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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
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00:01:33Hurry up, lads. Drink up. Five minutes to closing time.
00:01:37Well, let's have three more beers. Come on, now. Five minutes, gentlemen. Five minutes to closing time. Five minutes to closing time.
00:01:44Hello, sweetheart. Ask for the tune, eh?
00:01:47Here, you're on luck. That's what you are.
00:02:04Hey, you hurt bad, matey? Let's have a look at it. Blimey.
00:02:12Hey, what can I get you, lad? Mother's ruin. Make mine the same.
00:02:19It'll court you two bar for the broken glass, matey. What's the idea, anyway, letting a beast like that fly around loose in the public house?
00:02:27He didn't ought to let him smell the blood. He's very fond of blood. Charlie is.
00:02:32Hmm, comes by his taste natural, if you ask me. Nobody's asking you, miss.
00:02:36Oh. Where's he from?
00:02:38Musgrave Manor.
00:02:39What is this Musgrave Manor? A blinkin' prison?
00:02:42That ain't the worst it's been called. Not that I'm one to go about spreading stories.
00:02:46But we knows what we knows. Don't we, Charlie?
00:02:55Blimey! Where is this Musgrave Manor?
00:02:59Down the road a piece. You'll see it when you pass the old iron gates.
00:03:03Only don't loiter. You won't be welcome. Not by the Musgraves.
00:03:09Been sitting there. Lords of the manor ever since time was.
00:03:14Hey, if those old walls could speak, they'd tell you a thing to raise the air on your head.
00:03:21Those folks hereabouts swear they've seen corpse lights.
00:03:25Round the old greenhouse.
00:03:29An air a-wanin' like lost souls in the lime walk.
00:03:34Hey, I want no part of it.
00:03:36Nor of the Musgraves neither.
00:03:39Hard men, like them as was before them.
00:03:42Come, cruel men. God pity them.
00:03:46For the day is comin' when they'll need pity.
00:04:12I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey.
00:04:17I assure you I have no wish to be fair.
00:04:21Hmm.
00:04:22An excellent specimen of the coppery's Carolina.
00:04:24You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?
00:04:26I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:28I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:30I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:31No wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:34A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off with the first cocksure Yankee who makes her pulses jump.
00:04:49And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.
00:04:50Well, Philip has no choice in the matter.
00:04:51As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.
00:04:52Eve is dropping again, Brunton?
00:04:53Oh, no, Mr. Philip, I assure you.
00:04:54But I...
00:04:55I have no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:56I have no wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:57I have no wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:58A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off with the first cocksure Yankee who makes her pulses jump.
00:05:03And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.
00:05:06Well, Philip has no choice in the matter.
00:05:09As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.
00:05:14Eve is dropping again, Brunton?
00:05:16Oh, no, Mr. Philip, I assure you.
00:05:18But I didn't wish to disturb them.
00:05:21What did you hear, Brunton?
00:05:26Your brother and Miss Sally were going at it, Emma and Tong's.
00:05:29About Captain Vickery, I mean.
00:05:31Really?
00:05:32Mr. Geoffrey and Captain Vickery had an horrible row this afternoon over Miss Sally.
00:05:38I thought they were coming to blows.
00:05:40Indeed, I did.
00:05:41Quiet.
00:05:42That'll do now, Brunton.
00:05:43If I catch you snooping again, I shall ask my brother to give you notice.
00:05:46Yes, sir.
00:05:47Thank you, sir.
00:05:49You're not above a bit of snooping yourself, are you, Philip?
00:05:52Not in the least, old boy.
00:06:02Brunton.
00:06:03Oh, there you are.
00:06:04I've been rigging for you.
00:06:06Sorry, Dr. Watson.
00:06:08I was in the upper region.
00:06:10The library's in a filthy mess.
00:06:12The wind came swishing down the chimney and scattered the ashes everywhere.
00:06:15Very well.
00:06:16I'll tidy it up at once, Doctor.
00:06:23Room full of smoke.
00:06:24Papers all over the floor.
00:06:26Foul night, Brunton.
00:06:27It's customary in Earlstone, sir.
00:06:29Just the sort of night, I fancy, for the ghost of Lady Clorinda.
00:06:33Only walks in the west wing.
00:06:35No one ever met a ghost in this part of the house.
00:06:38Oh, will I?
00:06:39Isn't there some story that...
00:06:40Oh, there was an housemate claimed
00:06:42that she saw Sir Jervis Musgrave
00:06:45with his head on backwards in this very room.
00:06:49Good grace, ma'am.
00:06:51Well, she was just a flighty girl, sir.
00:06:53Oh, sounds like it.
00:06:54Very flighty.
00:06:55A most.
00:06:56Get on back.
00:06:58Head on back.
00:07:07Head on backwards.
00:07:28Mr. Brunton, does the wind always carry on like this, sir?
00:07:31Frequently, sir. It's a great pity.
00:07:34It makes the gentlemen restless.
00:07:36More than usual, I mean.
00:07:41Well, our patients are all tucked up for the night now, eh, Brunton?
00:07:45Are they?
00:07:46Of course, of course. Well, aren't they?
00:07:49Captain Vickery is in his room, sir.
00:07:52And it looked like Major Langford I saw going toward the pool.
00:07:56And I can't account for Lieutenant Clavering.
00:08:00Well, that's very odd.
00:08:02Very odd, sir.
00:08:05Anything else, sir?
00:08:06No, thank you. Oh, yes, yes.
00:08:08You might tell Dr. Sexton that I'd like to see him for a minute, will you?
00:08:11Very good, sir.
00:08:18Good night, sir.
00:08:20Good night, Brunton.
00:08:26Good night.
00:08:27Good night, Brunton.
00:08:28Good night.
00:08:29Good night, Brunton.
00:08:30Good night.
00:08:31Good night, Brunton.
00:08:32Good night, Brunton.
00:08:33Good night.
00:08:34Good night.
00:08:35Let's get him up.
00:08:36Let's get him in his chair over here.
00:08:37Sorry.
00:08:40Awfully sorry.
00:08:43Let's get... get my bag with your, Brunton.
00:08:45Yes, sir.
00:08:46Well, let's have a look.
00:08:47It's a near thing.
00:08:49Just missed the carotid artery.
00:08:50Looks like a knife wound.
00:08:51Here you are, sir.
00:08:53Oh, it's like a nightmare.
00:08:55Give me some of that cotton wool in that little bottle, please.
00:08:58Awful nuisance.
00:08:59Oh, no, old fellow, we'll have you patched up in no time.
00:09:01You'll be as good as new.
00:09:03What happened?
00:09:04I hardly know.
00:09:06It was in Lime Walk just now.
00:09:09I was coming up from the village.
00:09:11I remember distinctly I was approaching the greenhouse.
00:09:15The wind was terrific.
00:09:17I had to fight my way.
00:09:19I hadn't the slightest warning.
00:09:22All I know is that he struck and I went down.
00:09:28He must have thought I was done for.
00:09:31Any idea who it was?
00:09:33No.
00:09:34Well, that is, I...
00:09:36Yes, yes.
00:09:37Oh, really, I...
00:09:39I haven't any right.
00:09:41You have every right, Dr. Sexton.
00:09:44As head of this house,
00:09:47I shall arrange for an immediate investigation.
00:09:50I'd rather not if you don't mind, sir.
00:09:52Dr. Sexton,
00:09:53the fact that my brother and sister and I
00:09:55have opened our home to convalescent patients
00:09:57doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.
00:10:01I mean, under the peculiar circumstances.
00:10:04Oh, come along, Bob.
00:10:05There's no need to shield anyone.
00:10:14Thirteen.
00:10:16Thirteen?
00:10:17That's curious.
00:10:18What's got into the old clock?
00:10:20Nothing.
00:10:21Nothing at all.
00:10:22Oh, sir.
00:10:24Don't you remember the last time it did that?
00:10:27Your father was killed the next day.
00:10:52Mr. Holmes!
00:10:53Mr. Holmes!
00:10:54Mr. Holmes!
