"Hi, I'm Amanda Tapping from the television series "Sanctuary."" "In May 2007, the series first went online in the form of eight 15-minute webisodes." "What you're about to see is the original one-hour pilot for that series." "This footage has never been aired on television until now." "Enjoy." "Lonely tonight, gentlemen?" "Still at it, Molly?" "Oh..." "Mr. Druitt." "You frightened me." "No rest for the gifted." "You know that." "Indeed I do." "You shouldn't be in the habit of jumping out at the ladies these days," "what with all the troubles." "What was I thinking?" " Forgive me." " HELEN:" "John!" "This ends here." "Helen..." "What a lovely surprise." "Molly, I would like you to meet my fiancé, or should I say former fiancé, Helen Magnus." "Dr. Helen Magnus." "Doctor?" "I'm pleased to meet you, Ma'am." "Well..." " I'll be on my way." " Stay." "I insist." "John, let me help you before you make things worse." "And how is that possible?" "I've already murdered, what, seven whores?" "How could one more make the slightest difference?" "Murdered?" "You are..." "What more have I to lose?" "Your power's driving you mad, John." "I can help." "My power is all I have left." "Let her go." "As the lady wishes." "Dispatch, this is Seven David Five, responding to a 10-11 at 149th and Willis." "Roger that, Seven David Five." "Open up, police!" "Let's go!" "Open up!" "Evening, Ma'am." "We've had some complaints about the noise." "We want no trouble." "Then you don't mind if we come in?" "No." "No." "You folks want to just come right out and tell me why we got a call to come here tonight?" "We have trouble early tonight, but no trouble now." " Yeah, what kind of trouble?" " Please..." "You go." "Ma'am, I'm going to enter this room." "Please, step aside." " Please..." " Everything will be fine." "Russo!" "Seven David Five, requesting backup on that 10-11." " Roger that." " EMS response, stat." "Copy that, Seven David Five." "It's a kid." "Hey, kid, you okay?" "It's okay." "Look, see?" "It's okay." "Just reach out and grab my hand, okay?" "Just reach out..." "Come on, just grab my hand." "Come on." "Just grab my hand, okay?" "I said come here!" "Monsters strange creatures that walk the Earth, searching for innocent victims." "Ready to strike at any moment." "These creatures, such as the legendary Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, can exist in any climate on Earth, in any city, in any town." "And someday they may be coming to visit you." "Will!" "Your parents are pulling in." "Remember our deal, okay?" "Okay." "Just a stupid movie." "No such thing as monsters." "No such thing as monsters." "No such thing as monsters." "Thank you." " Somebody page me?" " Excuse me, Doctor." " Have a nice nap?" " No, not really." "Consult." "Homicide suspect." "Real heavy hitter." "Anyone we know?" "Oh, man, you are going to love this one." "Great." "This is harassment, plain and simple." "You will all be hearing from my lawyer." "Especially you, Tom Cruise." "I know you're the one who shot me." " Or was it you, hmm?" " Oh, come on." "Look, we both know your lawyer's too freaked out to be in the same room with you, so let's just kill the music and lay our cards on the table, shall we?" "Okay." "Okay, you want me to lay it out, hmm?" " Yeah." " Alright, well, you know, your dollar-store cologne stinks." "That's funny." "You whacked six people tonight, including two cops." "You think this is harassment?" "We're not even in the vicinity yet." "Really?" "You know, you could always just use deodorant." "Whoa!" "Hey!" "Whoa, hey, guys, guys, guys." "I got it from here." "I got it from here." "LARRY:" "Will Z. Thank God." "Eminem." "Long time, no see." "You want to get detective Gitmo off my back?" "Kavanaugh." " Zimmerman." " I hear you need an eval." "Yeah, well, you heard wrong." "Look, just patch him up." " We'll handle the rest." " See, that's a threat." "They're not even trying to hide it!" "Alright, Joe, Joe, sidebar." "Make it fast." "Uptown wants him arraigned like yesterday." "Me, I'm just dying for a chance to shoot his ass." "I know what happened tonight, but Tolson used to be a patient of mine." "Why don't you give me a few minutes alone with him?" "You know, maybe I can shake some stuff loose for you." "At the very least, I'll save you a disciplinary hearing." "Alright, let's give him the room." "I hope you know what you're doing." "Let's go." "Come on." "So..." "You look good, Doc." "Alone with Eminem." "Zimmerman always did have serious balls." " M and