“The fact that it controls us.
I don’t know why all people aren’t fascinated with it.
It makes beautiful sounds, and it makes a lot of times some incredible light.
It runs many things in Our World and it’s beautiful.
It’s sometimes Dangerous, but it’s Magical.
It’s such a Power and it can make some beautiful images… and sounds.”
- Why David Lynch
finds Electricity fascinating
“My armor was never a distraction or a hobby, it was a cocoon, and now I'm a changed man.
You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, but one thing you can't take away -
I am Iron Man.”
One week earlier......
Dr. Pretorius:
Do you know
Who Henry Frankenstein is
and Who YOU Are?
CREATURE :
Yes, I know.
Made me — from Dead.
I love Dead. Hate Living
Dr. Pretorius:
You're Wise in Your Generation.
We must have a long talk, and then I have an important call to make.
Creature :
Woman - Friend - Wife.
HARKER :
You're a Monster.
DRACULA :
And you're a Lawyer!
Nobody's Perfect.
Ah, a stake through The Heart.
You see, sometimes The Legends are right.
This is not one you can test too often, though.
I only ever have three brides at a time.
HARKER:
"Brides"?
DRACULA :
Brides, yes.
I think that's The Right Word for it.
You see, um...
[ CLEARS HIS THROAT ]
....I am Trying to reproduce...
...which, frankly, can be a bit of a Challenge when There is Only One of You.
He was a Brave Man.
He must have loved you very much.
Mina Harker :
What is he?
What is Count Dracula?
Van Helsing :
In Life, he was a Prince of exceptional learning and attainment.
In Death, I suppose you could say he's
The Best of The Vampires.
Mina Harker :
The Best?
Van Helsing :
The most successful, I mean.
Most are feral, half-mad.
They rarely last long and yet, somehow, Dracula has found a way to retain his human form and intellect, more or less intact, for hundreds of years.
Mina Harker :
By drinking blood?
Van Helsing :
Ah, they all drink blood.
Dracula has learned to do it WELL...
I think by choosing his victims with the greatest of care.
Even in Death, he has retained the discrimination of an aristocrat.
Mina Harker :
And so he took my Johnny.
Van Helsing :
Come, the Mother Superior will want to lead us in prayer.
Mina Harker :
I don't see the point in praying.
Van Helsing :
God is Nowhere.
In which case,
it is up to us to
Stop Count Dracula.
And we will.
Won't we?
Mina Harker :
Yes.
Van Helsing :
We will.
Mina Harker :
Goodbye, Johnny Blue Eyes.
I shan't ever love anyone else, you know.
Van Helsing :
Quite right.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
He doesn't know I can get out of The Box --
Don't tell him.
HARKER :
I won't.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Are you His Friend now?
HARKER :
No. I, er...
I-I.. I work for him.
I'm a Lawyer.
From England.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I think he's made you His Friend.
HARKER :
Why?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
What's England?
HARKER :
It's where I'm from.
You know it.
You're... Speaking English.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I learnt it.
SHE LAUGHS
HARKER :
How?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
It tasted fun.
HARKER :
Tasted?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Once you are The Count's Friend,
all languages are the same.
I'm hungry.
HARKER :
Was it you at The Window?
You left The Message?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I smelt you.
HARKER :
You're Trapped Here.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
You're trapped too.
HARKER :
I want to Help You.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Tell him I'm hungry!
He only gives me scraps.
Tiny little things.
Tell him I finished the last one.
I finished it really quickly.
I'm hungry! Agh!
SHE GROWLS
HARKER :
Look at it! Look at it!
It is The Sign of The Cross.
The Symbol of Our Lord.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I know.
It's pretty.
Camille Paglia : So now Today we have this situation - and it’s considered Heresy to raise This Issue - that Young Women are told,
‘There’s one Future for you;
You are a Future Leader;
You must Move Forward.’
For four years of College and perhaps some Professional Classes.
It may be that Young Women’s Bodies are signaling that they Want to Be Mothers.
Maybe there are signals coming from The Body of maybe not-wanting This System of Education that was devised for MEN, being funneled along, channeled along in this mechanism.
