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00:00:00The End
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00:01:30else are in Llewellyn. Four. Would you be told we've only got as far as Llewellyn? I've got two fingers.
00:01:36Now, Mr. Pittman, ever fast you out, I'm blowed if I know. Inspector Blob. Inspector Blob,
00:01:41no. Then, throwing caution to the winds, I leapt on him single-handed. Single-handed? Well, go on.
00:01:50You know how to spell single-handed, don't you? Yes, but you weren't single-handed, Chief. I was
00:01:54with you. Well, it's as good as being single-handed. Yes, but it was me that leapt on him from behind.
00:02:00Look here. Whose life story is this? Well, yours, Chief. I mean, fair's fair. After all,
00:02:06I've given you the best years of my life, and the only time you've mentioned me up to page 298 was
00:02:10that time when the bulldog tore a piece out of my trousers. Well, that showed your true advantage,
00:02:14didn't it? Anyway, will this satisfy you? Ten minutes later, help arrived in the shape of
00:02:19Sergeant Bingham, and the Saffron gang was finally rounded up. Thanks, Chief. Not that you did make
00:02:24any difference. Well, now we come to the last chapter. We'll leave that blank for the moment,
00:02:29but we'll hit it. The fifth column. The fifth column? That's what I said. But you haven't
00:02:35had anything to do with the fifth column? No, but I'm going to. Listen to this. The
00:02:41Minister of Home Security today assured the government that the best brains in Scotland
00:02:45Yard will shortly be engaged to combat the menace of the fifth column in this country.
00:02:49Here, my boy, Inspector Hornley's next case. Yes, but it hasn't even mentioned it, Chief.
00:02:54No, but it says the best brains, and that narrows it down. Let's see, there's Jenkins in
00:02:59Yorkshire, Brown in Ireland. That leaves... Morning, Inspector Blue. Good morning. Still
00:03:06working on the life story for tidbits, I see? I thought of a good title for it yesterday.
00:03:11Oh? Yes. Wapping Tales of the Yard.
00:03:14I'll treat that remark with the contempt it deserves. Anything else, Chief? No. There's
00:03:21an unsympathetic influence in the room. Well, I'll just head up the new fifth column chapter
00:03:24and then I'll leave it at that, eh? Fifth column? How does fifth column figure in the
00:03:30fairy tales? Well, it hasn't yet, but it's going to, eh?
00:03:35Oh, and who said you were going to be assigned to the fifth column case? A little dicky bird.
00:03:40Oh, I should bring that little dicky bird's neck if I were you, because he's singing the
00:03:43wrong tune. I suppose you think you're going to get the job, eh? Never mind, Hornley. Anyway,
00:03:48how could they waste a man like you on a job like that? Why not? Well, who's going to take
00:03:53care of the bottle parties? Well, I'll try to clean those up, you know that? Yeah, with
00:03:57the exception of the one where Bingham goes every night. Well, he hasn't found any evidence
00:04:01yet? No, but he's found a nice little fan dancer. Ooh. Is that right? No, it's not. Inspector
00:04:10Hornley. Huh? The commissioner, aren't you? Oh? He's got half the army high command with him.
00:04:16Has he, though? Oh. Well, I shouldn't worry, blow old man. You'll have plenty of time to spare.
00:04:23I'll hand over that little joint for you to clean up. And if you talk to Bingham nicely,
00:04:27he might give you her phone number. Oh, Bingham. Sir? You can leave in that bit about the fifth
00:04:33column. Right here, Chief.
00:04:34The fact is, this petty scrounging has reached such proportions that it's costing the army
00:04:41thousands a year. What we've got to do is to set an example. If we can catch one or two
00:04:45other culprits, it'll have a salutary effect on the others.
00:04:49Now.
00:04:51Who's that for me, sir?
00:04:53Brigadier Lloyd, Major Harvey of the War Office, Inspector Hornley.
00:04:55How do you do, gentlemen?
00:04:57I've got a rather unusual case for you, Hornley. The War Office is concerned over certain
00:05:01army activities which are proving rather more widespread than we imagine. Now, what we
00:05:05thought... I think I know what you mean, sir.
00:05:07Oh? Well, one reads the papers.
00:05:10The papers only touch on the fringe of it, I'm afraid.
00:05:12Quite. But a detective can read between the lanes.
00:05:15I'm glad you appreciate this importance. As I was telling the Commissioner, this is not
00:05:18just a case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
00:05:21Eh?
00:05:21This sort of thing's going on in camps all over the country, you know.
00:05:24I beg your pardon?
00:05:25These depredations from army stores.
00:05:27Depred...
00:05:27Scrounging, Hornley.
00:05:30Scrounging? But you've been to say this has nothing to do with the fifth column.
00:05:33Fifth column? Whatever put that into your head? Inspector Blow was assigned to that case
00:05:38last week.
00:05:38Blow?
00:05:39As an ex-officer, it shouldn't be difficult for you to get into the run of things again.
00:05:42Are you listening, Hornley? The idea is that you should join the army.
00:05:47What, me?
00:05:48Yes.
00:05:49What, at my age? After all my years of...
00:05:51Temporarily, of course. We'll do our best to see you're comfortable.
00:05:54Well, it's more than I was last time. Still, if you're offering me a commission...
00:05:57I'm afraid that is hardly the idea. By joining the ranks and mixing with the men, you'll have
00:06:03a better chance of contacting the offenders.
00:06:05The ranks?
00:06:07It's true.
00:06:19Come on, come on. Step out. What's the matter with you?
00:06:22Tired out.
00:06:23Well, we're all tired out. We're not grumbling about it?
00:06:25I've been carrying these things for the last six miles. By the time there was a changeover.
00:06:31All right. We'll have a changeover.
00:06:33Eh?
00:06:34Put the gun on your right shoulder. That'll leave your left hand free to carry the other stuff.
00:06:39I'm going to resign.
00:06:40You're not. You've been put on this job, and you're going to stick it out.
00:06:45So what have we done on the case?
00:06:46We've been ten days here, marching, drilling, and doubling.
00:06:49And all good to show for these blistered fields and fallen arches.
00:06:52Well, you'll have to prop up your arches, my lad. It's Kenda Hard Day tomorrow.
00:06:58It's Kenda Hard Day.
00:06:59A field day. A 12-mile march with full pack.
00:07:03Follow-up by a three-mile attack over open country.
00:07:05Then some bombing and bayonet work.
00:07:07And if we're lucky, a band to play us home to bed.
00:07:09I won't do it. I won't do it.
00:07:14The British Army or no British Army, I'm going sick.
00:07:17You'll do nothing of the sort.
00:07:18If you start going south now, you'll give the game away.
00:07:21Yes, please.
00:07:21If I can stick it, you can.
00:07:23And if you go sick, you'll have more than the British Army to answer to.
00:07:26You'll have to answer to me.
00:07:27Going sick.
00:07:36You blokes to the sick parade, pile in here.
00:07:39Oh, my God.
00:08:01Cool.
00:08:02Blimey, we're well out of that lock, eh?
00:08:04Go perishing while we're full pack.
00:08:06Oh, my God.
00:08:09Come along now.
00:08:19On parade, you.
00:08:20Double up.
00:08:22What's the matter?
00:08:24Oh, I don't think I feel very well, Sergeant.
00:08:27In fact, I think I'll go sick.
00:08:29You can't go sick now.
00:08:30Seven o'clock in the morning is time to go sick.
00:08:32Get on parade.
00:08:32Run along now.
00:08:35You heard what the day Sergeant said.
00:08:39Privately.
00:08:40Coming.
00:08:41Well, what's the matter with you?
00:08:48It's my blistering feet, sir.
00:08:50I've worn the tread off them.
00:08:51And when Lord Roberts made his historic march to Kandahar, it was a proud boast of this regiment that not a man fell out.
00:09:00Today is the anniversary of that great event, and in view of the excellent march you carried out yesterday, I propose to celebrate today by granting leave to the whole regiment till midnight.
00:09:15To be honest, please.
00:09:41Two beers?
00:09:42Yes, and I'm having one for a sick friend.
00:09:46Oh, well.
00:09:50Here's one to be going on with.
00:09:53Oh, you're not known to be that.
00:09:54Down note on a Friday.
00:09:56Gentleman of beans, eh?
00:09:57What do you think?
00:09:58Well, um, hooky breads.
00:10:02Certainly not.
00:10:05I suppose now I have to tell you that I was one of those chaps
00:10:07that scrounged stuff out of army stores and sell it outside.
00:10:09Oh, come on, you're having me on.
00:10:11I said, supposing, have you been many of them in here?
00:10:14Can't say I've met anyone.
00:10:16Just wondering.
00:10:17There's a lot of scrounging going on, you know.
00:10:19So I hear.
00:10:20Why they don't do something about it beats me.
00:10:22Perhaps they are.
00:10:23The military police?
00:10:24Not them.
00:10:26They catch his drunks.
00:10:28Found this stuff, lit it all over the floor.
00:10:30How much is missing?
00:10:31Can't say yet, but it's all new stuff, though.
00:10:33Only came in yesterday.
00:10:34None of it issued, eh?
00:10:35That should help.
00:10:37Consignment of pants, all sizes.
00:10:40Tinned pilchards?
00:10:41Have you ever had that brand before?
00:10:42No.
00:10:43Hey, what's it got to do with you?
00:10:45Yes, what are you doing here, anyway?
00:10:46Uh, reportable light duty from the medical officer.
00:10:49Then keep your nose out of things that don't concern you.
00:10:51Count up what's left in those cases.
00:10:52And don't make any mistakes.
00:10:54Very good, sir.
00:10:56Glowing sauce.
00:10:58Right.
00:10:59Did you get any time off?
00:11:03After we close, till we open again.
00:11:05What about taking a punt and having a watercress tea with me up there?
00:11:08You're not backward and coming forward, are you?
