WEBVTT 01:07.150 --> 01:08.275 Far now? 02:17.846 --> 02:18.846 Come, Watson, 02:20.348 --> 02:21.181 come. 02:22.934 --> 02:25.018 The game is a foot. 02:33.278 --> 02:34.820 Get your clothes and come. 02:44.706 --> 02:47.499 Well I think we have thawed sufficiently, Holmes. 02:47.625 --> 02:48.667 Splendid. 02:49.752 --> 02:53.672 Abbey Grange, Marsham, Kent, 3:30 a.m. 02:54.632 --> 02:56.341 "My Dear Mr. Holmes," 02:56.634 --> 02:58.385 "I should be very glad of your immediate assistance" 02:58.553 --> 03:01.680 "in what promises to be a most remarkable case." 03:02.056 --> 03:03.891 "There's something quite in your line." 03:04.392 --> 03:05.475 "Except for releasing the lady," 03:05.602 --> 03:09.146 "I will see that everything is kept exactly as I have found it" 03:09.272 --> 03:10.522 "but I beg you not to lose an instant," 03:10.648 --> 03:14.902 "as it is difficult to leave Sir Eustace there." 03:15.820 --> 03:17.738 "Yours faithfully. Stanley Hopkins." 03:19.449 --> 03:22.910 Inspector Hopkins. He's called you in seven times, 03:23.077 --> 03:26.496 on each occasion his summons has been entirely justified. 03:26.623 --> 03:30.876 I fancy that every one of his cases has found its way into your collection, 03:32.170 --> 03:35.589 I must admit, Watson, you do have some power of selection. 03:35.757 --> 03:36.715 Thank you. 03:37.425 --> 03:41.720 Which atones for much of which I deplore about your narratives. 03:42.263 --> 03:45.224 Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story 03:45.350 --> 03:48.727 instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined 03:49.187 --> 03:52.105 what might have been an instructive and even classical 03:52.273 --> 03:54.107 series of demonstrations. 03:55.026 --> 03:56.902 Why did you not write them yourself? 03:57.028 --> 04:02.115 I will, my dear Watson, I will, in my declining years. 04:03.660 --> 04:06.203 So our present research appears to be one of murder. 04:06.621 --> 04:07.537 Does it? 04:08.456 --> 04:12.918 E. B. Monogram, coat-of-arm, . 04:13.670 --> 04:18.090 An address which harks back to the dissolution of the monasteries. 04:18.216 --> 04:19.967 We're moving in the high-life... 04:21.511 --> 04:22.761 Brackenstall. 04:22.887 --> 04:24.972 Sir Eustace Brackenstall. 04:26.474 --> 04:27.140 You've heard of him? 04:27.308 --> 04:28.809 He was quoted in the Chronicle the other day 04:28.977 --> 04:30.936 as being one of the richest men in Kent. 04:31.062 --> 04:33.313 Watson, you are a treasury of knowledge. 04:33.523 --> 04:35.148 And you think him dead? 04:36.484 --> 04:38.610 I think him murdered, Watson. 04:40.405 --> 04:42.489 Hopkins is not an emotional man. 04:43.908 --> 04:45.575 The writing shows a certain agitation. 04:45.702 --> 04:47.494 It is surely urgent. 04:48.413 --> 04:50.789 You think the body left there for our own inspection? 04:52.083 --> 04:57.754 I think that we shall find the Brackenstall line is now extinct. 05:32.957 --> 05:35.000 Very good of you to come, Mr. Holmes. 05:35.376 --> 05:36.335 And you, Doctor. 05:36.461 --> 05:37.544 Inspector. 05:38.588 --> 05:41.173 I, I hope you forgive me, Mr. Holmes. 05:42.133 --> 05:43.508 Forgive what, Hopkins? 05:43.634 --> 05:45.510 I should not have troubled you, sir. 05:45.636 --> 05:47.387 But since the lady has come to herself, 05:47.555 --> 05:49.890 she has given me so clear an account of the affair that- 05:50.058 --> 05:51.808 well there's not much left for us to do. 05:52.060 --> 05:53.477 You remember the Lewisham gang? 05:53.603 --> 05:54.728 You mean the three Randalls? 05:54.896 --> 05:59.733 Exactly sir, the father and two sons. It's their work, not a doubt. 05:59.901 --> 06:01.693 But they did a job at Sydenham a fortnight ago. 06:01.819 --> 06:04.571 They did. They were seen and described. 06:04.739 --> 06:07.324 Well it's cool of them, I agree, to do another so soon and so near, 06:07.450 --> 06:11.244 but it is they- and a hanging matter this time. 06:11.412 --> 06:13.413 Brackenstall is dead, then? 06:13.581 --> 06:14.873 Awe yes, Doctor. 06:15.166 --> 06:19.252 In the dining room, his head was knocked in with his own poker. 06:20.004 --> 06:21.254 And the lady? 06:40.608 --> 06:42.526 Have they been in the dining room yet? 06:42.944 --> 06:44.694 Not yet, my lady. 06:46.781 --> 06:49.116 I shall be glad when you can arrange matters. 06:51.702 --> 06:53.036 What is that? 06:53.955 --> 06:56.373 You have other injuries, Madam. 06:57.291 --> 07:02.129 It's nothing. It has no connection with this hideous business. 07:04.715 --> 07:06.591 Please sit down. 07:09.637 --> 07:12.764 I think it would be best to inform you of something, gentlemen, 07:13.057 --> 07:14.975 regarding Sir Eustace. 07:16.352 --> 07:18.437 You'll no doubt hear a rumor of it otherwise 07:18.563 --> 07:21.440 from idol tongues who'll distort the truth of it. 07:22.233 --> 07:26.069 It would pain me to think of his memory tarnished in that way. 07:29.699 --> 07:33.285 Sir Eustace drank, I'm afraid. 