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00:00:00The End
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00:01:43Who's there?
00:01:44Stuart, sir.
00:01:46I say, we're not at Dover yet, are we?
00:01:48No, sir, but there's a message for you, sir, in the wireless room.
00:01:51I'll be right there.
00:02:29I'll be right there.
00:02:30I'll be right there.
00:02:30I'll be right there.
00:02:30I'll be right there.
00:02:30I'll be right there.
00:03:03I'll be right there.
00:03:04Dover in 15 minutes.
00:03:15Dover in 15 minutes.
00:03:21Dover in 15 minutes.
00:03:52What must you think of me?
00:03:54Oh, please.
00:03:55I knew you were tired, so I kept very quiet.
00:03:58I wouldn't have awakened you for the world.
00:04:00You're very kind.
00:04:03Oh, you were telling me about your roses.
00:04:05Ah, yes, yes, my roses, my beautiful roses.
00:04:08I'm proud of my roses, sinfully proud.
00:04:12Oh, oh, yes, yes, we, uh...
00:04:17We must be getting into Dover.
00:04:23Well, bless my soul. Yes, indeed.
00:04:27Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:04:27I beg your pardon.
00:04:31Yes, yes, there are the white cliffs.
00:04:43You know, I've been dreading this moment.
00:04:45Why now?
00:04:46Well, you see, I have some exposed film in my camera,
00:04:49and they might make me open it.
00:04:51The customs, I mean.
00:04:52I should so hate to lose my little pictures.
00:04:55Oh, dear, that's too bad.
00:04:56I wonder. It would be a great favor.
00:04:59Would you mind taking care of it for me
00:05:01till we get to the customs, I mean?
00:05:02Well, I don't quite know.
00:05:05If you'll just say it's yours,
00:05:06being a clergyman,
00:05:07you're not subject to such rigid inspection.
00:05:10All right.
00:05:10Just a harmless little deception, eh?
00:05:13All right, my dear, all right.
00:05:20Oh, dear, it nearly fell overboard.
00:05:22Yes.
00:05:23Oh, dear.
00:05:38Are you a courier for the Royal Museum?
00:05:40Right.
00:05:41Bringing in the Borgia pole?
00:05:43That's it.
00:05:44I'll have it out for you in a jiffy.
00:05:49I say, that's a clever dodge.
00:05:51Needs to be for this, believe me.
00:05:53There you are.
00:06:03That message,
00:06:05sent to me on the boat,
00:06:07it was a hoax
00:06:08to get me out of my stateroom.
00:06:18Oh, there you are.
00:06:20I was afraid that...
00:06:21My dear, they...
00:06:22they didn't even question me.
00:06:24Oh, how can I ever think?
00:06:25Don't try.
00:06:26Just send me one of your photographs,
00:06:28will you?
00:06:28I'll be happy to.
00:06:29Goodbye.
00:06:30Goodbye.
00:06:31Goodbye.
00:06:31Goodbye.
00:06:33Goodbye.
00:06:33Goodbye.
00:06:34Goodbye.
00:06:34Goodbye.
00:06:36Goodbye.
00:06:36Goodbye.
00:06:40Why, Giles!
00:06:43Come on, get in.
00:06:47How many times must I caution you, my sweet,
00:06:50not to speak until the doors are shut?
00:06:52I'm sorry.
00:06:53I didn't expect you to meet me.
00:06:55Oh, I couldn't deny myself that pleasure.
00:06:58Now, I mean, you're more beautiful than ever.
00:07:01I'm glad to be back.
00:07:03Yes, and we're glad to have you back.
00:07:05We?
00:07:06Oh, an old friend of yours turned up quite unexpectedly.
00:07:10He's been asking for you.
00:07:12Who's that?
00:07:13I found him prowling round your room,
00:07:16making wistful little noises like a dog.
00:07:19No, it...
00:07:20it can't be.
00:07:21Yes, my dear, the creeper.
00:07:25I'm not going to the flat.
00:07:27Oh, you'll be quite safe.
00:07:28I have him under lock and key.
00:07:31Now to business.
00:07:32What luck?
00:07:33See for yourself.
00:07:35I stuffed it with paper to stop it from rattling.
00:07:39It's absolutely the biggest pearl I've ever seen.
00:07:51I don't understand.
00:07:53You've been had, my dear.
00:07:55Properly had.
00:07:59My dear Conover,
00:08:00forgive me if I take the liberty of returning the bourgeois pearl
00:08:03to its lawful owners.
00:08:05Devotedly, S.H.
00:08:06Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street.
00:08:18Well, you won't tell me what you've been doing.
00:08:21One thing at a time, old boy.
00:08:22Let me get off this make-up.
00:08:24Oh, I'm as stiff as a varnished eel.
00:08:26It still doesn't answer my question.
00:08:28What have you been up to?
00:08:29A little bit of hijacking, old boy.
00:08:32Reach into the inside pocket of that coat
00:08:34that you're about to throw aside.
00:08:37What do you find there?
00:08:38A pocketbook?
00:08:40Open it.
00:08:42Take out what you see.
00:08:45Your fingers have now closed on a matter of 50,000 pounds.
00:08:48What?
00:08:50Can't be real.
00:08:52Real as death, old fellow.
00:08:53The blood of 20 men upon it, down through the centuries.
00:08:56Where do you get it?
00:08:58From a charming young lady, Naomi Drake.
00:09:01Elias Yvette Tejou.
00:09:02Elias Lisa Vanini.
00:09:04Never heard of her.
00:09:04No, nor of Giles Conover either, I fancy.
00:09:08Well, I can't say that I have.
00:09:10That's the incredible thing about it, Watson.
00:09:12This man pervades Europe like a plague.
00:09:14Yet no one has heard of him.
00:09:16That's what puts him on the pinnacle in the records of crime.
00:09:18What's he do?
00:09:21Everything and nothing.
00:09:23In his whole diabolical career,
00:09:26the police have never been able to pin anything on him.
00:09:29And yet, show me crime without motive,
00:09:32robbery without a clue,
00:09:34murder without a trace,
00:09:36and I'll show you Giles Conover.
00:09:40That's amazing.
00:09:41Two years ago, he disappeared from his usual haunts.
00:09:44I've every reason to believe that he...
00:09:46Oh, here it is.
00:09:47I've every reason to believe that he's back in England again.
00:09:55If I could free society of this sinister creature,
00:09:59I should feel that my own career had reached its summit.
00:10:01What is that stuff?
00:10:02Then you think Carnival's behind the theft of this poem?
00:10:05I was never more sure of anything in my life.
00:10:07Excuse me.
00:10:14Shh.
00:10:16Listen.
00:10:27Pearl, quick, hide it.
00:10:38Turn out that light.
00:10:52Why, Mr. Holmes.
00:10:54My apologies, Lister Arnd.
00:10:55I was expecting Mr. Giles Conover.
00:10:56Come in, won't you?
00:11:01Good evening, Dr. Watson.
00:11:03Good evening.
00:11:04I take it Scotland Yard has been notified of the theft of the Borgia Pearl?
00:11:07Yes, but...
00:11:09But...
00:11:09Give it to him, Watson.
00:11:13What?
00:11:14Well, I never.
00:11:15There's a fine way to treat the Borgia Pearl.
00:11:17I assure you, Lister Arnd, I shall not feel safe until this pearl is in the deepest vault of the
00:11:24Royal Regent Museum.
00:11:48I shall not tell you, Digby, I shall be glad to see the last of you, Precious Pearl.
00:11:51Well, Precious is a feeble word, Holmes.
00:11:54Look at its flawless skin.
00:11:56Its...
00:11:57Its matchless symmetry.
