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00:02:14Will there be time?
00:02:16Definitely
00:02:17We seem to have cut our time pretty close, sir, Henry
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00:02:23Have you a word, sir, Henry?
00:02:24Do you wish to make any comments, sir?
00:02:25Nothing with the press, sir
00:02:26Sir Henry, what is your destination, New York or Washington?
00:02:28I'm sorry, I have nothing to say
00:02:30Sir Henry Marchmont, official business
00:02:32Oh, sir, Henry Marchmont
00:02:34Sir Henry
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00:02:37Good luck, sir, Henry
00:02:39Thanks
00:02:40I may need it
00:02:41Shall I take your case, sir?
00:02:43Definitely not
00:02:44Yes, sir
00:02:45I see
00:02:47You think the old boy carried the fate of the empire in that little black case
00:02:50Perhaps he does
00:02:51Name's up, boys
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00:03:02Your name, sir?
00:03:03Grayson's the name
00:03:04John Grayson's
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00:03:12Sorry to delay you
00:03:14Missed the bus
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00:03:16Fearful nuisance
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00:03:19Thanks
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00:07:14EXCUSE ME, SIR
00:07:15DON'T GIVE IT A THOUGHT, BROTHER
00:07:17I'M IN POLITICS
00:07:18I'M USED TO HARD KNOCKS
00:07:19I'M HENRY BABCOCK
00:07:20SENATOR BABCOCK
00:07:21HOW DO YOU DO?
00:07:22JOHN GRAYSON
00:07:23SIT DOWN, GRAYSON
00:07:24HAVE A GLASS OF GREAT JUICE
00:07:25FROM MY HOME STATE
00:07:27USED TO KNOW A MAN
00:07:28NAMED GRAYSON
00:07:29MIGHTY FINE MAN
00:07:31HE'S MURDERED
00:07:32TWO GRAPES, GEORGE
00:07:33ON THE FIRE, SIR
00:07:35THIS BOOK HAS GOT ME
00:07:36ALL CONFUSED
00:07:37I DO WISH YOU'D SET ME
00:07:38STRAIGHT ON THE
00:07:39INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
00:07:40RATHER LARGE ORDER
00:07:41I'M AFRAID
00:07:42OH, YOU'RE SO RIGHT, SIR HENRY
00:07:45ONE MUST TAKE THE BROADER VIEW
00:07:47I ALWAYS SAY
00:07:58ANOTHER GREAT JUICE, GRAYSON
00:07:59YOU CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY VITAMINS
00:08:01I ALWAYS SAY
00:08:02THANKS SENATOR
00:08:03BUT IF YOU DON'T MIND
00:08:04I'LL HAVE A WHISKEY AND SODA
00:08:06WHY SURE
00:08:07GEORGE, BRING THEM OVER
00:08:09WILL YOU
00:08:10LET'S GET A CHAIR
00:08:11I WAS BUILT FOR COMFORT
00:08:12AND THE BOOK
00:08:13WILL SAY
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00:08:31DON'T SAY
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00:08:34Oh, sorry.
00:08:42Permit me, ma'am.
00:08:43Oh, thank you. You're very kind, I'm sure.
00:08:46Pardon me, sir.
00:08:49Here we are.
00:08:51Porter.
00:08:52Yes, sir.
00:08:53Are we on time?
00:08:54Yes, sir. Be in Washington in 20 minutes.
00:09:01By the way, Grayson, what's your line?
00:09:03Line?
00:09:04Yeah, what business are you in? What's your racket?
00:09:06Oh, I represent a London legal firm.
00:09:08Parlow Nash and Parlow.
00:09:10Parlow?
00:09:11I used to know a man named Parlow.
00:09:13No, no, it was Marlow. Couldn't have been the same fellow.
00:09:15No, I suppose not.
00:09:19I've been making a tour of my state, getting the opinions of the home folks.
00:09:22Taking a lot of their ideas back to Washington.
00:09:25I'd like to hear more of your activities, Senator.
00:09:27Give me your address, sir, and I'll have all my speeches mailed to you.
00:09:31You're quite too kind, sir.
00:09:34Sorry I have no card.
00:09:43Oh, Porter.
00:09:44Yes, miss?
00:09:46Permit me.
00:09:52Thank you very much.
00:09:53Not at all.
00:09:58I'll be at this address for the next week or so.
00:10:01I hope.
00:10:04I'll get my papers together.
00:10:06Pleasant meeting, my friend.
00:10:08Better look me up in Washington.
00:10:09I'll just get my bag.
00:10:10Thank you, sir.
00:10:17Oh, I forgot to pay George.
00:10:18Excuse me, sir.
00:10:21Well, what's the matter?
00:10:22All right, sir.
00:10:25Just a little blackout.
00:10:26Keep your seats.
00:10:28All right.
00:10:29All right.
00:10:30Just a little blackout.
00:10:31Keep your seats.
00:10:32Mice.
00:10:40Oh, dear.
00:10:41All gone.
00:11:02Peter.
00:11:05Peter.
00:11:06Nancy, darling.
00:11:08I didn't dream you'd be able to meet me.
00:11:10Good boy, George.
00:11:11I got leave.
00:11:12Oh, darling, that's wonderful.
00:11:13Just three days.
00:11:14Oh, that's awful.
00:11:15We haven't a second to lose.
00:11:16First thing I did.
00:11:17As I was saying, sir, Harry.
00:11:19Was get this.
00:11:21This finger.
00:11:22Well, I haven't had much experience.
00:11:24No.
00:11:28Look, the day after tomorrow, your aunt's giving us a reception.
00:11:30Until then, you and I are going to be a couple of busy people.
00:11:33Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:11:41Goodbye.
00:11:43Who's your boyfriend?
00:11:45You needn't worry.
00:11:46He just lit a cigarette for me.
00:11:54Goodbye.
00:12:17This is the BBC News Bureau broadcasting from London.
00:12:22At this time, we present our regular morning summary of the news.
00:12:27A British subject has disappeared under curious circumstances.
00:12:31John Grayson, senior clerk in the firm of Parlow, Nash & Parlow solicitors, Chancery Lane,
00:12:39has not arrived at his firm's representatives in Washington.
00:12:43Foul play is suspected.
00:12:46Deplorable.
00:12:47Simply deplorable.
00:12:49It's the sort of thing that shakes your faith, by Jove.
00:12:51I say, Holmes, shakes your faith in everything.
00:12:54You alarm me, Watson.
00:12:55I've never seen you affected by the news, however startling.
00:12:57Startling, my dear fellow.
00:12:58It's devastating.
00:12:59Seen the scores?
00:13:00The Navy got 428 for six wickets against the Army at Lord's.
00:13:05May I draw your attention to the fact that really momentous things are happening in the world today?
00:13:09Oh, I know all about that.
00:13:10I'll get to them later on.
00:13:12Excuse me.
00:13:13Mind my egg, old bean.
00:13:14Oh, I'm sorry.
00:13:15With your consuming interest in the game, I'm surprised that you've changed your mind about running up to Lord's cricket ground this afternoon.
00:13:21Well, it can't be helped.
00:13:23I had to put it off.
00:13:25How did you know I changed my mind?
00:13:27Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:13:28Invariably, when you go to a cricket match, you fill your flask with my best whiskey.
00:13:33Just now, I noted in passing that the flask was empty.
00:13:36A single whiff informed me that it had been recently filled.
00:13:39Obviously, after filling it, you had poured the contents back into the bottle.
00:13:42Therefore, you had changed your mind about a cricket match.
00:13:45You amaze me, Holmes.
00:13:47You positively amaze me.
00:13:51Come in, Mrs. Hudson.
00:13:54Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:13:55There's a gentleman and he's very insistent.
00:13:57Well, I do declare he followed me right up the stairs.
00:14:00Didn't I ask you to wait?
00:14:02My good woman, you may ask me to wait, but not the British Empire.
00:14:05Mr. Holmes, I must talk to you immediately.
