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* AnswerCut: After Louis criticizes Claudia for her foolishness in burying all of her victims in Chalmette because it's three feet below the river line, he asks her, "What happens when the next storm comes out of the gulf?" The scene then cuts to dock workers finding 56 lacerated bodies adrift in the river during a thunderstorm with torrential rain.
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* BurialAtSea: While Bruce was [[StalkerWithACrush spying]] on Claudia, he had witnessed her dumping the bodies of her human prey into the Missouri River, so when they meet, he informs her that she was being careless.
-->'''Bruce''': You've been sloppy out in Jefferson City.\\
'''Claudia''': How long you been followin'--\\
'''Bruce''': You shouldn't dump bodies in the Missouri. Even if you weigh 'em down with rocks, river's too fast. I find you build a shallow grave, sometimes a prairie wind'll catch, burns faster.
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* DisposingOfABody: Discussed when Louis and Lestat confront Claudia about how she hid the corpses of her victims during her serial killing spree without the use of their incinerator. Louis then points out that she failed to take into account the geology and fluviology of the area that she chose as a burial site.
-->'''Louis''': Whole families, half a parade crew. The incinerator will be overflowin'.\\
'''Lestat''': The smoke alone would blot out the moon.\\
'''Louis''': What did you do with 'em, Claudia? Where are the bodies?\\
'''Claudia''': Well then, I guess you better hope and pray you taught me how to clean up good.\\
'''Lestat''': Where are they?\\
'''Claudia''': I buried them, okay?! Way out of town. Nothin' out there for miles. No one's ever gonna find 'em, except maybe criminals burying bodies of their own.\\
'''Lestat''': Where out of town?\\
'''Claudia''': Chalmette.\\
'''Louis''': Chalmette's three feet below the river line.\\
'''Claudia''': So what?!\\
'''Louis''': What happens when the next storm comes out the gulf?
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'''Louis''': I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.\\

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'''Louis''': '''Claudia''': I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.\\
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* SoundtrackDissonance: In the climax, the beautiful, lush melody of Daniel Hart's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOhat678VD0 Vicious]]" contrasts the horrendous DomesticAbuse that unfolds on-screen when Lestat savagely batters Louis until his boyfriend is at death's door.
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* TakeMeInstead: Claudia volunteers to replace Louis as Lestat's [[DomesticAbuse punching bag]] (she was initially the target of Lestat's wrath), but he's now only interested in punishing Louis for not loving him enough.
-->'''Claudia''': ''(crying)'' Let [Louis] go. He didn't do nothin', let him go. It's me you want.\\
'''Lestat''': Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was ''never'' you. ''(looks at Louis)'' I chose ''you''.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lampshaded by Claudia when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman disowning her brother Louis. (Claudia's belief is partly erroneous because she was also a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)

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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lampshaded by Claudia when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman [[DisownedSibling disowning her brother Louis.Louis]]. (Claudia's belief is partly erroneous because she was also a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)



* SerialKiller: Claudia goes on a serial killing spree and murders at least 56 people, even taking trophies from them and keeping a KillTally.

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* SerialKiller: Claudia goes on a serial killing spree and murders at least 56 people, even taking trophies [[CreepySouvenir trophies]] from them and keeping a KillTally.
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*** ''Bon.'' ("Well.")
*** ''Ça suffit!'' [[note]]The "Ça" is misspelled as "Ca" in the official English-language subtitles.[[/note]] ("That's enough!")
*** ''Voilà, comme j'ai dit.'' [[note]]The "j'ai" (used for past tense) is incorrectly listed as "je" (used for present tense) in the official English-language subtitles, and Lestat clearly says "j'ai" (not to mention that "dit" is the past tense conjugation).[[/note]] ("There, like I said.")

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*** ''Bon.'' "''Bon.''" ("Well.")
*** ''Ça suffit!'' "''Ça suffit!''" [[note]]The "Ça" is misspelled as "Ca" in the official English-language subtitles.[[/note]] ("That's enough!")
*** ''Voilà, "''Voilà, comme j'ai dit.'' ''" [[note]]The "j'ai" (used for past tense) is incorrectly listed as "je" (used for present tense) in the official English-language subtitles, and Lestat clearly says "j'ai" (not to mention that "dit" is the past tense conjugation).[[/note]] ("There, like I said.")



