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00:14Dr. Newsom, you're standing trial in the murder of your wife, Lucinda Helmsworthy Newsom.
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 Newsom.
00:55Dr. Newsom, 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. Newsom, please inform the court what you were doing in the hours that led up to Mrs. Helmsworthy Newsom'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 Starta.
01:48Sourate, s'il vous plaît.
01:51What took so long?
01:53I'm sorry, madam.
02:03Oh, oh, oh.
02:04Paki, 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, Newsom?
02:21Leave him be, won'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.
02:44I look to marvel.
02:45Dr. Newsom, what were you doing after the party?
02:51Oh, right.
02:52Um, everyone went home round nine.
02:55I took a brandy by the fire.
02:58Lucinda had gone upstairs to prepare for bed,
03:00and then I heard the most terrible sound.
03:05No!
03:07Help!
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, sorry.
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.
03:34You were alone in the 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?
03:43Uh, uh, 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.
04:03And where's that walking stick now?
04:06Well, I haven't any idea.
04:08I left it in the hallway that evening, but then I was arrested and, well, clearly I haven't seen it
04:15since.
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.
04:28Forensic experts would testify that, though her neck was broken in the fall,
04:35these lacerations were suffered prior.
04:38Inflicted by blows from a weapon in the upstairs hallway.
04:42That's where the attack began.
04:45Driving Miss 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?
05:06No.
05:08You 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.
05:24No.
05:24A perfect match
05:26from Dr. Newsom's missing walking stick.
05:50Oh, jeez.
05:52I'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?
06:14You think I did it.
06:16Shh.
06:18I'm sorry.
06:20Rupert, can you explain the blood in the hallway?
06:25The ruby from your walking stick?
06:27No.
06:29I 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?
06:56Guards, did 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.
07:31Well, then perhaps it didn't need to leave the room at all.
07:34Um, 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.
07:57And then traveled 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, he 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, this is, this is Rupert's barbershop.
08:50I'll fetch the detective.
08:52Uh, Ruthie, 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...
09:24Calm down, calm down.
09:26Have a seat.
09:28Start at the beginning.
09:30What time did Rupert arrive?
09:32Just after nine o'clock.
09:33That's just after he escaped.
09:35And what happened when he arrived?
09:37I shaved his beard, then he grabbed hold of a straight razor,
09:40bundled 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.
10:06We'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.
10:13...who loves our horses as much as I,
10:16I leave the stables, the thoroughbreds,
10:19and 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, moi.
10:41No, her husband.
10:45We're rich!
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 abet Mr. Newsome in his escape?
11:15Bet him what?
11:17I beg your pardon?
11:18I didn't have a bet with Newsome.
11:20No, not a bet. A 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.
11:30I refused, of 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. Across the acreage.
11:58The property to the east is the Newsome estate.
12:01All right, the constables are likely there already.
12:04Let's retrace his steps.
12:06Ah.
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.
12:36Well, I 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?
12:50Towards 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 line.
13:20Oh, I do.
13:21Makeup for dresses, jewels, shoes.
13:23Ruth.
13:25Henry.
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
13:44and the wish of dear departed Dada.
13:46About that.
13:47Dear departed Dada promised me that sculpture, remember?
13:50But then dear departed Dada died
13:53and dear departed Lucinda refused to give it to me.
13:56So what of it?
13:57You've already stolen it?
13:59I didn't know such thing.
14:01Pardon 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
14:10from the Fanshawe estate to the house.
14:13No, he hasn't been here.
14:16Pardonnez-moi.
14:17Someone was in my kitchen.
14:24Now, this door is always locked.
14:28We were told the lock is jammed
14:30and 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
14:51would have known about that,
14:53given that it's his house.
14:55But what was he doing sneaking into his own kitchen?
15:02What's this?
15:07Coco?
15:13Was Rupert pointing us in this direction?
15:22A 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
15:45struck Lucinda Helmsworthy with the walking stick.
15:48These are the blood spatters.
15:50She was driven down the hallway,
15:53this way, to the main stairwell,
15:56the end of the hall.
15:59Is Rupert trying to show us
16:01how someone else may have entered
16:03the house that night?
