Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem

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1:02Learn online, train hands on at our Center for Graduate Studies in Los Angeles, and prepare for real-world pharmacy practice. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes We present the original stories of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dramatized anew with Sir John Gilgur as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson, and today, Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty.

2:12It is with a heavy heart that I come before you, the last adventure of my French Sherlock Holmes that I should be able to relate. I have tried in my humble way to chronicle some of our exploits together to demonstrate the singular gifts of that most remarkable of name. It lies with me now to tell you what occurred between Holmes and his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, when at last they came face to face. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, your efforts on the side of law and order seriously and convenience to me, the situation between us is becoming an impossible one, Mr. Holmes. It simply cannot go on. One or the other of us must die. It was in the spring of 1891.

3:16You will remember perhaps that after my marriage in return for private practice, Holmes and I have drifted apart a little. I followed the newspaper reports of his cases, of course, and called on him quite often at the old rooms in Baker Street. Even so, however, many weeks would sometimes elapse between our meetings. And so, it was with some surprise, one April evening, that I looked up and saw him standing before me in my study. Good evening, Watson. Ah, good evening, Holmes. Have you a cigarette for me? Oh, I'm a cigarette. Great heavens, man, how ill you look. Oh, that's why I've been using myself up rather to freely have late, old friend. You've no objection if I close your window shutters? No. Of course not. Yeah, you're not afraid of anything, are you? I'll tell you the truth, I am, rather. Perhaps not like you, Holmes. What is it? Air guns. Air guns?

4:17What, I'm asking you, me? There's a new and deadly type of air gun, Watson, which is especially designed by an old acquaintance of ours. What, Professor Molliati? They can only be here from your tone? The same. The match. Give me a match, will you, my dear fellow? Yes, of course. Oh, thank you. Is Mrs. Watson at home? Oh, no, she's on the visit to an arm, talk. Quite a load. Good, good. That makes it easier for me to propose that you should come away with me for a few days. Oh, delighted? But where? Oh, the continent. Somewhere broad. A broad? Is that whiskey in the decanter there? Yes. Now, look here, Holmes. What's all this about? There's something more serious in your men, aren't there? Well, never did quite believe in the iniquities of Molliati. Did you, Watson? You've said so more than once. I felt you exaggerated a bit after all, Professor Molliati is a respectable figure in public life. Just so, and that's the very genius of the man.

5:19Even you, Watson, knowing me as you do, can't quite believe me when I tell you that he corrupts all London with his ebony influence. Oh, I can't quite believe that. Oh, of course, to the world he's still the Professor, the great mathematician. He's respectable. But what real proof have you that he's anything else? None. Well, at least, not until this last month, and even now the chain isn't quite complete. The three days more, and I shall have him Watson. Three days more, if I live to see them. You can't seriously suppose that your life's in danger, Holmes? No. You always love to be melodramatic. Listen, Watson, this morning. This very morning, in those old rooms of ours in Baker Street, I saw him face to face. I spoke to him. Molliati? Your distinguished Professor within him a criminal strain of the most biobolical kind. That great white dome of a forehead, those hooded eyes, and a white face pushed forward, oscillating from sight to sight like a snake.

6:26Well, of course, if you believe the old, the heavy sea of pedeon, then don't let that, of course not. I've worked for years to follow a thousand different traits in every one of them as led to Molliati. He's an Napoleon of crime, Watson, the secret organizer of almost everything he will that goes undetected in this great city of ours. There he sits and motionless like a spider in the center of its web, a web with a thousand strands and he controls them everyone. But slowly, very slowly, my own secret plans to expose him have borne fruit every day, mind it, is drawing tighter and he knows it Watson. He knows the danger he is in and that was why today he came to see me. I was playing my violin, as you know I often do when I want to think, and suddenly there he was, standing in the doorway, with his white face swaying and the evil way, peering at me with his hooded eyes. Good morning. Professor Molliati, good morning to you.

7:36Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe? How very charmingly you play. How kind of you to say so? Well, you be seated, Professor Molliati. I can spare you just five minutes. Singularly, good of you. Thank you. I will sit down. May I say something personal to you? Certainly. Surprise to discover that you are not rather less cranial development than I would expect it. Well, as you are the contrary, I have rather more than I had imagined, Professor. You will recollect I am sure, however, that Beethoven's I did as both. How about our personal characteristics, are hardly relevant to the present situation? What have you really got to say to me? Perhaps I only suggested, of course, perhaps it is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing gun as terms. I, evidently, you share that danger as habit, Professor. I assume that you will keep your hand in the pocket of your morning coat. So, those in which we lay our pistols and our cards on the table. By all means, I was about to suggest it myself.