00:11:10Oh, I mean, what do you say?
00:11:11All right, then.
00:11:13I'll pass two outside.
00:11:14That's a deal.
00:11:15But in one condition.
00:11:16What's that?
00:11:17Would you let me pay my share?
00:11:18Yes.
00:11:19Yes.
00:11:20What's it been to you?
00:11:46With a marvelous teintje.
00:11:48I've been eating a wee lassie.
00:11:50But, yes, yes.
00:11:53Not bad, eh?
00:11:55One a six for three.
00:11:57To Baldy.
00:11:58With love from Daisy.
00:12:02Take them to the pictures tomorrow.
00:12:04It's a half day.
00:12:05I found there's a Presbyterian, too.
00:12:08My father keeps an eye among yourself.
00:12:09Now, listen, I don't want to hear our life, Leslie.
00:12:11While you've been making yourself ridiculous, I've been getting on with the job.
00:12:14And now you can help me.
00:12:15I'm on to something.
00:12:16Yeah?
00:12:16Yeah.
00:12:18Here's some salvo stuff that was pinched last night.
00:12:20Now, if we can find any of it around here, we'll know who knocked it off.
00:12:23Yes, but they might have come back innocently.
00:12:24Well, the stuff hasn't been issued yet.
00:12:26Now, come on.
00:12:26Step lively before they come back.
00:12:27Now, you know what you're looking for.
00:12:29Gents underpants large size.
00:12:31Piltrets and Carballe soap.
00:12:32Now, you take this slide.
00:12:33Okay, Chief.
00:12:33I've been through the hut next door, but I drew a blank.
00:12:36I'm going to go.
00:12:37I'm going to go.
00:12:38I'm going to go.
00:12:39I'm going to go.
00:13:09It's a bit slow in the uptake.
00:13:11Don't worry, a plain end.
00:13:14Give me the answer, you little clumsy flatfoot.
00:13:21Come on.
00:13:22There's only eight more.
00:13:31Morning, Harley.
00:13:33Still looking for clues, eh?
00:13:35Ooh!
00:13:36Ooh!
00:13:36I always said there were no flies on, Hornley, but...
00:13:41Oh, I take all that back now.
00:13:43What are you doing down here?
00:13:44Come away from your clues and I'll tell you.
00:13:47Have you come down here to make trouble?
00:13:49I've come down here to see you two.
00:13:51Us?
00:13:51You mean you want us to help you with your case?
00:13:53I do.
00:13:54Why?
00:13:55Because there are certain things, Hornley, of which you have special knowledge.
00:13:59I never expected you to admit that blow.
00:14:01We knew they'd get into a mess as soon as we left the yards.
00:14:04What's your difficulty?
00:14:05We're very busy, you know.
00:14:06I can appreciate it.
00:14:07I can appreciate that.
00:14:09Well, we discovered that information is being coded to Germany.
00:14:15Well, nothing unusual in that, is there?
00:14:17Short wave transmitter, I suppose.
00:14:19Yes.
00:14:19And what is more, we've discovered the code.
00:14:22And now all that's missing is the short wave transmitter and the blokes who are running it.
00:14:25That's right.
00:14:25But unfortunately, they never broadcast from the same place twice.
00:14:28What do you want us to do?
00:14:30Consult the stars for you?
00:14:31Oh, no.
00:14:32I'm not interested in your usual methods of solving crime.
00:14:35What I want to know is how they got hold of a certain piece of information when there were only half a dozen people in the know.
00:14:40Well?
00:14:40And you were two of them.
00:14:41Us?
00:14:42Yes.
00:14:43Listen to this.
00:14:45Among other interesting items broadcast to Germany last night was this tidbit.
00:14:49Two Scotland Yard men named Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham are now carrying out secret investigations at Hutlow Camp.
00:14:57What do you mean to say that's been sent back to Germany?
00:14:59It has, and I want to know who's been doing the unveiling.
00:15:02Now, let's get this straight.
00:15:04Are you accusing me of a breach of confidence?
00:15:06I'm not accusing you of anything.
00:15:08I'm just making inquiries.
00:15:10Well, it amounts to the same thing.
00:15:12If anybody's been talking, it's certainly not me.
00:15:14Well, I'll take your word for it, Hornley.
00:15:15And what about you, Bingham?
00:15:16Have you been talking in your sleep?
00:15:19Can I take exception to that remark?
00:15:20So do I.
00:15:21And what's more, I object to you coming down here criticizing my staff.
00:15:24I'm not criticizing your staff.
00:15:25It's beyond criticism, I'm asking a simple question.
00:15:29Well, you had the answer.
00:15:30Just because some brass head shoots off his mouth in his club, you try to pin it on Bingham.
00:15:34He's worked for me for 15 years, and I know that he's incapable of doing such a thing.
00:15:37All right.
00:15:38All right.
00:15:38I must explore every avenue.
00:15:40Will you explore some avenue down White Hallway?
00:15:42Yes, and don't leave any stones unturned.
00:15:45Okay.
00:15:46Hello.
00:15:51Come on, now.
00:15:52Who did you tell?
00:15:54Me?
00:15:55Oh, now, here, Chief.
00:15:56You don't think that I...
00:15:56Yes, I do, then.
00:15:57Come on, now.
00:15:57How with it?
00:15:58Who was it?
00:16:00Well, it was that wee lassie, Daisy.
00:16:04I might have guessed it.
00:16:05But she's a nice girl, Chief.
00:16:06They're all nice girls.
00:16:07Marta Hari was a nice girl.
00:16:10Well, what did you tell this bird?
00:16:11Nothing, Chief.
00:16:13She guessed.
00:16:14Don't lie to me.
00:16:14But it's true, Chief.
00:16:15She said that I...
00:16:16I looked like a detective.
00:16:18Well, that's the biggest lie of the lot.
00:16:19I don't mind your laughing at my expense, but I tell you that Daisy's absolutely innocent.
00:16:22Well, after going out with you in a punt, well, I suppose she's innocent.
00:16:26She can still talk.
00:16:27No, no, no, no.
00:16:28Not Daisy.
00:16:29Well, what is she?
00:16:30A barmaid.
00:16:30God, Lummi.
00:16:31Well, they're public information bureaus.
00:16:34Oh, by the way, did I hear you say you were taking her to the pictures this afternoon?
00:16:39I was until you landed me into this maze.
00:16:41Well, you're still taking her.
00:16:43I'll fix it up with the colonel.
00:16:44Well, you mean that I can say...
00:16:46What do you want me to do?
00:16:47Well, ask her who she passed the glad news onto, of course.
00:16:50Oh, yeah, that would be very awkward, Chief.
00:16:52Well, it'd be more awkward if you don't.
00:16:54I've been in the trees for so long.
00:16:57How could I hope to be a success in New York?
00:17:00Can't I teach you, Lalo?
00:17:01The wobbly come of bobo, or more of the elephant.
00:17:05Every night at the sunset, I can use the trees for the lullaby.
00:17:09It's singing now, Lalo.
00:17:10Oh, come on.
00:17:13Daisy.
00:17:15Yes, Percy?
00:17:16Gosh, I was longing for you to call the time, gentlemen, please, this afternoon.
00:17:21Where are you, baby?
00:17:24Perhaps she looked lovely in her saddle.
00:17:28That's half as lovely as you'd look at one, Daisy.
00:17:30I think so.
00:17:32This picture.
00:17:34Bending over the beer pools.
00:17:35Oh, come on.
00:17:38What would the customer say?
00:17:49Daisy.
00:17:50What?
00:17:52Remember when I told you yesterday about me and another chap,
00:17:55part of the vehicle of Scotland Yard?
00:17:57Well?
00:17:59You didn't kind of mention it to anybody, did you?
00:18:02Of course I didn't.
00:18:04Hey, what are you getting at?
00:18:07Nothing, Daisy.
00:18:08I know you're not the sort to chatter, but...
00:18:11Well, somebody's been talking.
00:18:13Are you hinting that I've been speaking out of turn?
00:18:18Say, you, I said somebody.
00:18:20Well, you meant me.
00:18:21Here, here, a little order, please.
00:18:23I've got no right to go making suggestions like that.
00:18:25Let me tell you I've got enough to do in my job without gossiping.
00:18:28Yes, yes, I know that, Daisy.
00:18:31But you better pass it on, innocent life.
00:18:33I did not.
00:18:34Here, here, turn it up, will you?
00:18:35You're not in the bar of the Rosencrant now, you know.
00:18:37No, I don't think not.
00:18:39There you are, you see.
00:18:40This is all your fault.
00:18:41Go in.
00:18:42Why?
00:18:43Now, take your hands off me, you insulted beast.
00:18:45Quiet, quiet.
00:18:48I don't know what it is.
00:18:49What's going on along here?
00:18:51Don't blame me, blame him.
00:18:57Hey, you, come on out.
00:19:00None of them, they're here.
00:19:02I assure you, there's been none of them.
00:19:05Come on, you heard what he said.
00:19:07I'm right.
00:19:08You've got a perfect nuisance.
00:19:10Well, they've got right out.
00:19:12See a monkey check, sir.
00:19:13Can I help it if my sister becomes hysterical?
00:19:15Oh, come on up.
00:19:27Good afternoon, Miss Johnson.
00:19:28Good afternoon.
00:19:33I'd like to see Mr Wilkinson.
00:19:34You didn't make an appointment, did you?
00:19:36No, but one of my back teeth is aching again.
00:19:38Something awful.
00:19:39I think you'll find that quite all right.
00:19:40I shouldn't bite on it for a couple of hours, though.
00:19:42Miss Johnson, I don't remember...
00:19:47No, Mr Wilkinson, it's my back tooth again.
00:19:49You must look at it.
00:19:50I see.
00:19:51Would you mind, madam?
00:19:52I won't give you one moment.
00:19:53Quite all right.
00:19:54Very well.
00:19:55Please step inside.
