The season one finale is called "The Thing Lay Still."
We start on Daniel's computer as he starts his new session. A man holds a bowl of blood for another person. If we recall correctly, Rashid appeared in Polynesian Mary's with Louis in the middle of the sixth episode. Daniel is paying more attention to him now.
Louis tells us how to kill a vampire. Lestat is drinking a liquid. Life used to be like for the three vampire. There is a time of enduring, where Lestat is distracted by the fact that Louis is waiting.
Lestat poured blood from a decanter for his children. The dying man came to their door and asked for immortality. Lestat killed him. Lestat says that this is the end of the vampire family. I need to leave New Orleans. Daniel interrupted but he was distracted by another person. Louis is the only one who has the ability to cache it. He keeps going.
While Lestat sits three rows ahead of them, the Black vampire still has to sit in the back of the car. As part of the scheme, Louis tries to convinceClaudia that he has the nerve to do it. The plan won't work if Louis doesn't give in to the love he has for Lestat.
Since meeting Lestat, Louis has never been the same. Regardless, he and Lestat plan for a trip to Europe, and as Louis hangs ornaments, Lestat ponders about what to do in Greece. Lestat has chosen to play a certain type of music, and that's whereClaudia comes in.
As they sit and play together, she lays the groundwork for her plan. On their way out of the city, let the vampire slay them. They ended their time in New Orleans with a massacre. After listening to a news report on the war, they are in a theater whereClaudia explains the rest of her visions. It is like they are playing a game of chess, with Lestat being manipulated into agreeing to the idea of a massacre byClaudia. The performance of Bailey Bass is devastating. Lestat eventually agrees to the plan and will host a ball.
One last stop before they can make the ball a reality is to see Thomas Anderson, a local politician who is an ally. Anderson says he isn't in the party planning business, they're late, and he has a picture of himself, Louis, and Lestat from 1910. The vampire look the same as Anderson hasn't seen them in 17 years. It might be possible! Self-preservation would be required. The man is Mister Anderson.
Anderson doesn't say no when the vampire name a price, but he does ask about how they have stayed young. All of New Orleans has a trap. Louis seduces Lestat again.
Every interruption in the New Orleans narrative occurs as Rashid moves through the apartment. He is standing in the sun and taking a phone call. There are no questions asked. It's time to go back to New Orleans.
The vampire plan to kill people. They will starve themselves and then bring them back to the Rue Royale to die. Louis slips back into old feelings whenClaudia plots on her own. She will kill a human on the night of the massacre and give him to Lestat. They will kill themselves.
Then, Fat Tuesday. Lestat is on the float for the Krewe of Raj in a wedding gown that was created for Lucy Westenra in the movie "Dravet" He is dressed in drag as he picks up a baby doll and bites into its neck. The ball...
Carol Cutshall is the costume designer for Interview With the Vampire. It's the camp! The drama is happening. They walk in with matching costumes and wigs. We get a look at all the masks at the event, as Louis relates how hunger is affecting him.
The first sign that something isn't right. Louis watches as Lestat walks through the party. He doesn't question it even though he's confused. Thomas Anderson arrived. He calls the vampire a family, which is probably not the smartest thing to say out loud. Louis gives him a flower.
There is an incredible moment of genuine emotion from Lestat when Louis found him smoking on the balcony. He leaned over and said he was going to miss the city. He describes what it is like. He talks about Louis. Even as Louis rejected him over and over again, he stayed in Lestat because he was New Orleans to Lestat. Both of them know that this is a different kind of goodbye, that's why they're leaving New Orleans.
Louis and Lestat are dancing on the floor. It's a coming out of sorts, an admission of their relationship, and there in front of everyone. For all that was said about the murders, they didn't mention the two queers making out on the dance floor. It's New Orleans.
Lestat is hamming it up for the audience, talking about a book, a draught, and the magic of eternal life. As soon as the cloche is pulled away, the bloody feast begins. Anderson is immediately taken down by Lestat. The show revels in the final murders of humans. There are blood spatters on the walls. The vampire is reduced to bloody beasts, fangs and claws.
Twins were secretly poisoned earlier in the night. The front door opens as Lestat looks at his prey. Lestat said that there was a smell in the blood. He turned and asked what his love was. Louis answered with plaintiveness. In one of the most ridiculous moves of the entire season, Lestat tells Louis that he wasn't talking to him.
The vampire was wearing a gold mask. The fight between the four of them begins in earnest as Lestat reveals that she has been listening in on the communication between Louis andClaudia. It wasn't seconds after Lestat got Louis in a headlock that he was confused. She revealed that she has been playing chess while Lestat has been playing checkers. She knew that Lestat would go for Anderson first, but she didn't know how he would do it.
As Lestat writhes, Louis retrieves the blade he hid in his cane, the same one he used to threaten Paul in episode one. This horrible affair was started by an object. Lestat says his final words after he kneels down and pulls his head back. I'm happy it was you. Revoir.
The words that Lestat records in his own blood are different from the last words that he speaks. Daniel read fromClaudia's diary just for a second and it was Rashid again. He is standing next to Louis.
After the massacre, Louis andClaudia burned the corpses. All the evidence they can burn is destroyed. Lestat was dead on the floor of their home. They couldn't get him back to the incinerator. They put him in a trunk and took him to Europe.
It was a neat end. Daniel doesn't like it. The diary pages have been excised as if they were a ruler and knife. Louis gets defensive quickly. His brother's suicide, Grace's abandonment, and Lestat's death were all traumatic escapes. Daniel has been traumatised and Louis wants him to remember. Daniel doesn't like it. Lestat is still alive and well. Daniel leans in and is 888-609- 888-609- 888-609- 888-609- 888-609- Where is the trash going? Daniel answers but Louis doesn't. The garbage goes to the dump. Rats live in that area. Louis should know that Lestat is alive and well, even if he went to the dump. We slip out of a coffin to grab a rat.
Louis looked upset and Daniel didn't let up. Daniel looks up as Rashid demands that he finish the session. He's not finished. He is not finished. Daniel went after Rashid. He knows what's going on and he's not going to take no for an answer. As Daniel followed, he dragged the messy, complicated truth from Louis' memory. Lestat wasn't allowed to be burned. He protected himself byrelaying a sentimental half-truth to Daniel.
As Daniel lays into Louis, as he demands the truth, Louis goes to a sand-covered zen garden in the back of the penthouse, digging his feet into the pebbles. This is Daniel's moment as he is behind him. He is so close to the truth that he is able to get Louis to admit that he has pretended his whole life.
There is a blurry behind Daniel. The man took off his gloves and contacts. And then, after that. The man rises into the air.
As Rashid floats up to the bookshelves, he brings up memories again. A book is dropped at Daniel's feet and he is next to Louis. I am haunted by the last words of the year. Louis calls him the love of his life as he introduces him. Vampires, blood and gore lovers, and other members of the Daniel Molloy polloi: What the fuck? This is a next-level gay drama. Louis, talk about how hard it is to start a relationship.
I am still confused by what this show has done with Louis. He has never been fully his own man, his own creature, the entire show. Louis de Pointe du Lac is not known to the public. Is he completely himself?
What will happen to Lestat in the second season of the show? Will we ever see him in a movie again? Will he come to Paris to rebuild from the war? We know that 30 years after Louis andClaudia make their escape, Louis returns to the US and meets Daniel for the first time, but what happens after that?
We are reminded that memory isn't permanent. Daniel has forgotten a lot. Louis will reveal more. Will he become the newsboy of the vampire community? Don't ask about an actual plot point in theVampireChronicles. I don't know what answers we'll get in the second season, but I'm on the ride.
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