- Dr. Joan Watson: [Watson carries one of the chickens down to Holmes] Why is Romulus outside my door?
- Sherlock Holmes: That's Remus.
- Dr. Joan Watson: I don't care which cock I'm holding, I just want to know how it got there.
- [Holmes smirks]
- Dr. Joan Watson: Okay, congratulations, you got me to say it.
- Sherlock Holmes: I don't know if you've settled on an epitaph yet, but it does occur to me that that would look fantastic on a tombstone.
- Sherlock Holmes: [Holmes has rescued two fighting cocks and is planning to tame them. Watson appears nonplussed] You seem upset - you have an aversion to cocks?
- [last lines]
- Dr. Joan Watson: It worked. So, now what? We own chickens, don't we? I'm not feeding them.
- Sherlock Holmes: Someone just claimed credit for the bomb.
- Gareth Lestrade: Right. Aurelius. So we're after big game now, are we? There is a great white loose in these waters.
- Sherlock Holmes: Which is it?
- Gareth Lestrade: Beg your pardon?
- Sherlock Holmes: Are we hunting game, or are we fishing for sharks? 'Cause you can't have it both ways, metaphorically speaking.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, sorry, I refuse on principle to work with anyone who would willingly refer to themselves as czar.
- Sherlock Holmes: Lestrade, well I haven't seen you since you were publicly claiming credit for my work.
- Gareth Lestrade: That's one way of looking at it.
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes, one accurate way.
- Gareth Lestrade: Well, who's to say what's accurate or what's not?
- Sherlock Holmes: Me... Watson if you like.
- Miss Truepenny: [as Watson follows Sherlock into the office] Excuse me? Assistants wait out here.
- Dr. Joan Watson: Right.
- [She follows Sherlock in, and shuts the door in Truepenny's face]