Life on Mars (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2006)

John Simm: DI Sam Tyler

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• Sam Tyler : Kim Trent, I'm arresting you in suspicion of armed robbery. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your def... No, that's not it, is it? What is it? ahh... You have the right to remain silent...

  Gene : You're nicked!

• [Gene is looking at a poster for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly] 

  Sam Tyler : Which one are you?

  DCI Gene Hunt : All three.

• [to Phyllis Dobbs, custody sergeant, talking about a witness that he's just brought in] 

  Sam Tyler : He's a key witness. So could you treat him like a person, Phyllis. D'you remember "people"? You used to be one!

• Sam Tyler : What are you smirking at, Mona Lisa?

  Test Card Girl : I'm sorry you're lonely, Sam.

  [Sam screams] 

  Test Card Girl : Are you really lonely here?

  Sam Tyler : No no no no no no no, I'm not listening!

  Test Card Girl : Don't you think you could be lonely out there, In the white room that's too warm?

  Sam Tyler : Stop it!

  Test Card Girl : Life goes on, but does it really go on for the sleeping man?

  Sam Tyler : I'm not sleeping, I'm here!

  Test Card Girl : And isn't it better here, where you can be busy?

  Sam Tyler : Look, just... get out!

  Test Card Girl : You don't like me and my clown, I can see I make you frown. When on earth will all this end? I'm you're friend, you're only friend.

  Sam Tyler : Get out!

• Sam Tyler : Poeple are always in danger, Gov. One minute you're going about your business, the next, BANG! You're taken out by a speeding car.

  Gene : Well I'm taking that speeding car off the road. For good!

• Sam Tyler : Give me a Scotch. Double, massive... half a bottle.

• Sam Tyler : A black car, yeah?

  Leonard : Ford... Granada.

  Sam Tyler : Registration?

  Leonard : E... I don't know.

  DCI Gene Hunt : Sorry, was that, like, you saying the letter "E", and you don't know the rest or was that, like, you saying "EEE, I Dunno"

• Sam Tyler : This place is like Guantanamo Bay.

  DCI Gene Hunt : Keep off, it's nothing like Spain.

• Sam Tyler : In "Hyde", we don't traditionally keep acid and knocked-off bling in our offices just so we could get home early.

• Sam Tyler : You were supposed to be watching them.

  Ray Carling : Oh. It's a fair cop.

  Sam Tyler : [to Gene]  Trent's got Leonard. And Annie's there. On her own.

• Sam Tyler : Are you alright?

  Annie Cartwright : Battery's out on me radio.

• Phyllis Dobbs : She shouldn't be there on her own.

  Sam Tyler : No. She shouldn't.

• Kim Trent : Bet you wished you'd left us in that cell now?

  Sam Tyler : No.

• Sam Tyler : You didn't have to do that.

  Leonard : You said you'd protect us. And you did. You all did.