1 00:00:02,741 --> 00:00:04,197 Watch "The Vampire Lestat: After Dark" 2 00:00:04,221 --> 00:00:05,861 on AMC or wherever you get your podcasts. 3 00:00:06,702 --> 00:00:10,880 Previously on "The Vampire Lestat"... 4 00:00:11,011 --> 00:00:12,969 If you are hearing this now, 5 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,580 you must be a very privileged individual. 6 00:00:15,754 --> 00:00:17,634 Louis, do you know someone called Daniel Molloy? 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,497 Uh... 8 00:00:19,628 --> 00:00:22,718 Never happened! 9 00:00:22,892 --> 00:00:24,546 Absurd. We're doing a rewrite. 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,070 As absurd as a documentary about a rock band 11 00:00:27,201 --> 00:00:30,943 posing as vampires fronted by an actual vampire. 12 00:00:31,118 --> 00:00:33,163 Is it true you were a stutterer as a child? 13 00:00:33,337 --> 00:00:35,165 The name is Raglan James. 14 00:00:35,339 --> 00:00:37,907 Mr. Molloy would like to stay alive, Rashid. 15 00:00:38,081 --> 00:00:39,441 Got me wondering what it'd be like, 16 00:00:39,561 --> 00:00:41,650 ride with others, hunt in a pack. 17 00:00:41,824 --> 00:00:43,391 Hmm. The Tooth Team. 18 00:00:43,521 --> 00:00:46,133 The Fang Gang. 19 00:00:46,307 --> 00:00:49,223 I assume a privileged individual such as yourself 20 00:00:49,397 --> 00:00:51,181 enjoys a little dirt in their sandwich. 21 00:00:51,355 --> 00:00:52,748 So I serve it to you now... 22 00:00:52,922 --> 00:00:53,749 Are you for real? 23 00:00:53,879 --> 00:00:55,316 How it felt then. 24 00:00:55,490 --> 00:00:56,534 Fledgling. 25 00:00:56,708 --> 00:00:57,927 Lover. 26 00:00:58,101 --> 00:00:59,537 Mother. 27 00:01:01,626 --> 00:01:03,996 You are listening to "The Failures,". 28 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:07,893 Album 8, Side A. 29 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:10,983 If you're still listening after the... 30 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:14,465 Oedipiphany of the last hour, welcome back. 31 00:01:14,552 --> 00:01:17,860 I've been fondling my thoughts since the last album, 32 00:01:17,990 --> 00:01:20,882 and I believe there might be value added in illuminating 33 00:01:20,906 --> 00:01:23,822 the why and how I became me 34 00:01:23,909 --> 00:01:26,738 in the light of said Oedipiphany. 35 00:01:26,825 --> 00:01:28,566 You've weathered the Freudian storms. 36 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:30,873 And yes, that boat is a penis. 37 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:34,703 And yes, that ocean is my mother's vagina. 38 00:01:34,790 --> 00:01:37,358 Kiss, grope, aftercare. 39 00:01:37,445 --> 00:01:38,489 Onward. 40 00:01:40,012 --> 00:01:43,799 Picture Auvergne, France, 1772. 41 00:01:43,886 --> 00:01:46,802 Picture the dingy seat of the Lioncourt family 42 00:01:46,889 --> 00:01:48,717 at the fag end of a thousand years 43 00:01:48,804 --> 00:01:51,023 of aristocratic decline. 44 00:01:51,111 --> 00:01:56,203 Picture my five dead siblings, Aristide, Marie, Jules, 45 00:01:56,290 --> 00:01:58,683 unbaptized, and Faustin, 46 00:01:58,770 --> 00:02:01,880 garden gnomes guarding the undulating domestic bliss 47 00:02:01,904 --> 00:02:03,384 of our great hall. 48 00:02:03,471 --> 00:02:05,449 The boy possesses an ability to envision 49 00:02:05,473 --> 00:02:07,388 the unseen, the holy. 50 00:02:07,475 --> 00:02:08,693 He would be well-suited 51 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:10,434 to the monastic house at Haute-Loire. 52 00:02:10,521 --> 00:02:13,829 And what will you get for this favor, hmm? 53 00:02:13,916 --> 00:02:15,396 A silk-lined cassock? 54 00:02:15,483 --> 00:02:16,832 Nothing, Monseigneur. 55 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,964 I see goodness in your son. 56 00:02:19,095 --> 00:02:20,966 Are you a good boy, Lestat? 57 00:02:24,579 --> 00:02:28,104 Answer your brother, Lestat. 58 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:30,237 I-I... 59 00:02:30,324 --> 00:02:32,195 D-d-don't... 60 00:02:32,282 --> 00:02:34,632 D-d-don't. 61 00:02:35,764 --> 00:02:37,374 Kn-kn-kn... 62 00:02:37,461 --> 00:02:38,854 Kn-kn-know. 63 00:02:38,941 --> 00:02:40,377 No, he doesn't know. 64 00:02:40,464 --> 00:02:42,727 My son, the hiccup, the next Pope? 65 00:02:42,814 --> 00:02:44,990 We can mend his affliction. 66 00:02:45,077 --> 00:02:48,037 Pope, as befits his rank and station. 67 00:02:48,124 --> 00:02:51,388 Titles won on the blood-soaked fields of France. 68 00:02:58,395 --> 00:03:01,398 Siege of Compiègne. Battle of Coutras. 69 00:03:01,485 --> 00:03:02,921 In time, he would learn 70 00:03:03,052 --> 00:03:04,923 to find consolation in philosophy. 71 00:03:05,010 --> 00:03:07,685 What is the course of studies at Haute-Loire? 72 00:03:07,709 --> 00:03:09,667 Aristotle, Erasmus... 73 00:03:09,754 --> 00:03:13,062 I asked the question. 74 00:03:15,151 --> 00:03:19,938 Aristotle, Erasmus, Aquinas. 75 00:03:20,025 --> 00:03:24,725 Cicero, Alberti, Bruno. 76 00:03:30,688 --> 00:03:33,972 The innkeeper tells me he brought these "actors" 77 00:03:33,996 --> 00:03:35,389 back to the inn, 78 00:03:35,476 --> 00:03:39,088 buys them a sum of wine beyond obligation. 79 00:03:39,175 --> 00:03:43,048 Half the village there, waiting for me to pay. 80 00:03:43,135 --> 00:03:45,616 Tenants asking me this. Tenants! 81 00:03:45,703 --> 00:03:49,620 Escape was not an option for Gabriella Vece. 82 00:03:49,707 --> 00:03:52,319 The Marquis had promised her preservation 83 00:03:52,406 --> 00:03:54,016 and delivered her ruin. 84 00:03:54,103 --> 00:03:57,541 On stage with whores and whore masters. 85 00:03:57,628 --> 00:03:59,413 He wants a taste of the theatre, 86 00:03:59,543 --> 00:04:00,849 you tell him to bed one of them. 87 00:04:00,936 --> 00:04:04,287 You don't open the wagon and join up! 88 00:04:04,374 --> 00:04:10,250 I was impressed into s-service. 89 00:04:10,337 --> 00:04:13,557 She sacrificed her youth, squandered her intellect, 90 00:04:13,644 --> 00:04:15,429 and paid a midwife to nick her in the womb 91 00:04:15,559 --> 00:04:17,518 so he couldn't humiliate her anymore. 92 00:04:17,605 --> 00:04:19,955 Held his hat in the square like a beggar. 93 00:04:20,085 --> 00:04:21,280 Like an actor. 94 00:04:21,304 --> 00:04:23,132 Better a gong farmer than an actor. 95 00:04:23,219 --> 00:04:25,439 Better an actor than a cabbage. 96 00:04:25,526 --> 00:04:28,592 Look up from your book when you speak to our father. 97 00:04:28,616 --> 00:04:30,531 -Cabbage. -Cabbage. 98 00:04:30,661 --> 00:04:32,097 Cabbage. 99 00:04:32,184 --> 00:04:34,380 It was our little joke, the cabbages... 100 00:04:34,404 --> 00:04:36,643 the cabbage heads with cabbage brains 101 00:04:36,667 --> 00:04:39,801 and cabbage wives all speaking cabbage. 102 00:04:39,888 --> 00:04:42,194 At least there would have been some honor in it! 103 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:45,285 The Lioncourt name, covered in his shit again. 104 00:04:45,372 --> 00:04:47,722 Love nothing, do nothing, change nothing. 105 00:04:47,809 --> 00:04:48,723 Sit and suffer. 106 00:04:48,810 --> 00:04:50,115 Am I suffering? 107 00:04:50,202 --> 00:04:51,441 Is Gregoire? 108 00:04:51,465 --> 00:04:53,597 A question for the philosophers. 109 00:04:53,728 --> 00:04:55,773 Can a cabbage suffer? 110 00:05:03,433 --> 00:05:09,265 One hour on stage, an hour of not this place, 111 00:05:09,352 --> 00:05:13,593 its dampness and dimness and your pockmarked wife 112 00:05:13,617 --> 00:05:17,273 and Gregoire jamming his cock into servant girls 113 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,231 like he's saucing pork! 114 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:20,668 Cabbage. 115 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:23,037 -And Lestat speaks... -Cabbage. 116 00:05:23,061 --> 00:05:25,803 A verse with players in a wagon. 117 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:27,607 Cabbage. 118 00:05:27,631 --> 00:05:30,199 Say "cabbage" 119 00:05:30,286 --> 00:05:33,333 one more goddamn time. 120 00:05:35,117 --> 00:05:37,293 C-c-cabbage. 121 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:38,599 Break his legs! 122 00:05:41,558 --> 00:05:43,928 You will hunt the land as we do. 123 00:05:43,952 --> 00:05:46,757 You will marry your worth and have children 124 00:05:46,781 --> 00:05:50,305 who will shame you the way you have shamed me. 125 00:06:01,404 --> 00:06:03,513 She had a cold beauty, 126 00:06:03,537 --> 00:06:07,105 like snow behind a thick, distorting wall of glass. 127 00:06:07,192 --> 00:06:09,369 And I grew hard by example. 128 00:06:12,023 --> 00:06:14,156 But now the wolves, they are taking our sheep, 129 00:06:14,243 --> 00:06:16,767 so bold now they have lost their fear. 130 00:06:16,854 --> 00:06:18,595 Another one stolen today. 131 00:06:18,682 --> 00:06:21,032 A puddle of guts where sheep used to be. 132 00:06:21,119 --> 00:06:22,860 They will snatch our babes soon. 133 00:06:22,947 --> 00:06:26,603 There have been wolves in the hills since I was a boy. 134 00:06:26,690 --> 00:06:27,691 Magnificent animals. 135 00:06:27,778 --> 00:06:30,390 The wolves are causing trouble, father. 136 00:06:30,477 --> 00:06:33,804 It's a famine now, seigneur, from here to Versailles. 137 00:06:33,828 --> 00:06:35,371 What do they want us to do about it, huh? 138 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:36,483 Nothing. 139 00:06:36,570 --> 00:06:39,442 Sit there on your titles 140 00:06:39,573 --> 00:06:42,813 while you fumble to find your pricks 141 00:06:42,837 --> 00:06:45,796 from under the awning of your stomachs. 142 00:06:47,798 --> 00:06:49,452 Piss off! 143 00:06:51,454 --> 00:06:52,934 Keep coughing, huh? 144 00:06:53,021 --> 00:06:56,111 Seeding the nothings you wed, bearing more nothings 145 00:06:56,198 --> 00:06:59,636 who will inherit nothing! 146 00:06:59,723 --> 00:07:02,334 Not funny, brother. 147 00:07:02,422 --> 00:07:04,225 Put the gun down, Lestat. 148 00:07:04,249 --> 00:07:06,121 -She's with child. -Hey! 149 00:07:06,208 --> 00:07:08,578 Put the gun down, Lestat. 150 00:07:08,602 --> 00:07:12,475 The wolves will move on. 151 00:07:12,606 --> 00:07:16,087 We ask your protection as our seigneur. 152 00:07:16,174 --> 00:07:18,307 We would like you to share 153 00:07:18,438 --> 00:07:20,309 some of your bounty on your table. 154 00:07:20,396 --> 00:07:23,268 Hey, go home! 155 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:24,966 There's nothing more we can do here. 156 00:07:25,053 --> 00:07:27,446 But be men! 157 00:07:35,063 --> 00:07:37,935 She meant to kill me with the challenge. 158 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:39,371 Better a quick end 159 00:07:39,459 --> 00:07:42,070 than watch me surrender another decade, 160 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:44,812 watch me join the cabbages. 161 00:07:57,172 --> 00:07:58,826 And what was this life? 162 00:08:02,743 --> 00:08:04,721 The good in me lost at the monastery. 163 00:08:04,745 --> 00:08:06,529 Wait. 164 00:08:06,616 --> 00:08:10,751 My sense of wonder abandoned in a traveling player's wagon. 165 00:08:10,838 --> 00:08:13,275 Go. 166 00:08:24,678 --> 00:08:28,289 I wanted the wolves to come. 167 00:08:32,468 --> 00:08:34,034 Until I didn't. 168 00:08:54,229 --> 00:08:55,317 He refuses food. 169 00:08:55,404 --> 00:08:59,103 He refuses care. 170 00:08:59,190 --> 00:09:03,649 You killed five wolves 171 00:09:03,673 --> 00:09:06,434 by yourself? 172 00:09:06,458 --> 00:09:09,394 Eight, 173 00:09:09,418 --> 00:09:11,899 not five. 174 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:16,686 Tore apart my horse. 175 00:09:20,255 --> 00:09:22,083 My dog. 176 00:09:27,828 --> 00:09:29,220 Eight. 177 00:09:33,660 --> 00:09:36,532 Do the wolves look worse? 178 00:09:41,015 --> 00:09:44,279 There's a mob came yesterday, again tonight. 179 00:09:44,366 --> 00:09:47,848 They wish to worship you. 180 00:09:47,935 --> 00:09:51,001 Your father and your brothers bent 181 00:09:51,025 --> 00:09:53,244 with shame. 182 00:09:53,331 --> 00:09:55,527 Come down. 183 00:09:55,551 --> 00:09:57,379 You'll enjoy it. 184 00:09:57,466 --> 00:10:00,948 From room to room, 185 00:10:01,078 --> 00:10:05,213 slaughtering the three of them. 186 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:06,649 That's what I dreamt 187 00:10:06,736 --> 00:10:09,043 when I killed the wolves, Mother. 188 00:10:13,743 --> 00:10:15,310 You know what I dream? 189 00:10:20,881 --> 00:10:23,753 I'm drinking wine. 190 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,801 So drunk, I strip off my clothes 191 00:10:27,888 --> 00:10:32,893 and bathe in the mountain stream naked. 192 00:10:36,853 --> 00:10:40,030 I go into the village... 193 00:10:40,117 --> 00:10:43,033 Into the inn, 194 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:49,518 and I take into bed 195 00:10:49,605 --> 00:10:55,872 any man that comes. 196 00:10:55,959 --> 00:10:59,963 Crude men, big men, 197 00:11:00,050 --> 00:11:04,011 old men, boys, 198 00:11:04,141 --> 00:11:08,929 taking them one after another, 199 00:11:09,059 --> 00:11:14,586 and feeling some magnificent release in it, 200 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:19,983 no thought of your father 201 00:11:20,070 --> 00:11:23,900 or your brothers. 202 00:11:23,987 --> 00:11:27,861 In that moment, 203 00:11:27,948 --> 00:11:31,429 I belong 204 00:11:31,516 --> 00:11:34,215 to no one. 205 00:11:34,302 --> 00:11:36,521 Except for me. 206 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:52,799 I'm dying. 207 00:11:54,496 --> 00:11:57,673 I won't survive the winter. 208 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,196 Mother. 209 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:09,990 Finish it. He has a mob to bless. 210 00:12:14,777 --> 00:12:16,126 Mother? 211 00:12:18,389 --> 00:12:20,000 Mother! 212 00:12:22,698 --> 00:12:24,178 Mother! Mother? 213 00:12:28,530 --> 00:12:30,010 Would it help you mouth breathers 214 00:12:30,097 --> 00:12:31,707 if I said it slowly? 215 00:12:31,794 --> 00:12:37,147 Unilateral nondisclosure agreement. 216 00:12:37,234 --> 00:12:38,932 I don't think an NDA gives you 217 00:12:39,062 --> 00:12:40,368 legal clearance for murder. 218 00:12:40,455 --> 00:12:41,891 What murders? 219 00:12:41,978 --> 00:12:43,434 There were eight bodies in that hallway. 220 00:12:43,458 --> 00:12:44,957 You think you'd be on this bus right now 221 00:12:44,981 --> 00:12:46,809 if we left eight bodies in a hallway? 222 00:12:46,896 --> 00:12:47,984 I saw them too. 223 00:12:48,071 --> 00:12:50,857 Oh, and the drug mule contributes 224 00:12:50,944 --> 00:12:53,033 -a complete sentence. -Social media coordinator. 225 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,055 Check your contract. It says "cocaine whore bucket." 226 00:12:56,079 --> 00:12:58,492 I know what I saw, lawyer. 227 00:12:58,516 --> 00:13:00,562 I saw a guy kill another guy... 228 00:13:00,649 --> 00:13:02,520 -Vampire. Vampire. -Right in front of me. 229 00:13:02,607 --> 00:13:04,020 What the killjoy second guitarist 230 00:13:04,044 --> 00:13:07,221 may or may not have witnessed was one vampire 231 00:13:07,308 --> 00:13:08,894 acting in self-defense. 232 00:13:08,918 --> 00:13:10,659 But he signed a unilateral, 233 00:13:10,746 --> 00:13:12,661 which is a one-way street that I control. 234 00:13:12,748 --> 00:13:15,683 Suitcase bomb. 235 00:13:15,707 --> 00:13:18,493 -Where are we? -Buckeye State. 236 00:13:18,580 --> 00:13:21,452 Do you have the fire gift? 237 00:13:21,583 --> 00:13:22,995 -Oh, my God. -Yo, what? 238 00:13:23,019 --> 00:13:25,258 This again? 239 00:13:25,282 --> 00:13:26,370 What the fuck? 240 00:13:26,457 --> 00:13:27,913 How did I get here? 241 00:13:27,937 --> 00:13:29,634 -Sofia. -Sofia? 242 00:13:29,721 --> 00:13:32,028 Forgotten my name already? 243 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:36,946 Oh, hello, Sofia. 244 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:38,948 I'm sorry, are we just, like, 245 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:40,315 not gonna talk about last night? 246 00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:41,709 Are we... are we not gonna talk about, like, 247 00:13:41,733 --> 00:13:43,474 the year and a half of weird bullshit 248 00:13:43,561 --> 00:13:44,843 that you've been putting us through... 249 00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:46,062 On top of the fact that you can fly? 250 00:13:46,086 --> 00:13:47,522 And you didn't feel like that was 251 00:13:47,609 --> 00:13:48,934 -at all important to tell us? -You set things on fire 252 00:13:48,958 --> 00:13:50,394 -with your mind! -Been up all day, 253 00:13:50,481 --> 00:13:52,372 and we've got, like, a shit ton list of questions, man. 254 00:13:52,396 --> 00:13:53,789 Like, what else can you do? 255 00:13:53,876 --> 00:13:55,419 Yeah, like, where do you put the bodies? 256 00:13:55,443 --> 00:13:57,010 Don't answer that. 257 00:13:57,097 --> 00:13:58,814 And when was the last time you talked to Armand? 258 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:00,970 I could have hung it up there, too, I guess. 259 00:14:01,057 --> 00:14:03,538 But we sounded really good in Detroit. 260 00:14:03,625 --> 00:14:05,429 And there were another thousand beautifully unwell 261 00:14:05,453 --> 00:14:06,889 to serve in Ohio. 262 00:14:06,976 --> 00:14:09,457 And she had come a great distance 263 00:14:09,544 --> 00:14:10,850 to comfort me. 264 00:14:10,937 --> 00:14:14,786 And, um, you are being very patient 265 00:14:14,810 --> 00:14:16,943 regarding the "vampire incest" factor. 266 00:14:17,030 --> 00:14:18,834 And I do appreciate it. 267 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:20,860 Do you guys play baseball, like in "Twilight"? 268 00:14:20,947 --> 00:14:21,991 -One at a time. -Yeah! 269 00:14:22,078 --> 00:14:23,229 What do you do with the bodies? 270 00:14:23,253 --> 00:14:25,603 -Don't answer that! -One at a time, please! 