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00:14Dr. Newsome, you're standing trial in the murder of your wife, Lucinda Helmsworthy Newsome.
00:19You've entered a plea of not guilty. Will you be acting in your own defense?
00:23Yes, Your Honor, I am confident that this is but a teensy misunderstanding, a sous-son of confusion, if you
00:34like.
00:34The truth will come presently to light, and we'll all be home by lunchtime.
00:39Very well. The Crown may proceed with its case.
00:42Why aren't you representing him?
00:44He's issued representation.
00:45Oh, bless him.
00:47He refused.
00:49Why not just say that, then? You always have to be so high and mighty.
00:52The Crown calls Dr. Rupert Newsome.
00:55Dr. Newsome, you are not compelled to testify in your own trial.
00:59Oh, for sure. All the quicker to set the record straight.
01:09Oh, I promised to tell the truth, so help me God, and all that other business.
01:17Dr. Newsome, please inform the court what you were doing in the hours that led up to Mrs. Helmsworthy Newsome's
01:23death.
01:24Ah, yes, but we were celebrating Ruthie and Henry's anniversary.
01:29Uh, Lucy was in one of her moods, but the food, the food was divine.
01:46The next course is Tartan.
01:48Sourize, s'il vous plaît.
01:50Mmm. What took so long?
01:58Oh, oh, oh, Bucky, look at my new walking stick.
02:07Both the eyes are real rubies.
02:10You wouldn't believe the price.
02:13Magnificent thing.
02:14If you're not careful, I'll steal it from you.
02:17Naughty.
02:19Whatever have you done to your moustaches, Nelson?
02:21Leave him be.
02:22Don't you?
02:23The times have changed since you've been in prison, Bernie.
02:26This style is all the rage now.
02:28It looks as though your lip has grown an eyebrow.
02:37That's how he laughs.
02:39Gentlemen of the jury, picture me with thin moustaches.
02:43I look to marvel.
02:46Dr. Newsom, what were you doing after the party?
02:50Oh, right.
02:52Um, everyone went home around nine.
02:55I took a brandy by the fire.
02:58Lucinda had gone upstairs to prepare for bed.
03:01And then I heard the most terrible sound.
03:15You killed my sister.
03:17No, I didn't.
03:18Order.
03:18I didn't.
03:19Court officers, please.
03:20Remove Mr. Hemsworthy.
03:22Oh, sir.
03:22You'll hang for this, Newsom.
03:24Get your soiled hands off.
03:26I'm a free man.
03:27You'll hang for this.
03:29Dr. Newsom, if we can return to your account of the night in question, you were alone in
03:35the house when your wife died.
03:37Yes.
03:38After the last of the guests departed at nine o'clock, no one else was in the house?
03:44Uh, no, no one.
03:48The Crown submits these photographs taken the afternoon before the murder.
03:55This is you, Dr. Newsom, posing with your walking stick?
04:00Yes.
04:00And, uh, gentlemen, note the thin moustaches.
04:04And where's that walking stick now?
04:06Well, I haven't any idea.
04:08I left it in the hallway that evening.
04:11But then I was arrested, and, well, clearly I haven't seen it since.
04:17The Crown submits further photographs taken post-mortem.
04:22They show the lacerations on Mrs. Helmsworthy Newsom's head.
04:27I can't bear to look at those.
04:29Forensic experts would testify that, though her neck was broken in the fall, these lacerations
04:36were suffered prior, inflicted by blows from a weapon in the upstairs hallway.
04:42That's where the attack began, driving Mrs. Helmsworthy Newsom towards the staircase where,
04:49fleeing her attacker, she fell to her death.
04:54Can you explain these lacerations, Dr. Newsom?
04:59Can you explain the blood splatters in the hallway?
05:07No, you cannot.
05:11Nor can you explain the fact
05:14that the murder weapon left behind a piece of evidence caught in the victim's hair.
05:20A ruby.
05:23No.
05:24A perfect match
05:26from Dr. Newsom's missing walking stick.
05:50Oh, I'm doomed.
05:53Aren't I?
05:54Effie, you have to help me.
05:56Shh.
05:58I'm sorry.
05:59You've elected to represent yourself.
06:01You're meant to be using the law library to build your defense.
06:04I don't know what I'm doing.
06:07Well, if I were your lawyer, I would advise you to change your plea.
06:10But I'm innocent.
06:12You know that, don't you?
06:13You think I did it.
