Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5
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00:15 This is the part of my story back in San Francisco
00:18 where you said, and I paraphrase, "Give it to me."
00:23 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
00:25 Hey, stop!
00:27 That's my voice, but I don't remember it.
00:29 The boy we met in San Francisco, he's still in there.
00:32 We can have him saying what happened next in no time.
00:34 Would you like to join us?
00:35 You go ahead. Have your fun.
00:38 I see they've separated you from your laptop.
00:40 Tapes are an admitted performance.
00:43 Give it to me. I won't waste it.
00:44 This is the premise of our interview.
00:47 The Odyssey of Recollection.
00:49 I'll let you whine and have your say.
00:51 I used to be real good at running things.
00:54 Yes, maître.
00:55 What about me and you?
00:56 Picked another one over me!
00:58 You and fucking him!
01:00 Memories just keep bubbling up.
01:02 I want this...
01:05 to remember.
01:08 Things got a little heated.
01:09 With the boy!
01:10 Things got heated with the boy!
01:11 We had it figured out, didn't we?
01:41 Mm.
01:42 What we needed from the other, our proper roles,
01:46 a less dictatorial approach to the coven
01:48 as embraced by my love.
01:50 A dreamy kind of balance.
01:52 Ah, July 1949.
01:55 The reading room.
01:57 We broke into the same library every night that month.
02:00 Hypnotized security, as one does.
02:02 Flipped the lights, laid our backs on long tables,
02:06 stared up at the ceiling.
02:08 Hot.
02:09 The same pillars holding up terracotta domes.
02:11 A light trick that made the ceiling appear higher than it was.
02:15 And why not pass a month that way?
02:18 An effortless, eternal life ahead of us.
02:21 Funny thing.
02:24 Trying to remember what occupied one's time
02:26 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him.
02:30 Grab that.
02:31 Santiago had broken into our part.
02:34 I'm sorry.
02:36 Grab what?
02:37 Hmm.
02:38 Oh, it's just a note to my assistant.
02:40 It's nothing.
02:41 What did you want to grab, Daniel?
02:42 Eternal life ahead of us.
02:43 Funny thing.
02:44 Trying to remember what occupied one's time
02:45 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him.
02:46 Grab that.
02:47 It's a thing with syntax.
02:48 I see it a lot.
02:49 The impersonal pronoun.
02:50 One, one's time, one didn't.
02:51 Becomes the third person.
02:52 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:53 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:54 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:55 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:56 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:57 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:58 The third person is the one who's the third person.
02:59 It's a thing with syntax.
03:01 I see it a lot.
03:02 The impersonal pronoun.
03:04 One, one's time, one didn't.
03:07 Becomes the third person.
03:08 Him.
03:09 Stops being I or me.
03:11 And that indicates what?
03:14 You're circling something.
03:17 You're getting close to something you want distance from.
03:21 Language as a chicken exit on a roller coaster.
03:24 Or it's daytime.
03:26 And the vampire of Louis' age is fighting the narcoleptic pull of the sun.
03:30 Or that.
03:31 Ah, is this Malik?
03:38 It is, sir.
03:40 You're the guy.
03:42 You're gonna chase me down in your little Jimmy Choo sneakers.
03:47 Shall we take our business to the living room?
03:48 Who are they?
03:49 They are not your concern.
03:50 Oi!
03:51 Who are you?
03:52 Friends.
03:53 If you'll excuse us.
03:57 Your friend here is a hot-headed young man, huh?
04:01 Good thing to be.
04:02 Tell him to buy a bouquet.
04:05 Crash it into the guardrails.
04:13 What was that?
04:15 Armand rarely eats.
04:18 So when he does, he prefers to hunt for it.
04:20 Does Malik know he's lunch?
04:22 Are you recording?
04:23 No.
04:24 Malik knows if he makes it on foot to Jumeirah Mosque by evening, he'll be paid enough crypto
04:32 to, well, most anything he wants.
04:37 Has anyone ever cashed in?
04:39 Often it's someone carefully chosen for the harm he does the world with his chosen profession.
04:45 And when he can't find an arms dealer dumb enough to answer his ad?
04:51 One half in love with an easeful death.
04:58 He's ditching us.
04:59 He'll have Malik begging for it in an hour.
05:04 His methodology, it's never violent, I assure you.
05:12 Follow up with the vampire Armand about diet and exercise.
05:17 Once again, Louis alone with himself.
05:20 So everything in its right place before the theater burns down.
05:26 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazine, sold them at recess.
05:31 I'm sorry.
05:32 Little dirty, little deceitful, but it's enterprising.
05:35 Is that what makes you fascinating?
05:37 The girl?
05:38 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her if she had a paper bag over her head.
05:43 She agreed and you did it.
05:46 How long is your boyfriend's lunch again?
06:00 An hour, two at most.
06:13 Let's change it up.
06:20 I was going over my notes last night.
06:23 Something he said on his initial flight to the bookshelves caught my ear.
06:27 This time I won't save your life.
06:31 Armand saved you from me in 1973.
06:33 Yeah, you bit me, I blacked out, he ripped you off me, dumped me in a drug den.
06:39 Yes.
