Watson
received a letter, the content
of which will hardly
interest you, however you may
recognize the signature.
It is the letter "M" made
of four crossed swords.
Is this monogram familiar
to you?
I'm afraid I don't understand.
You see, m'lady, there are many
rogues in London,
who are interested in
aristocratic families.
Our aim is to protect you
from blackmail.
I never saw this monogram
before.
Are you sure?
I'm sure you are wasting
your time.
I've forgotten
what an ordinary London
postman looks like.
Your mail delivery gets on
my nerves, gentlemen.
Either it's brought here
by some ragamuffins,
or flies into the window with
a stone,
and the next time your brother
Mycroft sends a telegram with
a messenger looking like he was
straight from Buckingham
Palace. In the morning some
kind of a hairy monster
slipped a note under the door.
And a moment before
you arrived
a man rushed in, barked out
something unintelligible,
threw an envelope at me
and ran away.
- Where's the envelope?
- It's in the hall.
I think there's a bomb
in there.
I've long given up Mr. Holmes
as hopeless. But you, doctor!
A lady! A true lady in
everything she does.
This is what I asked her for.
And she sent it with
god knows who.
What a woman!
What self-possession!
What common sense!
- Some kind of hieroglyphs.
- That's wonderful, Watson.
We will have to decipher
them.
And let all British
Egyptologists be envious of me!
Scriptwriter:
Vladimir Valutsky
Director:
Igor Maslennikov
D.O.P.: Yuri Veksler,
Anatoly Lapshov
Production designer:
Mark Kaplan
Music composed by:
Vladimir Dashkevich
End of Part One
In Part Two
The Famous detective Sherlock Holmes
and his friend doctor Watson
experience the power and
insidious nature
of the man, whose identity is
concealed behind the letter "M".
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