FROM HELL -- QUOTES
Sir William Gull: Laudenum is a derivative of opium. Apart from doctors and addicts, not many would be able to detect it. How long have you been chasing the dragon, Inspector?
[reading the return address on the package sent by Jack the Ripper]
Peter Godley: "From Hell". Well at least they got the address right.
[after trying to kiss Abberline and he refuses]
Mary Kelly: What? You think I was paying you back? I didn't mean it as
business. I'm still a woman, they haven't taken that away from me, not yet
anyways!
[Abberline proceeds to shove her against the wall and kiss her passionately]
Sir William Gull: One day men will look back and say that I gave birth to
the twentieth century.
Abberline: You're not going to see the twentieth century.
Abberline: Why?
Sir Charles Warren: Are you questioning my decision?
Abberline: No, sir, I just simply want to know why.
Sgt. Peter Godley: Right, once more into the breach,
gentlemen!
[the police constables remain where they are, confused]
Sgt. Peter Godley: Dismissed.
Peter Godley: They used to burn men like you, alive.
Masonic Governor: You stand before your peers, masons and doctors both.
Sir William Gull: I have no peers present here.
Masonic Governor: What?
Sir William Gull: No man amongst you is fit to judge... the mighty art
that I have wrought. Your rituals are empty oaths you neither understand nor
live by. The Great Architect speaks to me. He is the balance where my deeds are
weighed and judged... not you.
Peter Godley: There's your typical Londoner, imbued with Christian sympathy for his fellow man, or fellow whore in this case.
Mary Kelly: What's wrong? You think I was born a whore? Oh that's right, England doesn't have whores, just a great mass of very unlucky women.
Peter Godley: You do not fuck with the special branch, the special branch fucks with you.
Sir William Gull: [Re: Dr Ferral] He knows all about Anatomy and nothing about the soul.
Constable Withers: You could be dead... right now. But then there would be too many bloody questions.
Lord Hallsham: How did he find out about the unfortunate and her child?
Sir Charles Warren: Well, he has that kind of cleverness you'll sometimes
find in the middle classes. A cheap sort of intelligence, but effective
nevertheless.
Lord Hallsham: Hmm. Thank God that's not something you're burdened by.
Sir Charles Warren: Yes, thank God.
[last lines]
Peter Godley: Goodnight, sweet prince.
Jack the Ripper: Why have you called me here, Netley.
Netley, the Coachman: It's just... you say only three more have to be
killed. I don't know if I can do it anymore. It's in all the papers. I'm just a
simple chap, sir. I'm not a great man like you. I just don't know where I am
anymore.
Jack the Ripper: There, there Netley. I shall tell you where we are.
We're in the darkest region of the human brain, a radiant abyss where men go to
find themselves.
Netley, the Coachman: I don't understand, sir.
Jack the Ripper: Hell, Netley. We are in hell.
Peter Godley: Sorry about the rude awakening.
Peter Godley: A rose by any other name?
Abberline: Sergeant? It's night.
Peter Godley: Your observations are correct. It is indeed night.
[turns to two constables]
Peter Godley: And gentlemen, unless you wish to be free of the confines
of your duties, this never happened.
Sir William Gull: Have you forgotten the most telling fact? What ever the Prince may be, he knows little or nothing about human anatomy.
Opium Den Owner: I pay. I already pay.
Peter Godley: I'm not after you, emperor. Where is he?
Kate Eddowes: We work the streets harder than ever, right?
Mary Kelly: We were starving. But we were starving in fresh air.
Peter Godley: You know who you're going to turn into. That sad old man in the pub that no-one wants to sit beside because after a few drinks he'll start talking about the girl that got away.
Sir William Gull: I think you mean to draw a Lister knife.
Peter Godley: Withers, when the inspector is talking you are listening.
Peter Godley: Withers, when the inspector is talking you are what?
Constable Withers: Listening, sir.
Abberline: I want every veterinarian, butcher, furrier in the district
interviewed.
Constable Withers: Furrier? What he do, sir? Skin her?
Abberline: He disemboweled her. Removed her stomach, intestines...
Abberline: And Withers, for your information... the star of David has six points.
Sir Charles Warren: My God. He's out of his mind.
Abberline: That's very astute of you sir.
Sir Charles Warren: It's over with, It's done. You
have my word.
Abberline: Fuck your word! I will bring down every one of you fucking
cunts!
Abberline: This ain't killin' for profit. This is ritual.
[Sergeant Godley slaps Abberline to wake him up]
Abberline: Hello, darling.
Polly Nichols: [in Jack the Ripper's carriage] That was the thing
that was in my dream. What's it called again?
Jack the Ripper: Cleopatra's Needle.
Polly Nichols: Cleopatra, she was a beauty.
Jack the Ripper: They were carved 1450 years before the son of God was
born. Six men died bringing it here.
[kills Polly]
Netley, the Coachman: Boo! Did I scare ya? I've been looking for you.
I've been looking all over you.
Dark Annie Chapman: You've been looking for me?
Netley, the Coachman: Not for me. For my gentleman. Very fine gentleman.
He sent me to look for you.
Dark Annie Chapman: Your gentleman sent you to look for me? Oh, get off!
I may be an unfortunate, but I'm not a blithering idiot!
Netley, the Coachman: It's the truth! It's the God's truth! He's seen ya,
he likes ya, and he said tonight only you'll do.
Liz Stride: [approaching his carriage carefully]
'ello, sir.
Jack the Ripper: Is anything wrong?
Liz Stride: No sir. For a second, I thought you were someone else.
Jack the Ripper: Oh.
[offers her laudanum]
Jack the Ripper: Thirsty?
Liz Stride: [takes it and drinks] Always parched, sir.
Ada: Look, I bring everything for supper!
Mary Kelly: [snatches an envelope full of money] You little thief!
I need this money!
Ada: I only take some money to buy food. For me and for you. Was that
bad, Marie?
Mary Kelly: It's fine, dear. But until I go away, it's not safe for you
to go out by yourself.
Ada: [caresses Mary's face] I stay with Marie, beautiful Marie.
Mary Kelly: It's alright, darling. You don't have to pay for your food.
Ada: Pardon?
Victoria Abberline: [as they make love] I have wonderful news.
Abberline: Tell me.
Victoria Abberline: Surely you, of all people, can guess.
Abberline: I don't want to guess with you.
Victoria Abberline: Dr. Marbury says...
Abberline: Dr. Marbury says?
Victoria Abberline: Dr. Marbury says I'm going to have your child.
[Abberline smiles and kisses Victoria]
