WEBVTT 00:59.601 --> 01:01.018 Thank you very much, sir... 01:07.025 --> 01:09.068 God bless you, sir. You're a gentlemen, 01:09.194 --> 01:12.863 A very perfect gentle night. Geoffrey Chaucer... 01:13.531 --> 01:16.617 Oh, thank you, sir. Oh, barely my cup run it over. 01:16.743 --> 01:19.286 May last sweetness never blush unseen. 01:20.580 --> 01:22.998 My gratitude knows no bounds, sir. 01:23.541 --> 01:29.171 Here I sit, your slave poor inform weak and despised. 01:29.714 --> 01:32.341 William Shakespeare, oh yeah... 01:34.969 --> 01:37.805 Blessed are the poor in spirit, sir. 01:45.814 --> 01:48.315 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 01:50.819 --> 01:53.779 For yours is the kingdom of heaven, sir. 02:46.416 --> 02:51.503 But we arranged it two weeks ago. We were to have supper at my club. 02:52.046 --> 02:55.299 Yes. He did mention it to me this morning. 02:56.092 --> 02:58.135 It was just before the lady called. 02:58.261 --> 03:00.262 Lady? Which lady? 03:00.805 --> 03:02.890 Well, I don't know her name but 03:03.266 --> 03:05.601 the lady called and Mr. Holmes went out. 03:07.687 --> 03:10.063 In that case I shall have take advantage of an early night. 03:12.567 --> 03:13.650 I must answer the door. 03:13.902 --> 03:14.568 Of course. 03:15.361 --> 03:16.486 Might be a clue. 03:27.832 --> 03:29.124 I hope I'm not being a nuisance. 03:29.250 --> 03:33.378 Oh, he won't mind I'm sure, he's the kindest of men. 03:34.255 --> 03:36.048 Mrs. Whitney to see you Doctor. 03:40.261 --> 03:42.596 Kate, this is a surprise. 03:44.599 --> 03:46.391 Not a pleasant one I fear, John. 03:46.768 --> 03:49.061 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. Perhaps some tea. 03:49.479 --> 03:50.687 That would be most welcome. 03:51.314 --> 03:53.607 You must forgive me for causing so much trouble. 03:53.733 --> 03:55.859 You're causing us no trouble at all, please. 03:56.277 --> 03:59.863 Your assistant told me that you were dining with Mr. Holmes. 03:59.989 --> 04:01.448 Oh I see you've been to the surgery. 04:01.574 --> 04:02.491 And you had just left. 04:02.617 --> 04:06.453 Well Mr. Holmes has disappeared without trace as you can see. 04:07.914 --> 04:10.791 In that case, I really shouldn't bother you with my problems. 04:10.917 --> 04:14.211 Oh Mr. Holmes disappears without trace at regular intervals. 04:14.587 --> 04:16.964 There's really no cause for alarm, only curiosity. 04:18.549 --> 04:21.802 But why did you want to see me? 04:21.928 --> 04:24.638 If you're ill you should not be traveling across London. 04:25.640 --> 04:26.640 I am not ill. 04:28.977 --> 04:29.893 It's Isa. 04:31.729 --> 04:34.064 Well, if Isa is ill I can visit him at home. 04:35.900 --> 04:38.485 He's not at home. 04:39.612 --> 04:41.780 He too has disappeared without trace? 04:42.740 --> 04:44.366 You can probably guess what he's doing. 04:45.201 --> 04:48.829 I imagine he's indulging his addiction. Opium? 04:52.292 --> 04:53.125 I fear so. 04:53.668 --> 04:56.086 Well he's done this before, has he not? 04:56.212 --> 04:58.338 What makes this circumstance so very different? 05:01.301 --> 05:06.555 Well normally his orgies are confined to one day. 05:07.849 --> 05:12.185 He leaves the house in the morning and returns in the evening, 05:13.438 --> 05:14.730 pale and shattered. 05:15.732 --> 05:16.648 And this time? 05:18.443 --> 05:21.153 I have not seen Isa for forty-eight hours. 05:24.949 --> 05:27.034 Well, have you the remotest idea where he might be? 05:28.828 --> 05:34.207 There is an establishment called the Bar of Gold- 05:34.667 --> 05:38.045 in Upper Swandam Lane, I believe he is there 05:39.839 --> 05:41.506 but I dare not go there alone. 05:41.632 --> 05:43.133 Oh no, no. No respectable woman- 05:43.259 --> 05:46.845 would go within a hundred miles of that vile alley unaccompanied. 05:47.764 --> 05:48.805 Will you come with me? 05:48.931 --> 05:49.473 No. 05:50.350 --> 05:51.892 No. I shall go there on my own. 05:52.727 --> 05:55.562 You will go home and if your husband is where you think he is, 05:55.813 --> 05:58.482 I guarantee to have him back with you within two hours. 05:59.192 --> 06:01.401 Though I dare not imagine what state he'll be in. 06:05.698 --> 06:06.948 Your tea, Doctor. 06:10.328 --> 06:13.497 My apologies, Mrs. Hudson, I shall not require tea. I'm going out. 06:14.123 --> 06:16.083 But Mrs. Whitney will take tea. 06:16.292 --> 06:19.378 And what am I to tell Mr. Holmes should he return? 06:19.921 --> 06:22.172 Tell him I've disappeared without trace. 06:28.304 --> 06:30.097 Upper Swandam Lane please, cabbie. 06:40.650 --> 06:44.736 I sometimes wonder, whether men ever really truly grow up. 06:47.782 --> 06:49.783 They seem to remain little boys forever. 06:52.620 --> 06:54.538 Do you wonder about that, Mrs. Hudson? 