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01:00A body found floating in the River Thames.
01:06Bedside began for Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
01:10It might be a troublesome case, it might not be.
01:14He didn't know at first.
01:16But for Sherlock Holmes, it was to prove one of the most gruesome and dangerous cases of his career.
01:23For him, it began one evening a few days before the body was found.
01:40Writing another monograph, Holmes?
01:41Nothing so exotic, my dear fellow.
01:43I'm trying to balance my bank account.
01:45I don't know why banks will make such an elaborate and complicated affair.
01:49What is basically a simple and beautiful business, putting money in and taking it out?
01:55Well, I think it's the taking it out that complicates it for me.
02:12Curious?
02:18I've never seen anything quite like this.
02:22Very curious.
02:24What do you make of it, Holmes?
02:27Hmm.
02:27A diamond, obviously.
02:29A yellow diamond.
02:30Mm-hmm.
02:31I thought it might be.
02:32Yes, it's in the curious shape of a left eye tooth.
02:36It's amazing, isn't it?
02:38Hmm.
02:38Where did you find it?
02:39Well, I was down by the East Quay.
02:42I went down to the waterfront for a stroll.
02:44I saw the thing shining, it caught my eye.
02:46But who'd use a diamond tooth?
02:50Brazilian, possibly.
02:52Why Brazilian?
02:53Well, yellow diamonds are most common in Brazil.
02:55And there's a sort of habit or a custom amongst Brazilian diamond mine owners to sport a diamond tooth.
03:02It's to show their affluence, you know.
03:04It sounds a barbarous custom.
03:07Hmm.
03:08I'd say that the cutting is worth more than the stone itself.
03:12Well, what should I do with the thing?
03:14Well, why not put an advertisement in the Times?
03:17That's a good idea.
03:18Hmm.
03:19Chap must be quite uncomfortable without his tooth.
03:28Now, let me see.
03:30Um.
03:33Found.
03:34One.
03:36Diamond.
03:38Two.
03:43Uh.
03:45Found.
03:46One.
03:48Left.
03:50Upper.
03:51Diamond.
03:54Two.
03:58Lost.
04:00Lost.
04:02Lost.
04:04Everything's lost in this lost and found, can't we?
04:07Not just that, Holmes.
04:09Ah, here we are.
04:10Found one diamond tooth.
04:13Will owner kindly apply to 21B Baker Street.
04:17Do you think anyone will answer this?
04:19No one does.
04:20You'll own a diamond tooth, won't you?
04:21Could I have half the paper, Watson?
04:25Oh, well.
04:27There you are.
04:29Anyway, a diamond's a diamond, even if it is a tooth.
04:34Sir, I believe you have an advertisement in the Times.
04:37Come in, my dear sir.
04:38Ah, yes, indeed we have an advertisement in the Times.
04:41Indeed, this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Mr. uh...
04:43Harry Harkins.
04:44Clark with Hedges and Thomas, Accountant, sir.
04:46Good morning, Mr. Harkins.
04:48Good day, sir.
04:50Now, sir, you, uh, you've lost a diamond tooth?
04:53Yes, sir.
04:53From here.
04:54Oh, yes, that's strange.
04:55Oh, well, um, uh, tell me, where did you lose it?
04:59As near as I can recollect.
05:01Somewhere around the East Quay docks.
05:03Mm-hmm.
05:04Is that it?
05:05Yes, sir, that's it, all right.
05:07An accountant, did you say?
05:08Yes, sir.
05:10If you don't mind, sir, may I have my tooth, then I won't disturb you gentlemen anymore.
05:14You're not as disturbing as in the least, Mr. Harkins.
05:16Thank you, Watson.
05:18I gather your firm does business with shipping companies,
05:20which accounts for your presence in the docks.
05:23Yes, sir.
05:24Eh, makes you hanker after the old days at sea, I expect.
05:28Old days at sea, sir?
05:30I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.
05:32I've never been to sea.
05:35Excuse me.
05:41Hello, Inspector. Come on in.
05:42Ah, good morning, Dr. Watson. I'm glad I found you.
05:45Oh, hello, Holmes.
05:46Oh, morning, Mr. Harkins.
05:49This is Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
05:51I'm delighted to meet you, sir. Delighted.
