1. Captain!Copy !req
2. Captain!Copy !req
3. Can we talk?Copy !req
4. Hmm.Copy !req
5. We must break through the ice.Copy !req
6. The men are hungry and exhausted.Copy !req
7. We cannot keep up this pace
without consequence.Copy !req
8. Listen up, men!Copy !req
9. The more we delay the labor,Copy !req
10. the firmer the grasp
of the ice will become.Copy !req
11. The work continues.Copy !req
12. Rotate each group.Copy !req
13. Sir, with respect...Copy !req
14. The men need assurances.Copy !req
15. Assurances?Copy !req
16. Yes, that we will head back
to St. Petersburg once we free the ship.Copy !req
17. They don't think we'll be seaworthy
for long and they want to know—Copy !req
18. Listen up!Copy !req
19. It is neither your place,
nor the officer here, to think anything...Copy !req
20. We signed up for a mission
and we will see it to completion.Copy !req
21. We will reach the North Pole.Copy !req
22. Is it understood?Copy !req
23. An explosion, Captain.Copy !req
24. About two miles away.Copy !req
25. Get the men.Copy !req
26. The sled dogs are unharmed.Copy !req
27. Then where does all this blood come from?Copy !req
28. Over here, Captain!Copy !req
29. A wounded man, he's lost a lot of blood.Copy !req
30. Wound to the shoulder, his leg is broken.Copy !req
31. Bear attack?Copy !req
32. I don't think so, Captain.Copy !req
33. Larsen, help me with his boot.Copy !req
34. A prosthetic leg.Copy !req
35. Put him on the board.Copy !req
36. Hurry! To the ship! Now!Copy !req
37. Larsen, that thing is coming.Copy !req
38. Ready the rifles!Copy !req
39. On my command.Copy !req
40. Aim!Copy !req
41. Fire!Copy !req
42. Next group!Copy !req
43. Fire!Copy !req
44. All to the ship!Copy !req
45. Where is that man we brought on board?Copy !req
46. Where?Copy !req
47. What is that thing? What does it want?Copy !req
48. Bring him to me!Copy !req
49. The blunderbuss.
Larsen, get the blunderbuss!Copy !req
50. Victor.Copy !req
51. Victor!Copy !req
52. I killed it.Copy !req
53. I killed it.Copy !req
54. It's still alive!Copy !req
55. Ladder!Copy !req
56. Pull up the ladder!Copy !req
57. Bring him to me!Copy !req
58. How many shots are left?Copy !req
59. One, but it can't kill it.Copy !req
60. I know.Copy !req
61. I'm not aiming for him.Copy !req
62. Laudanum,
to ease the pain. Drink it. Drink it.Copy !req
63. Where am I?Copy !req
64. You are on
the Royal Danish ship, Horisont.Copy !req
65. I'm Captain Anderson. This is Dr. Udsen.Copy !req
66. How many of your men did it kill?Copy !req
67. Six.Copy !req
68. It will come back and kill many more.Copy !req
69. All of you, if necessary,
unless you deliver me to it.Copy !req
70. No, no. It's gone.Copy !req
71. It sank in the freezing waters. It's dead.Copy !req
72. No, it is not!Copy !req
73. It cannot die.Copy !req
74. I have tried to destroy it.Copy !req
75. Whether you believe me or not,Copy !req
76. it will come back... for me.Copy !req
77. And when it does,Copy !req
78. you must promise
that you will put me out on the iceCopy !req
79. and let it take me.Copy !req
80. Please.Copy !req
81. What manner of creature is that?Copy !req
82. What manner of devil made him?Copy !req
83. I did.Copy !req
84. I did.Copy !req
85. I made him.Copy !req
86. I had determined that the memory
of my evils should die with me.Copy !req
87. It's ready.Copy !req
88. Some of what I will tell you is fact.Copy !req
89. Some is not, but it is all true.Copy !req
90. My name is Victor.Copy !req
91. Victor Frankenstein.Copy !req
92. It was my father who gave me that name.Copy !req
93. Do you know what it means?Copy !req
94. I believe I do, yes. Conqueror.Copy !req
95. One that wins it all.Copy !req
96. Yes. It all started with him.Copy !req
97. My father.Copy !req
98. And my mother.Copy !req
99. Victor!Copy !req
100. Victor!Copy !req
101. Victor!Copy !req
102. Come down, your father is arriving.Copy !req
103. Maman? Maman?Copy !req
104. I'm here, Mother.Copy !req
105. I'm here.Copy !req
106. My father was a baron
and a preeminent surgeon.Copy !req
107. He had married my mother
largely out of convenience,Copy !req
108. as her dowry was considerable
and her lineage noble.Copy !req
109. It furnished my father with the means
to preserve his rank and family estate.Copy !req
110. He was absent from our lives,Copy !req
111. but when he came home,
the entire household bent to his will.Copy !req
112. Claire, dear.Copy !req
113. The rest of the time...Copy !req
114. Victor.Copy !req
115. Father.Copy !req
116. The rest of the time, Mother was mine.Copy !req
117. No, bring that here.Copy !req
118. The salts in the meat
will enrich your blood,Copy !req
119. as well as the baby's.Copy !req
120. You eat for two, remember?Copy !req
121. Go on.Copy !req
122. It's nutritious.Copy !req
123. Guardian angel.Copy !req
124. Sweet companion.Copy !req
125. Stand by my side and do not leave me.Copy !req
126. Under your mantle,Copy !req
127. shelter me, and...Copy !req
128. I would hear them through
the wall, arguing incessantly,Copy !req
129. yelling at each other
about wealth, estate... and me.Copy !req
130. Their voices filled me with fear.Copy !req
131. Maman?Copy !req
132. Maman?Copy !req
133. The man despised us both.Copy !req
134. Our raven black hair, our deep, dark eyes.Copy !req
135. Even our quiet,
at times nervous dispositionCopy !req
136. seemed to exasperate him to no end.Copy !req
137. List as accurately as you can
the ancient classificationCopy !req
138. of the humors in the human body.Copy !req
139. Blood, black bile, yellow bile,
and phlegm.Copy !req
140. Average male heart. Weight?Copy !req
141. Nine to eleven ounces, Father.Copy !req
142. Average female heart. Weight?Copy !req
143. Eight to ten ounces.Copy !req
144. Why do you suppose that is?Copy !req
145. Difference in mass in female heart?Copy !req
146. Depth of emotion?Copy !req
147. Tendency to the melancholic?Copy !req
148. Mass. Volume of blood, Father.
Muscular irrigation.Copy !req
149. Quite.
There is no spiritual content in tissue,Copy !req
150. and no emotion in a muscle.Copy !req
151. Now, describe the main function
of the tricuspid valve, please.Copy !req
152. I cannot recall, Father,
but I'm sure I will remember.Copy !req
153. Yeah, I'm sure you will.Copy !req
154. Ivory does not bleed, Victor.Copy !req
155. Flesh does.Copy !req
156. By the time you remember a fact,
your patient could be dead.Copy !req
157. You understand?Copy !req
158. The main function of the tricuspid valveCopy !req
159. is to prevent the reflux of blood
into the vena cava.Copy !req
160. No, not your hands. Not anymore.Copy !req
161. They are now the instruments
of your craft and will,Copy !req
162. and we must care for them.Copy !req
163. Your face, however, is vanity.Copy !req
164. You bear my name, Victor,
and with it my reputation.Copy !req
165. I pray you remember that.Copy !req
166. I feel you have
something very good, parce que...Copy !req
167. Three...Copy !req
168. Two...Copy !req
169. One...Copy !req
170. That's impossible.Copy !req
171. I'll shuffle.Copy !req
172. Mother?Copy !req
173. Maman?Copy !req
174. Father!Copy !req
175. Father. It's Mother.Copy !req
176. Maman.Copy !req
177. I need hot water
and clean linen. A lot of it.Copy !req
178. - Now.
- Sir.Copy !req
179. - No, Victor!
- Mother?Copy !req
180. - Maman!
- Victor!Copy !req
181. Father! Father!Copy !req
182. - Victor!
