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00:00When this despicable band of thieves and murderers commit crimes at which they forbid my interference, they leave behind a
00:07signal.
00:07Or else Watson or Mrs. Hudson could well die. But you could go where I cannot.
00:13Can't find his wife's jewel box. I, them gems, is worth a palace.
00:18Why kidnap Clara if you've already stolen her ransom?
00:20Please do not tell my parents.
00:22Don't tell your parents how you planned your own kidnapping and stole your mother's jewels.
00:26I am dealing with a vast criminal syndicate of unbridled region, even inside the police.
01:01They're bringing a right out, sir.
01:03Thank you, constable.
01:05Congratulations on your rapid apprehension of this coachman who kidnapped the American ambassador's daughter.
01:11With the jewels on his person, did the criminal confess?
01:13No, sir, but he'll eventually tell us all.
01:16Sent him off to Newgate.
01:18Ah.
01:18But we kept the girl close.
01:21Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.
01:23Oh, no.
01:24I'm not going anywhere with that man. Take me back to my cell.
01:26Here, here, young lady.
01:28Be grateful you have a benevolent employer, what's willing to be personally liable for your behavior.
01:34You sure she's worth the trouble, sir?
01:36Well, the girl has her faults, but domestics are very difficult to train.
01:40And I hate the thought of having to start all over again with someone new.
01:45I'm sure the girl will calm down once she returns to the kitchen.
01:49Usually works, sir.
01:52I'm going back to Baker Street. I'm getting my things, and I'm leaving.
01:55Very well.
01:56On your current heading, it'll take approximately 131 days to reach your destination,
02:02depending on the schedules of various trains and steamers
02:06and the probability of good weather in the South Java Sea.
02:10Are you saying that I'm going in the wrong direction?
02:12Not wrong. Merely eccentric.
02:14If you're open to a journey briefer than circumnavigating the globe,
02:17you could step into this cab with which I came to rescue you.
02:20Rescue me?
02:22I wouldn't need rescuing if you hadn't abandoned me.
02:25I didn't abandon you.
02:26I had to leave to prevent the police from recognizing you.
02:29Come along.
02:34Maybe the coffin factory was meant to burn.
02:36Have you ever thought about that?
02:37And what things do I get for Clara?
02:39I'm threatened, accused, arrested.
02:42As if you and only you can decide when a criminal is caught.
02:50Not with a front door.
02:51Oh, blow it out your bottom.
02:52Go to heaven's.
02:56A message for you, sir.
02:58Oh, no, Halligan.
02:59You may pack your possessions, but you may not leave.
03:02You've been released into my custody.
03:04I will not spend another night in this house with your insufferable smugness.
03:09Oh, no.
03:17Key.
03:18Oh, what is it?
03:19The key.
03:21Oh, never mind.
03:23Excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
03:24It's an urgent message in need of a reply.
03:27Read it to me, then.
03:29A.A.
03:29Templeton, insurance code, NYUSA.
03:32Request to immediately engage your services locating jewels stolen from U.S. Ambassador London.
03:39Stop.
03:40Favourable terms, expenses, a £500 bonus if jewels recovered or claim rejected.
03:47Grateful for your prompt reply.
03:49Stop.
03:50Albert Templeton, president.
03:52My response to Mr. A. Templeton, regret must decline.
03:57Stop.
03:57Present engagements preclude.
03:59Stop.
03:59Good help hard to find.
04:01Stop.
04:07Amelia.
04:08Amelia, if you do not open this door at once, I will knock it down.
04:13Amelia.
04:15Amelia.
04:15Very well.
04:16Sir, a person of your station and reputation should not drag a young scullery maid and throw
04:22her out into the street.
04:23I beg you, sir, let me do it.
04:27Mrs. Halligan, I have this completely under control.
04:30Consider your honour, sir.
04:31And I would urge you to consider the life of your sister, still the rightful owner of this
04:35house.
04:36Now, to rescue Mrs. Hudson and Dr. Watson, I would instantly trade my honour, my reputation
04:42and my good fortune.
04:44And yours too, if it came to it.
04:46Now, saving Mrs. Hudson's life requires me to enter this room.
