:40:01,877 you two together bringing a jinx, blocking the gate. 798 00:40:01,964 --> 00:40:03,444 What happened to you tonight? 799 00:40:03,531 --> 00:40:05,272 -Well, we had a... -A lot. 800 00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:07,405 Move your chairs. 2:00, 10:00. 801 00:40:19,591 --> 00:40:23,029 Mary, Angels, Papa Legba. 802 00:40:23,116 --> 00:40:25,684 I call on you, Lord of Blood. 803 00:40:25,814 --> 00:40:28,164 I am Merrick Mayfair. 804 00:40:28,295 --> 00:40:29,818 I call on you. 805 00:40:29,949 --> 00:40:31,690 Open the gates. 806 00:40:31,777 --> 00:40:33,735 You know my name, Papa. 807 00:40:33,822 --> 00:40:37,130 All spirits that answer me, Son of Ham, Mama Yu, 808 00:40:37,217 --> 00:40:39,654 Baron Samedi, Blanc Dani. 809 00:40:39,741 --> 00:40:41,221 I give you my blood. 810 00:40:41,308 --> 00:40:43,353 Bring me to the spirit called. 811 00:40:43,484 --> 00:40:45,573 Bring out the chasm the spirit Claudia 812 00:40:45,660 --> 00:40:49,423 called by the living, grand zombie. 813 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,841 I am Merrick Mayfair. 814 00:40:52,972 --> 00:40:55,583 On my dead mother, bring her to me. 815 00:40:55,714 --> 00:40:58,412 You find the one named Claudia and bring her out. 816 00:40:58,499 --> 00:41:00,196 Shove her out. 817 00:41:00,283 --> 00:41:03,635 I call the spirit Claudia and Claudia alone 818 00:41:03,722 --> 00:41:07,421 to come down, come out the chasm, and show yourself! 819 00:41:11,556 --> 00:41:13,688 The fuck you yanking on me, you dumb bitch? 820 00:41:17,997 --> 00:41:19,389 She a wild one. 821 00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:21,435 That... was that her? 822 00:41:21,522 --> 00:41:23,350 She did not like... mm. 823 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,094 She got rage going up, going down. 824 00:41:28,181 --> 00:41:29,878 Get her back. 825 00:41:30,009 --> 00:41:32,161 I'm gonna have to add to the envelope. 826 00:41:32,185 --> 00:41:34,100 Find me a high-presentin' dentist. 827 00:41:34,187 --> 00:41:35,840 Yeah, yeah. Bring her back. 828 00:41:48,244 --> 00:41:50,377 Couldn't keep me on the wall. 829 00:41:50,464 --> 00:41:52,901 Could you, Daddy Lou? 830 00:41:52,988 --> 00:41:55,097 I'm Lestat. 831 00:41:55,121 --> 00:41:56,644 Louis is over there. 832 00:41:56,731 --> 00:41:58,331 Didn't think this through, did you? 833 00:41:58,385 --> 00:42:00,256 I tried to go on without you. 834 00:42:00,343 --> 00:42:02,302 I'm over here, Claudia. 835 00:42:02,389 --> 00:42:05,261 They dragged me off the stage. 836 00:42:05,348 --> 00:42:06,915 They ripped you away from me. 837 00:42:07,002 --> 00:42:09,285 And... and I can't let you go. 838 00:42:09,309 --> 00:42:12,051 It's there at the bottom of everything. 839 00:42:12,181 --> 00:42:13,748 I wanted to blot that out. 840 00:42:13,835 --> 00:42:17,143 I wanted to say the goodbye I didn't get to say 841 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:20,363 and tell you... 842 00:42:20,450 --> 00:42:24,237 I hope you found a bit of... a bit of quiet. 843 00:42:25,847 --> 00:42:27,501 You back with him? 844 00:42:31,287 --> 00:42:34,464 I'm... I'm sorry, Claudia. 845 00:42:51,394 --> 00:42:56,095 Madeleine made this. 846 00:42:56,225 --> 00:42:57,923 Said I looked splendid in it. 847 00:43:01,883 --> 00:43:05,452 That was her word. Splendid. 848 00:43:08,673 --> 00:43:11,676 You hung it on the wall, the dress I burned in. 849 00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:13,460 Meant to honor you. 850 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,331 Oh. 851 00:43:15,418 --> 00:43:18,813 Oh, yeah, that's what I want to be, 852 00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:21,076 car fuel for your self-pity. 853 00:43:21,207 --> 00:43:24,166 Listen to your sad sorrys. 