1 00:00:16,771 --> 00:00:18,947 As a fledgling vampire, I did not take to killing. 2 00:00:20,862 --> 00:00:22,821 You really have earned your 15%. 3 00:00:22,864 --> 00:00:24,605 You truly are an exceptional Negro. 4 00:00:24,649 --> 00:00:29,132 I had powers now, and decades of rage to process. 5 00:00:29,175 --> 00:00:31,047 I wanna buy the Fair Play Saloon. 6 00:00:31,090 --> 00:00:33,832 That's a mighty tall ladder you're climbing, Mr. du Lac. 7 00:00:33,875 --> 00:00:35,616 Never gon' have a family of my own, am I? 8 00:00:37,053 --> 00:00:38,402 I no longer kill. 9 00:00:38,445 --> 00:00:39,794 You don't have to humiliate him. 10 00:00:41,231 --> 00:00:44,016 Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis! 11 00:01:21,706 --> 00:01:24,839 No, sir. 12 00:01:24,883 --> 00:01:26,276 There's a column in here 13 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,495 about the history of this lovely square. 14 00:01:28,539 --> 00:01:30,280 It says that the man who designed it 15 00:01:30,323 --> 00:01:33,457 did so after the Place de Vosges in Paris. 16 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:35,285 I can see that. 17 00:01:35,328 --> 00:01:36,895 Used to be called the Place d'Armes. 18 00:01:36,938 --> 00:01:38,244 I prefer that. Don't you? 19 00:01:38,288 --> 00:01:39,941 Mm-hmm. 20 00:01:39,985 --> 00:01:43,075 The Louisiana Purchase was signed here. 21 00:01:43,119 --> 00:01:45,295 Penny wise, franc foolish. 22 00:01:45,338 --> 00:01:48,124 Say anything about how they used to take runaway slaves, 23 00:01:48,167 --> 00:01:49,429 cut their heads off, 24 00:01:49,473 --> 00:01:53,216 and pike them on the iron gates as a warning? 25 00:01:53,259 --> 00:01:55,000 I'm only half way through. Let's see. 26 00:01:57,568 --> 00:02:01,049 Do you ever think that we... that's to say, our kind... 27 00:02:01,093 --> 00:02:04,923 were put on Earth for a larger purpose? 28 00:02:04,966 --> 00:02:07,273 I put you on this earth. 29 00:02:07,317 --> 00:02:09,275 Your purpose is to enjoy yourself. 30 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:11,016 That can't be all there is. 31 00:02:11,059 --> 00:02:12,713 I know you don't believe that. 32 00:02:12,757 --> 00:02:14,193 Well, tell me what I believe, Louis. 33 00:02:14,237 --> 00:02:15,454 Excavate the hoarded thoughts buried 34 00:02:15,499 --> 00:02:17,762 beneath my damned soul. 35 00:02:17,805 --> 00:02:19,546 We can eat animals and be okay. 36 00:02:19,590 --> 00:02:21,287 Rats, cats, cattle. 37 00:02:21,331 --> 00:02:24,290 Is "okay" what you desire, Louis? 38 00:02:24,334 --> 00:02:25,726 Shall we walk the night 39 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:27,511 as the gods of easily attainable dreams? 40 00:02:27,554 --> 00:02:31,950 I desire blood as much as you do. 41 00:02:31,993 --> 00:02:35,519 But I wonder, should we be more selective? 42 00:02:35,562 --> 00:02:38,043 What, only eat red-heads? The humanists? 43 00:02:38,086 --> 00:02:40,393 Define your terms. The worst of them. 44 00:02:40,437 --> 00:02:43,266 And how would we go about determining that? 45 00:02:43,309 --> 00:02:45,529 We use our powers, read their minds. 46 00:02:45,572 --> 00:02:48,140 Hunting is pure instinct. 47 00:02:48,184 --> 00:02:50,925 Reason is a set of leg irons. 48 00:02:50,969 --> 00:02:54,233 The ones you admire... the poets, composers, 49 00:02:54,277 --> 00:02:56,801 the thoughtful man who designed this park 50 00:02:56,844 --> 00:02:58,672 you love so much... 51 00:02:58,716 --> 00:03:01,980 shouldn't we spare them the randomness of our killing? 52 00:03:02,023 --> 00:03:04,200 Every one of them is capable of abomination, 53 00:03:04,243 --> 00:03:05,810 even the ones worthy of admiration. 54 00:03:05,853 --> 00:03:10,249 Shakespeare, Brahms, this naturalist that fogs your mind. 55 00:03:10,293 --> 00:03:11,511 Got it off your bookshelf. 56 00:03:11,555 --> 00:03:12,947 Thrust them into circumstance, 57 00:03:12,991 --> 00:03:15,211 whisper to them their Lord, God and Savior 58 00:03:15,254 --> 00:03:16,560 is not listening, and you will see 59 00:03:16,603 --> 00:03:19,258 all kinds of depravity. 60 00:03:19,302 --> 00:03:23,001 They came from apes. We came from them. 61 00:03:23,043 --> 00:03:24,611 We should be better than they are. 62 00:03:24,655 --> 00:03:27,962 You refer to them as "they" to get on my better side. 63 00:03:29,616 --> 00:03:32,315 Try something for me, mon cher. 64 00:03:32,358 --> 00:03:34,578 Say we come upon a murderer 65 00:03:34,621 --> 00:03:37,406 planting a flowerbed, thinking only of flowers. 66 00:03:37,450 --> 00:03:39,322 How long do we wait before his bloody deeds 67 00:03:39,365 --> 00:03:41,541 reveal themselves? As long as it takes. 68 00:03:41,585 --> 00:03:43,108 You haven't thought this through, Louis. 69 00:03:43,151 --> 00:03:45,502 You said you would try. 70 00:03:45,545 --> 00:03:49,332 Man Only another mile. 71 00:03:49,375 --> 00:03:51,769 So inebriated, he's worried he'll urinate all over himself. 72 00:03:51,812 --> 00:03:53,858 He's just a drunk. 73 00:03:53,901 --> 00:03:55,990 Man 74 00:03:56,034 --> 00:03:57,557 She ain't never gon' miss it. 75 00:03:57,601 --> 00:04:00,255 Stealing from his mother for a new suit. 76 00:04:00,298 --> 00:04:02,606 Petty larceny. Starts with a suit. 77 00:04:02,649 --> 00:04:04,564 Soon, he'll be knocking over banks. 78 00:04:04,608 --> 00:04:06,000 You gon' take this serious or not? 79 00:04:06,043 --> 00:04:07,306 Wait. 80 00:04:07,350 --> 00:04:09,482 What's that I hear? Ah, yes. 81 00:04:09,526 --> 00:04:11,876 It's the angel of salvation passing over us. 82 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:16,968 Man Everybody's so stupid. 83 00:04:17,011 --> 00:04:19,013 Him. 84 00:04:19,057 --> 00:04:20,363 He steals from unfortunates, 85 00:04:20,406 --> 00:04:22,103 breaks into tenements 86 00:04:22,147 --> 00:04:25,324 and robs them of their meager possessions. 87 00:04:25,368 --> 00:04:27,805 And does that meet your satisfaction? 88 00:04:36,466 --> 00:04:38,206 Don't mind the shaking. I've snapped his spine. 89 00:04:38,250 --> 00:04:40,165 It's merely his nerves spasming. 90 00:04:42,689 --> 00:04:44,822 Well, go on. Here's your criminal biscuit. 91 00:04:44,865 --> 00:04:46,563 See how it tastes. 92 00:04:50,393 --> 00:04:54,135 Eat before your reason or his heart fails us. 93 00:05:19,857 --> 00:05:21,511 New singer. 94 00:05:21,554 --> 00:05:25,645 She says she heard about the Azalea all the way in Atlanta. 95 00:05:25,689 --> 00:05:29,823 They talking about this place in Atlanta. 96 00:05:29,867 --> 00:05:31,085 You're angry. 97 00:05:31,129 --> 00:05:32,696 I'm pondering. 98 00:05:32,739 --> 00:05:34,437 Pondering what? 99 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:35,916 Your night had nothing to do 100 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,397 with ridding the world of criminals 101 00:05:38,441 --> 00:05:42,096 or finding some morality to buoy your existence. 