271 00:14:25,690 --> 00:14:27,562 One at a time. 272 00:14:35,613 --> 00:14:37,485 ♪ I'm a little killer ♪ 273 00:14:37,572 --> 00:14:39,704 ♪ I'm a lonely one ♪ 274 00:14:39,791 --> 00:14:41,402 ♪ I'm that chill creeping up your spine ♪ 275 00:14:41,489 --> 00:14:43,684 ♪ Telling you to run ♪ 276 00:14:43,708 --> 00:14:45,362 ♪ I'm the hanging shadow 277 00:14:45,493 --> 00:14:47,451 ♪ I'm the lost love ♪ 278 00:14:47,538 --> 00:14:49,212 ♪ I'm the past and the future ♪ 279 00:14:49,236 --> 00:14:51,499 ♪ The last of the sutures, the cooing dove ♪ 280 00:14:51,586 --> 00:14:53,370 ♪ We're the rock and rollers ♪ 281 00:14:53,501 --> 00:14:55,720 ♪ We're the good time ♪ 282 00:14:55,807 --> 00:14:56,678 ♪ We're the heart pumping blood ♪ 283 00:14:56,808 --> 00:14:57,916 ♪ We're the face in the mud ♪ 284 00:14:57,940 --> 00:15:00,812 ♪ We're this stupid rhyme 285 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,032 -♪ Bang, bang. -♪ Bang, bang ♪ 286 00:15:03,119 --> 00:15:05,141 -♪ Bang, bang. -♪ Bang, bang ♪ 287 00:15:05,165 --> 00:15:06,340 ♪ Bang, bang 288 00:15:06,427 --> 00:15:10,170 ♪ All fall down ♪ 289 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:14,237 ♪ Burn the ground ♪ 290 00:15:14,261 --> 00:15:18,308 ♪ All fall down 291 00:15:18,395 --> 00:15:21,050 ♪ Burn the ♪ 292 00:15:21,137 --> 00:15:23,139 -♪ Bang, bang. -♪ Bang, bang ♪ 293 00:15:23,270 --> 00:15:25,141 -♪ Bang, bang. -♪ Bang, bang ♪ 294 00:15:25,272 --> 00:15:27,100 -♪ Bang, bang. -♪ Bang, bang ♪ 295 00:15:27,187 --> 00:15:31,254 ♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪ 296 00:15:31,278 --> 00:15:33,280 Fabulous. Moving on. 297 00:15:36,065 --> 00:15:38,938 Do you kill people? 298 00:15:39,025 --> 00:15:41,592 I sleep, I think, I sing, 299 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:43,203 I contribute to local economies. 300 00:15:43,290 --> 00:15:45,268 -Do you kill people? -I drain people. 301 00:15:45,292 --> 00:15:46,380 What is the difference? 302 00:15:46,467 --> 00:15:47,747 Don't have to kill when I drain. 303 00:15:47,772 --> 00:15:48,880 I do it on stage every night. 304 00:15:48,904 --> 00:15:50,514 The small cup. 305 00:15:50,645 --> 00:15:52,429 How many people do you kill a night? 306 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:53,865 How many people? 307 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,693 This is what I have Fareed for. 308 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:57,889 Yeah, that's also why you have a body double. 309 00:15:57,913 --> 00:15:59,219 You tell them. 310 00:15:59,306 --> 00:16:01,743 He gets most of his blood from the farm. 311 00:16:01,830 --> 00:16:03,484 -Most? -The farm? 312 00:16:03,571 --> 00:16:05,418 It's like a blood bank. 313 00:16:05,442 --> 00:16:07,290 People donate, and they're handsomely compensated. 314 00:16:07,314 --> 00:16:08,968 It's all highly ethical. 315 00:16:09,055 --> 00:16:12,014 They tap college burnouts and addict-run bingo games. 316 00:16:12,101 --> 00:16:14,340 Cash-only, no questions. 317 00:16:14,364 --> 00:16:16,149 Well... so you're a vampire too? 318 00:16:16,236 --> 00:16:19,021 Three of us, nine of you. 319 00:16:19,108 --> 00:16:20,675 Out and proud. 320 00:16:20,762 --> 00:16:22,479 -Three? Three? Three? -Three. 321 00:16:22,503 --> 00:16:23,852 Hi, name's Daniel. 322 00:16:23,939 --> 00:16:26,135 I'm a Taurus on the cusp of Aries. 323 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:27,856 I prefer AB negative. 324 00:16:27,943 --> 00:16:29,118 Who's your maker? 325 00:16:29,205 --> 00:16:31,468 Have you tried RHnull? 326 00:16:31,555 --> 00:16:34,906 Only 45 people on the planet possess it. 327 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:37,692 Only nine active donors. 328 00:16:37,822 --> 00:16:40,651 Tell me all about it, babe. 329 00:16:40,738 --> 00:16:42,697 Hey, hey, look... hey, this isn't a goddamn joke. 330 00:16:42,784 --> 00:16:45,221 Band-only meeting! 331 00:16:45,308 --> 00:16:47,441 Your client failed to back up security promises 332 00:16:47,528 --> 00:16:48,679 of protecting those like my client... 333 00:16:48,703 --> 00:16:50,357 I understand the panic. 334 00:16:50,444 --> 00:16:54,274 You saw something that you didn't want to acknowledge. 335 00:16:54,361 --> 00:16:57,320 But willful ignorance is sleep in a giant's hand. 336 00:16:57,407 --> 00:16:58,689 -Willful ignorance? -Oh, come on. 337 00:16:58,713 --> 00:17:00,169 Have you ever seen me in the light of day? 338 00:17:00,193 --> 00:17:01,542 Armand is a day-walker. 339 00:17:01,629 --> 00:17:03,955 Did you help me hose off my Mustang 340 00:17:03,979 --> 00:17:05,894 at a self-service car wash in Spokane? 341 00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:07,026 You said that was a deer. 342 00:17:07,113 --> 00:17:08,201 As D-E-A-R 343 00:17:08,331 --> 00:17:10,266 as any KFC night manager has a right to be. 344 00:17:10,290 --> 00:17:11,943 -Oh, God. -OK, so you do kill people. 345 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:14,642 Vampires have been among you your entire lives. 346 00:17:14,729 --> 00:17:16,165 We've been a part 347 00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:17,708 of the ecological landscape for thousands of years. 348 00:17:17,732 --> 00:17:19,014 How do we know you're not gonna kill us? 349 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,319 You've been in my band for over a year and a half, 350 00:17:20,343 --> 00:17:21,581 and nothing has happened to you. 351 00:17:21,605 --> 00:17:22,974 It's not your band. It's our fucking band. 352 00:17:22,998 --> 00:17:24,323 Jesus Christ, you're such an asshole. 353 00:17:24,347 --> 00:17:25,890 In fact, you've all been protected numerous times 354 00:17:25,914 --> 00:17:27,176 without being made aware of it. 355 00:17:27,263 --> 00:17:29,048 -What? -What we're doing, 356 00:17:29,135 --> 00:17:31,069 the confessional nature of the songs, 357 00:17:31,093 --> 00:17:32,493 performing for mortals, the insights 358 00:17:32,573 --> 00:17:34,053 into vampiric desires, it's all... 359 00:17:35,576 --> 00:17:37,839 It's all sacrilegious to vampires. 360 00:17:37,926 --> 00:17:39,536 -What? -It's not a worry. 361 00:17:39,623 --> 00:17:40,903 I have the blood of Akasha in me. 362 00:17:41,016 --> 00:17:42,409 Sorry, what the fuck is Akasha? 363 00:17:42,496 --> 00:17:44,846 What is important, and what we should be celebrating, 364 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:46,215 is what we did onstage last night. 365 00:17:46,239 --> 00:17:47,694 Are all of your songs about this guy "Lewis"? 366 00:17:47,718 --> 00:17:49,242 We were raw and nasty. 367 00:17:49,372 --> 00:17:50,393 "I was afraid of losing you." 368 00:17:50,417 --> 00:17:52,375 Transcendent. Excuse me? 369 00:17:52,462 --> 00:17:55,509 "And I lost you." You know. 370 00:17:55,596 --> 00:17:57,511 It's Louis, not Lewis. 371 00:17:57,598 --> 00:17:59,513 And the "you" you are referring to 372 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:00,925 could be one of two dozen paramours 373 00:18:00,949 --> 00:18:02,385 I've pompoir'd over the centuries. 374 00:18:02,516 --> 00:18:03,884 OK, sure... who's the villain sneaking up from behind 375 00:18:03,908 --> 00:18:05,060 with the knife in his hand and a mouth full of lies? 376 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:06,278 We were beyond epic last night. 377 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:07,410 "I pulled the knife from my cane, 378 00:18:07,434 --> 00:18:08,541 and I held it up to Lestat's throat." 379 00:18:08,565 --> 00:18:09,934 And that is what we are all scared about. 380 00:18:09,958 --> 00:18:11,414 -"I want to stay in bed." -Can we do it again? 381 00:18:11,438 --> 00:18:12,806 -Can we do it nightly? -"Eating black licorice." 382 00:18:12,830 --> 00:18:14,025 Is that about sucking Lewis's dick? 383 00:18:14,049 --> 00:18:15,485 "Black Licorice" is about 384 00:18:15,572 --> 00:18:17,183 the first kill I made 385 00:18:17,270 --> 00:18:19,228 -after Louis and I reconciled. -That's it. 386 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:20,553 -I lived... -I'm calling the cops. 387 00:18:20,577 --> 00:18:23,754 54,554 days 388 00:18:23,841 --> 00:18:25,384 before I met Louis de Pointe du Lac. 389 00:18:25,408 --> 00:18:26,777 You kill people. 390 00:18:26,801 --> 00:18:28,890 I'm people. We're people. 391 00:18:28,977 --> 00:18:30,544 And so was I. 392 00:18:32,589 --> 00:18:36,680 No vampire was born a vampire. 393 00:18:36,767 --> 00:18:39,292 Eff this. Eff you. 394 00:18:39,379 --> 00:18:42,295 We quit. 395 00:18:42,382 --> 00:18:43,383 Come on. 396 00:18:46,690 --> 00:18:48,407 Larry? 397 00:18:48,431 --> 00:18:52,653 They don't want to speak, but being a vampire, 398 00:18:52,783 --> 00:18:54,326 I can tell you what they're thinking. 399 00:18:54,350 --> 00:18:57,527 Would you like to know what they're thinking? 400 00:18:57,614 --> 00:19:02,141 "1,500 when we started. 20,000 followers now. 401 00:19:02,228 --> 00:19:04,317 "He killed the sound technician in Denver 402 00:19:04,404 --> 00:19:07,058 that muddied my solos on purpose." 403 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,799 And he is glad that I killed him, 404 00:19:08,930 --> 00:19:09,974 except I didn't kill him. 405 00:19:10,061 --> 00:19:12,499 I merely fired him, Larry. 406 00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:15,739 Fate's Entourage, the Brooms, the Tits, 407 00:19:15,763 --> 00:19:18,505 the Dime Store Darlings, Bukkake Ice Helmet, 408 00:19:18,592 --> 00:19:20,246 and four others that are not as good 409 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:22,311 but just as successful. 