8:37See, you say that the Mauser attack Mr. Holmes and without a silence, you must permit me to present you some time with one of these small devices of my own design. They are quite convenient and avoiding unpleasant noises. How very kind of you, Professor. You must ask the hangman to deliver it to me as your last request. You evidently don't know me, Mr. Holmes. On the contrary, I think I know you better than you know yourself. I wouldn't take up your gun again, Professor. I have already got you covered with mine. So I have received, but I assure you it was only to give a far less demonstration. Of the silence, sir. Of my own small accomplishments of the Mauser and Mr. Holmes. I have read in as a counse of Dr. Watson that somehow drove back into the pocket. You have heard about any of your old friends that you are, that those Mauser and the wall there made from your indoor revolver practice. Quite so. The initials there, the Victoria Regina, God save our majesty. Now that I see them, it seems perhaps they are not quite as symmetrical as they might be. At one side of the years, this looks short, I think. For me, it's pretty to correct the slip. Admiral Professor Mariade, you were perfectly right, of course. That little mistake has now been rectified.

9:37I'd like, however, if I may, to improve upon it. Your bullet mark is perhaps a shade smaller than my own. Permit me... Admiral, Mr. Holmes. Yes, precisely above your own mark, Professor, the exact spot, I think. No, no, please don't look alarmed. My good land lady is quite accustomed to that noise. We shall not be disturbed. I'm very glad of it, for what I have to say is not without importance, Mr. Holmes. Show me stuff, our fencing, at the beginning. By all means, it will permit me first to correct one statement that you made just now. Where, sir? With reference to my friend, Dr. Watson. I am afraid I can hardly permit the adjective, though I know. In his accounts of my humble exploits, he's been good enough to exaggerate my own achievements, and has always been unduly modest about his own. He is a most upright and honorable gentleman, Professor. I am very close to my heart. You may say what you will about me, but I can allow no derogatory words about him. Everyone, Mr. Holmes, I apologize. We were about to die, salute him.

10:40Please do. You are very certain, not you, Professor Moriate, that is his eye who I'm going to die. There is no other course. Unless you listen to reason. The situation between us, Mr. Holmes, is becoming an impossible one. It simply cannot go on. It won't, I assure you. For these past few months, I've been working to put an end to it all at the earliest possible moment. And you have very nearly undone the careful endeavor of a lifetime, sir. Or at least have seriously threatened it. No, no, no, no, don't move. You're pissed to the game. I'm only taking out my memorandum book. I beg your pardon. I find it recorded here, as you crossed my path on the 4th of January, Holmes. On the 23rd, you incognoded me. At the middle of February, I was seriously inconvenienced by you. At the end of March, I was absolutely hampered. And now at the close of April, I find a surprise in such a position. Through your continual persecution, I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. That was certainly the end I had in view. Then you must drop it, Mr. Holmes.

11:40You really must, you know. Not till after Monday, Professor. You know as well as I do that you've made a slip. One single tiny slip. For years I've been aware of you, Mariati, at the centre of your organisation, forgeries, murder cases, robberies. A thousand crimes were planned by you. A hundred agents carried them out. Your subordinates were caught sometimes, but you never were. And yet you know you've made that slip. That single tiny slip. And you know as well as I do that it will destroy you. In three more days my evidence will be complete. I shall have you exposed, brought to trial, condemned and hanged. And you can do nothing whatever to prevent it. My will is inflexible. And so is mine. Three days do you say? And before that out the end will come.

12:42One or the other of us must dice her. Quite so. The five minutes is up, Professor. And I am as fairly ask you to excuse me in the pleasure of our conversation. I'm afraid that I've neglected business that importance elsewhere. Very well, I am. See the pities, Holmes, don't know what I could. I admit that it's been an intellectual pleasure. I need to see the way in which you grapple with this affair. But I tell you solemnly, Sherlock Holmes, that if you are clever enough to bring destruction on me, you may rest assured that I should do as much to you. You have paid me several compliments during this interview, Professor. Let me pay you one in return when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality, I would most cheerfully accept the latter. I can promise you the one but not the other. Good day, Holmes. Oh, your pistol, Professor. You may need it before Monday. Thank you. Good day, Professor. I think goodbye is the word, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Goodbye.

