Sherlock Holmes and his limits.
Knowledge of Literature. - Nil.
Philosophy. - Nil.
Astronomy. - Nil.
Politics. - Feeble.
Botany. - Variable.
Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally.
Knows nothing of practical gardening.
Geology. - Practical, but limited.
Tells at a glance different soils from each other.
After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers,
and told me by their colour and consistence,
in what part of London he had received them.
Chemistry. - Profound.
Anatomy. - Accurate, but unsystematic.
Sensational Literature. - Immense.
He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
Terrible at playing violin.
Sherlock Holmes.
Whoa! National bank, sir!
So-so-so, go-go-go, you'll get 100 pounds for help.
How much? - 100 pounds.
Gentlemen, excuse me, this is not a railway station, luggage is not allowed here.
Luggage?
How do you like that luggage, son, huh?
You can't imagine how great it is that you went to us!
Mr. Tomby! Mr. Tomby!
He will be so glad to see you when I tell him that you arrived. Mr. Tomby!
Mr. Tomby! On the side, on the side, please come here.
Morning. Good morning. Morning.
Mr. Tomby! Sir, please.
Mr. Miller, come to me after your shift,
I will give you the payment, you're fired. It's impressionable to shout in the bank.
Sir. Gentlemen, have a nice day.
I think we are not welcome here.
Gentlemen, just a minute, there was a mistake.
We are ready to serve you. We're so happy.
You won't steal it?
Of course no, it's not comfortable here, let's go to my office.
- You know, I really liked eeeh. - Miller. - Miller, or is he fired?
- No-no-no, he's our best employee. - Best employee Miller, come with us.
- Quick! - Yes-yes, Miller, you're with us.
Sir, and me?
Wait for me downstairs, I'll come soon.
- Let me, sir. - Yes-yes, sure. Ebenezer Buckley.
Mr. Buckley, are you willing to open an account?
No, I'm willing to exchange this to gold.
Jesus Christ. Mr. Buckley, how much is there?
50 thousand.
Miller, bring Milk. Just kidding, whiskey, do you have whiskey?
Miller, quickly bring whiskey!
- Sir. - What?
Maybe you're willing to put the money at an interest?
Oh no, my god, the interest is the same folly as these papers.
It's a pity.
As a client of this bank you could've bought the gold
after a month without the commission.
Yes?
- It's whole 5 percent! - 5 percent?
I will tell you my secret: I'm having a very important deal in a few days.
Oh well, we will be glad to have you amongst our clients.
Yes, of course, of course.
Mr. Tomby, Mr. Buckley, the gold is here.
Take it, son, you deserve it.
Thank you, thank you, mister, thank you.
All stand! In the name of the queen you are arrested! Lie! I said lie!
So what, honey, did you escape? Did you?
Sir Trout, you are arrested for counterfeiting and its spread.
To the carriage! - What? Counterfeiting?
Counterfeiting.
I'm not with him, I'm the head, I myself don-
How come you, the head, can't distinguish between fake and real money?
Don't!
I suspected him! I didn't like him from the start!
I suspected!
Story six: Halifax.
Halifax.
Doctor, open up!
I'm busy!
Doctor, we have a quite urgent business!
A bit later!
Open up! Doctor!
We are demanding for you to!
Why are you packing up? What are you doing there?
Fine! I'm coming, coming.
Is it you?
How dare you?
What happened?
The fame has got to you, doctor. Look out the window.
No, just look, look!
What do you need? - Look, it's Sherlock Holmes!
Go away! These are all fantasies, lies!
Go away immediately or I'll call the police!
- Mr. Holmes! - Go away!
And I was thinking to myself: "What is it he's writing?"
What are you writing, doctor, huh?
- Don't touch! Hands away! - What?
You can fantasise as much as you want!
You can write about how you dissect frogs!
But do not suck me and Mrs. Hudson into this abomination!
What frogs?
Do not, do not write the exact address!
What address? Wait, Sherlock, stop!
Filthy hedge writer!
What is this nonsense? My god!
- I didn't want to insult anybody. - Yes?
That's why you described me as an ancient granny?
- What granny? - As a detective,
sometimes I just need to be incognito!
And you have to be punished!
Take it!
I want to give a lesson!
Listen, Sherlock.
How much did you get?
- Mrs. Hudson. - 20? 30 in silver?
- You know, this is too much. - And you chose a foppish pseudonym!
What?
How is it?
- Where are they? - Don't worry, these are mine!
Exactly the same feelings I and Mrs. Hudson are having right now!
What an abomination, what an abomination!
Listen, but...
What abomination.
Sherlock, don't get me wrong, but this is this...
Filthy hedge writer, I say!
Mrs. Hudson.
You paid for the flat till the end of this month.
I did.
You have enough time to find yourself another housing.
