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00:00:00THE END
00:00:30Oh, my God.
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00:04:01Oh, my God.
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00:04:11Oh, my God.
00:04:13Oh, my God.
00:04:15Oh, my God.
00:04:17Oh, my God.
00:04:19Oh, my God.
00:04:21Oh, my God.
00:04:23Oh, my God.
00:04:25Oh, my God.
00:04:27Oh, my God.
00:04:29Oh, my God.
00:04:31Oh, my God.
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00:04:35Oh, my God.
00:04:37Oh, my God.
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00:04:43Oh, my God.
00:04:45Oh, my God.
00:04:47Oh, my God.
00:04:49I can't leave Dr. Watson alone. I must go.
00:04:52Will that be Dr. Watson, the friend of Sherlock Holmes?
00:04:55Yes.
00:04:56Then you know Holmes?
00:04:58No. Dr. Watson has known us since Ronnie and I were kids.
00:05:01But we've never met Mr. Holmes. He's always too busy.
00:05:04I see. I've got two aces of spades.
00:05:09But we've used this pack before.
00:05:13Oh, I know. Marston found one on the floor.
00:05:17Yes, but how could you?
00:05:19Yes, sir. And it must have dropped out here.
00:05:39You want cut, please, Colonel?
00:05:41Cut for me, Ronnie.
00:05:43Well...
00:05:45Oh, don't go, Kathleen.
00:05:47I'll come and say goodnight to you all before I go to bed.
00:05:49I expect you'll all be out until three.
00:05:51No, don't get up.
00:05:53I hope you all will.
00:06:03My dear, how kind of you to come.
00:06:05A summons from you comes before even a summons from Sherlock Holmes.
00:06:09It's great of you to stay, sir, anyhow.
00:06:11Take off your coat and let me give you a drink.
00:06:13No, thanks. I can't stay.
00:06:15I came for a moment because you sent for me.
00:06:19Well...
00:06:21Let's sit down for a minute.
00:06:23Let's go.
00:06:35Has Ronnie got another billiard attack?
00:06:37No.
00:06:38It's nothing, really.
00:06:39I'm a bit worried.
00:06:41Kathleen, dear, won't you confide in me?
00:06:43It's about Ronnie.
00:06:45Just gambling.
00:06:46You know, six months ago we hadn't a shilling.
00:06:49You mean when your trustee absconded and shot himself?
00:06:52Yes.
00:06:53We were going to leave here.
00:06:54Ronnie was going to give up the diplomatic service.
00:06:57And then he began to pay bridge for high stakes.
00:07:00But I always understood he was an exceedingly fine player.
00:07:03He is.
00:07:04But you can't always win.
00:07:07What do you mean?
00:07:09Always.
00:07:10Sometimes it's twenty pounds.
00:07:13Sometimes five hundred.
00:07:15But he never loses.
00:07:17It looks as if...
00:07:19Oh, I can't say it.
00:07:21It's impossible.
00:07:22Ronnie isn't capable of such a thing.
00:07:25But I would like to be sure.
00:07:27How can one make sure?
00:07:29Well, I really don't know.
00:07:31I'll ask Holmes.
00:07:33Oh, no.
00:07:34He might arrest Ronnie.
00:07:35Oh, of course he wouldn't.
00:07:37But he might frighten him into giving up cards.
00:07:40I never thought of that.
00:07:42Yes.
00:07:43Do ask him to do something.
00:07:46I'll come round and see him in the morning.
00:07:48May I?
00:07:49Well, I don't know.
00:07:50Yes, I may.
00:07:51You'll make him see me, won't you?
00:07:53He thinks an awful lot of you.
00:07:55Well, I don't think I need waste time.
00:07:57It's his end, Glenn.
00:07:58I make seven spades, three diamonds, two hearts,
00:08:02and the aces clubs.
00:08:03That's right.
00:08:04Another big rubber.
00:08:05Well, that just about cleaned me up.
00:08:07I make the difference.
00:08:09Sixteen a hundred points.
00:08:11You head up very quickly.
00:08:13Quite a mathematician, eh?
00:08:15How much is that?
00:08:17A hundred and sixty pounds.
00:08:19Well, I've lost both rubbers,
00:08:21and so I owe you two hundred and fifty-five pounds.
00:08:24If we settle up at the end.
00:08:27This is the end.
00:08:34My, uh, my wife is not very well,
00:08:37and I promise to go home early.
00:08:39Well, if you must, you must.
00:08:41I'm sorry to spoil your evening,
00:08:43but perhaps you can get Miss Adair to make up a fall.
00:08:46Kathleen plays a game that resembles hockey more than bridge.
00:08:49Still, if you are determined, we'll see you Monday.
00:08:52I'm afraid I shall be able.
00:08:54I have to go out of town on important business,
00:08:56and I don't know when I shall be back.
00:08:58Then it's no use trying to fix another evening.
00:09:00I'm afraid not.
00:09:02Let me know when you're back.
00:09:04Good night.
00:09:06And thanks very much.
00:09:08I didn't know Sir Timothy played bridge.
00:09:11Sir Timothy?
00:09:12Yes.
00:09:13Timothy Probisher.
00:09:15He's the fourth.
00:09:16You know, one can't work long with Sherlock Holmes
00:09:19without picking up some of his tricks of observation and deduction.
00:09:22What makes you think he's here?
00:09:24His initials.
00:09:25T.F.
00:09:26Timothy Probisher.
00:09:28Elementary, my dear Kathleen.
00:09:30Elementary.
00:09:31And then for further indications.
00:09:33The owner of this hat is immensely tall.
00:09:36You see, he's bruised the top edge here,
00:09:39probably going through a door.
00:09:41Excuse me, may I have my hat?
00:09:43Yours?
00:09:44Certainly.
00:09:45My initials are inside.
00:09:47T.E.Earth.
00:09:48Thomas Fisher.
00:09:50Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:09:51You're not going.
00:09:52Yes.
00:09:53My wife is not very well,
00:09:54and I promise to get home early.
00:09:56Oh, I am sorry.
00:09:57I think I'll go too.
00:10:03Well, good night, and thanks both ways.
00:10:06Sorry, I have this rotten luck.
00:10:08See you Monday.
00:10:09Well, really, I think I'd better not.
00:10:12I've lost an awful lot lately,
00:10:14and I think I'd better chuck it for a bit.
00:10:16Oh, just as you like.
00:10:17Well, it didn't think me rude, but...
00:10:19but I just can't afford it.
00:10:20That's all right, Emma.
00:10:23Good night, Colonel.
00:10:24Good night.
00:10:25Well, have you had a sick wife and a business appointment?
00:10:35No.
00:10:36A whiskey and soda.
00:10:38I'm sorry.
00:10:39Sir, it is rather rotten.
00:10:41I don't see why.
00:10:43Fisher being a millionaire naturally loses his temper when he loses sixpence.
00:10:48And Tony Rutherford is broke.
00:10:51Anything that's all?
00:10:52What else?
00:10:53Oh, nothing, of course.
00:10:54You can always get another four.
00:10:56Then you'll continue to come.
00:10:58With pleasure.
00:11:00I'm not afraid of losing sixpence.
00:11:01And I'm lucky.
00:11:02I often cut with you.
00:11:03What's the matter with you all?
00:11:04Stop it here early.
00:11:05Well, Fisher had to go.
00:11:06And for once in my life I'm going to have an early night.
00:11:07Then I'll see you out.
00:11:08Good night, Rony.
00:11:09Good night, Ernie.
00:11:10Good night, Ernie.
00:11:12Good night, Ernie.
00:11:13Good night, Ernie.
00:11:14Good night, Ernie.
00:11:15Well, Fisher had to go.
00:11:16And for once in my life I'm going to have an early night.
00:11:19Then I'll see you out.
00:11:21Good night, Ernie.
00:11:22Good night, Ernie.
