"Encoded by m@husni" "the year was 1891 storm cloud were brewing over Europe." "France and Germany were at each other's throats the result of a series of bombings" "some said it was nationalists others, the anarchists but as usual my friend, Sherlock Holmes had a different theory entirely" "bombing in strasbourg, read all about it!" "Thank you - anarchists suspected in strasbourg bombing!" "When did you start working for the postal service?" "That was you back there?" "It's shame your activities have landed you in the gutter a curious parcel?" "Who's the intended recipient?" "Why don't we discuss that over dinner tonight?" " I'm free for lunch." " Hmm.." "I'm not how about at savoy, eight o'clock?" "Splendid and will you becoming as yourself?" "Most likely three men have been following you for the last half mile their motives highly unsavoiry" "no" "oh, and by the way, they're not pursuing me they're escorting me, and instead of three, there seems to be.." "Ah.." "Four steady hands with that Irene oh, I don't think it's my hands you've to worry about now, be careful with the face boys, we do have a dinner date tonight don't fill up on bread" "I've got the rest of it" "uhh, it's coming back now" "hey, youths!" "Now comes to lot 34." "Egyptian sarcophagus of outstanding Providence retrieved from the valley of the kings your payment, doctor.." "He sends his thanks who will bid, one hundred pounds?" "One hundred pounds!" "Please give this to him, he's expecting it tell him our friend thinks I delivered it to his sister" "ah, stay while I check the contents." " I was assured full payment would be there." " Yes but assured by whom?" "Have you ever met him in person?" "All likely..." "Hold it, hold it, hold it..." "Don't move it!" "Judging from its size and weight, it's not payment you were expecting" "I'd wager the contents are rather more incendiary" " who is this?" " It's.." "Hello, darling." "Oh dear..." "I told you not to move it it seems a secondary charge has been activated sweet thing, I might need your help in the disposal of this parcel" "1600, 1700.." " 1800.." " Well, good luck!" "One million pounds!" "Oh... and uhm... by the way, fire.." "Fire!" "Leave my side and you'll be dead within an hour and don't be late for dinner" "I expect that my schedule be quite tight because of these activities here." " I'm never late in my life, only early." " Passionately hmm... hmm... very witty, so confident even in retreat" "I'll hold on to that.." "We'll read it together during aperitif all right.." "Dinner and a show" "stay!" "Trust me.." "This is what I do for a living hey hoffmanstahl, you should count yourself lucky this faceless man with whom you find yourself in business is no ordinary criminal he's the Napoleon of crime, fortunately.." "You now have me as an ally" "I'm a consulting detective of some repute..." "Perhaps you've heard of me.." "My name is Sherlock hol.." "Holmes.." "Ah.." "Fresh pot of tea, thank you, George yes, miss adler fine choice, this place" "do you have the letter?" "It was taken taken?" "Now that is unfortunate during the chaos created by your package" "perhaps if you had shared your plans you wish to know my plans now, do you?" "Did you imagine miss adler, that something would happen to you?" "Is that why you chose to meet here, in a public place?" "Your favorite restaurant" "I don't blame you" "I blame myself it's been apparent me for some time that you had succumbed to your feeling for him" "and this isn't the first occasion mister Holmes has inconvenienced me in recent months the question is what to do about it?" "But that's my problem to solve now" "I no longer require your services." "Mrs. Hudson?" "Ooh, Mrs. Hudson?" "Holmes, you in there?" "Your hedge needs trimming.." "Where am I?" "Okay, where you are, as long as you ready." "I'm waiting.." "I'm not going to play this game remember I have to catch the last.." "Train" " o oh.." "That's you there, I'm afraid.." " You win" "I lose.." "Game over still don't see me?" "(French) What a surprise" "I'm not going out with you dressed like that." "Would you prefer I joined you in the fashion folk pathway and fine military dress..." "With that hedonist hand-made scarf.." "Clearly, one of your fiancé's early efforts?" " Oh... how I've missed you, Holmes." " Have you?" "Why?" "I've barely of noticed your absence.." "Then again I'm knee deep in research extracting fluids from the adrenal glands of sheep and designing my own urban camouflage all the while verging on a decisive breakthrough, in the single most important case of my career perhaps of all time." "Mrs. Hudson, how are you?" "Ohh.." "I'm so pleased to see you, doctor.." "Thank you for inviting me tomorrow and thank you for looking after gladstone dear... dear sickly sweet nanny might I have a word?" "Yummy.." "Feed the snake, woman you feed it!" "Touchy touchy." "Doctor, you must get him to a sanatorium he's been on a diet of coffee, tobacco, and cocoa leaves he never sleeps" "I hear multiple voices, as if he's rehearsing a play leave him to me don't you have a goat that needs worming?" "Oh, how kind of you to remind me so much to look forward to.." "What would I do without you?" "Good luck on patient, doctor why are you here?" "I'm getting married, tomorrow?" "Oh, embrace me!" "Watson's getting married" " you lost a few pounds." " Less than you picked them up nurturing on Mary's muffins no doubt pour us a Brandy.." "Stag party has begun it's our last adventure Watson" "I intend to make the most of it" "I see you've made good use of my old office" " do you like my spider's web?" " Is that what