Gene Hunt quotes from Ashes to Ashes

Gene Hunt

So what've you got?

Alex Drake

It's Tzi-Tzi, she seems agitated I think she may have something.

Gene Hunt

Good. Well maybe it's about time she had a chat with her Uncle Gene.

Alex Drake

Go easy on her won't you, she's had a hell of a life.

Gene Hunt

The very thought.

Gene Hunt

Right Zitty your in with me!

Alex Drake

You and I have been through a lot together professionally and you know... in other ways.

Gene Hunt

Come on, spit it out, Bolls.

Alex Drake

Let’s have dinner together. Tonight.

Gene Hunt

Why?

Alex Drake

Because I’ve got a feeling we won’t get many more opportunities, that’s why.

Gene Hunt

What, you mean a date?

Alex Drake

Yeah, I suppose so.

Gene Hunt

Alright, you’re on. But I have to warn you Bolly, first date, upstairs outside only.

Jim Keats

Do you realise how serious this is?

Gene Hunt

Yes I do. This is gonna be one hell of a last chapter, hey Jim?

Luigi

Mr. Hunt. Always a pleasure to see you.

Gene Hunt

Yes, well the pleasure is all yours, Luigi.

Luigi

Mr. Hunt is on a date?

Gene Hunt

I am not on a date! I am meeting a colleague for a meal and a professional chat.

Luigi

Well, I know enough about restaurants and men to know a date when I see one.

Gene Hunt

And I know enough about Italians and vats of boiling cooking oil.

Gene Hunt

You scrub up well Bolls.

Alex Drake

Thank you. You don’t look so bad yourself.

Alex Drake

Have you noticed the strange atmosphere in CID?

Gene Hunt

It’s Viv. They all miss him. He was the quiet one that held everything together, the wheel at the centre.

Alex Drake

And now the spokes have fallen off.

Gene Hunt

Blimey, it’s like being on a date with Leonard Cohen.

Gene Hunt

Go on, say it?

Alex Drake

Say what?

Gene Hunt

Alex, there's an elephant in the room. Let’s get it out the way, hey?

Alex Drake

Alright. [Pause] Did you or did you not kill Sam Tyler?

Gene Hunt

Sam Tyler was a friend of mine. Bloody irritating friend most of the time, it has to be said, [Pause] but I learnt more from him than from anybody else I have ever met. He was strong, decent, a brilliant copper.

Alex Drake

What happened?

Gene Hunt

He’d been acting strange for a few weeks, and Sam Tyler strange was very bloody strange indeed.

Alex Drake

But he was happy here? Everybody says so; he had a girlfriend, Annie. He had you?!

Gene Hunt

Yeah, I asked him what was wrong. He said he couldn’t tell me.

Alex Drake

What did you do?

Gene Hunt

He said he wanted to leave. Then he asked me to help him fake his own death.

Gene Hunt

That's why we set fire to the car and pushed it into the river.

Alex Drake

So Sam asked you to commit an illegal act and you went ahead with it?

Gene Hunt

I didn’t want to Bolls. I wanted him to stay. I needed him.

Alex Drake

Well, what happened next?

Gene Hunt

I never saw him again.

Alex Drake

Ha! What? Come on, he just vanished?

Alex Drake

Look, Sam was like me...

Gene Hunt

He wasn’t as annoying as it happens.

Alex Drake

... Whatever happened to him might happen to me Gene I have to know.

Gene Hunt

I asked him why. He said it would be better for me if I didn’t know. You see this is about respect, Alex. It’s about trust, about faith, something you haven’t learnt yet.

Luigi

Mr. Hunt, Miss Drake you want some coffee, a brandy?

Gene Hunt

A brandy, large!

Alex Drake

Just the bill, please, Luigi.

Gene Hunt

Ok fine, but as you’re the feminist you can pay half.

Alex Drake

Get your coat. You’ve pulled.

Ray Carling

Oi Guv I got something to show you.

Gene Hunt

So has DI Drake and I think hers will be more interesting.

Chris Skelton

You're the best DCI I've ever met, and I've been proud to work under you. But I'm not going to be your doormat any more, Guv. Those days have gone.

Gene Hunt

Are they now?

Chris Skelton

Buy me a drink, and we'll say no more about it. [holds out his hand]

Gene Hunt

Luigi, get Mr. Skelton a drink.

Luigi

Si, Senor Hunt.

Alex Drake

Let’s have a dance.

Gene Hunt

No, Gene Hunt does not dance.

Alex Drake

No, and he doesn’t hug Christopher Skelton either, does he?

Alex Drake

What was the estimated time of death?

Gene Hunt

Probably about thirty seconds after they had their throats were unzipped.

Gene Hunt

Why did Shaz give you that map of Lancashire?

Alex Drake

No reason. It’s just I feel a holiday coming up and it’s one of those places I’ve always wanted to visit.

Gene Hunt

This is about bloody [Sam] Tyler again isn’t it?

Gene Hunt

What’s this? Your packed lunch?

Jim Keats

It’s my finished report....on you.

Gene Hunt

Skinny. He was, erm... He was a skinny lad, needed fattening up. It was Morrison, said that -- his mentor, PC Morrison. Yeah, it was Coronation Day. That was a funny one... His first week on the beat. But he had Morrison to guide him. That was until somebody gave him a nip of whiskey, and before you know it, he's hokey-kokeying with the locals. Young bobby's suddenly on his own... Someone broke in here, he heard 'em. Thought they were kids. So he kicks the door open, y'know, like John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart, bam, in he goes. [Gene starts tapping his head.] Y'see, in here... In here, he's not some... snotty kid in a uniform, oh no, he's Gary Cooper in High Noon, he's The Law. [He stops.] Only there weren't kids.

Alex Drake

It was that that man with the shotgun.

Gene Hunt

Didn’t deserve a shallow grave did he? Did he, Alex?

Alex Drake

[On the verge of tears following the revelation] No. No, you didn’t.

Ray Carling

You are and always will be “The Guv”.

Gene Hunt

You're in danger of sounding poofy, Raymondo.