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00:02I'm sorry.
01:55Hold it.
01:56One of them's on the move.
01:59Just give them a moment to settle down.
02:04All right, there's nothing in your way now.
02:07I shouldn't be too long about it if I were you.
02:11Splendid.
02:13Big one ain't moved a muscle yet.
02:16All right, now, put the lantern down and get your envelope ready.
02:21Or you'll be all fingers and thumbs, if you'll pardon me.
02:23All right, let's get some questions.
02:36Neatly done.
02:37Back you go now, Thackeray.
02:40You've forgotten your lantern.
02:47Don't get cocky now.
02:49Drugs wear off, you know, and tails can be just as vicious as teeth.
02:55There you are, Inspector.
02:57I told you as a man of action, that's Scotland Yard training for you.
03:00Ah, yes, indeed.
03:02The curator called me in at half past nine.
03:04We closed the cabin to visitors immediately.
03:07As soon as I spotted the hand,
03:09I decided to call the Yard in.
03:11That's too much for my boys to handle.
03:13You mean, not enough?
03:14Quite.
03:16Where the rest of the body is, you may well conjecture.
03:27Ah, blimey, Sarge.
03:29The cases don't get no easier.
03:31Yes, it's terrible.
03:32A terrible infection, Sergeant.
03:34The newspapers made enough of discovering the hand in the crocodile tank.
03:38Heaven only knows what lewd copy they'll make of this.
03:41It won't be much good for the town at all.
03:43Why no human nature said they'll have to put on extra trains to cope with the rush.
03:47It's remarkable, Sergeant.
03:49I cannot for the life of me work out
03:50how you picked the fish market as the location for the crime.
03:54The hand gave us the clue.
03:56Finding sand under the fingernails wasn't too strange here in Brighton,
03:59but fish scales and other matter altogether.
04:02The fish market seemed the obvious place.
04:05A quiet spot away from trippers.
04:07And convenient for dismembering.
04:11Yes, of course.
04:12Quite, Sergeant.
04:14How many items are unaccounted for?
04:17Leg and arm.
04:19Oh, and the head.
04:20The only article of clothing that we found
04:23was this black seal-skin jacket.
04:27Well, Inspector, there's a lot more digging to be done
04:29before we'll know who she was,
04:32let alone who murdered her.
04:48It's in connection with the newspaper article, sir.
04:51The appeal for assistance in identifying the body.
04:54A woman, fair skin, small to medium build.
04:59Well?
05:01I believe I know who she is, sir.
05:06A chair for the gentleman, Constable.
05:08Oh, thank you, yes.
05:10Yes, thank you.
05:13Thank you, thank you very much.
05:17My name, sir, is Albert Moskrop,
05:19and I should first explain
05:21that I am, like yourself, a scientist.
05:24It is my profession.
05:26You see, I have a small optical shop in London,
05:28and I specialize in lenses.
05:31But I am truly fortunate
05:32in that it is also my hobby to observe.
05:37Observing a lady seems the hobby
05:38of a great many here in Brighton.
05:40No, I observe scientifically, sir.
05:43The lady, sir.
05:44Who do you believe she is?
05:47Mrs. Zena Prothero.
05:50Friend of yours?
05:51Yes.
05:52No.
05:53No, no, not a friend.
05:56An acquaintance?
05:57Yes.
05:59Yes, yes, we met on the beach,
06:00but not by accident.
06:02I, uh, I, I, I planned we should meet.
06:07You had seen her before?
06:10Yes, through one of my telescopes.
06:12Uh, my Suffolk Ranger field instrument
06:16with a magnification of 30 diameters.
06:20From the very first moment
06:21she came into my field of vision,
06:22I was, I was utterly bewitched by her.
06:25It was something so captivating,
06:28so delightful
06:30about the way...
06:33Anyway, there was this tiresome interruption.
06:36Mr. Mosscropp,
06:37much as I enjoy romances...
06:39But I have to tell you the full story, Sergeant.
06:42I felt sure I'd lost her
06:43until I remembered the towel.
06:45What towel was this, sir?
06:47Well, you see,
06:47the lady was carrying a striped towel,
06:49and a thought suddenly occurred to me
06:50that if I could trace the towel,
06:53I would have a definite link with her.
06:55Obviously, you have the makings
06:56of a detective, Mr. Mosscropp.
06:59Well, I did manage to trace it,
07:01but I must confess I was rather dismayed
07:03when I saw it had been retrieved
07:04by a young gentleman.
07:05But now I was determined
07:07to see the thing through,
07:08and impulsively I followed the young man.
07:11Eventually, I caught up with him
07:12at the aquarium.
07:14Coming as I did from the sunlight,
07:16I was temporarily unable
07:17to make out anything
07:18in the gloomy interior.
07:20But there did seem to be
07:21a small commotion
07:23at the far end of the hall.
07:24Help!
07:26Help!
07:26No, I lost the gut.
07:28He's all right here, too.
07:29What kind of thing?
07:30Oh, no.
07:32Put it in, sir!
07:33Put it in, sir!
07:35Oh, thank you, sir.
07:37There was no need, really, sir.
07:39The boy wanted to see
07:40the brutes for himself.
07:42It's all part of his education.
07:43Of course you need.
07:45Honestly, Bridget,
07:45anyone would think
07:46from your behaviour
07:47I was trying to get rid of the child,
07:49like someone in the police reports.
07:51You'll have to keep a check
07:51on yourself, my girl.
07:52You'll get us into no end of trouble.
07:55Won't you, young Jason?
07:57Come on up.
07:59There's Papa.
08:05Oh, I'm obliged to you, sir.
08:07Sistine's a trying age.
08:09I'm sure there was no harm
08:11in Master Guy's actions.
08:12Oh, well, boys,
08:12will be boys, Miss.
08:13I expect his mother
08:14finds him quite a handful.
08:15I remember I was at his age.
08:18Well, Mrs. Proverow's lucky there.
08:19Oh, uh, Mrs.
08:21Mrs. Proverow.
08:22Well, she's only a stepmother.
08:24He's the doctor's son
08:24by previous marriage.
08:26Don't ask me which one.
08:28He does keep his wives
08:29very long, does he?
08:31I must go and collect
08:32Jason for his lunch.
08:34Well, you're a gentleman, sir,
08:35and I'm obliged for your help.
08:37Oh, no trouble, Miss.
08:37It's no trouble at all.
08:50The following morning,
08:51I saw Dr. Proverow
08:52with the same woman
08:53I'd observed at the aquarium.
08:55It was obvious he was
08:56flirting with her,
08:57and for her part,
08:59she was encouraging him
09:00quite flagrantly.
09:02Well, that afternoon,
09:04I used my Negretti and Zambra.
09:06You used your what, sir?
09:07What telescope, constable?
09:09Oh, yes, yes.
09:10It's my most powerful instrument.
