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It's Venetian.
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A contemporary of Tintoretto's.
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"Marius de Romanus."
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Never heard of him.
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Little of his work survives.
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Mr. de Pointe du Lac
covets the rare.
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Do you hear that?
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I keep hearing that sound.
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Well, the building sways a bit,
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but that is according
to its design, given the height.
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We call it the groan.
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It won't disturb your meal,
which is ready now.
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Did you always work for him?
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Please have a seat.
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Sign an NDA?
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I mean, is it only work
or are you and he...?
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I serve a god.
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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.
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Seven? Wait, but how many
courses are there?
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Fattening me up
for the inevitable end?
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Duck foie gras
terrine, pickled fruit,
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roasted apple bonbon.
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There he is.
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You missed at least three
or four endangered species.
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I want to apologize
for my outburst earlier.
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I can assure you,
it will not happen again.
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Memory is a monster.
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We forget, it doesn't.
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Uh, this is session two,
Louis de Pointe du Lac.
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Eh, can we turn down the music?
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Ajoblanco.
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Bread, crushed almonds, garlic,
olive oil, and salt,
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a garnish of green grapes,
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and AB negative,
fresh from the farm.
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Bon appétit.
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Part of me wants to ask
about the farm.
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Two vampires walk into a church.
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That's where we left off.
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Blissing out post-priesticide.
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The bliss was merely
a stage in my transformation...
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pain followed, a seizing
and unrelenting pain,
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through which I would pass
before my apprenticeship began.
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What's happening?
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Your body is confused.
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Your lungs feel like water,
your heart, fire.
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You feel as if you're dying,
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because you are.
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And then, there's the retching.
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I recognize the hypocrite I am,
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emphasizing cleanliness
after I overindulged,
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but a proper disposal is
the penance of a sated vampire.
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And you won't always have
a conveniently located graveyard
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nearby, so...
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Nuh-uh-uh-uh.
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Nuh-uh-uh.
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We live off the blood
of the living.
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Lap up the blood of the deceased
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and it'll suck you
right down into death,
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along with your victim.
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Hmm?
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Ugh.
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Uh.
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Louis.
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There's the spark.
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Lestat's blood was
giggling inside me,
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teasing my senses,
illuminating the district
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with overwhelming detail,
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as if I had walked
my entire life as a dead man,
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and now, dead,
could finally receive
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the secrets of existence.
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You were fucking loaded.
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Beyond articulation.
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Your ears will pick up the world
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like a maddening symphony.
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Follow my voice,
a single strain.
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Your eyes will wander,
led by your hunger.
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Are you hungry, Louis?
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Uh-huh.
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They were your brothers
and sisters once,
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but now they're
your savory inferiors.
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A young Tempranillo,
fleshy and tart.
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A Primitivo, hints of iron,
rather plain otherwise.
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A pair of oak-aged cabernet,
thick-skinned and chewy.
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♪ Way haul away ♪
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♪ We'll haul away, Joe ♪
Hunting is an art.
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You have the power to subdue
anyone you want,
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but sometimes restraint
is your most powerful weapon.
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♪ Way haul away,
we'll haul away, Joe ♪
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♪ Way haul away,
we'll haul away, my Rosie ♪
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♪ Way haul away ♪
Him.
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Straight to the prettiest girl
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at the party.
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I admire the aesthetic,
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but you'll spend
most of your evening
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trying to separate him
from his crew.
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You'll race the sun to the kill,
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and when he turns up
missing in the morning,
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you'll have half the frigate
on the prowl, looking for him.
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In the beginning, it's best
to let the food come to you.
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Here you go.
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I was a baby bird
in Lestat's nest...
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not yet ready to hunt,
but desperate to feed.
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So, I'm taking my daughter
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to... to look at horses,
uh, Palominos.
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You know, those...
those Indian types that...
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that they run free out West,
and, uh, I gotta tell you,
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I'm, uh, I'm doing pretty good
for myself, you know?
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It's a new century,
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new job, so I'm actually
entertaining the thought
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of getting her one of these,
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you know, a special horse.
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We go down to the fairground.
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She says, "Daddy, why is
that horse walking so funny?
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Why is his... his back
all crumpled up like that?"
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Well, I tell her, I say,
"Honey, once the work has gotten
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used all up out of a horse..."
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"This is what happens..."
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Amusing, their relentless
questions at that age.
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That's right.
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I tell her, "This is
the nature of things."
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Someone has to
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hew the oats, someone has
to harvest the corn,
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the harrow, the tiller. ""
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Why are you gentlemen down here?
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Uh, now, what do you grow?
You grow cotton?
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Sugar.
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Sugar... Sugar.
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Careful, mon Cher, you're
beginning to frighten the man.
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Um...
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So, I look at my daughter's
tear-stained face
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and I say to her, "Maggie",
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that's why your daddy
sells tractors. ""
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International Harvester Farmall.
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Go ahead and take that.
Might come in handy.
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So
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I am talking about gas-powered,
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open-geared beast of burden.
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Ooh-la-la.
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This is fancy, right here.
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Uh, just to be clear here,
gents, we...
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we are here to talk about,
uh, farm equipment.
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Am I right?
Mm.
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And a streamline tractor,
you know,
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not only gonna
increase your harvest,
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but it's gonna keep
your child from tears.
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Oh, thank y-you.
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You, uh, on your sleeve...
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Whenever you're ready, Louis.
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I knew it. I knew you...
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Aah!
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What the fuck?
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The neck.
Bite the neck, Louis.
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No...
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No, you don't bite the blood.
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You suck it.
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Yes, yes, that's better.
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Good.
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For our next carpet,
I'm thinking Persian.
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Arabesque maybe.
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Certainly need a more efficient
way of ridding the waste.
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Ugh.
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The first time is
the most unwieldy.
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Soon you'll be a natural.
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You'll come to enjoy it, its
variations, little surprises.
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1 gotta go home.
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This is your home now, Louis.
Breathe.
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I... I gotta collect money
from the cribs.
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I have all the money we need.
Breathe.
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I have to go see Grace and Paul.
