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00:00:10Previously on The Vampire Lestat.
00:00:14Ask for a child. The light's going out of your blue eye.
00:00:18His name was Magnus. He 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?
00:00:28You ask this question every night.
00:00:29I won two pollicers. I'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 Delafont, a violinist.
00:00:45There were four pages torn out.
00:00:51It was better when he broke my bones.
00:00:53It 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.
00:01:24Its banality is lost on the polite citizenry of Canada.
00:01:28To them, it's iconic.
00:01:30And 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 Musjo, Sakasachuan merited an unhurried commemoration.
00:01:54Can I offer my assistance?
00:01:56Oh, mercy.
00:01:57Aren't you the angel?
00:02:00Kind 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.
00:02:27And I channeled our kills into prurient performances,
00:02:31licking the underside of Lake Erie in Cleveland and Buffalo
00:02:35before rounding the shaft of Lake Ontario.
00:02:43Lover.
00:02:44Where are you?
00:02:46Where are any of us, really?
00:02:48What is that, him?
00:02:49Oh, 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, David?
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 coffin toilet if it weren't for me.
00:03:10Transformation, I'll turn my down.
00:03:11It's with Sophia again.
00:03:12What do you know about her?
00:03:13Mystery vagina passed its cell-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.
00:03:26Chuck's dad has the herps.
00:03:29Daniel Malloy.
00:03:30Delivered unto the world, April 16th, 1953, into the arms of his mother in a hospital.
00:03:37I 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.
00:04:12Sorry.
00:04:13Yeah, uh, he's here.
00:04:22Child.
00:04:26Okay.
00:04:28Is that on your lip, Yada?
00:04:30Okay, we're gonna be using a new camera today.
00:04:32It's called an Interatron.
00:04:33I'll be sitting here, but 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, and we're gonna anchor it to all the black and white tour
00:04:46footage.
00:04:46Okay?
00:04:48So, 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.
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, the sustained heat of an intense fire.
00:05:12Jefferson Starship.
00:05:13Grot-wielding coven members.
00:05:15These things might destroy me, but...
00:05:18There again.
00:05:19They might not.
00:05:34I'm a little killer.
00:05:36I'm a lonely one.
00:05:39I'm a trigger gun up your spine.
00:05:41Telling you to run.
00:05:42I'm a little shadow.
00:05:45I'm a lost love.
00:05:47I'm a past and the future.
00:05:48The lies of the sutures are cool and dead.
00:05:51Where the rock and roll is.
00:05:53Where the give-tame.
00:05:55Where the heart for me love.
00:05:56And the vision I'm love.
00:05:57Where the stupid rain.
00:06:00Bang, bang.
00:06:02Bang, bang.
00:06:03Bang, bang.
00:06:04Bang, bang.
00:06:05Bang, bang.
00:06:19Bang, bang.
00:06:22Bang, bang.
00:06:24Bang, bang.
00:06:25Bang, bang.
00:06:28Well, that was shit.
