Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Little Scorpion (2015)

Harry Treadaway: Dr. Victor Frankenstein

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• [Victor Frankenstein and Ferdinand discuss what the Devil's plan is] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : One phrase, 'The Hound of God.' Like a musical refrain sounding over and over in our otherwise chronological narrative. Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : A bit of poetry, a flourish. I don't know.

  Ferdinand Lyle : No, no no. Think how your mind works, Doctor. When it can't settle something in peace you return to it again and again. It obsesses you.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Becomes a neurosis.

  Ferdinand Lyle : Procisely, and it's repeated neurotically here. Like the Demon chewing on a bone it couldn't swallow. It can't make peace with it.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : It's a danger to him.

  Ferdinand Lyle : Yes! Yes, the Demon, the Hound, the Scorpion. Endlessly circling one another.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Ferdinand discuss what love is] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What is love but a kind of creature awaiting to be undone? A malady. What does it bring any of us but... confusion and bedevilment? The Egyptians were hardly unique in that.

  Ferdinand Lyle : Yes, but to them it was quite literal. They called it the Scorpion's sting, a kind of eternal infection that had no end, not in time or death. The Gods Amunet and Amun-Ra were immortal and their love was without end as well. According to the myth, if they were to become conjoined, 'All light would end and the world would live in darkness. The Hidden Ones would emerge and rule.'

• [Victor Frankenstein and Ferdinand discuss what a demon is] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : Why does the Scorpion sting?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : To protect itself.

  Ferdinand Lyle : To kill its enemies.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : And the Demon's enemy?

  Ferdinand Lyle : God!