Taboo
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on FXTaboo Season 1 Episode 6: "Haunted" Quotes
Mr. Delaney, Sir Stuart just wants you to know it's war. The gloves are off.
East India Lackey
Take that dress off. Take that fucking dress off now.
Delaney [to Zilpha]
We are leaving now, because we have been betrayed. No excuses - the talking is done.
Delaney
Delaney: What have you done?
Zilpha: I killed him, just like you said.
Delaney: Where is the body?
Zilpha: In the bedroom.
Delaney: Are you sure he's dead?
Zilpha: Quite. Dead.
Brace: You stink of cow shit.
Delaney: It's horse shit, actually.
Dumbarton: The enigma that is James Delaney. You know, it's curious, this cholera epidemic that you and I invented for our own convenience has actually begun to claim lives. Six people. It's as if the disease is not transmitted by air or miasma, but by false rumor.
Delaney: That is the same as religion, or patriotism.
Dumbarton: You have no God, certainly no country. What do you have?
Delaney: Powder.
Delaney: Go away, Winter.
Winter: I'm not scared of you.
Delaney: What are you scared of?
Winter: Of who they say you are: The African Devil. Stop staring, you're scaring me.
Delaney: Go home to your mother.
Brace: Do you know she took you down to the river to drown you? She waded in, held you under until the bubbles stopped. She was deranged, James. That's why your father had her committed to Bedlam, to protect you. To save your life, son.
Delaney: Be very, very careful now.
Brace: She wanted you dead, James.
