Underworld (2003)

Bill Nighy: Viktor

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• Singe : For years, we've been trying to combine the bloodlines. And for years, we've failed. It was useless. Even at the cellular level, our species seemed destined to destroy each other. Yet the key, we knew... was to locate the rarest of bloodlines... a direct descendant of Alexander Corvinus... Hungarian, a warlord... who came to power in the early seasons of the fifth century. Just in time to watch a plague ravage his village. He alone survived. Somehow, his body was able to change the disease... mold it to his benefit. He became the first true immortal. And years later, he fathered at least two children... who inherited the same trait.

  Viktor : The sons of the Corvinus clan. One bitten by bat, one by wolf... one to walk the lonely road of mortality as a human. It's a riduculous legend, nothing more.

  Singe : That may be... but our species do have a common ancestor.

  Viktor : There is a decendant of Corvinus lying there

  [points to Marcus' grave] 

  Viktor : ... not three feet from you.

  Singe : Yes. But he's already a Vampire. We needed a pure source... untainted. An exact duplicate of the original virus. The Corvinus strain itself, which we learned... was hidden away in the genetic code of his human descendants... and passed along in its dormant form... down through the ages to Michael Corvin. His blood allows for a perfect union between our species.

  Viktor : There can be no such union. And to speak of it is heresy.

  Singe : We'll see. Once Lucian has injected him...

  Viktor : Lucian is dead.

  Singe : According to whom?

  [Kraven has left] 

  Viktor : [to Selene]  I can assure you my child... Kraven will pay with his life.

  Singe : Soon this house will lie in ruins.

  Selene : Not before you.

  Singe : No, wait. Wait. You and you alone will know the truth of this. If Lucian was able to get his hands on the blood of a Pure-Born... a powerful elder like Amelia... or yourself

  [motions to Viktor] 

  Singe : ... and inject it along with Michael's blood...

  Viktor : [Whispers]  Abomination.

  Singe : Half-Vampire... Half-Lycan... but stronger than both!

• Selene : It wasn't the Lycans. It was you. How could you bear my trust knowing that you killed my family?

  Viktor : Yes, I have taken from you but I have given so much more. Is it not a fair trade for life I have granted you? The gift of immortality?

  Selene : And the life of your daughter? Your own flesh and blood?

  Viktor : I loved my daughter. But the abomination growing in her womb was a betrayal of me and the coven. I did what was necessary to protect the species. As I am forced to do yet again.

• Viktor : Your incompetence is becoming most... *taxing*.

• Viktor : [Selene enters Viktor's chamber and kneels before him]  Come closer, my child.

  Selene : I've been lost without you, my Lord; constantly hounded by Kraven and his never-ending infatuation.

  Viktor : [chuckles]  It is the oldest story in the book; he desires the one thing he cannot have.

• Viktor : What's... this... *ruckus*?

• Viktor : You know why I have been awakened, servant?

  Kraven : No, my lord, but I will soon find out.

  Viktor : You mean - when you find her?

  Kraven : Yes, my lord.

  Viktor : You must let her come to me. We have much to discuss, Selene and I. She has shown me a great many disturbing things. Things that will be *dealt* with soon enough. This covern has grown weak, decadent. Perhaps I should have left someone else in charge of my affairs.

  [panting] 

  Viktor : Still, her memories are chaotic. There is no sense of time.

  Kraven : Please, my lord, let me summon assistance. You are in need of rest.

  Viktor : I have rested enough. What you will do is summon Marcus.

  Kraven : But he still slumbers, my lord. Amelia and the council members are arriving tomorrow night to awaken Marcus - not you, my lord. You have been awakened a full century ahead of schedule.

• Viktor : Now tell me, why have you come to believe that Lucian still lives?

  Selene : But I've given you all the proof you need.

  Viktor : Incoherent thoughts and images, nothing more - which is precisely why the awakening is performed by an elder. You do not possess the neccesary *skills*!

  Selene : But I did see Lucian, I shot him, you must believe me.

  Viktor : The chain has never been broken, not once, not in fourteen centuries, not since we elders first began to leapfrog through time - one awake, two aleep - that's the way of it. It is Marcus' time to reign, not mine!

  Selene : But I had no choice, the coven is in danger and Michael is the key...

  Viktor : [snaps head loudly]  Ah, yes... the lycan.

• Viktor : There is a good reason why these rules were created, and they are the only reason we have survived this long!

• Selene : How can you trust him over me?

  Viktor : Because he's not the one who has been tainted by an animal.