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00:00:10Previously 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 locked 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 saunier.
00:00:45Tu as la feuille de toi, Nicolas, l'un des noms.
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 were 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.
00:01:38Had they stayed within the realities of their budget and consummated their union in their
00:01:43home province, the marriage might have lasted longer.
00:01:47But love born from a speed dating event in Moosjo, Sakasachuan merited 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 me, sir.
00:02:02My pleasure.
00:02:03I 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, and I channeled our kills into prurient
00:02:31performances, licking the underside of Lake Erie in Cleveland and Buffalo before rounding
00:02:36the shaft of Lake Ontario.
00:02:43Love her.
00:02:44Where are you?
00:02:46Where are any of us, really?
00:02:48Is that him?
00:02:49Huh, give 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 mounted 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 sell-by date.
00:03:16What do you mean, perhaps?
00:03:17You assume death at decapitation.
00:03:19A study done in Budapest had two Class B vampires surviving separation for nearly two hours.
00:03:24A vampire of Lestat's breeding could last four to five times.
00:03:27Chuck's dad has the herps.
00:03:29Daniel Malloy.
00:03:31Delivered unto the world April 16th, 1953, into the arms of his mother in a hospital.
00:03:36I assume it's not something vampires ask one another, the details of their mortal existence.
00:03:41It's considered rude.
00:03:44Nurtured or not nurtured, nudged in San Francisco towards a career of distinction and moderate fame.
00:03:50After the can, Chief.
00:03:51Sorry.
00:03:52Murdered and reborn July 18th, 2022, by 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, he's here.
00:04:28What's that on your lip, Yada?
00:04:30Okay, we're going to be using a new camera today.
00:04:32It's called an interrotron.
00:04:34I'll be sitting here, but you're going to see my face in the camera.
00:04:37We will be like we're talking face to face.
00:04:41And we are shooting this in color, and we're going to anchor it to all the black and white
00:04:45tour footage, okay?
00:04:47So, you were a stutterer as a child.
00:04:54Evening then.
00:04:55Happy to be here.
00:04:56Could you state your name for the camera, please?
00:04:59I'm the front man, Lestat.
00:05:02The vampire Lestat.
00:05:03I'm immortal, more or less.
00:05:07The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, Jefferson's 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-dum-up-your-spine, telling you to run.
00:05:43I'm a little shadow.
00:05:45I'm a last liar.
00:05:47I'm a past and the future, the last of the sutures, the cooing down.
00:05:50Where the rock and roll is, where the guitar, where the hop of me love, and the face of the
00:05:57mother,
00:05:57where the stupid rhyme.
00:06:00Bang, bang.
00:06:01Bang, bang.
00:06:02Bang, bang.
00:06:04Bang, bang.
00:06:05Bang, bang.
00:06:06I'll fall down.
00:06:09Burn the ground.
00:06:14I'll fall down.
00:06:17Burn the ground.
00:06:19Bang, bang, bang.
00:06:24Bang, bang, bang.
00:06:27Bang, bang.
00:06:28Well, that was shit.
00:06:32You've said this thing to me a couple of times on the bus, backstage, that the songs are your story.
00:06:40Must be important if I repeat.
00:06:41Or it's a doorstop because you don't want to talk about yourself.
00:06:45Mmm, I'll kick that door down, Dan.
00:06:47I'd bunk it down with my cookies and trauma.
00:06:49Exactly my thinking.
00:06:51Exactly my thinking.
00:06:51So, let's run with this.
00:06:52Let's dig into these songs and see what we get.
00:07:07Mm-hmm.
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.
00:07:19Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:07:28I'm an actor in my makeup.
00:07:30I'll get fatter if and when we break up.
00:07:34Performative vampire, and at the end they get the real thing.
00:07:37Black licorice.
00:07:38Structure and ritual.
00:07:40Judge undrained, thrilled and shamed, left 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,
00:08:00Russian 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.
00:08:22Um, let'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, uh, organized.
00:08:35Which is different than the other two attempts on your life during this tour.
00:08:40Is this self-financed vanity romp your vampire wishful...
00:08:47spin 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.
00:09:24Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, wah, wah.
00:09:33It's embarrassing.
