Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 6
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 6
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00:16Pieces of my life gone.
00:18I knew who I was without those pieces.
00:22No vampire must commit to writing the history of the vampires.
00:26Santiago wants to be coven leader.
00:28Others will follow him. You should think to leave.
00:30I'm staying in Paris. With you.
00:34You sold me a dress.
00:36I liked you.
00:37There's something broken in me.
00:38Like I want to go bang.
00:39Go bang.
00:40I'll let you whine and have your say.
00:42Most in my position would treat you no better than you treated your maker.
00:48And the friend you made, he will not see again.
00:51The name's Raglan James.
00:53You're not the first to attempt this, Mr. Malloy.
00:55I could give you the names of four robbers and they're all dead.
00:58Or undead.
00:59Four Fred Steins in the house.
01:00You made me look foolish.
01:02Louis!
01:03Is that our original interview?
01:04Both our memories cut out.
01:06Same precise edit on two brains.
01:40How did I get the tapes?
01:45There was no postage on the package.
01:48With the tapes.
01:50Rashid.
01:53The bylaws of my co-op say only the mailman can have the key that opens up all the mailboxes.
01:59So did you guys get to my mailman?
02:02No.
02:03Only the mailman can have the key that opens up all the mailboxes.
02:06So did you guys get to my mailman?
02:09Huh?
02:10I usually give him a little something for Christmas, but I mean...
02:14You know, I mean, if he's in on it, then...
02:18I'm thinking, do I still have that obligation?
02:22Rashid?
02:33I'm going to the bathroom.
02:37I'm going to make a run for it.
02:40Rashid.
02:42They're going to turn you into broth bags because you couldn't hold it.
02:48Hello?
02:51They sent a chaperone. I'm sorry. Go away.
02:55Rashid?
02:56He loves the hand soap they use here. I wouldn't worry too much about Rashid.
03:00I've been dreaming about a mackerel here.
03:05The two Barcelos would fit.
03:07If we replaced the couch.
03:09I assumed we would.
03:10The couch, and the table, and the Antio Javelina.
03:14Then, then, then, then.
03:17How about the Ai Weiwei wallpaper with the Hockney lemons?
03:21Like we're a Firmdale hotel lobby?
03:23Okay.
03:24What do you think we should do with the wall?
03:26How big is the Talamasca?
03:29Who funds you guys?
03:30Do you work with nation states?
03:32That's why you called me here.
03:35You had pictures of me in 1973.
03:38Pictures of them?
03:39You were a fly on the windshield.
03:41Can you protect me?
03:42Ah.
03:43From being killed?
03:44No.
03:45We're particularly poor at keeping our assets alive.
03:48I'm not an asset.
03:49You messaged me.
03:50I showed up.
03:51The mackerel was better last time.
03:53I'm going to get out alive.
03:55You want a book.
03:58I want both.
04:00You fear Armand.
04:03You should fear the other one.
04:05What about a selection of Fred Steins?
04:08Tastefully framed.
04:10They've been sitting in my albums all this time.
04:12Seems a waste.
04:14A waste?
04:15Sitting in my albums all this time seems a waste?
04:19Or better not to have so tangible a reminder of Paris up on our walls.
04:24An interview about Paris is a more tangible reminder of Paris than a few photographs.
04:32Leave it there then.
04:34Wait for revelation to enter the room.
04:39We can help you find a publisher.
04:40I have a publisher.
04:41Your publisher will get a phone call before you turn it in.
04:45They will pay you handsomely for your manuscript and bury it.
04:49You won't even see a galley proof.
04:51It's all going to come out soon enough and there's a number of us in the order who think
04:56better it happens with Daniel Malloy in paperback than the bumbling governments of the world.
05:03What's the ask?
05:04My superiors have a list, a few hundred questions they'd like you to weave into your interview
05:09and I'm professionally charged to press you to include them.
05:14And apart from your charge?
05:15I think it would be disastrous.
05:17I think you've been masterful.
05:19I think if I could swap bodies with you I'd be running the order by now.
05:28How's the soap, Agent Rashid?
05:31We should be returning now.
05:33Mr. Malloy would like to stay alive, Rashid.
05:36Then perhaps he should have thrown the tapes away when he found them in his mailbox.
05:43Oh, that's very kind of you. Thank you.
05:47I'm leaving you.
05:49I wish to tell you that now.
05:52I thought as much.
05:54And I thought as well that you'd make a flowery announcement.
06:00Tell me what a monster I am, what a vulgar fiend.
06:03I make no judgment of you.
06:05I am not interested in you.
06:07I'm interested in my own vampire nature now.
06:10What do you think a vampire is?
06:12I don't pretend to know.
06:15What is it?
06:17A flaccid full-length play based on nothing other than the superficial observations of the vampire Sam.
06:23His meditation on vampiric existence and enduring.
06:26Strange. I remember you racing back from rehearsals to tell me how ambitious the conceit was.
06:32Well, I was following your advice, wasn't I?
06:34I didn't want to bring the work's anxieties into our home.
06:36Or you're recalling the events with bias because of the machination surrounding it.
06:44Lead with a velvet glove instead of an iron gauntlet was the advice.
06:48Indulge the buffoon were my words.
06:51Feed Santiago his own ego back to him.
06:55And smother mutiny with praise.
06:58What does it mean to die?
07:01When you can live until the end of the world.
07:05And what is the end of the world except a phrase?
07:09I have lived now in two centuries.
07:11Seen the illusions of one utterly shattered by the other.
07:15Been eternally young and eternally ancient.
07:19Living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void.
07:28Line?
07:29There's a painted face.
07:30Oh, the painted face, yes.
07:32Let's stop there. Take the passage again, Santiago, and a foot forward, downstage.
07:37It's quite lovely, Sam.
07:39Even more what you're doing with it, Santiago.
07:44Thank you, maître.
07:45Thank you, maître.
07:55What does it mean to die?
07:58When you can live until the end of the world.
08:00I thought I was being clever, nailing him to the stage.
08:03And what is the end of the world except a phrase?
08:07My eyes on him till curfew every night.
08:09I have lived now in two centuries.
08:12They had no roles for women, and petulant members of the coven were free to roam the night.
08:17I walked by the theatre a fortnight ago.
08:20I saw that it was dark.
08:21Yes, the theatre is updating its repertoire.
08:25Isn't that exciting?
08:26For those with roles in the updated repertoire, obstreperously exciting.
08:31It's why we sit across from you this evening, Pierre Roger.
08:35Monsieur Lianco.
08:37The gentleman whose wealth has made our sacred art possible for the last 150 years.
08:44Maître wishes to invite him to attend the premiere.
08:47Ah, a lovely mission.
08:50Of course, the difficulty is communications with your esteemed patron occur only one way.
08:58Asking when was the last time they were in communication.
09:01May we ask, when was the last time you spoke with him?
09:04Ah, hard to say. Communications are irregular.
09:08Has there been a lapse in communication?
09:11There hasn't been a lapse in communication, has there?
09:14On that point, I haven't been authorised to divulge.
09:17Get on with it.
09:18The day, the hour, the minute you last spoke with.
09:23Le stat de Liancourt.
09:26Telegram.
09:28New Orleans, Louisiana, early February, 1940.
09:32Merci, Monsieur Roger.
09:34Illuminated by light.
09:36In retrospect, the buffoon was in the audience.
09:40Like the light by which God made the world before he made light.
09:46Scribbling in the margins, oblivious to the conspiracy uniting around him.
09:51Ticking, ticking, ticking.
09:54The precision of a clock in a room as vast as the universe.
10:03AMB.
10:08Bravo! Bravo!
10:11Bravo!
10:13Really?
10:14Yes.
10:15You are an ancient vampire, you could read any mind you want.
10:18I was in love.
10:20You buy that?
10:21I buy that he'd been in power a long time.
10:25You can get lazy.
10:27It was love.
10:29Okay.
10:31And love.
10:33He was loving in those days?
10:35Sure. Love.
10:37Rashid.
10:39Did you and Mr. Molloy talk to anyone during dinner?
10:42Just the chef when ordering, sir.
10:44Were you with Mr. Molloy the entire dinner?
10:46He used the restroom for approximately five minutes.
10:48Had a piece of halibut that still wanted to swim.
10:50You were not to leave Mr. Molloy alone?
10:52He didn't. Stood by the hand dryer like a creep.
10:55Why do you ask?
10:57Love.
