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The Second Stain: Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Harry Andrews.
The Second Stain: Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Harry Andrews.
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00:00David Stern
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00One Tuesday morning in autumn at precisely half past eight, Sherlock Holmes received a mysterious message that two men of great public distinction would be visiting Baker Street in their private capacity and under circumstances of complete secrecy.
01:30Oh, my God.
01:59Holmes, they're here.
02:10Oh, my God.
02:17Oh, my God.
02:19Oh, my God.
02:21Oh, my God.
02:28Oh, my God.
02:30Oh, my God.
02:37Oh, my God.
02:44Oh, my God.
02:51Oh, my God.
02:52Oh, my God.
02:53Oh, my God.
02:54Oh, my God.
02:55Oh, my God.
02:56Oh, my God.
02:57Oh, my God.
02:58Oh, my God.
02:59Oh, my God.
03:00Oh, my God.
03:01Oh, my God.
03:02Oh, my God.
03:03Oh, my God.
03:04Oh, my God.
03:05Oh, my God.
03:06Oh, my God.
03:07Oh, my God.
03:08Oh, my God.
03:09Oh, my God.
03:10To inform the police must, in the long run, mean to inform the public.
03:15And that is what we particularly desire to avoid.
03:18And why, sir?
03:20Because the document in question is of such immense importance
03:24that his publication might very easily, I might almost say probably,
03:28lead to European complications of the utmost moment.
03:33Unless its recovery is attended by the utmost secrecy,
03:37then it may as well not be recovered at all.
03:39For all that is aimed at by those who have taken it
03:42is that its contents should be generally known.
03:48I understand.
03:52Watson, do sit down.
03:58Now, Mr Trelawney Hope,
04:01I would be much obliged if you would tell me the exact circumstances
04:05under which this document disappeared.
04:08As Secretary of State for European Affairs,
04:11I received the letter six days ago.
04:13It was a letter from a foreign potentate, you understand.
04:17It was of such importance that I never left it in my safe,
04:20but I have taken it each evening from my office
04:22back to my house in Whitehall Terrace
04:24and kept it in my bedroom, locked in my dispatch box.
04:27And you are sure that it was there last night?
04:29Yes, I'm quite certain of that fact.
04:30I actually opened the dispatch box whilst I was dressing for dinner
04:33and I saw the letter inside.
04:35It then remained upon my bedside table.
04:38Both my wife and I are light sleepers
04:40and are prepared to swear that no one could have entered the room during the night
04:43and yet this morning the paper is gone.
04:46What time did you die?
04:527.30.
04:53How long was it before you went to bed?
04:55My wife had gone to the theatre.
04:57I had waited up for her.
04:58It was 11.30 before we went to our room.
05:02So, for four hours,
05:04the dispatch box had lain unguarded.
05:07Mr Holmes, no one is ever permitted to enter that room
05:09save the housemaid in the morning
05:10and my valet during the rest of the day.
05:12They are both trusty servants
05:14who have been with us for many years.
05:17Besides,
05:18neither of them could have possibly known
05:20that there was anything more valuable
05:21than the ordinary departmental papers in my box.
05:24Surely your wife knew?
05:25Mr Holmes,
05:27I have long known how high is Mr Hope's sense of public duty.
05:31I'm convinced that in a case of this importance
05:33it would rise superior to the most intimate domestic ties.
05:37You do me no more than justice, Prime Minister.
05:41Until this morning,
05:42I have never breathed one word to my wife upon this matter.
05:46Well, who is that in England
05:47who did know the existence of this letter?
05:50Each member of the Cabinet was informed of it yesterday,
05:52but the pledge of secrecy
05:54which attends every Cabinet meeting
05:55was increased by the solemn warning
05:57given by the Prime Minister.
05:59My God!
06:01To think that within a few hours,
06:03I myself should have lost it.
06:07Besides the members of the Cabinet,
06:11there are two, possibly three,
06:13departmental officials who know of the letter.
06:15No one else in England, I assure you.
06:18But abroad?
06:19I believe that no one abroad has seen the letter
06:22except the man who wrote it.
06:23I am well convinced that his ministers,
06:25that the usual official channels,
06:27have not been employed in this case.
06:29Now, sir, I must ask you more particularly
06:35what this document is
06:36and why its disappearance
06:39should have such momentous consequences.
06:41Mr. Holmes,
06:43the envelope is a long, thin one
06:45of pale blue colour.
06:46There is a seal of red wax
06:48stamped with a crouching line.
06:50It is addressed in large, bold handwriting.
06:53Interesting and indeed essential
06:55as these details are,
06:57my enquiries must go more
06:58to the root of things.
07:01What was the letter?
07:03That is a state secret
07:04of the utmost importance
07:06which we cannot tell you,
07:07nor do I see that it is necessary.
07:10If by the powers
07:11which you are set to possess
07:12you can find such an envelope
07:14as I've described
07:15with its enclosure,
07:16then you will have deserved
07:18well of your country
07:19and earned any reward
07:21which it is within our power
07:23to bestow.
07:25gentlemen,
07:30you are two of the most
07:32busy men in the country
07:34and in my own small way
07:37I have a good many calls upon me.
07:41I regret exceedingly
07:42that I am unable to help you
07:44in this matter
07:45and any continuation
07:46of this interview
07:48would be a waste of time.
07:52I am not accustomed,
07:54sir, to say.
07:54Mr. Holmes,
08:11we must accept your terms.
08:15no doubt you are right
08:17and it is unreasonable
08:19for us to expect you to act
08:20unless we have our full confidence.
08:23I agree with you,
08:24Prime Minister.
08:25Then I will tell you.
08:27Relying entirely
08:28upon your honor
08:29and that of your colleague,
08:31Dr. Watson,
08:32I must appeal
08:33to your patriotism also
08:35for I cannot imagine
08:37a greater misfortune
08:38for this country
08:39than that this affair
08:41should come out.
08:43You will safely trust us.
08:44The letter then is from
09:00a certain foreign potentate
09:02who has been ruffled
09:04by some recent colonial developments
09:07of this country.
09:08It is written hurriedly
09:09and upon his own responsibility entirely.
09:12At the same time,
09:14it is couched
09:14in so unfortunate a manner
09:16that this publication
09:17would undoubtedly lead
09:19to the most dangerous feeling
09:20in this country.
09:22There would be such firm answer
09:23that I do not hesitate to say
09:26that within a week
09:27of the publication of this letter,
09:29this country would be involved
09:31in a great war.
09:32And it is this letter
09:34which may well mean
09:35the expenditure
09:36of a thousand million pounds
09:38and the lives
09:42of a hundred thousand men.
09:43Have you informed the sender?
09:54A cipher telegraph
09:55has been dispatched.
09:59Perhaps he desires
10:01the publication of the letter.
10:03No, doctor.
10:03We have strong reason
10:04to believe
10:05that he already understands
10:06that he has acted
10:08in an indiscreet
10:09and hot-headed manner.
10:10It would be a far greater blow
10:11to him and his country
10:12than to us
10:13if this letter were to come out.
10:16This is so.
10:17In whose interest is it
10:18that the letter should come out?
10:19Why should anyone desire
10:21to steal it
10:21and to publish it?
10:23And there, Dr. Watson,
10:24you take me into the realms
10:25of high international politics.
10:29But if you consider
10:30the European situation,
10:32you'll have no difficulty
10:34in perceiving the motive.
10:35The whole of Europe
10:36is an armed camp.
10:38Great Britain holds the scales.
10:40If Britain were driven
10:41into war
10:42with one confederacy,
10:44it would assure
10:45the supremacy
10:46of the other,
10:48whether they were joined
10:49in the war or not.
10:51So it is the enemies
10:52of this potentate
10:53who want to secure
10:54and publish this letter
10:56so as to make a breach
10:57between his country
10:58and ours?
10:59Yes, sir.
11:00And to whom
11:00would the document be sent
11:02if it fell into the wrong hands?
11:04To any of the great
11:04chancellers of Europe.
11:07It is probably speeding
11:08its way thither at this present instant
11:10as fast as steam can take it.
11:13It is your misfortune,
11:14my dear fellow.
11:15No one can blame you.
11:18There's no precaution
11:19which you've neglected.
11:22But now, Mr. Holmes,
11:23you are in full possession
11:25of the facts.
11:27What cost do you recommend?
11:29Do you think that if this document
11:33is not recovered,
11:35there will be war?
11:37I think it is very probable.
11:41Then, sir, prepare for war.
11:44That is a hard saying, Mr. Holmes.
11:47Consider the facts.
11:49There seems no doubt
11:50this document was taken
11:51between half past seven
11:52and half past eleven
11:53yesterday evening.