06:55.206 --> 06:58.583 No, Mrs. Whitney, I don't wonder about it. 06:58.709 --> 07:03.255 I know it, and they always need us to kiss them better afterwards 07:04.298 --> 07:06.466 in a matter of speaking of course. 08:42.021 --> 08:45.148 No thank you. I've not come here to stay. There's a friend of mine here. 08:50.738 --> 08:53.240 I just wish to speak to Mr. Isa Whitney. 09:53.634 --> 09:54.134 Isa? 09:56.971 --> 09:57.887 My God. 09:59.974 --> 10:00.724 Watson. 10:02.476 --> 10:03.310 What's the time? 10:04.729 --> 10:05.437 It's eleven. 10:06.314 --> 10:07.314 What's the day? 10:09.317 --> 10:10.483 Friday the nineteenth. 10:11.027 --> 10:12.861 I thought it was Wednesday. 10:15.156 --> 10:16.906 It is Wednesday. 10:18.659 --> 10:20.869 You're trying to frighten me. 10:21.287 --> 10:25.957 Your wife has been waiting for you to return home for two days. 10:26.542 --> 10:29.210 Two days? Surely not. 10:31.130 --> 10:37.010 A few hours perhaps. Three pipes, four pipes. 10:38.012 --> 10:39.262 I forget. 10:45.019 --> 10:47.520 I've got a cab outside, you're going home now! 10:48.189 --> 10:49.147 Must I? 10:49.690 --> 10:52.692 Value my friendship, minds love. 10:56.030 --> 10:59.115 Oh, poor Kate. 11:01.702 --> 11:02.285 Come on. 11:05.498 --> 11:06.748 I have to pay. 11:08.042 --> 11:10.418 I owe the manager, money. 11:13.923 --> 11:16.633 You have to pay for your own destruction. I'll see to it. 11:17.343 --> 11:19.886 Just get out of this dreadful place. 11:28.979 --> 11:30.939 Let go! Get your hands off! 11:33.818 --> 11:34.734 Holmes! 11:37.905 --> 11:39.656 What on earth are you doing in this den? 11:39.782 --> 11:42.575 Like you, I'm going about my business. You have a cab outside? 11:42.702 --> 11:43.243 Yes. 11:44.245 --> 11:45.829 I pray send him home. 11:46.330 --> 11:48.665 He looks too limp to get into any kind of mischief. 11:50.251 --> 11:51.251 I'll see you in five minutes. 11:51.419 --> 11:52.043 All right. 12:13.733 --> 12:15.275 Give this to the lady of the house. 12:30.791 --> 12:31.541 Holmes! 12:41.302 --> 12:41.968 I sir. 12:43.095 --> 12:44.971 I was certainly surprised to see you in that place. 12:45.097 --> 12:47.098 I suppose you think I've added opium to smoking- 12:47.224 --> 12:48.850 to all of my other little weaknesses? 12:49.185 --> 12:51.352 I merely said I was surprised to see you there. 12:51.479 --> 12:52.812 As indeed I was to see you. 12:53.314 --> 12:54.439 I was searching for a friend. 12:54.565 --> 12:55.607 And I for an enemy. 12:56.150 --> 12:56.649 An enemy? 12:56.776 --> 12:59.319 Had I been recognized in that place my life would not of been worth 12:59.779 --> 13:01.196 an hours purchase. 13:01.447 --> 13:01.988 John! 13:03.407 --> 13:05.700 I'm in the midst of the most remarkable inquiry. 13:06.076 --> 13:08.828 I hope your not smoking the substance in that pipe, Holmes. 13:09.163 --> 13:11.998 Only to the extent necessary to merge with the surroundings. 13:12.875 --> 13:15.168 I'm off to Lee in Kent. 13:16.337 --> 13:17.003 Are you coming? 13:18.547 --> 13:19.464 Of course. 13:38.692 --> 13:41.027 I think we shall be safe now, Watson. Would you take the reins? 13:44.323 --> 13:45.698 Where exactly are we going? 13:46.450 --> 13:51.371 The Cedars. A lovely villa near Lee in Kent. 13:52.748 --> 13:55.041 May I ask why I'm going to Lee in Kent 13:55.793 --> 13:58.169 in the middle of the night on Friday in March? 13:58.295 --> 13:59.838 Because you are my trusty comrade 13:59.964 --> 14:01.881 and my loyal pro medico, I may need both. 14:02.007 --> 14:04.175 Get on the facts, as I understand. 14:04.927 --> 14:07.053 Several years ago, there came to Lee in Kent, 14:07.221 --> 14:09.472 a gentleman by name Neville St. Clair. 14:10.558 --> 14:13.101 He took a large villa, the Cedars, 14:14.019 --> 14:17.689 and about a year later married the daughter of a local brewer. 14:18.649 --> 14:20.233 They have two small children. 14:21.277 --> 14:25.572 He has interests in several companies and travels to the city every morning, 14:26.073 --> 14:29.784 returning by the 5:14 train from Cannon Street every night. 14:30.703 --> 14:32.912 He is a man of temperate habits. 14:33.247 --> 14:36.040 A good husband, an affectionate father, 14:36.250 --> 14:38.126 and is popular with all who know him. 14:40.170 --> 14:43.298 His debts as far as we can ascertain, 14:43.674 --> 14:45.508 amount to eighty-eight pounds and ten shillings 14:45.634 --> 14:48.261 while he has two hundred and twenty pounds to his credit 14:48.470 --> 14:49.929 in the Capital and Counties Bank. 14:50.055 --> 14:51.264 Therefore, there is no reason to think 14:51.390 --> 14:53.266 that money troubles have been weighing down. 14:53.684 --> 14:54.809 Manageable paragon. 14:56.020 --> 15:00.815 Watson, there's a hint of skepticism in your voice, which does you no credit. 