04:49So if Amelia does not immediately open this door, I will knock it down.
05:10However ill-used you feel, I took you from the street when you had nowhere to go.
05:16So I employed you, I fed you, and you have repaid me for these kindnesses by refusing to follow
05:24my instructions in a manner that has put my closest friends beyond reach.
05:28Then why free me from the police, then?
05:31If I destroyed a plan that you never shared with me, I'm an ingrate, you say we're not
05:35related, that my mother is a liar?
05:37Well, you insist we are bound by blood.
05:40But first, you can tell me how we are tied together by this.
05:48Why is this red thread so important to you?
05:50Because this is the signal I told you about.
05:53The signature of the criminal syndicate responsible for the kidnapping of my friends.
05:58A red thread, which they leave tied to something at the scene of every crime they would forbid
06:02me to investigate.
06:05There is a red thread like this in Claire's room.
06:07Yes.
06:08And that's why you left.
06:09Yes.
06:10And you have another, which means you are either connected to the red thread or else you've
06:15found it somewhere.
06:16Which is it?
06:18It involves my mother's murder.
06:20How?
06:23After all, this is a crime you have insisted I should help you solve.
06:27Well, now I am so disposed.
06:31Speak.
06:31Speak, tell me everything.
06:36As I recall, you were absent during the attack, delivering designs for a parade flute to Los
06:43Angeles.
06:46Was anything missing on your return?
06:49I didn't notice right away.
06:52But they took several map cases filled with Mama's mechanical drawings.
06:57Which is surprising because many of them were very old.
07:00Indeed.
07:01And where was the red thread?
07:06In the most terrible place.
07:13Tied to this.
07:15Ah, the murder weapon.
07:18Wise of you to keep it.
07:29I held on to her for a while.
07:32I don't know how long.
07:34Of course.
07:36Of course.
07:36Of course you did.
07:38Was her body warm to the touch?
07:41It was cold.
07:43Stiff.
07:43So.
07:45Rigor mortis established but not dissipated.
07:49Her death was four to twelve hours before your return.
07:52So there is nothing you could have done to prevent it.
07:54Were you able to identify the number of attacks?
07:59I counted the hooves of four horses.
08:02They disappeared at the river.
08:05And the boot prints had all been wiped away.
08:08So I thought out.
08:09Premeditated.
08:11And what did you do next?
08:15I buried her.
08:26What is this picture?
08:28It was her favorite photograph from the time she worked on the Wild West show.
08:35And this is the letter I read to you where she says you're my father.
08:43Yes.
08:44Wild West show.
08:46The most celebrated theatrical event of the 19th century.
08:56There, there.
09:05Here.
09:07Here.
09:13Well, I'm sorry for your loss.
09:16Your mother's murder proves the syndicate behind the red thread is even larger than I feared if they are able
09:22to reach across the world.
09:25Why do they require such size and scope? What crime or crimes are they hoping to commit?
09:33What does your mother's death have to do with it? It appears her murder and the kidnappings are connected to
09:39a much greater enterprise.
09:44Let's talk about our plan for today. Fortunately, we still have two living links to the red thread, namely Clara
09:51Anderson and Charlie the Coachman.
09:52Now I must merely do the impossible and visit Charlie in prison without alerting anyone to my presence and you
09:58must follow up with your friend, Clara.
10:00My friend? Clara's a thief and a liar. She stole from her own mother. She's letting a man rot in
10:07jail for kidnapping her when she willingly went with him.
10:10But Charlie did kidnap her. Clara planned a fake abduction unless you believe that she was expecting to spend her
10:18honeymoon in a coffin.
10:20I'd say her elopement misfired in a spectacular fashion. And like us, the red thread are fully aware of her
10:27vulnerabilities and one day will probably extort her for their own purposes.
10:31We cannot afford for her misdeeds to become public knowledge and be severed from us.
10:36Well, I'm sure Clara thinks she got away with everything.
10:39Well, you must demonstrate otherwise. Be blunt. She'll respond better to cruelty than to kindness and get to her before
10:44the authorities can question her.
10:46But Clara has diplomatic immunity.
10:48From the police, not from this insurance investigator who is likely to appear at the house this very day. I
10:53would have done so.
