- Diana Holmes: How did it do that?
- Ianto Jones: It's automatic. It knows you're there. There are wave-bouncing detectors which emit high-frequency radio waves -
- Diana Holmes: Ooh look, bananas!
- Ianto Jones: Of course, bananas are far more interesting.
- [John Ellis finds a magazine with a bikini-clad model on the front]
- Ianto Jones: Welcome to the world of scantily-clad celebrities.
- John Ellis: But there could be children around here.
- Ianto Jones: Well, she's a childrens' TV presenter.
- Captain Jack Harkness: [having saved John from committing suicide] You can't just throw it away, not without trying!
- John Ellis: I'm not as strong as you! You don't understand.
- Captain Jack Harkness: I do. I was born in the future. Lived in your past. My time has gone, too.
- John Ellis: 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 Harkness: John, you're still young. You can get work, make friends, start a family.
- John Ellis: I did all that, Jack. Years ago. When I was meant to.
- Captain Jack Harkness: I can't leave you here.
- John Ellis: Then we'll wait. The sun will rise, we'll have some breakfast, take a walk...
- Captain Jack Harkness: Yes. A new day.
- John Ellis: 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 Harkness: You don't get reunited, John. It just goes black.
- John Ellis: How do you know?
- Captain Jack Harkness: I died once.
- John Ellis: Who are you?
- Captain Jack Harkness: A man, like you, out of his time, alone and scared.
- John Ellis: How do you cope?
- Captain Jack Harkness: It's just bearable. It has to be. I don't have a choice.
- John Ellis: But I do. If you want to help me, then let me go with some dignity. Don't condemn me to live.
- Owen Harper: I don't know if I can do this any more. 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.
- Diana Holmes: I love you too.
- [at the supermarket]
- John Ellis: Look at all this. We'd just come rationing in '53.
- Ianto Jones: Yeah, sorry. We are a consumer society.
- John Ellis: It's bloody fantastic!
- Owen Harper: I always thought the '50s were uptight, sexually repressed, you know.
- Diana Holmes: You didn't invent it, you know.
- Diana Holmes: Do you have a girlfriend?
- Owen Harper: No.
- Diana Holmes: So who do all those beauty products belong to?
- Owen Harper: Uh, me, actually.
- Diana Holmes: No?
- Owen Harper: Oi, real men can moisturise too, you know.
- John Ellis: That's an American accent, isn't it?
- Captain Jack Harkness: That's right.
- John Ellis: So how did you end up here, doing whatever it is that you do?
- Captain Jack Harkness: It's a long story.
- John Ellis: I'm a slow drinker. You know everything about me. What's the problem?
- Captain Jack Harkness: It gets kinda complicated.
- John Ellis: What, did you fall through time, too?
- [a long pause]
- Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah, you could say that.
- Diana Holmes: So what other strides have women made?
- Owen Harper: Well, under "strange but true", how about this? You don't have to have sex to have kids any more.
- Diana Holmes: What? How come?
- Owen Harper: Get yourself inseminated with a sort of syringe. Cheery little process. Seriously, men donate sperm anonymously. A little shuffle into a pot at a sperm bank. And they say romance is dead.