Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Masques (1987)

Ron Perlman: Vincent

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• Vincent : Every year they ask for the same stories. By now they must know them better than you do.

  Father : Well, you know, old stories are rather like old friends. Every once in a while, you have to drop in on them, just to see how they're doing.

• Bridget : The night has a special magic to it, don't you think? This night, especially.

  Vincent : Halloween.

  Bridget : In the Old Religion they call it Samhain. It's a night when the walls between the worlds grow thin, and spirits of the Underworld walk the earth. A night of masks and balefires, when anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems. Your city has its own magic as well.

• Vincent : I've lived here all my life, and yet it's as though I've never seen the city. Until tonight.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : You've seen so much of the violence and hatred of my world. I wanted you to know that there's beauty, as well.

  Vincent : Oh... I know that. Ever since the night I found you, Catherine.

  Jogger : [passing by]  What the...? Oh, jeez! You gave me a real scare. Hey, man, Halloween was yesterday.

• Bridget : I'm beholden to you, Vincent. You cannot know what this means to me. Or perhaps you can, at that. Will you telling me of her, then?

  Vincent : Of who?

  Bridget : Your lady. The one who's breaking your heart. Ah, you didn't come to me just to say you liked me books. Something about Ian and me struck close to home.

  Vincent : She brings me... such joy... and such pain... as I have never known. I have no place in her world, she has none in mine. Our bond endangers everything. People I love, secrets I am sworn to keep, beliefs I've lived by.

  Bridget : Aye, that sounds like Ian and me, sure enough. They don't understand, do they? Father raged.

  Vincent : Yet you went on, despite everything.

  Bridget : Oh, yes, we went on until he died for it. Are you asking me for counsel, then? Forget you ever knew her and you'll both be happier.

  Vincent : You wrote that the price of your love had been high, but that you would pay it willingly, until the end of your days. That you would change nothing, regret nothing.

  Bridget : That's damned unfair of you, you know, quoting me own words back at me again after I gave you all that good advice. The brain tells you all the sensible things to do, but the heart knows nothing about sense, and the heart is as stubborn as the Irish.

• Vincent : Bridgit O'Donnell.

  Bridget : Herself.

  Vincent : I... didn't mean to interrupt your dancing.

  Bridget : An act of mercy. Thomas is a good friend and a brave man, but a dancer he's not. Extraordinary. You look as though you might have ridden with Cuchulainn, or sailed with Theseus.

  Vincent : Only in my dreams. And sometimes in books like yours. Your writing has helped me through dark times. You've touched me, made me think. I just wanted... to tell you. To thank you.

  Bridget : Come. Thank me outside.

• Father : You're still determined to go, are you? I wish you'd reconsider.

  Vincent : Father, surely on this night, of all nights, I can walk among them in safety.

  Father : Safety? Vincent, there is no safety up there. For you or anyone else.

  Vincent : Well... sometimes we must leave our safe places, Father, and walk empty handed among our enemies.

  Father : Those are Bridgit O'Donnell's words.

  Vincent : Those are true words. Words that have opened doors for me, let some light in on the dark places. You know what she's meant to me.

  Father : I do. And I also know there's a danger of confusing the magic with the magician. Sometimes the person is smaller than the work. Weaker, more frightened, more human. And I don't want to see you hurt, disappointed.

  Vincent : She will not disappoint me. Our lives are very different, and yet I'm sure we'll understand each other.