10:54But you refused that job.
10:56Yes. Well, the mountain inquiry into the kidnapping and the jewel theft will put me in open conflict with the
11:02red thread and for that I am not yet prepared.
11:04But this detective hired by the insurance company...
11:07Oh, he could lead us to both the jewels and your friends. And like me, he can go where you
11:12can't.
11:13Very good. Very good. Soon you'll start to see these advantages on your own. And since it seems to be
11:19a speciality of yours, then I'm sure you can throw this investigator on the defensive, which will not only be
11:24good for protecting Clara, it will also convince the investigator to question you. And his interrogation will likely provide a
11:31theory of the crime.
11:32But why would the Andersons let me into their house?
11:35My horse, Chance, was one of the horses that took Clara back home in her father's carriage, so fetching him
11:40should provide an excellent pretext for the visit.
11:43And just this morning, Mrs. Anderson sent me a card thanking you for helping to find their daughter, so she
11:50would seem very well disposed.
11:52All right, then. I'll bring Chance back, I'll manage Clara, and I'll challenge the insurance investigator.
12:00If you agree that from now on we're working on the case with the Red Thread together, and we won't
12:07stop before finding out who murdered my mother and bringing the killer to justice. Agreed?
12:13Agreed.
12:22Now remember, the last woman who served as my maid was found floating in the River Thames for no better
12:27reason than as a warning to me, so exercise great caution. Not just for my sake, but for yours. You
12:33must learn to cultivate humility.
12:35Are you sure that's possible?
12:37It's a stark necessity. You can only investigate the thread while seeming to pursue some other purpose. You must learn
12:44to hunt while looking like prey.
12:46I can take care of myself.
12:47No doubt. But do not confront anyone or even acknowledge their presence. Do nothing to provoke suspicion or attract unwanted
12:55attention.
12:56I'm visiting the Ambassador's house. Reclaim your horse.
12:59Precisely. And I am calling on an imprisoned man of no interest to our enemies in the hope this misdirection
13:06will trick them into believing my journey to Newgate Prison has nothing to do with Charlie the Coachman.
13:11Do you really think he knows where Mrs. Hudson and Dr. Watson have been taken?
13:15Maybe not. But he certainly knows his encompasses. Newgate Prison.
13:25Welcome.
13:44Welcome.
13:54Welcome.
13:56Welcome.
14:02Welcome.
14:02Welcome.
14:04Welcome.
14:05Welcome.
14:06Welcome.
14:06Welcome.
14:06Welcome.
14:06Welcome.
14:20Sherlock Holmes, see Prisoner 45262, Professor James Mariata.
14:39Come on, we'll be.
15:06The Professor don't get many visitors.
15:08He really agrees to meet anyone.
15:11You'll see me, Mr Dankworth, I promise you.
15:13Lead on.
15:21Mr Sherlock Holmes, requesting a visit which the Governor allows.
15:27Listener 45262, face the wall, put your hands above your head.
15:42I didn't expect to see you again.
15:45Oh, I know her all right.
15:46She can stay.
15:52Ought to be ashamed of yourself, pretending to be things you ain't.
15:55I'm sorry.
15:56I didn't want to lie.
15:58Mr Holmes made me do it.
16:00What are you here for today?
16:02To collect Mr Holmes' horse chance.
16:05And while I'm here, I thought I might see Clara.
16:09Clara ain't come out of her room since she got back.
16:14But, I'll go ask her mother.
16:16What to do with you in the meantime?
16:21Please stay here, sir, while I assure myself of your safety.
16:26Now, you listen to me, you horrible little man.
16:29You will be in your best behavior for this gentleman that's visiting you.
16:33And he might hark it out of you and you're for the heart.
16:35You got it, Professor.
16:40Shall I chain him for you, sir?
16:42No.
16:44I shall be right outside if you need me.
17:03Mr Sherlock Holmes, whom I never thought to see again in the waking world.
17:09What could a poor prisoner like me do for the greatest detective on earth?
17:14Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we, Moriarty?
17:17You're unused to the deprivations of the condemned.
17:21Better if I had not escaped the Weichenbach Falls.
17:24Please, have a seat.
