1 00:00:02,741 --> 00:00:04,134 Watch "The Vampire Lestat: After Dark" 2 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:04,874 on AMC+ or wherever you get your podcasts. 3 00:00:06,745 --> 00:00:09,052 Previously on "The Vampire Lestat"... 4 00:00:09,183 --> 00:00:11,446 The collection has been named "The Failures." 5 00:00:11,576 --> 00:00:13,361 That's why these movie producers hired you, 6 00:00:13,491 --> 00:00:15,319 Daniel Molloy, vampire slayer. 7 00:00:15,493 --> 00:00:17,104 They said you requested me. 8 00:00:17,278 --> 00:00:18,714 What happened at age 9? 9 00:00:18,888 --> 00:00:21,151 I was taken to see witches being burned at a stake. 10 00:00:21,325 --> 00:00:23,414 It's what moms did with kids before LEGO and Peppa Pig. 11 00:00:23,588 --> 00:00:24,807 Ready to eat your own? 12 00:00:24,981 --> 00:00:26,504 What is with the tan, Dan? 13 00:00:26,635 --> 00:00:28,202 I'm seeing someone. 14 00:00:28,376 --> 00:00:30,769 The Vampire Armand, the love of my life. 15 00:00:30,943 --> 00:00:32,554 More deaths than births. 16 00:00:32,728 --> 00:00:34,599 It's happening, Daniel. 17 00:00:34,730 --> 00:00:36,645 The Great Conversion, it's real. 18 00:00:36,819 --> 00:00:38,516 Your music speaks to them. 19 00:00:38,690 --> 00:00:40,344 They long for a communion. 20 00:00:40,475 --> 00:00:41,519 You're the one putting the show together? 21 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:42,912 50,000 of us. 22 00:00:43,086 --> 00:00:45,132 They're coming from all over the world. 23 00:00:45,306 --> 00:00:46,916 Find someone else to swindle. 24 00:00:47,047 --> 00:00:48,831 He's the one coming around here doing all this with me. 25 00:00:48,961 --> 00:00:50,963 I look like her. I look just like her, don't I? 26 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:54,924 We eat your soul at the long table. 27 00:00:55,055 --> 00:00:57,318 If it was just the two of us again, could be nice. 28 00:00:57,492 --> 00:00:59,015 Could be. 29 00:00:59,146 --> 00:01:00,538 You'd be a head mounted above a coven toilet 30 00:01:00,669 --> 00:01:01,931 if it weren't for me. 31 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:03,237 You assume death at decapitation. 32 00:01:19,818 --> 00:01:21,690 ♪ I'm the little killer ♪ 33 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:23,866 ♪ I'm the lonely one ♪ 34 00:01:23,953 --> 00:01:25,563 ♪ I'm the chill creeping up your spine ♪ 35 00:01:25,694 --> 00:01:27,739 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 36 00:01:27,826 --> 00:01:29,785 ♪ I'm a hanging shadow ♪ 37 00:01:29,872 --> 00:01:31,830 ♪ I'm a lost love ♪ 38 00:01:31,961 --> 00:01:33,354 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 39 00:01:33,441 --> 00:01:35,747 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 40 00:01:35,834 --> 00:01:37,749 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 41 00:01:37,836 --> 00:01:39,751 ♪ We're the good time ♪ 42 00:01:39,838 --> 00:01:40,883 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 43 00:01:40,970 --> 00:01:41,927 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 44 00:01:42,058 --> 00:01:45,061 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme ♪ 45 00:01:45,148 --> 00:01:47,324 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 46 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:48,760 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 47 00:01:48,847 --> 00:01:50,371 ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 48 00:01:50,458 --> 00:01:54,549 ♪ All fall down ♪ 49 00:01:54,679 --> 00:01:58,422 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 50 00:01:58,553 --> 00:02:02,252 ♪ All fall down ♪ 51 00:02:02,339 --> 00:02:05,037 ♪ Burn the ♪ 52 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:07,169 ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang ♪ 53 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:09,258 - ♪ Bang, bang - ♪ Bang, bang 54 00:02:09,259 --> 00:02:12,610 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 55 00:02:18,529 --> 00:02:21,010 You are listening to "The Failures"... 56 00:02:21,097 --> 00:02:25,406 Album 57, Side A. 57 00:02:27,669 --> 00:02:30,715 Could be nice, says Louis. 58 00:02:30,846 --> 00:02:34,153 Could be, I say. 59 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:37,331 And our hands touch. 60 00:02:37,418 --> 00:02:42,378 I am staring at Alex in his plastic Dracula mask. 61 00:02:42,379 --> 00:02:47,036 And then I think, why is he here? 62 00:02:47,123 --> 00:02:50,517 And then the world pivots. 63 00:02:50,518 --> 00:02:53,129 And I see stars in the sky. 64 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:55,610 Boots upside down. 65 00:02:55,697 --> 00:02:59,788 My blood, a half-painted moon. 66 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:01,442 And then I'm dreaming. 67 00:03:06,838 --> 00:03:09,624 I'm walking a path. 68 00:03:09,754 --> 00:03:12,800 I am listening to hidden birds in a forest 69 00:03:12,801 --> 00:03:17,283 and transcribing their chatter into music on paper. 70 00:03:17,284 --> 00:03:19,286 It's the same dream I've been having 71 00:03:19,416 --> 00:03:21,852 since I finished the album and faked my death, 72 00:03:21,853 --> 00:03:26,988 except now I'm hungry and it's daylight all around. 73 00:03:26,989 --> 00:03:29,426 And as I'm a vampire, confirmed by the glass nails 74 00:03:29,557 --> 00:03:32,124 on my fingers, I should be burning, 75 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:34,257 but I'm not. 76 00:03:34,388 --> 00:03:36,780 The birds' music becomes repetitive. 77 00:03:36,781 --> 00:03:39,175 And then the forest goes quiet. 78 00:03:39,306 --> 00:03:41,917 No birds singing. 79 00:03:42,004 --> 00:03:44,833 I am left with my hunger, 80 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,705 a feeling like my stomach is eroding from the inside. 81 00:03:48,706 --> 00:03:53,232 And then, as if the forest has heard my thoughts, 82 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:56,453 a murder of waiters carrying silver-domed trays 83 00:03:56,540 --> 00:03:57,846 take over my path. 84 00:03:57,976 --> 00:03:59,848 Come now, Lestat. 85 00:03:59,978 --> 00:04:02,110 No falling behind. 86 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:08,421 And I follow my hunger into the wood. 87 00:04:09,858 --> 00:04:13,165 And I begin to hear sounds of a city, 88 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,777 and that little song they play for the blind 89 00:04:15,864 --> 00:04:18,475 at crosswalks throughout Montreal 90 00:04:18,562 --> 00:04:21,957 carries my hunger to the table of my youth, 91 00:04:22,044 --> 00:04:24,437 where my selves sit with the abbot of Haute-Loire... 92 00:04:24,438 --> 00:04:25,917 Circles us as God... 93 00:04:26,004 --> 00:04:29,093 Instructing from my father's chair. 94 00:04:31,749 --> 00:04:34,839 Encircles us with his love. 95 00:04:34,970 --> 00:04:36,362 The hood? 96 00:04:36,363 --> 00:04:38,539 Limits our view and cuts out the world 97 00:04:38,626 --> 00:04:40,932 so we gaze ahead towards God. 98 00:04:41,019 --> 00:04:43,108 And the length of our habit trips us up 99 00:04:43,239 --> 00:04:44,762 and gets in our goddamn way. 100 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:50,768 - Lestat. - Lestat. 101 00:04:50,899 --> 00:04:52,813 - Lestat. - Lestat. 102 00:04:52,814 --> 00:04:55,206 Have a seat, Lestat. 103 00:04:55,207 --> 00:04:57,645 There's seven waiters and only four of us. 104 00:04:57,732 --> 00:04:58,689 both: Have a seat. - Have a s-- 105 00:05:00,735 --> 00:05:02,302 Seat. Seat. 106 00:05:05,783 --> 00:05:09,178 The light's gone out of your blue eyes. 107 00:05:09,265 --> 00:05:14,661 all: As if all the summer days are gone. 108 00:05:14,662 --> 00:05:17,882 Course 187, the soul. 109 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,988 I have been enduring intense conversations 110 00:05:37,075 --> 00:05:40,818 with myself in the three years since our companionship ended. 111 00:05:40,905 --> 00:05:44,126 And as part of that journey, I wish to say something 112 00:05:44,213 --> 00:05:47,434 from the deepest regions of my soul. 113 00:05:47,521 --> 00:05:48,739 Ar-- 114 00:05:48,870 --> 00:05:53,308 Two grievous lies, gross betrayals. 115 00:05:53,309 --> 00:05:56,312 The first is a well-trod pit of hot coals 116 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:59,794 I blistered my feet on for 77 years. 117 00:05:59,924 --> 00:06:01,708 Arm... 118 00:06:01,709 --> 00:06:03,363 I chose my coven over you, 119 00:06:03,450 --> 00:06:05,495 lured you into a production of a play, 120 00:06:05,626 --> 00:06:09,455 in which your death would act as the grotesque climax. 121 00:06:09,456 --> 00:06:11,239 The coven was twisting my arm, but... 122 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,372 Ar... 123 00:06:12,502 --> 00:06:14,809 I took aesthetic pleasure 124 00:06:14,896 --> 00:06:16,637 in making your death visually exhilarating. 125 00:06:16,767 --> 00:06:18,421 ...mand. 126 00:06:18,508 --> 00:06:20,641 All of which was made worse by our heady lovemaking 127 00:06:20,728 --> 00:06:23,774 throughout this period of betrayal, and... 128 00:06:23,905 --> 00:06:24,949 the second. 129 00:06:26,690 --> 00:06:29,389 I shamefully took credit when Lestat saved your life. 130 00:06:29,476 --> 00:06:31,608 Where am I? 131 00:06:31,739 --> 00:06:34,742 That lie bound you to me, and it lay like a corpse 132 00:06:34,872 --> 00:06:36,830 in the boiler room of our companionship. 133 00:06:36,831 --> 00:06:38,919 Many times, I told myself the lie did not matter 134 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,704 because what we had built, 135 00:06:40,791 --> 00:06:43,359 a love that served as a bunker against time, 136 00:06:43,446 --> 00:06:45,274 was weightier and more consequential 137 00:06:45,405 --> 00:06:46,841 than the lie, but it wasn't true. 138 00:06:46,928 --> 00:06:48,495 Can't move... 139 00:06:48,625 --> 00:06:51,367 The lie did matter because the corpse was there, 140 00:06:51,498 --> 00:06:52,933 calling forth the facts. 141 00:06:52,934 --> 00:06:57,286 Can't move my body. 142 00:06:59,941 --> 00:07:01,725 And as for the many boys 143 00:07:01,812 --> 00:07:04,249 you drugged, drained, and lay with, 144 00:07:04,336 --> 00:07:07,644 I feigned resentment when, in fact, 145 00:07:07,731 --> 00:07:09,603 I welcomed your straying 146 00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:12,823 because your guilt in their aftermath 147 00:07:12,954 --> 00:07:14,695 bound you to me all the more tightly 148 00:07:14,825 --> 00:07:19,047 and allowed me my hours of observation with Daniel. 