Elementary (TV Series)

Meet Your Maker (2018)

Lucy Liu: Dr. Joan Watson

Quotes 

• Dr. Joan Watson : What is that? A catapult?

  Sherlock Holmes : Uh, technically, it's a trebuchet. It's a scale model of a... much larger device.

  [he fires it and hits a small figurine across the room] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Just as I thought. You recall the hiker who was killed by a blow to the head not far from Fort Covington?

  Dr. Joan Watson : Yeah, I read that link you sent me.

  Sherlock Holmes : I now believe she was struck by a bale of marijuana launched via trebuchet from Canada to the U.S. As far as your missing Maria goes, I too would much rather solve a case via a single quick deduction than by hundreds of hours of hard labor. You know, when it comes to that, I can be the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

• Sherlock Holmes : So, this Maria Rodriguez, she's a resident of New York, is she?

  Dr. Joan Watson : As far as the client knows. The problem is it's a pretty common name.

  Sherlock Holmes : Yeah.

  Dr. Joan Watson : She's one of 200 in a thirty-mile radius.

  Sherlock Holmes : But your Maria is late 20s, early 30s, isn't she? That should narrow the field a bit, surely.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Oh, to about three dozen candidates. That's still a lot of people.

  Sherlock Holmes : Hmm.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Any advice?

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, I needn't remind you that the vast majority of detective work is work. The uh, dogged drudgery of chasing down every lead, upending every chestnut shell to find that metaphorical pea.

  Dr. Joan Watson : I was hoping for a more elegant solution than knocking on the door of every Maria Rodriguez in New York.

• Dr. Joan Watson : I hate to think of him leaving us, but I get it.

  Sherlock Holmes : Of course you do. You change careers the way that most people change clothes.

  Dr. Joan Watson : Hey!

  Sherlock Holmes : The point being that you have to take risks in order to be the best version of yourself, as you obviously have.