A character in Ashes to Ashes
Played by Philip Glenister
Ashes to Ashes · 180 quotes
Most-quoted character in Ashes to Ashes: in 137 of its 180 quotes
Most scenes with: Alex Drake (64), Chris Skelton (18), DS Ray Carling (15)
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 HuntYou're pissed.
And you... are a bloody figment.
Gene HuntYou're very pissed.
I'm going to be sick.
Gene HuntDoesn't surprise me.
I was supposed to go HOME!
Gene HuntYour presence is required here a little bit longer... by me.
Will you just shut up and listen to me! This is my bloody fantasy, and I will be listened to!
Gene HuntExcuse my colleague. Education of a toff, manners of a sewer rat.
A real, living, breathing Thatcherite businessman. How completely brilliant.
Gene HuntPersonal friend of the Great Handbag herself, so try and behave.
I promise not to twang his red braces.
[the elevator doors open, revealing Danny Moore; Alex's eyes widen.]
... more than once.
Gene HuntWe found a small amount of explosives on land near the Royal Docks.
Well, technically a small dog found it. He's an even smaller dog now.
Please?
Gene HuntNo.
I'll let you stamp my bum.
Gene HuntI'll get my coat.
Gene HuntDI Bollyknickers, you appear to be drunk in charge of a handbag and dressed like a tart again.
Oh, piss off, you lardy fascist!
Gene HuntWe'll make a copper of you yet.
[Chris is eating a kebab]
Steady on, Guv! Nearly lost me breakfast then!
Gene HuntWhat is that?
It's a kebab.
Gene HuntLooks like a bloody pasty with its arse hanging out!
I am the vine! You are the branches! John, Chapter 15, Verse 5!
Gene HuntYou're nicked for the murder of Delphine Parks, the rape and attempted murder of Nina Akiboa. Anything you say will be taken down, ripped up and shoved down your scrawny little throat until you're choked to death. Gene Hunt, Chapter 1, Verse 2.
When they say it's difficult for rape victims to be believed, I wonder why?
Gene HuntShe gets paid for having sex.
It's not about sex, is it? It's about control, and power, and revenge.
Gene HuntMaybe tell me about it some other time, like when I'm in a coma, or when I'm dead.
To the interview room? Where's the rape suite?
Gene HuntRape suite? Is that with or without a minibar?
This requires a cognitive interview procedure.
Gene HuntWe're fresh out of cognitives. What say we just talk to her?
I don't think she'll open up with a man present.
Gene HuntPlenty of women have opened up to me without so much as a shandy down their necks.
[After Alex enters Gene's office, having spent the night drinking and having sex, following a failed attempt at seduction on Gene]
Gene HuntI am trying to help you here!
Well I don't need your help! Their archaic attitude is their problem, not mine!
Gene HuntWrong. It's my problem. To keep this department running smoothly, I need their respect, which I've got. They look up to me, they should be looking up to you and all!
What do you want me to do, morph into a nun!? IT'S NOT LIKE I'VE SHAGGED AN ENTIRE RUGBY TEAM, IS IT!?
[outside] I'll bet she has. [the rest of CID laugh]
It's your fault, anyway!
Gene HuntHow is it my fault!?
Because you left me on my own, and I ended up with some Thatcherite wanker!
Gene HuntI told you to go to bed, alone! If you'd listened to me in the first place, we wouldn't be wasting my time, having this ridiculous conversation!
[After Gene questions Alex's insistence on warning prostitutes of a killer on the loose]
The skeleton in the closet. Private education, years at Oxbridge, all counted for nothing really, because I, Alex Drake, was once a prostitute.
Bloody hell!
[chuckles] I knew it!
There, I've said it.
[chortles] Christ on a bike!
That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Gene HuntYou're telling me you lied to get onto the force?
No, actually. What I just told you was a lie. I did it to show you how your preconceptions can inform your judgements about other people, especially prostitutes. Sorry.
Gene HuntYou know, sometime I hate you, Drake.
[chuckles] So I'm not what you'd expect a prostitute to be? If I said I'd been raped, you'd believe me but not someone like Trixie, not a woman like that?
Gene HuntNo, not hate, despise.
Alright, so I'm not a hooker. But if I was, do you know something, Gene? You could never, ever afford me!
Gene HuntYou know, you might talk with a plum in your gob, love, but I would rather go with one of them [gestures to a number of prostitutes in the background] than waste my money on some bitter, twisted, messed-up, clenched-arsed, toffee-nosed bitch like you! [Alex slaps him] You feel better now?
No. [she punches Gene in the mouth] Better now. [to an astounded Chris and Ray] Come on, ladies, what are you waiting for!? Let's get pissed!
You're so naive.
Gene HuntAnd you're pissing me off!
[Alex, Gene, Chris and Ray have walked into a hotel room minutes after Neary has had gay sex. Chris opens up a briefcase that turns out to be full of sex toys. He holds up a dildo and inspects it.]
He must have bloody big ears.
Wrong orifice, Chris. It's a butt plug.
['Chris looks at it, still puzzled.]
Gene HuntIt goes up your arse, Chris!
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