Arcs Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

“You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.”

Benedict Cumberbatch

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