EXT. WATERFRONT. DAY.
Louis gets to his feet and walks weakly through the mudflats. The sun
is coming up over the sea behind him.
INT. LAVISH FRENCH-FURNISHED BEDROOM AT POINT DU LAC.
Louis is delirious in a four-poster bed, shrouded with mosquito netting. Louis tosses and turns, dreaming, murmuring incoherently. Then he opens his eyes.
L: (Louis grabs his pistol from the table and cocks it.) Who are you, what are you doing in my house. I've come to answer you prayers. (Lestat is exquisitely dressed in French clothing, stands by the bed smiling. In the light of the candle we see that he is not human; skin too white; eyes too bright. Lestat looks amiable, even mischievous, but impossible - and angel or monster. Louis is becoming spellbound. )
E: Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the
food sickens you, there seems no reason for any of it, does there. But
what if I could give it back to you. Pluck out the pain, and give you another
life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. and Sickness
and death could never touch you again. Don't be afraid, I'm going to give
you the choice, (Lestat helps Louie sit up) I, never, had.
EXT. PLANTATION. DAY.
Louis walks along for a short while leaning against a tree. The sun
rises with unnatural beauty, over the swamplands and the plantation.
LV: That morning I was not yet a vampire, and saw my last sunrise, I remember it completely. and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn as if it where the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight and set out to become what I became.(Louie sitting down quietly)
EXT. CEMETERY. NIGHT.
Louis sits again in front of the crypt. Lestat appears beside him, radiant, beautiful.
E: Have you said your good byes to the light? (Lestat Bite Louie's neck,
Louie Scream, moan, claw at Lestat. Lestat embraces Louis, obscuring his
face. He drinks his blood. We hear two heartbeats, out of sync, coming
together. We see Louis' face, growing paler, paler, as his blood is drained.
His eyes stare upwards, losing their focus.)
E: (Whispering in Louie's ear) I have drained you to the point of death.
If I leave you here, you die, or you can be young always. my friend, as
we are now, but you must tell me, will you come or no?
L: (Whispered breath) yes...yess..
(Lestat bites his own wrist, Fangs slash his own flesh, blood falls.
A few blood drops land on Louie's lips. Louie drinks the blood moving to
drink blood from Lestats's wrist. Lestat makes faces, They fly apart, Louie
releasing first. Louie groans against the stairs falling onto his back).
E: (Laughing abit) Your body's dieing, pay no attention, it happens
to us all. (Louie heavy breathing) Now look with your vampire eyes. (The
marble statue of Louie's wife looks at him, then close eyes)
INT. ROOM-NIGHT (San Francisco) - Night.
I: What did you see?
L: No words can describe it. Might as well ask heaven what it sees,
no human can know.
LV: The statues seemed to move but didn't,
(The Statue opens it's human looking eyes, and looks down at Louis,
only to close them again, silently.)
LV: The world had changed yet stayed the same. (Owl hoot. Lestat leads
him into the swamp. Everything astonished Louis, as if he's never seen
it before.) I was a new born vampire weeping at the beauty of the night.
(Owl hoot, flies across)
INT. ROOM. SAN FRANCISCO. NIGHT.
L: Perhaps you would like another cigarette
I: Yeah I would, It's not bothering you is it? (Malloy stares at Louis,
terrified and enthralled. )
L: No.
I: No I wouldn't assume it would be. It's not like your going to die
of cancer or anything.
L: I don't think so
I: What about crucifixes
L: Crucifixes
I: Yeah, Can you look at them.
L: actually I am quiet fond of looking at crucifixes
I: What about the old stake threw the heart thing?
L: Non-sense
I: coffins, how about coffins.
L: coffins. coffins unfortunately are a necessity.
INT. BASEMENT. POINTE DU LAC.
A brick walled storage room. Two coffins stand on the floor. Lestat
enters with a lantern, Louis behind. Lestat is apprehensive and protective
of Louis. He pulls back one lid to reveal a satin interior. Louis approaches
the coffin, hands trembling as he peers into it.
E: Don't worry, Soon you will be sleeping as soundly as you have ever
slept. When you wake, I'll be waiting for you, and so will all the world
(Louie enters coffin, fearful yet fascinated. He closes the lid.)
LV: Blood I was to find was a necessity as well. I awoke the next evening
with a hunger I had never felt.
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