Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

The Nightcomers (2015)

Eva Green: Vanessa Ives

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• [the Cut-Wife speaks to Vanessa about the monsters in mankind] 

  Joan Clayton : Old as I am, I know nothing. Why people in this world hate what is not them. Why they fear all they don't know. Why they hate themselves most of all. For being weak. For being old. For being everything altogether that is not God-like. Which of us can be that? Monsters all, are we not?

  Vanessa Ives : Some perhaps more than others.

  Joan Clayton : Is that what you feel?

  Vanessa Ives : Yes.

  Joan Clayton : Then it will be true, as long as you feel it so.

• [Vanessa meets the Cut-Wife for the first time, standing outside her sacred property] 

  Joan Clayton : You want me to kill your baby?

  Vanessa Ives : What? No.

  Joan Clayton : You come for the love police then? You want a dandy man to be wooing you like.

  Vanessa Ives : No.

  Joan Clayton : Then the ague? The head-stammers? The pain in your joints when you take your man, for knell to the God.

  Vanessa Ives : No, I...

  Joan Clayton : Why are you here? You're not like them others.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa whispers from outside the property]  I'm not. I'm like no others. I'm like no others. That's why I'm here.

• [the Cut-Wife asks Vanessa one last question before she can enter her home] 

  Joan Clayton : I have a scar on my back. Tell me how I got it. Tell me.

  Vanessa Ives : How am I to know?

  Joan Clayton : [the Cut-Wife pulls Vanessa's head to her finger tips]  Right here. You go right here inside your mind. Close those eyes. You feel my spine through my fingers. Do this or turn around and take your pretty cunt elsewhere. Do this, I tell you! That's it girl. Good. You're strong-willed, and agile. Like the scorpion. Feel around my skull with your claws. Yes. Behind my eyes, you feel my bones down my spine.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa whispers]  Yes.

  Joan Clayton : Now feel out to my skin. To my past, to my pain.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa whispers louder]  Yes.

  Joan Clayton : What do you feel?

  Vanessa Ives : A woman. Her nails on your back. No, no, not her nails. Hotter, burning.

  Joan Clayton : Yes.

  Vanessa Ives : [the Cut-Wife let's go of Vanessa]  Burning. Burning my skin! A branding iron.

  Joan Clayton : [the Cut-Wife walks back to her house]  You can enter now. Leave everything you were outside this door. Everything you are, bring with you.

• [Vanessa and the Cut-Wife discuss the tarot Devil card] 

  Joan Clayton : Casting the tarot is a gift. When you know the Arcana, you can hear the echoes of time in your ear.

  Vanessa Ives : And the meaning?

  Joan Clayton : You'll learn. They are never always as they seem.

  Vanessa Ives : The Devil card?

  Joan Clayton : Not always the demon from Hell or the throat slit at midnight. It can mean other things. Tell me what.

  Vanessa Ives : Evil.

  Joan Clayton : Do better!

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa pauses to feel the exact emotion]  The dark lover approaching, bringing terror. Irresistible. Part of you, but not. The whisper of something ghastly and beautiful.

  Joan Clayton : That's more the feeling.

• [the Cut-Wife tells Vanessa about her nickname] 

  Vanessa Ives : Where I come from, we've heard of you.

  Joan Clayton : [the Cut-Wife chuckles]  I'm famous, hear that.

  Vanessa Ives : They say you have powers.

  Joan Clayton : What they call me, where you come from?

  Vanessa Ives : The Cut-Wife of Ballentree moor.

  Joan Clayton : [with food in her mouth the Cut-Wife replies]  You know why they call me that? Because when the girls need little baby killed inside them, they come to me. I cut it out, Cut-Wife. Fetching name, you think?

• [the Cut-Wife asks Vanessa about her mother] 

  Joan Clayton : Tell me about your mother. No. I'll tell you. She's dead. But she was very much like you. Strong-willed. Imperious. Fucked other men, not your father.

  Vanessa Ives : Yes.

  Joan Clayton : You saw them at it? Your mother and these men. Did you like watching?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa walks off]  No.

  Joan Clayton : [the Cut-Wife snickers]  You did. Your little secret gave you power, eh?

• [the Cut-Wife speaks to Vanessa in the demonic language, teaching Vanessa] 

  Joan Clayton : You must remember such incantations are dangerous. And you must never speak the Devil's language idly. Let this language not become easy in your mouth or soon it will no longer be your mouth but his. And it will tell only lies.

  Vanessa Ives : For he is the Father of Lies.

  Joan Clayton : If you believe in God, better you pray with all you got in you. Only if all else fails, you speak the Devil's tongue. But mark, girl, it's a seduction and before you can blink twice it's all you can speak, and so does a Daywalker become a Nightcomer.

• [the Cut-Wife introduces Vanessa to a book of evil] 

  Joan Clayton : Truly, I don't know if your heart is good or bad. But I have to show you something. See that big book? With the glyph on the side. Bring it to me.

  [Vanessa brings her the book] 

  Joan Clayton : Of all the texts, of all the spells, this is the most cursed.

  Vanessa Ives : What is it?

  Joan Clayton : Forbidden. The Poetry of Death. If ever the day comes when my little scorpion is crushed and beaten, if her God deserts her completely, only then does she open it. And on that day she will never be the same. She will have gone away from God, forever.

• [first lines] 

  Ethan Chandler : [Ethan Chandler finds the red scorpion on Vanessa's bedroom floor, drawn from her own blood]  What is this?

  Vanessa Ives : It's no concern of yours.

• [Vanessa proves to the Cut-Wife her power] 

  Joan Clayton : Thee and me got nothing to talk about here. You want a salve for your heartache, I can give you that. You want herbs to ease the gout, I can give you that. You want to poison your baby brother, I can give you that and laugh while I do it. But if you think you are touched by the demon then you best walk out that door. Because what I can give you for that, is only knowledge you don't want, little girl!

  Vanessa Ives : Who branded you? Who did that to you? Someone you loved. Someone you trusted. Someone you kissed once. A woman. A sister? Your sister. If I'm right, then let me stay.

  [the Cut-Wife stops talking after Vanessa's correct answer] 

• [the Cut-Wife tries to warn Vanessa of what's coming] 

  Joan Clayton : You're in danger, you know that. You're in danger here, too. But I'm an old woman, for me, it brings spice to my last days, but for you. Give me the salt there. You have to learn to protect yourself.

  Vanessa Ives : From whom?

  Joan Clayton : Legions.

  Vanessa Ives : Legions of what?

  Joan Clayton : So many names, I'd die before I go through them all.

• [Vanessa begins yelling at the Cut-Wife when she talks about her mother] 

  Joan Clayton : There's your mother's eyes.

  Vanessa Ives : Stop it!

  Joan Clayton : But not when she died. Her eyes were different then, weren't they?

  Vanessa Ives : You're a terrible woman.

  Joan Clayton : Not half so terrible as you. I knew it the first time I felt you, this danger. I wanted to scream and bolt the door, curl up in my little bed and sleep and sleep. But you came closer. I felt you every step across the moor. They felt you, too. They'll be here soon. I felt you walking to my door. Felt you standing there. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

• [Vanessa and the Cut-Wife hear a horse neighing in the distance] 

  Joan Clayton : Poor animal. They become trapped in the mire, can't get out. They struggle, and the more they struggle, the faster they sink. One wrong step is all it takes.

  Vanessa Ives : For us all.

  Joan Clayton : For us all.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa lays her head over Joan's chest]  Then may the Lord God bring us safe footing until we're home.

  Joan Clayton : [putting her hand over Vanessa's head]  Better still, may He let us know when we are home.