- [in flashback]
- Captain Thomas Gregson: [on Sherlock] Give the man a minute, will you? He's a brave and brilliant instrument of justice. All we gotta do is stay out of his way, and he'll lead us right to the truth.
- [in the present]
- Judge Brewster O'Hare: I've known Tommy Gregson a long time. I'm guessing he didn't actually say that.
- Sherlock Holmes: He may have used different words to make the same point.
- Sherlock Holmes: Our actions are guided by a morality which *supersedes* any clumsy employee manual. The danger with rulebooks, Watson, is that they offer the illusion that leading a moral life is a simple undertaking, that the world exists in black and white. Welcome to the greys.
- Cassandra Walker: How did you learn about Mr. Dylan's criminal record?
- Sherlock Holmes: When I learned that James Dylan had sold Rada Hollingsworth her viatical, I did some cursory research into his background, research his employers had apparently neglected to do. That's the beauty of the Internet. Twenty-four-seven access to everything from twerking kittens to criminal records.