David Garrick credited as playing...
McMurdo
- [in a bare-knuckle boxing match, Holmes sees Irene and tries to forfeit and leave]
- Sherlock Holmes: That's it, big man. You've won, congratulations.
- McMurdo: Oi, we ain't done yet!
- [He spits at the back of Holmes' head. Holmes stops]
- Sherlock Holmes: [voice-over] This mustn't register on an emotional level.
- [in slow motion]
- Sherlock Holmes: First, distract target...
- [Holmes throws Irene's handerchief in front of McMurdo's face]
- Sherlock Holmes: Then block his blind jab... counter with cross to left cheek. Discombobulate.
- [slams his hands over McMurdo's ears]
- Sherlock Holmes: Dazed, will attempt wild haymaker. Employ elbow block... and body shot. Block feral left, weaken right jaw... now fracture.
- [a cross to the jaw fractures the bone]
- Sherlock Holmes: Break cracked ribs. Traumatize solar plexus... dislocate jaw entirely.
- [two more body blows, and a right hook to the jaw hinge]
- Sherlock Holmes: Heel kick to diaphragm.
- [Holmes finishes with a heel kick to McMurdo's chest, sending him crashing out of the ring]
- Sherlock Holmes: In summary: ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken, diaphragm haemmorraging. Physical recovery: six weeks. Full psychological recovery: six months. Capacity to spit at back of head... neutralized.
- [Back in real time, Holmes picks up the handkerchief, as though wiping the back of his neck, then does all of the foregoing in about eight seconds, and kicks McMurdo out of the ring]