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Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor-it was she." Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke.
Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor-it was she." Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke.
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00:00To be continued...
02:00Draw up to the fire and warm your throne.
02:03I hope you've no designs upon us on such a night as this, Inspector.
02:06This is my brother, Mycroft.
02:08Maybe you've not met before?
02:10I'm sure I would have remembered.
02:12May I shake your hand, sir?
02:15What?
02:17Yes, if you must.
02:18Now, Mrs Hudson, there's a prescription.
02:22Containing hot water and a lemon.
02:25I'll bring some up for you, Inspector.
02:27It will help keep out the chill.
02:29Thank you, Mrs Hudson.
02:30Where is Dr Watson?
02:31Oh, in his surgery, this dreadful weather has produced a cue into the street, I'm told.
02:36Well, they're wasting their time.
02:38Watson's only cure for any ailment is a linus powder and a grated apple.
02:43Mr Holmes, you know you only say that because you miss the doctor.
02:47Oh!
02:50Cigar?
02:51No, no, thank you.
02:53It must be something important to bring you out in such a game.
02:56It is indeed.
02:57Did you see anything of the Yoxley case in the latest editions?
03:00I see nothing later than the 15th century today.
03:03We've been studying a 500-year-old palimpsest.
03:06Palimpsest?
03:07And now for the 15th century, you bring us news of the 20th.
03:13Well, it's only a paragraph and all wrong at that, so you've not missed anything.
03:17I'm relieved to hear it, Inspector.
03:19It's down in Kent, seven miles from Chatham and three from the railway line.
03:26Ah.
03:27I was wired for at 3.15, got to Chatham at 5, conducted my investigation,
03:33was back at Charing Cross by the last train, and straight to you by cab.
03:39Which means you're not quite certain of your case.
03:41It means I can make neither head nor tail of it.
03:44There's no motive, Mr Holmes.
03:48Motive, Inspector? What motive?
03:50The man is dead. There's no denying that.
03:53But I can see no reason between heaven and earth why anyone should wish him harm.
04:03Tell us about it.
04:11A few years ago, Yoxley Old Place was taken by an elderly man by the name of Professor Coram.
04:18He's an invalid, keeping his bed half the time,
04:21and the other half hobbling about the house on a stick,
04:23or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a bath jet.
04:26You're quite stupid, aren't you, Mordor?
04:29It doesn't take it easy. Be very careful.
04:31Be careful.
04:45Now, where's my secretary, Mrs Malkin?
04:50The professor is writing a learned book,
04:52and found it necessary about a year ago to take on a secretary,
04:56Mr Willoughby Smith, a young man straight from the university.
05:01And if one can accept the doctrines of monophasetism,
05:06then perforce one must also re-evaluate Christian theology.
05:13To suggest...
05:14To suggest...
05:19Or to argue...
05:21Which one of us is writing this book?
05:24You or me?
05:25You are, of course.
05:28To suggest...
05:29From the first, it appears that Smith was a quiet, well-educated fellow
05:33with hardly any weak spot in him at all.
05:35And yet this is the lad who met his death this morning in the professor's study
05:39under circumstances that can point only to murder.
05:46Murder?
05:47Willoughby Smith was murdered, you say, Inspector?
05:51Do go on.
05:52For your hot lemon drink, Inspector.
05:55Thank you, Mrs Hudson.
05:56A man without a single enemy in the world.
05:59Mrs Hudson, we are underfoot again.
06:01When you say hardly any weak spot, what exactly do you mean?
06:05We all have vices of some kind or another.
06:09Willoughby Smith has nothing against him,
06:11either as a boy at Uppingham,
06:13or later as a young man at Cambridge.
06:16Although I gather he was fond of a drink or two.
06:18Well, nothing wrong in that.
06:20And also had a bit of an eye for the ladies.
06:22Each to his own.
06:23Perhaps he was hiding a terrible secret.
06:25Smith knew no one in the neighbourhood
06:27and lived very much as his employer did.
06:29The professor was buried in his work
06:31and existed for nothing else.
06:32A man after your own heart, Sherlock.
06:35Apart from the three people you have mentioned,
06:38who else can be found in the house?
06:40An elderly housekeeper, Mrs Marker,
06:42and a young maid, Susan Tarleton.
06:46So who found the body?
06:48The maid, Mr Holmes.
06:49She says she was working in an upstairs room
06:51when she heard a cry.
