Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5

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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5
Transcript
00:00 ♪♪
00:10 ♪♪
00:15 This is the part of my story back in San Francisco
00:18 where you said, and I paraphrase,
00:22 "Give it to me."
00:23 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
00:25 Hey, stop!
00:27 That's my voice, but I don't remember it.
00:29 The boy we met in San Francisco, he's still in there.
00:32 We can have him saying what happened next in no time.
00:34 Would you like to join us?
00:35 You go ahead. Have your fun.
00:38 I see they've separated you from your laptop.
00:40 Tapes are an admitted performance.
00:43 Give it to me. I won't waste it.
00:44 This is the premise of our interview.
00:47 The Odyssey of Recollection.
00:49 I'll let you whine and have your say.
00:51 I used to be real good at running things.
00:54 Yes, maître.
00:55 What about me and you?
00:56 Picked another one over me!
00:58 You! And fuck him here!
01:00 Memories just keep bubbling up.
01:02 I want this...
01:05 to remember.
01:08 Things got a little heated.
01:09 With the boy!
01:10 Things got heated with the boy!
01:11 ♪♪
01:21 ♪♪
01:31 ♪♪
01:39 We had it figured out, didn't we?
01:41 Mm.
01:42 What we needed from the other, our proper roles,
01:45 a less dictatorial approach to the coven
01:48 as embraced by my love,
01:50 a dreamy kind of balance.
01:52 Ah, July 1949.
01:54 The reading room.
01:55 Mm.
01:56 We broke into the same library every night that month,
02:00 hypnotized security, as one does,
02:02 flipped the lights, laid our backs on long tables,
02:06 and stared up at the ceiling.
02:08 Hot.
02:09 Iron pillars holding up terracotta domes,
02:11 a light trick that made the ceiling appear
02:13 higher than it was.
02:15 And why not pass a month that way?
02:17 An effortless, eternal life ahead of us.
02:22 Funny thing.
02:23 Trying to remember what occupied one's time
02:26 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him.
02:30 Grabbed that.
02:31 Santiago had broken into our part.
02:34 I'm sorry.
02:35 Grabbed what?
02:36 Hmm?
02:37 Oh, it's just a note to my assistant.
02:39 It's nothing.
02:40 What did you want to grab, Daniel?
02:42 Eternal life ahead of us.
02:51 Funny thing.
02:52 Trying to remember what occupied one's time
02:54 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him.
02:58 Grabbed that.
03:00 It's a thing with syntax.
03:01 I see it a lot.
03:02 The impersonal pronoun, "one,"
03:04 "one's time," "one didn't,"
03:07 becomes the third person, "him,"
03:09 stops being "I" or "me."
03:11 And that indicates what?
03:14 You're circling something.
03:17 You're getting close to something
03:18 you want distance from.
03:20 Language as a chicken exit on a roller coaster.
03:24 Or it's daytime,
03:25 and a vampire of Louis' age
03:27 is fighting an archaeolectic pull of the sun.
03:30 Or that.
03:32 Ah.
03:33 Is this Malik?
03:36 It is, sir.
03:37 You're the guy?
03:40 You're gonna chase me down
03:42 in your little Jimmy Choo sneakers?
03:44 Shall we take our business to the living room?
03:47 Who are they?
03:48 They are not your concern.
03:49 Hey!
03:50 Who are you?
03:51 Friends.
03:52 If you'll excuse us.
03:56 Your friend here is a hot-headed young man.
03:59 Good thing to be.
04:01 Tell him to buy a bugeye.
04:03 Crash it into the guardrails.
04:05 [Snap]
04:07 What was that?
04:13 Armand rarely eats,
04:15 so when he does, he prefers to hunt for it.
04:18 Does Malik know he's lunch?
04:20 Are you recording?
04:21 No.
04:22 Malik knows if he makes it on foot to Jumeirah Mosque,
04:26 by evening, he'll be paid enough crypto to...
04:31 well, most anything he wants.
04:34 Has anyone ever cashed in?
04:36 Often it's someone carefully chosen
04:39 for the harm he does the world with his chosen profession.
04:42 And when he can't find an arms dealer
04:44 dumb enough to answer his ad?
04:48 Someone half in love with an easeful death.
04:53 He's ditching us.
04:56 He'll have Malik begging for it in an hour.
05:00 His methodology, it's never violent, I assure you.
05:04 Mm-hmm.
05:07 Follow-up with the vampire Armand about diet and exercise.
05:13 And once again, Louis alone with himself.
05:16 So, everything in its right place.
05:20 Before the theater burns down.
05:23 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazine,
05:26 sold them at recess.
05:28 I'm sorry.
05:29 Little dirty, little deceitful, but it's enterprising.
05:32 Is that what makes you fascinating?
05:34 The coffee!
05:35 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her...
05:37 Rest.
05:38 If she had a paper bag...
05:39 Daniel.
05:40 Over her head.
05:41 She agreed and you did it, even...
05:42 Daniel.
05:45 [ Typing ]
05:48 [ Typing continues ]
05:51 How long is your boyfriend's lunch again?
06:00 An hour, two at most.
06:03 [ Typing ]
06:08 [ Typing continues ]
06:17 Let's change it up.
06:19 I was going over my notes last night.
06:21 Something he said on his initial flight to the bookshelves
06:25 caught my ear.
06:26 This time, I won't save your life.
06:30 Armand saved you from me in 1973.
06:33 Yeah, you bit me, I blacked out,
06:35 he ripped you off, he dumped me in a drug den.
