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Sherlock Holmes and DCI Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden).
[last lines]
Sherlock Holmes : What is the meaning of it, Watson? What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must have a purpose. Or our universe has no meaning and that is unthinkable. But what purpose?
[pause]
Sherlock Holmes : That...
[pause]
Sherlock Holmes : is humanity's great problem to which reason, so far, has no answer.
-- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett