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* FlashbackCut: There are two snippets from [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the previous episode]] when Louis recalls Lestat dropping him from the sky while he and Daniel discuss the cloud gift.
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** There are two snippets from [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeartthe previous episode]] episode 5]] when Louis recalls Lestat dropping him from the sky while he and Daniel discuss the cloud gift.gift.
** Later, Claudia is in her coffin psychically conversing with Louis when she remembers the moment her assailant Bruce stood over her just before an ImpliedRape, which occurred in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the previous episode]].
** There are two snippets from [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart
** Later, Claudia is in her coffin psychically conversing with Louis when she remembers the moment her assailant Bruce stood over her just before an ImpliedRape, which occurred in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the previous episode]].
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* SeventiesHair: Louis sports an afro in 1973.
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** Louis sports an afro in1973.1973.
** The bartender at Polynesian Mary's has long, thick, wavy hair which is parted down at the center, which is typical for the era.
** Louis sports an afro in
** The bartender at Polynesian Mary's has long, thick, wavy hair which is parted down at the center, which is typical for the era.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Lampshaded by Louis with regards to Lestat's decision to have his ''mistress'' Antoinette sing "Come to Me", a song Lestat composed as a [[GiftOfSong Valentine's Day]] ApologyGift for Louis.
-->'''Louis''': The audacity of it all was matched only by its sincerity. He had made the near-perfect valentine, with one flaw. [...] One perfectly premeditated flaw.
-->'''Louis''': The audacity of it all was matched only by its sincerity. He had made the near-perfect valentine, with one flaw. [...] One perfectly premeditated flaw.
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* QueerColors: In 1973, [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/ba74ecf386d105bb6dea809856d2ae2d/010a302115ee304d-22/s540x810/c85fcb1f09fdfaec05ec0c886485fc19771aed2b.gif the bead curtains]] at Polynesian Mary's (a San Francisco gay bar) are illuminated with pink, purple and blue lighting (otherwise known as bisexual lighting) as the 20-year-old Daniel approaches the bar stool. He's a regular at Polynesian Mary's (the bartender addresses him by his diminutive "Danny"), and his positive response to Louis' flirtation and invitation to the latter's apartment ("I mean, if something happens, you know, I'm cool") suggests that Daniel [[AmbiguouslyBi may be bisexual]].
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* RuleNumberOne: Louis and Claudia impose several conditions that Lestat must follow in order for him to be accepted back into their family. Viewers don't get to hear the first three requirements.
-->'''Louis''': Rule number four.\\
'''Claudia''': Kill [[TheMistress Antoinette]].\\
[...]\\
'''Claudia''': I'm not your child anymore. That's rule number five. I'll be your companion, your sister.\\
'''Lestat''': It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. "Now I'm your cousin." "Now I'm your aunt." I am your maker!\\
'''Claudia''': But not my uncle or my daddy. I'm your sister or that's the door.\\
'''Louis''': Rule number six. No lies, and that includes lies of exaggeration and of omission. For instance, if you can fly, tell us you can fly.
-->'''Louis''': Rule number four.\\
'''Claudia''': Kill [[TheMistress Antoinette]].\\
[...]\\
'''Claudia''': I'm not your child anymore. That's rule number five. I'll be your companion, your sister.\\
'''Lestat''': It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. "Now I'm your cousin." "Now I'm your aunt." I am your maker!\\
'''Claudia''': But not my uncle or my daddy. I'm your sister or that's the door.\\
'''Louis''': Rule number six. No lies, and that includes lies of exaggeration and of omission. For instance, if you can fly, tell us you can fly.
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* SoreLoser: When Lestat loses his first chess game against Claudia, he throws a temper tantrum with a ForeignLanguageTirade and a DeskSweepOfRage, which sends the chess pieces flying across the room.
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* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: After Claudia tosses Antoinette's [[{{Fingore}} scorched finger]] into the fireplace, she slips on the dead woman's silver ring which features a big flower design (petals, stem and leaves) embedded with red gems on to her own thumb and admires its beauty.
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** Louis and Lestat do the [[VampiresSleepInCoffins vampire]] equivalent when they discuss Claudia's refusal to genuinely get along with Lestat (who had [[DomesticAbuse bashed Louis senseless]] in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the preceding episode]]) as the couple settle in their coffin.
--->'''Lestat''': I am all sincerity and humility, I cannot wear it any longer.\\
'''Louis''': She's just stubborn.\\
'''Lestat''': She is a wall. The cliffs at Étretat.\\
'''Louis''': She's grown very protective of me. That's what this is. It's why it's hard.\\
'''Lestat''': She came back altered when she left us. There's a darkness in her that wasn't there before.\\
'''Louis''': Give her a little time.
