Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Eddie Marsan: Inspector Lestrade

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Quotes 

• Inspector Lestrade : You know, in another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal.

  Sherlock Holmes : Yes, and you, sir, an excellent policeman.

• [Blackwood's coffin is opened] 

  Inspector Lestrade : That's not Blackwood!

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, now we have a firm grasp of the obvious.

• Sherlock Holmes : What of the coffin, Lestrade?

  Inspector Lestrade : Well, we are in the process of bringing it up.

  [Holmes looks at the unmoving constables] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Indeed? What stage of the process? Contemplative?

• [Lestrade brings Holmes, handcuffed, before the Home Secretary, Lord Coward] 

  Inspector Lestrade : Excuse me, my lord. I know it's unorthodox, but Mr. Holmes here has been making some serious accusations about you...

  [Lestrade lifts his lapel, showing a membership pin from the Temple of the Four Orders] 

  Inspector Lestrade : ...and the Order, sir.

  Lord Coward : I see.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, at least that solves the great mystery of how you became Inspector.

  [Lestrade turns and punches Holmes in the stomach] 

  Inspector Lestrade : Begging your pardon, my lord, but I've been wanting to do that for a long time.

• Inspector Lestrade : And you were supposed to wait for my orders.

  Sherlock Holmes : If I had, you'd be cleaning up a corpse and chasing a rumor. Besides, the girl's parents hired me, not the Yard. Why they thought you'd require any assistance is beyond me.

• Inspector Lestrade : [From inside Blackwood's tomb]  You took your time, Holmes.

  Sherlock Holmes : [portentously]  And on the third day...

• Inspector Lestrade : [finding Holmes standing in the center of a pentagram]  Did the Devil turn up?