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Oh, dear.
You ain't fuckin' hearin' me!
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I... I need to go home.
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You're going to find
that very difficult.
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Hey!
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What the hell?
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Hey, now.
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That's coming out of my pay.
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Lord Jesus!
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Lemme in!
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Let me in, God damn it!
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Open the fucking door!
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The sun gives life
to everything but us.
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I should have taught you that.
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The life of a vampire
has its challenges
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and its rewards...
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but I think New Orleans,
with its music, culture,
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cuisine, shipping yards,
conventioneers,
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thrill-seeking tourists
far-flung from their homes,
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the laissez-faire attitude
of the local police force
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oh, yes...
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the perfect setting
for a vampire home...
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a vampire romance.
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I ain't sleepin' in there.
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We'll get you
your own soon enough.
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You've had a long life, Louis,
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and such an extraordinary
one ahead.
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Have a rest.
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It's okay.
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You can be on top.
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Helluva bender.
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He rushed me headlong
through the encounter
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as if it were something
to put behind us.
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Death, rebirth, coming out,
homicide,
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too many firsts for one night.
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Coming out?
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You robbed a daughter
of her father, maybe a pet pony.
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How's sexuality play in that?
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It's a complicated question,
Daniel,
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and we shouldn't conflate it
with the salesman's death.
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Humor me.
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To satisfy your fixation,
being transformed by Lestat,
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being desired by him,
bedding down with him
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was an overture of sorts
to that side of my nature.
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To the shame
of queer theorists everywhere.
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I got in that coffin
on my own free will.
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In the quiet dark,
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we were equals.
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White master, Black student,
but equal in the quiet dark.
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Provocation.
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Is this the primary tool
one walks away with
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after downloading
your Internet class?
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Rabbit, three ways,
and Vulpes rueppellii,
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or Ruppell's sand fox.
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Back to the salesman for a sec.
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Clearly, you were
haunted by it, the...
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the taste of his blood
in the back of your throat,
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up in your gums.
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Let me ask you, Daniel,
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do you contemplate the life
of the rabbit before you cut it?
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Or do you simply cut?
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Mmm.
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Vampires are killers,
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apex predators
whose all-seeing eyes
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were meant to give
them detachment,
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the ability to see
a human life in its entirety,
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not with any mawkish sorrow,
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but with
the thrilling satisfaction
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of being the end of that life
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and having a hand
in the divine plan.
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Don't expect every reader
to swallow that one.
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That's the purpose.
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Our book must be a warning
as much as anything.
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It was the right line
of questioning.
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I was haunted by the salesman,
and as a fledgling vampire,
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I did not readily
take to killing.
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When I first started
learning English, I abhorred it.
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Every word felt like a doorknob
falling out of my mouth.
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Chapeau is a hat,
étoile was a star...
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Killin' folks
ain't a second language.
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But when I started
dreaming in English,
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that's when I embraced it.
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And now, I have English
consonants to thank
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for this astonishing jawline.
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These are nightmares I'm having,
Lestat, not dreams.
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Finn, how's your arm?
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Is it healing properly?
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You might need a proper doctor,
my friend.
258
00:15:27,009 --> 00:15:28,499
Me arm's fine.
259
00:15:28,553 --> 00:15:31,341
You let me know
if you need a doc.
260
00:15:31,389 --> 00:15:33,756
There is something,
Mr. du Lac.
261
00:15:33,808 --> 00:15:37,267
The new gaming house you're
fixing up for the alderman,
262
00:15:37,311 --> 00:15:39,723
I want to manage it.
263
00:15:39,772 --> 00:15:43,640
I'm good with people,
and I'm good with numbers.
264
00:15:43,693 --> 00:15:45,149
Hmm...
265
00:15:45,194 --> 00:15:48,562
I'll take it up with Fenwick.
266
00:15:48,614 --> 00:15:49,900
Much obliged.
267
00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:52,782
Mm-hmm.
268
00:15:52,827 --> 00:15:54,693
He's lying, you know.
269
00:15:54,745 --> 00:15:56,201
He'll figure I'm a bean counter.
270
00:15:56,247 --> 00:15:58,955
No, he wants the job
so he can steal from you.
271
00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,582
Overcharge
for drinks and women...
272
00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:04,164
not enough for you to notice,
but enough to make him
273
00:16:04,213 --> 00:16:06,375
"good extra," he calls it.
274
00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:09,132
And you know that "cause
you got in his head just now?"
275
00:16:09,177 --> 00:16:12,169
Vampires can read minds,
mon Cher.
276
00:16:12,221 --> 00:16:13,677
Right.
277
00:16:13,723 --> 00:16:16,090
And you gon' sit
on that skill for how long?
278
00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:17,849
Hmm.
279
00:16:17,894 --> 00:16:19,476
You gon' make me beg?
280
00:16:22,064 --> 00:16:23,805
One might think the ability
to read a mind
281
00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:27,271
a most useful gift, but,
in reality, it's quite mundane.
282
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,685
I forget I can do it most days.
283
00:16:28,738 --> 00:16:30,320
Is that right?
284
00:16:30,364 --> 00:16:33,482
Every human thought
boils down to three things...
285
00:16:33,534 --> 00:16:38,153
"I want food," "I want sex,"
"I want to go home."
286
00:16:38,206 --> 00:16:40,243
You see that man right there?
287
00:16:40,291 --> 00:16:41,907
I want you to peel away
every sound
288
00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:44,371
until you find his heartbeat.
289
00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:46,411
Now hold the heartbeat.
290
00:16:46,464 --> 00:16:49,047
You hear his lungs leaking
and flooding air?
291
00:16:49,091 --> 00:16:51,924
His mind is just
another bodily sound.
292
00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:55,052
Day and a half
since my last meal.
293
00:16:55,097 --> 00:16:57,714
Church says, "Pray about it."
294
00:16:57,767 --> 00:17:00,805
The Lord can't make me no food.
295
00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:03,720
"I want food."
Shall we?
296
00:17:03,773 --> 00:17:05,684
It's not cheating with a woman
297
00:17:05,733 --> 00:17:07,815
because I can't get pregnant.
