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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
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00:02:18You will receive your American visa enlistment.
00:02:21Will there be time?
00:02:22Definitely.
00:02:26We seem to have cut our time pretty close, Sir Henry.
00:02:28Ah?
00:02:29And your word, Sir Henry.
00:02:30Do you wish to make any comments, sir?
00:02:31Nothing but the better.
00:02:32Sir Henry, what is your destination, New York or Washington?
00:02:35I'm sorry, I have nothing to say.
00:02:36Sir Henry Marchmont, official business.
00:02:38Oh, Sir Henry Marchmont.
00:02:41Sir Henry?
00:02:42Joe?
00:02:44Good luck, Sir Henry.
00:02:45Thanks, I may need it.
00:02:48Shall I take your case, sir?
00:02:50Definitely not.
00:02:51Sorry, Sir Henry.
00:02:52I see.
00:02:53You think the old boy carried the fate of the Empire in that little black case?
00:02:57Perhaps he does.
00:02:58Time's up, boys.
00:02:59Roll it away.
00:03:00Lively now.
00:03:01Hey, just a moment, you shy of one passenger.
00:03:03Hold on.
00:03:04Wait a bit.
00:03:06Wait, I say.
00:03:07I've got fatty.
00:03:08Yes, all right, your name, sir.
00:03:09Grayson's a name.
00:03:10John Grayson.
00:03:11Senior clerk.
00:03:12Paolo Nash and Paolo.
00:03:13Solicitors.
00:03:14Chancellery Lane.
00:03:15You've got it all there.
00:03:16Everything quite regular.
00:03:18Sorry to delay you.
00:03:19Missed the bus.
00:03:21Had to take a taxi.
00:03:22Fearful nuisance.
00:03:23Yes, a hoverboard.
00:03:24Will you be late now?
00:03:25Thanks.
00:03:26Thanks awfully.
00:03:27Sorry to delay.
00:03:28Thanks awfully.
00:03:29Righto, boys.
00:03:30Follow it away.
00:03:35Excuse me, sir.
00:03:36Awfully sorry.
00:03:37Quite all right.
00:03:38No sense of balance.
00:03:39None whatever.
00:03:40Thanks.
00:03:46Clumsy on me.
00:03:47No sense of balance.
00:03:48That's what it is.
00:03:49The effect of the inner ear, I fancy.
00:04:08No sense of balance.
00:04:10No.
00:04:11Until next, it all came in.
00:04:15OK.
00:04:17That's the best I can.
00:04:18You.
00:04:23Moment.
00:04:25It's all in the air.
00:04:27half anne uncommon.
00:04:29You can get a super hamper.
00:04:31Now.
00:04:32We are going to the air.
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00:06:22WHOEVER'S GOT THE DOCUMENT WILL BE PROTECTED THERE
00:06:24IF SIR HENRY ISN'T CARRYING IT
00:06:26I'VE GOT IT
00:06:30BESIDE SIR HENRY AND MYSELF
00:06:32ONLY ONE MAN HAS COME ALL THE WAY FROM LONDON
00:06:34THE CHAP CALLED GREYSON
00:06:36JOHN GREYSON
00:06:38GREYSON'S OUR MAN
00:06:40GREYSON'S CARRYING THE DOCUMENT
00:06:42WHEN SIR HENRY'S BEING USED AS A DECOY
00:06:44THE END
00:06:46IT'S SO OLD IT'S NEW
00:06:48WHEN GREYSON LEAVES THE CLUB CAR
00:06:50AND GOES TO GET HIS LUGGAGE
00:06:52THAT'S OUR CUE
00:06:58WE KNOW WHAT TO DO EASTER
00:06:59GOOD
00:07:00THAT'S GREYSON STANDING AT THE BAR
00:07:02THE LITTLE FELLOW
00:07:14EXCUSE ME SIR
00:07:20DON'T GIVE IT A THOUGHT BROTHER
00:07:22I'M IN POLITICS
00:07:24I'M USED TO HARD KNOCKS
00:07:25I'M HENRY BABCOCK
00:07:26SENATOR BABCOCK
00:07:27HOW DO YOU DO?
00:07:28JOHN GREYSON
00:07:29SIT DOWN GREYSON
00:07:30HAVE A GLASS OF GREY JUICE
00:07:31FROM MY HOME STATE
00:07:32USED TO KNOW A MAN NAMED GREYSON
00:07:34MIGHTY FINE MAN
00:07:36HE WAS MURDERED
00:07:38TWO GRAVES GEORGE
00:07:39ON THE FIRE SIR
00:07:41THIS BOOK HAS GOT ME ALL CONFUSED
00:07:43I DO WISH YOU'D SET ME STRAIGHT
00:07:45ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
00:07:46A RATHER LARGE ORDER
00:07:47I'M AFRAID
00:07:48OH YOU'RE SO RIGHT
00:07:51SIR HENRY
00:07:52WOULD MISTAKE THE BROADER VIEW
00:07:53I ALWAYS SAY
00:08:04NOT A GREAT JUICE
00:08:05GREYSON
00:08:06YOU CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY VITAMINS
00:08:07I ALWAYS SAY
00:08:08THANKS SENATOR
00:08:09BUT IF YOU DON'T MIND
00:08:10I'LL HAVE A WHISKEY AND SODA
00:08:12WHY SURE
00:08:14GEORGE
00:08:15BRING THEM OVER WILL YOU
00:08:16HEY LET'S GET A CHAIR
00:08:17I WAS BUILT FOR COMFORT
00:08:18HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE
00:08:48Oh, thank you. You're very kind, I'm sure.
00:08:51Pardon me, sir.
00:08:54Here we are.
00:08:56Porter.
00:08:57Yes, sir?
00:08:58Are we on time?
00:08:59Yes, sir. Be in Washington in 20 minutes.
00:09:06By the way, Grayson, what's your line?
00:09:08Line?
00:09:09Yeah, what business are you in? What's your racket?
00:09:11Oh, I represent a London legal firm.
00:09:13Farlow Nash & Farlow.
00:09:15Farlow?
00:09:16I used to know a man named Farlow.
00:09:19No, no, it was Marlow. Couldn't have been the same fellow.
00:09:21No, I suppose not.
00:09:25I've been making a tour of my state, getting the opinions of the home folks.
00:09:28Taking a lot of their ideas back to Washington.
00:09:31I'd like to hear more of your activities, Senator.
00:09:33Give me your address, sir, and I'll have all my speeches mailed to you.
00:09:37You're quite too kind, sir.
00:09:39Sorry I have no card.
00:09:46Oh, Porter.
00:09:47Yes, miss?
00:09:48Permit me.
00:09:58Thank you very much.
00:09:59Not at all.
00:10:04I'll be at this address for the next week or so.
00:10:07I hope.
00:10:10I'll get my papers together.
00:10:12Pleasant meeting, my friend.
00:10:14Better look me up in Washington.
00:10:15I'll just get my bag.
00:10:22Oh, I forgot to pay George.
00:10:23Excuse me, sir.
00:10:25Thank you, let me ask you.
00:10:28Do you want me to take a seat?
00:10:30Yes, sir.
00:10:31Yes, sir.
00:10:32Yes, sir.
00:10:33Yes, sir.
00:10:34Yes, sir.
00:10:35Yes, sir.
00:10:36Yes, sir.
00:10:37Yes, sir.
00:10:38Yes, sir.
00:10:39Yes, sir.
00:10:40No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:10:42Mice!
00:10:46Oh, dear.
00:10:47All gone.
00:10:55Peter!
00:11:11Peter!
00:11:12Nancy, darling.
00:11:14I didn't dream you'd be able to meet me.
00:11:16I got leave.
00:11:17Oh, darling, that's wonderful.
00:11:18Just three days.
00:11:19Oh, that's awful.
00:11:20We had a second to lose.
00:11:22First thing I did...
00:11:23As I was saying, sorry.
00:11:25Let's get this.
00:11:27This finger.
00:11:28Well, I haven't had much experience.
00:11:34Day after tomorrow, your aunt's giving us a reception.
00:11:36Until then, you and I are going to be a couple of busy people.
00:11:39Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:11:46Goodbye.
00:11:48Who's your boyfriend?
00:11:50You needn't worry.
00:11:51He just lit a cigarette for me.
00:12:22This is the BBC News Bureau, broadcasting from London.
00:12:27At this time, we present our regular morning summary of the news.
