Doctor Will Zimmerman quotes from Sanctuary

Will Zimmerman

I'm... ah...I'm gonna go to bed.

Helen Magnus

Sweet dreams.

Will Zimmerman

Don't forget to put out the fire.

Helen Magnus

I never do.

Helen Magnus

Haven't you noticed it?

Will Zimmerman

Are you asking me if I've been feeling... randy?

Helen Magnus

I've made you uncomfortable.

Will Zimmerman

No, as a matter of fact, you've... you've aroused my curiosity.

Helen Magnus

Oh. Well, turnabout is fair play.

Will Zimmerman

Awkward.

Helen Magnus

Poor thing.

Helen Magnus

I'm reminded of Hieronymus Bosch. His paintings were rife with abnormals.

Will Zimmerman

Was Bosch a friend of yours; high school sweetheart or something?

Helen Magnus

There is such a thing as "before my time."

Will Zimmerman

Really?

Helen Magnus

Cheeky monkey.

Will Zimmerman

The people that you've met, the history that you've witnessed, how do you relate to anybody? Dinner parties must be hell.

Helen Magnus

History is just that, Will; it's history. We've all experienced it. I just have more under my belt than most people.

Helen Magnus

Kraken? Please, that's a complete myth.

Will Zimmerman

Glad I didn't say 'sharktopus'.

Will Zimmerman

You invite questions, and then when you don't like where they lead, you just walk away.

Helen Magnus

That's hardly fair.

Will Zimmerman

You just called me "Dr. Zimmerman" and left the room.

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

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.

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.

James Watson

Most men's failures haunt them for a lifetime; mine have haunted me for two.

Will Zimmerman

What failure?

James Watson

The Ripper Case; it confounded me like no other.

John Druitt

You came close, James. You don't know how close.

James Watson

Night after night, I poured my insights out to you, never knowing that the target of my manhunt was the man who dissected my suppositions.

John Druitt

I was in the grip of something I couldn't control. I think you know that.

James Watson

The fact remains, you gave the lie to all my bravado. You shattered my belief that I could see beyond what a mere mortal could.

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

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.

Will Zimmerman

I am seriously geeking out right now.

James Watson

As am I.