WEBVTT 02:21.850 --> 02:22.933 Almost there. 02:25.854 --> 02:29.273 What does a Harley Street specialist know about my health? 02:29.399 --> 02:33.360 Listen, Holmes, Doctor Moor Agar insists you have a complete rests 02:33.486 --> 02:36.363 if you wish to avoid an absolute breakdown. 02:37.574 --> 02:39.575 The sea air will do you the world of good. 02:42.328 --> 02:44.705 You should have traveled alone, Watson. 02:45.039 --> 02:47.791 Nonsense. You're on holiday. 03:16.321 --> 03:18.447 Why it's wonderful, Holmes, wonderful! 03:19.240 --> 03:21.158 The views are spectacular. 03:21.451 --> 03:25.037 Well we're looking at the most dangerous piece of coastline in the country. 03:25.747 --> 03:28.248 Your friend is a natural historian I presume? 03:28.750 --> 03:30.918 An old acquaintance from my college days. 03:42.055 --> 03:43.472 I'll see to the luggage. 03:43.932 --> 03:45.057 Thank you. 03:50.021 --> 03:51.480 Good day to you, sir. 03:54.359 --> 03:56.526 I thought as we were going to be neighbors 03:56.653 --> 03:59.863 for the next few weeks. I ought to say a few words of welcome. 03:59.989 --> 04:01.156 How very kind. 04:01.282 --> 04:03.909 And of course I've long wanted to meet. 04:04.035 --> 04:06.954 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It is indeed a pleasure, sir. 04:07.121 --> 04:09.539 Thank you but I'm Doctor John Watson. 04:15.255 --> 04:16.046 Come in. 04:18.633 --> 04:21.093 This is my good friend Sherlock Holmes. 04:21.219 --> 04:23.262 A thousand apologies, I should have realized. 04:23.388 --> 04:24.888 Do come in Mr. Roundhay. 04:25.098 --> 04:26.640 Very stupid of me. 04:28.017 --> 04:29.643 How did you know my name? 04:30.561 --> 04:32.813 You have an interest in archeology do you not? 04:33.481 --> 04:34.481 Why yes. 04:34.857 --> 04:37.901 Deduce, Watson, go on. Deduce. 04:39.612 --> 04:41.738 You've got mud on the points of your shoes 04:41.864 --> 04:43.991 and beneath your knees 04:44.117 --> 04:46.743 and on the fingers of your right hand... 04:46.995 --> 04:47.828 Splendid, splendid. 04:47.954 --> 04:50.330 Which indicates that you've knelt on the ground for a length of time. 04:50.456 --> 04:51.832 Oh Watson, you're coming along marvelously. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.710 You're a left-handed gardener. You're a student of archeology. 04:55.336 --> 04:58.839 You've published a paper over theories surrounding the neolithic burial rites. 04:58.965 --> 05:03.552 You are the Reverend Francis Roundhay, vicar of the parish... 05:05.305 --> 05:07.014 Astonishing, sir. 05:08.308 --> 05:09.349 Please sit down. 05:11.769 --> 05:13.854 But left-handed? 05:14.397 --> 05:17.816 The hand with which you hold the troll. 05:18.693 --> 05:22.738 Exactly right. Precise in every detail but how sir? How? 05:22.864 --> 05:25.949 Vicar, vicar vie... the parish magazine has... 05:36.502 --> 05:37.419 The village is nearby? 05:37.545 --> 05:39.921 Oh yes just along the coastal path. 05:40.089 --> 05:42.632 It's secluded but it caters for all our needs. 05:42.884 --> 05:44.426 I suppose is that the nearest habitation? 05:44.552 --> 05:48.055 No, no, the Tregennis Estate is about a mile inland. 05:48.222 --> 05:49.389 Very nice people 05:49.515 --> 05:53.685 and I'm sure they'll extend to you some fine Cornish hospitality. 05:55.104 --> 05:58.273 However, I've imposed enough upon you for one day. 05:58.983 --> 06:01.151 Perhaps you'd care to come and have dinner with me 06:01.277 --> 06:02.361 one evening at the vicarage. 06:02.487 --> 06:05.364 Oh then we should impose upon you and your family? 06:05.615 --> 06:08.950 Oh no alas, I have no family I live alone except for Mr. Tregennis, 06:09.077 --> 06:10.827 who has a suite of rooms in the house. 06:10.953 --> 06:12.621 But does he not live on the estate? 06:13.414 --> 06:15.165 A family dispute. 06:15.291 --> 06:18.919 His sister and two brothers live there but he chooses to live apart. 06:19.087 --> 06:24.299 Do you know dinner at the vicarage 06:24.926 --> 06:27.260 is a splendid idea. 06:28.930 --> 06:30.263 We must arrange a date... 06:34.894 --> 06:38.814 Yes, well of course gentlemen. Good day to you. 07:05.508 --> 07:06.633 Good morning. 07:12.140 --> 07:13.765 Cornish hospitality. 07:16.227 --> 07:18.645 Weathered pitted slabs of granite. 07:20.064 --> 07:25.402 Ancient tombs scattered throughout the lengthened breath of this peninsula. 07:26.028 --> 07:27.154 Like the sea. 07:28.573 --> 07:31.908 I suppose death is always with us. 07:38.124 --> 07:39.207 Quite so. 07:57.310 --> 08:01.646 Quite often during those days in Cornwall, Holmes would stride out alone. 08:02.482 --> 08:04.941 The mystery and glamour of the place 08:05.359 --> 08:08.069 with its sinister atmosphere of forgotten nations 08:08.196 --> 08:10.864 appeal to the imagination of my friend. 08:12.366 --> 08:16.995 He spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditation. 