Sherlock Season 1 quotes

Sherlock Holmes

Totally scientific. Laboratory conditions. Quite literally...

John Watson

[whispering] He's in here with me...

Sherlock Holmes

Alright, keep talking. I'll find you. [pause] Keep talking!

John Watson

I can't, he'll hear me...

Sherlock Holmes

Tell me what you're seeing!

John Watson

[Shuddering] I don't know, but I can hear it...

Sherlock

[In the present] I knew what effect it had on a superior mind so I needed to try it on an average one. [John stops eating and looks up, insulted.] You know what I mean.

John Watson

[about being dosed with the experimental drug] Any long-term effects?

Sherlock Holmes

None at all. You'll be back to normal, we all will, once we've excreted it.

John Watson

Think I might have taken care of that already.

Moriarty

Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain. You need me or you're nothing — because we're just alike, you and I. Except you're boring. You're on the side of the angels.

Sherlock Holmes

Nothing in the Bank of England, the Tower of London or Pentonville Prison could possibly match the value of the key that could open all three.

Moriarty

I can open any door, anywhere with a few tiny lines of computer code. No such thing as a private bank account now. All are mine. No such thing as secrecy. I OWN secrecy. Nuclear codes? I could blow up NATO in alphabetical order. In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.

Jim Moriarty

But don't be scared. Falling is just like flying, except there's a more... permanent destination.

Mycroft Holmes

Too much history between us, John. Old scores. Resentments.

John Watson

Nicked all his smurfs? Broke his Action Man?

John Watson

School friend, maybe?

Mycroft Holmes

[laughs] Of Sherlock's?

Sherlock Holmes

Thank you, John.

Molly Hooper

Molly.

Sherlock Holmes

Yes.

Molly Hooper

You're a bit like my dad. He's dead. Oh, sorry...

Sherlock Holmes

Molly, please don't feel the need to make conversation. It's really not your area.

Molly Hooper

When he was dying, he was always cheerful. He was lovely. Except when he thought that no one could see. I saw him once. He looked sad.

Sherlock Holmes

Molly...

Molly Hooper

You look sad... when you think he [Watson] can't see you. Are you okay? Don't just say you are, because I know what that means, looking sad when you think no one can see you.

Sherlock Holmes

You can see me.

Molly Hooper

I don't count. What I'm trying to say is that, if there's anything I can do, anything you need, anything at all, you can have me. (flustered) No, I just mean... I mean... if there's anything you need - it's fine.

Sherlock Holmes

But what could I need from you?

Hello. Are you ready for the story? This is the story of Sir Boast-a-lot. Sir Boast-a-lot was the bravest and cleverest knight at the round table, but soon the other knights began to grow tired of his stories about how brave he was and how many dragons he'd slain, and some of them began to wonder, "Are Sir Boast-a-lot's stories even true?" Oh no. So, one of the knights went to King Arthur and said, "I don't believe Sir Boast-a-lot's stories. He's just a big, old liar who makes things up to make himself look good." And then, even the king began to wonder, but that wasn't the end of Sir Boast-a-lot's problems. No. That wasn't the final problem. The end.

Looked a bit of a weirdo if you ask me. They usually are, these vigilante types. [John stares at him] What are you looking at?

Sherlock Holmes

Joining me?

John Watson

Yeah, well, apparently it's against the law to chin the Chief Superintendent.

Sherlock Holmes

[On being arrested] Hmm. Bit awkward, this.

John Watson

There's no one to bail us.

Sherlock Holmes

I was thinking more about our imminent and daring escape.

John Watson

What?

Sherlock Holmes

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please all get on your knees? [Firing the gun in the air] Now would be good!

Do as he says!

John Watson

Just so you're aware, the gun is his idea... I'm just, you know...

Sherlock Holmes

[suddenly pointing the gun at John's head] My hostage!

John Watson

Hostage! Yes. That works...

Sherlock Holmes

You're wrong, you know? [Molly gasps in fright and spins round] You do count. You've always counted and I've always trusted you. But you were right. I'm not okay.

Molly Hooper

Tell me what's wrong.

Sherlock Holmes

Molly... I think I'm going to die.

Molly Hooper

What do you need?

Sherlock Holmes

If I wasn't everything you think I am, everything that I think I am... would you still want to help me?

Molly Hooper

What do you need?

Sherlock Holmes

You.

Sherlock Holmes

[John struggles to keep up with Sherlock as they flee handcuffed together] Take my hand [grabs John's hand].

John Watson

Oh, people are definitely going to talk.

John Watson

Paramedics. Mrs Hudson – she's been shot.

Sherlock Holmes

What? How?

John Watson

Well, probably one of the killers you managed to attract... Jesus. Jesus. She's dying, Sherlock. Let's go.

Sherlock Holmes

You go. I'm busy.

John Watson

Busy?

Sherlock Holmes

Thinking. I need to think.

John Watson

You need to...? Doesn't she mean anything to you? You once half killed a man because he laid a finger on her!

Sherlock Holmes

She's my landlady.

John Watson

She's dying... You machine. Sod this. Sod this. You stay here if you want, on your own.

Sherlock Holmes

Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.

John Watson

No. Friends protect people.