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🔎✨ Sherlock Holmes – The Case of Lady Beryl (Episode 2, 1954) ✨🔎 📺 In this classic episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series), we once again join: 🕵️‍♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨‍⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade  ⚡ Episode Summary: Holmes and Watson are called to investigate a mysterious murder connected to Lady Beryl. To everyone’s surprise, Lady Beryl confesses to the crime—but Sherlock Holmes is not convinced. With his sharp mind and brilliant deductions, Holmes uncovers the real truth behind the case, proving that appearances can be deceiving.  💡 Why Watch This Episode? ✔️ A gripping mystery full of suspense and intrigue ✔️ Ronald Howard’s Sherlock Holmes at his clever best ✔️ A vintage gem from the early days of classic television (1954) ───────────────────────────── 👉 Binge the full playlist of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954) for nonstop detective action! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnTKAJ16ovG0sQTB5iqXP1ra  👉 Don’t forget to Like 👍, Comment 💬 & Subscribe 🔔 for more classic mysteries and vintage TV treasures. ───────────────────────────── 📌 Hashtags & Tags for SEO: #SherlockHolmes 🕵️‍♂️ #LadyBeryl #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes #1954TVSeries #ClassicTV 📺 #RonaldHoward #DrWatson #InspectorLestrade #VintageMystery #DetectiveDrama #GoldenAgeTelevision ________________________________________

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00:30The End

01:00I wish to see Inspector Lestrade

01:06At once

01:07Your name, sir?

01:08Dr. John Watson

01:09He's expecting you, sir

01:10In a way, I believe he is

01:12Well, I'll tell him you're here, sir

01:14You can go in, sir

01:23Ah, Dr. Watson

01:27I didn't expect of the pleasure of seeing you again so soon

01:30Will you kindly read that?

01:33What is it?

01:34Read it

01:35Oh

01:38Yes, sir

01:40Oh

01:40I think it's disgraceful, sir

01:43Absolutely disgraceful

01:45What?

01:47Yes, and I'm glad you are here

01:48So that I can tell it to you personally

01:50Why, you and I both know that it was Sherlock Holmes who solved the Cunningham case

01:55If it wasn't for his brilliance and his persistency

01:58The fact would never have been brought to light

01:59And I think it's scandalous, sir

02:02That the newspaper should have given me all the credit

02:05And said so very little about his magnificent achievement

02:07What do you think, Doctor?

02:09I absolutely agree with you

02:11I'm glad you're on my side, Doctor

02:13Why, of course, I'm so glad you take it that way

02:16What does Holmes think?

02:17Oh, he doesn't mind

02:18You know, he doesn't care who gets the credit

02:20Oh, dear old Holmes

02:22Such a modest fellow

02:23Yes, sir

02:23Well, look, you must give him my kind regards

02:26Yes

02:26And tell him that

02:27Although I know he doesn't think anything about it

02:29I intend to get the newspapers to get the facts straight

02:32Well, that's very good of you, Inspector

02:34What's Holmes doing these days?

02:35Well, the last time I saw him

02:37He was playing about a lot of ink smudges

02:38And talking about, um, the prints that fingers make

02:41No

02:42Good old Holmes

02:45Always experimenting

02:46Inspector Lestrade, sir

02:49Yes, what is it?

02:50There's been a murder reported at the home of Lord Beryl

02:52What? Lord Beryl of the Foreign Office?

02:55That's him, sir

02:55I'll be right with you

02:56Excuse me, Doctor

02:58Yes, of course

02:59Lord Beryl

03:00This is going to be a tricky situation

03:03To handle what with a foreign office

03:05And who knows what else

03:06Yes, indeed

03:07Can I be of any assistance?

03:09I don't think so, Doctor

03:10Oh, perhaps as a medical man

03:12Mind you, I don't know what to expect

03:13But I think you would be of invaluable assistance

03:16Say no more

03:17Here's the address, sir

03:18Your carriage is waiting outside

03:20Oh, thank you very much

03:21Perhaps you'd care to acquaint Sherlock Holmes

03:23With what has happened

03:24Well, I don't know

03:25I don't know myself what's happened

03:28As you said, the people involved

03:30Make this case rather delicate

03:32Perhaps a little suggestion

03:34Now and then

03:35Might help facilitate matters

03:36One never knows

03:37Yes, you're so right

03:40Take a message to Mr. Sherlock Holmes

03:42Of 221 Baker Street

03:43221B

03:44Yes, of course

03:45221B Baker Street

03:46Tell him what has happened

03:47And drive him to Lord Beryl's residence

03:49Yes, sir

03:50And tell him Dr. John Watson is already there

03:52The flat's for first floor up

03:53Yes, sir

03:54Very good, sir

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04:27Come in.

