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Episode 5, Don't Be Afraid, just starts the tape. It explains the past, it

explains the relationship, and it explains the betrayal.

In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her if she had a paper bag over

her head. She agreed, and you did it either.

What's in the bag?

In season one, we saw the original meeting in the bar of young Malloy and

in San Francisco.

Would you like to join us?

with Armand there lurking in the background.

No.

You go ahead. Have your fun. And now we're back with that same trio.

Louis and Malloy have returned to the apartment in San Francisco and... I like

what you've done with the place.

We see this interview play out.

Are you a real estate mogul?

Doing a lot of things.

Recreating 1973 was a lot of fun. Those of us who know something about that era

just sort of laugh at everything from the clothes to the hair and every

every prop, every set dressing has to be right.

This went through many

permutations but basically it's a

beautiful 70s backgammon board rebuilt to handle all the drugs,

all the fun and games that Louis is offering to Malloy in the 70s. It was

actually the first thing we shot this season. It was like shooting a little

play, really, because you're in the one set for the whole time.

That first blush, it is a one -off episode, and yet it explains everything

happened up till then, and more importantly, everything that's going to

Does that scare you, boy? It was really fun to revisit that dynamic with the

younger Daniel.

So am I the first guy that you brought back here?

It was amazing to work with Luke, having seen up close Eric's Daniel.

Our first interview.

The fog, I mean.

It's the 70s, all a blur.

Unbeknownst to me, when we met in New Orleans before they even started

anything, I didn't realize that he was watching me and planning a strategy on

how to play the younger me.

Some of the stuff that Luke was doing, I was like, that's Eric.

That's Eric.

I'm a vampire.

Okay. I mean, I'm really interested to know why you believe that.

Even in the first meet in 73, Louis had a real fondness for Daniel.

Are those fangs?

He liked them. He's cool.

That's why Daniel lived, as long as he did.

First question.

You weren't always a vampire, were you?

We have these two guys in Dubai who, with the help of the Talamaska, they

trying to piece together what happened.

You don't know what human life is like. I mean, you've forgotten, man. I mean,

you don't understand the meaning of your own story.

It's intense.

It's intense for me. Having watched it, it then informs everything that I am

doing in later scenes.

I have a surprise for you. Kind of a curveball, which will seem like less of

surprise and more like an ambush.

That's Armand saving me. The relationship between Armand and Louis

and down. Louis, as much as he wants to say that this relationship cured him of

his malaise. The ten hours I spent with that boy were more exciting,

more fascinating than decades with you. Clearly has all

kinds of...

Problems, many of the same issues he had when he was with Lestat have

resurfaced. Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat. Armand is always

He's always working.

And I think that's also the tragedy of him is that he can't ever relax with the

truth.

It's kind of the biggest betrayal, isn't it? When you choose to spend your life

with somebody, you accept each other. I can't think of a bigger betrayal than

lying to that person in such a significant way, to the extent where you

rewrite their history.

It makes me angry now.

Armand is so wrong for that.

Don't. He's just fine.

Don't. Oh, he's fine.

You're fine. This is fine. We're all fine.

Stop, Armand.

We both discover the depths of duplicity that Armand has gone

to and what he's done to each of us.

Up to this point, the Malloy -Louis dynamic is adversarial.

It is really this kind of amazing moment of connection between the two

of them.

Like a song stuck in your brain.

These words will hold you up and carry you. Jacob has said it. Louie doesn't

have any friends. They are your lifeline.

And Daniel doesn't have any friends.

So if they have any friends at all, maybe it's each other.

There's an odd couple for you.