Luigi! Bottle of your cheapest champagne, I'm about to become a daddy!
S2 E4Episode 4
Right, quick word about police brutality — lots of it.
What do you do for a hobby, Mr Jarvis?
I don't follow you.
Collect rare stamps?
Or fishing tackle?
Or garden gnomes?
Or young virgins straight from the coach station?
S2 E5Episode 5
Bolls, don't cry. That's an order.
I'm not.
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.
If I may paraphrase Dorothy Parker, I don't think we should put all our eggs in one bastard.
What other bastard have we got?
Not until you call me by my name....GAYNOR!
I'll call you what I damn well want you gender bender, wierdy beardy, freak of nature. (Gaynor knees Gene in the balls)
S2 E6Episode 6
Think he drowned, then?
No, Christopher. I think he tried to drink the entire river for a bet and failed!
[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
[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?
Several people were looking for Mr. Hugh Jarse. And it turned out Mike Rotch was quite popular too.
Right.
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
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.
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