Milo Parker credited as playing...
Roger
- Sherlock Holmes: I've decided to write the story down; as it was, not as John made it. Get it right, before I die.
- Roger: You're not going to die.
- Sherlock Holmes: I'm 93.
- Roger: I had a great-uncle who lived to be 102.
- Sherlock Holmes: Well done. That seals my fate. What are the odds that you would know two men who would live that long?
- Roger: Well, I didn't actually know him.
- [Holmes laughs]
- Roger: You ever been bitten by a bee?
- Sherlock Holmes: Stung! Bees don't have teeth! Yes, I have.
- Roger: But not often, though.
- Sherlock Holmes: 7,816 times. I keep a record.
- [Mrs. Munro appears while Roger is smoking the hive]
- Sherlock Holmes: Well, not entirely dreadful.
- Mrs. Munro: You ever been bit?
- Sherlock Holmes: No. I have never been bit.
- [Holmes explains a series of deductions about his last client]
- Roger: But all that just told you he was married. How did you know he'd come to see you about his wife?
- Sherlock Holmes: [smiles] Because when you're a detective, and a man comes to see you, it's usually about his wife.
- Roger: I shouldn't have said what I said.
- Mrs. Munro: Lesson there, then. Don't say everything you think.
- Roger: She wants me to be a bootblack!
- Mrs. Munro: Roger!
- Roger: She wants me to do what she does!
- Mrs. Munro: There's no shame in what I do!
- Roger: You complain enough about it! Always going on about how hard things are.
- [to Holmes]
- Roger: She can barely read!
- [Mrs. Munro storms out of the room]
- Sherlock Holmes: Go after her. Apologize for saying things that were meant to hurt. You were cruel! If you don't apologize, you will regret it.
- Roger: People always say that.
- Sherlock Holmes: Because it's true.
- Roger: Do *you* regret anything?
- Sherlock Holmes: [with feeling] So much.
- [last lines]
- Roger: [explaining to his mother the same way Mr. Holmes explained to him] The queen runs the colony. Drones service the queen. The workers do the work.
- Mrs. Munro: Isn't it true...
- Mrs. Munro: [Coming into a side room in their cottage and seeing Roger staring at himself intently in a mirror, raising his eyebrows, turning slightly as he assesses himself from various angles] What are you doing?
- Roger: Trying to see if I can tell where I've been.
- Mrs. Munro: Don't you know?
- Roger: Mr. Holmes can tell things like that just from looking at a person.
- Roger: Mum says you throw out most of the letters you get.
- Sherlock Holmes: And why do you think that is?
- Roger: The people who write want you to solve things. If you read their letters, you'd want to help.
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh, no. You give me too much credit. It's just if I were to read them, I'd feel obliged to respond.