04:38Excuse me, Mr. Holmes.

04:39Yes?

04:40I have a message for you, sir.

04:42Mm-hmm.

04:43There's been a murder committed at the home of Lord Peryl.

04:46Inspector Lestrade and Dr. Watson have already gone there.

04:50Would you care to have some tea?

04:53Some tea, sir?

04:55Yes.

04:56Is that what you're making?

04:57Oh, come along.

04:57Come and have a look at this.

04:59I'm working on an extract from a special series of pygmy poisons.

05:04Oh, very interesting, sir.

05:06Tea?

05:07Well, yes, sir.

05:08I don't mind if I do.

05:13You take milk?

05:15Yes, sir, please, sir, if I may.

05:16Sir, indeed.

05:18Sugar?

05:19Thank you, sir.

05:20Oh, where did I put that sugar in?

05:22Ah, I think it is very few.

05:24Help yourself.

05:25Thank you, sir.

05:26Thank you, sir.

05:27Well, I believe that certain poisons, if taken in the correct doses, can actually have beneficial

05:39rather than fatal effects.

05:42Now, that's very interesting, sir.

05:44Yes, it is, isn't it?

05:45Well, what's all this over here, sir?

05:48All that?

05:49Oh, those are some tropical leaves.

05:51They were sent to me by a friend of mine who hunts in that part of the country.

05:54The essence, you see, passes through this tube, down here and across the table, and is condensed

06:02in that retort there.

06:05And what's that stuff in the bottom there?

06:06That's lime.

06:07That acts as a catalytic agent to combine the essence of the leaves with a dark, tar-like substance,

06:14which you can see at the bottom.

06:15Inspector Lestrade, I demand to see my wife.

06:30You've kept me waiting half an hour, and now I should like an explanation.

06:32Of course, you're entitled to one, sir.

06:35You know that Carl Oberstein was murdered in your study.

06:37I was informed of that, and it is a tragedy, of course.

06:40But I still don't see that that is...

06:42Lord Beryl, your wife has confessed to shooting him.

06:46What?

06:48That's why I couldn't allow you to see her.

06:50We were taking her statement.

06:52What does she say?

06:54Apart from the actual confession of murder, she refuses to say anything.

06:59You may go in now if you wish, Lord Beryl.

07:07You may go in now.

07:37What's that you're putting in now, sir?

07:41Well, it's a form of acid dye.

07:44There.

07:46That's all right.

07:49Oh, where have you two been all the afternoon?

07:52Didn't the sergeant tell you?

07:54Oh, yes, I remember.

07:56It was a murder somewhere.

07:57Wasn't it interesting?

07:58No, Mr. Dewey.

07:59Uh-huh.

08:01Well.

08:02Mr. Spade, come and have a whiskey in.

08:03I don't.

08:03Whiskey and salad, let's train.

08:08Oh, I don't know.

08:09I'll be off duty in five minutes.

08:12Yes, I think that'd be all right.

08:16Don't...

08:16Meat for me.

08:18Well, sit down if you can find yourself a plate.

08:21There you go.

08:24Yes, well, I think we can leave that to boil for a little while now.

08:27Now, gentlemen, what's the problem?

08:30Who was murdered?

08:32A man named Carl Oberstein.

08:35Oberstein?

08:36Oberstein.

08:36Oh, yes, I remember.

08:37An Austrian chap.

08:39He was originally, but, of course, for a number of years, he's been a freelance agent.

08:44Mm-hmm.

08:44Flying and selling anything he'd get his hands on, eh?

08:46But his hands are a bit too much this time.

08:48Lady Burl shot him.

08:50Holtz Smith, 38.

08:52Oh, really?

08:54There was a nasty bit there.

08:56I examined the body before it was removed.

08:58Entire back of the head gone.

09:00Instantaneous death of court.

09:01Did you find the bullet?

09:02No, the police surgeon will do that.

09:03It hadn't come out.

09:05Yes, and that shot in the back of the head removes any possible chance Lady Burl may have had of claiming self-defense.

09:12You're off duty now, aren't you, Wilkins?

09:14Yes, sir.

09:15You may go home.

09:16Thank you, sir.

09:17It's been a pleasure working for you this afternoon, Mr. Holmes.

09:22Like to know it all turns out.

09:24I'll let you know.

