Penny Dreadful (2014–2016): Season 2, Episode 4 - Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places - full transcript
Having recounted her tale of the cut-wife, Lyle tells them what he found in the artifacts from the British Museum. Insp. Rusk continues his investigation into the killings at the Mariner's Inn but finds the sole survivor has no recollection of what happened. He also investigates the murder of a young couple whose baby has apparently been stolen. He notes some similarities with the earlier killings. At Putney's waxworks, John Clare spends time with the blind Lavinia. A chance encounter is nothing of the sort for Ethan when he meets Hecate Poole. Victor Frankenstein asks Vanessa to help him buy clothes for Lily, who he passes off as his distant cousin. Dorian Grey introduces his new friend to the latest fad sweeping London.
NARRATOR:
Previously on Penny Dreadful:
- Why are you here?
- I believe I'm cursed to see things.
If you think you're touched by the
demon, then you best walk out that door.
The man concerns me.
She has a protector.
LYLE: Mr. Chandler?
- Lupus Dei.
He shall be your challenge, daughter.
RUSK:
I want to know who did this to you.
Get better, Mr. Roper.
We have much to talk about.
- My name is Dorian Gray.
- Angelique. This is where I work.
- I hope you know what you've bought.
- I do.
VICTOR:
Cosmetically, she's transformed.
Lily, may I introduce John Clare.
OCTAVIA: Meet the new man we've hired.
LAVINIA: It is good to meet you.
That face will make our fortune.
[THUMPING AND MAN GRUNTS
AND WOMAN SCREAMS]
[BABY CRYING]
MALCOLM: Mrs. Poole.
EVELYN: Sir Malcolm.
- What do they know?
LYLE: Nothing.
I can misdirect them as you see fit.
No. Let her follow
the bread crumbs to me.
[SHRIEKS]
JOAN:
You have to learn to protect yourself.
VANESSA: From whom?
JOAN: Legions.
[SNARLING]
JOAN: Remember this.
When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone.
They will hunt you until the end of days.
[♪♪♪]
MALCOLM:
And then?
They burned her alive.
When I left the moors...
...I thought I would never hear
that wicked language again.
Or confront that evil.
Mr. Chandler felt you needed to know.
"For thee are not fighting
against flesh-and-blood enemies...
...but against mighty powers
in this dark realm."
"And against evil spirits
in heavenly places."
So these Nightcomers
practise a form of black magic...
...while you practise a form of--?
Practising magic is unbelievable
enough. Do we need to parse it?
We need to know
what these things are.
Yes, they're witches, understood.
Witchcraft has a long history
in many cultures, doctor.
As do fairies and sprites, but they
don't walk about greater London.
These do.
My apologies.
And their goal?
They're servants to the devil.
Doing his bidding
to serve their own ends.
Whatever those may be.
All of which leaves us where, exactly?
A threat to which
we can now give a name.
And a language we need
to decipher.
I'm on.
Take a look, won't you?
Mr. Chandler was more right
than he knew.
It is a puzzle, and more complicated
than it first appeared...
...which just about gave me the vapours,
I can tell you.
It's not so much an actual language...
...as a collection of known languages
forming new patterns.
But within this thicket of obfuscation,
our old friends Greek and Latin.
Translating the Greek
was easy enough...
...though the idiom
is decidedly pre-grammar, if you will.
One fragment...
...emerged to me here.
"So God looked down
on his defeated angels and..."
That "and" suggests what?
More to come.
Precisely, so I started hunting
for the continuation...
...and I found this in Latin.
So, Mr. Chandler,
care to test your skill?
ETHAN: "Found them to be evil angels,
so he cast them out.
He took..."
- Took what?
- Aren't you all dying to know?
It's a story.
A narrative that continues.
Language to language.
Greek to Latin to Sumerian to Arabic...
...to ten other obscure languages
and pictographs...
...changing language from relic to relic.
Is it the story of Lucifer, then?
- The angel cast out by God?
LYLE: Time will tell.
How could this one monk
know all these languages?
He didn't.
- The demon did.
LYLE: Exactly.
Recall, Brother Gregory
was only writing down what he heard...
...apparently, in whatever language
it came t0 him.
Do you know what I think this is?
Yes, I think it's a story...
...but you made one mistake
in your translation, Mr. Chandler...
...more than understandable,
given the archaic script and usage.
Look again.
Not "them."
"US-"
"Found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out."
It's not just a story.
It's an autobiography.
The memoirs of the devil.
[♪♪♪]
This is all giving me a headache.
You should talk to a doctor.
You know, once, I would have thought
all of this impossible.
And now?
I know nothing's impossible.
Whatever we can imagine,
far worse is true.
And far better.
You think so?
I choose to.
Miss Ives, I have...
...a personal favour to ask of you.
Would you mind accompanying me
somewhere tomorrow?
On, well, uh...
...an errand of sorts.
Of course, doctor.
May I call at 10?
- Gladly.
- Thank you.
What are you doing?
Watching.
For what?
Those things...
...that hunt at night.
Lions.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
The train stops in the tunnel.
The lights go out for a brief moment.
No one in the carriages on either side
saw anything.
No one came and no one went.
So how did he do it?
Sir?
How did he come and go?
Carrying a baby, no less...
...which apparently
didn't squall or cry out in transit.
Perhaps he killed it here.
Then why take it?
And the wounds...
...like a surgeon.
Precise, elegant.
Unlike the other animal butchery
we've seen.
No, we're going about this all wrong.
We're pursuing patterns of logic...
...when the answer lies elsewhere.
Where?
[CHUCKLES]
Magic.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
OCTAVIA: And how are we to afford
another exhibition?
It'll pay for itself in time.
What makes you think that Harry
Public's gonna plunk down 2 bob...
...to see those bloody things?
Go to the corner right now,
you'll find the answer.
They line up three deep
for the Police Gazette...
...and the penny dreadfuls,
and those are only pictures.
We give them it fully formed.
Horror in all its horror.
Yeah, time will prove it, eh?
A husband could use a show
of support from his wife.
Besides, with this,
we're not simulating anything...
...because it's all real.
Flesh and blood,
and pumping hearts and all.
Here. Look at this.
We add another entrance here
at the corner.
Two attractions, two gates.
Two admissions.
Give them a discount
for buying both.
They go down the stairs here.
I don't follow.
Where are you keeping them?
In this half of the cellar,
if I can rent it off the tobacconist.
- You see?
- Gonna keep them in the cellar?
- All the time?
- Of course.
They don't need the light.
They're freaks.
[♪♪♪]
- I know you're there.
- [CREATURE GASPS]
- Sorry, miss.
- Everyone does it.
A chance to observe life
at its most natural, being unobserved.
I can always tell.
The molecules change in the air,
you see.
Everything vibrates.
I'll, uh--
I'll go.
Mr. Clare, don't be such a mouse.
Now, tell me.
Does this look like Mr. Gladstone?
He's been prime minister
so many times...
...we have to keep making him older.
CREATURE:
I think it does.
Ageing them is easy.
Everyone knows you have to add
wrinkles and sagging skin and such.
But the trick...
...is the eyes.
They get cloudy as you get older.
You have to change the eyes.
What do your eyes look like?
Um...
They're, um-- They're not beautiful.
Are they cloudy?
No.
What colour are they?
No. Let me guess.
- Miss--
- Blue?
No, you're no blue-eyed boy.
Not green, I sense.
I'll say brown.
Feathery brown, like an owl's wing.
No, not brown.
Well, tell me.
They're, um...
Yellow.
Well, that makes a change.
Not a lemon yellow, I hope.
That would be alarming.
More of a turmeric, would you say?
Yes.
I heard the most wonderful story
about Mr. Gladstone.
That almost every evening,
he goes out walking...
...and if he comes across a fallen
woman, he stops and talks to her...
...and gives her money.
A very kind man.
Anyone who's kind to the suffering...
...deserves a proper place
in the museum, I say.
And what about the others
you work on?
Which?
Those that aren't kind.
Yes.
Father's murderers.
All those figures screaming
in his new crime scenes.
Oh, Mr. Clare...
...it hurts me to create them.
Like I'm bringing them to life
and then torturing them...
...like some sort of terrible
African voodoo doll.
They're all fresh
when they come out of the moulds...
...and then I make them suffer.
Some people think that's what life is.
Born fresh to suffer.
Do you think that?
I did.
Now I'm not sure.
There's hope for you, anyway.
Don't give up on life just yet.
No, miss, I won't.
MAN 1:
Family murdered on the Underground!
All horrors of the Underground!
Read about it!
MAN 2:
Thank you, sir.
[♪♪♪]
[NEIGHING]
WOMAN:
Whoa!
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[WOMAN SHRIEKS]
- Are you all right, miss?
- What...?
I...
[GASPS]
It's all right.
It's okay. You're--
[SOBBING]
Come on, now.
It's all right.
I understand your memory may not
be completely clear, Mr. Roper.
I'll take that into account.
Will you describe what happened
at the Mariner's Inn?
Anything you can remember
would be a boon to my investigation.
With your help...
...we can find the man
who did this to you.
I don't remember.
Nothing?
I find that hard to credit.
Credit what you like.
The pathologists tell me your wounds
were likely inflicted...
...by some sort of animal claw.
Perhaps a tomahawk or ritual club
from your own country.
I don't remember.
Then perhaps you can remember
why you were wearing this?
Protection.
From what?
Mr. Roper.
My city is choked with bodies.
A baby is missing.
You will help me...
...or, by God, I will grind you to bone.
I'm a citizen
of the United States of America.
I know my rights.
Soon as I'm able,
I'll be gone from your goddamn city.
You can be assured.
Honestly, doctor,
this is the last thing I expected.
Yes, well...
What's life without surprises?
It's my cousin, you see.
She's coming to visit me,
and she's a simple girl.
Not slow, you understand,
not retarded in any way.
Just from the country, you know?
Your cousin, how lovely.
Yes, my cousin.
Second cousin.
Lily is her name.
Lily Frankenstein.
Yes, that's her name.
Excuse me. Oh.
Not a real woman at all.
The mannequin, I mean,
not my cousin.
She's a real woman.
So your second cousin Lily
is coming to visit you.
Yes. That's it entirely, yes.
And what are we doing here?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
Being a country girl, I thought
I might buy her a dress or two...
...so she'll fit in.
And you've never shopped
for women's clothing before.
In a nutshell, yes.
Then I shall be delighted to assist you.
You always dress so--
You know, with the collars
and the black things with the--
VANESSA: Mm.
- Always very completely dressed.
WOMAN: Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Vanessa Ives, pleased to meet you.
- Mr. and Mrs. Ives.
Oh, God, no, no. We're not married.
- Oh. I see.
- No, it's not like that either.
I assure you, sir,
discretion is the watchcry of my trade.
We'll look around for a bit if we may,
my non-husband and l.
This is worse
than I knew it was going to be.
Now, is she fair or dark?
Very fair. Golden blond hair.
And her size?
Precisely 5 feet, 5 inches.
Very exact.
I had cause to measure her height.