00:09:36Stutter.
00:09:37Stop the cameras.
00:09:38No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:09:39Come on.
00:09:40Let them see.
00:09:43Let them see.
00:09:44I have had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights.
00:09:58No one cares.
00:10:27I'm the vampire Louis de Pointe-de-Lac, undone by your relentless questionings, Mr. Malloy.
00:11:03Hello, I'm making a brief call to share an important message with you.
00:11:07You got the wrong adju-
00:11:08The wrong adju-
00:11:15I'm looking for Killer, don't, don't do that, just think it.
00:11:20I'm a vampire, just like you, except 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?
00:11:55I'm looking for Killer.
00:11:57Killer?
00:11:58Cannot kill him.
00:11:59Okay.
00:12:00Oh, hey, y'all.
00:12:02Anybody see Killer?
00:12:08Someone's here, we got him on, he's still.
00:12:11And what?
00:12:12You see Killer?
00:12:14Very much.
00:12:14Cool.
00:12:16Big a Fish Macklin.
00:12:23Killer?
00:12:25Killer?
00:12:28She walks the wind and has a panther with silver bud.
00:12:34How the door.
00:12:40Out the door, through the fields.
00:12:47Keep straight five minutes.
00:12:49There's a car, a great dog.
00:12:52Don't go back.
00:12:56Eight 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.
00:13:15We are the stuttering wolf killers.
00:13:16Are you ready to rock?
00:13:18From the ages of nine to 29, you stuttered.
00:13:23I stuttered.
00:13:24Yes, and 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's chair,
00:13:33opening your mouth wide, only to have the dentist say,
00:13:35I'm not a dentist, as he lubes up a thick rubber glove.
00:13:37So, 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?
00:13:54I was taken to see witches being burned at a stake.
00:13:58Okay.
00:14:00Tell me about that.
00:14:03Marguerite Deray, Jeanne Baudin, the twins, Marthe and Aimée Roulay,
00:14:09seized their prayers and adored the devil in ceremony, said the torch-bearing priests.
00:14:14You remember their names.
00:14:17You 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.
00:14:29It'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 Deray, Jeanne, probably caught masturbating in a field with a few sick oxen.
00:14:42Two for four.
00:14:43It's not bad, considering it was a priestly-led sentence.
00:14:45What happened at twenty-nine?
00:14:49Hmm.
00:14:55I 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.
00:15:12Like, had 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 guard machine, played by an angel.
00:15:24Ah, merde!
00:15:26Take us to Accenture, who next I won't miss!
00:15:29Oh, it must be Al-Mozart rising over all the disturb your peace, madame, kindly.
00:15:33Peace off!
00:15:34This is Nikki, who you sing about in your song, Why Do I Have to Feel.
00:15:44Nicolas De L'Enfant, my first love.
00:15:49Tell me to piss off again!
00:15:51I have finished, madame, I have finished.
00:16:02Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:16:06Laisse-toi.
00:16:08T'es lié au cours?
00:16:10Euh, non.
00:16:12De Valois.
00:16:14Tell me to your title.
00:16:17Wearing pantaloons.
00:16:22Trying to fit in.
00:16:24You know, Wolf Langkloch, eh?
00:16:26Good luck with that.
00:16:31What are you doing in Paris?
00:16:36Eight walls.
00:16:37Impossible.
00:16:40Stuck their heads in the square, and the children play hide their heads with them.
00:16:45Sounds like our village.
00:16:51It's my father's teaching.
00:16:54He gave it to me before I left.
00:16:57And your address on the rue de Mont-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, much less rent, food, and the bribes to keep
00:17:15me out of the national guard.
00:17:31You play beautifully.
00:17:31I play like a tailor's son.
00:17:31You play beautifully.
00:17:44I play like a tailor's son.
00:17:46I play like a tailor's son.
00:17:46I play like a tailor's son.
00:18:10How to get out of him.
00:18:19What did you really say?
00:18:22He said I help him . . . help him to be a man.
00:18:26I bet he said it without the stand-up.
00:18:28Hmm.
00:18:29Hm.
00:18:33Are you gonna teach me to be a man?
00:18:36A stand-up I want.
00:18:42It goes where you think it goes.
