Sherlock (TV Series)

A Study in Pink (2010)

Rupert Graves: DI Lestrade

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Quotes 

• Sherlock Holmes : Shut up.

  DI Lestrade : I didn't say anything.

  Sherlock Holmes : You were thinking. It's annoying.

• Sherlock Holmes : So, the shooter, no sign?

  DI Lestrade : Cleared off before we got here. But a guy like that would have had enemies, I suppose. One of them could've been following him, but... got nothing to go on.

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh, I wouldn't say that.

  DI Lestrade : Okay. Give me.

  Sherlock Holmes : The bullet they just dug out of the wall's from a handgun. A kill shot over that distance, from that kind of a weapon, that's a crack shot you're looking for. But not just a marksman, a fighter. His hands couldn't have shaken at all, so clearly he's acclimatised to violence. He didn't fire until I was in immediate danger, though, so strong moral principle. You're looking for a man probably with a history of military service and...

  [spots John] 

  Sherlock Holmes : ...nerves of steel...

  [pauses] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Actually, do you know what? Ignore me.

  DI Lestrade : Sorry?

  Sherlock Holmes : Ignore all of that. It's just the, er... the shock talking.

  DI Lestrade : Where are you going?

  Sherlock Holmes : I just need to... talk about the-the rent.

  DI Lestrade : I've still got questions...

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh, what now? I-I'm in shock, look, I've got a blanket.

• Sherlock Holmes : Why have I got this blanket? The-They keep putting this blanket on me.

  DI Lestrade : Yeah, it's for shock.

  Sherlock Holmes : I'm not in shock.

  DI Lestrade : Yeah, but some of the guys want to take photographs.

• Sherlock Holmes : You can't just break into my flat.

  DI Lestrade : And you can't withhold evidence. And I didn't break into your flat.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, what do you call this then?

  DI Lestrade : It's a drugs bust.

  Dr John Watson : Seriously. This guy, a junkie? Have you met him?

  Sherlock Holmes : John.

  Dr John Watson : I'm pretty sure you could search this flat all day, and you wouldn't find anything you could call recreational.

  Sherlock Holmes : John, you probably want to shut up now.

  Dr John Watson : Yeah, but come on.

  [pause] 

  Dr John Watson : No...

  Sherlock Holmes : What?

  Dr John Watson : You?

  Sherlock Holmes : Shut up!

  [to Lestrade] 

  Sherlock Holmes : I'm not your sniffer dog.

  DI Lestrade : No, Anderson's my sniffer dog.

  Sherlock Holmes : What, A... Anderson, what are you doing here on a drugs bust?

  Anderson : Oh, I volunteered.

  DI Lestrade : They all did. They're not strictly speaking *on* the drug squad, but they're very keen.

  Sgt Sally Donovan : [holding up a jar]  Are these human eyes?

  Sherlock Holmes : Put those back.

  Sgt Sally Donovan : But they were in the microwave.

  Sherlock Holmes : It's an experiment.

• Sgt Sally Donovan : [after Sherlock has disrupted their press conference on the serial suicides by sending the text message "WRONG!" to every single reporter's cell phone]  You've got to stop him doing that. He's making us look like idiots.

  DI Lestrade : If you can tell me *how* he does it, I'll stop him.

• Sherlock Holmes : [about the victim]  She's been married for at least ten years, but not happily. She's had a string of lovers, but none of them knew she was married.

  DI Lestrade : Oh, for God's sake, if you're just making this up...!

  Sherlock Holmes : Her wedding ring, ten years old at least. The rest of her jewelry's been regularly cleaned but not her wedding ring. State of her marriage, right there. The inside of the ring is shinier than the outside; that means it's regularly removed. The only polishing she gets is when she works it off her finger. It's not for work, look at her nails. She doesn't work with her hands; so, what, or rather who, DOES she remove her rings for? Clearly not one lover - she'd never sustain the fiction of being single over that amount of time - so more likely a string of them. Simple.

  Dr John Watson : That's brilliant!

  [everyone looks at him] 

  Dr John Watson : Sorry.

• Dr John Watson : So, why do you put up with him?

  DI Lestrade : Because I'm desperate, that's why. And because Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and I think one day, if we're very, very lucky, he might even be a good one.

• Sherlock Holmes : Serial killers, always hard... You have to wait for them to make a mistake.

  DI Lestrade : We can't just wait!

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh, we're done waiting. Look at her, really look! Houston, we have a mistake. Get on to Cardiff. Find out who Jennifer Wilson's family and friends were. Find Rachel!

  DI Lestrade : Of course, yeah, but *what mistake*?

  Sherlock Holmes : *Pink*!

• DI Lestrade : So we can read her emails, so what?

  Sherlock Holmes : Anderson, don't talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street.