[In the book, Louis finds a scythe in someone’s yard, but revenge is so much sweeter when you kill someone w/ their own – very real – stage prop.]

“In a kitchen garden I saw something, something that had only been
vague in my thoughts until I had my hands on it. It was a small scythe,
its sharp curved blade still caked with green weeds from the last
mowing. And once I’d wiped it clean and run my finger along the
sharp blade, it was as if my plan came clear to me and I could move
fast to my other errands…” – Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire