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In the present, the interviewer sits in shock as he watches Louis, who is still and expressionless. He refuses to accept that Louis’s story ends in hopelessness, and he becomes emotional, insisting that everything Louis felt in Paris could have meant something more. Then, he begs Louis to make him a vampire. Horrified and enraged, Louis pins him against the wall, asking if this is truly what he wants after everything he’s heard in the interview.

The interviewer cries and begs again, saying that Louis doesn’t understand what it means to be human. Defeated, Louis says he has failed. Suddenly, he tells him to look at the recording reels and attacks him from behind. As Louis drinks from his neck, the interviewer collapses, and when he asks if he will die, Louis smiles ominously.

The interviewer wakes up at dawn, with sunlight on his face and pain in his neck where Louis bit him. After washing his face, he finds the room empty, rewinds the tapes, and listens to the recording again. Hearing Louis describe the night he spotted Lestat on St. Charles Avenue, he begins to take notes about a crumbling house with rusted railings. He jots down Lestat’s location and packs up his tapes and recorder. With a new sense of purpose, he heads to his car, intent on finding Lestat and becoming a vampire. 

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