But not a single word, not a single word about the age!
Thank you, there are so many people.
Is it this very Sherlock Holmes?
No, this is this very mr. Watson.
This very Mr. Watson!
Tell me, are you very Mrs. Hudson?
I thought you are much older.
Good morning.
Dr. Watson!
Doctor, come in.
You, good morning.
Mr. Wilson has a very interesting story.
Call the just Jabez, I'm just a seller, honestly,
it's more familiar to me. Good morning Mr. Watson.
So, Mr. Jabez, a year and a half, for example, you came back from China.
Yes.
You write a lot.
Yes, true. I really did copy the Encyclopedia Britannica for two months.
Encyclopedia Britannica?
We are very happy, Mr. Jabez Wilson,
that our note didn't pass your attention.
Please just call me Jabez, it's kind of familiar to me that way.
I was just never receiving any newspapers,
but this one appeared in my mail by some miracle.
Very interesting, continue.
So I didn't really understand here:
"Red-headed league." What does it mean?
Ah, it's the whole purpose of it - the hair colour.
Tell me, Jabez, have you experienced mockery in your childhood?
School, in the yard? From your acquaintances and from people in general?
Ladies? Who think that all red heads are rogues,
lustful, that they are whammy and all like that?
I think it did happen. - Yes, yes!
Um, sorry, can I ask you?
I need some precautionary measures. - Of course.
Can I ask you to come closer? Closer.
Sorry. - What are you doing?
Sorry, I swear to god, sorry, but I had to be sure, sorry.
Well, I understand you, but. - You can't imagine
what can people do to get this job.
We've caught three crooks with dyed hair and two more with wigs.
You have a beautiful hair colour.
Thank you. - Do you want to try mine?
No, no need. - No, but try, I insist.
I won't do it, sir. - Well, as you wish.
Can you turn around and look here at this portrait?
This is Ezekiah Hopkins, a Pennsylvanian millionaire.
As a red headed himself he felt so much pity
for all the redheads that he created this league.
What newspaper is that? Where did you get this notice?
Here, this newspaper, Morning Chronicle, here's the notice.
Can I? - Yes.
Morning Chronicle, 27th April 1890.
Doctor, do you have an issue of 27th April saved?
Be kind and bring it in. Please bring it in.
What do you sell?
Antiquaries. You know, it's more of a hobby.
I earned on export of Chinese tea and now,
Morning Chronicle from 27th April and Morning Chronicle from 27th April.
Kind of... different newspapers - Can I?
But there's no notice here.
Some mystery
So, straight to the point.
We are proposing a job for you for 4 pounds a day.
4 pounds?
This is very generous.
You have to copy the Encyclopedia Britannica by hand 2 hours a day.
Excuse me, and what's next?
Here's one condition:
You'll have to shelter the same unfortunate as we are in your house.
By the way, he can serve you, so you don't need to feed him.
Yes, of course.
4 pounds don't roll on the way, you understand me, Mr. Holmes,
and then - for just 2 hours a day.
Every day for 2 months I was copying the encyclopedia.
I copied articles about abbots, archery, Arctic, architecture,
and was about to start the letter "b",
but this morning... I overslept this morning, to be honest.
Well, yesterday the key from my clock got lost and I couldn't set it,
but it think it has nothing to do with it, but one thing does.
This morning I went to the league as always,
but it was closed and there was this note on the door:
"The red headed league is dismissed."
I rushed to buy the newspaper Chronicle,
I thought there would be an explanation of some sort,
I don't know. There was no notice, but your story,
Mr. Watson, about Mr. Holmes, a very interesting one.
Doctor, be kind, close the window,
it's really disturbing.
I didn't get paid for the last day, so I came to you.
Where do you live?
Well, I have a small flat Well, I have a small flat near Saxe Coburg square.
Near Saxe Coburg square?
Yes, there.
Get ready, let's go!
Where?
To your house. I'll explain everything on the way. Doctor, are you with us?
How do you know that I was in China a year and a half ago?
This is the approximate age of your tattoo. Doctor, take a gun with you!
Look, this is Sherlock Holmes!
Mr. Holmes!
Go away!
Excellent, great, beautiful ideas, grandiose.
Listen, Holmes, maybe you can finally explain what...
Yes, what happened, mr. Holmes?
Watson, what do you think? How many redheads are in London?
How do I know?
Hundreds - Thousands. Thousands!
Jabez, have you ever seen a crowd of redheads near this your league?
No
Considering the fact that this notice says:
"A well-paid job two hours a day", two!
This issue was printed out especially for you.
Yes? Why?
Is your guest at home?
He is. Well, he was when I left.
If only he wouldn't leave, if only he wouldn't leave.
What do you want to say, they want to rob me?
Well, if I know nothing about your collection, it's not treasurable at all.