06:40 A hundred years, hundreds of thousands of kills.
06:44 How often has Armand spared a life?
06:53 Armand could see I was partial to you.
06:59 Armand preserves my happiness, even when I don't or can't.
07:04 He had a hunch you might prove fruitful in later times.
07:09 Okay, sure.
07:12 Let's go with that.
07:15 Our first interview, it's a fog.
07:19 I mean, it's the 70s, all a blur.
07:23 Woke up in a parking lot in Milwaukee once, don't know how I got there.
07:26 What's the question, Daniel?
07:30 We had drinks you paid.
07:33 We kept to your place in Divisadero, you paid.
07:36 That's right.
07:37 Did we?
07:38 I like what you've done with the place.
07:56 Getting some bail bondsman, post divorce facts.
08:00 I own a few of these places.
08:04 Oh yeah?
08:05 How many?
08:06 Many.
08:07 Are you a real estate mogul?
08:08 Own a lot of things.
08:09 Does that scare you, boy?
08:38 So you climb in it, close the lid, and bang?
08:45 Sometimes.
08:47 Okay.
08:49 I mean, I'm in a counterculture.
08:55 So am I the first guy that you brought back here?
09:01 The fifth.
09:04 Back Ammon?
09:05 Well, that's wholesome.
09:08 Old timey fun from the Sasanian empire.
09:11 Cheeseburgers or chicken chow mein?
09:16 Take your pick.
09:17 All of your slickness at the bar, all that's gone.
09:28 What do I seem like now, boy?
09:31 The veteran of many wars?
09:32 It's yours.
09:34 Cocaine's a fun boy's drug.
09:38 I'm not fun.
09:39 All right, suit yourself.
09:47 I prefer you like this.
09:49 All dark and real.
09:51 Maybe I could cheer you up.
09:57 What are you doing?
10:01 Fulfilling my side of the social contract.
10:04 Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off?
10:12 So we didn't?
10:15 No.
10:17 I really, I really thought we did.
10:24 Do you want to now?
10:26 He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor.
10:31 San Francisco.
10:33 Psychedelics, disco biscuits, angel powders, and young men.
10:39 Just about every night I lived there, you offered something off the menu.
10:45 Louis de Pointe Delac from New Orleans.
10:47 You specialize in low-end real estate.
10:51 I like predicting what overlooked product will flourish in time.
10:55 Low-end property, little-known art.
10:58 Worth is often miscalculated because of--
11:00 You?
11:05 Minor factors.
11:08 You can squeeze profit out of that margin.
11:11 Did you gravitate to San Fran as a hub for homophiles?
11:17 Paris, in the 1940s, with its permissive, laissez-aller sexual atmosphere was the more
11:26 formative liberation for me.
11:29 Take this seriously.
11:30 I am.
11:31 Shit.
11:32 I forgot to put a tape in.
11:43 I'm a vampire.
11:48 Okay.
11:49 I mean, I'm really interested to know why you believe that.
11:55 Fuck.
11:57 Are those fangs?
12:03 Hi.
12:05 Fuck, man.
12:08 Zodiac killer.
12:15 Don't be afraid.
12:44 Start the tape.
12:47 Okay.
12:48 It's on now.
12:51 Um, first question.
12:54 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
13:02 No.
13:03 I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
13:09 And how did it come about?
13:12 There's a simple answer to that.
13:14 I don't believe I want to give simple answers.
13:17 I want to tell the real story.
13:20 You smoked shaky cigarette after shaky cigarette.
13:24 You shook more then than you do now.
13:26 What I remember most, other than that you were an alien five feet from me, was how eager
13:32 you were to spill.
13:33 No coaxing on my part.
13:35 No journalism, per se.
13:36 You were terrified of me, Daniel.
13:38 You were lonely, Louis.
13:40 It was gratifying to tell you what I was after mingling with humans for so long.
13:45 You weren't thrill-seeking.
13:47 You were floundering, tape after tape of emotional upchuck.
13:50 Where's this leading, Daniel?
13:53 I have some outstanding questions about 1973.
13:58 Like, why you talk to me in the first place.
14:02 Yeah, curiosity, swagger.
14:04 Nah.
14:05 I would chat for a few hours, and then who would come looking if another drug-addled
14:09 homophile disappeared?
14:11 The Berkeley Barb?
14:13 Malik will be dead in two hours.
14:17 You've made me an accessory to murder, and you've had 13 sessions.
14:21 I want 20 minutes.
14:23 For me.
14:25 I want to know, for me, what happened between us.
14:30 Okay?
14:32 Okay.
14:35 Okay.
14:37 Then let me ask you this, Daniel Lloyd.
14:41 What's the next thing you remember?
14:44 You eviscerating Lestat.
14:50 He had a dark pull.
14:52 A numbing affect on the senses.
14:54 He was a handsome sailor.
14:55 Yeah, I mean, I know the type.
14:56 And you stripped away his superficial charms beneath his flimsy gentleman's veneer.
15:05 Lestat was trivial, vapid, vulgar, maniacal, blind, and sterile, and contemptible.
15:17 Big-time asshole.
15:18 He appeared frail and stupid to me.
