Waxflatter Quotes in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Waxflatter: Elementary, my dear Holmes... elementary.

[last lines]

Waxflatter: Ehtar... Ehtar. Ehtar, Holmes. Ehtar.

[Holmes, Watson and Elizabeth are walking across the courtyard, when a voice causes them to look up]

Waxflatter: Holmes! Elizabeth! I think I have solved all of the problems!

John Watson: [looking up] Who's that?

Elizabeth Hardy: My Uncle.

Sherlock Holmes: Rupert T. Waxflatter. Retired schoolmaster, degrees in Chemistry and Biology, well versed in Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics. Author of 27 books.

[Holmes walks on]

Elizabeth Hardy: And most people think he's a lunatic.

[Elizabeth walks on]

John Watson: Why?

[Waxflatter launches his flying machine]

John Watson: Oh, my God!

[Waxflatter has crashed his flying machine into a tree]

Waxflatter: [looking around] A very hopeful sign. Very hopeful!

[Holmes, Watson and Elizabeth help Waxflatter carry the wrecked flying machine up the stairs to the attic]

Waxflatter: Let me see, that makes six! Six failed attemps. Nevertheless, we shall not be defeated. We shall conquer. I have made up my mind. The conquest of the skies is well within my grasp!

John Waston: [to Elizabeth] He's done this six times!