When Holmes asks Freud how he found the villain’s lair, Freud rattles off a series of clever deductions, similar to those Holmes earlier delivered to him in a classic Holmesian show-off moment. Also arrived at this location is Holmes’s new-found associate, Sigmund Freud, who has also been working on the case. They follow these lilies one by one, which she has quite obviously dropped purposely a la Hansel and Gretel, until they arrive to find her at the villain’s den. Sherlock Holmes and Watson are desperate to rescue her, but at first have no idea in which direction she was taken, until Holmes notices a Lily in the road, and then another. As she is pulled out of her rooms, she grabs a bouquet of lilies that had just been presented to her. In the film version of a Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven Percent Solution (the incident might be in the original novel, but I haven’t read it in close to 45 years), the leading lady-damsel in distress is abducted by a brutish villain and carried off in a carriage. However, before I explain, I’d like to offer a related anecdote: I’m embarrassed to confess that you’ve all given me far too much credit (though at the same time I’m extremely flattered that you would).
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