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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 second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him.
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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.
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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 second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him.
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* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Dr. Fareed Bhansali is a medical doctor who talks with a Received Pronunciation accent.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: After Claudia reads a collection of Creator/EmilyDickinson's poems, she hypothesizes that Dickinson was (or even ''is'' if she's still living) a vampire.
-->'''Claudia''': "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain." She also wrote one called "A Coffin Is a Small Domain." I mean, come on.\\
'''Louis''': Emily Dickinson is not a vampire.\\
'''Claudia''': How do you know?\\
'''Louis''': 'Cause she's dead.\\
'''Claudia''': How do you know?\\
'''Louis''': She got a grave. She got a tombstone.\\
'''Claudia''': So do you.
-->'''Claudia''': "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain." She also wrote one called "A Coffin Is a Small Domain." I mean, come on.\\
'''Louis''': Emily Dickinson is not a vampire.\\
'''Claudia''': How do you know?\\
'''Louis''': 'Cause she's dead.\\
'''Claudia''': How do you know?\\
'''Louis''': She got a grave. She got a tombstone.\\
'''Claudia''': So do you.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Lestat delicately runs the tips of his fingers along the top of Louis' hair as they nestle together in the latter's coffin. Because Lestat [[DomesticAbuse nearly killed]] Louis in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the previous episode]], he's attempting to prove to his boyfriend that he can be gentle and caring.
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* DreamSequence: Near the end, Daniel slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.
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* DreamSequence: Near the end, end of the episode, Daniel slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"It was an awkward time, but I loved Claudia with all my heart, and I loved Lestat with a wounded one."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"It was an awkward time, but I loved Claudia with all my heart, and I loved Lestat with a wounded one."]]
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* SeventiesHair: Louis sports an afro in 1973.
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* GetOut: Louis orders Antoinette to "get the fuck out" of her own home so that [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces he and Lestat can have sex in her bedroom]]. She turns to her lover Lestat for support, but his eyes are transfixed on Louis, and since his love for his boyfriend far outweighs what he feels for his mistress, Lestat also commands her to "Leave."
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* BetterPartnerAssertion: [[TheMistress Antoinette]] maintains that she's a worthier companion than either Lestat's melancholic boyfriend Louis or his AntagonisticOffspring Claudia because, unlike his family, she showers positive attention on Lestat and is grateful to be in his presence. She encourages him to leave Louis and Claudia behind in New Orleans and start a new life with her in another city.
-->'''Antoinette''': You don't need [Claudia], and you don't need [Louis]. They don't appreciate you like I do. [..] We should go away, Lestat. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
-->'''Antoinette''': You don't need [Claudia], and you don't need [Louis]. They don't appreciate you like I do. [..] We should go away, Lestat. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
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* {{Fingore}}: Lestat has his mistress Antoinette cut off a finger to fake her death, as Claudia and Louis demanded her demise in exchange for Lestat being allowed to come home.
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* {{Fingore}}: Lestat has his mistress Antoinette cut off a finger to [[FakingTheDead fake her death, death]], as Claudia and Louis demanded her demise in exchange for Lestat being allowed to come home.
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* SerialKiller: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3puxdWxBpaM According]] to Lestat, his maker Magnus was a serial killer who targeted young, blond, blue-eyed men with an athletic build.
-->'''Lestat''': His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris, as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses... some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me... my coloring, my physique. My own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night. And then he put me back in the tower with the look-alike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. [...] I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this.
-->'''Lestat''': His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris, as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses... some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me... my coloring, my physique. My own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night. And then he put me back in the tower with the look-alike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. [...] I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this.
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* DomesticAbuse: Lestat is abusive towards his mistress Antoinette. While they're in a Ponchatoula hotel room, his fangs have left behind two large puncture wounds on her neck, but he doesn't heal them with his vampire blood, so he's treating her worse than Louis after TheirFirstTime (where Lestat put in the effort to mend the injury he caused). After Antoinette asks, "How am I supposed to make a career here?", Lestat abruptly puts his hand around her throat and replies, "I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear." He somehow persuaded her to [[{{Fingore}} cut off her finger]] so that he can fake her death in order to ''win back Louis'' -- who is Antoinette's romantic adversary -- and for her trouble, she now has a maimed right hand that she must conceal with a glove ("That's what gloves are for," as he callously tells her). She then meekly says to Lestat, "I didn't mean to make you mad," which sadly illustrates that Anoinette is thoroughly under his thumb.
