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So, Mr. du Lac.
How long have you been dead?

2
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I'm saying you'd do it
for 10%.

3
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10% for all the work?

4
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These men look
down on you.

5
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Do you not
know your value?

6
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He wouldn't tell me
how he did it.

7
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Don't do that here!
Not with my family.

8
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I loved my brother
more than anyone on Earth.

9
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Paul! Paul!

10
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Paul's in Hell
because of you.

11
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Help me, please!

12
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I laid down
with the devil.

13
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*

14
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*

15
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It's Venetian.

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A contemporary
of Tintoretto's.

17
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"Marius de Romanus."

18
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Never heard of him.

19
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Little of his work survives.

20
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Mr. de Pointe du Lac
covets the rare.

21
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Do you hear that?

22
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[Creaking in distance]

23
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I keep hearing that sound.

24
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Well, the building
sways a bit,

25
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but that is according
to its design, given the height.

26
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We call it the groan.

27
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It won't disturb your meal,
which is ready now.

28
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Did you always work
for him?

29
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Please have a seat.

30
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Sign an NDA?

31
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I mean, is it only work
or are you and he...?

32
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I serve a god.

33
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It is my honor to serve.

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Mr. de Pointe du Lac
will join you at course seven.

35
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Seven? Wait, but how many
courses are there?

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Fattening me up
for the inevitable end?

37
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*

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Butler #1: Duck foie gras
terrine, pickled fruit,

39
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roasted apple bonbon.

40
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*

41
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*

42
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*

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[Box opens]

44
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*

45
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*

46
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There he is.

47
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You missed at least three
or four endangered species.

48
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I want to apologize
for my outburst earlier.

49
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I can assure you,
it will not happen again.

50
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Memory is a monster.

51
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We forget, it doesn't.

52
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Uh, this is session two,
Louis de Pointe du Lac.

53
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Eh, can we turn down
the music?

54
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[Volume decreases]
Butler #1: Ajoblanco.

55
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Bread, crushed almonds, garlic,
olive oil, and salt,

56
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a garnish of green grapes,

57
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and AB negative,
fresh from the farm.

58
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Bon appétit.

59
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Part of me wants to ask
about the farm.

60
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Two vampires walk
into a church.

61
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That's where we left off.

62
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Blissing out
post-priesticide.

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[Groaning]

64
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Louis: The bliss was merely
a stage in my transformation --

65
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pain followed, a seizing
and unrelenting pain,

66
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through which I would pass
before my apprenticeship began.

67
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What's happening?

68
00:04:04,594 --> 00:04:05,929
Lestat:
Your body is confused.

69
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Your lungs feel like water,
your heart, fire.

70
00:04:07,997 --> 00:04:10,400
You feel as if you're dying,

71
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because you are.

72
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[Groaning]

73
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[Retches]

74
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And then,
there's the retching.

75
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I recognize the hypocrite
I am,

76
00:04:19,776 --> 00:04:22,612
emphasizing cleanliness
after I overindulged,

77
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but a proper disposal is
the penance of a sated vampire.

78
00:04:27,216 --> 00:04:30,253
And you won't always have
a conveniently located graveyard

79
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nearby, so...
[Breathing heavily]

80
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Nuh-uh-uh-uh.

81
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Nuh-uh-uh.

82
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We live off the blood
of the living.

83
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Lap up the blood
of the deceased

84
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and it'll suck you
right down into death,

85
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along with your victim.

86
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Hmm?

87
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[Humming]
[Strained breathing]

88
00:04:50,139 --> 00:04:51,475
[Grunting]
[Groaning]

89
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Ugh.

90
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[Groaning continues]

91
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[Grunts]
[Body thuds]

92
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[Groans]

93
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Uh.

94
00:05:00,550 --> 00:05:01,918
Louis.

95
00:05:02,018 --> 00:05:04,388
*

96
00:05:04,488 --> 00:05:10,594
[Laughing]

97
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[Wind whistling]

98
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There's the spark.

99
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*

100
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[Laughing continues]

101
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*

102
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[Whistling continues]

103
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*

104
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[Laughing continues]

105
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*

106
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[Laughing]

107
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*

108
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Louis: Lestat's blood was
giggling inside me,

109
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teasing my senses,
illuminating the district

110
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with overwhelming detail,

111
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as if I had walked
my entire life as a dead man,

112
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and now, dead,
could finally receive

113
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the secrets of existence.

114
00:06:01,445 --> 00:06:03,346
Daniel:
You were fucking loaded.

115
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Beyond articulation.

116
00:06:05,148 --> 00:06:07,984
[Electricity crackles, hums]

117
00:06:08,084 --> 00:06:10,286
*

118
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Lestat: Your ears will
pick up the world

119
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like a maddening symphony.
[Dog chews]

120
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Follow my voice,
a single strain.

121
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Your eyes will wander,
led by your hunger.

122
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[Couple moans]

123
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Are you hungry, Louis?

124
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Uh-huh.
[Chuckles]

125
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They were your brothers
and sisters once,

126
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but now they're
your savory inferiors.

127
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A young Tempranillo,
fleshy and tart.

128
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[Indistinct conversation]

129
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A Primitivo, hints of iron,
rather plain otherwise.

130
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[Indistinct conversation]

131
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A pair of oak-aged cabernet,
thick-skinned and chewy.

132
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* Way haul away

133
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* We'll haul away, Joe
Hunting is an art.

134
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You have the power to subdue
anyone you want,

135
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but sometimes restraint
is your most powerful weapon.

136
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* Way haul away,
we'll haul away, Joe *

137
00:07:01,204 --> 00:07:05,742
* Way haul away,
we'll haul away, my Rosie *

138
00:07:05,842 --> 00:07:08,211
* Way haul away
Him.

139
00:07:08,311 --> 00:07:11,114
[Chuckles] Straight
to the prettiest girl

140
00:07:11,214 --> 00:07:12,415
at the party.

141
00:07:12,516 --> 00:07:14,117
I admire the aesthetic,

142
00:07:14,217 --> 00:07:15,519
but you'll spend
most of your evening

143
00:07:15,619 --> 00:07:17,086
trying to separate him
from his crew.

144
00:07:17,186 --> 00:07:18,421
You'll race the sun
to the kill,

145
00:07:18,522 --> 00:07:20,123
and when he turns up
missing in the morning,

146
00:07:20,223 --> 00:07:23,593
you'll have half the frigate
on the prowl, looking for him.

147
00:07:23,693 --> 00:07:30,900
In the beginning, it's best
to let the food come to you.

148
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Here you go.

149
00:07:32,335 --> 00:07:34,538
I was a baby bird
in Lestat's nest --

150
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not yet ready to hunt,
but desperate to feed.

151
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[Slurps]
So, I'm taking my daughter

152
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to -- to look at horses,
uh, Palominos.

153
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You know, those --
those Indian types that --

154
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that they run free out West,
and, uh, I gotta tell you,

155
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I'm, uh, I'm doing pretty good
for myself, you know?

156
00:07:51,988 --> 00:07:53,156
It's a new century,

157
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new job, so I'm actually
entertaining the thought

158
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of getting her one of these,

159
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you know, a special horse.

160
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We go down to the fairground.

161
00:08:00,597 --> 00:08:04,233
She says, "Daddy, why is
that horse walking so funny?

162
00:08:04,333 --> 00:08:07,637
Why is his -- his back
all crumpled up like that?"

163
00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:10,974
Well, I tell her, I say,
"Honey, once the work has gotten

164
00:08:11,074 --> 00:08:12,475
used all up out of a horse..."
[Heart beating]

165
00:08:12,576 --> 00:08:13,910
"...this is what happens --"

166
00:08:14,010 --> 00:08:16,112
Amusing, their relentless
questions at that age.

167
00:08:16,212 --> 00:08:17,280
That's right.

168
00:08:17,380 --> 00:08:18,648
I tell her, "This is
the nature of things.

169
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[Heart beating]
[Echoing] Someone has to

170
00:08:20,584 --> 00:08:23,853
hew the oats, someone has
to harvest the corn,

171
00:08:23,953 --> 00:08:25,154
the harrow, the tiller."

172
00:08:25,254 --> 00:08:26,590
[Normal voice] Why are you
gentlemen down here?

173
00:08:26,690 --> 00:08:28,658
Uh, now, what do you grow?
You grow cotton?

174
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Sugar.

175
00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,261
[Indistinct conversations]

176
00:08:32,361 --> 00:08:34,330
Sugar...Sugar.

177
00:08:34,430 --> 00:08:38,101
Careful, mon cher, you're
beginning to frighten the man.

178
00:08:38,201 --> 00:08:39,335
Um...

179
00:08:39,435 --> 00:08:43,172
So, I look at my daughter's
tear-stained face

180
00:08:43,272 --> 00:08:46,676
and I say to her, "Maggie,

181
00:08:46,776 --> 00:08:49,178
that's why your daddy
sells tractors."

182
00:08:49,278 --> 00:08:51,848
International Harvester Farmall.

183
00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:54,450
Go ahead and take that.
Might come in handy.

184
00:08:54,550 --> 00:08:55,719
[Door opens]
Salesman: So [Chuckling]

185
00:08:55,819 --> 00:08:58,521
I am talking about gas-powered,

186
00:08:58,622 --> 00:09:01,524
open-geared beast of burden.

187
00:09:01,625 --> 00:09:02,859
Ooh-la-la.

188
00:09:02,959 --> 00:09:05,094
This is fancy, right here.

189
00:09:07,430 --> 00:09:09,398
Uh, just to be clear here,
gents, we --

190
00:09:09,498 --> 00:09:13,069
we are here to talk about,
uh, farm equipment.

191
00:09:13,169 --> 00:09:15,204
Am I right?
Mm.

192
00:09:15,304 --> 00:09:17,707
And a streamline tractor,
you know,

193
00:09:17,807 --> 00:09:19,175
not only gonna
increase your harvest,

194
00:09:19,275 --> 00:09:21,711
but it's gonna keep
your child from tears.

