and I was completely unaware it was happening.
Lestat: Come to me.
A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her,
you were just gonna up and leave me?!
No vampire must commit to writing
the history of the vampires.
You want a companion? Claudia: I get to pick one thing,
trampled on the laws, and I am to reward her for it?
The premeditated murders of the vampiress Antoinette Brown
and the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.
[♪ gentle orchestral music]
[♪ music intensifies]
[♪ music fades]
The child vampire Claudia
and her companion Madeleine are...
[♪ gentle music]
the premeditated murders of the vampiress Antoinette Brown
and the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.
[Louis] I fell in and out of consciousness.
Sacks come off. You're characters in a play.
And every actor onstage has scripted lines except for us.
We didn't know any laws!
The coven members sitting behind us
would use their collective powers to disorient our minds,
jaws compressing the skull.
They were both trying to kill us!
In all their chilling premeditation.
She had us all fooled.
[Celeste] The accused must stay silent and must stay seated!
a growing sense of nausea took over me.
A tremor in the air.
[Santiago] Begotten of Magnus...
[Santiago] ...the boards of the Theatre Des Vampires...
[Santiago] the first and only witness.
he's coming.
[♪ dramatic music]
[cheering and applause continue]
[applause dies down]
Written by the vampire Claudia,
Monsieur de Lioncourt, you've returned to Paris because?
I'm going to drain the Australians if they win.
And justice for the attempted murder of my being.
It's their turn to hurt.
Lestat, at last, come to kill us.
the star witness's testimony was scrupulously impartial?
Take us back to the beginning, if you will,
[♪ gentle music plays]
[projector whirs]
[ripple of applause]
My first paramour, Nicolas de Lefant, a violinist...
Until I saw the vampire Sam
Just a clarification for the readers,
and then you sat in the best seat in the house
I buried myself in the dirt, Port Neuilly,
on the outskirts of Paris, and I lay there for a hundred years.
Napoleon marched his drinks cabinet across Europe
My only sustenance, the ancient blood already inside me.
[music stops abruptly]
[♪ gentle music resumes]
that the victim pointed to the accused.
I first saw Louis in a street brawl.
[Santiago] The accused was a troubled man.
alienated from his own desires.
Louis first accosted me in a pleasure house,
I... a vampire,
Louis was saying, "Come to me".
"Come to me?!" Those are his words!
- [audience booing] - He kept coming around after me!
"Come to me?!" Fuck you!
[straining to speak] "Come... to... me?!"
Speaking your own unspeakable desires.
[♪ music stops abruptly]
in the hopes that I would come to you.
- [♪ gentle music resumes] - The accused called to you from
showed him what enormous power you possess.
My companionship.
the accused raised up his hands
Men embracing men, it disgusts you?
Uh... I'm pretty sure it disgusts a whole lot of people.
is fire your M1 Garand rifle a single time.
There are 14 men who served their countries honorably
in attendance with us this afternoon.
They may, like yourself, be disgusted
by the transcendent love between two vampires of the same sex.
where lies their disgust now?
[ripple of applause, muttering]
- [coughs] - Louis didn't take to vampirism.
The accused didn't take to vampirism.
[Santiago] He not only rejected vampirism,
A trenchant form of verbal amusement.
The single worst thing that a vampire can feel is loneliness.
[Santiago] This is vampire loneliness.
[Lestat] He abandoned me in our townhouse.
I didn't know if he was ever going to come back.
[mimics Claudia] "I closed my eyes and waited for the fire to take me."
I just prayed it wouldn't hurt too bad.
made me more of a vampire than anyone up here.
- Nothing. We do nothing. - She's dying 'cause of me!
They lit her building on fire 'cause of me!
They lit whatever fire you're talking about
with their own free will. You do not know this girl!
- Make her like us. - C'est impossible, elle est trop jeune!
- What do you mean? Yes, it can. - The Great Laws forbid it!
Great Laws?! She's gonna die in front of us!
Because I knew the wisdom of the Great Laws.
Because I knew pain and anxiety would be her only birthright.
- I don't care! - Well, you must care!
Her mind and her spirit will age
- I found her in the fire. - And she will be miserable
- behind the door. - And it will spiral beyond your reach!
- And you have to drain her first, Louis! - She asked if I was an angel!
