Torchwood (TV Series)
Ghost Machine (2006)
John Barrowman: Captain Jack Harkness
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Quotes
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Captain Jack Harkness : [pointing at table of guns] You need to know how to use these, though I hope you never have to.
Gwen Cooper : So, do I?
[giggles nervously]
Gwen Cooper : I'm sorry, it's just, I don't even kill spiders in the bath.
Captain Jack Harkness : Nor do I. Not with a gun.
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Toshiko Sato : The little boy? You said there was a name on the card around his neck?
Gwen Cooper : Flanagan. Tom Erasmus Flanagan.
Captain Jack Harkness : Unusual name, that'll help. Run a full check. Births, marriages, deaths. Criminal records, passports. However long it takes, wherever he is, we'll find him.
Owen Harper : Found him. Flanagan, Thomas Erasmus. 74 Bryneiron Terrace, Butetown.
[pauses]
Owen Harper : He's in the phone book.
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Bernie : Aren't you going to arrest me?
Captain Jack Harkness : No. We're not the police.
Bernie : But I robbed that!
Captain Jack Harkness : I know.
Bernie : And you're gonna rob it back off me?
Captain Jack Harkness : So call the cops!
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Captain Jack Harkness : This kid, Bernie. Where does he live?
Toshiko Sato : Splott.
Owen Harper : Splott?
Ianto Jones : I believe estate agents pronounce it, 'Sploe'.
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Captain Jack Harkness : The problem with seeing the future is you can't just sit and look at it. You got to try and change things. Make it happen differently.
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Gwen Cooper : When do you get to go home? You seem to live here. You don't, do you?
Captain Jack Harkness : Gotta be ready. The twenty-first century's when it all changes. And I hate the commute.
Gwen Cooper : Where do you sleep?
Captain Jack Harkness : I don't.
Gwen Cooper : Doesn't it get lonely at night?
[Jack doesn't answer]
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[Owen has a knife in Ed Morgan's face and speaks to him]
Owen Harper : Why should you get away with it?
Captain Jack Harkness : Owen...
Owen Harper : You said you were sorry, you said you didn't want to hurt her but you didn't stop!
Captain Jack Harkness : Owen!
Owen Harper : What if I didn't stop? Would I be sorry?
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Captain Jack Harkness : For the case to be reopened, you need new evidence or a new witness.
Owen Harper : I saw it happen.
Captain Jack Harkness : No, you didn't. You weren't there! You saw the echo of a moment amplified by alien technology. So just tell me how that'll play in court.
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Captain Jack Harkness : The city will be awake soon. All those people, all that energy.
Gwen Cooper : All those ghosts
Captain Jack Harkness : We're surrounded by them. We can't see them, we can't touch them... But there're there all right. A million shadows of human emotion. We've just got to learn to live with them.