The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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- 1939
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Gentlemen of the jury, have
you decided on your verdict?
We have.
The prisoner will rise.
Do you find the prisoner guilty
or not guilty of willful murder?
According to the evidence,
we have no choice
but to find the prisoner
not guilty.
So do we all find
and may god forgive us.
Prisoner, at the bar
you have heard the verdict.
Under the law,
Yet, it is undoubtedly
a gross miscarriage of justice.
It is deplorable, Professor
Moriarty, that a man of your
intellectual attainments
should be standing in the
prisoner's box charged with
a crime of murder.
And in setting you free, I cannot
in my conscience exonerate you.
Let the prisoner be discharged.
[Pounding on door]
Let me in, let me in.
My Lord.
My lord,
I have important new evidence.
You come too late, Mr. Holmes.
The prisoner has been discharged.
But my lord, you can't let
Moriarty go free. He killed Loray.
I can prove it.
I can destroy his alibi.
That alibi has been
established by three hundred
fellows of the Royal Society.
Your lordship,
my client has been acquitted.
for the same charge.
Oh, there you are, Holmes.
I'm afraid you have
a bad opinion of me.
On the contrary, I hold you
in the highest esteem
but only as a maid.
It's gratifying to know that
one's talents are appreciated
by such a distinguished
connoisseur.
- May I give you a lift?
Cabs are scarce in this rain.
- Thank you.
- 221 Bakers Street.
- Very good, sir.
- After you, my dear Holmes.
- By no means,
at all times.
Such a creature of habit,
you are.
You have a magnificent brain,
Moriarty. I admire it.
I admire it so much I'd like to
present it pickled in alcohol
to the London Medical Society.
That would make an
interesting exhibit.
Holmes, you've only now barely
missed sending me to the gallows.
You're the one man in England
The situation
has become impossible.
Have you any suggestions?
right under your nose
the most incredible crime
of the century
until it's too late.
That will be the end of you,
Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
And when I've beaten and ruined
you then I can retire in peace.
I'd like to retire,
I'd like to devote my remaining
years to abstract science.
Well, here we are
at my lodgings.
I'm so sorry
I can't ask you in.
Good night,
Professor Moriarty.
Good night.
??
I was just coming in
when you rang, sir.
- Oh, there you are, Dawes.
- Mr. Bassick is here, sir.
I'll see him at once.
Come to me
as soon as he's gone, Dawes.
There's something
I want to say to you.
Yes, sir.
Well, Bassick.
That music gives me the creeps.
Does it, Bassick?
I rather like it.
I want you to post that letter
at the box at Portland Square
just a few minutes
before twelve.
lodgings by way of Oxford Circus.
Wait there till I send for you.
That's all.
First, I want to know
what I'm getting into.
You have your orders.
That's enough.
I have a right to know the
layout in case there's trouble.
I'll take care of that.
That's what you promised Higgins
in that Hammersmith job.
Oh, poor Higgins.
They found nothing
but his boots.
One boot.
You know, Bassick,
Higgins was a valuable man
and a clever cracksman.
But he had your unfortunate habit
of asking too many questions
and now all that's left of him
is one boot.
Don't take me wrong, Professor.
I'll do what you tell me right enough.
I'm sure you will, Bassick,
and just to prove how I trust you
I'm going to tell you my plan.
Although, you haven't the imagination
to appreciate its subtlety.
a peculiarity of Holmes brain,
its perpetual restlessness.
Its constant struggle
to escape boredom.
Holmes again?
He's like a spoiled boy
as soon as he's given another.
So, I'm presenting the ingenious but
fickle Mr. Holmes with two toys,
in the order in which
I mean him to have them.
The first, that letter.
If I know Mr. Holmes that will
interest him very little,
after this comes to fascinate
and tantalize his imagination.
Blimey, what it mean?
That is what I'm depending upon
to absorb Mr. Holmes' interest
while I'm engaged elsewhere.
I'll give him a toy
to delight his heart
so full of bizarre
complications that he'll forget
that letter.
What's in the letter,
Professor?
The germ of a crime, Bassick.
A crime that will
stir the empire,
that children will read about
and you're going to be
part of it, Bassick.
Off with you now.
You wanted to see me, sir?
I'm away for a few weeks,
Dawes,
and I come back to find
my emfurium magenta,
my incomparable emfurium magenta
withered, ruined.
I can't understand it, sir.
I take good care of all the plants.
- Did you water them?
- Every day, sir,
just as you told me, sir.
Then how did it happen
that I find a spider's web
spun across the spout
of a watering can?
- That can happen overnight, sir.
- Overnight, uh.
Then you didn't water
them today.
There has been so much to do,
sir, preparing for your coming
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