Gareth Lestrade

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Gareth Lestrade is a Scotland Yard Inspector, and a former partner of Sherlock Holmes.

History

According to Holmes, Lestrade was "the best of a bad bunch" among those few Scotland Yard detectives who agreed to work with him. Although Lestrade was, in Holmes's words, "utterly adequate" as a detective, Holmes was often scathing about his limitations, so the two men were not close, despite their professional respect for each other.

Because Holmes always preferred to work anonymously, he allowed Lestrade to take the credit for solving their cases, and eventually Lestrade became addicted to the glory that accrued. Lestrade himself said that those days were the best time of his life, though he denied being a glory hound, and instead simply reveled in the satisfaction of being a successful detective.

After Holmes was incapacitated by his drug addiction, Lestrade found himself struggling to work on his own and, according to his superior, DCI Tompkins, began to cut corners for the sake of closing his cases.

This came to a head when Lestrade investigated the murder of Mary Pendry, whom her husband, Lawrence, claimed had been killed by a home intruder. Lestrade suspected Lawrence himself, but could not prove it. Lawrence's father, Warren Pendry, a media mogul, employed his newspapers, and a substantial amount of money, to "paint a very ugly picture" of both Lestrade and Scotland Yard, forcing Lestrade's superiors to suspend him.

Appearances

Season two appearances
Step Nine	Solve for X	We Are Everyone	Poison Pen
Ancient History	An Unnatural Arrangement	The Marchioness	Blood Is Thicker
On the Line	Tremors	Internal Audit	The Diabolical Kind
All in the Family	Dead Clade Walking	Corpse de Ballet	The One Percent Solution
Ears to You	The Hound Of Cancer Cells	The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville	No Lack of Void
The Man With the Twisted Lip	Paint It Black	Art in the Blood	The Grand Experiment