09:01.582 --> 09:03.166 One morning however, 09:03.292 --> 09:07.045 my friend's convalescence was violently interrupted. 09:08.756 --> 09:11.091 Gentlemen I urge you to consult the police. 09:11.217 --> 09:13.093 Holmes is a sick man. 09:13.261 --> 09:17.097 Yes but getting better all the time, Watson. 09:21.269 --> 09:23.270 This is a matter of some emergency. 09:24.772 --> 09:27.190 Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. 09:27.316 --> 09:29.776 We can only regard it as a special Providence 09:29.902 --> 09:32.237 that you should chance to be here at this time, 09:32.363 --> 09:35.365 for in all England, you are the one man we truly need. 09:35.491 --> 09:37.742 I tried to explain to Mr. Tregennis and Mr. Roundhay 09:37.868 --> 09:39.536 that you're in convalescence. 09:40.079 --> 09:42.038 Yes I'm sure they'll be very sympathetic. Please sit down. 09:42.164 --> 09:42.872 Thank you. 09:45.626 --> 09:48.545 The fact is as I've explained to Doctor Watson, 09:48.796 --> 09:53.717 the most extraordinary and tragic affair has occurred here during the night. 09:53.843 --> 09:55.302 You have my full attention. 09:56.971 --> 09:59.222 Perhaps I had better say a few words first. 09:59.599 --> 10:02.142 This is Mr. Tregennis of whom I spoke. 10:03.102 --> 10:06.646 Now Mr. Tregennis spent last night 10:06.814 --> 10:09.691 in the company of his brother, George and Owen, 10:09.817 --> 10:13.153 and his sister Brenda at their house of Tredannick Wartha. 10:13.613 --> 10:16.281 He left them, playing cards around the dining table in 10:16.407 --> 10:18.992 excellent health and spirits. 10:20.161 --> 10:22.245 But on his return this morning 10:22.371 --> 10:26.207 he discovered a truly bizarre state of affairs. 10:26.584 --> 10:30.670 All three both alive and dead, retained upon their faces 10:30.838 --> 10:33.923 an expression of the utmost horror. 10:35.009 --> 10:36.343 Dead? 10:36.719 --> 10:38.470 A convulsion of terror. 10:41.515 --> 10:43.892 It was dreadful to look upon. 10:46.020 --> 10:48.063 Was there any sign of anyone else in the house? 10:48.356 --> 10:51.566 Only Mrs. Porter, cook and housekeeper. 10:52.318 --> 10:55.028 She had slept deeply and heard no sound in the night. 10:55.988 --> 10:58.281 Is anything missing, disarranged? 11:00.201 --> 11:01.534 Nothing, Mr. Holmes. 11:02.370 --> 11:04.120 What could possibly frighten a young woman to death 11:04.246 --> 11:05.705 and two strong men out of their senses? 11:05.873 --> 11:07.123 Yes what indeed. 11:07.249 --> 11:09.834 Well I'm sure, Holmes, that the local police 11:10.336 --> 11:12.128 would have reached some conclusions. 11:12.380 --> 11:13.588 However, erroneous they may be. 11:13.714 --> 11:14.714 Holmes. 11:16.175 --> 11:19.636 Think. Tell me about last night, Mr. Tregennis. 11:21.681 --> 11:22.847 Well Mr. Holmes. 11:26.852 --> 11:29.604 I supped there, as the vicar has said 11:31.232 --> 11:32.857 and my elder brother George 11:33.984 --> 11:35.777 proposed a game of whist afterwards. 11:37.822 --> 11:40.073 It was a quarter-past ten when I moved to go. 11:40.533 --> 11:41.741 Who let you out? 11:42.284 --> 11:44.911 Mrs. Potter had gone to bed so I let myself out. 11:45.371 --> 11:48.873 The window of the room in which they sat was closed, 11:49.083 --> 11:50.917 but the blind was not drawn down. 11:52.336 --> 11:55.255 There was no change in door or window this morning, 11:55.881 --> 11:59.759 nor any reason to think that any stranger had been to the house. 12:01.887 --> 12:03.346 Yet there they sat, 12:04.932 --> 12:06.933 driven clean mad with terror. 12:09.103 --> 12:12.647 I'll never get the sight of that room out of my mind so long as I live. 12:14.275 --> 12:18.903 Yes, the facts are most remarkable. 12:20.489 --> 12:22.449 Mr. Tregennis do you have any theory of your own 12:22.616 --> 12:23.908 which might account for them? 12:24.034 --> 12:27.787 It is devilish. Devilish, Mr. Holmes. 12:29.498 --> 12:31.166 It is not of this world. 12:33.043 --> 12:35.879 Well the matter is beyond humanity. It is certainly beyond me. 12:36.005 --> 12:38.173 I trust so, Holmes. 12:44.054 --> 12:49.100 Now think. Think very carefully Mr. Tregennis, 12:49.602 --> 12:51.644 about the evening that you spent together. 12:53.022 --> 12:54.647 Does anything stand out in your memory 12:54.815 --> 12:57.817 which might throw some light upon this tragedy? 12:59.653 --> 13:01.321 There is nothing, Mr. Holmes. 13:02.281 --> 13:03.656 Were they nervous people? 13:04.700 --> 13:06.659 Did they ever show any sign of apprehension? 13:06.994 --> 13:08.787 Not to my knowledge, Mr. Holmes. 