298
00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:10,443
"I want sex."
299
00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:12,775
I'm gonna ditch this town
and be somebody.
300
00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:14,154
That's not...
Give it a moment.
301
00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,986
Or I'll just go home.
302
00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:18,242
Voila.
303
00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:20,995
Wait. I saw a little flash
just now of his house.
304
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,280
Yes.
305
00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:23,952
You'll see, as your powers grow,
306
00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:27,244
you can see their thoughts,
like a one-reeler almost.
307
00:17:27,296 --> 00:17:29,754
Dull, monotonous picture shows.
308
00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,507
It's a very distracting gift,
the petty musings of meat.
309
00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:35,419
Peel back on me then.
310
00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:37,883
What am I thinkin' right now?
311
00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:44,681
You'll have to tell me yourself.
312
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:47,848
A sacrifice is made when
the Dark Gift is shared.
313
00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:50,312
You can't read my mind anymore?
314
00:17:50,361 --> 00:17:54,605
The architects of our creation
mean to humble us.
315
00:17:54,657 --> 00:17:56,773
We're at the mercy
of the other's discretion.
316
00:17:56,826 --> 00:17:58,817
Just like the meat.
317
00:17:58,869 --> 00:18:00,280
Hmm.
318
00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:03,538
You're not one of them anymore,
fledgling.
319
00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:07,451
You chase after phantoms
of your former self.
320
00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:08,868
I'll break you of it.
321
00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:15,629
My unwillingness
to separate from humanity
322
00:18:15,678 --> 00:18:19,922
was a constant struggle
in my vampiric existence.
323
00:18:19,974 --> 00:18:24,218
I felt it was essential
to maintain ties.
324
00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:26,807
But it was getting
more difficult.
325
00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:28,312
The curtain goes up at eight.
326
00:18:28,357 --> 00:18:29,847
We'll only be here an hour.
327
00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:31,587
They'll seat us late,
and we'll miss Nora's entrance
328
00:18:31,611 --> 00:18:33,022
with the Christmas tree.
329
00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:35,402
You ain't gon' miss anything.
330
00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:38,611
Look what the wind blew in.
331
00:18:38,659 --> 00:18:40,570
Mama.
332
00:18:43,873 --> 00:18:45,659
You remember Lestat.
333
00:18:45,708 --> 00:18:46,994
Madame de Pointe du Lac,
334
00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:49,205
all the kindness
for the invitation.
335
00:18:49,253 --> 00:18:52,120
I don't remember inviting him,
but please,
336
00:18:52,173 --> 00:18:54,756
take your overdressed self
and have a fine time.
337
00:18:56,427 --> 00:18:59,545
I see you have a banjo band
in your front yard.
338
00:18:59,597 --> 00:19:00,928
Mm-hmm.
339
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:02,179
Madame.
340
00:19:02,224 --> 00:19:04,386
Louis.
341
00:19:04,435 --> 00:19:06,802
Was that necessary?
342
00:19:06,854 --> 00:19:08,515
Move half a mile away,
343
00:19:08,564 --> 00:19:11,556
don't come see your family
for half a season.
344
00:19:11,609 --> 00:19:14,351
Don't come back fragile, son.
345
00:19:14,403 --> 00:19:16,861
Haven't heard a knock
on my door.
346
00:19:16,906 --> 00:19:19,694
It's a half-mile
both ways, Mama.
347
00:19:19,742 --> 00:19:23,110
Hm.
348
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:24,573
Look at his nails.
349
00:19:24,622 --> 00:19:26,112
He's getting his
fingernails done.
350
00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:27,621
And the glasses?
351
00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:29,874
Some fashion certain men
like him do.
352
00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:34,004
Lord.
353
00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:39,342
Eye doc says I gotta wear them
from now forward.
354
00:19:39,387 --> 00:19:40,923
Sensitive eyes.
355
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:45,719
You seen Grace about?
356
00:19:50,773 --> 00:19:52,104
You seen my alligator, ma'am?
357
00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:53,389
Seems I lost it
358
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:55,604
by the punchbowl.
359
00:19:55,653 --> 00:19:58,270
Oh, been too long.
360
00:19:58,322 --> 00:19:59,812
I know, I know.
361
00:20:02,535 --> 00:20:04,117
Wait.
362
00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:08,905
Oh, my.
363
00:20:08,958 --> 00:20:10,574
You makin' me an uncle
right here?
364
00:20:10,626 --> 00:20:12,287
Who told you?
No one told me.
365
00:20:12,336 --> 00:20:13,772
It was Levi.
I could tell by the look...
366
00:20:13,796 --> 00:20:15,065
I ain't far enough along.
On your face.
367
00:20:15,089 --> 00:20:16,358
He shouldn't be telling anyone.
And...
368
00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:17,588
And what?
And...
369
00:20:17,633 --> 00:20:19,419
And what?
370
00:20:19,468 --> 00:20:21,675
Gon' be twins.
371
00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:24,179
You a fool doctor now?
372
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:27,591
Oh, I miss you, Louis.
373
00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:29,054
Yeah.
374
00:20:29,103 --> 00:20:32,346
You hearin' me?
375
00:20:32,398 --> 00:20:34,730
Look at me, Louis.
376
00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:36,812
Take them glasses off
and look at your baby sister.
377
00:20:36,861 --> 00:20:39,603
Don't. Gimme those back.
378
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,446
Your eyes...
379
00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:44,482
like a church window.
380
00:20:44,535 --> 00:20:47,618
Same eyes, same me.
381
00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:50,371
Different you.
382
00:20:50,416 --> 00:20:53,408
Better you, I'd say.
383
00:20:53,461 --> 00:20:55,793
You hide from me
this long again,
384
00:20:55,838 --> 00:20:58,830
I'll hunt you down
and slap you sideways.
385
00:21:01,969 --> 00:21:03,425
I got you something.
386
00:21:03,471 --> 00:21:04,802
Oh, no, Louis.
387
00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:06,463
What is this?
I don't need your money.
388
00:21:06,515 --> 00:21:07,743
It ain't for you,
it's for the babies.