00:11:59It's a miracle of beauty.
00:12:01A miracle of horror?
00:12:02Steady on, now.
00:12:03Isn't that a bit strong?
00:12:04Is it?
00:12:04Hmm.
00:12:05Think of its blood-stained history.
00:12:07Think of all the misery it's brought to the poor wretches who laid greedy hands on it.
00:12:11Alexander Borgia died twisted and blacked of poison.
00:12:14Carlos of Spain became a driveling madman.
00:12:16A disastrous jewel, Digby.
00:12:18The world would be much better off if it were sunk in the ocean from which it came.
00:12:21Oh, really, Mr. Holmes.
00:12:22We'd hardly treat a national treasure in such a cavalier fashion.
00:12:27If you'd kindly open the case, Inspector.
00:12:29Certainly, sir.
00:12:45Ah, there.
00:12:46All snug and safe.
00:12:47You call that safe?
00:12:49I've told you Giles Conover's after that, Pearl.
00:12:51Under the circumstances, wouldn't it be better to place a guard over it?
00:12:54It has a hundred guards over it at this very moment.
00:12:58Well, my eyes must be faying me.
00:12:59I don't understand.
00:13:00What's to prevent anyone smashing the glass and flinching it?
00:13:04Would you like to try it, Dr. Watson?
00:13:05I certainly would.
00:13:06Don't bother smashing the glass.
00:13:08I'll open it for you.
00:13:11Ah, there.
00:13:12Help yourself.
00:13:29Mr. Digby.
00:13:30Don't be alarmed, Bates.
00:13:31Merely a demonstration.
00:13:33May I have the pearl, Doctor?
00:13:37What, again?
00:13:39What?
00:13:54That allays your fears, I trust, Dr. Watson.
00:13:57If you'll step into my office, gentlemen, I'll explain to you what happened.
00:14:02Well, how does the thing work?
00:14:05Electricity.
00:14:05The high priest to false security.
00:14:10As you have noticed, gentlemen, we are well protected.
00:14:13Every article in this museum is so placed that its removal creates a contact.
00:14:18Very ingenious.
00:14:24Tell me, Digby, just where in the building is the control of this ingenious electrical
00:14:28safety device?
00:14:29The wires are in this room.
00:14:31Naturally, they're not exposed.
00:14:33Oh, not naturally.
00:14:35Well, Watson, I think our usefulness here has ended.
00:14:37Goodbye, Digby.
00:14:37Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
00:14:39It's been most interesting.
00:14:40Thank you very much.
00:14:41Goodbye, Mr. Digby.
00:14:42Goodbye, Doctor.
00:14:42Oh, good day, Inspector.
00:14:45Good day, sir.
00:14:47Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:14:49Oh, accidents will happen, Richard.
00:15:01Hello.
00:15:04Why were you going?
00:15:06My new edge.
00:15:13My apologies, Digby.
00:15:14Oh, no harm done, I assure you.
00:15:16On the contrary, I'm afraid the greatest harm has been done.
00:15:18I beg your pardon?
00:15:19Are all the objects of art in this room connected with your protective system?
00:15:23Well, most of them.
00:15:24But why?
00:15:25This, uh, Hogarth etching, for instance, is it connected?
00:15:31Most certainly.
00:15:33It's a priceless original.
00:15:34Take it down, will you, Watson?
00:15:35Not me.
00:15:36Once bitten, twice shy.
00:15:37Oh, tosh.
00:15:38I'm not afraid of guards and gongs.
00:15:48But, but, uh, I don't understand.
00:15:52W-what's happened?
00:15:53Why don't the gongs ring?
00:15:55Now, I'll tell you why.
00:15:55Because your whole elaborate system here isn't worth a brass barbing.
00:15:58But, what?
00:15:58It all depends on three wires behind that strip of Chinese embroidery.
00:16:02Who told you?
00:16:03You told me yourself.
00:16:04What?
00:16:04You said the wires weren't exposed.
00:16:06The only unexposed wall space in this room
00:16:13It's behind this embroidery.
00:16:15While you were picking up those ornaments,
00:16:16I disconnected these wires.
00:16:19Just to show you how absurdly easy it would be for anyone,
00:16:22far less ingenious and far less resourceful than Giles Conover,
00:16:25to do the same thing.
00:16:26Now, will you listen to me when I tell you to lock that pearl
00:16:28in the deepest, darkest vaults in all England?
00:16:42Stop, thief!
00:16:45Stop, thief!
00:16:47Open the door!
00:16:59Come on!
00:17:00It is gone!
00:17:02A workman took it, sir.
00:17:03Bates is after him.
00:17:04I don't understand.
00:17:05The gongs never rang and the shutters never closed.
00:17:07No, the wires were disconnected, thanks to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:17:13A grateful nation owes you a memorial, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:17You demonstrated your cleverness, oh, most brilliantly.
00:17:21You did put your foot in it, and no mistake, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:25Nonsense.
00:17:25How is he to know that anyone...
00:17:27Oh, elementary, my dear Watson.
00:17:29By his deductive reasoning, of course.
00:17:31Oh, shut up, Mr. Howard.
00:17:33Deductive reason.
00:17:34Giving away the Borgia pearl like a pound of tea.
00:17:39Fifty thousand pounds.
00:17:41Not tea.
00:17:44What's this?
00:17:46The man who wanted to be caught, Mr. Giles Conover.
00:17:50How are you, Mr. Holmes?
00:17:51But I don't understand.
00:17:53This is one of our workmen.
00:17:54He's been employed here for weeks.
00:17:55He came highly recommended.
00:17:57Yes, I have no doubt of it.
00:17:58Every employee of this museum is scrupulously investigated.
00:18:01I did, Igby.
00:18:02Mr. Conover is a man of infinite resource and precaution.
00:18:04Oh, thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:18:06It's just a bare chance that his accomplice, Miss Nermy Drake,
00:18:09might not get away with that pearl on the boat from Ostend to Dover.
00:18:12Pearl?
00:18:13What pearl?
00:18:14Who are you getting at?
00:18:15Did you search him, Bates?
00:18:16Yes, Inspector, but there's not a thing on him.
00:18:18He might have swallowed it.
00:18:20No, he hasn't got it.
00:18:21Or he would never have allowed Bates to catch him.
00:18:23While he was running away, did he stop?
00:18:25Did he meet anybody?
00:18:26Why, yes, sir.
00:18:27As he went around the corner, he bumped into a woman.
00:18:29Did you get a good look at her?
00:18:30No, sir.
00:18:31Not good enough.
00:18:32Ah, that's where you lost your pearl.
00:18:34That woman was an accomplice.
00:18:35Same girl that was on the boat, eh?
00:18:37Possibly.
00:18:37In any event, may I suggest, Lestrade, that you hold Mr. Conover?
00:18:40Now, come now, Mr. Holmes.
00:18:42Haven't you made enough mistakes for one day?
00:18:44There's no crime, you know, in taking a job in a museum.
00:18:47There's no crime in running when you're being chased.
00:18:50Just what am I being held for?
00:18:52Uh, window breaking?
00:18:56Thank you, Mr. Conover.
00:18:57Take him away, officer.
00:19:02How long can you hold him?
00:19:03Well, that's what he said.
00:19:04Strictly speaking, we can't.
00:19:05One day?
00:19:06Two?
00:19:07Well, make it two.
00:19:09Good.
00:19:09Good?
00:19:10What's good about it?
00:19:10We don't want him.
00:19:11We want the pearl.
00:19:12That's just what I'm getting at, Watson.
00:19:14One of two things has happened.
00:19:16Either the woman he bumped into was an accomplice,
00:19:18in which case she has the pearl,
00:19:19or he managed somehow to conceal it in his flight.
00:19:22If he had to stick that pearl in some makeshift hiding place,
00:19:25he'll never rest until his confederates
00:19:27have it safely in their hams.
00:19:29He'll try to send them a message.
00:19:31We ought to give him every opportunity.
00:19:34But how?
00:19:35Uh, may I suggest, Lestrade,
00:19:37that, uh, he's permitted to, uh,
00:19:40have his food sent in from the outside?
00:19:42Huh?
00:19:45Oh.
00:19:57Here we are, Inspector.
00:19:58Here was his trade just the way Mr. Conover left it.
00:20:01Oh.
00:20:02Ten to one, there's a message in there somewhere.
00:20:04Yes?
00:20:04What makes you so blinking sure there's a message in it?
00:20:06Because he asked me for a lend of me pencil, that's why,
00:20:09and he promised me a quid if I'd keep me math shut.
00:20:12Oh, he did, did he?
00:20:13Cunning, ain't he?
00:20:15Well, there's some that's cunning.
00:20:17He's got the wrong pig by the ears as Mr. Giles Conover.
00:20:21Yes.
00:20:22He hasn't got Mr. Sherlock Holmes to deal with.
00:20:25BEEP!
00:20:28Oh, nothing there.
00:20:31There might be a note stuck on underneath.
00:20:35Oh.
00:20:37Seeing eye, that's what you've got to have.
00:20:39Nothing much gets by you, Inspector.
00:20:41Oh, we all slip up once in a while.
00:20:43No one's infallible, you know.
00:20:49There might be a note stuck on you, Inspector.
00:20:49That's funny.
00:20:50That's funny.
00:20:59That's funny.
00:21:01Gotcha, Mr. Giles Conover.
00:21:03Here, hang on to this.
00:21:04What is it?
00:21:05Your suit, see?
00:21:06A note to his accomplice or I'm a Dutchman.
00:21:09Yes.
00:21:10Fancy me pulling Mr. Sherlock Holmes' chestnuts out of the fire.
00:21:14Here she comes.
00:21:15Thought he'd fool me, didn't he?
00:21:17Bless the little man.
00:21:18This will tell us where the Borgia Pearl is.
00:21:20It means promotion for me, sure as you're alive.
00:21:29What'd it say?
00:21:30Why do you care what it says?
00:21:31It didn't say where the Borgia Pearl was at, Inspector.
00:21:34Just you clear up this truck.
00:21:35That's all you've got to do and see if it gets back to the restaurant.
00:21:37Very good, Inspector.
00:21:43Holmes and his theories.
00:21:48Holmes and his theories.
00:22:12Now there, Micah, don't get a move on, will you?
00:22:15What are you staring at that plate for?
00:22:16Oh, I ain't a staring at it now I'm washing it, see?
00:22:19Well, I ain't paying you to go to sleep on your feet, you know.
00:22:22Oh, go on, you old bag of grease.
00:22:25Wash your own dirty dishes.
00:22:27See?
00:22:28Here, you can't do that there, here.
00:22:31Lovely weather, ain't it?
00:22:33Well, I...
00:22:51Holmes, you drive me raving mad.
00:22:54Standing there scraping on that filthy fiddle as if you haven't got a care in the world.
00:22:57All the time your reputation's been dragged in the mud.
00:23:00My dear Watson, I really must caution you against hitting newspaper reporters in the teeth.
00:23:06It, uh...
00:23:07It isn't dignified.
00:23:08Well, he deserved it, the idiot.
00:23:09But how did you know I struck a reporter?
00:23:12Observation, my dear fellow.
00:23:13You come in here with two copies of the morning paper.
00:23:16A thing you never do unless there's an article you wish to clip for your files.
00:23:19You talk about my reputation being dragged in the mud.
00:23:22Obviously, I've been the subject of a scurrilous attack
00:23:24in connection with the theft of the Borgia Pearl.
00:23:26You certainly have.
00:23:27This article practice suggests that you stood a profit by the deal.
00:23:30That it implies that you were working with Conover.
00:23:33Yes, I'm afraid I'm for it, Watson.
00:23:35Indeed you are.
00:23:35But, uh...
00:23:36How did you know I struck the fellow?
00:23:38Oh, that.
00:23:39Well, you come in here, jumping off the handle at me.
00:23:42You're rating me like a mother who boxes her child's ears.
00:23:44After snatching it from under a train.
00:23:47A very human impulse, Watson.
00:23:48And one that suggests that you've been, uh...
00:23:51Taking up the cudgels on my behalf.
00:23:52What a remarkable deduction.
00:23:54Not when you consider that the skin is missing
00:23:56from the first and second knuckles of your right hand.
00:23:58Didn't hurt.
00:24:00Good old Watson.
00:24:02It's like you to stand by a man who's been discredited.
00:24:06Oh, rubbish.
00:24:07We've been in tighter spots than this.
00:24:09Not many, I'm afraid.
00:24:10Well, come along, old fellow.
00:24:13What have we here?
00:24:15Kippers.
00:24:16Kippers, splendid.
00:24:17I'm as hungry as a bee on a flower.
00:24:20Come in.
00:24:23Don't get up.
00:24:25I haven't got a minute.
00:24:27I've just popped in to tell you...
00:24:28I know.
00:24:29To tell me that you can't hold Conover any longer.
00:24:31In fact, you've already let him go.
00:24:34Never, Doc.
00:24:35How did you know?
00:24:36Elementary, my dear Lestrade.
00:24:38You know as well as I do
00:24:38that you can't hold a man for more than 48 hours
00:24:40without bringing a charge against him.
00:24:41That's right.
00:24:44Have one, won't you?
00:24:45Thanks.
00:24:46Well, I've got to be off.
00:24:47Off to solve another baffling crime, I suppose?
00:24:50Oh, you might call you that, Doctor.
00:24:52But to me, it's just another routine murder.
00:24:55Oh?
00:24:55Who is it?
00:24:56A bloke named Harker.
00:24:57Military man.
00:24:58Harker.
00:24:59Horace Harker?
00:25:01That's right, you know.
00:25:02I've heard of him.
00:25:03Horace Harker?
00:25:04Yes, I remember him.
00:25:05He's a major in India.
00:25:08He's retarded.
00:25:09So he's been murdered, has he?
00:25:11Well, had his back broke.
00:25:14Well, I've got to be off.
00:25:17Wait a minute.
00:25:18What did you say?
00:25:20Had his back broke.
00:25:21You know.
00:25:22Spine snapped.
00:25:25That's it.
00:25:26That's what?
00:25:27It's come at last, Watson.
00:25:29The thing we've been waiting for.
00:25:31Hold on, hold on.
00:25:32Keep your shirt on.
00:25:33There's no mystery about it.
00:25:35He must have fallen down in the struggle.
00:25:37That's all.
00:25:38Nonsense.
00:25:39Yes, of course, Watson.
00:25:40What is all this?
00:25:41We're giving Lestrade a hand.
00:25:42Well, the Borgia Pearl.
00:25:43We can't afford...
00:25:44Borgia Pearl, we're after.
00:25:45Come on, Lestrade.
00:25:46I don't want an hand.
00:25:47Borgia Pearl, we're out.
00:25:48Give him Lestrade a hand.
00:25:55Lestrade...
00:25:57And this is exactly how you found him?
00:25:59Yes, sir.
00:26:00Nobody's touched him but the police surgeon.
00:26:02Back broken, eh?
00:26:02Snapped clean, sir.
00:26:04Died instantaneous, the doctor said.
00:26:05Mr. Albert, you mind if Dr. Watson has a look at him?