13:09.830 --> 13:11.790 Then there's nothing in which you can assist me. 13:18.714 --> 13:20.423 There is one thing occurs to me. 13:21.175 --> 13:23.510 As I sat at the table my back was to the window, 13:24.845 --> 13:26.221 and my brother George 13:26.347 --> 13:29.682 he being my partner at cards, was facing it 13:30.184 --> 13:32.644 I saw him once look hard over my shoulder, 13:33.437 --> 13:35.355 so I turned round and looked also. 13:36.857 --> 13:39.526 The blind was up and the window shut, 13:40.486 --> 13:42.695 but I could just make out the bushes on the lawn, 13:44.198 --> 13:45.698 and it seemed to me for a moment 13:45.825 --> 13:48.117 that I saw something moving among them. 13:49.787 --> 13:52.539 I couldn't even say if it was man or animal, 13:53.457 --> 13:55.583 but I just thought I saw something there. 13:57.461 --> 13:58.878 Did you not investigate? 14:00.089 --> 14:01.923 Well the matter passed as unimportant. 14:02.550 --> 14:04.425 Did you have any premonition of evil? 14:05.052 --> 14:06.469 None that I was aware of. 14:06.720 --> 14:09.264 How did you hear the terrible news so early this morning? 14:09.765 --> 14:13.434 I am an early riser. Generally take a walk before breakfast. 14:14.019 --> 14:15.395 This morning I had hardly started 14:15.521 --> 14:17.939 when Doctor Richard overtook me in his carriage. 14:19.525 --> 14:21.192 Mr. Tregennis. 14:21.694 --> 14:24.779 I've just heard an urgent message from your sister's house. 14:24.905 --> 14:25.613 What's happened? 14:25.739 --> 14:29.075 I'm not quite sure, sir, but you'd better come with me. 14:36.584 --> 14:38.877 She's been dead at least six hours. 14:40.921 --> 14:42.463 No signs of violence. 14:44.925 --> 14:46.926 But how? 14:48.596 --> 14:54.517 I've never seen the like, Mr. Tregennis. Not in all my years has a... 14:58.564 --> 14:59.647 You all right? 15:00.190 --> 15:06.446 I've got you. Here. Over here. There we go. 15:07.531 --> 15:09.574 We nearly got him on our hands as well. 15:15.164 --> 15:16.080 Where are you going Holmes? 15:16.206 --> 15:17.624 Tredannick Wartha without delay. 15:17.750 --> 15:19.292 With your permission, Mr. Holmes. I'll go on ahead. 15:19.460 --> 15:21.628 Thank you vicar, quickly otherwise we'll be there before you. 15:21.795 --> 15:22.837 Holmes, I must protest. 15:22.963 --> 15:26.466 Save your protestations for later, Watson. Much later! 15:27.885 --> 15:30.678 I gather you were divided in some way from your family. 15:30.804 --> 15:32.263 Oh yes sir, Mr. Holmes. 15:32.598 --> 15:34.599 Well the matter is past and done with. 15:35.142 --> 15:37.894 All was forgiven and forgotten and we were the best of friends. 15:38.479 --> 15:40.980 We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth, 15:41.690 --> 15:43.650 but we sold out our venture to a company, 15:44.193 --> 15:46.903 and so retired with enough to keep us. 15:47.488 --> 15:50.615 I won't deny there was some bad feeling over the division of the money. 15:50.991 --> 15:53.076 It stood between us for a number of years. 15:53.452 --> 15:54.661 Nevertheless. 15:59.541 --> 16:01.501 You decided not to leave Cornwall? 16:01.835 --> 16:05.463 I supposed I entertained some hopes of returning home one day. 16:07.257 --> 16:08.341 Holmes! 16:13.180 --> 16:14.764 Holmes, stand back! 16:22.982 --> 16:26.776 My brothers. They're taking them to Helston. 16:48.340 --> 16:50.258 It's a lovely house, Mr. Tregennis. 16:52.678 --> 16:54.303 It's a very sad house. 16:54.930 --> 16:57.640 This is the window through which you saw the shadow form. 16:58.225 --> 17:00.810 Approximately what distance was it from the glass? 17:04.565 --> 17:08.776 I'd say not less than ten feet. With a guess, 17:10.487 --> 17:11.404 about here. 17:12.698 --> 17:14.365 There's no sign of a forced entry. 17:14.533 --> 17:16.617 And the window, of course, would have remained locked. 17:16.744 --> 17:19.620 My sister made sure of that. Even in Cornwall... 17:19.747 --> 17:21.581 So dreadfully sorry. 17:21.749 --> 17:23.291 It's quite all right, Mr. Holmes. 17:24.585 --> 17:25.710 An accident. 17:35.971 --> 17:37.138 Thank you. 17:39.058 --> 17:41.059 Could you let Mrs. Porter know I'm back? 18:09.505 --> 18:11.130 I should like to meet the housekeeper. 18:11.256 --> 18:12.340 Of course. 18:12.883 --> 18:15.927 Oh but please try to avoid causing further distress. 18:16.804 --> 18:19.514 Death is always distressing, Mr. Tregennis. 18:19.973 --> 18:23.643 Awe, the chairs. 18:24.478 --> 18:27.146 Well they must have been moved after the police left the house. 18:28.232 --> 18:29.565 That one here, Mr. Holmes. 18:30.818 --> 18:33.152 One over there. This one here. 18:33.737 --> 18:36.948 This one over here. 18:38.492 --> 18:39.992 Has anything else been moved? 18:41.662 --> 18:43.079 All is as I remember it. 18:44.164 --> 18:46.833 You must understand there was a great deal of fuss and confusion 18:46.959 --> 18:48.501 when I arrived this morning. 18:49.211 --> 18:51.838 Things may have been moved without thought given to their significance 18:52.005 --> 18:53.172 in a criminal investigation. 