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* DomesticAbuse: Lestat is abusive towards his mistress Antoinette. While they're in a Ponchatoula hotel room, his fangs have left behind two large puncture wounds on her neck, but he doesn't heal them with his vampire blood, so he's treating her worse than Louis after TheirFirstTime (where [[HealItWithBlood Lestat put in the effort to mend the injury he caused).caused]]). After Antoinette asks, "How am I supposed to make a career here?", Lestat abruptly puts his hand around her throat and replies, "I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear." He somehow persuaded her to [[{{Fingore}} cut off her finger]] so that he can [[FakingTheDead fake her death death]] in order to ''win back Louis'' -- who is Antoinette's romantic adversary -- and for her trouble, she now has a maimed right hand that she must conceal with a glove ("That's what gloves are for," as he callously tells her). She then meekly says to Lestat, "I didn't mean to make you mad," which sadly illustrates that Anoinette is thoroughly under his thumb.
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* FakingTheDead: Lestat brings home a local New Orleans newspaper with the headline "Singer falls asleep smoking, found dead in her home" with a picture of Antoinette beneath it, and wrapped inside is her [[{{Fingore}} bloodied, singed, severed finger]]. He offers these items as proof to Louis and Claudia that he has fulfilled their stipulation that he murder his mistress if he wishes to be part of their family again. However, because Claudia has a habit of [[StalkerWithoutACrush stalking Lestat]] and doesn't trust him, she convinces Louis to accompany her after Lestat leaves to go hunting (or so he claims). They both find out that it was all a ruse because Antoinette is still alive, and Lestat has secretly stashed her away in a Ponchatoula hotel where he continues to visit her on some nights.
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* RunningGag: Dr. Bhansali's constrain refrain of [[IWasNeverHere "I am not here"]] is a source of levity in this episode. Even GrumpyOldMan Daniel can't resist showing off his acerbic wit at their so-called non-existent conversation.
-->'''Daniel''': That's the voice of Dr. Fareed Bhansali.\\
'''Bhansali''': That is not my voice.\\
'''Daniel''': He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and--\\
'''Bhansali''': And I am not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Daniel''': Classic Stockholm, eh, Doc?\\
'''Bhansali''': I am not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Louis''': Rashid, please play the song in question for Mr. Molloy and the doctor.\\
'''Bhansali''': I'm not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Bhansali''': Pleasure never meeting you, Mr. Molloy.\\
'''Daniel''': He said to no one.
-->'''Daniel''': That's the voice of Dr. Fareed Bhansali.\\
'''Bhansali''': That is not my voice.\\
'''Daniel''': He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and--\\
'''Bhansali''': And I am not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Daniel''': Classic Stockholm, eh, Doc?\\
'''Bhansali''': I am not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Louis''': Rashid, please play the song in question for Mr. Molloy and the doctor.\\
'''Bhansali''': I'm not here.\\
[...]\\
'''Bhansali''': Pleasure never meeting you, Mr. Molloy.\\
'''Daniel''': He said to no one.
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* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Louis ultimately takes Lestat back six years after the latter [[DomesticAbuse savagely attacked him]], acknowledging that despite the pain his boyfriend had caused him, their "vampire bond" is difficult to break.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Lestat complains that "[Claudia is] an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is," which is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Later, when Claudia purposefully leaves their chess game without finishing, Lestat launches into an angry rant, calling her "Spoiled, selfish, thankless. Heedless, disagreeable, obnoxious, repellent, unkind, spoiled to the core!" All of these adjectives could easily be used to describe Lestat himself.
* ZeroGSpot: There's a brief moment where Lestat and Louis levitate horizontally over their bed during lovemaking.
* ZeroGSpot: There's a brief moment where Lestat and Louis levitate horizontally over their bed during lovemaking.
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* VoodooDoll: Some of the locals leave behind voodoo dolls at the center of a circle of brick dust in front of the doorstep of the vampire family's townhouse to curse them, believing that its residents are demons because they haven't aged in decades.
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* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Louis and Daniel met in a San Francisco gay bar named Polynesian Mary's c. 1973. Louis and Rashid were there to do GayCruising.
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* TimeShiftedActor: Daniel is portrayed by Creator/EricBogosian when he's 69 years old and by Luke Brandon Field when he's 20.
* TitleDrop: This episode includes the VillainLoveSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" where the title is sung ten times.
* TitleDrop: This episode includes the VillainLoveSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" where the title is sung ten times.
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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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* SilentTreatment: Louis doesn't speak to Lestat for six years after suffering a [[DomesticAbuse vicious battering from him]].
-->'''Lestat''': If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever.\\
''(Louis says nothing)''\\
'''Lestat''': This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.
-->'''Lestat''': If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever.\\
''(Louis says nothing)''\\
'''Lestat''': This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.
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* SuddenlyShouting:
-->'''Lestat''': Move your pawn. Finish the game.\\
'''Claudia''': Good night, Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': ''(hits the table)'' FINISH THE GAME!!
-->'''Lestat''': Move your pawn. Finish the game.\\
'''Claudia''': Good night, Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': ''(hits the table)'' FINISH THE GAME!!
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* {{Patricide}}: Louis and Claudia attempt to murder their vampire father Lestat -- who has been psychologically and physically abusive towards them -- by poisoning him with dead blood and [[SlashedThroat cutting open his throat]], but they don't succeed because Louis refuses to burn his [[ILoveYouVampireSon lover's body]] despite Claudia demanding that they do so. A clip near the end of the episode shows that Lestat did survive, and Daniel deduces that he can eat the rats at the garbage dump.
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in a diminished form.
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he has produced the Elixir of Life using this, with that being why he, Louis and Claudia are immortal and eternally youthful, which serves to lure several people inside their house, and the trio drain them all to death.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast member in the Season 1 finale, his name appearing in between Bailey Bass and Creator/EricBogosian.
* PunnyName: The "Phail" in [=McPhail=] is a homonym for "fail," as the twins fail to escape from the townhouse before being killed by the vampire family.
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in a diminished form.
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he has produced the Elixir of Life using this, with that being why he, Louis and Claudia are immortal and eternally youthful, which serves to lure several people inside their house, and the trio drain them all to death.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast member in the Season 1 finale, his name appearing in between Bailey Bass and Creator/EricBogosian.
* PunnyName: The "Phail" in [=McPhail=] is a homonym for "fail," as the twins fail to escape from the townhouse before being killed by the vampire family.
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* {{Patricide}}: Louis and Claudia attempt to murder their vampire father Lestat -- who has been psychologically and physically abusive towards them -- by poisoning him with dead blood and [[SlashedThroat cutting open his throat]], but they don't succeed because Louis refuses to burn his [[ILoveYouVampireSon lover's body]] despite Claudia demanding that they do so. A clip near the end of the episode shows that Lestat did survive, and ProductPlacement:
** Danieldeduces that he can eat the rats at the garbage dump.
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possessiondrinks two cans of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a diminished form.
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he haspopular soft drink produced the Elixir of Life using this, with that being why he, Louis and Claudia are immortal and eternally youthful, which serves to lure several people inside their house, and the trio drain them all to death.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast memberin the Season 1 finale, United Arab Emirates.
** In 1973, Louis pays for hisname appearing in between Bailey Bass and Creator/EricBogosian.
Daniel's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.
*PunnyName: The "Phail" in [=McPhail=] is RecordNeedleScratch: Louis listens to Lestat's song "Come to Me" (which Lestat had sent to him as a homonym for "fail," Valentine's Day gift) on his gramophone, which features Lestat's mistress Antoinette as the twins fail to escape vocalist. The tune isn't even halfway done before a fuming Louis removes the needle from the townhouse before being killed by disc, grabs the vampire family.record and storms out the door. After six years of giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, Louis is finally going to confront his boyfriend.
* ReunionKiss: After spending six years apart, Louis demonstrates his willingness to take Lestat back by initiating an [[SlapSlapKiss ardent kiss]], which the latter readily welcomes.
** Daniel
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he has
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast member
** In 1973, Louis pays for his
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* ReunionKiss: After spending six years apart, Louis demonstrates his willingness to take Lestat back by initiating an [[SlapSlapKiss ardent kiss]], which the latter readily welcomes.
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* {{Patricide}}: Louis and Claudia attempt to murder their vampire father Lestat -- who has been psychologically and physically abusive towards them -- by poisoning him with dead blood and [[SlashedThroat cutting open his throat]], but they don't succeed because Louis refuses to burn his [[ILoveYouVampireSon lover's body]] despite Claudia demanding that they do so. A clip near the end of the episode shows that Lestat did survive, and Daniel deduces that he can eat the rats at the garbage dump.
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in a diminished form.
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he has produced the Elixir of Life using this, with that being why he, Louis and Claudia are immortal and eternally youthful, which serves to lure several people inside their house, and the trio drain them all to death.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast member in the Season 1 finale, his name appearing in between Bailey Bass and Creator/EricBogosian.