07:35.079 --> 07:40.125 Not regularly, and consistently. Not in a way to hurt our marriage. 07:41.043 --> 07:44.588 Nor did it interfere with the exercise of his public duties. 07:46.841 --> 07:51.678 Nevertheless, the vice was a private shame to him. 07:53.181 --> 07:55.640 He was very sensible of my dislike of it. 07:56.684 --> 07:59.144 When he felt the obsession too keenly, he took himself off 07:59.270 --> 08:01.480 until the poison had exhausted him. 08:04.775 --> 08:07.486 It distressed me of course that it should happen 08:08.946 --> 08:13.700 but he was proud and sensitive enough never to allow me to witness it. 08:16.787 --> 08:19.372 I felt deep gratitude for that 08:21.209 --> 08:22.876 and not a little pity. 08:24.629 --> 08:26.880 Can you understand that gentlemen? 08:27.048 --> 08:32.511 I have never heard a like case talked of with such illuminating compassion, Madam. 08:35.056 --> 08:38.183 I must, however, ask you to believe something further. 08:38.893 --> 08:42.395 I was in some measure grateful for this vice of my husband's. 08:42.563 --> 08:43.813 How could that be? 08:44.398 --> 08:47.067 I spent most of my life in South Australia, 08:47.401 --> 08:50.570 in the wine growing country near Adelaide. 08:52.782 --> 08:55.992 As a very young woman I lived alone with my father. 08:59.121 --> 09:00.580 My mother was dead. 09:03.417 --> 09:06.336 If I had a mother, it was my loyal Theresa. 09:08.839 --> 09:10.924 It was a very free life. 09:13.135 --> 09:16.888 I found it extremely difficult to adapt to the proprieties of England 09:17.014 --> 09:19.516 being mistress of such a place as this. 09:21.811 --> 09:24.896 So I felt if I were to show a decent understanding 09:25.022 --> 09:26.731 of my husband's weakness, 09:27.525 --> 09:31.236 he would, in turn, forgive me for my unsuitable behavior. 09:33.781 --> 09:35.407 And so it proved. 09:36.367 --> 09:37.242 I see. 09:38.452 --> 09:44.583 I'll tell you about last night. Eustace retired about half-past ten. 09:45.293 --> 09:47.085 The servants had already gone to their quarters. 09:47.211 --> 09:47.877 Which are where? 09:48.004 --> 09:49.254 In the East Wing. 09:49.380 --> 09:52.257 Only my husband, Theresa and myself sleep in the central block. 09:52.383 --> 09:54.134 The servants would have heard nothing. 09:54.302 --> 09:56.052 Had you retired by then? 09:56.554 --> 09:57.971 I was in my room. 09:58.222 --> 10:00.265 I never retire until I've seen madam to bed. 10:00.391 --> 10:01.308 Thank you. 10:02.852 --> 10:03.977 I sat up- 10:05.855 --> 10:07.147 in this room, in fact. 10:37.762 --> 10:41.264 It is my custom to walk around to see that the house is secure 10:42.183 --> 10:44.100 because for obvious reasons, Sir Eustace is- 10:44.226 --> 10:47.020 not always to be relied upon in that respect. 10:49.690 --> 10:51.358 I went into the gun-room, 10:54.737 --> 10:55.862 the kitchen, 10:58.407 --> 11:00.033 the butler's pantry, 11:03.120 --> 11:04.537 the billiard-room, 11:06.082 --> 11:07.540 the drawing-room, 11:08.459 --> 11:12.837 and finally the dining-room where the curtains were drawn. 11:36.904 --> 11:39.531 It's difficult to tell you much of what happened next. 11:45.246 --> 11:47.205 I took a step towards the curtain 11:48.999 --> 11:51.543 and I found myself face-to-face with an intruder. 11:52.294 --> 11:55.672 A big man, quite elderly. 11:57.758 --> 11:59.884 For a moment we just stared at each other. 12:01.595 --> 12:04.931 Then two other men came in behind him and he came for me. 12:05.933 --> 12:08.268 I must have been unconscious for some minutes. 12:36.005 --> 12:39.132 It was then that my unfortunate husband entered the room. 12:40.676 --> 12:42.552 They dealt with him as you shall see. 12:44.889 --> 12:47.557 I believe I fainted again, I'm not sure. 12:49.143 --> 12:50.935 The exact events are difficult... 12:52.646 --> 12:55.774 I drifted in and out of consciousness, you understand? 12:58.235 --> 13:00.111 I do know that they cleared the room of its silver 13:00.237 --> 13:02.155 and they must have drawn themselves a bottle of port, 13:02.323 --> 13:04.157 some of which I saw them drink. 13:07.244 --> 13:09.829 The man who struck me was elderly with a beard. 13:10.706 --> 13:13.666 The others younger, smooth faced. 13:14.376 --> 13:15.335 Yes. 13:16.837 --> 13:18.755 Finally they checked that I was securely bound 13:18.881 --> 13:21.257 and left taking the silver with them. 13:21.509 --> 13:23.343 How was the alarm raised? 13:26.180 --> 13:28.014 Madam had not come upstairs. 