** In a Ponchatoula hotel room, Lestat and his mistress Antoinette converse about their relationship while in bed.
--->'''Lestat''': That's why I need you. You fortify me against [Louis and Claudia]. You're like me. You like to laugh.\\
'''Antoinette''': You make me laugh all the time. ''(kisses Lestat)'' We should go away, Lestat. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.\\
'''Lestat''': You want to be a movie star?\\
'''Antoinette''': Well, now that I'm [[FakingTheDead dead]], I can be whoever I want. I've been working on a new name. What do you think of Marie Lepère?\\
'''Lestat''': Don't be ridiculous. There's no place for me other than New Orleans.\\
'''Antoinette''': New Orleans? You got me stashed away here at Ponchatoula, how am I supposed to make a career here?\\
'''Lestat''': ''([[DomesticAbuse grabs her throat]])'' I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear.\\
'''Antoinette''': I know that, but promises were made.\\
'''Lestat''': And promises will be kept. ''(releases her throat)''\\
'''Antoinette''': I am withering here, Lestat. Who's gonna hire a singer who don't sing, who's a ''cripple''? ''(removes her glove to show her maimed hand)''\\
'''Lestat''': ''(turns his head away)'' No. That's what gloves are for.\\
'''Antoinette''': I know. I didn't mean to make you mad. I love you, Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': I love you, too.
** Louis and Lestat do the [[VampiresSleepInCoffins vampire]] equivalent when they discuss Claudia's refusal to genuinely get along with Lestat (who had [[DomesticAbuse bashed Louis senseless]] in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the preceding episode]]) as the couple settle in their coffin.
--->'''Lestat''': I am all sincerity and humility, I cannot wear it any longer.\\
'''Louis''': She's just stubborn.\\
'''Lestat''': She is a wall. The cliffs at Étretat.\\
'''Louis''': She's grown very protective of me. That's what this is. It's why it's hard.\\
'''Lestat''': She came back altered when she left us. There's a darkness in her that wasn't there before.\\
'''Louis''': Give her a little time.
** In a Ponchatoula hotel room, Lestat and his mistress Antoinette converse about their relationship while in bed.
--->'''Lestat''': That's why I need you. You fortify me against [Louis and Claudia]. You're like me. You like to laugh.\\
'''Antoinette''': You make me laugh all the time. ''(kisses Lestat)'' We should go away, Lestat. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.\\
'''Lestat''': You want to be a movie star?\\
'''Antoinette''': Well, now that I'm [[FakingTheDead dead]], I can be whoever I want. I've been working on a new name. What do you think of Marie Lepère?\\
'''Lestat''': Don't be ridiculous. There's no place for me other than New Orleans.\\
'''Antoinette''': New Orleans? You got me stashed away here at Ponchatoula, how am I supposed to make a career here?\\
'''Lestat''': ''([[DomesticAbuse grabs her throat]])'' I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear.\\
'''Antoinette''': I know that, but promises were made.\\
'''Lestat''': And promises will be kept. ''(releases her throat)''\\
'''Antoinette''': I am withering here, Lestat. Who's gonna hire a singer who don't sing, who's a ''cripple''? ''(removes her glove to show her maimed hand)''\\
'''Lestat''': ''(turns his head away)'' No. That's what gloves are for.\\
'''Antoinette''': I know. I didn't mean to make you mad. I love you, Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': I love you, too.
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* BreakThemByTalking: On the train, Lestat taunts Claudia about her traumatic ImpliedRape by Bruce, and she sobs throughout his pitiless speech.
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* BreakThemByTalking: On the train, Lestat taunts Claudia in a TranquilFury manner about her traumatic ImpliedRape by Bruce, and she sobs throughout his pitiless speech.speech, which ends with a death threat.
-->'''Lestat''': Well, you wouldn't talk of it. Louis insisted I not ask. I love our family, but the rules are "no secrets." Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, I can hear the thoughts of other vampires at a very great distance.\\
'''Claudia''': Bastard.\\
'''Lestat''': He thinks of you often. Bruce.\\
'''Claudia''': ''(crying)'' Fucking bastard.\\
'''Lestat''': I couldn't agree more. What he did to you was in very poor taste. Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? Louis would never forgive himself. Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart. We endure each other for Louis' happiness. So come home and make him happy. Because if you try [to escape] again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket, and zoom off on a motorbike. [[IllKillYou I'll turn your bones to dust.]]
-->'''Lestat''': Well, you wouldn't talk of it. Louis insisted I not ask. I love our family, but the rules are "no secrets." Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, I can hear the thoughts of other vampires at a very great distance.\\
'''Claudia''': Bastard.\\
'''Lestat''': He thinks of you often. Bruce.\\
'''Claudia''': ''(crying)'' Fucking bastard.\\
'''Lestat''': I couldn't agree more. What he did to you was in very poor taste. Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? Louis would never forgive himself. Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart. We endure each other for Louis' happiness. So come home and make him happy. Because if you try [to escape] again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket, and zoom off on a motorbike. [[IllKillYou I'll turn your bones to dust.]]
