Gene Hunt quotes from Life on Mars

Gene Hunt

Tell 'em to bring a big-

Sam Tyler

(Correcting him) Bastard-big

Gene Hunt

-Bastard-big sedative.

Annie Cartwright

I haven't received any firearms training. That's not right...

Gene Hunt

[Exasperated] Y'see, this is why birds and CID don't mix. Give a bloke a gun, it's a dream come true. Give a girl one, and she moans it doesn't go with her dress! Now start behaving like a detective and show some balls.

Annie Cartwright

Thanks for being so sympathetic, sir. Let's hope you don't end up in my firing line. [Annie storms out]

Gene Hunt

[Slightly alarmed] Did she just threaten to shoot me?!

Got a very bright future ahead of her, that lass.

Gene Hunt

The rules go like this; you're my officer, you do as I say!

Sam Tyler

I was following my instincts...

Gene Hunt

Well, I should charge your instincts with wasting police time!

Gene Hunt

[gives Tyler a gun] Here, wave this around inside and try and look hard for once in your life!

Sam Tyler

Have you never heard of softly, softly?

Gene Hunt

Yes, but I prefer Z-Cars! [he and Sam storm into the building] Don't move! You're surrounded by armed bastards!

Sam Tyler

Look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But, I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Just like you always say, "go with your gut feeling". Just taking your lead.

Gene Hunt

So I'm right?

Sam Tyler

We both are.

Gene Hunt

Right.

Sam Tyler

Right.

Gene Hunt

Just as long as I'm more right than you.

Gene Hunt

What is it you think I'm doing here, Tyler?

Sam Tyler

[Sarcastically under his breath] Building a Death Star?

Gene Hunt

What?

Sam Tyler

Nothing.

Chris Skelton

Woman in her twenties, dead.

Gene Hunt

Well I didn't think she was sunbathing, did I?!

Gene Hunt

This is my city. And it will be a safe place for my wife and my mum to walk around in. Is that understood?

Yes, guv.

Gene Hunt

[Sternly] Right. Find out who the dead woman was, find out who killed her. Do it now.

Gene Hunt

Hold up, hold up. Do it tomorrow morning, first thing. [Brightly] Beer o'clock, gentlemen.

Sam Tyler

Roger Twilling, 44 years old, successful businessman, very popular in the business community, gives a lot to charity.

Gene Hunt

I hate people who give to charity.

Gene Hunt

Murderers do not play tennis!

Sam Tyler

Well, this one does.

Sam Tyler

It's called surveillance.

Gene Hunt

Doesn't sound very manly.

Chris Skelton

It's freezing out here.

Gene Hunt

I don't like this. Gene Hunt smashes doors down, he does not pick girlie locks!

Sam Tyler

We can't just pull him in. He's too clever for that. At least this way we get hard evidence.

Gene Hunt

I'm gonna be the laughing stock of the Lancashire Constabulary Dinner and Dance, me.

Sam Tyler

Believe it or not, guv, one day soon, something like this will bring down Richard Nixon.

Gene Hunt

Hard to believe.

Sam Tyler

Chris. This is serious.

Ray Carling

So where do you want this transmitter?

Sam Tyler

Up here

Gene Hunt

Chris, bend down.

Chris Skelton

What for?

Gene Hunt

Just do it

Sam Tyler

Right, look...

Ray Carling

[alarmed] The law! The law!

Gene Hunt

Get down you divs!

Gene Hunt

You know that guy in the Bible who tried to get a camel through the eye of a needle?

Sam Tyler

That would be ... Jesus.

Gene Hunt

Well, he had nothing on Mrs Luckhurst.

Sam Tyler

[about Gene's 'wife' at the wife-swapping party] Where'd she come from?

Gene Hunt

Suki? Let her off an arrest last week for lewd behaviour. She owed me.

Sam Tyler

She's a prostitute?

I am here, you know!

Gene Hunt

Well, you didn't think I was gonna fetch me own wife here, did you?!