11:07Diaries are friends of last resort.
11:11I have found one not made of paper and glue.
11:14Fuck these vampires.
11:19That's her last entry unless you're sitting on more of those ripped-out pages.
11:24You have everything we have?
11:26Unless you're sitting on something behind your encrypted laptop.
11:30Madeline.
11:32Claudia's immortal beloved.
11:34Not yet immortal.
11:36Note to self.
11:38Everything related to Claudia from this point forward is without written corroboration.
11:42Just our memories of her.
11:46However porous they come.
11:52Little more vermouth next time, Rashid?
11:54I can make another.
11:56No, it's good.
11:58It's just his were better.
12:24Long live Soledad.
12:28It's the pensioner of the fort.
12:32To live for the fatherland.
12:36To die for the fatherland.
12:40Good evening, Mrs. Mépavier.
12:46Come on, make your descent very ingenious.
12:49Stop it, Laval. We stop coming back, okay?
12:54Okay.
13:12Let go of me!
13:14Let go of me!
13:16Get out of here!
13:18Let go of me!
13:21Get out!
13:22Bitch!
13:23Madeline Mépavier, we attacked her, did you see?
13:41Write everything you want.
13:43Your neighbors don't care.
13:51No!
13:53No!
13:57Let go of me!
13:59Bitch!
14:01We'll see what the last alarm is.
14:20Let go of me!
14:50No!
15:21Calm down.
15:23Calm down.
15:27Calm down.
15:29Calm down.
15:37Calm down.
15:43Are you going to run?
15:47Calm down.
15:50Don't run.
15:53A lot of noise just happened.
15:55In the middle of Paris.
15:57I've got to clean up.
15:59I can do it fast, I can do it right, but...
16:02if I don't clean up...
16:06you could be in some trouble.
16:20That's good.
16:23Sit down.
16:31I'm going to clean up.
16:35And then we can talk.
16:39Then...
16:40Then...
16:41Then...
16:42Then...
16:43Then...
16:44Then...
16:45Then...
16:46Then...
16:47Then...
16:48Then...
16:49Then...
16:58Where's the light switch?
17:00Where's the light switch?
17:16Don't worry.
17:18Hey, you seen Omar?
17:20In his office.
17:21Thank you.
17:24Hey.
17:28Top of the morning.
17:32I got that vault.
17:34Different brushes.
17:36Hands, stains.
17:37Rubbing, scratching.
17:39Gestures of anxiety, but then the blues.
17:42Like...
17:43Little cigar ends.
17:45Like...
17:46Portals to the sky beyond.
17:48Like he got sick on the canvas?
17:50Watch.
17:51I'll sell it for five times the price in a year.
17:5430 times if he keeps drinking and dies.
17:56And what then?
17:57Reinvest.
17:58More vaults?
18:00More vaults.
18:01More Mathieu, Solage.
18:03Real estate, dividends, stocks with compound interest.
18:07Maybe a plane.
18:09And who is going to fly your plane?
18:11I'll fly it.
18:12The first vampire capitalist, the first vampire pilot.
18:16Why not?
18:18Take off your clothes.
18:20I am going through Sam's new pages.
18:23Clothes off, face down, in the coffin.
18:25Come read them to me while I fuck you.
18:27Come read them to me while I fuck you.
18:58Probably reads shallow now.
19:00But not...
19:01Not insightful.
19:02Human death and all this variety.
19:06What's blood taste like?
19:08You've bit your lip before.
19:09No.
19:10Um...
19:12What's it like to drink blood?
19:15Is it like...
19:16Drinking life itself?
19:18Warm?
19:20Thick.
19:21It's...
19:22It's not the answers to life's mystery.
19:24It's food.
19:25And eat it.
19:28And me?
19:30Right now?
19:35I can't lie.
19:36I watch it slide along your veins.
19:47Take a sip.
19:51No.
19:52Why not?
19:53No.
19:54She's a star, so you can't stop her.
19:58Is the dressmaker you supposed to run out of time?
20:02Um, yes, I'm the forbidden friend.
20:04Madeline, this is Louie.
20:05Louie.
20:06She's reading one of your diaries in my coffin.
20:09I won't tattoo.
20:10She says another word, I'll break her arms and throw her out the window.
20:13Pull up a chair.