who?" " The Manderville Monster." "Did 12 years in Ivy Heights after killing his foster parents." "Got out a couple of months ago." "Guess people don't change, do they?" "I suppose not." "You working on the sequel rights there, Larry?" "No way, no how." "Not this time." "So then why the escort service and the bullet in the leg?" "Ask them." "One minute I'm watching Discovery Channel, the next, I'm surrounded by cops." "I ask for a warrant, and they shoot me." "Yeah, well, they found you watching TV, alright, but you were surrounded by corpses." " Did you lose your meds?" " No." "No, that's not it." "Hey, look, the studio audience is gone, Larry." "It's just me." "Alright?" "And I need to hear the truth." "Alright." "I dropped in on the family downstairs." "All the yelling and the..." "Screaming." "I'm nothing if not..." "Neighborly, right?" " Yelling and screaming?" " Oh, yeah." "There's like 50 of 'em living down there." "There's, like, young ones and old ones, and it's like Red Square 24/7, you know what I'm saying?" "So you just went down to complain about the noise?" "Didn't kill anyone this time." "Promise." "I heard what was going on, so I went down to check out the kid's technique." "That's all." " The kid?" " The russkie kid." "Except he wasn't a kid, was he?" "He was..." "Special." " Special?" "What does that mean?" " Think about it, Doc." "It's two cops." "Just..." "Bang." "Bang." "Just like..." "That takes talent, you know?" "Believe me, I know." "The kid..." "The kid has..." "The kid has serious juice." "Is that the real version, Larry?" "Because I'm not feeling any love here." " On the level?" " Yeah." "They think I whacked the Bolsheviks." "Hell, it's fine with me." "I miss my room in the I've, you know?" "But the way he took out the cops..." "The truth?" "The truth..." "Yeah." " Larry?" " The kid." "Will, you don't want to find him." " Fresh meat coming through!" " Subtle." "Russo, Albert and Birch, Lawrence." "Two cops." "Bit it tonight uptown." "Yeah, we've been expecting them." "Put them in holding." "Got four more coming later." "EMS says it was a real butcher shop." "Aren't they all these days?" " Helen?" " Eleanor." " They're in the cold room." " Thank you." " Lunch next week?" " Love to." "I'll call." "I know what it looks like, but he's not your man." "Convicted psycho just wanders into a preexisting bloodbath?" "Cut the crap, Zimmerman." "He's our guy." "Trust me, Tolson did not kill those people." "Look, severe cranial lacerations, removal of gray matter?" "I read his jacket." "This is our guy's kind of party." "Yeah, and this time he was just a guest, not the host." "Larry Tolson has a very specific form of delusional psychosis." "He kills for reasons that you or I think are crazy, but they make sense to him." "12 years ago." "Why did he kill his foster parents?" "I don't know, something about their brains stealing power from him." "He sees people as either conduits or siphons." "If he thinks you're trying to steal his energy, he feels threatened, and that's when he kills." "Believe me, forensics will go through the whole nine yards, they won't find one shred of DNA to link him." "Sorry, man, but they pay me to do my homework." "Okay." "Whoa." "Zimmerman..." "Let's just say that I buy this psycho-crap defense, which you know I don't." "Then who the hell did it?" "That's your job, Joe." "It's not mine." "HELEN:" "Hard to believe such an outlandish story, isn't it?" "WILL:" "Excuse me?" "HELEN:" "The Manderville Monster." "It would have been easy to lay the blame directly at his feet." "And yet you didn't." "Well done." " Nice to know I have fans." " You saw it, didn't you?" "Saw what?" "You saw the clarity in Mr. Tolson's eyes when he told you who did kill those people." "Look, not that it's any of your business, but all I saw were the ramblings of a delusional psychotic." "So it wasn't Tolson." "It was someone just like him." "Except such carnage could never be the work of a madman, could it?" "The police may think it possible, but you don't." "Listen, it's late, and I've got to..." "He told you about the boy, didn't he?" "A child capable of such murderous destruction he just had to see it for himself." "Mr. Tolson was there as an admirer, was he not?" "There was no boy." "No ordinary boy." "Look, who are you?" "How do you know about this?" "I've heard such accounts many times before." "As for who I am..." "A friend." "I hope." "Hello?" "Okay, who the hell just used my can?" "Hey." "Station's closed, pal." "Buddy." "What