Watson, does Saxe Coburg Square tell you anything?
No, I've never been there.
Of course, this is a region for the rich and you're poor.
- Listen. - As well as me.
Why did we stop?
There's a policeman, sir.
All policemen bastards!
That how they fire at peaceful citizens for no reason!
Is he hunting you, Mr. Holmes?
No - you, Jabez.
Whe- where are you?
Holmes!
Careful!
- Left, left. - Careful.
Billy, call Billy, Billy!
Quiet, quiet.
What is it?
Will I die?
Nothing serious,
the wound is through and through. The bullet exited the body,
but still it needs to be disinfected
Sir, what happened? Mr. Wilson?
Do you have medicine here?
- Only snuff. - Well,
Billy, run to the pharmacy, what do you need to buy?
- All right, sir.
I'll write it down, every pharmacy has it.
Yes, yes, yes.
- Yes, here, go. - All right, sir.
- Quickly, Billy. - Yes, sir, I'm going!
So what, Mr. Holmes? You wanted to see the house.
- Quiet-quiet. - I'll do it later.
Watson, you stay with Wilson.
But you were in such a hurry to see something.
I saw everything.
Gregson!
Yes, sir!
How long should I wait for tea?
Now, sir.
"Gregson is the smartest of the Scotland Yarders,"
my friend remarked;
"he and Lestrade are the pick of a bad lot.
They are both quick and energetic, but conventional-shockingly so."
I didn't say this, it's...
Oh, literature, so to say, hyperboles.
I understand, understand. Gregson!
"They have their knives into one another, too.
They are as jealous as a pair of professional beauties.
There will be some fun over this case if they are both put upon the scent."
I read this only this morning.
And not you alone.
All London reads it avidly.
Mr. Holmes claims that you are quick and smart.
I drink tea with milk!
Yes, sir.
Holmes, I know you think
I'm a stupid policeman,
an uneducated sleuth,
a man with no imagination and logic.
Well, you're not the only one.
This is a common philistine opinion,
but somehow we manage to catch criminals,
robbers, rapists, murderers.
And now tell me, Holmes, what's got your goat
that even me, a stupid and limited person understands -
you are talking nonsense.
Believe me, Lestrade, I don't think that harshly about you.
I don't care about your opinion.
What sane person would go and rob a national bank?
National bank!
You can rob a national bank, Holmes, only with the help of an army.
Do you know how many armed guards are there?
Do you know that 38 policemen patrol the area of the bank?
Do you know that it's impossible to open the bank's safe?
I also know that any guard can be deceived, bribed, poisoned in the end.
You can get into the bank not just from the outside
and any lock created by one person can be easily picked by another one.
And all this dodgy plan comes from the will of a Pennsylvanian millionaire
to help the red headed?
Not only because of that.
Because a policeman was shooting at us today
- A policeman couldn't shoot at you! - He could!
He did, did!
Don't you find this coincidence suspicious?
For example, the situation of Wilson's house right in front of the bank,
this very national one.
Why exactly at this night?
Because exactly today the Red Headed League was disbanded.
But what do red heads have to do with this?
If Wilson would be a brunet,
the league would be called the Black-haired League.
I don't see any logic whatsoever.
Look,
the rush hour on Saxe Coburg square is somewhere from 12 to 4.
The robbers need Wilson's house to be empty exactly at this time.
They've created a job for him right here.
At 12 o'clock he was leaving, arriving at 1.
2 hours he was spending for the work and then one hour on the road back.
So exactly all this period.
But you are taking opium, Holmes.
I warned you.
I didn't understand anything, Holmes,
maybe I'm stupid after all.
Why don't we search the house?
We'll find an underground passage there.
- Good. - But we might scare the criminals away.
- What if we organise an ambush? - Yes! We need an ambush.
Send policemen, let them stand near Wilson's house,
and I think that it will be better to take the criminals
in the moment of the crime in the bank.
Fine,
this time I'll meet you halfway, but only for proving
that you saw it all in an opium delirium.
Shpolding!
- Constable! - Yes, sir.
- Take a policeman, you'll go with me. - Yes, sir.
You're not carrying a weapon.
A weapon is needed only when an arrest is carried out,
but when on the street - only with a baton.
Take a gun.
Sir, but you promised to let me go off early today.
Yes, the christenings...
Alright, call Tracey.
What's the business, sir? Maybe I should cancel the christenings.
No, no, don't, don't.
Yes-yes, don't, go.
Yes, sir.
- You're not sure yourself. - Why?
Otherwise you wouldn't free Shpolding.
Absolutely not for these reasons.
I have to ask you, I'm pleading you, please do not tell anyone
about our plans and intentions, and don't tell where are we going.
Let me know why?
Allow me to be a little capricious.
This house. Command, place the guards,
second exit from the yard.
Go.