15:02.651 --> 15:05.862 I expect Mrs. St. Clair came to you saying that her husband has disappeared? 15:05.988 --> 15:06.613 Exactly! 15:06.739 --> 15:10.325 Well, it seems to be a continuous thread in life's fabric. 15:10.451 --> 15:11.826 Watson, what is this? 15:13.120 --> 15:17.123 I shall ignore your air of resignation to the world's frailties and continue. 15:17.499 --> 15:18.458 Oh, please do. 15:18.709 --> 15:22.295 On Monday, St. Clair left for the city as usual. 15:22.463 --> 15:24.297 Before he left, he promised that he would bring home- 15:24.423 --> 15:26.674 a box of building bricks for his children. 15:27.801 --> 15:28.343 Building bricks? 15:28.469 --> 15:29.636 Mark that well, Watson. 15:33.140 --> 15:36.476 Soon after he left, Mrs. St. Clair received a telegram 15:37.061 --> 15:39.479 to say that a parcel of considerable value 15:39.647 --> 15:42.982 had arrived for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. 15:44.193 --> 15:47.820 She decided to travel to the city, collect her parcel, 15:48.155 --> 15:50.198 have lunch and do some shopping. 15:56.914 --> 16:01.125 It was by chance which she found herself in Upper Swandam Lane, 16:01.877 --> 16:05.505 that same vile alley that we both visited this evening, Watson. 16:06.173 --> 16:10.510 And it was at this point that something quite singular took place. 16:57.349 --> 16:58.558 Money, please. 17:12.031 --> 17:13.281 Get out of here! 17:20.622 --> 17:32.759 Neville! 17:39.183 --> 17:40.058 Where are you going? 17:41.060 --> 17:41.976 I'm going upstairs. 17:42.102 --> 17:43.269 There's nobody upstairs. 17:43.896 --> 17:46.105 I saw my husband waving from an upstairs' window. 17:46.899 --> 17:48.608 There is nobody upstairs. 17:48.734 --> 17:52.111 I saw him. I know my own husband. What's he doing here? 17:52.237 --> 17:54.530 There is nobody upstairs. 17:59.244 --> 18:00.078 Neville! 18:01.246 --> 18:01.788 Go on. 18:02.289 --> 18:03.081 And they threw her out? 18:03.207 --> 18:03.790 They did. 18:05.459 --> 18:08.628 The Malay and the Lascar who owns the establishment. 18:08.962 --> 18:12.381 A man of the vilest antecedents sent a murderer into the bar. 18:12.508 --> 18:13.925 A murderer? Yet he goes free. 18:14.301 --> 18:16.469 The rear of a building backs onto the river, 18:16.595 --> 18:19.180 there's even a convenient trap door for the disposal of bodies. 18:19.306 --> 18:20.848 Why don't the police arrest these two murderers? 18:20.974 --> 18:23.142 Watson, the police have arrested a cripple. 18:23.894 --> 18:24.435 Cripple? 18:24.561 --> 18:27.897 There's so much more yet to tell you but here we are, at The Cedars. 18:29.149 --> 18:30.066 Thank you. 18:42.996 --> 18:43.996 Mr. Holmes? 18:45.874 --> 18:46.666 Any news? 18:46.917 --> 18:48.960 Mrs. St. Clair. I thought you'd be asleep. 18:49.461 --> 18:51.629 Sleep does not come easily at a time like this. 18:52.256 --> 18:53.798 This is my friend and colleague, Doctor Watson 18:53.924 --> 18:56.342 who has kindly agreed to help me in my investigation. 18:57.386 --> 18:58.886 Mr. Holmes has spoken of you. 18:59.388 --> 19:00.346 Mrs. St. Clair. 19:00.681 --> 19:04.016 I have taken the liberty of asking the doctor to stay overnight. 19:04.226 --> 19:06.727 And I took the liberty of preparing a little cold supper. 19:12.151 --> 19:13.359 Oh, Doctor Watson, you take my place. 19:13.527 --> 19:14.235 Oh no really. 19:14.361 --> 19:17.947 Watson, Mrs. St. Clair is a very strong willed woman, 19:18.073 --> 19:19.699 you refuse her at your peril. 19:19.867 --> 19:20.408 Thank you. 19:23.662 --> 19:26.080 Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before we eat, 19:27.040 --> 19:29.041 I should like to ask one or two plain questions 19:29.168 --> 19:31.043 to which I should like plain answers. 19:31.628 --> 19:32.712 Certainly, Madame. 19:33.755 --> 19:36.465 Do you, in your heart of hearts think that Neville is still alive? 19:40.012 --> 19:42.930 Frankly now, I'm not hysterical nor am I given to fainting. 19:47.686 --> 19:48.811 Frankly then, 19:50.230 --> 19:50.897 I do not. 19:51.899 --> 19:52.899 You think he is dead? 19:53.066 --> 19:53.566 I do, 19:54.401 --> 19:55.067 Murdered? 19:55.861 --> 19:56.861 I didn't say that. 19:58.572 --> 19:59.363 Perhaps. 20:01.074 --> 20:02.783 And on what day did he meet his death? 20:02.910 --> 20:03.701 On Monday, 20:04.244 --> 20:07.955 So then how do you explain that I received a letter from him today, 20:08.665 --> 20:09.415 being Friday? 20:31.813 --> 20:37.360 Now, Mrs. St. Clair, I wonder if you would do me a favor? 20:38.111 --> 20:39.070 By all means. 20:39.196 --> 20:40.613 I have told Doctor Watson what happened 20:40.739 --> 20:43.074 up to the moment when you were ejected from that building. 20:44.243 --> 20:46.410 Would you tell us what happened subsequently please? 20:47.537 --> 20:48.788 For Doctor Watson's benefit? 