00:18:44All the old tropes and trapes of tortured and forbidden love,
00:18:47blah, blah, blah.
00:18:48Bipolar brifling, blah, blah.
00:18:49Fast forward.
00:18:52Stop.
00:18:53Vape.
00:18:54Check your phone.
00:18:56Press play.
00:18:57Oh, good.
00:18:57Now he's a vampire.
00:18:59But you're not a vampire.
00:19:00You're the stuttering ape of Auvergne.
00:19:05Any Quebecers here?
00:19:07Tongue twisters, vocal exercises,
00:19:09repeated every day for two years
00:19:11while I washed the floors
00:19:12and the empty chamber pots,
00:19:14a job I got through Nicky who worked in the pit there.
00:19:18Go pull up the song for him,
00:19:21that, uh, why do I have to feel?
00:19:24Oh, I love that song.
00:19:25So, the stuttering,
00:19:26you 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
00:19:45is a music box reminder of a not great love.
00:19:49I carried the box because I destroyed him, Dan.
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!
00:20:18Oh, yeah!
00:20:20Quiet on set!
00:20:21Quiet on set!
00:20:23Quiet on set!
00:20:25Quiet on set!
00:20:30Quiet on set!
00:20:36So, you perform a song every night by your abuser.
00:20:42Biggest fan.
00:20:43Abuser.
00:20:44Go pull up the song for him.
00:20:46Liberator. Emancipator.
00:20:48Uh-huh. He says, uh, I want to give you everything I've got.
00:20:52I know you're stubborn, but you have to ask for it.
00:20:55Did Magnus ask your permission before transforming you into a vampire?
00:21:01I see it as an unbroken chain of similar songs in pop music.
00:21:06Herman Herman's laying on a lamppost,
00:21:08Every Breath You Take by the Police, I love that one.
00:21:11Eminem Stan.
00:21:12According to Louis, his name was Magnus.
00:21:15He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed,
00:21:20locked me in a room for a week with corpses.
00:21:23They all look like me.
00:21:25I mean, does that even sound like me, Dan?
00:21:27My coloring, my physique.
00:21:28Where's the awful turn of phrase? Where's the assonance?
00:21:31He fed on me for a week.
00:21:33I thought for sure I'd become one of them,
00:21:35but instead, he turned me into this.
00:21:41Louis was not there when Magnus abducted me.
00:21:44But he was there in New Orleans when you recounted it.
00:21:47And I was not there in Dubai to correct his faulty recall.
00:21:52Yeah.
00:21:55You really caught my eye.
00:22:00I think you're something special, babe.
00:22:04I want to take you out tonight.
00:22:08I think we got real potential, babe.
00:22:13I got a battle of wine.
00:22:17And yeah, that's me at your window, babe.
00:22:21We're going to have such a goddamn good time.
00:22:25I want to be your crescendo, babe.
00:22:28Don't let me catch you crying.
00:22:34Don't tell me the spell is breaking.
00:22:37You're so perfect in that raging light.
00:22:42I know I'm hard to look at sometimes, but I'm here for the taking.
00:22:49I want to give you everything I got.
00:22:53I know you're starting to do after us, but I can tell you everything I'm not.
00:23:01Yeah, I'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf killer.
00:23:09Yeah, I'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf killer.
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.
00:23:42How do you still bordering my beauty?
00:23:45How was the kielbasa?
00:23:47Very crafty.
00:23:48And as for the suicide, it gave me a likeness that I would not have known had he loided the
00:23:52centuries beside me.
00:23:54I 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.
00:24:10Who needs another victim song?
00:24:14Exactly.
00:24:15Very rock and roll.
00:24:17Still, 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, and yet you hid your vampirism from
00:24:32him.
00:24:32Yeah?
00:24:32Question mark.
00:24:35You're safe.
00:24:37You are now in Rumi in Paris.
00:24:39What is my weekend?
00:24:41Delirium took you home.
00:24:43I've been your nursemaid.
00:24:45You've been to all company.
00:24:52A rush.
00:24:54The baton in his typhoid.
00:24:56Also, the doctor you slept through his head.
00:24:58Our favorite game.
00:25:00You lie.