13:58And so it was, you see, what's in that singular interview with the greatest criminal of all time. And his with the greatest detective. Oh, thank you, my dear fellow. But what are you going to do, Holmes? I told you we leave for the continent. Mario art is not the man to let the grass grounder his feet. Already what a two accidents are nearly before me today. Oh, for myself. The police are gathering all my evidence against him. Everything will be complete in three short days. Meanwhile, I can only lie low. Are you able to leave your practice to come with me? Well, I haven't accommodating neighbor. Oh, dear, what's in I knew I could come to you. All right then. Now these are your instructions. Listen most carefully. Instruction is home. I assure you that most necessary. Tomorrow morning at 8.45, you will take a handsome cab. I'll arrange for one to call. Looking at verbal vacation rental means you get verbal care in 24-7 life support. Verified reviews from real guests, and I've created homes with the love by guest filter. I just put my verbal because there was a sweet wine branch.

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15:58Pay him and dash through the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at exactly a quarter past nine. Yes, but my dear, no. No, no. And listen carefully, it's vital. Our lives depend upon it. When you get there, you'll find a broom standing close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a black cloak tipped with red. Say nothing. Simply jump in and he'll drive you to Victoria in time for the continental express. And where shall I meet you, Holmes? The second coat from the front of the train, a first-class carriage reserved for us. Good night, Watson. And as you value our lives, don't forget a single word of my instructions. No, no, no, of course not Holmes. Until we meet tomorrow then. Until we meet? I was infected myself with something of his own inner excitement and sense of menace. I took the handsome and then the broom with its massive hooded driver. I said nothing to him as I was instructed and he never spoke to me. A moment later we were racking to the station.

16:59There he left me and drove off without a further glance. His face still hidden. There was no sign of Holmes and my heart sank miserably. I found our reserved carriage, but through some confusion a decrepit, old Italian priest was sitting there. The mogul came for departure. Still, I waited by the window in a chill of fear. School is a senior, pray, girl. Yeah, I'm sorry, pardon me. I don't speak Italian. No, no, I will. Oh, go on it. Holmes, look what you were. Oh, man, this is no laughing matter, not yet anyway. Yes. You see? God, stop the train. It's Moriati himself, the tall man. He'll never do it. Stop the train, I say. This is a god's man. Let me go, you fool. No, you won't be due. Let me go.

18:05Even the great Moriati himself is helped us against the British railway system Watson. Well, well, it gives us an hour's respite at least. But how did he know where we were? By watching you, I expect. But I did everything you told me. Wait, Holmes, the driver of the road. What about him? He was muffled. I didn't see his face. It must have been one of Moriati's men. No, yeah, Watson, it was nothing of a sort. He just might brought a microt. Shaken for one side of his arm chair at the Diojeanese club. Cor heavens, the thing is serious then, of course. But at least we have an hour, and I can use it to take off this disguise and think things over. But we've escaped in all together, surely, since the train connects with the boat. My dear fellow, you have it, and you don't realise even now. But Moriati is an opponent on practically the same intellectual plane as myself. Do you really imagine that I were the pursuer? I would permit myself to be daffled by so slight obstacles and express train? What will you do then? What I should do, engage a special. But if they too late, even then, I know means we stop at Canterbury, don't forget.

19:08And then there was always the delay of a quarter of an hour when the train gets to Dover. Oh, so you'd almost think we were the criminals to be chased like this? You mean the deal catches after all of them? I hope not. We shan't be there, Watson. Look, looking at Holmes, I hate to grumble after all this time. Well, I do think you ought to tell me what you mean. Having blessed you for a starting faithful friend, Watson, I'm sorry. It's only that, well, I don't want to expose you to danger too. That's why I'm being so mysterious. It's very simple, really. We should just get out at Canterbury. Indeed. And not go on the conscience after all, I suppose. Yes, we must do that. We'd no choice but to hide away until after Monday when the evidence will have been completed. You've not seen the papers this morning, I suppose. Oh, early Holmes, what time do you think I've had for that? One must try to make time for everything, Watson. You really should have read about Baker Street. Hm? What? Baker Street? Yes, they set fire to our rooms last night. Mrs. Hudson was away from home, fortunately, and no one was hurt, I'd dare to say. They thought I was there, of course. For myself, the things in trouble, I guess.

20:09Only till Monday, Watson and I, then we'll be in Switzerland. We'll make a cross-country journey from Canterbury and take the other boat from New Haven to Diepp. Unless, of course, one. Our friend, the professor, deduces, but I would deduce and gets off at Canterbury himself. Ah, that would truly be a coup de mat for he surely never would. Well, I rather doubt it, but our limit, even to his intelligence. No, no, I think we are safe in our old friend. And now there's time for a pipe, I fancy, won't you join me, Watson? And thus it befell. As we hid behind a pilot luggage at Canterbury, we saw a single carriage of the special, Goat Thundering Pastors. And so we made our way across country, and at last reached Switzerland.

