Showtime’s Penny Dreadful aired it’s third episode, “Resurrection,” tonight and this show keeps getting more intense each week!

Romance Everlasting

In a flashback, young Victor found his dog dead in a field, and he asks his mother if death is as serene as it is in poetry. He’s cuddling with his mother when she starts coughing up blood, and as he watches her suffer through the doorway of her bedroom, he realizes death is not serene. This is when he starts studying about death.

Back in present day, Proteus’ murderer tells him he will find him again no matter what. In a flashback, the new man explains how he was born in pure agony. Victor watches as his first and new creation writhed in pain, screaming and grabbing at him. Victor fled the scene, causing the creature to feel abandoned. He lived upstairs in Victor’s laboratory, and learned about the world from the window and learned how to read.

He explains that when he was trying to find Victor again he was beat up by several men for no reason, but another man comes to help him and offers him dinner. He explains that there is a place where the malformed can find grace, and tells him it is the theatre. He takes him to see Sweeney Todd rehearsing, and gives him a job to help them with the machinery and a place to stay. When he asks for the creature’s name, and when he doesn’t respond, the theater man names him Caliban.

Caliban takes Victor on a walk to show him what he wants and explains that he learned a lot from the world. Victor calls him a demon, and doesn’t wish to look at him. But Caliban asks him for a companion. He wants love. If Victor doesn’t do so, then Caliban will hurt everyone he loves.

The Hunt for Mina

Vanessa is at home getting tea when she has a vision of Mina, stating she is surrounded by beasts that feed at night and they are hungry. Malcolm is studying a map trying to find out where Mina was talking about when Ethan comes in looking for more work. He asks what happened to Mina, and she explains that she was engaged but started seeing a man, a darker man, and ever since she’s been in between his world and this one.

They believe Mina to be somewhere near the zoo, so that’s where they’re off to go. While they’re there, they find a bunch of wolves who look like they’re going to attack, but Ethan tells everyone not to move and one of the wolves just walks right by them. Ethan then reaches his hand forward, and a wolf approaches but does not attack, but instead walks away. They continue to find a teenager mutant eating a rodent, and decide to bring him back to his place and chain him up.

They ask him where his master is, and he says he’s right behind them in the dark but there is no one. He starts to say the same things that Vanessa said when she was possessed by Amonet, but Malcolm starts beating him. Ethan doesn’t like that they are beating a child when Victor arrives and he says he thinks he could try to find a cure for his affliction. Ethan doesn’t like that they’re experimenting on a child either, but Vanessa explains that is what they must do and he agrees to stay.

Brona and Ethan are having sex and first they were going all hard and fast like, well, a Showtime show, when suddenly he slows down and it starts getting all romantic like. This time Brona doesn’t cough up on him during sex, but rather after and in a scarf instead. Ethan asks if she has medicine, but she doesn’t. When planning his next move with Vanessa, he tells her where he’s staying and she realizes he must be there because of a girl. It’s kind of adorable.