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Elementary season 3 episode 7 “The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction” (2014) dir. Christine Moore
- These women, these unfortunates, I would speak to them. Will you give me their names, please? - They do not tell me their true names. They come in here on promise of secrecy, we ask them no questions. Else they would not come. And then there would be no hope for them at all.
- We seek the murderer of a chemist. This chemist, we believe, a practicioner of abortion. And you, I imagine, would have cause to treat such a man's clients. - No, I do not treat them. I repair them, I patch them up.
These women, these unhappy creatures, they come to me for help. And like any doctor in this city I could end their troubles safely, easily. But it is illegal. So I must turn them away to be mungled and shredded by these quacks, criminals on the back streets and side alleys. And then they come to me after and I must make good the wretched work. And then they come to me again, pregnant again, and I can neither treat them nor teach them for to speak of contraception is obscene in the eyes of the law. Forgive me, Inspector, I’m maddened by it.