149 00:07:19,134 --> 00:07:21,005 I told you I loved you, but did I? 150 00:07:21,136 --> 00:07:23,530 Hmm? Did I? 151 00:07:23,617 --> 00:07:25,053 Or was it a clinging to the underside 152 00:07:25,140 --> 00:07:26,881 of anyone who would help me survive? 153 00:07:26,968 --> 00:07:28,491 And when I look back on who I've deceived, 154 00:07:28,622 --> 00:07:30,754 how I've deceived, how easy it was 155 00:07:30,841 --> 00:07:33,540 for me to lead a cult for 400 years, 156 00:07:33,627 --> 00:07:36,933 to burn in ritual any who broke the archaic laws 157 00:07:36,934 --> 00:07:39,502 we lived by, I-- 158 00:07:39,589 --> 00:07:44,420 I think I might be a room without walls, 159 00:07:44,551 --> 00:07:46,857 floors, a ceiling. 160 00:07:46,944 --> 00:07:50,077 An infinite nothing. 161 00:07:50,078 --> 00:07:51,079 Also, yes. 162 00:07:53,690 --> 00:07:56,476 I put the Fred Steins in your photo collection 163 00:07:56,606 --> 00:07:59,217 just to fuck with your head. 164 00:07:59,348 --> 00:08:02,917 And that is my full and heartfelt "Armends." 165 00:08:03,004 --> 00:08:04,004 Now... 166 00:08:08,531 --> 00:08:10,185 It's your turn. 167 00:08:13,623 --> 00:08:17,758 I am the chair, the maker, 168 00:08:17,845 --> 00:08:19,934 the Vampire Magnus. 169 00:08:20,064 --> 00:08:23,023 Fledglings, state your names for the record. 170 00:08:23,024 --> 00:08:25,853 The Vampire Nicolas de Lenfent. 171 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:29,160 The Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. 172 00:08:29,247 --> 00:08:31,815 The Vampire Gabriella Vecce. 173 00:08:31,902 --> 00:08:34,426 The Vampire Antoinette Brown. 174 00:08:34,557 --> 00:08:37,778 The Vampire TC. 175 00:08:37,865 --> 00:08:40,171 And where's Claudia? 176 00:08:40,258 --> 00:08:43,914 She said all she needs to say to you is what she said. 177 00:08:44,001 --> 00:08:45,872 Her actual words were, 178 00:08:45,873 --> 00:08:48,136 "Fuck him, fuck y'all, go burn 179 00:08:48,266 --> 00:08:50,617 like that dumb nine-fingered bitch, Antoinette." 180 00:08:53,097 --> 00:08:55,317 Antoinette, hello. 181 00:08:55,404 --> 00:08:56,840 Don't you "Antoinette, hello," me. 182 00:08:56,927 --> 00:08:59,930 Restrain yourself, Ms. Brown. 183 00:09:00,017 --> 00:09:03,542 So... I'm dead. 184 00:09:05,196 --> 00:09:06,676 This is death? 185 00:09:06,763 --> 00:09:09,940 My father's ugly table in your shitty tower? 186 00:09:10,027 --> 00:09:10,984 Dying. 187 00:09:10,985 --> 00:09:12,639 This is you dying. 188 00:09:12,726 --> 00:09:16,642 This is the reminiscence, the deliberation 189 00:09:16,643 --> 00:09:19,471 and mastication of the early risings 190 00:09:19,602 --> 00:09:23,519 and nightly failures of the vampire. 191 00:09:23,606 --> 00:09:25,520 - How? - "How" is not his name. 192 00:09:25,521 --> 00:09:26,913 His name is Lestat. 193 00:09:26,914 --> 00:09:28,785 - How did I die? - I'ma type Lestat. 194 00:09:28,872 --> 00:09:30,308 Dying. 195 00:09:30,395 --> 00:09:31,701 Not yet dead. 196 00:09:31,788 --> 00:09:34,181 Wasting time. 197 00:09:34,182 --> 00:09:37,576 Much like you've wasted your lives. 198 00:09:37,577 --> 00:09:39,622 - Could be nice. - Could be. 199 00:09:39,709 --> 00:09:41,145 Hands touch. 200 00:09:41,232 --> 00:09:42,538 Second time's the charm. 201 00:09:42,625 --> 00:09:46,194 Keep typing, Ms. Brown. 202 00:09:50,154 --> 00:09:54,855 So you're all here to judge me. 203 00:09:54,942 --> 00:09:57,553 We are the failure finders. 204 00:09:57,684 --> 00:10:00,643 Judgment comes from God, Satan, the Simulation. 205 00:10:00,774 --> 00:10:03,298 We don't know. No one ever tells us. 206 00:10:03,385 --> 00:10:06,997 And yet here we are on course number 205. 207 00:10:07,084 --> 00:10:08,346 all: The soul. 208 00:10:16,267 --> 00:10:17,660 This is a dream. 209 00:10:17,747 --> 00:10:20,707 I am not here. 210 00:10:20,837 --> 00:10:22,012 You are here. 211 00:10:22,099 --> 00:10:23,753 And also in a bowling ball bag 212 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,147 walking west on Avenue Van Horne. 213 00:10:26,234 --> 00:10:27,887 A bowling bag. 214 00:10:30,455 --> 00:10:33,023 And also lying on the sideboard 215 00:10:33,110 --> 00:10:34,851 in the back room of a butcher shop. 216 00:10:37,593 --> 00:10:39,029 It's November 1st. 217 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,205 All Saints Day, a Saturday morning. 218 00:10:41,336 --> 00:10:42,990 Which means we won't be disturbed, 219 00:10:43,077 --> 00:10:47,777 as it's an observant butchery, and it's their Shabbos. 220 00:10:47,864 --> 00:10:50,519 All the shops along this avenue are closed. 221 00:10:50,606 --> 00:10:54,131 And anyone who might possibly think of coming to your rescue 222 00:10:54,218 --> 00:10:55,698 is asleep. 223 00:10:57,787 --> 00:11:00,007 Or otherwise engaged. 224 00:11:10,713 --> 00:11:12,453 I was hoping time and perspective 225 00:11:12,454 --> 00:11:14,978 would have made you eager to repent. 226 00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:17,938 - Don't care. - My blunder. 227 00:11:18,025 --> 00:11:20,375 I haven't properly laid out your predicament. 228 00:11:23,508 --> 00:11:25,467 This is your sundered head. 229 00:11:25,554 --> 00:11:27,207 And this is your petulant body. 230 00:11:27,208 --> 00:11:31,168 And this is the glorious air between 231 00:11:31,255 --> 00:11:33,954 on which the two of you still manage to communicate 232 00:11:34,041 --> 00:11:38,001 a good 2 hours and 12 minutes since uncoupling. 233 00:11:38,088 --> 00:11:39,307 I don't care. 234 00:11:39,394 --> 00:11:40,700 If you weren't Lestat's progeny, 235 00:11:40,830 --> 00:11:41,875 this would not be happening. 236 00:11:42,005 --> 00:11:44,311 You would be dead, which is why 237 00:11:44,312 --> 00:11:47,619 this is being live-cast to a very important room 238 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:49,317 gathered in Budapest. 239 00:11:49,404 --> 00:11:52,755 You are special, Louis. 240 00:11:52,842 --> 00:11:54,452 Fareed. 241 00:11:54,583 --> 00:11:56,628 Yes, our former doctor, 242 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:58,848 back in research where he thrives, 243 00:11:58,979 --> 00:12:01,458 studying us, analyzing us. 244 00:12:01,459 --> 00:12:02,896 But was he doing that all along? 245 00:12:02,983 --> 00:12:04,506 Hmm? In Dubai? 246 00:12:04,636 --> 00:12:05,811 See you, Fareed. 247 00:12:05,812 --> 00:12:07,639 In Lestat's bus? 248 00:12:07,770 --> 00:12:09,249 I don't care. 249 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:10,860 He will say he was not here. 250 00:12:10,947 --> 00:12:13,820 And if you reconsider your amends and survive, 251 00:12:13,907 --> 00:12:16,126 you most probably won't remember him. 252 00:12:16,213 --> 00:12:19,739 Or this. 253 00:12:21,218 --> 00:12:23,176 Don't print the obituary just yet. 254 00:12:23,177 --> 00:12:25,657 Getting some much needed rest before the big concert, 255 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:27,050 aren't we? 256 00:12:27,137 --> 00:12:29,270 I backdoored myself into his band, 257 00:12:29,357 --> 00:12:32,490 enjoyed ruining for the sake of ruining. 258 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:38,279 Where is his-- 259 00:12:38,366 --> 00:12:40,107 Where is his--where is his-- 260 00:12:40,194 --> 00:12:43,458 where is his head? 261 00:12:43,545 --> 00:12:45,939 It's with my companion. 262 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:50,204 Snuck out before the wife woke up, did you? 263 00:12:50,334 --> 00:12:51,682 Told me to take my head 264 00:12:51,683 --> 00:12:53,729 as far away from her body as I could. 265 00:12:53,860 --> 00:12:55,687 Well, never question the boss. 266 00:12:55,818 --> 00:12:58,516 What size shoe? 267 00:12:58,647 --> 00:13:00,605 10 1/2. 268 00:13:00,692 --> 00:13:03,347 I think you know you've wronged me. 269 00:13:03,478 --> 00:13:05,219 And I think you know the specific ways 270 00:13:05,306 --> 00:13:06,394 in which you've done it. 271 00:13:06,481 --> 00:13:07,916 Don't care. 272 00:13:07,917 --> 00:13:10,354 Yes, you seem to be caught in that sentiment. 273 00:13:10,441 --> 00:13:13,617 Regrettably, your maker's body has not induced you to own it. 274 00:13:13,618 --> 00:13:18,145 So one additional motivation. 275 00:13:21,757 --> 00:13:23,324 We broke in yesterday afternoon, 276 00:13:23,411 --> 00:13:25,065 glamoured the kindly brisket-carving butcher 277 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:26,588 early home to Shabbos. 278 00:13:26,718 --> 00:13:29,112 We owe him new knives and a deep clean. 279 00:13:29,199 --> 00:13:31,201 You may own the night, Louis, 280 00:13:31,332 --> 00:13:34,291 but you're as kosher as clams casino. 281 00:13:34,378 --> 00:13:36,815 Also, we brought her. 282 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:39,035 - No, no, no. - Waitress, sister, daughter. 283 00:13:39,122 --> 00:13:40,820 - No, no. - None of those things. 284 00:13:40,907 --> 00:13:43,039 No, no, no. 285 00:13:43,170 --> 00:13:45,085 She didn't know. 286 00:13:45,172 --> 00:13:46,869 Armand! 287 00:13:49,219 --> 00:13:52,353 Setting aside opinions of the coven master in place, 288 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,746 his destruction of the children of darkness was... 289 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:56,836 Impulsive, reckless. 290 00:13:56,923 --> 00:13:58,359 Overdue. 291 00:13:58,446 --> 00:13:59,926 Thank you. 292 00:14:00,013 --> 00:14:02,319 His abandonment of the Paris coven? 293 00:14:02,406 --> 00:14:04,104 Selfish, cowardly. 294 00:14:04,191 --> 00:14:06,541 Generous to a fault. 295 00:14:06,628 --> 00:14:08,848 I did what my maker showed me, 296 00:14:08,935 --> 00:14:11,328 throw money at the problem and run away. 297 00:14:11,415 --> 00:14:13,156 Magnus gifted you immortality. 298 00:14:13,287 --> 00:14:15,767 Magnus gifted you boundless lucre. 299 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:16,985 Magnus speaks in the third person 300 00:14:16,986 --> 00:14:18,509 when he's on the back foot. 301 00:14:20,903 --> 00:14:23,862 Fledgling Lestat gave meaning to his players 302 00:14:23,863 --> 00:14:26,516 and absconded with it when he ran. 303 00:14:26,517 --> 00:14:28,215 A failure of leadership. 304 00:14:28,345 --> 00:14:31,696 The plays ran for a century and a half. 305 00:14:31,783 --> 00:14:33,176 That's longer than "Wicked." 306 00:14:33,263 --> 00:14:37,137 Course 214, the soul. 307 00:14:37,224 --> 00:14:38,834 Why is he the chair? 