00:12:32A British subject has disappeared under curious circumstances.
00:12:37John Grayson, senior clerk in the firm of Parlow, Nash & Parlow, solicitors, Chancery Lane, has not arrived at his firm's representatives in Washington.
00:12:49Foul play is suspected.
00:12:51Deplorable.
00:12:52Deplorable.
00:12:53Simply deplorable.
00:12:54It's the sort of thing that shakes your faith, by George.
00:12:57I say, Holmes, shakes your faith in everything.
00:12:59You alarm me, Watson.
00:13:00I've never seen you affected by the news, however, startling.
00:13:03Startling, my dear fellow.
00:13:04It's devastating.
00:13:05Seen the scores?
00:13:06The Navy got 428 for six wickets against the army at Lord's.
00:13:11May I draw your attention to the fact that really momentous things are happening in the world today?
00:13:15Oh, I know all about that.
00:13:16I'll get to them later on.
00:13:18Excuse me.
00:13:19Come on, my egg old bean.
00:13:20Oh, I'm sorry.
00:13:22With 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.
00:13:27Well, it can't be helped.
00:13:29I had to put it off.
00:13:31How did you know I changed my mind?
00:13:33Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:13:34Invariably, when you go to a cricket match, you fill your flask with my best whiskey.
00:13:39Just now I noted in passing that the flask was empty.
00:13:42A single whiff informed me that it had been recently filled, obviously after filling it,
00:13:46we would pour the contents back into the bottle.
00:13:48Therefore, you would change your mind about a cricket match.
00:13:51You amaze me, Holmes.
00:13:53You positively amaze me.
00:13:56Come in, Mrs. Hudson.
00:13:59Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:14:01There's a gentleman and he's very insistent.
00:14:03Well, I do declare he followed me right up the stairs.
00:14:06Didn't I ask you to wait?
00:14:08My good woman, you may ask me to wait, but not the British Empire.
00:14:11Mr. Holmes, I must talk to you immediately.
00:14:14How are you, Mr. Owens?
00:14:15That will be all now, thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:14:17My good woman, indeed.
00:14:19Ahrens?
00:14:20I see if you know that name.
00:14:22Don't tell me, my dear Watson, that you don't recognize Mr. Ahrens at the Home Office.
00:14:25Oh, yes, of course.
00:14:26I knew you the moment you came in.
00:14:27How are you, Ahrens?
00:14:28How do you do?
00:14:29Did you see what the Navy did to the Army at Lord's yesterday?
00:14:30All right, Watson.
00:14:31Go on with your breakfast.
00:14:32That's sure.
00:14:33428, six wickets.
00:14:34Mr. Holmes, I'm here on a matter of the utmost secrecy.
00:14:38I assure you, Mr. Ahrens, that Dr. Watson is the very sole of discretion.
00:14:41Won't you sit down?
00:14:43By the way, Watson, please be so good as to keep tapping on the table with your knife.
00:14:47Tapping on the table with your knife?
00:14:48It will break the wavelength if by any chance there's a dictograph in the walls.
00:14:51Oh, will it?
00:14:52Tickle red?
00:14:53No, thank you.
00:14:55You can stop now, Watson.
00:15:00Well, Mr. Ahrens, I take it you've called on me in connection with the kidnapping of John Grayson in America last night.
00:15:09Oh, yes.
00:15:10Yes, exactly.
00:15:12Grayson was carrying a document of a very confidential nature.
00:15:14Indeed.
00:15:15Its contents are of such great international importance that I am not at liberty to reveal them.
00:15:20But 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.
00:15:32For that reason, we did not wish to transport it to Washington in the usual way.
00:15:39So, a regular King's messenger, Sir Henry Marchment, was dispatched.
00:15:42Not carrying the document, of course.
00:15:43That's right. Sir Henry was the sort of...
00:15:45Sort of wordheadings, will we say?
00:15:46Precisely.
00:15:47Mm-hmm.
00:15:48The document was actually entrusted to a reliable but insignificant man in our secret service.
00:15:55On his arrival in Washington, he was to make himself known to Sir Henry and deliver the document.
00:16:01Now, not even Sir Henry knew that this man, Pettibone, who traveled under the name of John Grayson, was the real messenger.
00:16:07Pettibone?
00:16:08Yes.
00:16:09Alfred Pettibone?
00:16:10Yes.
00:16:11Good man.
00:16:12None better.
00:16:13I've worked with him often.
00:16:15I hope you may be able to work with him again.
00:16:18But he's completely disappeared.
00:16:20He's vanished, gone, without leaving a trace.
00:16:22I can see the possibility of serious ramifications in his disappearance.
00:16:27Exactly.
00:16:28So far, we've been able to keep the knowledge of our loss from both the American and British public.
00:16:34Holmes, you must retrieve that document before it can be used against us.
00:16:40Of course, the Washington police have been notified of Grayson's disappearance, but even they don't know that he was carrying the document.
00:16:48Now, that's about all the detail I'm at liberty to give you.
00:16:51Well, if they've got Grayson, that is Pettibone, they must have got the papers.
00:16:55Not necessarily, Watson.
00:16:56It doesn't follow because they've got the man, they've got the document.
00:16:59What form was this document in?
00:17:01It was typed on two sheets of legal paper.
00:17:04Two sheets?
00:17:05That's too bulky to swallow.
00:17:06And dry, Watson.
00:17:07Fearfully dry.
00:17:08Especially legal papers.
00:17:10Well, whatever shape the document was in, I trust Pettibone to get rid of it before anyone could lay hands on him.
00:17:15The document must be found before it falls into the hands of our enemies.
00:17:19I'm here on behalf of His Majesty's government to urge you to find it.
00:17:22That means going to Washington, of course.
00:17:24With all possible speed.
00:17:25A bomber is waiting for you at Croyton.
00:17:27Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:17:29Goodbye, sir.
00:17:30Goodbye, Arons.
00:17:31Goodbye, Holmes.
00:17:32Good luck.
00:17:33Thanks very much.
00:17:34We're relying on you.
00:17:37Well, Watson.
00:17:38We're off to Washington at once.
00:17:40America!
00:17:41I say, that's exciting.
00:17:42I've never seen a game of baseball.
00:17:43Let's go and start packing it.
00:17:44First then.
00:17:45First, I'd like to take a look at the home of Alfred Pettibone.
00:17:49Come on, Watson.
00:17:57Why, Dr. Watson, what a surprise.
00:18:20And Mr. Holmes, won't you come in?
00:18:23I'm frightfully sorry, but you won't find my son in.
00:18:27He's gone to Washington.
00:18:28Some business or other.
00:18:29Poor fellow.
00:18:30I'm afraid that he'll never, never get used to the climate over there.
00:18:34Would you mind if we looked over your son's room?
00:18:36Why, of course.
00:18:37It's upstairs.
00:18:39Some friends tell me it's very, very muggy.
00:18:40Very sticky.
00:18:41I had a letter from filling up for the other day.
00:18:43He'll find his room in a dreadful pickle, Mr. Holmes.
00:18:45Quite miffed he is.
00:18:46If I as much as put my nose inside.
00:18:48As if I cared anything about his silly old collection.
00:18:52It's a sort of pettibone-seated curious sort of fellow.
00:19:05Sort of collector of collections.
00:19:08Posted stamps.
00:19:10Military buttons.
00:19:12Butterfly.
00:19:14Bugs.
00:19:16All sorts of rubbish.
00:19:17Yes.
00:19:18I shall write a monograph some day.
00:19:19On the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.
00:19:23Please be so good as to stop pacing, Watson.
00:19:24You distract me.
00:19:25All right.
00:19:26All right.
00:19:27All right.
00:19:28Unless I'm greatly mistaken now.
00:19:29Friend Pettibone did not carry two pages of legal paper when he left this room.
00:19:41I wouldn't be too sure, Holmes.
00:19:42Ashes are deceptive, you know.
00:19:43On the contrary, my dear Watson.
00:19:44A rag used in artificial documents means an ash that is unmistakable.
00:19:48Oh, do stop pacing.
00:19:49I'm not pacing.
00:19:50I've moved an inch.
00:19:51I'm sorry, old fellow.
00:19:52My error.
00:19:53Must be Mrs. Pettibone.
00:19:55Evie woman light on her feet.
00:19:56Doesn't follow.
00:19:57Just that.
