Toshiko Sato

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Naoko Mori
Naoko Mori was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1975. When she was four years old she moved with her family ...

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Toshiko Sato Quotes

	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Exit Wounds Toshiko Sato: Okay. So if you’re seeing this I guess it means I'm well, dead. I hope it was impressive, not crossing the road or an incident with a toaster. I just wanted to say, it’s okay. It really is. Jack, you saved me. You showed me all the wonders of the universe and all those possibilities and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Thank you. And Owen, you never knew, I love you, all of you. And I hope I did good.
	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 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 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 Toshiko Sato: [as Captain Jack takes an alien artifact out of a box] You said we weren't allowed to use that again. Captain Jack Harkness: It's just a mind probe. Ianto Jones: Remember what happened the last time you used it? Captain Jack Harkness: That was different. That species has extremely high blood pressure. Ianto Jones: All right, their heads must explode all the time. Gwen Cooper: Jack, we can't do this. What if you're wrong? If she is human, it'll kill her. Captain Jack Harkness: I'm not wrong. We have to find out what she is. Toshiko Sato: Take it easy, Jack. Stop at the first sign of trouble. Ianto Jones: Or the first sign of exploding.
	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 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 12: - Captain Jack Harkness Toshiko Sato: This period. You look like you fit in. Have you been here before? Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah. I can't explain but I served in the war in 1941. I was undercover; I needed a false identity so I took... his name. Toshiko Sato: Who were you before you took his name? [Jack doesn't answer] Why him? Captain Jack Harkness: It was convenient. Toshiko Sato: But if you chose his identity to steal, then he... Toshiko Sato: Dies. In battle. Toshiko Sato: When? Captain Jack Harkness: Tomorrow.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - Captain Jack Harkness Toshiko Sato: Why does that man have your name? I'm lost enough here without you holding back on me. Captain Jack Harkness: It's not my name. It's his. I took his. But I didn't realise he was... so hot. Toshiko Sato: Jack! Captain Jack Harkness: I know too much. Toshiko Sato: Then share. Captain Jack Harkness: You wouldn't want that. Trust me.
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - Combat Toshiko Sato: Is that yours? Captain Jack Harkness: [Searching a body] You think I would pick that ringtone?
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - Combat Captain Jack Harkness: [Looking into Weevil cage] That leaves us one option. Okay Janet. Time for a trip out. Toshiko Sato: You call it Janet? Captain Jack Harkness: Barbara just never seemed right.
	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 7: - Greeks Bearing Gifts Toshiko Sato: So, I'm shagging a woman and an alien. Mary: Which is worse? Toshiko Sato: I know which one my parents would say.
	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 Toshiko Sato: I think my desk is on fire! [Gwen and Owen pay no attention whatsoever]
	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 5: - Small Worlds Toshiko Sato: [showing photos of "fairies"] This is the youngest girl, and the girl's cousin. Ianto Jones: I blame it on magic mushrooms. Captain Jack Harkness: What you do in your own time is none of our business.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Cyberwoman Toshiko Sato: All I'm saying is, once in a while I'd like to drive. Owen Harper: Yeah and all I'm saying is no! Toshiko Sato: Why not? Owen Harper: I've shared cars with women before, I know what'll happen. They'll be an emergency, we're all raring to go, I jump in and what'll I find? Seat's in the wrong position, the rear view mirror's out of line and the steering wheel's in my crotch. By the time it's all sorted out, aliens will have taken Newport.
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Ghost Machine 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'.
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Ghost Machine 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] He's in the phone book.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Day One Toshiko Sato: You've got a boyfriend? Gwen Cooper: Yeah. You? Toshiko Sato: Haven't got time with this job. Gwen Cooper: What about you? Owen Harper: You gotta be joking. I can get all the grief I need here. Gwen Cooper: None of you have partners? Owen Harper: Just you. Gwen Cooper: I'm not being rude or anything- well, maybe I am, but- how do you switch off from all this? What do you do to relax? Owen Harper: I torture people in happy relationships.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Day One Owen Harper: 119 suspects- this things supposed to give us one clear match. Toshiko Sato: The CCTV was too low-res. Enlarge it and it breaks up, which means the software can't function properly. Ianto Jones: It's narrowed it down, I can check through the others. You know, the old-fashioned way- with my eyes?
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Day One Gwen Cooper: I don't know anything. Owen Harper: Not who he is, not where he's from, not anything. Except... him being gay. Gwen Cooper: No he's not. really, do you think? Toshiko Sato: Owen does, I don't. Ianto Jones: And I don't care. Owen Harper: Period military is not the dress code of a straight man. Gwen Cooper: I think it suits him. Sort of classic. Toshiko Sato: Exactly! I've watched him in action, he'll shag anything if it's gorgeous enough. Gwen Cooper: We know he's from America, right? Owen Harper: Don't even know that for sure. Toshiko Sato: No US citizen by the name of Jack Harkness born in the last fifty years. Gwen Cooper: Maybe his identity's classified. Ianto Jones: Used to be something big in the CIA, that's what I reckon. Gwen Cooper: He must have his reasons for wanting to keep things secret. Owen Harper: Sure he has. Doesn't stop me from wanting to know.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Day One Captain Jack Harkness: [watching CCTV] Wow. Toshiko Sato: My God! Gwen Cooper: He just... Captain Jack Harkness: Came and went. Owen Harper: Now that's how I'd like to go. Toshiko Sato: I'm sure we could arrange it.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Day One Gwen Cooper: So what's that supposed to do? Captain Jack Harkness: I'm using satellite tracking data to determine the inward trajectory of the meteorite. Toshiko Sato: He means he's trying to find out where its come from. Captain Jack Harkness: Hey, sometimes a little techno-babble is good for the soul.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Everything Changes Gwen Cooper: He was murdered. Toshiko Sato: Yeah. Gwen Cooper: And you covered it up? Toshiko Sato: It's my job.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Everything Changes Owen Harper: Shit. I said it was stupid, telling him he was dead. Toshiko Sato: Well, you try it! Owen Harper: Trust me, like that's going to work! Captain Jack Harkness: Told the last corpse he was injured. He wasted the whole two minutes screaming for an ambulance.

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