Owen Harper

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Owen Harper Quotes

	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Exit Wounds Owen Harper: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't keep bloody screaming. Toshiko Sato: Because you're breaking my heart. Owen Harper: I'm sorry.
	Season 2 / Episode 12: - Fragments Owen Harper: [upon seeing a bomb at his feet] Snap!
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - A Day in the Death (3) 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.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - A Day in the Death (3) Security Guy: Who are you? Owen Harper: I'm Doctor Owen Harper, and I'm having one hell of a day.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - A Day in the Death (3) 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?
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Meat Owen Harper: So the protein chains are regenerating despite the mutilation, so not only is it replenishing its own flesh, but it's increasing it, giving them a brand new meat supply. Gwen Cooper: It will last them for years, then Toshiko Sato: If we understood how it worked, we could feed the whole world! Ianto Jones: [deadpan] We could release a single!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Meat Captain Jack Harkness: [talking about the alien] We're going to save it. Stabilize it, wait for the rift to open, and, fwooh, send it back. Ianto Jones: ...And guess who'll have to look after it in the meantime? Captain Jack Harkness: We are doing this. That's an order. Owen Harper: Fine. Ianto Jones: I'll stock up on plankton.
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - To the Last Man Toshiko Sato: He trusted me. Right to the end. Owen Harper: Because you were strong. All of this is still here, because of you. Toshiko Sato: Because of Tommy. Let's hope we're worth it.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Sleeper Gwen Cooper: It's just like going to sleep. Owen Harper: Only a bit colder.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Sleeper Ianto Jones: It's all over. Owen Harper: [pauses] Let's all have sex. Ianto Jones: [deadpan] And I thought the End of the World couldn't get any worse.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Sleeper Owen Harper: How d'you know all that? Ianto Jones: I know everything! And it says so on the bottom of the screen.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Sleeper Toshiko Sato: No, I can't just hook something up! The entire telephone network is down. Owen Harper: What about a mobile connection? Toshiko Sato: [slowly] The. Entire. Telephone. Network. Is down! Ianto Jones: Mobiles, landlines, tin cans with bits of string, everything, absolutely everything: no phones, phones all broken. Ianto Jones: Hello? Anyone there? No! Cause the phones aren't working!
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Gwen Cooper: All I'm saying is: You are speeding, and there are children. Owen Harper: Well, if kids are out at midnight, they've got it coming.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Owen Harper: What are we gonna do when we catch it? Toshiko Sato: Jack would know. Owen Harper: Yeah, well Jack's not here, is he. Jack's disappeared. Fat lot of good Jack is.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Gwen Cooper: You left us, Jack! Captain Jack Harkness: [sigh] I know, I'm sorry. Gwen Cooper: We knew nothing, Jack! Toshiko Sato: Where were you? Captain Jack Harkness: [smiles] I found my Doctor. Owen Harper: Did he fix you? Captain Jack Harkness: What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection. Ianto Jones: [softly] Are you going back to him? Captain Jack Harkness: I came back for you. [pause] All of you.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - End Of Days Owen Harper: We need to be prepared. We're helpless. All we're doing here is putting sticking plasters on gaping wounds! Captain Jack Harkness: What do you suggest? Owen Harper: I suggest you lead us and you tell us what the instructions are. Gwen Cooper: Owen. Owen Harper: No, come on. You're all thinking it too. You're the big man here. You keep all the secrets. Well, now's the time to tell us a few and tell us how the hell we're going to get out of this! Captain Jack Harkness: You wanna know the secret? There is no solution. I can't fix this. Because this was never meant to happen. The first thing you learned when you joined Torchwood is 'don't mess with the Rift'. But you disobeyed those orders, and now everything that's happening is down to you. Gwen Cooper: I only disobeyed instructions to get you back! Captain Jack Harkness: And now people are dying. Owen Harper: What, so I shouldn't have bothered? Who the fuck are you anyway, Jack Harkness? You don't even exist. We've looked. So if you're not even a real person, then why the hell should I follow your orders? Captain Jack Harkness: Get out.