Mycroft: What do you think of MI5 security?
Mary: ... I think it would be a good idea.
Mary: ... I think it would be a good idea.
— MI-5's cold-case files versus an ex-assassin with a smart phone.
"I'm an Army doctor, which means I can break every bone in your body while naming them."
— Watson
Mary: But why would [Emilia Ricoletti] do that? Die to prove a point?
Sherlock: Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote.
[The ones wearing purple clothing slowly pull off their pointed hoods, revealing them to be women]
Sherlock: But an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes. To put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.
Sherlock: Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote.
[The ones wearing purple clothing slowly pull off their pointed hoods, revealing them to be women]
Sherlock: But an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes. To put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.
— The Summation of the Emelia Ricoleti case.
