The sensuous supernatural drama leaves 1940s Paris behind for a fascinating change-of-pace episode that focuses on the first meeting of journalist Daniel Molloy (
Eric Bogosian
) and his subject, vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (
Jacob Anderson
), flashing back to the drug-addled 1970s in San Francisco. “Did we …?” Daniel wonders as they play back their erotically charged encounter, with a curious and very young Daniel getting Louis to defy his vampire lover Armand (
Assad Zaman
) by revealing his undead origins. Daniel’s initial reaction is horror?“Are you the Zodiac killer?” he screams?while this fateful interview becomes a turning point in the relationship of the passion-driven vamps.