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00:04and 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
00:36an
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 murder of course i'm sure he'll be interested
00:50nigella 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
01:02fletcher
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
01:27book
01:27it has given me numerous ideas just let me get a pen
01:36so 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 one's investigation should take well that's interesting i'm gonna give a wife
01:55excuse me detective murdoch yes yes of course i'll be right there
02:03henry then yes sir
02:07miss 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
02:17kind
02:18and show miss fletcher the ins and outs of your complex work all right right
02:28well 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
02:57hello detective murdoch toronto constabulary
03:07detective ralph wells mr addison is in there thank you gentlemen thank you i'll take it from here
03:36i'm with the detective miss fletcher please this is a crime scene then this is indeed my lucky day
04:06please don't touch anything
04:10of course
04:13anything
04:16where is constable higgins oh i lost him about an hour ago wasn't much to it
04:21your desk sergeant very helpfully told 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 but please
04:37teddy
04:39teddy roberts
04:44joe
04:45finally this is the last station house on my list i thought i'd never find you
04:49what are you doing here i came to visit my friend in the big city what about your farm fields
04:54weren't
04:54ready for planting so i thought hey i got a friend in toronto maybe i should come and see this
04:58place for
04:59myself so don't show me around i can't tomorrow i'm saved later then sure do you mind if i just
05:07i'll leave this year i'm gonna go kick around for a few hours are you gonna be all right yeah
05:14what
05:14you think the big cities can eat me up you don't need to be worried about joe ends he knows
05:19how to
05:19handle himself teddy so what part of full cooperation didn't you understand sir i heard
05:28you told nigella to leave you alone not in so many words but she was interfering with our investigation
05:34she simply wants to learn from you i promised her that you would cooperate oh i'm sure it was a
05:40misunderstanding here detected i've got something for you what is it well as best as i can reckon
05:46a full list of all who attended mr addison's retirement party mr wells provided it after
05:52you threw me out of the office you see that murdoch a bracken reed possibly somewhere down the line
05:59thank you now if you'll excuse me where are you going to the morgue sir well take nigella with you
06:06she 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
06:17gleaned is from working with that man there and his wife of course oh yes the the former coroner
06:24still quite the position a real achievement for a woman like yourself
06:31what have you been talking he's killed with a small bore weapon likely a 22 caliber do you think
06:36he could be self-inflicted possible detective take a look at this
06:42if you would excuse me oh sorry yes
06:47there 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
06:55especially if the party is quite raucous don't you think very good thank you well i suppose those
07:03who can't do right so what's the next step detective well in the morning i shall be interviewing all
07:11those who were present at the party in the morning yes oh that's excellent you can attend my reading
07:19tonight oh amelia turnberry and janet maloney were the dearest of friends they had known each other
07:29since childhood and grew up in harmony despite the difference in both their class and religion
07:37amelia was to the manner born or at least she carried herself as such
07:43as janet would never have been given the chance to rise above the station their religion permitted
07:50and it was on that cold november day janet went missing
08:00i'm not sure how much more i want to hear of this oh don't be daft margaret it's just a
08:04work of
08:05fiction i know she's a relative but she's pretty good eh even though i say so myself she does have
08:11a
08:11keen eye for detail most women do and it's bloody annoying thomas why don't you let her sit in on
08:18your interviews do you think that's a good idea well you've just said yourself she's got a keen eye
08:25let's see what her hearing's like
08:31well if he killed himself he denied everyone else the pleasure
08:35i'd take it he was not well liked he was a liar he promised me a partnership i waited for
08:42him to
08:43retire thought i'd hear the magic words nothing and that made you angry uh miss nigella fletcher she's
08:52assisting me on this well miss fletcher of course that made me angry but i wouldn't kill him i don't
08:59believe anyone at the firm would have done that besides we were in the outer office celebrating his
09:04retirement did no one hear the gunshot no and you didn't see anyone go into his office we were having
09:12a party nobody was paying rapt attention to come-ins and goings you said no one at the firm would
09:18kill
09:18him now can you say the same for his clients mr addison had his share of enemies who were they
09:26well the last one to openly threaten him was adam burke well that is a shame trev was looking
09:35forward to retiring you were friends we were good friends before his wife died after that he became
09:41bitter unpleasant to be around i see you were overheard uttering threats no reason to lie about that
09:50the last conversation was an angry one oh what happened you're that writer aren't you
09:56nigella fletcher i am my wife was at your reading last night she said your book was a corker oh
