Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 7

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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episode 7
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01:05They gave him a choice. He chose.
01:08The jury may be seated.
01:11The premeditated murders of the vampiress Antoinette Brown and the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.
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02:05Claudia and her companion Madeline are...
02:14Anyone want to start?
02:19Abducted.
02:21Overwhelmed.
02:23Outnumbered.
02:27Armand sold you out.
02:28I'm talking now.
02:31Sorry.
02:33Go ahead.
02:41I'm Coy.
02:43Trying to bite anything that moved outside the sack.
02:47Straining for any sound of her.
02:49Any sign she was alive.
02:53Claudia!
02:54Kill the dog.
02:55I have some cake.
02:56Don't make me cry.
02:57Kill the dog.
03:00Claudia!
03:04I heard when the rats found her.
03:14I could not go to her.
03:17I could not help her.
03:20And finally, the premeditated murders of the vampiress Antoinette Brown and the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.
03:34I fell in and out of consciousness.
03:41Sacks come off, your character's in a play.
03:43Props.
03:46Props in a play.
03:48A play that's been fully designed and rehearsed.
03:52And every actor on stage has scripted lines except for us.
03:58If the prosecution's evidence convinces you...
04:01And if we attempted to speak our unwritten parts...
04:05We didn't know any laws!
04:07The cover members sitting behind us would use their collective powers to disorient our minds.
04:13Our hearing, a vice handle turning.
04:17Jaws compressing the skull.
04:20They were both trying to kill us!
04:23Dear, dear, dear.
04:26We've no need to hear from you.
04:28We have your words here.
04:32In all that chilling premeditation.
04:38November the 23rd, 1939.
04:41I shall be your angel of death, Lestat.
04:45You go on planning, quote, our future together, end quote.
04:50Well, I have already planned yours.
04:54Not much time left, Lestat.
04:58Tick tock, tick tock.
05:01I know she was your favorite, but give it a read.
05:07Pass it around.
05:09She had us all fooled.
05:14You must stay silent and must stay seated.
05:19They crippled you.
05:20Ankle tendons slashed to the bone.
05:23Wounds that would not heal before the curtain fell.
05:27Set dressing nailed to the floor.
05:31And when the fight went out of Claudia...
05:35A growing sense of nausea took over me.
05:39I could feel a presence in the theater.
05:44A tremor in the air.
05:48A familiar scent.
05:51The audience was leering and feral.
05:54We were on trial for murder.
05:58And all I could think was...
06:01Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
06:04He's coming.
06:06The victim.
06:08Monsieur Lestat de Liancourt.
06:37I prefer the old place.
06:41Yeah.
06:43It's a grubby little century, isn't it?
06:53A very special book for you to swear upon, Monsieur de Liancourt.
06:59Written by the vampire Claudia,
07:01in which your last words are recorded in your own blood.
07:10I swear in my own blood.
07:16Monsieur de Liancourt, you've returned to Paris because?
07:21I have a box at Roland Garros for the men's doubles.
07:23I'm going to train the Australians if they win.
07:27And a croque madame...
07:33And justice for the attempted murder of my being.
07:44It's their turn to hurt.
07:49He was back.
07:51In the flesh.
07:53He was back.
07:55In the flesh.
07:57It had all the hallmarks of a hallucination.
08:00Lestat, at last, come to kill us.
08:04But no, he was real.
08:07So your new boyfriend sold you out to your old boyfriend.
08:11Okay, all right, I sold him out.
08:12And then he put you on a show trial...
08:14Yes.
08:15In front of a live human audience.
08:17That's right.
08:18Let me guess.
08:19The star witness's testimony was scrupulously impartial.
08:22Take us back to the beginning, if you will, of this story of butchery.
08:27It's a story of love, not butchery.
08:30Well, it's a story of love...
08:35Wrong.
08:44Love.
08:47It's always been difficult for me.
08:50My first paramour, Nicolas Delavant, a violinist...
08:55Belonged to this very theatre troupe.
08:58Briefly, yes.
09:00Fragile mind, prone to corruption.
09:04Heartbreakingly beautiful boy.
09:07Of immense talent.
