Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
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Townsend: Whatever you have against me...
Beck: It's not against you. It's against the system that allows people like you to rise. You have no talent, no respect for governance, nor do you care about anyone but yourself.
It's not a motorway. It's social engineering. First, the Mexicans. Then, who? You're not building roads. You're building prisons for all those you don't like until all that's left is rich, white men who look and think exactly like you. No, sir!
Beck
Alex: [translated] He's smarter than he seems.
Lewis: He's gotta be cause he seems like a dope.
Tiago: Fuckin' Los Angeles. I don't know that we can save her.
Lewis: Save her? Pal, we're just trying to survive her.
Townsend: Will you dance with me, Kurt?
Kurt: Are we safe?
Townsend: Never.
Beck: Why do you support someone so utterly devoid of worth?
Alex: I think he has potential.
Beck: Do you now? Gonna make him mayor, are you?
Alex: Gonna make him President.
Beck: You're going to make a racist demigogue without a single scruple the President of the United States?
Alex: That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Beck: What are you about, Ms. Malone?
Alex: I don't know what you mean.
Beck: No one seems to know anything about you. Where you were born. Where you went to school. It's like, one day, you appeared out of thin air, sitting on his shoulder and whispering into his ear. That means you have a secret. And in politics, secrets are currency.
Mateo: I don't need make-believe. I need my sister.
Josefina: Your sister has found her faith.
Mateo: So I have no one.
Brian: I didn't think you were coming.
Dottie: And miss our usual Wednesday lunch? Hell, son, this is the closest to a date I've had in fifty years.
You ever been in a place where there's no right answer? Everything you do is gonna be wrong so you do something and you knows it's wrong and you live with it. It's not a compromise. It's not a mistake. It's a sin.
Tiago
You see, this is what people don't understand about us. We are builders, not destroyers.
Goss
All families have their secrets. There's a reason windows have curtains.
Maria