I shan't ask.
And her general body type?
More rounded than yours.
Fuller hips, larger bust.
Oh.
How about this?
It would work nicely on a young girl
with fair hair.
Guipure lace is very popular...
...and the mousseline de soie
would flatter an ample bosom.
Can you hold it up?
Hm. I've never seen you wear white.
Not my colour.
No.
I'm not sure about the...
Décolletage.
Precisely.
Then we'll move on.
And would you be willing...
...if it's not too much trouble,
to have tea with us sometime...
...when she's in?
I shall be honoured, doctor.
She's very shy.
I'll whisper.
There is one more thing to consider.
Yes?
When we've bought the dress,
we'll need undergarments.
[VANESSA LAUGHING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
- You're going to laugh.
- I won't, I promise.
I hate to even say it aloud.
Hecate Livingstone.
- Hecate.
- I know.
It's the name
of a Greek sea goddess.
Mistress of the Waves.
My parents went
through a classical-learning phase.
My name is the hideous result.
Why don't you just go
by your middle name?
- I can't.
- Why?
Aphrodite.
I'm sorry, I've been wanting to do that.
God. I'm hopeless.
And I'm supposed to be going
to Spain next.
How am I going to survive the brigands
of the Alhambra...
...if I can't cross a damn street in Soho?
I think those brigands
better watch out for you...
...Hecate Aphrodite Livingstone.
[LAUGHING]
So how'd you end up here?
Because I'm trying to be
a liberated woman.
Not too successfully thus far, it seems.
I grew up in Maine, but when
I graduated from Northwestern...
...I decided I'd had enough
of the great cow pastures of Indiana...
...and lobster fields of New England,
and deserved some proper civilisation...
...among properly civilised people.
And you're travelling alone?
Yes, Mr. Chandler.
American women sometimes do travel
abroad without armed guards.
I have a degree in botany,
a sensible pair of shoes...
...and a very generous account
at the American Express.
You're studying Latin.
Trying to make myself into
one of those civilised people...
...you're hoping to meet.
Just don't go crazy naming your kids.
Are you a scholar of some sort?
Do I look like a scholar?
No. You look like a...
I don't know what you look like.
A train robber.
Have you ever been out West?
You mean, like California?
- And the New Mexico territory.
- Not yet.
Adventure is to come.
Then he must have come
to see you.
- Who?
- My father.
Your accent is good...
...but no trace of a Yankee in it for
a girl who says she grew up in Maine.
Northwestern is in Illinois, not Indiana.
Maybe the Pinkertons
are hiring women now.
If so, I applaud them for it,
because I am all for emancipation.
My father failed with them,
and he failed with you.
So go back and tell him to leave me be
or the next time he sees me...
...I'll have a gun to his head
with my finger on the trigger.
I hope you enjoy the Alhambra.
It's supposed to be very dramatic.
And honestly,
those aren't very sensible shoes.
WOMAN: But I'm frightened.
What horrors might it contain?
MAN:
Behold the evil one, Lucifer.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪]
CROWD:
Whoa!
ANGELIQUE:
I don't admit to my real name.
It's beneath contempt.
DORIAN:
Let me guess, then.
- Bartholomew?
- Heh.
DORIAN: Tarquin?
- Heh, heh.
DORIAN: Ahab?
- Never you mind.
And "Dorian"
isn't the most fetching name, either.
My parents were aspiring to status.
- You weren't born rich?
- Not by a far cry.
Well, at least tell me how old you are.
Older than I look.
- Then tell me your secret.
- Ah.
Be careful what you wish for.
You're raising a few eyebrows.
You don't mind?
Let them stare.
Provocation is food and drink to me.
Here we are.
Are you ready for an adventure?
Something brand-new?
Are there any other kind
of adventures?
DORIAN:
The soldiers brought it back from India.
It's called Gossima tennis.
All the rage. They say there'll
be parlours all over London soon.
God. Electrical lighting.
What that does
to a girl's complexion.
Champagne, please. Your best.
MAN:
Sir.
Now, as I understand it...
...we bounce the ball back and forth
for a bit.
Yes, I've gathered that. Heh.
Shall we keep score?
Why else live?
Unh.
One for me.
[♪♪♪]
I made ridiculous errors.
But it wasn't that.
He smelled me.
You might have suspected as much.
Lupus Dei.
There's no doubt now.
Then we shall have to meet him...
...to0th for claw.
I'll prepare the enchantment
for tonight.
Take the others.
- You know what to bring me?
- Yes.
Don't disappoint me again, girl.
[HISSING]
Caution, daughter.
You overreach.
I don't trust that little man.
Mr. Lyle is distinctly untrustworthy.
But as weak as a lily.
Have no fear of him.
- And the others?
- Do with them as you like.
Only Miss Ives matters.
Bring me what I need.
[♪♪♪]
It's made from a champagne cork.
What is?
The ball.
How can you tell?
Darling, I can smell champagne
at 30 yards...
...locked in a steamer trunk
at the bottom of the ocean.
And I do believe
that makes 12 games to...
How many is it?
None.
None, that's right. Poor lamb.
Another game?
Do you think your pride can take it?
Losing yet again
to a defenseless female?
And you are neither of those things,
as we both well know.
And where would we be
without our little deceptions?
I think we should be very uninteresting.
It's the subterfuge
that makes it all the more delicious.
Knowing the secrets others don't.
Being who we want to be,
not who we are.
[♪♪♪]
VICTOR:
How's it feeling?
LILY:
It's very tight.
VICTOR:
That's meant to be the point.
LILY:
I can barely breathe.
