CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

A. Background

Communication is the process through which individuals in relationships,

group, organizations and societies respond to and create messages to adapt to the

environment and one another. People use many variations in communication in order

to share their feelings and ideas such as verbal and nonverbal communication.

According to Buck and Arthur (2002:522), there are two types of communication.

They are verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Verbal

communication is the way of communicating messages by using words as elements.

Nonverbal communication is the way of communicating messages by using gesture,

body movements, eyes contact, facial expression, or general appearances as the

elements. These two types are the general media of people to interact each other in

which the speech act occurs.

Speech act is a kind of verbal communication and it is a subdivision of

pragmatics. According to Yule (1996:48), speech act is a study of how the speakers

and hearers use language. Speech act is the utterance that occurs and act refers to an

action. That is the reason why people have to interpret the meaning of communication

or language through speech acts. Illocutionary act is a very important part of speech

act because illocutionary act itself becomes the main central to linguistics in elements

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of communication. Yule (1996:3) states that pragmatics is concerned with the study

of meaning communicated by speaker and interpreted by listener.

The concept of an illocutionary act is central to the concept of a speech act.

Although there are numerous opinions regarding how to define illocutionary act.

There are some kinds of act which are widely accepted as illocutionary. Illocutionary

act has some different types. Yule (1996:58) has set up the classification of

illocutionary speech act as five subdivisions, they are representative, directive,

commissive, expressive, and declarative. Each type has different context and

meaning. All of these types will become media for the writer to analyze utterances

used by main character in movie Sherlock Holmes. Movie is defined as a motion

picture considered especially as a source of entertainment or as an art form

(Websters third new international dictionary, 1981:19). Movie is also known as film

that is a motion picture with series of images which are constructed of multiple

individual shots join to another in an extend sequence. One of the important aspect

mostly occurred in movie is the dialogue conversation among the characters. The

characters speak each other and there will be illocutionary act.

The writer has read by herself it was found out that there were many movies

that had analyzed by other researchers. Moreover, this movie displays many

interesting actions, and displays the genius of Sherlock Holmes in dealing with

problems that occurs. In this movie, Sherlock Holmes is famous because of the

greatness of analysis as well as intelligent and skilled in solving mysterious cases and

this movie received many awards such as Academy Awards,USA 2010 Nominated

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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures,Original Score, Golden

Globes, USA 2010 Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy

or Musical, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasty Horror Films, USA 2010, Art

Directors Guild 2010, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award 2010, BMI Film &

TV Awards 2010, Broadcast Film Critics Assicioation Awards 2010, Casting Society

of America, USA 2010 and Costume Designers Guild Awards 2010.

In line with the background above, the writer is interested to conduct a

research entitled: An Analysis of Illocutionary Act in Sherlock Holmes Movie by

Guy Ritchie.

B. Formulation of the Problem

Based on the background above, the formulation of the problems are :

1. What are the types of the illocutionary acts found in Sherlock Holmes Movie?

2. What is the dominant type of the illocutionary acts found in Sherlock Holmes

Movie?

C. Objective of the Study

The objective of the study are :

1. To analyze the types of the illocutionary act found in Sherlock Holmes Movie.

2. To determine the dominant type of the illocutionary act found in Sherlock Holmes

Movie.

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D. Scope of the Study

The scope of this study will be focused on the types of illocutionary acts in

the Sherlock Holmes movie. The writer will analyze only for the main character

Sherlock Holmes. In this study, the writer will use a theory about types of

illocutionary acts that was proposed by Yule (1996:53).

E. Significances of the Study

The writer hopes that this study will give significances for teachers, students,

the writer herselft and next resercher.

a. Teachers

The result of the study hopefully will give a contribution to the teachers as

alternative resources of material related to Illocutionary Acts.

b. Students

Especially for linguistics students to understand about speech acts especially for

illocutionary acts. This study gives the description about types of illocutionary acts

and the dominant types of illocutionary acts used by Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock

Holmes movie.

c. The writer herself

For writer, this research is able to improve the writer ability to comprehend this

study and understand about the movie and the story of the movie itself.

d. Next researcher

For other researcher, the result of this research can be use as one of the references

and information for further researcher related with the fiel.

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F. Operational Definitions

1. Analysis

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller

parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.

2. Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in

social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings

through language.

3. Illocutionary Act

Illocutionary act is what the speaker wants to achieve by uttering something,

and it can be the act is asserting, promising, apologizing, threatering, ordering and

asking.

4. Movie

Movie is known as film that is a motion picture with series of images which

are constructed of multiple individual shots join to another in an extend sequence.

5. Sherlock Holmes Movie

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 neo-noir mystery period action film based on the

character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed

by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wagram, Susan Downey and

Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peck ham and Simon

Kin berg was developed from a story by Lionel Wagram and Michael Robert

Johnson.

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 CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW

A. Theoretical Framework

1) The Study of Pragmatics

Pragmatics is the study of language becoming popular nowadays. Linguistics

is aware that the effort to get the essence of language will not give the best result

without the understanding about pragmatics. Linguistic have different point of view

about pragmatics. Morris (1983:2) defines pragmatics as study of signs relation with

the interpreter. According to Yule (1996:4), pragmatics is the study of the

relationship between linguistic forms and the users of those forms. Pragmatics is

specifically about the functioning of language in context. (Lycan 2008:138).

The advantages of studying language via pragmatics is that one can talk about

people intended meanings, their assumptions, their purpose or goals and the kinds of

action that they are performing when they speech. The big disadvantages is that all

these very human concepts are extremely difficult to analyze in a consistent and

objective way. In addition, pragmatics is concerned with the interpretation with

linguistic meaning in the context. In pragmatics there are so many things learn such

as delis, presupposition, speech act. In this research the writer will focus on to

analyze speech acts comprehensively.

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2) Speech Acts

For the first time, speech act term comes from Austins lecture in Harvard

University in 1955. Later that lecture is publish in 1962 under the title How to Do

Things with Words. Austin says, basically when somebody say something, he also

does something. When somebody use verb promises in I promise I will come on

time, he does not only say the words but also do the action (promise).

Other experts who concern at this branch of science also gives definition

about speech act. According to Yule (1996 :47), he said that speech act is actions

performed via utterance. Then, Mey (1994 :111) viewed that speech act are actions

happening in the world, that is, they bring about a change in the existing state of

fairs. In addition, Parker (1986 :14) defined speech act as every utterance of speech

act constitutes some sort of fact. In general terms, it can usually recognize the type

of action performed by a speaker with the utterance. The term speech act to describe

actions such as requesting, commanding, questioning or informing. It can define a

speech act as the action performed by a speaker with an utterance (Yule, 2006 :118).

Actions performed via utterances are generally is called speech acts and in English,

are commonly given more specific labels, such as apology, complain, compliment,

invitation, promise and request (Yule,1996 :47).

All the utterance shows speech acts consist of illocutionary act (the

production of sounds and words with meaning), an illocutionary act (the issuing of

an utterance with conventional communicative force achieved in saying) and a

perlocutionary act (the actual effect achieved by saying).

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3) Types of Speech Acts

According to Yule (1996:48) on any occasion the action performed by

producing an utterance will consist of three related acts. They are locutionary acts,

illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts. These could be classified as follow:

a. Locutionary Acts

Locutionary acts which is the basic act of utterances, or producing a meaningful

linguistic expression.

b. Illocutionary Acts

Illocutionary Act is what th e speaker, wants to achieve by uttering something,

and it can be the act os asserting, promising, apologizing, threatening, ordering

and asking. According to Austin, this act is what the speaker is doing by uttering

these words, commanding, offering, promising, threatening and thanking. The

function of illocutionary act is not only to utter something, but also to do

something, therefore this act is known as the act of doing something.

The illocutionary act is thought as the most important act in the speech acts.

This act relates to the speaker purpose. In other words every speaker has certain

purpose by uttering utterances. Through those utterances, the speaker wants to

asking informing, promising, warning, or ordering something.

c. Perlocutionary Acts

The utterance uttered by the speaker usually has a force or effect to the hearer.

Deliberately or not, this effect is create by the speaker. This kind of speech act use

to influence the hearer is called perlocutionary act. This act is know as the act

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affecting someone. Perlocutionary act appears because of perlocutionary force in the

utterance. In other words, perlocutionary act is the effect create by illocutionary act

to me hearer such as shocking, m is leading and convincing.

4) Illocutionary Acts

Illocutionary act a concept the application of which to a person makes explicit

the content of his utterance (Alston, 2000:33). Illocutionary Act is what th e

speaker, wants to achieve by uttering something, and it can be the act os asserting,

promising, apologizing, threatening, ordering and asking. According to Austin, this

act is what the speaker is doing by uttering these words, commanding, offering,

promising, threatening and thanking. The function of illocutionary act is not only to

utter something, but also to do something, therefore this act is known as the act of

doing something.

5) Classification of Illocutionary Acts

Yule presents a list of what he regards as the basic categories of illocutionary

acts. The categories are defined by Yule (1996:53) as follows:

1) Representatives/Assertive

According Yule (1996:53) Representatives/Assertive are those kinds of

speech acts that state what the speaker believes to be the case or not. Statements of

fact assertions conclusion and description as illustrated. Assertives verbs are state,

suggest, boast, complain, claim, report, hypothesize describe, predict, fell, assert,

argue, and inform.

For example The earth is flat

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 In the utterance above, the speaker describes. That the earth is flat. The

speaker believes the word as he or she believes it is even though, the word is

actually not plat anymore. In this example, the speaker uses the illocutionary acts of

representative (describing).

2) Directives

Directives are those kinds of speech acts that speaker use to get someone else

to do something. They express what the speaker wants. In using a directive, the

speaker attempts to make the world fit the words (via the hearer). Directive verbs

are order, command, request, advice, recommend, ask, beg, plead, pray, entreat,

invite, permit, dare, challenge, and defy (Yule, 1996:54).

For example Open the door, James

In the utterance open the door, James the speaker want the hearer (James) to

do something (to open the door). The speaker uses the word open. Indicating the

illocutionary acts of directive (commanding).

3) Commissives

Commissives are those kinds of speech acts that the speakers use to commit

themselves to some future action. They express what the speaker intends. In using

for commissives the speaker undertakes to make the worlds fit the words (via the

speaker). Commissives verbs are vow, offer, promise, threat, refusal and pledge

(Yule, 1996:54).

For example I promise I will come on time

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 In the utterance above the speaker commits himself to come on time (future

action). The speaker uses the word promise indicating the illocutionary acts of

commissive (promise).

