Sherlock (TV Series)
The Six Thatchers (2017)
Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Holmes
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Quotes
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Mycroft Holmes : Looks very... fully functioning.
Sherlock Holmes : Is that really the best you can do?
Mycroft Holmes : Sorry, I've never been very good with them.
Sherlock Holmes : Babies?
Mycroft Holmes : Humans.
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Sherlock Holmes : I delete any text that begins, "Hi."
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Mycroft Holmes : I met her once.
Sherlock Holmes : Thatcher?
Mycroft Holmes : Rather arrogant, I thought.
Sherlock Holmes : *You* thought that?
Mycroft Holmes : [laughs] I know.
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[Last lines]
Sherlock Holmes : [narrating] When does the path we walk on lock around our feet? When does the road become a river with only one destination? Death waits for us all in Samarra. But can Samarra be avoided?
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Sherlock Holmes : Intuitions are not to be ignored, John. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.
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Sherlock Holmes : [referring to a taxi] That's mine. You two take a bus.
Dr. John Watson : I don't... Why?
Sherlock Holmes : I need to concentrate and I don't want to hit you.
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Sherlock Holmes : Mary, no human action is ever truly random. An advanced grasp of the mathematics of probability mapped onto a thorough apprehension of human psychology and the known dispositions of any given individual can reduce the number of variables considerably. I myself know of at least 58 techniques to refine a seemingly infinite array of randomly generated possibilities down to the smallest number of feasible variables.
[pause]
Sherlock Holmes : But they're really difficult, so instead I just stuck a tracer on the inside of the memory stick.
[starts chuckling]
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Sherlock Holmes : You ever think I'm becoming a bit... full of myself, cocky or overconfident...
Mrs. Hudson : Yes?
Sherlock Holmes : ...would you just say the word "Norbury" to me? Would you?
Mrs. Hudson : Norbury?
Sherlock Holmes : Just that. I'd be very grateful.
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Mycroft Holmes : But remember this, brother mine. Agents like Mary tend not to reach retirement age. They *get* retired, in a pretty permanent sort of way.
Sherlock Holmes : Not on my watch.
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Sherlock Holmes : [to Mycroft] What are you, Wikipedia?
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Mrs. Hudson : A case? Oh, you're not up to it, are you?
Sherlock Holmes : Work is the best antidote to sorrow, Mrs Hudson.
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Mary Watson : How the f...
Sherlock Holmes : Please, Mary, there is a child present.
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Mycroft Holmes : Is that sentiment talking?
Sherlock Holmes : No. It's me.
Mycroft Holmes : Difficult to tell the difference these days.
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Dr. John Watson : And, uh... you, too, Sherlock.
Sherlock Holmes : You, too, what?
Dr. John Watson : Godfather. We'd like you to be godfather.
Sherlock Holmes : God is a ludicrous fiction dreamt up by inadequates who abnegate all responsibility to an invisible magic friend.
Dr. John Watson : Yeah, but there'll be cake. Will you do it?
Sherlock Holmes : I'll get back to you.
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Dr. John Watson : You can't arrest a jellyfish.
Sherlock Holmes : You could try.
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DI Lestrade : So, how's it going then, fatherhood?
Dr. John Watson : Oh, good, great. Yeah, amazing.
DI Lestrade : Get any sleep?
Dr. John Watson : Christ, no.
DI Lestrade : You at the beck and call of a screaming, demanding baby, woken up all hours to obey his every whim?
DI Lestrade : [looking pointedly at Sherlock] Must feel very different.
Sherlock Holmes : Sorry. What?
Dr. John Watson : Yes, well, you know how it is. All you do is clean up their mess, pat them on the head...
Sherlock Holmes : You two having a little joke?
Dr. John Watson : Never a word of thanks. Can't even tell people's faces apart.
Dr. John Watson : This is a joke, isn't it?
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Sherlock Holmes : I always know when the game is on. You know why?
Lady Smallwood : Why?
Sherlock Holmes : Because I love it.
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Sherlock Holmes : Can't stand it. Never can. There's a loose thread in the world.
Dr. John Watson : It doesn't mean you have to pull on it.
Sherlock Holmes : What kind of a life would that be?
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Sherlock Holmes : God is a ludicrous fiction, dreamt up by inadequates who abnegate all responsibility to an invisible magic friend.