Torchwood (TV Series)
Out of Time (2006)
Mark Lewis Jones: John Ellis
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Quotes
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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[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!
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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.
