Ashes to Ashes (TV Series)

Episode #2.7 (2009)

Philip Glenister: DCI Gene Hunt

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Quotes 

• DS Ray Carling : Guv. You know I wouldn't go behind your back, don't you?

  Gene Hunt : It's all right, Raymondo, I know I can trust you. That hit and run was attempted murder, the lad knew what was on the missing note. Something else. I've got a file, physical evidence that could nail Lafferty, but I can't keep it here, not at the moment. It's in a safety deposit box on Talbot Street. Box number one sixteen.

  DS Ray Carling : One sixteen.

  Gene Hunt : Just in case I end up on the wrong end of a car accident.

  DS Ray Carling : Right, Guv.

• Molly Drake : Mum? Mum? Mummy? Mummy? Mum? The doctor got the bullet out. You're going to be okay. He said if you get plenty of rest, and if there are no complications, you're going to wake up. You're going to be fine. Mum? Mummy? Mum?...

  Chris Skelton : ...Ma'am? Do you want a biscuit, ma'am? Do you want a biscuit?

  Alex Drake : No, I, erm, must have dozed off.

  Gene Hunt : This is supposed to be a stakeout not a midnight feast at Malory Towers.

  DS Ray Carling : Pillow fights and gym knickers, eh?

  [All laugh] 

  Gene Hunt : Shake a leg, boys. Informant has it something big is going off, and I'm not referring to Ray's unsavoury teenage fantasies.

  Chris Skelton : Here you are, guv, Shaz made it.

  Gene Hunt : Not enough sugar. Or milk. Or tea.

• Alex Drake : I'm going to wake up.

  Gene Hunt : It's about bloody time.

  Alex Drake : Yep, if there are no complications.

  Gene Hunt : You're staying here.

  Alex Drake : No, I'm fine, I just dozed off.

  Gene Hunt : You don't look it, I'm not carrying a dead weight. You can man the radio. Or woman it. Whichever you prefer.

  Alex Drake : Fine. Absolutely fine. All I'm saying to you is that you're going to miss me more than you know.

  Gene Hunt : Well, I think we'll manage.

• Gene Hunt : Daddy Bear in position.

  DS Ray Carling : Big Bear set.

  Chris Skelton : Baby Bear ready.

• DS Ray Carling : [He uses a pneumatic/jackhammer drill to break away the concrete surrounding the dead body] 

  Gene Hunt : Oi! Oi! What do you think you're doing?

  DS Ray Carling : Digging him out.

  Gene Hunt : We want a body on a mortuary slab not a plate of dog food, use a ruddy chisel.

  DS Ray Carling : Guv, that'll take ages.

  Gene Hunt : Well you better get started then.

  Chris Skelton : I haven't had my turn yet.

• Alex Drake : The site manager's here, Michael Lafferty.

  Gene Hunt : What?

  Alex Drake : What?

  Gene Hunt : Either you've got a meaningful bowel movement on the way or you're about to say "it's probably nothing, but..."

  Alex Drake : Don't be ridiculous. Well... it probably is nothing, but doesn't it seem a bit of a coincidence to you that we get a tip off, drugs *and* a body?

• Lafferty : Delays are very expensive.

  Gene Hunt : Well, forgive me if our little investigation costs Sir Henrington Arse-Twat a year's subscription to his private members' club.

• Young Summers : Look, I know I might be putting my job on the line, but word is you're straight, totally kosher.

  Gene Hunt : Well apart from not being Jewish and the fact that, in my case, Sgt Rock is 100% intact,

  [looks at Alex] 

  Gene Hunt : in case you were wondering...

  Alex Drake : No.

  Gene Hunt : ...I'm as kosher as a rabbi at a matzo party, you can talk here.

• Gene Hunt : Someone forged it. Someone with easy access to the evidence room.

  Alex Drake : Whoever took it, why would they want a poem?

  Gene Hunt : Who says it was a poem? Maybe Tomascz was too scared to tell us what it really said.

• Gene Hunt : No sign of Summers. Both of them put one man in the frame.

  Alex Drake : Lafferty. But how could he know that we'd brought Tomascz in?

  Gene Hunt : Someone in our station told him. Probably the same bastard that stole the note. Someone in CID. Someone on my team.

  Alex Drake : You thinking about Mac?

  Gene Hunt : I'm thinking about Mac, about Kevin Hales, about every investigation that's gone tits up for as far back as I can remember.

• Gene Hunt : [speaking to everyone]  As most of you know, a key witness in the investigation into the murder of Dawid Czarnecki has been seriously injured in what appears to be a hit and run incident. It has also come to my attention that someone on my watch, very possibly somebody in this room misappropriated a vital piece of evidence, jeopardising the entire case. That won't do. That will not do at all. And when I found out who is responsible, I will be very, very angry.