00:14:08How are you, Mr. Ahrens?
00:14:09That will be all now, thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:14:11My good woman, indeed.
00:14:14Ahrens?
00:14:15I see if you know that name.
00:14:16Tell me, my dear Watson, that you don't recognize Mr. Ahrens at the Home Office.
00:14:19Of course, I knew you the moment you came in.
00:14:21How are you, Ahrens?
00:14:22How do you do?
00:14:23Do you see what the Navy did to the Army at Lord's yesterday?
00:14:25All right, Watson, go on with your breakfast.
00:14:26Vanshow, 428, six wickets.
00:14:28Mr. Holmes, I'm here on a matter of the utmost secrecy.
00:14:31Now, I assure you, Mr. Ahrens, that Dr. Watson is the very sole of discretion.
00:14:36Won't you sit down?
00:14:38By the way, Watson, please be so good as to keep tapping on the table with your knife.
00:14:41Tapping on the table, will I?
00:14:42It will break the wavelength if by any chance there's a dictograph in the walls.
00:14:45Oh, will I?
00:14:46Well, Mr. Ahrens, I take it you've called on me in connection with the kidnapping of John Grayson in America last night.
00:15:03Oh, yes.
00:15:04Yes, exactly.
00:15:06Grayson was carrying a document of a very confidential nature.
00:15:09Indeed.
00:15:10Its contents are of such great international importance that I am not at liberty to reveal them.
00:15:15But if that document falls into the hands of the enemy, I can only say it will be absolutely disastrous for this government and our allies.
00:15:26For that reason, we did not wish to transport it to Washington in the usual way.
00:15:33So, a regular king's messenger, Sir Henry Marchment, was dispatched.
00:15:37Not carrying the document, of course.
00:15:38That's right.
00:15:39Sir Henry was the sort of...
00:15:40Sort of great heading, shall we say?
00:15:41Precisely.
00:15:42The document was actually entrusted to a reliable but insignificant man in our secret service.
00:15:50On his arrival in Washington, he was to make himself known to Sir Henry and deliver the document.
00:15:56Now, not even Sir Henry knew that this man, Pettibone, who traveled under the name of John Grayson, was the real messenger.
00:16:02Pettibone?
00:16:03Yes.
00:16:04Alfred Pettibone?
00:16:05Yes.
00:16:06Good man.
00:16:07None better.
00:16:08I've worked with him often.
00:16:10I hope you may be able to work with him again.
00:16:13But he's completely disappeared.
00:16:14He's vanished.
00:16:15Gone.
00:16:16Without leaving a trace.
00:16:17I can see the possibility of serious ramifications in his disappearance.
00:16:21Exactly.
00:16:22So far, we've been able to keep the knowledge of our loss from both the American and British public.
00:16:28Holmes, you must retrieve that document before it can be used against us.
00:16:35Of course, the Washington police have been notified of Grayson's disappearance, but even they don't know that he was carrying the document.
00:16:42Now, that's about all the detail I'm at liberty to give you.
00:16:46Well, if they've got Grayson, that is Pettibone, they must have got the papers.
00:16:49Not necessarily, Watson.
00:16:51It doesn't pull up because they've got the man, they've got the document.
00:16:54What form was this document in?
00:16:56It was typed on two sheets of legal paper.
00:16:59Two sheets?
00:17:00That's too bulky to swallow.
00:17:01And dry, Watson.
00:17:02Fearfully dry.
00:17:03Especially legal papers.
00:17:04Well, whatever shape the document was in, I trust Pettibone to get rid of it before anyone could lay hands on him.
00:17:10The document must be found before it falls into the hands of our enemies.
00:17:13I'm here on behalf of His Majesty's Government to urge you to find it.
00:17:16That means going to Washington, of course.
00:17:18With all possible speed.
00:17:19A bomber is waiting for you at Crichton.
00:17:21Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:17:22Goodbye, sir.
00:17:23Goodbye, Arons.
00:17:24Goodbye, Holmes.
00:17:25Goodbye, Holmes.
00:17:26Good luck.
00:17:27Thanks very much.
00:17:28We're relying on you.
00:17:31Well, Watson.
00:17:32We're off to Washington at once.
00:17:34America, I say that's exciting.
00:17:35I've never seen a game of baseball.
00:17:37Let's go and start packing it, wasn't they?
00:17:39First, I'd like to take a look at the home of Alfred Pettibone.
00:17:43Come on, Watson.
00:17:54Why, Dr. Watson.
00:17:55What a surprise.
00:17:56And Mr. Holmes, won't you come in?
00:17:58I'm frightfully sorry.
00:17:59But you won't find my son in.
00:18:00He's gone to Washington.
00:18:01Some business or other.
00:18:02Poor fellow, I'm afraid that he'll never get used to the climate over there.
00:18:09Would you mind if we looked over your son's room?
00:18:10Why, of course.
00:18:11It's upstairs.
00:18:12It's upstairs.
00:18:13It's upstairs.
00:18:15Some friends tell me it's very, very muggy.
00:18:16Very sticky.
00:18:17I had a letter for children's doctor the other day.
00:18:18He'll find his room in a dreadful pickle, Mr. Holmes.
00:18:19Quite a bit he is.
00:18:20If I as much as put my nose inside.
00:18:21As if I can.
00:18:22As if I can.
00:18:23I can.
00:18:24I can't.
00:18:25I can't.
00:18:26I can't.
00:18:27I can't.
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00:18:38I can't.
00:18:39I can't.
00:18:40I can't.
00:18:41I can't.
00:18:42My nose inside.
00:18:43As if I cared anything about his silly old collection.
00:18:57A sort of.
00:18:58A sort of.
00:18:59A sort of.
00:19:00A sort of.
00:19:01A sort of.
00:19:02A sort of,
00:19:03Ada.
00:19:04вид,
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00:19:06Mail.
00:19:07Matters.
00:19:08Waterfly
00:19:09bugs.
00:19:10knew.
00:19:11Snapshots?
00:19:15All sorts of rubbish.
00:19:17Yes, I shall write a monograph someday
00:19:20on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.
00:19:30Please be so good as to stop pacing, Watson. You distract me.
00:19:33All right, all right.
00:19:41Unless I'm greatly mistaken, our friend Pettibone did not carry
00:19:45two pages of legal paper when he left this room.
00:19:48I wouldn't be too sure, Holmes.
00:19:50Ashes are deceptive, you know.
00:19:52On the contrary, my dear Watson.
00:19:54The rag used in artificial documents
00:19:56leaves an ash that is unmistakable.
00:19:59Oh, do stop pacing.
00:20:01I'm not pacing. I haven't moved an inch.
00:20:03I'm sorry, old fellow. My error.
00:20:11Must be Mrs. Pettibone.
00:20:13Heavy woman, light on her feet.
00:20:15Doesn't follow.
00:20:16Our friend seems to be quite a camera enthusiast.
00:20:19What's this?
00:20:20Cook F-1-5. That's a very fast lens.
00:20:23F-3-5.
00:20:26Summer.
00:20:28Copying setup.
00:20:31American match folders.
00:20:33Oh, sir? USA.
00:20:35Now, why would Pettibone want American match folders in his work?
00:20:40And a microscope.
00:20:43Most interesting. Oh, what's this?
00:20:49Watson.
00:20:50This microscope was last used for examining microfilm.
00:20:54I'm beginning to see the pattern.
00:20:56Stop now.
00:20:57Did you know that the letters of our soldiers overseas
00:20:59are being photographed on microfilm
00:21:01so that one carrier pigeon can carry the equivalent of 18,000 letters?
00:21:04Really?
00:21:05We had a carrier pigeon in the last war.
00:21:08Back in 1915, belonging to the Brigade Signal Corps.
00:21:11Did you?
00:21:12The poor bird kept flying round and round in circles all day long.
00:21:15Found out later on that it was cross-eyed.
00:21:18Tragic thing.
00:21:20What?
00:21:21Where are you going?
00:21:23Huh?
