1 00:00:26,818 --> 00:00:28,775 There are stories out there that need to be told. 2 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:30,902 There's shit out there that's just... 3 00:00:30,948 --> 00:00:32,484 you know, wrong. 4 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:36,192 People need to know about it. That's the job. 5 00:00:36,245 --> 00:00:37,952 It's not a complicated job, 6 00:00:37,996 --> 00:00:41,830 other than how it'll mess with your life. 7 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:44,617 News used to be a bunch of guys who look like me 8 00:00:44,670 --> 00:00:46,877 huddled around a desk at a Page One meeting 9 00:00:46,922 --> 00:00:49,459 deciding what the news was. 10 00:00:49,508 --> 00:00:53,968 This little fucker changed all of that. 11 00:00:54,012 --> 00:00:55,343 I've been fired from three papers, 12 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:56,845 hired back at two of them. 13 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:58,243 Third got gobbled up by Knight Ridder. 14 00:00:58,267 --> 00:00:59,723 So, to be clear here, 15 00:00:59,768 --> 00:01:02,430 I'm a goddamn reservoir of do's and don'ts. 16 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:04,561 Your sources are your Sherpas. 17 00:01:04,606 --> 00:01:06,472 Your editor is your priest. 18 00:01:06,525 --> 00:01:09,108 Honesty is not a tactic. 19 00:01:11,321 --> 00:01:12,732 You still want this job? 20 00:01:12,781 --> 00:01:14,647 It's your money. 21 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:16,532 I'm Daniel Molloy. 22 00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:18,284 - This is my... - The Russian backed 23 00:01:18,328 --> 00:01:20,128 separatists have been waging guerrilla warfare 24 00:01:20,163 --> 00:01:22,700 - since 2014. - Can he make his fantasy 25 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:24,285 a reality? 26 00:01:24,334 --> 00:01:26,200 Walker at the top of the key. 27 00:01:26,253 --> 00:01:29,211 Pick and roll from Jones. Walker drives and finishes. 28 00:01:29,256 --> 00:01:33,591 With a tough left hand. That's seven straight for Walker... 29 00:01:51,778 --> 00:01:54,440 Yeah. Hey, doc. Yeah. Thanks for getting back to me. 30 00:01:54,489 --> 00:01:57,322 I, uh... Yes, that's right. I have... 31 00:01:57,367 --> 00:01:59,262 I have an appointment scheduled for later in the week, 32 00:01:59,286 --> 00:02:01,368 but the... the thing I'm trying to figure out is, 33 00:02:01,413 --> 00:02:03,871 what's the deal with this sub-variant business? 34 00:02:03,915 --> 00:02:05,326 I mean, is that more contagious? 35 00:02:05,375 --> 00:02:07,082 Is it... 36 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:08,743 Uh-huh. 37 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:12,254 Yeah, 'cause, I mean, there's no reason to get more... 38 00:02:12,299 --> 00:02:14,882 Okay. So you think... Yeah. 39 00:02:14,926 --> 00:02:16,291 I mean, that's what I'm thinking. 40 00:02:16,345 --> 00:02:18,552 Why get any closer to the bug than I... 41 00:02:18,597 --> 00:02:20,304 than I need to? 42 00:02:20,349 --> 00:02:24,183 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 43 00:02:24,227 --> 00:02:25,934 Uh-huh. 44 00:02:28,231 --> 00:02:30,097 I gotta call you back. 45 00:02:54,716 --> 00:02:57,174 Um, first question. 46 00:02:57,219 --> 00:03:00,428 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 47 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:02,054 No. 48 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:06,969 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire. 49 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:08,761 How did it come about? 50 00:03:08,814 --> 00:03:11,431 There's a simple answer to that. 51 00:03:11,483 --> 00:03:15,226 I don't believe I wanna give simple answers. 52 00:03:15,278 --> 00:03:17,189 I think I want to tell the real stor... 53 00:03:25,163 --> 00:03:27,200 "Dear Mr. Molloy." 54 00:03:27,249 --> 00:03:30,913 I hope this letter finds you safe and thriving, 55 00:03:30,961 --> 00:03:32,952 if such a thing were a possibility 56 00:03:33,004 --> 00:03:35,917 in this bleak hour. 57 00:03:35,966 --> 00:03:38,173 I've been following your career with some interest 58 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:40,175 since our last meeting. 59 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:44,214 Please allow me to congratulate you on all your successes, 60 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:49,352 those professional and those personally redemptive. 61 00:03:49,396 --> 00:03:51,558 The passage of time and the frailties 62 00:03:51,606 --> 00:03:55,850 that accompany it have provided me perspective. 63 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:59,816 And I suspect the same might be for you, as well. 64 00:03:59,865 --> 00:04:01,776 I'm hoping health and pride 65 00:04:01,825 --> 00:04:05,318 won't deter you from the following proposal. 66 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:09,329 In a week's time, in a setting of my choosing, 67 00:04:09,374 --> 00:04:10,956 we revisit the project 68 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:14,039 boyish youth prevented us from finishing. 69 00:04:14,087 --> 00:04:16,829 49 years and thousands of miles 70 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:20,591 removed from the room we shared in San Francisco, 71 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:24,503 I offer, for your journalistic pleasures, 72 00:04:24,556 --> 00:04:28,345 my full attention and my life story. 73 00:04:28,393 --> 00:04:29,849 All affinities, 74 00:04:29,895 --> 00:04:33,183 "Louis de Pointe du Lac." 75 00:04:33,231 --> 00:04:35,848 I told my editor I was meeting with the, uh, 76 00:04:35,901 --> 00:04:38,643 most dangerous man in the world. 77 00:04:38,695 --> 00:04:39,901 Gave him two choices. 78 00:04:39,946 --> 00:04:43,234 He came back with "Bezos. Putin." 79 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:45,069 He thinks I'm in Praskovéyevka. 80 00:04:47,746 --> 00:04:50,078 You've grown old, Daniel. 81 00:04:51,917 --> 00:04:56,081 Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum. 82 00:04:57,172 --> 00:04:59,789 I wasn't sure you'd remembered me. 83 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:03,254 Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting. 84 00:05:04,346 --> 00:05:07,304 Gritty memoir, drugs, humiliation, 85 00:05:07,349 --> 00:05:09,681 self-pity kind of thing. 86 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:11,717 Mention vampires in one of those, 87 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:13,477 readers tend to call bullshit. 88 00:05:13,522 --> 00:05:17,311 You've had some health concerns of late. 89 00:05:17,359 --> 00:05:19,396 Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say. 90 00:05:19,444 --> 00:05:21,731 You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel. 91 00:05:24,324 --> 00:05:25,735 Yeah. 92 00:05:25,784 --> 00:05:28,025 And you've got your own hangar at the airport, 93 00:05:28,078 --> 00:05:30,069 privileges on the Royal Meydan Bridge, 94 00:05:30,121 --> 00:05:31,611 and zero presence online. 95 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:34,373 Have I hit a nerve? 96 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,533 I know the Emirates are big on privacy, 97 00:05:36,586 --> 00:05:37,855 and that's probably important to you, 98 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:40,541 but I gotta ask, what does it cost, 99 00:05:40,590 --> 00:05:43,457 this haven't-aged-in- half-a-century, 100 00:05:43,510 --> 00:05:46,002 Killer-views-in- all-directions anonymity? 101 00:05:46,054 --> 00:05:48,045 Quite a lot. 102 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:53,555 Only my family and my doctor know I'm sick. 103 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:55,059 I don't dig the one-way hack. 104 00:05:55,105 --> 00:05:57,096 Yeah? 105 00:05:57,148 --> 00:05:59,640 And here's another question. 106 00:05:59,693 --> 00:06:02,060 That's the sun out there. 107 00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:04,729 Where's your coffin? 108 00:06:04,781 --> 00:06:06,397 You're standing in it. 109 00:06:12,581 --> 00:06:16,165 I have to be very careful whom I let in. 110 00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:32,257 Yeah, well, things didn't end well the last time, 111 00:06:32,309 --> 00:06:35,802 so forgive me if I'm a little nervous. 112 00:06:37,939 --> 00:06:43,184 This, after all I've told you, is what you ask for, boy?! 113 00:06:43,236 --> 00:06:45,773 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like. 114 00:06:45,822 --> 00:06:48,780 I mean, you've forgotten, man. 115 00:06:48,825 --> 00:06:50,987 I mean, you don't even understand the meaning 116 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:52,652 of your own story! 117 00:06:54,789 --> 00:06:57,907 No! Hey, stop! 118 00:07:01,004 --> 00:07:03,291 You were disrespectful. 119 00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:04,705 I was high. 120 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:07,295 You were not worthy of my story then. 121 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:09,711 Maybe your story wasn't worth telling. 122 00:07:13,058 --> 00:07:15,766 You've got the tapes. Hire a transcriber. 123 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:19,144 I don't do puff portraiture anymore. 124 00:07:19,189 --> 00:07:21,476 And yet, you got on a plane, 125 00:07:21,524 --> 00:07:24,266 with an auto-immune disease, in the middle of a pandemic. 126 00:07:27,697 --> 00:07:29,233 Alright. 127 00:07:31,993 --> 00:07:34,906 That's my voice, but I don't remember it. 128 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:38,038 I ask all the wrong questions. 129 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,448 Yes. There's contradictions 130 00:07:39,501 --> 00:07:41,208 in your story I never follow up on. 131 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:42,663 Yes. 132 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:44,065 The few good ones I do manage to get out, 133 00:07:44,089 --> 00:07:45,500 you steamroll over them. 134 00:07:45,548 --> 00:07:48,336 It's not an interview. It's a... 135 00:07:48,385 --> 00:07:51,423 It's a fever dream told to an idiot. 136 00:07:51,471 --> 00:07:53,553 Yes. 137 00:07:53,598 --> 00:07:56,340 And you? 138 00:07:56,393 --> 00:07:59,351 Why again? What's changed? 139 00:07:59,396 --> 00:08:03,060 The world, circumstances. 140 00:08:03,108 --> 00:08:04,724 Me, I've changed. 141 00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:11,647 And I, too, find the tapes lacking. 142 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,408 So... 143 00:08:14,452 --> 00:08:16,068 a do-over. 144 00:08:19,916 --> 00:08:21,907 Truth and reconciliation. 