11:55So where can it be?
11:55No one has any reason
11:59to retain it.
12:01It has been passed
12:01from hand to hand
12:03rapidly
12:03to those who need it
12:06and who will pay
12:07well for it.
12:08What chance
12:09do we have
12:10to overtake it
12:11or even trace it?
12:11It is beyond our reach.
12:20What you say
12:21is perfectly logical,
12:22Mr. Holmes.
12:23I feel
12:23that the matter
12:24is indeed
12:25out of our hands.
12:27Meanwhile,
12:28hope
12:28we cannot ignore
12:30all our other duties
12:32on account
12:32of this one
12:33misfortune.
12:39Then,
12:40should there be
12:41any fresh developments
12:42during the day,
12:43we will communicate
12:44with you
12:45and you no doubt
12:46will let us know
12:47the results
12:47of your own inquiries.
12:50Telegraph!
13:07Westminster murder!
13:08Westminster Murder, Telegram, Westminster Murder, Telegram
13:38The situation is desperate, but not hopeless.
13:47There are only three men capable of playing so bold a game,
13:51Oberstein, La Raffiere and Eduardo Lucas.
13:54Even now, if we could be sure which one of them has taken it,
13:58it is just possible that it does not pass out of their hands.
14:02It's a question of money with these fellows, isn't it?
14:05We have the British Treasury behind us.
14:07Oh, if it's on the market, I'll buy it.
14:10If it means another penny on the income tax.
14:12Come in.
14:14Excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
14:16Mrs. Hudson, what is it?
14:20Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope.
14:24Show her in.
14:31Has my husband been here, Mr. Holmes?
14:34Yes, he has been here.
14:36Mr. Holmes, I implore you not to tell him I came here.
14:41Your Lady, she puts me in a very delicate position.
14:43I beg of you to sit down and tell her what it is you desire.
14:46But I cannot make you any unconditional promise.
14:52Gentlemen, I will speak frankly to you in the hope that it will induce you to speak frankly in return.
14:57There is complete confidence between my husband and myself in all matters except one.
15:12That one is politics.
15:13On this his lips are sealed.
15:15He tells me nothing.
15:17Now, I am aware that there was a most deplorable occurrence in our house last night.
15:23I know that a paper has disappeared.
15:25But because the matter is political, my husband refuses to take me into his complete confidence.
15:30Now, it is essential, essential, I say, that I should thoroughly understand it.
15:37You are the only people, save these politicians, who know the true facts.
15:41At least I presume you do.
15:43You presume correctly, madam.
15:46I beg you then, tell me exactly what has happened and what it may lead to.
15:51Tell me all, Mr. Holmes.
15:55Let no regard for my husband's interests keep you silent.
15:58For I assure you that his interests, if you would only see it,
16:02will be best served by taking me into his complete confidence.
16:06What was this paper which was stolen?
16:10Madam, what you ask me is really impossible.
16:13You must see that this is so.
16:15I mean, if your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark over this matter,
16:22is it for me, who has only learned the true facts under the pledge of professional secrecy,
16:26to tell what he has withheld?
16:30Is it not unfair to ask it?
16:33It is he who you must ask.
16:34I have asked him.
16:36I come to you as a last resource.
16:38But without you telling me anything definite,
16:43you may do me a great service if you would enlighten me on one point.
16:47What is it, madam?
16:52Is my husband's political career likely to suffer through this incident?
17:01Well, let me say that if it is not put right, it may have a very unfortunate effect.
17:04Oh.
17:05Mm.
17:13One more question, Mr. Holmes.
17:16From an expression which my husband dropped in the first shock of the disaster,
17:21I understood the terrible public consequences might arise from the loss of this document.
17:26If you said so, I cannot deny it.
17:28Of what nature are they?
17:30There again, you ask me more than I can possibly answer.
17:33Hmm.
17:36Then I will waste no more of your time.
17:41I cannot blame you, Mr. Holmes, for refusing to speak more freely.
17:46And you on your side will not, I'm sure, think the worst of me,
17:49because I desire to share my husband's anxieties.
17:51Even against his will.
18:01Once more, I beg, you will say nothing of my visit.
18:05I say, what a really remarkable and beautiful woman.
18:16Hmm.
18:18The fair sex is your department, Watson.
18:21What did she really want?
18:23Surely her own statement was clear and her anxiety very natural.
18:27Think of her appearance, Watson.