389
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:08,973
Stop it with the "babies".
390
00:21:09,018 --> 00:21:10,429
One's gon' be plenty.
391
00:21:10,478 --> 00:21:11,968
There's two of 'em.
392
00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:15,725
Well.
393
00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:17,812
This'll come in handy, then.
394
00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:19,692
Levi ain't the businessman
you are.
395
00:21:20,988 --> 00:21:24,322
So, how's it in the district?
396
00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:26,528
Must be good
if this here's extra.
397
00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:29,990
Oh.
398
00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:32,326
Now, I-I know it's hard
to see it now,
399
00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:33,910
but Mr. Fenwick
gon' have himself
400
00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:35,324
the most profitable
sportin' house
401
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:36,583
this side of Basin Street.
402
00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:38,040
The alderman
certainly thinks so,
403
00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:42,127
but then you have to
ask yourself why he sent me.
404
00:21:42,176 --> 00:21:44,668
New business, new partner.
405
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,180
No, sir, Mr. Carlo,
I-I'd do the same thing myself.
406
00:21:49,225 --> 00:21:52,638
You got your own
personal attorney, do you, boy?
407
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:53,972
No, sir.
408
00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:56,353
But then, I'm not
an alderman, am I?
409
00:21:56,398 --> 00:21:59,936
No, you're his partner.
410
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:01,851
Hm.
411
00:22:01,904 --> 00:22:04,396
These balconies, they have
to be decorative only.
412
00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:07,861
Building codes allow those
for residents, not for business.
413
00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:10,698
Well, that's only if you
call it a balcony.
414
00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:12,157
What are you callin' it?
415
00:22:12,206 --> 00:22:13,788
Fire escape.
416
00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:17,791
That's clever, my boy.
417
00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:19,953
That's very clever.
418
00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:21,916
Right.
419
00:22:21,966 --> 00:22:25,300
Dozen rooms, proper acoustics
for the musicians.
420
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,381
You know, good
for those waitin'.
421
00:22:27,429 --> 00:22:29,282
Best to drown out the business
behind the walls.
422
00:22:29,306 --> 00:22:31,013
Yes.
423
00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:32,369
Oh, you really do have a mind
inside out head of yours,
424
00:22:32,393 --> 00:22:34,054
don't you?
425
00:22:34,103 --> 00:22:37,266
I-I know some of the finishes
seem penny heavy,
426
00:22:37,314 --> 00:22:39,000
but it's the alderman's
name goin' out there,
427
00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:42,517
so every detail has to shout
"exclusivity".
428
00:22:42,570 --> 00:22:44,777
You're bright
and industrious, huh?
429
00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,240
I trust you're overseeing all
stages of construction as well?
430
00:22:49,285 --> 00:22:50,491
Yes, sir.
431
00:22:50,536 --> 00:22:51,776
Fire escape.
432
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:56,782
Now, I must say,
I had my doubts, but
433
00:22:56,834 --> 00:22:58,620
you really have earned your 15%.
434
00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:03,088
You truly are
an exceptional Negro.
435
00:23:03,132 --> 00:23:04,463
Thank you, sir.
Mm-hmm.
436
00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:08,383
Ah, "fire escape."
437
00:23:08,429 --> 00:23:10,921
"Exceptional Negro."
Ah, yes.
438
00:23:10,973 --> 00:23:12,634
"Thank you, sir."
439
00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:16,017
It was the call and response
of my entire life.
440
00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:20,521
I had let them talk to me
like that so long,
441
00:23:20,566 --> 00:23:22,022
I stopped hearing it.
442
00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:23,307
"Yes, sir."
443
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:24,566
"Of course, sir."
444
00:23:24,612 --> 00:23:26,603
Subject, verb, agreement, "sir".
445
00:23:26,655 --> 00:23:30,649
Smile, nod, "yes, sir."
446
00:23:30,701 --> 00:23:33,363
They all came from
the same organ inside me...
447
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,949
an organ unknown to science
at the time.
448
00:23:35,998 --> 00:23:39,536
Because what scientist would
look for an organ found only
449
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:43,123
in Black men who use
their weakness to rise?
450
00:23:43,172 --> 00:23:45,664
But I wasn't a man anymore.
451
00:23:45,716 --> 00:23:47,457
I was something else.
452
00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:51,343
I had powers now and decades
of rage to process,
453
00:23:51,388 --> 00:23:53,800
and it was both random
and unfortunate,
454
00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:56,762
the man picked that night
to dabble in fuckery.
455
00:23:56,810 --> 00:24:00,269
If not him, would have been
the next man.
456
00:24:00,314 --> 00:24:02,271
Louis, my boy, j...
457
00:24:04,234 --> 00:24:06,191
This was your man's esquire,
sent in his stead!
458
00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:07,442
I was hungry.
Stone's throw
459
00:24:07,488 --> 00:24:08,944
from your place of business.
460
00:24:08,989 --> 00:24:10,300
What were you thinking?
He disrespected me.
461
00:24:10,324 --> 00:24:12,110
How did he do that?
462
00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:14,617
He told me I did a good job.
463
00:24:14,662 --> 00:24:16,118
You are a library of confusion.
464
00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:17,403
There's some things...
465
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,072
you don't get
about America, Lestat.
466
00:24:19,124 --> 00:24:20,956
Yes, let's have
this conversation again.
467
00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,617
Colored, white.
468
00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:24,252
Creole, French.
469
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:27,209
Queer, half-queer,
mostly queer, what is it?
470
00:24:27,257 --> 00:24:29,715
Non-discriminating.
471
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,797
Complicated situation
472
00:24:31,845 --> 00:24:33,506
we got here's what I'm saying.
473
00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:35,387
A couple of parish priests
474
00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:36,718
go missing, people say, "Fine.
475
00:24:36,767 --> 00:24:38,303
Most likely kid-fiddlers."
476
00:24:38,352 --> 00:24:40,684
But this, this was
an important man in town.
477
00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:42,374
The police will be looking
for this man, fledgling.