00:06:31you'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 or it's a door stop because you don't want to talk about yourself
00:06:44i'll kick that door down down i bunk it down with my cookies and trauma
00:06:49exactly my thinking so let's run with this let's dig into these songs and see what we get
00:06:55you have a song long face the lyrics are what's the story behind that long face is an agreement
00:07:09between myself and the audience permission disguised as anthem oh yeah we're coming yeah yeah we're
00:07:16coming oh yeah i'm coming
00:07:28i'm an actor in my makeup i'll get fatter if and when we break up performative vampire and at the
00:07:36end they get the real black licorice structure and ritual judged and drained thrilled and shamed
00:07:41left one anymore well that's great because the the band thinks that the songs about how the current
00:07:46culture has misshapen the mortal mind and how easy and unsatisfying the bringing of death has become you
00:07:53must have experienced this dan the memories you take in as you kill life is a endless cache of
00:07:59influencer videos russian dash cams and shame written pornography or are we still pretending that
00:08:06you're human so not about sucking dick performative journalist were you a stutterer as a child
00:08:18oh he doesn't like that question well we can we can come back to it um let's talk about what
00:08:24happened to detroit christine night some vampires tried to kill you yeah is it a question if you
00:08:30really put yeah at the end of the sentence pretty weak bunch but they seemed uh organized which is
00:08:36different than the other two attempts on your life during this tour is this self-financed vanity romp
00:08:43your vampire wishful spin on hope i die before i get old is my doc your eulogy did you promise
00:08:53him
00:08:54i don't do promises i've had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights nobody gives a fuck about what i was
00:09:01before
00:09:01no one cares no one seems to give a shit about you now flatlining a thousand capacity venues let's take
00:09:07a walk you're confused about the pursuit then it is not about asses on seats or streams on pandora
00:09:15it is about pure expression rafael's three graces brancuski's bird in space calvino's invisible
00:09:33it's embarrassing they're stutter stop the cameras no no no no no no no no no let them see
00:09:43let them see
00:09:44i have had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights no one cares
00:10:27i'm the vampire louis de point de lac i'm done by your relentless questionings mr mulloy
00:11:04hello making a brief call to share an important message with you you got the wrong ad
00:11:15i'm looking for killer don't don't do that just think it i'm a vampire just like you
00:11:23except i didn't disrespect my face like you done what is that is that jar jar binks dunking a
00:11:31basketball where inks where's killer
00:11:42well i got a little baby julius upon her lip
00:11:55i'm looking for killer
00:11:56i'm looking for killer
00:11:57you cannot kill her
00:12:01anybody see killer
00:12:28she walks the wind and has a panther with silver
00:12:31in the fire
00:12:39out the door through the fields
00:12:47keep straight five minutes there's a car redonge don't go back
00:12:57eight wolves by yourself everyone always repeats the number when i say it
00:13:04i had a pistol a rifle a dagger a mastiff the stuttering wolf killer
00:13:11well that was the first name for our band hello fort collins we are the stuttering wolf killers
00:13:16are you ready to rock rock from the ages of nine to 29 you stuttered i stuttered yes and every
00:13:26kill
00:13:26i have made is a response my entire psyche is formed from the deformity it's like being strapped
00:13:31down in a dentist's chair opening your mouth wide only to have the dentist say i'm not a dentist as
00:13:36he lubes up a thick rubber glove so you be gentle dan i think he's just bored by you
00:13:44try asking him about the great conversion what happened at age nine
00:13:53i was taken to see witches being burned at a stake
00:13:59okay tell me about that
00:14:03marguerite de rey jeanne bourdin the twins mart and aimerule
00:14:09seized their prayers and adored the devil in ceremony said the torch bearing priests
00:14:14you remember their names teenage girls with the resonant voices of men screaming and thrashing
00:14:22for hours till their jawbones fell and the devil could sing no more and you were nine
00:14:28oh that's what moms did with kids before lego and peppa pig
00:14:33looking back on it now they were definitely witches the twins that is marguerite de rey jeanne
00:14:38probably caught masturbating in a field with a few sick oxen
00:14:41two foot four it's not bad considering it was a priestly-led sentence
00:14:45what happened at 29
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 to the music
00:15:13had i had 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
