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After a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
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00:01:38Who's there?
00:01:39Stuart, sir.
00:01:40I say, we're not at Dover yet, are we?
00:01:42No, sir, but there's a message for you, sir, in the wireless room.
00:01:45I'll be right there.
00:02:04I say, we're not at Dover yet.
00:02:42I say, we're not at Dover yet.
00:02:49Dover in 15 minutes.
00:02:55Dover in 15 minutes.
00:02:59Dover in 15 minutes.
00:03:05Dover in 15 minutes.
00:03:11Over in 15 minutes.
00:03:15Over in 15 minutes.
00:03:34Oh, bless my soul.
00:03:35I must have dropped off right in the midst of our most interesting conversation.
00:03:40My dear young lady, what must you think of me?
00:03:43Oh, please.
00:03:44I knew you were tired, so I kept very quiet.
00:03:47I wouldn't have awakened you for the world.
00:03:49You're very kind.
00:03:51Oh, you were telling me about your roses.
00:03:53Ah, yes, yes.
00:03:54Me roses, me beautiful roses.
00:03:56I'm proud of me roses, sinfully proud.
00:04:01Oh, oh, yes, yes.
00:04:03We, uh, we must be getting into Dover.
00:04:11Well, bless my soul.
00:04:13Yes, indeed.
00:04:14Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:04:15I beg your pardon.
00:04:17Yes.
00:04:19Yes.
00:04:20There are the white cliffs.
00:04:30You know, I've been dreading this moment.
00:04:32Why now?
00:04:33Well, you see, I have some exposed film in my camera, and they might make me open it.
00:04:37The customs, I mean.
00:04:39I should so hate to lose my little pictures.
00:04:41Oh, dear, that's too bad.
00:04:43I wonder.
00:04:44It would be a great favor.
00:04:46Would you mind taking care of it for me, till we get through the customs, I mean?
00:04:49Well, I don't quite know.
00:04:50Uh, if you'll just say it's yours, being a clergyman, you're not subject to such rigid inspection.
00:04:56All right.
00:04:56Just a harmless little deception, eh?
00:04:59All right, my dear, all right.
00:05:05Oh, dear, it nearly fell overboard.
00:05:08Yes.
00:05:09Oh, dear.
00:05:23Are you courier for the Royal Museum?
00:05:25Right.
00:05:26Bringing in the Borgia pole?
00:05:27That's it.
00:05:28I'll have it out for you in a jiffy.
00:05:33I say, that's a clever dodge.
00:05:35Needs to be for this, believe me.
00:05:37There you are.
00:05:47That message, sent to me on the boat, it was a hoax to get me out of my stateroom.
00:06:01Oh, there you are.
00:06:03I was afraid that...
00:06:04My dear, they didn't even question me.
00:06:06Oh, how can I ever think?
00:06:08Don't try.
00:06:09Just send me one of your photographs, will you?
00:06:11I'll be happy to.
00:06:12Goodbye.
00:06:12Goodbye.
00:06:13Goodbye.
00:06:23Why, Giles!
00:06:25Come on, get in.
00:06:29How many times must I caution you, my sweet, not to speak until the doors are shut?
00:06:33I'm sorry.
00:06:34I didn't expect you to meet me.
00:06:37Oh, I couldn't deny myself that pleasure.
00:06:40Now, I mean, you're more beautiful than ever.
00:06:42I'm glad to be back.
00:06:44Yes, and we're glad to have you back.
00:06:46We?
00:06:47Oh, an old friend of yours turned up quite unexpectedly.
00:06:51He's been asking for you.
00:06:53Who's that?
00:06:54I found him prowling round your room, making wistful little noises like a dog.
00:07:00No, it can't be.
00:07:02Yes, my dear, the creeper.
00:07:05I'm not going to the flat.
00:07:07Oh, you'll be quite safe.
00:07:09I have him under lock and key.
00:07:11Now to business.
00:07:12What luck.
00:07:13See for yourself.
00:07:15I stuffed it with paper to stop it from rattling.
00:07:19It's absolutely the biggest pearl I've ever seen.
00:07:31I don't understand.
00:07:32You've been had, my dear, properly had.
00:07:38My dear Carnover, forgive me if I take the liberty of returning the bourgeois pearl to its lawful owners.
00:07:43Devotedly, S.H.
00:07:45Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street.
00:07:57Well, you won't tell me what you've been doing.
00:07:59One thing at a time, old boy.
00:08:00Let me get off this makeup.
00:08:01Oh, a mischief as a varnished eel.
00:08:04It still doesn't answer my question.
00:08:05What have you been up to?
00:08:07A little bit of hijacking, old boy.
00:08:10Reach into the inside pocket of that coat that you're about to throw aside.
00:08:14What do you find there?
00:08:15Pocket book.
00:08:17Open it.
00:08:19Take out what you see.
00:08:22Your fingers have now closed on a matter of 50,000 pounds.
00:08:25What?
00:08:27Can't be real.
00:08:29Real as death, old fellow.
00:08:30The blood of 20 men upon it, down through the centuries.
00:08:33Where'd you get it?
00:08:35From a charming young lady, Naomi Drake.
00:08:37Elias Yvette Tejou.
00:08:38Elias Lisa Vanini.
00:08:40Never heard of her.
00:08:41No.
00:08:42Nor of Giles Conover either, I fancy.
00:08:44Well, I can't say that I have.
00:08:46That's the incredible thing about it, Watson.
00:08:48This man pervades Europe like a plague.
00:08:50Yet no one has heard of him.
00:08:52That's what puts him on the pinnacle in the records of crime.
00:08:54What'd you do?
00:08:56Everything and nothing.
00:08:59In his whole diabolical career,
00:09:02the police have never been able to pin anything on him.
00:09:05Yet, show me crime without motive,
00:09:07robbery without a clue,
00:09:09murder without a trace,
00:09:11and I'll show you
00:09:13Giles Conover.
00:09:14That's amazing.
00:09:15Two years ago, he disappeared from his usual haunts.
00:09:19I've every reason to believe that he...
00:09:20Oh, here it is.
00:09:22I've every reason to believe that he's back in England again.
00:09:29If I could free society of this sinister creature,
00:09:32I should feel that my own career
00:09:34had reached its summit.
00:09:35What is that stuff?
00:09:36Then you think Conover's behind the theft of this poem?
00:09:39I was never more sure of anything in my life.
00:09:41Excuse me.
00:09:42Thanks, George.
00:09:48Shh.
00:09:49Listen.
00:10:00Pearl, quick.
00:10:01Hide it.
00:10:11Turn on that light.
00:10:24Why, Mr. Holmes.
00:10:26My apologies, Lister Arndt.
00:10:27I was expecting Mr. Giles Conover.
00:10:28Come in, won't you?
00:10:33Good evening, Dr. Watson.
00:10:34Good evening.
00:10:35I take it Scotland Yard has been notified of the theft of the Borgia Pearl.
00:10:38Yes, but...
00:10:39But...
00:10:40Give it to him, Watson.
00:10:44What?
00:10:45Well, I never...
00:10:46There's a fine way to treat the Borgia Pearl.
00:10:48I assure you, Lestrade,
00:10:50I shall not feel safe
00:10:51until this pearl is in the deepest vault
00:10:54of the Royal Regent Museum.
00:11:18I shall be glad to see the last of you, Precious Pearl.
00:11:21Precious is a feeble word, Holmes.
00:11:23Look at its flawless skin.
00:11:26It's...
00:11:26It's natural symmetry.
00:11:28It's a miracle of beauty.
00:11:30A miracle of horror?
00:11:31Steady on now.
00:11:32Isn't that a bit strong?
00:11:33Is it?
00:11:33Hmm.