102 00:05:44,185 --> 00:05:46,710 You're ashamed of what we are. 103 00:05:46,753 --> 00:05:49,321 Maybe I'm just pondering what I am. 104 00:05:50,670 --> 00:05:54,544 For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire. 105 00:05:54,587 --> 00:05:57,764 Could you not use the word in my place of business? 106 00:05:57,808 --> 00:05:59,462 Place of business. 107 00:05:59,505 --> 00:06:02,682 A cover, an illusion to throw off the scent of the dogs. 108 00:06:02,726 --> 00:06:05,381 This illusion is fronting a dozen businesses 109 00:06:05,424 --> 00:06:07,339 up and down Claiborne. Yes, yes. 110 00:06:07,383 --> 00:06:09,080 For every 20 people he kills, 111 00:06:09,123 --> 00:06:11,430 he makes one small businessman's dreams come true. 112 00:06:11,474 --> 00:06:14,694 Louis de Pointe du Lac, the Dark Prince of Iberville. 113 00:06:19,612 --> 00:06:23,137 Antoinette Brown, and I will be here all night long. 114 00:06:26,750 --> 00:06:30,144 I don't wanna kill people anymore. 115 00:06:30,188 --> 00:06:31,798 There it is. 116 00:06:34,018 --> 00:06:36,760 A fish that doesn't swim. 117 00:06:36,803 --> 00:06:38,501 A bird refusing to fly. 118 00:06:43,767 --> 00:06:46,160 You're going to struggle. 119 00:06:46,204 --> 00:06:48,946 I fear for the feline population of New Orleans. 120 00:06:48,989 --> 00:06:50,556 Mm. 121 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,210 Your pianist has lost his passion. 122 00:06:52,253 --> 00:06:55,431 What? Mr. Morton, you have played 123 00:06:55,474 --> 00:06:56,997 the same melody, the very same way, 124 00:06:57,041 --> 00:06:58,608 for two weeks now. 125 00:06:58,651 --> 00:07:00,914 Your talent is immense, but your mind is elsewhere. 126 00:07:00,957 --> 00:07:02,394 Think you could do better, Jack? 127 00:07:02,438 --> 00:07:03,787 Well, I'm not being paid a small fortune 128 00:07:03,830 --> 00:07:05,179 on top of that tip jar to perform. 129 00:07:05,223 --> 00:07:07,007 My skills are irrelevant. 130 00:07:07,051 --> 00:07:10,184 People didn't come to hear you jabber, Mr. Lioncourt. 131 00:07:10,228 --> 00:07:12,491 Well, they didn't come here to hear you play either. 132 00:07:12,535 --> 00:07:14,232 Otherwise, you'd be in a concert hall 133 00:07:14,275 --> 00:07:15,842 and there'd be fewer prostitutes. 134 00:07:15,886 --> 00:07:19,063 Shut the hell up and let him play. 135 00:07:19,106 --> 00:07:20,456 This ain't your kinda music. 136 00:07:20,499 --> 00:07:23,197 You can pretend you're a vegetarian. 137 00:07:23,241 --> 00:07:25,548 I can pretend the fool. 138 00:07:26,984 --> 00:07:28,551 There he goes. 139 00:07:33,033 --> 00:07:35,601 Be my guest. Thank you. 140 00:07:35,645 --> 00:07:40,476 For our boys being shipped off to Europe, know your enemy. 141 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:42,565 What's wrong with that man? 142 00:07:44,654 --> 00:07:46,220 Oh, hell no! 143 00:07:50,877 --> 00:07:53,271 Oh, didn't that get your dick wet, gents? 144 00:07:53,314 --> 00:07:54,794 Rate your limits, Mr. Morton. 145 00:07:54,838 --> 00:07:56,622 What you hear is genius. 146 00:07:56,666 --> 00:08:00,582 All I hear is a man who's never gotten his dick wet. 147 00:08:00,626 --> 00:08:02,715 Actually, the man had 20 children in his lifetime, 148 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:05,370 and you're sort of stuck on that wet-dick zinger, Ferdinand. 149 00:08:07,546 --> 00:08:09,853 It's like your left hand on the piano, 150 00:08:09,896 --> 00:08:11,594 little walking patterns, isn't it? 151 00:08:31,875 --> 00:08:33,659 He admitted later there was nothing wrong 152 00:08:33,703 --> 00:08:36,444 with Jelly Roll's playing, only something he overheard 153 00:08:36,488 --> 00:08:39,926 in an alleyway... a steady gig for the band in Chicago. 154 00:08:39,970 --> 00:08:42,494 Jelly was going to leave me high and dry in a few days, 155 00:08:42,538 --> 00:08:44,235 and Lestat took umbrage. 156 00:08:44,278 --> 00:08:46,890 If I'm not mistaken, he improv’d the melody 157 00:08:46,933 --> 00:08:49,022 for what would later become the "Wolverine Blues". 158 00:08:49,066 --> 00:08:50,284 Wai... wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 159 00:08:50,328 --> 00:08:51,851 Hold on there. 160 00:08:51,895 --> 00:08:55,159 You're saying Lestat wrote the "Wolverine Blues"? 161 00:08:55,202 --> 00:08:56,464 I can't be definitive. 162 00:08:56,508 --> 00:08:58,249 So much of that year was a blur. 163 00:08:58,292 --> 00:09:01,121 And you can imagine what time's inevitable hammer 164 00:09:01,165 --> 00:09:03,297 does to the minute details. 165 00:09:03,341 --> 00:09:04,516 This? 166 00:09:09,129 --> 00:09:10,348 Yes, that's it. 167 00:09:10,391 --> 00:09:11,915 Uh-huh. 168 00:09:13,612 --> 00:09:14,918 Yeah, you know, I... I gotta say, 169 00:09:14,961 --> 00:09:17,311 it's not so much the minute details, Louis, 170 00:09:17,355 --> 00:09:20,445 rather the total rewrite that's giving me pause here. 171 00:09:20,488 --> 00:09:22,534 I mean, 1973… 172 00:09:22,578 --> 00:09:24,144 : He was a sow's ear, 173 00:09:24,188 --> 00:09:26,625 out of which nothing fine could be made. 174 00:09:26,669 --> 00:09:28,584 I was his complete superior, 175 00:09:28,627 --> 00:09:31,848 and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher. 176 00:09:31,891 --> 00:09:33,937 2022.. 177 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:37,288 : It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire. 178 00:09:37,331 --> 00:09:39,725 And I found myself, for the very first time, 179 00:09:39,769 --> 00:09:41,771 to anyone other than Paul, 180 00:09:41,814 --> 00:09:44,034 confiding my struggles to another man. 181 00:09:44,077 --> 00:09:45,731 San Francisco.. 182 00:09:45,775 --> 00:09:49,169 : He appeared frail and stupid to me, 183 00:09:49,213 --> 00:09:53,739 a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice. 184 00:09:53,783 --> 00:09:55,741 Dubai.. 185 00:09:55,785 --> 00:09:59,963 : I never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone, 186 00:10:00,006 --> 00:10:02,008 much less a man. 187 00:10:02,052 --> 00:10:05,621 Lestat had surrounded me. 188 00:10:05,664 --> 00:10:08,754 The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait. 189 00:10:08,798 --> 00:10:11,539 Hmm. Or the more rehearsed. 190 00:10:11,583 --> 00:10:14,673 Perhaps I was mistaken about the "Wolverine Blues". 191 00:10:14,717 --> 00:10:16,762 Fuck the "Wolverine Blues". 192 00:10:16,806 --> 00:10:18,415 Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. 193 00:10:18,459 --> 00:10:20,200 It's the abused-abuser 194 00:10:20,244 --> 00:10:23,421 psychological relationship I'm talking about. 195 00:10:23,464 --> 00:10:25,466 I do not consider myself abused. 196 00:10:25,510 --> 00:10:28,034 I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, 197 00:10:28,078 --> 00:10:31,429 the abused still loves the abuser, 198 00:10:31,472 --> 00:10:33,823 but you flipped it completely on its head. 199 00:10:33,866 --> 00:10:35,389 I'm not a victim. 200 00:10:35,433 --> 00:10:36,608 50 years later, you talk like 201 00:10:36,652 --> 00:10:38,871 he was your soul mate, li... like... 202 00:10:38,915 --> 00:10:44,442 like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. 