00:21:27Oh, dark room.
00:21:28Huh?
00:21:29This is what I was looking for.
00:21:30Huh?
00:21:31This projector magnifies tremendously anything placed on the slide.
00:21:35Like this piece of microfilm.
00:21:41Understand?
00:21:42Well, I can't say I do exactly enough.
00:21:44Wait a minute.
00:21:47I'll show you what he's photographed.
00:21:54Oh, it's that match folder.
00:21:55What do you want to photograph that for?
00:21:57Probably to line up his equipment
00:21:59before he photographed the document.
00:22:01We've got it, Watson.
00:22:02Look over it.
00:22:03Yes.
00:22:04Come along.
00:22:05Well, it's all as clear as much, eh?
00:22:08Huh.
00:22:09Just as I thought.
00:22:10This document has been reduced to microfilm
00:22:12to make its concealment possible.
00:22:14Alfred Pettibone is a most ingenious fellow.
00:22:16A bulky document is obviously difficult to conceal.
00:22:19But two pages of a state paper,
00:22:21photographed on microfilm,
00:22:23would be reduced to a size no larger than a halfpenny stamp.
00:22:26Slitting a match folder with this, eh,
00:22:29with this razor blade.
00:22:35I bet he won't place the now minute document inside,
00:22:37stuck it together again,
00:22:38and there he had it.
00:22:39An American match folder, rare in London,
00:22:40but completely inconspicuous in the United States.
00:22:43You mean to say we're off to America
00:22:44just to look for a match folder?
00:22:46It's a big country.
00:22:47A big country, Watson.
00:22:49And a small match folder.
00:22:51Come along.
00:22:56Did you find what you were looking for, Mr. Holmes?
00:23:01Yes, thank you, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:03Otherwise, you haven't been up on the roof
00:23:04in the last many minutes, have you?
00:23:06Why, no.
00:23:07What made you think that I...
00:23:08Well, we distinctly heard footsteps nonsense, Watson.
00:23:10It was the house settling.
00:23:11Gracious, yes.
00:23:12Such popping and groaning.
00:23:13We're quite used to it.
00:23:19Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:20Goodbye, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:21Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:23:22Goodbye.
00:23:23So sorry you, Mr. Alfred.
00:23:24I'll tell him the minute he gets back.
00:23:26Gets back?
00:23:27Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
00:23:29Oh, goodbye again, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:31Just a minute, Watson.
00:23:44That was no accident, I assure you, Watson.
00:23:46Well, aren't you going to find out who did it?
00:23:48Time's too precious now.
00:23:49But at least I know they've learned of my entry into the case.
00:23:52They? Who are they?
00:23:54The same group that took Alfred Pettibone off the train on his way to Washington.
00:23:58A group that will stop at nothing.
00:24:00Pick up their hands on the document he carried.
00:24:02Their leader is a clever, resourceful criminal
00:24:05who seems to have sources of information from everywhere.
00:24:08Oh, that means a worldwide organization.
00:24:11Who will stop at nothing, you say?
00:24:12Quite.
00:24:13That's why we must get our bags and ourselves aboard that bomber without delay.
00:24:16We're opposed by an adversary worthy of our best efforts.
00:24:19At present, he has all the advantages.
00:24:21Even that of being only a merciless, nameless shadow.
00:24:26Think of it, Watson.
00:24:28In a few hours, we'll be flying out over the Atlantic.
00:24:31That's good.
00:24:39We're flying over New York, sir.
00:24:44New York, eh?
00:24:48Yes, sir.
00:24:49We've been cleared by radio.
00:24:50Non-stop Washington.
00:24:52What is that book that so engrosses your attention, Watson?
00:25:02A book on the quaint customs and manners of America.
00:25:05We must be halfway across, and I've only got to page 37.
00:25:09For your information, my dear fellow, we are now flying over New York.
00:25:13Flying over New York?
00:25:15Oh, gracious me.
00:25:17That's a totally thing.
00:25:22I've got to go.
00:25:46This is the embassy car, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:47You're being very helpful, Mr. Lange.
00:25:49Detective Lieutenant Grogan of the Washington police.
00:25:51How do you do?
00:25:52Welcome to Washington.
00:25:54This is my associate, Dr. Watson.
00:25:55How do you do, sir?
00:25:56How are you?
00:25:57I suppose I should say, how are you, buddy?
00:25:58Uh, what's, uh...
00:26:00What's cooking?
00:26:01Oh, come on out, Watson.
00:26:02Oh, it says in the book, uh, what's cooking?
00:26:16Grogan had charge of investigating the Grayson case for the Washington police.
00:26:19Any new developments, Grogan?
00:26:21None, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:22We'll be glad to let you have our complete file.
00:26:24And, of course, we'll cooperate in every way.
00:26:26Thank you, I shall appreciate your help.
00:26:28Especially as I'm unfamiliar with your country.
00:26:30Oh, yes, of course.
00:26:31This is your first visit.
00:26:32Oh, there's the Lincoln Memorial.
00:26:39Most impressive.
00:26:40Oh, by the by, Mr. Lang.
00:26:42Thank you for your cable grant.
00:26:44I received it just before I left London.
00:26:46Cable?
00:26:47I said no cable.
00:26:48Yeah, but our reservations at the Hotel Metropole.
00:26:50Why, no.
00:26:51We thought you'd stay at the Embassy, of course.
00:26:53Look at that.
00:26:54Well, since some strange person has taken such an extraordinary interest in my welfare,
00:27:00I think I shall stay at the Hotel Metropole.
00:27:02Oh, Mr. Holmes, there's the Washington Monument.
00:27:09There's the capital, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:17Magnificent.
00:27:18We're expecting you, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:35I questioned everybody known to have been in that club car.
00:27:37It's a matter of course.
00:27:38Sir Henry Marchmont confirms that Grayson had contact only with the people on this list.
00:27:43Now, he had a drink with Senator Babcock,
00:27:47and he chatted with a Miss Pringle about some mice she had in the cage,
00:27:51and he picked up a book dropped by Mrs. Jellison.
00:27:54Not very much to go on.
00:27:56How many of these people have been attacked already?
00:27:58I've heard about your deductions, Mr. Holmes.
00:28:01Well, Senator Babcock was held up on his way from the station,
00:28:05with nothing taken.
00:28:06Mrs. Jellison's home was ransacked that night.
00:28:09And she found the book that she carried from the train literally torn to bits.
00:28:12That's right.
00:28:14Miss Pringle?
00:28:15Well, Miss Pringle says someone released the mice from the cage during the night sometime,
00:28:19and she found the cage torn apart.
00:28:22What happened to the mice, Herr Weller?
00:28:24An intriguing line of thought, Watson, but not essential to the case.
00:28:28Mm-hmm.
00:28:29Apparently, Grogan, they're still looking for the document.
00:28:32I'd very much like to have a look at that club car.
00:28:35Well, that'll be easy.
00:28:36I have the car held in a siding in the railroad yards.
00:28:38Good.
00:28:39But we've searched the car thoroughly, Mr. Holmes.
00:28:41We couldn't find a thing.
00:28:42Well...
00:28:49What are you doing? What's this?
00:28:50Mr. Holmes, your trunk.
00:28:51Trunk? I have no trunk.
00:28:52It says right there.
00:28:54To Sherlock Holmes, Hotel Metropole.
00:28:56How is this trunk delivered?
00:28:58An expressman brought it, sir.
00:28:59What's the name of the company?
00:29:00Do you remember the license number?
00:29:02Naturally, I didn't notice that. I just signed for it.
00:29:04All right. Thank you. That'll do.
00:29:07Well, this trunk's not locked.
00:29:15Great Scott!
00:29:17Poor chap.
00:29:19You recognize him, Mr. Holmes?
00:29:20Yes.
00:29:21Who was he?
00:29:23The man we're looking for, John Grayson.
00:29:26His real name is Alfred Pettibone.
00:29:28The British Secret Service.
00:29:30Why should they send the body here?