- Save her, please!Copy !req
183. My mother, whom I had come
to consider a part of my very self,Copy !req
184. she who I thought would never leave,Copy !req
185. she who was life... was now death.Copy !req
186. Her eyes extinguished,Copy !req
187. her smile feeding the cold earth.Copy !req
188. Leave!Copy !req
189. All of you, leave!Copy !req
190. A part of the universe
had been hollowed outCopy !req
191. and the firmament
was now permanently dark.Copy !req
192. Now, cover your eyes.Copy !req
193. Don't look until I tell you to.Copy !req
194. Now.Copy !req
195. William grew full of sunshine and smiles.Copy !req
196. He was of a calmer, gentler disposition,
clearly favored by my father.Copy !req
197. Thank you, Father.Copy !req
198. Oh, it's a pleasure, my boy.Copy !req
199. He was the breeze, I was the storm cloud.Copy !req
200. He was all laughter, I was all frowns.Copy !req
201. Pick up the reins.Copy !req
202. Look at me, Father. Look at me.Copy !req
203. There was something more.Copy !req
204. Or rather, something was missing.Copy !req
205. My mother had diedCopy !req
206. at the hands of the most
distinguished doctor of his day:Copy !req
207. My father.Copy !req
208. An idea... took shape in my mind.Copy !req
209. Define the circulatory system,
if you will...Copy !req
210. Inevitable, unavoidable...Copy !req
211. as enunciated in De Motu Cordis.Copy !req
212. until it became truth.Copy !req
213. Father?Copy !req
214. You let her die, did you not?Copy !req
215. I did everything in my power to save her.
You must know that.Copy !req
216. So you failed.Copy !req
217. - No one can conquer death.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
218. I will. I will conquer it.Copy !req
219. Everything you know, I will know.
And more.Copy !req
220. I think we've done quite enough for today.Copy !req
221. I was born anew that night.Copy !req
222. I had a vision.Copy !req
223. I saw, for the first time...Copy !req
224. the Dark Angel.Copy !req
225. And it made me a promise.Copy !req
226. I would have command
over the forces of life and death.Copy !req
227. I would become every ounce
the surgeon my father was.Copy !req
228. I would surpass him
in ambition and in reach.Copy !req
229. The vision was so clear.Copy !req
230. Clearer than anything I'd ever seen
in my waking hours or dreams.Copy !req
231. But how?Copy !req
232. My downfall was swift.Copy !req
233. Two revolts and a fire
on my mother's plantationsCopy !req
234. dwindled the family fortune.Copy !req
235. We kept the estate,
but lost everything else.Copy !req
236. William went to one side
of the family in ViennaCopy !req
237. and I to London, then Edinburgh.Copy !req
238. And there, for decades, I tried to...Copy !req
239. expand the narrow limits of academia.Copy !req
240. Life.Copy !req
241. This... is life, gentlemen.Copy !req
242. We are born.Copy !req
243. Hmm?Copy !req
244. And no sooner do we rise, we fall.Copy !req
245. Death.Copy !req
246. And in the space between
that rise and fall,Copy !req
247. our humble little purview.Copy !req
248. Now, birth is not in our hands.Copy !req
249. Is it?Copy !req
250. Conception, that spark,
the animation of thought and soul.Copy !req
251. That is in God's hands.Copy !req
252. God.Copy !req
253. But death.Copy !req
254. Ah, now there lies the challenge.Copy !req
255. That should be our concern.Copy !req
256. It should be.Copy !req
257. Who are we to do so?
We are not gods, are we?Copy !req
258. But if we are to behave
as immodestly as gods,Copy !req
259. we must, at the very least,
deliver miracles.Copy !req
260. Wouldn't you say?Copy !req
261. Ignite a divine spark...Copy !req
262. in these young students' minds.Copy !req
263. Teach them defiance rather than obedience.Copy !req
264. Show that man may pursue nature
to her hiding places and stop death.Copy !req
265. Not slow it down, but stop it entirely!Copy !req
266. Silence. Silence!Copy !req
267. How exactly do you propose
to teach what is impossible?Copy !req
268. Composite subject, the body.Copy !req
269. That of a shopkeeper,
delivered mere moments after expiration.Copy !req
270. The brain laid bare but functional,Copy !req
271. the spinal branches
and vagal nerves intact.Copy !req
272. You may observe the hair-thin scars.Copy !req
273. No coarse stitching needed
by my own technique.Copy !req
274. The arm, you see,Copy !req
275. comes from another specimen,
that of a carpenter.Copy !req
276. The muscles, ligaments,
nerves, all connected now.Copy !req
277. Now, the spasmodic movement of the bodyCopy !req
278. caused from the electric current,
this is not new.Copy !req
279. It's not new. However,
the flow of energy through the bodyCopy !req
280. follows a different notion entirely.Copy !req
281. An Eastern notion called qi.Copy !req
282. Now, it considers the vital flow of energy
both within and without.Copy !req
283. I'm utilizing needles in six—Copy !req
284. Quiet!Copy !req
285. Sit down!Copy !req
286. This is a hearing, Doctor,
not a carnival act.Copy !req
287. You're not helping your cause, Victor.Copy !req
288. This galvanic trickery will simply not do.Copy !req
289. Trickery.Copy !req
290. Trickery?Copy !req
291. Are you sure?Copy !req
292. That is not trickery. That is a decision.Copy !req
293. Motor coordination between the eye
of one dead man and the arm of another,Copy !req
294. infused with a new will
and the rudiments of understanding.Copy !req
295. Understanding in a brain
that already died?Copy !req
296. Release now.Copy !req
297. Please.Copy !req
298. "Please" always helps.Copy !req
299. Turn that off at once.
At once, you charlatan.Copy !req
300. This is the future. This is possible.Copy !req
301. Why not study it? Why not quantify it?Copy !req
302. This is unholy.Copy !req
303. An abomination.Copy !req
304. An obscenity!Copy !req
305. God gives life, and God takes it, Victor.Copy !req
306. Perhaps God is inept!Copy !req
307. And it is we that must amend his mistakes!Copy !req
308. Do not let these old fools
extinguish your voice!Copy !req
309. The answers only come
when coaxed by disobedience,Copy !req
310. free of fear and cowardly dogma!Copy !req
311. Professor Krempe.Copy !req
312. Baron Frankenstein,
my name is Heinrich Harlander,Copy !req
313. and I carry with me
a letter of introductionCopy !req
314. from your brother, William.Copy !req
315. From my brother?Copy !req
316. I asked for the privilege
of your acquaintance.Copy !req
317. It won't take but a minute of your time.Copy !req
318. - Please.
- Very well.Copy !req
319. So William is coming
to see me, is that it?Copy !req
320. Yeah, in a matter of days.Copy !req
321. He wants to introduce you to his fiancée.
My niece, as it happens.Copy !req
322. Elizabeth Harlander,
a very nice young lady,Copy !req
323. fresh from convent life.Copy !req
324. The photographs are mine.Copy !req
325. William has become
quite successful in the world of finance.Copy !req
326. He's making a name for himself.Copy !req
327. Ha! A name? For himself?Copy !req
328. Well, I'm afraid we both share that name,
whether we like it or not.Copy !req
329. I read your article in The Lancet.Copy !req
330. You really believe you can do it?Copy !req
331. Assemble a man?Copy !req
332. A full new body? And give it life?Copy !req
333. You saw it today, didn't you?Copy !req
334. What I saw was a crucifixion, really.Copy !req
335. You were done for
before you uttered a word.Copy !req
336. I still showed them.Copy !req
337. What?Copy !req
338. The truth.Copy !req
339. They will forget by suppertime.Copy !req
340. Yes, yes, yes.
But what did you think? Hmm?Copy !req
341. I thought it was brilliant.Copy !req
342. It was. I know.Copy !req
343. But you are like a child, so excited,Copy !req
344. clutching your new pet so tightly
that you're strangling it.Copy !req
345. That is why I worry about you.Copy !req
346. Can you contain your fire, Prometheus?Copy !req
347. Or are you going to
burn your hands before delivering it?Copy !req
348. Quite.Copy !req
349. Please do not think me rude,
but my day has proven long enough,Copy !req
350. and I believe myself totally unfit
for the company of strangers.Copy !req
351. So if there's nothing more—Copy !req
352. Oh, but there is. Much more.Copy !req
353. I've taken quarters in Edinburgh.Copy !req
354. Three days from now,
we are to meet with William and Elizabeth.Copy !req
355. And that evening,
I will change your destiny.Copy !req
356. I will show you something extraordinary.Copy !req
357. The peach. The peach.
Turn the peach. Turn it.Copy !req
358. You bit it again.Copy !req
359. You're eating the peaches.Copy !req
360. This is a memento mori.Copy !req
361. The peach, symbol of life and youth,
and you bite into it?Copy !req
362. - I was hungry, Kiki.
- Don't call me Kiki.Copy !req
363. Baron Victor Frankenstein, sir.Copy !req
364. You can leave.Copy !req
365. Forgive me.Copy !req
366. Welcome.Copy !req
367. Herr Harlander.Copy !req
368. A young art, photography.Copy !req
369. Goodbye, Kiki.Copy !req
370. Already a passion of mine.Copy !req
371. Did you bring the papers?Copy !req
372. Oh, thank you.Copy !req
373. - You're extraordinary.
- Thank you.Copy !req
374. Hmm.Copy !req
375. You're using the nervous system
to deliver the surge of energy.Copy !req
376. Are you not?Copy !req
377. Correct.Copy !req
378. And thus the sustainability
of the life force you commandCopy !req
379. is very brief, wanes, evaporates.Copy !req
380. How so?Copy !req
381. At the lecture,
you ended your demonstration out of pride.Copy !req
382. But really,
because the galvanic life forceCopy !req
383. was already fading, was it not?Copy !req
384. Are you yourself a surgeon, sir?Copy !req
385. Yeah, once upon a time. An army surgeon.Copy !req
386. Not a particularly skilled one, either.Copy !req
387. But it allowed me
to secure the rudiments of my fortune.Copy !req
388. I own a few ammunition factories.Copy !req
389. - An arms merchant.
