- [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives about the complications of him and Lily]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: My cousin and I... it's not without it's complications. That's what they call the workings inside watches. Did you know that? The intricate gears and mechanisms. Complications.
- Vanessa Ives: [Vanessa smiles] Then enjoy them, Doctor. They will tick away, no matter what we do.
- [Vanessa Ives tells Victor Frankenstein she met a man named John Clare]
- Vanessa Ives: You sound like my friend Mr. Clare.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: What did you say?
- Vanessa Ives: A man I met recently. Same name as the poet, John Clare. He breaks my heart, Mr. Clare. A kindred spirit, I think. We met in the strangest way. Is it random we met, I wonder... or is it a hidden design like these relics?
- [Dorian Gray tells Lily he has a sense they've met before while dancing with her]
- Dorian Gray: I have the strangest sense we've met before. Do you think that's impossible? In some other lifetime?
- Lily: I don't know that there are other lifetimes.
- Dorian Gray: Surely there are. Echoes of the past everywhere. My past, your past. Can't you feel it?
- Lily: [Lily smiles] Perhaps I can.
- [the tension grows between Victor Frankenstein, Lily, Dorian Gray, and Angelique at the Ball]
- Dorian Gray: [as Dorian compliments Lily's dancing] Natural grace, unschooled by society... that's the greatest gift, isn't it?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Lots of natural grace in the country.
- Lily: I grew up in the country.
- Dorian Gray: Oh, where?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Lake District.
- Dorian Gray: The realm of poets.
- Angelique: And livestock.
- [Vanessa Ives and the group informs Sir Malcolm that his wife took her own life by slitting her throat]
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Where did she do it?
- Vanessa Ives: In the master bedroom, apparently... at the country house.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Oh, I see. I shall have to have the carpet replaced then. Good morning. Morning.
- [Lavinia Putney holds Mr. Clare's hand when she feels its odd cold touch]
- Lavinia Putney: It's too cold, I mean. It doesn't feel fully alive.
- John Clare: Sorry, Miss. I've work to do.
- Lavinia Putney: Wait! Mr. Clare... why does your hand not feel alive?
- John Clare: I can't speak to that, Miss. It is how it is.
- Lavinia Putney: Then why am I frightened?
- [Inspector Rusk talks to Ethan Chandler about the murders at the Mariner's Inn when viewing at the Putney Wax display]
- Bartholomew Rusk: When I was in the Transvaal... I saw lions feed. It was much like the Mariner's Inn. They were always tearing pieces off and stealing away.
- Ethan Chandler: With a purpose... to eat.
- Bartholomew Rusk: Not always. Sometimes a shock would run through the animals, like a tremor, for no reason at all. A kind of bloodlust. I often wondered if they remembered it afterwards... this frenzy. What do you think?
- [Angelique and Victor Frankenstein are left alone at the Ball]
- Angelique: We're abandoned, Doctor. I think some champagne, yes?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I don't drink spirits.
- Angelique: I won't hold that against you.
- [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives everything has an inner clockwork]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Science would tell us... there's always an inner clockwork. Nothing is happenstance.
- Vanessa Ives: Yet you wear a flower.
- [Vanessa Ives talks to Ferdinand Lyle at the Ball]
- Ferdinand Lyle: [as the two look at the dancing guests] A dizzying panorama, isn't it? All the toys of love out of the box and scattered around the floor.
- Vanessa Ives: And at the end of the night to be put carefully away. These terrible games.
- Ferdinand Lyle: And do you ever play... or only spectate?
- Vanessa Ives: [Vanessa smiles] I never learned the rules.
- [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives he's just like everyone else]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: It's the oddest thing, Miss Ives. My whole life, I've thought I was... bound to live with exceptionality. I was not like my brothers. I was resolutely this... disjointed thing, freakish thing. So I came to celebrate what uniqueness I had.
- Vanessa Ives: And now?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I wear a flower! I find, lo and behold... I'm just like everyone else.
- [Madame Kali tells Ferdinand Lyle that God turned away from her]
- Madame Kali: Despite what you may think... I didn't turn from God. He turned from me. From all of us. Look around. You tell me, where is He... in this city of perpetual suffering? In this life? You tell me where.
- Ferdinand Lyle: There are those who say you can find Him within.
- Madame Kali: They're wrong.
- [first lines]
- Lily: [Victor Frankenstein wakes up to see Lily cooking him breakfast] Good morning. How do you like your eggs?
- [as the two kiss on the lips]
- [Warren Roper talks to Ethan Chandler about getting him back to America]
- Warren Roper: Before I became a fine Pinkerton man you see before you, I was a Texas ranger. We was after some Mexicans, rustlers they were. We spent months on the trail. Finally, we captured them. End of the day we were so fucking sick of hunting them that we couldn't face dragging them back to Abilene, so we shot them down, took their scalps. Which fulfilled the warrant, you see. It was proof of apprehension, as the lawyers say.