145 00:08:24,921 --> 00:08:26,878 I ask the questions. You answer the questions. 146 00:08:26,923 --> 00:08:30,666 Anything that can't be verified, I send to my researcher. 147 00:08:30,719 --> 00:08:32,926 No third parties. I write it. 148 00:08:32,971 --> 00:08:35,008 You get to see it before it goes to print. 149 00:08:35,056 --> 00:08:36,296 I get the final edit. 150 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:37,702 That is not the agreement you signed. 151 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:40,263 And one more thing. 152 00:08:40,311 --> 00:08:42,643 I do my best work one-on-one. 153 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:45,647 Would you see to Mr. Molloy's room? 154 00:08:45,692 --> 00:08:47,182 Have Chef prepare a meal for him. 155 00:08:47,235 --> 00:08:49,727 I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest. 156 00:08:49,779 --> 00:08:52,396 I am not your fucking boy. 157 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:57,068 I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it. 158 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,861 And I'm ready. 159 00:08:58,913 --> 00:09:00,745 So let's do this. 160 00:09:04,002 --> 00:09:05,413 I'm Daniel Molloy. 161 00:09:05,462 --> 00:09:10,502 It is 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2022. 162 00:09:10,550 --> 00:09:14,088 I'm in the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers 163 00:09:14,137 --> 00:09:16,845 across from Mister... 164 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:19,507 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 165 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,391 So... 166 00:09:21,436 --> 00:09:23,677 Mr. du Lac... 167 00:09:23,730 --> 00:09:25,971 how long have you been dead? 168 00:09:31,529 --> 00:09:35,272 The year was 1910, the fall of the fifth year 169 00:09:35,325 --> 00:09:38,488 of my father's passing and the fall of the fifth year 170 00:09:38,536 --> 00:09:39,947 as the executor in charge 171 00:09:39,996 --> 00:09:41,907 of the de Pointe du Lac family trust. 172 00:09:41,956 --> 00:09:44,664 The eldest son. The favored son. 173 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:48,202 And a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence. 174 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:50,712 Capital accrued from plantations of sugar 175 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:53,545 and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather 176 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:55,880 but did not have his standing. 177 00:09:55,929 --> 00:09:57,840 But then decades of Jim Crow 178 00:09:57,889 --> 00:10:00,096 and the electrified light of a new century 179 00:10:00,141 --> 00:10:03,304 had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. 180 00:10:03,353 --> 00:10:05,845 So it followed the only place in New Orleans 181 00:10:05,897 --> 00:10:09,140 a gentleman of my complexion could do a righteous business 182 00:10:09,192 --> 00:10:11,559 was a neighborhood called Storyville. 183 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:14,319 That was the old red-light district. Yeah? 184 00:10:14,364 --> 00:10:16,776 20 blocks of drinking, gambling, 185 00:10:16,825 --> 00:10:18,941 and gluttonous whoring. 186 00:10:18,993 --> 00:10:21,610 Okay, so as the honorable executor 187 00:10:21,663 --> 00:10:23,529 of the family's estate, you were in 188 00:10:23,581 --> 00:10:25,948 what business exactly, Mr. du Lac? 189 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,038 You could say I managed and operated 190 00:10:29,087 --> 00:10:32,500 a diversified portfolio of enterprises. 191 00:10:32,549 --> 00:10:34,005 You were a pimp. 192 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:36,132 The product was desire, 193 00:10:36,177 --> 00:10:39,169 and it came in as many forms as there were ways to move it. 194 00:10:39,222 --> 00:10:42,180 Of the two dozen sporting houses on Liberty Street, 195 00:10:42,225 --> 00:10:43,966 I owned eight of them. 196 00:10:44,018 --> 00:10:47,056 Modest in proportion to the venues on Basin Street. 197 00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:49,346 What they lacked in size and elegance, 198 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:52,858 they more than made up for in efficiency and reputation. 199 00:10:52,902 --> 00:10:54,017 Mr. du Lac. 200 00:10:54,070 --> 00:10:55,731 Finn. 201 00:10:56,990 --> 00:11:00,199 You hiding any bills in them fat fucking rolls of yours? 202 00:11:00,243 --> 00:11:03,656 I was, admittedly, a rougher thing then. 203 00:11:03,705 --> 00:11:05,241 Mr. du Lac! 204 00:11:05,290 --> 00:11:07,782 You had to be if you wanted to survive. 205 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:09,950 You couldn't look weak on Liberty Street. 206 00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:11,459 Damn, Doris, you gon' lose your 207 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:13,290 good leg runnin' out like that. 208 00:11:13,339 --> 00:11:16,923 Mr. du Lac, sir, we got bad trouble. 209 00:11:16,968 --> 00:11:21,383 I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. 210 00:11:21,431 --> 00:11:23,547 I was only tryna show you my love. 211 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,931 Fuck you. 212 00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:26,842 What happened? 213 00:11:26,895 --> 00:11:28,385 The cunny hit me! Oh, I'm a cunny now? 214 00:11:28,438 --> 00:11:29,928 A minute ago, I was his love. 215 00:11:33,067 --> 00:11:35,104 Alderman Fenwick? Hmm? 216 00:11:35,153 --> 00:11:38,271 You hit an alderman? God damn it, Bricks. 217 00:11:38,323 --> 00:11:40,030 He stuck it in my shitbox. 218 00:11:40,074 --> 00:11:41,564 I did no such thing. 219 00:11:41,618 --> 00:11:43,179 Gave him a chance to pull out, and he kept on fucking, 220 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:45,139 so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner 221 00:11:45,163 --> 00:11:46,449 for going there. 222 00:11:46,497 --> 00:11:48,283 Don't believe me, check his dick. 223 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:50,745 Who the fuck you talkin' to? I ain't checkin' no man's dick. 224 00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:52,704 Oh. Oh, goddamn. 225 00:11:52,754 --> 00:11:54,916 Hell, I might a even said yes if you would just ask. 226 00:11:54,964 --> 00:11:56,775 But I don't care who you is, you put a dick in an asshole 227 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:58,540 without asking, that's against Jesus. 228 00:11:58,593 --> 00:12:00,049 Fuck you. 229 00:12:00,094 --> 00:12:01,835 What y'all laughin' at? 230 00:12:01,888 --> 00:12:03,799 Someone go and fetch Doc Johnson. 231 00:12:03,848 --> 00:12:07,011 And you, get some clean water and a towel. 232 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:13,021 Get your hands off me, nigger! 233 00:12:13,066 --> 00:12:15,649 You gon' make me regret my support, you repeat yourself, 234 00:12:15,693 --> 00:12:18,151 Mr. Fenwick. 235 00:12:19,155 --> 00:12:21,988 Louis de Pointe du Lac, sir. 236 00:12:22,033 --> 00:12:24,866 Oh, Pointe du Lac. 237 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:27,949 Oh, forgive me. I... 238 00:12:27,997 --> 00:12:30,329 It was... There's so much wine. 239 00:12:30,375 --> 00:12:33,288 Don't worry none. We'll keep this here 'tween us. 240 00:12:33,336 --> 00:12:35,202 Someone got the good doc on the way. 241 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:41,550 Oh, Miss Williams. Isn't she a vision? 242 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,756 I ain't cleanin' his dick. 243 00:12:43,805 --> 00:12:44,920 Oh, Jesus, Mary. 244 00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:46,463 Got a situation here, Finn. 245 00:12:46,516 --> 00:12:48,974 Yeah, well, you got another one outside 122. 246 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:50,884 Man acting the maggot, driving away business. 247 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:53,725 Ain't that what I pay you for? 248 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:56,310 It's a citizen priest. 249 00:12:56,359 --> 00:12:57,941 Do you not realize, sister, your body 250 00:12:57,986 --> 00:12:59,442 is part of Christ the Lord? 251 00:12:59,487 --> 00:13:01,257 Second time this month. When you take that body 252 00:13:01,281 --> 00:13:02,925 and enjoin in harlotry you are defiling the Lord. 253 00:13:02,949 --> 00:13:04,593 And I could give two moons if he's your brother, Mr. du Lac. 254 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:05,970 I'm gonna knock his skull in the Pontchartrain! 255 00:13:05,994 --> 00:13:07,735 You deny your victory with Christ. 256 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:10,119 He shall come again to judge the living and the dead. 257 00:13:10,164 --> 00:13:12,371 And who has come and gone will rise again 258 00:13:12,417 --> 00:13:14,103 and throw their bodies into everlasting fire. 259 00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:16,664 Go on home. Tell Mama not to wait up. 260 00:13:16,713 --> 00:13:18,670 There's blood on your shirt. 261 00:13:18,715 --> 00:13:19,921 What wickedness is it tonight? 262 00:13:19,966 --> 00:13:21,582 You're not helping me here, Paul. 263 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:23,591 Oh, but I am. 264 00:13:23,636 --> 00:13:26,469 The Lord told me to come, Louis. 265 00:13:26,514 --> 00:13:28,846 In my head, like a family of birds, many voices, 266 00:13:28,891 --> 00:13:30,131 but also one voice... 267 00:13:30,184 --> 00:13:31,766 Saying it a second time. 268 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:32,926 Listen to me, please. 269 00:13:32,979 --> 00:13:34,970 I'm having a fucking night, okay? 270 00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:36,263 I can't have it with you foo... 271 00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:44,571 Get on home, else I'll bleed ya like a kochon, bruh. 272 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,281 Did I want to pull a knife on my brother? 273 00:13:54,334 --> 00:13:55,916 No. 274 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,668 But as I alluded to before, 275 00:13:58,713 --> 00:14:02,377 you couldn't look weak on Liberty. 276 00:14:02,425 --> 00:14:04,917 You never knew who was watching. 277 00:14:10,475 --> 00:14:12,182 He pulled his knife on me, Mamaw. 278 00:14:12,226 --> 00:14:14,638 You were disrupting mother's business interests. 279 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:17,679 Do you hear that, Mother? He's made you a madam. 280 00:14:17,732 --> 00:14:19,063 Oh, Paul. 281 00:14:19,108 --> 00:14:21,099 Profiting from the damnation of souls. 282 00:14:21,152 --> 00:14:23,519 Let's not fuss on the particulars. 