Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 5
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00:00 ♪♪
00:10 ♪♪
00:15 This is the part of my story back in San Francisco
00:18 where you said, and I paraphrase,
00:22 "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 you 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! Things got heated with the boy!
01:11 ♪♪
01:21 ♪♪
01:31 ♪♪
01:39 We had it figured out, didn't we?
01:41 Mm.
01:42 What we needed from the other, our proper roles,
01:45 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.
01:54 The reading room.
01:55 Mm.
01:56 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,
02:05 and stared up at the ceiling.
02:08 Hot.
02:09 Iron pillars holding up terracotta domes,
02:11 a light trick that made the ceiling appear
02:13 higher than it was.
02:15 And why not pass a month that way?
02:17 An effortless, eternal life ahead of us.
02:22 Funny thing.
02:23 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. Grab what?
02:37 Hmm?
02:38 Oh, it's just a note to my assistant.
02:39 It's nothing.
02:40 What did you want to grab, Daniel?
02:42 Eternal life ahead of us.
02:51 Funny thing.
02:52 Trying to remember what occupied one's time
02:55 when one was ignorant of the plotting around him.
02:58 Grab that.
03:00 It's a thing with syntax.
03:01 I see it a lot.
03:02 The impersonal pronoun, "one,"
03:04 "one's time," "one didn't,"
03:07 becomes the third person, "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
03:18 you want distance from.
03:20 Language as a chicken exit on a roller coaster.
03:24 Or it's daytime,
03:26 and a vampire of Louis' age
03:27 is fighting an archaeolectic pull of the sun.
03:30 Or that.
03:31 [Footsteps]
03:34 Ah.
03:36 Is this Malik?
03:38 It is, sir.
03:40 You're the guy?
03:41 Mm-hmm.
03:42 You're gonna chase me down
03:43 in your little Jimmy Choo sneakers?
03:46 Shall we take our business to the living room?
03:48 Who are they?
03:50 They are not your concern.
03:51 Hey!
03:52 Who are you?
03:53 Friends.
03:54 If you'll excuse us.
03:58 Your friend here is a hot-headed young man, huh?
04:01 Good thing to be.
04:03 Tell him to buy a Bugatti,
04:05 crash it into the guardrails.
04:07 [Clicks tongue]
04:08 [Footsteps]
04:12 What was that?
04:15 Armand rarely eats,
04:17 so when he does, he prefers to hunt for it.
04:20 Does Malik know he's lunch?
04:22 Are you recording? No.
04:24 Malik knows if he makes it on foot
04:28 to Jumeirah Mosque by evening,
04:30 he'll be paid enough crypto to,
04:33 well, most anything he wants.
04:37 Has anyone ever cashed in?
04:39 Often it's someone carefully chosen
04:41 for the harm he does the world with his chosen profession.
04:45 And when he can't find an arms dealer
04:46 dumb enough to answer his ad?
04:51 Someone half in love with an easeful death.
04:55 [Door opens]
04:56 [Door closes]
04:58 He's ditching us.
05:00 He'll have Malik begging for it in an hour.
05:03 His methodology, it's never violent, I assure you.
05:08 Mm-hmm.
05:10 [Sighs]
05:12 Follow-up with the vampire Armand
05:15 about diet and exercise.
05:17 And once again, Louis alone with himself.
05:20 So, everything in its right place
05:23 before the theater burns down.
05:25 [Thud]
05:27 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazine
05:29 and 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 carpet!
05:38 In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her...
05:40 Rest. ...if she had a paper bag...
05:42 Daniel. ...over her head.
05:43 She agreed, and you did it, Ian.
05:44 Daniel.
05:56 How long is your boyfriend's lunch again?
06:00 An hour, two at most.
06:02 Let's change it up.
06:20 I was going over my notes last night.
06:22 Something he said on his initial flight to the bookshelves
06:25 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,
06:35 he ripped you off me, dumped me in a drug den.
06:38 Yes. 500 years,
06:40 hundreds of thousands of kills.
06:43 How often has Armand spared a life?
06:53 Armand could see I was partial to you.
06:56 Armand preserves my happiness,
07:01 even when I don't or can't.
07:04 He had a hunch you might prove fruitful in later times.
07:08 Okay, sure. Let's go with that.
07:14 Um, our first interview...
07:18 it's a fog.
07:19 I mean, it's the '70s, all a blur.
