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Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis (Jacob Anderson) revisited their very first meeting in “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape,” directed by Craig Zisk and written by Hannah Moscovitch and Jonathan Ceniceroz. And what memories they are. The episode, season two’s fifth entry, does start in the modern day, with the older Louis and Molloy before the burned down.

Armand (Assad Zaman) and Louis recount how things at the theater were good and they were in love. Molloy notes that the story becomes a lot of “we-based,” as if the recollection is shared through rose colored glasses. As he nudges, Armand decides to leave to take his meal—a Gen Z crypto scammer, food to play with and punish—and Molloy asks Louis to revisit their past tapes while Armand is gone.



(Louis doesn’t know that Raglan James and Talamasca are feeding him crumbs to follow.) Molloy asks why he was spared and Louis tells him, “Armand could see I was partial to you. Armand preserves my happiness, even when I won’t or can’t.

” Themes of abuse and un-aliving ahead. They go back to 1973; it’s a fog, when Louis knew Molloy as the “boy” (played by Luke Brandon) journalist he picks up at at bar in San Francisco—the very night he reveals his nature as a vampire and asks him to interview him about his life. Together they lift the fog through its drug-addled haze and get into it: the first interview, reminiscent of Anne Rice’s original text.

Molloy recalls that Louis was lonely and he was flou.

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