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Her eyes still bore into him. Lestat smiles. He raises

his violin and begins to play.

The song of the VIOLIN ECHOES around the walls...

Lestat plays, with increasing abandon...

Akasha and Enkil sit frozen...

Lestat plays and plays, lost in the music. He throws a

glance up at the throne and stops...

Akasha is moving...

Slowly, her eyelids pull back to reveal pale green eyes.

Lestat stares in amazement... Her arm rises up, her wrist

extended outward towards Lestat. The pulse of a

HEARTBEAT begins... Lestat moves toward her as if

beckoned. A green vein appears beneath the marble

surface of her skin. The vein pulses as the blood

courses around. The HEARTBEAT POUNDS LOUDER, DEEPER.

The sound fills Lestat's head as he is drawn closer to

Akasha's wrist. Lowering himself, as if genuflecting,

Lestat bends closer to the vein which looks like the veryfont of life to him...

87 EXT. VILLA ROOF - NIGHT (SAME TIME) 87

Marius sits under the stars, painting, when his handbegins to tremble... Suddenly, he drops his brush,

startled by some unexpected feeling that passes throughhim. He stands bolt upright as a frightening GUST ofWIND sweeps across him.

88 BACK TO SANCTUARY 88

Lestat sinks his teeth into Akasha's vein, drawing in theunimaginable font. A burst of image and color floodsinto him, as...

89 LESTAT'S IMAGES 89

of Ancient Egypt... power... supremacy... slavery... allimpressionistic, subliminal... the bright burning sun, redlips, blood spurting like a fountain...

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in the sanctuary, hovering over Lestat, who lays on thestone floor in a catatonic state, staring. Marius looks

down upon him, the sconces above blazing high withflames. Marius's VOICE ECHOING furiously...

MARIUS:

What have you done, Lestat?

Lestat!

91 INT. MARIUS'S VILLA - NIGHT 91

Lestat lays in bed, feverish, his skin paler than ever.

At the foot of the bed stands Marius.

MARIUS:

(quietly)

Lestat?

The young vampire's eyes bulge open in the grip of someincredible sensation, smiling the most wicked of smiles.

Lestat's chest heaves upward, pulling his body with it,

only to be jerked back by the manacles that hold him tothe bed.

More!

LESTAT:

MARIUS:

I don't think so, my little lord.

Lestat writhes with a physical delight that is almostpainful. Lestat realizes he is shackled to the bed with

manacles and chains. Struggles against them.

LESTAT:

Let me go!

MARIUS:

No. You've drunk the purestblood. Seen the oldest of things-- far too much for one as young

as you. You've been unconscious

for days.

LESTAT:

God, her blood is like liquidfire.

(squirms)

Who are they?

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MARIUS:

She... she is your mother, my

mother... Akasha, the Queen of all

who are damned. And he is her

King.

LESTAT:

Release me!

Lestat struggles with all his might. One of his manacles

splits, releasing a leg. Marius stares, surprised.

MARIUS:

She made you quite powerful.

(withdrawing a saberfrom its sheath)

Don't make me use this!

Lestat still struggles. The manacles strain.

LESTAT:

Marius, please, just one more

time. I felt the sun. The light,

Marius, the light!

Suddenly pressing the knife to Lestat's throat -

MARIUS:

Lestat, listen to me! I have

watched over Akasha and her King

for 2000 years! They must never

awaken!

Lestat stares up at him.

MARIUS:

Akasha and her King nearly drank

this earth dry when they ruled

over Egypt. They drank until

they lost their will to drink.

They became living statues. And

yet Akasha still sustains the

life force of all vampires. It

is believed what happens to her,

happens to all of us.

Lestat gazes up at him, taking it in. Marius moves

slowly away.

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MARIUS:

If she were ever to rise, she

would again desiccate the earth!

She has no respect for anything

except the taste of blood.

Immortal and human alike...

Lestat roars and struggles against his manacles.

LESTAT:

You'll not stop me...

Marius stares at him, shocked.

MARIUS:

I hear her blood in your voice...

In all the years I've cared for

them, not once have they moved...

LESTAT:

Until tonight. And she chose me!

Me! Never you! You'll not stop

me!

Marius moves at super-speed, grabs Lestat by the neck,

and pins him down.

MARIUS:

You are part of a great coven!

You take responsibility for your

kind!

LESTAT:

(snarls)

I must have more!

Lestat, lost, looks at Marius, his eyes intoxicated withAkasha's blood. Marius steps back. Looks at his

fledgling with great sadness, anger, disappointment.

MARIUS:

I chose you for your bravery, but

I was wrong. You know only

selfishness. I can no longer trust

you... It gives me no pleasure to

look upon what I have created.

Marius turns his back on Lestat. Lestat stares after

him.

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92 INT. MARIUS'S VILLA - NEXT DAY 92

THROUGH the balcony we see the last warm colors of thesunset vanish into the blue of night. Lestat awakens,

his manacles removed. He stretches, shakes his head, as

if clearing his head, but something causes him to stop...

Something has changed. Marius's paints have gone. Some

of his paintings remain, but his easel and paint boxesare removed, leaving splattered outlines on the fadedmarble floor.

Marius!

LESTAT:

No response.

93 INT. MARIUS'S VILLA - SECRET STAIRCASE 93

Lestat runs down the staircase, which is dark except forthe candelabra in his hand.

94 INT. MARIUS'S VILLA - UNDERGROUND SANCTUARY 94

Lestat throws open the doors and enters to find... Akashaand Enkil have been taken, as have the thrones and most

of the royal paraphernalia.

LESTAT:

Marius! Please!

95 EXT. MARIUS'S VILLA/BEACH - NIGHT

Lestat runs down the beach, the sand showing nofootprints.

LESTAT (V.O.)

Many times since, I have called toMarius. I howled into the nightin loneliness and pain.

Lestat screams into the darkness, filled with despair,

grief. He disappears off into the night.

LESTAT (V.O.)

But there was no answer -- justthe endless procession of days,

months, years... My teacher leftme to my darkest lesson -- that inthe end, we are alone.

Lestat looks up from feeding on a mortal. Wipes theblood from his mouth, gazes into the dark night.

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