06:38 Yes.
06:39 500 years, hundreds of thousands of kills.
06:43 How often has Armand spared a life?
06:45 Armand could see I was partial to you.
06:56 Armand preserves my happiness, even when I don't or can't.
07:03 He had a hunch you might prove fruitful in later times.
07:09 Okay, sure.
07:12 Let's go with that.
07:13 Um, our first interview, it's a fog.
07:18 I mean, it's the '70s, all a blur.
07:22 Woke up in a parking lot in Milwaukee.
07:24 Once, don't know how I got there.
07:25 What's the question, Daniel?
07:29 We had drinks, you paid.
07:31 We kept to your place in Divisadero, you paid.
07:36 That's right.
07:37 Did we?
07:40 [♪♪♪]
07:54 I like what you've done with the place.
07:57 Getting some bail bondsman post-divorce facts.
08:02 I own a few of these places.
08:05 Oh, yeah?
08:06 How many?
08:07 Many.
08:09 Are you a real estate mogul?
08:12 I own a lot of things.
08:14 [♪♪♪]
08:32 Does that scare you, boy?
08:38 Until you climb in it, close the lid, and bang?
08:44 Sometimes.
08:51 Okay.
08:52 I mean, I'm into countercultures.
08:56 So am I the first guy that you brought back here?
09:01 The fifth.
09:05 Back Hammond?
09:07 Yeah, Wilson.
09:08 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian empire.
09:14 Cheeseburgers or chicken chow mein?
09:16 Take your pick.
09:20 Oh, well.
09:25 All of your slickness at the bar, all that's gone.
09:29 What do I seem like now, boy?
09:31 A veteran of many wars.
09:33 It's yours.
09:36 Cocaine's a fun boy's drug.
09:38 I'm not fun.
09:39 Answer yourself.
09:42 [Inhales]
09:43 Mmm.
09:47 I prefer you like this, all dark and real.
09:51 Maybe I could, uh, cheer you up.
09:57 What are you doing?
10:01 Fulfilling my side of the social contract.
10:04 Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off?
10:09 Huh?
10:12 So, we didn't.
10:16 No.
10:17 [Laughs]
10:21 I really -- I really thought we did.
10:24 Do you want to now?
10:26 He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor.
10:31 San Francisco.
10:34 Psychedelics, disco biscuits, angel powders, and young men.
10:39 Just about every night I lived there,
10:41 you offered something off the menu.
10:45 Louis de Pointe de Lac from New Orleans.
10:48 You specialize in low-end real estate.
10:51 I like predicting what overlooked product will flourish in time.
10:55 Low-end property, little-known art.
10:58 Worth is often miscalculated because of --
11:01 Q?
11:05 Minor factors.
11:07 You can squeeze profit out of that margin.
11:11 Did you gravitate to San Fran as a hub for homophiles?
11:18 Paris, in the 1940s,
11:21 with its permissive, laissez-aller sexual atmosphere,
11:26 was the more formative liberation for me.
11:29 Take this seriously.
11:31 I am.
11:36 Shit.
11:37 [Laughs]
11:40 I forgot to put a tape in.
11:42 [Chuckles]
11:45 Hmm.
11:47 I'm a vampire.
11:48 Okay.
11:49 I mean, I'm really interested to know why you, uh, believe that.
11:55 [Thunder crashes]
11:56 [Gasps]
11:59 Fuck.
12:02 Are those fangs?
12:05 Hi.
12:06 Fuck, man.
12:07 Are you the Zodiac Killer?
12:10 [Paper rustling]
12:13 [Gasps]
12:15 [Paper rustling]
12:18 [Lock clicks]
12:21 [Lock clicks]
12:24 [Lock clicks]
12:27 [Lock clicks]
12:30 [Lock clicks]
12:33 [Lock clicks]
12:36 [Lock clicks]
12:39 [Lock clicks]
12:42 Don't be afraid.
12:44 Just start the tape.
12:46 [Lock clicks]
12:49 [Lock clicks]
12:52 Okay.
12:53 It's on now.
12:56 Um...
12:58 First question.
13:00 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
13:04 No.
13:05 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
13:10 And how did it come about?
13:12 There's a simple answer to that.
13:14 I don't believe I want to give simple answers.
13:18 I want to tell the real story.
13:21 You smoked shaky cigarette after shaky cigarette.
13:25 You shook more then than you do now.
13:27 What I remember most,
13:28 other than that you were an alien five feet from me,
13:31 was how eager you were to spill.
13:34 No coaxing on my part.
13:35 No journalism, per se.
13:37 You were terrified of me, Daniel.
13:38 You were lonely, Louie.
13:40 It was gratifying to tell you what I was
13:43 after mingling with humans for so long.
13:45 You weren't thrill-seeking.
13:47 You were floundering,
13:48 tape after tape of emotional upchucks.
13:50 Where's this leading, Daniel?
13:52 I have some outstanding questions about 1973.
13:58 Like...
14:00 why you talk to me in the first place.
14:02 You had curiosity, swagger.
14:04 Nah.
14:05 I would chat for a few hours,
14:06 and then who would come looking
14:08 if another drug-addled homophile disappeared?
14:11 The Berkeley Barb?
14:14 Malik will be dead in two hours.
14:16 You've made me an accessory to murder,
14:18 and you've had 13 sessions.
14:21 I want 20 minutes.
14:23 For me.
14:24 I want to know, for me,
14:27 what happened between us.