00:11:34Think of its blood-stained history.
00:11:36Think of all the misery it's brought to the poor wretches
00:11:38who laid greedy hands on it.
00:11:40Alexander Borgia died twisted and blacked to poison.
00:11:43Carlos of Spain became a dribbling madman.
00:11:45A disastrous jewel, Digby.
00:11:46The world would be much better off
00:11:48if it were sunk in the ocean from which it came.
00:11:49Oh, really, Mr. Holmes.
00:11:51We'd hardly treat a national treasure
00:11:52in such a cavalier fashion
00:11:54if you'd kindly open the case, Inspector.
00:11:57Certainly, sir.
00:12:12Ah, there.
00:12:13All snug and safe.
00:12:15You got that safe?
00:12:16I've told you Giles Conover's after that pearl.
00:12:18Under the circumstances,
00:12:19wouldn't it be better to place a guard over it?
00:12:21It has a hundred guards over it at this very moment.
00:12:24Well, my eyes must be faying me.
00:12:26I don't understand.
00:12:27What's to prevent anyone smashing the glass and flinching it?
00:12:30Would you like to try it, Dr. Watson?
00:12:32I certainly would.
00:12:33Don't bother smashing the glass.
00:12:35I'll open it for you.
00:12:37Ah, there.
00:12:38Help yourself.
00:12:54Mr. Dinkley.
00:12:55Don't be alarmed, Bates.
00:12:56Merely a demonstration.
00:12:58May I have the pearl, Doctor?
00:13:02What again?
00:13:19That allays your fears, I trust, Dr Watson. If you'll step into my office, gentlemen,
00:13:24I'll explain to you what happened.
00:13:26Well, how does the thing work?
00:13:29Electricity, the high priest of false security.
00:13:34As you have noticed, gentlemen, we are well protected.
00:13:37Every article in this museum is so placed that its removal creates a contact.
00:13:42Very ingenious.
00:13:47Tell me, just where in the building is the control of this ingenious electrical safety device?
00:13:52The wires are in this room. Naturally, they're not exposed.
00:13:55Oh, naturally. Well, Watson, I think our usefulness here has ended.
00:13:59Goodbye, Digby.
00:14:00Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
00:14:02It's been most interesting. Thank you very much. Goodbye, Mr. Digby.
00:14:04Goodbye, Doctor.
00:14:06Oh, good day, Inspector.
00:14:07Good day, sir.
00:14:10Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:14:12Oh, the accidents will happen.
00:14:23Hello.
00:14:26Why were you going?
00:14:28Oh, I knew it.
00:14:34My apologies, Digby.
00:14:35Oh, no harm done, I assure you.
00:14:37On the contrary, I'm afraid the greatest harm has been done.
00:14:39I beg your pardon?
00:14:40Are all the objects of art in this room connected with your protective system?
00:14:43Well, most of them. But why?
00:14:46This, uh, Hogarth etching, for instance, is it connected?
00:14:52Most certainly.
00:14:53It's a priceless original.
00:14:54Take it down, will you, Watson?
00:14:55Not me.
00:14:56Once bitten, twice shy.
00:14:58Oh, Tosh.
00:14:58I'm not afraid of guards and gongs.
00:15:08But...
00:15:09But...
00:15:09I don't understand.
00:15:11What's happened?
00:15:13Why don't the gongs ring?
00:15:14I'll tell you why.
00:15:15Because your whole elaborate system here isn't worth a brass carving.
00:15:17But...
00:15:18It all depends on three wires behind that strip of Chinese embroidery.
00:15:22Who told you?
00:15:22You told me yourself.
00:15:23What?
00:15:23You said the wires weren't exposed.
00:15:26The only unexposed wall space in this room...
00:15:32...is behind this embroidery.
00:15:34While you were picking up those ornaments, I disconnected these wires.
00:15:37Just to show you how absurdly easy it would be for anyone...
00:15:40...far less ingenious and far less resourceful than Giles Conover to do the same thing.
00:15:44Now will you listen to me when I tell you to lock that pearl in the deepest, darkest vaults in
00:15:48all England?
00:16:00Stop, thief!
00:16:02Stop, thief!
00:16:05Open the door!
00:16:08Open the door!
00:16:16Gone!
00:16:17It is gone!
00:16:18It is gone!
00:16:20I don't understand.
00:16:22The gongs never rang and the shutters never closed.
00:16:24No.
00:16:24The wires were disconnected.
00:16:26Thanks to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:16:30A grateful nation owes you a memorial, Mr. Holmes.
00:16:33You demonstrated your cleverness.
00:16:36Oh, most brilliantly.
00:16:37You did put your foot in it and no mistake, Mr. Holmes.
00:16:40Nonsense!
00:16:41How is he to know that anyone...
00:16:43Oh!
00:16:43Well, eventually, my dear Watson.
00:17:13By his deductive reasoning, of course.
00:17:15I have to know that Mr. Conover is a man of infinite resource and precaution.
00:17:18Oh, thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:20It's just a bare chance that his accomplice, Miss Naomi Drake, might not get away with that pearl on the
00:17:25boat from Ostend to Dover.
00:17:26Pearl?
00:17:27What pearl?
00:17:28Who are you getting at?
00:17:29Did you search him, Bates?
00:17:30Yes, Inspector, but there's not a thing on him.
00:17:32He might have swallowed it.
00:17:33No, he hasn't got it.
00:17:35Or he would never have allowed Bates to catch him.
00:17:37While he was running away, did he stop?
00:17:39Did he meet anybody?
00:17:40Why, yes, sir.
00:17:40As he went around the corner, he bumped into a woman.
00:17:42Did you get a good look at her?
00:17:44No, sir.
00:17:44Not good enough.
00:17:45Ah!
00:17:46That's where you lost your pearl.
00:17:47That woman was an accomplice.
00:17:48Same girl that was on the boat, eh?
00:17:50Possibly.
00:17:50In any event, may I suggest, Lestrade, that you hold Mr. Conover?
00:17:53Now, come now, Mr. Holmes.
00:17:54Haven't you made enough mistakes for one day?
00:17:57There's no crime, you know, in taking a job in a museum.
00:17:59There's no crime in running when you're being chased.
00:18:02Just what am I being held for?
00:18:04Uh, window breaking?
00:18:08Thank you, Mr. Conover.
00:18:09Take him away, officer.
00:18:14How long can you hold him?
00:18:15Well, what he said, strictly speaking, we can't.
00:18:17One day?
00:18:18Two?
00:18:19Well, make it two.
00:18:20Good.
00:18:21Good?
00:18:21What's good about it?
00:18:22We don't want him.
00:18:23We want the pearl.
00:18:24That's just what I'm getting at, Watson.
00:18:25One of two things has happened.
00:18:27Either the woman he bumped into was an accomplice,
00:18:29in which case she has the pearl,
00:18:30or he managed somehow to conceal it in his flight.
00:18:33If he had to stick that pearl in some makeshift hiding place,
00:18:36he'll never rest until his Confederates have it safely in their hams.
00:18:40He'll try to send them a message.
00:18:42We ought to give him every opportunity.
00:18:44But how?
00:18:45Uh, may I suggest to Lestrade that, uh,
00:18:49he's permitted to, uh, have his food sent in from the outside?
00:18:52Fine, eh?
00:18:55Uh?
00:19:07Here we are, Inspector.
00:19:08There was his trade just the way Mr. Carnaver left it.
00:19:10Uh-huh.
00:19:11Ten to one.
00:19:12There's a message in there somewhere.
00:19:13Yes?
00:19:14What makes you so blinking sure there's a message in it?
00:19:15Because he asked me for a lend of me pencil, that's why,
00:19:18and he promised me a quid if I'd keep me math shut.
00:19:21Oh, he did, did he?
00:19:22Cunning, ain't he?
00:19:23Well, there's some that's cunning.
00:19:26He's got the wrong pig by the ears as Mr. Giles Conover.
00:19:30Yes, he hasn't got Mr. Sherlock Holmes to deal with.
00:19:36Well, nothing there.
00:19:40There might be a note stuck on underneath.
00:19:43Oh.
00:19:45Well, seeing eye, that's what you've got to have.
00:19:47Nothing much gets by you, Inspector.
00:19:49Oh, we all slip up once in a while.
00:19:51No one's infallible, you know.
00:19:56That's funny.
00:20:08Gotcha, Mr. Giles Conover.
00:20:09Here, hang on to this.
00:20:11What is it?
00:20:12Your suit, see?
00:20:13A note to his accomplice or I'm a Dutchman.
00:20:16Yes.
00:20:17Fancy me pulling Mr. Sherlock Holmes' chestnuts out of the fire.
00:20:21Here she comes.
00:20:22Thought he'd fool me, didn't they, bless the little man?
00:20:25This will tell us where the Borgia Pearl is.
00:20:27It means promotion for me, sure as you're alive.
00:20:34What'd it say?
00:20:36What do you care what it says?
00:20:37It didn't say where the Borgia Pearl was it, Inspector.
00:20:39Just you clear up this truck, that's all you've got to do,
00:20:41and see if it gets back to the restaurant.
00:20:43Very good, Inspector.
00:20:49Holmes and his theories.
00:21:16Now, there, my girl, don't get a move on, will you?
00:21:19What are you staring at that plate for?
00:21:20Oh, I ain't a staring at it, and I'm washing it, see?
00:21:23Well, I ain't paying you to go to sleep on your feet, you know.
00:21:26Go on, you old bag of grease.
00:21:28Wash your own dirty dishes.
00:21:30See?
00:21:32Here, you can't do that there, here.
00:21:35Lovely weather, ain't it?
00:21:54Holmes, you drive me raving mad.
00:21:56Turning there, scraping on that filthy fiddle as if you haven't got a care in the world.
00:22:00All the time, your reputation's been dragged in the mud.
00:22:02My dear Watson, I really must caution you against hitting newspaper reporters
00:22:05and the teeth.
00:22:07It, uh, isn't dignified.
00:22:09Well, he deserved it, the idiot.
00:22:11But how did you know I struck a reporter?
00:22:13Oblivation, my dear fellow.
00:22:14You come in here with two copies of the morning paper.
00:22:17A thing you never do unless there's an article you wish to clip for your files.
00:22:21You talk about my reputation being dragged in the mud.
00:22:23Obviously, I've been the subject of a scurrilous attack
00:22:25in connection with the theft of the Borgia Pearl.
00:22:27You certainly have.
00:22:28This article practice suggests you stood a profit by the deal.
00:22:31And it implies that you were working with Conover.
00:22:34Yes, I'm afraid I'm for it, Watson.
00:22:35Indeed you are.
00:22:36But, uh, how did you know I struck the fellow?
00:22:39Oh, that.
00:22:39Well, you come in here, jumping off the handle at me,
00:22:42you're rating me like a mother who boxes her child's ears
00:22:45after snatching it from under a train.
00:22:47A very human impulse, Watson.
00:22:48And one that suggests that you've been, uh,
00:22:51taking up the cudgels on my behalf.
00:22:52What a remarkable deduction.
00:22:54Not when you consider that the skin is missing
00:22:56from the first and second knuckles of your right hand.
00:22:58Didn't hurt.
00:22:59Good old Watson.
00:23:02It's like you, to stand by a man who's been discredited.
00:23:05Oh, rubbish.
00:23:06We've been in tighter spots than this.
00:23:08Not many, I'm afraid.
00:23:09Well, come along, old fellow.
00:23:12What have we here?
00:23:14Kippers!
00:23:15Kippers, splendid!
00:23:16I'm as hungry as a bee on a flower.
00:23:19Come in.
00:23:22Don't get up.
00:23:24Haven't got a minute.
00:23:25I've just popped in to tell you...
00:23:27I know.
00:23:27To tell me that you can't hold Conover any longer.
00:23:30In fact, you've already let him go.
00:23:32Never, Doc.
00:23:33How did you know?
00:23:34Well, I went to my dear Lestrade.
00:23:36You know as well as I do
00:23:36that you can't hold a man for more than 48 hours
00:23:38without bringing a charge against him.
00:23:39That's right.
00:23:42Have one, won't you?
00:23:43Thanks.
00:23:44Well, I've got to be off.
00:23:45Off to solve another baffling crime, I suppose?
00:23:48Well, you might call it that, Doctor.
00:23:50But to me, it's just another routine murder.
00:23:52Oh?
00:23:52Who is it?
00:23:53A bloke named Harker.
00:23:55Military man.
00:23:55Harker.
00:23:57Horace Harker?
00:23:58That's right, you know.
00:23:59I've heard of him.
00:24:00Horace Harker?
00:24:01Yes, I remember him.
00:24:02He's a major in India.
00:24:04He's retired.
00:24:06So he's been murdered, has he?
00:24:07Well, had his back broke.
00:24:11Well, I've got to be off.
00:24:14Wait a minute.
00:24:15What did you say?
00:24:16Had his back broke.
00:24:17You know.
00:24:18Spine snapped.
00:24:22That's it.
00:24:22That's what?
00:24:23It's come at last, Watson.
00:24:25The thing we've been waiting for.
00:24:27Now, hold on, hold on.
00:24:28Keep your shirt on.
00:24:29There's no mystery about it.
00:24:30He must have fallen down in the struggle.
00:24:33That's all.
00:24:34Nonsense.
00:24:34Here's your coat, Watson.
00:24:36Oh, what is all this?
00:24:36We're giving Lestrade a hand.
00:24:38Well, the Borgia Pearl, we can't afford...
00:24:39The Borgia Pearl we're after.
00:24:40Come on, Lestrade.
00:24:41I don't want an hand.
00:24:42Borgia Pearl, we're out.
00:24:43Give him Lestrade a hand.
00:24:44What?
00:24:45Lestrade...
00:24:45I'm coming.
00:24:46Lestrade a hand.
00:24:48Lestrade all the day, all morning, noon and night.
00:24:50You can't...
00:24:52And this is exactly how you found him?
00:24:54Yes, sir.
00:24:55Nobody's touched him but the police surgeon.
00:24:56Back broken, eh?
00:24:57Snapped clean, sir.
00:24:58Died instantaneous, the doctor said.
00:25:00Lestrade, would you mind if Dr. Watson has a look at him?
00:25:02Not at all.
00:25:03Watson, I'd like to know whether the break is cervical, thoracic or lumbar.
00:25:07And I'll wager it's lumbar.
00:25:09Oh, tosh.
00:25:10Who found the body, Murdoch?
00:25:12She did, sir.
00:25:12His housekeeper.
00:25:13Oh.
00:25:14Said she came in to clear away his supper things and found him lying there.
00:25:17And that's the first and last word we've been able to get out of her.
00:25:20Oh, it is, is it?
00:25:20Well, I've seen get a word out of her.
00:25:21Here, you.
00:25:22I shouldn't do that if I have you, Lestrade.
00:25:23Why not?
00:25:24The woman's suffering from shock.
00:25:27Close to cataleps, if you ask me.
00:25:29I ain't asking you, Mr. Owens.
00:25:30Naturally.
00:25:31Get her out of here, Murdoch.
00:25:33Get her to an hospital.
00:25:35Can't you see he's suffering from capital, from shock?
00:25:37Come on, now.
00:25:38Nobody's going to earth, Joe.