17:29Thank you. I'll stand.
17:33Care for some lunch?
17:35I find toasting prison bread over an open flame burns off most of the mould.
17:41Appetizing as that sounds, I decline, though I do note in passing neither your skin nor your weight reflect the
17:47ravages of a prison diet.
17:50Perhaps you ward off those perils with roast beef and claret, as one might infer, from this gravy stain on
17:56your cuff and this red directly beneath your chin.
17:59Not so incidentally, I note that though there is no cell next to yours on the western wall, the hallway
18:06outside your door goes on for another 20 feet in that direction.
18:11This ink on your fingertips from perusing the newspapers, none of which I see in evidence, not even on this
18:18metal hook by the toilet where most of your fellow prisoners find their daily news best employed.
18:25Perhaps the maid has been around to clean already.
18:33What an ingenious mechanism, may I?
18:37Oh, don't worry, James. I'm not here to expose corruption in Her Majesty's prisons.
18:43I'm here on a much more important errand, and one that affects us both, and I should like to discuss
18:48it with you without your assistant eavesdropping in the hall.
18:51I'm practically deaf to my left ear.
18:54Be quiet, you imbecile.
18:56Yes, sir.
18:58Pardon me if I demand proof this private conversation is necessary.
19:12I had wondered that the recent absence of your name in the press and the disappearance of Watson's fawning puffery
19:19in the Strand, the rumor that he had finally come to his senses and abandoned you was always highly suspect.
19:25And knowing that you still run your empire from behind bars, I find the decrease in those crimes most commonly
19:32associated with your known accomplices equally remarkable.
19:36Touching how we keep up with each other from afar.
19:41Very well.
19:43Under the circumstances, I shall consent to spend time in your odious company.
19:51May I?
19:58Yes.
19:59Only now lleva.
20:06Mole leave.
20:07Hello travels, sir.
20:10Thank God.
20:12Yes, your professorship, sir?
20:14One more for lunch.
20:17Yes, sir.
20:35I'm so glad you stopped by.
20:38Your efforts to find our daughter were very brave.
20:43Clara will be down in a moment to thank you in person.
20:46But my husband and I are very anxious to express our gratitude.
20:50So we thought, since you will accept no reward, perhaps you would consider the offer to join our household.
20:59Excuse me?
21:00In the capacity of Clara's personal chaperone, given recent events, I would feel more secure if Clara had someone with
21:08whom to go to dress shops and to the theater and other social engagements.
21:16Would Clara enjoy this sort of company?
21:19She has no friends in London.
21:22And you've proven to be loyal and discreet.
21:25And it would mean quite a step up in your social standing, Amelia.
21:29Just think of all the great events to which you would be adjacent.
21:37Oh, look, there she is now.
21:40Clara, darling, look who's come for a visit.
21:42How very kind you are, Amelia.
21:44And with everything else you have to do.
21:46But I'm afraid I'm not yet quite myself.
21:51Perhaps if you're able to return next week?
21:53Don't be silly, Clara, sit.
21:57I'll see about more tea while you think, Amelia.
22:00I shouldn't be gone longer than it takes the kettle to boil.
22:08Please don't say you've come to tell my parents everything.
22:11Why shouldn't I?
22:12You stole your own mother's jewels.
22:15You weren't kidnapped, but willingly left with Charlie, who is now in prison and liable to hang.
22:20No, Charlie cannot hang unless I testify against him.
22:23And my father has invoked diplomatic immunity to keep me out of court.
22:28Diplomatic immunity won't protect you from the insurance company.
22:31The what?
22:32Your father has filed a claim against the missing jewels.
22:35A private investigator is on the way, is perhaps already here, to find out how they were stolen.
22:42But what am I to do?
22:44Go ahead and lie.
22:46Why not add a fraud of 50,000 pounds to your list of crimes?
22:52Dear God, what have I done?
22:55My father will be sent home in disgrace, and no one will ever marry me.
23:00Oh, stop crying.
23:02Your mother will be back any moment, and you can't look hysterical.
23:06Of course you'll be able to marry.
23:07No, you don't understand.
23:10You are a person of no importance, and can wed whom you choose.
