The Strain Quotes
Palmer: Have you heard of a Polish nobleman by the name of Jusef Sardu?
Setrakian: According to legend he was attacked by a vampire while on a hunting trip in 1873.
Palmer: Correct and he was said to have carried a cane.
Setrakian: With a wolf's head handle made of white gold; silver blade.
Palmer: Its been missing for decades, but my sources tell me that it may have recently resurfaced here in Vienna.
Setrakian: That is the first I've heard of this. Well is it true?
Palmer: That's what I need you to find out.
Setrakian: I'll see what I can turn up.
Eichhorst: A new führer has emerged, wiser and stronger than the first one. He needs soldiers like you to serve as instruments for his unshakeable will. Does this interest you?
Steiner: God yes! I'm tired of running.
Eichhorst: Welcome to the fold, comrade.
Eph: You both contracted the disease that's broken out in New York. The worms carry a very aggressive virus. There's no cure. You'll both die in fifteen to forty-eight hours.
Harrison: You knew this the moment those things wounded us.
Eph: We did, but you wouldn't believe it until you saw it for yourself.
Pauline: Then why did you bring us here?
Nora: Because we need your help.
Eph: For over two hundred years yellow fever ravaged American cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The disease went unchecked, until a group of U.S. soldiers volunteered to be test subjects for Dr. Walter Reed. They helped find a way to eradicate that disease. We'd like you to help us do the same with this.
Nora: I think we have a winner, it's multiplying. Taking them on in cerebral spinal fluid.
Eph: It's munching on vampire brain juice.
Nora: I can see some justice in that.
Eph: If we can get this to happen in the wild, then this bug can obliterate the vampire central nervous system. Let's grow up a batch and give it a try.
Nora: When are we going to tell them?
Eph: In a couple of hours, when they wake up.
Nora: You mean when they're too sick to put up a fight?
Eph: They're infected, does it matter?
Eph: So you're still on board? You're still ready to follow him down every dark tunnel in the city?
Vasiliy: Yeah, but I've got my own plan.
Eph: Which is?
Vasiliy: I'm gonna secure my place, then next door, then the block and then the next block.
Eph: The ground game isn't for me.
Vasiliy: So what are you gonna do?
Eph: Well seeing as how as a vampire hunter I'm total shit, I'm gonna go back to being a doctor.
You hurt him you know, the Master. You wounded him. You shouldn't feel like you failed.
Vasiliy
Setrakian: A legend was passed down through the centuries concerning a book. An ancient tome of uncertain prominence and some say divine inspiration... The Occido Lumen.
Vaun: And what do you know of this book?
Setrakian: I now have proof that it exists.
Eph: She's gone.
Zack: She's not gone. She was right there. You scared her away. You shot her.
Eph: She's turned, do you understand how that works?
Zack: She's sick. You even said so.
Eph: Her heart, her organs, they're all gone. There's nothing I can do to help her. There's nothing anybody can do to help her. She's something else now.
Zack: Bullshit. You're a doctor, right dad? Then save her. Find a cure.
There once was a great nobleman named Jusef Sardu. Since childhood he suffered from gigantism. His body was aging, his bones were bent and riddled with ache, so he was forced to walk with a cane.
Setrakian's bubbeh
You are standing before beings of great honor, dignity, power. The Ancients.
Quinlan
Nora: Where is he?
Eph: He ran down the building and disappeared.
Fet: In direct sunlight?
Eph: In direct sunlight
Fet: I thought that couldn't happen because the sunlight would kill him.
Setrakian: What he did I did not know he was capable of doing.
Dutch: But you injured him right? I mean that's why the others ran off?
Setrakian: I was wrong.
Eph: Well if sunlight doesn't kill him what does?
Setrakian: We're lost.
