INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (2nd half)--Table Read Tuesdays

What this episode is about

The content features a table read of the second half of "Interview with a Vampire," where the cast introduces themselves, discusses their roles, and recaps the first half of the story. The session highlights individual contributions and character portrayals while fostering interactions among the cast, who share their social media handles for further engagement.

Key takeaways

• Welcome to the new age of storytelling: live streamed readings make every performance a global event!
• Character dynamics shine—Claudia struggles with eternal youth, proving that life's frustrations can transcend centuries.
• Vampires require more than just a bite; they need a unique blend of existential angst and dramatic backstory!
• Social media savvy: actors leverage platforms to build fan engagement, turning performances into interactive experiences.
• In an ironic twist, Louis' pity transforms Claudia's life—highlighting how compassion can be as burdensome as it is benevolent.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Cat Wilson (Host) · 45 min speaking
• Vicky Dkes (Guest) · 30 min speaking
• Aubrey McCoy (Guest) · 30 min speaking
• Jackie (Jacen Yum) (Guest) · 30 min speaking
• Malloy (Guest) · 15 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 15:00: Vicky Dkes, Interview with the Vampire, Fair Corona
2. 2:15:00 – 2:30:00: Interview with the Vampire, Forest Gump

Notable quotes from "INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (2nd half)--Table Read Tuesdays"

• Button cat is on it cat is on there we GOC so welcome to part two of Interview with a Vampire a slightly different cast this time around but that's just great U we have an awesome cast tonight I'm so excited to get the second half of this.

  about Interview with the Vampire · at 0:26

• Are she her and I am based in Gig Harbor Washington and when I am not reading here you can find me on most Saturdays with two households in Fair Corona a Shakespeare reading…

  about Fair Corona · at 3:33

• The 26th and then we hit December with Forest Gump which we can divide into two days if we need to and that should take out looks like through the end of the year and then we'll start back again in.

  about Forest Gump · at 2:24:30

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Vicky Dkes — Person · Performer/reader (cast member) · 2 mentions · first at 1:09
  Vicky introduces herself as reading Claudia (and Santiago) and finishing action/descriptions for the last parts, making her a key performer in this session.
  You on social media if they would like to look you up I'm going and start with Vicky hello I'm Vicky dkes I'm she her you can find me in central Alberta and tonight I am…

Books & papers

• Interview with the Vampire — Book · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at 0:33
  Central to the episode's narrative, as the transcript is a reading or adaptation of this book.

Places & events

• Fair Corona — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 3:39
  Mentioned as the location of a Shakespeare reading group, adding to the cultural backdrop.

Media & podcasts

• Ozark — Media · Referenced work · 2 mentions
  Mentioned in passing, possibly as a cultural reference or comparison.
  We have a reading this coming Tuesday think so.
• Forest Gump — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 2:24:33
  Mentioned in passing, possibly as a cultural reference or comparison.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:04 okay all right sense with third party live this meeting is being live streamed it's different than before but that's what it's saying right yeah I can recorded if you want me to and I'll go hit the recording button cat is on it cat is on there we GOC so welcome to part two of Interview with a Vampire a slightly different cast this time around but that's just great U we have an awesome cast tonight I'm so excited to get the second half of this reading done um I'm going to start with introductions and I'll do a quick recap what happened that you in the first half in case you missed it and then we'll jump right in so for introductions if you could let us know your name pronoun and where you are located what parts you are playing and where people can find you on social media if they would like to look you up I'm going and start with Vicky hello I'm Vicky dkes I'm she her uh you can find me in central

1:16 Alberta and tonight I am reading Claudia and I will be finishing the actions and descriptions so basically the last three parts there um if you want to find me on social media I am on Instagram I'm yoga grma 10 and I'm on Facebook under Vicky dkes and Vicky you're also playing Santiago tonight oh yes Santiago I have it written down but not in my head not in your head all right let's go to Aubrey hi you already know me I'm sure I'm Aubrey McCoy I am playing the titeler lat uh my or I don't care whatever you want to call me it's fine uh I am in California and you can find me at luthan the fair on Instagram Aubrey mcco Facebook and I'm all over the YouTubes you can find me in different places just look up my name uh you can also find me on Spotify with my album uh unexpected journey by Aubrey McCoy cool there you go and you're also playing Malloy or Malloy oh I'm also playing Malloy and I'm doing action

2:28 descriptions um oh and mine I'm also playing mateline but that it's very small Ro Jackie hello everyone I'm jacen yum like Zoom but you can call me Jackie um I will be playing Louie tonight my pronouns are she her hers they them Theirs Whatever you want and I'm based in the Washington DC area um on socials you can find me uh on Facebook as jacn Elizabeth with an S for Elizabeth or on Instagram I am J Yore artist it's artist with an e at the end and on YouTube I have a YouTube channel and it's called saki c s j a c k i e one word saki feel free to connect I love connecting with people awesome um and I am cat Wilson your host this evening I'll be starting off with actions and descriptions and then moving into Armand um my pronouns are she her and I am based in Gig Harbor Washington and when I am not reading here you can find me on most Saturdays with two households in Fair Corona a Shakespeare reading

3:44 group all right so our story so far we start off the script with um Maloy or Malloy however you want to pronounce this name he's interviewing ly um and finding out all about Life as a vampire we find out of course that uh Louie was made a vampire by lat who in turn was made a vampire by I believe I'm correct Armand in France no Sano someone else somebody else anyways Magnus it's magas thank you my fault anyways uh lat has moved from Paris over to New Orleans New Orleans and um in the process of living there he and and Louie managed to uh bite and convert uh Claudia a very very young child whose mother was dying or dead um and so Claudia has grown up now to be a woman but she's still in the body of a very very small child which is very frustrating for her um we've also learned earlier that lot also managed to uh convert his own mother Gabrielle into a vampire but they are kind of a strange

4:59 right now so um I think that's about all you need to know to to jump into this we're going to start in the middle of uh New Orleans new New Orleans with um Claudia and lat and Louie all living in a very big mansion with a couple of servants so go ahead and share our screen they've just hired brand new servants and pay them more so they'll stay all right let's see 11 can we all do that yes okay so interior flat parlor another night the paintings have changed and some furniture Lou watches L go through a pile of books on the table may but she reads the things paas PL and marus what's the matter with Dickens or that wiy Goins yes and she reads her books faster than I can we in the St realize that Claudia has appeared in the door Claudia is dressed gorgeously in a violet dress with ribbons and silk flowers her hair is long and Shining she holds a big bouquet of PMS the St is alarmed Claudia

6:17 steps menacingly into the room which of you made me what I am they stunned did you do it was it you or was it you Louie she points to Louie and then turns back to lat approaching him one of you had to do it you didn't find me on All Hallows Eve you were the one weren't you answer me she HS the chanthony Monstrous parents to give me immortality in this helpless guys this hopeless [ __ ] start is angry he was a s as apprentice only I didn't know what would Happ been then it was you wasn't it you were the one Louise Steeps forward clodia it was no simple thing I swear it lart rushes out as he had done before the door bangs behind him did you do it did you it was L I know it was you would never have done such a thing Louise is Patiently I I want you to come with me and listen exterior old part of the city old pitch roof of French houses Mud Street Lou talks with Claudia as they walk along slowly finally coming to a

7:41 hall beneath a dim Gas Lamp the echo of Claudia's crying of years before it was the old days there there is the house or perhaps it's that one I can't tell the plague was raging in the city I heard you crying you were there in a room with your mother and she'd been dead for days you didn't know it you clung to her you begged me to help you I came into the room I felt pity for you pity but something else you fed on me I was your victim yes I did it but you had a heart like no other heart I'd ever felt it wouldn't stop then Le came came he found me out he laughed at me Louie the sentimental one with a holy innocent in his arms I ran from him from you you meant to kill me you left me for dead yes the next night he found you in the hospital where they taken you I never knew what he meant to do but teach me my nature finish it he said Claudia backs away he grabs her rist oh I know I've lost you you look at me

9:02 now as you look at Mortals from some cold self-sufficiency I cannot understand but the hunger that we all understand I felt it for you then a vile unsupportable anger a hunger for your hammering heart for this cheek this hair Claudia lets him touch her you are pink and soft as mortal children are sweet with the bite of salt and dust Claudia's face softens only a little I held you again I took you and when I thought your heart would drag me down with it I didn't care he parted us he cut his wrist he gave you the blood to drink and drink you did and you became one of us that night and drank blood from your first victim and you have drunk the blood of Mortals every night ever since he waits Claudia looks at him unreadable it was I who took your life he gave it back to you and here it is and I hate you both interior parlor of flat Sunrise Stillness rains over all the quadron maid and teenage daughter arrived both

10:18 wear red tons or scarves and gold earrings the maid picks up all the withered chrysanthemums clucking over the mess the teenage B daughter begins to sweep return to Malloy and in San Francisco present day order of open tapes on the table indicates the tape has been changed if anyone cares did you lose her did she leave you how could she little boy little girl she was a child no bigger than that what would her life have been and something in her was K to me toat we had each other we had for half a century in harmony we could not bear to be alone interor the flat 1860 Claud at her dresser dressed as a little girl brushes her long hair Lou stands behind her then drops down beside her takes a brush and brushes her hair for her she watches him through the mirror locked together in hatred that's what we are no you feel that now but it's love that binds us love is the only think that allows us to go

11:31 on you think so I know so Claudia turns and touches his face and kisses him she cannot help herself they Embrace we hear lat's Voice singing a Verde Arya as he comes in the thought enters looks about well I see the meds are doing their usual fine job I rais their wages as you suggested they're happy this evening I I saw them as they were leaving I told them how very much we appreciated their work we Janet the daughter has G so pretty close on Claudia still face more it's one thing I've noticed that even the most superstitious morals P them enough and they will question not a single s Lou Smiles I think you're right they're happy and so are we the snaps his fingers and points Claudia up town in the r Camp a haunted house goost to peer three times this week want to go see it in spite of herself Claudia Smiles sadly wisely she Rises and goes to his waiting arms she's womanly cool but pleasant but we aren't going to nearly

12:51 watch are We maybe we should you know make a little Supernatural Mischief us El don't you think Louie want to come I wouldn't dream of spoiling your evening interior flat parlor early evening the is reading a newspaper Mercury def France which he then throws Into the Fire Claudia enters dressed in velvet with muff and Bonnet to go out bad mood another newspaper from Perry thought turns around stares at her tension why don't you ever save them have you been searching my room wouldn't do any good would it she approaches a great confirms a paper is now ashes you have no keepsakes do you only a wardrobe worth of SAR of Russia or the king of France stay out of my room she looks at him coldly the thought is confused you look very beautiful tonight I love you on red I know there are many vampires in Perry aren't there many of us in the old world you dispise them we have the only vampires on this

14:16 Earth who matter and New Orleans is ours we've never had to shat with anyone to laugh perhaps it's time I saw Perry yeah perhaps so frankly I'd prefer New York or maybe London you'd let us go to Paris me and Lou oh I see so that's how it is I won't stop you but you'd be a fool if you think if you didn't take me with you why L can't protect you as well as I can the can can be your W on me are there others like me there you little ones the thought is overcome with emotion he shakes his head he whispers gladia you would di if I hadn't done it I didn't understand what I was doing it was an Impulse I know poor darling poor darling the St the thoughtless one and you'd protect me from all all the big bad vampires in Perry wouldn't you yes I would you think they don't well with one another that they don't try to destroy one another remember the fire my child and the light of the sun there are other

15:49 ways as well they won't share the city of light with a vegabond you're serious aren't you you're telling me the truth darling I've never lied to you I've teased you taed you shouted at you kissed you if it stuck you but I've never Li she watches lat leave close on her face inscrutable interior flat Sunrise sunet another night through the Parlor Windows Claudia's room her coffin lid is raised Claudia sleeps inside against satin lining like a dead body the clock ticking then her eyes snap open mustad is looking down at her from nearby Louie watches still sluggish and weak she sits up slowly with no help from her own hands her eyes clear the stock SM thinly we thought we wait for you tonight ladia now fully awake Smiles coldly all right we hunt then together as he turns to go unseen by him her face becomes cold mask like with hatred Lou sees it exterior Jackson Square another night standing against the new iron

17:06 fence before the cathedral holding the bars and peering through it Louie in top hat and gloves and Opera Cape looks down at her if he made the journey we can make it we feed off the Rats of course we take the little drink from the Elder passengers we can do it if he did it but why must we go without him it's time we all went traveling together he can't come with us why not I think he's ready for a journey you misunderstand me beloved he won't be here when we leave what do you mean he'll be in hell when we leave here I intend to kill him Claudia you you cannot do this Claudia turns and walks away impatiently Lou follows oh why can't I you don't think he can die we can all die there are lots of ways he told me he SP of us he's he's leat you cannot simply turn on him oh yes I can I want to kill him and I'll tell you a secret Louie if you come down so I can whisper it in your ear Lou need I want to kill him I'll enjoy it

18:27 killing mortal can't be half as much fun BL draws back no you cannot mean it I I won't let you do it sh don't you want to be free of him I hate him The Mortals I kill I care nothing for them but him I hate imposs you cannot succeed at it you don't know his strength he can do things neither of us neither of us can do yes and do you think that strength will pass into me when I kill him I won't allow this to happen why don't you admit that you hate him as much as I do because I do not hate him hate myself yes often he made you too didn't he he did it to you as he did it to me why don't you hate him Louie shakes his head it's not as easy as that my dear and I will not let you harm him because maybe we should go away for a while travel on our own see if we can manage oh we manage don't seek to know the week or the night or the hour and don't seek to come between us I warn you or or what you'll destroy me too clot is

19:52 shaken no I would never harm you but if you do seek to interfere fear yes you'll never see me again she leaves so fast she seems to vanish interior flat another night theat marches through the place seeing mess everywhere a theater program on the carpet a news in the the window is open and the rain is coming in where's where's Mar they haven't been here for days maybe we frighten them some way I'd better call at their house when I go out Jan would have come to me herself is troubled she's never suspected to sing the start stops he lifts his chin he catches a scent what is it D on she has done this what what are you talking about lat wait lat goes down the hall out onto the porch down the backstairs across the courtyard and into the old deserted brick kitchen as he rips open the wooden doors a hug huge swarm of gnats Rises and neares him he waves him away in disgust he looks over his shoulder they both see Janette and

21:08 her daughter Marie freshly dead in each other's arms yet already devoured by heat and in the SL bangs the shutters closed there she M under my protection and she can't kill here in our and Liv men I'll talk to her I'll reason with her she's full of resentment now now come help me get rid of these two I cannot bear to be near them shutters opens the kitchen doors again to clear with men she knows this is forbid he opens the old unused IR door brick oven and turns and stares their two bodies disgusted that he must touch them he reaches down and touches Janette dark hair cut to the sound of a match the flare of flames bodies burning adid kindling and paper close on the start's face in Fire Light there will be more trouble from her and we must ride it out she'll come around to herself again I'm Mally tired of her the start she Broods she makes threats it's it's ID don't talk what do you all mean threats lard

22:29 is furious Lou is styed sees the Dilemma it will run its course we must be patient theat looks hard at Louie then turns his back and walks off L realizes full dilemma says nothing turns back deeply aggrieved does she despise me so much she's so small so powerless what can she do to either of us she's a woman and the pain runs deep close on the open oven and the body is burning no not woman that she never was and that is z she arms herself more than let her try to R me and I'll put her to out of H's way first enough leaves close on his face realizing he's caught between the two of them in your parlor lat another night l in formal dress comes in sees all the doors are shut listens catches sense angrily he walks into the Parlor Lou is Ping solitire at a small game table or she's back what a surprise as such she run away with the gypsies she's got two M with her seems so I don't like it either

23:58 D she bring them here she wants an independence that she can never have let it go for my sake and your sake that is too disgruntled sound of Claudia closing the door at the end of the passage and coming down the hall she's a vision in lovely white L pink ribbon long hair oh she be at who sits down at the piano with his back to the key h z that you given up NS ago after you left those two m in the G where have you been oh little people can hide in little places and how considerate of you to burn those bodies ashes to ashes my thanks he get but she gestures for patience she approaches him smiling radiant seductive she puts her little hands on his shoulder bless me Father for I have sinned I'm sorry truly I have a gift for you to make up for the whole thing gift what do you mean gift what AOS M doing under our roof they are my gifts for you darling I don't need such a gift sorry grabs his right hand and both of

25:30 hers and tugs him to his feet and after the hall Louie follows alarmed suspicious oh come see they're the most beautiful Tavern girls I've ever beheld Tav girls you know my weaknesses your favorite kind faces like angels and hearts of go call oh they' sent many of sailor to the death those two the stops in the doorway of a back parlor Dusty two gorgeous women blonde and a Brint lie tumbled on the couch heavily painted full breasts gorgeous very flashy and tacky and fast asleep do zo never stop giving us these Lous little Lees of the streets oh you're right is that my favorite meal Sur kill the man this very evening for a single gold coin the thought hardly hears her she walks toward the women he's getting hungry on the table are bottles and glasses behind him Lou is very wary can't quite figure all this out uh how did you get them to come here oh it wasn't difficult I'm an adorable little girl and when I want to be I led

27:05 them to believe I was alone in this great big flat full of such Fine Furniture and silver you are genius GLA he kneels down before the two irresistible women tumbled against close on the start savoring them he runs a finger over the lips of the brunette well it was you who gave me the idea actually burning the remains of the maid and her daughter I thought why not bring the meal home now and then a new sealed oven again well we can really it don't take this victim here L Claudia I want none of this don't fast I'll burn the remain remains myself he draws near to lat who is bending over the brunette go to it let me watch you lat lifts the brunette he sinks his teeth into the flesh above her breast and drinks giving off long savoring moment they look like lovers Claudia watches Louie turns angrily to return to the Parlor and then hears I've since you've always liked the taste of it father Louie comes back lat

28:30 continues to drink then glaze eyed he pulled himself up and reaches for the blonde he takes her ravenously like someone kissing farewell before War he moans again and she slips out of his arms and back onto the couch onto the body of the other one he stares forward OB almost parad stares wildly as he slips to his sitting position on the floor Focus with effort he focuses on Claud who comes toward him on tiptoe and then bends over him that's right father and Lum so much of it they would not have lived another hour had you not come she's put on me Le put me in my coffin Claudia slips a huge knife out from under the pillows beneath the horse she drives it right through his heart I'll put you in your coffin father I'll put you there forever Louie rushes to stop her as Claudia stabs lot over and over in an orgy of wounds blood pouring out of him Louie reaches her just as she has slashed lot's throat and he grabs

29:45 with a knife lifting it and her with it because she will not let go of it it's too many WS too fast Claudia kicks at Lou heing him backwards over the table bottles crashing as he falls as he climbs to his feet she pounces upon the St and sinks her fangs into his neck and sucks his blood ravenously Louie rushes to lat just as Claudia draws away repelled and stunned by what is happening to lot lot is shriveling as if he'd been a bag of blood his skin is shriveling against his bones like parchment his eyes are slipping back back into his skull-like face a noise escapes his lips his Lush beautiful hair remains unchanged but his clothes are virtually being emptied of the body it is now no more than the bones wrapped in paper and the pupils of the eyes suddenly roll up into the papered skull Claudia stares at the shriveled skeleton in its skin wrapping which looks totally dead she's fascinated Lou kneels beside the Gastly

30:59 spectacle he reaches for lat's shoulders but it's just bones held together with cloth or so it seems and Lou drops the skeleton in fear and horror it lies in the puddle of blood the eyeballs blank now look yellow all the skin looks yellow Claudia pulls herself out of her thr tenderly she approaches Louie patting his shoulder in a reassuring way go now go on it's my doing and I shall finish it no he's dead Louie spell yourself the sight of the Flames Louie begins to gather up the dried limbs though they flop free like sticks not in that filthy oven not with those charred bones not like that no interior lat's bedroom the shriveled skeleton lies on the lace coverlet Louise stares at it it looks dead than ever exterior old cemetery near Point dck night a carriage stands on the distant road with its lamps burning Loui carrying the white wrapped body of lat wanders among the old tombs i l places like this

32:17 D then leave father nobody said you had to be properly buried Louie in grief and confusion leaves the cemetery goes into the exterior of a swamp a still pool under the moon an echo of lat's laughter it going before cries Birds merge with L's laughter rapid harpsicord music I am so lonely I want a compion gently Louie lowers the body to the surface of the pool and then lets it sink who can forgive me L that who can give me absolu he gives up in despair focus on the yellow hair billowing from the sheet beneath the water exterior Cemetery Twilight the next night Fades tonight exterior Courtyard Claudia stands in the open brick kitchen watching the burning of Lot's belongings in the furnace she throws a top hat into it a pair of gloves her face is grave sad she turns as Louie returns at last I've been sick with worry as she tries to go to him he moves past her up the stairs and into the interior of the flat clot comes

33:42 behind him distressed and perplexed don't you see we're free now we can go what's wrong with you Louie look at me Louie he deserve to die Louie turns around in the doorway his room then so do we every night of our Lives we should die both of us now he was my brother my maker he gave me eternal life I told you I meant to do it yes you did and I didn't dare warn him because I didn't believe you could do it and I was afraid that if I did warn him that if you believed me he destroy you please Louie he wronged us both when he made us he kept us under his dominance always leave me alone I I cannot look at you I I'll care for you because you cannot care for yourself but I don't want you near me get away Claudia's eyes are glazing over with faint bloody tears she turns away Louie walks into his room stares blindly around him then he's distracted but Claud is crying the Terrible heart broken crying like the crying he heard