20:49.539 --> 20:50.498 And for mine. 20:51.750 --> 20:54.126 I too have to reexamine the facts, as we know them. 20:54.962 --> 20:57.213 Now, if you're not too tired. 20:58.131 --> 20:58.881 Of course. 21:01.468 --> 21:02.385 As you may imagine, 21:02.511 --> 21:05.554 I do not take kindly to being forcibly removed from a building. 21:06.306 --> 21:08.057 I sought and found police help. 21:08.475 --> 21:10.393 Two constables and Inspector... 21:10.644 --> 21:11.477 Bradstreet. 21:11.645 --> 21:13.938 Bradstreet. And then you returned to the building? 21:14.064 --> 21:14.563 Yes. 21:14.690 --> 21:16.816 The period of time between these two visits was? 21:17.401 --> 21:18.734 About twenty minutes. 21:22.864 --> 21:25.199 By the time we returned the door was unbolted. 21:26.285 --> 21:29.203 Though I'm sure the lascar had bolted it when I left earlier. 21:34.084 --> 21:35.835 I want to look at your upstairs rooms. 21:36.503 --> 21:37.128 There's nobody there. 21:37.254 --> 21:38.963 If there's nobody there, you can't object that I look. 21:39.631 --> 21:40.589 You men stay here. 21:48.515 --> 21:49.682 He was in this room! 21:56.273 --> 21:59.191 Time and again I tell you, there's nobody here. 21:59.735 --> 22:01.027 May we look in that room? 22:13.832 --> 22:16.083 You mustn't be worried by this gentleman, Mrs. St. Clair. 22:16.668 --> 22:18.586 He's an old friend of the constabulary. 22:19.755 --> 22:22.965 You know, Inspector, according to W. S. Gilbert, 22:23.467 --> 22:25.801 a policeman's life isn't a happy one. 22:28.221 --> 22:31.057 Mr. Boone is a professional beggar. 22:31.308 --> 22:35.686 No, not a beggar. An honest trader. 22:38.815 --> 22:40.274 Does this man lodge here? 22:40.525 --> 22:41.150 Yes. 22:41.401 --> 22:42.902 You told me nobody lived here. 22:43.028 --> 22:45.863 Madame, the beggar is nobody. 22:46.406 --> 22:48.532 If you prick us do we not bleed? 22:48.909 --> 22:51.911 Shakespeare, Mr. Boone, I know that one you've told it to me before. 22:56.750 --> 22:57.625 Inspector. 23:01.296 --> 23:03.089 That would be the Thames, Mrs. St Clair. 23:04.424 --> 23:05.466 And the large window. 23:08.011 --> 23:08.928 Mrs. St. Clair. 23:11.139 --> 23:13.265 A window and a river in close proximity- 23:13.517 --> 23:15.393 does not automatically mean violent death. 23:23.193 --> 23:24.318 You been here in the past hour? 23:24.694 --> 23:25.444 Yes. 23:25.946 --> 23:26.779 Anyone else been here? 23:26.947 --> 23:29.949 Alas, no. I've been as lonely as a cloud. 23:31.743 --> 23:32.284 Tennyson? 23:33.453 --> 23:35.287 Wordsworth, Inspector. 23:57.811 --> 24:00.688 He was standing here. I saw him. 24:02.732 --> 24:05.401 Mrs. St. Clair, there is no evidence to suggest that he was ever here. 24:16.496 --> 24:17.955 Building bricks, Inspector. 24:19.708 --> 24:20.541 So I see. 24:21.960 --> 24:23.794 My husband left for the city this morning, 24:23.962 --> 24:25.421 and the last thing he said to me- 24:26.131 --> 24:28.841 was that he had to buy some building bricks for our little girl's birthday. 24:29.009 --> 24:29.550 I see. 24:31.303 --> 24:33.012 Either of you gentlemen buy building bricks? 24:34.890 --> 24:36.307 Somebody must have left them. 24:51.156 --> 24:53.324 And these are my husband's clothes! 24:55.035 --> 24:55.826 Are you sure? 24:56.995 --> 24:59.663 Shall I describe them to you in detail as you examine them? 25:00.832 --> 25:05.002 My husband's tailor's name is Smud if you care to examine the label. 25:10.634 --> 25:13.928 At that moment, Inspector Bradstreet began to believe my story. 25:14.721 --> 25:16.722 He and his men made an extensive search of the building, 25:16.848 --> 25:20.059 they found a bloodstain upon the windowsill. 25:21.770 --> 25:25.314 They searched the malay, the lascar and Boone, but found nothing. 25:27.317 --> 25:29.318 They failed to find my husband's overcoat. 25:31.404 --> 25:32.071 Overcoat? 25:34.366 --> 25:36.450 The one item of clothing that was not accounted for. 25:40.080 --> 25:41.247 Until low tide. 25:59.975 --> 26:01.058 It's heavy, sir. 26:04.104 --> 26:05.688 Weighted down with something. 26:17.117 --> 26:19.118 There were four hundred and twenty-one pennies, 26:19.286 --> 26:21.620 two hundred and seventy half pennies stuffed- 26:21.997 --> 26:23.956 into every pocket of the overcoat. 26:25.917 --> 26:27.376 Your conclusion, Watson? 26:31.548 --> 26:32.840 Speak freely, Doctor Watson, 26:32.966 --> 26:36.302 I've lived with every possibility this past week. However hideous. 26:39.389 --> 26:43.350 The murderer must have been Boone, the beggar, who else could have access to- 26:43.768 --> 26:45.811 such a vast number of pennies and half pennies? 26:45.937 --> 26:47.980 That is the conclusion reached by the police. 26:48.732 --> 26:51.900 They've arrested Boone and he is presently in Bow Street Police Station. 