18:28Her manner, her suppressed excitement, her restlessness, her tenacity in asking questions.
18:33Remember, she is the youngest daughter of the Duke of Belminster
18:36and comes of a cast that does not lightly show emotion.
18:39She was certainly much moved.
18:41And you observed, of course, how she maneuvered to have her back to the light.
18:46She did not wish us to read her expression too closely.
18:50Yes, she chose that chair in the whole room.
18:52And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable.
18:53I mean, how could you build on such a quicksand?
18:58Their most trivial action may mean volumes
19:00or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
19:06Yeah.
19:07Good morning, Watson.
19:08You off then.
19:16Holmes!
19:17Was one of the agents you spoke of called Eduardo Lucas?
19:20Yes.
19:21Of Godolphin Street.
19:23Yes?
19:26You'll not see him.
19:28Why not?
19:29He was murdered in his house last night.
19:33Heavens.
19:40Does it say murdered?
19:41Murder in Westminster.
19:42Crime of a mysterious character.
19:44Eduardo Lucas, unmarried, 34.
19:47Well known in society circles on account of his charming personality.
19:50Valet out for the evening.
19:51They always are.
19:52Elderly housekeeper sleeps at the top of the house.
19:53Heard nothing.
19:54They never do.
19:55Just before midnight, police constable Barrett saw a door ajar, found Lucas's womb in disorder.
19:59Lucas stabbed to the heart.
20:01Ah, let me see.
20:02Russian military dagger.
20:03Robbery does not appear to be the motive.
20:04Valuable collection untouched.
20:05What do you make of this, Watson?
20:06What do you make of this, Watson?
20:07It's an amazing coincidence.
20:08Coincidence?
20:09Coincidence?
20:10Coincidence?
20:11Here is one of the three men we have named as possible actors in this drama.
20:13And it meets a violent end during the very hours we know that drama is enacted.
20:16The odds are enormously against it being a coincidence.
20:17The two events are connected.
20:18The two events are connected.
20:19Must be connected.
20:20Ah, it is for us to find the connection.
20:21But, by now, the police must know all.
20:22No, not at all.
20:23They know all they see at Godolphin Street.
20:24They know and shall know all they see on Codolphin Street.
20:25They know and shall know that.
20:26Just like the scene.
20:27The scene is coming from A House, the scene is happening.
20:28So, who just happens to be a villain?
20:29No, no.
20:30No, no.
20:31Well, don't be at all.
20:32Well, that's all the case.
20:34If I know a class, I'll tell my child to me.
20:35You guys will find the same thing.
20:36The most part of my Puppy phone is the same thing.
20:37Not exactly the same thing.
20:38Here is one of the three men we have named as possible actors in this drama.
20:41And he meets a violent end during the very hours we know that drama is enacted.
20:44By now the police must know all. No, not at all. They know all they see at
20:49Godolphin Street. They know and shall know nothing at Whitehall Terrace. Only we
20:54know of both events and can trace the relation between them. It is with the
20:59late Eduardo Lucas that the solution to our problem lies. But it is a capital
21:07mistake to theorize in advance of the facts. Do you stay here, my good Watson? I
21:12will join you when I am able.
21:42So
21:52so
22:00Oh, my God.
22:30Watson, they've arrested the valet.
22:38The stade has been put in charge of the case.
22:40He's buzzing around like a bluebottle.
22:42I've got to know him rather well.
22:43Would it help if I spoke to him?
22:44No, no, it would not.
22:46This is a case where the law is as dangerous to us as the criminals are.
22:50We must be patient and wait.
22:51Oh, my God.
23:21Oh, my God.
23:51Oh, my God.
23:53Oh, my God.
23:59Oh, my God.
24:01Oh, my God.
24:03Breakfast, Mr. Holmes.
24:18No, no, no, thank you, Mrs. Hartson.
24:20I don't want to.
24:20I don't know.
24:21You'll fade away at this rate.
24:23I say, Holmes, they've found the murderer.
24:26Or rather, murderess.
24:28Indeed.
24:28There's a wife from Paris.
24:30Apparently, Lucas was leading a double life.
24:32He had a creole wife in France where he called himself Henri Fournay.
24:37The woman was reported to the police yesterday by her servants.
24:40She is quite insane.
24:41A mania of a dangerous and permanent form.
24:44Poor woman.
24:45But listen to this.