I think that's meant
to be the point too.
Ladies aren't supposed
to exert themselves.
LILY:
I won't be able to walk.
Lots of young ladies do.
You shall as well.
LILY:
Are you going to teach me that too?
I'll do my best.
LILY: Trust me,
you have quite a challenge.
I feel like a mule.
All right, I'm finished. Are you ready?
Have on.
[♪♪♪]
I can't believe you've ever been
this silent in your entire life.
Lily.
You look beautiful.
I can't breathe.
That's the corset.
Yes, I know what it is, cousin.
I'm wearing it.
Can you help me?
I think I'm going to topple over.
The shoes are awfully high.
Yes.
I picked them for that.
LILY:
Why?
I like that in a woman.
Displays the talocrural region
and the leg's dorsiflexion.
That's flattering.
Do all women wear corsets?
VICTOR:
Most.
Of a certain class, anyway.
LILY:
it seems...
I don't have the word. Um...
Cruel.
The bone's digging into my skin.
I believe you can adjust it around
a bit.
Are you going to fix that yourself?
VICTOR:
Of course.
I'm good with stitching.
So women wear corsets
so they don't exert themselves?
Partly.
What would be the danger
if they did?
They'd take over the world.
[CHUCKLES]
The only way we men prevent that
is by keeping women corseted...
...in theory and in practise.
They're meant to flatter the figure.
To a man's eye, anyway.
All we do is for men, isn't it?
Keep their houses...
...raise their children,
flatter them with our pain.
No.
Does this corset flatter me?
Yes.
Do you want me to wear it?
I want nothing to cause you pain.
Not for flattery...
...or my vanity.
Or anything under the sun.
Now, please, go and take it off.
The dress will look fine without it.
Thank you.
But I'll keep the shoes on, if I may.
- I thought they hurt your feet.
- Yes, but you like them.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
I'm fluent in Arabic,
but this script's highly obscure.
I can only make out certain words.
These might help.
Oh, yes.
That's much better.
I don't know they entirely suit you.
A bit de trop.
Look, it's something like,
“Us by our winged backs...
...and raised us over his head thence."
"Found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out.
He took..."
"Us by our winged backs
and raised us over his head thence."
You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Now, that you've given up the Nile,
you need a new quest.
Perhaps I do.
And you shouldn't be vain
about needing spectacles, you know.
You're a strapping sort of man,
all told.
Well, I suppose I'm...
...courting after a fashion.
Sir Malcolm, you vanquish me.
Who's the lucky lady?
You know her, in fact.
I first met her at your house.
Mrs. Poole.
Oh, yes, our clairvoyant friend.
You might...
Well, proceed with caution, eh?
I have no choice but to.
I remain married.
All for the best, then.
Those little dalliances
can get so Byzantine.
My past is littered
with overly Byzantine dalliances...
...from Stoke-on-Trent to Budapest.
Hm.
ETHAN:
I think she came for my father.
Why?
He wants me to come home.
He's sent others before.
What was her name?
Alias more like.
"Hecate," she said.
It's some kind of Greek sea goddess.
Oh. That was a lie as well.
Hecate wasn't a sea goddess.
She was a moon goddess.
And bringer of magic.
And also a character in Macbeth,
the protector of witches.
She didn't look like a witch.
And would an old crone
have attracted your eye?
No, Mr. Chandler.
They can assume many guises,
like a chameleon on a leaf.
In their natural state,
they're more memorable.
She was some chameleon, then.
Do you feel like some coffee?
No, thank you.
I'll be right back.
MALCOLM:
Vanessa.
Come and look at this.
[♪♪♪]
Well, don't you look fetching?
SEMBENE: I'll do that.
- I don't mind. Pays for my keep.
SEMBENE:
Pays for my keep.
She should eat more.
ETHAN:
You worry about her, don't you?
SEMBENE:
She's a lioness.
She does not worry me.
ETHAN:
But you worry about Sir Malcolm.
Can I ask you a question?
Can I stop you?
Were you a hunter
where you came from?
Partly.
What was the other part?
Private.
I should get you an apron.
MALCOLM: "In the great war for
the throne, we were vanquished."
"So God looked down
on his defeated angels and he--"
"--found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out."
"He took us by our winged backs
and raised us over his head thence."
- Thence?
- Cast us to hell?
Does any of this
strike a chord in you, Vanessa?
Yes.
My friend the cut-wife said to me:
"When Lucifer fell,
he did not fall alone."
And the demon's purpose
in telling his tale?
A prophecy-
Give it a thought.
Lucifer tells a past-tense narrative
to a monk. Why?
Just so his history can be recorded?
No.
If we accept the devil
walks amongst us today...
...we must consider this is meant
to be part of an ongoing story...
...that it has relevance now.
It's possible he wasn't just recounting
the past, but foretelling the future.
Whose future?
I think most likely yours.
You don't know that.
- Vanessa--
- You don't know that.
Are there any references
to a woman?
- To anyone like me?
- We're not done yet.
You'll understand I find it difficult
to accept I'm the object...
...of an eternal satanic quest
that's so far only demonstrated...
...in something
that's half-poetry, half-gibberish.
I'm sorry. No.
I'm tired. I apologise.
LYLE:
No need.
I think I should turn in.
If you'll excuse me.
- Good night.
LYLE: Sleep well, my dear.
As I can.
Good night, gentlemen.
Don't tell me
you're gonna miss Sembene's...
What is that?
Buttercream torte.
Two words I thought I'd never hear
coming out of your mouth.
Save me some for breakfast.
Good night.
Does she really eat dessert
for breakfast?