308 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:41,141 I am your maker! 309 00:14:41,228 --> 00:14:43,317 I knew you for a week. 310 00:14:43,447 --> 00:14:46,058 What do you know of me? 311 00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:48,452 "Ask for it, wolf killer, and you shall love forever." 312 00:14:48,539 --> 00:14:49,932 I refused! 313 00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:52,891 Consent is a 20th-century concern. 314 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:56,243 Showed me a coffin, some money. 315 00:14:56,330 --> 00:14:58,506 Told me to scatter his ashes. 316 00:14:58,593 --> 00:15:01,465 And then he lit himself on fire, 317 00:15:01,552 --> 00:15:03,293 dancing as he burned! 318 00:15:06,818 --> 00:15:09,604 I have two makers. 319 00:15:09,734 --> 00:15:11,998 Ah. 320 00:15:12,085 --> 00:15:13,129 You want her. 321 00:15:13,216 --> 00:15:15,958 You want mommy in the chair? 322 00:15:21,398 --> 00:15:23,400 Yes. 323 00:15:23,487 --> 00:15:26,534 Failure continues in the astral plane. 324 00:15:28,275 --> 00:15:32,104 Ms. Brown, please note for the record 325 00:15:32,105 --> 00:15:34,020 a change in the chairmanship. 326 00:15:43,986 --> 00:15:47,424 Ms. Brown, the next item on the agenda. 327 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:57,347 Let her go. 328 00:15:57,434 --> 00:15:59,045 OK, getting our bearings back. 329 00:15:59,132 --> 00:16:00,698 Good. 330 00:16:00,785 --> 00:16:02,178 A pedigreed vampire, as you know, 331 00:16:02,265 --> 00:16:04,137 he can endure a great deal. 332 00:16:04,224 --> 00:16:06,008 How are his vitals, Fareed? - Not good. 333 00:16:06,095 --> 00:16:07,662 I ask about your vitals, Louis, 334 00:16:07,749 --> 00:16:10,360 because I don't think it's landed yet 335 00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:11,709 who sits before you. 336 00:16:11,796 --> 00:16:13,276 She ain't part of us. 337 00:16:13,363 --> 00:16:15,190 Please. I don't want to die. 338 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:16,366 No, he doesn't want you to die, 339 00:16:16,453 --> 00:16:19,326 but let's see if that holds. 340 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:21,806 You two met by chance, yes? 341 00:16:21,893 --> 00:16:24,374 The merciful universe acknowledging 342 00:16:24,505 --> 00:16:29,858 your need to grieve and her need for saving. 343 00:16:29,945 --> 00:16:32,774 Or was she conceived 344 00:16:32,861 --> 00:16:35,429 the instant you hurled me into the supporting wall 345 00:16:35,516 --> 00:16:37,213 of our Dubai penthouse? 346 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:39,999 Brought to life when I used an old photo of Claudia 347 00:16:40,086 --> 00:16:42,871 in her Baby Lu blues and facial recognition software 348 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:47,745 on my iPad to find a 7 out of 10 in Berlin, 349 00:16:47,876 --> 00:16:52,576 an 8 1/2 in Tunis, or this zone 2 girly 350 00:16:52,663 --> 00:16:53,925 with a grifter's résumé. 351 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,449 - Don't. Don't. - No. 352 00:16:55,536 --> 00:16:57,016 There's a years-long tale of seduction 353 00:16:57,103 --> 00:16:58,713 and cold commerce... - He told me he had a friend... 354 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,280 In East London, the setting her up in New York-- 355 00:17:00,367 --> 00:17:01,890 Who Lost his daughter. I didn't think he was booky. 356 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:03,718 The 19 times she passed in front of you 357 00:17:03,805 --> 00:17:05,372 before you noticed. 358 00:17:05,459 --> 00:17:09,158 But your withering vitals suggest I speed ahead. 359 00:17:09,245 --> 00:17:11,334 You walk into a Brooklyn diner. 360 00:17:11,421 --> 00:17:14,424 I would say, "Shh, calm yourself. 361 00:17:14,511 --> 00:17:16,252 "He's here for you. 362 00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:18,080 Easy mark." 363 00:17:18,167 --> 00:17:20,561 And she would walk up and say... 364 00:17:20,648 --> 00:17:22,258 "Best thing to do with our burgers, 365 00:17:22,389 --> 00:17:24,478 let it cool till the grease is all soaked, bread's all wet." 366 00:17:24,608 --> 00:17:27,220 He got--he was in my head, but he wasn't there. 367 00:17:27,307 --> 00:17:29,222 I would say, "Endear yourself to him." 368 00:17:29,309 --> 00:17:31,746 And she'd say, "Had a few more hopes for New York, 369 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,053 "but so far it's been, like, six flatmates, one toilet. 370 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:36,229 "And it's like, do I want to take my tampon out 371 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,927 in front of the podcaster been with us since Tuesday?" 372 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:40,363 And you'd say... 373 00:17:40,450 --> 00:17:43,540 But you caught me at a--a lonely hour. 374 00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:45,586 And I--I don't want to put this on you. 375 00:17:45,673 --> 00:17:47,327 And I'd say, "He's tender. 376 00:17:47,414 --> 00:17:49,111 Back off." 377 00:17:49,198 --> 00:17:51,286 But she knew better. 378 00:17:51,287 --> 00:17:54,551 Sure you do. It's right there on your jaw. 379 00:17:54,638 --> 00:17:55,987 What is it? 380 00:17:56,118 --> 00:17:57,337 I remind you of your sis? 381 00:17:57,424 --> 00:18:00,340 And then I knew she had you. 382 00:18:00,427 --> 00:18:02,820 And her mastery allowed me to drop in and out. 383 00:18:02,907 --> 00:18:07,129 I was in other business with Lestat, with Daniel. 384 00:18:07,216 --> 00:18:08,826 I'm sorry, Louis. 385 00:18:08,913 --> 00:18:11,220 All to say, there has been extraordinary effort 386 00:18:11,307 --> 00:18:13,788 put forth towards this reunion. 387 00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:15,790 What I gone and done to us? 388 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,576 - Just kill me. - No, no. 389 00:18:19,663 --> 00:18:21,317 You're going to make your amends 390 00:18:21,448 --> 00:18:23,189 so we can both get on with our lives. 391 00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:28,585 Or I'm going to lop her head off 392 00:18:28,672 --> 00:18:31,632 with this same blade I did yours 393 00:18:31,719 --> 00:18:36,289 and sew your head onto her body. 394 00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:37,942 ♪ They said I was dead ♪ 395 00:18:38,073 --> 00:18:39,466 ♪ They tried to save me ♪ 396 00:18:39,553 --> 00:18:41,120 ♪ They cut off my head ♪ 397 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:53,654 Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat. 398 00:18:53,741 --> 00:18:56,526 You took one look at me, had me all figured out. 399 00:18:56,613 --> 00:18:59,007 Yeah, question mark? 400 00:18:59,094 --> 00:19:00,791 Smarter than me? 401 00:19:00,878 --> 00:19:02,402 Maybe. 402 00:19:02,489 --> 00:19:04,839 Better looking than me? 403 00:19:04,926 --> 00:19:06,623 I'll give you that. 404 00:19:06,710 --> 00:19:09,496 More talented? Hmm. 405 00:19:09,583 --> 00:19:11,062 You go do what I did with my life. 406 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,454 You go knock down those doors. 407 00:19:12,455 --> 00:19:14,370 You go get some. 408 00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:17,634 Oh, that's right, you were in a rock band. 409 00:19:17,721 --> 00:19:21,072 Wow, big dick deal. 410 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,552 He gave me the gift 411 00:19:22,683 --> 00:19:24,119 rather than tell me he love me. 412 00:19:24,206 --> 00:19:26,252 I begged him to say it, say, "Nikki, 413 00:19:26,339 --> 00:19:28,210 I will never love you the way that you love me." 414 00:19:28,341 --> 00:19:29,907 Gotta say that shit a mile up in the air 415 00:19:29,994 --> 00:19:31,431 if you want it to stick. 416 00:19:31,518 --> 00:19:34,564 He told you he loved you a thousand times. 417 00:19:34,651 --> 00:19:35,739 10,000. 418 00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:37,087 But now that I've gotten over 419 00:19:37,088 --> 00:19:38,960 my transformational trauma and find myself 420 00:19:39,090 --> 00:19:41,441 in my day-walking yaoi manther phase... 421 00:19:41,528 --> 00:19:42,790 There's a hole in your roof. 422 00:19:42,877 --> 00:19:45,227 I only give a shit about Dan. 423 00:19:45,358 --> 00:19:48,143 Thought you were better than me, didn't you? 424 00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:52,407 Gave me a little camera crew, a laminated backstage pass, 425 00:19:52,408 --> 00:19:54,845 and then you laughed in my face 426 00:19:54,932 --> 00:19:56,847 and jerked off on my lens. 427 00:19:56,934 --> 00:20:00,242 Well, look at you now, spending your last hours 428 00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:04,377 in a fucking bowling bag, listening to Wheelchair Jimmy. 429 00:20:04,464 --> 00:20:05,943 Blow me. 430 00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,466 Oh. 431 00:20:07,467 --> 00:20:10,644 There is a lot coming at you, mon cher. 432 00:20:10,731 --> 00:20:12,733 Just remember, you are the only one 433 00:20:12,820 --> 00:20:14,430 who can control the volume. 434 00:20:22,786 --> 00:20:24,962 Oh, you. 435 00:20:25,049 --> 00:20:28,618 What are you doing here? 436 00:20:28,705 --> 00:20:30,925 Armand tell you to meet me? 437 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,625 Oh, yeah, he's in there. 438 00:20:35,712 --> 00:20:38,628 It's in there. 439 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:41,370 Lestat's mom made you, yeah? 440 00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:47,333 She give you the autism gift? 441 00:20:49,770 --> 00:20:51,511 You bowl? 442 00:20:51,598 --> 00:20:55,254 I'm a lot of bad things, but I'm not, like-- 443 00:20:55,341 --> 00:20:57,691 - Vitals, Fareed? - Waning. 444 00:20:57,778 --> 00:20:59,910 I wouldn't have done it had I known he was full fiend, 445 00:20:59,997 --> 00:21:03,392 gonna cut you up like he done. 446 00:21:03,523 --> 00:21:05,611 I was in the grip of it and couldn't get myself out. 447 00:21:05,612 --> 00:21:07,830 Fareed assured me it would work. 448 00:21:07,831 --> 00:21:09,746 Pop it back on. Let the blood do its magic. 449 00:21:09,833 --> 00:21:11,182 On a work visa, signed by him. 450 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:12,880 Not sure it would work on a mortal, 451 00:21:12,967 --> 00:21:14,621 but this is how progress... - Walk into a police precinct 452 00:21:14,708 --> 00:21:16,666 - Is made--trial and error. - And say, "In some trouble. 