14:30 Okay?
14:32 Okay.
14:35 Okay.
14:37 Then let me ask you this, Daniel Malloy.
14:41 What's the next thing you remember?
14:47 You eviscerating Lestat.
14:50 He had a dark pull.
14:52 A numbing affect on the senses.
14:54 He was a handsome sailor.
14:55 Yeah, I mean, I know the type.
14:57 He stripped away his superficial charms
15:01 beneath his flimsy gentleman's veneer.
15:05 Lestat was trivial.
15:09 Vapid.
15:10 Mm.
15:11 Vulgar.
15:12 Vulgar.
15:13 Maniacal.
15:14 Blind and sterile and contemptible.
15:17 Big-time asshole.
15:18 He appeared frail and stupid to me.
15:22 A man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice.
15:28 For all that Lestat boasted about his love of music,
15:32 he played without an iota of feeling.
15:38 Nothing.
15:39 No one home.
15:40 Like an automaton,
15:42 plonking away at the notes
15:44 with all the emotional acuity of a monster!
15:48 Yeah, but he was suggestible.
15:50 I mean, he lured you in, you know?
15:53 He's a faker, but you figured that out.
15:55 Just by then, you paid a biblical price for your first love.
16:00 I'm sorry.
16:06 I didn't mean to.
16:08 No.
16:09 That was astute, boy.
16:12 You see?
16:13 You were nimble-minded even back then.
16:16 I was a moron.
16:17 Will you, uh, do the fang thing again?
16:21 I love that man.
16:27 Just for reference, that was Louis de Pointe-Delac just now,
16:31 making his fangs come out.
16:34 Ah, shit.
16:35 The tape ran out.
16:37 It's a small 30-minute thing.
16:39 If I had been an actual journalist
16:41 and, you know, not fried on Coke and lewds,
16:43 I would have realized
16:44 what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with,
16:47 because the next thing that happened was,
16:50 you detonated.
16:51 ♪ Ah, the sewing machine, the sewing machine ♪
16:53 ♪ A girl's the best in the hair machine ♪
16:55 I sat on that bench in Jackson Square,
16:59 watched Claudia disappear into the night.
17:02 I'm kind of with her.
17:03 Get off that bench, brother.
17:05 I pictured her on the platform,
17:08 boarding a train,
17:10 carrying her off into her future,
17:13 a future I would be absent from.
17:15 Or you'd just pick yourself up.
17:17 Stay behind with Lestat.
17:21 And I knew within seconds
17:24 it was the only choice,
17:26 the wrong choice.
17:28 And then what?
17:30 Then...
17:32 what?
17:34 I had nothing.
17:36 Nothing but the bench I was sitting on.
17:39 So I stayed on it.
17:41 For hours.
17:43 All I had to do
17:45 was watch the sun come up,
17:47 let it bleach my bones,
17:50 purify the putrid soul.
17:53 Are you kidding me?
17:54 What, you were just gonna end it?
17:56 [ Chuckles ]
17:57 I mean, what about life?
17:58 Like joy rides and night swimming
18:01 and marriage and cancer
18:03 and all of that till the death rattle?
18:05 I mean, we got to carry all this shit,
18:07 and you had to take it out,
18:08 and you were just gonna throw it away?
18:11 You've overstepped now, boy.
18:13 Listen, no, obviously you didn't do it,
18:15 but you were given the gift,
18:17 and I've been hearing you bitch the night away about it.
18:20 And since you used the past tense about her,
18:22 I figured she --
18:23 She what?
18:25 Well, I could see where this is going, and --
18:27 And what?
18:29 And give it to me.
18:32 I won't waste it.
18:33 I think you could use me.
18:35 I think we have an energy, you and me.
18:37 I could be your Lestat, your Claudia, but better.
18:41 I mean, I got a little bit of both of them in me,
18:43 plus a few things they don't.
18:45 This, after all I've told you,
18:49 is what you asked for, boy!
18:51 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like.
18:53 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
18:55 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story!
18:58 [Grunts]
19:00 No!
19:01 Hey, stop!
19:03 [Grunts]
19:04 ♪ I get so weary, I don't even look up to him ♪
19:06 Suicide Hotline 101.
19:08 Don't say to the person on the other end of the line,
19:10 "Hey, why don't you cheer the fuck up?"
19:12 I overreacted.
19:13 Not sure that killing me
19:14 was a totally warranted response to my idiocy?
19:17 I took a scoop out of your throat.
19:18 I deserved to have my ass kicked.
19:20 For the sheer number of times I said, "And then what?"
19:23 All the drugs in your blood, it all went back into me.
19:25 Coral stone, prize-winning journalism.
19:28 And then what?
19:30 I, um...
19:34 Daniel.
19:39 [Clears throat]
19:43 Daniel.
19:45 Yeah.
19:47 [Clears throat]
19:49 Hesitation.
19:54 [Sighs]
19:56 I have a surprise for you.
20:00 Kind of a curveball,
20:01 which will seem like less of a surprise
20:03 and more like a...ambush.
20:07 [Sighs]
20:09 Is that our original interview?
20:14 Turns out I had a copy saved in the cloud.
20:18 You're a liar, Daniel.
20:19 So are you, Louie.
20:21 Know it or not,
20:23 you remember the last nine minutes at the end?
20:27 Betty Hutton drowning out
20:29 the indecipherable moaning and yelling?
20:33 Yes.