05:54Dr. Watson.
05:55Yes?
05:58I wanted to ask you...
05:59About the body they fished out of the Thames a little while ago.
06:03Yes, how did you know?
06:04Well, your shoes and the bottoms of your trousers are wet.
06:08I might have stepped in a puzzle.
06:10It hasn't rained for a week, Lestrade.
06:13Besides, that particular reddish mud
06:15comes from the Thames Embankment near New Quay.
06:19Any place in London you'll find it.
06:22A body?
06:23Well, only a body would bring you to Baker Street
06:25without bothering to change your shoes and trousers.
06:28Ah, I was waiting for that.
06:35Go on, Lestrade, after him.
06:36Well, go.
06:48There he goes.
06:50I'm in Lestrade.
06:51I said that way.
06:52Well, I'm sorry, Dr. Watson.
06:53I thought you said that way.
06:55Ah, it's too late now.
06:57We'll never catch him.
06:57Come on, Lestrade.
07:07He...
07:07He got away, Holmes.
07:09He jumped on the back of the cab.
07:11Well, at least he didn't get his tooth.
07:14Would one of you two gentlemen mind telling me
07:16why I was chasing that little man?
07:19Well, yes, you see, I found a darn tooth
07:21and advertised to the owner.
07:23This chap turned up.
07:24He's obviously a faker.
07:25But how do you spot him, Holmes?
07:26As soon as he opened his mouth.
07:29You see, Watson,
07:30Harkin's missing tooth was a right eye tooth.
07:33Whereas this diamond tooth is a left eye tooth.
07:37Diamond teeth.
07:38Right eye tooth.
07:40Left eye tooth.
07:42Dr. Watson.
07:43Hmm?
07:44The official post-mortem isn't until late this afternoon.
07:46But I would take it as a great favor
07:48if you would examine the body now.
07:50Oh, my dear, my dear inspector,
07:52I'd be absolutely delighted.
07:54Well, of course.
07:55Oh, well, if anyone asks for me, Holmes,
07:57just tell them that I'm on a little job
07:58for Scots and Yard, will you?
08:00And just take any messages.
08:01At your service, my dear doctor.
08:07Now, wait a minute.
08:08Hmm?
08:08What about this man I was chasing?
08:11Oh, nothing very much.
08:12He was just after this diamond tooth, that's all.
08:14Yes, but where did that come from?
08:16It came from the body you fished out of the river this morning.
08:21You coming?
08:22Oh, yes.
08:23Yes.
08:28Rigor mortis is set in fully.
08:30He's a giant of a man.
08:33Six feet four at least.
08:36About 18 stone.
08:38Must have been as strong as a horse.
08:40Probably died of driving.
08:42There's no sign of a wound, sir, doctor.
08:44No, but I don't think he was drowned, Lestrade.
08:47Hmm.
08:48He did occasional diamond cutting.
08:50How do you know that?
08:51Oh, the condition of the left thumb.
08:53Characteristic of diamond cutters.
08:55Yet the callosity is not a deep one,
08:57showing the trade was casual.
08:59Oh, might have been a cobbler.
09:01Well, then it'd have been the right thumb.
09:02In any case, his clothes don't indicate a humble profession.
09:07Well, Watson, we leave him in your practiced hands.
09:09With a word of caution.
09:11About what?
09:12The very thing that was worrying you.
09:14This man obviously didn't die
09:15under ordinary circumstances.
09:18Well, come, Lestrade.
09:26And now to identify the man, Lestrade.
09:29May take a few days, you know.
09:31We can't spare a few days.
09:33We must do it in a few hours
09:34while Watson is completing his examination.
09:36A few hours?
09:37Come now, Holmes.
09:38What with your magnifying glass?
09:41Common sense, Lestrade.
09:43Tell me,
09:44how many Brazilian and Portuguese dentists
09:47do you think there are in London?
09:49What's that got to do?
09:51Oh, I see.
09:52Trace him through his dentist, eh?
09:54An excellent suggestion, Lestrade.
09:56I'm so glad you thought of it.
09:58Yes, we'll do precisely that.
10:04Yes.
10:14Senor Gomez?
10:15Si, I am Senor Gomez.
10:17You have the toothache?
10:19No, I'm afraid I haven't, Senor.