07:22 Woke up in a parking lot in Milwaukee.
07:24 Once, don't know how I got there.
07:25 What's the question, Daniel?
07:27 We had drinks, you paid.
07:32 We tapped to your place in Divisadero, you paid.
07:36 That's right.
07:38 Did we?
07:40 ( music playing )
07:43 I like what you've done with the place.
07:56 Getting some bail bondsman post-divorce vibes.
08:01 I own a few of these places.
08:04 Oh, yeah? How many?
08:06 Many.
08:08 Are you a real estate mogul?
08:12 I own a lot of things.
08:14 ( music playing )
08:17 Does that scare you, boy?
08:33 ( music playing )
08:36 So you climb in it,
08:40 close the lid, and bang?
08:43 Sometimes.
08:44 ( music playing )
08:47 Okay.
08:51 I mean, I'm into countercultures.
08:54 So am I the first guy that you brought back here?
08:58 The fifth.
09:01 The fifth.
09:02 Backhammon?
09:05 Well, that's wholesome.
09:07 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian empire.
09:10 ( music playing )
09:13 Oh, cheeseburgers or chicken chow mein?
09:15 Take your pick.
09:16 ( music playing )
09:19 Oh, well.
09:20 ( music playing )
09:21 All of your slickness at the bar, all that's gone.
09:28 What do I seem like now, boy?
09:30 A veteran of many wars?
09:32 What's yours?
09:33 Cocaine's a fun boy's drug.
09:37 I'm not fun.
09:38 All right, suit yourself.
09:40 I prefer you like this, all dark and real.
09:50 Maybe I could, uh, cheer you up.
09:53 What are you doing?
09:59 Fulfilling my side of the social contract.
10:03 Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off?
10:07 Huh?
10:09 So, we didn't.
10:14 No.
10:17 ( laughs )
10:19 I really-- I really thought we did.
10:24 Do you want to now?
10:25 He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor.
10:28 San Francisco.
10:32 Psychedelics, disco biscuits,
10:35 angel powders, and young men.
10:38 Just about every night I lived there,
10:40 you offered something...
10:43 off the menu.
10:44 Louis de Pointe de Lac from New Orleans.
10:47 You specialize in low-end real estate.
10:50 I like predicting what overlooked product
10:52 will flourish in time.
10:54 Low-end property, little-known art.
10:57 Worth is often miscalculated because of--
10:59 You?
11:01 Minor factors.
11:06 You can squeeze profit out of that margin.
11:09 Did you gravitate to San Fran as a hub for homophiles?
11:15 Paris, in the 1940s,
11:21 with its permissive, laissez-aller sexual atmosphere,
11:25 was the more formative liberation for me.
11:28 Take this seriously.
11:30 I am.
11:32 Shit.
11:36 ( laughs )
11:38 I forgot to put a tape in.
11:41 I'm a vampire.
11:48 Okay. I mean, I'm really interested to know
11:51 why you believe that.
11:54 Fuck.
12:01 Are those fangs?
12:04 Hi.
12:05 Fuck, man.
12:07 Are you the Zodiac Killer?
12:10 ( grunts )
12:12 ( crinkling )
12:41 Don't be afraid.
12:43 Just start the tape.
12:45 Okay. It's on now.
12:54 Um...
12:57 First question.
13:00 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
13:03 No.
13:05 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.
13:18 I want to tell the real story.
13:21 You smoked shaky cigarette after shaky cigarette.
13:25 You shook more then than you do now.
13:27 What I remember most,
13:28 other than that you were an alien five feet from me,
13:31 was how eager you were to spill.
13:33 No coaxing on my part, no journalism, per se.
13:36 You were terrified of me, Daniel.
13:38 You were lonely, Louie.
13:40 It was gratifying to tell you what I was
13:43 after mingling with humans for so long.
13:45 You weren't thrill-seeking.
13:47 You were floundering,
13:48 tape after tape of emotional upchucks.
13:50 Where's this leading, Daniel?
13:52 I have some outstanding questions about 1973.
13:58 Like...
14:00 why you talk to me in the first place.
14:02 You had curiosity, swagger.
14:04 Nah.
14:05 I would chat for a few hours,
14:07 and who would come looking
14:08 if another drug-addled homophile disappeared?
14:12 The Berkeley Barb?
14:15 Malik will be dead in two hours.
14:17 You've made me an accessory to murder,
14:19 and you've had 13 sessions.
