Queen of the Damned Page #5

11.

23 INT. PRIVATE CLUB - TV 23

LESTAT (V.O.)

Come out, come out, wherever you

are.

CAMERA BOOMS DOWN to reveal...

A group of dangerous-looking vampires dressed in variousstyles, staring stony-faced up at the screen, their eyesglowing strangely in the ultra-violet light. The poolplayer is in the b.g. Other vampires, dressed in black, eyescold as ice, stare up at the TV.

VAMPIRE #1

Goddamn fool's going to bring backthe Inquisition.

VAMPIRE #2

I say we kill him, before thisgets out of hand. Bleed him dry.

VAMPIRE #1

Gotta find him first. Elusive

bloke. Never know where he's

going to turn up.

VAMPIRE #2

Well we know one place he's

definitely going to be...

Next to him sits a female VAMPIRE, Evian bottle in hand.

VAMPIRE #1

When I was in Manchester, the coven

there was saying exactly the samething. That we should nail him at

the concert...

FEMALE VAMPIRE #1

I don't know, if he's as old as

they say, he's gotta be prettystrong... If you came within amile of him, he'd eat you alive.

She brings her Evian bottle to her lips. Drinks heartily.

The liquid inside glistens deep red.

VAMPIRE #1

Yes. Well let's see how he

handles a thousand of us at once.

Crack -- the pool player sinks the last ball on the pooltable. The TV suddenly EXPLODES.

(CONTINUED)

12.

23

CONTINUED:
23

BACK TO LESTAT ON HUGE VIDEO SCREEN

He smiles at the journalists.

LESTAT:

See you all in Death Valley.

CLICK. The screen goes black.

24

CLOSE ON LESTAT 24

in the flesh. REVEAL he is...

25

INT. LESTAT'S CHATEAU (LONDON) 25

All alone in his magnificent chateau. He sits in front

of a video camera and monitor set up for the two-way remotefeed. Lestat puts the remote down.

Laughs out loud with the pure pleasure of it all. He stands,

crosses to huge doors. Opens them. Goes out to...

25A

EXT. LESTAT'S CHATEAU GROUNDS - CONTINUOUS ACTION 25A

Lestat walks across his lavish grounds, gazes up into thenight.

Staring up at the dark heavens, Lestat inhales like anemperor taking in his kingdom, stretches his arms out, stilldrinking in the adulation.

Slowly, his grin fades...

A melancholy look comes over Lestat.

LESTAT:

(quietly, to world)

Come out, come out, whoever you

are.

As he lowers his arms, the CAMERA PULLS UP and OUT FROM

Lestat, whirling into the dark night...

CUT TO:

13.

26 CLOSE ON SET OF HEADPHONES 26

as it plays LESTAT'S SONG.

PULL OUT ON...

A beautiful young woman, JESSE, 22, lays in black satinsheets. Her long red hair snakes over her slender neck asshe sleeps to Lestat's voice, still as death. Flickeringcandles all over the room reveal her lithe, strong body,

pale as the moon. She is surrounded by her work, ancientlanguage books, her laptop computer. Another book is

clenched in her hand. The Unconscious Vampire. We MOVE

IN ON her fluttering eyes.

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