"There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable." "Living and feeding in the shadows with only your own company... hollow existence." "Immortality seems like a good idea until you realize you're going to spend it alone." "hoping the sounds of the passing eras would fade out and a sort of death might happen." "the world didn't sound like the place I had left but something different." "Better...." "It became worthwhile to rise again as new gods were born and worshiped." "they were never alone." "I would become one of them." "I'm not sure." "But suddenly I was feeling better than ever." "My senses so high they led me straight to the instrument of my resurrection playing in my old house." "Jesus." "Your voice...." "Who the hell are you?" "The question provoked an irresistible urge." "I am the vampire Lestat." "It just rolled out of my mouth." "I betrayed everything about my kind." "Betrayed our code of secrecy." "Vampire?" "Rhat's funny." "indeed." "Hilarious." "You're all so beautiful." "Your hands are" "Cold as death?" "You're gonna kill us?" "No." "I'm going to make yours." "Rhis is your lucky day." "I admit." "my band." "Giving the world a new god." "Me." "some questions." "One at a time." "you." "So why here in London?" "like you." "blood and rock and roll." "excuse me." "It's time." "May I present the vampire Lestat." "Good evening." "Sorry I'm late." "I was just trying to catch my breakfast." "can we keep it short?" "One at a time." "you." "but what I remember about vampires is you generally keep your identity secret." "Yes." "But why hide it in this day and age?" "I've hidden in the shadows for centuries." "It's time to share myself with the world." "give us a demonstration of your powers." "I can give you a private demonstration in your hotel tonight." "just days away." "Why just the one?" "I don't like repeating myself." "Rhere are rumors about the hidden meaning in your lyrics that you're giving away vampire secrets. ls that true?" "Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends." "Daring them to come out." "Won't these vampires be pissed off that you're giving away secrets?" "yes." "Do you have anything to say to the other vampires?" "I do." "wherever you are." "See you all in Death Valley." "I heard Lestat keeps all these girls in his cellar." "And it's nice." "Rhey give you food and cable and weed." "please." "But you have to let him suck you on your neck whenever he wants." "Doesn't sound too bad." "Done worse." "girls." "So this is Lestat's house?" "It is this week." "We move around a lot." "Why is that?" "What can I say?" "Rhe guy is just.... would you?" "Rhese are the girls that you asked for." "Yes." "Do you want me to take the girls home later?" "Roger." "I'll make sure they're taken care of." "You want some?" "Want me?" "You hungry?" "You hungry for something else?" "Come on." "Don't you want to have some fun?" "Don't do that." "Are you ticklish?" "I'm very ticklish." "come out whoever you are." "Jesse." "Jesse." "A voice calling to me in my dreams." "The same dream I've had since I was 6." "I have a family of my own." "really." "One every orphan has." "but you must go." "Aunt Maharet." "I don't want you to go." "But you must." "you're bleeding." "You must be with your own." "I knew things were not normal." "This isn't the life I wanted for you." "and being cast out...." "Was I bad?" "Had I done something wrong?" "I'll always be watching over you." "I want to stay with you forever." "You can't." "MTV News." "Forsaken." "Although from New Orleans he claims to be an 18th-century French nobleman who has been asleep for over 100 years." ""Redeemer. "" "I assumed Lestat was a joke." "A rock star with a gimmick." "Rhen one of his lyrics caught my attention." ""R ake a walk down the aisle at the end of the mile." "Give your life to my charms in the Admiral's Arms."" "Rhat rang a bell." "I tracked down old leases in London." "It turns out in the late 1600s there was a pub in Mile End called the Admiral's Arms." "It had a reputation for dealing with black magic and reports of people vanishing." "Here's where you could find the Admiral's Arms in old London." "Rhat part of London is mostly warehouses meat-packing plants and a private club in the same location." "I think that it's a vampire coven." "And Lestat is leading us to it." "Who took this picture?" "l did." "You're still an apprentice." "You don't do field work." "Rhe R alamasca has a code." "but be not of it."" "it's held good for 12 centuries." "but never interfere." "I had to see it for myself." "is David aware of this?" "Jesse?" "David." "l was explaining" "Why don't you see me in my office?" "Rhis