you call it?" "Follow that strand question.." "What do a scandal involving an Indian cotton tycoon, the overdose of a Chinese opium trader.." "Bombings in strasbourg and vienna, and the death of a steel magnate in America, all have in common?" "Well, according to your diorama" "Professor James moriarty indeed mathematical genius celebrated author and lecturer boxing champion at Cambridge, where he'd made friends with our current prime minister do you have any evidence to substantiate your claim?" "Hmm.." "This.." "Now do you see?" "Doctor hoffmanstahl's death?" "Yes, I've heard you speak of him extolling his virtues oh, hoffmanstahl was at the forefront of medical innovations, a true pioneer just the other day, I averted an explosion that was intended for him it says here, he died of heart attack" "has all my instruction been for naught?" "You still read the offical statement and believe it?" "It's a game dear man, a shadowy game.." "We're playing cat and mouse, the Professor and I.." "Cloak and dagger.." "I thought it was spider and fly" "I'm not a fly, I'm a cat not a mouse, but a dagger you're drinking embalming fluid oh yes.." "Care for a drop?" " You do seem.." " Excited?" " Manic." " I am!" " Verging on.." " Ecstatic?" "Psychotic." " I should've brought you a sedative." " I'll give my life to see his demise he must be stopped.." "Before his evil machinations come to a crescendo and how will you do all that?" "Don't be a dingy bird, bad people do bad things because they can no one.." "Not the victims, the police, the governments, not anyone!" " Except the great Sherlock Holmes." " Correct on this diet, will work it all out right" " or thereabouts." " Thereabouts - not quite that here's to your good health dingy bird!" "What you did to gladstone now?" "!" "Ricinus communis the fruit is highly toxic he's barely breathing!" "It was an excellent opportunity.." "This may be just the thing" "I hope you don't mind terribly if I tried my adrenal extract how many times are you going to kill my dog, Holmes?" "He took off like a monkey from a box!" " I may need one of those in a few hours." " Consider it a wedding gift" "Watson, might we use an alternative exit?" " Is there something different about you?" " I'm under observation" " as you should be." " You drive" "will your beard, be with us all night?" "I'll remove it once we're South of trafalgar square if you believe moriarty has you under observation, isn't this a bit conspicuous?" "It's so overt, it's covert." "Trafalgar square we must be safe by now" "why are you looking at me with such concern?" "I'm so very worried your vitality's been drained from you" " marriage it's the end, I tell you." " I think of it as the beginning" " armageddon!" " Rebirth!" " Restriction!" " Structure!" " Answering to a woman?" " Being in a relationship a life in matrimony, the possibility of a family, who wants to die alone?" "So, we'll have a good old fashioned romp tonight, you'll settle down have a family.." "And I'll..." "Die alone.." "Yes that's about it perhaps it's better for one to die alone than to.." "Live life in eternal purgatory" "anyway" "not bad, that so, where are we going?" "(Mycroft) In the future, there will be one of those machines in every town in Europe loitering in the woodshed again.." " Are we, my king?" " Good evening, Shirley" "I see your boot maker is ill, dear brother as I detect that you've recently changed the brand of soap, with which you shave.." "May I point out the chimney in the front room of Baker street, is to the need of a damn good sweeping out.." "Are you aware that the hackney carriage by which you arrived, had a damaged wheel?" "Yes, the left and it's plain to the meanest intelligence that you've recently acquired a new bow for your violin same bow, new strings and may I deduce, mycroft.." " Good evening, by the way." " No!" "He doesn't may I deduce, that you who rarely strays from the path.." "Runs from your home to the diogenes club.." "And never on a Monday.." "When they serve your favorite potted shrimps.." "Must be here for some far more important reason than my stag party you know, he's nothing like as slow-witted as you've been leading me to believe, Shirley you're quite right, doctor Watson but with all the conflict in Europe at the moment.." "The whole situation could.." "Excuse me, suddenly erupt.." "I'm here, to avoid a dire catastrophe if the concerns of two nations which shall remain nameless.." "But I can tell you they speak French and German are not dealt with tonight I shall be forced to go to Switzerland to attend a ghastly peace summit in richtenburg first thing about the Switzerland is the altitude...(Fading)" "I'm so glad you invited your brother..(Sarcasm)" " This looks promising." " And your poison of choice gentlemen?" "We'll start with the champagne, we may need several more chairs perhaps a good cigar" "and uhm.." "Don't bother with the chairs what is it your brother does exactly?" " He is the keeper of the broom covet of state, no ambition, no energy and I'm repeatedly told, that he's indispensable to the British government particularly the foreign office.." "I would like to propose a toast really?" "To my dear friend, doctor John.." "Ummm..." "Hamish.." "Watson.." " I'm right here." " On the Eve of his wedding, he..." " Has been the best of companions." " Shouldn't we be waiting?" " For the boys from my rugby club?" " He's always kept us" " they could've attend flat footed on the ground." " All of them?" " Hmmm.." "What about the chaps from my medical school?" " I attempted they declined" " the lads from." " There's no man