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Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary (2012)

Rhys Ifans: Mycroft Holmes

The Grand Experiment

Elementary

Rhys Ifans credited as playing...

Mycroft Holmes

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  • Dr. Joan Watson: [at a safe house] Well, the good news is that this place is pretty secure, but if you're gonna be here for a few days, we're gonna have to get you some food.
  • Mycroft Holmes: "He has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions. He would rather be considered wrong than go to the trouble of proving himself right." Something I overheard Sherlock say to my father once. He was fifteen.
  • Dr. Joan Watson: I can't even picture him at fifteen.
  • Mycroft Holmes: It hurt, to be... assessed like that.
  • Dr. Joan Watson: He knows a lot. He doesn't know everything.
  • Mycroft Holmes: I could have followed father into business. I could have... followed Sherlock into his... passions, but I... wanted... this, I suppose.
  • Dr. Joan Watson: You are a success. You own restaurants all over Europe. And the things that you've done for your country...
  • Mycroft Holmes: Folly. Obviously. I should have said no when the agency approached me. But I remembered what Sherlock said, and I remembered my father failing to disagree. And I... I thought... I could prove, at least to myself, that I was... more than what they thought. Idiocy.
  • Sherlock Holmes: In my experience, the best frame-ups tend to terminate with the murder of the framee.
  • [Sherlock picks up Mycroft's car keys]
  • Mycroft Holmes: What are you doing?
  • Sherlock Holmes: Proving a point. Your car. I looked it over on the way up here. It's an impressive vehicle. I particularly like the remote starter function.
  • [Sherlock presses a button on the remote, and the car promptly explodes]
  • Mycroft Holmes: Bullocks! You realized Joan was here, and you manufactured a reason to intervene!
  • Sherlock Holmes: When MI6 asked you to join them, did they tell you to be an asset or just an ass?

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