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The Vampire Lestat Season 1 Episode 3
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00:00:11Previously on The Vampire Lestat.
00:00:14Ask for a child.
00:00:15The light's going out of your blue eye.
00:00:18His name was Magnus.
00:00:20He kept me for a week and looked in a room full of corpses.
00:00:23It's my era now.
00:00:25Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
00:00:27You ask this question every night.
00:00:29I won two pollicers.
00:00:31I'm taking this thing to camp.
00:00:33How did I get you?
00:00:34Sophia.
00:00:35Hello, Sophia.
00:00:37My maker called for his mama and I came.
00:00:40My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
00:00:43Il est sain et sauf.
00:00:44Il a saigné.
00:00:45Tu as fait de ton Nicolas l'un de nous.
00:00:48Trop fragile.
00:00:49There were four pages torn out.
00:00:51It was better when he broke my bones.
00:00:52It was when he had me pinned and he told me he loved me.
00:00:55That fucked me up.
00:00:56We would like you to take care of our problem in Detroit.
00:01:00I believe your Claudia spent a few nights with him once.
00:01:07You are listening to The Failures, album 22, side A.
00:01:12The vainglorious homogeny of the Toronto skyline is something to behold.
00:01:18An onslaught of impractical condominiums dominated by a 147-floor waterpick.
00:01:25Its banality is lost on the polite citizenry of Canada.
00:01:28To them, it's iconic.
00:01:29And what the friends and family of Avery Olsen and Natalie Bokel-Hyde confirmed as a must-see
00:01:35when the two planned their honeymoon and waited for Avery's divorce to finalize.
00:01:39Had they stayed within the realities of their budget and consummated their union in their home province,
00:01:44the marriage might have lasted longer.
00:01:47But love born from a speed dating event in Moosejo, Sakasachuan,
00:01:52merited an unhurried commemoration.
00:01:54Can I offer my assistance?
00:01:56Oh, mercy.
00:01:57Aren't you the angel?
00:02:00It's kind of you, sir.
00:02:02My pleasure. I know these moments last a lifetime.
00:02:05Just make sure we're not in the center center and that the tower isn't coming out of his head.
00:02:09The rule of thirds, the golden mean.
00:02:12And thus, amenities from the Radisson Blue honeymoon package went unused.
00:02:17Exchanged as they were for a vampiric appointment in Samara.
00:02:23Gabriela's divine intervention had raised my raptorial spirits.
00:02:27And I channeled our kills into prurient performances,
00:02:32licking the underside of Lake Erie in Cleveland and Buffalo
00:02:35before rounding the shaft of Lake Ontario.
00:02:42Lover.
00:02:44Where are you?
00:02:46Where are any of us, really?
00:02:48Is that him?
00:02:49Give me that.
00:02:50Hey, Justin Bieber.
00:02:52I got 40 fucking people here with their hands up their asses.
00:02:55Did you misplace something, Dale?
00:02:57I'm done chasing you, bust a coffin.
00:03:00I saved your life.
00:03:01You owe me.
00:03:02Perhaps.
00:03:03I do.
00:03:04I do.
00:03:06I do.
00:03:06You'd be a head.
00:03:07Mounted above a coven toilet if it weren't for me.
00:03:10Transformational trauma, Dale.
00:03:11He's with Sophia again.
00:03:12What do you know about her?
00:03:13Mystery vagina passed its cell-by date.
00:03:15What do you mean, perhaps?
00:03:17You assume death at decapitation.
00:03:19A study done in Budapest had two Class B vampires
00:03:22surviving separation for nearly two hours.
00:03:24A vampire of Lestat's breeding could last four to five times.
00:03:26Checkstat has the herps.
00:03:29Daniel Malloy.
00:03:31Delivered unto the world April 16, 1953,
00:03:34into the arms of his mother in a hospital.
00:03:37I assume it's not something vampires ask one another,
00:03:40the details of their mortal existence.
00:03:41It's considered rude.
00:03:44Nurtured or not nurtured,
00:03:45nudged in San Francisco towards a career of distinction and moderate things.
00:03:50After the can, Chief.
00:03:51Sorry.
00:03:52Murdered and reborn July 18, 2022,
00:03:55by the gremlin Armand.
00:03:57He led a brief, incidental life as a vampire.
00:04:02Incidental.
00:04:04Is that the right word?
00:04:06He found me shallow.
00:04:08I gave him every reason to.
00:04:09I have regrets when it comes to death.
00:04:12Oh, sorry.
00:04:13Yeah, uh, he's here.
00:04:28What's that on your lip here, then?
00:04:30Okay, we're gonna be using a new camera today.
00:04:32It's called an interrotron.
00:04:34I'll be sitting here,
00:04:35but you're gonna see my face in the camera.
00:04:37We won't be like we're talking face to face.
00:04:41And, uh, we are shooting this in color,
00:04:43and we're gonna anchor it to all the black and white tour footage, okay?
00:04:47So, you were a stutterer as a child.
00:04:54Evening, Dan.
00:04:55Happy to be here.
00:04:56Could you state your name for the camera, please?
00:04:59I'm the front man.
00:05:01Lestat.
00:05:02The vampire Lestat.
00:05:03I'm immortal.
00:05:05More or less.
00:05:07The light of the sun is the stinted of an intense fire.
00:05:11Jefferson Starship.
00:05:13Grot-wielding coven members.
00:05:15These things might destroy me, but there again, they might not.
00:05:34I'm a little killer.
00:05:36I'm a lonely one.
00:05:39I'm a sugar-gumper spy.
00:05:41I'm telling you to run.
00:05:42I'm a light shadow.
00:05:45I'm the last of the life.
