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Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, and Nicholas Rowe in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Nigel Stock: Rupert T. Waxflatter

Young Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Stock credited as playing...

Rupert T. Waxflatter

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  • Waxflatter: Elementary, my dear Holmes... elementary.
  • [Holmes, Watson and Elizabeth are walking across the courtyard, when a voice causes them to look up]
  • Waxflatter: Holmes! Elizabeth! I think I have solved all of the problems!
  • John Watson: [looking up] Who's that?
  • Elizabeth Hardy: My Uncle.
  • Sherlock Holmes: Rupert T. Waxflatter. Retired schoolmaster, degrees in Chemistry and Biology, well versed in Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics. Author of 27 books.
  • [Holmes walks on]
  • Elizabeth Hardy: And most people think he's a lunatic.
  • [Elizabeth walks on]
  • John Watson: Why?
  • [Waxflatter launches his flying machine]
  • John Watson: Oh, my God!
  • [Holmes, Watson and Elizabeth help Waxflatter carry the wrecked flying machine up the stairs to the attic]
  • Waxflatter: Let me see, that makes six! Six failed attemps. Nevertheless, we shall not be defeated. We shall conquer. I have made up my mind. The conquest of the skies is well within my grasp!
  • John Waston: [to Elizabeth] He's done this six times!
  • [Waxflatter's dying words]
  • Waxflatter: Ehtar... Ehtar. Ehtar, Holmes. Ehtar.
  • [Waxflatter has crashed his flying machine into a tree]
  • Waxflatter: [looking around] A very hopeful sign. Very hopeful!

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