4) Expressives

According to Yule (1996:53) Expressive are those kind of speech act that state

what the speaker feels. They express psychological states and it can be statements of

pleasure, pain, like, dislike, joy or sorrow. In using an expressive the speaker makes

the words fit the world (of felling). Expressives verbs are thank, congratulate,

apologize, condole, deplore, welcome, pardon, blame, greet, mock, praise,

compliment and leave-taking.

For example Sir, thank you very much for coming

In the utterance the speaker expresses his/her psychological states to the

hearer for coming. The speaker uses the phrase thank you indicating the

illocutionary acts of expressive (thanking).

5 ) Declaration

Declaration are those kinds of speech acts that change the world via their

utterance. In using a declaration the speaker changes the world via the words.

Declaration verbs are resign, dismiss, christen, name, excommunicate, appoint,

sentence, declare, approve, disapprove, bless, cure, hominate and confirm (Yule,

1996:53).

For example Referee: Youre out

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 In the utterance youre out! the speaker (referee) brings a new state of being

to the player. The referee declares that the status of the player is out of the match

because he has gotten his second yellow cards. In the example, the speaker uses the

illocutionary acts of declaration (declaring).

According to the explanation above, Searles defines illocutionary acts based

on verb called speech act verbs. By using the verbs it seems to be natural way of

expressing a particular speech act. Some linguistic require the presence of some

recognizable syntactic-morphological or semantic features that will tell them

whether or not they are dealing with real speech act.

6. The aspects of speech situation

As we know pragmatics is study of language which is context-bound/context

dependent. Therefore, according to Leech (1983:11) pragmatics for the purpose of

linguistics as the study of meaning in relation to speech situation. Since pragmatics

study meaning in relation to speech situation, reference to one or more of the

following aspects of the speech situation will be a criterion.

1) Addressers or Addressees

In every conversation the speaker and the hearer are involved. For that matter

Leech (1983:12) refers to addresses, as a matter of convenience an s (speaker) and h

(hearer). Thus the use of the abbreviations s and h does not restrict pragmatics to the

spoken language. The use symbol h however will always signify one or more

addressees by s. Some aspects related with s and h are social and economic

background, gender, and intimacy level.

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2) The context of an utterance

Context has been understood in various ways, for example to include

relevant aspects of the physical or social setting of an utterance. According to

Mey (1993:38) context as the surroundings, in the widest sense, that enable the

participants in the communication process to interact and that make the linguistic

expression of their interaction intelligible. According to Leech (1983:13) considers

context to be any background knowledge assume to be share by s and h which

contributes to hs interpretation of what s mean by h given utterance.

3) The goal (s) of an utterance

According to Leech (1983:13) often finds it useful to talk of a goal or function

of an utterance in preference to talking about its intended meaning or SS intention

in uttering it. The term goal is more neutral than intention, because it does not

commit its user to dealing with conscious solution or motivation but can be use

generally of goal oriented activities.

4) The utterance as a form of act or activity : speech act

Whereas grammar deals with abstract static entities such as sentence (in

syntax) and proposition (in semantic), pragmatics deals with verbal acts or

performances which takes place in particular situations, in Tim. In this respect,

pragmatics deal with language at a more concrete level than grammar.

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5) The utterance as a product of a verbal act

There is another sense in which the word utterance can be use in

pragmatics, it can refer to the product of a verbal act rather than to the verbal act

itself.

B. Synopsis Sherlock Holmes Movie

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 neo-noir mystery period action film based on the

character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was

directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan

Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony

Peckham and Simon Kinberg was developed from a story by Lionel Wigram and

Michael Robert Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock

Holmes and Dr. John Watson respectively. In the film, set in 1890, eccentric

detective Holmes and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a

mysticist's plot to expand thbe British Empire by seemingly supernatural means.

Rachel McAdams stars as their former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong

portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood.

The film went on general release in the United States on December 25, 2009,

and on December 26, 2009 in the UK, Ireland, the Pacific and the Atlantic. Sherlock

Holmes received mostly positive critical reaction, praising the story, action

sequences, set pieces, costume design, Hans Zimmers musical score, and Downey's

performance as the main character, winning Downey the Golden Globe Award for

Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The film was also nominated for two Academy

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Awards, Best Original Score and Best Art Direction, which it lost to Up and Avatar,

respectively. A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, was released on

December 16, 2011.

In 1890, private detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his

partner Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) prevent the ritual murder of a woman by Lord

Henry Blackwood (Mark Strong), who has killed five other young women similarly.

Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) and the police arrest Blackwood. Three months

later, Watson is engaged to Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly) and moving out of 221B

Baker Street, frustrated with Holmes' eccentricities and tired of their work.

Meanwhile, Blackwood has been sentenced to death and requests to see Holmes,

who he warns of three more unstoppable deaths that will cause great changes to the

world. Blackwood is subsequently hanged and pronounced dead by Watson.

Holmes is visited by Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), a former adversary who

asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. After her departure, Holmes

follows her as she meets with her secret employer, and only learns that the man is a

professor and that he intimidates Adler. The police find Blackwood's tomb

destroyed and Reordan is found dead inside Blackwood's coffin. Following a series

of clues from the body, Holmes and Watson find Reordan's home and discover

experiments attempting to merge science with magic. After they survive a battle

with Blackwood's men that attempt to destroy the lab, Holmes is taken to the

Temple of the Four Orders, a secret magical fraternity with considerable political

influence. The leaders Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram (James Fox), U.S.

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Ambassador Standish (William Hope), and Home Secretary Lord Coward (Hans

Matheson) ask Holmes to stop Blackwood, a former member of the society and

Sir Thomas's son.

That night Sir Thomas mysteriously drowns in his bath as Blackwood

watches, and the next night Lord Coward calls a meeting of the Order. He

nominates Blackwood to take command in place of Sir Thomas and Blackwood

reveals himself to the group. Standish attempts to shoot Blackwood but is set on fire

when he pulls the trigger of his gun, and in panic runs out a window to his death.

Lord Coward issues an arrest warrant for Holmes, causing him to go into hiding.

Holmes studies the rituals of the Order and recognizes their symbols in Blackwood's

murders that were staged at specific locations; from this he deduces the targets of

the final murder are the members of Parliament. With the aid of Lestrade, Holmes

fakes arrest and is taken to see Coward, where he uses evidence on Coward's clothes

to deduce Blackwood has conducted a ceremony in the sewers beneath the Palace of

Westminster.

Holmes, Watson, and Adler, find Blackwood's men in the sewers guarding a

device based on Reordan's experiments, designed to release cyanide gas into the

Parliament chambers and kill all but Blackwood's supporters, whom he has secretly

given an antidote. Blackwood comes before Parliament and announces their

impending deaths, then attempts to activate the cyanide device by remote control,

but it is disabled by Adler. Blackwood flees Parliament and sees Adler and Holmes

in the sewers, and pursues them to the top of the incomplete Tower Bridge.

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Blackwood knocks Adler to a platform where she is struck unconscious, and battles

Holmes. Blackwood is entangled in the half-built bridge, and in a series of

flashbacks, Holmes narrates how all of Blackwood's supposed supernatural feats

were the work of science and trickery. Blackwood falls from the bridge and its

support structures break, hanging him in a noose of chains. Holmes joins Adler who

explains that her employer is Professor Moriarty, and she warns that Moriarty is as

intelligent as Holmes and far more duplicitous.

As Watson moves out of 221B, the police report to him and Holmes that a

dead officer was found near Blackwood's device. Holmes recognizes the wounds as

coming from a weapon he saw Moriarty use, and realizes Adler was a distraction to

allow Moriarty access to Blackwood's device so he could steal key components

based on the new science of radio. Holmes smiles as he think of the potential in

such technology, and tells the police he'll take the case..

Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, a bohemian scientist and eccentric

detective-for-hire who becomes a wanted fugitive in his hunt for Lord Blackwood

while constantly being followed by the presence of Professor Moriarty. Downey

was visiting Joel Silver's offices with his wife, producer Susan Downey, when he

learned about the project. Ritchie initially felt Downey was too old for the role

because he wanted the film to show a younger Holmes on a learning curve like

Batman Begins. Ritchie decided to take a chance on casting him in the role, and

Downey told the BBC that "I think me and Guy are well-suited to working together.

The more I look into the books, the more fantastic it becomes. Holmes is such a

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weirdo". Downey also revealed what his wife had to say: "that when you read the

description of the guy quirky and kind of nuts it could be a description of

me". Downey intended to focus more on Holmes' patriotic side and his

bohemianism, and felt that his work on Chaplin had prepared him for an English

accent. Ritchie feels his accent is "flawless". Both Downey and Ritchie are martial

arts enthusiasts, and have been inspired by the Baritsu mentioned in the 1901 story

"The Adventure of the Empty House". Downey lost weight for the part, because

during a chat he had with Chris Martin, Martin recommended that Holmes look

"gaunt" and "skinny".

Actor Jude Law at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Jude Law as

Dr. John Watson, Holmes' companion and close friend who is also a surgeon and a

veteran of the Second Afghan War. Law's Watson is more like the original

character, who was more of a colleague, rather than the bumbling fool that actor

Nigel Bruce popularised in the 1930s40s films. Law previously appeared in the

Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in an episode based

on "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place". Being a Holmes fan, Law recognised

there was material unexplored in other adaptations and was intrigued by Downey's

casting; Law was cast because he had a positive meeting with Downey and

concurred the film would have to explore Holmes and Watson's friendship. Downey

believed by emphasizing Watson's qualities as a former soldier, a doctor, a

womanizer and a gambler, it would make for a more interesting foil for Holmes.

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Law made a notebook of phrases from the stories to improvise into his dialogue.

Ritchie originally envisioned Russell Crowe in the role.

Mark Strong as Lord Henry Blackwood, an aristocratic serial killer dabbling

in the occult to compel others to do his bidding. Having returned after his execution,

Blackwood unveils plans to control the British Empire. He is given many

supernatural elements to his character, and his presence is usually accompanied by a

menacing crow. Strong worked with director Ritchie for the third time and said he

appreciates the director's lack of ego and how easy he is to work with.

Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, an American femme fatale from New Jersey

who outwitted Holmes twice, as chronicled in Doyle's story "A Scandal in

Bohemia". In the film, Adler is no longer married to Godfrey Norton and needs

Holmes' help for the case. Downey convinced Ritchie to cast McAdams, arguing

she would not look too young to be his love interest. In this aspect the film

considerably departs from Doyle's original, where Holmes never met Adler again

after the one occasion where she outwitted (and greatly impressed) him; the film

conversely implies that the two of them met many times and later had an

intermittent, hotly consummated love affair.

Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, a governess whom Watson wishes to marry,

causing a conflict with Holmes. Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade, an investigator

from Scotland Yard who hires Holmes to look into the murders. Unlike many

previous adaptations, in this storyline Lestrade is not portrayed as a bumbling

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 inspector, but is shown to be a rather competent officer (though he is relatively fed

up with Holmes).

