Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Glorious Horrors (2015)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives about the complications of him and Lily] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : My cousin and I... it's not without it's complications. That's what they call the workings inside watches. Did you know that? The intricate gears and mechanisms. Complications.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smiles]  Then enjoy them, Doctor. They will tick away, no matter what we do.

• [Vanessa Ives tells Victor Frankenstein she met a man named John Clare] 

  Vanessa Ives : You sound like my friend Mr. Clare.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What did you say?

  Vanessa Ives : A man I met recently. Same name as the poet, John Clare. He breaks my heart, Mr. Clare. A kindred spirit, I think. We met in the strangest way. Is it random we met, I wonder... or is it a hidden design like these relics?

• [the tension grows between Victor Frankenstein, Lily, Dorian Gray, and Angelique at the Ball] 

  Dorian Gray : [as Dorian compliments Lily's dancing]  Natural grace, unschooled by society... that's the greatest gift, isn't it?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Lots of natural grace in the country.

  Lily : I grew up in the country.

  Dorian Gray : Oh, where?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Lake District.

  Dorian Gray : The realm of poets.

  Angelique : And livestock.

• [Angelique and Victor Frankenstein are left alone at the Ball] 

  Angelique : We're abandoned, Doctor. I think some champagne, yes?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't drink spirits.

  Angelique : I won't hold that against you.

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives everything has an inner clockwork] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Science would tell us... there's always an inner clockwork. Nothing is happenstance.

  Vanessa Ives : Yet you wear a flower.

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives he's just like everyone else] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : It's the oddest thing, Miss Ives. My whole life, I've thought I was... bound to live with exceptionality. I was not like my brothers. I was resolutely this... disjointed thing, freakish thing. So I came to celebrate what uniqueness I had.

  Vanessa Ives : And now?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I wear a flower! I find, lo and behold... I'm just like everyone else.

• [Vanessa Ives asks Victor Frankenstein for the first dance] 

  Vanessa Ives : So, Doctor, will you give me the first dance?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Perhaps the second.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Vanessa Ives walks at the center of the Ball and sees the witches surround her, and the room and all of its guest dance under a rain of blood, as Vanessa faints]  Miss Ives! Miss Ives! Can you hear me! Can you hear me!

  Ferdinand Lyle : Miss Ives!