Francis Crozier quotes from The Terror

Cornelius Hickey

You and I once shared a drink on a Wednesday. Do you remember that day?

Francis Crozier

I do. You had a dog turd in your hand.

Cornelius Hickey

The toast was, "Ourselves." That was fitting then. But so it is again today.

Francis Crozier

You misunderstand the toast, Mr. Hickey. It was meant as a joke. Not a very clever one.

Francis Crozier

Even if God is seeing every last thing we do here, you have nothing to fear. Not you. You're clean, Goodsir. Clean. Even as your hand is forced by swine.

Henry Goodsir

Is God here, Captain? Any God? It doesn't matter. This place is beautiful to me, even now. To see it, with eyes as a child's. There is wonder here, Captain.

Cornelius Hickey

You hold yourself to the standard of a man you are not, nor should ever have tried to be. You've let shame drive you on and on. It's part of why we are where we are.

Francis Crozier

Then why have me brought here at all? At great risk to your men.

Cornelius Hickey

Tuunbaq... a spirit that dresses as an animal, yet we shot it with a cannon and drew blood. How do you reconcile that?

Francis Crozier

I can't. There's much about this voyage I can't reconcile.

Cornelius Hickey

What mythology is this creature at the center of?

Francis Crozier

About the creature, I have no answers, Mr. Hickey. We were not meant to know of it.

[Inuktitut] Two men are coming, pulling a sled. White men.

[Inuktitut] What do you want to do? [Crozier pulls up his hood]

Francis Crozier

[Inuktitut] This is what you tell them...

"We saw a captain there, the one called Aglooka."

[pulls out photographs of Fitzjames, Franklin, and Crozier] Ask him if one of these men is the one he's calling Aglooka. [the hunter points to the picture of Crozier]

"He spoke in our tongue. He was dying."

What did Francis say? Aglooka?

"Your friend took my hands. He said, 'Tell those who come after us not to stay. The ships are gone. There is no way through, no passage. Tell them we are gone. Dead and gone.'"