To Europe. 13

Paris. 13

THEATRE DES VAMPIRES. 13

INT. LOUVRE. NIGHTS LATER. 18

LOUIS So you want me to tell|you the story of my life.

MALLOY I guess Like I said, that's what I do.|I interview people.

MALLOY I'm a collector of lives.

MALLOY FM radio, KFRC.

LOUIS You'll need a lot of tape for my story.

MALLOY No problem. I got a bag full of tape right here.

LOUIS You followed me here, didn't you?

MALLOY Yeah, I suppose I did.

MALLOY You seemed very interesting.

MALLOY This is where you live?

LOUIS No.

LOUIS It's just a room.

MALLOY I want you say we get started?

MALLOY So, what do you do?

LOUIS I'm a vampire.

MALLOY It's something I haven't heard that before.

MALLOY You mean this literally, I take it?

LOUIS Absolutely.

{5677}{5733}I was waiting for you in that alley.

{5739}{5791}Watching you watching me.

{5813}{5859}And then you began to speak.

MALLOY What a lucky break for me.

LOUIS Perhaps lucky for both of us.

MALLOY You said you were...

{6135}{6175}...waiting for me.

{6185}{6263}What were you going to do?|Kill me, drink my blood? | All that stuff…

LOUIS Yes.

{6317}{6369}But you needn't be concerned with that now.

MALLOY You really believe this, don't you,|that you're a vampire?

LOUIS We can't begin this way.

{6575}{6617}Let me turn on the light.

MALLOY I thought vampires didn't like the light.

LOUIS We love it. I only wanted to prepare you.

MALLOY Christ!

LOUIS Don't be frightened.

{6941}{6989}I want this opportunity.

MALLOY How the hell did you do that?

LOUIS The same as you do.

{7097}{7155}A series of simple gestures.

{7159}{7217}Only I moved too fast for you to see.

{7249}{7287}I'm flesh and blood...

{7291}{7329}...but not human.

{7341}{7417}I haven't been human for 200 years.

{7461}{7489}Please....

{7693}{7741}How can I put you at ease?

{7751}{7813}Shall we begin like "David Copperfield"?

{7817}{7845}"I am born..."

{7847}{7878}"...I grew up."

{7923}{8027}Or shall we begin when I was|born to darkness, as I call it.

{8063}{8129}That's where we should start,|don't you think?

MALLOY You're not lying … me, are you?

LOUIS Why should I lie?

{8341}{8398}1791 was the year it happened.

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{8519}{8561}I was 24.

{8565}{8615}Younger than you are now.

{8627}{8705}But times were different then.|I was a man at that age.

{8709}{8807}The master of a large plantation,|just south of New Orleans.

{8885}{8945}I had lost my wife in childbirth.

{8949}{9027}She and the infant[S1] had been|buried[S2] less than half a year.

{9053}{9107}I would've been happy to join them.

{9165}{9227}I couldn't bear the pain of their loss.

{9235}{9293}I longed[S3] to be released from it.

{9599}{9647}I wanted to lose it all:

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{9651}{9687}my wealth[S4] ...

{9703}{9739}...my estate[S5] ...

{9751}{9789}...my sanity[S6] .

GAMBLER How many aces are in a deck?

{10043}{10087}Are you calling me a cheat?

{10159}{10229}No, I'm calling you a piece of stinking offal!

{10365}{10433}You lack the courage of your convictions.|Do it!

{10449}{10517}Most of all, I longed[S7] for death.

{10525}{10563}I know that now.

{10579}{10619}I invited it.

{10641}{10703}A release from the pain of living.

{11213}{11277}My invitation was open to anyone.

{11295}{11347}To the whore at my side.

{11371}{11423}To the pimp[S8] that followed.

{11475}{11547}But it was a vampire that accepted.

PIMP Give me your money or you die!

An appear of LESTAT

LESTAT Do you still want death?

{13109}{13159}Or have you tasted it enough?

LOUIS Enough.

{13421}{13497}He left me there, on the banks|of the Mississippi...

{13523}{13597}...somewhere between life and death.

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{14039}{14103}Who are you?|What're you doing in my house?

LESTAT I've come to answer your prayers.

{14247}{14305}Life has no meaning anymore...does it?

{14400}{14452}The wine has no taste.

{14456}{14504}The food sickens you.

{14506}{14578}There seems no reason for any of it...|does there?

{14700}{14759}What if I could give it back to you?

{14767}{14805}Pluck out [S9] the pain...

{14807}{14856}...and give you another life?

{14871}{14927}One … you could never imagine.

{14953}{15003}And it would be...for all time.

{15060}{15092}And sickness...

{15096}{15132}...and death...

{15136}{15192}...could never touch you again.

{15232}{15268}Don't be afraid.

{15287}{15347}I'm going to give you the choice...

{15351}{15375}...I...

{15383}{15419}...never had.

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LOUIS That morning, I was not yet a vampire...

{15712}{15779}...and I saw my last sunrise.

{15796}{15851}I remember it completely...

{15867}{15948}...and yet I can't recall[S10] |any sunrise before it.

{16003}{16091}I watched the whole magnificence[S11] |of the dawn for the last time...

{16095}{16139}...as if it were the first.

{16235}{16299}And then I said farewell[S12] to sunlight...

{16301}{16350}...and set out to become...

{16352}{16377}...what I became.

LESTAT Have you said your good-byes to the light?

{17475}{17512}I've drained[S13] you...

{17516}{17567}...to the point of death.

{17595}{17644}If I leave you here...

{17648}{17680}...you'll die.

{17708}{17730}Or...

{17756}{17832}...you can be young always, my friend...

{17860}{17904}...as we are now.

{17940}{17987}But you must tell me...

{18000}{18034}...will you come...

{18036}{18063}...or no?

LOUIS Yes.

{18316}{18348}Yes.

LESTAT Your body's dying.

{19919}{19959}Pay no attention.

{19975}{20020}It happens to us all.

{20743}{20770}Now look...

{20772}{20828}...with your vampire eyes.

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MALLOY What did you see?

LOUIS No words can describe it.

{21419}{21479}Might as well ask Heaven what it sees.

{21483}{21524}No human can know.

{21560}{21623}The statue seemed to move, but didn't.

{21636}{21707}The world had changed,|yet stayed the same.

{21740}{21835}I was a newborn vampire, weeping[S14] [S15] at the beauty of the night.

{21972}{22028}Perhaps you'd like another cigarette?

{22059}{22123}I would. It's not bothering you, is it?

{22128}{22223}I don't assume it would.|It's not like you'll die from cancer.

{22240}{22279}I don't think so.

{22324}{22384}-What about crucifixes[S16] ?|

LOUIS -Crucifixes?

MALLOY Can you look at them?

LOUIS Actually, I'm quite fond of|looking at crucifixes.

MALLOY How about the stake[S17] through the heart?

MALLOY Nonsense.

{22615}{22644} How about coffins?

{22667}{22699}Coffins.

LOUIS Coffins, unfortunately, are a necessity.

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LESTAT Don't worry.

{22888}{22916}Soon...