20:14Let's start again.
20:17I'd like a couple months...
20:19Louie.
20:20...where you don't tear things down...
20:21This is Madeline.
20:22...or fuck things up.
20:23I like the dress I wore a while back.
20:25She's...
20:26She's funny, she's blunt, and it's a long story,
20:28but I killed in front of her.
20:31Of course you did.
20:32And she sat in the corner and watched while I bundled up bodies.
20:34Didn't cry.
20:35Didn't get flustered.
20:37Since then, we've been talking.
20:40Is it romantic?
20:41No.
20:42No?
20:43Not yet.
20:49You were Lestat's, now you're Armand's.
20:51Or Armand is mine.
20:54I've been a third all my life.
20:57Not saying that to fight, just saying that it's true.
21:01I feel like I get to pick one thing for myself,
21:07and it's her.
21:09A weird white lady I met by happenstance.
21:24Okay.
21:32You want a companion?
21:39She does.
21:42Yes.
21:44The last time I tried those young boys back in...
21:49They all died, Louis.
21:51I'm too small.
21:53I never made one before.
21:55I'm not sure if I can...
21:56No.
21:57Not you.
21:58Not...
21:59Not Lestat's blood.
22:00I wouldn't want that for anyone.
22:01But good enough for us.
22:02Not good enough for her.
22:05She swore an oath.
22:06Trampled on the laws and laws.
22:08Good enough for her.
22:10She swore an oath.
22:11Trampled on the laws and I am to reward her for it?
22:14To every vampire dressmaker?
22:17That bitch at the moon mocked you in that coffin,
22:19but she never fit in.
22:20They won't miss her.
22:22You think you're happy with me now?
22:24Can you imagine me without the burden of her?
22:31Paris is yours, Maitre.
22:32I ask for this.
22:34Respectfully.
22:38Respect comes without a shield.
22:41You're a manipulator, Claudia de Lioncourt.
22:44No.
22:56Close your minds.
22:58Both of you.
23:00I'll know it if you haven't.
23:09You'd like to be one of us?
23:12No, I'm going to be with her.
23:14But you can fuck them.
23:17I always think they're different.
23:20Stronger.
23:22Superior.
23:26Until loneliness comes.
23:29Sir, I've been alone for a long time.
23:32You'll be a monster.
23:35You'll be a monster.
23:39If you make me a monster,
23:41you'll make me what I already am.
24:06Without the burden of me?
24:09I said it to get him through the door.
24:16Did you mean it?
24:18Does it matter?
24:20I got the result.
24:23Getting results?
24:25Louis Delac?
24:28Is that what you found when you went looking for yourself?
24:30Shortcut to the end of things?
24:33Unless you're nervous talking now.
25:03I'll be a table first.
25:06And occasionally I'll give myself to my appetites.
25:09And when the last vestige of your time will have disappeared?
25:13The cars, the hairstyles, the beliefs.
25:17How will you continue?
25:19Young man, there's been a war.
25:24Claudia, he thinks there's something left of my era.
25:30He's going to say yes.
25:33You're stronger. I can feel it.
25:36I am.
25:38Harder too.
25:40But you got to give up something to get something.
25:47He's going to say yes.
25:52Thank you.
26:03How will you survive forever?
26:33And I have a gun.
27:04And what will you do in a few decades
27:08when she throws herself into the fire?
27:12Because she will.
27:18Maybe she won't.
27:21You don't know.
27:24Maybe I'm what she needs to survive.
27:29Maybe I'm what she needs to survive.
27:38He said no.
27:40I said I would not do it.
27:42Mettre in the bedroom, mettre only when it's hot or convenient.
27:46That's how I took it.
27:47I had reasoning.
27:48What was it?
27:51He had never made one.
27:54What?
27:55I have never made a vampire.
27:57You were a 500-year-old vampire.
28:00You led the Parisian coven for two centuries.
28:03And he hadn't told me.
28:04I did, once. He didn't hear it.
28:06He didn't? No.
28:09The idea repulsed me, repulses me.
28:12Well, at least we can agree it was a disingenuous act.
28:15I went in there, opened my door...
28:16You walked into Madeline's and outrageously...
28:18What's your mind made up?
28:20Louis' opinion.
28:22Claudia's opinion.