09:09Nicky went insane.
09:12He died by his own hand.
09:14Oh.
09:15Oh.
09:17With a little help from others.
09:21I followed Lestat's gaze and saw Armand in one of the boxes.
09:27It stopped my heart.
09:29Until I saw the vampire Sam standing next to him, blocking his exit.
09:35He was as much of a captive as we were.
09:39You were forced to watch.
09:42A painfully close view of the stage.
09:45Or what?
09:48Or they'd kill me.
09:49It was a part of his punishment.
09:51Just a clarification for the readers.
09:53To save your own life, Armand, you screwed over Louis, Claudia and Madeline.
09:59And then you sat in the best seat in the house, watching the consequences of you screwing them over.
10:05He had a lot to account for.
10:08But he spent the whole performance calculating a way to save me.
10:11An unfathomable sadness seeped into me with Nicky's death.
10:17I buried myself in the dirt, Porte Nuyi, in the outskirts of Paris.
10:21And I lay there for a hundred years.
10:26Napoleon marched his drinks cabinet across Europe while I mourned.
10:32The only sounds I heard were the weed roots growing around me.
10:37My only sustenance, the ancient blood already inside me.
10:41You awoke in 1908.
10:43But even a century underground could not obliterate the pain of Nicolas' death.
10:48I did what many have done when too many ghosts haunt the old world.
10:51You left with a new one.
10:52Bobbed the Atlantic in search of America's star-spangled shores.
10:59I disembarked for New Orleans.
11:02I disembarked for New Orleans.
11:05The humidified daughter of Paris.
11:08And who did you meet there, Monsieur de Liancourt?
11:33Louis de Pointelard.
11:40Let the court record show that the victim pointed to the accused.
11:44I didn't point. I merely glanced his way.
11:47You'd be precise in your declarations, Advocate.
11:51I'm about to violate the Fifth.
11:53Keep calm. Carry on.
11:58I first saw Louis in a street brawl.
12:01The accused was a troubled man.
12:04A failed sugar farmer. A brothel keeper.
12:07Forced into corners by his race.
12:10Alienated from his own desires.
12:13American puritanism mangling his very soul.
12:16Disreputable. Cold. Violent.
12:20Louis first accosted me in a pleasure house.
12:23And then everywhere I went.
12:25As if by a happy accident, there was Louis.
12:30Offering to be my chaperone.
12:33His eyes sliding down me.
12:39I, a vampire, was being hunted.
12:45With every breath. Every heartbeat.
12:49Every sidelong glance.
12:52Louis was saying, come to me.
12:55Come to me?
12:57Those are his words.
12:58No!
12:59He kept coming out after me.
13:02Come to me!
13:03Fuck you!
13:09Stop it!
13:10Advocate.
13:11Come to me.
13:17He said it to me.
13:21How do you know that it was not your own voice, Louis?
13:27Speaking your own unspeakable desires.
13:31Screaming them in the darkness.
13:35In the hopes that I would come to you.
13:50Lestat.
13:53It's your line.
13:56Lestat.
13:58And after the heartbreak of Niki.
14:01And after the heartbreak that was Niki.
14:07To feel such hunger again.
14:11The accused called to you from within a church.
14:15Where he was confessing his sins to a priest.
14:21I destroyed that priest and another right in front of him.
14:24Yes.
14:25You put your fist through his skull.
14:27Showed him what enormous power you possessed.
14:30I offered Louis myself instead.
14:35What I am.
14:39My companionship.
14:43An immortal life.
14:46And I offered it to him.
14:49In the church.
14:51On the altar.
14:53And with the two dead priests in his purview.
14:57The accused raised up his hands.
15:00And took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance.
15:06Yes.
15:10Facts!
15:12Did you say something?
15:17Men embracing men.
15:19It disgusts you.
15:24I'm pretty sure it disgusts a whole lot of people.
15:27Oh.
15:34You fought it best, Don.
15:36You vomited into your fuck so often.
15:38But what you didn't do, Corporal Donny Jaffin,
15:40is fire your M1 Garand rifle a single time.