better" " who is it your looking for?" " Worth having at your side." " I don't know a single damn person here, do I?" " There's no need for hysterics you know me, and you know mycroft.." "Don't be a pounce, Watson pounce?" "!" "You completely forgot about my stag party, didn't you?" " Why are we here?" " Your in very good health doctor shame none of your friends could make it" "I'm going to the gaming tables" "I refuse for this night to be a total loss, give me my money!" "Happily... give me the wedding ring!" "Oh... now you are interested in being the best man you're suppose to keep the ring anyway just as you're supposed to organize my stag party you don't want to lose it on a bet John..." "And invite my friends, which by the way, there are many you're the one with no friends, surely no mates.." "He's all me, me, me, isn't he?" "Please sit put your money on the table and we will begin" "welcome, I'm madame simza" "cards can illuminate your past clarify your present, and show you the future" "if you have a specific question, hold it in your mind" " hold it." " Let me know when your ready actually, I prefer to read.." "Your fortune" "temperance inverted.." "Indicative of volatility a woman who recently taken a confident drink from what does she seek solace?" "What does she wish not to see?" "Ah, a fool embarrassing himself?" "Oh, yes the fool someone had been led astray, involved in something without their knowledge not bad, but um.." "You have to make me believe you.." "I have to see it in your eyes" "I can do better the two of cups, a powerful bond.." "But between whom?" "A brother and a sister perhaps?" "And I see a name.." "Yes it's.." "Rene what do you want?" "The devil" "why are we playing this game?" " Where did you get this?" " I stole it from a woman in an auction room but I believe it was intended for you." "SIM my love, remember my face as you never see it again.." "That is the price I must pay, to change the course of history.." "I have finally found my purpose in life so the question I've been holding is, what purpose is rene fulfilling?" "Time is up" "I have other clients" "though you may not have detected the wisp of astrakhan fur snagged on a nail from my left shoulder you couldn't have failed to notice the overpowering aroma of herring pickled in vodka in tandem with a truly unfortunate body odour" "there's a man concealed in the rafters above us a cossack, renowned for the invisible acrobatic abilities.." "And are notorious for their hunting, as assassins so it's safe to presume that your next client, is here to kill you anything else?" "No?" "First, pillage the nest" "clip wings now blunt his beak" "crack eggs scramble pinch of salt" "touch of pepper" "flip the omelette" "additional seasoning required breakfast is served" "come with me I need you alive, now!" "Didn't see that in the cards, did you?" "Carry down folks, carry down.." "Looks like we get ourselves our next cock fight 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.." "Let him go!" "Get after him!" "All mine?" "Now, wait a minute" " you're right, it is sting." " Hey, you you run, where, where's you...?" "Just had a fight!" " You just had a fight?" " Yes where were you?" "I am glad to see you're taking your best man duty so seriously, Sherlock" "I was on my own.." "You're not gonna get my moneys!" "She was biting my leg" "I'll have carruthers put some fuel into that motor carriage of yours.." "You do have a wedding to attend.." "Oh, I'll drive.." " Another drink?" " I don't know, I think you've had quite enough" "I've been to a wedding here before" "a funeral too the Professor wants to meet" "I'd expected to hear from him sooner.." "In light of recent events - and he was wondering if it would be convenient for you to come by the college .." "This afternoon.." "His lecture concludes at four.." "Looking forward.." "One side chumney." "Fischerweise... schubert, 1826" "(speaking German)" " Give up your foolish trickery." " This fish you can not cheat.." "I hope I'm not intruding ahh, excuse me.." "Please take these up to Mr. Williams and make sure he packs my white tie and tails.." "I'll take care of it Professor" "I do apologize, I'm off on a blasted lecture tour" " would you care for some tea or coffee?" " Neither.." " Something stronger perhaps?" " No, but..." "Might I trouble you for an inscription?" "The dynamics of an asteroid  lecture notes by Professor James moriarty" "I read that the good doctor was to be married today" " how was the service?" " Definitive he'll no longer be party to my investigations, he's out of the equation, I.." "Trust you'll take this into consideration?" "The art of domestic holticulture and what considerations will you grant me?" " Have you actually read the book?" " I found it compelling though, I'm primarily intrested in your more recent, endeavors" "I take that as a compliment" "I have the utmost regard for your times it's a pleasure.." "To finally meet you officially" "are you familiar with the study of graphology?" "I've never given it any serious thought, no psychological analysis of handwriting the upward strokes on the p, the j, and the m, indicate.." "A genius level of intellect while the flourishes on the lower zone, denote a highly creative yet meticulous nature but, if one observes the overall slant, and the pressure of the writing there's a suggestion of acute narcissism," "a complete lack of empathy, and a pronounced inclination toward.." " No!" " Moral insanity an answer to your previous request, regarding doctor Watson, not being involved.." "The answer is.." "No the laws of celestrial mechanics