WEBVTT 01:14.783 --> 01:17.201 Oh, girls, what'd you want? 01:52.070 --> 01:53.195 Mr. Scott Eccles. 01:53.738 --> 01:54.988 Oh, Mr. Garcia. 01:55.115 --> 01:57.407 I'm sorry I did not recognize you at once. 01:57.700 --> 01:58.867 Please allow me to carry your case. 01:58.993 --> 02:00.828 That's very civil of you. Thank you very much. 02:03.039 --> 02:05.374 I'm sorry if the weather has been unkind for your visit. 02:06.417 --> 02:09.962 Unkind for you perhaps but we British, you know, 02:10.130 --> 02:12.047 we're hardy souls. 02:20.181 --> 02:23.600 The county of Surrey is particularly interesting... 02:33.027 --> 02:37.156 I'm looking forward to showing you my entire collection of Surrey maps. 02:37.282 --> 02:41.034 I mean there's Moule and Ogivy. I got one or two here I can show you. 02:47.333 --> 02:48.542 He used to draw. 03:18.031 --> 03:18.906 This is your house is it? 03:19.032 --> 03:21.241 Yes. Please. You are welcome. 03:21.451 --> 03:22.534 It's very nice. Very nice. 03:24.454 --> 03:29.249 I suppose Watson we must look upon you as a man of letters. 03:30.335 --> 03:33.545 How do you define the word grotesque? 03:34.464 --> 03:35.422 Grotesque. 03:37.467 --> 03:39.384 Strange. Remarkable. 03:39.510 --> 03:43.388 No, no, no, no. Surely there's more to it than that. 03:43.765 --> 03:48.185 Some underlying suggestion of a tragic or terrible. 03:49.520 --> 03:51.104 If you cast your mind back to those narratives 03:51.231 --> 03:53.982 with which you've inflicted a long-suffering public 03:54.108 --> 03:59.488 you will see how often the word grotesque 04:00.448 --> 04:02.115 has deepened into the criminal. 04:07.455 --> 04:11.208 I suppose the affair of the redheaded men 04:11.334 --> 04:13.210 was grotesque enough at the outset. 04:17.131 --> 04:20.884 Most grotesque affair of the five orange pips. 04:21.010 --> 04:22.803 Yes, which led straight to a murderous conspiracy. 04:22.929 --> 04:26.682 Now the word puts me on the alert. 04:27.392 --> 04:28.141 Have you it there? 04:31.187 --> 04:35.983 I've just had the most incredible and grotesque experience. 04:36.943 --> 04:38.986 May I consult you Scott Eccles? 04:40.947 --> 04:42.572 Post Office, Charring Cross. 04:44.409 --> 04:45.284 A man or woman? 04:45.410 --> 04:46.410 A man. 04:47.745 --> 04:51.164 No woman would send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come. 04:52.792 --> 04:53.667 Will you see him? 04:55.169 --> 04:56.753 Oh my dear Watson, 04:58.673 --> 05:03.176 you know how bored I've been 05:04.679 --> 05:06.972 since we locked up Colonel Carruthers. 05:08.141 --> 05:12.185 Life is commonplace. 05:13.980 --> 05:15.897 The newspapers are sterile 05:16.316 --> 05:20.360 audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. 05:20.987 --> 05:22.529 Of course I'll see him. 05:22.947 --> 05:25.866 Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is our client. 05:27.452 --> 05:28.201 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 05:28.369 --> 05:29.036 Well are you Mr. Holmes? 05:29.787 --> 05:32.331 Yes, Mr. Holmes, I have just had a most singular 05:32.457 --> 05:33.790 and unpleasant experience. 05:33.916 --> 05:37.210 No way in my life have I been subject to... to such embarrassment 05:37.337 --> 05:38.920 and been placed in such a position. 05:41.382 --> 05:44.009 Please sit down, Mr. Scott Eccles, my friend and colleague Doctor Watson. 05:44.135 --> 05:47.471 In the first place, my I ask, why you have came to me at all? 05:47.805 --> 05:51.683 Well, sin it didn't appear to be a matter which concerned the police, 05:51.809 --> 05:53.226 yet, when you've heard the facts, 05:53.394 --> 05:56.063 you must admit I couldn't just leave it where it was. 05:56.189 --> 05:59.941 Now the private detectives they are a class with whom I'm absolutely, 06:00.068 --> 06:00.901 I have no sympathy. 06:01.027 --> 06:03.070 Sit, Mr. Scott Eccles. 06:10.703 --> 06:13.455 Nonetheless, having heard your name... 06:13.581 --> 06:14.081 Watson! 