283 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:27,155 Mornings with my family followed a pattern that year. 284 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,612 My mother consumed herself with preparations 285 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:31,571 for my sister's wedding, 286 00:14:31,621 --> 00:14:33,658 while Paul confused the dining table 287 00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:35,822 with a pulpit none of us would recognize. 288 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,741 We should tithe that o'er to St. Augustine's 289 00:14:37,794 --> 00:14:39,330 'fore this house falls in on us. 290 00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:41,245 This is just a temporary situation 291 00:14:41,297 --> 00:14:44,631 until Louis can find us a more respectable business. 292 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:46,757 Daddy was here, we'd still be in sugar cane. 293 00:14:46,803 --> 00:14:48,510 Daddy was alive, you'd still be locked up 294 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:49,760 in that hospital in Jackson. 295 00:14:49,806 --> 00:14:51,797 Louis, let's not have that talk. 296 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:54,716 A month from my wedding day, and what do I dream about? 297 00:14:54,769 --> 00:14:56,635 Dancing in my husband's arms? 298 00:14:56,687 --> 00:14:59,725 Children running in the yard? No. 299 00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:01,856 I dream of what a quiet breakfast might look like. 300 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:04,689 Your man Levi's a Baptist, no respect for the Holy Mother. 301 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:06,102 Paul! 302 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:07,466 He's gon' make your daughter jump a broom. 303 00:15:07,490 --> 00:15:08,884 I'm sitting right here. Plenty of brooms 304 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:10,694 down the street at the Mayfair sisters' home. 305 00:15:11,994 --> 00:15:13,405 He's calling me a witch, Mamaw. 306 00:15:13,454 --> 00:15:15,946 Paul de Pointe du Lac, you walk that back. 307 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:20,583 Your brother sounds like a pain in the ass. 308 00:15:20,628 --> 00:15:23,336 Fragile, stubborn, indulged. 309 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:25,167 I'd promised our father on his death bed 310 00:15:25,216 --> 00:15:26,877 to look after him. 311 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:30,794 But when Paul's mind was right, he was no burden. 312 00:15:30,847 --> 00:15:34,385 Point of fact, I loved him more than anyone on earth. 313 00:15:34,434 --> 00:15:36,641 And our daily stroll to St. Augustine 314 00:15:36,686 --> 00:15:39,895 was the measure of a good day started. 315 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:43,148 - Good morning, Paul. - Good for you maybe. 316 00:15:43,192 --> 00:15:44,899 Morning, Louis. 317 00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:46,526 Pew's got a good shine. 318 00:15:46,571 --> 00:15:49,689 If it wasn't beneath you, I'd send shoes your way. 319 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:51,401 Nothing is beneath me, son. 320 00:15:51,451 --> 00:15:53,067 I'm ready, Father. 321 00:15:55,413 --> 00:15:58,030 I wanted to thank the family for last Sunday's donation. 322 00:15:58,082 --> 00:16:00,574 Baby-sitting money. Church calms him down some. 323 00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:02,116 Well, we're always here for him. 324 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:04,753 And the money goes a good way towards the renovation. 325 00:16:04,797 --> 00:16:07,710 I want Father Matthias. Thank you. 326 00:16:07,758 --> 00:16:09,749 You ain't got nothing to confess to anyhow. 327 00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:11,759 Wasting a good man's time. 328 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:14,762 Be right there, Paul. 329 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:17,299 I haven't seen you in confession of late, Louis. 330 00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:22,346 You know, you can always come here if you're in need, son. 331 00:16:25,776 --> 00:16:29,895 My business and my raised religion were at odds, 332 00:16:29,947 --> 00:16:32,689 and the, uh... 333 00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:36,155 latencies within me, well, I beat those back 334 00:16:36,204 --> 00:16:39,322 with a lie I told myself about myself... 335 00:16:39,373 --> 00:16:41,865 that I was a red-blooded son of the South, 336 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:45,036 seeking ass before absolution. 337 00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:49,001 And you maintained this delusion how exactly? 338 00:16:49,050 --> 00:16:52,384 A particular woman who worked for the competition. 339 00:16:52,428 --> 00:16:54,965 As if rickety shacks were a competition 340 00:16:55,014 --> 00:16:58,006 for Tom Anderson's Fairplay Saloon. 341 00:16:58,059 --> 00:17:01,268 Ah, Louis du Lac. The night begins. 342 00:17:01,312 --> 00:17:03,428 Miss Carroll, Miss Lily working tonight? 343 00:17:03,481 --> 00:17:05,097 Miss Lily's on the terrace. 344 00:17:05,149 --> 00:17:08,392 It was a palace of opulence and splendor. 345 00:17:08,444 --> 00:17:10,355 A Sazerac, Mr. du Lac? 346 00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:11,940 That'll do fine, Miss Carroll. 347 00:17:11,989 --> 00:17:14,026 And catered to an almost exclusively 348 00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:15,907 Caucasian clientele, 349 00:17:15,952 --> 00:17:17,943 which helped me separate the locals 350 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:21,863 from those visiting from other southern states. 351 00:17:21,916 --> 00:17:23,748 Shakin' the money tree tonight I see, 352 00:17:23,793 --> 00:17:25,124 Mr. Anderson, sir. 353 00:17:25,169 --> 00:17:27,581 Can't see the dirt for the dollars fallin'. 354 00:17:27,630 --> 00:17:30,292 Private game on Friday if your datebook is free, Louis. 355 00:17:30,341 --> 00:17:33,459 Can do, Mr. Anderson. Can do. 356 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:51,985 I don't know much what you're saying. 357 00:17:52,029 --> 00:17:53,940 But it sure sounds nice. 358 00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:56,732 "Only the impossible can do the impossible." 359 00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:59,617 Miss Lily. 360 00:17:59,662 --> 00:18:02,780 Bonsoir, monsieur. Do you speak French? 361 00:18:02,832 --> 00:18:05,745 We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans. 362 00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:07,909 It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it? 363 00:18:07,962 --> 00:18:10,249 How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door? 364 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:12,793 Excuse me? 365 00:18:12,842 --> 00:18:14,173 I mean that as a compliment, 366 00:18:14,218 --> 00:18:16,960 a man of your race to have privileges here. 367 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:20,222 Louis has a small empire of his own down the street. 368 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:21,451 It gives him privileges. 369 00:18:22,643 --> 00:18:25,556 Somethin' funny about that? 370 00:18:25,605 --> 00:18:27,687 Your name is Louis. 371 00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:29,939 Of course it's Louis. 372 00:18:29,984 --> 00:18:31,895 I didn't get your name, fella. 373 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:37,856 I know who you are, sir. 374 00:18:37,908 --> 00:18:40,696 You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the quarter. 375 00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:43,203 I owe you everything. Please, join us. 376 00:18:45,499 --> 00:18:48,617 I know sometimes men of my race, 377 00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:51,206 we all look alike to you people. 378 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:52,871 But I didn't sell you no townhouse. 379 00:18:52,923 --> 00:18:55,210 Louis, have a seat. 380 00:18:55,259 --> 00:18:56,624 Let me explain. 381 00:18:56,677 --> 00:18:59,669 New to the... the New World, I am. 382 00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:01,178 That explains the clothes. 383 00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:03,760 A 19th-century man at heart, yes, 384 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:06,642 making his, uh, trans-Atlantic journey by ship, 385 00:19:06,687 --> 00:19:09,770 planning very carefully on settling myself upriver. 386 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:11,055 The Sazerac, sir. 387 00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,439 Put that on my account, thank you. 388 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:14,271 And two more for us. 389 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,520 And another round for the musicians, whatever they want. 390 00:19:17,448 --> 00:19:19,234 Yes, sir. 391 00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:21,115 Oh, where was 1? 392 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,071 On a boat. 393 00:19:28,918 --> 00:19:30,454 So, I'm out on 394 00:19:30,503 --> 00:19:32,343 the Crescent coast, floating past your village, 395 00:19:32,380 --> 00:19:35,042 when I hear music playing, 396 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:39,380 and the shadows of men and women dancing by the water's edge. 397 00:19:39,428 --> 00:19:44,719 I disembarked for the music, but then there was the food. 398 00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:46,578 What's been your favorite this year, Mr. Lioncourt? 399 00:19:46,602 --> 00:19:47,888 A favorite? 400 00:19:47,937 --> 00:19:49,098 Mm. 401 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:52,013 She puts a pistol to my head. 402 00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:54,649 I couldn't believe it. 403 00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:56,651 Staring me down as his hands 404 00:19:56,696 --> 00:20:00,405 went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress. 405 00:20:00,449 --> 00:20:02,065 I wanted to take the end of my cane 406 00:20:02,118 --> 00:20:04,826 and slit his throat with it. 407 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,658 Why didn't you? 408 00:20:07,707 --> 00:20:09,698 I couldn't move. 409 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:13,368 My body was seized with weakness. 410 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:19,292 His gaze tied a string around my lungs, 411 00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:22,631 and I found myself immobilized. 412 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,220 And the women, all shades of skin... 413 00:20:27,268 --> 00:20:31,683 white, Black, cinnamon. 