Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

And Hell Itself My Only Foe (2015)

Douglas Hodge: Bartholomew Rusk

Quotes 

• [Ethan Chandler threatens Inspector Rusk for if he's cornered] 

  Ethan Chandler : Cornered animals are the most dangerous.

  Bartholomew Rusk : But they are cornered, nonetheless.

• [Inspector Rusk tells Ethan Chandler about the phantom limb] 

  Bartholomew Rusk : Do you know the medical neurosis called the phantom limb? It's not uncommon when people lose an arm or a leg or such. I lost my arm, when I was constantly reaching things with it. It seemed so real, but it wasn't. More and more, I think this is all some... sort of phantom limb. Something is going on here which is not an actual arm or leg. Something not quite real... but completely true.

  Ethan Chandler : You mean otherworldly?

  Bartholomew Rusk : That's precisely what I mean. I couldn't codify it in a report log, nor could I capture it in a crime scene photograph. This place, those people... and you... are a phantom limb.

• [Ethan Chandler talks to Inspector Rusk about monsters] 

  Ethan Chandler : Are you a superstitious man?

  Bartholomew Rusk : Not by nature. But I'm learning to be. And the things I have seen over the years, Mr. Chandler, have made me a bit mad, I think. Set a thief to catch a thief.

  Ethan Chandler : And set a monster to catch a monster?

  Bartholomew Rusk : Very like. My less monstrous colleagues will be on duty night and day, you can be assured.

• [Inspector Rusk reveals to Ethan Chandler that he knows of his true identity] 

  Bartholomew Rusk : Good evening, Mr. Talbot. Yes. I have penetrated your fanciful stage name. Ethan Lawrence Talbot. Born the year of our Lord 1857 in the New Mexico Territory, enlisted in the United States Calvary March the 2nd, 1882. Your complete War Department dossier is currently being ferreted out from thick ledgers in various departmental agencies in Washington. When it arrives, I'm sure it'll make fascinating reading. Really... you would do well to make a clean breast of it. The quarry has been run to his hole. He has lost his anonymity and freedom of movement. He should know when he is captured.