🕵️🔎 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954) TV Series – Ep 39 | The Case of the Tyrant’s Daughter

🔎 📺 This is the thirty-ninth episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series).
It stars: 🕵️‍♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨‍⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade

⚡ Episode Summary:
A wealthy, domineering man keeps a tight hold over his household, but when his daughter seeks Holmes’ help, it becomes clear that her father’s rule may be more dangerous than protective. As Holmes investigates, he uncovers a web of greed, inheritance struggles, and simmering resentment that threatens to erupt into violence.

💡 Why Watch This Episode?
✔️ A gripping domestic mystery filled with family tension and secrets
✔️ Holmes unravels a case where tyranny at home masks deeper crimes
✔️ Strong character drama blended with classic detective deduction
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03:06HOW IN THUNDER

03:07DID YOU KNOW

03:08I WAS GOING TO

03:09REGENT'S PARK?

03:10A SIMPLE

03:11DEDUCTION

03:12MY DEAR FELLOW

03:13TAKE A LOOK AT

03:14YOUR CLOTHES

03:15OH WHAT'S THE

03:16THEM

03:17I MIGHT EASILY BE

03:18GOING TO THE CLUB

03:19IN THESE

03:20YOU'RE IMMACULATE

03:21EXCEPT FOR

03:22THOSE OLD SHOES

03:23OH

03:24ALL THOSE

03:25I'VE FORGOTTEN

03:26ALL ABOUT THOSE

03:27SO I DEDUCE

03:28THAT YOU'RE GOING

03:29TO A PLACE

03:30WHERE YOU'RE

03:31LIABLE TO

03:32SCUFF YOUR SHOES

03:33THE GRAVEL PARDS

03:34THAT PERFECTLY

03:36BUT WHY REGENT'S

03:38PARTICULARLY?

03:39WE'RE LUNCHING AT

03:4012.30 AND SINCE

03:41IT'S NOW NEARLY

03:4211 I ASSUME THAT

03:43YOUR CHOICE OF PARKS

03:44IS LIMITED TO

03:45THE MOST CONVENIENT

03:46ONE THAT BEING

03:47REGENT'S OF COURSE

03:49SIMPLE DEDUCTION

03:51REALLY

03:53I WONDER WHO THAT

03:54CAN BE THIS TIME

03:55OF THE MORNING

03:56WOULD YOU CARE

03:57TO DEDUCE IT

03:58WATSON?

03:59NO I THINK IT

04:00WOULD BE SIMPLY

04:01IF I JUST OPEN

04:02THE DOOR

04:04WOULD YOU BE

04:06MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES?

04:07NO BUT WON'T YOU

04:08COME IN?

04:09IT'S MR. HOLMES

04:10I'VE GOT TO BE

04:11FINDING

04:12I AM SHERLOCK HOLMES

04:13MADAM WON'T YOU

04:14BE SEATED?

04:15I WILL THAT

04:16SURE I'VE LOST

04:17A BIT OF ME BREATH

04:18HAVE YOU COME FAR?

04:19A CLEANUP FROM

04:20CHELSEA I HAVE

04:21SIR

04:22THAT'S A LONG WAY INDEED

04:23MAY I INTRODUCE

04:24MY VERY GOOD FRIEND

04:25AND COLLEAGUE

04:26DR. WATSON

04:27GOOD MORNING

04:28ME NAME'S DOGAN

04:29SIR

04:30MARY DOGAN

04:31NO DOUBT YOU FIND IT

04:32A BIT ODD HAVING A

04:33BURST UPON YOU IN THE

04:34HEIGHT OF THE MALLER

04:35LIKE THIS

04:36BUT I'VE COME FROM A

04:37HOUSE BLACK WITH SORROW

04:38TO ASK YOUR HELP

04:39IT'S THE HOUSE I WORK IN

04:40IS THERE SOME

04:41DIFFICULTY IN THE HOUSE?

04:42DIFFICULTY

04:44AYE AND MORE

04:45THERE'S MURDER

04:47MURDER

04:48MURDER

04:49IS IT?

