Doctor Will Zimmerman quotes from Sanctuary

Helen Magnus

This isn't a zoo, and it's certainly not a prison.

Will Zimmerman

Yeah, but some of these things, they look dangerous as hell.

Helen Magnus

We have a dual obligation: to study the miraculous, and to protect against the perilous.

Will Zimmerman

Yeah, but... the dangerous ones. What’s the point of even keeping them?

Helen Magnus

Every creature expands our knowledge. We learn from the deadly as well as the benign.

Will Zimmerman

How many more are there?

Helen Magnus

Hmm...many.

Helen Magnus

I work with sentient beings, each worthy of the same respect that humans, even animals, receive automatically. These creatures are the key to the evolution of our race, past and future, and yet we revile them, destroy them. And worst of all, pretend they don't even exist. But they are out there, Dr. Zimmerman. Lost, like the child you saw tonight. Misunderstood, hunted... and they need our help, your help.

Will Zimmerman

[sighs] I- I still don't understand why you would come to me.

Helen Magnus

Because I need someone who can see beyond the surface, see the world as it really is.

Will Zimmerman

I profile criminals, not monsters.

Helen Magnus

[laughs] You can't see the irony in that statement?

Will Zimmerman

Turns out that a John Druitt was one of Scotland Yard's prime suspects in the Ripper Case in the 1880s.

Helen Magnus

Yes, he was my first patient.

Will Zimmerman

Which means... either one or both of you can travel through time, either that or you're more than--

Helen Magnus

I am 157 years old.

Will Zimmerman

[sighs heavily] How is any of this possible?

Helen Magnus

When you work at the frontiers of science for as long as I have, the rewards and curses are...unexpected

Will Zimmerman

You know, I was hoping that at least you would be normal.

Helen Magnus

Sorry to disappoint. Is there anything else?

Will Zimmerman

Is there a health plan?

Helen Magnus

No, but I can promise you the adventure of many, many lifetimes. Shall we begin?

Will Zimmerman

I got "I'm going in" and "go around" but what was that wiggly one you did?

Helen Magnus

"Either we work together or we die." Let's go.

Will Zimmerman

You know, I'm gonna play to my strengths. You...you shoot people.

Ashley Magnus

Okay.

Will Zimmerman

You got in? How?

Helen Magnus

Now where would a girl be without her secrets?

Will Zimmerman

That's... not an answer.

Helen Magnus

I know.

Will Zimmerman

You know, there was this case that I worked on at the agency that never got solved but had a very similar set of circumstances.

Helen Magnus

Austin, Texas, 2005.

Will Zimmerman

How do you know about Austin?

Ashley Magnus

Are you serious? She knows when you switched from boxers to briefs, man.

Will Zimmerman

This whole place is full of those who are different.

What does that make you: the zookeeper?

Will Zimmerman

I'm a hero.

Ashley Magnus

Actually, on a scale from zero to hero, you're more like...

Helen Magnus

Ashley...

Ashley Magnus

...Almost respectable.

I should've guessed this would be no match for the great Helen Magnus.

Will Zimmerman

Exactly, never doubt the boss.

Helen Magnus

Oh, please tell me that that is tea.

Will Zimmerman

Gods are on vacation. It's coffee. Here.

Helen Magnus

Pass.

Will Zimmerman

Come on, it'll help you keep warm.

Helen Magnus

I have standards, Will. Drinking coffee? Well below them.

Will Zimmerman

Man, you're a Brit to the core, aren't you?

Helen Magnus

And proud of it.

Will Zimmerman

This is the world's worst cup of coffee.

Helen Magnus

Rule Britannia.

Will Zimmerman

I keep thinking there must be some way of telling, you know; a way of knowing if the person's really them.

Helen Magnus

For the moment we'll just have to rely on the little things.

Will Zimmerman

Like the fact that the real you wouldn't insult me by giving me false hope.

Helen Magnus

Or the fact you keep offering me that horrible brown sludge to drink.

Helen Magnus

We have a rather odd situation on our hands.

Will Zimmerman

Isn't "rather odd" sort of your stock in trade?