854 00:43:24,297 --> 00:43:27,300 I'm dead. 855 00:43:27,430 --> 00:43:28,736 Dead! 856 00:43:28,823 --> 00:43:30,346 I know. 857 00:43:30,433 --> 00:43:31,696 I know. 858 00:43:31,783 --> 00:43:33,828 I had nights I wanted to join you. 859 00:43:33,915 --> 00:43:37,397 I know. I know. I know. I know. 860 00:43:37,527 --> 00:43:39,747 Running up on rooftops, ripping your shirt off 861 00:43:39,834 --> 00:43:41,769 like you a dirty movie. 862 00:43:41,793 --> 00:43:43,621 I heard you calling me. 863 00:43:46,536 --> 00:43:51,803 I didn't call you, you dumb bitch. 864 00:43:51,890 --> 00:43:54,414 I'd have tripped Armand on the stairs 865 00:43:54,544 --> 00:43:57,635 if I wanted you with me. 866 00:43:57,765 --> 00:44:02,552 Here's some truth for you, sad boy. 867 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,512 You weren't even my favorite. 868 00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:08,036 I liked him better. 869 00:44:08,123 --> 00:44:10,343 He knew who he was. 870 00:44:10,430 --> 00:44:12,388 You're not even my maker. 871 00:44:12,475 --> 00:44:14,042 You're not even my blood. 872 00:44:14,129 --> 00:44:16,436 That's my maker. 873 00:44:16,523 --> 00:44:21,809 I even thought about poisoning you instead of him. 874 00:44:21,833 --> 00:44:24,444 You know why I didn't? 875 00:44:24,574 --> 00:44:28,056 'Cause there's a little etching on your rib cage, 876 00:44:28,143 --> 00:44:29,797 says you're a slave. 877 00:44:29,884 --> 00:44:32,558 I knew I could count on you to trail me, 878 00:44:32,582 --> 00:44:34,367 like a dumb dog anywhere I went, 879 00:44:34,454 --> 00:44:36,151 until I could ditch your ass 880 00:44:36,238 --> 00:44:37,762 for something more worthy of me. 881 00:44:37,849 --> 00:44:39,261 Who the fuck are you? 882 00:44:39,285 --> 00:44:40,808 Don't even know you. 883 00:44:40,895 --> 00:44:42,810 Yeah? 884 00:44:42,897 --> 00:44:45,160 What about the thing you should be thanking me for? 885 00:44:47,336 --> 00:44:49,861 Oh! 886 00:44:49,948 --> 00:44:53,255 Yeah, he thinks it meant something to hunt Bruce down. 887 00:44:53,342 --> 00:44:58,130 Read my little girl diary pages seven decades late. 888 00:44:58,217 --> 00:45:02,743 You think I want not one, but two men I hate 889 00:45:02,830 --> 00:45:04,963 using me as an excuse for their bullshit? 890 00:45:05,050 --> 00:45:07,356 All cry-face, reading my diary 891 00:45:07,487 --> 00:45:10,466 like it fucking happened to you? 892 00:45:10,490 --> 00:45:13,362 Get this into your nappy little head. 893 00:45:13,449 --> 00:45:16,191 I hate you! 894 00:45:16,278 --> 00:45:18,498 More than anything and anyone I have ever known, 895 00:45:18,585 --> 00:45:21,196 more than my dad that left me, 896 00:45:21,283 --> 00:45:24,373 more than my auntie that whipped me, 897 00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:28,290 more than Bruce that stuck it in me, 898 00:45:28,377 --> 00:45:32,773 more than the pack of vamps that seduced and burned me! 899 00:45:32,860 --> 00:45:35,558 I hate you to the pit of all things. 900 00:45:35,645 --> 00:45:36,646 Claudia. 901 00:45:36,734 --> 00:45:38,474 Burn the diaries! 902 00:45:38,561 --> 00:45:40,670 Burn this dress! 903 00:45:40,694 --> 00:45:44,872 Stop saying my name! 904 00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:00,322 And you, Uncle Les. 905 00:46:00,453 --> 00:46:02,281 -Yes? -"Yes?" 906 00:46:02,368 --> 00:46:03,717 Bring your malice. 