04:50NOW THIS IS MOST

04:51INTERESTING

04:52WON'T YOU GO ON

04:53MISSES DOGAN

04:54TIS THE MASTER

04:55THE PLACE HIMSELF

04:56MR. HARINGWAY

04:57THAT'S DEAD

04:58FOUND BY THE BOBBY OF OUR

04:59STREET

05:00FILLED WITH A DOCTURE

05:01SOMETHING WITH A GREAT

05:02LONG NAME THE OLD MAN

05:03WAS

05:04BUT SURELY IF HE WAS

05:05FOUND BY THE POLICE

05:06THE POLICE

05:07SURE IT'S THEM THAT

05:08BRINGS ME HERE

05:09FOR THEY'VE COME AND

05:10ROLED YOUNG MR. VERNON

05:11OFF TO JAIL FOR

05:12COMMITTING THE CRIME

05:13MR. VERNON

05:14A SRAPPIN' LAD

05:15WHO'S SOON TO MARRY

05:16MR. HARINGWAY'S

05:17STEP-DAWRTER, JANET

05:20I GATHER THAT YOU'RE

05:21NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH

05:22THE POLICE,

05:23MRS. DOGAN

05:24HOW SURE THAT'S THE

05:25PROBLEM?

05:26THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN TORTURING

05:27ME ALL THROUGH THESE

05:28BLACK NIGHTS AND MAKING

05:29ME LIFE UNBEARABLE

05:30IF YOU SEE, MR. HOLMES

05:31IT WAS MY TESTIMONY

05:33AND MY TESTIMONY ONLY

05:34THAT'S PUT MR. VERNON

05:35IN JAIL

05:36IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT

05:37I TOLD THE POLICE

05:38THAT HE'S SITTING IN

05:39THE CELL THIS VERY

05:40MOMENT WAITING FOR

05:41HIS TIME TO GO

05:44AND YET YOU BELIEVE

05:47THAT YOUNG VERNON

05:48IS INNOCENT

05:49I'M CERTAIN

05:50THE LAD'S INNOCENT

05:51SURE, I FEEL IT

05:52IN ME BONES

05:53YES, BUT I SAY,

05:54DIDN'T YOU TELL THE POLICE

05:55THE TRUTH?

05:56I TOLD THEM THE TRUTH,

05:57SO, BUT SOMEHOW

05:58UNBENOONST TO ME

05:59I MUST HAVE LIED

06:01PERHAPS YOU'D BETTER

06:02START YOUR STORY

06:03FROM THE BEGINNING,

06:04MRS. DUGAN

06:05AYE

06:06WELL, IT ALL HAPPENED

06:07LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON

06:08LATE IN THE AFTERNOON

06:09IT WAS, FOR I WAS

06:10SOON TO BE LEAVE IN

06:11THE HOUSE, HAVING

06:12THE WEEKEND OFF AS I DO

06:14IT WOULD BE ABOUT

06:15FIVE O'CLOCK

06:16WHEN THERE WAS

06:17SUDDENLY A GREAT

06:18CLATTER UPON THE DOOR

06:27HELLO, MRS. DUGAN

06:28OH, GOOD AFTERNOON

06:29TO YOU, MR. VERNON

06:30MR. HARRINGWAY

06:31ASKED TO SEE ME

06:32IS HE IN HIS

06:33USUAL UGLY MOOD?

06:34SURE YOU SHOULDN'T

06:35BE TALKING LIKE

06:36THAT, MR. VERNON

06:37YOU KNOW, IT MAKES

06:38MS. JANET VERY UNHAPPY

06:39TO HEAR YOU TWO

06:40FIGHTING ALL THE TIME

06:41WELL, IF HE WASN'T

06:42SUCH A STUPID O...

06:43WHERE IS JANET?