00:19:58Charles.
00:20:00I've laid out your dinner jacket.
00:20:02Don't forget you're dining at the club at eight.
00:20:04Oh, yes.
00:20:04I'm going over to Penrith to have dinner with Mrs Sherwood.
00:20:07We'll probably pay a bit, so I may not be back till eight.
00:20:09Goodbye, my nephew.
00:20:10Don't forget to black out.
00:20:11I expect you'll be in first.
00:20:13I won't forget.
00:20:21Why have you come here today?
00:20:22Your next appointment was Tuesday.
00:20:24Do you want that girl to suspect?
00:20:25I had to come.
00:20:26He's rumbled.
00:20:27Who?
00:20:27That yard man, Bingham, that I was telling you about.
00:20:30Did you pass it on?
00:20:31Of course.
00:20:31Well, they found out somehow.
00:20:33He questioned me this afternoon and said someone had been talking.
00:20:36Phew.
00:20:37I'm scared stiff.
00:20:38Where is he now?
00:20:39I left him in the pictures.
00:20:40You sure he didn't follow you?
00:20:41Positive.
00:20:42What am I going to do?
00:20:43Supposing they come and question you?
00:20:44Deny everything.
00:20:45They've no evidence.
00:20:46And don't come here again.
00:20:48I'll contact you as soon as it blows over.
00:20:50Yes, but...
00:20:50Now look here.
00:20:51Pull yourself together.
00:20:52There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:20:54Come on.
00:20:57It often aches like that after filling, you know.
00:21:00It'll be quite all right tomorrow, believe me.
00:21:01I hope so.
00:21:05Now, madam, if you please.
00:21:07Come along, Yvonne.
00:21:08It's nearly six o'clock.
00:21:15Have I an appointment with this gentleman?
00:21:16No, sir.
00:21:17But he was anxious to wait and the off chance of seeing you.
00:21:19May bridge work needs overhauling.
00:21:21And I wondered if...
00:21:22I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't manage it now.
00:21:23My hours are three to six.
00:21:25And I have an engagement this evening.
00:21:26Well, now.
00:21:27Perhaps I could come back later.
00:21:28I'm sorry.
00:21:29My engagement is for the whole evening.
00:21:31Besides, I never see patients out of hours.
00:21:32Oh.
00:21:33If that's your attitude, I take my business elsewhere.
00:21:36There are plenty of other dentists in the town.
00:21:37Well, we'll be only too glad to do a little bridge work after six o'clock.
00:21:41Good day to you, sir.
00:21:48How do you know there's no one at home?
00:21:50He told me he hadn't engaged in it.
00:21:52There's also a Mrs. Dentist, but she's out playing bridge.
00:21:55Any servants?
00:21:56One.
00:21:56Female.
00:21:57I went round the back and checked up.
00:22:00You're not the only one who's a success with women.
00:22:02I made an appointment to meet her at the Pellet of Donalds tonight.
00:22:05Yeah.
00:22:06That's got rid of her.
00:22:08Sounds a very mean trick to me.
00:22:10Well, she was married.
00:22:11But so's her right.
00:22:12Ah.
00:22:13This is it.
00:22:13Now, let's see what's over here.
00:22:35There's one from the book.
00:22:57We'll have a look at that.
00:23:01Still don't seem why you should suspect Daisy, just because you got toothy when she left me.
00:23:05I agree.
00:23:06It'll be a natural emotion.
00:23:07What's her surname?
00:23:09Johnson.
00:23:09Johnson.
00:23:11And you shot your mouth off to her yesterday lunchtime.
00:23:13But she couldn't have seen him yesterday.
00:23:15She was on the river with me until five o'clock.
00:23:18And at five thirty she visits the dentist.
00:23:20Look for yourself.
00:23:20Every time she sees you, she rushes straight to the dentist.
00:23:24But there's any number of ways of explaining that, Chief.
00:23:27There's only two I know of.
00:23:30Either she's what I think she is, or the way you kiss them, knocks their teeth in.
00:23:33Yeah.
00:23:35She was here twice last week.
00:23:37Once the week before.
00:23:39Three times the week before that.
00:23:42Yes.
00:23:42Fair call weather is used to come pretty often, too.
00:23:45And Mrs. Crofter.
00:23:47There's your Daisy again.
00:23:49I suppose you're right.
00:23:51You can't prove anything with that book.
00:23:53Well, we might find something in that safe to tie up with it.
00:23:55What safe?
00:23:56Over there.
00:24:00The twin lock Hector.
00:24:01Easy.
00:24:06There's the hyperbole alarm while running around the rim.
00:24:10Kite.
00:24:31There you are.
00:24:35That little fellow won't talk.
00:24:36There comes him up.
00:24:42You've got the wrong wire.
00:24:45The doorbell.
00:24:49The dentist.
00:24:50Maybe he's forgotten his key.
00:24:52Why should he ring?
00:24:53He knows there's nobody at home.
00:24:54Here.
00:24:55Go and see who it is.
00:24:56I suppose.
00:24:57Go on, go on, go on.
00:24:58Go on.
00:24:58Is your name Wilkinson?
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Mine's Blankensop.
00:25:19Who?
00:25:20I want to see Mr. Wilkinson.
00:25:21Why?
00:25:22Why?
00:25:22What do you think I come to the dentist for?
00:25:24I have a haircut.
00:25:24I want a tooth out.
00:25:26Eh?
00:25:26Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible.
00:25:28Oh, don't talk so down.
00:25:30Sorry, but at this time of night...
00:25:31At this time of night, I've been in bed and fast asleep.
00:25:32I've not raging too big.
00:25:34I tell you, I'm not going until I see the dentist here.
00:25:36Go on.
00:25:36Fetch him out.
00:25:41Well, now, if you'll just sit down for a minute, I'll...
00:25:44I'll make some inquiries.
00:25:46All right, but look sharp.
00:25:55That's a patient, Chief.
00:25:56Says he wants a tooth out.
00:25:58What, at this time?
00:25:59Perhaps he's one of the agents.
00:26:01It doesn't look like one.
00:26:02Well, how do you know?
00:26:03Take him in the surgery and numb him.
00:26:05How?
00:26:06What?
00:26:06Says Joe Wilkinson's assistant.
00:26:08That you're in his confidence.
00:26:10Yes, but I think he really does want a tooth out.
00:26:12Well, you never know.
00:26:13Perhaps he's bluffing.
00:26:14Go and find out.
00:26:19Well?
00:26:21Well, I'm sorry, but Mr. Wilkinson's asleep.
00:26:24I can't help it.
00:26:24It's all right.
00:26:25I'm his assistant.
00:26:27And anything you wish to have out, you can have out with me.
00:26:31All right, that suits me.
00:26:32Well, where's surgery?
00:26:34Surgery.
00:26:34Yes.
00:26:35Is this it?
00:26:36Here, come on.
00:26:36Yes.
00:26:36Yes.
00:26:37Let's just check this.
00:26:41Well, come on.
00:26:41Don't hang about.
00:26:46Here, take this.
00:26:51Sit in the chair, sir, please, will you?
00:26:53Ah, let me see.
00:27:02Nice evening, isn't it?
00:27:04Fine for getting shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:07I don't want any shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:09I don't care if it's raining cats and dogs.
00:27:10I want this tooth out.
00:27:12Let me see that I enjoy Mr. Wilkinson's full confidence.
00:27:15Well, I'm very glad to hear it.
00:27:16Shall I open my mouth now?
00:27:17Yes, certainly.
00:27:18You can tell me anything you want.
00:27:19Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:27:24You really want it out?
00:27:26Hey, what's the matter with you?
00:27:27You non-compass mentors are so much.
00:27:30You've been here before, haven't you?
00:27:31What's that got to do with it?
00:27:32Well, we just make it a rule only to attend to regular customers after closing time.
00:27:36Oh, dash it all.
00:27:36Do you think I'm going to suffer all night for your silly rules?
00:27:39Here.
00:27:40Are you going to take it out or do I have to take it out of you?
00:27:42Oh, your mind's made up.
00:27:45Oh, it's dawned on you.
00:27:47Just wait there a minute, please.
00:27:49Very often, I'm...
00:27:51Oh, what is this?
00:27:51A dentist or a madhouse?
00:27:53Are you going to take this thing out?
00:27:55All right, all right.
00:27:55It's coming out.
00:27:59Just a minute.
00:28:02Which tooth did you say it was again?
00:28:05Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:28:07Your top teeth are pretty good.
00:28:13They're false, you're fathead.
00:28:16So they are.
00:28:17I see that now.
00:28:18They quite took me in for a minute.
00:28:19You want the plate out?
00:28:21No, no, just the tooth.
00:28:29Right.
00:28:32Just open your mouth a little wider, please, will you?
00:28:37Hey, how are you doing it?
00:28:40You're not going to take it out in cold blood, are you?
00:28:41Can't have a local anesthetic.
00:28:43Oh, I'm afraid Mr. Wilkinson always locks up everything like that.
00:28:47Hey, what's that over there?
00:28:48Is that a gas apparatus or not?
00:28:50Yes, that's gas.
00:28:52All right, then I'll have gas.
00:28:54Quite sure.
00:28:55This is after effects, you know.
00:28:57Compared to what I'm suffering, the after effects will be a pleasure.
00:29:02Hope you're right.
00:29:07Now what's to do?
00:29:33Are you going to give me gas or not?
00:29:35I am.
00:29:36If you don't, so too.
00:29:37I'm sick of sitting here, waiting for you.
00:32:18There's nothing to shout about?
00:32:20Do you want to bring that dentist down here?
00:32:22What's happened to the patient?
00:32:23He's gone.
00:32:25He took his tooth out.
00:32:26In fact, two of them.
00:32:27What, do you want two out?
00:32:29No, but I just gave a hefty pool and the other way.
00:32:31Two of them.
00:32:32There's nothing in this business.