00:10:55Mr. Holmes!
00:10:56Oh, Mr. Holmes, I...
00:10:57Oh, I...
00:10:58A purely scientific experiment, Mrs. Hudson.
00:10:59Oh, frightening the wits out of honest people!
00:11:01Permit me, ma'am.
00:11:02Oh, dear.
00:11:03So, now, it's bullet holes in me plaster.
00:11:04Oh, Mr. Holmes, this is the last straw.
00:11:05The last straw, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:06The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:09It proves beyond a skill.
00:11:10It is obvious, Mr. Holmes,
00:11:11Mr. Holmes.
00:11:12Oh!
00:11:13Now, I have to tell you a chance to come see you.
00:11:14Mr. Holmes knows, Mr. Holmes.
00:11:15Oh!
00:11:16Oh!
00:11:17One, two, two, two, one.
00:11:18For me, Mr. Holmes,
00:11:19Mr. Holmes, I...
00:11:20Oh!
00:11:21Oh, Mr. Holmes, I...
00:11:22Oh, uh...
00:11:23Oh, I...
00:11:24Oh, Mr. Holmes,
00:11:25I...
00:11:26Oh.
00:11:27Oh, I...
00:11:28Oh, Mr. Holmes, I...
00:11:29the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:31It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that,
00:11:33even bound as he claims he was,
00:11:35he could still have fired the shot in his own defense
00:11:37that killed his wife's lover.
00:11:39But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:49Come in, Watson.
00:11:52My dear fellow, I'm glad to find you in.
00:11:55I didn't even knock.
00:11:56How do you know it was me?
00:11:57I?
00:11:58Me is acceptable, Watson,
00:12:00unless, of course, you're a purist, which I doubt.
00:12:02And may I add that your step is like no other in London.
00:12:05You're just in time for breakfast.
00:12:06Good, I rather counted on that.
00:12:08Mrs. Hudson, dear, how are you?
00:12:10Oh, it's good to see you again, sir.
00:12:11I think there'll be enough there for two.
00:12:13Splendid.
00:12:16You're a sight for sore eyes, Watson.
00:12:17Thanks, old boy, and so are you.
00:12:19Sit down.
00:12:20Good, thank you.
00:12:21All right, let's have it.
00:12:24What brings you from Northumberland at this early hour?
00:12:27A bad business, Holmes.
00:12:28A very bad business.
00:12:30How do you know that I came from Northumberland?
00:12:32Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:12:34Your overnight bag carried a fresh Houston label.
00:12:37The only train arriving at Houston Station at this hour
00:12:39is the Newcastle Express from Northumberland.
00:12:41Ogo, Sunlight, thou comest from Northumberland.
00:12:44Of course.
00:12:45Obvious, isn't it?
00:12:46Quite.
00:12:47Now tell me, what dark deed was done at Hurston Towers last night?
00:12:50Well, that's what I came to see about, Holmes.
00:12:52About 10 o'clock last night, I was sitting in the lab.
00:12:55How do you know that I came from Hurston?
00:12:57You wrote me that you'd volunteered for medical service within the realm.
00:13:00With your experience, what post could have been offered you,
00:13:03other than to put you in charge of a home for convalescent officers?
00:13:06Only one such home has been opened in Northumberland of the last month,
00:13:09and that's Musgrave Manor at Hurston.
00:13:12Oh, simple reasoning.
00:13:14A child could do it.
00:13:15Not your child, Watson.
00:13:17Well, of course.
00:13:18Well, I never had a child.
00:13:20I very nearly did, though.
00:13:21Did I ever tell you about that widow at Twickenham?
00:13:24Very narrow escape.
00:13:26I just found out in time she had a most horrible little squirt,
00:13:28about three and a half.
00:13:29Yes, Watson, I think we'd better stick to Hurston.
00:13:32Oh, sorry, old boy.
00:13:32Oh, Hurston.
00:13:34It's a grim old pile.
00:13:35Very spooky.
00:13:36Don't tell me that you meant a ghost.
00:13:38No, not as spooky as that.
00:13:40Ghosts don't stab people in the neck, do they?
00:13:44Or do they?
00:13:46Not well-bred ghosts, Watson.
00:13:49Who was stabbed in the neck?
00:13:51My young assistant, Dr. Sexton.
00:13:53When?
00:13:54Last night.
00:13:55Any idea who did it?
00:13:57Oh, no idea.
00:13:58You reported it?
00:13:59No, well, no, no, I didn't.
00:14:00Why not?
00:14:01Well, it seems...
00:14:02My dear fellow, what you're trying to say is,
00:14:04the officers in your care are all fine fellows.
00:14:07Wonderful war records and so on, is that it?
00:14:09Precisely.
00:14:10So you thought perhaps a private investigation?
00:14:13Exactly.
00:14:13Very right and proper thinking, Watson.
00:14:15We've just time to catch the 9.30 train from Hurston.
00:14:18Well, my dear fellows, there's no immediate hurry.
00:14:20Isn't there?
00:14:21Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.
00:14:24Any one of them might go over the edge at any moment.
00:14:26And from what you've told me, there's a killer loose at Hurston.
00:14:30Great Scott, you may be right.
00:14:32Come on, Watson.
00:14:33We haven't a moment to lose.
00:14:35I only hope we shan't be too late.
00:14:48You were right, Watson, about Musgrave Manor.
00:14:50Houses like people have definite personalities.
00:14:52And this place is positively ghoulish.
00:14:55It certainly is.
00:14:58Hello.
00:14:59What's that?
00:15:01Just the old greenhouse?
00:15:02No, no, no.
00:15:02A pile of leaves.
00:15:04Just an ordinary pile of leaves.
00:15:05Why?
00:15:06Doesn't it strike you as odd, Watson,
00:15:08that a pile of leaves should be wrecked up in front of a greenhouse door?
00:15:12No gardener in the world would do that.
00:15:25Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:15:48That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.
00:15:50But what, may I ask, does it prove?
00:15:55What I'm trying to prove is this.
00:15:58That Dr. Sextenier went down.
00:16:00Twice now, Inspector.
00:16:01You were stunned.
00:16:02Naturally.
00:16:03You went out longer than you thought.
00:16:04That's the point.
00:16:05What point?
00:16:06Just this.
00:16:07The man who attacked him had time to get back into the house
00:16:09before Dr. Sextenier came to.
00:16:10Yes.
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:12And this here glove.
00:16:14Oh.
00:16:16And this here glove, what I picked up at the scene of the crime,
00:16:19belongs to a certain party right here in this house.
00:16:22I say.
00:16:23Why, that glove belongs to my brother.
00:16:25Huh?
00:16:26Would you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sexten?
00:16:28Who knows?
00:16:30The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.
00:16:34Very well.
00:16:35My brother's down at the stables.
00:16:36I'll take you to him myself.
00:16:38It's the quickest way to put a stop to this blithering nonsense.
00:16:40Come on.
00:16:41Oh, Mr. Philip.
00:16:42Yeah?
00:16:43Better not go out in the night air without a coat.
00:16:45Here, take mine.
00:16:46Thanks.
00:16:47And I won't need this.
00:16:52No.
00:16:53Oh.
00:16:54Nor this.
00:16:55Well, shall we go?
00:16:58Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes.
00:17:00Good evening, Lestrade.
00:17:01Come to give us an hand, have you?
00:17:03Always happy to help, Inspector.
00:17:04Thanks, but I don't think I shall be needing any.
00:17:06Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:17:10Gentlemen, this is my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:17:14Mr. Philip Musgrave and Dr. Sexten.
00:17:16How do you do?
00:17:17How do you do?
00:17:18I've just brought him up to spend a few days with us.
00:17:20Well, that's very good of you.
00:17:21But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.
00:17:24Oh, really?
00:17:25It's most unfortunate.
00:17:26If you don't mind, Dr. Watson, I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.
00:17:29I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:31Oh, no?
00:17:32I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.
00:17:35We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.
00:17:38He's dead.
00:17:39You can't mean it.
00:17:42No.