Always.
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[HORSE TROTTING BY]
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[♪♪♪]
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[♪♪♪]
[DEMON SHRIEKS]
[SNARLING]
[GRUNTING]
[LYLE SPEAKING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Unh!
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[GROWLING]
[GRUNTING]
[DEMON SHRIEKS]
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
No sensible shoes now, Mr. Chandler.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
Previously on Penny Dreadful:
- Why are you here?
- I believe I'm cursed to see things.
If you think you're touched by the
demon, then you best walk out that door.
The man concerns me.
She has a protector.
LYLE: Mr. Chandler?
- Lupus Dei.
He shall be your challenge, daughter.
RUSK:
I want to know who did this to you.
Get better, Mr. Roper.
We have much to talk about.
- My name is Dorian Gray.
- Angelique. This is where I work.
- I hope you know what you've bought.
- I do.
VICTOR:
Cosmetically, she's transformed.
Lily, may I introduce John Clare.
OCTAVIA: Meet the new man we've hired.
LAVINIA: It is good to meet you.
That face will make our fortune.
[THUMPING AND MAN GRUNTS
AND WOMAN SCREAMS]
[BABY CRYING]
MALCOLM: Mrs. Poole.
EVELYN: Sir Malcolm.
- What do they know?
LYLE: Nothing.
I can misdirect them as you see fit.
No. Let her follow
the bread crumbs to me.
[SHRIEKS]
JOAN:
You have to learn to protect yourself.
VANESSA: From whom?
JOAN: Legions.
[SNARLING]
JOAN: Remember this.
When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone.
They will hunt you until the end of days.
[♪♪♪]
MALCOLM:
And then?
They burned her alive.
When I left the moors...
...I thought I would never hear
that wicked language again.
Or confront that evil.
Mr. Chandler felt you needed to know.
"For thee are not fighting
against flesh-and-blood enemies...
...but against mighty powers
in this dark realm."
"And against evil spirits
in heavenly places."
So these Nightcomers
practise a form of black magic...
...while you practise a form of--?
Practising magic is unbelievable
enough. Do we need to parse it?
We need to know
what these things are.
Yes, they're witches, understood.
Witchcraft has a long history
in many cultures, doctor.
As do fairies and sprites, but they
don't walk about greater London.
These do.
My apologies.
And their goal?
They're servants to the devil.
Doing his bidding
to serve their own ends.
Whatever those may be.
All of which leaves us where, exactly?
A threat to which
we can now give a name.
And a language we need
to decipher.
I'm on.
Take a look, won't you?
Mr. Chandler was more right
than he knew.
It is a puzzle, and more complicated
than it first appeared...
...which just about gave me the vapours,
I can tell you.
It's not so much an actual language...
...as a collection of known languages
forming new patterns.
But within this thicket of obfuscation,
our old friends Greek and Latin.
Translating the Greek
was easy enough...
...though the idiom
is decidedly pre-grammar, if you will.
One fragment...
...emerged to me here.
"So God looked down
on his defeated angels and..."
That "and" suggests what?
More to come.
Precisely, so I started hunting
for the continuation...
...and I found this in Latin.
So, Mr. Chandler,
care to test your skill?
ETHAN: "Found them to be evil angels,
so he cast them out.
He took..."
- Took what?
- Aren't you all dying to know?
It's a story.
A narrative that continues.
Language to language.
Greek to Latin to Sumerian to Arabic...
...to ten other obscure languages
and pictographs...
...changing language from relic to relic.
Is it the story of Lucifer, then?
- The angel cast out by God?
LYLE: Time will tell.
How could this one monk
know all these languages?
He didn't.
- The demon did.
LYLE: Exactly.
Recall, Brother Gregory
was only writing down what he heard...
...apparently, in whatever language
it came t0 him.
Do you know what I think this is?
Yes, I think it's a story...
...but you made one mistake
in your translation, Mr. Chandler...
...more than understandable,
given the archaic script and usage.
Look again.
Not "them."
"US-"
"Found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out."
It's not just a story.
It's an autobiography.
The memoirs of the devil.
[♪♪♪]
This is all giving me a headache.
You should talk to a doctor.
You know, once, I would have thought
all of this impossible.
And now?
I know nothing's impossible.
Whatever we can imagine,
far worse is true.
And far better.
You think so?
I choose to.
Miss Ives, I have...
...a personal favour to ask of you.
Would you mind accompanying me
somewhere tomorrow?
On, well, uh...
...an errand of sorts.
Of course, doctor.
May I call at 10?
- Gladly.
- Thank you.
What are you doing?
Watching.
For what?
Those things...
...that hunt at night.
Lions.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
The train stops in the tunnel.
The lights go out for a brief moment.
No one in the carriages on either side
saw anything.
No one came and no one went.
So how did he do it?
Sir?
How did he come and go?
Carrying a baby, no less...
...which apparently
didn't squall or cry out in transit.
Perhaps he killed it here.
Then why take it?
And the wounds...
...like a surgeon.
Precise, elegant.
Unlike the other animal butchery
we've seen.
No, we're going about this all wrong.
We're pursuing patterns of logic...
...when the answer lies elsewhere.
Where?
[CHUCKLES]
Magic.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
OCTAVIA: And how are we to afford
another exhibition?
It'll pay for itself in time.
What makes you think that Harry
Public's gonna plunk down 2 bob...
...to see those bloody things?
Go to the corner right now,
you'll find the answer.
They line up three deep
for the Police Gazette...
...and the penny dreadfuls,
and those are only pictures.
We give them it fully formed.
Horror in all its horror.