203 00:10:44,485 --> 00:10:45,791 Why? 204 00:10:45,835 --> 00:10:47,750 "I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror 205 00:10:47,793 --> 00:10:51,188 at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, 206 00:10:51,231 --> 00:10:54,278 a guy I didn't know, the last 30 bucks I had. 207 00:10:54,321 --> 00:10:55,845 My editor reminds me, 208 00:10:55,888 --> 00:10:59,022 it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. 209 00:10:59,065 --> 00:11:02,982 My ex-wife reminds me, I never owned a Buick. 210 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,596 This is the odyssey of recollection." 211 00:11:12,688 --> 00:11:16,822 The tapes are an admitted performance. 212 00:11:17,823 --> 00:11:21,827 This is the premise of our interview. 213 00:11:21,871 --> 00:11:27,528 Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. 214 00:11:37,451 --> 00:11:39,715 Now who's performing? 215 00:12:03,782 --> 00:12:06,045 You were the prince of your district. 216 00:12:06,089 --> 00:12:07,612 Lestat chased an American icon 217 00:12:07,655 --> 00:12:10,833 outta town because he loved you. 218 00:12:10,876 --> 00:12:14,488 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year. 219 00:12:14,532 --> 00:12:17,361 Rigged to burn, Daniel. 220 00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:20,277 A silent bridge for your voice to float along. 221 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,540 You talk like you play, Mr. Lioncourt. 222 00:12:22,583 --> 00:12:25,935 Lestat filled in for Jelly the next night. 223 00:12:25,978 --> 00:12:28,502 He and Miss Brown dazzled the waiting johns 224 00:12:28,546 --> 00:12:31,767 and invited their admirers back to the Rue Royale. 225 00:12:31,810 --> 00:12:34,987 So, the last one to leave never left? 226 00:12:35,031 --> 00:12:36,772 No. 227 00:12:36,815 --> 00:12:39,165 He would do his killing away from me now, 228 00:12:39,209 --> 00:12:41,820 out of respect, he said, for the choice I had made. 229 00:12:44,170 --> 00:12:45,650 'Round the back. 230 00:12:48,566 --> 00:12:50,611 The frolicking repeated itself 231 00:12:50,655 --> 00:12:52,962 every night for two weeks. 232 00:12:53,005 --> 00:12:54,702 They would add another song to their set 233 00:12:54,746 --> 00:12:56,139 and work on another at night, 234 00:12:56,182 --> 00:13:00,012 while I tried to adapt to my new diet. 235 00:13:00,056 --> 00:13:02,798 I barely had the energy to hold up a book. 236 00:13:02,841 --> 00:13:04,103 My libido was not what it had been. 237 00:13:05,626 --> 00:13:07,367 I understood the indulgence. 238 00:13:07,411 --> 00:13:08,847 I let it happen. 239 00:13:08,891 --> 00:13:10,936 Mr. Louis, you have to convince Lestat 240 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:12,590 to keep playing. 241 00:13:12,633 --> 00:13:15,985 Got a better chance making the Mississippi run north. 242 00:13:16,028 --> 00:13:17,595 We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. 243 00:13:17,638 --> 00:13:19,379 I do everything for Louis. 244 00:13:19,423 --> 00:13:21,164 Yeah, I heard that about you two. 245 00:13:21,207 --> 00:13:23,340 Oh? Well, what have you heard? 246 00:13:23,383 --> 00:13:24,689 I'm not a gossip. 247 00:13:24,732 --> 00:13:26,212 But I am. 248 00:13:26,256 --> 00:13:30,086 Well, people at the Azalea, they say... 249 00:13:30,129 --> 00:13:33,306 You're confusing me. 250 00:13:33,350 --> 00:13:36,309 Oh, come now. 251 00:13:36,353 --> 00:13:37,920 I don't bite. 252 00:13:40,879 --> 00:13:42,576 What do the employees of the Azalea say 253 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:44,535 about Louis and Lestat? 254 00:13:44,578 --> 00:13:45,841 I'll answer with a question. 255 00:13:45,884 --> 00:13:47,016 Mm-hmm. 256 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:50,584 Are there two beds upstairs or one? 257 00:13:50,628 --> 00:13:51,847 Do you want to find out? 258 00:13:51,890 --> 00:13:53,936 No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown. 259 00:13:53,979 --> 00:13:55,938 Well, there's my answer. 260 00:13:55,981 --> 00:14:01,421 Still, what do you imagine confines us to a single note? 261 00:14:01,465 --> 00:14:04,555 Why not a chord? Why not a cluster? 262 00:14:04,598 --> 00:14:06,600 Oh, see, I'm the same. 263 00:14:06,644 --> 00:14:08,646 I like all sorts. 264 00:14:08,689 --> 00:14:10,474 I like soft hands. 265 00:14:10,517 --> 00:14:15,609 I like burnished complexions. 266 00:14:15,653 --> 00:14:17,785 I like men called Daddy. 267 00:14:20,614 --> 00:14:25,358 Oh, your blouse is soaked in champagne. 268 00:14:25,402 --> 00:14:27,665 Bad Daddy. 269 00:14:27,708 --> 00:14:30,059 I was beginning to wonder about your manners. 270 00:14:30,102 --> 00:14:31,364 I'm hungry. 271 00:14:31,408 --> 00:14:33,584 Think I'm gon' get something to eat. 272 00:14:33,627 --> 00:14:35,934 Is the animal market still open? 273 00:14:35,978 --> 00:14:38,806 Enjoy yourselves. It's the purpose of living. 274 00:14:41,897 --> 00:14:44,203 He gets that way when he's hungry. 275 00:14:54,692 --> 00:14:56,476 She burn quick? 276 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,217 See for yourself. 277 00:15:02,004 --> 00:15:05,268 A dentist from Tallahassee. 278 00:15:05,311 --> 00:15:08,314 There's a dentistry convention in town. 279 00:15:08,358 --> 00:15:13,624 Sinister talk of molars and bicuspids around every corner. 280 00:15:13,667 --> 00:15:15,626 So, you didn't kill her. 281 00:15:15,669 --> 00:15:17,062 No. 282 00:15:17,106 --> 00:15:18,890 She has talents. 283 00:15:22,285 --> 00:15:23,939 Aren't I enough? 284 00:15:27,464 --> 00:15:28,465 D... Don't... 285 00:15:28,508 --> 00:15:29,901 Don't laugh. 286 00:15:29,945 --> 00:15:33,078 Louis. 287 00:15:33,122 --> 00:15:35,080 Don't laugh. Louis. 288 00:15:35,124 --> 00:15:37,735 Louis. 289 00:15:37,778 --> 00:15:39,084 You have some squirrel on your... 290 00:15:39,128 --> 00:15:40,520 No, don't. 291 00:15:40,564 --> 00:15:44,002 We'll be together 10,000, nights, 100,000. 292 00:15:44,046 --> 00:15:45,961 What we're doing is hard. 293 00:15:46,004 --> 00:15:48,746 Anything that wards off the dungs 294 00:15:48,789 --> 00:15:50,574 of the everlasting road we walk, 295 00:15:50,617 --> 00:15:53,533 the pleasures of the flesh, 296 00:15:53,577 --> 00:15:57,102 the pleasures of the kill, for me. 297 00:15:57,146 --> 00:16:00,845 Pleasures of the Good Book by the fire for you. 298 00:16:00,888 --> 00:16:02,586 I can smell her on you. 299 00:16:05,023 --> 00:16:09,985 From time to time, I like a little variety. 300 00:16:13,379 --> 00:16:17,165 There. I said it. 301 00:16:17,209 --> 00:16:19,472 We're communicating so much better now, no? 302 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,003 So, I can fuck whoever I want? 303 00:16:29,308 --> 00:16:31,919 Of course. 304 00:16:31,963 --> 00:16:34,270 Of course. 305 00:16:34,313 --> 00:16:36,141 Of course. 306 00:16:36,185 --> 00:16:38,665 As long as you come home to me. 307 00:16:38,709 --> 00:16:41,059 Of course. 