06:15Shh.
06:17I'm sorry.
06:20Rupert, can you explain the blood in the hallway?
06:25The ruby from your walking stick?
06:27No.
06:28I can't.
06:31Well, Rupert, you have to at least consider a guilty plea.
06:35We can file appeals and lobby to have you released.
06:39It worked for Bernard.
06:40He only served six years.
06:42I know it's terrible, but it's a terrible situation.
06:45And you don't exactly have another choice.
06:52Rupert?
06:55Guards.
06:57Did you see where he went?
07:00I don't understand.
07:01There's nowhere he could have gone.
07:04A trap door on the floor.
07:06I checked.
07:07Nothing.
07:15No, he couldn't have fit in there.
07:17And besides, it only went from here to there.
07:20It never went out the door.
07:24This cart traveled from here to there at that precise moment?
07:29Yes.
07:30Well, then, perhaps it didn't need to leave the room at all.
07:35Um, if you eventually made your way to here,
07:40and the cart was moving from here,
07:44Mr. Newsome could have crouched down
07:47and been obscured from this guard,
07:51traveled along this direction with the cart,
07:53and been hidden from this guard.
07:57We're going to travel this direction,
07:59hidden from you.
08:09This window is unlatched.
08:18Henry, what's going on?
08:20It's Rupert, dear.
08:21He's escaped.
08:22What?
08:23I was meeting with him at the law library,
08:25and he managed to slip out the window.
08:28Oh.
08:29Very good.
08:30Where is he now?
08:31I didn't help him.
08:34Oh, well, no.
08:34He won't say anything, no.
08:36Darling, we really should be going.
08:37We have to be at the estate for the reading of Lucent as well.
08:39Yes.
08:40Wait.
08:41Henry, look.
08:45Oh.
08:47Oh, this is, this is Rupert's barbershop.
08:50I'll fetch the detective.
08:52Ruthie, I'll see you at the estate later.
08:58Mustache.
08:59Best of luck.
09:04Hello?
09:06Anyone here?
09:16It's all right.
09:17Police.
09:20It was Rupert Newsome.
09:21The man's gone mad.
09:23Tied me up, put me in my own.
09:24Calm down.
09:25Calm down.
09:26Have a seat.
09:28Start at the beginning.
09:30What time did Rupert arrive?
09:32Just after 9 o'clock.
09:33That's just after he escaped.
09:35And what happened when he arrived?
09:37I shaved his beard.
09:38Then he grabbed hold of a straight razor, bundled me in the water closet, and tied me up.
09:42Was there anyone else here?
09:43No, sir.
09:44My next appointment never arrived.
09:45I have a standing client at 9.15 every Tuesday.
09:48Who?
09:50Bucky Fanshawe.
09:51The Fanshawe?
09:52They live next to the Newsome estate.
09:54And, sir, Bucky is Rupert's best friend.
09:57And now for the reading of Lucinda Helmsworthy Newsome's will.
10:05This is it.
10:06You'll be all right, Ruthie.
10:07I'm sure she left Rupert something, and he'll take care of us.
10:10To my brother, Bernard Helmsworthy.
10:12That's me.
10:13Who loves our horses as much as I.
10:16I leave the stables, the thoroughbreds, and the sum of $40,000 for their care.
10:28That's everything.
10:30What?
10:31What does that mean?
10:33What about the estate?
10:34Well, it goes to Mrs. Helmsworthy Newsome's next of kin.
10:38Her brother.
10:39Moi.
10:41No.
10:42Her husband.
10:45You're rich!
10:46No!
10:50Oh.
10:51Oh.
10:57I never saw him.
11:00We know you picked up Mr. Newsome at the barbershop, Mr. Fanshawe.
11:03Picked him up?
11:05He barreled his way into my carriage and held a razor to my neck.
11:08He nearly cut me.
11:11Are you then saying that you didn't bet Mr. Newsome in his escape?
11:16Bet him what?
11:17I beg your pardon?
11:18I didn't have a bet with Newsome.
11:20No, not a bet.
11:22A bet.
11:23My good man, are you quite all right?
11:25What did he say to you when he got into your carriage?
11:28He told me to bring him to my home.
11:30Now, I refused.
11:31Of course.
11:33But then he said it again, so I assented.
11:35But when we arrived, I refused to allow him in.
11:38Right.
11:39Where did he go then?
11:41To the boathouse.
