4 00:00:33,946 --> 00:00:36,012 Man: [On recording] You weren't always a vampire, were you? 9 00:00:44,827 --> 00:00:46,089 Would you like to join us? 17 00:01:01,887 --> 00:01:04,064 I used to be real good at running things. 22 00:01:10,983 --> 00:01:12,463 Memories just keep bubbling up. 27 00:01:23,648 --> 00:01:26,390 [♪ gentle orchestral music] 28 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:36,748 [♪ music intensifies] 29 00:01:41,318 --> 00:01:43,190 [♪ music fades] 42 00:02:19,530 --> 00:02:21,402 Iron pillars holding up terracotta domes, 46 00:02:28,365 --> 00:02:31,020 An effortless, eternal life ahead of us. 53 00:02:47,645 --> 00:02:50,735 Hmm? Oh, it's just a note to my assistant. It's nothing. 55 00:02:58,090 --> 00:03:00,745 [Louis on tape] Eternal life ahead of us. 62 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,808 Becomes the third person "him". 65 00:03:24,813 --> 00:03:27,729 You're circling something. 68 00:03:34,562 --> 00:03:37,608 Or it's daytime and a vampire of Louis's age 72 00:03:48,184 --> 00:03:49,533 It is, sir. 76 00:03:57,193 --> 00:03:59,171 [Armand] Shall we take our business to the living room? 79 00:04:03,982 --> 00:04:06,594 - Friends. - If you'll excuse us? 90 00:04:35,057 --> 00:04:37,277 Malik knows if he makes it 91 00:04:37,407 --> 00:04:40,889 on foot to Jumeirah Mosque by evening, 100 00:05:07,132 --> 00:05:10,092 - [door closes] - He's ditching us? 104 00:05:23,018 --> 00:05:27,327 Follow up with the vampire Armand about diet and exercise. 110 00:05:42,733 --> 00:05:45,736 [Armand] Little dirty, little deceitful but it's enterprising. 112 00:05:48,391 --> 00:05:51,351 [Armand] In high school you told a girl you'd only do her... Rest. 126 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:53,804 hundreds of thousands of kills. 132 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:29,361 Um... Our first interview... It's a fog. 149 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:28,856 [♪ slinky jazz] 155 00:09:05,893 --> 00:09:09,418 So am I the first guy that you've brought back here? 159 00:09:17,905 --> 00:09:21,038 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire. 174 00:10:14,701 --> 00:10:17,704 Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off? 180 00:10:36,287 --> 00:10:38,812 He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor. 184 00:10:48,865 --> 00:10:51,302 Just about every night I lived there. 192 00:11:08,537 --> 00:11:10,626 Worth is often miscalculated because of... 200 00:11:39,916 --> 00:11:41,309 Take this seriously. 203 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,495 I forget to put a tape in. [chuckles] 204 00:11:57,325 --> 00:11:59,675 - I'm a vampire. - Okay. 213 00:12:21,915 --> 00:12:23,264 [cellophane rustling] 216 00:12:54,208 --> 00:12:55,862 Just start the tape. 221 00:13:08,918 --> 00:13:10,833 First question. 222 00:13:10,964 --> 00:13:13,749 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 223 00:13:14,619 --> 00:13:19,581 No. I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire. 224 00:13:20,495 --> 00:13:22,671 And how did it come about? 241 00:14:08,804 --> 00:14:13,069 Like... why you talked to me in the first place? 243 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,945 I would chat for a few hours, and then who would come looking 250 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,704 I'd like to know, for me, what happened between us. 267 00:15:38,894 --> 00:15:42,202 And for all that Lestat boasted about his love of music, 274 00:16:06,487 --> 00:16:10,970 By then you'd paid a biblical price for your first love. 282 00:16:38,388 --> 00:16:40,390 Just for reference that was Louis de Pointe du Lac 283 00:16:40,521 --> 00:16:44,046 just now making his fangs... come out. 285 00:16:46,179 --> 00:16:49,530 The tape ran out. It's just a small 30 minute thing. 288 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:57,538 what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with. 289 00:16:57,668 --> 00:17:01,498 Because the next thing that happened was, you detonated. 291 00:17:04,110 --> 00:17:05,763 ♪ A girl's best friend ♪ 298 00:17:25,827 --> 00:17:29,396 - Or you just pick yourself up. - Stay behind with Lestat. 306 00:17:54,203 --> 00:17:57,946 All I had to do was watch the sun come up. 309 00:18:03,821 --> 00:18:06,520 Are you kidding me?! What, you were just going to end it? 315 00:18:19,663 --> 00:18:21,535 And you were just gonna throw it away? 317 00:18:24,277 --> 00:18:26,105 Listen, no. Obviously you didn't do it, 320 00:18:31,284 --> 00:18:33,590 and since you use the past tense about her, 325 00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:45,036 I won't waste it. I think you could use me. 329 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,699 plus a few things they don't. 333 00:19:03,707 --> 00:19:06,362 I mean, you've forgotten, man. I mean, you don't understand 357 00:20:13,386 --> 00:20:16,519 and more like an ambush. 369 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,955 Press pause on the betrayal of it all and... listen. 385 00:21:47,393 --> 00:21:49,133 - I said to join us! - The night's gone. 388 00:21:53,573 --> 00:21:56,184 So the room got dirty, so what? I'll clean it up. 393 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,371 Seek comfort in the arms of lowlifes and unfortunates, 405 00:22:34,091 --> 00:22:35,611 - And here come the drugs. - Colorless. 426 00:23:31,801 --> 00:23:34,978 as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes 430 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:45,467 [Armand] "I can feel their feelings as I drain them." 434 00:23:55,782 --> 00:23:58,741 "I'm the vampire Armand and my daddy vampire 436 00:24:01,178 --> 00:24:03,809 - "My brother tossed himself off a roof!" - "Vampires who murdered my daddy 448 00:24:32,558 --> 00:24:34,318 And you threw her name around just for cover, 449 00:24:34,342 --> 00:24:35,822 but it always circled back to him. 459 00:24:58,888 --> 00:25:01,587 But there's... all of it coming back. 473 00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:35,795 First door opens. 510 00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:36,829 Char coming off me. 512 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,050 [Louis] Like a siren. 519 00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,683 Get the story straight first. 523 00:28:20,611 --> 00:28:22,962 - [gasping] - Must be exquisite. 542 00:29:14,143 --> 00:29:15,492 He's just fine. 543 00:29:15,623 --> 00:29:17,364 - [chair thuds, Molloy groans] - Don't! 550 00:29:36,949 --> 00:29:38,777 - [Armand] He's just fine. - [Molloy thuds] 564 00:30:15,422 --> 00:30:18,468 Some kind of sock or shoe commercial? 583 00:31:10,085 --> 00:31:12,218 A fresh young girl that was his favorite food, 589 00:31:24,404 --> 00:31:27,189 the greatest loss to Lestat, because they stood 594 00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:37,939 - [tape recorder clicks off] - Curious. 596 00:31:40,246 --> 00:31:42,117 He's commandeered your body. 617 00:32:45,224 --> 00:32:47,574 And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain. 619 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,145 Please, man, I'm just a shitty little kid from Modesto. 623 00:32:58,237 --> 00:32:59,412 Bartering with desire. 648 00:34:05,304 --> 00:34:09,090 Sold them at recess. A little dirty, a little deceitful, 650 00:34:11,962 --> 00:34:14,052 - How are you...? - In high school, you told a girl 668 00:35:00,576 --> 00:35:02,361 My first memory. 691 00:36:14,650 --> 00:36:16,174 Spiro Agnew? 