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 Fifth Quarter (short story) The Fifth Quarter (short story) "The Fifth Quarter" is a short story by American author Stephen King, originally published in the April 1972 issue of "Cavalier" (under the pen name John Swithen) and later collected in King's 1993 collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". It was filmed as an episode of the TNT miniseries "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King". In the notes for this story, King remarks "Bachman again or maybe George Stark", a reference to his pseudonym Richard Bachman whose "relationship" with him was the basis of the character George Stark for the novel "The Dark Half".