David Burke credited as playing...
Dr. John Watson
- [last lines]
- Dr. John Watson: Holmes, there's just one thing I don't understand. If the Colonel's name was James and Wood was called either Henry or Harry, them who the deuce was David?
- Sherlock Holmes: Ah, my dear Watson, that name 'David' should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting, but, alas, my powers of deduction failed me. You see, 'David' in this case was evidently used as a term of reproach.
- Dr. John Watson: Reproach?
- Sherlock Holmes: Don't you remember how King David sent Uriah the Hittite into the forefront of the battle to die so that he might steal his woman Bathsheba? I think you will find the story in the first or second Book of Samuel. My Old Testament is a little rusty.
- Dr. John Watson: You're quite right, Holmes. Second Book of Samuel, Chapter 11, verses 14-17. You appear to have looked it up yourself since we returned home from Aldershot.
- Sherlock Holmes: How did you know?
- Dr. John Watson: You used this bill from our meal at Waterloo as a bookmarker, did you not?
- Sherlock Holmes: Excellent, Watson.
- Dr. John Watson: Elementary, my dear Holmes.
- [leaves the room]
- Dr. John Watson: Good night, old fellow.
- Dr. John Watson: What do you say, Holmes?
- Sherlock Holmes: What can I say? Major Murphy, you have told me *nothing*!