- 2 days ago
follow us on :
https://linktr.ee/myTVChannel
https://linktr.ee/myTVChannel
Category
📺
TVTranscript
01:43It's like peeling an orange.
01:46Come on.
01:48Come on.
02:12Come on.
02:13Come on.
02:14Come on.
02:15Hurry up.
02:15Hurry up.
02:19Hurry up.
02:20Hurry up.
02:43Oh my God.
02:45Oh my God.
02:53Oh my God.
02:58Oh my God.
03:00Oh my God.
03:09oh it isn't true would you be requiring assistance miss it would oblige me if you'd point your
03:17lantern in some other direction of course and i'd rather not get out until you've turned your
03:25back constable you see i left my clothes in elfreda college oh my lord
03:34then you better put my tunic about you there's a tidy walk from here thank you most kind
03:44you were perilous close to our old weir the thames is a treacherous river to those who can't swim well
03:52it was a midnight bathe oh very refreshing refreshing i was uh patrolling this river here for signs of
04:04night fishing i didn't see any anglers except yes well there was a boat with three men in it
04:15or three men in a boat yes
04:24oh dear i should be in fearful trouble when miss plumber finds out
04:28why should she find out miss as far as i know you haven't committed an offence
04:33i dare say if you got out of elfreda's college without the lady knowing you can get back in again
04:38besides i wouldn't even know what to say to miss plumber after all i don't even know your name
04:44oh it's harriet sure constable hardy miss
04:50an agreeable evening yes the water was surprisingly warm
04:58enter
05:10is this the girl constable as far as i can tell ma'am you could not be mistaken
05:16no ma'am then it seems i have been mistaken
05:21i repose my trust in you harriet sure and now i am advised that on tuesday night
05:27you put your life and the good name of the cottage at risk by recklessly plunging into
05:32the river thames is that correct yes miss plumber and what miss shaw were you wearing at the time
05:39nothing nothing liable to cause offence to passers-by ma'am if that's what you were thinking
05:44with your permission ma'am
05:47the name's crib miss detective sergeant scotland yard
05:50my assistant is constable thackeray you know constable hardy
05:55in the uniform branch now no doubt you're thinking he's broken a promise to you
06:00he has he's like a cracker on christmas day miss torn clean in two
06:04it was his duty as a police officer against his promise to you
06:07terrible conflict
06:09duty prevailed and that's why we're here
06:11now sit down
06:16there's reason to believe that at the time you were taken to the water
06:20a rather ugly crime was taking place not far away
06:23now according to hardy here you say you saw a boat
06:26yes i did
06:28what was in the boat
06:30two men were rowing
06:32and there was a third one sitting facing them a bit slumped
06:36slumped
06:38oh and there was a dog
06:40three men in a boat serge and a dog
06:43thank you thackeray
06:45now did you get a good sight of these men
06:48well i
06:49please miss
06:50we need your help
06:53one of the rowers had a face in profile
06:56like the gulf of bothnia
06:58like what miss
06:59between sweden and finland
07:01and the other was taller and leaned back a long way
07:04like the persian gulf
07:06a geographic memory
07:08how useful
07:10well miss plummer
07:11if the rest of your young ladies
07:13are as sharp-eyed as miss shaw
07:14there won't be much they miss in their school
07:17such indecorous and unladylike conduct
07:19i have no recourse but to send miss shaw down immediately
07:23how very unfortunate
07:25miss shaw is an invaluable witness
07:27i think i shall require her to accompany me on my inquiries miss plummer today
07:32and possibly overnight
07:34overnight
07:35you mean all night
07:37away from the college with
07:39with three men
07:41thackeray and i have guarded the sovereign herself in our time ma'am
07:44have no fear
07:49but sergeant
07:50what is the nature of this inquiry
07:54murder miss shaw
08:08not a pretty sight miss
08:10murders never are
08:15a trap
08:16he certainly wasn't murdered for his money
08:18oh
08:19that's nasty that
08:21then he was killed without a motive
08:24i do hope not miss
08:25anything else worth noticing sir
08:28just a bite on the leg sarge
08:30bite on the leg
08:33dog bite miss
08:39made by a dog of medium size
08:41i'd say this clinches it
08:42we follow your three men
08:43but first
08:44let's change into something less conspicuous
08:48father day of reckoning is at night
08:50so come follow the hand that leaves you down in the farm
08:54while you stick to the fair of the law
09:14It's a nice day for a row.
09:15We'll have a bite of lunch at Marsh Lock.
09:19You'll look a picture on the river.
09:47Warm enough on the shore?
09:50A rug over your knees, perhaps?
09:52Quite warm enough, thank you.
09:57Have you read it?
09:58Read what, Sergeant?
09:59Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
10:03Appeared this summer. Popular book.
10:04You see it on the bookstalls of all the London terminals.
10:07I've heard of it. I have, too.
10:09What about you, Miss Shaw?
10:11A student like yourself must read books by the dozen.
10:13Nothing like that.
10:15Miss Plummer regards books one can buy on railway stations as unsuitable.
10:20Perhaps you'd like to read it to us, Sergeant.
10:22Oh, yes. You'd appreciate that.
10:25Three hundred pages with illustrations. You'll read it for yourself.
10:29I'll tell you one thing, though.
10:31There's a dog in it.
10:37I don't suppose you happen to remember a party through yesterday or the day before?
10:42Three men in a boat like that.
10:43Oh, yeah. Bit of that is it, eh? Three men in a boat.
10:47Name of Harris, I shouldn't be surprised.
10:49Not forgetting George and Jerome K. Jerome.
10:53I'd like to have a bob for every joke that comes through here with that awry old tail.
10:56The place gets through the first night at Runnamede, all right.
10:59The next they spend through the Clown at Marley.