00:32:34It's money for a job.
00:32:35All you have to do is to turn on the gas.
00:32:36What did you give him gas?
00:32:37Well, he reminded it.
00:32:39But, five bob, half a crown of tooth.
00:32:43Didn't want to pay for the other one, but the poor man was in no condition to argue.
00:32:47I bet he wasn't.
00:32:48Have you had any luck, Chief?
00:32:49I have.
00:32:51Here.
00:32:53Look at that.
00:32:56It's Daisy and me in the band.
00:32:58Turn it over.
00:33:00Sergeant Bingham, CID.
00:33:03Where did you get this?
00:33:04In the safe.
00:33:04I can't believe it.
00:33:09Here, Chief, this sort of thing shatters your faith in women.
00:33:12Well, you could do with a bit of shattering.
00:33:13You could do with me.
00:33:15Do you know I'm going to put it back in there?
00:33:16I am.
00:33:17But if you find it, that'll make me look like an accessory.
00:33:20Well, you will, won't you?
00:33:22Now then, we're going to leave this place exactly as we found it, without anyone knowing
00:33:26we've been here.
00:33:29Why, Chief?
00:33:30Might you go to a race to Wilkinson?
00:33:32Not yet.
00:33:32You haven't left anything lying around in the surgery, have you?
00:33:37No, no.
00:33:37I've got the teeth in my pocket.
00:33:39I don't want to see them.
00:33:40Talk about a blooming cannibal.
00:33:43Curtains.
00:34:02They what are you doing?
00:34:11It's a good thing.
00:34:12They can't be where they have to be.
00:34:15I love you.
00:34:15Close, close.
00:34:17Close.
00:34:19Close.
00:34:20Close.
00:34:20Close.
00:34:21Close, close.
00:34:22Close.
00:34:23Close.
00:34:23Close, close.
00:34:24Close.
00:34:25Close, close, close!
00:34:26Close.
00:34:26Close, close.
00:34:27Close, close, close.
00:34:28Close.
00:34:29Close.
00:34:29Close.
00:34:30Close, close.
00:34:31it's the dentist look at you the gas is still on
00:34:42he's a gunner dead this is awful but i was here just a few minutes ago must have happened when
00:34:49you were seeing your patient off obviously must have found out that we were here decided he
00:34:54couldn't face it and come down and gassed himself i'd better phone the local police wait a minute
00:35:03look at these one shoe is based across the usual way on the other shoe the top three holes are
00:35:07laced crisscross you can put your own construction in that i suppose well no man laces use different
00:35:13ways someone else put that show on his foot why i don't know yet but whoever did it may be still in
00:35:20the house wait here
00:35:43no sign of anybody i'm going to make such a wicked bedroom see if i can find anything
00:35:47i'll come up with you chief no you don't we've got no time to lose here take these
00:35:53bring up the yard give blue my kind regards and read that list over to him what are they
00:35:58the names addresses and code numbers of mr wilkins's so-called patients
00:36:02toe blow since he wants to know who's been talking there's 40 of them
00:36:16they're expecting him back in 10 minutes i ask him to ring you back
00:36:21sorry for the delay sergeant inspector blow's just gone out they're expecting him back in 10 minutes
00:36:43so i ask him to ring you back yes please and it's very urgent
00:36:57oh
00:37:22oh
00:37:27hello? who's that? this is mrs. Wilkinson speaking. I want to speak to Dr. Kerbishley at once please.
00:37:57it's all right it's all right no need to be alarmed. who are you? I'm a police officer. what are you doing in this house? I'm here in connection with your husband. he's dead.
00:38:27that's right you just sit down quietly for a few minutes. I can imagine how you're feeling. can you? I wonder. I should be awfully upset shouldn't I? aren't you? no. you you are mrs. Wilkinson? yes. but we weren't what is called a happily married couple.
00:38:47you found out that he was a... that he was a... yes. I told him he'd get caught sooner or later. it was no use. they had some sort of hold on him. who were they? i don't know. i shouldn't have known anything except that i... i found a letter of his. what did you do?
00:39:09i texted him with it and he flew into a rage and... and struck me.
00:39:16you did? yes. but that was nothing unusual. i said i'd go to the police and he threatened to shoot me. what could i do? what would you have done?
00:39:30i don't know. i don't know. it's very awkward for you.
00:39:37could i have a cigarette inspector please? why certainly certainly.
00:39:42now... now i'm afraid i've got to ask you just a... just a few questions.
00:39:49you're not going to be brutal to me are you? no no no no. that will hardly be necessary.
00:39:56but i'll expect a statement and... just as a mere matter of formality.
00:40:00oh yes of course. well i shan't attempt to hide anything from you.
00:40:04thank you.
00:40:06well now...
00:40:09do you know what part of your husband had in this organization?
00:40:14none. but i'm sure it couldn't have been a very important one.
00:40:19oh i'm afraid you're wrong there my dear.
00:40:21this is workinson.
00:40:23as a matter of fact i'm quite sure you are.
00:40:25well what makes you say that?
00:40:27well i have here the names and addresses of forty of his patients.
00:40:31whom i have every reason to believe supplied him regularly with information.
00:40:34but i can't believe it.
00:40:36are you positive of that?
00:40:38i found it in a book in his safe.
00:40:41but if he's as important as all that, why did he take his own life?
00:40:46he didn't.
00:40:48somebody else took it.
00:40:51he was murdered.
00:40:54oh.
00:40:55now here, here, mrs. Robinson.
00:40:57what's the matter?
00:40:58pull yourself together.
00:40:59here, here.
00:41:00we see.
00:41:01some waters.
00:41:02gosh.
00:41:19dear.
00:41:21that's better now, isn't it?
00:41:23you'll drink this.
00:41:25i'm sorry.
00:41:29i'm sorry.
00:41:30i'm sorry.
00:41:31it's all right.
00:41:32you'll be feeling better in a minute.
00:41:34i can't stay the night here alone, inspector.
00:41:36i'm afraid i'm on duty.
00:41:38but i've got a sister who lives just around the corner.
00:41:40couldn't i spend the night with her?
00:41:42i'm sorry.
00:41:43i can't allow that.
00:41:44i promise i wouldn't move from there.
00:41:46no, you wouldn't.
00:41:47and if it rested with me, i'd let you do it like a shot.
00:41:49but it, it does rest with you, doesn't it?
00:41:52no, not exactly.
00:41:53you see, i haven't mentioned it before.
00:41:55but i've got an assistant.
00:41:58an associate.
00:41:59there are two of you?
00:42:01yes.
00:42:02he's upstairs.
00:42:03i'm afraid he'll want you to come to the police station.
00:42:05oh.
00:42:06drink, drink.
00:42:07oh.
00:42:08i'll still be all right.
00:42:16oh, you'll answer it, inspector.
00:42:17don't worry about me.
00:42:26hello.
00:42:27hello, yes.
00:42:29oh, inspector blue.
00:42:32yes, this is bingham.
00:42:34what are you ringing up at this hour for?
00:42:36i've decided to confess after all.
00:42:38certainly not.
00:42:39oh, as a matter of fact, it's not unconnected with your inquiries this morning.
00:42:43hmm?
00:42:44well, now.
00:42:45horley and i decided that as you were floundering about to give you a bit of help.
00:42:49to put you in the right road, as it were.
00:42:51hmm.
00:42:52huh?
00:42:53no, no, no, no.
00:42:54no, i must correct you there.
00:42:55my mother and father were married properly at the kirk at paisley.
00:42:59and that remark comes very badly from you after all we've done.
00:43:02hmm?
00:43:03all right.
00:43:04if you'll just keep calm, i'll tell you.
00:43:06well, i have here the names and addresses of about forty people who have been passing information.
00:43:13hmm?
00:43:14yes, if you'll just get out your little pencil and paper, i'll read them out to you.
00:43:18hey.
00:43:19you ready?
00:43:20you ready?
00:43:21just a minute blue, i think i've got a hold of the wrong piece of paper or something.
00:43:25hold on.
00:43:26mrs wilkinson?
00:43:27mrs wilkinson?
00:43:28Just a minute, Blue. I think I've got a hold of the wrong piece of paper or something.
00:43:39Hold on.
00:43:43I can't...
00:43:45Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:43:55Oh, hello, Blue. Sorry, there's been a slight hitch here. I'll bring you back.
00:44:15Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:20Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:21Maybe she's got her sisters.
00:44:27Gosh, the books.
00:44:28It's Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:36Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:38Oh, there you are. There's been some pretty rum goings on in this house. I'm telling you.
00:44:54You're telling me.
00:44:56What did you phone, Blow?
00:44:57Yes. I phoned him.
00:44:59What did he say?
00:45:00Well, he didn't say anything, Chief. Because...
00:45:03Because what?
00:45:05Look, you're quite sure you gave me that list, aren't you?
00:45:08What are you blathering about?
00:45:16That's all I've got, Chief.
00:45:18There's nothing on it.
00:45:20McGill.
00:45:20What the blaze have you been doing while I've been upstairs?
00:45:22I had it in my hand when I first phoned Blow.
00:45:25Well, go on.
00:45:27Well, he wasn't in, and so I put it back in my pocket.
00:45:30I know it was there when she came in, because...
00:45:32She?
00:45:33Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:45:34So she's here.
00:45:36Well, she was here.
00:45:38Was?
00:45:39Yes. I'm afraid she's gone too.
00:45:41Gone where?
00:45:43Just through that French window.
00:45:45McGill, are you drunk as well as incapable?
00:45:47Well, I told her to stop here, but she must have slipped out when I was on the phone.
00:46:04She's pinched the evidence.
00:46:05But I think I know where we can find her.
00:46:08Where?
00:46:09At her sister's.
00:46:10What's the address?
00:46:12Now, listen to me, you big dome vacuum.
00:46:14Hasn't it dawned on you yet that that woman was simply playing you for a sucker?
