The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Musgrave Ritual (1986)

Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes

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Quotes 

• Dr. John Watson : Surely the house interests you!

  Sherlock Holmes : The house is freezing, Watson!

  Dr. John Watson : It's history.

• Sherlock Holmes : Watson, we must behave ourselves.

• Sherlock Holmes : I am convinced that there are *not* three mysteries here but only one, and the solution of one may prove the solution for the others.

• Dr. Watson : What is it?

  Sherlock Holmes : Nothing less than a fragment of the ancient crown of the kings of England.

• Sir Reginald Musgrave : But you, you, I have noted, are still turning to practical ends those powers with which you used to amaze us at college.

  Sherlock Holmes : Yes, I'm still living by my wits. And how is the dear wife?

  Sir Reginald Musgrave : I'm not married, Holmes.

  [Awkward silence] 

  Sherlock Holmes : How wise!

• 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 : I remember on my last visit he spent several hours explaining to me in French

  [starts laughing] 

  Sherlock Holmes : the origins of the piccolo!

• Sherlock Holmes : I must confess that so far I am disappointed in my investigation.

• Sherlock Holmes : There can, I think, be no doubt, gentlemen, that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts.

• 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.