Hans Matheson as Lord Coward, the Home Secretary, who is Blackwood's

right-hand man and assisted Blackwood in all his murders. He was one of a small
number of Blackwood's allies aware of his usage of technology to feign magical
powers. Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' landlady. This is
James' second Holmes film. She had also portrayed Dr. Mortimer's wife in the 2002
adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. James Fox as Sir Thomas Rotheram,
father of Lord Blackwood, Lord Chief Justice and Head of the Temple of the Four
Orders. Robert Maillet as Dredger, a 7-foot (2.14 meter), French-speaking
henchman working for Blackwood. William Hope as American Ambassador
Standish. Director Guy Ritchie declined to reveal the actor who voiced Professor
Moriarty. Wikipedia, 18 May 2016.
Retrievedfromhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2009_film)
(Accessed on January 08, 2017).

C. Related Previous Study

In this study the writer found a thesis which was relevant to the writer study.

The thesis was written by Ni Kadek Ayu Tedja Sari Dira, she was a student of

English department faculty of Letters Udayana University (2013). The title of his

thesis was Directive Illocutionary Acts Used by Main Characters in Alice in

Wonderland Movie Script.

The similarity both of the studies is the studies analyze Illocutionary acts in

movie. Then the difference between Diras thesis and this research is the object of the

study. The object of Diras study was Alice in Wonderland movie, while in this study,

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the writer will analyze movie entitled Sherlock Holmes movie. In addition, the writer

will describe the types of illocutionary act found in Sherlock holmes, and describe the

dominant type of them.

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 CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH

A. Method of the Study

According to Angrosino, M.V cited Litief (2007:1) Qualitative research seeks

to understand that what, how, when, and where of an event or an action in order to

establish its meaning, concepts, and definition, caharacteristic, metaphor, symbols

and description. The method used in this study is qualitative design with descriptive

method, where the writer will describe and analyze the selected illocutionary acts

which are taken from the script of the movie Sherlock Holmes. In addition, the

writer classifies them by using Yules theory for the types of illocutionary acts and

determine the dominat type of illocutionary acts use on sherlock holmes without any

manipulation of the data.

B. Data Source

The source of data will be taken from Sherlock Holmes Movie. This study

limits the data by analyzing only on the utterances of the major character Sherlock

Holmes in Sherlock Holmes Movie.

Data source is divided into primary and secondary source.

a. Primary source

Primary source is a source of data that is collected for the specific research

problem at hand, using procedures that fit the research problem best. (Hox,

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2005:64). In this research the primary source is taken from the movie entitle

Sherlock Holmes Movie.

b. Secondary source

According to Chruch (2011:108) secondary source is the individual or group

that analyzes the data is not involv in the planning of the experiment of the

collection of the data, such analysis can be done based upon information that is

available in the published articels, tables, and script. The data is taken from any

kinds of literary books and some relevant materials to support and complete the

primary source in this study.

C. Techniques for Collecting Data

In this research, the writer conducts a study through document to collect the

data. Document method is looking for data about the items, such as transcription,

book magazine and newspaper (Arikunto,1995:151). Steps in collecting the data

through document are as follows:

1. Watching the movie.

2. Finding out the transcription of the dialogue.

3. Identifying and underlining the dialogue categories of illocutionary act spoken by

actor in the movie as the data.

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4. Classifying the actor utterances found in the movie based on types of

illocutionary acts such as representatives, directives, commissives, expressives

and declaration.

5. Noting down the data based on their classification.

D. Techniques of Analyzing Data

The data will be analyzed be collecting, selecting and clarifying the suitable

utterances with the method and relevant concept, especially by using George Yules

taxonomy of illocutionary acts. In this research the process of collecting data is

done through the following steps:

1. Watching the movie thoroughly.

2. Reading the dialogue on script carefully.

3. Analyzing the types of illocutionary acts based on Yules theory.

4. Determine the dominant types of the illocutionary acts found in Sherlock Holmes

movie.

5. Making conclusion.

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Biography of the Author of Sherlock Holmes Movie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (born May 22,

1859, Edinburgh, Scotlanddied July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England),

Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmesone of

the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction.

Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyles 10

children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After

an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to

Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mothers lodger,

he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburghs Medical School. He received

Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881

and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, An Essay upon the Vasomotor

Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.

While a medical student, Conan Doyle was deeply impressed by the skill of

his professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in observing the most minute detail regarding a

patients condition. This master of diagnostic deduction became the model for Conan

Doyles literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet

in Beetons Christmas Annual of 1887. Other aspects of Conan Doyles medical

education and experiences appear in his semiautobiographical novels, The Firm of

Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark Munro Letters (1895), and in the collection of

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medical short stories Round the Red Lamp (1894). His creation of the logical, cold,

calculating Holmes, the worlds first and only consulting detective, sharply

contrasted with the paranormal beliefs Conan Doyle addressed in a short novel of this

period, The Mystery of Cloomber (1889). Conan Doyles early interest in both

scientifically supportable evidence and certain paranormal phenomena exemplified

the complex diametrically opposing beliefs he struggled with throughout his life.

Arthur Conan Doyle, c. 1900.

Although public clamour prompted him to continue writing Sherlock

Holmes adventures through 1926, Conan Doyle claimed the success of

Holmes overshadowed the merit he believed his other historical fiction

deserved, most notably his tale of 14th-century chivalry, The White Company

(1891), its companion piece, Sir Nigel (1906), and his adventures of the

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 Napoleonic war hero Brigadier Gerard and the 19th-century skeptical scientist

Professor George Edward Challenger.

When his passions ran high, Conan Doyle also turned to nonfiction. His

subjects include military writings, The Great Boer War (1900) and The British

Campaign in France and Flanders, 6 vol. (191620), the Belgian atrocities in the

Congo in The Crime of the Congo (1909), as well as his involvement in the actual

criminal cases of George Edalji and Oscar Slater.

Conan Doyle married Louisa Hawkins in 1885, and together they had two

children, Mary and Kingsley. A year after Louisas death in 1906, he married Jean

Leckie and with her had three children, Denis, Adrian, and Jean. Conan Doyle was

knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa,

and other services during the South African (Boer) War.

Conan Doyle himself viewed his most important efforts to be his campaign in

support of spiritualism, the religion and psychic research subject based upon the

belief that spirits of the departed continued to exist in the hereafter and can be

contacted by those still living. He donated the majority of his literary efforts and

profits later in his life to this campaign, beginning with The New Revelation (1918)

and The Vital Message (1919). He later chronicled his travels in supporting the

spiritualist cause in The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921), Our American

Adventure (1923), Our Second American Adventure (1924), and Our African Winter

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(1929). He discussed other spiritualist issues in his Case for Spirit Photography

(1922), Pheneas Speaks (1927), and a two-volume The History of Spiritualism

(1926). Conan Doyle became the worlds most renowned proponent of spiritualism,

but he faced considerable opposition for his conviction from the magician Harry

Houdini and in a 1920 debate with the humanist Joseph McCabe. Even spiritualists

joined in criticizing Conan Doyles article The Evidence for Fairies, published in

The Strand Magazine in 1921, and his subsequent book The Coming of the Fairies

(1922), in which he voiced support for the claim that two young girls, Elsie Wright

and Frances Griffiths, had photographed actual fairies that they had seen in the

Yorkshire village of Cottingley.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Conan Doyle died in Windlesham, his home in Crowborough, Sussex, and at

his funeral his family and members of the spiritualist community celebrated rather

than mourned the occasion of his passing beyond the veil. On July 13, 1930,

thousands of people filled Londons Royal Albert Hall for a sance during which

Estelle Roberts, the spiritualist medium, claimed to have contacted Sir Arthur.

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Castings of Sherlock Holmes Movie

Cast overview, first billed only:

Robert Downey
. Sherlock Holmes
Jr.

Jude Law ... Dr. John Watson

Rachel McAdams ... Irene Adler

Mark Strong ... Lord Blackwood

Eddie Marsan ... Inspector Lestrade

Robert Maillet ... Dredger

Geraldine James ... Mrs. Hudson

Kelly Reilly ... Mary Morstan

William Houston ... Constable Clark

Hans Matheson ... Lord Coward

James Fox ... Sir Thomas Rotheram

William Hope ... Ambassador Standish

Clive Russell ... Captain Tanner

Oran Gurel ... Reordan

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David Garrick ... McMurdo

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Sherlock Holmes Script

S.H :- I like the hat.

- I just picked it up.
S.H: You remember your revolver?
S.H: Oh, knew I'd forgotten something.
- I thought I'd left the stove on.
- You did.
S.H: I think that's quite enough.
S.H: You're a doctor, after all.
S.H : Always nice to see you,
Watson.
S.H :Where is the inspector?
Waston: He's getting his troops lined up.
S.H: That could be all day.

Sherlock Holmes.

Black.W : And his loyal dog.

Blcak.W : Tell me, doctor
B.W : As a medical man, have you enjoyed my work?
Waston : Let me show you how much I've enjoyed it.
S.H : Watson! Don't!
S.H : Observe.
WASTON: How did you see that?
S.H :Because I was looking for it.
Waston : Lord Blackwood!
B.W : You seem surprised.
S.H :I'd say that the girl deserves our attention more than he.
Waston : Indeed.
Inspektur Lestrade: Oh, I'd leave that alone if I were you, boyo.
I.L : Good lad.
S.H : Impeccable timing, Lestrade.
S.H :We've one for the doctor, and one for the rope.
- Clarky?
- Sir.

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Waston : This woman needs a hospital immediately.
- Put her in the back of the maria.
- Right lads, that's it.
Come on.
B.L : If you don't mind.
I.L : Get him out of my sight.
I.L : And you were supposed to wait for my orders.
S.H : If I had, you'd be clearing up a corpse. and chasing a rumor.
S.H : Besides, the girl's parents hired me, not the Yard.
S.H : Why they thought you'd require any assistance is beyond me?
I.L : - Well, London will breathe a sigh of relief.
WASTON: Indeed.
WASTON:- Congratulations, Lestrade.
S.H :- Bravo, Inspector.
Have a cigar.
I.L : Gentlemen...
Cheese!
156 over 80. Very good.
Captain Tanner: Me nerves are the best they've been in years, thanks to you.
C.T : Oh, tell me something:
C.P :Your new premises...
C.P :when you moving in?
Waston : I should be in within the week.
Waston : Cavendish Place.
Waston : And there will be a women's touch too.
C.P: - Oh, well that's marvellous.
- Indeed.
C.P: Good god!
C.P : That was gunfire!
Waston : No, no, no, no.
Waston :Hammer on nail, wasn't it?
Waston :My colleagues, probably just...
putting up a painting.
Waston :I'll go and check.
C.P :Your colleague?
Waston :Yes
C.P :He wont be moving with you, will he?

