Nigel Bruce credited as playing...
Doctor Watson
- Sherlock Holmes: This man pervades Europe like a plague, yet no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on the pinnacle in the records of crime.
- Dr. John H. Watson: What's he do?
- Sherlock Holmes: Everything and nothing. In his whole diabolical career, the police have never been able to pin anything on him. And yet, show me crime without motive, robbery without a clue, murder without a trace and I'll show you Giles Conover.
- Dr. John H. Watson: But that's amazing, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Two years ago, he disappeared from his usual haunts and I have every reason to believe that he... Oh, here it is... I've every reason to believe that he's back in England again. If I could free society of this sinister creature, I should feel that my own career had reached it's summit.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Well, how... how does the, uh, the thing work?
- Sherlock Holmes: Electricity. The high priest of false security.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Amazing. And the Borgia Pearl's inside that?
- Sherlock Holmes: If it isn't, I shall retire to Sussex and keep bees.
- Sherlock Holmes: Watson, look sharp, will you? Go to that door to the alley, and do exactly as I tell you.
- Dr. John H. Watson: Huh?
- Sherlock Holmes: No, not "huh". Just do it.
- Dr. John H. Watson: [viewing the Borgia Pearl] Huh, can't be real.
- Sherlock Holmes: Real as death, old fellow, with the blood of twenty men upon it down through the centuries.
- Inspector Lestrade: Well, Mr. Holmes, if it's a psychology of knives and forks and milk jugs you're talking about...
- [CHUCKLES]
- Inspector Lestrade: I beg to be excused.
- Sherlock Holmes: I'm trying to account for this broken china, Lestrade. That outstanding feature of this case whether you know it of not. All these broken plates, plaster ornaments, bric-a-brac, why was all this china smashed and nothing disturbed? Why?
- Dr. John H. Watson: Yes, and how about his back being broken? A man can't just fall down and and break his back in that casual way you know.
- Sherlock Holmes: Right you are, Watson. External force is indicated. There's no doubt about it. Major Harker's back was broken deliberately
- Inspector Lestrade: I suppose you're going to tell us just who did it?
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes, I think I can. I've never known but one killer who used that technique.
- Inspector Lestrade: What? Oh, come on. He's dead and done for.
- Sherlock Holmes: You remember him?
- Inspector Lestrade: Am I likely to forget the Hoxton Creeper?
- Dr. John H. Watson: Hoxton Creeper?
- Inspector Lestrade: Hoxton Horror, I called him.
- Sherlock Holmes: A monster, Watson, with a chest of a buffalo and the arms of a gorilla. His particular method of murder is back breaking and it's always the same, the third lumbar vertebrae.
- Dr. John H. Watson: How horrible.
- Inspector Lestrade: Do mean to stand there and tell me you think he's still alive? Why they got him two years ago trying to escape from Devil's Island.
- Sherlock Holmes: Did they?
- Inspector Lestrade: Yeah.
- Sherlock Holmes: I wonder. I'll lay you odds he's in London at this very moment.
- Inspector Lestrade: Alright, Mr. Holmes you stick to your theories, I'll stick to my facts.