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00:01:33Put it up, lad. Drink up. Five minutes to closing time.
00:01:37Well, let's have three more minutes.
00:01:38Come on, now. Five minutes, gentlemen.
00:01:39Five minutes to closing time.
00:01:41Five minutes. Closing time.
00:01:45Oh, sweetheart. Yes, for the tune, eh?
00:01:47All right.
00:02:02Here, you're on luck. That's what you are.
00:02:04You hurt bad, matey? Let's have a look at it.
00:02:14Blimey!
00:02:15What can I get you, lad?
00:02:17Mother's ruin.
00:02:18Make mine the same.
00:02:20He'll court you too bad for the broken glass, matey.
00:02:22What's the idea, anyway, letting a beast like that fly around loose in the public house?
00:02:26He didn't ought to let him smell the blood.
00:02:28He's very fond of blood.
00:02:30Charlie is.
00:02:31Comes by his taste natural, if you ask me.
00:02:34Nobody's asking you, miss.
00:02:35Oh.
00:02:36Where's he from?
00:02:37Musgrave Manor.
00:02:39What is this Musgrave Manor, a blinkin' prison?
00:02:42That ain't the worst it's been called.
00:02:44Not that I'm one to go about spreading stories.
00:02:47But we knows what we knows.
00:02:50Don't we, Charlie?
00:02:55Blimey!
00:02:57Where is this Musgrave Manor?
00:02:59Turn the road a piece.
00:03:01You'll see it when you're past the old iron gates.
00:03:04Only don't loiter.
00:03:06You won't be welcome.
00:03:08Not by the Musgraves.
00:03:10Been sitting there.
00:03:11Lords of the Manor ever since time was.
00:03:14If those old walls could speak, they'd tell you a thing to raise the air on your head.
00:03:20There's folks hereabouts swear they've seen corpse lights.
00:03:25Round the old greenhouse.
00:03:28An air a-wanin' like lost souls in the limewalk.
00:03:33Yeah, I want no part of it.
00:03:36Nor of the Musgraves neither.
00:03:38Hard men, like them as was before them.
00:03:41Cruel many.
00:03:43God pity them.
00:03:44For the day is coming when they'll need pity.
00:04:11I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey.
00:04:30I assure you I have no wish to be fair.
00:04:36Hmm.
00:04:41An excellent specimen of the Copris Carolina.
00:04:45You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?
00:04:48I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:51No wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:54A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off with the first Cockshaw Yankee who makes her pulses jump.
00:05:02And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.
00:05:06Philip has no choice in the matter.
00:05:08As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.
00:05:13Eve is dropping again, Branton?
00:05:15Oh no, Mr. Philip, I assure you.
00:05:17But I didn't wish to disturb them.
00:05:20What did you hear, Branton?
00:05:23Your brother and Miss Sally were going at it amaranthons.
00:05:29About Captain Vickery, I mean.
00:05:31Really?
00:05:32Mr. Geoffrey and Captain Vickery had an horrible row this afternoon over Miss Sally.
00:05:38I thought they were coming to blows.
00:05:40Indeed I did.
00:05:41Quiet.
00:05:42That'll do now, Branton.
00:05:43If I catch you snooping again, I shall ask my brother to give you notice.
00:05:46Yes, sir.
00:05:47Thank you, sir.
00:05:48You're not above a bit of snooping yourself, are you, Philip?
00:05:52Not in the least, old boy.
00:06:02Branton!
00:06:03Oh, there you are.
00:06:04I've been rigging for you.
00:06:05Sorry, Dr. Watson.
00:06:07I was in the upper region.
00:06:09The library's in a filthy mess.
00:06:11The wind came swishing down the chimney and scattered the ashes everywhere.
00:06:15Very well.
00:06:16I'll tidy it up at once, Doctor.
00:06:23Room full of smoke, papers all over the floor.
00:06:26Foul night, Branton.
00:06:27It's customary in Earlstone, sir.
00:06:30Just the sort of night, I fancy, for the ghost of Lady Clorinda.
00:06:33Oh, no, Dr. Watson.
00:06:35Lady Clorinda only walks in the west wing.
00:06:38No one ever met a ghost in this part of the house.
00:06:41Oh, really?
00:06:42Isn't there some story that...
00:06:43Oh, there was an housemate claimed that she saw Sir Jervis Musgrave
00:06:48with his head on backwards in this very room.
00:06:53A great smell.
00:06:54Well, she was just a flighty girl, sir.
00:06:56Oh, sounds like it.
00:06:57Very flighty.
00:06:58A most.
00:06:59Head on backwards.
00:07:01Head on backwards.
00:07:03Head on backwards.
00:07:13Mr. Brunshan, does the wind always carry on like this, sir?
00:07:18Frequently, sir.
00:07:20It's a great pity.
00:07:22It makes the gentleman restless.
00:07:25More than usual, I mean.
00:07:28Well, sir.
00:07:30It's a great pity.
00:07:31It makes the gentleman restless.
00:07:33More than usual, I mean.
00:07:35Well, sir.
00:07:36It's a great pity.
00:07:38It's a great pity.
00:07:39It makes the gentleman restless.
00:07:41More than usual, I mean.
00:07:45Well, our patients are all tucked up for the night now, eh, Brunton?
00:07:49Are they?
00:07:50Of course, of course.
00:07:52Well, aren't they?
00:07:53Captain Vickery is in his room, sir.
00:07:56And it looked like Major Langford I saw going toward the pool.
00:08:00And I can't account for Lieutenant Clavering.
00:08:03Well, that's very odd.
00:08:05Very odd, sir.
00:08:08Anything else, sir?
00:08:10Oh, thank you.
00:08:11Oh, yes, yes.
00:08:12You might tell Dr. Sexton that I'd like to see him for a minute, will you?
00:08:14Very good, sir.
00:08:22Good night, sir.
00:08:23Good night, Brunton.
00:08:25Get him up.
00:08:26Let's get him in this chair over here.
00:08:28Sorry.
00:08:29Awfully sorry.
00:08:31Get my bag, will you, Brunton?
00:08:32Yes, sir.
00:08:33Let's have a look.
00:08:34Yes, a near thing.
00:08:35Just missed the carotid artery.
00:08:36Looks like a knife wound.
00:08:37Here you are, sir.
00:08:38Oh, it's like a nightmare.
00:08:39Give me some of that cotton wool in that little bottle, please.
00:08:40Awful nuisance.
00:08:41Oh, no.
00:08:42We'll have you patched up in no time.
00:08:43It'll be as good as new.
00:08:44What happened?
00:08:45What happened?
00:08:46What happened?
00:08:47What happened?
00:08:48What happened?
00:08:49What happened?
00:08:50What happened?
00:08:51I hardly know.
00:08:52It was in lime walk just now.
00:08:53I was coming up from the village.
00:08:54I remember distinctly I was approaching the greenhouse.
00:08:59The wind was terrific.
00:09:00That'll be.
00:09:02Awful nuisance.
00:09:03Oh, no, old fellow, we'll have you patched up in no time.
00:09:05He'll be as good as you.
00:09:07What happened?
00:09:08I hardly know.
00:09:10It was in Lime Walk just now.
00:09:13I was coming up from the village.
00:09:15I remember distinctly I was approaching the greenhouse.
00:09:19The wind was terrific.
00:09:21I had to fight my way.
00:09:23I hadn't the slightest warning.
00:09:26All I know is that he struck and I went down.
00:09:31He must have thought I was done for.
00:09:34Any idea who it was?
00:09:36No.
00:09:37Well, that is, I...
00:09:39Yes, yes.
00:09:41No, really, I...
00:09:43I haven't any right.
00:09:44You have every right, Dr. Sexton.
00:09:49As head of this house, I shall arrange for an immediate investigation.
00:09:53I'd rather not, if you don't mind, sir.
00:09:55Dr. Sexton, the fact that my brother and sister and I
00:09:58have opened our home to convalescent patients
00:10:00doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.
00:10:04I mean, under the peculiar circumstances.
