Elementary (TV Series)

An Unnatural Arrangement (2013)

Lucy Liu: Dr. Joan Watson

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• Dr. Joan Watson : You solved the case that Baskin gave me.

  Sherlock Holmes : What's a Baskin?

  Dr. Joan Watson : Detective Baskin. He asked me to look into a string of robberies. I brought the files home with me yesterday.

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh yes, that Baskin. I refer to most of the detectives here as Not Bell.

• Dr. Joan Watson : We have a finite number of Friday nights in our lives; why are we spending one of them here?

• Sherlock Holmes : Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long for the Captain's marriage to buckle. He's an excellent detective.

  Dr. Joan Watson : What does that have to do with it?

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, as you know, detection is a calling, not a job. Hardly leaves one with time left over to sustain the elaborate ruse of marriage.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Because, of course, you think marriage is an elaborate ruse.

  Sherlock Holmes : There are other ways to describe it. An unnatural arrangement which forces its participants into an unhealthy monogamy. An accretion of petty fights and resentful compromises which, like Chinese water torture, slowly transforms both parties into howling, neurotic versions of their former selves.