Sherlock – Series Quotes [Season 3, Episode 1]

— Actually, that was mostly Mycroft's idea.
— Oh, so it was your brother's plan?
— Oh, but he could have needed a confidante... sorry.
— But he was the only one? The only one who knew?
— A couple of others. It was a very elaborate plan, it had to be. The next of the 13 possibilities was...
— Who else? Who else knew?
— ...
— Who?!
— Molly.
— Molly?!
— John...
— Molly Hooper and some of my homeless network and that's all.
— OK... OK. So just your brother, Molly Hooper and 100 tramps.
— Ha, no! 25 at most.

— How could you do that? How?!
— Wait, before you do anything that you might regret, one question, just let me ask one question. Are you really going to keep that?

— An agent gave his life to tell us that.
— Oh well, perhaps he shouldn't have done. He was obviously just trying to show off.

— No. We'll have to get rid of that.
— "We"?
— He looks ancient. I can't be seen to be wandering around with an old man.

Anybody who wears a hat as stupid as this isn't in the habit of hanging around other people, is he?

Sometimes a deception is so audacious, so outrageous that you can't see it even when it's staring you in the face.

— Just put me back in London. I need to get to know the place again, breathe it. Feel every quiver of its beating heart... And what about John Watson?
— John?
— Have you seen him?
— Oh, yes, we meet every Friday for fish and chips.

— Well, think of something.
— Why do you think I know what to do?
— Cos you're Sherlock Holmes, you're as clever as it gets.
— It doesn't mean I know how to diffuse a giant bomb! What about you?
— I wasn't a bomb disposal, I'm a bloody doctor!
— And a soldier, as you keep reminding us all.

— Those were your parents?
— Yes.
— Well... that is not what I..
— What?
— I mean, they're just so... ordinary.
— It's a cross I have to bear.

— Gosh, you don't know anything about human nature, do you?
— Hmm, nature? No. Human? No.

You know, for a genius, you can be remarkably thick. I don't care how you faked it, Sherlock. I want to know why.

— Oh, no, you're...
— Oh, yes.
— Oh, God!
— Not quite.
— You died, you jumped off a roof.
— No.
— You're dead.
— No, I'm quite sure, I checked.

— John, what is it?
— Well, the short version... not dead.

— I've written a blog on the varying tensile strengths of diffirent natural fibres.
— I'm sure there's a crying need for that!