Ashes to Ashes quotes

Gene Hunt

Today, my friend, your diary entry will read: took a prozzie hostage, and was shot by three armed bastards.

Gene Hunt

Blimey, if that skirt was hitched any higher I could see what you had for breakfast. Ray, cuff this nancy berk. Chris, look after the lady. Classiest prozzie I've seen all week!

Alex Drake

[recognising her rescuers] DC Chris Skelton?

Chris Skelton

[surprised] Roger that.

Alex Drake

DS Ray Carling? [Ray, busy beating up a suspect, looks up] Gene Hunt!? [Alex faints in shock]

Gene Hunt

My reputation precedes me!

Gene Hunt

[after rescuing a dazed Alex from being run over] Are you crazy? Do you have any idea how much paperwork there is for suicides?

Alex Drake

[to Gene Hunt] Just look at me! Look at me! I am trained to get inside the criminal mind. And now I'm stuck in my own — with you!

Alex Drake

You're taller than I imagined.

Gene Hunt

I'm bigger in every department.

Alex Drake

[feeling Gene's heart beat] It's beating... that's incredible!

Gene Hunt

[slaps his hand on her breast] Fan-dabi-dozi. Now then, Bollingerknickers? You gonna kiss me? Or punch me?

Gene Hunt

Don't waggle your fingers when you say my name.

Alex Drake

Well, you're not going to keep me here for seven years. I'm going home. I'm going to my little girl's birthday party.

Gene Hunt

You're pissed.

Alex Drake

And you... are a bloody figment.

Gene Hunt

You're very pissed.

Alex Drake

I'm going to be sick.

Gene Hunt

Doesn't surprise me.

Alex Drake

I was supposed to go HOME!

Gene Hunt

Your presence is required here a little bit longer... by me.

Alex Drake

My name is Alex Drake. I've just been shot and that bullet has sent me back to 1981. I may be one second away from life, or one second away from death. They say that as you die your life flashes before you, all those memories and mistakes that form us. Well bring it on, my life can flash away as much as it wants because I'm not going to die. I'm coming back to you Molly.

Alex Drake

Will you just shut up and listen to me! This is my bloody fantasy, and I will be listened to!

Gene Hunt

Excuse my colleague. Education of a toff, manners of a sewer rat.

Gene Hunt

[to Alex Drake] Take that seatbelt off! You're a police officer, not a bloody vicar.

Gene Hunt

Personally I have no desire whatsoever to see your bony, privately-educated bottom, but it's good for morale.

Alex Drake

A real, living, breathing Thatcherite businessman. How completely brilliant.

Gene Hunt

Personal friend of the Great Handbag herself, so try and behave.

Alex

I promise not to twang his red braces.

Alex

... more than once.

Gene Hunt

We found a small amount of explosives on land near the Royal Docks.

Alex Drake

Well, technically a small dog found it. He's an even smaller dog now.