35:00 the first night he ever saw her utterly defenseless but it's echoing like a vampire's crying he can't quite believe his ears he moves into the hallway and then into her room she lies against a heap of pillows on the bed truly sobbing he draws near touches her shoulder and when she looks up at him her eyes and face are stained with blood tears the blood runs down her cheeks her lips tremble she sobs uncontrollably lips trembling Lou I did it for us so we could be free I did it because of what he did to us I tried to forgive him I couldn't do it Lou if I lose you I have nothing I would undo it to please you I would I swear it he shushes her gently Gathering her into his arms and sits on the bed covering her hair and her Blood Stained faces with kisses she cries softly allowing herself to be comforted very well my darling very well my love Claudia crying softly against his Blood Stained shirt

36:20 we'll leave here Lou we'll go to pie and we'll forget he ever existed we'll find others oh we'll see the world who knows what the old ones know what they can do all right my darling all right my love into your flat two nights later movers take out two trunks The Parlor Furniture is all draped with white sheets Lou and Claudia both have on cloaks and gloves they are ready to go Louie takes one last look around he stands with a poker looking down at the small coold fire then he hears the birds canary singing in Claudia's room ah the birds I forgot the birds there's nothing to do now but let them go Claudia weary Melancholy sits down on the sofa as he puts down the poker and goes down the hall he stops staring at the back door sounds of heavy footsteps shuffling in the courtyard then heavily treading on the stairs Louise is Frozen Claudia Rises and comes toward him takes his hand it can't be but it is she turns in

37:39 panic to the front of the flat steps continue up the stairs on the porch the door crashes open lat in filthy swamp soaked Rags nearly falls into the Hall he is robust again but his entire body is covered with creases where the flesh had wrinkled and shriveled he is scored all over with these scars his eyes are bloodshot he can hardly steady himself Louie tries to stop him but lot contemptuously and clumsily throws Lou to one side closeup lat scarred fate seemingly without reason CL ey back to scene Claudia rushes into the Parlor but he's after her she snatches up the poker from the fireplace and batters it with him with it fiercely knocking him backwards he staggers Louie comes in and throws his arms around lot's shoulders lot hurls him back and off balance again and then kicks him with a powerful kick in the gut Claudia screams lat snatches a poker from Claudia and reaches for her he she

38:44 shoves him with all her might and he falls back against the glass Scots shattering the glass the fire burns his face he regains a poke and whips the burning coals out of the great at lot's feet they land on the carpet and near the draped Furniture begin to smolder sheet overair begins to burn lot stares down the smoking coals trying to get his bearings Claudia slams him with the poker in the gas flame and this time the Scot shatters and the flame explodes up the wall struggles to his feet the wallpaper is burning lat's hair catches she turns sees the burning feet on the chair and hurls at at listat her dress catches and she screams the room is exploding into flame thead is on his KNE choking hands up over his face in the Smoke Lou grabs Claudia smothering the Flames of her skirt with his hands and the whole parlor is a fire we carries her out down the backstairs through the carriage away

39:51 and through the Gathering Crow of Mortals and Away down the street finally he stops and she she is not badly burnt only terrified she clings to him he looks back at the glare of the distant burning house he puts clot in a doorway they here until I come back oh no Louie oh don't leave me the ship is about to sail Louie runs back toward the townhouse it is surrounded by Mortals fire Roars out of the Parlor window L walks closer cleaving to the wall trying not to Rouse notice he looks up the Parlor is an inferno ludia catches up with him desperate the Tide's going out the ship's going without us not yet picking her up Louie hurries away exterior deck of ship Louie stands at the railing in the Morning Mist as a ship moves down river he sees the City of New Orleans with its flickering light until the very Dawn I stood on that deck watching fearful he would come again out of the very River like some

41:08 monster to destroy us both and all the while I thought Le that we deserve your Vengeance I deserve it you gave me the dark gift and I have delivered you into the hands of death for a second time return to Malloy and Louie present we had the voage to ponder it how he had survived clodia swore we had a fatal error when we had failed to burn his remains exterior deck of ship Claud and Lou at the rail Stars Over the Sea pray he died in the fire did you see him did you see the scars all over him he couldn't have gotten away oh yes he could have he couldn't come after us no but he was too weak for that but he could have gotten away you sound as if you wanted him to escape when will you admit your own hatred for him she Cleaves to Louie in spite of himself he Strokes her soft little face as we return to the present was she right did he die in the fire how could we know no you can imagine how powerful he was to rise from

42:31 the swamp as he had he was conscious all the way waiting to get his hands on something living something with blood on it exactly it isn't very hard to Envision there must have been blood uh filled creatures all around him in these Waters and he was the start after all maybe he fed on the smallest at first and then the great alligators of the Wilderness until he was healed enough to take some Hess human on the road Botho face you know as much of as you know as much about us now perhaps as I do we can suffer terrible blows blows that would kill IM mortal but if we are not BN to our we heal come back exterior 19th century steam ship moving at Sea Under night skies I think I did pray that he escaped the townhouse and yet I feared for for clodia at the very thought meanwhile each night brought us closer to Europe closer to Parry closer to a world of which we had only dreamed exterior Boulevard facade of

43:42 Grand Hotel and Paris Opera crowds and Gaslight everywhere carriages horses Opera coming from the Opera House ah par how many Mortals have uttered that name with reverence is there any other place that evokes such love but understand what par meant to us we too had lived a century in New Or Leon par was a Universe whole and entire un herself exterior 18th century palaces along the sign night the high walls of the Lou dark figures walking in pars under the shadow shadowy taries Exterior Street shop window Claudia in fur trim muffin Bonnet peers through the glass of the dolls they resemble her markedly these with blonde hair and blue eyes she peers deep into the shop to see madaline a young woman bent over a workbench painting a doll's face oblivious to being watched Claudia Smiles at her lovingly then looks with a troubled expression at the dolls interior Opera staircase Lou and Claudia hurrying hand in hand with crowd

44:51 of Mortals as we hear the sounds of the orchestra tuning Beyond both are excited and happy interior Notre Claudia and Louie stand in the Deep Shadows of notredam looking up at the branching arches Louie is overcome with the beauty he's excited CLA is fascinated interior Gallery Louie and Claudia walk among paintings of 1870 with other Spectators Louise studies them intently he studies the Mortal ladies passing studies their big fashionable hats interior Cafe watches the waitress flirt with Louie as she teases him about not liking his wine she smiles to herself thoughtfully we were alive again we were in love and so euphoric were we that a did completely when Claudia moved us into the Grand Hotel the very largest in Europe on the boulevard de Capuchin interior Sumptuous Suite full of late 19th century Furniture lots of Empire style Regency guilt and the usual velvet and broide close on the huge

46:02 black ebony chest against the wall solemn amongst all the light and glitter Claudia at the open French Windows listens to the sounds of the crowd outside busy night Louie approaches drops on one knee and presents her with a little String of Pearls he puts them on her gazing at her slightly uneasily and then kisses her on both cheeks she forces a smile where are the others Louie I can hear them I can sense their presence but they hide let us not be so eager to find them my fairy pr princess Le that warn me often enough about them they may not be willing to share their territory even with two such human creatures as you and I but they're like us they are what we are are we so alike Claudia Claudia Smiles at him kisses him I like enough don't you think yes she looks out at the crowds below then maybe they know things she looks at her hands her own reflection in the open French door beside her old magic

47:20 secrets charms who knows charms for what my dear fladia looks down at her little hands at her arms and then Muses the startat would have told us if they had some precious secret you you know what they'll be like City cousins and we the ridiculous rustics Louie admires her she watches carriages stop below pter rushed to gather luggage ring of ladies laughter sometimes it's almost worse here the loneliness the separateness Lou controls his inner thoughts he says only sometimes but not always and definitely not tonight he takes her hand she gives in as they open the door to the hall to leave the sound of the orchestra swells from the lobby below interior hotel suite another night Louie wakes up from a nap rumpled on a lavish bed picks up his book David field and tries to find his place he's wearing distinct clothing a green frock coat and striped waist coat cream colored pants cloudy enters

48:37 and shuts the door she is a large parcel she strips off the Bonnet and gloves and then tears loose the ribbon from the box she lifts a huge doll from the box a duplicate of herself uh wherever did you find that you thought I hated dolls now did you you yes I did but that one looks exactly like you Claudia flings the doll gently in her chair she strips off her own Cape her hair is loose her Manner and expression are entirely womanly it should it was made for me by the doll maker meline I asked her to make it all her dolls resemble me Claudia tosses her hair scowls the doll and picks it up and begins fussing with it suddenly something snaps in her expression close on her face as she looks down at the doll she blinks as we hear the glass break she flings the doll onto the empty Hearth where its broken head is utterly shattered Louise studies her sadly but not without complete sympathy he looks

49:45 down at the broken doll he holds his tongue Claudia runs her fingers back through her own hair and a woman-like gesture her face iconic and Grim Louie deliberately looks away why do you look away why don't you look at me Louie puts down the book on the table Rises brushes off his coat and straightens his coat he lifts a dark green Wool Cap from Over the arm of a chair and puts it over his shoulder H your tone is unkind with me again tonight it seems your habit of late maybe I should go walking and leave you to your meditation for a while clot approaches face molded in a sophisticated expression of ironic dissatis section from Claudia's point of view looking up at Louie ah but tell me something from that lofty height before you go back to scene Louie nods he sits down on the bed beside her and he bends to take her hand and kiss it what was it like making love Lou is stunned he blushes he rises and goes to

50:51 the door he reaches for the knob you don't remember or you you never knew she stares at him coldly mocking him he turns around leans against the door and he answers candidly it was uh something hrid seldom savored quickly lost I think that it was theel shadow of killing they look at each other ah like hurting you as I do now that is all also the pale shadow of killing yes madame I'm inclined to believe that is correct he goes out and closes the door and then we switch up exterior winding street Latin quarter I knew her dissatisfaction was growing her resentments were increasing night after night though she'd claimed to hatless that now she missed him and her anger was turning slowly on me Louie walks briskly inspecting the old buildings about him and chanted with them yet worried about Claudia suddenly he stops listens he takes a step he hears a step behind him he takes two steps he hears two steps

52:18 takes three four five and the steps mimic his he senses danger he stares ahead at the light of a lone Gas Lamp at the top of the hill and then a figure materializes there under The Gaslight or appears to do so sorry Santiago a tall vampire stares down at him and gradually we realize as does Louie that this vampire has assumed the same attitude and posture as Louie and that his clothes are identical to Louise and his black hair is combed in the same way Louie gives a little involuntary Shake of the head Santiago mimics takes a step forward Santiago mimics Louie utters a syllable and so does Santiago Louie Falls silent and folds his arms so Santiago the timing is pret natural you mean me harm you mean me harm trickster buffo Santiago Echoes the first word but not the second Lou has broken his composure he turns back on Santiago only to come face to face with Santiago right in front of him again Lou turns his back and to find

53:36 Santiago facing him Louie turns glowers refusing to look at him I've been searching for you I've come to find you and this is what I find slowly he looks up Santiago draws close breaking the mirror tricks and suddenly pushes Lou Who is slammed Back Against The Wall Santiago Smiles Lou is furious he quickly regains his balance and he deals Santiago a great blow cat him just my goodness why am I yawning so much C sorry he quickly regains his balance and he deals Santiago a great blow catching him just as he tries to dodge Santiago staggers is amazed and as Santiago rushes at him Louie deals him a strong blow again Lou's point of view as he struggles to see where Santiago has fallen he hears sounds like a scuffle blows silence Sant Louis's Armand standing alone with his back to the light arman's hair is trimed short 19th century style like Louise and he is dressed for the period in a black frock

54:42 coat High colored white silk shirt ah he looks like an angel back to scene Armand looks momentarily confused then regains his calm tranquil expression Lou is a not Lou Point look he [ __ ] his head scanning Lou's mind Louie becomes faintly suspicious Arman takes an engraved invitation out of his pocket and thrusts it at Louie Louie reads out loud as we see by special invitation Friday 900 p.m. bring the petty Beauty with you no one will har you I won't allow it but you must explain to morrowa you know my name Arman vanishes Lou listens to the silence exterior Boulevard de cap cap night Lou formerly dressed with Claud and Richard Tire in his arms approaches the theater as others buy tickets and go in remember what I've told you they'll have different strengths and weaknesses some will read your thoughts if you allow it be on guard they draw close to huge posters announcing announcing the theater de

56:06 vampire sorry theater de vampir showing a [ __ ] image cliched images of vampires and cloaks overcoming damsels another angle but this can't be real this is nonsense I think it's nonsense all right but something tells me it's going to be the strangest nonsense we've ever seen weily they show their invitation to the Mortal ticket taker at the door he glances away indifferently interior Theater box po stage below Claudia and Louie look at look about look about at crowd as lights go down Mortals Mortals everywhere and lots of drops to drink they are are here I know they are listen for something that doesn't make a sound stage curtain Rises a vampire disguised as an old woman comes out on the stage limping to Cosmic music basket on her arm as the Grim Reaper a vampire holding a skull mask on a stick before his face follows her suddenly she sees him music is poignant she kneels praised him silent silently

57:23 to take her She lays her head against her f hands in weariness the Grim Reaper the Grim reap I don't know why I'm yawning so much the Grim Reaper uh CL comes for a closer look then backs off laughter the old woman Rises and chases the Grim Reaper laughter as they run around and around the stage the Grim Reaper hides behind a painted tree the old woman gives up goes away grim reaper now lowers the mask and yawns revealing that he is Santiago bored he lifts The Masks again appears to fall asleep with it over his face against the painted tree it's a vampir it's the one I saw in the r San jaac continued Santiago affects aboard air as if it were about to go as if about to go to sleep when a spotlight uncovers a mortal woman selling forced out upon the stage she's no vampire no and she's is frightened she doesn't know where she is the audience laughs uneasily then stops as the Mortal woman comes to the

58:34 foot lights she's too beautiful too confused silent Falls the Grim Reaper throws up his hand in adoration then the tears then he tears away the skull mask and his white F face grimaces at the audience looking as frighten frightening suddenly in its preternatural gleam as the mask the Mortal woman sees him and is more frightened tears stand in her eyes vampire men and women cloaked in black emerge from the Shadows each holding a skull mask before his or her face as they make a great horseshoe behind the Mortal woman which she does not see suddenly the Mortal woman sees them and is more frightened close on vampire men and women as in the concert they cast down before them the skull masks the sticks attack like crossbones the and the skulls gleaming at the audience it is a preternatural trick of skill the vampires are seven five women and two men in addition to the Grim Reaper all beautiful gleaming white age

59:35 20 or 30 in Mortal appearance they use no paint and the audience thinks it is paint oh theat would have love this I'm not so sure you're right I don't love it is that I don't want to die she looks around in panic in panic Santiago SWS arms over his breast as if he is hopelessly in love we are death the Mortal woman steps to the foot lights someone help me please what have I done oh this is no performance and you and I are the only ones in the audience who know we all die death is the one thing you share with all those here Santio gestures to the audience focus on audience wrapped faces on stage but I'm young death is no respector of age you could Harbor an illness in your young body outside a man might want to kill you simply for your yellow hair need I tell you what Fate has in store for you I would take my chance please let me go please and if you take that chance and live what is your fate the humpback

1:01:08 toothless vage of old age Santiago approaches her and tears the drawstring out of her Pleasant B Pleasant pleas uh peasant blouse it opens completely and starts to slip she tries to catch it but he gently takes her wrists and lifts them down the blouse Falls revealing her young breasts this is monstrous yes and very beautiful on stage just as surely as this flesh is pink now it will turn gray and wrinkle with age let me live please I don't care then why should you care if you die now she shakes her head confused he catches her wrist behind her back audience is all struck by her beauty her beauty her suffering Santiago draws near her her cheek and suppose death had a heart to love and he did release you to whom would he turn his passion would you pick a person from the crowd there a person to suffer as you suffer now audience a young girl cries out from the third row oh yes take me moo vampier

1:02:24 I adore you audience Roars with L with laughter on stage you wait your turn laughter the Mortal woman shakes her head in panic well have you a sister a mother a daughter you would send in your place close on Claudia even she is repelled by the cruelty of it shakes her head mortal woman shakes her head no she is helpless on stage unconscious death waits for you everywhere but we are conscious death do you know what it means to be loved by death to become our bride mortal woman looks up on the verge of a steria or fainting but then her eyes misted over she is being entrenched from her POV we realize she's looking past Santiago at Armand who has just Ste stepped out of the Wings Armand has entranced her he passes Santiago Santiago stiffens but yields the stage no pain no pain ran takes her by the naked shoulders your beauty is a gift to us Heron gestures to the others who slowly gracefully close in who deserves such a

1:03:42 gift he pulls the drawstring from her skirt and it falls revealing her nakedness but she is Spell bound no pain Armand Embraces her drinks her naked body Stark against his black clothes then he passes her to the other vampires one by one close on Lou Who battles desire and hunger with anger pushes his tongue against his bangs and frowns I've seen enough of these Oh Be Still on stage the naked mortal woman lies dead on the floor of the painted Forest the vampires seem to vanish one by one the audience loudly Applause the tricks applauds the tricks another angle Applause chatter but the audience is uneasy and eager to escape they hurry to the exit Whispering anxiously with forced Smiles patience Louie patience house lights go up as Louie sees Santiago standing in the door of the Box gesturing for them to come interior foot of Stairway opening into a huge underground Ballroom walls are painted with copies of famous R's goo

1:04:53 depiction of death fine wooden cofins lie in niches set into the walls up and down both sides of the long room some are very old some lustrious some rusted candles burn in sconces Arman stands in the center of the ballroom hands clasped behind his back as Claudia and Louie come down the stairs and into the room vampire men and women seemed to appear all around Louie and Claudia deliberately startling them hands start out to touch Claudia as if she were a doll shrieks of pratal laughter she Cleaves to Louie he is silently enraged he looks to Armand I'm on gestures for the vampires to back off they obey they all obey but aelle such a darling whoever made you my dear she menaces Claudia her breaths enormous her fangs Beed Arman glares at her suddenly she is forced off her feet and back against the wall by some Invisible by something invisible she slams s into the plaster and glowers at Armand that was crude of

1:05:59 you she vanishes blur Armand reappears with a lighted candle in his hand he gestures for Louie to follow him glaud remains behind watching wearily sorry Arman and Lou walk among the walls the candle flaring on the Gastly on the Gastly more ah let me start that again Arman and Louie walk along the walls the candle flaring on the ghastly murals the TR of death the fall of the Angels BOS hell arman's face gleams like that of an angel above the candle Lou is horrified by the paintings as he was by the performance monstress yes and very beautiful your lips they didn't move I will speak in audible words if it makes you happy I can do it either way Lou looks at him drawn to him yet weary Arman snaps his fingers a mortal boy of 15 comes forward Arman gestures to Louie and the Louie or and the boy offers himself Louie is utterly confused can't resist these marks on the boy's throat drinks his blood other vampires peer all

1:07:11 around Louie who suddenly senses it and draws back releasing the boy ashamed close on Claudia far away watching contemptuously and wearily Lou is disoriented trying to regain his equilibrium boy Smiles as he withdraw Spellbound and weak Louie glares at the others another angle Arman beckons for Claudia and Louie to follow as he reveals a door in the wall by opening it and leading them downstairs into a passage and into a stone room with medieval chairs table an old coffin a blazing fire of books on one wall medieval painting of Satan hangs over the fire on scene a door is open to a rainy night sorry the door is open to the rainy night outside and another Stairway to the street above Arman closes it Louie falls into the chair hands on his temples am man turns to Claudia Claudia's eyes missed without a change of expression she sits limp in a chair her eyes moving listlessly over the books closed on books witchcraft

1:08:17 demonology lives of the Saints G grimor back to the scene she refuses to lose Consciousness ran sits in the chair opposite Louie as Louie looks up it is a thing isn't it to come so far and find so little jaded Lords and Ladies of Darkness amusing themselves like the old Royal Court yet you are the leader you let them do all this this play this horror you sound like your maker it was L uncle was it not who made you a boss he condemned me once in the same way all I do is give the others what they need of me and this the sustains them and gives them contentment so they let me believe or perhaps I must believe it you can read my thoughts can't you now and then you don't know your own strength the child knows her aose she cannot conceal but her deeper thoughts are close to all who would be she's no child you know that whether you can read her mind or not and what purpose you speak of she has the charm

1:09:27 of a child and the wisest of us can be led by appearances and we need interesting and new compion do we you know we do time is our enemy what will we do without the fleshlings to guide us into the new era as we all love slow as all we love slowly rots and feeds away Lou tears his eyes off herand and looks up at the pictures of Satan why you stare at that it is the picture nothing more he rises suddenly Kure broken grabs the picture off the wall and throws it into the fire it has no meaning you know it is not it easy simple but the old ones the very old one Armon takes his hand I know nothing of God or the devil I have never seen a vision nor heard a Divine voice nor learned a secret that would D or save me S and I am the oldest for all you know I am the old oldest living vampir in the world Lou is thunder struck he stares at the Angelic face which is very sad close and Armand Lou fall falls back into the

1:10:36 chair Armand Waits patiently then this does not surprise you you knew he would find no enthusia oh but I hoped and I dreamed that LE that was wrong that there was some framework some place for us children of sat but someone somewhere knew why we were allowed to exist Children Of Satan didn't Le stop tell you of these old Customs yes we and if there is a SAT who made him pray whom do you think why God made Satan who else then we are all children of God aren't we and is that is what Mortals believe how can we improve upon that Lou is struck by the Simplicity of it then we are damned in hell all of us we are evil what what is evil how now it's you who are deceiving yourself you know what it is you saw it on that stage tonight evil is cruelty evil is murder evil is the taking of a single human life Armand is deeply moved by Lou's sincerity I fear for you and not for yourself no SC of V was voice over no I

