Life on Mars quotes
179 total quotesSam Tyler: Roger Twilling, 44 years old, successful businessman, very popular in the business community, gives a lot to charity.
Gene Hunt: I hate people who give to charity.
Gene Hunt: I hate people who give to charity.
Sam Tyler: Superior?! You're not superior to an amoeba with special needs..
[Interviewing Layla at the station]
[Interviewing Layla at the station]
Sam Tyler: There was a power cut.
Gene Hunt: Thank God for OPEC.
Sam Tyler: Where's Annie? She was with me when I got hit over the head. And we just picked up Ravi.
Phyllis: [On radio] DS Carling? Come in. Over.
Ray Carling: [On radio, in distance] Yeah, what do you want?
Gene Hunt: If Annie dies, this will be down to you. Should have left that bloody iron on you.
Ray Carling: [On radio] Right, OK. [To Gene, Sam and Chris] Toolbox has picked up Ravi.
Sam Tyler: With Annie?
Ray Carling: No.
Chris Skelton: Maybe if we erm, we, we...
Gene Hunt: Oh shut up, you bloody big waste of space. Ray take Noddy here and check out Annie's flat. [To Sam] You come with me.
[Catching White Supremacist after throwing brick through a window]
Gene Hunt: Thank God for OPEC.
Sam Tyler: Where's Annie? She was with me when I got hit over the head. And we just picked up Ravi.
Phyllis: [On radio] DS Carling? Come in. Over.
Ray Carling: [On radio, in distance] Yeah, what do you want?
Gene Hunt: If Annie dies, this will be down to you. Should have left that bloody iron on you.
Ray Carling: [On radio] Right, OK. [To Gene, Sam and Chris] Toolbox has picked up Ravi.
Sam Tyler: With Annie?
Ray Carling: No.
Chris Skelton: Maybe if we erm, we, we...
Gene Hunt: Oh shut up, you bloody big waste of space. Ray take Noddy here and check out Annie's flat. [To Sam] You come with me.
[Catching White Supremacist after throwing brick through a window]
Sam Tyler: This place is like Guantanamo Bay.
Gene Hunt: Give over, it's nothing like Spain.
Gene Hunt: Give over, it's nothing like Spain.
Sam Tyler: Tung oil? Is that used on engines? I thought it was for wood.
Gene Hunt: Wood?
Sam Tyler: Yeah, it's a lacquer. For tables, floors.
Gene Hunt: Or a wooden gym floor?
Sam Tyler: Didn't Lamb's statement say he was cleaning gym equipment as Charley was leaving that night? 'I just wanted them to stop screaming' he kept saying that, Lamb about his family being kidnapped. 'I just wanted them to stop screaming.'
[A young girl passes by, ringing the bicycle bell. Simon Lamb stares at her, while Gene and Sam looks at his reaction. Simon pauses for a moment than turns around. Gene and Sam walk over to Simon Lamb, holding their badges out.]
Gene Hunt Mr Lamb? Just a moment sir.
Gene Hunt: Wood?
Sam Tyler: Yeah, it's a lacquer. For tables, floors.
Gene Hunt: Or a wooden gym floor?
Sam Tyler: Didn't Lamb's statement say he was cleaning gym equipment as Charley was leaving that night? 'I just wanted them to stop screaming' he kept saying that, Lamb about his family being kidnapped. 'I just wanted them to stop screaming.'
[A young girl passes by, ringing the bicycle bell. Simon Lamb stares at her, while Gene and Sam looks at his reaction. Simon pauses for a moment than turns around. Gene and Sam walk over to Simon Lamb, holding their badges out.]
Gene Hunt Mr Lamb? Just a moment sir.
Sam Tyler: We havent got any plates.
Gene Hunt: Improvise!
[a little while later]
Gene Hunt: Improvise!
[a little while later]
Sam Tyler: We need an inner cordon as well as this one. Think of it as two circles, one inside the other. The area in the centre is out of limits to everybody but us.
Gene Hunt: Fair enough.
Sam Tyler: Call it the doughnut.
Gene Hunt: Jam or custard?
Sam Tyler: Now you're just being silly.
Gene Hunt: I'm not the one calling it a doughnut
Gene Hunt: Fair enough.
Sam Tyler: Call it the doughnut.
Gene Hunt: Jam or custard?
Sam Tyler: Now you're just being silly.
Gene Hunt: I'm not the one calling it a doughnut
Sam Tyler: We pull him in, we put the squeeze on him. Why is that so hard for you to agree to?
Gene Hunt: Because I am policing in the full glare of the public bloody eye, and the Chief Super is taking a personal interest and we also have no flipping evidence! And I can't believe I just said that!
Gene Hunt: Because I am policing in the full glare of the public bloody eye, and the Chief Super is taking a personal interest and we also have no flipping evidence! And I can't believe I just said that!
Sam Tyler: You all right? Did they hurt you?
Annie Cartwright: I've got a bit of a headache but I'm still here aren't I?
[After Gene Hunt roughs up a local drug dealer]
Annie Cartwright: I've got a bit of a headache but I'm still here aren't I?
[After Gene Hunt roughs up a local drug dealer]
Superintendent Harry Wolfe: I'm saying it to all divisions; city needs to feel safe, Gene. Point is, this is under the glare, so let's make it clean and let's make it count, yes?
Sam Tyler: Would that be... 'by the book', sir?
Superintendent Harry Wolfe: Yes, that's it - by the jolly old book.
Sam Tyler: [To Gene, smugly] Let's get this party started.
Sam Tyler: Would that be... 'by the book', sir?
Superintendent Harry Wolfe: Yes, that's it - by the jolly old book.
Sam Tyler: [To Gene, smugly] Let's get this party started.