The Scene That Was Never in the Script — And Became the Most Quoted Moment in the Entire Series.

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The Scene That Was Never in the Script — And Became the Most Quoted Moment in the Entire Series.

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The Scene That Was Never in the Script — And Became the Most Quoted Moment in the Entire Series.

There is a category of television moment that arrives without warning and stays permanently: the line that becomes a quote, a meme, a reference point, a shorthand for something larger than the scene it came from.

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For Sherlock, that moment is from , Series One. Holmes and Watson are at a crime scene. Watson asks a question. Holmes answers — correct, precise, slightly impatient — and then adds: "Oh, Afghanistan or Iraq?"

Watson stares. "Sorry?"

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