00:11:23Good night, Ernie.
00:11:25Good night, Rooney.
00:11:27Good night, Arnold.
00:11:55Good night, Arnold.
00:12:25Good night, Arnold.
00:12:55Good night, Arnold.
00:12:57Good night, Arnold.
00:12:59Good night, Arnold.
00:13:01Good night, Arnold.
00:13:03Good night, Arnold.
00:13:05You have to tell me the truth.
00:13:07The truth?
00:13:08What do you mean?
00:13:09I have to find out the truth.
00:13:11It's a very difficult thing, darling.
00:13:13Won't you stop?
00:13:15It's kind of extreme the day he stayed.
00:13:19Completely extreme.
00:13:21You know exactly what I mean.
00:13:23When Martin picked it up, you said it belonged to that path.
00:13:28It doesn't, and you know it.
00:13:31Well, it must belong to another path.
00:13:33A hidden difficult path.
00:13:36What the devil do you mean?
00:13:39God knows I don't want to suggest it.
00:13:42But we will win.
00:13:44Then you started playing bridge for high school.
00:13:46Yes, definitely.
00:13:47We've always been the best of paths.
00:13:49But if you're going to say things like that, I...
00:13:51Don't you see everything points to it?
00:13:53Oh, I don't believe it.
00:13:55I won't believe it.
00:13:57If I did, I'd rather put a bullet through your head than earn a brotherhood.
00:14:01Excuse me, sir.
00:14:03A note from the Foreign Office.
00:14:09Thanks.
00:14:10Who brought it?
00:14:11It's a missing out.
00:14:12He there?
00:14:13No, sir.
00:14:14He said there would be no answer.
00:14:16Thanks.
00:14:18Shall you want anything else, sir?
00:14:20Not tonight, Martin.
00:14:22I shall want breakfast a bit earlier.
00:14:24The Foreign Office may help us nine.
00:14:26Very good, sir.
00:14:27Good night, please.
00:14:28Good night, Martin.
00:14:29Good night, sir.
00:14:30Good night, sir.
00:14:31Good night.
00:14:32What?
00:14:33Good night.
00:14:36Anything serious?
00:14:38Well, if you must know, they want me to go and see some German fellow in Hampstead.
00:14:41Who'll tell me some official secret which was probably published in last night's paper.
00:14:46Don't go, Ronnie.
00:14:47I've got to have this out with you.
00:14:49I can't believe it.
00:14:51Ronnie.
00:16:03What shall I do with Mr. Holmes' breakfast?
00:16:06Isn't he up yet?
00:16:08Ain't no sign of him.
00:16:09Hasn't even took in his shaving water.
00:16:11I do wish he'd be a bit more regular in his habit.
00:16:14Meals at all times of the day just turn out upside down.
00:16:18But you know, Mrs. Hudson, you always insist on keeping his meals for him.
00:16:22He never asks.
00:16:22Yes, but the poor man must eat sometimes.
00:16:26If I didn't see that he had a bite down again, it'd have been in his grave years ago.
00:16:31I should go and bang on his door.
00:16:32Yes, sir.
00:16:34But sometimes when he's thinking out his problems, he's that cross when he's disturbed.
00:16:39He won't be this morning.
00:16:40He's rather a good temper.
00:16:46And he doesn't want any breakfast.
00:16:54No, Mr. Holmes.
00:16:55You did give me a turn.
00:16:56Well, one good turn deserves another.
00:17:01What can I do for you?
00:17:02It's a breakfast, sir.
00:17:03Oh, I've already breakfasted with the manager of the London and Commercial Bank.
00:17:08Oh, so they've sent for you for this.
00:17:10Are you sure I can't send you to a nice bit of addict?
00:17:14My dear Mrs. Hudson, you've always been a temptation to me.
00:17:18But addict, after a good breakfast, is not.
00:17:22Oh, you do carry on.
00:17:24It's a good job I don't take you serious.
00:17:26I'm perfectly serious.
00:17:28Jokes are not my strong point.
00:17:30Ask the doctor.
00:17:31I never see any of his.
00:17:33No.
00:17:35I've been wondering, my dear Watson, why you don't get the batteries of your car recharged?
00:17:39What do you mean?
00:17:40You had great difficulty in getting your car to start last night.
00:17:43The batteries are run down.
00:17:45They are, but how did you know?
00:17:48You've a blister at the base of your fingers on the right hand.
00:17:53As you've not been sculling on the serpentine this morning, I deduced that you've been cranking your car.
00:17:57That's rather wonderful.
00:17:59That's elementary, my dear Watson.
00:18:02Elementary.
00:18:03Let me give you a hand.
00:18:04Thank you, sir.
00:18:04Can you lift that?
00:18:05Yes.
00:18:06On the cloth, on the top.
00:18:08Yes, please.
00:18:08There you are.
00:18:11You're sure there's nothing else I can do for you?
00:18:13No, nothing, thank you.
00:18:14Oh, wait a minute.
00:18:15Let me give you a hand.
00:18:22Why have they sinned for you about this?
00:18:26It's perfectly simple.
00:18:27A man tries to burden a bank, is disturbed, kills the watchman, and runs away.
00:18:35I find it very interesting.
00:18:37Have you ever heard of Professor Robert Moriarty?
00:18:46No.
00:18:46What's he got to do with it?
00:18:48Oh, he's to do with half the crimes the world over.
00:18:50He started as a mathematical professor, but ugly rumors gathered around him, and he resigned.
00:19:00Well, after that, he vanished for 10 years or so.
00:19:03I fancy he went abroad.
00:19:04Well, then he returned to England, and things began to happen.
00:19:10What things?
00:19:11For a long time, I've been conscious of some power, a deep organization which stands in the way of the law.
00:19:23Once he made a slip, and I was able to deduce that behind that power was Moriarty.
00:19:30But he recovered himself, and I could prove nothing.
00:19:36He has hundreds of agents, none of whom have ever seen him.
00:19:41Sometimes an agent is caught.
00:19:42But the man who plans most of the crimes that are committed is never caught, never even suspected.
00:19:51He knows that I know of his activity.
00:19:54He also knows that up to now, I've been unable to reach him.
00:19:58And you think he's connected with this bank murder?
00:20:02I think it highly probable.
00:20:08Yes?
00:20:09Yes, come in.
00:20:10He's such a mistake to think of this.
00:20:12Oh, Lestrade, anything fresh?
00:20:15No, Mr. Holmes?
00:20:16Sit down, Lestrade.
00:20:18I just came in to get that piece of brown paper.
00:20:21Oh, yes, yes, this little piece.
00:20:23You mean, I should like to keep it a little longer, if I may.
00:20:26I haven't yet decided what the rest of the label is.
00:20:30Well, I don't see how you ever can.
00:20:34It's just an ordinary shopkeeper's label.
00:20:38There's not enough of it to tell us anything.
00:20:39Well, I disagree, my dear Lestrade.
00:20:41But then, uh, you and I so often disagree.
00:20:45Oh, come, Mr. Holmes.
00:20:47I have a great respect for your theory.
00:20:49It's only when you begin about this Professor Moriarty.
00:20:52Yeah, you don't believe in him.
00:20:54I ask you, is it possible for a man to plan
00:20:57half the crime in this country without the yard knowing who he is,
00:21:01where he lives, or anything about it?
00:21:03It does seem rather strange.
00:21:05I mean, the man can't live nowhere and never be seen by anyone.
00:21:08Of course.
00:21:09Lots of people know him, but they don't know that he's Moriarty.
00:21:12Hmm, you yourself may know him.
00:21:15Jokes are not your strong point, Holmes.
00:21:17No, I'm perfectly serious.
00:21:18He has a hundred disguises and a hundred aliases.
00:21:22And I'm pretty certain he had a hand in this bank robbery.
00:21:26But it wasn't a robbery.
00:21:28The thief got nothing.
