Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Night Work (2014)

Josh Hartnett: Ethan Chandler

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Quotes 

• [Vanessa Ives tells Ethan Chandler what she thinks of him] 

  Vanessa Ives : I have a need for a gentleman who's comfortable with firearms, and not hesitant to engage in dangerous endeavors. Or was that all a tall tale as well?

  Ethan Chandler : What do you think?

  Vanessa Ives : Expensive watch, but threadbare jacket. Sentimental about the money you used to have. Your eye is steady, but your left hand tremors. That's the drink, so you keep it below the table, hoping I won't notice. You have a contusion healing on your other hand, the result of a recent brawl with a jealous husband, no doubt. Your boots are good quality leather, but have been resoled more than once. I see a man who's been accustomed to wealth, but has given himself to excess and the unbridled pleasures of youth. A man much more complicated than he likes to appear.

• [Ethan Chandler questions Sir Malcolm and Vanessa Ives after witness the undead vampires] 

  Ethan Chandler : Who the fuck are you people?

• [Sir Malcolm tells Ethan Chandler to not be amazed on what he will see during the night work] 

  Ethan Chandler : One - One minute. What're we doing here?

  Sir Malcolm : We're looking for someone. More than that, you don't need to know. Do not be amazed at anything you see and don't hesitate.

• [Vanessa Ives gives Ethan Chandler an explanation for the night work] 

  Vanessa Ives : Do you believe there is a demimonde, Mr. Chandler? A half world between what we know and what we fear. A place in the shadows, rarely seen but deeply felt. Do you believe that?

  Ethan Chandler : Yes.

  Vanessa Ives : That's where we were last night. Where some unfortunate souls are cursed to live always. If you believe in curses, that is.

• [Vanessa Ives meets Ethan Chandler for the first time] 

  Vanessa Ives : You didn't tell the truth. By my reckoning, you were a boy when General Custer died and 'tis well known there were no survivors.

  Ethan Chandler : [Ethan smiles]  What we call a tall tale, darlin'.

  Vanessa Ives : Exceedingly tall.

  Ethan Chandler : Vice of my nation. We're storytellers.

• [Vanessa Ives watches Ethan Chandler's 'Sharpest Shooting Gun Slinger of the West' exhibition] 

  Ethan Chandler : [shooting with precision]  Just about then, I seen big old crazy horse himself, riding up with his band of bloodthirsty Sioux killers.

  Ethan Chandler : [firing aimlessly to the pottery]  General Custer gave the word, his blonde hair flapping in the breeze like something from myth. Says he: 'Stand here and fight boys! Fight for your very lives!' And so fight I did.

  Ethan Chandler : [continuing to fire without missing]  One of the survivors who lived to bring you this tale of pluck and daring. Thanks for coming out today and I hope that I have found some favor among you estimable gentlemen... and ladies.

  [Mr. Chandler then shoots the feathers off a woman's hat] 

• [Ethan Chandler finishes having sex with a local London woman] 

  Beautiful Young Woman : Will I see you again?

  Ethan Chandler : Would that I could. Show's heading off to Paris. So many details to attend to... you understand? The life of a theatrical gentleman is peripatetic, darlin'.

  Beautiful Young Woman : But I was under...

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler forces his kiss on the beautiful woman]  Just know that you've made my visit here truly memorable. I shall never forget you.

  Beautiful Young Woman : ...Perhaps you'd like to know my name then.

• [Vanessa Ives asks for some night work help as Ethan Chandler makes a joke] 

  Vanessa Ives : I have a need for some night work.

  Ethan Chandler : Oh, honey, don't we all?

• [Vanessa Ives invites Ethan Chandler to join her on a nightly adventure] 

  Vanessa Ives : The job's tonight.

  Ethan Chandler : Is it a murder?

  Vanessa Ives : Would it matter?

  Ethan Chandler : [Ethan smiles]  One smile and I say yes.

  [as Vanessa Ives smiles] 

• [Ethan Chandler meets Victor Frankenstein for the first time] 

  Ethan Chandler : You're a man with a bloody knife like everybody else out there. So stop putting on airs.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : American?

  Ethan Chandler : You are clever.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Do you know anything about electrical currents? Your country is making such strides as we labor in the dark ages of coal and peat. Have you any experience with principles and applications of galvanism?

  Ethan Chandler : Oh, the usual.

• [Victor Frankenstein examines the dead body of the master vampire] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Lividity, null. Rigor mortis, null. Notable ocular hyperemia. Ocular reaction, null. Dental malformation, not naturally occurring due to the isotropy. Nature's rarely so neat, nature abhors symmetry. Trauma and penetration of the chest cavity through the manubrium seems the likely cause of death, but I expect you know that. Age of the subject is impossible to determine, the teeth seem barely used, which seems unlikely given the... muscular development. The dermis is unusual. Seems to lack the normal cutaneous exocrine pores. Hand me that.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor uses a scalpel to cut into the flesh]  Well, I know why the skin seems peculiar.

  Sir Malcolm : Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Forceps? Because it isn't skin. Not as we know it. It's more like a... tensile exoskeleton, along the lines of an insect or crustacean. He must've been a hearty devil.

  Ethan Chandler : You're not kidding.

• [Vanessa Ives tells Ethan Chandler what kind of man he is] 

  Vanessa Ives : Are you a wise man, Mr. Chandler?

  Ethan Chandler : Not especially.

  Vanessa Ives : A wise man would walk away from this house and make a concerted effort to forget everything that occurred last night. He would not look back.

  Ethan Chandler : That sounds like a warning.

  Vanessa Ives : It's an invitation. Should you be so unwise as to entertain the idea, we have continued use of a man of your skills. Your kind of man.

  Ethan Chandler : And what kind is that?

  Vanessa Ives : A man of great violence and hidden depths. You play your role well, Mr. Chandler, but this is not who you are.

• [Vanessa Ives bids Ethan Chandler farewell when he doesn't take up her offer to join her and Sir Malcolm] 

  Vanessa Ives : I hope you enjoy your life as an actor. It seems to be what you're suited for. But if you find yourself in that demimonde we spoke of, and seek to escape it, you know my address.

  Ethan Chandler : And what do you seek to escape?

  Vanessa Ives : Perhaps the same thing you do. We all have our curses, don't we? Good day, Mr. Chandler.

  Ethan Chandler : Miss Ives.