- Detective Marcus Bell: [Referring to a suspect they'd just questioned] The guy's obviously not a suicide risk, so you wanna tell us why you wanted his belt and laces?
- Sherlock Holmes: The shoelaces will make it harder for him to walk because, why not?
- Sherlock Holmes: Professor Vikner, good morning.
- Joshua Vikner: Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson. What took you so long?
- Detective Marcus Bell: That's great. We don't get to see the bomber coming and going, because Mr. Holmes' clients don't want to be seen coming and going?
- Sherlock Holmes: This Venn diagram has yielded a rogue's gallery of corporate toadies, but they're all too old, too dumb, or too diseased to helm a proper global conspiracy.
- Dr. Joan Watson: That was weird.
- Sherlock Holmes: Did you expect him to just surrender himself?
- Dr. Joan Watson: No, I mean the whole Moriarty thing. You, him, her.
- Sherlock Holmes: Are you twelve years old?
- Dr. Joan Watson: Moriarty wasn't the Vice President of Inhuman Resources; she didn't fill a job at a corporation that trades on a NASDEQ.
- Dr. Joan Watson: I know she had a kid; I just figured the father would be...
- Sherlock Holmes: More like me?
- Dr. Joan Watson: Less like her.
- Mr. Morland Holmes: I like to think of myself as a person who understands how the world works. This organization you described... I've never considered the possibility of such a thing.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, lack of imagination is an occupational hazard for an apex predator. A great white shark doesn't live in fear of shadows in the deep, does it?