Gaius' lips twitch slightly at the word brilliant. That was a word that was -- at least back in his own reality -- a word that was synonymous with Gaius Baltar. One could look up 'Brilliant' in any dictionary and find a picture of him slathered next to it.

Sherlock Holmes is most certainly not a person he wants to work with; he's now firmly rooted himself into the 'rival' category.

"I'll do that," he says, smiling tersely, though he most certainly will not. "But for now, I should return to my work; there's a lot still to be done with the samples we have on-hand now."