PDPaul de Pointe du Lac
You still doing business with that man Lestat?
Nah. Didn't work out.
PDPaul de Pointe du Lac
That's good, 'cause he the Devil.
You think everyone's the Devil.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. St. Louis is dull as dishwater.
Yes, I feel quite at home here.
When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, do you remember the best you ever had?
Berkely, 1978, some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging.
So imagine that flowing inside your veins again. Now, multiply it by miles to the rings of Saturn and back... He had taken what he called 'un petit coup,' the little drink. Not enough to kill me, but just enough to keep him fit. It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, the little drink. For a human, experiencing it for the first time, it was... unsettling. And not for the physical toll it took on my body, which was significant, but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. I had never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone, much less a man. I had no room for feelings like these in my life. You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em.
[To Louis] Come to me.
[In Paul's funeral procession] Mes condoléances.
Pas ici.
An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased?
Move on.
I wait on my balcony every night. You've been avoiding me.
I have been occupied.
Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute and I don't take kindly to being avoided.
It's my brother's funeral!
Believe me when I tell you, your brother longed for that flagstone.
It bears repeating, I did not consider myself a homosexual man at the time. I mean, I had had experiences. Guilt, shame, floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. Course, you know that. We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel?
It was a good place to score. I did what I had to.
Do you think God heard you, Louis? In that tawdry box, through this pig vessel, this-- this charlatan? Do you not see how unworthy he is? How can you humiliate yourself like this?
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Grievously sinned.
FMFather Matthias
Sign of the cross, son.
I'm a drunk, Lord. I'm a liar. I am a thief, Lord. I profit off the miseries of other men, and I do it easy. Drugs, liquor, women. I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord. I take daughters with no homes and I put 'em out on the street, Lord, and I lie to myself sayin' I'm givin' 'em roof and food and dollar bills in they pocket, but I look in the mirror, I know what I am. The big man in the big house, stuffin' cotton in my ear so I can't hear their cries. And, Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me. I shame my father. I failed my brother.
FMFather Matthias
No, son.
I lost my mother and sister, and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord, I run like a coward. I run to the bottle. I run to the grift. I run to bad beds. I laid down with a man. I laid down with the Devil. And he has roots in me. All his spindly roots in me. And I can't think nothin' anymore but his voice and his words! Please, help me! I am weak and I want to die!
You killed Lily.
Cut short that magnificent life she was living? What a tragedy.
Ain't no fever out there. That's you. You bringin' the death to town.
I give death to those deserving. I'm not the Devil. You were wrong about that. But I can give you death.
I've seen death over and over and over and over again. It's boring.
That'll make a great blurb.
That's a nice music box you got there.
It's one of the few things I brought with me from the continent.
What's that li'l song playing?
Do you like it? I composed it for a young violinist I once knew, a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity.
Hunting is an art. You have the power to subdue anyone you want, but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon.
He had a way about him those first years, Lestat. Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful. He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover and my maker -- all of those things at once. He didn't choose me to be his doormat. I knew he enjoyed it when I fought back, but there was present a kind of worship on my part. The earth beneath me always felt liquid.
Why do you do this, Lestat?
Well, I like to do it. I enjoy it.
Well, I don't. You don't have to humiliate him.
[Shouts] Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it! Kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis!
If you listen to me, if you finally submit to your nature, you will be filled, Louis, with all the life you can hold. You will see death in all its beauty, life as it is only known at the very point of death. You alone, of all creatures, can see death with that impunity. You alone, under the rising moon, can strike like the hand of God.
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