Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Séance (2014)

Alex Price: Proteus

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Quotes 

• [Proteus sees a lit flame while strolling outside for the first time with Victor Frankenstein] 

  Proteus : [Proteus smiles]  Fairy lights.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What? No, that's something called gas lighting. It's an invisible chemical, which means you can't see it. It has combustible properties that produce flame, thus... illumination.

  Proteus : Victor, fairy lights.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Who am I to argue?

• [Proteus meets Brona Croft] 

  Proteus : Enjoy the fairy lights.

  Brona Croft : [Brona smiles]  I always do.

• [Proteus and Victor Frankenstein discuss what friends are] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : We met Mr. Ethan Chandler...

  Proteus : And Miss Brona Croft. Our friends on the river...

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Well, perhaps not friends, passing acquaintances, more like.

  Proteus : Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Friends are something different. They're people you've known for a while. You're comfortable with, close to.

  Proteus : [Proteus smiles]  Like Victor.

• [Proteus talks to Victor Frankenstein about having more friends] 

  Proteus : Will I have many?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If you're lucky.

  Proteus : I shall have many. Ten. More than ten if we...

  [when Proteus is stabbed in the back, looking down to see his chest open apart] 

• [Victor has his new Creature choose his own name of Proteus] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor flips the pages to a Shakespeare book, dropping his finger into the pages]  Uuuuuuuummmmmm...

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Your turn.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor flips the pages, when the Creature slaps his finger down]  Proteus.

  Proteus : [Proteus says his first word]  Proteus.

• [Proteus begins singing a fisherman's song while sitting across from Victor Frankenstein] 

  Proteus : Oh the times was hard and the wages low / Leave her, Johnny, leave her! / But now once more ashore we'll go / An' it's time for us to leave her!