is a real coven." "In the middle of London." "All the more reason to have told me first." "Jesse we know about Lestat." "What he's doing is unprecedented." "So why is he doing it?" "Aren't you curious?" "Don't you think we should find out?" "Let me show you something." "What do you see?" "Mid-1500s." "Florence." "Rhis one?" "Rhis man is in both." "Yes." "All the different paint samples all authentic." "Each painted at the time of their particular style." "His name is Marius." "I've been tracing him for years." "My little obsession." "Rhe closest we've come to the original vampire." "Marius himself dates back to 400 B.C." "So he's older than Lestat." "He made Lestat." "How do you know that?" "Because I have Lestat's journal." "I want to see it." "Promise me you'll never go back to that place." "It was the winter of 1788." "And I was brought to a Mediterranean island by the man who made me." "If a man is what you'd call him." "welcome." "Who are you?" "Do I know you?" "but you may call me Marius." "I'm the lord of a great manor." "Rhey'll send an army to look for me." "Lord de Lioncourt." "You're a long way from home." "You're weak near passing." "I can barely hear your heartbeat." "Rhe future hastens." "An age beyond my antique reason." "You will help me understand these times." "Rhat's why I chose you." "Chose me for what?" "Drink and live." "my son." "Drink and learn." "is it not?" "Lestat." "No more!" "Don't be afraid." "It's only your body that dies." "More." "I impressed my maker with my thirst for things." "He set out to educate me in the unknown." "its hidden history and about myself." "my son." "hold back from the moment of death." "or it will draw you in and you will die." "Appreciate your prey." "Rheir blood that we take into us carries with it life... their complexity." "like a newborn child." "I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all." "We've stayed long enough." "But we've spoken to no one." "A vampire's life is a life of discretion." "Discretion?" "Marius?" "we are the immortal." "no?" "Rhat cannot be." "We're vulnerable during the day." "for the sake of all our kind." "So I could never know her?" "Not unless you wanted to kill her." "So I can never be known?" "You must be dead to the world." "time to leave." "run!" "Run!" "Go!" "Go" "Lestat stop her!" "You must!" "We must remain in the shadows." "You still have a few lingering mortal emotions." "my friend." "Forgive me." "reminding me of my fate." "For nights and days I played furious that I would never partake of the simple joys of the world." "I was meant for more than this." "Marius?" "Would you like me to play for you?" "Lestat?" "my little lord." "Let me go." "No." "seen the oldest things." "Far too much for one as young as you." "Her blood is like liquid fire." "Who is she?" "She's your mother." "She's my mother." "the queen of all who are damned." "And he's her king." "Akasha and Enkil nearly drank this earth dry when they ruled over Egypt." "Rhey drank until Enkil lost his will to drink." "she also lost hers." "Rhey became living statues." "human and immortal alike." "No." "Release me!" "She made you quite powerful." "You'll not stop me!" "Can I hear her blood in your voice?" "not once have they moved." "Until tonight." "And she chose me." "I chose you." "Where are you going?" "!" "Marius!" "I have called to Marius." "But there was no answer." "months years." "My teacher left me to my darkest lesson." "we are alone." "dark wasteland of eternity." "David thought the journal would satisfy my curiosity." "But it only made me want to know more." "I had to go back to the Admiral's Arms." "I had no choice." "This is a fantastic place." "I love it." "You sure I can't get you a drink?" "Soon." "Hi." "Hi." "Come here often?" "All the time." "I don't see any marks." "You haven't seen the rest of my body." "is that an invitation?" "I'm taken." "And where is your host?" "He's here somewhere." "what's his name?" "Marius." "don't know the guy." "Of course not." "He's an ancient." "Rhere aren't any ancients left." "Rhey all turned to dust." "So unless you've got him in a bottle somewhere...." "You're brave to joke." "I wish you could meet him." "And why is that?" "Because you might learn something." "Excuse me." "Going somewhere?" "Now this will only hurt a little bit." "you might even enjoy it." "Don't do this." "Boo." "Rhat was quite a performance." "You should be more careful." "Rhanks." "For what?" "You saved me." "How presumptuous." "So you know Marius?" "I know a lot of things." "apparently." "I guess we have that in common." "Although I'm a little ahead of the race here." "I can fix that." "Your song "Redeemer" is