414 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,940 I've emptied a bank vault sampling, I must say. 415 00:20:34,984 --> 00:20:38,147 But it was not until a few nights later... 416 00:20:46,287 --> 00:20:50,201 that I said to myself... 417 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:51,831 "Lestat, unpack your trunks. 418 00:20:51,876 --> 00:20:53,833 You're home." 419 00:20:55,004 --> 00:20:57,962 What did he say just now? 420 00:20:58,007 --> 00:20:59,918 A little more than he should of. 421 00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:04,006 I had planned to make a new life for myself in St. Louis. 422 00:21:04,054 --> 00:21:07,592 That was to be my destiny. 423 00:21:07,641 --> 00:21:10,429 And now I know I was right. 424 00:21:10,478 --> 00:21:12,469 Only it turns out the saint is not a city, 425 00:21:12,521 --> 00:21:17,982 but a handsome man with a most agreeable disposition. 426 00:21:18,027 --> 00:21:20,940 You're his destiny, Louis. 427 00:21:20,988 --> 00:21:22,899 Destined to be very good friends. 428 00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:27,275 The Orient room is available for the next few hours, 429 00:21:27,328 --> 00:21:28,659 Miss Lily. 430 00:21:28,704 --> 00:21:30,035 The gentlemen are swappin' 431 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,117 andouille sausage recipes, Miss Carroll. 432 00:21:32,166 --> 00:21:33,748 Hmm. 433 00:21:49,099 --> 00:21:51,466 The Orient room is yours, monsieur. 434 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:53,977 Please get my friend here anything he wants. 435 00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:55,307 Wonderful to meet you. 436 00:21:55,356 --> 00:21:58,940 I do hope I run into you again, Louis. 437 00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:03,820 Emasculation and admiration in equal measure. 438 00:22:04,824 --> 00:22:09,443 I wanted to murder the man, and I wanted to be the man. 439 00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:16,871 I had come there for Lily. 440 00:22:16,919 --> 00:22:20,162 But I left thinking of only him. 441 00:22:58,919 --> 00:23:01,035 Come now. 442 00:23:03,841 --> 00:23:05,502 Who the devil... 443 00:23:20,024 --> 00:23:21,640 Our friends in the police tell me there's 444 00:23:21,692 --> 00:23:23,854 an outbreak of fever in town. 445 00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:26,361 It's unfortunates living near the wharf, mostly. 446 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,316 If you find yourself riverside of Decatur... 447 00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:29,509 you have only yourself 448 00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:30,989 to blame, I say. 449 00:23:31,035 --> 00:23:32,321 Agreed. 450 00:23:32,369 --> 00:23:34,076 Still, very peculiar, they say. 451 00:23:34,121 --> 00:23:36,954 Each one the same... small wounds to the body, 452 00:23:36,999 --> 00:23:41,539 and upon examination, entirely devoid of blood. 453 00:23:41,587 --> 00:23:43,578 It is their theory some new kind of rat 454 00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:44,871 has come ashore. 455 00:23:44,924 --> 00:23:47,586 Of the six-foot variety. 456 00:23:47,635 --> 00:23:50,172 We call those bureaucrats in France. 457 00:23:53,015 --> 00:23:57,350 Gentlemen, well, you all know Louis du Lac. 458 00:23:57,394 --> 00:24:01,058 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 459 00:24:01,106 --> 00:24:03,097 We met already, Mr. Anderson, sir. 460 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:05,357 In front of a florist, wasn't it? 461 00:24:05,402 --> 00:24:08,019 We both wanted the last bouquet of lilies. 462 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,607 Aren't you gonna ask the alderman how his head is, Louis? 463 00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:15,493 Now, why would I do that, Mr. Anderson, sir? 464 00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:18,575 You see, Mr. Fenwick, just as I told you, 465 00:24:18,624 --> 00:24:20,581 a most discreet Negro. 466 00:24:20,626 --> 00:24:23,709 Would that his doctor had the same standards. 467 00:24:23,754 --> 00:24:25,665 Gentlemen, show your cards. 468 00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:30,837 Hoo! Mr. Lioncourt, 469 00:24:30,886 --> 00:24:33,423 your hand is incomprehensible. 470 00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:36,260 Oh, yes. 471 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:38,015 I'm terrible at cards. 472 00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:40,301 Did I not mention that to everyone? 473 00:24:40,354 --> 00:24:43,938 Would you mind getting me some more of these money chips? 474 00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:49,564 Louis, did you know that Alderman Fenwick here 475 00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:51,650 recently purchased both the title and deed 476 00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:53,499 to the Horton rooming house on Villere Street? 477 00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:55,195 Yeah, Mr. Anderson believes it could make 478 00:24:55,244 --> 00:24:56,826 a fine sportin' house. 479 00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:59,703 I recommended the alderman find a managing partner 480 00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:01,330 before he commits his money. 481 00:25:01,375 --> 00:25:03,833 I recommended he think of you, Louis. 482 00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,335 Very kind of you, Mr. Anderson, sir. 483 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:08,997 What do you think of the location? 484 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:11,040 It ain't Basin Street. 485 00:25:11,093 --> 00:25:13,551 But throw enough Edison bulbs on the facade, 486 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:15,085 get a good margin on the alcohol, 487 00:25:15,139 --> 00:25:17,221 no-nonsense madam to keep the girls clean, 488 00:25:17,266 --> 00:25:19,223 I reckon a man could make a decent sum. 489 00:25:19,268 --> 00:25:20,929 Yes, sir, Mr. Fenwick, sir. 490 00:25:20,978 --> 00:25:23,561 I said you'd do it for 10 percent. 491 00:25:23,605 --> 00:25:26,063 A-all respects, Mr. Anderson, 492 00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:29,271 but you proposing 10 percent for all the work? 493 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:31,686 15%? 494 00:25:31,739 --> 00:25:34,197 There's capital investment, 495 00:25:34,241 --> 00:25:36,733 and there's labor. 496 00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:38,651 Both has its seat at the table. 497 00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:40,695 Wouldn't you say, Mr. Lestat? 498 00:25:42,875 --> 00:25:45,242 Well, I can only speak of my experience, 499 00:25:45,294 --> 00:25:47,581 which is, I'm sure, different in my country. 500 00:25:47,629 --> 00:25:50,121 Par exemple, you fine gentlemen have heard of the success story 501 00:25:50,174 --> 00:25:53,758 that is Le Bon Marché, shopping experience like no other. 502 00:25:53,802 --> 00:25:55,321 Aristide Boucicaut invests in a new vision... 503 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:57,177 These men look down on you. 504 00:25:57,222 --> 00:26:00,635 I have to say, I find it appalling how men like yourself 505 00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,925 are treated in this country of yours. 506 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,766 It is undeniable. I came to my wealth honestly 507 00:26:05,814 --> 00:26:07,350 and at great sacrifice, I might add. 508 00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:09,561 However, it was not the sacrifice of many. 509 00:26:09,610 --> 00:26:11,396 I had no partners in my various... 510 00:26:11,445 --> 00:26:13,482 - 10 percent. - The financial risks... 511 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,942 15 percent. 512 00:26:18,786 --> 00:26:22,074 Do you not know your value? 513 00:26:25,209 --> 00:26:29,328 Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose? 514 00:26:36,762 --> 00:26:39,595 And do you think two pair will win the hour? 515 00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:49,396 I believe there is great opportunity in this city, 516 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:53,935 but to seize it, I'll need protection from the wolves. 517 00:27:08,919 --> 00:27:10,159 And that's all to say, 518 00:27:10,212 --> 00:27:11,828 forgive me, Mr. de Pointe du Lac, 519 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,462 for my bias, but where is the business 520 00:27:13,507 --> 00:27:14,747 if there is no capital? 521 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,507 It does not exist. No? Alright, boys. 522 00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,008 Show 'em. 523 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:23,092 Ooh. 524 00:27:23,142 --> 00:27:26,225 Full boat, Mr. du Lac. 525 00:27:26,270 --> 00:27:28,853 Got you beat, Tom. 526 00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:31,059 He wouldn't tell me how he did it, 527 00:27:31,108 --> 00:27:33,896 his trick to make the world stop. 528 00:27:33,944 --> 00:27:36,402 "In time, Louis. Patience, Louis. 529 00:27:36,446 --> 00:27:38,733 Ask me next week, Louis." 530 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:40,147 You started hanging out? 531 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,907 He was in love with my city 532 00:27:41,952 --> 00:27:44,569 and wanted to know everything he could about it. 533 00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:48,034 So you played docent to the gentleman vampire? 534 00:27:48,083 --> 00:27:51,576 He had not revealed his vampire nature yet. 535 00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:53,710 I'm assuming you only met at night. 536 00:27:53,755 --> 00:27:55,416 It's New Orleans. 537 00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:58,298 Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage. 538 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:00,209 Perfect cover for a vampire. 539 00:28:00,262 --> 00:28:02,629 Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy. 540 00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:06,174 Let the tale seduce you. 541 00:28:06,226 --> 00:28:08,467 Just as I was seduced. 542 00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:12,597 Money would arrive, wired from France, 543 00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,357 and the shopkeepers, who would usually close at sunset, 544 00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:18,269 were very happy to accommodate him. 545 00:28:18,322 --> 00:28:22,316 He ransacked the import houses to furnish his town house, 546 00:28:22,367 --> 00:28:24,779 ravaged the booksellers of their oldest volumes 547 00:28:24,828 --> 00:28:26,364 for a library, 548 00:28:26,413 --> 00:28:30,452 and, with encouragement, updated his wardrobe 549 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,367 to the fashion trends of the season. 