The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Master Blackmailer (1992)

Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes

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• Sherlock Holmes : I've had to deal with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me this sense of revulsion I feel at this moment toward Mr Charles Augustus Milverton.

• Doctor Watson : [reading]  "Man who preys upon weakness with a smiling face and a heart of marble."

  Sherlock Holmes : A master blackmailer.

• Sherlock Holmes : He wrings the nerves of his victims to add to his already swollen moneybags. He is the WORST man in London.

• Sherlock Holmes : Art is balm to the brain, especially in moments of decision.

• Doctor Watson : Don't you think that the Honorable Miss Miles might be more worth a visit since Dorking wrote to you?

  Sherlock Holmes : That is past, Watson. What we must do now is foist ourselves onto his next victim.

• Sherlock Holmes : [hearing Watson's plan to catch Milverton]  But legally we can not move until some victim is prepared to sacrifice their reputation by going to the police.

• Sherlock Holmes : Watson, you'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged to be married.

  Doctor Watson : [absorbed in his newspaper]  Hm, yeah? Jolly good.

  Sherlock Holmes : To the Milvertons' housemaid.

  Doctor Watson : Good heavens.

• Sherlock Holmes : One must play one's cards as best one can when such a stake is on the table.

• Sherlock Holmes : I'd prefer you to direct your energies towards the gossip columns - hm! - the grasslands... grasslands, Watson, through which our serpent glides.