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00:00The tune.
00:03Somehow the tune is the key to the mystery.
00:08It must be the tune.
00:10Otherwise, why use three musical boxes to convey the message?
00:14Why not collar boxes or shoe boxes?
00:18Yes?
00:20Oh. It's for you, Inspector.
00:22Oh, thank you, sir.
00:24Inspector Hopkins speaking.
00:27What?
00:30Where?
00:33Golders Green Station reports they've just found Sergeant Thompson's body.
00:37From the tire marks on his clothes, he was apparently run over by taxi.
00:41What an unfortunate accident.
00:43Not an accident, my dear fellow.
00:46I'm afraid it's murder.
00:49Oh, you know, we know just who you're going to meet
00:55When you're walking down a busy London street.
00:59Mrs. Orchid, Mrs. Brown, any subject of the crowd.
01:05Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.
01:09Sooo, you better hold your topper in your hand.
01:15Just in case you meet a lady on the strand.
01:19Girls will think you're kinda sweet, and your day will be complete.
01:25Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.
01:29Now a gentleman is judged by his appearance.
01:33Yes, a gentleman is judged by how he talks.
01:37Now he's much better off when he's acting like a toff.
01:43Especially if he's taking him a walk.
01:47What on earth is this outlandish place?
01:50A rendezvous for actors.
01:52Actors?
01:53Buskers, old boy.
01:55You've seen them a thousand times.
01:57Actors who entertain the queues.
01:59Waiting outside theatres.
02:01Oh, you never know just who you're going to meet.
02:06When you're walking down a busy London street.
02:10So you better wear your vest.
02:14Hell with pies to look your best.
02:16Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.
02:20Sooo, you better keep your manners right in view.
02:27Just in case a lie gives a how to do.
02:31Keep your trousers in a fleet.
02:34Shine your shoes and keep them neat.
02:37Cause you never know just who you're going to meet.
02:39Blimey.
02:42Mr. Holmes.
02:44How are you, Joe?
02:46Never pet him.
02:47And yourself?
02:48Fine, thank you.
02:49I want you to meet a friend of mine, Dr. Watson, Joe's sister.
02:52Oh, well, any friend of Mr. Holmes is a friend of mine.
02:54How are you, Joe?
02:55He did me a good turn once that I'll never forget.
02:57Yes, I cleared Joe of a most unpleasant charge.
03:00Murder, no less.
03:01Oh, really?
03:02By proving to the satisfaction of the police that he was busy at the time blowing open someone's safe.
03:06That's right, Governor.
03:07Good gracious me.
03:08Now, Joe.
03:09Now you can help me.
03:11Come on, buzz off, buzz off.
03:12Come on, up here, up here.
03:13Can't a gentleman have some peace and quiet around here?
03:17And you, too.
03:18There you are, Mr. Holmes.
03:19Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.
03:20Thank you, Joe.
03:21There's five pounds in this for you.
03:22Well, I wouldn't want to take it on meself, sir.
03:23But I can get somebody to do it for you for half of that.
03:24You don't know what the job is yet.
03:25For five pounds?
03:26Murder, ain't it?
03:27What?
03:28No, Joe, not murder.
03:29Just, uh, music.
03:30I want you to identify a song for me.
03:31Oh, there ain't a song that's been written that I don't know.
03:32That's why I came to you.
03:33Of course, the violin is more my instrument, but, um...
03:34Oh, well, here we go.
03:35Now listen to this, Joe.
03:36Now listen to this, Joe.
03:37Now listen to this, Joe.
03:38Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.
03:39Now we can have some peace and quiet around here.
03:40Thank you, Joe.
03:41There's five pounds in this for you.
03:42Well, I wouldn't want to take it on meself, sir.
03:43But I can get somebody to do it for you for half of that.
03:44You don't know what the job is yet.
03:45I want you to identify a song for me.
03:47Oh, there ain't a song that's been written that I don't know.
03:49That's why I came to you.
03:51Of course, the violin is more my instrument, but, um...
03:54Oh, well.
03:55Here we go.
03:56Now listen to this, Joe.
04:03Wait a minute.
04:04You're playing that wrong.
04:05That should be E natural, not E flat.
04:07You know the song?
04:08Oh, yes.
04:09It's an old Australian song called, uh, The Swag Man.
04:13But you're playing it all wrong.
04:14That's what I hoped you'd say.
04:15Now listen again, Joe.
04:23That's the same tune, all right.
04:24But you're making different mistakes than you did the first time.
04:27No, not mistakes, Joe.
04:28Call them variations.
04:29Here.
04:30Play the song for me.
04:31We're the other way it's written.
04:44There you are.
04:45Thank you, Joe.
04:46What's it mean, Holmes?
04:47Are you onto something?
04:48Perhaps.
04:49I don't know yet.
04:50It's probably a code of some sort.
04:53Joe.
04:54Could you write the song down for me?
04:55The way it was originally written?
04:56Oh, sure, Mr. Holmes.
04:57But it'll take a few minutes.
04:58Here, Mabel.
04:59Pale Ale.