00:26:08Not at all.
00:26:09Watson, I'd like to know whether the break is cervical, thoracic, or lumbar.
00:26:13And I'll wager it's lumbar.
00:26:15Oh, tosh.
00:26:16Who found the body, Murdoch?
00:26:18She did, sir.
00:26:18His housekeeper.
00:26:19Oh.
00:26:20Said she came in to clear away his supper things and found him lying there.
00:26:24And that's the first and last word we've been able to get out of her.
00:26:26Oh, it is, is it?
00:26:27Well, I'll soon get a word out of her.
00:26:28Yeah, you.
00:26:28I shouldn't do that if I were you, Lestrade.
00:26:30Why not?
00:26:30The woman's suffering from shock.
00:26:34Close to catalepsy, if you ask me.
00:26:35Well, I ain't asking you, Mr. Owens.
00:26:37Naturally.
00:26:38Get her out of here, Murdoch.
00:26:40Get her to an hospital.
00:26:42Can't you see he's suffering from cat...
00:26:43From shock?
00:26:44Come on, now.
00:26:46Nobody's going to hurt you.
00:26:57Hmm.
00:26:58Major Harker seems to have thought very highly of Napoleon.
00:27:01He's rather overdone it.
00:27:07Hmm.
00:27:08I don't think much of that one.
00:27:10Where was the break, Watson?
00:27:12One of the lumbar vertebrae, as you thought.
00:27:15The third vertebrae.
00:27:16I can't for the life may imagine how it happened.
00:27:19I can.
00:27:20Oh, really?
00:27:21Well, it happened just as I thought.
00:27:24The housebreaker comes in through this window over here.
00:27:27So you see, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I shan't be needing you after all.
00:27:30Simple as ABC, isn't it?
00:27:32Yeah.
00:27:32The murderer comes in through that open window.
00:27:35Major Harker's having supper over there with his back to him.
00:27:38Carry on.
00:27:39Well, he tiptoes over behind his victim ear.
00:27:44Harker rises, they come to grips.
00:27:46They barge all around the room, bang into this table.
00:27:49Dishes go every which way.
00:27:50Harker falls and breaks his back.
00:27:52Simple, ain't it?
00:27:53So simple, my dear Lestrade, as to be almost childish.
00:27:57For instance, will you kindly explain how the dishes that were on this table could have been knocked off in
00:28:03the struggle and this silver milk jug left standing and all these knives and forks and spoons in perfect arrangement?
00:28:08Well, Mr. Holmes, if it's the psychology of knives and forks and milk jugs you're talking about, I beg to
00:28:13be excused.
00:28:14I'm trying to account for this broken china, Lestrade.
00:28:16That's the outstanding feature of this case, whether you know it or not.
00:28:19All these broken plates.
00:28:21Plaster ornaments, bric-a-brac.
00:28:23Why was all this china smashed and nothing else disturbed?
00:28:26Why?
00:28:26Yes, and how about his back being broken?
00:28:29A man can't just fall down and break his back in that casual way, you know.
00:28:32Right you are, Watson.
00:28:34External force is indicated.
00:28:35There's no doubt about it.
00:28:36Major Harker's back was broken deliberately.
00:28:39I suppose you're going to tell us just who did it.
00:28:41Yes, I think I can.
00:28:43I've never known but one killer who used that technique.
00:28:46What?
00:28:47Oh, come on.
00:28:48He's dead and dumb for.
00:28:50You remember him?
00:28:51Am I likely to forget the Oxton Creeper?
00:28:54Oxton Creeper?
00:28:55Oxton Auror, I called him.
00:28:57A monster, Watson.
00:28:59With the chest of a buffalo and the arms of a gorilla.
00:29:01His particular method of murder is back-breaking.
00:29:04And it's always the same.
00:29:05A third lumbar vertebra.
00:29:07How horrible.
00:29:09Do you mean to stand there and tell me you think he's still alive?
00:29:12Why, they got him two years ago, trying to escape from Devil's Island.
00:29:15Did they?
00:29:16Yeah.
00:29:16I wonder.
00:29:17I'll lay you odds he's in London at this very moment.
00:29:19All right, Mr. Holmes.
00:29:20You stick to your theories, I'll stick to my facts.
00:29:22That's fair enough.
00:29:23Do me a favor, will you?
00:29:24Anything your little heart desires.
00:29:26This broken china.
00:29:27If it all swept up carefully and sent to me at Baker Street, will you?
00:29:30All right.
00:29:31But what do you want it for, anyway?
00:29:33Oh, just a souvenir.
00:29:35Come along, Watson.
00:29:36I think our usefulness here has ended.
00:29:38Mind you, sweep it all up, Lestrade.
00:29:44As a matter of fact, Watson, what I did not tell Lestrade, since I can't prove it,
00:29:49is that the Hoxton Creeper has always been Giles Conover's right arm when it comes to killing.
00:29:53And when you heard that Major Harker's back was broken, you suspected the Creeper, eh?
00:29:57Naturally.
00:29:58It can't be mere coincidence.
00:30:00But the Creeper comes back into the scene just as Giles Conover reappears in London.
00:30:04I see, but how does Harker tie up with that gang?
00:30:07In the foggiest notion.
00:30:09Buy a box of magic, gentlemen.
00:30:12But there is a connection.
00:30:14Well, Harker wouldn't be lying there now with his back broken.
00:30:17My surmise is that Giles Conover's lost the Borgia Pearl
00:30:20and is trying desperately to get it back, just as we are.
00:30:23You really think so?
00:30:25I am just as sure of it as I am that we are being shadowed at this very moment.
00:30:30Nice one, Watson.
00:30:31Come on.
00:30:45Listen.
00:30:47Have you got your revolver?
00:30:49Yes.
00:30:49Now get it ready.
00:30:50Huh?
00:30:54Get it, sir.
00:30:55No, thank you.
00:30:56Come on, Watson.
00:31:08Conover's gang.
00:31:09We're on the right track, Watson.
00:31:13Due primarily to the brilliant work of Inspector Lestrade.
00:31:17Brilliant work of Inspector Lestrade.
00:31:20Rubbish.
00:31:23Lestrade couldn't even see the stripes on a zebra.
00:31:29Hello.
00:31:30Housekeeper Herald.
00:31:32Arrested the housekeeper.
00:31:33Whoa!
00:31:34How could a little woman of that size break a man's back?
00:31:37Lestrade's an idiot.
00:31:39What the dear public don't know it.
00:31:42The dear public won't worry about.
00:31:44Hmm.
00:31:44Hmm.
00:31:45Hmm.
00:31:45Hmm.
00:31:47Hmm.
00:31:48Hmm.
00:31:49It's funny.
00:31:52Had it here a moment ago.
00:31:56Ordinary thing.
00:32:00What do you think?
00:32:05Lestrade.
00:32:07Oh, uh, what would Holmes do?
00:32:10I know.
00:32:12Reconstruct.
00:32:13Yeah, reconstructed.
00:32:14That's it.
00:32:15Well, I would sit in here.
00:32:17Got the cutting.
00:32:19Paste.
00:32:21Reach for a pipe.
00:32:24Matches.
00:32:25Lime.
00:32:27Oh, then.
00:32:29It ought to be...
00:32:32And so it is.
00:32:35Eureka.
00:32:37Well done.
00:32:38Yes.
00:32:38Pure deductive reasoning.
00:32:40When I was telling Holmes about that, he couldn't have done better himself.
00:32:46The first door in the right, sir.
00:32:48Oh, thank you.
00:32:49Thank you, madam.
00:32:56No.
00:33:10No.
00:33:11No.
