Gene Hunt quotes from Ashes to Ashes

Gene Hunt

A quick reminder, Drakey. I am one of the good guys and you are on my side.

Alex Drake

This will never be my side.

Alex Drake

You're playing with them.

Gene Hunt

No, that's just the way I'm standing.

Gene Hunt

But we've got even bigger fish to fry in this hornet's nest. We only have one stab at it otherwise it'll be like rats leaving a sinking ship.

Alex Drake

Metaphors- all over the shop.

Gene Hunt

I know. Clever, innit?

Alex Drake

Guv. Do you think if I've saved some lives, that means I'm worth saving?

Gene Hunt

If you say so. Now get your boney arse back here.

I can feel something from you, Alex. A sadness. You're physically present, but really, you're elsewhere.

Alex Drake

Elsewhere?

I understand, because I am too. I'm playing the piano. Same piece, over and over and over again, until it's perfect.

Alex Drake

You know, you sound to me like someone who wants to live.

Everyone wants to live, Alex. But who are we to decide who's worth being saved?

Gene Hunt

Who did this?

Gene Hunt

WHO DID THIS?!

We have enslaved the rest of creation.

Gene Hunt

You should be in Broadmoor!

Viv James

There's some vegetarians waiting to be interviewed.

Gene Hunt

Right, force-feed them some oxtail soup 'til I get back.

Alex Drake

What do you do for a hobby, Mr Jarvis?

I don't follow you.

Alex Drake

Collect rare stamps?

Gene Hunt

Or fishing tackle?

Alex Drake

Or garden gnomes?

Gene Hunt

Or young virgins straight from the coach station?

Gene Hunt

Bolls, don't cry. That's an order.

Alex Drake

I'm not.

Gene Hunt

Now if you don't stop crying, I might even start feeling sorry for you. And God forbid, I might even have to put a comforting arm around you.

Alex Drake

If I may paraphrase Dorothy Parker, I don't think we should put all our eggs in one bastard.

Gene Hunt

What other bastard have we got?

Not until you call me by my name....GAYNOR!

Gene Hunt

I'll call you what I damn well want you gender bender, wierdy beardy, freak of nature. (Gaynor knees Gene in the balls)

Chris Skelton

Think he drowned, then?

Gene Hunt

No, Christopher. I think he tried to drink the entire river for a bet and failed!

Gene Hunt

What's that?

Chris Skelton

Warrant card. I wish to offer my resignation from the force with immediate effect.

Gene Hunt

No.

Chris Skelton

What?

Gene Hunt

No, you don't get off that easy. I want you to stay a copper. And know every second, of every minute, of every day, the true depth of your full betrayal of the force. Of Shaz. Ray. Yourself. Jail isn't your sentence, Chris. I am.

Alex Drake

I have to stop this infection. Time's running out for me, Guv.

Gene Hunt

Yeah, and time's running out for moi.

Alex Drake

That's French.

Gene Hunt

Sorry, I'm under pressure.

Alex Drake

[on the tape] Why have I pitched up in his world? Any minute now I could be dead. And if he finds me out, what would he do? What would he do if he knew the truth? I have to fight. I have to fight him, but... What does Gene Hunt represent? I- Oh God, I've got to get out of here. I have to get away from him. I hate this place. Maybe Summers can help, but Hunt must never know-

Alex Drake

Tiny doesn't know anything about King Dong, but he's scared, Guv. He says the rot runs right to the top and they are everywhere. "Trust no-one."

Gene Hunt

Yeah, trust. Tricky thing to come by. Why am I a threat to you?

Alex Drake

I don't follow.

Alex Drake

Where the hell did you get that?

Gene Hunt

It was on my desk.

Alex Drake

...He left it for you, didn't he?

Gene Hunt

And who would that be?

Alex Drake

It's very complicated, Guv. It's- it's very difficult to explain.

Gene Hunt

What, you- you analysing yourself now? You love it, don't you? The sound of your own voice. Is that what you do of a night? Sit at home talking into a machine, working out ways of bringing me down?

Alex Drake

No. No, you have to believe I'm on your side.

Gene Hunt

Oh, I want to believe you. But you've got to tell me the God's honest truth about yourself, Drake.

Alex Drake

Time's running out for me here-

Gene Hunt

Yes, it is. You know, I look around, I see Chris taking bungs, the grave of my old boss, bent as a farthing, and I, erm... I feel adrift. You talk to me, Alex. If I mean anything to you at all.

Alex Drake

I'm from the future. I was shot. And I woke up here, with you. Just like Sam Tyler, only... only this is my reality. And I'm fighting not to die because if I die, I will never get home, and it's insane but there it is. And I trust you, which is why I'm telling you the truth.

Alex Drake

Guv?

Gene Hunt

You know, I ask for the truth, and you piss in my face.

Alex Drake

No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Please, please don't do this. I'm telling you the truth. I thought it was all in my head, but Summers, Summers is here too and- and he's from the future and I saw him, I saw him. He shot his younger self. He's behind Operation Rose and I- I don't know why, but I do know that I have to stop him.

Gene Hunt

Get out of my sight, Inspector.

Gene Hunt

You like Westerns?

Love them.

Gene Hunt

Wayne, Stewart, Cooper or Eastwood? It's important.

Wayne for the machismo. Stewart for the warmth. Cooper for the romance. Eastwood for the mystery.

Gene Hunt

Above all?

Gary Cooper.

Gene Hunt

Me too.

Not for the romance.

Gene Hunt

No, not for the romance.

Not against a bit of romance though, are you?