00:10:07Oh, come along, Bob.
00:10:08There's no need to shield anyone.
00:10:17Thirteen.
00:10:19Thirteen?
00:10:20That's curious.
00:10:21What's got into the old clock?
00:10:23Nothing, nothing at all.
00:10:25Oh, sir.
00:10:26Don't you remember the last time it did that?
00:10:29Your father was killed the next day.
00:10:53Mr. Holmes.
00:10:54Mr. Holmes.
00:10:55Mr. Holmes.
00:10:56Mr. Holmes.
00:10:57Mr. Holmes.
00:10:58Oh, Mr. Holmes, I...
00:10:59Oh, I...
00:11:00A purely scientific experiment, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:02Oh, frightening the wits out of honest people.
00:11:04Permit me, ma'am.
00:11:05Oh, dear.
00:11:06So now it's bullet holes in me plaster.
00:11:07Oh, Mr. Holmes, this is the last straw.
00:11:08The last straw, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:09The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:10It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, even bound as he claims he was, he could still have fired the shot in his own defense and
00:11:15That killed his wife's lover.
00:11:16But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:17But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:18The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:20It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, even bound as he claims he was, he could still have fired the shot in his own defense that killed his wife's lover.
00:11:27But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:50Come in, Watson.
00:11:52My dear fellow, I'm glad to find you here.
00:11:56I didn't even knock. How do you know it was me, I?
00:12:00Me is acceptable, Watson, unless, of course, you're a purist, which I doubt.
00:12:03And may I add that your step is like no other in London.
00:12:07You're just in time for breakfast.
00:12:08Good, I rather carried on that.
00:12:10Mrs. Hudson, dear, how are you?
00:12:12Oh, it's good to see you again, sir. I think there'll be enough there for two.
00:12:15Splendid.
00:12:18You're a sight for sore eyes, Watson.
00:12:20Thanks, old boy, and so are you.
00:12:21Sit down.
00:12:22Good, thank you.
00:12:23All right, let's have it.
00:12:26What brings you from Northumberland at this early hour?
00:12:29A bad business, Holmes.
00:12:31A very bad business.
00:12:32How do you know that I came from Northumberland?
00:12:34Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:12:36Your overnight bag carried a fresh Euston label.
00:12:39The only train arriving at Euston Station at this hour
00:12:41is the Newcastle Express from Northumberland.
00:12:44Ergo so night, thou comest from Northumberland.
00:12:46Of course. Obvious, isn't it?
00:12:48Quite. Now tell me, what dark deed was done at Hurston Towers last night?
00:12:52Well, that's what I came to see about, Holmes.
00:12:54About 10 o'clock last night, I was sitting in the lab.
00:12:57How'd you know that I came from Hurston?
00:12:59You wrote me that you'd volunteered for medical service within the realm.
00:13:02With your experience, what post could have been offered you,
00:13:05other than to put you in charge of a home for convalescent officers?
00:13:08Only one such home has been opened in Northumberland at the last month,
00:13:11and that's Musgrave Manor at Hurston.
00:13:13Simple reasoning. A child could do it.
00:13:17Not your child, Watson.
00:13:19Well, of course.
00:13:20Well, I never had a child.
00:13:22I very nearly did, though.
00:13:23Did I ever tell you about that, that widow at Twickenham?
00:13:26Very narrow scape.
00:13:28I just found out in time she had a most horrible little squirt,
00:13:30about three and a half.
00:13:31Yes, Watson, I think we'd better stick to Hurston.
00:13:34Oh, sorry, old boy. Oh, Hurston.
00:13:36It's a grim old pile. Very spooky.
00:13:38Don't tell me that you meant a ghost.
00:13:40No, not as spooky as that.
00:13:42Ghosts don't stab people in the neck, do they?
00:13:45Or do they?
00:13:48Not well-bred ghosts, Watson.
00:13:51Who was stabbed in the neck?
00:13:53My young assistant, Dr. Sexton.
00:13:55When?
00:13:56Last night.
00:13:57Any idea who did it?
00:13:59I have no idea.
00:14:00You reported it?
00:14:01No, well, no, no, I didn't.
00:14:02Why not?
00:14:03Well, it seems as...
00:14:04My dear fellow, what you're trying to say is,
00:14:06the officers in your care are all fine fellows.
00:14:09Wonderful war records and so on, is that it?
00:14:11Precisely.
00:14:12So you thought perhaps a private investigation?
00:14:15Exactly.
00:14:16Very right and proper thinking, Watson.
00:14:17We've just time to catch the 9.30 train from Hurston.
00:14:20Well, my dear fellows, there's no immediate hurry.
00:14:22Isn't there?
00:14:23Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.
00:14:26Any one of them might go over the edge at any moment.
00:14:28And from what you've told me,
00:14:30there's a killer loose at Hurston.
00:14:32Great Scott, you may be right.
00:14:34Come on, Watson.
00:14:35We haven't a moment to lose.
00:14:37I only hope we shan't be too late.
00:14:51You were right, Watson, about Musgrave Manor.
00:14:53Houses like people have definite personalities.
00:14:55And this place is positively ghoulish.
00:14:57It certainly is.
00:14:59Hello.
00:15:00What's that?
00:15:02Just the old greenhouse?
00:15:04No, no.
00:15:05That pile of leaves.
00:15:06Just an ordinary pile of leaves.
00:15:07Why?
00:15:08Doesn't it strike you as odd, Watson,
00:15:10that a pile of leaves should be wrecked up in front of a greenhouse door?
00:15:13No gardener in the world would do that.
00:15:16You bet.
00:15:28Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:15:46That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.
00:15:53But what may I ask does it prove?
00:15:58What I'm trying to prove is this.
00:16:00That Dr. Sextenier went down.
00:16:02Twice now, Inspector.
00:16:03You were stunned.
00:16:04Naturally.
00:16:05You went out longer than you thought.
00:16:06That's the point.
00:16:07What point?
00:16:08Just this.
00:16:09The man who attacked him had time to get back into the ass
00:16:11before Dr. Sextenier came to.
00:16:13Yes.
00:16:14Yes.
00:16:15And this here glove...
00:16:17Oh.
00:16:18And this here glove,
00:16:19what I picked up at the scene of the crime,
00:16:22belongs to a certain party right here in this house.
00:16:25I see.
00:16:26Why, that glove belongs to my brother.
00:16:28Huh?
00:16:29Would you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sexten?
00:16:31Who knows?
00:16:33The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.
00:16:37Very well.
00:16:38My brother's down at the stables.
00:16:39I'll take you to him myself.
00:16:41It's the quickest way to put a stop to this blithering nonsense.
00:16:43Come on.
00:16:44Oh, Mr. Phillip.
00:16:45Yeah?
00:16:46Better not go out in the night air without a coat.
00:16:48Here.
00:16:49Take mine.
00:16:50Thanks.
00:16:53And I won't need this.
00:16:55No.
00:16:56Oh.
00:16:57Nor this.
00:16:58Well, shall we go?
00:17:01Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes.
00:17:03Good evening, Lestrade.
00:17:04Come to give us a hand, have you?
00:17:06Always happy to help, Inspector.
00:17:07Thanks, but I don't think I should be needing any.
00:17:09Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:17:12Gentlemen.
00:17:13This is my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:17:15Mr. Philip Musgrave and Dr. Sexten.
00:17:16How do you do?
00:17:17How do you do?
00:17:18I've just brought him up to spend a few days with us.
00:17:19Well, that's very good of you.
00:17:20But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.
00:17:21Oh, really?
00:17:22It's most unfortunate.
00:17:23If you don't mind, Dr. Watson, I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.
00:17:26I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:27Oh, now?
00:17:28I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.
00:17:29We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.
00:17:30He's dead.
00:17:31You can't mean it.
00:17:32No.
00:17:33No.
00:17:34Look here, Holmes.
00:17:35If this is one of your little jokes...
00:17:36Murder is no joke, Inspector.
00:17:37That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:38No good saying it ain't.
00:17:39Murder?
00:17:40Well, let's get going.
