Written by Arika Lisanne Mittman
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Watson, what are you doing here?
Oh, I just came here to punch you.
Why are you making Clyde paint?
I'm not forcing him to do anything, he enjoys it.
I know you two have worked together or something, but do you really think he's just gonna give you one of his Super Bowl rings?
You've got no idea what the man owes me.
Thank you. You've been most helpful. You're free to resume your life of tedium and petty deception.
[disrupts a board meeting whose members are all murder suspects] Apologies for the interruption, but cold logic dictates that one of you is likely a killer.
Detective Bell, you're here. Excellent.
It's not Detective Bell today. The department told me I had too many vacation days built up, so I had to use 'em or lose 'em.
I'm aware you're off duty. In fact, that's exactly why I asked you here. I picked up some potentially interesting work involving stolen zebras. I thought it might be an opportunity for you to gain more exposure to my methods.
You want me to work a case with you?
An informal setting is a more fertile learning environment, don't you think? Think of it as a favor.
So I'll work for you, and somehow you're doing me a favor?
Well I do owe you a debt. You'll recall the unfortunate business with you and the bullet.
I remember when you got me shot. Look, I get it: You want somebody to talk at, but you don't want to bother Joan right now?
I will pay you.
I'm already getting paid today.
A donation to the charity of your choice, then.
How'd you know I didn't have plans for the day?
People who are forced by their employers to take time off don't generally have thriving social lives.
My rate to the Harlem Youth Club.
I wanted something normal, something that was mine....I don't think I can keep our work and my private life separate. It just doesn't seem possible. But you already know that. I mean, it's part of the reason you live the way that you do.
Yes, but my choices do not have to be your choices, Watson.
I might be better off if they were.
Joan drops a stack of books onto the desk, startling Sherlock awake.
Wow, I really enjoyed that.
You really are on your best behavior. It must have killed you not to just pick the lock.
Nonsense. I had several more seconds worth of waiting in me.
I feel clear about something. Our work, what we do, it's not just a job now, it's who I am. I'm a detective; I'm ready to embrace that. I live in this world--your world--and I probably will for the rest of my life....It means that it's ridiculous for me to think that I can have a normal life. I'm not gonna do that anymore. Just like I'm not gonna pretend that this isn't the best place for us to do our work.
You're always welcome to come here. You know that.
You don't understand. I'm saying that what I need to do is commit myself to this work completely. The best place for me to do that is here. I want to come back to the brownstone.
Teleplay by Bob Goodman
You're right. I am... remarkable. That's precisely why I can't help you.
ASAgatha Spurrell
What does you being amazing have to do...
[interrupts] No no no, I didn't say I was amazing, I said I was remarkable. The things that I do, the things that you care about, um... you think that I do them 'cause I'm a good person. I do them 'cause it would hurt too much not to.
ASAgatha Spurrell
Because you're a good person.
No, it hurts, Agatha. [points] All this. Everything I see, everything I hear, touch, smell; the conclusions that I'm able to draw; the things that are revealed to me; the ugliness. My work focuses me. It helps. You say that I'm using my gifts. I say I'm just treating them.
That's the sex blanket.
I have asked you not to call it that.
Who is she, and what time is she coming over?
We'd like your employee records and data.
EFEric Frazier
With all due respect, this has got a pretty broad reach. I'd like our lawyers to take a look at it first.
Indeed. They might contest the invasion of privacy as being too ironic.
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