00:46:20Well, what happened then?
00:46:22Well, I had just phoned Blow when the front door opened, and I hid behind the curtains.
00:46:28Yeah?
00:46:29Well, she came in, saw the body, and rushed to the telephone.
00:46:31She dialed the number and asked for the doctor.
00:46:33What doctor?
00:46:34Kerbishly.
00:46:35Maybe Kerbishly.
00:46:37And then?
00:46:41Well, she must have seen me behind the curtains because she screamed.
00:46:45So I stepped out.
00:46:46And what did she tell you?
00:46:47That her husband was a spy, and that he used to beat her.
00:46:50Yeah, and you sympathized with her?
00:46:52Well, in a way.
00:46:54Good memory.
00:46:55The woman hasn't been a widow five minutes, but she's still a game to you.
00:46:58Then I suppose you told her about that list.
00:47:01I did mention it.
00:47:02I knew it.
00:47:03She fainted.
00:47:04Yeah, and then you helped her out of the settee.
00:47:06Yes.
00:47:06And she pinched the list in your pocket.
00:47:08You went to fetch her for some brandy.
00:47:10Water.
00:47:11And she switched the blank sheets back on you.
00:47:13It's as pale as a fight, staff.
00:47:15And there's no Kerbishly or Corbishly in the book.
00:47:18But I'm sure it was Kerbishly.
00:47:20You've made about a bigger hash of this than anything you've done in the whole of your misbegotten career.
00:47:24Here we are, working on a case which has nothing to do with us.
00:47:26You get hold of the star witness and let her go with all the exhibits.
00:47:29Look, couldn't we just slip out like and not tell anybody we were here?
00:47:35Well, after you phoned the yard with the murdered man in the other room...
00:47:38He may not have been murdered.
00:47:39He was murdered.
00:47:41While you were mucking things up down here, I've been busy.
00:47:44Wilkinson was planning to run away to South America.
00:47:47Passports, permits, all in order.
00:47:49But somebody or other didn't want to go.
00:47:51So they waited for him upstairs.
00:47:53He came in, was just changing to his slippers.
00:47:57And they nipped up behind him, laid him out, slipped his shoe on again,
00:48:00brought him downstairs, bunged him to that chair and tried to make it look like suicide.
00:48:05How does that sound?
00:48:06There doesn't seem to be anything missing.
00:48:08No, except the clue to the murderer.
00:48:10That list of agents and Mrs Wilkinson.
00:48:13Apart from that, it's all sewn up.
00:48:15Well, I suppose there's nothing else to do but hand it over to blow and we go back to the gents' underpants.
00:48:19Now, look here. I don't want any of that defeatist talk.
00:48:21We're going to search this house from cellar to roof.
00:48:23Now, go on. You start outside.
00:48:24I'll start in here.
00:48:26And if there's a whiff of a clue, we'll smell it out.
00:48:40Hello, what's this?
00:48:46March the 12th.
00:48:47No address.
00:48:47My dear Wilkinson, I am sorry to hear you propose taking a holiday.
00:48:52I feel strongly that a journey would not be good for your health at the present moment.
00:48:56I must therefore urge you to cancel it.
00:48:59Yours, A.K.
00:49:00Sounds like a letter from his doctor.
00:49:02Sounds like. Of course it is.
00:49:04A.K.
00:49:05Kerbishley.
00:49:05The doctor she rang up.
00:49:07Yeah, and it doesn't exist.
00:49:09At least not in the phone book.
00:49:11You see, he might be in another district, Chief.
00:49:13He might.
00:49:14But this letter was posted at Upper Ellingford.
00:49:17And that's in this phone area.
00:49:19So that doesn't help.
00:49:22Hmm.
00:49:24Continuation sheet.
00:49:24Now, who uses continuation sheets?
00:49:28Officers.
00:49:29Yeah, it doesn't look like office paper to me.
00:49:31No, more like hotel stuff.
00:49:35How many printers would there be at Upper Ellingford?
00:49:37There can't be many.
00:49:38It's only a market town.
00:49:39Good.
00:49:39Well, we're going to knock them up.
00:49:40There may be only half a dozen printers in the town,
00:49:44but a more bad-tempered lot I never saw.
00:49:46You can't expect them to dance for joy
00:49:47when you get them up out of their beds in the middle of the night.
00:49:49Hmm.
00:49:50Don't feel very happy myself.
00:49:52Dragging a man from his rest at three in the morning
00:49:54to rake through a lot of note paper?
00:49:56I ought to be compensated for this.
00:49:58Oh, well, it's not your paper.
00:49:59Yes, it is.
00:50:00Oh?
00:50:00Yes, I printed it for the Westgate Manor Hotel.
00:50:03Westgate Manor Hotel, eh?
00:50:05Yeah, I told you it was hotel paper.
00:50:07Yes, it's the same, all right.
00:50:10Of course it's the same.
00:50:12I printed them a brochure at the same time.
00:50:15Now you can clear out, and I'll go back to my rest.
00:50:18I sympathize with you.
00:50:19Terms in season.
00:50:20Hello, it's a fishing hotel.
00:50:22Yeah, pretty posh from the places.
00:50:25Bingham, we're going to get up early in the morning.
00:50:27Eh?
00:50:28We're taking a fishing holiday.
00:50:29It's time we got our hooks into something.
00:50:32Well, thank you very much, sir.
00:50:33You're welcome.
00:50:35Ah.
00:50:37Morning, boy.
00:50:45Good morning, sir.
00:50:46You two gentlemen after the same vacancy?
00:50:48Vacancy?
00:50:50What, are you full up?
00:50:51Well, one day we are, the next day we're not.
00:50:53If I had my way, I'd give them mistresses
00:50:55and stop all this chopping and changing.
00:50:59Eh, what about our luggage?
00:51:01You brought your luggage with you.
00:51:03Optimists, aren't you?
00:51:04You don't look very busy.
00:51:08No, we're not now.
00:51:09They're all out on a paper chase.
00:51:13Who did say paper chase?
00:51:16Yes.
00:51:16Got me up at 6.30 this morning.
00:51:18It's his new Mr. Rolf's idea.
00:51:20He started all these capers.
00:51:22Mr. Jenkins was much more sensible,
00:51:24but he joined up three weeks ago
00:51:25along with Mr. Smart, the science master.
00:51:27I tell you, there have been so many changes here
00:51:30since the war started,
00:51:31I can't keep pace with them.
00:51:33You wait in here.
00:51:35But I might as well tell you,
00:51:36you're not the only ones after this history master's job.
00:51:39There's another old bloke in there already.
00:51:40So it's not a hotel anymore.
00:51:46They've evacuated a blooming school here.
00:51:52You know, Chief,
00:51:53I didn't like to mention it before,
00:51:55but, well, I never did think much of that clue of yours.
00:51:58Once in a way, you were right.
00:52:03Gable College, Muswell Hill, London.
00:52:06Notice the prefects.
00:52:07All prefects must be responsible
00:52:08for the blackout of the dormitories.
00:52:10Dr. Alfred Kerbishly, headmaster.
00:52:13He came.
00:52:15We thought it was a medical doctor she rang up last night,
00:52:18but it was this fellow,
00:52:18a doctor of literature or something.
00:52:20Hmm.
00:52:21This puts a new face out,
00:52:22did the doctor say,
00:52:23but you had her dial lifted.
00:52:25Yes, but I still don't see anything very sinister in that.
00:52:27Well, hadn't occurred to you,
00:52:28I suppose the woman who just found her husband dead
00:52:29doesn't rush to ring up a schoolmaster.
00:52:32Yes, it is a bit peculiar.
00:52:34Now, this is where you were on your own spell at.
00:52:36Put that luggage back into the car
00:52:37and drive down to the town.
00:52:38Put up at the local hotel
00:52:39and find out all you can about the doctor.
00:52:41It's a small place in the mountain
00:52:42and nobody's got his business.
00:52:44What about you, Chief?
00:52:45Somebody's going to ask what you're doing here.
00:52:47Oh, I'll say I'm a new boy who's a bit backward.
00:52:49Now, go on, off you go.
00:52:50Don't forget,
00:52:51if there's a barmaid there,
00:52:52when she pours out your beer,
00:52:52don't pour out your soul.
00:52:53Good morning.
00:53:16Good morning.
00:53:17Good morning.
00:53:17Are you an applicant?
00:53:20Yes.
00:53:21So am I.
00:53:22Really?
00:53:23My name's Mackenzie.
00:53:25Professor Alec Mackenzie.
00:53:27How do you do?
00:53:28My name is Nuttall.
00:53:30Uh, Horace Nuttall.
00:53:32How do you do?
00:53:33You may have heard of Mackenzie's
00:53:34history of Europe for schools.
00:53:36Oh, yes, of course.
00:53:37I wrote it.
00:53:38Really?
00:53:39You haven't actually met Dr. Cervisley yet, I take it?
00:53:43No, but I rather fancy that's just a formality.
00:53:47Ah, well, I suppose there's no objection to my waiting.
00:53:50No, no, not in the least.
00:53:52If it isn't a rude question,
00:53:54what was your last school?
00:53:56Borstall.
00:53:56Borstall, oh, yes.
00:53:58Borstall.
00:53:59I beg your pardon?
00:54:02Borstall.
00:54:03Yeah, but isn't that a penitentiary?
00:54:05Yes.
00:54:06But surely a qualification for a master at Borstall
00:54:08would hardly be a recommendation to this school.
00:54:11On the contrary, my dear sir.
00:54:12I'm just a man for this school.
00:54:14Why?
00:54:15But they mentioned it in the advertisement, didn't they?
00:54:17The school times gave me to understand
00:54:18that this was an establishment for the sons of gentlemen.
00:54:21Is that what they said they were sons of?
00:54:23Well, I hope I'm not here under any misapprehension.
00:54:27Well, it's not as bad as Borstall, if that's what you mean.
