Sherlock (TV Series)

The Final Problem (2017)

Mark Gatiss: Mycroft Holmes

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• Mycroft Holmes : This is a private matter.

  Sherlock Holmes : John stays.

  Mycroft Holmes : [whispers]  This is family.

  Sherlock Holmes : [loudly]  THAT'S WHY HE STAYS!

• Mrs. Hudson : Would you like a cup of tea?

  Mycroft Holmes : Thank you.

  Mrs. Hudson : The kettle's over there.

• Mycroft Holmes : Memories can resurface. Wounds can reopen. The roads we walk have demons beneath, and yours have been waiting for a very long time.

• Mycroft Holmes : We're not actually going to discuss this, are we? I'm sorry, Doctor Watson. You are a fine man in many respects. Make your goodbyes and shoot him. Shoot him!

  Dr. John Watson : What?

  Mycroft Holmes : Shoot Doctor Watson. There's no question who has to continue from here. It's us. You and me. Whatever lies ahead requires brain power, Sherlock, not sentiment. Don't prolong his agony. Shoot him.

  Dr. John Watson : Do I get a say in this?

  Mycroft Holmes : Today we are soldiers. Soldiers die for their country. I regret, Doctor Watson, that privilege is now yours.

  Dr. John Watson : Shit. He's right. He is, in fact, right.

  Mycroft Holmes : Make it swift. No need to prolong his agony. Get it over with, and we can get to work. God! I should have expected this. Pathetic. You always were the slow one. The idiot. That's why I've always despised you. You shame us all. You shame the family name. Now, for once for your life, do the right thing. Put this stupid little man out of all our misery. Shoot him.

  Sherlock Holmes : Stop it.

  Mycroft Holmes : Look at him. What is he? Nothing more than a distraction, a little scrap of ordinariness for you to impress, to dazzle with your cleverness. You'll find another.

  Sherlock Holmes : Please, for God's sake, just stop it.

  Mycroft Holmes : Why?

  Sherlock Holmes : Because, on balance, even your Lady Bracknell was more convincing. Ignore everything he just said. He's being kind. He's trying to make it easy for me to kill him, which is why this is going to be so much harder.

  Mycroft Holmes : You said you liked my Lady Bracknell.

  Dr. John Watson : Sherlock, don't.

  Mycroft Holmes : It's not your decision, Doctor Watson. Not in the face, though. Please. I promised my brain to the Royal Society.

  Sherlock Holmes : Where would you suggest?

  Mycroft Holmes : Well, I suppose there is a heart somewhere inside me. I don't imagine it's much of a target, but... why don't we try for that?

  Dr. John Watson : I won't allow this.

  Mycroft Holmes : This is my fault. Moriarty.

  Sherlock Holmes : Moriarty?

  Mycroft Holmes : Her Christmas treat. Five minutes' conversation with Jim Moriarty five years ago.

  Sherlock Holmes : What did they discuss?

  Mycroft Holmes : Five minutes' conversation... unsupervised.

  [Sherlock sighs] 

  Mycroft Holmes : Goodbye, brother mine... No flowers... By request.

• Dr. John Watson : There's a place for people like you, the desperate, the terrified, the ones with nowhere else to run.

  Mycroft Holmes : What place?

  Dr. John Watson : 221B Baker Street.

• Mycroft Holmes : Doctor Watson, why would he do that to me? That was insane.

  Dr. John Watson : Uh, yes. Well someone convinced him that you wouldn't tell the truth unless you were actually wetting yourself.

  Mycroft Holmes : Someone?

  Dr. John Watson : Probably me.

• Mycroft Holmes : Heaven may be a fantasy for the credulous and the afraid, but I can give you a map reference for Hell.

• Mycroft Holmes : Well done, Doctor Watson! How useful you are. Do you have a suspicion we're being made to compete?

  Dr. John Watson : No, we're not competing. There's a plane in the air that's gonna crash. So what we're doing is actually trying to save a little girl. Today we have to be soldiers, Mycroft. Soldiers. And that means to *hell* with what happens to us.

  Mycroft Holmes : Your priorities do you credit.

  Dr. John Watson : No, my priorities just got a woman killed.

• Mycroft Holmes : [to Sherlock]  So, who loves you? I'm assuming it's not a long list.

• Dr. John Watson : [clears throat]  So there were three Holmes kids. What was the age gap?

  Mycroft Holmes : Seven years between myself and Sherlock, one year between Sherlock and Eurus.

  Dr. John Watson : Middle child. Explains a lot.

• Sherlock Holmes : You're gonna tell the truth, Mycroft, pure and simple.

  Mycroft Holmes : Who was it said "Truth is rarely pure and never simple?"

  Sherlock Holmes : I don't know and I don't care.

• Eurus Holmes : Countdown starting.

  Mycroft Holmes : How long?

  Eurus Holmes : No, no, no. The countdown is for me. Withholding the precise deadline, I'm gonna apply the emotional pressure more evenly where possible. Please give me an explicit verbal indication of your anxiety levels. I can't always read them from your behavior.

• Mycroft Holmes : That's the trouble with uniforms and name badges, people stop looking at faces. You'd be better off with clown outfits. At least they'd be satirically irrelevant.

• Mycroft Holmes : Sherrinford is more than just a prison or an asylum. Heaven may be a fantasy for the credulous and the afraid, but I can give you a map reference for hell.