So Young Women feel unhappy, They don’t know why.
They have no Sense of Identity.
If they want to Marry and Drop Out of College and Have a Baby, they will be treated as Traitors to Their Class.
‘What? You are a Future Leader. Have a baby?
Only working- class women would do that.’
I find working-class women, in general, far more rounded as personalities. They express themselves forcefully, they have body language that takes up space.
A Man says something to them on The Street, they are right back in their face.
It’s the bourgeois girls who are taught that they’re Special, who have to postpone Actual Life for all these years.
These are The Girls who are misjudged in the fraternity party setting.
These are The Girls who run for parental protection and hand-holding, on the committee investigating what went wrong on their Date.
So yes, I think that what you have located. . .
That’s Very Interesting,
The Idea that These Young Girls who are so sensitive in College, so unable to handle their sex life, are the product of Older Parents because they went through The Professional Career track.
Yes, and they have not had the experience of the competitiveness and teasing of other siblings.
Peterson: Also, the thing about Young Parents is they don’t care as much as Older Parents, and that actually turns out to be better.
Because What You Really Want for Your Children is minimum necessary intervention. And the developmental literature is actually quite clear on this.
So if you’re at home with your child, The Best Role that you can play is to be there, but not to be interacting with The Child all the time.
The Child should be off doing Whatever it is That Children Do, which, generally, is playing with other children without it being mediated by screens and technology.
Because that’s how they formulate their identity. And that’s how they learn to play joint games with other people.
And The Parent is supposed to be there as a recourse for The Child when they go out a little bit farther than they can tolerate, and have to come back and get some security.
But that’s especially not what happens to single children, because they’re basically raised as Miniature Adults.
And I wonder, too, like how much of the antipathy towards. . .
These are dark musings. And I would say, how much of the antipathy towards men that’s being generated by, say, college-age women is deep repugnance for the role that they’ve been designed, and a disappointment with the men. . . You know, you think of those. . . I can’t remember the culture.
The basic marital routine was to ride into the village and grab the bride and run away with her on a horse.
It’s like the motorcycle gang member who rips the too-naive girl out of the bosom of her family.
Paglia: Yeah, there used to be bride stealing. It was quite widespread.
Peterson: Right, so I kind of wonder if part of the reason that modern university women aren’t so angry is because that fundamental feminine role is actually being denied to them.
And they’re objecting to that at a really, really fundamental level.
Like a level of primitive outrage.
Paglia: Well, what’s happened is the chaos that my generation of the 1960s bequeathed through the sexual revolution.
When I arrived in college in 1964 the colleges were still acting in loco parentis, in place of a parent, so my dormitory, all women’s dormitory, we women had to sign in at eleven o’clock at night.
The Men could Run Free The Entire Night.
So it was My Generation of Women that rose up and said, ‘Give us the same freedom as men have,’ and the colleges replied, ‘No. The World is Dangerous. You could be raped. We have to protect you against rape.’
And What We Said, was, ‘Give us the freedom to risk rape.’
What Today’s Women don’t understand: it’s The Freedom that you WANT.
It’s the same Freedom that Gay Men have when they go and they pick up A Stranger some place.
They know it’s dangerous, they know they could end up beaten up or killed, but they find it hot.
If you want Freedom, if you want Equality, then you have to start Behaving Like a Man.
So What We Did is, We gave Freedom to these Young Women for several generations, but My Generation had been raised in a far more resilient and robust culture.
We had The Strength to Know What We Wanted and to Fight for What We Wanted. These Young Women have been raised in this terribly protected way.
So I think in some strange fashion that all these demands for intrusion from these Stalinist committees, investigating dates and so on - it’s a way to reinstitute The Rules that My Generation threw out The Window.
So I think these young women are desperate.
Not only that, but I have spoken very strongly in a piece I wrote for Time Magazine. It was in my recent book that raising the drinking age in this country from 18 to 21 has had a direct result in these disasters of binge drinking fraternity parties.
Let college students, the way we could, go out as freshmen, have a beer, sit in a protected adult environment, learn how to discourse with The Opposite Sex in a Safe Environment.
