The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Crooked Man (1984)

Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes

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• [last lines] 

  Dr. John Watson : Holmes, there's just one thing I don't understand. If the Colonel's name was James and Wood was called either Henry or Harry, them who the deuce was David?

  Sherlock Holmes : Ah, my dear Watson, that name 'David' should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting, but, alas, my powers of deduction failed me. You see, 'David' in this case was evidently used as a term of reproach.

  Dr. John Watson : Reproach?

  Sherlock Holmes : Don't you remember how King David sent Uriah the Hittite into the forefront of the battle to die so that he might steal his woman Bathsheba? I think you will find the story in the first or second Book of Samuel. My Old Testament is a little rusty.

  Dr. John Watson : You're quite right, Holmes. Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 11, verses 14-17. You appear to have looked it up yourself since we returned home from Aldershot.

  Sherlock Holmes : How did you know?

  Dr. John Watson : You used this bill from our meal at Waterloo as a bookmarker, did you not?

  Sherlock Holmes : Excellent, Watson.

  Dr. John Watson : Elementary, my dear Holmes.

  [leaves the room] 

  Dr. John Watson : Good night, old fellow.

• Sherlock Holmes : Whoever heard of a dog running up a curtain?

• Dr. John Watson : What do you say, Holmes?

  Sherlock Holmes : What can I say? Major Murphy, you have told me *nothing*!