00:29:32Obviously, to frighten us.
00:29:33Well, to tell us they know that Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
00:29:37Gentlemen, they knew we were on the case as early as their attempt on our lives in London.
00:29:41They're much too intelligent to believe that a corpse would frighten a trained detective.
00:29:46No, I rather think they intend this as a message.
00:29:50And they wanted to be sure that I'd be here at the Hotel Metropole to receive it.
00:29:54Message? What do you mean?
00:29:55They want us to believe that they found the document and therefore have no further use for Grayson.
00:30:01Well, if that's true, then we're done for.
00:30:02I'm not so sure that it is true, Watson.
00:30:05If they had the document, why are they wasting time sending me this?
00:30:08No, it's an attempt to throw me off the track.
00:30:11Rogan, you have a police laboratory, of course.
00:30:14Certainly. I'll see what I can find out about the body.
00:30:16Yes, whatever marks it reveals.
00:30:18And the trunk.
00:30:19A microscopic examination. Everything about it. The lining, the blanket in which the body is wrapped. Everything. Let nothing escape.
00:30:26We have the best police laboratories in the world, Mr. Holmes.
00:30:29I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Rogan.
00:30:31You see, I'm so accustomed to working quite alone at my lodgings in Baker Street,
00:30:35that I sometimes forget the more modern scientific methods so particularly effective here in America.
00:30:40But if there's anything there, they'll find it, Mr. Holmes.
00:30:42While you're doing that, I'll take a look at the club card. Coming, Watson?
00:30:44Here we are, Mr. Holmes. I have the port, as you asked, and the railroad company sent Mr. Moore to unlock for us.
00:30:51Delighted. How do you do? Very good. Let's go in.
00:30:54This way, gentlemen.
00:30:58Well.
00:31:00It looks as if the police have made a thorough search.
00:31:05Whoever did it, it wasn't the police.
00:31:09There have been visitors here since our friend, Grogan.
00:31:12My goodness. Look at our car. Talk about a blitz.
00:31:16I say, Holmes.
00:31:19If Grayson hit anything in this car, it certainly isn't here now.
00:31:23Not necessarily, Watson.
00:31:25If you'll help me put this place in some kind of order.
00:31:29Yes, sir, boss.
00:31:31This would go about here, I imagine.
00:31:33That's it, boss. Yes, sir.
00:31:34And...
00:31:35Wait a minute.
00:31:37That right?
00:31:38Yeah, that's certainly more like it. Yes, sir.
00:31:39Thank you. That'll be all.
00:31:42Watson, will you be Mr. Grayson for the moment?
00:31:45Grayson?
00:31:46Oh, if you want me to, old man.
00:31:48What do you want me to do?
00:31:49You're having a drink at the bar.
00:31:50Oh, a drink?
00:31:51Oh, that's not a bad idea.
00:31:53Drink at the bar.
00:31:55Bring me a whiskey and soda, will you, Stuart?
00:31:56Stuart?
00:31:58Sorry, Dr. Watson, but the bar's closed.
00:32:00Well, it says the bar's closed.
00:32:01According to Grogan's reconstruction of the scene, let me see.
00:32:07Yes.
00:32:09Grayson pauses at the bar
00:32:11while Senator Babcock moves across and sits down here.
00:32:14Do you mind being Senator Babcock for the moment, Watson?
00:32:17Going up in the world.
00:32:19Sit down, please.
00:32:21Now, uh...
00:32:23Miss Pringle is seated there.
00:32:24Over there, Watson.
00:32:26Hm?
00:32:27Oh, I'm Miss Pringle.
00:32:32That's right, the mouse woman.
00:32:34Oh, the mouse woman.
00:32:36Watson, over here, please.
00:32:38Oh.
00:32:40No, not there, not there.
00:32:41That's Senator Babcock.
00:32:42Oh, pardon me, Senator.
00:32:43Sit down, please.
00:32:47Now you're Mrs. Jellison.
00:32:48Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:32:50He ain't Mrs. Jellison.
00:32:52He's a young lady.
00:32:53What?
00:32:54Sir Henry Marshmott was sitting right here,
00:32:56and Mrs. Jellison was right here.
00:33:00She's a sort of a big fat lady.
00:33:03What did Grayson do that attracted your attention
00:33:04so particularly to Mrs. Jellison?
00:33:06The little man, he retrieved her book.
00:33:10And the young lady sitting here,
00:33:12didn't she converse with the little man?
00:33:13No, sir.
00:33:16That young lady didn't have no converse with no one.
00:33:19When the little man lit her cigarette,
00:33:20she ran back and said,
00:33:22thank you very much.
00:33:23But you have matches here for your customers.
00:33:24Oh, yes.
00:33:25She called me, and I saw a cigarette,
00:33:27and I knew she wanted a match.
00:33:29And Grayson used one of his own matches.
00:33:31Dog had a...
00:33:32Oh, yes.
00:33:33He took a folder from his coat pocket.
00:33:35Did he put the match folder back in his pocket,
00:33:36or did he give it to the young lady?
00:33:38I don't remember.
00:33:39I was fairly busy.
00:33:40Try to remember.
00:33:41Well, if I should try to doomsday,
00:33:42I couldn't write and say just what happened to that match folder.
00:33:45Oh, yes.
00:33:46I remember just one important thing.
00:33:48What?
00:33:50When a little man lit her cigarette,
00:33:51he said something very peculiar.
00:33:53What was it?
00:33:55He said,
00:33:56permit me.
00:33:58Oh.
00:34:01Well,
00:34:03gentlemen, I'm extremely grateful to all of you.
00:34:06That's all we can do for the present, I think.
00:34:08Since the place was torn to bits,
00:34:10after the murder of Grayson,
00:34:12and the attacks on Senator Babcock,
00:34:14Mrs. Jellison and Miss Pringle,
00:34:16I'm convinced that the document left the club car
00:34:18long before these events.
00:34:19But how?
00:34:21By whom?
00:34:22And who was the mysterious young lady
00:34:24whose cigarette Grayson lighted?
00:34:28Did anyone meet the young lady?
00:34:29He sure did.
00:34:30He? Who was he?
00:34:32Tall, handsome, in a uniform.
00:34:35I see.
00:34:36You wouldn't remember what kind of a uniform.
00:34:37I certainly would.
00:34:38Lieutenant.
00:34:40Navy flyer.
00:34:41My boy's in the Army.
00:34:43He's going to be a flyer, too.
00:34:44Splendid.
00:34:45Did you happen to hear them say anything?
00:34:46Oh, I didn't happen.
00:34:47I just couldn't help hearing it.
00:34:48Mm-hmm.
00:34:49Well, what did they say?
00:34:51Oh, yes.
00:34:52They said they had three days leave.
00:34:53They had to move fast
00:34:54before the big part of her aunt was given them.
00:34:56Then, too,
00:34:57he put a ring on her finger
00:34:58and they both looked mighty happy.
00:35:00Mm-hmm.
00:35:01Just the way you're looking right now.
00:35:03Ken?
00:35:04The way I'm looking myself.
00:35:05Come on, Watson.
00:35:09That's the girl.
00:35:10I told the head.
00:35:11I could swear to it.
00:35:13Is the address there?
00:35:14All there.
00:35:15Right in our laps.
00:35:16And also right in the lap of Sherlock Holmes.
00:35:18That's the least of our worries.
00:35:20The head could handle ten like Holmes.
00:35:22I hope so.
00:35:24But don't underrate that, Englishman.
00:35:26I have several friends who did.
00:35:27They now grace some of the best prisons in England.
00:35:41Yes, sir?
00:35:42I talked to the catering company.
00:35:43It's quite all right.
00:35:44They could hardly refuse me.
00:35:46It's the Acton Company.
00:35:48The Acton Catering Company.
00:35:50Yes, sir.
00:35:51I know what to do.
00:35:59Hop over there.
00:36:00You're going to work for the catering company.
00:36:01Right.
00:36:02When you get in the house, find out all you can.