1:12:02 was born to you darkne centuries ago in Venice by her master who brought me to him in love he told me no Tales of gods or demons it was the others who told those lies those who came to destroy him because he was an outlaw and a Blas blasim those who took me and taught me the ways of sat and the rules of the children of Darkness the old cism of the Damned close on Lou face and I took their vows and said their Lise and sang their IMS and danced at their sabbaths until L came your maker the innocent one the perfect Spirit of the lent to believing in nothing but the goodness of his own nature and he was right Lou doesn't answer them knew we were IL he just didn't care knew you say you you mean is Claudia suddenly appears at Louis's shoulder interrupting she is fighting a spell as if it were if as if it is a drug trying to see and move with Clarity um beloved it's time we were on our way I'm hungry

1:13:22 and the streets wait she stares hard at Armand and he stares back at her she looks away wearily as if his eyes have a power you can leave by this door the others won't hurt you I won't let them This I Swear Arman looks meaningful at Claudia who eyes him suspiciously I have no magic potions for you little one no charms Claudia is shocked by his words you will be as you will be as you are and as you were made a child forever clot is enraged and humiliated glaring at him and then at Louie I made no requests of you what are you saying to each other go your finally appointed rooms await you you can always come to the store if you wish to find me I'll be here interior hotel suite Perry Before Dawn Claudia Paces in a rage hair while dress undone looking entirely like a little woman voice resonant like a woman all childish innocence long gone I detest them I can't stand the sight of them they disgust me stupid bouro

1:14:41 parisians fools they all dress in Black did you see it it's a damned organization a private club Louise stares Into the Fire dejected God in heaven what I wouldn't give to speak with lat for five minutes and there are no little ones among them I am the only one the only one and their leader mocks me Louie takes her into his arms trying to steal her with kisses what a fool I was to kill the St and I'm in danger what danger I can feel it emanating from all of them they want to know what became of our maker they suspicious they have their rules they're idiotic rules they don't know what happened to lat they search our souls but they do not have the answers not yet and we are in danger maseri we not you no it is I who am in danger and as much from that cly amount as from the rest that's not true he wants you Louie he wants you for a companion he bues his time in this place how we need new companions do you

1:16:08 remember what he said and he Taun me with my Foolish Dreams what dreams clodia did you think you were the only fool beloved I dreamed of some Wizardry that would make me he kisses her Smooths her black hair or Smooths back her hair sorry you are perfect to me as you are you always were you are my beloved she leans on him closes her eyes confides do you know what Arman Soul said to me why not end the pain now child the sun can be your deliverance no oh yes he can't make me grow into a womanly shape but he can show me how to die exterior foot of steps Perry next night Rain by Armand's door Lou knocks armad opens you've come early I grateful to you I was waiting for you of course listen to me he follows Armand to the room Claudia she is dear to me my daughter your love no my beloved my child if you say so so you are so innocent I'm Not Innocent but I'm afraid she feels she's in danger from the

1:17:32 others she is but why why would they hurt her what right have they to do anything to either of us they are the they have their loss it is forbidden to make one as young as she is one so Happ that one could cannot survive on his own it wasn't her blunder she is too small to make a vampir of a male or female old enough to protect her she can't make another at all do you know what she hope to find here yes we she should have known such a thing wasn't possible but you have to protect her Arman nods I know Louise sinks into the chair looking up at herand there was so much I wanted to say to you so much I wanted to ask to learn from you and I'm here to teach I need you young one just as you need me I am the teacher Le wouldn't be and you're the pupil he did not want he draws close to Lou and picture boyish innocence how many vampir have the stamina for immortality do you know how quickly they

1:18:40 perish of their own wheel yes because I almost did it once to myself no he'd never give up on life I know you wouldn't if the world were reduced to one empty cell and one fres candle you stay in that cell stadl in that candle you see too clearly you see too much that's what leat said to me and I failed him I wronged him oh God how he must have loved you I love you but why I need you more than he ever did to make my link with his Century to carry me into its art and its philosophy and all the things I despar of understanding on my own oh but you you'd be making a terrible mistake I'm at odds with everything and always have been I wasted life when I had it I waste my gifts now I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time Arman laughed softly you are so nearly perfect oh Lou do you not realize everyone in this 19th century feels as you do you are the very Spirit of the times your Melancholy The

1:20:00 Melancholy of the century Lou is speechless and in love there is so much I can show you I want to go back to Italy back to Venice to the Palace Where I Was Made I can teach you things about your powers you haven't begun to learn but listen you must you must get the child away from here they won't celebrate her they'll destroy her I cannot leave her oh I want to come with you to talking to you it's like sting like the deep rich Taste of blood yes come I'll hold them off they all cical little coward when we get right down to it the trash of the era just as you are Ence I'll keep them at Bay but you must think of some way to get her safely out of here and on her own exterior streets mon Mar Louis walks up the hill past lighted colle cottages of course I couldn't leave her get her safely away what did such words mean to me but I wanted to leave her for the first time I admitted it I had wanted to leave us since the night she

1:21:15 tried to kill estat I love her yes Beyond reason but since that night we had been a torment to each other now and I could not deny it any longer Louise stops peers into the painter Studio the Mortal painter is fast at work on a huge canvas vaguely impressionistic very early Monae he stops in his work as he sees Louie in the doorway the painter wipes his hand on his smok beckons for Louie to enter the room is brightly lighted full of Glorious pictures a fire blazes in a little stove Lou is hungry he lets the painter and wrapped put him in the chair the painter begins Louis's portrait close on Lou who becomes ever more hungry staring at the painter who wordss furiously sketching Lou's face the painter stops Disturbed save yourself beware the painter drops a brush backs away in fear Louie takes him the painter fights but Louie sinks his teeth in and drinks die die give it up he releases the painter

1:22:24 still alive but comos onto the floor Lou stares at the canvas the sketch is a portrait of Innocence a young man holy compassionate and gentle a moral now like you my brother with your blood he touches his face Louie touches his own face warm and wanting to be warmer to go on existing and thriving on your blood the painter's eyes close lifts the painting and starts a leave with it when the painter opens his eyes Rises up grabbing the painting from Louie they wrestle with it Louie winning but casting aside the painting and drawing the painter up to him and gashing his throat in Rage for the final drink interior Hotel suweet night Louie enters he is carrying the painting sketch which he props up on the mantle suddenly he catches a scent small lift of his chin and he looks into the mirror he sees in the glass meline the doll maker resplendent in green tafida sitting like a Madonna with Claudia on

1:23:31 her lap Claudia's arms around her neck the contrast between the immortal woman and the Mortal woman and the immortal child is plain Louie turns around why did you bring her here what does this mean Claudia slips from madine's lap she approaches looking womanly and cruel don't you know no even now you dream of leaving me of wandering the world with your new teacher well you will make her one of us before you leave me you will do that for all you've done to me Lou recoils do you know how I despise you your evil is that you cannot be evil you will not you didn't stop le start when he made me you didn't stop me when I destroyed him well you will do evil now and for me you will make her strong and Immortal so she can care for me so I can leave this place mateline is stricken with love for Claudia Claudia Paces a woman in a doll's body enraged Lou is not surprised so much as defeated bravely he

1:24:52 listens snatch me from Mortal hands like two Grim monsters in a nightmare fairy tale you idle blind parents fathers he spits blood at his feet and You Weep you haven't tears enough for what you did to me six more immortal years seven I would have had that shape she points the mine now you give her to me you do this so I can go on with her I will not live with this hatred any longer I will not live with this rage close on Louie accepting and identifying with her completely without defense oh I love you still that's a COR of it she pivots bending at the waist as if struck by a blow oh let's stop I never loved but you always the hate I feel is equal to the love all the we do you know how much that is yes I know Claudia begins to tremble and cry blood tears mine comes to her side oh my precious one don't don't they Embrace each other Louie watches pause he goes to meline and he draws her near

1:26:16 to him he cradles mine's chin in his hand you must do as I tell you look at the gas light Don't Take Your Eyes Off it I'm going to drain you to the brink of death but you must stay alive do you hear me we Louie bends and begins to drink her blood exterior Hotel sweet balcony Louie emerges from the room and puts his hand on the railing the Wind Blows the curtains behind him we see mine dancing in Mad circles with Claudia the mingled laughter becomes louder and louder Lou stares down into the boulevard at the corner of the Cafe De laat and he sees Armand solitary watching him from the street Hotel sweet next night the luggage being carried out by the Bell hops meline is tracing the flowers in a carpet with her foot like a person on LISD giggling and dancing around the flowers Louie pays the last bell hop he leads Claudia dressed and ready for the journey shuts the door she comes back and looks at

1:27:22 Louie forgive me there's nothing to forgive I showed you my pain father that you did child and I deserve to see it all of it and your anger as well Claudia reaches up for him with both arms he lifts her Embraces her my darling my love Claudia kisses him on the mouth she draws back bites into her tongue and when the blood flows she kisses him full on the mouth again he closes his eyes receiving the kiss and then he pulls away holding her close on meline looking up startled lights dim all around her Lou is fully alert he looks around other vampires in their black clothes are all around them pressing closer and closer time for justice little one yes you blundering fool as Louis starts a fight we hear mlin scream into Theater which is carriages stop before the doors we see the whole crowd in black with Louie Claudia and meline emerg from the carriages the prisoners are shoved inside into your ballroom thei and clot

1:28:38 are forced inside and the vampires make a circle around them where is ARA I demand that you wait for him you can make no demands here Rogue bastard Lou rushes at him and is knocked back mine and Claudia cling to each other Claudia appears fatalistic mine sobs in fear L gasps from his point of view leat dressed beautifully but horribly scarred now from the fire more than from the early stabbing is shoved forward teetering and reaching for Santiago's shoulder to steady himself he's clearly confused L where is Promised Me back to scene he stares disoriented at the others Claudia looks at him but he does not seem to recognize her or anyone but Louie Claudia is fearless and resigned you Rose up against your maker you tried to destroy one of our own kind you Rose against the coven master jaie but he's alive we didn't destroy them L I beg you if ever there was a particle of love between us lat tries to follow

1:30:03 the words but can't where is our it promised me his healing blood I need it I need the blood of the old ones Lou yes you vampire scream over and over justice justice jce Justice Santiago points at Claudia bad appears to see her for the first time denounce the rebels name them and pass sentence where is AR this creature doesn't know what he's saying you have no right to condemn us look at me tell them to let the other two go I am the one who Hur you tell them the St tries to follow but it can only express a faint happiness at the sight of Louie tries to gather his thoughts and a banging dragging noise distracts the we enough enough the outcasters confessed the child is a weak Abomination the woman is a weak and stupid fleshling the sentence is death Lou goes wild fighting but they overpower him drag a big Iron coffin which they have dragged to the spot they force him down into it they lock a chain