05:00Come on, I'll do it.
05:01On with it.
05:02Come on with it.
05:03Come on.
05:04Come on.
05:05Come on.
05:06Come on.
05:08Come on.
05:09Come on.
05:10How did you get a code of some sort?
05:11It's probably a code of some sort.
05:12Joe.
05:13Could you write the song down for me?
05:14The way it was originally written?
05:15Oh, sure, Mr. Holmes.
05:16But it'll take a few minutes.
05:17Here.
05:18Mabel.
05:19Pale Ale.
05:20Come on.
05:21I'll do it.
05:22Come on with it.
05:23Well, obviously it isn't the lyrics.
05:36No combination of those words made any sense at all.
05:39The variations in the way Emery's musical box played the tune
05:42are different from the variations in the one we have.
05:44You're sure?
05:45Quite.
05:46You see, I took the trouble to memorize the tune as played by Emery's box
05:49that night we were with him in his sweat.
05:51Oh, you amaze me.
05:52Elementary, my dear fellow, one of the first principles in solving crime
05:56is never to disregard anything, no matter how trivial.
05:59But why are there three boxes? Why not one?
06:01Because the message was obviously too long to be conveyed by any one variation.
06:06Then there's the third box, the one that woman took from the Kilgores.
06:11That contains yet another set of variations.
06:14Yes, sir, it's all beyond me.
06:17Well, all we have to do now is to find the secret of the variations.
06:20Not a very easy problem to solve, my dear fellow.
06:22Right.
06:27Hello.
06:29Mr. Sir.
06:33We've had company.
06:40I say, this is outrageous!
06:45Ask Mrs. Hudson to come in here, will you?
06:46Right.
06:52Mrs Hudson?
06:55Yes?
06:57Oh, there you are. Will you come up here at once, please?
06:59I'm coming, sir.
07:00Yes, sir.
07:16Merci me, Mr Holmes. What has happened?
07:19Who called while we were out, Mrs Hudson?
07:21Just a young lady. The one who said you wanted her to wait for you.
07:25And a nice-looking old gentleman with her.
07:27Our friends again, Watson?
07:28Friends?
07:29What did the young lady look like?
07:30Oh, I couldn't see her face. She had a heavy black veil on.
07:34But she had such a nice way with her.
07:37Oh, I'm sorry, Mr Holmes, if I've done anything wrong.
07:42But you did say I should always let clients come in and wait for you.
07:46Don't worry, Mrs Hudson, don't worry. You had no way of knowing.
07:49It's quite all right, quite all right. Now, don't worry, Mrs Hudson.
07:53Don't worry, but where on earth's the musical box?
07:55They didn't get it.
07:56Didn't get it? Where is it?
07:57It's in your hand.
07:58In that biscuit jar.
07:59Take the biscuits off the top.
08:00Now, put your hand inside and you'll find the music box.
08:03Well done, Holmes.
08:04Well done, amazing.
08:05Ha, ha.
08:06Ha, ha.
08:07Ha, ha.
08:08Ha, ha.
08:09Ha, ha.
08:10Oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:11Oh, oh, oh.
08:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:13Oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:14Oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:15Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:16Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:17Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:18the music box. Well done, Holmes. Well done. Amazing.
08:24Oh, oh, oh.
08:45Phew. Nice fresh smell. Like a pub after closing time.
08:55I say, Holmes. What?
08:58It's morning. Allow me to congratulate you on a brilliant bit of deduction.
09:10It's not a transposition, not a polygraph transposition, not a trigraph,
09:15nor any known form of decoding. How about the Morse code? Have you tried that?
09:20Yes, at about three o'clock this morning. I'm sorry, old man. I was only trying to help.
09:24Oh, do me a favour. Not again. Must have heard that thing a thousand times.
09:29Keep me awake all night.
09:34Not a very distinguished composition, I grant you.
09:37You know perfectly well I don't know one tune from the other.
09:39When I was a kid, my people tried to have me taught the piano.
09:43I've always felt sorry for that old teacher of mine.
09:44The poor old girl finally reached the point of numbing the keys for me. One, two, three, four.
09:49Even then I never progressed beyond a...
09:51Numbering the keys, Watson?
09:52The 19th key of the keyboard is the 19th letter of the keyboard.
09:55The 19th letter of the alphabet. S. Here.
09:56Now, I'll be down when I give it to you old fellow, will you?
09:58Oh, come on.
09:59Oh, come on.
10:00Come on.
10:01Come on.
10:02Come on.
10:03Come on.
10:04Come on.
10:05Come on.
10:06Come on.
10:07Come on.
10:08Come on.
10:09Come on.
10:10Come on.
10:11Come on.
10:12Come on.
10:13Numbering the keys, Watson.
10:14The 19th key of the keyboard is the 19th letter of the alphabet.
10:20S. Here.
10:21Now, I'll be down when I give it to you old fellow, will you?
10:25The first altered note.
10:27Write S first.
10:28Now, the 8th key is H.
10:34The 5th key, E.
10:37The 12th key, L.
10:40The 6th key, F.
10:42S-H-E-L-F.
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