16:04He's trying to prove his innocence.
16:13Murder!
16:14Where's Newsome?
16:16It's all over the papers.
16:17We look like fools.
16:19Well, sir, we have not found him as yet,
16:22but 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
16:35to try and sully the case.
16:37History does suggest
16:38Rupert Newsome cannot be trusted.
16:41Detective,
16:42they found something at the Newsome estate.
16:47I come bearing a deeper understanding
16:50of our, shall we say, impasse.
16:53What?
16:54I assume you're familiar
16:55with criminal forfeiture.
16:57Why would you assume that?
16:58It's an established and immutable part
17:00of our juste commune.
17:02It states that a criminal cannot profit
17:04from 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,
17:12he will get nothing.
17:15Ergo,
17:16ipso facto prima faci,
17:19you will get nothing.
17:21No.
17:22No.
17:23No, no, no.
17:24That, that can't be right.
17:25Ah, but it is.
17:27It is.
17:30Everything is mine.
17:32Including that sculpture
17:34that you stole,
17:35which I insist you return at once.
17:51Constable's founded just over here
17:53by 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,
17:59but there's no sign of him now.
18:00The lads are searching
18:01the grounds again.
18:03We found a fresh patch of oil
18:05and tire tracks
18:06on the road down below.
18:07Rupert may have driven
18:08off the estate.
18:09I'll speak with the staff
18:11to see if any of the autos
18:12are missing.
18:13Right.
18:15There you are.
18:17What is all this nonsense
18:18about a criminal forfeiture?
18:20I beg your pardon?
18:21Well, they're saying
18:21Rupert gets nothing,
18:22but the will states
18:23he's to get everything.
18:25Well, obviously,
18:25he wouldn't inherit anything
18:27if he murdered the testatrix.
18:28He didn't murder one of those.
18:29His wife.
18:31He can't have her money
18:32if he killed her.
18:33But that's not fair.
18:34Yes, it is.
18:35Don't worry, Rupert.
18:36We'll find Rupert
18:37and 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
18:49could be encouraged
18:51to find him anything
18:52to put the violence.
19:07Rupert?
19:32Hello.
19:32Hello.
19:34I took the motor oil
19:36out of the auto stables
19:37and spilled it on the ground.
19:39That was awfully clever.
19:40I am clever, Effie.
19:41I just don't feel the need
19:42to show it off all the time.
19:44Anyway, as soon as they find
19:45there's no car missing,
19:47I am going back to jail.
19:49No, you're going back to jail now.
19:51Oh, no, please, Effie.
19:53I'm innocent.
19:54So you snuck into the house
19:55just to show
19:56that somebody else could do it?
19:58Why not just bring it up at trial?
20:00Well, I may not have been
20:02entirely truthful on the stand.
20:05Rupert,
20:05what really happened that night?
20:07Well, most of what I said
20:09was true.
20:10After the party,
20:11Lucy and I were alone.
20:14Come to bed, Purdy.
20:17What a moment, dear?
20:20Don't tarry too long.
20:21I have the most wondrous joke
20:22to 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?
20:39A terrible sound from the staircase.
20:42No, the old kitchen door.
20:45I knew what that meant.
20:47Lucinda had a visitor.
20:48I was to wait downstairs.
20:51Who was the visitor?
20:53Well, the killer, presumably.
20:55I initially, of course,
20:56I assumed it was Bucky.
20:58Bucky Fanshawe?
20:59Well, yes.
21:00Bucky and Lucinda
21:01had been carrying on an affair
21:03for some months.
21:04She jammed the lock
21:05on the old kitchen door
21:06and reopened the disused servant staircase
21:09so he could enter unnoticed
21:11and do unto her
21:12his carnal neighbors.
21:15And you knew about this?
21:16Oh, yes.
21:19Lucinda and I had an arrangement.
21:21She could get lucky with Bucky
21:22and I was free to enjoy
21:24the pleasure of her contentment.
21:25You can see why
21:26I could not bring this up on the stand.
21:28It would cast shame
21:30upon Lucinda's memory.
21:31And it would give you a motive.