453 00:21:16,753 --> 00:21:18,973 It's weird. He's a vampire," 454 00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:20,888 gonna end up on a grippy sock holiday. 455 00:21:20,975 --> 00:21:22,890 I listened in on your séance last night. 456 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:25,588 I think Claudia would approve of this scientific risk. 457 00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:27,895 We ain't coming out of this. 458 00:21:28,025 --> 00:21:29,592 We're gonna die. 459 00:21:29,679 --> 00:21:31,289 They gonna sell a snuff tape, Louis. 460 00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:33,292 Don't give it to them. 461 00:21:33,422 --> 00:21:36,077 Ah, he's shut us both out. 462 00:21:40,951 --> 00:21:43,214 You know, I've known for some time 463 00:21:43,345 --> 00:21:46,130 Claudia was the aperture through which 464 00:21:46,217 --> 00:21:51,353 I could rip his innards out. 465 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,791 I understood his obsession for forgiveness. 466 00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:57,316 I lived it with him. 467 00:21:57,403 --> 00:22:00,188 He was my Claudia. 468 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:04,453 But I wasted a near century. 469 00:22:04,584 --> 00:22:05,889 And that is not nothing. 470 00:22:05,976 --> 00:22:07,717 That deserves amends. 471 00:22:07,804 --> 00:22:09,893 He said to the head on the skewer. 472 00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:11,591 You think I'm bluffing? 473 00:22:13,941 --> 00:22:16,030 Tell me your name again. - Nelson. 474 00:22:16,117 --> 00:22:18,424 Nelson. Nelson. 475 00:22:18,511 --> 00:22:20,469 Nelson here is one of my followers. 476 00:22:20,556 --> 00:22:22,253 Pick up that knife. 477 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:23,733 I have about a hundred of them now. 478 00:22:23,820 --> 00:22:27,998 Nelson, rest. 479 00:22:34,831 --> 00:22:37,573 Nelson thinks he was here to stop the Great Conversion, 480 00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:39,575 to return to the Five Laws. 481 00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:42,839 I needed him to stuff your head in a cooler and drive me here. 482 00:22:47,583 --> 00:22:50,325 Rest. 483 00:22:58,725 --> 00:23:02,032 I liked you, Louis. 484 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,992 You're a bit messed up, but I liked you. 485 00:23:08,735 --> 00:23:10,911 Please. 486 00:23:10,998 --> 00:23:12,869 I don't wanna die. 487 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:19,398 Paper. 488 00:23:21,704 --> 00:23:23,705 Paper. 489 00:23:28,494 --> 00:23:30,234 You failed to fill the Ryan Center 490 00:23:30,321 --> 00:23:31,671 of Kingston, Rhode Island. 491 00:23:31,758 --> 00:23:34,674 Van Gogh sold one painting in his lifetime. 492 00:23:34,761 --> 00:23:36,850 - Thank you, Mother. - Lover. 493 00:23:36,937 --> 00:23:38,765 "An intransigent Crypt Keeper 494 00:23:38,895 --> 00:23:40,506 in the hokiest light imaginable," 495 00:23:40,593 --> 00:23:41,985 "Billboard" magazine. 496 00:23:42,072 --> 00:23:44,510 "If this is the mind, heart, liver 497 00:23:44,597 --> 00:23:46,642 "of someone looking down the barrel of immortality, 498 00:23:46,729 --> 00:23:49,515 then kill me now," theneedledrop. 499 00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:51,647 "A cross between a self-absorbed 500 00:23:51,734 --> 00:23:54,302 "Robert Plant impersonator and an '80s hot dog, 501 00:23:54,389 --> 00:23:55,695 embalmed with hair gel." 502 00:23:57,261 --> 00:23:59,394 "Only the drummer escapes alive." 503 00:23:59,481 --> 00:24:01,091 - Woof. - Stereogum. 504 00:24:01,222 --> 00:24:03,006 You saw me front it in Toronto, and you in Detroit, 505 00:24:03,093 --> 00:24:04,660 and I killed it both nights. 506 00:24:04,747 --> 00:24:06,401 Yes, but we did not see you at Potawa Tommie's 507 00:24:06,488 --> 00:24:08,055 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 508 00:24:08,185 --> 00:24:10,187 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 509 00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:12,929 Turn to page 3, measure 95. 510 00:24:14,409 --> 00:24:16,672 State your name for the record. 511 00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:18,892 Marco Piemontessi. 512 00:24:18,979 --> 00:24:21,634 You were murdered by the Vampire Lestat 513 00:24:21,721 --> 00:24:24,201 after a performance of "Don Pasquale." 514 00:24:24,288 --> 00:24:25,681 And him. 515 00:24:25,812 --> 00:24:28,336 - As an expert in your field... - Ha. 516 00:24:28,423 --> 00:24:31,295 As an unwitting meal of the Vampire Lestat... 517 00:24:31,382 --> 00:24:33,080 And him. 518 00:24:33,210 --> 00:24:37,127 Walk us through the May 5, 2025, performance of... 519 00:24:37,214 --> 00:24:39,390 - Waiter. - "When I Call Out Your Name." 520 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,436 Already behind. 521 00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:43,699 You should be anticipating the beat. 522 00:24:43,786 --> 00:24:47,442 And now we are rushing. My, my. 523 00:24:47,529 --> 00:24:49,139 And swallowing our consonants. 524 00:24:49,226 --> 00:24:50,880 Tête. 525 00:24:50,967 --> 00:24:52,752 You could learn something from your Italian mother. 526 00:24:52,882 --> 00:24:55,798 Grazie bello. 527 00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:58,975 Always disappearing when she has the chance. 528 00:24:59,062 --> 00:25:01,107 Ms. Brown, your turn is coming. 529 00:25:01,108 --> 00:25:02,631 Keep typing. 530 00:25:02,718 --> 00:25:04,459 Flat again. 531 00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:06,026 At least we don't have to listen 532 00:25:06,113 --> 00:25:07,114 to his violin playing on this one. 533 00:25:07,201 --> 00:25:08,594 Flat. 534 00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:11,031 The control of a child with your vibrato. 535 00:25:11,161 --> 00:25:12,815 ♪ Gabriella, Gabriella ♪ 536 00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:14,730 Again, flat. 537 00:25:14,861 --> 00:25:17,559 Screaming like a witch at the stake, 538 00:25:17,646 --> 00:25:20,301 the hem of your devil's dress catching fire. 539 00:25:20,431 --> 00:25:25,262 - ♪ Gabriella, Gabriella - ♪ Mama, mama ♪ 540 00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:28,570 ♪ Mama ♪ 541 00:25:39,712 --> 00:25:42,802 Come now, Lestat, no falling behind. 542 00:25:50,592 --> 00:25:55,554 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God! 543 00:25:55,641 --> 00:25:58,817 He is avenging, and He is wrathful! 544 00:25:58,818 --> 00:26:01,777 He takes vengeance on His adversaries 545 00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:05,651 and keeps wrath for His enemies! 546 00:26:05,738 --> 00:26:09,785 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power. 547 00:26:09,872 --> 00:26:11,439 Why did you take me there? 548 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:15,486 His way is the whirlwind and the storm. 549 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:18,141 The clouds are the dust of His feet! 550 00:26:18,228 --> 00:26:20,056 Why did you take me there? 551 00:26:20,143 --> 00:26:22,537 I wanted you to see who they were. 552 00:26:22,624 --> 00:26:25,671 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry! 553 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:28,064 You say we are the witches? 554 00:26:28,195 --> 00:26:29,979 You are the witches! 555 00:26:30,066 --> 00:26:32,460 You are all the witches! 556 00:26:32,547 --> 00:26:34,462 You are the witches! 557 00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:36,159 You are the witches! 558 00:26:38,248 --> 00:26:39,989 You are the witch-- 559 00:26:40,076 --> 00:26:42,601 You are the-- 560 00:26:42,731 --> 00:26:46,082 you are-- 561 00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,955 Who can stand before His indignation? 562 00:26:49,085 --> 00:26:52,523 Who can endure the heat of His anger? 563 00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:55,614 His wrath is poured out like fire! 564 00:26:55,744 --> 00:26:59,139 No one who conceals transgressions will prosper. 565 00:26:59,226 --> 00:27:02,229 But one who confesses and forsakes them 566 00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:03,752 will obtain mercy. 567 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:05,624 They have confessed! 568 00:27:05,754 --> 00:27:07,538 Even the Marquis stayed home. 569 00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:11,847 I wanted you to escape Auvergne. 570 00:27:11,934 --> 00:27:13,719 Marguerite Doree. 571 00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:17,897 Ceased her prayers. Adored the devil in ceremony! 572 00:27:17,984 --> 00:27:20,551 Putrid throats she caused in her father through spells. 573 00:27:20,639 --> 00:27:22,684 The father favored the daughter. 574 00:27:22,771 --> 00:27:26,035 The mother mixed death cap mushrooms in his cassoulet. 575 00:27:26,122 --> 00:27:27,384 Jean Bodin. 576 00:27:27,471 --> 00:27:29,256 Ceased her prayers. 577 00:27:29,343 --> 00:27:32,085 Spied by our schoolmaster swallowing... 578 00:27:32,215 --> 00:27:34,000 The schoolmaster cleans up his transgressions-- 579 00:27:34,087 --> 00:27:35,654 most cowardly. 580 00:27:35,741 --> 00:27:38,004 Chanting the black mass in the breaks between! 581 00:27:38,091 --> 00:27:42,617 And the twin witches, Marthe and Aimée Roulet, 582 00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:47,013 nine years each. 583 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:48,841 - Aimée Roulet. - What did they cease doing? 584 00:27:48,928 --> 00:27:50,277 She used to play in our home, Mother. 585 00:27:50,407 --> 00:27:51,974 Run from this place. 586 00:27:52,061 --> 00:27:53,584 A bag of gunpowder tied around her neck 587 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,064 so she could burn hot. - Did you run? 588 00:27:55,195 --> 00:27:56,587 - Aimée? - No. 589 00:27:56,675 --> 00:28:00,460 Did you stay home until you were 30? 590 00:28:00,461 --> 00:28:02,811 - Aimée? - Cabbage! 591 00:28:02,942 --> 00:28:06,162 God, see us again! 592 00:28:06,249 --> 00:28:07,598 all: God, see us again! 593 00:28:07,729 --> 00:28:09,122 Cabbage! 594 00:28:09,209 --> 00:28:12,995 God, see us again! 595 00:28:13,082 --> 00:28:15,781 all: God, see us again! 