And now today, because of this stupid rule that young people can’t even buy a drink in a bar until they’re 21, we have these fraternity parties that are like it’s the caveman era.
Well of course in this modern age this advantages men. Men Want to Hook Up. Men Want to Have Sex. Women don’t understand What Men Want.
Women put out because they’re hoping The Man will continue to be interested in them.
[ Like their Father never was. ]
The Man just wants Experience. The hormones drive toward. . .
To me, I theorize that the sex drive in men is intertwined with Hunt and Pursuit.
This is what women don’t understand.
And if women understood what I understand from my transgender perspective. . . These women on the streets. . . You know, I am, obviously, a Madonna admirer, and I support pornography and prostitution, so I don’t want what I’m about to say to seem conservative because it isn’t.
What I’m saying is that women on the streets. . . Young women who are jogging with no bra on, short shorts, and have earbuds in their ears, just jogging along.
These Women do not understand The Nature of The Human Mind.
They do not understand The Nature of Psychosis.
And this intertwining that I’m talking about of The Hunt and Pursuit thing.
They’re triggering a Hunt Thing. . .
Just what you have talked about in terms of The Zebra Herd.
They are triggering The Hunt Impulse in Psychotic Men.
"There goes a very appetizing and totally oblivious animal, bouncing along here."
And we’re in a period now where psychosis is not understood at all.
Young Women have had no exposure to movies like Psycho. You know, the kind of rapists, serial murderer thing and so on.
The kind of strange dynamic which has to do with assault on the ‘mother imago’ in the mind of a psychotic.
I think there’s an incredible naïveté.
These young women are emerging and going to college in this like incredible Dionysian environment of orgiastic sexual experience in fraternity houses.
They’re completely unprepared for it.
And so you’re getting all this outrage. So feminist rhetoric has gotten more and more extreme in its portrayal of Men as Evil.
But in fact what we have is a Chaos. It’s a Chaos in The Sexual Realm. The Girls have not been told Anything Real in terms of biological substratum to sexual activity.
Peterson: No, that’s full of lies about what constitutes consent, too.
And it’s become something that’s essentially portrayed linguistically as a sequence of progressive contracts, which is. . .
You know, I’ve thought for a while that we’re living in the delusional fantasy of a naive thirteen year old girl.
That basically sums up our culture. And I look at all these sexual rules that permeate the academia, and I think two things.
The first thing I think is, well. . . I know because I was an alcohol researcher for a long time, and you know that 50% of violent crimes are directly contributed to alcohol.
So if you’re murdered, there’s about a 50% chance that you’re drunk and about a 50% chance that the person who kills you is drunk. And alcohol is the only drug that we know that actually amplifies aggression.
It does that in laboratory situations. Plus it’s a great disinhibitor.
So what alcohol does is. . . It doesn’t make you oblivious to the future consequences of your actions, because if you ask someone who’s drunk about the consequences of Something Stupid, they can tell you what the consequences are.
But it makes you Not Care.
And it does that because it’s technically an anxiolytic like barbiturates or like benzodiazepines. And it also has an activating property for many people who drink, so it’s a stimulant and an anxiolytic at the same time.
And a very, very potent. . . It’s very potent for both of them.
You know, we put young people together and douse them in alcohol at the binge drinking level - which also interferes with memory consolidation, which of course makes things much more complex - and then we’re surprised when there are sexual misadventures.
And then it’s also attributed almost purely to the predatory element that’s part and parcel of Masculinity, but a tremendous amount of that is also Naivety and Stupidity.
Because we expect. . . 18 year old guys, especially the ones that aren’t, that haven’t been successful with girls, which is like 85% of them because the successful men are a very small percentage of men.
The 85% who haven’t been successful with men or with women - they don’t know what the hell they’re doing at all.
And part of the reason they’re getting drunk is to garner up enough courage to actually make an advance.
Because another thing I think women don’t understand, especially with regards to Young Men is, just exactly how petrifying An Attractive Woman who’s of, say, somewhat Higher Status actually is to a young guy.