00:33:11No.
00:33:12No.
00:33:13No.
00:33:14No.
00:33:39Come in.
00:33:45Dr. Watson, I believe. Is Mr. Holmes in?
00:33:49Pretty's out, sir. He'll be back any minute. Won't you come in and wait?
00:33:53Thank you very much. Thank you.
00:34:03Sit down, sir.
00:34:06Have a cigarette?
00:34:07No, thank you, no. The doctor won't allow me to smoke cigarettes.
00:34:12But, uh, may I?
00:34:15Yes, yes, sir. You'll find matches on the table.
00:34:17Oh, thank you very much.
00:34:20You know, my health has never been the same since that dreadful affair at Farnsworth Castle.
00:34:26Farnsworth Castle?
00:34:28The Farnsworth's cave. I thought I recognized you.
00:34:31Uh, just a minute. I'll tell you who you are.
00:34:35Really?
00:34:35Yes. Simple deduction. The bowed shoulders of the scholar. The open countenance of the churchman.
00:34:42You must be Lord Farnsworth's brother. Archdeacon Farnsworth.
00:34:47No, sir. I'm no archdeacon.
00:34:51Oh, then. Then you're the man who found the body in the bathtub.
00:34:54Oh, it was the butler who found the body, and, uh, it was in the cupboard.
00:34:59Oh, that's it. Uh, strangled, wasn't he?
00:35:02No, no shot.
00:35:03Oh, shot, yes, of course, shot, yes. Uh, Lord Farnsworth's uncle, wasn't he?
00:35:09I am Lord Farnsworth's uncle.
00:35:12Oh, well, of course, my mistake. You're Lord Farnsworth's uncle.
00:35:15Uh, uh, and your... your name is, um...
00:35:20Theophilus Kirby, Lord Farnsworth's uncle and biographer.
00:35:24Oh, of course, I... I remember you well.
00:35:27I... Holmes will be very glad to see you. He... he may be a bit late.
00:35:30Uh, by the way, as he isn't here, if there's, uh, if there's anything that I can do,
00:35:36same, uh, same training as Holmes, pure deductive reasoning.
00:35:41For example, uh, I can see that, uh, that you're in trouble.
00:35:46On the contrary, sir, I've never been happier.
00:35:50Oh, well, I'm safe. I've never been happier.
00:35:53I've been looking for some little token of gratitude
00:35:56which I could give to Mr. Holmes.
00:35:59And at last, I think I've found something that he'll appreciate.
00:36:05It's Dr. Johnson's great dictionary, an early folio.
00:36:10Early folio? Dr. Johnson's dictionary?
00:36:13Well, uh, I'm sure that he'd be very excited about that, isn't he?
00:36:16Very kind of you.
00:36:17Yeah.
00:36:18I'm a bit of a book collector myself.
00:36:20Oh, no, please, please. I, I... I've inscribed a little dedication.
00:36:24It may be a little flowery, perhaps, but, well, it's straight from my heart.
00:36:29To his, I hope. And, uh, it's just a little private.
00:36:33Oh, yes, of course, a little private. And you want him to be the first to read it.
00:36:36That, that, that is so. You're very understanding, sir. Thank you very much.
00:36:41Now, I'm afraid I must go. I'm sorry, I can't stay any longer.
00:36:44Don't you worry about the book, sir. I give you my word that Sherlock Holmes will be the first person
00:36:49to, to open it.
00:36:50Oh, that makes me very happy, sir. Very happy.
00:36:54Goodbye, sir.
00:36:55Goodbye, doctor.
00:36:56I'm sorry you can't stay.
00:36:57Goodbye, sir.
00:37:10Assemblyman 57. Hmm.
00:37:14Well, I told you.
00:37:15Must be worth a lot of money, eh?
00:37:19Father.
00:37:24Eh?
00:37:26Who? Mrs. Pennyweather?
00:37:28I don't know Mrs. Pennyweather here. This is Dr. Watson.
00:37:31Mrs. Pennyweather. Wrong number, sir.
00:37:33I don't think Holmes would mind if I just...
00:37:49Come in, come in.
00:37:54Oh, hello Mrs. Hudson.
00:37:56I brought you tea, and when Mr. Holmes comes in,
00:37:59see that he eats a bite like a good soul.
00:38:01Certainly, my dear. I'll be glad to.
00:38:03I have a hard time getting him to eat.
00:38:07Good afternoon, Mrs. Hudson.
00:38:09Oh, I just brought you tea.
00:38:11And be sure you drink it.
00:38:12I will.
00:38:14Hello, Watson.
00:38:15Hello. Too bad you're late.
00:38:17Old chap was here to see you.
00:38:19Oh?
00:38:19Sorry to have missed you.
00:38:20What old chap?
00:38:22Theophilus Kirby.
00:38:23Lord Farnsworth, uncle.
00:38:25You remember the Farnsworth case?
00:38:26Yes, indeed I do.
00:38:27And I remember Theophilus Kirby, too.
00:38:29Quite a scholar.
00:38:31And like most scholars,
00:38:33poor as church mass. What's he won?
00:38:36He brought you a present.
00:38:38First folio of Dr. Johnson's dictionary.
00:38:40Book must be worth a lot of money.
00:38:42He... he's written an inscription in it, bless his heart.
00:38:46Out of... out of gratitude.
00:38:48That's very nice of him.
00:38:48Like to have a look at it?
00:38:49Have a cup of tea?
00:38:50Oh, thanks old boy.
00:38:51Put it down there.
00:38:53Gratitude is a rare quality in these days.
00:38:55Let's see what he wrote.
00:38:59Watson, have you been smoking a cigar?
00:39:01No.
00:39:02The old boy smoked one.
00:39:04Kirby wasn't a smoking man as I remember him.
00:39:13And even if he were,
00:39:16he wouldn't be smoking a Bolivar cabinet size.
00:39:18Imported from Havana, especially for connoisseurs.
00:39:21Well, if you're not sure of him,
00:39:22there are plenty of samples of his writing on the shelves over there.
00:39:25Why don't you compare them with...
00:39:26Don't touch that book.
00:39:27What?
00:39:28Give it to me.
00:39:32I'm sorry, Watson.
00:39:33But unless I'm greatly mistaken,
00:39:36you've been entertaining Mr. Giles Conover.
00:39:38What?
00:39:38Stand back from that book.
00:39:45Great Scott!
00:39:47He meant that for you.
00:39:50Oh, that's very gratifying.
00:39:53Gratifying?
00:39:54Certainly.
00:39:54Conover wouldn't go to all this trouble to eliminate me if I weren't in his way.
00:39:57And obviously I am in his way,
00:39:59because he hasn't yet found the Borgia Pearl.
00:40:01And as long as he hasn't...
00:40:02All right, let me have it.
00:40:04Yes.
00:40:05Yes.
00:40:05Hold a stride.
00:40:07Yes.
00:40:08What?
00:40:09Say that again.
00:40:11Don't touch a thing.
00:40:12No, not a thing.
00:40:13You understand?
00:40:14Right.
00:40:15We'll be with you.
00:40:16What is it, Holmes?
00:40:17Another murder.
00:40:17Little old lady.
00:40:18With her back broken.
00:40:20No.
00:40:20Yes.
00:40:21And in a litter of smashed china.
00:40:25That was exactly how I found my sister.
00:40:28There, there, there.
00:40:29Steady, my dear.
00:40:30Steady.
00:40:31You live here, Miss Carey?
00:40:33No, Mr. Holmes.
00:40:35I teach history at a school in Cardiff.
00:40:38I came home today for the holidays.
00:40:42This card, Mr. Holmes.