478
00:24:42,398 --> 00:24:43,854
That's why we got
this beast, yeah?
479
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:45,640
No, you need to
show restraint, fledgling!
480
00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:47,604
Oh, you need to stop using
that word right now,
481
00:24:47,653 --> 00:24:48,964
'cause it's soundin'
a little like "slave".
482
00:24:48,988 --> 00:24:50,194
Don't say it.
Well, that's what
483
00:24:50,239 --> 00:24:51,775
it fuckin' sound like.
484
00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:53,189
It's what it feel like
sometimes.
485
00:24:53,242 --> 00:24:54,858
And the carousel
comes around again.
486
00:24:54,910 --> 00:24:56,150
Fuck you.
487
00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:09,171
I don't like sleeping angry.
488
00:25:15,639 --> 00:25:18,097
For the record, if disrespect
was done to you,
489
00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:19,803
I would have killed him myself.
490
00:25:29,445 --> 00:25:32,563
Well, what can I do
to make it up to you?
491
00:25:32,614 --> 00:25:36,027
I wanna buy
the Fair Play Saloon.
492
00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:37,407
That's ambitious.
493
00:25:37,453 --> 00:25:39,615
If you don't wanna help,
I'll do it myself.
494
00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:44,414
Ridiculous of you to mix human
and vampire business.
495
00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:46,076
It always ends poorly.
496
00:25:50,257 --> 00:25:51,839
But how can I stop you?
497
00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:57,219
How can I say no to you?
498
00:26:00,893 --> 00:26:04,431
Sign here and here and here.
499
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,222
Well, I do not see
the clause in this paperwork
500
00:26:07,274 --> 00:26:10,187
wherein I continue to eat,
drink, and fornicate
501
00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:11,646
on the house.
502
00:26:11,695 --> 00:26:13,277
Louis?
503
00:26:13,322 --> 00:26:15,780
You have my word, and my word
is thicker than paper...
504
00:26:15,824 --> 00:26:17,986
Mm.
..Tom.
505
00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:22,324
It was a grand and loving
gesture on Lestat's part.
506
00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:26,206
That's a mighty tall ladder
you're climbin', Mr. du Lac.
507
00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:27,833
And I was now the owner
508
00:26:27,878 --> 00:26:30,745
of the brightest club
in the district.
509
00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:33,039
My club, my rules.
510
00:26:35,761 --> 00:26:38,253
I opened the doors to anyone
with money to burn.
511
00:26:38,305 --> 00:26:41,889
I paid the staff better,
paid the band better,
512
00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,845
all the while helping those
who had been with me
513
00:26:43,894 --> 00:26:45,976
down the block
to better themselves.
514
00:26:46,021 --> 00:26:49,605
Miss Williams.
Mr. Du Lac.
515
00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:51,357
And it was a pointless point
of pride
516
00:26:51,401 --> 00:26:55,645
that I paid back every cent
I borrowed from Lestat.
517
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,940
It was everything I had
ever wanted or wished for.
518
00:26:58,992 --> 00:27:02,030
And it doubled nicely
as a revolving door of prey.
519
00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:05,447
You fellas know where I can find
the Fair Play Saloon?
520
00:27:05,499 --> 00:27:07,410
You about five years late.
521
00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:09,075
So how long are you in town for?
522
00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:10,414
Uh, yeah, I'm just...
523
00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:12,578
From 1912 to 1917,
524
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:15,168
I made a mountain of money,
525
00:27:15,217 --> 00:27:19,552
enough to retire
and be buried like a pharaoh.
526
00:27:19,596 --> 00:27:24,682
But in the essential duties
of the executor in charge,
527
00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:28,390
I had been most delinquent.
528
00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:32,807
We named him Benjamin.
529
00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:35,773
Benny.
530
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:37,858
Did you even meet the twins?
531
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:40,364
No, ma'am.
Ma'am?
532
00:27:40,409 --> 00:27:42,320
I look that old to you?
533
00:27:42,369 --> 00:27:45,703
No, I mean, I haven't had
the pleasure
534
00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:47,112
of meetin' more of the family.
535
00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:49,123
I've been so busy with work,
and, you know...
536
00:27:49,168 --> 00:27:51,000
Him?
537
00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:53,957
You know my situation.
538
00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:56,748
How are things with you and...
539
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,006
It's Lestat still, right?
540
00:27:58,051 --> 00:27:59,962
Yes, it's Lestat.
Shh!
541
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:12,021
Got some gumbo
on the stove still.
542
00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:15,183
Tasted great this evening.
543
00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:16,441
Let me fix you something.
544
00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:18,693
I'm good.
545
00:28:18,739 --> 00:28:20,321
Hold your nephew.
546
00:28:25,454 --> 00:28:28,537
He's the quiet one, this one.
547
00:28:28,582 --> 00:28:30,414
The other two...
548
00:28:30,459 --> 00:28:32,200
the twins?
549
00:28:32,252 --> 00:28:33,834
Lord, help us.
550
00:29:02,532 --> 00:29:05,445
All right. Here it is.
551
00:29:05,494 --> 00:29:07,861
Still warm.
552
00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:10,530
Well?
553
00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:11,788
No, please.
554
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:14,040
You look good.
555
00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:15,997
You should stay the night.
556
00:29:16,046 --> 00:29:18,128
I'm sure Mama would love
to see you.
557
00:29:25,222 --> 00:29:27,054
Shh, shh.
558
00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:29,466
Let's see if he goes back down,
let's see.
559
00:29:29,518 --> 00:29:31,850
Honey, the twins again!
560
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,431
Grace!
Okay.
561
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,333
Let ... Let me just see
what the hell is gain' on.
562
00:29:35,357 --> 00:29:36,643
Oh, no, I...
Shh.
563
00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:01,205
I no longer kill.
564
00:30:01,258 --> 00:30:03,875
My last victim
was in the year 2000.
565
00:30:03,927 --> 00:30:05,543
Some Y2K disagreement?
566
00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:08,007
I want our readers
to understand that.
567
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:09,638
Okay.
568
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:11,344
Did you eat the baby?
