The finale delivers not one, but two surprise vampire reveals.
That’s season 1 ofInterview With the Vampirein the books, and what an episode to leave us with.
Louis tells Daniel (Eric Bogosian) that it’s possible to kill a vampire.
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it’s possible for you to starve him.
Feed him the blood of the dead.
The trick is getting the drop on a vampire who’s older, stronger, and quicker.
Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt on ‘Interview With the Vampire’.Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
So Claudia gets to plotting and occasionally shares her plans with Louis telepathically.
The man’s appearance is a sign that they really do need to get out of town.
“You spend an hour alone with him, and you’re breathing in sync together.”
Louis promises to carry out his part of the plan without losing sight of their goal.
Later, as Louis decorates their Christmas tree (the vampires have a Christmas tree!!
), Lestat muses about Greece as a possible new location.
Hot springs.Those who must be kept."
cue book reader freak-out But no, Buenos Aires is what Lestat wants.
Your very presence irritates me."
Choose the most beautiful, gluttonous ones to feast on.
Leave town as fast as they can afterward.
Oh, to have that power over people checking their phones in a dark movie theater!
It’s New Year’s Eve now, and Claudia suggests Mardi Gras for their feast.
At the lavish ball afterward, the trio stalks the crowd to choose their meals.
Claudia introduces Lestat to twin brothers who smell delicious thanks to the rosemary garden in their yard.
Alas, one of them’s about to ingest Claudia’s poison and, hopefully, kill Lestat.
Louis' conflicted as Lestat preens his way through the party, both loving him and wanting him dead.
But something’s off.
Lestat’s gaze lingers suspiciously, and Louis hears disembodied voices, as if another vampire’s around.
Then they take a last turn on the dance floor, kissing as the whole party watches.
What Claudia worried about came to pass.
Claudia cuts in to get Louis back in the game.
She mind-talks that one of the twins has been drugged.
It’s time, even if Louis' having second thoughts.
At the after-party, the chosen victims gather to hear their hosts reveal their ages: Claudia is 36.
But there is no fountain of youth, only vampires dressed in white and drenched in blood.
It’s vicious, with Claudia spitting out an eyeball and Louis ripping a man’s jaw clean off.
As things wind down, Lestat hears the twins screaming and heads upstairs to find one already dead.
Claudia says she saved the other lavender-scented twin for him.
And here’s where Lestat’s own plans unfold.
Claudia anticipated Lestat’s move and is a step ahead.
She knew Lestat would make a point of eating Tom Anderson, so she poisoned him too.
“Always the petty slights with you, Uncle Les,” she chides.
Claudia shoves a fireplace poker through Antoinette’s chest as Lestat vomits up the dead blood and collapses.
While Lestat used his teeth on Louis’s neck then, Louis uses a human weapon now.
Remember thatChekhov’s sword caneI mentioned in the pilot?
He unsheaths it now.
“I have loved you with all myself,” Lestat gasps.
“I’m happy it was you here with me.”
And with that, Louis cuts his throat.
It’s not a decapitation, but Louis and Claudia are free.
Claudia dips her pen in Lestat’s blood to record his dying words.
The other victims went into the incinerator (Antoinette while she was still alivenever cross Claudia!
), but Louis refuses to do that to his former love.
Instead they stuffed his body into a trunk and put it out with the garbage.
The garbage that goes to the dump.
Then Louis stands and introduces the vampire Armand.
“The love of my life.”
