The Best DS Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson Quotes

Jackie: You're jealous.
John: I'm not jealous. This isn't jealousy. I'm just trying to find out the truth. I'm trying to find out who did this to you. Who you ARE!
Jackie: Is it so surprising that I might have had a boyfriend?
John: You have your arms around him. You're smiling and you have your arms around him.
Jackie: Didn't you ever wonder?
John: You didn't tell. I didn't ask.
Jackie: And you weren't ever curious?
John: [Scoffs] The thought that... The thought that someone... And that he then... And he then... That he could be the person that did this to you... If it was sex you wanted...
Jackie: Then what? And you would have given it to me? If that had been true, then we would have... We would have...
John: We're born alone. We die alone.
Jackie: You always say that, but there's more to that quote, you know. I couldn't take my clothes off with the lights on. How was I ever going to take my clothes off for a man? For just any man? Sex is an itch you just scratch. But love... That's the itch so far down your back, you can't ever reach it with your own hand.

Jackie: Sing, you nutter.

Ira: Revolver or Sgt. Pepper?
John: [softly] Sgt. Pepper.
Ira: [nodding] Agreed. I'll see you in the morning, then.
John: Yeah.
Ira: You'll be alright?
John: Yeah.
Jackie: [after Ira leaves River's apartment] Linda or Yoko?
John: Linda.
Jackie: 'Cause she's blonde?
John: [chuckling] No.
Jackie: [laughing] 'Cause she's blonde.
John: No!

Jackie: And how many points, do you think, in a glass of wine?
John: Five?
Jackie: Three.
[slurps her drink]
Jackie: Nicoise salad, Petrie Express. A bit of tuna, a bit of egg, a few beans. A bit of olive. 19 points.
John: 19?
Jackie: All in the dressing.

Chrissie: What were you thinking? You're not on the case!
John: It's the same car.
Chrissie: Well, we'll leave that to forensics, shall we? You see psychs in the morning, like I asked you. Rosa, 9 AM. Be early. She'll only say what everyone else says.
[softly]
Chrissie: You can't bring Stevie back.
Jackie: [as River walks away] What does she know?
John: [chuckling] Exactly. Exactly!
[as Stevie turns to follow, we see that she has a gaping hole in the back of her head, and River is actually talking to himself]

Jackie: Rosa. That's a good name for a psychiatrist. I thought it went quite well.
[shaking her head]
Jackie: There's stuff you could have said. How long we've worked together, when we met, how I bug the shit out of you, how I won't give you any rest. Just stuff, stuff.
John: What are her credentials, references? Where does she come from, anyway?
Jackie: She done nine years with the Met and six years in Broadmoor.

Jackie: Sex is an itch to scratch. Love is an itch so far down your back that you can never scratch it with your own hand.

Jackie: Oi. Last holiday you took, you called me with heat stroke. From Scotland.
John: Told you I hate holidays.
Jackie: So get back to work, then. We made a promise to Erin's mother.

[first lines]
Fast: Can I take your order?
Jackie: Hurry up.
[pauses]
Jackie: Burger, extra cheese, no onions.
John: Uh, burger, uh, cheese, onion.
Fast: Window number two, please.
Jackie: [scoffing] Muffed it.