410 00:19:22,335 --> 00:19:26,643 "If I don't hit it now, I'm gonna marry the bum 411 00:19:26,774 --> 00:19:29,559 "and have a baby. 412 00:19:29,646 --> 00:19:31,102 "Thin Lizzy sucks. 413 00:19:31,126 --> 00:19:33,868 We'd sound better with one guitar." 414 00:19:33,955 --> 00:19:36,087 -I don't think that. -Yeah, she does. 415 00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:41,005 Salamander, "Another one of Alex's vegan", 416 00:19:41,092 --> 00:19:43,530 "straight-edge, bullshit mood swings. 417 00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:46,446 He'll find a meeting and be back tomorrow." 418 00:19:46,533 --> 00:19:48,535 Dude. 419 00:19:48,622 --> 00:19:50,782 And I make it a rule never to sleep with my band mates. 420 00:19:56,978 --> 00:19:59,043 TC was talking about Larry, 421 00:19:59,067 --> 00:20:00,938 not you. 422 00:20:01,025 --> 00:20:05,876 You are the best pure musician we have, other than me. 423 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:07,945 So take your time, Alex. 424 00:20:08,032 --> 00:20:10,446 Process it, as they say. 425 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:12,820 But think thrice before running to the police 426 00:20:12,950 --> 00:20:16,016 or sharing in one of your anonymous groups, 427 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,913 not if you value your life... 428 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,654 or your brother's. 429 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:26,181 You are listening to "The Failures,". 430 00:20:26,312 --> 00:20:28,792 Album 12, Side B. 431 00:20:31,578 --> 00:20:34,189 There's a dearth of privacy on a vampire rock tour. 432 00:20:34,276 --> 00:20:36,602 The bus, shared hotel floors, 433 00:20:36,626 --> 00:20:39,605 roadies transporting coffins, et cetera. 434 00:20:39,629 --> 00:20:41,520 And as front man, you're encircled 435 00:20:41,544 --> 00:20:44,460 by those who invariably want something from you. 436 00:20:44,547 --> 00:20:47,202 Now, my mother, Gabriella Vece, rest her soul, 437 00:20:47,289 --> 00:20:49,857 was a complicated hang. 438 00:20:49,944 --> 00:20:52,729 But my fledgling, the Vampiress Gabriella, 439 00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:54,557 was anything but. 440 00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:56,211 And with the band at sound check 441 00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:58,407 and Jarda playing billiards on the other side of town, 442 00:20:58,431 --> 00:21:01,042 she and a less pharmaceutically challenged me 443 00:21:01,129 --> 00:21:03,914 found an evening to catch up and kill time. 444 00:21:04,045 --> 00:21:06,439 And there was simply no one in the garden more effortless 445 00:21:06,526 --> 00:21:08,528 in killing time than her. 446 00:21:08,615 --> 00:21:10,617 Why were you in Chicago? 447 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:11,942 I wasn't. 448 00:21:11,966 --> 00:21:15,491 I was glamping in Húsavík. 449 00:21:15,578 --> 00:21:16,578 You're lying. 450 00:21:16,623 --> 00:21:18,973 My maker called for his mama, 451 00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:21,062 and I came... 452 00:21:21,149 --> 00:21:24,239 and came and came. 453 00:21:24,326 --> 00:21:26,589 -Yeah, about that. -I know. 454 00:21:26,676 --> 00:21:29,418 We really shouldn't. 455 00:21:29,505 --> 00:21:31,290 We need to make a pact if you're gonna stay. 456 00:21:31,377 --> 00:21:32,726 Up to you. 457 00:21:32,813 --> 00:21:34,510 I want you to stay. 458 00:21:34,597 --> 00:21:35,598 A pact, then. 459 00:21:35,685 --> 00:21:36,860 -Hmm. -Hmm. 460 00:21:36,947 --> 00:21:39,994 Companionship without the "com." 461 00:21:40,081 --> 00:21:42,039 We need a new lie. 462 00:21:42,126 --> 00:21:47,586 Weave a basket and fill it with bullshit. 463 00:21:47,610 --> 00:21:48,959 I missed you. 464 00:21:51,788 --> 00:21:53,679 We met in Italy, of course. 465 00:21:53,703 --> 00:21:55,096 Mm. 466 00:21:55,183 --> 00:21:57,054 The Ambrosian Carnival, of course. 467 00:21:57,185 --> 00:21:58,665 Of course. 468 00:21:58,752 --> 00:22:00,841 And we wore the same costume, of course. 469 00:22:00,928 --> 00:22:03,234 And raced across the Piazza del Duomo 470 00:22:03,365 --> 00:22:08,414 to see who would slap each other first. 471 00:22:08,501 --> 00:22:13,288 And then you unmasked me and, well, this face... 472 00:22:15,595 --> 00:22:18,032 I recognized myself in it. 473 00:22:21,209 --> 00:22:22,708 Yeah. 474 00:22:22,732 --> 00:22:24,212 See, it comes back around again. 475 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:25,996 Mm. 476 00:22:27,607 --> 00:22:30,194 How long are you gonna stay? 477 00:22:30,218 --> 00:22:32,742 Ah... 478 00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:34,657 I saw you two times last century. 479 00:22:34,788 --> 00:22:37,225 It's not an unreasonable question. 480 00:22:37,312 --> 00:22:39,532 Long enough. 481 00:22:39,662 --> 00:22:43,318 Long enough for what? 482 00:22:43,449 --> 00:22:45,712 -We-scuse me. -Long enough to see you sing. 483 00:22:47,191 --> 00:22:50,170 For you to show me Muncie, 484 00:22:50,194 --> 00:22:54,677 Wilmington, food courts. 485 00:22:54,764 --> 00:22:55,872 We-scuse me. 486 00:22:55,896 --> 00:22:58,986 I want to play cornhole. 487 00:22:59,073 --> 00:23:00,833 -We-scuse me. -The rust on the Rust Belt? 488 00:23:00,857 --> 00:23:04,774 All the spit on the floor, all the moist cavities. 489 00:23:04,861 --> 00:23:07,777 I want to know this paese grasso. 490 00:23:07,864 --> 00:23:10,606 How it hypnotizes my son for a century. 491 00:23:10,693 --> 00:23:11,868 We-scuse me. 492 00:23:14,654 --> 00:23:18,353 Can I take you to dinner, Sofia? 493 00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:20,790 I would love that. 494 00:23:20,921 --> 00:23:23,358 We thank you. 495 00:23:23,489 --> 00:23:25,945 In a glass corner of a glass building, 496 00:23:25,969 --> 00:23:28,383 a group of building glass salesmen 497 00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,366 were closing a sale of a substantial amount of glass 498 00:23:31,497 --> 00:23:35,283 sold to a company in yet-to-be-tariffed Germany. 499 00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:37,198 There was to be ritualized saturnalia 500 00:23:37,285 --> 00:23:39,156 in both countries that night. 501 00:23:39,243 --> 00:23:42,856 And we invited ourselves to the one closest to. 502 00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:44,423 A study commissioned 503 00:23:44,510 --> 00:23:46,183 by the Centers for Disease Control 504 00:23:46,207 --> 00:23:48,968 on rates of depression in mid-size American cities 505 00:23:48,992 --> 00:23:51,754 ranked Toledo number two on their list. 506 00:23:51,778 --> 00:23:54,737 Heads are down in Toledo, which makes it a fine city 507 00:23:54,824 --> 00:23:56,435 to travel via the cloud gift, 508 00:23:56,565 --> 00:23:58,349 which was Gabriella's preferred mode 509 00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,569 of motor transport. 510 00:24:00,656 --> 00:24:03,137 Why take so many cars? 511 00:24:03,267 --> 00:24:05,835 Triumph is a dark road, Sofia. 512 00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:08,272 And each man must find his own exit. 513 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,798 The worst reveal themselves through time and negroni. 514 00:24:11,885 --> 00:24:14,365 Nine at the indoor golfing range, 515 00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:17,978 seven eating seafood towers at the Chop House, 516 00:24:18,108 --> 00:24:20,720 five crapped out at the casino, 517 00:24:20,850 --> 00:24:25,028 And then there were three, all tippling by the time 518 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:27,746 we plummeted back down the backside of Chubbs, 519 00:24:27,770 --> 00:24:31,141 a bar con tetta blocks off the Maumee River. 520 00:24:31,165 --> 00:24:33,752 Our hunger propelled us inside. 521 00:24:33,776 --> 00:24:36,625 And we watched as the remaining items on the menu 522 00:24:36,649 --> 00:24:39,869 marinated themselves in the pole-ravaged sweat 523 00:24:39,956 --> 00:24:45,634 of sex-positive, sex-cynical, sex-stipulated dancing. 524 00:24:45,658 --> 00:24:47,224 They had closed their deal, 525 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:49,444 and we would close ours. 526 00:24:49,531 --> 00:24:51,925 We watched them, watched them. 527 00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:54,493 And only sometime later would I understand 528 00:24:54,623 --> 00:24:57,060 we were being watched as well 529 00:24:57,147 --> 00:24:59,846 by those who were always there, 530 00:24:59,976 --> 00:25:03,937 a curious tangle of hunters and hunted 531 00:25:04,067 --> 00:25:07,854 that warm spring night. 532 00:25:07,941 --> 00:25:09,464 And then it happened again. 533 00:25:13,033 --> 00:25:15,949 Are you a good boy, Lestat? 534 00:25:16,036 --> 00:25:18,231 An unamusing muse. 535 00:25:18,255 --> 00:25:20,693 Was this the first soldier over the wall 536 00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:23,478 the Oracle Jenks forewarned me about, 537 00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:25,785 or the last fumes of Detroit? 