00:21:29He broke into the bank and...
00:21:31Have you ever tried to break into a bank, Lister?
00:21:34Me?
00:21:36No, I thought not.
00:21:38But do you seriously think it's possible
00:21:41for one man to break into a bank
00:21:43without using anything short of dynamite?
00:21:46There were no signs of a forced entry.
00:21:48Which might point to the fact of his having an accomplice.
00:21:51Or even two.
00:21:53He got inside.
00:21:55Which doesn't necessarily mean your professor.
00:21:58The man was interrupted by the watchman,
00:22:00killed him, got frightened, and bolted.
00:22:03And yet, inside the safe,
00:22:06we found this piece of brown paper.
00:22:10Three people swear it was not there
00:22:12when the safe was shut last night.
00:22:13Then he was inside when he was disturbed.
00:22:15Or before he went inside.
00:22:18He had this paper wrapped round something.
00:22:22You'll observe that this end here is slightly torn
00:22:24and there is a blood stain on it.
00:22:27I therefore deduce that the struggle with the watchman
00:22:30took place first.
00:22:32And he then took his parcel into the safe.
00:22:34Oh, it won't work, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:37It won't work.
00:22:38There were 70,000 pounds of note in the box.
00:22:41Not one of them is missing.
00:22:45How true.
00:22:47How true.
00:22:48But if you remember,
00:22:50a fortnight ago,
00:22:51an almost similar thing occurred in Berlin.
00:22:53In Berlin?
00:22:54Yes.
00:22:57You should read your Berlin at Targeblaut,
00:22:59my dear Lette.
00:23:00The strong room of the Reichsbank was entered.
00:23:03The watchman was laid out,
00:23:04happily not killed,
00:23:05and nothing was removed.
00:23:06Very strange, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:09Very strange indeed.
00:23:11It looks almost as if there was a connection.
00:23:14I should like time to think it out a bit.
00:23:16When can I have that piece of brown paper?
00:23:19I'll let you have it this evening.
00:23:20In the meantime,
00:23:21would you be good enough
00:23:22to warn all foreign customs officials
00:23:24to be on the lookout
00:23:24for a very large quantity of English bank notes
00:23:27which will be smuggled through in ordinary lugging?
00:23:29What do you think?
00:23:30I think it would be a wise precaution.
00:23:32Very good, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:33I'll get back to the yard now
00:23:35and put the matter in hand.
00:23:36Good morning, gentlemen.
00:23:45The chief has arrived, sir.
00:23:47Oh?
00:23:48What are his orders?
00:23:49He will interview Mr. Adair himself.
00:23:51Right.
00:23:52Send Mr. Adair in.
00:24:00What the devil is the meaning of this?
00:24:31I'll show you what he wants in hand.
00:24:31I'll have to join Mr. Adair,
00:24:57Adair.
00:25:05Adair.
00:25:09My God, am I drunk or what?
00:25:13I hope not at ten o'clock in the morning.
00:25:17What's all this about?
00:25:21I was seized in a car, blindfolded and driven half-armed.
00:25:25I apologize for that. It was just a slight precaution.
00:25:29And you must forgive me concealing my identity behind the sleeping Cardinal.
00:25:33Please, sit down.
00:25:49Are you Mr... Mr. Klink? Mr. Otto Klink?
00:25:53No. Poor Otto Klink must have been dead a good many years.
00:25:57What the devil's...
00:25:59Only that I have a slight favor to ask of you, Mr. Adair.
00:26:03Favor? Who are you anyway?
00:26:05I understand that you are leaving on the Golden Arrow at eleven o'clock tomorrow for Paris.
00:26:09And if I am?
00:26:11You are going on foreign office business.
00:26:15And you will have a lacy passe.
00:26:17Which means that your luggage will not be examined by the customs.
00:26:21I want you to take a suitcase to Paris for me.
00:26:25I'll do nothing of the kind.
00:26:27Why should I?
00:26:28Because you can't help yourself.
00:26:30Don't be ridiculous.
00:26:31Sit down, Nadair.
00:26:32You can't help.
00:26:33Sit down.
00:26:35You have been cheating at cards.
00:26:37What?
00:26:38I repeat, you have been cheating at cards.
00:26:42I should have warned you that this picture is painted on steel.
00:26:49Sit down.
00:26:52All your life you have been interested in sleight of hands.
00:26:59Your trick of farming a whole pack of cards has been very useful to you.
00:27:04Since your trustee absconded and left you and your sister penniless.
00:27:08It's a lie.
00:27:09You have taken to Payne Bridge for very high stakes.
00:27:12When you deal, you simply change the pack after it has been cut to you.
00:27:17You have a carefully prepared pack in the palm of your hands.
00:27:21You do the same when you cut a pack to your opponent.
00:27:26Now this procedure, if publicly known, is not likely to lead to an advancement either social or diplomatic.
00:27:36In fact, it means the end of you.
00:27:41Who's been telling you this ridiculous story?
00:27:43Last night you made a slip.
00:27:46You dropped the Ace of Spades.
00:27:50Now I think I can count on your doing me this very slight service.
00:27:56Go on.
00:27:57A suitcase bearing your initials will be delivered at your flat at 9.30 this evening.
00:28:02You will pass it through the customs with your other luggage.
00:28:05I understand you have engaged a room at the Bristol in Paris.
00:28:10You will take your luggage there.
00:28:12And by 10 o'clock tomorrow night the suitcase will have vanished from your room.
00:28:17You will make no comment.
00:28:20What's in this precious suitcase?
00:28:22That does not concern you.
00:28:24Yes, but it might be anything.
00:28:26Stolen jewels, bombs, heaven knows what.
00:28:29No, I'll be careful if I made use of it this way.
00:28:32I feel sure that you will change your mind.
00:28:36In the event of your not doing so, you will find the only alternative in the box on the table.
00:28:48What do you mean?
00:28:49What do you mean?
00:28:54Here.
00:28:55Come back whoever you are.
00:28:57What do you mean?
00:29:07The only alternative.
00:29:09What are you trying to do?
00:29:28I'm trying to see how many Bank of England notes will go into a parcel of this size.
00:29:33You see, my dear Watson, that this note should fit into these creases.
00:29:40There you are, as I thought exactly.
00:29:43Yes.
00:29:44Are you busy this morning, Watson?
00:29:45No, I kept the morning free.
00:29:47I rather hoped you'd see Catalina Durr.
00:29:49She's due here now.
00:29:51I sent her a note on the way home from the bank.
00:29:53Oh, that's very kind of you.
00:29:55Then you will have a talk to Ronnie.
00:29:56No, I want to talk about him.
00:29:58He's in the diplomatic service, isn't he?
00:30:01Yes.
00:30:02And what's that got to do with it?
00:30:04What's, what's got to do with what, Watson?
00:30:08Come in.
00:30:09Mr. Dare to see you, sir.
00:30:13How wonderful of you to have managed this.
00:30:15It's terribly kind of you to see me.
00:30:17Not at all.
00:30:18Won't you sit down?
00:30:25The Watson's told me how worried you are about your brother,
00:30:28but I don't quite see what I can do.
00:30:30I've been wondering if you could find out if it's really true.
00:30:34If it is.
00:30:35And I can't believe that it is.
00:30:37Perhaps you could frighten him into giving up courage.
00:30:40Well, whom did he play as a rule?
00:30:42Well, last night there was Tony Rutherford, old Mr. Fisher.
00:30:46What, Thomas Fisher, the millionaire?
00:30:48Yes.
00:30:49And Colonel Henslow, an old friend of ours.
00:30:51Mm-hmm.
00:30:52Fisher.
00:30:53I wonder.
00:30:54Forgive me, Mrs. Dare, but does your brother travel at all on official business?
00:31:05Quite a lot.
00:31:06In fact, he's off to Paris tomorrow.
00:31:08Ah, I thought so.