23:14I am not so fortunate.
23:18And if my secret should be discovered?
23:23What a desperate predicament.
23:26As you are obviously aware, many of the small businesses in which I have maintained an interest...
23:32Gambling, fraud, opium, have been absorbed by the Red Thread, and some of my trusted lieutenants along with them.
23:38And you are unable to move against this presumptuous criminal syndicate, whilst Watson and the landlady remain in their power.
23:46I wonder.
23:47You wonder what?
23:48Attempting to control your behavior through hostages is dangerous and clumsy.
23:52If the Thread are truly worried about your conduct...
23:56Then why not just kill me?
23:59I see confinement has not dimmed your intellect, which is, as ever, entirely wasted.
24:05Leaving you alive is a grave error.
24:08They will regret it as much as I.
24:11But you agree with my premise that to destroy the Red Thread would be to the advantage of us both?
24:16Oh, yes.
24:17I very much concur.
24:20Now, if I'm not mistaken, you're about to make a request, are you not?
24:24I am.
24:26Yes.
24:27Ostensibly, I have come to Newgate Prison to visit you.
24:31In reality, however, I should like to interview an agent of the Red Thread incarcerated here for kidnapping the American
24:37ambassador's daughter.
24:38I would must call you to beg for my assistance.
24:42Not at all.
24:43As you pointed out, our interests momentarily align, and it is well known that you are, in effect, if not
24:50in name, the Prince Regent of this prison.
24:53Oh, come, come.
24:54You exaggerate.
24:56More tea, Professor?
24:57Ah, perhaps half a cup.
25:00I agree.
25:01How would you get to and from this idiot cell?
25:04Mr. Dankworth would escort me there and bring me back.
25:07And to avoid being recognized in transit.
25:10I would temporarily change clothes with you.
25:14Well, well.
25:16I've always wondered what it's like inside that stuffed shirt of yours.
25:20Ah.
25:22But what about your horrifying face, which many a prisoner here has good reason to remember?
25:26Well, the coachman is newly arrived from America and will not recognize me.
25:31And as Mr. Dankworth leads me around, I shall wear this hood over my head, as do the most dangerous
25:39prisoners.
25:40For I am dangerous, my reality.
25:41Very dangerous.
25:42Lest you forget it.
25:44I have cause to recollect at every moment of my life.
25:49Are you not worried this coachman will consider you a spy, planted by the police?
25:55No.
25:56I have more information on him than the police, and some of it gathered from a source there he cannot
26:00question.
26:01So?
26:03And whom would that be?
26:06Clara?
26:07Clara!
26:08I never had to...
26:09Claire...
26:09Dear Lord.
26:11There you are.
26:12I'm sorry to interrupt, but I have a visitor who needs to talk to us.
26:17Clara's still recovering.
26:18Could this visitor not come back another time?
26:20I'm afraid not.
26:21Our daughter has been returned, but the jewels haven't.
26:23And our insurance claim against them must be pursued with urgency.
26:27I am sorry, young lady, to end your visit prematurely.
26:31But won't the investigator want to speak to me too?
26:34If he's going to be questioning Clara, I was there for some of it.
26:39Amelia's quite right.
26:40She helped rescue our daughter.
26:43Oh, very well.
26:45Wait here.
26:50Better watch your steps, huh?
27:10Here we are.
27:18What, sir?
27:21I won't remain in there a moment longer than necessary.
27:27Ah, Charlie.
27:28You have a gentleman visitor.
27:31No funny business now.
27:33Yeah, fine.
27:37Charlie Hallroyd, at your service.
27:39I'm not talking to anyone.
27:41Oh, you better have a lot to say.
27:43I'm coming to demand explanations for your betrayal.
27:46Demand.
27:50Blacken your eye, then see what you demand, old-timer.
27:56I owe you nothing.
27:57Are you sure about that?
28:03Perhaps you should reconsider.
28:10Even in here?
28:11And everywhere else you might hope to go.
28:13You can escape from the law, but never from us.
28:17If you value your life, you will tell me at once why you've deviated so far from our plan.
28:23If you know the plan, don't you tell me what it was.