09:13Well, almost immediately,
09:14I focused on the child, Jason.
09:16He was with a complete
09:17stranger, Sergeant,
09:18and I thought,
09:19heavens, the boy's been abducted.
09:21Abducted, Mr. Moscropp?
09:22You do have a suspicious mind.
09:25Well, there was no sign
09:26of the family
09:26or Bridget, his nursemaid.
09:29I approached the large lady
09:31who was throwing the child
09:32about in the most
09:33alarming fashion.
09:34I introduced myself
09:35and attempted to engage her
09:36in conversation,
09:37a rather formidable task
09:39as she was very uncommunicative.
09:41But it did become apparent
09:42that she had no idea
09:43of Jason's parentage
09:44or even his name.
09:46However, after careful questioning,
09:48I gained her confidence
09:49sufficiently for her to tell me
09:50she simply minded the child
09:52regularly for his brother
09:54and sister,
09:54who she pointed out
09:56on the next beach.
09:56Well, imagine, Sergeant,
09:58not knowing who the child was
09:59and how she could possibly
10:01interpret their behaviour
10:02as that of a brother
10:03and sister
10:04is beyond me.
10:06They were kissing, Sergeant,
10:07kissing on the beach,
10:08a 16-year-old boy
10:10and a servant girl.
10:10I was shocked.
10:12Well, at least the child
10:14had not been abducted,
10:15Mr. Moscropp.
10:16No, no, that is true, Sergeant.
10:18But he was later on in the day.
10:21Was he by Jove?
10:23Who by?
10:24By me.
10:26I had somehow
10:27to introduce myself
10:28to Mrs. Prothero.
10:29I felt she was in need
10:30of a friend.
10:31So you abducted her child?
10:33Yes, but just for
10:34five or ten minutes.
10:35He was playing on the beach
10:36near an upturned boat,
10:37right out of sight
10:38of the family.
10:38And I lured him away
10:40by means of one
10:41of my telescopes.
10:42And he followed me
10:44onto the esplanade.
10:47Then when he started bawling,
10:49I carried him back
10:50to his nursemaid.
10:53Nothing.
10:55Jason.
10:57Jason.
11:00What do you mean with nothing?
11:02You can't mean it.
11:04Jason Prothero lost without trace.
11:06His minor state
11:07of advanced hysteria.
11:09The beach about
11:10to be turned over
11:11stone by stone.
11:13You arrive
11:13with a child
11:14in your arms
11:15and describe it
11:17as nothing.
11:19He's a willful
11:20to feed,
11:20I grant you,
11:21but you,
11:22you're a hero,
11:24Mr.
11:26Mozcroft.
11:27Mozcroft.
11:29Mr. Mozcroft.
11:31It's a name
11:32I shall never forget.
11:34Now, understand
11:34that I'm utterly brave.
11:36Words.
11:37Words cannot suffice.
11:39I was on the brink
11:40of despair,
11:41Mr.
11:41What did you say
11:42it was, darling?
11:43Mozcroft.
11:44Mozcroft.
11:47It was providential
11:48that I recognised
11:49your servant, ma'am.
11:50We met briefly
11:51at the aquarium.
11:53Darling,
11:53as far as I was concerned
11:54he was almost
11:55food for the fishes.
11:57Did you find
11:57the little brunt?
11:58Up on the groin
11:59towards the pier.
12:02The groin?
12:04I was supposing
12:05he'd fallen.
12:06You've saved
12:07his life by heaven.
12:08You've saved
12:09my son's life.
12:10This gentleman
12:11is a hero,
12:12Bridget.
12:14and a saint
12:15and you,
12:16my girl,
12:16are the other thing.
12:19What were you thinking
12:20of letting my child
12:21wander off
12:22and all but kill himself?
12:23Go on.
12:24Go and find Guy
12:25and tell him
12:25what's happened.
12:28Bring that guy.
12:33Now, Mr. Moorcroft.
12:35Mozcroft.
12:36Mozcroft.
12:38Now, Mr. Mozcroft.
12:39Oh, I'm so grateful.
12:43Shall we...
12:44Shall we sit down
12:44for a moment?
12:49Oh, I have the advantage
12:51of you.
12:52My name is Protheran.
12:53Xena Protheran.
12:54You might have known me
12:56better as Xena Delamere
12:57when I was on the boards
12:59in the pearls of Pulperro.
13:02I was the girl
13:02that sat on the cardboard moon
13:04in the Pearl Girl number.
13:06Well,
13:07such is me.
13:10Are you a resident
13:11of Brighton?
13:12No, my dear Moor,
13:13it's the pity.
13:14My husband Gregory
13:14is a doctor
13:15practicing talking.
13:17He escaped
13:18for three weeks.
13:20We're staying
13:21at the Arbomar.
13:22It's comfortable.
13:23It's monstrously expensive.
13:27You're here
13:27for the season,
13:29I expect.
13:30Oh, no, no, no.
13:31Just three weeks,
13:32like you.
13:33I'm one of those
13:33deplorable individuals
13:34who can't bear
13:35to be away
13:36from their business
13:36for more than the minimum.
13:38It, uh...
13:39It betrays
13:40a lack of confidence,
13:42I'm afraid.
13:42Oh, Skittles, darling.
13:44You're conscientious.
13:45Like Protheran.
13:46You know,
13:47even...
13:48even on his holidays,
13:49he will insist
13:50on visiting
13:51his former patients.
13:52Yes.
13:53I mean,
13:53this very afternoon
13:54he's with a poor soul
13:55in Rottingdean,
13:56actually.
13:56He has dedication
13:57for him.
13:59Between ourselves,
14:00he doesn't really
14:01approve when I bring
14:02the children
14:02on the beach.
14:03Well,
14:05it's not
14:05the thing
14:07in the season,
14:08is it?
14:11Personally,
14:11though,
14:13I find the scene
14:14quite irresistible.
14:17There.
14:18there's my
14:19lower-class origins
14:20revealed.
14:23Visiting a poor soul,
14:24indeed.
14:25I was...
14:26I was...
14:28I was in a quandary,
14:30Sergeant.
14:31Should I tell
14:31Mrs. Prothero
14:32the truth?
14:33Well,
14:33the opportunity
14:34did present itself
14:35on the Friday
14:36when I met her
14:37quite by chance.
14:38The town
14:39was being decked out
14:40ready for the celebrations.
14:42The return of the heroes
14:43of Tel Al-Kabir.
14:44Yes, indeed,
14:45Sergeant.
14:45I had bought
14:46young Jason
14:47a wooden crocodile
14:48and Mrs. Prothero
14:50was quite overcome
14:50by my generosity.
14:53Oh, you are
14:54a naughty girl
14:55walking down
14:56the promenade.
14:57You are a saucy boy
14:59and he says
15:00I am a cop.