00:31:09How long has he known that he would be going tomorrow?
00:31:13Three or four days, I think.
00:31:15Where is your brother at the moment?
00:31:17I don't know.
00:31:18At the foreign office by now, I should think.
00:31:20He went out early this morning.
00:31:22They sent a car for him.
00:31:23Oh.
00:31:24You happen to know where he had to go?
00:31:27I think he said Hampstead.
00:31:29I know it wasn't far.
00:31:31He should be back at the office by now.
00:31:33Yes.
00:31:34Yes.
00:31:35They think a great deal of your brother at the foreign office.
00:31:38They used to.
00:31:39But lately he's been paying so much for you.
00:31:42I'm afraid he's been neglecting his work.
00:31:45Yes.
00:31:46That's a pity.
00:31:47Yes.
00:31:48I wonder if you'd be good enough to ask your brother to come and see me this afternoon.
00:31:52Of course.
00:31:53I'll go round to the foreign office now.
00:31:55Of course.
00:31:56I might just get him.
00:31:57Why not telephone?
00:31:58He hates being run up there and I couldn't explain on the telephone.
00:32:01What shall I do if I miss him?
00:32:03Well, when will you be seeing him?
00:32:05Tonight.
00:32:06He's dining out and he's bound to come into dress.
00:32:08Very well, in that case, would you be good enough to ask him to come and see me in the morning before he starts?
00:32:12That's awfully kind of you.
00:32:14Don't mention Bridge to it.
00:32:16As a matter of fact, I shall not say a word on that subject myself.
00:32:20But you may rest assured that after he has seen me, he will never gamble again.
00:32:27I can't tell you how grateful I am.
00:32:29Not at all.
00:32:30But I am grateful to you.
00:32:33Goodbye.
00:32:35Good luck.
00:32:36Watson?
00:32:37Yes?
00:32:38What's all this mean, Holmes?
00:32:40It means, my dear Watson, that the foreign office doesn't send a car to take a very unimportant young man to Het Stid.
00:33:00Hello?
00:33:01Hello?
00:33:02Hello?
00:33:03Yes, speaking.
00:33:04Who's that?
00:33:05Mrs. Smith.
00:33:06I seem to know that name.
00:33:07Mrs. Annie Smith.
00:33:08Oh, Mrs. Tallboy has put you on to me.
00:33:09I don't think I know her, Mrs. Smith.
00:33:10Huh?
00:33:11No, you're quite right.
00:33:12It doesn't matter.
00:33:13Do you think it's appendicitis?
00:33:14Oh, what's the other thing?
00:33:15I don't think I know her, Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:16Huh?
00:33:17No, you're quite right.
00:33:18It doesn't matter.
00:33:19Do you think it's appendicitis?
00:33:20Oh, what's the address?
00:33:21Would you mind taking this down, Holmes?
00:33:221006, Pentonville Road.
00:33:23Yes.
00:33:24Yes, I am.
00:33:25I don't think I know her, Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:26I don't think I know her, Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:27Huh?
00:33:28No, you're quite right.
00:33:29It doesn't matter.
00:33:30Do you think it's appendicitis?
00:33:31Oh, what's the address?
00:33:32Would you mind taking this down, Holmes?
00:33:331006, Pentonville Road.
00:33:34Yes.
00:33:35Yes, I am.
00:33:36I am.
00:33:37I am.
00:33:38I am.
00:33:39I am.
00:33:40I am.
00:33:41I am.
00:33:42I am.
00:33:43I am.
00:33:44I am.
00:33:45I am.
00:33:46I am.
00:33:47One thousand and six, Pentonville Road.
00:33:50Yes.
00:33:51Yes, I'll come at once.
00:33:52I'll take a taxi.
00:33:53Goodbye.
00:33:55Here's the address.
00:33:56I've added this note, which I want you to read when you've found the taxi.
00:34:00Watch it about.
00:34:01You read it when you've found the taxi.
00:34:03I hope that our friend, Mrs. Tallboy's friend is not as bad as she thinks.
00:34:09Hm.
00:34:10Now, what is it?
00:34:19Please, Mother says, can I have time to pyjamas?
00:34:21They've blown us our line into your backyard.
00:34:24You've no right to hang out your washing and your what-nots in a respectable neighbourhood like this.
00:34:29Mother said, if you started carrying on about the washing, I wouldn't stand any of your lips.
00:34:34Your mother said that?
00:34:36Yes, she did.
00:34:37Well, I've never asked it in all my born days.
00:34:39You go and I'll give your mother lip.
00:34:42You wait.
00:34:43Mother says, I'll take that charmer and not talk to you.
00:34:46She doesn't think you're respectful.
00:34:48What's that?
00:34:49She says it's disgraceful.
00:34:51A widow living in a house full of nothing but men.
00:34:53Oh, you wait a minute.
00:34:55I'll give her respectable.
00:34:56Go on up it.
00:34:57Go on up your bell.
00:34:58Oh, my word, respectable.
00:35:05Yes?
00:35:07Come in.
00:35:07Hello.
00:35:08Yes.
00:35:08Sir.
00:35:09Hmm?
00:35:09I'm just going to step around to death, Mrs. Freeman.
00:35:13I think things I want to say to her.
00:35:15Yes, Mrs. Hudson.
00:35:17But what has upset you?
00:35:19Well, she just told me.
00:35:20She thinks I've got it around to say that I...
00:35:22Well, I want to mean myself for saying what she did say.
00:35:25But I want her to know I shall be out twenty minutes.
00:35:29For that time to tell her that she's got weird.
00:35:31Yes.
00:35:32Well, I wouldn't be too violent if I were you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:35:35It's violent.
00:35:36Well, indeed, I'll set about a good and proper...
00:35:40Indeed, I would, if it wasn't for my chronic and psoriasis.
00:35:43Yes.
00:35:45Yes.
00:35:53I'll talk to you.
00:36:24Come in, Professor.
00:36:54Do you think you know me, Mr. Holmes?
00:36:58Why not?
00:36:59You called upon me once before.
00:37:02On that occasion, your face was completely covered with surgical bandages.
00:37:07But your arrival coincided with the same removal of Watson and Mrs. Hudson.
00:37:13You were a little more original in your methods last time.
00:37:17Today I recognize the symptoms.
00:37:19I was expecting you, Moriarty.
00:37:25How clever are you, Holmes?
00:37:29Yes, yes.
00:37:30Won't you take off your scarf, Professor?
00:37:32Yes, perhaps you're right.
00:37:38This room is rather draughty.
00:37:40Shall we sit down?
00:37:41I'm afraid my method of getting rid of Watson and Mrs. Hudson was a trifle clue.
00:37:51But I had a sudden impulse, and anyhow it served its purpose.
00:37:55Except that our interview will be a brief one.
00:37:58Watson will have read my note in the taxi,
00:38:00telling him to ignore the call and come back here in five minutes.
00:38:03In that case, I will be brief.
00:38:10On the 4th of May, 1928,
00:38:14you crossed my path.
00:38:17A dangerous thing to do, Holmes.
00:38:21Eight months later, to be exact, the 20th of January, 1929,
00:38:27you incommoded me seriously.
00:38:30Yes, you made a bad slip in 1929.
00:38:33I nearly had you, Professor.
00:38:35And now I find you so constantly in my way
00:38:38that it would be better for me if you were removed.
00:38:45Perhaps what I have to say has already crossed your mind.
00:38:49Possibly my answer may have crossed yours.
00:38:52You stand fast?
00:38:54Absolutely.
00:38:55A great pity, Holmes.
00:38:57I have a great respect for your mentality.
00:39:02A great pity.
00:39:03You are getting in the way of a great organization.
00:39:09The full extent of which even you, with all your cleverness, cannot realize.
00:39:15You wish to put me in the dock.
00:39:20You never will.
00:39:24If you destroy me, rest assured, I shall do as much for you.
