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Elementary, Season 1

Elementary is an American television series that premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012. It presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories set in New York City. It stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lu… more »

Watson:
Do you close yourself off to people and deny yourself things that might bring you pleasure not because it makes you a better investigator, but because it's some sort of penance?

Holmes:
Penance?

Watson:
For what happened in London; being addicted. I don't know. I guess it just occurred to me that it might be something someone might do and not even know it.

Holmes:
Well, you always know it, Watson. If you didn't, it wouldn't be penance.

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