15:22 A man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice.
15:28 For all that Lestat boasted about his love of music, he played without an iota of feeling.
15:38 Nothing.
15:39 No one home.
15:40 Like an automaton, plunking away at the notes with all the emotional acuity of a monster.
15:48 Yeah, but you were suggestible.
15:50 I mean, he lured you in, you know?
15:53 He's a faker.
15:54 But you figured that out.
15:56 Just by then, you paid a biblical price for your first love.
16:00 I'm sorry.
16:06 I didn't mean to.
16:08 No.
16:09 That was astute, boy.
16:12 You see?
16:13 You were nimble-minded even back then.
16:16 I was a moron.
16:17 Will you, uh, do the fang thing again?
16:21 I love that man.
16:28 Just for reference, that was Louis de Pointe de Lac just now, making his fangs come out.
16:34 Ah, shit.
16:35 The tape ran out.
16:37 It's a small 30-minute thing.
16:39 If I had been an actual journalist and, you know, not fried on Coke and lewds,
16:43 I would have realized what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with.
16:47 Because the next thing that happened was, you detonated.
16:51 Ah, the blowing machine, the blowing machine, a girl with a bad mood, a happy mood.
16:55 I sat on that bench in Jackson Square, watched Claudia disappear into the night.
17:02 I'm kind of with her.
17:03 Get off that bench, brother.
17:05 I pictured her on the platform, boarding the train, carrying her off into her future,
17:13 a future I would be absent from.
17:15 Or you'd just pick yourself up.
17:17 Stay behind with Lestat.
17:21 And I knew within seconds it was the only choice, the wrong choice.
17:28 And then what?
17:30 Then what?
17:34 I had nothing.
17:36 Nothing but the bench I was sitting on.
17:38 So I stayed on it.
17:41 For hours.
17:43 All I had to do was watch the sun come up, let it bleach my bones,
17:50 purify the putrid soul.
17:53 Are you kidding me?
17:54 What, you were just going to end it?
17:56 I mean, what about life?
17:58 Like joy rides and night swimming and marriage and cancer and all of that till the death rattle?
18:05 I mean, we got to carry all this shit and you had to take it out and you were just going to throw it away?
18:11 You've overstepped now, boy.
18:13 Listen, no, obviously you didn't do it, but you were given the gift
18:17 and I've been hearing you bitch the night away about it.
18:20 And since you used the past tense about her, I figured she--
18:23 She what?
18:25 Well, I could see where this is going and--
18:28 And what?
18:29 And give it to me.
18:31 I won't waste it.
18:33 I think you could use me.
18:34 I think we have an energy, you and me.
18:37 I could be your Lestat, your Claudia, but better.
18:40 I mean, I got a little bit of both of them in me, plus a few things they don't.
18:45 This, after all I've told you, is what you asked for, boy?
18:50 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like.
18:53 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
18:55 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story.
18:58 [growling]
18:59 [crash]
19:00 [grunt]
19:01 Hey, stop!
19:02 [growling]
19:03 [singing]
19:06 Suicide hotline 101.
19:08 Don't say to the person on the other end of the line, "Hey, why don't you cheer the fuck up?"
19:12 I overreacted.
19:13 Not sure that killing me was a totally warranted response to my idiocy?
19:17 I took a scoop out of your throat.
19:18 I deserve to have my ass kicked.
19:20 For the sheer number of times I said, "And then what?"
19:23 All the drugs in your blood, it all went back into me.
19:25 Cornstone, prize-winning journalism.
19:27 And then what?
19:29 I, um...
19:34 Daniel.
19:38 [clears throat]
19:42 Daniel.
19:44 Yeah.
19:46 [clears throat]
19:48 A hesitation.
19:53 I have a surprise for you.
19:59 Kind of a curveball, which will seem like less of a surprise and more like a...
20:04 ambush.
20:06 Is that our original interview?
20:14 Turns out I had a copy saved in the cloud.
20:17 You're a liar, Daniel.
20:18 So are you, Louie.
20:19 Whether you know it or not.
20:21 You remember the last nine minutes at the end?
20:26 Betty Hutton drowning out the indecipherable moaning and yelling?
20:31 Yes.
20:34 Well, um, my researcher, assistant,
20:37 she's a bit of an audiophile,
20:41 and, uh, well, she cleaned it up a bit.
20:44 Press pause on the betrayal of it all and...
20:48 listen.
20:50 [yells]
20:52 Louie!
21:04 That wet thud?
21:09 That's Armand saving me.
21:11 What?
21:24 What?!
21:26 Morning!
21:27 I lost time.
21:29 Things got a little heated.
21:31 With a boy! Things got heated with a boy!
21:33 I was at home picking lint off the sofa.
21:36 I said to join us.
21:37 The night's gone, the room's soiled,
21:39 and once again I'm here with mop and mindlessness to clean it up.
21:42 So the room got dirty, so what? I'll clean it up.
21:45 No, I clean it up!
21:46 You make the mess and I clean it up.
21:49 Mark it on the calendar, align it with Ussa Major,
21:51 Louie's tri-annual "Fuck off and find me,"
21:53 with apologies to follow.