* PunnyName: The "Phail" in [=McPhail=] is a homonym for "fail," as the twins fail to escape from the townhouse before being killed by the vampire family.
-->'''Louis''': Could the children murder the father? [Lestat] was stronger than us, quicker than us, in possession of ancient powers that had been passed on to his progeny only in a diminished form.
* PeoplePuppets: Lestat makes a man at the cinema slap himself continuously.
* PhilosophersStone: Lestat claims he has produced the Elixir of Life using this, with that being why he, Louis and Claudia are immortal and eternally youthful, which serves to lure several people inside their house, and the trio drain them all to death.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After being credited as a guest star for the first six episodes, Assad Zaman is listed as a main cast member in the Season 1 finale, his name appearing in between Bailey Bass and Creator/EricBogosian.
* PunnyName: The "Phail" in [=McPhail=] is a homonym for "fail," as the twins fail to escape from the townhouse before being killed by the vampire family.
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* NotAfraidToDie: Louis is tempted to kill himself after Claudia catches a train to New York, although he ultimately doesn't go through with it.
-->'''Louis''': I teased the sun that night in Jackson Square. Thought about the walking cane and [[WeakenedByTheLight pile of ash]] they'd find in the morning. But Paul had forever ruined Grace's wedding night, and I would not do the same to Claudia on the anniversary of her escape. If I was to join Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered, it would be another night.
* OffWithHisHead: Lestat rips the head off of a train conductor and plays with it like it's a ventriloquist dummy.
-->'''Louis''': I teased the sun that night in Jackson Square. Thought about the walking cane and [[WeakenedByTheLight pile of ash]] they'd find in the morning. But Paul had forever ruined Grace's wedding night, and I would not do the same to Claudia on the anniversary of her escape. If I was to join Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered, it would be another night.
* OffWithHisHead: Lestat rips the head off of a train conductor and plays with it like it's a ventriloquist dummy.
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* ModestyBedsheet: A naked Antoinette hastily covers herself with the bedsheets when Louis bursts inside her bedroom when she's in bed with Lestat.
* TheMuse: On the sleeve of the phonograph record of "Come to Me", Lestat's first composition in a century, his Valentine Day's message is "For Louis, My Muse!" Louis is Lestat's SecondLove.
* MuseAbuse: It's only after [[DomesticAbuse Lestat mangles Louis into a broken, bloodied heap]] that he's inspired to write his first song in a hundred years. The [[VillainLoveSong end result]] is "Come to Me", which Lestat gives to Louis as both a Valentine Day's present and an ApologyGift.
* MythologyGag: This episode recreates an aerial shot from the ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' film of the [[https://tossacointoyourhotmess.tumblr.com/post/699543027005407233/interview-with-the-vampire-2022 San Francisco Ferry Building's clock tower.]]
* TheMuse: On the sleeve of the phonograph record of "Come to Me", Lestat's first composition in a century, his Valentine Day's message is "For Louis, My Muse!" Louis is Lestat's SecondLove.
* MuseAbuse: It's only after [[DomesticAbuse Lestat mangles Louis into a broken, bloodied heap]] that he's inspired to write his first song in a hundred years. The [[VillainLoveSong end result]] is "Come to Me", which Lestat gives to Louis as both a Valentine Day's present and an ApologyGift.
* MythologyGag: This episode recreates an aerial shot from the ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' film of the [[https://tossacointoyourhotmess.tumblr.com/post/699543027005407233/interview-with-the-vampire-2022 San Francisco Ferry Building's clock tower.]]
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* HatesBeingAlone: Lestat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3puxdWxBpaM discloses]] to Louis and Claudia that after Magnus had turned him, he had to figure out vampirism on his own because his maker had committed suicide, and it contributed to his abandonment issues.
-->'''Lestat''': No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, no rules, no counsel. Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. And then I was alone. [...] It's why I don't particularly like being abandoned.
* ImpliedRape: Bruce's sexual assault of Claudia is alluded to, but not explicitly confirmed, plus Lestat uses a euphemism for rape, which is highlighted in bold.
-->'''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. [...] Because if you try [to escape] again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, '''defile your pocket''', and zoom off on a motorbike.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Louis barges into Antoinette's house, [[InterruptedIntimacy interrupting her and Lestat in the midst of sexual intercourse]]. Louis argues with Lestat, pushes his naked boyfriend to the floor, shoves him against the dresser (Lestat's expression shows that [[CasualKink he's aroused being manhandled]] by Louis in this fashion), kisses him, stabs Lestat on his left side with his vampire fingernails, and bites his neck. While eagerly embracing Louis, Lestat is grunting in pain as [[SexyDiscretionShot the camera pans away]]. In the next scene, Lestat's face, neck, left ear and right arm are covered with scratches, bruises and bite marks -- it's evident that he and Louis had rough, angry sex.
