Mr. Wickham: "The crown's funds are being drained."
Mr. Darcy: "You're here to solicit money."
Mr. Wickham: "I'm here to propose a venture that would end the war forever. These new zombies can be reasoned with. With the proper funding I believe we can cultivate trust and even good will with this new iteration of the undead, who seem to posses an inherent power of the lower ranks of their kind."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "Zombie aristocrats."
Parson Collins: "Oh, yeah."
Mr. Wickham: "I prefer to think of them as souls lost in purgatory."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "Hmm."
Mr. Wickham: "The common hordes look to them for leadership. It takes just one of them to realize that power and then to lead the hordes into battle."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "The undead are like locusts."
Parson Collins: "Locusts."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "They go forth and destroy. They have no use for leaders."
Parson Collins: "Oh, uh, except one actually."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "Hm?"
Parson Collins: "Oh, well, um, according to the Book of Revelation the antichrist shall lead the undead, uh, on the day that shall be the last day of mankind."
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: "So cheery, Collins."
Parson Collins: "Thank you, Lady Catherine, very generous. Franklin, are there more scones?"