13:28.224 --> 13:30.099 Early she said she would follow me shortly 13:30.226 --> 13:33.353 so at midnight I went down in case she had fallen asleep over her book. 13:33.521 --> 13:35.146 A thing I hate to do. 13:36.023 --> 13:38.525 And there I found her, poor lamb, just as she says 13:39.193 --> 13:42.362 and him on the floor, his blood and brains all over the room. 13:44.782 --> 13:46.866 Enough to drive a woman out of her wits. 13:47.034 --> 13:50.787 And her gagged and bound and her very dress spotted with him. 13:55.042 --> 13:59.212 She never wanted courage, did Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide, 14:00.089 --> 14:03.383 and Lady Brackenstall of Abbey Grange has learned new ways. 14:05.135 --> 14:07.178 You've questioned her long enough, gentlemen. 14:07.721 --> 14:09.973 When did the lady and the maid come from Australia? 14:10.099 --> 14:11.349 About eighteen months ago, sir. 14:11.475 --> 14:13.351 Her father sent her to get her experience of Europe. 14:13.477 --> 14:14.394 That is, to find a husband? 14:14.562 --> 14:17.146 Poor woman. It must have seemed the brilliant match. 14:18.732 --> 14:20.066 It's a mess, sir. 14:20.651 --> 14:21.693 Constable. 14:36.417 --> 14:37.417 A mess indeed. 14:37.585 --> 14:38.835 They've touched nothing, sir. 14:38.961 --> 14:40.336 What do you make of it, Doctor? 14:40.504 --> 14:41.379 Should I? 14:41.755 --> 14:43.381 Please proceed, my dear fellow. 14:48.804 --> 14:52.098 It's a blow of savage ferocity. 14:52.266 --> 14:52.765 A single blow? 14:52.933 --> 14:54.100 I believe so. 14:55.769 --> 14:58.730 It is a straightforward enough wound, you see. 15:00.024 --> 15:02.442 It begins, thus, below the ear 15:03.193 --> 15:07.530 and then crosses both spheres of the parietal bone at such an angle. 15:10.200 --> 15:13.578 That this side is smashed as far as the coronal suture. 15:14.038 --> 15:15.788 I've never seen anything like it. 15:21.629 --> 15:23.630 A powerful man, this elder Randall. 15:23.797 --> 15:25.924 Half his trade is violence, sir. 15:26.383 --> 15:28.384 He certainly left his trademark. 15:29.219 --> 15:32.472 What beats me is how Randall could do so mad a thing, 15:34.141 --> 15:36.059 knowing that the lady could describe them, 15:36.185 --> 15:38.811 and that we could not fail to recognize the description. 15:38.979 --> 15:42.774 The criminal mind has its quirks of conscience and scruples. 15:43.317 --> 15:46.819 In that respect, it is as individual and curious as any other. 15:47.529 --> 15:50.406 A noted miser, Lady, secretly charitable 15:50.532 --> 15:55.495 so this violent Randall may draw the line at the murder of an unconscious woman. 15:56.413 --> 16:00.124 Or he may well believe that she did not see him. 16:00.417 --> 16:01.626 Well how is that, sir? 16:01.835 --> 16:04.587 She testifies that they stared at each other. 16:04.713 --> 16:06.506 Yes, but it was she who held the light. 16:06.715 --> 16:10.468 What Randall may have seen was mostly flickering candle flame. 16:13.430 --> 16:18.309 The face behind it, a distorted mask. 16:20.229 --> 16:22.105 He may be not imaginative enough 16:22.231 --> 16:24.524 to have thought that she saw anymore than he did. 16:25.693 --> 16:28.528 He knocked her unconscious at the next instance, thus for his purposes- 16:28.696 --> 16:30.446 solving his problem. Watson, 16:31.031 --> 16:34.283 may I impose upon you to search the Turkey rug? 16:36.453 --> 16:37.453 What for Holmes? 16:37.579 --> 16:40.873 Candle wax, Watson, candle wax. 16:41.959 --> 16:46.337 Now this bell presents a mystery, does it not, Inspector? 16:46.463 --> 16:47.880 When this was pulled down 16:48.048 --> 16:50.008 the bell in the kitchen must have rung loudly. 16:50.134 --> 16:52.552 No one would hear it the way the kitchen is placed. 16:52.720 --> 16:54.220 How did the burglar know that? 16:54.388 --> 16:57.724 Exactly, Mr. Holmes, exactly. For the very question I've put myself. 16:57.891 --> 16:59.851 Now either he has known the house 16:59.977 --> 17:02.520 or he may have dealings with one of the servants. 17:02.646 --> 17:04.522 One of my men is going over the record of service 17:04.648 --> 17:06.566 at the Grange with the butler, at this very moment, sir. 17:06.734 --> 17:09.569 Inspector, you seem to have thought of everything. 17:09.737 --> 17:10.653 Thank you, Mr. Holmes. 17:10.779 --> 17:11.654 Holmes. 17:11.780 --> 17:13.197 What is it, Watson? 17:14.658 --> 17:15.742 There. 17:17.453 --> 17:21.414 A scattering of wax and a very light scorching. 17:24.126 --> 17:28.087 Invisible but leaving it's characteristic scent. 17:28.297 --> 17:29.922 The lady would have fallen here. 17:31.800 --> 17:35.011 Randall would have snatched up the candelabra immediately. 17:37.181 --> 17:39.766 I suppose that is where they took their refreshment. 17:40.267 --> 17:43.394 To steady their nerves, yes. Port wine, sir. 17:43.604 --> 17:46.564 Did Lady Brackenstall say that the butler's corkscrew was used? 17:46.690 --> 17:49.692 No, sir. She was senseless at the moment the bottle was opened 17:49.818 --> 17:50.777 Quite so. 17:51.862 --> 17:56.449 It was opened with a pocket screw, probably contained in a knife. 17:56.617 --> 17:59.118 If you examine the top of the cork you will observe 17:59.369 --> 18:03.039 that the screw was driven in three times before the cork was extracted. 