00:25:02And I believe you.
00:25:03Remember?
00:25:04A month ago!
00:25:06Gone out of the window!
00:25:08I saw nothing unnatural happened!
00:25:11You were down, wearing silk pictures.
00:25:14God, you're a trip patient.
00:25:15Lies on lies on lies.
00:25:17Sudden vanishings.
00:25:19You're a changed eyes.
00:25:23Oh, and your mother.
00:25:26I wish you a life.
00:25:28I brought it to Rokamadu.
00:25:30Procure a Black Madonna blaster.
00:25:33Ah, your...
00:25:35What?
00:25:36Your mother?
00:25:40The vampire Gabriela.
00:25:42Blood on her lips more life!
00:25:46How?
00:25:47What?
00:25:49She followed me to Paris.
00:25:51Her body was ready to die, but her mind was not.
00:25:56My first fledgling.
00:26:00Louis must have told you.
00:26:01No.
00:26:02Hmm.
00:26:03I thought it was discretion that kept her out of your book.
00:26:06Hmm.
00:26:07My love was a small box that I kept him in.
00:26:09No room for the many hours I talked of her, I guess.
00:26:13And...
00:26:14She...
00:26:14Where is she now?
00:26:16She's here right now.
00:26:23Right here.
00:26:29She died.
00:26:31Vampire toddlerdom.
00:26:33Always the hardest years, as you know.
00:26:36Or 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, collaborating.
00:26:53Hmm?
00:26:55Fucking stupid.
00:26:57Can you get out of my eye line?
00:27:03Yeah.
00:27:04Yeah.
00:27:07Three flights up.
00:27:10Your bones would be pieces.
00:27:12What are you?
00:27:13What is she?
00:27:15Traversa stufata.
00:27:17Mother.
00:27:17Outside the theater.
00:27:18The ragged man calling wolf killer.
00:27:21Blackened passages and dog-tooth fiends.
00:27:24I'm waiting.
00:27:25You are gibberish.
00:27:27I want to know you in this change form.
00:27:30Don't look to her.
00:27:31Don't look to her.
00:27:32Roger has bought you a house on the key.
00:27:34I have opened a bank account in your name.
00:27:35I could move to a there and then say, Claude.
00:27:38Don't buy me out.
00:27:39Don't buy 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.
00:27:54I admit it.
00:27:59Do 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.
00:28:19You mustn't do it.
00:28:30I've driven him mad.
00:28:33I know I'll 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.
00:28:49Disaster, my son.
00:28:54His playing has greatly improved.
00:28:57I cannot hear the actors over his improvement.
00:28:59Well, I prefer his music to Gustav's act.
00:29:02Well, you 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.
00:29:18Are there covens like this one in Roma, Venezia, Salerno?
00:29:23Does Nicola know about us?
00:29:25Us?
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.
00:29:36You'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?
00:29:44You're a maker, Marius.
00:29:45My maker is dead.
00:29:46I've told you that already.
00:29:47Just check.
00:29:52I'll give you the theater of the vampires.
00:29:55The greatest spectacle of the boulevard.
00:30:06He was Germanic as a mortal.
00:30:08You'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?
00:30:26You don't need a letter opener, Nicky.
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 open anything.
00:30:39The music will improve once I find the letter opener.
00:30:44We think you should take some time away from the theater, Nicky.
00:30:52Did you 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?
00:31:02And 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!
00:31:10As I warned, his mind is comfortable.
00:31:12I opened up a letter from your mother!
00:31:13How dare you open up my letter, he pouted and shouted!
00:31:17I was trying to make the opener happy.
00:31:20I was trying to give it purpose!
00:31:24Here it is.
00:31:26Let's go.
00:31:27Ah!
00:31:37Lesta?
00:31:39Can you cut the other?
00:31:42I fear I won't be able to with only one now.
00:31:46Can you help him, please?
00:31:48Are you Nicky?
00:31:50No, no.
00:31:51Nicky, stop.
00:31:52Go lost on the way to Saint Denis.
00:31:53Stop!
00:31:54Would you point away?
00:31:55Thank you ever so much.
00:31:56Stop, Nicky!
00:31:57No!
00:32:05It's all a misunderstanding, my love.