06:45SHE'S WAY TO HER

06:46ANT IN MANCHESTER

06:47SHE WASN'T TO GO

06:48UNTIL TOMORROW

06:49OH, I KNOW NOTHING

06:50OF THAT, SIR

06:51BUT I CAN SWEAR

06:52HE PUT HER ON HER WAY

06:53THIS VERY AFTERNOON

06:54I DOUBT IF HER

06:55ANT'S SICK AGAIN

06:56IT LOOKS LIKE

06:57ANOTHER OF HIS TRICKS

06:58TO KEEP US APART

07:00WELL, WHERE IS HE?

07:02IN HIS STUDY

07:03HE'S ASKING

07:04TO SHOW YOU RIGHT IN

07:05JUST A MINUTE

07:06UH, MY COOKTIER

07:07I FORGOT SOMETHING

07:18ALL RIGHT

07:19COME IN

07:21MR. VERNON, SIR

07:22WILL THAT BE ALL?

07:23NO, MR. DOOGAN

07:24I WANT YOU TO REMAIN

07:25REMAIN, SIR?

07:27NO, MRS. DOOGAN

07:28I WANT YOU TO REMAIN

07:29REMAIN, SIR?

07:31JUST SIT OVER THERE

07:32AND LISTEN TO EVERY

07:33WORD THAT'S SAID

07:41WHAT IS THIS?

07:42WHAT HAVE YOU GOT

07:43IN YOUR MIND NOW?

07:44YOUNG MAN, I HAVE

07:45A VERY SIMPLE OFFER

07:46TO MAKE

07:47AND I WANT MRS. DOOGAN

07:48HERE TO BE WITNESS

07:49TO IT

07:50WELL, WHAT KIND OF

07:51OFFER?

07:52I'LL GIVE YOU

07:53A THOUSAND POUNDS

07:54TO CLEAR OUT OF

07:55JANET'S LIFE

07:56YOU MUST BE OUT OF

07:58YOUR MIND

07:59ON THE CONTRARY

08:01ONLY A FOOL

08:02WOULD REFUSE

08:03SUCH BENEFICENCE

08:04YOU DISGUST ME

08:07YOUR TASTS DON'T

08:08INTEREST ME

08:09I WANT ONLY TO RID

08:10YOU FROM JANET'S

08:11LIFE

08:12STAY RIGHT HERE

08:14I INTEND TO FINISH

08:15I HAPPEN TO BE

08:17IN LOVE WITH JANET

08:19BUT I COULD HARDLY

08:20EXPECT YOU TO

08:21UNDERSTAND A THING

08:22LIKE THAT

08:23A THOUSAND POUND

08:24IS A LOT OF MONEY

08:25AND FOR YOU

08:26PROBABLY MORE THAN

08:27YOU EVER HAVE

08:28THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

08:29THINK OF IT

08:31A THOUSAND POUNDS

08:32JUST FOR CLEARING OUT

08:34WHEN I CLEAR OUT

08:35AS YOU PUT IT

08:36I'M GOING TO TAKE

08:37JANET WITH ME

08:38I WARN YOU

08:39THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE

08:40TO GAIN ANYTHING

08:41YOU MUST ALWAYS WIN

08:43MUSTN'T YOU

08:44EVERY LITTLE THING

08:45HAS TO BE YOUR WAY

08:47EVEN IF IT MEANS

08:48DESTROYING YOUR

08:49DAUGHTER'S HAPPINESS

08:51I'M NOT INTERFERING

08:52I'M NOT INTERFERING

08:53WITH HER HAPPINESS

08:54I ONLY WANT TO

08:55CLEANSE HER LIFE

08:56OF A BIT OF TRASH

08:57YOU MAY HAVE HAD HER

08:58UNDER YOUR FIST

08:59ALL HER LIFE

09:00BUT SHE'LL BREAK AWAY

09:01NOW

09:02NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO

09:03JANET'S GOING TO

09:04MARRY ME

09:05MR. HIGHWAY

09:07MR. HIGHWAY

09:10MEDICINE

09:11My medicine

09:12in the cupboard

09:13in the next room

09:14I'll get it

09:15Green bottle

09:16I'll shell

09:23I never lose

09:24Mrs. Duggan

09:26I never lose

09:28Oh hurry Mr. Vernon

09:29Please hurry

09:30I'm coming

09:51I feel much better.