{22928}{23011}...you'll be sleeping as|soundly as you've ever slept.

{23051}{23096}And when you awake...

{23120}{23167}...I'll be waiting for you...

{23187}{23248}...and so will all the world.

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LOUIS Blood, I was to find,|was a necessity as well.

{23559}{23652}I awoke the next evening with|a hunger I had never felt.

TERESA Once you taste this...

{23747}{23823}...you'll never go to another tavern again.

LESTAT You think so, cherie?

{23899}{23972}But what if I'd rather taste your lips?

TERESA My lips are even sweeter still.

LESTAT My friend...

{24472}{24531}...should taste those lips.

TERESA Is his...

{24568}{24596}...kiss...

{24600}{24629}...as deep...

{24631}{24667}...as yours?

LESTAT Deeper, ma chĘrie.

LOUIS I will not take her life.

LESTAT I've done it for you.

{25728}{25764}She's dead...

{25788}{25844}...as a doornail, my friend.

{26016}{26096}It's so easy, you almost feel sorry for them.

{26256}{26296}You'll get used to killing.

{26298}{26362}Just forget about that mortal[S18] coil[S19] .

{26376}{26444}You'll become accustomed[S20] to it,|all too quickly.

YVETTE Are you not hungry, sir?

LESTAT Au contraire, ma chĘrie.

{26716}{26764}He could eat the whole colony.

LOUIS I will finish it.

{27248}{27278}Now leave us.

LESTAT Can't you pretend, you fool?

{27526}{27578}Don't give the game away.

{27582}{27638}We're lucky to have such a home.

{27872}{27932}Pretend to drink, at least.

{28048}{28112}Such fine crystal shouldn't go to waste.

{28620}{28650}I know.

{28656}{28704}It gets cold so quickly.

LOUIS We can live like this?

{28752}{28788}On a blood of animals?

LESTAT I wouldn't call it living. Call it surviving.

{28880}{28946}Useful trick if your coffin for a month on a ship in sea.

{29010}{29082}There's nothing in the world|now that doesn't hold some....

LOUIS Fascination[S21] .

LESTAT Yes.

{29201}{29272}-I'm bored with this prattle[S22] .|

LOUIS -We can live without killing.

{29274}{29304}It's possible.

LESTAT Anything is possible.

{29348}{29396}But just try it for a week.

{29406}{29514}Come into New Orleans and let|me show you some real sport[S23] .

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LOUIS (VO) Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night.

{29858}{29900}A fresh young girl...

{29904}{29973}... that was his favorite for|the first of the evening.

{29990}{30074}For seconds, he preferred a gilded,|beautiful youth.

{30112}{30194}But the snob in him|loved to hunt in society.

{30210}{30286}The blood of the aristocrat|thrilled him best of all.

LESTAT The trick is not to think about it.

LESTAT You see that one?

{30420}{30456}Widow St. Clair.

{30462}{30560}She had that gorgeous young fop[S24] |murder her husband.

LOUIS How do you know?

LESTAT Read her thoughts.

{30728}{30770}Read her thoughts.

LOUIS I can't.

LESTAT The "dark gift" is different for each of us.

{31056}{31156}But one thing is true of everyone.|We grow stronger as we go along.

{31178}{31226}Just take my word for it.

{31252}{31314}She blamed a slave for his murder.

{31318}{31368}Imagine what they did to him.

{31386}{31460}Evil-doers are easier, and they taste better.

WIDOW ST. CLAIR …

FOP Where are we going?

{32446}{32474}Nowhere.

WIDOW ST. CLAIR Now, young man, you really amaze me!

{32642}{32720}I'm old enough to be your grandmother.

{33060}{33118}Oh, yes, that's the melody.

{33130}{33170}I remember it.

{33458}{33496}Murderer!

{33508}{33540}My little papillons!

{33542}{33602}My butterflies, he killed them!

LESTAT You... whining[S25] coward[S26] of a vampire...

{33732}{33820}...who prowls[S27] killing rats and poodles!|You could've finished us!

LOUIS You've condemned me to Hell!

LESTAT I don't know any Hell.

{34032}{34076}That's more like it!

{34082}{34114}Anger! Fury!

{34118}{34180}That's why I chose you!

{34304}{34366}But you can't kill me, Louis.

{34530}{34560}Feed...

{34574}{34616}...on what you will.

{34628}{34672}Rats, chickens...

{34676}{34704}...poodles.

{34732}{34774}I'll leave you to it...

{34780}{34832}...and watch you come around.

{34838}{34864}Remember:

{34874}{34924}Life without me...

{34928}{34968}...would be even more...

{34972}{35004}...unbearable.

{36420}{36468}Consider yourself lucky.

{36494}{36570}In Paris, a vampire must be|clever for many reasons.

LOUIS Paris?

LESTAT Here all one needs is a pair of fangs[S28] .

LOUIS You came from Paris?

LESTAT As did the one who made me.

LOUIS Tell me about him.|You must've learned something from him.

LESTAT I learned absolutely nothing.

{37076}{37140}I wasn't given a choice, remember?

LOUIS You must know something|about the meaning of it all.

LESTAT Why? Why should I know these things?

{37290}{37326}Do you know them?

{37330}{37360}That noise...

{37362}{37412}...it's driving me mad!

{37416}{37494}We've been here for weeks|with nothing but that noise!

LOUIS They know about us.

{37540}{37634}They watch us dine on empty plates|and drink from empty glasses.

LESTAT Come...

{37684}{37726}...to New Orleans then.

{37736}{37822}The Paris Opera's in town.|We can try some French...

{37826}{37858}...cuisine.

LOUIS Forgive me if I have a|lingering[S29] respect for life.

LESTAT You'll soon run out of chickens, Louis.

YVETTE Monsieur Louis?

{38914}{38958}You don't want any supper?

LOUIS No, ma chĘrie.

YVETTE We're worried about you, Master.

{39158}{39220}When is it that you go riding in the field?

{39252}{39325}And how long since you've|been to the slave quarter[S30] ?

{39396}{39444}Everywhere there is death.

{39506}{39564}Are you still our master at all?

LOUIS That will be all of that.

YVETTE I will not go unless you listen to me.

{39738}{39800}You must send away this friend of yours.

{39826}{39888}The slaves are all frightened of him...

{39926}{39978}...and they are frightened of you.

LOUIS I'm frightened of myself.

{41318}{41360}Hear me now!

{41370}{41418}This place is cursed[S31] !

{41422}{41454}Damned!

{41462}{41524}And, yes, your master is the Devil!

{41548}{41612}Get out while you can! You're all free man!

{41622}{41656}Do you hear me?

{41682}{41708}Run!

{41712}{41733}Run!

{41736}{41786}Save yourselves!

LESTAT Perfect! Perfect!

{43000}{43084}Just burn the place!|Burn everything we own!

{43087}{43149}Have us living in a field, like cattle[S32] !

LOUIS You thought you could have it all.

LESTAT Shut up, Louis!

{43274}{43304}Come on!

LOUIS Where are we?

LESTAT Where do you think, my idiot friend?