00:36:03Katie.
00:36:04Yes?
00:36:05You ought to go as a guest.
00:36:06Will it be safe?
00:36:07It'll have to be.
00:36:08I'll try and get in the girls' room.
00:36:09Lest you hear from me, carry on as we planned.
00:36:16Flash Gordon.
00:36:18Seems a very capable fellow.
00:36:21Sports pages.
00:36:26These Brooklyn fellows seem to be arguing with the umpire.
00:36:29Story thing.
00:36:32What are you eating, Watson?
00:36:35Gum?
00:36:37Oh.
00:36:38Put it away.
00:36:48I've never seen you take an interest in the society columns before.
00:36:52It's a concern I'll drop at once, I assure you, Watson.
00:36:56You find what you're looking for?
00:36:59How do you know this is the girl?
00:37:01It would be an extraordinary coincidence, wouldn't it?
00:37:02If more than one naval lieutenant in Washington
00:37:05were to become engaged in the last few days to a girl from New York
00:37:08whose aunt was giving them a reception?
00:37:10Fine. Sure you must be right.
00:37:12She's a pretty girl.
00:37:14Yes.
00:37:16He's walking around with dynamite in her handbag.
00:37:32What?
00:37:33What?
00:37:34What?
00:37:35What?
00:37:36I wonder where she's looking for her.
00:37:38There she is.
00:37:42Whatever.
00:37:44We can't stop her.
00:37:46Does she want to scream?
00:37:476.25 Wardlaw Place.
00:38:17Who is it?
00:38:21Me, Pete.
00:38:22You can't come up here.
00:38:26I did, though.
00:38:30One gets you two.
00:38:35That party's going to be awfully dull after this.
00:38:38Let's not go.
00:38:40Let's go away and get married.
00:38:41We've only got one more day.
00:38:43That's an idea.
00:38:45No, we can't do that to Andy.
00:38:47I'll tell you.
00:38:48Let's take a look at the new apartment.
00:38:51It was awful sweet of Andy to give us the whole floor of this house for our apartment.
00:38:55The least we can do is let her have the fun of showing it to us.
00:38:58Okay.
00:38:59Let's face the party.
00:39:01I'll get my bag.
00:39:11Oh, no, you don't.
00:39:12That's the way I got them.
00:39:15Oh, how do you do?
00:39:16So glad you could come.
00:39:17This is Mrs.
00:39:18Oh, what do you do?
00:39:19So glad you could come.
00:39:20This is Mrs.
00:39:22Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:23Moxton.
00:39:24Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:39:25And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:39:26How do you do?
00:39:27Isn't it?
00:39:28Quite.
00:39:29Oh, of course.
00:39:30Do you love it?
00:39:31Not yet.
00:39:32Do you love it?
00:39:33Not yet.
00:39:34It must be Lieutenant Merriam.
00:39:35It must be Lieutenant Merriam.
00:39:36Yes.
00:39:37Yes.
00:39:38Yes.
00:39:39Yes.
00:39:40Yes.
00:39:41Oh, how do you do?
00:39:42So glad you could come.
00:39:43This is Mrs.
00:39:44Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:45Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:46Moxton.
00:39:47Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:39:48And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:39:49How do you do?
00:39:50Isn't it?
00:39:51Quite.
00:39:52Oh, of course.
00:39:54Oh, of course.
00:39:58Do you love it?
00:39:59Not yet.
00:40:03It must be Lieutenant Merriam with Miss Partridge over there.
00:40:06Certainly glad to hear the news, Pete.
00:40:08Congratulations.
00:40:09Thank you, Major.
00:40:11You're a lucky guy, Pete.
00:40:12I'll see you later.
00:40:13Third floor, first door.
00:40:15Right.
00:40:17I'll wait till you bring him up.
00:40:18Thank you, sir.
00:40:21A toast to the happy couple.
00:40:23A toast.
00:40:27Very good.
00:40:28Happy landings.
00:40:29May I win those?
00:40:30Certainly.
00:40:31Me too.
00:40:35Lieutenant Merriam.
00:40:36Telephone, sir.
00:40:37Navy department calling.
00:40:38Oh, yes.
00:40:39Be right back.
00:40:40Lead on, McDuff.
00:40:41This way, sir.
00:40:44Matches.
00:40:45Match me, darling.
00:40:46Take the mask.
00:40:53Oh, Pete, hold it.
00:40:56You can keep them, Major.
00:40:57Oh, thank you.
00:41:06Not for me, thank you.
00:41:07No, thank you.
00:41:12Why up here?
00:41:13They said it was private.
00:41:14There's a phone in here, sir.
00:41:15Hey, it's my new apartment.
00:41:17Miss Parcher didn't want me to see it till after it was finished.
00:41:23Here you are, sir.
00:41:24Quite the smell of paint, sir.
00:41:29In here, sir.
00:41:34We should get some action, sir Henry, with Sherlock Holmes in Washington.
00:41:50Yes.
00:41:51I don't mind telling you I'd give anything to get my hands on that document.
00:41:56Yes, I know.
00:41:57Or at least know that it's in safe hands.
00:42:07Engage today and marry tomorrow.
00:42:10No, thanks.
00:42:15Have you a match?
00:42:16Miss Partridge?
00:42:17Yes.
00:42:18Lieutenant Merriam asked if you would come to the new apartment.
00:42:20But he's not supposed to see it yet.
00:42:21The new apartment?
00:42:22He must think you're already married.
00:42:24Yes, I don't dare let that man out of my sight.
00:42:27Excuse me, will you please?
00:42:28Surely.
00:42:31Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:42:37May I?
00:42:45This way, please.
00:42:48Oh, I know the way.
00:42:54Peter!
00:43:04Where are you?
00:43:06Ah!
00:43:24Well, here we are, Grogan.
00:43:25Ah, good connections.
00:43:26We'd better go into the party.
00:43:27Well, I think you'd better go in first, Mr. Holmes.
00:43:28I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
00:43:29I think you do, all right.
00:43:30The only possible explanation.
00:43:31Mrs. Partridge, forgive my intruding, but is your niece the kind of girl who would just
00:43:33disappear in this manner of her own free will?
00:43:34Well, ordinarily, of course not.
00:43:35But the girls in love.
00:43:36In love?
00:43:37Well, of course, if they're in love, that's...
00:43:38Even so, they'd naturally tell you of their destination.
00:43:39Well, you know what?
00:43:40Well, you know what?
00:43:41Well, you know what?
00:43:42Well, I think you'd better go in first, Mr. Holmes.
00:43:43I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
00:43:44I think you do, all right.
00:43:45I think you do, all right.
00:43:47The only possible explanation.
00:43:48Mrs. Partridge, forgive my intruding, but is your niece the kind of girl who would just
00:43:51disappear in this manner of her own free will?
00:43:53Well, ordinarily, of course not.
00:43:55But the girl's in love.
00:43:56In love?
00:43:57Well, of course, if they're in love, that's...
00:43:59What?
00:44:00Even so, they'd naturally tell you of their destination.
00:44:04Really?
00:44:05I've no idea.
00:44:06Oh, but they'll be back here again tomorrow.
00:44:07You see, I've prepared an apartment for them.
00:44:10An entire floor in this house.
00:44:12Uh, by the by, Mrs. Partridge, I gather the rug you ordered for the apartment was not entirely
00:44:18satisfactory.
00:44:19Oh, those tiresome workmen.
00:44:20I told them not to come in here this afternoon, but they did.
00:44:23And walked out with a rug which they no doubt informed you had been sent by mistake
00:44:26and would be replaced tomorrow.
00:44:27Yes, but however, did you know that?
00:44:29Show me the apartment.
00:44:34Yes, there were two rugs there.
00:44:36One for the living room and one for the dining room.
00:44:38Well, your workmen wear rubber-soled shoes within her.
00:44:40Oh, but yes, always.
00:44:41Their company requires them to.
00:44:43Nevertheless, there have been leather heels on this floor.