21:55 I'm sorry.
21:56 The sweet comfort in the arms of lowlifes,
21:57 and unfortunates, and broken children, fine.
22:00 Oh, fine. The fine that doesn't sound like fine.
22:02 But revealing our nature to a reporter!
22:05 You met in a bar ten hours ago. What if it was published?
22:08 I was having some fun.
22:09 We don't have enough to fear for, Paris.
22:10 I was in the middle of ending things, when you...
22:12 Look, you already passed out on the floor next to him, Louie.
22:15 Out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed your waist...
22:17 Oh, this is boring!
22:18 You're boring!
22:20 You are so boring!
22:23 And here come the drugs.
22:24 Colorless.
22:25 Flavorless.
22:26 Up the thigh, down the throat,
22:27 into the heart, and off your fingers, feet,
22:29 and wallowing brain.
22:30 Dull nights, dull weeks, dull months, dull as fuck!
22:34 Suffocation by the world's softest,
22:38 beigest pillow.
22:40 The ten hours I spent with that boy
22:45 were more exciting, more fascinating
22:49 than decades with you!
22:52 Oh, there it is.
22:58 The half-blank, half-apocalyptic look.
23:03 But what does it mean tonight, huh?
23:05 Does he want to lick my boots?
23:07 Or chop my hands off?
23:10 Is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight, huh?
23:14 Okay.
23:16 Okay, perhaps.
23:18 But am I as boring as the blather
23:22 committed onto the ferric tapes of your fascinating boy?
23:26 Oh, it's so, so hard to be me!
23:29 Picking lint off the sofa?
23:31 It's so hard to kill humans!
23:32 I can feel her feelings as I breathe
23:35 through me the poison in his hands
23:37 before she ate it away.
23:38 Everyone I know wrongs me!
23:40 Okay, okay.
23:42 Let's wake the boy up, and let's try you.
23:45 I'm the vampire Armando,
23:47 my daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch!
23:50 Ah, brother, he tossed his step off the roof!
23:53 My sister, she buried me alive!
23:55 Maybe pretend I didn't have a guilt for 240 years!
23:57 My daughter was my sister, was my throat pillow,
23:59 when he would look at me kindly.
24:00 Le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat...
24:05 I talked shit about him the whole time!
24:07 The lame!
24:09 The lame!
24:11 Unuttered in our home for 23 years,
24:14 said over and over again
24:16 until it was pounding in my brain like a hammer.
24:19 Her problems aren't about him.
24:21 And you threw her name around just for cover,
24:23 but it always circled back to him.
24:25 I loved her.
24:27 But she didn't love you!
24:29 Not like he did!
24:30 Not like I have!
24:32 I know.
24:33 I know!
24:36 Yes!
24:37 I know!
24:39 Thank you for saving me.
24:41 I was creeping back in Paris.
24:45 And they, uh, what, what, what, what,
24:48 what, uh, it's all of it coming back.
24:51 It's, uh, Paris.
24:54 Paris.
24:56 Can you hear that?
24:57 Can you hear that?
24:59 Can you hear her?
25:01 She's calling me.
25:03 I think that's you running out of the room.
25:13 Hear that?
25:15 Second door slam, farther off.
25:18 What's that second door slam?
25:20 I don't, I don't remember.
25:22 I don't remember any of this.
25:23 First door opens.
25:25 Slam.
25:27 Footsteps.
25:29 Second door slams.
25:32 Metal door.
25:34 Armand calls your name.
25:38 He runs after you.
25:41 Metal door opens.
25:43 He screams.
25:45 A few more seconds.
25:48 Tape runs out.
25:51 Where does Armand follow you, Louis?
25:55 It's morning.
25:57 You went out of the room.
26:00 Door opens.
26:05 Slams.
26:07 Steps.
26:09 Metal door.
26:13 Louis!
26:16 [Panting]
26:21 [Grunts]
26:24 [Door opens]
26:27 [Grunts]
26:30 [Grunts]
26:32 [Grunts]
26:34 [Grunts]
26:36 [Grunts]
26:38 [Grunts]
26:40 [Screams]
26:42 [Screams]
26:45 [Screams]
26:47 No, no, no, no, no!
26:50 I walked into the sun.
26:53 You remember that?
26:58 I'm remembering it now.
27:10 Let me ask you a really loaded question, Louis.
27:14 And then what?
27:16 My skin burnt to the color of pitch.
27:23 A char coming off me.
27:26 The pain?
27:28 Like a siren.
27:30 Like a noise in my body.
27:34 I walked out into the sun.
27:39 I think so.
27:41 Pieces of my life gone.
27:45 I knew who I was without those pieces.
27:48 Wait. Sidestep the big picture.
27:51 Get the story straight first.
27:54 [Groans]
28:00 [Groans]
28:03 [Breathing heavily]
28:07 The pain.
28:09 Must be exquisite.
28:12 What happened?
28:16 You drained a drug fiend.
28:18 You said the worst things you've ever said to me.
28:21 No. And then you ran outside.
28:23 No. And now you're a convalescent.
28:26 I'm so... I'm so...
28:29 What is it?
28:31 I'm sorry.