06:53She says by the time she got to the study,
06:55Smith was lying on the floor,
06:57faintly wounded.
06:58She says.
06:59Oh, my God.
07:29Oh, my God.
07:59The maid is prepared to swear that those were his exact words.
08:06Professor, it was she.
08:08I've drawn up a rough plan that should give you a general idea of the position of the
08:16professor's study and also the various points of the case which seem to me to be essential.
08:22As you can see, there are two corridors which lead from the study.
08:26One goes directly to a door at the back of the house and the other straight to the professor's
08:31ground floor bedroom.
08:33Two corridors with a 90 degree angle joined at one end outside the study.
08:40Now, assuming the assassin entered the house, how did he get in?
08:44Undoubtedly by the garden path and the back door, which gives direct access via the corridor
08:50to the study.
08:51Exactly.
08:52And he must have made his escape along the same line, for of the two other exits from
08:56the study, one was blocked by the maid as she ran downstairs and the other goes straight
09:01to the professor's bedroom.
09:02Could not the assassin have made his escape from the study window?
09:06Lock, sir, from within.
09:08I see.
09:08It was an excellent opportunity to put your theories into practice.
09:13I directed my attention at once to the garden path, which was saturated with recent rain.
09:19No footmarks were to be found on the path, but there could be no question that someone
09:24had passed along the grass border which lines it, and that he'd done so in order to avoid
09:31leaving a track.
09:32You found footmarks there?
09:33Not exactly, but the grass was trodden down, and it could only have been the murderer since
09:39neither the gardener nor anyone else had been in the area that morning, and the rain had
09:43only begun during the night.
09:46Bravo, Inspector.
09:48I knew you'd appreciate my reasoning, Mr. Holmes.
09:55These tracks and the grass, were they coming or getting?
09:59It was impossible to say.
10:00There was never any outline.
10:01It was pouring rain and blurring a hurricane ever since.
10:07They'll be harder to read now than the parents.
10:17So, Inspector, what did you do?
10:21After you'd made certain that you'd made certain of nothing?
10:26Well, really, Mr. Holmes, I think I made certain of a good deal.
10:29Somebody had entered the house cautiously from without, and then there are the dying man's
10:35own words, and finally, there was a very important piece of evidence found clasped in his right hand.
10:42Willoughby Smith had excellent sight.
10:49There can be no question that these were snatched from the face or the person of the assassin.
10:55The person you seek is a woman.
11:23My craft?
11:32That can be inferred from their delicacy, eh?
11:34And also, of course, from the last words of the dying man, a handsome, lamented, and solid gold.
11:44And of unusual strength.
11:46And of unusual strength.
11:48She must have appalling eyesight.
11:51A lady whose vision has been so extremely contracted for any great length of time would surely bear the physical characteristics of such vision.
12:01A man, rugged forehead, peering expression, round and shoulder.
12:11They've also recently been repaired.
12:13Of course, I'd intended to go the round of the London opticians.
12:20There's a train from Charingcross to Chatham at six o'clock in the morning, Mr. Holmes.
12:23Then I shall take it.
12:25Have you anything more to tell us about the case, Inspector?
12:29I think you know as much as I do now.
12:31Perhaps more.
12:32Perhaps more.
12:33Perhaps.
12:34Perhaps.
12:35Perhaps.
12:36What puzzles me is the utter want of all object in the crime.
12:48A man has been cruelly murdered, Mr. Holmes, and not a ghost of a motive can anyone suggest.
12:53Who alerted their local police?
13:19Mortimer the guard, an innocent.
13:22As soon as it became clear that it was a matter of a Scotland gun, the Chief Constable sent for me.
13:27Sorry, sir.
13:29Can't go in there.
13:30Just walk this way, please.
13:31It's a gun! It's a gun! It's a gun!
13:34It's a gun! It's a gun! It's a gun!
13:37It's a gun! It's a gun! It's a gun!
13:50Sorry, sir. Can't go in there.
13:52Just walk this way, please.
13:56It's all right, Constable. These gentlemen are with me.
13:59Ah!
14:05Apart from this lethal paper knife and the past neck,
14:09has anything been rearranged or removed in this room since yesterday morning?
14:12No, Mr. Holmes. Everything is exactly as it was.
14:15And the body?
14:17The body fell here.
14:19The wound was in the right side of the neck.
14:23From behind, forwards.
14:26Excellent, Inspector.
14:29And this bureau?