15:43Germans overran your line and three days later
15:45you ran off into the Belgian forest.
15:48During which time your friend,
15:50who you share a matching tattoo with Private Ernest Hughes,
15:53arm was shot off.
15:55You tried to desert, but you couldn't read your map.
15:57And eventually you stumbled back to your line
16:00and claimed you'd been lost in the fog!
16:03There are 14 men who served their countries honorably
16:06in attendance with us this afternoon.
16:08They may, like yourself, be disgusted by the transcendent love
16:12between two vampires of the same sex.
16:14But I wonder...
16:17where lies their disgust now?
16:23Continue.
16:28Um...
16:30Louis didn't take to vampirism.
16:33Louis di...
16:36The accused didn't take to vampirism.
16:40Crippled by qualms, he drank only from animals.
16:43I didn't want to eat people.
16:49He didn't want to eat people.
16:51Do you get it? It's all of you.
16:58Louis was fixated on the loss of his humanity.
17:03He's estranged family.
17:05He in Tunisian politics of his food.
17:09He not only rejected vampires,
17:12he also rejected you.
17:14Louis was deceptively agile with words.
17:19A transient form of verbal amusement.
17:24There was a night when he told me I'd be alone forever.
17:29An awful night.
17:31A word of context for our jury.
17:35The single worst thing that a vampire can feel is loneliness.
17:40Human loneliness magnified by millennia,
17:43by the never-ending road that we walk.
17:48Do they not know this?
17:50How could they?
17:58Check my hand.
18:05This is loneliness.
18:07This is loneliness.
18:09This is vampire loneliness.
18:13You want to crawl up and die, don't you?
18:17I know.
18:19I know.
18:22There was a night when one of Louis' infrequent kills upturned the city.
18:29And he threatened me.
18:32With his loneliness.
18:37Shame on you!
18:38He abandoned me in our townhouse.
18:41I didn't know if he was ever going to come back.
18:45I was engulfed with his loneliness.
18:47I closed my eyes and waited for the fire to take me.
18:51I just prayed it wouldn't hurt too bad.
18:54That's when the black angel came.
18:59But he came back.
19:00He did.
19:03With her.
19:04Good luck on how that fucker didn't ask.
19:06Gave me no say.
19:08Made me more of a vampire than anyone up here.
19:10A child.
19:11Fourteen years old.
19:12You're calling a transformation weeks after the event.
19:14Good luck on how he...
19:15This is my life sent to her by Louis to soothe her relentless questioning.
19:26I told Louis.
19:29Fourteen forever should be a cripple.
19:33Lestat stood on that stage.
19:35Took all the familiar pieces of Louis' life.
19:38Defiled them.
19:40Bent them into a Lestat-shaped effigy.
19:42But some...
19:44Some of it now...
19:47What?
19:49I remember...
19:51Being out of my body.
19:53At the time.
19:55I was in Paris.
19:58But also in New Orleans.
20:00New Orleans.
20:02Lestat took me there.
20:05Fourteen forever should be a cripple.
20:09She's going cold.
20:10What do we do?
20:11Nothing. We do nothing.
20:13She's dying because of me.
20:14They lit her building on fire because of me.
20:16They lit whatever fire you're talking about with their own free will.
20:18You do not know this girl.
20:21Make her like us.
20:23Please, I can't have her die.
20:24The gift cannot be given to children.
20:26What do you mean?
20:27Yes, it can.
20:28The great laws forbid it.
20:29Great laws? She's gonna die in front of us.
20:32But he was in a terrible panic.
20:34Guilt had seized reason.
20:37Claudio on the ledge of death.
20:40You know he can do this!
20:41And so be what?
20:42A lapdog?
20:43No.
20:44No, not a dog.
20:51A daughter?
20:53Yeah.
20:55I'll stay.
20:56I'll stay. I'll never leave you.
20:58Ever again.
21:00I promise.
21:02I'll be happy.
21:04For you.
21:06But there was a light in his eyes.
21:08Please.
21:10A light I'd not seen for years.
21:14But I resisted.
21:16Because I knew the wisdom of the great laws.
21:20Because I knew pain and anxiety would be her only birthrights.