- A realist.Copy !req
390. Are you familiar with the Evelyn Tables?Copy !req
391. Of course. Acquired by Sir John Evelyn,Copy !req
392. there are four planks,
meticulous dissection,Copy !req
393. some of the oldest in Europe,
presenting the nerves,Copy !req
394. veins and arteries of cadavers. What?Copy !req
395. Yes. But there's a fifth one.Copy !req
396. The most compelling one.Copy !req
397. Exquisite, is it not?Copy !req
398. Flesh rendered onto wood.Copy !req
399. The cadaver lies on the plank,
is peeled away layer by layer,Copy !req
400. and the remaining tissue is lacquered
with resin onto the wood.Copy !req
401. - It showcases the lymphatic system.
- Yes.Copy !req
402. Muslim medics called it
the secret circulatory system.Copy !req
403. It moves a mere three liters of fluid,
but it's a vast network.Copy !req
404. - Oh, it's remarkable.
- Yes.Copy !req
405. Now for us, for you,
the important variation is here.Copy !req
406. The ninth configuration. A very delicate,Copy !req
407. almost ethereal structure
surrounding the heart.Copy !req
408. It can distribute, but also store energy.Copy !req
409. Yes, if you can access that
without destroyingCopy !req
410. - the surrounding tissue—
- No. Not through the front.Copy !req
411. The back, spinal column,
thoracic curvature.Copy !req
412. Of course.Copy !req
413. Flow of energy, scarring and regeneration
beyond anyone's imagination.Copy !req
414. Life eternal.Copy !req
415. I will endow your pursuit
with unlimited resources.Copy !req
416. And in exchange?Copy !req
417. No need to become indelicate.Copy !req
418. We're searchers for truth
and transcendence, kindred spirits.Copy !req
419. I may in time
ask you for a favor in return,Copy !req
420. but it's mostly the privilege to record
your process for posterity.Copy !req
421. I work alone.Copy !req
422. I'm very quiet.Copy !req
423. William Frankenstein
and your niece, Herr Harlander.Copy !req
424. I shall consider it.Copy !req
425. I'll consider it.Copy !req
426. Baron.Copy !req
427. Don't pretend to be reasonable now.
It would be such a shame.Copy !req
428. Victor.Copy !req
429. William!Copy !req
430. - Victor.
- Look at you.Copy !req
431. My, you've grown.Copy !req
432. Through no merit of my own.Copy !req
433. May I introduce the woman I'm to marry.Copy !req
434. Lady Elizabeth Harlander.Copy !req
435. Absolutely delighted.Copy !req
436. Can't say I was shocked
when you were expelled,Copy !req
437. but the manner and virulence
of your expulsion,Copy !req
438. uncalled for, I'm sure.Copy !req
439. No, it was called for. I earned it.Copy !req
440. I made it a point to earn it,
wouldn't you say, Herr Harlander?Copy !req
441. It was quite an exit, I assure you.Copy !req
442. Why provoke them?Copy !req
443. Why not just carry on without calling
attention to yourself in such a manner?Copy !req
444. How safe, even by your standards, William.Copy !req
445. You almost sound like Father.Copy !req
446. He was a most tactful man, our father.Copy !req
447. He was precise, discreet, measured.Copy !req
448. I, on the other hand, fail to see
why modesty is considered a virtue at all.Copy !req
449. Victor's always been
one to harvest attention.Copy !req
450. Even as children,
I mitigated his voice by staying silent.Copy !req
451. Perhaps too much and far too many times,
wouldn't you say, Victor?Copy !req
452. If life can be regenerated,Copy !req
453. not as a mere simulation,Copy !req
454. but as a divine act by physical,
chemical means,Copy !req
455. why whisper it?Copy !req
456. You laugh?Copy !req
457. - You're amused?
- I must be, yes.Copy !req
458. Are my ideas not clear?Copy !req
459. You certainly expressed them
loudly enough.Copy !req
460. Are they not worthwhile?Copy !req
461. Ideas are not worthwhile by themselves,
I don't believe.Copy !req
462. Enlighten me, please.Copy !req
463. Take the war, for example.Copy !req
464. William, cigar and brandy in my study?Copy !req
465. Surely you've heard my niece
expound on the matter before.Copy !req
466. You'll excuse us.Copy !req
467. Pray, carry on. Ideas.Copy !req
468. Well... honor, country, valor.Copy !req
469. These surely are worthwhile,
elevated ideas by themselves,Copy !req
470. wouldn't you agree?Copy !req
471. - Mm-hmm.
- And nevertheless, men are dying for them.Copy !req
472. In a decidedly un-elevated way,Copy !req
473. face down in the mud, choking on blood,Copy !req
474. screaming in pain.Copy !req
475. Men that were fathers,
brothers or sons to someone out there.Copy !req
476. Men that were fed, cleaned and nursedCopy !req
477. and schooled into this world
by their mothers,Copy !req
478. only to fall on a battlefield far away,Copy !req
479. far from those that provoke
these tragedies.Copy !req
480. Those men remain at home,
untouched by blood or bayonet,Copy !req
481. their skin unpierced,
their blankets warm and clean.Copy !req
482. That is what happens
when ideas are pursued by fools.Copy !req
483. And you think me a fool?Copy !req
484. Hmm?Copy !req
485. Run to your brandy and cigars.Copy !req
486. The boys are waiting.Copy !req
487. How often a man believes
he's met an angel or a devil,Copy !req
488. only to find it is all an illusion.Copy !req
489. The game of chess we play...Copy !req
490. we play only against ourselves.Copy !req
491. Help him.Copy !req
492. Help him!Copy !req
493. Here you go. Drink some.Copy !req
494. You better come with me.Copy !req
495. Nothing.Copy !req
496. Sir, the watchman saw him.Copy !req
497. Circling the ship. In the mist.Copy !req
498. We all saw him drown.Copy !req
499. Sir.Copy !req
500. The men are terrified.Copy !req
501. They think that man should be
surrendered to the iceCopy !req
502. and be done with this.Copy !req
503. He is under my protection...Copy !req
504. and the protection of the Crown!Copy !req
505. A few weeks later,
I rode with William and HarlanderCopy !req
506. to a lake near Vaduz across the channel.Copy !req
507. The tower was built as a water
filtration plant to irrigate the fields.Copy !req
508. Public works, so construction
was abandoned at the start of the war.Copy !req
509. Not this war, the one before.Copy !req
510. Or the one before that,
I cannot quite remember.Copy !req
511. The moment I laid eyes on it...Copy !req
512. The tower.Copy !req
513. I could feel destiny calling.Copy !req
514. The structure's basically intact.Copy !req
515. And there's a chute
going from top, right to the bottom.Copy !req
516. I can arrange for your belongings.Copy !req
517. We'll bring them from Edinburgh.Copy !req
518. Anything you need or want
shall be granted.Copy !req
519. - Anything?
- Anything.Copy !req
520. I have secured William's
service for the duration of the project.Copy !req
521. I'll need a holding cell.Copy !req
522. - And an ice chamber close to the lab.
- William.Copy !req
523. There are two pump reservoirs
at the base of the tower.Copy !req
524. We'll repurpose those.Copy !req
525. We shall need to recondition
the steam engines.Copy !req
526. We'll need enough fuel
to make sure they run.Copy !req
527. There and there,
four high-capacity voltaic batteries,Copy !req
528. positive and negative polarity,Copy !req
529. and a lightning rod system of pure silver
telescoping down into the lab.Copy !req
530. Yes. My contractors can manufacture
any and all equipment you may require.Copy !req
531. I take it then
that we have an understanding?Copy !req
532. A bargain has been struck.Copy !req
533. Bastard!Copy !req
534. No. No. Not this one.Copy !req
535. Aah. Open your mouth.Copy !req
536. You, you're lucky to be hanged.
You would have died within the year.Copy !req
537. Herr Harlander promised me
access to optimal specimens.Copy !req
538. Yeah, that he may have, your lordship,Copy !req
539. but as you well know,Copy !req
540. crime doesn't pay, and it's a poor
showing of it we have here.Copy !req
541. They're wretches every one of them.Copy !req
542. I'm sorry about that.Copy !req
543. That's a strong back. This one will do.Copy !req
544. Come back later.Copy !req
545. Confession?Copy !req
546. I was intrigued.Copy !req
547. What would such a delicate,
pious creature have to confess to?Copy !req
548. As luck would have it,
an opportunity presented itself,Copy !req
549. and I...Copy !req
550. I was about to find out.Copy !req
551. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.Copy !req
552. How long has it beenCopy !req
553. since your last confession, my daughter?Copy !req
554. Barely a week, Father.
I was in a convent.Copy !req
555. A week?Copy !req
556. Tsk-tsk. Have you
so hastily committed sin?Copy !req
557. I have.Copy !req
558. Sin of intent, not deed.Copy !req
559. - A man, is it?
- Yes.Copy !req
560. My fiancé's brother.Copy !req
561. Lust?Copy !req
562. Hatred...Copy !req
563. - Hatred?
- The man is appalling, grotesque.Copy !req
564. Harsh words.Copy !req
565. Rather uncharitable, wouldn't you say?Copy !req
566. Respectfully, Father,
you do not know this man.Copy !req
567. He tries to control and manipulate
everything and everyone around him.Copy !req
568. Like every tyrant,
he delights in playing the victim.Copy !req
569. His only advantage, I would say,Copy !req
570. is he's far cruder
than he believes himself to be.Copy !req
571. Cruder?Copy !req
572. Uh, pray explain yourself, my child.Copy !req
573. For one, he's easy to spot.Copy !req
574. You can see him...
even on a busy street on market day.Copy !req
575. Tell me, how soon did you spot me?Copy !req
576. I saw you well before
you saw me, I can say that much.Copy !req
577. Have you had supper?Copy !req
578. I'm not that hungry, Baron.
Thank you.Copy !req
579. Well, I for one am famished.Copy !req
580. - Thank you, my good man.
- Thank you, sir.Copy !req
581. What books did you buy, hmm? May I?Copy !req
582. Guess.Copy !req
583. - Guess?
- Mm-hmm. I'd rather that you did.Copy !req
584. Very well.Copy !req
585. A romance...Copy !req
586. drenched in Mediterranean sun
and silk and the skirmishes of love.Copy !req
587. Insulting, but unsurprising.Copy !req
588. Really?Copy !req
589. - Insects?
- Mm.Copy !req
590. My interest in science
leans towards the smallest things.Copy !req
591. Moving with nature,
perhaps the rhythms of God.Copy !req
592. I've always searched for something
more pure, marvelous.Copy !req
593. Is that what you were seeking
in the convent?Copy !req
594. In a way.Copy !req
595. Was it worth it?Copy !req
596. Is anything?Copy !req
597. Permit me, sister.Copy !req
598. This hardly seems appropriate.Copy !req
599. Is anything?Copy !req
600. Very well.Copy !req
601. Laughter!Copy !req
602. And for the very first time,Copy !req
603. I became more interested in lifeCopy !req
604. and somewhat less interested in death.Copy !req
605. The main rod has a fast bolting system.Copy !req
606. Did you use an alloy?Copy !req
607. Copper and zinc.Copy !req
608. This is... This simply will not do.
Start over.Copy !req
609. Pure silver is a perfect conductor.Copy !req
610. William, you must stay behind. Please.Copy !req
611. I trust you above anyone else.Copy !req
612. Only for a few more days.Copy !req
613. You're not going to catch her.Copy !req
614. Beautiful. Beautiful.Copy !req
615. - Should we trap her or let her go?
- Mm...Copy !req
616. Trap her.Copy !req
617. Now we have something in common.Copy !req
618. A prisoner.Copy !req
619. As promised, William took dutiful
charge of the laboratory build and needs.Copy !req
620. Can you fix that over there, please?Copy !req
621. Go, help.Copy !req
622. He followed my instructions to the letter.Copy !req
623. The battery.Copy !req
624. It's all pure silver now.Copy !req
625. Conduction points
corresponding to the lymphatic system,Copy !req
626. which was quite complex.Copy !req
627. - But I managed.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
628. Herr Harlander, thank you.
The party's delightful.Copy !req
629. I hope we're not distracting you
from your researchCopy !req
630. to tend to me and Elizabeth.Copy !req
631. Not at all.Copy !req
632. She's young.
She can count on us to guard her.Copy !req
633. I shall leave you your privacy.Copy !req
634. No need for subterfuge between us.Copy !req
635. French porcelain,
chimes to a man's stream.Copy !req
636. I am very near a solution,
an access point to the lymphatic system.Copy !req
637. Ah, yeah, that.Copy !req
638. It's been so long.Copy !req
639. The war is waning.Copy !req
640. And my funding will end with it.Copy !req
641. You said your funds were unlimited.Copy !req
642. My patience is not.Copy !req
643. I have it on good authority that a battle
is to take place within a week.Copy !req
644. The tide of war
will deliver its bounty to our shore.Copy !req
645. A battlefield? The bodies will be mangled.Copy !req
646. One week.Copy !req
647. - One week?
- After that, history will pass us by.Copy !req
648. Flush that for me, will you, Baron?Copy !req
649. A week to determine
how to deliver the current.Copy !req
650. Impossible.Copy !req
651. What would I do?Copy !req
652. I was close. I could feel it.Copy !req
653. And then...Copy !req
654. life got in the way.Copy !req
655. Oh.Copy !req
656. I believe she missed you.Copy !req
657. I must warn you, Elizabeth,Copy !req
658. - I've been working on a dissection.
- It's beautiful.Copy !req
659. Does it shock you?Copy !req
660. Reminds me of martyrdom paintings.Copy !req
661. Pain is gone.Copy !req
662. You can see God's design
in the symmetry and the shapes.Copy !req
663. Elizabeth.Copy !req
664. I must confess something to you.Copy !req
665. I have a belief in the marvelous
and so do you.Copy !req
666. There is a bond between us.
Can you feel it?Copy !req
667. An almost physical one.
I truly believe it to be something else.Copy !req
668. Believing something does not make it true.Copy !req
669. Then why are you here?Copy !req
670. Beautiful creature, is she not?Copy !req
671. Remote. Entirely bewitching, but so odd.Copy !req
672. Three hearts.Copy !req
673. Multiple eyes. White blood.Copy !req
674. And a fascinating lack of choice.Copy !req
675. I don't understand.Copy !req
676. Choice is the seat of the soul.Copy !req
677. The one gift God granted us.Copy !req
678. Elizabeth...Copy !req
679. I have chosen.Copy !req
680. Good night.Copy !req
681. Elizabeth!Copy !req
682. Elizabeth!Copy !req
683. I thought I had failed.Copy !req
684. I thought it was entirely over. I thought...Copy !req
685. And I thought...Copy !req
686. And I...Copy !req
687. The symmetry.Copy !req
688. God's symmetry. Yes, yes.Copy !req
689. Yes.Copy !req
690. Placing the battery
above the lymphatic system.Copy !req
691. I had found the key.Copy !req
692. Nothing could stop me now.Copy !req
693. Nothing.Copy !req
694. No! No, do not take any bodiesCopy !req
695. from the top or the bottom
of the pile unless I mark them.Copy !req
696. Ice or rot may have destroyed the tissue.Copy !req
697. Look only in the middle.Copy !req
698. Abundance can be disorienting
unless one hones one's aim.Copy !req
699. I'm favoring tall specimens, long limbs.Copy !req
700. Scale will make the work easier.Copy !req
701. I like that.Copy !req
702. Perfection.Copy !req
703. And why not, dear Baron?Copy !req
704. Indeed, why not?Copy !req
705. Look for a head that's intact.Copy !req
706. Put that one in the cart.Copy !req
707. Set that one over there.Copy !req
708. Bring the others.Copy !req
709. Oh, good God.Copy !req
710. Do you mind?Copy !req
711. It is finished.Copy !req
712. Herr Harlander!Copy !req
713. A storm is coming!Copy !req
714. My cane.Copy !req
715. My cane!Copy !req
716. My cane, in the handle.Copy !req
717. Mercury.Copy !req
718. - Are you ill?
- Thank you.Copy !req
719. Is it... syphilis?Copy !req
720. Yeah, I'm dying.Copy !req
721. One night with Venus,
a lifetime with Mercury.Copy !req
722. Isn't that the phrase?Copy !req
723. What stage?Copy !req
724. Secondary?Copy !req
725. We both know the precise schedule.Copy !req
726. It starts to eat away my bones,Copy !req
727. orbital, cheek, teeth, jaw, skull,
exposing my brain.Copy !req
728. Tumors, madness, excruciating pain.Copy !req
729. One fine morning,Copy !req
730. I will start to scream
and I will never stop.Copy !req
731. I cannot face such a vulgar demise.Copy !req
732. Which brings me to my one condition.Copy !req
733. Our deal. As agreed, in exchangeCopy !req
734. for my generous intervention
on your behalf.Copy !req
735. And as we give life to our new Adam,Copy !req
736. I want to be placed
in this new perfect body.Copy !req
737. No.Copy !req
738. - No, no.
- Yes.Copy !req
739. Not now. Not now!Copy !req
740. - Precisely now.
- We'll talk about this after, not now.Copy !req
741. There is no after!Copy !req
742. There is no after.Copy !req
743. I gave you everything you wanted!Copy !req
744. I give you everything you ask for.Copy !req
745. Name it, it's yours.Copy !req
746. Even Elizabeth.Copy !req
747. Please.Copy !req
748. "Please" always helps.Copy !req
749. The disease has spread all inside of you.Copy !req
750. It's systemic, and you know it.Copy !req
751. Every organ in you is polluted.Copy !req
752. Your brain, your blood, it's all polluted.Copy !req
753. But my money's not, is that it?Copy !req
754. It's impossible.Copy !req
755. Now, all you need to say
is one simple word.Copy !req
756. "Yes," no more and no less.Copy !req
757. No! Do you understand? No!Copy !req
758. What are you doing?Copy !req
759. Stop!Copy !req
760. Stop.Copy !req
761. If we lose that, we have nothing.
We both lose.Copy !req
762. I will be the eagle
that feasts on your liver!Copy !req
763. Please, stop!Copy !req
764. Herr Harlander. Herr Harlander!Copy !req
765. Hold on, look at me!Copy !req
766. No! Herr Harlander!Copy !req
767. No, no. No!Copy !req
768. No, no, no!Copy !req
769. No!Copy !req
770. No! No! No!Copy !req
771. You lied to me.Copy !req
772. You lied.Copy !req
773. Victor!Copy !req
774. Victor!Copy !req
775. No, please.Copy !req
776. Look. Same.Copy !req
777. Sun.Copy !req
778. Sun. Light.Copy !req
779. Face it.Copy !req
780. Sunlight. The sun is...Copy !req
781. The sun is life.Copy !req
782. Ah, the warmth. Huh?Copy !req
783. Yes! Yes.Copy !req
784. Victor.Copy !req
785. Victor.Copy !req
786. - Victor.
- Yes.Copy !req
787. Yes, yes, yes. Of course you are.Copy !req
788. Of course you are.Copy !req
789. Victor.Copy !req
790. The mail, sir.Copy !req
791. Letters from the old estate.Copy !req
792. Geneva.Copy !req
793. - Is there anything from my uncle?
- No.Copy !req
794. Perhaps we should pay them a visit.Copy !req
795. Careful. Look. Look down.Copy !req
796. Water. Water.Copy !req
797. Water.Copy !req
798. Yes, water.Copy !req
799. - Victor.
- No, I'm Victor.Copy !req
800. That's water. Come here.Copy !req
801. - Victor.
- Come now, come. All right, good.Copy !req
802. We're going to take a big step.Copy !req
803. We'll do it together. Ready?Copy !req
804. This way, like this.Copy !req
805. No, not like that. This way.Copy !req
806. Oh, no, no, no. Hot, hot.Copy !req
807. No, don't touch. Don't touch that.Copy !req
808. It's hot.Copy !req
809. Sit. Very good. Very good. Yes.Copy !req
810. Yes. Now, look what I have here.Copy !req
811. Look at this. What is this thing?Copy !req
812. What is this strange thing? Careful.Copy !req
813. You're very strong.Copy !req
814. Yes. And like this. Huh?Copy !req
815. Yes, you want another?
Yes, this one goes right here.Copy !req
816. Key.Copy !req
817. Victor.Copy !req
818. This will keep you nice and warm.Copy !req
819. Nice blanket to keep you warm.Copy !req
820. - Victor.
- All right.Copy !req
821. You stay.Copy !req
822. You stay here now.Copy !req
823. Stay here now.Copy !req
824. I'll be back. All right. Stay there.Copy !req
825. Victor.Copy !req
826. No, no, no, no, no. It's all right.Copy !req
827. I'll come back.Copy !req
828. Victor.Copy !req
829. Everything was new to him.Copy !req
830. Warmth, cold, light, darkness.Copy !req
831. And I was there to mold him.Copy !req
832. I never considered
what would come after creation.Copy !req
833. And having reached the edge of the earth,Copy !req
834. there was no horizon left.Copy !req
835. The achievement felt unnatural.Copy !req
836. Void of meaning.Copy !req
837. And this troubled me so.Copy !req
838. Your men, they wish to go back.Copy !req
839. Yes?Copy !req
840. Probably.Copy !req
841. But the moment we're free,
we're setting sails forwards.Copy !req
842. No matter the cost.Copy !req
843. You share my madness.Copy !req
844. Perhaps there is a finer point
in me telling you my story.Copy !req
845. Whether there is or isn't, Baron...Copy !req
846. I'd like to hear it.Copy !req
847. Weeks passed,Copy !req
848. and as his strength increased rapidly,
mine waned.Copy !req
849. Alas, no further language
or development occurred.Copy !req
850. No, no, no, no, no, no.Copy !req
851. Down, down, down, down.Copy !req
852. Yes, there we are.Copy !req
853. There we are. Stay there. Stay.Copy !req
854. Yes, that's you.Copy !req
855. That's you. All right?Copy !req
856. Oh, yes, this is healing rather nicely.Copy !req
857. I'm tired.Copy !req
858. I have not slept.Copy !req
859. Not a winky-dinky-doo of sleep for me.Copy !req
860. Tending to you.Copy !req
861. I've finished shaving you.Copy !req
862. No, no, stop, stop.Copy !req
863. Let go. No, no, no, no, no, no. Open.Copy !req
864. Open your hand. Open. Open it.Copy !req
865. What are you doing?Copy !req
866. Look. Look what you've done.Copy !req
867. You have to listen to me.
You have to listen. I said drop it.Copy !req
868. Stupidity! No. Stop.Copy !req
869. Come here.Copy !req
870. - Victor.
- No, don't touch me!Copy !req
871. Don't ever touch me!Copy !req
872. Come here.Copy !req
873. I didn't do this. You did this.Copy !req
874. The wound.Copy !req
875. It's closed.Copy !req
876. But how?Copy !req
877. All right.Copy !req
878. No, no, no.Copy !req
879. No.Copy !req
880. No.Copy !req
881. All right. All right.Copy !req
882. I'm sure everything's all right.Copy !req
883. We'll be there soon enough.Copy !req
884. I know you have thoughts. I know.Copy !req
885. I know you do.Copy !req
886. Somewhere in there.
Somewhere in there you have thoughts.Copy !req
887. Hmm? Don't you?Copy !req
888. Something you might want to say?Copy !req
889. However jumbled, however confused?Copy !req
890. Hmm? Something?Copy !req
891. Am I presuming too much?Copy !req
892. Victor.Copy !req
893. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!Copy !req
894. This much we have established.Copy !req
895. That is my name. My name is Victor.Copy !req
896. Is there anything else that you can say?
Anything at all? Hmm?Copy !req
897. Anything? Anything?Copy !req
898. Um, sun, hmm?Copy !req
899. Cold. Rain. Blood. Anything.Copy !req
900. Boot. Can you say "boot"?Copy !req
901. Victor.Copy !req
902. No, yes, no, yes! How about...Copy !req
903. How about "hand"? Can you say "hand"?Copy !req
904. Hand. Hand.Copy !req
905. Oh. Oh, oh. You are afraid of me?Copy !req
906. You're afraid of me?Copy !req
907. Why? Why would you be afraid of me?Copy !req
908. I'm not going to hurt you.Copy !req
909. I'm not going to hurt you. I made you.Copy !req
910. I'm your maker! Stop it!Copy !req
911. Oh.Copy !req
912. You're here. You're really here.Copy !req
913. Come on, then. Come, come.Copy !req
914. I have to tell you.
I have so much to show you, Elizabeth.Copy !req
915. You won't believe it.
It's absolutely marvelous.Copy !req
916. Come, come,
I'll show you my notes first.Copy !req
917. Is my uncle here?Copy !req
918. What?Copy !req
919. My uncle, is he here?Copy !req
920. No, no.Copy !req
921. No, I'm alone. He's not here.Copy !req
922. - He's... He'll be back in a few days.
- You don't look very well, Victor.Copy !req
923. Oh, I've never felt better!
I've never had a clearer mind! Come, come!Copy !req
924. Are you running a fever?Copy !req
925. I am just very excited to see you.Copy !req
926. I'm exalted.
The spirits have lifted me so much.Copy !req
927. Absolutely marvelous...Copy !req
928. Victor...Copy !req
929. Victor. Victor.Copy !req
930. Who hurt you?Copy !req
931. I have to show you this, William.Copy !req
932. Let me organize it for you.Copy !req
933. And I have something to show to you.Copy !req
934. I've spoken to the Royal Medical Society.Copy !req
935. - They're interested in seeing you.
- No, no, no, not yet.Copy !req
936. I'm not quite ready yet.Copy !req
937. I thought that's what you always wanted.Copy !req
938. The man.Copy !req
939. - The man downstairs.
- You saw him?Copy !req
940. Is he a patient? A victim?Copy !req
941. His wounds. You wounded him like that.Copy !req
942. No, no, no. It was the world
that hurt him, Elizabeth.Copy !req
943. I... I gave him life.Copy !req
944. I gave him life.Copy !req
945. Up, up, up.Copy !req
946. Come on.Copy !req
947. There, there, there...Copy !req
948. He's still getting
used to his surroundings.Copy !req
949. It is strong, William.Copy !req
950. - You did it.
- It's so strong.Copy !req
951. You did it.Copy !req
952. All its systems are functional.Copy !req
953. All healing.Copy !req
954. And the healing is erratic, yes.Copy !req
955. But exceptional.Copy !req
956. Why is he chained here?Copy !req
957. For his own safety and for mine,Copy !req
958. and it's easy to clean
and, uh, maintain it.Copy !req
959. And it doesn't know any better.Copy !req
960. But you do.Copy !req
961. Does Harlander know?Copy !req
962. We have to prepare everything
for the moment he returns.Copy !req
963. - Of course.
