Mark Gatiss credited as playing...
Mycroft Holmes
- Mycroft Holmes: Looks very... fully functioning.
- Sherlock Holmes: Is that really the best you can do?
- Mycroft Holmes: Sorry, I've never been very good with them.
- Sherlock Holmes: Babies?
- Mycroft Holmes: Humans.
- Mycroft Holmes: I met her once.
- Sherlock Holmes: Thatcher?
- Mycroft Holmes: Rather arrogant, I thought.
- Sherlock Holmes: *You* thought that?
- Mycroft Holmes: [laughs] I know.
- Mycroft Holmes: But remember this, brother mine. Agents like Mary tend not to reach retirement age. They *get* retired, in a pretty permanent sort of way.
- Sherlock Holmes: Not on my watch.
- Mycroft Holmes: Is that sentiment talking?
- Sherlock Holmes: No. It's me.
- Mycroft Holmes: Difficult to tell the difference these days.
- [first lines]
- Mycroft Holmes: What you're about to see is classified beyond top secret. Is that quite clear? Don't minute any of this. Once beyond these walls, you must never speak of it. A D-notice has been slapped on the entire incident. Only those within this room, code-names Antarctica, Langdale, Porlock and Love, will ever know the whole truth. As far as everyone else is concerned, going to the Prime Minister and way beyond, Charles Augustus...
- [to Sherlock]
- Mycroft Holmes: Are you tweeting?