00:17:47Look here, Holmes.
00:17:48If this is one of your little jokes...
00:17:49Murder is no joke, Inspector.
00:17:51That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:53No good saying it ain't.
00:17:54Murder?
00:17:55Well, let's get going.
00:17:56I'll take chance now.
00:17:57What?
00:17:58It's quite within my rights as a local justice of the peace.
00:18:01I'll come with you.
00:18:23Wait a minute, you fool.
00:18:25Don't go barging in like that.
00:18:27Don't mourn me.
00:18:31Surgical instruments.
00:18:34You know, Watson, the instruments that save life are hardly more pleasant to look at than those that take it.
00:18:39Hmm.
00:18:40Grizzly thought, Holmes.
00:18:45You rang, Dr. Watson?
00:18:46Yes, Brunton.
00:18:47I want you to take some men and go down to the Lime Walk.
00:18:49Me, sir?
00:18:50Oh, I can't, sir.
00:18:51I'm sorry, but I simply can't.
00:18:53My stomach, you know.
00:18:55I really couldn't look at a corpse.
00:18:59A corpse?
00:19:00Well, I, uh...
00:19:01How did you know that there was a corpse?
00:19:03Obviously, he was listening to the door.
00:19:05I'll take care of the matter, doctor.
00:19:07I was listening, too.
00:19:09Come along, Brunton.
00:19:17Remarkable woman.
00:19:18Housekeeper, I suppose.
00:19:20She's very efficient.
00:19:21Same type as Mary Ann Carpenter, the trunk motorist.
00:19:27Extraordinary house.
00:19:29Yes, it is indeed.
00:19:31Now, Watson, if you don't mind, I'd like to have a word with your extraordinary patients.
00:19:35Let me remind you, Holmes, that my patients are just, uh, just, uh, patients.
00:19:40Quite so.
00:19:41All normal men, sound in mind and body, no sign of psychoneurosis.
00:19:45I quite understand.
00:19:46Then, Holmes, even, even normal people are sometimes a little...
00:19:51Precisely.
00:20:03Hello, Mac.
00:20:04Eh?
00:20:06Oh, oh, oh, I, I must have taken a wee nap.
00:20:09Mac, I want you to meet a very old friend of mine.
00:20:11Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Captain McIntosh.
00:20:12How do you do?
00:20:13I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.
00:20:15Sorry to have wakened you.
00:20:16Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:17See you later.
00:20:18Yes.
00:20:19Sit down, Mac, and go on while you sleep.
00:20:27Poor chap, he lay wounded in a trench on Joshua Hill.
00:20:30The German tanks went over him.
00:20:34Watson.
00:20:35Huh?
00:20:36Have you any idea how Geoffrey Musgrave met his death?
00:20:38Yes.
00:20:39Depressed skull fracture.
00:20:40Only hang it all, Holmes.
00:20:41It isn't.
00:20:42Isn't it?
00:20:43Why not?
00:20:44No oedema, no bleeding, no contraction of tissue.
00:20:46Precisely.
00:20:47The blow on the head was delivered after death.
00:20:49Musgrave was killed by a sharp instrument thrust up between the base of the skull and the top vertebra.
00:20:53Great Scott.
00:20:54Great Scott.
00:20:55Shall we go up now?
00:21:04Hello, Langford.
00:21:05Hello there.
00:21:06Been away, haven't you?
00:21:07Haven't you?
00:21:08Yes, I've just been out of London.
00:21:09I brought my friend back.
00:21:10This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Major Langford.
00:21:12See you at dinner.
00:21:13What?
00:21:14What?
00:21:15I hope so.
00:21:16I hope so.
00:21:17I hope so.
00:21:18Excuse me.
00:21:19Excuse me.
00:21:20Poor chap was at Singapore.
00:21:24Escaped from a Japanese prison camp.
00:21:26Ghastly experience.
00:21:27He's suffering from an escape complex, obviously.
00:21:29Yes, he's a very nice chap, though.
00:21:32The next fellow I want you to meet is young Claywing.
00:21:35Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.
00:21:37Saw a lot of men blown to pits by Nazi booby traps.
00:21:40He's a bit on edge.
00:21:41Not unnaturally.
00:21:48Coming.
00:21:52Well, Dr. Watson.
00:21:54Come in, won't you?
00:21:55Sorry to keep you so long.
00:21:57You see, I...
00:21:59I was lying down.
00:22:01Resting.
00:22:02This is my friend, Mr. Holmes, who's here for a few days.
00:22:04Mr. Clavering.
00:22:05Glad to meet you.
00:22:06How do you do?
00:22:07Sorry to disturb you.
00:22:08Not at all.
00:22:09I say, you don't have to have some cigarettes about you, do you?
00:22:12That's one of the reasons I came.
00:22:13I brought you some of those American cigarettes that you're so fond of.
00:22:16That's all right.
00:22:17Open it up.
00:22:18No, Harry.
00:22:19No Harry at all.
00:22:21No, no, no.
00:22:22Of course there isn't.
00:22:23Shall we go?
00:22:24Yes.
00:22:25Well, we must be off.
00:22:26We've got a lot to do.
00:22:27See you later.
00:22:28Yes, I'll be back.
00:22:29Good night.
00:22:30Good night.
00:22:34He seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package.
00:22:36Only he's found him in less likely places than that, poor chap.
00:22:39The man in this room is an American Flying Officer.
00:22:41Captain Vickery.
00:22:42Nothing very much the matter with him.
00:22:43What's he here for then?
00:22:44A spot of rest.
00:22:45Had a pretty long go of it.
00:22:47Worn out.
00:22:48Needs all the rest he can get.
00:22:49Vickery?
00:22:50Vickery?
00:22:51This one seemed to be in.
00:22:59No one at home.
00:23:01Hmm.
00:23:02Can't do not.
00:23:06Not since tea time, at any rate.
00:23:08Well, what's this?
00:23:11Captain Vickery, here's your tea.
00:23:13If it's cold, don't blame me.
00:23:15That sounds like Brunton's work.
00:23:18The butler?
00:23:19He fends himself a poet, but only when he's drinking.
00:23:22I see.
00:23:23Wasn't there an American killer given to verse?
00:23:25Holmes, you don't think that Brunton...
00:23:27Excuse me.
00:23:29I merely stated...
00:23:32It was an American killer given to verse.
00:23:34Dr. Watson, oh, where are you?
00:23:36Oh, there you are.
00:23:38Steady, my dear, steady.
00:23:39Please make me wake up, won't you?
00:23:41It's just a bad dream, I know.
00:23:43Jeff and Pat...
00:23:44No, no, no, my dear.
00:23:45You've got to get a grip on yourself.
00:23:46Come on.
00:23:47Come sit down.
00:23:48Come sit down.
00:23:50My brother, Jeff.
00:23:51Murdered.
00:23:53Poor old Jeff.
00:23:55And I haven't spoken to him since we had the fight yesterday on Pat...
00:23:58I mean Captain Vickery's account.
00:24:01And now he's dead.
00:24:02Now, now, my dear.
00:24:03You must...
00:24:04You must pull yourself together.
00:24:05But you don't understand.
00:24:07They're trying to say that Pat...
00:24:10They're trying to prove that Pat killed Jeff.
00:24:12No, no, no.
00:24:13Yes.
00:24:15Funny, isn't it?
00:24:17Awfully funny.
00:24:18Awfully funny.
00:24:19Awfully funny.
00:24:20Awfully funny.
00:24:21Stop it.
00:24:22Who are you?
00:24:23My name is Holmes.
00:24:24Sherlock Holmes?
00:24:25Yes.
00:24:26Then you'll help us, won't you, Mr. Holmes?
00:24:28Pat and me.
00:24:29I'll try to.
00:24:30Now tell me.
00:24:31Wasn't there bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery?
00:24:33That's got nothing to do with it.
00:24:34It may have everything to do with it.
00:24:35If you think Captain Vickery ever murdered anyone...
00:24:37You're no more of a detective than...
00:24:39Than...
00:24:40Than Dr. Watson.