00:05:47I'm the past and the future, the last of the sutures, the cool and dove.
00:05:51Where the rock and roll is.
00:05:53Where the good take.
00:05:55Where the heart of me love and the face of the mud.
00:05:57Where the stupid rain.
00:06:00Bang, bang.
00:06:02Bang, bang.
00:06:03Bang, bang.
00:06:04Bang, bang.
00:06:06I'll fall down.
00:06:31You've said this thing to me a couple of times on the boss backstage.
00:06:37That the songs are your story.
00:06:40Must be important if I repeat.
00:06:42Or it's a doorstop because you don't want to talk about yourself.
00:06:45I'll kick that door down, Dan.
00:06:47I bunk it down with my cookies and trauma.
00:06:49I'm not even sure.
00:06:49Exactly my thinking.
00:06:51So let's run with this.
00:06:52Let's dig into these songs and see what we get.
00:06:55You have a song, Long Face.
00:06:57The lyrics are...
00:07:05What's the story behind that?
00:07:08Long Face is an agreement between myself and the audience.
00:07:11Permission disguised as anthem.
00:07:13Oh yeah, we're coming.
00:07:15Yeah, yeah, we're coming.
00:07:17Oh yeah, I'm coming.
00:07:28I'm an actor in my makeup.
00:07:30I'll get fatter if and when we break up.
00:07:34Performing a vampire and at the end they get the real thing.
00:07:37Black licorice.
00:07:38Structure and ritual.
00:07:40Judge undrained.
00:07:41Thrilled and shamed.
00:07:41Left one anymore.
00:07:42Well that's great because the band thinks that the song's about...
00:07:45How the current culture has misshapen the mortal mind.
00:07:49And how easy and unsatisfying the bringing of death has become.
00:07:53You must have experienced this, Dan.
00:07:55The memories you take in as you kill.
00:07:57Life is an endless cachet of influencer videos, Russian dashcams, and shame-written pornography.
00:08:04Or are we still pretending that you're human?
00:08:06So not about sucking dick.
00:08:10Performative journalist.
00:08:12Were you a stutterer as a child?
00:08:18Oh, he doesn't like that question.
00:08:20Well, we can come back to it.
00:08:23Let's talk about what happened in Detroit the other night.
00:08:26Some vampires tried to kill you, yeah?
00:08:29Is it a question if you merely put yeah at the end of the sentence?
00:08:32Pretty weak bunch, but they seemed organized.
00:08:35Christine.
00:08:36Which is different than the other two attempts on your life during this tour.
00:08:39Or is this self-financed vanity romp your vampire wishful spin on hope I die before I get old?
00:08:51Is my doc your eulogy?
00:08:53Did you promise him?
00:08:54I don't do promises.
00:08:56I've had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights.
00:08:59Nobody gives a fuck about what I was before.
00:09:01No one cares.
00:09:02No one seems to give a shit about you now, flatlining a thousand capacity venues.
00:09:06Let's take a walk.
00:09:07You're confused about the pursuit, then.
00:09:10It is not about asses on seats or streams on Pandora.
00:09:15It is about pure expression.
00:09:24Ooo-o-o-o-o-oo-waa...
00:09:33It's embarrassing.
00:09:36That's stutter.
00:09:37Stop the cameras.
00:09:38No, no, no, no.
00:09:39Come on.
00:09:40Let them see.
00:09:43Let them see.
00:09:46I have heard...
00:09:4840 shows in 43 fucking nights.
00:09:58No one cares.
00:10:27I'm the vampire Louis de Pointe de Lac.
00:10:30Undone by your relentless questionings, Mr. Molloy.
00:11:03Hello.
00:11:04Making a brief call to share an important message with you.
00:11:07You got the wrong address.
00:11:15I'm looking for killer.
00:11:18Don't.
00:11:18Don't do that.
00:11:19Just think it.
00:11:20I'm a vampire.
00:11:22Just like you.
00:11:23Except I didn't disrespect my face like you done.
00:11:27What is that?
00:11:28Is that Jar Jar Binks dunking a basketball?
00:11:32Binks.
00:11:33Binks.
00:11:33Where's killer?
00:11:34Binks.
00:11:36Binks.
00:11:45Dinesh.
00:11:51Binks.
00:11:53Binks.
00:11:57Dinesh.
00:11:58I'm not killing.
00:11:59Okay.
00:12:00There you go.
00:12:02Anybody see killer?
00:12:04Howl!
00:12:07Howl!
00:12:07Howl!
00:12:08Howl!
00:12:08Howl!
00:12:08Someone's hit.
00:12:08We gotta do it.
00:12:09We're still!
00:12:11And what?
00:12:12You see killer?
00:12:14I'm gonna punch you.
00:12:18Howl!
00:12:20She bathes in love and the eggs are under her.
00:12:24Killer?
00:12:28She walks the wind and has a panther with silver fur.
00:12:34Howl!
00:12:35Howl!
00:12:37Howl!
00:12:39Howl!
00:12:40Howl!
00:12:40Howl!
00:12:41Out the door.
00:12:43Through the fields.
00:12:47Keep straight five minutes.
00:12:49There's a car.
00:12:50Great dog.
00:12:52Don't look back.
00:12:57Eight wolves by yourself.
00:13:00Everyone always repeats a number when I say it.
00:13:04I had a pistol, a rifle, a dagger, a mastiff.
00:13:09The stuttering wolf killer.
00:13:11Well that was the first name for our band.
00:13:14Hello Fort Collins, we are the stuttering wolf killers.
00:13:16Are you ready to rock?
00:13:18From the ages of nine to twenty-nine you...
00:13:21Stuttered.
00:13:23I stuttered.
00:13:24Yes.
00:13:25And every kill I have made is a response.
00:13:27My entire psyche is formed from the deformity.
00:13:30It's like being strapped down in a dentist chair, opening your mouth wide only to have the dentist say,
00:13:35I'm not a dentist as he lubes up a thick rubber glove, so you be gentle, Dan.
00:13:42I think he's just bored by you.
00:13:45Try asking him about the great conversion.
00:13:48What happened at age nine?
00:13:51Mmm.
00:13:54I was taken to see witches being burned in a stake.
00:13:58Okay.
00:14:00Tell me about that.
00:14:03Marguerite Theret, Jeanne Baudin, the twins, Marthe and Aimée Roulet,
00:14:09ceased their prayers and adored the devil in ceremony, said the torch-bearing priests.
00:14:14You remember their names.
00:14:17Teenage girls with the resonant voices of men, screaming and thrashing for hours till their jawbones fell and the devil
00:14:24could sing no more.
00:14:25And you were nine.
00:14:28Oh.
00:14:29It's what moms did with kids before Lego and Peppa Pig.
00:14:33Looking back on it now, they were definitely witches.
00:14:36The twins, that is, Marguerite and Jeanne, probably caught masturbating in a field with a few sick oxen.
00:14:42Two for fours. Not bad, considering it was a priestly-led sentence.
00:14:45And what happened at 29?
00:14:48Hmm.
00:14:56I heard music.
00:14:58So you made it to Paris.
00:15:03Eyes closed, mouth distorted.
00:15:07What struck my heart was the way that his whole body leaned into the music.
00:15:13Had I the ear I have now, I would have found a pedestrian.
00:15:16But I was an ape from Auvergne.
00:15:19And it sounded like a god machine, played by an angel.
00:15:23Ah, merde!
00:15:26Take us quick elsewhere or next, I won't miss.
00:15:29Oh, it must be Al Mozart raising over all the disturb your peace, Madame, kindly.
00:15:33Piss off!
00:15:34This is Nicky who you sing about in your song, Why Do I Have to Feel?
00:15:44Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:15:47My first love.
00:15:49Tell me to piss off again!
00:15:51I am finished, Madame, I am finished.
00:16:02Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:16:06Ah…
00:16:08Is thatبل Lyon?
00:16:11No, of Valois.
00:16:15At the time, you've got your title.
00:16:17Wearing pantaloons.
00:16:22I'm trying to fit in.
00:16:24You know Wolf voile who looks like.
00:16:26Good luck with that.
00:16:31What are you doing in Paris?
00:16:36Eight walls? Impossible.
00:16:40Stuck the heads in the square and the children play hide the heads with them.
00:16:45Sounds like our village.
00:16:51It's my father's stitching.
00:16:54He gave it to me before I left.
00:16:57And your address on the Rue de Mont-Mauron.
00:17:00Mont-Mauron, si.
00:17:03I haven't lived there for six months.
00:17:06My father's allowance barely covers the cost of my music instruction.
00:17:10Much less rent, food, and the bribes to keep me out of the National Guard.
00:17:25Liberty, equality, fraternity.
00:17:29Pity is a treasure.
00:17:37You play beautifully.
00:17:44I play like a tailor's son.
00:17:54Did he say anything else?
00:17:56My dad?
00:18:07Tell him I love him and that I'm proud of him.
00:18:19What did he really say?
00:18:22He said help him, help him to be a man.
00:18:26But he said it without the standby.
00:18:28Hmm.
00:18:33Are you gonna teach me to be a man?
00:18:36A standby one?
00:18:42It goes where you think it goes.
00:18:44All the old tropes and trapes of tortured and forbidden love, blah, blah, blah.
00:18:48Bipolar boy Flynn, blah, blah.
00:18:49Fast forward.
00:18:52Stop.
00:18:53Vape.
00:18:54Check your phone.
00:18:56First play.
00:18:57Oh, good.
00:18:57Now he's a vampire.
00:18:58But you're not a vampire.
00:19:00You're the stuttering ape of Auvergne.
00:19:05Any Quebecers here?
00:19:07Tongue twisters.
00:19:08Vocal exercises.
00:19:09Repeated every day for two years while I washed the floors and empty chamber pots.
00:19:14I had a job I got through Nicky who worked in the pit there, so.
00:19:18Go pull up the song for him that, uh, Why Do I Have to Feel.
00:19:24Oh, I love that song.
00:19:25So, the stuttering, you just bullied it out of yourself.
00:19:28Yeah, Nicky got me the job that cured my affliction.
00:19:31It was, uh, first love, not a great love.
00:19:39Buried yourself in the ground for a century over a not great love.
00:19:43Only thing you carry with you to New Orleans is a music box reminder of a not great love.
00:19:49I carried the box because I destroyed him, damn.
00:19:52I carried the box to remind me what I was capable of.
00:19:56You perform her song.
00:20:08Can someone do something about this?
00:20:11Quiet on set.
00:20:23Quiet on set.
00:20:25Quiet on set.
00:20:28Quiet on set.
00:20:35So, you perform a song every night by your abuser?
00:20:41Biggest fan.
00:20:43Abuser.