195
00:09:21,811 --> 00:09:24,881
Oh, thank y-you.

196
00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:26,683
You, uh,
on your sleeve --

197
00:09:26,783 --> 00:09:28,551
Whenever you're ready,
Louis.

198
00:09:28,652 --> 00:09:31,420
[Gasps, grunts]

199
00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:32,856
[Breathes heavily]

200
00:09:32,956 --> 00:09:34,958
I knew it. I knew you --

201
00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,094
Aah!

202
00:09:38,194 --> 00:09:39,228
[Gasps]

203
00:09:39,328 --> 00:09:42,899
What the fuck?
[Breathes heavily]

204
00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:45,234
The neck.
Bite the neck, Louis.

205
00:09:45,334 --> 00:09:46,736
No --
[Gasping]

206
00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:48,337
No, you don't bite the blood.

207
00:09:48,437 --> 00:09:49,673
You suck it.

208
00:09:49,773 --> 00:09:51,440
[Slurping]

209
00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:54,510
Yes, yes, that's better.
[Feet thump]

210
00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:55,945
Good.

211
00:10:01,317 --> 00:10:04,587
For our next carpet,
I'm thinking Persian.

212
00:10:04,688 --> 00:10:06,255
Arabesque maybe.

213
00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:09,659
Certainly need a more efficient
way of ridding the waste.

214
00:10:09,959 --> 00:10:11,594
Ugh.

215
00:10:11,695 --> 00:10:15,098
The first time is
the most unwieldy.

216
00:10:15,198 --> 00:10:16,599
Soon you'll be a natural.

217
00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:19,102
You'll come to enjoy it, its
variations, little surprises.

218
00:10:19,202 --> 00:10:22,706
[Thud]
I-I gotta go home.

219
00:10:22,806 --> 00:10:25,408
This is your home now, Louis.
Breathe.

220
00:10:25,508 --> 00:10:27,744
I -- I gotta collect money
from the cribs.

221
00:10:27,844 --> 00:10:29,612
I have all the money we need.
Breathe.

222
00:10:29,713 --> 00:10:33,249
I have to go see
Grace and Paul.

223
00:10:33,349 --> 00:10:35,284
Oh, dear.
You ain't fuckin' hearin' me!

224
00:10:35,384 --> 00:10:37,153
[Grunts]

225
00:10:37,253 --> 00:10:40,256
[Breathes shakily]

226
00:10:40,356 --> 00:10:41,958
I -- I need to go home.

227
00:10:42,058 --> 00:10:44,961
*

228
00:10:45,061 --> 00:10:46,730
[Door closes]

229
00:10:46,830 --> 00:10:50,066
You're going to find
that very difficult.

230
00:10:50,166 --> 00:10:52,435
[Groaning, breathing heavily]

231
00:10:52,535 --> 00:10:53,970
[Grunts]
Hey!

232
00:10:54,070 --> 00:10:55,271
[Breathes heavily]

233
00:10:55,371 --> 00:10:56,472
[Coughs]

234
00:10:56,572 --> 00:11:01,778
[Groaning]

235
00:11:01,878 --> 00:11:05,815
[Screams]
What the hell?

236
00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:07,650
Hey, now.
[Screaming continues]

237
00:11:07,751 --> 00:11:09,152
That's coming out of my pay.

238
00:11:09,252 --> 00:11:11,287
[Screaming continues]
Lord Jesus!

239
00:11:11,387 --> 00:11:13,456
[Screaming continues]

240
00:11:14,758 --> 00:11:16,492
[Pounding on door]
[Screaming]

241
00:11:16,592 --> 00:11:18,327
Lemme in!

242
00:11:18,427 --> 00:11:21,664
[Screaming, pounding continue]

243
00:11:21,765 --> 00:11:22,932
Let me in, God damn it!

244
00:11:23,032 --> 00:11:25,701
Open the fucking door!

245
00:11:25,802 --> 00:11:27,771
[Breathes heavily]

246
00:11:27,871 --> 00:11:30,639
*

247
00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:34,110
The sun gives life
to everything but us.

248
00:11:34,210 --> 00:11:36,445
I should have
taught you that.

249
00:11:36,545 --> 00:11:41,717
The life of a vampire
has its challenges

250
00:11:41,818 --> 00:11:43,352
and its rewards...

251
00:11:43,452 --> 00:11:46,222
[Metal clicks, squeaks]

252
00:11:46,322 --> 00:11:50,393
...but I think New Orleans,
with its music, culture,

253
00:11:50,493 --> 00:11:54,998
cuisine, shipping yards,
conventioneers,

254
00:11:55,098 --> 00:11:58,802
thrill-seeking tourists
far-flung from their homes,

255
00:11:58,902 --> 00:12:01,204
the laissez-faire attitude
of the local police force

256
00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:02,806
[Chuckles] oh, yes...

257
00:12:02,906 --> 00:12:04,707
[Gears click, squeak]

258
00:12:04,808 --> 00:12:07,710
...the perfect setting
for a vampire home...

259
00:12:07,811 --> 00:12:10,880
[Chains click]
....a vampire romance.

260
00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:19,722
*

261
00:12:19,823 --> 00:12:21,590
I ain't sleepin' in there.

262
00:12:22,758 --> 00:12:23,893
[Chuckles]

263
00:12:23,993 --> 00:12:27,696
We'll get you
your own soon enough.

264
00:12:27,797 --> 00:12:30,666
You've had a long life,
Louis,

265
00:12:30,766 --> 00:12:33,269
and such an extraordinary
one ahead.

266
00:12:36,105 --> 00:12:37,673
Have a rest.

267
00:12:37,773 --> 00:12:44,680
*

268
00:12:44,780 --> 00:12:45,915
It's okay.

269
00:12:46,015 --> 00:12:47,583
You can be on top.

270
00:12:47,683 --> 00:12:53,089
*

271
00:12:53,189 --> 00:12:55,191
Helluva bender.

272
00:12:55,291 --> 00:12:57,593
He rushed me headlong
through the encounter

273
00:12:57,693 --> 00:13:00,196
as if it were something
to put behind us.

274
00:13:00,296 --> 00:13:04,567
Death, rebirth, coming out,
homicide,

275
00:13:04,667 --> 00:13:06,569
too many firsts
for one night.

276
00:13:06,669 --> 00:13:08,071
Coming out?

277
00:13:08,171 --> 00:13:12,641
You robbed a daughter
of her father, maybe a pet pony.

278
00:13:12,741 --> 00:13:14,643
How's sexuality play in that?

279
00:13:14,743 --> 00:13:17,413
It's a complicated question,
Daniel,

280
00:13:17,513 --> 00:13:20,716
and we shouldn't conflate it
with the salesman's death.

281
00:13:20,816 --> 00:13:22,118
Humor me.

282
00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:27,056
To satisfy your fixation,
being transformed by Lestat,

283
00:13:27,156 --> 00:13:30,326
being desired by him,
bedding down with him

284
00:13:30,426 --> 00:13:33,930
was an overture of sorts
to that side of my nature.

285
00:13:34,030 --> 00:13:37,133
To the shame
of queer theorists everywhere.

286
00:13:37,233 --> 00:13:41,137
I got in that coffin
on my own free will.

287
00:13:41,237 --> 00:13:43,639
In the quiet dark,

288
00:13:43,739 --> 00:13:45,508
we were equals.

289
00:13:47,710 --> 00:13:53,516
White master, Black student,
but equal in the quiet dark.

290
00:13:53,616 --> 00:13:55,484
Provocation.

291
00:13:55,584 --> 00:13:57,686
Is this the primary tool
one walks away with

292
00:13:57,786 --> 00:14:00,957
after downloading
your Internet class?

293
00:14:02,058 --> 00:14:07,830
[Clattering]

294
00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:10,599
Butler #1: Rabbit, three ways,
and Vulpes rueppellii,

295
00:14:10,699 --> 00:14:12,301
or Ruppell's sand fox.

296
00:14:12,401 --> 00:14:13,869
[Screeching]

297
00:14:21,410 --> 00:14:23,846
Back to the salesman
for a sec.

298
00:14:23,947 --> 00:14:26,015
Clearly, you were
haunted by it, the --

299
00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:29,352
the taste of his blood
in the back of your throat,

300
00:14:29,452 --> 00:14:30,653
up in your gums.

301
00:14:30,753 --> 00:14:32,121
Let me ask you, Daniel,

302
00:14:32,221 --> 00:14:37,293
do you contemplate the life
of the rabbit before you cut it?

303
00:14:37,393 --> 00:14:39,362
Or do you simply cut?

304
00:14:39,462 --> 00:14:41,730
[Crying]

305
00:14:41,830 --> 00:14:45,801
[Breathing heavily]

306
00:14:45,901 --> 00:14:48,871
Mmm.

307
00:14:48,972 --> 00:14:51,207
[Exhales deeply]

308
00:14:51,307 --> 00:14:53,242
Vampires are killers,

309
00:14:53,342 --> 00:14:55,911
apex predators
whose all-seeing eyes

310
00:14:56,012 --> 00:14:59,148
were meant to give
them detachment,

311
00:14:59,248 --> 00:15:03,386
the ability to see
a human life in its entirety,

312
00:15:03,486 --> 00:15:05,888
not with any mawkish sorrow,

313
00:15:05,989 --> 00:15:08,324
but with
the thrilling satisfaction

314
00:15:08,424 --> 00:15:13,362
of being the end
of that life

315
00:15:13,462 --> 00:15:17,566
and having a hand
in the divine plan.

316
00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:20,836
Don't expect every reader
to swallow that one.

317
00:15:20,936 --> 00:15:22,905
That's the purpose.

318
00:15:23,006 --> 00:15:26,475
Our book must be a warning
as much as anything.

319
00:15:30,946 --> 00:15:32,948
It was the right line
of questioning.

320
00:15:33,049 --> 00:15:38,287
I was haunted by the salesman,
and as a fledgling vampire,

321
00:15:38,387 --> 00:15:41,624
I did not readily
take to killing.