about the girl with the violin. lsn't it?" "Yeah." "is it?" "What else do you think you know?" "I...." "You're shaking." "Cold." "Still cold?" "Go on." "R ell me more about me." "You want...." "What do I want?" "You yearn." "What do I yearn?" "For what do I yearn?" "R o walk with the living." "dark wasteland of eternity." "Well that makes you a very clever librarian." "R alamasca." "I knew I left that journal somewhere." "Was it a good read?" "lt touched me." "now?" "Jesse." "Your kind never satisfies my thirst." "I know something that's not in your journal." "What?" "don't you?" "I understand." "it's only human." "Clever librarian." "I'm going to Los Angeles for the concert." "David." "I talked to Lestat." "What?" "Jesse?" "Listen to me very carefully now." "You are no longer seeing things clearly." "Lestat told the world that vampires live among us." "They're mad." "They'll be at the concert to kill him." "You've become obsessed with it." "I'm worried about you." "Don't worry about me. I'll be okay." "I'll check in and...." "l'm sorry. I have to go." "Jesse" "The city of Lost Angels already fed on the blood of youth." "My presence here barely stirred a ripple." "We had three days till the concert." "I could feel something was coming." "I just couldn't figure out what." "Marius." "Lestat." "Lestat." "And you." "I see." "Old habits die hard." "How did you manage to slip through the '50s in red velvet?" "I slept." "Don't think you missed much." "yes." "You're bigger than he is now." "So...." "After all this time what's the occasion?" "at least in conversation." "please." "Marius." "R wo hundred years and not a word from you." "You almost cost me everything." "Now you've done it again." "Rhis isn't the time to settle old scores." "Vampires don't settle old scores." "We harbor them." "How did you find me?" "I made you." "I've always known where you are." "Besides I just had to look for the most gauche house on the block." "Come." "Let me show you what it means to live in the light." "Impressive." "Reminds me of old mad druids running around chanting in the forest." "A return to the primitive." "my fans they worship me." "beg me to come into their lives." "It's what you always wanted." "With all my black little heart." "Did you think of anyone but yourself?" "I only have myself." "You taught me that." "It may be time to get ready for some company." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Your music's woken an old friend." "Can't you hear it?" "Or is the applause all you can hear now?" "Akasha." "Arisen." "She has taken the king's blood." "Absorbed his power." "Good." "Let her come." "Cancel the concert." "Never." "Lestat." "You're not a god." "We were once mortals too." "It is our heritage we protect." "Such reverence for mortals." "Rhen you should have left me as one." "Scent is fading." "He was here too long ago." "do you?" "He reminds me of someone." "All he's going to remind you of soon is a pile of bones." "We're going to dismember him." "Bleed him dry." "Really?" "is that what you're going to do?" "Old gods on new streets." "Not only had the concert sold out among the living it seemed all the undead were coming too." "There would be angry vampires out there frightened of the light I was directing on all our kind." "Do you have anything to say to the other vampires?" "I do." "wherever you are." "They wanted me dead." "Let them try." "Bring it on." "Better dead than alone." "honey." "Want tickets for tomorrow?" "Going to the show?" "No." "I got them for $200." "$200?" "!" "I don't think so." "What if I say 150?" "150?" "You're gonna cut me a deal?" "okay?" "So how old are you again?" "Check it out." "Champagne?" "Yeah." "I can't believe it's really you!" "I'm your biggest fan." "Boo." "Boo back." "I came all the way from R arzana." "Really?" "And you?" "London." "A London Goth. I see." "I would have pegged you for a R alamascan." "Maybe in another life." "I'm an Episcopalian." "And I'm a frigging Buddhist." "Lestat.... would you take our little Episcopalian back to church?" "Just the one tonight?" "Sure." "come on." "What?" "Come on." "What?" "!" "lt's a good thing." "Can I still go backstage?" "Why are you following me?" "What do you want?" "So you come all this way just to return this to me?" "Out of the goodness of your heart?" "I want you to show me what it's like." "exactly?" "R o be like you." "I don't have time for this." "All a vampire has is time." "Not this one." "Right." "Rhe covens are coming for you." "alone?" "Why not?" "Why not share it with me?" "All right." "Rhis may be painful for a mortal." "You're still attached to your skin." "I don't care." "Do you trust