596 00:28:15,911 --> 00:28:17,783 No! No! 597 00:28:26,052 --> 00:28:28,402 I love you. 598 00:28:28,489 --> 00:28:30,273 - Mother? - I love you. 599 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,797 Mother! 600 00:28:31,884 --> 00:28:34,800 - I love you. - Mother! 601 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,905 Did the same thing to Claudia in New Orleans. 602 00:28:52,992 --> 00:28:55,124 Called it tough love then. 603 00:28:55,211 --> 00:28:58,737 Then he kills the wolves. 604 00:28:58,867 --> 00:29:02,697 And then your hands wander, Madam Chair. 605 00:29:02,784 --> 00:29:04,916 He did not have a problem with these hands 606 00:29:04,917 --> 00:29:06,919 for the next 200-odd years. 607 00:29:07,006 --> 00:29:09,225 Handsome, noble, 608 00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:13,316 with considerable considerables. 609 00:29:13,447 --> 00:29:16,015 Lestat's makers love their Lestat. 610 00:29:16,102 --> 00:29:17,886 This is not about his vampire life. 611 00:29:18,017 --> 00:29:19,714 Why are we even discussing this? 612 00:29:19,845 --> 00:29:21,410 Strike it from the record. 613 00:29:24,588 --> 00:29:26,068 Moving on. 614 00:29:45,305 --> 00:29:51,006 There were 1,600 of you when we first met, Daniel. 615 00:29:51,093 --> 00:29:54,923 - Oh, you. - 290,000 of you now, 616 00:29:55,010 --> 00:29:58,274 averaging approximately 1.3 meals a day, 617 00:29:58,361 --> 00:30:00,189 that's more deaths 618 00:30:00,276 --> 00:30:02,278 than there are births in the world. 619 00:30:02,365 --> 00:30:03,410 That's a tipping point. 620 00:30:03,497 --> 00:30:05,716 You beat peak oil. 621 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,022 Hello. 622 00:30:07,109 --> 00:30:08,589 Raglan, this is Alex. 623 00:30:08,676 --> 00:30:10,721 He's on the vampire spectrum. 624 00:30:10,852 --> 00:30:12,375 Alex, this is Raglan. 625 00:30:12,506 --> 00:30:14,029 He's a watcher. 626 00:30:14,116 --> 00:30:15,465 He watches. 627 00:30:15,552 --> 00:30:17,903 He's watchful. He's always watching. 628 00:30:18,033 --> 00:30:19,600 He's a watcher. 629 00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:23,952 Hmm. 630 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:25,824 You might want to alter your angle of entry 631 00:30:25,911 --> 00:30:28,522 or switch to a ball that reads earlier. 632 00:30:28,609 --> 00:30:30,959 How about that one? 633 00:30:31,090 --> 00:30:32,656 You roll, Raglan? 634 00:30:32,743 --> 00:30:35,094 Mentor for the junior fun bunch, yes. 635 00:30:35,181 --> 00:30:37,705 I also came for a particular outdoor concert. 636 00:30:37,792 --> 00:30:42,710 Didn't purchase event cancellation insurance. 637 00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:44,581 We want the bag. 638 00:30:44,668 --> 00:30:46,279 You usually send Rashid in first. 639 00:30:46,366 --> 00:30:47,628 He's crosstown, 640 00:30:47,758 --> 00:30:49,412 waiting for the butcher to open. 641 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:53,547 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 642 00:30:53,634 --> 00:30:54,940 This is nothing. 643 00:30:55,070 --> 00:30:56,289 Artifice. 644 00:30:56,376 --> 00:30:58,465 I used you to punish. 645 00:30:58,552 --> 00:31:00,249 I never forgave you for Par-- 646 00:31:00,336 --> 00:31:01,642 Paris. 647 00:31:01,772 --> 00:31:03,774 Never. I never did. 648 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,341 And now? 649 00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:10,129 Nope. 650 00:31:10,216 --> 00:31:11,434 Rest. 651 00:31:11,565 --> 00:31:14,133 Can't. Won't. 652 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:17,876 Then what are you sorry for? 653 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:26,013 Love of my life was him. 654 00:31:29,017 --> 00:31:31,933 Rest. 655 00:31:32,064 --> 00:31:34,501 We want him to play the concert. 656 00:31:34,588 --> 00:31:35,763 I want to play the concert. 657 00:31:35,850 --> 00:31:37,896 Alex wants to play the concert. 658 00:31:37,983 --> 00:31:39,506 Why? 659 00:31:39,593 --> 00:31:41,247 We've been planning it for a year. 660 00:31:41,334 --> 00:31:42,901 Excuse me? 661 00:31:42,988 --> 00:31:48,123 Nudging it, urging it on, on the periphery, as we do. 662 00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:50,038 "Make more"? 663 00:31:50,169 --> 00:31:51,474 We came up with that. 664 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:53,824 You want the Great Conversion. 665 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,089 Loss of motor skills, jaw control... 666 00:31:57,176 --> 00:31:59,221 Blood deprivation. 667 00:31:59,352 --> 00:32:01,702 Heard the witch. 668 00:32:01,832 --> 00:32:05,662 Must've heard bench. 669 00:32:05,749 --> 00:32:09,753 Me, him. 670 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,277 Then. 671 00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:14,889 Nutrient loss equivalence. 672 00:32:14,976 --> 00:32:20,503 Even now, still thinking about him. 673 00:32:22,201 --> 00:32:25,030 S-sorry. 674 00:32:25,117 --> 00:32:26,814 No. 675 00:32:26,901 --> 00:32:29,425 No, Louis, you're declining. 676 00:32:31,732 --> 00:32:36,432 Use your telepathy. I'll repeat, for posterity. 677 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:40,262 Too many of us for what's left in the ground. 678 00:32:40,349 --> 00:32:42,177 Cradle your cell phone. 679 00:32:42,264 --> 00:32:44,919 Sell your Range Rover while you can. 680 00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:46,572 A desperate hour. 681 00:32:46,573 --> 00:32:49,532 There was a breakout room at the last G7 conference. 682 00:32:49,619 --> 00:32:51,970 They called it 683 00:32:52,057 --> 00:32:55,016 May the Vamps Safely Graze. 684 00:32:55,103 --> 00:32:57,105 Rescue the head, save the planet. 685 00:32:57,236 --> 00:32:58,888 It's a bit of a stretch. 686 00:32:58,889 --> 00:33:01,892 Can't see your kind governing, but then 687 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:03,372 you and I have our own reasonings. 688 00:33:03,459 --> 00:33:04,721 He pissed me off. 689 00:33:04,808 --> 00:33:08,769 Evidence of the soul's existence. 690 00:33:08,856 --> 00:33:10,118 Soul? 691 00:33:10,249 --> 00:33:12,163 The alchemist Magnus 692 00:33:12,164 --> 00:33:13,687 chooses him to carry on the blood. 693 00:33:13,774 --> 00:33:15,863 And what does he do? 694 00:33:15,950 --> 00:33:18,431 He gifts it to his ailing mother. 695 00:33:18,518 --> 00:33:19,780 Noble. 696 00:33:19,867 --> 00:33:22,043 But the tailor's son? 697 00:33:22,130 --> 00:33:24,002 Stupid and wasteful. 698 00:33:24,089 --> 00:33:26,352 I was mad. 699 00:33:26,439 --> 00:33:28,702 I got lies to account for. 700 00:33:28,832 --> 00:33:30,747 I've got lies to account for. 701 00:33:30,834 --> 00:33:32,662 - Lies to myself. - Lies to myself. 702 00:33:32,793 --> 00:33:35,448 - To others. - Lies to others. 703 00:33:35,535 --> 00:33:37,276 I know what it's like to build a house... 704 00:33:37,406 --> 00:33:39,147 I know what it's like to build a house... 705 00:33:39,234 --> 00:33:40,714 A cathedral on top of a lie. 706 00:33:40,801 --> 00:33:43,369 Cathedral on top of a lie. 707 00:33:43,456 --> 00:33:47,068 No biological rationale for head here and body there. 708 00:33:47,155 --> 00:33:50,115 That's the soul fighting, Daniel. 709 00:33:50,202 --> 00:33:53,596 Romps with my rotten boy. 710 00:33:53,727 --> 00:33:57,252 A--a cat-burgling stint on the devil's road 711 00:33:57,339 --> 00:34:02,866 with Gabriella, Sofia, mother, lover, Madam Chair. 712 00:34:02,997 --> 00:34:06,783 Live that lie so fully that it might as well be true. 713 00:34:06,914 --> 00:34:11,223 To live the lie so fully, might as well be true. 714 00:34:11,353 --> 00:34:14,834 Meaning beyond mortality. 715 00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:17,011 Wonder returned. 716 00:34:20,145 --> 00:34:23,409 Alex, I think you should open with "Big Boss." 717 00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:29,806 Raglan. 718 00:34:29,893 --> 00:34:31,504 Daniel? 719 00:34:34,681 --> 00:34:36,639 A straight man. 720 00:34:36,770 --> 00:34:37,858 Straight man. 721 00:34:37,945 --> 00:34:39,642 Good Negro, an artist. 722 00:34:39,729 --> 00:34:42,384 Good Negro, an artist. 723 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:43,994 Things I wasn't. 724 00:34:44,082 --> 00:34:45,822 Things I was not. 725 00:34:45,909 --> 00:34:49,174 And you got some reason to be dark-sided, Armand. 726 00:34:49,304 --> 00:34:52,742 And you-- 727 00:34:52,829 --> 00:34:56,746 you have some reason to be dark-sided, Armand. 728 00:34:56,833 --> 00:34:58,618 You were sold by who you were sold by. 729 00:34:58,705 --> 00:35:00,620 You were sold by who you were sold by. 730 00:35:00,707 --> 00:35:02,491 Sold into what you were sold into. 731 00:35:02,578 --> 00:35:04,276 Sold into what you were-- 732 00:35:04,406 --> 00:35:07,148 I saw a lot of that in New Orleans. 733 00:35:07,279 --> 00:35:09,281 Saw a lot of that in New Orleans. 734 00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:11,718 - On the opposite shore. - On the opposite shore. 735 00:35:11,805 --> 00:35:14,416 Running houses I ran. 736 00:35:14,503 --> 00:35:17,071 You and I didn't... - You and I... 737 00:35:17,158 --> 00:35:19,378 Didn't talk about it much... 738 00:35:19,465 --> 00:35:22,381 We didn't talk about it much. 739 00:35:22,511 --> 00:35:25,035 With you... 740 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,515 Shut it off. 741 00:35:30,563 --> 00:35:33,696 'Cause I didn't want to think on my own sins. 742 00:35:33,827 --> 00:35:37,265 Or picture you at 12. 743 00:35:37,352 --> 00:35:39,833 At 12. 744 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,053 You were 12. 745 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,491 Scared. 746 00:35:45,578 --> 00:35:48,102 Poor boy, 747 00:35:48,189 --> 00:35:50,626 Arun. 748 00:35:50,713 --> 00:35:53,760 You need a love that'll cradle you. 749 00:35:56,371 --> 00:36:00,419 You should have that. 750 00:36:00,506 --> 00:36:05,119 And I was never that for you. 751 00:36:05,206 --> 00:36:06,642 And I'm sorry. 752 00:36:12,561 --> 00:36:16,217 My coldness, 753 00:36:16,304 --> 00:36:20,047 my denial 754 00:36:20,134 --> 00:36:22,267 drove you to this. 755 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:31,145 I saw good in you... 756 00:36:34,888 --> 00:36:36,455 For a while. 757 00:37:13,318 --> 00:37:15,624 Bad things happen to girlies who talk. 758 00:37:31,292 --> 00:37:32,815 Using a standard suture kit. 759 00:37:34,469 --> 00:37:38,604 2.0 absorbable nylon suture to reaffix the head, 760 00:37:38,691 --> 00:37:40,606 close the wound. 