1 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,520 A quiet, easeful death. 2 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,760 What else would it be? 3 00:01:16,140 --> 00:01:18,200 I had nowhere to go. 4 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:22,300 No one to talk to. 5 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:26,720 She was dead. 6 00:01:29,180 --> 00:01:30,180 I knew it. 7 00:01:32,140 --> 00:01:33,140 Claudia was dead. 8 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:35,920 I could feel it. 9 00:01:37,230 --> 00:01:41,370 Like I couldn't feel my hands, my back. 10 00:01:43,990 --> 00:01:50,510 Like I could feel my heart pumping slower every night. 11 00:01:52,410 --> 00:01:54,930 My broken arm resetting itself. 12 00:01:56,650 --> 00:02:00,610 My ankles healed in the coffin. 13 00:02:02,010 --> 00:02:03,890 The flesh having. 14 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:07,760 Circled around the insulating rocks of my deathbed. 15 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,500 Are they still there? 16 00:02:12,860 --> 00:02:13,860 Right now? 17 00:02:14,420 --> 00:02:15,420 In your feet? 18 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,880 If you took an x-ray, they'd look like little cancers. 19 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:21,860 He could remove them anytime he wanted to. 20 00:02:24,220 --> 00:02:27,980 Or maybe he has, and he's been lying to you all these years for effect. 21 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:35,020 What were the consequences of you saving Louis? 22 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:38,880 Demotion. 23 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:41,300 Ridicule. 24 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,560 Santiago had suspected I had rigged the audience to spare Louis' life. 25 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:52,260 So he made certain I would not forget my insubordination as part of my penance. 26 00:02:54,780 --> 00:02:56,580 Darkness was delirium. 27 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:00,380 I tried to paint alternatives. 28 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,700 Lucid, what is? 29 00:03:08,060 --> 00:03:11,200 Wear a different suit the night you meet Lestat at the fair play. 30 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,980 Snatch the piece of candy back from the barber when you're seven years old. 31 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:20,620 Would I have been stronger sooner? 32 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,720 Would I have resisted Lestat two decades later? 33 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Snatch the candy. 34 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:34,980 Be the man in the different suit. 35 00:03:38,780 --> 00:03:40,500 But the suit changes nothing. 36 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:48,180 And again, I'm kissing Lestat on the altar. 37 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,020 I'm killing Lestat but won't burn him. 38 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:02,540 I'm dragged off stage and buried alive. 39 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:07,230 Any candy's not the answer. 40 00:04:12,330 --> 00:04:13,330 Claudia is dead. 41 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:19,470 The work nights were the pragmatic ones. 42 00:04:20,450 --> 00:04:22,410 A rock shifts by my knee. 43 00:04:23,050 --> 00:04:25,130 Could I make another rock move? 44 00:04:25,650 --> 00:04:30,530 Could I free my knee to exploit the craftsmanship of the coffin? 45 00:04:31,990 --> 00:04:33,770 But it was all ravings. 46 00:04:34,540 --> 00:04:35,920 The rock hadn't moved. 47 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,500 The craftsmanship was solid. 48 00:04:39,940 --> 00:04:40,980 Claudia is dead. 49 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:48,320 When a vampire starts screaming from starvation, he hasn't much time left. 50 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:50,380 I didn't know I was screaming. 51 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,940 I had no energy to scream. 52 00:04:57,180 --> 00:05:02,620 If I had, I would have used it to ignite the clothes on my body, self-immolate. 53 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,080 What was left to endure for? 54 00:05:08,860 --> 00:05:10,160 Claudia is dead. 55 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:22,700 And as Louis withered away, life in the theater returned to abnormal. 56 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:25,960 The old plays were remounted. 57 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:33,420 The pack hunts revitalized, all under the increasingly self-satisfied eye of 58 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:34,420 Santiago. 59 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,020 You ruined his play. They didn't get to kill Louis on stage. 60 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,700 And Santiago improvised a worse death. 61 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,680 He had outwitted me. 62 00:05:45,860 --> 00:05:47,200 Hurt me deeply. 63 00:05:48,780 --> 00:05:50,580 And I played up that hurt. 64 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,500 My subjugation cemented his power amongst cousins. 65 00:05:55,780 --> 00:05:58,020 So, how did you get him out? 66 00:06:01,930 --> 00:06:04,530 I placed the sacrifice in an old vault coffin. 67 00:06:04,910 --> 00:06:06,370 Swapped that coffin for Louie's. 68 00:06:08,050 --> 00:06:10,390 I was the defeated vampire, Mr. Malloy. 69 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:12,990 No one was looking. 70 00:06:14,790 --> 00:06:15,790 Uh-huh. 71 00:06:17,490 --> 00:06:21,450 Does anyone ever ask Lazarus if he wanted to be walking? 72 00:06:23,490 --> 00:06:25,890 I don't read the Bible much anymore. 73 00:06:26,290 --> 00:06:29,670 No one gives a shit about Lazarus's point of view, is what I remember. 74 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:32,050 I tasted the blood. 75 00:06:32,410 --> 00:06:33,810 I knew it was his. 76 00:06:34,450 --> 00:06:36,110 Why? I thought. 77 00:06:36,790 --> 00:06:37,790 Claudia is dead. 78 00:06:38,670 --> 00:06:39,770 I was dead. 79 00:06:42,570 --> 00:06:44,890 I was dead. 80 00:06:46,810 --> 00:06:53,590 But my rage, my rage had 81 00:06:53,590 --> 00:06:54,590 risen. 82 00:06:56,690 --> 00:06:59,470 Followed closely behind by my madness. 83 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:08,820 They moved from shadow to shadow towards the cemetery in Montmartre. Why that 84 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:10,320 place, it wasn't certain. 85 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,380 It wasn't safe to return to the apartment. 86 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,260 That would imply it was rational. 