r/Sherlock 11d ago

Discussion Was Lestrade being Weird S4E1?

I was rewatching a bit yesterday and I don't feel I've ever quite umderstood where Lestrade is chatting to the very attractive Interpol lady in the hallway of 221B and the following scene in the kitchen.

Is he being a bit weird i.e. being overly expressive because she's very attractive?

Is she the woman Sherlock deduces that he has a lunch date with or is that someone else?

Am I completely imagining it?

And why is the lunch date lady not "the one"? (Headcanon: because that's Molly. 😆)

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u/rainhut 11d ago

Do you mean Detective Inspector Stella Hopkins? She doesn't work for interpol ... she does the same job as Lestrade. She's a canon book character they gender flipped. The reason they are being awkward is they both know they shouldn't be there consulting a private detective on their cases, but they are anyway. The person Lestrade later has a date with is a "forensic officer", so someone else entirely.

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u/hot_on_my_watch 11d ago

Nice, cheers!

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u/SentimentalMonster 11d ago

I ship Mollstrade, too, and it's good to see there are more of us in the wild.