18:53.298 --> 18:56.884 Criminal? That is a very interesting word. 18:57.845 --> 19:02.140 So you no longer subscribe to the theory of a supernatural explanation? 19:04.643 --> 19:05.852 I don't know. 19:06.854 --> 19:08.354 Where were people sitting? 19:09.940 --> 19:14.193 I sat here facing Georgie, my brother George. 19:14.778 --> 19:17.989 Brenda sat next to me. Owen across from her. 19:18.115 --> 19:19.031 Oh that's curious. 19:19.199 --> 19:20.032 What? 19:20.701 --> 19:22.118 I mean from this position 19:23.579 --> 19:27.039 the figure outside of the window must have been well over six feet. 19:30.169 --> 19:32.211 I can only tell you what I saw Mr. Holmes. 19:32.713 --> 19:34.922 Awe, this is my housekeeper, 19:36.383 --> 19:37.550 Mrs. Porter. 19:38.552 --> 19:40.595 I'd like you to meet these gentlemen, my dear. 19:45.934 --> 19:48.144 She was so beautiful. 19:51.690 --> 19:54.233 So beautiful. 19:54.693 --> 19:57.069 She is still very upset. 19:57.196 --> 19:59.280 We're all very upset Mr. Roundhay. 20:00.657 --> 20:01.824 Come and sit down. 20:02.492 --> 20:06.037 I will not stay in this house one moment longer than I have to. 20:06.163 --> 20:11.083 So I shall rejoin my family... 20:11.251 --> 20:13.544 But you're part of our family. 20:14.213 --> 20:19.717 The family Tregennis is dead, sir. Dead or as good as. 20:20.510 --> 20:22.094 I'm still alive. 20:24.431 --> 20:25.598 Mrs. Porter. 20:30.562 --> 20:33.773 Excuse me now, Mrs. Porter. 20:43.242 --> 20:44.867 My name is Sherlock Holmes 20:45.244 --> 20:47.286 and I'd like you to tell me all that you know. 20:48.956 --> 20:51.123 Mr. Holmes is a detective. 20:51.250 --> 20:54.460 He's going to try and find out what happened to Brenda, don't you worry. 20:56.255 --> 20:58.798 Please, leave nothing out. 21:00.550 --> 21:03.719 I can tell you very little, Mr. Holmes. 21:11.144 --> 21:12.770 Awe, you've been cheating. 21:12.896 --> 21:14.647 I am not cheating. 21:14.773 --> 21:19.443 Owen will you tell your dearest sister to play by the rules. 21:19.569 --> 21:22.113 Well she's your sister too. You tell her. 21:22.239 --> 21:24.323 But she's on your side. 21:24.491 --> 21:27.326 It's rather late and I do have to get back to the vicarage. 21:33.125 --> 21:36.252 Mortimer you must stay here for the night. 21:36.378 --> 21:38.504 Oh please say you will. 21:39.339 --> 21:39.922 Well? 21:40.048 --> 21:43.259 Don't force him to stay if he doesn't want to, Brenda. 21:43.385 --> 21:45.177 Oh really. 21:45.345 --> 21:47.972 I thought we'd put an end to our squabbling. 21:48.098 --> 21:51.517 Mortimer is just as much my brother as you and Georgie. 21:52.769 --> 21:56.022 Don't worry, dear brother. I know where I'm not welcome. 21:56.189 --> 21:59.233 Why visit us at all, You disowned us, 21:59.484 --> 22:00.901 or have you have forgotten? 22:01.028 --> 22:03.863 It will be all right now, Beth, if you wish to retire. 22:04.031 --> 22:06.532 Is Mr. Tregennis staying with us tonight? 22:06.658 --> 22:09.702 Why? Do you also object to my presence, Mrs. Porter? 22:09.870 --> 22:11.037 Mortimer! 22:11.705 --> 22:15.958 I want to know should I air your room, sir? 22:19.212 --> 22:20.171 Sorry. 22:24.468 --> 22:27.011 Thank you, Beth. That'll be quite all right. 22:27.137 --> 22:29.388 Mr. Tregennis will not be staying. 22:30.265 --> 22:31.807 Very good, Miss Brenda. 22:32.893 --> 22:35.561 Is it customary to have a fire in the room at this time of year? 22:35.687 --> 22:37.980 It was a cold and damp night, Mr. Holmes. 22:38.273 --> 22:41.359 Well I must say I... I thought it was rather humid. 22:41.902 --> 22:45.654 Oh I suffer with a mild blood disorder, feel the cold on even warm nights. 22:45.947 --> 22:47.239 I know how you feel. 22:48.325 --> 22:49.533 Awe, Mrs. Porter, 22:49.659 --> 22:52.953 was the door to this room closed when you left this morning? 22:53.080 --> 22:54.663 Oh certainly, sir, 23:00.879 --> 23:05.633 Nightingale as they sing in the valley below. 23:05.759 --> 23:07.343 As they sing... 23:24.111 --> 23:27.113 When they were covered I threw wide the window 23:27.280 --> 23:29.031 to let in the morning air. 23:30.242 --> 23:35.704 Then I run down to the lane and sent a farm lad for the doctor. 23:37.833 --> 23:39.959 And the rest I think you know, sir. 23:46.299 --> 23:49.802 Mrs. Porter's right. She's very beautiful. 23:49.928 --> 23:51.470 Yes but something's missing. 23:52.597 --> 23:56.475 Tregennis is lying about a mild blood disorder. I'll state my reputation on that. 23:56.977 --> 23:57.893 Was he? 24:22.002 --> 24:24.837 Watson. Watson. 24:29.092 --> 24:30.259 Look at this. 24:32.345 --> 24:33.971 That's very unusual. 24:40.854 --> 24:44.982 It won't do! It won't do! Three people grievously stricken 24:45.108 --> 24:48.277 by some conscious or unconscious human agency. 24:50.572 --> 24:54.575 Now, when exactly did this event occur? 24:55.702 --> 24:57.328 They're finished playing cards. 