Man: [On recording] You weren't always a vampire, were you?
Would you like to join us?
I used to be real good at running things.
Memories just keep bubbling up.
[♪ gentle orchestral music]
[♪ music intensifies]
[♪ music fades]
Iron pillars holding up terracotta domes,
An effortless, eternal life ahead of us.
Hmm? Oh, it's just a note to my assistant. It's nothing.
[Louis on tape] Eternal life ahead of us.
Becomes the third person "him".
You're circling something.
Or it's daytime and a vampire of Louis's age
It is, sir.
[Armand] Shall we take our business to the living room?
- Friends. - If you'll excuse us?
Malik knows if he makes it
on foot to Jumeirah Mosque by evening,
- [door closes] - He's ditching us?
Follow up with the vampire Armand about diet and exercise.
[Armand] Little dirty, little deceitful but it's enterprising.
[Armand] In high school you told a girl you'd only do her... Rest.
hundreds of thousands of kills.
Um... Our first interview... It's a fog.
[♪ slinky jazz]
So am I the first guy that you've brought back here?
Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire.
Do you normally interview your subjects with your shirt off?
He sometimes lingers when boats come into harbor.
Just about every night I lived there.
Worth is often miscalculated because of...
Take this seriously.
I forget to put a tape in. [chuckles]
- I'm a vampire. - Okay.
[cellophane rustling]
Just start the tape.
First question.
You weren't always a vampire, were you?
No. I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
And how did it come about?
Like... why you talked to me in the first place?
I would chat for a few hours, and then who would come looking
I'd like to know, for me, what happened between us.
And for all that Lestat boasted about his love of music,
By then you'd paid a biblical price for your first love.
Just for reference that was Louis de Pointe du Lac
just now making his fangs... come out.
The tape ran out. It's just a small 30 minute thing.
what a dangerously unstable psyche I was with.
Because the next thing that happened was, you detonated.
♪ A girl's best friend ♪
- Or you just pick yourself up. - Stay behind with Lestat.
All I had to do was watch the sun come up.
Are you kidding me?! What, you were just going to end it?
And you were just gonna throw it away?
Listen, no. Obviously you didn't do it,
and since you use the past tense about her,
I won't waste it. I think you could use me.
plus a few things they don't.
I mean, you've forgotten, man. I mean, you don't understand
and more like an ambush.
Press pause on the betrayal of it all and... listen.
- I said to join us! - The night's gone.
So the room got dirty, so what? I'll clean it up.
Seek comfort in the arms of lowlifes and unfortunates,
- And here come the drugs. - Colorless.
as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes
[Armand] "I can feel their feelings as I drain them."
"I'm the vampire Armand and my daddy vampire
- "My brother tossed himself off a roof!" - "Vampires who murdered my daddy
And you threw her name around just for cover,
but it always circled back to him.
But there's... all of it coming back.
First door opens.
Char coming off me.
[Louis] Like a siren.
Get the story straight first.
- [gasping] - Must be exquisite.
He's just fine.
- [chair thuds, Molloy groans] - Don't!
- [Armand] He's just fine. - [Molloy thuds]
Some kind of sock or shoe commercial?
A fresh young girl that was his favorite food,
the greatest loss to Lestat, because they stood
- [tape recorder clicks off] - Curious.
He's commandeered your body.
And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain.
Please, man, I'm just a shitty little kid from Modesto.
Bartering with desire.
Sold them at recess. A little dirty, a little deceitful,
- How are you...? - In high school, you told a girl
My first memory.
Spiro Agnew?
this Saturday evening that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
So, I was the house pet for what?
- You were there. - Go back to the chair, the TV.
[TV] Vice President Spiro T. Agnew may be...
You're in the chair, the TV is on...
- Some service stations... - [Louis] Armand, can you come?!
- [newsreader continues] - I can't get up. It hurts!
- [TV] Some service stations... - [Louis] Armand, can you come?!
- Please! - [newsreader continues]
[newsreader] ...consumers and gas station owners.
[newsreader continues indistinctly on TV]
and comes chasing after you again?
- [vampires talking indistinctly] - [telepathically] Lestat.
[vampires talking indistinctly]
- [other vampire voices intrude] - Louis!
Your wife counting down your thrusts.
Shh-shh-shh. A comfortable chair
It is the comfort we all long for.
Come.
[♪ poignant music]
[♪ music fades]
As a testament to our companionship.
[♪ gentle music]
What's always confused me was that...
Because it was you.
We paused Paris.
[♪ tense musical note]
[ Music builds ]
Johnson: Episode 5, "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape,"
Armand: In high school, you told a girl you'd only do her
Would you like to join us?
Those of us who know something about that era
just sort of laugh at everything from the clothes to the hair,
Old-timey fun from the Sasanian Empire.
It was actually the first thing we shot this season.
'cause you're in the one set for the whole time.
At first blush, it is a one-off episode,
So am I the first guy that you brought back here?
Our first interview, it's a fog.
I'm a vampire.
Even when they first meet in '73,
First question.
You weren't always a vampire, were you?
I mean, you've forgotten, man.
and more like a... ambush.
to the extent where you would rewrite their history.
He's just fine.[Grunts]
that Armand has gone to and what he's done to each of us.
[Classical music]
Come.