00:15:21played by an angel
00:15:23ah merde
00:15:26take us quicks elsewhere or next
00:15:28i won't miss
00:15:29oh it must be our mozart rising over all the disturb your peace madame kindly
00:15:33peace off
00:15:34this is nicky who you sing about in your song
00:15:38why do i have to feel
00:15:44nicola de l'enfant
00:15:47my first love
00:15:49tell me to piss off again
00:15:51i am finished
00:15:52madame
00:15:53i am finished
00:16:03nicola de l'enfant
00:16:06let's stop
00:16:08the lioncourt
00:16:10no
00:16:12the valois
00:16:15termed on your title
00:16:17wearing pantaloons
00:16:22trying to fit in
00:16:24you know wolf langcloch
00:16:26good luck with that
00:16:31what are you doing in paris
00:16:36eight walls
00:16:37impossible
00:16:40stuck the heads in the square
00:16:42the children play hide the heads with them
00:16:45sounds like our village
00:16:51it's my father's stitching
00:16:55he gave it to me before i left
00:16:57and your address on the rue de mon
00:17:00mon
00:17:01mon
00:17:01mon
00:17:01mon
00:17:01mon
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
00:17:12food
00:17:12and the uh bribes
00:17:14to keep me out of the national guard
00:17:37you play beautifully
00:17:44i play like a taylor's son
00:17:53did he say anything else
00:17:56my dad
00:18:02he said um
00:18:07tell him i love him
00:18:09and that i'm proud of him
00:18:19what did he really say
00:18:22he said help him
00:18:23help him to be a man
00:18:26but he said it without this time
00:18:28are you gonna teach me to be a man
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
00:18:47bipolar brain
00:18:48blah blah
00:18:49fast forward
00:18:51stop
00:18:52vape
00:18:53check your phone
00:18:55first play
00:18:56oh good
00:18:57now he's a vampire
00:18:58but you're not a vampire
00:19:00you're the stuttering ape of auverg
00:19:05any kebeckers here
00:19:07tongue twisters
00:19:08vocal exercises
00:19:09repeated every day
00:19:10for two years
00:19:11while i wash the floors
00:19:12and the empty chamber pots
00:19:14the other job
00:19:16i got through nikki
00:19:16who worked in the pit there
00:19:18so go pull up the uh song for him that uh why do i have to feel
00:19:23oh i love that song
00:19:25so the stuttering you just bullied it out of yourself
00:19:28yeah nikki got me the job that cured my affliction it was uh first love not a great love thank
00:19:33you
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
00:19:57you perform her song
00:20:08can someone do something about this
00:20:11quite on set
00:20:36so you perform a song every night by your abuser
00:20:41biggest fan
00:20:42biggest fan
00:20:43abuser
00:20:44go go pull up the song
00:20:46liberator emancipator
00:20:48uh-huh he says uh i want to give you everything i've got i know you're stubborn but you have
00:20:54to 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 herman herman standing on a lamppost
00:21:08every breath you take by the police i love that one
00:21:11eminem stand
00:21:12according to louis his name was magnus he took me from my room in paris as i kicked and screamed
00:21:20locked me in a room with for a week with corpses they all look like me
00:21:25i mean does that even sound like me dan
00:21:27my coloring
00:21:28where's the artful turn of phrase where's the assonance the euphony
00:21:31he fed on me for a week
00:21:33i 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 madness 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 baby
00:22:04i wanna take you out tonight
00:22:08i think we got real potential babe
00:22:11i got a battle of wine
00:22:16and yeah that's me at your window babe
00:22:21we're gonna have such a goddamn good time
00:22:25i wanna be your crescendo babe
00:22:29don't let me catch you crying
00:22:34don't tell me the spell is breaking
00:22:38you're so perfect in that raging light
00:22:42i know i'm hard to look at sometimes
00:22:45but i'm here for the taking
00:22:48i wanna give you everything i got
00:22:52i know you're stuck but you have to ask for it
00:22:57i 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
00:23:17hmm
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?
00:23:30he 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?
00:23:45how was the kielbasa crafty
00:23:48and as for the suicide it gave me a lightness that i would not have known had he loyed the
00:23:52centuries beside me
00:23:54i see the burden written on your face stan
00:23:58when i say god
00:24:00and you say monster
00:24:02is it your absent but very much alive father walking around that gives 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
00:24:16still 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
00:24:26abducted 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
00:24:37you're in our roomie in paris
00:24:39why am i weak?
00:24:41delirium took you
00:24:43i've been your nurse mate you've been to our company
00:24:49and this
00:24:50and this?
