Elementary (TV Series)

High Heat (2017)

Dan Lauria: Louis Garmendia

Quotes 

• [NYOOPI President Louis Garmendia asks Sherlock Holmes for more time to improve the organization's standards before Sherlock dismantles it altogether] 

  Louis Garmendia : Look, Mr. Holmes, this-this thing we do, this job, it's important. Now, you say you don't like a lot of our membership, I get that, but at least they're in one place now. NYOOPI goes away, and they scatter in the wind. And I won't know if I could've made them better. I won't know if I could've kept a few from getting killed. Now, it's too late for Fred Kirby, but it's not too late for the rest.

  Sherlock Holmes : All I can promise you is that your organization will be spared my full energies until I have solved Fred Kirby's murder.

  Louis Garmendia : [sighs]  Well, I know how good you are, so I guess that doesn't give me much time. Thanks for hearing me out.

• [Louis Garmendia, president of the New York Order of Private Investigators or NYOOPI, comes to the brownstone to speak with Sherlock Holmes] 

  Louis Garmendia : I know you broke into NYOOPI's computer today. Someone used Fred Kirby's old log-in from an I.P. address inside the NYPD, and then they downloaded a bunch of our tax records. I could tell you didn't like us when we met. Got the feeling we embarrass you. You want to tell me what you're up to?

  Sherlock Holmes : It's quite simple, really. I'm going to dismantle your organization. NYOOPI is a blight on the profession which I love. It enables conmen and imbeciles to pass themselves off as detectives. Your group deserves to be exposed as the rubber stamp that it is.

  Louis Garmendia : Would it surprise you to know that I agree with you about NYOOPI? Mm-hm. I was an investigator for the ATF for over 15 years before I went private. I get steamed when I see the kind of folks that are advertising with our silver star. That's why I got involved, only I don't want to destroy it. I want to turn it around. We're offering training seminars now. We just launched a message board where people can crowdsource their cases. I want NYOOPI to help its members be better at what they do.

  Sherlock Holmes : Your members want to be better?

  Louis Garmendia : A lot of them mean well.

  Sherlock Holmes : That's not what I asked.