There’s lots of guys that write me constantly, and people that I’ve worked with, that are so terrified of women they can’t even talk to them. It’s very, very common.
Paglia: I take a very firm position, which is that I want college administrations to stay totally out of the social lives of the students.
If a Crime is committed, it should be reported to The Police. I’ve been writing that for twenty-five years now.
But it’s not The Business of any college administration to take any notice of what the students Say to each other - Say to each other - as well as do with each other.
I want it totally stopped. It is Fascism of the worst kind.
Peterson: I agree. And I think it’s fascism of the worst kind because it’s a new kind of fascism. It’s partly generated by legislation, like the Title 9 memo that was written in 2011. I recently got a copy of that goddamn thing.
That was one polluting bit of legislation.
That memo basically told universities that unless they set up a parallel court system, they were going to be denied federal funding. It is absolutely unbelievable.
Paglia: Incredible. And The Leftists are supporting this? This shows there is no authentic campus leftism. I’m sorry, it’s a fraud. The faculty should be fighting the 28
administration on this. Federal regulation of how we’re supposed to behave on campus?
Peterson: Well, how can you be so naive and foolish to think that taking an organization like The University, which already has plenty to do, and forcing it to become a pseudo legal system that parallels the legal system could possibly be anything but utterly catastrophic.
It would mean you have to know absolutely nothing about the legal system and about the tremendous period of evolution that produced what’s actually a stellar system and an adversarial system that protects the rights of the accused and of the victim.
And to replace that with an ad-hoc bureaucracy that has pretty much the same degree of power as the court system with absolutely none of the training and none of the guarantees.
Paglia: Kangaroo courts. That piece that I wrote about Date Rape - it was in January, 1991 Newsday - was the most controversial thing I ever wrote in my entire career.
I attacked the entire thing, and demanded that colleges stand back and get out of the social lives of the students.
The reaction. People tried to call. . . They called the president of my university, tried to get me fired. You can’t believe the hysteria.
Peterson: I can believe it.
Paglia: Yeah, you can believe it. Anything that says to women that they should be responsible for their own Choices is regarded as reactionary? Are they kidding me? This is such a betrayal of authentic feminism in my view.
Peterson: Well it’s the ultimate betrayal of authentic feminism because it’s an invitation of all the things that you might be paranoid about with regards to The Patriarchy back into your life.
It’s an insistence that the most intrusive part of The Tyrannical King come and Take Control of the most intimate details of Your Life.
Paglia: Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
Peterson: And the assumption is that that’s going to make your life better rather than worse.
Paglia: And not to mention this idea of the stages of verbal consent, as if your impulses based in the body have anything to do with words.
That’s -- The Whole Point of Sex is to abandon that part of the brain that’s so trammeled with words.
Peterson: It’s actually a marker of lack of social ability to have to do that. Because if you’re sophisticated. . .
Like if you’re dancing with someone, it’s not like you call out the moves.
If you have to do that, well then you’re worse than a neophyte.
You’re an awkward neophyte, and anyone with any sense should get the hell away from you.
So if you’re reduced to the point where you have to verbally negotiate every element of intimate interaction. . .
Paglia: What a downer. Peterson: Yes, but what an unbelievably naive and pathological view of the manner in which human beings interact. There’s no sophistication in that.
Paglia: What I’m worried about also, in this age of social media. . .
I’ve noticed that as a teacher in the classroom that the young people are so used to communicating now by cellphone, by iPhone, that they’re losing body language and facial expressions, which I think is going to compound the problem with these dating encounters. Because the ability to read the human face and to read little tiny inflections of emotion. . .
I think my generation got that from looking at great foreign films with their long takes. So you’d have Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve in like potential romantic encounters, and you could see the tiniest little inflections that signal communication or sexual readiness or irony or skepticism or distance or whatever.
The inability to read other people’s intentions. . . I think this is going to be a disaster. I just notice how year by year the students are becoming much more flat affect.
And they themselves complain that they’ll sit in the same room with someone and be texting to each other.