- And have everything presentable.Copy !req
964. Is it intelligent?Copy !req
965. Victor, is it intelligent?Copy !req
966. I can't fathom
how exactly you did what you did,Copy !req
967. but its dimension does not escape me.Copy !req
968. Victor, did you ever ask yourself,Copy !req
969. of all the parts that make that man,Copy !req
970. which one holds the soul?Copy !req
971. No, I didn't.Copy !req
972. There's something so disquieting
about that creature down there.Copy !req
973. Askew, like a figure peeking around
a funhouse mirror.Copy !req
974. But animated.Copy !req
975. Animated by what?Copy !req
976. Does it hurt?Copy !req
977. A leaf?Copy !req
978. For me?Copy !req
979. Thank you.Copy !req
980. Isn't it beautiful?Copy !req
981. This is for me?Copy !req
982. I'm Elizabeth.Copy !req
983. Can you say "Elizabeth"?Copy !req
984. Elizabeth.Copy !req
985. My throat makes sounds.Copy !req
986. Elizabeth.Copy !req
987. I'm going to go now.Copy !req
988. Eliza... beth.Copy !req
989. You should not go near it.Copy !req
990. "It"?Copy !req
991. It. Yes.Copy !req
992. I believe there is life in it,Copy !req
993. but not the spark of intelligence
that I had intended.Copy !req
994. Perhaps not as you understand it.Copy !req
995. Something went wrong.Copy !req
996. A blockage, a suture, a connection.Copy !req
997. You, the great Victor Frankenstein,
you made a mistake?Copy !req
998. The Creature knows but one word,
and one word alone.Copy !req
999. "Victor, Victor, Victor, Victor."Copy !req
1000. It just parrots it
without rhyme or reason.Copy !req
1001. Perhaps for the time being
that word means everything to him.Copy !req
1002. What if in being anew,
the spirit that animates him is simpler,Copy !req
1003. - purer—
- Purer?Copy !req
1004. Purer than that of the common man?Copy !req
1005. What if, unrestrained by sin,Copy !req
1006. our creator's breath came
into its wounded flesh directly?Copy !req
1007. Good God, Elizabeth.Copy !req
1008. If I could force myself to believe it,Copy !req
1009. it would be my inclination to see
attraction in you for that thing.Copy !req
1010. Understanding.Copy !req
1011. In those eyes I saw pain,Copy !req
1012. and what is pain
if not evidence of intelligence?Copy !req
1013. What about my pain?Copy !req
1014. What about what you have denied me?Copy !req
1015. What my heart wants...Copy !req
1016. Your heart?Copy !req
1017. Of all the human anatomy,Copy !req
1018. that is the organ
furthest from your understanding.Copy !req
1019. Only monsters play God, Baron.Copy !req
1020. Purer than the common man, hmm?Copy !req
1021. And I, somehow, the villain. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
1022. Your heart is pure?Copy !req
1023. I assure you it isn't.Copy !req
1024. I should know. I put it there.Copy !req
1025. Up.Copy !req
1026. Let us try again.Copy !req
1027. Now give me your leg.Copy !req
1028. Leg!Copy !req
1029. Give me your leg!Copy !req
1030. Pain is evidence of intelligence,
is it not?Copy !req
1031. Well, let's test the theory.Copy !req
1032. Give me your leg!Copy !req
1033. Leg!Copy !req
1034. Leg!Copy !req
1035. Come on!Copy !req
1036. Give it to me, you beast!Copy !req
1037. Give me your leg!Copy !req
1038. Leg!Copy !req
1039. Victor!Copy !req
1040. Victor!Copy !req
1041. Victor! Victor!Copy !req
1042. What is it, Victor?Copy !req
1043. Come. Come.Copy !req
1044. I failed. I made a mistake.Copy !req
1045. - No, you didn't fail. I saw your papers.
- I did.Copy !req
1046. - It's perfect.
- The Creature is extremely dangerous.Copy !req
1047. There's not... Victor.Copy !req
1048. Let's wait for Harlander
and discuss together.Copy !req
1049. William, there is something
you should know.Copy !req
1050. Something I have to show you.Copy !req
1051. - Ha— Harlander...
- In a fit of rage, he killed him.Copy !req
1052. Do you understand now
why I was hesitant to share this with you?Copy !req
1053. And certainly not with Elizabeth.Copy !req
1054. S... So what's to be done now?Copy !req
1055. What?Copy !req
1056. - What's to be done?
- "What's to be done"?Copy !req
1057. You must take Elizabeth back to Vienna.Copy !req
1058. Tell her something urgent came up
and you have to leave immediately.Copy !req
1059. Keep her in the dark.Copy !req
1060. For her own safety.Copy !req
1061. You have to do as I say.Copy !req
1062. We'll be back in no time.
But for now, this is for the best.Copy !req
1063. Now get in the carriage, please.Copy !req
1064. The Creature,
what's its lifespan, you think?Copy !req
1065. Brief. Very brief, I'm sure.Copy !req
1066. I have the most terrible feeling.Copy !req
1067. What is it?Copy !req
1068. Turn the carriage around.Copy !req
1069. You go to Vienna.Copy !req
1070. Turn the carriage around or I will jump.
He's going to kill him.Copy !req
1071. Say one word.Copy !req
1072. One word more. Anything.Copy !req
1073. Make me save you.Copy !req
1074. - Victor.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
1075. Elizabeth.Copy !req
1076. Victor! Victor!Copy !req
1077. Victor!Copy !req
1078. Victor!Copy !req
1079. But that was not the end of it.Copy !req
1080. In seeking life, I created death.Copy !req
1081. It would seem
I need to address my men again.Copy !req
1082. Don't worry.Copy !req
1083. They'll listen to me.Copy !req
1084. No, no, stop!Copy !req
1085. Do not harm him! I'm here.Copy !req
1086. Take me.Copy !req
1087. Go on, beast.Copy !req
1088. Kill us both. Confirm your maker's tale.Copy !req
1089. My maker... told his tale.Copy !req
1090. Then I will tell you mine.Copy !req
1091. Victor! Victor! Victor!Copy !req
1092. I called your name
and understood I was alone.Copy !req
1093. - What is that?
- Shoot at it!Copy !req
1094. Shoot it!Copy !req
1095. Did you get it?Copy !req
1096. Where is it?Copy !req
1097. My wounds had healed.Copy !req
1098. But I felt cold, so cold.Copy !req
1099. - Can you start the fire?
- All right.Copy !req
1100. And I'll repair the corral
as soon as I can.Copy !req
1101. You all right, then? Did you get it?Copy !req
1102. Nah, we looked everywhere.
Couldn't find that thing.Copy !req
1103. Though we shot at it two times.Copy !req
1104. Blood trail died about a mile from here.Copy !req
1105. All right. Come in. Come in.Copy !req
1106. We followed it for a while
and then it disappeared. Gone.Copy !req
1107. What was it? Was it a bear?Copy !req
1108. That was no bear or human.
I've never seen anything like it.Copy !req
1109. Was it a ghost, then?Copy !req
1110. It was no ghost. We drew blood.
It was flesh and bone.Copy !req
1111. Come, come. Over here.Copy !req
1112. Tell me more about what you saw.Copy !req
1113. Anna-Maria, take your grandfather
over by the fireplace.Copy !req
1114. Make sure he's comfortable.Copy !req
1115. Over here, Grandfather.Copy !req
1116. We went deep into the forest.
Couldn't find it.Copy !req
1117. We will get it.Copy !req
1118. - It'll take time.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1119. Anna-Maria, come.Copy !req
1120. Come, love. Help me outside.Copy !req
1121. The old man moved me.Copy !req
1122. And his unseeing eyes were full of wisdom.Copy !req
1123. These people possessed a sound.Copy !req
1124. Used it to tell each otherCopy !req
1125. about feelings and ideas.Copy !req
1126. They called them words.Copy !req
1127. Pay attention.Copy !req
1128. What is this?Copy !req
1129. A boy.Copy !req
1130. - And again.
- A boy.Copy !req
1131. Very good, my child.Copy !req
1132. And this?Copy !req
1133. An... An eye.Copy !req
1134. - And again.
- An eye.Copy !req
1135. Yeah. Well done. Well done, my girl.Copy !req
1136. - Eye.
- And this one?Copy !req
1137. The hand.Copy !req
1138. - Very good.