09:26Thank you, sir.

09:27Good afternoon, sir.

09:28I feel sorry for Lord Burl.

09:30I'll be quite a scandal when this appears in the papers.

09:33Yes, it certainly will be.

09:37I wonder why Lady Burl lied to you.

09:41What nationality was Lady Burl originally?

09:43Well, um, she was born in Austria, although she was brought up in America.

09:48She's been here in England for the past five years since her marriage, you know.

09:51It's a shame I won't like her has to remain in prison.

09:54Still, she might decide to tell you...

09:56What did you say?

10:05I beg your pardon.

10:08What did you say just now?

10:10I didn't say anything.

10:11Oh, yes, you did.

10:16You said, I wonder why Lady Burl lied to you.

10:20Oh, that.

10:21Yes, what did you mean?

10:22Nothing, except, of course, that Lady Burl didn't shoot this chap, Oberstein, at all.

10:26But she confessed to it.

10:28Nonsense.

10:29She didn't shoot Oberstein because Oberstein wasn't shot.

10:31His head was bashed in with a blunt instrument.

10:34The revolver you claim was the murder weapon actually belonged to Oberstein.

10:37She found it lying by his side and pretended she'd done it in order to shield her husband.

10:42She's no more guilty than you two are.

10:44Would you hold that like a good fellow, please?

10:46Would you please repeat that?

10:49Of course.

10:49It's as plain as her...

10:50Would you mind holding that?

10:52Oh, well, it's not plain to me.

10:54Well, you told me that Lady Burl confessed to shooting Oberstein, but Oberstein wasn't shot.

10:59Just because you find a man with the back of his head shattered and a gun lying by his side is no reason to assume he's been shot.

11:05You also assumed that the bullet had lodged in Oberstein's cranium because it hadn't emerged through the front.

11:13Now, any student of elementary ballistics knows that the greatest damage to the skull is on the opposite side to which the bullet entered.

11:19The point of entry is always clean.

11:21But the gun we found was an Austrian gun, and Lady Burl is an Austrian.

11:28Now, there's a logical bit of reasoning for you.

11:30Would you mind holding that, please?

11:32Lady Burl saw Oberstein lying there and jumped to the same conclusion we did.

11:35Lady Burl's innocent.

11:37Then somebody else is guilty.

11:39Brilliant.

11:40We've got to get back to the premises and re-examine them for clues.

11:45You come with us, Holmes.

11:46This nonsense can wait.

11:48Nonsense?

11:50Nonsense!

11:53Nonsense?

11:53Did you say nonsense?

11:55I'll have you know, Inspector Lestrade, that if the law enforcement agencies of this country were a little, an infinitesimal amount more advanced than ancient Neolithic man,

12:03I would not have to be doing the basic research work that will in time benefit police bureaus throughout the earth.

12:08You may have a point, Mr. Harold.

12:10A point?

12:10The only point is, the only point is human, of which there is a paucity in the halls of our defending to the public.

12:15So do you have anything to do?

12:16I certainly do think so.

12:17And I'll tell you a few other things to do, please.

12:19I'll tell you a few other things to do, please.

12:38And now, we return to the case of Lady Beryl.

12:46It's to be dependent 90% on the good memory.

12:49Details, Lestrade, those are the things.

12:52She's in here.

12:53Normally, I'd detain her for confessing to a crime she didn't commit, but, well, what with the foreign office and all that?

12:59I don't believe I will.

13:01No, no, Lestrade, you don't want to hold her.

13:03Much easier to solve the crime if she's out.

13:05Exactly.

13:10Inspector Lestrade.

13:35Lady Beryl, you know, of course, we're releasing you.

13:47So I understand.

13:49Do you know why?

13:50No.

13:51We've been able to prove that you didn't commit this murder you confessed to.

13:57I see.

13:59We would, however, like an explanation as to why you confessed to this crime.

14:02I prefer not to explain my actions, Inspector.

14:15You realize, of course, that your actions are in themselves punishable and that we could detain you.

14:22I see.

14:24Do you still prefer to make no statement?

14:29That is correct.

14:30That is correct.

14:32Very well, Lady Beryl.

14:36You'll be released as soon as the formalities can be cleared.

14:43Human beings lie to gain, to cover, or to protect.

14:47I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Holmes.

15:04Please consider me forever in your debt.

15:07Not at all.

15:10You're in the Foreign Office, aren't you, Lord Beryl?

15:12I am.

15:13Had you ever met Herr Oberstein before?

15:18I had.

15:20Exactly when?

15:22Last week.

