Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Little Scorpion (2015)

Josh Hartnett: Ethan Chandler

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• [Vanessa and Ethan Chandler listen to the storm] 

  Vanessa Ives : I love storms. Primordial. Every bit of civilization gone. Everything true coming out.

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler looks out into the storm]  Let it.

  Vanessa Ives : You don't fear it?

  Ethan Chandler : Not now.

  Vanessa Ives : This must've been how the world was created.

  Ethan Chandler : Or how it ends.

• [last lines] 

  Ethan Chandler : [Ethan Chandler lectures at Vanessa for the witchcraft she used to kill Sir Geoffrey Hawkes]  Do you feel better now? Now that you're a murderess? I suppose that's what you learned here, isn't it? From your nice old lady friend. How to kill babies? How to kill men? You do belong here.

  Vanessa Ives : I know what I've done.

  Ethan Chandler : Do you? Do you know what it is... to walk with someone's body tied around your neck for the rest of your goddamn life? Do you know what that is, little girl? Let me tell you about it. First time is hard. I'm sure you cried a bit, didn't you? Don't worry, that'll pass. Second time is easier. Third time, you don't blink. Then it's all just repetition. You don't cry anymore. You don't even remember when you used to cry. You're alive and they're dead. Fuck 'em!

  Vanessa Ives : Stop it!

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler holds on Vanessa's shoulders]  You'll never get your soul back. Not ever. Do you understand that?

  Vanessa Ives : Yes.

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler whispers]  Welcome to the night, Vanessa.

• [Vanessa picks some flowers while strolling with Ethan Chandler on the moors] 

  Vanessa Ives : Wood Betony, attracts bees for honey. Crushed and put into your pillow it prevents nightmares.

  Ethan Chandler : Ooh, get a lot of that.

  [Vanessa chuckles] 

• [Vanessa kneels down beside Ethan Chandler at the end of their stroll] 

  Ethan Chandler : Are you making a rabbit snare?

  Vanessa Ives : Surprised?

  Ethan Chandler : Who knew you were so handy?

  Vanessa Ives : Life isn't all tarot cards and pagan blood glyphs, you know.

  Ethan Chandler : You know what? You're gonna make someone a great little wifey one day.

  [Vanessa chuckles] 

• [Vanessa is accompanied by Ethan Chandler as the two prepare to enter the old Cut-Wife house] 

  Vanessa Ives : Do you believe a place can be haunted?

  Ethan Chandler : Yes.

  Vanessa Ives : Have you been in such a place?

  Ethan Chandler : Indian graveyard in Arizona. Indians I killed.

  Vanessa Ives : Were you frightened?

  Ethan Chandler : I felt I belonged there.

• [Vanessa teaches Ethan Chandler how to dance] 

  Vanessa Ives : It's the opposite of homicide. Always look in your opponent's eyes.

  Ethan Chandler : And then?

  Vanessa Ives : Proceed gently. Take my waist.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa places Ethan's hands where they need to be]  Up here, Mr. Chandler. And sway. And one, two, three. One, two, three.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa chuckles]  One, two, three. That's it.

• [Vanessa talks to Ethan Chandler about having a fear toward dolls] 

  Vanessa Ives : I mean, I played with them. You had to, or they thought you were deviant in some dreadful way, but I never liked them. My mother insisted on deploying them around my room like an army of little play friends. But every night, before I went to sleep, I ran around my room and knocked them over.

  Ethan Chandler : Ms. Ives!

  Vanessa Ives : Then every morning I would put them all back. God, those eyes staring at you, just waiting to come to life. Who thinks that's healthy for a child?

  Ethan Chandler : Well, I played with toy soldiers. Also not the best recipe for mental health when you think about it. All those things that mark you when you're young... they make you who you are. Never escape them.

• [Ethan Chandler talks to Vanessa about the monsters] 

  Ethan Chandler : They just wait, don't they?

  Vanessa Ives : What?

  Ethan Chandler : The monsters inside us.

  Vanessa Ives : Monsters?

  Ethan Chandler : What would you call them?

  Vanessa Ives : For me... demons. But one word is much like another.

  Ethan Chandler : And when they're released?

  Vanessa Ives : We're most who we are. Unrestrained. Ourselves.

• [Ethan Chandler is surprised at Vanessa's perfect aim with a pistol] 

  Ethan Chandler : You haven't done this before?

  Vanessa Ives : No. I suppose it just comes naturally.

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler smiles]  Why am I not surprised.