00:40:44The very last thing she did.
00:40:48For my dear Ellen, to inspire her and her pupils with love.
00:40:53A gift for you.
00:40:54What was it, Miss Carey?
00:40:55I don't know.
00:40:57I'll never know now.
00:40:59I found it on the desk over there.
00:41:02She was writing it when...
00:41:05Oh.
00:41:06Why do you stand there?
00:41:08Why don't you find the beast who committed this dreadful crime?
00:41:12Look here, Miss Carey.
00:41:13There's just one question.
00:41:14There'll be quite enough questions.
00:41:16You come along with me, my dear.
00:41:19What you need is a sedative.
00:41:20I'll telephone for a nurse.
00:41:23There, there, my dear.
00:41:24You'll be quite all right.
00:41:25We...
00:41:26Pitiable.
00:41:29Poor little woman.
00:41:34Back broken, eh?
00:41:35Snap clean, sir.
00:41:36Same as Major Harker's?
00:41:37Yes.
00:41:42Once more we find the body...
00:41:44in a litter of smashed china.
00:41:47What do you make of that?
00:41:49Coincidence, I'd call it.
00:41:52Would you?
00:41:52Yeah.
00:41:54Curious, isn't it?
00:41:56Two murders at the opposite ends of London.
00:42:00People who couldn't conceivably have had anything in common.
00:42:02Their backs broken.
00:42:04And smashed china round their bodies.
00:42:06Well, things do get smashed in the struggle, you know.
00:42:10Including the plates that are...
00:42:13hung in these wire racks on the walls.
00:42:14When a lady gets hysterical...
00:42:16She may do many desperate things, but my dear Lestrade,
00:42:18she does not run around the walls like a mouse.
00:42:20Oh.
00:42:21Those plates were taken down and smashed deliberately.
00:42:23And it was done after she was killed and not before.
00:42:26Is that another one of your little theories, Mr. Holmes?
00:42:29No, it's a fact.
00:42:30And easily demonstrable.
00:42:33If you lift up that body, I think you'll find...
00:42:35there's not a vestige of broken china underneath.
00:42:36Well, just to prove you're wrong.
00:42:38Here, lend around here, Bleeker.
00:42:39Right, sir.
00:42:46What did I tell you?
00:42:52Look at that, Lestrade.
00:42:55That china was broken...
00:42:58after her dead body was flung there on the floor.
00:43:00But why?
00:43:01Why was it done?
00:43:02Well, as I see it, we're dealing with a moany maniac.
00:43:06And after each and every one of these murders,
00:43:08he goes into a bestial fury and smashes things.
00:43:11But why bric-a-brac and nothing but bric-a-brac?
00:43:13Why should a murderer who's strong enough to break Major Harker's back
00:43:16invent his bestial fury by breaking up dinky little cups and saucers
00:43:20when he could just as easily break up a large chair or smash a big table?
00:43:23There's no accounting for the workings of the criminal mind.
00:43:26You're nonsense.
00:43:27He follows a pattern and there's purpose in it.
00:43:32Would you have those broken fragments collected and sent to me at Baker Street, please?
00:43:36Oh, what's the use?
00:43:37You won't find any fingerprints in them.
00:43:39Perhaps not.
00:43:42But broken china is the one thing these murders have in common.
00:43:47We've got to get to the heart of this mystery and quickly, too.
00:43:51Don't you realize there's a monster at large in the city,
00:43:53bent on destruction?
00:43:54We don't know why, we don't know where.
00:43:58But somewhere...
00:44:00at any moment...
00:44:03integroble
00:44:21acrossガーガーガーガーガーガーガー
00:44:30trails
00:44:33Blast that cat. I'd swear I'd put her out.
00:44:40That's funny. I'm sure I drew those library curtains.
00:45:15I'm afraid I must disagree with the newspapers, Watson.
00:45:18The Hoxton Creeper, to the best of my knowledge, is not a madman.
00:45:21Or if he is, then there's method in his madness.
00:45:26And that method, I'm convinced, is supplied by Giles Conrader.
00:45:29You think all this broken china is just a blind to make it look like the work of a madman?
00:45:34On the contrary, my dear fellow, this smashed china shows purpose. It shows motive.
00:45:39Purpose and motive are the last things a sane man would wish to imply if he were posing as a
00:45:43madman.
00:45:44Why smash the china?
00:45:46The killer didn't choose to smash the china. He had to smash it.
00:45:50Oh? Had to? What for?
00:45:53Oh, possibly to cover up something else that was smashed. Some object.
00:45:58Identical in all three cases. The clue that we're looking for.
00:46:02Why mess about with the plaster?
00:46:03You're far more chance of finding the clue you're looking for in the china, because there is much more china.
00:46:08There's too much china, Watson, and too little plaster.
00:46:13Which leads me to suspect that the greater conceals the less,
00:46:17and that the china was smashed to cover up the plaster.
00:46:20Curious notion. Oh, look. Bird.
00:46:24Matter of fact, I had thought of it myself.
00:46:26Oh, did you really?
00:46:27It was very tactful of you not to mention it. Here, what do you make of this?
00:46:31Cocked hat? A soldier, eh?
00:46:34No doubt of it. Part of a bust. Military hat. Late 18th century, I should think.
00:46:39That's funny. Here we are in the second house.
00:46:41There's a shoulder with a bit of a chest and a medal on it.
00:46:45Looks as if it might have come from the same bust.
00:46:47Mm-hmm. Identical.
00:46:49Same plaster, same proportion, same military subject.
00:46:52And this piece comes from the house of the second murder,
00:46:54while these pieces came from the house of the first.
00:46:56We're getting warmer, Watson.
00:46:57Wait a minute, wait a minute. I've got something over here.
00:46:59Here we are. Look, here's a nose.
00:47:01There's a mouth and a bit of a chin from the third house.
00:47:03Put them under this hat.
00:47:05The little corporal himself.
00:47:07Right, Watson. Napoleon.
00:47:08A single statue made up of fragments from three different houses.
00:47:11Identical busts in each house, eh?
00:47:13Yes. Put the pieces down here.
00:47:15I told you this china was smashed to cover up something else.
00:47:18Well, why smash Napoleon?
00:47:19Think, Watson, think.
00:47:20Something was hidden in one of those busts.
00:47:22Something that Conover's looking for.
00:47:24You don't mean that...
00:47:25Precisely. The Borgia Pearl.
00:47:27How did it get in the bust in the first place?
00:47:28That's what we're going to find out.
00:47:29We're going to get hold of that guard.
00:47:31The one that chased Conover down the street the day he stole the Borgia Pearl.
00:47:34Get your hat. I'll get a taxi.
00:47:36In the hat, I'll get a taxi.
00:47:38Borgia Pearl. Napoleon bust.
00:47:40I was driving about London looking at it broken up.
00:47:43Borgia Pearl.
00:47:46Here we are, sir. This is where I nab, sir.
00:47:48He's baiting it along here like a frightened rabbit
00:47:50when I come up from behind and make the pinch.
00:47:53That isn't true.
00:47:55It would strike me dead if it ain't, sir.
00:47:56Isn't it true that he went in there?
00:47:59Well, he was trying... he was at...
00:48:00Oh, out with it, man. Did he or didn't he?
00:48:02Well, as a matter of fact, he did duck in there.
00:48:04But I made the pinch right on this very spot like I said.
00:48:07Can you tell us exactly what happened?
00:48:08Why, yes, sir.
00:48:09He runs in here full lick and up to this door.
00:48:13Is the door open?
00:48:14Just like it is, sir.
00:48:15But when I got here from the head of the stairs,
00:48:17the door has bolted.
