Mr. Holmes (2015)

Milo Parker: Roger

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• Sherlock Holmes : I've decided to write the story down; as it was, not as John made it. Get it right, before I die.

  Roger : You're not going to die.

  Sherlock Holmes : I'm 93.

  Roger : I had a great-uncle who lived to be 102.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well done. That seals my fate. What are the odds that you would know two men who would live that long?

  Roger : Well, I didn't actually know him.

  [Holmes laughs] 

• Roger : You ever been bitten by a bee?

  Sherlock Holmes : Stung! Bees don't have teeth! Yes, I have.

  Roger : But not often, though.

  Sherlock Holmes : 7,816 times. I keep a record.

  [Mrs. Munro appears while Roger is smoking the hive] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, not entirely dreadful.

  Mrs. Munro : You ever been bit?

  Sherlock Holmes : No. I have never been bit.

• [Holmes explains a series of deductions about his last client] 

  Roger : But all that just told you he was married. How did you know he'd come to see you about his wife?

  Sherlock Holmes : [smiles]  Because when you're a detective, and a man comes to see you, it's usually about his wife.

• Roger : I shouldn't have said what I said.

  Mrs. Munro : Lesson there, then. Don't say everything you think.

• Roger : She wants me to be a bootblack!

  Mrs. Munro : Roger!

  Roger : She wants me to do what she does!

  Mrs. Munro : There's no shame in what I do!

  Roger : You complain enough about it! Always going on about how hard things are.

  [to Holmes] 

  Roger : She can barely read!

  [Mrs. Munro storms out of the room] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Go after her. Apologize for saying things that were meant to hurt. You were cruel! If you don't apologize, you will regret it.

  Roger : People always say that.

  Sherlock Holmes : Because it's true.

  Roger : Do *you* regret anything?

  Sherlock Holmes : [with feeling]  So much.

• [last lines] 

  Roger : [explaining to his mother the same way Mr. Holmes explained to him]  The queen runs the colony. Drones service the queen. The workers do the work.

  Mrs. Munro : Isn't it true...

• Mrs. Munro : [Coming into a side room in their cottage and seeing Roger staring at himself intently in a mirror, raising his eyebrows, turning slightly as he assesses himself from various angles]  What are you doing?

  Roger : Trying to see if I can tell where I've been.

  Mrs. Munro : Don't you know?

  Roger : Mr. Holmes can tell things like that just from looking at a person.

• Roger : Mum says you throw out most of the letters you get.

  Sherlock Holmes : And why do you think that is?

  Roger : The people who write want you to solve things. If you read their letters, you'd want to help.

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh, no. You give me too much credit. It's just if I were to read them, I'd feel obliged to respond.