bakerstreetbabes:

lyndsayfaye:

shaddicted:

danismymuse:

howellsbutt:

i dont watch sherlock and whatever context this is is very confusing

there wasn’t any context this was just how the scene happened bless this show

ALWAYS REBLOG THE HARPOON!

It was the one thing I REALLY wanted to see in season 2 from the books. You can imagine the level of my scream.

Context (The Adventure of Black Peter):

During the first week of July my friend had been absent so often and so long from our lodgings that I knew he had something on hand. The fact that several rough-looking men called during that time and inquired for Captain Basil made me understand that Holmes was working somewhere under one of the numerous disguises and names with which he concealed his own formidable identity. He had at least five small refuges in different parts of London in which he was able to change his personality. He said nothing of his business to me, and it was not my habit to force a confidence. The first positive sign which he gave me of the direction which his investigation was taking was an extraordinary one. He had gone out before breakfast, and I had sat down to mine, when he strode into the room, his hat upon his head and a huge barbed-headed spear tucked like an umbrella under his arm.

“Good gracious, Holmes!” I cried. “You don’t mean to say that you have been walking about London with that thing?”

“I drove to the butcher’s and back.”

“The butcher’s?”

“And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast. But I am prepared to bet that you will not guess the form that my exercise has taken.”

The weirdest shit in BBC Sherlock?  Yeah, it’s all canon.