Too Old to Die Young (TV Mini Series)

Volume 4: The Tower (2019)

John Hawkes: Viggo

Quotes 

• Viggo : Once there was just men and nature. Then men came bearing crosses.

  Viggo : We used to believe that we were the centre of the universe. That the sun and the stars all revolved around us.

  Viggo : And we spent the last 500 years since Copernicus in this slow crawl... to where we are now; to this pinnacle of human achievement.

  Viggo : Where we finally bent nature to our will. We split the atom. We broke the fabric of reality. That's how far we've come.

  Viggo : Now the lights of our cities stretch further than the stars in the sky.

  Viggo : But the more perfect society gets... the more psychotic we become. We evolved through brutality.

  Viggo : that's why we had teeth and claws. Self preservation was the highest law.

  Viggo : But as time went on... the pack began to provide for us... and we abandoned our violent nature.

  Viggo : But it never went away. Laid beside us in our sleep. Waiting. And as it waited... we became slaves to the systems we built.

  Viggo : Now it's all falling apart.

  Viggo : Soon our cities will be washed away by floods. Buried in sand. Burned to the ground.

  Viggo : That's why you found me. Because you're no longer blind to all this.

  Viggo : When I was in the bureau... I got shot in the head. I lost my eye. My body deteriorated. And I died for three minutes.

  Viggo : But when I came back from the other side, everything was clear to me.

  Viggo : It was like I'd been given a gift. As the world fractures...

  Viggo : Someone...

  Viggo : Someone has to be there to protect innocence.