550 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:38,540 It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. 551 00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:41,300 And I found myself for the very first time, 552 00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:43,427 to anyone other than Paul, 553 00:28:43,472 --> 00:28:46,385 confiding my struggles to another man. 554 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:53,016 I was being hunted. 555 00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:56,558 And I was completely unaware it was happening. 556 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:01,396 I'm switchin' rooms. 557 00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:03,218 I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise. 558 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:04,761 You'd have to be home to hear that. 559 00:29:04,785 --> 00:29:07,322 I come home nights. You come home some nights. 560 00:29:07,371 --> 00:29:09,658 Out cattin' with some white man, I hear. 561 00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:11,037 He ain't white, he French. 562 00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:13,666 Oh. That's a new kind of white, is it? 563 00:29:13,710 --> 00:29:14,950 French white? 564 00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,243 He different. 565 00:29:16,296 --> 00:29:18,287 Invite him over for dinner. 566 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,331 Mother loves European. 567 00:29:20,384 --> 00:29:22,921 I'm gon' tell Levi you fishin' for a richer man. 568 00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,632 Don't. Don't deny your sister. 569 00:29:25,681 --> 00:29:27,843 I wanna meet this French white. 570 00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,938 I'm just trying to give you the word of the Lord. 571 00:29:31,979 --> 00:29:35,847 Understa... Yes. Yes. No. That is never my... 572 00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:38,687 Paul crawled up on my bed last night. 573 00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:47,358 Wept for good near an hour. 574 00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,402 He ain't takin' it, you gettin' married. 575 00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:55,749 Levi told me of a place over in Gretna, 576 00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,751 takes in men like Paul. 577 00:29:57,796 --> 00:29:59,107 It's not some crazy person's house like... 578 00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:01,042 How'd that work last time, huh? 579 00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:03,253 He come out worse than before. 580 00:30:03,302 --> 00:30:06,215 Gretna. It ain't happenin'. 581 00:30:06,263 --> 00:30:07,970 He died on the cross for you. 582 00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,551 Yes... you. 583 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:11,089 I worry. 584 00:30:11,143 --> 00:30:14,886 I worry so much... Worry about your own life. 585 00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:17,646 Worry about being a bride. 586 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,938 Worry about what you gon' wear 587 00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:26,697 in London, in Paris, Florence. 588 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,699 Now, y'all gon' be in steerage outta New York, 589 00:30:28,744 --> 00:30:30,326 but once you get to Europe, 590 00:30:30,370 --> 00:30:32,452 it's first class on boats, trains, and hotel rooms. 591 00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:34,829 What did you go and do? 592 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:36,331 You should put the band by the deck 593 00:30:36,376 --> 00:30:38,993 and the food by the fountain. 594 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,753 Mamaw! 595 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:48,464 I'm gain' 'round the world! 596 00:30:57,606 --> 00:31:00,314 I can't thank you enough, Mama du Lac. 597 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:01,599 I never been east of Alabama, 598 00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:03,642 and now I'm going to see the pyramids. 599 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:05,527 Oh, I think every young family deserves 600 00:31:05,572 --> 00:31:07,688 a little adventure. 601 00:31:07,741 --> 00:31:09,573 Wouldn't you say, Monsieur Lioncourt? 602 00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:11,108 Oui, Madame. 603 00:31:11,161 --> 00:31:13,949 My mother, she gave me every advantage in life 604 00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:15,408 as a young man. 605 00:31:15,457 --> 00:31:18,575 My first Mastiff, first flintlock rifle, 606 00:31:18,627 --> 00:31:20,117 the means to make my way to Paris. 607 00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:22,707 It was Louis that purchased your holiday, Levi. 608 00:31:22,756 --> 00:31:23,983 It's Louis who controls the money. 609 00:31:24,007 --> 00:31:25,247 Pay no mind, Levi. 610 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,402 And I don't know who gave you the right 611 00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:27,382 to call our mother your mother. 612 00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:28,758 She's not your mother yet 613 00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:30,761 and will never be your scientific mother. 614 00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:33,924 Paul. 615 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:35,807 I do love this bouillabaisse. 616 00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:38,469 Wha? 617 00:31:38,522 --> 00:31:40,638 Down here, we call it gumbo. 618 00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,502 We had a gumbo the other night, didn't we, Louis? 619 00:31:42,526 --> 00:31:43,982 Uh, right after the opera. 620 00:31:44,027 --> 00:31:45,859 Oh, we've got Louis to an opera. 621 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:48,441 "Iolanta." 'Bout some blind princess, 622 00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:50,777 didn't know she was a princess. 623 00:31:50,826 --> 00:31:53,033 Stomach got grumbling, left half way through. 624 00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:55,264 And what exactly is the nature of your relationship with 625 00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:57,780 my brother, Monsieur Lioncourt? 626 00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:07,047 Your brother and I have been discussing 627 00:32:07,092 --> 00:32:09,424 a few investment opportunities. 628 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:12,052 The birds asked me to ask you. 629 00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:13,679 I wasn't being rude. 630 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:18,392 Monsieur Freniere, would you tell me 631 00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:21,350 how you came to propose to this delight some young woman? 632 00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:22,763 Oh, that's a good yarn. 633 00:32:22,816 --> 00:32:25,103 Are you one with Christ, Mr. Lioncourt? 634 00:32:25,152 --> 00:32:27,735 How "bout you shut your damn mouth?" 635 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,565 Louis. That's alright, 636 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:32,072 Louis, Madame, the birds speak for him. 637 00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:38,158 I came to know Christ in a monastery. 638 00:32:40,584 --> 00:32:43,497 I wanted to be a priest. 639 00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:46,333 Just like you, Paul. 640 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:48,748 And under the guidance and discipline of the monks 641 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,089 who lived there, I came to memorize both the testaments, 642 00:32:53,138 --> 00:32:55,095 the writings of Assisi, 643 00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:59,850 Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars. 644 00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:10,104 My father, a vulgar man, did not think much of this education, 645 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:14,900 and so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out, 646 00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:18,410 lock me away, where, between beatings, 647 00:33:18,455 --> 00:33:21,163 starvations, and the failure of Christ 648 00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:23,324 to intercede the beatings and starvations, 649 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:27,165 I slowly forgot all about the testaments, Assisi, 650 00:33:27,214 --> 00:33:29,546 Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it. 651 00:33:29,591 --> 00:33:31,127 Stop. And so to answer 652 00:33:31,176 --> 00:33:33,087 your boring question, there is an ocean 653 00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:35,002 between Christ and myself. Stop! 654 00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:40,549 Don't do that shit here! 655 00:33:43,104 --> 00:33:45,471 Not with my family. 656 00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:47,561 You understand? 657 00:33:55,742 --> 00:34:00,532 I am cursed with my father's temper at times, 658 00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:02,787 and the rudeness is all mine. 659 00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:04,163 That's alright. 660 00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:06,701 It's the humidity. It does that sometimes. 661 00:34:06,753 --> 00:34:08,335 Why don't we have some ice wine? 662 00:34:09,673 --> 00:34:12,210 And Levi here can tell us all again 663 00:34:12,259 --> 00:34:15,718 how he won my joy child's heart. 664 00:34:19,849 --> 00:34:23,843 I fear your family has taken a permanent offense at me. 665 00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:25,511 When Paul ain't pickin' at his plate, 666 00:34:25,564 --> 00:34:27,100 he pickin' a fight. 667 00:34:27,148 --> 00:34:29,765 If I had your tricks, I'd have done the same. 668 00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:31,479 You must envy him. 669 00:34:31,528 --> 00:34:33,895 The boy thinks God speaks to him through birds in his head. 670 00:34:33,947 --> 00:34:35,688 How you figure envy? 671 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:37,777 The liberty he has with his thoughts. 