21:25Fuck you.
21:28To what?
21:29She will be at war with herself.
21:32She's of an age where emotions will soar and plummet
21:36mountains and valleys every day of her life.
21:39I don't care!
21:40Well, you must care!
21:42Her mind and her spirits will age,
21:44but the world will treat her as she is now.
21:46I'll burn her in fire.
21:47And she will be miserable!
21:49And you will love her!
21:50And it will spiral beyond your reach!
21:53Drink up, drink up.
21:57You have to drain her first, Louis.
21:59She asked if I was an angel.
22:03Me?
22:11It's not how it happened.
22:14It's not how it happened.
22:24It is how it happened.
22:29I didn't think it at the time.
22:31But...
22:34Yeah.
22:36Look at her.
22:38Our beautiful little daughter.
22:40Please, please, please.
22:42I'll do anything.
22:44Please, I'll be anything.
22:47Please.
22:49Please.
22:50Please, please, please.
22:53Please, please, please.
22:55Please, please, please.
23:00You will regret this for the rest of your life.
23:13I made her for Louis.
23:15She is my blood.
23:17I broke the second law.
23:20When you sentence them for their crimes,
23:22you sentence me too.
23:24But you, you manipulated...
23:28It's all lies, right?
23:30It's a whole lie.
23:35How Claudia was made...
23:37How Claudia was made...
23:43He didn't tell me...
23:46What she would be.
23:51I've...
23:53Played down my role in it.
23:59You should go with Lestat's version.
24:01For the book, I think.
24:05I'm sorry.
24:08Seventy-four years have provided...
24:12Unwelcome clarity.
24:15Claudia was an unforeseen joy.
24:18A formidable fledgling.
24:20A consummate killer.
24:22A congenial companion.
24:25We were a happy trio.
24:28Louis coddled her,
24:30and I gifted her a predator's upbringing.
24:32But...
24:33Lunch is served.
24:35But Claudia's defect...
24:38Caught up with her.
24:39God, it hurt me. I had a defect.
24:40Claudia's moods worsened.
24:42She harmed herself in the sun for attention.
24:45And followed that with a killing spree.
24:47Corpses clogging the bayou.
24:49A penchant for human souvenirs.
24:51She put yours and Louis' anonymity at risk.
24:55Then she ran away.
24:57The vampiress taught in the wind for seven years.
25:02And Louis...
25:04Louis...
25:07He blamed himself.
25:11And he folded inwards.
25:16Your companion no longer wishes to share his body with you.
25:21If...
25:23Every word...
25:25Coming out of his mouth is vitriol...
25:28Or disinterest...
25:31For seven years.
25:35You don't want to.
25:41You still hope that...
25:43He'll emerge out of his melancholy.
25:47That he'll love you.
25:51Like you love him.
25:56What do you do?
26:00What do you do?
26:05Do you find affection elsewhere?
26:11Antoinette Brown, ladies and gentlemen.
26:13Later, the vampire Antoinette.
26:17Seven long years.
26:20And then Claudia returned.
26:24Before her travelled bag had hit the floor,
26:26Claudia assessed the fragility of our union.
26:30She's an artful predator.
26:33I can say that now.
26:39I see the best of my vampiric self in her.
26:43She looked at me.
26:46And then she turned to Louis and said,
26:48Abandon this thought.
26:52Come with me to Europe.
26:54No!
26:55No!
26:56No!
27:06And he was hers again.
27:07And you and Louis fought?
27:09Well, at first we just slammed each other around our townhouse.
27:19Seven years of...
27:22...
27:25Compromise.
27:27Trying to restrain myself, Louis!
27:30Denial.
27:31Stop!
27:35It all gave way.
27:37Stay down, chéri.
27:39I don't want to fight him like this!
27:45You start it, you finish it.
27:47It will end in your death.
27:52My death.
27:54Look at your fucking face.
27:57Please, stop!
27:58Don't do it!
28:00Stay back, Claudia!
28:02It's all good.
28:06You're leaving with her?
28:08Daddy Lou!
28:09No, it's okay.
28:10It's okay, we're done.
28:12It's over.
