* Sam and Gene's synchronized desk-leaping from the pilot.
* Gene's introduction:
-->'''Sam''': All right, surprise me. What year is it?
-->'''Gene''': A word in your shell-like, pal. ''(slams Sam up against a filing cabinet)''
-->'''Sam''': Big mistake. ''(shoves Gene away)''
-->'''Gene''': Yeah? ''(sucker-punches Sam in the stomach)'' They reckon you've got concussion. Well, I couldn't give a tart's furry cup if half your brains are falling out. Don't ''ever'' waltz into my kingdom acting king of the jungle.
-->'''Sam''': Who the hell are you?
-->'''Gene''': Gene Hunt, your DCI. It's 1973, almost dinner time. I'm 'aving 'oops.
* After being threatened and nearly murdered for what he saw, Leonard, the key witness to an armed robbery, gets "witness protection" in the shape of a row of spotlights shining in the face of the identity parade.
-->"You don't have to say anything, just point and..."\\
''[Leonard steps past the lights and up to Trent's face - and points.]''
* Sam to Gene in 2.05: "I can just about handle you, driving like a pissed up crackhead and treating women like beanbags. But I'm going to say this once, and once only, Gene. Stay out of ''WesternAnimation/CamberwickGreen!''"
* In 1x06, during the hostage situation, Gene is shot three times, point blank. The thing is? He's got ''three flasks'' in his jacket.
* How, at the end of episode 2.01, Sam gets Tony Crane sent to an asylum, therefore preventing a future murder AND keeping his cover. AWESOME.
* Annie Cartwright's entire performance as "Cherie Blair" in episode 2.04.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fr1b24yII Don't move! You're surrounded by armed bastards!]]"
* Chris Skelton saved the day in 2.06, showing up in the nick of time to resolve the hostage situation by shooting the hostage taker.
* Sam's suicide/epiphany, set to Music/DavidBowie's [[TitleDrop "Life]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic on Mars"]], was beautiful.
* Sam confronts the woman who led him into a HoneyTrap on the orders of a local gangster he was getting too close to, and when she makes the mistake of getting a bit snide about it he verbally demolishes her in response.
-->'''Sam:''' You're a loser, Joni... or whatever your name is. Because you live in fear. And that's not really living at all, is it? Now, I don't live in fear. I'm alive.
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