538 00:25:25,872 --> 00:25:30,093 If you're ever homesick, there's a classy Italian place 539 00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:31,268 on Adams Street. 540 00:25:31,355 --> 00:25:32,792 -Do they have spaghetti? -Yeah. 541 00:25:32,879 --> 00:25:34,576 Do... do you work here? 542 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:36,709 Oh, go on about the... 543 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:38,275 -Oh, the... -Tell me more. 544 00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:40,210 The waitresses, they gotta sing... 545 00:25:40,234 --> 00:25:41,951 -Lover. -Where are you? 546 00:25:41,975 --> 00:25:43,846 -I'm with Sofia. -I don't want to know. 547 00:25:43,933 --> 00:25:45,345 You have to do a sit-down with Thomas Pitt 548 00:25:45,369 --> 00:25:46,588 and lawyer tomorrow. 549 00:25:46,675 --> 00:25:48,068 That's your job, lover. 550 00:25:48,155 --> 00:25:49,678 I'm doing my job, motherfucker. 551 00:25:49,765 --> 00:25:52,289 No more. We have a pact now. 552 00:25:52,376 --> 00:25:54,117 What? 553 00:25:54,204 --> 00:25:55,510 Who's Thomas Pitt? 554 00:25:55,641 --> 00:25:57,599 The owner of the hotel you defiled in Detroit. 555 00:25:57,686 --> 00:26:00,167 His lawyer says he's a fan and would appreciate 556 00:26:00,254 --> 00:26:02,212 an exclusive fan experience. 557 00:26:02,299 --> 00:26:04,258 -Do I have to fuck him? -Yes. 558 00:26:04,388 --> 00:26:06,042 Call an Uber, go to coffin. 559 00:26:06,129 --> 00:26:07,409 -Carol! Carol! Carol! -Fine. 560 00:26:10,177 --> 00:26:11,177 Thank you, Carol. 561 00:26:11,221 --> 00:26:12,614 Do you work here? 562 00:26:12,745 --> 00:26:15,443 Wait, did... did I already ask that? 563 00:26:18,968 --> 00:26:20,666 You really have to understand, 564 00:26:20,753 --> 00:26:22,624 the Vampire Gabriella, 565 00:26:22,711 --> 00:26:25,037 when she wasn't free-soloing a mountain 566 00:26:25,061 --> 00:26:28,911 or stirring a singing bowl in some dreary village, 567 00:26:28,935 --> 00:26:32,242 she was good company. 568 00:26:32,329 --> 00:26:34,897 Even as you're being out-monstered, out-bantered, 569 00:26:34,984 --> 00:26:38,248 it feels good, 570 00:26:38,335 --> 00:26:41,774 like watching blood down a staircase feels good 571 00:26:41,904 --> 00:26:45,865 or finding a party invitation in your victim's pocket. 572 00:26:45,952 --> 00:26:47,320 Well, I mean, that doesn't happen anymore. 573 00:26:47,344 --> 00:26:48,519 Damned e-invites. 574 00:26:48,650 --> 00:26:52,567 But being with Gabriella is like... 575 00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:57,224 like... like... 576 00:26:59,313 --> 00:27:02,316 Ah, predatory spirit. 577 00:27:02,403 --> 00:27:05,362 A good candidate for the Great Conversion. 578 00:27:08,539 --> 00:27:13,327 Uh, Randy, last man standing. 579 00:27:13,414 --> 00:27:16,175 Loves glass. 580 00:27:16,199 --> 00:27:21,030 Also knows somewhere inside that he does not love glass. 581 00:27:25,382 --> 00:27:29,473 I'm starving. 582 00:27:29,604 --> 00:27:31,321 Shall we take them both now? 583 00:27:31,345 --> 00:27:33,434 One each? 584 00:27:33,564 --> 00:27:36,698 I want to share mine with you. 585 00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:38,308 So we wait. 586 00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:39,658 We wait. 587 00:27:42,356 --> 00:27:44,663 Do you have a lot of sex? 588 00:27:48,623 --> 00:27:51,408 I'm a rock star now. 589 00:27:51,539 --> 00:27:52,714 Of course. 590 00:27:52,801 --> 00:27:56,302 Do you like it? 591 00:27:56,326 --> 00:27:58,154 Like you do the blood? 592 00:28:00,330 --> 00:28:02,028 It's never like the blood. 593 00:28:07,816 --> 00:28:10,993 We couldn't help ourselves. 594 00:28:12,734 --> 00:28:15,302 We rode the edges of our pact. 595 00:28:18,827 --> 00:28:20,046 -Hi. -Hey. 596 00:28:20,133 --> 00:28:21,787 Just leaving the Chop House. 597 00:28:21,874 --> 00:28:23,658 -You OK to drive? -Yeah, yeah, of course. 598 00:28:23,789 --> 00:28:25,878 -Daddy! -Hey, kiddo. 599 00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:28,576 -What are you doing up? -I can't sleep. 600 00:28:28,707 --> 00:28:30,230 -Back to bed. -Listen to your mom. 601 00:28:30,317 --> 00:28:31,729 I'll give you a kiss when I get home. 602 00:28:31,753 --> 00:28:33,407 OK. 603 00:28:33,494 --> 00:28:35,714 I love you. OK, bye. 604 00:28:38,151 --> 00:28:40,109 You are listening to "The Failures,". 605 00:28:40,196 --> 00:28:43,504 Album 15, Side B. 606 00:28:43,591 --> 00:28:45,158 Estimates on the structural damage 607 00:28:45,245 --> 00:28:47,856 are still being calculated, so the figure we've put forth 608 00:28:47,943 --> 00:28:50,641 was based on comps the engaged architectural firm provided. 609 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,818 Comps? For a hotel hallway massacre? 610 00:28:52,905 --> 00:28:55,144 Comparable damages to comparable spaces. 611 00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:57,344 I'd like to add a line for cascading glass. 612 00:28:57,431 --> 00:28:58,669 The parking structure below 613 00:28:58,693 --> 00:29:00,608 had a fleet of vehicles lacerated. 614 00:29:00,695 --> 00:29:02,015 These cleanup numbers are made up. 615 00:29:02,088 --> 00:29:03,368 The cleanup numbers in this case 616 00:29:03,437 --> 00:29:05,110 are mostly going towards silencing witnesses. 617 00:29:05,134 --> 00:29:06,372 This is not my first clown rodeo, 618 00:29:06,396 --> 00:29:07,441 Grace Jones in Gucci. 619 00:29:07,528 --> 00:29:09,008 Insult received as compliment. 620 00:29:09,095 --> 00:29:10,420 Anyone who won't take a couple thousand in an envelope, 621 00:29:10,444 --> 00:29:12,074 you guys do the mind-wipey thing. 622 00:29:12,098 --> 00:29:13,490 So you can take that line item 623 00:29:13,621 --> 00:29:14,946 and hold it over your vampire bidet. 624 00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:16,382 We could have done this shit over the phone. 625 00:29:16,406 --> 00:29:17,581 According to Mr. Pitt here, 626 00:29:17,668 --> 00:29:19,255 your client's the one who called this meeting. 627 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:21,020 He did no such thing. 628 00:29:21,107 --> 00:29:22,891 You stole my personal physician. 629 00:29:22,978 --> 00:29:24,564 You hired my biographer. 630 00:29:24,588 --> 00:29:26,001 You trashed my hotel. 631 00:29:26,025 --> 00:29:27,393 I didn't know it was your tacky hotel. 632 00:29:27,417 --> 00:29:28,438 The Detroit coven trashed your hotel. 633 00:29:28,462 --> 00:29:29,506 I've heard the songs. 634 00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:30,856 The songs are not about you. 635 00:29:30,943 --> 00:29:34,424 It feels like a cry for help. 636 00:29:34,555 --> 00:29:37,360 So I flew in because I care. 637 00:29:37,384 --> 00:29:39,299 Oh, just as you cared in your book. 638 00:29:39,429 --> 00:29:40,735 We've been through all this. 639 00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:42,844 The fact that you insulted me 640 00:29:42,868 --> 00:29:44,428 page after page after page after page... 641 00:29:44,478 --> 00:29:46,175 Take it up with Molloy, who wrote it, 642 00:29:46,262 --> 00:29:47,936 or the Talamasca, who published it. 643 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,963 And why are you employing Sam Barclay after Paris? 644 00:29:51,093 --> 00:29:52,355 He's paying down his debts. 645 00:29:52,442 --> 00:29:54,420 Oh. Bottom line, Louis. 646 00:29:54,444 --> 00:29:56,324 -All sins negotiated. -Sam didn't get on a boat. 647 00:29:56,446 --> 00:29:57,752 Hey, we're here to litigate, 648 00:29:57,839 --> 00:29:59,338 -not relitigate. -Sam didn't memorize lines. 649 00:29:59,362 --> 00:30:01,384 No, he did not direct a play and then come home canoodling 650 00:30:01,408 --> 00:30:02,844 with one of its victims, did he? 651 00:30:02,975 --> 00:30:05,020 Who did that, I wonder? Repeat the name. 652 00:30:05,107 --> 00:30:06,542 -That would be Armand? -Armand! 653 00:30:09,285 --> 00:30:10,678 Santiago, I could understand. 654 00:30:10,765 --> 00:30:12,462 At least he had a presence. But Armand? 655 00:30:12,549 --> 00:30:14,334 I'm happy to discuss Armand, 656 00:30:14,421 --> 00:30:15,572 if you think that would help you, Lestat. 657 00:30:15,596 --> 00:30:17,511 Is it true that you had a second home 658 00:30:17,598 --> 00:30:19,252 -in Sausalito with him? -We did. 659 00:30:19,339 --> 00:30:22,559 Did you take turns driving across the Golden Gate Bridge? 660 00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:23,885 -Who held the wheel harder? -Yeah. 661 00:30:23,909 --> 00:30:25,321 Writing numbers on each other's backs 662 00:30:25,345 --> 00:30:27,390 and pretending to guess 'em wrong. 663 00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:28,827 I bet. 664 00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:30,263 -I bet! -Come on, Lestat. 665 00:30:30,350 --> 00:30:33,440 Very specific detail to pluck out of thin air! 666 00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:35,007 Va te faire foutre! 667 00:30:35,094 --> 00:30:36,898 Are we taking minutes of this? 668 00:30:36,922 --> 00:30:38,793 I think we can wrap this up dispassionately. 