Penny Dreadful Season 3 Episode 3: "Good and Evil Braided Be" Quotes
Ethan. Has my utility not been amply demonstrated? Has my allegiance not been proved? I followed you across an ocean and across a continent. I will follow you to hell. I'll lead the way, Wolf of God.
Hecate
Dr. Seward: No, miss. So full of pain. All of which is true. You manifest it in any number of ways so you can make sense of it, but it's inexplicable. So the mind creates order around it: Phantoms, villains, demons, those things we understand and can name. But there is no name for it, Vanessa. It is a dark root without a name from which grows illness.
Vanessa: And delusion.
Dr. Seward: Yes.
Through your skin to your bones, crawling like the scorpion. Up. Reaching. You have a scar on the back of your neck. Blood. There are tram cars outside the window. A city. More blood. You were hurt by a man. He would have killed you... had you not killed him first. Such things have a name. They are witches. They are vampires. They are Lucifer. They are all those things which walk in your nightmares. Shall we walk together?
Vanessa
Jekyll: And which is true? Which is the real man: the beast or the angel?
Frankenstein: We are both.
Jekyll: Are we?
Frankenstein: Good and evil braided be.
Jekyll: Oh, no. Not at all. Or at least, we can't seem to be that way. So complicated, I mean. In the end, we must be that thing the world demands of us. We must take the lust and the avarice and the ambition and bury them. All the alien, ugly things, all the things we really are -- the other one, the other man, we cannot allow him!
Lily: Our enemies are the same, but they seek equality.
Justine: And we?
Lily: Mastery.
Before you speak another word, I ask you to consider this. How valuable is your life? Do you hold it dear? Does your wife value your company? Do you favor growing old, to teach your ugly, inbred children your grotesque manners? Lay hands on him and it'll be your end.
Sir Malcolm
