C: Madeleine, Louie is shy.
Madeleine (M): (Madeleine rises and comes towards Louis. She draws
back the lace fringes round her throat, so he can see the two marks there.
She says softly, dreamily.)Drink.
C: (Louis turns away. Claudia speaks, icy, from the bed.) Do it Louie,
because I cannot do. I haven't the strength. You saw to that when you made
me.
L: (Louis turns to Madeleine.) You haven't the vaguest conception under
god what you ask.
M: oh contraire Mousier, I have. (Louis pushes her away. Claudia screams.)
C: You have found your new companion Louie, You will make me mine.
L: How do we seem to you. Do you find us beautiful, magical. Our white
skin our fierce eyes. Drink you ask me, Do you know the thing you will
become.
C: Your evil is that you cannot be evil, and I shall suffer no longer.
L: Don't make me do this, I cannot.
C: Yet you could do it from me. Snatch me from my mother's hand, like
two monsters in a fairy tale. And now you weep. You haven't tears enough
for what you've done to me. (She points to Madeleine) You give her to me
Louie, Do this before you leave me. (She begins to weep, sobbing like a
child.)
C: Oh god, I love you still, and that's the torment of it. but who
will care for me my love, my dark angel when you are gone? (Louis looks
at Madeleine.)
L: what do you think she is Madeline, a doll?
M: A child who cannot die.
L: For a child who did die?
M: A daughter.(Bite)
Her finger clutches a locket around her neck, Louis touches it, opens
it.
THE LOCKET -- A picture of a young girl, Claudia's age, wistful, beautiful.
Louis pulls her to him and starts to drink her blood.
M: (Madeleine is now on the floor, two sets of vampire bite marks on her neck. She screams out in pain.)
EXT. HOTEL BALCONY. LATER.
Louis on the balcony, weakened terribly. A breeze blows on the gauze
curtains behind him. Claudia comes through the curtains, alarmed. Louis
speaks without turning.
C: Louie what happening to her?
L: She is dieing. It happened to you to, but you where to young to
remember.
C: But if she dies?
L: (He turns to look at Claudia.) It's only mortal death. Bare me no
ill will my love, we are now even.
C: What do you mean?
L: What died in that room was not that woman, but what has died is
the last breath of me that was human. (She takes his hand.)
C: Yes father, at last we are even.
She bends down and kisses him. He looks up, at the wafting curtains.
he sees
-- MANY VAMPIRE SHADOWS Silhouetted, coming closer. CLAUDIA Looks up
and screams.
THE CURTAINS Are ripped aside. The vampires of the Theatre surge through.
Lady Vampire-Estelle (LVE): It's time for justice, little one
The vampires close on them as Louis struggles, Claudia's scream pierces
the night air.
INT. CORRIDOR OF THEATRE DES VAMPIRES. NIGHT.
In a press of vampires, Louis, Claudia and Madeleine are forced down
the dark corridor.
THE BALLROOM.
Vampire chaos, as they are dragged through. Louis struggling like a
demon.
L: Get me Armand, he won't stand for this.
S: Death for the others, for you eternity in a box, walled in a dungeon,
your only comfort will be your screams, Perhaps it will take centuries,
Take them.
L: Claudia, Armand Armand, Armand, Claudia, Claudia, Armand!
The sound of something being dragged through the crowd. Horrible echoing,
scraping. A huge metal coffin being dragged through the vampires. Claudia
screams. The vampires grip Louis. They force him towards the coffin. Louis
struggles fiercely as he is forced into the coffin. Louis, struggling in
the coffin. Then the lid is forced down, huge locks closed over it.
S: Laugh.
INT. COFFIN.
Louis, in the smallest imaginable space. Beating his forehead against
the metal.
EXT. COFFIN.
Claudia is carried away. Vampire hands drag the coffin across the stone
floor.
LVE: Laugh.
Other Vampires: Laugh.
EXT. CELL. NIGHT.
The Vampires of the Theater throw Madeleine and Claudia into a cell
locking the door.
C: Let me out, no...
EXT. COFFIN.
Is thrust into a niche in the wall. Bricks being placed over, mortar
trowelled on.
S: Pleasant dreams
L: No, help.
INT. CELL. DAY. Claudia wakes up. The cell is open to the blue sky above, and the sun is slowly creeping over the rim of the top of the tower like cell.
C: Madeline, wake up. (Claudia shakes Madeleine waking her up. They both gasp and huddle together. The sunlight reaches them and they scream as their flesh burns.)
INT. COFFIN.
Louis upside down. Sounds of bricks and mortar. Then terrifying, unearthly
scream pierces the coffin, striking to his very soul.
L: Claudia!
The lid opens. He sees - ARMAND Above him, reaching down to take his
hand.
L: Where's Claudia?
.
A: Claudia? I cannot help her.
L: Where's Claudia? (Armand points to his cell at the end of the passage,
the foot of the steps. )
.
A: I can't save her, I could only risk losing you. Louie don't. ( Armand
approaches, trying to pull him away, but Louis shrugs him off. He draws
nearer and nearer.)
The other vampires are gathered around the cell. Santiago gives Louis
a smug look.
INT. BRICK AIRWELL
.
On the stones lie Claudia and Madeleine, burn to ashes, in each other's
arms. Louis looks up at the walls of this air well, many stories to the
sky. The ashes fly up into his face.)
A: Come Louie, not here.
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