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00:40THE END
01:13I wish to see Inspector Lestrade at once.
01:16Your name, sir?
01:17Dr. John Watson.
01:18He's expecting you, sir.
01:20In a way, I believe he is.
01:22Well, I'll tell him you're here, sir.
01:31You can go in, sir.
01:35Ah, Dr. Watson, I didn't expect to have the pleasure of seeing you again so soon.
01:41Will you kindly read that?
01:43What is it?
01:43Read it.
01:47Oh.
01:48Yes, sir.
01:49Oh.
01:50I think it's disgraceful, sir.
01:54Absolutely disgraceful.
01:55What?
01:56Yes, and I'm glad you are here so that I can tell it to you personally.
02:00Why, you and I both know that it was Sherlock Holmes who solved the Cunningham case.
02:04If it wasn't for his brilliance and his persistency, the facts would never have been brought to light.
02:09And I think it's scandalous, sir, that the newspaper should have given me all the credit
02:14and said so very little about his magnificent achievement.
02:17What do you think, Doctor?
02:19I absolutely agree with you.
02:21I'm glad you're on my side, Doctor.
02:23Why, of course.
02:24I'm so glad you take it that way.
02:25What does Holmes think?
02:27Oh, he doesn't mind.
02:28You know he doesn't care who gets the credit.
02:30Oh, dear old Holmes.
02:31Such a modest fellow.
02:32Yes.
02:33Well, look, you must give him my kind regards.
02:35Yes.
02:35And tell him that, although I know he doesn't think anything about it,
02:39I intend to get the newspapers to get the facts straight.
02:42Well, that's very good of you, Inspector.
02:43What's Holmes doing these days?
02:45Well, the last time I saw him, he was playing about a lot of inks myself.
03:17And talking about, um, the prints that fingers make.
03:18I didn't think so, Doctor.
03:20Well, perhaps as a medical man, mind you, I don't know what to expect,
03:23but I think you would be of invaluable assistance.
03:25Say no more.
03:26Here's the address, sir.
03:27Your carriage is waiting outside.
03:29Oh, thank you very much.
03:30Perhaps you'd care to acquaint Sherlock Holmes with what has happened.
03:33Well, uh, I don't know.
03:35I don't know myself what's happened.
03:37As you said, the people involved make this case rather delicate.
03:41Perhaps a little suggestion now and then might help facilitate matters.
03:46One never knows.
03:47Yes.
03:48You're so right.
03:49Take a message to Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 221 Baker Street.
03:53221B.
03:54Yes, of course.
03:55221B Baker Street.
03:56Tell him what has happened and drive him to Lord Burr's residence.
03:58Yes, sir.
03:59And tell him Dr. John Watson is already there.
04:02The flat's for first floor up.
04:03Yes, sir.
04:03Very well, sir.
04:12221B Baker Street.
04:44Come in.
04:47Excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
04:49Yes?
04:50I have a message for you, sir.
04:51Uh-huh.
04:52There's been a murder committed at the home of Lord Burrill.
04:55Inspector Lestrade and Dr. Watson have already gone there.
04:59Would you care to have some tea?
05:02Some tea, sir?
05:04Yes.
05:05Is that what you're making?
05:06Oh, come along.
05:07Come and have a look at this.
05:08I'm working on an extract from a special series of pygmy poisons.
05:13Oh, very interesting, sir.
05:15Uh, tea?
05:16Well, yes, sir.
05:17I don't mind if I do.
05:22You take milk?
05:24Yes, sir.
05:24Please, sir, if I may.
05:25Certainly.
05:26Indeed.
05:27Sugar?
05:28Thank you, sir.
05:29Now, where did I put that sugar?
05:31Ah, I've had it.
05:32It's very clear.
05:33Help yourself.
05:34Thank you, sir.
05:36Thank you, sir.
05:36Oh, sir.
05:43Well, I believe that certain poisons, if taken in the correct doses, can actually have beneficial
05:49rather than fatal effects.
05:51Now, that's very interesting, sir.
05:53Yes, it is, isn't it?
05:55Well, what's all this over here, sir?
05:57All that?