87 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:20,940 Approximity to the theater? 88 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:22,720 Maybe. 89 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:31,000 My rage. 90 00:07:31,550 --> 00:07:32,810 had been denied blood. 91 00:07:33,710 --> 00:07:36,830 My rage was lightheaded. 92 00:07:37,370 --> 00:07:42,110 My rage healed without a single measure of satisfaction. 93 00:07:43,190 --> 00:07:48,510 My rage found a forgotten crypt amongst the forgotten dead. 94 00:07:49,470 --> 00:07:56,070 My rage hid its killings there and conspired 95 00:07:56,070 --> 00:07:59,630 with my magnet on a plan for retribution. 96 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:17,750 Thank you. 97 00:08:18,050 --> 00:08:19,490 Thank you. 98 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,520 There's a lot of them in there. 99 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:07,820 There's some awake before it gets them. 100 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:12,680 I should think about taking heads. 101 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:16,240 Speak English. 102 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:18,020 You're not a farmer. 103 00:09:18,380 --> 00:09:19,820 I would use the machete. 104 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:23,120 One of them tries to escape. 105 00:09:23,390 --> 00:09:25,210 You should stand at the top of the stairs. 106 00:09:31,010 --> 00:09:37,090 I would then cut their feet off if they go up, but enrage if they run downstairs 107 00:09:37,090 --> 00:09:38,710 for the soup. That's better. 108 00:09:42,510 --> 00:09:43,690 Mine's a big boy. 109 00:09:44,770 --> 00:09:46,010 Good thought of throwing. 110 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:50,690 If you get in a fight or delay, you'll be consumed with that. Pour more gas on 111 00:09:50,690 --> 00:09:52,330 this. And this one. 112 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,700 I don't need to borrow your truck. 113 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,740 Louis. I don't have any use for it now. 114 00:09:56,940 --> 00:09:59,540 I know you can hear me. You must leave Paris. 115 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:03,360 Maybe you should answer him. He knows the theater more than you. Maybe I 116 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,360 should shut up. 117 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,240 Louis, save yourself. 118 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,960 They're going to find out what I did. 119 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,620 Do not worry about me. What are you fucking worried about? 120 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,240 Louis, 121 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,520 please listen to me. 122 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:50,460 If I could explain to you the events, I think you would understand why it was I 123 00:10:50,460 --> 00:10:52,260 acted as I did. 124 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,140 I know you will never forgive me. I am not seeking forgiveness. 125 00:11:03,090 --> 00:11:04,330 Louis, is that you? 126 00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:06,350 Did you save me at the trial? 127 00:11:09,370 --> 00:11:10,370 Yes. 128 00:11:12,370 --> 00:11:13,610 You pulled me out to walk? 129 00:11:14,530 --> 00:11:15,530 Yes. 130 00:11:17,350 --> 00:11:21,510 I could not save her. If I thought there was a way, I would have. Shut up. Shut 131 00:11:21,510 --> 00:11:22,510 up. 132 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:28,010 However you meant it, do not find yourself at the theater tomorrow night, 133 00:11:28,050 --> 00:11:29,050 Curfew. 134 00:11:34,860 --> 00:11:38,360 Okay. Did you know he was going to burn it down? 135 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:39,820 No. 136 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,820 But I could sense the fatalism in his thoughts. 137 00:11:44,140 --> 00:11:45,280 You warned him? 138 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,180 Yes. He'd already betrayed you once. 139 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,400 They were his coven for hundreds of years. Why risk it? 140 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,840 My rage and madness were asleep. 141 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:55,920 It was a test. 142 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:58,820 I don't remember. 143 00:12:00,140 --> 00:12:01,940 If you're wrong, you're dead. 144 00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:05,180 There were 13 of them and one of me. 145 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:07,780 I was going to die either way. 146 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,920 Same question to you. They were your coven for hundreds of years. 147 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,060 You had no feelings for any of them? 148 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:15,600 I had complicated feelings. 149 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,880 But you didn't warn any of them? 150 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,360 No. 151 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:20,740 13 to 1. 152 00:12:21,060 --> 00:12:22,680 Maybe you were hedging your bets? 153 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,100 See who emerges from the ash heap? 154 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,720 I didn't know his plan. 155 00:12:27,780 --> 00:12:29,660 I'd shut my mind off to him, Daniel. 156 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:31,920 My prevailing thought was... 157 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,020 If I'm not with him, I'm nothing. 158 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:38,540 Him, I'm nothing. 159 00:12:40,060 --> 00:12:41,840 Okay, so what was the plan? 160 00:12:43,420 --> 00:12:44,420 The plan? 161 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,020 I was going to die, and I was going to take as many of them with me as I could. 162 00:12:54,280 --> 00:13:00,940 When a vampire commits himself to coffin, all the senses collapse into 163 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:01,940 submission. 164 00:13:02,510 --> 00:13:07,190 and the dark boundaries of the world begin to stretch out in all directions. 165 00:13:07,730 --> 00:13:14,690 And in this state, in the lair where they slept, I could have been a marching 166 00:13:14,690 --> 00:13:21,510 band or a jet engine taking off a tarmac until Paris spun 167 00:13:21,510 --> 00:13:22,790 back round to the sun. 168 00:13:23,270 --> 00:13:25,030 The advantage was mine. 169 00:14:11,269 --> 00:14:12,930 Six by fire. 170 00:14:13,670 --> 00:14:15,010 Two by blade. 171 00:14:15,430 --> 00:14:17,550 One by a combination of the two. 172 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:21,950 No legs, one arm. Still clutching on the clarinet. 