(examining a body) No shell casings,, no skull fragments, no gray matter. He was killed elsewhere and then dumped here.
Yeah, tell me something I don't know.
A pig's orgasm lasts up to thirty minutes.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
(in the victim's office) Appointment book. Maybe it'll tell us what he got up to last night.
Unlikely he would notate trips to an underground Chinese gambling parlor.
Excuse me?
That's what he was doing last night.
I know you're just waiting for me to ask you why you think that.
(pause)
Why do you think that?
I'm glad you asked!
(later)
Mah-jongg tiles come in pairs, why would he hold on to one of each?
Because these tiles aren't for playing. They're membership cards to underground casinos. Aren't you gonna ask me how I knew that?
(Holmes just stares.)
Fine, whatever.
I texted you. You didn't have to come.
As I explained the other day, there's nothing more hazardous to my health than boredom. Besides, I thought it might be nice to meet the ex.
I'm pretty sure he's not going to show.
And here you sit.
I'll give him ten more minutes. If there's someplace else you have to be...
Not tonight, Watson. Not tonight.
[Watson, bemused, greets one and then two half-dressed women (identical twins) emerging from Sherlock's bedroom, followed by Sherlock himself.]
If you must know, Watson, the Lynch sisters and I share a mutually beneficial relationship.
If I must know? I didn't ask.
I need to study the differences that arise between two people with the same genetic material - in the Lynches' case, there are seven major ones - and they get-
I... didn't... ask!
MEMicah Erlich
If you know our work, you know that we introduced a new flagship product in 2009, "The Leviathan."
Yes, the safe that you marketed as "impregnable." Did you people learn nothing from the Titanic?
Before you say anything, I would like to remind you that I'm holding an ax.
It's obvious what happened: one of the original team sold the recipe for breaching The Leviathan to an outside party.
That's obvious?
When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth.
And what's impossible here is that you couldn't break into the safe but someone else could. In other words, you are the smartest man in the world. [pause] I'm waiting for you to challenge me and say that's ridiculous.
I put a lock code on here to prevent you from sending out texts!
I was hired to breach The Leviathan. Did you really think I wouldn't be able to get into your phone?
I know you're going to blow this off, but I'm going to say it anyway: thank you. I've never been able to make my family understand what I do.
Yes, well I meant very little of what I said.
There's the blowing off part.
I know my audiences; I simply told them what they wanted to hear. They're nice people, your family, but they are, at their core, conventional. You make an effort to appear conventional, but I know, Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the humdrum routine of ordinary life. Your family will never understand this, so I gave them some words that they would understand.
I suppose being proven right is the best gift of all. There was no genius who independently cracked the Leviathan. It was a question of copying the original team.
So that means you still might be the smartest person in the world.
I would never suggest that.
Really? I think that's the first time I've ever heard you say anything remotely modest.
That's not modesty. There's just no reliable way to test the hypothesis.
MWMary Watson
I know you think that I don't like your new career.
To put it mildly.
MWMary Watson
You're right, I don't like it, but not for the reasons that you think. I'm not happy that you're a sober companion, because it never seems to make you happy.
How do you know what makes me happy?
MWMary Watson
I know because you're my daughter. After you left medicine, after what happened with Liam, I've always thought that this job was something that you picked out of, I don't know, out of a sense of duty. When you came to dinner the other night, when the two of you talked about Sherlock's work, I saw something in you. It was a spark. A sense of excitement. I haven't seen that in you in a long time. You like what he does.
Yes, okay. I enjoy it, but I'm not a detective, Mom, and I'm almost done working with Sherlock and then it's on to another client.
MWMary Watson
Will the next client make you happy? People find their paths in the strangest of ways.
How do you deal with cases not working out the way you want them to?
The only promise a puzzle makes is an answer. Liking the answer doesn't factor in; in our line of work, it mustn't.
I'm quite proud of you, Watson. Your doggedness. I give you as much credit for solving this case as I do myself.
Thanks.
No wonder you're so keen to be my associate.
Sherlock --
As I proposed the other day, you can tell my father I've hit a bit of a rough patch. He'll keep the checks coming and you can continue to hone your skills.
I took another job this morning. I work with other therapists and I was referred to another client, so I'll be starting with him next week after you and I wrap up.
I see. I'm usually quite good with deductions.
Are you okay?
My dear Watson, whenever am I not?
TTherapist
I know how invigorating you found his work. You went from being a surgeon to an addiction counselor. There's no reason you couldn't make another change. Pursue work of a more, investigative nature.
Yeah, I'm not interested in becoming an investigator. I like what I do right now.
TTherapist
Well there's the rub I'm afraid. Short of your client falling off the wagon, your "right now" is coming to an end.
[To Holmes] I'm going to miss this. Well, maybe not this, but this. Working with you, I think what you do is amazing. I wanted to tell you that at the wrap up dinner but it seems less and less likely that's going to happen.
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