00:48:19So I start to climb in this here window.
00:48:20Was the window open too?
00:48:21No, sir. I had to force it.
00:48:23When suddenly the door opens, out he nips,
00:48:25and I made the pinch right on that very spot like I told you.
00:48:28How long was Carnival out of your sight?
00:48:30I should say less than a minute, Mr. Holmes.
00:48:32That's why I didn't want to mention it before.
00:48:34I didn't think it was important.
00:48:35Important? Great heavens, man. Come on.
00:48:39Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:48:41Gentlemen.
00:48:43This is not my sales room.
00:48:44This is my workshop.
00:48:45What can I...
00:48:46Oh, it is you, is it?
00:48:48Catching more thieves today?
00:48:49Ah, no. I was explaining here to Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson.
00:48:52Thank you, Bates. That will be all.
00:48:53Thank you, sir.
00:48:54Good day, Bates.
00:48:55Good day, sir.
00:48:56Mr. Gilder, our time is short,
00:48:57and believe me when I tell you that lives are at stake.
00:48:59Lives?
00:49:00Please answer my questions as briefly as possible.
00:49:02Last Tuesday, at ten minutes past twelve,
00:49:04where were the workmen who were usually employed in this room?
00:49:06It was dinner hour. They were out.
00:49:08On this table over here.
00:49:12You had some busts of Napoleon standing to dry, did you not?
00:49:15Yes, I did, but how did you not?
00:49:17Don't mind that now.
00:49:17How many were there?
00:49:18Six.
00:49:19Just like these busts of Beethoven.
00:49:22Six busts of Napoleon Bonaparte.
00:49:24Six.
00:49:25Are you sure?
00:49:25No more, no less.
00:49:26Yes, I'm positive.
00:49:28Watson, look sharp, will you?
00:49:28Go to that door to the alley,
00:49:30and do exactly as I tell you.
00:49:31Huh?
00:49:31No, not her.
00:49:32Just do it.
00:49:33Leave your stick.
00:49:37I think I have an alley cap.
00:49:40Go outside and close the door.
00:49:45Stand over there, will you?
00:49:47Me?
00:49:48Yes, please.
00:49:50Ready, Watson?
00:49:52Ready, Holmes.
00:49:54All right.
00:49:54Come in quickly.
00:49:57Close the door.
00:49:59Hold it.
00:50:00Turn around.
00:50:02Take two steps forward.
00:50:04Stop.
00:50:05Wait a moment.
00:50:06Look around you.
00:50:09Now look over here.
00:50:11Wait a minute.
00:50:12Now run over here.
00:50:16Pause a moment.
00:50:18Look at these wet plaster busts.
00:50:20Look back to the door.
00:50:23Take a coin out of your pocket.
00:50:25Come on, hurry man, hurry.
00:50:28Now stick your finger in one of these wet plaster busts.
00:50:31Go on, go on, do it, do it.
00:50:37Put the coin in.
00:50:39What?
00:50:39Put it in, put it in.
00:50:41Now smooth over the plaster.
00:50:42Cover up the hole.
00:50:45Mad.
00:50:46Both of them.
00:50:48Fifty-four seconds.
00:50:50That's close enough.
00:50:51Conover could have done it faster.
00:50:53He acted on his own while you had to wait for instructions.
00:50:55You mean to say that?
00:50:56Precisely.
00:50:57Conover stuck that Borgia pearl in one of those six wet plaster busts of Napoleon.
00:51:02What?
00:51:03Gilda.
00:51:06Gilda, what happened to those six busts?
00:51:08You are not the first one asking me that.
00:51:10No, who was the other?
00:51:11A woman.
00:51:12When?
00:51:12Was it Wednesday?
00:51:13The day after the thief was taken?
00:51:15Yes, it was.
00:51:16Amy Drake Watson.
00:51:17Amy Drake!
00:51:18What did you tell her?
00:51:19The same as I'm telling you.
00:51:20They were delivered, all six of them.
00:51:22Yes, yes, but to whom?
00:51:22To Amos Hodder's art shop on Kensington Road.
00:51:26Amos Hodder.
00:51:27I'm telling you, sir.
00:51:43Watson.
00:51:45Huh?
00:51:46What an amusing statue.
00:51:48Most amusing.
00:51:50Isn't it?
00:51:50Why?
00:51:51Because I see it is.
00:51:52Pretend to be interested.
00:51:54What?
00:51:54Oh, fine bit of modeling, Holmes.
00:51:56What an amusing statue.
00:51:58Most amusing.
00:51:59Sit down in that chair.
00:52:00Huh?
00:52:00Sit down in that chair.
00:52:03Let no one else in or out of that door.
00:52:13Attention the gentleman, Miss Bittinger.
00:52:15Yes, Mr. Hodder.
00:52:25Oh, mercy me.
00:52:27Hear, hear.
00:52:28What have you broken now?
00:52:31I never saw such a one for breakage.
00:52:33You already even worth half wages.
00:52:35You are.
00:52:35Well, it's my poor eyesight, Mr. Hodder.
00:52:37I can't help my eyes now, can I?
00:52:39What have you broken this time?
00:52:41One of the Copenhagen vases, eh?
00:52:43Well, that makes four.
00:52:44There was the flying Mercury yesterday and the two Napoleons the very day you came.
00:52:48I never broke the Napoleons, I tell you.
00:52:50I found them that way.
00:52:51Mr. Hodder, may I trouble you?
00:52:52Oh, I beg your pardon, I'm sure.
00:52:53But this sort of thing is most trying.
00:52:55What can I do for you, sir?
00:52:57My name is Holmes.
00:52:58Sherlock Holmes.
00:52:59I'm doing a little private investigating in connection with some busts at Napoleon that you purchased from George Gilda's plaster
00:53:04shop.
00:53:06I understand there were six busts at Napoleon here on Wednesday morning last.
00:53:09That's correct, Mr. Holmes.
00:53:10Now, let me see.
00:53:11I think I heard you say that two of the busts at Napoleon were broken by accident.
00:53:15Accident?
00:53:15That clumsy girl.
00:53:17Oh, Bittinger, put the vases up on the shelf before you break the rest of them.
00:53:20And sweep up this litter, will you?
00:53:22Yes, Mr. Hodder.
00:53:24Well, don't be too hard on the poor girl, Mr. Hodder.
00:53:27Accidents will happen, you know.
00:53:29Now, tell me.
00:53:30You say that two of the busts were broken here in the shop.
00:53:32A third went to Major Harker, a fourth to Miss Carey, and a fifth to Mr. Thomas Sandeford.
00:53:37Yes, sir.
00:53:37And by the strangest coincidence, all three of those persons...
00:53:40It was not a coincidence, Mr. Hodder.
00:53:42Bless my soul.
00:53:44Tell me, what happened to the sixth bust?
00:53:46Why, I sold it the same as the others.
00:53:49To whom?
00:53:50Do you remember?
00:53:51Some doctor or other.
00:53:53I have his name in my account book.
00:53:55My memory for names is rather poor.
00:53:59Now, where is the wretched thing?
00:54:01Ah, yes, yes.
00:54:02Here we are.
00:54:03Let's see.
00:54:03It will be Wednesday or Thursday.
00:54:06Any luck?
00:54:07Best of luck, I think, Watson.
00:54:09Fortunately for us, we arrived here before Naomi Drake.
00:54:13Ah, here we are.
00:54:14Sold to Dr. Joseph Caldicott.
00:54:1613 the Burnham Road, Streatham.
00:54:17Good.
00:54:18That's just what I wanted.
00:54:20Take down the address, will you, Watson?
00:54:21Got a pencil?
