Interview with the Vampire · Season 1
[Dragging Louis by the throat] I fought myself a million times, fought my nature, controlled my temper. I never once harmed you.
Uncle Les!
[Stops] It's 'Uncle Les' now suddenly?
Let him go! He didn't do nothin'! Let him go! It's me you want!
Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was never you! [To Louis] I chose you! [Bites Louis's neck and flies off with him]
The vampires out there are vicious. [Observing Claudia's facial expression] Oh... but you've learned that already. Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland? Read her, Louis.
That's it, keep him scared. [To Louis] That's his way.
The vampires in Europe are much, much worse.
[To Louis] But I think *he's* scared.
I never asked. How did Charlie taste? Like the love you'll never really know?
[To Louis] And when he's scared, he ridicules.
[Holding a bleeding and beaten Louis while hovering in the air thousands of miles above New Orleans] I have waited, Louis. I have patiently waited, in vain, for you to love me as I love you. Just say it. Say, 'Lestat, I am never going to love you.' It would help me a great deal to hear that from your lips. Your quivering, hateful lips.
Let go of me!
Anything for you. [Lets go of Louis, who plummets to the ground]
[Claudia returns home after seven years]
The prodigal daughter.
I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.
Apology not accepted.
[Lestat and Claudia fight over Louis]
[Telepathically] Come with me! Come with me, Louis!
Louis...
[Aloud] I thought I could live without you, but I was wrong.
Louis. [Shouts] Louis!
[Telepathically] His love is a small box he keeps you in. Don't stay in it.
[Shouting] A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, you are just gonna up and leave me?
[Shouting aloud] Please, come with me! Let's meet vampires worthy of your love!
[Reading aloud from Claudia's diary] 'Dear diary, am I gonna be a virgin every single time I do it? Won't my skin down there grow back like my hair does when I cut it?'
Jesus.
Now, it is my sworn duty to notify the dry agents as to the wine cellar on the premises. I will refrain from contacting the Child Welfare League, but I don't like what I've seen in this home.
And we'll make sure Police Chief Bardeen is informed how his men conducted themselves in the home of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.
[Chuckles] You know, I'd add a second bed to the boudoir before you two go making accusations. I have no doubt you could carry the fines, but crimes against nature, that comes with a five-year prison term if convicted.
Who am I supposed to love? You two have each other? Who's my Lestat? Who's my Louis? I'm not human. What human would want me? Perverts? Like the uncle at the roomin' house who used to watch me pee? Or little boys? And forty years from now, still little boys? [Shouts] How you gonna fix it, huh? Which one of you gonna fuck me?
Well, you're not my type. I like a fuller figure.
Lestat!
She's being impossible!
What do you think will happen to Mr. du Lac when you publish this book and the other vampires of the world get their hands on it?
As long as they pay full freight.
It's been months. Her meals are too meager. What if you bring one of your kills into her room? We could tie him up next to the coffin...
She's not surviving on birds or nocturnals, Louis. She waits for that slither of time when I'm on the hunt and you've gone round the back to make nice with the rat catcher.
Or she's slowly starving herself.
Bon. I know what I'd do, but you've cut my hands off. My parenting is...
Sadistic?
[Chuckles] ... so save your words when it comes to Claudia.
She's in there 'cause of you.
[Slams the piano keys] Ça suffit!
You wanted her, you fix her!
We're doin' this together.
Do you remember our life, how happy we were before her?
Happy? We were not happy!
An anvil tied around our ankles pulling us towards the pitch-black ocean floor!
I had no words for her. What words were there? 'It all happened so fast.' 'I was trying to save you.' 'All vampires are born out of trauma.' We made her out of remorse. Out of selfishness.
Poor dear. She wasn't held enough between ritualistic murders.
She spent every night for half a decade with no friends, locked in the emotional storm of puberty.
Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.
Is that all you think of her?
Mostly. I also think she makes you and Frenchy look like a couple of whiny, existential queens.
Why can't I make one? No matter how much blood I give them, they just lie there gaspin'.
What is this? Look at me! What have you done?
Did you try to make another?
Boy from Ponchatoula. Boy from Hollygrove. Boy with a bow tie out in Algiers.
Claudia, how'd you figure this was gon' go?
[To Lestat] Make me one.
Because you turned out so well.
'Cause if you don't, I'm gonna go out there and find other vampires.
If you could find them, which you won't, they would shred you to strips, because you are built like a bird, because you are a mistake!
[Voiceover] Claudia's night rambles had exposed us.
Assume we are under suspicion. Assume our finances no longer provide us protection.
Make your kills outside the city. One a night. No persons of note--unfortunates, undesirables.
No more incinerator. New locks on the doors. Shutter the windows. No parties, no friends.
[voiceover] But her absence would lay bare who we were without her, a simmering pot of resentments.
We should leave the city, start anew, turn a betrayal into an opportunity. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
Paris.
Mm-hmm.
We should dismantle her room.
You don't touch her room. She'll be back.
No, she won't.
[Voiceover] There would be no Roaring Twenties for us. We would be underground for seven years.
Massa's had so much loss in his life. Lord couldn't ask him to bear any more.
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