Ashes to Ashes · Season 2, Episode 8
“Episode 8” · Season 2, Episode 8
In this episode: Gene Hunt (5), Alex Drake (2), Chris Skelton (1)
It was a horrible shock but I'm not ashamed of you. I'm proud of you.
How could you possibly be proud of me?
Because you care when you get it wrong. It matters to you and that takes something special. I love you for that. Do you hear me? I love you.
I have to stop this infection. Time's running out for me, Guv.
Yeah, and time's running out for moi.
That's French.
Sorry, I'm under pressure.
[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-
[Gene stops the tape as he sees Alex coming to his office.]
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."
Yeah, trust. Tricky thing to come by. Why am I a threat to you?
I don't follow.
[Gene holds the tape up to her; she snatches it.]
Where the hell did you get that?
It was on my desk.
...He left it for you, didn't he?
And who would that be?
It's very complicated, Guv. It's- it's very difficult to explain.
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?
No. No, you have to believe I'm on your side.
Oh, I want to believe you. But you've got to tell me the God's honest truth about yourself, Drake.
Time's running out for me here-
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 nods, puts the tape down on the desk and gathers herself to explain.]
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.
[Gene looks away in silence.]
Guv?
You know, I ask for the truth, and you piss in my face.
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 picks up the tape and hands it to Alex.]
Get out of my sight, Inspector.
You like Westerns?
Love them.
Wayne, Stewart, Cooper or Eastwood? It's important.
Wayne for the machismo. Stewart for the warmth. Cooper for the romance. Eastwood for the mystery.
Above all?
Gary Cooper.
Me too.
Not for the romance.
No, not for the romance.
Not against a bit of romance though, are you?
Carnegie, you've just been Quattro'd!
Do you remember? Young copper. Ready to put the world to rights. Spick and span, very proud. You remember that?
Yes.
Hold onto that thought. It's a good'un.
It is.
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