Beauty and the Beast · Season 1
“The Alchemist” · Season 1
In this episode: Vincent (10), Father (9), Paracelsus (6), Catherine (3)
Catherine, since that night when I found you in the park, I've felt in you, time and again, a need to confront your fear...As you did last night.
Why are you telling me this?
I don't want what happened to you to cause you to take unnecessary risks.
Vincent, they needed my help.
You survived once.
It's because I survived then that I'm doing this now...so that others are spared.
Who can this be, Father?
A man...No one you know. We banished him from this place before you were born. It was our first real test of government. His name was John Pater, but he called himself Paracelsus.
The alchemist?
Yes, John's model...philosopher, scientist, magician...and John was all of those things. A large part of what we have created here we owe to him.
What happened?
What happened? I don't know. I think, perhaps, in trying to seek knowledge, he began to desire power.
And so, you exiled him.
He wouldn't go at first. Finally, he was forcibly taken beyond the perimeter.
And now? Do you know where he is now? [Father nods]
John?
How did you find me?
We've always known where you were. We have looked in on you from time to time.
Your compassion will kill you one day, Jacob.
It wasn't compassion. It was self-interest-making sure you didn't try to return.
So they call you Father now. I heard it through the pipes. Ingenious idea, communicating on those pipes.
Yes, it was ingenious...of you, John.
'Father'....I imagine you like that. It gives you all the authority you need, without making you sound like a despot...But underneath everything, you're no different from me.
I am different.
What was your little idea? A family of individuals...living according to a higher standard. How uninspired, Jacob, how small-minded. We could have been gods, you and I.
Am I wrong, or is this place beyond your influence? Isn't that why I'm here...in exile?
I was only asking-
Asking?! Asking? Tell me, what right do you have to ask me anything? What power do you bring here?
Catherine, you must live according to your conscience, just as we must live according to the laws that have allowed us to survive.
We are all agreed that what is at stake here is the greater good of both worlds. Some coarse of action, anything, is better then to allow all that we are, all that we have built be held hostage to one man's evil.
What do you propose?
I can stop Paracelsus from leaving the tunnels with his poison...It will give us time to decide on a more permanent solution.
to Catherine I can't let you go close to him; he's unpredictable. I thought perhaps...if he heard your voice-the empathic connection that you share might somehow get through to him.
What is it, Vincent? What are you thinking?
How ashamed I am, that you saw me as I was. How grateful I am that you were there. You saved my life, Catherine.
You can't understand how I feel.
It is not your responsibility to decide...
It is mine! I have seen the demons Paracelsus has unleashed, felt them inside of me. How can I explain...become disconnected...as if the dark side of your imagination eclipses all compassion, all dignity...I must go...
Paracelsus.
Vincent.
You know my name?
I know more about you than you think...
I don't wish to harm you. But you must leave this place.
Leave? By whose judgment?
Mine.
What does Falstaff say? That "the better part of valor is discretion"? Of course I will. I will do as you say. But wouldn't you like to hear me first? Or are you content to accept Father's story? Found as a babe outside St. Vincent's hospital? Did you really believe that all these years?...I know the truth. Aren't you at all curious to know why you are the way you are?
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