Alex Drake quotes from Ashes to Ashes

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

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

Can we concentrate please on the crimes he commits and not whose cock he sucks?

Alex Drake

[on Gene's cursory questioning of a suspect] Well, was that it? I've seen bacon grilled for longer than that.Oh great, I'm even beginning to sound like you.

Alex Drake

[in the quattro stuck in traffic as a man walks across the road holding a sign shaped as a large penis] There's a man with a giant penis.

Alex Drake

She's not a tart Ray, she's an actress.

Alex Drake

[to Gene Hunt] I feel different. I feel better. I think they've done it. You haven't seen the best of me. Before I go, I think you're really gonna be surprised because I haven't felt this good in a long time.

Alex Drake

[title sequence introduction] My name is Alex Drake. And quite frankly, your guess is as good as mine.

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!

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?

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

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.

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.