00:44:45And a woman's heels.
00:44:47Very recently, I should say.
00:44:48Not yours, Mrs. Partridge.
00:44:50But recently enough.
00:44:52So that no dust has had time to settle in the imprints.
00:44:55Well...
00:44:56Sail over there, please.
00:44:59There seems to have been a struggle over there.
00:45:04A woman's footprints disappear and a man's leather heels come round.
00:45:08And stop there.
00:45:11Either she was carried out in the carpet or else...
00:45:14Where does that door lead to?
00:45:16Why, it's a dressing room.
00:45:22Perhaps an ordinary skeleton key.
00:45:23Try it.
00:45:27Watson, this is a matter for you, I'm afraid.
00:45:29Excuse me.
00:45:30Who is he?
00:45:31Is it Miriam?
00:45:32Peter!
00:45:33Take it easy, Mrs. Partridge.
00:45:34Let the doctor examine him.
00:45:36How is he, Watson?
00:45:37Nasty crack of the head.
00:45:38Nothing serious, thank heavens.
00:45:40Is there somewhere where he can lie down?
00:45:42Of course.
00:45:43Poor Peter.
00:45:44Take him to my room.
00:45:45Yes, I'll put your...
00:45:46Put your arm on my neck.
00:45:47That's the nurture.
00:45:48Mr. Holmes, you must find Nancy.
00:45:50Quite.
00:45:52Poor Peter.
00:45:57That girl disappeared right from under our noses.
00:45:59It's unbelievable.
00:46:00I'd better try to trace that truck.
00:46:02That won't lead us anywhere.
00:46:03Our antagonist is too clever for that.
00:46:06But the girl must be found immediately.
00:46:09You're sure the police chemists found nothing definite in their examination of the trunk?
00:46:13Not one thing pertinent to the case.
00:46:15What about Grayson's body?
00:46:16And the blanket it was wrapped in?
00:46:17Nothing.
00:46:18Every object connected with this case has some kind of story to tell.
00:46:23Do you think they'd mind if...
00:46:25The laboratory is completely at your disposal, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:28Dr. Watson and I will go there at once.
00:46:31The usual findings on the trunk, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:34Bought in Washington.
00:46:35Been banged about a good deal.
00:46:37All labels removed.
00:46:38Hmm.
00:46:39In the body?
00:46:40No marks of any kind.
00:46:41Very well.
00:46:42If you need me, call.
00:46:49Watson, please.
00:46:50Just tidying up a bit.
00:46:52This blanket is beginning to tell me many things.
00:46:54Really?
00:46:55Don't say, sir.
00:46:56It only remains to translate them properly.
00:47:00Yes.
00:47:01And just as I thought.
00:47:03This blanket has had a most varied history.
00:47:05It's been on many a sea voyage.
00:47:07The latest not six months ago.
00:47:10Since then it has been used to wrap a multiplicity of objects.
00:47:14Carvings of teak wood.
00:47:16Candle snuffers made of pewter.
00:47:18And furniture.
00:47:19And furniture.
00:47:20Furniture?
00:47:21Yes.
00:47:22Teak wood leaves an unmistakable stain.
00:47:23Pewter rubs off easily.
00:47:24And there are evidences of wax drippings.
00:47:25But what particularly concerns us, Watson, is the furniture.
00:47:28Most likely a chair.
00:47:29Louis the 15th.
00:47:30In yellow and maroon satin.
00:47:31What do all these things suggest to you, Watson?
00:47:32What do we say?
00:47:33An aunt of mine, Matilda, lives in Brighton.
00:47:34Very old fashioned.
00:47:35Very aged.
00:47:36Exactly.
00:47:37Antiques.
00:47:38We have a lot of ground to cover before nightfall.
00:47:39Ground?
00:47:40What ground?
00:47:41Necessary.
00:47:42All the antique shops in Washington.
00:47:43A-A-N-T-I.
00:47:44There we are.
00:47:45A-A-N-T-I.
00:47:46There we are.
00:47:47A-A-N-T-I.
00:47:48There we are.
00:47:49A-A-N-T-I.
00:47:50A-A-N-T-I.
00:47:51Most likely a chair.
00:47:52Louis the 15th.
00:47:53In yellow and maroon satin.
00:47:54What do all these things suggest to you, Watson?
00:47:55What do we say?
00:47:56An aunt of mine, Matilda, lives in Brighton.
00:47:58Very old fashioned.
00:47:59Very aged.
00:48:00Exactly.
00:48:01Antiques.
00:48:02We have a lot of ground to cover before nightfall.
00:48:04Ground?
00:48:05What ground?
00:48:06If necessary.
00:48:07All the antique shops in Washington.
00:48:09A-A-N-T-I.
00:48:11Here we are.
00:48:12Antiques.
00:48:13Antiques?
00:48:14With what connection is a Louis the 15th chair with this partridge girl?
00:48:18This slipper of wood came from a Louis the 15th chair that had once been wrapped in that blanket.
00:48:23From other evidences the blanket supplies, I deduce that it's been used in an antique shop.
00:48:28And whoever controls those antiques murdered Grayson and kidnapped the girl.
00:48:32What?
00:48:33That's it, Watson.
00:48:37Come along.
00:48:38Before the girl's kidnapper becomes her murderer.
00:48:40Hold on, I'm fed up with all this shopping for antiques.
00:48:51Come along.
00:48:52Oh, I'm fed up with all this shopping for antiques.
00:48:56You must keep searching, Watson.
00:48:58The girl's in grave danger.
00:49:00Hello.
00:49:01Hello.
00:49:02Oh, sir.
00:49:03What is it, Holmes?
00:49:04This isn't the place it seems to be.
00:49:05Look, Watson.
00:49:06Those cabinets.
00:49:07Oh, sir.
00:49:08Oh, sir.
00:49:09Oh, sir.
00:49:10Oh, sir.
00:49:11Oh, sir.
00:49:12Oh, sir.
00:49:13Oh, sir.
00:49:14Oh, sir.
00:49:15Oh, sir.
00:49:16Oh, sir.
00:49:17Oh, sir.
00:49:18Oh, sir.
00:49:19Oh, sir.
00:49:20Oh, sir.
00:49:21The cabinets.
00:49:22Obviously imitation, and yet they're priced as if they were authentic.
00:49:25Ah, beware of all that, eh, Holmes?
00:49:27Watson.
00:49:28I feel certain this is it.
00:49:30This is my purse.
00:49:32May I?
00:49:34What kind of a joke is this?
00:49:36Oh, don't bother to answer.
00:49:38You can tell the police all about it.
00:49:40And you shall, I promise you.
00:49:41But there are no police here, haven't you noticed?
00:49:43We are quite alone.
00:49:45I sent for you to ask you a few questions.
00:49:48You always sent a rug for your guests.
00:49:51It was a very nice rug, Miss Partridge.
00:49:53It's not my idea of a method of transportation.
00:49:56No, I'm sorry about that, but I'm afraid it was unavoidable.
00:49:59But why?
00:50:00You've no right to bring me here like this.
00:50:02I've always found it wise to take what rights I can get.
00:50:06Miss Partridge, you have a document which I must have.
00:50:09Document?
00:50:10I have no document.
00:50:11It won't do you any good to deny it.
00:50:14But I do deny it.
00:50:15I don't know what you're talking about.
00:50:17You'll remain a prisoner until you produce it.
00:50:19How can I produce it when I haven't got it?
00:50:21But you have.
00:50:23It was observed that on the train,
00:50:25you had contact with a little British agent named Grayson.
00:50:28He gave you something.
00:50:30Where is it?
00:50:31But I hardly even noticed the man.
00:50:33I wouldn't even have remembered him
00:50:35if I hadn't seen his picture in the paper.
00:50:37He disappeared or something.
00:50:39He's dead, Miss Partridge.
00:50:42Oh.
00:50:46Now will you tell me what I want to know?
00:50:48But I can't.
00:50:49You won't?