{43934}{43994}We're in a nice, filthy[S33] cemetery.

{44014}{44050}Are you happy?

{44054}{44114}Is this fitting[S34] ? Proper[S35] enough?

LOUIS We belong in Hell.

LESTAT What if there is no Hell?

{44222}{44297}Or they don't want us there?|Ever think of that?

LOUIS(VO) But there was a Hell.

{44407}{44478}And no matter where we moved to,|I was in it.

{44514}{44590}We rented rooms on the|waterfront of New Orleans.

{44626}{44676}Your skin is icy.

LESTAT Your friend has no head for wine.

WHORE 1 Don't worry.

{45381}{45473}I can warm that cold skin of|yours better than she can.

LESTAT Do you think so?

WHORE 1 Why...

{45581}{45621}...you're warm now!

LESTAT But the price is high.

{45706}{45766}Your pretty friend, I exhausted[S36] her.

{45857}{45888}Soft.

{45934}{45974}So soft.

{46014}{46085}I can see you lying on a bed of satin.

WHORE 1 Such things you say.

{46197}{46248}Do you know what manner of bed?

{46894}{46942}Should we put out the light?

{47076}{47130}And then put out the light.

{47481}{47532}But once I've put out thy[S37] light...

{47574}{47604}...I cannot...

{47633}{47694}...give it vital breath again.

{47738}{47786}Its needs must wither.

{48078}{48114}For you, Louis.

{48118}{48162}You can pretend it's wine.

LOUIS She's not dead!

LESTAT You're in love with your mortal nature.|You resist what can bring you peace.

LOUIS You call this peace?

LESTAT We're predators[S38] , whose all-seeing|eyes give them detachment[S39] !

LOUIS The girl, Lestat!|

LESTAT -Take her! End that hunger!

LOUIS No!

LESTAT Now, my child.

{49001}{49058}You're tired, you want to sleep!

WHORE 1 It's a coffin!

{49329}{49370}A coffin! Let me out!

{49389}{49425}I'm not dead!

LESTAT It's your coffin, enjoy it. Most of us|never get to know what it feels like.

LOUIS Why do you do this?

LESTAT I like to do it. I enjoy it.|Take your aesthete's taste to purer things.

{49698}{49766}Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it!

{49770}{49836}For do not doubt you are a killer, Louis!

{50009}{50073}-What's that?|

WHORE 1 -It's a coffin.

LESTAT So it is. You must be dead.

WHORE 1 I'm not dead, am I?

LOUIS You're not dead.

LESTAT Not yet.

LOUIS Finish this now!

LESTAT You finish it!

WHORE 1 Save me from him!

{50424}{50448}Save me!

{50501}{50534}You'll let me go?

{50546}{50597}I can't die like this!

{50606}{50636}I need a priest.

LESTAT My friend is a priest.|He'll hear your sins before you die.

{50709}{50758}Unless...I make her one of us.

LOUIS 50784}No!

LESTAT šThen take her, Louis, end her suffering!|End yours!

LOUIS No!

LESTAT Now...

{51434}{51474}...are you happy?

LOUIS My God!

{51648}{51689}To think you...

{51693}{51749}...are all I have to learn from.

LESTAT In the Old World, Louis...

{51902}{51966}...they called it the "dark gift."

{52030}{52082}And I gave it to you.

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MAN Don't go that way, Monsieur.|It's the plague.

{52689}{52766}-Go back the way you came!|

LOUIS -The way I came....

CLAUDIA Mama.

{53738}{53786}Please help us.

{53793}{53850}Papa left us and didn't come back.

{54038}{54101}Please, wake Mama, Monsieur.

LESTAT My philosopher. My martyr[S40] .

{54813}{54870}"Never take a human life."

{54912}{54966}This calls for a celebration.

{55198}{55265}There's still life in the old lady yet.

{55346}{55380}Come back!

{55385}{55437}You are what you are!

{55485}{55533}Merciful [S41] death.

{55553}{55618}How you love your precious[S42] guilt.

LOUIS(VO)Her blood coursed [S43] in my veins...

{55898}{55945}...sweeter than life itself.

{55947}{56007}And, as it did, Lestat's words|made sense to me.

{56009}{56055}I knew peace only when I killed.

{56057}{56170}When I heard her heart in that terrible|rhythm, I knew what peace could be.

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LESTAT All I need to find you, Louis,|is follow the corpses[S44] of rats.

{57281}{57326}Pain is terrible for you.

{57357}{57446}You feel it like no other creature,|because you're a vampire.

{57486}{57541}You don't want it to go on.

LOUIS No.

LESTAT Then do what it is in your nature to do...

{57738}{57825}...and you will feel as you felt|with that child in your arms.

{57873}{57921}Evil is a point of view.

{57941}{57993}God kills indiscriminately[S45] ...

{58022}{58066}...and so shall we.

{58089}{58205}For no creatures under God are as we are.|None so like Him...

{58207}{58240}...as ourselves.

{58297}{58350}I have a gift for you.

{58384}{58416}Come.

{58510}{58534}Please.

{58853}{58909}-She's here.|

LOUIS -What are you saying?

LESTAT You need...

{58993}{59029}...company...

{59031}{59084}...more congenial[S46] than mine.

{59206}{59254}Remember how you wanted her?

{59278}{59317}The taste of her?

LOUIS I thought I'd killed her.

LESTAT Don't worry, Louis.

{59561}{59605}Your conscience is clear.

{59917}{59946}Claudia.

{60114}{60150}Listen to me.

{60169}{60214}You're ill, my precious.

{60226}{60321}And I'm going to give you|what you need to get well.

LOUIS No.

LESTAT You want her to die then?

{61073}{61114}That's it. Yes.

{61454}{61482}Stop!

{61541}{61574}Stop!

{61586}{61614}Enough!

CLAUDIA I want some more.

LESTAT Of course you want more.

{63374}{63418}Gently, chĘrie.

{63442}{63490}They're so innocent.

{63522}{63574}They must not be made to suffer.

{63605}{63634}Good.

{63689}{63717}Yes.

{63722}{63757}All right, now.

{63761}{63789}Stop.

{63850}{63898}That's enough, chĘrie.

{63908}{63969}You must stop before the heart stops.

CLAUDIA I want some more.

LESTAT I know.

{64070}{64122}But it's best in the beginning...

{64126}{64193}...lest the Death takes you down with it.

{64217}{64270}You've done very well. Look at you.

{64277}{64333}Not a drop spilt. Very good.

CLAUDIA Where is Mama?

LESTAT Mama's gone...

{64569}{64649}...to Heaven, chĘrie, like that sweet lady...|right there.

{64681}{64721}They all go to Heaven.

LOUIS All but us.

LESTAT Do you want to frighten our daughter?

CLAUDIA I'm not your daughter.

LESTAT Oh, yes, you are.

{64950}{65004}You're my and Louis' daughter now.

{65013}{65078}You see, Louis was going to leave us.

{65105}{65149}He was going to go away.

{65173}{65209}But now he's not.

{65233}{65274}Now he's going to stay...

{65278}{65322}...and make you happy.

