Eddie Marsan credited as playing...
Inspector Lestrade
- Inspector Lestrade: You know, in another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal.
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes, and you, sir, an excellent policeman.
- [Blackwood's coffin is opened]
- Inspector Lestrade: That's not Blackwood!
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, now we have a firm grasp of the obvious.
- Sherlock Holmes: What of the coffin, Lestrade?
- Inspector Lestrade: Well, we are in the process of bringing it up.
- [Holmes looks at the unmoving constables]
- Sherlock Holmes: Indeed? What stage of the process? Contemplative?
- [Lestrade brings Holmes, handcuffed, before the Home Secretary, Lord Coward]
- Inspector Lestrade: Excuse me, my lord. I know it's unorthodox, but Mr. Holmes here has been making some serious accusations about you...
- [Lestrade lifts his lapel, showing a membership pin from the Temple of the Four Orders]
- Inspector Lestrade: ...and the Order, sir.
- Lord Coward: I see.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, at least that solves the great mystery of how you became Inspector.
- [Lestrade turns and punches Holmes in the stomach]
- Inspector Lestrade: Begging your pardon, my lord, but I've been wanting to do that for a long time.
- Inspector Lestrade: And you were supposed to wait for my orders.
- Sherlock Holmes: If I had, you'd be cleaning up a corpse and chasing a rumor. Besides, the girl's parents hired me, not the Yard. Why they thought you'd require any assistance is beyond me.
- Inspector Lestrade: [From inside Blackwood's tomb] You took your time, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: [portentously] And on the third day...