Yeah, time will prove it, eh?
A husband could use a show
of support from his wife.
Besides, with this,
we're not simulating anything...
...because it's all real.
Flesh and blood,
and pumping hearts and all.
Here. Look at this.
We add another entrance here
at the corner.
Two attractions, two gates.
Two admissions.
Give them a discount
for buying both.
They go down the stairs here.
I don't follow.
Where are you keeping them?
In this half of the cellar,
if I can rent it off the tobacconist.
- You see?
- Gonna keep them in the cellar?
- All the time?
- Of course.
They don't need the light.
They're freaks.
[♪♪♪]
- I know you're there.
- [CREATURE GASPS]
- Sorry, miss.
- Everyone does it.
A chance to observe life
at its most natural, being unobserved.
I can always tell.
The molecules change in the air,
you see.
Everything vibrates.
I'll, uh--
I'll go.
Mr. Clare, don't be such a mouse.
Now, tell me.
Does this look like Mr. Gladstone?
He's been prime minister
so many times...
...we have to keep making him older.
CREATURE:
I think it does.
Ageing them is easy.
Everyone knows you have to add
wrinkles and sagging skin and such.
But the trick...
...is the eyes.
They get cloudy as you get older.
You have to change the eyes.
What do your eyes look like?
Um...
They're, um-- They're not beautiful.
Are they cloudy?
No.
What colour are they?
No. Let me guess.
- Miss--
- Blue?
No, you're no blue-eyed boy.
Not green, I sense.
I'll say brown.
Feathery brown, like an owl's wing.
No, not brown.
Well, tell me.
They're, um...
Yellow.
Well, that makes a change.
Not a lemon yellow, I hope.
That would be alarming.
More of a turmeric, would you say?
Yes.
I heard the most wonderful story
about Mr. Gladstone.
That almost every evening,
he goes out walking...
...and if he comes across a fallen
woman, he stops and talks to her...
...and gives her money.
A very kind man.
Anyone who's kind to the suffering...
...deserves a proper place
in the museum, I say.
And what about the others
you work on?
Which?
Those that aren't kind.
Yes.
Father's murderers.
All those figures screaming
in his new crime scenes.
Oh, Mr. Clare...
...it hurts me to create them.
Like I'm bringing them to life
and then torturing them...
...like some sort of terrible
African voodoo doll.
They're all fresh
when they come out of the moulds...
...and then I make them suffer.
Some people think that's what life is.
Born fresh to suffer.
Do you think that?
I did.
Now I'm not sure.
There's hope for you, anyway.
Don't give up on life just yet.
No, miss, I won't.
MAN 1:
Family murdered on the Underground!
All horrors of the Underground!
Read about it!
MAN 2:
Thank you, sir.
[♪♪♪]
[NEIGHING]
WOMAN:
Whoa!
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[WOMAN SHRIEKS]
- Are you all right, miss?
- What...?
I...
[GASPS]
It's all right.
It's okay. You're--
[SOBBING]
Come on, now.
It's all right.
I understand your memory may not
be completely clear, Mr. Roper.
I'll take that into account.
Will you describe what happened
at the Mariner's Inn?
Anything you can remember
would be a boon to my investigation.
With your help...
...we can find the man
who did this to you.
I don't remember.
Nothing?
I find that hard to credit.
Credit what you like.
The pathologists tell me your wounds
were likely inflicted...
...by some sort of animal claw.
Perhaps a tomahawk or ritual club
from your own country.
I don't remember.
Then perhaps you can remember
why you were wearing this?
Protection.
From what?
Mr. Roper.
My city is choked with bodies.
A baby is missing.
You will help me...
...or, by God, I will grind you to bone.
I'm a citizen
of the United States of America.
I know my rights.
Soon as I'm able,
I'll be gone from your goddamn city.
You can be assured.
Honestly, doctor,
this is the last thing I expected.
Yes, well...
What's life without surprises?
It's my cousin, you see.
She's coming to visit me,
and she's a simple girl.
Not slow, you understand,
not retarded in any way.
Just from the country, you know?
Your cousin, how lovely.
Yes, my cousin.
Second cousin.
Lily is her name.
Lily Frankenstein.
Yes, that's her name.
Excuse me. Oh.
Not a real woman at all.
The mannequin, I mean,
not my cousin.
She's a real woman.
So your second cousin Lily
is coming to visit you.
Yes. That's it entirely, yes.
And what are we doing here?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
Being a country girl, I thought
I might buy her a dress or two...
...so she'll fit in.
And you've never shopped
for women's clothing before.
In a nutshell, yes.
Then I shall be delighted to assist you.
You always dress so--
You know, with the collars
and the black things with the--
VANESSA: Mm.
- Always very completely dressed.
WOMAN: Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Vanessa Ives, pleased to meet you.
- Mr. and Mrs. Ives.
Oh, God, no, no. We're not married.
- Oh. I see.
- No, it's not like that either.
I assure you, sir,
discretion is the watchcry of my trade.
We'll look around for a bit if we may,
my non-husband and l.
This is worse
than I knew it was going to be.
Now, is she fair or dark?
Very fair. Golden blond hair.
And her size?
Precisely 5 feet, 5 inches.
Very exact.
I had cause to measure her height.
I shan't ask.
And her general body type?
More rounded than yours.
Fuller hips, larger bust.
Oh.
How about this?
It would work nicely on a young girl
with fair hair.
Guipure lace is very popular...
...and the mousseline de soie
would flatter an ample bosom.
Can you hold it up?
Hm. I've never seen you wear white.
Not my colour.
No.
I'm not sure about the...
Décolletage.