761 00:37:40,693 --> 00:37:43,086 Isn't going to do much other than hold the head in place 762 00:37:43,173 --> 00:37:44,479 while it fuses through the blood. 763 00:37:46,786 --> 00:37:48,962 I am not a plastic surgeon. 764 00:37:49,049 --> 00:37:51,660 This is not my field of expertise. 765 00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:01,540 And when she told him that she wanted more darkness, 766 00:38:01,627 --> 00:38:05,326 he looked at her with the eyes of a juvenile. 767 00:38:05,413 --> 00:38:07,459 A great abandonment. 768 00:38:07,546 --> 00:38:09,939 And he threw himself on the shore. 769 00:38:10,070 --> 00:38:14,988 And he let the gravediggers fish him from the tide 770 00:38:15,075 --> 00:38:17,686 and bury him in the sands of anonymity. 771 00:38:17,773 --> 00:38:19,862 Now that's acting. 772 00:38:19,993 --> 00:38:25,041 And there he lies for 80 years, 773 00:38:25,128 --> 00:38:28,088 heaved out of the dirt because the mother of all of us 774 00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:32,005 chooses him, lets him drink of her, 775 00:38:32,092 --> 00:38:34,529 makes him a godling. 776 00:38:34,616 --> 00:38:36,270 And what does he do with this honor? 777 00:38:36,357 --> 00:38:38,925 Hops the "SS Abandoned" in New Orleans. 778 00:38:39,012 --> 00:38:42,145 Gives the gift to a pimp 779 00:38:42,232 --> 00:38:44,539 who lives to make him miserable, 780 00:38:44,670 --> 00:38:47,281 daddy-traps him, slits his throat, 781 00:38:47,368 --> 00:38:49,370 and fucks his ex. 782 00:38:49,501 --> 00:38:50,589 A lot. 783 00:38:50,676 --> 00:38:52,242 Could be nice. - Could be. 784 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:53,766 all: The soul! 785 00:38:53,853 --> 00:38:56,029 The failed progeny of Magnus. 786 00:38:56,116 --> 00:38:59,162 Unworthy chosen of Akasha. 787 00:38:59,249 --> 00:39:00,686 all: The soul! 788 00:39:00,773 --> 00:39:05,473 Kills the daughter, saves the pimp, 789 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,259 rots in a rotting robe in a rotting shack 790 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:10,696 in the rotting city. 791 00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:13,220 A tragic crippled thing, 792 00:39:13,307 --> 00:39:16,702 playing a plank for a piano, 793 00:39:16,789 --> 00:39:19,531 waiting for a hug. 794 00:39:19,618 --> 00:39:20,880 all: The soul! 795 00:39:20,967 --> 00:39:23,970 - A book. - A band. 796 00:39:24,057 --> 00:39:26,276 An album and a cause. 797 00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:28,148 all: The soul! 798 00:39:28,235 --> 00:39:30,672 But does failure finally fail to find him? 799 00:39:30,803 --> 00:39:32,979 No. all: The soul! 800 00:39:33,109 --> 00:39:37,984 He sits on a bench like a stupid idiot 801 00:39:38,071 --> 00:39:42,292 in a fog he mistakes for love. 802 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:43,946 - Could be. - Could be nice. 803 00:39:44,033 --> 00:39:45,861 Whack! 804 00:39:45,992 --> 00:39:48,647 Reckless. Self-sabotaging. 805 00:39:48,734 --> 00:39:49,996 Vain. 806 00:39:50,083 --> 00:39:51,650 A brat. 807 00:39:51,737 --> 00:39:52,912 Stupid. 808 00:39:52,999 --> 00:39:55,131 Trashy. Tawdry. 809 00:39:55,262 --> 00:39:57,220 A rotten boy. 810 00:39:57,307 --> 00:39:59,135 Failure. 811 00:39:59,222 --> 00:40:01,442 Impulsive. Imprudent. 812 00:40:01,529 --> 00:40:04,924 And st-st-stutterer. 813 00:40:05,011 --> 00:40:06,926 Cowardly. Selfish. 814 00:40:07,013 --> 00:40:08,623 Wretched. 815 00:40:08,710 --> 00:40:10,320 A waste. 816 00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,192 A failure. 817 00:40:12,279 --> 00:40:15,674 The Bimbo Himbo of Hambone. 818 00:40:15,761 --> 00:40:17,980 Did you stay home until you were 30? 819 00:40:18,111 --> 00:40:19,286 Cabbage! 820 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:20,896 A great abandonment. 821 00:40:22,245 --> 00:40:26,728 Your whole damn life 822 00:40:26,815 --> 00:40:29,688 a failure. 823 00:40:29,775 --> 00:40:31,211 Unworthy. 824 00:40:31,298 --> 00:40:32,299 Uncharitable. 825 00:40:32,386 --> 00:40:33,822 Manipulative. 826 00:40:33,953 --> 00:40:35,084 Miserable. 827 00:40:35,171 --> 00:40:36,695 - Idiot. - Ignorant. 828 00:40:36,782 --> 00:40:39,567 A careless caretaker. 829 00:40:39,654 --> 00:40:41,003 A crooning cartoon. 830 00:40:41,134 --> 00:40:42,178 A prima donna. 831 00:40:42,265 --> 00:40:43,484 A peacock. 832 00:40:43,615 --> 00:40:46,792 Your whole 833 00:40:46,879 --> 00:40:50,883 goddamn life 834 00:40:50,970 --> 00:40:54,843 a pathetic failure! 835 00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:17,779 Well done. 836 00:41:17,910 --> 00:41:19,694 Good show. A bit shit. 837 00:41:19,825 --> 00:41:22,044 But that's why you're opening and I'm headlining. 838 00:41:22,175 --> 00:41:25,570 The Vampire Lestat, one life only. 839 00:41:25,657 --> 00:41:26,962 Tickets through Ticketmaster. 840 00:41:27,049 --> 00:41:30,096 Inevitable complaints to Roget and Associates. 841 00:41:33,012 --> 00:41:36,058 Bonjour, St-Germain, 842 00:41:36,145 --> 00:41:38,670 Vieux Carré, Tontreal! 843 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,107 Let's hear it for Sofia Gabs 844 00:41:41,194 --> 00:41:43,413 and the Fledglings of Failure! 845 00:41:45,067 --> 00:41:49,202 You are all here tonight because I murdered you, 846 00:41:49,289 --> 00:41:51,900 made you, or memorably traumatized you. 847 00:41:52,031 --> 00:41:56,426 Congratulations for your historical proximity to me. 848 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:59,255 No doubt it was the defining moment of your life. 849 00:41:59,342 --> 00:42:00,866 We love you, Lestat! 850 00:42:00,953 --> 00:42:02,911 - I love you too. - Play "Long Face"! 851 00:42:02,998 --> 00:42:05,261 Fuck that song! 852 00:42:05,348 --> 00:42:07,699 That is a song you wash your car too. 853 00:42:09,439 --> 00:42:14,009 Perhaps that's the purposeful life of Lestat. 854 00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:15,620 He made more clean cars. 855 00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:19,711 Should've said that at the long table. 856 00:42:21,669 --> 00:42:23,191 Has that ever happened to you? 857 00:42:23,192 --> 00:42:25,020 You think of the perfect thing to say to the Pope 858 00:42:25,107 --> 00:42:26,718 an hour after you leave the Vatican? 859 00:42:30,417 --> 00:42:32,419 I know you. 860 00:42:32,506 --> 00:42:35,030 I drained you in Vienna. 861 00:42:35,117 --> 00:42:37,946 Christmas Market, 1953. 862 00:42:39,513 --> 00:42:41,515 What's your name? 863 00:42:41,602 --> 00:42:43,256 - Enzo. - Enzo. 864 00:42:44,910 --> 00:42:46,520 Quite the sharp suit. 865 00:42:48,914 --> 00:42:51,612 I spilled a lot of your blood. 866 00:42:51,743 --> 00:42:54,267 I was in a foul mood that evening. 867 00:42:54,354 --> 00:42:55,877 You deserved better. 868 00:43:01,491 --> 00:43:04,494 A lot of familiar faces in the audience tonight. 869 00:43:04,625 --> 00:43:06,496 More than a lot. 870 00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:08,150 All familiar. 871 00:43:11,545 --> 00:43:15,375 Janice. 872 00:43:15,462 --> 00:43:18,726 - CeCi. - Lestat! Lestat! 873 00:43:18,857 --> 00:43:21,424 Baggage Man, New York Limited. 874 00:43:21,555 --> 00:43:23,731 How's the head? Tickets, please! 875 00:43:23,818 --> 00:43:26,734 "Black Licorice." I wrote a song about you. 876 00:43:26,821 --> 00:43:28,997 I killed you in the Lower Ninth. 877 00:43:29,084 --> 00:43:30,999 Thank you for coming. 878 00:43:35,264 --> 00:43:36,309 Love you, Lestat! 879 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,361 We've got a great show for you tonight 880 00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:50,584 in a venue of overwhelming sentiment, 881 00:43:50,671 --> 00:43:52,934 because, well, this is the place 882 00:43:53,021 --> 00:43:56,285 that music first wrapped its belt 883 00:43:56,416 --> 00:43:59,245 around my aorta and yoked me 884 00:43:59,332 --> 00:44:01,769 through two centuries plus of vampiric life. 885 00:44:08,254 --> 00:44:10,212 What a life it's been. 886 00:44:10,299 --> 00:44:12,693 Play "Long Face"! 887 00:44:12,780 --> 00:44:14,477 Is that you, Dad? 888 00:44:23,356 --> 00:44:26,968 Regarding life, 889 00:44:27,055 --> 00:44:30,493 recent findings of the many I love most 890 00:44:30,624 --> 00:44:33,845 found my life to be a failure. 891 00:44:38,850 --> 00:44:40,155 Right? 892 00:44:40,242 --> 00:44:43,289 Right? 893 00:44:43,419 --> 00:44:44,986 I took your blood. 894 00:44:45,117 --> 00:44:47,685 I did my vampire duty. 895 00:44:47,772 --> 00:44:50,513 I brought death, spread fear, 896 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,081 fostered superstition and paranoia. 897 00:44:55,257 --> 00:44:58,565 Moral complaints all fall on the idea that humanity is-- 898 00:44:58,652 --> 00:45:00,480 - Failure! - I don't agree. 899 00:45:00,567 --> 00:45:02,569 No one asked you, lady! 900 00:45:02,656 --> 00:45:06,051 I think in the end-- 901 00:45:06,138 --> 00:45:07,269 in the end... 902 00:45:09,402 --> 00:45:11,273 I think 903 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,319 I was pretty fucking great! 904 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,198 But... 905 00:45:23,285 --> 00:45:26,375 if I failed, 906 00:45:26,506 --> 00:45:30,292 if--if I failed... 907 00:45:30,379 --> 00:45:34,470 Then that means I actually attempted something. 908 00:45:36,124 --> 00:45:37,909 Which is more than I can say for most of those 909 00:45:37,996 --> 00:45:39,780 I love the most. 910 00:45:39,867 --> 00:45:41,347 I don't know if I mean that. 911 00:45:43,088 --> 00:45:45,960 That was performative. 912 00:45:46,047 --> 00:45:48,006 I loved you. 913 00:45:50,008 --> 00:45:51,139 I did. 914 00:45:57,102 --> 00:46:02,672 As grotesque as that love appeared to you, 915 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:03,935 I did. 916 00:46:15,903 --> 00:46:17,035 Thank you for coming. 917 00:46:18,471 --> 00:46:20,734 We love you, Lestat! We love you! 918 00:46:20,821 --> 00:46:22,431 We've got a great show for you tonight. 919 00:46:24,129 --> 00:46:26,827 We're gonna play a new song for you tonight! 920 00:46:26,914 --> 00:46:30,656 We've got TC on the drums, Salamander on the bass, 921 00:46:30,657 --> 00:46:33,486 Plastic Dracula Alex on the guitar, 922 00:46:33,573 --> 00:46:35,836 and I am the Vampire Lestat! 