00:17:41I'll take charge now.
00:17:42What?
00:17:43It's quite within my rights as a local government.
00:17:44It's quite within my rights as a local government.
00:17:45I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:46I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:47Oh, now?
00:17:48I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.
00:17:49We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.
00:17:50He's dead.
00:17:51You can't mean it.
00:17:52No.
00:17:53Look here, Holmes.
00:17:54If this is one of your little jokes...
00:17:55Murder is no joke, Inspector.
00:17:56No good saying it ain't.
00:17:57Murder?
00:17:58Well, let's get going.
00:17:59I'll take charge now.
00:18:00What?
00:18:01It's quite within my rights as a local justice of the peace.
00:18:03I'll come with you.
00:18:26Wait a minute, you fool.
00:18:28Don't go barging in like that.
00:18:30Don't warn me.
00:18:34Surgical instruments.
00:18:37You know, Watson, the instruments that save life are hardly more pleasant to look at than those that take it.
00:18:42Hm.
00:18:43Grizzly thought, Holmes.
00:18:48You rang, Dr. Watson?
00:18:49Yes, Brunton.
00:18:50I want you to take some men and go down to the Lime Walk.
00:18:52Me, sir?
00:18:53Oh, I can't, sir.
00:18:54I'm sorry, but I simply can't.
00:18:55My stomach, you know.
00:18:58I really couldn't look at a corpse.
00:19:02A corpse?
00:19:03Well, I, uh...
00:19:04How did you know that there was a corpse?
00:19:06Obviously, he was listening at the door.
00:19:08I'll take care of the matter, Doctor.
00:19:10I was listening, too.
00:19:12Come along, Brunton.
00:19:20Remarkable woman.
00:19:21Housekeeper, I suppose.
00:19:23Yes.
00:19:24She's very efficient.
00:19:25Same type as Mary Ann Carpenter, the trunk motorist.
00:19:30Extraordinary house.
00:19:32Yes, it is indeed.
00:19:34Now, Watson, if you don't mind, I'd like to have a word with your extraordinary patients.
00:19:38Let me remind you, Holmes, that my patients are just, uh, just, uh, patients.
00:19:42Quite so.
00:19:43All normal men, sound in mind and body, no sign of psychoneurosis.
00:19:48I quite understand.
00:19:49Then, Holmes, even, even normal people are sometimes a little...
00:19:55Precisely.
00:19:56Oh, hello, Mac.
00:20:07Eh?
00:20:09Oh, oh, oh, oh, I, I must have taken a wee nap.
00:20:12But, Mac, I want you to meet a very old friend of mine.
00:20:14Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Captain McIntosh.
00:20:15How'd you do?
00:20:16I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.
00:20:18Sorry to have wakened you.
00:20:19Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:20See you later.
00:20:21Yes.
00:20:22Sit down, Mac, and go on with your sleep.
00:20:30Poor chap, he lay wounded in a trench on Joshua Hill.
00:20:33The German tanks went over him.
00:20:37Watson.
00:20:38Huh?
00:20:39Have you any idea how Geoffrey Musk gave him at his death?
00:20:41He has depressed skull fracture.
00:20:43I want to hang it all, Holmes, it isn't.
00:20:45Isn't it? Why not?
00:20:46No edema, no bleeding, no contraction of tissue.
00:20:49Precisely.
00:20:50The blow on the head was delivered after death.
00:20:52Musgrave was killed by a sharp instrument
00:20:54thrust up between the base of the skull and the top vertebra.
00:20:56Great Scott.
00:20:58Shall we go up now?
00:21:06Hello, Langford.
00:21:07Hello there.
00:21:08Been away, haven't you?
00:21:09Haven't you?
00:21:10Yes, I've just been out of London.
00:21:12I brought my friend back.
00:21:13This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Major Langford.
00:21:15See you at dinner, what?
00:21:17What?
00:21:18I hope so.
00:21:19I hope so.
00:21:20I hope so.
00:21:21I hope so.
00:21:22Excuse me.
00:21:23Excuse me.
00:21:25Poor chap was at Singapore.
00:21:27Escaped from a Japanese prison camp.
00:21:29Ghastly experience.
00:21:30He's suffering from...
00:21:31Escape complex, obviously.
00:21:32Yes, he's a...
00:21:33He's a very nice chap, though.
00:21:35The next fellow I want you to meet is young Claywing.
00:21:38Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.
00:21:40Saw a lot of men blown to pits by Nazi booby traps.
00:21:43He's a bit on edge.
00:21:44Not unnaturally.
00:21:51Coming.
00:21:56Well, Dr. Watson.
00:21:57Come in, won't you?
00:21:58Sorry to keep you so long.
00:22:00You see, I...
00:22:02I was lying down.
00:22:04Resting.
00:22:05Here's my friend, Mr. Holmes, who's here for a few days.
00:22:07Mr. Clavering.
00:22:08Glad to meet you.
00:22:09How do you do?
00:22:10Sorry to disturb you.
00:22:11Not at all.
00:22:12I say, you don't have to have some cigarettes about you, do you?
00:22:15That's one of the reasons I came.
00:22:16I brought you some of those American cigarettes that you're so fond of.
00:22:20That's all right.
00:22:21Open it up.
00:22:22No, Harry.
00:22:24No, Harry at all.
00:22:25No, no, no.
00:22:26Of course there isn't.
00:22:27Shall we go?
00:22:28Yes.
00:22:29Well, we must be off.
00:22:30We've got a lot to do.
00:22:31See you later.
00:22:32Yes, I'll be back.
00:22:33Good night.
00:22:37He seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package.
00:22:39Well, he's found him in less likely places than that, poor chap.
00:22:43The man in this room is an American Flying Officer.
00:22:45Captain Vickery.
00:22:46Nothing very much the matter with him.
00:22:47What's he here for, then?
00:22:48A spot of rest.
00:22:49Had to put it on guard.
00:22:50It's worn out.
00:22:51Needs all the rest he can get.
00:22:53Vickery?
00:22:55Vickery?
00:22:56What?
00:22:57It's all seemed to be in.
00:23:02No one at home.
00:23:04Hmm.
00:23:05Can't enough.
00:23:09Not since tea time, at any rate.
00:23:11Well, what's this?
00:23:14Captain Vickery, here's your tea.
00:23:16If it's cold, don't blame me.
00:23:18That sounds like Brunton's work.
00:23:21The butler?
00:23:22He fends himself a poet, but only when he's drinking.
00:23:25I see.
00:23:26Wasn't there an American killer given to verse?
00:23:28Holmes.
00:23:29You don't think that Brunton...
00:23:30Excuse me.
00:23:32I merely stated...
00:23:34It was an American killer given to verse.
00:23:37Dr. Watson.
00:23:38Oh, where are you?
00:23:39Oh, there you are.
00:23:41Steady, my dear. Steady.
00:23:42Please make me wake up, won't you?
00:23:44It's just a bad dream, I know.
00:23:46Jeff and Pat...
00:23:47No, no, no, my dear.
00:23:48You've got to get a grip on yourself.
00:23:49Come on.
00:23:50Come.
00:23:51Come sit down.
00:23:53My brother, Jeff.
00:23:54Murdered.
00:23:56Poor old Jeff.
00:23:59And I haven't spoken to him since we had the fight yesterday on Pat...
00:24:01I mean Captain Vickery's account.
00:24:04And now he's dead.
00:24:05Now, now, my dear.
00:24:06You must...
00:24:07You must pull yourself together.
00:24:08But you don't understand.
00:24:09They're trying to say that Pat...
00:24:13They're trying to prove that Pat killed Jeff.
00:24:15No, no, no.
00:24:16Yes.
00:24:18Funny, isn't it?
00:24:20Awfully funny.
00:24:21Awfully funny.
00:24:22Awfully funny.
00:24:23Awfully funny.
00:24:24Stop it!
00:24:25Who are you?
00:24:26My name is Holmes.
00:24:27Sherlock Holmes?
00:24:28Yes.
00:24:29Then you'll help us, won't you, Mr. Holmes?
00:24:31Pat and me.
00:24:32I'll try to.
00:24:33Now tell me.
00:24:34Wasn't there bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery?
00:24:37That's got nothing to do with it.
00:24:38It may have everything to do with it.
00:24:39If you think Captain Vickery ever murdered anyone,
00:24:41you're no more of a detective than, than, than Dr. Watson.
00:24:44Oh dear.
00:24:45Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:50You're very much in love, aren't you?
00:24:51I'm out of my mind, Mr. Holmes.
00:24:53I'm out of my mind.
00:24:56Oh, please forgive me and please, please help me.
00:24:59Of course, of course.
00:25:00I understand.
00:25:01But you don't understand.
00:25:02That appalling man from Scotland Yard is questioning Pat at this very moment.
00:25:06Now this here rake.
00:25:08It's the identical one you got from the gardener this afternoon.
00:25:10Now, ain't it?
00:25:14Smells like it.
00:25:15Hey, what is this?
00:25:16Are you trying to prove that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake?
00:25:19Now, I'm trying to...
00:25:20Never mind what I'm trying to prove.
00:25:23Just incriminate yourself, Captain Vickery.
00:25:24That's all that Strahd wants.
00:25:25I'll thank you to keep out of this, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:27This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:25:28How do you do?
00:25:29He's promised to help you, dear.
00:25:30There's nothing to worry about now.
00:25:31Only his neck, miss.
00:25:33Now this here rake.
00:25:34What did you say you were using it for?
00:25:36I told you, I got it to fish my cap out of the pond.
00:25:38It blew in.
00:25:39Oh, so you were using it down at the pond, were you?
00:25:42For the tenth time, yes.
00:25:43So now did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body, eh?
00:25:46I don't know.
00:25:47Uh-huh.
00:25:48Well, that's that.
00:25:49Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:50Any fingerprints on the rake, Inspector?
00:25:52No, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:53That's the point.
00:25:54If Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out...
00:25:56Well, no.
00:25:57He wouldn't bother to wipe his fingerprints off, now would he?
00:25:59It's beyond imagination, I suppose, that somebody else could have used the rake and wiped off both sets of fingerprints.
00:26:03Highly interested, but very unlikely.
00:26:05Now you admit, that you had a regular set too with Geoffrey Musgrave yesterday, didn't you?
00:26:09You threatened to bash his head in.
00:26:11I merely made the offer.
00:26:12He didn't accept it.
00:26:13Who told you so?
00:26:14He did.
00:26:15Oh, no.
00:26:16He did.
00:26:17I only stated what I heard.
00:26:18Captain Vickery did threaten my brother.
00:26:20That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:21And it's no good saying it ain't.
00:26:23This Yankee lad had motive and opportunity.
00:26:25And the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse.
00:26:28All right.
00:26:29Come along.
00:26:34Do you really think he killed old Musgrave?
00:26:37You know very well he didn't.
00:26:38He doesn't.
00:26:39Stop clicking those needles.
00:26:40Oh, Pat.
00:26:41Take it easy, Sally.
00:26:42Now look, don't worry a bit.
00:26:44I'll tell you everything's gonna be all right.
00:26:46Let's go, Inspector.
00:26:54Mr. Holmes.
00:26:55Steady.
00:26:56Steady.
00:26:57Aren't you on our side?
00:26:58Yes, Sally.
00:26:59Then why don't you do something?
00:27:00Because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight
00:27:03than he would be in this house.
00:27:05Oh, Mr. Holmes, what am I going to do?
00:27:07Watson, what am I going to do?
00:27:08I'll get it at once.
00:27:09Calm along, Sally.
00:27:12She's a bit upset, but she'll get over it.
00:27:25You think so?
00:27:26She'll have to.
00:27:27She's got an ordeal ahead of her.
00:27:29She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.
00:27:31Ritual?
00:27:33This is an old family ceremony, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:37Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household.
00:27:42Blast this thing.
00:27:45This help?
00:27:46Oh, yes.
00:27:47Thanks.
00:27:48Knitting needle, isn't it?
00:27:50Yes.
00:27:51Handy little things.
00:27:53It says, by air, Sally has to recite a sort of formula over Geoff's body.
00:27:58In front of the fireplace in the library in the presence of the entire household.
00:28:02Well, that's better.
00:28:04Just what sort of formula?
00:28:06Oh, it's not meaningless words.
00:28:08Musgrave ritual, they call it.
00:28:10This old family custom has been handed down for generations.
00:28:13Do you remember the words?
00:28:15No.
00:28:16No, not at all.
00:28:17But you had to speak them when your brother Geoffrey took over.
00:28:19Yes.
00:28:20If that's right, I did.
00:28:22Let me see now.
00:28:24Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:28Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:32The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:36Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:40Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:45The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:50And brings good fortune to Hurston Towers.
00:28:53Where was the light?
00:28:55On the face of the messenger.
00:28:57Where did he speed?
00:28:59To guard the queen's page.
00:29:07What foeman advanced?
00:29:09The bishop's page rashly.
00:29:12And who to repel?
00:29:15The king's cautious page.
00:29:17What then the...
00:29:25Disaster.
00:29:26Queen...
00:29:29Slaughter's...
00:29:31Page.
00:29:32No, no.
00:29:33Sorry, Miss Sally.
00:29:35Page.
00:29:36Slaughter's page.
00:29:38Thank you, Brunton.
00:29:42Who came then to slay him?
00:29:47The bloodthirsty bishop.
00:29:50Where shall he go?
00:29:52Deep down below.
00:29:59Away from the thunder.
00:30:01Let him dig under.
00:30:03Once more unto the breach, dear friends.
00:30:22Once more...
00:30:27Happy day.
00:30:28You drunken son.
00:30:33The master's been ringing you for the past ten minutes.
00:30:35Why don't you answer it?
00:30:37Fly away, little gremlin.
00:30:39You're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches you in this state.
00:30:43Oh, I saw that in.
00:30:44Hurry.
00:30:45Hurry.
00:30:46Coming, sir.
00:30:47Coming.
00:30:48One moment, sir.
00:30:53One moment, sir.
00:31:02Mr. Holmes.
00:31:04Come in, sir.
00:31:05Come in.
00:31:11This is indeed an honor.
00:31:12I don't often have visitors.
00:31:18What can I do for you, sir?
00:31:20Might stop that squeaking to begin with.
00:31:22Yes, sir.
00:31:23And perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.
00:31:27Me, sir?
00:31:28Yes, you.
00:31:29When Miss Sally forgot the lines today, you were the one who prompted her.
00:31:33Well, sir, I memorized it.
00:31:35Obviously.
00:31:36But why?
00:31:37Because it has no meaning.
00:31:40I love things that have no meaning.
00:31:47Thank you, Brunton.
00:31:48But supposing it did have a meaning.
00:31:50And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:31:53Oh, what a lovely idea.
00:31:55If I may see something.
00:31:57You may, Brunton.
00:31:58You may also sit down.
00:32:00Thank you, sir.
00:32:07Oh, stop it.
00:32:11And look at me.
00:32:12No, here.
00:32:14You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:32:16Do I?
00:32:17Well, don't you?
00:32:18You'd be surprised at all the things I know.
00:32:22What things?
00:32:23No, you don't.
00:32:25About the Musgraves?
00:32:26That'd be telling.
00:32:27But here's to them anyway.
00:32:29All the Musgraves, past and present.
00:32:32Some of them were murderers.
00:32:35And some of them worse.
00:32:37But they all knew how to keep a secret.
00:32:39And so do I.
00:32:41Brunton.
00:32:48I've been ringing for you for the past ten minutes.
00:32:51Sorry, sir.
00:32:52But the buzzer doesn't buzz.
00:32:55That'll do, Brunton.
00:32:57You have your notice.
00:32:58Do you understand?
00:32:59Yes, sir.
00:33:00Is that advisable, Mr. Musgrave?
00:33:03Let me be the judge of that.
00:33:04He leaves Helston in the morning.
00:33:05The morning's a long way off.
00:33:09Farewell.
00:33:10A long farewell.
00:33:13To all my greatness.
00:33:15You've done it now, Alf Brunton.
00:33:17After all we've been through.
00:33:19How am I managed to do it all alone?
00:33:22What are you going to do?
00:33:25What am I going to do?
00:33:27I did too.
00:33:57Thirteen, again.
00:34:12Yes.
00:34:27You see, Howl's attitude confuses me, Watson.
00:34:37She swears that she hasn't said eyes on Brunton since last night,
00:34:40and yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him.
00:34:42Quite so. She knows where he is as well as we do.
00:34:44I mean, as well as we don't.
00:34:45I wonder.
00:34:46You said that he was drinking last night.
00:34:48Wouldn't it be a good idea to try the pub?
00:34:50That's exactly where we're headed for, Watson.
00:34:52I'm glad we thought of this, even if we don't find Brunton.
00:34:55I was afraid we shouldn't find him here.
00:35:00Don't worry, old boy. I can do with a drink.
00:35:02Your information, so could I.
00:35:05Gentlemen.
00:35:06Hello, Doctor. Not looking for us, are you? Are you?
00:35:09Well, no. As a matter of fact, we're looking for...
00:35:12Brunton. You haven't seen him, have you?
00:35:14Have we, Clavering?
00:35:16Have we?
00:35:17Why should we?
00:35:19Morning, Gracie.
00:35:20Morning, Doctor. What do you have?
00:35:22A bottle of bass and what's yours?
00:35:23A pint of bitter, please. A pint of bitter.
00:35:27I'm a devil. I'm a devil.
00:35:29Oh, really?
00:35:31Hello, a tame raven.
00:35:33You're a devil, are you? A kettle, are you?
00:35:36I'm a devil. I'm a devil.
00:35:38Birds of prey, aren't they?
00:35:40Yes, in a way. Scavengers, rather.
00:35:42They can smell a carcass half a mile off.
00:35:44Yeah, that they can and all.
00:35:46You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.
00:35:49Shall we go and sit down?
00:36:12Gracie, have you seen Doctor Watson?
00:36:13He's over there, lass.
00:36:18May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes?
00:36:20What's wrong, Sally?
00:36:21We can't find my brother Philip.
00:36:22Did you look in his room?
00:36:23That's the trouble. We had to force the door. It was locked on the inside.
00:36:25Really?
00:36:26Yes. Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.
00:36:28Certainly, Sally, at once.
00:36:34Do be quick. Something ghastly has happened. I know it.
00:36:37Oh, that dreadful bird. Please slide it away.
00:36:39Watson.
00:36:41Take it away.
00:36:42Away, where is he?
00:36:43Anywhere. Into the pub. Let's take it away.
00:36:49Gosh.
00:36:55Philip Mousgrave.
00:37:03What are they doing now?
00:37:05Doing now?
00:37:06I don't know. They've stopped talking.
00:37:10Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.
00:37:13Heavy footsteps.
00:37:22There's no doubt about it, Watson.
00:37:24Philip Mousgrave had a visitor here last night.
00:37:27These footprints were made either by a very heavy man or a man carrying a very heavy burden.
00:37:30That's right, Mr. Holmes. It's no good saying it ain't.
00:37:33The burden was Philip Mousgrave's body, and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brunton.
00:37:38It doesn't necessarily follow.
00:37:39Oh, don't it?
00:37:44Here. Try that on your footprint.
00:37:46And that's Alfred Brunton's shoe.
00:37:47It's perfectly, Inspector.
00:37:48Uh-huh.
00:37:49But the fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.
00:37:52Why not? Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?
00:37:54Well, they're not in them now, are they?
00:37:55Look here, Holmes. Let's use our intellect.
00:37:56You what?
00:37:57What's wrong with that?
00:37:58Let's stick to motive. That's my strong point now. This here Brunton had motive.
00:38:01Philip Mousgrave gave him the sack, didn't he?
00:38:02Did Geoffrey Musgrave also give him the sack?
00:38:03What's that got to do with it?
00:38:04Everything.
00:38:05The similarity of method in both murders shows they were the work of one man.
00:38:08Well, that left Vickrey out. He was in jail at the time of this murder.
00:38:10All right, Brunton, all right.
00:38:11Then Alfred Brunton's our man, just what I'm going to do with it.
00:38:13The fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.
00:38:15Why not? Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?
00:38:17Well, they're not in them now, are they?
00:38:18The similarity of method in both murders shows they were the work of one man.
00:38:21Well, that left Vickrey out. He was in jail at the time of this murder.
00:38:24All right, Brunton, all right.
00:38:25Then Alfred Brunton's our man, just what I said.
00:38:27What possible motive could Brunton have had for the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave?
00:38:30Motive? Oh, bother motive. Who cares about motive? This case is as simple as ABC.
00:38:34Is it?
00:38:35Then perhaps you could explain to us why these footprints lead up to a blank wall and never return.
00:38:40What? You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?
00:38:43There's just one possible explanation.
00:38:44I've got it.
00:38:45Brunton murdered Musgrave right up against the wall.
00:38:50He hoisted the body over his shoulder like this, you see.
00:38:53Walks backwards, clean out of the room.
00:38:58That's a very undignified position, Lestrade.
00:39:00Up's a day, is it?
00:39:03In a house as old as this, it's not unusual to find secret passageways that lead down through the walls.
00:39:08Hello, here we are.
00:39:10No, you don't. Come out of there.
00:39:15What are you doing in there?
00:39:18None of your business.
00:39:19Answer me.
00:39:20Obviously, she was looking for Brunton.
00:39:21That's right.
00:39:22He hasn't left Musgrave Manor, I'm certain of that, sir.
00:39:23His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.
00:39:24Don't you lie to me, woman.
00:39:25You've got him in there somewhere.
00:39:26Don't go in there.
00:39:27Why not?
00:39:28You'll get lost.
00:39:29Me lost?
00:39:30Oh, I like that.
00:39:31He will get lost, sir.
00:39:32Let him.
00:39:33Now listen to me.
00:39:34Where did you enter that passageway?
00:39:35Through the old greenhouse in Limehawk, sir.
00:39:36Did Brunton know that?
00:39:37No, he didn't.
00:39:38Mrs. Brunton.
00:39:39Then why were you looking for him in there?
00:39:40We...
00:39:41I...
00:39:42Yes, we've known all along that you were married to Brunton.
00:39:43You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?
00:39:44No.
00:39:45Yes, you do.
00:39:46And you think Brunton did it?
00:39:47No.
00:39:48You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?
00:39:49No, no.
00:39:50Over to the garage?
00:39:51No, he never.
00:39:52No, he never.
00:39:53And crammed his body in the rumble seat of that roadster.
00:39:54Don't you try and put the blame on out.
00:39:55I'll put the blame on both of you.
00:39:56You're in this together.
00:39:57You were in his room last night.
00:39:58I saw you there.
00:39:59Only to talk about the ritual, sir.
00:40:00He...
00:40:01We...
00:40:02He thought that he'd got it all worked out.
00:40:03Did he leave any notes, any record?
00:40:04No.
00:40:05That is...
00:40:06Oh, come on, come on out with it.
00:40:07Oh, come on, come on out with it.
00:40:08Oh, come on, come on out with it.
00:40:09Oh, come on, come on out with it.
00:40:10Yes, sir.
00:40:11No, sir.
00:40:12No, sir.
00:40:13No, sir.
00:40:14No, sir.
00:40:15No, sir.
00:40:16No, sir.
00:40:17I found it this morning under the soap dish on his watch stand.
00:40:20Hmm.
00:40:21He's still written.
00:40:22Another jingle?
00:40:23Yes.
00:40:24Obviously in some agitation.
00:40:25If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual,
00:40:28seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual.
00:40:30The old ritual.
00:40:31There it is again.
00:40:32Watson, we've got to find that ritual.
00:40:33It's the key to the whole business.
00:40:34Just a minute.
00:40:35You can't talk to Sally.