06:16.000 --> 06:18.251 Now in the second place, why did you not come to me at once? 06:19.128 --> 06:19.628 What do you mean? 06:19.837 --> 06:21.671 Well it is now a quarter-past two. 06:23.758 --> 06:25.258 Your telegram was dispatched about one. 06:25.426 --> 06:28.512 No one could glance at your toilet and attire 06:28.638 --> 06:31.640 without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking. 06:32.600 --> 06:36.103 But you're right, Mr. Holmes. 06:36.396 --> 06:39.731 Yet I never gave a thought to my toilet. 06:40.358 --> 06:43.026 I was only too glad to get out of such a house. 06:44.028 --> 06:46.071 Oh no, no thank you. 06:46.864 --> 06:52.202 You see but I have been running round making inquiries before I came here. 06:52.495 --> 06:55.288 I called the house agents, you know, oh yes, 06:55.456 --> 07:00.502 yes, and they said, they said that Mr. Garcia's rent was paid up all right 07:00.628 --> 07:03.922 and that everything was in order in Wisteria Lodge. 07:04.048 --> 07:06.550 Then they you'll come, come, sir Eccles. 07:07.218 --> 07:08.301 You know you're like my friend, Watson, 07:08.428 --> 07:10.720 who has the bad habit of telling his stories wrong end foremost. 07:10.847 --> 07:14.683 Now please, please arrange your thoughts 07:14.809 --> 07:17.018 and let me know, in their due sequence, 07:17.145 --> 07:19.771 exactly what those events are, 07:20.481 --> 07:24.359 which have sent you out unbrushed and unkempt 07:24.610 --> 07:27.279 with your dress boots and waistcoat buttoned awry, 07:27.864 --> 07:30.657 in search of advice and assistance. 07:31.659 --> 07:38.415 Well I'm a bachelor and being of a sociable turn 07:38.791 --> 07:41.209 I cultivate a large number of friends. 07:42.712 --> 07:46.673 At the table of one of them recently, I met a young fellow named Garcia, 07:46.883 --> 07:49.426 a pleasant chap of Spanish decent, 07:49.594 --> 07:51.887 connected in some way with the Embassy. 07:52.805 --> 07:55.682 We discovered a common interest in cartography 07:56.184 --> 07:59.728 or so I thought, that's the study of old maps. 08:00.146 --> 08:02.981 The plan was to retrace Surrey as Thomas Mould 08:03.107 --> 08:05.150 engraved it some fifty years ago. 08:05.651 --> 08:07.944 Well as soon as I arrived yesterday evening. 08:08.362 --> 08:12.699 I knew something was wrong. The atmosphere of the place, 08:13.075 --> 08:16.036 the house was tumbledown, depressing 08:16.454 --> 08:19.372 Garcia told me he had a wonderful cook, 08:19.707 --> 08:22.709 a half breed he had picked up on his travels 08:23.002 --> 08:25.587 but the dinner, well it was so ill-prepared 08:25.713 --> 08:30.091 and served with such bad grace that it was barely edible. 08:30.676 --> 08:35.347 I can assure you that there were many times in the course of the evening. 08:35.806 --> 08:38.642 I wished I could have invented some excuse to leave. 08:38.768 --> 08:39.226 What did you say? 08:39.393 --> 08:42.145 Well the route is fascinating. John Rogglbe. 08:42.396 --> 08:43.813 Across the heathland? 08:44.398 --> 08:47.526 Wasn't just the health and it was all over the county, 08:49.195 --> 08:50.612 I say, you feeling all right? 08:51.405 --> 08:53.448 Yes. Sorry. 08:53.908 --> 08:56.535 Luis, Luis. Some more wine for our guest. 08:56.661 --> 08:57.410 Yes. 09:22.728 --> 09:24.312 Are we expecting company? 09:29.944 --> 09:32.153 I would like a drink of that if it's possible. 09:48.462 --> 09:51.214 And he made no remark as to the contents of the note? 09:51.966 --> 09:52.632 None. 09:54.677 --> 09:58.513 But for that moment he gave up all pretence at conversation. 09:59.098 --> 10:02.142 He just sat there smoking these endless cigarettes. 10:03.311 --> 10:05.145 About eleven I was glad to go to bed. 10:06.897 --> 10:09.649 Two hours later he looked in at my door. 10:09.775 --> 10:10.775 Did you ring? 10:10.985 --> 10:11.943 Did I ring? 10:12.278 --> 10:15.488 Awe, please don't wake up it's nearly one o'clock. 10:15.823 --> 10:18.491 Please go back to sleep. Good night. 10:19.118 --> 10:21.703 And now I come to the amazing part of my tale. 10:31.047 --> 10:35.425 When I woke it was broad daylight, nearly nine. 10:35.885 --> 10:38.178 I had particularly asked to be called at eight, 10:38.512 --> 10:41.222 so I was very much astonished at this forgetfulness. 10:43.517 --> 10:47.020 I say is anybody here? I'd like some hot water. 10:48.022 --> 10:51.399 I rang for the servant. There was no response. 