- Hand.Copy !req
1139. Give us a hand.Copy !req
1140. Tie a rope around
the biggest one back there.Copy !req
1141. I longed to be part of this family.Copy !req
1142. We'll need more kindling
before the winter.Copy !req
1143. We'll take a few trips.Copy !req
1144. To be their benefactor.Copy !req
1145. We'll need larger trunks
for the structure.Copy !req
1146. All right.Copy !req
1147. What could I possibly do for them?Copy !req
1148. Anna-Maria! Father!Copy !req
1149. Come! Come and see!Copy !req
1150. Look, Anna-Maria!Copy !req
1151. Look, there's more! Look!Copy !req
1152. Who could have done this?Copy !req
1153. The Spirit of the Forest.Copy !req
1154. We should thank him.Copy !req
1155. Thank you.Copy !req
1156. Say, "Thank you, Spirit of the Forest."Copy !req
1157. Thank you.
Thank you, Spirit of the Forest.Copy !req
1158. Thank you.Copy !req
1159. Come. Look over here.Copy !req
1160. Thank you.Copy !req
1161. From then on,
I became their invisible guardian.Copy !req
1162. The Spirit of the Forest.Copy !req
1163. And on occasion, they too
extended a small kindness towards me.Copy !req
1164. Clothes, bread.Copy !req
1165. And for a moment,Copy !req
1166. a brief, brief moment,Copy !req
1167. the world and I were at peace.Copy !req
1168. Come along. Come along.Copy !req
1169. In you go. Yeah.Copy !req
1170. Make sure you close that gate.Copy !req
1171. Who could have done this?Copy !req
1172. The Spirit of the Forest, eh?Copy !req
1173. I got it.Copy !req
1174. "And in the end, the proud young manCopy !req
1175. could never find his missing hand."Copy !req
1176. "It turned to stone, his fortune gone,Copy !req
1177. and he lost his pride and lost his land."Copy !req
1178. Very good, my dear.Copy !req
1179. Beautifully read. Now try this one.Copy !req
1180. Wolves.Copy !req
1181. An idea,Copy !req
1182. a feeling became clear to me.Copy !req
1183. The hunter did not hate the wolf.Copy !req
1184. The wolf did not hate the sheep.Copy !req
1185. But violence felt inevitable between them.Copy !req
1186. Perhaps, I thought,
this was the way of the world.Copy !req
1187. It would hunt you and kill youCopy !req
1188. just for being who you are.Copy !req
1189. The sheep will be sold
by the end of the month, Father.Copy !req
1190. Then I'll take you,
Alma and Anna-Maria into town.Copy !req
1191. We'll go into the mountains,Copy !req
1192. hunt the wolves
and be back at the end of winter.Copy !req
1193. I pray here alone every winter
and this year will be no different.Copy !req
1194. Please, Father, listen to reason.Copy !req
1195. You do what you must and so will I.Copy !req
1196. You stubborn old goat.Copy !req
1197. It's just you and I now, Spirit.Copy !req
1198. Just you and I.Copy !req
1199. And I had formed
in my imagination many waysCopy !req
1200. I would present myself to the old man.Copy !req
1201. Would he fear me?Copy !req
1202. Welcome me?Copy !req
1203. Turn me away?Copy !req
1204. Who goes there?Copy !req
1205. With a single step,
I entered a different world.Copy !req
1206. One I had only seen from afar.Copy !req
1207. Please, who is it?Copy !req
1208. Answer me.Copy !req
1209. Tell me.Copy !req
1210. Why are you here?Copy !req
1211. Travel.Copy !req
1212. Welcome, dear traveler.Copy !req
1213. Do not think me ungrateful for the company
if I ask you to procure a chair.Copy !req
1214. I... I find it difficult
being a good host.Copy !req
1215. Yes.Copy !req
1216. My... My sight has failed me.Copy !req
1217. But there is bread
and brandy on the table.Copy !req
1218. Pray help yourself.Copy !req
1219. Bran... dy?Copy !req
1220. Your language.Copy !req
1221. You have a hard time speaking it.Copy !req
1222. Are you not from these parts?Copy !req
1223. Are you afraid?Copy !req
1224. No need to be.Copy !req
1225. What are you afraid of?Copy !req
1226. - Everything.
- Your...Copy !req
1227. Your hands are frozenCopy !req
1228. and you've been hurt, have you not?Copy !req
1229. Hurt?Copy !req
1230. Yes. Your hands and face have scarsCopy !req
1231. and you are wearing uniform.Copy !req
1232. Were you injured in battle?Copy !req
1233. You were hidingCopy !req
1234. in the mill gears, were you not?Copy !req
1235. Ah!Copy !req
1236. Yeah. Yeah. The Spirit of the Forest.Copy !req
1237. Yes.Copy !req
1238. I cannot judge of your countenance,Copy !req
1239. but there is something in your voiceCopy !req
1240. which persuades me
of your goodwill and kindness.Copy !req
1241. - Kindness?
- Mm.Copy !req
1242. Stay with me.Copy !req
1243. Share my food and fire.Copy !req
1244. I would be delighted
to share what little I have with youCopy !req
1245. and would be greatly helped
by your companionship.Copy !req
1246. And you... you could read to me.Copy !req
1247. - Read?
- Mm.Copy !req
1248. Make this your home and I your friend.Copy !req
1249. Friend.Copy !req
1250. Friend.Copy !req
1251. Friends.Copy !req
1252. And it was then
that I read my first story,Copy !req
1253. and it was the first story.Copy !req
1254. I read about a man named Adam
and a woman named Eve,Copy !req
1255. about their time in the first garden.Copy !req
1256. I read about the rise of rival citiesCopy !req
1257. and the collapse of a towerCopy !req
1258. and the wrath of a God.Copy !req
1259. And I read about men
that fought dragonsCopy !req
1260. and men who lost everything.Copy !req
1261. And time passedCopy !req
1262. and fell away with the leaves of autumn.Copy !req
1263. Have you never seen the snow,
my dear friend?Copy !req
1264. It makes the world clean... and new.Copy !req
1265. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings."Copy !req
1266. "Look on my works,
ye Mighty, and despair."Copy !req
1267. "No thing beside remains."Copy !req
1268. "Round the decay of that colossal wreck,
boundless and bare."Copy !req
1269. "The lone and level sands
stretch far away."Copy !req
1270. "My name is Ozymandias..."Copy !req
1271. Are there more books
than this in the world?Copy !req
1272. A few more, I'm sure.Copy !req
1273. Not here.Copy !req
1274. Last book on the left. Take it.Copy !req
1275. We haven't got to it.Copy !req
1276. Paradise Lost, Milton.Copy !req
1277. Man has questions for God.Copy !req
1278. Even God has questions.Copy !req
1279. I think he wanted answers
and that is why he sent us his son.Copy !req
1280. Death probably intrigued him.Copy !req
1281. Suffering.Copy !req
1282. I want to know who I am.Copy !req
1283. Where do I come from?Copy !req
1284. God took your memory just as I wish
he would take mine away.Copy !req
1285. Many years ago, I took a man's life.Copy !req
1286. A good man.Copy !req
1287. And I have been atoning for it since.Copy !req
1288. Forgive.Copy !req
1289. Forget.Copy !req
1290. The true measure of wisdom.Copy !req
1291. To know you have been harmed,Copy !req
1292. by whom you have been harmed,Copy !req
1293. and choose to let it all fade.Copy !req
1294. But I cannot forget
what I cannot remember.Copy !req
1295. Do you recall nothing?Copy !req
1296. In my dreams...Copy !req
1297. I... see memories.Copy !req
1298. Different men.Copy !req
1299. All... pieces.Copy !req
1300. I...Copy !req
1301. I remember f... fire and water.Copy !req
1302. And sand under my feet.Copy !req
1303. And a word.Copy !req
1304. A single word.Copy !req
1305. What is it?Copy !req
1306. Victor.Copy !req
1307. Go to it.Copy !req
1308. The word.Copy !req
1309. And then I learned it.Copy !req
1310. The horror of the truth.Copy !req
1311. I understood that I was nothing.Copy !req
1312. A wretch.Copy !req
1313. A blot.Copy !req
1314. Not even of the same nature as man.Copy !req
1315. This hurt clung to my mind.Copy !req
1316. It never let go.Copy !req
1317. Then I saw it.Copy !req
1318. Your name.Copy !req
1319. "Victor Frankenstein."Copy !req
1320. And where to find you.Copy !req
1321. No!Copy !req
1322. No!Copy !req
1323. You came back.Copy !req
1324. I found what I am.Copy !req
1325. What I am made from.Copy !req
1326. I am... the child of a charnel house.Copy !req
1327. A wreckage.Copy !req
1328. Assembled from refuse
and the discarded dead.Copy !req
1329. A monster.Copy !req
1330. I know what you are.Copy !req
1331. A good man.Copy !req
1332. And... you are my friend.Copy !req
1333. Friend?Copy !req
1334. Friend.Copy !req
1335. What is that thing?Copy !req
1336. The— The thing from the woods?Copy !req
1337. What have you done to him?Copy !req
1338. Don't move.Copy !req
1339. Quick! Reload! Kill it!Copy !req
1340. There was silence again,Copy !req
1341. and then... merciless life.Copy !req
1342. How long did I die for?Copy !req
1343. I do not know.Copy !req
1344. But I saw my injuries healed.Copy !req
1345. The cold winter air stung in my lungs.Copy !req
1346. I felt lonelier than ever,Copy !req
1347. because for every man
there was but one remedy to all pain:Copy !req
1348. Death, a gift you too had denied me.Copy !req
1349. Envy rose within meCopy !req
1350. and decided to demand
a single grace from you.Copy !req
1351. My creator.Copy !req
1352. I would demand... a companion.Copy !req
1353. I need you to get up.Copy !req
1354. Yes, of course. Of course.Copy !req
1355. The wedding will start soon
and I want you by my side.Copy !req
1356. It's hard to believe,Copy !req
1357. if not for your kind nature.Copy !req
1358. I've spoken to a few guests
about the inquest.Copy !req
1359. About the explosion.Copy !req
1360. The majority accept it for what it was.Copy !req
1361. And what was it, William?Copy !req
1362. The past, Victor.Copy !req
1363. A terrible accident.Copy !req
1364. I intend to sell the estate.Copy !req
1365. All we have is each other.Copy !req
1366. I want you to throw the petals everywhere.Copy !req
1367. Throw them everywhere.Copy !req
1368. Mm.Copy !req
1369. Go upstairs and do some more of that.Copy !req
1370. I know it is bad luck
to see the bride before the ceremony.Copy !req
1371. Only for the groom.Copy !req
1372. Yes, that's right. Not for me.Copy !req
1373. Hello, Elizabeth.Copy !req
1374. I've rarely felt remorse
before and now I feel little else. I...Copy !req
1375. A fever gripped me for so long,
but it has passed,Copy !req
1376. and I see you now as I should.Copy !req
1377. For whatever it's worth,
I... I wish you and my little brother,Copy !req
1378. who I love more than life, the very best.Copy !req
1379. You may like to believe you do.Copy !req
1380. And I dread to even hear it.Copy !req
1381. On my wedding day,
I ask you but for a single grace.Copy !req
1382. No more lies.Copy !req
1383. - I— I want to tell you—
- Leave my chambers now.Copy !req
1384. - Elizabeth.