CLAUDIA Louis.

{65546}{65586}You fiend[S47] .

LESTAT One happy family.

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MALLOY He did it to make you stay with him?

LOUIS Perhaps.

{65965}{66066}He knew me. He knew I would love|her more than the waking world.

{66109}{66157}But there was more to it.

{66169}{66254}He lavished[S48] affection[S49] on her,|there is no doubt about that.

{66281}{66382}Perhaps, in the end,|he did it because he was lonely too.

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DRESSMAKER I need more light.|-She needs more light.

{66458}{66523}-I'll go blind without another lamp.|-She'll go blind.

{66525}{66584}Or let me fit this child during the day.

LESTAT Well, I am afraid, madame,|that my days are sacrosanct[S50] .

LOUIS A little child, she was.

{66766}{66813}But also a fierce[S51] killer...

{66817}{66934}...now capable of the ruthless[S52] pursuit[S53] |of blood with all a child's demanding[S54] .

CLAUDIA Let me kiss it better.

{67350}{67377} CLAUDIA, CLAUDIA … Now...

{67390}{67478}...who will we get to finish your dress?|Be practical!

{67482}{67537}Remember, never in our home!

LOUIS (VO)She slept in my coffin at first...

{67629}{67698}...curling her little fingers around my hair...

{67702}{67768}...till the day came when she|wanted her own coffin.

{67950}{68009}But still, whenever she awoke...

{68014}{68061}...she would crawl into mine.

{68326}{68420}They died fast in those days, before,|she learned to play with them...

{68422}{68504}...to delay the moment till|she had taken what she wanted.

WOMAN Why are you crying, child?

{68892}{68932}Are you lost, my love?

CLAUDIA Mama!

WOMAN Hush, now, don't cry.

{69052}{69092}We'll find her.

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PIANO-TEACHER Mind the thumb, girl. Mind the thumb.|That little digit.

DOLLMAKER They're expensive, my dear.

{69782}{69866}Maybe too expensive for|a MORTAL YOUNG GIRL like you.

LESTAT Claudia! What have we told you!

CLAUDIA Never in the house.

{70362}{70398}Give me some room.

LOUIS To me, she was a child.

{70476}{70534}But to Lestat, a pupil...

{70542}{70622}...an infant prodigy[S55] with|a lust for killing like his own.

{70636}{70710}Together, they finished off whole families.

LESTAT Wonderful, wonderful.

{70926}{70992}Now try something|on a more somber note.

LOUIS Time can pass quickly for|mortals when they're happy.

{71396}{71446}With us, it was the same.

{71450}{71530}The years flew by like minutes.|The city grew.

{71534}{71586}Sailboats gave way to steamships...

{71588}{71682}...disgorging an endless menu|of magnificent strangers.

{71704}{71758}A new world had sprung up around us.

{71760}{71816}And we were all Americans now.

LESTAT This filthy[S56] modern tide!

{72068}{72174}What I wouldn't give for a drop|of old-fashioned Creole blood!

LOUIS Yankees are not to your taste?

LESTAT Their Democratic flavor|doesn't suit my palate[S57] , Louis.

{72770}{72818}Now that is pure Creole.

{72898}{72962}Trust Claudia to have found her.

{73027}{73052}What?

{73070}{73106}Don't you want her?

CLAUDIA I want to be her.

{73220}{73244}Can I?

LESTAT Be like her one day?

{73390}{73476}More melancholy nonsense.|You grow more like Louis daily!

{73480}{73524}Soon you'll be eating rats.

CLAUDIA Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis?

LOUIS It was a long, long time ago.

{73702}{73740}Before you were born.

{73771}{73816}And I don't recommend them.

LOUIS (VO)Thirty years had passed, yet her body|remained that of an eternal child.

{74014}{74122}Her eyes alone told the story of her age,|staring from under her curls...

{74126}{74160}...with a questioning...

{74162}{74222}...that would one day need an answer.

CLAUDIA Another doll.

{74496}{74548}I have dozens, you realize.

LESTAT I thought you could use one more.

CLAUDIA Why always on this night?

LESTAT What night do you mean?

CLAUDIA You always give me a doll on|the same night of the year.

LESTAT I didn't realize.

CLAUDIA Is this my birthday?

{75072}{75120}You dress me like a doll.

{75132}{75178}You make my hair like a doll.

{75180}{75204}Why?

LESTAT Some of these, Claudia, are so old...

{75308}{75338}...tattered[S58] .

{75367}{75436}-You should throw them away.|-I will, then!

LESTAT What have you done?

CLAUDIA What you told me to do!

LESTAT -You leave a corpse here to rot?|

CLAUDIA -I wanted her!

{75922}{75979}-I wanted to be her!|

LESTAT -She's mad!

{75982}{76046}She pollutes[S59] the very house we live in!

CLAUDIA Do you want me to be a doll forever?

LOUIS No you don't!

CLAUDIA Why not? Can't I change...

{76256}{76295} ...like everyone else?

{76924}{76970}Which one of you did it?

{76984}{77032}Which one of you did it?

{77036}{77100}Which one of you made me the way I am?

LESTAT What you are?

{77143}{77224}A vampire gone insane,|that pollutes its own bed!

CLAUDIA And if I cut my hair again?

LESTAT It will grow back again.

CLAUDIA But it wasn't always so!

{77366}{77432}I had a mother once.|And Louis, he had a wife.

{77443}{77488}He was mortal, same as she.

{77492}{77536}And so was I!

{77542}{77582}You made us what we are! Didn't you?

LESTAT Stop her.

CLAUDIA Did you do it to me?

{77830}{77864}How did you do it?

LESTAT And why should I tell you?

{77936}{77983}It's in my power.

CLAUDIA Why yours alone?

{78044}{78086}Tell me how it was done!

LESTAT Be glad...

{78128}{78178}...I made you what you are.

{78211}{78260}You'd be dead now if I hadn't.

{78262}{78332}Like that damned corpse!|Now get rid of it!

CLAUDIA You get rid of it.

{78652}{78688}Louis, why?

{78694}{78742}You've got to tell me.

LOUIS You see the old woman?

{78964}{79012}That will never happen to you.

{79036}{79080}You will never grow old.

{79096}{79138}And you will never die.

CLAUDIA And it means something else too,|doesn't it?

{79348}{79406}I shall never, ever grow up.

{79526}{79560}I hate him.

{79616}{79699}Tell me how it came to be that I am this...

{79718}{79747}...thing.

LOUIS For thirty years I'd avoided that place.

{80000}{80060}Yet I found my way back there...

{80064}{80131}...with hardly an upward glance.

CLAUDIA You...

{80540}{80580}...fed on me?

LOUIS Yes.

{80662}{80708}And he found me with you.

{80767}{80840}Then he cut his wrist|and fed you from him...

{80848}{80899}...and you were a vampire then...

{80904}{80964}...and have been every night thereafter.

CLAUDIA You both did it.

LOUIS I took your life.

{81204}{81250}He gave you another one.

CLAUDIA And here it is.

{81340}{81382}I hate you both.

LOUIS I walked all night.

