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[Vanessa] Previously on Penny Dreadful...

[Madame Kali] She's the one the Master seeks above all.

What do you want of me?

Sometimes you tie a lamb to lure a lion.

The Wolf of God.

Stand alongside the great winged Lucifer

as he reconquers heaven's bloody throne.

[Lily] My beloved immortal.

This sad little world is ours.

[Lavinia] Let's go explore what Father's been building.

[Octavia] Animals are right in cages.

You can't keep me here.

But of course we can.

[Rusk] Ethan Talbot.

You will not take one step from this house

when you will not be observed.

Cornered animals are the most dangerous.

But they are cornered, nonetheless.

-You're not real. -[laughing]

You're not here.

[Frankenstein] Sir Malcolm's in trouble.

I will not let him suffer alone.

What if Miss Ives should prove stronger than you think?

If I were of another constitution,

I would fear you.

She's gone.

Oh, for fuck's sake! Get the others!

[Lyle] You have no idea

what hell you are stepping into.

Welcome to my home, Miss Ives.

-[gasps] -[hisses]

-Sir Malcolm-- -[gasps]

It's Doctor Frankenstein.

[Creature] Father.

Your children have returned.

[Ethan] I can't stop it!

[snarling]

I need to see Sir Malcolm immediately.

There's someone else you need to see first.

[Vanessa] So, I'm to meet your Master?

[Madame Kali] He's your Master as well.

Murderer.

♪

[growling]

[Vanessa dummy] Murderer.

How many scattered corpses will you leave

in your bloody wake

before your life has run its course?

A hundred? A thousand? A race?

Or will it be all of mankind we devour?

And you speak for the Fallen Angel?

"The Fallen Angel."

Much the most gentle appellation

you could give me, beloved.

Beloved, is it?

Don't deny what you know to be true, Amunet.

And all of this...

the witches, the attacks...

just to bring me here.

I've missed you, Vanessa.

No.

No, you need me to agree.

You can't take my soul.

I have to give it.

[Vanessa dummy] You must give it, freely,

and of your own accord.

I do not snatch tributes

like a starving slave grasping for bones.

And for this carnival trickery he promises you eternal youth?

Nay...

delivers.

Can your vanity so blind you to his duplicity?

He is the Father of Lies.

[Madame Kali] Who's the liar here?

You claim to stand with the angel

while your every action speaks otherwise.

[Vanessa dummy] What is your life

but a catalog of depravity, betrayal, and now homicide?

I will not compound my guilt

by accepting your ministrations.

But you already have.

The moment you opened your mouth

and spoke the Verbis Diablo.

The moment you stretched your midnight powers

to take the life of another.

[Vanessa dummy] At that moment,

you took me in your arms and kissed me deep.

Kiss me now and end the pain.

My soul is mine...

that part of God is mine!

God has turned his back on you.

Church, God, Ministers of Grace.

You've left them behind, you know you have.

No!

All of that is behind you,

but what lies ahead?

Think of it.

All of time.

All of history.

Everlasting power to rule the darkness

with he who loves you, and will never reject you.

You have no power to tempt me.

I have faced eyes more cruel than yours, woman.

[Vanessa dummy] Then face mine.

Face yourself.

There is no more powerful inducement to me than this.

Know yourself.

[hissing]

[thunder rumbling]

[Proteus] Like a lamb I was, Victor.

How could you let me be hurt?

Him. It was him.

What am I but an extension of you?

All your sin emptied into me.

I'm your other half...

-your truest self. -[thunder cracking]

[Lily] Don't blame the children

for the father's cruelty.

[Proteus] We were born innocent.

You made us into monsters.

[Gladys] I don't know how you can live with it, Malcolm.

[Mina] All those tombstones in a row.

Wife, daughter, son.

Not me. Not my doing.

You know it was.

Who walked away as I starved?

Who pulled the trigger that killed me, Father?

Did you name a mountain after me?

Did you enjoy her body as I bled?

Did we ask for this life?

Or was it your pride?

To conquer death is... an ennobled calling.

I am a scientist.

A scientist.

And when you touched my naked body?

Your fingertips running along my flesh.

This was abuse...

not science.

[Proteus] I was your friend.

I never had another.

You walked away at the moment of my birth.

[Sir Malcolm] The past is dead.

I cannot remake what's done.

Come to the graveyard on the hill

and tell me the past is dead.

[Peter] Touch the tombstones.