569
00:30:11,393 --> 00:30:14,385
I sit here a master
of my instincts.
570
00:30:14,438 --> 00:30:15,678
Mm-hmm.
571
00:30:15,731 --> 00:30:17,597
And what about the others
out there?
572
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:19,765
Have they mastered theirs?
573
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,525
Just the opposite.
574
00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:24,483
Most of them are slaves
to the blood,
575
00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:28,024
exhausted from decades,
centuries of hiding,
576
00:30:28,076 --> 00:30:30,363
giddy to increase their numbers.
577
00:30:30,412 --> 00:30:31,994
Mm-hmm.
578
00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:33,655
Two questions...
579
00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:35,289
did you eat the baby?
580
00:30:35,334 --> 00:30:39,703
And is the pandemic the opening
they've been waiting for?
581
00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:43,623
Pandemic, the unraveling
of geopolitical foundations.
582
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:44,881
And you know this how?
583
00:30:44,926 --> 00:30:46,917
You guys have a thread on 8chan?
584
00:30:46,970 --> 00:30:48,381
I hear them.
585
00:30:48,430 --> 00:30:49,991
Our thoughts can travel
thousands of miles
586
00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:51,471
to one another.
587
00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:54,383
I can stand out on my balcony,
close my eyes,
588
00:30:54,436 --> 00:30:56,552
and they're plotting
speeds to me.
589
00:30:56,605 --> 00:31:00,189
One of them,
a brute in Madagascar,
590
00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:02,850
called it
"the great conversion".
591
00:31:02,903 --> 00:31:04,485
The great conversion?
592
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:07,066
Well, good luck with that,
because most people I know like
593
00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:08,947
to play little ball
in the afternoon,
594
00:31:08,992 --> 00:31:10,858
or maybe going down
to the beach,
595
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:12,401
catching a few rays.
596
00:31:12,454 --> 00:31:13,910
Yes.
597
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:16,788
What on earth would
a meth-addicted son
598
00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:19,700
of a coal miner in West Virginia
want with eternal life?
599
00:31:19,753 --> 00:31:21,414
Did you eat the baby?
600
00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:22,982
Or the Arab youth whose family
were wiped from existence...
601
00:31:23,006 --> 00:31:24,726
Did you eat the baby?
By a Western drone?
602
00:31:24,758 --> 00:31:26,374
No, I'm sure you're right.
603
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:28,383
Hello, Damek.
Hey.
604
00:31:36,186 --> 00:31:38,302
Mmm.
605
00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:39,561
Mm-hmm.
606
00:31:44,194 --> 00:31:46,652
He's American, Damek.
607
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:50,363
You like Dubai?
608
00:31:50,409 --> 00:31:52,867
I haven't had the time
to sight-see.
609
00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,243
Go to Kite Beach.
610
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:56,528
It's good.
611
00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,413
Kites.
612
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,745
Mmm.
613
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:05,829
Thank you, Damek.
614
00:32:05,882 --> 00:32:08,123
See you soon.
615
00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:11,009
As I was saying,
I no longer kill.
616
00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:13,512
You might have
a drinking problem.
617
00:32:13,557 --> 00:32:15,173
Rashid!
618
00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:22,142
The baby.
619
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:42,996
Benny? Benny!
620
00:32:54,014 --> 00:32:56,972
I had him in my arms...
621
00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:59,008
and I was ready
to tear into him.
622
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,722
I'm never gon'
get control over it.
623
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:05,184
You've been skipping
meals lately.
624
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:06,519
Don't think I haven't noticed.
625
00:33:06,568 --> 00:33:09,526
It was my nephew.
626
00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:13,314
You have to stop seeing them,
Louis.
627
00:33:13,366 --> 00:33:15,573
They'll grow fearful of you
if they haven't already.
628
00:33:15,619 --> 00:33:16,905
I can't do it.
629
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:19,365
It's a rite of passage
for all of us.
630
00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:21,576
If you love your family,
as I know you do,
631
00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:23,741
spare them all the pain
that you are causing them.
632
00:33:23,793 --> 00:33:26,660
I ain't never gon' have
a family of my own, am I?
633
00:33:26,713 --> 00:33:30,206
No sons, no daughters.
634
00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:32,249
I'm your family, Louis.
635
00:33:32,302 --> 00:33:34,760
You should just throw me
in the incinerator
636
00:33:34,804 --> 00:33:36,090
and make another one.
637
00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:38,927
Hmm. And what a waste
that would be.
638
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:41,842
I have two centuries walked
this Earth and can report,
639
00:33:41,895 --> 00:33:43,977
you have no twin.
640
00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:48,687
No one as angry, as stubborn,
as unaccommodating,
641
00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:50,601
as maddening...
Sound like trash to me.
642
00:33:50,654 --> 00:33:55,239
As loving, as dedicated,
as thoughtful,
643
00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:57,900
as imperfectly perfect
as you've become.
644
00:33:57,953 --> 00:34:00,615
You're a challenge every sunset,
Saint Louis,
645
00:34:00,664 --> 00:34:02,371
and I'd have it no other way.
646
00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:06,951
Here's an idea...
let's take a holiday.
647
00:34:07,003 --> 00:34:09,210
What about Rome?
648
00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:10,746
Rome? R-Rome, Italy?
649
00:34:10,799 --> 00:34:13,086
Would you prefer
Rome, Wisconsin?
650
00:34:13,134 --> 00:34:14,966
I can't just pick up
and go to Rome.
651
00:34:15,011 --> 00:34:16,501
I got a business to run.
652
00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:18,796
Leave the Azalea to the capable
hands of Miss Bricktop
653
00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:20,134
and follow the Appian Way.
654
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:22,049
How you gon' get coffins
across the Atlantic?
655
00:34:22,102 --> 00:34:24,935
It can be an inconvenience,
but not impossible, obviously.
656
00:34:24,980 --> 00:34:27,597
Well, how do you get them
from ship to train to cab?
657
00:34:27,649 --> 00:34:30,107
Ah, the changeovers can
be jarring, I'll give you that.
