- [Vanessa and John Clare speak about life and God]
- John Clare: Is it not this, Miss Ives, the glory of life surmounts the fear of death. Good Christians fear hellfire, so to avoid it, they are kind to their fellow man. Good pagans do not have this fear, so they can be who they are, good or ill as their nature dictates. We have no fear of God, so we are accountable to no one but each other.
- Vanessa Ives: That's a profound responsibility.
- John Clare: And why you do this, no doubt. Helping those in need.
- Vanessa Ives: I came here for selfish reasons. Do you truly not believe in heaven?
- John Clare: I believe in this world and those creatures that fill it. That's always been enough for me. Look around you. Sacred mysteries at every turn.
- Vanessa Ives: But no exaltation in life beyond this?
- John Clare: [John quotes William Blake] To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour
- Vanessa Ives: With respect to Blake, I see no wild flowers here, only pain and suffering.
- John Clare: [Mr. Clare smiles] Then you need to look closer.
- [Vanessa confides in Sir Malcolm's companionship]
- Vanessa Ives: Tell me I deserve peace.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: I'm a poor minister for that, Vanessa. That's not been my life. But this I do know. I'll not leave your side. Wherever we walk, we walk together.
- Vanessa Ives: I don't know what I would do without you.
- [Vanessa and John Clare thank each other for the company]
- John Clare: Thank you for the soup.
- Vanessa Ives: Thank you for the conversation.
- Vanessa Ives: [Vanessa pauses while smiling at Mr. Clare] You have beautiful eyes.
- [Ethan Chandler and Ferdinand Lyle have a discussion about wolves]
- Ferdinand Lyle: On battle shields the heraldic iconography's not actually meant to strike terror in the opponent as you'd think. Rather, it's meant to evoke protection. The figures are more spirit guides and totems of significance to the owner. Dragons and griffons and the like.
- Ethan Chandler: So the wolves will protect.
- Ferdinand Lyle: Yes, grisly bit of business. But that's why they call them the Dark Ages.
- Ethan Chandler: I saw wolves where I grew up, in the New Mexico territory. Timber wolves. Enormous things.
- Ferdinand Lyle: Oh?
- Ethan Chandler: They hunted in packs. They'd isolate a cow or sheep or what have you by barking and growling. But when they finally attacked, it was completely silent. They'd... they'd tear out the windpipe first. You couldn't hear anything, but the blood splashing on the ground. They didn't protect anything. They just fed.
- [Vanessa speaks to Sir Malcolm about seeing the witches come to her]
- Vanessa Ives: Last night they came to me. They were there, as real as you are. Then... they weren't.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Vanessa...
- Vanessa Ives: Is this what it is to go mad. Your darkest fears made manifest before your eyes.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: You're not a neurotic, Vanessa.
- Vanessa Ives: Then tell me where am I to find peace! Not even my prayers are safe! Do you know what that's like?
- Sir Malcolm Murray: No. But I understand the fear of twisting things that move at night.
- [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.
- [Angelique asks Dorian Gray if he would like to accompany her back to her place]
- Angelique: I saw you sitting here and I thought to myself... well, I like to be around beautiful things. You should see my bedroom. Swags and Chintz to choke a horse, and I've choked my fair share. Would you like to see my bedroom? It's close.
- Dorian Gray: Sorry, not today.
- [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.
- Ferdinand Lyle: The British Museum holds the world's largest collection of historical pornography. Aside from the Vatican, of course.
- John Clare: Is it not this, Ms. Ives? The glory of life surmounts the fear of death. Good Christians fear Hellfire, so to avoid it they are kind to their fellow man. Good pagans do not have this fear, so they can be who they are. Good or ill, as their nature dictates. We have no fear of God, so we are accountable to no one but each other.
- Vanessa Ives: That's a profound responsibility.
- 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.
- Vanessa Ives: Is this what it is to go mad. Your darkest fears made manifest before your eyes.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: You're not a neurotic, Vanessa.
- Vanessa Ives: Then tell me where am I to find peace! Not even my prayers are safe! Do you know what that's like?
- Sir Malcolm Murray: No. But I understand the fear of twisting things that move at night.
