Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) relive their first time Visit the Vampire The two met on the set of “Don’t Be Afraid, Start Recording,” directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moskovich and Jonathan Ceniceros. And what memories they are.
This episode is the fifth of season two and does begin in the present day, with an older Louis and Molloy Places to stop in Paris Before vampire theater Burned out. Armand (Assad Zaman) and Louis talk about the good times in the theater and their love. Molloy noted that the story became very much “based on us,” as if the memories were shared through rose-tinted glasses. Prompted by him, Armand decides to leave for his meal – a Gen Z crypto-hustler’s food for play and punishment – and Molloy asks Louis to review tapes from their past while Armand leaves. (Louis has no idea that Raglan James and Taramasca are feeding him crumbs to follow.) Molloy asks him why he survived, and Louis tells him, “Armand can tell I’m partial to you. Armand protected my happiness even when I didn’t want to or couldn’t.
Trigger warning: The themes ahead are abuse and lifelessness.
They go back to 1973; when Louis met Molloy, a “boy” reporter (played by Luke Brandon) he met in a San Francisco bar, it was that night that Molloy exposed himself He is confused by his nature as a vampire and asks Molloy to interview him about his life. Together they cut through the fog and get inside: a first interview, reminiscent of Anne Rice’s original text. Molloy recalled that Lewis was lonely and struggled through tape after tape, mostly about Leicester. In these tapes, Louis was more hateful and exaggerated in his assessment of Lester, calling him things like “trivial” and “boring”—suggesting that Louis’ story was inconsistent throughout. Who is Lester other than the “big bastard” that he or Armand thinks young Molloy calls him?
Things take a turn when Louis reveals that he nearly killed himself when Claudia first left. Molloy, in high spirits, accuses Louis (and to some extent Claudia) of seeing death as a way out of their dark gifts. As is customary for humans who want to live forever and keep a high profile as a loose cannon, he offered himself to Louis as a replacement for Lester or Claudia, stating that he had things in common with Louis and discovered Louis’ fondness for him Offer your body honestly. They agreed that it was at this moment that Louis attacked his audacity and nearly killed him. Initially, following this moment, Molloy recalls waking up in a drug den, safe considering he was almost eaten.
Now, Molloy has revealed that he still has the tapes and they listened to what really happened, but none of them remember much. Interestingly, they’ve written off the false memory because Molloy drank too much of Daniel’s blood during the attack and Louis got high from it. During the replay, they heard Louis attack, Molloy struggling after being bitten, and then Armand appearing. He arrived just in time to save Molloy, who lay unconscious in the room. They argue about their relationship; this is Louis’ cycle: he is tired of Armand’s soft and suffocating “beige pillow” love. Ten hours with Molloy was more exciting than decades with him.
The process of returning to the past continues. After being insulted, Armand drags Louis as he uses his time with Molloy to rant Get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready—More important than anything about Claudia. Louis is filled with remorse, which leads him to say that he hears her voice in his head, and Armand tells him that he is using her as a cover and that she does not love him. In Claudia’s reverie, Louis leaves the room and does the unthinkable – he walks into the sunlight. Louis wiped the incident from his memory and almost cried when he heard Armand chasing him. He begins to recall the burning pain and wants to end it, Armand pulling him back inside just in time before he turns to dust. Armand tells Louis that he told him the worst thing ever and ran out; Louis tries to apologize, which Armand says means nothing. Louis asks Molloy if he’s okay, it’s too far away for him to see, we see Molloy being tortured by Armand through his mental powers and he says, “He’s fine.” But we see Molloy Yi was tortured to the point where he overheard everything. Armand feels threatened by Molloy and takes out his anger on the “boy” Louis really likes, in ways he has never opened up to him. Past Louis asks him not to disturb him.
The elder Molloy was also stunned by the incident. They have all forgotten, or been manipulated into forgetting by powerful ancient vampires. In his memory, Armand wonders if he told Molloy his story in order to break out of Armand’s “empathy prison” so that Lester could stumble upon the book and run back. Using his mental communication, he called Lester to tell him that he was thinking of him again and mentioned his injury. “Louis!” Lestat shouted, with Armand acting as conduit, wanting to know why he was sick and what had happened. He also said “I love you Louis”, but Armand didn’t say it because of course he did. Louis confirms that Leicester is his creator and nothing more, and Armand tells him that he left him to die, and hasn’t he done enough to make up for Paris? He leaves to clean up and tells him to “rest” – he repeats the word to Molloy, “rest” – and then utters a bunch of words that threaten to erase their memory and him through the soothing gaslights the pain caused. Louis is about to kill Molloy when he stands up and demands that he let “the boy” go.
The Boy shares a farewell moment with Louis, who tells him to live a good life and become a good reporter – Molloy is revealed to be a drug addict in another book. He destroyed marriages and families; but he kept his job. Armand blinded his brain and edited himself, but asked Louis why he couldn’t remember what happened before the bite, since they were both given “the same exact edit on both brains.” Now, Armand is back, and they ask him why Molloy is still alive, and Armand—dressed in glitzy Gen Z fashion and wearing the same sunglasses as his victim—simply says it’s to protect Louis’ happiness, and he “There is a hunch that Daniel may be fruitful in the days to come.”
Visit the Vampire airs Sundays on AMC and AMC+.
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