Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #1.4 (2006)

John Simm: DI Sam Tyler

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Quotes 

• Gene : It's a horrible concept, ain't it? Huge psychotic hippies fencing stolen tellies.

  Sam Tyler : This has nothing to do with me.

  Gene : Oh, stop being such a girl. Think of it as a tax on bad people.

  Nelson : What is that, mon brave?

  Gene : It's a television.

  Nelson : In a pub?

  Gene : Yeah, ask the boy wonder here.

  Sam Tyler : It's nothing to do with me.

  Gene : Tell him what you told me.

  Sam Tyler : I can make some brackets, I can put it on the wall, and watch the sports.

  Nelson : In a pub?

• Gene Hunt : You think you know everything, don't you?

  Sam Tyler : I know the stench of rotten apples.

  Gene Hunt : Yeah? And I know your slag is lying through her teeth, and do you wanna know why?

  Sam Tyler : Yeah, why?

  Gene Hunt : Because Stephen Warren is a bum bandit. D'you understand? A poof. A fairy. A queer. A queen. Fudge packer. Uphill gardener. Fruit picking sodomite.

  Sam Tyler : He's gay?

  Gene Hunt : As a bloody Christmas tree! Mind you, he is a little touchy on the subject, being a twisted Catholic with an elderly mother and all, so I wouldn't go mentioning it to him... You challenged his authority so he stitched you up like a kipper. Pretty girl appealed to your vanity as the only decent sheriff in Dodge City. Slipped you a Mickey, tied you up and bounced on your ding-a-ling.

  Sam Tyler : Why?

  Gene Hunt : I suspect the answer will lie in the post. Photos, you idiot.

• Gene Hunt : A month later I took my first back hander.

  Sam Tyler : How did it make you feel?

  Gene Hunt : Like shit.

  Sam Tyler : How do you feel now?

  Gene Hunt : I try not to think about it. I do the best that I can, to take care of my men and the people in my city.

  Sam Tyler : But when you do think about it, how does it make you feel?

  Gene Hunt : Like there's an animal eating away at me insides.

  Sam Tyler : Fancy doing something about it?

  Gene Hunt : Thought you'd never ask.

• Gene Hunt : How did you know Red Rum was gonna win the national?

  Sam Tyler : Just a hunch.

  Gene Hunt : No inside information? No tip off from someone in the racing fraternity?

  Sam Tyler : I wouldn't do that would I?

  Gene Hunt : I didn't think you'd lock a murder suspect in a giant fridge.

  Sam Tyler : He wouldn't answer my question.

• Sam Tyler : [after unwittingly taking a bribe]  I've always despised bent cops.

• Gene Hunt : [the Sweet is playing loudly in a club]  Do you like this music?

  Sam Tyler : Yeah, I do, don't you?

  Gene Hunt : It's just a lot a noise, really. Me and the wife like, eh, Roger Whitaker. Well, lot more her than me. D'ya know him?

  Sam Tyler : Not intimately.

  Gene Hunt : Keep it to yourself. We all have our dirty little secrets.

  Sam Tyler : Indeed we do.