173 00:14:24,950 --> 00:14:26,170 Nine in all. 174 00:14:27,250 --> 00:14:29,750 And with no sign of Armand or Scott. 175 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:32,720 That meant four had escaped. 176 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:34,800 Two out the front. 177 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,740 Two through the sewers. 178 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,220 But I had planned for contingencies. 179 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,480 It had to be the London Coven. They have always been jealous of us. It's because 180 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,980 we started speaking English. 181 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:51,560 It's because we took offers from Armand and they smelled weakness, you idiot! 182 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,880 Or maybe it was Eclate. Eclate? She never got over you stealing Santiago. 183 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,460 You try drinking from good stuff out there. It was London! 184 00:15:00,170 --> 00:15:02,150 Allison, it's an act of passion! 185 00:15:12,450 --> 00:15:13,450 Hello, 186 00:15:17,310 --> 00:15:18,310 Francis. 187 00:15:22,750 --> 00:15:23,750 You! 188 00:15:24,970 --> 00:15:26,850 Did I wake you? 189 00:15:28,750 --> 00:15:33,710 I tried to be quiet coming and going, but all those iron joists cracking and 190 00:15:33,710 --> 00:15:38,450 load-bearing beams falling down on you. Well, is your companion with you? 191 00:15:38,750 --> 00:15:39,750 Didn't you hear? 192 00:15:40,410 --> 00:15:41,410 We broke up. 193 00:15:42,030 --> 00:15:44,330 Oh, I rather doubt that. 194 00:15:44,570 --> 00:15:47,650 Hard to hold hands after he killed my sister and my fledgling, but think what 195 00:15:47,650 --> 00:15:51,410 you want. I didn't take credit for the workman role he played, Louie. It was 196 00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:52,410 me. 197 00:15:52,610 --> 00:15:54,090 The plan to death. 198 00:15:57,580 --> 00:16:01,480 To get Claudia that hot exit from the garden. Come to me. 199 00:16:02,060 --> 00:16:05,860 Did Armand tell you what we did with her ashes after he pulled you from the wall? 200 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,260 Come to me, Francis. 201 00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:10,600 We used her as eye shadow for the next month's performances. 202 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,480 We put them in the pepper shaker for the popcorn we sold in the aisles. And some 203 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,520 nights, Louis. Come to me, Francis. I put a pinch of them in my fist before I 204 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,780 closed my coffin at night. I would spit in them. 205 00:16:22,980 --> 00:16:25,940 And I'd use her hot, wet ashes. 206 00:16:26,570 --> 00:16:27,770 to plunge on myself. 207 00:16:28,050 --> 00:16:29,450 Come to me, Francis. 208 00:16:29,830 --> 00:16:35,790 It's Santiago to you, you firebug bugger! Nah, that's the Spaniard's name 209 00:16:35,790 --> 00:16:36,549 you took. 210 00:16:36,550 --> 00:16:41,270 Took it to forget who you were, Francis. Took it to compensate for what God 211 00:16:41,270 --> 00:16:42,410 denied you, Francis. 212 00:16:42,750 --> 00:16:47,790 That joke in between your legs and that farm girl, Lenora, who couldn't keep 213 00:16:47,790 --> 00:16:51,640 quiet. about it she only thought it was small because my testicles are so 214 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,460 enormous then maybe it was the lip applause francis got when francis 215 00:16:55,460 --> 00:17:02,300 finally got on stage in london for a week as an understudy for osric what was 216 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:06,440 it the nature of the transformation that made you change your name the desperate 217 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:12,300 begging urine racing down your leg as francis desperately tried to take back 218 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:16,920 his wish to be a vampire i can see your maker's face now 219 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:24,640 Embarrassment. Washing over it. And you ask, can I be called 220 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,140 a girl? 221 00:17:31,060 --> 00:17:34,780 You make his voice as he walked away. 222 00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:37,500 I don't care what you call yourself. 223 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,540 Come with me. 224 00:18:11,210 --> 00:18:13,370 Say that shit about Claudia to my face. 225 00:18:22,470 --> 00:18:26,390 Creed in a martini, a touch more vermouth, and the newspaper you asked 226 00:18:26,390 --> 00:18:27,470 for this morning, Mr. Malloy. 227 00:18:29,310 --> 00:18:34,490 Santiago's failure to protect his coven, how quickly he ran to save his own 228 00:18:34,490 --> 00:18:40,390 flesh, filled him with unworthiness, and it made him an uncomplicated seduction. 229 00:18:40,830 --> 00:18:42,530 He brought a cloak to a knife fight. 230 00:18:43,030 --> 00:18:46,370 And all my rage and madness exited my body. 231 00:18:48,570 --> 00:18:50,330 And nothing replaced it. 232 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,700 When did you start lying to me? 233 00:19:30,460 --> 00:19:32,120 The night of Madeleine's transformation. 234 00:19:33,980 --> 00:19:35,120 A while back then. 235 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,280 We parted at Sacre Coeur. 236 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:40,240 I went back to make sure the Coven would keep curfew. 237 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,200 That you do what you were going to do in safety. 238 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,140 They were all on stage waiting for me. 239 00:19:48,670 --> 00:19:54,830 told me they had done a rewrite, tossed the script at my feet, and I saw the 240 00:19:54,830 --> 00:19:55,830 title. 241 00:19:57,270 --> 00:20:03,790 And I thought, it's my coven of 200 years, 242 00:20:03,950 --> 00:20:05,990 or him. 243 00:20:08,010 --> 00:20:11,330 And at the time, I could not count on your love lasting as long. 244 00:20:12,470 --> 00:20:13,910 You rehearsed it with Lestat? 245 00:20:15,130 --> 00:20:16,510 They rehearsed it with him. 246 00:20:17,930 --> 00:20:19,590 I stayed in my coffin when I was there. 247 00:20:23,170 --> 00:20:25,430 When you spent nights over here. 248 00:20:27,610 --> 00:20:28,630 I lied to you. 249 00:20:29,430 --> 00:20:30,930 Over and over. Then one stick. 250 00:20:31,410 --> 00:20:32,410 And all that time. 251 00:20:33,570 --> 00:20:34,570 Telling me. 252 00:20:36,030 --> 00:20:37,350 Make a different plan with me. 253 00:20:39,490 --> 00:20:41,830 I will spend my life making it up to you. 254 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,520 You'll never make it up to me. 255 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:02,300 I know. 256 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:06,860 Is Lester still in Paris? 