-->'''Lestat''': No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, no rules, no counsel. Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. And then I was alone. [...] It's why I don't particularly like being abandoned.
* ImpliedRape: Bruce's sexual assault of Claudia is alluded to, but not explicitly confirmed, plus Lestat uses a euphemism for rape, which is highlighted in bold.
-->'''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. [...] Because if you try [to escape] again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, '''defile your pocket''', and zoom off on a motorbike.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Louis barges into Antoinette's house, [[InterruptedIntimacy interrupting her and Lestat in the midst of sexual intercourse]]. Louis argues with Lestat, pushes his naked boyfriend to the floor, shoves him against the dresser (Lestat's expression shows that [[CasualKink he's aroused being manhandled]] by Louis in this fashion), kisses him, stabs Lestat on his left side with his vampire fingernails, and bites his neck. While eagerly embracing Louis, Lestat is grunting in pain as [[SexyDiscretionShot the camera pans away]]. In the next scene, Lestat's face, neck, left ear and right arm are covered with scratches, bruises and bite marks -- it's evident that he and Louis had rough, angry sex.
* LoveFloats: It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but while Lestat is making love to Louis on their bed, their bodies hover just above the mattress.
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* JealousRomanticWitness: Antoinette is smoking a cigarette outside of her home, upset and quietly shedding tears while looking inside her bedroom window as her lover Lestat and his boyfriend Louis lose themselves in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence wild, spur-of-the-moment sex]]. Both men threw her out from ''her own house'', so Lestat ([[InterruptedIntimacy who was in coitus with Antoinette before Louis broke down her door]]) is making it ''very'' clear to her that he's picking Louis over her.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Louis and Lestat impulsively engage in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence unbridled, angry sex]] inside the house of Lestat's ''mistress'' ([[InterruptedIntimacy Lestat and Antoinette were in the middle of sexual intercourse when Louis barges into her bedroom]]). Both men ''kick her out of her own home'' so they can have some privacy!
* SexyDiscretionShot: A fully-clothed Louis and a nude Lestat are immersed in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence violent foreplay]], and the camera pans away from their frenzied reunion to a [[JealousRomanticWitness crying Antoinette]] smoking a cigarette outside of her own home.
* SlapSlapKiss: Louis and Lestat quarrel, and it ends with Louis uttering "I hate you," to which Lestat replies "As you should." Louis then throws Lestat to the floor and slams him against the dresser before kissing him fervently, with Lestat responding in kind by wrapping his right arm around Louis' head to deepen the kiss.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Lestat and Claudia's chess games are fundamentally about who is the superior strategist between the two of them. Lestat had previously won all of their matches, but then Claudia is finally victorious, and she interprets it as proof that she can now outmaneuver Lestat in the real world (i.e. liberating herself and Louis from his GildedCage). As showrunner Rolin Jones elaborates in the "Episode Insider" featurette:
-->'''Jones''': The chess scene is quite interesting, it's based off a very famous chess game called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Immortal Polish Immortal.]] Basically, it's a series of moves by one opponent that sort of lures in a person who wants everything in the world, wants to take everything, and [Claudia] can see this is the way into Lestat. She is slowly suckering him in. And she is wise enough to kind of look at the landscape and go, "There's only one way to do it, we have to kill him." She, through this chess game, sees it's possible. "We could do it, we can out-think him if we know his weaknesses." And she just needs Louis to be on board for it.
* ThatLiarLies: After Claudia and Louis discover that Lestat is still bedding Antoinette after he had promised them that he would kill his mistress, Claudia says to Louis, "He's the father of lies."
* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: A nude Louis and Lestat are having sex in their bed. However, Louis is distracted from Lestat's lovemaking because he's concentrating on his telepathic discussion with Claudia (who's inside her coffin in a different room). Lestat, who had been showering Louis' neck and chest with kisses, notices that his lover isn't in the moment, so he stops and speaks Louis' name to try to regain his attention. Louis then kisses Lestat on the mouth, but once Lestat resumes his amorous exploration of his lover's body, Louis remains visibly dissociated from the intimate act even after Claudia ends their psychic communication.
