The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini Series)

The Cardboard Box (1994)

Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Sherlock Holmes : What is the meaning of it, Watson? What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must have a purpose. Or our universe has no meaning and that is unthinkable. But what purpose?

  [pause] 

  Sherlock Holmes : That...

  [pause] 

  Sherlock Holmes : is humanity's great problem to which reason, so far, has no answer.