Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Fresh Hell (2015)

Rory Kinnear: John Clare

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Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein asks Mr. Clare if he'll leave him in peace after he does as he wishes] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : If this works, if I do as I've promised you, give you this thing living, will you leave me in peace?

  John Clare : You would do better to ask your soul to leave you. We are bound on a wheel of pain, thee and me. I ask you, what is Dr. Frankenstein without his Creature?

• [Mr. Clare meets Oscar Putney while seeking work at the wax museum] 

  Oscar Putney : No one wants to work here. People find it unnerving. But you don't?

  John Clare : I find it familiar.

• John Clare : What would Dr. Frankenstein be without his creature?

• [Mr. Clare asks Victor Frankenstein if the corpse of Brona Croft will remember her past life] 

  John Clare : Will she remember?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I don't know. I hope not.

  John Clare : Why?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Her life was benighted.

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare talks to the dead body]  We'll seek those shadows together, then.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Mr. Clare lower Brona Croft's body in the tub of water] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now we wait on the weather.

  John Clare : May Gods bring us storms.

• [Oscar Putney offers Mr. Clare a job at the wax museum after showing him his latest showcases] 

  Oscar Putney : This way. My chambers of crime! Homicide scenes plucked from the headlines, and recreated here in the most minute detail. Here's old Jack himself. The Annie Chapman murder. What we couldn't discover, we invented, of course. No one will know the difference. You tell the public a thing is real, it is. I'm preparing a series of 'em with all the ballyhoo one can muster. I need help with the construction and the tableaux , along with the usual custodial work throughout the museum. It's thankless work in dark rooms, but it's honest. What do you think?

  John Clare : Yes.

• [Mr. Clare meets Lavinia Putney after being hired at the Putney Wax Museum] 

  Lavinia Putney : Mr. Clare. May I touch your face?

  John Clare : It is not a face for touching.

  Lavinia Putney : Then I will never meet you. Please.

  John Clare : If you must.

  Lavinia Putney : [Lavinia runs her hands over the scars on Mr. Clare's face]  It is good to meet you, Mr. Clare.

• [Victor Frankenstein and Mr. Clare scream at the storm as they prepare to resurrect the corpse of Brona Croft] 

  John Clare : Please, let her live. Let her live, now! Let her live!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now!

  John Clare : Let her live, now!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Now!

  John Clare : [Mr. Clare screams]  Now!

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : [Victor screams]  Now!