00:54:29As a matter of fact, they frequently send their good convict lads here.
00:54:32But do you seriously tell me this is a corrective school?
00:54:36Oh, didn't you know?
00:54:38I certainly did not.
00:54:40Oh, there's nothing to be worried about, my dear professor.
00:54:42You may find it a trifle alarming for the first two years,
00:54:45but you get used to it.
00:54:47Well, bless my soul, look who's here.
00:54:49If it isn't, don't bring him.
00:54:51Now, there's a fine example of the good convict lads they sent here.
00:54:56Oh, but they shouldn't let him have a knife.
00:54:58Why not?
00:54:58Well, he's a nice enough lad, but he has bits of violence.
00:55:01As a matter of fact, I remember once at Borstall,
00:55:03he attacked a carpentry instructor with a chisel.
00:55:05Good heavens.
00:55:07Do you see...
00:55:09Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
00:55:10I didn't know there was anyone in here.
00:55:11That's quite all right, my boy.
00:55:12What do you want?
00:55:13A book, sir.
00:55:14A book?
00:55:14Yes, sir.
00:55:15Help yourself, my son.
00:55:16Thank you, sir.
00:55:17Excuse me, sir.
00:55:18Oh.
00:55:20Oh, let me help you.
00:55:21This one?
00:55:22Yes, please, sir.
00:55:23There we are.
00:55:25Thank you, sir.
00:55:26Not at all.
00:55:26You will...
00:55:29All this greatly perturbs me.
00:55:31I don't...
00:55:31Hey!
00:55:31Hey, you!
00:55:35Hey!
00:55:37Now, give me that back.
00:55:39And don't forget you do your thing like that again.
00:55:43Young rascal.
00:55:45What's happened?
00:55:46Have you missed anything?
00:55:47I beg your pardon?
00:55:49This is yours, isn't it?
00:55:51That's my watch.
00:55:52Good gracious me.
00:55:53Oh, well.
00:55:54Boys will be boys, you know.
00:55:55Do you mean that he actually...
00:55:57Oh, this is dreadful.
00:55:59Well, you get used to that sort of thing here, you know.
00:56:01Used to it.
00:56:02That's why you're mistaken.
00:56:03I wouldn't teach in this class of school for any consideration whatever.
00:56:07What?
00:56:08You don't be to say you're going to turn it up.
00:56:09Yes, I am.
00:56:10Oh, my...
00:56:11And I'm very grateful to you for enlightening me.
00:56:13Cire-ho.
00:56:14Professor McKenzie?
00:56:31Who?
00:56:31Who?
00:56:32At your service.
00:56:33Will you come this way, please, Professor?
00:56:34Dr. Kerbishley will see you now.
00:56:36With pleasure.
00:56:42We should be very pleased to have you here, Professor.
00:56:44Weston, the last man, was rather old-fashioned in this method.
00:56:47Oh, really?
00:56:48Well, you won't find anything like that about me.
00:56:52Professor McKenzie, sir.
00:56:53Dr. Kerbishley.
00:56:55How do you do, Professor?
00:56:56Welcome to Cable College.
00:56:57How do you do?
00:56:58You'll find us in strange surroundings, but...
00:57:00I feel very honoured that a man of your scholastic reputation
00:57:11should consider my little establishment worthy of his services.
00:57:13Not at all, not at all.
00:57:15How long were you at heart-grown?
00:57:17Well, let me see now.
00:57:18It must be what?
00:57:20Fifteen years, yippity.
00:57:21I see.
00:57:22It says twenty, eh?
00:57:23Twenty, was it?
00:57:25Oh, tame, does play.
00:57:26Dr. Swan speaks of you in the most glowing terms.
00:57:29Yes, we got on very well together.
00:57:31I was very fond of the old black swan.
00:57:34Well, I don't think we need to discuss it any further.
00:57:36It seems most satisfactory to me.
00:57:38I take it the salary I mentioned in my letter is acceptable to you?
00:57:41Under the circumstances, yes.
00:57:43Oh, there is just one other thing, and it's rather important.
00:57:45Can you start at once?
00:57:46Oh, absolutely.
00:57:48As a matter of fact, I've got my luggage with me.
00:57:50Really?
00:57:51Well, that removes that obstacle.
00:57:53Great.
00:57:54Well, I think you will find it very pleasant here, Professor.
00:57:56Eh, Mr. Jennings?
00:57:57Oh, yes, indeed, sir.
00:57:59I'm sure I shall.
00:57:59Eh, it will be an honour to have you teaching with us, Professor.
00:58:03Hello, yes, Dr. Kerbichley speaking.
00:58:06Who?
00:58:11Well, I'm afraid I can't discuss it now.
00:58:12I'm engaged.
00:58:13I'll send you a school prospectus.
00:58:15But I must see you.
00:58:17I've been trying to get you since last night.
00:58:19Just a minute.
00:58:21Well, I think that's all for the moment, Professor.
00:58:23Mr. Jennings will show you your study.
00:58:25Er, this way, please, Professor.
00:58:35I've told you before not to ring me here.
00:58:36What is it?
00:58:37I had to get in touch with you.
00:58:39Something dreadful has happened.
00:58:42I can't very well tell you on the phone.
00:58:43I'm at the Angler's Rest in the town.
00:58:47Well, you shouldn't have left Farnchamp without letting me know.
00:58:49I...
00:58:49Oh, I'm so sorry, Doctor.
00:58:54But I wonder if you would let me have my testimonials back.
00:58:57I know you wouldn't mislead them, but...
00:58:58But I'd rather treasure them.
00:59:00Yes, of course.
00:59:02Yes.
00:59:11You must realize it's impossible to talk now.
00:59:14I'll be down there at nine this evening.
00:59:16Until then, stay in your room.
00:59:19Goodbye.
00:59:28Could I have number eight, please?
00:59:29Good morning, sir.
00:59:46Good morning.
00:59:48I want a room for you.
00:59:50Certainly, sir.
00:59:53Good to see the sun again, isn't it?
00:59:55Yes, it is.
00:59:57Will you be staying here long?
00:59:58A few nights, maybe.
01:00:00You'll want a single room, I suppose.
01:00:02That's right.
01:00:04I've got a very nice room facing the river.
01:00:08Yes, but I think I'll have the single room.
01:00:10Very good, sir.
01:00:14Will you read it to me, or shall I read it to you?
01:00:16You read it to us, sir.
01:00:19Oh, very well.
01:00:21Here we are.
01:00:22Evolution of the Corn Laws.
01:00:23Evolution of the Corn Laws.
01:00:24The effect of the industrial revolution, connected with the mechanical invention and the utilization
01:00:30of steam, transformed Great Britain from an agricultural to a manufacturing and commercial country.
01:00:37Oh, yes, sir.
01:00:38Oh, yes, sir.
01:00:39Oh, yes, sir.
01:00:40Oh, yes, sir.
01:00:41Oh, yes, sir.
01:00:42Oh, well.
01:00:42Um, um, um, um, um, um, the opposition to the Corn Laws steadily increased.
01:00:47At length, the conservative premier, Sir Robert Peel, became a convert to Great Britain, and
01:00:56in 1846, carried a murder to put a name to the Corn Laws.
01:01:01And it ceased altogether in 1848, with the exception of a registration duty of one shilling per
01:01:16quarter, which terminated in 1869.
01:01:19You know, I don't know about you, but I, uh, I find this a trifle drive.
01:01:24So do we, sir.
01:01:25I thought so.
01:01:26Well, now, but it does mention one very interesting man, Sir Robert Peel, the founder of our modern
01:01:32police force, and a very good job he made of it, too.
01:01:35As a matter of fact, if it hadn't been for him, we should never have had the highly efficient
01:01:39organization with its network of detectives, plainclothes men, and coppers, narcs, I mean
01:01:44informers, that we have today.
01:01:47But still, I dare say that many of you boys, at one time or another, have wanted to be detectives.
01:01:53Yes, I thought so.
01:01:55But let me tell you that it requires more than muscle to make a detective nowadays.
01:02:00Oh, yes.
01:02:01I mean, you have to have powers of observation and deduction.
01:02:04Now take observation, for instance.
01:02:06I very much doubt if there's a single boy here that could tell me whose card it was that
01:02:10went down the drive just now.
01:02:12It's a head's car, sir.
01:02:13How do you know that?
01:02:14Because he always goes out at this time.
01:02:16That's right.
01:02:17Well, now, if he always goes out at the same time, it's probable that he always returns
01:02:22at a certain hour.
01:02:23Has any boy observed what time that is?
01:02:25Three o'clock, sir.
01:02:26What, every day?
01:02:27Yes, sir, because he takes that in a quarter past three.
01:02:30Hmm.
01:02:31You're more observant than I thought.
01:02:32Well, now, let us see if you're as good at deduction.
01:02:35I'll give you a start.
01:02:36Now, if he always goes out at the same time, that is 2.30, and he's only gone for half
01:02:41an hour, it follows that wherever he goes can only be a quarter of an hour's car ride
01:02:46away, probably less, since he must spend some time at his destination.
01:02:51Now, can any boy deduce where he goes in that time?
01:02:55The village, sir.
01:02:56What makes you think that?
01:02:57Because I've seen his car there, sir.
01:02:59That's right.
01:03:00Parked outside the post office.
01:03:02I see.
01:03:03Still, that is observation, not deduction.
01:03:06Now, let us try and deduce what he does in the post office.
01:03:10Excuse me, sir, but isn't that the headmaster's business?
01:03:14I beg yours.
01:03:15May you take that as being tantamount or above?
01:03:18Well, sir, I really meant that...
01:03:19Don't apologize.
01:03:20You're quite right, my boy.
01:03:22It's no concern about what he does in the post office.
01:03:24So, as a quid pro quo, if I take May knows out of the headmaster's business, perhaps you'll
01:03:29stick yours in that book and read from where we left off.