Peterson: Yeah, well there’s a piece of evidence, too, that supports that to some degree. Women with brothers are less likely to get raped. And The Reason for that is that they’ve learned that nonverbal language deeply.
Paglia: Not only that but I have noticed in my career that women who have many brothers are very good as Administrators and as Business People, because they don’t take men seriously. They Saw Their Brothers. They Think Their Brothers are Jokes. But they know how to control Men while they still like Men. They admire men. This is something I have seen repeatedly.
Peterson: So that would be also reflective of The Problem of Fewer and Fewer Siblings.
Paglia: Yes, that’s right. I’ve noticed this in publishing. The women who have the job of publicist and rise to the top as Manager of Publicity - their ability to take charge of men and their humor with men. They have great relationships with men, because they don’t have a sense of resentment and worry and anxiety. They don’t see men as aggressors. And I think that’s another thing, too.
As feminism moved into its present system of ideology it has tended to denigrate Motherhood as a lesser order of human experience, and to enshrine, of course, Abortion.
Now, I am a hundred percent for abortion rights. I belonged to Planned Parenthood for years until I finally rejected it as a branch of the Democratic Party, My Own Party.
But as Motherhood became Excluded, as Feminism became obsessed with The Professional Woman, I feel that The Lessons That Mothers Learn have been lost to Feminism.
The mothers who bear boy children understand The Fragility of Men, The Fragility of Boys. They Understand It. They don’t see Boys and Men as A Menace. They understand The Greater Strength of Women. So there’s this tenderness and connectedness between the mother and the boy child when motherhood is part of the experience of women who are discussing gender.
So what we have today is that this gender ideology has risen up on campuses where all. . .
None of the girls, none of the students have married. None of them have had children. And you have women, some of whom have had children. . .
But a lot of them are like lesbians or like professional women and so on. So this whole tenderness and forgivingness and encouragement that women do to boys. . .
This hypersensitivity of boys is not understood. Instead, boys are seen as somehow more privileged. And somehow their energy level is interpreted as aggression, potential violence, and so on.
We would do better if would have. . . I have proposed that colleges should allow. . . The moment a woman has entered, she has entered that college for life and that she should be free to leave to have babies when her body wants that baby, when it’s healthy to have them. And then return, have the occasional course, and build up credits. And fathers might be able to do it as well. To get married women and women with children into the classroom. The moment that happens, as happened after Word War II where you had a lot of married guys in the classroom. . . Not that many women. The experience of a married person with a family talking about gender. . . Most of the gender stuff would be laughed out of the room if you had a real mother in there who had experienced childbirth and was raising boys.
So I think that’s also something that has led to this incredible artificiality and hysteria of feminist rhetoric.
STRAINS
STONES RUMBLE
WIND WHISTLES
SQUEAKING
SQUEAKING CONTINUES
CLAWS SCRATCH
FLIES BUZZ
SCREAMS
GASPS
GASPS
SQUEAKING
CLATTERING
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
He doesn't know I can get out of The Box.
Don't tell him.
I won't.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Are you His Friend now?
No. I, er...
I-I.. I work for him.
I'm a Lawyer.
From England.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I think He's made you His Friend.
Why?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
What's England?
It's where I'm from.
You know it.
You're...speaking English.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I learnt it.
SHE LAUGHS
How?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
It tasted fun.
Tasted?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Once you are the Count's Friend, all languages are the same.
I'm hungry.
Was it you at the window?
You left the message?
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I smelt you.
You're trapped here.
You're trapped too.
I want to help you.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
Tell him I'm hungry!
He only gives me scraps.
Tiny little things.
Tell him I finished the last one.
I finished it really quickly.
I'm hungry! Agh!
SHE GROWLS
Look at it! Look at it!
It is The Sign of The cross.
The Symbol of Our Lord.
BRIDE OF DRACULA :
I know.
It's pretty.
SCREAMS ECHO
You assumed, I suppose, that the cross would ward off evil.
Why are you smiling?
Your Faith. I think it's touching.
What happened to yours?
I have looked for God everywhere in This World and never found Him.
Then why are you here?
