Elementary (TV Series)

While You Were Sleeping (2012)

Jonny Lee Miller: Sherlock Holmes

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• Sherlock Holmes : Attic theory. I've always believed the human brain is like an attic: storage space, facts, but because that space is finite, it must be filled only with things one needs to be the best version of oneself. It's important, therefore, not to have useless facts: the natterings that comprised your support meeting, for example, crowding out useful ones.

• [burning his violin; to Watson] 

  Sherlock Holmes : You were right about the stress relief. I felt like Jimi Hendrix for a second there.

• Dr. Joan Watson : Hey, I found something in the hall closet the other day.

  Sherlock Holmes : Was it the zipper mask? Because I swear I'm just holding that for a friend.

• [Holmes is looking through case files during an addict meeting] 

  Dr. Joan Watson : You're not supposed to be working here.

  Sherlock Holmes : Would you rather I put myself into another trance?

  Dr. Joan Watson : Oh, I already thought of that.

  [shows him a thumbtack] 

  Dr. Joan Watson : You even think about zoning out, this goes into the softest part of your thigh. Lots of nerve endings there.

  Sherlock Holmes : You wouldn't dare.

• [Last lines] 

  Dr. Joan Watson : Do you close yourself off to people and deny yourself things that might bring you pleasure *not* because it makes you a better investigator, but because it's some sort of penance?

  Sherlock Holmes : Penance?

  Dr. Joan Watson : For what happened in London, being addicted. I don't know, I guess it just occurred to me that it might be something that someone might do and not even know it.

  Sherlock Holmes : You always know it, Watson. If you didn't, it wouldn't be penance.

• Sherlock Holmes : I'm looking for a syringe.

  Dr. Joan Watson : What for?

  Sherlock Holmes : I'm going to stab it into the softest part of Miss Ellison's thigh. Lots of nerve endings there. No one can fake their way through that.

  Dr. Joan Watson : If you wanted to know if she was really in a coma, all you had to do was ask.

  [She lifts Yvette's arm and lets go, dropping Yvette's limp hand on her own face] 

  Sherlock Holmes : That's okay, but I can't stab her in the thigh?