Doctor Helen Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Helen Magnus

I have lived longer than any human has a right to. In the end, all I can hope is to choose how it ends. Being taken over by an undersea parasite is not on the list.

Will Zimmerman

And what is?

Helen Magnus

Just be creative, if the time comes.

Will Zimmerman

[to Helen and Ashley] Okay, favorite album.

Ashley Magnus

Nevermind

Will Zimmerman

What? Is it that personnal?

Ashley Magnus

[laughs] No, Nevermind. Nirvana. You?

Will Zimmerman

Joshua Tree, obviously.

Helen Magnus

Sergeant Pepper and Rhapsody in Blue.

Will Zimmerman

That's two.

Helen Magnus

Over the course of two lifetimes. Gershwin played it for me when he was writing it.

Will Zimmerman

[sarcastically] And no doubt, you've watched the sun come with the Beatles.

Helen Magnus

Just one of them.

Helen Magnus

You are the most talented medical researcher I have ever known and yet you keep your most important work hidden from the world, from me. If you truly believe that I have potential, Father, please... help me achieve it.

Gregory Magnus

Once you enter this door, you are on a path that cannot be reversed.

Helen Magnus

It’s incredibly valuable intact. If we can’t do it without more collateral damage, I think we should try.

Will Zimmerman

And if not?

Helen Magnus

People are dead. If we have to, we kill it.

Ashley Magnus

Okay. Good. We have a Plan B, I feel better.

Helen Magnus

We winged it with a couple of tranqs.

Amy Saunders

You think it’s unconscious?

Helen Magnus

To be honest, I think we just made it angrier.

Helen Magnus

That’ll be the police. Good timing, as usual.

Ashley Magnus

Ah, them we can handle.

Helen Magnus

You have frostbite.

John Druitt

It's certainly not a reflection on your hospitality.

James Watson

You haven't changed a bit.

Helen Magnus

Since last Fall in London?

James Watson

Since Spring of 1886.

Helen Magnus

Coming from such a keen observer, I'll take that as a compliment.

Will Zimmerman

So you don't mean that your Dr. Watson really is Sherlock Holmes?

Helen Magnus

Not the literary figure, of course. But, yes, Conan Doyle did model the character after James' brilliant deductive mind.

Will Zimmerman

So why did he get relegated to the sidekick in the stories?

Helen Magnus

At Watson's insistence; he preferred to let Holmes take center stage while he played the fawning acolyte in the wings.

Will Zimmerman

And what's your power? Just showing up for the meeting after 135 years?

Helen Magnus

I'd like to see you do it.

Helen Magnus

No offense, Henry. But you don't graduate from Eagle Scout to James Bond overnight.

Ashley Magnus

I was green as Gumby, too.

Henry Foss

I can do this. [pause, to Ashley] What, Gumby? I'm Gumby now?

James Watson

Does no one else see the madness in all of this?

Helen Magnus

You don't believe I can accomplish Nikola's task.

James Watson

One, he had the powers of an ancient vampire. Two, he fell asleep in Edison’s electric chair at full current – I don’t see your skill sets overlapping.

James Watson

It's not the mission, Helen. What worries me is that gleam in your eye.

Helen Magnus

Suck it up, Jimmy! We're going to India.

Helen Magnus

This is my father's worst nightmare, that we would try and retrieve the source.

Will Zimmerman

You going to tell him?

Helen Magnus

.If I find out where he's holed up, and if the time is right... no.

Will Zimmerman

We're about to see the ninth wonder of the ancient world, and I didn't even bring a camera.

Helen Magnus

You brought your mind, didn't you?

Will Zimmerman

Damn, you know, I knew I forgot something.