00:25:50Major Harker seems to have thought very highly of Napoleon.
00:25:53He's rather overdone it.
00:26:00I don't think much of that one.
00:26:02Where was the break, Watson?
00:26:04One of the lumbar vertebrae, as you thought.
00:26:07The third vertebrae.
00:26:08I can't for the life of me imagine how it happened.
00:26:11I can.
00:26:11Oh, really?
00:26:12Well, it happened just as I thought.
00:26:15The housebreaker comes in through this window over here.
00:26:18So you see, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I shan't be needing you after all.
00:26:21Simple as ABC, isn't it?
00:26:23Yeah.
00:26:23The murderer comes in through that open window.
00:26:26Major Harker's having supper over there with his back to him.
00:26:29Carry on.
00:26:31Well, he tiptoes over behind his victim ear.
00:26:35Arker rises.
00:26:36They come to grips.
00:26:37They barred all around the room, bang into this table.
00:26:39Dishes go every which way.
00:26:40Arker falls and breaks his back.
00:26:43Simple, ain't it?
00:26:43So simple, my dear Lestrade, as to be almost childish.
00:26:47For instance, will you kindly explain how the dishes that were on this table could have been knocked off in
00:26:53the struggle and this silver milk jug left standing and all these knives and forks and spoons in perfect arrangement?
00:26:57Well, Mr. Holmes, if it's the psychology of knives and forks and milk jugs you're talking about, I beg to
00:27:03be excused.
00:27:03I'm trying to account for this broken china, Lestrade.
00:27:05That's the outstanding feature of this case, whether you know it or not.
00:27:08All these broken plates.
00:27:10Plaster ornaments.
00:27:11Brick-a-brack.
00:27:12Why was all this china smashed?
00:27:13Nothing else disturbed.
00:27:14Why?
00:27:15Yes, and how about his back being broken?
00:27:17A man can't just fall down and break his back in that casual way, you know.
00:27:21Right you are, Watson.
00:27:22External force is indicated.
00:27:23There's no doubt about it.
00:27:25Major Harker's back was broken deliberately.
00:27:27I suppose you're going to tell us just who did it.
00:27:29Yes, I think I can.
00:27:31I've never known but one killer who used that technique.
00:27:34What?
00:27:34Oh, come on.
00:27:35He's dead and dumb for.
00:27:37You remember him?
00:27:39Am I likely to forget the Oxton Creeper?
00:27:41Oxton Creeper?
00:27:43Oxton Auror, I called him.
00:27:45A monster, Watson.
00:27:47With the chest of a buffalo and the arms of a gorilla.
00:27:49His particular method of murder is back-breaking.
00:27:51And it's always the same.
00:27:52A third lumbar vertebra.
00:27:54How horrible.
00:27:55Do you mean to stand there and tell me you think he's still alive?
00:27:59Why, they got him two years ago, trying to escape from Devil's Island.
00:28:02Did they?
00:28:02Yeah.
00:28:03I wonder.
00:28:03I'll lay you odds he's in London at this very moment.
00:28:06All right, Mr. Holmes.
00:28:06You stick to your theories.
00:28:07I'll stick to my facts.
00:28:08That's fair enough.
00:28:09Do me a favor, will you?
00:28:11Anything your little heart desires.
00:28:13This broken china.
00:28:14If it all swept up carefully and sent to me at Baker Street, will you?
00:28:16All right.
00:28:17But what do you want it for, anyway?
00:28:18Oh, just a souvenir.
00:28:21Come along, Watson.
00:28:22I think our usefulness here has ended.
00:28:24Mind you, sweep it all up, Lestrade.
00:28:30As a matter of fact, Watson, what I did not tell Lestrade, since I can't prove it,
00:28:34is that the Hoxton Creeper has always been Giles Conover's right arm when it comes to killing.
00:28:38And when you heard that Major Harker's back was broken, you suspected the Creeper, eh?
00:28:42Naturally.
00:28:43It can't be mere coincidence that the Creeper comes back into the scene just as Giles Conover
00:28:47reappears in London.
00:28:49I see, but how does Harker tie up with that gang?
00:28:52From the foggiest notion.
00:28:53Buy a boxer matching, gentlemen.
00:28:57But there is a connection.
00:28:59Harker wouldn't be lying there now with his back broken.
00:29:01My surmise is that Giles Conover's lost the Borgia Pearl and is trying desperately to
00:29:05get it back, just as we are.
00:29:07You really think so?
00:29:08I'm just as sure of it as I am that we're being shadowed at this very moment.
00:29:14Nice one, Watson.
00:29:15Come on.
00:29:28Listen.
00:29:30Have you got your revolver?
00:29:32Yes.
00:29:32Now get it ready.
00:29:33What?
00:29:37Get it!
00:29:37No, thank you.
00:29:39Come on, Watson.
00:29:50Conover's gang.
00:29:51We're on the right track, Watson.
00:29:55Due primarily to the brilliant work of Inspector Lestrade.
00:29:59Brilliant work of Inspector Lestrade.
00:30:02Rubbish.
00:30:05Lestrade couldn't even see the stripes on a zebra.
00:30:11Hello, housekeeper held.
00:30:13Arrested the housekeeper.
00:30:14Whoa!
00:30:15How could a little woman of that size break a man's back?
00:30:18Strade's an idiot.
00:30:20What the dear public don't know it, the dear public won't worry about it.
00:30:31It's funny.
00:30:33Had it here a moment ago.
00:30:36It's an ordinary thing.
00:30:40What did you think?
00:30:45What do you think?
00:30:45Lestrade.
00:30:47Oh, er, what would Holmes do?
00:30:50I know.
00:30:52Reconstruct.
00:30:53Yeah, reconstructed.
00:30:54That's it.
00:30:54Well, I would sit in here.
00:30:57Cutting.
00:30:58Paste.
00:31:01Reach for a pipe.
00:31:03Matches.
00:31:04Line.
00:31:06Well, it ought to be...
00:31:11So it is.
00:31:14Eureka!
00:31:16Pure deductive reasoning.
00:31:18When I was to tell Holmes about that, he could have done better himself.
00:31:24The first door in the right, sir.
00:31:26Oh, thank you. Thank you, madam.
00:31:58Thank you, madam.
00:32:16Come in.
00:32:21Dr. Watson, I believe. Is Mr. Holmes in?
00:32:25Pretty's out, sir. He'll be back any minute. Won't you come in and wait?
00:32:28Thank you very much.
00:32:38Sit down, sir.
00:32:41Have a cigarette?
00:32:42No, thank you. No.
00:32:44The doctor won't allow me to smoke cigarettes.
00:32:47But, uh...
00:32:48May I?
00:32:49Yes, yes, sir. You'll find matches on the table.
00:32:51Oh, thank you very much.
00:32:54You know, my health has never been the same since that dreadful affair at Farnsworth Castle.
00:33:00Farnsworth Castle?
00:33:01The Farnsworth Castle? I thought I recognized you.
00:33:05Uh, just a minute.
00:33:07I'll tell you who you are.
00:33:08Really?
00:33:09Yes. Simple deduction.
00:33:11The bowed shoulders of the scholar.
00:33:13The open countenance of the churchman.
00:33:15You must be Lord Farnsworth's brother.
00:33:17Archdeacon Farnsworth.
00:33:21No, sir.
00:33:22I'm no archdeacon.
00:33:24Oh, then.
00:33:25Then you're the man who found the body in the bathtub.
00:33:27Oh, it was the butler who found the body, and it was in the cupboard.
00:33:32Oh, that's it.
00:33:33Strangled, wasn't he?
00:33:34No, no shot.
00:33:36Oh, shot, yes, of course, shot, yes.
