Torchwood (TV Series)

Greeks Bearing Gifts (2006)

Burn Gorman: Owen Harper

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Quotes 

• Owen Harper : [Gestures to a hole in a skeleton's rib cage]  That remind you of anything?

  Toshiko Sato : Um, that bit in _Alien_ where that thing bursts out of John Hurt?

  Owen Harper : Mmm, I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. Does that remind you of anything helpful?

• Gwen Cooper : Amanda Burton here has just finished the postmortem.

  Owen Harper : Okay, I can explain.

  Gwen Cooper : [cutting Owen off]  As you may remember, Owen said said this was a woman killed by a single gunshot.

  Owen Harper : I'd have been there in like a minute.

  Gwen Cooper : Since then he has had to tweak some of his initial conclusions. The first being that this is not, in fact, a woman, but a man!

  Owen Harper : A young man. A very girly man!

  Gwen Cooper : But still, ultimately, a man. Then there was the cause of death. Owen said, GSW.

  [makes a buzzer sound] 

  Gwen Cooper : The correct answer was...

  Owen Harper : Unidentified trauma, but...

  Toshiko Sato : Unidentified trauma?

  Gwen Cooper : You see it in RTAs, when something like a post or steering column goes into the body at high velocity. However, the one thing that could be ruled out was...

  Owen Harper : [sighing heavily]  Gunshot wound.

  Gwen Cooper : [smacking the railing with delight]  Gunshot wound! So tell me, was there any part of your prognosis that was correct?

  Owen Harper : I got that it was a... skeleton.

  Gwen Cooper : [pointing dramatically]  Yes you did! Yes you did!

  Owen Harper : [as Tosh and Jack walk away]  You've just passed the point of no return.

  Gwen Cooper : [talking over Owen]  Where did you train? Where did you train?

  Owen Harper : I trained at...

  Gwen Cooper : Did you train?

  Owen Harper : Look...

  Gwen Cooper : [off-screen as Jack and Tosh enter another room]  Absolutely useless.

• Owen Harper : D'you know what, Tosh? Sometimes I think even that stick up your arse has a stick up it's arse.

• Owen Harper : So, I started looking into devil worship and stuff from that era, see if there's anything about plucking out hearts, and would you believe it, there's nothing. They ate eyeballs, they drank blood, they had sex with animals, but they did not pluck out each others' hearts, because obviously that would have been weird.

• Owen Harper : Do me a favor. Just go over there, do your computer thing, and think about shoes? Thank you.

• [the Torchwood team is investigating a 100+ year old murder victim] 

  Captain Jack Harkness : How's our friend there?

  Owen Harper : She's dead.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah, thanks, Quincy.