Sherlock (TV Series)

The Final Problem (2017)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock 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!

• 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.

• Sherlock Holmes : Hey, bro.

• Dr. John Watson : [to Sherlock having an emotional breakdown]  Look, I know this is difficult and I know you're being tortured, but you've got to keep it together.

  Sherlock Holmes : This isn't torture. This is vivisection. We're experiencing science from the perspective of lab rats.

  Sherlock Holmes : [pause]  Soldiers.

  Dr. John Watson : Soldiers.

  [John helps him back up again] 

• Sherlock Holmes : I think it's time you told me your real name.

  Girl on Plane : I'm not allowed to tell my name to strangers.

  Sherlock Holmes : But I'm not a stranger, am I? I'm your brother. I'm here, Eurus.

  Eurus Holmes : You're playing with me, Sherlock. We're playing the game.

  Sherlock Holmes : The game. Yes, I get it now. The song was never a set of directions.

  Eurus Holmes : I'm in the plane. I'm going to crash. And you're going to save me.

  Sherlock Holmes : Look how brilliant you are. Your mind has created the perfect metaphor. You're high above us, all alone in the sky, and you understand everything except how to land. Now, I'm just an idiot, but I'm on the ground. I can bring you home.

  Eurus Holmes : No. No, no. It's too late.

  Sherlock Holmes : No, it's not. It's not too late.

  Eurus Holmes : Every time I close my eyes, I'm on the plane. I'm lost. Lost in the sky and... no one can hear me.

  Sherlock Holmes : [whispering]  Open your eyes. I am here. You're not lost anymore.

  [Eurus opens her eyes and starts crying] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Now... you... you just... you just went the wrong way last time, that's all. This time, get it right. Tell me how to save my friend.

  [quick cut to Watson almost covered with water in the well] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Eurus. Help me save John Watson.

• Eurus Holmes : Mycroft told me you'd rewritten your memories. He didn't tell me you'd written me out completely.

  Sherlock Holmes : What do you mean, "rewritten"?

  Eurus Holmes : You still don't know about Redbeard, do you? Oh. This is going to be such a good day.

• 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.

• Vince : Who the hell are you?

  Sherlock Holmes : My name's Sherlock Holmes.

  Ben : The detective.

  Sherlock Holmes : The pirate.