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Waston :No, he wont.
Waston :Mrs. Hudson...
Mrs. H :I wont go in there by myself.
Mrs. H :Not while he's got a gun in his hand!
Waston :You don't need to go in there at all. Give me the paper.
Mrs.H :What will I do when you leave, Doctor?
Mrs.H :He'll have the whole house down!
Waston :He just needs another case, that's all.
Mrs. H :Couldn't you have a longer engagement?
C.P :I smell gunpowder. This is not right you know!
Not in a domestic environment.
Waston :Thank you, Captain Phillip.
Waston :Perhaps a nice cup of tea...
Waston :Same time next week.
Mrs.H :Come on, Captain.
It's quieter downstairs.
Waston :Mrs. Hudson? Bring something to cheer him up.
Waston :Permission to enter the armoury.
S.H :Granted.
S.H :Watson, I am in the process of inventing a device that suppresses the sound
of a gunshot.
S.H :It's not working.
- Oh.
Waston :Can I see that?
Waston :You know it's been three months, since your last case?
S.H :Gently. Gently, Watson. Be gentle with me.
Waston :Don't you think it's time you found another one.
S.H :I can't but, agree.
S.H :My mind is in a terrible condition,give me problems, give me work.
The sooner the better.
Waston :Paper.
S.H :Thank you.
Waston :Let's see then. There's a letter here,
from...Mrs. Ramsay, of Queenspark. Her husband's disappeared.
S.H :He's in Belgium, with the scullery maid.
Is it November?
Waston :Yes, Holmes.

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What?
Waston :Lady Rathford reports...
Waston :her emerald bracelet has disappeared.
S.H :An insurance swindle. Lord Rathford likes fast women and slow ponies.
S.H :I see you're the attending physician, at Blackwood's hanging.
Waston :Yes.
Waston :It was our last case togethe and I wanted to see it through to the end.
S.H :A Mr. Louis...
S.H :There's only one case, that intrigues me at present.
S.H :The Curious Case of Mrs. Hudson The absentee landlady.
S.H :I've been studying her comings and goings and they appear most... sinister.
Mr.Louis:Tea, Mr. Holmes?
S.H :Is it poisoned, "Nanny"?
Mr. L :There's enough of that in you already.
S.H :Don't touch. Everything is in it's proper place.
S.H :As per usual, "Nanny".
Mr.L :Oh, his killed the dog... again.
Waston :What have you done to, Gladstone now?
S.H :I was simply testing a new anaesthetic.
S.H :He doesn't mind.
Waston :Holmes,as your doctor...
S.H :He'll be straight as a trivet in no time.
Waston :As your friend... You've been in this room for two weeks.
I insist, you have to get out.
S.H :There's nothing of interest, for me, out there on Earth. At all.
Waston :So, you're free this evening?
S.H :Absolutely.
Waston :Dinner?
S.H :Wonderful.
Waston :The Royal?
S.H :My favourite.
Waston :Mary's coming.
S.H :Not available.
Waston :You're meeting her, Holmes!
S.H :Have you proposed yet?
Waston :No, I haven't found the right ring.
S.H :Well, then it's not official.

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WASTON :It's happening, whether you like it or not.8:30, the Royal.
Waston :Where a jacket.
S.H :You wear a jacket.
Waston :Holmes!
- Hmm.
Waston :You're early.
S.H :Fashionably.
WASTON :Miss Mary Morsten.
S.H :Oh my goodness. What a pleasure.
S.H :For the life of me, I don't know why it's taken him so long to introduce us
properly.
Mrs. Marry :The pleasure is mine.
Mrs. Marry :It really is quite a thrill to meet you, Mr. Holmes.
Mrs. Marry :I've heard so much about you.
Mrs.marry : have a pile of detective novels at home... Collins, Poe.
Waston :It's true.
Mrs. Marry :It can seem a little far fetched though, at times. Making
S.H :That's not quite right is it?
S.H :In fact, the little details are by far, the most important.
S.H :Take Watson...
Mrs. MARRY :I intend to.
S.H :See his walking stick over there? African snake wood.Hiding a blade of
high tensile steel.
S.H :Few were rewarded to the veterans of the Afghan war,
S.H :so I can assume, he's a decorated soldier.
S.H :Strong, brave, born to be an adventurer. and neat, like all military men.
S.H :Now, I check his pockets.
S.H :Ah, a stamp from a boxing match.
S.H :Now, I can infer that he's a bit of a gambler.
S.H :I'd keep an eye on that dowry, if I were you.
Waston :Those days are behind me.
S.H :Right, behind you.
S.H :It's cost us the rent, more than once.
Mrs. Marry :Well with all due respect, Mr. Holmes, You know John very well.
What about a complete stranger?
Mrs.Marry :What can you tell about me?
S.H :You?

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Waston :I don't think that's...
S.H :I don't know that, that's...
Waston :Not at dinner.
S.H :Perhaps another time.
Mrs. Marry :I insist.
S.H :You insist?
Waston :You remember we discussed this.
S.H :The lady insiss
S.H :You're a governess.
Mrs. Marry :Well done.
Waston :Yes, well done. Shall we... Waiter!
S.H :Your student... It's a boy of eight.
Mrs. Marry :Charlie is seven, actually.
S.H :And he's tall for his age. He flicked you with ink today.
Mrs. Marry :Is there ink on my face?
Waston :There is nothing wrong with your face.
S.H :There are two drops on your ear in fact.
S.H :India blue is nearly impossible to wash off.
S.H :Anyway, very impetuous act of that boy, but you're too
experienced to react rashly, which is why
S.H :the lady for whom you work lent you that necklace.
Pearls, diamonds, flawless rubies.
Hardly the gems of a governess However, the jewels you are not
wearing, tell us rather more.
Waston :Holmes!
S.H :You were engaged.
S.H :The ring has gone, but the lightness of the skin where it once sat
suggests that you spent some time abroad, wearing it proudly
that is, until you were informed of its true and rather modest worth
and then you broke of the engagement and returned to, England for better prospects.
A doctor perhaps?
Mrs. Marry :You're right on all counts Mr. Holmes, apart from one.
Mrs. Marry :I didn't leave him.
He died.
Waton :Well done, old boy.
Get up and fight!
Come on!

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Come on!
S.H :That's it, big man... We're done.
You won. Congratulations.
Oi, we ain't done yet.
S.H :This mustn't register on an emotional level.
S.H :First, distract target.
Then block his blind jab. Counter with cross to the left cheek.
Discombobulate. Dazed, he'll attempt a wild hay maker. employ
the elbow block.
And body shot. block thorough left. weaken right jaw. Now
fracture. Break cracked ribs. Traumatize, solar plexus.Dislocate jaw entirely. Heel
kick to diaphragm.

In summary:jaw fractured, three ribs cracked four broken,diaphragm haemorrhaging.

Physical recovery: 6 weeks. Full psychological recovery: 6 months.Capacity to spit at
back of head...Neutralized. Where did that come from?
What the hell's going on here, Charley?
Grave Policeman :Lord Blackwood's put him on some kind of spell, sir.
Grave P. :It's like he's burning from the inside out!
Shut up!
Grave P. :Charley. Charley!
Take this man to the infirmary!
Now!
Grave P :What's this all about then, Blackwood?
Black.W :There's someone I want to see.
S.H :Watson?
Waston :Right.
Let's go.
S.H :What started merely as an experiment has brought me to the
threshold of monumental discovery
S.H :Now if I play, chromatic scale there's no measurable response.
Waston :You do know, what you'rendrinking is meant for eye surgery.
S.H :But... now, and this is remarkable if I change to atonal
clusters.Voila! They fly in counter-clockwise, synchronized concentric circles. As
though a regimented flock. Watson this is exceptional.
S.H :I, using musical theory, have created order out from chaos.
Waston :How did you lure them in?

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S.H :Excellent question.
S.H :Individually, I've been at it for six hours.
WASTON :And what happens if I do this?
Waston :Clean yourself up.
Waston :You are Blackwood's last request.
S.H :Look at those towering structures.
S.H :It's the first combination of a Bascule'ssuspension bridge ever
attempted. Most innovative.
S.H :What an industrious empire!
S.H :Oh, I have your winnings from last night.
S.H :You weren't there, so I made your customary bet.
S.H :You're right. I'll keep it with your chequebook, locked safely
away in my draw.
S.H :Did you know the opera house is featuring "Don Giovanni"?
S.H :I could easily procure a couple of tickets If you had any cultural
inclinations this evening.
S.H :You have a grand gift of silence, AWatson, it makes you quite
invaluable as a companion.
WASTON :I knew she'd been engaged. She told me.
S.H :So that's, no to the opera then.
Waston :That was my waistcoat.
S.H :I thought we agreed it's too small for you.
Waston :I'd like it back.
S.H :I thought we agreed.
Waston :I want it back. This way, Mr. Holmes.
S.H :Blackwood certainly seems to have got the crowd into something
of a fear frenzy.
S.H :I'm sure it will disperse once his feet have stopped twitching.
Waston :Care to come along?
Waston :No, you're on your own, old cock.
Waston :I have no business with him whilst he's alive.
S.H :Suit yourself, "mother hen".
S.H :It seems you still have lots of rooms to let.
Police :We had to move the prisoners, sir. Otherwise we're gonna
have a riot on our hands. He has a peculiar effect on the inmates.
As though, he can get inside their heads.

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S.H :I'm sure I can find my own way if you have other duties to
perform.
Police :Much obliged, sir. Thank you.
Black W :And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out
of the sea,
Black W :having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns,
Black W :and upon his heads the name of blasphemy,and they worshipped
the dragon which gave power unto the beast they worshipped the beast saying, Who
is like the beast?
Black W :the beast which I just saw had the body of a leopard, but had feet
of a bear and the mouth was the mouth of a lion.
Black W :The dragon gave his power unto the beast, and his seat and great
authority.
S.H :I love what you've done with the place.
Black w :So glad you can accept my invitation.
S.H :I just have a small point of concern.
B.W :How can I help?
S.H :I've already followed the murders with some interest.and
although my heart went out primarily to the families of the victims,I couldn't but
notice a criminal mastery,in the stroke of your brush.
B.W :You're too kind.
S.H :However, by comparison, your work in the crypt looks more like
a finger painting.
B.W :So now you're curious if there's a larger game afoot?
S.H :Either that or, um... shortly my friend will pronounce you dead
and I thought I might keep him company.
B.W :Your mistake is to imagine that anythingthat is earthly has led us
to this moment.
B.W :Your error of judgement is to assume that I'm holding the brush at
all.
B.W :I'm merely a channel.
S.H :Well my only wish is that I could have caught you sooner.
S.H :You see? Five lives might have been spared.
B.W :Those lives were a necessity.
B.W :Sacrifice.