14:21 I want 20 minutes.
14:23 For me.
14:25 I want to know, for me,
14:27 what happened between us.
14:30 Okay?
14:32 Okay.
14:35 Okay.
14:37 Then let me ask you this, Daniel Malloy.
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 He stripped away his superficial charms
15:00 beneath his flimsy gentleman's veneer.
15:04 Mm.
15:05 Lestat was trivial,
15:08 vapid, vulgar...
15:10 Vulgar.
15:11 ...maniacal, blind,
15:14 and sterile and contemptible.
15:16 Big-time asshole.
15:17 He appeared frail and stupid to me,
15:21 a man made of dried twigs
15:23 with a thin, carping voice.
15:27 And for all that Lestat boasted
15:29 about his love of music,
15:31 he played without an iota of feeling.
15:37 Nothing.
15:38 No one home.
15:39 Like an automaton,
15:41 uh, plunking away at the notes
15:43 with all the emotional acuity of a monster!
15:47 [ Laughs ]
15:48 Yeah, but you were suggestible.
15:49 I mean, he'd lured you in, you know?
15:52 He's a faker, but you figured that out.
15:55 Just by then,
15:56 you paid a biblical price for your first love.
16:00 [ Sighs ]
16:02 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...
16:20 fang thing again?
16:22 [ Laughs ]
16:26 I love that man.
16:27 Just for reference,
16:28 that was Louis de Pointe-de-Lac just now,
16:30 making his fangs come out.
16:33 [ Laughs ]
16:34 Ah, shit.
16:35 The tape ran out.
16:36 It's a small 30-minute thing.
16:38 If I had been an actual journalist
16:40 and, you know, not fried on Coke and lewds,
16:42 I would have realized
16:43 what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with,
16:46 because the next thing that happened was
16:49 you detonated.
16:50 ♪ I'm a flowing machine, a flowing machine ♪
16:53 ♪ A girl with a bad mood and a... ♪
16:55 I sat on that bench in Jackson Square,
16:58 watched Claudia disappear into the night.
17:01 I'm kind of with her.
17:02 Get off that bench, brother.
17:04 I pictured her on the platform,
17:07 boarding a train,
17:09 carrying her off into her future,
17:12 a future I would be absent from.
17:14 Or you'd just pick yourself up.
17:16 Stay behind with LeStock.
17:19 And I knew within seconds
17:22 it was the only choice,
17:25 the wrong choice.
17:27 And then what?
17:29 Then...
17:31 what?
17:33 I had nothing.
17:35 Nothing but the bench I was sitting on.
17:38 So I stayed on it.
17:41 For hours.
17:42 All I had to do was watch the sun come up,
17:47 let it bleach my bones,
17:49 purify the putrid soul.
17:52 Are you kidding me?
17:53 What, you were just gonna end it?
17:55 I mean, what about life?
17:57 Like joy rides and night swimming
18:00 and marriage and cancer
18:02 and all of that till the death rattle?
18:04 I mean, we gotta carry all this shit
18:06 and you had to take it out
18:07 and you were just gonna throw it away?
18:10 You've overstepped now, boy.
18:12 Listen, no, obviously you didn't do it,
18:14 but you were given the gift
18:16 and I've been hearing you bitch the night away.
18:18 I've been hearing you bitch the night away about it.
18:20 And since you used the past tense about her,
18:23 I figured she--
18:24 She what?
18:26 Well, I could see where this is going and--
18:28 And what?
18:29 And give it to me.
18:32 I won't waste it.
18:33 I think you could use me.
18:35 I think we have an energy, you and me.
18:37 I could be your Lestat, your Claudia,
18:40 but better.
18:41 I mean, I got a little bit of both of them in me,
18:43 plus a few things they don't.
18:45 This.
18:47 All I've told you is what you asked for, boy!
18:50 Yeah, well, you don't know what human life is like.
18:52 I mean, you've forgotten, man.
18:54 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story.
18:57 [growling]
18:59 [glass shattering]
19:00 Hey, stop!
19:02 [screaming]
19:05 Suicide Hotline 101.
19:07 Don't say to the person on the other end of the line,
19:09 "Hey, why don't you cheer the fuck up?"
19:11 I overreacted.
19:12 Not sure that killing me
19:13 was a totally warranted response to my idiocy?
19:16 I took a scoop out of your throat.
19:17 I deserve to have my ass kicked.
