“And this is losing” DAMN.

Irene Adler: I am very smart. Smart woman. Smart smart woman.
Sherlock: Your phone password is literally a pun on my name.

“ I was just playing the game.”
“ I know...and this is just losing.”

I get so many chills every time.

"Sorry about dinner." one of the coldest lines ever. Brilliant.

Irene : Jim Moriarty
Sherlock : I'm going to end this women's whole career.

Irene: "Everything I said, it's not real. I was just playing the game."
Sherlock: "I know. And this is just losing."
Holy shit that went crazy.

acting skill is basically measured by how well you can ignore the camera staring in your face

"Love is a dangerous disadvantage...thank you for the final proof" - The intensity of this scene consists of theatrical grandeur and cinematic brilliance.

"Love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof"

Listen to the way Irene's voice shakes as she says "Oh dear God, look at the poor man." She knows then she's been caught out. Super piece of acting.

If you watch closely, when she says “ the ice man, and the virgin” Sherlock starts to figure out her password, it’s not till she finishes and says “ now that’s my kind of man”, he realizes that she’s taunting him more than she’s needs to, why go over and over about him, it’s because she actually loves him, she’s trying to convince herself he’s not worth it and that she’s making the right choice, Sherlock then understands and remembers all the signs she accidentally showed him before, he just remembered it all. I love the writing and the story of Sherlock

Sherlock's reaction at 0:07 - most of us thought it was at hearing Moriarty's name.
Little did we know that the word he focused on was "love".

The twist that everybody could see coming, but no one ever does. Genius.

Irene: holds his hand
Sherlock: Uno reverse card

Poor Mycroft, standing there while these two are breaking each other's hearts, so awkward

It's 2025. still a masterpiece.

Very unnoticed how Sherlock was absolutely going to let her win up until she said, “that’s my kind of man.” Then he just decided nah, she’s dead to me

Irene : I was just playing the game.
Sherlock : And this is just losing.
Best show ever.🔥

Two great things about this scene.
1. The music while he is explains her password
2. "This is your heart and you should never let it rule your head" top 5 lines in the whole series.

For supposedly being a dominatrix, Irene looks truly submissive at 2:05 as Sherlock walks away with her phone and she automatically follows him like a puppy follows his master. And That  helpless and desperate look on her face hoping that he doesn't crush her as he's about to do is PRICELESS.