257 00:21:09,140 --> 00:21:11,220 You'll never be able to kill him. That wasn't my question. 258 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Yes, he's still here. 259 00:21:17,980 --> 00:21:19,080 Wait, you and his knight again. 260 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:35,580 Ask for a check The light's going out of your blue eyes 261 00:21:35,580 --> 00:21:40,600 Like all the summer days are gone 262 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:04,660 Was it a good day's rest? 263 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,620 Does it take a lot out of you? 264 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,080 Destroying everything in your wake? 265 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,620 Well, almost everything. 266 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,300 You look small. 267 00:22:29,620 --> 00:22:30,620 Come home. 268 00:22:32,140 --> 00:22:33,420 Mrs. Magnus is there. 269 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,920 Some distance between the happy couple. 270 00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:49,860 Details left to work out after the homicide of Frolic? 271 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,180 This where he kept you? 272 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:52,740 The chain to the wall? 273 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:56,820 No. This was for the disappointments. 274 00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:59,100 The ones before him. 275 00:23:01,550 --> 00:23:02,910 He had a knack for design. 276 00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:06,750 Nordic blondes on walls, dirty blondes in piles. 277 00:23:06,990 --> 00:23:09,050 Learned about where the gremlin stands now. 278 00:23:09,410 --> 00:23:10,410 I don't care. 279 00:23:13,030 --> 00:23:17,150 I came here to have a think. 280 00:23:19,150 --> 00:23:20,250 On my origins. 281 00:23:22,970 --> 00:23:24,290 Why I do what I do. 282 00:23:27,610 --> 00:23:28,930 Why I... Burned your daughter alive? 283 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,200 Why you rehearsed a play that would burn your daughter alive? 284 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:42,000 Why you crossed an ocean to rehearse a play that would burn your daughter 285 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,000 alive? 286 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,780 The great laws. What fucking law did you ever follow? Stop. 287 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:53,260 I've come to kill you. 288 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:03,480 I have the blood of Magnus in me. Magnus burns. 289 00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:10,440 I have the blood of Akasha in me. 290 00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:14,460 He doesn't know who that is. 291 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:19,640 But the fact in and of itself makes your immediate desire an impossibility. 292 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,180 I'd have to be willing. 293 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,400 And I'm not in the mood. 294 00:24:29,870 --> 00:24:31,290 My blood is your blood. 295 00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:33,750 And death. 296 00:24:44,230 --> 00:24:45,930 Here's your death. Let's start. 297 00:25:14,830 --> 00:25:17,070 He and I are going to spend the rest of our lives together. 298 00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:20,250 Wherever your miserable life takes you, 299 00:25:20,990 --> 00:25:26,190 whoever you find to endure time with, whatever pale proxy of me, 300 00:25:26,330 --> 00:25:28,810 I'll be with him. 301 00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:32,630 I just wanted you to know that. 302 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,320 In junior. 303 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:55,000 Let's see how long at home. 304 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:01,800 An odd phrase. 305 00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:04,280 What do you think he meant by that, Louis? 306 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,180 It's fairly obvious. 307 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:08,960 He didn't think we would make it. 308 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:12,560 77 years. 309 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:15,420 Almost to the day. 310 00:26:16,010 --> 00:26:20,670 We left him there, walked Paris one last time, completely silent. 311 00:26:21,250 --> 00:26:25,110 Stopped for a moment at the Place de la Concorde, the Luxorobulus. 312 00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:30,050 I stood staring up at it as cars and carriages circled us. 313 00:26:30,910 --> 00:26:34,670 I said telepathically, was it telepathically? 314 00:26:36,410 --> 00:26:37,430 I don't remember. 315 00:26:37,850 --> 00:26:40,130 I said, let's go see Egypt. 316 00:26:40,490 --> 00:26:42,090 Then sailed port to port. 317 00:26:42,550 --> 00:26:44,170 Settled in New York a good while. 318 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,880 San Francisco. 319 00:26:46,820 --> 00:26:47,820 And we did. 320 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,760 Here, there, everywhere, and Dubai. 321 00:26:53,980 --> 00:26:55,280 And that's the end of it. 322 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,560 There's nothing else. 323 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,880 End of session. 324 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:35,700 He loved you. 325 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:41,940 I can say that now. 326 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,620 He loved you a great deal. 327 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840 It must have been terrible for him to see us off that night. 328 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,780 Mind if I ask a few follow-up questions? There's just some things I've been 329 00:27:59,780 --> 00:28:01,480 jotting down along the way. 330 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,080 Yeah, of course. 331 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:05,020 It's... Just small stuff. 332 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:12,080 Like, um... Like, you and the tractor salesman in the bar in New Orleans 333 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:18,200 before you killed him, you said that Lestat telepathically told you that you 334 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,620 were scaring the salesman. But a maker can't do that anymore after 335 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:23,840 transformation, right? 