{81758}{81814}I walked as I walked years before...

{81818}{81898}...when my mind swam[S60] with guilt|at the thought of killing.

{81928}{82030}I thought of all the things|I'd done and couldn't undo.

{82056}{82114}And I longed for one second's peace.

{82340}{82396}Locked together in hatred[S61] .

{82510}{82562}But I can't hate you, Louis.

{82716}{82762}Louis, my love.

{82807}{82856}I was mortal till you...

{82891}{82948}...gave me your immortal kiss.

{82988}{83064}You became my mother and my father.

{83102}{83158}And so I'm yours forever.

{83210}{83272}But now it's time to end it, Louis.

{83308}{83364}Now it's time to leave him.

LOUIS He will never let us go.

CLAUDIA Really?

LESTAT What is it now? You irritate me.|Your very presence...

{84178}{84206}...irritates me!

CLAUDIA Does it?

LESTAT I found someone who'll be a|vampire better than you both!

CLAUDIA Is that supposed to frighten me?

LESTAT You're spoiled,|because you're an only child.

{84492}{84528}You need a brother.

{84548}{84578}Or I do.

{84595}{84638}I'm weary of you both.

CLAUDIA I suppose we could people|the world with vampires...

{84728}{84768}...the three of us.

LESTAT Oh, not you...

{84828}{84871}...my little Claudia.

CLAUDIA You're a liar.

{84943}{84992}But you upset my plans.

LESTAT What plans?

CLAUDIA I came to make peace with you.

{85144}{85208}Even though you're the father of lies...

{85224}{85282}...I want things to be as they were.

LESTAT Stop pestering[S62] me then.

CLAUDIA Oh, Lestat, I must do more than that.

{85516}{85565}I've brought a present for you.

{85624}{85660}Then I hope it's...

{85664}{85705}...a beautiful woman...

{85716}{85790}...with endowments[S63] you'll never possess[S64] .

CLAUDIA Why do you say such things?

{86132}{86179}You haven't fed enough.

{86196}{86242}I can tell by your color.

{86398}{86434}Come and see.

{86835}{86882}Don't be angry with me.

{86885}{86949}When I saw them,|I knew they were for you.

{86983}{87011}Drunk...

{87031}{87093}...on brandywine[S65] . A thimbleful[S66] .

{87305}{87345}You certainly have...

{87350}{87386}...outdone[S67] yourself.

{87429}{87491}I promise I'll get rid of the bodies.

LESTAT We forgive each other then?

CLAUDIA Yes.

LESTAT Absinthe[S68] ?

{88399}{88445}You've given them absinthe?

CLAUDIA No.

{88487}{88514}Laudanum[S69] .

LESTAT Laudanum.

CLAUDIA Yes.

{88619}{88671}It killed them, unfortunately.

{88687}{88737}But it keeps the blood warm.

LESTAT You let me drink...

{88922}{88961}...dead blood?

{88973}{89015}You let me...

{89019}{89048}...drink....

CLAUDIA One lesson you taught me...

{89129}{89176}...never drink from the dead.

LESTAT Louis, put me in my coffin.

{89299}{89335}Put me in my coffin.

CLAUDIA I'll put you in your coffin!

LOUIS My God!

CLAUDIA Louis, lift me up!

{90339}{90383}Good night, sweet prince.

{90425}{90513}May flights of devils wing you to your rest.

{90554}{90595}Should we burn him?

{90599}{90629}Bury him?

{90635}{90679}What would he have liked?

{90775}{90803}The swamp?

CLAUDIA He belongs with those reptiles.

{91469}{91517}He deserved to die.

LOUIS Then perhaps so do we,|every night of our lives.

{91695}{91739}He was my maker.

{91763}{91803}He gave me this life...

{91807}{91845}...whatever it is.

{91919}{91973}It shouldn't have been this way.

CLAUDIA I did it for us.

{92049}{92095}So we could be free.

MALLOY You missed him?

LOUIS He was all I knew.

{92361}{92402}It's as simple as that.

{92427}{92495}We were like two orphans|learning to live again.

{92549}{92597}We booked a passage to Europe.

{92619}{92683}Over the weeks,|while waiting for the boat...

{92685}{92771}...she studied the myths and|legends of the Old World...

{92775}{92855}...obsessed with the search of|what she called "our kind[S70] ."

{93203}{93245}Look who we forgot.

{93350}{93391}Let's set them free.

{93422}{93451}-Yes.|-Yes.

{93581}{93621}It's the carriage.

LESTAT Listen, Louis...

{94821}{94859}...there's life...

{94863}{94915}...in these old hands still.

{94983}{95037}Not quite furioso.

{95103}{95135}Moderato...

{95165}{95205}...cantabile, perhaps.

CLAUDIA How could it be?

LESTAT Ask the alligator.

{95327}{95371}His blood helped.

{95427}{95517}Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes...

{95535}{95563}...toads...

{95615}{95673}...and all the putrid life...

{95679}{95721}...of the Mississippi...

{95753}{95786}...slowly...

{95815}{95873}...Lestat became something...

{95879}{95923}...like himself again.

{96041}{96077} CLAUDIA, you've been...

{96091}{96129}...a very...

{96139}{96170}...very...

{96173}{96214}...naughty[S71] little girl.

CLAUDIA The ship is sailing without us!

LOUIS Though the fire seemed to spread...

{98295}{98390}...I stood on that deck,|fearful, he would come out again...

{98393}{98465}...from the river like some monster,|to destroy us.

{98493}{98543}And all the while I thought...

{98555}{98582}"Lestat..."

{98587}{98637}"...we deserve your vengeance."

{98659}{98709}"You gave me the 'dark gift'..."

{98721}{98822}"...and I delivered you into the|hands of Death for the second time."

To Europe

LOUIS (VO)Though the ship was|blessedly free of rats...

{99316}{99408}...a strange plague nonetheless|struck its passengers.

{99442}{99502}Claudia and I alone seemed immune.

{99540}{99590}We kept to ourselves...

{99594}{99656}...pondering[S72] the mystery of each other.

{99722}{99764}We reached the Mediterranean.

{99766}{99862}I wanted those waters to be blue...|but they were black...

{99870}{99908}...night-time waters.

{99910}{99958}And how I suffered then...

{99968}{100062}...straining to recall the color|that in my youth I took for granted.

{100214}{100268}We searched village after village...

{100272}{100308}...ruin after ruin...

{100310}{100354}...country after country.

{100362}{100412}And always we found nothing.

{100470}{100554}I began to believe we were the only ones.

{100588}{100656}There was a strange|comfort in that thought.

{100664}{100754}For what could the damned[S73] really|have to say to the damned?

MALLOY You found nothing?

{100834}{100868}Peasant rumors...

{100880}{100930}...superstitions about garlic...

{100934}{100964}...crosses...

{100968}{101020}...the old stake in the heart.

{101046}{101092}But one of our kind?

{101096}{101128}Not a whisper.

MALLOY There are no vampires in Transylvania?|No Count Dracula?

LOUIS Fictions, my friend.

{101318}{101375}The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman.