05:58Oh, there's some tropical leaves.
06:00They were sent to me by a friend of mine who hunts in that part of the country.
06:04The essence, you see, passes through this tube, down here and across the table, and is condensed
06:11in that retort there.
06:14And what's that stuff in the bottom there?
06:16That's lime.
06:17That acts as a catalytic agent to combine the essence of the leaves with a dark, tar-like
06:22substance, which you can see at the bottom.
06:36Inspector Lestrade, I demand to see my wife.
06:39You've kept me waiting half an hour, and now I should like an explanation.
06:42Of course, you're entitled to one, sir.
06:44You know that Carl Oberstein was murdered in your study.
06:47I was informed of that, and it is a tragedy, of course.
06:49But I still don't see that that is...
06:51Lord Bell, your wife has confessed to shooting him.
06:56What?
06:57That's why I couldn't allow you to see her.
06:59We were taking her statement.
07:02What does she say?
07:03Apart from the actual confession of murder, she refuses to say anything.
07:08You may go in now if you wish, Lord Bell.
07:49What's that you're putting in now, sir?
07:50Well, it's a form of acid dye.
07:53There.
07:55That's all right.
07:58Oh, where have you two been all the afternoon?
08:01Didn't the sergeant tell you?
08:03Oh, yes, I remember.
08:05It was a murder somewhere.
08:06Wasn't it interesting?
08:07No, Mr. Dewey.
08:09Uh-huh.
08:10Well, Mr. Dewey, come and have a whiskey and soda.
08:16Whiskey and soda, let's Dewey.
08:17Oh, I don't know.
08:18I'll be off duty in five minutes.
08:21Yes, I think that'd be all right.
08:25Don't...
08:26Meat for me.
08:27Well, sit down if you can find yourself a plate.
08:33Yes, well, I think we can leave that to boil for a little while now.
08:36Now, gentlemen, what's the problem?
08:39Who was murdered?
08:41A man named Carl Oberstein.
08:44Oberstein?
08:45Oberstein.
08:46Oh, yes, I remember.
08:47An Austrian chap.
08:48He was originally, but, of course, for a number of years, he's been a freelance agent.
08:53Mm-hmm.
08:53Fine considering anything he'd get his hands on, eh?
08:56But his hands are a bit too much this time.
08:58Lady Burl shot him.
09:00Holtz-Smith, 38.
09:01Oh, really?
09:03There was a nasty bit there.
09:05I examined the body before it was removed.
09:07Entire back of the head gone.
09:09Instantaneous death, of course.
09:10Did you find the bullet?
09:11No, the police surgeon will do that.
09:13It hadn't come out.
09:14Yes, and that shot in the back of the head removes any possible chance Lady Burl may have had of
09:19claiming self-defense.
09:21You're off duty now, aren't you, Wilkins?
09:23Yes, sir.
09:24You may go home.
09:26Thank you, sir.
09:27It's been a pleasure working for you this afternoon, Mr. Holmes.
09:31Like to know it all turns out, I'll let you know.
09:35Thank you, sir.
09:36Good afternoon, sir.
09:37I feel sorry for Lord Burl.
09:39I'll be quite a scandal when this appears in the papers.
09:42Yes, it certainly will be.
09:46I wonder why Lady Burl lied to you.
09:50What nationality was Lady Burl originally?
09:53Well, she was born in Austria, although she was brought up in America.
09:57She's been here in England for the past five years since her marriage, you know.
10:01It's a shame I won't like her has to remain in prison.
10:03Still, she might decide to tell you.
10:12What did you say?
10:14I beg your pardon.
10:17What did you say just now?
10:20I didn't say anything.
10:22Oh, yes, you did.
10:26You said, I wonder why Lady Burl lied to you.
10:29Oh, that.
10:30Yes, what did you mean?
10:31Nothing, except, of course, that Lady Burl didn't shoot this chap, Oberstein, at all.
10:35But she confessed to it.
10:37Nonsense.
10:38She didn't shoot Oberstein because Oberstein wasn't shot.
10:40His head was bashed in with a blunt instrument.
10:43The revolver you claim was the murder weapon actually belonged to Oberstein.
10:46She found it lying by his side and pretended she'd done it in order to shield her husband.
10:51She's no more guilty than you two are.
10:53Would you hold that like a good fellow, please?
10:56Would you please repeat that?
10:58Of course.
10:58It's as plain as a...
10:59Would you mind holding that?
11:01Oh, well, it's not plain to me.
11:03Well, you told me that Lady Burl confessed to shooting Oberstein, but Oberstein wasn't shot.
11:08Just because you find a man with the back of his head shattered and a gun lying by his side
11:12is no reason to assume he's been shot.
11:16You also assumed that the bullet had lodged in Oberstein's cranium
11:19because it hadn't emerged through the front.
11:22Now, any student of elementary ballistics knows that the greatest damage to the skull
11:26is on the opposite side to which the bullet entered.
11:28The point of entry is always clean.
11:30But the gun we found was an Austrian gun, and...
11:34And Lady Burl is an Austrian.
11:37Now, there's a logical bit of reasoning for you.
11:39Would you mind holding that, please?
11:41Lady Burl saw Oberstein lying there and jumped to the same conclusion we did.
11:45Lady Burl's innocent.
11:46Then somebody else is guilty.
11:48Brilliant.
11:50We've got to get back to the premises and re-examine them for clues.
11:53You come with us, Holmes. This nonsense can wait.
11:57Nonsense?
11:59Nonsense.
12:02Did you say nonsense?
12:04I'll have you know, Inspector Lestrade,
12:06that if the law enforcement agencies of this country
12:08were a little, an infinitesimal amount more advanced than ancient Neolithic man,
12:12I would not have to be doing the basic research work
12:14that will in time benefit police bureaus throughout the earth.
12:17You may have a point, Mr. Harrell.
12:19A point. The only point is...
12:20The only point is human...
12:21Of which there is a paucity in the halls of our defending to the public.
12:24So do you have anything, sir?
12:25I certainly do think so.
12:27I'll tell you a few other things, sir.
12:52And now we return to the case of Lady Burl.
12:56is to be dependent 90% on a good memory.
12:59Details, Lestrade, those are the things.
13:01She's in here.
13:02Normally, I'd detain her for confessing to a crime she didn't commit,
13:05but, well, what with the Foreign Office and all that?
13:09I don't believe I will.
13:10No, no, Lestrade, you don't want to hold her.
13:12Much easier to solve the crime if she's out.
13:14Exactly.
13:20Inspector Lestrade.
13:34Inspector Lestrade.
13:51Lady Belle, you know, of course, we're releasing you.
13:56So I understand.
13:58Do you know why?
13:59No.
14:01We've been able to prove that you didn't commit this murder you confessed to.
14:06I see.
14:08We would, however, like an explanation as to why you confessed to this crime.
14:20I prefer not to explain my actions, Inspector.
14:24You realize, of course, that your actions are in themselves punishable
14:28and that we could detain you.
14:32I see.
14:32You still prefer to make no statement?
14:38That is correct.
14:43Very well, Lady Belle.
14:45You'll be released as soon as the formalities can be cleared.
14:52Human beings lie to gain, to cover, or to protect.
15:11I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Holmes.
15:13Please consider me forever in your debt.
15:16Not at all.
15:19You're in the Foreign Office, aren't you, Lord Beryl?
15:21I am.
15:24Had you ever met Herr Oberstein before?
15:27I had.
15:29Exactly when?
15:31Last week.
15:32For the first time?
15:34And the last time.
15:36I see.
15:38I believe it was his habit to offer large sums of money to men in key positions
15:43for the information they may have had in their possession.
15:46I believe that was his habit, Mr. Holmes.
15:51Oh, Lord Beryl, while your wife is on her way here,
15:54I wonder if I might look at the premises of the crime.
15:56Well, of course, of course.
15:58It happened in the study.
16:00With your permission.
16:02My house is yours, sir.
16:14Well, now, let me see.
16:17Karl Oberstein was lying about, about there.
16:23Of course, it's been removed.
16:25Yes, yes.
16:26Of course.
16:28I see you've cleaned everything up with your usual remarkable efficiency, Lestrade.
16:33Now, look here, Holmes.
16:34I didn't know there was going to be any mystery about this affair.
16:37Oberstein's head was here, Holmes.
16:39His feet were there.
16:40Thank you, Watson.
16:49Where was the gun lying?
16:51To the left of the body.
16:54Nearer the hand or the feet.
16:56Nearer the head.
16:58Was Oberstein face up or down?
17:01Face up.
17:02I had to turn him over to examine him.
17:07Has there been any effort made to gain forceful entry into the huts?
17:11None was reported.
17:12What?
17:16Lord Beryl, do you use glasses when you read?
17:20I, uh, yes, I do.
17:22These.
17:24Are they your only pair?
17:27Yes.
17:28Who first discovered the body?
17:31I believe my secretary.
17:34Is he here?
17:35Yes.
17:36I'll call him.
17:47Mr. Strayed?
17:49Where was Lord Beryl at the time you estimated the crime was committed?
17:53He'd been at a meeting with high government officials all day.
17:57Oh, good.
17:58Good.
18:00Why did you ask about the glasses, Holmes?
18:02It's because Lord Beryl wears glasses when he reads.
18:06But Lady Beryl confessed to a crime she didn't commit.
18:11What?
18:14This is my secretary, Mr. Ross.
18:17You've met Inspector Lestrade and Dr. Watson.
18:19This gentleman is Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
18:22How do you do?
18:23I understand it's through your efforts that Lady Beryl was returning home.
18:26Uh, partially through my efforts.
18:28I wonder if I could impose upon you, Mr. Ross.
18:32Of course, sir.
18:34Would you mind taking these sheets of paper and roughly outline the position in which you discovered the body?
18:40Outlining two scraps of paper?
18:42If you would be so kind.
18:44Why, of course.
18:47What's the purpose of that?
18:48How many men have you on the premises, Lestrade?
18:50Two outside, why?
18:52Good, good.
18:52I wonder if you'd mind taking them into the garden behind this window and making a thorough search of the
18:57premises for a radius of thirty feet.
19:00Looking for what?
19:02Anything that doesn't belong in a garden.
19:05Are you serious, Holmes?
19:10Completely.
19:15That's got him out of our way.
19:20Have you examined your safe, Lord Beryl?
19:23I have, Mr. Holmes.
19:24All my papers are intact.
19:28Excellent.
19:28Excellent.
19:30Does Mr. Ross have the combination to your safe?
19:34Yes.
19:35There's been no question of robbery.
19:36Of course not, Ross.
19:38One must ask these questions in an investigation.
19:41Of course.
19:44Good afternoon, Lady Beryl.
19:46Oh, my darling.
19:49How are you?
19:50I'm all right, George.
19:52Quite all right.
19:53You must rest.
19:54This experience must have been horrible for you.
19:57It's all right. It didn't last long enough to be too difficult.
20:00I don't know how, but Holmes has solved the entire thing.
20:06Has he really?
20:08Not entirely, Lady Beryl.
20:10Not yet.
20:12Do you expect to?
20:14I can only hope to.
20:20Mr. Holmes.
20:21If there's anything I can do to help.
20:23If it would not be too much of any position, Lady Beryl,
20:26I would like you to retake the position in which Mr. Ross discovered you when he entered the room.
20:30Mr. Holmes.
20:32My wife has had a harrowing experience.
20:34Please consider her nerves at this point.
20:36You're forgetting, Lord Beryl, that your wife confessed to a crime she didn't commit.
20:40The circumstances are somewhat exceptional.
20:42But if Lady Beryl would rather not, I...
20:46It's quite all right, George.
20:52Now, uh...
20:53Let me see.
20:58I...
21:00I was standing here.
21:02Exactly there?
21:04I, uh...
21:06I believe so.
21:08Mr. Ross.
21:09Are you quite certain that that is the position in which Lady Beryl was standing?
21:13Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, Lady Beryl.
21:17Just for the sake of accuracy, I understand.
21:19I believe you were standing just a bit further to your left.