308 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,020 While the domestic front simmered on a diet 309 00:16:45,063 --> 00:16:47,370 of sanctioned infidelity, 310 00:16:47,413 --> 00:16:51,374 the Western Front started receiving American troops. 311 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:54,942 New Orleans was the last stop before France 312 00:16:54,986 --> 00:16:57,684 for many young men. 313 00:16:57,728 --> 00:17:00,599 And City Ordinance 4118 314 00:17:00,644 --> 00:17:04,039 tried to ensure Uncle Sam's money went into the right hands. 315 00:17:04,082 --> 00:17:07,346 Ordinance 4118. 316 00:17:07,390 --> 00:17:09,348 I could Google it, or you could... 317 00:17:09,392 --> 00:17:11,915 A hastily composed attempt by the city 318 00:17:11,959 --> 00:17:14,397 to segregate Storyville. 319 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,399 It required that all prostitutes 320 00:17:16,442 --> 00:17:18,444 of colored or Black race 321 00:17:18,488 --> 00:17:21,534 move their business across Canal Street. 322 00:17:21,578 --> 00:17:24,233 This was the heart of my business, 323 00:17:24,276 --> 00:17:26,539 what the Azalea was known for. 324 00:17:26,583 --> 00:17:30,065 The very men who signed the ordinance into law 325 00:17:30,108 --> 00:17:32,458 were some of my best clients. 326 00:17:32,502 --> 00:17:36,201 It was an absurdity, an affront to a Creole man 327 00:17:36,245 --> 00:17:38,682 who had outpaced his fair-skinned competitors. 328 00:17:38,725 --> 00:17:40,379 How'd you manage it? 329 00:17:40,423 --> 00:17:41,902 I gave five percent of the business to my girls, 330 00:17:41,946 --> 00:17:43,208 made them all owners. 331 00:17:43,252 --> 00:17:44,775 How's that help you? 332 00:17:44,818 --> 00:17:46,690 Lawyer said if they were owners, we can file a writ, 333 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:49,562 saying 4118 was a... 334 00:17:49,606 --> 00:17:50,911 How’d you put it, Bricks? 335 00:17:50,955 --> 00:17:52,478 Deprives us the use of our property 336 00:17:52,522 --> 00:17:55,438 without due process of law, denying us equal protection 337 00:17:55,481 --> 00:17:58,223 under the Constitution of the United States. 338 00:17:58,267 --> 00:18:01,270 Sounds like some kind of Russian Bolshevik scheme. 339 00:18:01,313 --> 00:18:02,923 You diddled the man's money, 340 00:18:02,967 --> 00:18:05,056 and he bought himself an end-around. 341 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:07,667 It's pure capitalism, Mr. Fenwick. 342 00:18:07,711 --> 00:18:09,104 Thank you, Tom. 343 00:18:09,147 --> 00:18:11,889 Unorthodox business mind under that hat, Louis. 344 00:18:11,932 --> 00:18:15,893 No security guard on the door, lets a woman count his coin. 345 00:18:15,936 --> 00:18:17,199 No offense, Miss Williams. 346 00:18:17,242 --> 00:18:18,635 Been called a cunny, a cow, 347 00:18:18,678 --> 00:18:20,289 and a bitch that ate a thousand dicks. 348 00:18:20,332 --> 00:18:22,595 You wanna apologize for calling me a woman? 349 00:18:22,639 --> 00:18:23,857 Whoo, leave your wife. 350 00:18:23,901 --> 00:18:25,685 I'll make you a happy man, Mr. Anderson 351 00:18:25,729 --> 00:18:27,470 Bricks don't take wooden nickels, 352 00:18:27,513 --> 00:18:30,908 and I'm the only security this place needs. 353 00:18:30,951 --> 00:18:32,910 Christ on a cracker. 354 00:18:32,953 --> 00:18:34,259 We're writing another ordinance. 355 00:18:34,303 --> 00:18:35,521 You know that, don't you? 356 00:18:35,565 --> 00:18:37,132 The council is not your problem, Louis. 357 00:18:37,175 --> 00:18:40,744 It's Woodrow Wilson, this war he's backed us all into. 358 00:18:40,787 --> 00:18:42,659 You think you're printing money here? 359 00:18:42,702 --> 00:18:44,139 Them hay pennies compared 360 00:18:44,182 --> 00:18:45,488 to what the build up's brought the city here. 361 00:18:45,531 --> 00:18:46,924 Just ask Mr. Anderson here. 362 00:18:46,967 --> 00:18:48,621 Not as colorful as club ownership, 363 00:18:48,665 --> 00:18:51,146 but you'd be amazed at the high pile 364 00:18:51,189 --> 00:18:52,930 made supplying the military camps 365 00:18:52,973 --> 00:18:55,715 with cigarettes, chocolates, and prophylactics. 366 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,892 Well, I'm doing my part to see them jimmy hats get used. 367 00:18:58,936 --> 00:19:01,721 Son, I can tell you, the Navy doesn't see it that way. 368 00:19:01,765 --> 00:19:03,897 You got 400 men over at Charity 369 00:19:03,941 --> 00:19:05,247 getting treatment for the clap. 370 00:19:05,290 --> 00:19:07,771 I got pristine pussies walking my floor. 371 00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:10,165 Now I'm offended. 372 00:19:10,208 --> 00:19:11,862 Washington's making us choose, Louis. 373 00:19:11,905 --> 00:19:14,517 It's either win the war or fuck the whore. 374 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,216 Well, Council's just stalling for time, chasing race. 375 00:19:18,260 --> 00:19:20,087 Don't feel like a stall. 376 00:19:20,131 --> 00:19:21,915 Feel a little beside the point. 377 00:19:23,743 --> 00:19:26,659 Feel like a boot on my neck. 378 00:19:26,703 --> 00:19:30,141 He's one man on a council of 17, Louis. 379 00:19:30,185 --> 00:19:31,882 Maybe he's still sideways 380 00:19:31,925 --> 00:19:34,232 ‘cos I turned down his 15%. 381 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:39,759 Yeah, I'll admit, I prefer the days 382 00:19:39,803 --> 00:19:42,022 you let us win on occasion, days of deference. 383 00:19:42,066 --> 00:19:44,677 What is it? 384 00:19:44,721 --> 00:19:46,810 There's a gentleman asking for you, Mr. du Lac. 385 00:19:46,853 --> 00:19:48,551 A man in uniform. 386 00:19:48,594 --> 00:19:50,248 What I say, Mr. Anderson? 387 00:19:50,292 --> 00:19:52,468 The war's come a-knockin'. 388 00:19:54,252 --> 00:19:55,732 Cash me out. 389 00:19:59,605 --> 00:20:01,477 Oh, Good Lord. 390 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,000 Jonah? 391 00:20:03,043 --> 00:20:04,523 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 392 00:20:04,567 --> 00:20:06,960 Jonah Macon. 393 00:20:07,004 --> 00:20:08,397 How long's it been? 394 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,007 A day and forever. 395 00:20:10,050 --> 00:20:11,574 Told Grace you wouldn't remember me. 396 00:20:11,617 --> 00:20:15,142 'Course I remem... You're enlisted? 397 00:20:15,186 --> 00:20:18,276 Ain't you good at noticing what's plain? 398 00:20:21,845 --> 00:20:23,412 You seen Grace? 399 00:20:23,455 --> 00:20:25,240 Saw her this morning, getting the yard ready 400 00:20:25,283 --> 00:20:27,024 for a birthday party. 401 00:20:27,067 --> 00:20:29,113 Oh, yeah, right. Twins. 402 00:20:29,156 --> 00:20:30,636 She got twin girls. 403 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,203 Could barely keep her head straight, 404 00:20:32,247 --> 00:20:35,032 all those kids running round, tugging at her dress. 405 00:20:35,075 --> 00:20:37,164 So, you a big-shot businessman now. 406 00:20:39,428 --> 00:20:41,517 Heard about Paul. 407 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,519 Yeah. 408 00:20:43,562 --> 00:20:45,216 Paul. 409 00:20:47,218 --> 00:20:48,393 Where you been, Jonah? 