10:04well tell her thank you for me if we could um what were you and mr addison arguing about he
10:13was
10:14representing me in a real estate deal and he cheated me how so found it after the fact he was
10:20working
10:20both sides buyer and seller oh isn't that illegal it is if it's not disclosed trevor made out like a
10:28bandit overvalued the property as well i paid much more than i should have so yes i was angry but
10:37i wasn't at
10:38the party last night and i certainly didn't kill him i take it you can confirm your whereabouts i certainly
10:45can now can i ask you when is your next novel coming out oh well it's just in the plotting
10:55stage at the
10:56moment and that's why i'm here i'm actually thinking of um setting it in into one time
11:01no
11:10henry did a man named joe n's calling last night yes he was wondering where you were why didn't you
11:15tell
11:15me you weren't around did he say where he might be i'm not your secretary roberts
11:22are you worried about him well he's a trusting fellow and in this city it's good reason to worry
11:30excuse me i need to talk to detective murdoch i'll take you to him and thank you henry that's right
11:39she 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
11:50wife
11:51died two years ago why would this miss leon want to kill mr addison well he finally came to his
11:58senses
11:58and fired her she threatened to kill him seems she's made good on it
12:12why are you not interviewing miss leon we will in time but for now we are returning to the scene
12:17of
12:17the crime but why when we know who the criminal is we don't all we have is an accusation and
12:24every
12:24moment that the examination of physical evidence is delayed the more chance there is for error oh i
12:30see 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
12:44found drunk
12:44and disorderly friend of the police or not are you going to charge him you should but i'll let it
12:52pass
12:53this time thank you
13:05joe wake up
13:07oh daddy oh
13:14you all right yeah yeah yeah yeah now that was a whale of a night all right let's get you
13:21out and
13:22cleaned up let's see you sure got a lot to offer i could take a big bite out of it
13:27oh looks like it bit you back let's go a lady copper
13:34now i've seen everything up and out joe hold your horses do you know her
13:43i do is she taking oh
13:51what 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
14:07the 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
14:36the
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
14:53was
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
15:10backgrounds of each of the employees at mr addison's firm and then they will also compare their finger
15:15marks for those that were found on the safe and if they don't march we'll then look at the finger
15:20marks of known criminals and police database tedious work but necessary right oh where are we now miss
15:30samantha leon's current place of employment the dart and dagger oh
15:37what can i say he made promises to me he never kept of course i hated him so you weren't
15:43troubled
15:43by his death he fired me and look where i am now oh so this is his fault i used
15:49to work behind a bar
15:50and i would never let it get to this state miss fletcher please of course it's his fault he promised
15:57to take care of me men rarely tell the truth when a lie can always get them what they want
16:04now if someone had betrayed me like mr addison betrayed you i would have done the same thing
16:10miss fletcher i must insist please sorry detective miss leon your finger marks are a match for some of
16:18those found on mr addison's private safe care to explain after he fired me i snuck into his office
16:25you do know about his secret passage i do well i used it to get all of the money he
16:30had promised me
16:32but he had changed the combination so you return later and in a fit of rage you killed him oh
16:39it's
16:39certainly what i would have done well i am not you and unlike you i do have time for my
16:45ship to come in
16:45oh just admit it you killed him miss fletcher that is enough
16:53thank you for your time and uh my apologies
17:03i'm sorry i thought if i pressed her she'd blurt out something useful i apologize
17:08it's just so thrilling working next to you i endeavor to be better in the future but is it not
17:14true
17:15that a gambit like that works from time to time and sometimes it just serves to scare them off
17:21this is my this 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 the two spent hours in the pub
17:53drinking for free of the kindness of the desperate men but i had no interest in being one of those
18:01men
18:03i wished to be god
18:11and if you would like to know what happened next this fine establishment has multiple copies of my volume
18:18available
18:20miss fletcher i've read your book numerous times oh thank you and numerous times you adopt the persona
18:26of the killer was there a reason for that uh well i think it's important as a writer to identify
18:36with
18:36all your characters um suspect victim and killer and how do you do that well it's not that hard
18:46for example have you ever imagined killing someone who's done you harm more than once oh not you dear
18:59then all you have to do is turn your imaginings into reality oh on paper of course
19:31constable roberts
19:33i need you to find out all you can about an iris and adam burke he's a real estate agent
19:39you think
19:40they're involved in murder of that lawyer they're persons of interest right away sir so murdoch how
19:46is my third cousin twice removed working out well she certainly has the bracken reed blood in her you
19:51say that like it's a bad thing miss berger 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 table