18:03.624 --> 18:08.211 This long screw would have transfixed it and drawn it with a single pull. 18:09.838 --> 18:11.923 When you catch this fellow, it is likely that you will find 18:12.049 --> 18:14.258 that he has a multiplex knife in his possession. 18:14.384 --> 18:15.885 Excellent, Mr. Holmes. 18:18.722 --> 18:20.264 These three glasses 18:21.517 --> 18:24.977 do puzzle me, I must confess. 18:29.733 --> 18:34.278 Did Lady Brackenstall say that she actually saw the three men drinking? 18:34.404 --> 18:36.906 Awe yes, she was clear about that, sir. 18:39.576 --> 18:43.162 Well then, there is an end of it. What more is to be said? 18:44.748 --> 18:48.000 Perhaps, Inspector, when a man has special powers 18:48.168 --> 18:49.836 and special knowledge, like Sherlock Holmes, 18:50.003 --> 18:53.798 it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation 18:53.924 --> 18:55.675 when a simpler one is at hand. 18:56.218 --> 18:58.469 You let us know when Randall is arrested. 19:26.123 --> 19:29.000 Poor Holmes, you must feel like an abstruse, 19:29.376 --> 19:32.670 and learned specialist calling for a case of measles. 19:34.089 --> 19:35.214 Annoying. 20:06.413 --> 20:07.747 We must return. 20:08.999 --> 20:10.416 Three glasses. 20:23.931 --> 20:29.185 Watson, we have been dazzled out of observation by that lady's beauty, 20:29.770 --> 20:33.522 beauty may be truth but she does not necessarily speak it. 20:34.691 --> 20:39.946 There was port in each glass but there was only crusting in one glass. 20:40.197 --> 20:43.699 Last glass filled is the one most likely to contain the crusting. 20:43.825 --> 20:46.369 I agree. If the last pouring had approached the bottom of the bottle 20:46.495 --> 20:50.957 but the bottle was half full and it had been agitated. 20:51.124 --> 20:53.751 The crusting was present throughout the port. 20:53.877 --> 20:55.461 Well what, then, do you suppose? 20:55.796 --> 20:57.922 That only two glasses were used 20:58.215 --> 21:00.424 and the dregs of both were poured into a third 21:00.550 --> 21:04.428 so as to give us the false impression that three people were there. 21:04.554 --> 21:05.972 I understand. 21:06.306 --> 21:09.308 If I'm right, Watson, then in an instant 21:10.143 --> 21:15.481 this case rises from the common place to the exceeding and remarkable. 21:16.566 --> 21:18.317 That will be the Kentish train. 21:20.070 --> 21:20.987 That will. 21:26.076 --> 21:27.910 How on earth did you hear it? 21:28.245 --> 21:32.290 I heard nothing, Watson, I observed. 21:34.668 --> 21:38.504 Salutary thought after such a misspent morning. 21:39.006 --> 21:40.464 Lady Brackenstall and her maid 21:40.549 --> 21:43.926 must have some very good reason for shielding the real criminal. 21:49.099 --> 21:49.849 Well, Watson, 21:50.017 --> 21:54.145 we shall just have to construct our case for ourselves without them. 22:06.450 --> 22:08.951 The Abbey Grange as fast as you can. 22:21.298 --> 22:22.381 Watson. 22:48.909 --> 22:52.203 Well it appears that Inspector Hopkins has gone to report to headquarters. 22:52.329 --> 22:54.538 Splendid, then we can take possession. 23:06.593 --> 23:08.761 How many frustrated episodes 23:08.929 --> 23:11.263 for the laboring men here could one reconstruct 23:11.431 --> 23:13.891 from this mechanical cemetery? 23:21.108 --> 23:22.191 What's this? 23:23.944 --> 23:24.902 Watson. 23:26.029 --> 23:28.697 Not entirely mechanical, it seems. 23:46.883 --> 23:47.758 Fudge. 24:01.731 --> 24:03.107 I imagine it's a pet's gravestone. 24:03.233 --> 24:04.775 It has been smashed. 24:05.235 --> 24:08.446 Mended and smashed again with deliberate force. 24:08.822 --> 24:11.949 The story it tells is of the immediate past. 24:24.713 --> 24:25.671 Watson. 24:28.175 --> 24:31.635 The remnants of a dog's collar. 24:33.555 --> 24:34.638 Fudge. 24:35.682 --> 24:36.682 Hey, you. 24:37.184 --> 24:40.186 Has any servant been dismissed from the house in the last month? 24:40.437 --> 24:41.353 No, sir. 24:43.523 --> 24:45.316 Then it's as I thought. 24:47.527 --> 24:48.694 Fudge. 24:50.906 --> 24:55.034 Lady Brackenstall's pet dog, let us imagine, dies. 24:55.952 --> 24:57.661 It may not be too fanciful to suggest 24:57.787 --> 25:01.040 that the poor unfortunate creature was literally killed. 25:01.208 --> 25:03.167 Killed? For what reason? 25:03.293 --> 25:06.879 Reason I suggest hardly entered into it. It was done in a fit of insane rage. 25:07.047 --> 25:07.546 By whom? 25:07.672 --> 25:09.715 By a drunkard, sadistic ruffian. 25:09.883 --> 25:10.633 One of the murderers? 25:10.759 --> 25:12.009 No, Watson. 25:12.969 --> 25:14.678 The lady's husband. 25:15.722 --> 25:17.348 The last of the Brackenstall's. 25:17.474 --> 25:18.682 Brackenstall. 25:18.892 --> 25:22.144 Consider it. No one but a member of the household 25:22.270 --> 25:25.356 could vandalize a gravestone and it remain in place. 