28:14Stay where you are, okay?
28:17You're going to leave me?
28:22I'm going to take this hand here...
28:25... and wrap it around that scrawny neck of yours.
28:28Just like you did our daughter.
28:30And I'm going to stop until your eyes pop.
28:35And now I'm going to find her.
28:38I'm going to find her.
28:40I'm going to find her.
28:42I'm going to find her.
28:45And now I'm going to find a big old butcher knife...
28:48... and chop your head off.
28:51And then I'm going to walk that head...
28:53... all the way to Audubon Park.
28:56And I'm going to feed it to the fucking lions.
28:59And I'm going to...
29:07Yeah.
29:09Let's go, Hugh.
29:15I'm burdened with my maker's temper.
29:19Uh, no.
29:21No.
29:22You were teased until you toppled.
29:25He tried to kill him.
29:27Oh, did he?
29:30You used your cloud gift.
29:32You flew the accused high up into the air...
29:35... then you let him fall.
29:37Two kilometers, approximately.
29:39Yes, I know, I know, I know.
29:41Yes, I know, I know, I know.
29:43It's a lethal distance for a mortal...
29:45... but for a vampire, it's a hard fall.
29:48Nothing more.
29:50Lestat has within his veins...
29:53... a most ancient blood.
29:55A god-like strength.
29:57Remember, he put his fist through a priest's skull.
30:01Did you do that to the accused?
30:04No, you did not.
30:05Ladies and gentlemen of the jury...
30:07... I ask you to set aside your mortal biases...
30:10... and remember that we are monsters.
30:14And to us monsters...
30:16... what's a bite between paramours?
30:23You knew Louis would be fine.
30:33And he was fine.
30:36Lestat?
30:42A wolf congratulated for not killing your pop.
30:47Yes!
30:49You knew he would be fine, and he was fine.
30:51No!
30:55He wasn't fine.
31:00I let go of him.
31:03It wasn't a...
31:05... misunderstanding.
31:07It wasn't an accident.
31:11I let go of him.
31:20I watched him...
31:25... clutch the air.
31:27Clutch the air.
31:31I saw him...
31:34... swinging wild as he fell through the clouds.
31:39The projections went off-sync.
31:42Lestat went off-script again.
31:45How do you know it wasn't part of the show?
31:48Sam was cursing to himself beside me.
31:51Read for yourself.
31:53There was no scripting, Lestat.
31:56You cannot script a hurricane.
31:59I did it to hurt him.
32:02And it did hurt him.
32:10And afterwards, he was a broken thing.
32:15I know. I saw.
32:17Because I am the one who broke him!
32:27I couldn't...
32:31... persuade...
32:34... him to return my affections.
32:40I couldn't force him to love me, and so...
32:46... I broke him.
32:57What is worse than that?
33:02Crushing what you cannot own?
33:08I hurt the one.
33:13I hurt the only one.
33:15Doing it again.
33:17Hurting you again.
33:19Again.
33:25I thought of this often in the coffin...
33:29... that you left me in.
33:32And I've thought of this in the years since.
33:37I...
33:38... hate him.
33:46I will always be sorry for what I did to you.
33:50If it's true, it's too fucking late.
33:53I was not worthy of the forgiveness you would give me.
34:09Continue.
34:12Okay.
34:13Nice apology.
34:16From the heart and not the page.
34:20Did it move you?
34:21Crossed an ocean.
34:23Because he wanted us dead.
34:26And then...
34:29... something real.
34:32This is Lestat.
34:35This is Lestat.
34:37What he does.
34:39Over and over.
34:41Until you're left with no sense of what is or what is not.
34:44Didn't work on me anymore.
34:46I wasn't thinking about Lestat's sincerity.
34:50I was thinking about how I was going to die.
34:55But...
34:56But what?
34:59It moved Claudia.
35:01Claudia.
35:04Right up on her feet.
35:06Good.
35:12Real pretty.
35:14You dropped him like an egg from an airplane.
35:19He's fine now.
35:20You apologize.
35:21All is forgiven.
35:27We poisoned him.
35:28A confession!
35:29He's not dead!