00:24:41Oh, dear.
00:24:42Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:47You're very much in love, aren't you?
00:24:48I'm out of my mind, Mr. Holmes.
00:24:50I'm out of my mind.
00:24:53Oh, please forgive me and please...
00:24:55Please help me.
00:24:56Of course, of course.
00:24:57I understand.
00:24:58But you don't understand...
00:24:59That appalling man from Scotland Yard is questioning Pat...
00:25:01At this very moment.
00:25:03Now they see a rake.
00:25:04It's the identical one you got from the gardener this afternoon now, ain't it?
00:25:11Smells like it.
00:25:12Hey, what is this?
00:25:13Are you trying to prove that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake?
00:25:15No, I'm trying to...
00:25:17Never mind what I'm trying to prove.
00:25:19Just incriminate yourself, Captain Vickery.
00:25:21That's all Lestrade wants.
00:25:22I'll thank you to keep out of this, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:24This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:25:25How do you do?
00:25:26He's promised to help you, dear.
00:25:27There's nothing to worry about now.
00:25:28Only his neck, miss.
00:25:30Now they see a rake.
00:25:31What did you say you were using it for?
00:25:33I told you.
00:25:34I got it to fish my cap out of the pond.
00:25:35It blew in.
00:25:36Oh, so you were using it down at the pond, were you?
00:25:39For the tenth time, yes.
00:25:40And how did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body, eh?
00:25:43I don't know.
00:25:44Uh-huh.
00:25:45Well, that's that.
00:25:46Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:47Any fingerprints on the rake, Inspector?
00:25:49No, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:50That's the point.
00:25:51If Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out...
00:25:53Well, no.
00:25:54He wouldn't bother to wipe his fingerprints off, now would he?
00:25:56It's beyond imagination, I suppose, that somebody else could have used the rake and wiped off both sets of fingerprints.
00:26:00Highly interested, but very unlikely.
00:26:03Now, you admit that you had a regular set too with Geoffrey Musgrave yesterday, didn't you?
00:26:07You threatened to bash his head in.
00:26:08I merely made the offer.
00:26:09He didn't accept it.
00:26:10Who told you so?
00:26:11He did.
00:26:12Oh, no.
00:26:13He did.
00:26:14I only stated what I heard.
00:26:15Captain Vickery did threaten my brother.
00:26:17That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:18And it's no good saying it ain't.
00:26:20This Yankee lad had motive and opportunity.
00:26:22And the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse.
00:26:25All right.
00:26:26Come along.
00:26:31You really think he killed old Musgrave?
00:26:34You know very well he didn't.
00:26:35He doesn't.
00:26:36Stop clicking those needles.
00:26:37Oh, Pat.
00:26:38Take it easy, Sally.
00:26:39Now, look, don't worry a bit.
00:26:41I'll tell you everything's gonna be all right.
00:26:43Let's go, Inspector.
00:26:47Mr. Holmes.
00:26:52Steady.
00:26:53Steady.
00:26:54Aren't you on our side?
00:26:55Yes, Sally.
00:26:56Then why don't you do something?
00:26:57Because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight
00:27:00than he would be in this house.
00:27:02Oh, Mr. Holmes, what am I going to do?
00:27:04Watson, get a set of it.
00:27:05What am I going to do?
00:27:06I'll get it at once.
00:27:07Come along, Sally.
00:27:17She's a bit upset, but she'll get over it.
00:27:21You think so?
00:27:22She'll have to.
00:27:23She's got an ordeal ahead of her.
00:27:25She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.
00:27:28Ritual?
00:27:30This is an old family ceremony, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:33Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household.
00:27:36Blast this thing.
00:27:39Will this help?
00:27:42Oh, yes, thanks.
00:27:45Knitting needle, isn't it?
00:27:47Yes.
00:27:48Handy little things.
00:27:50It says,
00:27:52My heir, Sally, has to recite a sort of formula over Geoff's body
00:27:55in front of the fireplace in the library in the presence of the entire household.
00:27:59Well, that's better.
00:28:01What sort of formula?
00:28:03Oh, it's not meaningless words.
00:28:05Musgrave ritual, they call it.
00:28:07This old family custom's been handed down for generations.
00:28:10Do you remember the words?
00:28:12No.
00:28:13No, not at all.
00:28:14But you had to speak them when your brother Geoffrey took over.
00:28:17Yes.
00:28:18If that's right, I did.
00:28:20Let me see now.
00:28:22Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:26Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:29The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:33And brings good fortune to Hurston Towers.
00:28:36Where was the light?
00:28:37On the face of the messenger.
00:28:38Where did he speed?
00:28:39To guard the Queen's page.
00:28:40What foeman advanced?
00:28:41The bishop's page, rashly.
00:28:42And he found it.
00:28:43The next shall find it.
00:28:44The next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:45The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:47And brings good fortune to Hurston Towers.
00:28:50Where was the light?
00:28:51On the face of the messenger.
00:28:53Where did he speed?
00:28:55To guard the Queen's page.
00:28:57What foeman advanced?
00:28:58The bishop's page, rashly.
00:29:00And who to repel?
00:29:01The King's cautious page.
00:29:02What then the...
00:29:04Disaster.
00:29:05Queen.
00:29:06Slaughter's.
00:29:07Page.
00:29:08No, no.
00:29:09Sorry Miss Sally.
00:29:10Page.
00:29:11Slaughter's page.
00:29:12Thank you Branton.
00:29:13That was the brief one.
00:29:14The bishop's page.
00:29:15And who to repel?
00:29:16The king's cautious page.
00:29:17What then the...
00:29:18Disaster.
00:29:19Queen.
00:29:20Slaughter's.
00:29:21Page.
00:29:22No, no, sorry Miss Sally.
00:29:24Page.
00:29:25Slaughter's page.
00:29:26Thank you Branton.
00:29:27You're welcome.
00:29:28A page.
00:29:29The bishop's page.
00:29:30The bishop's page.
00:29:31The bishop's page.
00:29:32The bishop's page.
00:29:34The bishop's page.
00:29:35Thank you, Brunton.
00:29:43Who came then to slay him?
00:29:45The bloodthirsty bishop.
00:29:47Where shall he go?
00:29:49Deep down below.
00:29:56Away from the thunder.
00:29:58Let him dig under.
00:30:05Once more under the breach, dear friends. Once more...
00:30:24Happy day.
00:30:29You drunken sot.
00:30:31The master's been ringing you for the past ten minutes.
00:30:33Why don't you answer it?
00:30:34Fly away, little gremlin.
00:30:37You're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches you in this state.
00:30:40Oh, we saw that in. Hurry, hurry.
00:30:43Come in, sir.
00:30:45Captain.
00:30:49One moment, sir.
00:30:51Mr. Holmes.
00:30:52Come in, sir. Come in.
00:31:08This is indeed an honor.
00:31:10I don't often have visitors.
00:31:16What can I do for you, sir?
00:31:18Might stop that squeaking to begin with.
00:31:20Yes, sir.
00:31:21And perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.
00:31:24Me, sir?
00:31:25Yes, you.
00:31:26When Miss Sally forgot the lines today, you were the one who prompted her.
00:31:31Well, sir, I memorized it.
00:31:33Obviously.
00:31:34But why?
00:31:36Because it has no meaning.
00:31:39I love things that have no meaning.
00:31:42Thank you, Brunton.
00:31:45But supposing it did have a meaning?
00:31:47And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:31:50Oh, what a lovely idea.
00:31:52If I may see, sir.
00:31:54You may, Brunton.
00:31:55You may also sit down.
00:31:57Thank you, sir.
00:32:05Oh, stop it!
00:32:08And look at me.
00:32:09No, here.
00:32:11You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:32:13Do I?
00:32:14Well, don't you?
00:32:15You'd be surprised at all the things I know.
00:32:19What things?
00:32:21No, you don't.
00:32:22About the Musgraves?
00:32:23That'd be telling.
00:32:24But here's to them anyway.
00:32:26All the Musgraves, past and present.
00:32:30Some of them were murderers.
