Interview with the Vampire - Season 2 Episode 7
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00:00I was being hunted and I was completely unaware it was happening come to me I need a not to
00:28Thousand nights of sulking and the first sight of her you're just gonna
00:42No vampire must commit to writing the history of the vampires you want a companion I get to pick one thing and it's her
00:49She swore an oath trampled on the laws and I am to reward her for it
00:53You broke with the coffee they gave him a choice he chose
01:00The premeditated murders of a vampirist Antoinette Brown and the vampire the stats do Leon core
01:22You
01:24You
01:50Session 15 Louis de Pontelac the child vampire
01:54Claudia and her companion Madeline are
02:03Anyone want to start
02:09Abducted
02:16Harman sold you out talking now
02:21Sorry go ahead
02:24I
02:31I'm clawing
02:32Trying to bite anything that moved outside the sack
02:36Straining for any sound of her any sign. She was alive
02:55I heard when the rats found her I
03:04Could not go to her I
03:07Could not help
03:11Finally the premeditated murders of the vampirist Antoinette Brown and the vampire
03:19stat didn't be on call I
03:21I
03:23Fell in and out of consciousness
03:30Sacks come off your characters in a play props
03:35Props in a play a play that's been fully designed and rehearsed
03:42And every actor on stage has scripted lines except for us
03:47If the prosecution's evidence convinces you and if we attempted to speak our unwritten parts
03:56The cover members sitting behind us would use their collective powers to disorient our minds our
04:04hearing a vice handle turning
04:07jaws compressing
04:16Dear
04:17We've no need to hear from you. We have your words here in
04:24all that chilling
04:26premeditation
04:29November the 23rd 1939 I
04:33Shall be your angel of death
04:36the stand
04:37You go on planning quote our future together end quote. Well, I have already planned yours
04:45Not much time left Lestat tick-tock
04:58Pass it around she had us
05:01Oh
05:12They crippled you ankle tendons slashed to the bone wounds that would not heal before the curtain fell
05:20set dressing
05:21nailed to the floor
05:24And when the fight went out of Claudia a
05:27A growing sense of nausea took over me. I could feel a presence in the theater
05:37The tremor in the air a
05:41Familiar scent
05:44The audience was leering and feral we were on trial for murder
05:51And all I could think was
05:54Witness ladies and gentlemen of the jury he's coming the victim
06:00Monsieur Lestat de Leon core
06:23I
06:31Prefer the old place. Yeah, it's a grubby a little century, isn't it?
06:45a
06:46Very special book for you to swear upon Monsieur de Leon core
06:51Written by the vampire Claudia in which your last words are recorded in your own blood. I
07:03Swear in my own blood
07:09Monsieur de Leon core you've returned to Paris because I have a box at all in Carlos for the men's doubles
07:16I'm gonna join the Australians if they win
07:20Anacrock madam, but possibly
07:25And justice for the attempted murder of my beer
07:38It's their turn to hurt
07:42He was back in the flesh it had all the hallmarks of a hallucination
07:48Hallucination
07:50Lestat
07:51At last come to kill us, but no he was real
07:56So your new boyfriend sold you out to your old boyfriend. All right
08:01I sold him out and then he put you on a show trial. Yes in front of a live human audience
08:06That's right. Let me guess the star witnesses testimony was scrupulously impartial
08:12Take us back to the beginning if you will of this story of butcher. It's a story of love
08:18Not butcher
08:20What?