Precisely.
Then we'll move on.
And would you be willing...
...if it's not too much trouble,
to have tea with us sometime...
...when she's in?
I shall be honoured, doctor.
She's very shy.
I'll whisper.
There is one more thing to consider.
Yes?
When we've bought the dress,
we'll need undergarments.
[VANESSA LAUGHING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
- You're going to laugh.
- I won't, I promise.
I hate to even say it aloud.
Hecate Livingstone.
- Hecate.
- I know.
It's the name
of a Greek sea goddess.
Mistress of the Waves.
My parents went
through a classical-learning phase.
My name is the hideous result.
Why don't you just go
by your middle name?
- I can't.
- Why?
Aphrodite.
I'm sorry, I've been wanting to do that.
God. I'm hopeless.
And I'm supposed to be going
to Spain next.
How am I going to survive the brigands
of the Alhambra...
...if I can't cross a damn street in Soho?
I think those brigands
better watch out for you...
...Hecate Aphrodite Livingstone.
[LAUGHING]
So how'd you end up here?
Because I'm trying to be
a liberated woman.
Not too successfully thus far, it seems.
I grew up in Maine, but when
I graduated from Northwestern...
...I decided I'd had enough
of the great cow pastures of Indiana...
...and lobster fields of New England,
and deserved some proper civilisation...
...among properly civilised people.
And you're travelling alone?
Yes, Mr. Chandler.
American women sometimes do travel
abroad without armed guards.
I have a degree in botany,
a sensible pair of shoes...
...and a very generous account
at the American Express.
You're studying Latin.
Trying to make myself into
one of those civilised people...
...you're hoping to meet.
Just don't go crazy naming your kids.
Are you a scholar of some sort?
Do I look like a scholar?
No. You look like a...
I don't know what you look like.
A train robber.
Have you ever been out West?
You mean, like California?
- And the New Mexico territory.
- Not yet.
Adventure is to come.
Then he must have come
to see you.
- Who?
- My father.
Your accent is good...
...but no trace of a Yankee in it for
a girl who says she grew up in Maine.
Northwestern is in Illinois, not Indiana.
Maybe the Pinkertons
are hiring women now.
If so, I applaud them for it,
because I am all for emancipation.
My father failed with them,
and he failed with you.
So go back and tell him to leave me be
or the next time he sees me...
...I'll have a gun to his head
with my finger on the trigger.
I hope you enjoy the Alhambra.
It's supposed to be very dramatic.
And honestly,
those aren't very sensible shoes.
WOMAN: But I'm frightened.
What horrors might it contain?
MAN:
Behold the evil one, Lucifer.
[CROWD LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪]
CROWD:
Whoa!
ANGELIQUE:
I don't admit to my real name.
It's beneath contempt.
DORIAN:
Let me guess, then.
- Bartholomew?
- Heh.
DORIAN: Tarquin?
- Heh, heh.
DORIAN: Ahab?
- Never you mind.
And "Dorian"
isn't the most fetching name, either.
My parents were aspiring to status.
- You weren't born rich?
- Not by a far cry.
Well, at least tell me how old you are.
Older than I look.
- Then tell me your secret.
- Ah.
Be careful what you wish for.
You're raising a few eyebrows.
You don't mind?
Let them stare.
Provocation is food and drink to me.
Here we are.
Are you ready for an adventure?
Something brand-new?
Are there any other kind
of adventures?
DORIAN:
The soldiers brought it back from India.
It's called Gossima tennis.
All the rage. They say there'll
be parlours all over London soon.
God. Electrical lighting.
What that does
to a girl's complexion.
Champagne, please. Your best.
MAN:
Sir.
Now, as I understand it...
...we bounce the ball back and forth
for a bit.
Yes, I've gathered that. Heh.
Shall we keep score?
Why else live?
Unh.
One for me.
[♪♪♪]
I made ridiculous errors.
But it wasn't that.
He smelled me.
You might have suspected as much.
Lupus Dei.
There's no doubt now.
Then we shall have to meet him...
...to0th for claw.
I'll prepare the enchantment
for tonight.
Take the others.
- You know what to bring me?
- Yes.
Don't disappoint me again, girl.
[HISSING]
Caution, daughter.
You overreach.
I don't trust that little man.
Mr. Lyle is distinctly untrustworthy.
But as weak as a lily.
Have no fear of him.
- And the others?
- Do with them as you like.
Only Miss Ives matters.
Bring me what I need.
[♪♪♪]
It's made from a champagne cork.
What is?
The ball.
How can you tell?
Darling, I can smell champagne
at 30 yards...
...locked in a steamer trunk
at the bottom of the ocean.
And I do believe
that makes 12 games to...
How many is it?
None.
None, that's right. Poor lamb.
Another game?
Do you think your pride can take it?
Losing yet again
to a defenseless female?
And you are neither of those things,
as we both well know.
And where would we be
without our little deceptions?
I think we should be very uninteresting.
It's the subterfuge
that makes it all the more delicious.
Knowing the secrets others don't.
Being who we want to be,
not who we are.
[♪♪♪]
VICTOR:
How's it feeling?
LILY:
It's very tight.
VICTOR:
That's meant to be the point.
LILY:
I can barely breathe.
I think that's meant
to be the point too.
Ladies aren't supposed
to exert themselves.
LILY:
I won't be able to walk.
Lots of young ladies do.
You shall as well.
LILY:
Are you going to teach me that too?
I'll do my best.
LILY: Trust me,
you have quite a challenge.
I feel like a mule.
All right, I'm finished. Are you ready?
Have on.