322
00:15:41,724 --> 00:15:44,427
When I first started
learning English, I abhorred it.

323
00:15:44,527 --> 00:15:47,530
Every word felt like a doorknob
falling out of my mouth.

324
00:15:47,630 --> 00:15:49,798
Chapeau is a hat,
étoile was a star --

325
00:15:49,898 --> 00:15:51,767
Killin' folks
ain't a second language.

326
00:15:51,867 --> 00:15:54,903
But when I started
dreaming in English,

327
00:15:55,004 --> 00:15:56,772
that's when I embraced it.

328
00:15:56,872 --> 00:15:59,875
And now, I have English
consonants to thank

329
00:15:59,975 --> 00:16:01,544
for this astonishing jawline.

330
00:16:01,644 --> 00:16:04,247
These are nightmares I'm having,
Lestat, not dreams.

331
00:16:04,347 --> 00:16:05,614
[Horn honks]

332
00:16:05,714 --> 00:16:08,751
Finn, how's your arm?

333
00:16:08,851 --> 00:16:10,119
Is it healing properly?

334
00:16:10,219 --> 00:16:11,954
You might need a proper doctor,
my friend.

335
00:16:12,055 --> 00:16:13,456
Me arm's fine.

336
00:16:13,556 --> 00:16:16,292
You let me know
if you need a doc.

337
00:16:16,392 --> 00:16:18,561
There is something,
Mr. du Lac.

338
00:16:18,661 --> 00:16:22,298
The new gaming house you're
fixing up for the alderman,

339
00:16:22,398 --> 00:16:24,600
I want to manage it.

340
00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:28,637
I'm good with people,
and I'm good with numbers.

341
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:30,106
Hmm...

342
00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:33,609
I'll take it up
with Fenwick.

343
00:16:33,709 --> 00:16:34,977
Much obliged.

344
00:16:35,078 --> 00:16:37,780
Mm-hmm.

345
00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,648
He's lying, you know.

346
00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:41,117
He'll figure
I'm a bean counter.

347
00:16:41,217 --> 00:16:43,819
No, he wants the job
so he can steal from you.

348
00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:45,454
Overcharge
for drinks and women --

349
00:16:45,554 --> 00:16:49,158
not enough for you to notice,
but enough to make him

350
00:16:49,258 --> 00:16:51,160
"good extra," he calls it.

351
00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:54,029
And you know that 'cause
you got in his head just now?

352
00:16:54,130 --> 00:16:57,166
Vampires can read minds,
mon cher.

353
00:16:57,266 --> 00:16:58,534
Right.

354
00:16:58,634 --> 00:17:01,137
And you gon' sit
on that skill for how long?

355
00:17:01,237 --> 00:17:02,838
Hmm.

356
00:17:02,938 --> 00:17:04,507
You gon' make me beg?

357
00:17:04,607 --> 00:17:06,842
[Engine starts]

358
00:17:06,942 --> 00:17:08,677
One might think the ability
to read a mind

359
00:17:08,777 --> 00:17:12,215
a most useful gift, but,
in reality, it's quite mundane.

360
00:17:12,315 --> 00:17:13,682
I forget I can do it
most days.

361
00:17:13,782 --> 00:17:15,184
Is that right?

362
00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:18,354
Every human thought
boils down to three things --

363
00:17:18,454 --> 00:17:23,092
"I want food," "I want sex,"
"I want to go home."

364
00:17:23,192 --> 00:17:25,128
You see that man
right there?

365
00:17:25,228 --> 00:17:26,862
I want you to peel away
every sound

366
00:17:26,962 --> 00:17:29,298
until you find his heartbeat.

367
00:17:29,398 --> 00:17:31,234
Now hold the heartbeat.
[Heart beating]

368
00:17:31,334 --> 00:17:33,969
You hear his lungs leaking
and flooding air?

369
00:17:34,069 --> 00:17:36,805
His mind is just
another bodily sound.

370
00:17:36,905 --> 00:17:40,008
Panhandler: Day and a half
since my last meal.

371
00:17:40,109 --> 00:17:42,678
Church says, "Pray about it."

372
00:17:42,778 --> 00:17:45,714
The Lord can't make me no food.

373
00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:48,651
[Chuckles] "I want food."
Shall we?

374
00:17:48,751 --> 00:17:50,653
Woman: It's not cheating
with a woman

375
00:17:50,753 --> 00:17:52,821
because I can't get pregnant.

376
00:17:52,921 --> 00:17:55,324
"I want sex." [Chuckles]

377
00:17:55,424 --> 00:17:57,726
Man: I'm gonna ditch this town
and be somebody.

378
00:17:57,826 --> 00:17:59,162
That's not --
Give it a moment.

379
00:17:59,262 --> 00:18:01,029
Or I'll just go home.

380
00:18:01,130 --> 00:18:03,098
Voilà. [Laughs]

381
00:18:03,199 --> 00:18:06,034
Wait. I saw a little flash
just now of his house.

382
00:18:06,135 --> 00:18:07,203
Yes.

383
00:18:07,303 --> 00:18:08,771
You'll see,
as your powers grow,

384
00:18:08,871 --> 00:18:12,208
you can see their thoughts,
like a one-reeler almost.

385
00:18:12,308 --> 00:18:14,577
Dull, monotonous
picture shows.

386
00:18:14,677 --> 00:18:17,513
It's a very distracting gift,
the petty musings of meat.

387
00:18:17,613 --> 00:18:20,416
Peel back on me then.

388
00:18:20,516 --> 00:18:22,918
What am I thinkin' right now?

389
00:18:23,018 --> 00:18:24,487
[Chuckles]

390
00:18:27,022 --> 00:18:29,592
You'll have
to tell me yourself.

391
00:18:29,692 --> 00:18:32,795
A sacrifice is made when
the Dark Gift is shared.

392
00:18:32,895 --> 00:18:35,198
You can't read my mind
anymore?

393
00:18:35,298 --> 00:18:39,468
The architects of our creation
mean to humble us.

394
00:18:39,568 --> 00:18:41,770
We're at the mercy
of the other's discretion.

395
00:18:41,870 --> 00:18:43,872
Just like the meat.

396
00:18:43,972 --> 00:18:45,107
[Sighs] Hmm.

397
00:18:45,208 --> 00:18:48,444
You're not one of them anymore,
fledgling.

398
00:18:48,544 --> 00:18:52,415
You chase after phantoms
of your former self.

399
00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:54,082
I'll break you of it.

400
00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,753
[Indistinct conversations]

401
00:18:57,853 --> 00:19:00,456
Louis: My unwillingness
to separate from humanity

402
00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:04,793
was a constant struggle
in my vampiric existence.

403
00:19:04,893 --> 00:19:09,097
I felt it was essential
to maintain ties.

404
00:19:09,198 --> 00:19:11,767
But it was getting
more difficult.

405
00:19:11,867 --> 00:19:13,302
The curtain goes up
at eight.

406
00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:14,737
We'll only be here an hour.

407
00:19:14,837 --> 00:19:16,572
They'll seat us late,
and we'll miss Nora's entrance

408
00:19:16,672 --> 00:19:17,940
with the Christmas tree.

409
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,309
You ain't gon'
miss anything.

410
00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:23,479
Look what the wind blew in.

411
00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:25,481
Louis: Mama.
[Footsteps approach]

412
00:19:25,581 --> 00:19:28,817
[Indistinct conversations]

413
00:19:28,917 --> 00:19:30,619
You remember Lestat.

414
00:19:30,719 --> 00:19:31,920
Madame de Pointe du Lac,

415
00:19:32,020 --> 00:19:34,122
all the kindness
for the invitation.

416
00:19:34,223 --> 00:19:36,992
I don't remember inviting him,
but please,

417
00:19:37,092 --> 00:19:39,762
take your overdressed self
and have a fine time.

418
00:19:39,862 --> 00:19:41,264
[Chuckles]

419
00:19:41,364 --> 00:19:44,533
I see you have a banjo band
in your front yard.

420
00:19:44,633 --> 00:19:46,001
Mm-hmm.

421
00:19:46,101 --> 00:19:47,169
Madame.

422
00:19:47,270 --> 00:19:49,372
Louis.

423
00:19:49,472 --> 00:19:51,774
Was that necessary?

424
00:19:51,874 --> 00:19:53,342
Move half a mile away,

425
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:56,512
don't come see your family
for half a season.

426
00:19:56,612 --> 00:19:59,214
[Sighs] Don't come back
fragile, son.

427
00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:01,817
Haven't heard a knock
on my door.

428
00:20:01,917 --> 00:20:04,687
It's a half-mile
both ways, Mama.

429
00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:08,123
Hm.
[Heart beating]

430
00:20:08,223 --> 00:20:09,492
Look at his nails.

431
00:20:09,592 --> 00:20:11,059
He's getting his
fingernails done.

432
00:20:11,159 --> 00:20:12,528
And the glasses?

433
00:20:12,628 --> 00:20:14,897
Some fashion certain men
like him do.

434
00:20:14,997 --> 00:20:19,034
Lord.

435
00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:20,836
[Sighs]

436
00:20:20,936 --> 00:20:24,373
Eye doc says I gotta wear them
from now forward.

437
00:20:24,473 --> 00:20:26,008
Sensitive eyes.

438
00:20:26,108 --> 00:20:29,144
*

439
00:20:29,244 --> 00:20:30,646
You seen Grace about?

440
00:20:30,746 --> 00:20:33,181
[Indistinct conversations
in distance]

441
00:20:33,282 --> 00:20:35,584
*

442
00:20:35,684 --> 00:20:37,052
Louis: You seen
my alligator, ma'am?

443
00:20:37,152 --> 00:20:38,387
[Gasps]
Seems I lost it

444
00:20:38,487 --> 00:20:40,589
by the punchbowl.

445
00:20:40,689 --> 00:20:43,225
Oh, been too long.

446
00:20:43,326 --> 00:20:44,860
I know, I know.