00:19:58Who riles was using to drag them to drag them to drag them to drag them to drag them?
00:20:01Well, he can do it.
00:20:03I am a precaution.
00:20:04I'm not pacing.
00:20:05I'm moving an inch.
00:20:06Sorry, old fellow.
00:20:07My error.
00:20:08Must be Mrs. Pettibone.
00:20:10A heavy woman, light on her feet.
00:20:13Doesn't follow.
00:20:15That was the only way.
00:20:18You're all going to stop.
00:20:20He didn't make respect.
00:20:21Our friend seems to be quite a camera enthusiast.
00:20:24What's this?
00:20:26Cook F1.5. That's a very fast lens.
00:20:29F3.5.
00:20:32Soma.
00:20:35Copying setup.
00:20:37American match folders.
00:20:39Oh, sir? USA.
00:20:41Now, why would Pettifone want American match folders in his work?
00:20:46And a microscope.
00:20:48Most interesting. What's this?
00:20:50Watson.
00:20:55This microscope was last used for examining microfilm.
00:20:59I'm beginning to see the pattern.
00:21:02Stop now.
00:21:03Did you know that the letters of our soldiers overseas are being photographed on microfilm,
00:21:06so that one carrier pigeon can carry the equivalent of 18,000 letters?
00:21:10Oh, really?
00:21:11We had a carrier pigeon in the last war.
00:21:13Back in 1915, belonging to the Brigade Signal Corps.
00:21:16Did you?
00:21:17The poor bird kept flying round and round in circles all day long.
00:21:21Found out later on that it was cross-eyed.
00:21:24Tragic thing.
00:21:26What?
00:21:27That's the truth.
00:21:28Where are you going?
00:21:29Huh?
00:21:32Oh, dark room.
00:21:34Huh?
00:21:35This is what I was looking for.
00:21:36Huh?
00:21:37This projector magnifies tremendously anything placed on the slide.
00:21:41Like this piece of microfilm.
00:21:43You understand?
00:21:44I can't say do exactly now.
00:21:45Wait a minute.
00:21:46I'll show you what he's photographed.
00:21:47Oh, it's that match folder.
00:21:48What do you want to photograph that for?
00:21:49Probably to line up his equipment before he photograph the document.
00:21:50We've got it, Watson.
00:21:51Look over it.
00:21:52Yes.
00:21:53Come along.
00:21:54Oh, it's all as clear as it might be.
00:21:55Huh.
00:21:56Just as I thought.
00:21:57This document has been reduced to microfilm to make its concealment possible.
00:22:00Alfred Pettibone has been reduced to microfilm to make its concealment possible.
00:22:05Alfred Pettibone is a most ingenious fellow.
00:22:06A bulky document is obviously difficult to conceal.
00:22:09But two pages of a state paper photographed on microfilm would be reduced to a size no larger
00:22:11than a half-penny stamp.
00:22:12Slitting a match folder with this, uh,
00:22:13before he photographed the document,
00:22:14before he photographed the document.
00:22:15We've got it, Watson.
00:22:16Alfred?
00:22:17Yes.
00:22:18Come along.
00:22:19Oh, it's all as clear as it might be.
00:22:20Well, as I thought.
00:22:21This document has been reduced to microfilm to make its concealment possible.
00:22:23Alfred Pettibone is a most ingenious fellow.
00:22:24A bulky document is obviously difficult to conceal.
00:22:26But two pages of a state paper photographed on microfilm would be reduced to a size no larger than a half-penny stamp.
00:22:32Slitting a match folder with this razor blade.
00:22:41I bet he won't place the now minute document inside,
00:22:43stuck it together again, and there he had it.
00:22:45An American match folder, rare in London,
00:22:46but completely inconspicuous in the United States.
00:22:49You mean to say we're off to America just to look for a match folder?
00:22:52It's a big country.
00:22:54A big country, Watson.
00:22:56And a small match folder. Come along.
00:23:02Did you find what you were looking for, Mr. Holmes?
00:23:06Yes, thank you, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:08Otherwise, you haven't been up on the roof in the last many minutes, have you?
00:23:11Why, no. What made you think that I...
00:23:13Well, we distinctly heard footsteps.
00:23:15Nonsense, Watson. It was the house settling.
00:23:17Gracious, yes. Such popping and groaning.
00:23:19We're quite used to it.
00:23:25Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:26Goodbye, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:27Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:23:28Goodbye.
00:23:29So sorry you, Mr. Alfred.
00:23:30I'll tell him the minute he gets back.
00:23:32Gets back?
00:23:33Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
00:23:35Well, goodbye again, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:23:36In just a minute, Watson.
00:23:50That was no accident, I assure you, Watson.
00:23:52Well, aren't you going to find out who did it?
00:23:53Time's too precious now.
00:23:55But at least I know they've learned of my entry into the case.
00:23:58They? Who are they?
00:24:00The same group that took Alfred Pettibone off the train on his way to Washington.
00:24:04A group that will stop at nothing.
00:24:06Pick up their hands on the document he carried.
00:24:08Their leader is a clever, resourceful criminal
00:24:11who seems to have sources of information from everywhere.
00:24:14Oh, that means a worldwide organization.
00:24:16Who will stop at nothing, you say?
00:24:18Quite.
00:24:19That's why we must get our bags and ourselves aboard that bomber without delay.
00:24:22We're opposed by an adversary worthy of our best efforts.
00:24:25At present, he has all the advantages.
00:24:27Even that of being only a merciless, nameless shadow.
00:24:32Think of it, Watson.
00:24:34In a few hours, we'll be flying out over the Atlantic.
00:24:38We're flying over New York, sir.
00:24:39New York, eh?
00:24:40Yes, sir.
00:24:41We've been cleared by radio.
00:24:42Non-stop Washington.
00:24:43What is that book that someone grosses your attention, Watson?
00:24:45A book on the quaint customs and manners of America.
00:24:46We must be halfway across,
00:24:47and I've only got to pay attention to this one.
00:24:48We're flying over New York, sir.
00:24:49New York, eh?
00:24:50New York, eh?
00:24:55Yes, sir.
00:24:56We've been cleared by radio.
00:24:57Non-stop Washington.
00:25:04What is that book that someone grosses your attention, Watson?
00:25:09A book on the quaint customs and manners of America.
00:25:10We must be halfway across,
00:25:11I must be halfway across, and I've only got to page 37.
00:25:15For your information, my dear fellow, we are now flying over New York.
00:25:19Flying over New York?
00:25:21Oh, gracious me.
00:25:23That's a poor thing.
00:25:41This is the embassy car, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:53You're being very helpful, Mr. Lange.
00:25:55Detective Lieutenant Grogan of the Washington Police.
00:25:57How do you do?
00:25:58Welcome to Washington.
00:25:59Thank you. This is my associate, Dr. Watson.
00:26:00How do you do, sir?
00:26:01How are you?
00:26:02I suppose I should say, how are you, buddy?
00:26:04What's... what's cooking?
00:26:06Oh, come along, Watson.
00:26:08What's cooking?
00:26:21Grogan had charge of investigating the Grayson case for the Washington Police.
00:26:25Any new developments, Grogan?
00:26:26None, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:27We'll be glad to let you have our complete file.
00:26:29And, of course, we'll cooperate in every way.
00:26:31Thank you, I shall appreciate your help.
00:26:33Especially as I'm unfamiliar with your country.
00:26:35Oh, yes, of course. This is your first visit.
00:26:37Oh, there's the Lincoln Memorial.
00:26:44Most impressive.
00:26:46Oh, by the by, Mr. Lange.
00:26:48Thank you for your cable grab.
00:26:49I received it just before I left London.
00:26:51Cable?
00:26:52I said no cable.
00:26:53Yeah, but our reservations at the Hotel Metropole.
00:26:56Why, no.
00:26:57We thought you'd stay at the embassy, of course.
00:26:59Look at that.
00:27:00Well, since some strange person has taken such an extraordinary interest in my welfare,
00:27:06I think I shall stay at the Hotel Metropole.
00:27:08Oh, Mr. Holmes, there's the Washington Monument.
00:27:15There's the capital, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:18Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:20I questioned everybody known to have been in that club car as a matter of course.
00:27:24So, Henry Marchmont confirms that Grayson had contact only with the people on this list.
00:27:39Now, he had a drink with Senator Babcock, and he chatted with a Miss Pringle about some mice she had in the cage.