21:24A little to your left, Lady Beryl.
21:28Like that?
21:29Yes. I'd say right there.
21:32Good.
21:34Now, Lady Beryl had a revolver in her hand.
21:36Mr. Holmes.
21:37That is correct.
21:39In which hand?
21:41Well, my right hand.
21:44Mr. Ross?
21:45That's right.
21:46Lady Beryl's right hand.
21:48Lord Beryl, do you happen to have a revolver in the house?
21:51Yes, I have.
21:52May I have it?
21:54I'm not going to ask my wife to...
21:56Yes, I am.
21:57If your wife has no objection.
22:00Of course she has objections.
22:03I have no objections, Mr. Holmes.
22:13Ah, excellent. A .38 caliber.
22:16Do you notice, Watson, that it's patterned very closely after the Schmidtholtz,
22:19the revolver in question?
22:21Lady Beryl, is that the way you held it?
22:26I, er...
22:27I believe so.
22:28Mr. Ross?
22:29Yes.
22:30It was like that.
22:32Mr. Ross, I'd like you to think very hard.
22:34A great deal depends on what you're going to say now.
22:37As far as you can remember, that was the position of Herr Oberstein's body?
22:43Yes.
22:44And where in relation to Herr Oberstein's body and Lady Beryl were the broken eyeglasses?
22:48Over there.
22:50There?
22:51Yes.
22:55Yes.
22:59Watson, were there any glasses on the floor when you found the body?
23:03Absolutely not.
23:04You're positive?
23:05Positive.
23:06That's right.
23:07I didn't know what I was saying.
23:10There were no glasses on the floor at all.
23:12There weren't any glasses on the floor when you found Lady Beryl bending over the body.
23:15But there were when you sent Herr Oberstein crashing to the ground.
23:25Before you run, Mr. Ross, look at Lady Beryl.
23:31I don't understand this, Mr. Holmes.
23:34Oh, very simple, really.
23:35Herr Oberstein approached you with an offer to buy foreign office secrets.
23:38You threw him out.
23:40Then Ross contacted him, prepared to sell him the secrets.
23:42What is nothing missing from the safe?
23:45Of course not.
23:46If you sold anything, you'd have been found out.
23:49Herr Oberstein came here expecting to buy.
23:51You opened the safe, showed him the papers he wanted.
23:54He put his glasses on to examine them.
23:57And then when he paid you, you smashed his skull in.
23:59He fell, breaking his glasses.
24:02His revolver dropped from his pocket.
24:04Then you replaced the papers, pocketed the money and left.
24:08It's a lie!
24:09Why, you filthy.
24:10The unfortunate point occurred when Lady Beryl discovered the body.
24:14You read the evidence incorrectly.
24:16I thought the gun was my husband.
24:19Similar, but not the same.
24:21And the glasses.
24:22A very common variety of frame.
24:24You gathered up the pieces, except a few fragments,
24:27and threw the frames away.
24:28Yes.
24:31Then you lied to protect your husband.
24:34Yes.
24:36Brilliant, Holmes.
24:38Absolutely brilliant.
24:40Thank you, Watson.
24:51My humble and very grateful thanks, Mr. Holmes.
24:55It's been a pleasure to help so brave and noble a woman.
24:59I'm still not quite certain what's happened,
25:01but I know we shall both be forever indebted to you.
25:09I searched the whole garden, Holmes.
25:11Couldn't find anything but this old pair of glasses.
25:14They're broken at that.
25:15But, really?
25:16Mr. Holmes has solved the entire case, Inspector.
25:21He has how?
25:23By the little things, Lestrade.
25:25The little things that one must remember.
25:27The little things that make the difference between success and disaster.
25:31One must never forget that the difference between...
25:36Good heavens.
25:37What?
25:38What is it, Holmes?
25:40I left the gas on under the experiment.
25:42Or Baker Street will be blown up.
25:47Holmes, I turned it off!
25:48Right, Holmes!
25:51Strange!
25:52Hold that!
25:54Holmes!
25:55Holmes!
25:57Holmes!
25:57Holmes!
25:59Holmes!
26:26THE END
26:55THE END
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