658
00:34:30,151 --> 00:34:32,483
Well, maybe there's a deaf,
blind porter we can hire
659
00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:34,520
and kill
when we get to the hotel.
660
00:34:34,573 --> 00:34:36,092
Well, I had been
thinking the Inghilterra.
661
00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:38,653
Imagine hunting between
the Caffe Greco
662
00:34:38,702 --> 00:34:40,113
and the Spanish Steps.
663
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:41,777
But you've made your point.
Pity.
664
00:34:41,830 --> 00:34:45,414
We'll just have to settle
for Rome coming to us.
665
00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:47,074
Oh, another opera.
666
00:34:47,127 --> 00:34:48,538
Not another opera.
667
00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,669
Donizetti's comic masterpiece,
"Don Pasquale."
668
00:34:50,714 --> 00:34:53,126
I was an acquaintance of his,
and I saw the premiere
669
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:55,131
at the Salle Ventadour
73 years ago,
670
00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:56,962
and I remember it like
it was yesterday.
671
00:34:57,012 --> 00:34:58,468
I almost ate my nephew, Lestat.
672
00:34:58,513 --> 00:34:59,782
It's the soprano
Sofia Consoli's American debut,
673
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:01,342
her fifth stop in
a 22-city tour,
674
00:35:01,391 --> 00:35:03,223
so the orchestra should be
in excellent form.
675
00:35:03,268 --> 00:35:07,353
I have a private box,
and I had tuxedos made.
676
00:35:11,151 --> 00:35:13,438
I've been neglectful
of our romance.
677
00:35:16,489 --> 00:35:21,484
And a steadfast pupil
deserves a divine reward.
678
00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:25,154
He had a way about him,
those first years, Lestat.
679
00:35:25,206 --> 00:35:28,995
Preternaturally charming,
occasionally thoughtful.
680
00:35:29,044 --> 00:35:33,083
He was my murderer, my mentor,
my lover, and my maker...
681
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,338
all of those things at once.
682
00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:38,341
He didn't choose me
to be his doormat.
683
00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:40,502
I knew he enjoyed it
when I fought back,
684
00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:43,673
but there was present
685
00:35:43,725 --> 00:35:46,968
a kind of worship on my part.
686
00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:50,729
The earth beneath me
always felt liquid.
687
00:35:54,361 --> 00:35:56,477
The status I enjoyed
in Storyville
688
00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:59,362
did not extend itself
to the operators and patrons
689
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:03,366
of the French Opera House
on Bourbon and Toulouse.
690
00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:07,530
We did what we always did
to avoid conflicts there.
691
00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:13,043
I performed as his valet,
walked a pace behind him,
692
00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:16,501
took his overcoat
once we found our seats,
693
00:36:16,549 --> 00:36:18,335
remained standing
in the back of the box
694
00:36:18,385 --> 00:36:21,377
until the lights went down,
and only joined next to him
695
00:36:21,429 --> 00:36:25,013
once the overture had begun.
696
00:36:25,058 --> 00:36:26,799
And again...
697
00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,718
he had a way about him,
698
00:36:29,771 --> 00:36:33,856
so that as I sat there
trying to practice restraint,
699
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,392
simmering in my indignation...
700
00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:43,149
Lestat seized it as
opportunity to disarm me.
701
00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:45,909
There is one thing
about being a vampire
702
00:36:45,954 --> 00:36:48,366
that I most fear
above all else...
703
00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:52,206
and that is loneliness.
704
00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,462
You can't imagine
the emptiness...
705
00:36:57,507 --> 00:37:01,375
a void stretching out
for decades at a time.
706
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:07,677
You take this feeling away
from me, Louis.
707
00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:13,096
We must stay together
and take precaution
708
00:37:13,148 --> 00:37:14,684
and never part.
709
00:37:17,986 --> 00:37:20,728
How many of us are out there?
710
00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:22,771
We can't be the only ones.
711
00:37:22,824 --> 00:37:24,110
How many vampires?
712
00:37:26,703 --> 00:37:29,286
Not many, I'm afraid.
713
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:32,573
Maybe 100,
714
00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:34,161
101.
715
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,630
The touring production
of "Don Pasquale"
716
00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:51,175
was a cheap affair,
717
00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:55,562
but the soprano was everything
Lestat said she would be.
718
00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:09,280
And music,
719
00:38:09,329 --> 00:38:14,369
that was where Lestat
separated man from food.
720
00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:18,376
Music pierced his damned soul.
721
00:38:18,421 --> 00:38:21,038
And any human who were involved
with the creation of it
722
00:38:21,090 --> 00:38:25,129
existed on an elevated plane
in his eyes.
723
00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:28,591
I was moved to see he too
had his human attachments.
724
00:38:30,225 --> 00:38:32,842
And this woman sang for us,
it seemed,
725
00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:37,141
articulating the difficult love
726
00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:41,104
we often had trouble
expressing ourselves.
727
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:43,063
There was one issue, however,
728
00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:47,527
that threatened to pop the
bubble of our Italian holiday,
729
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,818
and that was the tenor
playing Ernesto.
730
00:38:56,376 --> 00:38:58,663
To be kind, he did not live
731
00:38:58,711 --> 00:39:01,703
in the soprano's
vocal stratosphere...
732
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:10,671
Ah.
733
00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:14,261
And Lestat was unamused.
734
00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,889
I don't understand how someone
like that
735
00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:22,603
can make it onto a stage.
736
00:39:22,652 --> 00:39:24,939
I understand they're
a rogue company,
737
00:39:24,988 --> 00:39:28,401
but are they pulling talent
from roadside gas stations?
738
00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:58,427
It didn't help matters that
the majority of the audience
739
00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:00,345
didn't seem to notice.
740
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:05,143
And so Lestat oscillated
his disdain between the tenor
741
00:40:05,194 --> 00:40:08,983
and the witless swamp-dwellers
in the seats below.
742
00:40:09,032 --> 00:40:11,148
The curtain fell
like a guillotine,
743
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,364
and Lestat leapt to his feet
in mock appreciation,
744
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:18,872
which could mean
only one thing...
745
00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:20,453
the hunt was on.