26:52.986 --> 26:54.653 Even though my husband is still alive. 27:02.162 --> 27:07.875 Now, Mrs. St. Clair, let us reexamine the significance of this letter. 27:08.001 --> 27:09.543 May I read it to Doctor Watson? 27:10.003 --> 27:10.711 By all means. 27:10.837 --> 27:11.378 Thank you. 27:13.256 --> 27:16.634 "Dearest, Do not be frightened." 27:17.010 --> 27:21.847 "There is a huge error, which it may take some little time to rectify." 27:22.223 --> 27:24.516 "Wait in patience. Neville." 27:25.101 --> 27:29.355 Written in pencil on the flyleaf of a book, octavo size, no watermark. 27:30.357 --> 27:33.859 Posted in Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. 27:34.027 --> 27:35.527 This is not your husband's writing? 27:36.237 --> 27:37.529 But the note is? 27:37.739 --> 27:41.158 Without question. It's the hand he always used when he was in hurry, 27:42.077 --> 27:47.081 Whoever gummed down the envelope, handled this very much in error 27:49.042 --> 27:50.209 been chewing tobacco. 27:51.294 --> 27:53.462 This is a trifle, of course, Watson, 27:54.839 --> 27:57.049 but there is nothing so important as trifles. 28:02.806 --> 28:07.017 Mrs. St. Clair, there was an enclosure? 28:14.567 --> 28:15.401 Signet ring. 28:23.201 --> 28:25.661 Mrs. St. Clair, has your husband ever spoken of- 28:25.787 --> 28:27.663 the Bar of Gold in Upper Swandam Lane? 28:28.581 --> 28:29.081 Never. 28:29.207 --> 28:31.750 I suspect that Doctor Watson has a question to put to you. 28:36.923 --> 28:40.092 This is a difficult question to ask, Mrs. St. Clair, but... 28:41.720 --> 28:44.555 Has your husband ever shown any signs of taking opium? 28:51.312 --> 28:53.105 He always appeared perfectly normal. 28:54.816 --> 28:58.402 Though I confess, I would not recognize the signs. What are they? 28:59.112 --> 29:00.946 Well, a listlessness, 29:01.448 --> 29:05.951 a lack of energy, an inability to concentrate, a general air of apathy. 29:06.327 --> 29:09.538 Doctor Watson is a specialist at uncontrolled addiction. 29:12.375 --> 29:14.293 My husband was not an opium addict, 29:15.462 --> 29:17.838 that's to say is not an opium addict. 29:23.094 --> 29:27.473 Mr. Holmes, I know you think my husband is dead. 29:28.641 --> 29:30.851 I fully realize that letter could have been written on Monday, 29:30.977 --> 29:32.227 and only posted today. 29:33.938 --> 29:36.356 I know the circumstances as they have been described 29:36.483 --> 29:39.526 lead to the inescapable conclusion that he has been murdered. 29:40.570 --> 29:42.821 But equally I know that he is alive. 29:44.532 --> 29:47.201 There's such a keen bond of sympathy between us. 29:48.953 --> 29:50.829 I should know if evil came upon him. 29:56.878 --> 29:58.253 Please help me to find him. 30:39.587 --> 30:42.047 Watson, if Neville St. Clair is alive and well, 30:42.173 --> 30:44.716 why doesn't he come home and demonstrate the fact? 30:44.843 --> 30:46.844 Presumably because he's not alive and well. 30:46.970 --> 30:47.845 Yes, but this letter? 30:47.971 --> 30:49.096 Could have been written at any time. 30:49.264 --> 30:52.641 Perhaps under distress, it could even be a skillful forgery. 30:53.893 --> 30:54.977 And this signet ring? 30:55.436 --> 30:58.689 Easily removed, especially if the victim is dead. 31:01.359 --> 31:01.984 Indeed. 31:05.071 --> 31:08.198 Preceding on the hypothesis that Neville St. Clair is dead, 31:09.284 --> 31:10.325 how did he meet his death? 31:10.451 --> 31:12.327 Well, clearly he was murdered. 31:12.537 --> 31:13.245 By whom? 31:13.413 --> 31:15.247 Well the police think it was this chap, Boone. 31:15.832 --> 31:17.958 I see no reason to disagree with the police. 31:19.252 --> 31:19.918 Except... 31:21.629 --> 31:22.296 Except what? 31:22.922 --> 31:23.797 You say he's a cripple? 31:24.299 --> 31:24.840 Yes. 31:25.091 --> 31:26.341 How severe is his disability? 31:28.344 --> 31:29.428 He has only a slight limp. 31:29.596 --> 31:32.806 Well, my medical experience tells me when there is a weakness in one limb, 31:33.016 --> 31:36.268 it's very often compensated for by exceptional strength in the others. 31:39.772 --> 31:40.731 You're not convinced? 31:43.526 --> 31:47.905 This man is a professional beggar. He's well known in the city. 31:48.990 --> 31:52.034 He's well liked in the city. I've seen him many times. 31:52.493 --> 31:55.537 He has a remarkable faculty for repartee- 31:55.663 --> 31:57.497 with which he delights his many clients. 31:57.624 --> 31:59.541 Well, he sounds harmless. 32:00.126 --> 32:02.586 Why, therefore, did the police arrest him rather than the lascar? 32:03.087 --> 32:05.839 That is the very question that I'll put to Inspector Bradstreet. 32:06.090 --> 32:08.467 No, no. I'm innocent... 32:13.306 --> 32:16.475 The murder has obviously been committed by process of elimination. 