00:33:39Lord Farnsworth's uncle, wasn't he?
00:33:41I am Lord Farnsworth's uncle.
00:33:44Oh, of course, by mistake, you're Lord Farnsworth's uncle.
00:33:47Uh, uh, and your, your name is, um?
00:33:52Theophilus Kirby.
00:33:53Lord Farnsworth's uncle and biographer.
00:33:56Of course, I, I remember you well.
00:33:58Holmes will be very glad to see you.
00:34:00He, he may be a bit late.
00:34:01Uh, by the way, as he isn't here, if there's, uh, if there's anything that I can do,
00:34:07same, same training as Holmes, pure deductive reasoning.
00:34:12For example, uh, I can see that, uh, that you're in trouble.
00:34:17On the contrary, sir, I've never been happier.
00:34:21Oh, I'm safe. I've never been happier.
00:34:23I've been looking for some little token of gratitude which I could give to Mr. Holmes.
00:34:29And at last, I think I've found something that he'll appreciate.
00:34:36It's Dr. Johnson's great dictionary, an early folio.
00:34:40Early folio? Dr. Johnson's dictionary?
00:34:43Are you sure that he'd be very excited about that?
00:34:46He'd be very kind of you.
00:34:47I'm a bit of a, a book collector myself.
00:34:49Oh, no, please, please, I, I, I've inscribed a little dedication.
00:34:53It may be a little flowery, perhaps, but, well, it's straight from my heart to his eyes.
00:34:59I hope. And, uh, it's just a little private.
00:35:02Oh, yes, of course, a little private. And you want him to be the first to read it.
00:35:05That, that, that is so. You're very understanding, sir. Thank you very much.
00:35:10Now, I'm afraid I must go. I'm sorry, I can't stay any longer.
00:35:13Don't you worry about the book, sir. I give you my word that Sherlock Holmes will be the first person
00:35:17to, to open it.
00:35:18Oh, that makes me very happy, sir. Very happy.
00:35:22Oh, good-bye, sir, Doctor. I'm sorry you can't stay.
00:35:26Oh, good-bye, sir, Doctor. I'm sorry you can't stay.
00:35:53Who? Mrs. Pennyweather?
00:35:55I don't know Mrs. Pennyweather here. This is Dr. Watson. Mrs. Pennyweather.
00:35:58Wrong number, sir.
00:36:07I don't think Holmes would mind if I, if I just, uh...
00:36:13Uh, uh, uh, come in, come in.
00:36:20Oh, hello, Mrs. Hudson.
00:36:21I brought you tea.
00:36:22And when Mr. Holmes comes in, see that he eats a bite like a good soul.
00:36:26Certainly, my dear. I'll be glad to.
00:36:28I've had a hard time getting him to eat.
00:36:32Oh, good afternoon, Mrs. Hudson.
00:36:34Oh, I just brought you tea.
00:36:35And be sure you drink it.
00:36:37I will.
00:36:38Hello, Watson.
00:36:40Hello.
00:36:41Too bad you're late.
00:36:42Old chap was here to see you.
00:36:43Oh?
00:36:44Sorry to have missed you.
00:36:45What old chap?
00:36:46Theophilus Kirby.
00:36:47Oh.
00:36:47Lord Farnsworth's uncle.
00:36:49You remember the Farnsworth's case?
00:36:50Yes, indeed I do.
00:36:51And I remember Theophilus Kirby, too.
00:36:53Quite a scholar.
00:36:55And like most scholars,
00:36:57Paulus Churchmouse.
00:36:58What's he won?
00:37:00He brought you a present.
00:37:01First folio of Dr. Johnson's dictionary.
00:37:04Must be worth a lot of money.
00:37:06He, he's written an inscription in it, bless his heart.
00:37:09Out of, out of gratitude.
00:37:11That's very nice of him.
00:37:12Would you like to have a look at it?
00:37:13Have a cup of tea?
00:37:14Oh, thanks, old boy.
00:37:14Put it down there.
00:37:16Gratitude is a rare quality in these days.
00:37:18Let's see what he wrote.
00:37:22Watson, have you been smoking your cigar?
00:37:24No.
00:37:24The old boy smoked one.
00:37:26Kirby wasn't a smoking man as I remember him.
00:37:36And even if he were, he wouldn't be smoking a Bolivar cabinet size.
00:37:40Imported from Havana, especially for connoisseurs.
00:37:43Well, if you're not sure of him, there are plenty of samples of his writing on the shelves over there.
00:37:47Why don't you compare them with...
00:37:48Don't touch that book.
00:37:49What?
00:37:49Give it to me.
00:37:53I'm sorry, Watson.
00:37:55But unless I'm greatly mistaken, you've been entertaining Mr. Giles Conover.
00:38:00What?
00:38:00Stand back from that book.
00:38:06Great Scott!
00:38:08He meant that for you!
00:38:10Oh, that's very gratifying.
00:38:14Gratifying?
00:38:14Certainly.
00:38:15Conover wouldn't go to all this trouble to eliminate me if I weren't in his way.
00:38:18And obviously I am in his way because he hasn't yet found the Borgia Pearl.
00:38:21And as long as he hasn't...
00:38:23All right, let me have it.
00:38:24Here.
00:38:25Yes, yes.
00:38:26Hold the stride.
00:38:27Yes.
00:38:28What?
00:38:29Say that again.
00:38:31Don't touch a thing.
00:38:32No, not a thing.
00:38:33You understand?
00:38:34Right.
00:38:35We'll be with you.
00:38:35What is it, Holmes?
00:38:36Another murder.
00:38:37Little old lady.
00:38:38With her back broken.
00:38:39No.
00:38:40Yes.
00:38:40And in a litter of smashed china.
00:38:44That was exactly how I found my sister.
00:38:47There, there, there.
00:38:48Steady, my dear.
00:38:49Steady.
00:38:50You live here, Miss Carey?
00:38:52No, Mr. Holmes.
00:38:54I teach history at a school in Cardiff.
00:38:56I came home today for the holidays.
00:39:01This card, Mr. Holmes.
00:39:03The very last thing she did.
00:39:06For my dear Ellen, to inspire her and her pupils with love.
00:39:11A gift for you.
00:39:12What was it, Miss Carey?
00:39:13I don't know.
00:39:15I'll never know now.
00:39:17I found it on the desk over there.
00:39:20She was writing it when...
00:39:22Oh.
00:39:23Why do you stand there?
00:39:25Why don't you find the beast who committed this dreadful crime?
00:39:29Look here, Miss Carey.
00:39:30There's just one question I...
00:39:32There'll be quite enough questions.
00:39:34You come along with me, my dear.
00:39:36What you need is a sedative.
00:39:37I'll telephone for a nurse.
00:39:40There, there, my dear.
00:39:41You'll be quite all right.
00:39:43Pitiable.
00:39:46Poor little woman.
00:39:50Back broken, eh?
00:39:51Snap clean, sir.
00:39:52Same as Major Harker's?
00:39:53Yes.
00:39:58Once more, we find the body in a litter of smashed china.
00:40:03What do you make of that?
00:40:05Coincidence, I'd call it.
00:40:07Would you?
00:40:08Yeah.
00:40:10Curious, isn't it?
00:40:12Two murders at the opposite ends of London.
00:40:15People who couldn't conceivably have had anything in common.
00:40:18Their backs broken.
00:40:19And smashed china round their bodies.
00:40:21Well, things do get smashed in the struggle, you know.
00:40:25Including the plates that are...
00:40:27Hung in these wire racks on the walls.
00:40:29When a lady gets hysterical...
00:40:31She may do many desperate things, but my dear Lestrade,
00:40:33she does not run around the walls like a mouse.
00:40:35Those plates were taken down and smashed deliberately.