00:40:36Why not?
00:40:37She was in such a state I had to give her a hug.
00:40:38I had to give her a hug.
00:40:39I had to give her a hug.
00:40:40I had to give her a hug.
00:40:41I had to give her a hug.
00:40:42I had to give her a hug.
00:40:43I had to give her a hug.
00:40:44I had to give her a hug.
00:40:45Why not?
00:40:46She was in such a state I had to give her a hug.
00:40:47All right.
00:40:48Come along.
00:40:53Draw the curtains, Watson.
00:40:58There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.
00:41:00She had to learn it, you know.
00:41:01Yes, you're right.
00:41:03Here it is.
00:41:04I doubt it.
00:41:06Empty.
00:41:07Quite.
00:41:08There's only one thing to do.
00:41:09Search the room.
00:41:10Not the room, Watson.
00:41:11Her mind.
00:41:12We must search her mind.
00:41:14Obviously, she took great pains to hide that paper.
00:41:16But why should she hide it?
00:41:18Put yourself in her place.
00:41:19Her brother, Jeffrey, was murdered.
00:41:21The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.
00:41:24On top of that, she finds her brother, Philip, murdered.
00:41:27What would your reactions be?
00:41:28Well, naturally, I should be terribly upset.
00:41:30Obviously.
00:41:31Excuse me.
00:41:32She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on Hysteria.
00:41:35She comes through that door, goes to that desk, throws down her gloves.
00:41:39The first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.
00:41:42In her mind, it's tied up with all the disasters that have befallen Halston.
00:41:46She herself may be the next victim.
00:41:48She must hide that paper.
00:41:49Quite right.
00:41:50But where?
00:41:51Excuse me, sir.
00:41:56Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?
00:41:59Certainly not.
00:42:00Nora was here.
00:42:01She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.
00:42:03Good.
00:42:04Nora.
00:42:05Yes, sir?
00:42:06When you were alone with Miss Sally, what was the first thing she did?
00:42:09Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her nightdress.
00:42:12What was she doing in the meantime?
00:42:14Let me think, sir.
00:42:16Oh, yes.
00:42:17She went over to her desk.
00:42:18That was when she took the ritual from this envelope.
00:42:20What then, Nora?
00:42:21Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.
00:42:24Why, someone's pulled them open.
00:42:26Yes, I know.
00:42:27When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?
00:42:28Sure.
00:42:29And it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.
00:42:30Long enough.
00:42:32When you were at the window, where was she?
00:42:34She was sitting over here.
00:42:36Sitting right here.
00:42:38Taking off her stockings.
00:42:40Oh, but she never left the chair.
00:42:42I'll kiss the book on it.
00:42:43I've got it.
00:42:44She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.
00:42:47Oh.
00:42:48She must have changed her mind.
00:42:50Obviously.
00:42:51Well, sir.
00:42:52Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.
00:43:00What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?
00:43:02From the fence, sir, dear.
00:43:03The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.
00:43:05I definitely heard it.
00:43:06This clock?
00:43:07The same, sir.
00:43:08Thank you, Nora.
00:43:09You may go.
00:43:10Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.
00:43:12Just as obviously, it stopped at 12.20.
00:43:15Hmm?
00:43:16When Nora turned her back, Sally reached across, opened the clock,
00:43:21and hid the ritual in here.
00:43:23Amazing hope.
00:43:24Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:43:25Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?
00:43:33Where did he speed?
00:43:36To guard the Queen's page.
00:43:39Gibberish, that's what it is.
00:43:41Hokey pokey, plenty of lump.
00:43:42Thing like this Watson that's been handed down for centuries
00:43:44can't be mere gibberish.
00:43:45Who had entered the lists?
00:43:47The King's Pale Knight.
00:43:48Pale poppycock.
00:43:49I say Watson.
00:43:50King, Queen, Knight, Bishop.
00:43:51Sounds like he gave a chest to me.
00:43:52Precisely.
00:43:53Where fell the light?
00:43:54The light, Watson.
00:43:55Follow the light.
00:43:57Follow the light.
00:43:58On the face of the messenger.
00:43:59Look at it, Watson.
00:44:00Look at it.
00:44:01Like a giant chess board.
00:44:02This is no gibberish.
00:44:03These are chess terms, and that's the chess board.
00:44:04The secret of the Musgrave murders is locked up in that floor.
00:44:05And by Jove, we've got the key to it.
00:44:06Who had entered the lists the King's Pale Knight.
00:44:13White King's Knight after White King's Bishop
00:44:14Three!
00:44:29And you don't know who does it.
00:44:31Comes in retrou attributed him to the Misskrancy
00:44:34King's Knight to White King's Bishop Three.
00:44:37Your move, Dr. Saxton.
00:44:39I really know nothing about the game.
00:44:40Come on, Bob, it's great fun.
00:44:42You start from over here.
00:44:43Here, I'll show you.
00:44:45I'll show you.
00:44:50One, two, three, one.
00:44:58Page into Black King Three.
00:45:01Your move, Clavering, into Black King Three, please.
00:45:02Over there.
00:45:03There's not to reason why.
00:45:13Page slaughters page.
00:45:18Your move, Watson.
00:45:20I take you, my dear.
00:45:21It's a good game, isn't it?
00:45:28Stop it, stop it.
00:45:29You mustn't giggle.
00:45:31You must be serious.
00:45:33I'll show you.
00:45:37Your move, Clavering.
00:45:38You take Dr. Watson.
00:45:39Too bad, Doctor.
00:45:45Who came then to slay him?
00:45:47The bloodthirsty Bishop.
00:45:51White Queen's Bishop.
00:45:52White King's Knight Five.
00:45:54That's my move.
00:45:55One, two.
00:46:06I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?
00:46:08Did I?
00:46:09I don't think so.
00:46:10Yes, I'm afraid you did.
00:46:11Well, where was I?
00:46:12King Bishop Three?
00:46:13That's right.
00:46:14Oh, yes, of course.
00:46:15So sorry.
00:46:19Three, four, five.
00:46:21Captain, it looks bad for you.
00:46:23Aye, but where shall I go?
00:46:27Where shall he go?
00:46:29Deep down below.
00:46:32Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?
00:46:35Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.
00:46:38The entrance goes down behind that stair.
00:46:41But it's been locked up for centuries.
00:46:44One of the old musgraves murdered his own brother down there.
00:46:48Shh, listen.
00:46:52Hello, what's that?
00:46:55It's Brunton.
00:46:56Alf, Alf.
00:46:58He's in that passageway over the fireplace.
00:47:01Are you there, Brunton?
00:47:03Get me out.
00:47:04It's me, Lestrade.
00:47:06I'm lost.
00:47:08I'm all turned around.
00:47:10You have been for years.
00:47:12Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells,
00:47:13and give him a saucer of milk.
00:47:15Come here, Jenny.
00:47:16Stand on the square for me.
00:47:18And stamp on it.
00:47:19Keep stamping.
00:47:20Clavering, get your sound detector.
00:47:21Gentlemen, deep down below.
00:47:40Look, there's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.
00:47:46Someone's been here.
00:47:48And in the last 24 hours.
00:47:50Yeah.
00:47:51Clean as a new pin.
00:47:52Precisely.
00:47:53The dust of 200 years is on the walls.
00:47:55The floor's been swept clean.
00:47:57Obviously, in an attempt to remove footprints.
00:47:59Shh.
00:48:01Listen.
00:48:02That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.
00:48:10Clavering.
00:48:13Let me have your sound detector.
00:48:20Sir, sorry.
00:48:21You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.
00:48:39Don't move, anyone.
00:48:40Someone's moving about.
00:48:52Interfering with what I'm trying to do.
00:48:57Stand perfectly still, everybody.
00:49:10This is the spot.
00:49:23Let me hand.
00:49:24Of course.
00:49:26Here, sir.
00:49:27I'll take it.
00:49:28Oh, thank you.
00:49:29It's all right.
00:49:30It's all right.
00:49:31It's all right, sir.
00:49:32How's it?
00:49:33Where's this way?
