Penny Dreadful2014

[Vanessa and the Cut-Wife discuss the tarot Devil card]

Joan Clayton:
Casting the tarot is a gift. When you know the Arcana, you can hear the echoes of time in your ear.

Vanessa Ives:
And the meaning?

Joan Clayton:
You'll learn. They are never always as they seem.

Vanessa Ives:
The Devil card?

Joan Clayton:
Not always the demon from Hell or the throat slit at midnight. It can mean other things. Tell me what.

Vanessa Ives:
Evil.

Joan Clayton:
Do better!

Vanessa Ives:
[Vanessa pauses to feel the exact emotion] The dark lover approaching, bringing terror. Irresistible. Part of you, but not. The whisper of something ghastly and beautiful.

Joan Clayton:
That's more the feeling.