20:35 Well, um, my researcher, uh, assistant,
20:39 uh, she's a bit of an audiophile,
20:42 and, uh, well, she cleaned it up a bit.
20:46 Press pause on the betrayal of it all,
20:49 and, uh, listen.
20:52 [Screams]
20:54 [Grunts]
20:56 [Groans]
20:58 [Groans]
21:00 [Groans]
21:02 [Groans]
21:04 Louie!
21:06 [Grunts]
21:08 That wet thud,
21:10 that's Armand saving me.
21:13 [Indistinct chatter]
21:16 [Indistinct chatter]
21:19 What?
21:25 What?!
21:27 Morning!
21:28 I lost time.
21:30 Things got a little heated.
21:32 With a boy. Things got heated with a boy.
21:34 I was at home picking lint off the sofa.
21:36 I said to join us.
21:38 The night's gone, the room's soiled,
21:39 and once again I'm here with mop and mindlessness
21:42 to clean it up.
21:43 So the room got dirty, so what?
21:45 I'll clean it up.
21:46 No, I clean it up!
21:47 You make the mess, and I clean it up.
21:49 Mark it on the calendar.
21:50 I'll add it with Ussa Major, Louise Triannual.
21:53 Fuck off and find me with apologies to follow.
21:55 I'm sorry.
21:56 The sweet comfort in the arms of lowlifes
21:58 and unfortunates and broken children.
22:00 Fine.
22:01 Fine? The "fine" that doesn't sound like "fine."
22:03 But revealing our nature to a reporter!
22:05 You met in a bar 10 hours ago.
22:07 What if it was published?
22:08 I was having some fun.
22:09 We don't have enough to fear for, Paris.
22:10 I was in the middle of ending things when you --
22:12 You already passed out on the floor next to him, Louis.
22:16 Out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed away --
22:18 You're boring!
22:19 You're boring!
22:21 You are so boring!
22:24 Colorless, flavorless, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull,
22:30 dull, weak, dull, much dull as fuck!
22:34 Suffocation by the world's softest,
22:38 beigest pillow.
22:41 The 10 hours I spent with that boy
22:45 were more exciting, more fascinating
22:49 than decades with you!
22:53 [ Breathing heavily ]
22:57 Oh, there it is.
22:59 The half-blank, half-apocalyptic look.
23:03 But what does it mean tonight, huh?
23:05 Does he want to lick my boots or chop my hands off?
23:10 Is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight, huh?
23:15 Okay.
23:17 Okay, perhaps.
23:18 But am I as boring as the blather
23:22 committed onto the ferric tapes of your fascinating boy?
23:27 Oh, it's so -- so hard to beat me!
23:29 Picking lint off the sofa?
23:31 It's so hard to kill humans!
23:32 I can feel her feet as I breathe through me.
23:35 It's so hard to put your head in a whip.
23:38 Everyone I know wrongs me.
23:40 Okay, okay.
23:41 Let's wake the boy up, and let's try you.
23:44 I'm the vampire Armando.
23:46 My daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch!
23:50 My brother, he tossed his head off the roof.
23:52 My sister, she buried me alive.
23:54 Maybe pretend I didn't have a gift for 240 years.
23:56 My daughter was my sister, was my throw pillow
23:58 when he would look at me kindly.
24:00 Le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat,
24:03 le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat.
24:05 I talked shit about him the whole time!
24:07 The name!
24:10 The name!
24:11 Unuttered in our home for 23 years,
24:14 said over and over again
24:16 until it was pounding in my brain like a hammer.
24:19 Our problems aren't about him.
24:21 And you threw her name around just for cover,
24:24 but it always circled back to him.
24:26 I loved her.
24:27 But she didn't love you!
24:30 Not like he did, not like I have.
24:33 I know.
24:35 I know!
24:37 Yes!
24:38 I know!
24:40 Thank you for saving me.
24:42 I was creeping back in Paris.
24:46 And they, uh, what, what, what, what,
24:48 what, uh, it's all of them coming back.
24:52 It's, uh, Paris.
24:55 Paris.
24:57 Can you hear that?
24:58 Can you hear that, Paul?
25:00 Can you hear her?
25:02 She's calling me.
25:04 [panting]
25:07 [door opens]
25:09 [door closes]
25:11 I think that's you running out of the room.
25:14 Hear that?
25:16 Second door slam, farther off.
25:19 What's that second door slam?
25:21 I don't, I don't remember.
25:23 I don't remember any of this.
25:24 First door opens.
25:26 Slam, footsteps.
25:30 Second door slams.
25:33 Metal door.
25:35 Armand calls your name.
25:40 He runs after you.
25:42 Metal door opens to screams.
25:46 A few more seconds.
25:49 Tape runs out.
25:52 Where does Armand follow you, Louis?
25:56 It's morning.
25:59 You went out of the room.
26:03 Door opens.
26:06 Slams.
26:08 Steps.
26:12 Metal door.
26:14 Louis!
26:17 [panting]
26:26 [door opens]
26:28 [door closes]
26:30 [panting]
26:33 [door slams]
26:35 [panting]
26:42 [screaming]
26:48 No, no, no, no, no!
26:51 I walked into the sun.
26:56 You remember that?
27:05 I'm remembering it now.
27:10 Let me ask you a really loaded question, Louis.
27:14 And then what?
27:18 My skin burnt to the color of pitch.
27:23 A char coming off me.
27:27 The pain?
27:28 Like a siren.
27:30 Like a noise in my body.
27:36 I walked out into the sun.
27:40 I think so.