21:33Oh.
21:34Yes, I suppose it would.
21:36So Bucky killed Lucinda?
21:38No, no.
21:40No, Effie,
21:41I confronted Bucky
21:42straight away upon my escape.
21:43He said he didn't do it.
21:44And you believed him?
21:46Effie,
21:46he'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
21:55emptying himself into the latrine
21:57after being made sick
21:58by that awful tartare
21:59that Lucy insisted on serving.
22:01So,
22:01somebody else entered
22:03the kitchen door that night.
22:04And whoever it was
22:05killed Lucinda.
22:07But how did the killer
22:09get a hold of your walking stick?
22:10I don't know.
22:12I left it in the hallway.
22:14Listen, Rupert,
22:15we 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.
22:39I don't know who sent it.
22:41You have to keep me safe
22:43until we catch you.
22:46Please.
22:51Lucinda was having an affair
22:54and Rupert wrote you
22:55and Rupert wrote you
22:56an entire account
22:56of his innocence
22:58and placed it in your postbox.
23:00Yes.
23:02With no indication
23:04of 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
23:16the kitchen door that night
23:17is the murderer
23:19and his assertion
23:21that 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
23:36with her stable hand.
23:38Mr. Slattery,
23:39why was Mrs. Helmsworthy
23:42upset with you
23:43on the night of her murder?
23:44I told her
23:45one 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
23:54after 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
24:04to 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
24:15too hard on Rupert
24:16as if he didn't deserve
24:17all that he got,
24:18but mostly she was cross
24:20with Ruth
24:23about that damnable sculpture.
24:25Her own father promised me
24:26that sculpture
24:27on his deathbed.
24:29I thought you said
24:30he 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
24:36after the party?
24:37We went home
24:38shortly before night.
24:39Oh, but I did see
24:41Lucinda excoriating the chef.
24:43Probably because the tartare
24:44was inedible.
24:46Oh, really?
24:47I quite liked it.
24:49She kept asking,
24:51where is 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 is dead, Mr. Debussy.
25:03Ah, yes.
25:05Where were you
25:06after the party?
25:08In my quarters, asleep.
25:11Was anyone else with you?
25:12No.
25:16Chef Debussy has no alibi
25:18for the time of the murder.
25:19He claims he's never been
25:21upstairs here
25:22where the murder took place
25:23and that he had
25:23no prior knowledge
25:24of the servant's staircase
25:26that leads here.
25:27so if we find
25:28his finger marks
25:29we'll know he's lying.
25:36Henry?
25:37Hmm?
25:38Yes?
25:38Is there something
25:39in that dumbwaiter?
25:42No, there isn't.
25:44Can I see?
25:48Oh, is there something
25:49in the dumbwaiter?
25:52Yes, there is.
25:55Detective?
25:58I think
25:59we may have found
26:00our sculpture.
26:05Your finger marks
26:06were found
26:07all over the
26:08servant's staircase
26:10and in the hallway
26:12where Mrs. Helmsworthy
26:13was killed.
26:14Both places
26:15you claimed
26:16you had not been.
26:18Is that so?
26:19Yes.
26:21I believe
26:22you snuck
26:23into the home
26:24in order to steal
26:25this item.
26:27Mrs. Helmsworthy
26:28caught you
26:29and you murdered her.
26:38I went back
26:40to the house
26:40that night
26:41to retrieve
26:41my sculpture.
26:44Lucinda
26:44refused to give it to me
26:46so I just took matters
26:47into my own hands.
26:49Rupert told me
26:50about Bucky's
26:51secret entrance
26:51which led me
26:52right to where
26:53Lucinda kept
26:54my statue.
26:57Once I got it
26:58I heard someone
26:59coming up
26:59the main stairs.
27:05I was worried
27:06about being caught
27:07with it
27:07so I stashed him
27:09in the hopes
27:10that I would
27:11come back
27:12and retrieve him.
27:14Probably should have
27:14made a run for it.
27:20Who was coming
27:21up the main staircase?
27:24I heard Lucinda
27:25say
27:26what are you doing
27:27here
27:27but
27:28I was halfway
27:28out the door
27:29so I didn't see
27:29anybody.
