You know what really tickles me??
In The Devils Foot Holmes basically says ‘I don’t fall in love but if I were hypothetically to love someone and they were killed then hypothetically I’d probably kill their murderer’ and then
AND THEN when Watson is shot by Winters in Three Garridebs Holmes literally fucking tells Winters in the presence of Watson that ‘If you had killed Watson, you would have not got out of this room alive.’
Hypothetically.