27:41 Pieces of my life.
27:43 Gone.
27:46 I knew who I was without those pieces.
27:49 Wait.
27:50 Sidestep the big picture.
27:52 Get the story straight first.
27:57 [screaming]
28:03 [panting]
28:09 The pain.
28:12 Must be exquisite.
28:16 What happened?
28:18 You drained a drug fiend.
28:21 You said the worst things you've ever said to me.
28:23 No.
28:24 And then you ran outside.
28:25 No.
28:26 And now you're a convalescent.
28:28 I'm sorry.
28:30 I'm so sorry.
28:31 What is it?
28:33 I'm sorry.
28:35 Meaningless word.
28:38 Meaningless.
28:41 The floor slants slightly north.
28:44 The boy's blood flowed that way.
28:46 We should fix that before we self.
28:51 He's alive?
28:54 The boy.
28:56 The fascinating boy.
28:59 He's alive.
29:03 Don't.
29:04 He's just fine.
29:06 Don't.
29:07 Oh, he's fine.
29:08 You're fine.
29:09 This is fine.
29:11 We're all fine.
29:14 You two kept me in that apartment for how long?
29:17 You were there, Daniel.
29:18 I don't remember.
29:19 I-- that's why I'm asking.
29:24 I can remember a few things.
29:26 Like--
29:27 He's just fine.
29:29 There's someone else there.
29:30 He's fine.
29:31 Go away.
29:32 He's fine.
29:33 We'll get you to the car.
29:36 A cellophane corpse on the floor.
29:39 Meaningless word.
29:41 Meaningless.
29:43 A neighbor saw you while he was taking out the trash.
29:45 I had to chase him down.
29:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
29:49 [GASPING]
29:52 The floor slants slightly north.
29:55 The boy's blood flowed that way.
29:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
30:00 There's a TV in the corner near the corpse.
30:05 Some kind of sock or shoe commercial.
30:08 There's sheets of plastic tarp, some duct tape, bleach.
30:15 Surely I'm next.
30:17 [SOBBING]
30:20 I-- I can see him walking out of the bedroom.
30:24 I can hear you, but I can't see you.
30:27 The door frame is blocking me.
30:29 OK, yeah.
30:31 Armand puts the table back and finds the recorder under the TV,
30:40 brings it to the table.
30:44 He ejects the tape.
30:46 Yeah.
30:47 Flips it over.
30:50 And presses play.
30:55 I hear my voice on the recorder.
30:58 The more he liked it.
31:00 A fresh young girl, that was his favorite food.
31:02 But the triumphal kill for a city just like Lestat--
31:05 Armand!
31:06 --was always a young man.
31:08 A young man like yourself would have appealed to him in particular.
31:12 You see, they represented the greatest loss to Lestat,
31:16 because they stood on the threshold of maximum possibility.
31:20 Rest.
31:21 Of course, Lestat didn't understand this himself.
31:24 Lestat understood nothing.
31:27 Curious.
31:28 Armand stands over you.
31:30 He's commandeered your body.
31:32 Rise.
31:33 [GASPING]
31:39 Armand.
31:41 From Polynesian Marys, I was with Louis.
31:45 I can't move your body.
31:48 Yeah.
31:49 Yeah.
31:50 [GROANING]
31:54 I don't want--
31:55 To die?
31:58 On that item?
32:00 I think I know something you don't.
32:02 [GROANING]
32:08 I'm told you've lived a fascinating life.
32:11 I never said that.
32:12 No, Louis did.
32:14 Leave him alone, Armand.
32:16 [THUD]
32:17 [GROANING]
32:20 Armand.
32:21 You held Louis' attention.
32:25 He confessed his innermost secrets to you.
32:28 I wanted drugs.
32:30 We didn't even have sex.
32:31 128 boys he's brought here.
32:34 He said five.
32:35 And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain.
32:37 This is so bad.
32:38 That makes you special.
32:40 Please, man.
32:41 Look, I'm just a shithole kid from a desk.
32:43 That warrants investigation.
32:44 I could be on my knees in a second.
32:47 [THUD]
32:48 Bartering with desire, is that what makes you fascinating?
32:51 He didn't even want me in the end.
32:53 I mean, look at my neck.
32:55 I'm fucking bleeding down to my ankles.
32:57 Vera?
33:03 She's a single mother.
33:04 It's-- it's in a titty bar on Market Street.
33:07 Kevin?
33:08 He's a Vietnam vet who lives in the Castro
33:10 like Castro with his Vietnamese refugee boyfriend with no legs.
33:14 You think in all these fools you'd arrived at some ineffable truth?
33:18 - Nuh-uh. - It's all bullshit.
33:19 An instinct to self-efface? Is that what makes you fascinating?
33:23 Okay, yes.
33:24 I'm good at getting angles.
33:28 Getting people to open up.
33:32 I can't feel my body. It's freaking me out.
33:35 No, no, no, no, no, no.
33:38 [GROANING]
33:39 Armand!
33:44 You're going to teach me how to be fascinating.
33:46 Leave him be, Armand!
33:49 [THUD]
33:50 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazines,
33:54 sold them at recess.
33:56 A little dirty, a little deceitful, but it's enterprising.
33:59 Is that what makes you fascinating?
34:02 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
34:05 if she had a paper bag over her head.
34:07 She agreed, and you did it even as she cried.
34:10 A splinter of coldness in you.
34:13 Is that what makes you fascinating?
34:15 My legs are starting to cramp.