* WhamShot: The final shot of Daniel's memory of how he first met Louis in 1973 at Polynesian Mary's is Rashid, who hasn't aged in 49 years, declining Louis' invitation to join him and Daniel at Louis' San Francisco apartment. In 2022, Daniel jolts awake, alarmed with "WTF?!" written all over his face because he realizes that Rashid is ''not'' a normal human being.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Louis and Lestat impulsively engage in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence unbridled, angry sex]] inside the house of Lestat's ''mistress'' ([[InterruptedIntimacy Lestat and Antoinette were in the middle of sexual intercourse when Louis barges into her bedroom]]). Both men ''kick her out of her own home'' so they can have some privacy!
* SexyDiscretionShot: A fully-clothed Louis and a nude Lestat are immersed in [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence violent foreplay]], and the camera pans away from their frenzied reunion to a [[JealousRomanticWitness crying Antoinette]] smoking a cigarette outside of her own home.
* SlapSlapKiss: Louis and Lestat quarrel, and it ends with Louis uttering "I hate you," to which Lestat replies "As you should." Louis then throws Lestat to the floor and slams him against the dresser before kissing him fervently, with Lestat responding in kind by wrapping his right arm around Louis' head to deepen the kiss.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Lestat and Claudia's chess games are fundamentally about who is the superior strategist between the two of them. Lestat had previously won all of their matches, but then Claudia is finally victorious, and she interprets it as proof that she can now outmaneuver Lestat in the real world (i.e. liberating herself and Louis from his GildedCage). As showrunner Rolin Jones elaborates in the "Episode Insider" featurette:
-->'''Jones''': The chess scene is quite interesting, it's based off a very famous chess game called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Immortal Polish Immortal.]] Basically, it's a series of moves by one opponent that sort of lures in a person who wants everything in the world, wants to take everything, and [Claudia] can see this is the way into Lestat. She is slowly suckering him in. And she is wise enough to kind of look at the landscape and go, "There's only one way to do it, we have to kill him." She, through this chess game, sees it's possible. "We could do it, we can out-think him if we know his weaknesses." And she just needs Louis to be on board for it.
* ThatLiarLies: After Claudia and Louis discover that Lestat is still bedding Antoinette after he had promised them that he would kill his mistress, Claudia says to Louis, "He's the father of lies."
* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: A nude Louis and Lestat are having sex in their bed. However, Louis is distracted from Lestat's lovemaking because he's concentrating on his telepathic discussion with Claudia (who's inside her coffin in a different room). Lestat, who had been showering Louis' neck and chest with kisses, notices that his lover isn't in the moment, so he stops and speaks Louis' name to try to regain his attention. Louis then kisses Lestat on the mouth, but once Lestat resumes his amorous exploration of his lover's body, Louis remains visibly dissociated from the intimate act even after Claudia ends their psychic communication.
* WhamShot: The final shot of Daniel's memory of how he first met Louis in 1973 at Polynesian Mary's is Rashid, who hasn't aged in 49 years, declining Louis' invitation to join him and Daniel at Louis' San Francisco apartment. In 2022, Daniel jolts awake, alarmed with "WTF?!" written all over his face because he realizes that Rashid is ''not'' a normal human being.
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* IWasNeverHere: Dr. Fareed Bhansali was never at the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers to administer a levodopa transfusion to Daniel Molloy, who has Parkinson's disease. When Daniel tries to engage him in conversation, he says, "I am not here."
-->'''Daniel''': That's the voice of Dr. Fareed Bhansali.\\
'''Bhansali''': That is not my voice.\\
'''Daniel''': He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and--\\
'''Bhansali''': And I am not here.\\
'''Daniel''': The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.\\
'''Rashid''': He's officially off the record.\\
'''Daniel''': [=NDA=]s signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh?
-->'''Daniel''': That's the voice of Dr. Fareed Bhansali.\\
'''Bhansali''': That is not my voice.\\
'''Daniel''': He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and--\\
'''Bhansali''': And I am not here.\\
'''Daniel''': The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.\\
'''Rashid''': He's officially off the record.\\
'''Daniel''': [=NDA=]s signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh?
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Louis storms into Antoinette's bedroom while she and Lestat are in coitus, with her on top. She immediately gets off Lestat and [[ModestyBedsheet covers her breasts with her blanket]]. Louis orders her to leave. Lestat actually welcomes the disruption because he prefers his boyfriend over his mistress.
-->'''Louis''': Put some clothes on and get the fuck out.\\
'''Antoinette''': This is my house.\\
'''Louis''': Do I look like I care?\\
'''Antoinette''': Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': ''[never takes his eyes off Louis]'' Leave.
