Fear is wisdom in the face of danger. It is nothing to be ashamed of.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
[While waiting for the "ghost" to attack]
That watch that you're wearing - there's a photograph inside it. I glimpsed it once. I believe it is of Irene Adler.
[irritated] You didn't "glimpse" it, you waited till I had fallen asleep and looked at it.
Yes, I did.
You seriously thought I wouldn't notice?
Irene Adler.
Formidable opponent. A remarkable adventure.
A very nice photograph.
Why are you talking like this?
Why are you so determined to be alone?
Are you quite well, Watson?
Is it such a curious question?
From a Viennese alienist, no; from a retired army surgeon, most certainly!
Holmes, against absolutely no opposition whatsoever, I am your closest friend.
I concede it.
I am currently attempting to have a perfectly normal conversation with you.
[tersely] Please don't.
Why do you need to be alone?
If you are referring to romantic entanglement, Watson – which I rather fear you are – as I have often explained before, all emotion is abhorrent to me. It is the grit in a sensitive instrument...
[almost simultaneously with him] ... "the crack in the lens", yes.
Well, there you are, you see? I've said it all before.
No, I wrote all that. You're quoting yourself from The Strand Magazine.
Well, exactly.
No, those are my words, not yours! That is the version of you that I present to the public: the brain without a heart, the calculating machine. I write all of that, Holmes, and the readers lap it up, but I do not believe it.
Well, I've a good mind to write to your editor.
You are a living, breathing man. You've lived a life; you have a past.
[offended] A what?!
Well, you must have had...
Had what?
[haltingly, awkward] ... you know...
No.
[swallows] Experiences.
[angrily] Pass me your revolver. I have a sudden need to use it.
Damn it, Holmes, you are flesh and blood. You have feelings, you have... you must have... impulses.
[through clenched teeth] Dear Lord, I have never been so impatient to be attacked by a murderous ghost...!
I saw the ghost with my own eyes!
You saw nothing. You saw what you were supposed to see.
You said yourself: I have no imagination.
Then use your brain, such as it is, to eliminate the impossible, which in this case is the ghost, and observe what remains, which in this case is a solution so blindingly obvious even Lestrade could work it out!
[sarcastic] Thank you...!
Cocaine. A seven percent solution. Would you care to try it?
No. But I would quite like to find every ounce of the stuff in your possession and pour it out of the window.
[amused] I should be inclined to stop you.
Then you would be reminded, quite forcibly, which of us is a soldier and which of us a drug addict.
You're not a soldier, you are a doctor.
I'm an army doctor, which means I could break every bone in your body while naming them.
My dear Watson, you are allowing emotion to cloud your judgement.
Never on a case. You promised me, never on a case.
No, I just said that in one of your stories.
[angrily] Listen. I'm happy to play the fool for you. I will run along behind you like some halfwit, making you look clever, if that's what you need, [raising his voice] but DEAR GOD ABOVE, you will hold yourself to a higher standard!
Why?
Because people need you to!
What people? Why? Because of your idiot stories?
[matter-of-factly] Yes, because of my "idiot stories".
Once the idea exists, it cannot be killed.
When you're ready to go to work, give me a call. I'm taking Mary home.
You're what?
Mary is taking me home.
Better.
He's right, you know.
So what if he's right? He's always right, it's boring.
Mycroft Holmes [reading Sherlock’s tweets]: “Back on Terra firma.”
Don’t read them out.
“Free as a bird.”
God, you’re such a spoilsport.
Will you take this matter seriously, Sherlock?
I am! What makes you think I’m not taking it seriously?
“#OhWhatABeautifulMorning”
Sherlock Holmes [about Moriarty]: He’s planned something, something long-term. Something that would take effect if he never made it off that rooftop alive. Posthumous revenge. No, better than that – posthumous game.
Sherlock Holmes [voiceover]:There was once a merchant in the famous market at Baghdad. One day he saw a stranger looking at him in surprise and he knew that the stranger was Death. Pale and trembling, the merchant fled the marketplace and made his way many, many miles to the city of Samarra, for there he was sure Death could not find him. But when at last he came to Samarra, the merchant saw, waiting for him, the grim figure of Death. “Very well,” said the merchant. “I give in. I am yours. But tell me, why did you look surprised when you saw me this morning in Baghdad?”, “Because,” said Death, “I had an appointment with you tonight – in Samarra.”
‘The Duplicate Man – How could Dennis Parkinson be in two places at the same time? And murder one of them?’
Sherlock…
It’s never twins.
A jellyfish?
I know.
You can’t arrest a jellyfish.
You could try.
We did try.
John Watson [to Sherlock]: Godfather, we’d like you to be godfather.
God is a ludicrous fiction, dreamt up by inadequates who abnegate all responsibility to an invisible magic friend.
Yeah, but there’ll be cake. Will you do it?
I’ll get back to you.
Didn’t you get John’s text?
No. I delete his texts. I delete any text that begins “Hi.”
No idea why people think you’re incapable of human emotion.
Sherlock Holmes [to Rosamund]: As ever, Watson, you see but do not observe. To you, the world remains an impenetrable mystery, whereas, to me, it is an open book. Hard logic versus romantic whimsy – that is your choice. You fail to connect actions to their consequences. Now, for the last time, if you want to keep the rattle, do not throw the rattle.
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