10:20I'm so sorry.
10:21My name is Sherlock Holmes,
10:23and this is Inspection Lestrade
10:24of Scotland Yard.
10:25What do you do?
10:26Scotland Yard?
10:27The police?
10:28But, Senors,
10:29I have done nothing wrong.
10:31If Senor Martinez
10:32say I pull out his tooth
10:34without his permission,
10:35he is a liar.
10:36We've come in a different matter,
10:37Mr. Gomez.
10:38A matter of a diamond tooth,
10:39to be exact.
10:40You wish a diamond tooth?
10:42No, no.
10:43You, Senor, you wish
10:45to have your teeth fixed, eh?
10:47No, I'm afraid not.
10:48Not today.
10:49For a Portuguese dentist
10:51in London, life she is miserable.
10:53The English, they do not come.
10:56And the Portuguese, they come,
10:57they come, but they have teeth
10:58like pearls.
10:59Ah, fish, I presume.
11:01Si, si, fish, oh, fish,
11:02they eat nothing but fish.
11:03Fish, he make teeth strong.
11:06If I could, I would,
11:07I would take out all the fish
11:08in the sea and, and like that.
11:10I hate fish.
11:12Yes, a very understandable
11:13sentiment, Senor.
11:14But tell me,
11:15do you have a patient
11:16with a diamond tooth?
11:18Ah, si.
11:20Si, Francesco Vargas.
11:21An eye tooth?
11:22Ah, si, si,
11:24left upper eye tooth.
11:25Left upper eye tooth.
11:26Put in many years ago
11:27when he had great mind
11:28in Brazil.
11:29Big chap.
11:30Oh, giant.
11:31That's him, Holmes.
11:32It would appear so, Lestrade.
11:34Tell me, this Senor Vargas,
11:35what business is he engaged in?
11:37Oh, I think he,
11:38he imports the diamonds.
11:40Ah.
11:40Well, thank you very much, Senor.
11:42Well, we won't trouble you
11:44any more, Dr. Germis.
11:45Um, perhaps you have a friend
11:46that needs the repairs to the teeth.
11:48Yes, yes, possibly I have.
11:50Yes, indeed I have,
11:51a doctor friend of mine.
11:53Ah.
11:53Now, on second thoughts,
11:55I seem to remember
11:56he's rather partial to fish.
11:57Good day, doctor.
11:58Good day.
12:04Fish.
12:06All these fish.
12:09A Santa Madora.
12:19Well, you were right, Holmes.
12:20Oh, was I?
12:21You're dry on that?
12:22No.
12:23No water in the lungs.
12:25Well, the body showed
12:25no cuts or lacerations.
12:27I know.
12:28Not even a bruise.
12:29It's amazing, Holmes.
12:31It's all right uncanny.
12:32Of course, there's an advanced
12:34state of rigor mortis
12:35which conceal the condition.
12:36What condition?
12:37Well, practically every bone
12:38in his body was broken.
12:41Great Scott,
12:42is that what he died of?
12:44I don't know how, Lestrade,
12:46but this man was literally
12:46crushed to death.
12:49How?
12:50Well, that man was a giant, too,
12:52yet he was literally
12:53crushed like a fly.
12:56Well, there's one thing, Holmes.
12:57It certainly wasn't
12:58your little man.
13:00Well, hardly it took
13:01a superhuman force to kill him.
13:04Not superhuman,
13:05my dear fellow.
13:06No?
13:07Then what?
13:09Inhuman, Watson.
13:11Inhuman.
13:19A case of a diamond tooth.
13:22You know, although I don't
13:23really approve of this
13:24disguised business,
13:25I must say I've got a great
13:27knack for it.
13:28I always thought I had
13:28acting talent.
13:30Yes, yes, Watson.
13:30I'd say a bosun's mate
13:32at least.
13:32Yeah.
13:34You know, I still don't know
13:35what we're doing all dressed up
13:36like this.
13:37Well, from now on,
13:37we're a couple of
13:38unemployed mariners
13:39looking for berths
13:40aboard a ship.
13:40Oh.
13:42I say, Holmes,
13:43there's nothing
13:44illegal about this, is there?
13:46Oh, now, really, Watson,
13:47your lack of faith
13:48shocks me.
