- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: There's an east wind coming, Watson.
- Doctor Watson: No, I don't think so. Looks like another warm day.
- Sherlock Holmes: Good old Watson. The one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same. Such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson. And a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind nonetheless, and a greener, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
- [opening title card]
- Title Card: Sherlock Holmes, the immortal character of fiction created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is ageless, invincible and unchanging. In solving signficant problems of the present day he remains ~ as ever ~ the supreme master of deductive reasoning.
- [first lines]
- Voice of Terror: [off-screen] Germany broadcasting. Germany broadcasting. People of Britain, greetings from the Third Reich. This is the voice you have learned to fear. This is the Voice of Terror. Again, we bring you disaster: crushing, humiliating disaster. It is folly to stand against the mighty wrath of the Fuhrer. Do you need more testimony of his invincible might to bring you to your knees? Very well. Are you ready, Operative Number 7? This is the Voice of Terror. A secret airplane factory somewhere in England. Listen. Screams of the dying can still be heard. This is the Voice of Terror. Are you there, people of Britain, shivering in your cellars? Listen, Operative 41. The fuse is lighted. Oil to fuel your navy, to feed your tanks, there it goes up in smoke by the millions of gallons. This is the Voice of Terror. Do you still believe that there are secrets unknown to the Fuhrer? Listen. Tonight at 7:10 an important diplomat boarded a train at a little station outside Liverpool. Each split second is accounted for. The rails divide, the train hurtles through the air, the diplomat will make no report in London. This is the Voice of Terror. Englishmen, do you still await your doom in your stupid, stuffy little clubs? It will come, I promise you. Operative 23, the time is now. We strike you on the high seas as well as on the land. This is the Voice of Terror. Englishmen, the Fuhrer strikes you now as he pleases. Water pours through your greatest dams, smashing everything before it, even as our invincible armies roar toward their objectives.
- Doctor Watson: Holmes, the girl waiting. What an extraordinary thing.
- Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, my dear Watson.
- Doctor Watson: No, no, no. It's an amazing deduction. How on earth did you arrive at it?
- Sherlock Holmes: Barham told me.
- Doctor Watson: ...But Holmes, that's impossible.
- Sherlock Holmes: Anything is possible until proven otherwise.
- Sherlock Holmes: This is still a free country, a man may walk where he pleases.
- Lime Street thug: And live to regret it.
- Sherlock Holmes: Live yes, regret it? I think not
- Meade: Your false courage is not impressive Holmes. Of course you realise you and friends are going to die.
- Sherlock Holmes: As all men must, sooner or later.