And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else is the eighth and final episode of the second season of Interview with the Vampire and the fifteenth episode of the series overall. It aired on June 30, 2024, on AMC and AMC+.
Synopsis[]
Molloy questions the fiery fallout of Louis and Claudia's trial.
Plot[]
Louis moans in pain and sorrow while encased in the tombs with the rest of the damned vampires. Meanwhile, Armand is demoted and ridiculed after Santiago suspects he rigged the audience to spare Louis' life. He makes certain Armand will not forget his insubordination as part of his penance.
As Louis withers away, life in the theater returns to abnormal. The old plays are remounted, the pack hunts revitalized, all under the increasingly self-satisfied eyes of Santiago. Armand ruined his play by not allowing them to kill Louis on stage, but Santiago improvised a worse death. However, Armand refuses to allow Louis to suffer any longer and places a sacrifice in an old vault coffin and swaps it for Louis, who he helps escape whilst everyone sleeps.
Louis plots his revenge
Still weak, Louis stumbles through the tunnels until reaching the surface, where he finds himself in the cemetery. Driven mad by his time in the coffin, he feeds and kills the crypt keeper before devising a plan for retribution, all the while filling the abandoned crypt with all his kills. Armand telepathically speaks to Louis, trying to convince him to leave before the coven learns he's escaped. However, Louis is hellbent on revenge. Initially, he ignores Armand's warning, but he finally reaches out to tell Armand to not be at the theater tomorrow night at curfew.
While secretly messaging Ragland, Molloy asks Armand if he knew Louis would burn the theater down. He didn't, but he could sense the fatalism in Louis' thoughts. Armand had already betrayed Louis once, Molloy asks why he would take the risk of warning Armand. Louis explains that he doesn't remember. There were 13 of them, and only one of him. Louis was certain he would die either way. Molloy asks the same question to Armand, who explains that he had complicated feelings, but he didn't warn any of his coven because if he's not with Louis, then he's nothing. Molloy then asks what was the plan, which was a fairly simple one: Louis intended to die and to take as many of them with him as possible.
Louis kills the coven
With the entire coven asleep in their coffins, Louis douses the theater with gasoline, explaining that when a vampire commits himself to coffin, all the senses collapse into submission and the dark boundaries of the world stretch out in all directions. And in this state, in the lair where they slept, Louis could've been a marching band or a jet engine, taking off a tarmac, they would not wake. Louis then the fire gift to set the theater ablaze before retrieving Claudia's diaries. Six of the coven died by fire, two by Louis' blade, and one by combination of the two. Nine in all, and with no sign of Armand or Lestat, that meant four had escaped. Two out the front, and two through the sewers, but Louis planned ahead.
Celeste and Estelle have escaped on bikes, certain that they were targeted by the London coven, whose always been jealous of them. Estelle believes it's because they started speaking English, but Celeste exclaims it a because they took over from Armand, leaving them weak. Estelle suspects that it could've also been Eglee, who never truly got over Celeste stealing Santiago. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Louis has rigged their bikes to explode, killing them both instantly.
Santiago is killed
Whilst escaping through the sewers, Santiago feels Celeste and Estelle's death, screaming out in frustration, at which point, Louis reaches out to him. As Louis calls Santiago towards him, Santiago attempts to get under Louis' skin by telling him all the degrading things they allegedly did with Claudia's ashes. Now in Santiago's head, Louis repeatedly refers to him by his birth name of Francis, saying he took the name Santiago to compensate for what God denied him. The joke between his legs and the farm girl Lenora, who couldn't keep quiet about it. Santiago retorts that she only thought it was small because his testicles are so enormous. Louis also knows about the limp applause he got during his initial performances in London. Or perhaps it was the nature of his transformation that made Santiago change his name. The desperate begging, the urine racing down his leg as Santiago desperately tried to take back his wish to be a vampire. Filled with anger and rage, Santiago tacks Louis down whilst traversing the tunnels. He emerges from the sewers and is immediately decapitated by Louis, who wields a machete.
Louis describes to Molloy how in that moment, after killing the coven, all his rage and madness exited his body. And nothing replaced it.
Louis convenes with Armand in the apartment, where he asks when did Armand start lying to him. The night of Madeleine's transformation, Armand replies. When he returned to the coven that night, they told him their plans and gave him a choice, either them or Louis, and with them being his coven of 200 years, he chose them, as he could not count on Louis' love lasting as long. Armand promises to spend his life trying to make it up to Louis, but Louis says he can never make it up. He then asks if Lestat is still in Paris, which he is. As Louis gets in his coffin, he tells Armand to wake him once the sun goes down.
Louis and Armand threaten to kill Lestat
Louis and Armand track Lestat down to Magnus' lair. Lestat came there to ponder his origins and why he does what he does. Like why he would rehearse a play to burn his daughter alive, Louis wonders. Displaying the fire gift, Louis has come to kill Lestat. Lestat replies that he has the blood of Magnus in him, to which Armand replies that Magnus burned. He then adds that he has the blood of Akasha in him as well, making Louis' desire to kill him impossible. And so Louis presents him a different death instead, kissing Armand in front of Lestat and explaining that he and Armand are going to spend the rest of their lives together.
