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00:00and finally here he is the great man himself detective please let me introduce you to
00:10nigella fletcher she is my third cousin twice removed uh something like that a second cousin
00:16thrice renewed actually oh it's a pleasure to meet you mrs fletcher miss sadly unmarried
00:22but please let me say assuredly the pleasure is all mine your renown stretches right across
00:29the pond and back again oh thank you thank you and what brings you all the way to toronto she's an
00:36author nigella has written a penny dreadful well tommy hardly a penny dreadful it's a proper novel
00:43and despite the uh subject matter which is why measure of course i'm sure he'll be interested
00:51nigella is on a speaking tour promoting her book so i said i'd show the finest police station in
00:56all the colonies i'm hoping to set a novel in your fair city and who better than to show miss fletcher
01:02the inner workings of the toronto constabulary than the great detective himself william murdoch
01:08and on that note i shall take my lovely wife to lunch oh well we're not going to that dreadful
01:12public house are we there's nothing wrong with ryan's hot pot all right all right well detective murdoch
01:19i am your humble student oh um would you do me the honor of signing this i really enjoyed your book
01:28it has given me numerous ideas just let me get a pen
01:31so you're saying science is a better determinant of guilt than looking someone in the eye the eyes can
01:43lie science never does yeah but it's not invaluable true but it can help to determine the direction
01:49one's investigation should take well that's interesting i'm gonna give a wife excuse me
01:58detective murdoch yes yes of course i'll be right there
02:03henry uh yes sir miss fletcher allow me to introduce you to henry higgins
02:11newsome one of our finest constables oh well thank you sir i do what i can then please be so kind
02:18and show miss fletcher the ins and outs of your complex work cool all right right
02:29well it's no easy job being a police constable let me tell you the road is often fraught with danger
02:37well you look well able to handle it oh thank you miss i remember one time i was
02:48i don't know
02:57hello detective murdoch toronto constabulary
03:06detective ralph welves mr addison is in there
03:11thank you
03:15thank you
03:22gentlemen thank you i'll take it from here
03:25i'm with the detective
03:39miss fletcher please this is a crime scene
03:42miss fletcher then this is indeed my lucky day
03:57miss fletcher please don't touch anything
04:11of course
04:14anything
04:16where is constable higgins oh i lost him about an hour ago it wasn't much to it
04:21your death sergeant very helpfully tell me where you were so i thought i'd come to where the action is
04:27well now you've seen it
04:31what you want me to go yes
04:33but please
04:38teddy
04:39teddy roberts
04:40the last station house on my list i thought i'd never find you what are you doing here
04:50i came to visit my friend in the big city what about your farm fields weren't ready for planting so i
04:55thought hey i got a friend in toronto maybe i should come and see this place for myself
04:59so don't show me around i can't tomorrow shift later then sure do you mind if i just i'll leave this
05:08here i'm gonna go kick around for a few hours are you gonna be all right yeah well you think the
05:15big cities can eat me up you don't need to be worried about joe ends he knows how to handle himself
05:21teddy
05:24so what part of full cooperation didn't you understand sir
05:28i heard you told nigella to leave you alone not in so many words but she was interfering with
05:33our investigation she simply wants to learn from you i promised her that you would cooperate
05:39oh i'm sure it was a misunderstanding here detected i've got something for you what is it well as best
05:45as i can reckon a full list of all who attended mr addison's retirement party mr wells provided it
05:52after you threw me out the office you see that murdoch a bracken reed possibly somewhere down the line
05:58uh thank you now if you'll excuse me where are you going to the morgue sir well take nigella with
06:06you she may as well get a look at the nitty-gritty i like nitty-gritty
06:12so what specialized training do you have miss hart i have a medical degree but most of what i gleaned is
06:18from working with that man there and his wife of course oh yes the the former coroner still quite
06:25the position a real achievement for a woman like yourself
06:31what happened with harley he's killed with a small bore weapon likely a 22 caliber
06:35do you think he could be self-inflicted possible detective take a look at this
06:39if you would excuse me oh sorry yes there are traces of fabric found in the wound