11:02Then they come through here the following day.
11:05I'd like to see that, Mr. Jerome.
11:07Tell him the trouble that he's caused me.
11:09I wasn't talking about a book.
11:11Three live men in a boat. And a jog.
11:15Here. How about a fly and help you remember?
11:18Oh, yeah. Well, not many people brings a dog.
11:23Only the real fanatics has a dog.
11:26The last one was through here yesterday.
11:29A boat with the name of Blue Creature.
11:31There was a great big fella that stroked about, oh, fifteen stone.
11:35Take him for a viking.
11:37Run the little fella up far as there was.
11:39His arms could hardly reach the oars.
11:41Big thick pebble glasses.
11:43What about the bloke at the other end?
11:45Oh, he was a run one, he was.
11:47He had a pink stripe and brown bowler hat.
11:50And he kept reading that damn book.
11:53Beggin' your pardon, madam.
11:55They was following that story line for line.
11:58If you want to find him, you follow that book.
12:03What do you think, Sarge?
12:04Well, if the lot keep us right and they're following the book,
12:06they'll have spent last night on Ship Lake Islands.
12:09Today they'll be making for Streetly.
12:15You can drop me off here.
12:17I'll nip along the head in a cab.
12:20You just moulder along the river enjoying yourselves
12:22and keep a lookout for the beggars in case they're slower than they should be.
12:25What is it, Hardy?
12:26Due respect, Sarge, but it's 15 miles to Streetly by river.
12:30Oh, glory.
12:31Well, I shan't expect to see you till tomorrow, then.
12:33Where are we gonna pass the night, then?
12:35In the bottom here. Rearrange the cushions.
12:37By the time you've rowed a few more miles, you won't care where you sleep.
12:39They might not, but I most certainly do.
12:42I have no intention of spending the night in the bottom of a boat with two men.
12:45Kindly return me to college immediately.
12:47Back to Miss Plummer.
12:48You're still my principal witness, miss.
12:51I was going to suggest before you left to conclusions
12:53that I book you a room at the Roebuck up at Tylehurst.
12:56Oh.
12:57You'll have a nice bed to sleep in and a very pleasant grilled breakfast.
13:01Thackeray and Hardy here will be having eggs and bacon.
13:03Oh, that'll be nice. Thank you, Sarge.
13:05Yes.
13:06It's in the hamper.
13:08Two hard-boiled eggs and a slice of pork pie.
13:20I say, um, could you give me a row to Fillimore's Island?
13:25It's only half a mile up the river.
13:28I have no objection.
13:30I am much obliged.
13:36I am...
13:37I am much obliged.
13:38I am much obliged.
13:43My name is Bastard.
13:45Spelt with a U.
13:55This is my ideal.
13:58To be seated next to a pretty girl
14:01with two strapping feathers to do the rowing for us.
14:04It's a pleasure to have you aboard, Mr. Bustard.
14:08May I present Mr. Thackeray and Mr. Hardy.
14:12I am Mishaw.
14:14How do you do?
14:16Are you going far?
14:18I have a room at the Roebuck.
14:20Oh.
14:21Well, you're being clover there.
14:24I'm under canvas with a friend.
14:28You haven't by any chance seen three men in a boat with a dog.
14:32Is this a joke, old man?
14:35Are you pulling my leg or what?
14:37I'm not pulling your leg, no.
14:40Well, everyone's doing it.
14:41It's all the rage, right?
14:44Is one of them a big fellow, built like Dr. Grace Crickford?
14:48Yes.
14:49And are his companions smaller, with spectacles?
14:53Yes.
14:54One of them with a bowler hat?
14:56Yes.
14:57And is there a small white dog?
14:58The very same.
15:00I haven't seen them.
15:02But...
15:03But Jim has.
15:05Um...
15:06Jim!
15:07Ahoy, Jim!
15:09Jim!
15:23I see, I see, I see.
15:25What's this, Jim?
15:26It ain't supper time.
15:29Now, more than right, Purse.
15:31Be sure your sins will find you out.
15:33Numbers 32, verse 23.
15:36This is my dear old travelling companion, Jim Hackett, Miss Shaw.
15:39He never stops eating.
15:41I believe you saw three men in a boat this morning.
15:43Not to mention a dog.
15:45Mates are yours, are they?
15:47I don't seem likely.
15:48They was proper gentle, they was.
15:50Ah, was they?
15:52Oh, cut above you, mate.
15:53Real toffs.
15:54They couldn't even push their own bleeding boat out.
15:57Language, Jim.
15:58Hmm.
16:00Oh, my God, lady, I'm sorry.
16:03Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
16:07Matthew 12, verse 36.
16:10You know a great deal of scripture, Mr Hackett.
16:12You ought to have gone into the church.
16:15Did they say where they were going, these chaps, Jim?
16:22Strictly.
16:23Oh, I'll never make strictly before morning.
16:25Well, looks like a nice evening.
16:42Looker.
16:44Are you there?
16:58You look ridiculous with that sausage.
17:00It's not a sausage, it's a poloni.
17:02Personally, I call it a German.
17:04The name is immaterial.
17:06Oh, never mind.
17:07It was worth buying, Roger.
17:08I'm hungry already.
17:10Well, it's not for eating.
17:12I've got something else in mind for this.
17:27The crib's inside.
17:29I don't think he'd thank us if we walked straight up to him and say, here we are, Sarge.
17:33Who do you suppose is going to do a stupid thing like that?
17:39Here we are, Sarge.
17:41Two parts later.
17:42A small glass of cider for the lady.
17:44Certainly.
17:47Come by river, Roger.
17:49No, over the bridge, actually.
17:51Do you have any rooms for the night?
17:54Uh, singles.
17:56Of course.
17:57Well, the party in the corner is in number one,
18:01and the other gentlemen are not stopping.
