Do feel vindicated about the fact that after all the back and forth about the train scene, it was what I suspected: whether it was true or not had very little to do with Lestat; it just so happened that until this episode, he was the only witness who could claim it didn't happen. But that doesn't mean the misdirect was really doing any heavy lifting for his character, because I don't think it ever was! The scaffolding of s1 is designed such that by the end of episode 5, his death is justified for us. We don't need the train scene as viewers to feel that in murdering him Claudia is delivering a proportional response.
It truly had to do with a) emphasizing that Claudia was an angry, trapped adult woman and vampire in that moment - to suggest she could not or would not willfully lie to the men who had wronged her so deeply was always a little ridiculous, a transparent desire to perfect victim her. "But it was in her diaries!" the diaries she said she would never forget Louis and Lestat digging into to use her words against her? Those diaries?
Which leads us to b) the Louis of it all. Because she lied to Louis. Because Louis needed a performance of a crying, scared, little girl. An angry woman with words that made her ugly? Louis didn't like that, Louis didn't respond to that all through 1x06. Do more, he said. He needed a victim to save, and Claudia used that knowledge, the only power she really had over him: that from the moment he saw her, he made her his little girl to save. Which was really about justifying himself and his own existence. Claudia isn't stupid, she knew that! And as much as I believe Claudia did love Louis, of course she would also hate the man who demanded that of her for centuries. Of course she would revel in the opportunity to weaponize it, just as she used Lestat's faults and weaknesses against him.
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