20:02stole twenty dollars off him so a criminal in the act of committing a crime is reporting a crime
20:07against him that's about the sum of it you know sometimes i do miss the country well the country
20:14isn't all sunshine and light
20:19so she's been harassing a suspect can't say that's something we've not done yes but we're police
20:25officers she is not i have to say though it's a shame that there are no female coppers on the
20:31job
20:32a morality officer is not a copper i see and why is it a shame well if a woman is
20:39giving you the gears
20:40it wouldn't take long before you would confess to anything just to get her to turn off the tap
20:46sir it was a joke i was joking but i do admit sometimes you women see things that us men
20:51are 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
21:01soon understood sir you weren't at the reading last night it was darts night at ryan's i wouldn't miss
21:08that just for someone reading a book relative or no relative detective murdoch a miss samantha leon just
21:16called she needs you oh don't worry she's not dead it's amazing the skills one can pick up when one
21:30takes a new job what happened she came in here all full of fire accused me of murder said a
21:38woman
21:38like me is a disgrace to all women i asked her to please leave me alone and when she didn't
21:44i did this
21:54ah the robbers returned i heard you had a spot of bother are you all right i thought if i
22:00talked
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
22:13apologize
22:14yes but it wasn't the first time sometimes i get carried away nigella go home margaret's waiting for
22:22you what let the detective do his job
22:28so 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
22:53of course
22:54thank you oh is young robert's fitting in quite well actually i feel he may be bound for better
23:00things it's a shame he's cooler we'll hold him back
23:21well 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
23:36you didn't know you had 20 dollars well i did a bit of gambling with a couple fellas last night
23:41and i
23:42guess i won you guess things got a little hazy as the night woman
23:50enough about my good fortune tell me a bit about that morality officer
23:54she's quite proper i doubt that she'd be interested in you no offense
24:05we'll see about that hey i thought we were having lunch sorry teddy froggy's going courting
24:12before you go i sit please please
24:21so one of the men you were gambling with says someone stole 20 dollars out of their pocket oh
24:29oh that's a shame
24:34what about it well i just think it's funny that you found 20 dollars
24:42let me tell you teddy joe ends is a lot of things not all of them good but he ain't
24:50no thief
24:53i apologize
25:07well no murder is undetectable given 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
25:20detective 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 perhaps
25:32we
25:33could talk about the weather or well would you look at that somebody's enjoying a shopping spree and at
25:40the most expensive shop in town no less thomas makes me cover my eyes when we walk by now that
25:47woman is a suspect in mr addison's murder and apparently a very large amount of money was stolen
25:54from mr addison's firm and walking out of the most expensive shop in town you think she's a killer
26:01i certainly think it's possible
26:08miss fletcher
26:11before you start tommy has spoken to me and i do realize i have been an unnecessary burden oh
26:20my book have you been enjoying it more than i thought i would yes
26:25what 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
26:52detective murdoch yes i'll be right there
27:00do you promise to stay out of my way
27:11daddy 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
27:37things like he's not the only one
27:52somebody must have followed her back from the shop and robbed her
27:56so that's one theory i suppose so but if she did kill mr addison then she got what she deserved
28:03is that from the law firm it appears to be so i was right about her all along
28:26her
28:26here it is
28:28same caliber bullet that killed mr addison
28:32coincidence
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
28:55miss hart
29:01well detective i shall await the time that you come to the same conclusion that i have
29:06you sound very certain of that
29:09it's um it's um it's my final reading tonight will you be there i will endeavor to attend
29:20your telegram from dr ogden has arrived thank you paul
29:28right and i would like to send another please
29:33yes sir amelia was beside herself her dearest friend had been missing for over three days
29:44and the police did nothing it only strengthened her belief that the life of a young woman
29:51meant nothing to the powers that be
29:55but amelia could not accept the fact that her best friend was dead
30:01she knew she was out there somewhere suffering
30:06and at that moment amelia did something she knew the police would never do
30:14dedicate her life to finding the fiend who had killed her friend
30:19all the while afraid that she herself may be the next victim
30:34now 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
30:43i have been fortunate to have born witness to the skills and acumen of the great detective murdoch
30:58and i have been more than a simple witness in fact we are well on the way
31:05of solving a dastardly murder case in this fair city
31:17what are you doing in my home
31:21thirsty and he's got our money i didn't take your money never said you did
31:26then what rick here stole money at the poker game left it in your coat pocket by accident
31:31that doesn'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 you little ways i used to believe it's not your business