447
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,563
[Heart beating]

448
00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:49,097
Wait.

449
00:20:49,197 --> 00:20:52,267
[Beating continues]

450
00:20:52,368 --> 00:20:53,869
Oh, my.

451
00:20:53,969 --> 00:20:55,538
You makin' me an uncle
right here?

452
00:20:55,638 --> 00:20:57,205
Who told you?
No one told me.

453
00:20:57,306 --> 00:20:58,574
It was Levi.
I could tell by the look...

454
00:20:58,674 --> 00:20:59,942
I ain't far enough along.
...on your face.

455
00:21:00,042 --> 00:21:01,276
He shouldn't be telling anyone.
And...

456
00:21:01,377 --> 00:21:02,611
And what?
And...

457
00:21:02,711 --> 00:21:04,380
And what?

458
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,682
Gon' be twins.
[Scoffs, chuckles]

459
00:21:06,782 --> 00:21:09,184
You a fool doctor now?

460
00:21:09,284 --> 00:21:12,688
Oh, I miss you, Louis.

461
00:21:12,788 --> 00:21:14,089
Yeah.

462
00:21:14,189 --> 00:21:17,292
You hearin' me?

463
00:21:17,393 --> 00:21:19,595
Look at me, Louis.

464
00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:21,797
Take them glasses off
and look at your baby sister.

465
00:21:21,897 --> 00:21:24,600
Don't. Gimme those back.

466
00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,403
Your eyes...

467
00:21:27,503 --> 00:21:29,472
like a church window.

468
00:21:29,572 --> 00:21:32,608
Same eyes, same me.

469
00:21:32,708 --> 00:21:35,310
Different you.

470
00:21:35,411 --> 00:21:38,280
Better you, I'd say.

471
00:21:38,381 --> 00:21:40,716
You hide from me
this long again,

472
00:21:40,816 --> 00:21:43,886
I'll hunt you down
and slap you sideways.

473
00:21:43,986 --> 00:21:46,955
[Both laugh]

474
00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:48,457
I got you something.

475
00:21:48,557 --> 00:21:49,658
Oh, no, Louis.

476
00:21:49,758 --> 00:21:51,394
What is this?
I don't need your money.

477
00:21:51,494 --> 00:21:52,628
It ain't for you,
it's for the babies.

478
00:21:52,728 --> 00:21:53,929
Stop it with the "babies".

479
00:21:54,029 --> 00:21:55,398
One's gon' be plenty.

480
00:21:55,498 --> 00:21:56,999
There's two of 'em.

481
00:21:57,099 --> 00:21:58,801
[Chuckles]

482
00:21:58,901 --> 00:22:00,636
Well.

483
00:22:00,736 --> 00:22:02,671
This'll come in handy, then.

484
00:22:02,771 --> 00:22:04,740
Levi ain't the businessman
you are.

485
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:05,908
[Chuckles]

486
00:22:06,008 --> 00:22:09,277
So, how's it
in the district?

487
00:22:09,378 --> 00:22:11,714
Must be good
if this here's extra.

488
00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:14,917
Oh. [Chuckles]
[Laughs]

489
00:22:15,017 --> 00:22:17,185
Now, I-I know it's hard
to see it now,

490
00:22:17,285 --> 00:22:18,821
but Mr. Fenwick
gon' have himself

491
00:22:18,921 --> 00:22:20,322
the most profitable
sportin' house

492
00:22:20,423 --> 00:22:21,524
this side of Basin Street.

493
00:22:21,624 --> 00:22:22,858
The alderman
certainly thinks so,

494
00:22:22,958 --> 00:22:27,129
but then you have to
ask yourself why he sent me.

495
00:22:27,229 --> 00:22:29,498
New business, new partner.

496
00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:34,036
No, sir, Mr. Carlo,
I-I'd do the same thing myself.

497
00:22:34,136 --> 00:22:37,673
You got your own
personal attorney, do you, boy?

498
00:22:37,773 --> 00:22:38,874
No, sir.

499
00:22:38,974 --> 00:22:41,343
But then, I'm not
an alderman, am I?

500
00:22:41,444 --> 00:22:45,013
No, you're his partner.

501
00:22:45,113 --> 00:22:46,715
Hm.

502
00:22:46,815 --> 00:22:49,217
These balconies, they have
to be decorative only.

503
00:22:49,317 --> 00:22:52,788
Building codes allow those
for residents, not for business.

504
00:22:52,888 --> 00:22:55,658
Well, that's only if you
call it a balcony.

505
00:22:55,758 --> 00:22:57,192
What are you callin' it?

506
00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:58,994
Fire escape.

507
00:23:00,463 --> 00:23:01,497
[Laughs]

508
00:23:01,597 --> 00:23:02,698
That's clever, my boy.

509
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,033
That's very clever.
[Chuckles]

510
00:23:05,133 --> 00:23:06,802
Right.

511
00:23:06,902 --> 00:23:10,205
Dozen rooms, proper acoustics
for the musicians.

512
00:23:10,305 --> 00:23:12,240
You know, good
for those waitin'.

513
00:23:12,340 --> 00:23:14,342
Best to drown out the business
behind the walls.

514
00:23:14,443 --> 00:23:15,811
Yes.

515
00:23:15,911 --> 00:23:17,379
Oh, you really do have a mind
inside out head of yours,

516
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,914
don't you?

517
00:23:19,014 --> 00:23:22,184
I-I know some of the finishes
seem penny heavy,

518
00:23:22,284 --> 00:23:23,886
but it's the alderman's
name goin' out there,

519
00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:27,422
so every detail has to shout
"exclusivity".

520
00:23:27,523 --> 00:23:29,758
You're bright
and industrious, huh?

521
00:23:29,858 --> 00:23:31,560
[Laughs]

522
00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:34,262
I trust you're overseeing all
stages of construction as well?

523
00:23:34,362 --> 00:23:35,498
Yes, sir.

524
00:23:35,598 --> 00:23:36,765
Fire escape.

525
00:23:36,865 --> 00:23:39,101
[Laughs]

526
00:23:39,201 --> 00:23:41,737
Now, I must say,
I had my doubts, but

527
00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:43,806
you really have earned
your 15%.

528
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,076
You truly are
an exceptional Negro.

529
00:23:48,176 --> 00:23:49,444
Thank you, sir.
Mm-hmm.

530
00:23:49,545 --> 00:23:51,079
[Laughs]

531
00:23:51,179 --> 00:23:53,248
Ah, "fire escape."
[Laughs]

532
00:23:53,348 --> 00:23:55,918
Louis: "Exceptional Negro."
Ah, yes.

533
00:23:56,018 --> 00:23:57,520
"Thank you, sir."

534
00:23:57,620 --> 00:24:00,889
It was the call and response
of my entire life.

535
00:24:00,989 --> 00:24:05,528
I had let them talk to me
like that so long,

536
00:24:05,628 --> 00:24:07,062
I stopped hearing it.

537
00:24:07,162 --> 00:24:08,296
"Yes, sir."

538
00:24:08,396 --> 00:24:09,431
"Of course, sir."

539
00:24:09,532 --> 00:24:11,600
Subject, verb,
agreement, "sir".

540
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:15,538
Smile, nod, "yes, sir."

541
00:24:15,638 --> 00:24:18,273
They all came from
the same organ inside me --

542
00:24:18,373 --> 00:24:20,776
an organ unknown to science
at the time.

543
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:24,379
Because what scientist would
look for an organ found only

544
00:24:24,479 --> 00:24:28,116
in Black men who use
their weakness to rise?

545
00:24:28,216 --> 00:24:30,653
But I wasn't a man anymore.

546
00:24:30,753 --> 00:24:32,320
I was something else.

547
00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:36,258
I had powers now and decades
of rage to process,

548
00:24:36,358 --> 00:24:38,661
and it was both random
and unfortunate,

549
00:24:38,761 --> 00:24:41,630
the man picked that night
to dabble in fuckery.

550
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:45,267
If not him, would have been
the next man.

551
00:24:45,367 --> 00:24:47,502
Louis, my boy, j-- [Screams]

552
00:24:49,104 --> 00:24:51,106
This was your man's esquire,
sent in his stead!

553
00:24:51,206 --> 00:24:52,407
I was hungry.
Stone's throw

554
00:24:52,507 --> 00:24:53,809
from your place
of business.

555
00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:55,243
What were you thinking?
He disrespected me.

556
00:24:55,343 --> 00:24:57,112
How did he do that?

557
00:24:57,212 --> 00:24:59,582
He told me I did a good job.

558
00:24:59,682 --> 00:25:00,983
You are a library
of confusion.

559
00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:02,317
There's some things...
[Door opens]

560
00:25:02,417 --> 00:25:03,952
...you don't get
about America, Lestat.

561
00:25:04,052 --> 00:25:05,988
Yes, let's have
this conversation again.

562
00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:07,656
Colored, white.

563
00:25:07,756 --> 00:25:09,157
Creole, French.

564
00:25:09,257 --> 00:25:12,194
Queer, half-queer,
mostly queer, what is it?

565
00:25:12,294 --> 00:25:14,663
Non-discriminating.

566
00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:16,765
[Grunts]
Complicated situation

567
00:25:16,865 --> 00:25:18,433
we got here's
what I'm saying.

568
00:25:18,533 --> 00:25:20,335
[Body thuds]
A couple of parish priests

569
00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:21,670
go missing, people say,
"Fine.

570
00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:23,171
Most likely kid-fiddlers."

571
00:25:23,271 --> 00:25:25,540
But this, this was
an important man in town.

572
00:25:25,641 --> 00:25:27,275
The police will be looking
for this man, fledgling.

573
00:25:27,375 --> 00:25:28,677
That's why we got
this beast, yeah?

574
00:25:28,777 --> 00:25:30,512
No, you need to
show restraint, fledgling!

575
00:25:30,613 --> 00:25:32,480
Oh, you need to stop using
that word right now,

576
00:25:32,581 --> 00:25:33,849
'cause it's soundin'
a little like "slave".

