Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Glorious Horrors (2015)

Douglas Hodge: Bartholomew Rusk

Quotes 

• [Inspector Rusk talks to Ethan Chandler about the murders at the Mariner's Inn when viewing at the Putney Wax display] 

  Bartholomew Rusk : When I was in the Transvaal... I saw lions feed. It was much like the Mariner's Inn. They were always tearing pieces off and stealing away.

  Ethan Chandler : With a purpose... to eat.

  Bartholomew Rusk : Not always. Sometimes a shock would run through the animals, like a tremor, for no reason at all. A kind of bloodlust. I often wondered if they remembered it afterwards... this frenzy. What do you think?

• [Inspector Rusk tells Ethan Chandler what he did after losing his arm while at the Putney Wax Works] 

  Bartholomew Rusk : When they cut off my arm, I was anesthetized. When I woke... I went and found it in a pile of discarded limbs, not unlike this tableaux.

  Ethan Chandler : What did you do with it?

  Bartholomew Rusk : Oh, I tossed it back. I just needed to finish the story in my own way. Write 'finis' in bold letters... and move on.

• [Inspector Rusk tells Ethan Chandler his reason for no longer following him for the Mariner's Inn murders] 

  Bartholomew Rusk : No man involved with crimes like this can live with them forever. Better the quick hanging... than the slow torture of guilt, eh?