Elementary (TV Series)

We Are Everyone (2013)

Jonny Lee Miller: Sherlock Holmes

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Quotes 

• Sherlock Holmes : No Belgian is that bad at backgammon.

• Sherlock Holmes : Are governments capable of evil? Yes, of course they are. All institutions are. But they're more capable of incompetence.

• [conversing in a chat room, Sherlock and Joan see the message, "And we want naked pics."] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Very well.

  [He stands and starts to unbuckle his trousers. The computer responds, "Not you. The chick."] 

  Dr. Joan Watson : [scoffs]  No.

  Sherlock Holmes : I remind you, we are investigating a murder.

  Dr. Joan Watson : *No*.

• Sherlock Holmes : What are you doing?

  Dr. Joan Watson : I'm looking at profiles of guys who winked at me on TrueRomantix.

  Sherlock Holmes : I weep for the whole desperate lot of you.

• Sherlock Holmes : Of course Mueller has nefarious plans for Kleinfelter. Why else the ruse?

  Dr. Joan Watson : I'm not arguing that he's a good guy. Can you just stop saying nefarious? That's like 15 times in the last ten minutes.

• [Despite Sherlock Holmes's protestations of innocence and appeals to call Captain Gregson of the NYPD, Secret Service agents continue interrogating him about emails he apparently sent threatening the life of The President of the United States, which was actually the work of the hacker collective Everyone] 

  Sherlock Holmes : You're in pursuit of the author of a series of hate pamphlets who calls himself Skrewdriver, are you not? I saw your bulletin board while you had me waiting at the desk. You want to know if he's a credible threat. If you make the call, I will tell you his identity.

  Agent 1 : You couldn't know that.

  Sherlock Holmes : Couldn't I? I know that you, Agent Polk, are in the later stages of a divorce and have recently started shaving your chest in anticipation of dating again...

  Sherlock Holmes : [points to second Secret Service agent]  ... and if you won't find alternative sources of protein, then you really need to resume eating meat. Veganism is not a choice to be made flippantly.