923 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,668 I was supposed to stage dive just then. 924 00:46:45,019 --> 00:46:47,282 Could be. 925 00:46:47,369 --> 00:46:48,675 Hands touch. 926 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:53,419 I'm feeling a little-- 927 00:47:00,339 --> 00:47:02,950 You need to get your snooze fixed, Lestat. 928 00:47:12,481 --> 00:47:13,613 What else? 929 00:47:16,355 --> 00:47:17,922 I'm failing. 930 00:47:21,577 --> 00:47:22,840 My blood. 931 00:47:26,713 --> 00:47:29,411 My blood. 932 00:47:29,498 --> 00:47:30,978 I did my best with it. 933 00:47:35,548 --> 00:47:36,854 No. 934 00:47:39,944 --> 00:47:43,643 No, I let--I let too much spill too often. 935 00:47:48,474 --> 00:47:50,171 I did not always honor it. 936 00:47:53,696 --> 00:47:56,264 Enzo. 937 00:47:56,351 --> 00:47:59,006 Can--can someone tell-- 938 00:48:03,054 --> 00:48:05,665 Can someone tell Enzo that I'm sorry? 939 00:48:05,752 --> 00:48:09,321 He had... 940 00:48:09,408 --> 00:48:13,934 a package with the most beautiful wrapping. 941 00:48:14,021 --> 00:48:17,285 And I hope it got to who... 942 00:48:17,372 --> 00:48:22,769 whom it was meant for. 943 00:48:24,727 --> 00:48:26,164 Grammar. 944 00:48:49,796 --> 00:48:53,147 He has a hard time saying it. 945 00:48:53,234 --> 00:48:54,801 Got that from our daddy. 946 00:48:57,586 --> 00:48:59,110 It doesn't mean he doesn't. 947 00:48:59,197 --> 00:49:01,460 It's just his way. 948 00:49:04,637 --> 00:49:08,206 Thank you for loving him, 949 00:49:08,336 --> 00:49:10,643 for loving him the way he needs to be loved. 950 00:49:16,779 --> 00:49:18,477 I still wish you were a woman. 951 00:49:21,219 --> 00:49:23,047 Me too, sometimes. 952 00:49:36,582 --> 00:49:39,802 Wow. 953 00:49:39,889 --> 00:49:42,066 It's not all that once you get there. 954 00:49:49,116 --> 00:49:50,857 Silver threads. 955 00:49:55,253 --> 00:49:58,734 Silver threads stretched out over other threads. 956 00:50:03,739 --> 00:50:06,394 OK. You sure about that? 957 00:50:10,268 --> 00:50:11,617 Yes, ma'am. 958 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:16,752 OK. 959 00:50:35,597 --> 00:50:37,382 Would you believe me if I said 960 00:50:37,512 --> 00:50:40,776 the next thing I remember is waking up on my tour bus, 961 00:50:40,863 --> 00:50:42,169 parked in the woods 962 00:50:42,256 --> 00:50:45,129 several hundred yards away from the stage, 963 00:50:45,216 --> 00:50:49,611 where 45,000 frenzied and impatient vampires 964 00:50:49,698 --> 00:50:53,963 and 10,000 naive and beautifully unwell mortals 965 00:50:54,094 --> 00:50:57,749 gathered from all corners of the savage garden 966 00:50:57,750 --> 00:51:01,797 to hear me sing "Make More"? 967 00:51:01,884 --> 00:51:07,281 It was disorienting, my return to the physical world, 968 00:51:07,368 --> 00:51:11,024 her kind and caring words so very different 969 00:51:11,111 --> 00:51:13,200 from her words at the long table. 970 00:51:13,287 --> 00:51:15,246 The shoe leather of how I got there 971 00:51:15,333 --> 00:51:18,814 was explained to me by a man I did not recognize 972 00:51:18,901 --> 00:51:21,295 but who I now call a friend. 973 00:51:21,382 --> 00:51:24,211 He told me his watchful operatives were in the park 974 00:51:24,342 --> 00:51:28,346 the night Armand and Daniel cut through the fog of love 975 00:51:28,433 --> 00:51:31,044 and the flesh of our necks. 976 00:51:31,175 --> 00:51:34,265 They trailed our parts to their destinations 977 00:51:34,352 --> 00:51:37,355 and followed their protocols of engagement. 978 00:51:37,442 --> 00:51:40,271 He was vague about Alex's role. 979 00:51:40,358 --> 00:51:43,404 There was, however, nothing vague 980 00:51:43,491 --> 00:51:45,754 about whose idea it was to bring me 981 00:51:45,841 --> 00:51:48,757 from my immortal brush with mortality 982 00:51:48,844 --> 00:51:54,067 directly to the now infamously catastrophic gig. 983 00:51:54,154 --> 00:51:56,330 And as I talked over their absurd persuasions 984 00:51:56,417 --> 00:51:58,898 for me to perform, 985 00:51:58,985 --> 00:52:01,857 a second thought saved them all from my provoked rage. 986 00:52:07,341 --> 00:52:10,692 He didn't go into the details of his day. 987 00:52:10,779 --> 00:52:14,086 I would only hear of them later, 988 00:52:14,087 --> 00:52:16,437 after the concert, 989 00:52:16,568 --> 00:52:19,266 after the mayhem. 990 00:52:19,353 --> 00:52:22,269 Should have quit right then and there. 991 00:52:22,356 --> 00:52:25,272 I know. I know. 992 00:52:25,403 --> 00:52:28,232 This is you, right? 993 00:52:28,362 --> 00:52:30,059 Right? This is your idea? - You want to go out 994 00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:31,713 and tell them that there is going to be no show? 995 00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,714 You want to put me in a coffin, let me have a nap, 996 00:52:33,715 --> 00:52:35,413 and then you put me on fucking stage? 997 00:52:35,543 --> 00:52:37,284 You want to see what happens when you go out there 998 00:52:37,371 --> 00:52:38,807 and tell them that? - Are you insane? 999 00:52:38,938 --> 00:52:40,853 You tell whoever the fuck brought you back into my life-- 1000 00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:42,724 You think that there is going to be a safe mile anywhere... 1001 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,639 That I am not fucking delivering! 1002 00:52:44,726 --> 00:52:46,205 - In this sacred garden... - You go onstage! 1003 00:52:46,206 --> 00:52:48,076 You get torn apart! - If you do that? 1004 00:52:48,077 --> 00:52:50,471 You do it because I am not going onstage! 1005 00:52:50,558 --> 00:52:53,822 I am not fucking singing, you fucking monster! 1006 00:53:00,786 --> 00:53:04,833 Struggle to articulate is something. 1007 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,662 I look around my living room, where I record this now, 1008 00:53:07,749 --> 00:53:12,363 and everything just feels off. 1009 00:53:15,888 --> 00:53:19,674 I imagine you're here with me, 1010 00:53:19,761 --> 00:53:21,720 my patron. 1011 00:53:21,850 --> 00:53:23,069 Whoever you are. 1012 00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:28,161 Do you hate me? 1013 00:53:30,946 --> 00:53:33,688 Do you smoke? 1014 00:53:36,909 --> 00:53:39,781 Have I scaled the walls of your privilege, 1015 00:53:39,912 --> 00:53:41,739 made you feel how I felt in the summer, 1016 00:53:41,740 --> 00:53:44,569 spring, and fall of 2025? 1017 00:53:48,181 --> 00:53:52,402 Or have I failed at auction, 1018 00:53:52,403 --> 00:53:54,927 these reels returned to me unsold? 1019 00:53:59,453 --> 00:54:01,107 Am I talking to myself? 1020 00:54:08,375 --> 00:54:10,551 You are listening to "The Failures," 1021 00:54:10,682 --> 00:54:13,685 Album 58, Side A. 1022 00:54:21,083 --> 00:54:23,521 What did I say at the start of this, 1023 00:54:23,651 --> 00:54:28,264 as to the Queen, 1024 00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:31,703 as to destruction unleashed? 1025 00:54:34,619 --> 00:54:39,276 Something about the regretful dead 1026 00:54:39,406 --> 00:54:41,886 and the... hmm, what was it? 1027 00:54:41,887 --> 00:54:44,498 Traumatized alive. 1028 00:54:46,195 --> 00:54:48,241 That I had made a contribution. 1029 00:54:50,504 --> 00:54:52,027 Let me take that back. 1030 00:54:54,813 --> 00:54:57,119 The fault was mine. 1031 00:54:58,425 --> 00:54:59,861 All mine. 1032 00:55:07,695 --> 00:55:08,609 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 1033 00:55:08,740 --> 00:55:10,089 wherever you stream music. 1034 00:55:23,232 --> 00:55:25,278 The idea for the episode, 1035 00:55:25,409 --> 00:55:27,193 I think came from a fever dream from Rolin Jones, 1036 00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:28,629 and he was like, they're headless. 1037 00:55:28,716 --> 00:55:31,589 And we were like, "Okay, okay, crazy." 1038 00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,243 My first thought about having my head skewered 1039 00:55:34,418 --> 00:55:38,596 on a butcher's slab was, " you, Rolin Jones." 1040 00:55:38,726 --> 00:55:41,990 because he made a ridiculous promise to me, 1041 00:55:42,164 --> 00:55:44,689 you're not going to get like, super bloody again. 1042 00:55:44,776 --> 00:55:46,821 He lied. 1043 00:55:46,952 --> 00:55:49,041 Mark. 1044 00:55:49,215 --> 00:55:50,999 It's your turn. 1045 00:55:51,130 --> 00:55:53,698 There are too many prosthetic heads out in the world of me, 1046 00:55:53,828 --> 00:55:55,700 I hate it. 1047 00:55:55,830 --> 00:55:57,832 Both the boys find it disturbing 1048 00:55:57,963 --> 00:56:00,661 to watch themselves talk back to them. 1049 00:56:00,792 --> 00:56:03,534 Burn them now. 1050 00:56:03,664 --> 00:56:06,319 I don't know who's got my head or where it is now, but... 1051 00:56:06,406 --> 00:56:08,800 Take them out on a Saturday night, right? 1052 00:56:08,930 --> 00:56:10,889 And I think you know the specific ways you've done it. 1053 00:56:11,019 --> 00:56:12,891 Fuck you. 1054 00:56:13,021 --> 00:56:14,458 I've been waiting for this moment. 1055 00:56:14,545 --> 00:56:17,939 This was very cathartic for me and Armand, 1056 00:56:18,070 --> 00:56:21,639 because all season we haven't seen Armand and Louis interact. 1057 00:56:21,813 --> 00:56:24,424 Motivation. 1058 00:56:24,511 --> 00:56:27,732 I acted as a severed head and I acted as a body. 1059 00:56:27,862 --> 00:56:33,477 And we just switched around and did loads of different passes. 1060 00:56:33,651 --> 00:56:36,784 It was fun. It's quite hard to keep your head rigid. 1061 00:56:36,958 --> 00:56:39,091 I had to, like, lock myself into the cutout on the table 1062 00:56:39,221 --> 00:56:41,354 and just, like, keep my head very still. 1063 00:56:41,485 --> 00:56:44,096 Also, we brought her. 1064 00:56:44,183 --> 00:56:50,842 Delainey has an all-timer Hall of Fame MVP scream. 1065 00:56:50,972 --> 00:56:53,410 No, she didn't know. 1066 00:56:53,540 --> 00:56:55,803 The butcher scene, it's so icky. 1067 00:56:55,934 --> 00:56:57,283 And action. 1068 00:56:57,457 --> 00:56:59,285 But filming it was fun. 1069 00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:01,113 And Armand is-- I was gonna swear then. 1070 00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,637 He's a scary, scary man. 1071 00:57:03,811 --> 00:57:06,640 - Armand! - Ah. 1072 00:57:08,860 --> 00:57:12,516 I think the first scream was the most powerful scream, 1073 00:57:12,603 --> 00:57:16,389 because I didn't know it was going to be an animatronic head. 1074 00:57:18,565 --> 00:57:21,176 Delainey needs to be a scream queen yesterday. 