27:32I didn't kill
27:33Lucinda.
27:35I don't know
27:36who did.
27:37If it wasn't
27:38Ruth Newsome
27:38then who was it?
27:39She may be lying.
27:41According to her story
27:42the killer came up
27:43the main staircase.
27:44If so
27:45Rupert Newsome
27:46would have seen him.
27:47One of them
27:48is wrong.
27:49All lying.
27:51Higgins
27:52what are you
27:52hanging around for?
27:54I'm waiting for
27:55word about my wife
27:55sir.
27:57We should lock
27:57you up with her.
27:59Did you really
27:59think you could
28:00hide this thing?
28:01Terribly sorry
28:02sir I panicked.
28:03I know Ruth
28:04would never
28:04actually hurt anyone.
28:07take her home.
28:09One more
28:10cock up
28:10and you're
28:11off the job.
28:12Thank you sir.
28:14If he's hiding
28:15anything about
28:16Newsome
28:16I'll hang him
28:17myself.
28:25Don't worry
28:25Ruthie
28:26we still have
28:26some money.
28:27You're a moving
28:27picture star.
28:28I'm a working
28:29actor Henry
28:30one cannot
28:30survive on the
28:31wages of a
28:32working actor.
28:34Well perhaps
28:34Rupert will be
28:35found not guilty
28:36and we'll still
28:37be rich.
28:38Yes and perhaps
28:39you could arrange
28:40that.
28:41We are not
28:42bribing the jury
28:43darling.
28:43No no of
28:44course not.
28:44No but you
28:45as a police
28:47constable.
28:48Yes you
28:48as a police
28:48constable you
28:49could arrest
28:49someone else
28:50for murder
28:50like him.
28:53Want me to
28:53arrest an
28:54innocent person
28:54for murder?
28:56No no no
28:56you misunderstand
28:57me.
28:57I'm suggesting
28:58that instead
28:59of Rupert
29:00you arrest
29:00someone that
29:01nobody cares
29:01about.
29:01I'm sure
29:02there are
29:02people that
29:03care about
29:03that man
29:04dear.
29:04Well not
29:04him then.
29:05You're one of
29:06these people
29:06that's just
29:06sort of
29:07around.
29:07Not a real
29:08person.
29:10Him.
29:11Or um.
29:12No him.
29:14They are all
29:15real people
29:16dear.
29:16Someone else.
29:17Whoever.
29:19Dear I can
29:20just simply
29:21arrest an
29:21innocent person
29:22off the
29:22streets.
29:24I'm not
29:25suggesting that.
29:26Wait bud.
29:26Henry you
29:27really are
29:27impossible.
29:36Miss Newsome.
29:37Miss Newsome.
29:38Detective.
29:40I was just
29:41here to check
29:42on something.
29:44Not hiding
29:45the fact that
29:46Rupert Newsome
29:47is inside this
29:47lodging?
29:48How did you
29:49know?
29:50That letter
29:51was odd.
29:52And your
29:53reaction to the
29:54chief constable
29:54threatening to
29:55punish anyone
29:56aiding Rupert
29:56Newsome was
29:57palpable.
29:58Let me explain.
29:59You have been
30:00aiding an
30:00escaped prisoner.
30:01I highly doubt
30:02you have a
30:03very good
30:03explanation.
30:05I intended
30:05to turn him
30:06in but
30:07what was
30:08that?
30:11Toronto
30:12Constabulary
30:12stop!
30:15Rupert!
30:16Did he
30:17rip my
30:18neckerchief?
30:25stop!
30:42Who was that
30:43man?
30:44I don't know.
30:46The hands
30:46around my throat
30:47suggest maybe
30:48the killer.
30:49He received a
30:50threat while he
30:51was in jail.
30:52That's why I
30:52allowed him to
30:53stay here.
30:53I feared for
30:54his safety.
30:55That was not
30:56your decision
30:57to make.
30:58You will be
30:59returned to
31:00custody.
31:00But first,
31:02your sister
31:03said the
31:04killer came
31:04up the
31:05main stairs,
31:06which means
31:06you would
31:07have seen
31:07him.