577
00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:35,150
Don't say it.
Well, that's what

578
00:25:35,250 --> 00:25:36,685
it fuckin' sound like.
[Sighs]

579
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:38,120
It's what it feel like
sometimes.

580
00:25:38,220 --> 00:25:39,888
And the carousel
comes around again.

581
00:25:39,988 --> 00:25:41,189
Fuck you.

582
00:25:41,289 --> 00:25:43,091
[Speaking French]

583
00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:46,662
[Sighs]
[Door closes]

584
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:54,402
Lestat: I don't like
sleeping angry.

585
00:26:00,508 --> 00:26:03,011
For the record, if disrespect
was done to you,

586
00:26:03,111 --> 00:26:05,013
I would have
killed him myself.

587
00:26:14,422 --> 00:26:17,425
Well, what can I do
to make it up to you?

588
00:26:17,525 --> 00:26:21,063
I wanna buy
the Fair Play Saloon.

589
00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:22,330
That's ambitious.

590
00:26:22,430 --> 00:26:24,800
If you don't wanna help,
I'll do it myself.

591
00:26:27,135 --> 00:26:29,404
Ridiculous of you to mix human
and vampire business.

592
00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:31,306
It always ends poorly.

593
00:26:35,310 --> 00:26:37,045
But how can I stop you?

594
00:26:40,649 --> 00:26:42,250
How can I say no to you?

595
00:26:42,350 --> 00:26:45,754
*

596
00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:49,257
Man: Sign here and here
and here.

597
00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:52,094
Tom: Well, I do not see
the clause in this paperwork

598
00:26:52,194 --> 00:26:55,230
wherein I continue to eat,
drink, and fornicate

599
00:26:55,330 --> 00:26:56,732
on the house.

600
00:26:56,832 --> 00:26:58,100
Louis?

601
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,769
You have my word, and my word
is thicker than paper...

602
00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:02,771
Mm.
...Tom.

603
00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:07,142
Louis: It was a grand and loving
gesture on Lestat's part.

604
00:27:07,242 --> 00:27:11,213
That's a mighty tall ladder
you're climbin', Mr. du Lac.

605
00:27:11,313 --> 00:27:12,748
And I was now the owner

606
00:27:12,848 --> 00:27:15,718
of the brightest club
in the district.

607
00:27:15,818 --> 00:27:18,220
My club, my rules.

608
00:27:18,721 --> 00:27:20,588
[Indistinct conversations]

609
00:27:20,689 --> 00:27:23,091
I opened the doors to anyone
with money to burn.

610
00:27:23,191 --> 00:27:26,762
I paid the staff better,
paid the band better,

611
00:27:26,862 --> 00:27:28,764
all the while helping those
who had been with me

612
00:27:28,864 --> 00:27:30,966
down the block
to better themselves.

613
00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:34,502
Miss Williams.
Mr. Du Lac.

614
00:27:34,602 --> 00:27:36,171
And it was a pointless point
of pride

615
00:27:36,271 --> 00:27:40,475
that I paid back every cent
I borrowed from Lestat.

616
00:27:40,575 --> 00:27:43,812
It was everything I had
ever wanted or wished for.

617
00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,915
And it doubled nicely
as a revolving door of prey.

618
00:27:47,015 --> 00:27:50,452
You fellas know where I can find
the Fair Play Saloon?

619
00:27:50,552 --> 00:27:52,320
You about five years late.

620
00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:53,989
So how long are you
in town for?

621
00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:55,423
Man:
Uh, yeah, I'm just --

622
00:27:55,523 --> 00:27:57,525
From 1912 to 1917,

623
00:27:57,625 --> 00:28:00,028
I made a mountain of money,

624
00:28:00,128 --> 00:28:04,366
enough to retire
and be buried like a pharaoh.

625
00:28:04,466 --> 00:28:09,604
But in the essential duties
of the executor in charge,

626
00:28:09,704 --> 00:28:13,575
I had been most delinquent.

627
00:28:14,376 --> 00:28:17,813
We named him Benjamin.

628
00:28:17,913 --> 00:28:20,682
Benny.
[Baby coos]

629
00:28:20,783 --> 00:28:22,851
Did you even meet the twins?

630
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:25,353
No, ma'am.
Ma'am?

631
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:27,222
I look that old to you?

632
00:28:27,322 --> 00:28:30,692
No, I mean, I haven't had
the pleasure

633
00:28:30,793 --> 00:28:32,027
of meetin' more of the family.

634
00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:34,162
I've been so busy with work,
and, you know --

635
00:28:34,262 --> 00:28:35,964
Him?

636
00:28:36,064 --> 00:28:38,867
You know my situation.

637
00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:41,703
How are things
with you and...

638
00:28:41,804 --> 00:28:43,005
It's Lestat still, right?

639
00:28:43,105 --> 00:28:45,173
Yes, it's Lestat.
Shh!

640
00:28:49,611 --> 00:28:51,446
[Baby coos]

641
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:57,019
Got some gumbo
on the stove still.

642
00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:00,188
Tasted great this evening.

643
00:29:00,288 --> 00:29:01,389
Let me fix you something.

644
00:29:01,489 --> 00:29:03,725
I'm good.
[Baby coos]

645
00:29:03,826 --> 00:29:05,527
Hold your nephew.

646
00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:10,365
[Chuckles softly]
[Baby coos]

647
00:29:10,465 --> 00:29:13,568
He's the quiet one,
this one.

648
00:29:13,668 --> 00:29:15,437
The other two...

649
00:29:15,537 --> 00:29:17,239
the twins?

650
00:29:17,339 --> 00:29:19,041
Lord, help us.

651
00:29:26,648 --> 00:29:28,817
[Baby cooing]

652
00:29:34,722 --> 00:29:37,159
[Breathing heavily]

653
00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:40,762
[Heart beating]

654
00:29:40,863 --> 00:29:43,098
*

655
00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:45,200
[Breathing heavily]

656
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:47,469
*

657
00:29:47,569 --> 00:29:50,472
All right. Here it is.

658
00:29:50,572 --> 00:29:52,875
Still warm.

659
00:29:52,975 --> 00:29:55,577
Well?
[Baby coos]

660
00:29:55,677 --> 00:29:56,778
No, please.

661
00:29:56,879 --> 00:29:58,947
You look good.

662
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,949
You should stay the night.

663
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:03,151
I'm sure Mama would love
to see you.

664
00:30:03,251 --> 00:30:05,320
[Baby coos]

665
00:30:05,420 --> 00:30:07,489
[Both laugh]

666
00:30:10,225 --> 00:30:11,960
[Babies crying]
Shh, shh.

667
00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:14,329
Let's see if he goes back down,
let's see.

668
00:30:14,429 --> 00:30:16,764
Levi: Honey, the twins again!
[Crying continues]

669
00:30:16,865 --> 00:30:18,266
Florence: Grace!
Okay. [Sighs]

670
00:30:18,366 --> 00:30:20,302
Let -- Let me just see
what the hell is goin' on.

671
00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:21,603
Oh, no, I --
Shh.

672
00:30:21,703 --> 00:30:23,705
[Crying continues]
[Baby cooing]

673
00:30:29,444 --> 00:30:31,613
[Breathes heavily]
[Heart beating]

674
00:30:31,713 --> 00:30:39,821
*

675
00:30:39,922 --> 00:30:41,656
[Baby crying]

676
00:30:41,756 --> 00:30:44,159
*

677
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,094
I no longer kill.

678
00:30:46,194 --> 00:30:48,863
My last victim
was in the year 2000.

679
00:30:48,964 --> 00:30:50,465
Some Y2K disagreement?

680
00:30:50,565 --> 00:30:53,101
I want our readers
to understand that.

681
00:30:53,201 --> 00:30:54,602
Okay.

682
00:30:54,702 --> 00:30:56,271
Did you eat the baby?

683
00:30:56,371 --> 00:30:59,374
I sit here a master
of my instincts.

684
00:30:59,474 --> 00:31:00,542
Mm-hmm.

685
00:31:00,642 --> 00:31:02,610
And what about the others
out there?

686
00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:04,712
Have they mastered theirs?

687
00:31:04,812 --> 00:31:06,448
Just the opposite.

688
00:31:06,548 --> 00:31:09,351
Most of them are slaves
to the blood,

689
00:31:09,451 --> 00:31:12,988
exhausted from decades,
centuries of hiding,

690
00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:15,390
giddy to increase
their numbers.

691
00:31:15,490 --> 00:31:17,025
Mm-hmm.

692
00:31:17,125 --> 00:31:18,626
Two questions --

693
00:31:18,726 --> 00:31:20,062
did you eat the baby?

694
00:31:20,162 --> 00:31:24,566
And is the pandemic the opening
they've been waiting for?

695
00:31:24,666 --> 00:31:28,636
Pandemic, the unraveling
of geopolitical foundations.

696
00:31:28,736 --> 00:31:29,837
And you know this how?

697
00:31:29,938 --> 00:31:31,974
You guys have a thread
on 8chan?

698
00:31:32,074 --> 00:31:33,208
I hear them.

699
00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:35,010
Our thoughts can travel
thousands of miles

700
00:31:35,110 --> 00:31:36,378
to one another.

701
00:31:36,478 --> 00:31:39,347
I can stand out on my balcony,
close my eyes,

702
00:31:39,447 --> 00:31:41,516
and they're plotting
speeds to me.

703
00:31:41,616 --> 00:31:45,087
One of them,
a brute in Madagascar,

704
00:31:45,187 --> 00:31:47,822
called it
"the great conversion".

705
00:31:47,922 --> 00:31:49,257
The great conversion?

706
00:31:49,357 --> 00:31:51,994
Well, good luck with that,
because most people I know like

707
00:31:52,094 --> 00:31:53,895
to play little ball
in the afternoon,

708
00:31:53,996 --> 00:31:55,897
or maybe going down
to the beach,

709
00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:57,499
catching a few rays.