Like many Women of My Age, I'm trapped in a loveless marriage, maintaining appearances for the sake of A Roof Over My Head.
Now then, we proceed to your miraculous escape from Castle Dracula, about which you have been so vague.
KNOCKS
Somebody! Please, help!
GASPS
STRAINS
BABY GURGLES
BABY CRIES
CRIES
HARKER PANTS
CRIES
GROANS
WHEEZES
DRACULA :
Johnny, this is interesting.
I've never seen it work with a baby before. Never.
I think I might keep it on for a while.
I hope this doesn't mean that
I'm getting sentimental.
HARKER :
Why did you kill her?
DRACULA :
Who?
Oh. Um...
Because I wanted to see
if she would die, I suppose.
Johnny, don't give me that look.
You were a child once.
You know The Feeling.
Didn't you break your toys apart
to see how they worked?
HARKER :
You're a Monster.
DRACULA :
And you're A Lawyer!
Nobody's Perfect.
Ah, a stake through The Heart.
You see, sometimes The Legends are right.
This is not one you can test too often, though.
I only ever have three brides at a time.
HARKER :
"Brides"?
DRACULA :
Brides, yes.
I think that's The Right Word for it.
You see, um...
CLEARS HIS THROAT
..I am trying to reproduce...
Which, frankly, can be a bit of A Challenge when
There is Only One of You.
HARKER :
Agh!
DRACULA :
Oh, Johnny.
You're just about done, aren't you?
She was a thirsty little thing, and to think
that she was going to keep you
in That Box all to herself!
HARKER :
Are you going to kill me?
DRACULA :
Of course I'm going to kill you.
Why does Death always come
as such a shock to Mortals?
HARKER :
You took everything from me.
DRACULA :
Of course I did.
You are The High Road that
leads me to England.
HARKER:
Why? Why England?
DRACULA :
Ah. The People.
All those Sophisticated and Intelligent People.
As I've been trying to tell everyone for centuries,
You are What You Eat.
HARKER WHIMPERS
WIND WHISTLES
DRACULA :
Now... if you don't mind, I need you to do one last thing for me.
I haven't seen Her in hundreds of years.
Describe Her to me.
HARKER :
WEAKLY:
Who?
DRACULA :
I've had artists paint Her, and poets capture her in words, and Mozart wrote such a pretty little tune, I-I...
CLEARS HIS THROAT:
..I really should have spared him, but....
What Does a Lawyer See?
Johnny, in My Memory, She sets behind the second-highest peak at this time of year, and she's quite red.
Is She red, Johnny?
HARKER :
Look for yourself.
DRACULA :
But that will burn me to dust.
Good.
DRACULA :
Fair Enough.
Absolutely Fair Enough.
HARKER :
Will you put me in A Box?
DRACULA :
Keep your eyes on The Sun, Johnny.
It'll be the last time you see Her.
There is A Box waiting for you, in case you Walk,
yes, but most people I feed off just die.
So you'll probably be fine.
Don't you see?
An End is a Blessing.
Dying gives you Size.
It's The Mountaintop from which
Your Whole Life is at last visible.
From Beginning to End.
Death Completes You.
HARKER :
Spare me.
DRACULA :
How? LAUGHS
Answer me. Johnny, how?
How do I spare you?
How indeed, Mr Harker?
Mr Harker?
Mr Harker...
BELL CHIMES
..you were about to explain how you escaped from The Castle.
HARKER :
Yes. Y-you've read my account.
Yes.
Perhaps it will help to refresh your memory.
"Dracula will be served."
What is this?
"Dracula is my master.
Dracula will be obeyed.
Dra...
"Dracula is the beginning and the end.
"Dracula is all things.
Dracula is God."
What?
I-I didn't write this.
When you were first brought here, you asked for a pen and paper.
You were up all day and all night, and this is what you wrote.
No, no, no, no, no. I-I thought I'd...
You thought you'd written an account of your stay at Castle Dracula.
The only account you've given is the account you're giving right now.
It's time to finish Your Story.
DRACULA:
Johnny, how?
How do I spare you?
How?
[WEAKLY]
Let me go.
