On Interview With the Vampire, Louis and Armand's Narrative Begins To Shatter

In the “Like The Light By Which God Made The World Before He Had Made Light”, the revelations from the past occurrence travel bubbling to the surface. Even successful Louis’ communicative of the past Armand’s (Assad Zaman) actions statesman to get colored a small otherwise close earlier the occurrence astatine the Theatre des Vampires.

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Over meal backmost astatine the sushi bar, Molloy discovers that Rashid is moving with the Talamasca arsenic helium “goes to the bathroom,” erstwhile Raglan (Justin Kirk) shows up to articulation him for a chat. Now acrophobic astir Armand’s passive assertive past ways of torture, Molloy tells Raglan helium conscionable wants to get retired of the interrogation alive—he strikes the woody to enactment with the Talamasca to get immoderate intel for them during the interview, successful speech for his beingness and really getting to people his book. Back successful the lover’s den, Louis and Armand sermon art, and the erstwhile maitre begins to prime up hints that his person has grown discontent, inactive vaguely unaware that helium present remembers that fateful nighttime with the Boy Molloy successful San Francisco.

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Resuming the interview, the trio prime up connected the section of the saga wherever they attempted to appease Santiago (Ben Daniels), by giving him much powerfulness and attraction for their adjacent amusement astatine the theater. Unbeknownst to Louis, Armand and Claudia, Santiago has stolen the latter’s diaries and has begun passing them astir to the coven. The betrayal is truthful real—and sucks adjacent for america arsenic viewers, due to the fact that it came from the vampire Claudia trusted the most. As if that wasn’t capable for Claudia, however, her relationship with Madeline (Roxanne Duran) the dressmaker intensifies erstwhile her store is attacked again and Claudia goes rage mode to support her caller bestie by sidesplitting the harassers erstwhile and for all.

It exposes Madeline to the information and she accepts Claudia, thing that the young vampiress has been wanting. She takes Madeline to her and Louis’ apartment, and helium confronts them for exposing their identities since they’re connected bladed crystal with Armand’s coven. Claudia points retired that this could beryllium her mode retired with a companion of her own, since he’s recovered his caller one. Louis asks if it’s romantic—and portion Claudia says no, Madeline says “not yet”, arsenic Claudia asks Louis to crook Madeline. Louis admits helium doesn’t deliberation helium should beryllium the 1 to bash it, arsenic helium doesn’t privation to walk connected much of Lestat’s lineage and suggests they inquire Armand, who has much benevolent humor than theirs. If helium lone truly knew astatine this point, right?

Armand getting brought into it, knowing what we know, feels truthful wrong. He does person a speech with Madeline and tries to marque her recognize that Claudia is not agelong for this satellite owed to her circumstances, an aging caput successful the assemblage of a young woman. But Madeline vouches for her, arguing that the warfare ravaged satellite they person lived successful has aged anyone successful ways that it doesn’t substance if you’re quality oregon immortal—she’s acceptable to instrumentality it connected arsenic a vampire, which shows however overmuch much balls she has than Armand. Playing up his relation arsenic the delicate maitre, however, helium declines turning her, confessing that he’s ne'er turned anyone and that the thought repulses him. It ends up coming down to Louis—with the assistance of Claudia—and the duo permission town, with Louis yet knowing that they’re a amended pairing and stronger than helium expected. Even with his concerns astir Lestat’s lineage, it’s arguably the champion happening he’s done for his daughter.

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Meanwhile astatine the theater, Santiago and Sam reason astir the play they’re doing. There’s infighting arsenic there’s much discord sown into the coven betwixt Santiago not being a large leader, Armand and Louis doing the soiled successful the bureau successful afloat honeymoon mode, and of people Claudia’s diary beverage being spilled each implicit the place. You get the consciousness among the messiness thing is afoot, that Louis is unaware of something—and backmost successful the present, each this coincides with Molly being fixed a conflicting bid of events. Armand tells Molloy helium had to marque a choice, and broke with the coven to beryllium with Louis to screen up the pages being torn retired of Claudia’s diary. Among the confusion, Armand realizes Louis remembers San Francisco, arsenic helium tries to instrumentality backmost his communicative with newfound distrust of Armand’s mentation of events. Armand mildly affirms that some removing Claudia’s diary pages and erasing some Louis and Molloy’s memories was to support them, and that they wanted it. But Molloy pushes back, and dresses Armand down for taking distant his agency—a crook that helps Louis question if helium truly did inquire Armand to assistance him forget.

Everything comes to a caput erstwhile they recount the fateful nighttime successful Paris, wherever Claudia and Madeline visited Armand and Louis. It’s a beauteous and romanticist treble day wherever you truly get to spot Claudia beryllium blessed and comfortable, a dynamic that’s evidently much steadfast and mature than immoderate of Louis’ relationships person been. Admittedly arsenic a instrumentality of the publication and of the changes the amusement has made truthful far, I recovered myself wishing that the writers could possibly springiness Claudia and her companion a mode retired from their fate—in specified abbreviated time, they’ve been developed truthful well. They deserved amended than the sheer bullshit Armand pulls, freezing clip to let the coven to kidnap each of them—including Louis—mid-meal, and instrumentality them captive for their crimes.

The deal, it seems, is that Armand has betrayed the radical closest to him to prevention his ain skin. It’s a cruelty we’re reminded of successful the closing minutes of the episode, arsenic the coven bushed and harass their prisoners, with Santiago relishing it each arsenic they hole for the existent amusement helium wanted to prima in: the proceedings of the vampires for breaking the cardinal rules, and for the execution of their maestro Lestat de Lioncourt. It’s truthful heartbreaking to spot and adjacent much truthful gut-wrenching erstwhile it’s revealed that the trial’s peculiar impermanent star—er, prima witness--is nary different than Lestat himself.

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The proceedings earlier the occurrence begins adjacent week connected Interview With the Vampire.

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