00:50:50I can't, I tell you.
00:50:52Let me out of here.
00:50:54He gave me nothing.
00:50:56That's strange because I know he spoke to you.
00:51:00There's something very curious about that door up there.
00:51:03To open it, you'd have to know the combination.
00:51:05But I tell you, I spoke to no one.
00:51:08I spoke to no one on that train.
00:51:10Now didn't the little man try to be attentive to you?
00:51:12Oh, he, he may have offered the usual courtesies.
00:51:15I don't even remember.
00:51:16I see.
00:51:19I'm sorry.
00:51:21Aren't you spoke one of the years?
00:51:27And you're quite sure he said nothing at all to you?
00:51:29Of course I'm sure.
00:51:31Oh, I...
00:51:33Permit me.
00:51:45And you're certain that nothing passed between you?
00:51:49I'm certain.
00:51:50Mr. Howe, please.
00:51:59I must ask you to trust me with your bag a little longer.
00:52:03I have an eccentric interest in the linings of purses.
00:52:05It's a foible.
00:52:11Ah, you know Mr. Howe, I believe.
00:52:14Mr. Howe is a gentleman of unusual accomplishments.
00:52:16Under his influence, I've known people talk fluently who never talked before.
00:52:23But I don't know anything, I tell you, nothing.
00:52:25Nothing, I swear it!
00:52:28I don't know anything!
00:52:29I don't know anything!
00:52:34You stay out here.
00:52:36I'll go inside.
00:52:37I'll assume the character of an eccentric art collector.
00:52:40As soon as I'm convinced that this is the place we're looking for,
00:52:43I'll signal to you.
00:52:44And you get Grogan and bring him here on a run.
00:52:46But don't lose any time.
00:52:47An extra second may cost a life.
00:52:59No, madam, I don't know who she is.
00:53:01But notice the modeling.
00:53:03It has good symmetry, good lines.
00:53:05Oh, I'll be right with you, sir.
00:53:06Oh, thank you.
00:53:07I'll just take a look around.
00:53:17What an extraordinary cabinet.
00:53:19Spanish.
00:53:20Mauritians once.
00:53:21Imitation, of course.
00:53:22It is not an imitation, it's authentic.
00:53:24Oh, come now, my dear man.
00:53:25Ah, may I see some of these ceramics?
00:53:29Those aren't for sale.
00:53:30They're Ming vases mostly and they haven't been marked yet.
00:53:32Well, that's really a very little consequence.
00:53:36You see, if they're genuine,
00:53:39I can tell to within a shilling what the international price might be.
00:53:42If you please, sir, there are other customers.
00:53:45Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
00:53:46Well, I'll just look around.
00:53:48Ah, what a very interesting collection of pewter.
00:53:55Oh, I'll just look around for all of them.
00:53:58...
00:54:03So, when you look around all of them.
00:54:04Well, I'm going to watch where.
00:54:08Okay, fine, no.
00:54:10It's fine but there is no one works exactly right now.
00:54:15cricular migrating persから
00:54:16It's my test ran into some trap!
00:54:18We are still going to Malaya de...
00:54:20...
00:54:21Uh, that'll be $500.
00:54:35Now, would you just give me the address where you want it sent?
00:54:38Yes, Mrs. J. Wellington, Jr.
00:54:41DuPont Circle.
00:54:51Good night. Good night. I'll have it sent out in the morning.
00:55:21Oh, dear, oh, dear. I'm most terribly sorry.
00:55:28You've broken one of our best pieces, sir. Ming Dynasty.
00:55:31Uh, Tang Dynasty. Not Ming. Definitely not Ming.
00:55:35It is my business to know, sir. The pottery is Ming and worth $2,300.
00:55:39As we're closing for the evening, I must ask you to settle at once.
00:55:42Oh, nonsense, my good man. Tang pottery is worth $600 at best.
00:55:47Just a moment, please. Yes, of course.
00:55:50Hello? What's going on up there?
00:55:56Our customer dropped a valuable piece of pottery.
00:55:59I'll finish with him immediately.
00:56:03How can you say that it's Ming, $2,300 fiddlesticks?
00:56:06You asked $2,300 for something that's worth no more than $600.
00:56:09I demand to see the proprietor. Now, wait a minute.
00:56:11There are bureaus for the protection of innocent customers.
00:56:13Show me to the owner of this establishment,
00:56:15or I'll turn the entire affair over to my legal representative.
00:56:18Ming, indeed. Just a minute.
00:56:19What chicanery, what skullduggery.
00:56:21I mean to put an end to it this very night.
00:56:23Ming for Tang, indeed. And I won't be put off.
00:56:27Call the proprietor immediately.
00:56:29Very well. Just a minute.
00:56:35Yes?
00:56:36This man's mad. An eccentric collector.
00:56:39I can't get rid of him. Insists on seeing you in person.
00:56:42All right. Stall him for half a minute, then send him into my office.
00:56:45I'll get rid of him, and quickly.
00:56:51Now, how? No screams till the customer's gone.
00:56:54You get downstairs.
00:57:20Yes, sir.
00:57:24I'm most frankly sorry for...
00:57:54I'm most frankly sorry about the vows, but...
00:57:57But really, sir, your clerk is guilty of attempting the most obvious fraud.
00:58:00You see, he tried to convince me that I'd broken a Ming pottery
00:58:03when anyone could see that it belonged to the Tang era.
00:58:06Its value is no more than $600.
00:58:09All right. You pay him with the $600. We'll call the matter settled.
00:58:12Oh.
00:58:13Oh, thank you very much, sir. Thank you.
00:58:15I'll send you my cheque in the morning.
00:58:17I, uh, I see you know the, uh, London value of these pieces.
00:58:22It's my business.
00:58:23Exactly. Yes, exactly.
00:58:26You know, I think you're just the man to help me find some furniture I'm anxious to get.
00:58:30I'm most frightfully bored with the usual conglomeration of pieces that we can pick up on the other side.
00:58:38What do you really want, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
00:58:41Yes.
00:58:42Here, Heinrich Henkel.
00:58:44Or as you now call yourself, Mr. Richard Stanley.
00:58:47In 1914, secret agent of the German Kaiser.
00:58:51Since then, head of the most insidious international spy ring that ever existed.
00:58:56You're wrong.
00:58:57A case of mistaken identity.
00:58:59I've been a respected member of this community for a great many years.
00:59:03I deal in antiques because of their rarity and beauty.
00:59:06Merely a device to cover up your real business of transporting secret information to the enemies of this country.
00:59:12Very interesting, but just a figment of your imagination.
00:59:15I am a very busy man, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:59:18Where is Nancy Partridge?
00:59:20You're not looking for that girl.
00:59:22You're looking for a certain document.
00:59:24Oh, dear me, no.
00:59:25The document's perfectly safe.
00:59:27You see, uh, the man who has it doesn't know he has it.
00:59:34That's a very pretty tale, but quite untrue.
00:59:37The only man who had any contact with Grayson on the train was Senator Babcock.
00:59:41The Senator doesn't have the document.
00:59:44We took the trouble to find out.
00:59:54Permit me.
00:59:59Perhaps you've been misled by the common notion regarding the shape and bulk of state papers.
01:00:05They might easily have been reduced to a convenient size, you know.
01:00:09Say, a document no larger than a postage stamp.
01:00:13A postage stamp, huh?
01:00:15That's a very interesting theory, but not supported by the facts.
01:00:18I'm quite beside the point.
01:00:20Where's the girl?
01:00:21She's not here, of course, but you're quite at liberty to look round if you care to.
01:00:27I shall do so.
01:00:48Interesting piece.
01:00:49Spanish, isn't it?
01:00:50Moorish.
01:00:51Moorish.
01:00:52Oh.
01:00:53My error.
01:00:54It's an amazing specimen.
01:00:56I assure you you won't find what you're looking for there.
01:00:58You stimulate my curiosity.
01:01:06This might be interesting.
01:01:21The Moors were an incredibly inventive people, weren't they?
