Catriona quotes from Penny Dreadful

Do you fence?

Vanessa

Alas, no.

Catriona

Oh, you should. It's wonderful for the mind. Every decision reduced to back and forth, thrust or parry. A clarity forms during it that the rest of the world is sadly lacking in. Life and death, without the death... most of the time.

Catriona

Mr. Chandler, you will need a mask, something to filter the air.

Ethan

I can handle the fog.

Catriona

That is not fog. That's what we all thought at first: an especially dense fog mixing with the chlorine gases from the factories. And then people started to die. First by the dozens, then by the hundreds. Last week, 7,000 people died in London. It is not a fog, Mr. Chandler. It is a plague.

Ethan

I'll take my chances. He needs a doctor. I need to find Miss Ives.

Catriona

We all need to find Miss Ives. If I'm correct, she is the only one who can stop all this.

Ethan

And what is "all this"?

Catriona

The End of Days.

Catriona

Why is it that men always resist doing what's best for them if they think it makes them look weak, especially when the advice is advocated by a member of the opposite sex?

Sir Malcolm

I suppose we're just proud.

Catriona

I'm all for pride, but there are limits.

Sir Malcolm

I've never known them.

Catriona

Then you'll learn.

Sir Malcolm

Are you going to teach me?

Catriona

You could do worse, though I've a firm hand, Sir M.

Sir Malcolm

Before we go, answer me one question. My daughter, Mina... it was you who turned her.

Dracula

Yes.

Sir Malcolm

Why?

Dracula

She was meant to bring Vanessa to me.

Sir Malcolm

My daughter's life meant no more than that?

Dracula

No more than that. [smiles cruelly] Although, her flesh was sweet... and I enjoyed her.

Sir Malcolm

You should go.

Victor

Not a chance.

Sir Malcolm

We are all doomed in this place.

Catriona

Makes a change for a Tuesday, though.

Fuck him.

Sir Malcolm

[smiles] I die proudly alongside all of you.