00:32:08I wish to serve the God of the Darkwood like the rest.
00:32:12Forgive me.
00:32:13My hands are much older than the rest of me.
00:32:19Forgive me.
00:32:29Gabriela went to Coffin.
00:32:32Leaving us.
00:32:34And Armand.
00:32:39I told Nicky that I loved him.
00:32:44From the first seconds I saw him in Paris.
00:32:50That I was drunk with his love.
00:32:56I was engulfed by it.
00:32:59Your maker would tell you I was being kind, but...
00:33:05In the moment...
00:33:06The words were true.
00:33:14I think...
00:33:22I remember the light.
00:33:26Fireplace.
00:33:30Reflecting golden onto his face.
00:33:34And his...
00:33:36Bare arms.
00:33:43But I was not looking at the world.
00:33:46I could not.
00:33:55I, um...
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.
00:34:22And...
00:34:30Nicky had a bemused look on his face as he burned.
00:34:34His 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 isn't dead.
00:35:17It was a nothingness.
00:35:26I'm angry.
00:35:28I'm angry!
00:35:29Can we get something...
00:35:31Yeah, okay, we're cutting.
00:35:32We tried booking something called the Ryan Center in Kingston, Rhode Island.
00:35:368,000 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.
00:35:51Arduous.
00:35:53It's tour...
00:35:56My ego.
00:35:58And still...
00:36:00It's not what I hunt.
00:36:02Never say I didn't give you anything.
00:36:04Keys.
00:36:04Tomorrow's been...
00:36:05We're staying open so that I could sound...
00:36:06Let Larry run it!
00:36:10How is check me?
00:36:11Like her, Lovivari.
00:36:13Fun for three minutes, then you're longing for Prague.
00:36:16Prague is that way.
00:36:17You can dig yourself a hole in cork and be buried in a matya the night after.
00:36:21Provoked.
00:36:22Bored.
00:36:23Oh, you'll run fewer reds that way.
00:36:26There's a shameful tiki bar in Parkdale.
00:36:30Rain check, Sofia.
00:36:42Well...
00:36:43That took forever.
00:36:45Right?
00:36:47Run it back.
00:36:49Uh...
00:36:49But...
00:36:50I don't know.
00:36:50Four minutes.
00:36:52Been trying to crack those cheeks for two months.
00:36:56Vampires.
00:36:57They're...
00:36:57We're just like you.
00:37:00Okay.
00:37:01Let's see what we got here.
00:37:08What the hell?
00:37:09Go...
00:37:10Go back a few more minutes.
00:37:11Please.
00:37:13Stop.
00:37:15Wait a second.
00:37:17What am I looking at here?
00:37:19Did you go back far enough?
00:37:21Alright, let's...
00:37:24Yeah, right about there.
00:37:25Stop.
00:37:26Can you get out of my eye line?
00:37:30Yeah...
00:37:31What?
00:37:35Where's the part where he talks about transforming Nikki?
00:37:41They...
00:37:41What?
00:37:42What?
00:37:43He just...
00:37:43He just...
00:37:44Just sat there like a fucking blow-up doll and no one said anything?
00:37:48Nothing?
00:37:49You gotta be fucking kidding me.
00:37:51What is this?
00:37:52No, yeah, it was frickin' weirdsville to you to sat there for like half an hour, eh?
00:37:59He was crying fucking blood tears!
00:38:02Did no one see that?
00:38:03A mean-spirited telepathic prank.
00:38:06The price paid for amusing my muses.
00:38:09It brought poor Dan to his knees and seeded a hate for me inside him.
00:38:14There to be warded in the sunlight later.
00:38:17But what can I say?
00:38:19Serving cunt has its consequences.
00:38:25You are listening to The Failures.
00:38:28Album 28, side B.
00:38:32You gonna carry me into the threshold?
00:38:34Yes, ma'am.
00:38:36Mm-hmm.
00:38:43Come here.
00:38:45I got you, man.
00:38:49You gonna make me a mom in the night?
00:38:51I don't think it works like that for us no more.
00:38:53But we can give it a try.
00:38:57We're home!
00:38:58We're home!
00:39:05It's all these fools so shallow.