06:50that explains it the gun must have been wrapped in it therefore no one heard the shot especially if
06:57the party is quite raucous don't you think very good thank you well i suppose those who can't do right
07:05so what's the next step detective well in the morning i shall be interviewing all those who
07:12were present at the party in the morning yes oh that's excellent you can attend my reading tonight
07:20oh emilia turnberry and janet maloney were the dearest of friends they had known each other since
07:30childhood and grew up in harmony despite the difference in both their class and religion
07:37emilia was to the manor born or at least she carried herself as such whilst janet would never have been
07:45given the chance to rise above the station their religion permitted and it was on that cold november day
07:53that janet went missing i'm not sure how much more i want to hear of this oh don't be daft margaret it's
08:04just a work of fiction i know she's a relative but she's pretty good eh even though i say so myself
08:10she does have a keen eye for detail most women do and it's bloody annoying thomas
08:15why don't you let her sit in on your interviews
08:21do you think that's a good idea well you've just said yourself she's got a keen eye let's see what her
08:26hearing's like well if he killed himself he denied everyone else the pleasure i take it he was not well
08:37liked he was a liar he promised me a partnership i waited for him to retire thought i'd hear the magic
08:44words nothing and that made you angry uh miss nigella fletcher she's assisting me on this
08:54well miss fletcher of course that made me angry but i wouldn't kill him i don't believe anyone at
08:59the firm would have done that besides we were in the outer office celebrating his retirement did no one
09:05hear the gunshot no and you didn't see anyone go into his office we were having a party nobody was
09:13paying rapt attention to come-ins and goings you said no one at the firm would kill him now can you say
09:19the same for his clients mr addison had his share of enemies who were they well the last one to openly
09:28threatened him was adam burke well that is a shame trev was looking forward to retiring
09:36you were friends we were good friends before his wife died after that he became bitter unpleasant to
09:43be around i see you were overheard uttering threats no reason to lie about that the last conversation was
09:51an angry one oh what happened you're that writer aren't you nigella fletcher i am my wife was at your
10:00reading last night she said your book was a corker oh well tell her thank you for me if we could um
10:10what were you and mr addison arguing about he was representing me in a real estate deal
10:16and he cheated me how so found it after the fact he was working both sides buyer and seller
10:23isn't that legal it is if it's not disclosed trevor made out like a bandit overvalued the property as
10:30well i paid much more than i should have so yes i was angry but i wasn't at the party last night and i
10:39certainly didn't kill him i take it you can confirm your whereabouts i certainly can now can i ask you
10:51when is your next novel coming out oh well it's just in the plotting stage at the moment
10:57and that's why i'm here i'm actually thinking of um setting it in into one side no i
11:09henry did a man named joe n's calling last night yes he was wondering where you were why didn't you
11:15tell me you weren't around did he say where he might be i'm not your secretary roberts
11:20are you worried about him well he's a trusting fellow and in this city it's good reason to worry
11:31excuse me i need to talk to detective murdoch i'll take you to him and thank you henry that's right
11:40she was one step up from the dolly mop so that was mr addison's private secretary
11:45samantha leon and if that's what you want to call it go ahead he took her on shortly after his wife
11:51died two years ago why would this miss leon want to kill mr addison well he finally came to his senses
11:58and fired her she threatened to kill him seems she's made good on it
12:03why are you not interviewing miss leon we will in time but for now we are returning to the scene of
12:17the crime but why where we know who the criminal is we don't all we have is an accusation and every
12:24moment that the examination of physical evidence is delayed the more chance there is for error
12:29oh i see and i've now received new information about the crime
12:39he said he was a friend of yours so you threw him in the cells it's what's done to those found drunk
12:44and disorderly friend of the police or not are you going to charge him you should but i'll let it pass
12:53this time thank you
13:06joe wake up