35:30He's standing right here in front of us!
35:32Can I cry and say that I'm sorry to him?
35:34Disorder!
35:35Disorder!
35:38This is working for you, Lestat.
35:41You got it.
35:43Accept my apology.
35:45Claudia, stop.
35:46This is your big revenge!
35:52Whoopsie-daisy.
35:53Bailiff, could you clear it up, please?
36:01Don't know why I bother.
36:04You didn't come here for me.
36:08One more round in the stormy romance of your town!
36:17Never been about me.
36:22I was just a roof shingle that flew off of your house.
36:27That flew off of your house!
36:38Are we on trial?
36:43It's not a trial.
36:45It's a stoning.
36:49A stoning?
36:53Took the air out of the place with that one.
36:56Got a lot less fun real quick.
36:59But they had their Technicolor film,
37:02Twanfam's wizardry with it.
37:05And they had Lestat back in the chair,
37:07fully recovered from his apology back on mission.
37:11Delivering his lines, picking up his cues,
37:14hypnotizing the mortals back around with the potboiler in New Orleans.
37:18The father, duped by his ungrateful and diabolical children.
37:26The father, ridiculed and humiliated in his final minutes.
37:32The mistress, extinguished in the courtyard oven.
37:35And the mortals didn't blink.
37:37They followed the pocket watch back and forth,
37:40until Santiago and Lestat had them dreaming in their seats.
37:44And here they are!
37:46Piranhas looking up through the tank water,
37:49waiting for the chum to be dumped.
37:53They had uncovered our crimes there, in Paris.
37:57And sent a signal flare to America,
38:00waking the victim from his state of repose.
38:07She had confessed.
38:09I couldn't move.
38:11Lestat would have his vengeance.
38:22Thank you.
38:37This is hard.
38:47The sentencing.
38:50For the heretical desecration of the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth of the Great Laws,
38:55what say you for the vampire Claudia?
38:57Luca!
38:59Are you not the horse a mile ahead of the cart?
39:02Madame Juste.
39:04The vampire Madeleine, what is her crime?
39:07Oh, she's just a bastard fledgling.
39:09Made without the knowledge or consent of the coven master.
39:14Which is...
39:16now me.
39:19Yet she is oblivious to the crimes committed by her maker.
39:23It is only fair that she be offered the same choice as any vampire.
39:26This is true and fair.
39:28In accordance with vampiric law,
39:30may she not join the coven and become one with us.
39:34Hmm.
39:36She must join...
39:38or die.
39:39Die!
39:41Oh, oh, points for enthusiasm, but it is true and fair.
39:45Madeleine Parvier-Heitz!
39:50The choice is yours.
39:52Will you renounce the accused you sit with and join our coven?
40:11I'm the vampire Madeleine Parvier.
40:15And my immortal companion is Claudia.
40:20My coven is Claudia.
40:27My vampire heart quivereth.
40:29The martyr skips her way to hell.
40:32Indeed.
40:34For the heretical desecration of the first of the great laws,
40:37what say you for the vampire Madeleine Parvier-Heitz?
40:42Uh, Madeleine Parvier, guilty or not guilty?
40:47Guilty! Guilty!
40:52And there being only one sentence applicable,
40:55that being death,
40:58what is your sentence?
40:59Death!
41:03The vampire Claudia rise.
41:07For the heretical desecration of the first, third and fourth
41:11and the murder of the vampire Antoinette Brown
41:14and the attempted murder of her maker,
41:16the vampire Monsieur Lestat de Lioncourt,
41:19what say you for the vampire Claudia?
41:22Guilty or not guilty?
41:25Guilty!
41:27And the sentence?
41:29Death!
41:31May I ask the court for a final request?
41:33Mm, no.
41:36Let her have it.
41:44The man in the balcony wearing the high hat,
41:47would you kindly remove it?
41:49Sir, I would grant the condemned her last request.
41:56Thank you.
41:59I now know all your faces.
42:05If there is an afterlife,
42:09I'm going to come back and fucking kill all of you.
42:18And if there isn't an afterlife,
42:21I'm still going to find a way.
42:29Bailiff!