15:04If Guy's pa knew
15:05he was debating
15:06to the beach,
15:06I don't know
15:07what he'd do.
15:08Prothero says
15:09the water's contaminated
15:10but I can't stop
15:11the wretched boy
15:12from going in
15:12so I just don't try.
15:14He gives the impression
15:14of being very strong-willed.
15:17You see,
15:17he suffers from asthma.
15:19We try not to cross him
15:20the fear of bringing
15:21on an attack.
15:22Prothero has made
15:23a great study
15:24of the subject,
15:24you know.
15:26He's even written
15:26papers about it.
15:28About vaccinations,
15:30injections,
15:31or are they the same thing?
15:33I don't know.
15:35Guy's natural mother
15:36used to suffer from asthma.
15:38Your husband
15:39was married before,
15:40was he?
15:41Twice, darling.
15:43Emily.
15:44She died of smallpox.
15:46It's Lister's daughter.
15:48Good diary.
15:49Set him up in practice.
15:51Zelda was the second.
15:52She was one of the pelands.
15:54There were thousands
15:55of acres somewhere.
15:57Well,
15:58she ate some bad fish.
16:00Killed her overnight.
16:01Then I came along.
16:04Actress.
16:06What do you think now?
16:07Married a bit beneath
16:08he's stationed at me,
16:09didn't he, darling?
16:11Oh, take them to feed away
16:12for a while, Bridget.
16:14That girl
16:16got no idea
16:17how to keep a child amused.
16:19Prothero must have been
16:20off his heavenly engaged,
16:21darling.
16:22Didn't do no wrong
16:23in his eyes.
16:24None whatsoever.
16:26And you know,
16:27once his mind's made up,
16:28he's nipsackable.
16:33Guy's the same.
16:37That must make life
16:38difficult for you.
16:39Difficult?
16:41If my lips
16:42weren't sealed,
16:44I could tell you
16:45a tale more harrowing
16:46than it many
16:46would be dreadful.
16:48I don't know why
16:49I'm telling you all this,
16:49Mr. Moskrop.
16:50You don't want to listen
16:51to a woman's nonsense.
16:53Oh, it's not nonsense
16:54at all, ma'am.
16:55I counted a privilege
16:56to listen to you.
16:57I only wish there was
16:58some way in which
16:59I could help you
17:00with the crisis
17:02you speak of.
17:02Forget about it.
17:04Forget about it.
17:07An unspeakable thing.
17:09unique to our family.
17:11You'll say no more
17:12about it.
17:14Anyway, after all,
17:15it is our holiday,
17:16isn't it?
17:19The regiment's
17:19returning from Egypt
17:20tomorrow.
17:21Won't Jason adore
17:22the uniforms?
17:23Oh, yes,
17:23I'm sure he will, ma'am.
17:26Have you been invited
17:27to the civic reception
17:28this evening?
17:29I didn't know
17:30when I've been arranged.
17:32Actually,
17:32I'm not my best
17:33in the evenings.
17:35The sea air tires,
17:36you might expect.
17:37Quite the reverse.
17:39Prothero says
17:39my brain is overactive.
17:41You must be right.
17:42Because I can't sleep
17:43without the preparation
17:44he gives me.
17:45Isn't it convenient
17:46being married to a doctor?
17:48He gives you
17:49a sleeping drug?
17:50Yes.
17:51Every night.
17:53Ever since the trouble
17:54I mentioned.
17:55Well,
17:55I didn't mention.
17:58You see,
17:59since then,
18:00the least little thing
18:01makes me the most
18:03nervous state.
18:05It's been in the same room
18:06with Prothero and guys
18:07if I have to start
18:08my head shaking
18:09is ridiculous.
18:11So you take the potion
18:12to alleviate
18:13your nervous manifestations?
18:15Exactly.
18:17And it's miraculous.
18:20I'm unconscious
18:21in no doubt at all.
18:23Prothero suggests
18:24usually that I take it
18:26immediately after dinner.
18:27By eight,
18:28I'm insensible.
18:29You don't think
18:30it's dangerous, do you?
18:34What kind of sleeping
18:35draught does he give you?
18:36That's what worries me,
18:37my dear.
18:37I don't know.
18:39Prothero doesn't tell me
18:40and I don't like to ask.
18:42I shouldn't like him
18:42to think I don't trust him.
18:45Perhaps somebody else
18:46could help you.
18:47Darling.
18:50Charming.
18:51It was so relieved
18:51in my mind.
18:52I'd completely forgotten
18:53that you were a medical man.
18:55Well, medicine's not
18:56really my field, ma'am.
18:57Optics, you understand.
18:58Oh, yes.
18:59Optics.
18:59An optical man, exactly.
19:01Oh, that would be so...
19:02Oh, look what I've done.
19:06Oh, I can't tell you
19:07what this means to me.
19:09Of course you know
19:09about these things.
19:10So sweet of you
19:11to go through all this trouble.
19:12Well, I dare say
19:13if you could obtain
19:14a small sample
19:15of the solution,
19:16I could get it analysed
19:17somewhere in the town.
19:18Though I'm sure
19:19your husband
19:20can be depended upon.
19:22Oh, so am I,
19:23Mr. Musgrave.
19:23So am I.
19:25But
19:27if you're
19:28a chemist
19:29were to discover
19:31that the medicine
19:31were just
19:32a trifle strong,
19:34perhaps I could find
19:35a way of
19:36preparing a weaker solution
19:38without offending
19:38further along.
19:40It is just a little
19:41unnerving being
19:41insensible for 13 hours
19:43at a time,
19:43you understand.
19:4613 hours?
19:49When could you obtain
19:51this sample for me?
19:53It would have to be done
19:55unobtrusively,
19:56would it not?
19:59darling,
20:00you are so
20:02perspicacious.
20:06If you,
20:07if you were to come
20:08to the croaky law
20:09in the Album
20:10on two this afternoon,
20:13I could get
20:14Bridget dressing,
20:15Jason.
20:16Brother-in-law,
20:17who have been
20:18the villain
20:18for a little guy.
20:21How gross,
20:24it would be
20:24exactly like
20:25two conspirators.
20:29I collected
20:30the sleeping draft
20:31that afternoon
20:32and arranged
20:32to meet her
20:33at 8.30
20:33the next evening
20:34with the chemist's
20:35analysis.
20:37That will be
20:37Saturday night.
20:38Oh, yes, yes.
20:39The night
20:40of the grand ball
20:41and civic reception
20:42for the regiment
20:42at the dome.
20:43and the firework show.
20:44Oh, yes, yes, indeed.
20:48I waited in front
20:49of the hotel
20:49Albemarle
20:50with the formula
20:51as arranged
20:51and there was
20:52no sign of her.
20:53Perhaps it had been
20:54more difficult
20:55for her to slip away
20:56from Prothrow
20:56than she expected.
20:59I caught you
21:00by surprise,
21:01didn't I?
21:02Have you got
21:03your formula
21:04for my mistress?
21:05Oh, well,
21:05I had planned
21:06to hand it to her
21:07in person.
21:08Oh, you can't,
21:09can you?
21:09She ain't here.
21:11Oh, yeah,
21:12I have to tell you.
21:13She's sorry
21:13she can't come down.
21:14She took to bed
21:15straight after dinner
21:16to please Dr. Prothrow.
21:18He, uh,
21:19he wanted to see her
21:19asleep before he
21:20left for the ball.
21:22Oh, I, uh,
21:23I see.
21:24Now, don't look
21:24so flawed.
21:26I know you've
21:26taken a fancy to her.
21:28I've seen you
21:28with them glasses
21:29to your eyes,
21:30Mr. Moskrop.
21:31And I've seen you
21:31on the beach
21:32outside the hotel
21:33when the mistress
21:34don't know you're there.
21:35I've seen you
21:36watching Dr. P
21:37in awe
21:38through your spyglass.
21:40So,
21:41you know all about
21:42him and the ladies?
21:44Uh, yes,
21:44well, I did observe him
21:46out walking
21:46with a young woman.
21:48Samantha
21:48for Lloyd
21:49Whittingham,
21:50the colonel's daughter.
21:54Mrs. Prothrow
21:55don't know
21:55she's been deceived.
21:56she never does.
21:59Then shouldn't you
22:00tell her?
22:01I can't afford
22:01to cross the doctor.
22:03Well, I'd never
22:04obtain another position
22:05if he'd give me
22:05a bad character.
22:07Oh, isn't she
22:08at all suspicious?
22:09Oh, she's so blind
22:10to his doings.
22:11He don't even bother
22:12to brush the fair
22:13hairs off his shoulder.
22:15But with that kind
22:16of adoring,
22:16trusting wife,
22:17why kill her?
22:19Kill?
22:20My formula.
22:21You was hoping
22:22to find arsenic
22:23in it,
22:24weren't you?
22:25Good lord,
22:25the very idea.
22:26Take my word for it,
22:27he don't need to kill her.
22:29He's perfectly content
22:29with things the way
22:30they are.
22:31And for her part,
22:33you don't stand
22:34a chance.
22:36If there's only
22:36one man for her,
22:37that's my master
22:38with all his faults.
22:40Well, then,
22:40perhaps she would
22:41kindly convey this
22:41to Mrs. Protheroe
22:42and set her mind
22:43at rest.
22:43the preparation
22:44is nothing
22:45more sinister
22:46than chloral hydrate.
22:48I told you
22:49he won't poison you now.
22:51Good god,
22:52what was that?
22:52I almost started
22:53to light the skyrockets.
22:54Oh, I'm dotty
22:55about fireworks.
22:57Look at this guy.
22:59That one takes
23:00after his father.
23:02Not that I'm complaining.
23:05It's getting nippy
23:06out of here.
23:06You will remember
23:08me too, Harold.
23:09Oh, she won't
23:10need no remembering
23:11of you, Mr. Moskrock.
23:12You're not the sort
23:13of man she's
23:13likely to forget.
23:19I warn you.
23:20Don't you go
23:21telling Mrs. Protheroe
23:22the truth about
23:23her aspen,
23:23because God knows
23:25what might all of you do.
23:31Now, what time
23:32was this on Saturday
23:33night, sir?
23:34Oh, about
23:35nine o'clock,
23:35sergeant.
23:36You stay to see
23:37the end of the fireworks?
23:38Oh, no,
23:39I left by 9.30.
23:40Pyrotechnics
23:41do not impress me
23:42over much.
23:42Nor me, sir.
23:44When did you get
23:44back to your lodgings?
23:46Do you know,
23:47I can't remember.
23:48Maybe an hour later.
23:49I was in no particular
23:50hurry.
23:51Ah, well,
23:51possibly your landlady
23:52would recall.
23:53Uh, no, no, no.
23:54She didn't see me.
23:55I let myself in.
23:56Do you take sugar, sir?
23:57Oh, yes, four.
23:58But you think
23:59it would have been
23:59about 10.30?
24:00Uh, yes, yes.
24:02Why are you so interested?
24:03Got to get my
24:04time straight, sir.
24:05A lot of reliance
24:06is placed on times.
24:07And when you got
24:08back to your lodgings?
24:09I went straight to bed.
24:11What did you do
24:12the next day?
24:12Sunday?
24:13Oh, I went to church.
24:15I walked on the
24:16esplanade.
24:16I was surprised
24:17not to see
24:18Mrs. Prothero
24:18on the beach.
24:19Why?
24:20Oh, the weather
24:20was ideal.
24:22And Dr. Prothero?
24:23Well, I didn't see
24:24him until Monday.
24:25He lunched at
24:26mutton's with
24:27the colonel's daughter.
24:28And afterwards,
24:29they walked back
24:29to her house
24:30in Lewis Crescent.
24:31Arm in arm,
24:32Sargent.
24:33Have you seen him
24:33since?
24:34Oh, several times.
24:35His routine is inflexible.
24:37He rises late,
24:39bathes at Brills,
24:40lunches at mutton's.
24:42Oh, and yesterday,
24:42his son Guy
24:43joined him for lunch.
24:44What about young Jason?
24:46You know, I've seen
24:47nothing of him
24:47or his nursemaid
24:49or Mrs. Prothero.
24:50But then...
24:52Do you know
24:53Sergeant,
24:53an awful thought
24:54has just occurred to me.
24:57You don't think
24:57they could all...
24:58No, sir, I don't.
25:00I just leave
25:01every possibility open.
25:02For one thing is certain,
25:04if you haven't seen him
25:05in four days,
25:05they ain't in circulation here.
25:07We can depend on it.
25:08You know, I'd be glad
25:09to offer my services
25:10as observer.
25:13Much appreciated, sir.
25:14But I think you're now
25:15entitled to enjoy
25:16the rest of your holiday.
25:17Then, then,
25:18would you like me
25:19to bring you
25:19Dr. Prothero's
25:21published monographs
25:22on asthma
25:22and such like?
25:23You have these
25:25in your possession?
25:26Well, I had them
25:27sent down from London
25:28because I...
25:29I want to know
25:30more about the man.
25:32Well, now,
25:34that is a coincidence,
25:35Mr. Mosscroft.
25:36So do I.
26:01one of them is spoken for.
26:02my son is joining me shortly.
26:04But take the other one
26:05if you wish.
26:05Capital.
26:07Extremely decent.
26:11What's the name?
26:13Dr. Prothero.
26:16Ah, the obligatory
26:16turtle soup for me too, please.
26:18And a medium sirloin
26:18to follow.
26:21Your son and yourself
26:22here for the season?
26:23Yes.
26:24Slipping the news
26:25for a while, eh?
