Being Human (TV Series)

The Looking Glass (2010)

Aidan Turner: Mitchell

Quotes 

• Policeman : [bursting into Mitchell's bedroom to arrest him]  YOU! GET UP!

  Mitchell : It's the library books, isn't it?

• [a dead girl, her bed and a nearly naked Mitchell are all covered in blood smears] 

  Herrick : Oh, can't leave the place looking like this.

  Mitchell : Don't we have people to take care of this kind of thing, no?

  Herrick : Yeah, back in Bristol, sure.

  Mitchell : What? There's no vampires in London?

  Herrick : Yeah, but their head guy and I, we don't, um... I sort of killed his mum.

• Chief Constable Wilson : Douglas Drakefield, arrested in 2005 for flashing, but he's got a good lawyer, so no conviction. Kiddie porn on the hard drive, April 2006. Again, no conviction. November 2006, assault on a minor. He gets two years, serves eighteen months. And then this afternoon we find him parked outside a primary school with a length of rope in the boot of his car.

  Mitchell : And this involves me how, exactly?

  Chief Constable Wilson : Well, it's time for affirmative action. I want this animal sent kicking and screaming to Hell, and you're the man to do it; so, get in there, vamp up, vamp out - whatever it is you do - and rip this fucker to shreds.

• Mitchell : George, you may want a normal family life, but whether you like it or not, you're never gonna be a normal family man. You need someone who gets you. The real you.

  George : Oh, and Lucy gets you, does she? She accepts you for what you are?

  Mitchell : Maybe some day I'll tell her the truth.

  George : Then you're an idiot. Relationships have secrets. No one can know every square inch of somebody else's soul, but it doesn't mean they're doomed to fail.

  Mitchell : No, you're wrong. I had someone like that. Someone who knew everything about me.

  George : Yes, but that was forty years ago.

• Mitchell : You have to feed the monster. It's like keeping a ball in the air. If it drops... You have to feed it because otherwise this panic creeps in, and it's not withdrawal. It's... it's terror. You start seeing their faces again. You think you've forgotten them but they come back - the smell of their hair, the taste on their lips, the last thing they said. The only way to stop is to kill again. You see, it's not an addiction. It's cowardice. It's not being able to face the alternative.

• Josie : So how many people have you killed?

  Mitchell : Dunno. It's hard to say. More than a hundred, less than a thousand.

• George : Hey, are you okay?

  Mitchell : Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?

  George : Uh, well, I don't know. Maybe the storm troopers dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night.

• Mitchell : Why couldn't I have taken a mute hostage?

• Chief Constable Wilson : You're like a dog that's been switched to a diet of dried food. You're losing all your shine. You see, there is a natural order to all things, and you're upsetting it. We've barely started. I've got dozens of names and you've got dozens of soldiers, and eventually someone will fall, and then another, and then another, and then we'll be back to our beautiful bloody chaos. This abstinence, this sudden morality - that's not who you are.

  Mitchell : All right.

  Chief Constable Wilson : Good lad. Now, go back and put that animal to sleep.

• Mitchell : I told you, I'm not a killer. None of us are killers now.

  Chief Constable Wilson : Sure you are. You're just goin' through a rough patch, that's all. You'll come good again.

• Mitchell : Is there another way out of here?

  Josie : You mean like a secret tunnel that connects to the sewage system?

  Mitchell : Yeah.

  Josie : No.

  Mitchell : Are you gonna cause me a problem?

  Josie : That depends. Are you gonna hurt me?

  Mitchell : Right now I'd say it's about fifty-fifty.