710
00:31:57,599 --> 00:31:58,833
Yes.

711
00:31:58,933 --> 00:32:01,603
What on earth would
a meth-addicted son

712
00:32:01,703 --> 00:32:04,672
of a coal miner in West Virginia
want with eternal life?

713
00:32:04,772 --> 00:32:06,241
Did you eat the baby?

714
00:32:06,341 --> 00:32:07,875
Or the Arab youth whose family
were wiped from existence...

715
00:32:07,976 --> 00:32:09,711
Did you eat the baby?
...by a Western drone?

716
00:32:09,811 --> 00:32:11,346
No, I'm sure you're right.

717
00:32:11,446 --> 00:32:13,415
Hello, Damek.
Hey.

718
00:32:13,515 --> 00:32:15,250
[Chair creaks]

719
00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:16,818
[Fork clinks]

720
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:23,291
Mmm.
[Blood squelches]

721
00:32:23,391 --> 00:32:24,592
Mm-hmm.

722
00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:28,563
[Speaking Russian]

723
00:32:29,231 --> 00:32:31,599
He's American, Damek.

724
00:32:31,699 --> 00:32:33,101
[Blood squelches]

725
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:35,270
You like Dubai?

726
00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,772
I haven't had the time
to sight-see.

727
00:32:37,872 --> 00:32:40,275
[Blood squelches]
Go to Kite Beach.

728
00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:41,609
It's good.

729
00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:43,445
Kites.

730
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:45,780
[Slurps] Mmm.

731
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,250
[Slurps]

732
00:32:48,350 --> 00:32:49,584
[Hand pats]

733
00:32:49,684 --> 00:32:50,885
Thank you, Damek.

734
00:32:50,985 --> 00:32:53,088
See you soon.

735
00:32:53,188 --> 00:32:55,957
As I was saying,
I no longer kill.

736
00:32:56,058 --> 00:32:58,493
You might have
a drinking problem.

737
00:32:58,593 --> 00:33:00,362
Rashid!

738
00:33:01,529 --> 00:33:04,966
[Body thuds, Damek grunts]

739
00:33:05,067 --> 00:33:07,169
The baby.

740
00:33:07,269 --> 00:33:10,572
[Baby coos]

741
00:33:10,672 --> 00:33:12,574
[Baby cooing]

742
00:33:12,674 --> 00:33:19,647
*

743
00:33:19,747 --> 00:33:21,483
[Baby crying]

744
00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:26,421
*

745
00:33:26,521 --> 00:33:28,090
Grace: Benny? Benny!

746
00:33:28,190 --> 00:33:30,925
*

747
00:33:31,025 --> 00:33:32,594
[Baby crying]

748
00:33:32,694 --> 00:33:38,833
*

749
00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:41,869
Louis: I had him in my arms...
[Crying continues]

750
00:33:41,969 --> 00:33:43,971
...and I was ready
to tear into him.

751
00:33:44,072 --> 00:33:46,674
I'm never gon'
get control over it.

752
00:33:46,774 --> 00:33:50,145
You've been skipping
meals lately.

753
00:33:50,245 --> 00:33:51,513
Don't think
I haven't noticed.

754
00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:54,382
It was my nephew.

755
00:33:54,482 --> 00:33:58,153
You have to stop seeing them,
Louis.

756
00:33:58,253 --> 00:34:00,622
They'll grow fearful of you
if they haven't already.

757
00:34:00,722 --> 00:34:01,856
I can't do it.

758
00:34:01,956 --> 00:34:04,292
It's a rite of passage
for all of us.

759
00:34:04,392 --> 00:34:06,461
If you love your family,
as I know you do,

760
00:34:06,561 --> 00:34:08,630
spare them all the pain
that you are causing them.

761
00:34:08,730 --> 00:34:11,666
I ain't never gon' have
a family of my own, am I?

762
00:34:11,766 --> 00:34:15,170
No sons, no daughters.

763
00:34:15,270 --> 00:34:17,172
I'm your family, Louis.

764
00:34:17,272 --> 00:34:19,741
You should just throw me
in the incinerator

765
00:34:19,841 --> 00:34:20,975
and make another one.

766
00:34:21,075 --> 00:34:23,745
Hmm. And what a waste
that would be.

767
00:34:23,845 --> 00:34:26,881
I have two centuries walked
this Earth and can report,

768
00:34:26,981 --> 00:34:28,850
you have no twin.

769
00:34:28,950 --> 00:34:33,555
No one as angry, as stubborn,
as unaccommodating,

770
00:34:33,655 --> 00:34:35,490
as maddening --
Sound like trash to me.

771
00:34:35,590 --> 00:34:40,128
As loving, as dedicated,
as thoughtful,

772
00:34:40,228 --> 00:34:42,830
as imperfectly perfect
as you've become.

773
00:34:42,930 --> 00:34:45,567
You're a challenge every sunset,
Saint Louis,

774
00:34:45,667 --> 00:34:47,602
and I'd have it no other way.

775
00:34:48,536 --> 00:34:51,906
Here's an idea --
let's take a holiday.

776
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:54,242
What about Rome?

777
00:34:54,342 --> 00:34:55,710
Rome? R-Rome, Italy?

778
00:34:55,810 --> 00:34:57,945
Would you prefer
Rome, Wisconsin?

779
00:34:58,045 --> 00:34:59,947
I can't just pick up
and go to Rome.

780
00:35:00,047 --> 00:35:01,383
I got a business to run.

781
00:35:01,483 --> 00:35:03,751
Leave the Azalea to the capable
hands of Miss Bricktop

782
00:35:03,851 --> 00:35:05,052
and follow the Appian Way.

783
00:35:05,153 --> 00:35:06,921
How you gon' get coffins
across the Atlantic?

784
00:35:07,021 --> 00:35:09,757
It can be an inconvenience,
but not impossible, obviously.

785
00:35:09,857 --> 00:35:12,427
Well, how do you get them
from ship to train to cab?

786
00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:14,929
Ah, the changeovers can
be jarring, I'll give you that.

787
00:35:15,029 --> 00:35:17,432
Well, maybe there's a deaf,
blind porter we can hire

788
00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:19,434
and kill
when we get to the hotel.

789
00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:20,968
Well, I had been
thinking the Inghilterra.

790
00:35:21,068 --> 00:35:23,638
Imagine hunting between
the Caffe Greco

791
00:35:23,738 --> 00:35:25,072
and the Spanish Steps.

792
00:35:25,173 --> 00:35:26,641
But you've made your point.
Pity.

793
00:35:26,741 --> 00:35:30,445
We'll just have to settle
for Rome coming to us.

794
00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:32,113
Oh, another opera.

795
00:35:32,214 --> 00:35:33,448
Not another opera.

796
00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:35,550
Donizetti's comic masterpiece,
"Don Pasquale."

797
00:35:35,650 --> 00:35:38,085
I was an acquaintance of his,
and I saw the premiere

798
00:35:38,186 --> 00:35:40,054
at the Salle Ventadour
73 years ago,

799
00:35:40,154 --> 00:35:41,923
and I remember it like
it was yesterday.

800
00:35:42,023 --> 00:35:43,325
I almost ate my nephew,
Lestat.

801
00:35:43,425 --> 00:35:44,659
It's the soprano
Sofia Consoli's American debut,

802
00:35:44,759 --> 00:35:46,261
her fifth stop in
a 22-city tour,

803
00:35:46,361 --> 00:35:48,129
so the orchestra should be
in excellent form.

804
00:35:48,230 --> 00:35:52,534
I have a private box,
and I had tuxedos made.

805
00:35:56,103 --> 00:35:58,473
I've been neglectful
of our romance.

806
00:35:58,573 --> 00:36:01,309
*

807
00:36:01,409 --> 00:36:06,314
And a steadfast pupil
deserves a divine reward.

808
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:10,017
He had a way about him,
those first years, Lestat.

809
00:36:10,117 --> 00:36:13,821
Preternaturally charming,
occasionally thoughtful.

810
00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:18,025
He was my murderer, my mentor,
my lover, and my maker --

811
00:36:18,125 --> 00:36:20,262
all of those things
at once.

812
00:36:20,362 --> 00:36:23,265
He didn't choose me
to be his doormat.

813
00:36:23,365 --> 00:36:25,467
I knew he enjoyed it
when I fought back,

814
00:36:25,567 --> 00:36:28,603
but there was present

815
00:36:28,703 --> 00:36:31,873
a kind of worship on my part.

816
00:36:31,973 --> 00:36:35,810
The earth beneath me
always felt liquid.

817
00:36:35,910 --> 00:36:39,213
*

818
00:36:39,314 --> 00:36:41,349
The status I enjoyed
in Storyville

819
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:44,185
did not extend itself
to the operators and patrons

820
00:36:44,286 --> 00:36:48,189
of the French Opera House
on Bourbon and Toulouse.

821
00:36:48,290 --> 00:36:52,360
We did what we always did
to avoid conflicts there.

822
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:57,899
I performed as his valet,
walked a pace behind him,

823
00:36:57,999 --> 00:37:01,369
took his overcoat
once we found our seats,

824
00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:03,137
remained standing
in the back of the box

825
00:37:03,237 --> 00:37:06,308
until the lights went down,
and only joined next to him

826
00:37:06,408 --> 00:37:09,911
once the overture had begun.

827
00:37:10,011 --> 00:37:11,746
And again...
[Applause]

828
00:37:11,846 --> 00:37:14,549
...he had a way about him,

829
00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:18,820
so that as I sat there
trying to practice restraint,

830
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,489
simmering in my indignation...

831
00:37:21,589 --> 00:37:23,358
*

832
00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:28,029
...Lestat seized it as
opportunity to disarm me.

833
00:37:28,129 --> 00:37:30,765
There is one thing
about being a vampire

834
00:37:30,865 --> 00:37:33,401
that I most fear
above all else...

835
00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:35,837
*

836
00:37:35,937 --> 00:37:37,439
...and that is loneliness.