-->'''Louis''': Put some clothes on and get the fuck out.\\
'''Antoinette''': This is my house.\\
'''Louis''': Do I look like I care?\\
'''Antoinette''': Lestat.\\
'''Lestat''': ''[never takes his eyes off Louis]'' Leave.
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* GayCruising: In 1973, Louis and Rashid are at Polynesian Mary's (a gay bar in San Francisco) to pick up guys. Louis flirts with a 20-year-old Daniel, buys him a drink, and invites him to his apartment. Daniel accepts, and while his goal is to interview Louis, he adds, "I mean, if something happens, you know, I'm cool." Louis then asks Rashid if he would like to join them (hinting that Louis and Rashid sometimes share a man for a threesome), but Rashid declines with "No, you go ahead, have your fun," and presumably he seeks out someone else at the bar who is more appealing to him.
* GildedCage: Lampshaded by Lestat when he intercepts Claudia as she was attempting to flee to New York by train; he refers to their spacious, beautifully furnished home as a cage: "Back in your cage, sweetheart."
* GratuitousLatin: Rashid utters one line in Latin: "''Trubidis rebus ad infinitum.''" ("With things that are noisy to infinity.")
* GildedCage: Lampshaded by Lestat when he intercepts Claudia as she was attempting to flee to New York by train; he refers to their spacious, beautifully furnished home as a cage: "Back in your cage, sweetheart."
* GratuitousLatin: Rashid utters one line in Latin: "''Trubidis rebus ad infinitum.''" ("With things that are noisy to infinity.")
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* {{Fingore}}: Lestat has his mistress Antoinette cut off a finger to fake her death, as Claudia and Louis demanded her demise in exchange for Lestat being allowed to come home.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The title sequence for this episode is slightly different than the others because it includes an [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/ad70d42758c55ee231844dd5f890334b/a356f2391eb7803a-4d/s1280x1920/0fe37a15ebb6edfe657abe4be336152c4719fc57.png upside-down Golden Gate Bridge]] to indicate that there's a scene which takes place in San Francisco.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The title sequence for this episode is slightly different than the others because it includes an [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/ad70d42758c55ee231844dd5f890334b/a356f2391eb7803a-4d/s1280x1920/0fe37a15ebb6edfe657abe4be336152c4719fc57.png upside-down Golden Gate Bridge]] to indicate that there's a scene which takes place in San Francisco.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: The San Francisco scene begins with Daniel lighting a cigarette in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.
* EpisodeTagline: This episode features the word "endure" no less than six times.
-->'''Lestat''': I have a capacity for '''enduring'''.\\
'''Claudia''': I'm '''enduring'''.\\
'''Louis''': And so I '''endured''' my way home.\\
'''Lestat''': We '''endure''' each other for Louis' happiness.\\
'''Louis''': You threaten a life which will '''endure''' 'til the end of the world.\\
'''Claudia''': I am done '''enduring'''.
* 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.")
* EpisodeTagline: This episode features the word "endure" no less than six times.
-->'''Lestat''': I have a capacity for '''enduring'''.\\
'''Claudia''': I'm '''enduring'''.\\
'''Louis''': And so I '''endured''' my way home.\\
'''Lestat''': We '''endure''' each other for Louis' happiness.\\
'''Louis''': You threaten a life which will '''endure''' 'til the end of the world.\\
'''Claudia''': I am done '''enduring'''.
* 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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* CasualKink: Lestat is revealed to be a masochist when it specifically comes to his boyfriend Louis because he's extremely turned on when Louis is [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence physically aggressive towards him — with Lestat being naked and Louis is fully dressed — and injures him during sex]]. This thoroughly goes against Lestat's predatory, sadistic and domineering nature, so it proves how much he loves Louis that he feels sexual pleasure when Louis "claims" his body by inflicting wounds and humiliating him — Louis is after all [[SlapSlapKiss hate-fucking]] Lestat in the home of Lestat's ''mistress''!
* DefenestrateAndBerate: Although there's no berating because Louis is giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, his act of throwing his boyfriend's coffin out the second floor window of their townhouse speaks volumes.
-->'''Claudia''': No one here wishes to speak with you.\\
'''Lestat''': Well, I know [Louis is] upstairs. I can see his silhouette. Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not.\\
''(Louis shoves Lestat's coffin out the window, which smashes on impact behind where Lestat is standing)''\\
'''Claudia''': How's that for an answer?