24:59.039 --> 25:00.998 It was past their usual hour for bed. 25:01.124 --> 25:03.501 The panel of the chairs had not been pulled back from the table. 25:03.627 --> 25:04.877 Then it must have been 25:05.378 --> 25:07.713 only moments after Tregennis left the house. 25:07.881 --> 25:08.923 Exactly. 25:12.469 --> 25:15.012 Your conscious, of course, I've managed to obtain 25:15.138 --> 25:16.722 a clear impress of his foot. 25:16.890 --> 25:18.224 Yes I guess something... 25:24.397 --> 25:25.731 Haven got a sample print. 25:25.857 --> 25:28.025 I could pick out his tracks among the others 25:28.860 --> 25:30.444 and follow his boots. 25:31.655 --> 25:36.784 For the length of his stride he returns swiftly to the vicarage. 25:38.578 --> 25:40.037 Tregennis disappeared then 25:40.872 --> 25:44.833 almost instantly some other person affected the card players. 25:45.794 --> 25:47.878 How can we reconstruct that person? 25:48.255 --> 25:51.090 But is there any evidence really, Watson 25:51.925 --> 25:54.009 that anyone did creep up to that window? 25:55.095 --> 25:57.221 The only suggestion comes from Tregennis, 25:57.931 --> 26:01.725 who says that his brother reacted to some movement in the garden. 26:01.851 --> 26:06.063 Then how was this impression of horror conveyed? 26:14.030 --> 26:16.198 You're Mr. Sherlock Holmes the detective. 26:17.492 --> 26:19.493 And you are Doctor Leon Sterndale, 26:19.619 --> 26:22.705 the great lion-hunter and famous African explorer. 26:23.164 --> 26:24.415 Have you made any progress? 26:25.292 --> 26:26.083 Some. 26:26.585 --> 26:28.210 The county police are utterly at fault. 26:28.336 --> 26:31.380 Tell me what you know about the fate of the Tregennis family. 26:32.632 --> 26:34.717 What is your interest, Dr. Sterndale? 26:36.136 --> 26:39.096 My claim to be taken into your confidence 26:39.681 --> 26:41.890 is that during my many residences here. 26:42.267 --> 26:45.019 I have come to know this family of Tregennis very well. 26:45.312 --> 26:50.482 Indeed upon my Cornish mother's side I may call them cousins. 26:50.984 --> 26:54.778 So their strange fate has naturally been a great shock to me. 26:56.197 --> 26:58.824 Do you know of anything that could help us out in the inquiry? 26:59.534 --> 27:00.659 Nothing at all. 27:01.369 --> 27:03.495 I may tell you that I had got as far as Plymouth 27:03.622 --> 27:06.123 upon my way to Africa when news reached me. 27:06.666 --> 27:09.168 I came straight back here to help in any way I can. 27:15.759 --> 27:17.009 Did you lose your boat? 27:19.012 --> 27:20.220 I will take the next. 27:23.558 --> 27:25.142 That is friendship indeed. 27:25.352 --> 27:27.019 I tell you they were relatives. 27:28.146 --> 27:29.855 Did your baggage go on with boat? 27:30.023 --> 27:32.983 Some of it, but most of it remained in the hotel. 27:33.193 --> 27:35.611 Well surely this event could not have 27:35.737 --> 27:38.364 found its way into the Plymouth morning papers. 27:38.490 --> 27:41.450 No, sir. I received a telegram. 27:41.743 --> 27:42.701 From whom? 27:43.828 --> 27:46.330 You are very inquisitive, Mr. Holmes. 27:46.539 --> 27:47.873 It is my business. 27:49.626 --> 27:53.712 The vicar, Mr. Roundhay sent it recalling me to... 27:54.255 --> 27:55.214 I see. 27:55.799 --> 28:00.969 May I ask if your suspicions point in any particular direction? 28:05.433 --> 28:07.101 Well I can hardly answer that. 28:10.397 --> 28:11.897 Then I'm wasting my time. 28:35.547 --> 28:38.257 To work the brain without sufficient material is like racing an engine, 28:38.425 --> 28:40.426 it cracks itself to pieces. 28:43.138 --> 28:44.596 Wait for me at the cottage. 28:44.889 --> 28:45.973 Where are you going? 28:46.266 --> 28:47.641 Cheer up, Watson! 28:48.184 --> 28:53.981 Sea air, sunshine, patience, all will be revealed. 29:39.152 --> 29:43.322 Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. 29:43.615 --> 29:46.325 Mr. Holmes, we are devil ridden, Mr. Holmes. 29:46.576 --> 29:48.660 My poor parish is devil-ridden... 29:51.581 --> 29:53.332 What has happened? 29:58.755 --> 30:00.506 Dead about three hours I'd say. 30:00.715 --> 30:02.716 Same symptoms exactly as Brenda Tregennis. 30:02.842 --> 30:05.135 Limbs convulsed, fingers contorted 30:05.303 --> 30:08.180 as though he died from a very paroxysm of fear. 30:08.973 --> 30:10.849 That it should happen under my roof. 30:12.477 --> 30:13.685 Has his bed been slept in? 30:13.853 --> 30:15.604 Oh yes, most definitely. 31:08.825 --> 31:10.284 Who opened this window? 31:10.535 --> 31:13.996 My housekeeper, she was the first into the room this morning. 31:14.163 --> 31:15.247 Where is she now? 31:15.415 --> 31:19.001 Oh she's taken to her bed with a severe headache, no doubt. 31:19.419 --> 31:21.211 Greatly affected by the shock. 31:23.798 --> 31:27.050 I am most terribly sorry to inconvenience you in this way. 31:27.176 --> 31:30.178 I know you both came to these parts to rest but... 31:30.305 --> 31:32.097 It isn't easy with Holmes around. 