11:43He has likely sailed halfway across Lake Ontario by now.
11:46That's what he told you to say.
11:48Yes.
11:52Where did he actually go?
11:56East.
11:56Across the acreage.
11:58The property to the east is the Newsome estate.
12:01All right.
12:02The constables are likely there already.
12:04Let's retrace his steps.
12:15Sir.
12:17Sir.
12:23Toronto Constabulary.
12:24What can I do for you?
12:26You work here at the Newsome estate?
12:28I keep the stables.
12:29Did you happen to see Rupert Newsome here?
12:33Isn't he in jail?
12:35He's escaped.
12:37I saw someone crossing the fields earlier,
12:40taking just the route you are now.
12:42Never crossed my mind it'd be Mr. Newsome.
12:45You didn't see his face?
12:46No, ma'am.
12:47That was quite a distance.
12:48And which direction was he going?
12:51Towards the main house.
12:54Sir, this is mad.
12:56Lucinda had an appointment to transfer half the estate to myself.
12:59It was what Dada wanted as soon as I was released from prison.
13:03When was this appointment?
13:05Next week.
13:06Then it didn't happen.
13:08Well, no.
13:09She died.
13:11Upon her death, everything falls to the estate.
13:14The estate follows her will.
13:15Yes, we have to do more.
13:16I'm sorry, Mr. Hemsworthy.
13:18I wouldn't even know what to do with that, Lani.
13:20Oh, I do.
13:21Makeup for dresses, jewels, shoes.
13:24Ruth.
13:26Henry.
13:27Be reasonable.
13:31What do you think, Henry?
13:33Well, we could give him a share.
13:36No, that doesn't sound like something I would do.
13:38Half the estate was intended to be mine.
13:41It was the wish of dear departed Lucinda and the wish of dear departed Dada.
13:46About that.
13:47Dear departed Dada promised me that sculpture, remember?
13:51But then dear departed Dada died, and dear departed Lucinda refused to give it to me.
13:56So what of it?
13:57You've already stolen it?
13:59I did no such thing.
14:00Pardon the interruption.
14:02Henry, have you seen Rupert Newsome?
14:06Here?
14:06Well, what would Rupert be doing here?
14:08A witness may have seen him crossing from the Fanshawe estate to the house.
14:13No, he hasn't been here.
14:16Pardonnez-moi, someone was in my kitchen.
14:24Now, this door is always locked.
14:28We were told the lock is jammed and it cannot be used.
14:44The lock is jammed, but it's jammed open.
14:47This cannot be locked.
14:50It stands to reason that Rupert would have known about that, given that it's his house.
14:55But what was he doing sneaking into his own kitchen?
15:02What's this?
15:06Coco?
15:10Hmm.
15:13Was Rupert pointing us in this direction?
15:21A servant's staircase?
15:24I had no idea that this was there.
15:28Shall we?
15:41It leads to the upstairs hallway.
15:44Well, this is where the killer struck Lucinda Helmsworthy with the walking stick.
15:48These are the blood spatters.
15:50She was driven down the hallway, this way, to the main stairwell, the end of the hall.
15:59Is Rupert trying to show us how someone else may have entered the house that night?
16:04He's trying to prove his innocence.
16:13Madam!
16:14Where's Newsome?
16:16It's all over the papers.
16:17We look like fools.
16:19Well, sir, we've not found him as yet, but he was at the Newsome estate.
16:24Constables are still there searching for clues.
16:26What was Newsome thinking anyway?
16:28I believe he's trying to prove his innocence.
16:31Everyone knows he did it.
16:33He's just run off to make up new evidence to try and sully the case.
16:37History does suggest Rupert Newsome cannot be trusted.
16:41Detective?
16:41Detective, they've found something at the Newsome estate.
16:47I come bearing a deeper understanding of our, shall we say, impasse.
16:53What?
16:54I assume you're familiar with criminal forfeiture.
16:57Why would you assume that?
16:58It's an established and immutable part of our juste commune.
17:02It states that a criminal cannot profit from his crimes.
17:05So what of it?
17:07I've done nothing wrong.
17:07No, no, but your brother has.
17:10And if he is convicted of killing my sister, he will get nothing.
17:15Ergo, ipso facto prima faci, you will get nothing.
17:21No.
17:22No.
17:23No, no, no, that, that can't be right.
17:25Ah, but it is.
17:27It is.
17:30Everything is mine.
