‘A Game of Shadows’ Transcript

‘A Game of Shadows’ Transcript. Transcript of Dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty (108.9 to 119.2 minutes)

JM: I’m sorry (1.0) Is this a bad time?

SH: Never better (1.0) Would you bring that clock?

JM: We get to play that game after all (13.0) There we are [Gives Jacket] (8.0) Don’t want you to catch a cold

SH: A five minute game?

JM: If you think you can manage it

SH: We both have two bishops (.) I may be absent from the room (.) but my methods are not

JM: You can’t mean Doctor Watson (.) surely (3.0) That doesn’t seem fair.

SH: The ambassador you replaced with Renee (.) Is he still alive?

JM: Would you like me to recommend your next move?

SH: Perhaps the assassin will take measures to make sure he doesn’t give himself away (.) A gambler concealing a tell

JM: Your clock is ticking (2.0) May I remind you this is blitz chess (.) A single miscalculation will cost you the game

SH: Maybe it’s less obvious (.) A nervous tick (.) A flutter of anxiety

JM: I expect everyone has a reason to be nervous tonight

SH: So perhaps it’s the opposite (.) A failure to behave naturally (1.0) An actor so consumed by his performance that the one characteristic he cannot accommodate (.) is spontaneous reaction (12.0) That doesn’t bode well does it?

JM: Seems your bishop was of some benefit (.) after all

SH: This game is still young

JM: Actually it’s (.) in its adolescence (12.0) I think you’ve just lost your most valuable piece

SH: A winning strategy sometimes necessitates sacrifice

JM: You see (.) hidden within the unconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict (2.0) So you’re not fighting me (1.0) so much you are the human condition (2.0) all I want to do it own the bullets and the bandages (1.0) War on an industrial scale is inevitable (.) They’ll do it themselves within a few years (1.0) All I have to do (1.0) is wait (3.0) I like Switzerland (1.0) they respect a mans privacy here (.) particularly if he has a fortune

SH: Bishop takes knight (.) check

JM: The game is over (.) you should get that shoulder looked at

SH: About that fortune of yours (1.0) I believe it’s just been substantially reduced

JM: King to rook two

SH: I attended several of your lectures (2.0) it was in (.) Oslo I first got a glimpse of your little notebook (1.0) red leather bound from Smithes in Bond Street (2.0) Rook to kings rook three (1.0) Check

JM: Bishop to rook three (.)   I support

SH:                                 This was not fully apparent to me until I observed your fousseau for feeding pigeons (.) then it occurred (.) with an empire so enormous (.) even you must keep a record of it somewhere (.) bishop takes bishop

JM: Rook to bishop four

SH: I then only required the notebook itself (.) you didn’t make it easy (1.0) I would need to endure a considerable amount of pain (2.0) but the notebook would undoubtedly be encoded (.) so how then to break the code? (1.0) rook takes rook

JM: Pawn takes rook

SH: Bishop to bishop seven

JM: Queen (.) takes knight pawn

SH: Does the (.) art of domestic horticulture mean anything to you? (3.0) how could a man as meticulous as you own such a book yet completely neglect the flowers in your window box? (1.0) Irony bounds (3.0) Never mind (.) It’s safe (.) In London (1.0) where my colleagues are making good use of it (2.0) The most formidable criminal mind in Europe has just had all his money stolen by possibly the most inept inspector in the history of Scotland Yard (.) He’ll be making an anonymous donation to the widows and orphans of war fund (2.0) Bishop to bishop eight (.) discover check (1.0) and incidentally (.) mate (2.0) I seem to have injured my shoulder (.) Do you mind?

JM: It’d be my pleasure (3.0) once we’ve concluded our business here (.) It’s important you know (.) I shall endeavour to find the most creative of endings for the doctor (2.0) and his wife [Fight Scene] Let’s not waste anymore of one another’s time (3.0) we both know how this ends

SH: Conclusion (.) Inevitable (1.0) Unless…