00:27:57And he picked up a book dropped by Mrs. Jellison.
00:28:00Not very much to go on.
00:28:02How many of these people have been attacked already?
00:28:04I've heard about your deductions, Mr. Holmes.
00:28:08Well, Senator Babcock was held up on his way from the station, with nothing taken.
00:28:12And Mrs. Jellison's home was ransacked that night.
00:28:15And she found the book that she carried from the train literally torn to bits.
00:28:19That's right.
00:28:20Miss Pringle?
00:28:21Well, Miss Pringle says someone released the mice from the cage during the night sometime,
00:28:25and she found the cage torn apart.
00:28:27What happened to the mice there, Willa?
00:28:30An intriguing line of thought, Watson, but not essential to the case.
00:28:33Mm-hmm.
00:28:35Apparently, Grogan, they're still looking for the document.
00:28:38I'd very much like to have a look at that club car.
00:28:41Well, that'll be easy.
00:28:42I have the car held in a siding in the railroad yards.
00:28:44Good.
00:28:45But we've searched the car thoroughly, Mr. Holmes.
00:28:47We couldn't find a thing.
00:28:48Well...
00:28:55What are you doing? What's this?
00:28:56Mr. Holmes, your trunk.
00:28:57Trunk? I have no trunk.
00:28:58It says right there.
00:29:00Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Hotel Metropole.
00:29:02How is this trunk delivered?
00:29:03An expressman brought it, sir.
00:29:05What's the name of the company?
00:29:06Do you remember the license number?
00:29:08Naturally, I didn't notice that. I just signed for it.
00:29:10All right, thank you. That'll do.
00:29:11Well, this trunk's not locked.
00:29:20Great Scott!
00:29:21Poor chap.
00:29:23You recognize him, Mr. Holmes?
00:29:26Yes.
00:29:27Who was he?
00:29:28The man we're looking for, John Grayson.
00:29:31His real name is Alfred Pettibone.
00:29:33The British Secret Service.
00:29:36Why should they send the body here?
00:29:38Obviously, to frighten us.
00:29:39Or to tell us they know that Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
00:29:42Gentlemen, they knew we were on the case as early as their attempt on our lives in London.
00:29:46They're much too intelligent to believe that a corpse would frighten a trained detective.
00:29:51No, I rather think they intend this as a message.
00:29:55And they wanted to be sure that I'd be here at the Hotel Metropole to receive it.
00:29:59A message? What do you mean?
00:30:00They want us to believe that they found the document.
00:30:03And therefore have no further use for Grayson.
00:30:06If that's true, then we're done for.
00:30:07I'm not so sure that it is true, Watson.
00:30:09If they have the document, why are they wasting time sending me this?
00:30:13No.
00:30:14It's an attempt to throw me off the track.
00:30:16Rogan, you have a police laboratory, of course.
00:30:19Certainly.
00:30:20I'll see what I can find out about the body.
00:30:22Yes, whatever marks it reveals.
00:30:23And the trunk.
00:30:24A microscopic examination.
00:30:26Everything about it.
00:30:27The lining, the blanket in which the body is wrapped.
00:30:29Everything.
00:30:30Let nothing escape.
00:30:31We have the best police laboratories in the world, Mr. Holmes.
00:30:34I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Rogan.
00:30:36You see, I'm so accustomed to working quite alone
00:30:38at my lodgings in Baker Street.
00:30:40Though I sometimes forget the more modern scientific methods
00:30:42so particularly effective here in America.
00:30:45But if there's anything there, they'll find it, Mr. Holmes.
00:30:47While you're doing that, I'll take a look at the club car.
00:30:49Coming, Watson?
00:30:51Here we are, Mr. Holmes.
00:30:52I have the port, as you asked.
00:30:54And the railroad company sent Mr. Moore to unlock for us.
00:30:56Delighted.
00:30:57How do you do?
00:30:58Very good. Let's go in.
00:30:59This way, gentlemen.
00:31:03Well.
00:31:05It looks as if the police have made a thorough search.
00:31:08Whoever did it, it wasn't the police.
00:31:13There have been visitors here since our friend, Grogan.
00:31:18My goodness.
00:31:19Look at our car.
00:31:20Talk about a blitz.
00:31:22I say, Holmes.
00:31:24If Grayson hit anything in this car, it certainly isn't here now.
00:31:28Not necessarily, Watson.
00:31:31If you'll help me put this place in some kind of order.
00:31:34Yes, sir, boss.
00:31:36I guess we'll go about here, I imagine.
00:31:38That's it, boss.
00:31:39Yes, sir.
00:31:40And...
00:31:41Wait a minute.
00:31:43That right?
00:31:44Yeah, that's certainly more like it.
00:31:45Yes, sir.
00:31:46Thank you. That'll be all.
00:31:48Watson, will you be Mr. Grayson for the moment?
00:31:51Grayson?
00:31:52Oh, if you want me to, old man.
00:31:53What do you want me to do?
00:31:55You're having a drink at the bar.
00:31:56Oh, I thought it was a bad idea.
00:31:58Drink at the bar.
00:31:59Uh, bring me a whiskey and soda, will you, Stuart?
00:32:02Stuart?
00:32:03Sorry, Dr. Watson, but the bar's closed.
00:32:05Well, it says the bar's closed.
00:32:07According to Grogan's reconstruction of the scene, let me see.
00:32:13Yes.
00:32:14Grayson pauses at the bar,
00:32:16while Senator Babcock moves across and sits down here.
00:32:19Do you mind being Senator Babcock for the moment, Watson?
00:32:22Going up in the world.
00:32:24Huh.
00:32:25Sit down, please.
00:32:27Now, uh,
00:32:29Miss Pringle is seated there.
00:32:30Over there, Watson.
00:32:31Hmm?
00:32:37Now, now, I'm Miss Pringle.
00:32:38That's right, the mouse woman.
00:32:40Oh, the mouse woman.
00:32:41Uh, Watson, over here, please.
00:32:43Oh.
00:32:46No, not there. Not there.
00:32:47That's Senator Babcock.
00:32:48Oh, pardon me, Senator.
00:32:49Sit down, please.
00:32:52Now, you're Mrs. Jellison.
00:32:53Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:32:55He ain't Mrs. Jellison.
00:32:57He's a young lady.
00:32:58What?
00:32:59Sir Henry Marshmott was sitting right here,
00:33:01and Mrs. Jellison was right here.
00:33:04She's a sort of a big fat lady.
00:33:07What did Grayson do that attracted your attention so particularly to Mrs. Jellison?
00:33:11The little man, he retrieved her book.
00:33:15And the young lady sitting here,
00:33:17didn't she converse with the little man?
00:33:19No, sir.
00:33:22That young lady didn't have no converse with no one.
00:33:24When the little man lit her cigarette,
00:33:26she ran back and said,
00:33:27thank you very much.
00:33:28But you have matches here for your customers.
00:33:30Oh, yes, she called me,
00:33:31and I saw a cigarette, and I knew she wanted a match.
00:33:34And Grayson used one of his own matches?
00:33:36Dog had a...
00:33:37Oh, yes.
00:33:38He took a folder from his coat pocket.
00:33:40Did he put the match folder back in his pocket,
00:33:42or did he give it to the young lady?
00:33:43I don't remember.
00:33:44I was fairly busy.
00:33:45Try to remember.
00:33:46Well, if I should try to doomsday,
00:33:48I couldn't rightly see just what happened to that match folder.
00:33:51Oh, yes.
00:33:52I remember just one important thing.
00:33:54What?
00:33:55When the little man lit her cigarette,
00:33:57he said something very peculiar.
00:33:59What was it?
00:34:00He said,
00:34:01permit me.
00:34:03Oh.
00:34:07Well,
00:34:08gentlemen, I'm extremely grateful to all of you.
00:34:11That's all we can do for the present, I think.
00:34:13Since the place was torn to bits,
00:34:15after the murder of Grayson,
00:34:17and the attacks on Senator Babcock,
00:34:19Mrs. Jellison and Miss Pringle,
00:34:21I'm convinced that the document left the club car
00:34:23long before these events.
00:34:25But how?
00:34:26By whom?
00:34:27And who was the mysterious young lady
00:34:29whose cigarette Grayson lighted?
00:34:31Did anyone meet the young lady?
00:34:35He sure did.
00:34:36He?
00:34:37Who was he?
00:34:38Tall, handsome,
00:34:39in a uniform.