00:49:34Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave.
00:49:38Knight.
00:49:39Lord of the manors of Holston.
00:49:41This place used to be known as Holston Towers.
00:49:44Netherfield and King's Hargrave.
00:49:47Anno Domini, 1539.
00:49:49What we're looking for is underneath here.
00:49:51That's what the ritual meant by deep down below.
00:49:53It's a burial crypt.
00:49:54Up with it.
00:49:55Up with it.
00:50:07I say, there's somebody down there.
00:50:08Who is it?
00:50:09Is it Brenton?
00:50:10Is it Brenton?
00:50:11I don't know.
00:50:12Stay where you are.
00:50:25Who is it, Holmes?
00:50:26It's Brenton, all right.
00:50:27Is he dead?
00:50:28Yes.
00:50:29He's been dead for hours.
00:50:30Murdered.
00:50:31Hello.
00:50:32What's this?
00:50:33Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.
00:50:40What have you found?
00:50:52Any clue?
00:50:53Any clue?
00:50:54Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain,
00:50:58France and Ireland, defender of the faith.
00:51:02What have you found?
00:51:04Any clue? Any clue?
00:51:08Uh, no.
00:51:14Just an old document.
00:51:18Hello. What's this?
00:51:24Looks like some sort of writing. Watson!
00:51:26Coming!
00:51:30Hold this for me, will you? Steady.
00:51:32There, on the floor, by his right hand.
00:51:34See those marks in the dust?
00:51:36Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.
00:51:42Yes. Yes.
00:51:44See that stuff under his nail?
00:51:46He's trying to write something. By Jove!
00:51:48He did write something!
00:51:50What is it?
00:51:52Why? Tell us, ma'am.
00:51:54What did he write?
00:51:56I can't make it out. It's too faint.
00:52:00Here, I've got good eyes. Let me...
00:52:02Let me...
00:52:03Just take me a while, all of you.
00:52:10These marks...
00:52:12must not be erased.
00:52:14What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:52:16I'm going to leave this just as it is,
00:52:18until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the words.
00:52:21Have you no notion of what he tried to write?
00:52:24Yes, I have.
00:52:26I think that Brunton, with his last strength,
00:52:28wrote the name of his murderer on that floor
00:52:32in his own blood.
00:52:34Oh, there you are, Lestrade.
00:52:35Hmm.
00:52:36Twelve o'clock.
00:52:37I was just saying, Lestrade,
00:52:39that I should get into Newcastle,
00:52:40pick up my chemicals,
00:52:41and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.
00:52:42Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.
00:52:43Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.
00:52:44Watson.
00:52:45Yes.
00:52:46Yes.
00:52:47You'll guard this door with your life.
00:52:48Of course.
00:52:49With my what?
00:52:50I said, with your life.
00:52:51Anything you say, Holmes.
00:52:52There's no entrance to this cellar,
00:52:53except through that doorway.
00:52:54Oh, look.
00:52:55There you are.
00:52:56Oh, there you are, Lestrade.
00:52:57Hmm.
00:52:58Twelve o'clock.
00:52:59I was just saying, Lestrade,
00:53:00that I should get into Newcastle,
00:53:01pick up my chemicals,
00:53:02and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.
00:53:04Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:05Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.
00:53:06Watson.
00:53:07Yes.
00:53:08You'll guard this door with your life.
00:53:12Of course, but...
00:53:13With my what?
00:53:14I said, with your life.
00:53:15Anything you say, Holmes?
00:53:16There's no entrance to this cellar,
00:53:17except through that doorway.
00:53:21But Holmes, what I feel about...
00:53:23Oh.
00:53:24Brunton's murderer is in this house.
00:53:25He's bound to make one last effort
00:53:26to get down there to erase those marks.
00:53:28Naturally.
00:53:29The Stradgemen are posted outside,
00:53:30and they'll see to it that nobody leaves this house.
00:53:32Concentration camp.
00:53:33My men have orders to shoot, if necessary.
00:53:35I'll be outside myself, keeping watch.
00:53:37Good.
00:53:38Sexton, your post will be at Miss Sally's door,
00:53:39and remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.
00:53:41Don't worry, I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:43Good night.
00:53:44Good night, Holmes.
00:53:45Good night.
00:53:46Good luck.
00:53:47Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing out.
00:53:49I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer
00:53:50if I had a gun on me.
00:53:51Hm.
00:53:52I always keep mine ready.
00:54:00Oh, good night, Bob.
00:54:01Keep awake, old man.
00:54:02I will.
00:54:13This fellow.
00:54:24That's funny.
00:54:25Striking twelve again.
00:54:43I'm going to go to New York for a few times.
00:54:44I'll go off.
00:54:45I'll go off.
00:54:46I'll go off.
00:54:47I'll be in it.
00:54:48You're not leaving me.
00:54:49You're looking for a few times.
00:54:50And we'll be in it.
00:54:51That way, I'll be in it.
00:54:52I'm full of sortir.
00:54:53That way isn't going off yet.
00:54:54Everything is working.
00:54:55I'm going off.
00:54:56I'm going off to you.
00:54:57You're not going off.
00:54:58I'm coming off.
00:55:00It's all right.
00:55:01It's all right.
00:55:02It's all right.
00:55:04There's nothing left.
00:55:05Let's go off.
00:55:06I'll see.
00:55:07You are a man.
00:55:08I'll see you.
00:55:09What's that?
00:55:16Let me out of here, you hear?
00:55:19Let me out of here.
00:55:24Someone blocked this door.
00:55:27Let me out of here.
00:55:30Someone blocked this door.
00:55:32Let me out of here.
00:55:35Someone blocked this door.
00:55:38What on earth is all this monkey business?
00:55:48I didn't lock you in.
00:55:49Doors don't lock themselves.
00:55:50They do in this house.
00:55:51What are you doing down here anywhere?
00:55:53I'm worried it's about Langford.
00:55:54Langford?
00:55:55Yes, he's got into his head that this is a Jap prison camp.
00:55:57He's got that filthy rope and he's bound and determined to go out the window.
00:56:00He can't do that.
00:56:01This crowd's men will shoot him.
00:56:03He may be out already.
00:56:05I'll head him off.
00:56:06Then again, he may not be.
00:56:08Perhaps you're right.
00:56:09Let me go.
00:56:10No, no, no.
00:56:11You'll be shot.
00:56:12I'll go.
00:56:13No, you'll be shot.
00:56:14Oh, really?
00:56:15Let's both go.
00:56:17I can't leave here.
00:56:19You stay where you are.
00:56:21I'll go and call Estrada.
00:56:23Remember, Clavering, stay where you are.
00:56:38Here.
00:56:39Look here, Councilor.
00:56:40I'm Dr. Watson.
00:56:41Are you now?
00:56:43Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.
00:56:46Come along to the inspector.
00:56:48Gross impertinent.
00:56:49Useless, quite useless, I assure you.
00:56:53There's nothing written on the floor.
00:57:23It was just a ruse of mine to bring Grunton's murderer here.
00:57:28Permit me.
00:57:29As the most ruthless killer in England, you deserve some of the light.
00:57:32Killer? I?
00:57:34Oh, I say, you seem to forget that my life was also attempted.
00:57:37And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.
00:57:40But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves
00:57:43with such a sure hand should have missed so badly in your case.
00:57:48Unless, of course, you yourself were the murderer.
00:57:51Oh, but that's ridiculous.
00:57:54Then, too, it seemed curious that you were doctor,
00:58:00examined both bodies,
00:58:02and failed to report the real cause of death.
00:58:05And that was?
00:58:06A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain
00:58:09between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebra.
00:58:11I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle
00:58:14from Philip Musgrave's head.
00:58:16It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?
00:58:19I never owned one.
00:58:20Oh, yes, you did.
00:58:22I saw it in your case.
00:58:25The night I came into this house.
00:58:28Just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.
00:58:31It wasn't broken then.
00:58:34It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave
00:58:35that you lost a piece of it.
00:58:36Oh, nonsense.
00:58:37Why should I go around sticking needles into people?