00:39:08You're trying to get back to my kids.
00:39:12Come on.
00:39:13I got you in the back.
00:39:14I got you in the back.
00:39:18Now I'm happy.
00:39:30Surprise!
00:39:34Congrats on a happy day.
00:39:36I couldn't make it to the ceremony.
00:39:37I hope you don't mind me inviting myself to the honeymoon.
00:39:40You make that mess upstairs, friend?
00:39:43I did.
00:39:47Where's the food?
00:39:50I'll call him an Uber.
00:39:59What the fuck did you do to my husband?
00:40:08Amara told the truth?
00:40:10You wanna tell me what that is?
00:40:11Oh, shit!
00:40:13Oh!
00:40:14This is...
00:40:14Okay.
00:40:16This is about the fucking little stat shit.
00:40:19Okay.
00:40:20Yeah, that...
00:40:21That wasn't my fault.
00:40:24I had these Gen Z fledglings.
00:40:26These righteous fuckers who thinks we ought to be in the sewers and shit.
00:40:30Shhh!
00:40:31Use my baby Jenks as a baby...
00:40:32Shut up, Bruce.
00:40:34You call me Bruce?
00:40:37Cause...
00:40:37Cause my name is Killers.
00:40:39Cause my name is Killers.
00:40:55You and I have a friend in common.
00:40:59More wine.
00:41:04Cold tea they call it here.
00:41:07I hear...
00:41:10Apples with a hint of...
00:41:13Cowardies.
00:41:15Still in rags?
00:41:17Is this better?
00:41:23Same face, same smell.
00:41:25No hope for you, Father Max.
00:41:27Not exactly forthcoming with the vampire journalists.
00:41:33Left out a few prickly details.
00:41:37Uh-oh.
00:41:39You forgot to put your blinkers on.
00:41:47Bruce walked back from the fire.
00:41:49Leaned down over me.
00:41:51And for a second I thought I was gonna go right there.
00:41:55But no.
00:41:56He plunked me onto his motorbike.
00:41:59And swished into his friendly self.
00:42:02The Laws' right hand is guilty to dieting...
00:42:13No more of that in my presence!
00:42:16But will live and proclaim what the Law has done,
00:42:19the Laws' right hand is done bloody things!
00:42:21Back inside!
00:42:24You got...
00:42:25Your song.
00:42:28What that got to his house...
00:42:29I guess my biggest question is, why are you checking me down now when we all read your little page
00:42:36-turner?
00:42:36And it's all gone dumb in my mind, too. Crossed out. New 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. We 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.
00:43:18Guess 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.
00:43:33A hand.
00:43:35A finger.
00:43:37A drummer.
00:43:39No!
00:43:39A pimp.
00:43:41You.
00:43:45Claudia.
00:43:48And I fought him, even with my broken arm, and then my re-broken arm.
00:43:55But even still, all the bad things happened that bad men do.
00:44:00He had my legs pulled apart, and my dress pulled up around my waist, and that awful, stuffed, full, too
00:44:13wet feeling down there.
00:44:17Like I was packed with dirt.
00:44:21And I hope one day he feels this, small and cornered and crushed like it can.
00:44:33But then there was a part 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.
00:44:59Oh, 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.
00:45:24And it looked like he'd won.
00:45:27And he did win.
00:45:28Because I want nothing.
00:45:33To be nothing.
00:45:36And say nothing.
00:45:39And 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.
00:46:08Don watering.
00:46:09You making noises...
00:46:14And his floor is at the point where his
00:46:15number will be hidden.Ã¥.,
00:46:26crying. I'd imagine
00:46:26you naked in your gold gilded Bette.
00:46:29it, wondering why it didn't end on the highway. How I got on stage the following night to
00:46:35another feverishly modest audience. I couldn't pretend anymore that we were a ticketmaster
00:46:42must-have, or that I wasn't having a nervous breakdown, or that psychosis wasn't the exhilarating,
00:46:48horrifying by-product of romping and stomping around the hippocampus. But here's the thing.
00:46:54I loved the music. I loved it. It was compelling me forward, pulling me through the perennial walls
00:47:03of my psyche, and I thought, why not ride it to blindness? Cause it seemed possible. This was
00:47:10the muddy bottom, and on the other side, a marble floor, polished to the horizon. Music in its purest
00:47:18expression would make me worse, and then make me better. Bring on the music.
