Helen McCrory credited as playing...
Madame Kali
- [Madame Kali threatens the Cut-Wife for protecting Vanessa]
- Madame Kali: You can't protect her forever. And how long can you last? Your bones are brittle. Do you really want this to be your last battle?
- Joan Clayton: It is the only battle.
- [Madame Kali whips the naked Sir Hawkes, to do her bidding and kill the Cut-Wife]
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali quietly whispers] Get on your knees. Do not be ashamed of your desires. There is no pleasure, no degradation, I do not savor. Bow your head. Lower.
- Sir Geoffrey Hawkes: Mmm.
- Madame Kali: [Madame Kali begins to whip] Stop it. I shall tell you when you can speak. Until then you will listen. Mute. Plaything. Toy. Slave. Beast. Fucking. Man. What would your vassals think, seeing you like this? Brought low and servile. Would they laugh? I think they would. So weak. Letting your cattle die, letting your estate die, while that old woman laughs at you. Can you hear her laughing? I can. Such a superstitious lot, your neighbors. Those thick tenants working your land with their hands in shit up to their elbows. But they can be led. And they can kneel, too. They were born to it.