28:33 Meaningless word.
28:35 Meaningless.
28:37 The floor slants slightly north.
28:40 The boy's blood flowed that way.
28:42 We should fix that before we self.
28:46 He's alive?
28:49 The boy.
28:52 The fascinating boy.
28:55 He's fine.
28:57 [Crying]
29:00 Don't.
29:02 Don't.
29:03 He's just fine.
29:05 Don't.
29:06 No, he's fine.
29:08 You're fine. This is fine.
29:10 We're all fine.
29:13 You two kept me in that apartment for how long?
29:16 You were there, Daniel.
29:17 I don't remember. I... That's why I'm asking.
29:21 I can remember a few things.
29:25 Like...
29:28 There's someone else there.
29:30 [Grunts]
29:32 [Breathing heavily]
29:35 A cellophane corpse on the floor.
29:38 Meaningless word.
29:40 Meaningless.
29:42 A neighbor saw you while he was taking out the trash.
29:45 I had to chase him down.
29:48 [Grunts]
29:51 The floor slants slightly north.
29:54 The boy's blood flowed that way.
29:57 [Indistinct conversations]
30:00 There's a TV in the corner near the corpse.
30:04 Some kind of sock or shoe commercial.
30:07 There's sheets of plastic tarp, some duct tape, bleach.
30:12 [Crying]
30:13 Surely I'm next.
30:15 [Crying]
30:18 I-I can see him walking out of the bedroom.
30:23 I can hear you, but I can't see you.
30:26 The doorframe is blocking it.
30:28 Okay, yeah.
30:30 Armand puts the table back and...
30:35 finds the recorder under the TV,
30:39 brings it to the table.
30:41 Uh...
30:42 He ejects the tape.
30:44 Yeah.
30:45 Flips it over...
30:48 and...
30:50 presses play.
30:53 I hear my voice on the recorder.
30:57 [Scoffs]
30:58 The more he liked it.
30:59 A fresh young girl, that was his favorite food.
31:01 But the triumphal kill for a sadist like Lestat...
31:04 Armand!
31:05 ...was always a young man.
31:07 A young man like yourself would have appealed to him particularly.
31:11 You see, they represented the greatest loss to Lestat
31:15 because they stood on the threshold of maximum possibility of life.
31:19 Rest.
31:20 Of course, Lestat didn't understand this himself.
31:23 Lestat understood nothing.
31:26 Curious.
31:27 Armand stands over you.
31:29 He's commandeered your body.
31:31 Rise.
31:32 [Breathing heavily]
31:34 [Birds chirping]
31:38 Armand.
31:40 From Polynesian Marys, I was with Louis.
31:44 I can't move your body.
31:46 [Groans]
31:48 Yeah.
31:50 [Groaning]
31:53 I don't want--
31:55 To die?
31:57 On that item?
31:59 I think I know something you don't.
32:02 [Groaning]
32:05 [Groaning]
32:08 I'm told you've lived a fascinating life.
32:11 I never said that.
32:12 No, Louis did.
32:13 Leave him alone, Armand.
32:16 [Groaning]
32:19 Armand!
32:20 You held Louis' attention.
32:23 [Groaning]
32:24 He confessed his innermost secrets to you.
32:27 I wanted drugs.
32:29 We didn't even have sex.
32:31 128 boys he's brought here.
32:33 He said five.
32:34 And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain.
32:36 This is so bad.
32:38 That makes you special.
32:39 Please, man.
32:40 Look, I'm just a shit little kid from a desk.
32:42 That warrants investigation.
32:44 I could be on my knees in a second.
32:47 Bartering with desire, is that what makes you fascinating?
32:51 He didn't even want me in the end.
32:53 I mean, look at my neck.
32:55 I'm fucking bleeding down to my ankles.
32:58 [Groaning]
33:01 Vera?
33:03 She's a single mother.
33:04 Works in a titty bar on Market Street.
33:07 Kevin?
33:08 He's a Vietnam vet who lives in the Castro
33:10 with his Vietnamese refugee boyfriend with no legs.
33:13 You think in all these fools,
33:15 you'd arrived at some ineffable truth?
33:17 No. It's all bullshit.
33:19 An instinct to self-efface.
33:21 Is that what makes you fascinating?
33:23 Okay, yes.
33:25 [Breathing heavily]
33:26 I'm good at getting angles.
33:29 Getting people to open up.
33:32 I can't feel my body.
33:34 It's freaking me out.
33:35 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
33:37 [Gasps]
33:38 [Gasps]
33:39 [Grunts]
33:41 [Groans]
33:43 I'm on!
33:44 You're going to teach me how to be fascinating.
33:47 Believe him, B! I'm on!
33:49 [Gunshot]
33:50 [Gasps]
33:51 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazines,
33:54 sold them at recess.
33:56 A little dirty, a little deceitful,
33:58 but it's enterprising.
33:59 Is that what makes you fascinating?
34:01 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
34:05 if she had a paper bag over her head.
34:07 She agreed, and you did it even as she cried.
34:10 A splinter of coldness in you.
34:12 Is that what makes you fascinating?
34:15 My legs are starting to cramp.