00:39:30It's very interesting, Professor, but your five minutes are up.
00:39:35I fancy I hear the arrival of Watson.
00:39:40May I offer you a piece of advice?
00:39:43Never give way to certain impulses.
00:39:46They're even more dangerous to you than I am.
00:39:48I read your note, Holmes.
00:39:52Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:39:54Did you come to see me?
00:39:56Your friend is in great danger.
00:40:00Great danger.
00:40:05Great danger.
00:40:07What's the matter with him?
00:40:15This is the draft, Watson.
00:40:18He's feeling the draft very badly at this moment.
00:40:20Well, who was it?
00:40:23Well, that was Mrs. Smith of 1006 Trentonville.
00:40:28Mrs.
00:40:29Or, shall we say, Professor.
00:40:32Oh, the mythical Moriarty.
00:40:35What does he look like?
00:40:36Well, I know no more than you do.
00:40:38Except that the first molar in the left side of the upper jaw is very badly filled with gold.
00:40:44Have you a mathematical mind, Watson?
00:40:50I think so, fairly.
00:40:52Ah.
00:40:53Well, never give way to certain impulses.
00:40:55They're not good for mathematicians.
00:40:58Moriarty has made the worst slip he's made since January 1929.
00:41:05You mean you think you found out how to get him?
00:41:07No.
00:41:08No, I found out where he gets his boots.
00:41:11I wish you'd be serious.
00:41:12The professor's boots are made by Mr. J.J. Godfrey, bootmaker.
00:41:18Yes, here we are.
00:41:21502 Ponce Street, Southwest 1.
00:41:25Godfrey, Ponce Street?
00:41:26Yes.
00:41:27Well, that's where I have mine made.
00:41:30You do surprise me.
00:41:32But Godfrey's a perfectly respectable tradesman with a high-class clientele.
00:41:37Well, obviously.
00:41:38Obviously, you and Moriarty, you share a bootmaker with the professor.
00:41:43Since all I know, he may be a great friend of yours.
00:41:45Oh, really?
00:41:45Well, I don't know.
00:41:57Does, uh, does Mr. Godfrey make his boots on the premises?
00:42:03Yes.
00:42:03In the basement.
00:42:05He showed me over his workshop once.
00:42:07Yes.
00:42:09I think I'd like to see over that workshop.
00:42:13Hmm?
00:42:14We'll arrange with Lestrade to call there about 8 o'clock tonight.
00:42:18But how can it possibly matter where Moriarty buys his boots?
00:42:21Only that this piece of brown paper, which was found in the strong room of the bank, bears a piece of the label of Mr. J. J. Godfrey, bootmaker.
00:42:36Holmes, you're marvelous.
00:42:38Well, that's that.
00:43:06Well, what am I to do with it?
00:43:08You will be at Down Street Tube Station at 9 o'clock precisely.
00:43:12You'll take the suitcase with you.
00:43:13Oh, it's all right.
00:43:14There's heaps of time.
00:43:15It isn't 8 o'clock yet.
00:43:16In the main entrance, you'll see a man with a scar on his left temple.
00:43:21He will take the suitcase from you.
00:43:23Yes, sir.
00:43:24The keys.
00:43:29Hello, sir.
00:43:31Looks a good bit of work.
00:43:33Yes, sir.
00:43:34I'm a good workman.
00:43:36Moran.
00:43:37Well, the chief's here.
00:43:38I have just been informed that Inspector Lestrade has left Scotland Yard in a powerful car with police constables number 47, 54, and 83, all of the C Division.
00:43:53They will doubtless call for Sherlock Holmes and that great detective, Dr. Watson.
00:44:00Don't attempt to hide the suitcase.
00:44:03It would look suspicious.
00:44:05And see that everything is tidy.
00:44:08If the police detain you, I have arranged for someone else to take the suitcase.
00:44:15Don't talk and then come in here, Moran.
00:44:18You heard?
00:44:19Yes, sir.
00:44:48Put this right, Captain, will you?
00:44:55All right, sir.
00:44:56All right, sir.
00:44:56All right, sir.
00:45:26Which of you is Mr. Godfrey?
00:45:45I am.
00:45:48There's my search warrant.
00:45:50Search warrant?
00:45:51Well, what are you searching for?
00:45:53You'll know when I've found it.
00:45:56Why?
00:45:57If it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:45:59Hope the last pair of shoes I made, it was satisfactory.
00:46:03I see you're wearing them now.
00:46:05Yes, quite, thanks.
00:46:06I say Holmes.
00:46:07This does seem rather absurd.
00:46:09You know, Godfrey's made my shoes for years.
00:46:12Yes.
00:46:13Your shoe luster's in that cupboard over there now.
00:46:15Over there?
00:46:16Yes.
00:46:17I'll go and find it.
00:46:17I suppose, Godfrey, you know what we've come for.
00:46:26I haven't the slightest idea.
00:46:28Hello.
00:46:40Starting out the new branch, eh?
00:46:43Who's that?
00:46:45Yes, that's an experiment.
00:46:47Special order for a new customer.
00:46:50Thought I might as well try my hand at it.
00:46:51Glad to see you look after your work people, Godfrey.
00:46:55Oh.
00:46:56Well, I've only got three of them.
00:47:00There's Roberts and Williams and his brother here.
00:47:03Yes.
00:47:04Well, then you look after them.
00:47:06The place is properly ventilated.
00:47:10Ventilated?
00:47:11Oh, yes, sir.
00:47:20Yes.
00:47:27Oh, yes.
00:47:28Thank you, Laker.
00:47:29Where's that door lead?
00:47:43To the area.
00:47:45But, eh, as you can see, it hasn't been open for years.
00:47:48Well, I should like you to open it.
00:47:50I haven't only knows where the key is.
00:47:53That door hasn't been open since I...
00:47:54I don't know when.
00:47:57Oh.
00:47:59Godfrey, this is a curious-looking...
00:48:03What are you using for?
00:48:05It's used for special work.
00:48:07Oh.
00:48:13So, you wanted to know what I was looking for, Godfrey.
00:48:18Well, you know now.
00:48:19I was looking for a press that made perfect Bank of England notes.
00:48:24Take them all away.
00:48:29What are you doing?
00:48:33Quick.
00:48:34Follow this wire, let's face it.
00:48:35What for?
00:48:36Eh?
00:48:42Oh, quick, let's face it.
00:48:43Help me get this door down.
00:48:48One more?
00:48:49One more?
00:48:49What?
00:49:08What?
00:49:09Dad.
00:49:09Oh
00:49:17Have another drink my dear Watson. Yeah, you'll feel better. Thanks. I'm all right. I
00:49:23Haven't a scratch. There's a bit of a shock being seized and truss up like that. Hmm. You saw nobody nothing. I
00:49:31Was standing in the cupboard and the shelves swung round. I was seized from behind and blindfolded. Hmm. Well, anyway, we've done a good night's work
00:49:39My theory is a bank robbery is proving correct
00:49:42What is your finding a forger's outfit in a bookmaker's basement got to do with a bank robbery which wasn't a robbery at all with
00:49:50I'll try to explain
00:49:54Within a fortnight the strong rooms of two banks are entered by unauthorized persons and nothing is removed
00:49:59But in each case something is taken into the strong room
00:50:04In the case of the right spot a cardboard box
00:50:09In the case of the commercial piece of brown paper. We wanted to take the notes away in them
00:50:14The brown paper had been a creep and folded round something
00:50:19Well
00:50:20Mr. Godfrey's printing press makes perfect Bank of England note
00:50:24Now supposing they have an accomplice who gives them the numbers of the notes in stock. They make duplicates
00:50:32Probably perfect duplicates if my friend Moriarty has anything to do with it
00:50:37They change these for the real one
00:50:39Now the forgeries have to arrive at the bank and creased and spotless
00:50:47It's the brown paper
00:50:49The real ones can be taken away anyhow shops in the pockets anything and the paper discarded
00:50:55The robbery will not be discovered until two notes of the same number arrive at the Bank of England and
00:51:02And the longer that event is postponed the better
00:51:06So what does my learned friend do?