25:26.733 --> 25:31.904 Why should Brackenstall entertain such an obsession about a pet animal 25:32.072 --> 25:34.031 that he would forbid any remembrance of it? 25:34.157 --> 25:36.158 You saw the marks of course on the lady's arm. 25:36.284 --> 25:38.869 Yes I was surprised that they did not interest you more. 25:38.995 --> 25:42.873 They were stab wounds made by a long needle or a hatpin. 25:42.999 --> 25:46.752 This lady has been living in fear 25:48.004 --> 25:49.922 of her physical safety, Watson. 26:07.857 --> 26:09.275 Take care, Holmes. 26:11.361 --> 26:14.947 Watson, we have our case. 26:15.532 --> 26:18.367 How nearly have I made the blunder of a lifetime. 26:19.369 --> 26:22.121 But now the chain is almost complete. 26:23.123 --> 26:24.206 You got your men? 26:24.332 --> 26:27.960 Man, Watson, man. 26:28.962 --> 26:32.965 Only one, but a remarkable person. 26:33.883 --> 26:35.926 Strong as a lion, active as a squirrel, 26:36.052 --> 26:38.470 dexterous with his fingers and finally, 26:40.056 --> 26:41.765 remarkably quick-witted. 26:43.727 --> 26:46.729 Awe, Lady Brackenstall. 26:48.398 --> 26:50.816 I do not wish to cause you any unnecessary trouble. 26:50.984 --> 26:53.611 My one desire is to make things easier for you. 26:56.573 --> 26:59.617 I am convinced that you are a much-tried woman. 27:04.706 --> 27:07.291 If you will trust me and treat me as a friend 27:07.417 --> 27:09.793 you may find that I will justify that trust. 27:11.338 --> 27:12.296 What do you want me to do? 27:12.422 --> 27:13.797 To tell me the truth. 27:13.923 --> 27:14.632 Mr. Holmes! 27:14.758 --> 27:17.343 No, no, no, no, please, Lady Brackenstall, 27:17.677 --> 27:19.261 it is of no use. 27:21.014 --> 27:23.349 You may have heard of a little reputation that I may possess, 27:23.516 --> 27:27.186 I will stake it all on the fact that your story is a complete fabrication. 27:27.354 --> 27:28.854 You're an impudent fellow. 27:29.022 --> 27:31.607 You try to say that my mistress has told a lie? 27:32.859 --> 27:34.151 Have you nothing to tell me? 27:34.277 --> 27:36.654 I have told you everything. 27:37.197 --> 27:39.490 Now think just once more, Lady Brackenstall. 27:39.616 --> 27:41.867 Wouldn't it be better to be frank? 27:43.870 --> 27:46.622 I have told you all I know. 27:51.378 --> 27:52.836 I am sorry. 28:03.723 --> 28:07.017 The bell rope gave us the clue, which should have left us in no doubt. 28:07.143 --> 28:07.976 How is that? 28:08.103 --> 28:09.853 If you were to pull down a bell rope, Watson, 28:09.979 --> 28:11.563 where would you expect it to break? 28:11.731 --> 28:14.566 Surely at the top where it is attached to the wire. 28:14.734 --> 28:16.235 Not three inches from the top. 28:16.403 --> 28:17.569 But the rope was frayed. 28:17.737 --> 28:20.072 The rope, which bound Lady Brackenstall, was frayed. 28:20.240 --> 28:22.199 He was cunning enough to do that with his knife. 28:22.325 --> 28:24.076 But the other end was not. 28:24.244 --> 28:26.161 If you had stood on the mantelpiece as I did 28:26.287 --> 28:28.580 you would have seen that it was cut through. 28:29.165 --> 28:31.166 Stop. Please, driver. 28:46.266 --> 28:47.224 Watson. 28:51.020 --> 28:53.272 That log has not moved since early this morning. 28:53.440 --> 28:55.441 Well perhaps it's snagged on something. 29:08.455 --> 29:09.788 Or anchored. 29:11.166 --> 29:14.418 See that Inspector Hopkins gets this on his return, will you? 29:14.544 --> 29:16.295 Chiselhurst Station. 29:24.012 --> 29:25.429 Where to, now, Holmes? 29:25.555 --> 29:28.056 The shipping office of the Southern Cross Line. 29:28.558 --> 29:30.142 Yes, yes of course. 29:32.562 --> 29:35.147 The Southern Cross Line is the principal passenger carrier 29:35.315 --> 29:37.483 between Adelaide and London. 29:38.151 --> 29:40.486 Ah, I see. 29:53.082 --> 29:56.960 In May of that year, only one of ours reached the home port, 29:57.212 --> 30:01.673 our flagship the "Rock of Gibraltar". I'll have the passenger list sent up. 30:16.397 --> 30:18.857 How on earth did Mr. Holmes know that? 30:19.442 --> 30:23.987 Ah, here we are. Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide, first class, 30:24.948 --> 30:26.156 accompanied by her maid. 30:26.282 --> 30:28.283 Where is the "Rock of Gibraltar" now? 30:28.743 --> 30:29.993 I'll know today. 30:30.203 --> 30:34.206 She was steaming west through the Arabian Gulf, Mr. Holmes, 30:34.415 --> 30:37.209 heading for Suez, I hope. 30:40.630 --> 30:45.133 Is it your policy to transfer officers much between ship and ship? 30:45.885 --> 30:49.221 No, not at all. It is our policy not to. 30:50.473 --> 30:53.851 Awe, I have you, Mr. Holmes. 30:54.102 --> 30:57.312 You are asking the whereabouts of a member of the crew of the Rock 30:57.438 --> 31:00.858 who has been seen very recently but not on the ship. 31:00.984 --> 31:04.903 Mr. Viviali, your perspicacity astonishes me. 31:05.071 --> 31:07.531 I assure you it is only through study 31:07.657 --> 31:10.534 of the good doctor's masterly exposition of your work 31:10.660 --> 31:13.370 that I now have any small capacity to reason. 