336 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:25,860 Uh, yeah. 337 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,820 I don't know. Maybe he whispered it to me. 338 00:28:30,820 --> 00:28:31,820 Yeah. 339 00:28:32,810 --> 00:28:33,810 I figured as much. 340 00:28:34,790 --> 00:28:37,990 You said that four escaped the theater. 341 00:28:38,390 --> 00:28:41,370 Celeste, Estelle, Santiago, and... Sam. 342 00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:47,910 Right. The vampire Sam Barclay. We never quite figured out how he did it. 343 00:28:48,170 --> 00:28:50,610 Did you ever get to him? 344 00:28:50,850 --> 00:28:51,850 No. 345 00:28:52,050 --> 00:28:53,350 Time heals, Daniel. 346 00:28:53,770 --> 00:28:55,830 I believe he's a DJ now. A DJ? 347 00:28:56,190 --> 00:28:58,410 He wears a decorative helmet on his head when he performs. 348 00:28:58,650 --> 00:28:59,389 Does he? 349 00:28:59,390 --> 00:29:00,750 Yeah, it's funny, because... 350 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,160 Sam's in two places at once at one point in your story. He's guarding Armand in 351 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:11,160 the theater box, but you also have him helping to bury you below stage. 352 00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:14,740 He was with me in the box. Yeah, he was with Armand in the box. 353 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,280 Oh, maybe he did a quick vamp back and forth. 354 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:19,780 I just got it wrong. 355 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,960 Rashid, should we begin dinner preparations? 356 00:29:23,380 --> 00:29:25,600 Yes, sir. I do hope you'll join us. 357 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000 I'd be honored. 358 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:29,320 Okay, um... 359 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,260 Let me just look at my list one more time here. 360 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,880 Another New Orleans thing. 361 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:40,140 I mean, I'm sorry I'm jumping all over the place here, but the night that 362 00:29:40,140 --> 00:29:44,780 Lestat brings all those soldiers home and you tell him to throw them out, how 363 00:29:44,780 --> 00:29:47,440 many soldiers did he mindfuck out of the townhouse that night? 364 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,000 I don't know. Ten? 365 00:29:49,660 --> 00:29:50,660 Fifteen? 366 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:52,380 More like thirty? 367 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:54,300 Huh. 368 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:05,100 Oh, well, it seems to me, I mean, back to the trial again, it seems to me that 369 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:09,360 there was more than one person in the theater that night who could have saved 370 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,360 you. 371 00:30:17,660 --> 00:30:19,520 Dad, Dad. I know, I know. 372 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:22,560 It's my job. I'm built this way. I know. 373 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,940 It's a stretch, but... It's in your nature, Mr. Malloy. 374 00:30:27,919 --> 00:30:30,420 Couldn't get out the door without lobbing one more bomb. You said it 375 00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:31,420 yourself just now. 376 00:30:31,460 --> 00:30:35,000 He loved Louis. Lestat would have tried to save him as much as you did. And he 377 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,980 certainly would have made it known that he had. Shall we take these follow-ups 378 00:30:37,980 --> 00:30:39,580 and specious theories to the dining room? 379 00:30:39,780 --> 00:30:42,860 We have something special prepared for you, Daniel. 380 00:30:43,220 --> 00:30:49,840 Uh, Santiago should hand the diary into the audience, 381 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,940 have them feel the evidence in their hands. 382 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:54,520 This is... 383 00:30:54,910 --> 00:30:58,310 Too early for Lestat to acknowledge Louis. 384 00:30:59,050 --> 00:31:00,230 Keep the tension. 385 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:04,670 Have him look at Louis later the moment he describes meeting him in New Orleans. 386 00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:09,450 These are just some notes along the margins here. 387 00:31:10,030 --> 00:31:15,670 We need an animation here. It's not clear how extreme the hoarding was. 388 00:31:15,910 --> 00:31:16,910 Where did you get that? 389 00:31:18,850 --> 00:31:19,910 Read it for yourself. 390 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,180 That's when the Black Angel came. 391 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,360 But he came back. 392 00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:11,760 He did, with her. 393 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,340 And now you rise from your chair and walk towards Claudia. 394 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,960 And how do you suppose that you will keep her quiet in this moment? 395 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:43,060 More of your cheap theatrics? The judges will fog her 396 00:32:43,060 --> 00:32:44,060 mind. 397 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,440 You have no idea of Claudia's strength! 398 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,280 He didn't witness the play. 399 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,380 He directed the play. 400 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:14,640 What say you for the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac? 401 00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:19,520 Guilty or not guilty? 402 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,300 Guilty! Guilty! 403 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:26,340 Guilty! 404 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,120 And the sentence? 405 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,080 Banishment. Banishment. 406 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,600 Banishment! 407 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,560 Banishment! 408 00:33:59,780 --> 00:34:06,320 Where did the bullshit start, Armand, 409 00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:09,080 Amadeo, Arun? 410 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:12,020 You were supposed to die with Claudia. 411 00:34:12,659 --> 00:34:14,360 He didn't save you. 412 00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:16,100 Lestat did. 413 00:34:20,909 --> 00:34:23,909 He just took credit for it when the opportunity presented itself. 414 00:34:24,150 --> 00:34:27,630 And you wasted everyone who could have told you differently. 