34:16 Even his transgressions are ordinary, Louis.
34:19 The pinhole's closing back up.
34:20 Okay, it's you who's fascinating!
34:23 You can read minds, right?
34:25 Louis thinks I'm boring.
34:27 I have Charlie Horse left blood.
34:28 Do you find me boring?
34:30 No.
34:32 [Sobbing]
34:35 [Chuckles]
34:37 [Breathing heavily]
34:40 Do you want to hear my story?
34:42 Yes. Yes!
34:45 Yes.
34:47 [Sobbing]
34:50 My first memory...
34:53 I'm being run down by slavers in Delhi.
34:57 My second...
34:59 [Sobbing]
35:02 [Sobbing]
35:09 An eager black hole.
35:11 [Sobbing]
35:17 I'll keep digging.
35:19 [Grunting]
35:21 But I'm not hopeful there's much more to you, Daniel,
35:25 other than a hole.
35:27 [Grunting]
35:30 [Grunting]
35:33 [Screaming]
35:35 I was in Zheleznogorsk to interview an operative for the KGB.
35:40 Halfway through, I tried to go to the bathroom.
35:43 He'd locked me in.
35:45 I was the one being interviewed.
35:47 Your point?
35:49 I don't know.
35:51 No point, other than fuck your boyfriend.
35:55 Rage is an imprecise emotion.
35:58 I'd hurt him, but I was fragile, an invalid.
36:03 Spiro Agnew.
36:06 Daniel? Daniel?
36:08 Washington insiders are claiming this Saturday evening
36:11 that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew may be close to resigning
36:15 in light of ongoing investigations.
36:18 Federal prosecutors will soon present evidence
36:20 to a Baltimore grand jury
36:22 over the vice president's allegedly receiving illegal --
36:25 Saturday. It was Saturday, but we met on Tuesday.
36:29 So I was the house pet for...what?
36:33 One, two, three, four days?
36:38 Your boyfriend...
36:40 I'm with him now.
36:41 ...was in a trance of some sort.
36:43 I won't tell you why.
36:44 I don't know. I can't.
36:46 Lunch is almost over. Try.
36:48 I won't say where.
36:49 You fucking try. You were there.
36:51 Go back to the chair.
36:52 The TV.
36:53 ...Vice President Spiro T. Agnew...
36:55 His feet in the rocks shit is bullshit.
36:58 You're in the chair. The TV is on.
37:00 Someone service station...
37:01 Come on! Can you come?
37:03 I can't get up. It hurts.
37:05 Put me in the coffin.
37:07 Coffin?
37:10 Yeah, it's you. You keep saying "coffin."
37:16 My nose is bleeding?
37:18 Someone service station...
37:19 Come on! Can you come?
37:21 Where are you?
37:23 The pain is back. It's like I'm still burning.
37:27 Come on. Put me in the coffin.
37:30 Please.
37:31 Yes?
37:32 Thank you.
37:35 Rest.
37:36 ...consumers and gas station owners...
37:59 I listened to the tapes.
38:02 All of them twice.
38:04 Lestat, Lestat.
38:06 Claudia Lestat, Lestat.
38:10 All I talked about was trash.
38:13 Yes, you said that. But why?
38:18 It's not exactly how you've talked about him to me.
38:21 Did I catch you in a fantasy where the boy somehow fumbles his way to publication?
38:27 While Lestat strolls past a bookstore, your book displayed in the shop window,
38:34 while he buys himself a copy, reads your nasty embellishments and comes chasing after you again.
38:47 If you want the insanity back, if you wanted escape from this prison of empathy, I've locked you away in.
38:57 All you had to do was ask, Louis.
39:06 A final act of service I'd like to perform before I... I leave you to yourself.
39:15 I know where he is.
39:19 I found his voice among the many.
39:23 No.
39:24 I told him I was with you.
39:34 Lestat.
39:36 No.
39:39 I told him you were thinking of him again.
39:44 Lestat.
39:45 No.
39:48 Yes, I'm here.
39:52 He's waiting for you.
39:54 I'm with him now.
39:56 He cannot hear you.
39:58 He has injured himself.
40:00 Louis, no.
40:03 This is your chance, Louis. I am your maker's voice.
40:06 Louis.
40:08 Louis.
40:10 Mon cher.
40:12 Mon cher.
40:16 You wanted to say something to me.
40:18 You wanted to say something to me.
40:21 Why are you ill? What's happened to you?
40:25 Why are you ill? What's happened to you?
40:30 I love you, Louis.
40:34 Tell him I love him, Armand.
40:38 I love you, Louis.
40:41 Tell him, Armand.
40:45 Tell him.
40:48 Louis.
40:50 Louis.
40:52 Louis.
40:54 Louis.
41:02 He was my maker.
41:06 It's not the war.
41:08 You left me for death.
41:14 Will I be on suicide watch for the next thousand years?
41:20 Have I atoned for my part of Paris?
41:26 Have I crawled an inch forward?
41:29 Or am I a reminder of the worst of it?
41:45 I'll finish cleaning up.
41:49 Rest.
41:52 Rest.
41:53 Rest.
41:58 You said that to me, too.