31:33.099 --> 31:36.727 He likes nothing better than to sink his teeth into a problem of this sort. 31:38.104 --> 31:41.690 But two deaths, Doctor Watson, in the space of two days. 31:42.275 --> 31:45.277 This is the work of the devil, make no mistake. 31:45.695 --> 31:49.281 Put your faith in the known and tangible, Mr. Roundhay. 32:13.723 --> 32:15.140 I trust nothing has been touched, sir? 32:15.308 --> 32:17.476 No, everything's exactly as it was. 32:18.478 --> 32:22.397 All right then. I'll need a statement from you and your housekeeper. 32:22.982 --> 32:24.942 Master, I'm afraid she's still rather ill. 32:26.361 --> 32:27.653 Check upstairs. 32:37.330 --> 32:38.664 Who are these gentlemen? 32:39.165 --> 32:42.501 Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson from London. 32:46.297 --> 32:48.048 I've heard of you Mr. Holmes. 32:49.175 --> 32:53.136 I'd appreciate it if you would leave this inquiry to the official police. 32:54.514 --> 32:55.555 As you wish. 32:55.682 --> 32:56.890 I do sir. 32:58.434 --> 32:59.685 I'm sorry. 33:01.646 --> 33:03.230 Would you direct the inspector's attention 33:03.356 --> 33:06.024 towards the window upstairs and the lamp on the table? 33:06.192 --> 33:09.027 Each is suggestive. 33:09.862 --> 33:12.406 Together they are almost conclusive. Watson. 33:14.534 --> 33:15.867 Good afternoon. 33:16.703 --> 33:17.953 Good luck. 34:00.371 --> 34:01.788 What on earth are you doing? 34:02.790 --> 34:06.376 An experiment to test a theory. 34:07.170 --> 34:09.212 Isn't that the lamp that was in Tregennis' room? 34:09.338 --> 34:10.630 Yes and no. 34:11.716 --> 34:13.550 I see you bought an identical one. 34:14.927 --> 34:18.096 I purchased it from a delightful little shop in the village. 34:18.264 --> 34:20.098 That's where you've been all afternoon. 34:22.101 --> 34:25.187 There is a single point of resemblance 34:26.064 --> 34:30.525 in the reports that we've heard. Now this concerns of the effect 34:32.695 --> 34:34.613 on the atmosphere of the room 34:36.324 --> 34:42.662 upon those who first entered it. First Doctor Richards, then Mrs. Porter. 34:43.456 --> 34:46.458 And Roundhay's housekeeper was taken ill this morning. 34:47.752 --> 34:48.960 In each case, 34:50.630 --> 34:53.965 there is a combustion going in the room. 34:54.717 --> 34:58.929 In the first case, a fire. In the second, a lamp. 34:59.806 --> 35:04.810 Now the fire perhaps was necessary, but the lamp was lit 35:04.936 --> 35:06.853 when it was already broad daylight. 35:07.814 --> 35:10.816 The comparison of the oil consumed in this 35:10.983 --> 35:13.235 and Tregennis' lamp proves that point. 35:15.738 --> 35:16.863 But why? 35:17.490 --> 35:19.324 Something was burned 35:20.118 --> 35:24.996 producing an atmosphere and causing a strange toxic affect. 35:26.165 --> 35:29.126 In the first instance, that of the Tregennis family 35:29.252 --> 35:31.920 a substance was placed in the fire 35:32.338 --> 35:36.007 and the fire would carry the fumes, to some extent, up the chimney. 35:37.051 --> 35:40.720 Only Brenda Tregennis, was closest to the fire was killed. 35:41.639 --> 35:44.015 Her brothers were exhibiting that lunacy, 35:44.183 --> 35:48.061 which is evidently the first effect of the drug. 35:49.063 --> 35:52.399 The other case, of course, the result was complete. 35:52.900 --> 35:57.821 So it's a poison, which works by combustion? 35:58.698 --> 35:59.698 Yeah. 36:02.535 --> 36:03.785 The obvious place to look 36:03.870 --> 36:07.038 was the smoke-guard of the lamp in Tregennis room. 36:07.540 --> 36:11.168 There, sure enough. I perceived a number of flaky ashes 36:11.294 --> 36:13.962 and round the edges a fringe of brownish powder, 36:14.088 --> 36:16.006 which had not yet been consumed. 36:16.757 --> 36:20.177 Half of it I took, the other half I left for the police. 36:21.554 --> 36:22.762 We will see 36:24.390 --> 36:27.601 if we can reproduce the same effects with our own lamp. 36:28.895 --> 36:31.188 Oh no, Holmes, that's insane. 36:31.314 --> 36:35.984 I cannot force you to stay but I mean to have the answer. 36:38.404 --> 36:39.863 Of course I shall stay. 36:41.490 --> 36:43.283 I thought I knew my Watson. 36:44.577 --> 36:46.077 Would you open the door please? 36:55.922 --> 36:58.340 Now would you like to just sit there? 37:08.976 --> 37:10.060 Are you ready? 38:27.513 --> 38:32.684 You must stay clear Mr. Holmes or be trampled underfoot. 38:40.067 --> 38:43.486 Holmes! Holmes! 38:47.158 --> 38:50.827 Holmes! Holmes, can you hear me? 38:50.953 --> 38:52.746 For God's sake can you hear me? 38:53.706 --> 38:54.706 Done! 38:56.792 --> 38:57.876 Thank God you're all right. 38:58.002 --> 39:00.295 That was a stupid and dangerous thing to do. 39:00.421 --> 39:01.796 We could have been killed. 