672 00:34:37,826 --> 00:34:39,282 However misshapen they may be, 673 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:41,443 your brother has no shame in sharing them. 674 00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:43,237 You sayin' I got shame? 675 00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:46,078 The lie you told about leaving the opera house early. 676 00:34:46,126 --> 00:34:48,163 You were near weeping when the curtain fell. 677 00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,122 Why hide that from your family? 678 00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:52,378 Don't everybody need to know what I do. 679 00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:54,256 Dishonesty breeds dishonesty. 680 00:34:54,301 --> 00:34:56,042 They sit in judgment. 681 00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:57,926 Paul is the only one to say it to my face, 682 00:34:57,971 --> 00:35:00,429 but I know my ma and Grace think it, too. 683 00:35:00,473 --> 00:35:02,714 My daddy ran our sugar business into a swamp. 684 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,976 When he passed, we was four months... 685 00:35:06,021 --> 00:35:09,935 four months from going bankrupt if I didn't do something. 686 00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:12,395 You don't need to defend yourself to me, Louis. 687 00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:14,276 I know what you go through to keep your family 688 00:35:14,321 --> 00:35:15,732 ignorant in their comfort. 689 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:18,112 It ain't easy, the work I do. 690 00:35:18,158 --> 00:35:19,819 Nothing but broken souls around me, 691 00:35:19,868 --> 00:35:23,031 and the ones that ain't broke are greedy. 692 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,662 Bone-tired. 693 00:35:25,707 --> 00:35:27,823 Drink up, my good man. 694 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:29,742 The Earth's a savage garden. 695 00:35:35,008 --> 00:35:38,251 You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. 696 00:35:38,303 --> 00:35:41,421 St. Louis is dull as dishwater. 697 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:45,512 Yes, I feel quite at home here. 698 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,097 Shall we have a nightcap? 699 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:50,433 Um... 700 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:52,849 Probably had enough for tonight. 701 00:35:52,901 --> 00:35:55,268 Gotta make my rounds back on Liberty. 702 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,436 You must, Louis. 703 00:35:57,489 --> 00:36:00,106 I bought you a gift. 704 00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:02,365 A gift? 705 00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:04,026 A flower. 706 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,852 That's a nice music box you got there. 707 00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:36,337 It's one of the few things I brought with me 708 00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:39,069 from the continent. 709 00:36:39,114 --> 00:36:40,821 What's that lil' song playin'? 710 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:42,651 Do you like it? 711 00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:46,786 I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, 712 00:36:46,830 --> 00:36:49,447 a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity. 713 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:54,793 I believe that is for the lips, Miss Lily. 714 00:36:54,838 --> 00:36:58,126 I don't like the way mine look plain. 715 00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:00,256 And Mr. du Lac don't mind when I do it. 716 00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:01,962 Mm-hmm. 717 00:37:02,011 --> 00:37:05,174 A pair of misfit beauties. 718 00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:08,591 I can see why you both run to the other. 719 00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:11,305 Miss Carroll know you're here, Lily? 720 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:12,832 I can assure you, the Fairplay has been 721 00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:17,020 handsomely compensated for the evening. 722 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:19,605 Sent a two-horse carriage to pick me up. 723 00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:21,645 Felt like the queen of the quarter. 724 00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:29,946 I told Mr. Lioncourt, you and me usually just talk. 725 00:37:29,998 --> 00:37:31,909 And why is that, Louis? 726 00:37:31,958 --> 00:37:35,076 What kind of a man wastes this waist with words? 727 00:37:37,213 --> 00:37:38,795 A beautiful man. 728 00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:47,553 There's nothing to be nervous about. 729 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:51,809 The curtains are closed, the servants sent home. 730 00:37:51,853 --> 00:37:54,936 Even the planets and stars are blindfolded. 731 00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:58,190 That's your thing, then? You like to watch? 732 00:38:00,487 --> 00:38:03,479 I've been watching you for some time now, Louis. 733 00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:07,024 From river to lake, lake back to river, 734 00:38:07,076 --> 00:38:09,067 looking for my companion heart. 735 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,451 How you do that? 736 00:38:10,497 --> 00:38:11,532 Do what? 737 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:13,242 Do what? 738 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,578 Get in my head like that. 739 00:38:15,627 --> 00:38:18,085 Such a pretty head. 740 00:39:07,887 --> 00:39:10,845 That's fine, love. 741 00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:34,028 Ah. Ah. 742 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:55,575 It bears repeating, I did not consider myself 743 00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:57,827 a homosexual man at the time. 744 00:40:58,915 --> 00:41:01,703 I mean, I had had experiences. 745 00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:04,243 Guilt, shame, 746 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:08,835 floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. 747 00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:12,842 Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. 748 00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:14,127 Course, you know that. 749 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:15,841 We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel? 750 00:41:15,890 --> 00:41:17,426 It was a good place to score. 751 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:19,682 I did what I had to. 752 00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:21,513 You've been married? 753 00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:23,724 Twice. 754 00:41:23,773 --> 00:41:26,731 But we're not here for me, are we? 755 00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:31,690 When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, 756 00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:36,028 do you remember the best you ever had? 757 00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:37,659 Berkeley, 1978. 758 00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:41,743 Some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging. 759 00:41:41,791 --> 00:41:44,829 So imagine that 760 00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:46,709 flowing inside your veins again. 761 00:41:48,381 --> 00:41:53,376 Now multiply it by miles, 762 00:41:53,428 --> 00:41:56,762 to the rings of Saturn and back. 763 00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:04,720 He had taken what he called "un pet it coup"... 764 00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:06,479 the little drink. 765 00:42:06,524 --> 00:42:08,310 Not enough to kill me, 766 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:12,023 but just enough to keep him fit. 767 00:42:12,071 --> 00:42:16,360 It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, 768 00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:18,275 the little drink. 769 00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:21,740 For a human, experiencing it for the first time, 770 00:42:21,789 --> 00:42:23,575 it was... 771 00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:25,535 unsettling. 772 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:28,247 And not for the physical toll on my body, 773 00:42:28,296 --> 00:42:30,207 which was significant, 774 00:42:30,256 --> 00:42:34,875 but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. 775 00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:40,013 I had never allowed myself 776 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:42,470 to feel emotionally close to anyone, 777 00:42:42,518 --> 00:42:44,429 much less a man. 778 00:42:44,479 --> 00:42:47,892 I had no room for feelings like these in my life. 779 00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:52,608 You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, 780 00:42:52,653 --> 00:42:57,568 but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em. 781 00:42:59,035 --> 00:43:02,278 I vowed never to return again. 782 00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:05,618 I shut that night out of my mind 783 00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:09,330 and turned my attentions back to life as it was before. 784 00:43:11,089 --> 00:43:15,208 One, two, three, jump! 785 00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:32,307 Hold still now. 786 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,897 We are missing my father today. 787 00:43:34,946 --> 00:43:37,066 He's supposed to dance with me to start the night off. 788 00:43:38,241 --> 00:43:40,903 I'm trying not to cry now. 789 00:43:40,952 --> 00:43:43,193 And I thought the best way to honor Daddy 790 00:43:43,246 --> 00:43:45,328 would be to make my brothers do the work. 791 00:43:45,373 --> 00:43:46,989 Mm! 792 00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:48,497 Mm-hmm. 793 00:43:48,543 --> 00:43:50,500 Half of y'all don't know this, 794 00:43:50,545 --> 00:43:54,664 but these no-good boys used to shuffle for pennies on Sunday. 795 00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,798 Called themselves "The ABCDEFGs". 796 00:43:57,844 --> 00:44:00,131 Remember that, Father Matthias? 797 00:44:00,179 --> 00:44:01,669 Oh, yes. ABCDE... 798 00:44:01,722 --> 00:44:03,304 "Alter Boys Come Dancing 799 00:44:03,349 --> 00:44:04,760 Every day For God." "For God." 800 00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:06,641 That's right! 