08:21It's a story of love wrong
08:34Love
08:36He's always been difficult for me
08:40My first paramour
08:42Nicola de la phone a
08:45Violinist belonged to this very theater troupe. Hmm briefly. Yes
08:50fragile mind prone to corruption
08:55Heartbreakingly beautiful boy
08:57of immense talent
09:00Nicky went insane
09:03Died by his own hand. Oh
09:07With a little help from others
09:10I followed Lestat's gaze and saw Armand in one of the boxes
09:16It stopped my heart until I saw the vampire Sam standing next to him blocking his exit
09:24He was as much of a captive as we were
09:29You were forced to watch a painfully close view of the stage or what
09:35Or
09:38They'd kill me it was a part of his punishment just a clarification for the readers
09:43To save your own life Armand you've screwed over Louie
09:47Claudia and Madeline and then you sat in the best seat in the house
09:52Watching the consequences of you screwing them over. He had a lot to account for
09:57but he spent the whole performance calculating a way to save me an
10:02Unfathomable sadness seeped into me with Nicky's death. I
10:07Buried myself in the dirt put new ye in the outskirts of Paris and I lay there
10:14For a hundred years
10:16Napoleon marched his drinks cabinet across Europe while I mourn
10:22Only sounds I heard with a
10:25weed roots growing around me
10:28My only sustenance the ancient blood already inside me you awoke in
10:341908 but even a century underground could not obliterate the pain of Nikolai's death. I
10:40Did what many I've done when too many ghosts haunt the old world you left with a new one
10:44Bob the Atlantic in search of America's star-spangled shores
10:52Disembarked for New Orleans
10:54the humidified daughter of Perry
10:57and
10:59Who?
11:01Did you meet them? Let's see early on call
11:23Louie de point de la
11:28Let
11:30The court record show that the victim pointed to the accused I didn't point I merely glanced his way
11:37You'd be precise in your declarations advocate
11:41I'm about to violate the fifth. Keep calm carry on I
11:48First saw Louie in a street brawl the accused
11:52Was a troubled man a failed sugar farmer a brothel keeper
11:57Forced in the corners by his race
12:00alienated from his own desires
12:03American puritanism mangling his very soul
12:06disreputable cold
12:08violent
12:10Louie first accosted me in a pleasure house and then everywhere I went as if
12:16By a happy accident there was Louie
12:20Offering to be my chaperone
12:23His eyes sliding down me
12:28I
12:31Vampire
12:33Was being hunted with every breath
12:37every heartbeat
12:39every sidelong glance
12:42Louie was saying come to me come to me. Those are his words
12:58Oh
13:11How do you know that it was not your own voice Louie
13:17Speaking your own unspeakable desires
13:22Screaming them in the darkness in the hopes that I would come to you
13:28mmm
13:40Let's start
13:43It's your line
13:45Let's start and I thought the outbreak of Nikki and after
13:53The heartbreak that was Nikki
13:56To feel such hunger again
14:00The accused called to you from within a church where he was confessing his sins to a priest
14:09I
14:10Destroyed that priest and another right in front of him. Yes
14:14You put your fist through his skull showed him what enormous power you possessed. I offered Louie myself
14:22instead
14:25What I am
14:29My companionship
14:33And a mortal life and I offered it to him in the church
14:41On the altar and with the two dead priests in his purview
14:47The accused raised up his hands and took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance
14:54acceptance
14:56Yes
15:02Did you say something
15:07Men embracing men it disgusts you
15:13I'm pretty sure it disgusts a whole lot of people. Oh
15:16Oh
15:23Your foot at best done
15:25You vomited into your fuck so often but what you didn't do a corporal Donny Jaffin is fire your M1 Garand rifle a single time
15:32Germans overran your line and three days later you ran off into the Belgian first
15:37During which time your friend who you share a matching tattoo with private Ernest Hughes arm was shot off
15:43You tried to desert but you couldn't read your map and eventually you stumbled back to your line and claimed you'd been lost in the fog
15:52There are 14 men who served their countries honorably in attendance with us this afternoon
15:57They may like yourself be disgusted by the transcendent love between two vampires of the same sex, but I wonder
16:08Where lies their disgust now
16:14Continue
16:21Louie didn't take two bumpers. It's Louie
16:27The accused didn't take to vampirism crippled by qualms he drank only from animals
16:40He didn't want to eat people
16:43It's all you
16:49Louie was fixated on the loss of his humanity
16:54He's a strange family
16:56he in Tunisian politics of his
16:59food
17:00He not only rejected vampirism. He also rejected you Louie was deceptively agile with words a
17:09a trenchant form of verbal amusement
17:15There was a night when he told me I'd be alone forever
17:20an awful night a word of context for our jury
17:25The single worst thing that a vampire can feel is loneliness
17:31Human loneliness magnified by millennia by the never-ending road
17:39Do they not know this how could they
17:49Take my hand
17:55This is all
17:58This is vampire loneliness you want to crawl up and die, don't you?