34:17 Even his transgressions are ordinary, Louis.
34:19 - The pinhole's closing back up. - Okay, it's huge fascinating.
34:22 You can read minds, right?
34:25 Louis thinks I'm boring.
34:27 - I have Charlie Horse's five letters. - Do you find me boring?
34:30 [GASPS]
34:31 [GASPS]
34:35 [CHUCKLES]
34:36 Do you want to hear my story?
34:42 Yes. Yes.
34:44 Yes.
34:46 My first memory...
34:51 I'm being run down by slavers in Delhi.
34:55 My second...
34:58 [BREATHING HEAVILY]
35:00 [GASPS]
35:05 [SOBBING]
35:06 An eager black hole.
35:11 Oh, God.
35:16 I'll keep digging.
35:19 But I'm not hopeful there's much more to you, Daniel,
35:26 other than a hole.
35:28 [GROANING]
35:29 [SCREAMS]
35:34 I was in Zeliznagorsk to interview an operative for the KGB.
35:39 Halfway through, I tried to go to the bathroom. He'd locked me in.
35:44 I was the one being interviewed.
35:47 Your point?
35:48 I don't know.
35:51 No point, other than fuck your boyfriend.
35:55 Rage is an imprecise emotion.
35:58 I'd hurt him, but I was fragile, an invalid.
36:02 Spiro Agnew.
36:06 Daniel? Daniel?
36:08 Washington insiders are claiming this Saturday evening
36:11 that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew may be close to resigning
36:16 in light of ongoing investigations.
36:18 Federal prosecutors will soon present evidence
36:21 to a Baltimore grand jury
36:22 over the vice president's allegedly receiving illegal...
36:25 Saturday. It was Saturday, but we met on Tuesday.
36:30 So I was the house pet for...
36:32 What? One, two, three, four days?
36:36 -Your boyfriend... -I'm with him now.
36:41 -was in a trance of some sort. -I won't tell you why.
36:44 -I don't know. I can't. -No.
36:46 -Lunch is almost over. Try. -I won't say when.
36:49 You fucking try. You were there.
36:51 -Go back to the chair. -You're on TV.
36:53 ...Vice President Spiro T. Agnew...
36:55 His feet in the rocks shit is bullshit.
36:58 You're in the chair. The TV is on.
37:00 -Tell them... -Come on! Can you come?
37:03 I can't get up. It hurts.
37:05 Put me in the coffin.
37:07 Coffin?
37:09 Yeah, it's you. You keep saying "coffin."
37:14 My nose is bleeding?
37:18 -Tell them... -Come on!
37:19 Can you come? Where are you?
37:23 The pain is back. It's like I'm still burning.
37:27 Come on. Put me in the coffin.
37:30 -Please. -Yes.
37:32 Thank you.
37:33 Rest.
37:36 ...consumers and gas station owners.
37:40 I listened to the tapes.
38:00 All of them twice.
38:05 Lestat, Lestat.
38:07 Claudia, Lestat, Lestat.
38:11 All I talked about was trash.
38:13 Yes, you said that. But why?
38:15 It's not exactly how you've talked about him to me.
38:21 Did I catch you in a fantasy
38:23 where the boy somehow fumbles his way to publication?
38:26 Where Lestat strolls past a bookstore,
38:30 your book displayed in the shop window,
38:34 where he buys himself a copy,
38:36 reads your nasty embellishments,
38:38 and comes chasing after you again?
38:40 If you want the insanity back,
38:50 if you wanted escape from this prison of empathy,
38:54 I've locked you away in.
38:56 All you had to do was ask, Louis.
38:59 [sobs]
39:01 A final act of service I'd like to perform before I...
39:09 I leave you to yourself.
39:12 I know where he is.
39:16 I found his voice among the many.
39:21 No.
39:24 I told him I was with you.
39:26 [breathes heavily]
39:28 Lestat.
39:35 No.
39:37 I told him you were thinking of him again.
39:42 -Lestat. -No.
39:45 Yes. I'm here.
39:50 He's waiting for you.
39:53 I'm with him now.
39:56 He cannot hear you.
39:57 He has injured himself.
39:59 Louis.
40:01 No.
40:02 This is your chance, Louis. I am your maker's voice.
40:05 Louis.
40:07 Louis.
40:09 Mon cher.
40:11 Mon cher.
40:13 You wanted to say something to me.
40:17 You wanted to say something to me.
40:20 Why are you ill?
40:23 What's happened to you?
40:25 [sobs]
40:26 I love you, Louis.
40:27 [sobs]
40:28 Tell him I love him, Armand.
40:31 I love you, Louis.
40:35 Tell him, Armand.
40:38 Tell him.
40:41 Louis?
40:44 Louis?
40:46 Louis?
40:48 Louis!
40:51 [sobs]
40:52 Louis!
40:54 Louis!
40:55 You was my make.
41:03 It's not them all.
41:07 You left me for death.
41:09 Will I be on suicide watch for the next thousand years?
41:17 Have I atoned
41:21 for my part of...
41:24 Paris?
41:25 Have I crawled an inch forward?
41:28 Or am I a reminder of the worst of it?
41:31 I'll finish cleaning up.
41:46 Rest.
41:52 -Rest. -Rest.
41:54 He said that to me, too.
41:59 Rest?
42:01 Shh.
42:02 Rest now.
42:04 A bunch of words.
42:06 But it started with rest.
42:10 Rest. And then?
42:12 Shh. Rest.
