The Speckled Band (1931 film) Rylott screams. Holmes, Watson, and Helen enter his room and discover Rylott dead from a snake bite. Holmes forces Ali, the servant, to charm the snake so they can put it in the safe. Violet's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India." The venomous snake had been sent to Violet's room by Dr. Rylott to murder her for her inheritance. Rylott had intended to do the same to Helen. The movie ends with Holmes conducting an experiment in Baker Street. Watson arrives dressed for a wedding, and Holmes therefore
The Last Word (Knight short story) was a woman and had the last word. I gestured toward the purple darkness outside. "Lost Earth? What do you call this?" She poised her hand on the switch. "Hell," she said. And I have remembered her voice, through ten thousand lonely years. About this story, Knight wrote "The Last Word" is one of three stories I have written using orthodox Christian materials - God, the devil, etc. - which proves that my childhood training had some use after all. The Last Word (Knight short story) "The Last Word" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight.