Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Memento Mori (2015)

Timothy Dalton: Sir Malcolm Murray

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• [Madame Kali suspects Sir Malcolm of being Vanessa Ives' father] 

  Madame Kali : You knew her when she was born, didn't you?

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Yes.

  Madame Kali : You saw her grow into the fine young woman she is?

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Yes.

  Madame Kali : Yeah. You watched her rather carefully, I'd say.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Did I?

  Madame Kali : Of course you did. She was always your favorite. It's good we care for our daughters.

• [Sir Malcolm tells Victor Frankenstein who he's become in the mirror] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : All my life, I've been a man who sought singular achievement and fed on rage and dissatisfaction. My character was one of monomaniacal anger. My blood thrilled to the lash. I was cruel to my wife, and to my children, and grew more famous in the process... more myself.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : And now?

  Sir Malcolm Murray : I've become alienated from the cruel man who used to look back at me in the mirror.

• [Madame Kali reveals her intentions to Sir Malcolm in wanting him for a companion] 

  Madame Kali : Eternal life, eternal beauty. Such shallow pursuits. What value do they hold if we walk always alone? I've been too much alone... and this house is... so cold. But with you, I've found a kind of elation. To feel the old touch of passion. To yearn. To be truly human.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : My humanity, such as it is, is colder than this house.

  Madame Kali : [Madame Kali starts to tear up]  No. No arrogance or pride. This is your chance to live, Malcolm. Let's bury the past together. Your wife... your son, your daughter, and all my sins as well, which surely match your own. Far exceed them. I don't want to live alone. Nor do you. So take my hand and love me. We have no one else. And together we will walk quietly. So quietly.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : You know, if I could, I would tear that beautiful head from your shoulders and laugh all the while. But if you will let Miss Ives live, I will walk with you to the end of time.

• [Victor Frankenstein asks Sir Malcolm about love] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't have the proper tools to perform this operation. I don't know what I'm doing... honestly.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Oh, we're all neophytes in love, Victor. None of us have the tools, nor the weapons, nor the resources. Prepared as we think we are, we're defeated.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I have surmounted in my life. It's been my inexorable pattern of behavior. No mystery too deep... no puzzle too complex. They've fallen before me.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : I don't know what wisdom I can offer. We're in the same unknown jungle, my friend. We have to thrash our way out alone. Isn't that what love is?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : And if we're in danger of losing that love, and that... creates greater panic still, what do we do then?

  Sir Malcolm Murray : We suffer in our own ways. But we're all unequal to the task. We are... enchanted.

• [Madame Kali tells Sir Malcolm that she needs him to be bait for Vanessa Ives] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : What do you want of me?

  Madame Kali : You see, darling, I understand hunting as well. Though I've never been to your beloved Africa. Sometimes you tie a lamb to lure a lion, don't you? So all I require of you is that you...

  [as Madame Kali mimics the sound of a sheep bleating] 

• [last lines] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : [Sir Malcolm holds his dead son up from his coffin, crying]  Peter.

  [as Sir Malcolm feels two more coffins appear behind him, when his dead wife Gladys and dead daughter Mina sit up, when Peter's eyes open] 

• [Victor Frankenstein talks to Sir Malcolm about pain] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : It was the veins in my arms that told me. When they collapse, you have to find fresh ones. I'm running short. So I'm addicted. Which is no great terror to me... but the cause...

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Pain.