Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Fresh Hell (2015)

Helen McCrory: Madame Kali

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Quotes 

• [Madame Kali tells a story to her Nightcomer witches] 

  Madame Kali : Do you know what this room holds? The old Romans called them, 'Memento Mori.' Tokens of death. The story goes that a famous general was returning from battle, his chariot piled high with the golden spoils of his victory. He thrust out his chest to proclaim his invincibility to the people. Well, a slave saw this and threw an old bone at the general's feet, saying, 'Remember, death comes for us all.' And from that day, it became a custom in Rome that a slave stand in the chariot behind every general returning in victory, holding a skull and whispering into his ear...

  Madame Kali : [Madame Kali speaks in Latin]  'Look behind you. Remember that you are a man. Remember that you will die.'

  Madame Kali : [as Madame Kali cuts the throat to one of her witches, killing her dead]  Take that bitch away.

• [last lines] 

  Madame Kali : [Madame Kali swear an oath to the Master Lucifer]  Master. My beloved Lucifer. I have found her for you and she shall be yours. I shall assault her days and her nights, her dreams and her prayers. No corner of her soul shall be safe. Every beat of her heart shall know only suffering. I will not fail you. I will not fail you. I will not fail you.

  [Madame Kali speaks in the Verbis Diablo, as Vanessa Ives prays to God in Latin for his protection] 

• [Madame Kali sings while laying in a bathtub full of blood] 

  Madame Kali : My breast is cold / And the land is clay / My breath is earthly strong / And if you kiss / My cold gray lips / Your days they won't be long / How often yonder grave, Sweetheart / Where we were won't to walk / The fairest flower that e'er I saw / Has withered to a stalk / When will we meet again, Sweetheart / When will we meet again? / When the Autumn leaves / that fall from trees / Are green / And spring up again

• [Madame Kali tells Hecate Poole about the Master wanting Vanessa Ives] 

  Madame Kali : The Master won't be denied his prize. Even now he twitches for his beloved, his great tail wrapping around her ankle and up and up.

  Hecate Poole : [as the two breathe to each other's lips]  Yes!