39:03.591 --> 39:06.051 It was an unjustifiable experiment, even for myself, 39:06.385 --> 39:07.927 doubly so for a friend. 39:09.555 --> 39:12.515 But really I'm extremely sorry. 39:34.080 --> 39:36.414 All the evidence points to Tregennis being the criminal 39:36.540 --> 39:39.167 in the first tragedy and victim in the second. 39:39.627 --> 39:40.877 Yes, if anyone else would have come in, 39:41.003 --> 39:43.421 the family would have certainly risen from the table. 39:43.589 --> 39:45.715 Then Tregennis' own death was suicide? 39:49.970 --> 39:51.638 That will be Doctor Leon Sterndale. 39:51.764 --> 39:53.556 Would you let him in, Watson? Thank you. 40:02.108 --> 40:06.111 Please come in, Doctor Sterndale. Seems you're expected. 40:08.781 --> 40:12.867 I had your note about an hour ago. But let me state directly, 40:13.119 --> 40:15.829 I don't take kindly to being summoned by anybody. 40:16.580 --> 40:18.540 I thought it better to discuss the matter here. 40:20.126 --> 40:21.668 No risk of eavesdropping. 40:21.794 --> 40:24.170 I fail to see, sir, what you can have to speak about 40:24.296 --> 40:28.800 which affects me personally in the most intimate fashion. 40:29.009 --> 40:31.719 The killing of Mortimer Tregennis. 40:36.517 --> 40:40.145 I have lived so long among savages and beyond the law 40:41.397 --> 40:44.357 that I've got into the way of being a law unto myself. 40:46.318 --> 40:48.319 You would do well, Mr. Holmes, to remember that 40:48.446 --> 40:50.738 for I have no desire to do you any injury. 40:51.240 --> 40:54.534 Nor I you, Doctor Sterndale. 40:55.244 --> 40:57.871 But surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowing what I know, 40:57.997 --> 41:00.665 that I have sent for you and not for the police. 41:02.168 --> 41:03.626 If this is a bluff upon your part, sir, 41:03.752 --> 41:05.503 you have chosen the wrong man for your experiment. 41:05.671 --> 41:09.340 No, no, no the bluff is upon your side not upon mine. 41:10.926 --> 41:14.596 Now I will tell you the facts upon which my conclusions are based. 41:15.514 --> 41:17.265 Of your return from Plymouth, 41:17.391 --> 41:19.476 allowing much of your property to go out to Africa, 41:19.602 --> 41:21.728 I shall say nothing except that it informed me 41:23.022 --> 41:24.689 was that you were one of the factors, 41:24.815 --> 41:29.235 which had to be taken into account in reconstructing of this drama. 41:32.490 --> 41:34.908 This telegram from the hotel confirms what you told me. 41:35.451 --> 41:37.035 Now when we last met, 41:37.369 --> 41:41.372 you asked me whom I suspected and I refused to answer you. 41:41.582 --> 41:44.542 Then you departed but you didn't go home, 41:44.793 --> 41:48.880 oh no Doctor Sterndale, you went to the vicarage 41:50.424 --> 41:52.300 and you waited there for some time. 41:52.718 --> 41:53.718 How do you know that? 41:53.844 --> 41:54.928 I followed you. 41:56.805 --> 41:58.097 I saw no one. 41:58.349 --> 42:01.726 That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. 42:02.311 --> 42:04.020 You spent a restless night. 42:06.482 --> 42:08.274 You made certain plans 42:09.568 --> 42:12.695 and then in the early hours you proceeded to put them into action. 42:15.241 --> 42:17.242 You returned to the vicarage. 42:18.494 --> 42:22.789 Collected some distinctive red gravel from the cliff path. 42:28.796 --> 42:31.214 The house by now was daylight 42:32.841 --> 42:34.801 but the inhabitants were not stirring. 42:36.679 --> 42:40.682 You threw some of the red gravel up at the window of Tregennis. 42:57.491 --> 42:58.658 Sterndale. 43:00.869 --> 43:02.870 I must speak with you urgently. 43:03.622 --> 43:07.959 This hour? The doors are locked. The housekeeper has the keys. 43:08.085 --> 43:10.295 It is of the utmost importance! 43:19.346 --> 43:22.307 You entered through the sitting window. 43:23.350 --> 43:29.897 You had an interview a short one, and you walked up and down the room. 43:31.984 --> 43:34.110 He withdrew as you had come. 43:34.653 --> 43:38.239 You wearing the same pair of studied walking shoes, 43:38.991 --> 43:41.826 which at the present moment are upon your feet 43:43.537 --> 43:45.872 and Mortimer Tregennis was dead. 43:52.212 --> 43:54.589 The ring you gave Brenda Tregennis. 43:57.635 --> 44:03.640 Yes. 44:08.187 --> 44:09.520 Brenda Tregennis. 44:22.493 --> 44:24.077 For years I loved her. 44:25.704 --> 44:27.288 For years she loved me. 44:30.209 --> 44:34.379 There is the secret of the Cornish seclusion, 44:34.797 --> 44:36.673 which people so marveled at. 44:39.843 --> 44:42.553 It brought me close to the one person on this earth 44:43.931 --> 44:45.348 who was dear to me. 44:48.811 --> 44:50.061 I couldn't marry her, 44:50.729 --> 44:54.148 for I had a wife who left me for whom, 44:54.274 --> 44:59.070 by the deplorable laws of England, I could not divorce. 45:00.864 --> 45:02.407 For years Brenda waited. 45:04.076 --> 45:05.576 For years I waited. 