Think he drowned, then?
No, Christopher. I think he tried to drink the entire river for a bet and failed!
S2 E6Episode 6
[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.
I'm like Liberace.
Poofter?
No, no… the other one. What — what's his name? Valentino. That's it, I'm like Valentino.
S2 E7Episode 7
MSMartin Summers
[to Alex] What? You expected us to disappear? In a puff of smoke? Matter meets anti-matter, time imploding on itself, that sort of thing?
SGSharon “Shaz” Granger
Several people were looking for Mr. Hugh Jarse. And it turned out Mike Rotch was quite popular too.
Right.
SGSharon “Shaz” Granger
Five or six had chronic asthma and… one man had some very imaginative suggestions.
[Gene's office. Skelton puts his warrant card down on Hunt's desk]
What's that?
Warrant card. I wish to offer my resignation from the force with immediate effect.
No.
What?
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.
S2 E8Episode 8
SGSharon “Shaz” Granger
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?
SGSharon “Shaz” Granger
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?
JJenette
Love them.
Wayne, Stewart, Cooper or Eastwood? It's important.
JJenette
Wayne for the machismo. Stewart for the warmth. Cooper for the romance. Eastwood for the mystery.
Above all?
JJenette
Gary Cooper.
Me too.
JJenette
Not for the romance.
No, not for the romance.
JJenette
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?
MSMartin Summers
Yes.
Hold onto that thought. It's a good'un.
MSMartin Summers
It is.
S3 E1Episode 1
[title sequence introduction] My name is Alex Drake. And quite frankly, your guess is as good as mine.
[In her 1982 coma world Alex sees each member of the team in turn on a TV while in a electricals store]
Come on, wake up! The doctor stopped the bleeding in your gut months ago. I wasn't gonna come here, but we've got this missing girl and what with the guv in hiding I'm on my own. Wake up! Come on, wake up! Help me!
I couldn't get grapes so I got a melon [Alex laughs at the Chris' comment on the display] I'll leave it here for you. This Dorethy stuff, Dorethy Blond, we're all at sea on it boss, ma'am, what with the guv on the run, it's been three months now... Oh, Shaz is coming in later. We're not together anymore, but that's cool... It's not the same without you ma'am. Can't you wake up and...
SGShaz Granger
There's some melon on the floor ma'am, do you want me to clean it up? It's not fair, you made things better and then you left us. I went back to making bloody tea and biscuits. I should have got a job at Peak Freans. If you came back, I know you'd help me...
Alex? Look at what he has done to you. You don't know me, but I read all about you, you're the best of them Alex, it's not fair. He did this to you and I don't want history to repeat itself. I don't want you to end up like...
[The image cuts to flashes of all the characters who have talked yo Alex while she has been in her coma, until finally Gene appears]
Wakey, wakey Drakey. Oh come on, you weren't that shot.
[After waking from her coma in 1983, Alex is met by Gene]
What's the matter with you, you dozy mare, you walked right into the path of my shooter, I don't fire magic bullets, you know, they don't go bending in the air. They said I tried to kill you Bolls, but I knew you would not let me down, we're a team, Bodie and Doyle. I'm the one in the SAS and you can be the one with the girl's hair. Now get your knickers on, we're leaving.
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