669 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,405 Yes, let's try and circle back to the particulars. 670 00:30:42,492 --> 00:30:44,581 Are you two fucking? 671 00:30:44,668 --> 00:30:45,931 Yes. 672 00:30:46,018 --> 00:30:47,236 Ha! 673 00:30:47,323 --> 00:30:49,824 "Companion enough for yourself" era over? 674 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,893 He's not my companion. 675 00:30:52,024 --> 00:30:55,307 He's a great lay and emotionally unavailable. 676 00:30:55,331 --> 00:30:56,724 You doing her? 677 00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,223 Yes. 678 00:30:58,247 --> 00:31:00,467 Petite, surprising, and can perform 679 00:31:00,597 --> 00:31:04,558 what most metropolitan draining systems could only dream of. 680 00:31:04,688 --> 00:31:06,777 OK. 681 00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:09,780 Are you enjoying this exclusive fan experience? 682 00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:11,086 I am. 683 00:31:11,217 --> 00:31:12,542 Christine, could you please provide 684 00:31:12,566 --> 00:31:15,177 two tickets to Mr. Pitt here and his esquire 685 00:31:15,308 --> 00:31:16,459 for tomorrow night's show? 686 00:31:16,483 --> 00:31:17,658 One will do. 687 00:31:17,788 --> 00:31:19,529 Lemuel doesn't enjoy your music. 688 00:31:19,616 --> 00:31:21,096 I do like your merchandise, though. 689 00:31:21,227 --> 00:31:23,969 Healthy margins, considering the size of your tour. 690 00:31:24,056 --> 00:31:26,493 That's why I own 40% of it. 691 00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:28,340 -Of my merch? -45%. 692 00:31:28,364 --> 00:31:30,497 45? My bad. 693 00:31:30,627 --> 00:31:32,064 I'll look into it. 694 00:31:32,151 --> 00:31:33,369 ♪ I was afraid ♪ 695 00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:34,781 ♪ I was afraid ♪ 696 00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:41,073 ♪ I was afraid of losing you 697 00:31:43,553 --> 00:31:45,729 ♪ Then I lost you ♪ 698 00:31:53,302 --> 00:31:56,803 ♪ Oh, I cried and I cried and I cried ♪ 699 00:31:56,827 --> 00:31:58,829 Sounding a little thin without Alex. 700 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,483 Larry likes it. 701 00:32:00,570 --> 00:32:03,941 Everyone else is freaked. 702 00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:07,055 Lestat and his hostage squad. 703 00:32:07,186 --> 00:32:10,252 Get me a shot of his latest friendo there. 704 00:32:10,276 --> 00:32:12,123 Copy that. Where? 705 00:32:12,147 --> 00:32:15,170 The Cougar Milanese in the crowd. 706 00:32:15,194 --> 00:32:16,586 Got her. 707 00:32:16,717 --> 00:32:18,066 No, no, no, no, not her. 708 00:32:18,197 --> 00:32:21,287 The one standing in judgment of the Buckeye goth. 709 00:32:21,417 --> 00:32:24,507 -The one from the bus? -Yeah. 710 00:32:24,638 --> 00:32:27,269 OK, now go up from her to the balcony 711 00:32:27,293 --> 00:32:29,686 and get me a frame of pretty green eyes again. 712 00:32:29,773 --> 00:32:31,906 OK, got him. Who is this guy? 713 00:32:32,037 --> 00:32:35,692 He is the story. 714 00:32:35,779 --> 00:32:40,741 ♪ Oh, I could sleep for a hundred years ♪ 715 00:32:40,828 --> 00:32:45,702 Mr. du Lac, what brings you to Toledo? 716 00:32:45,789 --> 00:32:48,009 You're looking younger, Daniel. 717 00:32:48,096 --> 00:32:51,578 Monocytes and Mounjaro. 718 00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:54,320 I'm still pissed. 719 00:32:54,407 --> 00:32:59,083 Want to brawl it out in the alley after the show? 720 00:32:59,107 --> 00:33:01,718 All right. 721 00:33:13,339 --> 00:33:15,012 Mr. Molloy? 722 00:33:15,036 --> 00:33:17,298 What the fuck are you doing here? 723 00:33:42,716 --> 00:33:47,112 ♪ Oh, I, I tried to write you ♪ 724 00:33:47,199 --> 00:33:52,832 ♪ The prettiest song in the world ♪ 725 00:33:52,856 --> 00:33:57,731 ♪ But I got distracted 726 00:33:57,818 --> 00:34:03,128 ♪ Oh, and I didn't ♪ 727 00:34:03,215 --> 00:34:08,958 ♪ Oh ♪ 728 00:34:13,921 --> 00:34:20,448 ♪ Oh, why, why, why do I have to feel? ♪ 729 00:34:23,148 --> 00:34:26,629 ♪ This pain ♪ 730 00:34:26,716 --> 00:34:30,329 ♪ It's too much, it's too real ♪ 731 00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:38,380 Call comes in from some Hollywood asshole 732 00:34:38,467 --> 00:34:39,251 asking me whether I want to write 733 00:34:39,381 --> 00:34:40,532 the movie version of the book. 734 00:34:40,556 --> 00:34:43,255 I'm like, blow me. Lose my number. 735 00:34:43,342 --> 00:34:46,277 Calls me back a week later. What about a documentary? 736 00:34:46,301 --> 00:34:48,347 I'm like, Louis won't even talk to me. 737 00:34:48,434 --> 00:34:51,350 He says, not Louis, Lestat, the white guy. 738 00:34:51,437 --> 00:34:54,004 Old friends talking around the small betrayal 739 00:34:54,135 --> 00:34:55,832 that kept them apart. 740 00:34:55,963 --> 00:34:57,486 And I know what you're thinking. 741 00:34:57,573 --> 00:34:58,724 "He wasn't there." 742 00:34:58,748 --> 00:35:00,465 But this is my hour. 743 00:35:00,489 --> 00:35:02,709 And when tertiary figures appear in it, 744 00:35:02,796 --> 00:35:04,493 I will be speaking for them. 745 00:35:04,624 --> 00:35:07,235 Daniel, Mr. du Lac, anyone I feel 746 00:35:07,322 --> 00:35:09,107 is important towards understanding 747 00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:10,804 how I woke the Queen and unleashed 748 00:35:10,891 --> 00:35:13,043 her wrath upon the world. 749 00:35:13,067 --> 00:35:14,895 I am everywhere. 750 00:35:15,025 --> 00:35:17,613 And rest assured, it comes with less whining 751 00:35:17,637 --> 00:35:19,160 than their attempt. 752 00:35:19,247 --> 00:35:21,031 Did it happen in a bar with a view? 753 00:35:21,162 --> 00:35:22,618 I say it did. 754 00:35:22,642 --> 00:35:24,034 How are you taking to the gift? 755 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:25,819 You enduring? 756 00:35:25,906 --> 00:35:27,908 I'm all right. 757 00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:31,216 Vampire loneliness, I get it now. 758 00:35:31,303 --> 00:35:33,629 I've taken up bowling. 759 00:35:33,653 --> 00:35:38,962 And I have this weird thing that happens where, suddenly, 760 00:35:39,049 --> 00:35:42,531 everyone around me disappears, like the rapture has come, 761 00:35:42,662 --> 00:35:45,708 and I... 762 00:35:45,839 --> 00:35:48,798 you know... 763 00:35:48,885 --> 00:35:51,342 I feel him. 764 00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:53,934 Armand? 765 00:35:54,021 --> 00:35:55,327 Yeah. 766 00:35:55,457 --> 00:35:57,696 That happen with you and Lestat? 767 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,722 No. 768 00:35:59,809 --> 00:36:02,116 Oh. 769 00:36:02,203 --> 00:36:03,311 Sounds weird. 770 00:36:03,335 --> 00:36:05,772 Look, I-I'm sorry. OK? 771 00:36:05,902 --> 00:36:08,949 I-I should have asked you before I published. 772 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:10,080 I'm-I'm-I'm sorry. 773 00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:11,473 I would have said no. 774 00:36:14,781 --> 00:36:15,932 I can't fly. 775 00:36:15,956 --> 00:36:17,740 I can't start fires. 776 00:36:17,827 --> 00:36:19,849 All I get is the low-hanging balls gift. 777 00:36:19,873 --> 00:36:22,049 I wanted something out of it. 778 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:24,225 I'm glad the book worked out for you. 779 00:36:24,312 --> 00:36:26,140 Didn't do too much damage to you. 780 00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:29,404 Or whoever you are, Thomas Pitt. 781 00:36:29,491 --> 00:36:32,364 Hotels, bars, mall, retail. 782 00:36:32,451 --> 00:36:35,454 I saw money on the table. 783 00:36:35,541 --> 00:36:37,127 You read it? 784 00:36:37,151 --> 00:36:39,869 You liked it? 785 00:36:39,893 --> 00:36:42,461 I didn't like me in it. 786 00:36:42,548 --> 00:36:47,224 Passive, selfish, a liar. 787 00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:49,119 And not the "lying to myself" kind, 788 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,731 a fucking liar. 789 00:36:51,818 --> 00:36:54,298 The writing's good. Hard read. 790 00:36:56,736 --> 00:36:58,128 He didn't like the part 791 00:36:58,259 --> 00:36:59,956 about Claudia and him on the train. 792 00:37:02,002 --> 00:37:03,786 Yeah, we were finding our way back again 793 00:37:03,873 --> 00:37:04,918 when the book dropped. 794 00:37:05,005 --> 00:37:06,398 It hurt him. 795 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:14,599 I called one of my daughters the first month dead. 796 00:37:14,623 --> 00:37:17,322 Called her again during the book tour. 797 00:37:17,452 --> 00:37:20,194 Hung up, hung up. 798 00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:23,806 Probably the right move. 799 00:37:23,893 --> 00:37:26,983 I saw Claudia. 800 00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:29,899 In New York, coming up the subway. 801 00:37:29,986 --> 00:37:31,312 Claudia? 802 00:37:31,336 --> 00:37:33,729 Someone... someone who looked like her, 803 00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:38,256 but in her 20s, if she'd made it to her 20s. 804 00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:40,234 Saw her come up. 805 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:42,148 I watched her turn the corner. 806 00:37:42,172 --> 00:37:44,305 Happened to be going in the same direction, 807 00:37:44,436 --> 00:37:45,567 kinda, sorta. 808 00:37:47,787 --> 00:37:50,964 I-I saw her walk into a diner. 809 00:37:51,051 --> 00:37:54,030 And I couldn't help myself. 810 00:37:54,054 --> 00:37:56,554 I go inside. 811 00:37:56,578 --> 00:37:59,209 I grab a booth. 812 00:37:59,233 --> 00:38:00,384 It's not her. 813 00:38:00,408 --> 00:38:02,845 She's not there. 814 00:38:02,932 --> 00:38:04,456 Chased a ghost, I guess. 815 00:38:07,067 --> 00:38:12,507 So I order a donut and coffee, you know, just to pass. 816 00:38:12,638 --> 00:38:17,338 Then she comes out the back in a uniform. 817 00:38:17,469 --> 00:38:20,404 It's not her. 818 00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:25,303 This one's got a different walk and accent. 819 00:38:28,697 --> 00:38:31,004 I'm not in her section. 820 00:38:31,134 --> 00:38:32,310 I walked out. 821 00:38:35,182 --> 00:38:38,316 Don't eat me for this, Louis. 822 00:38:38,403 --> 00:38:41,493 Uh, my producers want to meet you. 823 00:38:45,671 --> 00:38:47,020 Rashid? 824 00:38:47,107 --> 00:38:48,848 Rashid, Daniel Molloy, 825 00:38:48,935 --> 00:38:51,677 Raglan James, Louis de Pointe du Lac. 826 00:38:51,764 --> 00:38:53,896 We all worked together in Dubai. 827 00:38:53,983 --> 00:38:56,159 Burj Al Arab, 828 00:38:56,246 --> 00:39:00,033 now HavenMed Senior Care Headquarters. 829 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,209 Said I'd introduce you. 830 00:39:02,296 --> 00:39:04,342 They got me on retainer. 831 00:39:04,429 --> 00:39:06,866 Mm-mm. Not cool, Daniel. 832 00:39:09,869 --> 00:39:11,958 We argued about this cover. 833 00:39:29,062 --> 00:39:31,997 What does he know about me? 834 00:39:32,021 --> 00:39:33,719 What did you tell him? 835 00:39:33,849 --> 00:39:37,462 That you died in 1794 of consumption. 836 00:39:37,592 --> 00:39:40,073 A mercy... saved you from the peasants' revenge 837 00:39:40,203 --> 00:39:41,944 on our family. 838 00:39:42,031 --> 00:39:45,054 I only ever saw the aftermaths... 839 00:39:45,078 --> 00:39:48,927 your slit throat slow to heal, 840 00:39:48,951 --> 00:39:53,695 your rotting roof and bathrobe stuck to skin. 841 00:39:53,782 --> 00:39:57,960 An aloof poetry behind the eyes. 842 00:39:58,091 --> 00:40:02,704 Uncanny beauty. 843 00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:04,682 An elusiveness. 844 00:40:04,706 --> 00:40:08,318 Come, go, yes, no. 845 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:11,234 I see why you gave him a daughter. 846 00:40:11,365 --> 00:40:14,194 I see why you took her back. 847 00:40:16,631 --> 00:40:19,373 And we were having such a good night, Sofia. 848 00:40:19,460 --> 00:40:22,352 And now we're not? 849 00:40:22,376 --> 00:40:23,943 Forget I said it. 850 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,956 Your father's tongue. 851 00:40:37,043 --> 00:40:38,479 My tongue. 852 00:40:38,610 --> 00:40:42,657 And Italy never made a Baudelaire. 853 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,102 We should head home to the tower. 854 00:41:39,627 --> 00:41:41,934 The night is young. We travel so fast. 855 00:41:42,021 --> 00:41:45,241 We could be there in an hour. 856 00:41:45,372 --> 00:41:47,591 My mother. 857 00:42:53,919 --> 00:42:55,355 I'll race you back to the house! 858 00:43:04,799 --> 00:43:07,280 Mama! Papa! 859 00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:29,563 There were eight people on the ark... 860 00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:31,715 Noah, his wife, 861 00:43:31,739 --> 00:43:34,370 his three sons, and their three wives. 862 00:43:34,394 --> 00:43:35,874 Eight people. 863 00:43:35,961 --> 00:43:41,246 And now, somehow, 8 billion. 864 00:43:41,270 --> 00:43:44,099 At some point in your privileged family tree 865 00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:47,102 is the thing we are discussing now. 866 00:43:47,233 --> 00:43:49,603 And familial relations were not a standalone crime 867 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:51,996 in the 18th century. 868 00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:55,937 And she was dying when she came to see me. 869 00:43:56,068 --> 00:43:58,568 Fuck it. 870 00:43:58,592 --> 00:44:01,203 It's different for vampires. That's it. 871 00:44:01,290 --> 00:44:04,269 Distribution of fentanyl for half of Michigan, 872 00:44:04,293 --> 00:44:06,707 operation of an unsanctioned 873 00:44:06,731 --> 00:44:08,558 and unsanitary farm from their home, 874 00:44:08,689 --> 00:44:11,494 and, in a surprising labor of ambition, 875 00:44:11,518 --> 00:44:14,739 managed to take down the MISO power grid the other night. 876 00:44:14,826 --> 00:44:16,436 Not the pneumatic tube 877 00:44:16,523 --> 00:44:17,959 the upper floor wants to receive. 878 00:44:18,090 --> 00:44:19,961 So Real Rashid is really Rashid? 879 00:44:20,048 --> 00:44:21,180 That's his actual name? 880 00:44:21,310 --> 00:44:23,573 Ah. 881 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,793 I em-pha-size the first syllable. 882 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,621 Rah-shid. Rah-shid. 883 00:44:27,708 --> 00:44:29,057 Do you have a preference? 884 00:44:29,144 --> 00:44:31,146 No. 885 00:44:31,277 --> 00:44:33,061 I have a plane waiting for me. 886 00:44:33,148 --> 00:44:35,910 This coven in Detroit, they were the ones 887 00:44:35,934 --> 00:44:38,110 responsible for the damage to your property. 888 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:40,590 I'm insured, and, uh, I knew that already. 889 00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:43,071 They tried to decapitate your love. 890 00:44:43,158 --> 00:44:44,594 What's the ask, Mr. James? 891 00:44:47,597 --> 00:44:51,490 We would like you to take care of our problem 892 00:44:51,514 --> 00:44:53,386 in Detroit, Mr. du Lac. 893 00:44:53,516 --> 00:44:54,909 No. 894 00:44:54,996 --> 00:44:57,259 One, we're understaffed and overworked, 895 00:44:57,390 --> 00:44:59,455 the exponential growth in your numbers 896 00:44:59,479 --> 00:45:00,698 not helping matters. 897 00:45:00,828 --> 00:45:03,439 Two, the shop's protocols of engagement 898 00:45:03,570 --> 00:45:06,897 limit our roles in these kinds of operations. 899 00:45:06,921 --> 00:45:10,272 We clean up, we don't make the mess. 900 00:45:10,403 --> 00:45:14,929 And three, you're extremely skilled at dispatchment, 901 00:45:15,016 --> 00:45:16,167 Mr. du Lac. 902 00:45:16,191 --> 00:45:17,889 Paris, Dubai. 903 00:45:17,976 --> 00:45:19,847 How many in Dubai, Rashid? 904 00:45:19,934 --> 00:45:21,544 -31. -31? 905 00:45:21,675 --> 00:45:24,069 32 if you count Agent Talbot. 906 00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:26,071 No great loss. None of us liked him much. 907 00:45:26,158 --> 00:45:28,508 I only kill those who come for me first. 908 00:45:28,595 --> 00:45:30,747 The coven leader's name is Killer. 909 00:45:30,771 --> 00:45:32,401 Tell Vampire Sam I'm gonna need him 910 00:45:32,425 --> 00:45:34,079 in Vegas and Reno next month. 911 00:45:34,209 --> 00:45:37,125 Been tracking him since 1925, 912 00:45:37,212 --> 00:45:40,694 a coffin offloaded from a boat out of Copenhagen. 913 00:45:40,781 --> 00:45:42,740 I don't care. 914 00:45:42,827 --> 00:45:44,524 Went by a different name then. 915 00:45:44,611 --> 00:45:46,091 His name was Bruce. 916 00:45:50,051 --> 00:45:51,270 Bruce. 917 00:45:52,575 --> 00:45:54,205 Mm. 918 00:45:54,229 --> 00:45:58,122 I believe your Claudia spent a few nights with him once. 919 00:45:58,146 --> 00:46:00,365 Hmm? 920 00:46:07,852 --> 00:46:08,722 Listen to tracks from "The Vampire Lestat" 921 00:46:08,853 --> 00:46:10,202 wherever you stream music. 922 00:46:13,248 --> 00:46:15,337 Evening, Dan. Happy to be here. 923 00:46:15,468 --> 00:46:18,340 ♪ Give me a million more screams ♪ 924 00:46:18,471 --> 00:46:20,212 Nicolas de Lenfent. 925 00:46:20,299 --> 00:46:22,127 Lestat. What are you doing in Paris? 926 00:46:22,257 --> 00:46:27,132 ♪ Give me a million more screams, ha ♪ 927 00:46:28,916 --> 00:46:30,309 Your mother? 928 00:46:33,660 --> 00:46:36,968 I want you to love me enough to give it to me! 929 00:46:38,708 --> 00:46:40,145 ♪ Anybody but us ♪ 930 00:46:43,539 --> 00:46:44,603 -How did I get here? -Sofia. 931 00:46:44,627 --> 00:46:45,890 Sofia? 932 00:46:46,064 --> 00:46:47,413 Forgotten my name already? 933 00:46:48,675 --> 00:46:50,416 Hello, Sofia. 934 00:46:54,333 --> 00:46:56,161 Within this context of the failures, 935 00:46:56,291 --> 00:47:00,426 the first big failure was the failure of his family unit. 936 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,819 Are you a good boy, Lestat? 937 00:47:05,735 --> 00:47:07,476 Answer your brother, Lestat. 938 00:47:07,650 --> 00:47:10,131 As a kid, his mother was the only person 939 00:47:10,262 --> 00:47:12,525 in this very hostile environment 940 00:47:12,655 --> 00:47:14,962 who sort of showed him any sort of affection. 941 00:47:15,093 --> 00:47:17,660 When they first knew each other as humans 942 00:47:17,791 --> 00:47:20,011 and Gabriella was Lestat's mother 943 00:47:20,141 --> 00:47:23,188 300 years ago, they lived in a situation 944 00:47:23,362 --> 00:47:27,583 where neither of them had any agency or power. 