21:11It seemed we had in you with him. To fill in every detail of the final scene is hardly possible, since there was no witness to it. Yet, from a certain source that I cannot yet devour, I do know something of that last encounter. We wondered that our will through the lovely valley of the road, and made our way by way of interlocking, to the little township of Nirrigan among the Alps. The fatal Monday came and went. And yet I was still aware of a strange feeble-eye excitement in my companion. He was at times feverishly on the alert, then sinking into reverie, and would smile strangely to himself. I went with him, on that last day of all, on a visit to the falls of Rikenbach, forever hallowed and yet cursed in my memory.

22:11It's a fearful place indeed, with a torrent, plunging far below into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined by cold, black, glistening rock. High above a puff was being cut in the cliff-face to afford a better view, but it airs abruptly in Nidah, and the traveler had to return as he came. We stood there, giddily and marveling of the great spectacle. And only instance came a message for me by a village-led, to say that an English lady back at the hotel was seriously ill, and needed my immediate attention. I turned to go. I looked back, and I saw Holmes leaving against a rock with his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the borders. It was the last time I saw him. Is that you, Watson? Back already! Well, Moriarty. Well, Sherlock Holmes. You see, I found you after all. And alone.

23:17Alone, as indeed you must be too. Now, if your Confederates are all under lock and key, I heard from Scott and Yard. I escaped. I was too clever for them, Holmes. I don't doubt it. But I'm afraid your lot of patience gone for this, and I'm Professor, with your organization destroyed, unless you care to return to your mathematics. It was not my intention. I have another lot of immediate intention, Sherlock Holmes. Are you prepared? But before we discuss that, perhaps you extend me one small courtesy, Professor? No, sir, isn't it? What is it? My friend Watson, Professor. No doubt he will be somewhat concerned. May I just take a moment to scribble a note to him? Of course, sir. We can fix the paper beneath my open sub there, as it doesn't go away. They take as long as you wish. That's very good of you. Please. Don't stop talking, Professor. I, mastered long ago, they are writing and conversing at the same time.

24:18Thank you. You know, of course, that the message of the writer Dr. Watson was a false one. Yes, of course. I knew it at once, and that it could only come from one source. And yet you let him go? Yes, Professor. I let him go. I am offered that some affection for him. I do not wish to put his life in danger, too. Besides? I've looked forward for a long time to this final duel between us. I believe it, Holmes. You're a very remarkable man. Many ways. Many, many ways, sir. And proud of you, Neil. Oh, and are you, Professor? There, my letter's done, then. Perhaps you will be kind enough to place it as you suggested. Now, how shall it be, Moriati? I did not bring a fiscal home. Thank you. Your courtesy puts me to shame, Professor. There is my crystal.

25:20It goes into the form. Hand to hand? Yes. Goodbye, Professor Moriati. Goodbye. Sherlock Holmes. The End. The End. When I returned to that broken pathway, it was only too clear what had happened. It needed no great application of Holmes' own methods of deduction. Two sets of footsteps to the verge and none returning. Locked in each other's arms as they fought, they had gone down to their base.

26:26Or lived a letter, the last greeting from my friends and comrade. My dear dear Watson, he wrote, my dear dear Watson, I scribble this through the courtesy of Professor Moriati, who awaits my convenience for the final discussion of those eternal questions which lie before us. They can be but one outcome, although I fear that it is as a cost which will give pain to my friends, and especially my dear Watson to you. I think, however, that I may go so far as to say that I have not lived entirely in vain, pray tell Inspector Paterson that the papers which he needs for a full conviction of the Moriati gang are in Pigeon Hall M. Before leading England, I made every disposition of my property and handed it over to my brother, my craft. Pray give my affectionate greetings to Mrs. Watson, and remember me as I used to be in our old days at Baker Street,

27:26facing to and fro with my violin and driving you to a point of sad distraction with that theme you still were good enough to say you loved. Believe me to be my very dear good fellow, yours must sincerely Sherlock Holmes. Yours must sincerely Sherlock Holmes, and so he perished, whom I shall ever regard as the best and wisest man that I have ever known. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized anew by John Kierkross, stars Sir John Gilgud as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson, and today Orson Wells as Professor Moriati, produced by Harry Allen Towers.