00:51:10Hold them up. No, no, my dear Watson. No, no. No use having 70,000 pounds worth of notes if you don't use them
00:51:17Then you must start circulating or send them abroad. Oh, now that sounds difficult
00:51:22You see customs officials might ask questions if they opened a trunk full of Bank of England notes. Yeah
00:51:28Well, how true watching how true in any case. I don't feel I've been fucked up for nothing
00:51:33It was worth it to find that printing press the printing press right here Watson was valuable to get your friend
00:51:39Mr.. Godfrey a turn of penal servitude
00:51:42But the really important discovery was the suitcase
00:51:46suitcase
00:51:47You probably didn't observe that on the lid with the initials RA I didn't but what does that signify?
00:51:53Hmm Ronald Adair is leaving tomorrow morning for Paris on foreign office business
00:51:58We will have a diplomatic port and a laissez-pate which means that his luggage will not be examined
00:52:06You can't connect him with
00:52:09Heavens you don't think he's one of the gang
00:52:11Supposing Moriarty were to threaten to expose his bridge exploit
00:52:15How should Moriarty know? Well, how do I know things?
00:52:18Oh
00:52:20What time is it Watson?
00:52:22It's a quarter to 11
00:52:23Oh
00:52:24Well, I wonder if we could get hold of Adair now
00:52:27Oh, I forgot to tell you, huh?
00:52:28Miss Adair sent a message to say that she'd missed her brother at the foreign office and that she'd sent him around in the morning
00:52:34Ah, well will you ring up now Watson, will you, and see if we can get hold of him right away
00:52:38Yes, certainly
00:52:38If I'm right, that young man is the one weak spot in Moriarty's armor
00:52:43If I can get hold of him Moriarty's wrong
00:52:45He will stand in the dock tomorrow and not long after on the gallows
00:53:15Oh
00:53:17Oh, there, oh, there
00:53:18Hello. Yes. Yes. Yes. You can't, sir. You can't. He's killed. Yes, I've just found
00:53:48him shot through the head. Is it usual for you to go to bed as early as ten o'clock? Yes, sir.
00:53:59When there's no company. And you heard nothing at all? No, sir. You see, our bedrooms are all
00:54:06at the back of the building, completely cut off from the rest of the flat. I see. Yes, sir. Thank
00:54:12you. Would you send a butler to me? Yes, sir. You can go, too.
00:54:18But surely, Lestrade, considering what I've told you about the bridge party, it was obviously
00:54:25a case of suicide. Then where is the revolver? Well, he must have thrown it out of the window.
00:54:31The bullet didn't penetrate the brain. He may have been conscious for a few seconds after
00:54:35the shot. And his fireplace shows that he'd been burning his correspondence. A good deal
00:54:41of correspondence. Then what about the letter he was writing?
00:54:44I can't make that out. The sleeping cardinal forced me to... I can't think what it means.
00:54:55Oh, Mr. Holmes. Would you care to examine the servants? The cook and the housemaid neither
00:55:06saw nor heard anything. No, no, no, Lestrade. No, no, no. You carry on. No, I'll just amuse myself.
00:55:12And we found this on the table in front of him. The sleeping cardinal. The sleeping cardinal,
00:55:21now. Where have I heard that name before?
00:55:24You're the butler here. Yes, sir. Have you been with the family long? Three years, sir. Then you know
00:55:39their ways. Did anything unusual occur here this evening? No, sir. Miss Adair dined alone at home,
00:55:46and Mr. Adair came in at the quarter past nine with Colonel Henslow. Who is Colonel Henslow? Oh,
00:55:52he's an old friend of the family. He knew Ronnie Adair's father in India. Sir Henry Adair was
00:55:58Governor General of Bengal, you know. They used to hunt tigers together. Did you gather at all what
00:56:03they were talking about when they came in? Well, sir, Mr. Adair was saying, and you think
00:56:08Fisher means trouble. That was all I heard, sir. How long was the Colonel here? Barely
00:56:14half an hour, sir. Was Mr. Adair with them? No, sir. She was in her room. Was anyone else in the
00:56:21fact? No, sir. You're positive that there was no one else at all? No, sir. Oh, a man came about
00:56:30half past nine with a new suitcase that Mr. Adair had ordered. What kind of a man? I didn't notice
00:56:37him particularly, sir. He wasn't actually inside the flat. He just handed me the case, and I signed
00:56:43for it. Where did the case come from? I really didn't notice, sir. I just told Mr. Adair it was
00:56:49here, and he told me to put it with the other luggage in his bedroom. Oh. Which one? That's the
00:57:00odd thing, sir. It isn't here, and I can't find it anywhere, so I searched the flat. It was quite an
00:57:08ordinary sort of case. Can't think where it could get hidden. But it must be somewhere, unless Mr. Adair
00:57:15took it out. He didn't go out, sir. He went straight to his room after the Colonel had left. Why didn't
00:57:22Mr. Adair come and see the Colonel? Wasn't she friendly with him? Oh, yes, sir. She was quite
00:57:27friendly with him. Wasn't she friendly with her brother? They were devoted to each other. They was, sir. But there
00:57:34was a bit of a shindy last night, sir. Well, she never mentioned anything about it to me. No, sir. It was
00:57:40after you and the other gentlemen had left. I can't think it was a serious quarrel. I beg pardon, sir. It was. I
00:57:48brought in a note for Mr. Adair, and I don't think they heard me come in. What were they saying? Well, sir, Miss Adair was very
00:57:55excited. And she said, I'd rather put a bullet through your head than own a brother who... And
00:58:01then she saw me and stopped. Directly afterwards, Mr. Adair left the room. And tonight, how did you know he'd
00:58:09been killed? The phone bell was ringing in this room, which was locked, and I got no answer to my
00:58:15knocking. What did you do? I broke down the door. And then I found Mr. Adair in that chair, lying across the
00:58:23table, dead. And the window open. How long had he been in his room? About half an hour, sir. And you
00:58:29heard nothing? Not a sound, sir. And I was in my pantry, which is on this side of the flat. Thank you,
00:58:36master. Would you ask Mr. Adair to come here? Yes. I think if I were you, I should see Colonel
00:58:41Henslow first. I understand he's with Mr. Adair. And after all, he was the last person to see
00:58:49Adair alive. Yes. Will you ask the Colonel to come here? Very good. Well, that disposes of
00:59:01your suicide theory. What do you mean? You're not suggesting that Mr. Adair... At any rate,
00:59:07she threatened. But the door was locked on the inside. Ah, Colonel, I don't think you know
00:59:15Inspector Lestrade. And my friend, Sherlock Holmes. Delighted to meet two such famous people. I also am
00:59:23delighted to meet such a distinguished big game hunter. Oh, my hunting days are over. Hey. Yes. There
00:59:32must be a great trial to you of all people. Was it the war? No. A tiger mauled my arm. It turned septic and had to be
00:59:42taken off at the shoulder. I'm lucky to be alive at all. I'm immensely ignorant about tiger hunting.
00:59:50Tell me, you go out on elephants with beaters, don't you? Pardon me, Mr. Holmes, but I must ask the
00:59:57Colonel a few questions. Yes. All right. Just a minute. I'm very interested in tiger hunting. Well, elephants and
01:00:04beaters are used when royalty and rajas hunt tigers. But they're expensive. Oh, very. You can always
01:00:15tether a goat and wait till the tiger comes for it. Really, Mr. Holmes, I'm pressed for time. And I must ask the
01:00:23Colonel a few questions. Well, fire ahead, Lester. Fire ahead. You were the last to see the deceased alive. Yes. He's been very
01:00:32nervous since last night. He came round this evening and asked me to come back with him
01:00:37for a chat. I suppose you all know what's happened at the bridge party. Yes. One of the players looked
01:00:46like being unpleasant, and Adair wanted my advice. And what was your advice? To do nothing at all.