00:24:52oh
00:24:53a rush
00:24:54the burden is 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
00:25:03i'm not right
00:25:04a bicycle
00:25:06gone out of the window
00:25:08i saw nothing unnatural happened
00:25:10he returned
00:25:11he returned
00:25:12wearing silk bridges
00:25:14oh dear it's so patient
00:25:15lies on lies on lies
00:25:17sudden vanishings
00:25:19your change dies
00:25:23oh
00:25:24and your mother
00:25:26i wish her life
00:25:28i brought her to rocamador
00:25:30for a cure
00:25:31a black madonna blessed
00:25:33ah
00:25:33your
00:25:35what? your mother?
00:25:39the vampire gabriella
00:25:43how? what?
00:25:48to follow me to paris
00:25:51her body was ready to die but her mind was not
00:25:56my first fledgling
00:26:00louie must have told you
00:26:01no
00:26:02hmm
00:26:02i 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
00:26:12and
00:26:14she... where is she now?
00:26:16she's here right now
00:26:21right
00:26:24here
00:26:29she died
00:26:32vampire toddlerdom
00:26:33always the hardest years as you know
00:26:35or don't know then
00:26:38hmm
00:26:44what do you think about the great conversion?
00:26:46oh
00:26:48the vampire thing
00:26:50vampires 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
00:27:08three flights up
00:27:10your bones would be pieces what are you?
00:27:13what is she?
00:27:14what is she doing?
00:27:16a
00:27:17outside the theatre
00:27:18the ragged man calling wolf killer
00:27:21blackened passages and dog tooth fiends
00:27:24Please, you are gibbery.
00:27:27I want to know you're in this change form.
00:27:30Don't look to her.
00:27:31Roger 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 send Claude.
00:27:38Don't buy me a house.
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.
00:27:54Admit 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.
00:28:20You 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.
00:28:39Don't bring him into eternity.
00:28:48It's a disaster, my son.
00:28:54His playing has greatly improved.
00:28:57I cannot hear the actors over his improvement.
00:29:00Well, I prefer his music to Gustav's acting.
00:29:02Well, you can return to the role any time you wish.
00:29:06And have your cumbersome words in my mouth again?
00:29:08No, thank you.
00:29:09No, thank you.
00:29:12There are blood drinkers in Italy.
00:29:16Excuse me.
00:29:18There are covens like this one in Roma, Venezia, Salerno.
00:29:23Does Nikola 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. Make him.
00:29:40Is there an evil older than you?
00:29:44You're maker Marius.
00:29:45My maker is dead. I've told you that already.
00:29:48Just check.
00:29:53You're the theater of the vampires.
00:29:55The greatest spectacle of the boulevard.
00:30:06He was Germanic as a model.
00:30:08You'll find his way.
00:30:09No, he won't.
00:30:10I believe you.
00:30:12I love you.
00:30:14Christ.
00:30:17There's not room enough in this box for your desperation.
00:30:24Has anyone seen a letter opener?
00:30:26We 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, Nikola?
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.
00:30:38But I don't have my letter opener.
00:30:39I think the 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 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?
00:31:02And the Night After?
00:31:03Don't stop!
00:31:04Look at me!
00:31:05Look at me!
00:31:08I left it here!
00:31:09I left it here!
00:31:10Yes, I warned.
00:31:11His mind is critical.
00:31:12You opened up a letter from your mother!
00:31:13How dare you open up my letter!
00:31:16He 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.
00:31:37Lister.
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?
00:31:51No, no.
00:31:51Nicky, stop!
00:31:52You're going to stone away too soon, Denis!
00:31:53Stop!
00:31:54Would you point away?
00:31:55Thank you ever so much.
00:31:56Stop, Nicky!
00:31:57No!
00:31:58No!
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...
00:33:08the words were true.
00:33:13I did.
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.
00:33:54I, um...
00:33:57I couldn't do it.