694 00:36:21,266 --> 00:36:24,573 this Saturday evening that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew 702 00:36:40,198 --> 00:36:43,723 So, I was the house pet for what? 709 00:37:00,609 --> 00:37:04,222 - You were there. - Go back to the chair, the TV. 710 00:37:04,352 --> 00:37:06,180 [TV] Vice President Spiro T. Agnew may be... 712 00:37:08,443 --> 00:37:10,489 You're in the chair, the TV is on... 713 00:37:10,619 --> 00:37:13,318 - Some service stations... - [Louis] Armand, can you come?! 714 00:37:13,448 --> 00:37:15,929 - [newsreader continues] - I can't get up. It hurts! 719 00:37:28,594 --> 00:37:31,336 - [TV] Some service stations... - [Louis] Armand, can you come?! 724 00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:42,085 - Please! - [newsreader continues] 728 00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:50,268 [newsreader] ...consumers and gas station owners. 729 00:37:50,398 --> 00:37:53,314 [newsreader continues indistinctly on TV] 745 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:50,676 and comes chasing after you again? 756 00:39:42,597 --> 00:39:46,079 - [vampires talking indistinctly] - [telepathically] Lestat. 760 00:39:55,784 --> 00:39:58,265 [vampires talking indistinctly] 784 00:41:03,896 --> 00:41:05,985 - [other vampire voices intrude] - Louis! 827 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,488 Your wife counting down your thrusts. 840 00:44:21,223 --> 00:44:23,878 Shh-shh-shh. A comfortable chair 850 00:44:49,295 --> 00:44:51,558 It is the comfort we all long for. 854 00:45:02,525 --> 00:45:03,701 Come. 855 00:45:04,266 --> 00:45:05,398 Come. 857 00:45:08,183 --> 00:45:12,057 [♪ poignant music] 859 00:45:23,633 --> 00:45:25,505 [♪ music fades] 864 00:45:42,087 --> 00:45:45,394 As a testament to our companionship. 871 00:46:30,657 --> 00:46:33,660 [♪ gentle music] 893 00:48:11,497 --> 00:48:14,195 What's always confused me was that... 898 00:48:34,476 --> 00:48:36,217 Because it was you. 933 00:50:25,152 --> 00:50:26,632 We paused Paris. 943 00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:55,922 [♪ tense musical note] 944 00:50:58,229 --> 00:51:00,318 [♪ tense musical note] 945 00:51:02,407 --> 00:51:04,235 [♪ tense musical note] 952 00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:29,651 [ Music builds ] 956 00:51:41,576 --> 00:51:44,536 Johnson: Episode 5, "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape," 959 00:51:50,585 --> 00:51:52,892 Armand: In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her 967 00:52:08,081 --> 00:52:09,561 Would you like to join us? 979 00:52:38,416 --> 00:52:40,809 Those of us who know something about that era 980 00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:43,899 just sort of laugh at everything from the clothes to the hair, 984 00:52:51,516 --> 00:52:55,868 Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire. 991 00:53:17,150 --> 00:53:19,413 It was actually the first thing we shot this season. 993 00:53:21,415 --> 00:53:23,635 'cause you're in the one set for the whole time. 994 00:53:23,765 --> 00:53:27,160 At first blush, it is a one-off episode, 1001 00:53:39,128 --> 00:53:41,957 So am I the first guy that you brought back here? 1004 00:53:47,963 --> 00:53:51,576 Our first interview, it's a fog. 1014 00:54:14,816 --> 00:54:16,296 I'm a vampire. 1018 00:54:26,611 --> 00:54:28,526 Even when they first meet in '73, 1023 00:54:38,362 --> 00:54:40,407 First question. 1024 00:54:40,538 --> 00:54:43,889 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 1030 00:54:57,119 --> 00:54:58,817 I mean, you've forgotten, man. 1038 00:55:16,965 --> 00:55:22,623 and more like a... ambush. 1063 00:56:24,946 --> 00:56:27,819 to the extent where you would rewrite their history. 1069 00:56:38,177 --> 00:56:40,309 He's just fine.[Grunts] 1077 00:56:58,415 --> 00:57:03,420 that Armand has gone to and what he's done to each of us. 1093 00:57:52,425 --> 00:57:55,472 [Classical music] 854 00:45:02,525 --> 00:45:03,701 Come. 855 00:45:04,266 --> 00:45:05,398 Come.