David Burke credited as playing...
Dr. John Watson
- Sherlock Holmes: Now I am ready to close on him.
- Dr. John Watson: If he doesn't close upon you first.
- [first lines]
- Dr. Watson: [voiceover] When I returned to Baker Street from a short holiday in the spring of 1891, I had seen little of Holmes for some time. I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French Government upon a matter of supreme importance, but I could hardly foresee that it would have so violent a consequence. It lies with me now to tell for the first time what took place between Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty in that fateful year.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Watson: It's with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. I shall ever regard him as the best and the wisest man I have ever known.
- Dr. John Watson: You didn't write this? There is no sick Englishwoman at the hotel?
- Herr Steiler: No, but it has the hotel mark. Of course! There was a tall old Englishman who came here after you had gone. He said...
- [Watson realizes it was a trap and runs back, horrified]
- Dr. John Watson: [Holmes signals Watson to let him in through a window to their quarters at 221B Baker Street, gestures for silence, then quickly makes his way to a corner near the front windows] What is it?
- Sherlock Holmes: Airguns. A rather special airgun, in fact. Watson, would you have any objection to drawing the blinds, casually, as if you were alone in this room?
- Dr. John Watson: Won't you stay the night?
- Sherlock Holmes: No, it's too dangerous for you if I stay here.