I like to think that Shaw uses her Farsi very sparingly, like it’s some sort of secret. Harold and John have never heard her use it outside of the field, Root gets little whispers of it when Shaw thinks she’s sleeping though. After the first few times, Root resolves to learn the language because she’s dying to know what Shaw says to her when she’s laying awake in the middle of the night.
Tag: this is a good point
one tiny thing that just struck me:
How far the show went out of its way to make it clear that Holmes wasn’t sexually pressuring Irene. He offered her his “bet,” and I can imagine a zillion other shows that just would have left it there as a sexy “edgy” flirtation, but no – Holmes stopped himself in the middle of the flirt to make it clear that he was not conditioning his silence about her thefts on her going on a date with him.
Similarly, when he came to see her after she refused to go out with him again, obviously someone somewhere was afraid he’d look like a stalker, and so he began his speech by making it very clear that he understood it was her right to refuse him – I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a show actually spell that out in words before, because we’re all supposed to understand that the romantic couple is meant to be and therefore all’s fair, etc etc.
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 