I know you will come back.
Watson, why aren't you with Wilson?
The servant didn't come back with the medicine for some reason,
I had to send Wilson to the hospital.
Sit down.
Where are we going?
We're going to teach Holmes' self-confidence a lesson.
A spectacular lesson.
Pedagogy should be exponential.
Go!
He called himself Ebenezer Buckley,
his last word was
Halifax.
Halifax?
Halifax.
Why do newspapers have nothing about this?
The information was classified.
This is a state crime after all.
Ebenezer Buckley, also Halifax, also Timothy Trout.
Exactly.
Great talent.
Do you know what he did in prison?
Escape!
Got scared, Stevie, huh?
Very funny, Tim!
He was a magician, illusionist.
His talents and used in the right business...
Talent choses its business all by itself.
But he didn't live out of lucre,
he lived out of happiness.
He was playing with life.
And finished badly.
Excellent,
excellent.
He didn't have patience,
but wait, no.
He was fixing the thing
which the real authors of the note don't have patience for.
The portrait on this one is way more qualitative.
Um, sorry but why, actually, "Halifax"?
A dream.
He wanted to go to Canada,
maybe he would've become an artist.
So you were saying he wanted to escape?
Uh-huh, So Brickson
Brickson? Brickson was there?
Or Wilkinson
But Brikson or Wilkinson?
I don't exactly remember now, but maybe also Bython.
Were they all there?
I don't see anything funny, Holmes.
- Do you want to say... - What?
No, nothing.
Gentlemen, it was a pleasure to spend my time with you,
but it's 6 in the morning and I'm going home.
- Guards! - Guards!
How is going?
The treasure of the British crown hasn't been stolen yet?
Everything is fine, sir, we're searched the whole building
from the basement to the attic.
So tomorrow I'll get my salary as usual.
- Let's go, gentlemen. - Quiet!
Where's the vault?
Downstairs.
Gentlemen, it's here in the basement!
What's this?
An ambush!
Go, go, go, quick!
Quick, quick, quick! Go!
It's Lestrade! Go!
Godammit, Holmes!
- You are right! - Believe me, Lestrade, I wasn't sure.
Lestrade, he needs to go to the hospital!
Go, go!
Thank you, thank you.
Patrick! Patrick!
- Doctor! - Drag him to the carriage !
Thank you, thank you!
Doctor, let's go, there's nothing else to do. Go! Follow me.
Where? Where?
- How did the patrols miss it? - It only proves my thoughts.
They were digging from Wilson's house. It means that....
What?
Means we'll meet them there!
- But there's an ambush. - It won't be bad. We'll help them.
- Go go! - Let's go!
Bython, Brickson, Wilkinson!
Where've you been, blockheads?
- We were here, sir! - Where?
We were here, sir.
Go to Scotland Yard.
We'll talk tomorrow.
- Yes, sir! - Yes, sir! - Yes, sir!
Sit down, quick!
Watson, shoot!
Stop, sir.
Let me go!
- We can't. The royal cortege. - I'm chasing a criminal!
- You must be kidding me. - Damn, damn, damn!
Quiet!
Have some respect!
Get ready.
Sit down!
I'll go for this one and you take these two. The road!
The road!
- What's wrong with you? - Stomach ache!
Wait. Stop wallowing!
Sit down, Watson!
But I can't on two wheels!
What's the difference?
I drove only the three wheeled one! - Go!
- Where did you get it? - Rented!
London!
You're going to shoot, I'm going to drive!
Cortney?
Shoot, shoot, doctor, shoot!
Something's wrong,
we need to jump. Jump!
You are great no doubt,
but stop wallowing,
there's another one. We need to take him alive!
Listen, I won't sit on a bicycle anymore!
Nobody will sit on it anymore, let's go!
Shpolding.
Careful, Holmes, I missed!
Pity, but he won't tell us anything anymore.
This is very strange. I swear, Holmes, I missed him!
But why did he die then?
I don't know.
Maybe of old age?
I propose to find it out right now.
You're proposing to ask him?
Yes, exactly.
You're a butcher. Damn!
I'm a doctor, Holmes. But I agree, sometimes these things are almost
the same. The intestines is empty,
he was throwing up the whole time, throwing up.
The liver... the liver is huge,
I think he was poisoned
with something, I don't know what.
Belladonna.
Wilson's servant.
What Wilson's servant?
It's Moriarty!
You know, Holmes, my reasons not to trust you become less and less every day
yet somehow it gets more and more on my nerves.
Fine, at least now you know how he looks like.
That's the thing that I don't.
I wasn't looking at his face, but at his trousers,
there was soil on them.
I hope you remembered him.
Me? I didn't, I was... I was treating Wilson's wound.
I hope this helps us somehow.
What's there?
You're almost in time,
inspector.
Arrest him.