Paris

{101412}{101436}Paris...

{101440}{101480}...September, 1870.

{101506}{101558}The city I'd always dreamed of.

{101572}{101672}I was Creole, after all,|and Paris was the mother of New Orleans.

{101688}{101770}A universe whole and entire unto herself.

{102606}{102654}We were alive again.

{102658}{102698}Just the two of us.

{102702}{102806}And so euphoric was I|that I yielded to her every desire.

{103108}{103144}So it was...

{103148}{103220}...when I'd given up the|search for vampires...

{103224}{103280}...that a vampire found me.

ARMAND Buffoon!

ARMAND Santiago!

LOUIS I've searched the world for an|immortal and this is what I find!

ARMAND Bring the petite beauty with you.

{106306}{106344}No one will harm you.

{106346}{106380}I won't allow it.

{106446}{106476}And...

{106484}{106526}...remember my name:

{106572}{106602}Armand.

LOUIS I remember what I told you.

{106844}{106938}They have different powers.|They'll read your thoughts.

THEATRE DES VAMPIRES

{107244}{107296}He's the one, that's the vampire.

SANTIAGO Two lovers...

{107374}{107448}...wandering down their violet way...

{107468}{107544}...whose passionate embraces,|each to each...

{107552}{107634}...permit no meditations on decay...

{107684}{107730}...until they find themselves...

{107732}{107770}...within my reach!

LOUIS Vampires who pretend to be humans|pretending to be vampires.

CLAUDIA How avant-garde.

SANTIAGO The monk[S74] whose soul with|Heaven doth commune[S75] ...

{108164}{108204}...and spends his days...

{108206}{108266}...in pious[S76] contemplation[S77] ...

{108324}{108416}...finds he will meet his Maker all too soon.

{108442}{108522}For all his prayers gets no remuneration[S78] .

{108644}{108690}The lesson endeth here...

{108700}{108742}...and it is this:

{108762}{108852}Each one of you,|my clammy[S79] hands must touch.

{108890}{108974}Each one must bend his|forehead to my kiss.

{109032}{109064}But, hark[S80] !

{109078}{109132}Methinks[S81] a mortal doth approach!

{109210}{109256}What have we here?

{109274}{109324}What beauty by my side?

{109354}{109420}A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet[S82] ?

{109462}{109528}Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride.

{109540}{109602}Perhaps my lesson has not ended yet!

MORTAL YOUNG GIRL I don't want to die!

SANTIAGO But Death we are and have always been.

MORTAL YOUNG GIRL Someone help me!

{109810}{109848}Please!

{110074}{110136}-What have I done?|

SANTIAGO -We all die!

MORTAL YOUNG GIRL But I'm young!

{110174}{110280}Death is no respecter of age!|It can come any time, any place.

{110606}{110674}Just as this flesh is pink now...

{110682}{110756}...so it will turn gray and wrinkle with age.

MORTAL YOUNG GIRL Let me live! I don't care!

{110806}{110870}Then why should you care if you die now?

{110876}{110968}And suppose Death had a heart|to love and to release you?

{110980}{111032}To whom would he turn his passion?

{111036}{111104}Would you choose a person|from the crowd there?

{111108}{111152}A person to suffer as you do?

MORTAL WOMAN Monsieur Vampire, take me!

{111202}{111248}I adore you!

SANTIAGO You wait your turn!

{111340}{111376}Well....

{111396}{111490}Do you know what it means|to be loved by Death?

{111528}{111592}To become our bride?

ARMAND No pain.

{113174}{113210}No pain.

LOUIS Monstrous.

ARMAND We live beneath.

{114792}{114830}Let me show you.

LOUIS Monstrous.

ARMAND Yes.

{115092}{115138}But very beautiful.

{115648}{115696}Welcome to my home.

{116056}{116090}Try him.

{116634}{116676}Two vampires...

{116700}{116746}...from the New World...

{116766}{116830}...come to guide us into the new era...

{116842}{116894}...as all we love slowly rots...

{116926}{116968}...and fades away.

LOUIS Are you the leader of this group?

ARMAND If there were a leader...

{117118}{117158}...I would be the one.

LOUIS So you have the answers?|

ARMAND -So you have questions?

LOUIS What are we?

ARMAND Nothing...

{117424}{117470}...if not vampires.

LOUIS Who made us what we are?

ARMAND Surely you know the one who made you?

LOUIS Yes, but the one who made him?

{117730}{117760}The source...

{117762}{117796}...of all this...

{117818}{117844}...evil.

ARMAND I understand.

{117966}{118014}I saw you in the theater.

{118052}{118098}Your suffering...

{118140}{118190}...your sympathy for that girl.

{118234}{118266}You die...

{118276}{118310}...when you kill.

{118334}{118424}You feel you deserve to die|and you stint on nothing.

{118466}{118514}But does that make you evil?

{118538}{118632}Since you comprehend what you call|goodness, doesn't that make you...

{118634}{118660}...good?

LOUIS Then there is nothing?

ARMAND Perhaps.

{118808}{118848}But perhaps...

{118890}{118926}...this...

{118936}{118996}...is the only real evil left.

LOUIS Then God does not exist?

ARMAND I know nothing of God.

{119169}{119201}Or the Devil.

{119213}{119309}I have never seen a vision,|nor learned a secret...

{119313}{119385}...that would damn or save my soul.

{119429}{119465}As far as I know...

{119469}{119521}...after 400 years...

{119540}{119581}...I am the oldest...

{119588}{119633}...living vampire...

{119637}{119672}...in the world.

LOUIS Then it's as I always feared.

ARMAND You fear too much.

{120077}{120125}So much you make me fear....

{120253}{120300}The one who made you...

{120313}{120361}...should have told you this.

{120392}{120460}The one who left the Old|World for the New....

LOUIS He knew nothing.

{120501}{120541}Nor did he care.

ARMAND Knew?

CLAUDIA Come, beloved.

{120629}{120680}It's time we were on our way.

{120682}{120708}I'm hungry...

{120710}{120736}...and the city awaits.

LOUIS The place was empty as we left.

{120853}{120896}Silent as the grave.

{120900}{120984}And as we blundered through it,|again came the thought:

{120988}{121040}"I have wronged Lestat."

{121044}{121098}"I have hated him for the wrong reasons."

SANTIAGO How did you wrong him?

{121192}{121225}You said a name.

LOUIS Yes, a name I don't care to say again.

SANTIAGO There is but one crime...

{121349}{121396}...among us vampires here.

{121425}{121509}It is the crime that means|death to any vampire:

{121549}{121596}To kill your own kind.

LOUIS -Do you think I'd let them harm you?|-No, you would not.

CLAUDIA Danger holds you to me.

LOUIS Love holds you to me.

CLAUDIA -Love?|

LOUIS -Love.

CLAUDIA You would leave me for Armand|if he beckoned you.

LOUIS Never.

CLAUDIA He wants you as you want him.|He's been waiting for you.

{122112}{122168}He wants you as a companion.

{122172}{122217}He bides his time there.

{122225}{122288}He finds it as dull and lifeless as we do.