00:34:02But I watched.
00:34:10As Armand...
00:34:12pushed him into the fire.
00:34:15And made sure he stayed there.
00:34:19With a poker in his chest.
00:34:30Nicky had a bemused look on his face as he burned.
00:34:33his mouth.
00:34:37And his mouth...
00:34:38formed into a...
00:34:43circle.
00:34:46And he made only one sound.
00:35:10as though he knew...
00:35:13that in death...
00:35:17he was a...
00:35:18it wasn't nothing to...
00:35:25Remove me.
00:35:28Uh... can, can...
00:35:30we get something...
00:35:31We 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, there are no delusions here.
00:35:51Arduous.
00:35:53It's tour.
00:35:56My ego.
00:35:58And still, it's not what I hunt.
00:36:02Never say I didn't give you anything.
00:36:04Keys.
00:36:04Tomorrow's been, we're staying open so that I can sound cheap.
00:36:07Let Larry run it.
00:36:10How is check me?
00:36:11Like curlu vivari, fun for three minutes, son, 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.
00:36:22Provoked.
00:36:23Bored.
00:36:23Ah, 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, that took forever.
00:36:45Right?
00:36:47All right, run it back.
00:36:49About, I don't know, four minutes.
00:36:52Been trying to crack those cheeks for two months.
00:36:56Vampires, they're weird just like you.
00:37:00Okay, let's see what we got here.
00:37:08What the hell?
00:37:10Go back a few more minutes, please.
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, let's keep going back.
00:37:24Yeah, right 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 where he talks about transforming Nikki?
00:37:41They, what?
00:37:42What?
00:37:43He just, he just, just 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 freaking weirdsville.
00:37:54Two years 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.
00:38:13There 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 want to carry me into the threshold?
00:38:34Yes, ma'am.
00:38:35Mm-hmm.
00:38:41Mm-hmm.
00:38:45Oh, I 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, but we can give it a try.
00:38:57We're home.
00:39:05It's always so shallow.
00:39:08You're trying to get back in my business.
00:39:10You're trying to get back in my business.
00:39:13Come on.
00:39:13You gotta keep it back.
00:39:18I don't have it.
00:39:30Surprise.
00:39:34Congrats on the 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 a maneuver.
00:39:59What the fuck did you do to my husband?
00:40:08Amaya told the truth?
00:40:10Want to tell me what that is?
00:40:12Oh, shit.
00:40:14This is, okay.
00:40:16This is about the fucking little stat shit.
00:40:19Okay.
00:40:21Yeah, that wasn't my fault.
00:40:24I have these Gen Z fledglings.
00:40:26These righteous fuckers who thinks we ought to be in the sewers and shit.
00:40:30Use my baby Jenks as baby.
00:40:32Shut up, Bruce.
00:40:35You call me Bruce?
00:40:37Because my name is killer.
00:40:55You and I have a friend in common.
00:41:00More wine.
00:41:04Cold tea, they call it here.
00:41:10Apples with a hint of cowardice.
00:41:15Still in rags.
00:41:17Is this better?
00:41:23Same face, same smell.
00:41:26No hope for you, Father Megs.
00:41:27Oh, not exactly forthcoming, the vampire journalist.
00:41:32Left out a few prickly details.
00:41:38Oh, you forgot to put your blinkers on.
00:41:47Bruce walked back from the fire, leaned down over me, and for a second I thought I was going
00:41:54going to go right there.
00:41:55Tony Stark.
00:41:58More than in my presence.
00:42:16But we live and proclaim what the law has done
00:42:18and what the hell is that he thinks back in sight.
00:42:24You got your sock.
00:42:28When we got to his house,
00:42:30I guess my biggest question is,
00:42:32why are you checking me down now?
00:42:34My little page-turner.
00:42:37And it's all going dumb in my mind, too.
00:42:40Crossed out.
00:42:42New sentence.
00:42:43You tipped over the collywobble shelf
00:42:46and took the cloth off the long table.