I'm afraid it's a bit late, he's dead.
Arrest Sherlock Holmes.
You went insane, Lestrade!
- Take him away. Quick! - I knew it.
- I knew! - Quiet-quiet-quiet!
- Go, go. - I knew it, inspector!
Don't worry that much,
your sentence will come to an end one day too.
It wasn't entertaining with you here,
but no worse than with cockroaches.
Well,
well, I think
I've packed.
You know what?
I'll give you this book.
Why not?
"The nature of Canada"
It helped me. I decided to quit.
So, if you're going to look for me, I'm in Halifax.
It's 35 years.
35 years is
Timothy Trout
I'm here yet.
Hands behind, out with your belongings.
Don't, don't!
No, don't!
To the court! Everyone to the court!
Unbutton your jacket!
Yes, sir!
What is it?
- This is silk! - Blue silk, sir!
Who was friends with constable Shpolding?
- Why aren't you unbuttoned? - Sorry, sir! - Helmet!
- Did you get an inheritance? - No, sir!
Who knew Cortney?
Or Faith? Who?
Nobody!
Helmet!
Show your weapon!
In the munitions, sir!
If it's longer by a half of an inch...
Sir, I knew Shpolding a bit. He was always suspicious.
- Yes, yes-yes, strange. - They were always strange.
- They are not our friends! - We didn't talk, no.
Out! Everyone get out!
Sir, what do we do with Holmes?
None of your goddamn business!
- He's demanding a lawyer. - Me!
I do the demanding here! The rest are pleading.
Bring me the keys to his cell.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir minister!
Yes. I arrested him.
Yes, sir!
Yes, but he's demanding a lawyer,
sir, he threatened to call...
Sir, can I be honest with you?
The case is very serious.
No, sir, I'm not threatening you.
The thing is, sir, in the police...
there are simply, sir, three people fromthe bank robbery
appeared to be policemen.
Sir, I warned you.
Yes, Holmes seems to suspect it already.
I waited for your orders, sir.
"...when trying to escape."
Yes, sir.
Yes, I'll report to you when finished.
Sir.
Maybe I'll do it, sir?
An attempt to rob the national bank!
The criminal is arrested!
The continuation of the amazing adventures of Sherlock Holmes!
An attempt to rob.
He wouldn't leave you. He would help you out!
Well, I went to Lestrade and...
Why is he charged?
A secret of the investigation.
What nonsense. I will go to Scotland Yard myself!
Let's wait till tomorrow, well.
Suspecting Holmes in a crime is the same thing as suspecting you in bravery!
Well, well, you know, I went there
and I've been to the editorial office
and in general I started off such a, so to say...
...yes. You know what I think...
I'm not interested in your thoughts!
"...when trying to escape."?
Why do you think so?
What's in your pockets? Why did you come?
Now you will tell me everything.
But you know it all.
- Maybe not all. - Maybe you're blind.
- Do not forget yourself, Holmes! - Let's leave this politesse!
You know it perfectly well that there's a gang working in the police!
Can you be quiet?
Even you are scared of them.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe you, Holmes.
These people go under knives and bullets to save your miserable lives!
They are on this side of the law!
They were born under this law and they serve it!
You know who got Dante trapped in ice in the underworld?
- Who? - Lucifer!
Who was born from God, by the way.
And in his jaws Brutus, Cassius and Judas are being tortured!
They are not traitors.
Brutus and Judas?
So, right now we will leave from here,
but under one condition:
The whole upcoming investigation
will be only with me.
Inspector, do you
do you really want to know everything?
Nobody!
Looks like I won't come out of here alive anyway.
Let's see.
Line up! Releasing the prisoner!
Releasing the prisoner! Quick!
Releasing the prisoner!
Quick! Move
- till they realize. Now to where? - I need to go home.
You're crazy!
This is the last place where you should hide.
That's why they won't search there.
Well, guys, quiet. - You went insane! - Quiet
What are you... what? - Shot to the liver is fatal.
Watson, what's this silly initiative? - Run, Holmes, go.
Show where the cab is till Lestrade changes his mind, go!
I tried to help! - Go I'm telling you!
A hero!
In a few hours police will come for search to you.
Excellent, we have two hours.
Thank you, it's very delicious
Inspector, I'd advise you to eat, we'll have a hard night.
And I'm going to tell you everything,
if you are ready to follow my thoughts, of course.
Stop taunting.
What are names of the robbers?
Shpolding.
Faith.
Cortney.
So, the robbers were doomed.
You're kidding, sir.
You can only take a national bank only with an army.
Do you know how many guards there are?
You know that 38 policemen are patrolling for the whole day and night
and the safe is impossible to break into?
I know.
But I also know that the police can be bribed,
put to sleep, deceived.
And it's not only from the outside that you can get into the bank.