907 00:46:03,848 --> 00:46:06,024 Some joy I know, 908 00:46:06,111 --> 00:46:08,417 knowin' is how good I humiliated you in New Orleans, 909 00:46:08,504 --> 00:46:12,639 how I ginned up the train for the slave here. 910 00:46:12,726 --> 00:46:16,817 "Lestat said he'd do worse than rape me, Daddy Lou." 911 00:46:22,475 --> 00:46:24,303 Worked good, didn't it? 912 00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:28,220 The train, Antoinette, Tom Anderson, slit throat, 913 00:46:28,307 --> 00:46:30,788 took your Black queen and ran off with him across the ocean. 914 00:46:30,875 --> 00:46:33,225 And shitty little bitch that you are, 915 00:46:33,312 --> 00:46:35,749 revenge swelled in your brain. 916 00:46:35,836 --> 00:46:38,641 How long you rehearse my death, Antoinette? 917 00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:40,623 Memorize your every line of that play 918 00:46:40,710 --> 00:46:42,732 just for fun, Mr. Anderson, and your little make-'em-ups 919 00:46:42,756 --> 00:46:44,497 not in the script. 920 00:46:44,627 --> 00:46:46,586 Slit! 921 00:46:46,673 --> 00:46:48,718 I'd have done the same thing if it were me. 922 00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:50,938 Yeah, sat on my hands watching you 923 00:46:51,025 --> 00:46:53,593 char up to thunderous applause. 924 00:46:53,723 --> 00:46:56,030 Only... only I wouldn't have saved his ass 925 00:46:56,117 --> 00:46:58,946 and waited for a hug in a hurricane. 926 00:46:59,033 --> 00:47:00,687 Dress on the wall. 927 00:47:00,774 --> 00:47:02,994 Song on the radio. 928 00:47:03,081 --> 00:47:06,171 Pay some broke witch a pittance to drag me 929 00:47:06,301 --> 00:47:10,566 out of my spidery-ass nowhere. 930 00:47:10,653 --> 00:47:13,613 What about Madeleine? 931 00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,223 You two hug it out for her too? 932 00:47:15,310 --> 00:47:17,095 Hmm? 933 00:47:17,182 --> 00:47:21,708 You two bringing her back in the cornstarch? 934 00:47:21,795 --> 00:47:23,841 'Cause I don't see her here. 935 00:47:23,971 --> 00:47:26,669 And I can't find her there! 936 00:47:26,756 --> 00:47:30,717 The one good thing in my bleak... 937 00:47:30,804 --> 00:47:33,851 Black life, 938 00:47:33,981 --> 00:47:36,070 and I don't know where she is! 939 00:47:36,157 --> 00:47:38,768 And I spend every fucking second of nowhere 940 00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:40,596 looking for her! 941 00:47:40,727 --> 00:47:42,729 And where is she? 942 00:47:42,816 --> 00:47:45,775 Why is she not here with me? 943 00:47:45,863 --> 00:47:48,126 Madeleine! Madeleine! 944 00:47:48,213 --> 00:47:50,258 Madeleine! 945 00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:52,043 Madeleine! 946 00:47:52,130 --> 00:47:54,262 Madeleine! 947 00:47:54,393 --> 00:47:56,438 Madeleine! 948 00:48:05,970 --> 00:48:09,625 Hear me, those spirits that answer to me. 949 00:48:09,756 --> 00:48:12,106 Close the gate. 950 00:48:12,193 --> 00:48:13,891 Papa Legba. 951 00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:15,414 Virgin Mary. 952 00:48:15,544 --> 00:48:17,590 Angel Michael. Angel Gabriel. 953 00:48:59,632 --> 00:49:01,112 Yeah. 954 00:49:03,114 --> 00:49:06,378 Pretty much closes the door on that. 955 00:49:06,465 --> 00:49:08,597 She spared us the ambiguity. 956 00:49:13,907 --> 00:49:17,389 That moment, when... 957 00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:19,565 "What about the thing you should thank me for?" 958 00:49:19,695 --> 00:49:21,654 -Yeah. -Mm. 959 00:49:21,784 --> 00:49:25,136 I didn't know that was in me. 960 00:49:25,223 --> 00:49:27,941 Got some work to do on myself. 