18:05They're following the route of...
18:06Oh, don't tell me.
18:08Three men in a boat.
18:10Did someone make a reference to the celebrated book by Mr. Jerome K. Jerome?
18:16Merely a quip, sir.
18:17The three men in a boat, do you see?
18:20Are you familiar with the work?
18:22These gentlemen know that book better than a bishop knows his Bible.
18:27What was it Mr. Jerome had to say about the barley mow, gentlemen?
18:31Come, come. That's no test.
18:33It's well known that some of the book was written in this very house.
18:36Everyone knows the complimentary things he said about it.
18:40If you want to test our knowledge,
18:41do us the credit of devising a more difficult question than that.
18:45I've got one for you.
18:46Where did the three men put up in marble?
18:48Oh, easy. The crap.
18:50Well done.
18:51We were there on Tuesday night, as a matter of fact.
18:53It must have passed through Hurley the day they pulled the body out of the water.
18:57The body?
18:58It was only a tramp.
19:00Didn't you read about it in the morning paper?
19:03No.
19:03Well, I suppose he had too much to drink and just fell in.
19:08We know nothing of that.
19:11We embarked on this excursion to escape from newspapers and their dismal tidings.
19:17You cannot open the times these days without reading of death and disaster.
19:22True. It's good to get away when you can.
19:24I'm taking the easy man's route by steamer.
19:27What's the name?
19:28You gentlemen in business together?
19:31We share an office in the city, yes.
19:33In the Providential Life Insurance Company.
19:36This is Mr. Gold.
19:37And Mr. Lucifer.
19:39And Mr. Lucifer.
19:40And my name's Humberston.
19:42As you may imagine, there isn't much occasion for jollity in the claims department.
19:46So Mr. Lucifer here introduced some light relief
19:49by reading extracts from the three men in a boat.
19:52That's how we got the idea of this holiday on the Thames.
19:55Following the book.
19:57We even brought Towson the Terrier along to do it properly.
20:00So much better than sitting in an office answering letters from bereaved claimants.
20:04It's all walking streets where Jack the Ripper is still at large.
20:08The Ripper?
20:09He hasn't been heard of for months.
20:11Well, I think you should step outside, Harry.
20:13It ain't the sort of conversation for one of the fair sex.
20:16From what I've heard about Jack the Ripper,
20:18my sex has more reason to be informed about him than yours.
20:20I shall remain.
20:22So, you know the Crown of Marlowe.
20:25Just where is that?
20:25I only ask because it's always useful to know where there's a good hotel.
20:29Is it, er, by the bridge?
20:34Tolerably, er, yes.
20:36The good view of the river?
20:37From the best rooms, of course.
20:40We, er, wouldn't recall.
20:41We had rooms at the back, so you wouldn't see the river from there.
20:45If you're talking about the Crown at Marlowe, you couldn't see the river from wherever your room was.
20:51It's at the top of the High Street.
20:56Crib caught them out famously, didn't he?
20:59Couldn't see the river from the back.
21:01They were nowhere near the Crown at Marlowe.
21:04Why is it so important?
21:06If they had stayed at the Crown, they'd have had an alibi.
21:08It's two miles downriver from Hurley, where the tramp was murdered, with two locks between that close at sunset.
21:14Were they the men you saw that night, Harriet?
21:16It's possible, but I can't be certain.
21:19Well, Crib will need positive proof of their guilt.
21:23And I think I've got the means of obtaining it.
21:26What's that?
21:28This.
21:29Oh, not that German again.
21:31Exactly.
21:32Supposing we could obtain proof that the dog on Humberston's boat is the same animal that sank its teeth into
21:38the dead man's leg.
21:40Strike a lie.
21:41Teeth marks on a sausage.
21:45That's bloody smart, young Roger.
21:47Oh, forgive my language, miss.
21:49You've got to give praise where it's due.
21:52Well, don't you think it's bloody smart, too?
21:54It's not quite the expression I would use, but the idea had not occurred to me, I confess.
21:59Do you think it'll work?
22:00We can, but try.
22:02Let's introduce ourselves to Tozer.
22:12This is a yard matter. Leave it to me.
22:14Keep it down, Windoggin.
22:17I want him to have a good scent of the sausage before I offer it to him.
22:22Here we are, boy.
22:27Ah!
22:28Ah!
22:30Ah!
22:30Ah!
22:31Ah!
22:34Ah!
22:35Ah!
22:35Ah!
22:35Ah!
22:39Beautiful.
22:40Detective worker the First Order, quite beyond the call of duty.
22:43It was Constable Hardy's idea to purchase the polony.
22:45Good thinking, Hardy. Give the dog a scent of meat and then show it to you later.
22:49Oh, it wasn't quite like that. Constable Thackery was holding the...
22:52Thackery, eh? I thought this had the stamp of Scotland Yard on it.
22:55Oh, thanks, Sarge.
22:56You got here quickly. Nifty piece of rowing.
22:59Er, well, they came by train, Sarge. Left the skiff at Goring.
23:02You told us to come as quickly as possible.
23:04Oh, yes.
23:06Oh, and we met two gentlemen, Mr. Bustard and his friend Jim Hackett,
23:10who looks a bit peculiar but is given to quoting texts from the Bible.
23:13What kind of texts?
23:15Be sure your sins will find you out. That was one.
23:17I learned that one at school.
23:18I wonder if Jim Hackett did.
23:20Pull yourself together, man. You look as though you're settling in for the night.
23:23Pull myself together for what?
23:25A train journey.
23:26I want you back at Henley Mortuary for seven when it opens to compare your dog bite with the traps.
23:30After that, get a cab to Marlow.
23:31Check the register at the Crown for Humberton, Lucifer and Gold.
