History Recap / InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA

* HealingFactor: Discussed when Lestat cautions Claudia about her careless driving; even though vampires live forever, acute injuries require months to heal.
-->'''Lestat''': ''Putain de merde'' [[note]]French for "Fucking hell"[[/note]], steer, steer.\\

* SelfHarm: At the end of the episode, Claudia is so deeply traumatized from her unintentional murder of her FirstLove and Lestat's ToughLove discipline that she extends her arm under the skylight during the [[WeakenedByTheLight daytime to hurt herself]].

* ScreamDiscretionShot: Lestat kills the undertaker off-screen, so viewers only hear the victim's yelps before he dies.

* StealthInsult: Louis intimates that Lestat is too old to understand adolescent behaviour when he makes the observation "''Tu as oublié ta jeunesse!''" (French for "You've forgotten your youth!" [[note]]which is the exact translation, although the official English-language subtitles offer the more wordy "You've forgotten what it's like to be young!"[[/note]]) Lestat [[AgeInsecurity feels insulted]] and swears in French.

* MakeOutPoint: Lestat and Claudia are at a lover's lane to prey on unsuspecting couples. Claudia is innocent when it comes to human sexuality, so Lestat employs euphemistic language to explain to her what [[CallAHumanAMeatbag "the meat"]] do here.

[-Aired October 23, 2022-]

* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: Lestat and Claudia drive to a lover's lane to hunt for humans who are in a state of arousal. In Lestat's estimation, they're a special treat because no blood is sweeter than young people who are swollen with passion. Claudia's fangs rip into one man's neck so savagely that his arterial spray splashes across the windshield of his car, his blood nearly covering the entire surface of the glass. Lestat murders a couple that was parked further ahead off-screen, and when the [[ScreamingWoman screaming girlfriend]] of Claudia's victim runs to Lestat to warn him of the danger, he kills her, too.

* BoyMeetsGhoul: The cute vampire Claudia becomes enamoured with a young mortal man named Charlie. He gives her a [[FlowersOfRomance bouquet of chrysanthemums]], they eat ice cream sundaes on their first (and only) date, and then they canoodle in his carriage. Their romance is short-lived because Claudia has a voracious appetite and never learned moderation, so she consumes all of Charlie's blood until he dies.

* CheerfulChild: This is what Claudia was during her formative years as a fledging vampire: laughing, dancing happily, skipping in the house.

* HemoErotic: Downplayed with Claudia, who is only turned on when she's exsanguinating her boyfriend Charlie, as demonstrated by her pleased moans while they're making out in his carriage. However, because she lacks self-control, she ends up killing him unintentionally.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Lestat is the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of parent because his ''very'' harsh lesson to Claudia after she accidentally kills her FirstLove (and Lestat forces her to watch as Charlie's face melts in the incinerator) is that vampires should "never get close to mortals because sooner or later, they end up dead." Yet Lestat spent the ''entire'' [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder first episode]] being wholly ''besotted'' with Louis when the latter was still human. Lestat stalked, flirted, courted, seduced and harassed Louis over a period of a few months (based on Louis' comment that "It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire"). While Lestat's endgame was to turn Louis into a vampire, he nevertheless fell head-over-heels for a mortal and invested a lot of time bonding with his human LoveInterest before offering Louis the Dark Gift. Lestat's warning to Claudia rings hollow knowing that he did the very thing he's telling her not to.

* ToughLove: Lestat takes on a disciplinary role after a panicked and heartbroken Claudia inadvertently murders her first boyfriend. He wants to ensure that she never does anything so foolish again by maximizing her psychological turmoil. He smirks while he's mocking her mistake ("It's easy to get carried away when you're young and in love"), picks up Charlie's arm and drops it to emphasize that he's dead as a doornail. Lestat then shoves Claudia towards the corpse and commands her to "clean up after yourself." After she places Charlie's body inside the incinerator, she's about to walk away when Lestat roughly grips her arm and face to hold her in place. She has no choice but to look while her FirstLove's "bones cracked black and his face turned to soup," the disturbing image being seared into her brain.