415 00:34:27,929 --> 00:34:30,929 77 years based on a seismic lie. 416 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:35,510 It's a forgery, Scooby. It's from the Talamathka. Sam was their guy in Paris. 417 00:34:35,870 --> 00:34:38,409 He gave it to them. They gave it to me here. 418 00:34:44,050 --> 00:34:45,050 Scooby. 419 00:34:59,630 --> 00:35:01,250 Louie! Louie! 420 00:35:01,770 --> 00:35:02,810 Louie! 421 00:35:49,970 --> 00:35:50,970 Rasheed. Rasheed. 422 00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:02,710 I'm guessing Rasheed left after he brought me the newspaper. 423 00:36:10,330 --> 00:36:11,490 You're not to touch him. 424 00:36:11,770 --> 00:36:12,770 Do you understand? 425 00:36:18,670 --> 00:36:22,810 You harm him in any way, I will kill you. Do you wonder that? 426 00:36:29,110 --> 00:36:30,110 I'm leaving now. 427 00:36:31,610 --> 00:36:34,410 When I return, you need to be caught. 428 00:36:39,550 --> 00:36:41,370 You should gather your things from your room. 429 00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:44,270 I'll arrange a car and a plane to take you home. 430 00:36:50,090 --> 00:36:52,530 Now see, there's ten million dollars wired into your account. 431 00:36:58,610 --> 00:36:59,610 Thank you. 432 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,520 I was hoping the canes would wait until July. 433 00:37:19,940 --> 00:37:22,640 I had two on the floor for a new edition at the Essence Festival. 434 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,800 Let's all shut it up now. 435 00:37:25,340 --> 00:37:26,340 Two on the floor? 436 00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:28,380 Must have cost you. 437 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,200 Wasn't cheap. 438 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,700 Me and my babe was on the bad side. 439 00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:35,620 Then I seen they got a new edition headlining the festival. 440 00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:39,020 She had a thing for Ralph when she was young. You believe that, Ralph? 441 00:37:39,460 --> 00:37:40,460 Pretty much. 442 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,260 Then I think, well, each one on the floor is going to open back the door. 443 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,860 She'll be back. She'll be back for Ralph. 444 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:53,040 So, ask me this. 445 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,760 How come you coming in when everybody else getting out? 446 00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:58,760 You so dead? 447 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,220 Said to be at least a three. 448 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,200 It'll be a phone. 449 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:06,820 First time in New Orleans? 450 00:38:09,660 --> 00:38:10,880 Did my luggage arrive? 451 00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:12,540 Yes, sir. 452 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,940 Two bags in an oversized crate early in the morning. 453 00:38:16,529 --> 00:38:17,910 So I'm waiting for you in your suite. 454 00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:19,710 Thank you. 455 00:38:21,930 --> 00:38:23,870 Very generous, Mr. Duloc. Thank you, sir. 456 00:38:25,210 --> 00:38:26,210 Your card? 457 00:38:26,510 --> 00:38:27,510 Your key? 458 00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:29,790 We're happy to have you as long as you'll have us. 459 00:38:30,050 --> 00:38:32,130 But we are boarding up the hotel for the hurricane. 460 00:38:32,890 --> 00:38:36,730 So we're asking our guests to fill out this liability waiver. 461 00:38:37,430 --> 00:38:38,430 No problem. 462 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,440 Now, everybody, if you want to turn your winch engine to the right at them big 463 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:52,340 green-colored gates, this is 1132 Rose Street, home of the most infamous party 464 00:38:52,340 --> 00:38:53,460 ever thrown in New Orleans. 465 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:58,280 This is where two dozen members of high society, they walked in them doors right 466 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,760 there. Ain't nobody ever seen them again. 467 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,280 Take a picture if you need to. The year? 468 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:09,460 1940. The man that owned this townhome and that year's candy garage went by the 469 00:39:09,460 --> 00:39:13,820 name Sebastian Mellman. Now... Now, history is going to have him go down a 470 00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:14,698 little something different. 471 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,780 A Monsieur Lysander Lioncourt. 472 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:21,640 He was a so-called Frenchman, a so-called seller of industrial 473 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:27,200 machinery. But now tell me, tell the crime dog, why would a man, a known 474 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:32,280 hoarder, and an infamous recluse be named King Arash in the first place? 475 00:39:34,980 --> 00:39:38,600 Sebastian knew a fella by the name of Tom Anderson. He was a former Louisiana 476 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,160 state representative and a full-time Bourbon Street gangster. 477 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,280 Mr. Melmoth, he wasn't alone in 1132. 478 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:51,740 Also in residence was a local Creole hustler and his little child bride. They 479 00:39:51,740 --> 00:39:55,820 were running a voodoo court in the bathrooms above the Courtyard Garden. 480 00:39:56,580 --> 00:40:00,040 Yes, they were. Now, it's Mardi Gras, 1940. 481 00:40:00,780 --> 00:40:06,540 Mr. Melmoth... And Tom Anderson, they brought back the who's who or who that. 482 00:40:06,820 --> 00:40:10,420 The next morning, couldn't nobody find head or head piece of none of them. But 483 00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:11,359 what did they find? 484 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,520 Blood in between the floorboards of three different rooms. 485 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:20,460 Bits of indeterminate pieces of bone inside the factory-sized incinerator. 486 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:26,020 Why did Tom Anderson, Mr. Mellman, the hustler, and the child bride lure these 487 00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:30,480 particular citizens to this house of lies and intrigue? 488 00:40:31,790 --> 00:40:33,430 It's a damn quorum! 489 00:41:01,590 --> 00:41:02,990 Smashed into a low-rise. 490 00:41:03,470 --> 00:41:09,330 Big chunks of shit. Trash cans, mailboxes blowing around everywhere. 