00:40:38And it was done after she was killed and not before.
00:40:41Is that another one of your little theories, Mr. Holmes?
00:40:43No, it's a fact.
00:40:45And easily demonstrable.
00:40:47If you lift up that body,
00:40:48I think you'll find there's not a vestige of broken china underneath.
00:40:50Well, just to prove you're wrong.
00:40:52Here, lend around here, Bricot.
00:40:53Right, sir.
00:40:56Easy, does it?
00:41:03What did I tell you?
00:41:05Look at that, Bastard.
00:41:08That china was broken.
00:41:11After her dead body was flung there on the floor.
00:41:13But why? Why was it done?
00:41:15Well, as I see it, we're dealing with a moany maniac.
00:41:18And after each and every one of these murders,
00:41:20he goes into a bestial fury and smashes things.
00:41:23But why bric-a-brac and nothing but bric-a-brac?
00:41:26Why should a murderer who's strong enough to break Major Harker's back
00:41:29vent his bestial fury by breaking up dinky little cups and saucers
00:41:32when he could just as easily break up a large chair or smash a big table?
00:41:35There's no accounting for the workings of the criminal mind.
00:41:37You're nonsense.
00:41:38He follows a pattern and there's purpose in it.
00:41:44Would you have those broken fragments collected and sent to me at Baker Street, please?
00:41:47Oh, what's the use?
00:41:48You won't find any fingerprints in them.
00:41:51Perhaps not.
00:41:53But broken China is the one thing these murders have in common.
00:41:59We've got to get to the heart of this mystery and quickly, too.
00:42:01Don't you realize there's a monster at large in the city, bent on destruction?
00:42:04We don't know why, we don't know where.
00:42:08But somewhere,
00:42:11at any moment.
00:42:42I've lost that cat. I'd swear I'd put her out.
00:42:48That's funny. I'm sure I drew those library curtains.
00:43:22I'm afraid I must disagree with the newspapers, Watson.
00:43:25The Hoxton Creeper, to the best of my knowledge, is not a madman.
00:43:28Or if he is,
00:43:30then there's method in his madness.
00:43:33And that method, I'm convinced, is supplied by Giles Conover.
00:43:36You think all this broken China is just a blind to make it look like the work of a madman?
00:43:40On the contrary, my dear fellow.
00:43:42This smashed China shows purpose, it shows motive.
00:43:45And purpose and motive are the last things a sane man would wish to imply,
00:43:48if he were posing as a madman.
00:43:50Why smash the China?
00:43:53The killer didn't choose to smash the China, he had to smash it.
00:43:56Oh? Had to? What for?
00:43:58Oh, possibly to cover up something else that was smashed.
00:44:01Some object.
00:44:03Identical in all three cases.
00:44:05The clue that we're looking for.
00:44:07Why mess about with the plaster?
00:44:09Your final chance of finding the clue you're looking for in the China,
00:44:12because there is much more China.
00:44:13There's too much China, Watson, and too little plaster.
00:44:17Which, er,
00:44:19leads me to suspect that the greater conceals the less,
00:44:22and that the China was smashed to cover up the plaster.
00:44:25Curious notion.
00:44:26Oh, look.
00:44:28Bird.
00:44:28As a matter of fact, I had thought of it myself.
00:44:30Oh, did you really?
00:44:32And it was very tactful of you not to mention it.
00:44:34Here, what do you make of this?
00:44:36Cocked hat?
00:44:37A soldier, eh?
00:44:38No doubt of it. Part of a bust. Military hat.
00:44:41Late 18th century, I should think.
00:44:43That's funny.
00:44:44Here we are in the second house.
00:44:45Here's a shoulder with a bit of a chest and a medal on it.
00:44:49Looks as if it might have come from the same bust.
00:44:51Mm-hmm.
00:44:52Identical.
00:44:53Same plaster, same proportion, same military subject.
00:44:55And this piece comes from the house of the second murder,
00:44:57while these pieces came from the house of the first.
00:44:59We're getting warmer, Watson.
00:45:00Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:01I've got something over here.
00:45:02Here we are.
00:45:03Look, here's a nose.
00:45:04There's a mouth and a bit of a chin from the third house.
00:45:06Put them under this hat.
00:45:08The little corporal himself.
00:45:09Right, Watson, Napoleon.
00:45:11A single statue made of fragments from three different houses.
00:45:14Identical busts in each house, eh?
00:45:15Yes.
00:45:16Put the pieces down here.
00:45:17I told you this China was smashed to cover up something else.
00:45:20Well, why smash Napoleon?
00:45:22Think, Watson, think.
00:45:23Something was hidden in one of those busts.
00:45:24Something that Conover's looking for.
00:45:26You don't mean that...
00:45:27Precisely.
00:45:28The Borgia Pearl.
00:45:29But how'd he get in the bust in the first place?
00:45:30That's what we're going to find out.
00:45:31We're going to get hold of that guard.
00:45:33The one that chased Conover down the street the day he stole the Borgia Pearl.
00:45:36Get your hat.
00:45:37I'll get a taxi.
00:45:38Get the hat, I'll get a taxi.
00:45:40Borgia Pearl.
00:45:41The brilliant bust.
00:45:42I was driving about London looking at it broken up.
00:45:45Borgia Pearl.
00:45:48Here we are, sir.
00:45:48This is where I nab, sir.
00:45:50He's baiting it along here like a frightened rabbit
00:45:52when I come off from behind and make the pinch.
00:45:54That isn't true.
00:45:55Well, strike me dead if it ain't, sir.
00:45:57Isn't it true that he went in there?
00:45:59Well, he was trying...
00:46:00He was at...
00:46:01Oh, up with it, man.
00:46:02Did he or didn't he?
00:46:02Well, as a matter of fact, he did duck in there.
00:46:05But I made the pinch right on this very spot like I said.
00:46:07Can you tell us exactly what happened?
00:46:09Why, yes, sir.
00:46:09He runs in here full lick and up to this door.
00:46:13Is the door open?
00:46:14Just like it is, sir.
00:46:15But when I got here from the head of the stairs,
00:46:17the door is bolted.
00:46:18So I start to climb in this here window.
00:46:20Was the window open too?
00:46:21No, sir.
00:46:22I had to force it.
00:46:22When suddenly the door opens, out he nips,
00:46:25and I made the pinch right on that very spot like I told you.
00:46:28How long was Conover out of your sight?
00:46:30I should say less than a minute, Mr. Holmes.
00:46:32That's why I didn't want to mention it before.
00:46:33I didn't think it was important.
00:46:34Important?
00:46:35Great heavens, man.
00:46:36Come on.
00:46:38Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:46:40Gentlemen.
00:46:42This is not my sales room.
00:46:43This is my workshop.
00:46:44What can I...
00:46:45Oh, it is you, is it?
00:46:47Catching more thieves today?
00:46:48Ah, no.
00:46:48I was explaining here to Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson.
00:46:51Thank you, Mitch.
00:46:51That will be all.
00:46:52Thank you, sir.
00:46:52Good day, Mitch.
00:46:53Good day, sir.
00:46:54Mr. Gilder, our time is short,
00:46:56and believe me when I tell you that lives are at stake.
00:46:58Lives?
00:46:58Please answer my questions as briefly as possible.
00:47:00Last Tuesday, at 10 minutes past 12,
00:47:02where were the workmen who were usually employed in this room?
00:47:04It was dinner hour.
00:47:05They were out.
00:47:06Oh, no.
00:47:06On this table over here.
00:47:10You had some busts of Napoleon standing to dry, did you not?
00:47:13Yes, I did, but how did you know?
00:47:14Don't mind that now.
00:47:15How many were there?
00:47:16Six.