28:26If you wish me to detail your mistakes, you were to get the stupid girl to fall in love with
28:33you, an easy enough task for a man of your appearance and disposition.
28:37Indeed, you were chosen for this assignment as much for your looks as your skill with horses.
28:43Once you had romance Miss Anderson in America, you were to convince her you wish to elope and steal her
28:49mother's jewels for a proper income.
28:51In reality, however, she was to be held hostage in exchange for her father's cooperation in a scheme I may
28:58not reveal.
28:59Well, I know anyway.
29:03Weems and Maggot mentioned keys they wanted the ambassador to hand over, but what they're meant to unlock, I have
29:07no idea.
29:08And then there is the matter of the jewels?
29:10Weems and Maggot told me to give the jewels to them.
29:12And did Weems and Maggot also order you to try and sell the jewels to one Mr. Clarence Halfpenny?
29:18Did they order you to take the girl with you back to America?
29:21Did they order you to burn the hostages and themselves alive in the coffin factory whilst you escaped?
29:27Burned alive?
29:28No, no, Weems and Maggot.
29:30They took the gems and the other hostages and rode away with them.
29:33Well, neither Weems nor Maggot nor the jewels nor the doctor and the housekeeper ever arrived at the rendezvous point.
29:39They're not at Richmond?
29:40And are missing still.
29:41And you tried to sail back to America with Clara where you thought to set up a pretty household with
29:46the stolen jewels.
29:47No, I don't have the jewels.
29:48Weems and Maggot have them, okay?
29:52Wait, no, no.
29:54We left the coffin factory because there was a call on the telephone from the police.
29:58We were tipped off by your man on the inside.
30:00I swear, ask him!
30:02And were you a part of that telephone call?
30:04Or did you only hear one side of the conversation?
30:07Did you consider it was staged for your benefit?
30:10Just so you would give out the jewels.
30:14Dankworth!
30:18Wait.
30:20Wait, no, no, I...
30:22I did try to run away with Clara, sure.
30:25But I fell in love with her.
30:26But I never...
30:27I never burned anyone.
30:29You have to believe me.
30:30I've told you everything.
30:32You have to believe me.
30:41Come this way, please.
30:43Mr. Bird Whistle.
30:45My wife, daughter, and her friend, Amelia.
30:49Bird Whistle, sir.
30:51A T, not a D.
30:53And no H, which would be silent in any case.
30:57My apologies, sir.
30:58My American ears sometimes fail me.
31:01Have you completed your inquiries?
31:03Only those which were least in port.
31:04The police have already determined the jewels were missing
31:07and that the arrested kidnapper did not have them.
31:10But I'm curious.
31:11I'm very curious as to why your wife's valuables
31:14were not in securing this bank
31:16instead of a box that could have been broken into by a child.
31:20As to why we had the jewels,
31:22they were stolen the very night we arrived from America.
31:25Then there's the little matter of
31:27the delay in reporting the theft
31:29after Clara went missing.
31:32Our daughter was abducted before we'd even unpacked.
31:34And at first we gave no thought to the gems.
31:38I instigated a search for them myself,
31:40hoping they were still present
31:41and could be found before further disturbing my wife.
31:44Well, I'm sure your discomfort was sevenfold
31:46when you learned the coachman had found his way
31:48into your wife's bedroom at night.
31:50Or was that not so unusual?
31:51I beg your pardon, sir.
31:53What the devil do you mean?
31:54Forgive me, please.
31:55There was no attempt to offend.
31:57I'm unfamiliar with how wealthy Americans
32:01conduct relations with their servants.
32:04It could hardly be called a relationship.
32:07Charlie worked for us in America
32:08and came here some weeks before us.
32:11And he was in and out of the house and stables
32:14during that entire time.
32:16What trust do you put in him?
32:19I'm sorry to have to say,
32:21but in retrospect, it appears careless.
32:24But wait.
32:25Hey, if the coachman was here some weeks before,
32:29how could he have known the jewels were in your bedroom?
32:32How the coachman knew anything is something to ask him.
32:35Do you want the Andersons to guess what he was thinking?
32:39Aren't you more interested in the facts?
32:41Well, my interest in the facts is all-consuming
32:43and I will know them before I'm done.