01:01:26Yes.
01:01:27It was in shocking condition when I got hold of it.
01:01:30But I had it restored.
01:01:32It's very lively now.
01:01:34But old fashioned.
01:01:36If that's the best you can do, Mr. Stanley, I think I may safely examine the rest of the room.
01:01:40Help yourself.
01:01:42Take your hand away from that drawer.
01:01:46Mr. Holmes, you didn't think I was going to draw a weapon.
01:01:52I never touch the things.
01:01:55How odd to find you squeamish.
01:01:59That connects only with the shop.
01:02:11You're very quick to say so.
01:02:13And yet a short while ago, I saw two other men in this room.
01:02:17And they didn't go back into the shop.
01:02:19So there must be another exit.
01:02:21And perhaps another room.
01:02:25Yes, Mr. Stanley.
01:02:26What is it?
01:02:28Bring Miss Partridge here at once.
01:02:31Excellent, Holmes.
01:02:33I see your voice hasn't lost its flexibility.
01:02:36My hand hasn't lost its cunning either.
01:02:44When they come here,
01:02:46tell them to leave the girl with you and to clear out.
01:02:48You think I'll do that?
01:02:50Yes, you will.
01:02:52You're playing with lives now, Stanley.
01:02:53Not just the girls.
01:02:55Thousands, millions perhaps.
01:02:57And we don't intend to let one man have that much power.
01:03:00Not now.
01:03:02Not at any time in the future.
01:03:07I prefer you alive to face the retribution that's coming to you.
01:03:10But if I have to do it.
01:03:17All right, Mr. Holmes.
01:03:18I suppose we must all meet our mates sooner or later.
01:03:21I suppose we must all meet our mates sooner or later.
01:03:33That's enough, boys.
01:03:35Take your hands off him.
01:03:36Well, Mr. Holmes.
01:03:37Tell the clerk to go home and see the front door's locked.
01:03:38Well, Mr. Stanley.
01:03:39It's the last streak that counts, eh, Holmes?
01:03:40I'll remind you of that later.
01:03:42Miss Partridge, allow me to present Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
01:03:45Tell the clerk to go home and see the front door's locked.
01:03:48Well, Mr. Stanley, it's the last streak that counts, eh, Holmes?
01:03:53I'll remind you of that later.
01:04:09Miss Partridge, allow me to present Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective.
01:04:13He's come to rescue you.
01:04:15I don't believe you.
01:04:18Oddly enough, he's telling the truth.
01:04:19My name is Sherlock Holmes and I did come here to help you.
01:04:23But I seem rather to have missed it.
01:04:25I'm sorry.
01:04:26I'm afraid you've had a bad time.
01:04:28Well, that doesn't matter.
01:04:29It's Peter.
01:04:30They say they'll do something to him if I don't tell them.
01:04:32They say they've got him.
01:04:34Cheer up.
01:04:35He's quite safe.
01:04:36A tough customer like Peter isn't disabled very long by a clout on the head.
01:04:40He's all right.
01:04:42All okay, Mr. Stanley.
01:04:43Look here, Stanley.
01:04:44This girl knows nothing.
01:04:45I promise she won't even identify you.
01:04:47Well, unfortunately, she knows enough to hang us.
01:04:50So do you.
01:04:52I'm surprised that you're walking into a trap like this.
01:04:54But you see the position I'm in and what has to be done.
01:04:58Katie, how?
01:05:17It will give me great pleasure to attend to Mr. Holmes personally.
01:05:23He's up and the girl's yours.
01:05:32It's the police.
01:05:33Open up. It's the police.
01:05:34They're all right.
01:05:35They're all right.
01:05:47Holmes, where are you?
01:05:48You all right?
01:05:52Holmes.
01:05:53Holmes.
01:05:54Where are they?
01:06:04Come on, Lieutenant.
01:06:14Thank heavens you're safe.
01:06:25Quick, Stanley's escaped.
01:06:29All right, boys, bring them along. Come on, Lieutenant.
01:06:34The Senate office building, double quick.
01:06:48Come in.
01:06:53I'm glad you're safe, Senator.
01:06:55Safe? No man is safe. Look at the way my constituents snipe at me.
01:07:04I don't recall seeing your face before, stranger.
01:07:10I don't think we've met.
01:07:11Well, that explains it.
01:07:12My name is Sherlock Holmes.
01:07:13Glad to know you, Holmes. What's on your mind?
01:07:14Senator Babcock.
01:07:16I'm here to inform you of great peril to your life.
01:07:18Richard Stanley, a dangerous criminal, is now on his way here.
01:07:20Richard Stanley?
01:07:21Why, he's the most respectable citizen of Washington.
01:07:23Has been for years.
01:07:25What could Stanley possibly want from me?
01:07:26A document.
01:07:28From under the stamps of a letter given to you by a chap named Grayson.
01:07:30Grayson?
01:07:31Grayson?
01:07:32You used to know him, Andy.
01:07:35Grayson!
01:07:36Why, that's the fellow that disappeared.
01:07:38Say, I've got that envelope right here in my wallet.
01:07:42Now, what does Stanley think could be under these stamps?
01:07:45A secret document of grave import.
01:07:48Reduced to microfilm and concealed under these very stamps.
01:07:52Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
01:07:55That's just what I wanted to know.
01:07:58I might have missed this microfilm if you hadn't led me to it.
01:08:01I seem to have underestimated your capabilities, Mr. Stanley.
01:08:04Yes, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:05Your famous powers of deduction and observation
01:08:07made very well in Limehouse or Soho.
01:08:10But here in America, I believe you're out of your depth.
01:08:13If so, the verdict of history will be severe indeed.
01:08:16You nervous, Sherlock Holmes.
01:08:19I must confess to a marked irritation.
01:08:21Do you mind if I smoke?
01:08:32The whole course of the world
01:08:34might be changed by your acquisition of the microfilm.
01:08:37Oh, it will be, and for the better.
01:08:39If you match.
01:08:41You can keep those.
01:08:44And now, if you'll pardon me, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:50Why don't you do something, Holmes,
01:08:51if that thing's so all-fired important?
01:08:53The English Senator.
01:08:54Cricket old boy.
01:08:55Always cool in the crisis.
01:08:57The last trick, eh, Holmes?
01:08:59Yes.
01:09:00The last trick.
01:09:06Say, you're a smart fellow, Holmes.
01:09:12Here's the microfilm, Holmes.
01:09:14Thank you, Senator.
01:09:15I see, Holmes.
01:09:38This is the microfilm, with the document on it.
01:09:40It will be in the proper hands within the hour.
01:09:43As I told you, Mr. Stanley,
01:09:46the man who had it didn't know he had it.
01:09:49Come on, let's go.
01:09:53Well, it'll be nice to get home to Baker Street, eh, Holmes?
01:09:57Yes.
01:09:59But this is a great country, Watson.
01:10:01It certainly is, my dear fellow.
01:10:03Look, up there ahead.
01:10:05The capital.
01:10:07The very heart of this democracy.
01:10:09Democracy.
01:10:11The only hope for the future, eh, Holmes?
01:10:15It's not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future.
01:10:19But in the days to come,
01:10:21the British and American people will, for their own safety
01:10:24and for the good of all,
01:10:26walk together in majesty and justice and in peace.
01:10:32That's magnificent.
01:10:33I quite agree with you.
01:10:36Not with me.
01:10:38With Mr. Winston Churchill.
01:10:40I was quoting from the speech he made not so long ago.
01:10:43In that very building.
01:11:03What that Teleopers Shooter seems.
01:11:06Not with me.
01:11:07If Mr. Blondens.
01:11:08Hears.
01:11:09I was quoting from the Blue星
01:11:14who was hiding people that are in theforce programing Link for him.
01:11:15You've forgotten that he was in black,
01:11:17orribilleford?
01:11:18Liz.
01:11:20Probably during ruin.
01:11:23To be fair,
01:11:25it matters.
01:11:27Until next time,
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