42:39For the heretical desecration of the great laws
42:44one, two and four
42:47and the murder of the vampire Antoinette Brown
42:50and the attempted murder of his maker,
42:52the vampire Monsieur Lestat de Lioncourt,
42:54what say you for the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac?
43:01Guilty or not guilty?
43:05Guilty!
43:07Guilty!
43:09Guilty!
43:11Guilty!
43:13And the sentence?
43:15Death!
43:17Death!
43:19Death!
43:21Death!
43:24Death!
43:50Banishment.
43:52Banishment.
43:53Banishment.
43:54Banishment!
43:56Banishment!
43:58Banishment!
44:07He saved you.
44:09It took all my strength.
44:12You saved Louis.
44:14Yes.
44:16But not her.
44:19I could not prevent it.
44:25I could not prevent it.
44:27Banishment
44:30is not an applicable punishment.
44:39Oh.
44:42Oh, but you mortals are bastards, aren't you?
44:48Arguably, a sentence worse than death.
44:52All right, have it your way.
44:56Send him to Belgium.
45:03Take him downstairs.
45:05Tuck him in nice and tight.
45:07No! No! No!
45:09No!
45:10Louis!
45:11No!
45:12Louis!
45:13Louis!
45:15Louis!
45:18Louis!
45:24I'm gonna guess that they didn't drive you to the Belgian border.
45:29No.
45:33No.
45:40I fought back.
45:43There wasn't much fight left in me.
45:48They took me to their...
45:51their crypt.
45:52No! No! No!
45:55Shoved me in a coffin.
45:59Filled the coffin with rocks so I couldn't move.
46:05What was that, Louis?
46:07I can't hear you.
46:19Banished.
46:22To a two-by-seven-foot box.
46:26To starve to death.
46:29And join the damned that came before me.
46:34And while that's going on, she's upstairs on stage.
46:41Ask him.
46:43I wasn't there.
46:46Okay.
46:50You were there.
46:54And now for your viewing pleasure.
46:56The lip of the stage.
46:58Arms around each other.
47:00Defiant.
47:01Scared.
47:03Whispering last words to one another.
47:07Does anybody have the time?
47:09One second, guys.
47:11Oh, dear.
47:13Way past our bedtime.
47:17What you're about to see...
47:20is fake.
47:22Remember that when you leave here today.
47:25You are all...
47:26I tried to hear what Claudia was saying to Madeline,
47:29but my mind was with Louis.
47:33What must be happening to him backstage.
47:35And I despise you for it.
47:39Come on, Santiago!
47:43And before Santiago pulled the blackout curtain
47:46hiding the perfectly mounted observatory lens
47:49for the perfectly timed sun in the sky above the theatre.
47:56Follow the bouncing ball.
47:59Oh, my God!
48:06Claudia smiled.
48:09And started singing to her executioners.
48:12I don't like windows when they're closed.
48:18Or to fly where the wind blows.
48:22Claudia gave the audience her back.
48:26But Madeline succumbed first.
48:41No, I don't like windows!
48:47And you could tell from the look on the star's face
48:50the last thing she saw on Earth
48:54was him.
49:25I was dead.
49:28But my rage...
49:31had risen.
49:34There was 13 of them.
49:36And one of me.
49:38Did our mom tell you what we did with our ashes?
49:41I died to you.
49:44And I died to you.
49:47And I died to you.
49:50And I died to you.
49:52And I died to you.
49:57I've come to kill you.
50:08Episode 7, I Could Not Prevent It,
50:11refers to the death of Claudia and Madeline.
50:14And it's unexpected,
50:16and what's revealed is definitely not expected.
50:23It's presented as though it's an actual trial,
50:26with the audience in the theater as the final jury.
50:30I fell in and out of consciousness.
50:33Sacks come off, your character's in a play.
50:35Props in a play.
50:37I could feel a presence in the theater.
50:41This is something that the audience and all of us,
50:44frankly, shooting the show,
50:46had been waiting for for the whole season.
50:48Monsieur Lestat de Liancourt.
50:51Lestat walking on stage
50:53is probably the most complex moment for Louis.