1:31:18 over his chest and hold him Santiago bends over the coffin for you the slow away perhaps it will take centuries perhaps it will never really come at all deep in the old dungeon no one will ever hear your screams as you thirst as you wither time will have you all to itself Louise struggles the lid slams in tear the coffin Louise struggles breaks the chain and beats his fist against the lid of the coffin all in vain he tries to turn over but he can't it's too tight he goes wild beating at the lid and then stops tread of feet on the stairway and going down a long passage seems endless Louie feels all around him for some weakness in the coffin can find none sounds of bricks and mortar Lou stares one more struggle and then he loses Consciousness blackness

1:32:30 who is it what's happened we're switching narrators I think it's me interior coffin dim light Louise sleeps sounds of bricks being uh thrown aside then locks breaking Louie opens his eyes he is at once alert the lid opens he sees Armand above him reaching down oops where are we at okay just up a little sorry yeah ah H okay here are uh then of locks breaking Louie opens his eyes he is is at once alert the lid opens he sees Armand above him reaching down to lift his hand a torch burns on the wall behind Armand we cut to Louie standing beside Armand in vast long catacomb very far at the end we see the broken wall L runs to it we cut to Louie and Aman stepping through the broken brick wall where is she what's happened where is clodia come we must go that way through my cell per points to his cell at the end of the passage foot of the steps we can hear the rain through the open door no no not without clodia and madlin

1:34:11 where are they I cannot save them that's not true you don't believe I'd go without them do you God they have them here somewhere you must help me find them he goes to to the stone stairs and enters the ballroom a still stands far off looking at him cooly and she lifts the stage skull mask and laughs softly behind it a male vampire slumps in a chair staring fully at Louie silence indifference others hover in the same manner a door is open to the Falling Rain Louise sees theat sitting in a far corner he rushes to lat looks up confused he's holding something crumpled made of cloth oh Lou we should go home now we should go back to where we belong Louie turns round and round in Rage passive still faces the open door bangs suddenly in gust of Breeze and opens on the rain once more Louie glares at it at lat lat's hands release the clock we see it is a small torn Blood Stained dress claud's dress Louise sees it he snatches it up

1:35:40 and stares at it the door bangs again Estelle laughs rain gusts into the ballroom Louie goes to the door amand approaches tries to pull him away but Lou shrugs him off advancing on the doorway he draws nearer and nearer and stares out interior brick Airway airwell on the stones lie Claudia and mine burnt to greasy ashes in each other's arms exactly like the maid and her daughter in the brick Kitchen in New Orleans same attitude as if they died embracing each other only Claudia's blonde hair and mine's R hair remain unburnt Louie looks at the walls of this air well he looks up many stories to the sky Santiago shoves Louie suddenly into the ashes Louie Roars in horror then attacks Santiago overpowering him ashes scattered into the Rainy Night A Rainy wind cla's golden locks fly up into the wind they swirl around the two Waring figures Santiago tried to escape dragging Louie back with him into the

1:36:57 ballroom where the others close in Arman pulls Louie free of them Louie fights Blackness exterior door of nraam perie Lou is slumped against the stone wall Arman stands beside him like a guardian angel I could not prevent it I don't believe you I do not have to read your soul to know that you lie l they cannot be brought back that is impossible The Remains are destroyed you let them do it Louie climbs to his feet you held sway over them they they feared you you wanted it to happen I swear I do not I understand you only too well you let them do it as I let her reap Le's Heart To Pieces you let it happen as I let him make her well I am your par fool no more your Melancholy Spirit of Cent I know what I must do and I warn you do not seek yourself in the the the vamp again do not go near it exterior streets Paris almost Dawn wet and deserted theater de vampires is quiet close up on clock chiming 5 a.m. close on Louie

1:38:16 looking at the paling Sky he is in the alleyway outside of Armon cell he has a huge keg with him he finds the door unlocked he enters interior cell empty the Hearth is cold the old coffin is gone Louise silently closes the door to the passage and bars it with the immense bar he looks about looks at the bar it's enough to block this exit he rushes back out interior theater Louie hurls kerosene all over the stage curtain the padded seats the carpet he leaves a long trail of kerosene behind him like a wick he rushes to the wings and down the stairs dribbling the kerosene behind him he sees the candle light of the ballroom below and then the candle goes out he listens creeping quietly into the ballroom leaking the kerosene from The Cask he splashes over the coffins at gleam in the dimness and then he strikes a match and heaves it at the kerosene everything bursts into flames the trail of kerosene Roars into fire through the

1:39:29 ballroom over the coffins and up the stairs we hear explosion of fire above Louise shutters all over fighting the morning weakness he takes a small Scythe from his belt and stands like the Grim Reaper a stelle rises from her burning coffin screams and tries to run through the fire but slashes at her with the side and she goes down screaming her dress INF Flames stop morning this others rise choking in the Smoke stream Screams Come From everywhere they are burning Louie backs to the stairs to the dungeon he can see down there a thin Pale Light under arman's bolted door morning coming Santiago suddenly appears behind he turns Santiago rushes him in a blur Louise lifts aside too fast to see what he he himself is doing Santiago's head streaming blood flies through the air the body drops flapping its arms Screams Come From everywhere another vampire rushes burning towards Louie he decapitates the burning vampire the

1:40:50 light from below is nearly blinding him Louie covers his eyes with his arm and descends rushing past the door of a Manel with its burning gleam of light he runs down the long passage to the broken brick wall he enters the dungeon he stops once to catch his breath in the cool dark listening to screams above Roar of fire passageway before and behind are empty he rushes Back The Long Dark passage and finds the iron coffin in which they locked him he digs a side into the ceiling over and over causing Rubble to fall in a great Heap before the coffin and then he climbs inside interior coffin close on Lou his eyes closing Oblivion stairway Louie following Night Moves slowly up the city Stone stairs hearing the sounds of the city above he emerges in the burnt out Ballroom under the naked sky above on the exterior sidewalks there are hastily constructed wooden barriers a fragment of a wall heaps of rubble but the theater is gone

1:42:08 he climbs up over the heaps of rubble a high wall remains a piece of burnt roof and rafters carriages and pedestrians Go By ignoring him interior crowded Cafe across from the the theer Louise sits at a table paper folded in front of him we see the headline fire destroys Boulevard the the mortal world did not guess what had taken place few bodies had been found in the ruins in other words the younger ones had left their bones the older ones had been obliterated no mention of an eyewitness or a Survivor how could there have been interior Lou nights later it is already a museum by this time and Louie fancily dressed and composed walks alone through the rooms looking at the painting by Moonlight that comes through the windows and the skylights he pauses before a Garo the wreck of the Medusa amand appears standing beside the painting Louise sigh you didn't even warm them did you no why not they did not want to H you are their

1:43:32 leader they trusted you no that was never true the theater was mine but I was never the leader not since the time when he start destroyed the old ways Louise stops and Le that was he there when the theater burned did you want him to be there we walks on I don't know that's the truth of it I don't know you are much changed and yet you are the same Armand looks at him affectionately what a pear we are we deserve each other don't we what does it matter innocent one we are a pair that is what counts Armand and Louie walk slowly through the LOF together that is the end of my story I never changed after that I left Paris shortly after and Aro followed me for years we wandered the world Greece Egypt all the ancient lands but Claudia's death is truly the end of my tale return to exterior Divisadero Street present traffic roaring along div div sedero Street below the window we were in Venice when Armon went his

1:44:55 own way I feared for him going off on his own but not enough to UT a single word to stop him from time to time I glimpsed others old ones sometimes they fled sometimes they were indifferent exterior old Deli India present time crowds swarming in the early evening Autos push against the endless stream of mly pedestrians then only a few years ago I caught a glimpse of another vampir and I knew at once it had to be Gabrielle close on Louie in gentleman's white tropical suit staring through the crowd distant figure of Gabrielle her hair tied back dressed in khaki men's clothes white-faced oblivious like a walking statue unnoticed yet horrifying in her trans-like movement I did there call out to her what could I have said to her it was like seeing a goddess he watches as she suddenly vanishes he hurries through the crowd trying to catch another sight of her but he can't she seems to have disappeared he's alone in the Mortal

1:46:14 crowd every memory of leat I'd ever buried in my soul came back to me oh I'd never really forgotten him but now how he crowded everything from my mind he became my obsession Exterior Street San Francisco malloy's face present m is still alive he did Escape that fire that's what I had to find out I'd been back to par innumerable innumerable times I would have known had he been there now I wanted to return to no or finally I could think of nothing else the idol dream that if he existed still he might be there and I wanted to see my home again my city where we had been so happy all those years it was a reason for existing exterior Garden District night Louie in 20th century suit walks past the many Greek Revival mansions maybe I sense something in those dark streets I saw and heard sounds and then on prania Street only blocks from the Lafayette Cemetery I CAU Des scent of death and it wasn't coming from the

1:47:38 gaves Hanover white walled Lafayette Cemetery surrounding Mansions sent grew stronger as I walked on up toown Old Death as sent to fate for Mortals to detect Louise sees rats darting along the street one then two then two more together they rush into a great overgrown Garden surrounding a ruined Mansion no lights someone was luring then a cat darts along the top of the wall and into the garden the smell of death grow stronger Louise stops at rused gate he forced it open and enters exterior veritable Jungle of overgrown Rose and oak trees and Wisteria he sees a faint glimmer of light coming from a distant glassless window of a huge two-story Greek Revival house he approaches and then he sees his point of view old shrivel corpse of a man long dead and dried up snagged in the Thor Rose Vines back to scene he looks around walks on sees another corpse almost nothing but bones sinking into the wet Earth the roots of the oak

1:49:00 overgrowing it he looks up at the distant light he passes the a third corpse caught in Wisteria and Rose Vine only bones and clothes they were like the doomed princess CAU in the torny vines of Sleeping Beauty's castle I knew what it meant a vampir had lared them here but had been too weak to get rid of them Louise sees dead rats ly near the steps no vampir can linger near the remains of his victims it felt despair the behavior of a dying animal that pollutes its own nest perhaps it's meant Madness Lou Treads carefully on the rotted steps he moves along the porch more dead rats he sees Through the floorlength Windows into rooms lined with stacked books virtually walled with them water seeps down over the books it gleams as it drips from the ceiling the floors of The Splendid rooms are bare except for a rotted French chair by a dead fireplace a single mirror reflecting the moon dead rats he moves

1:50:16 along the porch to The Parlor Windows the candle flickers inside he sees his point of view lat lying on the floor he has gone to near starvation all his scars are gone but he's almost a skeleton and his eyes are enormous in their sockets his clothes are Rags blonde hair beautiful as always one tiny candle stands beside him he reads the Black Mask magazine 1929 he reads along the second installment of Dashi hametz the the males Falcon laughing now and then without Delight he affects a tough American voice lapsing into French accent for narrative without turning his head he speaks said the SP to the F he goes on reading as Sam Spade bullies Joe hyro inside Louise studies him theat ignores Louie I prayed you are alive did you to whom did you pray the continues reading he is Sam Spade Louie approaches and takes the magazine tentatively from lat's hand lates 1929 you know what year this is where

