Season 3, Episode 6 of AMC's *The Vampire Lestat*, titled "Montreal," offers an emotional roller coaster for viewers, particularly for "Loustat" shippers who see Lestat and Louis sharing unprecedented emotional intimacy. However, the episode also features a devastating sequence where the witch Merrick Mayfair summons Claudia's spirit back to the earthly plain. Executive producer Hannah Moscovitch told IGN that the writers' room envisioned giving Lestat and Louis their own version of *Before Sunset*, with the episode showing them rambling around Montreal and slowly finding their way back to each other. Louis brings Merrick to Lestat's residence to conjure Claudia's spirit using her diary and dress, an event familiar to readers of Anne Rice's book *Merrick*. Moscovitch said the show fast-forwarded into book canon because the season's architecture was built around Louis' 2025 surge of grief for Claudia. During the seance, Claudia reveals blinding rage and utter desolation, sharing that she hasn't been able to find her love Madeleine in the afterlife. Moscovitch praised Delainey Hayles' performance as "extraordinary."
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