- Ethan Chandler: I'm not going back to America.
- Warren Roper: Oh, you are. Or maybe I'll sell you to a freak show. That's quite a trick you have. Never seen the like, and I've seen most everything.
- [Vanessa Ives asks Victor Frankenstein for the first dance]
- Vanessa Ives: So, Doctor, will you give me the first dance?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Perhaps the second.
- [Madame Kali and Ferdinand Lyle discuss how unique Vanessa Ives is]
- Madame Kali: The time comes when the spider must touch the fly.
- Ferdinand Lyle: And if the fly eats the spider?
- Madame Kali: You admire her.
- Ferdinand Lyle: Fine. In our dolorous old bestiary, she's a truly... unique creature.
- [Madame Kali tells Ferdinand Lyle about the time during the Renaissance]
- Madame Kali: Did you know that during the Renaissance... women used to put poison into their eyes? A little drop of belladonna to dilate the pupil... to simulate erotic excitement. But like all addictions, it took more and more to produce the desired effect. So they slowly... killed themselves. What won't we do for beauty?
- Ferdinand Lyle: And youth.
- Madame Kali: Ah, yes. Youth. That takes more than a drop of poison. That takes everything... doesn't it? Such a price we pay. Such a price.
- [Oscar Putney welcomes in the paying customers to his Putney Wax Works]
- Oscar Putney: Step up, step in! Awaiting you, a panoply of London's most heinous crimes in living color! Explore the lurid byways of terrible homicide and atrocious depravity! Step inside and steel yourself. Witness the gruesome marvels of genuine terror as they unfold before you. Putney! Putney Wax Works!
- [Inspector Rusk tells Ethan Chandler what he did after losing his arm while at the Putney Wax Works]
- Bartholomew Rusk: When they cut off my arm, I was anesthetized. When I woke... I went and found it in a pile of discarded limbs, not unlike this tableaux.
- Ethan Chandler: What did you do with it?
- Bartholomew Rusk: Oh, I tossed it back. I just needed to finish the story in my own way. Write 'finis' in bold letters... and move on.
- [Inspector Rusk tells Ethan Chandler his reason for no longer following him for the Mariner's Inn murders]
- Bartholomew Rusk: No man involved with crimes like this can live with them forever. Better the quick hanging... than the slow torture of guilt, eh?
- [Ferdinand Lyle talks to Hecate Poole at Dorian Gray's Ball]
- Ferdinand Lyle: I'm not sure what game you're playing, my dear, but I so enjoy watching your scales catch the light as you coil.
- Hecate Poole: Don't you like games, Mr. Lyle?
- Ferdinand Lyle: Some. And is your mother aware of yours?
- Hecate Poole: My mother has games of her own. Mine are more far-sighted. But there's time enough for that. I am, after all, very young.
- Ferdinand Lyle: As is she.
- Hecate Poole: For now.
- [Dorian Gray compliments Lily on her looks while dancing with her]
- Dorian Gray: Your hands. They're... cool to the touch.
- Lily: Oh, I'm sorry.
- Dorian Gray: Don't be. They suit you... like the touch of marble. Do you think it bold if I compliment your eyes?
- Lily: [Lily smiles] Yes. But please do.
- [Vanessa Ives talks to Madame Kali at the Ball]
- Madame Kali: Life does batter at us. But we must persevere with spirit for as long as we possibly can. It's the trick to staying young, don't you think?
- Vanessa Ives: That's not a trick I seek.
- [Vanessa Ives talks to Madame Kali about being a friend of Sir Malcolm]
- Vanessa Ives: He speaks very highly of you, Mrs. Poole.
- Madame Kali: While he speaks of you so rarely. I suppose we could say you're something of a ward to him.
- Vanessa Ives: A friend, I'd like to think, who cares a great deal for his welfare.
- Madame Kali: Sounds like a warning.
- [Ferdinand Lyle asks to walk Vanessa Ives home from the Ball as he feels she's in danger]
- Ferdinand Lyle: Let me escort you home, please?
- Vanessa Ives: Let me say good night to the doctor. I'll be right back. And thank you.
- Ferdinand Lyle: It's not every night I leave with the most beautiful woman in London on my arm.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: [Vanessa Ives walks at the center of the Ball and sees the witches surround her, and the room and all of its guest dance under a rain of blood, as Vanessa faints] Miss Ives! Miss Ives! Can you hear me! Can you hear me!
- Ferdinand Lyle: Miss Ives!