00:20:44go go pull up the song liberator emancipator uh-huh he says uh i want to give you everything
00:20:51i've got i know you're stubborn but you have to ask for it did magnus ask your permission before
00:20:59transforming you into a vampire i see it as an unbroken chain of similar songs in pop music
00:21:06herman hermit's laying on a lamppost every breath you take by the police i love that one
00:21:11eminem stand according to louis his name was magnus he took me from my room in paris as i
00:21:18kicked and screamed locked me in a room with for a week with corpses they all look like me i
00:21:25mean
00:21:25does that even sound like me dan my coloring where's the artful turn of phrase where's the
00:21:30assonance the he fed on me for a week i thought for sure i'd become one of them but instead
00:21:37he turned me into this
00:21:42louis was not there when magnus abducted me but he was there in new orleans when you
00:22:08i think we got real potential babe i got a battle of wine
00:22:17and yeah that's me at your window babe we're gonna have such a goddamn good time i wanna be your
00:22:27crescendo babe don't let me catch you crying don't tell me the spell is breaking you're so perfect in that
00:22:40raging light i know i'm hard to look at sometimes but i'm here for the taking i wanna give you
00:22:50earth and i got i know you're starting to do after a storm
00:22:57i can tell you everything i'm not
00:23:01yeah i'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf
00:23:09yeah i'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf
00:23:13hmm
00:23:18hmm
00:23:18hmm
00:23:20i understood my maker
00:23:23if i had seen 19 straight performances of my lilio i would have abandoned all decorum too
00:23:29abandoned decorum he made you a monster and killed himself in front of you
00:23:36i was an actor at a second tier theater squatting in a beheaded nobleman's flat with a severely depressed look
00:23:42why are you still bordering my beauty how was the kielbasa crafty
00:23:48and as for the suicide it gave me a lightness that i would not have known had he loided the
00:23:52centuries beside me
00:23:55i see the burden written on your face stan
00:23:58when i say god and you say monster is it your absent but very much alive father walking around that
00:24:06gives you this lowly idea of yourself
00:24:08son of armand who needs another victim song
00:24:14exactly
00:24:15very rock and roll
00:24:16still it must have been hard keeping that from nicky
00:24:21armand got that part right in my book
00:24:24he confronted you on the street abducted nicky fed him to his coven
00:24:28and yet
00:24:29you hid your vampirism from him
00:24:32yeah
00:24:32question mark
00:24:35you're safe
00:24:36you're in our roomie in paris
00:24:39why am i weak
00:24:41delirium took you
00:24:43i've been your nursemaid you've been to all company
00:24:53a rush
00:24:54the battle in his typhoid
00:24:56also the doctor you slept through
00:24:58our favorite game
00:25:00you lie
00:25:02and i believe you
00:25:03i'm not sicko
00:25:06gone out of the window
00:25:08i saw nothing unnatural happened
00:25:10you were down
00:25:11wearing silk breeches
00:25:14oh god yeah it's so patient
00:25:15lies on lies on lies
00:25:17sudden vanishings
00:25:18your change dies
00:25:23oh and your mother
00:25:25yeah i wish she alive
00:25:28i brought her to rocamadon
00:25:29procure a black madonna blaster
00:25:32uh your
00:25:34what your mother
00:25:39the vampire gabriella
00:25:42vladimir lives for life
00:25:47how what
00:25:48she followed me to paris
00:25:51her body was ready to die
00:25:54but her mind was not
00:25:56my first fledgling
00:26:00louis must have told you
00:26:01no
00:26:02i thought it was discretion that kept her out of your book
00:26:07my love was a small box that i kept them in
00:26:09no room for the many hours i talked of her i guess
00:26:12and
00:26:14she where is she now
00:26:15she's here right now
00:26:21right
00:26:24here
00:26:29she died
00:26:31vampire toddlerdom
00:26:33always the hardest years as you know
00:26:35or don't know dan
00:26:44what do you think about the great conversion
00:26:46oh
00:26:48the vampire thing
00:26:50vampire is taking over the world
00:26:52collaborating
00:26:55fucking stupid
00:26:56can you get out of my eye line
00:27:03yeah
00:27:07three flights up
00:27:10your bones would be pieces
00:27:12what are you
00:27:12what is she
00:27:16mother
00:27:17outside the theater
00:27:18the ragged man
00:27:19calling wolf killer
00:27:21blackened passages
00:27:22and dog tooth fiends
00:27:25you are gibbery
00:27:27i want to know you in this change form
00:27:29don't look to her
00:27:31roger has brought you a house
00:27:33from the key i have opened a bank account in your name
00:27:35i could move to a den and send clark
00:27:38don't bite me out
00:27:39no please
00:27:42speaks my thoughts before i speak them
00:27:46you gave this witchery to her
00:27:50she was an hour from death
00:27:52finally
00:27:54her admits it
00:28:00do you want me to murder you
00:28:01i want you to love me enough to give it to me
00:28:16you cannot do it
00:28:18you mustn't do it
00:28:29i have driven him mad
00:28:33i know i leave him to this madness
00:28:35you have used up your affection for him
00:28:38you know you have
00:28:40don't bring him into eternity
00:28:54he's playing as greatly improved
00:28:56i cannot hear the actors over his improvement
00:28:59well i prefer his music to gustav's act
00:29:02well
00:29:03you can return to the role anytime you wish
00:29:06and have your cumbersome words in my mouth again
00:29:08no thank you
00:29:12are there blood drinkers in italy
00:29:16excuse me
00:29:17are there covens like this one in roma venezia
00:29:22salerno
00:29:23does nicola know about us
00:29:24us
00:29:27what is us
00:29:28do you think you're the only one in the company he drinks from
00:29:31do you think i am the only one with disdain for his fledgling
00:29:34take him aside
00:29:35you're the active manager
00:29:37manage
00:29:38you're his maker
00:29:39make him
00:29:40is there an evil older than you
00:29:43your maker marius
00:29:45my maker is dead
00:29:46i've told you that already
00:29:47just check
00:29:52i give you the theater of the vampires
00:29:54the greatest spectacle of the boulevard
00:30:06he was dramatic as a mortal
00:30:07you'll find his way
00:30:09no he won't
00:30:10i believe you
00:30:12i love you lestana
00:30:14christ
00:30:17there's not room enough in this box for your desperation
00:30:24has anyone seen the letter opener
00:30:26we don't need a letter opener nikki
00:30:27we don't get any letters
00:30:28you want to talk about your recent work in the theater nicola
00:30:31he's not in the chamber pot
00:30:32i left it there a week ago
00:30:33you don't like my music metro
00:30:35well it's not me
00:30:37it's my hands
00:30:37but i don't have my letter opener
00:30:39i think the music
00:30:40will improve
00:30:40once i find the letter opener
00:30:44we think you should take some time away from the theater nikki
00:30:52did you two decide this in the wings?
