Elementary (TV Series)

Tag, You're Me (2015)

Jonny Lee Miller: Sherlock Holmes

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• Mr. Morland Holmes : [finding Sherlock in his office]  Was I expecting you?

  Sherlock Holmes : Not to my knowledge. But I can't rule out you having foreseen it via the black arts.

• Detective Marcus Bell : [Holmes and Watson arrive at the crime scene]  Hey. Look who they pulled off the bench.

  Sherlock Holmes : You said you had something interesting.

  Detective Marcus Bell : [sarcastic]  Missed you, too.

• Mr. Morland Holmes : I'm unclear as to why my lingering here is so troubling for you.

  Sherlock Holmes : You came here because you felt compelled to offer me your help. I did you the courtesy of accepting that help.

  Mr. Morland Holmes : Oh. You did that as a courtesy.

  Sherlock Holmes : I was under the impression it was important to you. Not to say I'm ungrateful. Are you waiting for the magic words before you disappear? Because thank you. The work that I do requires my complete mental faculty. Your presence here is an irritant. It's a burr in my cognitive fabric. I had assumed that, as with similar occasions in the past, you would take the completion of our transaction as your cue to be on your way.

  Mr. Morland Holmes : If you must know, I am still in New York because I'm working on a project. Something of a puzzle. It may take some time to solve. And when it's done, I'll move on.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, perhaps I can be of assistance. Quite good with puzzles. You've known that longer than anyone. You'll get the benefit of my help, and I'll get a father-free New York. A win for both of us.

• Sherlock Holmes : The point is to sup with her.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Donya Esfandiari.

  Sherlock Holmes : One of the richest hoteliers in the world. She's currently building a resort on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Simultaneously, as it happens, the global energy firm for which father consults wishes to erect a wind farm nearby. Mrs. Esfandiari has won an injunction against the wind farm, asserting that it would impair her view. Now, father thinks she's willing to drop it given the right favors in return.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Huh.

  Sherlock Holmes : "Huh"?

  Dr. Joan Watson : Well, between everything you told me, meeting him myself, I just, you know, imagined him doing heavier stuff. Seems a little... I don't know, frivolous.

  Sherlock Holmes : Father's work is anything but frivolous, I assure you. Thanks to him, this energy firm and other clients like them have literally brought light to lands that were dark and, just as often, rained darkness where once there was light. Father doesn't distinguish. Perhaps you need sanctions eased against a rogue nation so that you can sell them your tanks or your factories can only spew toxins if the U.S. doesn't sign an emissions treaty. Father can make it so, with the moral neutrality of the plague.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Now that sounds more like the guy I met. So if what he does is so evil, then...

  Sherlock Holmes : Not evil. Neutral. Like a shark or tsunami.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Fine, distasteful. Then why are you spending time with him?

  Sherlock Holmes : So that, ironically, I can spend less. As soon as he closes this negotiation, he will be gone.

• Dr. Joan Watson : I stopped by the station. I ran into Captain Gregson.

  Sherlock Holmes : Did he seem pleased about the Chief of Detectives' sudden reversal regarding our status?

  Dr. Joan Watson : He did. And as far as I could tell, he didn't know anything about your father pulling any strings. Just a higher-up changing his mind.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, the captain is a political animal. I'm sure he's used to not looking gift horses in mouths.

• Dr. Joan Watson : I see Clyde likes the food you made him.

  Sherlock Holmes : Yeah.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Or he just appreciates his dinner date going the extra mile.

  Sherlock Holmes : Eh, close, but wrong cold-blooded reptile. My dinner date is my father. I can understand you confusing him with Clyde. They could be dopplegangers. A car will be here for me shortly. I'm meeting him at a formal charity function. Malaria research or something. He wasn't sure.