1075 00:57:21,307 --> 00:57:24,484 AMC Shudder, look up Delainey Hayles. 1076 00:57:24,658 --> 00:57:27,008 You know her. 1077 00:57:27,139 --> 00:57:28,836 In that moment, I think Regina's like, 1078 00:57:29,010 --> 00:57:30,447 "How do I get out alive? 1079 00:57:30,577 --> 00:57:32,361 Like, Louis, it's too late for you. 1080 00:57:32,536 --> 00:57:33,841 But how do I make it out?" 1081 00:57:33,972 --> 00:57:36,670 Paper. Paper. 1082 00:57:36,844 --> 00:57:39,368 Louis and Armand... 1083 00:57:39,499 --> 00:57:41,893 It's really beautiful that they get this moment 1084 00:57:42,067 --> 00:57:44,678 to just, like, reconcile. 1085 00:57:44,852 --> 00:57:46,593 Picture you at 12. 1086 00:57:46,767 --> 00:57:48,769 - That's the moment Armand... - Scared. 1087 00:57:48,856 --> 00:57:51,859 - ...finally accepts that... - Poor boy. 1088 00:57:52,033 --> 00:57:53,992 ...this is over. 1089 00:57:54,122 --> 00:57:59,040 Arun, you need a love that will cradle you. 1090 00:57:59,127 --> 00:58:02,000 It's a really powerful moment. I hope it does come across. 1091 00:58:02,130 --> 00:58:05,264 It felt really important when we did it. 1092 00:58:12,924 --> 00:58:16,971 I am the chair, the maker. 1093 00:58:17,102 --> 00:58:19,278 Lestat, he's at the long table, 1094 00:58:19,408 --> 00:58:20,540 which I knew was coming from the very beginning, 1095 00:58:20,714 --> 00:58:21,846 because Rolin had said, 1096 00:58:21,976 --> 00:58:23,456 the whole season is going to be revolving 1097 00:58:23,587 --> 00:58:25,023 around this concept of the long table. 1098 00:58:25,197 --> 00:58:27,547 And where's Claudia? 1099 00:58:27,634 --> 00:58:31,725 She said all she needs to say to you is what she said. 1100 00:58:31,812 --> 00:58:33,553 Originally, it was going to be everyone who was killed, 1101 00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,424 which is kind of where we get to by the very end 1102 00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:38,297 when he's performing on the stage in the Paris street, 1103 00:58:38,427 --> 00:58:40,734 which is of no time. 1104 00:58:40,821 --> 00:58:45,478 This whole episode is designed to revisit the past 1105 00:58:45,609 --> 00:58:48,046 - and talk to those people... - I'm dead. 1106 00:58:48,176 --> 00:58:50,396 ...who have been a huge part of his life. 1107 00:58:50,570 --> 00:58:52,398 This is death? 1108 00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:54,748 My father's ugly table in your shitty tower. 1109 00:58:54,879 --> 00:58:56,576 Dying. 1110 00:58:56,707 --> 00:58:59,536 For the first time, he's forced to actually deal 1111 00:58:59,666 --> 00:59:04,323 with the relationships in his life that he tries to sculpt, 1112 00:59:04,453 --> 00:59:06,847 or change, or run away from. 1113 00:59:06,978 --> 00:59:09,154 So you're all here to judge me? 1114 00:59:09,328 --> 00:59:11,852 We are the failure finders. 1115 00:59:11,939 --> 00:59:15,029 These people point out to him things about himself 1116 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:16,683 that he maybe couldn't see. 1117 00:59:16,770 --> 00:59:18,772 In some ways, he's gaining an education 1118 00:59:18,859 --> 00:59:21,906 and he's gaining emotional intelligence about himself. 1119 00:59:21,993 --> 00:59:25,126 Cross between a self-absorbed Robert Plant impersonator 1120 00:59:25,257 --> 00:59:28,782 and an 80s hot dog embalmed with hair gel. 1121 00:59:28,913 --> 00:59:31,263 I got to wear that beautiful raspberry suit again. 1122 00:59:31,437 --> 00:59:32,873 And I love that suit. 1123 00:59:33,004 --> 00:59:34,701 And it's a comfortable suit. 1124 00:59:34,875 --> 00:59:39,445 And it makes me feel like Louis in a certain period, 1125 00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:42,796 a different Louis to the one we know now. 1126 00:59:42,927 --> 00:59:44,189 At least we don't have to listen to 1127 00:59:44,276 --> 00:59:46,060 his violin playing on this one. 1128 00:59:46,191 --> 00:59:47,714 Lestat is coming to terms with the fact 1129 00:59:47,888 --> 00:59:49,586 that perhaps none of them like him, 1130 00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:54,503 and that's a very traumatizing experience for him. 1131 00:59:54,678 --> 00:59:59,726 And realizing that your whole life has been a failure. 1132 01:00:07,212 --> 01:00:10,737 And I love the soliloquies to a bowling bag. 1133 01:00:10,868 --> 01:00:13,131 It's kind of crazy and wonderful. 1134 01:00:13,261 --> 01:00:14,915 You go do what I did with my life. 1135 01:00:15,002 --> 01:00:17,744 You go knock down those doors, you go get some. 1136 01:00:17,875 --> 01:00:21,052 Molloy's pissed off and he's got the guy's head, 1137 01:00:21,182 --> 01:00:23,271 and he's like, "I'm gonna yell at this thing." 1138 01:00:23,445 --> 01:00:25,839 I get to gloat, and then ultimately, 1139 01:00:25,926 --> 01:00:27,711 things change up again. 1140 01:00:27,841 --> 01:00:29,190 Hello. 1141 01:00:29,321 --> 01:00:31,628 Alex, this is Raglan. He's a watcher. 1142 01:00:31,758 --> 01:00:33,325 He watches. 1143 01:00:33,455 --> 01:00:35,457 Once again, Daniel is frustrated. 1144 01:00:35,544 --> 01:00:38,286 Hmm. 1145 01:00:38,373 --> 01:00:39,984 You might want to alter your angle of entry 1146 01:00:40,114 --> 01:00:42,856 or switch to a ball that reads earlier. 1147 01:00:43,030 --> 01:00:44,336 How about that one? 1148 01:00:44,466 --> 01:00:45,729 If you've read all the Anne Rice, 1149 01:00:45,816 --> 01:00:47,339 then you know that Raglan James 1150 01:00:47,469 --> 01:00:50,908 is a very complicated character, ultimately. 1151 01:00:51,038 --> 01:00:56,087 Alex, I think you should open with Big Boss. 1152 01:00:56,217 --> 01:00:59,873 I fantasize having the power that a vampire has, 1153 01:01:00,004 --> 01:01:01,962 and I can't wait to fight with everybody. 1154 01:01:02,093 --> 01:01:04,443 - Raglan. - Daniel? 1155 01:01:11,015 --> 01:01:12,973 The soul. 1156 01:01:13,104 --> 01:01:17,761 - The failed progeny of Magnus. - Unworthy chosen of Akasha. 1157 01:01:17,935 --> 01:01:21,155 - The soul. - He keeps getting kicked down. 1158 01:01:21,242 --> 01:01:23,070 Gets back up. Keeps getting kicked down. 1159 01:01:23,201 --> 01:01:24,855 Gets back up. 1160 01:01:24,985 --> 01:01:26,813 And now he's kicked back down on the floor again. 1161 01:01:26,987 --> 01:01:29,947 And he might not be able to get back up right now. 1162 01:01:30,121 --> 01:01:33,907 Failure as a theme, I just think is a beautiful thing. 1163 01:01:34,081 --> 01:01:35,561 We should all fail more. 1164 01:01:35,692 --> 01:01:37,737 If you don't fail, you don't learn. 1165 01:01:37,911 --> 01:01:40,958 Pathetic failure! 1166 01:01:41,045 --> 01:01:43,569 Even if he listens to all of the failures 1167 01:01:43,700 --> 01:01:45,789 while they're sitting there eating his soul 1168 01:01:45,919 --> 01:01:47,181 at the dinner table, he still gets up on the table 1169 01:01:47,312 --> 01:01:50,576 and says, "Well done. Good job. Good shit. 1170 01:01:50,663 --> 01:01:52,665 That's why you're opening. And I'm headlining. 1171 01:01:52,796 --> 01:01:56,016 The Vampire Lestat. 1172 01:01:57,278 --> 01:02:01,195 Bonjour, Saint Germain. 1173 01:02:01,369 --> 01:02:03,371 I think the overarching whole theme 1174 01:02:03,502 --> 01:02:05,634 of the whole show and Lestat's journey 1175 01:02:05,765 --> 01:02:09,334 is his whole life might be a total train wreck, 1176 01:02:09,464 --> 01:02:11,336 but at least he tried. 1177 01:02:11,466 --> 01:02:12,990 At least he's trying. 1178 01:02:19,779 --> 01:02:21,999 For me, the greatest shock of this episode 1179 01:02:22,086 --> 01:02:24,001 was bringing Paul back into it. 1180 01:02:24,131 --> 01:02:26,264 And for Paul to be the one that tells Lestat, 1181 01:02:26,394 --> 01:02:28,701 actually, Louis does love you. 1182 01:02:28,832 --> 01:02:31,791 He has a hard time saying it. 1183 01:02:31,965 --> 01:02:33,750 Got that from my daddy. 1184 01:02:33,837 --> 01:02:36,013 Beautiful, beautiful moment with Paul 1185 01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:38,972 where Lestat is this person who, 1186 01:02:39,103 --> 01:02:40,757 however he wants to be self-critical, 1187 01:02:40,887 --> 01:02:42,715 he also has to be self-loving in some ways, 1188 01:02:42,846 --> 01:02:45,457 and that really opens his eyes. 1189 01:02:45,544 --> 01:02:47,676 You didn't fail, because somebody loved you. 1190 01:02:47,807 --> 01:02:49,983 I thought that was like, "Whoa, heartbreaking, heartbreaking. 1191 01:02:50,070 --> 01:02:51,855 Insane." It's beautiful. 1192 01:02:52,029 --> 01:02:54,945 On second thought, save them all from my provoked rage. 1193 01:02:55,032 --> 01:02:56,990 I think it's really sweet that they just pick up 1194 01:02:57,164 --> 01:02:58,078 where they left off. 1195 01:02:58,209 --> 01:03:00,515 As extreme as it all gets, 1196 01:03:00,646 --> 01:03:05,085 there is actually something very simple about this reunion, 1197 01:03:05,172 --> 01:03:06,608 and maybe it's because it's where they acknowledged 1198 01:03:06,695 --> 01:03:09,742 a future, so they just pick up again. 1199 01:03:09,873 --> 01:03:11,222 I think that's beautiful. 1200 01:03:16,488 --> 01:03:18,664 At the very end of the season, 1201 01:03:18,751 --> 01:03:21,841 and it's also the conclusion to the first opening scene 1202 01:03:22,015 --> 01:03:23,800 in episode one, 1203 01:03:23,930 --> 01:03:26,498 where you now discover what our timeline is. 1204 01:03:26,585 --> 01:03:29,544 You can see that Louis and Armand are injured. 1205 01:03:29,675 --> 01:03:33,984 Lestat is no longer there. And this is post-Akasha. 1206 01:03:34,114 --> 01:03:36,943 This is post the destruction of the world. 1207 01:03:37,074 --> 01:03:38,858 I would say he's very, 1208 01:03:38,989 --> 01:03:41,382 very responsible for that destruction. 1209 01:03:41,556 --> 01:03:43,210 I mean, he woke the Queen. 1210 01:03:43,384 --> 01:03:46,126 The fault was mine. 1211 01:03:46,213 --> 01:03:47,301 All mine. 1212 01:03:57,834 --> 01:04:01,837 ♪ My head is rollin' round 1213 01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:06,233 ♪ Will my toesies ever touch the ground? ♪ 1214 01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,279 ♪ Hang every rope ♪ 1215 01:04:08,409 --> 01:04:10,193 ♪ Burn every witch ♪ 1216 01:04:10,194 --> 01:04:13,587 ♪ But you'll never catch the butterscotch bitch ♪ 1217 01:04:13,588 --> 01:04:17,375 ♪ Yah, bah-dah 1218 01:04:17,462 --> 01:04:20,726 ♪ Bah-dah ♪ 1219 01:04:20,813 --> 01:04:26,688 ♪ Yah-dah-dah, dah ♪