Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Séance (2014)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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Quotes 

• [Proteus sees a lit flame while strolling outside for the first time with Victor Frankenstein] 

  Proteus : [Proteus smiles]  Fairy lights.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What? No, that's something called gas lighting. It's an invisible chemical, which means you can't see it. It has combustible properties that produce flame, thus... illumination.

  Proteus : Victor, fairy lights.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Who am I to argue?

• [Victor Frankenstein gives some advice to his new Creature] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful, is one must always have Shakespeare close to hand.

• [Sir Malcolm informs Victor Frankenstein the origin of the hieroglyphics on the vampire body] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : They're apparently from the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead.' Do you know it?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Not intimately, but I've studied theology over the years. The ancient Egyptian religions were unique in a way. They had a singular goal. Not transmutation to an afterlife, but something even more profound: Eternal life.

• [Vanessa Ives sees that Victor Frankenstein has a Shakespeare book in his carry bag] 

  Vanessa Ives : Romantic poetry, Doctor?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Man does not live only in the empirical world. We must seek the ephemeral or why live?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa quotes Shakespeare]  'If this belief from Heaven be sent, if such be nature's holy plan... '

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor continues the quote]  'Have I not reason to lament... '

  Vanessa Ives : 'What man has made of man.'

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : 'What man has made of man.'

• [Proteus and Victor Frankenstein discuss what friends are] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : We met Mr. Ethan Chandler...

  Proteus : And Miss Brona Croft. Our friends on the river...

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Well, perhaps not friends, passing acquaintances, more like.

  Proteus : Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Friends are something different. They're people you've known for a while. You're comfortable with, close to.

  Proteus : [Proteus smiles]  Like Victor.

• [Victor Frankenstein decides how to choose a name for his new Creature] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : We should give you a name. You're a form of new mankind, so... perhaps Adam? No. Theological connotations aren't very 'us' are they? I know, you shall choose your own name.

• [Proteus talks to Victor Frankenstein about having more friends] 

  Proteus : Will I have many?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If you're lucky.

  Proteus : I shall have many. Ten. More than ten if we...

  [when Proteus is stabbed in the back, looking down to see his chest open apart] 

• Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Man does not live only in the empirical world. We must seek the ephemeral or why live?

• [Victor has his new Creature choose his own name of Proteus] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor flips the pages to a Shakespeare book, dropping his finger into the pages]  Uuuuuuuummmmmm...

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Your turn.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor flips the pages, when the Creature slaps his finger down]  Proteus.

  Proteus : [Proteus says his first word]  Proteus.

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Proteus that we all commit sins] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : As you grow up, you'll learn we all do things which 'cause us shame. Sins we have committed.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Proteus pours Victor some water]  Thank you, Proteus.

• Dr. Victor Frankenstein : The ancient egyptian religions were unique in a way. They had a singular goal. Not transmutation to an afterlife, but something even more profound, eternal life.