Sir Malcolm Murray quotes from Penny Dreadful

Sir Malcolm

There was another thought when she was so very close to me, a strange working of memory. I thought of a particular lion hunt many years ago. You're moving through the tall grass, getting a glimpse of the prey, the shoulders mostly, the mane. You prepare your rifle. You're very quiet. And then there's a moment. The wind changes, the grass stops swaying. The lion turns, looks at you. The moment you realize you are no longer the hunter, you are the prey.

Sir Malcolm

You see, you're hunting for a man. You need to start hunting for a beast

Sir Malcolm

We'll carry on with this fight. We can lose every battle, except the last.

Sir Malcolm

There was a time I would have gladly killed you, and there may come a time when I gladly shall.

Sir Malcolm

We're all neophytes in love. None of us have the tools, or the weapons, or the resources. Prepared as we think we are, we're defeated.

Sir Malcolm

[to Kaetenay] I knew you were too mean to die.

Victor Frankenstein

I would never chart a river or scale a peak to take its measure or plant a flag. There's no point. It's solipsistic self-aggrandizement. So too those scientists who study the planets seeking astronomical enlightenment for its own sake. The botanist studying the variegation of an Amazonian fern. The zoologist caught up in the endless fascination of an adder's coils. And for what? Knowledge for itself alone? The elation of discovery? Plant your flag on the truth? There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration... piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else, from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet, is insignificant. Life and death, Sir Malcolm. The flicker that separates one from the other, fast as a bat's wing, more beautiful than any sonnet. That is my river. That is my mountain. There I will plant my flag.

Sir Malcolm Murray

You have the soul of a poet, sir.

Victor

And the bank account to match.

Sir Malcolm

I'm trying to rescue my daughter. To save her, I would murder the world. Join me, doctor. With me, you will behold terrible wonders.

Victor

And how much of the world will we have to murder?

Sir Malcolm

Do you care?

Victor

I've only one other question: Why me?

Sir Malcolm

Because you were unafraid to pull back the skin and look beneath.

They're not for the fainthearted.

Sir Malcolm

My heart has never fainted.

Sir Malcolm

How will we be able to tell?

Victor

Well, he won’t want to eat everyone, to start.

Sir Malcolm

Do you hold out hope for her?

Ethan

I hold out for dignity.

Sir Malcolm

She will cease to be who she is.

Ethan

Then I will love who she becomes.

Ethan

[about Vanessa] What's wrong with her?

Sir Malcolm

She's been possessed by the devil.

Ethan

[under his breath] Fuck me.

Sir Malcolm

Or a devil. Who can say. There is a pantheon, I believe.

Ethan

[to Victor] Well, you're a doctor, do something!

Victor

This is a bit beyond my usual practice. [pointing up to Vanessa's room]

Sir Malcolm

[about Mina] If I can save her, I will. If I cannot, I will end her suffering.

Vanessa

And will that bring you peace?

Sir Malcolm

Don't be naive. It doesn't suit you.

[After being shot by Sir Malcolm] I am your daughter!

Sir Malcolm

[Looking at Vanessa] I already have a daughter. [Shoots and kills Mina]