Mary Morstan Quotes in Sherlock Holmes (2009)

[Watson and Mary enter Baker Street to find Holmes hanging from a noose]

Dr. John Watson: Don't worry, dear. Suicide is not in his repertoire. He's far too fond of himself for that.

[pokes Holmes sharply]

Dr. John Watson: Holmes!

Sherlock Holmes: [wakes up] Oh, good afternoon. I was attempting to determine the means by which Blackwood survived his execution - clearing your good name, as it were - but it had a surprisingly soporific effect, and I found myself carried off into the arms of Morpheus like a caterpillar in a cocoon.

[to Mary]

Sherlock Holmes: Good afternoon, dear.

Dr. John Watson: Get on with it, Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes: Well, cleverly concealed in the hangman's knot was a hook... oh, my, I think my legs have fallen asleep. I should probably come down.

Mary Morstan: John, shouldn't we help him down?

Dr. John Watson: No, no, I hate to cut him off mid-stream. Carry on.

Sherlock Holmes: Well, the executioner attached it to a harness which allowed the weight to be distributed around the waist and the neck to remain intact. Oh, lord, I can't feel my cheeks. Might we continue this at ground level?

Dr. John Watson: How did you manage it, Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes: I managed it with braces, belts and a coat-hook. Please, Watson, my tongue is going, soon I'll be of no use to you at all.

Dr. John Watson: Worse things could happen.

Sherlock Holmes: There is a toxin, refined from the nectar of the rhododendron ponticum. It's quite infamous in the region of Turkey bordering the Black Sea for its ability to induce an apparently mortal paralysis. Enough to deceive even a medical mind as tenacious and well-trained as yours. It's known locally as...

Mary Morstan: [noticing] What's wrong with Gladstone?

Sherlock Holmes: ...mad honey disease. Oh, he's just demonstrating the very effect I've just described. He doesn't mind.

Mary Morstan: [Mary asks Holmes to make some deductions regarding herself] What can you tell about me?

Sherlock Holmes: You?

Dr. John Watson: I don't think that's...

Sherlock Holmes: I don't know if that's...

Dr. John Watson: Not at dinner.

Sherlock Holmes: Perhaps some other time.

Mary Morstan: I insist.

Sherlock Holmes: You insist?

Dr. John Watson: You remember we've discussed this.

Sherlock Holmes: [demanding] The lady insists.

Mary Morstan: It does seem a little far-fetched, though. Making all these grand assumptions based on such tiny details...

Sherlock Holmes: Mm, that's not quite right, is it? In fact, the little details are by far the most important.

Det. Insp. Atherly Jones: I want to know where the pearls are.

Dr. John H. Watson: Yes, where are they?

Mary Morstan: Small's taken them.

Dr. John H. Watson: Then they are at the bottom of the river where we can find them... so now you'll be so terribly rich, I can't even claim you as a friend, much less ask you...

Mary Morstan: What?

Sherlock Holmes: Sorry the jewels are so distasteful to you, Ms. Marston, but I have the pearls. I took them from Jonathan Small when we first came to grips. I didn't want them to get wet, so I'm afraid you'll have to have them back

Dr. John H. Watson: Amazing!

Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.

[last lines]

Mary Morstan: Please... ask me.

Dr. John H. Watson: Will you, um...

Mary Morstan: Yes!

[they embrace]

Sherlock Holmes: Amazing!

Dr. John H. Watson: Elementary, my dear Holmes, elementary.

Dr. John H. Watson: You're not frightened?

Mary Morstan: Terribly! But rather thrilled, too.