491 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:15,710 God fucking wild out there. Shut up. 492 00:41:20,930 --> 00:41:25,870 Out there, running around, goddamn hurricane out there. Shut up. 493 00:41:26,370 --> 00:41:30,690 I mean, we should be out of town is where we should be. Shut up. 494 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:32,340 Oh, man, please. 495 00:41:34,180 --> 00:41:35,180 Who are you? 496 00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:37,540 Hello. 497 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:39,960 Who's he? 498 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:41,720 Louie. 499 00:41:42,460 --> 00:41:43,800 That's Louie? 500 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,140 She's Louie? Get out. 501 00:41:47,780 --> 00:41:48,780 Get out. 502 00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:50,260 Where? 503 00:41:51,380 --> 00:41:53,520 I mean, there's a mad hurricane outside. 504 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,820 I keep fucking telling you. 505 00:41:56,060 --> 00:41:58,020 Oh, shit. God damn it. 506 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,080 Ransom. Trench. Fuck. Meat. 507 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:05,500 Motherfucker. 508 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,880 Fire gifts in your honor. 509 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,720 Where is some fledgling? 510 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:14,480 All the millennials are. 511 00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:21,660 He is an excellent rat catcher. 512 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:36,440 Would you like one? 513 00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:39,120 Hello, Lothar. 514 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:41,520 Hello, Louis. 515 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000 That's me. 516 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,280 I came to see you. 517 00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:55,760 And what does your companion think of that? 518 00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:58,440 I'm companion enough for myself now. 519 00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:02,580 Good for you. 520 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,700 I'm sorry I don't have much time. I'm in the middle of rehearsing. 521 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:12,020 Rehearsing? I'm going on tour. 522 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:19,700 Barger, it seems... It seems 523 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:20,700 to have retired. 524 00:43:21,340 --> 00:43:27,260 And I thought, for better than me to carry on the great work, I 525 00:43:27,260 --> 00:43:31,420 need about 50 more years of practice. 526 00:43:32,740 --> 00:43:33,740 Fury pause. 527 00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:55,630 Did you save my life in Paris? 528 00:44:02,830 --> 00:44:04,570 I gave you to Armand. 529 00:44:07,530 --> 00:44:14,430 You tell me if that was a thing. Why didn't you say it was me who 530 00:44:14,430 --> 00:44:15,530 saved you, not him? 531 00:44:15,850 --> 00:44:17,490 I don't like to point out my virtue. 532 00:44:19,770 --> 00:44:20,770 Besides... 533 00:44:21,550 --> 00:44:23,030 I knew you'd figure it out. 534 00:44:24,950 --> 00:44:25,950 Now look. 535 00:44:27,330 --> 00:44:28,330 You have. 536 00:44:28,410 --> 00:44:29,470 I was right. 537 00:44:29,930 --> 00:44:30,970 Oh, help me. 538 00:44:45,610 --> 00:44:46,850 Been enduring here? 539 00:44:47,630 --> 00:44:48,630 Not enduring. 540 00:44:56,140 --> 00:44:57,620 Living. Here in New Orleans. 541 00:44:58,620 --> 00:44:59,620 Long time. 542 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,400 It's my home. 543 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,060 I am she, she is me. 544 00:45:12,540 --> 00:45:13,980 I didn't know it was a gift. 545 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:18,960 I wore it like a curse. 546 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:21,880 I was selfish. 547 00:45:23,580 --> 00:45:29,140 I tried to make nights awful, but I 548 00:45:29,140 --> 00:45:36,000 wanted you to suffer because 549 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,380 I was suffering. 550 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,180 Shall we listen? 551 00:45:45,620 --> 00:45:49,040 all the ways we have wronged each other and why it will never be right between 552 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:50,800 monsters. I came to thank you. 553 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:58,520 The gift you offer me, the gift I deny, 554 00:45:58,700 --> 00:46:04,720 you deny some part of me where I might 555 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,800 learn and live on it. 556 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,420 September 8, 557 00:46:29,660 --> 00:46:30,660 1973. 558 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,560 September 8, 1973. 559 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,040 It was 11.07 here. 560 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,560 It would have been 9.07 in San Francisco. 561 00:46:45,740 --> 00:46:48,180 Armand called me. 562 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,020 Were you there? 563 00:46:55,140 --> 00:46:56,140 Yeah. 564 00:47:02,900 --> 00:47:04,460 Did you break your soul? 565 00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:07,620 I was lost. 566 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,820 I was in a dark way. 567 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:17,340 I was thinking about... 568 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:25,880 I can't. 569 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,880 I can't get her out of my mind. 570 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:35,920 You have the same problem. 571 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:43,500 I can't, Louie. 572 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,440 I can't. Hey. 573 00:47:48,180 --> 00:47:49,820 Hey, it's not all you. 574 00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:52,100 You hear me? 575 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,060 I carried her home. 576 00:47:58,220 --> 00:47:59,600 I made you turn her. 577 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,060 I saved her from the fire. 578 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,380 Two and a half centuries later, she came. 579 00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:18,020 She looked at me again like a child 580 00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:23,260 looking for her father. 581 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:28,720 But I was souped. 582 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,860 And we are back in five, four, three, two. 583 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:28,760 Welcome back, Atlanta. 