26:26No, unfortunately,
26:28my wife and younger son
26:28had to return home.
26:30The child was unwell.
26:31Ah, sorry to hear that, sir.
26:32Some childish malady?
26:34Stomach upset.
26:35I told my wife
26:36to let the nursemaid take him,
26:37but she insisted on me.
26:40Did you attend the civic reception
26:41on Saturday night?
26:42I mean, the ball.
26:43Yes, indeed.
26:44Everyone was there.
26:45It was the outstanding event
26:47of the season so far.
26:48Splendid.
26:49Must have made a fitting climax
26:50to your wife's holiday.
26:52My wife is not present.
26:54Ah.
26:55You took your elder son?
26:57No, a friend.
27:01My wife does not attend
27:02evening engagements
27:03because of ill health
27:04and Guy has not enough manners
27:05for such occasions.
27:09I thought we were taking lunch alone.
27:12My elder son, Guy.
27:13Hello, Guy.
27:14I thought we were going to do it.
27:19Stable kidneys
27:19and a large sirloin steak
27:20cooked round.
27:21Hurry.
27:23You left school.
27:24Ask him.
27:26It's a sensitive subject
27:27at the moment.
27:28He's left one
27:28and is about to start
27:29at another.
27:30Don't bother to ask him where.
27:32He won't tell you.
27:32Not while I'm here.
27:34But if I know him,
27:35it'll be in the
27:35Outer Hebrides.
27:37Guy has a well-developed
27:38sense of humour
27:39which does not always
27:40endear him to schoolmasters
27:41or his father
27:43on occasion.
27:43It's true.
27:44When have you treated me
27:45with anything but suspicion?
27:47You're fearful all the time.
27:48I'll embarrass you
27:49and your quack fear.
27:50You don't so lightly
27:51dismiss the efforts
27:52I have made to
27:53alleviate your attacks, Guy.
27:55How can I
27:56when I have a bruise
27:57on my arm
27:58as big as a half-crown
27:59to remind me
27:59of my father's loving care?
28:02I began to wheeze
28:03a bit on Sunday
28:03so he gave me an injection.
28:05He might be a specialist
28:06on asthma
28:07but he handles the needle
28:08like a punt pole.
28:10How long do you expect
28:11to be in Brighton,
28:12Mr. Cribb?
28:12Oh, just a few.
28:14Surely you're the man
28:15from Scotland Yard?
28:16The police?
28:17Yes.
28:18He's investigating the body
28:19they dug up on the beach.
28:21I read about it
28:22in the Argus,
28:23Inspector Cribb.
28:24Sergeant only,
28:25I'm afraid.
28:26You're a fly one, Sergeant.
28:29Better watch out, Father.
28:30He's looking for a murderer.
28:31Get home quick
28:32and pour all those poisons
28:33down the wash basin.
28:34The soup will be sufficient.
28:37Actually, it's the identity
28:38of the victim
28:38I'm more concerned about.
28:40I'll find the murderer later.
28:43Trouble is,
28:43there isn't too much to go of.
28:45Woman,
28:46small to medium height,
28:47wearing a black seal-skin jacket.
28:50I believe your wife
28:51hasn't been seen since Saturday, sir.
28:53Perhaps that's because
28:54she left for dorking on Sunday,
28:56Mr. Cribb.
28:56You accompanied her
28:58to the station yourself?
28:59No.
29:00They took a cab.
29:01Your wife, Jason,
29:02and Bridget.
29:03Good God.
29:04We've known the name of her, sir.
29:06Did all three of them
29:07travel together, sir?
29:08Naturally.
29:09Well, that's good news, then.
29:11But you do understand my concern.
29:12The victim was killed
29:13not far from your hotel.
29:15Would you be so kind, Mr. Pastor?
29:17There were scores of men
29:17and women on the front that night.
29:19I expect a soldier drank too much
29:22and murdered the doxy he was with.
29:23He dragged her into one of the lockups
29:25and then set to work
29:26the next night with a cleaver.
29:28There, I've solved the case for you.
29:30Well, it's one possibility.
29:33Did you watch the fireworks
29:34with Mr. Stepmother?
29:35No, his stepmother was asleep.
29:38I never mentioned stepmother.
29:40No, she wasn't.
29:41She got up to watch the fireworks.
29:43No.
29:44Yes.
29:45But I gave her a sleeping drawer.
29:46She couldn't have taken it.
29:48We watched the display together
29:49from her bedroom.
29:52I think I is right.
29:53Either a soldier or sailor
29:54was the murderer.
29:55And the victim?
29:56One of the sluts of the town.
29:58The front is no fit place
29:59to be at night.
30:00I need some fresh air.
30:02His asthma.
30:04Providentially,
30:05I'm able to subdue the attacks
30:06with atropine
30:07if I cannot dispel them altogether.
30:09Must be difficult to correct a boy
30:10when he's liable
30:11to bring on an attack.
30:12And allow that he has
30:13abominable manners.
30:15But he is chastised
30:16like any other boy.
30:18Done all that a Christian father can.
30:20And he's starting a new school, you say?
30:21We hope so, yes.
30:23I wonder if I happen to have heard of it.
30:24You can answer that, will you?
30:26Uh, no, I don't think so.
30:28It's a rather small, private academy.
30:31I didn't want to be indiscreet
30:33in front of the boy, sir.
30:34But was it a lady friend
30:36you took to the ball?
30:37Yes, um,
30:39Miss Samantha Floyd Whittingham.
30:42A social acquaintance.
30:43Oh, that's understood, sir.
30:46Did you happen to leave the ball
30:47for any part of the evening?
30:49Yes, we watched the fireworks.
30:50When the ball ended,
30:51I drove Samantha to her lodgings
30:53in Lewis Trescent.
30:55I was back just before two.
30:57Oh, I don't doubt it, sir.
30:59Samantha is very much alive,
31:01I assure you, sir.
31:03I wasn't thinking she was dead, sir.
31:04You seem concerned for my wife's safety just now,
31:07not, uh, not my, uh, friend.
31:11Just one more question,
31:12if you'll oblige me, sir.
31:13You've been very forbearing.
31:15Has Bridget been with you long?
31:17Six months.
31:18Do you think she's completely to be trusted?
31:21In what way?
31:22Well, not too fine a point upon it,
31:24in matters of morality.
31:27You really have been keeping
31:28a close watch on us, Sergeant.
31:30Uh, waiter, Bill.
31:34Well, I'll answer you.
31:35I may be a forward thinker
31:37in this respect, Sergeant,
31:39but I don't think it's particularly bad
31:41if a 16-year-old boy
31:43learns a trick or two
31:44to a serving of a wench.
31:46I know I did when I was young.
31:47You do know that they bathed together.
31:49Of course I know.
31:50But I'm more concerned
31:51with the toxic effects of seawater
31:52than a bit of spooning
31:53on top of the waves.
31:55Well, there's no more to it than that.
31:56Of that, I'm sure.
31:58Now, allow me, please.
31:59I did intrude on your lunch.
32:01Oh, thank you.
32:03And I hope for your sake
32:05that Scott and Yard
32:05considers that bill
32:06a justified expenditure.
32:08I'll accompany you
32:09part of the way, if I may.
32:14I assume you are
32:15going in the general direction
32:17of Lewis Crescent.
32:19I'm beginning to think
32:20it's just as well
32:21I haven't done anything criminal, Sergeant.
32:23Indeed it is, sir.
32:24Otherwise, you'd be
32:25a very worried man by now,
32:26wouldn't you?
32:32Hello, hello, hello.
32:33What's going on here, then?
32:37Don't we concern ourselves
32:38with the purpose of our visit, Zachary?
32:39How's the door-to-door doing?
32:41Do you know how over a hundred women
32:42left town either Saturday or Sunday?
32:44That's over a hundred reports
32:45they're going through.
32:46It's a lot of work, Sarge.
32:47Well, you seem to be finding
32:48ample time for the amusements.
32:51Oh, yes.
32:51That man Moss got called again.
32:53Oh, what for?
32:54Well, he wanted to see
32:54that black seal-skinned jacket
32:56we found.
32:56I said he couldn't, of course.
32:58I said it was evidence
32:59and if he became a witness
33:00he might be called upon
33:01to identify it in court.
33:02What did he want
33:03with the jacket?
33:04Oh, well, he remembered
33:05that when he was walking
33:06with Mrs. Protheroe last Friday
33:07a button came off
33:08and she put it in her pocket.
33:10I said I'm sure
33:11all the buttons were in place.
33:13Anyway, when he'd gone,
33:14I checked.
33:14None were, Missy.
33:16Nothing in the pockets.
33:17Did he say which button it was?
33:19The chopped one.
33:22It's a weird, you do it.
33:28Oh, there, Sarge.
33:35I wouldn't have thought
33:36you needed a magnifying glass
33:37to prove there isn't
33:38a button missing.
33:41Interesting.
33:43Top button's been sewn on
33:45with thinner cotton
33:46than the rest.
33:48But there are still traces
33:50of the holes
33:50where thicker stuff's
33:51been threaded.
33:56Mr. Mosscropp has come
33:57to your rescue, Thackeray.
33:58Rescue?
33:59No more house to house.
34:00He's found the lady for us.
34:25All this lot found from the diggings.
34:27That's right.
34:28Sergeant Cribb wants us
34:30to look at everything.
34:31Gone swimming,
34:33is the sergeant?
34:33No, he's gone to talking.
34:35But why,
34:36I ain't at liberty to say.
34:38Except it's to do with
34:39why we came down here,
34:40solving the case.
34:43Here, that's paper you've got.
34:44I handle all the paper,
34:46cloth and metal.
34:46You handle the rest.
34:48Well, here's another
34:49female garter
34:50for your collection.
34:52That old beast
34:53could tell a few stories.
34:56Listen to this thing.
34:58To Mr. Mosscropp,
35:00our analysis of the liquid
35:03shows it to be
35:04a weak solution
35:05of chloral hydrate
35:08C-C-L-3-C-H-O-H-2.
35:14Ah,
35:15he said it would be
35:16here somewhere.
35:17He's a leery old cove,
35:19he's my old serge.
35:20How did he know?
35:22Oh, obvious.
35:23If you've done a bit
35:24of detective work,
35:25that is.
35:26Er,
35:27Mr. Mosscropp
35:28gave it to the nursemaid
35:30Saturday night.
35:32She then gave it
35:32to Mrs. Protheroe.
35:34Now,
35:34when she goes
35:35for a walk
35:35along the beach,
35:36she's going to
35:37take it with her,
35:37ain't she?
35:38She hates the dafter
35:39to leave it behind
35:40for her husband
35:40to find it.
35:42Slep up.
35:43Ain't it just.
35:45Only,
35:46how did Mrs. Protheroe
35:47come to be
35:48on the beach
35:49Saturday night?
35:51Er,
35:52yes.
35:53Er,
35:54well,
35:55the sergeant and I
35:55are working
35:56on that one.
36:28Good Lord,
36:30what are you doing
36:31in this godforsaken place?
36:32You ought to be
36:33on the pier,
36:33darling.
36:42Your colleague
36:42told me
36:43where to find you,
36:43sergeant.
36:44Ah,
36:44Mr. Mosscropp.
36:45I'm re-reading
36:46one of Dr. Protheroe's
36:47published papers.
36:48Fascinating.
36:48I saw Mrs. Protheroe.
36:49She was on horseback
36:50at Devil's Dyke.
36:51I've come direct to you
36:52from talking to her.
36:53Have you now?
36:53You must be hungry again.
36:54It's a fair walk from here.
36:55Let me get you
36:56a plate of these.
36:57I don't know
36:57whether you heard me,
36:58sergeant.
36:58I saw Mrs. Protheroe.
37:00I spoke with her.
37:01You're luckier than me.
37:02I went to talking to look for her.
37:04You mean,
37:05you knew she was alive?
37:07Well,
37:07knew is putting it a trifle strong, sir.
37:09One can never be sure
37:10if anyone's still in their feet
37:11in this uncertain life,
37:12but I had reason to believe
37:14she might be.
37:14Yes.
37:15Oh, I see.
37:16What was she doing on Devil's Dyke?
37:18Meeting Protheroe?
37:19Oh, yes, yes.
37:20Apparently,
37:20young Jason was suddenly taken ill.
37:21That's why she left so hurriedly.
37:23But he's all right now.
37:24I'm delighted to hear.
37:25But because of her hurried departure,
37:26she left certain articles of dress behind
37:28and Protheroe brought them to her
37:29in a knapsack.
37:32Did you tell her about the seal-skin jacket?
37:35No, no.
37:36Oh, well, it wasn't hers.
37:38Was it?
37:40But I managed to convince her
37:42that she had a public duty
37:43to present herself to you,
37:45if only to show she was alive.
37:46And she agreed.
37:47But, uh,
37:49she doesn't want to be seen
37:50in conversation with you.
37:52It may get back to her husband.
37:53Oh, yes, yes.
37:55He's forbidden her to talk to you.
37:56Apparently, your lunch together
37:57didn't leave too favorable
37:59an impression on him.
38:00But, uh,
38:02if you could be on the downs
38:04at ten o'clock.
38:06A clandestine meeting, eh?
38:07You've got me at it now, Mr. Moscropp.
38:14Handsome of you
38:14to come all this way to see me, ma'am.
38:16Mr. Moscropp told me
38:17you thought I was dead.
38:19I hope this reassures you, Sergeant.
38:21I believe you own
38:22a black seal-skin jacket, ma'am.
38:24Yes, I do.