410 00:20:48,437 --> 00:20:51,048 Philadelphia for a spell, hotel work. 411 00:20:51,091 --> 00:20:53,268 Then, a gunpowder mill in Delaware. 412 00:20:53,311 --> 00:20:55,052 Fella working next to me blew off three fingers. 413 00:20:55,095 --> 00:20:57,533 I saw enough. Hell. 414 00:20:57,576 --> 00:20:59,665 Thought this might be a way to rise through the ranks, 415 00:20:59,709 --> 00:21:01,798 and... and all that. 416 00:21:01,841 --> 00:21:06,846 Look like you already rose up, and by a fair amount. 417 00:21:06,890 --> 00:21:08,108 I done all right. 418 00:21:08,152 --> 00:21:09,414 Done all right? You own all this. 419 00:21:09,458 --> 00:21:11,373 Sign me up for "done all right". 420 00:21:16,073 --> 00:21:17,857 You ever think about those old days 421 00:21:17,901 --> 00:21:20,164 when we were kids? 422 00:21:23,254 --> 00:21:25,648 How long you here for? 423 00:21:25,691 --> 00:21:30,392 Couple of nights. In the boat over the ocean. 424 00:21:30,435 --> 00:21:31,915 Me and a couple thousand other fellas wearing 425 00:21:31,958 --> 00:21:33,569 this same costume. 426 00:21:35,875 --> 00:21:38,095 You think this is nice? 427 00:21:38,138 --> 00:21:40,924 Wait till you see my pretty automobile. 428 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:44,057 Louis de Pointe du Lac. 429 00:21:50,890 --> 00:21:52,588 Nothing much changed here, I see. 430 00:21:52,631 --> 00:21:54,329 Crickets and katydids. 431 00:21:56,548 --> 00:21:59,290 You gon' ruin those sharp shoes in this mud. 432 00:21:59,334 --> 00:22:02,293 I got another pair back at home. 433 00:22:02,337 --> 00:22:04,164 I'll bet you do. 434 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:06,341 Easy living Louis. 435 00:22:06,384 --> 00:22:09,692 There's nothing easy about my life, I'll tell you that. 436 00:22:09,735 --> 00:22:12,303 Well, you've been blessed. 437 00:22:12,347 --> 00:22:16,263 Ain't aged a day since I seen you last. 438 00:22:16,307 --> 00:22:18,875 That's the moonlight lying is all. 439 00:22:21,443 --> 00:22:25,490 You worried about going over there? 440 00:22:25,534 --> 00:22:27,318 Some nights. 441 00:22:27,362 --> 00:22:28,754 I mean, my squad's all colored, 442 00:22:28,798 --> 00:22:30,495 so we mostly gon' be in the rear, 443 00:22:30,539 --> 00:22:32,279 supply lines and shit. 444 00:22:32,323 --> 00:22:33,890 than getting shot at for a country 445 00:22:33,933 --> 00:22:36,545 makes you use the side entrance. 446 00:22:36,588 --> 00:22:38,547 And most of why I signed up is I kept hearing 447 00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:40,940 something about something they call 448 00:22:40,984 --> 00:22:43,943 "European sensibilities". 449 00:22:43,987 --> 00:22:48,470 They care less what you look like or who you're looking at. 450 00:22:52,778 --> 00:22:55,128 Yeah, I got someone. 451 00:22:55,172 --> 00:22:57,783 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 452 00:22:57,827 --> 00:22:59,306 Not a woman. 453 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,050 Well, what's he like? 454 00:23:04,094 --> 00:23:07,358 He's...a lot. 455 00:23:07,402 --> 00:23:08,577 It's not perfect. 456 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,492 Mm-hmm. 457 00:23:10,535 --> 00:23:14,974 But we kind of have this agreement. 458 00:23:15,018 --> 00:23:17,542 One of those "you can drive out to the bayou" 459 00:23:17,586 --> 00:23:19,326 kind of agreements? 460 00:23:22,373 --> 00:23:26,246 Good fit, this, uh, uniform. 461 00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:29,467 Well, it's the moonlight. 462 00:24:42,584 --> 00:24:45,195 Hello. Hello. 463 00:24:45,935 --> 00:24:47,284 How was your night? 464 00:24:47,327 --> 00:24:51,810 Fine. Yours? 465 00:24:51,854 --> 00:24:53,420 Fine. 466 00:24:56,641 --> 00:24:59,426 He found me, you know. 467 00:24:59,470 --> 00:25:02,081 Went to my old house on Esplanade. 468 00:25:02,125 --> 00:25:04,083 Grace told him where to find me. 469 00:25:04,127 --> 00:25:05,781 An old love. 470 00:25:07,957 --> 00:25:11,482 We had a few early fumbles. 471 00:25:11,526 --> 00:25:15,486 He was 16. I was...older. 472 00:25:17,662 --> 00:25:20,317 We both knew, even then, we were a little different. 473 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:21,884 Hmm. 474 00:25:21,927 --> 00:25:23,886 How's Antoinette? 475 00:25:23,929 --> 00:25:25,583 Tedious. 476 00:25:25,627 --> 00:25:27,803 No, I don't see that happening again. 477 00:25:27,846 --> 00:25:30,675 These affairs always flame out. 478 00:25:30,719 --> 00:25:32,547 Shall we have a night out tomorrow? 479 00:25:32,590 --> 00:25:37,073 I was gonna go see Grace and the kids, keep up appearances. 480 00:25:37,116 --> 00:25:38,857 How 'bout after? 481 00:25:38,901 --> 00:25:41,120 Fine. 482 00:25:41,164 --> 00:25:42,600 Lock us in, would you? 483 00:25:51,174 --> 00:25:52,523 Many streets in New Orleans 484 00:25:52,567 --> 00:25:54,873 weren't paved at the time. 485 00:25:56,571 --> 00:25:59,182 The mud on his boots could have come from anywhere. 486 00:25:59,225 --> 00:26:01,097 Was it raining that night? 487 00:26:02,794 --> 00:26:04,840 Yeah, I got someone. 488 00:26:04,883 --> 00:26:07,843 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 489 00:26:07,886 --> 00:26:09,540 Not a woman. 490 00:26:12,108 --> 00:26:13,500 Did it rain? 491 00:26:16,025 --> 00:26:18,593 Yeah, I got someone. 492 00:26:18,636 --> 00:26:21,465 I figured as much. No ring on your finger? 493 00:26:21,508 --> 00:26:23,598 Not a woman. 494 00:26:24,337 --> 00:26:27,602 I don't remember now. 495 00:26:27,645 --> 00:26:30,126 It could have been dry on the bayou and wet in the Quarter. 496 00:26:30,169 --> 00:26:32,563 It's Louisiana. 497 00:26:32,607 --> 00:26:35,566 The odyssey of recollection. 498 00:26:35,610 --> 00:26:37,220 Hmm. 499 00:26:39,788 --> 00:26:42,355 I would meet Jonah decades later. 500 00:26:44,314 --> 00:26:46,577 You're lingering, Rashid. 501 00:26:46,621 --> 00:26:49,624 Apologies, Mr. du Lac. 502 00:26:49,667 --> 00:26:51,669 What did he say when he met you again, 503 00:26:51,713 --> 00:26:56,021 when you were young and he wasn't? 504 00:26:56,065 --> 00:26:59,546 What they all eventually say in one articulation or another. 505 00:26:59,590 --> 00:27:01,723 Here comes the ghost! 506 00:27:04,508 --> 00:27:06,379 Hurry! He's gonna get us! 507 00:27:06,423 --> 00:27:09,208 The party was this afternoon. 508 00:27:09,252 --> 00:27:11,515 Seem my invitation got lost in the mail. 509 00:27:11,558 --> 00:27:12,908 You wanna come around, 510 00:27:12,951 --> 00:27:14,692 you come around when people are awake. 511 00:27:14,736 --> 00:27:17,564 It's barely dinnertime, Ma. I don't wanna make a fuss. 512 00:27:17,608 --> 00:27:19,741 Six months and you just show up! 513 00:27:19,784 --> 00:27:22,221 You're not welcome in this home! 514 00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:24,223 I own this home. 515 00:27:24,267 --> 00:27:27,009 I'm the executor in charge, so welcome don't matter. 516 00:27:27,052 --> 00:27:29,228 The Devil walks at night. 