Lestat was my companion in America.
and he fucking had it coming.
Files have been placed on your comically vulnerable laptop.
Armand: The coven is envious of your independence.
Just outside it.
It'd be nice if you'd come.
He will be the ruin of us.
Do what must be done.
And I play the little girl?
You'll be their little birdie for the next 50 years.
[♪ gentle orchestral music]
[♪ music intensifies]
[♪ music fades]
[♪ playful classical music]
[♪ music builds]
- [bird twitters] - [oohs and aahs from audience]
♪ Than a happy baby bird ♪
♪ There's just one thing that makes her sad ♪
♪ I don't like windows when they're closed ♪
♪ I want to fly where the wild wind blows ♪
♪ Trees and bees and big rainbows ♪
♪ No, I don't like windows when they're closed ♪
♪ She don't like windows when they're closed ♪
[laughter and applause]
♪ Trees and bees and big rainbows ♪
- ♪ No, I don't like windows ♪ - [Luchenbaum humming]
[ecstatic cheering and applause]
Coven life requires a letting go of the self.
[♪ playful piano music]
We've come to steal your nounou away downstairs
to stir our cocktails and serve our canapés,
and keep your daddy's disgusting hands off your dear mama!
- [audience laughs] - I'm a birdie!
- [Claudia] Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! - She thinks she is a real bird.
- Get away from there! - I'm a birdie!
- Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! - Don't make me use this!
[Claudia] Little birdie Lu's caught in a trap.
- Birdie loves the breeze... - Lulu?
[laughter and applause]
[♪ music reaches a crescendo and stops]
[Louis] They added shows,
added seats, sold souvenirs.
Parisians, who'd long disdained us,
[music plays, raucous laughter]
Little birdie Lu is caught in a trap,
[all] Birdie loves the breeze!
♪ No, I don't like windows when they're closed ♪
♪ She don't like windows when they're closed ♪
♪ No, I don't like windows ♪
[cheering and applause]
Lackluster. Bromidic. Unacceptable.
- Yes, Maitre. - So explain to the company
why the 500th performance of 'My Baby Loves Windows'
I'm a fierce vampire trapped in the body of a little girl.
I relive every condescending look or fucking comment
And why, as the author of 'My Baby Loves Windows'
would you humble yourself thus?
The red hands of clapping cattle are not the measure of the Theatre Des Vampires.
would have us standing room only to the decade.
when nomadic passion has infected the entire company?
the Theatre Des Vampires.
When a certain vampire was granted dispensation
I keep my business tight, thank you.
Is it thirst?
Are you companions?
[Armand] If it's not a companionship, what is it?
An affair? A romance?
Mm, it works for me. "Companion" works too.
It's not the word I would use.
But that's just how this settled.
- It's just not a companionship. - Oh, God, how do you manage it?
How that danger compounds with every slight.
- What slight? - You rarely join us for a hunt.
So you want me to come around more?
Okay, then, I'll come around more.
I'm not sure the term applies to a vampire.
I could feel the movement of air
The vampire bond.
who survived the fire at the theater?
about the fire in our archives.
In high school, you told a girl
The fire?
In direct violation of the third Great Law,
Well, here it comes.
No vampire must commit to writing
the history of the vampires.
It's just random thoughts. It's a habit.
I hear their petty insults in the middle of our scenes."
The Marie Celeste, because her talent
Maitre has a gravely attachment to the laws.
without the permission of the vampire Armand
I have bent law four with at least half the working girls
at Le Chanabais, but I am rigorous.
Had I been Celeste or Estelle lurking in the shadows...
I read it just now right in front of you.
[♪ playful music]
♪ I don't like windows when they close ♪
♪ I must be where the big wind blows ♪
[♪ playful music continues]
Still dressing your windows for your German tourists?
I agree. I just wouldn't say it because it's rude and obvious.
some just there to be there.
Read my mind, grab my nethers.
Sam was late with the bed bellows.
