- [last lines]
- Maggie: [about whether to commit suicide or not] What do I do now?
- Owen Harper: You've got a choice. If you think that the darkness is too much then go for it. But if there is a chance, just some hope... It could be having a cigarette, or that first sip of hot tea on a cold morning. Or it could be your mates. If there is even a tiny glimmer of light, then don't you think that's worth taking a chance?
- 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.
- Security Guy: Hold it there!
- Owen Harper: [stops, removes hood, looks at guard and continues up the stairs slowly] Evening. Nice place you've got here. Love what you've done with the pictures.
- Security Guy: Who are you? Why are my sensors not picking you up? Okay, stop. Stop! Or I'll shoot.
- Owen Harper: No, you won't. You're a security guard. Come on, that gun's just for show, innit? Do you know what a bullet does to a living person? It's not like a knife through butter. No no no no, it rotates, tears into the flesh and the gooey stuff behind it, rips into the organs and, oof, it's not nice. But anyway, I haven't got any body heat. You must know what that means. You can't kill a dead man.
- Security Guy: What are you?
- Owen Harper: I'm wrong.
- Security Guy: What are you?
- Owen Harper: [shows gloved hand with broken finger] I'm broken. I'm Dr. Owen Harper.
- Owen Harper: [snatches gun, whispers] And I'm having one hell of a day.
- [Owen punches out the guard with the butt of the gun]
- 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?
- [first lines]
- Owen Harper: My name is Doctor Owen Harper, and this is my life. A life that is full of action and violence and work and wonder. Secrets and sex and love and heartbreak and death. My death. The death I survived. The death I am now living through. Except that is isn't living. Every day is the same. I get up. Get ready for work, same as everyone else. The thing is, I'm not the same. I get to work and everyone's doing the same old thing. Babbling away about aliens and weddings. I'm not real. Three days ago, I died. And they think I'm fine, but they're wrong.
- Owen Harper: [on being told to go home] What exactly do I do when I get home?
- Captain Jack Harkness: Watch TV, chill.
- Owen Harper: Jack, I'm dead. I'm permanently chilled. You know you get to live forever. I get to die forever. It's funny, that.
- Maggie: Okay, you're dead, and clearly that's a bit shit, and I'm sorry and everything, but if, if you are dead, then why are you here? You can't be wanting to jump, you can't die twice!
- Owen Harper: Sorry, are you an expert?
- Maggie: Sorry, are you an idiot?
- Owen Harper: Yeah, I'm a dead idiot.
- Owen Harper: Tosh, I'm scared. I'm scared that if I close my eyes, I'll get trapped. In the darkness.
- Toshiko Sato: I'm here.
- Owen Harper: And what the hell am I supposed to do in the meantime?
- Captain Jack Harkness: We always need someone to make coffee.
- Ianto Jones: [silently] Oh, no.
- Owen Harper: Oh, no.