18:09I know
18:11There was a night
18:13When one of Louie's infrequent kills upturned the city
18:17And he threatened me
18:21With his loneliness
18:26Shame on you. You abandoned me in autonomous. I didn't know if he was ever gonna come back
18:34I was engulfed with his loneliness. I closed my eyes and waited for the fire to take me
18:40I just prayed it wouldn't hurt too bad
18:43That's when the black angel came
18:48But he came back he did
18:52With her
18:55Gave me no say maybe more of a vampire than anyone up here a child
19:01Calling a transformation we accept
19:06By Louie to sue the relentless questioning
19:15I told Louie
19:1814 forever
19:20Should be a cripple
19:23The start stood on that stage took all the familiar pieces of Louie's life defiled them
19:30Bent them into a Lestat shaped effigy, but some
19:34Some of it now
19:37What I
19:39Remember
19:41Being out of my body at the time. I was in Paris
19:48but also in New Orleans
19:52Lestat took me there 14 forever. She'd be a cripple
20:00What do we do nothing we do nothing she's dying cuz of me they lit her building on fire cuz of me
20:05They leave whatever fire you're talking about with their own free will you do not know this girl
20:10Make her like us
20:13Please I can't have a die the gift cannot be given to children
20:17The great laws forbid it great law. She's gonna die in front of us. I bet he was in a terrible panic
20:24guilt had seized reason
20:27I'm glad you're on the ledge of death. Do you know he can do it and somebody wants a lapdog?
20:40Daughter
20:44I'll stay I'll stay I'll never leave you ever again
20:53For you
20:56There was a light in his eyes
21:00The light I'd not seen for years
21:04But I resisted because I knew the wisdom of the great laws
21:11Because I knew pain and anxiety would be her only birthright
21:17It
21:19To what so she will be at war with herself
21:23She's of an age where emotions will soar and plummets
21:28Mountains and valleys every day of her life. I don't care. You must care
21:33Her mind and her spirits will age but the world will treat her as she is now
21:39And she will be miserable and you will love her and it will spiral beyond your reach
21:46And
21:50You have to drain her friends Louie asked if I was an angel me
22:03It's not how it happened
22:06You
22:14It is how it happened I didn't think it at the time
22:26Look at
22:28Beautiful little dog
22:31Please I'll do anything
22:34Please I'll be anything
22:50You will regret this for the rest of your life
23:04I made her for Louie. She is my blood. I
23:09broke the second law
23:11when you sentenced them for their crimes you sentenced me to
23:15but you
23:18Manipulated
23:26How Claudia was made
23:33Needed tell me what you would be
23:40Now
23:42Play down my role in it
23:48You should go with the starts version for the book I think
23:54I'm sorry
23:5774 years have provided up
24:00Unwelcome clarity
24:04Claudia was an unforeseen joy a
24:08Formidable fledgling a consummate killer a congenial companion
24:15We were a happy trio
24:18Louie coddled her and I gifted her a predator's upbringing but lunch is served
24:24The Claudia's defect caught up with her
24:29Claudia's moods worsened she harmed herself in the Sun for attention and followed that with a killing spree
24:37Corpses clogging the by you a potion for human souvenirs. She put yours and Louie's
24:43Anonymity at risk then she ran away
24:46the vampirist
24:48taught in the wind for seven years
24:51and Louie
24:54Louie
24:57He blamed himself
25:00And he folded in this
25:06Your companion no longer wishes to share his body with you
25:11if
25:13Every word
25:15Coming out of his mouth is vitriol or disinterest
25:21For seven years
25:26You don't want to
25:30You
25:33Still hope that
25:35He'll emerge out of his melancholy
25:38That he'll love you
25:42Like you love him
25:48What do you do
25:51What do you do
25:56Do you find affection elsewhere
26:00And when it brown
26:03later the vampire Antoinette
26:07Seven long years and then Claudia
26:12return
26:14Before her traveled bag had hit the floor
26:16Claudia assessed the fragility of our Union
26:22She's an artful predator I can say that now
26:30I see the best of my vampiric self in her
26:34She looked at me and then she turned to Louie and said abandon the start
26:43Come with me to Europe
26:45And
26:56He was hers again and you and Louie fought well at first we just slammed each other around our townhouse
27:09Seven years of
27:12Compromise
27:19Denial
27:24It all gave way
27:41I
27:45Def
27:53Stay back Claudia. It's all good
27:59You're leaving with her
28:01No, it's okay. It's okay. We're done. It's over stay where you are. Okay?
