Owen Harper quotes from Torchwood

Gwen Cooper

You left us, Jack!

Captain Jack Harkness

[sigh] I know, I'm sorry.

Gwen Cooper

We knew nothing, Jack!

Toshiko Sato

Where were you?

Captain Jack Harkness

[smiles] I found my Doctor.

Owen Harper

Did he fix you?

Captain Jack Harkness

What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection.

Ianto Jones

[softly] Are you going back to him?

Captain Jack Harkness

I came back for you.

No I can't just hook something up! The entire telephone network is down!

Owen

What about a mobile connection?

[annoyed] The entire. Telephone. Network. Is down!

Ianto

Mobiles, landlines, tin cans with bits of string - everything, absolutely everything! No phones, phones all broken. [mimics telephone] Hello? Anyone there? [normal] No, 'cause the phones aren't working!

Owen

How'd you know that?

Ianto

I know everything! And it says so on the bottom of the screen.

Jack

Have faith, with a dashing hero like me on the case, how can we fail?

Ianto

He is dashing, you have to give him that.

Owen

And what if they can't stop it?

They'll stop it.

Owen

Yeah, but if they can't?

Ianto

Then it's...all over.

Owen

[after a pause] Let's all have sex.

Ianto

[deadpan] And I thought the end of the world couldn't get any worse.

Owen

[about Tommy] You've fallen for him, haven't you?

I can be myself with him. I don't have to pretend.

Owen

No, I understand. I, I didn't think you had some weird fetish for defrosted men. [both laugh] I just, um, don't want you to get hurt, that's all. If you have to say goodbye.

Ianto

Pizza's arrived – thought it would be another late night.

Owen

What did you get?

Ianto

The usual. Meat feast.

Owen

Lovely.

Owen

So the protein chains are regenerating despite the mutilations, so not only is it replenishing its own flesh, but it's increasing it, giving them a brand new meat supply.

Gwen

It would last them for years, then.

Toshiko

If we understood how worked, we could feed the world!

Ianto

We could release a single.

Jack

If we go in there, guns blazing-

Owen

I wasn't suggesting blazing. Just waving.

Jack

Now I have to help you all go back. Find a memory that defines you, rediscover who you are. If I'm wrong, he will still be here when we've done this. [turns off computer screen] Let me take you back to before we all met. [turns off lights] Feel around for anything that makes you what you are. The hidden and the forgotten. Tell me where you are.

Gwen

College canteen. Rhys is sitting opposite me telling stupid jokes.

Owen

It's my birthday, ten. My mum spends the whole day screaming, ‘I love you because you're my son but that doesn't mean I have to like you.'

Maths club. There's something so reliable about maths. Always the right answer.

Ianto

Meeting Lisa. Falling in love. I never felt so alive.

Owen

Turned sixteen, she packs my bags. That is the nicest thing you've done for me in years mother.

Gwen

Kissing in the supermarket. The look on his face.

My first flat. I don't have a flat warming – there's no one I want to invite.

Ianto

Losing Lisa. Like the world had ended.

Gwen

The way he looks at me sometimes, as if he's scared of what he feels for me. I love him [turns to Jack] but not in the way I love you.

Jack

[to Gwen] Take this [Gwen takes the retcon pill]

Knowing there has to be more to life than this, knowing I'm special, waiting for someone to see it.

Jack

I saw it [gives her a pill]

Owen

You save one life, a hundred lives but it's never enough. Who will save me?

Jack

I will [gives him a pill]

Ianto

Coming here, it gave me meaning again. [Turns to Jack] You. [Jack kisses his forehead then gives him a pill]

Jack

[to everyone] You each have a short-term amnesia pill. It will make you forget Adam. We have to wipe out the last 48 hours from our memories. Go back to who we were.

[Switches the screen on to look at Adam in his cell] I'm going to lose so much.

Jack

None of it was real.

He loved me and I loved him. It's no different from real memories.

Jack

He forced it on you. You have to let it go

[Takes her pill, then looks at the screen] Goodbye Adam.

Owen

So, you and Jack go back a long way?

Martha

Forward and back, really.

Owen

What brought you together?

Martha

Let's say... we were under the same Doctor.

Jack

Only in suffering do we realize beauty.

Owen

Yeah, yeah. Who said that?

Jack

Proust.

Owen

You've read Proust?

Jack

Yeah. [pause] Well, no. We dated for a while. He was really immature.

Owen

[talking to a child cancer patient] Jamie, you're scared, of course you are, the last lot of chemo didn't work and you can't bear the thought of going through all that pain again, I understand that mate, I really do. But let me tell you, that not everyone dies from this disease. And the ones with the best chance of making it are the ones who believe they can beat death. And sometimes, just sometimes, you can. So watch and learn, Jamie Burton.

Watch what?

Owen

Watch me beat Death.

[finally picking the lock on a door] Come on!

Owen

Okay, go, come on, Jamie, [to Tosh] take him!

Owen? I am not leaving you to face that thing on your own!

Owen

I know what to do.

We don't know what we're dealing with!

Owen

Tosh... [kisses Tosh] you're so going to hate me for this. [uses the lock-picking device to shut himself in the lobby]

Owen, no, open the door! What the hell are you doing? Owen!

Owen

[to Death] How long!? How long can you last here with only twelve victims? There's nothing here for you! Owen Harper's soul has left the building! There's nobody here but us dead men. [starts fighting Death to the protestations of his team] What else have you got? What else do you do to the dead? Is that all you've got? Is it?!? [Death eventually fades away in a white light]

Jack

...But then, forever's overrated.

Owen

Not from where I'm sitting.

Jack

If you've got forever, you don't notice the flecks in the concrete, or bother to touch the bricks. You send your friends into danger, knowing the stakes aren't the same for you, that you might get them killed — while you walk away unscathed.

Okay, you're dead, and clearly that's a bit shit, and I'm sorry and everything, but if, if you are dead, then why are you here? You can't be wanting to jump, you can't die twice!

Owen

Sorry, are you an expert?

Sorry, are you an idiot?

Owen

Yeah, I'm a dead idiot.

What are you?

Owen

I'm broken. I'm Dr Owen Harper. And I'm having one hell of a day