— Punch me in the face,
— Punch you?
— Yes, punch me in the face. Didn't you hear me?
— I always hear "punch me" when you speak but it's usually sub-text.
— But the stranger can't just walk into a school like that.
— Anyone can walk in anywhere if they pick the right moment.
— Brilliant, Anderson.
— Really?
— Yes, brilliant impression of an idiot.
— When did we agree that?
— We agreed it yesterday.
— I wasn't even at home yesterday. I was in Dublin!
— It's hardly my fault you weren't listening.
At Buckingham Palace. Right. I am seriously fighting an impulse to steal an ashtray.
The inscription: "Crime in progress. Please disturb."
— People'll think...
— I don't care what people think.
— You'd care if they thought you were stupid or wrong.
— No, that would just make them stupid or wrong.
— Mr Holmes, if it was the end of the world, if this was the very last night... would you have dinner with me?
— Sherlock!
— Too late.
— That's not the end of the world, that's Mrs Hudson.
— You don't actually think I was interested in you? Why? Because you're the great Sherlock Holmes, the clever detective in the funny hat?
— No. Because I took your pulse.
We met twice, five minutes in total. I pulled a gun, he tried to blow me up. I felt we had a special something.
This is far more intimate, this is your heart and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any number and walked out with everything. But you just couldn't resist it, could you?
— Don't do that.
— Do what?
— The look.
— Look?
— You're doing the look again.
— Well, I can't see it, can I? It's my face.
— Yes and you're doing a "We both know what's really going on here" face.
— We do.
— No, I don't, which is why I find the face so annoying.
— First get rid of your boys.
— Why?
— I dislike being outnumbered, it makes for too much stupid in the room.
— And exactly how many times did he fell out of the window?
— It sort a bit of a blur, Detective Inspector. I lost count.
He will outlive God trying to have the last word.
— Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.
— No, friends protect people.
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