Irene Adler London's so bleak this time of year. Not that I'm pining for New Jersey, I prefer to travel in the winter.
3rd most-quoted character in Sherlock Holmes (2009): in 13 of its 115 quotes
Most scenes with: Sherlock Holmes (9)
I told you to let it breathe. Can you taste the comet?
More lines from Irene Adler
3 quotes Irene Adler Irene Adler I'm Irene Adler again.
Irene Adler I've never been in over my head.
Scenes with Irene Adler
9 scenes Irene Adler Now, by the looks of things, you're between jobs.
And you between husbands. How much did you get for the ring?
Irene Adler Oh, he was boring, and jealous, and he snored. [shrugs] I'm Irene Adler once again.
Irene Adler [Holmes confronts Irene about her employer]
Why are you always so suspicious?
Should I answer chronologically or alphabetically?
Irene Adler So … case closed. Which makes this a social visit.
No, it's a "you're in over your head, Irene" visit.
You know, somehow I knew you wouldn't leave.
Irene Adler [holds up a newspaper, showing the headline "Sherlock Holmes – WANTED"]
You made the front page.
Only a name and no picture.
Irene Adler Anyway, it appears that you'll be working outside the law now, and that's my area of expertise.
I feel safer already.
Irene I've never woken up in handcuffs before.
I have … naked. [referring to earlier in the film]
Irene He's just as brilliant as you are, and infinitely more devious.
We'll see about that.
Irene You'll miss me, Sherlock.
Sadly, yes.
Irene Adler [Irene makes her way to the carriage]
He'll do it.
Irene's Employer
Well done, Miss Adler. That's precisely why I hired you.
Irene Adler I wager he will have our man in the next 24 hours.
Irene's Employer
He'd better. Reordan is the key to what Blackwood was doing. He's essential to my plan.
[Further conversation is interrupted when some idiotic street bum (later revealed to be Holmes in disguise) suddenly rams into the side of the carriage] [slurring, as if drunk]
A little rifle range could go a long way, sir. Rubbin' the calluses off these German bands – [Irene's employer brandishes a wrist-mounted gun. The bum backs off] God save the Queen. God save the Queen. [He tips his hat and walks away]
What were you doing [out there]?
Will you allow me to explain?
I wish you would.
[Cuts back to when Irene Adler left the room. Holmes pretends to strum chords on his violin. As soon as Irene closes the door behind her, Holmes races over to the window and arrives in time to see her exiting the building. He runs back to the door. Watson is coming upstairs when Holmes comes running downstairs, and he opens the window at the midway landing]
Holmes, what are you doing?
Nothing.
Are you wearing a …
… false nose? No.
[as Holmes steals his coat]
Tell me that that wasn't … [before he can say "Irene Adler," Holmes jumps out the window and lands on a dumpster] Holmes, where are you going? [Holmes jumps onto another dumpster that is much lighter and the roof collapses under his weight.]
Watson! Uh, Watson! [Watson simply closes the window]
First Man [Holmes makes his way up a flight of stairs and into a back street. He eventually catches up to Irene. He hides behind a stall and watches as Irene passes a man in a passageway with a bouquet of flowers]
Got some flowers for you, sweetheart. Cut you a deal 'cause you're so pretty.
Irene Adler Oh! My lucky day!
Second Man
[comes up behind Irene and whispers in her ear]
Hello gorgeous, have you got something for me?
Irene Adler [Irene promptly pulls out a leather cosh and strikes the second thug across the face, pull out a stiletto and points it at the face of the first thug]
MOVE! [ She backs the thug into the wall, then she lowers the blade from his face to his neck and searches the man's pockets] Now what have we got here? Oh! [She takes the man's wallet, and the flower bouquet] Thank you.
That's the Irene I know. [He continues to follow Irene, passing through a small circus. He follows her through a small dressing tent, swiping some items to add to his disguise. Irene momentarily turns around, and does not notice that standing behind a performer carrying a weight is Holmes, wearing a top hat, a scarf, and an eyepatch over his left eye. As soon as she turns away, Holmes emerges from hiding and continues to follow her. He intercepts the carriage as it is coming along by ramming into the side of the horse, causing it to stop. The scene then fast-forwards through Holmes being yelled at by the driver and being scared off by the employer's wrist-mounted pistol and cuts to Holmes finishing his story]
This man intrigues me, Watson, he's got Adler on edge.
Which is no mean feat.
She's intimidated. She's scared of him.
Well she works for him.
Right.
Well, it's nothing to do with me, but I advise you: Leave. The case. Alone.
Well, I may not have a choice, hm? After all, I may be paying the rent on my own, soon. [points his violin bow at Watson] Thanks to you.
Get that out of my face.
It's not in your face; it's in my hand.
Get what's in your hand out my face.
