Not often I use a front door; quite the novelty.
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You're not welcome here, Druitt. You know that.
“Revelations (Part 1)” · Season 1, Episode 12
In this episode: Doctor Helen Magnus (9), James Watson (7), Doctor Will Zimmerman (5), John Druitt (5), Henry Foss (2), Ashley Magnus (2), Big Guy (1)
You have frostbite.
It's certainly not a reflection on your hospitality.
You haven't changed a bit.
Since last Fall in London?
Since Spring of 1886.
Coming from such a keen observer, I'll take that as a compliment.
So you don't mean that your Dr. Watson really is Sherlock Holmes?
Not the literary figure, of course. But, yes, Conan Doyle did model the character after James' brilliant deductive mind.
So why did he get relegated to the sidekick in the stories?
At Watson's insistence; he preferred to let Holmes take center stage while he played the fawning acolyte in the wings.
Most men's failures haunt them for a lifetime; mine have haunted me for two.
What failure?
The Ripper Case; it confounded me like no other.
You came close, James. You don't know how close.
Night after night, I poured my insights out to you, never knowing that the target of my manhunt was the man who dissected my suppositions.
I was in the grip of something I couldn't control. I think you know that.
The fact remains, you gave the lie to all my bravado. You shattered my belief that I could see beyond what a mere mortal could.
In a life devoted to justice, sir, it is a constant burr on my backside that you have avoided it.
Justice is meted out in many ways. You're not the only one haunted.
Why are you here, Druitt?
To save the world as we know it. And, time allowing, reassert my superiority in our battle of wits.
Same old Helen. "I'm just going to jump off this cliff and hope that I sprout wings."
Well, you can't send Druitt alone. The guy's all hearts and flowers one day, the next day, he's turning a working girl into a canoe.
And what's your power? Just showing up for the meeting after 135 years?
I'd like to see you do it.
No offense, Henry. But you don't graduate from Eagle Scout to James Bond overnight.
I was green as Gumby, too.
I can do this. [pause, to Ashley] What, Gumby? I'm Gumby now?
What would boys do without their toys?
Does no one else see the madness in all of this?
You don't believe I can accomplish Nikola's task.
One, he had the powers of an ancient vampire. Two, he fell asleep in Edison’s electric chair at full current – I don’t see your skill sets overlapping.
It's not the mission, Helen. What worries me is that gleam in your eye.
Suck it up, Jimmy! We're going to India.
This is my father's worst nightmare, that we would try and retrieve the source.
You going to tell him?
.If I find out where he's holed up, and if the time is right... no.
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