31:08Oh.
31:09Well,
31:11perhaps there
31:12was a teensy
31:13detail I may
31:14have left out.
31:15Rupert,
31:16what happened?
31:17Oh,
31:18as I said,
31:19I was in
31:20the sitting
31:20room when I
31:21heard the
31:21kitchen door
31:22open.
31:25instead of
31:25simply waiting
31:27there for the
31:27duration of the
31:28romantic interlude,
31:29I slipped out
31:30of the house
31:30for a few
31:30moments.
31:31Where did
31:32you go?
31:33I came here
31:33to the
31:34summer house.
31:35I wanted to
31:36play little
31:36wars.
31:38Bucky,
31:38Bucky and I
31:39have an
31:39ongoing battle.
31:41Pew,
31:41pew.
31:42You and Bucky
31:42were here
31:43together?
31:43No,
31:44no,
31:44no,
31:44no.
31:44I thought
31:45he was with
31:45Lucinda,
31:46but in fact,
31:47he was home
31:48sick with the
31:48tartare.
31:49I was here
31:50alone.
31:51I've read
31:51H.G.
31:52Wells' book
31:52about little
31:53wars.
31:54I've played
31:54with my
31:55son.
31:56The game
31:56is a two-person
31:57game at
31:58minimum,
31:58which means
31:58if you were
31:59here alone,
31:59you were
32:00cheating.
32:01How dare
32:02you?
32:02Rupert,
32:03you've deliberately
32:04withheld
32:04information about
32:05an ongoing
32:06murder
32:06investigation,
32:07a murder
32:08for which
32:08you may
32:08very well
32:09hang because
32:09you were
32:10ashamed you
32:10cheated at
32:11some silly
32:12game?
32:12How dare
32:13you,
32:14madam?
32:14How dare
32:15you?
32:16Pow!
32:17Mr.
32:18Newsome,
32:19recount for
32:20me,
32:20please,
32:22precisely your
32:23movements after
32:24you left the
32:24sitting room.
32:25Oh, well,
32:26I was here for
32:27no more than
32:28ten minutes.
32:29I left to
32:30return to the
32:30main house.
32:33But Lucinda's
32:34companion had
32:35not yet left.
32:36She was talking
32:37to a man,
32:38but I couldn't
32:38make out his
32:39voice.
32:39I heard
32:40Lucinda say,
32:41Casanova.
32:43Casanova.
32:44Casanova.
32:45Hmm,
32:45something about
32:46Casanova.
32:48At the time,
32:48I assumed
32:49she was
32:49referring to
32:49Bucky,
32:50but perhaps
32:51it was
32:51another
32:52pair of
32:52more.
32:53Did you
32:54hear anything
32:54else?
32:55Oh,
32:56yes,
32:57something about
32:59dinner.
33:00You like it,
33:01yummy,
33:02delicious.
33:03She laughed.
33:04That was the
33:05last thing I
33:06heard,
33:07her sweet
33:08laughter,
33:12ringing out
33:13across the
33:13grounds.
33:16did you
33:17return to
33:17the main
33:18house at
33:18any point?
33:19Well,
33:19I assume
33:19she and
33:20Bucky had
33:20not finished
33:21their rendezvous,
33:23so I
33:23returned here
33:24and moved
33:25to Cannon,
33:26to the
33:26western front.
33:28By the
33:28time I
33:29returned,
33:36she was
33:37dead.
33:40right,
33:41let's go.
33:43Well,
33:43where are you
33:44taking me,
33:44detective?
33:45You will be
33:46held in the
33:46cells at
33:47station house
33:47number four
33:48for your
33:48protection
33:49until you
33:49stand trial.
33:50What are we
33:51going to do?
33:51We have to
33:52prove his
33:52innocence.
33:53You are no
33:54longer part of
33:55this investigation,
33:56Miss Newsome.
34:03Thank you
34:04for apprehending
34:04the fugitive
34:05detective.
34:06The trial
34:06will resume
34:07tomorrow.
34:08And the
34:08crown is
34:08confident in
34:09the accused's
34:11guilt?