517 00:27:29,272 --> 00:27:32,362 What? What did you say? 518 00:27:32,405 --> 00:27:33,624 What's going on out here? 519 00:27:33,668 --> 00:27:35,060 I got your girls some paper dolls. 520 00:27:35,104 --> 00:27:36,279 Go back inside, son. 521 00:27:36,322 --> 00:27:37,584 Son? I'm your son. 522 00:27:37,628 --> 00:27:39,978 Let me handle this, Mamaw du Lac. 523 00:27:40,022 --> 00:27:41,588 Don't. 524 00:27:41,632 --> 00:27:42,981 Coming off a little hot, now. 525 00:27:43,025 --> 00:27:44,635 I ain't come here to see you. 526 00:27:44,679 --> 00:27:45,984 I didn't come here to see you. 527 00:27:46,028 --> 00:27:48,073 Louis. Came here to see Grace 528 00:27:48,117 --> 00:27:50,162 and give the girls some paper dolls! 529 00:27:56,299 --> 00:27:58,693 Children, go to your room, now. 530 00:28:00,477 --> 00:28:03,088 What did I tell y'all? 531 00:28:04,611 --> 00:28:06,657 There he is. 532 00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:10,705 There he is. 533 00:28:15,013 --> 00:28:17,015 Grace. 534 00:28:18,103 --> 00:28:20,236 Grace. Get out! 535 00:29:14,681 --> 00:29:15,944 What are you thinking? 536 00:29:15,987 --> 00:29:17,467 Well, I thought we could have an orgy. 537 00:29:17,510 --> 00:29:18,729 You can fuck them, and I can eat them. 538 00:29:18,773 --> 00:29:20,339 What about the coffin room? 539 00:29:20,383 --> 00:29:21,993 Well, that would require curiosity and intelligence. 540 00:29:22,037 --> 00:29:23,647 All these murderous slobs want is more wine 541 00:29:23,690 --> 00:29:25,692 and a German on their bayonets! 542 00:29:25,736 --> 00:29:27,520 Kill the Hans! Kill the Hans! 543 00:29:27,564 --> 00:29:29,522 I brought them back after they cut the electricity 544 00:29:29,566 --> 00:29:30,741 at the Azalea. What? 545 00:29:30,785 --> 00:29:32,569 Miss Bricktop wanted you to have this. 546 00:29:32,612 --> 00:29:34,527 I think she's on to us. 547 00:29:39,619 --> 00:29:41,491 Get them out of here. 548 00:29:41,534 --> 00:29:42,579 Well, now that I know you have a type, 549 00:29:42,622 --> 00:29:43,928 I thought you'd be pleased. 550 00:29:43,972 --> 00:29:46,104 Lestat! 551 00:30:30,757 --> 00:30:32,194 Not funny. 552 00:30:32,237 --> 00:30:34,196 What can I say? 553 00:30:34,239 --> 00:30:36,198 I'm a lot. 554 00:30:36,241 --> 00:30:37,634 I'm not perfect. 555 00:30:37,677 --> 00:30:41,203 I knew it. I knew you were there. 556 00:30:41,246 --> 00:30:43,205 Yes. You're jealous? 557 00:30:43,248 --> 00:30:45,163 Yes. I don't like sharing. 558 00:30:45,207 --> 00:30:46,773 What about Antoinette? It’s different. 559 00:30:46,817 --> 00:30:47,992 I don't have feelings for her. 560 00:30:48,036 --> 00:30:51,039 He did me some face, and I drove him home. 561 00:30:51,082 --> 00:30:53,563 I heard your hearts dancing! 562 00:30:53,606 --> 00:30:56,000 You watched the whole thing like some creeper! 563 00:30:56,044 --> 00:30:59,003 And then, I watched you pull over and drain a dog 564 00:30:59,047 --> 00:31:01,484 and run down an alleyway for two more rats! 565 00:31:01,527 --> 00:31:02,877 This is not a life! 566 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,009 That's ‘cos you took my life! 567 00:31:05,053 --> 00:31:08,795 I got nothing! I lost everything! 568 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:12,234 I lost my brother. I lost my family. 569 00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:16,499 'Bout to lose the last fucking thing I care about. 570 00:31:17,717 --> 00:31:19,850 How am I supposed to get bodies in the door 571 00:31:19,894 --> 00:31:21,417 without hookers, hooch, or cards? 572 00:31:21,460 --> 00:31:24,072 Hey, you were given a courtesy, and you ignored it. 573 00:31:24,115 --> 00:31:27,814 Finn O'Shea, a man who used to work for me, 574 00:31:27,858 --> 00:31:29,251 got a dirty house across the street. 575 00:31:29,294 --> 00:31:30,905 City ain't shut off his lights. 576 00:31:30,948 --> 00:31:32,732 Finn O'Shea serves sandwiches at his bar. 577 00:31:32,776 --> 00:31:34,256 That makes him a supper club. 578 00:31:34,299 --> 00:31:36,649 In time, Mr. O'Shea will move his business 579 00:31:36,693 --> 00:31:38,782 Riverside Basin Street, along with everyone else. 580 00:31:38,825 --> 00:31:40,044 Oh, so you just starting with 581 00:31:40,088 --> 00:31:41,916 the colored businesses, then? 582 00:31:41,959 --> 00:31:44,266 It does appear businesses run by white gentlemen are thriving. 583 00:31:44,309 --> 00:31:48,879 Look, I... I tried to persuade the city council. 584 00:31:48,923 --> 00:31:50,489 They said it was short-sighted at best. 585 00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:52,491 Mm, this tedious Negro, 586 00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:55,538 still clinging to his Creole heritage like a life raft. 587 00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:57,105 We're all hurting. 588 00:31:57,148 --> 00:31:58,628 It's these damn teetotaling types, too. 589 00:31:58,671 --> 00:32:01,500 As if we're supposed to turn New Orleans into Topeka, 590 00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:03,981 or God help us, Salt Lake City. 591 00:32:04,025 --> 00:32:06,244 Might I suggest, Mr. du Lac, that you move your 592 00:32:06,288 --> 00:32:07,506 operation to the Quarter? 593 00:32:07,550 --> 00:32:09,334 Just keep your girls out the windows. 594 00:32:09,378 --> 00:32:11,946 Who do you suggest gon' sell me a property in the Quarter? 595 00:32:11,989 --> 00:32:14,426 Make Mr. Lioncourt here the public face 596 00:32:14,470 --> 00:32:15,645 of your operations. 597 00:32:15,688 --> 00:32:18,039 This is Louis' hobby, not mine. 598 00:32:18,082 --> 00:32:21,956 Well, there's, shall we say, a clannish majority 599 00:32:21,999 --> 00:32:23,914 amongst the property holders in the court. 600 00:32:23,958 --> 00:32:26,003 Well, maybe old Tom here had it right. 601 00:32:26,047 --> 00:32:28,049 Maybe in the end, Louis, you're a dumb pimp 602 00:32:28,092 --> 00:32:30,094 who got robbed blind years ago. 603 00:32:30,138 --> 00:32:32,053 It's bend or break, I'm afraid. 604 00:32:37,188 --> 00:32:39,103 Did you sell me the Azalea ‘cos you knew 605 00:32:39,147 --> 00:32:41,062 this day was coming, Tom? 606 00:32:41,105 --> 00:32:42,889 You put a "sir" on the end of that. 607 00:32:42,933 --> 00:32:45,762 And he sold you the Fairplay for a price you set. 608 00:32:45,805 --> 00:32:47,677 You ain't answer my question, Tom. 609 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,204 Now, we're all in this together, Mr. du Lac. 610 00:32:53,248 --> 00:32:55,511 I'll be happy to buy the property back from you. 611 00:32:55,554 --> 00:32:57,948 Say... 612 00:32:57,992 --> 00:32:59,558 15 cents on the dollar. 613 00:33:03,214 --> 00:33:07,784 When your mother sees the Devil in your eyes, 614 00:33:07,827 --> 00:33:11,483 it's a hard assessment to abandon. 615 00:33:11,527 --> 00:33:14,008 Am I from the Devil? 616 00:33:14,051 --> 00:33:17,881 Is my very nature that of the Devil? 617 00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:23,278 I had hedged against the question, 618 00:33:23,321 --> 00:33:26,542 but now, it completely overwhelmed me. 619 00:33:26,585 --> 00:33:27,804 We don't need the money. 