Capt. Thomas Gregson quotes from Elementary

Gregson

There's something you got to try to understand. Guys like him, they walk between the raindrops, they don't get wet. People like you do. People like his ex-girlfriend do.

Gregson

Everybody? Listen up. It has come to my attention that there's some of you that aren't thrilled the way some things are done around here. Think I've given our consultants a little too much sway. Some friends of mine wanted to let me know before it was too late to right the ship. And I appreciate that. We've got a mission here. It's to protect this city and the citizens that live in it. You are all part of that effort every day. Most of you do yourselves and this department proud. And for that, I want to thank you. But if anybody has a problem with how I utilize all the tools at my disposal, be it Holmes and Watson or the coffee machine... (in an adamantine overtone) there's the door. Back to work.

Capt. Thomas Gregson

If I'm not leaving my people in good hands, I'm not leaving my people.

Capt. Thomas Gregson

You don't wanna say out loud that you run SBK, we get it. But ten people are dead and two of them are kids. So if we double-pinky promise not to arrest you for saying something we all know is true, are you finally gonna start talking to us like a man?!

Tell me, how do clients typically introduce you?

Watson

What do you mean?

I mean, I find it hard to believe they'd actually tell someone they've been assigned a glorified helper monkey.

Watson

Helper monkey? You and I have what's known as companion/client confidentiality, which means you can introduce me however you'd like: friend, co-worker, relative, and I'll play along. But, to be honest, most clients just call me their companion.

Hmm. Captain Gregson!

Gregson

Holmes, how are you doing?

Watson, this is Captain Gregson. Captain Gregson, this is Miss Watson, my personal valet.

Watson

You're in the danger zone also.

Gregson

I've been a cop for 30 years! I carry a gun!

Watson

[muttering] And a penis.

Gregson

What I want... is to be with my wife.

Now? After 28 years of missed dinners and weekends at the precinct?

Gregson

Come on. When did I ever tell you I wanted to be anything but a cop?

When did I tell you that I was always gonna be okay with that?

Gregson

Give the man a moment, would you? He's a brave and brilliant instrument of justice. All we gotta do is stay out of his way, and he'll lead us right to the truth.

I've known Tommy Gregson a long time. I'm guessing he didn't actually say that.

He may have used different words to make the same point.

Sherlock Holmes

I came here to apologize. I owed you, and Detective Bell, a proper good-bye before I left. It was a difficult time. I was--I was thinking of no one but myself.

Capt. Gregson

Must have been a day that ended in "y."

You're a son of a bitch, you know that? I told you what I told you in confidence. I told you because I had to tell someone, not because I wanted you to jump my partner in the middle of the street in front of half my precinct.

Capt. Gregson

He didn't get half of what he deserved.

Well I got the whole 15th--people who have no idea what was going on--trying to figure out why you did it. You're not saying anything. Stotz isn't saying anything. But I'm hearing whispers everywhere I go this morning. This is worse than what happened.

Capt. Gregson

The guy laid hands on you. Did you honestly expect me to do nothing?!

I am not nine years old anymore, Dad. I'm a cop. I can handle myself.

Capt. Gregson

Did you bring a child to work today?

Sherlock Holmes

Oh no, that's Mason. He's older than he looks. A bit.

Capt. Thomas Gregson

Anyone ever tell you you're not much of a statesman?

Sherlock Holmes

Some statesmen have.

Capt. Thomas Gregson

Where'd you get those? Are they hot?

Sherlock Holmes

If you're concerned about provenance, just umm, just focus on those ones.

Sherlock Holmes

Despite the abject failure of your first nuptials you don't have any such misgivings about the institution, do you? So it would not be a violation of your personal ethics.

Captain Thomas Gregson

Should I phrase it like that when I get down on one knee?

Sherlock Holmes

A set of keys. Decker must have lost them as he struggled to move the body.

Capt. Thomas Gregson

What makes you think they're Decker's?

Sherlock Holmes

Let's just say I'm familiar with the lock at his house and leave it at that, shall we?