42:20 [sobs]
42:21 I've been calling to you for some time.
42:25 From every bad fix.
42:28 From the unnamed malaise you feel Sunday afternoons.
42:32 And now here I am and you could rest.
42:37 I don't want to rest.
42:40 I'm the quiet you've been longing for.
42:44 After all the garishness of life,
42:49 the jostling,
42:50 the clawing...
42:52 I like my life.
42:53 ...the dull thrum of desperation in you.
42:56 Will I get the fixes I need?
42:58 Will I be somebody?
43:01 Will I get the fixes I need to be somebody?
43:06 But, Daniel,
43:07 you already know who you'll be.
43:10 An ugly duplex back in Modesto.
43:14 A job in an office with drab carpets and flickering lights.
43:19 A woman in the mould of your mother,
43:21 vacuuming on Valium.
43:23 A genteel drinking problem like your father,
43:28 your wife counting down your thrusts.
43:31 Your children shying away from you.
43:35 All the confidence and hope of your youth
43:40 replaced by a seething, boiling regret.
43:45 Until one day,
43:49 you're at a traffic light.
43:50 The light turns green.
43:53 Horns honking.
43:55 You don't move.
43:58 Horns honking.
44:00 You don't move.
44:02 Everything happening in the city.
44:05 I'm a bright young reporter with a point of view.
44:11 Shh, a comfortable chair
44:13 in a room that slants to the north.
44:16 An easeful breath.
44:19 Rest.
44:20 It's OK.
44:24 It's OK.
44:28 It's OK.
44:31 It'll feel like a bath.
44:34 Rest.
44:36 Like honey on your tongue.
44:37 It is the comfort we all long for.
44:41 The end.
44:44 Rest.
44:46 Rest.
44:48 Rest.
44:49 Come.
44:53 Come.
44:55 I'm holding you.
44:56 You rest now.
44:58 Stop or move.
45:11 [SIGHS]
45:12 I'm cleaning up the mess.
45:20 Doesn't need cleaning.
45:22 After what you've put me through here, I deserve this.
45:26 I know.
45:27 But I need this one to live.
45:30 It's a testament
45:33 to our companionship,
45:35 of its endurance.
45:37 [SIGHS]
45:38 This boy
45:43 to live out the night.
45:45 Are you asking, Metre?
45:51 No, Arul.
45:53 I'm not asking.
45:56 [GROANS]
46:05 [GRUNTS]
46:06 [GRUNTS]
46:12 [GROANS]
46:15 [PIANO MUSIC]
46:21 [PIANO MUSIC]
46:22 Daniel?
46:40 [PIANO MUSIC]
46:44 [SIREN WAILING]
46:45 Page 484.
46:56 Listen as though I'm the voice of God
46:59 or an angel talking to you,
47:01 telling you this room doesn't matter,
47:04 this night doesn't matter.
47:06 You're not inconsequential
47:08 or a junkie.
47:11 You're a bright young reporter with a point of view.
47:14 There are stories that need to be told.
47:17 If things ever get bad again,
47:19 these are the words you'll hear in your mind
47:22 like a tape playing over and over,
47:24 like a song stuck in your brain.
47:27 These words will hold you up and carry you.
47:31 They are your lifeline.
47:35 [SOMBER MUSIC]
47:36 [GUNSHOT]
47:43 That's a freebase, sir.
47:46 I befriended for a few days at the drug den.
47:48 He told me to get my shit together
47:54 and then he Richard Pryor'd right in front of me.
47:56 Everyone scrambled, but I stuck around, watched him burn.
48:01 What always confused me was that...
48:03 [SOMBER MUSIC]
48:04 You know, he said those words to me
48:11 and he was already all burnt up.
48:15 I figured I'd conflated the two events.
48:18 But I didn't.
48:21 Because it was you.
48:25 [SOMBER MUSIC]
48:26 I destroyed two marriages.
48:37 I fucked up two daughters.
48:42 But I stayed a journalist.
48:45 I...
48:48 I was never so lost I couldn't hold down a job.
48:53 [CHUCKLES]
48:56 [SOMBER MUSIC]
48:57 We, I think, gave you more drugs.
49:03 Distorted it all in your mind.
49:06 You woke up in a drug den.
49:08 Fed you a truncated version.
49:09 -He bit you. -He bit me.
49:11 -You blacked out. -I blacked out.
49:14 -You woke up in a drug den. -I woke up in a drug den.
49:18 -He bit you. -He bit me.
49:20 -You blacked out. -I blacked out.
49:22 You woke up in a drug den.
49:24 Armand fogged my brain.
49:26 -He bit you. -Redacted himself.
49:28 Which accounts for why I didn't remember.
49:30 Yes.
49:31 And what accounts for why you didn't?
49:34 I was disfigured.
49:36 -I was in pain. -But you remember
49:39 right up until when you bit me.
49:41 And I remember right up until when you bit me.
49:44 And then both our memories cut out.
49:48 Same precise edit on two brains.
49:52 [eerie music]
49:54 How was your lunch?
50:07 Entertaining.
50:09 He made it all the way to Burj Khalifa.
50:12 How was Paris?
50:14 We paused Paris.
50:16 Reminisced about San Francisco.
50:18 And?
50:20 What started with Daniel.
50:22 He asked why you saved him in 1973.
50:25 I could see you were partial to him.
50:32 I preserve your happiness even when you don't or can't.
50:35 -I had a hunch... -You had a hunch.
50:37 Daniel might prove fruitful in later times.
