- [first lines]
- Dr. John Watson: Finished.
- [stretching]
- Dr. John Watson: Aah!
- [picks up and studies walking stick]
- Sherlock Holmes: [with his back to Watson] What do you make of it, Watson?
- Dr. John Watson: What? Huh,I believe you've got eyes in the back of your head, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, I have a well-polished coffee pot in front of me.
- Dr. Mortimer: You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?
- Sherlock Holmes: *Please*, Dr. Mortimer.
- Dr. Mortimer: A cast of your skull Sir, until the original becomes available?
- [Holmes bursts into laughter]
- Dr. Mortimer: It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess, I covet your skull.
- Sherlock Holmes: Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.
- [Gesturing to the chair]
- Dr. Mortimer: [dog sits beside Mr. Mortimer] Spot. Yes, good boy.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, I presume it was not your phrenological passion which drew you to Baker Street.
- Dr. Mortimer: Unfortunately it was not, Sir.
- Dr. John Watson: [looking at the stew Holmes has made] It's quite disgusting, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes. Yes, it is. Well, it's better when it's hot.
- Sherlock Holmes: You impress me, Doctor Mortimer. Was there anything else?
- Dr. Mortimer: Yes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Footprints? A man or a woman's?
- Dr. Mortimer: Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!
- [Stapleton and Dr. Watson are talking about the beauties and dangers of the great Grimpen Mire when an distant, unearthly howling is heard]
- Stapleton: The moor is full of noises.
- Dr. John Watson: But what was it?
- Stapleton: The peasants say it is the Hound of the Baskervilles calling for its prey.
- Sherlock Holmes: It may be that you are not yourself luminous but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power for stimulating it. I... I confess that, my dear fellow, I'm very much in your debt.
- Sherlock Holmes: It's an ugly, dangerous business, Watson. Believe me, I shall be very glad to have you back safe and sound at Baker Street once more.
- Sir Henry Baskerville: I thought we had a chance of getting to the bottom of this business. All we seem to have done is compound a felony.
- Sherlock Holmes: When I see a cigarette stub marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know my friend Watson is in the neighborhood. Be careful of that gun.
- Dr. John Watson: I thought you were in Baker Street working on that case of blackmail.
- Sherlock Holmes: That is what I wished you to think.
- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: I have tickets for 'Les Huguenots' at Covent Garden. A little dinner at Marcini's on the way.
- Dr. John Watson: Wonderful, Holmes.
- Sir Henry Baskerville: [about Beryl Stapleton] There's a light in her eyes that speaks louder than words.
- Dr. Mortimer: If it's one animal on this planet which I cannot abide it is a rabbit.
- Dr. John Watson: Really?
- Dr. Mortimer: Rabbits burrow.