01:03:31What they're doing is they're butting in on a case that doesn't concern them.
01:03:37My case.
01:03:38If you're right, I shall have something to say to Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham
01:03:43laying down on this job without my permission.
01:03:46They better have a pretty good reason for this.
01:03:48Hello.
01:03:49Oh, is that you, Chief?
01:03:50Well, I've stumbled across something very interesting.
01:03:55No, no, no.
01:03:56It's not to do with the scrounging case, but...
01:03:59Oh, yes, I know, Chief, but...
01:04:02Yes, Chief.
01:04:06How much would your pension be worth if you retired tomorrow?
01:04:09I don't know.
01:04:10Why?
01:04:10Well, you'd better start working it out.
01:04:13Yes, that's quite true, Chief, but...
01:04:16But, Chief...
01:04:17That's my last word, and I don't want any arguments.
01:04:21So you can just take the first train straight back to London.
01:04:25Murdered?
01:04:26Who's been murdered?
01:04:28It says that dentist didn't commit suicide.
01:04:31Now, have you any clues to who's the murderer?
01:04:34You know?
01:04:35Then why didn't you arrest him?
01:04:36Now, that's got nothing to do with it.
01:04:38I've told you before, that's Blow's case.
01:04:40And tell him I resent his interference.
01:04:41Who's talking to him, you or me?
01:04:43Oh, you, sir.
01:04:44Very well, then.
01:04:45Don't interrupt.
01:04:45Registered letter?
01:04:48What registered letter?
01:04:50A registered letter is posted every day
01:04:52to 121 Wessex Street, London.
01:04:56And I want to find out what is going on there.
01:04:59Tell them we think it's the headquarters of the whole outfit.
01:05:01Now, look here.
01:05:01What with two of them jabbering at one end of the line
01:05:03and you hissing in me ear,
01:05:04it'll be quicker if I went to London after all.
01:05:06The Wessex Street is SW1, you know.
01:05:07Now, don't you shove your oar in.
01:05:09Four policemen's enough on one line
01:05:10without the help of the post office.
01:05:11No, chief.
01:05:16Lord, let me...
01:05:18No, no.
01:05:18Now, all I want you to do
01:05:20is to get somebody competent
01:05:21to watch 121 Wessex Street
01:05:24until the registered letter arrives
01:05:26and then pounce and catch the lot of them.
01:05:29And afterwards,
01:05:31ask them to ring up Bingham
01:05:32at Allingford 69
01:05:33and I'll beg the murderer.
01:05:37Fine.
01:05:39Good night, chief.
01:05:39I can do with the drink after that.
01:05:47What about the post office?
01:05:48Well, it's a bit late at night,
01:05:49but since it's been just an exciting day,
01:05:51I think I'll have a small whiskey and soda.
01:05:53Bingham,
01:05:54order to a small whiskey, will you?
01:05:55I'll have a double.
01:05:58Hello, miss.
01:05:59Ask the waiter to send up two double whiskeys
01:06:01and one small one.
01:06:04Sam,
01:06:05one whiskey and two doubles for number two?
01:06:07Right.
01:06:08Oh, and find out what they want to eat.
01:06:09Good evening, sir.
01:06:19Good evening.
01:06:20I believe you have a Mrs. Sutton staying here.
01:06:22Would you be good enough to send out my card?
01:06:23Yes, sir.
01:06:28Sam!
01:06:30Take that card to number eight
01:06:31on your way up, will you?
01:06:33Very good, sir.
01:06:39You said you'd be here at nine o'clock.
01:07:05It's nearly ten.
01:07:06I know.
01:07:16It's Carlson.
01:07:17He's dead.
01:07:18I know.
01:07:19He was murdered.
01:07:20So it was you who killed him.
01:07:23You reported to me that he was about to clear off to South America.
01:07:26A man like that's not only useless, but dangerous.
01:07:29Well, all I can say is you might have been a little more careful about it.
01:07:33In what way?
01:07:34It may interest you to know that whilst you were disposing of Carlson, there were two
01:07:38detectives in the house.
01:07:39You sure?
01:07:40I met one of them.
01:07:42Did you find anything?
01:07:43Only a list of our agents in the safe.
01:07:45You needn't be alarmed.
01:07:47I played the prostrate widow very successfully.
01:07:52Well, I'll be getting along.
01:07:53I should have closed out my cucumber frame a couple of hours ago.
01:07:56Well, thank you very much for your assistance, Mr. Tomboy.
01:07:59A pleasure.
01:07:59Good night, Inspector.
01:08:00Good night.
01:08:01Good night, Sergeant.
01:08:01Good night, Mr. Tomboy.
01:08:04Hello?
01:08:04Is that you, Hornley?
01:08:06It's Blow here.
01:08:07I said, what sort of a game are you playing?
01:08:08Oh, listen, I'm in Wessex Street now, and there is no 121.
01:08:12The highest number on the street is 75.
01:08:14You want to talk...
01:08:15Here, hang on a minute, will you?
01:08:16Bring back the post office, will you?
01:08:18Quick.
01:08:18Mr. Tomboy!
01:08:19Just a minute.
01:08:21Yes?
01:08:21He wants it.
01:08:23Where's your registered letterbook?
01:08:24Here it is.
01:08:25Well, you know what I want.
01:08:26Yes.
01:08:30Ah, here we are.
01:08:31Now, this can't lie.
01:08:32I've got the post office registered letterbook here.
01:08:34Now, there's been a registered letter sent to Mr. E. Knight, 121 Wessex Street, practically
01:08:41every day for three months.
01:08:43I suppose you can count up to 121?
01:08:45And I don't want any insults.
01:08:47You ask for someone to check up on this, and I've done it.
01:08:49Yes, but I ask for somebody competent.
01:08:52We are competent at the yard since you left, and I'm telling you there's no 121 Wessex Street,
01:08:57and there won't be until they pull down the houses of Parliament and make the street
01:08:59a bit longer.
01:09:00Well, why on earth don't you stick your strawberry jam instead of...
01:09:03Hello?
01:09:03Hello?
01:09:03Oh.
01:09:06There's no such place as 121 Wessex Street.
01:09:09But he sends a letter there every day.
01:09:11There's no such place, I tell you.
01:09:12But why would he send a letter to a place that isn't there?
01:09:14It doesn't make sense.
01:09:15But look, 121 Wessex Street, written by my own hand.
01:09:19Well, I don't care if you wrote it with your elbow.
01:09:21There are only 75 houses in Wessex Street, and 121 isn't one of them.
01:09:25But if registered letters are not delivered, they come back to me.
01:09:28Have you never had any of them back?
01:09:29Never.
01:09:29That's why I say if it's written there...
01:09:30Oh, take them all the way.
01:09:31Now, that letter was handed in your post office this afternoon.
01:09:36Now, where would it be at this moment?
01:09:37In a sealed bag at Northbury, waiting for the night mail.
01:09:39Where does the bag join the train?
01:09:41Lackister?
01:09:41No, about 10 miles before that, it's caught up by the automatic arm.
01:09:44Where does the night mail start from?
01:09:46Carlisle.
01:09:46What time?
01:09:4710.45.
01:09:4910.05.
01:09:50Regan, we're going to Carlisle.
01:09:52We don't want a bit of luggage, Chief.
01:09:53Leave it.
01:09:59I'll get you a passport, Helen, and you can go abroad to a neutral country.
01:10:02There must be one left somewhere.
01:10:06Wait a minute.
01:10:08There's the detective who's in the house.
01:10:10Which one?
01:10:11The tall one.
01:10:12The little fellow we've got in tow was the village postmaster.
01:10:16And I was under the impression that the man with him was my new history master,
01:10:20and I appear to have made a mistake.
01:10:21Suppose it was just a nominal charge for the room, seeing I haven't slept in it.
01:10:24I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay the full price as you've used the room.
01:10:30Here, you're charging me for bed and breakfast, and I haven't done either.
01:10:32Go on, pay up and don't argue.
01:10:34If it was my own money, I'd be adamant.
01:10:37I'm seeing it will go down in expenses or concede the point.
01:10:40They must have found out I was here.
01:10:42If they had, they'd hardly be leaving.
01:10:44No, I fancy they had something else on their minds.
01:10:47Oh, can't you pocket it without counting the change for once?
01:10:49Come on, come on.
01:10:50Good night, Mr. Tomboy.
01:10:51A minute, thanks again.
01:10:51All right.
01:10:55Oh, good evening, Mr. Tomboy.
01:10:57I wonder if you'd mind obliging me.
01:10:59I know it's after post office hours and all that,
01:11:00but I should be very grateful if you'd break the rules and cash a money order for me.
01:11:04Well, I...
01:11:05Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the bank today.
01:11:08Well, certainly, Dr. Kerbyshley, with the greatest of pleasure.
01:11:10Oh, thank you very much.
01:11:11I'll run you down to the post office now, shall I?
01:11:13Oh, thanks.
01:11:13Yes.
01:11:16Well, it's one of the registered letters for London.
01:11:19I made a mistake about the receipt.
01:11:21It got the addresses mixed up.
01:11:22If I could have it back, I could put it right in a few minutes.
01:11:26It's gone.
01:11:28Oh.
01:11:29Oh, very well.
01:11:31The registered letters have already left Northby for the mail train.
01:11:34It's too late to stop them now, Dr. Kerbyshley.
01:11:36There's nothing I can do, can...
01:11:38You've no reason to suspect any of your sorted, have you, Joe?
01:11:48No.
01:11:49Of course, I can't say for certain.
01:11:51We keep getting new ones on as the young'uns are called up.
01:11:53But I wouldn't surprise everybody if somebody new came on tonight.
01:11:56I don't follow you, Inspector.
01:11:57For me, for instance.
01:11:58Sorting isn't an easy job, you know.
01:12:00It's years before you're any good at it.
01:12:02Well, you're shorthanded and I'm no good at it.
01:12:04You can keep telling me so.
01:12:06Say you've got to give me the second in the morning.
01:12:07That'll fool them.
01:12:08It might work, Joe.
01:12:10What do you think?
01:12:12I don't know.
01:12:12It's got to work.
01:12:13Now, come on.
01:12:14You're the place, Master.
01:12:15Who can you substitute me for?
01:12:17When's your room gone due for the call-up?
01:12:18Any day.
01:12:19Well, if we can stop him before he gets here, we can tell the rest he's had it.
01:12:24But me, can't I be a short or two?
01:12:26No, you can't.
01:12:28You're going to be what you've always been, a passenger.
01:12:30Hello.
01:12:30Send George in here, will you, please?
01:12:33There's a hell of a lot.
01:12:34Runcourt's been called up.
01:12:35He'll take his place.
01:12:36Here we go.
01:12:38Job's the name?
01:12:39Yes, man, I've sold it for five years.
01:12:40Seven.
01:12:41He'll be as good as some of you.
01:12:42I hope the train's coming in now.
01:12:44Look like you're there.
01:12:44Very late for dinner, Job.
01:12:47Let's follow up.
01:13:01Hello.
01:13:04Faster.
01:13:04Want another phone?
01:13:08Better hurry.
01:13:11Hello?
01:13:11Hello?
01:13:14Yes.
01:13:16I have to warn you, two detectives will be on the train tonight.
01:13:19No, if you're careful, it'll be all right.
01:13:22One of them's tall, bald, looks intelligent and isn't.
01:13:26The other one's short, with a sour face, doesn't look intelligent and he is.
01:13:29Has he got a heavy load?
01:13:31Oh, I've seen him.
01:13:33He's the new sorter.
01:13:34They're working fast.
01:13:36Listen, whatever you do, don't let him get hold of that letter.
01:13:39No, leave that to me.
01:13:41I don't like the sound of it.
01:13:42I don't like it.
01:13:44I don't like it.
01:13:53I don't like it.
01:13:55I don't like it.
01:13:57Let's go.
01:13:59Let's go.
01:14:33Here we are.
01:14:36Registered.
01:14:40Beats me when people find a right about it.
01:14:42No consideration for others, that's what it is.
01:15:18You?
01:15:22What are you doing here?
01:15:24Good evening, Sergeant.
01:15:26Perhaps I should introduce myself.
01:15:28I'm the principal of your colleague's school.
01:15:30It is smart of you both to discover that I posted a registered letter this afternoon and to catch a train at Carlyle.
01:15:36But I have an idea.
01:15:37The inspector won't find that letter.
01:15:38Oh?
01:15:39Why not?
01:15:40Because you're going to write him a little note and ask him to come along here and see me first.
01:15:44And you think I'd fall for a thing like that, eh?
01:15:46Well, I'm hoping this way, John.
01:15:48I suppose you know it's a very serious thing to point a gun at me like that.
01:15:49For you or for us?
01:15:50For you, of course.
01:15:51For you, of course.
01:15:52I know all about you.
01:15:53And you've both got to answer a few questions.
01:15:54I'm sorry, Sergeant, but as a schoolmaster, I prefer to put the questions.
01:15:55And at the moment I'm asking you to write that note to Hornley.
01:15:57It's a very good one, sir.
01:15:58It's a very good one, sir.
01:15:59I'm sorry, Sergeant, but I'm going to be right back.
01:16:00Yes, sir.
01:16:01No, you're not going to be right back.
01:16:02Thank you very much.
01:16:03I know that I was going to be right back.
01:16:04I don't know how to go.
01:16:05You're going to be right back.
01:16:06I'm not going to be right back.
01:16:07Yes, sir.
01:16:08You're going to be right back.
01:16:09I've got to be right back.
01:16:10For you or for us?
01:16:11For you, of course.
01:16:12I know all about you.
01:16:14And you've both got to answer a few questions.
01:16:15got to answer a few questions. I'm sorry, Sergeant, but as a schoolmaster, I prefer
01:16:19to put the questions. And at the moment, I'm asking you to write that note to Hornley.
01:16:24Do you think I did that? I should if I were you.
01:16:28Over my dead body. Isn't that rather an unfortunate way of putting it? I think we can avoid that
01:16:33unpleasantness for the moment. Helen, would you mind relieving the Sergeant's wallet?
01:16:38Careful, Sergeant. I'll throw caution to the winds in a minute.
01:16:45That'll be very foolish of you. And his father's hand, please.
01:16:51What are you going to do? I've spent a considerable period of my youth
01:16:54practicing the art of forgery or suffering the penalties for it. Helen, would you mind?
01:17:03I imagine we shall find an example of your handwriting on your identity card.
01:17:08Mr. Busby.
01:17:24Got a new sorter on tonight?
01:17:26Well?
01:17:27Local on the train there says he's his brother. Asked me to give him this note.
01:17:31Well, it's against regulations. Still, we'll let it go this time.
01:17:38You're still on that luck?
01:17:43Well, let me tell you, if everybody here worked at the speed you're going,
01:17:45this post will arrive in about three years' time.
01:17:48Here.
01:17:50Talk about a nagger.
01:17:52I'll soon be at home with my wife.
01:17:54I've got to go along and see my sergeant.
01:18:10The letter I am after is in the SWO, number 20.
01:18:13It's addressed tonight.
01:18:141-2-1-6-3.
01:18:16Keep your eyes blue to it while I'm gone, will you?
01:18:17I'll pay you.
01:18:18I'll pay you.
01:18:18I'll pay you.
01:18:34I'm a CID man.
01:18:38I wonder if you'll go in that next compartment and examine the tickets.
01:18:42I'll pay you, sir.
01:18:43Certainly, sir.
01:18:49Tickets, please.
01:18:56Your tickets are, please.
01:18:57I don't think I've got mine on me.
01:18:59I suspect that I think I'll come with you.
01:19:00I think I've got yours, Edward.
01:19:03Thank you, madam.
01:19:05Thank you, brother.
01:19:07There you are, dear.
01:19:07Who's in there?
01:19:11Tall, bald, heady, gentlemen, sir.
01:19:12Looks rather pale.
01:19:13Yeah?
01:19:13Anybody else?
01:19:14A well-dressed man with a long nose and a red-headed woman.
01:19:16Rather pretty.
01:19:17Oh, thank you very much.
01:19:19Anything else I can do for you, sir?
01:19:20No, not just now, thank you.
01:19:21Very good, sir.
01:19:33Excuse me.
01:19:35What's he saying, Gaines, sir?
01:19:37The inspector's rather a long time.
01:19:56I hope the Osig sergeant's be no hitch.
01:20:00Don't move.
01:20:05Good luck, sir.
01:20:05Good luck.
01:20:06Well, Dr. Kerbisley, I think you've had my credentials.
01:20:15Go on, watch him, Bingham.
01:20:16I'll be back in a moment.
01:20:17There.
01:20:19And don't let this redhead try any more of our tricks.
01:20:21No, sir.
01:20:27It's just an example of the way we work, you know.
01:20:30I hope I find some pain back.
01:20:31Yeah, Corporal, look out of those two.
01:20:37This is what is known as a matter of national importance.
01:20:39All right, Inspector.
01:20:40Well, I need to call, Corporal.
01:20:41Well, you will be.
01:20:41Come on on, Bingham.
01:20:42I may need your help.
01:20:44So long, Doctor.
01:20:45See you later.
01:20:45Here, where's that registered letter?
01:21:01Which registered letter?
01:21:03The one that was in there.
01:21:04Well, what do you want with it?
01:21:05That's my business.
01:21:06What have you done with it?
01:21:07You're accusing me of pinching it.
01:21:08I'm asking you what you've done with it.
01:21:10I'm not going to be talked to a lot like that by an extra man.
01:21:12I'm going to have this out with the head sorter.
01:21:18Well, Mr. Lusby.
01:21:19He's a bear in the air accusing me of pinching it.
01:21:25I should take it easy if I were you.
01:21:31All right, fellas.
01:21:32We're from Scotland Yard.
01:21:33This is Inspector Holm in the CID.
01:21:35Look out to him for me.
01:21:36He's our fifth columnist.
01:21:37Come on, out of it.
01:21:38Come on, out of it.
01:22:08Well, the little fellow that never broadcasts from the same place twice.
01:22:12And within 24 hours of laying my hand on the mystery transmitter, I had the whole organization
01:22:17behind bars.
01:22:18Why are you all there?
01:22:19What a blow.
01:22:20You're not a long chapter.
01:22:21Making the most of it, I suppose.
01:22:23I am.
01:22:23Oh, I mentioned that you had some connection with the case.
01:22:26Oh.
01:22:26You still haven't mentioned my connection with it.
01:22:29I haven't finished yet.
01:22:31In conclusion, I would like to pay tribute to a man without whose help I could never have
01:22:35achieved this coup.
01:22:36Mr. Tomboy, the postmaster of Upper Alley.
01:22:39Well, look here, Chief.
01:22:41I've given you the best years of my life.
01:22:43Hello?
01:22:44Oh, what is that?
01:22:46Commissioner for you, Blow.
01:22:46Hello?
01:22:49Morning, Chief.
01:22:51But Hornley's on the scrounging case, sir.
01:22:53Since when?
01:22:54Oh.
01:22:55What?
01:22:57Me?
01:22:57My age?
01:22:59That's right.
01:23:00Suppose I'll get a commission.
01:23:01No, no.
01:23:01Private.
01:23:03Very good, sir.
01:23:04And don't think this is a penny job, Blow, all men.
01:23:07I mean, this isn't just the case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
01:23:09Oh, no, no.
01:23:10It's costing the country a thousand a year.
01:23:11And here's a few clues to be going on with.
01:23:14One pair of gents underbendies large size, one tin of pilchards, and one bar of carbonic
01:23:19soap.
01:23:25One pair of gents under plebüssings.