746
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:26,626
I stood in the lobby bar,
nursing my complicity,
747
00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:28,756
as rounds were bought
and fake praise
748
00:40:28,801 --> 00:40:31,884
was lavished upon the mark.
749
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:37,972
And I was surprised by a wave
of nausea coming over me.
750
00:40:38,019 --> 00:40:41,182
Here I was, six years his pupil,
751
00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:44,814
and it was no different
than the tractor salesman.
752
00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:48,272
This poor soul
was someone's son,
753
00:40:48,321 --> 00:40:50,278
someone's brother,
754
00:40:50,323 --> 00:40:51,563
and he was to be butchered.
755
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,323
For what?
756
00:40:53,368 --> 00:40:54,950
An offending note?
757
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:04,284
Wrong.
758
00:41:06,839 --> 00:41:10,798
He sat the tenor down, opened
up the score in front of him
759
00:41:10,843 --> 00:41:13,505
and sang as it was written.
760
00:41:13,554 --> 00:41:16,216
And you could see all the
doubts the young man had
761
00:41:16,265 --> 00:41:18,097
about his art,
762
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:23,979
about himself, exposed on
his nodding, agreeable face.
763
00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:29,484
Lestat removed a lifetime
of confidence, of joy,
764
00:41:29,529 --> 00:41:31,270
in less than half an hour.
765
00:41:56,806 --> 00:41:59,889
So no more of your sound
can pollute this world.
766
00:41:59,934 --> 00:42:02,847
Why do you do this, Lestat?
767
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:04,602
Well, I like to do it.
I enjoy it.
768
00:42:04,647 --> 00:42:05,978
Well, I don't.
769
00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:07,606
You don't have to humiliate him.
770
00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:10,438
Well, I don't say that
you have to enjoy it!
771
00:42:10,486 --> 00:42:13,945
Kill them swiftly
if you have to, but do it!
772
00:42:13,990 --> 00:42:15,901
Embrace what you are!
773
00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:18,237
You are a killer, Louis!
774
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,367
Come now, love,
775
00:42:23,416 --> 00:42:25,498
let's get you to
the couch to die.
776
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:27,454
I was in denial.
777
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:29,744
For in bringing death,
778
00:42:29,797 --> 00:42:31,959
Lestat was an artist.
779
00:42:32,008 --> 00:42:37,924
He had cut the man tenderly so
that he could not call for help,
780
00:42:37,972 --> 00:42:43,934
but also so that his death
was slow, meditative.
781
00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:47,767
And I felt a charge
witnessing it.
782
00:42:47,815 --> 00:42:51,274
I listened to his thoughts
as Lestat drank,
783
00:42:51,319 --> 00:42:54,277
and this time,
they came with vision.
784
00:42:54,322 --> 00:42:58,611
I could see his life
as he remembered it.
785
00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:01,447
Scenes from
an Italian childhood...
786
00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:05,114
the Easter pageant
in a mountain village,
787
00:43:05,166 --> 00:43:08,409
an afternoon with his father
on the sea,
788
00:43:08,461 --> 00:43:09,872
watching the fishing boats
789
00:43:09,921 --> 00:43:12,879
slowly encircle
a school of tuna.
790
00:43:14,967 --> 00:43:19,552
Something about a wet piece
of bread in his pocket.
791
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:24,012
If you'd listen to me, if you
finally submit to your nature,
792
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:29,681
you will be filled, Louis,
with all the life you can hold.
793
00:43:29,732 --> 00:43:33,726
You will see death
in all its beauty,
794
00:43:33,778 --> 00:43:38,113
life as it is only known
at the very point of the death.
795
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:39,647
You alone, of all creatures,
796
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:42,988
can see death
with that impunity.
797
00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:45,950
You alone,
under the rising moon...
798
00:43:48,501 --> 00:43:52,119
can strike like the hand of God.
799
00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:56,711
And I'll say it
for a third time and no more...
800
00:43:56,759 --> 00:44:01,424
he had a way about him.
801
00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:06,467
And I was still very much
under his power.
802
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:10,638
We would drain the tenor
for hours that night.
803
00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:14,684
Lestat completely enthralled.
804
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:18,023
Myself, pretending to be.
805
00:44:21,242 --> 00:44:22,983
Afraid to disappoint.
806
00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:30,824
Lestat was wrong.
807
00:44:30,877 --> 00:44:33,539
I was never going to be
a natural.
808
00:44:33,588 --> 00:44:36,580
I was never going to savor
the aftertaste.
809
00:44:36,632 --> 00:44:41,342
I was a shame-ridden second,
a... a fumbling,
810
00:44:41,387 --> 00:44:46,302
despondent killer,
a botched vampire.
811
00:44:50,646 --> 00:44:53,764
I try to have a human dish
once a week
812
00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:56,353
to maintain the thread.
813
00:44:56,402 --> 00:44:59,190
There was an offhanded remark in
your memoir about this dessert.
814
00:44:59,238 --> 00:45:00,774
I hope you don't mind.
815
00:45:13,461 --> 00:45:16,624
What does this taste
like to you?
816
00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:19,539
Like almost all human food...
817
00:45:19,592 --> 00:45:22,175
like paste,
818
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:24,086
chalk,
819
00:45:24,138 --> 00:45:27,631
like soap.
820
00:45:27,683 --> 00:45:32,553
This is the dessert I had after
I proposed to my first wife,
821
00:45:32,605 --> 00:45:34,516
after I got my shit together.
822
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:36,397
We were in Paris.
823
00:45:36,442 --> 00:45:38,604
Little cafe
on the Rue Servandoni,
824
00:45:38,653 --> 00:45:40,439
up the way from Saint-Sulpice.
825
00:45:40,488 --> 00:45:43,025
I know it.
It's a beautiful street.
826
00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:47,658
Alice...
827
00:45:47,703 --> 00:45:51,196
half of her eyebrow
was blond, like a mutt.
828
00:45:51,249 --> 00:45:53,490
She always dyed it back
to brown.
829
00:45:58,130 --> 00:46:00,872
I liked it
when she left it alone.