42:00 Rest.
42:02 Shh.
42:04 Rest now.
42:05 A bunch of words.
42:08 But it started with rest.
42:11 Rest.
42:12 And then?
42:18 Shh.
42:19 Rest.
42:23 I've been calling to you for some time.
42:27 I've been trying to get you to stop every bad fix.
42:31 From the unnamed malaise you feel Sunday afternoons.
42:36 And now here I am and you can rest.
42:41 I don't want to rest.
42:44 I'm the quiet you've been longing for.
42:49 After all the garishness of life.
42:51 The jostling.
42:53 The clawing.
42:54 I like my life.
42:56 Will I be somebody?
42:58 Will I get the fixes I need?
43:01 Will I be somebody?
43:03 Will I get the fixes I need to be somebody?
43:08 But Daniel, you already know who you'll be.
43:13 An ugly duplex back in Modesto.
43:17 A job in an office with drab carpets and flickering lights.
43:21 A woman in the mold of your mother.
43:24 A genteel drinking problem like your father.
43:28 Your wife counting down your thrusts.
43:32 Your children shying away from you.
43:36 All the confidence and hope of your youth replaced by a seething,
43:43 boiling regret.
43:46 Until one day, you're at a traffic light.
43:51 The light turns green.
43:54 Horns honking.
43:56 You don't move.
43:59 Horns honking.
44:01 You don't move.
44:03 Everything happening in the city.
44:08 A bright young reporter with a point of view.
44:11 Shh, a comfortable chair in a room that slants to the north.
44:17 An easeful death.
44:19 Rest.
44:23 It's okay.
44:26 It's okay.
44:29 It's okay.
44:32 It'll feel like a bath.
44:34 Rest.
44:36 Like honey on your tongue.
44:38 It is the comfort we all long for.
44:43 The end.
44:45 Rest.
44:47 Rest.
44:52 Come.
44:54 Come.
44:55 I'm holding you.
44:57 You rest now.
45:10 I'm off.
45:18 I'm cleaning up the mess.
45:20 Doesn't need cleaning.
45:23 After what you've put me through here, I deserve this.
45:26 I know.
45:28 But I need this one to live.
45:31 It's a testament to our companionship of its endurance.
45:41 This boy to live out the night.
45:49 Are you asking, maître?
45:52 No, Arou.
45:55 I'm not asking.
46:20 I'm not asking.
46:39 I'm not asking.
46:54 Page 484.
46:57 Listen as though I'm the voice of God or an angel talking to you,
47:02 telling you this room doesn't matter, this night doesn't matter.
47:07 You're not an inconsequential or a junkie.
47:12 You're a bright young reporter with a point of view.
47:16 There are stories that need to be told.
47:19 If things ever get bad again, these are the words you'll hear in your mind
47:24 like a tape playing over and over, like a song stuck in your brain.
47:29 These words will hold you up and carry you.
47:35 [♪♪♪]
47:44 That's a freebase I befriended for a few days at the drug den.
47:52 He told me to get my shit together, and then he Richard Pryor'd right in front of me.
47:57 Everyone scrambled, but I stuck around, watched him burn.
48:01 What always confused me was that--
48:08 you know, he said those words to me, and he was already all burnt up.
48:16 I figured I'd conflated the two events, but I didn't.
48:24 Because it was you.
48:35 I destroyed two marriages.
48:39 I fucked up two daughters.
48:43 But I stayed a journalist.
48:47 I--I was never so lost I couldn't hold down a job.
49:00 We, I think, gave you more drugs, distorted it all in your mind.
49:07 You woke up in a drug den.
49:08 Fed you a truncated version.
49:10 He bit you.
49:11 He bit me.
49:12 You blacked out.
49:13 I blacked out.
49:15 You woke up in a drug den.
49:16 I woke up in a drug den.
49:18 He bit you.
49:19 He bit me.
49:20 You blacked out.
49:21 I blacked out.
49:22 You woke up in a drug den.
49:24 Armand fogged my brain.
49:26 He bit you.
49:27 Redacted himself, which accounts for why I didn't remember.
49:30 Yes.
49:32 And what accounts for why you didn't?
49:35 I was disfigured.
49:37 I was in pain.
49:38 But you remember right up until when you bit me,
49:41 and I remember right up until when you bit me.
49:45 And then both our memories cut out.
49:49 Same precise edit on two brains.
49:52 How was your lunch?
50:08 Entertaining.
50:10 He made it all the way to Burj Khalifa.
50:13 How was Paris?
50:14 We paused Paris, reminisced about San Francisco.
50:19 And?
50:20 It started with Daniel.
50:22 He asked why you saved him in 1973.
50:30 I could see you were partial to him.
50:32 I preserve your happiness even when you don't or can't.
50:36 I had a hunch--
50:38 Daniel might prove fruitful in later times.
50:42 You're stronger.
50:59 I can feel it.
51:02 But you gotta give up something to get something.
51:06 You fear Armand.
51:08 He should fear the other one.
51:10 Can you imagine me without the burden of her?
51:13 Today, we're turning our spotlight on ourselves.
51:19 Are you ready?
