INT. DINING ROOM IN MANSION. NIGHT.
Lestat and Louis sit at the table, the untouched food between them.
E: (Throw grapes) Consider yourself lucky, in the paris a vampire
must be clever for many reasons.
L: Paris?
E: here all one needs is a pair of fangs.
L: You came from paris.
E: As did the one who made me.
L: Tell me about him, you must have learned something from him.
E: I learned absolutely nothing, I wasn't giving a choice remember?
L: But you must know something about the meaning of it all.
E: (Slam fist on table. Lestat spits out in anger.) Why, why
should I know these things, do you know them? (The drumming grows outside.
Lestat gripping his temples) That noise, It's driving me mad, that
noise. We've been in the country for weeks with nothing but that noise.
L: Yes they know about us. They watch us dine on empty plates, and
drink from empty glasses.
E: Come to New Orlands then, the Paris opera is in town, we can try
some french cu, cuisene.
L: Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life.
E: (Louis stares. Lestat turns childishly, petulantly. )You'll
soon run out of chickens Louie.
EXT. SLAVE QUARTERS. NIGHT.
The slaves, gathered on mass around fires. Frenzied drumming, dancing.
Lestat rides through, scattering the flames. The drumming stops. The slaves
look towards the house. Slowly, they begin to move towards it.
INT. POINTE DU LAC DINING ROOM. NIGHT.
Louis, sitting in despair by the table. Yvette, the slave girl enters.
Slave Girl: Master Louie, You don't want any supper, no.
L: No Mon cher.
Slave Girl: We worried about you Master. Why is it that you go riding
in the field, and how long sense you've been to the slave quarter. Everywhere
there is death. Are you still our master at all.
L: That will be all, Yvette.
Slave Girl: I will not go unless you listen to me. You must, you must
send away this friend of yours. The slaves they are all frightened of him,
and they are frightened of you.
L: (She comes closer, and he can hear her beating heart. She touches
his hair. He takes her hand and brings it to his lips.) I'm frightened
of myself.
(He kisses her wrist. She suddenly gasps, sharply, withdraws her hand. She sees her wrist is red with blood. She sees the blood on his lips. She screams. Louis stands. She screams even louder. Louis clamps his hand over her mouth. Her hand grips the table-cloth, pulls, bringing the empty glasses and crockery to the floor. )
EXT. MANSION. NIGHT.
Fires burning in the distance, round the slave-cabins. The slaves
are gathered at the foot of the mansion steps. They see Louis come out,
holding the body of Yvette. He is deranged with grief.
L: (Slaves gather around Louie, as he carries out the Slave Girl) Here me now, this place is cursed, damned, and yes your master is the devil. Get out while you can. You are all free men, do you here me,(Hand girl to someone else, grab torch, threaten with torch) run, flee, save yourselves.
INT. BURNING MANSION. NIGHT.
Louis sets fire to the place. He goes from window to window, lighting drapes, lace curtains, everything. Louis, wandering from room to room of the burning mansion. he sees paintings of his wife consumed by the flames. He is weakening with the fumes, the heat. We can see this in his face, the texture of his skin. Suddenly a large french window cascades inwards and Lestat stands there.
E: Auh. Perfect, perfect. Just
burn it all, burn everything that we own. Would you have us sleeping in
the field like cattle.
L: (Solem) You thought
you could have it all.
E: Oh, Just shut up Louie. Come
here. (Louis stands there, weakened, then collapses onto the floor.
Lestat darts forward and catches him before he drops.)
EXT. MANSION. NIGHT.
Slaves dance for joy, in the light of the burning house.
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