* LonelyPianoPiece: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8kzmnu sad piano piece]] is the BackgroundMusic in a scene where Louis and Lestat are both feeling very lonely even though they live together. Louis is bereft without their vampire daughter Claudia, who fled from their home seven years prior and refuses to respond to any of his psychic messages. As for Lestat, it was his ToughLove lesson in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA the previous episode]] that pushed Claudia away, so in revenge, Louis neglects his boyfriend with an austere mix of SilentTreatment and LysistrataGambit. Lestat can't help but suspect that Louis doesn't really love him after being deprived of emotional and physical intimacy for so long.

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* LonelyPianoPiece: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8kzmnu com/video/x8kzmnu?playlist=x7nyow A sad piano piece]] is the BackgroundMusic in a scene where Louis and Lestat are both feeling very lonely even though they live together. Louis is bereft without their vampire daughter Claudia, who fled from their home seven years prior and refuses to respond to any of his psychic messages. As for Lestat, it was his ToughLove lesson in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA the previous episode]] that pushed Claudia away, so in revenge, Louis neglects his boyfriend with an austere mix of SilentTreatment and LysistrataGambit. Lestat can't help but suspect that Louis doesn't really love him after being deprived of emotional and physical intimacy for so long.
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*** ''Ça suffit!'' [[note]]the "Ça" is misspelled as "Ca" in the official English-language subtitles[[/note]] ("That's enough!")
*** ''Voilà, comme j'ai dit.'' [[note]]the "j'ai" (used for past tense) is incorrectly listed as "je" (used for present tense) in the official English-language subtitles, and Lestat clearly says "j'ai" (not to mention that "dit" is the past tense conjugation)[[/note]] ("There, like I said.")

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*** ''Ça suffit!'' [[note]]the [[note]]The "Ça" is misspelled as "Ca" in the official English-language subtitles[[/note]] subtitles.[[/note]] ("That's enough!")
*** ''Voilà, comme j'ai dit.'' [[note]]the [[note]]The "j'ai" (used for past tense) is incorrectly listed as "je" (used for present tense) in the official English-language subtitles, and Lestat clearly says "j'ai" (not to mention that "dit" is the past tense conjugation)[[/note]] conjugation).[[/note]] ("There, like I said.")


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* CreepySouvenir: Claudia is a SerialKiller who has murdered at least 56 people and collects their body parts as trophies. She stores them in various hiding places in her bedroom.

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* BilingualBonus: Lestat is so fed up with Louis harping about Claudia that he cusses, "''Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!''" [[note]]The expression is normally "''Il a chié dans ma malle jusqu'au cadenas!''", but this old-fashioned phrase had already fallen into disuse by the turn of the 20th century, so it seems that Lestat has put a slightly different spin on it.[[/note]] ("For fuck's sake. He shits me in the trunk up to the padlock!")

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** Near the beginning of the episode, Lestat speaks a few French words that aren't translated into English.
*** ''Bon.'' ("Well.")
*** ''Ça suffit!'' [[note]]the "Ça" is misspelled as "Ca" in the official English-language subtitles[[/note]] ("That's enough!")
*** ''Voilà, comme j'ai dit.'' [[note]]the "j'ai" (used for past tense) is incorrectly listed as "je" (used for present tense) in the official English-language subtitles, and Lestat clearly says "j'ai" (not to mention that "dit" is the past tense conjugation)[[/note]] ("There, like I said.")
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Lestat is so fed up with Louis harping about Claudia that he cusses, "''Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!''" [[note]]The expression is normally "''Il a chié dans ma malle jusqu'au cadenas!''", but this old-fashioned phrase had already fallen into disuse by the turn of the 20th century, so it seems that Lestat has put a slightly different spin on it.[[/note]] ("For fuck's sake. He shits me in the trunk up to the padlock!")
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* DisownedSibling: Before he was a vampire, Louis was close with his family. Most of them have died by now and only his sister Grace is left. Their relationship has been dwindling for years. She doesn't know he's a vampire per se, but she knows ''something'' happened, that he is -- in some amorphous way -- changed. For her own sanity and for her family's safety, Grace concludes she has to write Louis off. The last time they see each other, she shows him the headstone she had made for him to give herself closure for the brother she lost.
-->'''Grace:''' Don't need that either, Louis... or whoever you are that ''took'' my Louis. [...] You're not my Louis; you can't be. ''(lays a bouquet of flowers at a grave marked with Louis's name)'' I praying myself old beggin' what to do about you. God never talked back, so... this is how it has to be. For me, for my family. You understand?\\
'''Louis:''' ''(starts to cry)''\\
'''Grace:''' ''(squeezes his hand, kisses his cheek, then walks away)''
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* HatesTheirParent: Claudia has grown to loathe her vampire dads for giving her the Dark Gift and reading her journals without her permission. She lashes out at them with "I hate you both!" and later runs away from home.
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* InsideAWall: Claudia sits in between the walls of a university library near a woman's corpse. She presumably hides there to consume her victim's blood so that there are no witnesses to the homicide.
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* ManlyTears: After Grace disowns her brother, Louis leans against his family's mausoleum and audibly weeps.
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* ForeignCussWord: Lestat shouts "''Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!''", which is French for "For fuck's sake. He shits me in the trunk up to the padlock!"
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* ShirtlessScene: Both Lestat and Louis are bare-chested as they're getting ready for bed (well, coffin), and they both choose not to wear an undershirt or a pyjama top underneath their robe.
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** At the end of the episode, Claudia has a rather fierce "If looks could kill" expression when she glares at [[DomesticAbuse Lestat for nearly killing Louis]].
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lampshaded by Claudia when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman disowning her brother Louis. (Claudia's belief is erroneous because she was a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)