23:34Then make your way back to Oxford and meet us at the Central Police Station.
23:36But his leg is injured.
23:38A stiff walk will do it good.
23:39Tomorrow we resume the pleasures of the river.
23:42We'll just follow the suspects up to Oxford nice and comfortable.
23:44It's a nine-mile stretch of beautiful countryside.
23:47Thackeray, you're fit to row, I hope?
23:49Yes, Sarge.
23:50The sooner you're on your way harder, the sooner we can get to bed.
23:53Roll down your trouser leg and have a slice of bologna.
23:56I can't send anyone else, can I?
23:57You're exhibit number one.
24:02Oh, try and keep an even course.
24:03This isn't a pleasure cruise.
24:05I am well aware of that.
24:07We need to pull over to Clifton Lock.
24:09Come on.
24:11This is madness.
24:19Well, this lock should be operating, regardless of the weather, from 7 o'clock.
24:23And may I remind you that you're a public servant.
24:25And it's no reason of yours to question the sanity of us considerate enough to keep to employment.
24:40What's going on over here?
24:42Pull us in, Thackeray.
24:49Come on, miss.
24:56So, teachers, to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
25:04I enter your psalm, verse 12.
25:07Dead, Jim?
25:10As mutton.
25:12He's been dead these past 20 minutes.
25:16Decidedly drowned.
25:21Ah, miss Shaw.
25:23Party fell in, did he?
25:24Eh, yes, we found him based down in the middle of the stream.
25:28A fisherman.
25:29How'd you get him out of the water?
25:31Pooked him out, but they're waterproof there.
25:34You grabbed hold of him by the back of the neck, did you?
25:36No, I did not.
25:37I've had life-saving lessons, I've.
25:40You didn't include raising the dead, eh?
25:42I don't see what's in his pocket.
25:43Um, I don't approve of pilfering from the dead.
25:46For identification, this man meant a violent death.
25:49That is for the police to decide.
25:52Blue bottle's buzzing this way, Sarge.
25:54Stand aside, if you please.
25:56You hold that.
25:57Come on, all you children, out the way.
25:59Is this the body?
26:01It's the only one I've seen.
26:02Um, poor chap was found in the middle of the stream.
26:07By you?
26:07No, no.
26:09By Jim here.
26:10Jim?
26:10Jim who?
26:11Oh, Jim Hackett.
26:13And your name?
26:14A bastard.
26:16Spelt with a U.
26:17Wouldn't it be more sensible to find out who he is?
26:19By looking in his wallet for identification.
26:22I was just going to do that.
26:25You look pale on this show.
26:28There's marks on his neck.
26:30Don't upset yourself, my dear.
26:32And you stand out of my light.
26:36Charles Bonahill, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
26:40Now you'll require these two men to accompany the corpse back to the station while you prepare their statements.
26:44But first of all, clever dick, I want you to hop off out of it.
26:48Go on.
26:49All of you.
26:50Hop it.
26:52Except you two, if you don't mind, gents.
26:55What do you want us for?
26:56You ain't done nothing.
26:58Nice to see you again, monsieur.
27:00I hope the shock soon wears off.
27:07Well, a nasty fishing accident, I would say, wouldn't you, Constance?
27:13Off you go to the nick, Thackeray.
27:14I want every copper in Oxford out looking for those three men in a boat.
27:17Were those marks the same as on the tramp's neck?
27:19Yes, miss.
27:19He was murdered, too.
27:21First a tramp, now a university don.
27:23It's a puzzle, miss Shaw.
27:24A regular conundrum.
27:25And we'd better crack it before someone else feels those hands around their neck.
27:31How did it happen, Sergeant?
27:33A fishing expedition, sir.
27:35A punt has been found with his tackle and an umbrella inscribed with his name.
27:39Oh, a number of...
27:40Oh, a very sensible precaution.
27:42One is so terribly exposed in a punt.
27:45His angling had become quite a passion of late.
27:50There was a time when we had nothing but theatrical gossip from him at table.
27:56But of late weeks, it's all been hoax and worms, oh, most unpalatable.
28:03He was introduced to this pastime by Mr. Fernandez, another of our fellows.
28:11Will Mr. Fernandez be in college today, sir?
28:13Oh, yes.
28:14He lives in.
28:20There.
28:21There.
28:21I think I had hailed sufficiently for now.
28:26Pray enlighten me as to how I can be of assistance to the police.
28:30Fly fishing?
28:31Is that a pastime of yours, Mr. Fernandez?
28:33I do not indulge in pastime, Sergeant.
28:36Fly fishing is a sport.
28:38I fish a pike.
28:40Specimen pike.
28:41I understand Mr. Bonnehill had lately taken to the sport.
28:44Yes, he joined my Saturday hunt for the pike some two months ago.
28:48He was on the river this morning, sir.
28:49I would have been with him myself, but with this abominable laryngitis.
28:53To your knowledge, had he ever been out alone looking for that pike?
28:56To my knowledge, no.
28:58Well, there's a curious thing.
28:59Don't you care for a sherry?
29:01First time the poor man decides to do a bit of fishing on his own, he gets murdered.
29:04The only other person in Oxford who knows he's out alone is yourself,
29:07and you're confined to your rooms with laryngitis.
29:10Yes.
29:11Looks as though this murder wasn't planned at all.
29:13Tramp, university don.
29:15This is murder for the sake of killing.
29:17Come across some nasty things in my time, Mr. Fernandez,
29:20but this really makes me shudder.
29:41I understand the matrimonial home is in North Oxford, Mrs. Bonnehill.
29:44Will you be going there for the time being?
29:46That would be too distressing.
29:48As I explained, Sergeant,
29:49I stand, as it were, in the capacity of help-meet to this young lady.
29:53As a man of the theatre myself, as a colleague, and I hope a friend.