19:19 For the sheer number of times I said, "And then what?"
19:22 All the drugs in your blood, it all went back into me.
19:24 Cornstone, prize-winning journalism.
19:27 And then what?
19:29 I, um...
19:33 Daniel.
19:38 [clears throat]
19:42 Daniel.
19:44 Yeah, uh...
19:47 [clears throat]
19:49 A hesitation.
19:53 I have a surprise for you.
19:59 Kind of a curveball,
20:00 which will seem like less of a surprise
20:02 and more like a...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.
20:20 Whether you know it or not.
20:22 You remember the last nine minutes at the end?
20:26 Betty Hutton drowning out
20:28 the indecipherable moaning and yelling?
20:32 Yes.
20:34 Well, um, my researcher assistant,
20:38 uh, 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...
20:49 listen.
20:51 [yells]
20:53 [yells]
20:55 [moaning]
20:58 Louie!
21:05 That wet thud?
21:09 That's Armand saving me.
21:12 [indistinct chatter]
21:16 What?
21:24 What?!
21:26 Morning!
21:28 I lost time.
21:30 Things got a little heated--
21:31 With a boy!
21:32 Things got heated with a boy!
21:34 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
21:40 with mop and mindlessness to clean it up.
21:42 So the room got dirty, so what?
21:44 I'll clean it up.
21:45 No, I clean it up!
21:47 You make the mess, and I clean it up.
21:49 Mark it on the calendar,
21:50 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.
21:59 Fine.
22:00 Oh, fine.
22:01 A fine that doesn't sound like fine.
22:03 But revealing our nature to a reporter!
22:05 You met in a bar ten hours ago.
22:06 What if it was published?
22:07 I was having some fun.
22:08 We don't have enough to fear for, Paris.
22:09 I was in the middle of ending things when you--
22:11 Look, you already passed out on the floor next to him, Louie.
22:15 Out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed away--
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 Down the throat.
22:27 Into the heart and off the fingers, feet,
22:29 and wallowing brain.
22:30 Dull nights, dull weeks,
22:31 dull months, dull as fuck!
22:33 Suffocation by the world's softest,
22:37 beigest pillow.
22:40 The ten hours I spent with that boy
22:44 were more exciting, more fascinating
22:48 than decades with you!
22:52 Oh, there it is.
22:58 The half-blank, half-apocalyptic look.
23:02 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 beat me!
23:29 Picking lint off the sofa?
23:31 I can feel her feelings!
23:33 It's so hard to beat me!
23:37 Everyone I know wrongs me!
23:40 Okay, okay.
23:41 Let's wake the boy up, and let's try you.
23:44 I'm the vampire Armando.
23:46 My daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch!
23:49 Oh, brother, he tossed his head above the roof.
23:52 My sister, she buried me alive!
23:55 My daughter was my sister, was my throat pillow.
23:58 When he would look at me kindly,
23:59 le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat,
24:02 le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat, le stat...
24:04 I talked shit about him the whole time!
24:06 The name!
24:09 The name!
24:10 Unuttered in our home for 23 years,
24:13 said over and over again
24:15 until it was pounding in my brain like a hammer.
24:18 Our problems aren't about him.
24:20 And you threw her name around just for cover,
24:23 but it always circled back to him.
24:25 I loved her.
24:26 But she didn't love you!
24:28 Not like he did.
24:30 Not like I have.
24:32 I know.
24:34 I know!
24:36 Yes!
24:37 I know!
24:39 Thank you for saving me.
24:41 I was creeping back in the parish.
24:45 In the, uh, what, what, what, what, what,
24:48 all over there.
24:49 Coming back.
24:51 It's, uh, parish, parish.
24:55 Can you hear that?
24:57 Can you hear that?
24:59 Can you hear her?
25:01 She's calling me.
25:03 [panting]
25:06 [door opens]
25:08 [door closes]
25:10 I think that's you running out of the room.
25:12 [door opens]
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...
25:35 Louis!
25:36 Calls your name.
25:39 He runs after you.
25:41 Metal door opens.
25:43 [door opens]
25:44 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.
25:58 You went out of the room.
26:02 Door opens.
26:05 Slams.
26:07 Steps.
26:11 Metal door.
26:13 Louis!
26:15 [door opens]
26:17 [panting]
26:25 [door closes]
26:26 [tires screech]
26:28 [groans]
26:32 [door slams]
26:33 [groans]
26:38 [groans]
26:41 [screams]
26:42 [screams]
26:45 [screams]
26:47 No, no, no, no, no!