961 00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:30,924 It's not something one did in the late 18th century, 962 00:49:31,011 --> 00:49:32,360 work on the self. 963 00:49:32,447 --> 00:49:34,797 Or the early 20th. 964 00:49:34,884 --> 00:49:37,409 What did one do? 965 00:49:37,539 --> 00:49:40,151 Went on, went to bed, got up, punched a wall. 966 00:49:42,501 --> 00:49:45,547 -Sat on benches. -Shared troubles. 967 00:49:45,634 --> 00:49:46,940 Hmm. 968 00:50:01,737 --> 00:50:04,740 She doesn't have that. 969 00:50:04,827 --> 00:50:06,742 No. 970 00:50:06,873 --> 00:50:10,703 No Madeleine. 971 00:50:10,833 --> 00:50:14,161 No rest. 972 00:50:14,185 --> 00:50:15,882 I guess we just carry that. 973 00:50:18,841 --> 00:50:20,713 Hmm. 974 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,107 Can I ask you a question? 975 00:50:23,237 --> 00:50:26,153 Of course. 976 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:28,479 Did you think you were gonna get away with it, 977 00:50:28,503 --> 00:50:31,593 the Sofia, Gabriella thing? 978 00:50:33,508 --> 00:50:35,206 That. 979 00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:42,474 I don't know. 980 00:50:42,604 --> 00:50:45,694 I brought her on the bus. 981 00:50:45,781 --> 00:50:48,741 I brought her to you, or you to her. 982 00:50:48,828 --> 00:50:51,526 I hung her portrait in our room in New Orleans. 983 00:50:51,613 --> 00:50:53,963 Excellent point in the heat of the fracas, by the way. 984 00:50:54,094 --> 00:50:56,401 Thank you. 985 00:50:56,488 --> 00:50:59,032 Clearly, somewhere in the self-destructive 986 00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:02,015 scaffolding I house my heart in, I wanted it known. 987 00:51:04,148 --> 00:51:05,627 But where I am a mystery to myself 988 00:51:05,714 --> 00:51:09,607 is why I wanted it now, 989 00:51:09,631 --> 00:51:12,025 the night before I go on stage, 990 00:51:12,156 --> 00:51:14,506 the hour before the witch arrives. 991 00:51:20,425 --> 00:51:24,081 Why do I actively, manically pursue failure? 992 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,128 Hmm. 993 00:51:28,259 --> 00:51:31,088 Maybe it's just the vampire's burden. 994 00:51:31,218 --> 00:51:33,568 What do you replace death with? 995 00:51:33,655 --> 00:51:36,832 What's to live for if there's no end? 996 00:51:36,919 --> 00:51:39,618 Maybe it's just how you keep your night straight. 997 00:51:41,402 --> 00:51:44,188 I have some work to do on myself. 998 00:51:49,932 --> 00:51:52,283 The songs are about me? 999 00:51:56,635 --> 00:51:59,986 -Most of them. -Hmm. 1000 00:52:00,073 --> 00:52:01,833 You opened a restaurant three blocks from my house 1001 00:52:01,857 --> 00:52:03,294 because... 1002 00:52:03,381 --> 00:52:06,035 Yeah. 1003 00:52:17,656 --> 00:52:20,572 If it was just the two of us again... 1004 00:52:20,659 --> 00:52:23,488 'cause, yeah, who else is gonna have us... 1005 00:52:28,014 --> 00:52:30,471 A trailer park. 1006 00:52:30,495 --> 00:52:33,715 Nevada, Utah, the desert. 1007 00:52:33,802 --> 00:52:36,588 Couple folding chairs. 1008 00:52:36,675 --> 00:52:38,590 Plant some flower boxes. 1009 00:52:38,677 --> 00:52:41,917 What blooms at night? 1010 00:52:41,941 --> 00:52:43,812 Evening primrose. 1011 00:52:43,899 --> 00:52:45,727 They got birds in the desert? 1012 00:52:45,814 --> 00:52:48,097 There's birds everywhere. 1013 00:52:48,121 --> 00:52:51,733 Could be nice. 1014 00:52:51,864 --> 00:52:53,431 Could be. 1015 00:53:17,237 --> 00:53:18,978 Thrift store Dracula peeping. 1016 00:53:24,070 --> 00:53:25,070 Alex? 1017 00:53:56,450 --> 00:53:57,471 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 1018 00:53:57,495 --> 00:53:58,844 wherever you stream music. 