45:11.250 --> 45:13.584 And this is what we waited for. 45:19.258 --> 45:20.425 Roundhay knew. 45:21.385 --> 45:24.554 He was in our confidence hence his telegram to me at Plymouth. 45:25.389 --> 45:29.642 What was my baggage or Africa to me 45:31.103 --> 45:34.522 when I learned that such a fate had befallen my darling? 45:36.775 --> 45:40.862 There you have the missing clue to my actions, Mr. Holmes. 45:54.793 --> 45:57.378 I understand that you sir, are a doctor of medicine? 45:58.839 --> 46:02.800 Have you ever heard of "Radix pedis diaboli"? 46:03.302 --> 46:07.972 Devils foot root. No I can't say that I have. 46:09.308 --> 46:12.018 Well there's no reflection upon your professional knowledge 46:12.603 --> 46:15.938 for I believe that save for one sample in a laboratory at Buda, 46:16.064 --> 46:17.774 there is no other specimen in Europe. 46:18.150 --> 46:21.486 It is used as an ordeal poison 46:22.070 --> 46:25.156 by the medicine men in certain districts of West Africa 46:26.033 --> 46:29.160 and it is kept as a secret by them. 46:32.956 --> 46:35.416 You already know so much, Mr. Holmes, 46:35.667 --> 46:39.337 it is clearly to my interest that you should know all 46:42.007 --> 46:43.466 I have already explained 46:43.592 --> 46:47.136 the relationship in which I stood to the Tregennis family, 46:48.138 --> 46:51.682 There had been quarrel about money, which estranged this man Mortimer, 46:51.809 --> 46:54.852 a sly, subtle, scheming man, 46:55.354 --> 46:58.981 but for Brenda's sake, I was friendly with her brother. 46:59.775 --> 47:03.194 Then one day a few weeks ago, he came to my cottage 47:04.029 --> 47:06.989 and I showed him some of my African curiosities. 47:08.033 --> 47:11.994 Among other things, I exhibited the Devil's foot. 47:13.413 --> 47:16.374 Poison you say? Fascinating. 47:17.042 --> 47:18.876 You wouldn't think so if you were to try it. 47:19.586 --> 47:21.462 The smallest amount could be fatal. 47:21.713 --> 47:25.925 In this powder form, it reacts instantaneously when burned. 47:26.802 --> 47:30.721 It stimulates those brain centers, which control the emotion of fear. 47:31.557 --> 47:37.144 Madness or death is the fate of the unfortunate native 47:37.271 --> 47:40.815 who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe. 47:41.066 --> 47:42.483 Can it be detected? 47:44.027 --> 47:45.987 Not by European science. 47:47.739 --> 47:50.658 A few days later, my cottage was broken into 47:51.535 --> 47:55.580 but since nothing seemed to have been taken I gave the matter no heed 47:55.914 --> 47:58.749 until Mr. Roundhay's telegram arrived at Plymouth. 48:00.210 --> 48:02.962 This villain, Mortimer, 48:03.297 --> 48:06.007 had thought that I would be at sea before news reached me, 48:06.508 --> 48:09.510 and that I should be lost for years in Africa. 48:10.596 --> 48:12.597 But of course I returned immediately 48:13.724 --> 48:18.102 and I could not hear the details without being assured 48:18.604 --> 48:21.272 that it was my poison, which had been used 48:22.316 --> 48:26.777 and that Mortimer Tregennis himself was the murderer. 48:29.364 --> 48:32.783 My sole cried out for revenge. 48:33.827 --> 48:35.578 You murdered her! 48:35.996 --> 48:39.165 For money you murdered your own sister. 48:39.458 --> 48:43.502 You can't prove that, no jury in the land will believe you. 48:43.629 --> 48:46.714 I'm my own jury, Mr. Tregennis. 48:46.965 --> 48:51.636 Judge, jury and executioner. 49:16.495 --> 49:17.787 I lit the lamp. 49:19.331 --> 49:20.998 I put the powder above it. 49:38.392 --> 49:40.393 In five minutes he died. 49:43.689 --> 49:45.898 My God! How he died! 49:48.527 --> 49:50.861 But my heart was flint, 49:53.281 --> 49:54.365 for he endured nothing. 49:54.449 --> 49:58.035 Which my innocent darling had not suffered before him. 50:05.877 --> 50:08.295 You can take what steps you like, Mr. Holmes. 50:10.549 --> 50:16.554 But there can be no man living who fears death less than I do now. 50:25.772 --> 50:27.356 What were your plans? 50:29.651 --> 50:32.737 I was intending to bury myself in Central Africa. 50:34.364 --> 50:36.365 My work there is but half done. 50:44.666 --> 50:46.250 Go and do the other half. 50:50.756 --> 50:53.632 I, for one, am not prepared to stop you. 51:03.143 --> 51:04.226 God bless you, 51:06.063 --> 51:07.104 both of you. 51:18.450 --> 51:20.284 Not for the first time, Holmes, 51:21.078 --> 51:23.954 you presume to take the law into your hands. 51:27.959 --> 51:29.502 I have never loved 51:31.421 --> 51:32.588 but if I did, 51:33.840 --> 51:36.550 and if the woman I had loved had met with such an end, 51:37.469 --> 51:42.431 I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. 51:44.476 --> 51:45.351 Wouldn't you? 51:47.229 --> 51:51.649 Yes, I suppose so but that's not the point. 51:51.775 --> 51:54.985 The point is why should I do the work of the official police?