Elementary (TV Series)
A View with a Room (2016)
Jonny Lee Miller: Sherlock Holmes
Quotes
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Fiona Helbron : I've had boyfriends before.
Sherlock Holmes : I myself have not. Perhaps I just haven't met the right guy.
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Sherlock Holmes : You want to steal something from a heavily armed, meth-dealing band of bike-riding Satanists?
Captain Will Lombardi : Interested?
Sherlock Holmes : I'm practically engorged. When do we start?
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Dr. Joan Watson : You know, you could've told me that you like her.
Sherlock Holmes : Beg your pardon?
Dr. Joan Watson : You like her.
Sherlock Holmes : Yes, I like Fiona. She's compulsively honest, and she's congenitally unpretentious.
Dr. Joan Watson : And pretty.
Sherlock Holmes : What are you getting at?
Dr. Joan Watson : You like her, as in *like* like.
Sherlock Holmes : You're suggesting a romantic interest; more specifically. you're suggesting a romantic interest in the vernacular of a prepubescent child.
Dr. Joan Watson : This is the book you loaned her. She wanted me to give it back to you.
[she hands it to him, smiling]
Sherlock Holmes : So?
Dr. Joan Watson : So? Hundreds of books in the house - how many volumes of poetry? Zero! You bought it for her.
Sherlock Holmes : Bought it to lend it.
Dr. Joan Watson : Right.
[still smiling]
Sherlock Holmes : Do you mind?
Dr. Joan Watson : No I don't mind at all.
[Sherlock stalks out of the room]
Dr. Joan Watson : Oh, come on!
[she follows]
Dr. Joan Watson : Why are you being so weird about this?
Sherlock Holmes : I'm being weird?
Dr. Joan Watson : Yes you are. You like someone. That's amazing!
Sherlock Holmes : I like many women, often two at a time. You know that.
Dr. Joan Watson : No this is not about sex. You really like her.
Sherlock Holmes : Stop using that word!
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Sherlock Holmes : Straightforward enough.
Captain Will Lombardi : Is it? My people have been working on this for weeks.
Sherlock Holmes : Then you should have come to see me weeks ago.