28:12You
28:16Gonna leave me
28:21I'm gonna take this hand here
28:24Wrap it around this corny neck of yours
28:27Just like you did our daughter
28:29I'm gonna stop
28:31until your eyes pop
28:34Now I'm gonna find a big old butcher knife and chop your head off
28:40I'm gonna walk that head all the way to Audubon Park. I'm gonna feed it to fucking
28:48I
29:08Burdened with my maker's temper
29:12No
29:14You you were teased until you toppled he tried to kill him Oh
29:22You used your cloud gift you flew the accused high up into the air and you let him fall two kilometers
29:30Approximately. Yes. I know. I know I know it's a lethal distance for a mortal for a vampire
29:36It's a hard fall
29:38nothing more
29:39Lestat has within his veins a most ancient blood a godlike strength
29:47Remember, he put his fist through a priest's skull. Did you do that to the accused?
29:53No, you did not
29:55Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I ask you to set aside your mortal biases and remember that we are
30:03Monsters and to us monsters. What's a bite between paramours?
30:10You
30:13Knew Louie would be fine
30:23And he was fine, that's that
30:27Yes
30:29You knew he would be fine and he was fine. No
30:36He wasn't fine
30:40I let go of him
30:45It wasn't him
30:50I
30:53Wasn't a
30:58Misunderstanding it wasn't an accident I
31:02Let go of him I
31:12Watched him
31:16Clutch the air I
31:19I
31:21Saw him
31:24Swinging wild as he fell through the clouds
31:29The projections went off sync
31:31The start went off script again. How do you know it wasn't part of the show?
31:37Sam was cursing to himself beside me
31:41Read for yourself
31:43There was no script English start
31:45You cannot script a hurricane
31:48I did it to hurt him and it did hurt him
31:59And afterwards he was a broken thing I
32:04Know I saw because I am the one who broke him
32:18I
32:21Couldn't
32:24Persuade
32:27Him to return my affections I
32:33Couldn't force him to love me and so I broke him
32:39I
32:47What is worse than that crushing what you cannot know I
32:59Heard the one
33:02I heard the only one doing it again hurting you again
33:14I thought of this often in the coffin
33:18Did you have to get it and I've thought of this in the years
33:32I
33:35Will always be sorry for what I did to you
33:39If it's true, it's too fucking late. I was not worthy of the forgiveness you would give me
34:02I
34:03Continue
34:05Okay, nice apology from the heart and not the page
34:13Did it move you crossed an ocean because he wanted us dead and then
34:22Something real
34:25This is the start
34:27What he does
34:29Over and over until you're left with no sense of what is or what is not
34:34Didn't work on me anymore. I
34:37Wasn't thinking about Lestat's
34:39Sincerity I was thinking about how I was going to die
34:45But but but
34:49It moved Claudia
34:52Right up on her feet good
35:00Real pretty
35:02You dropped him like an egg from an airplane
35:07He's fine. Now you apologize all is forgiven
35:15We poisoned him
35:17He's not dead he's standing right here in front of us
35:28There's working for you Lestat
35:34Claudia stop is your big revenge
35:47I
35:53Don't know why I bother
35:56You didn't come here for me
36:00One more round in the stormy romance of yes
36:09Never been about me. I
36:11I was just a roof shingle that flew off of your house
36:27Are we on trial
36:32It's not a trial it's a stoning
36:36A
36:39Stoning
36:42Took the air out of the place with that one
36:45Got a lot less fun real quick
36:49But they had their Technicolor film
36:51Twan fam's wizardry with it and
36:54They had Lestat back in the chair
36:56fully recovered from his apology back on mission
37:01Delivering his lines picking up his cues hypnotizing the mortals back around with the potboiler in New Orleans
37:08the father
37:09duped by his ungrateful and diabolical children
37:15The father ridiculed and humiliated in his final minutes
37:21The mistress
37:23Extinguished in the courtyard oven and the mortals didn't blink they followed the pocket watch back and forth
37:30until Santiago and Lestat had been
37:36Piranhas looking up through the tank water waiting for the chum to be dumped
37:42They had uncovered our crimes there in Paris and sent a signal flare to America
37:50Waking the victim from his state of repose
37:56She had confessed I couldn't move
38:01The stock would have his vengeance
38:26This is hard
38:30The
38:37Sentencing
38:40For the heretical desecration of the first third fourth and fifth of the great laws what say you for the vampire Claudia
38:48Are you not the horse a mile ahead of the cart madam
38:53The vampire Madeline. What is her cry? Oh, she's just a bastard fledgling
38:58Made without the knowledge or consent of the coven master
39:04Which is
39:06now me
39:08Yet she is oblivious to the crimes committed by her maker
39:12It is only fair that she be offered the same choice as any vampire
39:16This is true and fair in accordance with vampiric law. May she not join the coven and become one with us
39:23Hmm she must join or die
39:31Points for enthusiasm, but it is true and fair Madeline a party a heist
39:39The choice is yours will you renounce the accused you sit with and join our coven?