00:34:40I see.
00:34:41I suppose you wouldn't remember what kind of a uniform.
00:34:43I certainly would.
00:34:44Lieutenant.
00:34:45Navy flyer.
00:34:46My boy's in the army.
00:34:48He's gonna be a flyer, too.
00:34:49Splendid.
00:34:50Did you happen to hear them say anything?
00:34:51Oh, I didn't happen.
00:34:52I just couldn't help hearing it.
00:34:54Mm-hmm.
00:34:55Well, what did they say?
00:34:56Oh, yes.
00:34:57They said they had three-day leave.
00:34:58They had to move fast before the big part her aunt was giving them.
00:35:01Then, too, he put a ring on her finger
00:35:03and they both looked mighty happy.
00:35:05Mm-hmm.
00:35:06Just the way you're looking right now.
00:35:08Ten?
00:35:09And the way I'm looking myself.
00:35:11Come on, Watson.
00:35:15That's the girl.
00:35:16I told the head.
00:35:17I could swear to it.
00:35:18Is the address there?
00:35:19All there.
00:35:20Right in our laps.
00:35:22And also right in the lap of Sherlock Holmes.
00:35:24That's the least of our worries.
00:35:25The head could handle ten like Holmes.
00:35:27I hope so.
00:35:28But don't underrate that, Englishman.
00:35:31I have several friends who did.
00:35:33They now grace some of the best prisons in England.
00:35:46Yes, sir?
00:35:47I talked to the catering company.
00:35:48It's quite all right.
00:35:49They could hardly refuse me.
00:35:51It's the Acton Company.
00:35:53The Acton Catering Company.
00:35:55Yes, sir.
00:35:56I know what to do.
00:36:04Hop over there.
00:36:05You're going to work for the catering company.
00:36:07Right.
00:36:08When you get in the house, find out all you can.
00:36:09Katie.
00:36:10Yes?
00:36:11You ought to go as a guest.
00:36:12Will it be safe?
00:36:13It'll have to be.
00:36:14I'll try and get in the girls' room.
00:36:15Unless you hear from me, carry on as we planned.
00:36:21Flash Gordon.
00:36:23Seems a very capable fellow.
00:36:25Sports pages.
00:36:27Hm?
00:36:32These Brooklyn fellows seem to be arguing with the umpire.
00:36:34It's the only thing.
00:36:37What are you eating, Watson?
00:36:40Gum?
00:36:42Oh.
00:36:43Put it away.
00:36:54Never seen you take an interest in the society columns before.
00:36:58It's a concern I'll drop at once, I assure you, Watson.
00:37:00Hm?
00:37:01You find what you're looking for?
00:37:04Oh.
00:37:05How do you know this is the girl?
00:37:06It would be an extraordinary coincidence, wouldn't it?
00:37:08If more than one naval lieutenant in Washington
00:37:10were to become engaged in the last few days
00:37:12to a girl from New York
00:37:13whose aunt was giving them a reception?
00:37:15Fine.
00:37:16Joe, you must be right.
00:37:17She's a pretty girl.
00:37:18Oh.
00:37:20Yes.
00:37:22She's walking around with a dynamite in her handbag.
00:37:38Look, he's looking for CSU.
00:37:39She's going around.
00:37:40What?
00:37:41What?
00:37:42I love these minions.
00:37:43Sixth twenty five Wardlaw Place.
00:38:13Who is it?
00:38:26Me, Pete.
00:38:28You can't come up here.
00:38:30I did, though.
00:38:33One gets you two.
00:38:37That party's going to be awfully dull after this.
00:38:43Let's not go.
00:38:45Let's go away and get married.
00:38:47You've only got one more day.
00:38:49That's an idea.
00:38:51No, we can't do that to Andy.
00:38:53I'll tell you.
00:38:54Let's take a look at the new apartment.
00:38:56It was awful sweet of Andy to give us the whole floor of this house for our apartment.
00:39:00The least we can do is let her have the fun of showing it to us.
00:39:04Okay. Let's face the party.
00:39:07I'll get my bag.
00:39:16Oh, no, you don't.
00:39:18That's the way I got them.
00:39:20Oh, how do you do? So glad you could come.
00:39:23Oh, how do you do? So glad you could come.
00:39:25This is Mrs. Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:27Ruxton.
00:39:28Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:39:30Oh, how do you do? So glad you could come.
00:39:32This is Mrs. Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:34Ruxton.
00:39:35Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:39:36And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:39:37How do you do? So glad you could come.
00:39:38This is Mrs. Oh dear, what is your name?
00:39:40Ruxton.
00:39:41Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:39:42And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:39:43How do you do?
00:39:44Isn't it?
00:39:45Quite.
00:39:46Oh, of course.
00:39:47Do you love it?
00:39:48Not yet.
00:39:49It must be Lieutenant Mary with Miss Partridge over there.
00:39:50Certainly glad to hear the news, Pete.
00:39:51Congratulations.
00:39:52Thank you, Major. Thank you.
00:39:53You're a lucky guy.
00:39:54You're a lucky guy.
00:39:55Oh, how do you do?
00:39:56Oh, how do you do?
00:39:57So glad you could come.
00:39:58Oh, how do you do?
00:39:59So glad you could come.
00:40:00This is Mrs. Oh dear, what is your name?
00:40:01Ruxton.
00:40:02Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:40:04And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:40:05How do you do?
00:40:06Isn't it?
00:40:07Quite.
00:40:08Quite.
00:40:09Oh, of course.
00:40:10I love it.
00:40:11Not yet.
00:40:12It must be Lieutenant Mary with Miss Partridge over there.
00:40:13Certainly glad to hear the news, Pete.
00:40:14Congratulations.
00:40:15Thank you, Major.
00:40:17You're a lucky guy, Pete.
00:40:18I'll see you later.
00:40:19Third floor.
00:40:20First door.
00:40:21Right.
00:40:22I'll wait there.
00:40:23You bring him up.
00:40:24Thank you, sir.
00:40:26A toast to the happy couple.
00:40:29A toast.
00:40:30Thank you, sir.
00:40:32Very good.
00:40:34Happy landings.
00:40:35May I have one of those, sir?
00:40:36Me too.
00:40:38How'd you have one?
00:40:39You know what I'm doing.
00:40:40Lieutenant Merriam?
00:40:41Hmm?
00:40:42Telephone, sir.
00:40:43Navy department calling.
00:40:44Oh, yes.
00:40:45Be right back.
00:40:46Lead on, McDuff.
00:40:47This way, sir.
00:40:50Matches.
00:40:51Match me, darling.
00:40:52Take them out.
00:40:59Oh, Pete, hold it.
00:41:02You can keep them, Major.
00:41:03Oh, thank you.
00:41:05Not for me, thank you.
00:41:06No, thank you.
00:41:07Why up here?
00:41:08They said it was private.
00:41:09There's a phone in here, sir.
00:41:10Hey, it's my new apartment.
00:41:11Miss Parcher didn't want me to see it till after it was finished.
00:41:12Here you are, sir.
00:41:13Quite a smell of pig, sir.
00:41:14In here, sir.
00:41:21Okay, now.
00:41:22Okay, now.
00:41:23Okay, now.
00:41:24Okay, now.
00:41:54We should get some action, sir Henry, with Sherlock Holmes in Washington.
00:41:57Yes.
00:41:58I don't mind telling you I'd give anything to get my hands on that document.
00:42:03Yes, I know.
00:42:04Or at least know that it's in safe hands.
00:42:09Thanks.
00:42:14Engaged today and married tomorrow.
00:42:16No, thanks.
00:42:21Have you a match?
00:42:22Miss Partridge?
00:42:23Yes?
00:42:24Lieutenant Merriam asked if you would come to the new apartment.
00:42:26But he's not supposed to see it yet.
00:42:28The new apartment?
00:42:29He must think you're already married.
00:42:31Yes, I don't dare let that man out of my sight.
00:42:33Excuse me, will you please?
00:42:34Surely.
00:42:38Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:42:44May I?
00:42:51This way, please.
00:42:54Oh, I know the way.
00:43:10Peter!
00:43:11Where are you?
00:43:12Well, here we are, Grogan.
00:43:15Good connections.
00:43:16We'd better go into the party.
00:43:17I think you'd better go in first, Mr. Holmes.
00:43:18I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
00:43:19I think you do all right.
00:43:20I think you do all right.
00:43:21I think you do all right.
00:43:22I think you do all right.
00:43:24The only possible explanation.
00:43:25The only possible explanation.
00:43:26Mrs.
00:43:27Mrs.
00:43:28Partridge.
00:43:29Forgive my intruding.
00:43:30But is your niece the kind of girl...
00:43:31I think you do all right.
00:43:32The only possible explanation.
00:43:33Is your niece the kind of girl who would just disappear in this manner...
00:43:36of her own free will?
00:43:37Well, ordinarily, of course not.
00:43:38But the girl's in love.
00:43:39In love?
00:43:40Well, of course, if they're in love, that's...
00:43:41What?
00:43:42Even so.
00:43:43They'd naturally tell you of their destination.
00:43:44Really?
00:43:45I've no idea.
00:43:46Oh, I think you do all right.
00:43:47I think you do all right.
00:43:49I think you do all right.
00:43:52The only possible explanation.
00:43:53Mrs.
00:43:54Partridge.
00:43:55Forgive my intruding.
00:43:56But is your niece the kind of girl who would just disappear in this manner...
00:43:58of her own free will?
00:43:59Well, ordinarily, of course not.
00:44:01But the girl's in love.
00:44:03In love?
00:44:04Well, of course, if they're in love, that's...
00:44:06What?
00:44:07Even so.
00:44:08They'd naturally tell you of their destination.
00:44:10Really?
00:44:11I've no idea.
00:44:12Oh, but they'll be back here again tomorrow.
00:44:14You see, I've prepared an apartment for them.
00:44:16An entire floor in this house.
00:44:18Uh, by the by, Mrs. Partridge.
00:44:21I gather the rug you ordered for the apartment was not entirely satisfactory.
00:44:25Oh, those tiresome workmen.
00:44:26I told them not to come in here this afternoon, but they did.
00:44:29And walked out with a rug which they no doubt informed you had been sent by mistake
00:44:32and would be replaced tomorrow.
00:44:34Yes.
00:44:35But however, did you know that?
00:44:36Show me the apartment.
00:44:40Yes, there were two rugs there.
00:44:41One for the living room and one for the dining room.
00:44:44Well, your workmen wear rubber-soled shoes, do they not?
00:44:46Oh, but yes, always.
00:44:47Their company requires them to.
00:44:49Nevertheless, there have been leather heels on this floor.
00:44:51And a woman's heels.
00:44:52Very recently, I should say.
00:44:54Not yours, Mrs. Partridge.
00:44:56But recently enough, so that no dust has had time to settle in the imprints.
00:45:00What?
00:45:01Say over there, please.
00:45:09There seems to be a struggle over there.
00:45:11A woman's footprints disappear and a man's leather heels come round.
00:45:17And stop there.
00:45:19Either she was carried out on the carpet or else...
00:45:22Where does that door lead to?
00:45:23Why, it's a dressing room.
00:45:28Perhaps an ordinary skeleton key.
00:45:29Try it.
00:45:33Watson, this is a matter for you, I'm afraid.
00:45:35Excuse me.
00:45:36Who is he?
00:45:37Is it familiar?
00:45:38Peter!
00:45:39Take it easy, Mrs. Partridge.
00:45:40Let the doctor examine him.
00:45:42How is he, Watson?
00:45:43Nasty crack of the head.
00:45:45Nothing serious, thank heavens.
00:45:46Is there somewhere where you can lie down?
00:45:48Of course.
00:45:49Poor Peter.
00:45:50Take him to my room.
00:45:51Here, sir.
00:45:52Put your...
00:45:53Put your arm on my neck.
00:45:55Mr. Holmes, you must find Nancy.
00:45:57Quite.
00:45:58Poor Peter.
00:46:03That girl disappeared right from under our noses.
00:46:05It's unbelievable.
00:46:08I better try to trace that truck.
00:46:09That won't lead us anywhere.
00:46:10Our antagonist is too clever for that.
00:46:13But the girl must be found immediately.
00:46:16You're sure the police chemists found nothing definite in their examination of the trunk?
00:46:20Not one thing pertinent to the case.
00:46:21What about Grayson's body?
00:46:22And the blanket it was wrapped in?
00:46:24Nothing.
00:46:25Every object connected with this case has some kind of story to tell.
00:46:30Do you think they'd mind if...
00:46:32The laboratory is completely at your disposal, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:35Dr. Watson and I will go there at once.
00:46:37The usual findings on the trunk, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:40Bought in Washington.
00:46:41Been banged about a good deal.
00:46:43All labels removed.
00:46:44The body?
00:46:45No marks of any kind.
00:46:47Very well.
00:46:48If you need me, call.
00:46:55Watson, please.
00:46:57Just tidying up a bit.
00:46:58This blanket is beginning to tell me many things.
00:47:00Really?
00:47:01Don't say, sir.
00:47:03It only remains to translate them properly.
00:47:06Yes.
00:47:07And just as I thought.
00:47:09This blanket has had a most varied history.
00:47:11It's been on many a sea voyage.
00:47:13The latest, not six months ago.
00:47:16Since then, it has been used to wrap a multiplicity of objects.
00:47:20Carvings of teak wood.
00:47:22Candle snuffers made of pewter.
00:47:24And...
00:47:34And furniture.
00:47:35Furniture?
00:47:36Yes.
00:47:37Teak wood leaves an unmistakable stain.
00:47:39Pewter rubs off easily.
00:47:41And there are evidences of wax drippings.
00:47:43But what particularly concerns us, Watson, is the furniture.
00:47:48Most likely a chair.
00:47:50Louis XV.
00:47:52In yellow and maroon satin.
00:47:54What do all these things suggest to you, Watson?
00:47:56What do we say?
00:47:57An aunt of mine, Matilda, lives in Brighton.
00:48:00Very old fashioned.
00:48:01Very aged.
00:48:02Exactly.
00:48:03Antiques.
00:48:04We have a lot of ground to cover before Nightfall.
00:48:10Ground?
00:48:11What ground?
00:48:12If necessary.
00:48:14And the antique shops in Washington.
00:48:16A-A-N-T-I...
00:48:17Here we are.
00:48:18Antiques.
00:48:19Antiques?
00:48:20With what connection is a Louis XV chair with his partridge girl?
00:48:24This sliver of wood came from a Louis XV chair that had once been wrapped in that blanket.
00:48:29From other evidences the blanket supplies, I deduce that it's been used in an antique shop.
00:48:34And whoever controls those antiques murdered Grayson and kidnapped the girl.
00:48:38What?
00:48:39That's it, Watson.
00:48:44Come along.
00:48:45Before the girl's kidnapper becomes her murderer.
00:48:59I'm filled with all this shopping for antiques.
00:49:16We must keep searching, Watson.
00:49:17The girl's in grave danger.
00:49:19Hello.
00:49:20Hello.
00:49:21Oh, sorry.
00:49:22What is it, Holmes?
00:49:23This isn't the place it seems to be.
00:49:25Look, Watson.
00:49:27Those cabinets.
00:49:28Obviously an invitation and yet they're priced as if they were authentic.
00:49:31Bow beware and all that, eh, Holmes?
00:49:33Watson.
00:49:35I feel certain this is it.
00:49:37This is my purse.
00:49:38May I?
00:49:41What kind of a joke is this?
00:49:43Oh, don't bother to answer.
00:49:44You can tell the police all about it.
00:49:46And you shall, I promise you.
00:49:48But there are no police here, haven't you noticed?
00:49:50We are quite alone.
00:49:52I sent for you to ask you a few questions.
00:49:55You always sent a rug for your guests.
00:49:57It was a very nice rug, Miss Partridge.
00:49:59It's not my idea of a method of transportation.
00:50:02No, I'm sorry about that, but I'm afraid it was unavoidable.
00:50:06But why?
00:50:07You've no right to bring me here like this.
00:50:09I've always found it wise to take what rights I can get.
00:50:13Miss Partridge, you have a document which I must have.
00:50:17Document? I have no document.
00:50:19It won't do you any good to deny it.
00:50:21But I do deny it.
00:50:22I don't know what you're talking about.
00:50:23You'll remain a prisoner until you produce it.
00:50:26How can I produce it when I haven't got it?
00:50:28But you have.
00:50:30It was observed that on the train you had contact with a little British agent named Grayson.
00:50:35He gave you something. Where is it?
00:50:38But I hardly even noticed the man.