09:57Well, there's no need to stare.

10:00I'm all right.

10:02Now get out of here.

10:05Both of you.

10:07Get out.

10:15Get out.

10:23A few minutes later, I left the house.

10:26And that's the last I ever saw of Mr. Haringway.

10:29Alive.

10:30I see.

10:31And what did you tell the police when they questioned you?

10:33You're sure I told them everything, just as it happened.

10:37About the bottle Mr. Vernon took out of his coat pocket, the sudden quarrel, Mr. Haringway's

10:42attack of illness, and Mr. Vernon going to get the medicine.

10:46Had this sufficient to have young Vernon remanded on a charge of murder?

10:50Aye.

10:51For the police informed me that it was the medicine, the very medicine that I saw Mr. Vernon

10:55give Mr. Haringway that killed the poor old man.

10:57They say that poison was put into the medicine.

11:00Yes, but look here.

11:01That certainly seems to point towards the young man.

11:04When he went to obtain the medicine, he apparently slipped in the lethal dose.

11:07It seems that way, sir.

11:09But in me heart, I can't bring myself to believe it of him.

11:13That Inspector Lestrade, though, he won't believe another thing else.

11:16Lestrade, eh?

11:18He's the policeman who seems to be in charge of it all.

11:21Indeed.

11:22Inspector Lestrade, do you hear that, Watson?

11:23We must go around and see him.

11:25Well, if you think it'll help.

11:27Aye.

11:28Then a thousand blessings on the pair of you.

11:31I don't know what we can promise you, Mrs. Dugan.

11:33I shall have to have a word with Mr. Vernon before I can express an opinion on the case.

11:37However, we shall certainly go and see Inspector Lestrade at once.

11:40I'm sure I know it looks dark and all, but I must keep up hope.

11:45Well, I must be off.

11:46I don't like leaving Miss Janet alone for so long.

11:48Naturally, Mrs. Dugan.

11:49Well, we'll certainly do our best.

11:51Thank you, sir.

12:07I can't see any reason for it.

12:09The man is guilty.

12:10Anything you want to know, I can tell you myself.

12:12Oh, come, come, Lestrade.

12:14I only want to ask the young man a few questions.

12:17It's time for my lunch.

12:19You needn't come.

12:21Now, look here, Holmes.

12:22There was a very large dose of strychnine in that medicine.

12:25The only person who could possibly have put it there was young Vernon.

12:28Or Mrs. Dugan?

12:30No, she didn't have any reason to.

12:32Besides, Vernon was a chemist.

12:33He had access to all sorts of poisons.

12:35Indeed, he was a chemist.

12:36You hear that, Watson?

12:37Young Vernon was a chemist.

12:39Hmm?

12:39Eh?

12:40Oh, yes, indeed, Holmes.

12:42Yes, I thought you'd be interested to hear that.

12:45Well, I am indeed.

12:46It is most important.

12:47And I insist upon seeing the young man immediately.

12:49We have no time to lose, Lestrade.

12:50No time to lose.

12:51Oh, all right.

12:52All right.

12:54All right.

12:54I don't see what you could possibly gain from this.

13:01But if you insist, you can see for yourself.

13:03This whole attitude merely supports the evidence.

13:06Well, here we are.

13:08Inspector Lestrade.

13:10Yes, sir.

13:17Well now, Vernon.

13:18Well now, Inspector.

13:20How many times a day are you going to bring me up here and subject me to your idiotic questions?

13:25I've already told you everything I know.

13:27And I'm getting tired of repeating it every half hour so that it'll penetrate your dense brain.

13:31Look here, young man.

13:32That's hardly an attitude to take.

13:34You're charged with the most serious crime.

13:35Indeed, I am.

13:37And since it appears I'm to pay for it, my only regret is that I didn't have the pleasure of committing it.

13:41There's just one point.

13:42I don't know who you are, but you may as well know that I don't wish to answer any of your questions either.