14:31The professor assures me that nothing is missing.
14:33I'm satisfied that no robbery has taken place.
14:39Why did you not tell me about this scratch, Hopkins?
14:42Well, I'd noticed it, of course, but you'll always find scratches around a keyhole.
14:45It looks recent.
14:49Very recent.
14:51There's the varnish, too.
14:53Like earth on either side of a furrow.
14:55Is it significant?
14:59That's Father's magnifying glass.
15:00Yes.
15:01He gave it to you?
15:02Hmm.
15:03How ironic.
15:04Excuse me.
15:05Who was the last person to enter this room before Willoughby Smith and his murderer?
15:20I was.
15:21I was.
15:22Mrs. Marker.
15:23The housekeeper.
15:24Yes.
15:25Please sit down.
15:28I prefer to stand.
15:31You've probably heard of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
15:33No.
15:34It's really not important.
15:37You were in this room before Willoughby Smith was murdered?
15:42About a quarter of an hour before.
15:44Why?
15:45I am the housekeeper, Mr. Holmes.
15:47I try to keep the study as clean and as tidy as possible.
15:51Not that you'd notice the difference.
15:53Were you alone in here?
15:55I was alone.
15:56I never come in here when the professor's at work.
15:59As far as I know, Mr. Smith was upstairs in his room at the time.
16:03So you didn't see him at all?
16:05Not until after he...
16:07He was...
16:09Been...
16:14I'd finished my housework in here.
16:17And I was preparing the professor's lunch when I heard...
16:22By the time I reached the study, Mr. Smith was dead.
16:28Dead.
16:31Then you were obviously too late to hear his last words.
16:34I heard nothing except that dreadful cry.
16:36Wake up, Constable!
16:38What did you do then?
16:39I went straight to the professor's room.
16:41He was horribly agitated.
16:43He'd heard enough to know that something terrible had happened.
16:50Did you dust this bureau this morning?
16:53I did.
16:54Did you observe the scratch by the lock?
16:57I did not.
16:58Of course you didn't, Mrs. Marker!
17:00Your duster would have swept away those scraps of varnish.
17:04And where's the key?
17:06The professor keeps it on his watch chain.
17:08At all times?
17:09At all times.
17:10Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.
17:12We're making premise.
17:14Yes, thank you, Mrs. Marker.
17:15Would you be so good as to ask the housemaid to come along to the study?
17:18Certainly, Inspector.
17:20Let us see...
17:22...what this...
17:25...desk reveals.
17:27Ah, Minecraft.
17:28This is interesting.
17:29What is it?
17:30An entry for today in Willoughby Smith's handwriting.
17:31Abbey, 7.30.
17:32How curious.
17:33I think I can answer that one for you, sir.
17:34Professor Coram is writing a book about early Christian heretics.
17:37And there are a number of abbey ruins within reasonable travelling distance of the house.
17:54Well, abbey, 7.30.
17:56Why?
17:577.30.
17:58Miss Dalton, please come here.
18:07Please sit down.
18:10Mr. Holmes is a detective from London.
18:15Would you tell him everything you saw and heard yesterday morning?
18:26It was between 11 and 12.
18:28Professor Coram was still in bed.
18:30When the weather is poor, he seldom rises before midday.
18:34Mrs. Markle was busy with some work in the kitchen.
18:38Sir.
18:55Now you could look at me.
18:59So where were you?
19:01I was hanging some curtains in one of the bedrooms upstairs.
19:08Mr. Smith had been in his own room.
19:12At that moment, I heard him walk along the passage and descend to the study.
19:16How can you be sure that it was really Mr. Smith?
19:22Because he had a familiar tread, sir.
19:24I didn't hear the study door close.
19:25And a minute or so later, there came a dreadful cry.
19:37It was a wild horse scream.
19:41So strange and unnatural.
19:43I could have come either from a man or a woman.
19:44I ran down to the study.
19:45I found Libby light on the floor.
19:46I saw the blood.
19:47I didn't realise.
19:48I must be dead.
19:49I didn't realise.
19:50I must be dead.
19:51I didn't realise.
19:53And then he spoke.
19:54No, she used to be dead.
19:58And then he spoke.
20:11Um, I didn't know the words.
20:14No, she used to be dead.
20:17and then he spoke
20:23it was she
20:24the professor it was she
20:28yes
20:31curious words
20:34do you know what they mean
20:38no sir
20:39are you sure
20:41no sir
20:43I mean
20:45could anyone have left
20:48by the rear exit after the time you'd heard the screen
20:52even before I got down the stairs
20:56I'd have seen them in the passage
20:58and the back door never opened
21:01before I would have heard it
21:02thank you Miss Tarleton
21:03my craft inspector
21:05perhaps he was the victim
21:09of a lover's court
21:10a very tiresome for the man
21:12it's nearly midday
21:17will the professor still be in his room
21:19yes he hasn't left it since yesterday morning
21:21then you must introduce me
21:23ah
21:24what is it Mr. Holmes
21:29both corridors are lined with coconut matting
21:31thank you sir
21:36what of it
21:38it seems to me
21:42to be suggested
21:43indeed
21:45close the door
22:14Hopkins
22:14the cold air won't help my bronchial condition
22:18one of you gentlemen must be Sherlock Holmes
22:24this is my brother
22:26my craft
22:27you're a smoker
22:33Mr. Holmes
22:34I have few other vices
22:35huh
22:39an exandrian
22:41yeah
22:41pray take it
22:43thank you
22:43I have them especially prepared by Ionides
22:47sends me a thousand at a time
22:49I grieve to say
22:51that I have to arrange a fresh supply
22:53every fortnight
22:54you sir
22:57thank you
22:58no I prefer this
23:00tobacco and my work
23:17that's all that is left of me
23:20tobacco and my work
23:22now
23:24I read tobacco
23:27who could have foreseen such a terrible catastrophe
23:31I assure you Mr. Holmes
23:34that after what just a few months training he was
23:36he was an admirable assistant
23:39what do you think of the matter
23:42I have not yet made up my mind
23:45I would indeed be indebted to you if you could throw a light
23:54for all is dark to us
23:56such a blow
23:58quite paralyzing to a poor old bookworm
24:01invalid like myself
24:03could you not continue with your work
24:06professor?
24:08alas Mr. Holmes
24:09I seem to have lost
24:10the faculty of thought
24:12oh dear
24:13my magnum opus
24:17my analysis of documents found in the Coptic monasteries of Syria
24:23at Egypt
24:24it is a work that I hope to have cut deep
24:29with the very foundations
24:30of revealed religion
24:32this looks impressive
24:34but with my enfeebled health
24:38I don't know that I shall
24:40ever be able to complete it
24:42without my assistant
24:44I don't want to trouble you
24:53with a lengthy examination
24:56simply
24:59to ask you what Willoughby Smith
25:04meant by his last words
25:07that professor it was she
25:11Susan
25:15a country girl
25:17Mr. Holmes
25:19you must be aware of the incredible stupidity of that class
25:23I fancy the poor fellow
25:26moments of incoherent words
25:28and she twisted them into a meaningless message
25:31you've no explanation yourself
25:39of the tragedy
25:40possibly
25:43I breathe this only
25:45among ourselves
25:47possibly suicide
25:50suicide
25:51young men have their hidden troubles
25:55Mr. Holmes
25:56an affair of the heart perhaps
25:58which we have never known
26:01it's a more probable supposition than murder
26:06and what are the pants
26:07a fan
26:11a glove
26:13eyeglasses
26:14who knows what article may be carried as a token
26:18or
26:19treasured
26:20when a man
26:22puts an end to his life
26:24I must get out of here
26:27possibly I speak as a child
26:31seems to me Willoughby Smith met his fate
26:34by his own hand
26:36Willoughby Smith was murdered
26:38he did not commit suicide
26:40good afternoon sir
26:41yes I agree
26:42so the professor's theory has no bearing on the case
26:44would you be good enough to arrange
26:59carriage and escort for me as far as the railway station
27:03of course sir
27:04I have to go back to town
27:05so I'll take you there myself
27:06you're very kind
27:08I think you might find
27:13this more beneficial
27:14than Alexandrian tobacco
27:17remember what
27:21Papa used to tell us
27:23when we were young
27:24eliminate the impossible
27:26and whatever remains
27:28however improbable
27:30must be the truth
27:32I forget his exact words
27:35if those are near enough
27:37see you in London
27:39I might ease
27:41I'm overlooking something
27:49and it's staring me in the fags
27:52oh thank you my dear
27:59bad news I'm afraid sir
28:04there isn't another train for Charing Cross
28:05until late this evening
28:06you should have double checked
28:07the railway timetable
28:08before dragging me
28:09before dragging me
28:10to this wretched place