If a lock was made by one person, there will be always another one to pick it.
You bribed the guards?
But how else could you get into the bank?
Do you have a latchkey?
Yes, gentlemen.
Yes.
Yes-yes-yes-yes.
I made a tunnel.
From that house to the bank.
At the scheduled time
the guards will go to the duty room.
And the...
Latchkey...
Here...
30 percent.
Of course in order not to seem suspicious Moriarty started bargaining.
And as a result they probably stopped on the number...
10.
I propose to drink
to the success of our endeavour.
And right here he poisoned them.
Have you been there?
This is the key to wind the clock in Wilson's house.
Moriarty gave it to the robbers as the key to the bank's safe to placate them.
So why did he need to start an already doomed business?
It means that the robbery was just a cover, a masquerade,
bloody performance to hide a much more disturbing crime.
What can be more disturbing?
To rob a national bank! - Yes!
How frightening can it be, huh?
I can't get Halifax out of my head.
What did he forget there?
It's strange that the policemen appeared near the bank
and killed Halifax when he tried to escape.
By the way, you wanted to kill me exactly like that.
- I didn't. - You did.
Lestrade, you did.
When you walked in my cell you were stinking with whiskey.
I know you are a conscientious person,
that's why you had to drink before
and why, by the way, who cancelled the sentence?
I decided it myself.
I always decide everything by myself.
Shall we go?
Where?
To visit the wounded.
- Read the Morning Chronicle! Inspector Lestrade prevented a robbery of the century! - Boy, the newspaper
Doctor, what do you want to read from there? You know it by heart.
Lestrade caught all the robbers or god dammit, Doctor, what did you write about me again?
Listen, listen, buy yourself a copy
- Read the Morning Chronicle! - Boy!
Read the Morning Chronicle!
That's it. We're leaving. Brodigan was there, I was about to get caught, quick.
- But wait, I have... - Quick - ...instruments.
Hell with it, I don't need them now. Do you think I'm insane?
- Me? No, I - But I do
- Damn, how horrible it is to be in hiding - Now you understand the criminals, huh?
Inspector Lestrade prevented the robbery of the century!
Well, I see everything is going well.
- Hello! I'm not going with you anywhere - Jabez, I...
And actually, who the devil wanted me to meet you.
Who the devil who wanted you to live opposite of the national bank?
Hello
I've read, I've read it. Horrible.
So to say, we don't need you.
We need the key from your flat in exchange for this one.
Oh, this is the key to my clock! Where did you find it?
Well, let's say...
On the bank of the Thames.
And in details?
And in details...
Doctor, when is the next story coming out? In what issue?
Get well.
Holmes, you understand, eh...
The villains have been killed, the bank hasn't been robbed
- what else would we find here?
I ordered to have the tunnel refilled.
The robbers weren't killed by us. By poison.
What nonsense nonsense. I shot a bullet myself into this.
Watson.
Belladonna. They were poisoned about two hours before the robbery.
That's why they were running so slowly.
- The poison was already in action - God dammit!
It means that the others are looking for Moriarty.
If it was a part of the plan, it means they're only looking for us.
Betraying their comrades?
What are you..?
- Lestrade, do you know what phrenology is? - No.
What is it?
One Austrian Franz Gall,
Let me,
studied human skulls and found out that the bumps and dents
can make up quite a detailed psychological portrait of a human.
- Nonsense. - Don't say.
So what?
What do you think, how do bumps on a policeman's head
differ from bumps on a criminal's head?
How?
No how.
Sometimes I want to...
Yes, Holmes, sometimes you do look strange.
Like a dog, I don't know, like a sleuth
I am a sleuth
So.
Interesting.
Lestrade, so there was an order to fill the tunnel up, right?
Yes.
When was it filled up?
Yesterday or today.
To say, not in a rush.
So, light me.
Umm, taste it.
Damn, I'm so lacking in natural knowledge.
- Excuse me, what? - I need to go home.
Quickly.
Did we find something?
Yes.
I sense it.
I repeat, it's dangerous out there.
Not as dangerous as to miss the crime of the century.
Listen, Holmes, I too like pompous phrases, but you... yes...
Wherever you go, poets are everywhere.
Excuse me, what?
Wherever you go, poets are everywhere.
Poets are everywhere and anywhere it's only me
who's going to work, and I don't write any poems there.
Watson.
How much do they pay for a line?
- 10 pennies - How much?!
10 pennies.
- 10 pennies? Outrageous. - A robbery.
Here, you risk your life for some pennies.
Do you know how much do I earn, Watson?
You know...
By the way...
Why don't you write about us? About simple guys
who are guarding
your peace every day?
Yes, we are not angels, we are the same common people
who, sadly have to deal with criminals
murderers, offenders.
And you
are writing some filth about us.
