handbasketofdreams:

acd: dammit, i shouldn’t have married watson off. how am i going to get him on adventures with holmes now?

acd, after a few drinks: okay, so get this. watson’s at home, right? with his wife. and this other woman comes and asks for help. so watson has to go to an opium den to get her husband. and there he bumps into holmes, who just happens to be doing an investigation in that exact opium den. so then watson gets rid of the other guy and tells his wife he won’t be coming home and holmes invites him to a client’s house in the country.

acd, downing another shot: