Lucy Liu credited as playing...
Dr. Joan Watson
- Dr. Joan Watson: What is that? A catapult?
- Sherlock Holmes: Uh, technically, it's a trebuchet. It's a scale model of a... much larger device.
- [he fires it and hits a small figurine across the room]
- Sherlock Holmes: Just as I thought. You recall the hiker who was killed by a blow to the head not far from Fort Covington?
- Dr. Joan Watson: Yeah, I read that link you sent me.
- Sherlock Holmes: I now believe she was struck by a bale of marijuana launched via trebuchet from Canada to the U.S. As far as your missing Maria goes, I too would much rather solve a case via a single quick deduction than by hundreds of hours of hard labor. You know, when it comes to that, I can be the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
- Sherlock Holmes: So, this Maria Rodriguez, she's a resident of New York, is she?
- Dr. Joan Watson: As far as the client knows. The problem is it's a pretty common name.
- Sherlock Holmes: Yeah.
- Dr. Joan Watson: She's one of 200 in a thirty-mile radius.
- Sherlock Holmes: But your Maria is late 20s, early 30s, isn't she? That should narrow the field a bit, surely.
- Dr. Joan Watson: Oh, to about three dozen candidates. That's still a lot of people.
- Sherlock Holmes: Hmm.
- Dr. Joan Watson: Any advice?
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, I needn't remind you that the vast majority of detective work is work. The uh, dogged drudgery of chasing down every lead, upending every chestnut shell to find that metaphorical pea.
- Dr. Joan Watson: I was hoping for a more elegant solution than knocking on the door of every Maria Rodriguez in New York.
- Dr. Joan Watson: I hate to think of him leaving us, but I get it.
- Sherlock Holmes: Of course you do. You change careers the way that most people change clothes.
- Dr. Joan Watson: Hey!
- Sherlock Holmes: The point being that you have to take risks in order to be the best version of yourself, as you obviously have.