10:51.859 --> 10:52.734 Somebody? 10:58.282 --> 11:00.200 I say is there a servant available. 11:06.916 --> 11:08.249 This is damnable. 11:17.593 --> 11:21.638 I went from room to room, all were deserted. 11:21.972 --> 11:25.058 Even my host room, the bed had never been slept in. 11:25.351 --> 11:28.019 Foreign host, foreign footman, 11:28.479 --> 11:32.023 foreign cook, all vanished in the night. 11:32.400 --> 11:37.153 Your experience is so far as I know, perfectly unique. 11:37.613 --> 11:40.281 Now what else can you tell me? 11:41.325 --> 11:43.785 Well, I was furious. 11:44.120 --> 11:48.748 I packed my bags and I banged the front door behind me 11:48.916 --> 11:50.625 and I set out for Esher. 11:51.419 --> 11:55.755 Then I called at Allan Brothers', the land agents, 11:55.923 --> 12:00.135 and found it was from them that the villa had been rented. 12:00.261 --> 12:00.927 Rented? 12:01.095 --> 12:04.639 Well you see, I couldn't believe 12:04.890 --> 12:08.643 that they had gone simply to make a fool of me. 12:09.270 --> 12:13.773 I thought, you know, it must be the rent but I was wrong. 12:14.442 --> 12:17.402 See the agent thanked me for my warning 12:17.528 --> 12:19.487 but said that the rent had been paid in advance. 12:19.613 --> 12:21.281 By the Spanish embassy I imagine? 12:22.032 --> 12:26.703 I called at the Spanish embassy. The man is unknown to them. 12:27.163 --> 12:29.330 I also asked my friend who introduced us 12:29.540 --> 12:31.708 and he seemed to know less about Garcia than I did. 12:31.834 --> 12:34.461 Now, this house, 12:38.090 --> 12:39.424 Wisteria Lodge. 12:41.135 --> 12:43.052 I wonder if it's still as you left it. 12:45.639 --> 12:46.806 What's troubling you, Watson? 12:47.975 --> 12:51.311 Well I fear some mundane explanation of the events 12:51.687 --> 12:53.438 may await us upon our arrival. 12:53.898 --> 12:55.356 It's possible. We can thank our lucky fate, 12:55.483 --> 12:57.317 which will rescue us for a few hours 12:58.152 --> 13:01.488 from the insufferable fatigues of idleness. 13:13.000 --> 13:16.669 This gentleman recommends the Bull in the village, 13:16.837 --> 13:18.296 that's if we're to stay overnight. 13:23.052 --> 13:27.639 I asked him if he knew Garcia or his servants. 13:28.224 --> 13:29.015 Did he? 13:29.683 --> 13:30.183 No. 13:32.186 --> 13:34.145 Nothing unusual about the outside. 13:34.355 --> 13:36.773 Let's see what the interior holds for us. 13:37.858 --> 13:40.151 I don't suppose we could be charged with housebreaking can we? 13:50.412 --> 13:52.831 Who on earth could leave such a mess? 13:53.040 --> 13:53.998 Yes indeed. 14:03.759 --> 14:05.718 Take a glance around the house, Watson. 14:16.605 --> 14:17.897 Mr. Holmes? 14:20.359 --> 14:23.736 Welcome to Wisteria Lodge, Mr. Holmes. 14:25.072 --> 14:28.116 Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. 14:29.285 --> 14:33.496 This is Constable Downing. 14:35.416 --> 14:40.253 And you are Mr. John Scott Eccles of Popham House, Lee? 14:40.504 --> 14:41.254 I am. 14:41.422 --> 14:47.260 Mr. Scott Eccles, we've been following you about all the morning. 14:47.428 --> 14:49.929 You traced him through his telegram, I presume? 14:50.097 --> 14:53.266 Exactly, Mr. Holmes. 14:53.475 --> 14:57.103 We picked up the scent at Charring Cross Post-Office. 14:57.271 --> 14:58.438 But what'd you want? 15:00.065 --> 15:00.815 And why did you follow me? 15:01.609 --> 15:04.402 We wish a statement, Mr. Scott Eccles, 15:04.612 --> 15:06.988 as to the events which led up to the death of 15:07.406 --> 15:11.242 Mr. Aloysius Garcia of Wisteria Lodge 15:11.994 --> 15:13.202 near Esher. 15:14.496 --> 15:16.122 Dead did you say? 15:16.332 --> 15:18.374 Oh yes sir, he is dead. Yes. 15:19.293 --> 15:21.002 But how? An accident? 15:21.420 --> 15:24.505 Murder, sir, if ever there was one on earth. 15:26.634 --> 15:32.639 God! This is awful! 15:36.435 --> 15:38.353 You don't mean that I'm suspected? 15:38.979 --> 15:43.858 Well, sir, your note was found on the dead man's body 15:44.568 --> 15:48.321 and from it we learned that you had planned to stay here 15:48.447 --> 15:49.989 in this house last night. 