DRACULA :
You know why I'm going to England.
You know that I'm going to kill people.
A lot of them.
As many as I need. And perhaps even more.
But...
COUGHS
..I won't...
DRACULA :
You won't what?
Oh, you won't tell anyone about me?
Or try to stop me?
You'll just let me slaughter all those innocents, no questions asked?
LAUGHS
Some lawyer you turned out to be, Johnny!
I promise.
I...I swe...
I...I swear.
I... I...
I swear.
All right, then.
Do that.
GASPING:
What?
DRACULA :
Swear.
I'm going to England to Destroy Everything and Everyone You Love,
but if you give me your word that you won't try to stop me...
..I'll spare you.
It's a trick.
DRACULA :
Give me Your Word.
SOBBING:
No... You're going to kill me anyway.
DRACULA :
Look me in the eye and give me your word.
HARKER :
Count Dracula...
..I give you my word.
If you let me out of this place...
..if you let me live...
..then I...
..then I will do everything in my power to stop you.
DRACULA :
Quite right.
That's My Johnny.
Welcome to The Mountaintop.
BONES CRUNCH
I'm not breathing.
Sometimes you do, but I think it's mostly habit.
You have no heartbeat, either.
I'm dead.
Undead.
But apparently, not yet a vampire.
One must cling on to any good news that there is.
WOLF HOWLS IN THE DISTANCE
I do not serve Dracula.
No, but he's in your mind.
The Question is,
Why are You Not in One of His Boxes?
I don't know.
It's not something one ever anticipates asking, but what happened AFTER you were murdered?
DRACULA :
Oh, my goodness, that was quick.
WHEEZES AND GASPS
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny...
Usually, people have a lie-down first.
GASPS
DRACULA CHUCKLES
You're going to be a lively one, aren't you?
You came back so quickly. That was impressive.
You even have the beginnings of A Will of Your Own.
None of The Others have much beyond hunger, but look at you go!
Well, don't you see?
This changes everything.
Stay. Stay!
You could be My Finest Bride.
The Others just became Beasts, but you've kept Your Spirit.
Johnny, You're Like Me.
I am not like you!
PIERCING SCREAM
SCREAMING CONTINUES
SCREAMING ECHOES
That's everything. That's...
That's all I remember.
But why did he scream? What did you do?
Nothing, I did nothing. I...
I looked at him, and the next thing I remember was that I was here.
Oh, yes, yes, never mind that.
We know what happened next. No, I...
I don't... I don't remember.
The river bore you out to sea, and the fishermen found you, caught in their net.
A drowned man walking and talking arouses a certain amount of curiosity, and you were brought to me, babbling of a girl called Mina whose face you had forgotten and an Evil Count who had stolen Your Soul.
Why was I brought to you?
I am known to have some expertise in the realm of witchcraft and the occult.
You're a nun!
We can discuss my imperfectly suppressed fascination with everything Dark and Evil another time.
For now, we will focus on why Dracula screamed.
HARKER SIGHS
You were facing the sun!
Yes.
I have sought to find God all my life,
and never found a sign of him anywhere.
Why now? Why you? Why him?
I don't understand.
Then, think!
Count Dracula fears the cross.
He fears the symbol of our Lord.
The girl didn't. Never mind the girl. She was nothing.
Dracula, prince among vampires, fears the cross.
Do you understand what that means?
No. Tell me.
God is Real.
God is Real, and I've found him at last.
HARKER :
You have found the Devil.
If it takes the Devil to bring me to my Lord,
then I say, "Bring on the Devil!"
SCOFFS
I don't!
And why not?
God Saved You for A Reason, don't you think?
HARKER :
I'm Not Saved!
I'm Nothing.
Would Mina think that?
HARKER :
If she could see me, yes, she would.
Look at me.
HARKER :
I can't even remember her face.
Yes. I think you have proven that to our satisfaction.
SISTER ANGELA WEEPS
Mr Harker, I apologise for The Deception.
It was necessary she heard The Story from your own lips.
You may have forgotten your fiancee's face...
..but I have not lost you yet.
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