The Strain (TV Series)

Night Zero (2014)

David Bradley: Abraham Setrakian

Quotes 

• Abraham Setrakian : Love, you see, is the one force that cannot be explained, that cannot be broken down to a chemical process. It is the beacon that guides us back home when no one is there, and the light that illuminates our loss. Its absence robs us all pleasure of our capacity for joy. It makes our nights darker and days gloomier. But when we find love no matter how wrong, how sad, or how terrible we cling to it, it gives us our strength, it holds us upright. It feeds on us and we feed on it. Love is our grace. Love is our downfall.

• Abraham Setrakian : Listen very carefully, son! I know your little friend has a gun and the hammer is cocked, but I don't care. I can control your entire body weight from this pressure point and this knife is pointing straight at your radial artery. By the time he clears his coat pocket, your artery will be punctured and sliced wide open from top to bottom. You fall down bleeding, I go under the counter and your friend starts shooting at an empty space. I can guarantee you this, you will bleed out before the 911 operator answers the phone. That is option one. Option two is you release the bills, your friend gives me the gun - he can keep the bullets, I don't care - and you leave this store. Now, son... you have a choice.

• Abraham Setrakian : He's back. I... I don't know if I have the strength to do it all over again. This time, I cannot fail.

• [the heart in Setrakian's jar twitches] 

  Abraham Setrakian : Feeling hungry?

  [He opens the jar, pricks his finger, and drips blood into the serum. Half a dozen blood worms emerge from the heart to feed] 

  Abraham Setrakian : Enjoy, dear.