00:47:25You can't fuck away the loneliness. It'll wait till you're done, till you come. Like a vampire. You can't drink
00:47:45away the loneliness. It'll wait till the next day. Like a headache.
00:47:55Sucking you dry. You can't escape this loneliness. It'll say, what a mess. How would anybody ever love you?
00:48:21Don't hide it. Don't hide it away. Don't bury those feelings. Don't worship that bread on your own. Don't burn.
00:48:58You get what you wanted out there. Yeah. Yeah. You can't scream.
00:49:12When the loneliness is there
00:49:18To the end, it will wait
00:49:21With a vengeance
00:49:23You can't love
00:49:27When the loneliness
00:49:31Love will fade
00:49:33And you stay
00:49:35And you stay
00:49:37And you stay
00:49:38And you stay
00:49:40With your settlers
00:49:42You can't escape
00:49:47This loneliness
00:49:50It'll pray
00:49:52It'll press
00:49:54How could anybody ever learn
00:50:04Don't hide it all
00:50:12Don't bury those feelings
00:50:19Don't wash it fat
00:50:21Break dirt on your own
00:50:25Don't burn alone
00:50:31Hi, you okay?
00:50:33I'm gonna get you anything else
00:50:34I'm good, thank you
00:50:36Virginia
00:50:37Oh my God, you see
00:51:09Perfection
00:51:15So they're out there
00:51:17Killing it
00:51:18Every night
00:51:20And I'm following them
00:51:21You know, on my phone
00:51:23Refresh, refresh, refresh
00:51:27They're blowing up
00:51:30You're gonna hear about them soon
00:51:31If you haven't already
00:51:35I'm stuck here
00:51:37We're in Monroe, Ohio
00:51:38Of all places
00:51:41No offense
00:51:45And God
00:51:46I just want to drink
00:51:48And feel sorry for myself
00:51:53Yeah, thank you
00:51:55For giving me another way through
00:51:56Thank you
00:51:58Thank you
00:51:58Thank you for sharing
00:52:04So
00:52:05Who else wants to share tonight?
00:52:08Hmm?
00:52:11Come on, guys
00:52:12I will
00:52:15I'll share
00:52:17Um
00:52:18Hello
00:52:22My name is
00:52:24Arun
00:52:26Hi, Arun
00:52:27Hello, Arun
00:52:29And
00:52:33I am an addict
00:52:40Listen to tracks
00:52:42From the Vampire Lestat
00:52:43Wherever you stream music
00:52:47I
00:52:47Am
00:52:48The toxic
00:52:49Bitch
00:52:50Godless
00:52:51Star
00:52:51Oh
00:52:53Oh
00:52:54Now
00:52:54You filthy
00:52:56Little
00:52:56Must-it
00:52:58Be
00:52:59Hi
00:53:00What can I get you?
00:53:02The star
00:53:02Is going to get us all killed
00:53:04I'm going to find more shows
00:53:06I'm getting bored
00:53:07So
00:53:08What are we doing?
00:53:09Shall we scorch
00:53:10The mortal world?
00:53:16The stuttering wolf killer
00:53:18The vampire Lestat
00:53:20Evening then
00:53:21Happy to be here
00:53:22You really caught my eye
00:53:26Malloy is a deft investigator
00:53:29But he's never investigated
00:53:30Anybody like this before
00:53:32And that's going to become
00:53:32Really clear in this episode
00:53:34Were you a stutterer as a child?