28:24Let's see, let's see.
28:29Fuck these vampires.
28:36What I've learned, I've learned from draining men,
28:39reading their thoughts.
28:41Not from books.
28:42I never went to school long enough as a mortal.
28:45You do not know your vampire nature.
28:48When I make a guido, Guizzi, he'll tell you the same.
28:51What if guido never shows?
28:53Back to the audience.
28:55I've got an impulse.
28:57It doesn't work. Turn around.
28:59But if we stage it in the round...
29:02And where shall we put the audience?
29:04Behind the fucking projection screen?
29:06Ooh, what's up your arse tonight?
29:08Is your companion stuck up there,
29:12chewing on your inner bits like a hamster?
29:17Claudia, can you respectfully find another object to buff?
29:24Always a yes, Major.
29:28Projections are our aesthetic.
29:30Or a crutch.
29:31I am the director directing.
29:33A play is a map for production.
29:35No, a play is the script.
29:38And there are no mentions in this script of projections.
29:44That's your cue, Sam.
29:47It's a work in progress.
29:49Oh, I see.
29:53Pick it up where we left off.
29:55Well, if it is a work in progress,
29:58can I just ask, when the fuck is Guido arriving on the stage, please?
30:03He doesn't. He can't. He mustn't.
30:05Where we left off, Santiago?
30:07Guido is hope. There can be no hope.
30:09You want to write poetry, write poems, this is a stage.
30:12We perform plays on a stage.
30:14Is this you honouring the playwright?
30:16Not prose poems or fucking maps.
30:18And plays require events, Sam!
30:21And there are no events in your shitty little play!
30:24And Quang and I are bloody dangling up here!
30:26That can be remedied!
30:28Gustave!
30:30We do horror shows so we can eat people!
30:33You're fangless!
30:35I love your work, Sam. Apologies.
30:38Well played, maître.
30:40He summoned me.
30:41There's a script on stage. It's yours for the moment.
30:44In the round, humans on stage.
30:46Ignore him.
30:48He'll be back.
30:52The Berlin blockade ended in May.
30:55The Geneva Convention was agreed in August.
30:58Some of the front pages from that year.
31:01But if you look in the filler,
31:03in the back pages,
31:05strange crimes reported.
31:09A telescopic lens stolen from the observatory at Meudon.
31:15A film company shooting the crime filler, Bord-Orient,
31:19delayed when its inventory of colour film stock is snatched.
31:23A gang of drunkards hanging off the side of the Eiffel Tower.
31:27All facing south by southwest.
31:30All muttering in unison.
31:32Gone by the time police arrived by elevator.
31:35Crimes all left unsolved.
31:38A thousand humans arrive in Paris, each carrying a suitcase.
31:41What's one more vampire?
31:42Why are we still talking about this?
31:44This will be behind us.
31:45I'm not satisfied with your answer.
31:47If we make ourselves, we'll always despise us for it.
31:50Celestine Estelle.
31:52Darren Seppel.
31:54Merdem.
31:55Vasily.
31:56Planche.
31:57That's a tight band.
31:58And he made you and Claudia.
32:02You're going to do it?
32:04Yes.
32:05When?
32:06Tonight.
32:08It's forbidden.
32:10Claudia does not want his blood.
32:13She doesn't have an alternative.
32:15We could fail.
32:16The woman could turn into one of those drooling revenants you saw back in...
32:31You shouldn't do it.
32:33You shouldn't tell me in my mind.
32:35I...
32:36I...
32:37I cannot keep it closed any longer.
32:39I want you to come.
32:41I want you to witness.
32:44Why?
32:46Because...
32:49It could be beautiful.
32:51We can bring one in a good way.
32:58Are you asking or making me?
33:06Okay.
33:11I'm sorry.
33:12It's okay.
33:14It's okay.
33:16Make sure we're not bothered.
33:18Yeah?
33:44I should have prepared more.
33:47Oh, I like this song.
33:49My heart is an island bird.
33:54I've never been to an island.
33:56Well, once.
33:58On a lake surrounded by carp.
34:02I don't like carp.
34:03I don't like Chardonnay.
34:07This feels right for my life.
34:10I'm going to go crazy if we don't start.
34:11Yeah, me too.
34:13Okay.
34:18Helen.