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B.W :Five otherwise meaningless creatures called to serve a
greater purpose.
S.H :I wonder if they'll let me and Watson dissect your brain.
S.H :After you hang, of course.
S.H :I'd wager, there is some deformity that would be scientifically
significant.
S.H :Then you too, could serve a greater purpose.
B.W :Holmes, you must widen your gaze.
B.W :I'm concerned, you underestimate the gravity of coming events.
B.W :You and I are bound together on a journey that would twist the
very fabric of nature.
B.W :But beneath your mask of logic I sense a fragility...
B.W :That worries me. Steel your mind, Holmes.
B.W :I need you.
S.H :I'd say, you've come a long way down from a house of Lords.
B.W :I will rise again.
S.H :"Bon voyage".
B.W :Pay attention!
B.W :Three more will die and there is nothing you can do to
Police :What did he want?
S.H :I'm not sure.
S.H :But I don't think you're needed father. Not for this one.
Hakim :Lord Henry Blackwood, you are sentenced to death for the
practice of black magic the unholy murder of five innocent young women and an
attempted murder of a sixth.
Hakim :Do you have any final words?
B.W :Death... is only the beginning.
Waston :That is the end of Lord Blackwood.
Irene Adler :London's so bleak this time of year. Not that I'm pining
for New Jersey, but much prefer to travel in the winter.
I.A :Here, I bought you these. All the way from Syria.
I.A :I found these exquisite dates in Jordan. and your favorite...
olives from the Cyclades.
I.A :I thought we might have a little tea party.and while I was setting
the table, I found this.
I.A :A file with my name on it.

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I.A :"The theft of the Velsquez portrait from the King of Spain.
Missing naval documents lead to resignation of Bulgarian prime minister scandalous
affair ends engagement of...perhaps to both Romanov princess.
S.H :I'm simply studying your methods.
S.H :Should the authorities ask me to hunt you down.
I.A :But I don't see my name in any of these articles.
S.H :But your signature was clear.
S.H :Is that the Maharajah's missing diamond? Or just another
souvenir?
I.A :Let's not dwell on the past. Shall we?
I.A :Now, by the looks of things, I'd say you were between jobs.
S.H :And you between husbands. How much did you get for the ring?
I.A :He was boring and jealous and he snored.
I.A :I'm Irene Adler, again.
I.A :Thank you.
I.A :I need your help.
I.A :I need you to find someone.
I.A :Why are you always so suspicious.
S.H :Should I answer chronologically or alphabetically?
I.A :Careful not to cut yourself on this lethal envelope.
I.A :I think you'll find all the information inside.
S.H :Who are you working for?
S.H :So I'll have to find out the hard way.
S.H :Keep your money, I didn't say I'll take the case.
I.A :Well, consider it a wager that you will.
I.A :You remember the Grand?
I.A :They gave me our old room.
I.A :Hold the door. Thank's, doctor.
Ma'am.
I.A :He'll do it.
MAN 1 :Well done, Miss Adler.
That's precisely why I hired you.
I.A :I wager, he'll have our man in the next 24 hours.
MAN 1 :He'd better.
MAN 1 :Reordan is the key to what Blackwood was doing.
He's essential to my plan.
MAN 2 :get off out of it.

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MAN 3 :Damn! What are you doing? Can't you see where you're
going?
MAN 1 :A little ride, I've come along way, sir. Rubbing these calluses
off this..God save the queen! God save the Queen, sir.
MAN 2 :Get off out of it!
Waston :Look at you?
Waston :Why is the only woman you've ever cared about a world class
criminal?
S.H :Are you a masochist?
Waston :Allow me to explain...
Allow me!
Waston :She's the only adversary, who ever out smarted you. Twice.
Made a proper idiot out of you.
S.H :Right, you've had your fun.
Waston :What she after, anyway?
S.H :It's time to press on.
Waston :What could she possibly need?
S.H :It doesn't matter.
Waston :An alibi, a beard. A human canoe.
Waston :She can sit on your back and paddle you up the Thames.
S.H :That's no consequence to you really, is it Watson?
S.H :We've done our, last case together.
S.H :I've already read it.
Waston :Missing person.
Luke Reordan. 4 foot 10, red hair, no front teeth. Case solved.
Waston :You're obviously not her type. She likes gingered dwarfs.
S.H :Midgets.
Waston :So, you agree.
S.H :No, I don't agree. It's more than a technicality, you see.
S.H :You are misrepresenting the dimensions of foreshortened
peoples.
Waston :I've said too much.
S.H :I can tell, I've upset you.
S.H :No, I'm just simply stating, that one has...
Waston :What were you doing?
S.H :Will you allow me to explain?
Waston :I wish you would.

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Waston :Holmes? What are you doing?
S.H :Nothing.
Waston :Are you wearing a false...
S.H :A false nose? No.
Waston :Tell me, that, that wasn't
S.H :Was...
Waston :Holmes! Where are you going?
S.H :Watson? Help! Watson!
:Got some flowers for you, sweetheart. Cut you a deal, cos you're
so pretty.
I.A :Oh, my lucky day!
Dredger :Hello gorgeous, you got something for me.
I.A :Don't move! Now, what have we got here? Thank you.
S.H :That's the Irene I know.
S.H :This man Intrigues me, Watson, His got Adler on the edge.
Waston :And she's no mean feet.
S.H :She's intimidated, she's scared of him.
Waston :Yet she work's for him.
S.H :Right.
Waston :It is nothing to do with me, but I advise you to leave the case
alone.
S.H :Well I may not always have a choice. After all, I may be paying
the rent on my own soon. Thanks to you.
Waston :Get that out of my face.
S.H :It's not "in your face"
it's in my hand.
Waston :Get what's in your hand out of my face.
Clarky : Mr. Holmes!
S.H :Clarky!
Clarky :Sorry. Inspector Lestrade asks you come with me at once.
S.H :What's he done now,lost his way to Scotland Yard?
S.H :Watson drop a compass, he means us.
S.H :No, you means you.
Clarky :It's Lord Blackwood, sir. He... Well... it appears he's come back
from the grave, sir.
S.H :Most engaging.
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Waston :I pronounced the man dead myself.
S.H :What are the facts?
Clarky :Ground keeper, claims he saw him walking through the
graveyard just this morning, sir.
Waston :I'll leave this in your capable hands.
S.H :I have an appointment with, Mary.
Waston :It's not my reputation at stake here.
Waston :Don't try that.
S.H :Have the newspapers got wind of it yet.
Clarky :Well that's what we're trying to avoid, sir.
S.H :Certainly.
S.H :What's the major concern?
Clarky :Panic. Sheer bloody panic, sir.
S.H :Indeed.
Waston :You're not taking this seriously, Holmes?
S.H :Yes, as you should.
S.H :It's a matter of professional integrity. No girl wants to
marry a doctor who can't tell If a man's dead or not.
Waston :Who do you think won the match, Clarky?
Clarky :Sir?
Waston :The rugby match.
Waston :Your boys have done a magnificent job of obliterating any
potential evidence.
S.H :Yes, but at least they never miss an opportunity... to miss an
opportunity.
Lestrade :You took your time, Holmes. And on the third day...
Lestrade :These slabs are sand stone, they half a ton each if they're a
pound,and they were smashed open from the inside .
S.H :Lestrade. What of the coffin?
Lestrade :We are in the process of bringing it up now.
S.H :I see...
S.H :Hmm... Right. At what stage of the process? Contemplative?
S.H :And how is our witness?
Lestrade :He's over there. And apparently he's got ca... cat... cata...
-Catatonic, sir.
Lestrade :He's not feeling very well.
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Lestrade :If you lot don't stop behaving like a bunch of quivering milk
maids, you're on double time. Now you get down there, and you bring that coffin up,
now!
Waston :Good day, sir!
Groundskeeper :It's alright.
Waston :I'm a doctor.
Waston :The man's in shock. He may need a few moments
Lestrade :The witness states that he saw, lord Blackwood, rise from the
grave.
Lestrade :Well?
Waston :well
Lestrade :You pronounced him dead.
Waston :He had no pulse.
Waston :Good lord.
Lestrade :That's not Blackwood.
S.H :Well, now we have a firm grasp, of the obvious.
S.H :Time of death?
Waston :Diptera is approximately...2/3 of an inch which would put the
time of death at between 10 and 12 hours ago.
S.H :May I borrow your pen?
Waston :Adler's dwarf.
S.H :Midget.
Groundskeeper :I know what I saw! It was Blackwood! As clear as I see you. And
when the dead walk... the living will fill these coffins.
S.H :Well... Umm..
Lestrade :Right, put the lid on and clean this lot up.
Waston :You really believe he was resurrected?
S.H :The question is not "if" but "how." The game's afoot.
Waston :Follow your spirit
Waston & Holmes :and upon this charge, cry god for Harry, England and St. George.
S.H :Here you are.
Waston :Why that certain fish and chips store
S.H :I don't understand, Well there's a particular pier they use out in
the back,northern stout, to be exact.
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Waston :In India, I once met a man who predicted his own death right
down to the number and placement of the bullets that killed him. You have to admit,
Holmes
S.H :that a supernatural explanation to this case, is theoretically
possible. No. Agreed.But, it is a huge mistake to theorize before one has data.
Inevitably, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts
That said I believeour midget is the key to this.
Waston :Hmmmm
Waston :Right. Scratches around the keyhole where the watch is
wound.What does that tell you? The man was likely a drunk. Every time he wound
the watch, his hand slipped, hence the scratches.
S.H :Yes Very good, Watson.
S.H :You have developed considerable deductive powers of your
own.
S.H :Let's see now. There are several sets of initials.
Waston :Pawn brokers marks.
S.H :Excellent. Most recent of which are: M.H. M.H. M.H...
S.H :M.H is for...
Waston :"Maddison and Haig".
S.H :They should be able to give us an address.
Waston :What a coincidence.
Waston :There's one thing you failed to deduce from the watch, Holmes.
S.H :Really? I think not.
Waston :The time. I have to get back, Holmes. Taking tea with the in-
laws..
- Can I predict your future, sir?
- Absolutely not.
Waston :No thank you, ma'am.
Maam :You need to hear what I have to tell you.
S.H :We have no need of your lucky hella Gypsy women.
Maam :Even if it's to do with Mary.
Maam :I see two men. Brothers. Not in blood, but in boned.
Waston :What of Mary?
Maam :M for Mary, for marriage. Oh, you will be married.
Waston :Go on.
Maam :I see patterned table cloths and china figurines. and lace doilies...
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Waston :Lace doilies... Holmes.
Waston :Does your depravity know, no bounds?
S.H :No.
Maam :Oh she turns fat and has a beard...
S.H :And what of the warts?
Maam :Oh She's covered in warts...
Waston :Enough, enough.
S.H :Are they extensive?
Waston :Please, enough!
S.H :It's the most apt prediction, Flora's made in years.
S.H :And precisely the reason you can't find a suitable ring.
Waston :Do you have my money?
S.H :You are terrified of a life without the thrill of a macabre.
Waston :Do you have my cut?
S.H :Admit it, admit it!
Waston :Give me my money! Holmes.
S.H :Oh I see.
Waston :Thank you.
S.H :Well you've got your ring, and I've got the address for the ginger
midget.
S.H :Should be just there.
Waston :I think she'll really like this. And I have some change in my
pocket.
S.H :Should I look after it for you?
Waston :No, no.
S.H :Don't give it away here.
Waston :No!
Waston :I have to go see Mary.
S.H :Give her my best. And the family as well.
S.H :It does make a considerable difference to me, having someone
with me on whom I can thoroughly rely.
Waston :Well, you can rely on me for exactly 10 minutes.
S.H :He clearly felt something was coming to get him.Or something
did.
S.H :Irene Adler was here, either that or the ginger midget
wore the same Parisian perfume. Ah, putrefaction.
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S.H :Phosphorus. Formaldehyde.
Waston :It looks like he was attempting to combine some kind of sorcery
and scientific formula.

