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Sherlock Holmes Behind the Scenes, Pt 16
🕑 Added 2023-01-18 08:29:20 +0000 UTCThe plot revealed!
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Dialogue:
(Mrs. Hudson stoops to pick up the pistol.)
Holmes (calmly): Good show, old chap.
Mary Morstan: Thank you, Holmes.
Holmes: Did you get all that, Lestrade?
Lestrade: (entering with some bobbies, writing in his notebook) Every word, Mister Holmes!
Mary Morstan: (pulling off her wig and revealing herself to be Doctor Watson) I confess I can't wait to get this corset off!
Moriarty: (groggy and astonished) W-Watson?! But--but HOW? I shot you with an Andaman Islands poisoned dart--you went stiff as a board!
Watson: (smugly to Holmes) Good thing we had that "Watson Automaton" made up as a decoy, eh, Holmes?
Holmes: (also smugly) Quite right.
Holmes: (to Moriarty) We were on to you the entire time, Moriarty. The whole case was an elaborate ruse to draw you out so we could capture you!
Moriarty: But the plans--the machine that can turn lead into gold--! I saw it with my own eyes!
Holmes: Utter blarney. Which if you'd read the plans, you'd know. We made the whole thing up, knowing you couldn't resist it. And indeed, the rat took the bait!
Comments
FrankHarr
HA! :)
eddi_TBH
In the final draft his fall into the weapon collection was an unfortunate accident.
Jenifur Charne
Professor Moriarty was quite a foolhardy rat in this outing. By the time of the setting for this tale, devices for turning lead into gold already existed. The printing press, and guns.
Donald R Woods
Hm, so which part of the plan involved getting Blone-Apartington killed? :-)
