A Study in Terror (1965)
John Neville: Sherlock Holmes
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Quotes
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Sherlock Holmes : My dear Mycroft, this is a surprise! Watson, some sherry... Is this a social call?
Mycroft Holmes : Yes, yes, oh yes, purely social.
[pause]
Mycroft Holmes : How are you?
Sherlock Holmes : Very well.
[pause]
Sherlock Holmes : Well, now that the social call is over, hadn't we better get down to business?
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Lord Carfax, Richard Osborne : What's all this about, Holmes, how did you get here?
Sherlock Holmes : I followed this young lady.
Sally : I saw no one.
Sherlock Holmes : That is exactly what you'd expect to see when I follow someone.
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Duke of Shires : Where did you get this case?
Sherlock Holmes : I believe it to have come from a White Chapel pawn shop, sir.
Duke of Shires : A Pawn shop. No more than I predicted for him...
Sherlock Holmes : For whom, sir?
Duke of Shires : My eldest son, Michael.
Sherlock Holmes : Do you know of his present address?
Duke of Shires : He is dead.
Sherlock Holmes : Oh, of what accident or sickness, your grace?
Duke of Shires : Disobedience. From the day he left this house against my wishes, he has been dead, sir.
Sherlock Holmes : You mean disowned, your grace.
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Sherlock Holmes : Would you stand up?
Dr. John Watson : Whatever for?
Sherlock Holmes : It is an old maxim of mine that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, and therefore, you are sitting on my pipe.
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Sherlock Holmes : Come, Mister Beck, your face reacts faster than your brain. You remember very well...
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Dr. John Watson : Someone should have sent for us before this, Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes : Someone has. The woman who sent me that instrument case.
Dr. John Watson : Oh, but then why doesn't she come out into the open?
Sherlock Holmes : Being a woman, she uses a women's art. She intrigues us to White Chapel.
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Dr. John Watson : But how on Earth did you get out of it, Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes : You know my methods, Watson, I am well known to be indestructable.
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Dr. John Watson : Holmes, there was an identical murder of a woman in Whitechapel just three days ago.
Sherlock Holmes : Aha, a second murder!
Dr. John Watson : Mm.-hmmm
Sherlock Holmes : Now, that is interesting.
Dr. John Watson : Why?
Sherlock Holmes : Because it is the second murder.
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Doctor Murray : That is mere conjecture, Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes : All circumstantial evidence is conjecture, Murray, but it is often right.
Inspector Lestrade : Mr. Holmes is usually right.
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Sherlock Holmes : You will forgive the suddenness of my visit, and the inconvenience of the hour?
Angela Osborne : Night and day are indistinguishable in these rooms. A lamp turned down is my morning sun, Mr Holmes.