945 00:47:27,714 --> 00:47:30,543 She had a horrible relationship with her husband 946 00:47:30,673 --> 00:47:33,981 and was deeply unhappy and lonely. 947 00:47:34,112 --> 00:47:37,463 There's a lot that you learn about who Lestat is 948 00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:40,901 when Gabriella, his mother, shows up. 949 00:47:41,032 --> 00:47:43,164 Now the wolves, they are taking our sheep. 950 00:47:43,295 --> 00:47:44,862 They will snatch a babe soon. 951 00:47:45,036 --> 00:47:46,776 Go home! 952 00:47:46,907 --> 00:47:48,276 There's nothing more we can do here. 953 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:51,172 But be men! 954 00:47:51,303 --> 00:47:53,958 She knows that if anybody's gonna get up at that table 955 00:47:54,088 --> 00:47:57,091 and try to solve this problem with the wolves, 956 00:47:57,178 --> 00:47:59,137 it's going to be Lestat. 957 00:47:59,311 --> 00:48:00,703 The killing of the wolves 958 00:48:00,790 --> 00:48:03,228 is connected intrinsically to Gabriella. 959 00:48:03,402 --> 00:48:06,013 Gabriella is saying, go out and be something. 960 00:48:08,624 --> 00:48:11,018 This is Lestat's moment to be like, "I'm gonna do something. 961 00:48:11,105 --> 00:48:12,715 I'm gonna make something of my life, 962 00:48:12,802 --> 00:48:14,084 and I'm going to go out and kill them, 963 00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:15,327 even if I die." 964 00:48:23,422 --> 00:48:27,121 When Lestat kills the wolves, he's 30 years old, 965 00:48:27,295 --> 00:48:29,950 and in Gabriella's mind, 966 00:48:30,124 --> 00:48:32,300 he's been at home longer than he should have. 967 00:48:32,431 --> 00:48:36,174 From room to room, slaughtering the three of them. 968 00:48:36,348 --> 00:48:39,525 That's what I dreamt when I killed the wolves, Mother. 969 00:48:39,655 --> 00:48:42,789 That is a shared desire between the two of them, 970 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,617 and then that's given him enough impetus 971 00:48:44,747 --> 00:48:46,401 to get out and go and do something. 972 00:48:46,532 --> 00:48:49,535 He goes to Paris. Turns into a vampire. 973 00:48:49,665 --> 00:48:51,711 His mom's dying. Turns his mom into a vampire. 974 00:48:57,195 --> 00:48:59,110 Once Gabriella is turned into a vampire, 975 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:00,850 they both want to go back and kill them, 976 00:49:00,981 --> 00:49:02,417 and now they can. 977 00:49:09,729 --> 00:49:13,298 She can now live the life she's always wanted to live. 978 00:49:13,428 --> 00:49:15,082 And vampirism liberates her. 979 00:49:15,213 --> 00:49:19,652 I was absolutely drawn to Gabriella's 980 00:49:19,782 --> 00:49:23,917 absolute love of being a vampire. 981 00:49:24,048 --> 00:49:28,095 For her, it is almost like a finding of herself, I think, 982 00:49:28,182 --> 00:49:30,880 or certainly the only time in her life 983 00:49:31,011 --> 00:49:35,059 that she has had autonomy and power. 984 00:49:35,233 --> 00:49:37,626 Do you have a lot of sex? 985 00:49:37,757 --> 00:49:39,106 Of course. 986 00:49:39,193 --> 00:49:42,066 Do you like it like you do the blood? 987 00:49:42,196 --> 00:49:44,329 -It's never like the blood. -They love each other. 988 00:49:44,416 --> 00:49:46,220 I mean, they're mother and son, and they're lovers. 989 00:49:46,244 --> 00:49:48,507 I mean, and they're fledgling and maker, 990 00:49:48,594 --> 00:49:50,615 and, I mean, they have a super complicated relationship, 991 00:49:50,639 --> 00:49:52,206 but they're the only people still alive 992 00:49:52,337 --> 00:49:54,426 that both knew each other when they were human. 993 00:49:54,513 --> 00:49:55,533 I think that's really important. 994 00:49:55,557 --> 00:49:57,081 It's like, you know me, 995 00:49:57,211 --> 00:49:58,884 who I really am, you know where I came from, 996 00:49:58,908 --> 00:50:00,954 you know what my fundamental drive is. 997 00:50:01,128 --> 00:50:03,478 And you remember me as a human being 998 00:50:03,609 --> 00:50:06,438 before I was this other thing. 999 00:50:06,612 --> 00:50:07,787 So, they're deeply connected, 1000 00:50:07,917 --> 00:50:09,658 and it's toxic, but, you know, 1001 00:50:09,832 --> 00:50:11,232 everything's toxic in vampire world. 1002 00:50:25,848 --> 00:50:27,589 You stole my personal physician. 1003 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:29,156 You trashed my hotel. 1004 00:50:29,287 --> 00:50:31,767 The Detroit coven trashed your hotel. 1005 00:50:31,898 --> 00:50:33,858 -I heard the song. -The songs are not about you. 1006 00:50:33,943 --> 00:50:37,469 It feels like a cry for help, 1007 00:50:37,643 --> 00:50:40,385 so I flew in because I care. 1008 00:50:40,472 --> 00:50:43,214 I think Louis is being a complete troll in that scene. 1009 00:50:43,344 --> 00:50:46,521 He gets off on making Lestat angry, I think, to some extent. 1010 00:50:46,652 --> 00:50:49,959 Did you take turns driving across the Golden Gate Bridge? 1011 00:50:50,090 --> 00:50:51,526 Who held the wheel? 1012 00:50:51,613 --> 00:50:52,982 Writing numbers on each other's backs 1013 00:50:53,006 --> 00:50:55,008 and pretending to guess them wrong? 1014 00:50:55,139 --> 00:50:56,270 I bet. 1015 00:50:56,401 --> 00:50:57,532 I bet! 1016 00:50:57,663 --> 00:50:58,925 It's a really fun scene. 1017 00:50:59,099 --> 00:51:00,405 It's a real attack, 1018 00:51:00,535 --> 00:51:01,935 and he knows he's gonna rile him up. 1019 00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:05,105 It was quite strange to go from being this, 1020 00:51:05,236 --> 00:51:08,978 like, very strong, centered vampire 1021 00:51:09,109 --> 00:51:12,199 to being just sort of petty. 1022 00:51:12,330 --> 00:51:14,419 Christine, could you please provide two tickets 1023 00:51:14,549 --> 00:51:16,682 to Mr. Pitt here and his esquire 1024 00:51:16,812 --> 00:51:18,379 for tomorrow night's show? 1025 00:51:18,553 --> 00:51:20,860 Just one will do. Lemuel doesn't enjoy your music. 1026 00:51:22,644 --> 00:51:24,429 As petty as he's been, 1027 00:51:24,516 --> 00:51:28,128 I think Louis is looking forward to seeing Lestat's show. 1028 00:51:29,738 --> 00:51:31,479 ♪ I was afraid, I was afraid ♪ 1029 00:51:31,610 --> 00:51:36,180 ♪ I was afra-a-a-id ♪ 1030 00:51:36,310 --> 00:51:38,051 ♪ I'm losing you ♪ 1031 00:51:38,182 --> 00:51:39,792 He's also impressed. 1032 00:51:39,966 --> 00:51:41,766 This is what he should have always been doing. 1033 00:51:46,886 --> 00:51:49,212 A lot of his songs, you don't really know who they're about. 1034 00:51:49,236 --> 00:51:50,474 Could be about Louis. Could be about Nicki. 1035 00:51:50,498 --> 00:51:51,717 Could be Gabriella. 1036 00:51:51,891 --> 00:51:53,458 It's very on brand for Louis 1037 00:51:53,588 --> 00:51:55,242 to think every song is about him. 1038 00:51:55,373 --> 00:51:57,157 And then on another level, 1039 00:51:57,244 --> 00:51:58,917 I think there's probably, like, a gossipy side of Louis 1040 00:51:58,941 --> 00:52:00,813 that's like, "Who is this about? 1041 00:52:00,943 --> 00:52:02,336 When did this happen? Who was that? 1042 00:52:02,510 --> 00:52:03,990 Who is he? Who is she?" 1043 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:05,426 Could be about just the fact that 1044 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,000 why does he have to feel in general? 1045 00:52:07,036 --> 00:52:08,777 Because he is a very emotive character, 1046 00:52:08,908 --> 00:52:11,258 and he kind of gets totally riled up in his own emotions, 1047 00:52:11,389 --> 00:52:12,912 and he'll ride them. 1048 00:52:12,999 --> 00:52:15,306 So, I think that can be a frustrating thing. 1049 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,091 I mean, he's obviously doing a very intensely 1050 00:52:18,178 --> 00:52:20,659 power-thrusting version of the song 1051 00:52:20,789 --> 00:52:23,183 and intentionally ignoring Louis 1052 00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:24,793 until he can't anymore. 1053 00:52:43,029 --> 00:52:47,903 ♪ Oh, I, I tried to write you ♪ 1054 00:52:48,034 --> 00:52:53,518 ♪ The prettiest song in the world ♪ 1055 00:52:53,605 --> 00:52:57,696 ♪ But I got distracted ♪ 1056 00:52:57,826 --> 00:52:59,915 When he gets the book and he sees 1057 00:53:00,046 --> 00:53:02,309 that it's all scribbled and scrawled, 1058 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,138 and I think it's when the guilt really starts to creep in. 1059 00:53:05,225 --> 00:53:06,811 This is the first time they've had a little 1060 00:53:06,835 --> 00:53:08,272 private moment about it. 1061 00:53:08,446 --> 00:53:10,578 Louis has that kind of effect on Lestat, 1062 00:53:10,709 --> 00:53:13,102 that he, you know, will get so angry that he'll freeze time 1063 00:53:13,277 --> 00:53:14,930 and fly up to him and sing in his face. 1064 00:53:15,061 --> 00:53:16,062 Yeah. 1065 00:53:16,236 --> 00:53:17,629 ♪ Oh, why ♪ 1066 00:53:17,716 --> 00:53:22,155 ♪ Why, why do I have to feel ♪ 1067 00:53:25,332 --> 00:53:28,596 ♪ This pa-a-a-a-in? ♪ 1068 00:53:28,770 --> 00:53:31,860 ♪ It's too much, it's too real ♪