The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

00:31:49,992 --> 00:31:51,577 You disappoint me, sir. 555 00:31:51,911 --> 00:31:55,623 Can you be the man I've come to admire not merely for his brain 556 00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:57,666 but for his passion for justice? 557 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:02,212 In your heart of hearts, surely you must acknowledge your illness. 558 00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:05,549 And your hypocrisy in condemning your staunch friends. 559 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:12,556 I have been guilty of these things... 560 00:32:14,308 --> 00:32:15,935 I make no excuse. 561 00:32:18,020 --> 00:32:20,356 But as for help, you must put it from your minds, all of you... 562 00:32:20,689 --> 00:32:24,109 I have summoned all my will to the task, and it's no use. 563 00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:26,487 My feet are on the inexorable path to destruction. 564 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:29,239 A man may sometimes retrace his steps. 565 00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:33,494 Not from the fiendish coils of drug addiction. No man can do it. 566 00:32:33,827 --> 00:32:34,995 I have. 567 00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:40,626 I've taken cocaine, and I'm free from its power. 568 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,169 It is now my intention to help others. 569 00:32:42,503 --> 00:32:44,588 If you will allow me, I will help you. 570 00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:48,968 You cannot do this. 571 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:50,678 I can. 572 00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:55,140 It will take time, and it will not be pleasant. 573 00:32:59,061 --> 00:33:01,146 For the duration, I've arranged for both of you to stay here as guests. 574 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,148 Would that be agreeable to you? 575 00:33:04,233 --> 00:33:07,236 It's no use, even now I'm overcome by this hideous compulsion. 576 00:33:07,569 --> 00:33:09,738 I can reduce this compulsion for a while. 577 00:33:10,072 --> 00:33:12,074 Do you know anything of the practice of hypnotism? 578 00:33:12,408 --> 00:33:15,244 You propose to make me bark like a dog and crawl about the floor? 579 00:33:15,577 --> 00:33:18,789 Through hypnosis, I will banish your craving when it exerts itself. 580 00:33:19,123 --> 00:33:22,626 In this way, we shall artificially reduce your addiction 581 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,088 until the chemistry of your body does it naturally. 582 00:33:26,422 --> 00:33:30,467 Now, I want you to keep your eyes fastened upon this as it swings. 583 00:33:30,801 --> 00:33:32,344 I want you to think of nothing else. 584 00:33:41,228 --> 00:33:42,438 Nothing else. 585 00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:56,285 Quickly, we must search his possessions. 586 00:34:18,015 --> 00:34:19,266 Doctor, I think I have it. 587 00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:22,686 Don't be certain. This is not an ordinary patient. 588 00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,441 - It's water. - Can it be? 589 00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:30,569 Then, where? 590 00:34:33,947 --> 00:34:35,657 Too heavy, too heavy. 591 00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:51,632 Oh, Doctor. 592 00:34:54,885 --> 00:34:57,346 When and where did Herr Holmes begin using cocaine? 593 00:34:57,679 --> 00:34:59,640 And do you have any idea why? 594 00:34:59,973 --> 00:35:01,850 For as long as I've known him, he's used it. 595 00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:06,814 I believe he begun by taking it between cases to relieve the ennui. 596 00:35:07,189 --> 00:35:10,359 - A seven percent solution. -To relieve the ennui, the boredom? 597 00:35:12,861 --> 00:35:15,280 How did you become interested in the drug? 598 00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:19,326 It's a sideline of mine, not directly connected with my researches. 599 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:21,370 A friend of mine died last year 600 00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:25,749 as the result of its horrible properties. I was partly responsible. 601 00:35:26,083 --> 00:35:27,709 I wrote a paper on it afterwards. 602 00:35:30,796 --> 00:35:32,840 The piece I chanced upon in The Lancet. 603 00:35:33,215 --> 00:35:34,049 Ja. 604 00:35:34,383 --> 00:35:36,510 You are mainly involved in research, then? 605 00:35:36,844 --> 00:35:39,054 I was trained as a neuropathologist, 606 00:35:39,388 --> 00:35:41,932 with a background in localized diagnosis, 607 00:35:42,266 --> 00:35:45,269 but there is no formal designation for what I am now. 608 00:35:46,645 --> 00:35:48,939 I began by mapping the nervous system, 609 00:35:49,273 --> 00:35:51,900 but I became interested in charting the mind itself. 610 00:35:52,234 --> 00:35:56,488 I'm interested in an area of the brain I call the unconscious. 611 00:35:57,823 --> 00:35:59,158 The unconscious? 612 00:36:00,576 --> 00:36:01,660 You are an alienist. 613 00:36:01,994 --> 00:36:05,080 I'm interested in hysterical cases, 614 00:36:05,414 --> 00:36:08,458 and I use hypnosis to dig into their unconscious mind 615 00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:11,336 where I believe the hysterical symptoms originate. 616 00:36:11,