Doctor Helen Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Helen Magnus

James, there's one part of the legend that's actually true. There's no way to really kill a fire elemental. It’s kind of why they call them elementals.

James Watson

You're telling me this now?

Helen Magnus

John, what have you done?

John Druitt

What I always do. What you can't. Treat her well, James.

Helen Magnus

Waiting for a call back.

Will Zimmerman

I got a bridge I want to sell ya.

Helen Magnus

Precisely.

Will Zimmerman

So, sixty-five years later, a little different without the barbed wire and swastikas?

Helen Magnus

Ever so slightly.

This used to be an old Nazi bunker.

Helen Magnus

Fond memories.

Will Zimmerman

Is there something I can help you with?

Helen Magnus

Yeah, I could really use a computer. Or a proper pen and paper or a bloody slide rule!

Will Zimmerman

And yet here we are, trying to recreate it using pieces of old laptops and, and iPods and what is that?

Helen Magnus

Thermostat from a toaster.

Will Zimmerman

Ah. Sorry I asked.

Will Zimmerman

You’re not blaming yourself, are you?

Helen Magnus

Until I know differently.

Abby Corrigan

Scottish shortbread. You’re Scottish so…

Helen Magnus

English, actually.

Helen Magnus

What do I want to do instead? I don’t know. I want to travel.

[on phone] Travel?

Helen Magnus

I want to help homeless children, work with animals, go on safari... God, something more!

Listen to yourself. Helen...

Helen Magnus

[hangs up, throws phone] Bloody agents!

Helen Magnus

Coffee?

Will Zimmerman

Do you have any tea?

Helen Magnus

...I think I’ll join you. Far more civilized. Don’t know why I bother making coffee.

Henry Foss

This latest situation could be an opportunity to show the world what we do around here.

Helen Magnus

Even so, I’m not sure the world is ready.

Henry Foss

Well, when will they be?

Helen Magnus

I tried something similar to this in the late 1940’s. Henry, it did not go well. Opinions are still the same as they were in the dark ages. So, in answer to your question, maybe never.

Helen Magnus

We are not meant to be together.

John Druitt

You do not believe that.

Helen Magnus

I do. We’ve never been able to make it work, ever. And when this is over, I don’t want to see you again.

John Druitt

All this because I didn’t kill Worth for you? how hypocritical.

Helen Magnus

What?

John Druitt

You claim to revile my blood lust until you need it. Then you’re more than happy for me to step in and do all your dirty work.

Helen Magnus

If I’d been inside that transport module I’d have taken care of things myself, thank you.

John Druitt

He promised to take me with him. Back to Oxford. Before... before we injected the Source blood

Helen Magnus

Why would you want to do that?

John Druitt

You know why. If I could have prevented us from taking that damnable blood things would have been so different. You and I could have been together. Raised children.

Helen Magnus

Why would you think... you would have been altering the course of history.

John Druitt

That was the point.

Helen Magnus

You'd really wipe out the last hundred years without so much as a second thought?

John Druitt

To be with you, oh yes.

Helen Magnus

If who I am now is so meaningless to you that you would sacrifice it in order to bed me in some other time... John, that's not love.