the hell's going on?" "You know what?" "I don't wanna know." "You just stay put." "Control 4, this is Railcheck 2." "I've got a pick-up on the southbound platform at..." "Some privacy, if you please." "We're just getting to know each other." "I am so sick of that." "Will, my friend, you are on fire tonight." "Good." "You're awake." "Considering I'm looking at a photo of you and Joe Louis, I don't think so." "I apologize for my boldness this evening." "Woman from earlier, creepy house, wacked photos." "Probably working through some childhood stuff, bed-wetting issues, night fears..." "Still, this is good stuff, even for me." "Dr. Zimmerman, I assure you I am real." "As is this place and everything in it." "No." "See, that's impossible." "Because if this place is real, and I did pass out here, then that means that..." "Oh, cr..." "I love the dark." "It's such a wonderful feeling, letting the blackness envelop you, hide you, protect you from harm." "I know all too well what it is like to be different." "To have others hate me, fear me." "The way he fears you." "Fulfill your desires to your heart's content, hmm?" "With one condition." "I need your help." "To find an old friend?" "My manservant seems to have a profound impact on you." "Yeah, if you call 15 years of therapy down the drain "profound."" "My patients and I are unused to visitors." "I should have given you some warning, I suppose." " That thing is your patient?" " Former patient, actually." "After I removed more than a few bullets from his body, he refused to leave." "So I gave him a position on my staff." "Although I must say, he brews tea as poorly as a short-order cook." " He flushed me out of my shower." " Did he use your toilet?" "Oh, that is so annoying." "I'll be sure to have a word with him." "No, no, it's not the toilet flushing that bothers me." "It's the kidnapping." "And the fact that he's a..." "Well, he can't help who he is." "Okay, you know what?" "This has been great, but I'm overdue for a round of heavy drinking and some tranquilizers, so..." "If I could just have my clothes, please." "As you wish." "But outside that door are creatures that make my butler seem like a house cat by comparison." ""Sanctuary for all" is not an empty motto." "Scone?" "Railcheck 2, this is Blue Rider 9." "Respond." "Respond, Railcheck 2." "Nothing." "Hate this goddamn sector." "Hey, no one likes working under Old City." "Too many bad memories." "What if the guy caught an express?" "He could be up in Gunns Landing, for all we know, or friggin' Sentinel Green." "He was checking the switches on the number four line near 149th." " I'm thinking he didn't go far." " Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, I'm thinking you're right." "WILL:" "So, you're a doctor of what, exactly?" "Depends on the patient, of course." "Of course." "You spent eight years of your life studying medicine." "For what?" "So you can practice a profession that has almost nothing to do with the reality of the world around you." "Whoa." "How about a little context with that character assassination?" "That I can provide." "I specialize in terology, among other things." "I'm sorry, "terology"?" "Combined with healthy doses of cryptozoology and xenobiology as well, when the need arises." "Please." "Terology, from the Greek "teras,"" "meaning hideous creature, deformity, unknown being." "New guy!" "Hey!" "New guy!" "New guy!" "New guy!" "Stop it, both of you." "I apologize." "They're incorrigible." "None of these things are running around free, right?" "Don't be ridiculous." "Exercise time isn't for another two hours." "HELEN:" "The purpose of this institute is to find and help the unfortunate creatures of this world." "And, Dr. Zimmerman," "I believe there is a vital role for you to play here." "You want me to help you capture monsters?" "I prefer to call them "abnormals"." "Please." " You find my offer amusing?" " Yes." " Because you're afraid." " You work with monsters." "I work with sentient beings, each worthy of the same respect that humans, even animals, receive automatically." "They are the key to the evolution of our race, and yet we revile them, destroy them, and worst of all, pretend they don't even exist." "But they are out there, Dr. Zimmerman." "Lost, like children." "Misunderstood." "Hunted." "Are they really so different from the outcasts you treat every day?" "You knew Mr. Tolson was telling you the truth." "And in that one moment," "I saw that you were capable of so much more." "I believed some of