31:13.913 --> 31:16.373 Really? You amaze me. 31:17.667 --> 31:19.376 Watson, are you taking notes? 31:22.922 --> 31:29.261 Also, you will be pleased to hear that I know exactly who the officer is. 31:35.018 --> 31:37.436 Awe, excellent, Mrs. Burbage. 31:38.104 --> 31:39.563 Excellent. 31:40.481 --> 31:44.192 Yes, gentlemen, the only officer From that voyage of the Rock 31:44.319 --> 31:49.364 who is not aboard her now, is Jack Croker, a magnificent chap. 31:49.490 --> 31:51.408 Am I not correct, Mrs. Burbage? 31:58.541 --> 32:00.959 Croker has a defect. A delightful fellow. 32:01.127 --> 32:04.046 Handsome as a prince. The crew worship him. 32:05.298 --> 32:08.592 And we've promoted him to captain of our new vessel the Bass Rock, 32:08.718 --> 32:10.427 No tea for me, please. 32:10.637 --> 32:12.554 Which is just fitting out. 32:13.348 --> 32:17.434 He's the youngest captain we have but he'll be the best. 32:18.061 --> 32:20.812 Not an officer in the fleet to touch him. 32:24.067 --> 32:29.154 He is hot headed and excitable 32:29.405 --> 32:33.492 but loyal, honest and kind-hearted. 32:34.744 --> 32:39.456 Sometimes in this life you meet people who are, what you might call- 32:39.916 --> 32:44.169 large-souled, who are a privilege to know. 32:45.672 --> 32:47.172 Croker is one of those. 32:58.601 --> 33:03.146 Once or twice in my career I feel I've done more real harm 33:03.272 --> 33:07.025 about my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. 33:10.571 --> 33:12.614 But I've learned caution now, 33:14.117 --> 33:15.993 and I'd rather play tricks 33:16.119 --> 33:18.704 with the law of England than with my own conscience. 33:36.305 --> 33:39.683 Captain Croker, sit down. 33:41.811 --> 33:44.688 I've got your telegram, and I've come at the hour you said. 33:45.314 --> 33:47.315 I heard you've been down to the office. 33:48.151 --> 33:50.485 There's no getting away from you, is there? 33:51.738 --> 33:55.073 Speak up, man. You can't stand there and play cat and mouse with me! 33:55.658 --> 33:56.575 What do you know? 33:56.743 --> 33:57.993 Give him a cigar, Watson. 33:58.119 --> 33:58.994 Please. 33:59.662 --> 34:00.746 Sit down. 34:04.292 --> 34:06.251 Bite on that, Captain Croker, 34:07.503 --> 34:09.921 and try not to let your nerves run away with you. 34:12.300 --> 34:16.428 I shall not sit here smoking with you if I thought you were a common criminal. 34:21.601 --> 34:25.729 Tell me what did you use 34:26.939 --> 34:29.274 to secure the silver to the floating log? 34:29.442 --> 34:32.069 My guess is fishing gut from the gun-room 34:32.195 --> 34:35.405 but I was not present at its recovery. Am I right? 34:36.365 --> 34:37.240 What do you want? 34:37.366 --> 34:38.450 Justice. 34:41.037 --> 34:41.745 For whom? 34:41.871 --> 34:43.121 But we are not partisan. 34:44.123 --> 34:46.458 We just want to see justice done, that is all. 34:52.548 --> 34:53.548 Very well. 34:54.217 --> 34:55.592 Was it fishing gut? 34:55.802 --> 34:57.385 No, twine. 34:58.971 --> 35:02.140 It was a throw back to the days before the master as a youngster. 35:02.308 --> 35:06.103 Even now I always carry a silver coin and length twine... 35:06.229 --> 35:08.647 And a multiplex knife? 35:14.195 --> 35:15.946 How in the devil do you know that? 35:24.372 --> 35:25.497 Who are you? 35:28.334 --> 35:32.295 Now, give me a true account of everything 35:32.421 --> 35:34.131 that happened at the Abbey Grange last night. 35:34.257 --> 35:36.466 Be frank with me and we may do some good. 35:36.592 --> 35:40.637 Play tricks with me, and I'll crush you. 35:55.403 --> 35:58.488 I'll chance it. But one thing I'll say first. 35:58.614 --> 36:00.323 I regret nothing. I fear nothing 36:00.449 --> 36:03.827 and I'd do it all again if I had to and be proud of the job, damn the man! 36:04.787 --> 36:06.997 Well that's my side of things, only my side. 36:08.249 --> 36:11.126 When I think of Mary, sweet Mary Fraser, 36:11.252 --> 36:13.879 I think of getting her into this bloody business, 36:14.046 --> 36:16.173 it's that, that turns my soul to water. 36:22.263 --> 36:25.140 I met her when I was first Officer on my last ship. 36:50.416 --> 36:51.499 Air... 36:52.752 --> 36:58.590 Oh I need air, Mr. Croker, I've never danced so much in my life. 36:58.758 --> 37:01.051 You dance as if you were born to it, Miss Fraser. 37:01.177 --> 37:04.387 Neither born nor bred, I assure you, Mr. Croker. 37:04.931 --> 37:08.016 Led to it, I think, by a better dancer than I am. 37:08.267 --> 37:11.603 She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. 37:12.271 --> 37:15.440 We were never engaged I have no complaints. 