50:42 [sombre music]
50:45 [music fades]
50:47 You're stronger. I can feel it.
51:00 But you gotta give up something to get something.
51:06 You fear Armand.
51:08 You should fear the other one.
51:10 Can you imagine me without the burden of her?
51:13 Today, we're turning our spotlight on ourselves.
51:16 Are you ready?
51:20 Episode five, "Don't Be Afraid," just start the tape,
51:34 explains the past, it explains relationships,
51:37 and it explains the betrayal.
51:40 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
51:42 -if she had a paper bag... -Daniel.
51:44 -...over her head. She agreed and you did it, Ian. -Daniel.
51:47 What's in the bag?
51:50 In season one, we saw the original meeting in the bar...
51:54 -Hi. -...of young Molloy and Louis in San Francisco.
51:57 Would you like to join us?
51:59 With Armand there, lurking in the background.
52:01 No.
52:02 You go ahead. Have your fun.
52:05 And now, we're back with that same trio.
52:08 Louis and Molloy have returned to the apartment in San Francisco.
52:12 -And... -I like what you've done with the place.
52:15 We see this interview play out.
52:18 Are you a real estate mogul?
52:20 I own a lot of things.
52:22 Recreating 1973 was a lot of fun.
52:28 Those of us who know something about that era
52:30 just sort of laugh at everything from the clothes to the hair,
52:33 and every detail, every prop, every set dressing has to be right.
52:38 Back Hammond?
52:41 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire.
52:44 This went through many permutations,
52:48 but basically, it's a beautiful '70s back Hammond board,
52:56 rebuilt to handle all the drugs,
53:01 all the fun and games that Louis is offering to Molloy in the '70s.
53:07 It was actually the first thing we shot this season.
53:09 It's like shooting a little play, really,
53:11 because you're in the one set for the whole time.
53:13 That first blush, it is a one-off episode,
53:17 and yet it explains everything that's happened up till then,
53:20 and more importantly, everything that's going to happen.
53:23 Does that scare you, boy?
53:24 It was really fun to revisit that dynamic with the younger Daniel.
53:28 So, am I the first guy that you brought back here?
53:31 It was amazing to work with Luke,
53:33 having seen up close Eric's Daniel.
53:37 Our first interview is a fog.
53:41 I mean, it's the '70s, all a blur.
53:45 Unbeknownst to me, when we met in New Orleans
53:48 before we even started shooting anything,
53:50 I didn't realize that he was watching me
53:53 and planning a strategy on how to play the younger me.
53:57 Some of the stuff that Luke was doing, I was like, "That's Eric.
54:00 That's Eric."
54:01 I'm a vampire.
54:06 Okay. I mean, I'm really interested to know why you believe that.
54:11 Even in the first meet in '73,
54:18 Louis has a real fondness for Daniel.
54:20 I lose fangs.
54:22 -He likes him. He's cool. -Hi.
54:23 That's why Daniel lived as long as he did.
54:26 First question.
54:29 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
54:33 We have these two guys in Dubai
54:36 who, with the help of the Talamaska,
54:38 they start trying to piece together what happened.
54:41 Where...
54:43 Fuck.
54:44 You don't know what human life is like.
54:47 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
54:48 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story.
54:51 It's intense. It's intense for me.
54:55 Having watched it,
54:57 it then informs everything that I am doing in later scenes.
55:01 I have a surprise for you.
55:03 Kind of a curveball, which will seem like less of a surprise
55:06 and more like a...
55:08 ambush.
55:10 Louis?
55:13 That's Armand saving me.
55:18 The relationship between Armand and Louis was very up and down.
55:23 Louis, as much as he wants to say
55:25 that this relationship cured him of his malaise...
55:28 The ten hours I spent with that boy,
55:33 were more exciting, more fascinating
55:36 than decades with you.
55:40 ...clearly has all kinds of problems.
55:42 Many of the same issues he had when he was with Lestat
55:45 have resurfaced.
55:47 Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat...
55:49 Armand is always conniving.
55:51 He's always working.
55:53 And I think that's also the tragedy of him,
55:55 is that he can't ever relax with the truth.
55:58 I'm remembering it now.
56:03 It's kind of the biggest betrayal, isn't it?
56:05 When you choose to spend your life with somebody,
56:08 you accept each other.
56:09 I can't think of a bigger betrayal than lying to that person
56:12 in such a significant way,
56:14 to the extent where you would rewrite their history.
56:18 -Rest. -Rest.
56:19 He said that to me, too.
56:22 It makes me angry now.
56:24 Armand is so wrong for that.
56:26 Don't.
56:28 He's just fine.
56:29 -Don't. -Oh, he's fine.
56:32 You're fine. This is fine.
56:35 We're all fine.
56:37 Stop, Armand.
56:43 We both discover the depths of duplicity
56:48 that Armand has gone to
56:50 and what he's done to each of us.
56:53 Up to this point, the Malloy-Louis dynamic is adversarial.
57:00 It is really this kind of amazing moment of connection
57:06 between the two of them.
57:08 Like a song stuck in your brain,
57:11 these words will hold you up and carry you.
57:14 Jacob has said it. Louis doesn't have any friends.
57:17 They are your lifeline.
57:18 And Daniel doesn't have any friends.
57:21 So if they have any friends at all, maybe it's each other.
57:26 There's an odd couple for you.
57:30 (DOOR CLOSES)
57:31 (FOOTSTEPS)
57:33 (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
57:35 (gentle music)