Life on Mars Quotes
Sam Tyler: There was a power cut.
Gene Hunt: Thank God for OPEC.
Sam Tyler: Where's Annie? She was with me when I got hit over the head. And we just picked up Ravi.
Phyllis: [On radio] DS Carling? Come in. Over.
Ray Carling: [On radio, in distance]Yeah, what do you want?
Gene Hunt: If Annie dies, this will be down to you. Should have left that bloody iron on you.
Ray Carling: [On radio] Right, OK. [To Gene, Sam and Chris] Toolbox has picked up Ravi.
Sam Tyler: With Annie?
Ray Carling: No.
Chris Skelton: Maybe if we erm, we, we
Gene Hunt: Oh shut up, you bloody big waste of space. Ray take Noddy here and check out Annie's flat. [To Sam] You come with me.
Gene Hunt: Thank God for OPEC.
Sam Tyler: Where's Annie? She was with me when I got hit over the head. And we just picked up Ravi.
Phyllis: [On radio] DS Carling? Come in. Over.
Ray Carling: [On radio, in distance]Yeah, what do you want?
Gene Hunt: If Annie dies, this will be down to you. Should have left that bloody iron on you.
Ray Carling: [On radio] Right, OK. [To Gene, Sam and Chris] Toolbox has picked up Ravi.
Sam Tyler: With Annie?
Ray Carling: No.
Chris Skelton: Maybe if we erm, we, we
Gene Hunt: Oh shut up, you bloody big waste of space. Ray take Noddy here and check out Annie's flat. [To Sam] You come with me.
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White Supremacist: What you doing, mate? You're one of us.
Sam Tyler: What, a dyslexic, racist moron?
Sam Tyler: What, a dyslexic, racist moron?
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Sam Tyler: You all right? Did they hurt you?
Annie Cartwright: I've got a bit of a headache but I'm still here aren't I?
Annie Cartwright: I've got a bit of a headache but I'm still here aren't I?
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Annie Cartwright: The guv wanted me to see if you're doing anything stupid. You're not are you?
Sam Tyler: No.
Annie Cartwright: Right, that's me off duty then.
Sam Tyler: No.
Annie Cartwright: Right, that's me off duty then.
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Sam Tyler: Annie, I just wanted you to know, the business with...
Annie Cartwright: ...Layla.
Sam Tyler: Yeah, it's not what you think.
Annie Cartwright: Y'know it's none of my business.
Sam Tyler: It was just unfinished business and now it's finished. That's all. [He smiles and kisses Annie on the cheek]
Annie Cartwright: Bye, Sam. [She turns to leave but then turns back] And get some sleep. [She leaves]
Annie Cartwright: ...Layla.
Sam Tyler: Yeah, it's not what you think.
Annie Cartwright: Y'know it's none of my business.
Sam Tyler: It was just unfinished business and now it's finished. That's all. [He smiles and kisses Annie on the cheek]
Annie Cartwright: Bye, Sam. [She turns to leave but then turns back] And get some sleep. [She leaves]
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Sam Tyler: Gene...not to come over all 'Dorothy', but I could help you. Everyone's traceable, even in this day and age. I could help you find your brother.
Gene Hunt: I already did, Sam. Just not in time.
Gene Hunt: I already did, Sam. Just not in time.
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Gene Hunt: Listen, you're not the one who's going to have to knit himself a new arse after 25 years of aggressive male affection in prison showers, I'm coming with you!.
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Sam Tyler: I was just dreaming.
Gene Hunt: What I call a dream involves Diana Dors and a bottle of chip oil! That's what you call a guilty conscience, my friend.
Sam Tyler: What?
Gene Hunt: The root of nightmares.
Sam Tyler: My conscience is clear, thank you very much.
Gene Hunt: Yeah, well, as for me, I slept like a baby! [Flops back down onto the bed]
Sam Tyler: Yeah, a twenty stone baby. Burps, snores and farts.
Gene Hunt: [sitting bolt upright] I do NOT snore!
Gene Hunt: What I call a dream involves Diana Dors and a bottle of chip oil! That's what you call a guilty conscience, my friend.
Sam Tyler: What?
Gene Hunt: The root of nightmares.
Sam Tyler: My conscience is clear, thank you very much.
Gene Hunt: Yeah, well, as for me, I slept like a baby! [Flops back down onto the bed]
Sam Tyler: Yeah, a twenty stone baby. Burps, snores and farts.
Gene Hunt: [sitting bolt upright] I do NOT snore!
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[Sam and Gene are having another discussion about police work]
Sam Tyler: Our definitions of policing may vary marginally.
Gene Hunt: And yours is?
Sam Tyler: Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
Gene Hunt: Training college?
Sam Tyler: Robocop. [Pause] You can't uphold the law by breaking it.
Sam Tyler: Our definitions of policing may vary marginally.
Gene Hunt: And yours is?
Sam Tyler: Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
Gene Hunt: Training college?
Sam Tyler: Robocop. [Pause] You can't uphold the law by breaking it.
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[Sam hears Jimmy Savile on the radio]
Jimmy Savile: Wow! But the big news is they've found the cause of Sam's prolonged coma! Ooh! Now then guys and gals, there's a tumour in the temporal lobe of Sam's brain, they thought it was a clot but, hows about that, a clot it is not! Wow! It may be operable, double wow!...Our very good friends here at the hopsital say they can cut out the tumour.
Sam Tyler: Cut it out! Cut it out! Fix it for me, Jim!.
Jimmy Savile: Wow! But the big news is they've found the cause of Sam's prolonged coma! Ooh! Now then guys and gals, there's a tumour in the temporal lobe of Sam's brain, they thought it was a clot but, hows about that, a clot it is not! Wow! It may be operable, double wow!...Our very good friends here at the hopsital say they can cut out the tumour.
Sam Tyler: Cut it out! Cut it out! Fix it for me, Jim!.
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Nelson: I see a darkness in you, Sam.
Sam Tyler: Oh, you can see into me, can you, Nelson? Well, Come on then. Am I mad? Huh? Is this real? Come on. I just want to know the truth.
Nelson: We all want that, Sam. What's real. What's not. I see folk who walk about in a sunken dream, 'cause they feel nothing. Are they alive?
Sam Tyler: I wake up every morning and I tell myself I am alive.
Nelson: When you can feel, then you're alive. When you don't feel, you're not.
Sam Tyler: Oh, you can see into me, can you, Nelson? Well, Come on then. Am I mad? Huh? Is this real? Come on. I just want to know the truth.
Nelson: We all want that, Sam. What's real. What's not. I see folk who walk about in a sunken dream, 'cause they feel nothing. Are they alive?
Sam Tyler: I wake up every morning and I tell myself I am alive.
Nelson: When you can feel, then you're alive. When you don't feel, you're not.
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[Sam has just revealed that he is betraying Gene]
Annie Cartwright: That's why you're leaving, isn't it? I bet sometimes you can't look at yourself in the mirror.
[Starts to cry]
Annie Cartwright: I listened to all your problems and worries, and I can't believe I felt sorry for you.
[Slaps Sam]
Annie Cartwright: Hurts, doesn't it? That's because it's real !
Annie Cartwright: That's why you're leaving, isn't it? I bet sometimes you can't look at yourself in the mirror.
[Starts to cry]
Annie Cartwright: I listened to all your problems and worries, and I can't believe I felt sorry for you.
[Slaps Sam]
Annie Cartwright: Hurts, doesn't it? That's because it's real !
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Sam Tyler: I went someplace mum and every day I woke up in that place and I told myself ‘I’m alive’ and I was. In some ways more than I've ever been. You know, a barman [laughs] a barman once told me that you know when you're alive because you can feel and you know when you're not because you don’t feel anything. I made a promise mum; I made a promise to someone who I care about very much.
Ruth Tyler: Then you’ve got nothing to worry about because you always keep your promises.
Ruth Tyler: Then you’ve got nothing to worry about because you always keep your promises.
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[Sam's back in present day and is in a meeting]
Man: Sam look at your hand.
Sam Tyler: [He looks at his thumb which is bleeding from an accidental cut] I can't feel anything. [ Life on Mars? starts playing in the background]
Man: What?
Sam Tyler: Excuse me. [He leaves]
Man: Sam look at your hand.
Sam Tyler: [He looks at his thumb which is bleeding from an accidental cut] I can't feel anything. [ Life on Mars? starts playing in the background]
Man: What?
Sam Tyler: Excuse me. [He leaves]
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Ray Carling: [angrily] I got shot because of you!
Sam Tyler: I know. I'm truly sorry, Ray.
Ray Carling: Still, I met a bird, medical bird.
Sam Tyler: Called nurses.
Ray Carling: Big tits, arse like two cox's pippins in a bag.
Sam Tyler: She sounds enigmatic.
Ray Carling: No, boss, she was from Barnsley.
Sam Tyler: I know. I'm truly sorry, Ray.
Ray Carling: Still, I met a bird, medical bird.
Sam Tyler: Called nurses.
Ray Carling: Big tits, arse like two cox's pippins in a bag.
Sam Tyler: She sounds enigmatic.
Ray Carling: No, boss, she was from Barnsley.
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Phyllis: Go and find her.
Sam Tyler: What?
Phyllis: I'm not just a sex goddess, I've got eyes. Go on. [She gestures to outside the pub]
Sam Tyler: What?
Phyllis: I'm not just a sex goddess, I've got eyes. Go on. [She gestures to outside the pub]
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Sam Tyler: Tell me...
Annie Cartwright: Tell you what, Sam?
Sam Tyler: Tell me what I should do, Annie.
[Pause]
Annie Cartwright: [Emotionally] Stay. Here. Forever.
Sam Tyler: Okay, then. I will.
[They kiss]
[Gene pulls up in the car]
Gene Hunt: TYLER! Put that soppy plonk down and get in! Blag on at Archer Lane, shots fired, lovely! [Chris and Ray emerge from the pub] You two tarts, get in! And you, flash knickers!
Sam Tyler: : You shouldn't be driving with that leg.
Gene Hunt: : Well, I am.
Sam Tyler: : You were shot.
Gene Hunt: : Yeah, and so will you be in a minute if you don't get in!
Annie Cartwright: Tell you what, Sam?
Sam Tyler: Tell me what I should do, Annie.
[Pause]
Annie Cartwright: [Emotionally] Stay. Here. Forever.
Sam Tyler: Okay, then. I will.
[They kiss]
[Gene pulls up in the car]
Gene Hunt: TYLER! Put that soppy plonk down and get in! Blag on at Archer Lane, shots fired, lovely! [Chris and Ray emerge from the pub] You two tarts, get in! And you, flash knickers!
Sam Tyler: : You shouldn't be driving with that leg.
Gene Hunt: : Well, I am.
Sam Tyler: : You were shot.
Gene Hunt: : Yeah, and so will you be in a minute if you don't get in!
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San Tyler: I should be driving.
Gene Hunt: You drive like my Aunt Mabel!
Sam Tyler: If you injure someone while driving this, it's technically a criminal offence!
Gene Hunt: : Oh shut up, you noncey-arsed fairy!
Sam Tyler: : [smiling to himself] Such elegant banter! Try and keep under 70, oh, and radio for uniform!
Gene Hunt: I don't need plod getting in the way!
Sam Tyler: It's procedure! You're not above the law, you know, guv!
Gene Hunt: What're you on about? I AM THE LAW!
Sam Tyler: Yeah, in your dreams.
Gene Hunt: You drive like my Aunt Mabel!
Sam Tyler: If you injure someone while driving this, it's technically a criminal offence!
Gene Hunt: : Oh shut up, you noncey-arsed fairy!
Sam Tyler: : [smiling to himself] Such elegant banter! Try and keep under 70, oh, and radio for uniform!
Gene Hunt: I don't need plod getting in the way!
Sam Tyler: It's procedure! You're not above the law, you know, guv!
Gene Hunt: What're you on about? I AM THE LAW!
Sam Tyler: Yeah, in your dreams.
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