37:18.194 --> 37:21.071 But it was all love on my side 37:22.156 --> 37:25.075 and all-good comradeship and friendship on hers. 37:26.702 --> 37:29.955 When we parted she was a free woman, 37:34.126 --> 37:36.378 but I could never again be a free man. 37:48.724 --> 37:51.935 Next time I came back from the sea I read of her marriage. 37:54.146 --> 37:57.607 It seemed to be the sort of thing she was made for. I didn't grieve. 37:58.150 --> 37:59.317 I felt it to be right. 38:06.659 --> 38:08.451 So I never thought to see her again. 38:11.497 --> 38:14.666 At last voyage I was promoted, and the new boat was not yet launched, 38:14.834 --> 38:17.502 so I had to wait for a couple of months with my people in Kent, 38:19.880 --> 38:22.465 I knew now where she was but stayed away. 38:25.011 --> 38:27.304 Then I met Theresa Wright one day. 38:29.390 --> 38:31.766 She told me all about her, about the marriage, 38:33.853 --> 38:36.354 about the man's drunken cruelty, about everything. 38:39.358 --> 38:42.110 Do you know this noble baron had burnt her pet dog and 38:42.236 --> 38:43.695 threatened as much to her? 38:47.450 --> 38:49.034 I tell you gentlemen, 38:50.411 --> 38:52.203 it nearly drove me mad. 38:54.373 --> 38:55.790 I did meet Mary, 38:57.877 --> 38:59.169 and I met her again. 39:01.213 --> 39:05.717 At last, she would meet me no more. 39:09.638 --> 39:13.183 I was then given notice that I was to leave on my voyage within the week... 39:58.437 --> 39:59.938 You're mad. 40:02.191 --> 40:04.192 How could you come here? 40:06.987 --> 40:08.571 I'm to go away, Mary. 40:11.158 --> 40:12.534 I've been given a ship. 40:15.204 --> 40:17.288 To go and not to say farewell 40:19.959 --> 40:21.793 I thought I might never see you again. 40:22.294 --> 40:23.753 You're going away? 40:25.965 --> 40:27.424 I do not relish it. 40:31.345 --> 40:33.138 You'll make a fine captain. 40:35.307 --> 40:38.309 You must not let anything spoil such an opportunity. 40:43.190 --> 40:44.441 I feel for you. 40:48.028 --> 40:49.612 You can do nothing. 40:51.490 --> 40:53.908 However, that it is which hurts most I think. 40:58.414 --> 41:01.249 I believe I should have gone mad these past few weeks. 41:02.001 --> 41:04.627 If... Mary? 41:06.922 --> 41:09.132 If it had not been for the thought of you, 41:12.678 --> 41:14.345 my friend. 41:15.431 --> 41:16.473 Alright. 41:18.100 --> 41:19.642 "Friend" will do, Mary. 41:20.227 --> 41:24.022 It is a measure of my love for you. It's so strong it will live on crumbs. 41:25.608 --> 41:26.483 "Friend" will do. 41:26.609 --> 41:28.818 Jack don't make me say it. 41:29.862 --> 41:31.529 It won't make us any happier. 41:34.700 --> 41:36.117 You know what I feel. 41:38.037 --> 41:38.995 Do I? 41:43.584 --> 41:44.876 You know you do. 41:46.712 --> 41:49.297 Then I shall go a happier man than when I came. 41:51.592 --> 41:56.513 God bless you, sweet Mary Fraser. That's enough for me. 41:59.934 --> 42:02.185 You must not stay, Jack. 42:34.343 --> 42:36.511 Take this for my sake. 42:53.279 --> 42:58.366 At last I have you, Madam, at your trade. 43:00.286 --> 43:04.622 Here's a key to your damn modesty. 43:06.166 --> 43:07.875 You have a profession, Madam. 43:09.378 --> 43:15.466 A damn whore, a gutter queen, a filthy jade. 43:23.475 --> 43:25.393 Yes, sir. Come, sir. 43:25.519 --> 43:28.980 Stand you there, sir! Over the body of your bloody harlot! 44:38.801 --> 44:40.176 She's all right, 44:41.804 --> 44:42.845 Jack. 44:43.639 --> 44:45.390 Oh, Jack. 45:03.409 --> 45:05.076 Thank you, no, Captain. 45:12.418 --> 45:16.087 Oh... oh, what happened? 45:16.422 --> 45:17.547 I killed him. 45:21.427 --> 45:22.844 Are you certain? 45:23.262 --> 45:24.846 I know. I felt it. 45:24.972 --> 45:30.893 Oh, dear God. What are we going to do? 45:34.857 --> 45:37.358 Listen to your old Theresa. 45:37.484 --> 45:40.445 You're marked with a blow that could have killed you, 45:40.612 --> 45:43.448 that shall be your salvation. 45:51.457 --> 45:55.084 Theresa was as cool as ice. It was her plot as much as mine. 45:56.879 --> 45:59.464 We must make it appear the burglars had done the thing. 46:00.799 --> 46:03.050 Theresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress, 46:03.177 --> 46:05.636 while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell. 46:08.140 --> 46:09.474 I then lashed her into a chair, 46:09.641 --> 46:12.101 frayed out the end of the rope to make it look natural. 46:12.561 --> 46:13.895 The silver, well, you know about that. 46:14.021 --> 46:16.981 I do, and the third glass of port to tie in with the Randalls? 46:17.149 --> 46:20.735 Yes. And we dropped the candlestick by where Mary fell 46:20.861 --> 46:22.612 for the wax would splash on her. 46:23.530 --> 46:25.948 I never thought the police could have seen through our dodge. 46:27.326 --> 46:29.243 When I knew that savage fiend was dead and 46:29.369 --> 46:32.079 she was free of him, I reckon I done the best night's work of my life. 46:32.206 --> 46:34.415 I still do even if I swing for it. 46:43.383 --> 46:44.801 That is the truth. 