00:42:48We eat your soul at the long table.
00:42:5368 courses so far.
00:42:56We keep waiting for the bill, but the plates keep coming.
00:43:00And we keep asking ourselves,
00:43:01when's he going to make an album?
00:43:05When we are ready!
00:43:09She retains the little French folks.
00:43:12With 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,
00:43:23what it's like to have a person crack your spine,
00:43:25open you up, and shove a pencil inside you.
00:43:28Very hard company at the long table.
00:43:32A hand.
00:43:35A finger.
00:43:37A finger.
00:43:39No.
00:43:39A pimp.
00:43:41You.
00:43:43No!
00:43:44A pimp.
00:43:45Claudia.
00:43:48And I fought him,
00:43:49even with my broken arm,
00:43:52and then my re-broken arm.
00:43:54But even still,
00:43:57all the bad things happen that bad men do.
00:44:01He had my legs pulled apart,
00:44:05and my dress pulled up around my waist,
00:44:07and that awful,
00:44:10stuffed, full,
00:44:13too wet feeling down there.
00:44:17Like I was packed with dirt.
00:44:21And I hope
00:44:23one day he feels this.
00:44:26Small
00:44:27and cornered
00:44:29and crushed like it can.
00:44:33But then there were the parts
00:44:36where he brought home kills.
00:44:39And I sat with him
00:44:42and ate.
00:44:44I just said
00:44:47what he wanted to hear.
00:44:52Ask for it, child.
00:44:55And it ain't easy to like myself
00:44:57because of it.
00:44:59All the light's gone out of your blue eyes.
00:45:02I even once felt a twinge
00:45:04of 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
00:45:21because I seemed small.
00:45:24And it looked like he won.
00:45:27And he did win.
00:45:29Because I want
00:45:30nothing
00:45:33to be
00:45:34nothing.
00:45:36and say
00:45:38nothing
00:45:39and do
00:45:40nothing.
00:45:43You know the stupidest of all,
00:45:45dear diary?
00:45:46I thought I was the thing
00:45:48lurking in the shadows.
00:45:50I thought I was.
00:45:52I thought I was.
00:45:54I thought I was the day
00:46:05What all of this week
00:46:14I thought I could have this.
00:46:14I thought I was the big threat
00:46:16or I would have this.
00:46:19I thought I had this.
00:46:25I imagine you're naked in your gold, gilded bed, wondering 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 mustache, or that I wasn't having a nervous breakdown,
00:46:45or that psychosis wasn't the exhilarating, horrifying byproduct of romping and stomping around the hippocampus.
00:46:52But here's the thing. I loved the music. I loved it.
00:46:58It was compelling me forward, pulling me through the perennial walls of my psyche,
00:47:04and I thought, why not ride it to blindness?
00:47:07Because it seemed possible. This was the muddy bottom, and on the other side, a marble floor, polished to the
00:47:15horizon.
00:47:16Music in its purest expression would make me worse, and then make me better.
00:47:22Bring on the music.
00:47:26You can't fuck away
00:47:29The loneliness
00:47:32It'll wait
00:47:34Till you're done
00:47:36Till you come
00:47:38Like a vampire
00:47:42You can't drink away
00:47:46The loneliness
00:47:49It'll wait
00:47:51Till the next day
00:47:53Like a headache
00:47:55Suckin' you dry
00:47:59Suckin' you dry
00:48:01You can't escape
00:48:03This loneliness
00:48:06It'll save
00:48:08What a mess
00:48:10How could anybody ever love you?
00:48:21Don't hide it all
00:48:24Don't hide it all
00:48:28Don't hide it all
00:48:29Don't bury those feelings
00:48:35Don't worship that prey
00:48:38Don't pee
00:48:39Dirt on your own
00:48:42Don't burn
00:48:46Don't burn
00:48:48Don't bark
00:48:51Don't
00:48:52Don't burn
00:48:52Dirt on your own
00:49:07Don't burn
00:49:08Yeah.
