Castlevania, Season 4

Isaac:
Where is your vampire friend?

Hector:
This structure has a basement; she's down there for the moment.

Isaac:
How is your hand?

Hector:
[lifts his bandaged hand] I may never play the pipe organ again.

Isaac:
[amused] Did you ever?

Hector:
No, but I might've wanted to. [Isaac crosses to the table, where a pitcher of water and a bowl of limes are set] Do we now ride, to aide the return of Dracula?

Isaac:
...No.

Hector:
What?

Isaac:
No.

Hector:
But, that- [clutches his forehead in frustration and confusion] I've been working towards this for weeks!

Isaac:
Of course you have. [fills a cup with water] You feel guilt. You want redemption.

Hector:
I want to mend my mistakes.

Isaac:
...The mistakes, you have suffered for. [Hector sits] That said, Hector, you had no agency in those events. You were manipulated. You were used as a tool for leverage, by those who were truly responsible, for the end of Dracula.

Hector:
You believe that?

Isaac:
I've had a lot of time, to put it all together and think it all over. Do you know... I've even been talking to other people?

Hector:
...Actual living people?

Isaac:
Well... mostly. [slices a lime]

Hector:
[scoffs, looks at Isaac curiously]... You've changed.

Isaac:
I hope so. I believe you have as well. [pause] Let him sleep, Hector. We were both mistreated by the human world. [he squeezes the lime's juice into the water] We were both admirers of Dracula's intellect. We both saw something bigger than ourselves, in him. We both wanted to see the world, punished. [shakes his head] We can do more than that. Dracula earned his rest. We can, and should, move forward. [raises the cup to Hector] What do you want, Hector?

Hector:
[looks down at his maimed hand] ... I want to be left alone. With Lenore. I want to read... and make things, and think. That's... all I really want, now.

Isaac:
Then you shall have it.

Hector:
...What do you want, Isaac?

Isaac:
[drinks] ...I have recently begun to consider the future. Which has been a novelty for me, because I never really thought I had one. This is how they get us, Hector. They convince us that there is no future; there's only an eternal now... and the best we can do, is survive until dawn, and then do it all again. That's no way to live. And I have discovered, to some surprise... that I am interested in living. I am interested in building a way to live. And I think I will start here. I have come to wonder, that perhaps Dracula did not run things well... even before his wife died. He lived in one, long night, and never the future. I think, perhaps, he earned his rest... and that we should not disturb it. I will instead, build something new, on all these old bones. Something where people can live, for a future. [smiles] I'm going to live.