46:47.095 --> 46:48.805 The whole truth, sir. 46:51.517 --> 46:52.975 Dear God. 46:55.521 --> 46:59.774 Yes. Yes you have told me the truth. 47:01.109 --> 47:02.860 And if the lady's maid had been less abstemious 47:03.028 --> 47:05.321 and accepted your glass of port, 47:05.447 --> 47:11.327 your ingenuity might have fooled me, as you have certainly fooled the police. 47:14.957 --> 47:19.335 Who put you onto me? How on earth did you find me? 47:19.461 --> 47:22.713 No one could have gone after that bell rope but an acrobat or sailor, 47:23.715 --> 47:25.716 No one but a sailor could have made the knots 47:25.884 --> 47:27.885 with which the cord was fastened to the chair. 47:28.053 --> 47:30.012 It was evident that the lady was shielding someone 47:30.138 --> 47:35.810 to do so under such circumstances meant that she must love the person. 47:39.314 --> 47:41.858 Was that too wild a leap of the imagination 47:41.984 --> 47:46.070 to connect her with an officer of a ship, which brought her to this country? 47:49.157 --> 47:50.199 Croker. 47:53.745 --> 47:55.705 You're expecting a visitor. 47:57.332 --> 47:58.332 I am? 48:31.116 --> 48:35.745 My dearest, the gentleman knows everything. There's no hiding from it. 48:36.622 --> 48:40.750 I know. His telegram brought me here. 48:43.337 --> 48:45.588 What do you intend, Mr. Holmes? 48:46.632 --> 48:50.301 Well, Captain Croker, this is a very serious matter. 48:50.552 --> 48:53.137 Yet I feel sure that on the basis of the story, 48:53.305 --> 48:55.556 which you have told us here tonight, 48:56.391 --> 49:00.978 a British court of law will understand that you acted in defense of your own life. 49:01.146 --> 49:05.274 That, however, is for the jury to decide. 49:05.400 --> 49:06.609 Meanwhile, 49:08.403 --> 49:12.114 I have so much sympathy for you that if you choose to disappear 49:12.240 --> 49:14.450 within the next 24 hours 49:14.576 --> 49:16.953 I promise no one will hinder you. 49:19.831 --> 49:20.957 Then it will all come out? 49:21.083 --> 49:22.792 Certainly it will come out. 49:23.085 --> 49:24.794 What sort of proposal is that? 49:26.171 --> 49:29.173 Mary would be left to face the music. Held as an accomplice maybe. 49:29.841 --> 49:31.676 No sir, it will not do. 49:31.843 --> 49:33.803 Jack, you must go. 49:35.180 --> 49:36.347 I shall not. 49:36.598 --> 49:40.643 Calm yourself, Captain. I was only testing you. 49:41.395 --> 49:43.854 Watson, this fellow rings true every time. 49:45.023 --> 49:48.859 It is a great responsibility that I take upon myself 49:49.027 --> 49:51.779 but we will do it in due form of law. 49:51.905 --> 49:53.531 Croker, you are the prisoner. 49:53.699 --> 49:54.532 Watson. 49:57.452 --> 49:59.120 You are a British jury, 49:59.871 --> 50:04.542 and I never met any man more eminently fitted to represent one. 50:06.253 --> 50:08.462 Now gentleman, 50:09.381 --> 50:12.299 you have heard the evidence do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty. 50:12.426 --> 50:13.050 Not guilty. 50:13.218 --> 50:16.345 Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captain Croker. 50:22.394 --> 50:25.021 No. No, sir, it will not do. 50:25.147 --> 50:26.063 Captain? 50:29.234 --> 50:31.902 What if the police arrest some other poor devil, what then? 50:32.070 --> 50:37.199 Then I will use all my powers to persuade them of their mistake. 50:37.451 --> 50:39.577 If they light on you, then that is another matter. 50:39.745 --> 50:41.245 However, I think that is unlikely. 50:41.413 --> 50:44.206 Come back to this lady in a year's time, 50:44.666 --> 50:47.084 and may her future and yours justify- 50:47.252 --> 50:49.336 us in the judgment that we have pronounced this night. 50:49.463 --> 50:51.422 Oh, thank you. 51:04.978 --> 51:06.771 Madam, I'm intrigued. 51:06.938 --> 51:11.358 You gave such a compelling account of the man's sad addiction to drink 51:11.485 --> 51:14.278 and yet it was not as we now know portrayed as your husband 51:14.780 --> 51:17.239 but it was such a clear description I wondered. 51:17.365 --> 51:18.449 My father. 51:20.452 --> 51:22.286 My poor father, Doctor. 51:23.205 --> 51:25.289 He sent me away to England because of it. 51:25.874 --> 51:29.376 His self-management was the reason I didn't fear the vice of my husband 51:29.503 --> 51:31.754 because I knew of it before we were married. 51:32.631 --> 51:34.298 How foolish I was. 51:34.466 --> 51:38.135 Thank you, Madam. I felt sure that your story was true to reality. 51:38.470 --> 51:39.553 Good luck to you. 51:48.730 --> 51:50.231 It's almost as though you disapproved 51:50.357 --> 51:53.067 of the happiness we have fostered this day. 51:53.401 --> 51:56.570 Oh no, I approve of that, of course, I do. 51:57.989 --> 52:03.744 I'm uneasy that you took upon yourself the duties of advocate and judge. 52:03.870 --> 52:06.247 You are too bound by forms, Watson. 52:06.373 --> 52:09.125 Forms are society, Holmes. 52:12.087 --> 52:14.421 Manners make the man, Holmes.