837
00:37:39,341 --> 00:37:42,276
You can't imagine
the emptiness --

838
00:37:42,377 --> 00:37:46,414
a void stretching out
for decades at a time.

839
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,883
*

840
00:37:48,983 --> 00:37:52,587
You take this feeling away
from me, Louis.

841
00:37:52,687 --> 00:37:58,092
We must stay together
and take precaution

842
00:37:58,192 --> 00:37:59,761
and never part.

843
00:37:59,861 --> 00:38:02,897
*

844
00:38:02,997 --> 00:38:05,733
How many of us
are out there?

845
00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:07,769
We can't be the only ones.

846
00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:09,203
How many vampires?

847
00:38:09,303 --> 00:38:11,639
*

848
00:38:11,739 --> 00:38:14,308
Not many, I'm afraid.

849
00:38:14,409 --> 00:38:17,645
Maybe 100,

850
00:38:17,745 --> 00:38:19,347
101.

851
00:38:21,248 --> 00:38:23,418
[Applause]

852
00:38:23,518 --> 00:38:31,292
*

853
00:38:31,393 --> 00:38:33,628
Louis: The touring production
of "Don Pasquale"

854
00:38:33,728 --> 00:38:35,963
was a cheap affair,

855
00:38:36,063 --> 00:38:40,768
but the soprano was everything
Lestat said she would be.

856
00:38:42,336 --> 00:38:44,972
[Singing in Italian]

857
00:38:45,072 --> 00:38:51,112
*

858
00:38:51,212 --> 00:38:54,148
And music,

859
00:38:54,248 --> 00:38:59,320
that was where Lestat
separated man from food.

860
00:38:59,421 --> 00:39:03,190
Music
pierced his damned soul.

861
00:39:03,290 --> 00:39:05,960
And any human who were involved
with the creation of it

862
00:39:06,060 --> 00:39:09,931
existed on an elevated plane
in his eyes.

863
00:39:10,031 --> 00:39:13,601
I was moved to see he too
had his human attachments.

864
00:39:13,701 --> 00:39:15,102
[Singing in Italian]

865
00:39:15,202 --> 00:39:18,072
And this woman sang for us,
it seemed,

866
00:39:20,074 --> 00:39:22,009
articulating the difficult love

867
00:39:22,109 --> 00:39:26,047
we often had trouble
expressing ourselves.

868
00:39:26,147 --> 00:39:27,882
There was one issue, however,

869
00:39:27,982 --> 00:39:32,454
that threatened to pop the
bubble of our Italian holiday,

870
00:39:32,554 --> 00:39:35,857
and that was the tenor
playing Ernesto.

871
00:39:35,957 --> 00:39:38,025
[Both vocalizing]

872
00:39:38,125 --> 00:39:41,295
*

873
00:39:41,395 --> 00:39:43,531
To be kind,
he did not live

874
00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:46,701
in the soprano's
vocal stratosphere...

875
00:39:46,801 --> 00:39:49,036
[Singing in Italian]

876
00:39:49,136 --> 00:39:53,207
*

877
00:39:53,307 --> 00:39:55,577
Ah.

878
00:39:55,677 --> 00:39:59,246
...and Lestat was unamused.

879
00:39:59,346 --> 00:40:03,150
[Singing continues]

880
00:40:03,250 --> 00:40:04,886
I don't understand how someone
like that

881
00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:07,555
can make it onto a stage.

882
00:40:07,655 --> 00:40:09,724
I understand they're
a rogue company,

883
00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:13,394
but are they pulling talent
from roadside gas stations?

884
00:40:13,495 --> 00:40:17,031
[Singing continues]

885
00:40:17,131 --> 00:40:19,333
[Tenor sings flat note]
[Grunts]

886
00:40:19,433 --> 00:40:21,869
[Singing in Italian]

887
00:40:39,153 --> 00:40:40,722
[Cheers and applause]

888
00:40:40,822 --> 00:40:43,424
It didn't help matters that
the majority of the audience

889
00:40:43,525 --> 00:40:45,192
didn't seem to notice.

890
00:40:45,292 --> 00:40:49,931
And so Lestat oscillated
his disdain between the tenor

891
00:40:50,031 --> 00:40:53,901
and the witless swamp-dwellers
in the seats below.

892
00:40:54,001 --> 00:40:55,970
The curtain fell
like a guillotine,

893
00:40:56,070 --> 00:41:00,241
and Lestat leapt to his feet
in mock appreciation,

894
00:41:00,341 --> 00:41:03,811
which could mean
only one thing --

895
00:41:03,911 --> 00:41:05,446
the hunt was on.

896
00:41:05,547 --> 00:41:07,615
[Applause continues]

897
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:11,452
I stood in the lobby bar,
nursing my complicity,

898
00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:13,655
as rounds were bought
and fake praise

899
00:41:13,755 --> 00:41:16,724
was lavished upon the mark.

900
00:41:16,824 --> 00:41:22,830
And I was surprised by a wave
of nausea coming over me.

901
00:41:22,930 --> 00:41:25,967
Here I was,
six years his pupil,

902
00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:29,737
and it was no different
than the tractor salesman.

903
00:41:29,837 --> 00:41:33,240
This poor soul
was someone's son,

904
00:41:33,340 --> 00:41:35,176
someone's brother,

905
00:41:35,276 --> 00:41:36,611
and he was to be butchered.

906
00:41:36,711 --> 00:41:38,312
For what?

907
00:41:38,412 --> 00:41:39,914
An offending note?

908
00:41:40,014 --> 00:41:42,316
[Singing in Italian]

909
00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:47,454
*

910
00:41:47,555 --> 00:41:49,256
Wrong.

911
00:41:49,356 --> 00:41:51,626
[Singing in Italian]

912
00:41:51,726 --> 00:41:55,697
He sat the tenor down, opened
up the score in front of him

913
00:41:55,797 --> 00:41:58,332
and sang as it was written.

914
00:41:58,432 --> 00:42:01,168
And you could see all the
doubts the young man had

915
00:42:01,268 --> 00:42:02,937
about his art,

916
00:42:03,037 --> 00:42:08,843
about himself, exposed on
his nodding, agreeable face.

917
00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:14,381
Lestat removed a lifetime
of confidence, of joy,

918
00:42:14,481 --> 00:42:16,317
in less than half an hour.

919
00:42:16,417 --> 00:42:19,621
[Vocalizing]

920
00:42:19,721 --> 00:42:22,924
[Notes play]
[Speaking Italian]

921
00:42:37,304 --> 00:42:40,307
[Gasps, groans]

922
00:42:40,407 --> 00:42:41,643
[Body thuds]

923
00:42:41,743 --> 00:42:44,812
So no more of your sound
can pollute this world.

924
00:42:44,912 --> 00:42:47,749
Why do you do this, Lestat?
[Man gurgles]

925
00:42:47,849 --> 00:42:49,651
Well, I like to do it.
I enjoy it.

926
00:42:49,751 --> 00:42:50,885
Well, I don't.

927
00:42:50,985 --> 00:42:52,419
You don't have
to humiliate him.

928
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:55,256
Well, I don't say that
you have to enjoy it!

929
00:42:55,356 --> 00:42:58,926
Kill them swiftly
if you have to, but do it!

930
00:42:59,026 --> 00:43:00,862
Embrace what you are!

931
00:43:00,962 --> 00:43:03,264
You are a killer, Louis!

932
00:43:03,364 --> 00:43:06,200
[Gasping]

933
00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:08,269
Come now, love,

934
00:43:08,369 --> 00:43:10,504
let's get you to
the couch to die.

935
00:43:10,604 --> 00:43:12,406
Louis: I was in denial.

936
00:43:12,506 --> 00:43:14,709
For in bringing death,

937
00:43:14,809 --> 00:43:16,744
Lestat was an artist.

938
00:43:16,844 --> 00:43:22,750
He had cut the man tenderly so
that he could not call for help,

939
00:43:22,850 --> 00:43:28,856
but also so that his death
was slow, meditative.

940
00:43:28,956 --> 00:43:32,626
And I felt a charge
witnessing it.

941
00:43:32,727 --> 00:43:36,197
I listened to his thoughts
as Lestat drank,

942
00:43:36,297 --> 00:43:39,133
and this time,
they came with vision.

943
00:43:39,233 --> 00:43:43,537
I could see his life
as he remembered it.

944
00:43:43,637 --> 00:43:46,307
Scenes from
an Italian childhood --

945
00:43:46,407 --> 00:43:49,944
the Easter pageant
in a mountain village,

946
00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:53,314
an afternoon with his father
on the sea,

947
00:43:53,414 --> 00:43:54,749
watching the fishing boats

948
00:43:54,849 --> 00:43:58,085
slowly encircle
a school of tuna.

949
00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:04,391
Something about a wet piece
of bread in his pocket.

950
00:44:04,491 --> 00:44:08,830
If you'd listen to me, if you
finally submit to your nature,

951
00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:14,568
you will be filled, Louis,
with all the life you can hold.

952
00:44:14,668 --> 00:44:18,605
You will see death
in all its beauty,

953
00:44:18,706 --> 00:44:23,110
life as it is only known
at the very point of the death.

954
00:44:23,210 --> 00:44:24,611
You alone, of all creatures,

955
00:44:24,712 --> 00:44:27,949
can see death
with that impunity.

956
00:44:28,049 --> 00:44:30,985
You alone,
under the rising moon...

957
00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:33,320
*

958
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:36,991
...can strike
like the hand of God.

959
00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:41,662
And I'll say it
for a third time and no more --

960
00:44:41,763 --> 00:44:46,267
he had a way about him.

961
00:44:46,367 --> 00:44:51,338
And I was still very much
under his power.

962
00:44:51,438 --> 00:44:55,609
We would drain the tenor
for hours that night.

963
00:44:55,709 --> 00:44:59,680
Lestat completely enthralled.

964
00:44:59,781 --> 00:45:03,117
Myself, pretending to be.