00:32:32And some of them worse.
00:32:34But they all knew how to keep a secret.
00:32:37And so do I.
00:32:39Brunton.
00:32:45I've been ringing for you for the past ten minutes.
00:32:48Sorry, sir.
00:32:49But the buzzer doesn't buzz.
00:32:52That'll do, Brunton.
00:32:55You have your notice.
00:32:56Do you understand?
00:32:57Yes, sir.
00:32:58Is that advisable, Mr. Musgrave?
00:33:00Let me be the judge of that.
00:33:01He leaves Helston in the morning.
00:33:02The morning's a long way off.
00:33:06Farewell.
00:33:07A long farewell.
00:33:10To all my greatness.
00:33:12You've done it now, Alf Brunton.
00:33:14After all we've been through.
00:33:16How have I managed to do it all alone?
00:33:19What are you going to do?
00:33:22What am I going to do?
00:33:24What am I going to do?
00:33:26Oh.
00:33:27Oh.
00:33:28Oh.
00:33:29What am I going to do?
00:33:30What are you gonna get in there?
00:33:31That's what you have to do.
00:33:33I'm looking into the day.
00:33:34I'm looking into the day,
00:33:47and I'm going to read that too.
00:33:49Thirteen again.
00:34:09Yes.
00:34:19This whole attitude confuses me, Watson.
00:34:34She swears that she hasn't set eyes on Brunson since last night, and yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him.
00:34:40Quite so. She knows where he is as well as we do. I mean, as well as we don't.
00:34:43I wonder.
00:34:44You said that he was drinking last night. Wouldn't it be a good idea to try the pub?
00:34:48Exactly where we're headed for, Watson.
00:34:50I'm glad we thought of this, even if we don't find Brunson.
00:34:53I was afraid we shouldn't find him here.
00:34:58Don't worry, old boy. I can do with a drink.
00:35:01With your information, so could I.
00:35:03Gentlemen.
00:35:04Hello, Doctor. Not looking for us, are you? Are you?
00:35:07Well, no. As a matter of fact, we're looking for...
00:35:10Brunson. You haven't seen him, have you?
00:35:12Have we, Clavering?
00:35:14Have we?
00:35:15Why should we?
00:35:17Morning, Gracie.
00:35:18Morning, Doctor. What do you have?
00:35:19A bottle of bass and what's yours?
00:35:21A pint of bitter, please, and a pint of bitter.
00:35:24I have a kettle. I have a kettle.
00:35:26Oh, really?
00:35:28Hello, a tame raven.
00:35:30You're a devil, are you?
00:35:32A kettle, are you?
00:35:33I have a devil. I have a devil.
00:35:35No.
00:35:36Birds of prey, aren't they?
00:35:37No.
00:35:38Yes, in a way, scavengers, rather.
00:35:39They can smell a carcass half a mile off.
00:35:41Yes, that they can and all.
00:35:43You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.
00:35:46Shall we go and sit down?
00:35:48Come on.
00:35:49Come on.
00:35:50Come on.
00:35:51Come on.
00:36:09Gracie, have you seen Dr. Watson?
00:36:11He's over there, lass.
00:36:16May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes?
00:36:17What's wrong, Sally?
00:36:18We can't find my brother Philip.
00:36:19Did you look in his room?
00:36:20That's the trouble.
00:36:21We had to force the door.
00:36:22It was locked on the inside.
00:36:23Really?
00:36:24Yes.
00:36:25Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.
00:36:26Certainly, Sally.
00:36:27At once.
00:36:32Do be quick.
00:36:33Something ghastly has happened.
00:36:34I know it.
00:36:35Oh, that dreadful bird.
00:36:36Please drive it away.
00:36:37Watson.
00:36:38Take it away.
00:36:39Away?
00:36:40Where is he?
00:36:41Anywhere.
00:36:42Into the pub.
00:36:43Just take it away.
00:36:53Philip Musgrave.
00:37:01What are they doing now?
00:37:02Doing now?
00:37:03I don't know.
00:37:04They've stopped talking.
00:37:07Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.
00:37:10Heavy footsteps.
00:37:19There's no doubt about it, Watson.
00:37:21Philip Musgrave had a visitor here last night.
00:37:24These footprints were made either by a very heavy man
00:37:26or a man carrying a very heavy burden.
00:37:28That's right, Mr. Holmes.
00:37:29It's no good saying it ain't.
00:37:30The burden was Philip Musgrave's body
00:37:32and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brunton.
00:37:35It doesn't necessarily follow.
00:37:36Oh, don't it?
00:37:41Here.
00:37:42Try that on your footprint.
00:37:49And that's...
00:37:50Ah!
00:37:51But the fact that these prints were made by Brunton's shoes
00:37:52doesn't prove that Brunton's feet were in them.
00:37:53Why not?
00:37:54Where should Brunton's feet be if not in his own shoe?
00:37:56Well, they're not in them now, are they?
00:37:58Look here, Holmes.
00:37:59Let's use our intellect.
00:38:00You what?
00:38:01What's wrong with that?
00:38:02Let's stick to motive.
00:38:03That's my strong point now.
00:38:04This here Brunton had motive.
00:38:05Philip Musgrave gave him the sack, didn't he?
00:38:08Did Geoffrey Musgrave also give him the sack?
00:38:09What's that got to do with it?
00:38:10Everything.
00:38:11The similarity of method in both murders
00:38:12shows they were the work of one man.
00:38:13Well, let's figure out.
00:38:14He was in jail at the time of this murder.
00:38:15All right, Watson.
00:38:16All right.
00:38:17Then Alfred Brunton's our man.
00:38:18Just what I said.
00:38:19What possible motive could Brunton have had
00:38:20for the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave?
00:38:21Motive?
00:38:22Oh, bother motive.
00:38:23Who cares about motive?
00:38:24This case is as simple as ABC.
00:38:25Is it?
00:38:26Now, perhaps you could explain to us
00:38:27why these footprints lead up to a blank wall
00:38:28and never return.
00:38:29What?
00:38:30You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?
00:38:31There's just one possible explanation.
00:38:32I've got it.
00:38:33Brunton murdered Musgrave
00:38:34right up against the wall.
00:38:35He hoisted the body over his shoulder,
00:38:36like this, you see.
00:38:37Walks backwards, clean out of the room.
00:38:38That's a very undignified position, Lestrade.
00:38:40Up's a day, is it?
00:38:41In a house as old as this,
00:38:42it's not unusual to find secrets
00:38:43to find secrets.
00:38:44That's why these footprints lead up to a blank wall
00:38:45and never return.
00:38:46What?
00:38:47You didn't think of that, did you, Inspector?
00:38:48There's just one possible explanation.
00:38:49I've got it.
00:38:50Brunton murdered Musgrave
00:38:51right up against the wall.
00:38:52He hoisted the body over his shoulder,
00:38:53like this, you see.
00:38:54Walks backwards, clean out of the room.
00:38:55Up's a day, is it?
00:38:58In a house as old as this,
00:38:59it's not unusual to find secret passageways
00:39:01that lead down through the walls.
00:39:03Hello.
00:39:04Here we are.
00:39:05No, you don't.
00:39:06Come out of there.
00:39:15What are you doing in there?
00:39:16None of your business.
00:39:17Answer me.
00:39:18Obviously.
00:39:19She was looking for Brunton.
00:39:20That's right.
00:39:21He hasn't left Musgrave Manor,
00:39:22I'm certain of that, sir.
00:39:23His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.
00:39:25Don't you lie to me, woman.
00:39:26You've got him in there somewhere.
00:39:27Don't go in there.
00:39:28Why not?
00:39:29You'll get lost.
00:39:30Me lost?
00:39:31Oh, I like that.
00:39:32He will get lost, sir.
00:39:34Let him.
00:39:35Now listen to me.
00:39:36Where did you enter that passageway?
00:39:38Through the old greenhouse in Lime Ork, sir.
00:39:40Did Brunton know that?
00:39:41No, he didn't.
00:39:42Mrs. Brunton.