39:53I
40:01Love empire Madeline a party
40:08And my immortal companion is Claudia my coven is Claudia
40:14My
40:20Vampire heart quiver the martyr skips her way to hell
40:25indeed
40:26For the heretical desecration of the first of the great laws what say you for the vampire Madeline a party a
40:34guilty or not guilty
40:36And
40:41There being only one sentence applicable that being death, what is your sentence?
40:52The vampire Claudia rise
40:59For the heretical desecration of the first third and fourth and the murder of the vampire
41:04Antoinette Brown and the attempted murder of her maker the vampire Monsieur Lestat de Lyon calls
41:10What say you for the vampire Claudia?
41:13guilty or not guilty
41:17And the sentence
41:21May I ask the court for a final request
41:25No later
41:34Man in the balcony
41:36We're in the hi-hat. Would you kindly remove it?
41:39Sir, would grant the condemned her last request
41:46Thank you, I
41:51Now know all your faces
41:56If there is an afterlife
42:00I'm gonna come back and fucking kill all of you
42:05and
42:09If there isn't an afterlife, I'm still gonna find a way
42:18Bailiff
42:28For the heretical desecration of the great laws
42:33One two and four and the murder of the vampire Antoinette Brown and the attempted murder of his maker the vampire
42:41Monsieur Lestat de Lyon core. What say you?
42:45for the vampire
42:47Louis the point do lack
42:51guilty
42:53Not guilty
43:03And the sentence
43:33You
43:40That's it banishment
43:56He saved you it took all my strength
44:00You
44:02Saved Louie yes, but not her I
44:10Could not prevent it I
44:16Could not prevent
44:21Is not an applicable punishment
44:30No, oh
44:33But you mortals are bastards
44:36Aren't you arguably a sentence worse than death? All right, have it your way
44:45Send him to Belgium
44:52Take him downstairs
45:00I
45:13Am gonna guess that they didn't drive you to the Belgian border
45:30I fought back
45:34Much fight left in me
45:37They took me to their
45:40Their crypt
45:45Shoved me in a coffin
45:48Filled the coffin
45:51With rocks so I couldn't move
45:59I
46:09Vanished to a two-by-seven-foot box
46:16To starve to death
46:19And join the damned it came before me
46:24And while that's going on she's upstairs on stage
46:30I asked him I wasn't there
46:36Okay
46:40You were there
46:43And now for your viewing pleasure the lip of the stage
46:48Arms around each other defiant scared whispering last words to one another
46:56Does anybody have the time
47:00Oh dear way past our bedtime
47:07What you're about to see
47:10Is fake
47:12Remember that when you leave here today
47:15You are all I tried to hear what Claudia was saying to Madeline, but my mind was with Louie
47:23What must be happening to him backstage and I despise you for it
47:30And
47:33Before Santiago pulled the blackout curtain hiding the perfectly mounted observatory lens
47:38For the perfectly timed Sun in the sky above the theater
47:43Oh
47:55Good smile
47:59And started singing to her execution
48:01Oh
48:12Claudia gave the audience her back
48:32And
48:37You can tell from the look on the stars face the last thing she saw on earth
49:01I
49:25Was dead but my rage
49:31Had risen
49:34There was 13 of them
49:39Tell you what we did with our ashes I died to you
49:45I've come to kill you
49:48You
49:56Episode 7 I could not prevent it refers to the death of Claudia and Madeline and it's unexpected and what's revealed
50:05Is definitely not expected
50:10It's a fake setup
50:12It's presented as though it's an actual trial with the audience in the theater as the final jury
50:19Fell in and out of consciousness
50:22Sacks come off your characters in a play props in a play. I could feel a presence
50:29In the theater. This is something that the audience and all of us frankly shooting the show had been waiting for for the whole season
50:37Monsieur Lestat de Leon call
50:40Let's start walking on stage is probably the most complex moment for Louie
50:46There's a reason why the start appears as his subconscious. There's a comfort that he finds in him
50:52But to actually see him in the flesh
50:54I think there's a mix of but he doesn't know if he's really there and I think it's like fear
50:59excitement fury and a bit of relief
51:05It's a big deal for Louie and Lestat to see each other again
51:08It's their turn to hurt for us Jacob and myself. It was a lot to do with what's their connection?