00:58:39Fair enough question, doctor.
00:58:42Among nice people,
00:58:43murder, like matrimony, generally has a motive.
00:58:45And in this case, the motive was matrimony.
00:58:49Oh, you mean Miss Sally?
00:58:50I do.
00:58:52Oh, I see.
00:58:52So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?
00:58:54Precisely.
00:58:55My dear Holmes, that won't do.
00:58:57The Musgrave's a land poor, but everybody knows that.
00:58:59Exactly.
00:59:01But everybody didn't know what you knew.
00:59:03You've worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:59:07I have?
00:59:08Oh, yes.
00:59:10You have.
00:59:11You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.
00:59:15When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,
00:59:18you promptly named King's Bishop Three
00:59:20and what's more, moved back onto it.
00:59:22Oh, nonsense.
00:59:23Why should I have stepped out of my square the first place?
00:59:24Break up my moves, spoil my game,
00:59:26and prevent me from finding what you had already found.
00:59:29And that was?
00:59:30The old land grant I took from Miss Box,
00:59:33which would have made Sally Musgrave
00:59:34upon the death of her brothers
00:59:35the richest woman in England.
00:59:41Well, what's that?
00:59:42Don't tell me you've found another needle.
00:59:46No, no.
00:59:48Just a button.
00:59:51Wouldn't be yours, would it?
00:59:53Mine?
00:59:55Give it to me.
01:00:06Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?
01:00:09No, not at all.
01:00:10As I see it,
01:00:12you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room,
01:00:14carried his body down through the secret passageway,
01:00:17out through the greenhouse,
01:00:18into the garage,
01:00:19where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.
01:00:21But unfortunately for you,
01:00:24you had a witness.
01:00:26Brunton was there,
01:00:28sleeping off his drunk,
01:00:31nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.
01:00:34Brunton became your accessory.
01:00:36But you didn't want an accessory,
01:00:38so you lured him down here with the promise
01:00:40to share the Musgrave treasure with him
01:00:43and exit Brunton.
01:00:48Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.
01:00:50You seem to have everything,
01:00:52except perhaps the negligible item of proof.
01:00:54Suppose we leave that to the jury.
01:00:56Suppose we do.
01:00:58Shall we go?
01:00:59After you.
01:01:00Oh, by the way,
01:01:03don't forget your torch.
01:01:06Oh, thanks.
01:01:10I don't suppose it occurred to you
01:01:12that you were taking a bit of a chance
01:01:14coming down here all alone
01:01:15with a suspected murderer?
01:01:18One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.
01:01:20You see, I couldn't possibly risk
01:01:22sharing my little plot with anybody.
01:01:24Not even with Dr. Watson.
01:01:25Particularly not with Dr. Watson.
01:01:27If he'd known what was up tonight,
01:01:28he'd have been so elaborately mysterious
01:01:29he'd have given the whole show away.
01:01:31As a matter of fact,
01:01:32I had the devil's own time
01:01:32luring him away from that door upstairs
01:01:34so that we could be alone.
01:01:37That's all I wanted to know.
01:01:46Oh.
01:01:50Oh.
01:01:50Oh.
01:01:51Oh.
01:01:51Oh.
01:01:52Oh.
01:01:52Oh.
01:01:53Oh.
01:01:54Oh.
01:02:23Oh.
01:02:23Stay where you are.
01:02:24I'm afraid I have no choice, Dr. Sexton.
01:02:30Look here.
01:02:32You're not really going to kill me, are you?
01:02:36They'll hear you.
01:02:37Who will?
01:02:39That was a bad slip you made
01:02:40letting me know you were so completely alone.
01:02:44And you're really going to kill me?
01:02:45I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:47I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:52But as you said,
01:02:53I've no evidence against you.
01:02:56No proof, no proof at all.
01:02:58You forget the needle
01:02:59and the button.
01:03:02Bring them here, please.
01:03:03And I'll do it.
01:03:04Yes.
01:03:16Not too close.
01:03:20Now put them in my pocket.
01:03:26Curious about that button.
01:03:29It is off my coat, of course.
01:03:31Can't think how I never missed it.
01:03:34Poor old Brunton.
01:03:36He didn't struggle much.
01:03:38Now, Phil Musgrave was different.
01:03:40The needle broke off and I didn't have time to probe for it.
01:03:43But you've got both of them now.
01:03:45The button and the needle. Why kill me?
01:03:48Now, step back. Just a bit.
01:03:54Against the wall.
01:03:59Now, if you stand perfectly still,
01:04:01I think I can manage this with one shot.
01:04:18Put him up.
01:04:33Did you hear his confession, Watson?
01:04:35Every word, Holmes. And I heard all the rest, sir.
01:04:38Good. Let me congratulate you on an extraordinary catch.
01:04:42That's right, Mr. Holmes. It's no good saying, it ain't.
01:04:44I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes. Pity.
01:04:47Yes.
01:04:48Those blank cartridges were a cheap sort of trick, I grant you.
01:04:51But it wasn't easy to let you take my gun away from me
01:04:53without seeming to hand it to you.
01:04:55That's why I let you take the torch first.
01:04:57I knew you'd snap it off.
01:04:59Yes, we told you we were taking an awful risk.
01:05:01Well, we had to have a confession.
01:05:03And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty
01:05:05when they feel they have the upper hand.
01:05:07Shall we go?
01:05:11I can't make head nor tail of it. Can you pass?
01:05:13Well, it looks like an old land grant.
01:05:17It's really a crown grant.
01:05:18What I don't understand is why the Musgraves
01:05:20didn't claim the land ages ago.
01:05:22Obviously, Watson, one of them died before passing
01:05:24on the meaning of the ritual to his heir.
01:05:26The words remained, but the sense was lost.
01:05:28I wonder why he left the grant down there where he found it.
01:05:30What good would it have done him?
01:05:32So long as your brothers lived.
01:05:34Once they were out of the way
01:05:35and you came into the property,
01:05:36he expected to marry you.
01:05:37I like that.
01:05:39Whatever made him think...
01:05:40He thought himself irresistible.
01:05:41Precisely.
01:05:42It's not unheard of in cases of egomania.
01:05:44I suppose then he meant to rediscover the crown grant.
01:05:47At the proper time, yes.
01:05:48And then enjoy his wife's millions.
01:05:50Did you say millions?
01:05:51I did.
01:05:52Look here.
01:05:58About 80,000 acres of the richest soil in England.
01:06:01But aren't there people on it?
01:06:02Yes.
01:06:03Farms, villages, even a factory town.
01:06:05With hundreds of workmen's cottages.
01:06:06Is this thing legal?
01:06:07Perfectly.
01:06:08Of course, it'll drag on through the courts.
01:06:09Just a moment.
01:06:10The people on this land.
01:06:12They've put their money into it.
01:06:14Their life work.
01:06:15It's their homes I'll be taking.
01:06:17Yes.
01:06:18Do you think I'm going to kick these people out?
01:06:20Well, just the same, Holmes, you let poor little Sally throw away a fortune.
01:06:38My dear fellow, I had nothing to do with it.
01:06:40The girl, more power to her, acted on her own.
01:06:42Grand gesture, one she may regret.
01:06:44I don't think so, Watson.
01:06:45There's a new spirit abroad in the land.
01:06:48The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.
01:06:51We're beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow.
01:06:53Not just what we're compelled to give him.
01:06:55The time's coming, Watson,
01:06:56when we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort
01:06:58while other folk go hungry.
01:06:59Or sleep in warm beds
01:07:00while others shiver in the cold.
01:07:02When we shan't be able to kneel
01:07:03and thank God for blessings before our shining altars.
01:07:05While men anywhere
01:07:06are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.
01:07:09You may be right, Holmes.
01:07:10I...
01:07:11I...
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01:07:24You may be right, Holmes.
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01:07:26I hope you are.
01:07:27And God willing,
01:07:28we'll live to see that day, Watson.
01:07:54God willing,
01:08:02you may be right.
01:08:13Seven Men Gardens,
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