13:14you all right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah now that was a whale of a night all right let's get you out and
13:22cleaned up let's see you sure got a lot to offer i could take a big bite out of it oh looks like it
13:29bit you back let's go a lady copper
13:35now i've seen everything up and out joe hold your horses do you know her
13:39i do is she taking it oh
13:52what are you doing well there is obviously blood on the desk but i'm endeavoring to find traces of it
13:59elsewhere which could point to the killer's next steps but there is nothing
14:04the painting
14:10what about it it's askew
14:21it's empty how much money was in there i don't know who else was aware of this safe's existence
14:29uh only me mr addison and the trollop have you spoken to her yet by all accounts she wasn't at the
14:36party that's true but she very well could have been in this office take a look at this
14:47now now that is clever it leads to the street mr addison had it built years ago when his wife was
14:53still alive it gave whomever he was entertaining a chance to make a hasty exit if mrs addison were
15:00ever to arrive unexpectedly ah excellent so what happens now constables will look into the backgrounds
15:11of each of the employees at mr addison's firm and then they will also compare their finger marks for
15:16those that were found on the safe and if they don't march we'll then look at the finger marks of known
15:21criminals and police database tedious work what necessary right oh where are we now miss samantha leon's
15:31current place of employment the dart and dagger oh what can i say he made promises to me he never kept
15:40of course i hated him so you weren't troubled by his death he fired me and look where i am now oh so
15:47this is his fault i used to work behind a bar and i would never let it get to this state miss fletcher
15:54please of course it's his fault he promised to take care of me men rarely tell the truth when a lie can
16:02always get them what they want now if someone had betrayed me like mr addison betrayed you
16:08i would have done the same thing miss fletcher i must insist please sorry detective miss leon your
16:17finger marks are a match for some of those found on mr addison's private safe care to explain after
16:23he fired me i snuck into his office you do know about his secret passage i do well i used it to get
16:29all of the money he had promised me but he had changed the combination so you return later and in a fit
16:36of rage you killed him oh it's certainly what i would have done well i am not you and unlike you
16:44i do have time for my ship to come in oh just admit it you killed him miss fletcher that is enough
16:54thank you for your time and uh my apologies
16:56i'm sorry i thought of a presto she'd blurt out something useful i apologize it's just so thrilling
17:09working next to you i endeavor to be better in the future but is it not true that a gambit like
17:16that works from time to time and sometimes it just serves to scare them off this is my
17:22this is a police investigation not yours understood
17:33i had watched amelia turnberry and janet maloney for some time the two were arrogant and insufferable
17:44janet had recently rebuffed my advances and amelia mocked me relentlessly
17:50the two spent hours in the pub drinking for free of the kindness of the desperate men
17:57but i had no interest in being one of those men i wished to be god
18:12and if you would like to know what happened next this fine establishment has multiple copies of my
18:18volume available miss fletcher i've read your book numerous times oh thank you and numerous times
18:25you adopt the persona of the killer was there a reason for that uh oh i think it's important as a
18:34writer to identify with all your characters um suspect victim and killer and how do you do that
18:43well it's not that hard for example have you ever imagined killing someone who's done you harm
18:53more than once oh not you dear
18:59then all you have to do is turn your imaginings into reality oh on paper of course
19:11oh
19:31constable roberts
19:32i need you to find out all you can about an iris and adam burke he's a real estate agent you think
19:40they're involved in murder of that lawyer they're persons of interest right away sir
19:44so murdoch how is my third cousin twice removed working out well she certainly has the bracken reed
19:50blood in her you say that like it's a bad thing spurgey how are you faring well let's just say now i've seen
19:57everything how's that a man your friend was found gambling with thinks one of the people at the
20:02table stole 20 off him so a criminal in the act of committing a crime is reporting a crime against
20:08him that's about the sum of it you know sometimes i do miss the country well the country isn't all
20:15sunshine and light