dictate that when two objects collide there is always damage of a collateral nature" "(speaks Latin) For example.." "Two gentlemen, find themselves at cross of purposes a young woman torn between them the strain proves too much for her and she suddenly falls ill with.." "Tragic consequences a rare form of tuberculosis she succumbed in a matter of seconds" "now are you sure you want to play this game?" "I'm afraid you'd lose rest assured if you attempt to bring destruction down upon me" "I shall do the same to you my respect for you, Mr. Holmes.." "Is the only reason you're still alive you've paid me several compliments.." "Let me pay you one in return.." "When I said if I were assured of the former eventuality" "I will cheerfully accept the latter" "I'll be sure to send my regards to the happy couple" "another time then.." "All aboard!" " Which cart are we?" " We should be just... here first class!" "All aboard!" "All aboard!" "Hurry up doctor Watson, your wife needs you coming Mrs. Watson" "first class champagne.." "You do know how to spoil a girl, Mr. Watson you're not just any girl" "I'm sorry madam, but you can't use the lavatory while the train's in station" "you're Mrs. Watson give me that bottle" "John, there is no where else in the world I'd rather be there's no one I'd rather be with why do you have a gun stuffed down the back of your trousers?" "Old habits" "come in!" " Oh yes, please." " We didn't order that" " with our compliments, sir." " Thank you, put it there" "open the door, John!" "I think it's time for you to leave" "sit down" "I agree it's not my best disguise, but I had to make do" " my God!" " They'll be back" " ohh.." "John, shut the door!" " They'll only shoot through it my lovey" " he's right." " Oh my God!" " I understand." " Do you?" "Terribly inconvenient we don't have much time!" " How many are we expecting?" " Half a dozen - who are they?" "A wedding present from moriarty lovely ceremony by the way, many a tears shed in joy oh John!" " Just a minute, darling." " Do you trust me?" "No well, then I should have to do something about that no...!" "Who's up to bat next you bastards!" "Send out the fastballer!" "John, do shut the door!" "It had to be done she's safe now!" "In my own defense, I timed it perfectly did you killed my wife?" "!" "Did you just kill my new wife?" "!" "Of course not!" "What do you mean?" "How do you know that.." "When you just threw her off the train?" "!" "I told you I'd timed it perfectly what does that mean?" " Calm down!" " Explain!" "By the time I'd explain we'd both be dead!" "I'm sorry madam but you can't use the lavatory while the train's in station" "caution!" "Phosphorus highly flammable" "that was no accident it was by design" "now, do you need me to elaborate?" "Or can we just crack on?" "Come on!" "Don't worry old boy, she's as safe as houses, she's with my brother" "I'm on my honeymoon!" "Why did you lead them here?" " Why did you involve us?" " There not here for me there here for you!" "Fortunately" "so am I now mind the door!" "Good evening" "I think you'll find second class is more comfortable, the coast is clear to the South!" "Quick march!" " Lie down with me, Watson!" " Why?" "!" "I insist" " what are we doing down here?" " We are waiting, I am smoking" " patiently waiting." " For what?" "!" "Your window of opportunity" "make it count!" "I said make it count!" "How many windows must I provide?" "Who'd have known that honeymooning in Brighton was such a dangerous notion?" "Is that all this is about?" "By your own admission, you've never enjoy it there" "I've never been to Brighton or... your just too fragile to remember at present" "tell me that my wife's safe!" "I can't do both" "I promise as I said, I timed it perfectly" "over here, madam!" "I believe congratulations are in order Mrs. Watson" "I'm the other Holmes you mean there's two of you?" "Oh how marvelous, could this evening get any better?" "Why were Mary and I targeted at all?" "Excellent question the answer is two fold he's after us because of you!" "I'm afraid you must bear half the responsibility here it comes.." "Had you and Mary had not been so hellbent on your wedding, we could've already solved this case there it is.." "It's my fault now all I'm saying is that the argument could mean no, it couldn't that your nuptials were rather poorly timed thus our relationship relationship?" "Very well, partnership has not yet run it's course my dear fellow if you could be bothered to see this through to the end," "I shall never again ask you to assist me" "once more until the bridge that's the spirit!" "Now to the question, this is so deliciously complicated you may be asking yourself what does a crimial mastermind want with a simple gypsy fortune teller?" "It's about her brother, I tell you when we find him and we must after you find my luggage" "go on wait where is it were going?" "Paris, the most sensible honeymoon destination of all.." "So, why Paris?" "Peaches outside the city of montroy.." "There's a gypsy camp famous for it's dried fruit, especially peaches and there we shall find our fortune teller.." "And return her bag" "(speaks French)" "(Speaks French)" "My ticket?" "(Speaks French)" "Unfortunately you won't be needing yours it's a shame Professor" "I was looking forward to don Giovanni" "(speaks French) Thank you/ thank you" "follow meinhard!" "(Speaks French) Stop, thank you wake up, we're here brace yourself, were about to be violated don't be so cynical" "(speaks French) Good afternoon.." "(Speaks French) Madam simza?" "(Speaks French) Yes, yes, sir perfect they're taking my