• [Ethan Chandler teaches Vanessa how to shoot a pistol] 

  Ethan Chandler : It's a different thing when you're firing at something alive.

  Vanessa Ives : How do you learn that?

  Ethan Chandler : Experience.

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler holds Vanessa's shoulders]  Aim at the middle of the body, don't get fancy. Don't aim at the head or limbs. And here's the real trick, which seems illogical, I know. Don't look in your opponent's eyes. That'll stop you every time. You think for one minute about what you're doing, and you won't do it. Stop being human. Become something else.

  Vanessa Ives : What?

  Ethan Chandler : An animal that has to survive. A predator. No emotion. Survival. And most important?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa whispers in reply]  Don't look into his eyes.

• [Vanessa tells Ethan Chandler how she wishes it could just end] 

  Vanessa Ives : I can't live forever violated. When I sleep, when I wake, when I pray, those demons tearing into me. I once begged you to put a bullet through my heart, but you thought it kindness to spare me. It was cruelty!

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler grabs Vanessa's shoulders]  You will not die while I'm here. You will not surrender while I live. If I have one goddamn purpose in my cursed life, it's that.

  Vanessa Ives : You are one man.

  Ethan Chandler : More than that and you know it. We are not like others. We have claws for a reason.

• [first lines] 

  Sembene : [Sembene sits with Ethan Chandler, telling him of the transformation he just witnessed]  Things become other things. The leopard consumes the monkey and becomes leopard and monkey. The crocodile consumes the leopard and becomes crocodile and leopard... and monkey. I have seen this. The Shamans in my mountain call it Uchawi Mabadiliko... the changing from one skin into another. The ones so cursed do not always fully remember it, this... becoming. Is it a sickness... or is it something else? Is it a blessing, the purpose of which we cannot yet see? I say this is what it is. For I know you, my friend, Ethan Chandler. I see inside you, past the crocodile... and the leopard... and the monkey. And the wolf.

  Ethan Chandler : [Mr. Chandler exhales]  Tell me what you saw.

• [Vanessa tries to ask Ethan Chandler about his secret] 

  Vanessa Ives : Tell me. We're alone. Speak quietly, but tell me.

  Ethan Chandler : Tell you what?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa puts her hand on the back of Mr. Chandler's neck]  We can whisper about those things that hurt us.

  Vanessa Ives : [Mr. Chandler doesn't answer her question]  You need to learn to protect yourself.

• [Vanessa strolls with Ethan Chandler, talking about her unique connection to Sir Malcolm] 

  Vanessa Ives : For years now, Sir Malcolm and I, have had a very private relationship. In a way, I think I savored that. The intensity of it. Perhaps I even fed on it.

  Ethan Chandler : And Mrs. Poole threatens that?

  Vanessa Ives : Doesn't she? He lost his anger. That resentment and rage is what we shared. Our bond was of our mutual suffering.

  Ethan Chandler : Despite all that, you're still the closest thing to a family he's got left.

  Vanessa Ives : He didn't go to his own wife's funeral. Doesn't that demonstrate his allegiance to his family?

  Ethan Chandler : Because it was too painful, maybe.

  Vanessa Ives : You know better. He's in love. The memories of his past, including me, are clouds he doesn't want to face. And why should I demand him to? Just so I can retain my unique bond with him? It's selfish. My God, let him be happy.

• [Ethan Chandler talks to Vanessa about the late Brona Croft and Sir Malcolm] 

  Ethan Chandler : When I was with Ms. Croft, I was more content than I ever thought I could be. For once in my life, I didn't feel like running away. I felt out of place to want to belong.

  Vanessa Ives : She was your moors. Your solitude.

  Ethan Chandler : In a way. Sir Malcolm's just looking for where he belongs now. Without Mina. Without you, even. But when he settles down, he'll come around, he won't forget about you. I certainly didn't.

• [Sir Geoffrey Hawkes confronts Vanesssa and Ethan Chandler out in the woods] 

  Sir Geoffrey Hawkes : [Sir Hawkes approaches the two with a pack of dogs]  One word from me and you don't have an arm anymore. They know how to behave. You know how to get a dumb animal to behave? You feed it with your own hand. You don't let anyone else do it. You give them food or you don't. You let some of them starve so the others see. So they know their lives depend entirely on your will. Learned how to behave yet, little bitch?

  Ethan Chandler : That's enough.

  Sir Geoffrey Hawkes : Not hardly, lad. Maybe I come visit you, eh? Bring a match and start another fire. Young flesh burns best.