Tea in a very public place, maybe, because she ain't stupid. She pretends to laugh at his jokes and he pretends not to be worried about what syringes she's hiding in her corset. ;)
So, basically, I got the impression that she's his equal in the same way that Sherlock is, but she's too smart to turn her back on a guy with the temperament of a box of rabid weasels.
Ah, I like that, and now I'm thinking about how Irene finds Sherlock so fascinating because while she clearly knows a lot of very smart people, most of them are probably either government officials or criminals with grand schemes for world domination, and when you've got all the world's secrets on your phone just because powerful people are careless during sex, that gets boring after a while. Whereas Sherlock spends his time trying to figure out why some random, unimportant hiker died on a sunny day, never mind who the guy was, because for him it's the puzzle that matters most, not the power behind it. And that's interesting! And new! No wonder she looked at Sherlock and thought, "I want one of those to play with."
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Date: 2012-01-04 03:40 am (UTC)So, basically, I got the impression that she's his equal in the same way that Sherlock is, but she's too smart to turn her back on a guy with the temperament of a box of rabid weasels.
Ah, I like that, and now I'm thinking about how Irene finds Sherlock so fascinating because while she clearly knows a lot of very smart people, most of them are probably either government officials or criminals with grand schemes for world domination, and when you've got all the world's secrets on your phone just because powerful people are careless during sex, that gets boring after a while. Whereas Sherlock spends his time trying to figure out why some random, unimportant hiker died on a sunny day, never mind who the guy was, because for him it's the puzzle that matters most, not the power behind it. And that's interesting! And new! No wonder she looked at Sherlock and thought, "I want one of those to play with."
This show makes me all rambly. :D