29:57Just so, Mr. Goldstein.
29:59Will you have to return to the theatre this evening?
30:01Yes, to Windsor, 7.30.
30:03I must, dear.
30:06An alternative plan, Mrs. Bonnehill,
30:08might be to take rooms at an hotel.
30:10Perhaps Miss Shaw here will keep you company.
30:13I'll be happy to help in any way I can.
30:15And I'm not ungrateful, but I'm really...
30:17I shall not be able to stay overnight, my dear.
30:19King Lear calls.
30:20It sounds the perfect solution.
30:23Are you in anything at the moment, ma'am?
30:25No, I'm between plays.
30:27Ah.
30:28I supposed you were in the current production at Windsor.
30:31Mrs. Bonnehill is a comedy actress.
30:35Your husband has, of course, left you provided for.
30:38But, Charlie, yes, he sent me money every week.
30:42And there's the insurance, isn't there, Jacob?
30:44That should be enough to support me whether I return to the stage or not.
30:48Insurance?
30:48Yes, his life was insured with a providential for £5,000.
30:51He made the arrangement the week of our wedding.
30:54It rather depressed me, I remember.
30:57The providential, that's the...
30:58One question, ma'am.
31:00Are you acquainted with a man called Fernandez?
31:04That fiend!
31:06Don't worry about anything he tells you.
31:08A most unwholesome person.
31:10It's too embarrassing to go into now.
31:12He is not a gentleman, I'm afraid.
31:15Do I gather there was an incident, ma'am?
31:17This has gone far enough.
31:18No, Jacob.
31:20It has to come out.
31:23One afternoon, at Merton,
31:25before Charlie and I were married,
31:28he was standing in the passage
31:30as I came out of Charlie's rooms alone.
31:32Well, I knew him as one of the fellows.
31:34So I smiled.
31:36Just a polite smile of recognition, you understand.
31:39But imagine my astonishment
31:40when he stepped in front of me without a word,
31:42pressing me physically against the wall.
31:44I was too shocked to cry out,
31:46and I could not move.
31:47He was so close to me.
31:49I thought he was attempting to kiss me,
31:51and I tried to turn my head aside.
31:53Then...
31:54I'm a married woman now, but it makes me shudder still.
31:58I became conscious
31:59of the presence
32:01of his left hand inside my blouse.
32:04It's deplorable.
32:05I was too mortified with shame
32:07to go back to Charlie.
32:09So I rearranged my clothes
32:11and walked twice around the fellow's quad.
32:13What self-possession?
32:15It was more than a year
32:16before I could bring myself
32:16to mention the matter to Charlie.
32:18Imagine my surprise
32:19when Charlie actually tried
32:20to fabricate excuses for the man,
32:22saying that he had a weakness,
32:24a blind spot, he called it.
32:26It started our first serious argument.
32:29Did Mr Fernandez
32:30repeat this advance?
32:33There was another incident, Sergeant.
32:35Worse than the first.
32:37I'd rather not speak about it now.
32:39The man is dangerous.
32:40Find your murderer,
32:41by all means, Sergeant,
32:42and hang him.
32:44But I shall always know
32:45who was really responsible
32:47for my Charlie's death.
32:51I'm sorry to interrupt you, miss,
32:54but it's important, sir.
33:01Excuse me.
33:08There's a message
33:08from Constable Thackeray, sir.
33:10He says he's caught up
33:11with the three wanted men.
33:12Where?
33:12The houseboat,
33:13down by the meadow.
33:17Oh, no!
33:18Yes, I don't know.
33:20Look!
33:21There's another fellow
33:22dropping in on you, ladies!
33:23We'll give him a hand down,
33:25the more the merrier.
33:27It's a blighter
33:28with a beard,
33:28we saw at the barley milk.
33:31Following us around.
33:32Now, are you
33:33a regular peeping Tom?
33:36Had your eyeful,
33:37have you?
33:42Don't believe it!
33:45Gentlemen,
33:46I'm a police officer.
33:48A warrant has been issued
33:49for your arrest,
33:50and I'm here
33:51to take you into custody.
33:54What are they going to say
33:55about this at the Providential?
33:57About what in particular?
33:58On Tuesday,
33:59you were on a part of the river
34:00where a tramp was murdered.
34:01He also had a dog
34:02by it on his leg.
34:03My word!
34:04You suspect Towser.
34:06I do hope you will let him
34:07get in touch with his solicitor.
34:08Now, a second body
34:09has been discovered
34:10here in Oxford.
34:11A don from Merton College,
34:13Mr. Bonahill.
34:15Does the name mean anything to you?
34:16No.
34:17Why should it?
34:18He had some insurance
34:19with your company.
34:20If you suppose we spend
34:21our time reciting
34:22the names of our policyholders,
34:24you have a very
34:25mistaken impression
34:26of what goes on
34:27in a city insurance office.
34:29We are in the claims department.
34:33Bonahill's name
34:33would not be brought
34:34to our attention
34:35until a claim is launched.
34:38This trip on the river,
34:39who suggested it?
34:41I am not at all certain.
34:43It was...
34:44Gold,
34:45now I call it to mind.
34:47It was Mr. Gold
34:48who mentioned
34:49at the Barley Mow
34:49that you spent Tuesday night
34:51at the Crown at Marlowe.
34:53Did you spend the night there?
34:55No,
34:56no.
34:57It was just a slip
34:58of the tongue.
35:00We were tired
35:01and had taken rooms
35:02at the first
35:03lodging house
35:04we could find.
35:05Where?
35:06I cannot remember the address.
35:08I might be able
35:09to take you there.
35:12These ladies
35:13you were visiting,
35:15have you ever made
35:16their acquaintance
35:16before this evening?
