Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

And They Were Enemies (2015)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein faces his imaginary undead creatures] 

  Proteus : Like a lamb I was, Victor. How could you let me be hurt?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor points to Mr. Clare]  Him. It was him.

  John Clare : What am I but an extension of you. All your sins emptied into me. I'm your other half... your truest self.

  Lily : Don't blame the children for the father's cruelty.

  Proteus : We were born innocent. You made us into monsters.

• [the imaginary undead creatures tell Victor Frankenstein they didn't have a choice] 

  John Clare : Did we ask for this life?

  Lily : Or was it your pride?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : To conquer death is... an ennobled calling. I am a scientist. A scientist.

• [the imaginary undead creatures remind Victor Frankenstein that they're his sins] 

  Lily : And so we walk with your sin... dead... and yet not fully alive.

  John Clare : Haunting the twilight, living between.

  Proteus : This is what you have made, Victor.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If I could go back... it would be different.

• [Ferdinand Lyle rides home with Victor Frankenstein and calls him his friend] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : It's good to have a friend on such a night.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I'll be fine.

  Ferdinand Lyle : I needed the friend, Doctor. I have not seen such things or done such things. And with such relish. God help me.

• [Victor Frankenstein pulls out his pistol on Lily and Dorian Gray] 

  Dorian Gray : [Dorian and Lily chuckle together]  Oh!

  Lily : Well, there's gallantry?

  Dorian Gray : Who did you have in mind to shoot?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Stop it!

• [Victor Frankenstein shoots Lily after she insults him] 

  Lily : Oh... you're too sweet. That night I took your awkward virginity, all thumbs he was. How trembling and terrified.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Stop it.

  Lily : Like a grubby little boy cramming his hand into the sweet jar.

  Lily : [Victor shoots Lily in the chest]  Please, Creator... you made me too well for that. Oh, yes, I know. Always have. You were so... sublimely malleable.

  [as Dorian tastes the blood from Lily's body]