Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Fresh Hell (2015)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein asks Mr. Clare if he'll leave him in peace after he does as he wishes] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If this works, if I do as I've promised you, give you this thing living, will you leave me in peace?

  John Clare : You would do better to ask your soul to leave you. We are bound on a wheel of pain, thee and me. I ask you, what is Dr. Frankenstein without his Creature?

• [Victor Frankenstein and Ethan Chandler discuss the language the witches spoke] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : A mythical language.

  Ethan Chandler : No. A dead language. The word of the devil.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : According to Biblical lore, the Verbis Diablo is a corruption of angelical speech. What Adam spoke in Paradise, before the serpent made his memorable appearance.

  Ethan Chandler : The story goes, Satan took God's language and turned it inside out. After the fall of man, God spoke to Adam, but Adam could no longer understand. 'Why is my language unclear to thee? Because you now belong to your father, the devil.'

• [Mr. Clare asks Victor Frankenstein if the corpse of Brona Croft will remember her past life] 

  John Clare : Will she remember?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't know. I hope not.

  John Clare : Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Her life was benighted.

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare talks to the dead body]  We'll seek those shadows together, then.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Mr. Clare lower Brona Croft's body in the tub of water] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now we wait on the weather.

  John Clare : May Gods bring us storms.

• [Victor Frankenstein talks to the lifeless corpse of Brona Croft as she lays under water] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What will you make of this life, I wonder? I'll miss talking to you. It's good to have someone to talk to. You'll learn that soon enough. You'll learn everything. Who will you be?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor holds Brona's hand]  Will this hand ever know love?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor begins touching over Brona's chest, when someone knocks at his door]  I'll be back soon.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Mr. Clare scream at the storm as they prepare to resurrect the corpse of Brona Croft] 

  John Clare : Please, let her live. Let her live, now! Let her live!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now!

  John Clare : Let her live, now!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now!

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare screams]  Now!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor screams]  Now!