Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #1.8 (2006)

John Simm: DI Sam Tyler

Quotes 

• Ruth Tyler : Inspector... Bolan?

  Sam Tyler : Tyler. We met in connection with a burglary. Uh... I thought it might confuse you if I gave you my real name, so I... adopted a professional alias.

  Gene Hunt : It's not a wind-up love, he really thinks like this.

• [last lines] 

  Ray Carling : So, what do you want to do now, Guv?

  Gene : [thinks for a moment]  Pub!

  Ray Carling : [smirks]  Pub.

  Chris Skelton : [grins]  Pub.

  [Sam looks at the other three men in turn] 

  Sam Tyler : [slowly smiles]  Pub.

  [all get in car and drive off] 

• Gene : I think you have forgotten who you are talking to.

  Sam Tyler : An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.

  Gene : You make that sound like a *bad* thing!

• Gene Hunt : The Morton brothers are funding and distributing hardcore porno.

  Sam Tyler : Hardcore? I've seen worse on Channel Four.

• Gene Hunt : I think you've forgotten who you're talking to.

  Sam Tyler : An overweight, over the hill, nicotine-stained, borderline alcoholic, homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.

  Gene Hunt : You make that sound like a bad thing.