26:50 I walked into the sun.
26:55 You remember that?
27:01 [sighs]
27:04 I'm remembering it now.
27:09 Let me ask you a really loaded question, Louis.
27:13 And then what?
27:17 My skin burnt to the color of pitch.
27:22 A char coming off me.
27:26 The pain?
27:27 Like a siren.
27:29 Like a noise in my body.
27:34 I walked out into the sun.
27:38 I think so.
27:40 Pieces of my life gone.
27:45 I knew who I was without those pieces.
27:48 Wait.
27:49 Sidestep the big picture.
27:51 Get the story straight first.
27:56 [groans]
28:03 [sniffles]
28:07 The pain.
28:10 Must be exquisite.
28:14 What happened?
28:17 You drained a drug fiend.
28:19 You said the worst things you've ever said to me.
28:22 No.
28:23 And then you ran outside.
28:24 No.
28:25 And now you're a convalescent.
28:27 I'm sorry.
28:28 [sniffles]
28:29 I'm so sorry.
28:30 What is it?
28:32 I'm sorry.
28:33 [sniffles]
28:34 Meaningless word.
28:36 Meaningless.
28:39 The floor slants slightly north.
28:42 The boy's blood flowed that way.
28:44 We should fix that before we self.
28:49 He's alive?
28:52 The boy.
28:54 The fascinating boy.
28:57 He's fine.
29:02 Don't.
29:03 He's just fine.
29:05 Don't.
29:06 He's fine.
29:07 You're fine.
29:08 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.
29:18 That's why I'm asking.
29:23 I can remember a few things.
29:25 Like...
29:28 There's someone else there.
29:29 He's fine.
29:30 [thud]
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.
29:44 I had to chase him down.
29:48 [grunts]
29:52 The floor slants slightly north.
29:54 The boy's blood flowed that way.
30:01 There's a TV in the corner near the corpse.
30:05 Some kind of sock or shoe commercial.
30:08 There's sheets of plastic tarp, some duct tape, leech.
30:14 Surely I'm next.
30:16 I'm alive.
30:20 I can see him walking out of the bedroom.
30:23 I can hear you, but I can't see you.
30:26 The door frame 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.
30:42 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.
30:56 [sniffs]
30:58 [recorder playing]
31:01 Armand!
31:05 [recorder playing]
31:07 [recorder playing]
31:11 [recorder playing]
31:18 Rest.
31:20 [recorder playing]
31:25 Curious.
31:27 Armand stands over you.
31:29 He's commandeered your body.
31:31 Rise.
31:32 [breathing heavily]
31:38 Armand.
31:40 From Polynesian Marys, I was with Louis.
31:43 I can't move...
31:45 Move your body.
31:47 Yeah.
31:48 Yeah.
31:49 [music playing]
31:53 I don't want...
31:54 To die?
31:57 On that item?
31:59 I think I know something you don't.
32:01 [music playing]
32:07 I'm told you've lived a fascinating life.
32:10 I never said that.
32:11 No, Luby did.
32:13 Leave him alone, Armand.
32:15 [thud]
32:17 [breathing heavily]
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, man.
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.
32:37 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.
32:57 [music playing]
33:01 Vera?
33:03 She's a single mother.
33:04 Works at 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 you'd arrived
33:15 at some ineffable truth?
33:17 No.
33:18 It's all bullshit.
33:19 An instinct to self-efface.
33:21 Is that what makes you fascinating?
33:23 Yes.
33:26 I'm good at getting angles, 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 [gasping]
33:38 Shh.
33:39 [thud]
33:40 [gasping]
33:42 Armand.
33:43 You're going to teach me how to be fascinating.
33:46 Leave him be, Armand.
33:48 [thud]
33:49 [gasping]
33:51 In middle school, you stole your dad's Playboy magazine,
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
34:04 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 OK, it's you who's fascinating.
34:23 You can read minds, right?
34:25 Louis thinks I'm boring.
34:27 Charlie horse is my play.
34:28 Do you find me boring?
34:29 [gasping]
34:32 [crying]
34:35 [crying]
34:39 Do you want to hear my story?
34:41 Yes.
34:42 Yes.
34:44 Yes.
34:45 My first memory, I'm being run down by slavers in Delhi.
