I had taken 7,000 souls by then. Argh! But Lestat was the only one that felt like murder. Semantics, surely, but it's how I felt. He came by invitation. My distraction from the monochromatic landscape. The gray of an obliterated road, the gray-brown of a charred and bullet-ridden city. In Germany, Herr Hitler had popped a pill in his bunker and Europe celebrated. But in Romania, the champagne fizzled and went flat. Soviets replaced Nazis. War became occupation. [Witnesses soldiers exhuming cemetery internments and shooting them up]
[Telepathically] Why they shooting up coffins? Windows shuttered, doors bolted.
Like every other village we seen, folks left when the Russians rolled in.
Folks left? So who ran garlic around these doors? Who nailed the crucifix to the wall?
Why don't you knock and ask?
Just like in the books, they think garlic protects them.
Your books?
They think we hate Jesus.
Don't start back with your books! Your books are bullshit.
There's a vampire been here. Another crucifix.
Hey, now. Okay, okay.
Oh, shit.
Look like you should. Don't say anything about anything.
Papers [Claudia hands over passports then holds up photo speaking in Hungarian] My mother. Have you seen? Please to help.
Hungarian. This is Romania.
Looking for my wife, hope to find.
Your papers aren't good.
[Stops walking by speaking Romanian] Making them stand out here in the dark? Are you stupid?
Speak Russian.
Go, go. Do your very important patrols.
Speak Russian.
Papers don't matter if they're dead. [Soldier hands back passports, takes one of Emilia's hunting kills and they walk away]
More from this episode
All quotes from this episode →More Interview with the Vampire quotes · These quotes come from Wikiquote's Interview with the Vampire pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.