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Anonymous asked: If you weren't actors, what would you both be doing?

Watson:  When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a doctor.

Holmes:  You’d make a good doctor.

Watson:  What makes you think so?

Holmes:  You’re a caretaker.  It’s in your nature.

Watson:  I know what you’d be doing.  Fighting crime.

Holmes:  Not necessarily.  Puzzles, mysteries, challenges.  That’s what draws me, and one finds those things in many places.  I can’t imagine myself among those whose job it is to fight crime.  I’d have to set myself up as some sort of free agent.

Watson:  Well, you can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a show on telly about somebody solving crime with their special expertise.  Perhaps we could solve crime with our acting prowess.

Holmes: How would that work?

Watson:  I don’t know.  Jessica Fletcher managed it, somehow.

[in which “Performance” John and Sherlock Answer Your Questions. Submit yours to the Askbox, click the tag for previous questions and answers.] 

19 August 2011 ·

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