- Leave!Copy !req
1385. Come out of the shadows,Copy !req
1386. if you are here.Copy !req
1387. Are you here to thank me?Copy !req
1388. You survived and are intelligent enough
to have found me.Copy !req
1389. I made you well.Copy !req
1390. I need you to make a companion for me.Copy !req
1391. One like me.Copy !req
1392. A com... A companion?Copy !req
1393. Oh.Copy !req
1394. I see.Copy !req
1395. Another monster.Copy !req
1396. Yes.Copy !req
1397. We can be monsters together.Copy !req
1398. I have found sanity at such a cost,Copy !req
1399. and you here... are madness calling me back.Copy !req
1400. I cannot die.Copy !req
1401. And I cannot live...Copy !req
1402. alone.Copy !req
1403. In you I have created
something truly horrible.Copy !req
1404. Not something.Copy !req
1405. Someone.Copy !req
1406. You made someone.Copy !req
1407. Me.Copy !req
1408. Whatever puzzle I am, creator, I think.Copy !req
1409. I feel.Copy !req
1410. I have this sole petition...Copy !req
1411. Make one like me.Copy !req
1412. And then what?Copy !req
1413. Procreation.Copy !req
1414. Reproduction.Copy !req
1415. Mm...Copy !req
1416. A home?Copy !req
1417. A grave?Copy !req
1418. Death begetting death begetting death.Copy !req
1419. A race of devils
propagated upon the earth.Copy !req
1420. Obscenity perpetuating itself.Copy !req
1421. I am obscene to you,
but to myself I simply am.Copy !req
1422. Begone!Copy !req
1423. Never again will I make
something like you, wicked and deformed.Copy !req
1424. Then it is still
all about your will, Victor.Copy !req
1425. Hmm?Copy !req
1426. That horrible, horrible will
that birthed me condemns me now?Copy !req
1427. The miracle is not that I should speak,
but that you would ever listen!Copy !req
1428. If you are not to award me love,
then I will indulge in rage.Copy !req
1429. And mine is infinite.Copy !req
1430. Step aside.Copy !req
1431. Victor.Copy !req
1432. What's going on?Copy !req
1433. You...Copy !req
1434. You...Copy !req
1435. It's you.Copy !req
1436. Elizabeth, move away from it!Copy !req
1437. No!Copy !req
1438. It attacked her! It attacked her!Copy !req
1439. Take me with you.Copy !req
1440. Oh, my God!Copy !req
1441. No, let me... I can save you.Copy !req
1442. I can save you.Copy !req
1443. From what?Copy !req
1444. From you?Copy !req
1445. I fear you, Victor.Copy !req
1446. No, no...Copy !req
1447. I always have.Copy !req
1448. Every ounce of madness and destruction.Copy !req
1449. The very conflagration
that devoured everything.Copy !req
1450. It all came from you.Copy !req
1451. You are the monster.Copy !req
1452. My place was never in this world.Copy !req
1453. I sought and longed for something
I could not quite name.Copy !req
1454. But in you, I found it.Copy !req
1455. To be lost and to be found,Copy !req
1456. that is the lifespan of love.Copy !req
1457. And in its brevity,Copy !req
1458. its tragedy...Copy !req
1459. this has been made eternal.Copy !req
1460. Better this way... to fade...Copy !req
1461. with your eyes gazing upon me.Copy !req
1462. She is gone and I long to follow.Copy !req
1463. You gave me life unwanted.Copy !req
1464. I give that back to you.Copy !req
1465. You thought me a monster.Copy !req
1466. Now I return the favor.Copy !req
1467. Kill me! Kill me now, do it!Copy !req
1468. I will make you bleed.Copy !req
1469. I will make you humble.Copy !req
1470. You may be my creator,Copy !req
1471. but from this day forward,
I will be your master.Copy !req
1472. You hunted me past the forests,Copy !req
1473. past the mountains,Copy !req
1474. past frozen horizons,Copy !req
1475. until there was nothing left.Copy !req
1476. Just you... and me.Copy !req
1477. I need ammunition.Copy !req
1478. Sharpen this.Copy !req
1479. Three cans of condensed milk,
some firewood.Copy !req
1480. And six sticks of dynamite.Copy !req
1481. Six?Copy !req
1482. What are you hunting?Copy !req
1483. Big game.Copy !req
1484. No! No! No!Copy !req
1485. Victor.Copy !req
1486. You only listen when I hurt you.Copy !req
1487. This. You put your faith in this.Copy !req
1488. You think this will unmake me.Copy !req
1489. Hmm.Copy !req
1490. Light it then and hope it does,
but if it does not,Copy !req
1491. I will come for you again.Copy !req
1492. Light it!Copy !req
1493. Now... run.Copy !req
1494. So, there you were, broken and discarded.Copy !req
1495. And I,Copy !req
1496. alive again.Copy !req
1497. I could feel my singed flesh regrowing.Copy !req
1498. The crackling of my bones resetting.Copy !req
1499. The murmur of my blood
pumping through my incessant heart.Copy !req
1500. And once more finding no mercy,Copy !req
1501. I had but one path.Copy !req
1502. And here we are.Copy !req
1503. Spent and done.Copy !req
1504. No more in us to give or take.Copy !req
1505. The blood outside the tent...Copy !req
1506. It is mine.Copy !req
1507. All mine.Copy !req
1508. I will bleed.Copy !req
1509. Ache.Copy !req
1510. Suffer.Copy !req
1511. You see, it will never end.Copy !req
1512. I am sorry.Copy !req
1513. Regret consumes me.Copy !req
1514. And I now regard my life for what it was.Copy !req
1515. You will go now, creator.Copy !req
1516. Fade away.Copy !req
1517. It will all be but a brief moment.Copy !req
1518. My birth. My grief.Copy !req
1519. Your loss.Copy !req
1520. I will not be punished.Copy !req
1521. Nor absolved.Copy !req
1522. What hope I had,Copy !req
1523. what rage...Copy !req
1524. It is all nothing.Copy !req
1525. The tide that brought me here
now comes to take you away.Copy !req
1526. Leaving me stranded.Copy !req
1527. Forgive me.Copy !req
1528. My son.Copy !req
1529. And if you have it in your heart,
forgive yourself into existence.Copy !req
1530. If death is not to be,
then consider this, my son.Copy !req
1531. While you are alive,Copy !req
1532. what recourse do you have but to live?Copy !req
1533. Live.Copy !req
1534. Say my name.Copy !req
1535. My father gave me that name,Copy !req
1536. and it meant nothing.Copy !req
1537. Now I ask you to give it back to me...Copy !req
1538. one last time.Copy !req
1539. The way you said it at the beginning.Copy !req
1540. When it meant the world to you.Copy !req
1541. Victor.Copy !req
1542. I forgive you.Copy !req
1543. Rest now, Father.Copy !req
1544. Perhaps now,Copy !req
1545. we can both be human.Copy !req
1546. Weapons down.Copy !req
1547. - Put the weapons down!
- I am responsible for my men.Copy !req
1548. He can leave.Copy !req
1549. We are free!Copy !req
1550. Captain...Copy !req
1551. What are your orders?Copy !req
1552. Man the sails.Copy !req
1553. Turn around.Copy !req
1554. Do you want to tell the men?Copy !req
1555. Men!Copy !req
1556. We're sailing home!Copy !req
1557. We're sailing home!Copy !req