S.H :More importantly... let's see what he was trying to dispose of.
S.H :Potassium and magnesium.
Waston :Sultafitic acid.
S.H :Try to take the ion out of the ink As long as it's not too burnt.
S.H :Peculiar. Hydrated rhododendron.
Waston :Holmes. Look at the crest. Reordan was working with,
Blackwood.
S.H :Of course he was.
S.H :Question is, to what end.
S.H :Whatever he was working on, he clearly succeeded.
Waston :How so?
S.H :Otherwise, he'd still alive.
Waston :Which is why Miss Adler is so desperate to find him.
S.H :Yes.
S.H :There's one odour I can't quite put my finger on.
S.H :Is it candy floss? Molasses.
S.H :Maple syrup. Ah, barley sugar.
Waston :Toffee apple.
S.H :Let me guess.
S.H :Judging by your arsonist tool kit You're here to burn down the
building and extinguish all the evidence therein
MAN 1 &2 :Just one minute boys.. Oh, Dredger!
Is there a problem?
S.H :Meat... or potatoes?
Waston :My 10 minutes are up.
Waston :You alright?
Waston :Holmes. What is that?
Waston :Holmes!
S.H :Watson... What have you done?
Waston :I haven't slept all night. Not a whink. Why I ever believed... that I
would get to have tea with Mary's parents? is beyond me having been talked into
going with you.We were set upon man,
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Waston :I've been reviewing my notes, of our exploits over the last seven
months.
Waston :would you like to know my conclusion?
Waston :I am psychologically disturbed.
S.H :How so?
Waston :Why else would I be continually led into situations
where you deliberately, withhold your plans from me? Why
else?
S.H :You never complained about my methods before.
Waston :I'm not complaining.
S.H :You're not? What do you call this?
Waston :How...How am I complaining? I never complain, when do I ever
complain about you practising the violin at three in or your mess, your general lack of
hygiene or the fact that you steal all my clothes.
S.H :We have a barter system.
Waston :When do I complain about you setting fire to my room?
S.H :Our rooms.
Waston :The rooms,When do I ever complain that you experiment on
my dog?
S.H :Our dog! It's our dog.
- On the... the dog!
Waston :But I do take issue, is your campaign to sabotage my
relationship with Mary.
S.H :I understand.
Waston :Do you?
S.H :I do.
Waston :I don't think you do.
S.H :You're overly tired.
Waston :Yes.
S.H :You're feeling a bit sensitive.
Waston :I'm not sensitive.
S.H :What you need is to rest.
S.H :My brother, Mycroft, has a small estate near Chichester.
Beautiful grounds... There's a falling.We could throw a lamb on
the spit...
Waston :We?Holmes, if I were to go to the country it would be with my
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S.H :Well certainly, if you must...
Waston :No not you, Mary and I. You are not...
S.H :What? Invited? Why would I be not invited to my own brothers
country home, Watson? Now you are not making any sense!
Waston :You're not human!
MAN 1 :John Watson?
Waston :Yes.
MAN 1 :Your bail has been posted.
Waston :Mary!
MAN 1 :Just Watson.
TAHANAN :I hope you get bail by breakfast, because the boys, are getting
hungry.
Lestrade :Back off! Back off!
S.H :which the barman says: "may I push in your stool?".
Lestrade :Right you, you're out..
S.H :Until next time, big Joe.
Big Joe :Always a pleasure, Mr. Holmes.
S.H :Thank heaven you're here, Lestrade I'd almost ran out of jokes.
Lestrade :You know, In another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal.
S.H :Yes, sir and you an excellent policemen.
S.H :Tomsky! Thank you.
Lestrade :Now please tell me you have answers.
S.H :All in good time, Lestrade.
Lestrade :All in good time? what is this some parlour game where we have to guess
what you're thinking.I've got a public in frenzy out there
and if you don't fill me in, I'll have you in there playing Victoria and Albert quicker
than a bookies runner
Lestrade :Now, clean up and make yourself presentable.
S.H :For whom?
Lestrade :Friends in high places. They're the ones who bailed you out.
Grave Policeman :I'm terribly sorry to inconvenience you, sir. But I'm going to have
to put this on you.
Sir Thomas :Mr. Holmes, apologies for summoning you like this.
I'm sure it's quite a mystery as to where you are and who I am?
S.H :As to where I am...
I was admittedly lost for a moment, between Charing Crossand
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The only baker to use the certain French glaze on their loaves a Brittany sage.after
that the carriage fork left and right until a tell-tale bump
at the Fleet conduit.
S.H :And as to who you are? That took every ounce of my not
inconsiderable experience.
S.H :The letters on your desk were addressed to a Sir Thomas Rodrum.
S.H :Lord Chief Justice. That would be the official title
S.H :Who you really are... is of course another matter entirely.
S.H :Judging by the sacred ox on your ring.
S.H :you're the secret head of the Temple of the Four Orders in who's
headquarters we now sit. Located, Northwest corner of St. James square I think.
S.H :That's the mystery, the only mystery is to why you bothered to
blind fold me at all.
Sir Thomas :Yes... well, standard procedure I suppose.
Jhon Standish :I dare say we have the right man, gentlemen.
J. S :Sherlock Holmes.
I'm Ambassador Standish of America and Lord Coward, the home
secretary.
Lord Coward :I suppose you already have some notion as to the practices of our
order.
S.H :Yes. They are practically interesting.
Sir Thomas :Be as sceptical as you like. but our secret system have steered the
world for the greater good for centuries.
Sir Thomas :There danger is they can also be used for more nefarious
purposes.
J.S :What some call the dark arts or practical magic.
Lord C :We know you don't believe in magic Mr. Holmes
We don't expect you to share our faith merely our fears.
S.H :fear is the more infectious condition.In this instance. fear of your
own child.
S.H :Blackwood is your son You have the same irises, a rare dark
green, the diamond shaped hazel flex together with identical outer ears or pinner,
which are only past down through direct blood line which makes by necessity either
brothers or in this case, more
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Sir Thomas : Very few people are privy to that information. And we'd want to
keep it that way. He was conceived during one of our rituals. His mother wasn't my
wife. But she shared our beliefs. She was a powerful practitioner. though not enough
to survive giving birth to him. Death followed him wherever he went. Those five girls
were not the first to be butchered. He killed many more using them to enhance his
powers.No one could prove anything of course, but we all knew. The boy was a
curse. We'd done our best to stop him ourselves, but its not enough.
His power grows daily. His resurrection is evidence of that.
L.C :But what he does next will be far more dangerous.
Sir Thomas :The secret lies in the book of spells. This is the source of his
power. His going to raise a force that will alter the very course of the world.We want
you to find him and stop him before he does.
L.C :We'll give you any assistance that we can.
L.C :As home secretary, I have a considerable influence over the
police.
S.H :Oh, yes
L.C :So...
L.C :Name your price?
S.H :Well, of great benefit to being a consulting detective is that I can
pick and choose my clients. So Consider it done, I'll stop him.
S.H :But not for you. And certainly not for a price.
S.H :I do have a parting query Sir Thomas.
Sir THOMAS :What is that?
S.H :If the rest of his family's dead... how long do you expect to
survive? Food for thought.
I.A :Well perhaps you'll have better luck opening that.
S.H :Margaux. 58.Comet vintage.
S.H :How fascinating that a astronomical event can effect the quality...
I.A :How is it going with our case that you refused to take....wine.
S.H :Or I've hit a dead end. Literally.
S.H :I found your man. He's buried in Blackwood's tomb.
S.H :If you still need him.
I.A :Oh dear...
I.A :I hope my client doesnt come looking for a refund.
S.H :He's a professor, isn't he?
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S.H :I've never known a professor to carry a gun, and on such a clever
contraption.
I.A :Eye patch. Nice touch...
I.A :So... case closed. Which makes this a social visit.
S.H :No. It's you're in over your head Irene, visit.
S.H :Who ever killed, Reardon was covering their tracks, which makes
you the next loose end to be snipped.
I.A :Let it breathe.
S.H :I've never been in over my head.
S.H :Leave now, disappear. You're good at that.
S.H :Or stay. And volunteer for protective custody.
I.A :If I'm in danger, so are you. Come with me.
I.A :What if we trusted each other.
S.H :You're not listening. I'm taking you, to either the railway station
or the police station.
S.H :So... Which is it to be?
I.A :carefully
S.H :You decide, which will it be?
I.A :What.
I.A :I told you to let it breathe. Can you taste the comet?
I.A :Why couldn't you just come away with me?
S.H :Never
s.h :Madam, I need you to remain calm,and trust me, I'm a
professional. Beneath this pillow lies the key to my release.
S.H :Of course, she misinterpreted my intention entirely.
Clark :Naturally sir.
S.H :That's why I find this modern religious fellow So troubling.
S.H :There's no latitude for misunderstandings.
Jhon standish :It runs right over reason, sir.
S.H :Indeed. And chambermaids were once such a liberal breed.
Jhon standish :My wife's a chambermaid, sir.
Jhon standish :Anyhow, its a good thing she was a friend, otherwise we may
never have found you.
J.S :The inspector's been over at Baker Street himself this morning,
sir.
J.S :Just joking about the wife, sir.
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 and the butler didn't hear a thing. So, body in the bathtub,his eyes
were wide open and the only thing missing was... His ring, sir.
S.H :Why did you drain the water?
POLICE :Out of common decency.
S.H :Crime is common. Logic, is rare.
S.H :The decent thing to do is to catch the killer, not provide conflict
for the cause.
S.H :What is that?
POLICE :Jasmine bath salt, sir.
S.H :Super. Probably comes from a larger container. It would either be
in the pantry. High up where it's warm and dry.
Or in a linen cupboard with a vent.
S.H :Oh and constable, you could do worse than to check the ground
under the rear window for any signs of footprints ot your own data, data, data. I can
not make bricks without clay.
Charles?
S.H :Was it in the cupboard or the pantry.
Clark :It was in the pantry, sir.
S.H :I don't know what to make of this.Excellent work
Adieu.
Captain Tanner :What's the meaning of this, Coward? Why have you called this
meeting?
Coward :Sir Thomas is dead.I nominate Lord Blackwood as head of the
Order.
C.T :Have you lost your mind? You know damn well what his capable
of.
B.W :Of course he does. That's why we're here. That's why, we're all
here. My powers and my assets were given to me for one purpose. Magnificent, but a
simple purpose. To create a new future.
B.W :A future ruled... by us. Tomorrow at noon, we take the first step
towards a new chapter in our history.
B.W :Magic will lead the way. Once the people of England see our new
found power they'll bow down in fear.
B.W :Across the Atlantic, lies a colony that was once ours. It will be
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B.W :The civil war has made them weak. Their government is as
corrupt and as ineffective as ours. So we'll take it back. We will remake the world.
Create the future. These men are with me, Standish. But... are you?
C.T :No, sir. I These powers that you're playing with... no man, can
control.
C.T :Well gentlemen... Someone has to stop them even if you won't.
B.W :I wouldn't do that if I were you.
B.W :Gentlemen... don't be afraid. As you can see, we are protected.
Come... drink your allegiance here.
B.W :You control the police, now use them.
Waston :I didn't know you were here.
S.H :Since this room is no longer yours, do you mind if utilise it?
Waston :Be my guest.
S.H :In here chaps.
MAN :Where shall we put him, sir?
S.H :Any where's fine.
Waston :Who is he?
S.H :His the man who tried to kill you at Reardon's lodgings.
I suppose his neck didn't survive the impact of Dredger landing on
him.
Waston :Yes... Thanks for that by the way.
Waston :But there is still some consolation in the knowledge that he can
still be of service to his fellow man.
S.H :Elbow is long stained with blood. But it's older than his own
injuries.
S.H :I don't know if it's human. It's not a butcher. Let me see...
Waston :Yellow Flame. Green bursts.
S.H :An industrial worker. Coal. River silt.
S.H :And the stains on his trousers, should put him squarely in...
Waston :Nine Elms.
S.H :Sorry what?
Waston :The area you're looking for is, Nine Elms.
S.H :I wondered
S.H :Do you remember where I put the Lord's registrar of members
interests?
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S.H :Well Blackwood has had his hand in almost everything that is
corrosive to the spirit.Woolidge Arsenal. Lime house Chemical Works.
Waston :ItII Probably be a factory by the river.
S.H :What's that?
Waston :Never mind.
Waston :You don't know where my rugby ball went do you?
S.H :No, not a clue. Queen side slaughterhouse
S.H :Nine Elms.
S.H :A factory by the river.
S.H :Well done, Watson. That should lead us right to Blackwood.
Dead or Alive.
Waston :Not us.You.
S.H :Yes... Just a figure of speech, old boy.
Waston :He's left it there on purpose.
Coach Driver :More coal doctor. That's a good one.
Waston :Glad to see you two are working hard then. And I thought you
were trying to be discrete.
Coach Driver :You would not last one day in the navy.
Waston :Holmes, are you sure that there is no alternative means of
water transportation, than that.
S.H :I guarantee you nobody knows London's waterways better.
C.D :Tanners practically a fish himself.
Waston :At least he certainly drinks like one.
C.D :Oh you've found a sense of humour, doctor.
Waston :If only just a sense.
C.D :I better take over. A bit tricky down here.
Waston :Come on...
Waston :Look familiar?
S.H :Yep.
S.H :All that's missing is a ginger midget.
S.H :They cleared something away from here. Not minutes ago.
Waston :Like what?
S.H :I'm not sure. Something mechanical.
Holmes :look at this.
Waston :1:18
S.H :Chapter and verse.
S.H :Revelations. 1:18. I am he that giveth, and was dead.