584 00:49:28,900 --> 00:49:32,020 And welcome to my next guest, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning 585 00:49:32,020 --> 00:49:35,940 investigative journalist and author of the current best-selling fictional 586 00:49:35,940 --> 00:49:40,300 memoir, Interview with the Vampire, Daniel Malloy. Thanks, Leonard. 587 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:45,700 It's a memoir. It's not fiction. What is one of the main topics of debate 588 00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:46,700 regarding your book? 589 00:49:46,740 --> 00:49:48,940 Is it true or is it a joke? 590 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:54,300 Well, I've sold five million books in four months. You can't see the forest 591 00:49:54,300 --> 00:49:57,700 for the trees. They killed printing it. Hey, Atlanta, check out the book fair 592 00:49:57,700 --> 00:49:59,460 this weekend. It is going to be quite something. 593 00:49:59,980 --> 00:50:02,420 The Washington Post. Bezos Bugle. 594 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:07,480 That's a good one. It called your book a sophomoric footnote in an otherwise 595 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:08,480 stellar career. 596 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:13,100 Conceptually weird. Middle finger to the publishing industry that turned its back 597 00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:15,140 on him a decade ago. 598 00:50:16,190 --> 00:50:20,070 I don't read reviews. Is it true you shop this book to every major publisher 599 00:50:20,070 --> 00:50:21,070 in the country in the UK? 600 00:50:21,890 --> 00:50:22,890 What is this? 601 00:50:23,150 --> 00:50:27,330 It's a legitimate question. No, it's not. I mean, you haven't even told your 602 00:50:27,330 --> 00:50:30,990 viewers what the book is about. Oh, good point. The book purports to be an 603 00:50:30,990 --> 00:50:34,330 interview with an actual vampire. Oh, I know what it's about. It's about you, 604 00:50:34,450 --> 00:50:39,400 Leonard. Trying to go viral with your dinky little provincial news desk. 605 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:44,800 Yeah, I did. I did interview an actual vampire. Oh, here's the camera. I 606 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,040 interviewed an actual vampire. Actually, two vampires. 607 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,180 A species that's lived among us for centuries. 608 00:50:50,660 --> 00:50:53,380 And it's supported by a mountain of historical documentation. 609 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,340 You took a noble career. Didn't even read it. Put it in the show. Didn't read 610 00:50:57,340 --> 00:50:58,098 the book. 611 00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:03,100 You were one of our finest. And now you're a Bigfoot hunter. Hey, man. I'm 612 00:51:03,100 --> 00:51:04,100 sold. 613 00:51:05,370 --> 00:51:09,290 Millions of these books, more than Johnny Grisham or Prince Harry and the 614 00:51:09,290 --> 00:51:10,370 Prisoner of Santa Barbara. 615 00:51:10,570 --> 00:51:14,110 It's a great read, and you're a hack. 616 00:51:14,490 --> 00:51:15,490 What a delight. 617 00:51:16,350 --> 00:51:19,050 Thanks so much for being here, Daniel Malloy. Can't wait to read the book. 618 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,280 Listen, your royalty checks keep bouncing back to me, man. 619 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:00,920 I need a forwarding address. 620 00:52:01,630 --> 00:52:04,010 Why not send them to your editors at the Talamasco? 621 00:52:05,110 --> 00:52:07,030 The shit they made me take out? 622 00:52:07,470 --> 00:52:09,570 No editors next book, I promise. 623 00:52:10,210 --> 00:52:11,750 There won't be a next book. 624 00:52:12,070 --> 00:52:13,530 There shouldn't have been a first book. 625 00:52:13,870 --> 00:52:16,110 You want the 10 million back? Just say it, man. 626 00:52:16,390 --> 00:52:17,410 Send me an address. 627 00:52:17,890 --> 00:52:18,970 You know where I live? 628 00:52:19,570 --> 00:52:22,130 I really wouldn't be staying put if I were you. 629 00:52:24,050 --> 00:52:26,090 I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker. 630 00:52:26,710 --> 00:52:28,650 No. Fucking asshole. 631 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,580 I'm sorry you were burdened out of spite. 632 00:52:32,180 --> 00:52:33,960 I shouldn't have left you alone with him. 633 00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:35,300 Make it up to me. 634 00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:36,960 We'll do a follow-up book. 635 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:39,060 What do you want, Daniel? 636 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:41,840 I'm worried about you. 637 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:44,960 I'm fine. 638 00:52:45,140 --> 00:52:47,900 I keep hearing the other vamps talking about you. 639 00:52:48,140 --> 00:52:50,620 They're really fucking pissed off about our book. 640 00:52:50,860 --> 00:52:52,280 You want to write another with me? 641 00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:55,360 Sequels, audio books, sex toys. 642 00:52:55,660 --> 00:52:57,980 Damn. You've become a cold killer. 643 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:00,760 You still haven't read it, have you? 644 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:04,740 It's the top of my stack. 645 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,280 You said that last month. 646 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,500 It's getting early here, Daniel. Get out of Dubai, Louis. 647 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:15,600 Hey, where'd you get those headphones? No bacon. 648 00:53:18,780 --> 00:53:19,260 We'll 649 00:53:19,260 --> 00:53:25,800 all 650 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,020 get a job. 651 00:53:47,829 --> 00:53:53,530 The skyscraper. The skyscraper that grow quieter. 652 00:53:54,290 --> 00:53:55,930 All of you. 653 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,080 This is the vampire Louis Duloc. 654 00:54:06,420 --> 00:54:10,840 I live in the penthouse apartment at the Al-Sharaf Towers in Dubai, United Arab 655 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:11,840 Emirates. 656 00:54:12,580 --> 00:54:15,620 The security staff here is robust, but mortal. 657 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:21,620 My front door is always unlocked, as are the windows to my balcony, which were 658 00:54:21,620 --> 00:54:27,000 designed with a protective film coating for those of us sun-challenged. 659 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,300 So for all you cowards out there talking shit, 660 00:54:32,740 --> 00:54:34,540 Talking about taking a run at me? 661 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:37,440 Hear this now. 662 00:54:38,540 --> 00:54:39,600 And hear it plain. 663 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:45,680 I own the night.