[♪♪♪]
I can't believe you've ever been
this silent in your entire life.
Lily.
You look beautiful.
I can't breathe.
That's the corset.
Yes, I know what it is, cousin.
I'm wearing it.
Can you help me?
I think I'm going to topple over.
The shoes are awfully high.
Yes.
I picked them for that.
LILY:
Why?
I like that in a woman.
Displays the talocrural region
and the leg's dorsiflexion.
That's flattering.
Do all women wear corsets?
VICTOR:
Most.
Of a certain class, anyway.
LILY:
it seems...
I don't have the word. Um...
Cruel.
The bone's digging into my skin.
I believe you can adjust it around
a bit.
Are you going to fix that yourself?
VICTOR:
Of course.
I'm good with stitching.
So women wear corsets
so they don't exert themselves?
Partly.
What would be the danger
if they did?
They'd take over the world.
[CHUCKLES]
The only way we men prevent that
is by keeping women corseted...
...in theory and in practise.
They're meant to flatter the figure.
To a man's eye, anyway.
All we do is for men, isn't it?
Keep their houses...
...raise their children,
flatter them with our pain.
No.
Does this corset flatter me?
Yes.
Do you want me to wear it?
I want nothing to cause you pain.
Not for flattery...
...or my vanity.
Or anything under the sun.
Now, please, go and take it off.
The dress will look fine without it.
Thank you.
But I'll keep the shoes on, if I may.
- I thought they hurt your feet.
- Yes, but you like them.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
I'm fluent in Arabic,
but this script's highly obscure.
I can only make out certain words.
These might help.
Oh, yes.
That's much better.
I don't know they entirely suit you.
A bit de trop.
Look, it's something like,
“Us by our winged backs...
...and raised us over his head thence."
"Found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out.
He took..."
"Us by our winged backs
and raised us over his head thence."
You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Now, that you've given up the Nile,
you need a new quest.
Perhaps I do.
And you shouldn't be vain
about needing spectacles, you know.
You're a strapping sort of man,
all told.
Well, I suppose I'm...
...courting after a fashion.
Sir Malcolm, you vanquish me.
Who's the lucky lady?
You know her, in fact.
I first met her at your house.
Mrs. Poole.
Oh, yes, our clairvoyant friend.
You might...
Well, proceed with caution, eh?
I have no choice but to.
I remain married.
All for the best, then.
Those little dalliances
can get so Byzantine.
My past is littered
with overly Byzantine dalliances...
...from Stoke-on-Trent to Budapest.
Hm.
ETHAN:
I think she came for my father.
Why?
He wants me to come home.
He's sent others before.
What was her name?
Alias more like.
"Hecate," she said.
It's some kind of Greek sea goddess.
Oh. That was a lie as well.
Hecate wasn't a sea goddess.
She was a moon goddess.
And bringer of magic.
And also a character in Macbeth,
the protector of witches.
She didn't look like a witch.
And would an old crone
have attracted your eye?
No, Mr. Chandler.
They can assume many guises,
like a chameleon on a leaf.
In their natural state,
they're more memorable.
She was some chameleon, then.
Do you feel like some coffee?
No, thank you.
I'll be right back.
MALCOLM:
Vanessa.
Come and look at this.
[♪♪♪]
Well, don't you look fetching?
SEMBENE: I'll do that.
- I don't mind. Pays for my keep.
SEMBENE:
Pays for my keep.
She should eat more.
ETHAN:
You worry about her, don't you?
SEMBENE:
She's a lioness.
She does not worry me.
ETHAN:
But you worry about Sir Malcolm.
Can I ask you a question?
Can I stop you?
Were you a hunter
where you came from?
Partly.
What was the other part?
Private.
I should get you an apron.
MALCOLM: "In the great war for
the throne, we were vanquished."
"So God looked down
on his defeated angels and he--"
"--found us to be evil angels,
so he cast us out."
"He took us by our winged backs
and raised us over his head thence."
- Thence?
- Cast us to hell?
Does any of this
strike a chord in you, Vanessa?
Yes.
My friend the cut-wife said to me:
"When Lucifer fell,
he did not fall alone."
And the demon's purpose
in telling his tale?
A prophecy-
Give it a thought.
Lucifer tells a past-tense narrative
to a monk. Why?
Just so his history can be recorded?
No.
If we accept the devil
walks amongst us today...
...we must consider this is meant
to be part of an ongoing story...
...that it has relevance now.
It's possible he wasn't just recounting
the past, but foretelling the future.
Whose future?
I think most likely yours.
You don't know that.
- Vanessa--
- You don't know that.
Are there any references
to a woman?
- To anyone like me?
- We're not done yet.
You'll understand I find it difficult
to accept I'm the object...
...of an eternal satanic quest
that's so far only demonstrated...
...in something
that's half-poetry, half-gibberish.
I'm sorry. No.
I'm tired. I apologise.
LYLE:
No need.
I think I should turn in.
If you'll excuse me.
- Good night.
LYLE: Sleep well, my dear.
As I can.
Good night, gentlemen.
Don't tell me
you're gonna miss Sembene's...
What is that?
Buttercream torte.
Two words I thought I'd never hear
coming out of your mouth.
Save me some for breakfast.
Good night.
Does she really eat dessert
for breakfast?
Always.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[HORSE TROTTING BY]
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]
[DEMON SHRIEKS]
[SNARLING]
[GRUNTING]
[LYLE SPEAKING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Unh!
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[GROWLING]
[GRUNTING]
[DEMON SHRIEKS]
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
No sensible shoes now, Mr. Chandler.
[♪♪♪]
[♪♪♪]