38:25But I don't see what...
38:26It was dug up on the beach.
38:33Dozens of women
38:34own seal-skin jackets, Sergeant.
38:36Bought from Fremantles
38:37of Dorking
38:38a visit to the shop yesterday.
38:40They know you.
38:42Heaven's sake, I...
38:43What is this all about?
38:45Mrs. Protheroe,
38:46you know as well as I do
38:47that the woman murdered on the beach
38:49was your servant, Bridget.
38:51She was wearing your jacket.
38:55She probably borrowed it
38:57when she found you fast asleep.
38:59Asleep?
39:00Now, this is just nonsense.
39:02You took the sleeping draught early.
39:04Bridget returned from seeing Mr. Moscropp,
39:06found you out to the world,
39:08borrowed your jacket,
39:09probably dosed Jason with laudanum.
39:12Yes.
39:12She gave her tiny child laudanum.
39:14Not laudanum, ma'am.
39:15I misled you there.
39:16I had to be sure
39:17that you hadn't seen the formula.
39:18It's obvious you hadn't.
39:20We found it at the scene
39:21of the crime on the beach.
39:23You must think me
39:24very deceitful, Sergeant.
39:26Were you hoping to avoid a scandal?
39:29The smallest suggestion
39:30of anything improper.
39:32It's enough to destroy
39:33a medical practice.
39:35Who's going to consult a doctor
39:36whose name's been even mentioned
39:38in connection with the murder?
39:40Oh, I know my husband.
39:41I weren't directly involved.
39:43That wouldn't matter.
39:44Everything would have come out.
39:45His philandering,
39:47my dependence on a sleeping drug.
39:49Dear God.
39:52Dear God,
39:53is it so unforgivable
39:54that we should have tried
39:55in that clumsy way
39:57to have concealed the fact
39:59that our servant
40:00was probably your woman
40:02on the beach?
40:03I'm in no position
40:04to forgive, ma'am,
40:05but I understand.
40:07Bridget.
40:09Terrible into a young girl's life.
40:12You will find her murderer,
40:14won't you?
40:15Oh, yes, ma'am.
40:16Depend on it.
40:29And what of your visit
40:31to Miss Samantha Floyd-Whittingham,
40:32Daggary?
40:33Er, well, according to my instructions,
40:35I proceeded to Lewis Crescent,
40:38where I arrived shortly after 11.
40:41I was told that Miss Floyd-Whittingham
40:44was at breakfast.
40:45But I stressed the seriousness
40:48of my business.
40:50Eventually, I was thrown into what I presume
40:53would be the breakfast room.
40:55Where was it, in fact?
40:58Her bedroom.
40:59Her bedroom?
41:00How do you manage it, Daggary?
41:02Where was Miss Samantha, then?
41:04In bed.
41:05She got a boiled egg
41:07on a silver tray.
41:10She didn't give me the impression
41:12of being at all discomforted
41:14by my presence.
41:15You mean she didn't disappear
41:16screaming under the bedclothes?
41:17No, Sarge.
41:19She collaborated
41:20the doctor's story entirely.
41:22Did she volunteer anything else
41:24about him?
41:25Well, only that he's always
41:26behaved very proper.
41:27His wife doesn't understand him.
41:30What's your opinion
41:31of Miss Samantha?
41:32Well, I don't know
41:33what she's like dressed.
41:34But believe me,
41:36she's a stunner in bed.
41:37I believe you, Thackeray,
41:38but I shouldn't bandy it about
41:39in quite those terms
41:40if I were you.
41:41Well, now, I suppose
41:42there's still the possibility
41:43of some complete stranger
41:44murdering Bridget.
41:45But in my experience,
41:47that sort of killer
41:47doesn't go to all the trouble
41:48of cutting up the corpse
41:49and feeding it to crocodiles.
41:51No.
41:52I think between us,
41:53we've met the murderer.
41:55I doubt if it's Samantha
41:56Floyd-Whittingham.
41:57No, Samantha doesn't sound
41:58to me like the sort of woman
41:59who's handed with a cleaver.
42:01I shouldn't think
42:01Mrs. Brothero is either.
42:03The doctor.
42:04Except that he never
42:05left Samantha's side
42:06all evening.
42:07There has to be muscrop.
42:10I mean,
42:11have you ever come across
42:12a man who goes on holiday
42:13with a bag full of telescopes
42:14and binoculars?
42:15Eccentric,
42:16but there's no harm in it.
42:17When a spyglass
42:18settles on a married woman
42:19and won't move off,
42:20I'm not so sure
42:21it is harmless.
42:23Men of his age
42:23and his kind,
42:24they get strange notions
42:26in their head, Sarge.
42:32Great, sir, please.
42:33I'll have a ginger beer.
42:34It's another cup.
42:37I reckon through
42:38no fault of her own
42:39that Mrs. Brothero
42:40inflamed his animal desires
42:41and, uh,
42:43well,
42:43needs one fortunate result.
42:45That's a very engaging
42:46theory, Sackery.
42:47Oh, thank you, sir.
42:50I hadn't thought
42:51of it like that.
42:52No, sir?
42:53No.
42:55Lend your ear to this.
43:00August 1881,
43:01Hove,
43:02criminal assault
43:02upon a minor,
43:03one Matthew Hawkins,
43:04not brought to court.
43:06December 1887,
43:08Eastbourne,
43:09indecent assault
43:10upon a 17-year-old servant girl,
43:12Jane Brett,
43:13not brought to court.
43:15June 1888,
43:17Eastbourne,
43:17attempted murder
43:18of Jane Brett
43:19by strangulation,
43:20not brought to court.
43:22That's it, Sarge.
43:23We've got him this time.
43:23We ought to run him in immediately.
43:25Ah, no,
43:25that wouldn't do.
43:26Why not?
43:27It's not a criminal record,
43:28Thackeray.
43:29None of these cases
43:29was brought to court.
43:31No more of a school record.
43:33All this information
43:34came from headmasters.
43:36Nothing like a small
43:37private school
43:38for hushing up a scandal.
43:40You mean the, uh,
43:42doctor's elder son?
43:44Guy Prothero,
43:46servant at the doctor's house
43:47in Dorking,
43:47gave me the names
43:48of the schools
43:48and the local police
43:50got the truth out
43:50of the headmasters.
43:51Torturing animals,
43:52bullying,
43:53then as he got older,
43:54he turned his attention
43:55to women.
43:56Attack this girl,
43:57Jane Brett.
43:58She's fortunate
43:59to be alive.
44:01Bridget wasn't so fortunate.
44:06Have a problem,
44:07Governor, please.
44:13He's as mad as an actor.
44:15Guy's last headmaster
44:17urged his committal
44:18to an institution
44:19for the mentally deranged.
44:20Dr. Prothero
44:21promised that will be done.