me?" "Yes." "Rhen close your eyes." "Marius was right." "But I never understood until I met you." "What do you mean?" "You're beautiful to me because you're human." "Your frailty your short years your heart even as you think it's breaking." "All that seems suddenly more precious than anything I have ever known." "I'm not as precious as you think." "Do it." "Please." "Let me be with you." "Let me know everything." "You want to know everything?" "then." "I'll show you." "What is it?" "What are we doing--?" "is she all right?" "Get away!" "Get off me!" "Now you see?" "Are you ready?" "huh?" "No." "Of course you don't." "Rhey're pretty worked-up." "How you feeling?" "come on!" "through here." "Let him through!" "fella!" "children." "guys." "Come on!" "Let him through." "Jesse!" "Jesse!" "David." "I must show you my new paintings sometime." "Find Jesse." "You want more?" "Rhis one's for those who've come for me." "Akasha." "Akasha?" "!" "my love?" "I have come." "My love?" "Lestat." "All your wishes have come true." "My wishes?" "For a companion to share eternity." "like your music." "like I did long ago when I had a king." "Had a king?" "He's no more." "Now you are my consort." "Rhat's why I kept you safe." "Alive." "You?" "You thought it was all you?" "Rhe ego of a king as well." "Yes." "Lestat." "I know that you crave to have the world at your feet." "And I have come to give it to you." "Where are we?" "We are home." "We live everywhere and anywhere we choose." "The world is our garden." "All these years I'd hoped this place was real." "I feel like I'm home." "Strange that this journey should lead me here." "This place that's haunted my dreams." "you're bleeding." "You must be with your own." "I'll always be watching over you." "I want to stay with you forever." "Forever is a very long time." "Aunt Maharet." "you haven't changed at all." "I was once a mortal too." "I bore a child before Akasha took me." "I took care of that child... and her children's children." "Rhis is our family." "My way of coping with eternity." "You are what keeps me connected to the world of the living." "I brought you here to take care of you." "Now is not the time." "You were seeking answers and now you've found them." "Rhe family is who you are." "Drinking my blood allows you to live in the light." "And soon the sun will no longer sting your eyes." "my love." "My king behold our kingdom." "A kingdom of corpses?" "Why?" "Why not?" "Rhis is why you have risen?" "Rhey believed in nothing." "Now they are nothing." "we will change all that." "We will give the world something to believe in again." "my love." "We have a score to settle." "I have watched I have guided and cared for my human family generations beyond memory." "Rhis is why we must fight Akasha." "For the sake of your great family." "Rhe world we know is about to end." "Rhe only way to prevent this is through Akasha's destruction." "But how?" "she's vulnerable." "Whoever takes the last of her blood will not survive it." "What about Lestat?" "Lestat has joined with Akasha." "He's lost to us now." "Forget him." "My children." "It warms my blood to see you all gathered plotting against me." "Akasha." "Maharet." "what has she done to you?" "step aside." "Never." "Rhe world has changed since you reigned." "Rhen we shall change it back." "Humans are animals brute creatures." "Rheir destruction can only make sense." "We've found other ways to coexist." "In silence!" "In shadows and shame!" "And for what?" "For respect of mortals?" "Rhey are nothing to us." "Rhey are merely food." "please...." "You think you can change my will?" "I've had enough of this discussion." "Join me or die." "I will not." "l will not." "l will not." "I will not." "Do you love me?" "Yes." "Rhen prove it." "Kill her." "She's nothing to me." "Just the same I'd like for you to kill her." "You will not touch her!" "You still think to challenge me?" "!" "Aunt Maharet." "It's what I want." "How sweet." "I'm ready." "my children?" "Remember your real family!" "Or join hers." "Now give me my crown." "Spoken like a true king." "Come." "You see how he obeys?" "You will or you will all die." "Lestat." "Lestat!" "Stop!" "You kill me you kill yourselves." "Lestat." "You must stop." "She drank Akasha's last drop." "She took Akasha's death into herself." "She's not dead." "She sleeps." "Hello?" "my God!" "Jesse?" "David." "this is Lestat." "Hello." "l have something for you." "I believe that you wanted this back." "thank you." "Rhank you so much." "Can I ask--?" "What's it like?" "Do you want to find out?" "Me?" "I'm too old to live forever." "if you ever change your mind...." "So this is goodbye." "Yes." "David."