The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
The Six Napoleons (1986)
Colin Jeavons: Inspector Lestrade
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Quotes
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Inspector Lestrade : [Lestrade speaks slowly, deliberately, and sincerely without his usual arrogance] I've seen you handle a good many cases in my time, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than this.
[Holmes beams with pride]
Inspector Lestrade : We're not jealous of you, you know, at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we're proud of you.
[Holmes seems startled by this revelation]
Inspector Lestrade : And if you come down tomorrow, there's not a man from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable... who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand.
Sherlock Holmes : Thank you!
[Then quietly and softly with uncharacteristic humility]
Sherlock Holmes : Thank you.
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Sherlock Holmes : I dare call nothing trivial, Lestrade. Some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
Dr. Watson : Yeah. That dreadful business of the Abernetty family.
Sherlock Holmes : Yah! Woo.
Inspector Lestrade : I'd hardly call the dismemberment of an entire family trivial.
[Watson laughs]
Sherlock Holmes : Oh, Watson, would you be so kind as to explain?
Dr. Watson : What? Oh, uh, the point is that, um, it only came to Holmes's notice because of the depth to which the parsley had sunk into the butter on a hot day.
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Inspector Lestrade : If it might interest you, Mister Holmes...
Sherlock Holmes : [Staring intently at a dead body in the morgue] Forgive me, Lestrade; I was just contemplating the one mystery that not even I can solve... Death itself!
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Sherlock Holmes : I would be grateful, Lestrade, if you could make it convenient to come around to Baker Street at six o'clock this evening. Until then I would like to keep this photograph found in the dead man's pocket.
Inspector Lestrade : Ah, Mr. Holmes, that might be a vital clue.
Sherlock Holmes : I trust it is; otherwise it's of no interest to me.
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Inspector Lestrade : Don't suppose we can smoke, can we?
Sherlock Holmes : [immediately] No.
Inspector Lestrade : No. Thought as much.
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[Lestrade visits Holmes and Watson in their rooms at 221B Baker Street]
Dr. Watson : Anything remarkable on hand, Lestrade?
Inspector Lestrade : No, nothing in particular.
Sherlock Holmes : [after a long pause, lowers the newspaper he's reading and smiles at Lestrade] Then tell us about it.