Nigel Stock credited as playing...
Rupert T. Waxflatter
- [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 has crashed his flying machine into a tree]
- Waxflatter: [looking around] A very hopeful sign. Very hopeful!