13:49Oh, now, dear chap,
13:49I didn't...
13:50Yes, yes, quite, quite,
13:50quite, quite.
13:51Now, Watson,
13:52when you found that diamond,
13:54did you happen to notice
13:54a pub in the vicinity
13:55of the river?
13:56A pub?
13:57Now, let me see.
14:00Well, not that I'd really
14:01notice while you understand,
14:02but there must be
14:03lots in the vicinity.
14:04Why don't we look
14:05for the closest?
14:05We'll do just that.
14:06Well, I still don't see,
14:07my dear chap,
14:08what we're doing.
14:09If we're successful,
14:10my dear fellow,
14:10we might even sail
14:11for Brazil.
14:12Brazil?
14:13Yes.
14:13Oh, Brazil,
14:13I'd like that.
14:38I'll tell you, mate,
14:39the sea's gone to the dogs
14:40these days,
14:41what with all this
14:42newfangled steam.
14:44Steam, now I ask you.
14:45Progress.
14:46Sales was good enough
14:47for me, old man.
14:48Sales is good enough
14:49for me.
14:55Hey, me lads.
14:56No import, aren't you?
14:58Aye, and it's a fierce
14:58search for gardeners
14:59tonight, me darling.
15:00What will you be taking
15:01for it, Patrick?
15:02A pint of bitter?
15:03I'd like a pint of bitter.
15:04And a pint of mild
15:05for me, please, miss.
15:06It seems to such
15:07a pretty little curry
15:07and you can make it
15:08half and half.
15:09Si, are you trying
15:10to mix me up, Silo?
15:12Now, why would I be
15:12after doing that,
15:13me darling?
15:18What's the matter?
15:19You're sure this is the pub
15:20near where you found
15:21the diamond?
15:21I think so.
15:22It looks the same
15:23from the outside.
15:24What part you out of,
15:25mates?
15:26Shanghai, me old sicari.
15:28Shanghai?
15:29I know it will I do.
15:30I hear butcher Jimmy's
15:31got himself sliced up.
15:33How is the butcher?
15:35Butcher?
15:35Well, we didn't stay
15:37very long in Bimport.
15:39We sort of rather
15:40popped in and popped out.
15:44Why, had I seen you
15:45before, Silo?
15:46And?
15:47Wart you in here
15:47the other night
15:48for a pint?
15:49Who, me?
15:50Oh, well, I...
15:52Oh, I suppose not.
15:55Regular toff that jet was.
15:56Oh, really?
15:57Drank his beer
15:57without spilling a drop.
15:59No, really.
16:01But blimey,
16:01if you took off that beer,
16:03you'd be the spittin' image
16:04of him.
16:04I might do all my beer.
16:06I might do all my...
16:09What are you silent for,
16:11mates?
16:12Well, you may believe it or not,
16:13but I have an inkling
16:14for Brazil.
16:16The Vasco de Gauma
16:17sails for Brazil
16:17first thing tomorrow morning.
16:19Straight for Brazil?
16:21Oh, it's straight.
16:22Star of the South
16:22silent tomorrow morning
16:23too.
16:24Put in a couple of days
16:25ago from Brazil.
16:26But she ain't going
16:26straight back.
16:27Puts in first
16:28in Antwerp she does.
16:31Antwerp?
16:32Center of the
16:33Diamond Industry, Holmes.
16:34I wouldn't stand
16:35in the Star of the South,
16:36I wouldn't.
16:37Not under Captain Lancey.
16:38Hard case skimmer, is he?
16:40Oh, proper demon
16:41of a man.
16:42Slap me on irons
16:43as soon as bid you
16:44a good day.
16:45What's this tooth
16:46Captain Lancey did
16:47the other night?
16:48Raised a regular fuss
16:49about it,
16:49looking everywhere.
16:50How could a blighter
16:51lose his tooth?
16:52Easy.
16:52Fell out.
16:53Lost me all
16:54up a plate that way
16:55once.
16:56Yeah.
16:56Did he find
16:57his tooth?
16:57No.
16:58Couldn't find it
16:59nowhere.
17:01Hey, mate.
17:03What?
17:04Not you.
17:05You.
17:06Hmm?
17:08Been sailing long?
