The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988 TV Movie)

Alastair Duncan: Dr. Mortimer

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• Dr. Mortimer : You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull, or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?

  Sherlock Holmes : *Please*, Dr. Mortimer.

  Dr. Mortimer : A cast of your skull Sir, until the original becomes available?

  [Holmes bursts into laughter] 

  Dr. Mortimer : It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess, I covet your skull.

  Sherlock Holmes : Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.

  [Gesturing to the chair] 

  Dr. Mortimer : [dog sits beside Mr. Mortimer]  Spot. Yes, good boy.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, I presume it was not your phrenological passion which drew you to Baker Street.

  Dr. Mortimer : Unfortunately it was not, Sir.

• Sherlock Holmes : You impress me, Doctor Mortimer. Was there anything else?

  Dr. Mortimer : Yes.

  Sherlock Holmes : Footprints? A man or a woman's?

  Dr. Mortimer : Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

• Dr. Mortimer : If it's one animal on this planet which I cannot abide it is a rabbit.

  Dr. John Watson : Really?

  Dr. Mortimer : Rabbits burrow.

• Dr. Mortimer : If there's to be danger, then... two guns will be better than one.