20:15so she's been harassing the suspect can't say that's something we've not done yes but we are
20:25police officers she is not i have to say though it's a shame that there are no female coppers on the
20:30job a morality officer is not a copper i see and why is it a shame well if a woman is giving you the
20:39gears it wouldn't take long before you would confess to anything just to get her to turn off the tap
20:45sir it was a joke i was joking but i do admit sometimes you women see things that us men are too
20:51thick to see that's better
20:56anyway uh murdoch i want to thank you for all your efforts it won't be much longer she'll be leaving soon
21:02understood sir you weren't at the reading last night it was darts night at ryan's
21:07i wouldn't miss that just for someone reading a book relative or no relative
21:12detective murdoch a miss samantha leon just called she needs you
21:25oh don't worry she's not dead it's amazing the skills one can pick up when one takes a new job
21:31what happened she came in here all full of fire accused me of murder said a woman like me is a
21:39disgrace to all women i asked her to please leave me alone and when she didn't i did this
21:45ah the robbers return i heard you had a spot of bother are you all right i thought if i talked
22:01to her woman to woman well she'd reveal something well she revealed a cosh from behind the bar that's
22:06something i wish i had been aware of look what i did was wrong detective and i i i sincerely apologize
22:15yes but it wasn't the first time sometimes i get carried away
22:20nigella go home margaret's waiting for you well let the detective do his job
22:24so this miss leo well so she might be involved but i fear miss fletcher's actions have made her wary
22:37i'll get her off your bike sir i've looked into the backgrounds of both mr and mrs burke and nothing
22:44out of the ordinary and both can account for their whereabouts of when mr addison was killed
22:48very good thank you may i take an early lunch i'm hoping to meet a friend from back home yes of
22:53course thank you oh is young robert's fitting in quite well actually i feel he may be bound for
23:00better things it's a shame he's cool it will hold him back
23:22well look at you what do you think pretty swish definitely swish how were you able to afford that
23:30here's the thing i woke up in the cells found there was 20 dollars in my pocket you didn't know you
23:37had 20 dollars well i did a bit of gambling with a couple fellas last night and i guess i won
23:45you guess things got a little hazy as the night woman
23:50enough about my good fortune tell me a bit about that morality officer
23:53she's quite proper i doubt that she'd be interested in you no offense
24:05we'll see about that
24:08hey i thought we were having lunch sorry teddy froggy's going courting before you go
24:13hey sit please please please
24:21so one of the men you were gambling with says someone stole 20
24:27dollars out of their pocket oh that's a shame
24:35what about it well i just think it's funny that you found 20
24:40let me tell you teddy joe ends is a lot of things not all of them good but he ain't no thief
24:53i apologize
25:07well no murder is undetectable
25:10given time forensic evidence will reveal any method of death
25:13but just because you find the method does not mean say you found the perpetrator well that's
25:19detective murdoch's job fortunately he's very good at it you must have seen some horrible things
25:26i have last week i examined um let's keep our talk at the grotesque of the morgue shall we
25:32perhaps we could talk about the weather or well would you look at that somebody's enjoying a shopping
25:39spree and at the most expensive shop in town no less thomas makes me cover my eyes when we walk by
25:47that woman is a suspect in mr addison's murder and apparently a very large amount of money was
25:53stolen from mr addison's firm and walking out of the most expensive shop in town
25:59you think she's a killer i certainly think it's possible
26:02oh
26:08miss fletcher
26:10um before you start tommy has spoken to me and i do realize i have been an unnecessary burden
26:19oh my book have you been enjoying it more than i thought i would yes
26:24what can i do for you i saw miss leon exiting madame pommery's dress shop
26:35how's that right well i did wonder i mean how could she afford to shop there
26:43i'm just a concerned citizen providing the police with some information
26:47detective murdoch yes i'll be right there
27:01do you promise to stay out of my way
27:03daddy daddy decided to spend some time with your old friend
27:18what's wrong a couple men following me men what men i don't know it might have been a couple of
27:22fellas i was playing cards with might have you know it's a bit foggy teddy let me in please i think i'm in
27:28trouble