13:46Well, it appears I've talked myself to the gallows and that should be enough.

13:51So good day to the lot of you.

13:53Good day to you, Mr. Vernon, and thank you very much.

13:55You've been most helpful.

14:04President, young rogue.

14:06Oh, very interesting, Lestrade.

14:07Thank you, Lestrade.

14:08Certainly not, Watson.

14:09We have a killer to catch.

14:10Killer?

14:11Yes.

14:12What do you think you were just talking to?

14:15A very furious young man, Lestrade.

14:17But he's as innocent as Dr. Watson, me and you.

14:20Or perhaps not quite as innocent as you.

14:22What can you possibly find to be so amusing?

14:38Oh, I was thinking about Lestrade's face when that young scamp called him an idiot.

14:45Holmes, do you really believe that young man's innocent?

14:48Strychnine, Watson.

14:50Combined with the fact that young Vernon's a chemist.

14:52Tell me, how quickly did a strychnine act?

14:55Oh, a matter of minutes.

14:57Half an hour for most.

14:59Exactly.

15:00He did not know that the house would be empty when he went to visit old Mr. Haringway.

15:03He fully expected that Mrs. Dugan and Janet would be there.

15:06Quite enough.

15:07Mrs. Dugan indicated that.

15:09All right.

15:10Now, would a man with a wide variety of poisons to choose from choose a quick-acting drug,

15:15which offered him no chance of an alibi?

15:17Or would he be more likely to choose something a little slower,

15:20which would allow him ample time to be miles away at the time of death?

15:26Yes, I follow your reasoning, Holmes,

15:29but surely you don't accept that as conclusive.

15:33Oh, I didn't, until I spoke to young Vernon.

15:37But you didn't learn anything, did you?

15:41Ah, here's the mortuary.

15:43Shall we go and have a close look at the victim, Watson?

15:45Holmes asked to see the medical examiner's report,

15:55and as we prepared to enter the mortuary,

15:57he explained his theory that Vernon's violent temper

16:00didn't fit into the cold-blooded pattern of this crime.

16:03Hmm, a particular sort of fellow, our friend Haringway.

16:09Oh, why do you say that?

16:10Well, notice the well-kept hair underneath your trim moustache.

16:13Mm-hmm.

16:16Wasn't so particular about his hands, was he?

16:18What do you mean, Watson?

16:19Well, look, the dirt that's definitely packed in under those nails

16:21has even gone into the cuticles.

16:23Hmm.

16:23I say it's a bit incongruous with this perfect manicuring.

16:27Yes, especially if this hand's absolutely immaculate.

16:31Wait a minute, Watson.

16:32Well, this isn't ordinary dirt.

16:35This is soil.

16:37Well, amateur gardener, perhaps.

16:40Hmm.

16:40These hands never did any gardening.

16:43They display a lifelong devotion to immaculate cleanliness.

16:47And this hand obviously became dirty too near to death

16:50to be cleaned.

16:53Mr. Holmes, here's the report you asked for, sir.

16:56Oh, thank you.

16:58What are you doing your dad for, Holmes?

17:00You know, the cause of death of strychnine.

17:02Oh, this should interest you, Watson.

17:03Listen.

17:04Mm-hmm.

17:04The blood test indicated an extreme leukocytic state,

17:07sufficient to be diagnosed as advanced leukocytemia.

17:12Well, Mrs. Duggan said he was ill, but not to that extent.

17:16Watson, tell me, how long do you estimate

17:18Haringway would have lived

17:20had he not been given that dose of strychnine?

17:23Well, it's difficult to judge with this information,

17:26but I'd say,

17:28well, certainly under a year.

17:30And we are looking for someone

17:32who couldn't afford to wait a year.

17:36An impatient murderer.

17:38Then that fits in with Vernon's violent temperament.

17:42It appears so, Watson.

17:43It appears so.

17:45And yet there's still something missing.

17:48A bottle.

17:49A little mysterious bottle.

17:56Watson, would you go and collect Mrs. Duggan

17:58and take her around to Vernon's apartment?