00:39:43Then why were you looking for him in there?
00:39:45We...
00:39:46I...
00:39:47Yes, we've known all along
00:39:48that you were married to Brunton.
00:39:49You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?
00:39:51No.
00:39:52Yes, you do.
00:39:53And you think Brunton did it?
00:39:54No.
00:39:55You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?
00:39:56No, no.
00:39:57Over to the garage?
00:39:58No, he never.
00:39:59And crammed his body in the rumple seat of that roadster.
00:40:00Don't you try and put the blame on out.
00:40:01I'll put the blame on both of you.
00:40:02You're in this together.
00:40:03You were in his room last night.
00:40:04I saw you there.
00:40:05Only to talk about the ritual, sir.
00:40:07He...
00:40:08We...
00:40:09He thought that he'd got it all worked out.
00:40:12Did he leave any notes?
00:40:13Any record?
00:40:14No.
00:40:15That is...
00:40:16Oh, come on, come on out with it.
00:40:18Only this, sir.
00:40:19I found it this morning under the soap dish on his washstand.
00:40:22Hmm.
00:40:23Haste to the written.
00:40:24Another jingle?
00:40:25Yes.
00:40:26Obviously in some agitation.
00:40:29If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual,
00:40:32seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual.
00:40:34The old ritual.
00:40:35There it is again.
00:40:36Watson, we'd rather find that ritual.
00:40:37It's the key to the whole business.
00:40:38Just a minute.
00:40:39You can't talk to Sally.
00:40:40She was in such a state I had to give her a hypo.
00:40:41All right.
00:40:42Come along.
00:40:47Draw the curtains, Watson.
00:40:52There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.
00:40:54She had to learn it, you know.
00:40:56Yes, you're right.
00:40:57Here it is.
00:40:58I doubt it.
00:41:01Empty.
00:41:02Quite.
00:41:03There's only one thing to do.
00:41:04Search the room.
00:41:05Not the room, Watson.
00:41:06Her mind.
00:41:07We must search her mind.
00:41:08Obviously she took great pains to hide that paper.
00:41:11But...
00:41:12But why should she hide it?
00:41:13Put yourself in her place.
00:41:14Her brother Jeffrey was murdered.
00:41:16The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.
00:41:19On top of that, she finds her brother Philip murdered.
00:41:22What would your reactions be?
00:41:23Well, naturally.
00:41:24I should be terribly upset.
00:41:25Obviously.
00:41:26Excuse me.
00:41:27She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on Hysteria.
00:41:30She comes through that door, goes to that desk,
00:41:32throws down her clubs.
00:41:34The first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.
00:41:37In her mind, it's tied up with all the disasters that have befallen Holston.
00:41:41She herself may be the next victim.
00:41:43She must hide that paper.
00:41:44Quite right.
00:41:45But where?
00:41:49Excuse me, sir.
00:41:52Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?
00:41:54Certainly not.
00:41:55Nora was here.
00:41:56She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.
00:41:58Good.
00:41:59Nora.
00:42:00Yes, sir?
00:42:01When you were alone with Miss Sally, what was the first thing she did?
00:42:03Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her night dress.
00:42:07And what was she doing in the meantime?
00:42:08Let me think, sir.
00:42:10Oh, yes.
00:42:11She went over to her desk.
00:42:12That was when she took the ritual from this envelope.
00:42:14What then, Nora?
00:42:15Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.
00:42:18Why, someone's pulled them open.
00:42:20Yes, I know.
00:42:21When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?
00:42:22Sure.
00:42:23And it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.
00:42:25Long enough.
00:42:26When you were at the window, where was she?
00:42:28She was sitting over here.
00:42:30Sitting right here.
00:42:32Taking off her stockings.
00:42:34Oh, but she never left the chair.
00:42:36I'll kiss the book on it.
00:42:37I've got it.
00:42:38She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.
00:42:41Oh.
00:42:42Must have changed her mind.
00:42:44Obviously.
00:42:45Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.
00:42:48Hello, sir.
00:42:54What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?
00:42:56From the fence, sir dear.
00:42:57The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.
00:43:00I definitely heard it.
00:43:01This clock?
00:43:02The same, sir.
00:43:03Thank you, Nora. You may go.
00:43:04Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.
00:43:07Just as obviously, it stopped at 12.20.
00:43:09Hmm?
00:43:10When Nora turned her back,
00:43:12Sally reached across, opened the clock,
00:43:15and hid the ritual in here.
00:43:18Amazing hope.
00:43:19Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:43:24Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?
00:43:30Where did he speed?
00:43:32To guard the Queen's page.
00:43:34Gibberish, that's what it is.
00:43:36Hokey pokey, pity alone.
00:43:37Thing like this, Watson, that's been handed down for centuries.
00:43:39Can't be mere gibberish.
00:43:43Who had entered the lists?
00:43:45The King's Pale Knight.
00:43:46Pale poppycock.
00:43:47I say Watson.
00:43:48King, Queen, Knight, Bishop.
00:43:50Sounds like you gave a chest to me.
00:43:52Precisely.
00:43:53Where fell the light.
00:43:55The light, Watson.
00:43:58Follow the light.
00:44:00On the face of the messenger.
00:44:05Look at it, Watson.
00:44:06Look at it.
00:44:07Like a giant chess board.
00:44:09This is no gibberish.
00:44:11These are chess terms, and that's the chess board.
00:44:14The secret of the Musgrave Murders is locked up in that floor.
00:44:17And by Jove, we've got the key to it.
00:44:22Who had entered the lists?
00:44:24The King's Pale Knight.
00:44:27White King's Knight to White King's Bishop Three.
00:44:30Your move, Dr. Saxton.
00:44:32I really know nothing about the game.
00:44:34Come on, Bob. It's great fun.
00:44:35You start from over here.
00:44:37Here.
00:44:38I'll show you.
00:44:39I'll show you.
00:44:40All right.
00:44:44One.
00:44:45Two.
00:44:46Three.
00:44:47One.
00:44:52Page into Black King Three.
00:44:54Your move, Clavering, into Black King Three, please.
00:44:56Over there.
00:44:57There's not to reason why.
00:45:07Page slaughters page.
00:45:12Your move, Watson.
00:45:14I take you, my dear.
00:45:15It's a good game, isn't it?
00:45:22Stop it.
00:45:23You mustn't giggle.
00:45:24You must be serious.
00:45:27I'll show you.
00:45:32Your move, Clavering.
00:45:33You take Dr. Watson.
00:45:34Too bad, Doctor.
00:45:39Who came then to slay him?
00:45:41The bloodthirsty Bishop.
00:45:46White Queen's Bishop.
00:45:47White King's Knight Five.
00:45:49That's my move.
00:45:58One.
00:45:59Two.
00:46:01I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?
00:46:03Did I?
00:46:04I don't think so.
00:46:05Yes, I'm afraid you did.
00:46:06Well, where was I?
00:46:08King Bishop Three?
00:46:09That's right.
00:46:10Oh, yes, of course.
00:46:11So sorry.
00:46:13Three.
00:46:14Four.
00:46:15Five.
00:46:16Captain, it looks bad for you.
00:46:19Aye, but where shall I go?
00:46:23Where shall he go?
00:46:26Deep down below.
00:46:28Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?
00:46:30Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.
00:46:33The entrance goes down behind that stair,
00:46:36but it's been locked up for centuries.
00:46:39One of the old Musgraves murdered his own brother down there.
00:46:43Shh.
00:46:44Listen.
00:46:47Hello, what's that?
00:46:50It's Brunton.
00:46:52Alf.
00:46:53Alf.
00:46:54He's in that passageway over the fireplace.
00:46:56Are you there, Brunton?
00:46:58Get me out.
00:46:59It's me, Lestrade.
00:47:01I'm lost.
00:47:04I'm all turned around.
00:47:06You have been for years.
00:47:07Get him out of there, will you, Mrs. Howells,
00:47:08and give him a saucer of milk.
00:47:10Come here, Jenny.
00:47:11Stand on the square for me.
00:47:13Stamp on it.
