00:30I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord.
01:00He that believeth in me, although he were dead, shall live.
01:04And he that liveth and believeth shall not die.
01:08Unto almighty God, we commend his body to the ground,
01:13earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
01:17dust to dust, in sure and certain hope
01:20that at the resurrection he will rise again to everlasting life.
01:25Amen.
01:26Well, that completes the formal contents of Sir Charles's will.
01:31May I be the first to congratulate you, Sir George,
01:33as the new heir to Farnsworth Castle?
01:35A mansion of crumbling stone and a morbid legend.
01:39Oh, plus an estate with a handsome revenue.
01:42All our legacies were most liberal, Mr. Clarkson.
01:45My brother was a generous man.
01:47He was a bully and a braggart.
01:49George, please. Charles is dead now.
01:51He treated you more like one of his hounds than his wife.
01:54He treated you more like one of his hounds than his wards, Sylvia.
01:56And you know it.
01:57Henry, you can now do what you've always dreamed of doing.
02:00Buy your own medical practice.
02:02Two thousand pounds. I'm overwhelmed.
02:05I suppose that finishes the will, Clarkson.
02:08Well, not quite, Sir George.
02:10Your cousin Charles added a most unusual codicil.
02:14Having made many enemies in my life,
02:16and suspecting that any one of them may be tempted
02:19to bring my earthly days to an abrupt end,
02:21I hereby direct, no matter how I die,
02:24that Sherlock Holmes be engaged to investigate the circumstances of my death.
02:29Sherlock Holmes?
02:31The detective. But it's absurd.
02:33Charles died from a heart attack.
02:35You signed the death certificate yourself, Reeves.
02:37I won't allow Holmes to investigate.
02:39I'm afraid Mr. Holmes has already commenced his investigation.
02:43A court order was issued this morning.
02:45A court order for what?
02:47The exhumation of Sir Charles' body.
02:51The autopsy has been completed.
02:55Sir Charles died from arsenic poisoning.
03:10Ah, Elizabeth.
03:12It's incredible.
03:14Who could have done it? Arsenic.
03:17Only one of us. You or I or Henry.
03:21Or Sylvia.
03:22Oh, no. Not Sylvia, no. She had no reason.
03:25She had the same reason we all had.
03:27Charles' death set her free just as it set the rest of us free.
03:31Are Holmes and Lestrade still up in the tower room?
03:34Yes, and Dr. Watson is there too.
03:37Why is Holmes so interested in the tower room?
03:40Because Charles died there, I suppose.
03:42Or perhaps Mr. Holmes is interested in the letter room.
03:51That ridiculous, gruesome legend.
03:56Murder is what I believe in, Holmes, not legends.
03:59Well, you know, Lestrade, legends are sometimes put to surprising and modern uses.
04:04By the way, what is the legend, Holmes?
04:06Well, it dates back to the Wars of the Roses.
04:08A sentry fell asleep here one night while on watch.
04:11As a result, they chopped his head off.
04:13Ever since that time, anyone who sleeps here is supposed to die.
04:17Nonsense.
04:18Quite, and yet Sir Charles slept here and he did die.
04:21It's a coincidence.
04:22He'd already taken the poison. He had to die somewhere.
04:25You know, that window is much too narrow for anyone to get in or out.
04:29With that door locked, this place becomes a classic sealed room.
04:33It was arsenic that killed him, Holmes, not the room.
04:37Or the legend.
04:38Or the legend.
04:39Dr. Watson, you read the autopsy report. What's your opinion?
04:43Well, there is one thing that struck me as odd.
04:45This is January.
04:47Sir Charles had eaten grapes the night he was poisoned.
04:49What's that got to do with it?
04:51Well, you don't very often find grapes in January.
04:53Not in England, anyway.
04:56Clever, Watson.
05:02Grapes in January, eh?
05:03Yeah.
05:10Arsenic.
05:11Out of this jar.
05:13And someone in this room gave it to him.
05:16Each of you came from his death.
05:18We all had access to that jar, Inspector.
05:21The arsenic was used for garden spraying.
05:24Anyway, Charles didn't eat or drink a single thing that night.
05:27The rest of us didn't.
05:28Then why weren't all of you poisoned, too?
05:31Miss Farnsworth, what prompted your brother to sleep in the tower room the night he died?
05:38I prompted him, Mr. Holmes.
05:40I challenged him to.
05:43Oh, really? Why?
05:46To put his constant bragging to the test.
05:50It started at dinner that night.
05:56Elizabeth, your meals are getting progressively more inedible.
06:01If you can't do better, I suggest you find your own home and run it.
06:06I'll try to do better, Charles.
06:08Elizabeth, I liked your dinner.
06:11What do you know about decent food?
06:13What do you know about anything?
06:16I know how to run your estate for you.
06:18And a mess you're making of it, too,
06:20with half the tenants overdue in their rents.
06:23I won't sweat a man's rent out of him, Charles.
06:26You'll get the rest of the rents by tomorrow,
06:29or out you go, bag and baggage.
06:35What have you got to say to that?
06:37I'll collect the rents by noon tomorrow.
