The Terror Season 1 quotes

James Fitzjames

There is nothing worse than a man who has lost his joy. He's become insufferable. And he's a lushington to boot.

Sir John Franklin

We should be better friends to him, James.

James Fitzjames

I can't work out why he's even here. He despises glory. Even the glory of a good pudding. And he looks down on we of the wardroom. I tell you, one glance from him I have to remind myself I'm not a fraud.

Sir John Franklin

I'll not have you speak of him uncharitably, James. He is my second. Now, if something were to happen to me, you would be his second. You should cherish that man.

James Fitzjames

Sometimes I think you love your men more than even God loves them, Sir John.

Sir John Franklin

For all your sakes, let's hope you're wrong.

Mr. Gregory thinks there must be ice wedged up in the prop well. But we won't know till first light. He all but assured me if we can clear out a jam, we'll be under way.

Sir John Franklin

Good. I think that's all for now, then, Graham, since we don't appear to be sinking. Wake me if that should change.

Henry Goodsir

Do you know sometimes when people are near passing I've heard they speak of a radiance like a million daybreaks all in one. In which loved ones are there to welcome them over.

We grew up at the Foundlings. I never knew me father or me mum.

Henry Goodsir

Then... Then there will be the angels with songs lovelier than you've heard.

Will I fly? Up to God?

Henry Goodsir

Yes. You... You'll see the Passage first, then, as you go. Try... Try to call back and let us know where it is.

I wanted to be 'ere when we found it.

Henry Goodsir

Do not fear it, David. I, I have been there when souls have passed. A great peace descends.

Francis Crozier

As a trusted friend once put it... This place wants us dead.

Sir John Franklin

Your demeanor should be all cheer, gentlemen. You understand? It's going to be tight, but that's what we signed up for, an adventure for Queen and Country. An adventure of a lifetime. That's what you tell the men.

This place make you uneasy, Doctor?

Henry Goodsir

You call me doctor, but technically I'm just a surgeon. Anatomist, in fact.

That's a doctor in my book.

He's running to inform.

Cornelius Hickey

No, I don't think he will.

Cornelius, we'll be lashed.

Cornelius Hickey

If Lt. Irving goes to inform command, then he'd have to tell them what it is he saw. Which means he's gonna have to open his imagination to what he didn't. I've seen him at Sir John's Sunday service. I've watched him pray. That's a man afraid of chaos. He's not going to invite more if he can help it.

James Fitzjames

Sir, he was no-one's first choice for this expedition.

Sir John Franklin

Mm, nor was I.

James Fitzjames

How any man achieves his post on an expedition is less important than how he spends it. And well, that he measures up.

Francis Crozier

Perhaps I would have done better to have played your game, Mr. Hickey, and gulled the world. I applaud you.

We are separated here from the temptations of the world. At sea, a man can find spiritual benefit in the collective. It is no accident the world was reborn clean out of an ark, Mr. Hickey. Man's worst urges can be satisfied through Christian pleasures and graces, singing with friends, watercolors, study - climbing exercises.

Cornelius Hickey

Climbing, sir?

Your crisis is an opportunity for you to repair yourself. You are in the world's best place for it.

Cornelius Hickey

Do you think so?

God sees you, Mr. Hickey. Here more than anywhere.

Sir John Franklin

In honor of our brother Lieutenant Gore, be merciless. Educate this creature as to the dominion of the Empire, and the will of the Lord behind it.

Francis Crozier

These words are not mine. They're Sir John's. He wanted you to hear them. And, lacking words of my own, I gave you his. His last. "In his flight, Jacob lighted upon a certain place and tarried there, because the sun was set. He thought it a terrible place. No house, no hearth. But that night, he dreamed: A ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reaching to the heavens. Behold, the Lord stood above it, and He said, 'I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places, wherever thou goest; for I will not leave thee.' And in Jacob's dream, he saw the invisible world, companion to the known one we perceive; with its rocks and moon, its ice fields and brute animals, and all the people we know... have ever known... and will ever know. So complete it would seem to leave no room for its invisible brother world, which is yet more immense than the one we see. For in this world dwell the angels who keep us, the Lord who will not leave us, and the departed who, though cleaved from the frame that carried them, yet live. Newest to their ranks, our bright Captain, Sir John, who in the virtue and strength of his every gesture showed himself the elect of the Lord, destined to reign with Christ forever. The invisible world of spirits, though unseen, was present for Jacob. Not future, not distant, but present. And it is now, and it is here, among us, if we open our eyes, and see His truth amongst us."

Gentlemen, no doubt most of you were in London for that light snow that we had last month. One evening after dinner I stepped out into our courtyard. I was without a coat and even a muffler and I stood in that snow to see how long I could bear it.

Lady Jane, there are two years of provisions -

One hour and a quarter before I was desperate to get back indoors again. But I made myself stay. And what's more, I took off my shoes and I stood in that wet snow. Two minutes more. Two minutes, and then I was done. Our men have been out there in unimaginable temperatures for more than a million minutes! No one can convince me that optimism or confidence is warm enough.

One's sense of cold is relative to one's experience. I would remind you, madam -

I suspect therein lies the problem. Most of you gentlemen have written your memoirs. I've read them. The past tense is a very sturdy thing. It's earned, but it does take for granted that one has survived. The present is a different case entirely. And so I've come here to ask you, what is your plan, and when will it begin?

Francis Crozier

It feels like an omen. As I climbed the ridge I was thinking it. I could see the pattern. But I couldn't credit an animal with having that -

James Fitzjames

You're saying a bear staged a misdirection?

Francis Crozier

I'm saying I ordered that we split up into pairs to cover more ground. I did. And then I left him. I only took him with me because he was scared.

James Fitzjames

[gesturing to Crozier's drink] With all you're shouldering, perhaps you should you should curb that for now.

Francis Crozier

Does one not bring one's habits to Terror?

James Fitzjames

Why are you here, Francis? You've never believed in this cause. No one was ordered to this. We volunteered. You volunteered.

Francis Crozier

I was, in fact, ordered.

James Fitzjames

By whom? Not by the Admiralty. You were never Barrow's choice.

Francis Crozier

Keep Sir John safe and ensure his judgement. Those were my orders. It's what she asked me to do.

James Fitzjames

Lady Jane?

Francis Crozier

No. I don't owe her a bloody thing. Sophia.

James Fitzjames

Miss Cracroft? Miss Cracroft, who rejected you? Twice, as I heard it.

Francis Crozier

You discussed this?

James Fitzjames

Yes. Sir John discussed it with me. Well, he... Actually, he regretted how it had happened. Francis, he was burdened by it.

Francis Crozier

Burdened by the thought of a third attempt, no doubt.

James Fitzjames

That's why you're here. Good Christ, Francis.

Francis Crozier

Keep your pity. You're going to need all the pity you have for what's coming.