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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lampshaded by Claudia when she concludes that Lestat and Louis had turned her into a vampire so that she can take Grace's place after [[StalkerWithoutACrush witnessing from afar]] the other woman disowning her brother Louis. (Claudia's belief is partly erroneous because she was also a [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter band-aid baby]] to save Louis and Lestat's crumbling relationship, but since they never told her this, she does her best to understand their reasoning on her own.)
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: While reading Claudia's diaries, Daniel doesn't have much sympathy for her despite all the horrible things she suffers because she's a vicious SerialKiller.
-->'''Louis''': We made her out of remorse... out of selfishness.\\
'''Daniel''': [[SarcasmMode Poor dear. She wasn't held enough in between ritualistic murders.]]\\
'''Louis''': She spent every night for half a decade with no friends, locked in the emotional storm of puberty.\\
'''Daniel''': Look, UsefulNotes/CharlesManson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.\\
'''Louis''': Is that all you think of her?\\
'''Daniel''': Mostly.
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* DramaticPause: The BackgroundMusic becomes quiet after Claudia blurts out that Lestat is cheating on Louis with Antoinette, and no words are exchanged for several seconds.

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* DomesticAbuse: Claudia attempts to persuade Louis to leave Lestat and go with her to look for other vampires. In anger at what he sees as her taking his love away from him, [[AbusiveParent Lestat grabs Claudia by the neck]], causing Louis to tackle Lestat and the two men fight. After smashing Louis against the walls of their home, Lestat gains the upper hand, and he sits on top of Louis, punching him repeatedly. [[WipeTheFloorWithYou Lestat then drags Louis outside]] by his chin with only his sharp vampire ''fingernails'', and flies with Louis into the air. After asking Louis to say he'll never love him, Louis just yells for Lestat to let him go. Lestat does so, and Louis suffers a long and agonizing fall. Taking away all the fantasy/vampire elements, the entire scene is basically an abusive husband/boyfriend assaulting his partner within an inch of his life. What makes this situation even more frightening is that Lestat claims that he had restrained his violent impulses in the past, which means that he wanted to beat Louis many times before.

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* DomesticAbuse: Claudia attempts to persuade Louis to leave Lestat and go with her to look for other vampires. In anger at what he sees as her taking his love away from him, [[AbusiveParent Lestat grabs Claudia by the neck]], causing Louis to tackle Lestat and the two men fight. After smashing Louis against the walls of their home, Lestat gains the upper hand, and he sits on top of Louis, punching him repeatedly. [[WipeTheFloorWithYou Lestat then drags Louis outside]] by his chin with only his [[AbsurdlySharpClaws sharp vampire ''fingernails'', fingernails]], and flies with Louis into the air. After asking Louis to say he'll never love him, Louis just yells for Lestat to let him go. Lestat does so, and Louis suffers a long and agonizing fall. Taking away all the fantasy/vampire elements, the entire scene is basically an abusive husband/boyfriend assaulting his partner within an inch of his life. What makes this situation even more frightening is that Lestat claims that he had restrained his violent impulses in the past, which means that he wanted to beat Louis many times before.


