The Paradise (TV Series)

Episode #2.4 (2013)

David Hayman: Jonas

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jonas : Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, Mr. Fenton.

  Fenton : [in has carriage]  Does Moray know you're here?

  Jonas : No, sir. As we agreed, this meeting is between you and I.

  Fenton : [satisfied smile] 

• Jonas : It is an old wound.

  [chuckles] 

  Jonas : I tell myself I should feel no pain, but there is. I'm a fool. Whenever I feel it I chide myself it is weakness. People fear me because...

  [hesitates] 

  Jonas : Forgive, me sir. I'm speaking out of turn.

  Tom Weston : "Tom." Go on.

  Jonas : I have a disfigurement. People fear me because of it. But it is a gift. I realize that at my age. People who flinch from a man with one arm imagine they know me - know the worst of me because of what they can see. It just tells me whom I can trust. It is a fine thing, sir, to restore that has been so sorely disregarded. I take my hat off to you - even though I'm not wearing one.