620 00:33:27,847 --> 00:33:29,414 It's not about that. 621 00:33:29,458 --> 00:33:32,939 You think I'm gon' let that snake bite me and my people? 622 00:33:32,983 --> 00:33:35,594 You have your investments on the Claiborne Avenue. 623 00:33:35,638 --> 00:33:37,857 What, hats, little grocery stores? 624 00:33:37,901 --> 00:33:40,817 Nickels, dimes, quarters. 625 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:43,037 So, it is about the money. 626 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,777 What is it? 627 00:33:46,823 --> 00:33:48,781 I'm gon' speak for the girls and say, as minority owners, 628 00:33:48,825 --> 00:33:52,132 that's a stupid fucking business plan. 629 00:33:52,176 --> 00:33:56,353 The state I was in, I was what... I was manic. 630 00:33:59,139 --> 00:34:03,840 You put up a sign like that, you're inviting chaos. 631 00:34:03,882 --> 00:34:06,625 And the hubris on display caused me to 632 00:34:06,668 --> 00:34:08,583 neglect my thirst. 633 00:34:10,498 --> 00:34:12,196 This cease and desist order is granted 634 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:13,458 by the New Orleans Council of Aldermen 635 00:34:13,502 --> 00:34:15,199 for the final infractions... 636 00:34:15,243 --> 00:34:17,331 And in neglect, my thirst grew harder, 637 00:34:17,375 --> 00:34:19,768 my temples throbbed, and finally, 638 00:34:19,812 --> 00:34:21,987 I could not stand it any longer. 639 00:34:22,032 --> 00:34:24,078 Broken? What broken windows? 640 00:34:25,427 --> 00:34:27,255 And I was through struggling. 641 00:34:27,297 --> 00:34:29,779 Fenwick: Illicit activity and thuggish behavior 642 00:34:29,822 --> 00:34:31,433 will not be tolerated. 643 00:34:31,476 --> 00:34:34,217 We have families and service members nearby, 644 00:34:34,262 --> 00:34:35,784 and it's for their concern, we remind... 645 00:34:35,828 --> 00:34:39,831 Rats, cats, dogs would no longer suffice. 646 00:34:39,876 --> 00:34:41,704 ...and Baton Rouge supports the actions 647 00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:43,706 of the City Council, as well. 648 00:34:43,749 --> 00:34:48,624 Take a Black man in America, make him a vampire, 649 00:34:48,667 --> 00:34:52,193 fuck with that vampire, and see what comes of it. 650 00:35:16,217 --> 00:35:20,264 Breaking into my home is one thing. 651 00:35:20,308 --> 00:35:24,529 Making me drop my Atherton, now that's a new low. 652 00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:31,319 You're here to threaten me, I suppose. 653 00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:35,105 You think I have a vendetta against you, 654 00:35:35,149 --> 00:35:38,064 against your race. 655 00:35:38,108 --> 00:35:41,894 Well, think that if you must. 656 00:35:41,938 --> 00:35:45,333 Storyville is a sinking ship, 657 00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:49,337 and naturally, you are the first to drown. 658 00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:52,688 But that's your problem, Louis, always has been. 659 00:35:52,731 --> 00:35:55,169 You're arrogant. 660 00:35:55,212 --> 00:35:59,347 You haven't accepted your place in this world. 661 00:35:59,390 --> 00:36:01,175 And your pale lover, 662 00:36:01,218 --> 00:36:04,787 with his seemingly endless supply of capital, 663 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:08,530 and the weird goings-on in your Sodomite townhouse 664 00:36:08,573 --> 00:36:12,229 won't change the fact that you're a tiny man 665 00:36:12,273 --> 00:36:14,710 flying too close to the sun. 666 00:36:14,753 --> 00:36:19,715 And that's what I am, Louis... the sun. 667 00:36:20,585 --> 00:36:23,197 Walk away. 668 00:36:27,288 --> 00:36:30,769 Why is your heart beating so fast? 669 00:36:30,813 --> 00:36:33,207 Everything that's been is legal 670 00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:35,034 under the City of New Orleans charter. 671 00:36:35,078 --> 00:36:37,733 And again, I'm merely one alderman on that council. 672 00:36:43,042 --> 00:36:45,219 There's a harder way of doing this. 673 00:36:45,262 --> 00:36:49,092 You're thinking about your wife and your two daughters 674 00:36:49,135 --> 00:36:50,920 and how fortunate it is 675 00:36:50,963 --> 00:36:54,140 that they're away in your winter home. 676 00:36:57,231 --> 00:36:58,841 It is fortunate. 677 00:37:04,020 --> 00:37:05,630 I'll let you reload. 678 00:37:14,944 --> 00:37:17,512 You said I'm arrogant? 679 00:37:19,818 --> 00:37:22,125 Maybe I am arrogant! 680 00:37:26,172 --> 00:37:29,263 What... What are you? 681 00:37:31,003 --> 00:37:33,528 I'm a vampire. 682 00:38:00,946 --> 00:38:03,297 I must confess, I'm very proud of you, Louis. 683 00:38:03,340 --> 00:38:04,689 It goes against much of my teaching, 684 00:38:04,733 --> 00:38:07,431 but you managed to execute it with such aplomb. 685 00:38:07,475 --> 00:38:09,041 I didn't do it for me. 686 00:38:09,085 --> 00:38:10,565 I did it for my city, my people. 687 00:38:10,608 --> 00:38:13,219 Destroy our businesses and buy the land for cheaper. 688 00:38:13,263 --> 00:38:14,612 I know what they’re doing! 689 00:38:14,656 --> 00:38:16,092 So, that torturous death was for your people? 690 00:38:16,135 --> 00:38:17,833 That garish display of his body, 691 00:38:17,876 --> 00:38:21,097 like some public art piece, was for your people? 692 00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:23,055 I didn't see this coming. 693 00:38:23,099 --> 00:38:25,406 Save that lie for yourself. 694 00:38:25,449 --> 00:38:27,930 Did you not smile when he begged? 695 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:31,107 Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up? 696 00:38:31,150 --> 00:38:34,023 Maybe you saw it coming and didn't stop me. 697 00:38:34,066 --> 00:38:38,244 Maybe you went quiet on purpose. 698 00:38:38,288 --> 00:38:42,597 You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. 699 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,340 Companion of the dark gift, finally. 700 00:38:47,341 --> 00:38:50,996 We should make this our anniversary. 701 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,304 Anniversary? 702 00:38:54,348 --> 00:38:57,742 That out there, that's on me. 703 00:38:57,786 --> 00:39:00,484 Well, yes. Yes, you merely provided them the excuse. 704 00:39:00,528 --> 00:39:03,139 It's as I say... toss them into circumstance, 705 00:39:03,182 --> 00:39:04,532 they go for the throat. 706 00:39:04,575 --> 00:39:07,273 And that's why you and me ain't never gon' work. 707 00:39:08,927 --> 00:39:10,973 That's why you're always gonna be alone. 708 00:39:14,759 --> 00:39:18,110 I ran from the Quarter that night, 709 00:39:18,154 --> 00:39:21,418 ran to where the violence spread most wild. 710 00:39:21,462 --> 00:39:25,291 I stumbled through the streets like an irrational child 711 00:39:25,335 --> 00:39:28,425 who had tested his strength on the small bird 712 00:39:28,469 --> 00:39:30,862 and now asked, "Can I make it whole again?" 713 00:39:30,906 --> 00:39:32,298 Can I help you? Please let me help. 714 00:39:32,342 --> 00:39:34,257 Don't help, just run. 715 00:39:36,607 --> 00:39:42,178 Their faces raced past me like snow in a terrible wind, 716 00:39:42,221 --> 00:39:46,878 unaware it was I who had brought this retribution. 717 00:39:46,922 --> 00:39:49,707 It was I who should pay for this sin. 718 00:39:53,581 --> 00:39:55,974 And then... 719 00:39:56,018 --> 00:39:57,411 Help me! 720 00:39:57,454 --> 00:39:59,761 ...one of those inconceivable moments 721 00:39:59,804 --> 00:40:01,632 where who you were before 722 00:40:01,676 --> 00:40:06,420 and who you would be forever after is marked in time. 723 00:40:08,204 --> 00:40:09,379 Help! 724 00:40:09,423 --> 00:40:12,295 A rooming house, now a fire trap. 725 00:40:15,603 --> 00:40:18,910 I could not save the Azalea. 726 00:40:18,954 --> 00:40:22,000 I could not save Storyville. 727 00:40:23,132 --> 00:40:27,005 I could not save the aunt on the wrong side of the wall, 728 00:40:27,049 --> 00:40:29,617 but I could save her. 729 00:40:33,577 --> 00:40:35,405 My light. 730 00:40:35,449 --> 00:40:37,320 My Claudia. 731 00:40:38,582 --> 00:40:40,758 My redemption. 732 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,275 The Black angel took me to a fine house 733 00:42:03,319 --> 00:42:06,104 The white angel, he bit me, 734 00:42:06,148 --> 00:42:09,151 And I realized what I thought were angels 735 00:42:09,194 --> 00:42:10,848 were really hell demons. 736 00:42:13,155 --> 00:42:15,113 We're a family? 737 00:42:15,157 --> 00:42:16,680 You're a vampire now. 738 00:42:16,724 --> 00:42:19,553 So is this what you always do for a first date? 739 00:42:19,596 --> 00:42:22,338 Do you think are the right people to adopt? 740 00:42:23,948 --> 00:42:26,516 For a killing machine, I kind of like her. 741 00:42:37,396 --> 00:42:40,661 Do you ever think that we... that's to say our kind... 742 00:42:40,704 --> 00:42:42,924 were put on Earth for a larger purpose? 743 00:42:42,967 --> 00:42:47,145 Episode 3, "Is My Very Nature that of the Devil"... 744 00:42:47,189 --> 00:42:49,365 this is all about vampire identity. 745 00:42:49,408 --> 00:42:51,585 That's what Louis is dealing with in this episode. 746 00:42:51,628 --> 00:42:53,717 Who am I? How am I going to be 747 00:42:53,761 --> 00:42:56,111 a different kind of vampire than Lestat? 748 00:42:56,154 --> 00:42:57,591 Is it possible? 749 00:42:57,634 --> 00:43:01,725 I desire blood as much as you do. 750 00:43:01,769 --> 00:43:05,076 But I wonder, should we be more selective? 751 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,949 What if we just ate the worst people in the world? 752 00:43:07,992 --> 00:43:10,342 What if we have some sort of moral architecture 753 00:43:10,386 --> 00:43:11,953 around our killing? 754 00:43:11,996 --> 00:43:14,346 Him. 755 00:43:14,390 --> 00:43:15,739 He steals from unfortunates, 756 00:43:15,783 --> 00:43:17,959 breaks into tenements, and robs them 757 00:43:18,002 --> 00:43:20,701 of their meager possessions. 758 00:43:20,744 --> 00:43:22,920 And does that meet your satisfaction? 759 00:43:22,964 --> 00:43:24,966 It's a pretty chippy thing he does at the beginning, 760 00:43:25,009 --> 00:43:26,968 which is say, "Let's go kill the worst people," 761 00:43:27,011 --> 00:43:28,709 then we find one of the worst people, 762 00:43:28,752 --> 00:43:31,146 and even then, he doesn't want to do it. 763 00:43:31,189 --> 00:43:33,409 Well, go on. Here's your criminal biscuit. 764 00:43:33,452 --> 00:43:34,758 See how he tastes. 765 00:43:34,802 --> 00:43:36,717 So he eats a cat. 766 00:43:39,371 --> 00:43:41,547 That's sort of a horseshitty thing to pull off. 767 00:43:41,591 --> 00:43:42,984 What are you really after here? 768 00:43:43,027 --> 00:43:44,638 Oh, you're ashamed. Okay, fine. 769 00:43:44,681 --> 00:43:46,988 Maybe I'm just pondering what I am. 770 00:43:47,031 --> 00:43:48,642 You're a vampire. 771 00:43:48,685 --> 00:43:51,253 In New Orleans, he's never even said he's a vampire yet. 772 00:43:51,296 --> 00:43:52,602 Won't even say the word. 773 00:43:52,646 --> 00:43:55,997 I don't want to kill people anymore. 774 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,563 There it is. 775 00:43:57,607 --> 00:43:59,261 A fish that doesn't swim. 776 00:43:59,304 --> 00:44:02,438 The fraught complexities of what happens when you are with 777 00:44:02,481 --> 00:44:04,222 the right/wrong person? 778 00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:06,660 The Azalea is his last little bit of humanity, 779 00:44:06,703 --> 00:44:08,444 but these blue laws are coming in. 780 00:44:08,487 --> 00:44:10,664 There was a call from Washington to kinda say, 781 00:44:10,707 --> 00:44:13,754 "Eh, we need to move this back underground." 782 00:44:13,797 --> 00:44:16,017 The cutting away of everything you thought was your life. 783 00:44:16,060 --> 00:44:17,671 I am being removed from my family. 784 00:44:17,714 --> 00:44:19,673 Storyville's beginning to crumble. 785 00:44:19,716 --> 00:44:21,457 Maybe I am a vampire. 786 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:23,459 And here is a person who has decided 787 00:44:23,502 --> 00:44:24,808 to fuck with me directly. 788 00:44:24,852 --> 00:44:27,681 And I'm gonna take it all out on him. 789 00:44:27,724 --> 00:44:30,031 A little bit like Lestat in the church, 790 00:44:30,074 --> 00:44:32,207 he lets these predatory instincts 791 00:44:32,250 --> 00:44:33,687 get the way better of him. 792 00:44:33,730 --> 00:44:36,690 He is in a mania when that is happening. 793 00:44:36,733 --> 00:44:40,171 Why is your heart beating so fast? 794 00:44:40,215 --> 00:44:42,826 And if the club is the last thing that he had, 795 00:44:42,870 --> 00:44:44,262 the last bit of humanity, 796 00:44:44,306 --> 00:44:46,003 and that's about to be taken away from him, 797 00:44:46,047 --> 00:44:48,049 who is he? 798 00:44:49,398 --> 00:44:51,617 He unleashes all that rage that's inside him. 799 00:44:51,661 --> 00:44:54,098 You said I'm arrogant? 800 00:44:54,142 --> 00:44:57,275 He does finally come to a very tortured conclusion. 801 00:44:57,319 --> 00:45:00,191 What are you? 802 00:45:00,235 --> 00:45:03,107 I'm a vampire. 803 00:45:04,543 --> 00:45:06,067 When he finally lets it loose, 804 00:45:06,110 --> 00:45:08,678 great reverberations come back from it... 805 00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:14,553 ...that lead to a lot of pain and anguish for his city. 806 00:45:14,597 --> 00:45:18,340 And it rolls back on people that he formerly would have said 807 00:45:18,383 --> 00:45:20,559 were his people in this world. 808 00:45:20,603 --> 00:45:23,345 And he's wandering around in a very, very dark, 809 00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:25,086 near-suicidal place. 810 00:45:25,129 --> 00:45:27,741 And then there's this meeting that happens, 811 00:45:27,784 --> 00:45:30,265 and there is a chance for some new thing 812 00:45:30,308 --> 00:45:33,224 to pour the best parts of yourself into. 813 00:45:36,924 --> 00:45:42,103 My light. My Claudia. 814 00:45:42,146 --> 00:45:44,061 My redemption.