Alice Carter quotes from Torchwood

Alice

It said on the news that we should send them back to school tomorrow. Do you think it's safe?

Jack

I don't know any more than you.

Alice

Oh, come on.

Jack

I don't! [pause] Any word from Joe?

Alice

In Italy. With her. He finally got married. But he phones every now and then and sends Steven postcards, remembers his birthday... There are worse fathers.

Jack

How are you off for money?

Alice

Don't worry about that, you give me enough. [pause] Kind of easy writing cheques, huh?

Jack

Alice, you're the one who asked me to stay away. I'd come round here every week if you wanted me to, every day.

Alice

Yeah... I just can't stand it, Dad. I look older than you do, and it's never going to stop. I get older and older, and you stay the same. One day, you're going to be standing at my funeral - Looking just like you did when you were standing at Mum's. No wonder she was so furious; you make us feel old.

Jack

[beat] Actually, I found a grey hair.

Alice

[laughs] Oh! Well, that is the end of the world!

[about Steven] He doesn't know Harkness is his grandfather?

Alice

No.

I suppose it would take some explaining, why Mum looks older than Granddad...

Alice

I can only assume that you're holding me here as insurance against my father. But let me warn you; if you've angered him, then God help you.

This from the woman who's spent her life running away from him.

Alice

And why d'you think I did that? A man who can't die has got nothing to fear. So you watch it. And you keep watching.

[about Steven] He'll be fine. The nice kids are safe. If you're gonna get rid of ten percent, then take the ten percent you don't want. All those kids on street corners, we've finally got rid of them.

Alice

While everyone else just stays indoors. Ninety percent just hugging their kids, not making a sound, just like they did before.... I don't even know your name.

I protect the state. [pause] I was brought up to believe in and protect the state.

Alice

Not much good now, are you? Even if ninety percent look the other way, what sort of world are you leaving behind? I swear to you: if your duty is to protect the state above and beyond any other authority, then the one person you need right now is Jack Harkness.