Elementary (TV Series)

The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction (2014)

Lucy Liu: Dr. Joan Watson

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• Dr. Joan Watson : Why did you do that? He was just about to give us the file.

  Sherlock Holmes : Eh, you overestimate your charms. Blake Tanner is both arrogant and a fool. He's never gonna share his work with us. I decided within moments of meeting him to pursue the profile by alternative means. He is clearly a bully and a petty tyrant. And I suspect he's also a credit-hog.

  [cell phone chimes] 

  Sherlock Holmes : I noted the way his colleagues were looking at him as he escorted us to his back office. There was no shortage of contempt, so I wrote short notes to a few of them. And I'm quite confident that one of them will relish the chance to share the profile behind his back.

  [cell phone chimes] 

  Sherlock Holmes : See? Got a copy already.

  Dr. Joan Watson : What?

  Sherlock Holmes : Two, actually.

  [cell phone chimes again] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Make that three.

  [starts scrolling through the profile] 

  Dr. Joan Watson : Wait, is that the profile? You're scrolling too fast.

  Sherlock Holmes : I'm speed-reading; you moved out before we got to that portion of your training.

  [finishes scrolling] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Wonderful. This should give us a good start.

  Kitty Winter : Is there something helpful in there?

  Sherlock Holmes : The report is full of sophistry and various instances of tautological thinking and is generally plagued by the kind of laziness and intellectual vanity which is native to the profiler profession.

  Kitty Winter : So, why do you say it's a good start?

  Sherlock Holmes : 'Cause even a cursory glance at this document has convinced me that there's no such person as "Pumpkin". He's a construct of Blake Tanner's mind. A product of a profession which is trained to look for bogeymen in every dark corner. No, it's clear to me that each of the abductees attributed to Pumpkin was in fact taken by different people. The crimes aren't connected.

  Dr. Joan Watson : What about the olfactory signature?

  Sherlock Holmes : I can't explain the nutmeg. Not yet, but I do know that Blake Tanner has seized on one detail to form a link and then woven a web of tortured psychology in an effort to connect seven crimes which are, in fact, quite separate.

  [takes a breath and then continues] 

  Sherlock Holmes : We're gonna discover what really happened to Jessica Holder. And then, just for sport, we're going to explain the nutmeg connection. And then we're gonna prove to anyone who cares to listen that Blake Tanner has been a fool these past five years.

• Sherlock Holmes : I know, you, Watson. I know you'll never be happy within the confines of a quote unquote traditional relationship, and I said what I said, because it pains me to see you try to fit into one simply because it is the default mode of polite society.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Well, there is no reason to feel pain, because I'm happy with Andrew.

  Sherlock Holmes : But would you be happier without him, alternatively with him as an occasional sex partner and confidant, or with him when he's in the states and free to pursue other interests when he's not. There are any number of possible arrangements. All you need to do is find one which is true to your nature.

• Dr. Joan Watson : How do two adults have a relationship where one never calls the other anything but The Nose?