his story." "That doesn't make me Jekyll to your Hyde." " Or whatever the right combo is." " Open your eyes." "Good doctors come and go." "But the really great ones have always seen beyond the boundaries of science, beyond the known." "The great ones dare to believe in the unbelievable." " He must be close." " Who?" "Our quarry." "WILL:" "So how did you know the killer's next victim would be down here, and not, you know, up?" "Uptown?" "I have my sources." "Could you be a little more cryptic, please, because I was starting to feel in the loop there, and we wouldn't want that." "Our subject is unused to human contact." "He would seek refuge in these catacombs, if only for the solitude." "Plus I have a police scanner." "And how do you know the victim was the work of the subject?" "Because I've been tracking the little dweeb all night." "Hi." "With very little success, I'm afraid." "Well, that's because someone else was down here." "Tall dude." "Moves faster than me, if that's possible." "What did he look like?" " Bald, trench coat..." " Uh, guys?" "Hey." "Hey, uh..." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Stop!" "We need him alive." "We want to help you." "Do you understand me?" "Whoa!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Over here." "Over here." "WILL:" "Yeah, that's it." "That's it." "Okay." "Easy..." "A little help here, please?" " You okay?" " I'm fine." "Far from it." "This chaos was completely avoidable." "Give me a break, okay?" "I've been avoiding cops, ghouls, and God-knows-what else in stinky, dark tunnels all night." "I need food, I need a bath." "I don't need a lecture." "Okay, so I'm getting that you two know each other." "Dr. Zimmerman, this is Ashley." "My daughter." "Mom!" "Take it easy." "I believe we have discussed better coordinating our efforts when attempting a capture, have we not?" "Again, we got the ghoul, okay?" "Take a pill." "Watch your cheek with me, young lady, especially with company present." "I apologize for Ashley's unruly behavior, Dr. Zimmerman." "What she lacks in refinement," "I assure you she more than makes up for in skill." " Really?" " Hey, I saved your life." " Hold still." " Yeah." "Thanks." " So I take it you guys do this a lot?" " Oh, this is nothing." "After our Romania trip last year, we had more plasma flowing than..." "Ashley, please." "I don't like it when you glorify our work." "An entire den of werewolves." "Me, mom and a some loser Romanian lupus wrangler." "We're low on silver tips, full moon's on the rise." "That was a party." "Do you mean like "werewolf" werewolves?" " Mom, seriously, who is this guy?" " Dr. Zimmerman is our guest." "Please, try to keep that in mind as you blather away." "There, my darling." "Good as new." "Hate to bleed and run, but I've got to be on the East Side in 20." "Hot date." "With Ernie." "Nice to meet you." "Um, keep the ice going." "Don't wait up." "So she's your daughter?" "Because there can't be more than, like, 12 years difference between you two." "The details are unimportant." "Ashley is my flesh and blood, and she plays a vital role in my work." "She bags them, you tag 'em." "Yeah, well, it works for me." "So you found this inside one of the victims?" "Looks like some sort of phosphorous-based chemical." "Secretions from the boy's appendage." "Contains significant trace amounts of low-grade plutonium." "But so tiny an amount is hardly lethal." "Well, yeah, it's more your department, so I'm just going to." "True enough." "Right now there is an urgent need for your talents, Doctor." "He is by estimation 10 years of age." "Considering his family, I would say he was brought here via the eastern European black market." "Such imperfect children are often adopted by well-meaning immigrant families." "Some are blind." "Others have deformities, mental illness." "I'm sure he seemed perfectly normal in his photograph, if they even saw one." "What the hell is that thing?" "I will only be able to determine his physiological state once we've gained his trust." "Okay, sit him up and release him." "Uh, please." "Okay, we'll be fine." "Really." "WILL:" "How are you doing?" "I'm just going to grab this chair here." "Nice and slowly." "Watch them." "DRUITT:" "Who are those actors?" "I've seen less wood sailing to Tahiti." "John, stop it." "I am merely saying Her Majesty was dead-on, barring that from an indefinite run." "Truly dreadful, wasn't it?" "And your favorite play, too." "But for the perfect vision to my left," "I would have caught up on some