00:50:40I wouldn't even have remembered him if I hadn't seen his picture in the paper.
00:50:44He disappeared or something.
00:50:46He's dead, Miss Partridge.
00:50:49Oh.
00:50:52Now will you tell me what I want to know?
00:50:54But I can't.
00:50:56You won't?
00:50:58I can't, I tell you.
00:51:00Let me out of here. He gave me nothing.
00:51:03That's strange because I know he spoke to you.
00:51:07There's something very curious about that door up there.
00:51:09To open it, you'd have to know the combination.
00:51:13But I tell you, I spoke to no one on that train.
00:51:16Now didn't the little man try to be attentive to you?
00:51:19Oh, he, he may have offered the usual courtesies. I don't even remember.
00:51:23I see.
00:51:26I'm sorry.
00:51:28Aren't you spoke one of the years?
00:51:34And you're quite sure he said nothing at all to you?
00:51:36Of course I'm sure.
00:51:39Permit me.
00:51:51And you're certain that nothing passed between you?
00:51:56I'm certain.
00:52:01Mr. Howe, please.
00:52:06I must ask you to trust me with your bag a little longer.
00:52:09I have an eccentric interest in the linings of purses.
00:52:12It's a foible.
00:52:17Ah, you know Mr. Howe, I believe.
00:52:20Mr. Howe is a gentleman of unusual accomplishments.
00:52:24Under his influence, I've known people talk fluently who never talked before.
00:52:27But I don't know anything, I tell you, nothing.
00:52:32Nothing, I swear it!
00:52:34I don't know anything!
00:52:40You stay out here.
00:52:42I'll go inside.
00:52:43I'll assume the character of an eccentric art collector.
00:52:46As soon as I'm convinced that this is the place we're looking for,
00:52:49I'll signal to you.
00:52:51And you get Grogan and bring him here on the run.
00:52:53But don't lose any time.
00:52:54An extra second may cost a life.
00:52:55No, madam, I don't know who she is.
00:52:56But notice the modeling.
00:52:57It has good symmetry, good lines.
00:52:58Oh, I'll be right with you, sir.
00:53:00Oh, thank you, I'll just take a look around.
00:53:01Oh, thank you.
00:53:02I'll just take a look around.
00:53:03What an extraordinary cabinet.
00:53:06I don't know who she is, but notice the modeling.
00:53:09It has good symmetry, good lines.
00:53:12Oh, I'll be right with you, sir.
00:53:13Well, thank you. I'll just take a look around.
00:53:24What an extraordinary cabinet.
00:53:26Spanish, Mauritians ones. Imitation, of course.
00:53:29It is not an imitation. It's authentic.
00:53:30Oh, come now, my dear man.
00:53:33Ah, may I see some of these ceramics?
00:53:36Those aren't for sale. They're Ming vases, mostly, and they haven't been marked yet.
00:53:39Well, that's really a very little consequence.
00:53:42You see, if they're genuine,
00:53:46I can tell to within a shilling what the international price might be.
00:53:49If you please, sir, there are other customers.
00:53:52Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course. Well, I'll just look around.
00:53:55Ah, what a very interesting collection of pewter.
00:54:06Very special thanks.
00:54:11People are telling me to give a jegation of the sea.
00:54:12Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:13I see.
00:54:13Oh, yes.
00:54:14Oh, yes.
00:54:16Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:17Well, yes.
00:54:18Oh, yes.
00:54:19Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:22Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:23Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:25Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:27Oh, yes, sir.
00:54:28Oh, her.
00:54:29Uh, that'll be $500.
00:54:42Now, would you just give me the address where you want it sent?
00:54:44Yes, Mrs. J. Wellington, Jr.
00:54:48DuPont Circle.
00:54:59Good night, good night, I'll have it sent out in the morning.
00:55:29Oh dear, oh dear, I'm most terribly sorry.
00:55:35You've broken one of our best pieces, sir, Ming Dynasty.
00:55:38Uh, Tang Dynasty, not Ming, definitely not Ming.
00:55:41It is my business to know, sir, the pottery is Ming and worth $2,300.
00:55:46As we're closing for the evening, I must ask you to settle at once.
00:55:49Oh, nonsense, my good man. Tang pottery is worth $600 at best.
00:55:54Just a moment, please.
00:55:56Yes, of course.
00:55:56Hello?
00:56:00What's going on up there?
00:56:03Our customer dropped a valuable piece of pottery.
00:56:05I'll finish with him immediately.
00:56:10How can you say that it's Ming, $2,300 fiddlesticks?
00:56:13You asked $2,300 for something that's worth no more than $600.
00:56:16I demand to see the proprietor.
00:56:17Now, wait a minute.
00:56:18There are bureaus for the protection of innocent customers.
00:56:20Show me to the owner of this establishment,
00:56:22or I'll turn the entire affair over to my legal representative.
00:56:25Ming, indeed.
00:56:25Just a minute.
00:56:26What chikenry, what skullduggery.
00:56:28I mean to put an end to it this very night.
00:56:30Ming for Tang, indeed.
00:56:31And I won't be put off.
00:56:34Call the proprietor immediately.
00:56:36Very well.
00:56:38Just a minute.
00:56:42Yes?
00:56:43This man's mad.
00:56:44An eccentric collector.
00:56:45I can't get rid of him.
00:56:46Insists on seeing you in person.
00:56:49All right.
00:56:49Stall him for half a minute, then send him into my office.
00:56:52I'll get rid of him, and quickly.
00:56:55Now, Hal, no screams till the customer's gone.
00:57:01Mm-hmm.
00:57:26You get downstairs.
00:57:27Yes, sir.
00:57:31Yes, sir.
00:57:56I'm most frightfully sorry for...
00:58:01I'm most frightfully sorry about the vows, but...
00:58:03But really, sir, your clerk is guilty for taking the most obvious fraud.
00:58:06You see, he tried to convince me that I'd broken a Ming pottery
00:58:10when anyone could see that it belonged to the Tang era.
00:58:13Its value is no more than $600.
00:58:16All right, you pay me the $600. We'll call the matter settled.
00:58:19Oh.
00:58:20Oh, thank you very much, sir. Thank you.
00:58:22I'll send you my cheque in the morning.
00:58:24I, uh...
00:58:25I see you know the, uh...
00:58:27London value of these pieces.
00:58:29It's my business.
00:58:31Exactly. Yes, exactly.
00:58:33You know, I think you're just the man to help me find some furniture I'm anxious to get.
00:58:37I'm most frightfully bored with the usual conglomeration of pieces that we can pick up on the other side.
00:58:45What do you really want, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
00:58:49Here, Heinrich Henkel.
00:58:51Or as you now call yourself, Mr. Richard Stanley.
00:58:54In 1914, secret agent of the German Kaiser.
00:58:58Since then, head of the most insidious international spy ring that ever existed.
00:59:03You're wrong.
00:59:04A case of mistaken identity.
00:59:06I've been a respected member of this community for a great many years.
00:59:10I deal in antiques because of their rarity and beauty.
00:59:13Merely a device to cover up your real business of transporting secret information to the enemies of this country.
00:59:19Very interesting, but just a figment of your imagination.
00:59:22I'm a very busy man, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:59:25Where is Nancy Partridge?
00:59:27You're not looking for that girl.
00:59:29You're looking for a certain document.
00:59:31Oh, dear me, no.
00:59:32The document's perfectly safe.
00:59:35You see, the man who has it doesn't know he has it.
00:59:41That's a very pretty tale, but quite untrue.
00:59:43The only man who had any contact with Grayson on the train was Senator Babcock.
00:59:48The Senator doesn't have the document.
00:59:50We took the trouble to find out.
01:00:01Permit me.
01:00:06Perhaps you've been misled by the common notion regarding the shape and bulk of state papers.
01:00:11They might easily have been reduced to a convenient size, you know.
01:00:16Say, a document no larger than a postage stamp.
01:00:20Postage stamp, huh?
01:00:22That's a very interesting theory, but not supported by the facts.
01:00:25Quite beside the point.
01:00:26Where's the girl?
01:00:28She's not here, of course, but you're quite at liberty to look round if you care to.
01:00:33I shall do so.
01:00:54Interesting piece.
01:00:55Spanish, isn't it?
01:00:57Moorish.
01:00:58Oh.
01:00:59My error.
01:01:00It's an amazing specimen.
01:01:01I assure you you won't find what you're looking for there.