32:16.601 --> 32:17.976 Boone must be the murderer. 32:19.646 --> 32:21.772 Are these Neville St. Clair's clothes? 32:24.692 --> 32:28.987 Why did you eliminate the lascar as a suspect? 32:30.156 --> 32:32.407 Because Mrs. St. Clair saw her husband in an upstairs window 32:32.533 --> 32:33.742 apparently in the middle of a struggle. 32:34.285 --> 32:37.454 She went to a downstairs door and was confronted by the lascar. 32:39.999 --> 32:42.000 While we were conversing or to be more precise, 32:42.669 --> 32:43.794 while the lascar and his assistant 32:43.920 --> 32:45.879 were ejecting Mrs. St. Clair from the building, 32:46.839 --> 32:49.216 the fight was proceeding upstairs leading as we now know 32:49.342 --> 32:51.051 to the death of Neville St. Clair. 32:52.345 --> 32:53.929 A twenty first birthday present. 32:54.430 --> 32:56.848 A man of meticulous habits, no scratches. 32:58.101 --> 32:59.851 What was the motive in killing St. Clair? 33:00.103 --> 33:01.603 That remains to be established. 33:06.985 --> 33:08.360 Not a trace of opium. 33:10.071 --> 33:10.821 Could it have been robbery? 33:10.947 --> 33:15.450 No, no. St. Glair's wallet was in his pocket, the money untouched. 33:19.872 --> 33:22.708 How do you explain the coins in the overcoat? 33:26.295 --> 33:28.547 I cannot truly answer that Mr. Holmes. 33:29.716 --> 33:30.716 Let me try. 33:33.052 --> 33:37.055 Boone killed St. Clair He removes the outer garments 33:37.432 --> 33:39.891 hoping to capitalize on them and their contents. 33:41.978 --> 33:43.020 He lifts the body, 33:44.397 --> 33:46.273 carries it across the room, 33:47.817 --> 33:50.777 forces it through the open window, hence the abrasion, 33:52.238 --> 33:55.490 blood upon the windowsill. He releases it into the river... 33:55.616 --> 33:57.075 Where it's sucked away by the tide. 33:58.786 --> 34:01.204 In the midst of this activity, he hears the scuffle downstairs 34:01.330 --> 34:03.915 as Mrs. St. Clair tries to force her way in. 34:04.375 --> 34:05.417 There's not a moment to be lost. 34:05.543 --> 34:06.877 He must dispose the clothing. 34:12.383 --> 34:13.717 He starts with the overcoat. 34:14.844 --> 34:17.596 He realizes, at once it will float and not sink. 34:18.056 --> 34:19.014 So what does he do? 34:22.435 --> 34:24.936 He rushes across the room to some secret hall 34:25.104 --> 34:27.230 where he's accumulated the fruits of his beggary, 34:27.690 --> 34:30.817 stuffs all the coins that he can lay his hands on 34:30.943 --> 34:32.652 into the pockets of the overcoat. 34:33.571 --> 34:35.614 And drops it into the water. 34:36.532 --> 34:38.492 And would presumably have done the same with the other garments 34:38.618 --> 34:40.035 if you and your men had not arrived. 34:42.705 --> 34:44.456 Conceals the other garments behind the curtain 34:44.624 --> 34:47.542 and hopes they'll not be noticed, and they would not have been noticed. 34:48.544 --> 34:50.462 Had Mrs. St. Clair not been so persistent? 34:50.588 --> 34:56.134 Inspector, whatever plot has been hatched in that opium den. 34:56.302 --> 35:00.222 I cannot but imagine that the lascar is not somehow involved. 35:02.558 --> 35:04.351 I was sorely tempted to arrest him on the day. 35:06.646 --> 35:08.146 I'll send a couple of men up there now. 35:09.816 --> 35:11.650 No, Inspector. 35:13.820 --> 35:17.656 With your permission, may I suggest an alternative strategy? 35:20.326 --> 35:21.243 By all means. 35:22.620 --> 35:24.121 Let me visit the opium den, 35:25.164 --> 35:27.165 discreetly, incognito. 35:28.543 --> 35:29.835 We shall learn what we may. 35:32.713 --> 35:33.630 But what did you learn? 35:34.757 --> 35:40.470 Nothing. 35:49.939 --> 35:55.277 Everybody... as far as I can ascertain, appears to be telling the truth. 36:00.825 --> 36:05.620 I cannot see an over all pattern. 36:07.999 --> 36:09.374 Can you see a pattern, Watson? 36:10.626 --> 36:11.751 I see no pattern. 36:13.337 --> 36:14.421 But I do see a woman- 36:16.215 --> 36:19.759 who despite all objective circumstances still believes that her husband is alive. 36:19.886 --> 36:23.305 And you said on many occasions that the impression of a woman 36:23.556 --> 36:26.766 may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. 36:34.233 --> 36:35.609 But if he is still alive, 36:38.779 --> 36:39.863 where is he? 36:40.865 --> 36:45.243 I have no idea. But I do have an urgent request. 36:47.413 --> 36:50.081 It's now well past four in the morning, may I go to sleep? 36:50.541 --> 36:51.249 Certainly. 36:52.585 --> 36:53.251 Thank you. 38:52.872 --> 38:57.250 Watson. 39:05.384 --> 39:06.092 What time is it? 39:06.218 --> 39:06.801 Dawn. 39:10.056 --> 39:11.264 I've only had two hours sleep. 