1019 00:54:04,632 --> 00:54:09,246 ♪ My head is rollin' 'round ♪ 1020 00:54:09,376 --> 00:54:13,946 ♪ Will my toesies ever touch the ground ♪ 1021 00:54:14,033 --> 00:54:17,297 ♪ Hang every rope, burn every witch ♪ 1022 00:54:17,428 --> 00:54:20,996 ♪ But you'll never catch the butterscotch bitch ♪ 1023 00:54:21,127 --> 00:54:22,781 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1024 00:54:22,911 --> 00:54:27,089 ♪ Bah-dah, bah-dah ♪ 1025 00:54:31,442 --> 00:54:33,748 -We should cancel. -Cancel the dinner? 1026 00:54:33,835 --> 00:54:35,881 -Not the dinner, her. -Oh, the bad idea. 1027 00:54:36,055 --> 00:54:37,055 Yeah. 1028 00:54:43,454 --> 00:54:46,892 Sit around a table thinking that you feel a chill 1029 00:54:47,066 --> 00:54:49,024 or somebody's eye twitches. 1030 00:54:49,155 --> 00:54:51,723 The idea of the seance is really wonderful. 1031 00:54:51,897 --> 00:54:53,942 This is not something you want to explore. 1032 00:54:54,116 --> 00:54:56,293 This is not something you want to know about 1033 00:54:56,423 --> 00:54:58,338 and this is not somewhere you want to go. 1034 00:54:58,425 --> 00:55:00,384 I don't like witches. I don't get on with them. 1035 00:55:00,558 --> 00:55:01,994 Louis' absolutely correct. 1036 00:55:02,168 --> 00:55:03,561 It's a horrible idea. 1037 00:55:03,691 --> 00:55:05,650 And why do they do it? 1038 00:55:05,780 --> 00:55:09,044 Because they're Louis and Lestat and they're messy, 1039 00:55:09,175 --> 00:55:13,222 and they can't turn away from the messiest option. 1040 00:55:13,353 --> 00:55:15,033 You reached out to the worst kind of witch. 1041 00:55:15,094 --> 00:55:17,401 -Oh. -Merrick is different. 1042 00:55:17,575 --> 00:55:19,054 She is not like the rest. 1043 00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:21,448 And her and the uncle, they're the same. 1044 00:55:21,622 --> 00:55:23,407 When I first got to New Orleans, 1045 00:55:23,494 --> 00:55:27,498 the driver was like, "I'll give you one piece of advice." 1046 00:55:27,628 --> 00:55:30,631 He was like, "Don't with voodoo," and I don't. 1047 00:55:30,718 --> 00:55:34,592 I have a respectful distance from it. 1048 00:55:34,679 --> 00:55:36,855 Let's be clear, I respect it. 1049 00:55:39,074 --> 00:55:40,728 But I'm not getting involved with it. 1050 00:55:40,815 --> 00:55:42,121 Do you know what I mean? 1051 00:55:42,251 --> 00:55:43,383 We should cancel. 1052 00:55:43,470 --> 00:55:45,080 We should probably cancel. 1053 00:55:48,432 --> 00:55:50,216 Shot, mark. 1054 00:55:50,347 --> 00:55:52,697 When I first got the seance scene, 1055 00:55:52,827 --> 00:55:54,699 I think I was filming another scene. 1056 00:55:54,873 --> 00:55:56,831 And then everybody went around set and was like, 1057 00:55:56,918 --> 00:55:59,443 Ah, episode six. We've got episode six. 1058 00:55:59,617 --> 00:56:02,097 And I'm like, "Oh, my God. Okay, whoa. 1059 00:56:02,271 --> 00:56:05,013 Claudia read it. Read it." 1060 00:56:05,187 --> 00:56:07,929 Kept reading it and I was like, "This is amazing, 1061 00:56:08,060 --> 00:56:10,018 and about time." 1062 00:56:10,192 --> 00:56:13,544 He's got it. I can call with these objects. 1063 00:56:13,631 --> 00:56:16,721 I'm still mourning Claudia. I'm still angry for her. 1064 00:56:16,808 --> 00:56:18,481 And it's like finally she gets to say everything, 1065 00:56:18,505 --> 00:56:20,812 get it all off her chest 1066 00:56:20,942 --> 00:56:22,742 and give it to the two men she hates the most, 1067 00:56:22,814 --> 00:56:24,293 hates but loves the most. 1068 00:56:24,424 --> 00:56:26,600 Bring out the chasm, the spirit, Claudia, 1069 00:56:26,774 --> 00:56:28,297 called by the living. 1070 00:56:28,428 --> 00:56:30,082 We were all a bit starstruck, actually, 1071 00:56:30,212 --> 00:56:31,886 because I was like, "Oh, my God, Claudia's here." 1072 00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:34,739 You hung it on the wall, Dress I burned. 