Colin Jeavons credited as playing...
Inspector Lestrade
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- Inspector Lestrade: Don't suppose we can smoke, can we?
- Sherlock Holmes: [immediately] No.
- Inspector Lestrade: No. Thought as much.
- [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.