Sherlock (TV Series)
The Lying Detective (2017)
Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Holmes
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Quotes
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Sherlock Holmes : Taking your own life. Interesting expression. Taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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Dr. John Watson : You didn't kill Mary. Mary died saving your life. It's her choice. No one made her do it. No one could ever make her do anything, but the point is, you did not kill her.
Sherlock Holmes : In saving my life she conferred a value on it. It is a currency I do not know how to spend.
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Faith Smith : [upon seeing Mycroft's helicopter] Oh, big brother is watching you.
Sherlock Holmes : Literally.
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Sherlock Holmes : There must be something comforting about the number three. People always give up after three.
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Sherlock Holmes : Stop talking. It makes me aware of your existence.
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Sherlock Holmes : You know, it's not my place to say, but it was just texting. People text. Even I text. Her, I mean. Woman. Bad idea. Try not to, but, you know, sometimes...
[pauses]
Sherlock Holmes : It's not a pleasant thought, John, but I have this terrible feeling from time to time that we might all just be human.
Dr. John Watson : Even you?
Sherlock Holmes : No. Even you.
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Sherlock Holmes : I'm not sweet. I'm just high.
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Dr. John Watson : [looking at needle marks on Sherlock's arm] Yeah, well, they're real enough, I suppose.
Sherlock Holmes : Why would I be faking?
Dr. John Watson : Because you're a liar. You lie all the time. It's like your mission.
Sherlock Holmes : I have been many things, John, but when have I ever been a malingerer?
Dr. John Watson : You pretended to be dead for two years!
Sherlock Holmes : Apart from that!
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Sherlock Holmes : As I think I have explained to you *many* times before, romantic entanglement, while fulfilling for other people...
Dr. John Watson : [interrupts] Would complete you as a human being.
Sherlock Holmes : That doesn't even mean anything.
Dr. John Watson : Just text her. Phone her. Do something while there's still a chance, because that chance doesn't last forever. Trust me, Sherlock, it's gone before you know it. Before you know it!
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Sherlock Holmes : [on John's therapist] Who's this one? Is this a new person? I'm against new people.
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Sherlock Holmes : You're suicidal. You're allowed chips. Trust me. It's about the only perk.
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Sherlock Holmes : The game's afoot.
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Sherlock Holmes : [talking about Irene] Oh, for God's sakes, I don't text her back!
Dr. John Watson : [laughing] Why not? You bloody moron! She's out there, she likes you and she's alive! And do you have the first idea how lucky you are?
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Sherlock Holmes : It's okay.
Dr. John Watson : It's not okay.
Sherlock Holmes : No... but it is what it is.
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Sherlock Holmes : I'm worried about you, Molly, you seem very stressed.
Molly Hooper : I'm stressed, you're dying!
Sherlock Holmes : Yeah, well, I'm ahead, then. Stress can ruin every day of your life. Dying can only ruin one.
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Sherlock Holmes : [embracing John] It's OK.
Dr. John Watson : [weeping] No, it's not.
Sherlock Holmes : No. But it is what it is.
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Sherlock Holmes : [holding an empty vase] Get me a fresh glass of water, please. This one's filthy.
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Dr. John Watson : Well, how is he?
Sherlock Holmes : [answering for Molly] Basically fine.
Molly Hooper : I've seen healthier people on the slab.
Sherlock Holmes : Yeah, but, to be fair, you work with murder victims. They tend to be quite young.
Molly Hooper : Not funny.
Sherlock Holmes : Little bit funny.
Molly Hooper : If you keep taking what you're taking at the rate you're taking it, you've got weeks.
Sherlock Holmes : Exactly, weeks! Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Sherlock Holmes : Do you know why I'm going to take your case? Because of the one impossible thing you said.
Faith : What impossible thing?
Sherlock Holmes : You said your life turned on one word.
Faith : Yes. The name of the person my father wanted to kill.
Sherlock Holmes : That's the impossible thing. Just that, right there.
Faith : What's impossible?
Sherlock Holmes : Names are not one word. They're always at least two. Sherlock Holmes. Faith Smith. Santa Claus. Winston Churchill. Napoleon Bonaparte... Actually, just Napoleon would do.
Faith : Or Elvis.
Sherlock Holmes : Well, I think we can rule both of them out as targets.
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Sherlock Holmes : Why do you do it?
Culverton Smith : Why do I kill? It's-it's not about hatred, or... or revenge. I'm not a dark person. Killing human beings...
[starts chuckling]
Culverton Smith : ...it just makes me... ah, incredibly happy. You know, in-in-in films, when-when you see dead people pretending to be dead, and it's just living people lying down? Well, that's not what dead people look like. Dead people... look like things. I like to make people into things. Then you can own them.
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Culverton Smith : Please, please, no violence. Thank you Doctor Watson. I don't think he's a danger any more. Leave him be.
Sherlock Holmes : No, no it's OK, let him do what he wants, he's entitled. I killed his wife.
Dr. John Watson : Yes you did.
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Dr. John Watson : It's for a case, you said.
Sherlock Holmes : Yep.
Dr. John Watson : What sort of case?
Sherlock Holmes : Too big and dangerous for any sane individual to get involved in.
Dr. John Watson : You're trying to put me off?
Sherlock Holmes : God, No. I'm trying to recruit you.
[He smiles]
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Sherlock Holmes : I have to drink a cup of tea.
Wiggins : This cup of tea... code?
Sherlock Holmes : It's a cup of tea.
Wiggins : Because you might prefer... some...
[air quotes]
Wiggins : ...coffee.
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Faith : You're my last hope.
Sherlock Holmes : Really? That's bad luck, isn't it? Good night. Go away.
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Sherlock Holmes : They dropped me. Twice!
Mrs. Hudson : And you know why they dropped you dear? Because, they know you.
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Cornelia : The kids would love to meet you both. I think he's sort of promised.
Sherlock Holmes : Oh, okay.