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: By the middle of the episode, sex with Lestat has become a chore for Louis, so he chats telepathically with Claudia (who's in another room) because he'd rather think about ''anything'' else besides what Lestat is doing to his body. When the psychic conversation with Claudia ends, Louis then [[BlankStare stares blankly]] at the ceiling and remains mostly unresponsive to Lestat's lovemaking.
-->'''Louis''': ''(in 2022 narrating to Daniel)'' The numbness remained, hardened somehow into a dissociative shell, a vessel of acceptance, tortured rationalization.
-->'''Louis''': ''(in 2022 narrating to Daniel)'' The numbness remained, hardened somehow into a dissociative shell, a vessel of acceptance, tortured rationalization.
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: Claudia is startled by the sound of the train conductor screaming and the loud thuds as he's being slammed against the baggage car. It's only after Lestat kicks open the door that she realizes that he has ripped the man's head off.
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: Claudia is startled by the sound of the train conductor screaming and the loud thuds as he's being slammed against the baggage car. It's only after Lestat kicks open the door that she realizes that he has [[OffWithHisHead ripped the man's head off.off]].
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* LingerieScene: Throughout the Ponchatoula hotel room scene, Antoinette is dressed in 1930s-style lingerie in order to entice her lover Lestat.
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* PsychoStrings: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l3jdo?playlist=x7nyow discordant violin melody in a minor key]] underscores Lestat's TranquilFury at Claudia, whom he catches on a train bound for New York, for running away from home for the second time. His stony exterior belies his turbulent temper because he coerces her to go "Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart," or else [[IllKillYou "I'll turn your bones to dust."]] Claudia and the audience never doubt for a second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him (especially when he has just [[OffWithHisHead lopped off the head]] of a train conductor).
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* PsychoStrings: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l3jdo?playlist=x7nyow A discordant violin melody in a minor key]] underscores Lestat's TranquilFury at Claudia, whom he catches on a train bound for New York, for running away from home for the second time. His stony exterior belies his turbulent temper because he coerces her to go "Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart," or else [[IllKillYou "I'll turn your bones to dust."]] Claudia and the audience never doubt for a second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him (especially when he has just [[OffWithHisHead lopped off the head]] of a train conductor).
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lestat, a merciless vampire, disapproves of rape, stating to Claudia that what [[ImpliedRape Bruce did to her]] "was in very poor taste." However, this doesn't make Lestat any less evil than Bruce because he's threatening Claudia in this scene, and as terrible as her experience was with Bruce, Lestat assures her that what he'll do to her is ''worse''. ("I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket, and zoom off on a motorbike. I'll turn your bones to dust.")
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lestat, a merciless vampire, disapproves of rape, stating to Claudia that what [[ImpliedRape Bruce did to her]] "was in very poor taste." However, this doesn't make Lestat any less evil than Bruce because he's threatening Claudia in this scene, and as terrible as her experience was with Bruce, Lestat assures her that what he'll do to her is ''worse''. ("I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket, and zoom off on a motorbike. [[IllKillYou I'll turn your bones to dust.")]]")
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* PsychoStrings: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l3jdo discordant violin melody in a minor key]] underscores Lestat's TranquilFury at Claudia, whom he catches on a train bound for New York, for running away from home for the second time. His stony exterior belies his turbulent temper because he coerces her to go "Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart," or else "I'll turn your bones to dust." Claudia and the audience never doubt for a second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him (especially when he has just [[OffWithHisHead lopped off the head]] of a train conductor).
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* PsychoStrings: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l3jdo com/video/x8l3jdo?playlist=x7nyow discordant violin melody in a minor key]] underscores Lestat's TranquilFury at Claudia, whom he catches on a train bound for New York, for running away from home for the second time. His stony exterior belies his turbulent temper because he coerces her to go "Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart," or else [[IllKillYou "I'll turn your bones to dust." "]] Claudia and the audience never doubt for a second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him (especially when he has just [[OffWithHisHead lopped off the head]] of a train conductor).
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* TheCaretaker: Claudia takes care of her older vampire brother Louis (she no longer wants to be treated as his adoptive daughter, and they are siblings in vampire terms) after he's [[DomesticAbuse clobbered to a pulp]] by Lestat. She even develops a vampire form of physical therapy to help Louis regain his mobility.
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* HollywoodKiss: Averted with Louis and Lestat's SlapSlapKiss / ReunionKiss. [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/b0631674fccacabdd930298fafca2ed9/b8ea98ab9f98e15a-c7/s540x810/af32a7bffb2f64dccc349529e68890fd6dbbf9a0.gif The former sticks his tongue into the latter's mouth before locking their lips together,]] so their actors Creator/JacobAnderson and Creator/SamReid actually performed an open-mouth kiss on set, which is a rare break from the Hollywood standard of neat, pretty and romantic-looking closed-mouth smooches. Because this scene is about the InterplayOfSexAndViolence, Louis and Lestat's kiss is meant to be filthy, desperate and lustful.
