Has all my instruction been for naught? [pours] You still read the official statement and believe it. It’s a game, dear man, a shadowy game. We’re playing cat and mouse, the professor and I. Cloak and dagger.

I thought it was spider and fly. [reads the label of the bottle Holmes has been pouring from]

I’m not a fly, I’m a cat.

Not a mouse, but a dagger. [Holmes drinks] You’re drinking embalming fluid.

[exhales]

Yes. Care for a drop?

You do seem...

Excited?

Manic.

I am.

Verging on...

Ecstatic?

Psychotic. [pause] I should’ve brought you a sedative.