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Black W :And behold of the life for ever more. I warned you, Holmes to
accept that this was beyond your control. beyond what your rational mind could
comprehend.
S.H :What a busy afterlife that you are having.
B.W :I want you to bear witness. Tomorrow, at midday, the
world as you know it, will end.
Waston :Show me your face and it will be the end of your world right
now.
S.H :Save the bullets, Watson.
B.W :A gift for you.
Waston :What was that about saving bullets?
B.W :She followed you here, Holmes.
Waston :You led your lamb to slaughter.
Waston :Holmes!
Waston :This game was designed to hurt.
Holmes :Watson!
S.H :It's warm in here, Watson!
S.H :In over your head yet, darling?
WASTON :Hold on there!
I.A :I can't.
Waston :Let me take your weight.
S.H :Give us a leg up, old boy.
S.H :These German locks always give me trouble.
S.H :It's a band saw.No matter. We have plenty of time.
I.A :Holmes...
I.A :It's not working.
S.H :Keep calm.
Waston :Holmes! Hurry up.
S.H :Hope you're not getting excited...Turn of that valve. And we
bounce in... Three...two, ...one.
I.A :Thank you.
Waston :I'm gonna get after, Blackwood.
I.A :Thank you.
S.H :We should go help the doctor.
Waston :Holmes!
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Clark :Lord Coward has issued a warrant for your arrest. Watson's alive.
Just get out of here, sir. Go.
I.A :Will the train be departing on time?
MAN :The trains been delayed, madam. Shouldn't be long now though.
MAN :The train will depart when I tell it too. And you will leave my
employment, when I allow you too.
I.A :I fulfilled my contract. I found Reorden. He's in Scotland Yard's
mortuary. So that's me finished.
MAN :Your job was to manipulate, Holmes' feelings for you. Not
succumb to them. You have fulfilled nothing. I want what, Reardon was making for
Blackwood.finish the job, or the next dead body will be Sherlock Holmes.
Doctor :The surgeon should be along shortly. He should be able to rest
now.
Marry :Excuse me. Is that the best you can do?
Doctor :Yes for now. I must attend to my other patients.
Mary :Doctor... Doctor! Please!
Mary :I know that you care for him as much as I do. This is not your
responsibility,It was his choice. He'd say it was worth the wounds. Solve this.
Whatever it takes.
Clark :It's Lord Blackwood, sir.
I.A :I've never been in over my head.
Waston :It's nothing to do with me, but I'd advise you to leave the case
alone.
Waston :You're not taking this seriously are you, Holmes.
B.W :I told you to accept, this was beyond your control Tomorrow at
mid-day, the world will end.
Waston :Holmes.
S.H :You must widen your gaze. Widen your gaze You and I are
bound together on a journey that will twist the very fabric of nature.Steel your mind,
Holmes.
Rotheram :He will raise a force that will change the very course of the
world.
Coward :His power grows.
Rotheram :This is the source of his power.
B.W :I need you.
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B.W :Three more will die...and there's nothing you can do to save
them.
Standish :We know you don't believe in magic.
Waston :Reardon was working with Blackwood.
S.H :The only thing missing was his ring.
B.W :Give up, Holmes.
S.H :This is a riddle you can not solve.
I.A :Good morning. Now, you need to work. Familiar artwork?
Waston :You look gorgeous.
S.H :Some how, I knew you wouldn't
I.A :You made the front page.
S.H :Only a name, and no picture?
I.A :So it looks like, you'll be needing to work outside the law
now,and that's my area of expertise.
S.H :I feel safer already.
S.H :You seem to be making a rapid recovery.
Waston :Yes... I took this shrapnel out myself. Mary said I had a lousy
doctor.
S.H :Well I'm... I'm just so...very glad that you're um... well, with us.
S.H :Now that youre sitting comfortably, I shall begin.
S.H :My initial approach was far to narrow. When Blackwood invited
me to Pentonville prison he suggested I widen my gaze.and at minimum, I have done
just that. In fact, I may well have reconciled thousand's of years of theologicaln
disparity. But that's for another time.
S.H :Blackwood's method is based on a ritualistic mystical system
that's been employed by the Temple of the Four Orders for centuries. To fully
understand the system, to get inside it, I re-enacted the ceremony we interrupted at
the crypt, with a few enhancements of my own.
S.H :my journey took me some what further down the rabbit hole than
I intended and though I dirtied my fluffy white tail I have emerged, enlightened.
S.H :The fraternity who decidedly control the empire who share the
belief with the kings,Pharaohs, and emperors of old that the Sphinx was a door to
another dimension. A gateway to immeasurable power.
It's made up of four parts. The foot of a lion, the tail of an ox, the wings of an eagle
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S.H :In Sir Thomass secret chamber, I found a bone of an ox
the tooth of a lion, the feather of an eagle and a hair of a man.
S.H :Map.
S.H :The points of the stars represent the five murdered girls
but the cross is what we're now interested in.
S.H :Its a wildly held belief, that within the architecture of the great
cities are coded references to the system Since he rose from the grave,Blackwood's
killed three men.Each murder was committed at a location that has a direct
connection with the temple therefore the system.
S.H :Reardon, the ginger midget. represents man. We found his body
here. Sir Thomas... master of the temple, wore the ox ring. He died here. Standish, the
ambassador to America Where the eagle has been the national emblem for over a
hundred years .
S.H :The headquarters of the Temple of the Four Order is where he
died, is here. Correspondingly, the map will tell us the location of Blackwood's final
act
Waston :So we have man, the ox,eagle, only the lion remaining.
S.H :Right here.
Waston :Parliament.
Lestrade Alright you four stay here and the rest of you come with me.
S.H :Right this way. Ladies first.
S.H :Follow these instructions.
Lestrade :Hello, hello, hello... Did the devil turn up?
Lestarde :Well never mind. You've got the next best thing.
Lestarde :Beg your pardon my lord, I know that its unorthodox
But Mr. Holmes here, his been making some serious accusations
about you and The Order.
Lord Cowaed :I see.
S.H :At least this solves the great mystery of how you became
inspector.
Lestrade :Excuse me, my lord. But I've been wanting to do that for a long
time.
L.C :Well inspector, I have five minutes before my next
engagement.So why dont you regale me with your stories of conspiracy Thank you
Lestrade.
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S.H :I'm curious, Coward. Did you assist Blackwood in all his
murders.or just the one I prevented?
S.H :Very distinctive, those hand made shoes of yours.
S.H :But the price of quality is often the unique imprint they leave
Nonetheless I confess to being completely outmatched.
S.H :I could deduce very little from my investigation.Fortunately
theres nothing more stimulating than acase where everything goes against you.
S.H :How many members of parliament do you intend to murder at
noon today.Man, ox, eagle, lion. The lion's parliament isn't it?
L.C :Very clever. But it's not murder, Mr. Holmes. It's mercy.
L.C :We are giving the weak masses a strong Shepard.
L.C :Don't you see that it's for their own...
S.H :No. But I don't care much what you think.
S.H :I just simply wanted to know the location of Blackwoods final
ceremony.
L.C :And now you've given it to me. I've told you nothing.
S.H :But your clothes say infinitely more than you could ever hope.
S.H :The mud smeared on your boots from where youve been
walking. A touch of red brick dust on your knee from where youve been kneeling.A
small bandage on your thumb from where youve been vowing.
S.H :A faint aroma of excrement from where youve been standing.
You and Blackwood laid the final touches to your ceremony in the sewers beneath
parliament less than an hour ago.
S.H :Both houses meet today. The whole government will be present.
L.C :It's a shame you made an enemy out of Blackwood, Holmes.
L.C :You would have made a valuable ally.
L.C :How terrible is wisdom.when it brings no profit to the wise. We
take power at noon.
S.H :There isn't anytime to waste then. Is there?
Tanner :I told you you he'd be coming out the top window, soldier boy.
Waston :There isn't any way he'd be coming over that terrace.
Technically that isnt the top window, is it sailor boy.
Tanner :What is it?
Waston :Well, it's the middle window.
S.H :Anyway, youd be pleased to know that Lestrade performed in his
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Lestrade :I hope you know what you're doing, Holmes. Here's the key.
Waston :You got what you needed from, Coward?
S.H :Yes, I smoked him out with relative ease.
S.H :Tanner?
Tanner :Yes?
S.H :If you would captain, take us onto the bridge Port side.
proximately 100 yards beyond that you'll find a tunnel, that leads us to the sewers.
Tanner :Right away, sir
MAN :The end is nigh.
MAN :Blackwoods come back from hell and laid a curse upon this land
Behold, Blackwood's magic revealed.
I.A :What does it do?
S.H :It's a chemical weapon.
S.H :The first of its kind.
I.A :You deduced that, how?
S.H :From my pocket.
S.H :I snipped this of a rather common rat at the slaughterhouse.Notice
the blue discolouration.The faintest smell of almonds,tell-tale traces of cyanide.
S.H :Now we know what the ginger midget was working on.
It will revolutionise warfare.
Waston :Yes killing a lot of people.Now, there's 7 minutes until noon.
Waston :What are we going to do?
S.H :We must do this carefully...
Waston :She loves an entrance, your muse.
S.H :Shoot him! Now please!
Lord Coward :My lords! My lords.Time has come for any of those who believe,
to remain.
L.C :Behold... Lord Blackwood.
B.W :You seem surprised.
B.W :I have returned from beyond the grave to fulfil Englands
destiny.and extend the boundaries of this great empire.
B.W :Listen to the rabble outside. Listen... to the fear.
I will use that as a weapon to control them... and then the world.
I.A :I've never seen anything like it. Look at this.
S.H :Its specifically designed to prevent us from disarming it.
S.H :These components appear to be designed to receive a signal of
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I.A :Electromagnetic waves?
S.H :When triggered, the electrodes will send a charge converting the
chemical into gas.
S.H :and the gas will travel up that shaft and filter through the
ventilation system that leads directly to parliament. Within seconds, of it's
administration the most powerful men in the world will be choking on death.
S.H :Blackwood must have some sort of transmitter that connects with
it remotely. Three minutes and ten seconds.
B.W :I will create an empire that will endure for a millennia
Indestructible and eternal.
Waston :Move it! Move it!
I.A :We don't have to actually disarm the device, we just have to
remove the cylinders.
S.H :Yes.Except that they're welded in. What we need is a controlled
explosion.
S.H :Well need a container to direct the blast my clay pipe should
service that ambition
S.H :I rather wish you hadn't done that, Irene.
B.W :On the twelfth chime, I will summon the dark powers.
All those of you who are with me shall be protected.
All others will perish.
I.R :I need your pipe.
Waston :Nut him!
B.W :A new order... begins now.
Waston :What are you waiting for?
S.H :That.
S.H :Can you manage?
Waston :Of course I can.
Waston :Relax. I'm a doctor.
S.H :Did you take a wrong turning somewhere?
I.A :We're safe now.
S.H :Interesting assessment.
S.H :Run off. I won't be chasing you any more. Fare thee well.
I.A :I don't want to run any more. I'll tell you everything.
S.H :I wish you would.
S.H :No!
S.H :There was never any magic. Only conjuring tricks.

