A character in Ultraviolet
Played by Philip Quast
Ultraviolet · 26 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Ultraviolet: in 10 of its 26 quotes
Most scenes with: Michael Colefield (5), Angie March (5), Vaughan Rice (2)
Father PearseDo you know where Jack is?
Yeah, like I'm gonna tell you.
Father PearseYou should. We're all on the same side. You must know by now what we're dealing with.
No, I know what you think you're dealing with. I can't help that.
Father PearseYou believe Jack is still your friend.
Well, whatever he's done, he doesn't deserve a death sentence.
Father PearseI'm afraid that was carried out three nights ago. Before you last met.
Father PearseIt's called a vocation.
'Vendetta', more like it.
Father PearseThese aren't isolated cases. They're organizing. For a reason.
What for? They don't want to wipe us out. They need us.
Father PearseExactly.
So what's changed?
Father PearseOur capacity for self-destruction. It grows at an exponential rate. You're right, of course; they don't mean us any harm. They want to save us.
Doesn't sound so bad.
Father Pearse...and the only way they can save us is by controlling us. If people like you don't take a stand now, do you know where your loved ones are going to be in fifty years' time? Battery farms. Believe me. Our free-range days are over.
Father PearseI hope none of us thinks this interest in blood disorders is down to philanthropy. What they're researching is pollution. Contamination of their food supply.
Yeah, well, good. Maybe they'll find a cure. Looks like we've got some common interests.
Father PearseAbout as common as humans and cattle. What did we do when we discovered BSE was a threat? Did we go looking for a vaccine? No, we went for the most direct, short term solution.
A cull.
Father PearseThey've done it before. The fire of London. Or did you really think that was a happy coincidence in the middle of a plague?
[Angie shares her findings on Marion's possibly half-Code Five fetus with Father Pearse]
Father PearseYou're not, I hope, suggesting they have any desire or need for offspring, are you?
IVF doesn't let anyone off the hook, however old you are, however dead you are. Like us. They don't have to accept what nature gave them anymore.
[A pause]
Father PearseHave you ever performed a termination?
No. Have you ever sanctioned one?
Father PearseThis isn't human.
It may be half-human.
Father PearseI believe that's what I said.
[Angie examines Marion Wainwright's blood]
There's embryonic tissue in this one. She miscarried in the pro-life office.
Father PearseThank God. So why do you think they wanted her?
She'd still be carrying some remains, which I expect they wanted to look at post mortem.
Father PearseShe couldn't have survived?
Not with that degree of hemorrhaging.
Maybe he wanted to cross her over.
She didn't have anything else they wanted. She's not a scientist.
So it couldn't be that her husband just wanted her back?
[sarcastically] Life after death. Just an old romantic, aren't you? [seriously] We'll fix that.
[after he accidentally shoots a pedophile] That's your inquiry?! 'Two Hail Mary's and don't shoot any more civilians'?
Father PearseYou can wear a hair shirt if it makes you feel any better.
I had no choice.
Father PearseThere's always a choice. They can't force you to do what you don't want.
No, they force you to do what you do want. They're very big on free will.
Father PearseThey can't overturn the habit of centuries, it's against their nature – they're hunters.
Maybe they're evolving. Like us.
Father Pearse[about the vampire] How's the patient?
Still dead.
Father Pearse[Angie brings him coffee] Is this a new way of getting me to take my medication?
And cheat you out of martyrdom? Heaven forbid.
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