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Shut up. / I didn't say anything. / You were thinking. It's annoying.
— Sherlock · 2010
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Sherlock's rudeness here is a character introduction in three lines: he is so quick that other people's thinking registers as noise. It became one of the show's most shared put-downs, a reaction line for anyone who is visibly mulling something over while the speaker would rather get on. It sits alongside his other early insults as the moment viewers learned to love how impossible he is.
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In context
Spoilers for SherlockShow the scene
The first episode of Sherlock, 'A Study in Pink' (series 1, episode 1, 2010). Sherlock Holmes is invited to the crime scene at Lauriston Gardens, where a woman dressed in pink has been found dead upstairs. As Detective Inspector Lestrade gets ready to brief him, Sherlock tells him to shut up. Lestrade protests that he said nothing, and Sherlock answers that he was thinking and that it is annoying. Sherlock then goes to work on the body, reads the word 'Rache' scratched into the floor and explains why the dead woman was not German.
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- Sherlock s01e01 transcriptCrime scene, upstairs roomReference checked
- Wikipedia: A Study in PinkPlotReference checked
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