34:56 My second--
34:57 [crying]
35:01 [crying]
35:04 An eager black hole.
35:11 Oh, God.
35:17 I'll keep digging.
35:18 But I'm not hopeful there's much more to you, Daniel,
35:25 other than a hole.
35:27 [grunting]
35:30 [screaming]
35:34 I was in Zeliznagorsk to interview
35:37 an operative for the KGB.
35:40 Halfway through, I tried to go to the bathroom.
35:42 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.
35:54 Rage is an imprecise emotion.
35:57 I'd hurt him, but I was fragile, an invalid.
36:03 Spiro Agnew.
36:06 Daniel?
36:07 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.
36:17 Federal prosecutors will soon present evidence
36:20 to a Baltimore grand jury over the vice president's
36:23 allegedly receiving illegal--
36:24 I won't say what.
36:25 Saturday.
36:26 It was Saturday, but we met on Tuesday.
36:29 So I was the house pet for, what, one, two, three more 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.
36:45 I can't.
36:46 Lunch is almost over.
36:47 Try.
36:48 I won't say what.
36:49 You fucking try.
36:50 You were there.
36:51 Go back to the chair.
36:52 You're on TV.
36:53 --Vice President Spiro T. Agnew--
36:55 His feet in the rocks shit is bullshit.
36:57 You're in the chair.
36:58 The TV is on.
37:00 Come on.
37:01 Can you come?
37:03 I can't get up.
37:04 It hurts.
37:05 Put me in the coffin.
37:07 Coffin?
37:10 Yeah, it's you.
37:11 You keep saying coffin.
37:15 My nose is bleeding?
37:18 Come on.
37:19 Can you come?
37:20 Where are you?
37:22 The pain in the back is like I'm still burning.
37:26 Come on.
37:27 Put me in the coffin.
37:30 Please.
37:31 Yes.
37:32 Thank you.
37:34 Rest.
37:35 [GRUNTING]
37:37 --and gas station owners.
37:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
37:45 [GROANING]
37:48 I listened to the tapes, all of them twice.
38:04 The start, the start.
38:06 Claudia, the start, the start.
38:10 All I talked about was trash.
38:13 Yes, you said that, but why?
38:15 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
38:24 fumbles his way to publication?
38:27 When the start strolls past a bookstore,
38:30 your book displayed in the shop window,
38:33 while he buys himself a copy, reads
38:36 your nasty embellishments, and comes chasing after you again.
38:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
38:43 If you want the insanity back, if you
38:49 wanted escape from this prison of empathy,
38:53 I've locked you away in.
38:56 All you had to do was ask, Louis.
38:58 [MUSIC PLAYING]
39:05 A final act of service I'd like to perform before I--
39:10 I leave you to yourself.
39:12 I know where he is.
39:15 I found his voice among the many.
39:22 No.
39:24 I told him I was with you.
39:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
39:32 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
39:34 Lestat.
39:36 No.
39:37 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
39:39 I told him you were thinking of him again.
39:43 Lestat.
39:44 No.
39:45 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
39:47 Yes.
39:49 I'm here.
39:51 He's waiting for you.
39:53 I'm with him now.
39:55 He cannot hear you.
39:57 He has injured himself.
39:59 Louis.
40:01 No.
40:02 This is your chance, Louis.
40:03 I am your maker's voice.
40:05 Louis.
40:08 Louis.
40:10 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
40:11 [SPEAKING FRENCH]
40:12 You wanted to say something to me.
40:18 You wanted to say something to me.
40:21 Why are you ill?
40:22 What's happened to you?
40:24 Why are you ill?
40:26 What's happened to you?
40:29 I love you, Louis.
40:31 [SOBBING]
40:33 Tell him I love him, Armand.
40:37 I love you, Louis.
40:41 Tell him, Armand.
40:44 Tell him.
40:47 Louis?
40:49 Louis.
40:51 Louis.
40:52 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
40:54 Louis.
40:55 [SOBBING]
40:57 [SOBBING]
41:02 You was my make.
41:03 It's not them all.
41:08 You left me for death.
41:09 Will I be on suicide watch for the next 1,000 years?
41:19 Have I atoned for my part of Paris?
41:26 Have I crawled an inch forward?
41:28 Or am I a reminder of the worst of it?
41:31 I'll finish cleaning up.
41:45 Rest.
41:51 Rest.
41:52 Rest.
41:53 Rest.
41:54 He said that to me, too.