15:50.699 --> 15:51.824 So I did. 15:53.494 --> 15:55.036 Oh, you did, did you? 15:56.497 --> 15:57.372 Wait, 15:57.665 --> 16:00.833 Baynes, I mean surely all you need is a simple statement. 16:01.794 --> 16:06.965 Yes, Mr. Holmes, but it is my duty to warn Mr. Scott Eccles 16:07.716 --> 16:10.927 that it may be used against him. 16:12.846 --> 16:16.516 Awe, this is my fellow colleague, Dr. Watson, Inspector Baynes. 16:17.476 --> 16:19.185 Doctor your attention. 16:22.231 --> 16:24.399 Mr. Scott Eccles you look as if you could do with a drink, 16:24.775 --> 16:28.027 I found some brandy in the library if you think... 16:30.155 --> 16:31.030 Thank you. 17:13.073 --> 17:16.492 Well I can assure you, Inspector that, you know, 17:16.744 --> 17:18.911 every word I've said it is the truth. 17:20.039 --> 17:24.083 I'm bound to say, Mr. Scott Eccles, 17:24.251 --> 17:26.919 that everything you've said 17:27.212 --> 17:31.257 does agree with the facts as they've come to our notice. 17:32.509 --> 17:35.970 For example, the note that arrived during dinner. 17:37.139 --> 17:39.140 Mr. Scott Eccles what became of the note? 17:39.725 --> 17:43.019 Well, Garcia rolled it up and threw it in the fire. 17:43.645 --> 17:45.229 What do you say to that, Baynes? 17:45.564 --> 17:50.443 It was a dog-grate Mr. Holmes, he over pitched it. 17:52.279 --> 17:56.741 I found this unburned of the back. 17:57.117 --> 17:58.618 You must have made a very careful 17:58.744 --> 18:02.663 examination of the house to find a single pellet of paper. 18:02.790 --> 18:06.125 Oh, I did, Mr. Holmes, I did. 18:06.877 --> 18:08.294 It's my way. 18:10.214 --> 18:15.301 The note is written on ordinary cream-laid paper with a watermark, 18:16.220 --> 18:17.845 It's a quarter-sheet. 18:18.222 --> 18:23.976 The paper's cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors. 18:25.062 --> 18:31.150 It's been folded twice and sealed with scarlet wax. 18:31.819 --> 18:37.323 It's addressed to Mr. Garcia, Wisteria Lodge, and it says 18:39.618 --> 18:42.995 "Our own colors, green and white." 18:43.872 --> 18:47.333 "Green open, white shut," 18:48.085 --> 18:51.504 "main stairs, first corridor," 18:52.005 --> 18:56.759 "seventh right, green baize." 18:57.803 --> 19:01.264 "Godspeed. D" 19:03.100 --> 19:07.854 It's in a woman's writing done with a very sharp-pointed pen 19:08.856 --> 19:12.942 but the address is either done with a different pen 19:13.193 --> 19:14.777 or by someone else 19:15.529 --> 19:19.699 because it's thicker and bolder, as you may see, Mr. Holmes. 19:21.368 --> 19:22.869 It's a remarkable note. 19:23.996 --> 19:27.456 I really must congratulate you on your attention to detail. 19:27.916 --> 19:32.545 There are a few trifling points which might perhaps be added. 19:33.213 --> 19:38.759 The seal is a sleeve-link what else is of such a shape? 19:40.220 --> 19:42.555 The scissors were bent nail scissors. 19:43.348 --> 19:44.932 Short as the two snips are, 19:45.392 --> 19:48.394 you can distinctly see the same slight curve in each. 19:53.567 --> 19:57.361 I thought I had squeezed it dry, Mr. Holmes, 19:59.406 --> 20:02.658 but I see there was some still left over after all. 20:07.748 --> 20:10.666 I'm bound to say that I make nothing of the note 20:11.752 --> 20:18.049 except that there's something's on hand and a woman, as usual 20:18.759 --> 20:20.509 is at the bottom of it. 20:27.643 --> 20:30.895 I'm very glad you found the note, Inspector, because 20:31.104 --> 20:32.730 it collaborates my story. 20:32.898 --> 20:35.316 But, you know, I do beg to point out 20:35.442 --> 20:38.694 that I haven't yet heard what has happened to Mr. Garcia, 20:39.279 --> 20:41.906 or what has become of his household. 20:42.491 --> 20:46.994 As for Mr. Garcia, that's easily answered, 20:48.580 --> 20:52.500 he was found dead on Oxshott Common this morning. 20:54.544 --> 20:59.131 His head had been beaten to a pulp by a sandbag 20:59.716 --> 21:02.343 or some such object, 21:03.637 --> 21:05.972 which had crushed rather than wounded. 21:06.348 --> 21:10.768 Apparently he'd been first struck down from behind, 21:11.144 --> 21:15.064 but his assailant went on beating him long after he was dead. 21:15.190 --> 21:18.734 It was a very furious assault. 