32:45Now, young Miss Anderson,
32:47I must hear all your recollections
32:49you've so far withheld from the police
32:52because the kidnapping and theft
32:54was so brilliantly conceived and daringly executed.
32:57I hope you might shed some light
32:59on how those crimes were carried out.
33:04Did you fool him good and proper?
33:06Is the red thread unraveled?
33:09Afraid a little?
33:10We'll see.
33:12Oh, you can tell me.
33:13A problem shared is a problem halved, as they say.
33:15Best we each work our own side of the street.
33:18On that point, you will have to trust me.
33:20Oddly, I don't think of us as trusting people.
33:23For example,
33:24did you really believe I would allow you to walk into my cell,
33:26ask for help,
33:28and then give me nothing in return?
33:29I've already said I would pursue our mutual interests,
33:32and to that end, please return my clothes.
33:34I must leave at once.
33:35Ah.
33:37Sherlock.
33:39I am at my leisure.
33:42I could, without difficulty,
33:44hold you here until nightfall, possibly beyond,
33:46unless you wish to leave this place dressed as a prisoner,
33:49with everyone knowing the true purpose of your visit.
33:51If you did that,
33:52I would stop at nothing to destroy you.
33:55Ah, but by that,
33:56it would be too late for Watson and Mrs. Hudson.
33:59No.
34:00You should not be leaving here before agreeing to my terms.
34:05This will not do.
34:07This will not do at all.
34:09No sleeping draught could have wiped out the memory of your whole ordeal.
34:13I forbid you from using that insinuating tone with my daughter.
34:16Do not mistake me for one of your pet Pinkertons,
34:20nor some London bobby cowering before diplomatic immunity.
34:23I will have the truth,
34:24or you will be paid nothing for your claim.
34:27Father, please let me answer him.
34:33As I told you, sir,
34:35I went to sleep in my room,
34:37and I woke inside the coffin with no memory of how I got there.
34:40I was kept inside the coffin,
34:42except for...
34:44those activities the body has no choice but to perform,
34:47and on these occasions, I was blindfolded.
34:50And every second of my confinement,
34:53I was in terror for my life and my honour.
34:56Well, where was the coachman during this?
34:59Who could I possibly know?
35:00And when did he take you from the coffin factory?
35:03How was it?
35:03You were on the brink of boarding a ship,
35:06holding his hand.
35:07Holding his hand.
35:08Amelia, please don't.
35:09I was there.
35:10I saw her get pulled from a dark box
35:13into the blinding light of day.
35:15How could you expect her
35:16to resist a dangerous criminal
35:19who was dragging her to the gates of the London dock?
35:22Would you like to examine her knees?
35:24Is that what you came here to do?
35:25Of course not.
35:26I see a ring on your finger.
35:28Tell me, Mr. Birdwhistle,
35:29did you court your wife by drugging her?
35:32Did you yank her to the altar at a coffin?
35:35Is that how you do things in the Birdwhistle household?
35:37That's quite enough, young lady.
35:38That's quite enough.
35:40Now, I apologize for the indelicate nature of my questions,
35:44but do understand,
35:46when there's tens of thousands of pounds at stake,
35:48I must be thorough.
35:50And thoroughness demands cruelty?
35:51Not at all.
35:53Amelia, is it?
35:55When you were present at the rescue?
35:58Perhaps I could speak to you in private.
36:01Well, of course you can.
36:02That's why we insisted on her being present.
36:06Allow me to show you out.
36:09Good day.
36:20You are a most unexpected sort of person.
36:24American, a maid, rescuer, stable lad, and attorney.
36:32You provided sound representation for Clara Anderson.
36:36I only said what you already know,
36:38which is the jewels have been stolen and can't be found.
36:43And there's so many places to look,
36:45such as the coffin factory,
36:47where at one point there were at least three hostages being held,
36:50and yet here you are covering old ground.
36:52Don't be impertinent.
36:53Besides which,
36:53I know the factory to be owned by Lord Withershey.
36:56And I assure you,
36:58Withershey is in possession of a considerable fortune,
37:00which he has no need to increase through kidnapping or thievery.
37:03And he will eventually comply with my request
37:07for a list of his partners and employees.