31:46it 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
31:54it strip off those glad rags teddy we'll get the thumb out of this
32:06i don't think you have a choice joe do what the man says
32:23sir 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
32:32along sir don't be so sure miss fletcher i know you told me to stay out of it but i
32:37think i found
32:38something of interest thank you henry what have you found something the 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 by
32:55someone who knew that miss leon stole the money someone known to her exactly and look at this
33:09what do you mean there is no record of her assistance before she became an employee at addison's fir
33:24no there's no record of previous employment there's no birth record nothing she is a phantom
33:35may i come with you i very much doubt i could stop you
33:47miss potter what are you doing i'm leaving simply collecting what is mine
33:54and it appears some things that are not
34:02he was my ex-husband no one knew the two of you were divorced but you continued to work together
34:10i didn't have a choice and he paid 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
34:27he insisted that we keep our past relationship a secret he also told me i would be well taken care
34:34of when he retired and then samantha leon came along she certainly did and she stole his heart
34:42no my 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
35:26that money was mine i sat and watched them in humiliation for two years he was not going to give
35:35it to her she didn't steal the money did she well you know the answer to that i went to
35:42rub it in her
35:43face but she was having none of it so i made it look like a robbery you murdered two people
35:55two people
35:58who denied me the life that i deserve
36:11please escort miss potter to the cells
36:31you wanted to see me yes you apprehended miss potter i did oh until i started looking into miss potter's
36:41background i was convinced that miss leon was the killer but you never thought that did you
36:48well i found it difficult to believe that deposit slips would be something that mr addison kept in his
36:53private safe and that led you to believe that they were planted what about the money what we found in
36:58miss leon's home was a paltry sum over five thousand dollars was stolen and we only recovered fifty
37:05hardly enough to justify murder that's a curious phrase does anything justify murder that is a
37:12question i wanted to ask you as an author please have a seat
37:19i finished your book did you like it i did i did very much and you have quite an imagination
37:26well
37:27it is a blessing and a curse sometimes i scare myself with what my mind comes up with i can
37:35imagine
37:36i mean sometimes i get taken away with my thoughts i hardly know what's real and what isn't
37:43but you you must be a very strong man to still believe in goodness after all the nasty business you've
37:51seen
37:57what's this it's a telegram i received from my wife i thought you might find it interesting why would
38:03i think that well as you know from my book my wife was a coroner she and i worked together
38:10to solve
38:10hundreds of murders she currently resides in england in her current position she has access to
38:18confidential information such as coroner's reports oh is that right yes and one such coroner's report
38:28looks at the murder of a felicity dowling as she was murdered in the same town that you resided in
38:39almost 20 years ago oh well i did not know they'd found her body oh you knew her i knew
38:47of her
38:48i moved away from town just after she disappeared in fact she was the inspiration for my novel
39:01i think she was much more than that
39:07since 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
39:21perhaps i'm more like you than you would care to imagine i doubt that
39:27in this particular coroner's report the coroner goes into great detail about miss dowling's injuries
39:35it's very specific and these details were only known to the coroner and the investigating officer
39:44and somehow yourself
39:51the first coat severed her a kiddie's tendon this rendered her immobile
40:00i would have all the time i needed
40:04and the gag provided me with the silence i desired
40:12the second coat again was only to wound
40:19i took great pains to avoid all the major arteries
40:26i 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
40:50you 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
41:01and what's that a suspect
41:10when did you know
41:12second reading
41:17i 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
41:33sometimes the eyes don't lie
41:46you could have brought my bag to me
41:48could have
41:49no instead you want to parade me around you're naked in the
41:51oh lord
41:57everything under control constable roberts
42:00it is
42:05city treating you well mr ends
42:09i've had better times in my life
42:12cover yourself or i'll have no choice but to write you up
42:23you still think i have a chance with you
42:26didn't think so
42:29are you sweet on her
42:32you are aren't you okay i gotta get mates before dates but
42:36if you want my advice
42:38i don't think i'll be taking advice from the man walking down the street in his pvds
42:47and 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
43:14i all but told her to get involved yes but i can keep her in our cells until a detective
43:19from sheffield arrives justice will be done well that's that then i'm sorry sir oh that's all
43:27right now look but do me a favor next time i have a relative that visits please do not arrest
43:33them
43:33come on
43:34so
43:35so
43:45so
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