Whether it is the power of the words, or the delivery, or the moment, or a mixture of all three, in your opinion ........

What is Damien's Best Hal Speech?

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In case you need a little reminder, each speech is given in full below.

(Some of these are more longer quotes than speeches, but deserve to be here.)

1. ‘I have been so many people since then’ - Hal’s Prequel

Writer: Toby Whithouse

“I was born in a brothel, I don't even know which of the six illiterate whores was my mother but when, one by one, each of them were lost to disease or violence, I mourned them, and they were my blood, I ran away to sea, ended up in Gdansk, fell into the Battle of Orsha, ended up on the wrong side of a Muscovite lance.. by the time I was a young man I'd seen every dark corner of the human heart, so when the army surgeon offered me eternal life in return for what little god had left me of my soul, I accepted, not because I feared death, but because I could think of nothing that deserved my loyalty any more. I have been so many people since then, some kind, some cruel.. they take their turns to claw their way to the surface”

2. 'Not a Man Of God' BH4 Ep 2 -'1955'

Writer: Lisa McGee

“Right now your heart feels like it’s swollen, it’s beating so fast that your worried it might burst through your chest, your body’s weighted, like you’ve been welded to the spot you stand in. Your hands are sweating, spasming and you don’t know if you are going to be able to hold on to that thing for much longer, let alone fire it. But all this is perfectly normal because you see everything in your body is telling you to fight this – killing is the most difficult thing in the world, which is why when you actually do it there’s nothing more exhilarating, you play god, and it makes you feel powerful, invincible…. that feeing doesn’t last, soon you realise that even if you get away with it, you never really get away with it..you think you’ll walk away from something like this unscathed but it’s impossible, it all clings to you – the mess you made of him the scars you placed on him, the blood you bathed him in, sticks to you, it stains you – do this and it won’t be the last time you see his face, you’ll see him first thing in the morning and last thing at night and he’ll be with you while you dream. You end his life and he’ll invade yours.”’

3. ‘I cannot sleep in a barn’ BH4 Ep3 - The Graveyard Shift

Writer: Jamie Mathieson

I cannot sleep in a barn, or a tent or a caravan or anywhere without central heating, carpets and radio 4. That should be on my list, really it should, you make me do that I won’t be responsible for my actions”

4. ‘And I had a shield, a red one...’ BH4 ep3 - The Graveyard Shift

Writer: Jamie Mathieson

“I used to ride a horse once.. I had a sword, I was respected, better than that, I was feared. Peasants had their backs flayed for looking at me funny. It was brutal but it worked, we had order, we had respect, and now we have this? And I had a shield, a red one”

5. ‘It's not dissatisfaction..’  BH4 Ep7 – Making History

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

"It’s not dissatisfaction, it’s a feeling more akin to having been born in captivity..the seeping realisation that your dreams and ambitions are just too big, too rich for this domestic world”

6. ‘Raid the dressing up box’ BH4 Ep7 – Making History

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

“We can raid the dressing up box and pretend to be human, but ultimately what’s the point, sooner or later we all go back to being the monsters we truly are”

7. 'Overture to Catastrophe'  BH5 Ep1  - The Trinity

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

“drinking blood means I have become  the man I fear..drinking blood is the overture to greater catastrophe”

8. 'one word’ BH5 Ep1  - The Trinity

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

“your body is going through an extraordinary transformation, one I went through many years ago. You feel nauseous because your blood pressure has dropped. Your heart rate’s about 1 beat per minute now, but you won’t die, because your healing process has got spectacularly fast…Yes but you don’t want water, all you’ve been able to think about since you awoke, is one word, but you don’t know why, if I told you there was some underneath this floor, you’d dig through the concrete with your fingers, accept it and I can help you, but you have to say it”

9. 'grab your coat Ian’  BH5 Ep1  - The Trinity

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

 “500 years of murder and torment, round and round we go…evil doesn’t die, it just passes like a parcel, from year to year, from body to body… And I survive, I live on, while good people die around me, heroes die.. grab your coat Ian, we’re leaving, because I’ve seen how this ends”

10. 'You are nothing to me now' BH5 Ep2 - Sticks and Rope

Writer: Daragh Carville

"You stay away because I will kill you, there is so much more at stake than you, you are nothing to me, now, you are nothing to me now you are sediment , you are detritus, you are regret and disgust, and nothing more, stay away! I have killed men and women and children just think how easy it will be to kill you."

11. 'A monster inside you' ('Tent' speech) BH5 Ep3 - Pie and Prejudice

Writer: Jamie Mathieson

“Let’s say that’s true, no, let’s say you have a monster inside you, all the time, pulling at your strings, tormenting you, itching to see you fail, well join the club, come on in because if you do, if all of that is true, then this is where you prove your worth, by fighting it, by defying it, by proving it wrong, by standing toe to toe with it every day and spitting in its face”

12. ‘Sylvie’ monologue  BH5 Ep4 - The Greater Good

Writer: John Jackson

“ I always have a rough idea of when am about to… revert, but this time, he came from nowhere, I was out riding when suddenly I decided to turn my horse round ride back to the house and kill everyone inside it, as if I was deciding to change into a warmer coat. I worked my way up from the kitchens and found her sitting on our bed, she didn’t look frightened, or even surprised, just disappointed. She told me not to blame myself, she said it was stupid of her to think she could change me. I agreed, then laughed”

13. ‘Take a good look boy’ BH5 Ep4 - The Greater Good

Writer: John Jackson

"Crumb,  your face.  You thought you'd lost your reflection didn’t you.  Well take a good look boy, this is you,  This is us.  We're not cursed, we are the curse....You might get 10, 20, or even 50 years if you're lucky, or stupid enough to try.  But it won't last. It will find you, it will always finds you."

14. ‘board up the windows’ BH5 Ep5 – No Care, All Responsibility

Writer: Sarah Dollard

“Last time I went cold turkey Leo had to board up the windows. I couldn’t look out at people in the street without seeing the veins beneath their skin. I saw veins and I saw an end to it, an end to the pain. Leo kept the boards on the windows for two years. Just in case”

15. ‘the desire to be human’ BH5 Ep6 – The Last Broadcast

Writer:  Toby Whithouse

“I'm not a part of this little experiment anymore, which grants me a clarity...Annie, George, Mitchell, Nina, the two of you, what none of you realized…what none of us realized; Is the desire to be human is the end, not the beginning. To want it is to have it. You’re not wasting your time Tom, you’ve already won.”