44:23You don't reckon
44:24the doctor dismembered
44:25the body, do you, Sarge?
44:26Difficult to say.
44:27Didn't look like
44:27a doctor's handiwork,
44:28but then Prothero
44:29ain't fool enough
44:30to give himself away
44:30as easily as then.
44:31You got the boy
44:32in custody, then?
44:33Guy and his father
44:34left Brighton
44:35early this morning
44:36on horseback.
44:36It's all right.
44:37The police all the way
44:38from here to Dorking
44:39have been alerted
44:40and they're being followed.
44:41Yes, but shouldn't you
44:41have clapped the derbies
44:42on him the moment
44:43you've got these reports?
44:44I had to be certain
44:45that Mrs. Prothero
44:46had taken a sleeping draft
44:47that Saturday night.
44:48You see,
44:48if it was true
44:49that she and Guy
44:49had played clivage
44:50till 11,
44:51Guy couldn't possibly
44:52have killed Bridget
44:53because death occurred
44:54between 9.30 and 10.30.
44:56Come in.
44:57I'll go for you, Sarge.
45:03The two stopped off
45:05for lunch
45:05at the fortunes of war
45:06in Horsham.
45:07Good God.
45:09What is it?
45:11Guy Prothero
45:12after an attack
45:13of asthma
45:14died at 1.14.
45:16Died?
45:17Oh, there must be
45:18some mistake, Sarge.
45:19They mean dined.
45:21I'd believe you,
45:22Constable.
45:23If you didn't go on
45:25to request my instructions
45:26regarding the post-mortem.
45:35My condolences, sir.
45:38But I'm bound to say
45:39that if your son had lived,
45:40I would have arrested him
45:41for the murder
45:41of your servant, Bridget.
45:44Probably by strangulation.
45:48I'll get the plates
45:49and things set aside, Sarge.
45:51Yes, all right.
45:51What is this for?
45:52To analyze the remnants
45:54of the meal.
45:55My son died
45:56from a chronic attack
45:56of asthma,
45:57not food poisoning.
45:59Well, we'll see
45:59if the post-mortem agrees with you,
46:00It will,
46:01that I assure you.
46:03Any needle marks
46:04on the body, Thackeray?
46:05You won't find anything.
46:07I didn't administer
46:08an injection.
46:09That's a pity, sir.
46:10Otherwise,
46:11you might have been able
46:11to save him.
46:13At our little lunch,
46:14your son complained
46:15of the way
46:16you handled injections.
46:18Like a punt pole,
46:19he said.
46:23That injection contained
46:25atropine,
46:26if my notes are correct.
46:28Yes, I gave him atropine
46:30because of a sudden
46:31attack of asthma.
46:33That would have been
46:33in the early hours
46:34of Sunday morning.
46:35After he had murdered Bridget.
46:37No needle mark, Sarge.
46:40Would you like to tell me
46:41how Guy's death
46:42was induced, sir?
46:44The boy's death
46:45could not have been
46:45induced, Sergeant.
46:47Oh, I think it was.
46:48It's all too convenient, Doctor.
46:49Guy dying before I could
46:51arrest him
46:51in a small hotel
46:52miles from anywhere.
46:54Were you hoping
46:55to sign the death certificate
46:56yourself?
46:57It would have been
46:57perfectly natural
46:58for me to do so.
47:00Does the word
47:01interval mean anything to you?
47:02Interval?
47:03The interval between
47:04injections.
47:07You're not making sense,
47:08Sergeant.
47:09Two weeks ago,
47:10Bridget was murdered.
47:11I reckon that
47:12in the early hours
47:13of that Sunday morning,
47:14you decided that
47:15your son had to die.
47:17But you had to wait
47:18a specific time
47:19before that could happen.
47:21Or have you forgotten
47:22your paper on injections
47:24and the problem resulting
47:25from sensitivity
47:26to certain vaccines?
47:28If I have,
47:28I'm sure that you
47:29will remind me.
47:30You quoted from a German
47:31paper on the subject
47:32of vaccines.
47:32This particular vaccine
47:33was given at two weekly
47:34intervals.
47:35The patient died
47:36with symptoms identical
47:38to an attack of asthma.
47:39But he died only
47:41after being given
47:41the second injection.
47:45That two-week interval
47:46is crucial, isn't it?
47:48What was your son
47:49sensitive to, Doctor?
47:52Pollen.
47:53Pollen.
47:54Well, now,
47:55suppose your son
47:56on that Sunday morning
47:58had been injected
47:59with pollen.
48:01What would have been
48:02the result, do you think?
48:03Quite neutral.
48:05The substance
48:06would have affected
48:07the breathing,
48:08not the blood.
48:09But if a second injection
48:10of pollen
48:11had been administered today,
48:13wouldn't the effect
48:14have been as sudden
48:15and violent
48:16as if he had been
48:16given strychnine?
48:18But you haven't found
48:19any injection marks
48:20on my son's body.
48:22Oh, well, that's right.
48:26Would the pollen
48:27have to be injected
48:29a second time?
48:30No, pollen is readily
48:32absorbed through
48:33skin tissue.
48:34Would that be
48:35impossible to detect?
48:37Quite impossible.
48:38Because we're dealing
48:39with tenths of a milligram.
48:42This is all hypothetical,
48:43Sergeant.
48:44Guy didn't coat himself
48:46with pollen.
48:47There are no flowers
48:48in the dining room.
48:55Snuff.
48:56Snuff?
48:56Your son took snuff,
48:57didn't he?
48:57He certainly did
48:58that day at mutton's.
49:00You could easily
49:01have put pollen
49:02into his snuff box.
49:04Have the snuff
49:05analysed, Sergeant.
49:14It's a waste of time,
49:16isn't it?
49:22I must say
49:23it's as neat a way
49:24of ending a fellow
49:25human's life
49:25as I've come across.
49:27A doctor's way.
49:30Or a father's.
49:33The boy would have killed
49:34again had he lived.
49:36What future was there
49:37for him?
49:40There's a saying
49:41in my profession,
49:42Sergeant.
49:44Extreme remedies
49:45are most appropriate
49:47for extreme diseases.
49:51I think we'd better
49:52make a move
49:52toward the station.
49:55Railway?
49:57Or police?
50:00I'll never be able
50:01to prove my case
50:02against you
50:02in a court of law.
50:04Unless you decide
50:05to make a confession,
50:06that is.
50:11I think we've just
50:12got time to
50:14catch the 623.
50:44I'm the devil,
50:46and I'm looking
50:47for Mr. Punch.
50:48Where is he?
50:50There.
50:51This is Mr. Punch
50:53down here.
50:54There.
50:55Help me take him
50:57downstairs, will you?
50:59Down!
51:01He goes.
51:03Thank you very much,
51:04young man.
51:05You've been a great
51:05help to me.
51:07Bye-bye!
51:09Hey, hey, hey.
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