34:19If you get scared...
34:22You just look at that light.
34:26Listen to my voice.
34:28I won't let anything go wrong.
34:30Don't worry about the blood.
34:33It's the blood that made you.
34:43It's okay.
35:03Madeline welcomed my fangs.
35:06The lamb smiling up at the wolf.
35:10With unsettling passivity.
35:16She watched the lamb while I fed on her.
35:21I'm pissed.
35:22That's good.
35:23That's right.
35:24You're turning cold now.
35:26That's good too.
35:27And Claudia guided her softly down the path.
35:31Down the dark path.
35:34Just hold on to my voice.
35:41I love you.
35:43I love you too.
35:44I love you too.
35:48I love you too.
36:11Claudia drank with reverence.
36:17I drank with obligation.
36:24Disjointed fragments of Madeline's life filled my head.
36:29Carried on the warm current of her blood.
36:35The pleasures of a sly coupling.
36:41The joys of a sunny afternoon.
36:50The anguish of an unexpected death.
37:03The rage and humiliation of a trial by mob.
37:11The rage and humiliation of a trial by mob.
37:19But amongst the pastiche of war and desire.
37:23Beauty and damage.
37:25I saw Claudia.
37:29In an impossible afternoon light she could never survive in.
37:34Claudia as Madeline perceived her.
37:39Resplendent.
37:42Rendered even more beautiful by her beholder.
37:47And I knew then with all certainty she would be a better companion to Claudia than I ever had.
37:59I tore my wrist and fed her the gift.
38:08I tore my wrist and fed her the gift.
38:32Did she take?
38:36Yeah?
38:38Yeah, she is.
38:40They're both on their way.
38:45I told them to get out of town.
38:48They're out of town.
38:50And I know that.
38:53Because I can feel her.
38:57Madeline.
38:59This stranger.
39:02My fledgling.
39:05What happened here?
39:08I opened my wrist back up.
39:11Gagged myself, tried to throw the blood back up.
39:15I thought I felt like I was losing Claudia.
39:20I did not care.
39:24I finished the job.
39:27Claudia took my hand.
39:29We said something about being even.
39:31Being even.
39:34I did not care.
39:37You were right.
39:40Give it time.
39:43She is a difficult one, but one worth having.
39:50You'll find your way back to each other.
39:53What's in the suitcase?
39:55Some clothes.
39:57A few books.
39:58Cutting from a magnolia tree I've been growing.
40:07I could have fought.
40:11They might have killed me.
40:14Hunted the three of you down.
40:17Caught you, burned you.
40:19I don't know if it will satisfy their might be hostilities.
40:23Or the first bloodless vampire coup.
40:29You broke with the coven?
40:32They gave me a choice.
40:36I chose.
40:38That's what you said to me, right?
40:40Standing in my blood, stroking my hair.
40:43You know it is.
40:45That's my memory of it.
40:47But you were there too.
40:49Maybe there's something I missed.
40:51Or maybe there's something you put in there later.
40:53Stop it!
40:55Stop it.
40:57This is too important a moment in our story for these games.
41:00Oh, is there a game being played?
41:07You've remembered what you did to yourself in San Francisco.
41:12And you're angry that I erased it.
41:22I am.
41:24You have no right to be.
41:26I knew it.
41:30What?
41:32He's full of shit.
41:34I failed Louis once in my life. It wasn't in San Francisco.
41:36I would never ask you to do that.
41:38The pages I tore out of Claudia's diaries, we did most of those together.
41:41Not all of them.
41:43And the ones I did on my own were to protect me from you, Mr. Malloy.
41:46Why did I owe you my shame?
41:50Why did I owe you my one act of cowardice?
41:56The series of abhorrent consequences that followed.
42:10I spent the rest of my life trying to make up for it.
42:14I'll never make up for it.
42:17But he forgave me for it.
42:20I didn't forgive you.
42:21Drugs did far more damage to your mind than five nights in San Francisco.
42:25It was six.
42:27My point made.
42:29You've a sharper mind as any human that walks.
42:37You want an apology, I'm sorry.
42:39He thought it was the right thing to do too.
42:42You were going to drain me, pal.
42:45Belated apology number two.
42:47I asked you to erase it?
42:51Yes.
42:55After you came out of a shower in our home in Sausalito.