01:00:54Even if it were true, nobody could prove it. And he was less worried when you left? I think he was. A
01:01:01little. I understand the new suitcases brought to the house last night. Were you there when it arrived? I believe so. I never saw it. But I heard Ronnie tell
01:01:12Marson to take it into his bedroom. What time did you leave? About a quarter to ten. And within three
01:01:21quarters of an hour, he was found dead. Surely it's obvious he shot himself. I disagree, my dear Watson. He was murdered. Of course. You don't
01:01:33really think so. Yes, my dear Colonel. I'm certain of it. And what is more, I'm sure you'll all be glad
01:01:42to hear that within 24 hours, I shall not only be in a position to prove it, but I shall have the murderer
01:01:50under lock and key. I'm delighted to hear it. Not that it can bring the poor lad back. You know,
01:01:58Ronnie, with all his faults, was extraordinarily lovable. I feel rather as if I had lost a son. Thank you,
01:02:08Colonel Hensbell. I shan't need you any more. Would you mind asking Mr. Deyer to come to me a moment?
01:02:15Certainly. Goodbye, Mr. Holmes. Goodbye, Colonel.
01:02:27I'm sorry I interrupted you, Mr. Holmes, but you seem so interested in tigers that I thought you were never
01:02:32going to stop. They interest me. The stark ferocity. The cold cruelty. They're human beings rather like tigers, you know.
01:02:44Now I suppose you're back to your Moriarty theory. You're not going to try and tell me that this is his
01:02:49handiwork. Well, who knows? That man has become an obsession with him. He is. He is.
01:03:03Mr. Deyer, I want to offer you my very sincere sympathy.
01:03:11It was a ghastly shock to me. I can imagine what it must have been to you.
01:03:17I won't keep you a minute, Mr. Deyer. Won't you sit down?
01:03:26When did you last see your brother? At half-gast six. He came into dress and I came in here.
01:03:32to give him a message. What was the message? I told him that Mr. Holmes wanted to see him before
01:03:37he went to Paris. You see, I'd asked Mr. Holmes to interview him. What did he say? He was upset.
01:03:45In fact, we had rather a quarrel about it. Another quarrel? You had one the night before.
01:03:50Yes, but this was not so serious. He was nearly annoyed that I had spoken to Mr. Holmes. He was
01:03:56very annoyed. Well, rather. He seemed more frightened than annoyed. I couldn't understand.
01:04:04And so you quarrelled again? Well, yes. He said I had no business to interfere in his affairs.
01:04:12And did you again threaten to shoot him? Shoot him? What do you mean? The night before,
01:04:22your butler heard you threatening him. Oh, no. I never did anything of the kind.
01:04:30I shoot Ronnie. You said you would rather put a bullet through his head than own a brother who...
01:04:38Oh, that was only a figure of speech. I was accusing him of something. The most unfortunate figure
01:04:43of speech, considering that within 24 hours he was found with a bullet through his head.
01:04:49But you don't think that I... No, Miss. But I must ask you to come along with me after I've
01:04:55finished my investigation. I've seen Lestrade. This is grotesque. Holmes, listen. Here's Lestrade suggesting
01:05:01that Miss Adair. Oh, Dr. Watson, I did it. All I want is her to come along and make a statement.
01:05:07I'm sure Miss Adair will be delighted to go with you, Lestrade. It is quite a warm night.
01:05:14Anything you say, of course. Thanks, Miss. I shall be ready in a minute.
01:05:18Then I'll go and put on my things. If you have no more questions. No, nothing else, thanks.
01:05:31This is outrageous. Well, Mr. Holmes, what do you think?
01:05:38It's really remarkable how many varieties of trees there are in the London park.
01:05:45Have you ever noticed what remarkably fine specimens are? Really, Mr. Holmes, you're a
01:05:49most extraordinary man. In the middle of an investigation like this, you begin talking about
01:05:55trees, homes. You've heard Lestrade's gasply accusation. Surely it was suicide. He burnt his
01:06:03correspondence. I don't think he did. These are the ashes of, I should say, at least a dozen pecks of
01:06:13playing cards. Because he was afraid Fisher was going to expose him. My dear Watson, as I've already
01:06:20told you, this was murder. And it was committed from outside this room. What? Shots in the keyhole.
01:06:30Ronald Adair burnt those playing cards and they caused a great deal of smoke. He opened the window
01:06:38and sat down to write that confession. And the moment he sat down, he was shot from outside. But how?
01:06:50From this height, you can hardly see the street. He would have had to have been hanging out of the
01:06:57window. And he wasn't. He was sitting in that chair. And you're suggesting that somebody stood in the
01:07:05middle of Park Lane, between ten and a half past, and fired a rifle. There had to have been a rifle to
01:07:12carry as far as this. And that nobody saw or heard anything. Though there must have been hundreds of
01:07:18passers-by. Yes, passers-by there undoubtedly were. But as you've doubtless already had to say,
01:07:24that there were no police about. I beg your pardon, Mr. Holmes. There are always police about.
01:07:30There were a couple on point duty. It's turn up gate.
01:07:32I find on inquiry that three separate disturbances occurred at precisely 10.15 in this neighborhood
01:07:40tonight. A lot of rucks were not accustomed to frequent the public house around the corner,
01:07:47refused to leave, and were ejected by the police. A young woman drove a car into a lorry about 100
01:07:54yards up the road, and there was a false alarm of fire in Harford Street. It's curious that all these
01:08:02things should have been absolutely simultaneous. But even supposing the police were occupied,
01:08:09you can't stand and fire a rifle into a Park Lane window without somebody having seen and heard
01:08:16something. How true. Do you know a hornbeam when you see one? A hornbeam? There are some remarkably
01:08:29fine specimens in the park. What is a hornbeam? The Latin name is carpinus. They're common in the
01:08:37temporary zones of Asia and some parts of southern England. It looks like a beach, but it isn't.
01:08:46You know, Dr. Watson, in spite of the fact that I've known Holmes for some years,
01:08:56I sometimes wonder if he's all there.
01:09:07Put this in your mouth for a few minutes. Huh? What do you want for? I don't think you're at all well.
01:09:12Oh, nonsense, my dear Watson. I'm in the very best of health.
01:09:15In spite of a couple of nasty shocks. When did you have a shock?
01:09:18Well, I said two. During the stroll I took this afternoon, I was just going to cross the
01:09:24Marylebone Road. The policeman on point duty was holding up the traffic.
01:09:29When a two-horse van, apparently out of control, whizzed around the corner and was on me in a flash.
01:09:35I strangled the pavement and saved myself by the fraction of the second. Good heavens, geez.
01:09:40Ten minutes later, a brick fell from the roof of the house. It was shattered at my feet.
01:09:45They were repairing the roof at the time, but the police proved it was an accident.
01:09:51I know better.
01:09:52Very nasty indeed. But these things happened this afternoon. I was worrying about you in the early
01:09:57hours of the morning. What did I do? Do? In the middle of a terribly serious conversation,
01:10:04you started talking about trees in the park and the difference between a hornbeam and a beach.
01:10:09All together disconnected, and I thought a little delirious. Yes, I did ramble a bit, didn't I?
01:10:15And I'm sorry you made what Lestrade called a bombastic statement, that within 24 hours,
01:10:2112 of which, by the way, have already gone, you would have the murderer.
01:10:24No, it wasn't at all like you, Holmes. No. No, it did look as if I was very ill, didn't it?
01:10:30It gives Lestrade such a chance to crow. He thinks he's done a frightful lot and knew nothing.
