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"When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone. They will hunt you until the end of days. Be true."
Joan Clayton
"The Nightcomers"
Series Penny Dreadful
Season 2, Episode 3
Penny Dreadful 2x03 001
Air date May 17th, 2015
Writers John Logan
Director Brian Kirk
Producers Nicholas Brown; James Flynn; Morgan O'Sullivan; Sheila Hockin; Chris King; Karen Richards; Pippa Harris; Sam Mendes; John Logan
Starring Reeve Carney; Timothy Dalton; Eva Green; Rory Kinnear; Helen McCrory; Billie Piper; Simon Russell Beale; Danny Sapani; Harry Treadaway; Josh Hartnett
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"The Nightcomers" is the third episode of season two of the supernatural horror series Penny Dreadful and the eleventh episode of the series overall. It was directed by Brian Kirk with a script written by John Logan. It first aired on Showtime on Sunday, May 17th, 2015 at 10:00 pm.

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Starring[]

Note: Listings marked with a (†) symbol indicate cast members who are credited in this episode, but their character does not make an appearance.

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Allusions[]

  • The "Cromwell" that Joan Clayton speaks of is Oliver Cromwell, who was a political and military leader known for his controversial and highly religious and conservative policies. Clayton claims to have met Cromwell in 1644, several years before he became the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Bloopers[]

  • In most scenes, Joan Clayton has one yellow eye, and one red eye. In one scene, she has two yellow eyes. However, this could be explained off as the simple vagaries of being an immortal witch.

Quotes[]

  • Joan Clayton: Old as I am, I know nothing. Why people in this world hate what is not them. Why they fear all they don't know. Why they hate themselves most of all. For being weak. For being old. For being everything altogether that is not God-like. Which of us can be that? Monsters all, are we not?
  • Vanessa Ives: Some perhaps more than others.
  • Joan Clayton: Is that what you feel?
  • Vanessa Ives: Yes.
  • Joan Clayton: Then it will be true, as long as you feel it so.

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  • Joan Clayton: When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone. They will hunt you until the end of days. Be true.

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  • Joan Clayton: Casting the tarot is a gift. When you know the Arcana, you can hear the echoes of time in your ear.
  • Vanessa Ives: And the meaning?
  • Joan Claytonn: You'll learn. They are never always as they seem.
  • Vanessa Ives: The Devil card?
  • Joan Clayton: Not always the demon from Hell or the throat slit at midnight. It can mean other things. Tell me what.
  • Vanessa Ives: Evil.
  • Joan Clayton: Do better!
  • Vanessa Ives: The dark lover approaching, bringing terror. Irresistible. Part of you, but not. The whisper of something ghastly and beautiful.
  • Joan Clayton: That's more the feeling.

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  • Joan Clayton: You must remember such incantations are dangerous. And you must never speak the Devil's language idly. Let this language not become easy in your mouth or soon it will no longer be your mouth but his. And it will tell only lies.
  • Vanessa Ives: For he is the Father of Lies.
  • Joan Clayton: If you believe in God, better you pray with all you got in you. Only if all else fails, you speak the Devil's tongue. But mark, girl, it's a seduction and before you can blink twice it's all you can speak, and so does a Daywalker become a Nightcomer.

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