17:32Including that sculpture that you stole,
17:35which I insist you return at once.
17:51Constable's founded just over here by the summer house, sir.
17:54Rupert's prison clothes.
17:55So he was here.
17:57Could he be hiding inside?
17:59He may have been, but there's no sign of him now.
18:01The lads are searching the grounds again.
18:03We found a fresh patch of oil and tire tracks on the road down below.
18:07Rupert may have driven off the estate.
18:09I'll speak with the staff to see if any of the autos are missing.
18:13All right.
18:15Effie, there you are.
18:16What is all this nonsense about?
18:18A criminal forfeiture?
18:20I beg your pardon?
18:21Well, they're saying Rupert gets nothing,
18:22but the will states he's to get everything.
18:25Well, obviously he wouldn't inherit anything if he murdered the testatrix.
18:28He didn't murder one of those.
18:29His wife.
18:30He can't have her money if he killed her.
18:33But that's not fair.
18:34Yes, it is.
18:35Don't worry, Rupert.
18:36We'll find Rupert and we'll prove his innocence.
18:40Yes, yes, yes, yes.
18:42He'll prove his innocence.
18:45What?
18:46What do you mean, dear?
18:48Well, only that a jury could be encouraged to find him anything.
18:53Thank you for the violence.
19:07Rupert?
19:32Hello.
19:34So, I took the motor oil out of the auto stables and spilled it on the ground.
19:39That was awfully clever.
19:40I am clever, Effie. I just don't feel the need to show it off all the time.
19:44Anyway, as soon as they find there's no car missing, I am going back to jail.
19:49No, you're going back to jail now.
19:51Oh, no, please, Effie. I'm innocent.
19:54So you snuck into the house just to show that somebody else could do it?
19:58Why not just bring it up at trial?
20:00Well, I may not have been entirely truthful on the stand.
20:04Rupert, what really happened that night?
20:08Well, most of what I said was true. After the party, Lucy and I were alone.
20:14Come to bed, Purdy.
20:17What a moment, dear.
20:20Don't tarry too long. I have the most wondrous joke to tell you.
20:27What was the joke?
20:28I haven't any idea.
20:31You see, I never joined her upstairs.
20:34After a moment, I heard something.
20:37No!
20:38Yes?
20:39Terrible sound from the staircase.
20:42No, the old kitchen door.
20:45I knew what that meant.
20:47Lucinda had a visitor.
20:49I was to wait downstairs.
20:51Who was the visitor?
20:53Well, the killer, presumably.
20:55I initially, of course, I assumed it was Bucky.
20:58Bucky Fanshawe?
20:59Well, yes.
21:00Bucky and Lucinda had been carrying on an affair for some months.
21:04She jammed the lock on the old kitchen door and reopened the disused servant staircase
21:09so he could enter unnoticed and do unto her his carnal neighbors.
21:14And you knew about this?
21:16Oh, yes.
21:19Lucinda and I had an arrangement.
21:21She could get lucky with Bucky and I was free to enjoy the pleasure of her contentment.
21:25You can see why I could not bring this up on the stand.
21:28It would cast shame upon Lucinda's memory.
21:31And it would give you a motive.
21:32Oh, yes, I suppose it would.
21:36So Bucky killed Lucinda?
21:38No, no.
21:40No, Effie, I confronted Bucky straight away upon my escape.
21:43He said he didn't do it.
21:44And you believed him?
21:46Effie, he's my top chum.
21:48He was sleeping with your wife.
21:50Well, somebody had to.
21:51You don't understand.
21:53Bucky was at home that night emptying himself into the latrine
21:57after being made sick by that awful tartar that Lucy insisted on serving.
22:00So, somebody else entered the kitchen door that night.
22:04And whoever it was killed Lucinda.
22:07But how did the killer get a hold of your walking stick?
22:10I don't know.
22:12I left it in the hallway.
22:14Listen, Rupert, we will find whoever killed Lucinda,
22:17but I have to return you to jail.
22:19Oh, no, no, no, no, please.
22:21No, no, you can't.
22:22Look.
22:23Look.
22:25I received it in prison.
22:26I don't know who sent it.
22:32You are not getting out of this alive.
22:35It's a threat.
22:37I'm aware.
22:39Please, Effie Speffie.
22:42You have to keep me safe until we catch you.
22:46Please.
22:51Lucinda was having an affair,
22:54and Rupert wrote you an entire account of his innocence
22:58and placed it in your postbox.
23:00Yes.
23:02With no indication of where he might be hiding.
23:05I'm afraid not.
23:09Right then.
23:11If that is the case,
23:13then according to Rupert,
23:15whoever came through the kitchen door that night
23:17is the murderer.
23:20And his assertion that Bucky Fanshawe's innocent
23:22is suspect at best.
23:24The tartar did seem off.
23:26And Lucinda was displeased
23:28with just about everyone that day.
23:31Anyone in particular?
23:34I did see her having a row with her stable hand.
23:38Mr. Slattery,
23:40why was Mrs. Helmsworthy upset with you
23:43on the night of her murder?
23:44I told her one of the horses got loose.
23:47Couldn't find him anywhere.
23:49She dressed me down,
23:50but it wasn't my fault.
23:51The gate was broken.
23:53And where were you after the party?
23:55I was out with Mr. Helmsworthy,
23:56looking for the horse.
23:58That's right.
23:59We were searching all night.
24:02I still have no idea
24:03what happened to that poor animal.
24:06I understand Mrs. Helmsworthy
24:08was quite displeased
24:10with you that evening.
24:11Lucy, scarcely.
24:13She said I was being too hard on Rupert
24:16as if he didn't deserve all that he got.
24:18But mostly she was cross with Ruth
24:22about that damnable sculpture.
24:25Her own father promised me that sculpture
24:27on his deathbed.
24:29I thought you said he promised it to you
24:31during the hunt.
24:32You sound just like her.
24:33What does it matter?
24:33He promised it to me.
24:35Where were you after the party?
24:37We went home shortly before night.
24:39Oh, but I did see Lucinda excoriating the chef.
24:43Probably because the tartare was inedible.
24:46Oh, really?
24:47I quite liked it.
24:49She kept asking,
24:51where's the tartare?
24:52Is it ready?
24:53Is it ready?
24:55I told her to close her mouth.
24:58What about a woman?
25:00She's dead, Mr. Debussy.
25:03Uh, yes.
25:05Where were you after the party?
25:07In my quarters, asleep.
25:11Was anyone else with you?
25:12No.
25:16Chef Debussy has no alibi for the time of the murder.
25:19He claims he's never been upstairs here
25:22where the murder took place
25:23and that he had no prior knowledge
25:24of the servant's staircase that leads here.
25:27So if we find his finger marks,
25:29we'll know he's lying.
25:36Henry?
25:37Hmm?
25:38Yes?
25:38Is there something in that dumbwaiter?
25:42No, there isn't.
25:44Can I see?
25:48Oh, is there something in the dumbwaiter?
25:50Hmm.
25:52Yes, there is.
25:55Detective?
25:58I think we may have found our sculpture.
26:05Your finger marks were found
26:07all over the servant's staircase
26:10and in the hallway
26:12where Mrs. Helmsworthy was killed.
26:14Both places you claimed you had not been.
26:18Is that so?
26:19Yes.
26:21I believe
26:22you snuck into the home
26:24in order to steal this item.
26:27Mrs. Helmsworthy caught you
26:29and you murdered her.
26:39I went back to the house that night
26:41to retrieve my sculpture.
26:44Lucinda refused to give it to me
26:46so I just took matters into my own hands.
26:49Rupert told me about Bucky's secret entrance
26:51which led me right to where Lucinda
26:54kept my statue.
26:57Once I got it,
26:58I heard someone coming up the main stairs.
27:05I was worried about being caught with it
27:07so I stashed him
27:09in the hopes that I would
27:11come back and retrieve him.
27:14Probably should have made a run for it.
27:19Who was coming up the main staircase?
27:24I heard Lucinda say,
27:26what are you doing here?
27:27But I was halfway out the door
27:29so I didn't see anybody.
27:32I didn't kill Lucinda.
27:35I don't know who did.
27:37If it wasn't Ruth Newsome,
27:38then who was it?
27:39She may be lying.
27:41According to her story,
27:42the killer came up the main staircase.
27:44If so,
27:45Rupert Newsome would have seen him.
27:47One of them is wrong.
27:49Or lying.
27:51Higgins,
27:52what are you hanging around for?
27:54I'm waiting for word about my wife, sir.
27:57We should lock you up with her.
27:59Did you really think you could hide this thing?
28:01I'm terribly sorry, sir.
28:02I panicked.
28:03I know Ruth would never actually hurt anyone.
28:08Take her home.
28:09One more cock-up and you're off the job.
28:12Thank you, sir.
28:15If he's hiding anything about Newsome,
28:17I'll hang him myself.
28:25Don't worry, Ruthie.
28:26We still have some money.
28:27You're a moving picture star.
28:28I'm a working actor, Henry.
28:30One cannot survive on the wages of a working actor.
28:33Well, perhaps Rupert will be found not guilty
28:36and will still be rich.
28:38Yes, and perhaps you could arrange that.
28:41We are not bribing the jury, darling.
28:43No, no, of course not.
28:44No, but you as a police, um, uh...
28:47Constable.
28:48Yes, you as a police constable,
28:49you could arrest someone else for murder.
28:50Like, um, like him.
28:53Want me to arrest an innocent person for murder?
28:55No, no, no, no.
28:57No, you misunderstand me.
28:57No, I'm suggesting that instead of Rupert,
29:00you arrest someone that nobody cares about.
29:01I'm sure there are people that care about that man, dear.
29:04Well, not him, then.
29:05You're one of these people that's just sort of around.
29:07No, not a real person.
29:08No, him.
29:11Or, um...
29:12No, him.
29:14They are all real people, dear.
29:16Someone else, whoever.
29:19Dear, I do not just simply arrest
29:21a innocent person off the streets.
29:23Ah, I'm not suggesting that.
29:26Oh, my God.
29:26Henry, you really are impossible.
29:35Miss Newsome.
29:38Detective.
29:40I was just here to check on something.
29:44Not hiding the fact that Rupert Newsome is inside this lodging?
29:48How did you know?
29:50That letter was odd.
29:52And your reaction to the chief constable threatening to punish anyone aiding Rupert Newsome was palpable.
29:58Let me explain.
29:59You have been aiding an escaped prisoner.
30:01I highly doubt you have a very good explanation.
30:05I intended to turn him in.
30:07What was that?
30:12Toronto Constabulary, stop!
30:15Rupert!
30:16Did he rip my neckerchief?
30:25Stop!
30:42Who was that man?
30:44I don't know.
30:46The hands around my throat suggest maybe the killer.
30:49He received a threat while he was in jail.
30:52That's why I allowed him to stay here.
30:53I feared for his safety.
30:54Oh, that was not your decision to make.
30:58You will be returned to custody.
31:01But first, your sister said the killer came up the main stairs, which means you would have seen him.
31:08Oh.
31:09Well, perhaps there was a teensy detail I may have left out.
31:15Rupert, what happened?
31:17Oh, as I said, I was in the sitting room when I heard the kitchen door open.
31:25Instead of simply waiting there for the duration of the romantic interlude, I slipped out of the house for a
31:30few moments.
31:31Where did you go?
31:32I came here, to the summer house.
31:35I wanted to play Little Wars.
31:38Bucky, Bucky and I have an ongoing battle.
31:41Pew, pew!
31:41You and Bucky were here together?
31:43No, no, no, no, no.
31:44I thought he was with Lucinda, but in fact, he was home sick with the tartare.
31:49I was here alone.
31:51I've read H.G. Wells' book about Little Wars.
31:54I've played with my son.
31:56The game is a two-person game at minimum, which means if you were here alone, you were cheating.
32:01How dare you?
32:02Rupert, you've deliberately withheld information about an ongoing murder investigation,
32:07a murder for which you may very well hang because you were ashamed you cheated at some silly game?
32:12How dare you, madam?
32:14How dare you?
32:17Mr. Newsome, recount for me, please, precisely your movements after you left the sitting room.
32:25Oof, well, I was here for no more than ten minutes.
32:29I left to return to the main house.
32:33But Lucinda's companion had not yet left.
32:36She was talking to a man, but I couldn't make out his voice.
32:39I heard Lucinda say...
32:43Casanova.
32:43Casanova.
32:44Casanova.
32:44Mmm, something about Casanova.
32:48At the time, I assumed she was referring to Bucky, but perhaps it was another paramour.
32:53Did you hear anything else?
32:55Oh, yes.
32:57Something about dinner.
33:00You like it.
33:01Yummy.
33:02Delicious.
33:03She laughed.
33:04That was the last thing I heard.
33:07Her sweet laughter.
33:12Ringing out across the grounds.
33:16Did you return to the main house at any point?
33:19Well, I assumed she and Bucky had not finished their rendezvous, so I returned here and moved to Cannon, to
33:26the Western Front.
33:28By the time I returned...
33:36She was dead.
33:40Right.
33:41Let's go.
33:43Well, where are you taking me, Detective?
33:45You will be held in the cells at Station House No. 4 for your protection until you stand trial.
33:50What are we going to do?
33:51We have to prove his innocence.
33:53You are no longer part of this investigation, Miss Newsome.
34:03Thank you for apprehending the fugitive, Detective.
34:06The trial will resume tomorrow.
34:08And the Crown is confident in the accused's guilt?
34:11Of course.
34:12The evidence is clear.
34:13No one else was in the house.
34:15He doesn't think Newsome did it.
34:17Please, excuse my incredulity, but that man is as good as hanged.
34:22Gentlemen.
34:23You're putting a lot of faith in the word of Rupert Newsome.
34:26The police searched the whole house after that night and found nothing.
34:30Nothing about the murder.
34:32But perhaps they missed something about who else was there that night.
34:44Henry, did you find anything that could exonerate Rupert?
34:48Not yet.
34:55Oh my God.
34:58What?
35:05Get rid of it.
35:06I can't do that.
35:07Oh, do not tell the police.
35:09I am the police.
35:11No, I mean don't tell the real police.
35:15Detective, there's something in here you need to see.
35:22Oh my.
35:23Yes, he's very strong.
35:31A smarter weapon.
35:34Well done, Henry.
35:49What's this?
35:50I spoke to the Chief Constable.
35:52These are files of cases in which you, Detective Murdoch,
35:56deliberately withheld knowledge from other investigating parties.
36:02If I did, I did so with good reason.
36:05As did I.
36:07I was protecting my family.
36:11I regret lying to you, Detective,
36:13because I admire and respect you,
36:15but I would do the same again.
36:18Can you honestly say that you wouldn't?
36:23I found it odd that constables searched the sitting room
36:27multiple times after the murder
36:29and never found this murder weapon.
36:32Yes.
36:33It is odd.
36:36I've checked,
36:37and it's been wiped clean of all finger marks,
36:40but I did get an interesting scraping
36:42from the jewel-encrusted snake's head.
36:45What did you find?
36:48Horse dung.
36:55Gloves and a dark mask.
36:57The same as those worn by the man who attacked Rupert Newsome.
37:00It was the stable hand.
37:01Mr. Slattery, we need to find him.
37:08Ruth, you have to speak to me, please.
37:10I had no choice.
37:12Anyway, it's out of our hands now.
37:13Either he's guilty or he's innocent.
37:16Obviously, he's guilty.
37:19Well, imagine that I had hidden the evidence then
37:21and Rupert was acquitted.
37:22We would be rich off the proceeds of a murder.
37:25How could we live with ourselves?
37:26What kind of a question is that?
37:28We would live.
37:29We would live, and Rupert would be there,
37:31and when we saw him,
37:33we would envision him covered in Lucinda's blood,
37:35and we would ignore this,
37:36and everything would be fine.
37:38Dear,
37:39I know you don't believe that.
37:43Why do you have to be right all the time?
37:47Come on, let's go home.
37:48There's nothing else we can do now.
37:53Yes, there is.
37:55Ruru?
37:58What do you mean, dear?
38:01Please!
38:02Please!
38:03Please, please, please, please!
38:04Get up, woman.
38:05You're an embarrassment.
38:08Bernard,
38:10couldn't you give us just a teensy little bit of the fortune?
38:15We would be indebted to you,
38:17and you could torture us or ridicule us,
38:20just like your sister always loved to do so, so much.
38:22I never understood why Lucy married Rupert.
38:24She hated the Newsomes,
38:26but me,
38:26I don't care about you at all.
38:30You will leave this place,
38:31and I will never think about you again,
38:34except, of course,
38:35when I'm celebrated as the man
38:38who finally rid Mimico
38:41of the Mimico Newsome.
38:49You were wearing this mask,
38:51and these gloves
38:53when you attacked Rupert Newsome
38:54in the summer house.
38:56I was,
38:57but I didn't kill anyone.
39:01The murder weapon was discovered earlier today
39:03in the sitting room.
39:05It had traces of horse dung on it,
39:07indicating to me
39:08that it was being kept in the stables
39:11and was then planted in the sitting room
39:13by you.
39:15Yes,
39:16but I didn't do the killing.
39:19Then how did you end up
39:20with the murder weapon?