35:19I must own, Sergeant,
35:21that my memory
35:21of the evening
35:22is somewhat
35:23patchy.
35:27They were ladies
35:28of the town, sir.
35:29Common prostitutes.
35:30Good God.
35:31In Oxford?
35:33I understand
35:33you were paying them
35:34to take off items
35:35of clothing
35:35and to shilling a garment.
35:37Now, sir,
35:38you don't mind
35:38personal questions,
35:39do you?
35:40Where exactly
35:41did you spend
35:42the night in Marlowe?
35:43Of a confession, Sergeant.
35:45We didn't stay
35:46at the Crown.
35:47But when you mentioned
35:48the Crown
35:49at the Barley Mow,
35:50I couldn't bring
35:51myself to admit
35:52we'd never even
35:53seen it.
35:54I see, sir.
35:55Where did you put up?
35:56Under canvas.
35:58On our boat.
35:59Now, that's odd.
36:01Mr Lucifer mentioned
36:02a private lodging house.
36:05You don't want to go back
36:06to Marlowe now,
36:07do you really?
36:08Not that you could.
36:10You come upstairs
36:11with little Dino, eh?
36:13Oh, look at him
36:14flash the little lame.
36:15No, these three men
36:17you were talking about.
36:18I gave him happy, love.
36:19Me and my two pals
36:20get off this line.
36:21We gave him
36:22a good time, love.
36:23You can have
36:24a good time in Marlowe,
36:25you know where to look.
36:26Go, go, go, go, go.
36:27Stay with you all night.
36:29Have another drink, love.
36:31Is that what you want?
36:32To stay with little Dino
36:33till the dawn creeps
36:35over the windowsill?
36:36Oh, look at it, too.
36:38And I probably will.
36:41Oh, look at it.
36:50Oh, you're doing
36:51splendidly, darling.
36:52Such a help.
36:54I say here's a strange thing.
36:56I found this letter
36:57on his writing desk.
36:58It's addressed to
36:58John Fernandes.
37:00I wonder what he was doing
37:01in Charlie's rooms.
37:02It's been opened, you see.
37:03You really ought to return it
37:04to Mr. Fernandes, then.
37:06Oh, dear.
37:06I wish it wasn't addressed
37:07to that monster.
37:09I suppose I could hand it
37:10to the porter.
37:11But it looks so pointed
37:12when his rooms
37:13are just across the passage.
37:14Well, let me take it, then.
37:16Oh, would you, darling?
37:17What a generous thought.
37:19But don't go inside, dear,
37:21even if he invites you.
37:23Certainly not.
37:23It would not be proper.
37:32Won't you come in?
37:34Thank you, but no.
37:35But what a lucky accident.
37:37I mean, meeting you, Miss Shaw.
37:40Miss Harriet Shaw.
37:42The chance of having left
37:44a letter in Bonnyhill's rooms
37:45to have brought me
37:45such a pleasant surprise.
37:48You say you are a student.
37:50Of what, I wonder?
37:52I have a grounding
37:53in all subjects,
37:54but my chief interest
37:56is geography.
37:57Is it physical?
37:58I beg your pardon?
38:00I mean, physical geography.
38:01It is my favourite subject.
38:03I thought you were an historian.
38:06Ah, yes.
38:07But my passion,
38:09my passion, Miss Shaw,
38:10is physical geography.
38:14You blush so prettily.
38:16I have it.
38:17Tomorrow.
38:18Tomorrow I must go to the Bodleum.
38:19I'll show you.
38:22I'll show you all there is
38:23to see in this town.
38:24We with our shared interest
38:26in geography.
38:28You were very generous, sir,
38:30but Mrs. Bonnyhill
38:31is waiting for me.
38:33Ah, I shall let you go
38:34on one condition,
38:35that you meet me tomorrow
38:36at the Bodleian
38:36at 11 o'clock.
38:38I shall have to see
38:38how Mrs. Bonnyhill
38:39proposes spending the morning.
38:41Oh, I think it would be kind
38:42just not to let her know
38:43of our arrangement.
38:44I should not like her
38:45to think that we discovered
38:46our mutual interest
38:47in geography
38:48as a consequence
38:50of her husband's death.
38:52I shall not mention
38:53the matter to a soul.
38:57Why murder an unknown tramp
38:58and a university don?
39:00I'm inclined to think
39:01the murder of the tramp
39:02was a tryout.
39:03It still doesn't explain
39:04how Gold and his companions
39:05knew that Bonnyhill
39:06would be alone on the river
39:07yesterday morning.
39:08How the devil did they know
39:08that Fernandez
39:09was going down
39:10with laryngitis?
39:12I have to think
39:12about that one, Sarge.
39:19Do you always fish
39:19from the same spot, sir?
39:20No, no, we try
39:21various places.
39:23But on this occasion
39:24you had discussed
39:25where Bonnyhill
39:25would do his fishing?
39:26He talked about it, yes.
39:28The backwater.
39:29His punt was found.
39:31Did any other person
39:32suggest that you might
39:33go to that particular spot, sir?
39:36Well, why do you ask?
39:38Well, this murder was arranged
39:39more than a week ago, sir.
39:40The thing was planned.
39:41The killers knew exactly
39:42where to find their man.
39:44I trust you're not suggesting
39:46that I conspired
39:46with these desperados
39:48to cause Bonnyhill's death.
39:49Not at all, sir.
39:50If you want it straight,
39:52I think they plan
39:53to murder you.
39:54Me?
39:54They came to Oxford
39:55expecting to find you
39:56in that backwater.
39:57They met Bonnyhill instead
39:58and you're not unlike him
39:59in appearance.
40:00Why not should anyone
40:01want to murder me?
40:02Well, we were hoping
40:03you might have some ideas
40:04about that, sir.