00:47:17Just like these busts of Beethoven.
00:47:19Six busts of Napoleon Bonaparte.
00:47:21Hmm.
00:47:22Six.
00:47:22Are you sure?
00:47:23No more, no less?
00:47:23Yes, I'm positive.
00:47:25Watson, look sharp, will you?
00:47:26Go to that door to the alley,
00:47:27and do exactly as I tell you.
00:47:28Huh?
00:47:28No, not her.
00:47:29Just do it.
00:47:30Leave your stick.
00:47:34Think I have an alley cap?
00:47:36Go outside and close the door.
00:47:42Stand over there, will you?
00:47:43Me?
00:47:44Yes, please.
00:47:47Ready, Watson?
00:47:48Ready, Holmes.
00:47:50All right.
00:47:50Come in quickly.
00:47:53Close the door.
00:47:55Hold it.
00:47:56Turn around.
00:47:58Take two steps forward.
00:47:59Stop.
00:48:00Wait a moment.
00:48:02Look around you.
00:48:04Now look over here.
00:48:06Wait a minute.
00:48:07Now run over here.
00:48:11Pause a moment.
00:48:13Look at these wet plaster busts.
00:48:15Look back to the door.
00:48:17Take a coin out of your pocket.
00:48:20Come on, hurry, man, hurry.
00:48:23Now stick your finger in one of these wet plaster busts.
00:48:26Go on, go on.
00:48:26Do it, do it.
00:48:32Put the coin in.
00:48:33Put it in, put it in.
00:48:35Now smooth over the plaster.
00:48:37Cover up the hole.
00:48:39Mad.
00:48:40Both of them.
00:48:42Fifty-four seconds.
00:48:43That's close enough.
00:48:45Conover could have done it faster.
00:48:46He acted on his own while you had to wait for instructions.
00:48:49You mean to say that?
00:48:50Precisely.
00:48:51Conover stuck that Borgia pearl
00:48:53in one of those six wet plaster busts of Napoleon.
00:48:55What?
00:48:56Gilda.
00:48:59Gilda, what happened to those six busts?
00:49:01You are not the first one asking me that.
00:49:03No, who was the other?
00:49:04A woman.
00:49:05When?
00:49:05Was it Wednesday?
00:49:06The day after the thief was taken?
00:49:07Yes, it was.
00:49:08Amy Drake, Watson.
00:49:09Amy Drake?
00:49:10What did you tell her?
00:49:11The same as I'm telling you.
00:49:13They were delivered, all six of them.
00:49:14Yes, yes.
00:49:14But to whom?
00:49:15To Amos Hodder's art shop on Kensington Road.
00:49:18Amos Hodder.
00:49:35Watson.
00:49:36Huh?
00:49:37What an amusing statue.
00:49:39Most amusing.
00:49:40Is it?
00:49:41Why?
00:49:42Because I see it is.
00:49:43Pretend to be interested.
00:49:45What?
00:49:45Oh?
00:49:46A fine bit of modding, Holmes?
00:49:47Really a musing statue.
00:49:49Most amusing!
00:49:50Sit down in that chair.
00:49:51Huh?
00:49:51Sit down in that chair.
00:49:54Let no one else in or out of that door.
00:50:03Attention to the gentleman, Miss Bittinger.
00:50:05Yes, Mr. Hodder.
00:50:15Oh, mercy me.
00:50:17Here, here, what have you broken now?
00:50:20I never saw such a one for breakage.
00:50:22You already even worth half-wage as you are.
00:50:24Well, it's my poor eyesight, Mr. Hodder.
00:50:26I can't help my eyes now, can I?
00:50:29What have you broken this time?
00:50:30One of the Copenhagen vases, eh?
00:50:32Well, that makes four.
00:50:33There was the flying Mercury yesterday
00:50:35and the two Napoleons the very day you came.
00:50:37I never broke the Napoleons, I tell you.
00:50:39I found them that way.
00:50:40Mr. Hodder, may I trouble you?
00:50:41Oh, I beg your pardon, I'm sure,
00:50:42but this sort of thing is most trying.
00:50:44What can I do for you, sir?
00:50:45My name is Holmes, Sherlock Holmes.
00:50:47I'm doing a little private investigating
00:50:49in connection with some busts of Napoleon
00:50:51that you purchased from George Gilder's plaster shop.
00:50:54I understand there were six busts of Napoleon
00:50:56here on Wednesday morning last.
00:50:57That's correct, Mr. Holmes.
00:50:58Now, let me see.
00:50:59I think I heard you say that two of the busts of Napoleon
00:51:01were broken by accident.
00:51:02Accident?
00:51:03That clumsy girl.
00:51:04Oh, Bittenger, put the vases up on the shelf
00:51:06before you break the rest of them
00:51:07and sweep up this litter, will you?
00:51:09Yes, Mr. Hodder.
00:51:12Oh, don't be too hard on the poor girl, Mr. Hodder.
00:51:14Accidents will happen, you know.
00:51:16Now, tell me.
00:51:17You say that two of the busts were broken here in the shop.
00:51:20A third went to Major Harker,
00:51:21a fourth to Miss Carey
00:51:22and a fifth to Mr. Thomas Sandeford.
00:51:23Yes, sir.
00:51:24And by the strangest coincidence,
00:51:26all three of those persons...
00:51:27It was not a coincidence, Mr. Hodder.
00:51:29Bless my soul.
00:51:30Tell me, what happened to the sixth bust?
00:51:33Why, I sold it the same as the others.
00:51:35To whom?
00:51:36Do you remember?
00:51:37Some doctor or other.
00:51:39I have his name in my account book.
00:51:41My memory for names is rather poor.
00:51:45Now, where is the wretched thing?
00:51:47Ah, yes, yes, here we are.
00:51:49Let's see.
00:51:49It would be Wednesday or Thursday.
00:51:52Any luck?
00:51:53Best of luck, I think, Watson.
00:51:55Fortunately for us, we arrived here before Naomi Drake.
00:51:58Ah, here we are.
00:51:59Sold to Dr. Joseph Caldicott.
00:52:0113 La Burnham Road, Streatham.
00:52:03Good.
00:52:03That's just what I wanted.
00:52:05Take down the address, will you, Watson?
00:52:06Got a pencil?
00:52:09Dr. Joseph Caldicott.
00:52:11Joseph Caldicott.
00:52:13C-A-L-D-E-C-O-T.
00:52:1613 La Burnham Road.
00:52:19Good.
00:52:19Good.
00:52:19Streatham.
00:52:22This name and address, Hunter.
00:52:24Is that your handwriting?
00:52:25Look carefully.
00:52:27Why...
00:52:28Why, no.
00:52:29The doctor is mine, but the rest is Jay.
00:52:31Quiet.
00:52:32Oh, bless my soul, it's a forgery.
00:52:34Incuradigator has been used.
00:52:35And another name written in.
00:52:37Think carefully.
00:52:38Can you remember the name of the doctor that you wrote here?
00:52:40Oh, dear me.
00:52:41I'm poor at names, you know.
00:52:42This is very much like it.
00:52:44Very much.
00:52:45Clever devil.
00:52:46She's made the names enough I like to throw you off.
00:52:50There's a telephone.
00:52:51Is there a...
00:52:52Is there an extension in there?
00:52:54Why, yes.
00:52:55What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:52:56Quiet.
00:53:03You were right, Giles.
00:53:05It worked.
00:53:06Like a charm.
00:53:07He'll be off to the wrong end of town presently.
00:53:10Yes, I'm leaving at once.
00:53:11Thanks, my dear.
00:53:12That's what I wanted to know.
00:53:14I shall start at once.
00:53:15Meet me in two hours.
00:53:17Same place, eh?