21:19.152 --> 21:23.322 Awe, I mean this activity that we saw has to be approached at the highest. 21:23.448 --> 21:25.658 Were there any footsteps or clues as to the criminal? 21:25.784 --> 21:27.868 No, no, as yet. 21:28.996 --> 21:30.496 Had Garcia been robbed? 21:30.747 --> 21:33.207 No. No sign of robbery. 21:34.918 --> 21:38.170 Well our tenants seem to have left little or nothing behind them. 21:38.338 --> 21:40.089 Apart from the clothes, 21:40.924 --> 21:44.302 some pipes, a few novels two of them in Spanish. 22:20.047 --> 22:21.881 One of them is missing. 22:28.055 --> 22:32.808 Yeah. We might assume the "G" stands for Garcia. 22:33.560 --> 22:35.436 Family heirloom perhaps. 22:36.396 --> 22:40.941 The other was not on the body nor has it been found in the vicinity 22:41.068 --> 22:44.362 though my men are still looking. Do you wish to look around the house? 22:44.446 --> 22:45.071 A brief look. 23:03.382 --> 23:10.805 Holmes! 23:54.141 --> 23:54.974 Watson! 23:58.019 --> 23:58.686 What have you seen? 23:58.895 --> 24:00.980 Could have been the devil for all I know. 24:01.273 --> 24:02.815 Staring eyes at the window. 24:03.108 --> 24:06.318 Negroid features, mulatto like. It's got away across the field. 24:06.987 --> 24:08.863 Maybe just as well. I don't think I could have laid hands on him. 24:09.823 --> 24:11.240 Awe, look at this. 24:12.534 --> 24:15.161 If he is all the same scale as his foot 24:16.163 --> 24:17.830 then he is certainly a giant. 24:18.999 --> 24:24.628 Well whoever he was, whatever he wanted he's gone for the present, 24:25.130 --> 24:28.215 and we have more important things to attend to. 24:36.141 --> 24:38.934 Downing, you stay here. 24:39.519 --> 24:42.897 And you sir shall come to the station with me. 24:43.648 --> 24:45.524 And let me have a written statement. 24:45.650 --> 24:46.859 Yes certainly I'd come at once. 24:47.027 --> 24:48.694 I hope you don't my collaborating with you Inspector. 24:48.820 --> 24:52.031 I'd be honored, Mr. Holmes. I'd be honored. 24:52.657 --> 24:55.910 Inspector, is there any clue as to the exact hour of the man's death? 24:56.036 --> 24:56.994 One o'clock. 24:57.704 --> 25:02.082 It rained about that time and the death certainly occurred before the rain. 25:04.377 --> 25:08.881 No, no, no. That's perfectly impossible, Mr. Baynes. 25:09.049 --> 25:11.467 No, no, his voice is very unmistakable. 25:11.593 --> 25:15.638 I could swear to it that it was he who addressed me in my room 25:15.764 --> 25:17.306 at that very hour. 25:17.557 --> 25:20.226 Well he spoke to me, you know, in that funny accent of his. 25:20.352 --> 25:22.811 He said "Ees nearly one o'clock". 25:23.063 --> 25:27.066 Remarkable but we must not confuse the unlikely with the impossible. 25:30.278 --> 25:31.320 What does he mean of that? 25:32.697 --> 25:36.742 Certainly some strange people occupy that house, Mr. Holmes. 25:37.327 --> 25:38.827 One of them is dead. 25:39.371 --> 25:42.081 Did some of his companions follow him and murder him? 25:42.707 --> 25:46.585 If so, we should have them for every port is watched 25:46.920 --> 25:49.505 but my views are different, Mr. Holmes. 25:50.382 --> 25:52.967 Yes sir, my views are very different. 25:53.093 --> 25:54.260 You have a theory? 25:54.803 --> 25:56.679 And I'll work it myself, Mr. Holmes. 25:57.514 --> 26:00.349 Your name is already made, I have yet to make mine 26:00.767 --> 26:02.768 and I shall like to be able to say afterwards, 26:03.770 --> 26:06.188 that I solved it without your help. 26:07.607 --> 26:09.775 Then you do follow your path and I will follow mine. 26:09.901 --> 26:10.985 Goodbye, Mr. Scott Eccles. 26:12.112 --> 26:12.945 Scott Eccles. 26:14.656 --> 26:16.115 Let us consider this note. 26:17.033 --> 26:19.285 Is there a woman involved? A jealous husband? 26:20.495 --> 26:24.081 Godspeed. Godspeed D, that must be our guide. 26:25.959 --> 26:30.713 The man was a Spaniard, I suggest that the "D" stands for Delores. 26:30.839 --> 26:32.673 It's a common female name in Spain. 26:34.551 --> 26:37.177 A Spaniard would write to a Spaniard in Spanish. Watson. 27:45.080 --> 27:48.207 Henderson, High Gable, George F folliott. 28:05.016 --> 28:06.392 Mr. Holmes? 