42:00 Rest.
42:02 Shh.
42:04 Rest now.
42:05 A bunch of words.
42:06 But it started with rest.
42:11 Rest.
42:12 And then?
42:13 Shh.
42:19 Rest.
42:21 I've been calling to you for some time.
42:26 From every bad fix, from the unnamed malaise
42:30 you feel Sunday afternoons.
42:31 And now here I am and you can rest.
42:36 I don't want to rest.
42:41 I'm the quiet you've been longing for.
42:46 After all the garishness of life, the jostling, the clawing.
42:51 I like my life.
42:53 The dull thrum of desperation in you.
42:56 Will I get the fixes I need?
42:59 Will I be somebody?
43:01 Will I get the fixes I need to be somebody?
43:05 But Daniel, you already know who you'll be.
43:11 An ugly duplex back in Modesto.
43:15 A job in an office with drab carpets and flickering lights.
43:19 A woman in the mold of your mother, vacuuming on Valium.
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
43:40 replaced by a seething, boiling regret
43:46 until one day you're at a traffic light.
43:52 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, like honey on your tongue.
44:38 It is the comfort we all long for.
44:42 The end.
44:44 Rest.
44:47 Rest.
44:51 Come.
44:53 Come.
44:54 I want you.
44:56 You rest now.
44:58 ♪♪
45:09 Stop.
45:10 I'm off.
45:12 ♪♪
45:18 I'm cleaning up the mess.
45:20 Doesn't need cleaning.
45:22 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,
45:35 of its endurance.
45:41 This boy, to live out the night.
45:49 Are you asking, maître?
45:52 No, Arun.
45:55 I'm not asking.
45:58 ♪♪
46:05 [Grunting]
46:10 [Grunting]
46:13 [Breathing heavily]
46:16 [Breathing heavily]
46:20 ♪♪
46:30 ♪♪
46:38 Daniel?
46:40 ♪♪
46:53 Page 484.
46:56 Listen as though I'm the voice of God
46:59 or an angel talking to you,
47:01 telling you this room doesn't matter,
47:04 this night doesn't matter.
47:06 You're not inconsequential or a junkie.
47:10 You're a bright, young reporter with a point of view.
47:14 There are stories that need to be told.
47:17 If things ever get bad again,
47:19 these are the words you'll hear in your mind
47:22 like a tape playing over and over,
47:24 like a song stuck in your brain.
47:27 These words will hold you up and carry you.
47:33 They are your lifeline.
47:36 ♪♪
47:41 [Gunshot]
47:43 That's a freebaser I befriended for a few days at the drug den.
47:48 ♪♪
47:51 He told me to get my shit together,
47:53 and then he Richard Pryor'd right in front of me.
47:56 Everyone scrambled, but I stuck around, watched him burn.
48:00 What always confused me was that...
48:03 ♪♪
48:07 Y-You know, he-he said those words to me,
48:12 and he was already all burnt up.
48:15 I figured I'd conflated the two events.
48:19 But I didn't.
48:21 ♪♪
48:23 Because it was you.
48:25 ♪♪
48:34 I destroyed two marriages.
48:38 I fucked up two daughters.
48:43 But I stayed a journalist.
48:46 I...
48:49 I was never so lost I couldn't hold down a job.
48:53 [Chuckles]
48:55 ♪♪
48:59 We, I-I think, gave you more drugs,
49:04 distorted it all in your mind.
49:06 You woke up in a drug den.
49:07 Fed you a truncated version.
49:09 He bit you.
49:10 He bit me.
49:11 You blacked out.
49:12 I blacked out.
49:14 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.
49:23 Armand fogged my brain.
49:25 He bit you.
49:26 Redacted himself,
49:27 which accounts for why I didn't remember.
49:29 Yes.
49:31 And what accounts for why you didn't?
49:34 I was disfigured.
49:36 I was in pain.
49:37 But you remember right up until when you bit me,
49:40 and I remember right up until when you bit me.
49:43 ♪♪
49:45 And then both our memories cut out.
49:48 Same precise edit on two brains.
49:52 ♪♪
49:57 [Door opens]
49:59 [Door closes]
50:02 [Footsteps approach]
50:05 How was your lunch?
50:07 Entertaining.
50:09 He made it all the way to Burj Khalifa.
50:12 How was Paris?
50:14 We paused Paris,
50:15 reminisced about San Francisco.
50:18 And?
50:19 What started with Daniel.
50:21 He asked why you saved him in 1973.
50:25 Hmm.
50:28 I could see you were partial to him.
50:31 I preserve your happiness even when you don't or can't.
50:35 I had a hunch...
50:36 Very much.
50:37 ...Daniel might prove fruitful in later times.
50:41 ♪♪
50:47 ♪♪
50:51 ♪♪
50:55 ♪♪
50:58 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 You 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.
51:17 ♪♪
51:19 Are you ready?
51:21 ♪♪
51:24 ♪♪
51:30 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
51:41 if she had a paper bag... Daniel.
51:43 ...over her head.
51:44 She agreed, and you did it, Ian.
51:46 Daniel.
51:48 What's in the bag?
51:50 In season 1, we saw the... Hello.
51:52 ...original meeting in the bar... Hi.
51:54 ...of young Malloy and Louis in San Francisco.
51:57 Would you like to join us?
51:58 With Armand there lurking in the background.
52:01 No.
52:02 You go ahead. Have your fun.
52:04 And now we're back with that same trio.
52:08 Louis and Malloy have returned to the apartment in San Francisco,
52:11 and...
52:12 I like what you've done with the place.
52:15 ...we see this interview play out.
52:17 Are you a real estate mogul?
52:20 Own a lot of things.
52:22 ♪♪
52:24 Recreating 1973 was a lot of fun.
52:27 Those of us who know something about that era
52:29 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?
52:40 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.
53:12 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?
53:23 It was really fun to revisit that dynamic
53:26 with the younger Daniel.
53:27 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."
54:02 [indistinct chatter]
54:04 I'm a vampire.
54:05 Okay. I mean, I'm really interested to know
54:09 why you believe that.
54:12 [panting]
54:15 Even in the first meet in '73,
54:17 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.
54:27 First question.
54:29 You weren't always a vampire, were you?
54:32 We have these two guys in Dubai
54:35 who, with the help of the Talamaska,
54:37 they start trying to piece together what happened.
54:41 Where--oh, fuck.
54:43 You don't know what human life is like!
54:46 I mean, you've forgotten, man!
54:47 I mean, you don't understand the meaning of your own story!
54:51 [grunts]
54:52 It's intense. It's intense for me.
54:55 Having watched it,
54:56 it then informs everything that I am doing in later scenes.
55:01 I have a surprise for you.
55:02 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]
55:15 That's Armand saving me.
55:17 The relationship between Armand and Louis
55:20 was very up and down.
55:22 Louis, as much as he wants to say
55:24 that this relationship cured him of his malaise...
55:27 The 10 hours I spent with that boy
55:31 were more exciting, more fascinating
55:36 than decades with you!
55:38 ...clearly has all kinds of problems.
55:41 Many of the same issues he had when he was with Lestat
55:45 have resurfaced.
55:46 Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat...
55:48 Armand is always conniving.
55:50 He's always working,
55:52 and I think that's also the tragedy of him,
55:54 is that he can't ever relax with the truth.
55:58 [breathing heavily]
56:00 I'm remembering it now.
56:02 It's kind of the biggest betrayal, isn't it?
56:04 When you choose to spend your life with somebody,
56:07 you accept each other.
56:08 I can't think of a bigger betrayal
56:10 than lying to that person
56:12 in such a significant way
56:13 to the extent where you would rewrite their history.
56:17 Rest.
56:18 Rest.
56:20 He said that to me, too.
56:22 It makes me angry now.
56:24 Armand is so wrong for that.
56:26 Don't.
56:27 He's just fine.
56:29 Don't!
56:30 Oh, he's fine.
56:32 You're fine.
56:33 This is fine.
56:34 We're all fine.
56:37 [grunting]
56:39 Stop, Armand.
56:43 We both discover the depths of duplicity
56:47 that Armand has gone to
56:50 and what he's done to each of us.
56:53 [sobbing]
56:55 Up to this point, the Malloy-Louis dynamic is adversarial.
56:59 It is really this kind of amazing moment of connection
57:06 between the two of them.
57:07 Like a song stuck in your brain,
57:10 these words will hold you up and carry you.
57:14 Jacob has said it.
57:15 Louis doesn't have any friends.
57:17 They are your lifeline.
57:18 And Daniel doesn't have any friends.
57:21 [laughs]
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.
57:31 [door closes]
57:33 (gentle music)
57:36 [MUSIC]