Life on Mars quotes

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Sam Tyler: It's called surveillance.
Gene Hunt: Doesn't sound very manly.

Sam Tyler: Look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But, I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Just like you always say, "go with your gut feeling". Just taking your lead.
Gene Hunt: So I'm right?
Sam Tyler: We both are.
Gene Hunt: Right.
Sam Tyler: Right.
Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you.

Sam Tyler: Maybe the NF shot him, left the heroin there, to make him look bad.
Gene Hunt: The NF are too stupid for that. They could stick a shotgun up my arse and pull the trigger, they'd still miss!
Sam Tyler: I'd still like to explore the racially motivated line of enquiry.
Gene Hunt: And I'd like my boot to explore your jacksie, come on Tyler, where's the evidence you're so fond of?

Sam Tyler: Oh, you're gonna bang heads? Let joy be unconfined.

Sam 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.

Sam Tyler: Superior?! You're not superior to an amoeba with special needs..
[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]

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.

Sam Tyler: We are the law, you bloody clowns! God help us!

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!

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]

Superintendent Harry Wolfe: He would be my nemesis, if he could spell it!

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.

White Supremacist: What you doing, mate? You're one of us.
Sam Tyler: What, a dyslexic, racist moron?
[Finding Annie]

(Gene Hunt barges into Tyler's sting operation, with a woman in tow)
Roger Twilling: Tony, who is this man?
Sam Tyler: This is... This is my friend, Gordon. Gordon Brown. And his wife... Uh...