28:11I know something
28:11I'm sorry sir
28:12just a minute inspector
28:14London can wait
28:16I think we should postpone our trip
28:20for a little while
28:21to attend a political meeting
28:23we hear of reform after reform
28:26shouldn't encourage these women
28:30Mr Holmes
28:30they're troublemakers
28:31no better than criminal
28:32organisers
28:34Miss Abigail Crosby
28:36meeting
28:36meeting
28:37Jesus
28:38we're held in church hall
28:40at half past seven o'clock
28:41sink bag inspector
28:43Willoughby Smith's diaries
28:46Abbey
28:477.30
28:48do you mind
28:49thank you gentlemen
28:51for your sensitivity
28:52we hear of reform
28:55after reform
28:56and yet still
28:58nothing is done
28:59to improve the position
29:00of women in society
29:01the fate of our country
29:04is still being decided
29:06by men alone
29:07and yet women
29:08who are subjected
29:09daily and equally
29:11to the laws of the land
29:12are not permitted to vote
29:14that must be
29:22Miss Abigail Crosby
29:23formidable
29:25votes for women indeed
29:28whatever next
29:30women police
29:31women politicians
29:33I'm not going to tell you again
29:35Bruce
29:36the struggle for female
29:37enfranchisement
29:38has so far
29:39been a peaceful one
29:40the time has come
29:41when we must ask ourselves
29:43how much longer
29:44the state of affairs
29:45can continue
29:45how much longer
29:47we should allow ourselves
29:49to be treated
29:49like second class citizens
29:51you tell them Abigail
29:53Bobby Gock
29:54I would like to read
29:55to you a letter
29:55which I received
29:56two days ago
29:57from Mrs Garrett Fawcett
29:58urging us to continue
30:00the fight
30:00until we achieve
30:02our aims
30:03that should interest
30:07you
30:08inspector
30:08well well well
30:14my friends
30:30on every side
30:32those in a position
30:33to help
30:34are stricken
30:35by deafness
30:36we're told
30:37that the country
30:37has more important things
30:39to worry about
30:40than votes for women
30:41but tell me
30:42what can be more important
30:44than the rights
30:45of half of the population
30:46was a late queen
30:48not also a woman
30:49I've had quite enough
30:59of the criminal classes
31:00for one day
31:01inspector
31:02where's that
31:03care
31:03who's from
31:04I don't know nothing
31:18about nothing
31:19sir
31:19honest
31:20so why are you crying
31:24Miss Tarleton
31:24because I don't want
31:27to be in no trouble
31:28I'll lose my situation
31:31if I do
31:32I'll ask you one more time
31:34was Willoughby Smith
31:35acquainted with the schoolteacher
31:37Miss Abigail Crosby
31:38I don't know
31:40you do know
31:41Miss Tarleton
31:42it's useless to lie
31:44yes
31:46he was
31:48oh they knew each other
31:50all right
31:51and they had a blazing round
31:53Abby
31:54will you listen to me
31:56please
31:57okay before yesterday
31:58you're wasting your time
32:01on these suffragettes
32:02can't you see that
32:04thank you Willoughby
32:05your support is as overwhelming
32:07as ever
32:07he said he loved me
32:09take care of me
32:15and I believed him
32:22don't you touch me
32:23Abby
32:24Abby
32:25Abby
32:25don't touch me
32:27all right
32:27all right
32:28I'm just
32:30trying
32:31to make you see reason
32:33you're spending your time
32:34with these people
32:35you barely know
32:36when you should be
32:36building a life
32:37with me
32:37take your hands
32:38off
32:39God knows half of them
32:40are the lowest of the low
32:41these are not
32:41the sort of people
32:42that you should be
32:43mixing with
32:44this is my life
32:45what I choose to do
32:47with it
32:47and who I choose
32:48to do it with
32:49is my business
32:50no one is going to
32:51stand in my way
32:52do I make myself clear
32:53if that's what you want
32:56I know exactly
32:57what I want
32:57and at the moment
32:59it doesn't include you
33:00and that's what
33:06emancipation does
33:07for a woman
33:07is it
33:08you've been drinking
33:09I've told you not
33:10to come near me
33:11when you've been drinking
33:12makes you turn down
33:13a good offer of marriage
33:15a chance to be really happy
33:17instead of a
33:20miserable blue stocking
33:23you'd better leave
33:35it's empty
33:40I think you might find
33:43this more beneficial
33:45than Alexandria and Topanga
33:48I think you might be
33:49why you mean
34:02I think you're
34:04a good fit
34:04and you're
34:05gonna be
34:06well
34:07let's wait
34:07I think you're
34:08gonna be
34:09I don't think you're
34:10gonna be
34:11going
34:12you're
34:12I don't think you're
35:13Mr. Gail Crosby.
35:15Miss Crosby.
35:17Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
35:20The inspector has no doubt to explain the state of things to you.
35:25Then you know the seriousness of your position.
35:29Do you have anything to say in your defence?
35:31Only that I am innocent of the crime of which I am accused.
35:35But you did know the deceased.
35:37Is that also a crime?
35:41We were close friends.
35:45Until...
35:47Until...
35:49I meant more to him than he did to me.
35:55I realise that now.
35:57But for all the world I would not have wished him any harm.
36:01The inspector informed me that you had a violent quarrel with Willoughby Smith the day before he died.
36:08There were harsh words spoken on both sides.
36:11But with good reason.
36:13You probably know that I am an active member of the women's suffrage movement.
36:19Willoughby believed, selfishly I think, that my future way of life and my liberty were at great risk.
36:25I reassured him that our campaign here was as peaceful as may be.
36:35I have no wish to break the law in order to change it.
36:39Unless...
36:41Regarding your bureau in the study, does it contain anything which someone might wish to steal?
36:49Nothing of value that I know of. Family papers and letters from my poor wife.
36:55Diplomas from universities that have done me honour.
36:59And the key you can lock here, sir.
37:03I can't believe in now.
37:05Jack is a visitor.
37:09Good day, sir.
37:11Eight days later, I will tell you about the pain.
37:16Snuff.
37:18The pain.
37:19Nice.
37:20The pain.
37:21The pain.
37:29The pain.
37:30Nothing.
37:33Your lunch, Professor.
37:44Not hungry, Mr. Holmes?
37:48Those cigarettes don't help appetite.
37:53For the same reason, Nadal, the Professor returns to the kitchen more food than he eats.
38:02No!
38:17Am I to assume there have been further developments, Inspector?
38:21So I'm told, Professor.
38:23I fail to see, Mr. Holmes, how I can be of any further assistance to you.
38:28I forged and tested every link of my chain, Professor Curran.
38:34And I'm sure that it is sound.
38:38What on earth is he talking about?
38:40Two days ago, a woman entered your study.
38:45She came with express intention of taking certain papers which were held in your bureau.
38:51She had a key of her own.
38:54She had a key of her own.
38:56She has a key of her.
38:58And over them, she had a key of her.
38:59She was a big friend.
39:01She was a big fan of the camera.
39:03She is a small boy, but she put her in my seat to stay!
39:06She was a small boy of a dollar.
39:08They started to drown in her.
39:10She took her for a long year.
39:12He was a small boy, but she was a small boy.
39:14Her mother, I was a small boy, but she started to pull her 40 years.
39:19I had great fun.
39:20Your own key does not have that slight discoloration
39:32which the scratch made upon the varnish will be produced.
39:39She came, as far as my evidence will tell me,
39:42without your knowledge,
39:45to rob you.
39:50But surely, having traced this lady so far,
39:56you can also say what has this become of her.
39:59I shall endeavor to do so.
40:01In the first place, she was seized by your secretary.
40:04She stabbed him in order to escape.
40:08It was an unhappy accident,
40:10for I am convinced that the lady had no intention
40:13of inflicting so grievance of injury.
40:15Horrified by what she had done,
40:20she rushed wildly away from the scene of the tragedy.
40:23Unfortunately for her,
40:25she had lost her pince-nez in the scuffle.
40:29She ran down a corridor,
40:31which she imagined to be that by which she had come.
40:34Both were lined with coconut batting.
40:36Only when it was too late
40:40did she understand that she had taken the wrong passage
40:43and that her retreat was cut off.
40:48What was she to do?
40:50She could not go back.
40:52She could not remain where she was.
40:54She must go on.
40:54She went on.
41:00All very fine, Mr. Holmes.
41:02You mean to say that I could lie in that bed
41:05and not be aware that a strange woman had entered my room?
41:08Of course you were aware of it, Professor.
41:10You recognized her through this haze of your existence.
41:15You spoke with her.
41:16Young man.
41:16You helped her to elude the police.
41:19I helped her to elude the police.
41:22Eh?
41:23Where?
41:25Where is she now?
41:27Here!
41:28Where she has been all along.
41:38You were right.
41:41You were right.
41:42Well, I'll be down.
41:43I am here.
41:53I could hear everything.
42:04And I know that you have learned the truth.
42:07But you were right to say it was an accident.
42:10I did not know it was a knife in my hand.
42:13For in my despair, I snatched at anything
42:18and struck at him to make him let me go.
42:25I have only a little time here.
42:29And I would have that you know the whole truth.
42:32But I am this man's wife.
42:51He is not an English man.
42:54He is a Russian.
42:56Why should you cling so hard to that wretched life of yours, Sergei?
43:00It has done harm to so many and good to none.
43:05Not even yourself.
43:07You were 50.
43:18And I, a young girl, when we married in St. Petersburg.
43:22I loved you so much.
43:27More than that, I idolized you.
43:32I would have done anything for you.
43:34And I did.
43:38Because then, you were everything to me.
43:44But we were reformers.
43:47Nihilists.
43:48And soon there came a time of great trouble.
43:52Tarkin!
44:15Tarkin!
44:18Tarkin!
44:19No, Sergei, no more death, no more.
44:37Sergei!
44:49No, Sergei, no more.
45:19Oh, Sergei.
45:33Forget your husband.
45:34He has betrayed us all.
45:36Yes, Anna.
45:39We are betrayed.
45:41We were all arrested upon your confession.
45:45Some of us went to the gallows,
45:48and some of us to Siberia.
45:52After 20 years, I was released.
45:56You came to England with your blood money
45:59and lived in quiet ever since,
46:03knowing well that if the Brotherhood ever found out where you were,
46:07not a week would pass before justice would be done.
46:10I'm in your hands, Anna.
46:18You're always good to me.
46:20My brother, Alexei, was noble, unselfish.
46:27He hated violence
46:28and wrote many letters trying to dissuade us from such a course.
46:33These letters would have proved his innocence,
46:36but you stole them from me and hid them.
46:40So Alexei was sent to Siberia,
46:42as soon as my time of imprisonment is over.
46:56I determined to get the letters that would procure my brother's release.
47:00I knew that my husband had come to England,
47:03and after many months of searching,
47:06I determined where he was.
47:14So at last,
47:16I determined to get the letters for myself.
47:19I had just removed them from the Bureau
47:22when the young man seized me.
47:26The same young man I had met earlier that morning.
47:30I'd asked him if Professor Guorum lived,
47:33not knowing that he worked for him.
47:36And he must have told the Professor about you.
47:38The Professor, it was she.
47:40When he had fought,
47:42I ran blindly to the wrong door
47:45and found myself in his room.
47:49You, you, you talked of giving me up.
47:57I showed you that if you did so,
48:01your life was in my hands.
48:04If you gave me to the law,
48:07I got in you, little brother.
48:09Lord.
48:10Lord.
48:13That as our lives
48:15had once been bound together in marriage,
48:19so our destinies
48:22would forever
48:23be entwined.
48:26It is finished.
48:31It never began.
48:37You had your meals served in here
48:39so that you could share your food.
48:41It was agreed that when the police left
48:43that you should slip away into the night
48:44and never be seen again.
48:49These are the letters
48:50that will save my brother's life.
48:53Take them
48:53to the Russian embassy.
48:55See?
49:08Poison.
49:09.
49:18.
49:20.
49:20.
49:23.
49:29.
49:32.
49:33.
49:33.
49:33A letter by hand, Mr. Holmes.
49:54Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
49:56Sleep well.
49:59It was clear to me,
50:01from the strength of the spectacles,
50:03that the wearer must have been almost blind without them,
50:07and I therefore considered the hypothesis
50:09that she'd remained within the house.
50:13You might say it was elementary.
50:16Oh, by the way, don't mention the snuff to Watson.
50:20Tell him you dropped a cigarette ash or something.
50:23Leave me out of it.
50:25But why on earth did the wretched woman
50:28feel compelled to take her own life?
50:31She'd achieved a purpose.
50:33Past hope and in despair.
50:41And the death of love,
50:44of course.
50:48Oh, Professor.
50:51Be sure your sin will find you out.
50:55You are not.
51:04You are not.
51:15Oh, my God.
51:45Oh, my God.
52:15Oh, my God.
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