Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #2.6 (2007)

Philip Glenister: Gene Hunt

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• Gene : Now. Yesterday's shooting. The dealers are all so scared we're more likely to get Helen Keller to talk. The Paki in a coma's about as lively as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked woman, all in all this investigation's going at the speed of a spastic in a magnet factory.

  Sam Tyler : [Sam Tyler, aghast, drops the radio he is holding] 

  Gene : What?

  Sam Tyler : Think you might have missed out the Jews.

  Gene : What?

  Sam Tyler : I think we need to explore whether this attempted murder was a hate crime.

  Gene : What as opposed to one of those I-really-really-like-you sort of murders?

• Sam Tyler : Because I loved her!

  Gene : You great... soft... sissy... girlie... nancy... French... bender... Man United supporting POOF!

• Gene : You said he was dead!

  Ray Carling : Well, he wasn't moving.

  Gene : Chris doesn't move, but he's not dead!

• [looking at a body] 

  Chris Skelton : I wonder what killed him?

  Gene Hunt : That'll be the bloody enormous hole in his chest where the bullet went in!

• Sam Tyler : I think she's telling the truth.

  Gene : I think she's as fake as a tranny's fanny.

• Sam Tyler : I still think we need to entertain the possibility that this could be a racial killing...

  Gene : Oh, well let's entertain it, let's take it out for a prawn cooktail, a steak and a bottle of Liebfraumilch, then let's kick it into the gutter where it belongs!

• Gene : Drugs, eh? What's the point. They make you forget, make you talk funny, make you see things that aren't there. My old grandma got all of that for free when she had a stroke.

• [looking at a body] 

  Annie Cartwright : Boss? There's a viscous yellow liquid in his ear.

  Gene Hunt : No, that's a drip from my fried egg butty, love. Well done, Miss Marple. That's why we need women detectives.

• Sam Tyler : There's no history of drug dealing amongst the Gujerati Ugandan Asians.

  Gene Hunt : Blahdy blahdy history bloody blah! It doesn't take a degree in Applied Bollocks to know what's going on.

  Sam Tyler : Go on, then. Amaze me with your insubstantial guesswork.

  Gene Hunt : He's come over here, started dealing and Rocket or one of the other local drug boys has took offence and offed him.

  Sam Tyler : That's better that even *I* expected. Copper leaps to a conclusion then finds the evidence to fit.

• [Sam wonders whether the National Front planted drugs on the victim to make it look like a drug-related crime] 

  Gene Hunt : The NF are far too stupid for that. They could stick a shotgun up my arse and pull the trigger - they'd still miss!

• Gene : You've got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course.

• Gene : Look at her, she's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

• [interviewing Layla at the station] 

  Layla : About 8:30, straight after I left Sam's flat, he was still alive.

  Gene : Straight after you left Sam's flat?

  Sam Tyler : She needed protection.

  Gene : Well, I hope you used some!