15:23For the first time?

15:25And the last time.

15:27I see.

15:28I believe it was his habit to offer large sums of money to men in key positions,

15:33for the information they may have had in their possession.

15:36I believe that was his habit, Mr. Holmes.

15:42Oh, Lord Beryl, while your wife is on her way here,

15:44I wonder if I might look at the premises of the crime.

15:47Well, of course, of course.

15:49It happened in the study.

15:51With your permission.

15:52My house is yours, sir.

15:55Well, now, let me see.

16:08Karl Oberstein was lying about, um, about there.

16:13Of course, it's been removed.

16:16Yes, yes, of course.

16:19I see you've cleaned everything up with your usual remarkable efficiency, Lestrade.

16:24Now, look here, Holmes.

16:25I didn't know there was going to be any mystery about this affair.

16:28Oberstein's head was here, Holmes.

16:29His feet were there.

16:31Thank you, Watson.

16:40Where was the gun lying?

16:42To the left of the body.

16:44Nearer the hand or the feet?

16:47Nearer the head.

16:49Was Oberstein face up or down?

16:52Face up.

16:52I had to turn him over to examine him.

16:58Has there been any effort made to gain forceful entry into the huts?

17:01None was reported.

17:02What?

17:07Lord Beryl, do you use glasses when you read?

17:11I, uh, yes, I do.

17:13Please.

17:15Are they your only pair?

17:18Yes.

17:18Who first discovered the body?

17:22I believe my secretary.

17:25Is he here?

17:26Yes.

17:27I'll call him.

17:29I'll call him.

17:38Distraed?

17:40Where was Lord Beryl at the time you estimated the crime was committed?

17:44He'd been at a meeting with high government officials all day.

17:47Oh, good, good.

17:50Why did you ask about the glasses, Holmes?

17:53It's because Lord Beryl wears glasses when he reads.

17:57But Lady Beryl confessed to a crime she didn't commit.

18:00What?

18:05This is my secretary, Mr. Ross.

18:08You've met Inspector Lestrade and Dr. Watson.

18:10This gentleman is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

18:12How do you do?

18:14I understand it's through your efforts that Lady Beryl was returning home.

18:17Uh, partially through my efforts.

18:20I wonder if I could impose upon you, Mr. Ross.

18:22Of course, sir.

18:25Would you mind taking these sheets of paper

18:27and roughly outline the position in which you discovered the body?

18:31Outline it in scraps of paper?

18:33If you would be so kind.

18:35Why, of course.

18:37What's the purpose of that?

18:39How many men have you on the premises, Lestrade?

18:41Two outside. Why?

18:43Good, good.

18:43I wonder if you'd mind taking them into the garden behind this window

18:46and making a thorough search of the premises for a radius of 30 feet.

18:51Looking for what?

18:52Anything that doesn't belong in a garden.

18:54Are you serious, Holmes?

18:59Shh, shh, shh.

19:00Completely.

19:06Let's get him out of our way.

19:11Have you examined your safe, Lord Beryl?

19:14I have, Mr. Holmes.

19:15All my papers are intact.

19:18Excellent, excellent.

19:21Does Mr. Ross have a combination to your safe?

19:25Yes?

19:26There's been no question of robbery.

19:27Of course not, Ross.

19:29One must ask these questions in an investigation.

19:32Of course.

19:35Good afternoon, Lady Beryl.

19:37Oh, my darling.

19:40How are you?

19:41I'm all right, George.

19:42Quite all right.

19:43You must rest.

19:45This experience must have been horrible for you.

19:48It's all right.

19:48But it didn't last long enough to be too difficult.

19:51I don't know how, but Holmes has solved the entire thing.

19:57Has he really?

19:59Not entirely, Lady Beryl.

20:01Not yet.

20:03Do you expect to?

20:05I can only hope to.

20:10Mr. Holmes, if there's anything I can do to help.

20:15If it would not be too much of any position, Lady Beryl,

20:17I would like you to retake the position in which Mr. Ross discovered you when he entered the room.

20:21Mr. Holmes, my wife has had a harrowing experience.

20:25Please consider her nerves at this point.

20:27You're forgetting, Lord Beryl, that your wife confessed to a crime she didn't commit.

20:31The circumstances are somewhat exceptional.

20:33But if Lady Beryl would rather not, I...

20:36It's quite all right, George.

20:42Now, uh...

20:43Let me see, I...

20:47I was standing here.

20:53Exactly there?

20:54I, uh...

20:56I believe so.

