Will Lestat return on 'Interview with the Vampire'?

Lestat de Lioncourt has risen! Sort of. 

In the first episode of Season 2, titled "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned," Sam Reid reprises his role to torment Lestat's treacherous children. But not exactly as you might expect. He's not flesh and blood — though he is bleeding profusely. In Interview with the Vampire: Part II, as the second season's opening title card calls it, Lestat's return to Louis begins as a delusion. 

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