Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #1.7 (2006)

Philip Glenister: Gene Hunt

Quotes 

• Gene Hunt : I don't know...

  [pause] 

  Gene Hunt : ... who the biggest dickhead is round here.

  Gene Hunt : [to Ray Carling]  You, for what happened...

  Gene Hunt : [to Sam]  You, for your holier than thou act...

  Gene Hunt : ...or me, for having any of you on my team.

• Sam Tyler : Be gentle, will you?

  Gene Hunt : I'm not a bleeding luddite.

  [Andrea opens the door] 

  Gene Hunt : Hiya love. DCI Hunt. How're you feeling? Just come to talk to you about how your brother copped it.

• Sam Tyler : Did you know that Billy took cocaine?

  Andrea Kemble : He doesn't. He'd never take drugs.

  Gene Hunt : Well, with respect, you probably thought he kept his cock in his keks and all.

  Andrea Kemble : He your boss?

  [Sam nods] 

  Andrea Kemble : Well, what would I get for smacking him one?

  Sam Tyler : Round of applause from half our station.

• [Sam and Gene are going through everyone's statements in the canteen] 

  Gene Hunt : What did he do when you looked in?

  Ray Carling : Flicked me the Vs.

  Gene Hunt : [writing]  "Brandished his arms in an aggressive and violent manner".

  [jump cut to Chris] 

  Gene Hunt : How many times did you check on him?

  Chris Skelton : Once. Maybe twice.

  Gene Hunt : Your memory's hardly your best quality, is it Chris? Let's round it up to four.

  [jump cut to Phyllis] 

  Phyllis Dobbs : I said, he slid the tray along the floor at her.

  Gene Hunt : [writing]  "Mr Kemble angrily threw food in the face of WPC Annie Cartwright."

• Gene Hunt : Always trust the Gene Genie!

• Gene Hunt : Now is not the time to have a one night stand with your conscience.

• Gene Hunt : You so much as belch out of line, and I'll have your scrotum on a barbed wire plate.

• Billy Kemble : [just caught by DCI Hunt]  Oh, bollocks.

  Gene Hunt : My thoughts exactly.

• Gene Hunt : [to Sam]  You're never happy unless you're making my life complicated, are ya?

• Sam Tyler : If we can't police ourselves, how are the public supposed to trust us?

  Gene Hunt : The public don't give a damn what we do, as long as we get results.

  Sam Tyler : You're wrong.

• Albert Collins : I'm not sharing with no one.

  Gene Hunt : What is that, a double negative? Don't they teach you anything in nutter school these days?