20:58Mr. Ross,

21:00are you quite certain that that is the position in which Lady Beryl was standing?

21:04Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, Lady Beryl.

21:08Just for the sake of accuracy, I understand.

21:10I believe you were standing just a bit further to your left.

21:15A little to your left, Lady Beryl.

21:19Like that?

21:20Yes.

21:21I'd say right there.

21:23Good.

21:25Now, Lady Beryl had a revolver in her hand.

21:27Mr. Holmes.

21:28That is correct.

21:30In which hand?

21:32Well, my right hand.

21:35Mr. Ross?

21:36That's right.

21:37Lady Beryl's right hand.

21:39Lord Beryl, do you happen to have a revolver in the house?

21:42Yes, I have.

21:43May I have it?

21:45I'm not going to ask my wife to...

21:46Yes, I am.

21:48If your wife has no objection.

21:50Of course she has objections.

21:53I have no objections, Mr. Holmes.

21:55Ah, excellent.

22:05A .38 caliber.

22:06Do you notice, Watson, that it's patterned very closely after the Schmidtholtz, the revolver in question?

22:11Lady Beryl, is that the way you held it?

22:17I, uh, I believe so.

22:19Mr. Ross?

22:20Yes.

22:21It was like that.

22:23Mr. Ross, I'd like you to think very hard.

22:25A great deal depends on what you're going to say now.

22:27As far as you can remember, that was the position of Herr Oberstein's body?

22:34Yes.

22:34And where in relation to Herr Oberstein's body and Lady Beryl were the broken eyeglasses?

22:39Over there.

22:41There?

22:42Yes.

22:50Watson, were there any glasses on the floor when you found the body?

22:53Absolutely not.

22:55You're positive?

22:56Positive.

22:57That's right.

22:58I didn't know what I was saying.

23:01There were no glasses on the floor at all.

23:03There weren't any glasses on the floor when you found Lady Beryl bending over the body.

23:07But there were when you sent Herr Oberstein crashing to the ground.

23:15Before you run, Mr. Ross, look at Lady Beryl.

23:22I don't understand this, Mr. Holmes.

23:24Oh, very simple, really.

23:25Herr Oberstein approached you with an offer to buy foreign office secrets.

23:29You threw him out.

23:30Then Ross contacted him, prepared to sell him the secrets.

23:33Well, there's nothing missing from the safe.

23:36Of course not.

23:37If you sold anything, you'd have been found out.

23:39Herr Oberstein came here expecting to buy.

23:42You opened the safe, showed him the papers he wanted.

23:45He put his glasses on to examine them.

23:48And then when he paid you, you smashed his skull in.

23:51He fell, breaking his glasses.

23:53His revolver dropped from his pocket.

23:55Then you replaced the papers, pocketed the money, and left.

23:58It's a lie.

24:00Why, you filthy.

24:01The unfortunate point occurred when Lady Beryl discovered the body.

24:05You read the evidence incorrectly.

24:07I thought the gun was my husband's.

24:10Similar, but not the same.

24:11And the glasses.

24:13A very common variety of frame.

24:15You gathered up the pieces, except a few fragments, and threw the frames away.

24:20Yes.

24:20Then you lied to protect your husband.

24:25Yes.

24:26Nina.

24:27Brilliant, Holmes.

24:28Absolutely brilliant.

24:31Thank you, Watson.

24:43My humble and very grateful thanks, Mr. Holmes.

24:46It's been a pleasure to help so brave and noble a woman.

24:49I'm still not quite certain what's happened, but I know we shall both be forever indebted to you.

24:59Well, I searched the whole garden, Holmes.

25:02Couldn't find anything but this old pair of glasses.

25:05They're broken at that.

25:06Really?

25:07Mr. Holmes has solved the entire case, Inspector.

25:11He has?

25:12How?

25:13By the little things, Lestrade.

25:16The little things that one must remember.

25:18The little things that make the difference between success and disaster.

25:22One must never forget that the difference between...

25:25Good heavens.

25:28What?

25:29What is it, Holmes?

25:30I left the gas on under the experiment.

25:33Or Baker Street will be blown up.

25:37Holmes, I turned it off!

25:40I...

25:40No.

25:42Strain!

25:43Hold that!

25:45Holmes!

25:46Holmes!

25:47Holmes!

25:48Holmes!

25:49Holmes!

25:50Holmes!

25:51Holmes!

25:52Holmes!

25:53Holmes!

25:53THE END

26:23THE END

26:53THE END

26:55THE END

26:57THE END

26:59THE END

27:01THE END

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