LOUIS Perhaps.

CLAUDIA Do you know what his soul said to me|without saying a word?

{122449}{122496}"Let him go," he said.

{122509}{122548}"Let him go."

{122593}{122648}Is that what I should do Louis?

{122676}{122716}Let you go?

{122740}{122773}My father...

{122777}{122812}...my Louis...

{122816}{122853}...who made me?

LOUIS It will be all right.

CLAUDIA You really believe that?

SANTIAGO The soldier...

{123237}{123289}...on returning from the war...

{123293}{123381}...thinks victory has enured|him against sorrow...

{123389}{123436}...till Death comes by...

{123445}{123495}...and chops him from his horse.

ARMAND I was waiting for you.

LOUIS Listen to me.

{123841}{123900}Claudia is very dear to me.

{123908}{123938}She's my daughter.

ARMAND Your lover.

LOUIS No, my beloved[S83] .

{124033}{124068}My child.

ARMAND You say so. You're innocent.

LOUIS She's in danger, isn't she?

ARMAND She is.|

LOUIS -Why?

ARMAND I could give you reasons.

{124416}{124461}Her silence.

{124481}{124516}Her youth.

{124552}{124616}It's forbidden to make one so young...

{124628}{124673}...so helpless...

{124681}{124736}...that cannot survive on its own.

LOUIS Then blame the one who made her.

ARMAND Did you kill this vampire|who made you both?

{124840}{124879}Is that why you won't say his name?

{124881}{124922}Santiago thinks you did.

LOUIS -We want no quarrel with him.|

ARMAND -It's already begun.

{125028}{125070}If you want to save her...

{125072}{125132}-...send her away!|

LOUIS -Then I leave too.

ARMAND So soon?

{125385}{125465}Without any of those answers|you so longed for?

LOUIS You said there are none.

ARMAND But you asked the wrong questions.

{125936}{125968}Do you know...

{125985}{126033}...how few vampires...

{126057}{126121}...have the stamina for immortality?

{126168}{126230}How quickly they perish[S84] of their own will.

{126329}{126368}The world...

{126384}{126420}...changes.

{126468}{126505}We do not.

{126544}{126592}Therein lies the irony...

{126596}{126645}...that finally kills us.

{126657}{126740}I need you to make contact with this age.

LOUIS Me?

{126800}{126840}Don't you see?

{126860}{126920}I'm not the spirit of any age.

{126940}{126988}I'm at odds with everything.

{126992}{127036}I always have been.

ARMAND That is the very spirit of your age.

{127173}{127209}The heart of it.

{127249}{127292}Your fall...

{127296}{127340}...from grace...

{127344}{127409}...has been the fall of a century.

LOUIS But the vampires in the theater?

ARMAND Decadent...

{127580}{127616}...useless.

{127652}{127705}They can't reflect anything.

{127721}{127745}But...

{127756}{127788}...you do.

{127841}{127870}You reflect...

{127872}{127912}...its broken heart.

{128213}{128256}A vampire...

{128289}{128336}...with a human soul.

{128365}{128436}An immortal with a mortal's passion.

{128491}{128520}You...

{128533}{128565}...are...

{128601}{128649}...beautiful, my friend.

{128705}{128781}Lestat must have wept when he made you.

LOUIS You knew Lestat?

ARMAND Yes.

{129025}{129060}I knew him.

{129104}{129184}Knew him well enough|not to mourn[S85] his passing.

LOUIS I felt a kind of peace at last.

{129325}{129433}I had found the teacher which Lestat|could never, I knew now, have been.

{129452}{129525}I knew knowledge would|never be withheld by Armand.

{129532}{129616}It would pass through him|as through a pane of glass.

CLAUDIA Madeleine...

{130027}{130067}...Louis is shy.

Madeleine Drink.

CLAUDIA Do it.

{130545}{130619}Because I cannot do it.|I haven't the strength.

{130623}{130727}-You saw to that when you made me.|

LOUIS ………..-You don't know what you ask!

Madeleine I have.

CLAUDIA You have found your new companion!|You will make me mine!

LOUIS How do we seem to you?

{130967}{131009}Do you find us beautiful?

{131021}{131053}Magical?

{131069}{131185}Our white skin, our fierce eyes?|Do you know the thing you will become?

CLAUDIA Your evil is that you cannot be evil!

{131259}{131323}And I shall suffer for it no longer!

LOUIS Don't make me do this! I cannot!

CLAUDIA Yet, you could do it to me.

{131451}{131569}Snatching me from my mother's hands,|like two monsters in a fairy tale.

{131585}{131629}And now you weep!

{131633}{131703}I haven't tears enough|for what you've done to me!

{131709}{131759}You give her to me, Louis!

{131763}{131823}Do this before you leave me!

{131879}{131905}Oh, God!

{131923}{131963}I love you still!

{131979}{132031}That's the torment[S86] of it!

{132055}{132103}Who'll care for me, my love...

{132117}{132187}...my dark angel, when you are gone?

LOUIS What do you think she is, Madeleine?

{132449}{132483}A doll?

Madeleine A child who cannot die.

LOUIS And the child who did die?

Madeleine My daughter.

CLAUDIA Louis, what's happening to her?

LOUIS She's dying.

{134221}{134269}It happened to you too...

{134277}{134341}...only you were too young to remember.

CLAUDIA But if she dies?

LOUIS It's only mortal death.

{134593}{134651}Bear me no ill will, my love.

{134719}{134765}We are now even.

CLAUDIA What do you mean?

LOUIS What died in that room|was not that woman.

{135033}{135077}What has died is the...

{135111}{135159}...last breath in me...

{135181}{135225}...that was human.

CLAUDIA Yes, Father.

{135393}{135439}At last we are even.

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ESTELLE It's time for justice, little one.

LOUIS Get me Armand.|He wouldn't stand for this.

SANTIAGO Death for the others.

{136183}{136215}For you...

{136220}{136275}...eternity in a box.

{136304}{136348}Walled in a dungeon[S87] .

{136352}{136411}Your only company will be your screams.

{136436}{136491}Perhaps it will take centuries.

{136531}{136558}Take them!

{138359}{138404}Pleasant dreams.

LOUIS No! No!

{138531}{138565}Help!

ARMAND Wake up!

LOUIS Where's Claudia?

ARMAND Claudia. I cannot help her.

LOUIS Where's Claudia?|

ARMAND -I can't save her!

{141295}{141344}I will only risk losing you!

{141397}{141427}Don't!

ARMAND Come, Louis.

{144076}{144109}Not here.

MALLOY So a vampire can cry?

LOUIS Once...

{144457}{144503}...maybe twice, in eternity.

{144552}{144641}And maybe it was to quench[S88] those tears|forever that I took such revenge[S89] .

ESTELLE Stop him! It's burning!

{146076}{146113}Get him! Stop him!

INT. LOUVRE. NIGHTS LATER.

LOUIS You didn't even warn them, did you?

ARMAND No.

LOUIS And you knew what I would do.

ARMAND I knew.

{149432}{149480}I rescued you, didn't I?

{149484}{149529}From the terrible dawn.