* DeskSweepOfRage: A wrathful Lestat knocks over all the chess pieces with a single arm swipe because Claudia doesn't want to continue their game.
* DomesticAbuse: Lestat is abusive towards his mistress Antoinette. While they're in a Ponchatoula hotel room, his fangs have left behind two large puncture wounds on her neck, but he doesn't heal them with his vampire blood, so he's treating her worse than Louis after TheirFirstTime (where Lestat put in the effort to mend the injury he caused). After Antoinette asks, "How am I supposed to make a career here?", Lestat abruptly puts his hand around her throat and replies, "I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear." He somehow persuaded her to [[{{Fingore}} cut off her finger]] so that he can fake her death in order to ''win back Louis'' -- who is Antoinette's romantic adversary -- and for her trouble, she now has a maimed right hand that she must conceal with a glove ("That's what gloves are for," as he callously tells her). She then meekly says to Lestat, "I didn't mean to make you mad," which sadly illustrates that Anoinette is thoroughly under his thumb.
* DoubleMeaning: Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back [[GildedCage home]].
* DramaticShattering: Louis confronts Lestat about the song the latter wrote as a Valentine's Day present because he's so offended that Lestat's mistress Antoinette sings it. Louis drops the record in front of them to demonstrate his hatred of it and the disc shatters. (Please note that this is not an example of VinylShatters because the scene takes place over a decade before large-diameter vinyl records were mass-produced, so the phonograph record is made of shellac.)
* DreamSequence: Near the end, Daniel slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lestat recounts to Louis and Claudia that his maker Magnus had died by throwing himself into a fire.
* DefenestrateAndBerate: Although there's no berating because Louis is giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, his act of throwing his boyfriend's coffin out the second floor window of their townhouse speaks volumes.
-->'''Claudia''': No one here wishes to speak with you.\\
'''Lestat''': Well, I know [Louis is] upstairs. I can see his silhouette. Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not.\\
''(Louis shoves Lestat's coffin out the window, which smashes on impact behind where Lestat is standing)''\\
'''Claudia''': How's that for an answer?
* DeskSweepOfRage: A wrathful Lestat knocks over all the chess pieces with a single arm swipe because Claudia doesn't want to continue their game.
* DomesticAbuse: Lestat is abusive towards his mistress Antoinette. While they're in a Ponchatoula hotel room, his fangs have left behind two large puncture wounds on her neck, but he doesn't heal them with his vampire blood, so he's treating her worse than Louis after TheirFirstTime (where Lestat put in the effort to mend the injury he caused). After Antoinette asks, "How am I supposed to make a career here?", Lestat abruptly puts his hand around her throat and replies, "I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear." He somehow persuaded her to [[{{Fingore}} cut off her finger]] so that he can fake her death in order to ''win back Louis'' -- who is Antoinette's romantic adversary -- and for her trouble, she now has a maimed right hand that she must conceal with a glove ("That's what gloves are for," as he callously tells her). She then meekly says to Lestat, "I didn't mean to make you mad," which sadly illustrates that Anoinette is thoroughly under his thumb.
* DoubleMeaning: Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back [[GildedCage home]].
* DramaticShattering: Louis confronts Lestat about the song the latter wrote as a Valentine's Day present because he's so offended that Lestat's mistress Antoinette sings it. Louis drops the record in front of them to demonstrate his hatred of it and the disc shatters. (Please note that this is not an example of VinylShatters because the scene takes place over a decade before large-diameter vinyl records were mass-produced, so the phonograph record is made of shellac.)
* DreamSequence: Near the end, Daniel slips into slumber after receiving a levodopa transfusion, and he dreams about how he and Louis (''and'' Rashid, as it turns out) first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lestat recounts to Louis and Claudia that his maker Magnus had died by throwing himself into a fire.
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Lestat attempts to make amends with Louis. The vampire family decides to live together once more. In Dubai, Daniel has a shocking realization.
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* TheSeventies: One scene is set in 1973.
* ApologyGift: After Louis barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from Lestat, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].
-->'''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. And Lestat's relentless determination began to crack my considerable armor. Perhaps it was the modesty of the gesture. But in the spring of 1937, one broke through. He had written it himself in the music of the hour. His first composition in 100 years.
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* TheSeventies: One scene is set in 1973.
* ApologyGift: After Louis barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from Lestat, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].
-->'''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. And Lestat's relentless determination began to crack my considerable armor. Perhaps it was the modesty of the gesture. But in the spring of 1937, one broke through. He had written it himself in the music of the hour. His first composition in 100 years.
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