1:51:46 God you'll bring me something to new to read son a long time ago to magazines St woman I had no more backdrops no more Ink toets No More Stomps lad appears almost too weak to lift his head but he's very composed mentation perfect you are beautiful Lou you always were the strong one a m no longer with you is that that's better for you though you may not know it now where is the coffin what does it matter there are many dark places in my house and beneath it is that this place is a ruin this is no longer safe Mortals will come here the Str laughs softly oh that would be lovely I haven't tasted the M blood in so long could you get me a Mot Lou the stat struggles to sit up he is straight back smiling a horror of starved limbs oh you know some nasty little a of gila like in the old days some Bitter Sweet trash from the river front I can still hear the river I can smell it can you don't Bzz I don't really want a

1:53:22 human if I did I could one for myself how long have you been here the falls into thought then suddenly excited Lou last time I went out I saw the most marvelous thing what was it a mus Pi people moving on a giant screen on oh it was Magic and was dialogue written on cards in between the moving pies a whole story offens in the storm Liang it was beautiful shely you seen it you look so fit so well lat's face darkens what is it Z show the dead Sky I was F I left the I ran all the way back here do they still make SE Mo pictures I know all about RS I can hear some I love s some s of I don't know what it is they start they make motion pictures in color they speak the daytime sky in a film cannot hurt us the Rising Sun in a film is Just an Illusion loud noise from the street of truck rattling by the SC Shivers covers his ears he's ter terrified he crosses his legs Indian style and bends over it's only a

1:55:01 trucking lat takes his hands away from his ears other sounds of the night distant traffic a siren lat wines at the siren but it dies away I know what the sounds are Lou I saw the utmost bees when I last went out I saw some jugging on a RAC into the street here look he holds up the Black Mask magazine points to an advertisement of a young man riding a motorcycle year 1929 motorcycles they pass sometimes let stat Shivers on there are the a in the sky a silence Falls theats mind appears to wander wonder he looks about and then looks up at Louie in happy surprise you are here I thought I was dreaming see the RO I know there and Frost they called us country Lords her we sted if we didn't get this small game I no I am rer they are marvelous marvelously re reliable they never last not to come when I call the stat laughs softly Louise Smiles bitterly they look at each other I didn't go to pay for Vance L

1:56:34 Louise says nothing I came for the blood of the old ones for a M's help I was healing but it was so painful so gel and I was still well you know Young Louise says nothing I did tell them she tried to kill me you can't blame me for that can you no I cannot blame you for it but it was a man direct the old trial and execution as if it would a f play for his little stage I suppose I've always known that was so and yet I stayed with him yeah loneliness you mustn't tell me you should develop a a tast for once didn't you sometimes I I talk to them before i k them I never did that with Innocent Mortals did I I was never C the mot was I Lou shakes his head you must cut out come out of here please come with me theat shakes his head sudden sound of diesel train from the riverfront piercing whistles again lat cowers covering his ears he trembles violently he shrinks up knees under his chin the sound dies away a

1:58:14 pause does that all machines there like good houses is summer the RO beasts the W is lovely there I don't mind it only I wish the trees hadn't grown so thick I can no longer see the stars Lou drops down beside him urgent leat let me get you out of here let me show you the world the way it is now it's full of marvels of all of us you should see it you above all should the stat Smiles should what respect it have the stamina for eternity a passion for beauty that helps me endures a passage of time lat laughs bitterly he gathers up the Black Mask magazine he begins to read again out loud Sam Spade and Joe Cairo tough guy accent Louise stares at him he's speaks his name but can't get his attention he grabs the stat and shakes him back off my friend I mean I'll be as weak as you think he sits up again very straight in full command that's the point you've healed your all again but you must feed ah go El you'll

1:59:40 be destroyed if you stay here you'll be discovered this place it could like like Vamp or and thank you for that last conation I thought they deserved it Des speakable Liars they never help me they never gave me their healing blood and to think a man's blood was so B for his Edge do you know what he really did exterior top of tower Paris 1870 Arman forcing the wounded scarred theat to the Battlement it took me back to magnus's Tower the very place where that all started he lure me there with his promise another angle Arman strikes the stat and sends him over the Battlement he falls and Falls until he is smashed on the stones blood flows from his Fallen body but his blue eyes are wide open he is alive return to scene New Orleans Mansion present theat sitting on the floor yeah there result I destroyed the old my broken bones he healed everything healed we are Immortal more or less he reaches for the Black Mass magazine Lou

2:01:09 lets him take it some night something will rise my curiosity give me a Reon to rise becomes a vampire St G but not you L you remind me of too many things he lies back down and opens the magazine you knew she meant to destroy me wait yes I did you left me in that burning home town house yes I did and when you B the for all you know I was there hit me for it come back to do battle quel take your Vengeance the St laughs softly shaking his head my blood isn't as powerful as arand but it can revive you no thank you do my dark brother I remember that test only too well listat do don't you want to make me suffer for what I've done to you the stat merely Smiles at him seen through the taunt Lou I think you are suffering beautifully just as you have always suffered why should I live a finger it isn't necessary Louise Smiles ironically and nods in agreement go in now monomi go back to your Matan where the

2:02:55 mothers let me have my peace and quiet and if you do come back bring something new to read condos bring me condos you know how I love the light exterior interior ruined Mansion next night Louie comes up the steps and into the Parlor he has a small parcel the stat reads as before he does not look up Louie tears open the parcel and removes a small Watchman portable TV with earphones he kneels by theat and turns it on we see the tiny screen glimmer with a rock video Madonna dancing wildly lat sits up clasps it

2:03:48 amazed this is to blot out all of this that hurt you here he drops extra batteries on the floor and they gleam in the light he puts the earphones over lat's head turns Up the Volume lat Smiles in Delight he begins to laugh and then sway with the music which he can hear and which we cannot he holds a little Watchman like a treasure singing in Perfect Pitch the words of Madonna's song like a verion kissed for the very first time interior Mansion hallway another night Louise stands in the doorway arms folded he watches lat a skeleton in rags dancing as he wears it earphones and holds a Watchmen we hear a very thin sound from the earphones Rolling Stones I Can't Get No Satisfaction theat dances with Eerie Grace in perfect time music grows louder as Louie watches theat becomes the performer singing dancing to the music a spectacle among the ruins as he does the modern Michael Jackson style move to

2:05:06 Perfection Louie tries to clear his vision to shake the illusion or suggestions of lat as a rock star I don't remember how many times I came back three four it doesn't matter he would not look at me or speak to me and finally one night he wasn't there exterior mansion from a distance behind its Jungle of Vine and trees but I could hear the music coming from somewhere perhaps beneath the foundations I went away I never saw him again exterior Mansion we draw away from the Mansion through the Garden District streets past huge magnolia trees passed iron fences Oak Oaks hung with moss that's my story you have it all I go on night after night I feed on those who cross my path but there is no passion in me any longer I am reverent a spirit with prer natural flesh it ended when I saw Claudia burn to ashes in that arel my dreams Dead with Claudia my faith return to s San Francisco present Malloy staring at Louie no no no it

2:06:34 can't end like that but it did uh it's finished there is no more to tell but it's not over your passion for all of it your vision it's still inside you it comes out in every syllable you speak You're mortal truly Immortal I tell you it's over as leat once said to me I have given you what I have to give Louie listen to me lat may still be there it makes no difference now it's finished Louie looks at the SC on the table do with this story what you will learn from it what you can give it to others I'm glad I've told it maybe for the first time I understand it myself Malloy Rises one more chance Louie take me make me one of you do it Louie is slowly horrified and then outraged and angry this is what you want after all I've told you asked me for this yes I can be your link with this Century I'm the one to take you both into these times Lou give it to me you don't understand your own story you don't understand the intensity

2:07:59 that you yourself described you forgot what Mortal life is the god I failed again haven't I Louie Rises overturning the table scattering the tapes he disappears Malloy sits there trembling quickly he gathers up the table send the recorder he puts away the mic he is muttering to himself almost feverishly he stands up and turns to go and Louie is right before him inches away a figure of Menace as in the alleyway at the start Malloy falls back in Terror Louie reaches out drags Malloy to him Malloy drops a tapes in the little machine you like it you like like being food for the Immortals you like dying is it beautiful is it intense think you skipped ahead Al line oh whoops um you want to go a little deeper one final lesson to make you see and malloy's point of view his heart is racing sorry in a haze he flees up the stairway um Vicky can you go back to top 179 sure here we goo uh Malo panics get Malloy

2:09:31 panics and tries to get away but Lou gashes his blood sucking the blood fiercely and then throwing the groaning Malloy on the floor Malloy badly weakened hand to his heart gets up Louie advances on him and Menace Malloy staggers out of the room he makes for the stairs Louie grabs him again drinks again as Malloy tries to push him away Louie drags him from the stairs to the second staircase which leads to the roof he throws him down Malloy is weak his throat torn you like it you like being food to the for the OTS you like dying is it beautiful is it mooy's point of view his heart is racing in a haze he fleases up the stairs as Louie comes relentlessly after him barely seeming to take steps he moves so fast so gracefully back to scene Malloy pushes open door to the roof exterior roof San Francisco nighttime light of San Francisco all around him he staggers to the right and to the left No Escape he

2:10:48 turns Louise smack dab against him again Malloy screams Louise sinks his teeth again malloy's point of view a view as he loses Consciousness Haze confusion he sees blurred images of Louie standing over him looking down at him his eyes closed exterior rooftop mourning from above we see the body of Malloy like garbage on the roof as we draw in we see Malloy looking dead eyes half open Sun strikes him Wind Blows Tor newspapers across the roof and out into the sky a cat approaches looks at malloy's neck and goes away close on Malloy half masked eyes look dead then suddenly the eyes open he sits up he stares around him he is pale and feverish and trembling like a drunken man he makes his way interior stairs back to room there in the sunlight is a tape recorder and all the cassettes just as he left them he falls on his knees Gathering them up we cut to the interior of malloy's car he hunches over the wheel

2:12:04 looks impossibly sick and weak he holds the recorder rewinds the tape and then hears and then on Brit Street only blocks from the Lafayette Cemetery I CAU the Cent of death and it wasn't coming from the graves relief excitement Malloy turns on the ignition he Roars out of the parking place while with his right hand he stops the recorder puts in another tape hits a rewind button exterior freeway from above we see malloy's car on the freeway we see it on the open road 1791 that's when it happened I was 24 younger than you are now Panda Sky rock music Rises Rolling Stones I Can't Get No Satisfaction growing louder and louder and blending with the motion picture theme exterior car night is a tiny Speck of the dark desert highway we draw up again and from exterior Desert Sky we dissolve to exterior Louisiana Sky oh with moss Magnolias Cry of birds Rolling Stones and theme Crest Fade Out the end yay yay we did it we did