24:46The same woman was seen in the neighborhood of Godolphin Street on the night of the murder
24:51and later made an emotional scene at Charing Cross Station.
24:54What do you think of that?
24:56Oh, my dear Watson, you are so long-suffering.
24:59If I've told you nothing over these last few days,
25:00it's because there is nothing to tell.
25:03Even now, this report from Paris doesn't help us much.
25:06Well, surely it's final as regards Lucas's death.
25:10The man's death is a mere incident.
25:12A trivial episode in comparison with our real task,
25:15which is to trace the document and save a European catastrophe.
25:18Now, if the letter were loose.
25:24No, it cannot be loose.
25:27But if it isn't loose, where can it be?
25:30Who has it?
25:31Why is it held back?
25:32Well, if Lestrade found it amongst Lucas's papers,
25:35he's not such a fool as to announce it.
25:37He would inform the chief commissioner.
25:41The chief commissioner would inform the home secretary,
25:43and he, in turn, the prime minister.
25:45No, it's not among Lucas's papers.
25:49But why is it held back?
25:52That is the question which beats in my brain like a hammer.
25:56Was it a mere coincidence
26:00that Lucas should meet his death
26:02on the night when the letter disappeared?
26:05Did it ever reach him?
26:07Has this mad wife of his taken it with her to Paris?
26:10If so, is it in her house in Paris?
26:14Should I go to Paris?
26:16That would alert the French police.
26:18Now, every man's hand is against us.
26:21And yet...
26:26the interests at stake are colossal.
26:32You know, should I bring this to a successful conclusion,
26:36it will certainly represent the crowning glory of my career.
26:41Holmes!
26:42Go!
27:12There you go, Gubb.
27:14Pow, pow.
27:16Mr Holmes!
27:18Dr Watson!
27:19Pow, pow.
27:19Pow, pow.
27:26You've, uh...
27:27You've no doubt been following the Lucas case?
27:30Lucas?
27:31Lucas.
27:32Ah, yes, the name does seem familiar to me.
27:35Lady Wardo Lucas.
27:37Found murdered last Tuesday night at his house in Godolphin Street.
27:40Rather a distinguished gentleman.
27:42Student of international politics
27:43and a remarkable linguist, sir, they say.
27:46I've been in charge of the case, matter of fact.
27:49Not an easy task by any means.
27:51Some, uh...
27:52Some delicate problems, you understand.
27:55But, with the aid of our French friends,
27:57I've been able to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion.
28:00All the loose ends tied up.
28:02Oh, we've got it.
28:03Clear as if we'd seen it.
28:05Congratulations, Mr Strait.
28:06Another feather in your cap.
28:08Yes.
28:08Yes.
28:08Oh, um, before you go, Mr. Holmes,
28:14uh, it's a mere trifle,
28:16but the sort of thing you've taken interest in.
28:18Queer, you know,
28:19and what you might call freakish.
28:21It has nothing to do with the main fact.
28:23Can't have on the face of it.
28:24What is it, then?
28:26Well, if you gentlemen could come down to Godolphin Street,
28:29I think I could explain it better on the spot.
28:32For a few minutes, perhaps?
28:34Oh, good.
28:34It's only just round the corner.
28:36Uh,
28:37thank you, cabbie.
28:39Uh,
28:40keep the chain.
28:42Well, well.
29:03Here it all is.
29:04Now, the woman must have knocked on the door
29:07after she saw the valet had gone out.
29:10Surprised visit, no doubt.
29:12Uh, Lucas let her in.
29:13Well, he couldn't keep her on the street,
29:15could he, his own wife?
29:17She was probably screaming at him being French.
29:18Excuse me.
29:19Saying, uh,
29:20how she'd traced him and, uh,
29:22oh,
29:23reproaching him and so on.
29:24Anyway, they came in here
29:25and one thing led to another.
29:28And, uh,
29:29with the daggers being so handy,
29:31the end came soon.
29:33It didn't happen in an instant, though,
29:35for these chairs were swept over to the wall
29:38and he had this one in his hand
29:39as if he'd been trying to hold her off with it.
29:42Yes, restrained.
29:44Now, tell me about this trifle.
29:47Well, you know,
29:48in crimes of this sort,
29:49we keep things in their position.
29:51Nothing is moved.
29:52Officers in charge day and night.
29:53I'm always very particular on that point.
29:55Oh, yes,
29:56you're meticulous in your investigations, Inspector.