51:14Even when they're not looking at each other
51:17Love he's always been difficult for me
51:20But I think as soon as he looks at Louie, and as soon as Louie looks at him, I think he knows
51:25It's it's all over the accused raised up his hands and took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance
51:35Lestat has now lost himself in the memory
51:39And then there's this homophobic comment, which snaps him out of it
51:43Where lies their disgust?
51:45It's just another element that pushes him further and further into catastrophe
51:52I hurt the one
51:54I hurt the only one
51:56I'm doing it again
51:58Hurting you again
52:01So today we have a five-and-a-half six-page scene
52:04Which is the climax of the trial in which we find out whether Claudia
52:10Madeline and Louie are condemned to death by the Paris Coven
52:14Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I ask you to set aside your mortal biases and remember that we are
52:21monsters
52:23Claudia's always been a defiant character
52:26Good
52:28And so we wanted to give her that if she's gonna die in this way
52:32In front of a live audience born to death on stage
52:35We wanted to give her some moments of defiance before she goes out
52:38You dropped him like an egg from an airplane
52:42For Claudia, in the beginning it's terror and then it's just straight anger from then on
52:46Anger at Louie, anger at Lestat, anger at Santiago
52:49We poisoned him
52:50I confess I did
52:52Anger at Louie, anger at Lestat, anger at Santiago
52:55We poisoned him
52:56I confess I did
52:57He's not dead
52:58He's standing right here in front of us
53:01Can I cry and say that I'm sorry to him?
53:04Madeline is out of it and not really aware of what's happening
53:09Are we on trial?
53:11Claudia's all too aware and still so defiant
53:15It's not a trial
53:17It's a stoning
53:18She never begs, she never gives any ground
53:21She knows that she's right
53:23Madeline Epivier-Heitz!
53:26Will you renounce the accused you sit with and join our coven?
53:32Madeline picks Claudia
53:33And that is all Claudia's ever needed to hear is to be put first
53:37So in that moment it's acceptance of her circumstance
53:40And my mortal companion is Claudia
53:43My coven is Claudia
53:45What say you for the vampire Claudia?
53:48Guilty or not guilty?
53:51Guilty!
53:52Even till her death, she's a fighter
53:55May I ask the court for a final request?
53:57One thing about Claudia that I really love is she will always give it her all
54:01I now know all your faces
54:03And you'll always get her all
54:05If there is an afterlife, I'm gonna come back and f***ing kill all of you
54:12For Claudia it's a promise, it's not a threat, it's a promise
54:15She has Lestat's blood
54:17If they do anything, it's come back with a vengeance
54:37You saved Louis
54:39Yes
54:40But not her
54:41I could not prevent it
54:44Claudia's death represents Louis' last connection to this world
54:51This is hard
54:52This is a striking and painful episode
54:59When Claudia protects Madeline in that moment, it's out of sheer love
55:03Louis feels deeply responsible for her
55:06It is his biggest regret that he couldn't save her
55:10It's the thing that's haunted everyone
55:13The fact he couldn't protect her, he couldn't keep her alive
55:16But like a big part of Louis' acceptance of the gift and of his nature
55:22Is knowing that Claudia really did embrace him
55:26She was a brilliant vampire