1073 00:56:34,826 --> 00:56:36,741 But to honor you. 1074 00:56:36,871 --> 00:56:38,264 Yeah, that's what I want to be. 1075 00:56:38,351 --> 00:56:40,440 Car fuel for your self-pity. 1076 00:56:40,527 --> 00:56:43,312 I went very deep and we did a couple of takes, 1077 00:56:43,487 --> 00:56:45,489 and I was happy with them 1078 00:56:45,663 --> 00:56:47,447 and everybody else was happy with them. 1079 00:56:47,534 --> 00:56:50,276 But I said, I still have more, so can we do more? 1080 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,148 And Jane was like, absolutely. And we did. 1081 00:56:53,279 --> 00:56:56,543 And then, yeah, it was like a whole new level of anger. 1082 00:56:56,674 --> 00:57:00,112 What about Madeleine? You do hug it out for her, too? 1083 00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:02,157 'Cause I don't see her here! 1084 00:57:02,288 --> 00:57:09,295 The one good thing in my bleak black life! 1085 00:57:09,382 --> 00:57:12,124 When me and Sam sat in the chair watching Delainey, 1086 00:57:12,298 --> 00:57:16,824 and we were like, " this is amazing." 1087 00:57:16,955 --> 00:57:18,826 It's a pretty rough sequence to shoot. 1088 00:57:18,957 --> 00:57:21,307 Very sad. 1089 00:57:21,394 --> 00:57:24,092 I thought I was gonna feel, like, defensive for Louis 1090 00:57:24,266 --> 00:57:28,096 and for Lestat, but we deserved what we got. 1091 00:57:28,270 --> 00:57:29,639 For Lestat and Louis, this is one instance 1092 00:57:29,663 --> 00:57:31,926 where they actually dealt with the problem, 1093 00:57:32,013 --> 00:57:34,581 and I think that that's a really cool thing. 1094 00:57:34,755 --> 00:57:36,670 It gives them closure in the sense 1095 00:57:36,757 --> 00:57:39,543 that she absolutely hated them for what they did to her 1096 00:57:39,717 --> 00:57:41,849 and for not putting her first, 1097 00:57:41,936 --> 00:57:43,634 and she's suffering in hell. 1098 00:57:57,169 --> 00:57:59,345 Lestat! 1099 00:58:01,565 --> 00:58:03,523 -Is that her? -That's her. 1100 00:58:03,610 --> 00:58:07,222 Jennifer Ehle. She is amazing. 1101 00:58:07,396 --> 00:58:11,183 And Gabrielle is one of my all star favorite characters. 1102 00:58:11,313 --> 00:58:14,882 -Want to introduce me? -You'll do fine. 1103 00:58:15,013 --> 00:58:17,494 I was star struck working with Jacob. 1104 00:58:17,624 --> 00:58:20,105 To see him walk on as Louis, I did feel, 1105 00:58:20,279 --> 00:58:21,759 "Oh, my God, you're Louis." 1106 00:58:21,933 --> 00:58:24,065 Hello. Handsome man, huh? 1107 00:58:24,196 --> 00:58:26,067 Sophia, right? 1108 00:58:26,198 --> 00:58:27,784 I think Gabriella is threatened by Louis, 1109 00:58:27,808 --> 00:58:30,768 And she's also jealous as a lover. 1110 00:58:30,898 --> 00:58:33,988 He's also another one of Lestat's fledglings. 1111 00:58:34,162 --> 00:58:35,686 I mean, there are not many of us. 1112 00:58:35,773 --> 00:58:38,515 I think Louis just got a generally queasy feeling. 1113 00:58:38,645 --> 00:58:41,561 He's not really on board with the, like, make more thing. 1114 00:58:41,692 --> 00:58:44,912 50,000 of us out in the woods together. 1115 00:58:45,043 --> 00:58:47,393 -What could go wrong? -Yes, he said that 1116 00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:50,962 you said you don't think he should sing tomorrow. 1117 00:58:51,049 --> 00:58:52,485 Doesn't matter what I think. 1118 00:58:52,572 --> 00:58:54,052 He's going to do what he's gonna do. 1119 00:59:34,614 --> 00:59:36,485 I think "Brutal Love" 's such a beautiful song. 1120 00:59:36,660 --> 00:59:38,096 I remember when I first heard it, 1121 00:59:38,226 --> 00:59:39,546 months before we started shooting. 