The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Empty House (1986)

Edward Hardwicke: Dr. Watson

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Quotes 

• Dr. John Watson : I would have thought I was as trustworthy as your brother.

  Sherlock Holmes : Of course you are, Watson!

  [sighs] 

  Sherlock Holmes : But you have a kinder heart.

• Inspector Lestrade : The sort of case that would've interested our old friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

  Dr. John Watson : Yes, indeed.

  Inspector Lestrade : What a loss he is, Doctor. Oh, I didn't always approve of his methods but he was the best amateur there was or ever likely to be. Well, there were times when he even got the better of me.

• Sherlock Holmes : It was a few months later that I read with great interest your description of my death. It was excellently done, a most picturesque and exciting piece of fiction.

  Dr. John Watson : I'm certainly glad from the bottom of my heart that it was fiction.

• [first lines] 

  Dr. John Watson : [voiceover]  In 1891 at the Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes finally closed his account with Professor Moriarty, the most dangerous criminal of his generation. The two men were alone in that dreadful place, but the outcome of their struggle was obvious to a trained observer. Holmes had achieved the destruction of his arch-enemy only at the cost of his own life.

• Sherlock Holmes : For two years I traveled. To Tibet, then amused myself by visiting Lhasa, spending some time with head Llama. I then moved through Persia and made a short but interesting visit to the Khalifa in Khartoum. The results of which I passed on to Lord Kitchener of the Foreign Office, anonymously, of course.

  Dr. John Watson : You mean, you actually saw the palace where Gordon was murdered?

  Sherlock Holmes : It was a sorry sight, a ruin. His blood still upon the staircase. Lately I have been in France researching the coal tar derivatives. Then came the news of this remarkable murder, which not only appealed to me by its own merits, but seemed to offer the most peculiar personal opportunities.

• Dr. John Watson : You were quite the heroine of the occasion, Mrs. Hudson.