On tonight's episode

[i_favour_you]

Yes, thank you. I appreciate your knowledge that my very existence has been shattered and "terrible terrible things" are going to happen in the very near future.

Very enlightening. Very helpful.

Have I mentioned that I don't like you? I think we should make this clearer as days go on.

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[womanwhobeatyou]

You may despise the little mundanes, but here you are still, Sherlock.

[i_favour_you]

Helpful as ever.

I suppose you'll be the first to say you "called it".

[womanwhobeatyou]

Hm, not suggesting I have you on your knees. You must be in mental disarray.

And what can I say, I know myself.

[formersurgeon]

Sherlock, I can't imagine what you're going through right now. But who you are, what you do? None of that has changed.

[i_favour_you]

Apparently far better than I know you. There are things I...did not think you capable of. Not from a case of inability, just...decency.

[i_favour_you]

Oh, except that it has. Completely.

[formersurgeon]

Tell me how.

[womanwhobeatyou]

Oh? Then perhaps you should have listened to your gangly counterpart. I'm sure he'd tell you I'm capable of any sort of betrayal.

[i_favour_you]

Perhaps one could consider him wiser than I in this case.

Or perhaps I pegged you as someone else.

[i_favour_you]

The one person I---

But she's alive and---

[womanwhobeatyou]

You say that as if the possibilities are mutually exclusive.

[formersurgeon]

The one person you loved. And her death was a lie. I know. That's not all of you, Sherlock. She's not all of you. And that lie is terrible, and did terrible things to you. But that doesn't change the work. The things you've done since then. It doesn't change who you are.

I'm not saying this is going to be easy, by any stretch of the imagination. But you're going to get through it. I believe in you.

[i_favour_you]

Oh? Perhaps he's wiser and I thought you better than you are.

[i_favour_you]

At least someone believes in Sherlock Holmes.

[formersurgeon]

More people believe in you that you think. And none of this changes how I see you. What you are to me.

[womanwhobeatyou]

It's human nature to think better of the dead, isn't it?

[i_favour_you]

What it does change is how I see myself, Watson.

Somehow that is even more devastating than losing the way you see me.

[i_favour_you]

It's rather difficult to think better of the person you consider the whole of her sex, don't you think?

[formersurgeon]

"Somehow."

It will pass. You grieved for Irene. I'll bet that changed the way you saw yourself too. But it passed. You weren't the same, but you were still you. You won't be the same after this. But you'll still be you.

[i_favour_you]

No.

No, Watson. I don't know if I will.

[womanwhobeatyou]

Obviously you thought better of her than she was. Or am I missing the mark?

[i_favour_you]

There has to be a reason for it.

She wouldn't simply do this.

[formersurgeon]

You're stronger than that.

[womanwhobeatyou]

The promise of love, the pain of loss, the joy of redemption; then give him a puzzle and watch him dance

[i_favour_you]

It may not have been said to me, but I do know who you're referencing.

I would like to reiterate my original sentiment about the two of you being quite the pair.