28:07.602 --> 28:09.228 Look what I've found. 28:10.397 --> 28:11.855 In the bush. 28:15.193 --> 28:16.443 Excellent. 29:40.695 --> 29:43.405 I'm terribly sorry. I've seemed to have... 29:54.667 --> 29:55.375 You are trespassing. 29:55.585 --> 29:57.127 I'm terribly sorry I've seemed to have lost my direction. 29:57.253 --> 29:58.170 Is it your custom to wander... 29:58.296 --> 30:00.964 Awe, Doctor Wakefield 30:01.216 --> 30:05.010 my friend and fellow cartographer. 30:05.178 --> 30:05.969 Yes indeed. 30:06.221 --> 30:10.098 You were so engrossed in trying to chase the bridal path 30:10.225 --> 30:14.478 to a now vanished Hamlet of Ogmore St. Mary. 30:14.604 --> 30:15.979 That we mislaid each other. 30:16.189 --> 30:18.440 And since we're late for Mr. Henderson, I thought, 30:18.608 --> 30:19.691 I'm so glad you found your way here. 30:19.859 --> 30:21.693 Well I very much regret that 30:21.861 --> 30:24.446 Mr. Henderson is too busy to see you today. 30:24.572 --> 30:28.158 No Lucas, I will see them. 31:00.233 --> 31:01.483 Gentlemen. 31:11.870 --> 31:13.912 The purpose of our visit is to inquire 31:15.874 --> 31:18.000 into the history of High Gable, 31:18.251 --> 31:22.129 which we believe has an intriguing and blood tested past, 31:22.255 --> 31:25.257 since the days of the English civil war. 31:25.633 --> 31:27.634 I would have no knowledge of that. 31:29.429 --> 31:30.888 I'm only a recent invader. 31:34.309 --> 31:37.352 But there are local records in the library. 31:39.564 --> 31:43.191 There are no records of any past found in this house. 31:49.991 --> 31:51.199 I see. 31:56.205 --> 31:57.497 Then I will detain you no more. 31:59.709 --> 32:00.751 Good day. 32:14.223 --> 32:15.682 I thought you were in London. 32:15.975 --> 32:17.351 For the morning only. 32:17.769 --> 32:20.604 Well with your usual reluctance to confide your thoughts to me. 32:20.730 --> 32:23.231 I exercised my own mind in the matter. 32:23.608 --> 32:27.152 You'd circled two names on your list. Henderson and High Gable. 32:27.320 --> 32:31.114 Well the others are, per say, respectable people. 32:31.491 --> 32:33.075 Far aloof from romance 32:33.201 --> 32:37.871 but this man, Henderson, but he's a very singular creation. 32:38.122 --> 32:39.081 Yes indeed. 32:39.749 --> 32:41.500 As you may have noticed... No tea for me. 32:41.834 --> 32:46.004 The house is double winged. One side the servants the other side the family. 32:47.382 --> 32:51.510 There is one single connecting door for the Henderson family meals. 32:51.844 --> 32:54.346 I'm sure you couldn't have observed all all that in the short time we were there, Holmes. 32:54.472 --> 32:55.889 Nobody's instruments for gossip and 32:56.015 --> 32:59.518 discharged servants and I was lucky to enough to find one 32:59.769 --> 33:00.477 who had been sacked 33:00.603 --> 33:04.815 by his imperious master Henderson and a victim of violent temper. 33:05.900 --> 33:10.362 Now the Henderson girls who we encountered, have a governess. 33:11.239 --> 33:14.950 A Miss Burnet, an English woman. Here is the very singular fact. 33:15.702 --> 33:17.828 She has not been seen since the night of the murder. 33:18.496 --> 33:19.913 She has utterly vanished. 33:20.039 --> 33:20.914 I've seen her. 33:22.625 --> 33:25.711 Of course, I've seen her and she is alive. 33:25.878 --> 33:27.629 I saw her at the window at High Gable. 33:29.215 --> 33:30.549 My God a prisoner. 33:32.343 --> 33:33.552 She slipped my mind. 33:35.054 --> 33:37.597 The moment those awful girls descended upon me. 33:38.558 --> 33:39.975 She is alive, I've seen her. 33:46.441 --> 33:48.400 That's the man I saw and chased. 33:48.776 --> 33:50.652 Baynes has arrested the wrong man. 33:51.404 --> 33:53.488 Now Watson, quickly, we must stop him. 34:07.587 --> 34:09.921 Is he the murderer? Did he kill a Spaniard? 34:10.339 --> 34:11.965 Where did you capture him? 34:13.926 --> 34:16.636 This man is the murdered man's cook 34:16.763 --> 34:18.638 who disappeared on the night of the crime. 34:18.765 --> 34:22.017 We believe there were valuables left in the house 34:22.226 --> 34:24.519 and that there abstraction was the motive. 34:24.645 --> 34:28.190 The man had been seen in the vicinity of the house once before. 