965
00:45:03,217 --> 00:45:06,187
*

966
00:45:06,287 --> 00:45:08,022
Afraid to disappoint.

967
00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:13,527
*

968
00:45:13,627 --> 00:45:15,729
Lestat was wrong.

969
00:45:15,830 --> 00:45:18,365
I was never going to be
a natural.

970
00:45:18,465 --> 00:45:21,502
I was never going to savor
the aftertaste.

971
00:45:21,602 --> 00:45:26,240
I was a shame-ridden second,
a -- a fumbling,

972
00:45:26,340 --> 00:45:31,378
despondent killer,
a botched vampire.

973
00:45:31,478 --> 00:45:35,516
*

974
00:45:35,616 --> 00:45:38,719
I try to have a human dish
once a week

975
00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:41,188
to maintain the thread.

976
00:45:41,288 --> 00:45:44,191
There was an offhanded remark in
your memoir about this dessert.

977
00:45:44,291 --> 00:45:45,759
I hope you don't mind.

978
00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:47,728
[Chuckles softly]

979
00:45:47,829 --> 00:45:53,067
*

980
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:58,372
*

981
00:45:58,472 --> 00:46:01,575
What does this taste
like to you?

982
00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:04,545
Like almost all human food --

983
00:46:04,645 --> 00:46:07,248
like paste,

984
00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:09,116
chalk,

985
00:46:09,216 --> 00:46:12,453
like soap.

986
00:46:12,553 --> 00:46:17,458
This is the dessert I had after
I proposed to my first wife,

987
00:46:17,558 --> 00:46:19,460
after I got my shit together.

988
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,262
We were in Paris.

989
00:46:21,362 --> 00:46:23,597
Little cafe
on the Rue Servandoni,

990
00:46:23,697 --> 00:46:25,399
up the way from Saint-Sulpice.

991
00:46:25,499 --> 00:46:28,102
I know it.
It's a beautiful street.

992
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:30,604
*

993
00:46:30,704 --> 00:46:32,573
Alice --

994
00:46:32,673 --> 00:46:36,110
half of her eyebrow
was blond, like a mutt.

995
00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:38,579
She always dyed it back
to brown.

996
00:46:38,679 --> 00:46:42,950
*

997
00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:45,953
I liked it
when she left it alone.

998
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:52,259
*

999
00:46:52,359 --> 00:46:54,395
[Laptop whirs]

1000
00:46:54,495 --> 00:47:03,404
*

1001
00:47:03,504 --> 00:47:12,446
*

1002
00:47:12,546 --> 00:47:21,455
*

1003
00:47:21,555 --> 00:47:30,464
*

1004
00:47:30,564 --> 00:47:39,473
*

1005
00:47:39,573 --> 00:47:48,515
*

1006
00:47:48,615 --> 00:47:57,524
*

1007
00:47:57,624 --> 00:48:06,533
*

1008
00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:15,542
*

1009
00:48:15,642 --> 00:48:24,751
*

1010
00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:27,888
Louis:
Do you ever think that we --

1011
00:48:27,989 --> 00:48:29,923
that's to say, our kind --

1012
00:48:30,024 --> 00:48:32,359
were put on earth
for a larger purpose?

1013
00:48:32,459 --> 00:48:37,398
*

1014
00:48:37,498 --> 00:48:39,166
How was your night?
Fine.

1015
00:48:39,266 --> 00:48:41,702
Jonah: So you a big-shot
businessman now.

1016
00:48:41,802 --> 00:48:44,071
I like a little variety.

1017
00:48:44,171 --> 00:48:45,739
The devil walks at night.

1018
00:48:45,839 --> 00:48:46,940
*

1019
00:48:47,041 --> 00:48:48,242
[Screams]

1020
00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:51,378
Louis: Is my very nature
that of the devil?

1021
00:48:51,478 --> 00:48:54,948
*

1022
00:48:55,716 --> 00:49:01,955
*

1023
00:49:02,056 --> 00:49:05,259
Two vampires walk into a church.
That's where we left off.

1024
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:08,062
Blissing out...
post priest-icide.

1025
00:49:08,162 --> 00:49:11,398
Jones: Episode 2, "After the
Phantoms of Your Former Self" --

1026
00:49:11,498 --> 00:49:14,468
it is Louis de Pointe du Lac
as fledgling vampire

1027
00:49:14,568 --> 00:49:17,571
and Lestat as
his master teacher.

1028
00:49:17,671 --> 00:49:20,241
Are you hungry, Louis?
Uh-huh.

1029
00:49:20,341 --> 00:49:22,943
Louis trying to figure out
what this new world is,

1030
00:49:23,044 --> 00:49:26,080
what the burdens are,
and how to use these powers.

1031
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:27,914
His mind is just
another bodily sound.

1032
00:49:28,015 --> 00:49:30,384
Day and a half
since my last meal.

1033
00:49:30,484 --> 00:49:32,453
Part of the tension here
becomes about

1034
00:49:32,553 --> 00:49:34,321
"I am a different species
than these people."

1035
00:49:34,421 --> 00:49:37,124
So if you're a vampire
and you're a Black man

1036
00:49:37,224 --> 00:49:38,792
and people don't know
that you're a vampire,

1037
00:49:38,892 --> 00:49:41,428
you are going to run up against
a couple of things.

1038
00:49:41,528 --> 00:49:43,830
Bright and industrious,
huh?

1039
00:49:43,930 --> 00:49:45,632
[Laughs]

1040
00:49:45,732 --> 00:49:47,601
And you don't have to put up
with that bullshit anymore.

1041
00:49:47,701 --> 00:49:50,304
Louis: It was both
random and unfortunate

1042
00:49:50,404 --> 00:49:52,973
the man picked that night
to dabble in fuckery.

1043
00:49:53,074 --> 00:49:54,308
[Snarls]

1044
00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:56,777
But you can't be dropping bodies
left and right.

1045
00:49:56,877 --> 00:49:58,745
What were you thinking?
He disrespected me.

1046
00:49:58,845 --> 00:50:00,614
How did he do that?

1047
00:50:00,714 --> 00:50:01,948
He told me
I did a good job.

1048
00:50:02,049 --> 00:50:04,151
[Sighs] You are
a library of confusion.

1049
00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:06,287
We get to have a little fun
with race and sexuality

1050
00:50:06,387 --> 00:50:08,155
and then the burdens
of an interracial,

1051
00:50:08,255 --> 00:50:09,856
interspecies relationship.

1052
00:50:09,956 --> 00:50:11,625
You need to show restraint,
fledgling!

1053
00:50:11,725 --> 00:50:13,527
You need to stop
using that word right now,

1054
00:50:13,627 --> 00:50:15,296
'cause it sounded
a little like "slave."
Don't say it.

1055
00:50:15,396 --> 00:50:16,863
Well, that's what
it fuckin' sound like.

1056
00:50:16,963 --> 00:50:20,667
And also the professor-student
relationship. It's messy.

1057
00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:23,204
But something about
taking of human life

1058
00:50:23,304 --> 00:50:26,640
is not sitting well
with Louis...

1059
00:50:26,740 --> 00:50:29,876
and the complications of trying
to have a foot in both worlds...

1060
00:50:29,976 --> 00:50:32,313
I -- I need to go home.
...sort of reminds him

1061
00:50:32,413 --> 00:50:34,648
of what a monster
he thinks he's become.

1062
00:50:34,748 --> 00:50:37,518
[Both vocalizing]

1063
00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:39,620
The killing of the tenor is,
I think,

1064
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:41,555
the final sort of straw
that, like,

1065
00:50:41,655 --> 00:50:43,890
"this is never gonna be
comfortable for me."

1066
00:50:43,990 --> 00:50:45,526
[Gasps]

1067
00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:47,728
*

1068
00:50:47,828 --> 00:50:50,564
"I'm never gonna be a vampire
like Lestat."

1069
00:50:50,664 --> 00:50:53,734
Lestat: If you finally submit
to your nature,

1070
00:50:53,834 --> 00:50:56,203
you'll see death
in all its beauty.

1071
00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:58,205
While he is
at his most articulate

1072
00:50:58,305 --> 00:51:00,807
about what this is about,
Louis fully admits it --

1073
00:51:00,907 --> 00:51:02,343
"I'm not buying it."

1074
00:51:02,443 --> 00:51:05,346
But he was still so
under the throes of Lestat,

1075
00:51:05,446 --> 00:51:07,114
so he fakes it.

1076
00:51:08,182 --> 00:51:10,517
Louis:
Afraid to disappoint.

1077
00:51:10,617 --> 00:51:12,886
Jones: The idea of being
a botched vampire,

1078
00:51:12,986 --> 00:51:16,857
that slowly begins to kind of
open up something inside Molloy.

1079
00:51:16,957 --> 00:51:20,026
I was never going to
savor the aftertaste.

1080
00:51:20,127 --> 00:51:22,563
I was
a shame-ridden second,

1081
00:51:22,663 --> 00:51:26,433
a fumbling,
despondent killer.

1082
00:51:26,533 --> 00:51:28,202
Like any good journalist,
he's sniffing around

1083
00:51:28,302 --> 00:51:30,537
for what the armor is,
but there are things

1084
00:51:30,637 --> 00:51:32,706
in this story where you
sit back and say,

1085
00:51:32,806 --> 00:51:34,675
"Hmm, vampires --
they're just like us."

1086
00:51:34,775 --> 00:51:39,946
This is the dessert I had after
I proposed to my first wife.

1087
00:51:40,046 --> 00:51:41,415
He starts opening up
a little bit,

1088
00:51:41,515 --> 00:51:43,750
catches himself
and turns off the interview

1089
00:51:43,850 --> 00:51:47,053
and I think begins to, you know,
start that road down

1090
00:51:47,154 --> 00:51:48,589
"how am I gonna
empathize against

1091
00:51:48,689 --> 00:51:52,025
this predator
that feasts on people like me?"

1092
00:51:52,125 --> 00:51:57,864
*

1093
00:51:57,964 --> 00:52:03,837
*