40:06You're a single man,
40:08a ladies' man,
40:10no jealous husbands
40:11lurking in the shadows.
40:12This is utterly preposterous,
40:14really, Sarge.
40:15I do think you should
40:16confine yourself to facts,
40:17not flights of imagination.
40:20However,
40:20if you're as desperate
40:21as you appear to be
40:22to find a motive,
40:24you may care to speculate
40:25on the fact
40:25that my uncle
40:25is governor
40:26of Cole Bathfield's
40:27House of Correction.
40:28The steel, eh?
40:29Yes.
40:30I know it well.
40:32So it's possible
40:33that somebody may be
40:34trying to take revenge
40:35on the governor,
40:36your uncle,
40:36by attacking you.
40:38Precisely.
40:40But you must admit
40:41it sounds deducently
40:42far-fetched
40:43to suggest
40:43that three men
40:44should come all the way
40:44from London
40:45in a boat
40:45to do away with me.
40:47Did I mention
40:48they came from London, sir?
40:58Good morning, Sarge.
40:59Good afternoon.
41:05Make your report, ma'am.
41:06They're not here
41:06to welcome you
41:07to Oxford.
41:14After leaving Clifton-Handon,
41:16I took the train
41:17from Claremont...
41:17It's been a blast
41:18at train journey.
41:19What happened
41:19about the dog bite?
41:20Oh, upon arriving
41:22at the mortuary,
41:22I climbed onto the slab
41:24and made a sketch
41:25of the bite on my leg.
41:27I then made a sketch
41:28of the bite on the tramp's leg.
41:30I have them here
41:30on my notebook.
41:32Yes?
41:33Very colourful,
41:35but obviously
41:35not the same dog.
41:37No, Towsy.
41:39Did you check
41:39the suspect's movements
41:40in Marlow?
41:41Yes, they spent
41:42Tuesday night
41:43at an establishment
41:43called the Polecat.
41:45I spoke to a lady
41:46there called Dinah,
41:46known in the Polecat
41:48as Dinah Might.
41:50Very whimsical.
41:52Yes, and very dangerous
41:53it turned out to be as well.
41:54But she did eventually
41:55confirm that Humberstone
41:56and Co. had spent
41:57all of Tuesday night
41:58there and left
41:58early next day.
42:00But what you've just told me
42:00is clear we spent
42:01the best part of a week
42:02tracking down
42:02the wrong three men.
42:03Even the corpse
42:04of the wrong man
42:04is a blasted nightmare.
42:06Thackeray,
42:07bring that blasted dog
42:08out here.
42:08I want to kick it.
42:11I can give you
42:12just two and a half
42:14minutes of my time,
42:15Sergeant.
42:15It concerns your nephew,
42:17sir, John Fernandez.
42:18It does it indeed.
42:20Inspector Abilene
42:21promised me
42:21no more interference.
42:22I have nothing further
42:23to say in the matter.
42:26Yesterday morning, sir,
42:27in Oxford,
42:28a man was drowned.
42:29It was reason to believe
42:29that the murderers
42:30mistook him
42:31for your nephew.
42:31Kindly modulate your voice.
42:33I have no wish
42:34for the whole of
42:35Colbarth Fields
42:35to hear about
42:36my family's misfortune.
42:38Your nephew
42:39raised the possibility
42:40that released prisoners
42:41might seek revenge
42:42on you
42:42by attacking your families.
42:43Revenge?
42:44These men bear me
42:46no malice, Sergeant.
42:47Why,
42:48I have inaugurated
42:49many of the procedures
42:50which contribute
42:50to their well-being.
42:52The improving texts
42:53displayed throughout
42:54this building,
42:55for example,
42:55are here entirely
42:56upon my initiative.
42:57No, Sergeant.
42:58I have no fear
42:59of former prisoners,
43:00nor need my nephew
43:00be alarmed.
43:01Why,
43:02I haven't seen him
43:02for over a year.
43:04And that is why
43:04it so infuriates me
43:06to be plagued
43:06by policemen
43:07coming here
43:08asking me questions
43:09about him.
43:10The man has
43:11some slight
43:11imperfection,
43:12a little rift
43:13within the loop.
43:14And I'm extremely
43:15sorry if what
43:16you say is true
43:17that someone
43:18should have
43:18tried to murder him.
43:19But we live
43:20in violent times.
43:22This might happen
43:22to any of us.
43:23Now, if you will,
43:25excuse me.
43:25Ah, I see someone
43:26shirking there.
43:27Officer,
43:28and now after that
43:29man on the crank
43:30we're doing good.
43:39Inspector Abiline,
43:39is he on duty?
43:40Who?
43:41Fred Abiline,
43:41for God's sake,
43:42where have you been
43:42for the past six months?
43:43The man in charge
43:44of the Ripper investigation.
43:45Abiline's off duty.
43:46Jesus,
43:47there hasn't been another.
43:48Not yet.
43:49Give me the files
43:50on the Whitechapel murders.
43:51You don't need
43:51Ancart to move them.
43:53We're getting letters
43:54at the rate of 100 a week.
43:57There's some gory
43:58reading in there.
43:59What have you got?
43:59Principal suspects
44:00and others?
44:01The other suspects
44:02are in those two.
44:04Now, they filed
44:04alphabetically.
44:05It cross-referred
44:06to the dates
44:06on which the girls died.
44:08Poor tarts.
44:08Fernandez, John,
44:09can you find him?
44:10Yes.
44:17But he's in the clear.
44:19See?
44:19Fred Abiline,
44:20stamp and signature.
44:21Enquiry completed.
44:24It's near five
44:25in the morning, Sarge.
44:26Don't you call me, Sarge.
44:27And don't you let
44:28Inspector Abiline
44:29hear you calling Fred.
44:30I've issued a description.