00:54:24Dr. Joseph Caldicott.
00:54:26Joseph Caldicott.
00:54:28C-A-L-D-E-C-O-T.
00:54:3113 the Burnham Road.
00:54:34Good.
00:54:36Good.
00:54:37Threatham.
00:54:38This name and address, Hunter.
00:54:40Is that your handwriting?
00:54:41Look carefully.
00:54:43Good.
00:54:43Why...
00:54:44Why no.
00:54:44Oh, the doctor is mine, but the rest is Jane.
00:54:47Quiet.
00:54:48Oh, bless my soul, it's a forgery.
00:54:50Incuradiator has been used.
00:54:51And another name written in.
00:54:53Think carefully.
00:54:54Can you remember the name of the doctor that you wrote here?
00:54:56Oh, dear me, I'm poor at names, you know.
00:54:59This is very much like it.
00:55:01Very much.
00:55:01Clever devil.
00:55:03She's made the names I'd like to throw you off.
00:55:07There's a telephone.
00:55:08Is there, uh, is there an extension in there?
00:55:11Why, yes.
00:55:12What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:55:13Shh, quiet.
00:55:21You were right, Giles.
00:55:22It worked.
00:55:23Like a charm.
00:55:25He'll be off to the wrong end of town presently.
00:55:27Yes, I'm leaving at once.
00:55:29Thanks, my dear.
00:55:30That's what I wanted to know.
00:55:31I shall start at once.
00:55:33Meet me in two hours.
00:55:35Same place, eh?
00:55:38Why, of course he's here.
00:55:41He's sitting right behind me.
00:55:46Then I shan't meet you.
00:55:48Not till you've got rid of him.
00:55:49Oh, nonsense, my dear.
00:55:51His devotion to you is most touching.
00:55:53But I tell you, I just can't stand having him near me.
00:56:00Giles.
00:56:01Giles.
00:56:03Yes, my dear.
00:56:05What is it?
00:56:06I thought you'd hung up.
00:56:07Oh, hardly near me.
00:56:09I understand there's another doctor.
00:56:11Same name.
00:56:13Not listed in the directory.
00:56:15Are you sure you'll give me the right man?
00:56:18Positive.
00:56:19Dr. Julian Boncourt.
00:56:21B-O-N-C-O-U-R-T.
00:56:2418 Chelsea Place.
00:56:26Thank you, my dear.
00:56:28Don't worry about the creeper.
00:56:30I'll take care of him.
00:56:35Watson.
00:56:36Telephone Dr. Julian Boncourt.
00:56:37B-O-N-C-O-U-R-T.
00:56:39Tell him to take the bust of Napoleon that he bought here
00:56:41and go to the nearest police station.
00:57:07Just let go, Naomi.
00:57:08I'm here to catch you.
00:57:09Think you're clever, don't you?
00:57:11You can't hold me.
00:57:11Come on, come on down.
00:57:17What charge is there against me?
00:57:19Her peddling matches without a license.
00:57:21Constable, put the cuffs on her.
00:57:22She's an accomplice in three murders, possibly four.
00:57:26Leave me alone.
00:57:27You can't do this to me.
00:57:29No one there.
00:57:31I can hear it ringing.
00:57:55You better drive slowly.
00:57:57I wouldn't like to get picked up with our passenger in the back.
00:58:00Well, he's pretty quiet back there.
00:58:03What's he up to?
00:58:13He's got Nam his vanity case.
00:58:16No one else.
00:58:46No one is here, sir.
00:58:46No one is here.
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01:01:41BUT YOU WON'T
01:01:42FIND THE BORGIA PEARL THERE MY DEA CONOVER
01:01:43DROP THAT GUN
01:01:49THE BUSTER STILL UNBROKEN
01:01:50AND QUITE SAFE
01:01:59you're still full of your little surprises mr holmes back up against that wall
01:02:05i don't like your work connor i've seen quite a bit of it both here in london and elsewhere
01:02:11on the continent don't like the smell of you either that underground smell the sick sweetness
01:02:17of decay you haven't robbed and killed merely for gain like any ordinary halfway decent thug
01:02:21no you're in love with cruelty for its own sake the world will be much better off without you
01:02:28it will give me great pleasure
01:02:35hold your hands up
01:02:38that's it
01:02:41you know i'd never have thought of disconnecting those wires if it hadn't been for your excellent
01:02:45example at the royal region museum it has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of
01:02:51flattery oh yes i'm willing to learn from an old master hand come now where's that bust
01:02:57dr bancor took it with him to the police station oh that's a very feeble lie you'd hardly have let
01:03:03it out of your hands you'd have been afraid dr bancor would have met us coming in
01:03:11us yes you know whom i mean creeper creeper
01:03:27stay where you are now listen go to the room at the head of the stairs the one with the
01:03:33two glass
01:03:34panels on the door you know what to look for and if you should meet dr bancor on the way
01:03:41pay him your
01:03:43respects
01:03:47you'll hang for this conor just as naomi drake will hang the court naomi drake you know
01:03:54it's too bad that's a lookout no it's your fault conor it's all your fault
01:04:01poor naomi now stay where you are
01:04:08i shouldn't let the creeper know if i were you he wouldn't like it if he knew you'd let her
01:04:13down
01:04:15he's crazy about naomi she's a very pretty girl now you're trying to scare me mr holmes but it won't
01:04:22work you've got nothing on naomi she'll get off no no she won't she lost her head you see when
01:04:28she
01:04:28found she was cornered grabbed over a large pair of shoes and stabbed dr watson to death she'll hang
01:04:34for that you know and it's all your fault you got her into this and you won't raise a hand
01:04:41to help
01:04:41her will you she'll hang by her soft white neck the trustees will put their hands on that pretty body
01:04:51of
01:04:51hers and throw it in a quick line
01:05:13stay back
01:05:21do you hear me
01:05:29that's it give me some more go on put your shoulders to it give me some more that's it you
01:05:38go
01:05:41holmes thank heavens come in gentlemen
01:05:48uh where's bunker he's quite safe the strad send one of your men upstairs will you
01:05:53uh-huh tell dr boncor that all is well gently though he's old and his heart is weak i see
01:06:00that's why i didn't dare send him out of the house he's up there all right up you go you
01:06:05see if he'd run
01:06:06into conover and the creeper conover and who the creeper my dear lestrade that you said didn't exist
01:06:13anymore where is he you'll find him in the laboratory conover too come on you won't need your revolver
01:06:20no handcuffs
01:06:22no handcuffs
01:06:31you got them
01:06:33Yes.
01:06:34Did they find the bust?
01:06:35No.
01:06:36Well, what did you do with it?
01:06:38My time was very short, Watson.
01:06:40So I put the bust in the last place I thought the conover would look for it.
01:06:43He literally brushed by it as he came in.
01:06:47Amazing!
01:06:48And the Borgia Pearl's inside that?
01:06:51If it isn't, I shall return to Sussex and keep bees.
01:07:13Look. There it is.
01:07:17By Jove.
01:07:19A Borgia Pearl.
01:07:21With the blood of five more victims on it.
01:07:23Well, anyhow, conover was one of them.
01:07:25What conover?
01:07:27No more than a symbol of the greed and cruelty and lust for power
01:07:30that have set men at each other's throats down through the centuries.
01:07:34And the struggle will go on, Watson.
01:07:36For a pearl,
01:07:38a kingdom,
01:07:41perhaps even world dominion,
01:07:44till the greed and cruelty are burned out of every last one of us.
01:07:49And when that time comes,
01:07:52perhaps even the pearl
01:07:55will be washed clean again.
01:08:30Um, I'll see if I had been together.
01:08:32THE END
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