00:30:55huh?
00:30:55or the box?
00:30:56the place dauphine?
00:30:58last sunday?
00:30:59the hotel de ville?
00:31:01and the feast of assumption?
00:31:03and the night after?
00:31:04don't stop!
00:31:04look at me!
00:31:05look at me!
00:31:08i left it here!
00:31:09i left it here!
00:31:10i left it here!
00:31:10yes i've warned his mind is colorful
00:31:12you opened up a letter from your mother
00:31:13how dare you open up my letter he pouted and shouted
00:31:17i did!
00:31:17i was trying to make the opener happy!
00:31:20i was trying to give it purpose!
00:31:24here it is!
00:31:26ah!
00:31:27ah!
00:31:31ah!
00:31:32ah!
00:31:37ah!
00:31:37ah!
00:31:37ah!
00:31:38ah!
00:31:39ah!
00:31:42ah!
00:31:43ah!
00:31:54ah!
00:31:56ah!
00:32:04ah!
00:32:05ah!
00:32:25ah!
00:32:26ah!
00:32:29Gabriella went to coffin
00:32:32leaving us
00:32:34and Armand
00:32:36i told Nicky that i loved him
00:32:44from the first seconds i saw him in Paris
00:32:50that I was
00:32:52drunk with this love.
00:32:56I was engulfed by it.
00:32:59Your maker would tell you I was being kind,
00:33:02but
00:33:05in the moment
00:33:08the words were true.
00:33:14I think
00:33:22I remember the light.
00:33:27Fireplace
00:33:29reflecting golden onto his face
00:33:34and his
00:33:36bare arms.
00:33:43But I would not look at the world.
00:33:46I could not.
00:33:51I am.
00:33:57I couldn't do it.
00:34:02But I watched
00:34:09as Armand
00:34:12pushed him into the fire
00:34:15and made sure he stayed there
00:34:19with a poker in his chest.
00:34:29Nicky had a bemused look on his face
00:34:32as he burned
00:34:33his mouth
00:34:38formed into a
00:34:43circle.
00:34:46and he made only one sound.
00:35:11As though he knew
00:35:14that in death
00:35:17it was a nothingness.
00:35:26Remember me?
00:35:28Remember me?
00:35:29Can we get something?
00:35:31Yeah, okay, we're cutting.
00:35:32We tried booking something called the Ryan Center
00:35:35in Kingston, Rhode Island. 8,000 seats.
00:35:37I thought this deep in we'd be able to fill it.
00:35:40We sold 2,500, including a papering service.
00:35:44Unlike your last vampire,
00:35:46there are no delusions here.
00:35:52Arduous is to her
00:35:56my ego.
00:35:58And still,
00:35:59it's not what I hunt.
00:36:02Never say I didn't give you anything.
00:36:04Keys.
00:36:04Tomorrow's venue is staying open
00:36:06so I can sound.
00:36:06Let Larry run it.
00:36:10How is check me?
00:36:11Like Curlou Vivari,
00:36:13fun for three minutes,
00:36:14then you're longing for Prague.
00:36:16Prague is that way.
00:36:17You can dig yourself a hole in cork
00:36:19and be buried in a matya the night after.
00:36:21Provoked.
00:36:23Bored.
00:36:23Ah, you'll run fewer reds that way.
00:36:26There's a shameful tiki bar
00:36:27in a parkdale.
00:36:30Rain check,
00:36:31Sophia.
00:36:41Well,
00:36:43that took forever.
00:36:45Right?
00:36:47Run it back.
00:36:49About,
00:36:50I don't know,
00:36:50four minutes.
00:36:52Been trying to crack those cheeks
00:36:54for two months.
00:36:56Vampires,
00:36:57they're weird just like you.
00:36:59two.
00:37:00Okay.
00:37:01Let's see what we got here.
00:37:08What the hell?
00:37:10Go,
00:37:10go back a few more minutes,
00:37:12please.
00:37:13Stop.
00:37:15Wait a second.
00:37:17What am I looking at here?
00:37:19Did you go back far enough?
00:37:21All right,
00:37:22let's,
00:37:22let's keep going back.
00:37:24Yeah,
00:37:25right about there.
00:37:25Stop.
00:37:26Can you get out of my eyeline?
00:37:29Yeah.
00:37:31What?
00:37:33What the?
00:37:35Where's the part
00:37:36where he talks about
00:37:37transforming Nikki?
00:37:40They,
00:37:41what?
00:37:42What?
00:37:43He just,
00:37:43he just,
00:37:44just sat there
00:37:45like a fucking blow-up doll
00:37:47and no one said anything?
00:37:48Nothing?
00:37:49You gotta be fucking getting me.
00:37:51What is this?
00:37:52No,
00:37:52yeah,
00:37:53it was freaking
00:37:53weirdsville
00:37:54to you to sat there
00:37:55for like half an hour,
00:37:57eh?
00:37:59He was crying
00:38:00fucking blood tears.
00:38:02Did no one see that?
