Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Nor Iron Bars a Cage (1987)

Ron Perlman: Vincent

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• Edward Hughes : Speak to me. Please. I know you can; I heard you. You've got to let me help you.

  Vincent : Then release me.

  Edward Hughes : So you can speak. And you can understand what I say?

  Vincent : Yes.

  Edward Hughes : Why did you keep silent in front of Gould?

  Vincent : The other man means me harm. No words would change that.

  Edward Hughes : I never meant you harm. You must believe that. Do you have a name?

  Vincent : Vincent.

  Edward Hughes : Vincent. My name is Hughes. I have so many questions. You spoke the name "Catherine". Who is Catherine?

  Vincent : She is everything, but she lives only in my heart.

  Edward Hughes : Is she like you? Another of your kind?

  Vincent : There is only me.

  Edward Hughes : Vincent... what are you?

  Vincent : I am only what I am. If you cut me, I will bleed. If you strike me, I will strike back. And if you keep me in chains, I will die.

• Vincent : You look like an angel standing there...

  Catherine Chandler : I needed to see you... I have to make a decision and I need your help.

• Catherine Chandler : I've been offered another job, Vincent. A much better job, with more responsibility. A chance to use my training, and to help people more than I'm able to now. But it would mean leaving New York.

  Vincent : Where would you go?

  Catherine Chandler : Providence, Rhode Island.

  Vincent : Providence is when... something is meant to be.

  Catherine Chandler : I don't know what's meant to be. Vincent, I care about you so deeply. But a part of me is unhappy. And we both know why.

  Vincent : Well, then you don't have any choice.

  Catherine Chandler : But I do. That's why I'm here.

  Vincent : You didn't come this far, Catherine, to turn back now.

  Catherine Chandler : I came this far because of you. I don't want to leave you behind.

  Vincent : Beyond these tunnels, beyond this city, is a world of possibilities and wonders, and... and things calling out to be done. These things I could only dream about until you came into my life. Catherine, don't you understand? You must go. You must see... you must do everything you were meant to do. For me, for both of us. And then, I can truly be with you. Always.

  Catherine Chandler : There's no other way?

  Vincent : No. Not for us.

• Jacob 'Father' Wells : Vincent, the pain you feel now will lessen in time, and finally pass. That I promise.

  Vincent : So the best I can hope for is to forget her? Forget everything?

  [pounding a tabletop in anger] 

  Vincent : Mine was another life before Catherine! I'm changed, forever.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : All right. Then accept the change. Learn from it. But you must let the woman follow her own path.

  [Vincent starts to leave] 

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : Vincent. For your sake.

  Vincent : Those are just words, Father, shadows of feelings. They offer no consolation.