- Vanessa Ives: Tell me I deserve peace.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: I'm a poor minister for that, Vanessa. That's not been my life. But this I do know. I'll not leave your side. Wherever we walk, we walk together.
- 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.
- [Ferdinand Lyle meets Ethan Chandler for the first time]
- Ferdinand Lyle: Mr. Chandler! You are so very tall. You render me Lilliputian.
- Ethan Chandler: Hello, Mr. Lyle.
- Ferdinand Lyle: American! I am undone.
- [Ferdinand giggles all over]
- [first lines]
- Vanessa Ives: [Vanessa knocks on Sir Malcolm's bedroom door late at night] Sir Malcolm?
- Sir Malcolm Murray: [Sir Malcolm from the other side of the door] Come in.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: [Vanessa walks in] What's happened?
- [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]
- [Vanessa and John Clare speak about words and religion]
- Vanessa Ives: [Vanessa whispers as the two see a group of nuns] They make me nervous.
- John Clare: Who?
- Vanessa Ives: The nuns.
- John Clare: Why?
- Vanessa Ives: I was raised in the faith. It was arduous for me. Have you religion?
- John Clare: Are you offering it?
- Vanessa Ives: Do you require it?
- John Clare: I never have.
- John Clare: Then I shan't offer. And I would be a poor advocate. The Almighty and I have a challenging past. Not sure we're speaking these days.
- John Clare: [John chuckles] I read the Bible when I was younger. But. Then I discovered Wordsworth, and the old platitudes and parables seemed anemic. Even unnecessary.
- Vanessa Ives: Mr. Wordsworth has a lot to answer for, then.
- [John chuckles again]
- [Dorian Gray meets Angelique for the first time]
- Dorian Gray: My name is Dorian Gray.
- Angelique: Angelique. No last name. Utterly mysterious, don't you think?
- Dorian Gray: I don't know what to think.
- Angelique: Probably best. Thinking would age you terribly. It's best you stay beautiful and a bit simple.
- Dorian Gray: Oh.
- Angelique: You are beautiful, did you know that?
- Dorian Gray: I've been thought so.
- Angelique: Don't be coy. I tried coyness once, couldn't carry it off.
- [Angelique leaves Dorian Gray an invitation to meet up again]
- Angelique: I had my heart broken once. But not as a child, as a woman. A true pain that was I swore to myself, never again.
- Dorian Gray: Did you keep your oath?
- Angelique: Yes. And my life is sadder because of it. If you ever shall want to mend your heart, this is where I work.
- Dorian Gray: [Angelique slides Dorian a card] And your heart?
- Angelique: Waiting.
- Angelique: [Angelique whispers to Dorian's face] Stay young and beautiful, Dorian Gray. It suits you.
- [Ferdinand Lyle and Ethan Chandler joke about bringing Chandler's guns to some investigation work]
- Ferdinand Lyle: [Ferdinand eyes Mr. Chandler] Will you bring your gun belt?
- Ethan Chandler: Both guns.
- [Ferdinand quietly chuckles]
- [Sir Malcolm goes out to a gun range with Madame Kali]
- Madame Kali: [Sir Malcolm misses his shots] Courage, dear.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: It's pulling to the left, a bit.
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali laughs] Always blame the equipment.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Would you like to try a new gun?
- Madame Kali: Oh, I'll try anything new. Aside from vegetables.
- [Madame Kali continues shooting with Sir Malcolm while discussing his late wife with him]
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali holds out a new model of a pistol] A man's gun. An extension of a man's arm. Like the bow of an elegant battleship.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Just so you know, about my wife. There is no love between us, not for some time, if I'm honest. But I am bound to her. That is how I must live now, and in the future.
- Madame Kali: I appreciate your honesty, Malcolm. And it's always good to have something to aim at.
- [Madame Kali fires the pistol, hitting a bulls-eye]
- [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.
- [last lines]
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali looks to Hecate for the briefcase] You have it?
- [Madame Kali takes the briefcase of the murdered baby from her]
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali speaks to her spy Ferdinand] Remain, little man.