00:53:20Why, of course he's here.
00:53:23He's sitting right behind me.
00:53:28Then I shan't meet you.
00:53:29Not till you got rid of him.
00:53:30Oh, nonsense, my dear.
00:53:32His devotion to you is most touching.
00:53:35But I tell you, I just can't stand having him near me.
00:53:41Giles.
00:53:42Giles.
00:53:43Giles.
00:53:44Yes, my dear.
00:53:45What is it?
00:53:46I thought you'd hung up.
00:53:48Oh, hardly near me.
00:53:49I understand there's another doctor.
00:53:52Same name.
00:53:53Not listed in the directory.
00:53:56Are you sure you'll give me the right man?
00:53:59Positive.
00:54:00Dr. Julian Boncourt.
00:54:01B-O-N-C-O-U-R-T.
00:54:0418 Chelsea Place.
00:54:05Thank you, my dear.
00:54:07Don't worry about the creeper.
00:54:10I'll take care of him.
00:54:14Watson.
00:54:15Telephone Dr. Julian Boncourt.
00:54:17B-O-N-C-O-U-R-T.
00:54:19Tell him to take the bust of Napoleon that he bought here
00:54:20and go to the nearest police station.
00:54:41Come on.
00:54:45Just get going, Naomi.
00:54:46I'm here to catch you.
00:54:47Think you're clever, don't you?
00:54:49You can't hold me.
00:54:50Come on.
00:54:50Come on down.
00:54:54What charge is there against me?
00:54:57Her peddling matches without her license.
00:54:59Constable, put the cuffs on her.
00:55:00She's an accomplice in three murders, possibly four.
00:55:03Leave me alone.
00:55:04You can't do this to me.
00:55:06No one there.
00:55:08I can hear it ringing.
00:55:32You better drive slowly.
00:55:33I wouldn't like to get picked up with our passenger in the bank.
00:55:36No, he's pretty quiet back there.
00:55:39What's he up to?
00:55:49He's got Nam his vanity case.
00:55:53No, he's going to do nothing.
00:56:09I can hear it.
00:56:11No, that's all right.
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01:00:00HOLD YOUR HANDS UP
01:00:03THAT'S IT
01:00:05YOU KNOW
01:00:06I'D NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF DISCONNECTING THOSE WIRES
01:00:08IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR YOUR EXCELLENT EXAMPLE
01:00:10AT THE ROYAL REGION MUSEUM
01:00:12IT HAS BEEN SAID
01:00:13THAT IMMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY
01:00:15OH YES
01:00:16I'M WILLING TO LEARN FROM AN OLD MASTER HAND
01:00:19COME NOW
01:00:20WHERE'S THAT BUST
01:00:21DR. BANKOR TOOK IT WITH HIM TO THE POLICE STATION
01:00:24OH THAT'S A VERY FEEBLE LIE
01:00:26YOU'D HARDLY HAVE LET IT OUT OF YOUR HANDS
01:00:28YOU'D HAVE BEEN AFRAID DR. BANKOR WOULD HAVE MET US COMING IN
01:00:33US
01:00:34YES
01:00:35YOU KNOW WHOM I MEAN
01:00:38CREEPER
01:00:39CREEPER
01:00:49STAY WHERE YOU ARE
01:00:51NOW LISTEN
01:00:53GO TO THE ROOM AT THE HEAD OF THE STAIRS
01:00:55THE ONE WITH THE TWO GLASS PANELS ON THE DOOR
01:00:58YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR
01:01:01AND IF YOU SHOULD MEET DR. BANKOR ON THE WAY
01:01:04PAY HIM YOUR RESPECTS
01:01:09YOU'LL HANG FOR THIS CONNOMER
01:01:11JUST AS NAMMY DRAKE WILL HANG
01:01:14THEY CAUGHT NAMMY DRAKE YOU KNOW
01:01:16THAT'S TOO BAD
01:01:17THAT'S HER LOOK OUT
01:01:18NO IT'S YOUR FAULT CONNOMER
01:01:19IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT
01:01:22POOR NAMMY
01:01:24NOW STAY WHERE YOU ARE
01:01:29I SHOULDN'T LET THE CREEPER KNOW IF I WERE YOU
01:01:31HE WOULDN'T LIKE IT IF HE KNEW YOU'D LET HER DOWN
01:01:36HE'S CRAZY ABOUT NAMMY
01:01:38SHE'S A VERY PRETTY GIRL
01:01:40NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO SCARE ME MR. HOLMES BUT IT WON'T WORK
01:01:42YOU'VE GOT NOTHING ON NAMMY
01:01:44SHE'LL GET OFF
01:01:45NO NO SHE WON'T
01:01:47SHE LOST HER HEAD YOU SEE
01:01:48WHEN SHE FOUND SHE WAS CORNERED
01:01:50GRABBED OVER A LARGE PAIR OF SHIRES
01:01:51AND STABBED DR. WATSON TO DEATH
01:01:53SHE'LL HANG FOR THAT YOU KNOW
01:01:54AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT
01:01:57YOU GOT HER INTO THIS
01:02:00AND YOU WON'T RAISE A HAND TO HELP HER WILL YOU
01:02:03SHE'LL HANG BY HER SOFT WHITE NECK
01:02:07THE TRUSTYES WILL PUT THEIR HANDS ON THAT PRETTY BODY OF HERS
01:02:11AND THROW IT IN A QUICK LAND
01:02:15STICK
01:02:31STAY BACK
01:02:39Do you hear me?
01:02:43Stay back!
01:02:45Put your shoulders to it.
01:02:47That's it.
01:02:48Give me some more.
01:02:50Go on, put your shoulders to it.
01:02:53Give me some more.
01:02:54That's it, it'll go.
01:02:59Holmes, thank heavens.
01:03:01Come in, gentlemen.
01:03:05But where's Bancourt?
01:03:06He's quite safe.
01:03:08Lestrade, send one of your men upstairs, will you?
01:03:10Tell Dr. Bancourt that all is well.
01:03:13Gently, though.
01:03:14He's old and his heart is weak.
01:03:15I see.
01:03:16That's why I didn't dare send him out of the house.
01:03:18He's up there.
01:03:19All right, up you go.
01:03:21You see, if he'd run into Conover and the Creeper...
01:03:24Conover and who?
01:03:26The Creeper, my dear Lestrade.
01:03:28That you said didn't exist anymore.
01:03:30Where is he?
01:03:31You'll find him in the laboratory.
01:03:33Conover, too.
01:03:34Come on.
01:03:35You won't need your revolver.
01:03:37No handcuffs.
01:03:39Oh.
01:03:47You got them?
01:03:48Yes.
01:03:49Did they find the bust?
01:03:50No.
01:03:51Whoa!
01:03:52What did you do with it?
01:03:53My time was very short, Watson.
01:03:55So I put the bust in the last place I thought the Conover would look for it.
01:03:58He literally brushed by it as he came in.
01:04:02Amazing!
01:04:03And the Borgia Pearl's inside that?
01:04:06If it isn't, I shall return to Sussex and keep bees.
01:04:26Look.
01:04:27There it is.
01:04:29By Joe.
01:04:32The Borgia Pearl.
01:04:34With the blood of five more victims on it.
01:04:36Well, anyhow, Conover was one of them.
01:04:38What Conover?
01:04:40No more than a symbol of the greed and cruelty and lust for power that have set men at each
01:04:43other's throats down through the centuries.
01:04:46And the struggle will go on, Watson.
01:04:49For a pearl, kingdom, perhaps even world dominion.
01:04:56Till the greed and cruelty are burned out of every last one of us.
01:05:01And when that time comes, perhaps even the pearl will be washed clean again.
01:05:31To be continued...
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