The Limehouse Golem (2016)

Bill Nighy: John Kildare

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• John Kildare : [Reading a bloody writing in Latin on a wall at the scene of a heinous crime]  "He who observes spills no less blood than he who inflicts the blow." Lactantius

  George Flood : Impressive, sir.

  John Kildare : The truth has a habit of sticking in the mind.

  George Flood : Truth?

  John Kildare : Those who fail to prevent injustice are as guilty as the perpetrator. It's a message... to us.

• John Kildare : Why would anybody be surprised? The world is full of men like you, Mr Gissing.

  George Gissing : I beg your pardon?

  John Kildare : Men who feign generosity when what they really seek is congratulation. Men who play God by saving lives. Is it really so different, I wonder, from playing God by taking them?

• George Flood : What are you looking for?

  John Kildare : I'm just looking. Trying to understand.

  George Flood : The Golem's a madman. What else is there to be understood?

  John Kildare : Even madness has its own logic. Here, there's none.

• Lizzie Cree : I suppose you are here to chastise me for my candour in court?

  John Kildare : On the contrary, I applaud you for it. It's all too easy to imagine that those who have enjoyed success have never known suffering.

• John Kildare : The Yard is setting me up as a scapegoat. They'll not risk Roberts, will they. I'm expendable. They get to preserve the reputation of their golden boy and the public... get blood.

• John Kildare : "He who spectates." He doesn't mean us, he means the public. The public want blood. The Golem provides it.

• John Kildare : Wasting my time could cost lives.

• George Flood : At least up there we can keep the hoi polloi out. Down here it's a lost cause.

  John Kildare : They can't all be reporters.

  George Flood : Oh, no. Locals looking for entertainment. Cheaper than a ticket to a shocker.

• John Kildare : [is reading in Cree's diary] 

  John Cree : [voice over]  I took out her eyes in case my image had been imprinted upon them. And washed the blood from my hands with the gin in her chamber pot. My first performance... was complete.

• George Flood : Golem suspect who is alive. That would be bad news.

  John Kildare : For his next victim, certainly.