801 00:44:06,686 --> 00:44:08,122 I remember their collection hat 802 00:44:08,146 --> 00:44:09,946 didn't always make it to the collection plate. 803 00:44:09,981 --> 00:44:12,143 That's right. 804 00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:13,306 Paul, Louis? 805 00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:15,350 Oh, come on, now. Please! 806 00:44:15,403 --> 00:44:17,314 Hey, now. Come on, please! 807 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:19,900 It's for me 808 00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:21,349 on my wedding day. Come on, brother. 809 00:44:22,994 --> 00:44:25,201 Alright! 810 00:44:34,088 --> 00:44:35,578 Shoes are tight. 811 00:44:35,631 --> 00:44:37,622 Oh, the shoes is fine. It's the feet that's fat. 812 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:41,376 Hey, what kinda rhythm you want, boss? 813 00:44:41,429 --> 00:44:43,716 Just play it loud so they can't hear our feet. 814 00:44:48,394 --> 00:44:52,012 Alright. What you remember? 815 00:44:52,064 --> 00:44:53,930 Um... 816 00:44:55,484 --> 00:44:56,690 Hey, come on. 817 00:44:59,989 --> 00:45:02,321 - Hey! - Go ahead now! 818 00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:09,989 - Whoo! - Hey! Hey! 819 00:45:11,375 --> 00:45:13,457 You still got it! 820 00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:18,709 Alright! Okay! 821 00:45:23,054 --> 00:45:24,590 They still got it! 822 00:45:29,143 --> 00:45:30,850 - Oh! - Yeah, Louis! 823 00:45:35,107 --> 00:45:38,316 Okay. You ain't gon' do it. You ain't gon' do it. 824 00:45:50,957 --> 00:45:52,743 That's right! 825 00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,507 Amazing. 826 00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:32,203 We gonna miss it. 827 00:46:32,248 --> 00:46:34,114 Quit talkin'. I have to concentrate. 828 00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:38,494 It's them three pieces of checkered cake holding you back. 829 00:46:38,546 --> 00:46:42,289 Five pieces of checkered cake, the Pompano fillet, 830 00:46:42,341 --> 00:46:46,050 three boudins, dirty rice, 831 00:46:46,095 --> 00:46:49,588 beef, green beans, five, six wines. 832 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,802 Eat anything else, 833 00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:53,637 the buttons on your vest gon' pop off 834 00:46:53,686 --> 00:46:55,051 like cannon balls, 835 00:46:55,104 --> 00:46:57,266 take down the neighborhood. 836 00:47:06,365 --> 00:47:09,949 9,517. 837 00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:12,201 That's how many days we've been in his house. 838 00:47:12,246 --> 00:47:14,157 You do that math all by yourself? 839 00:47:15,666 --> 00:47:17,185 You remember the day I got taller than you? 840 00:47:17,209 --> 00:47:18,209 Always bringin' that up. 841 00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:20,368 Shot up like a Nuttall oak. 842 00:47:20,421 --> 00:47:22,733 Daddy said I was gon' look down on you for the rest of days. 843 00:47:22,757 --> 00:47:24,088 Yeah, yeah. 844 00:47:24,133 --> 00:47:25,373 Half an inch. 845 00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:27,463 That was a good month, that month. 846 00:47:31,932 --> 00:47:34,424 I think you should get married next. 847 00:47:34,477 --> 00:47:35,763 Do you now? 848 00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:37,051 And you should marry Hazel. 849 00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:39,141 Hazel? Who that? 850 00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:41,431 The one you were dancing too close with. 851 00:47:41,484 --> 00:47:44,192 You dance that close, you ought to be married. 852 00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:46,398 I didn't catch her name. 853 00:47:46,447 --> 00:47:48,563 Well, it's Hazel. 854 00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:58,573 You still doing business with that man Lestat? 855 00:47:59,794 --> 00:48:02,331 Nah. Didn't work out. 856 00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:06,623 That's good. 857 00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:07,756 'Cause he the Devil. 858 00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:09,088 You think everyone's the Devil. 859 00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:12,094 He's here to take souls. He told me so. 860 00:48:12,139 --> 00:48:14,471 He spoke to me without moving his lips. 861 00:48:14,517 --> 00:48:16,849 He got tricks is all. 862 00:48:18,187 --> 00:48:20,599 Mortal sins must be confessed, Louis. 863 00:48:20,648 --> 00:48:23,481 Ain't never gon' see him again, Paul. 864 00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:30,438 You think Levi loves her enough? 865 00:48:30,491 --> 00:48:33,199 You know, Grace needs a lot of love. 866 00:48:33,244 --> 00:48:34,655 I do. 867 00:48:35,704 --> 00:48:38,947 Do you think he's givin' her everything he's got inside him? 868 00:48:40,334 --> 00:48:41,449 Mm-hmm. 869 00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:51,376 Mother made a good party for Grace. 870 00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:52,885 Mm-hmm, yeah. 871 00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:54,921 Yeah, they gon' talk about this one for years. 872 00:48:54,974 --> 00:48:56,590 Yeah. 873 00:49:02,648 --> 00:49:04,230 I love you, Louis. 874 00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:06,186 And I love you, too, baby brother. 875 00:49:13,534 --> 00:49:16,276 I ate too much checkered cake. 876 00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:21,614 Paul. 877 00:49:23,586 --> 00:49:24,917 Paul! 878 00:49:27,465 --> 00:49:28,546 Paul! 879 00:49:30,009 --> 00:49:32,250 - Oh, my lord! - Paul! 880 00:49:34,805 --> 00:49:37,263 That was the last sunrise I ever saw. 881 00:49:38,684 --> 00:49:41,517 Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. 882 00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:50,143 I don't miss the sun, 883 00:49:50,196 --> 00:49:52,028 the reminders it carries. 884 00:50:12,384 --> 00:50:15,877 I have seen death over and over 885 00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:19,139 and over and over again. 886 00:50:20,226 --> 00:50:21,887 It's boring. 887 00:50:21,936 --> 00:50:24,143 That'll make a great blurb. 888 00:50:24,188 --> 00:50:26,976 The diagnosis you received, Daniel, 889 00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:29,937 it winds your clock. 890 00:50:29,985 --> 00:50:32,147 This virus has turned the world sideways. 891 00:50:32,196 --> 00:50:33,652 I get it. 892 00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:34,983 I'm gonna die. 893 00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:37,114 They're gonna die. 894 00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:38,524 But not the vampire. 895 00:50:38,577 --> 00:50:40,784 The vampire is bored. 896 00:50:42,373 --> 00:50:44,740 The human was destroyed. 897 00:50:46,335 --> 00:50:49,077 Utterly destroyed. 898 00:50:49,129 --> 00:50:50,961 I was at the funeral home. 899 00:50:51,006 --> 00:50:52,917 Everything is going as it should. 900 00:50:52,967 --> 00:50:56,335 Good men there. Promised me that... 901 00:50:56,387 --> 00:50:58,469 You must a said something to him, Louis. 902 00:50:58,514 --> 00:51:00,221 You must a said something to him 903 00:51:00,266 --> 00:51:02,598 to make him do that to himself. 904 00:51:03,811 --> 00:51:06,769 Paul slipped and fell, Florence. 905 00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:08,542 I don't think this is something you want to pursue. 906 00:51:08,566 --> 00:51:11,604 He was a fragile boy. 907 00:51:11,652 --> 00:51:13,518 He always was. 908 00:51:15,823 --> 00:51:19,361 And you, you always had to have the last word, 909 00:51:19,410 --> 00:51:20,741 didn't you, Louis? 910 00:51:20,786 --> 00:51:22,572 You always had to take him down a peg. 911 00:51:22,621 --> 00:51:25,158 Mamaw. 912 00:51:25,207 --> 00:51:27,118 What did you say to him? 913 00:51:27,167 --> 00:51:28,953 Why was you even up there? 914 00:51:30,045 --> 00:51:32,753 Watchin' the sun come up, Mama. 915 00:51:35,718 --> 00:51:40,337 You don't get past the gates iffen you kill yourself. 916 00:51:40,389 --> 00:51:42,847 Don't you know that? 917 00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:46,225 Paul gone down the other way. 918 00:51:46,270 --> 00:51:48,557 Paul's in Hell because of you. 919 00:52:00,159 --> 00:52:02,321 Storyville lowered their hats, 920 00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:05,657 gave their propers, because it was custom. 921 00:52:05,706 --> 00:52:08,414 But if you look past those lined up on the sidewalk, 922 00:52:08,459 --> 00:52:10,996 you'd see the bars hadn't stopped serving, 923 00:52:11,045 --> 00:52:13,503 the whores hadn't stopped whoring. 924 00:52:13,547 --> 00:52:15,504 What was Paul's life worth to them? 925 00:52:15,549 --> 00:52:17,540 What was my life worth? 926 00:52:17,593 --> 00:52:19,675 The big man of Liberty Street, 927 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:24,135 trailing the satin-lined evidence of his failure. 928 00:52:24,183 --> 00:52:26,766 Easy prey for the discerning predator. 929 00:52:31,106 --> 00:52:33,418 An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased... 930 00:52:33,442 --> 00:52:34,557 Move on. 931 00:52:34,610 --> 00:52:36,271 I wait on my balcony every night. 932 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,231 You've been avoiding me. I have been occupied. 933 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,817 Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute. 934 00:52:40,866 --> 00:52:42,652 And I don't take kindly to being avoided. 935 00:52:42,701 --> 00:52:43,782 It's my brother's funeral! 936 00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:45,283 Believe me when I tell you, 937 00:52:45,329 --> 00:52:46,945 your brother longed for that flagstone. 938 00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:48,704 What'd you say to me?! 939 00:52:48,749 --> 00:52:51,207 I got it, boss. Keep walking. 940 00:52:59,259 --> 00:53:03,002 Lestat's ambush had disoriented me. 941 00:53:03,055 --> 00:53:05,843 The sermon that was given, I could not hear. 942 00:53:07,518 --> 00:53:10,510 And when the gathering cut loose the body, 943 00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:12,178 I could not join the transformation 944 00:53:12,231 --> 00:53:15,599 of those in attendance. 945 00:53:15,651 --> 00:53:18,484 He would not let me. 946 00:53:19,196 --> 00:53:20,277 Come to me. 947 00:53:22,741 --> 00:53:23,776 Come to me. 948 00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:25,862 No. 949 00:53:33,502 --> 00:53:35,288 Walk you home, Mama? 950 00:53:35,337 --> 00:53:37,749 No, thank you. 951 00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:39,584 Levi, do you mind? 952 00:53:41,260 --> 00:53:43,251 Of course, Mama Du Lac. 953 00:53:47,099 --> 00:53:48,305 She didn't mean nothin' by it. 954 00:53:48,350 --> 00:53:49,511 Oh, but she did now. 955 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,018 She just needs to put it somewhere. 