Doctor Helen Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Helen Magnus

How's your magnetism in here?

Nikola Tesla

You tell me.

Helen Magnus

Really? Even now?

Nikola Tesla

Sorry. It's automatic.

Nikola Tesla

Elvis has left the building, my man.

Helen Magnus

I'm running the show from here on.

Nikola Tesla

I've got my body, and you've certainly got yours.

Helen Magnus

[laughing] Oh, dear Lord.

Henry Foss

So I hacked into the SIS database...

Helen Magnus

SIS?

Henry Foss

The Portuguese security intelligence service. It's a lame acronym, I know, especially when you got a "P," an "I," and two "S"s to work with--

Helen Magnus

Onward.

Will Zimmerman

Fine, so it's standard operating procedure, Helen Magnus style, I guess!

Helen Magnus

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Will Zimmerman

You know, "Once more into the breach, for England," et cetera, et cetera. No matter how stupid dangerous it is! I'm saying this is not the first time I've been stuck in a bad place with you.

Will Zimmerman

This is war for you. Living under combat conditions.

Helen Magnus

Imagine doing it for five lifetimes!

Will Zimmerman

Imagine having one lifetime to do everything that matters to you. Magnus, you could give a hundred years to the Sanctuary and still have hundreds more to go. I only get one set of days. I think you need to appreciate what it means if I give them all to you.

Helen Magnus

[watches him walk away, then softly] I think about it every day.

Will Zimmerman

You can't get close to anybody, because you're just going to lose them, right?

Helen Magnus

Would you blame me if that were true?

Will Zimmerman

Magnus, what good is your lifetime if you don't allow yourself to connect with anyone? You surround yourself with people who would do anything for you, and then you turn your back on them when they don't live up to your standards.

Helen Magnus

That's ridiculous--

Will Zimmerman

John Druitt.

Helen Magnus

You can't even begin to judge that--

Will Zimmerman

Griffin, Watson, and now me. Are we all just expendable in your mind? Is that how you cope? [pause] Ashley?

Helen Magnus

[crying] You bastard.

Will Zimmerman

You have to keep me moving, no matter what you have to do or say to me.

Helen Magnus

Said one junkie to the other.

Helen Magnus

Will, you need to understand, you were never part of some master plan. I may have a long view of things now, but the first time 'round, I was taking chances, just like anyone. When I asked you to come here, I had no idea if it would turn out to be a brilliant move or a total disaster.

Will Zimmerman

And?

Helen Magnus

Many disasters, most brilliant.

There's only one monster that I'm worried about.

Helen Magnus

Please... I haven't bitten a guest in decades.

About that wine...

Helen Magnus

Ah.

Do you have anything that is a little naughty?

Nikola Tesla

I was unappreciated, unacknowledged and unhired.

Helen Magnus

You were fired.

Nikola Tesla

If you want to get coarse about it, yes.

Helen Magnus

From SCIU.

Nikola Tesla

Apparently, their bean counters were a little more on the ball than I gave them credit for. I believe one chap even had opposable thumbs.

Nikola Tesla

Go. Go. In the end, they all leave me.

Helen Magnus

Oh, dear Lord. [walks away]

Nikola Tesla

Even the pigeons left me. New York, 1943. The white dove. I loved her. More than the hottie at SCIU.

Will Zimmerman

Looking for a depressed, Serbian, electromagnetic vampire?

Helen Magnus

Oh please, tell me he's left.

Will Zimmerman

Last seen heading towards the wine cellar looking for something 'ostentatious, yet obsequious'.

Helen Magnus

Oh, well good, that should keep him occupied for a while.

Helen Magnus

Are you going to restrain me?

Will Zimmerman

Should I?

Helen Magnus

Oh, definitely.