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S.H :The simplest involves paying people off.
S.H :Like the prison guard who pretended
to be possessed outside you cell.Your reputation and the inmates
fear did the rest.
S.H :Others required more elaborate preparations.It was sandstone slab
that covered your tomb. you had it broken before your burial then put back together
using a mild adhesive.An ancient Egyptian recipe, I believe. A
mixture of egg and honey, besides it'd be washed away by the rain.
B.W :Holmes!
S.H :Arranging for your father to drown in his own bathtub required
more modern science. Very clever of, Reordan
to find a paralytic that was activated by the combination of copper and water.and
therefore was undetectable once the bath water was drained.
S.H :It might have been quite a challenge for me,had he not also tested
it on some unfortunate amphibian.The death of Standish was a real mystery until you
used the same compound, to blow up the wharf. An odourless, tasteless flammable
liquid
yet it burned with an unusual pink issue. Did Standish mistake it for rain as he
entered the temple.
S.H :All it took was a spark.
A simple rigged bullet in his gun.
Ingenious.
Like all great performers, you saved your pice de rsistance for
the end.
A chemical weapon, distilled from cyanide.
and refined in the bellies of swine.
Had it worked, your followers in parliament would have watched
unharmed
as their colleagues were dying around them.
They didn't know that you'd
given them the antidote.
Instead they would have believed it was magic.
and that you'd harnessed the ultimate power.
and the world would have followed.
Fear, in the most powerful weapon of all.
You'd better hope that it's nothing more than superstition,
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 The devil's due a soul, I'd say.
B.W :For god's sake, Holmes cut me loose!
S.H :First, the world will see you for what you are. A fraud.
Then you'll be hanged,properly this time.
B.W :It's a long journey from here to the rope.

I.A :I've never woken up in handcuffs before.

S.H :I have. Naked.
I.A :A storm is coming.
S.H :Well... we've still got a moment.
I.A : Moriarty...
S.H :What?
I.A :That's his name. And he is a professor.
I.A Everyone has a weak spot. And he found mine.
S.H :What was it precisely?
I.A :Please don't underestimate him. He's just as brilliant as you
are.and infinitely more devious.
S.H :We'll see about that.
I.A :You'll miss me, Sherlock?
S.H :Sadly... yes
Driver :Afternoon, sir. I put the notebook in this one, sir.
Waston :Thank you.
Madam :What's in these, John?
Waston :Scribbles.
Mary :Scribbles?
Waston :Notes.
Mary :hey're your adventures! I'd like to read them.
Waston :Come on, what's wrong?
S.H :I think his finally come to terms with you leaving?
Waston :Mary, look at the ring his given us.
Waston :Now 5 minutes here, and we'll go home.
Marry :Our home.
Waston :Careful on the stairs.
Waston :Don't worry, dear.
Waston :Suicide is not in his repertoire. He's far to fond of himself for that.
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S.H :Good afternoon. I was trying to deduce the manner in which
Blackwood survived his execution.
S.H :Clearing your good name, as it were. But it had a surprising
Soporific effect on me, and I was carried off in
the arms off, Morpheus like a caterpillar in a cocoon. Good afternoon, dear.
WASTON :Get on with it, Holmes.
S.H :Cleverly concealed in the hang-mans knot, was a hook Oh dear, I
think my legs have fallen asleep I should probably come down.
Marry :John, shouldn't we help him down
Waston :No, no, no, I'd hate to cut him off midstream. Carry on.
S.H :Well the executioner attached it to a harness.
S.H :Thus lowering the weight contributed around the waist and
The neck to remain intact. Oh my lord, I can't feel my cheeks.
Might we continue this at ground level?
Waston :How did you manage it, Holmes?
S.H :I managed it with braces, belts and a coat hook.
S.H :Please, Watson, my tongue is going and I'll be of no use to you at
all.
Waston :Worse things could happen.
Mary :John.
Waston :None of this, explains Blackwood's lack of pulse
S.H :Right.
S.H :Now the medical mystery.We must restore your reputation,
Watson. There is a toxin refined from the nectar of rhododendron ponticum.

It's quite infamous in the region of Turkey, bordering the Black Sea, for it's ability to
induce an apparently mortal paralysis.
Enough to mislead a medical mind even astenacious and well-trained as your own.It's
known locally as...
Marry :What's wrong with Gladstone?
S.H :Mad honey's disease. His demonstrating the very
effects that I just described. He doesn't mind.
Waston :Mary don't worry. he's seen far worse.
Clark :Mr. Holmes? Doctor, Miss Mary... Sorry. Inspector Lestrade asks
you come with me right away.
S.H :What is it this time, Clarky?

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CLARK :Its one of our sergeants, sir. He went missing in the sewers the
day, you stopped Lord Blackwood. Im afraid the sewage workers
found his body just this morning, sir We believe the sergeant,
was our first man on the scene... Can I help you, officer? Shot in the head.
S.H :Was it a small calibre bullet?
Clark :Yes.
S.H :Was there powder burns on his eyebrows?
Clark :Indeed, sir.
Waston :Point blank range. \
S.H :Moriarty. Professor Moriarty.
Marry :There's a good boy! Everything's gonna be fine.

Waston :Where is Blackwood's device now?

Draver :Secret Service have it, sir. They've taken over the case.
S.H :I'd wager, there's a piece missing.
Waston :So Moriarty was after a piece of the machine.
S.H :Not the poison. Theres nothing more elusive
than an obvious fact.The wire free invention was the game all along.
Waston :And Adler was just the diversion.
S.H :He knew I'd chase after her, there by leaving the machine
accessible. The technology of that kind can be worth, an untold fortune. Imagine
being able to control a radio device simply by sending a command via radio
waves.It's the future, Watson.
Draver :'ve loaded the last of your boxes, sir.
Waston :Well...
S.H :Well...
Marry :Gladstone!
Waston :Stop him before he gets to the front door.
S.H :Clarky? Case reopened.

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