01:10:35Oh. He's disclosed of my suicide theory and made an arrest.
01:10:39Who? I wonder he hasn't arrested you or Mrs. Hudson.
01:10:43And he never stops talking about this mythical Moriarty. Now listen, my dear Watson.
01:10:48I have established to my own satisfaction that in both the Reichbank and the commercial bank cases,
01:10:59forged notes were substituted for real ones. No. I have also established to my own satisfaction
01:11:06and through the missing suitcase that Ronald Adair was to have taken those English notes to Paris.
01:11:13And the same brain that planned that scheme planned the removal of Ronald Adair.
01:11:20But why should they remove their means of getting the notes safely out of the country?
01:11:23Because Ronald Adair refused at the last minute. Why should he?
01:11:27He was still open to exposure as a cheat. That's what frightened him.
01:11:30Yes, but I frightened him still more. When his sister told him that I wanted to see him,
01:11:37he was panic-stricken. But he realized that his cheating could only result in scandal.
01:11:41The other meant certain jail. I see. What did you make of that letter he was writing about the sleeping cardinal?
01:11:50Now that, my dear Watson, is the most significant aspect of the case.
01:11:56Do you remember eight months ago when Trimble the forger was found on the embankment dying from terrible injuries?
01:12:04The, uh, yes?
01:12:13Yes?
01:12:19Yes.
01:12:20Yes. Yes, yes, now, we mustn't forget your appointment.
01:12:23Appointment?
01:12:24Yes, it's necessary for me to remain alone a little while.
01:12:30So you, my dear Watson, are going to Euston.
01:12:32Euston?
01:12:33Whatever for?
01:12:34Oh.
01:12:51What's the idea?
01:12:52You'll see.
01:12:53You're going to have a busy night. Now, I want you to put on your coat and hat,
01:13:16take a suitcase, you needn't pack anything, get a taxi, and make a great fuss about getting it.
01:13:23Call Euston to the driver and tell him if he doesn't hurry, you'll miss the Scotch Express.
01:13:27The Scotch Express?
01:13:29Yes.
01:13:31You'll be followed.
01:13:32The moment you get to Euston, pay off the taxi and rush round to the booking office.
01:13:46Get ready!
01:14:05Get ready!
01:14:11Get ready!
01:14:12Get ready!
01:15:13Oh.
01:15:17Really, Mr. Holmes, this is a bit too thick.
01:15:36Oh, my apologies, Mrs. Hudson.
01:15:38Once again, you've proved yourself far above ordinary women.
01:15:42Well, Mr. Holmes, I did as you told me to.
01:15:45I moved the statue every few minutes.
01:15:47When suddenly, they all blew anything forth on top of me.
01:15:50Yes, but you've done very well, Mrs. Hudson.
01:15:53Very well.
01:15:55Listery, bring in the prisoner.
01:16:06Oh, may I see that, Mrs.?
01:16:08Take that.
01:16:09That's an admirable and unique weapon.
01:16:12Absolutely noisily.
01:16:13And a tremendous power.
01:16:15Crikey.
01:16:16I knew one heard of the German mechanic who constructed it
01:16:19to the order of Professor Moriarty.
01:16:21I've known of its existence for some time,
01:16:24but I've never handled it before.
01:16:26Ah, Watson.
01:16:27I've just been murdered.
01:16:29Yes.
01:16:30Perhaps you'd like to see who my assailant is.
01:16:33As I've thought.
01:16:37But Holmes, that's Colonel Henslow.
01:16:40And what are you charging me with?
01:16:43Why, for the attempted murder of Sherlock Holmes, of course.
01:16:46No, no, no, Listery.
01:16:47I shall not appear in this.
01:16:48To you.
01:16:49And you alone belong to the credit for this remarkable arrest.
01:16:54With your usual happy mixture of cunning and audacity,
01:16:57you've got him.
01:17:00Got him?
01:17:00Got whom?
01:17:01Well, the man who climbed the tree in the park last night.
01:17:05A hornbeam, to be correct.
01:17:07And shot Ronald Adair through the open window
01:17:09of this flat in Park Lane.
01:17:11Has it occurred to you, Mr. Holmes,
01:17:13that it must be rather difficult to climb a tree
01:17:16and shoot anyone when one only has one arm?
01:17:20Ah, yes, yes.
01:17:21I've forgotten.
01:17:22Your left arm must be causing you great inconvenience.
01:17:25Yes.
01:17:25Listery, I wonder if you'd be good enough
01:17:26to free it for the Colonel.
01:17:28Hello.
01:17:28What's the game?
01:17:29Let me introduce you to Professor Robert Moriarty.
01:17:37The mythical Moriarty.
01:17:39My official.
01:17:42I warned you when you called upon me yesterday
01:17:44that certain impulses were dangerous.
01:17:46I observed that the first molar in your left upper jaw
01:17:50was very badly filled with gold.
01:17:53And when Colonel Hensley was feeling as if he'd lost the sun,
01:17:56I observed the same bad workmanship in the same tune.
01:17:59You clever cunning swine.
01:18:02You think you've got me in your safe.
01:18:05But you're up against an organization, Holmes.
01:18:08They'll get you.
01:18:09They'll destroy you.
01:18:11Well, I think I'm going to do it myself.
01:18:23Take him to a treat, Mr. Holmes.
01:18:25Yes.
01:18:27I think you'll find most of your organization waiting for you there.
01:18:31And also a brand new seeding, 70,000 pounds of good English bank milk.
01:18:35Take him away.
01:18:36We shall meet again, Mr. Holmes.
01:18:39The next time.
01:18:40Come on.
01:18:45All right.
01:18:45I am, except my side, which is entirely disorganized.
01:18:54Well, we've proved our Moriarty's theory all right, Mr. Holmes.
01:18:59It's not easy to throw dust in your eyes, my dear Lister.
01:19:04Doesn't do to try for the Scotland Yard.
01:19:07Quite true, Mr. Holmes.
01:19:08Quite true.
01:19:10Well, now, Watson, what about a drink?
01:19:11You'd like one, wouldn't you?
01:19:16Thanks.
01:19:16Yes, sir.
01:19:24I can't think how you managed to discover these things, Holmes.
01:19:28I saw nothing that could have put you on the track of the murderer.
01:19:30Oh, the contrary, my dear Watson.
01:19:32You've seen everything.
01:19:33Except the tree, which I told you about,
01:19:36but you were unable to make the necessary deductions.
01:19:39I knew about the existence of red-air guns.
01:19:44I found evidence that a tree opposite the flat had been climbed.
01:19:49By issuing a threat in front of Colonel Hensler,
01:19:51I made certain that it's during the 24 hours
01:19:54he tried to silence me as he silenced a deer.
01:19:59It's your little trip to Houston, Watson.
01:20:01And by placing a bust of myself in the window,
01:20:04which Mrs. Hudson moved occasionally
01:20:06to make it to see a lifelike.
01:20:08I knew that Moriarty couldn't resist such an opportunity.
01:20:12But what gave you the idea, Mr. Holmes?
01:20:14Eh?
01:20:15Oh, Colonel Hensler himself.
01:20:17Yes, in the conversation I had with him,
01:20:19the irrelevant one about tigers, Watson.
01:20:22You can always tether a goat as a bait
01:20:24and wait till the tiger comes.
01:20:28Oh.
01:20:28But what about the sleeping commode?
01:20:35Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in
01:20:38that the painting of the ribbon
01:20:40which you were tied up, Watson,
01:20:41and through which Moriarty used to speak unseen by his dupes.
01:20:46And only one regret,
01:20:48that the bust of myself by Angelo Palacchini
01:20:51has been irretrievably ruined.
01:20:53Oh, my God.
01:21:23Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:25Oh, my God.
01:21:26Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:27Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:28Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:29Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:30Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:31Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:32Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:33Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:34Godfrey's made a state of the sleeping card in the middle of the building.
01:21:35You
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