01:01:04You stimulate my curiosity.
01:01:12This might be interesting.
01:01:14The Moors were an incredibly inventive people, weren't they?
01:01:33Yes, it was in shocking condition when I got hold of it.
01:01:36But I had it restored.
01:01:38It's very lively now.
01:01:40But old-fashioned.
01:01:44If that's the best you can do, Mr. Stanley,
01:01:45I think I may safely examine the rest of the room.
01:01:48Help yourself.
01:01:51Take your hand away from that drawer.
01:01:55Mr. Holmes.
01:01:56You didn't think I was going to draw a weapon.
01:01:59I never touch the things.
01:02:03How odd to find you squeamish.
01:02:10That connects only with the shop.
01:02:13You're very quick to say so.
01:02:14And yet a short while ago,
01:02:15I saw two other men in this room.
01:02:17And they didn't go back into the shop.
01:02:18So there must be another exit.
01:02:19And perhaps another room.
01:02:21Yes, Mr. Stanley, what is it?
01:02:23Bring Miss Partridge here at once.
01:02:25Excellent, Holmes.
01:02:27I see your voice hasn't lost its flexibility.
01:02:29And my hand hasn't lost its coming either.
01:02:34When they come here,
01:02:36tell them to leave the girl with you and to clear out.
01:02:40You think I'll do this?
01:02:41I'll do this.
01:02:42I'll do that.
01:02:43I'll do this.
01:02:44I'll do this.
01:02:45I'll do this.
01:02:46You may not.
01:02:47I'll do this.
01:02:48I'll do this.
01:02:49I'll do this.
01:02:51You may not.
01:02:52But I'll do this.
01:02:53You may not.
01:02:54I'll tear out.
01:02:55You think I'll do that?
01:02:57Yes, you will.
01:02:58You're playing with lives now, Stanley.
01:03:00Not just the girls.
01:03:01Thousands.
01:03:02Millions, perhaps.
01:03:04And we don't intend to let one man have that much power.
01:03:07Not now, not at any time in the future.
01:03:13I'd prefer you alive to face the retribution that's coming to you.
01:03:17But if I have to do it...
01:03:24All right, Mr. Holmes.
01:03:26I suppose we must all meet our mates sooner or later.
01:03:40That's enough, boys.
01:03:41Take your hands off him.
01:03:45Well, Mr. Holmes?
01:03:47Tell the clerk to go home, then see the front door's locked.
01:03:56Well, Mr. Stanley?
01:03:58It's the last trick that counts, eh, Holmes?
01:04:07I'll remind you of that later.
01:04:08Miss Parter to allow me to present Mr. Sherlock Holmes,
01:04:17the world-famous detective.
01:04:19He's come to rescue you.
01:04:22I don't believe you.
01:04:25Oddly enough, he's telling the truth.
01:04:27My name is Sherlock Holmes, and I did come here to help you.
01:04:30But I seem rather to have missed it.
01:04:32I'm sorry.
01:04:33I'm afraid you've had a bad time.
01:04:35Well, that doesn't matter.
01:04:36It's Peter.
01:04:37They say they'll do something to him if I don't tell them.
01:04:40They say they've got him.
01:04:41Cheer up.
01:04:42He's quite safe.
01:04:43A tough customer like Peter.
01:04:45Isn't disabled very long by a clout on the head.
01:04:47He's all right.
01:04:49All okay, Mr. Stanley.
01:04:50Thank you, Stanley.
01:04:51This girl knows nothing.
01:04:53I promise she won't even identify you.
01:04:54Well, unfortunately, she knows enough to hang us.
01:04:57So do you.
01:04:58I'm surprised that you're walking into a trap like this.
01:05:01But you see the position I'm in, and what has to be done.
01:05:04Kayleigh, how?
01:05:07It will give me great pleasure to attend to Mr. Holmes personally.
01:05:16He's up and the girl's yours.
01:05:16It will give me great pleasure to attend to Mr. Holmes personally.
01:05:26He's up and the girl's yours.
01:05:37It's the police! Open up! It's the police!
01:05:46Holmes, where are you? Are you all right?
01:05:55Holmes, Holmes! Where are they?
01:06:16Thank you, gentlemen.
01:06:20Thank heavens, you're safe!
01:06:30Quick! Stanley has escaped!
01:06:34All right, boys. Bring them along. Come on, Lieutenant.
01:06:40The Senate office building. Double quick.
01:06:46The Senate office building.
01:06:54Come in.
01:06:59I'm glad you're safe, Senator.
01:07:01Safe? No man is safe.
01:07:03Look at the way my constituents snipe at me.
01:07:05I don't recall seeing your face before, stranger.
01:07:15I don't think we've met.
01:07:17Well, that explains it.
01:07:18My name is Sherlock Holmes.
01:07:19Glad to know you, Holmes. What's on your mind?
01:07:20Senator Babcock, I'm here to inform you of great peril to your life.
01:07:23Richard Stanley, a dangerous criminal, is now on his way here.
01:07:26Richard Stanley? Why, he's the most respectable citizen of Washington.
01:07:29Has been for years.
01:07:30What could Stanley possibly want from me?
01:07:32A document.
01:07:33From under the stamps of a letter given to you by a chap named Grayson.
01:07:37Grayson? Grayson?
01:07:38You used to know a man, didn't you?
01:07:41Grayson!
01:07:42Why, that's the fellow disappeared!
01:07:44Say, I've got that envelope right here in my wallet.
01:07:48Now, what does Stanley think could be under these stamps?
01:07:51A secret document of grave import.
01:07:54Reduced to microfilm and concealed under these very stamps.
01:07:57Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:00That's just what I wanted to know.
01:08:04I might have missed this microfilm if you hadn't led me to it.
01:08:07I seem to have underestimated your capabilities, Mr. Stanley.
01:08:10Yes, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:11Your famous powers of deduction and observation made very well in Limehouse or Soho.
01:08:15But here in America, I believe you're out of your depth.
01:08:18If so, the verdict of history will be severe indeed.
01:08:21You're nervous, Sherlock Holmes.
01:08:25I must confess to a marked irritation.
01:08:27Would you mind if I smoke?
01:08:38The whole course of the world might be changed by your acquisition of the microfilm.
01:08:43Oh, it will be, and for the better.
01:08:45If you match.
01:08:47If you can keep those.
01:08:49And now, if you'll pardon me, Mr. Holmes.
01:08:56Why don't you do something, Holmes, if that thing's so all-fired important?
01:08:59The English senator.
01:09:00Cricket old boy.
01:09:01Always cool in the crisis.
01:09:03The last trick, eh, Holmes?
01:09:05Yes.
01:09:06The last trick.
01:09:12Say, you're a smart fellow, Holmes.
01:09:14You can't follow, Holmes.
01:09:19Here's the microfilm, Holmes.
01:09:20Thank you, Senator.
01:09:29I see, Holmes!
01:09:44This is the microfilm with the document on it.
01:09:47It'll be in the proper hands within the hour.
01:09:50As I told you, Mr. Stanley, the man who had it didn't know he had it.
01:09:55Come on, let's go.
01:09:59Well, it'll be nice to get home to Baker Street, eh, Holmes?
01:10:03Yes.
01:10:05But this is a great country, Watson.
01:10:06It certainly is, my dear fellow.
01:10:09Look.
01:10:10Up there ahead.
01:10:12The capital.
01:10:13The very heart of this democracy.
01:10:15Democracy.
01:10:17The only hope for the future, eh, Holmes?
01:10:21It's not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future.
01:10:25But in the days to come,
01:10:27the British and American people will, for their own safety and for the good of all,
01:10:31walk together in majesty and justice and in peace.
01:10:38That's magnificent.
01:10:40I quite agree with you.
01:10:42Not with me.
01:10:44With Mr. Winston Churchill.
01:10:46I was quoting from the speech he made not so long ago.
01:10:49In that very building.
01:11:01See you.
01:11:02See you.
01:11:03The renders and renderings of the world and of the West.
01:11:05In that very building.
01:11:07The land and of sea-like prisoners are all over.
01:11:11See you.
01:11:14The clouds with red eyes.
01:11:16The rite of the sky.
01:11:18The air of the clouds.
01:11:20The sea of the sea.
01:11:22The sea of the sea.
01:11:24The sea of the sea.
01:11:26The sea of the sea.
01:11:29THE END
01:11:59THE END
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