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* HollywoodKiss: Averted with Louis and Lestat's SlapSlapKiss / ReunionKiss. [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/b0631674fccacabdd930298fafca2ed9/b8ea98ab9f98e15a-c7/s540x810/af32a7bffb2f64dccc349529e68890fd6dbbf9a0.gif The former sticks his tongue into the latter's mouth before locking their lips together,]] so their actors Creator/JacobAnderson and Creator/SamReid actually performed an open-mouth a French kiss on set, which is a rare break from the Hollywood standard of neat, pretty and romantic-looking closed-mouth smooches. Because this scene is about the InterplayOfSexAndViolence, Louis and Lestat's kiss is meant to be filthy, desperate and lustful.
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* AfterActionHealingDrama: While Louis is recovering after being [[DomesticAbuse horrendously battered]] by Lestat, Claudia remains at his side to care for him instead of travelling to Europe like she had originally planned. Louis is so grievously injured that he can't even feed himself, so without her, he would've died of starvation.
-->'''Louis''': A few shattered vertebrae, a punctured lung... blind in one eye for five weeks. Two months, was it? [...] Excruciating pain was the proof I was still alive. [...] [Claudia] dedicated all her energy to my rehabilitation.
-->'''Louis''': A few shattered vertebrae, a punctured lung... blind in one eye for five weeks. Two months, was it? [...] Excruciating pain was the proof I was still alive. [...] [Claudia] dedicated all her energy to my rehabilitation.
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* SarcasticConfession: In 1973, Louis deadpans "I'm a vampire" to Daniel, who grins in amusement because he thinks it's just a joke because (as far as he knows) vampires are fictional creatures, and being a journalism student means that he's being trained to be skeptical of people's responses. The vampire Louis [[LaughOfLove laughs at Daniel's cute reaction]] (he's flirting with the [[PrettyBoy attractive young man]], after all), which further cements Daniel's belief that he shouldn't take the vampire comment seriously.
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* BurnBabyBurn: Louis outlines to Daniel that he and Claudia set fire to all of the {{Apology Gift}}s Lestat gave to them.
-->'''Louis''': For six years in all, these raw and desperate ''mea culpas'' came like the tide. And for six years, they were greeted with silence or fire. We burned more gifts than bodies in that decade, but they would not stop coming.
-->'''Louis''': For six years in all, these raw and desperate ''mea culpas'' came like the tide. And for six years, they were greeted with silence or fire. We burned more gifts than bodies in that decade, but they would not stop coming.
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* CreepyDoll: Voodoo dolls are inherently creepy, but when Claudia sees one that has been placed in front of her doorstep to curse her family, she picks it up, smiles at it, and pets its head.
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* CreepyDoll: Voodoo dolls are inherently creepy, but when Claudia sees one that has been placed in front of her doorstep to curse her family, she picks it up, smiles at it, and pets its head. (Of course, she's a SerialKiller who collects [[CreepySouvenir body parts as trophies]] from her victims, so she would find voodoo dolls cute.)
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* InternalHomage: Similar to [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder episode 1]], Lestat is in a sexual situation with Louis and a woman, he asks "Do you like it?" about a piece of music that he composed, Louis then initiates sex with Lestat by kissing him, and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence there's neck-biting which leaves behind wounds]].
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** Similar to [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder episode 1]], Lestat is in a sexual situation with Louis and a woman, he asks "Do you like it?" about a piece of music that he composed, Louis then initiates sex with Lestat by kissing him, and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence there's neck-biting which leaves behindwounds]].wounds]].
** Antoinette suggesting that she and Lestat leave New Orleans and move to "New York, Chicago, Los Angeles" is ''identical'' to what Lestat recommended that he and Louis should do in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart episode 5]]. Lestat rejects Antoinette's wish because he won't abandon Louis for ''any'' reason, which mirrors Louis declining Lestat's idea because he absolutely refuses to go anywhere without Claudia.
** Similar to [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder episode 1]], Lestat is in a sexual situation with Louis and a woman, he asks "Do you like it?" about a piece of music that he composed, Louis then initiates sex with Lestat by kissing him, and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence there's neck-biting which leaves behind
** Antoinette suggesting that she and Lestat leave New Orleans and move to "New York, Chicago, Los Angeles" is ''identical'' to what Lestat recommended that he and Louis should do in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart episode 5]]. Lestat rejects Antoinette's wish because he won't abandon Louis for ''any'' reason, which mirrors Louis declining Lestat's idea because he absolutely refuses to go anywhere without Claudia.
