Murder Ex Machina

Elementary 4×9

& Watson: Sherlock!!
    Holmes: That sounded like the first volley of a recrimination.

& Watson: Have fun with Athena and Minerva.
    Holmes: Yeah, it’s impossible not to.

& Capt. Gregson: So not just a Russian. A very rich Russian.

& Det. Bell: He was out with some friends.
    Capt. Gregson: Since when does he have friends?
    Watson: These are... more like exercise partners.

& Watson: This locale has LED lights, which are blue/white in color. This car looks gray in sodium light, blue under LED.

& Watson: ...someone overrode the controls of the vehicle.
    Det. Bell: You saying you think someone hacked it and made it crash?
    Watson: Well, we’ve all seen the videos on the Internet. I mean, new cars like this are vulnerable to hacking.

& Watson: You’re paying him? ... I thought all your helpers worked for free.
    Holmes: No one is compensated in cash. In Mason’s case, I allow him to sniff your hair while you’re sleeping.

& Mason: What’s an oligarch?
    Holmes: In Russia’s case, part of an inner circle that practically owns the country.

& Mason: So why do you care?.. I mean, he was a bad guy.
    Holmes: ...even if there were no innocent victims, no murder should go unsolved, and no murderer should walk free. To think otherwise is to descend into a pit of moral relativism.

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& Holmes: I recently connected the brownstone’s exterior cameras to both the doorbell and the Internet. Someone pushes the button, I’m sent a live feed.

& Watson: The hacker’s signature is a picture of a cat?
    Mason: It’s not just a picture. It’s an ASCII portrait. That means you can only use keyboard characters to form the image. Letters, numbers, symbols.

& Mason: She’s kind of weird.
    Holmes: Weird enough to have taken several lives last night?
    Mason: She likes cats, so... sure.

& Watson: Driverless cars. Hyperloop trains. Rockets to colonize space. Pentillion is certainly ambitious.
    Holmes: They chase «moonshots...» It’s the current tech-speak for technologies which, if brought to fruition, could literally change the world.

& Holmes: Do me a favor— tell me the sky is green.
    Fiona: But it’s not. It’s blue... To be more accurate, it appears blue because of... diffused sky radiation.

& Phil: ...to tell the truth, it happens to tech companies more often than we like to admit, and usually, the people doing it are other tech companies.
    Watson: You steal from each other.
    Phil: Well, it’s been going on since Steve Jobs «borrowed» the idea for the Mac interface and mouse from Xerox.

& Harry Magarac: Look, I might be old-school, I know a couple of wiseguys. I’m not stupid enough to kill the Russian goose that lays the golden egg.

& Holmes: I’ve got a certain appreciation for strippers. I like watching them work... Well, in their own way, they’re experts in both deduction and human psychology. Observe how she’s evaluating the pool of potential marks... Which patrons will yield the most money for the least effort?...
        Right, she’s selected that man, likely because of his wristwatch, which denotes a certain financial status. Now she’s got to tailor her approach... Does he want a damsel in distress? Does he want a good-time girl? Does he want a romantic, lost soul?... Good-time girl.
        You and I are like well-informed spectators at a magic show. We know the, uh, truth behind the illusion, and for you, that ruins the appeal. But I enjoy watching an expert practice sleight of hand, even when I know what’s up her sleeve.

& Mason: I’m sorry, but I’m out. Anybody who can do that isn’t someone I want to be messing with.
    Watson: Well, what are Sherlock and I supposed to do?
    Mason: Smash your computers with a hammer, then take a vacation. A long one.

& Cindy Park: The war has brought the Ukrainian government a massive increase in foreign aid. It could be they don’t want that to end, but they need to keep up their image as victims of Russian aggression.

& Holmes: ...Я дуже вам вдячний.
    Det. Bell: Was that Ukrainian?
    Holmes: Might have been.

& Watson: So who stands to profit if the war continues?
    Mr. Soble: Dutch natural gas, Azerbaijani caviar, Polish vodka, Norwegian lumber. The folks who make money are the ones who provide an alternative source for the things the Russians can’t export because of the sanctions.

& Holmes: We won’t be taking any hackable cars for a while. Come on, I’ll explain on the subway.

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