- For 10 pennies - Yes, you're right we can't go home now.
I'll send a messenger.
I know where we can hide.
"Across the wall in blood there was scrawled 'Rache'",
you amplified it so bad.
Lestrade, are you sure they won't find us here?
No, this is a safe house, only few people know about it all of them are reliable.
I had no doubts about you.
Quiet!
- Who? - Me.
Brought it? Was there anyone following you?
You're offending me, sir.
Good job.
- So what, tell me - The house is clean
Well, actually Mrs. Hudson always has it clean, friend.
Not in that sense. Nobody's suspicious out there,
even though there was one moustachioed guy near the house.
Moustachioed?
Yes..
- A half of our constables are moustachioed - Exactly. Maybe it was a constable.
I did everything you asked. I threw a stone at the window,
the owner ran out and dragged me by my ear.
By the way, you owe me 2 pennies, she dragged me very hard.
Lestrade, give him 2 pennies.
Careful.
- That's it, I'm leaving. - Good job. Good job. Go.
By the way, I don't recommend you stay long here.
Why? Did they track you down?
No, there are a lot of policemen around. This is a conspirator basement.
How do you know?
The whole street knows.
Lestrade, you told me this was a reliable place.
- I'm leaving. - Go.
Mr. Watson.
- The murderers are Masons? - "Ha-li-fax"
Of course, he was a counterfeiter.
And what can connect Halifax and Moriarty?
Is it alike, sir?
- Not bad - But now will you free me?
No, Mr. Trout.
- You'll work for a bit. - I'm not going to work here anymore.
Even if you kill me.
I think we can do it any time.
And you're not going to work here.
Where?
Look here.
Are you serious? How can I get there? Who would accept me with my past?
Mr. Ebenezer Buckley has a crystal clear past.
And if I escape?
Why would Moriarty need a counterfeiter of Halifax's level?
I have never seen such a good forgery.
Do you know how many of these are in London?
There are a lot more than you think.
I repeat, even I have never seen something like this.
Even the bank's employees, those eyes are sharp, didn't recognise the forgery.
Do you know why?
Unlike the usual forgeries, this one was printed
on the machine that prints the real notes.
Where are we going?
There is one place, but it's no good for policemen to go there.
Here we are under the protection of the army, so to say.
Mr. Watson! - What is left from you?
We are happy to see you.
Of course we will tolerate your civilian friend,
but narks have nothing to do in here.
Whom are you calling a nark, buddy?
Either he leaves by himself or...
Inspector!
Corporal of the Seventh Infantry Regiment.
Fitzpatrick Lestrade!
Lies, I was serving there, but I didn't see you.
What year? - From 70 to 80.
In 72.
Lies.
I was serving there since 55.
Transferred to the reserve in 1853.
Who was the boss there?
Colonel Douley. - Who?
Douley.
The Toothpick.
- Our man! - Welcome!
This is our man.
You know how does loam differs from sandstone?
Well, I didn't taste it, I...
The composition. Composition. The loam is a bit sour.
Sandstone is fresh, so it means?
- What? - What?
Remember you said that the tunnel was filled up two days ago?
The day before yesterday it was rainy,
but the soil was dry there, and it was loam.
Even though they use sandstone for these cases.
I... how, sorry, it's my...
- Can you say shorter? - No.
I don't believe it myself and you shouldn't either.
By the way, you, John, are an inattentive person.
What about me and inattentive?
In that Chronicle issue, there truly was one notice, a very modest one.
Read.
Well, "Needed. - An engineer is needed...
...an engineer for underground works... - ...works yes and constructions".
- Well?
Obviously they found him.
Watson, do you have 10 pennies?
- 15! - Robbery!
20!
- 15. 15 - Take it, little extortionist.
I can charge more for the insult.
And I can beat you up.
Thank you, Tom.
Barman!
So, where did we stop? - On the engineer, yes.
We've seen the tunnel. - This was a hole
for which they didn't need an engineer.
Do they want to build an underground?
A second tunnel.
They didn't fill up the entrance to the bank,
they were finishing the second tunnel.
To the bank?
To the Royal Mint.
So what, fellow? Is it fine?
Yes-yes, thank you, sir. The job is not hard.
Don't even think about stealing a single penny, we have it all counted.
I wouldn't go just for a penny, sir.
Moriarty arranged Halifax to work in the mint,
and it was all lying on the surface, I didn't believe it myself,
I was thinking why would Halifax work in the mint?
No, Holmes, can't sort it out without a pint. Barman!
- Three more! - Did they decide to rob the mint?
Do not talk nonsense, it's impossible. Moriarty decided to rob whole of England.
To copy the printing machine?
Who told you this?
A forged note in the bank. Inside the bank
Wait...
And Halifax?
All this story with the forgeries?
Why did he go the bank?