956 00:53:53,021 --> 00:53:54,386 Don't let it inside. 957 00:53:58,902 --> 00:54:01,064 See you back at the wake? 958 00:54:06,493 --> 00:54:07,983 Come to me. 959 00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:11,871 I did not go to the wake. 960 00:54:13,625 --> 00:54:16,868 I did not want to face my mother's blame... 961 00:54:18,964 --> 00:54:20,875 My sister's pity. 962 00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:24,504 I wanted to grieve alone. 963 00:54:26,555 --> 00:54:30,389 But he would not allow it. 964 00:54:33,145 --> 00:54:34,761 Come to me, Louis. 965 00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:39,602 Come to me. 966 00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:46,446 Hello, handsome. 967 00:54:46,492 --> 00:54:47,982 Sazerac. 968 00:54:48,035 --> 00:54:50,652 My heart broke when I heard of your brother's passing. 969 00:54:50,704 --> 00:54:52,194 Miss Lily. 970 00:54:52,247 --> 00:54:53,737 Oh, my dear. 971 00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:55,059 I don't care if she busy with someone. 972 00:54:55,083 --> 00:54:56,573 I'll pay more. 973 00:54:56,627 --> 00:54:59,039 'Cause I like Miss Lily, and I need Miss Lily. 974 00:54:59,087 --> 00:55:01,328 Miss Lily died, Mr. du Lac. 975 00:55:02,925 --> 00:55:04,256 Two weeks ago. 976 00:55:06,345 --> 00:55:09,337 Police found her under the docks. 977 00:55:09,389 --> 00:55:13,178 Said she contracted the fevers that's been going around. 978 00:55:13,227 --> 00:55:15,889 Blood went and dried up inside her. 979 00:55:15,938 --> 00:55:17,269 Viens a moi. 980 00:55:20,192 --> 00:55:22,854 Father! Father Matthias! 981 00:55:22,903 --> 00:55:24,143 Help me! 982 00:55:26,031 --> 00:55:29,490 Help me, please. He's in my head, Father. 983 00:55:31,703 --> 00:55:34,320 The Devil is in New Orleans. 984 00:55:34,373 --> 00:55:35,613 Calm down, son. 985 00:55:35,666 --> 00:55:36,701 Catch your breath. 986 00:55:38,544 --> 00:55:41,252 Bless me, Father, f-for I have sinned. 987 00:55:41,296 --> 00:55:43,833 Grievously sinned. 988 00:55:43,882 --> 00:55:45,793 Sign of the cross, son. 989 00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:56,425 I'm a drunk, Lord. 990 00:55:56,478 --> 00:55:57,843 I'm a liar. 991 00:55:57,896 --> 00:55:59,261 I am a thief, Lord. 992 00:55:59,314 --> 00:56:01,146 I profit off the miseries of other men, 993 00:56:01,191 --> 00:56:02,272 and I do it easy. 994 00:56:02,317 --> 00:56:04,558 Drugs, liquor, women. 995 00:56:04,611 --> 00:56:07,444 I-I-I-I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord. 996 00:56:07,489 --> 00:56:09,400 I take daughters with no homes 997 00:56:09,449 --> 00:56:12,908 and I-I put 'em out on the street, Lord, 998 00:56:12,953 --> 00:56:15,695 and I lie to myself, saying I-I'm giving them a roof 999 00:56:15,747 --> 00:56:17,454 and food and dollar bills in they pocket, 1000 00:56:17,499 --> 00:56:19,957 but I look in the mirror, I know what I am... 1001 00:56:20,002 --> 00:56:21,743 the big man in the big house, 1002 00:56:21,795 --> 00:56:24,708 stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries. 1003 00:56:24,756 --> 00:56:27,965 And Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me. 1004 00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:32,177 I shame my father. 1005 00:56:32,222 --> 00:56:33,804 I f... I failed my brother. 1006 00:56:33,849 --> 00:56:35,010 No, son. 1007 00:56:35,058 --> 00:56:37,720 I lost my mother and sister, 1008 00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:40,932 and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord, 1009 00:56:40,981 --> 00:56:43,268 I run like a coward. 1010 00:56:43,317 --> 00:56:45,058 I run to the bottle. 1011 00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:46,441 I run to the grift. 1012 00:56:46,486 --> 00:56:48,648 I run to bad beds. 1013 00:56:48,697 --> 00:56:51,109 I-I laid down with a man. 1014 00:56:52,910 --> 00:56:55,527 I laid down with the Devil. 1015 00:56:55,579 --> 00:56:58,287 And he has roots in me, 1016 00:56:58,332 --> 00:57:01,825 all his spindly roots in me, 1017 00:57:01,877 --> 00:57:04,710 and I can't think nothin' anymore 1018 00:57:04,755 --> 00:57:07,873 but his voice and his words! 1019 00:57:07,925 --> 00:57:10,041 Please, help me! 1020 00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:12,175 I am weak! 1021 00:57:13,805 --> 00:57:15,591 I wanna die! 1022 00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:19,425 Oh! 1023 00:57:36,912 --> 00:57:38,949 No! 1024 00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:45,038 Do you think God heard you, Louis, 1025 00:57:45,087 --> 00:57:48,751 in that tawdry box, through this pig vessel, 1026 00:57:48,799 --> 00:57:51,291 this... this charlatan? 1027 00:57:52,970 --> 00:57:55,803 Do you not see how unworthy he is? 1028 00:57:55,847 --> 00:57:58,430 How can you humiliate yourself like this?! 1029 00:58:08,527 --> 00:58:10,609 You killed Lily. 1030 00:58:10,654 --> 00:58:13,817 Cut short that magnificent life she was living. 1031 00:58:13,865 --> 00:58:15,481 What a tragedy. 1032 00:58:15,534 --> 00:58:18,401 Ain't no fever out there. That's you. 1033 00:58:18,453 --> 00:58:20,285 You bringin' the death to town. 1034 00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:21,991 I give death to those deserving. 1035 00:58:24,710 --> 00:58:26,621 I'm not the Devil. 1036 00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:28,456 You were wrong about that. 1037 00:58:29,965 --> 00:58:31,296 But I can give you death. 1038 00:59:24,102 --> 00:59:26,969 This primitive country has picked you clean. 1039 00:59:27,022 --> 00:59:31,391 It has shackled you in permanent exile. 1040 00:59:31,443 --> 00:59:33,354 Every room you enter, 1041 00:59:33,403 --> 00:59:35,064 every hat you are forced to wear... 1042 00:59:35,113 --> 00:59:37,650 the stern landlord, the deferential businessman, 1043 00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:39,030 the loyal son... 1044 00:59:39,076 --> 00:59:40,987 all these roles you conform to 1045 00:59:41,036 --> 00:59:43,573 and none of them your true nature. 1046 00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:48,624 What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. 1047 00:59:51,379 --> 00:59:53,711 The first time I laid eyes on you, 1048 00:59:53,757 --> 00:59:55,668 your beautiful face, 1049 00:59:55,717 --> 00:59:58,175 I saw that sorrow. 1050 00:59:58,220 --> 00:59:59,506 I did not know how it got there 1051 00:59:59,554 --> 01:00:02,387 or why it was so voluminous. 1052 01:00:05,143 --> 01:00:08,431 I can take away that sorrow, Louis. 1053 01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:12,098 I can give you that death 1054 01:00:12,150 --> 01:00:15,518 you begged your feeble, blind, degenerate, 1055 01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:19,438 nonexistent god for. 1056 01:00:19,491 --> 01:00:22,574 But I can do it... 1057 01:00:22,619 --> 01:00:24,530 joyfully. 1058 01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:29,577 I can swap this life of shame, 1059 01:00:29,626 --> 01:00:32,163 swap it out for a dark gift 1060 01:00:32,212 --> 01:00:34,954 and a power you can't begin to imagine. 1061 01:00:37,509 --> 01:00:39,466 You just have to ask me for it. 1062 01:00:41,555 --> 01:00:45,469 You just have to nod your beautiful head... 1063 01:00:45,517 --> 01:00:47,178 and say yes. 1064 01:00:51,189 --> 01:00:52,975 I love you, Louis. 1065 01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:56,400 You are loved. 1066 01:00:58,363 --> 01:01:00,980 I send my love to you, 1067 01:01:01,032 --> 01:01:04,696 and you send it back round to me. 1068 01:01:04,744 --> 01:01:07,827 And this circle, 1069 01:01:07,873 --> 01:01:11,116 this home we barely had a glimpse of... 1070 01:01:14,045 --> 01:01:16,707 know it frightens me as much as it does you. 1071 01:01:16,756 --> 01:01:19,248 It is difficult to explain 1072 01:01:19,301 --> 01:01:22,339 how his words disarmed me, 1073 01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:26,051 how efficiently succinct and impenetrable 1074 01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:28,136 his argument was. 1075 01:01:28,185 --> 01:01:30,017 All my conceptions, 1076 01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:33,053 even my guilt and my wish to die 1077 01:01:33,106 --> 01:01:35,848 seemed utterly unimportant, 1078 01:01:35,901 --> 01:01:38,063 and I completely forgot myself 1079 01:01:38,111 --> 01:01:41,820 and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. 1080 01:01:41,865 --> 01:01:47,702 For the first time in my life, I was seen. 1081 01:01:47,746 --> 01:01:50,613 Be my companion, Louis. 1082 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,959 Be all the beautiful things you are, 1083 01:01:56,004 --> 01:01:58,086 and be them without apology. 1084 01:02:00,467 --> 01:02:02,174 For all eternity. 1085 01:02:19,486 --> 01:02:24,731 He drained me to the very threshold of death. 1086 01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:33,080 Mm. 1087 01:02:55,981 --> 01:03:00,896 The blood, it came as a dull roar at first. 1088 01:03:00,944 --> 01:03:03,686 And then a pounding, 1089 01:03:03,738 --> 01:03:06,605 like the pounding of a drum, 1090 01:03:06,658 --> 01:03:10,947 growing louder and louder, 1091 01:03:10,996 --> 01:03:14,580 as if some enormous creature 1092 01:03:14,624 --> 01:03:19,334 were coming through a dark and alien forest. 1093 01:03:19,379 --> 01:03:21,962 A huge drum. 1094 01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:28,753 And then, there came a pounding of another drum, 1095 01:03:28,805 --> 01:03:31,672 as if another giant were coming behind him, 1096 01:03:31,725 --> 01:03:35,514 each giant intent on his own drum, 1097 01:03:35,562 --> 01:03:38,850 giving no notice to the rhythm of the other. 1098 01:03:38,898 --> 01:03:46,112 Throbbing in my lips, fingers, and flesh of my temple. 1099 01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:51,321 Above all, in my veins. 1100 01:03:51,369 --> 01:03:54,987 Drum, and then the other drum. 1101 01:04:04,632 --> 01:04:07,841 I opened my eyes. 1102 01:04:07,886 --> 01:04:11,971 And it was then that I realized 1103 01:04:12,015 --> 01:04:15,849 the drum was my heart, 1104 01:04:15,894 --> 01:04:19,103 and the other drum had been his. 1105 01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:24,726 I saw him sitting a length away from me. 1106 01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:27,731 Radiant. 1107 01:04:29,074 --> 01:04:31,441 And we sat there for some time. 1108 01:04:33,453 --> 01:04:37,037 In throes of increasing wonder. 1109 01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:45,295 The end. 1110 01:04:47,175 --> 01:04:48,961 The beginning.