1122 00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:40,968 I was like, "Wow, this is amazing." 1123 00:59:41,099 --> 00:59:41,839 Where's this going to go in this show? 1124 00:59:41,969 --> 00:59:43,623 How does this even fit? 1125 00:59:43,754 --> 00:59:45,514 And you do get the sense like not really sure who's 1126 00:59:45,538 --> 00:59:47,538 he's singing it too. Is he singing it to Gabrielle? 1127 00:59:47,627 --> 00:59:49,083 Is he singing it to Louis? And then, you know, 1128 00:59:49,107 --> 00:59:52,545 by the end he's really singing that song to Louis. 1129 00:59:52,676 --> 00:59:56,114 It's a kind of like, perfect anthem for their love story. 1130 00:59:56,244 --> 00:59:58,464 There's that wonderful feeling 1131 00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:00,640 where she is the most important person in the room, 1132 01:00:00,727 --> 01:00:02,903 and suddenly she isn't. 1133 01:00:04,557 --> 01:00:08,474 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1134 01:00:08,561 --> 01:00:13,000 ♪ I can feel it ♪ 1135 01:00:13,087 --> 01:00:19,485 ♪ Every atom like a planet on fire raging at the sun ♪ 1136 01:00:28,494 --> 01:00:30,104 Come on. 1137 01:00:30,191 --> 01:00:34,500 Taylor and Travis, congratulations. 1138 01:00:34,587 --> 01:00:36,415 Have you set a date yet? 1139 01:00:36,545 --> 01:00:40,071 Molloy is perfectly happy to sit there at the restaurant, 1140 01:00:40,245 --> 01:00:41,986 let them screw around with him 1141 01:00:42,116 --> 01:00:44,553 in their obnoxious way that they are. 1142 01:00:44,684 --> 01:00:48,340 One has to ask. What is with the Tan Dan? 1143 01:00:48,470 --> 01:00:50,168 He could sit there and say, "Yeah, 1144 01:00:50,298 --> 01:00:51,698 you can make fun of me all you want, 1145 01:00:51,735 --> 01:00:54,128 and I look really weird with this sunburn." 1146 01:00:54,259 --> 01:00:56,063 In terms of Louis knowing that something's different, 1147 01:00:56,087 --> 01:00:58,089 like, he looks like a lobster. 1148 01:00:58,263 --> 01:01:00,657 -Ooh. -The fog of love. 1149 01:01:00,787 --> 01:01:03,007 The tan of whatever you want, sweetheart. 1150 01:01:03,137 --> 01:01:05,096 I think Louis and Lestat 1151 01:01:05,226 --> 01:01:09,535 are definitely not picking up on the hostility from Daniel. 1152 01:01:09,622 --> 01:01:11,972 Ready to eat your own? 1153 01:01:12,103 --> 01:01:14,975 They continue to bully him in the way that they always have, 1154 01:01:15,149 --> 01:01:18,283 and I think that dynamic is less apparent to them 1155 01:01:18,413 --> 01:01:20,851 than it is to him. 1156 01:01:20,981 --> 01:01:25,159 It is hugely shocking, the end of episode six. 1157 01:01:25,246 --> 01:01:28,423 There's no sense, unless I'm crazy, 1158 01:01:28,597 --> 01:01:30,382 that you can see it coming. 1159 01:01:30,469 --> 01:01:32,819 Thrift store Dracula peeping. 1160 01:01:32,906 --> 01:01:34,603 I was like, wow, we're doing this. 1161 01:01:34,734 --> 01:01:36,257 We're going to go there. 1162 01:01:36,388 --> 01:01:38,825 Our two protagonists, our two lead characters, 1163 01:01:38,999 --> 01:01:41,698 we chop their heads off at the end of six. 1164 01:01:41,828 --> 01:01:43,264 We've got a whole episode left. 1165 01:01:43,351 --> 01:01:46,224 -What's going on? -Alex? 1166 01:01:46,311 --> 01:01:48,530 I think there's been so many little hints at it 1167 01:01:48,661 --> 01:01:51,664 from the very beginning that Lestat's going to lose his head. 1168 01:01:51,795 --> 01:01:53,797 But the fact that Malloy's turned against Louis, 1169 01:01:53,971 --> 01:01:56,291 I think for me that was like, whoa, that's really shocking.