00:53:36It's a really wild interview scene
00:53:38I mean there's like 300 things happening at one time
00:53:41You perform a song every night by your abuser
00:53:45Magnus
00:53:46Biggest fan
00:53:47Abuser
00:53:57You see the music video
00:53:59Of how Lestat wants to portray his transformation
00:54:02And he's like
00:54:04I'm going to write you
00:54:05My sweet little Taylor Swift
00:54:08Pop ballad song
00:54:10Make a fool out of my maker
00:54:17He wants to think about it as like
00:54:19He was my fan and he made me
00:54:21But of course the truth within that episode asserts itself
00:54:29We cast Damien Atkins as Magnus
00:54:32He's a terrifying vulnerable creature
00:54:35And the transformation that he inflicts upon Lestat
00:54:41Is incredibly violent
00:54:43Ready and action
00:54:46We were trying to make it as brutal as we possibly could
00:54:50So that had a real contrast to 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
00:55:05You know that I'm getting rained on beneath
00:55:08And blood going into my eyes
00:55:09And we tried to make it as gruesome as possible
00:55:12And really show that it was an actual assault
00:55:15And that is something that Lestat like completely carries
00:55:18Through his life
00:55:19As his transformation was full on kidnapping assault
00:55:25He's got to reconcile that
00:55:26On a daily basis
00:55:33And what happened at 29?
00:55:37Nicolas de l'enfant
00:55:38My first love
00:55:41Don't bring him into eternity
00:55:49Disaster, my son
00:55:50Gabriella cannot bear Nikki
00:55:52I think she really is being honest
00:55:55And I think she's absolutely right
00:55:56She knows that Lestat doesn't really want to spend eternity with Nikki
00:56:00Does 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
00:56:08How they were going to revisit the theatre
00:56:12This is basically a revisit of Armand's story to Daniel in episode 3 of season 2
00:56:21But now it's through Lestat's eyes
00:56:23Which 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
00:56:44Louis and Lestat, Armand
00:56:46Gabriella 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
00:56:59He 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
00:57:10I couldn't do it
00:57:12But I watched
00:57:14As Armand pushed him into the fire
00:57:17And made sure he stayed there
00:57:23Malloy thinks he strikes gold
00:57:26As it turns out
00:57:27That's an illusion
00:57:29What am I looking at here?
00:57:31What is this?
00:57:32No yeah it was freaking weirdsville
00:57:35To you to sat there for like half an hour eh?
00:57:37It is a mean spirited prank
00:57:39In the fact that Malloy didn't get it on camera
00:57:41But he is talking truth to Malloy
00:57:43When he gives him his telepathic story about what happened there
00:57:46It's more of a shared experience between the two of them
00:57:49The 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
00:57:59We would like you to
00:58:01Take care of our problem in Detroit
00:58:04Mr. Duak
00:58:05The coven leader's name is Bruce
00:58:07I believe your Claudia
00:58:10Spent a few nights with him once
00:58:12At the end of episode two
00:58:14Raglan James tempts Louis
00:58:16With 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 ad
00:58:32That first section when he's trying to get to Bruce
00:58:35He's doing his job
00:58:36What?
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
00:58:48From having that kind of killer instinct
00:58:51So then when it comes out
00:58:52It like it explodes
00:58:56The thing I actually found creepiest about that set
00:58:59Was the bathtubs
00:59:00And the people lying in there
00:59:02Fully clothed
00:59:03And I was talking to one of the people that was in the bathtub
00:59:07I was like
00:59:07Is that cold or is that warm?
00:59:09And they were like
00:59:10It's warm
00:59:11I was like
00:59:12Okay
00:59:12So it's like a bath
00:59:13It's still horrible
00:59:17He wanted Bruce to understand on some level
00:59:21A degree of the pain
00:59:23And of the suffering
00:59:24That he put Claudia under
00:59:27You and I
00:59:29Have a friend in common
00:59:31I personally had a kind of complicated relationship
00:59:34With Louis reading Claudia's diary entry
00:59:37Because I sort of felt like
00:59:39That'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'd won
00:59:46And he did win
00:59:47Because I want nothing
00:59:51To be nothing
00:59:53It's just important that before he dies
00:59:56He can hear it for himself
00:59:58The hell that he created
01:00:00And then it's
01:00:02Done
01:00:14I think one of the most
01:00:16Poignant moments of this season
01:00:18Up to this point
01:00:19Is when you see him in that diner
01:00:20I think he realizes almost immediately
01:00:23That it can't bring her back
01:00:24It can't undo
01:00:27The pain
01:00:27Hi
01:00:28You okay?
01:00:29How can I get you anything else?
01:00:30I'm good
01:00:31Thank you
01:00:32Regina
01:01:01I'm good
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