Edward Hardwicke credited as playing...
Dr Watson
- Dr. Watson: What is it?
- Sherlock Holmes: Nothing less than a fragment of the ancient crown of the kings of England.
- [first lines]
- Dr. Watson: Splendid air!
- [Holmes coughs horribly]
- Dr. Watson: Rough shooting.
- [Holmes groans]
- Dr. Watson: Perhaps a little fishing.
- [Holmes groans again]
- Dr. Watson: And the best cook in the County of Sussex, wouldn't you say?
- Dr. John Watson: [Holmes has brought along a trunk full of his earliest cases] I wish I had notes of these cases.
- [Holmes promptly uses the trunk as a footrest]
- Dr. John Watson: Surely the house interests you!
- Sherlock Holmes: The house is freezing, Watson!
- Dr. John Watson: It's history.
- Sherlock Holmes: The measurements obviously refer to some exact spot to which the rest of the document alludes. We are given two guides.
- Dr. Watson: Yes, an elm and an oak.
- Sherlock Holmes: [pointing to a spot outside the window] And, gentlemen, there is a patriarch among oaks.
- Dr. Watson: If you feel so uncharitable, why'd you accept his invitation?
- Sherlock Holmes: To escape my lethargy. And your constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street.
- Dr. Watson: Huh. Hardly constant.
- Sherlock Holmes: Now we must find where the shadow of the elm would have fallen when the sun is just clear of *that*.
- Dr. Watson: Well, that will be difficult, Holmes, since the elm's no longer there.
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh now, come, Watson. If Brunton can do it, then so can we. The answer lies in trigonometry!
- [last lines]
- Dr. Watson: Was it chance the wood slipped? Was she only guilty of silence? She had a passionate Celtic soul; the man had wronged her; she had him in her power. Might it not have been vengeance that sent the stone crashing? Her hand that dashed it away. And what has become of her?
- Sherlock Holmes: Very probably she's far away from Hurlstone now and carries her secret with her.