43:00Three days after we abandoned him.
43:07I'm sorry.
43:09I'm sorry.
43:11I'm sorry.
43:13I'm sorry.
43:14I'm sorry.
43:30Continuing on the record, Mr. Malloy.
43:33I was a coward.
43:40We've been burying our meals outside St. Denis.
43:42Flowers starting to pop up out of the ground.
43:44Lavender, sweet iris, peony.
43:48Flowers growing from the dead, cold things becoming warm.
43:51I saw a dead girl in your mind while you were dying.
43:55Oui, Aimée, my sister.
43:58She the replacement?
44:01What?
44:03I saw the same thing that night. We already had it out.
44:05Aimée, we used to call her the family idiot.
44:08She would eat pine cones.
44:10And I didn't tell her about Aimée because I didn't want her thinking she was...
44:14What was your word?
44:16The replacement.
44:18So thank you for falling right back into Daddy Lou's shoes.
44:21And thank you for never treating me like a child.
44:24Take some lessons, Libby.
44:27Are you thinking of coming back to Paris?
44:29Trash piles and men who smell like cheese.
44:32We're going to Wonder.
44:34Wonder?
44:36Wonder.
44:37This one?
44:39See the straight line of the next X on the map?
44:42This is the ex-Louis.
44:46All right.
44:48Okay, well, to finding the ex.
44:52Cheers!
44:58How do you like my coffin?
45:00I wake up at night and the fans aren't trading insults.
45:04Estelle isn't smearing makeup all over herself or humming off-key.
45:07Singing off-key.
45:09No one is forcing me to listen to their gossips or solve their petty crises.
45:15It's bliss.
45:17Estelle, we didn't make it easy for you.
45:20I'm sorry for that.
45:24You all right there?
45:27I cannot read your mind.
45:28I cannot read your mind.
45:31The architects of our...
45:35I made you. That's just the way it is.
45:38Yes, but I feel you, Louis.
45:40I feel you too, Madeleine.
45:45I told Claudia I can feel your love for her.
45:48We should see him once more.
45:51I'm glad you did.
45:53I'm glad we did this.
45:54I'm glad we did this.
45:57I can feel you too.
46:01Through him.
46:05Yes, he loves you.
46:07Okay, okay. Well, let's get the hell out of my soul.
46:11He gets enough affection. I don't need his head getting too big to get out the door.
46:16Taking a stretch.
46:18Love.
46:20There he goes.
46:22Mm-hmm. There he goes.
46:25Will he get through the door with that big head?
46:33Why don't you want him to know how much you love him?
46:36That's a little personal.
46:38You know.
46:40I know.
46:41You know.
46:51I know.
47:22They gave him a choice.
47:26He chose.
47:28Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, awful and awfulesses and all those who flourish outside the divide, welcome.
47:37For 150 years, we here at the Théâtre des Vampires have shown you, you, your obscene predilections, your savage desires.
47:50But today, we're shunting human affairs aside.
47:56So if you want to kill your lover or fuck your mother, it'll have to wait.
48:02Because today, we're turning our lurid spotlight on ourselves.
48:09I stand before you in broad daylight at this first-ever matinee at the Théâtre des Vampires to perform for your salacious gratification.
48:23Us.
48:26Are you ready, you filthy animals?
48:30Yes.
48:33Yes.
48:34Yes.
48:37The jury may be seated.
48:50Advocate, read the crimes for which this iniquitous trio stand accused.
48:56First.
49:04Ten minutes to your entrance, Monsieur Dienke.
49:11Monsieur Dienke?
49:13Thank you.
49:19Ten minutes.
49:26And the vampire, Lestat de Lyonco.
49:34We were on trial for murder.
49:37And all I could think was, he's coming.
49:43Lestat de Lyonco, the victim.
49:47It's justice for the attempted murder of my being.
49:50Guilty.
49:54Or not.
49:55Guilty.
50:25Can you protect me?
50:27From being killed?
50:28No.
50:29We're particularly poor at keeping our assets alive.
50:32But also, he's really making headway.
50:35And he's an experienced enough journalist to know that with powerful people, they're liable to lash out.
50:41And so I think, yeah, there's real fear.
50:43And you can see it in Eric's performance, that he's still cracking wise, but it may not be quite as convincing.