We're still warm.

And so we walk with your sin...

dead...

and yet not fully alive.

Haunting the twilight,

living between.

This is what you have made, Victor.

If I could go back...

it would be different.

Live my life again, I would do such other things.

Husband... life only leads forward.

There is no going back, Creator.

There is only this moment on, Father.

That's what you taught me.

Intrepidly moving forward no matter the obstacles.

Explorers.

[Creature] You are a man who discovers new worlds,

always grasping for tomorrow.

[Proteus] So will you do that now?

How will you atone?

What peace can there be without atonement?

How?

[Sir Malcolm] What would you have me do?

You have the engines of the future all around you.

[Lily] The needle.

The scalpel. The noose.

The gun to the temple.

Take your razor and slit your throat.

Join your family.

A final tombstone on the hill.

The sip of poison from the amber bottle.

A single bullet

under the chin.

There is no other peace for thee, Frankenstein.

Walk into the river...

let it bring you quiet.

Enjoy our company.

One of us again.

Father.

[Gladys] Husband.

Father.

Lover.

Brother.

Come home. Please.

End it.

[Vanessa] You can't tempt me.

You can take my body,

but my soul is my own.

Not one thing you seek?

Not one jewel...

you prize above all others?

[Vanessa dummy] Yes. There is an old dream in you.

A deep longing.

-You know it. -No.

Let me show you what I can give you.

No.

[Vanessa dummy] To be free of pain.

To be loved, simply for who you are.

Is that not the engine of all human creatures?

To be normal.

[gasps]

Mother, I don't understand why Charles is so awful to me.

We were drawing pictures

and I made fun of her silly horse.

It wasn't silly!

Well, it looked like a hippopotamus,

doesn't it, Clare?

I'm sure it doesn't.

No, it really does.

Charles!

Morning, Van.

Sorry, I got lost in the paper.

[Charles] Ew! Don't kiss!

We were drawing horses.

[Charles] And hippopotami.

-Charles! -[Ethan] Horses, is it?

Well, you know, I've seen a few of those in my day.

Tell you what, go get 'em, give me a look,

and I'll judge their authenticity.

Ethan.

Why are you looking at me like that?

Nothing. No reason.

I'm sorry, you're right.

Sundays are for family.

Speaking of which...

Let's send the kids to the park.

-Ethan. -Just for an hour.

Stop it.

I thought you wanted a whole brood of kids?

You know perfectly well

that Mina and Jonathan are coming to tea.

Oh, not for hours and hours.

Daddy, does this look like a hippopotamus?

Not at all. Maybe it looks like

a horse that's eaten a little too much.

[Clare] I like fat horses.

[Charles] Fat horses are too slow.

[Ethan] Not if you're on a long trail.

You want a little extra muscle then.

Take the pioneers,

they had to ride clear across the country.

They couldn't stop a horse carriage to...

[voices fading]

You're very cruel.

[Vanessa dummy] No, Vanessa.

This is kindness.

It's what you truly want, isn't it?

[thunder cracking]

[Lily] One last, great experiment, Victor.

The greatest of all.

[Mina] One last expedition into the unknown,

Father.

Terra Incognito.

[Mina] Magical words.

Piercing the tissue that separates

life from death.

Your mission. Your calling.

Be the man you are, Malcolm.

End the suffering.

-No more guilt. -[Creature] Join the poets.

The great explorers of the past.

Be with me.

Please, Father.

-Father. -[Mina] Join us, Father.

We need you.

There will never be peace for you otherwise.

[Gladys] Take my hand again.

Be at peace.

[Vanessa dummy] I will give you

an eternity of peace with the man you love.

And at the moment of your death, your family

will gather around you and hold your hand.

-And then? -No more suffering.

No more anguished nights of terror.

Only the peace of being who you were meant to be.

At my side, cherished bride.

Your body will die,

but your spirit will be everlasting.

Say yes.

And my friends?

Released. Left to live freely.

And my God?

A better God at your side.

And me?

You will be who you are.

End the torment, Vanessa.

Kiss me.

You offer me a normal life...

why do you think I want that anymore?

I know what I am.

Do you?

[Vanessa growling softly]

[speaking demonic language]

[rumbling]

[dolls crashing]

[screaming]

[Vanessa dummy screaming]

[panting]

Beloved...

know your master.

[whimpering]

No.

No.

[crying] No.

No!

