The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Master Blackmailer (1992)

Edward Hardwicke: Doctor Watson

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

  Sherlock Holmes : A master blackmailer.

• Doctor Watson : [about Milverton]  I exchanged a word with him. A more calculatingly insincere smile I never hope to see.

• 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 : 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.

• Doctor Watson : Surely, it would be better for you to take the substantial sum we offer than to ruin this young woman's career, which can profit you in no way.

  Charles Augustus Milverton : There, you're mistaken. An exposure would profit me indirectly to a considerable degree. I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. Ah, if it is circulated that I have made a severe example of Lady Eva, I shall find the rest much more open to reason. Do you see my point?