A Discovery of Witches (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2018)

Teresa Palmer: Diana Bishop

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• Peter Knox : If this book is what I think it is, it contains the witches' first spells. It could tell us how we created vampires.

  Diana Bishop : That's just a myth.

  Peter Knox : Vampires have used their brute power and longevity to gain far too much control, but if we created them then we could uncreate them.

• Satu Järvinen : Magic attracts magic. But yours is hidden. Someone did something to you. Oh. You did it to yourself. Do you fear persecution? Is that it?

  Diana Bishop : I haven't until now.

• Marcus Whitmore : [shaking Diana's hand and inhaling her scent]  Wow! AB negative. Don't suppose I could take some of you blood, could I? It's tough getting a sample from a living witch.

  Diana Bishop : No, thank you.

  Miriam Shepherd : [slightly irritated, to Matthew]  If your friend isn't here to give blood, what is she here for exactly?

  Matthew Clairmont : I wanted to show Diana that the work we're doing here proves beyond all doubt that creatures are dying out. Vampires are failing to sire. Demons are increasingly prone to madness.

• Diana Bishop : [as they sit in his rooms, near tears]  You were right about creatures coming to look for the book. Peter Knox from the Congregation and there was this Scandinavian witch. I don't know... I don't know who she was.

  Matthew Clairmont : [with his back to her]  Try to calm down. Your adrenaline is very high.

  Diana Bishop : You can smell my adrenaline?

  Matthew Clairmont : Course I can...

  [as she relaxes and he turns around] 

  Matthew Clairmont : Thank you. Why did you come to me? Last time I saw you, you said you never wanted to see me again.

  Diana Bishop : I have no one else to talk to.

  Matthew Clairmont : You must have friends.

  Diana Bishop : No one I can trust.

  [gets up to leave] 

  Diana Bishop : It was a mistake to come here. I'm sorry I disturbed you.

  Matthew Clairmont : Does Knox want the book?

  Diana Bishop : He says it has the witches' first spells in it. Is that what you think it is?

  Matthew Clairmont : Peter Knox believes that witches created everything and everyone. I'm obviously not of that opinion. Does he know you sent it back?

  Diana Bishop : Yes... . He wants me to try and get it out again.

  Matthew Clairmont : Will you?

  Diana Bishop : I don't want him to have it.

• Peter Knox : The book came out for you and no one else.

  Diana Bishop : I told you, I don't know how that happened.

  Peter Knox : But you didn't tell me a vampire's been following you.

  Diana Bishop : How did you know about that?

• Satu Järvinen : [catching Diana on the jogging path]  That was quick.

  [looking at her hand] 

  Satu Järvinen : What did you do to your hand? I think the book did that to you when you opened it.

  Diana Bishop : Who are you?... You were in the library.

  Satu Järvinen : You were the magnet for it. Magic attracts magic. But yours is hidden. Someone did something to you. Oh, perhaps you did it to yourself. Do you fear persecution? It that it?

  Diana Bishop : I haven't until now. You were with Peter Knox. You tell him I won't get out his book.

• Matthew Clairmont : Magic is desire made real.

  Diana Bishop : That's what my aunts says.

• Diana Bishop : [about the book]  I'm not going to call it up for you.

  Peter Knox : Why not?

  Diana Bishop : Because I don't happen to like the idea of un-creating other species.

• Diana Bishop : I want to lead a normal life. I want to be normal.

  Gillian Chamberlain : I've known you for ten years. You couldn't be normal if you tried.

• Diana Bishop : The book's a palimpsest. Old words hidden under new. It was heavy. It smelt. It smelt odd. Three pages were cut out. The only page I saw showed a baby floating in an upside-down vessel. It was probably the alchemical child, although I've never seen it represented like that before.

  Matthew Clairmont : Thank you.