Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Verbis Diablo (2015)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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• [John Clare and Victor Frankenstein sit with Lily after her resurrection from the dead] 

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare looks into Lily's eyes]  I want to fill her heart with poetry.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Let me fill her head with language first. Honestly, it will be a process. You'll understand that. She must learn the actions of living anew. Leave me to it. I've had experience.

  John Clare : I've waited so long.

  John Clare : [Lily tries to touch Mr. Clare's hand as he smiles]  She needs poetry.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : She needs to eat.

• [Victor Frankenstein and John Clare discuss the cause and effects of Lily's memory returning with her speech] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If Proteus was any model to go by, she'll pick up language quickly. Even more quickly since I reduced the trauma of the electrical charge. It will come back to her. So too human interaction and, well, perhaps memory.

  John Clare : And then?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't know. Proteus was just beginning to regain the memory of his former life, when you killed him.

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare walks in Victor's face]  You don't need to remind me of my sins. Just never forget your own.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [while Victor looks to Lily]  And this? Creating another sin?

  John Clare : Atoning for your first. All the love and companionship you denied me, visit upon her. She is our future, Creator. Tread carefully.

• [Ferdinand Lyle tells the story of the Verbis Diablo to the group] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : So you're the Chappy who's going to translate the mythical language?

  Ferdinand Lyle : Not so mythical as you think, young man. The Verbis Diablo, the Devil's Tongue, has roots as old as Aramaic, and likely much older. It was an oral tradition for the most part, like most now dead languages. We haven't entirely lost it, we've just forgotten it.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : And if I were to tell you it's spoken now? In London?

  Ferdinand Lyle : I should express surprise, but not complete bafflement. Note I said it was an oral tradition for the most part. There is one written example of the language. Relics of a sort. In a long-forgotten box deep in the archives of the British Museum, and I can't imagine anyone has looked at them in years. In the 11th century, a Carthusian monk known to us as Brother Gregory began to lose his mind. He said he was possessed by a demon, perhaps the father of all demons, the fallen angel himself. In any event, this demon spoke to him in the Verbis Diablo. Brother Gregory wrote down what it said on whatever was to hand. Having nothing like science to consult, his brothers finally pronounced Brother Gregory mad, and locked him away. But his lunatic ravings are now in the British Museum. The only existing written example of this seemingly dead language. If we seek to understand the Verbis Diablo, we must start there.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Lily discuss Lily's name] 

  Lily : You haven't told me. What's my name?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Lily. Your name is Lily. The flower of resurrection and rebirth.

  Lily : Why does that make me sad? Why should a flower make me sad. I don't understand. The words come out, but with so little meaning.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Lily cries in Victor's shoulder]  Shh. Be still. It will take time. But you'll learn. I'll show you what life is.

  Lily : Cousin, teach me. I am at your mercy.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I shall.

  [the two continue to hold each other] 

• [Ferdinand Lyle finishes the story of the Verbis Diablo] 

  Vanessa Ives : What happened to Brother Gregory?

  Ferdinand Lyle : Ah. Locked away by his brothers, the visitations from the demon did not abate. They were deep within him. A curse, if you will. Seemingly inescapable.

  Vanessa Ives : And?

  Ferdinand Lyle : After years of confinement, and torment, they were finally convinced that he was not in fact mad, but possessed by the devil. They burned him at the stake.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : God love religion.

• [Lily asks Victor Frankenstein who is this John Clare to her] 

  Lily : Who was he? The other man when I awoke. The strange one.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : He was just someone you used to know. You were intended.

  Lily : To marry?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Yes.

  Lily : Did I love him?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't know.

  Lily : Must I love him now?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : That's for you to say.

  Lily : There's so much that frightens me. I don't know how to feel or act. In the smallest ways even. How to sit and speak.

  Lily : [Lily frighteningly replies]  Don't let me be hurt.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor calmly states]  I won't.

• Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If Proteus was any model to go by, she'll pick up language quickly. Even more quickly since I reduced the trauma of the electrical charge. It will come back to her. So too human interaction and, well, perhaps memory.

  John Clare : And then?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't know. Proteus was just beginning to regain the memory of his former life, when you killed him.

  John Clare : You don't need to remind me of my sins. Just never forget your own.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : And this? Creating another sin?

  John Clare : Atoning for your first. All the love and companionship you denied me, visit upon her. She is our future, Creator. Tread carefully.

• Lily : You haven't told me. What's my name?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Lily. Your name is Lily. The flower of resurrection and rebirth.

  Lily : Why does that make me sad? Why should a flower make me sad. I don't understand. The words come out, but with so little meaning.

  [cries] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Shh. Be still. It will take time. But you'll learn. I'll show you what life is.

  Lily : Cousin, teach me. I am at your mercy.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I shall.

• [Victor Frankenstein talks to Lily for the first time] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : My name is Victor Frankenstein.

  Lily : [Lily softly whispers back]  Victor.

  [Victor quivers with a shudder] 

• [Victor Frankenstein dyes the color of Lily's hair blonde] 

  Lily : Did I admire fair-haired ladies?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I did. They always seemed kinder. Like angels.

  Lily : [Lily smiles big]  You're making me into an angel. Or maybe just the cousin you always wanted.