luggage.." "Laugh them away Watson, I have her bag" "(speaks French) This is her bag you had her bag now they have my coat" "where is madam simza?" "This is simza." "SIM is a goose" "I am SIM" "nice scarf.." "I like" " you hungry?" " Famished." "Madam, this is a glorious hedgehog goulash" "I can't remember ever having had better" "do tell me, when was the last time you had a hedgehog goulash?" "I told you, Watson, I can't remember perhaps you've repressed it" "that's where we differ, unlike you, I repress nothing perfectly normal how dare you be rude to this woman who has invited us into her tent offered us her hedgehog?" "Says the man who throws women from trains who are you two?" "Concerned citizens why did someone try to kill me?" "Your brother has become involved with a very dangerous man who clearly believes that rene has told you something you shouldn't know" "I don't know anything" "I've been looking for him for over a year that was why I was in London" " it's the last place anyone saw him." " It's clear that your brother loves you he'd never send you a message that would put you in harm's way any information, therefore, would be, by default, unintentional has he sent you anything else?" "Just a few drawings let's just see what they have to tell us" "unusual choice of paper, thicker gauge, designed for a printing press" " and it's the same stock as the letter." " Hmm.." "They smell musty must have been stored somewhere cold and damp what's that?" "Blood?" "Wine.." "So, a wine cellar located near a printing press.." "That should narrow it down" "there's a wine cellar used by the anarchist group lapin vert." "Rene was close to their leader" "Claude ravache" " a bomb maker." " I sampled some of his work last week" "I was a part of the movement, so was rene until it became too extreme for us." "Ravache knows me if my brother's back there, he will see us go send him a message" "whatever you do, don't let these gypsies make you drink of course you dance?" "For God's sake, don't dance!" "It'll be the death of you" "you know what happens when you dance" "oh, good morning, Mrs. Watson" " have you had breakfast?" " I..." "Stanley here does a wonderful deviled kidney." " Carruthers?" " Morning, sir telegram for Mrs. Watson" "uh.." "It just doesn't make any sense allow me" "oh, yes my most loathed Mary, I do not love you, I never wish to see you again" "..every moment I count away from you is a blessing fret not, it's a double encryption, my dear that sherly and I have used since we were boys if the first letter of the message is a consonant" "then what follows is the mirrored truth." " I see." " Hmm.." "Stanley!" "You know, although our time together has been but a brief interlude" "I'm beginning to understand how a man of particular disposition under certain circumstances, extreme ones perhaps might grow to enjoy the company of" " a person of your gender.." " Hmm thank you so much most charming may?" "Terribly sorry, thank you where are you going, Stanley?" "Still hiding in basements?" "I'm not here to see you" "yeah" "with your English friends" "1189, a seminal vintage the year of our glorious revolution" " is he here?" " When freedom triumphed over tyranny is my brother here?" "I haven't seen him for a long time you're lying" "sit, please.." "A letter was received from rene using this same paper of course, he took it with him wherever he went he's telling the truth.." "Rene isn't here" " he was given another assignment..." " By an anonymous benefactor another englishman with money, power, who supported our cause and now he dictates our every move" "demanding I take responsibility for his acts of terror" "I made a deal with the devil but after tonight" "it will be over my job is almost done" "he's had you plant another bomb, hasn't he?" "Claude, please these men can help you" "I wish they could you see, gentlemen" "he has my wife and children if you tell us where the bomb is." " I'll find a way to help your family." " That's already taken care of we have a deal he and I" "no loose ends there's only one thing I can do to keep my family safe" " you've less than 10 minutes." " Don't!" "He has no further need of that pistol, why don't you take it and cover the stairs?" "There's only one way out of this place right you are" "ah, ingenious that's the one.." "Quickly as we can!" "You know what to do with that sandbag, Watson quick now!" "Doctor, could you secure that leaver?" "You could have told me." "Ravache was strong.." "He lived for liberty, he would never take his own life calm yourself" "my brother, he's weak." "SIM, I need you to take a deep breath and follow us" "to the opera!" "News paper: trade conference:" "Meinhard at the hotel du triomphe troller's label:" "hotel du triomphe" "I was mistaken" " what?" " I made a mistake" "he took the shot from here using a tripod and a shooting stick and realized there was a better position there's a faint scrape where he dragged his tripod and set it up.." "Here" " 600 yards.." " 650?" "Not to mention.." "A 7 or 8 mile an hour wind he would've needed a wind gauge which he placed here" "and put a cigarette down here can anyone shoot that far?" "Not more than half a dozen men in all of Europe how many of those men served in Afghanistan?" " Why?" " Hirschsprung with a touch of tekel must have fallen out when he was rolling up wasn't that the blend you all smoked?" " Didn't I read something about a colonel?" " Sebastian moran best marksman in the British army dishonorable discharge he's likely now a gun for hire, this is the second victim of his, that I've encountered what better way to conceal a killing?" "No one looks for a bullet hole in a bomb blast" " he's 20 minutes late." " He must come soon" "I don't have any papers and I am a foreigner this climate is exactly what moriarty wants the omelette finelle was divine but they spared every expense on the tea now, shall we compare moods, or consider what we know?" "Last night's bombing was clearly meant to look like Germany's retaliation for strasbourg however, the bomb was also meant to conceal the murder of just one man the man killed by the gunshot was none other than Alfred meinhard" "he makes guns, big guns.." "Only days ago, a large share of his company was bought by an unknown investor." "Moriarty the clues point in one direction, but to avoid repeating last night's debacle" "I was obliged to collect more sufficient data, hence my tardiness" "train departs in 40 minutes, sir" "just the bags!" "But.." "We have enough time for me to indulge my little habit yes his habit of feeding that urban species, the feral pigeon" "so there are seven mainline railway stations in Paris but taking 10 minutes to get to the jardin des tuileries where the largest concentration of the winged vermin may be found reduces there to one, the gare du nord where he will be just in time to catch the 11:04 train to Berlin" "it makes several stops along the way, one of which is.." "Heilbronn.." "Exactly, where we must go.." "Where meinhard's factory is it's moriarty's factory now unfortunately, due to the bombing the crossing between France and Germany is to be closed" "I'm afraid our pursuit is over, unless we can happen upon a comrade who knows their way around borders too English" "however, you do make a fantastic gypsy certainly smell like a fantastic gypsy oh no no, I don't mean be demeaning it is a nice scarf no, no, too English.." "It'll suit you more black one is yours, gray one is mine" " and this is for you." " Uhumm.." "Right" " where are the wagons?" " The wagon is too slow can't you ride?" "It's not that he can't ride how is it you put it, Holmes?" "They're dangerous at both ends and crafty in the middle why would I want anything with a mind of its own, bobbing about between my legs?" "Then I shall require a bicycle, thank you very much it's 1891.." "Could've chartered a balloon how can we make this more manageable?" "Here's the fire?" "It's not as if Germany is going somewhere" "we know another way" "slow and steady wins the race" "come on!" "We slip in through the loading bay, find out what he's doing and we get out getting out might be tricky we will get you out if my brother's in there, get him out alive" "are you happy?" " What?" " At this moment are you as happy as you would be on your honeymoon in Brighton?" "I'm not going to grace that question with an answer are you happy?" " Oh, we're here for another reason?" "I think we're" " okay." " Shall we get on?" " Simple question." " Are we gonna do something?" " Wait here for them to come back around?" " What time is it?" " 3.15 - over there in the residential part of the complex should be a telegraph office send this to mycroft, be back here on the hour" "that's what you get, Mr. Holmes, when industry marries arms now put your gun down it's a bit old-fashioned" "what you need is one of these go on" "pick one machine pistol, self-repeating" "takes 1.63 caliber rounds in one of these" "a 10-shot box magazine" " easy enough to load." " Hmm.." "I'd imagine one would have to retract the bolt to engage the first round easier done than said" "take him to the surgery" "I'll find the doctor" "come at once if convenient.." "If inconvenient, come all the same" "it is schnapps a telegram was sent from here" "this isn't schnapps, it's aquavit, distilled from potato mash a common misconception.." "Thank you, by the way who was it sent to?" "My horror at your crimes is matched only by my admiration at the skill it took to achieve them" "who was it sent to?" "You used the anarchists and their bombs to create a crisis in Europe nation against nation under various pseudonyms, you bought, schemed, or murdered your way to numerous industries, assuring that none of it could be traced to you" "cotton, opium, steel, now arms and chemical weaponry all to be shipped across Europe in less than a week everything from bullets to bandages now that you own the supply, you intend to create the demand" "a world war" "you are familiar with schubert's work?" "The trout is perhaps my favorite a fisherman grows weary of trying to catch an elusive fish" "out the way, out the way!" "So he muddies the water" "I'm warning ya confuses the fish" "you were warned it doesn't realize until too late that it has swum into a trap" "let's try this again, shall we?" "To whom did you send the telegram?" "To my.." "To my brother mycroft" "what are you playing at?" "That's not fair.." "I've just got one more question for you" "which one of us is the fisherman?" "And which the trout?" "Holmes?" " Holmes?" " Uhh.." "Take your time, take your time.." "Uh.." "Always good to see you, Watson" " what were you thinking?" " Wait wait.." "Well, if you must know, I was thinking I had him, right where I wanted him" "right, crack on then.." "Professor" "I'm all right, I'm all right don't waste time attending to me" "I'll find them I'll find them.." "Turn in three, two, one" "come on, hurry up!" "Go!" " Did you see my brother?" " No, but I'm certain he's been here" " where are we going?" " Over that wall" " how do you know I would find you?" " You didn't find me you collapsed a building on me!" " Where are the horses?" " They're behind!" " We need them." " You wanna go back?" "What's our way out?" "That's our way out!" "Go!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Marko!" "Marko!" "He's not breathing" "cradle his head!" "Raise his legs!" "Bloody, you're not gonna die on me!" "I'm not gonna make this easy on you come on, come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "I know you can hear me, you selfish bastard!" "Come on!" "I know you can hear me, you bastard!" "His wedding gift.." "Terrible dream!" "You and Mary and gladstone and I, were in a restaurant that satanic pony was there as well, a massive fork in his hoof!" "And he turned on me!" "What have you administered?" "Your wedding present who's been dancing on my chest?" "!" "Me.." "Why is my ankle so itchy?" "Because you have a large piece of wood sticking out of it good lord!" "You, Thomas" "I have an important job to discuss with you, remind me of it later sit down, drink this" "I need to get that out before it turns septic" " did you call me "selfish bastard"?" " Probably just leave it in!" "Leave it!" "You are a.." " Oh, you are some sort of.." " Be nice" "I'm sorry you didn't get to Brighton" "me, too.." " I think we should go home." " I concur we're going home" "via Switzerland what better place to start a war than a peace summit?" "We'll drop in and see my brother, I'm sure he's missed you" "I still don't understand why you simply don't cancel the summit the fact is it's going to happen whether we like it or not everyone has already arrived although these gentlemen may be talking peace believe me, they're readying their armies at home" "to cancel the summit now would be tantamount to war" " the telegram, wasn't it clear?" " We have doubled the security, sir oh, doubled security, that's comforting you don't understand the delicacy of the situation" "I passed the telegram on to my superiors but they're the one who brought moriarty into advise on the peace process in the first place he has positioned himself brilliantly he's one of our foremost intellectuals, he's a personal friend.." "Personal friend of the prime ministery as we all know that" "I believe you, but where's your evidence?" "He's too good to leave evidence he doesn't leave loose ends oh, he's alive." "Sherly, put that down what is this contraption?" "May I have it?" "The effect is most invigorating that's my private and personal supply of oxygen, and you're not to touch it this argument is getting us nowhere" "I've arranged for documents to be prepared which allow you into the ball, carruthers?" "Stanley, Stanley you haven't aged a day, is that my favorite chutney?" "The fact is, we don't really know what he planned" " it would be another bomb." " No, it wouldn't be another bomb that doesn't make sense why would he attack all the nations, only to unite them?" "It should be an assassination by alone gunman at close range." "Rene unfortunately, yes" " you knew." " I had my suspicions but having seen who would be attending, I'm now certain well, at least we know who to look out for." "Rene will be the evidence if we can find him and stop him, we will perhaps not only save his life but prevent the collapse of Western civilization no pressure" "welcome, ambassador" "Professor James moriarty" "now we're all present" "I can tell you that the targets are the German chancellor and his ambassador with French prime minister and his man and the other nations are really working out which side to take should hostilities erupt cause prince Michael, as cousin of the tzar, and the Russian ambassador" "and the archduke Karl Ludwig and the austro-Hungarian ambassador the Romanian prime minister and his ambassador and of course our prime minister and the British ambassador he'll choose a moment when the dignitaries are assembled, preferably standing still is there to be an official photograph?" "Indeed, yes in.." "Uh.." "38 minutes in which case, we might as well dance" "I've never done this before just follow my lead" " what do you see?" " Everything" "that is my curse but you don't see what you're looking for" "I thought you'd never ask over my shoulder young man, German uniform, ceremonial sword got him professional opinion?" "Trauma major injury but excellent repair work." "Doctor hoffmanstahl you did say he was at the forefront of a medical innovation we've already seen an example of his skills" "those twins weren't twins my suspicions were aroused in heilbronn when one failed to go to the aid of the other" "I also noticed the discreet but unmistakable puckering behind the ear where his skin had been drawn back, I should've realized then that they were a surgical experiment to see if it is possible to make one man look like another" "his face is no longer his own what better way to guarantee his world war, than to make the assassin" "one of the ambassadors that narrows down the possibility to one of six you and SIM shall find her brother" " of this I have no doubt." " Holmes you know my methods and I know where you'll be no possible solution could be more congenial to me than this by the way, who taught you how to dance?" "You did well, I've done a fine job" "be careful" "shall we go to work?" "Ladies and gentlemen, please, gather for the portrait" "I'm sorry is this a bad time?" "Never better" " would you bring that clock?" " Hmmhh.." "We get to play that game after all" "here we are" "don't want you to catch a cold" "a five-minute game?" "If you think you can manage it" "we both have two bishops" "I may be absent from that room, but my methods are not you can't mean doctor Watson, surely" "that doesn't seem fair" "right, the surgery will have left scars only four