Deep breaths! Chances are if you’re reading this, you just finished watching The Vampire Lestat episode 6, “Montreal.” Which means you’ve just seen on-again-off-again vampire lovers Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) share a cozy moment on a park bench — before being unceremoniously decapitated.
It’s a wild episode.
Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) outs Sofia’s true identity as Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle), mother and fledgling and lover of her son Lestat, through a sex tape. The witch Merrick (Sarah Afful) conducts a seance that reunites Louis and Lestat with Claudia (Delainey Hayles), and that does not go great! Then — despite all of this — Lestat and Louis take a break from screaming matches, sit down, and seem on the verge of a new chapter, when Daniel and Armand (Assad Zaman) and the vampire Alex (Seamus Patterson) descend to cut off their heads.
Even if you read the books, you might not have seen this one coming. But does this mean the end for Louis and Lestat? No. Can’t be.
Let’s dig into the reasons why.
There’s still one more episode of The Vampire Lestat.
Sure, Interview With the Vampire series creator Rolin Jones has been taking some dramatic liberties with Anne Rice’s core novels. He’s changed settings, race-bent characters, and plucked bits from later books to put in the first two seasons. But he’s not likely to kill off its most popular characters as a cliffhanger for the penultimate episode of The Vampire Lestat.
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Lestat doesn’t die in the books!
Does he come close? Sure. There’s a stint where the impervious Brat Prince even tries to see if he can die. But this isn’t how it’ll happen.
“Toronto” hinted that Lestat might be unkillable.
In the third episode of The Vampire Lestat, the eponymous anti-hero sits down for an interview with Daniel Molloy and says, “I’m immortal, more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, Jefferson Starship, garrote-wielding coven members, these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”
Also, in episode 3, Daniel says Lestat owes him for preventing the Brat Prince from being beheaded in Detroit (both on the tour stop and in the episode) by the Fang Gang. Daniel is pedantically corrected by Dr. Fareed (Gopal Divan), who says, “You assume death at decapitation. A study done in Budapest had two class B vampires surviving separation for nearly two hours. A vampire of Lestat’s breeding could last four to five times [longer].”
Later in the episode, Louis kills a Fang Gang member by chopping off his head. But the Jar-Jar Binks tattoo suggests this bloodsucker was not very old. Even Bruce (Damon Daunno) scoffs at his coven, calling them idealistic Gen Z’ers. Lestat and Louis are older, and made of tougher stuff (meaning the blood of Akasha).
Why do Armand and Daniel decapitate Louis and Lestat?
Armand stares at Larry in “”The Vampire Lestat” episode 5, “New York.”
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“Detroit” offers one hint: Daniel does hate Lestat. After using his glamor power to trick Daniel into thinking he’d gotten the rock star to open up about Nicky and Magnus on camera, Lestat’s voiceover from The Failures recording says, “A mean-spirited telepathetic prank, a price paid for amusing my muses. It brought poor Dan to his knees and seeded a hate for me inside him there to be watered in the sunlight later. But what can I say? Serving cunt has its consequences.”
But let’s not forget that Daniel’s reunited with his daddy, Armand, who seems to have some strategy in place. For what? We have theories.
The Vampire Lestat is now streaming on AMC+, with new episodes each Sunday.