much-needed sleep." "Where to this evening?" "A turn through Piccadilly to start, please." "Very good, ma'am." "And where are you taking me now, woman?" "Wherever I please." "I'll not have you home before midnight, John Druitt." "Not before I've had my way with you." "Then the night awaits." "I take it you're feeling much better." "There's nothing like the attentions of a capable physician to cure the chronically ill." "You were never ill." "It was simply..." "An element of my physiology as yet undiscovered by medicine." " You have done so much for me." " John, I hardly..." "Let me speak, doctor." "I've spent my entire life lost in a void, afraid of who I am." "Of what I am." "If not for you, I fear I would have remained lost." "Instead, I can now see that I am neither a freak of nature nor a devil." "But a man." "Very much in love." "And someone who wishes to spend the rest of his life repaying his savior for all she's done." "I promise to make you happy, Helen, for all eternity." "Whoa!" "Hey!" "Time..." "Time out a second, okay?" "Here's the problem, alright?" "If you keep that up, that big hairy guy is going to come back in here, and believe me, it will get ugly." "The bigger problem is that he scares me more than you do." "Okay, why aren't you trying to eat my brain anymore?" "Okay, I think I'm getting the ground rules here." "The less fear I feel, the less you want to snack on my cerebellum?" "Okay." "You have a name?" " Alexei." " Alexei." "That's a cool name." "I'm Will." "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you're not from around here." "From place with no people." "The dead city." "Want to tell me how this all started?" "Family adopt me, bring me home." "But they not like me." "Not after." "Yeah, not the kind of reception you were hoping for, huh?" "They were afraid." "I try to stop it, but only more fear comes." "So the more fear, the more it comes out." "It's a defense mechanism." "Well, that's perfectly normal." "Whenever you feel scared, that's what's going to happen." "Magnificent." "I know you like the firepower, Ash." "That's why I ordered these babies specially for you." "Direct from my source in Tel Aviv." "You take such good care of me, Ern." "That's why I keep coming back for more." "Sure we're kosher here, right?" "I mean, I know Henry doesn't appreciate any weapon he doesn't make himself." "Well, Henry's gear is too experimental." "I'm a traditionalist." "And when it's your ass on the line, amen." "So what else you need?" "I got Kevlar, silver tips." "If you're goin' after vamps, I know a brother in Prague who just received a shipment of holy water." "Pressurized canisters, 5,000 psi launcher included." " Deal of a lifetime." " Stop it." "You're turning me on." "How much for both?" "Both?" "Well, for you, Ash?" "Six thou." "But, I tell you what." "We start pooling our resources, do some jobs together, my contacts become your contacts and visa versa, the price goes way south, if you know what I mean." "Come on, Ernie." "You know my mother has a few issues with the way that you work." "So hate the game, not the players." "That's going to leave a mark." "Nasty toy for someone so young." "You just killed the second-best ghoul-tracker in five states." " Not to mention a friend." " Clumsy me." "Have we met before?" "A crypt somewhere?" "I'm an old family friend." "Oh, and no card from you at Christmas." "Oh well." "Next year!" "Now, young lady." "I believe it's past your bedtime." "WILL:" "If you need anything during the night, you just ring that bell." "Alright?" "I won't be too far away, Alexei." "I promise." "Wait." "You are like the other man I met." "In tunnel." "He treat me well, too." "What other man?" " State your emergency." " WILL:" "Hey, Doc." "It's me." "You've got a problem." "Do not bite me." "How did you know I was going to?" "I would've done the same." "Okay, now you've got my attention." "And that's quite an achievement, considering your bad taste in clothes." "Oh, such manners for a lady." "But then, look at your mother." "She never understood her place in the world, either." "Bad enough you're a teleporting psycho, you're Republican, too?" "Well, let's just say I am a strong believer in family values." "Here's some free advice:" "kidnapping me pisses my mom off more than serving the wrong wine with fish." "So I'd start running." "Oh..." "I'm not going anywhere." "Why would I, now that I finally have what I've wanted for so long?" "Yeah?" "What's that?" "Why, you, of course." "My daughter." "HELEN:" "Are