Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Closer Than Sisters (2014)

Timothy Dalton: Sir Malcolm Murray

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• [Vanessa Ives asks for Sir Malcolm's forgiveness, as the two join each other to find Mina] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Do you know how many men I have killed? In Africa we walked in blood every step. There was a time I would gladly have killed you. There may come a time I gladly shall. But for now, I can make use of you.

  Vanessa Ives : And no more?

  Sir Malcolm Murray : What else? Forgiveness? Go to your Roman church for that, you'll find none here.

  Vanessa Ives : Have you imagined for one moment what this has been for me? An unforgivable transgression that has marked me for life. You think you've suffered. You think you know blood. You think you've walked on corpses. Spread them from here to the horizon and I have walked further! You weak, foul, lustful, vainglorious, man. How dare do you speak to me of death.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Then we will speak it together.

• [the Master in the form of Sir Malcolm asks Vanessa Ives if she will close that door to her life] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : You could have shut the door at any time. You still can. Right now. Will you?

  Vanessa Ives : Yes.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : And give up everything we could have together? The true knowledge of man's virtue, as well as his sin. The power. The sight beyond this world.

  Vanessa Ives : I want nothing beyond this world.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Don't lie to me. You've always been drawn to the deep ocean, to the dark whisper, a mirror behind the glass eyes. To life at its fullest. Will you close that door now?

• [the Master in the form of Sir Malcolm tells Vanessa Ives to join him] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : [quoting John Keats]  'Darkling, I listen and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath.'

  Vanessa Ives : [as Vanessa kisses the Master]  So the darkness spoke.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Yes. But you listened.