Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Fresh Hell (2015)

Josh Hartnett: Ethan Chandler

Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein and Ethan Chandler discuss the language the witches spoke] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : A mythical language.

  Ethan Chandler : No. A dead language. The word of the devil.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : According to Biblical lore, the Verbis Diablo is a corruption of angelical speech. What Adam spoke in Paradise, before the serpent made his memorable appearance.

  Ethan Chandler : The story goes, Satan took God's language and turned it inside out. After the fall of man, God spoke to Adam, but Adam could no longer understand. 'Why is my language unclear to thee? Because you now belong to your father, the devil.'

• [Ethan Chandler tells Vanessa Ives that he needs to leave from the rest of the group] 

  Ethan Chandler : Mina's dead. The Creature's dead. We lost.

  Vanessa Ives : That was only a battle. Do you think the dark forces that converge on our heads can be vanquished so easily? Do you honestly believe you can escape them?

  Ethan Chandler : And the other ones? The ones inside us?

  Vanessa Ives : Inside me, you mean?

  Ethan Chandler : No. That's not what I mean.

• Ethan Chandler : Mina's dead, the creature's dead. We lost.

  Vanessa Ives : That was only a battle. Do you think the dark forces that converge on our heads can be vanquished so easily? Do you honestly believe you can escape them?

  Ethan Chandler : And the other ones? The ones inside us?

  Vanessa Ives : Inside me you mean?

  Ethan Chandler : No, that's not what I mean.

• Ethan Chandler : This is something I never thought I'd see

  Sembene : What?

  Ethan Chandler : Here's a woman who faced down that creature in the theater without blinking. And held her ground against Satan himself, but now... I've never seen her frightened.

• [first lines] 

  Ethan Chandler : [Ethan Chandler tells Vanessa Ives he needs to talk to her as the two get in the horse chariot]  I need to talk to you. Not inside the house.

  Vanessa Ives : Take us on the tour. Anywhere you like.

• [Ethan Chandler tries to tell Vanessa Ives that he has a monster in himself] 

  Ethan Chandler : There are times that I have... Well, like these blackouts. Times I can't remember.

  Vanessa Ives : What happens?

  Ethan Chandler : I don't know. But there's usually blood.

• [Vanessa Ives offers her help to Ethan Chandler] 

  Vanessa Ives : How can I help?

  Ethan Chandler : You can't change who you are, no matter who you save, or who you love.

• [Ethan Chandler tells Sembene that he's never seen Vanessa Ives frightened] 

  Ethan Chandler : This is something I never thought I'd see.

  Sembene : What?

  Ethan Chandler : Here's a woman who faced down that Creature in the theater without blinking. And held her ground against Satan himself. But now... I've never seen her frightened.

• [Ethan Chandler and Vanessa Ives describe the witches they witnessed] 

  Ethan Chandler : They were branded and deeply scarred.

  Vanessa Ives : The devil's mark. Those in the service of the demon are irrevocably marked. His claws rake across them to seal their obedience. No, Sir Malcolm, these were not the creatures we faced before.