00:47:14Keep stamping.
00:47:15Clevering, get your sound detector.
00:47:16Gentlemen, deep down below.
00:47:31Oh, there's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.
00:47:41Someone's been here.
00:47:42And in the last 24 hours.
00:47:44Yeah.
00:47:45As clean as a new pin.
00:47:46Precisely.
00:47:48The dust of 200 years is on the walls.
00:47:50The floor's been swept clean.
00:47:51Obviously in an attempt to remove footprints.
00:47:55Shhh.
00:47:56Listen.
00:47:58That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.
00:48:04Clevering.
00:48:08Let me have your sound detector.
00:48:15Sir, sorry.
00:48:16You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.
00:48:33Don't move, anyone.
00:48:34Someone's moving about.
00:48:46Interfering with what I'm trying to do.
00:48:51Stand perfectly still, everybody.
00:49:04This is the spot.
00:49:17Let me hand.
00:49:18Of course.
00:49:21Here, I'll take that.
00:49:22Oh, thank you.
00:49:23It's all right.
00:49:26Hello.
00:49:27This is me.
00:49:29Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave.
00:49:32Knight.
00:49:34Lord of the Manners of Hurlston.
00:49:35This place used to be known as Hurlston Towers.
00:49:39Netherfield and King's Hargrave.
00:49:42Anno Domini, 1539.
00:49:44What we're looking for is underneath here.
00:49:45That's what the ritual meant by deep down below.
00:49:47It's a burial crypt.
00:49:49Up with it.
00:49:50I say, there's somebody down there.
00:50:02Who is it?
00:50:03This is Brunton.
00:50:04This is Brunton.
00:50:05I don't know.
00:50:06Stay where you are.
00:50:20Who is it, Holmes?
00:50:21It's Brunton, all right.
00:50:22Is he dead?
00:50:23Yes.
00:50:24He's been dead for hours.
00:50:25Murdered.
00:50:26Hello.
00:50:27What's this?
00:50:29Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith.
00:50:44What have you found?
00:50:46Any clue?
00:50:47Any clue?
00:50:48No.
00:50:49Just an old document.
00:50:51Hello?
00:50:53Hello.
00:50:54Oh, wait.
00:50:56You're a little bit concerned.
00:50:57How did we find the Old Testament?
00:50:58The Old Testament is into the 하지-and-the-neck.
00:51:01What can we find?
00:51:03Uh, no, uh...
00:51:08Just an old document.
00:51:12Hello. What's this?
00:51:19Looks like some sort of writing. Watson! Coming!
00:51:25Hold this for me, will you? Steady. There, on the floor, by his right hand.
00:51:28See those marks in the dust? Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.
00:51:36Yes. Yes. See that stuff under his nail?
00:51:40He's trying to write something. By Jove!
00:51:43He did write something! What is it?
00:51:46Ay, tell us, ma'am. What did he write?
00:51:49I can't make it out. It's too faint.
00:51:54Here, I've got good eyes. Let me. Let me.
00:51:57Just take me a while. All of you.
00:52:04These marks...
00:52:07...must not be erased.
00:52:08What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:52:10I'm going to leave this just as it is.
00:52:12Until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the words.
00:52:16Have you no notion of what he tried to write?
00:52:19Yes, I have.
00:52:20I think that Brunton, with his last strength...
00:52:24...wrote the name of his murderer on that floor in his own blood.
00:52:28Oh, there you are, Lestrade.
00:52:29Hmm. Twelve o'clock.
00:52:30I was just saying, Lestrade...
00:52:32...that I should get into Newcastle, pick up my chemicals...
00:52:33...and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.
00:52:34Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes.
00:52:35Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you. Watson.
00:52:37Yes?
00:52:38Yes?
00:52:39You'll guard this door with your life.
00:52:40Of course I will.
00:52:41I will.
00:52:42I will.
00:52:43I will.
00:52:44I will.
00:52:45I will.
00:52:46I will.
00:52:47I will.
00:52:48I will.
00:52:49I will.
00:52:50I will.
00:52:51I will.
00:52:52I will.
00:52:53I will.
00:52:54I will.
00:52:55I will.
00:52:56I will.
00:52:57I will.
00:52:58I will.
00:52:59Yes, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:00Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.
00:53:01Watson.
00:53:02Yes?
00:53:06You'll guard this door with your life.
00:53:07Of course I will.
00:53:08With my what?
00:53:09I said, with your life.
00:53:10Anything you say, Holmes.
00:53:11There's no entrance to this cellar except through that doorway.
00:53:16But Holmes, what I feel about...
00:53:18Brunton's murderer is in this house.
00:53:20He's bound to make one last effort to get down there to erase those marks.
00:53:23Naturally.
00:53:24The charge men are posted outside.
00:53:25They'll see to it that nobody leaves this house.
00:53:27Concentration camp.
00:53:28My men have orders to shoot, if necessary.
00:53:30I'll be outside myself.
00:53:31Keep your watch.
00:53:32Good.
00:53:33Sexton, your post will be at Miss Sally's door.
00:53:34And remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.
00:53:36Don't worry.
00:53:37I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:38Good night.
00:53:39Good night, Holmes.
00:53:40Good night.
00:53:41Good luck.
00:53:42Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing out.
00:53:43I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer if I had a gun on me.
00:53:46I always keep mine ready.
00:53:50Oh, good night, Bob.
00:53:51Keep awake, old man.
00:53:52I will.
00:53:53Oh, Mr. Miller.
00:53:55That's funny.
00:53:56Striking 12 again.
00:54:10Mm-hm.
00:54:12Mm-hm.
00:54:13Good night.
00:54:14Good night, Bob.
00:54:15Keep awake, old man.
00:54:16I will.
00:54:19That's funny.
00:54:20Striking 12 again.
00:54:22I don't know.
00:54:52What's that?
00:55:22Let me out of here, do you hear?
00:55:27Let me out of here!
00:55:31Someone block this door!
00:55:40What on earth's all this monkey business?
00:55:42I didn't lock you in.
00:55:43Well, doors don't lock themselves.
00:55:44They do in this house.
00:55:45What are you doing down here, anywhere?
00:55:47I'm worried it's about Langford.
00:55:48Langford?
00:55:49Yes, he's got into his head that this is a Jap prison camp.
00:55:51He's got that filthy rope and he's bound and determined to go out the window.
00:55:54He can't do that.
00:55:55The Straud's men will shoot him.
00:55:57He may be out already.
00:55:58I'll head him off.
00:56:00Then again, he may not be.
00:56:02Perhaps you're right.
00:56:03Let me go.
00:56:04No, no, no.
00:56:05You'll be shot.
00:56:06I'll go.
00:56:07No, you'll be shot.
00:56:08Oh, really?
00:56:09Let's both go.
00:56:11I can't leave here.
00:56:14You stay where you are.
00:56:16I'll go and call the Straud.
00:56:21Remember, Clavering.
00:56:23Stay where you are.
00:56:32Here.
00:56:33Look here, Constable.
00:56:34I'm Dr. Watson.
00:56:35Are you now?
00:56:37Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.
00:56:40Come along to the inspector.
00:56:42Grosser partners.
00:56:43Useless.
00:56:44Quite useless.
00:56:45I'll show you.
00:56:49All the while.
00:56:51Come along.
00:57:08Useless.
00:57:09Quite useless, I assure you.
00:57:11I'll show you.
00:57:16There's nothing written on the floor.
00:57:19It was just a ruse of mine to bring Brunton's murderer here.
00:57:22Permit me.
00:57:23As the most ruthless killer in England,
00:57:25you deserve some of the light.
00:57:27Killer?
00:57:27I?
00:57:28Oh, I say, you seem to forget that my life was also attempted.
00:57:31And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.
00:57:34But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves
00:57:37with such a sure hand
00:57:39would have missed so badly in your case.
00:57:42Unless, of course,
00:57:44you yourself were the murderer.
00:57:46That's ridiculous.