[♪ poignant music]
[♪ music swells]
[♪ gentle classical music]
When you sentence them for their crimes, you sentence me too.
Unwelcome clarity?
A consummate killer, a congenial companion.
corpses clogging the Bayou, a penchant for human souvenirs.
The vampiress tot in the wind for seven years.
If your companion no longer wishes
coming out of his mouth is vitriol or disinterest...
[Santiago] Antoinette Brown, ladies and gentlemen,
later the vampire Antoinette.
I see the best of my vampiric self in her.
"Come with me to Europe."
At first we just slammed each other around our townhouse.
- compromise. - Aaagh!
just like you did our daughter.
You used your Cloud Gift.
You flew the accused high up into the air,
But for a vampire? It's a hard fall, nothing more.
Did you do that to the accused?
And to us monsters, what's a bite between paramours?
[♪ poignant music]
clutch the air.
because I am the one who broke him!
Crushing what you cannot own?
I was not worthy of the forgiveness you would give me.
because he wanted us dead.
like an egg from an airplane.
He's fine now. You apologize. All is forgiven.
He's not dead! He's standing right here in front of us!
You didn't come here for me.
I was just a roof shingle that flew off of your house.
[♪ poignant music]
Took the air out of the place with that one.
[Armand] But they had their Technicolor film.
And they had Lestat back in the chair,
[Armand] And the mortals didn't blink.
until Santiago and Lestat had them dreaming in their seats.
[Armand] Piranhas looking up through the tank water,
[♪ romantic classical music]
For the Heretical Desecration of the first, third,
fourth and fifth of the Great Laws,
what say you for the vampire Claudia?
Madame Justice?
The vampire Madeleine - what is her crime?
Oh, she's just a bastard fledgling,
Yet she is oblivious to the crimes committed by her maker.
It is only fair that she be offered the same choice as any vampire.
This is true and fair.
In accordance with vampiric law,
may she not join the coven and become one with us?
She must join or die.
Oh, points for enthusiasm, but it is true and fair.
Will you renounce the accused you sit with and join our coven?
I am the vampire Madeleine Eparvier.
And my immortal companion is Claudia.
[Santiago] My vampire heart quiver-eth.
For the Heretical Desecration of the first of the Great Laws
what say you for the vampire Madeleine Eparvier,
The vampire Claudia, rise.
For the Heretical Desecration of the first, third and fourth,
and the murder of the vampire Antoinette Brown,
and the attempted murder of her maker the vampire Monsieur Lestat de Lioncourt,
what say you for the vampire Claudia,
Sir, will you grant the condemned her last request?
I'm going to come back and fucking kill all of you.
of the Great Laws one, two and four,
and the murder of the vampire Antoinette Brown,
and the attempted murder of his maker the vampire Monsieur Lestat de Lioncourt,
what say you for the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac,
[♪ stirring classical music]
[♪ music continues]
[♪ music swells]
[Santiago telepathically] Take him downstairs.
They took me to their...
their crypt.
[vampires laughing]
[Molloy] And while that's going on, she's upstairs on stage?
[♪ clarinet plays mournfully]
What must be happening to him backstage.
[cheering and applause continues]
♪ I don't like windows ♪
♪ I want to fly where the wild wind blows ♪
And Madeleine succumbed first.
[♪ clarinet continues]
♪ I don't like windows when they're... ♪
[applause fades]
I've come to kill you.
[Applause]
Louis: I fell in and out of consciousness.
The sacks come off, you're characters in a play.
This is something that the audience and all of us,
[ Cheers and applause ]
is probably the most complex moment for Louis.
There's a reason why Lestat appears as his subconscious.
There's a comfort that he finds in him,
It's their turn to hurt.
For us, Jacob and myself,
it was a lot to do with, what's their connection,
I think he knows it's all over.
The accused raised up his hands
and then there's this homophobic comment
Where lies your disgust now?
It's just another element
that pushes him further and further into catastrophe.
You dropped him like an egg from an airplane.
and then it's just straight anger from then on,
He's not dead! He's standing right here in front of us!
She knows that she's right.
Will you renounce the accused you sit with
is to be put first.
So in that moment, it's acceptance of her circumstance.
My immortal companion is Claudia.
What say you for the vampire Claudia?
I'm going to come back and [bleep] kill all of you.
If they do anything, it's come back with a vengeance.
[Applause]
She was a brilliant vampire.