2:13:37 it it took long enough but we did it yay we started a little late too so we did we start pretty late Jackie your your Louis was just incredible oh thank you your accent was just I felt ter like my accent was like nothing compared to yours I mean French is my first language so oh okay was my accent okay then was it all right it okay there there are moments where I think I've got it and then there are moments where I'm like oh this is so terrible no no it was totally fine at Le you didn't dip into Scottish yeah I could hear it I could hear it yeah people are always like well your French is so and I'm like guys don't compare yourselves I'm French is my first language I'm a French teacher if my French is not on point it's a problem problem yeah I could tell that I I I could tell that you probably it was either your first or second language cuz it was it was impeccable it was beautiful though it

2:14:45 was just it was just beautiful so yeah yeah that's what I strive I strive to have that accent that level I've been practicing it for a long time but it is not nearly yet to that because there are times where I notice that like certain um syllables or like certain I'll I'll do a misstep on the where the syllables should be placed and stuff I'm still working on it so got you I got you and one trick is don't lean into the RS so much like a lot of people want to make those RS is really throaty really a lot of things and I'm always like actually that is the wrong Instinct because when you're you're trying to do that that Cadence and that pace you you mess it up because you're like stressing that are so Mar that makes sense I mean I I don't think I did it every time but there were times when I did do that and I was like [ __ ] I did it it made the RS too harsh yeah and a lot of people that's a misunderstanding

2:15:49 a lot of people think that the hars the need to be like rolling and really harsh and they don't always need to be like no it's rou but okay that's I've sung in French so I did learn how to dictate it like the diction in Singing in French not always speaking it's been a long practice so thank you I I appreciate that tip any I always prove it yeah it was it was just it was M chef's kiss it was was beautiful the whole thing the acting everything it was it was great yeah everyone was great yeah this this um this is um I wish we got the script the script is so good like I love this um draft I draft I love this draft um because it really shows the stats Humanity it shows the contrast between them and it shows that lat is actually not as like evil I don't know if that's the good word like he's complex and interesting and this is I mean this is it it's kind of giving you both the vampire Lista and

2:17:04 Lou it's kind of doing that kind of mix in between but it's it just it's really good it's just I really wish we got this version on screen it's such a different it's such a different movie I don't even remember to be honest I was like now I need to rewatch the movie cuz I I forget and look this is April 1992 it's the second draft so it's definitely not even shot numbers in this in the script yet so it's it's so different they cut so much from it and like everything is so subtle like all like there's it's just not the same movie it's not the same script it's crazy how how much like you could really change a script by or how much you can change a movie by how much you cut out of the scpt script and how much you can change oh and when I said it took us long enough I'm uh actually referencing the fact that we started this the first week in October the first Tuesday and we're finally finishing

2:18:07 it while yeah and my throat is like so sore right now I think I might be coming down with something I don't know but it it's so like it like as you're going through it my voice is like my throat is getting more and more like I don't know if you can hear the raspiness now cup of tea with honey I'm going to go do that after we're done um recording I but I I Adore the script I adore this movie in all its iterations regardless I just and I and I would recommend anyone for anyone who's watching to also go and watch the um the series it's actually very very good it's different but it's I I was impressed with it for as different as it is I think my background Series right yes not the movie was I could find on short notice but um yeah it's so close to the book too this script the script actually has a lot it has a lot from The Vampire Lista and from um in an interview with vampire with a Vampire uh I I thought it

2:19:13 was very very well done and it seems like this is probably the script that they decided to go with but modified it for this series cuz there's a lot in there that's like that they reference in the series which is really interesting I loved how um when the Walkman was brought to him that he was singing and dancing which is foreshadowing the Damned because that's he becomes a big rock star and Andes get all mad at him because he he explains all their weaknesses it's really funny to be yeah yeah you go with yourself you go with your bad self list that I if you watch just the movie like he has not portrayed this way at all not really like I I'm glad that we get to see a lot more of his Humanity in this in this draft Humanity as much as Humanity as you can have as a vampire if you understand what I mean yes in the second half having broken it up into two sections you can really see that that whole tone has changed from

2:20:23 you know at the from the beginning you know in the beginning there was more exploring and and learning about vampires and you know for the audience especially too you're just kind of you know you have all these myths and preconceptions of what vampires are like from all the other previous vampire movies and this one you know part of the beginning is blowing that conception out of the water then you get to the second half and it just turns much much darker I mean not the the beginning isn't dark that this is the second half is definitely darker than the first half how did you feel about it um Jackie oh I I enjoyed it it was very um like I've watched the movie a long long time ago so I don't remember and I used to read the books by anr when I was teenager so it was good to revisit um the second half and I remember a lot of Louie of Lewis actually and I think it's funny because I think Brad Pit did not

2:21:28 play this well they probably didn't have any french like people to help them with the accents CU I don't remember him that accent is is it's not it's well I mean it's probably closer to a New Orleans um French accent which is I mean it's very slight but it is there I'm certain he had somebody to help him with some but not to the near extent that it is now or that it was anywhere good and thead it's like he almost has none it's it there are when he gets some French but like it's so subtle yeah I mean he betrays him really well as what they give him but the French accent is so not there not not as it is and I don't remember at all the part in like Paris I was like oh oh does that happen I need to rewatch this this is fun I haven't seen it there so in the book it's there but in you don't see listat at all at all in Paris um it it's almost like it comes out of left field like you don't understand anything what's going

2:22:43 on and why they capture her anything like you're just like what the hell what's going what's going on kind of thing and um it's very traumatic actually the whole scene is so traumatic and who's this golden angel vampire that's I remember thinking that where did he come from yeah it's yeah he's like this golden angel that yeah no I mean Armand yeah yeah yeah well um I am running out of energy I know me too I'm getting better but yeah this I'm going to sleep well tonight I am so glad you came um Vicki it was so nice to you I missed you last week yeah I wish I was there but oh boy I couldn't even think on Thursday I had this headache that was about this big just oh horrible I'm so sorry let me take a quick look and see what's up next here then ah yes because we do have a reading this coming Tuesday think so yeah hopefully my throat will be much better by then I do not know why I'm having such a sore throat right now

2:24:00 it hurts to swallow I had that a couple of months ago so I feel you lots of oh I sing I have to sing tomorrow so I'm like oh crap gosh rest your throat stop talking we have it looks like we have oh a television episode we're going to read Ozark oh Ozark okay awesome I don't know anything about it it's just and then part two of Dracula will finish up on the 26th and then we hit December with Forest Gump which we can divide into two days if we need to and that should take out looks like through the end of the year and then we'll start back again in um the 21st of January so we'll take a bit of a break for winner and come back with Never Ending Story oh love never ending I know me too it's amazing we tried three times this year to read it and so far the script that you did have was not good oh it was awful but now actual real script so it's it was I think it was somebody had just written all the

2:25:07 dialogue yeah a transcription yeah transcription and it it does not give any it was not no actions or descriptions it's not no so it's not good go not of any fault of cats she worked so hard to find one and she did her dual due diligence and she ordered one oh wow with the it costs money that's wild you could have asked me maybe I even have it I don't even know I should check I have so many scripts this is so hard to find but yeah I finally found one and it's got a it's got a photocopy in color of all the actor's signatures and stuff on the covers that's amazing oh that's so cool I Jackie I hope you come back I hope to see you again I'm sure you've been here before I just I think I have I just oh wait I do have a NeverEnding Story let me see I have a digital script oh it's probably what you were talking about which just yeah 81 pages and it's just dialogue yeah that's the one that's the

2:26:17 one wild that doesn't stand one I yeah but Tuesdays are are hard for me because usually I have rehearsal so I'm always like I want to join but I'm there until 10 or 11 by the time I get here I'm like y'all are done or near done like what what do you do when you're not here are you do you do act is it acting yeah I'm an actor and director and I like have show after show show after show after show but this is like my one November and December I've been been a little Chiller cuz I just have like one performance days instead of like a show oh that's awesome but that's still that's that's awesome and too right you said H you teach something too oh yeah I'm a teacher yeah I teach French Spanish English um citizenship that's awesome negoti ation and mediation and and acting teach yeah and I can tell you love accents like that's one thing I could tell already that you really love accents as well I enjoy accents like

2:27:31 it's fun yeah doing an accent like if I can do it I want to do it oh but my Romanian accent is awful Romanian okay I don't even think I can do a Romanian ACC it is not it's not good I'm just going to now is not good not anything any like my Russian accent it's trash like there's some accents it's trash trash mine is trash my my Russian accent is just as trash it's bad my Romanian accent sounds slovian I don't know EXA exactly are we Estonian are we are we yeah which which place Slovakian yeah I don't know but yeah it's just really funny um but I I really as I said like I think this this script was just really fantastic and I'm so glad I got to read it I'm so glad I got to read the stat it was amazing I could tell you having fun all of you I I love it I love and especially when you get like just really good readers for it too it like you're able to do so much with it and it just comes to life like I was there were Parts when

2:28:44 I wasn't reading and I'm like I get I got kind of lost in it because I'm like amazing this is like ah it's like listening to an like a really good audio book it's like ah this is and then I kept yawning I was like no stop ying and I always love Vicki's little girl voice yes my little girl voice with the um still having the throat issues is quite interesting to try to do it it really didn't feel little girl to me at all well at this point she's not a little girl anyways te right a woman yeah sounds like Claudia has been drinking whiskey not good sorry cat you should let me go I can't stop should yeah I think it's time I need to go and get some tea and I need get some food and I'm yeah I'm I think I'm coming down with something I'm not feeling very good right now so I'm going to go everybody on the the YouTubes I I hope to see you guys next week um thank you so much for having us read this

2:29:57 awesome story watching all right bye everyone Jackie I'm so happy I met you and I hope just to read with you again soon same Aubrey same beautiful to see you Vicky and cat as always I always love reading with you and to all of you bye YouTubes all right bye guys bye have fun storming the castle adios cat I'll see you soon hopefully I hope so all right good night good night

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (2nd half)--Table Read Tuesdays"?

Cat Wilson (Host), Vicky Dkes (Guest), Aubrey McCoy (Guest), Jackie (Jacen Yum) (Guest), Malloy (Guest).

What is "INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (2nd half)--Table Read Tuesdays" about?

The content features a table read of the second half of "Interview with a Vampire," where the cast introduces themselves, discusses their roles, and recaps the first half of the story. The session highlights individual contributions and character portrayals while fostering interactions among the cast, who share their social media handles for further engagement.

What is mentioned in this Table Read Tuesdays episode?

5 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Interview with the Vampire, Vicky Dkes, Fair Corona, Ozark, Forest Gump. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (2nd half)--Table Read Tuesdays"?

The episode runs 2 h 31 min; the transcript is about 20,709 words in 116 timestamped sections.

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