34:28.316 --> 34:29.733 The second time, 34:31.027 --> 34:34.571 subdue him Higgins Blenkins... 34:36.532 --> 34:40.202 The second time we let a man escape for him 34:40.328 --> 34:42.871 we shall be applying for remand 34:42.997 --> 34:45.248 when the prisoner's brought before the magistrate. 34:45.374 --> 34:48.001 That will be all for now, gentlemen. Thank you very much. 34:48.419 --> 34:49.086 Was it on the way? 34:49.212 --> 34:50.921 Where did you capture him? 34:51.380 --> 34:54.716 Baynes, I am not convinced that you're on the right line. 34:54.842 --> 34:58.095 Mr. Holmes doesn't want you to commit yourself too far unless you're sure. 34:58.638 --> 35:02.516 Oh, you're very kind gentleman 35:03.267 --> 35:08.980 but we did agree to work on our own lines didn't we? 35:10.066 --> 35:11.942 And that's what I'm doing. 35:12.819 --> 35:15.821 You're welcome always to my news. 35:17.073 --> 35:21.451 This fellow is as strong as a carthorse and fierce as the devil. 35:22.036 --> 35:24.913 He nearly bit off Constable Downing's thumb 35:25.039 --> 35:27.499 before they managed to master him. 35:28.042 --> 35:29.543 He speaks hardly any English 35:29.669 --> 35:32.504 and we can get nothing out of him but grunts. 35:34.841 --> 35:40.011 And you think that you have evidence that he murdered his late master? 35:40.930 --> 35:43.348 I didn't say so, Mr. Holmes. 35:44.767 --> 35:46.560 I didn't say so. 35:48.896 --> 35:51.898 We all have our own little ways. 35:53.192 --> 35:54.943 You will go yours 35:55.653 --> 35:58.697 and I will go mine. That was the agreement. 36:00.032 --> 36:00.866 So be it. 36:04.287 --> 36:06.621 I think Baynes is riding for the fall. 36:06.956 --> 36:08.665 I would have to agree with you there. 36:29.061 --> 36:31.188 You appreciate our difficulty, Watson. 36:31.439 --> 36:34.232 There's nothing upon which we can apply for a warrant. 36:34.650 --> 36:37.569 And with our worthy Inspector making his arrests 36:37.987 --> 36:40.906 our theory would seem fantastic if laid before the magistrate. 36:41.115 --> 36:43.325 Yet you think the lady's in danger of her life? 36:43.451 --> 36:46.161 Yes. I'm sure of it Watson, 36:46.579 --> 36:50.874 therefore we must take the law into our own hands. 37:00.092 --> 37:01.551 Top left bay. 37:02.887 --> 37:04.721 We could reach it from that outhouse. 37:52.853 --> 37:53.687 Run. 38:08.577 --> 38:11.621 They're making for the station. We'll follow the coach to London. 38:11.831 --> 38:12.372 Right. 39:29.784 --> 39:32.202 Stop the train. Stop the train. 39:33.329 --> 39:34.079 Stop it. 39:57.436 --> 40:01.564 Why, Mr. Holmes, you have given me the very evidence I wanted. 40:01.857 --> 40:04.776 We were both on the same scent from the start. 40:04.944 --> 40:06.486 Were you after Henderson too? 40:06.821 --> 40:11.658 Quite so well, you first and then Doctor Watson here 40:11.784 --> 40:14.786 came crawling through the under growth at High Gable, 40:14.954 --> 40:17.789 I was up a tree observing you both. 40:17.915 --> 40:20.708 It was just a question of who got the evidence first. 40:23.003 --> 40:24.796 Why did you arrest the mulatto? 40:25.131 --> 40:29.092 Well I was sure that Henderson, as he calls himself 40:29.301 --> 40:32.762 felt he was suspected and he would make no move 40:32.888 --> 40:34.848 so long as he thought he was in danger 40:35.057 --> 40:37.183 so I arrested the wrong man. 40:39.103 --> 40:41.771 You know you will rise high in your profession, Inspector. 40:42.398 --> 40:43.940 You have instinct and intuition. 40:44.066 --> 40:45.984 Thank you, Mr. Holmes, 40:46.485 --> 40:51.322 but we can't arrest without Miss Burnet's evidence can we? 40:51.740 --> 40:54.117 Oh she'll be able to give you that in a moment but, 40:54.827 --> 40:56.661 tell me who is this man, Henderson. 40:56.829 --> 41:01.166 He's Don Murillo known as the Tiger of San Pedro. 41:01.375 --> 41:05.128 One of the most dangerous men out of Central America. 41:05.296 --> 41:09.466 Oh indeed. Most elude and blood thirsty tyrant. 41:09.592 --> 41:14.345 Who imposed his earliest vices upon a caring people for almost twelve years. 