39:23I found it in some bushes
39:24near the main house
39:25a couple days later.
39:27So why plant it now?
39:29When you policemen started coming around,
39:31I got worried.
39:33Maybe you weren't sure
39:33Mr. Newsome had done it,
39:35and, well,
39:35I had the proof.
39:38So you want Rupert Newsome
39:40to be found guilty?
39:42If he gets away with it,
39:44he gets everything.
39:45The estate,
39:46all the money,
39:47and Mr. Helmsworthy
39:48won't get a thin dime.
39:50What does that matter to you?
39:52I'm not just a stable hand.
39:54We're business partners.
39:56Ah.
39:57How so?
39:59We had this idea,
40:00thoroughbred racing.
40:02With my know-how
40:03and his money,
40:04we could make a killing.
40:07You threatened
40:08to kill Rupert Newsome.
40:11You planted evidence
40:12against him.
40:13You tried to kill him.
40:15Why should I believe
40:16that you are not the one
40:17who killed Lucinda Helmsworthy
40:19in order to secure
40:20her fortune for her brother?
40:21She was giving him
40:22half the fortune anyway.
40:24I told you already,
40:26I was out all night
40:27looking for Casanova.
40:29I beg your pardon?
40:30I was looking
40:32for Casanova,
40:34Mr. Helmsworthy's horse.
40:37Why would I kill
40:38my own dear sister?
40:41For money?
40:42Money that would have
40:43been given to me legally
40:44had she lived long enough
40:45to visit with our lawyer.
40:47No, Mr. Helmsworthy.
40:48But we do believe
40:50that you were the man
40:51who entered the home
40:52via the main staircase
40:53moments before the murder.
40:55What are you doing here?
40:59Even if it was me,
41:01so what?
41:01You discussed Casanova,
41:03your beloved horse,
41:05which she set free,
41:06and that infuriated you.
41:08Why would she do
41:10such a thing?
41:11Because she'd had enough
41:12of you ridiculing her husband.
41:14Whatever have you done
41:15to your moustaches,
41:16Newsome?
41:16Leave him be.
41:18It was payback.
41:20She had set your horse free,
41:21knowing that that would
41:23hurt you more than
41:23anything in the world.
41:26But she didn't just
41:27let him loose,
41:28did she?
41:31Casanova was her grand joke.
41:34When she said,
41:35you liked it,
41:37that's what she was referring to.
41:41Casanova was delicious.
41:44She made your horse
41:46into a tartare
41:47and served it to you
41:48on a silver platter.
41:51You had no idea.
41:53When you saw her
41:54later that night,
41:55she told you
41:57and laughed in your face.
42:00You grabbed the nearest
42:02weapon at hand,
42:03you lashed out,
42:08and you killed her.
42:09The horse did nothing wrong.
42:13How could my own sister
42:14do something so horrible?
42:22Oh, what fun.
42:23We're rich again.
42:24Ah, ah, ah, ah.
42:25I'm rich, Ruthie Puthie.
42:27But of course,
42:28I'll take care of those
42:28who believed in my innocence.
42:31Yes.
42:33Rupert,
42:34I suppose it will be
42:35a touch lonesome
42:36around the estate
42:37without your wife.
42:38Yes.
42:39Well,
42:40the truth is,
42:42I've been fantasizing
42:43about escaping my marriage
42:44for donkey's years.
42:46It always did seem like
42:47Lucinda didn't much care for you.
42:49She detested me.
42:51But in the end,
42:52she defended me.
42:53She stood up to her brother
42:53and said,
42:54no more.
42:54No more shall my husband
42:56be the butt of your japes.
42:58And for this
42:59grand act of love,
43:02she lost her life.
43:03The act of love
43:04being feeding Bernard
43:06his own horse.
43:08Yes.
43:08She really did love me.
43:10And now,
43:11she's gone forever.
43:13Nothing,
43:14nothing
43:15shall ever replace her
43:16in my heart.
43:18Fire!
43:23Bucky!
43:24Bucky!
43:25Bucky!
43:26You naughty boy!
43:27Wait for me!
43:30Bang!
43:31Bang!
43:33Get ready, soldier!
43:36Return fire!
43:38Pastor!
43:40Whatever!
43:44What?
43:56When I take
43:57the carting
43:57What?
43:58Oh,
44:03Sorry,
44:04You naughty boy.
44:06Here is a
44:08You
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