00:57:48Then, too,
00:57:51it seemed curious that you were doctor,
00:57:54examined both bodies,
00:57:56and failed to report the real cause of death.
00:57:59And that was?
00:58:00A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain
00:58:03between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebra.
00:58:05I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle
00:58:08from Philip Musgrave's head.
00:58:10It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?
00:58:13I never owned one.
00:58:14Oh, yes, you did.
00:58:16I saw it in your case.
00:58:19The night I came into this house,
00:58:22just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.
00:58:26It wasn't broken then.
00:58:28It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave that you lost a piece of it.
00:58:30Oh, nonsense.
00:58:31Why should I go around sticking needles into people?
00:58:33A fair enough question, doctor.
00:58:36Among nice people,
00:58:37murder like matrimony generally has a motive.
00:58:40And in this case, the motive was matrimony.
00:58:43Oh, you mean Miss Sally?
00:58:44I do.
00:58:46Oh, I see.
00:58:46So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?
00:58:48Precisely.
00:58:50My dear Holmes, that won't do.
00:58:51The Musgrave is a land poor, but everybody knows that.
00:58:54Exactly.
00:58:55But everybody didn't know what you knew.
00:58:57You've worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:59:01I have?
00:59:02Oh, yes.
00:59:04You have.
00:59:06You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.
00:59:09When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,
00:59:12you promptly named King's Bishop Three,
00:59:14and what's more, moved back onto it.
00:59:16Oh, nonsense.
00:59:17Why should I have stepped out of my square the first place?
00:59:18Break up my moves, spoil my game,
00:59:20and prevent me from finding what you had already found.
00:59:23And that was?
00:59:24The old land grant I took from Miss Box,
00:59:27which would have made Sally Musgrave
00:59:28upon the death of her brothers,
00:59:30the richest woman in England.
00:59:35Now, what's that?
00:59:36Don't tell me you've found another needle.
00:59:41No, no.
00:59:42Just a button.
00:59:45Wouldn't be yours, would it?
00:59:47Mine?
00:59:49Give it to me.
00:59:59Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?
01:00:03No, not at all.
01:00:04As I see it, you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room,
01:00:08carried his body down through the secret passageway,
01:00:10out through the greenhouse, into the garage,
01:00:12where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.
01:00:15But unfortunately for you, you had a witness.
01:00:19Brunton was there, sleeping off his drunk,
01:00:23nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.
01:00:26Brunton became your accessory.
01:00:29But you didn't want an accessory.
01:00:31So you lured him down here with a promise
01:00:34to share the Musgrave treasure with him
01:00:37and exit Brunton.
01:00:39Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.
01:00:43You seem to have everything,
01:00:45except perhaps the negligible item of proof.
01:00:48Suppose we leave that to the jury.
01:00:50Suppose we do.
01:00:52Shall we go?
01:00:53After you.
01:00:55Oh, by the way, don't forget your torch.
01:00:59Oh, thanks.
01:01:04I don't suppose it occurred to you
01:01:06that you were taking a bit of a chance
01:01:08coming down here all alone with a suspected murderer.
01:01:12One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.
01:01:14You see, I couldn't possibly risk
01:01:15sharing my little plot with anybody.
01:01:17Not even with Dr. Watson.
01:01:19Particularly not with Dr. Watson.
01:01:21If he'd known what was up tonight,
01:01:22he'd have been so elaborately mysterious,
01:01:23he'd have given the whole show away.
01:01:25As a matter of fact, I had the devil's own time
01:01:26luring him away from that door upstairs
01:01:28so that we could be alone.
01:01:31That's all I wanted to know.
01:01:38that's the honor to be.
01:01:39That's all I want to know every one of you.
01:01:41Oops.
01:01:42And although I had the
01:02:05Stay where you are.
01:02:06I'm afraid I have no choice, Dr. Sexton.
01:02:20Look here.
01:02:23You're not really going to kill me, are you?
01:02:27They'll hear you.
01:02:28Who will?
01:02:30That was a bad slip you made letting me know you were dead.
01:02:34And you're really going to kill me.
01:02:37I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:41But as you said, I've no evidence against you.
01:02:45No proof, no proof at all.
01:02:47You forget the needle and the button.
01:02:50Bring them here, please.
01:03:04Not too close.
01:03:14Now put them in my pocket.
01:03:21Curious about that button.
01:03:23It is off my coat, of course.
01:03:25Can't think how I never missed it.
01:03:27Poor old Brunton.
01:03:29He didn't struggle much.
01:03:31Now Phil Musgrave was different.
01:03:34The needle broke off and I didn't have time to probe for it.
01:03:37But you've got both of them now.
01:03:39The button and the needle.
01:03:40Why kill me?
01:03:42Now step back.
01:03:43Just a bit.
01:03:48Against the wall.
01:03:50Now if you stand perfectly still, I think I can manage this with one shot.
01:04:20Put him up.
01:04:27Did you hear his confession, Watson?
01:04:29Every word, Holmes.
01:04:30And I heard all the rest, sir.
01:04:32Good.
01:04:33Let me congratulate you on an extraordinary catch.
01:04:36That's right, Mr. Holmes.
01:04:37It's no good saying, it ain't.
01:04:38I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes.
01:04:40Pity.
01:04:41Yes.
01:04:42Those blank cartridges were a cheap sort of trick, I grant you.
01:04:45But it wasn't easy to let you take my gun away from me without seeming to hand it to you.
01:04:49No.
01:04:50That's why I let you take the torch first.
01:04:52I knew you'd snap it off.
01:04:53Yes, we told you we were taking an awful risk.
01:04:55Well, we had to have a confession.
01:04:57And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty when they feel they have the upper hand.
01:05:01Shall we go?
01:05:05I can't make head nor tail of it.
01:05:07Can you pass?
01:05:08Well, it looks like an old land grant.
01:05:10It's really a crown grant.
01:05:12What I don't understand is why the Musgraves didn't claim the land ages ago.
01:05:16Obviously, Watson, one of them died before passing on the meaning of the ritual to his heir.
01:05:20The words remained but the sense was lost.
01:05:22I wonder why he left the grant down there where he found it.
01:05:25What good would it have done him?
01:05:26So long as your brothers lived.
01:05:28Once they were out of the way and you came into the property, he expected to marry you.
01:05:31I like that.
01:05:32Whatever made him think...
01:05:33He thought himself irresistible.
01:05:35Precisely.
01:05:36It's not unheard of in cases of egomania.
01:05:38I suppose then he meant to rediscover the crown grant.
01:05:40At the proper time, yes.
01:05:42And then enjoy his wife's millions.
01:05:44Did you say millions?
01:05:45I did.
01:05:46Look here.
01:05:52About 80,000 acres of the richest soil in England.
01:05:55But aren't there people on it?
01:05:56Yes.
01:05:57Farms, villages, even a factory town.
01:05:59With hundreds of workman's cottages.
01:06:00Is this thing legal?
01:06:01Perfectly.
01:06:02Of course, it'll drag on through the courts.
01:06:03Just a moment.
01:06:04The people on this land.
01:06:06They put their money into it.
01:06:08Their life work.
01:06:09It's their homes I'll be taking.
01:06:11Yes.
01:06:12Do you think I'm going to kick these people out?
01:06:29Just the same, Holmes, you let poor little Sally throw away a fortune.
01:06:32My dear fellow, I had nothing to do with it.
01:06:34The girl, more power to her, acted on her own.
01:06:37A grand gesture of one she may regret.
01:06:40I don't think so, Watson.
01:06:42There's a new spirit abroad in the land.
01:06:45The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.
01:06:49We're beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow.
01:06:52Not just what we're compelled to give him.
01:06:54The time's coming, Watson,
01:06:56When we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort while other folk go hungry.
01:07:01Or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold.
01:07:05When we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessings before our shining altars.
01:07:11While men anywhere are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.
01:07:17You may be right, Holmes.
01:07:19I hope you are.
01:07:21And God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.
01:07:24I'll be right back to her, Watson.
01:07:26All right.
01:07:27.
01:07:42THE END
01:08:12THE END
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