50:48I want to get out alive.
50:50You fear Armand.
50:53You should fear the other one.
50:55Imagine a tightrope walker.
50:57He knows that he knows how to walk a tightrope.
51:00But every once in a while, he glances down and a little shiver goes through his stomach.
51:07That cold chill.
51:09Rashid, did you and Mr. Malloy talk to anyone during dinner?
51:13As soon as he gets an inkling that they know, he's already working on how to manipulate it and spin a new web.
51:22Why do you ask?
51:25Love.
51:26Louis has known for a long time that there's something wrong.
51:29There's a lie being told.
51:30And that penthouse in Dubai is a bit of a prison.
51:33And I think Louis and Daniel throughout the years have been like, sort of kept things for Armand.
51:40Chloe revealing that she's a vampire shows how comfortable she is revealing that to another person.
51:46Don't run.
51:47I think it's really beautiful that she gives Madeline the choice on how to react to her being a vampire.
51:54I'm going to clean up.
51:56They have such amazing chemistry.
51:59I was just drawn to what they were doing.
52:01Is it romantic?
52:02No.
52:03No, not yet.
52:04She likes her so much and sees that there's something in her that she's actually like, here's me in all my entirety.
52:11What are you going to do now?
52:12You have a choice to make.
52:13I feel like I get to pick one thing for myself.
52:19And it's her.
52:20Louis and Madeline have been together for a long time.
52:23I feel like I get to pick one thing for myself.
52:29And it's her.
52:30Louis turns Madeline without doubt because he loves Claudia.
52:35And that's what he wants to do for her.
52:37You think you're happy with me now?
52:39Can you imagine me without the burden of her?
52:45Claudia's very good at reading people.
52:47She knows that she can convince Louis.
52:50You're going to do it?
52:51Yes.
52:52When?
52:53Tonight.
52:54The reason that Louis does it is because they're reaching that stage where they're growing apart now.
52:59And it's like, oh, okay, so once we do this, we're done.
53:03Turning Madeline was a really beautiful moment for Madeline and Claudia.
53:08And I was just thinking, like, I just don't want to get in the way.
53:10We're going to go crazy if we don't stop.
53:11Yeah, me too.
53:12And I couldn't anyway.
53:13What they're doing is so magnetic.
53:15If you get scared, you just look at that light.
53:18Working with Kat, who was our intimacy coordinator,
53:21we worked on, like, levels of distance between, like, mouth to neck.
53:27When we see Louis take a bite of Madeline,
53:31it's like Claudia's hunger takes over as well and she gets involved.
53:37I love that scene. I love that relationship.
53:40Those two characters deserve more than any of the characters in the show
53:43to just be able to live, like, an eternal life.
53:47Companionship together.
53:53Flowers growing from the dead, cold things becoming warm.
53:56The scene in the cafe where they, like, meet up.
53:59To find an ex.
54:00It's almost like a romantic comedy or, like, a family Thanksgiving.
54:04Everyone's getting back together and it's awkward and you feel the tensions.
54:08You all right there?
54:09The sets were beautiful.
54:10They built a cafe with a band and beautiful lights.
54:14For the Mishka bar, named after my eldest dog,
54:17we wanted this almost to feel like a fever dream
54:21but really playing with light and space in a way
54:24that connects kind of deeply with what's happening with the scene.
54:28I got to do a bit of improvising in that scene as well.
54:31Got to shout things at Armand.
54:34Will he get through the door with that big head?
54:37Filming it was so bittersweet
54:39because we were having such a lovely dinner
54:42and then it all goes.
54:50Gustav was the vampire that kidnapped Claudia
54:53and you can hear Louis screaming for Claudia.
54:56Louis is just, like, missile-focused on Claudia.
55:00Like, how do I get her out of this situation?
55:03I have to give massive props to the background actors on our show
55:09who just, like, be completely still in place
55:13and just do it again and again and again and again and again.
55:19I think piss doesn't really cover how Louis feels when they're kidnapped.
55:23The jury may be seated.
55:25Ten minutes to your entrance, Mr Nienke.
55:28Lassalle returns for the trial.
55:30Thank you.
55:32He's back in all his kind of hectic, complicated glory.
55:36What is he going to do?
55:38And the vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt.