Torchwood (TV Series)

A Day in the Death (2008)

Burn Gorman: Owen Harper

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Maggie : [about whether to commit suicide or not]  What do I do now?

  Owen Harper : You've got a choice. If you think that the darkness is too much then go for it. But if there is a chance, just some hope... It could be having a cigarette, or that first sip of hot tea on a cold morning. Or it could be your mates. If there is even a tiny glimmer of light, then don't you think that's worth taking a chance?

• Captain Jack Harkness : [Owen has just resurfaced after an attempt to kill himself by drowning]  Thirty-six minutes. Not bad.

  Owen Harper : You were watching?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Skinny guy in tight jeans runs into water, I was taking pictures.

• Security Guy : Hold it there!

  Owen Harper : [stops, removes hood, looks at guard and continues up the stairs slowly]  Evening. Nice place you've got here. Love what you've done with the pictures.

  Security Guy : Who are you? Why are my sensors not picking you up? Okay, stop. Stop! Or I'll shoot.

  Owen Harper : No, you won't. You're a security guard. Come on, that gun's just for show, innit? Do you know what a bullet does to a living person? It's not like a knife through butter. No no no no, it rotates, tears into the flesh and the gooey stuff behind it, rips into the organs and, oof, it's not nice. But anyway, I haven't got any body heat. You must know what that means. You can't kill a dead man.

  Security Guy : What are you?

  Owen Harper : I'm wrong.

  Security Guy : What are you?

  Owen Harper : [shows gloved hand with broken finger]  I'm broken. I'm Dr. Owen Harper.

  Owen Harper : [snatches gun, whispers]  And I'm having one hell of a day.

  [Owen punches out the guard with the butt of the gun] 

• Ianto Jones : You okay?

  Owen Harper : What do you think? Bet you're loving this, aren't you? It's like you've finally won.

  Ianto Jones : Didn't realize we were in a competition.

  Owen Harper : Oh, come on. Even Tosh had more of a life than you used to, and now you're always out on missions, you're shagging Jack, and I'm stuck here makin' the coffee!

  Ianto Jones : It's not like that. Me and Jack.

  Owen Harper : [bitterly]  Yeah, yeah. You an' Jack. Gwen's gettin' married, Martha's got her bloke; God, even Tosh 'ad Tommy. This is really shit!

  Ianto Jones : We've all gone through shit. I've seen you, dissecting them corpses. I've seen you save so many lives. You really gonna let this beat you?

• [first lines] 

  Owen Harper : My name is Doctor Owen Harper, and this is my life. A life that is full of action and violence and work and wonder. Secrets and sex and love and heartbreak and death. My death. The death I survived. The death I am now living through. Except that is isn't living. Every day is the same. I get up. Get ready for work, same as everyone else. The thing is, I'm not the same. I get to work and everyone's doing the same old thing. Babbling away about aliens and weddings. I'm not real. Three days ago, I died. And they think I'm fine, but they're wrong.

• Owen Harper : [on being told to go home]  What exactly do I do when I get home?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Watch TV, chill.

  Owen Harper : Jack, I'm dead. I'm permanently chilled. You know you get to live forever. I get to die forever. It's funny, that.

• Maggie : Okay, you're dead, and clearly that's a bit shit, and I'm sorry and everything, but if, if you are dead, then why are you here? You can't be wanting to jump, you can't die twice!

  Owen Harper : Sorry, are you an expert?

  Maggie : Sorry, are you an idiot?

  Owen Harper : Yeah, I'm a dead idiot.

• Owen Harper : Tosh, I'm scared. I'm scared that if I close my eyes, I'll get trapped. In the darkness.

  Toshiko Sato : I'm here.

• Owen Harper : And what the hell am I supposed to do in the meantime?

  Captain Jack Harkness : We always need someone to make coffee.

  Ianto Jones : [silently]  Oh, no.

  Owen Harper : Oh, no.

• Security Guy : Who are you?

  Owen Harper : I'm Doctor Owen Harper, and I'm having one hell of a day.