you quite certain?" "WILL:" "Yeah, Alexei said he could jump instantly from place to place, if you buy that, which you will." " With a kind of bluish-green flash?" " You see?" "It corroborates Ernest's account of her abduction." " HELEN:" "Dammit." " WILL:" "It doesn't make any sense." " Alexei had no reason to run." " He didn't run." "He was taken." " What the hell is this?" " Directions." "To where?" "There's no station at 98th Street." "There used to be, before the new city was built." "That's where we'll find Alexei." "And Ashley." "You know who did this, don't you?" "His name is Montague John Druitt." "He was my first patient." "Meaning he's not exactly normal." "Through certain genetic abnormalities, he's able to bend dimensional space at will." " Warp from place to place." " In a blue-green flash." "Exactly." "Well, I'd say "cool, " if he wasn't, you know, the bad guy." "Each time he does it, specific portions of his brain are damaged, causing increased dementia, paranoia, rage." "I discovered all this too late." "His murderous habits were already well underway." "I tried to stop him, and failed." " You're sure it's him." " Twelfth Night." "His favorite play." "A-5, S-1?" "Act 5, scene 1?" ""And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."" "Each of us has our worst fears to confront, Dr. Zimmerman." "John Druitt is mine." "What would you do if you did manage to free yourself?" "Attack me?" "Or go after the boy and hope I didn't interfere?" "Oh, I'd definitely do you first "Dad."" "Yes, I wouldn't believe it, either." "Such an outlandish, not to mention sordid tale." "I know my mother." "You're not even close to her type." "For starters, she's likes her men sane and a lot less talky." "Oh, she liked me well enough when she agreed to marry me." "Okay, well, you have me." "You have the ghoul." "What's next?" "My butt's getting cold." "Imagine spending every hour of every day, every penny of your fortune, trying to find someone, only to discover you were looking in the wrong bloody century." "Imagine the frustration, the anger, as the search went on, a fool's errand." "I moved from decade to decade, holding on to the one hope that I would finally land in the right time and place to find you, Ashley." "My father is dead." "Who told you that?" "Oh, the good doctor?" "My God, her gall never ceases to amaze me!" "Who is she to play nursemaid to every deviant who's lost its way?" "Or more to the point, to decide that you should never know your own flesh and blood?" " Who is she to say?" " HELEN:" "I'm her mother, that's who!" "Yeah, this is why I busted my ass in medical school." "To crawl around in dirty tunnels, chasing mutant psychos." "Keep it together, Will." "The monsters are down there, not up here." "I thought you were going to wait in the car." "DRUITT:" "Helen you look wonderful." "Stop playing games, John." "You got what you wanted." "Indeed." "A family, at last." "You played your cards very patiently." "Well done." "As if that could prevent this moment." "Mom, please tell this guy there's a nice padded cell in his future." "Quiet, Ashley." "Be reasonable." "How could I tell her the truth?" "How could you not?" "You murdered eight innocent women." "No!" "Not yet." "I'm still waiting for the "it's a total lie" part." "Mom, he's not my dad, right?" "Please." "This is neither the time nor place." "Whatever you're going to do, don't." "Actually, it's you who's going to do it all, Helen." "Look at what you've made of our daughter!" "A foul-mouthed, willful, violent child." "But at the core a needy little girl who just misses her dad." "And this your beloved creatures." "The damned souls you so tirelessly try to save." "It is all up to you, Helen." "Make your choice!" "What will it be?" "Don't." "This is entertaining." "I know you're quick, John, but if memory serves, bullets are quicker." "Memory is a fickle companion." "No, don't!" "Let me." "Alexei, wait." "What now, John?" "I die like one of your whores?" "Tell me what choice I have." " You want to hurt me." " No, I don't." "I want to help you." "Other people might be afraid of you, but I'm not." "Why?" "Because there's no such thing as monsters." "Forgive me, John." "You can't control her forever, Helen." "Stop." "You'll never survive." "Easy, guys." "You actually exist." "I was..." "I am scared of you." "But I know it's just the idea of you." "The concept." "You see, I saw this movie when I was a kid, and I had an over-active imagination, and..." "Never mind." "Just