00:49:38And you stay with receptors.
00:49:43You can't escape this loneliness.
00:49:51It'll pray.
00:49:53It'll press.
00:49:54How could anybody ever?
00:50:05Don't hide it away.
00:50:12Don't bury those feelings.
00:50:19Don't worship that grave dirt on your own.
00:50:26Don't burn alone
00:50:32Hi, you okay?
00:50:33I'm gonna get you anything else.
00:50:34I'm good, thank you.
00:50:36Regina.
00:51:09Perfection.
00:51:15So they're about there, killing it, every night.
00:51:20And I'm following them, you know, my phone, refresh, refresh, refresh.
00:51:27And they're blowing up.
00:51:30You're gonna hear about them soon, if you haven't already.
00:51:35I'm stuck here in Monroe, Ohio, of all places.
00:51:41You know, no offense.
00:51:45And God, I just want to drink.
00:51:48I feel sorry for myself.
00:51:53Yeah, thank you for giving me another way through.
00:51:58Thank you for sharing.
00:52:05So, who else wants to share tonight?
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.
00:52:41Hi, Arun.
00:52:47I am the toxic bitch godless start.
00:53:00Hi, what can I get you?
00:53:02The start is going to get us all killed.
00:53:04I've got five more shows.
00:53:06I'm getting bored.
00:53:08Shall we do it?
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
00:53:32going to become really 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.
00:53:42You perform a song every night by your abuser, Magnus.
00:53:46Biggest fan.
00:53:57You see the music video of how Lestat wants to portray his transformation, and he's like,
00:54:05I'm going to write you my, you know, sweet little Taylor Swift pop ballad song.
00:54:10Make a fool out of my 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
00:54:22within that episode asserts itself.
00:54:30We cast Damien Atkins as Magnus.
00:54:32He's a terrifying, vulnerable creature, and the transformation that he inflicts upon Lestat
00:54:41is incredibly violent.
00:54:43Ready, and pass.
00:54:46We were trying to really make it as brutal as we possibly could, so that it had a real
00:54:51contrast 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, you know, that I'm getting
00:55:07rained on beneath, and blood going into my eyes, and we tried to make it as gruesome as possible
00:55:12and really show that it was an actual assault, and that is something that Lestat, like, completely
00:55:18carries through his life, is his transformation was full-on kidnapping, assault.
00:55:25He's got to reconcile that on a daily basis.
00:55:33What 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.
00:55:52I 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.
00:56:00Does 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 how they were going to revisit
00:56:10the theater.
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,
00:56:22but 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 in 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.
00:57:11I couldn't do it.
00:57:13But I watched as Armand pushed him into the fire and made sure he stayed there.
00:57:23Malloy thinks he strikes gold.
00:57:26As it turns out, that's an illusion.
00:57:30What am I looking at here?
00:57:31What is this?
00:57:32No, yeah, it was freaking Weirdsville.
00:57:35Two years 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, and I don't respond well to bullying.
00:57:56And I will push back hard.
00:57:59We 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 Louie with this, getting revenge on the guy who hurt Claudia.
00:58:20And Louie has a big hole in his heart, and 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 address.
00:58:31The wrong address.
00:58:33That first section when he's trying to get to Bruce, he'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 from having that kind of killer instinct.
00:58:51So then when it comes out, it, like, it explodes.
00:58:56The thing that I actually found creepiest about that set was the bathtubs and the people lying in there, fully
00:59:02clothed.
00:59:04And 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?
00:59:08And 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 because I sort of felt like
00:59:39that's not really his place, but I think Louis thinks that he's speaking on her behalf.
00:59:44And it looked like he'd won, and he did win, because I want nothing to be nothing.
00:59:54It's just important that before he dies, he can hear it for himself, the 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, it 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.
01:00:57Thank you, Regina.
01:01:03Thank you, Regina.
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