Penny Dreadful2014

[Victor Frankenstein and Ferdinand discuss what love is]

Dr. Victor Frankenstein:
What is love but a kind of creature awaiting to be undone? A malady. What does it bring any of us but... confusion and bedevilment? The Egyptians were hardly unique in that.

Ferdinand Lyle:
Yes, but to them it was quite literal. They called it the Scorpion's sting, a kind of eternal infection that had no end, not in time or death. The Gods Amunet and Amun-Ra were immortal and their love was without end as well. According to the myth, if they were to become conjoined, 'All light would end and the world would live in darkness. The Hidden Ones would emerge and rule.'