06:40Why must you always humiliate us, Charles?
06:42Have you no decency, no human feelings?
06:45I'm not a weak knee like George here, if that's what you mean.
06:49Courage isn't always physical, Charles.
06:52Courage?
06:53Do you remember the time I locked you in the tower room?
06:56You screamed like a stuck pig.
06:58I was seven years old, not a big, brave man like you.
07:01I'm not a big, brave man like you.
07:04I was seven years old, not a big, brave man like you.
07:07What do you mean by that?
07:10You dared lock a little boy in that room.
07:13But you never dared spend a night in it yourself.
07:15You think I believe that stupid legend?
07:18Yes. And fear it.
07:20Just as you fear anything you cannot hear or see or touch.
07:24You locked me in to frighten me,
07:26because you yourself would have been frightened.
07:34Elizabeth, get me a candle.
07:36I'm spending the night in the tower room.
07:38But Charles, you mustn't. You're harmed.
07:40Don't talk like an idiot, Reeves.
07:42Frightened of what? An old wives' tale?
07:49I will fetch him the candle.
08:04I had to break open the tower room next morning.
08:07I found him dead.
08:11Interesting.
08:13What kind of grapes were served at dinner that night?
08:16Grapes? No grapes were served?
08:19We haven't had grapes in the house for months.
08:22Then who gave Sir Charles the grapes he ate that night?
08:26Because he did eat grapes. That's how he was poisoned.
08:30No one gave my brother grapes, Inspector.
08:34You're wrong. The murderer did.
08:36Strange. The grapes won't solve your case, you know.
08:40The solution lies in the tower room.
08:43Now look here Holmes, you've already gone into all that and...
08:45And I'm going to find it.
08:47How can you do that, Holmes?
08:48By spending the night in the tower room myself.
09:04Mr. Holmes, I think you are wrong...
09:06to take the legend of Farnsworth Castle so lightly.
09:09On the contrary, Miss Farnsworth.
09:11I'm taking it very seriously.
09:17Then be on guard, Mr. Holmes, and stay awake.
09:34Holmes, how can you possibly solve the mystery here?
09:37Quite simply, Watson.
09:40The murderer is going to try and kill me.
09:43Why?
09:45Because I'm Sherlock Holmes.
09:49Can I stay with you?
09:53No, no, thanks. All the same, old boy.
10:04Holmes, if anything happens, you will shout, won't you?
10:09Yes, yes. Loud and strong.
12:34Watson.
13:01Watson.
13:03Watson.
13:34Watson.
13:37Watson.
13:54Watson.
14:00Watson.
14:02Oh, shit!
14:32Holmes!
14:34Holmes!
15:03Holmes!
15:15Poison. Watson, I'll get you back to my room.
15:32Arsenic, Watson. Quickly, the antidote. Arsenic!
16:03He's very cunning, Watson.
16:06Yes, maybe, Holmes, but I don't understand.
16:08After all, you and I ate the same thing the entire evening.
16:23Watson, I think I know the killer's secret.
16:27Watson, I think I know the killer's secret.
16:45Perhaps... perhaps I'd better go out and wake Holmes.
16:48It is getting rather late.
16:50Not that I believe in any of this superstitious nonsense, mind you, but...
16:54But you do believe in murder, eh, Dr. Reeves?
16:58Holmes!
16:59Well, it seems that everyone is surprised at my appearance this morning.
17:03Perhaps relieved is a better word, Mr. Holmes.
17:06I dare say there's somebody who's not very relieved.
17:09What are you talking about?
17:14I was poisoned last night.
17:18I am alive this morning thanks to a bit of good luck
17:22and some ingenious foresight on the part of Dr. Watson.
17:26On the afternoon that Dr. Watson learnt the true cause of Sir Charles's death,
17:31he ordered the ingredients of an arsenic antidote from the local chemist.
17:36I wonder who, sitting at this table now, is cursing that foresight.
17:41Do we have to be afraid of every bite we put into our mouths?
17:44Do we have to be afraid of every bite we put into our mouths?
17:47Not every bite, Sir George.
17:49Only food with a flavour strong enough to conceal the taste of arsenic.
17:53Something like grapes, for example.
17:58If you want to know who poisoned the grapes, I can tell you that too.
18:01The person who bought the grapes in a London fruit shop on the day Sir Charles died.
18:08I rather imagined you'd trace those grapes, Lestrade.
18:11Who did, in fact, buy them?
18:14Miss Sylvia Taylor.
18:17You're lying!
18:19Let her answer that, Sir George.
18:23Yes, I bought them.
18:27Sylvia!
18:29And gave them to Sir Charles when he was in the Tower Room.
18:32Yes, but I didn't poison them. I swear I didn't.
18:38For some reason, which he did not yet explain,
18:40Holmes doubted Lestrade's case against Sylvia Taylor.
18:44Furthermore, he reasoned that the killer would take refuge in her arrest,
18:47letting the case end there and accepting his own safety.
18:51He revealed to me that our only hope was to force the killer into making another move in spite of himself.