39:11.390 --> 39:13.558 I wonder if you'd do me the very great kindness of 39:13.726 --> 39:15.727 considering the possibility of waking up? 39:17.104 --> 39:18.313 I assume you have a good reason. 39:18.439 --> 39:19.564 Are you game for a drive? 39:19.690 --> 39:22.233 Certainly, but... Does it have to be this early? 39:22.360 --> 39:24.402 I have a little theory I wish to test. 39:24.904 --> 39:26.071 Is anyone's life at stake? 39:26.238 --> 39:27.072 Certainly not, 39:28.282 --> 39:30.992 Would it be possible to test your theory a little later this morning? 39:31.327 --> 39:33.119 I'll see you downstairs in five minutes. 39:34.747 --> 39:35.497 Five minutes... 39:43.089 --> 39:43.922 Come on, Nelson. 39:53.682 --> 39:56.643 You have the grand gift of silence, Watson. 39:56.936 --> 39:59.312 It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. 40:02.608 --> 40:06.277 Watson, you're in the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. 40:06.404 --> 40:07.028 You exaggerate, Holmes. 40:07.154 --> 40:09.447 I deserve to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. 40:09.573 --> 40:11.116 Why would you woke me up, I would have been prepared to... 40:11.283 --> 40:14.577 I've got the key, Watson, here in this Gladstone bag. 40:24.547 --> 40:25.547 Good morning, gentlemen. 40:25.965 --> 40:29.134 Watson, I confess I have been as blind as a mole. 40:29.760 --> 40:32.637 But it's better to learn wisdom later than to never learn it at all. 40:32.805 --> 40:33.680 Bradstreet. 40:39.145 --> 40:42.939 Bradstreet, I've called about that beggar man, Boone. 40:43.065 --> 40:45.066 He's in the cells Mr. Holmes. What can I do for you? 40:45.192 --> 40:46.651 I should very much like to see him. 40:46.819 --> 40:47.527 He'd probably be asleep. 40:47.653 --> 40:49.904 Most of the population is probably asleep, Holmes. 40:50.156 --> 40:52.490 Very well, Holmes, Doctor Watson if you'll come this way. 40:53.242 --> 40:54.659 You can leave your bag in the office, Mr. Holmes? 40:54.785 --> 40:55.827 I'll take it with me. 40:55.995 --> 40:57.328 It contains the key. 40:59.707 --> 41:02.417 He's a dirty scoundrel, filthy, 41:03.085 --> 41:07.255 refuses to wash. Says washing weakens a man's resistance. 41:13.387 --> 41:14.345 Asleep. 41:18.017 --> 41:19.100 He's a beauty, isn't he? 41:20.644 --> 41:22.061 Inspector would you do me the great goodness 41:22.188 --> 41:24.230 of opening the door as quietly as possible? 43:21.765 --> 43:25.643 Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Mr. Neville St. Clair- 43:25.769 --> 43:27.979 of Lee in the county of Kent. 43:29.648 --> 43:30.857 Great heaven. 43:34.486 --> 43:38.948 It is true and pray what am I being charged with? 43:42.119 --> 43:44.662 Charged with making away with Mr. Neville St. Clair. 43:46.457 --> 43:49.000 Well, making away with myself? 43:52.004 --> 43:53.921 I've been on the force for twenty-seven years. 43:55.174 --> 43:56.507 This takes the cake. 43:57.676 --> 44:00.887 But since it is obvious that no crime has been committed, 44:01.930 --> 44:03.848 I am illegally detained. 44:05.351 --> 44:08.353 My strength is the strength of ten 44:09.229 --> 44:11.356 because my heart is pure. 44:13.776 --> 44:15.276 Alfred Law Tennyson. 44:22.910 --> 44:26.412 You lied to your wife, Mr. St. Clair. 44:28.290 --> 44:29.540 Is that purity? 45:22.469 --> 45:25.596 Let it be understood that I would have endured imprisonment, 45:26.974 --> 45:29.100 even execution, 45:29.268 --> 45:32.770 rather than reveal my miserable secret to my wife and children. 45:35.399 --> 45:37.442 All is now revealed, Mr. St. Clair. 45:40.946 --> 45:41.779 So be it. 45:44.408 --> 45:46.868 My father was a schoolmaster in Chesterfield. 45:47.786 --> 45:49.579 I've received an excellent education. 45:50.581 --> 45:53.207 Traveled, took to the stage. 45:55.294 --> 45:58.337 And finally became a reporter in a London newspaper. 45:59.631 --> 46:02.300 One day my editor wished to have a series of articles- 46:02.426 --> 46:08.014 upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. 46:08.557 --> 46:10.475 So you became a beggar? 46:11.310 --> 46:11.934 Yes. 46:12.853 --> 46:16.647 And your experience as an actor must have proved invaluable. 46:18.400 --> 46:21.861 Yes. Exactly. 46:23.822 --> 46:27.742 Yes I painted my face to make myself look as pitiable as possible. 46:28.786 --> 46:31.120 I manufactured frightening scars. 46:31.997 --> 46:35.333 I twisted my lip for the aid of a piece of flesh colored plaster. 46:36.502 --> 46:39.295 And then with a dark wig and appropriate clothing- 46:39.630 --> 46:42.840 took my position in the busiest part of the metropolis. 46:43.634 --> 46:47.345 Ostensibly as a match-seller, but, yes, 46:48.597 --> 46:50.681 really as a beggar. 46:51.683 --> 46:52.600 And you did well? 46:52.935 --> 46:57.271 Yes. In one day I took twenty-six shillings and four pence. 46:59.191 --> 47:02.276 I wrote my articles for the newspaper, my editor was delighted, 47:02.402 --> 47:04.028 and I thought no more about it. 47:05.322 --> 47:08.491 Until one day, I backed a bill for a friend of mine 47:08.617 --> 47:11.828 had a writ served on me for twenty-five pounds. 47:13.163 --> 47:17.208 Well, I was at my wits end. I mean, what could I do? 47:20.087 --> 47:22.046 And then suddenly an idea came to me. 47:23.882 --> 47:26.843 I asked for a fortnight's holiday from my employers, 47:27.886 --> 47:32.014 and spent the time in the city, begging. 47:34.393 --> 47:38.729 In ten days, I had the money and was able to pay back the debt. 47:40.774 --> 47:42.817 That was when I fell into the trap. 47:43.986 --> 47:46.028 How much were you earning from the newspaper at this time? 47:46.530 --> 47:47.446 Two pounds a week. 47:48.240 --> 47:49.490 Far less than begging. 47:49.825 --> 47:52.118 Yes. During the last few years I had earned, on average, 47:52.244 --> 47:54.328 at least seven hundred pounds a year. 47:56.123 --> 47:57.665 But that's a gentlemen's income. 47:57.875 --> 47:59.417 Calmly, Bradstreet. 48:00.043 --> 48:03.629 I think it's pertinent to say that Mr. St. Clair is no ordinary beggar. 48:05.090 --> 48:08.843 People do not expect a beggar to quote extensively from Shakespeare, 48:09.469 --> 48:13.306 Mr. Dickens, the Bible or the latest popular songs. 48:13.640 --> 48:16.100 An aristocrat among beggars. 48:17.853 --> 48:20.730 Well, it is not for me to claim such a distinction. 48:20.856 --> 48:24.358 But as the Inspector rightly observes, 48:24.610 --> 48:28.279 I had a gentlemen's income so I proceeded to live like a gentleman. 48:28.655 --> 48:34.285 I bought a villa in Kent. I married a beautiful and respectable woman. 48:35.871 --> 48:39.749 And every morning I traveled to my business in the city. 48:40.542 --> 48:43.461 You must have been embroiled with the lascar by this time? 48:44.296 --> 48:47.798 Yes, I paid him a generous rent for the use of his upstairs rooms. 48:48.258 --> 48:49.842 My secret was safe with him. 48:51.219 --> 48:55.139 I fell among thieves but found honor of a sort. 48:56.975 --> 49:01.479 You see, every morning, I would emerge as a squalid beggar 49:02.564 --> 49:05.399 and every evening transformed into a gentleman. 49:07.152 --> 49:08.861 Tell us about Monday. 49:11.573 --> 49:13.032 I had finished for the day 49:13.742 --> 49:16.494 and was dressing in my room above the opium den. 49:17.704 --> 49:19.497 And suddenly I looked out of the window, 49:21.291 --> 49:23.709 to my horror and astonishment. 49:24.628 --> 49:29.298 There was my wife in the street. Her eyes fixed full upon me. 49:29.424 --> 49:30.174 Neville! 49:33.470 --> 49:35.930 I ran along to try and find lascar. 49:36.848 --> 49:38.015 You must not let her in. 49:38.266 --> 49:39.684 I'll say there is nobody upstairs. 49:39.810 --> 49:41.268 She may return with the police. 49:41.395 --> 49:43.354 I'll tell them, there's nobody upstairs. 49:43.522 --> 49:45.398 Mr. Boone will be upstairs. 49:46.024 --> 49:48.901 Mr. Boone's a lodger, he has a right to be upstairs. 49:49.861 --> 49:50.569 Neville! 49:51.363 --> 49:54.532 I then became Boone, the beggar once more. 49:55.283 --> 49:58.202 And then it occurred to me that there might be a search of the room, 49:59.204 --> 50:00.871 and that my clothes might betray me. 50:01.748 --> 50:04.709 So I picked up my coat which was weighed down with the coins 50:04.835 --> 50:07.044 that I had just transferred from my leather bag 50:07.295 --> 50:08.838 in which I carry my takings. 50:13.260 --> 50:17.096 The rest of my clothes would have followed, But at that moment, 50:17.723 --> 50:18.889 the police arrived. 50:22.561 --> 50:23.477 The rest you know. 50:26.773 --> 50:28.566 We found blood on the windowsill. 50:30.235 --> 50:33.571 In my haste to open the window, I cut myself. 50:36.533 --> 50:40.244 A minor abrasion but if you prick me. 50:42.831 --> 50:46.292 And thus I was arrested on suspicion of having murdered myself. 50:48.420 --> 50:50.671 And thus you caused your wife much anguish. 50:51.381 --> 50:52.548 But I wrote her a letter. 50:52.883 --> 50:55.426 You gave it to the lascar to post? It was not delivered. 50:56.136 --> 50:57.386 It arrived yesterday. 50:58.221 --> 51:00.848 He probably gave it to one of his sailor customers. 51:04.061 --> 51:07.897 I shall never forgive myself, the agony which I have inflicted upon my wife. 51:09.566 --> 51:10.691 Can I go to her now? 51:10.817 --> 51:13.235 I think we must impose one condition, Mr. St. Clair. 51:13.361 --> 51:14.111 Anything. 51:15.906 --> 51:17.907 There must no be more of you, Boone. 51:20.911 --> 51:24.955 I swear it by the most solemn oath that a man can take. 52:02.494 --> 52:04.161 Farewell, sweet Boone. 52:05.539 --> 52:07.915 A flight of angels sing to thy rest.