34:11Of course.
34:12The evidence
34:13is clear.
34:13No one else
34:14was in the
34:14house.
34:15He doesn't
34:16think Newsome
34:17did it.
34:18Please,
34:18excuse my
34:19incredulity,
34:20but that man
34:21is as good
34:21as hanged.
34:22Gentlemen,
34:23you're putting
34:24a lot of
34:24faith in the
34:25word of
34:25Rupert Newsome.
34:27The police
34:27searched the
34:28whole house
34:28after that
34:28night and
34:29found nothing.
34:30Nothing about
34:31the murder,
34:32but perhaps
34:33they missed
34:34something about
34:35who else was
34:35there that
34:36night.
34:44Henry,
34:45did you find
34:46anything that
34:46could exonerate
34:47Rupert?
34:48Not yet.
34:56Oh, my God.
34:58What?
35:05Get rid of it.
35:06I can't do that.
35:08Do not tell the
35:09police.
35:09I am the police.
35:11No, I mean,
35:11don't tell the
35:12real police.
35:15Detective,
35:16there's something
35:17in here you
35:17need to see.
35:22Oh, my.
35:23Yes, he's
35:23very strong.
35:31A smarter
35:32weapon.
35:35Well done,
35:35Henry.
35:49What's this?
35:50I spoke to the
35:51chief constable.
35:52These are files of
35:54cases in which you,
35:55Detective Murdoch,
35:56deliberately withheld
35:57knowledge from other
35:58investigating parties.
36:02If I did,
36:03I did so with good
36:04reason.
36:05As did I.
36:07I was protecting my
36:08family.
36:11I regret lying to you,
36:12Detective, because I
36:13admire and respect you,
36:15but I would do the
36:16same again.
36:18Can you honestly say
36:19that you wouldn't?
36:23I found it odd that
36:25constables searched the
36:27sitting room multiple
36:28times after the murder
36:29and never found this
36:31murder weapon.
36:32Yes.
36:33It's odd.
36:36I've checked, and it's
36:38been wiped clean of all
36:39finger marks, but I did
36:41get an interesting
36:42scraping from the jewel
36:43encrusted snake's head.
36:45What did you find?
36:48Horse dung.
36:55Gloves and a dark mask,
36:57the same as those worn
36:58by the man who attacked
36:59Rupert Newsome.
37:00It was the stable hand.
37:01Mr. Slattery, we need
37:02to find him.
37:08Ruth, you have to speak
37:10to me, please.
37:11I had no choice.
37:12Anyway, it's out of our
37:13hands now.
37:14Either he's guilty or
37:15he's innocent.
37:16Obviously he's guilty.
37:19Well, imagine that I had
37:20hidden the evidence then
37:21and Rupert was acquitted.
37:22We would be rich off the
37:24proceeds of a murder.
37:25How could we live with
37:25ourselves?
37:26What kind of a question is
37:27that?
37:28We would live.
37:29We would live, and Rupert
37:31would be there, and when
37:32we saw him, we would
37:33envision him covered in
37:34Lucinda's blood, and we
37:35would ignore this, and
37:36everything would be fine.
37:38Dear, I know you don't
37:40believe that.
37:43Why do you have to be right
37:44all the time?
37:47Come on, let's go home.
37:48There's nothing else we can
37:49do now.
37:53Yes, there is.
37:55Ruru?
37:58What do you mean, dear?
38:02Please, please, please,
38:04please, please, please,
38:04Get up, woman.
38:05You're an embarrassment.
38:10Bernard, couldn't you give
38:11us just a teensy little bit
38:13of the fortune?
38:15We would be indebted to you,
38:17and you could torture us or
38:19ridicule us, just like your
38:20sister always loved to do so,
38:22so much.
38:22I never understood why
38:23Lucy married Rupert.
38:24She hated the Newsoms, but me,
38:26I don't care about you at
38:29all.
38:30You will leave this place, and
38:32I will never think about you
38:34again, except, of course,
38:35when I'm celebrated as the
38:38man who finally rid Mimico
38:41of the Mimico Newsom.
