Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

And They Were Enemies (2015)

Alex Price: Proteus

Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein faces his imaginary undead creatures] 

  Proteus : Like a lamb I was, Victor. How could you let me be hurt?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor points to Mr. Clare]  Him. It was him.

  John Clare : What am I but an extension of you. All your sins emptied into me. I'm your other half... your truest self.

  Lily : Don't blame the children for the father's cruelty.

  Proteus : We were born innocent. You made us into monsters.

• [the imaginary undead creatures blame Victor Frankenstein for his abuse] 

  Lily : And when you touched my naked body? Your fingertips running along my flesh. This was abuse... not science.

  Proteus : I was your friend. I never had another.

  John Clare : You walked away at the moment of my birth.

• [the imaginary undead creatures remind Victor Frankenstein that they're his sins] 

  Lily : And so we walk with your sin... dead... and yet not fully alive.

  John Clare : Haunting the twilight, living between.

  Proteus : This is what you have made, Victor.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If I could go back... it would be different.

• [the imaginary dead figures tell Victor Frankenstein and Sir Malcolm to join them] 

  John Clare : [the undead creatures sit around Victor]  You have the engines of the future all around you.

  Lily : The needle. The scalpel. The noose.

  Mina Harker : [the dead family stand around Sir Malcolm]  The gun to the temple.

  Gladys Murray : Take your razor and slit your throat.

  Peter : Join your family.

  Mina Harker : The final tombstone on the hill.

  Lily : The sip of poison from the amber bottle.

  Gladys Murray : The single bullet under the chin.

  John Clare : There is no other peace for thee, Frankenstein.

  Proteus : Walk into the river... let it bring you quiet. Enjoy our company.

  Gladys Murray : One of us again.

  Peter : Father.

  Proteus : Husband.

  Proteus : Father.

  Lily : Lover.

  John Clare : Brother.