51:21 Episode 5, "Don't Be Afraid," just start the tape,
51:34 explains the past, it explains relationships,
51:37 and it explains the betrayal.
51:39 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
51:42 if she had a paper bag overhead.
51:44 She agreed and you did it, Ethan.
51:46 Daniel.
51:48 What's in the bag?
51:50 In season 1, we saw the original meeting in the bar
51:54 of young Malloy and Louis in San Francisco.
51:57 Would you like to join us?
51:59 With Armand there lurking in the background.
52:01 No.
52:03 You go ahead, have your fun.
52:05 And now we're back with that same trio.
52:08 Louis and Malloy have returned to the apartment
52:11 in San Francisco and--
52:13 I like what you've done with the place.
52:16 We see this interview play out.
52:18 Are you a real estate mogul?
52:21 I own a lot of things.
52:24 Recreating 1973 was a lot of fun.
52:27 And those of us who know something about that era
52:30 just sort of laugh at everything from the clothes to the hair
52:33 and every detail, every prop, every set dressing
52:36 has to be right.
52:39 Backgammon?
52:41 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire.
52:45 This went through many permutations,
52:48 but basically it's a beautiful '70s backgammon board
52:56 rebuilt to handle all the drugs,
53:00 all the fun and games that Louis is offering to Malloy
53:04 in the '70s.
53:06 It was actually the first thing we shot this season.
53:08 It was like shooting a little play, really,
53:10 'cause you're in the one set for the whole time.
53:13 That first blush, it is a one-off episode,
53:16 and yet it explains everything that's happened up till then
53:20 and, more importantly, everything that's going to happen.
53:22 Does that scare you, boy?
53:24 It was really fun to revisit that dynamic
53:27 with the younger Daniel.
53:28 So am I the first guy that you brought back here?
53:31 It was amazing to work with Luke,
53:33 having seen up close Eric's Daniel.
53:37 Our first interview is a fog.
53:41 I mean, it's the '70s, all a blur.
53:44 Unbeknownst to me, when we met in New Orleans
53:47 before we even started shooting anything,
53:50 I didn't realize that he was watching me
53:53 and planning a strategy on how to play the younger me.
53:57 Some of the stuff that Luke was doing, I was like,
53:59 "That's Eric. That's Eric."
54:01 I'm a vampire.
54:06 Okay. I mean, I'm really interested to know
54:09 why you believe that.
54:11 Even in the first meet in '73,
54:18 Louis has a real fondness for Daniel.
54:20 Are those fangs?
54:21 He likes them. He's cool.
54:23 That's why Daniel lived, as long as he did.
54:26 First question.
54:29 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
54:33 We have these two guys in Dubai
54:36 who, with the help of the Talamaska,
54:38 they start trying to piece together what happened.
54:41 Where...
54:42 Oh, fuck.
54:44 You don't know what human life is like.
54:46 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
54:48 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story.
54:51 [grunts]
54:53 It's intense. It's intense for me.
54:55 Having watched it,
54:57 it then informs everything that I am doing in later scenes.
55:01 I have a surprise for you.
55:03 I have a curveball, which will seem like less of a surprise
55:06 and more like a...ambush.
55:10 Louis?
55:14 [grunts]
55:16 That's Armand saving me.
55:18 The relationship between Armand and Louis was very up and down.
55:22 Louis, as much as he wants to say
55:25 that this relationship cured him of his malaise...
55:28 The ten hours I spent with that boy
55:32 were more exciting, more fascinating
55:36 than decades with you!
55:39 ...clearly has all kinds of problems.
55:42 Many of the same issues he had when he was with Lestat
55:45 have resurfaced.
55:47 Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat...
55:49 Armand is always conniving.
55:51 He's always working,
55:53 and I think that's also the tragedy of him,
55:56 is that he can't ever relax with the truth.
55:59 [grunts]
56:01 I'm remembering it now.
56:03 It's kind of the biggest betrayal, isn't it?
56:05 When you choose to spend your life with somebody,
56:08 you accept each other.
56:10 I can't think of a bigger betrayal than lying to that person
56:13 in such a significant way,
56:15 to the extent where you would rewrite their history.
56:18 Rest.
56:20 Rest. He said that to me too.
56:23 It makes me angry now. Armand is so wrong for that.
56:27 Don't.
56:29 He's just fine.
56:31 Don't!
56:33 Oh, he's fine.
56:35 You're fine. This is fine. We're all fine.
56:38 [grunts]
56:42 Oh, Marth.
56:44 We both discover the depths of duplicity
56:48 that Armand has gone to
56:51 and what he's done to each of us.
56:54 [sobs]
56:56 Up to this point, the Malloy-Louis dynamic is adversarial.
57:00 It is really this kind of amazing moment
57:06 of connection between the two of them.
57:08 Like a song stuck in your brain.
57:11 These words will hold you up and carry you.
57:14 Jacob has said it. Louis doesn't have any friends.
57:17 They are your lifeline.
57:19 And Daniel doesn't have any friends.
57:22 So if they have any friends at all,
57:25 maybe it's each other.
57:27 There's an odd couple for you.
57:30 [door opens]
57:33 [music]
57:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]