50:57There's a reason why Lestat appears as his subconscious.
51:01There's a comfort that he finds in him.
51:03But to actually see him in the flesh,
51:05I think there's a mix of, like, he doesn't know if he's really there.
51:08And I think it's like fear, excitement, fury,
51:11and a bit of relief.
51:16It's a big deal for Louis and Lestat to see each other again.
51:19It's their turn to hurt.
51:21For us, Jacob and myself, it was a lot to do with
51:24what's their connection even when they're not looking at each other.
51:28Love has always been difficult for me.
51:31But I think as soon as he looks at Louis,
51:33and as soon as Louis looks at him,
51:35I think he knows it's all over.
51:38The accused raised up his hands
51:40and took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance.
51:45Lestat has now lost himself in the memory.
51:50And then there's this homophobic comment which snaps him out of it.
51:56It's just another element that pushes him further and further
52:01into catastrophe.
52:03I hurt the one.
52:05I hurt the only one.
52:07Doing it again.
52:09Hurting you again.
52:15So today we have a five-and-a-half, six-page scene,
52:18which is the climax of the trial in which we find out
52:22whether Claudia, Madeleine, and Louis are condemned to death
52:26by the Paris Covent.
52:28Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
52:30I ask you to set aside your mortal biases
52:33and remember that we are monsters.
52:37Claudia's always been a defiant character.
52:40Good.
52:43And so we wanted to give her that.
52:45If she's going to die in this way,
52:48in front of a live audience, born to death on stage,
52:50we wanted to give her some moments of defiance
52:52before she goes out.
52:54You dropped him like an egg from an aeroplane.
52:58For Claudia, in the beginning it's terror
53:00and then it's just straight anger from then on.
53:02Anger at Louis, anger at Lestat, anger at Santiago.
53:06We poisoned him.
53:07A confession!
53:08He's not dead!
53:09He's standing right here in front of us!
53:12Can I cry and say that I'm sorry to him?
53:15Madeleine is out of it and not really aware of what's happening.
53:20Are we on trial?
53:22Claudia's all too aware and still so defiant.
53:26It's not a trial. It's a stoning.
53:29She never begs, she never gives any ground.
53:32She knows that she's right.
53:34Madeleine Parvier-Heitz!
53:37Will you renounce the accused you sit with and join our coven?
53:43Madeleine picks Claudia
53:44and that is all Claudia has ever needed to hear,
53:46is to be put first.
53:48So in that moment it's acceptance of her circumstance.
53:51And my immortal companion is Claudia.
53:54My coven is Claudia.
53:56What say you for the vampire Claudia?
53:58Guilty or not guilty?
54:01Guilty!
54:03Even till her death, she's a fighter.
54:06May I ask the court for a final request?
54:08One thing about Claudia that I really love is
54:10she will always give it her all.
54:12I now know all your faces.
54:14And you'll always get her all.
54:16If there is an afterlife,
54:19I'm going to come back and f***ing kill all of you.
54:22For Claudia it's a promise.
54:24It's not a threat, it's a promise.
54:26She has Lestat's blood.
54:28If they do anything, it's come back with a vengeance.
54:36Claudia!
54:37Claudia!
54:38Claudia!
54:39Claudia!
54:40Claudia!
54:41Claudia!
54:42Claudia!
54:43Claudia!
54:44Claudia!
54:45Claudia!
54:46Claudia!
54:47Claudia!
54:48You saved Louis.
54:50Yes.
54:51But not her.
54:52I could not prevent it.
54:56Claudia's death represents Louis' last connection to this world.
55:02This is hard.
55:03This is a striking and painful episode.
55:10When Claudia protects Madeline in that moment,
55:12it's out of sheer love.
55:14Louis feels deeply responsible for her.
55:17It is his biggest regret that he couldn't save her.
55:21It's the thing that's haunted everyone.
55:24The fact he couldn't protect her, he couldn't keep her alive.
55:27But a big part of Louis' acceptance of the gift and of his nature
55:32is knowing that Claudia really did embrace him.
55:36She was a brilliant vampire.
56:02She was a brilliant vampire.