Hellboy2004

John Myers:
[Enters the library] Hello?

[Myers looks around the library until he hears Abe's voice inside the tank.]

Abe Sapien:
Turn the pages, please. If you don't mind.

[Myers stares inside the tank until Abe swims up in front of the glass and presses his hand on it, surprising him.]

Abe Sapien:
Please. [Gestures to the books] The pages.

John Myers:
[Glances at the books, then looks at Abe] These? You're reading these?

Professor Broom:
[From behind Myers] Four books at once– [Myers turns to him] –every day. As long as I'm there to turn the pages. [Approaches Myers] My name's Broom. Professor Trevor Broom.

[Broom and Myers shake hands.]

John Myers:
Sir, I'm John–

Abe Sapien:
[Presses his hand on the glass] Agent John T. Myers, Kansas City, '76. T stands for Thaddeus, mother's older brother. Scar on your chin happened when you were ten. You still wonder if it's ever going to fade away.

John Myers:
[Touches the scar on his chin, to Broom] How did it–?

Professor Broom:
He. [Chuckles] Not 'it'. Abraham Sapien. Discovered alive in a secret chamber of St. Trinian's Foundling Hospital, Washington. His name was taken from his little inscription stuck to the side of his tank. [Points to the small piece of antique paper, framed on the wall, with his cane]

John Myers:
[Reads] "Icthyo Sapiens. April 14, 1865".

Professor Broom:
[Pulls down the bottom of the pneumatic tube] The day that Abraham Lincoln died. Hence "Abe Sapien." [Uses a pair of tongs to pick up two rotten eggs that are on the silver plate]

John Myers:
[Disgusted by the rotten eggs on the silver plate] Ugh.

Professor Broom:
Rotten eggs. [Puts the two rotten eggs in the pneumatic tube, then pushes up the bottom] A delicacy. Abe loves them.

[A vacuum sucks the two eggs into the tank. Abe catches the two eggs and eats them.]

John Myers:
How does he know so much about me?

Professor Broom:
[Turns the pages on the books] Abe possesses a unique frontal lobe. Unique. That's a word you'll hear frequently around here.

John Myers:
Sir, where am I, exactly?

Professor Broom:
As you entered the lobby, there was an inscription: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.