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"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
The Final Problem (1985)
Sherlock Holmes:
[voiceover] I had not been back in Baker Street more than half an hour when...
Mrs. Hudson: [Holmes places French Legion of Honour medal in his desk drawer as he hears Mrs. Hudson outside his rooms] But you cannot go up there, sir!
Moriarty: [Holmes then takes a small pistol from the desk drawer moments before Moriarty bursts in through his door] You have less frontal development than I should have expected.
[notices Holmes' hand in his pocket]
Moriarty: It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.
[Holmes slowly removes the small pistol from his pocket, cocks it, and carefully places it on the table in front of him]
Dr. John Watson: [Holmes signals Watson to let him in through a window to their quarters at 221B Baker Street, gestures for silence, then quickly makes his way to a corner near the front windows] What is it?
Sherlock Holmes: Airguns. A rather special airgun, in fact. Watson, would you have any objection to drawing the blinds, casually, as if you were alone in this room?
Sherlock Holmes: Watson, I think you know me well enough to understand that I am by no means a nervous man, but it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Director of the Louvre: What master criminal would want the Mona Lisa?
Moriarty: [Moriarty suddenly thrusts his hand inside his coat, prompting Holmes to reach for his pistol, but Moriarty only pulls out a small notebook to read from it] You frustrated me in the affair of the French gold.
Sherlock Holmes: Ah, so it *was* you behind "The Red-Headed League." A very ingenious and well-contrived idea.
Moriarty: High praise, from you. You crossed my path first upon the fourth of January. By the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you and at the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans. And now with this business in France, you have placed me in such a position by your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. This situation is becoming an impossible one
Sherlock Holmes: Have you any suggestion to make?
Moriarty: You must drop it, Mr. Holmes. You really must, you know.
Moriarty: You must drop it, Mr. Holmes. You really must.
Moriarty: I am quite sure that a man of your intelligence will see that there can be but one outcome to this affair. It is necessary that you should withdraw. You have worked things in such a fashion that we have only one resource left. It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you have grappled with this matter, but I say, unaffectedly, that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take an extreme measure.
[Holmes smiles slightly]
Moriarty: Oh, you smile, sir, but it really would, I do assure you.
Sherlock Holmes: Danger is part of my trade.
Moriarty: This is not danger. It is inevitable destruction. You stand in the way not merely of an individual but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which, even you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden under foot.
Sherlock Holmes: Now I am ready to close on him.
Dr. John Watson: If he doesn't close upon you first.
Dr. John Watson: Won't you stay the night?
Sherlock Holmes: No, it would be too dangerous for you.
Sherlock Holmes: [while disguised] My dear Watson, you have not even condescended to say good morning to me.
Dr. John Watson: Would you be rid of me?
Sherlock Holmes: No, except for the reasons I've given.
Sherlock Holmes: You will find me a very dangerous companion now.
Dr. John Watson: I'm not leaving you, Holmes.
Dr. John Watson: You didn't write this? There is no sick Englishwoman at the hotel?
Herr Steiler: No, but it is the hotel mark. Of course! There was a tall old Englishman who came here after you had gone. He said -
[Watson realizes it was a trap and runs back, horrified]
Dr. John Watson: [reading Holmes's last letter to him] Goodbye, good luck, and believe me to be very truly yours, Holmes.
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Mrs. Hudson: [Holmes places French Legion of Honour medal in his desk drawer as he hears Mrs. Hudson outside his rooms] But you cannot go up there, sir!
Moriarty: [Holmes then takes a small pistol from the desk drawer moments before Moriarty bursts in through his door] You have less frontal development than I should have expected.
[notices Holmes' hand in his pocket]
Moriarty: It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.
[Holmes slowly removes the small pistol from his pocket, cocks it, and carefully places it on the table in front of him]
Dr. John Watson: [Holmes signals Watson to let him in through a window to their quarters at 221B Baker Street, gestures for silence, then quickly makes his way to a corner near the front windows] What is it?
Sherlock Holmes: Airguns. A rather special airgun, in fact. Watson, would you have any objection to drawing the blinds, casually, as if you were alone in this room?
Sherlock Holmes: Watson, I think you know me well enough to understand that I am by no means a nervous man, but it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Director of the Louvre: What master criminal would want the Mona Lisa?
Moriarty: [Moriarty suddenly thrusts his hand inside his coat, prompting Holmes to reach for his pistol, but Moriarty only pulls out a small notebook to read from it] You frustrated me in the affair of the French gold.
Sherlock Holmes: Ah, so it *was* you behind "The Red-Headed League." A very ingenious and well-contrived idea.
Moriarty: High praise, from you. You crossed my path first upon the fourth of January. By the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you and at the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans. And now with this business in France, you have placed me in such a position by your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. This situation is becoming an impossible one
Sherlock Holmes: Have you any suggestion to make?
Moriarty: You must drop it, Mr. Holmes. You really must, you know.
Moriarty: You must drop it, Mr. Holmes. You really must.
Moriarty: I am quite sure that a man of your intelligence will see that there can be but one outcome to this affair. It is necessary that you should withdraw. You have worked things in such a fashion that we have only one resource left. It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you have grappled with this matter, but I say, unaffectedly, that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take an extreme measure.
[Holmes smiles slightly]
Moriarty: Oh, you smile, sir, but it really would, I do assure you.
Sherlock Holmes: Danger is part of my trade.
Moriarty: This is not danger. It is inevitable destruction. You stand in the way not merely of an individual but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which, even you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden under foot.
Sherlock Holmes: Now I am ready to close on him.
Dr. John Watson: If he doesn't close upon you first.
Dr. John Watson: Won't you stay the night?
Sherlock Holmes: No, it would be too dangerous for you.
Sherlock Holmes: [while disguised] My dear Watson, you have not even condescended to say good morning to me.
Dr. John Watson: Would you be rid of me?
Sherlock Holmes: No, except for the reasons I've given.
Sherlock Holmes: You will find me a very dangerous companion now.
Dr. John Watson: I'm not leaving you, Holmes.
Dr. John Watson: You didn't write this? There is no sick Englishwoman at the hotel?
Herr Steiler: No, but it is the hotel mark. Of course! There was a tall old Englishman who came here after you had gone. He said -
[Watson realizes it was a trap and runs back, horrified]
Dr. John Watson: [reading Holmes's last letter to him] Goodbye, good luck, and believe me to be very truly yours, Holmes.
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