38:49You were wearing this mask
38:51and these gloves when you
38:53attacked Rupert Newsom in
38:55the summer house.
38:56I was, but I didn't kill
38:58anyone.
39:01The murder weapon was
39:02discovered earlier today in
39:04the sitting room.
39:04It had traces of horse dung on
39:07it, indicating to me that it
39:09was being kept in the stables
39:11and was then planted in the
39:13sitting room by you.
39:16Yes, but I didn't do the
39:17killing.
39:19Then how did you end up with
39:20the murder weapon?
39:22I found it in some bushes near
39:24the main house a couple days
39:25later.
39:27So why plant it now?
39:29When you policemen started
39:30coming around, I got worried.
39:32Maybe you weren't sure Mr. Newsom
39:34had done it.
39:35And, well, I had the proof.
39:38So you want Rupert Newsom to be
39:40found guilty?
39:42If he gets away with it, he gets
39:44everything.
39:45The estate, all the money, and
39:48Mr. Helmsworthy won't get a thin
39:49dime.
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 and his money,
40:04we could make a killing.
40:07You threatened to kill Rupert Newsom.
40:11You planted evidence against him.
40:13You tried to kill him.
40:15Why should I believe that you are
40:16not the one who killed Lucinda
40:18Helmsworthy in order to secure her
40:20fortune for her brother?
40:21She was giving him half the fortune
40:23anyway.
40:24I told you already.
40:25I was out all night looking for
40:27Casanova.
40:29I beg your pardon?
40:30I was looking for Casanova,
40:34Mr. Helmsworthy's horse.
40:37Why would I kill my own dear
40:39sister?
40:41For money?
40:42Money that would have been given
40:43to me legally had she lived long
40:45enough to visit with our lawyer.
40:47No, Mr. Helmsworthy.
40:48But we do believe that you were the
40:50man who entered the home via the
40:52main staircase moments before the
40:55murder.
40:55What are you doing here?
40:59Even if it was me, so what?
41:01You discussed Casanova, your
41:04beloved horse, which she set free,
41:06and that infuriated you.
41:08Why would she do such a thing?
41:11Because she'd had enough of you
41:13ridiculing her husband.
41:14Whatever have you done to your
41:15moustaches, Newsom?
41:16Leave him be.
41:18It was payback.
41:20She had set your horse free,
41:21knowing that that would hurt you
41:23more than anything in the world.
41:26But she didn't just let him
41:28loose, did she?
41:31Casanova was her grand joke.
41:34When she said, you liked it,
41:37that's what she was referring to.
41:41Casanova was delicious.
41:44She made your horse into a tartar
41:47and served it to you on a silver
41:48platter.
41:51You had no idea.
41:53When you saw her later that night,
41:55she told you and laughed in your
41:58face.
42:00You grabbed the nearest weapon at hand,
42:03you lashed out,
42:08and you killed her.
42:09The horse did nothing wrong.
42:13How could my own sister do something
42:15so 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, I'll take care of those
42:29who believed in my innocence.
42:31Yes.
42:33Rupert, I suppose it will be a touch
42:35lonesome around the estate
42:37without your wife?
42:38Yes.
42:39Well, the truth is,
42:42I've been fantasizing about
42:43escaping my marriage
42:44for donkey's years.
42:46It always did seem like Lucinda
42:48didn't much care for you.
42:49She detested me.
42:51But in the end, she defended me.
42:53She stood up to her brother
42:53and said, no more.
42:54No more shall my husband
42:56be the butt of your japes.
42:58And for this grand act of love,
43:02she lost her life.
43:03The act of love being
43:05feeding Bernard his own horse.
43:08Yes.
43:08She really did love me.
43:10And now, she's gone forever.
43:14Nothing, nothing
43:15shall ever replace her in my heart.
43:18Fire!
43:20Kabo!
43:21Kabo!
43:22Ha, ha, ha!
43:23Oh, Bucky!
43:24Bucky!
43:25Ha, ha, ha!
43:26You naughty boy!
43:27Wait for me!
43:29Ha, ha, ha, ha!
43:30Bang!
43:32Bang!
43:33Get ready, soldier!
43:36Return fire!
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