:07:01
of Holmes brain,
:07:03
its perpetual
restlessness.
:07:05
Its constant struggle
to escape boredom.
:07:07
Holmes again?
:07:09
Always Holmes
until the end.
:07:11
He's like a spoiled boy
:07:13
who picks
watches to pieces
:07:14
but loses
interest in one toy
:07:16
as soon as he's
given another.
:07:18
So I'm presenting the
:07:19
ingenious but fickle
Mr. Holmes with two toys,
:07:23
in the order in which
I mean him to have them.
:07:26
The first, that letter.
:07:29
If I know Mr. Holmes
:07:30
that will interest
him very little,
:07:33
after this comes
to fascinate
:07:36
and tantalize
his imagination.
:07:40
Blimey, what it mean?
:07:42
That is what I'm
depending upon
:07:44
to absorb
Mr. Holmes' interest
:07:45
while I'm
engaged elsewhere.
:07:47
I'll give him a toy
to delight his heart
:07:50
so full of
bizarre complications
:07:52
that he'll forget all
about the first toy,
:07:55
that letter.
:07:58
What you know
it, Professor?
:08:00
The germ of a
crime, Bassick,
:08:03
a truly great crime,
:08:04
a crime that will
stir the empire,
:08:06
that children
will read about
:08:08
in their history books
:08:10
and you're going to be
part of it, Bassick.
:08:19
Off with you now.
:08:42
You wanted to see me, sir?
:08:44
I'm away for a
few weeks, Dawes,
:08:46
and I come back to find
my emfurium magenta,
:08:48
my incomparable emfurium
magenta withered, ruined.
:08:51
I can't
understand it, sir.
:08:53
I take good care
of all the plants.
:08:54
Did you water them?
:08:55
Every day, sir, just
as you told me, sir.
:08:57
Then how did it happen
that I find a spider's web
:08:58
spun across the spout
of a watering can?