of them have the hairline to hide them" "the ambassador that you replaced with rene, is he still alive?" "Would you like me to recommend your next move?" "They're all my brother's height, right build, but.." "Their eyes their eyes are wrong, rene has blue eyes" "he could be wearing glass lenses to change the color in which case, his eyes will be hurting." "Rene is left-handed perhaps the assassin will take measures to ensure he doesn't give himself away like a gambler concealing a tell" "I think it might be him you think?" "Your clock is ticking you have to be sure may I remind you, this is blitz chess a single miscalculation will cost you the game" "if I tackle the wrong man to the ground, I could start a war maybe it's less obvious a nervous tic, a ﬂutter of anxiety" "I expect everyone has a reason to be nervous tonight" "I don't know" "so perhaps it's the opposite.." "Failure to behave naturally an actor so consumed with his performance that the one characteristic he cannot accommodate is spontaneous reaction." "Carruthers, protect the prime minister!" "Germany will pay!" "Mark my words!" "That doesn't bode well, does it?" "Seems your bishop was of some benefit, after all the game is still young actually, it's in its adolescence" "there are more of us!" "Germany will pay!" "No loose ends" "what happened to him?" "I'm a doctor, a doctor!" "What happened?" " Curare (Muscle paralyzer)" " What's wrong with him?" "It's poison do something!" "Doctor, do something!" "No" "I think you've just lost your most valuable piece but a winning strategy sometimes necessitates sacrifice a war has been averted hmm.." "Oh, I disagree how so?" "Didn't you find it strange, that the telegram you sent didn't inspire any action to stop me?" "You see, hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict" "so you're not fighting me, so much as you are the human condition all I want to do is own the bullets and the bandages" "war on an industrial scale is inevitable they'll do it themselves within a few years" "all I have to do is wait" "I like Switzerland they respect a man's privacy here particularly if he has a fortune" "bishop takes knight, check!" "The game is over you should get that shoulder looked at about that fortune of yours" "I believe it's just been substantially reduced." "King to rook two" "I attended several of your lectures the equations of motion, which you will find in my book the energy that is required to release these explosions is it was in oslo when I first caught a glimpse of your little notebook" "red leather-bound from smythson of bond street rook to king's rook three, check!" "Bishop to rook three until I observed your penchant for feeding pigeons then it occurred that with an empire so enormous even you must keep a record of it somewhere bishop takes bishop rook to bishop four" "I then only required the notebook itself you didn't make it easy" "just the bags" "I would dare to endure a considerable amount of pain." "Mycroft care of her majesty's secret service but the notebook would undoubtedly be encoded, so how then to break the code?" " Rook takes rook." " Pawn takes rook bishop to bishop seven queen takes knight pawn does the art of domestic horticulture mean anything to you?" "How could a man as meticulous as you own such a book yet completely neglect the flowers in his own window box?" "Irony abounds" "never mind, it's safe, in London where my colleagues are making good use of it" "the most formidable criminal mind in Europe has just had all his money stolen by perhaps the most inept inspector in the history of Scotland yard any chance of a cup of tea?" "Box 0403" " tick!" " Box 0801" " how much more is there?" " That's the end of page two page three.." "Be careful what you fish for!" "He'll be making an anonymous donation to the widows and orphans of war fund bishop to bishop eight.." "Discover check!" "And, incidentally, mate!" "I seem to have injured my shoulder, would you mind?" "Be my pleasure once we've concluded our business here it's important you know" "I shall endeavor to find the most creative of endings for the doctor" "and his wife" "his advantage, my injury my advantage, his rage" "incoming assault, feral, but experienced use his momentum to counter" "come now you really think you're the only one who can play this game trap arm, target weakness follow with haymaker ah.." "There we find the boxing champion of Cambridge competent, but predictable now allow me to reply" "arsenal running dry.." "Adjust strategy" "wound taking its toll as I feared, injury makes defense untenable" "prognosis, increasingly negative" "let's not waste any more of one another's time" "we both know how this ends" "conclusion, inevitable unless.." "A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains.." "Any attempt at finding the bodies was absolutely hopeless.." "And so there.." "Deep down in that dreadful couldron of swirling water and seething foam" "will lie for all time.." "The most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.." "I shall ever regard him as the best.." "And the wisest man whom I have ever known" "John?" " John." " Uhumm.." "You should probably pack it's half past two" " and the carriage is coming at four." " Hmm it's gonna be a beautiful week in Brighton yes, it'll be fun" "I'm looking forward to it you know I miss him too in my own way" "he would have wanted us to go he would have wanted to come with us" "when's Mrs. Hudson coming for gladstone?" "Oh, soon three o'clock" "Mary?" "Who delivered this parcel?" "A postman the usual chap or.." "Did he look peculiar?" "Encoded by m@husni"