37:10Eventually?
37:12Why don't you have that list already?
37:14Is it because you can't bully Lord Withershey
37:16the way you just bullied a young, helpless girl?
37:19I'm a bully when he drives me.
37:21I do have other answers to teach you my methods,
37:24provided you don't already know everything.
37:26You show promise as an investigator
37:28and would likely take others off guard as you have me.
37:33Oh, think about it.
37:34For now, this is where we part ways.
37:37If you helped me find the jewels,
37:38it could be worth a bonus of,
37:40ooh, shall we show you £100?
37:43A fifth of what you were offered.
37:44How generous.
37:46Good day, Mr. Birtwhistle.
37:50She calls me a bully.
37:54Losing a child is difficult,
37:56especially when you've no one but yourself to blame.
38:00After my wife died,
38:01I was so concentrated on my work
38:03that I neglected my young son
38:05at an enormous cost.
38:07I remember the story.
38:08His name was, uh, Daniel.
38:10Daniel, or Dad,
38:12as we called him.
38:14But just before his tenth birthday,
38:16when I was away on the continent,
38:18Dan was arrested
38:19on some trifling matter.
38:23Connected to the theft
38:24of a clergyman's gold timepiece,
38:26as I recall.
38:27Gold plated.
38:31I like to think he meant it
38:33as a gift for me.
38:34In any case,
38:35during my absence,
38:37he was shipped off to Australia
38:38under the Home Children Act.
38:40But surely your corruptive influence
38:41was great even then.
38:43His pardon was quick, yes,
38:44but in the time it took to reach him,
38:47he had disappeared.
38:49Off to Melbourne, some said.
38:51None of my employees could find him.
38:54That was many years ago.
38:58Lately, however,
38:59there have been reports
39:00of a young Australian lad,
39:01newly arrived in London,
39:02who looks very much like
39:03a grown-up version of my Dan.
39:05Your story is almost
39:08endlessly Dickensian.
39:09Will I find my clothes,
39:10do you think, somewhere
39:10at the end of this plot?
39:12Well, I will return your suit,
39:13give my support
39:14in attacking the thread,
39:16maintain my silence
39:17about your kidnapped friends,
39:18if you agree
39:21to find my son
39:23and bring him here for a visit.
39:25Well, cannot your own organisation
39:27track him down?
39:28Has your small army
39:29of familiars utterly failed you?
39:30I cannot let my colleagues know
39:32that my own son
39:33dare ignore me.
39:34I doubt if you can understand
39:36what it's like to have a child.
39:39I'm not without imagination.
39:42I am very concerned
39:43that in their attempt
39:44to absorb my empire,
39:46the thread do no harm
39:47to my Dan.
39:49Very well.
39:51Very well,
39:51but I can accept
39:52no fee for this undertaking.
39:54I did not intend
39:55to offer you one.
39:56Well, it is usual
39:56when hiring
39:57a consulting detective.
39:58You're not being hired,
40:00you're being extorted.
40:01No, I'm doing you a favour
40:02and one much less onerous
40:04than I'd anticipated.
40:05What is it, Dankworth?
40:06I saw your professorship.
40:08It's a bit unusual
40:09concerns us all.
40:18I'm sorry, Holmes.
40:19Your presence here
40:20has become inconvenient.
40:20I regret you must rush away.
40:22Oh, we are well past the point.
40:24I might have rushed anywhere.
40:25Indeed, you have detained me
40:26almost past the point
40:27of human endurance.
40:29That is what this place
40:30was designed to do.
40:31Dankworth, please be certain
40:32Mr. Holmes has taken out
40:33in such a way
40:34that the contents of this note
40:35become clear to him.
40:40This way, sir.
40:42What's the problem, Mr. Dankworth?
40:43That's not the way I came in.
40:45No.
40:46That's the way you must leave.
40:52Right.
40:53Come on, Doc.
40:54Get his other one.
40:54That's it.
40:56Right, use him down.
40:58He's dead, governor.
40:59Killed himself
41:00and saved us the trouble.
41:17Get his other one.
42:09Let me up or I'll blow your head off.
42:14I had his choice.
42:40I had his choice.
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