Sherlock Holmes2009

Dr. John Watson:
What were you doing [out there]?

Sherlock Holmes:
Will you allow me to explain?

Dr. John Watson:
I wish you would.

[Cuts back to when Irene Adler left the room. Holmes pretends to strum chords on his violin. As soon as Irene closes the door behind her, Holmes races over to the window and arrives in time to see her exiting the building. He runs back to the door. Watson is coming upstairs when Holmes comes running downstairs, and he opens the window at the midway landing]

Dr. John Watson:
Holmes, what are you doing?

Sherlock Holmes:
Nothing.

Dr. John Watson:
Are you wearing a …

Sherlock Holmes:
… false nose? No.

Dr. John Watson:
[as Holmes steals his coat] Tell me that that wasn't … [before he can say "Irene Adler," Holmes jumps out the window and lands on a dumpster] Holmes, where are you going? [Holmes jumps onto another dumpster that is much lighter and the roof collapses under his weight.]

Sherlock Holmes:
Watson! Uh, Watson! [Watson simply closes the window]

[Holmes makes his way up a flight of stairs and into a back street. He eventually catches up to Irene. He hides behind a stall and watches as Irene passes a man in a passageway with a bouquet of flowers]

First Man:
Got some flowers for you, sweetheart. Cut you a deal 'cause you're so pretty.

Irene Adler:
Oh! My lucky day!

Second Man:
[comes up behind Irene and sniffs the flowers] Have you got something else for me?

[Irene promptly pulls out a cane and strikes the second thug across the face, and takes the first man hostage at knifepoint]

Irene Adler:
Don't move! [she lowers the knife blade a bit and searches the man's pockets] Now what have we got here? Oh! [She takes the man's wallet, and the flower bouquet] Thank you.

Sherlock Holmes:
That's the Irene I know. [He continues to follow Irene, passing through a small circus. He follows her through a small dressing tent, swiping some items to add to his disguise. Irene momentarily turns around, and does not notice that standing behind a performer carrying a weight is Holmes, wearing a top hat, a scarf, and an eyepatch over his left eye. As soon as she turns away, Holmes emerges from hiding and continues to follow her. He intercepts the carriage as it is coming along by ramming into the side of the horse, causing it to stop. The scene then fast-forwards through Holmes being yelled at by the driver and being scared off by the employer's wrist-mounted pistol and cuts to Holmes finishing his story]

Sherlock Holmes:
This man intrigues me, Watson, he's got Adler on edge.

John Watson:
Which is no mean feat.

Sherlock Holmes:
She's intimidated. She's scared of him.

John Watson:
Well she works for him.

Sherlock Holmes:
Right.

John Watson:
Well, it's nothing to do with me, but I advise you: Leave. The case. Alone.

Sherlock Holmes:
Well, I may not have a choice, hm? After all, I may be paying the rent on my own, soon. [points his violin bow at Watson] Thanks to you.

John Watson:
Get that out of my face.

Sherlock Holmes:
It's not in your face; it's in my hand.

John Watson:
Get what's in your hand out my face.