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Lestat again becomes aware of Jesse's pulsing jugular,

the white flesh of her neck. He reaches out, touches her

neck, strokes it. Jesse shivers under his touch,

terrified, but wanting more. Lestat brushes his lipsagainst her hair, her neck. Runs his hands down her

arms. She closes her eyes, lost in the gentle rhythmof his voice.

LESTAT:

As you drink, you feel the heartweakening... it struggles eventhough there's no hope. You feel

the life slipping away, the flashof those brief years. The taste

of mortality you can no longerexperience... and it isbeautiful...

(pulls away sharply)

No 'relationship,' no comminglingcan ever reach the heights of thatexperience.

But Jesse steps forward. Lestat turns, stares at her.

Her eyes burn with an urge that will not be silenced.

One button at a time, her fingers quivering, she opensher blouse down to her navel.

Lestat stares as Jesse removes a long, silver hairpinfrom the mane of her red locks which then cascade about

her shoulders. Her face remains aimed unwavering atLestat's as she brings the hairpin down to her breast.

With her eyes moored to his, she draws a line with thepoint across her breast. She inhales through clenchedteeth... then settles as we see:

The long incision go from pink to red; then the blood,

like a hot spring pouring over the brim and drippingdown her chest.

Lestat staggers. Breaking their stare, he accepts hergift, lapping up the overspill and then onto the wounditself. Lestat closes her eyes... He comes up to herface, brushing his lips against her cheek. She

shivers...

LESTAT:

(groans)

Your blood...

JESSE:

(murmurs)

Do you like it?

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LESTAT:

(losing himself)

Yes...

He comes down to her slender neck.

pulsing skin. He bares his fangs.

Stares at the soft,

JESSE:

(whispering, overcome)

Do it to me... Please... With yourblood I'll know you...

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He can't help himself.

closer... closer...

He moves to Jesse's white neck...

JESSE:

I'll know everything...

But suddenly her words catch him... His head flails as hetries to stop his natural impulse. Lestat lets out a

desperate cry and throws her aside. Jesse gazes at him,

surprised. He looms over her, angry.

LESTAT:

You want to know everything.

want to see what it's like.

come! I'll show you.

You

Then

134 EXT. GRIFFITH PARK - NIGHT 134

Lestat and Jesse quietly move among the trees. Lestat

stops on a dime -- senses tuned. He looks into the dark.

Jesse is about to speak when Lestat raises his finger toher lips and then points at... A couple of lovers movingacross the meadow. They sit on a park bench. The woman

giggles drunkenly. Jesse watches and gasps as sherealizes the male lover is a vampire. Lestat moves

forward. Jesse gingerly follows.

Taking his lover in his arms the vampire begins to biteher neck... Lestat looks over at Jesse who watches,

fascinated and disturbed. The vampire senses another'spresence -- stops and turns to reveal his vampire eyesshining in the dark. Lestat steps into the halo of astreet lamp and hisses. Sensing Lestat's power, thevampire hisses and instantly -- the vampire is gone.

Jesse turns to Lestat but he has disappeared, too.

Spinning around again she sees... Lestat hovering overthe mortal woman who is still in a swoon. Checking tosee that the vampire is gone, Jesse moves closer to thebench.

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JESSE:

Is she alright?

Lestat looks up to face her, revealing his blood-stainedlips. Jesse reflexively looks away.

LESTAT:

Come closer, Jesse. You want to

see? You want to know?

JESSE:

Lestat, no!

Lestat's expression turns cold as ice -- he arches hisback like a great cat and goes in for the kill. The

woman's body convulses... Jesse watches in horror as...

the woman's hands clutch at Lestat, her back stiffens...

finally her legs relax in an obscene parody of orgasm.

Jesse gasps, backs away. Lestat finishes and, wiping hismouth, approaches Jesse.

LESTAT:

You see now? Are you ready? Now

do you want it?!

He gazes into her eyes, finding himself desperatelywanting her to say yes. The horror, the revulsion in

Jesse's face says it all.

LESTAT:

No. Of course you don't.

She backs away from him, now terrified. Something'schanged in his eyes. They are cold, blank.

LESTAT:

Well I didn't grant your final

wish.

(shakes his head)

It was an impossible wish to begin

with. You see, I am unknowable.

His eyes still as death, he starts moving away.

JESSE:

Lestat! Wait!

Lestat turns toward her suddenly, grabs her forcefully,

pulls her into his arms, gazes into her eyes.

LESTAT:

Good-bye, Talamascan.

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Jesse closes her eyes in terror, knowing her life isabout to be over.

Then Jesse reaches for her mouth as if she were touched

by something when... the IMAGE of Lestat's lips kissingher lips flashes by in VAMPIRE TIME as... Jesse's face iscompletely still in HUMAN TIME. As her hand drops, sherealizes what just happened. And with that, Lestat

disappears. She stares into the night. There's a SWISH

and the sound of RUSHING AIR. Jesse turns, screams,

backs away. It's not Lestat standing there at all butMael, the Druid vampire. With great speed he glidestowards her, envelops Jesse in his cloak, muffling hercries... WHOOSH.

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137 STARING EYE 137

PULL BACK to reveal a porcelain doll, beautiful, perfectbut unsettling. We TRACK ACROSS rows and rows of dolls

from different eras. TRACK PAST the billowing floor-toceiling

curtains to reveal Jesse -- still an adult, butlying awake in bed just as she had as a little girl.

Jesse gets out of bed, trapped in her own childhood

memory. Is she dreaming now?

138 INT. DESERT MANSION - HALLWAY - NIGHT 138

Making her way down a long hall she passes an amazingarray of medieval tapestries.

139 FLASHBACK - INT. HALLWAY 139

Jesse as a child picking at the thread of a wall-hangingin a large room.

140 BACK TO SCENE (PRESENT) 140

She stands wondering -- eyes moving back and forth withrapid thoughts when... She sees a door at the end of thehall. Walking a little faster now, she draws toward it

as...

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141 FLASHBACK - INT. HALLWAY 141

Jesse as a little girl, wanders down a similar halltoward what sounds like a COCKTAIL PARTY. Reaching thethick wooden door she peeps through to see...

142 BACK TO SCENE (PRESENT) 142

Jesse stares up at an enormous mural dominating the farwall -- a mural of names, a family tree -- extending uponto the ceiling and down to the floor.

143 FLASHBACK - MURAL 143

Jesse, as a little girl, walking beside Maharet, looks upat the mural.

YOUNG JESSE:

(furious)

Why can't I stay with you?!

Please, Auntie Maharet!

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