00:38:03A mean-spirited
00:38:04telepathic prank.
00:38:06A price paid
00:38:07for amusing
00:38:07my muses.
00:38:09It brought
00:38:09poor Dan
00:38:10to his knees
00:38:11and seeded
00:38:12a hate for me
00:38:12inside him,
00:38:14there to be
00:38:14warded in the sunlight
00:38:15later.
00:38:17But what can I say?
00:38:19Serving cunt
00:38:20has its consequences.
00:38:25You are listening to
00:38:26The Failures.
00:38:28Album 28,
00:38:29Side B.
00:38:32You're carrying me
00:38:33into the threshold?
00:38:34Yes, ma'am.
00:38:35Mm-hmm.
00:38:43Come on!
00:38:45Ah, I got you, man.
00:38:49You gonna make me
00:38:50a mom in the night?
00:38:51I don't think
00:38:51it works like that
00:38:52for us no more,
00:38:53but we can give it a try.
00:38:57We're home!
00:39:05It's always
00:39:06so shallow
00:39:07to the rock.
00:39:08You're trying
00:39:09to get back
00:39:09to my business.
00:39:12Come on.
00:39:13I got you
00:39:13to the back.
00:39:18I don't have it.
00:39:30Surprise!
00:39:34Congrats
00:39:34on the happy day.
00:39:36I couldn't make it
00:39:37to the ceremony.
00:39:37I hope you don't mind
00:39:38me inviting myself
00:39:39to the honeymoon.
00:39:40You make that mess
00:39:41upstairs, friend?
00:39:43I did.
00:39:47Where's the food?
00:39:50I'll call
00:39:50a maneuver.
00:39:59What the fuck
00:40:00did you do
00:40:00to my husband?
00:40:08I'm not told
00:40:09the truth.
00:40:10You want to tell
00:40:11me what that is?
00:40:12Oh, shit.
00:40:13Oh, shit.
00:40:14This is...
00:40:14Okay.
00:40:16This is about
00:40:16the fucking
00:40:17little stat shit.
00:40:19Okay.
00:40:20Yeah, that...
00:40:21That wasn't my fault.
00:40:24I have these
00:40:24Gen Z fledgling
00:40:26these righteous fuckers
00:40:28who thinks
00:40:28we ought to be
00:40:29in the sewers
00:40:29and shit.
00:40:30He's my baby,
00:40:31Jenks,
00:40:32his baby...
00:40:32Shut up, Bruce.
00:40:34You call me Bruce
00:40:37because my name
00:40:38is Killer.
00:40:55You and I have a friend
00:40:58in common.
00:41:00more wine.
00:41:04Cold tea,
00:41:05they call it
00:41:06here,
00:41:06I hear.
00:41:08Hmm.
00:41:10Apples
00:41:10with a hint
00:41:12of...
00:41:13cowardice.
00:41:16Still in rags?
00:41:17Is this better?
00:41:23Same face,
00:41:24same smell.
00:41:25No hope for you,
00:41:26Father Max.
00:41:27Oh, not exactly
00:41:29forthcoming
00:41:30with the vampire
00:41:31journalists.
00:41:33Left out a few
00:41:34prickly details.
00:41:38Uh-oh.
00:41:39You forgot to put
00:41:40your blinkers on.
00:41:47Bruce walked
00:41:48back from the fire,
00:41:49leaned down
00:41:50over me,
00:41:52and for a second
00:41:53I thought I was
00:41:53gonna go right
00:41:54there,
00:41:55but no.
00:41:56Louie de Pond,
00:41:57he plunked me
00:41:58onto his motorbike
00:41:59and switched
00:42:00into his friendly
00:42:02self.
00:42:03The Lord's right now
00:42:04and gifted
00:42:04and the Lord's right now.
00:42:06The Lord's right now.
00:42:06The Lord's right now.
00:42:06The Lord's right now.
00:42:06The Lord's right now.
00:42:09The Lord's right now.
00:42:10The Lord's right now.
00:42:10The Lord's right now.
00:42:11No more of that
00:42:14in my presence!
00:42:16The Lord's right now.
00:42:16But we'll live
00:42:17and proclaim
00:42:17what the Lord's right now.
00:42:19The Lord's right now.
00:42:20The Lord's right now.
00:42:21The Lord's right now.
00:42:21Back inside!
00:42:24You got
00:42:25your song.
00:42:28The woman got
00:42:29to his house.
00:42:30I guess my biggest
00:42:31question is
00:42:32why you checking me
00:42:33down now?
00:42:34I mean,
00:42:34we all read your
00:42:35little page turner.
00:42:36It's all going
00:42:37dumb
00:42:38in my mind,
00:42:39too.
00:42:40Coursed out?
00:42:41New sentence.
00:42:43You tipped over the collywobble shelf and took the cloth off the long table.
00:42:48We eat your soul at the long table.
00:42:53Sixty-eight courses so far.
00:42:56We keep waiting for the bill, but the plates keep coming.
00:43:00And we keep asking ourselves, when's he going to make an album?
00:43:05When we are ready!
00:43:09She entertains a lot of little French folks with her death.
00:43:14I don't do nothing that bad to her, Daddy Lou.
00:43:19Guess I don't have to tell you, dear diary, what it's like to have a person crack your spine, open
00:43:25you up and shove a pencil inside you.
00:43:29Very hard company at the long table.
00:43:32A heart, a finger, a drummer, a pimp, you, Claudia.
00:43:48And I fought him, even with my broken arm, and then my re-broken arm, but even still, all the
00:43:58bad things happened that bad men do.
00:44:01He had my legs pulled apart, and my dress pulled up around my waist.