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* WickedCultured: Subverted when Louis (a {{Bookworm}}) accuses Lestat of just reading the first ten pages of every book so he can appear to be cultured.
-->'''Louis''': ''(while reading a novel)'' [[Creator/GustaveFlaubert Flaubert]]'s style is so dense. The absence of metaphor is so striking.\\
'''Lestat''': ''(scoffs)'' You sound like every pompous Sorbonne student I've ever eaten.\\
'''Louis''': ''(stops reading to look directly at Lestat)'' Should I do like you instead? Read the first 10 pages of every book, pass myself off as cultured? Use my middling command of literary canon to impress some hapless human I'm gonna kill in a few hours anyway.
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[-Aired October 30, 2022-]

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* LikesOlderWomen: Bruce claims that he finds older women attractive after Claudia [[BlatantLies lies about her age]] (she's actually 27 in this scene).
-->'''Bruce''': How old are you, Claudia?\\
'''Claudia''': 104.\\
'''Bruce''': ''(chuckles)'' Always had a fondness for older women.
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* BilingualBonus: Lestat is so fed up with Louis harping about Claudia that he cusses, "''Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!''" [[note]]The expression is normally "''Il a chié dans ma malle jusqu'au cadenas!''", but this old-fashioned phrase had already fallen into disuse by the turn of the 20th century, so it seems that Lestat has put a slightly different spin on it.[[/note]] ("For fuck's sake. He shits me in the trunk up to the padlock!")
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* QuakingWithFear: Claudia, whose leg has just been broken by Bruce, is shaking like a leaf in the last shot we see of her before [[RapeDiscretionShot the scene cuts]].
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* GetOut: While rebelling against her vampire dads, Claudia shrieks at the top of her lungs "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!" at a GlassShatteringSound level.

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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Because the vampire Bruce had [[FakingTheDead faked his own death]], he was present for his own funeral and listened to what everyone said. He wasn't well-liked as a human because there were only two dozen mourners, and it wasn't long before they began to TalkAboutTheWeather.



-->'''Bruce''': Faked my own death. Shipped back on a boat in a coffin. Got to hear my own funeral. Only a couple dozen people showed up, most didn't have much to say. Started talking about the weather a few minutes in. Almost got myself buried alive. Poor fella diggin' my grave lies restin' in the family plot.

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-->'''Bruce''': Faked my own death. Shipped back on a boat in a coffin. [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral Got to hear my own funeral. funeral.]] Only a couple dozen people showed up, most didn't have much to say. Started [[TalkAboutTheWeather talking about the weather weather]] a few minutes in. Almost got myself buried alive. Poor fella diggin' my grave lies restin' in the family plot.



** Claudia's [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/638ed95f3933083f22229945f1f02286/1463adc445943e4d-da/s1280x1920/d6456483644fe12bab60494d4cd8f6a6c52d24ec.png journal entry]] offers viewers a glimpse into her mindset before she heads back home.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: The raccoon that was rummaging through the townhouse's MessOfWoe [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/00878061efc416f3c9ddd5b9454e8502/a67d6b00f0a5d60a-0e/s1280x1920/b773ad2bb1d17e3f208c5a621496c9461957e0aa.png later ends up dead.]] Louis, a VegetarianVampire, presumably drained the animal to death.

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The raccoon that was rummaging through the townhouse's MessOfWoe [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/00878061efc416f3c9ddd5b9454e8502/a67d6b00f0a5d60a-0e/s1280x1920/b773ad2bb1d17e3f208c5a621496c9461957e0aa.png later ends up dead.]] Louis, a VegetarianVampire, presumably drained the animal to death.death.
** Claudia's [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/638ed95f3933083f22229945f1f02286/1463adc445943e4d-da/s1280x1920/d6456483644fe12bab60494d4cd8f6a6c52d24ec.png journal entry]] offers viewers a glimpse into her mindset before she heads back home.
--->Dear Diary, I'm going back to the house. I've decided I'm ready for whatever Lestat has to say. And I can leave right away and take Louis with me. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I am excited to see him again. And I realize I was a handful all those years. But will Louis even travel with me? I don't know if he even wants to leave Lestat even though he causes him great pain. I just know he and I would have so much fun together. And anything I learn about vampires I want to share with him. He has been sheltered by Lestat for so long! I want to open his eyes! We can learn about our kind together and maybe find some.
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* SickeningCrunch: Although we don't see Bruce's foot hit Claudia's leg, the snap of broken bone is unmistakable, so it's understood that Claudia is now crippled and cannot run away from her assailant.

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