[yelling]

[Ethan growling]

[growling softly]

[panting]

[breathing heavily]

[Lyle choking]

[gunshot]

[breathing deeply]

Never underestimate the power of a queen

with lovely hair, my dear.

[panting]

-Are you all right? -Yes. Doctor?

Mmm.

The others are here. I don't know where.

-Vanessa? -Yes.

[shrieking]

Come on.

Mr. Chandler?

He's safe.

Mrs. Poole?

Dead.

It's done.

[Sir Malcolm sighs]

My dear Mr. Clare.

Mrs. Putney's prepared you some food.

Though she's a bit parsimonious

when it comes to the victuals.

-Husband! -You know it's true.

Heavy on the spices, light on the joint,

as they say.

You haven't tried screaming yet?

I was not made to scream.

[Putney] Some scream,

some cause others to scream, eh?

Lord preserve us from that face.

Yes, that's right...

sharpened up the wardrobe, did I.

Twenty shillings this cost me.

Walked right into Harrods like I owned the place,

like a bleeding potentate.

"My good man," says I to himself,

"I'm in the mood for a fresh bit of apparel

"in which to bedeck myself.

"Silk, if you please."

[chuckles]

What a feeling that was.

What do you want?

I've a proposition I'd like you to consider.

We have a future ahead of us now,

do the Putneys.

As ballyhoos go, my crime scenes

were an ace success.

And my freak show will beggar that.

Queues stretching from here to Hackney, we'll have...

once we get a few more of you in.

Why, right now I've a line on a limbless boy

who sits in an apple crate,

and some malformed doxie

we could claim as

"sister to the late and lamented Mr. Merrick,

"the Elephant Man."

And?

[Putney] And you've a choice.

You can share in the success...

or you can suffer.

Join us, Mr. Clare.

Join the great enterprise.

That got his attention.

Money has a way of doing that.

Look here, I don't think Harry Public

enjoys seeing miserable freaks,

I think he likes to look at jolly freaks,

doing the odd trick.

Odd trick, mmm.

You play along,

we'll give you a share of the take.

Think how nice a few shillings will sound in your pocket.

Go on.

Now, we'll have to leave you caged to start...

you understand.

-Yes. -Could get you a blanket.

Yeah, we could give you a blanket.

And a candle for the reading if you like.

More books.

A library.

And if you prove your fidelity to the great enterprise,

we'll speak about letting you out on occasion.

Until then?

You do your job.

You let the punters take a good gander

and you give 'em a proper fright.

A trick or two.

[Putney] You welcome the new arrivals,

tell 'em what's what.

Ease their transition into servitude.

[Putney chuckles]

A father to all the other freaks,

if you will.

King of the Freaks.

[Mr. Clare grunts]

[whimpering]

[neck snaps]

[grunting]

[Lavinia] Father,

are you down here?

[breathing heavily]

Are you sleeping, Mr. Clare?

You're probably handsome in your dreams.

I'll bet you wish you could sleep every second.

No such luck, you grotesque animal.

Father?

Mother?

Father?

[Lavinia screaming]

[Hecate] ♪ My breast is cold as clay

♪ My breath is earthly strong

♪ And if you kiss my cold clay lips

♪ Your days, they won't be long

♪ How oft on yonder grave, sweetheart

♪ Where we were wont to walk

♪ The fairest flower that e'er I saw

♪ Has withered to a stalk

♪ When will we meet again, sweetheart?

♪ When will we meet again?

♪ When the autumn leaves that fall from the trees

♪ Are green and spring up again ♪

You didn't have to accompany me.

It's good to have a friend on such a night.

I'll be fine.

I needed the friend, Doctor.

I have not seen such things or done such things.

And with such relish.

God help me.

You will have a mind to my...

particular secret, yes?

I'm sorry?

That tribe into which I was born.

Yes, of course.

-Good night, Mr. Lyle. -Good night.

Do take care of yourself.

And know that beneath these silken tresses

I have a good ear for listening...

should you need one.

-[driver shouts] -[horses neighing]

[baby crying]

Lily.

Lily.

[panting]

♪

[music stops]

Victor! How lovely to see you!

-Good evening, Doctor. -Stop it!

Cousin, how you look. Are you quite all right?

Would you like to sit down?

Spare me your gallantry.

Lily, you must come home.

I am home, darling.

Really, Doctor,

Lily's not a girl for tenement garrets, now, is she?

