Spooks Quotes

Peter Salter: I can operate independently? My style?

Tom Quinn: When have you ever not?

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Peter Salter: You've got to believe me, I am the thing that the security service fears the most. The spy who goes through Traitor's Gate willingly and embraces everything he's been trained to destroy.

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Policeman: [about the boys] They may be underprivileged, but they sure ain't underdeveloped.

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Ruth Evershed: Why don't we just close the place down?

Harry Pearce: Home Office directive. Community-sensitive policy parameters. In real speak, they don't want a riot.

Ruth Evershed: Bugger the Home Office.

Harry Pearce: Mmm, if only...

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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: [seeing Gaby's French wife] Viva la-Viva la-Viva la French!

Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones: Hubba-hubba-hubba.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: That's what I just said.

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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: We need to know the width of the mouse.

Louis Xavier 'Louie'Dumbrowski: About one mouse wide.

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The Reporter: Professor, I can't stand it any longer! Who was throwing the pies?

Prof. J. Ogden Denkfeather: Oh, I threw the pies!
[starts laughing hysterically, then a cream pie hits him in the face]

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The Reporter: Professor, I can't stand it any longer! Who was throwing the pies?

Prof. J. Ogden Denkfeather: Oh, I threw the pies!
[starts laughing hysterically, then a cream pie hits him in the face]

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Tom Quinn: Great. The government want a worse case scenario so if this thing does go down, they can shove the blame on poor old intelligence and halve the budget.

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Tom Quinn: I am in no mood to schmooze Christine Dale. I rather bite her head off.

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Tom Quinn: I want you to come and live with me. I have a big flat and er, it's big and it has a garden and I want you and Maisie in my flat and in my life as soon as possible. Will you do that?

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[McCann and Quinn stand naked in a field]

Patrick McCann: Anyone would think we were in some filthy farmer's porn video.

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[end credits]

Chorus: # Boop-oop-a-doop! / Boop-oop-a-doop! / Boop-oop-a-doop, / That's Oswald! #

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[first lines]

Phantom: I'm the Phantom!

Owl: Who? Who?

Phantom: Not you, you fat-faced-buzzard!

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[title credits]

Voice: Spooks. Spooks!

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Adam Carter: Have you heard the news, Oliver?

Oliver Mace: No. Is it good?

Adam Carter: The defense secretary is with the PM now, resigning. The PM himself is going to have to face Parliament. God knows what they're going to do with you.

Oliver Mace: I'll get my wrists slapped. They'll re-invent my post. You can't stop the inevitable.

Adam Carter: Oh, I think we can.

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Christine Dale: You know the score these days, we're waging a war. No stone unturned, no excuses, no delays. America wants Mary back and America is going to get her. We want our Kodak moment.

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Dan Freeman: [confronting members of the Cobras street gang] Shut up... and listen! The big-time, bad-ass Cobras. Pumpin' away at the Pigs from the rooftops during the riots last summer? Oh, yeah! I know what ya's into. With .22 rifles and pistols did about as much damage as a mosquito to a elephant's ass! What did you expect to hit from that range, with those weapons at night? You might as well as *thrown* the damned pieces at the Pigs! You *really* wanna mess with Whitey? I can show you how. *I* can show you how!

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Danny Hunter: Earl Grey tea bags.

Zoe Reynolds: What?

Danny Hunter: You didn't get any.

Zoe Reynolds: Why would I get *you* Earl Grey tea bags?

Danny Hunter: I like them.

Zoe Reynolds: Look, we have a flat share, okay? We are not married!

Danny Hunter: Is Earl Grey tea bags married?

Zoe Reynolds: Oh, yes!

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Danny Hunter: How much explosive can you put on a hold-all?

Tom Quinn: Enought to turn this place into ground zero.

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Danny: [looking at a trunk] You gonna open it?

Muggs: Maybe it's one of those Don't open 'til Christmas.

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Danny: [looking at a trunk] You gonna open it?

Muggs: Maybe it's one of those "Don't open 'til Christmas".

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Danny: Where we going?

Scruno: We're going to camp!

Glimpy: Camp? How do you like that? I thought we were going to reform school, I would've been a sophomore this year.

Danny: No kidding!

Glimpy: Yeah!

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Danny: Where we going?

Scruno: We're going to camp!

Glimpy: Camp? How do you like that? I thought we were going to reform school, I would've been a sophomore this year.

Danny: No kidding!

Glimpy: Yeah!

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Glimpy: I milked a cow once, you know it's got four faucets to it.

Danny: What for?

Glimpy: Well the first faucet's for buttermilk, the second's for bottled milk, and the third's for evaporated milk.

Danny: What's the fourth one for?

Glimpy: Come to think of it, this cow only had three faucets.

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Harry Pearce: ...before he got religion - if world anarchy *is* a religion.

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Harry Pearce: Colin, tell me something uplifting.

Colin Wells: Well, it's shaping up to be the driest autumn on record.

Harry Pearce: Do you want to be taken out and shot?

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Harry Pearce: We're in a state of collective desperation here.

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Harry Pearce: You know, I feel about as welcome as a fart in a Wind Machine.

Tom Quinn: Sefton B?

Patrick McCann: Aye. It would take out everything south of Bristol. Not that anyone would miss Wales.

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Harry Pearce: You're a little shite, Derek. Have I ever told you that?

Derek Morris: You've implied it enough times. Take a chill pill, Harry.

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