18:58The first step was publicly to denounce Lestrade's case
19:01in such a way that the inspector himself would be convinced that he needed more evidence.
19:06This, Holmes hoped, would frighten the killer.
19:10More evidence?
19:12You could spend a lifetime going over this place with your magnifying glass.
19:15And I wouldn't even attempt it,
19:17but a whole battery of men could accomplish it in a very short time indeed.
19:20Now look here.
19:22A whole battery of men?
19:24Hmm.
19:25Lestrade, how soon do you think you'll get up here
19:27as sufficient men from Scotland Yard to carry out a systematic and thorough search?
19:31Hmm. Tonight, maybe.
19:33Certainly by tomorrow morning.
19:35Just a moment here. This is my home.
19:38Lestrade, I think Sir George is going to be rather anxious
19:41that they come armed with a search warrant.
19:45I'll get in touch with the Yard immediately.
19:59Watson, you're sure no one's left the house?
20:01Bobby on the door said nobody had gone in or out all day.
20:05Well, I hope we haven't been outwitted on this.
20:07It's been a very tiring time, Holmes,
20:09watching every move that's being made and getting nowhere.
20:12Yes, we can't afford to let up now, Watson.
20:14The pressure's really on him, you know.
20:16He's got fear to contend with.
20:21Oh, Holmes, why do you keep crossing to that window?
20:24You know, I think it's your pacing up and down all day
20:26that's made me more nervous than anything else.
20:32There it is, Watson.
20:33What?
20:35Quickly, Watson, the tower rope.
20:37Coming, Holmes.
20:44Watson, would you go downstairs immediately
20:46and tell Lestrade to bring our four friends up here?
20:48Who are you up to?
20:49As I had hoped, the killer has left us
20:51all the necessary components of a trap.
20:53Well, you'd better hurry, Watson.
20:55We have little time to lose.
20:56Right.
21:05Won't you sit down here?
21:13Just what's the point of this séance exactly, Holmes?
21:17We're going to find a murderer, Lestrade.
21:23Yes, but why here?
21:25Perhaps the legend's going to tell us.
21:28Yes, Lestrade, the legend.
21:31Yes, Lestrade, the legend.
21:34The weird tale of a headless sentry.
21:37And the most convenient one for the murderer,
21:40who didn't anticipate an autopsy.
21:44Yet why did he choose this room to murder in?
21:47What is the mysterious connection between the tower
21:51room and death?
21:54Please stop.
21:56I don't want to stay here any longer.
21:58I'm sorry, Miss Taylor, but we must stay here and wait.
22:01Perhaps all night.
22:03Who knows?
22:05But this is insane.
22:09I don't feel very well.
22:12Could we open the window?
22:14I'll open it for you, Elizabeth.
22:16It is getting rather stuffy in here.
22:19Don't bother, Dr. Reeves.
22:20I've already tried to open it myself.
22:22It's quite impossible.
22:24My head is spinning.
22:27You've got to open the window.
22:28I feel faint.
22:30Please open the window.
22:32I've already told you, Miss Farnsworth.
22:34It's quite impossible.
22:35I don't believe you.
22:37We'll make him open the window.
22:40Elizabeth, calm yourself.
22:43It's just this eerie room that's getting on your nerves.
22:53That confounded wind.
22:55It's enough to send you out of your mind.
22:57Mr. Holmes, can't we settle this downstairs?
23:01Please try to be calm, all of you.
23:03As I said before, we may have quite a long wait here.
23:17Let me out of here.
23:19Elizabeth.
23:21Open the window.
23:22Do something.
23:23Stop it.
23:24Isn't it bad enough without you going out?
23:27You fools.
23:28You fools.
23:29You don't understand.
23:30We've got to have air up ahead and take up in the window.
23:33Let me go.
23:34Let me go.
23:35It will kill us all.
23:48It really wasn't necessary to smash the window, Miss Farnsworth.
23:53Oh, Watson, there's a package in that drawer behind you.
23:57Bring it to me, will you?
23:58Yes, of course.
24:00You see, Miss Farnsworth, I took the precaution of replacing your arsenic candles with harmless ones.
24:07Of course, you couldn't be aware of that, could you?
24:10Arsenic candles?
24:11Yes, Lestrade.
24:13Like the one that killed Sir Charles.
24:19Sir Charles died of poison grapes.
24:21Oh, no, Lestrade.
24:22It was a far more ingenious method of killing than that.
24:25A small room,
24:27a tiny window,
24:29and a candle
24:31impregnated with arsenic
24:33and giving off fatal fumes.
24:36Ingenious, yes.
24:39And it's practical.
24:41You can inhale arsenic as a gas.
24:52Follow that, sir.
24:58You see, Lestrade, the person who placed those candles there
25:02wasn't going to sit through the night and wait for death.
25:06She had to give herself away.
25:10I'm sorry to upset all of you, but quite frankly,
25:14I didn't know which one of you it was.
25:17But, Holmes, why did she choose this room to destroy the candles?
25:21Because this was the only room in the castle
25:24that she could be sure would be deserted that night.
25:27The legend, you see.
26:17THE END
26:47THE END
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