27:37looks like he's not the only one
27:42somebody must have followed her back from the shop and robbed her
27:56well that's one theory i suppose so but if she did kill mr addison then she got what she deserved
28:02is that from the law firm it appears to be so i was right about her all along
28:16the same caliber bullet that killed mr addison
28:31coincidence
28:34what do you think miss hart
28:36the more time i spend in here the less inclined i am to believe in them
28:39so she killed mr addison and then someone used the same weapon to kill her
28:45wouldn't you say so detective i would not
28:48what would you say i would say that there is something terribly convenient about all of this
28:54yes miss hart
29:01well detective i shall await the time that you come to the same conclusion that i have you sound very
29:07certain of that
29:10it's um it's my final reading tonight will you be there i will endeavor to attend
29:16the detective your telegram from dr ogden has arrived thank you paul
29:27oh right and i would like to send another please yes sir amelia was beside herself
29:38her dearest friend had been missing for over three days and the police did nothing
29:49it only strengthened her belief that the life of a young woman meant nothing to the powers that be
29:55but amelia could not accept the fact that her best friend was dead
30:00she knew she was out there somewhere suffering and at that moment amelia did something she knew the
30:11police would never do dedicate her life to finding the fiend who had killed her friend all the while afraid
30:23that she herself may be the next victim
30:30now you can rest assured that though my character holds the police in very low regard
30:40that is certainly not the case for the author
30:44i have been fortunate to have borne witness to the skills and acumen of the great detective murdoch
30:53and i have been more than a simple witness in fact we are well on the way
31:06of solving a dastardly murder case in this fair city
31:11what are you doing in my home thirsty and he's got our money i didn't take your money never said you
31:25did then what rick here stole money at the poker game left it in your coat pocket by accident that
31:31doesn't make any sense i was tree sheets taught his coat was mine so hand it over
31:38i can't why i spent it
31:43you little ways i used to believe it's not your business it sure is i'm a police constable you're a copper
31:51that's rich leave now or you're in trouble we'll leave when we get what we're owed
31:54strip off those glad rags teddy we're getting something out of this
32:06i don't think you have a choice joe do what the man says
32:21sir what have you henry i found nothing all of the employees at addison are accounted for and
32:28none of them have ever been found guilty of any wrongdoing it may have been that secretary all
32:32alone sir don't be so sure miss fletcher i know you told me to stay out of it but i think i found
32:38something of interest thank you henry what have you found something your constable didn't then what's
32:44that well your suspicion that this was not a random robbery got me thinking now could this attack be
32:54by someone who knew that miss leon stole the money someone known to her exactly and look at this
33:03now it seems that until two years ago miss daphne potter did not exist not exist what do you mean
33:15there is no record of her assistance before she became an employee at addison's firm
33:22none no there's no record of previous employment there's no birth record nothing she is a phantom
33:36and may i come with you i very much doubt i could stop you
33:38miss potter what are you doing i'm leaving simply collecting what is mine and it appears
33:56some things that are not
34:02he was my ex-husband no one knew
34:05the two of you were divorced but you continued to work together i didn't have a choice and he
34:13paid me well why did you tell no one of this
34:19trevor had just started his firm he feared that knowledge of our divorce would hurt his career so he
34:27insisted that we keep our past relationship a secret he also told me i would be well taken care of when
34:34he retired and then samantha leon came along she certainly did and she stole his heart
34:44my husband would have fallen for a turn of the ankle in a woman of low character
34:52for two years i watched them carrying on it was humiliating didn't he fire her oh it was a ruse
35:03i saw it as plain as day miss leon you brought disgrace to this firm you're dismissed at once
35:17the steamship tickets were all the proof that i needed he was going to leave with her and the money
35:24that money that money was mine i sat and watched them in humiliation for two years he was not going
35:34to give it to her she didn't steal the money did she well you know the answer to that i went to rub it
35:42in her face when i am she was having none of it so i made it look like a robbery
35:52you murdered two people two people who denied me the life that i deserve
36:08so please escort miss potter to the cells
36:13you wanted to see me yes you apprehended miss potter i did
36:22oh until i started looking into miss potter's background i was convinced that miss leon
36:45was the killer but you never thought that did you well i found it difficult to believe that deposit
36:50slips would be something that mr addison kept in his private safe and that led you to believe that
36:55they were planted what about the money what we found in miss leon's home was a paltry sum over
37:01five thousand dollars was stolen and we only recovered fifty hardly enough to justify murder
37:07that is a curious phrase does anything justify murder that is a question i wanted to ask you as an
37:14author please have a seat i finished your book did you like it i did i did very much and you have
37:25quite an imagination well it is a blessing and a curse sometimes i scare myself with what my mind
37:34comes up with i can imagine i mean sometimes i get taken away with my thoughts i hardly know what's
37:42real and what isn't but but you you must be a very strong man to still believe in goodness after all
37:50the nasty business you've seen oh what's this it's a telegram i received from my wife
38:00i thought you might find it interesting why would i think that well as you know from my book my wife
38:07was a coroner she and i worked together to solve hundreds of murders she currently resides in england
38:15in her current position she has access to confidential information such as coroner's reports oh is
38:23that right yes and uh one such coroner's report looks at the murder of a felicity dowling as she was
38:35murdered in the same town that you resided in almost 20 years ago oh well i did not know they'd found her
38:44body oh you knew her i knew of her i moved away from town just after she disappeared
38:53in fact she was the inspiration for my novel
39:02i think she was much more than that
39:08since you've arrived here in toronto you have come across the bodies of two murder victims
39:15and in neither case did you show any sign of emotion
39:19perhaps i'm more like you than you would care to imagine i doubt that
39:28in this particular coroner's report the coroner goes into great detail about miss dowling's injuries
39:36it's very specific and these details were only known to the coroner and the investigating officer
39:43and somehow yourself
39:51the first coat severed her a kitty's tendon this rendered her immobile i would have all the time i needed
40:03and the gag provided me with the silence i desired
40:13the second coat again was only to wound
40:19i took great pains to avoid all the major arteries
40:24i wanted her alive as long as possible
40:33so she could truly pay for what she had done
40:38in listening to you i was struck
40:41you sounded much less like someone reading and more like someone remembering
40:46you have no proof no
40:54but i do now have something that i can offer the sheffield police
40:59that they didn't have before
41:02and what's that a suspect
41:04when did you know
41:12second reading
41:18i will say i didn't do it
41:21i would expect no less
41:24but you were right about something you said earlier
41:29what was that
41:30sometimes the eyes don't lie
41:46you could have brought my bag to me
41:48you could have
41:49no instead you want to parade me around you're naked in the oh lord
41:52everything under control constable roberts
42:00it is
42:05city treating you well mr ends
42:09i've had better times in my life cover yourself or i'll have no choice but to write you up
42:22do you still think i have a chance with you sure
42:26i didn't think so
42:29are you sweet on her
42:32you are aren't you okay i gotta get mates before dates but
42:36do you want my advice
42:38i don't think i'll be taking advice from the man walking down the street in his pvds
42:42and nigella admits all this
42:50she admits to being heartbroken when miss dowling announced her engagement to a man miss fletcher
42:55loved and that's motive
42:58you know thomas i never did trust her she seems sort of
43:03ghoulish
43:05so you're charging her with murder well no i can't then why is she in the cells
43:09i'm charging her with interfering in a police investigation well that won't stick i all but
43:15told her to get involved yes but i can keep her in our cells until a detective from sheffield arrives
43:22justice will be done well that's that then i'm sorry sir oh that's all right now look but do me a
43:29favor next time i have a relative that visits please do not arrest them come on margaret
43:39so
43:47so
43:49so
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