00:44:07And that awful, stuffed full, too wet feeling down there, like I was packed with dirt.
00:44:21And I hope one day he feels this, small and cornered, and crushed like a can.
00:44:33But then there were the parts where he brought home kills, and I sat with him, and ate.
00:44:44I just said what he wanted to hear.
00:44:52Ask for it, child.
00:44:55And it ain't easy to like myself because of it.
00:44:59All the light's gone out of your blue eyes.
00:45:02I even once felt a twinge of something nice.
00:45:06As if all the summer days are gone.
00:45:10No!
00:45:10And not the worst thing ever.
00:45:13No!
00:45:15No!
00:45:20He let me go because I seemed small, and it looked like he'd won.
00:45:26And he did win, because I want nothing to be nothing, and say nothing, and do nothing.
00:45:42You know the stupidest of all, Dear Diary?
00:45:46I thought I was the thing lurking in the shadows.
00:45:49I thought I was.
00:45:53I thought I was.
00:46:02That's it.
00:46:08Cliff.
00:46:25I imagine you naked in your gold, gilded, Beth.
00:46:30Wondering why it didn't end on the highway.
00:46:33How I got on stage the following night to another feverishly modest audience.
00:46:39I couldn't pretend anymore that we were a ticketmaster must-have.
00:46:43Or that I wasn't having a nervous breakdown.
00:46:45Or that psychosis wasn't the exhilarating, horrifying by-product of romping and stomping
00:46:51around the hippocampus.
00:46:52But here's the thing.
00:46:55I loved the music.
00:46:57I loved it.
00:46:58It was compelling me forward, pulling me through the perennial walls of my psyche.
00:47:03And I thought, why not ride it to blindness?
00:47:07Because it seemed possible.
00:47:09This was the muddy bottom.
00:47:11And on the other side, a marble floor, polished to the horizon.
00:47:15Music in its purest expression would make me worse.
00:47:21And then make me better.
00:47:24Bring on the music.
00:47:25You can't fuck away the loneliness.
00:47:32It'll wait till you're done, till you come.
00:47:39Like a vampire.
00:47:42You can't drink away the loneliness.
00:47:49It'll wait till the next day.
00:47:54Like a headache.
00:47:57Sucking you dry.
00:48:00You can't escape this loneliness.
00:48:06It'll say, what a mess.
00:48:10How will anybody ever love you?
00:48:21Don't hide it all.
00:48:28Don't bury those feelings.
00:48:34Don't worship that.
00:48:38Break that on your own.
00:48:43Don't burn, uh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
00:48:56Safe.
00:48:59Safe.
00:49:00I'm nearly home.
00:49:02You get what you wanted out there?
00:49:06Yeah.
00:49:08Yeah.
00:49:31Yeah.
00:49:32Love will fade.
00:49:34And you stay.
00:49:35And you stay.
00:49:37And you stay.
00:49:40With your settlers.
00:49:43You can't escape
00:49:46This loneliness.
00:49:51It'll pray.
00:49:53It'll press.
00:49:54How could anybody
00:49:56ever learn?
00:49:59Oh.
00:50:01Oh.
00:50:05Don't hide it away.
00:50:09Oh.
00:50:11Oh.
00:50:12Don't bury
00:50:14those feelings.
00:50:17Oh.
00:50:19Don't
00:50:20worship that grave
00:50:22dirt on
00:50:24your own.
00:50:26Don't burn
00:50:28over.
00:50:29Over.
00:50:32Hi. You okay?
00:50:33I'm gonna get you anything else.
00:50:34I'm good. Thank you.
00:50:36Regina.
00:50:47Now.
00:51:00Blue.
00:51:06Echoes.
00:51:09Perfection.
00:51:15So they're out there, killing it, every night.
00:51:20And I'm following them, you know, on my phone, refresh, refresh, refresh.
00:51:27And they're blowing up.
00:51:30You're going to hear about them soon, if you haven't already.
00:51:34Hopefully, I'm stuck here in Monroe, Ohio, of all places.
00:51:41You know, no offense.
00:51:46God, I just want to drink.
00:51:48I feel sorry for myself.
00:51:53Yeah, thank you for giving me another way through.
00:51:57Thank you. Thank you for sharing.
00:52:04So, who else wants to share tonight, hmm?
00:52:11Come on, guys.
00:52:13I will.
00:52:15I'll share.
00:52:17Um, hello?
00:52:22My name is Arun.
00:52:26Hi, Arun.
00:52:27Hi, Arun.
00:52:28Hello, Arun.
00:52:30And...
00:52:33I am an addict.
00:52:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire Lestat, wherever you stream music.
00:52:46I am the toxic bitch godless star.
00:52:53Oh, now you feel me, little monster, baby.
00:52:58Bluezo.
00:53:00Hi, what can I get you?
00:53:02Lestat is going to get us all killed.
00:53:04I've got five more shows.
00:53:06I'm getting bored.
00:53:08So, what are we doing?
00:53:09Shall we scorch the mortal world?
00:53:16The stuttering wolf killer.
00:53:19The vampire Lestat.
00:53:20Evening then.
00:53:21Happy to be here.
00:53:23You really caught my eye.
00:53:26Malloy is a deft investigator, but he's never investigated anybody like this before, and that's going to become really clear
00:53:33in this episode.
00:53:34Were you a stutterer as a child?
00:53:36It's a really wild interview scene. I mean, there's like 300 things happening at one time.
00:53:41You perform a song every night by your abuser, Magnus.
00:53:46Biggest fan.
00:53:48Abuser.
00:53:49I wanna give you everything I got.
00:53:53I know you're starting to do after I start.