17:10Oh, where?
17:11Oh, since I was
17:13a nipper.
17:14A cabin boy.
17:19Stay, mate.
17:21A word, will you,
17:23do him private?
17:31I'd be careful
17:33of your pal there, mate.
17:34Ain't what he seems
17:35to be.
17:37Huh?
17:38He's in disguise.
17:39Look at them whiskers.
17:41Probably out to do you in.
17:43Thanks, me old boy.
17:45I'll take care of him.
17:50Patrick.
17:50Mm-hmm?
17:52We're going to see
17:52Captain Clancy decide
17:53on the Star of the South.
17:54We'd better be off.
17:57Roger on, mate.
17:58No bite.
18:08Come on, Rosie.
18:09Follow him up.
18:26What's the matter, Watson?
18:27The beard is dropped
18:28in the water.
18:29Never mind about that.
18:30Come on.
18:31Yes, I know.
18:31But...
19:06I'm going below, Watson.
19:07You'd better stay on deck.
19:07No, I'm coming with you.
19:08Now, there's an element
19:09of danger involved.
19:10What do you think
19:10there is up here?
19:11Perhaps you're right at that.
19:30What are we looking for, Holmes?
19:31The murderer
19:32of Francisco Vargas.
19:38Who murdered him?
19:39Our visitor Harry Harkins.
20:07Who murdered him?
20:11Look, Watson. The lantern, crushed and broken, just like Vargas.
20:16Great, Scott. Do you mean Vargas was killed in here?
20:20I'm beginning to think so.
20:28We'd better get out of here, Watson.
20:31We're in extreme danger.
20:33That, Mr. Holmes, is an understatement.
20:37Harkins? Only this morning, Watson, when it suited his convenience.
20:40At all other times, Captain Lancey of the Star of the South.
20:44I had an idea you'd be on my trail.
20:47They tell me you're a smart man, so I've been waiting for you.
20:50You're a clever man, too, Captain. Quite ingenious.
20:53Tell me, did you plan to kill Vargas when you sailed from Brazil?
20:56Or did you do it on the spur of the moment?
20:59I'm not an impulsive man, Mr. Holmes.
21:01So you were prepared, then, when he came to collect the diamonds you'd smuggled in for him?
21:05How did you lure him down here?
21:08Would he expect me to hand over the diamonds where the crew might see us?
21:12You never kill Vargas. You're not strong enough.
21:16Aye, but ask your friend how I did it. He'll tell you.
21:24No good, Holmes. He's bolted it.
21:25Quickly, Watson. We've got to get out of here.
21:27Well, how? Well...
21:27No, not that door. There's a cargo door behind those crates.
21:30Come on. Let's get to it.
21:57All right, let's go.
22:25About a certain roof here, Watson.
22:27It'll help us move that crate.
22:38Ah, Watson!
22:41Holmes!
22:44Holmes!
22:46It's a ball constrictor, Watson. Get out of here. Get out of here quickly.
22:49Hold on if you can.
23:02Oh, Watson!
23:13Oh, Watson!
23:19Oh!
23:28Watch it.
23:31Hold on, man. Here. Come with me. Here.
23:35If you can.
23:36That's right. That's right.
23:38That's right.
23:39That's right.
23:53That's right.
24:01That was a nice piece of deduction you did, Holmes, but you know you really ought to have let the
24:06yard handle this case.
24:07In my present condition I'm inclined to wish I had.
24:12How did you deduce that it was a boar constrictor, Holmes?
24:20Well, I could think of nothing else that would strangle a huge man like Vargas.
24:24The boar constrictor comes from South America, and both Vargas and the diamonds pointed to Brazil.
24:30You know, if Lancey hadn't lost that diamond tooth that he took from Vargas before he threw the body overboard...
24:37Ah!
24:38Yeah, and if he hadn't been greedy and answered that advertisement...
24:42Yes, but he did lose the tooth, Watson, and he did answer the advertisement.
24:46Oh, Watson?
24:48Yes, Holmes?
24:50I must say, that was very quick thinking on your part in the ship.
24:54Hmm?
24:55Oh, well, you know, the time and men of action must step in.
25:01Not only think quickly, but act quickly.
25:07You know how it is?
25:09Oh.
25:19Oh.
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