Ashley Magnus quotes from Sanctuary

Ashley Magnus

You know, my mom can be pretty dark and weird, but she's good at this.

Ashley Magnus

Henry? Have you had a chance to check out my nubbins?

Ashley Magnus

Baldy, you invaded our house. You fed me to a giant iguana. If that’s not enough to make you my enemy, then what the hell is?

Ashley Magnus

What would boys do without their toys?

Ashley Magnus

I’m just going out to get some, uh... feminine products.

Henry Foss

Yeah, feminine like a crate of Uzis?

Ashley Magnus

All good, Mom. The city is now minus one ugly, poodle-eating chameleon guy.

Helen Magnus

Are you hurt?

Ashley Magnus

No, not a scratch.

Helen Magnus

I'll redo your bandages when you get home.

Will Zimmerman

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

Ashley Magnus

Okay.

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

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.

Helen Magnus

Eric paid with his life to bring this creature back. We owe it to him to preserve it.

Ashley Magnus

I think we owe it to him to kill it.

Ashley Magnus

Doesn't anyone have some good news?

Henry Foss

I've got wood.

John Druitt

We were part of something, something we called The Five. A small group dedicated to expanding our knowledge of the physical world by the most unconventional means.

Ashley Magnus

How can you be old like her?

John Druitt

Unlike what you’ve been told, your mother was not born with a genetic abnormality. No, she chose to become something different. We all did. We were so curious to know what humans could become. Evolve into, given the chance.

Ashley Magnus

Who were the others?

John Druitt

Besides your mother and myself was Nigel Griffin, Sir James Watson, and Nikola Tesla.

Ashley Magnus

As in... the...?

John Druitt

Yes, the same. Though I still say he leeched off Edison and cheated Marconi. But I digress.

John Druitt

After each of us was injected, we received unique... gifts as a result.

Ashley Magnus

Yeah, seen yours in action, thanks.

John Druitt

Griffin’s molecules became photosensitive, Watson’s mind grew to new heights, and Tesla’s reaction was the most dramatic. His genetic disposition brought forth vampiric traits which had lain dormant in his genes. But your mother? Well, her gift was the most simple and elegant.

Ashley Magnus

[about Druitt] He’s my father, isn’t he?

Helen Magnus

[quietly] Yes. He is.

Helen Magnus

Never shown you Rome, have I?

Ashley Magnus

There was never time.

Helen Magnus

I have a lot to make up for. [holds her hand out to her daughter] Shall we?

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.