Mallory Rubin

But also it was a little bit of a signal of like, pay attention, right?

You're going to be, and then you have the introduction in short order.

We're moving through time, you know, we'll go through the entire episode, like you said, and...

in sequence in chronological order.

But we open with the auction.

We move back to Detroit.

We move back further from there to the Halloween formation of the band, which is like a prior timeline.

Obviously, we're glimpsing a ton of stuff from the past, these moments from Lestat's history beyond that.

I love it.

I think that it is maybe there is a beat of acclimation that is required, but I think we will be rewarded for acclimating.

Yes.

Because there is like, and you know, we'll hit these in context as we go, but there are multiple like deeply prophetic,

throughout the episode.

Signs and portents.

And I would also say portents and signs.

Wow.

That's a call.

That's an in-joke, folks.

You gotta check out five years of our other pods to understand what that means.

This sense that all of these