Torchwood (TV Series)

Dead Man Walking (2008)

Burn Gorman: Owen Harper

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• Owen Harper : You take these things for granted. It's only when they're slipping away you realise how amazing they are. This could be the last time I see these flecks, or, you know, feel these bricks underneath my hands.

  Captain Jack Harkness : "Only in suffering do we recognise beauty".

  Owen Harper : Yeah, yeah! Who said that?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Proust.

  Owen Harper : You've read Proust?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah. Well, no. We dated for a while, he was really immature.

  Owen Harper : You know, none of us know whether to take you seriously when you say those things.

  Captain Jack Harkness : When you've lived as long as I have, you don't make any more up.

• Owen Harper : [to Martha]  You've stopped flirting with me. I mean, it's all right. I wouldn't flirt with me in my condition either, but, is it still necrophilia if I'm conscious?

• [Martha has asked Owen to tell what death is like] 

  Owen Harper : There was a light, a tiny speck of light and I was rushing towards it, like down a corridor, and it got brighter, and brighter, then suddenly there were these gates... these big, pearly gates and there was this old geezer and he said, "You've been a very naughty boy!"

• Owen Harper : But eventually that will stop too. I'll fart my last fart. God, I'm going to really miss farting. And sex.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Sex more than farting, I hope.

• Owen Harper : I can't sleep, I can't eat, and I can't shag. And they are three of my favourite things.

  Gwen Cooper : Owen!

  Owen Harper : I'm not the same, Gwen. I came back different. Hollow. Like I'm missing something. And I do not want to be like this. Okay? I'm ready.

• Owen Harper : I'm a headless chicken. I just haven't stopped running about.

• Owen Harper : Jamie, they got you in for a round of chemo, have they?

  Jamie Burton : Had that, it didn't work.

  Owen Harper : So why are you here?

  Jamie Burton : They're trying to make me have it again. It didn't work though, the cancer just comes back, just makes my hair fall out. I'm gonna die. I might as well do it with eyebrows.

• [repeated line] 

  Owen Harper : [demonic voice]  Melenkurion abatha duroc minas mill khabaal.