Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

And They Were Enemies (2015)

David Haig: Oscar Putney

Quotes 

• [Oscar and Octavia Putney slide Mr. Clare some food into his cage] 

  Oscar Putney : Mrs. Putney has prepared you some food. Though she's a bit parsimonious when it comes to the victuals.

  Octavia Putney : Husband!

  Oscar Putney : You know it's true. Heavy on the spices, light on the joint, as they say.

• [Octavia Putney tells Mr. Clare that she's surprised he hasn't started screaming from in his cage] 

  Octavia Putney : You haven't tried screaming yet.

  John Clare : I was not made to scream.

  Oscar Putney : Some scream, some cause others to scream, eh?

• [Oscar Putney gives a proposition to the caged Mr. Clare] 

  Oscar Putney : I have a proposition I'd like you to consider. We have a future ahead of us now, do the Putney's. As ballyhoo's go, my crime scenes were an ace success. And my freak show will beggar that. Queues stretching from here to Hackney, we'll have... once we get a few more of you in. Why, right now I've a line on a limbless boy who sits in an apple crate, and some malformed doxie we can claim as 'Sister to the late and lamented Mr. Merrick, The Elephant Man.'

  John Clare : And?

  Oscar Putney : And you've a choice. You can share in on the success... or you can suffer. Join us, Mr. Clare.

• [Oscar Putney tells the caged Mr. Clare he'll pay him for helping his freak show] 

  Octavia Putney : That got his attention.

  Oscar Putney : Money has a way of doing that. Look here, I don't think Harry Public enjoys seeing miserable freaks. I think he likes to see jolly freaks, doing the odd trick.

  Octavia Putney : Odd trick, mmm.

  Oscar Putney : You play along, we'll give you a share of the take. Think how nice a few schillings will sound in your pocket.

• [Oscar and Octavia Putney tell Mr. Clare he can be the king of the freaks] 

  Oscar Putney : You do your job. You let the punters take a good gander and you give 'em a proper fright

  Octavia Putney : Trick or two.

  Oscar Putney : [Oscar smiles]  You welcome the new arrivals, tell 'em what's what. Ease their transition into servitude. A father to all of the other freaks, if you will.

  Octavia Putney : King of the Freaks.

  [as Mr. Clare rips off the cell door to his cage, breaking Octavia's throat and bashing Oscar's head into the brick wall repeatedly]