On mun finally catching up on Elementary and the fate of Irene Adler

[womanwhobeatyou]

Really, dear. Rather obvious that this particular incarnation of me isn't dead, isn't it?

Any discerning woman would be able to see it. [Why yes, Holmeses, that is a dig. How'd you guess.]

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[i_favour_you]

You know I shan't forgive you if it's true.

[womanwhobeatyou]

Of course not, but it'd make it so much easier to forgive her, wouldn't it?

[i_favour_you]

No, she'll be alive for me to hate her.

[LONG PAUSE.]

I'd much rather hate her, knowing she's alive.

[womanwhobeatyou]

If you knew she were alive, I don't think you could resist looking for her.

[i_favour_you]

Yes.

I imagine that's part of the reason she is playing dead.

[womanwhobeatyou]

So you believe me now.

[i_favour_you]

No.

[There is an intensity to this, a "no, it can't be true" that signifies that yeah, all right, he already believes you.]

[womanwhobeatyou]

[Just this smile.]

Of course not. You'll miss me, dear, when you find out she's alive and are too petty to admit you miss her.

[i_favour_you]

[he loathes/adores this smile.]

If she's alive, I'll find her.

[womanwhobeatyou]

I expect she'll let you, when she wants to be found.

[i_favour_you]

I suspect she'd make it easier for me, yes.

I don't need the ease of a puzzle, Irene.

[womanwhobeatyou]

But you do admit to needing something.

[She means someone, and she knows you know it, Sherlock.]

[i_favour_you]

Puzzles, yes, always.

[AVOIDANCE? YES PLZ.]

[womanwhobeatyou]

Getting it wrong on the first try? You're slipping, Sherlock.

[Continued avoidance or professional pride, Sherlock, pick one.]

[formersurgeon]

He nearly became a murderer for her sake. If she's alive, then it wasn't M. or Moriarty who made him a shell of a man. It was her.

[womanwhobeatyou]

Is that supposed to make me feel guilty, Miss Watson?

[formersurgeon]

You? No.

But she should.

[If she does turn up alive? Oh, will Joan hate that woman.]

[womanwhobeatyou]

'Should' is terribly boring. I expect my counterpart would see it the same way.

Fourth wall? What fourth wall?

[formersurgeon]

Let me put it this way. I hope Sherlock has the same opportunity to strip her of her "protection."

I see no fourth wall here!

[womanwhobeatyou]

If you know about that, then you know exactly how well that ends.