-On the South Bank, no less. -[Lily] Mmm.

-[Lily laughs] -[Dorian] Oh!

Well, there's gallantry.

Who did you have in mind to shoot?

Stop it!

Please come back, Lily.

I love you.

We can make it our home again, I promise.

Our bed in the storm, you mean?

Oh...

You're too sweet.

That night I took your awkward virginity,

all thumbs he was.

How trembling and terrified.

Stop it.

Like a grubby little boy

cramming his hand into the sweet jar.

[exhales sharply]

[gasps]

Please, Creator...

you made me too well for that.

Oh, yes, I know.

Always have.

You were so...

sublimely malleable.

[Lily giggles]

You'll have to do better than that, sport.

Shall we kill him?

[Dorian] They're made for killing.

[Lily] Mmm.

[Dorian] I've experienced

so many sensations over the years...

but never one precisely like this.

Complete supremacy.

Cruelty even.

Ascendancy.

Conquest.

And him?

Shall we murder him right now?

Entirely up to you, darling.

[Lily] No.

He might still prove useful to us.

Let him live.

Let him live with what he has created...

a master race.

A race of immortals, meant to command.

-Soon, he will kneel to us. -[Dorian] They all will.

When our day has come...

you will know terror.

Until then, little man...

live with the knowledge of what you have spawned.

And suffer.

♪

[Lily] Mmm.

[bell tolling]

[Sir Malcolm] I'll bring him home to Africa.

From whence I should never have brought him.

Let him lie in his native earth.

You'll be all right?

Of course.

Mr. Chandler will be here.

Don't worry about me.

Sembene was a proper man.

I've not known many.

You know what I am.

Yes.

And here I stand.

Sir Malcolm is going to Africa.

This dreadful house will soon be empty.

We can lock the doors and walk away forever.

There's no walking away from what I am.

What we both are.

I have run from the darkness for so long...

only to find myself in a place darker still.

Walk with me.

You recall the night I came to your room?

I was so frightened.

You were kind,

and in the morning I was not so afraid.

Stay with me tonight.

[Ethan] And tomorrow?

I promise you, we will be less afraid.

I need to think.

Forgive me.

I do.

[door opens]

[men shouting indistinctly]

-Hold on there! -We tried to stop him, sir.

Leave us.

Go on now.

Shut the door.

[door closes]

[Ethan] I did it.

The Mariner's Inn.

All of them.

You'll confess?

Yes.

[sighs]

Sit down, Mr. Talbot.

May I ask one thing?

You may ask anything.

I'll confess to the lot.

Just make it quick.

-The hanging, you mean? -Yes.

There's not going to be a hanging.

At least not here.

I've had this for weeks...

but I wanted the satisfaction

of writing finis to this affair in my own way,

-as I told you I would. -[sighs]

What is that?

It's an extradition order.

You're going home, Ethan.

[Frankenstein groaning]

[exhales deeply]

[sniffling]

Mmm.

[train rumbling]

Mr. Clare.

[Mr. Clare] Miss Ives.

Why are you here?

I needed a friend.

Won't you sit?

[indistinct whisperings]

Are you leaving?

Yes.

For long?

Forever.

Where will you go?

Where I belong.

Away from mankind.

This dream I had... this...

this long dream of kinship with those unlike me...

it is gone.

Yes.

When you have seen that of which you are capable...

when you have stood in blood long enough...

what is there left but to wade to a desolate shore,

away from all others?

Yes.

And you?

Where is your shore?

There is no place far enough.

I've lost the immortal part of myself, you see.

No.

I've thrown it away.

No matter how far you have walked from God...

he is still waiting ahead.

You don't believe in God.

But you do.

That dream is gone.

Come with me?

Our desolate shore?

Mr. Clare...

there is around me...

a shroud that brings only pain.

I won't allow you to suffer. Not you.

I think you are the most human man...

I have ever known.

[sobbing quietly]

[sighs]

[Ethan] Dear Vanessa...

your many kindnesses I will always carry with me.

Such generosity...

has not been a part of my life,

and I thank you for your affection and understanding.

In my most frightened and lonely moments...

you were there.

And such light you brought to me.

But I am made for the dark. This we both know.

I am fit for only one place

and should have been there long ago.

Deep in the cold clay on a forgotten hill.

Your road may be difficult.

But mine is doomed.

So we walk alone.

Written with love...

Ethan.

So we walk alone.

♪