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - End Of Days Captain Jack Harkness: Gwen Cooper, so in love with your boyfriend you spend half your life in Owen's bed. Gwen Cooper: [Gwen punches Jack in the face and he falls to the ground] Fuck you. Owen Harper: [Owen points a gun at Jack's head] We're relieving you of your command, Captain.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - End Of Days Owen Harper: I thought we tidied up in here. What's the matter? Gwen Cooper: He was just here. Something's taken him; Jack's gone.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Captain Jack Harkness Ianto Jones: Maybe this is a trap. He could be sucking us back through time one by one. [to Gwen, via phone] Get out of there, Gwen. That's an order. Owen Harper: I'm sorry, but who exactly put you in charge?
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Captain Jack Harkness Ianto Jones: You have to let Diane go. Like I did with Lisa. Owen Harper: Don't compare yourself to me. You're just a tea boy. Ianto Jones: I'm much more than that. Jack needs me. Owen Harper: In your dreams, Ianto. In your sad wet dreams when you're his part-time shag, maybe. That rift took my lover and my captain. So if I die trying to beat it, then it will all be in the line of duty.
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - Combat Owen Harper: [a bag of grapes is thrown onto the table near his hospital bed] You shouldn't have. No, really, you shouldn't. I hate grapes.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - They Keep Killing Suzie Owen Harper: Give Ianto a stop watch and he's happy. Ianto Jones: [smiles] It's the button on top.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - They Keep Killing Suzie Owen Harper: You know, we never gave a name to the Glove. Toshiko Sato: I thought we called it the Resurrection Gauntlet. Owen Harper: I said cool name. Ianto Jones: How about the Rizzen-Mitten. Ianto Jones: I think it's catchy.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - They Keep Killing Suzie Owen Harper: [as Jack gets the knife that joins with the Glove] Ianto? Ianto Jones: [Deep breath] Life knife.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Gwen Cooper: Amanda Burton here has just finished the postmortem. Owen Harper: Okay, I can explain. Gwen Cooper: [cutting Owen off] As you may remember, Owen said said this was a woman killed by a single gunshot. Owen Harper: I'd have been there in like a minute. Gwen Cooper: Since then he has had to tweak some of his initial conclusions. The first being that this is not, in fact, a woman, but a man! Owen Harper: A young man. A very girly man! Gwen Cooper: But still, ultimately, a man. Then there was the cause of death. Owen said, GSW. [makes a buzzer sound] The correct answer was... Owen Harper: Unidentified trauma, but... Toshiko Sato: Unidentified trauma? Gwen Cooper: You see it in RTAs, when something like a post or steering column goes into the body at high velocity. However, the one thing that could be ruled out was... Owen Harper: [sighing heavily] Gunshot wound. Gwen Cooper: [smacking the railing with delight] Gunshot wound! So tell me, was there any part of your prognosis that was correct? Owen Harper: I got that it was a... skeleton. Gwen Cooper: [pointing dramatically] Yes you did! Yes you did! Owen Harper: [as Tosh and Jack walk away] You've just passed the point of no return. Gwen Cooper: [talking over Owen] Where did you train? Where did you train? Owen Harper: I trained at... Gwen Cooper: Did you train? Owen Harper: Look... Gwen Cooper: [off-screen as Jack and Tosh enter another room] Absolutely useless.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Owen Harper: D'you know what, Tosh? Sometimes I think even that stick up your arse has a stick up it's arse.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Owen Harper: Do me a favor. Just go over there, do your computer thing, and think about shoes? Thank you.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Owen Harper: [Gestures to a hole in a skeleton's rib cage] That remind you of anything? Toshiko Sato: Um, that bit in _Alien_ where that thing bursts out of John Hurt? Owen Harper: Mmm, I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. Does that remind you of anything helpful?
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Owen Harper: So, I started looking into devil worship and stuff from that era, see if there's anything about plucking out hearts, and would you believe it, there's nothing. They ate eyeballs, they drank blood, they had sex with animals, but they did not pluck out each others' hearts, because obviously that would have been weird.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Captain Jack Harkness: How's our friend there? Owen Harper: She's dead. Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah, thanks, Quincy.

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