Ashes to Ashes Quotes

[Chris, Alex and Shaz watch Frank Hardwick performing on TV. Frank cracks some sexist jokes and Chris laughs while Alex and Shaz stare blankly at the screen]
Chris Skelton: He is funny...[Chris clocks Alex’s and Shaz’s reaction] If you like jokes about hating women.

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[Gene asks Chris to retrieve a selection of pornographic videos so that they can plant them on Frank. Chris takes his time about doing so]
Gene Hunt: Come on Christopher! I asked you to bag up some porno, not watch it!

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[Chris and Gene wait outside the club in order to catch Frank. Litton and Bevan arrive. Gene starts to tell them that he is about to arrest Frank Hardwick when Chris spots Alex and Shaz entering the club]
Chris Skelton: Guv!
Gene Hunt: Not now Chris, I’m gloating!
Chris Skelton: No guv, it’s Drake and Shaz.
[Gene turns to see Alex and Shaz]
Gene Hunt: Oh Drake, don't you bloody dare.

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Ryan Burns: I am the vine! You are the branches! John, Chapter 15, Verse 5!
Gene Hunt: You're nicked for the murder of Delphine Parks, the rape and attempted murder of Nina Akiboa. Anything you say will be taken down, ripped up and shoved down your scrawny little throat until you're choked to death. Gene Hunt, Chapter 1, Verse 2.

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Alex Drake: Guv. Do you think if I've saved some lives, that means I'm worth saving?
Gene Hunt: If you say so. Now get your boney arse back here.

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Robin: I can feel something from you, Alex. A sadness. You're physically present, but really, you're elsewhere.
Alex Drake: Elsewhere?

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Gene Hunt: Luigi! Bottle of your cheapest champagne, I'm about to become a daddy!

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[Ray and Chris stand in a street waiting for Litton to show up and meet Bevan in a cafe. Ray looks up and notices hundreds of stars in the sky right above them, he seems transfixed on them for a second and once they disappear he turns to Chris]
Ray Carling: Chris, did you see that?
Chris Skelton: What?
Ray Carling: Stars. Lots of stars.
Chris Skelton: What stars? With all this pollution!
Ray Carling: It was weird. It was a bit like we’re on the edge of the world, like we’re bloody astronauts.
[Chris dismisses Ray’s comments]
Chris Skelton: Right, well, radio mission control when you’re on the way to the hospital, yeah?
Ray Carling: [still slightly confused] Yeah.
[Chris heads for the hospital leaving Ray alone in the street]

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[Waiting at the hospital for Litton and Bevan, Gene contacts Ray via police radio]
Gene Hunt: This is Dr. Hunt to Nurse Carling...[There remains no answer from Ray on the radio] Ray! If you’ve dozed off...

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Alex Drake: [To Gene] I've decided to trust you.
[Gene stares at Alex for a moment]
Alex Drake: But on one condition.
Gene Hunt: Oh, I knew this wouldn't be easy.
Alex Drake: Look me in the eye and tell me you had nothing to do with the death of Sam Tyler. Please. Just tell me.

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Gene Hunt: Chris, do we have a description of the suspect?
Chris Skelton: Erm, yeah. Male. Tall. Slim build, about 5 foot 12.
Gene Hunt: Sounds like a ponce.

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Gene Hunt: Right, quick word about police brutality — lots of it.

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Alex Drake: What do you do for a hobby, Mr Jarvis?
Mr Jarvis: I don't follow you.
Alex Drake: Collect rare stamps?
Gene Hunt: Or fishing tackle?
Alex Drake: Or garden gnomes?
Gene Hunt: Or young virgins straight from the coach station?

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Alex Drake: If I may paraphrase Dorothy Parker, I don't think we should put all our eggs in one bastard.
Gene Hunt: What other bastard have we got?

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Gaynor: Not until you call me by my name....GAYNOR!
Gene Hunt: I'll call you what I damn well want you gender bender, wierdy beardy, freak of nature. (Gaynor knees Gene in the balls)

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Chris Skelton: Think he drowned, then?
Gene Hunt: No, Christopher. I think he tried to drink the entire river for a bet and failed!

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Alex Drake: [to Gene Hunt] I feel different. I feel better. I think they've done it. You haven't seen the best of me. Before I go, I think you're really gonna be surprised because I haven't felt this good in a long time.

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Ray Carling: I'm like Liberace.
Chris Skelton: Poofter?
Ray Carling: No, no… the other one. What — what's his name? Valentino. That's it, I'm like Valentino.

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Martin Summers: [to Alex] What? You expected us to disappear? In a puff of smoke? Matter meets anti-matter, time imploding on itself, that sort of thing?

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Sharon “Shaz” Granger: Several people were looking for Mr. Hugh Jarse. And it turned out Mike Rotch was quite popular too.
Alex Drake: Right.
Sharon “Shaz” Granger: Five or six had chronic asthma and… one man had some very imaginative suggestions.

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Gene Hunt: [after Shaz offers an opinion on the intended target of a bomb] When I need advice from a lobotomised Essex girl, I will ask for it!

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Alex Drake: Please?
Gene Hunt: No.
Alex Drake: I'll let you stamp my bum.
Gene Hunt: I'll get my coat.

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Gene Hunt: [after rescuing a dazed Alex from being run over] Are you crazy? Do you have any idea how much paperwork there is for suicides?

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Alex Drake: My name is Alex Drake. I've just been shot and that bullet has sent me back to 1981. I may be one second away from life, or one second away from death. They say that as you die, your life flashes before you, all those memories and mistakes that form us. Well, bring it on. My life can flash away as much as it wants because I am not going to die. I'm coming back to you, Molly.

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Gene Hunt: Today, my friend, your diary entry will read: took a prozzie hostage, and was shot by three armed bastards.

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Gene Hunt: Blimey, if that skirt was hitched any higher I could see what you had for breakfast.

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Alex Drake: [recognising her rescuers] DC Chris Skelton?
Chris Skelton: [surprised] Roger that.
Alex Drake: DS Ray Carling? [Ray, busy beating up a suspect, looks up] Gene Hunt!? [Alex faints in shock]
Gene Hunt: My reputation precedes me!

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Alex Drake: [to Gene Hunt] Just look at me! Look at me! I am trained to get inside the criminal mind. And now I'm stuck in my own — with you!

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Alex Drake: You're taller than I imagined.
Gene Hunt: I'm bigger in every department.

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Alex Drake: [feeling Gene's heart beat] My God, it's real.
Gene Hunt: [slaps his hand on her breast] Fan-dab-dozy. Now then, Bollingerknickers? You gonna kiss me? Or punch me?

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