29:58Well, this morning,
29:59we thought we could tidy up a bit.
30:01Post-mortem over,
30:02all the evidence to hand,
30:03investigation complete.
30:06However,
30:08this carpet.
30:09As you can see,
30:10it's, um,
30:11not been fastened down,
30:12it's just been laid there.
30:13Now,
30:14we had occasion to raise it.
30:17And we found...
30:20Yes.
30:21You'll never guess in a hundred years
30:24what we did find, Mr. Holmes.
30:26Now, you see this stain,
30:28and a good deal of blood
30:29must have soaked through,
30:30must it not?
30:31Oh, undoubtedly it must.
30:33Then you'll be surprised to hear
30:35that there is no stain on the woodwork
30:39to correspond.
30:42No stain?
30:43But there must be.
30:47So you would say.
30:49Fact remains.
30:52There is...
30:53But the underside is as stained as the upper.
31:01It must have left a mark.
31:03Now I will show you the explanation.
31:08There is a second stain,
31:10but it does not correspond
31:11with this one.
31:14Dr. Watson,
31:15will you take that side of the carpet?
31:19Now we will move round
31:21in an anti-clockwise direction.
31:24What I want to know
31:31is, Mr. Holmes,
31:33who shifted the carpet
31:35and why.
31:37Lestrade,
31:55who was on duty
31:55the day after the murder?
31:57Uh,
31:58the day after.
32:00McPherson.
32:02He's out there now.
32:03Take my advice.
32:04Examine him carefully.
32:05I'll get him.
32:06Don't do it before us.
32:09We'll wait here.
32:13Tell him you know
32:14someone has been here.
32:16Press him.
32:17Tell him a full confession
32:18is his only chance of forgiveness.
32:20Do exactly as I tell you.
32:21But, George,
32:22if he knows,
32:23I'll have it out of him.
32:28What's great at the table?
32:36Come on.
32:57Come on.
32:57All my years in the force.
33:21And another thing.
33:22In here, constable.
33:35McPherson.
33:36How's the family?
33:38Very well.
33:39Thank you, sir.
33:40Well, come on out with it.
33:41Let these gentlemen hear
33:42of your inexcusable conduct.
33:45Well, I meant no harm, sir,
33:46I'm sure.
33:47This young woman came to the door
33:49answering an advertisement
33:50about typewriting.
33:52It was from Stook,
33:53the house, she said.
33:54Well, we got talking, sir.
33:55You know how it is.
33:57It's a bit lonely
33:58when you're out there
33:58on duty all day.
33:59Hmm.
34:01What happened, McPherson?
34:03Well, sir,
34:04we got talking about the crime.
34:06She had read about it
34:06in the paper, she said,
34:08and wanted to see
34:09what it was done,
34:10so I saw no harm
34:11in letting her have
34:12a wee keek.
34:13She got just about
34:14in the door there,
34:15spotted that mark
34:16in the carpet,
34:17and down she dropped
34:18on the floor
34:18and lay for dead.
34:19No wonder.
34:23Go on, McPherson.
34:25Well, sir,
34:26I was away around
34:26at the ivy plant
34:27for some brandy,
34:28and by the time
34:28I had brought it back,
34:30the young woman had...
34:32Well, she wasn't here anymore.
34:34She had recovered
34:34and was off.
34:38Well, ashamed of herself
34:38as luck is not
34:39and dared to not face me.
34:47McPherson,
34:48did you move the carpet?
34:51No, sir,
34:52I only straightened it out.
34:53You see, she'd fell on it,
34:55and the polished floor
34:55being slippery.
34:56Let that be a lesson
34:57to you, constable,
34:58that you can't deceive me.
35:00No doubt you thought
35:01your breach of duty
35:02would never be discovered.
35:03Yet a mere glance
35:04at that carpet
35:05was enough to convince me
35:06that someone had been
35:07admitted to this room.
35:09Lucky for you, my man,
35:10that nothing's missing.
35:11Otherwise,
35:11you'd find yourself
35:12in Queer Street.
35:14Adaloo.
35:18Watson,
35:18what are we doing here?
35:19We have work elsewhere.
35:21Not a feather in your cap,
35:22Miss Ray.
35:23Oh, thank you,
35:24Mr. Holmes.
35:35Good Lord,
35:36Mr. Holmes.
35:37Hey!
35:42Have you solved it?
35:43Hardly, Watson,
35:44hardly.
35:45Hardly.
35:45I was.
35:47Hardly.
35:48Hardly.
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35:51$15,000.
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36:05Power LV.
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36:07lli
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36:08$14,000,
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36:10$20,000.
36:11There salon
36:13two gentlemen wish to speak to you milady they do not have an appointment who
36:30are they Bates mr. Sherlock Holmes and a dr. Watson milady
36:38very well you may show them in very well my lady excuse mr. Holmes and dr. Watson milady
36:53mr. Holmes this is surely most unfair and ungenerous on your part I have desired as I
37:04have explained to keep my visit to you a secret and yet you compromise me by coming here and so
37:08showing there are business relations between us unfortunately madam I have no possible alternative
37:13I've been commissioned to recover an immensely important document I must ask you therefore to
37:21be kind enough to place it in my hands you insult me mr. Holmes do not ring lady Hilda if you work
37:33with me I can arrange everything if you work against me I must expose you you're trying to
37:43frighten me it's not a very manly thing mr. Holmes to come here and browbeat a woman you say you have
37:54something to tell me very well I give you five minutes but one is enough I know of your visit
38:01to Eduardo Lucas I've been giving him this letter of your ingenious return to the room on the evening
38:06after the murder under the manner in which you took this letter from his hiding place under the
38:11carpet I have kept this because I thought it might be useful
38:17the policeman recognized you
38:27once again mr. Holmes I tell you you're under some absurd illusion
38:36oh I am so sorry lady Hilda I have done my best
38:41but I see that I'm in vain
38:44is mr. Trelawney hope at home you'll be back at half past twelve sir
38:53then we have a quarter of an hour we will wait here
39:03chance to work for you
39:17to be able to find out what I'm gonna do
39:19to be able to find out what I'm gonna do
39:23if I'm gonna try and try and try to find out where I am
39:26oh spare me mr holmes spare me for heaven's sake don't tell him i love him so i would not bring
39:43one shadow on his life and this i know would break his noble heart we have not an instant
39:47to lose where is the letter here it is wish to heaven i'd never seen it and the dispatch box
40:01with my husband wherever he goes he takes it with him we have only a few minutes left
40:07no lady helder i'm going far to screen you
40:11in return we will spend the time telling me frankly the real meaning of this extraordinary
40:26affair
40:26it was on the afternoon of that day that terrible day
40:38the day eduardo lucas was murdered yes i was just going out to pay some calls when a confidential
40:45note arrived for me it was from lucas asking me to visit him urgently as he had important and
40:52private information for my ears alone
40:55here we have to do it
40:59so
41:01let's see
41:02He had obtained, in some way,
41:30a letter of mine, Mr. Holmes.
41:34An indiscreet letter, written before my marriage.
41:38Foolish letter, the letter of an impulsive, loving girl.
41:42I meant no harm,
41:43yet my husband would have thought it criminal.
41:47Had he read that letter,
41:48his confidence would have been forever destroyed.
41:51It's years since I wrote it,
41:52I thought the whole matter was forgotten.
41:53No doubt you remember the content very well.
42:04Very sprightly, I must say.
42:06Very sprightly.
42:07You make a charming correspondence.
42:08What do you want with me, Mr. Lucas?
42:11May I have my letter back, please?
42:13Of course you may, Lady Hilda.
42:16But this is a very valuable piece of paper.
42:19Would you not agree?
42:20I'm sure if it was laid before your husband,
42:23he would hardly fail to appreciate the contents.
42:27You're a blackmailer.
42:28A businessman, Lady Hilda.
42:30This is purely a business transaction on my side.
42:33I can assure you I wish no ill to you or your husband.
42:37How much money do you want for that letter, Mr. Lucas?
42:41Let's not speak of money, madam.
42:43My business is not so simple as that.
42:46Well, the matter is an easy one.
43:06Every evening, when your husband returns from his ministry,
43:11he brings with him his private dispatch box.
43:14Is that not so?
43:17Yes.
43:19When he comes home tonight,
43:21this box will contain a long blue envelope
43:24sealed in red wax
43:25with a crouching lion stamped on it.
43:29Bring me that long blue envelope
43:31with its contents.
43:34And I will return you this.
43:36But my husband...
43:39No harm will come to him, I can assure you.
43:41Put yourselves in my position.
43:45What was I to do?
43:48Take your husband into your confidence.
43:50I could not, Dr. Watson.
43:53I could not.
43:55On the one side seemed certain ruin.
43:58On the other,
44:00terrible as it seemed to take my husband's paper,
44:02in a matter of politics,
44:03I could not understand it.
44:05while in a matter of love and trust,
44:07it was only too clear to me.
44:15I did it, Mr. Holmes.
44:17I did it.
44:19I invented a story about going to the theatre.
44:21I did it.
44:36I could not.
44:37I did it.
44:38VIOLIN PLAYS
45:08VIOLIN PLAYS
45:38VIOLIN PLAYS
46:08VIOLIN PLAYS
46:26Je l'étais sûre !
46:28Je le savais !
46:29Alors c'est toi, sa nouvelle petite poudre !
46:31Marianne, what are you doing here?
46:33Marianne, you know you're not going to leave the hospital.
46:35Stop! I'm his wife!
46:36Marianne, that's enough!
46:38Don't touch me! Don't touch me!
46:41Are you going to stop?
46:42No, you're a bitch!
46:46I have enough! You hear me?
46:48I didn't give it!
46:49I have!
46:56The next morning, I realized I'd only exchanged one trouble for another.
47:00I followed my husband to Baker Street and then came to you myself in order to understand the full enormity of the offense.
47:07I alone in the world knew where the paper was hidden.
47:10My whole mind was turned to the one thought of getting it back.
47:15What I did...
47:17Here he is now.
47:20Any news, Mr. Holmes? Any news?
47:21I have some hopes!
47:25This is a matter of politics, my dear. We shall not be long.
47:30The Prime Minister is lunching with us. May he share your hopes?
47:37He has nerves of steel and yet I know that he's hardly slept since this terrible event.
47:42Mr. Holmes has some news for us, sir.
47:45Ah!
47:46What have you to report, Mr. Holmes?
47:48Purely negative as yet.
47:51I've made inquiries at every point where it might be and I'm sure there's no danger to be apprehended.
47:56That's not enough, Mr. Holmes.
47:59We cannot live on this volcano. We must have something definite.
48:03I have high hopes of getting the letter back. That is why I'm here.
48:09The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the letter has never left this house.
48:13Really, Mr. Holmes?
48:14But why should anybody take it in order to keep it in this house?
48:17I'm not convinced that anybody has taken it.
48:19Holmes, this joking is very ill-timed. You have my assurance it was taken.
48:25Have you examined the box carefully since last Tuesday morning?
48:28No, not thoroughly. I did not consider it necessary.
48:32You could conceivably have overlooked the letter.
48:35That is impossible, sir.
48:36I have heard such things happening.
48:38You have other papers in the...
48:39Yes, all my confidential papers.
48:41It could have got mixed with that.
48:42It was on the top.
48:43The box could have been shaken.
48:44I had everything out.
48:45It's easily settled.
48:47Let's go and look.
48:50This is a farcical waste of time.
48:54Still, if nothing else will satisfy you, it shall be done.
48:58Here you are. All my confidential papers, as you can see.
49:11It's a letter from Lord Merrow.
49:14Report from Sir Charles Hardy.
49:16Memorandum from Belgrade.
49:17That's the one we were discussing this morning, Prime Minister.
49:20Note on the Russo-German grain taxes.
49:23A letter from Madrid.
49:25A note from Lord Flowers.
49:28Yes, this is it.
49:49And the letter is intact.
49:51Remarkable.
49:53This is inconceivable.
49:55Impossible, Mr. Holmes.
49:57Hilda!
49:58How did you know it was here?
50:00Because I knew it was nowhere else.
50:04I cannot believe my eyes.
50:07Hilda, we have found the letter.
50:09Hilda, we have found the letter.
50:11I know it is difficult for you to understand, but it is the most wonderful news.
50:18It's quite extraordinary.
50:20I went through every paper in here.
50:22I checked and I rechecked.
50:24It's incomprehensible that I should have overlooked it in this manner.
50:27Oh, gentlemen.
50:40Come.
50:41There's more in this than meets the eye.
50:44Our Prime Minister, we too have our diplomatic secrets.
50:59It's the most wonderful news.
51:12What for?
51:13Oh.
51:14Yeah.
51:15It's wonderful.
51:16It makes me wonder.
51:17Yeah.
51:18It makes me wonder.
51:20It's wonderful.
51:22I know.
51:23Yeah.
51:24I know.
51:25It makes me wonder.
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