LOUIS You were their leader. They trusted you.

ARMAND No.

{149752}{149812}You made me see their failings, Louis.

{149848}{149880}They were...

{149882}{149950}...doomed, stuck in their decadent time.

{149972}{150033}They had forgotten the first lesson...

{150040}{150089}...that we must be powerful...

{150093}{150124}...beautiful...

{150128}{150169}...and without regret[S90] .

LOUIS And you could teach me this?

ARMAND Yes.

LOUIS To be without regret?

{150373}{150428}Then, what a pair we could make.

{150493}{150569}But what if it's a lesson|I don't care to learn?

ARMAND What do you mean?

{150641}{150705}What if all I have is my suffering?

{150712}{150756}My regret?

ARMAND Don't you want to lose it?

{150845}{150893}So you can have that too?

LOUIS The heart that mourns[S91] her...

{150976}{151028}...whom you burnt to a cinder[S92] ?

ARMAND I swear I didn't--

LOUIS But I know you did.

{151133}{151164}I know...

{151200}{151228}...you...

{151244}{151285}...regret nothing.

{151332}{151369}You feel...

{151384}{151412}...nothing.

{151460}{151521}If that's all I have left to learn...

{151560}{151608}...I can do that on my own.

ARMAND I will die.

LOUIS No.

{151913}{151948}You are dead.

{151952}{152017}And you want me to quicken you|once more.

{152073}{152160}And as much as your invitation|might appeal to me...

{152193}{152237}...I must regretfully...

{152245}{152273}...decline[S93] .

LOUIS (VO)For years I wandered:

{152636}{152677}Italy, Greece...

{152692}{152741}...all the ancient lands.

{152749}{152808}But the world was a tomb[S94] to me...

{152812}{152876}...a graveyard full of broken statues.

{152893}{152979}And each of those statues|resembled[S95] her face.

{153121}{153163}Then, out of curiosity...

{153167}{153214}...boredom, who knows what...

{153219}{153257}...I left the Old World...

{153259}{153313}...and came back to my America.

{153389}{153491}And there a mechanical wonder|allowed me to see the sunrise...

{153495}{153539}...for the first time...

{153543}{153587}...in 200 years.

{153617}{153659}And what sunrises!

{153675}{153745}Seen as the human eye|could never see them.

{153765}{153807}Silver at first...

{153825}{153901}...then, as the years progressed,|in tones of purple...

{153903}{153931}...red...

{153935}{153993}...and my long-lost blue.

{154105}{154185}In the spring of 1988,|I returned to New Orleans.

{154207}{154293}And as soon as I smelled the air,|I knew I was home.

{154321}{154353}It was rich...

{154357}{154397}...almost sweet...

{154401}{154501}...like the fragrance of jasmine|and roses around our old courtyard.

{154533}{154641}I walked the streets savoring|that long-lost perfume.

{154769}{154819}And then on Prytania Street...

{154823}{154897}...only blocks from the|Lafayette cemetery...

{154901}{154953}...I caught the scent of death.

{154967}{155027}And it wasn't coming from the graves.

{155065}{155131}The scent grew stronger as I walked.

{155135}{155173}Old death.

{155181}{155245}A scent too faint[S96] for mortals to detect.

LESTAT Louis! I'm so glad you are here!

{157524}{157562}I've dreamed...

{157582}{157626}...of this moment.

{157664}{157722}She never should have been one of...

{157736}{157770}...us.

LOUIS That's all past, Lestat.

LESTAT Past.

{158532}{158584}Still beautiful, Louis.

{158648}{158708}You always were the strong one.

LOUIS Don't be frightened.

{158946}{158992}I mean you no harm.

LESTAT You've come home to me then?

{159238}{159296}You remember how I was?

{159344}{159384}The vampire...

{159388}{159432}...that I was?

LOUIS Yes, I remember.

LESTAT No one...

{159684}{159726}...could refuse me...

{159762}{159796}...not even you, Louis.

LOUIS I tried.

LESTAT Yes, you tried.

{159960}{160008}And the more you tried...

{160108}{160154}...the more I wanted you.

{160402}{160444}I can't bear it.

{160502}{160536}Such lights...

{160574}{160614}...and that noise!

{160652}{160724}They make the night brighter than the day.

LOUIS Lestat, it's false[S97] light.

{160976}{161018}It can't harm you.

LESTAT If you stay with me, Louis...

{161384}{161431}...I could venture[S98] out again.

{161502}{161552}Become the old Lestat.

LOUIS I must leave now.

{162306}{162370}Whatever happened to Lestat,|I do not know.

{162402}{162436}I go on...

{162440}{162482}...night after night.

{162486}{162546}I feed on those who cross my path.

{162610}{162688}But all my passion went|with her golden hair.

{162762}{162834}I'm a spirit of preternatural[S99] flesh.

{162862}{162902}Detached[S100] .

{162922}{162954}Unchangeable.

{163024}{163054}Empty.

MALLOY Empty?

{163120}{163148}That's it?

{163202}{163248}No, it can't end like that.

LOUIS But it has.

{163326}{163368}There's no more to tell.

MALLOY There must be more to tell. You don't|understand yourself. You're not empty.

{163520}{163598}What I wouldn't give to be like you,|to have your power...

{163600}{163658}...to have seen the things you have seen in your life.

LOUIS You haven't been listening.

MALLOY I have been listening.|Your story is incredible.

{163766}{163815}-It's amazing.|

LOUIS -Do what you want with it.

{163817}{163875}Give it to others. Learn what you can.

MALLOY There's only one way I'll truly learn|and you know it.

{163978}{164040}You brought me here for a reason.

{164046}{164072}Didn't you?

LOUIS What reason would that be?

{164120}{164216}You want a companion. You want a link|to the outside world. That's me.

{164220}{164277}Take me. That's what I want.

{164279}{164359}-I refuse to let it end like this.|

LOUIS -God, I've failed again.

MALLOY You haven't failed.|God has nothing to do with it.

LOUIS Do you like this?

{164570}{164640}Do you like being food for the immortals?

{164658}{164690}Do you like dying?

MALLOY Stop!

Cassette 1791 was the year it happened.

{166408}{166486}I was 24. Younger than you are now.

{166506}{166580}But times were different then.|I was a man at that age.

{166582}{166668}The master of a large plantation,|just south of New Orleans.

{166698}{166760}I had lost my wife in childbirth.

MALLOY Someone change my shorts.

Cassette She and the infant had been|buried less than half a year.

MALLOY It's good stuff.

{166904}{166938}I would've been happy to join them.

MALLOY Good stuff.

LESTAT I assume I need no introduction.

{167468}{167516}I feel better already.

Cassette Most of all, I longed for death.

{167700}{167738}I invited it.

{167764}{167826}A release from the pain of living.

LESTAT Oh, Louis, Louis, still whining, Louis...

{168014}{168050}Have you heard enough?

{168058}{168119}I've had to listen to that for centuries.

{168182}{168215}Don't be afraid.

{168274}{168332}I'm going to give you the choice...

{168354}{168396}...I never had.