get better." "Will." "You used to live over in Barron County." "Yeah, when I was a kid." "East Hills." "1123 Seneca Boulevard." "Before I met the doctor, I..." "I was angry." "I enjoyed scaring people." "Kids." "I knew that movie was playing that night, and..." "And I'm sorry." "It was you?" "I know it is late in coming, but no hard feelings?" "WILL:" "Sure you're okay?" "ASHLEY:" "I wasn't at my best back there." "WILL:" "Well, considering the situation..." "Yeah, well, if you're thinking about working here, um, you should really see this." "MAN:" "Will you stop fiddling with that thing?" "Let's just get this over with." "Huh?" "Come on, make yourself useful or something, huh?" "Go get me a cream soda." "What the heck was I talking about?" "Oh, yeah." "New guy, if you're watching this, that means she's dragged you into this whole little circus of hers, huh?" "Well, I was once young like you." "A year out of medical school." "It was 1932 or something." "I was finishing night shift at the hospital, walking home, and she came outta the shadows, this woman." "She hands me this business card." "After that I was just caught in her web." "You know, we were studying the abnormals, and we got to be very close." "We had a..." "A special bond, Helen and I." "She had ideas about things..." "He rambles a bit here." "I begged and I pleaded with her to stop." "I didn't think I could take it anymore, you know?" "Different things from the fridge..." "No, no." "...been given an opportunity to learn things." "Things that no one else can ever know." "And there will be risks." "There will be sacrifices." "At best, a chance of some light death, some maiming, could be in the cards." "But what is that in the face of knowing the truth." "The truth about humankind?" "Hey, glue guy." "Glue guy, I just I lost another fingernail." "What do I gotta do?" "Where are you?" "Don't sneak up on me like that." "Anyway..." "Good luck, new guy." "Just keep your head up, keep your eyes open." "And stay away from anything, anything radioactive." "I don't care how cute and fluffy it is." "And you tell Helen..." "You tell Helen that..." "Tell her that Barney says hello." "She'll know what that means." "Anyway, I gotta get someone to husk down my corns..." "Nice." "HELEN:" "Leaving, Dr. Zimmerman?" "Well, after watching Barney TV, can you blame me?" "Look, I just wanted to say thank you." "It was a lot of fun." " As traumatic as it was." " You're turning down my offer." "Yeah." "I already have a job." "At that zoo they laughingly call a hospital." "Cold-hearted bureaucrats and uneducated sloths." "Hey, don't forget about the free jello." "Ah." "So why linger?" "Off you go." "Is Alexei?" "I've secured a place for him at a special school I know." "He'll be fine." "And what about Ashley?" "Some pretty heavy news about her dad." "I will deal with my daughter, have no fear." "Was there something else?" "Yeah." "Yeah, it's you." "And Druitt." "Something about it still doesn't make sense to me." "Pray tell." "Barney, 1932." "And the way you talk." "Those "Sherlock Holmes" expressions." "I mean, who says "pray tell"?" "And Druitt was the same way." "Proper use of the Queen's English is a lost art." "No, no, no." "Let's just forget about the very disturbing fact that you have a basement full of monsters and your butler shouldn't exist." "Let's talk about you and this guy, okay?" "You claim that your first patient was Montague John Druitt, a man who also happens to be Scotland Yard's prime suspect in the Ripper killings in 1888." "I told you he could bend dimensional space." " Why not time as well?" " So he's the actual Ripper?" "Come on, you can't know that, not for sure." "Indeed I can, Dr. Zimmerman." "I was there." "So you can travel through time, too?" "I cannot." "But you said that Ashley was your flesh and blood, so..." "She is." "I kept the embryo frozen for over a century, until I could bear the loneliness no longer." "I brought it to term, believing John was gone for good." "I underestimated his determination." "How is any of this possible?" "When you treat beings with extraordinary powers, sometimes the rewards are..." "Well, unexpected." " So that means that you..." " I am 157 years old." "Weren't you leaving?" "Your gratuitous jello awaits." "You know, I hoped that at least you would be normal." "Sorry to disappoint." "Can you promise me that I'm not going to end up like Barney?" "No, I can't do that." "But I can promise you the adventure of many, many lifetimes." "Shall we begin?"