18:00Ah, yes, of course.

18:04What have you been doing, meantime?

18:05Oh, I'm going over to Vernon's place now.

18:08There are a few things I want to check over before you arrive.

18:11But, ah,

18:13but it's bound to be locked up.

18:14I can get in.

18:16Oh, with a key.

18:18Have you got the key to Vernon's apartment?

18:23I hope so.

18:24We came as quickly as we could.

18:47Thank you, Watson.

18:49Do you think it's proper

18:50bursting into a strange man's apartment like this?

18:52Well, it isn't proper in the least, Mrs. Duggan,

18:54but, ah,

18:55if we're going to help young Vernon,

18:57I'm afraid there's very little choice.

18:59What is it you want me to do?

19:01Do you believe, Mrs. Vernon,

19:02that you could identify the bottle

19:04that he took from his coat pocket

19:05on the day of the murder?

19:07Yes, I think I can.

19:09Good.

19:10Then would you mind examining these

19:11and, ah, take your choice,

19:14if any.

19:22You're certain?

19:35I'm absolutely certain.

19:38Thank you, Mrs. Duggan.

19:40Thank you very much.

19:41Holmes!

19:49It's all right, Watson.

19:50It's quite harmless.

19:51It's oil of cloves.

19:53Oil of cloves?

19:54Mrs. Duggan,

19:54I presume that your employer

19:56was a teetotaler.

19:57Oh, he was that.

19:58There was never a drop

19:59of anything at all in the house.

20:01Hated the stuff he did.

20:02Yes, yes,

20:02but is it important, Holmes?

20:04It's essential

20:05for young Vernon, Watson.

20:07We have now only to visit

20:08Mr. Haringway's study

20:10to forge the final link of proof

20:13against a most amazing murderer.

20:22Really, Miss Haringway,

20:24I hope you realize

20:25that in this case

20:26I find myself

20:27in a particularly difficult position.

20:29But as a police officer,

20:31I have no alternative.

20:33I must follow

20:34the dictates of the law.

20:35But Tom didn't do it.

20:37He couldn't have done it.

20:38It just can't be.

20:40Precisely the opinion

20:41I expressed to you

20:42this morning, Lestrade.

20:44Holmes!

20:47Oh, Miss Janet,

20:48this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes

20:50and this here gentleman's

20:51Dr. Watson, his friend.

20:53It is because of me

20:54that they're here.

20:54If you see,

20:55I went to them begging

20:56for the help.

20:57Help?

20:58It was your fiancé's arrest

20:59that prompted Mrs. Duggan,

21:01I believe.

21:02I see.

21:02Sit down.

21:03Sit down, please.

21:04Well, really, Holmes.

21:06Why do you persist in this?

21:08I've always had

21:09the greatest respect

21:09for your ability,

21:10but in this case,

21:12well, you astound me.

21:14Oh, now, now.

21:14Come along, Miss Dredd.

21:16Well, it's true.

21:17Vernon had access to poison.

21:19He was here

21:20when it was taken.

21:21And above all,

21:22look at the motive.

21:23Just look at the motive.

21:25Who else had such a motive?

21:26Who else?

21:28Inspector,

21:28you didn't know

21:30my stepfather.

21:31He was a tyrant

21:32who loved nothing,

21:33no one.

21:34His whole ambition

21:35was power,

21:36and his whole pleasure

21:37was to rule.

21:39To my stepfather,

21:40my marriage meant

21:41only a loss of power,

21:43part of his kingdom,

21:44and he fought it

21:45in every way.

21:47Life here became

21:48unbearable

21:48after I met Tom.

21:50Mrs. Duggan

21:50can testify to that.

21:52Well, it is true

21:53he was not a kindly man,

21:54and he did begin

21:56to get a bit odd

21:57of late.

21:58I see.

21:59There were some flowers

22:01in this room.

22:02Where are they?

22:03Flowers, sir.

22:05Holmes!

22:07Now he's interested

22:08in flowers.

22:11Petunias, perhaps?

22:12Mrs. Duggan?