Didn't he understand he would be killed?
Poor Halifax, I'm sure he didn't go there for profit,
but for the beauty, for the courage.
It was spectacular.
Spectacular and fatal.
Like all the great tricks.
Let's drink to Halifax.
Wait.
Wait a minute, why do we have go to the mint right now?
Why not tomorrow? Why not yesterday?
Because the crime will happen there at this exact day.
At what time?
From 12 to 8.
But Holmes, have mercy, but... but... how can you be so accurate?
Because exactly today
a mechanic for the printing machines starts his job -
Jabez Wilson.
The ginger!
Of course it won't be him.
They just used his good name.
Did they boy tell you that?
Yes, there are no secrets in this world.
He just ran around the employees listening and figured everything out.
Good boy, he will achieve a lot.
So what are looking for here?
The entrance. We have maximum a half an hour, maybe an hour.
- And then? - And then your colleagues will come and kill us.
- Devil - Eeh, scared?
Oh no, it's the beer. Sorry, gentlemen, one second.
Where, Lestrade? Where are you going? No, we don't have time!
- Do it right here. - Honestly, I would.
- I'm not a puritan, I will turn away.
To be honest, I myself wouldn't mind.
Devil.
I've ruined the foundation. - What?
- Where? - Here.
Yes, true. Couldn't sort it out without a pint.
Oh, wow, wow.
Hold my glasses.
Give it back.
That's why they needed an engineer.
Smells like morgue.
Devil!
- A true devil, inspector. - Let's go.
Wait, we need to close down the entrance first.
Hold it.
They'll notice it anyway.
Well, let's hope they, as common policemen, won't pay attention to details.
Yes, even if they notice they'll have to go back.
Now, let's go!
There's someone here.
The engineer, poor guy.
Goddamit, it's unbearable.
Here. I told you.
I still don't understand. Why would they need to drag this machine here?
What do you mean? They'll replace the real one with it.
Why?
Very easy, gentlemen. Tomorrow the auditors will spot the fault,
the machine is replaced with a new one
and Moriarty gets a real, original machine
machine from The Royal Mint of Her Majesty
- ...and infinite possibilities. - Oh my god.
Devil!
Listen, but it can ruin the whole financial system of great Britain!
Money will turn into candy wrappers.
My salary is small even without this happening.
It wouldn't be enough to buy toothpicks.
Holmes, listen, we can't allow money to turn into candy wrappers!
Holmes, Holmes, we'll get arrested.
All the guards are outside.
So what are going to do?
Now...
...the thing I dislike like nothing else in the world.
We'll wait.
We should block the exit for them.
We'll have to wait until they bring the machine in.
I'll shoot them as soon as they appear.
How do you know how many of them are there?
We'll have to wait. According to my estimation there should be...
Three.
Even if ten we need to wait.
Quickly, quickly, quickly, don't make noise.
Quickly, quickly, quickly! Help them.
Careful, the chains.
Quickly, go, careful. Stop stop, there's a hole.
Gentlemen!
It's him!
Who? - Moriarty!
If you break the machine, I won't pay you.
Of course sir, I understood. Hey, did you hear?
I'm pleading you, be careful.
I told that.
Watson, take these rats by the entrance!
Your sector is on the right.
Sherlock!
Escaped!
Holmes!
Watson! - What?
Got ammo? - Yes.
Holmes, shoot! - Cover me!
Holmes, take the gun!
Holmes!
Where did you shoot?
This is the police! Drop your weapons and come out with your hands up!
I'm inspector Lestrade!
Cease fire!
I'm inspector Lestrade! I'm the inspector of Scotland Yard Lestrade!
I am...
Fitzpatrick Lestrade do solemnly and sincerely
declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen...
with fairness,
integrity, diligence...
and impartiality,
upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people.
Repeat after me!
And I will to the best of my power.
Cause the peace to be kept and preserved.
And prevent all offences against people and property;
And that while I...
And that while I continue to hold the said office
I will to the best of my skill
and knowledge discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to law!
...thereof faithfully...
...according to...
...law.
Gregson!
Yes, sir!
Are you here? - Yes, sir!
Who's near you?
Higgis!
Yes, sir!
Turn on the light. Line everyone up!
Everyone line up!
Line up!
Quickly, quickly!
Attention!
Lestrade, look at the trousers!
They died...
...on duty!
What? - Yes, sir!
I can't hear! - Yes, sir!
Everyone to the shooting range tomorrow! - Yes, sir!
All to the line! Quickly, quickly, quickly! Everyone line up!
- I said quickly! - Mr. Holmes,
Mr. Watson,
I am very grateful for everything you did,
but bear in mind:
if anything leaks to the newspapers,
your corpses won't ever be found
Attention!
In your stories, John, if you are still going to write them...
...describe me as him.
Halifax.
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