That was 77 years ago, Louis explains to Molloy. He and Armand left Lestat there, went on one final walk through Paris and planned the rest of their lives together, traveling from Egypt to San Francisco, to Dubai, and everywhere in between.
Molloy discovers an envelope hidden within the newspaper delivered to him by Rashid, though Louis and Armand are too distracted to notice, with Armand admitting that Lestat loved Louis a great deal. Molloy has a few follow-up questions. He recalls the tractor salesman in the bar in New Orleans. Louis said that Lestat telepathically told him he was scaring the salesman, but a maker can't do that anymore after transformation. Louis admits this is true and suspects that maybe Lestat whispered it to him. Louis also said that four people escaped the theater, however, he only detailed killing Santiago, Celeste and Estelle, meaning Sam got away. Louis remarks that time heals and that he believes Sam is a DJ now. Molloy remarks that Sam is in two places at once in Louis' story. He's guarding Armand in the theater box, but Louis also has him helping bury him below the stage. Molloy's questioning ultimately brings him to the conclusion that perhaps it was Lestat who saved Louis that night in the theater. Louis is in disbelief. Among the paperwork he received from Rashid and the Talamasca, is the script, where written in the margins, it says "Santiago should hand the diary into the audience. Have them feel the evidence in their hands. This is too early for Lestat to acknowledge Louis. Keep the tension. Have him look at Louis later, the moment he describes meeting him in New Orleans." Molloy proceeds to hands Louis the script to read himself. In this, Louis realizes that Armand lied and that he not only helped write the execution play alongside Santiago and Lestat, he directed it. It was not Armand who saved Louis, but Lestat, meaning Louis was initially supposed to die with Claudia. Armand claims the script is a forgery and not his notes, but Molloy reveals that it's from the Talamasca. Sam was their guy in Paris, who gave it to them back then, and they gave it to Molloy.
Louis thanks Molloy
Louis storms off with the script and Armand chases after him, attempting to explain himself, at which point, Raglan messages Molloy to "GET OUT OF THERE NOW." Suddenly, there's a loud thud that shakes the building. Molloy goes to investigate and sees that Louis has knocked Armand into a wall. He warns Armand against harming Molloy in any way and says that he's leaving and that when he returns, Armand should be gone. On his way out, he tells Molloy to prepare to leave and that he'll ensure that ten million dollars are wired into Molloy's account. Louis shakes his hand and thanks him before setting Molloy's laptop ablaze, destroying all evidence of their interview.
Louis and Lestat reunite 77 years later
Louis arrives in New Orleans just as a hurricane is prepared to hit. He checks into his hotel before joining a tour of the French Quarter. Among the stops is his and Lestat's old home, during which point the guide details the infamous 1940 party. Lestat is described as a recluse Frenchman whilst Louis and Claudia are a creole hustler and his child bride, with whom they were running a voodoo cult. Whilst on the tour, Louis notices another young vampire nearby named Felix, scavenging for rats. Louis follows him to Lestat, who lives a life of squander, hiding in the shadows, living in abandoned houses and eating rats. Lestat says that he doesn't have much time to chat because he's in the middle of rehearsing as he has plans to go on tour, practicing the piano on a wooden board whilst actual music plays from a tablet. Louis asks Lestat if he saved his life in Paris, which he admits he did, but for some reason he never told Louis, who simply came to thank Lestat for the gift he offered. Lestat recalls September 8, 1973. Armand called him. He asks if Louis was there, which he was. Eyes filled with tears, he asks if Louis hurt himself. Louis admits that he was lost and in a dark way. Like Louis, Lestat can't get Claudia out of his head. Lestat reveals she looked at him in the end, like a child looking to her father but he admittedly was never that for her. Tears running down their face, Louis and Lestat embrace whilst the hurricane shakes the surrounding walls.
Molloy is a vampire
Meanwhile, Molloy is in Atlanta on the channel 4 news, being introduced as the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author of the best-selling fictional book Interview With The vampire. However, Molloy claims it's a memoir, not fiction. Interviewer Leonard Michael accuses Molloy of destroying his own career despite the book's popularity and success.
Louis listens as the vampires of the world react to Molloy's book and how Louis not only exposed them but broke the Great Laws, making him an outcast and a wanted man. Molloy, now a vampire, communicates with Louis, warning him against staying put and asking Louis if he's heard from Armand, who turned Molloy into a vampire out of spite. Unfortunately, Louis hasn't heard from him, and he regrets leaving Molloy alone with him. Molloy claims he's worried about Louis, as the other vampires are upset about the book. Despite this, Molloy wishes to write another. After listening in a bit more to their whispers and desires to kill him, Louis finally responds to the vampires across the world. He reveals his location at the Penthouse apartment in Dubai and warns them that he owns the night.
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