22:14Why, sir,

22:14I put them out in the yard

22:15to get a bit of sunlight, sir.

22:17So dark it wasn't here.

22:19Then there were some flowers.

22:21Mrs. Duggan,

22:21would you be kind enough

22:22to fetch them, please?

22:24Yes, sir.

22:25Holmes,

22:26what have flowers

22:27got to do with...

22:28Watch.

22:29You know, Inspector,

22:30your difficulties

22:31in this case

22:32really must be overlooked.

22:34Do you know

22:35that you've been

22:35deliberately duped?

22:37And very cleverly,

22:38I might add.

22:39I haven't been duped at all.

22:41I've got my man.

22:43Now, you see,

22:43you were looking

22:44for a murderer,

22:45whereas, of course,

22:46there isn't one.

22:48First, it's Petunias.

22:49Now there's no murder.

22:51There's a body,

22:53but no murder.

22:55You see,

22:55Mr. Haringway

22:56committed suicide.

22:58There was no indication

23:00of suicide whatsoever.

23:01No message, nothing.

23:03Well, naturally,

23:04there was no indication

23:04of suicide

23:05because it was deliberately

23:06planned to look like murder.

23:08Are you serious?

23:10Completely,

23:10Miss Haringway.

23:12You see,

23:12your stepfather

23:13was more of a tyrant

23:14than you imagine.

23:16Losing you to Vernon

23:17meant losing power.

23:19And so, first of all,

23:19he tried to bully him.

23:21Then he tried

23:22to bribe him.

23:23And when that failed,

23:24he tried to kill him.

23:26Mr. Haringway

23:27tried to kill Vernon?

23:29Yes, Watson.

23:30By committing suicide

23:31in such a way

23:32that Vernon would be blamed

23:34and executed

23:34for Haringway's death.

23:36The stage was set,

23:37the heart attack

23:38was feigned,

23:40and Vernon was sent

23:41to get the medicine.

23:42If Haringway

23:43took the poison himself,

23:44where did he hide

23:45the bottle?

23:47Of course,

23:47that's right.

23:48The poison acted

23:49too fast for him

23:50to dispose of the container.

23:52But he did dispose

23:53of the container, Watson.

23:54And if my theory

23:55is correct,

23:56it should be

23:57in one of the two

23:58flower pots

23:58that Mrs. Dugan

23:59is holding.

24:11And a chemical analysis

24:13will reveal

24:14that it contains

24:15strychnine.

24:17The dirt

24:18under the fingernails.

24:20Exactly, Watson.

24:21And you said

24:22it got there

24:22close to the time of death?

24:24Then Haringway

24:25committed suicide.

24:27Yes, Lestrade.

24:29And Tom is innocent.

24:31Good.

24:32Good.

24:34Simple.

24:36Completely.

24:39Holmes,

24:40you never did explain

24:42to me what the

24:42oil of clothes

24:44was for.

24:45Oh, you mean

24:45the mysterious

24:46little bottle

24:47that Vernon removed

24:47from his coat pocket?

24:48Yes, ma'am.

24:49Oh, it's really

24:50quite simple, you know.

24:51You see,

24:51Vernon stopped

24:52at the pub

24:52for a few stiff whiskies

24:53to brace himself

24:55for his interview

24:55with Haringway.

24:56But the old man

24:57was violently opposed

24:58to the use of alcohol.

25:00So he had to do something

25:01to remove the evidence

25:01from his breath.

25:03Oil of clothes

25:04is quite common

25:05for that purpose.

25:06Ah, I see.

25:07Tea?

25:08No, no, no.

25:09None for me.

25:10No, I've had some before.

25:12My digestion

25:12is not quite up to it.

25:14Your digestion?

25:15Yes, I forgot

25:17and mixed our tea

25:19with some of that

25:20rare Egyptian poison.

25:21But, but confounded, man.

25:29The tea's ruined.

25:31Oh, fair enough, old man.

25:32But there's my poison.

🕵️🔎 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954) TV Series – Ep 39 | The Case of the Tyrant’s Daughter

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