Quotes
Owen: I don't know if I can do this anymore. This isn't how it works for me. I've slept with enough women, I've done the fuck buddies thing. This is not it. I can't concentrate. All I see is you, all I can think about is what you're wearing, what you're thinking, what your face looks like when you come. It's been, what, a week? And it's like, I don't know, when I'm not with you, um, I'm out of focus. How have you done this to me? I'm scared. I'm fucking scared.
Diane: I love you too.
Owen: I'll come with you.
Diane: I fly solo, Owen. I go faster and further than others.
Owen: You have no idea how this Rift works. You could end up anywhere.
Diane: That's the beauty of it.
Owen: It's too dangerous!
Diane: It's what I do.
Diane: The thing about love is that you're always at its mercy.
Captain Jack: I can't leave you here.
John: Then we'll wait. The sun will rise, we'll have some breakfast, take a walk...
Captain Jack: Yes. A new day.
John: And I'll suffer it all and smile and wag my tail and then, as soon as your back is turned, I'll make sure I do it properly. Because I want to die.
Captain Jack: You can't just throw it away, not without trying!
John: I'm not as strong as you! You don't understand.
Captain Jack: I do. I was born in the future, lived in your past. My time has gone too!
John: Why are you doing this? Speaking to me in bloody riddles. Keeping me here when my wife is dead, my son is a shell.
Captain Jack: John, you're still young. You can get work, make friends, start a family.
John: I did all that, Jack, years ago, when I was meant to.
Gwen: I just want you to know that people are more sexually aware these days, then maybe you'd be more careful.
Emma: Mum said that no man wants to marry soiled goods.
Gwen: Attitudes have changed. As long as it's safe and between two consenting adults, no-one cares.
Emma: So, how many men have you done it with?
Gwen: A few.
Emma: And, were you in love with all of them?
Gwen: No. Sex can just be about having a good time together. If you're in the right mood, with the right guy, it's the best. No big deal.
Diane: I'm waiting for you to pull out my chair.
Owen: Let me get this straight. You expect equality and chivalry?
Diane: I don't see why they should be mutually exclusive.
John: It must have been an awful Christmas for them, thinking I'd drowned. I just want to know what kind of life he had, my son. He might have kids. I could be passing my own flesh and blood in the street. Find him, Jack. He's all I've got left.
Owen: So how did you get into this?
Diane: Ferried planes during the War. Of course, when it was over, we were supposed to revert to being dutiful wives and daughters. But I got a taste for it. No pig-headed man was going to tell me what to do.
John: Look at all this. We'd just come rationing in '53.
Ianto: Yeah, sorry. We are a consumer society.
It's bloody fantastic!
Captain Jack: Your background stories should incorporate skills you already have. For instance, John, you could have run a corner shop.
John: No.
Captain Jack: We can fake references.
John: You can't take away our names! For God's sake, man, it's all we've got left. It's my son's name. It's the name above my shop.
Diane: But if all this is true, how do we get back?
Captain Jack: You don't. According to history, your plane never returned. I'm sorry.
John: Who are you exactly?
Captain Jack: The least you know about us, the better.
Ianto: Welcome to the world of scantily-clad celebrities.
John: But, there could be children around here.
Ianto: Well, she's a childrens' TV presenter.
Jack: There's no puzzle to solve, no enemy to fight. Just three lost people who've somehow become our responsibility.
Diane: How did it do that?
Ianto: It's automatic. It knows you're there.
Diane: But how?
Ianto: There are wave bouncing detectors which emit high frequency radio waves and then look for reflect...
Diane: Bananas!
Ianto: Of course, bananas are far more interesting.