Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #2.4 (2007)

John Simm: DI Sam Tyler

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Quotes 

• Annie Cartwright : What is wrong with you today?

  Sam Tyler : Do you want an honest answer? I'm bloody sick of 1973.

  Annie Cartwright : Don't worry, it'll be 1974 soon.

• [Sam, Gene, Ray and Chris are covertly bugging a suspect's garage. Suddenly, a police siren can be heard outside] 

  Ray Carling : The law! The law!

  Gene Hunt : Get down, you div!

  [they all duck behind a car] 

  Sam Tyler : [realising]  *We are* the law, you bloody clowns!

• Sam Tyler : You know, where I'm from...

  Annie Cartwright : Hyde?

  Sam Tyler : Yes, Hyde. People love me, you know. They don't want anything from me, they don't want to fight me, they just love me. If they're still there.

• Sam Tyler : The pathologist from the original murders, Stuart Baiter...

  Gene Hunt : Ah, Master Baiter. Remember him well.

• Sam Tyler : Denise Williams was thrown out of that car by that man.

  Gene Hunt : So? Pushed a bird out of a car, doesn't make him a bad bloke.

  [Sam gives him a look] 

  Gene Hunt : Oh, pull him in then, I'll dance the fandango on his head.

• Carol Twilling : [holding up a record]  Does everybody love Santana?

  Sam Tyler : Oh God.

  [everybody turns and stares] 

  Sam Tyler : [lame]  God, I love Santana...