44:32At the moment
44:33the two suspects
44:34are seen,
44:34a message will be conveyed
44:36over the wires
44:38to the telephone
44:39in this room
44:40and we'll be in pursuit
44:41in seconds.
44:43Two suspects, Sarge.
44:44Who do you propose
44:45to arrest this time, Sarge?
44:46Now, you work it out.
44:47Miss Shaw gave us
44:48a description.
44:49If you refer to the globe
44:50over here, Thackeray,
44:51you'll find the Gulf of Bothnia
44:53near the top,
44:54marked in blue.
44:58There.
45:00Remind you of anyone?
45:03Blimey, yes.
45:04Now think of the third figure.
45:06A bit slumped.
45:07Suppose he wasn't
45:08the murderer at all.
45:09Suppose he were the victim.
45:11The tramp?
45:12That's why we're hunting
45:13two men in a boat
45:14instead of three.
45:15But why kill Bonner Hill?
45:17Mistaken identity.
45:18They thought he was
45:19someone else.
45:19Yes.
45:20Who?
45:21Mr. John Fernandez,
45:23whose uncle is Governor
45:23of the Steel.
45:24A man who cannot allow
45:25a breath of scandal
45:26to touch him
45:26and a man who might
45:27consider it a public duty
45:29to put an end
45:30to the life of
45:30Jack the Ripper.
45:32Sarge, the Ripper, sir?
45:34Someone he thought
45:35might be the Ripper.
45:36His nephew.
45:38We're lunching
45:38at the Clarendon.
45:40An hotel?
45:42The best in Oxford,
45:43my dear.
45:43Frequented by royalty.
45:45Oh.
45:46You're concerned
45:47about your reputation.
45:48In which case
45:49I shall take you
45:50to Mr. Stamford's
45:50restaurant in the High.
45:52Mr. Fernandez,
45:53you have kissed my hand
45:53once already.
45:54So I have.
45:56Oh, do please
45:57use my first name.
45:58John.
45:59Or Jack.
46:01I don't mind either.
46:38It's a matter of life and death.
46:47Oh, Sergeant.
46:47Mom.
46:48I know how busy you are
46:49and you'll probably think
46:50that I'm being hysterical
46:51but I'm dreadfully concerned
46:52about Miss Shaw.
46:53Harriet.
46:53Why?
46:54What's happened, Mom?
46:54Well, it was when you were
46:55clearing out my husband's rooms yesterday.
46:57I found a letter addressed
46:58to John Fernandez.
46:59It had been opened.
46:59I had no wish to call on Mr. Fernandez
47:01and Harriet offered to return it.
47:03I should never have allowed it.
47:04Fernandez?
47:04But he's the man
47:05they thought was checked out.
47:06Sergeant, we must find it.
47:07Very constable,
47:08this letter, Mom.
47:09It'd be helpful to know
47:09what it said.
47:10You didn't by any chance, uh...
47:11You might as well admit
47:11that I did, darling,
47:12before Harriet arrived.
47:13It wasn't a proper letter at all,
47:15just a note about fishing
47:17and an arrangement to meet
47:18at half-past eight on Saturday
47:19near the railway bridge.
47:20Got her!
47:21Oh, for heaven's sake!
47:22Harriet is in danger
47:23of losing her...
47:24dignity with Fernandez.
47:26John's pouring it down her
47:27in Stanfords
47:27and you know what'll happen next.
47:28Right, but where?
47:30In a pump, normally,
47:31over a bottle of champagne.
47:32We must go to Magdalen Bridge
47:34without delay.
47:34In a pump?
47:35Hardy, can you handle this?
47:37Thackeray, you come with me.
47:48Where are we?
47:52In Elysium.
48:20There she is!
48:24There she is!
48:45Oh, horrid!
48:46What do you mean?
48:48There's a creepy crawly
48:49down inside.
48:51Little caterpillar.
48:52Shall I remove it?
48:52Oh, no!
48:53Oh, oh, it's wriggling!
48:55Bend over!
48:56What are you doing?
48:57It's your own good.
48:59What?
49:00Get to catch your naces.
49:03Hands up for you, devil!
49:09Oh, my dad, I'm late.
49:21James Hackett, I'm a police officer.
49:23I've reason to believe
49:24that the person with you
49:25is Percy Bustard.
49:26There's some questions
49:27I'd like to put you
49:28in connection with the death
49:28of Charles Bonner Hill.
49:33Watch him, Thackeray!
49:38Oh, Roger, my sake!
49:40You've rescued me again!
49:47Here we are.
49:49It's a fair cop, Hackett.
49:51Be sure your sins
49:52will find you out.
49:54Grab who, Jim?
49:56He can't swim a strip.
49:58Lord, help us.
50:00Thackeray, off with your boots.
50:02Two drownings in one week
50:03is enough.
50:13Miss Harriet saw three men
50:15in a boat.
50:15You, Jim Hackett,
50:17and the tramp.
50:19What did you do
50:19with the dog?
50:21Lady to rest, oh boy.
50:22I think we would have done
50:23the ripper
50:23if the wrong man
50:24hadn't gone out fishing.
50:25Fernandez,
50:26he's not the ripper.
50:27Philander, yes,
50:28ripper, never.
50:29You might so easily
50:30have been heroes.
50:31How did you get on to us?
50:32Visited the steel.
50:34Learned how desperate
50:35the governor was
50:35to be rid of his nephew.
50:37When I saw the text
50:38displayed on the wall,
50:39I made inquiries
50:40into Jim Hackett.
50:41Five years he served
50:42for crimes of violence.
50:43This muscle and your brain
50:44is a deadly combination.
50:46You'll arrest
50:47the governor, too, I trust?
50:48He's already in custody.
50:51Then it's the three of us.
50:54We'll all swing together.
Comments