00:53:57You see the music video of how Lestat wants to portray his transformation, and he's like,
00:54:04I'm going to write you my, you know, sweet little Taylor Swift pop ballad song, make a fool out of
00:54:11my maker.
00:54:17He wants to think about it as like, he was my fan and he made me, but of course the
00:54:21truth within that episode asserts itself.
00:54:29We cast Damien Atkins as Magnus.
00:54:32He's a terrifying, vulnerable creature, and the transformation that he inflicts upon Lestat is incredibly violent.
00:54:43Ready, and action.
00:54:46We were trying to really make it as brutal as we possibly could, so that it had a real contrast
00:54:52to his kind of gilded music video version that he wanted to show.
00:55:00And then Damien's got this incredible, like, neck blood pump, you know, that I'm getting rained on beneath and blood
00:55:08going into my eyes.
00:55:09And we tried to make it as gruesome as possible, and really show that it was an actual assault.
00:55:15And that is something that Lestat, like, completely carries through his life, as his transformation was a full-on kidnapping,
00:55:24assault.
00:55:25He's got to reconcile that on a daily basis.
00:55:33And what happened at 29?
00:55:37Nicolas de l'enfant, my first love.
00:55:41Don't bring him into eternity.
00:55:49Disaster, my son.
00:55:51Gabriella cannot bear Nikki.
00:55:53I think she really is being honest, and I think she's absolutely right.
00:55:56She knows that Lestat doesn't really want to spend eternity with Nikki.
00:56:00Let's Nicolas know about us.
00:56:02Us?
00:56:04What is us?
00:56:05This is one of those scenes that I was really interested to see how they were going to revisit the
00:56:10theater.
00:56:11Je t'aime.
00:56:12Je t'aime aussi.
00:56:14This is basically a revisit of Armand's story to Daniel in episode three of season two.
00:56:21But now it's through Lestat's eyes, which arguably is maybe the more truthful version.
00:56:27I love you, Lestat.
00:56:29Christ.
00:56:30And there's also the dynamic of Gabriella.
00:56:33Oh, she doesn't like Armand.
00:56:34Do you think you're the only one in the company he drinks from?
00:56:38Do you think I am the only one with disdain for his fledgling?
00:56:41Armand is like the consummate third wheel.
00:56:43In every situation, Louis and Lestat, Armand, Gabriella and Lestat, Armand.
00:56:47And Armand's jealousy really shows.
00:56:54He knew that Nikki couldn't withstand what it takes to live this life.
00:57:00He was already unstable before he became a vampire.
00:57:02And Armand has seen vampires succumb to the madness.
00:57:06So he's not surprised when it finally turns.
00:57:11I couldn't do it.
00:57:13But I watched as Armand pushed him into the fire.
00:57:18I made sure he stayed there.
00:57:23Malloy thinks he strikes gold.
00:57:26As it turns out, that's an illusion.
00:57:29What am I looking at here?
00:57:31What is this?
00:57:32No, yeah, it was frickin' Weirdsville to you to sat there for like half an hour, eh?
00:57:37It is a mean-spirited prank in the fact that Malloy didn't get it on camera.
00:57:41But he is talking truth to Malloy when he gives him his telepathic story about what happened there.
00:57:47It's more of a shared experience between the two of them.
00:57:50The anger is deep.
00:57:51To some degree, Lestat is bullying Daniel.
00:57:54And I don't respond well to bullying.
00:57:56And I will push back hard.
00:57:58We would like you to take care of our problem in Detroit, Mr. Dulac.
00:58:05The coven leader's name is Bruce.
00:58:08I believe your Claudia spent a few nights with him once.
00:58:12At the end of episode two, Raglan James tempts Louis with this getting revenge on the guy who hurt Claudia.
00:58:19And Louis has a big hole in his heart.
00:58:24And he feels like doing this will fill it.
00:58:27Making a brief call to share an important message with you.
00:58:29You got the wrong ad.
00:58:30The wrong.
00:58:32That first section when he's trying to get to Bruce.
00:58:35He's doing his job.
00:58:37What?
00:58:37I'm looking for killer.
00:58:39You're not killer.
00:58:40Bester!
00:58:41Okay.
00:58:41He's become so adept at doing this.
00:58:44He's very efficient.
00:58:45And also, he's held himself back a lot from having that kind of killer instinct.
00:58:51So then when it comes out, it, like, it explodes.
00:58:56The thing I actually found creepiest about that set was the bathtubs and the people lying in there fully clothed.
00:59:03And I was talking to one of the people that was in the bathtub.
00:59:07I was like, is that cold or is that warm?
00:59:09And they were like, it's warm.
00:59:12I was like, okay, so it's like a bath.
00:59:13It's still horrible.
00:59:16No!
00:59:18He wanted Bruce to understand on some level a degree of the pain and of the suffering that he put
00:59:25Claudia under.
00:59:27You and I have a friend in common.
00:59:31I personally had a kind of complicated relationship with Louis reading Claudia's diary entry.
00:59:37Because I sort of felt like that's not really his place.
00:59:41But I think Louis thinks that he's speaking on her behalf.
00:59:44And it looked like he won.
00:59:46And he did win.
00:59:47Because I want nothing to be nothing.
00:59:54It's just important that before he dies, he can hear it for himself.
00:59:58The hell that he created.
01:00:00And then it's done.
01:00:14I think one of the most poignant moments of this season up to this point is the museum in that
01:00:20diner.
01:00:20I think he realizes almost immediately that it can't bring her back.
01:00:25It can't undo the pain.
01:00:28Kai, you okay?
01:00:29How can I get you anything else?
01:00:30I'm good.
01:00:31Thank you, Regina.
01:00:33Thank you, Regina.
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