And Gustave? Les Toilettes?
Back at the lair, hung over from last night,
Ran down the street screaming, "I am a vampire!
I am a vampire!"
Wheels are coming off this week, Maitre.
It's not just Paris giving birth to more genius.
- She's giving birth... - To modernity itself?
Coming up with new ones. Meanwhile,
Suppose I can come off haughty.
Like a gent with upright downstairs.
- Or an organ monkey? - Cajun drawl.
Come on. What?!
[Armand telepathically] Louis, come back!
Mm. You are using a Rolleiflex and always at night?
Or is it, the friend of the boy he used to play with?
hair caught on fire.
Probably, Rashid confused them.
In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
[♪ eerie music]
Can I get some aspirins?
[♪ music crescendos]
[cheering and applause]
and wait for the world to pass under it? I'm a vampire.
- You're a vampire, a hunter! - I'm out there prowling for the moment.
Your lens is not entirely clean.
Because you don't like flapping your arms in their stupid play?
- Mm-hm. - Are you their hostage?
But I mean, not too sad because we had money
From Dusseldorf.
when I took my shirt off.
but it was the comfort. He was alive.
it is a comfort to be among your contemporaries.
Ah, weary of battles and glorious hunts.
I don't enjoy using my powers like that, Louis.
I don't need you flying in like vampire papa.
[♪ romantic music]
A contemporary of my maker, Marius De Romanus,
The abuse in the brothel was such
After they set fire to the studio.
Set fire to my maker.
to reign over the coven abandoned by Magnus.
Magnus who begat Lestat.
- because your chest... - I don't have much.
Claudia, you have eyes like my windows.
A fire. Adopted. One of them was bad trouble.
Because even in between the dark things...
You just get used to it, like weather.
They just wanna watch the bouncing ball.
Because they've turned inward too long ago and you know it!
Let us agree, going forward,
Too old to play Hamlet, too young to play Polonius.
[♪ gentle music]
Well... what is vampire life but poor decisions,
Armand knows all about Lestat.
Read our minds, first night at the theater.
- You can trust Armand. - What about, "Me and you?"
Vampire homeland, unhappy.
Paris, unhappy. Comes the coven, you're beaming
- Chasing it! Chasing! - he hasn't betrayed our trust
Except he just threatened me with it!
Oh, forgot! Love makes you stupid.
Let me guess, he's your companion finally?
[♪ gentle piano music]
- Third floor balcony. - Keep a watch.
His wife and her husband nodding off in their ignorant beds.
Let their children answer a knock at the door.
A paled-faced policeman, a ride to the morgue.
[♪ gentle piano music]
But I used to be real good at running things.
Let him feel like he's your heir apparent.
[♪ music intensifies]
- You made me look foolish! - You just assume it was me.
- Excuse me?! - I take it back.
- Just start the tape. - [tape recorder clicks]
[Molloy] You weren't always a vampire, were you?
I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
[Molloy] And how did it come about?
[Louis] Would you like to join us?
[♪ gentle piano music]
[young Molloy] I mean, you've forgotten, man.
I want to know what happened between us.
[ Eerie music plays ]
And this is the episode when they both commit to one another.
Armand: It's not a companionship. What is it?
An affair.
tormented vampiric existence
The audience all knows that
Talked about the laws that murdering
another vampire is a big no-no.
Yeah, Lestat is not there just ruining Louis
Because Lestat just is always there.
[Blows]
I could feel the movement of air
because he was jilted by Lestat.
I think, Louis knows
maybe, a bit of a pushover.
Ghost Lestat doesn't just represent
Vampires are the most human monsters.
Armand is the kind of vampire that will not let it go himself.
His paranoia is all encompassing.
That's my full love, it's just a release of energy.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Claudia has been looking for a companion
who she is and trying to become older,
and she is a mature woman in a young girl's body.
who has been completely shunned by all of Paris.
Nobody really knows why they-they're together.
They just see the pain in each other, and that's enough.