41:18.476 --> 41:23.813 Was it the San Pedro colors green and white that first put you onto it? 41:24.023 --> 41:27.192 That and my visit to London, to the Spanish embassy in the foreign office. 41:27.359 --> 41:30.069 Now please this is your case, Inspector, 41:33.365 --> 41:38.536 Five years ago there was a rising against the tyrant 41:38.996 --> 41:41.831 but it was an empty palace they stormed on Murillo, 41:41.957 --> 41:45.835 his secretary, two children and all the wealth 41:47.254 --> 41:48.963 had escaped by ship 41:49.757 --> 41:53.468 and from that moment they disappeared from the face of the earth. 41:54.178 --> 41:59.015 His identity has been a subject of constant comment in the European press. 41:59.725 --> 42:02.227 We discovered him a year ago. 42:03.771 --> 42:04.687 Miss Burnet? 42:06.732 --> 42:09.025 How came you into this matter Miss Burnet? 42:09.902 --> 42:12.904 An English lady in such a murderous affair. 42:13.239 --> 42:16.741 Because there is no other way in the world by which justice can be gained. 42:19.495 --> 42:23.623 What does the law of England care about the rivers of blood 42:24.041 --> 42:26.376 shed so many years ago in San Pedro 42:27.878 --> 42:30.630 or the shipload of treasure that this man has stolen from us? 42:32.758 --> 42:36.719 To you, they're like crimes committed on some other planet. 42:39.640 --> 42:40.598 We know. 42:44.853 --> 42:47.772 My real name is Senora Victoria Durando. 42:49.275 --> 42:52.735 My husband was the minister of San Pedro in London. 42:52.861 --> 42:54.654 He met and married me there. 42:59.702 --> 43:03.121 A nobler man never lived upon the earth. 43:05.082 --> 43:10.670 Unhappily, Murillo heard of his excellence 43:12.131 --> 43:15.508 and recalled him on some pretext, 43:17.970 --> 43:19.137 and shot him 43:20.514 --> 43:23.641 by a stroke of... of premonition. 43:24.476 --> 43:26.978 My husband had refused to take me with him. 43:29.231 --> 43:34.152 Then came the downfall of the monster. He escaped as you have described. 43:34.320 --> 43:36.321 But the many whose lives he had ruined, 43:36.488 --> 43:39.032 whose loved ones had suffered torture and death at his hands 43:39.158 --> 43:42.493 would not let the matter rest. We banded ourselves into a society, 43:42.620 --> 43:45.496 which should never be dissolved until the work was done. 43:46.540 --> 43:48.916 It was my part to attach myself to his household 43:49.043 --> 43:50.877 and keep the others in touch with his movements. 43:51.837 --> 43:53.796 I secured the position as governess. 44:00.721 --> 44:03.348 He little knew that the woman who faced him at every meal 44:03.474 --> 44:06.267 was the woman whose husband he had hurried to eternity. 44:06.977 --> 44:10.563 I smiled on him, did my duty to his children, 44:11.357 --> 44:12.982 and bided my time. 44:17.488 --> 44:20.031 An attempt was made in Paris and failed. 44:20.949 --> 44:24.494 We zigzagged here and there swiftly over Europe 44:24.703 --> 44:29.040 to throw off our pursuers and finally returned to High Gable. 44:30.250 --> 44:33.878 Garcia had been waiting there for nearly a year with two trusted companions, 44:34.004 --> 44:36.673 all fired with the same reasons for revenge. 44:37.716 --> 44:39.133 Who was Garcia? 44:41.679 --> 44:43.429 The son of Fernando Garcia. 44:44.682 --> 44:48.434 One of the former highest dignitaries of San Pedro who was murdered... 44:50.729 --> 44:51.854 like your husband. 44:54.149 --> 44:58.194 This note you sent, you say it was intercepted. 44:59.029 --> 45:02.073 During the day Murillo took every precaution 45:02.282 --> 45:05.535 and never went outside without his satellite Lucas. 45:06.453 --> 45:09.330 Even at night the man was forever on the alert 45:09.498 --> 45:11.416 and continually changed his room. 45:12.251 --> 45:15.795 We had arranged that I would send Garcia final instructions. 45:16.255 --> 45:17.505 The doors would be opened 45:17.631 --> 45:19.966 and the signal of a green or white light in a window 45:20.092 --> 45:22.927 which faced the drive, was to give notice if all was safe 45:23.429 --> 45:25.263 or if the attempt had better be postponed. 45:46.076 --> 45:47.493 To whom are you writing this letter? 45:49.329 --> 45:53.124 Which describes the room in which I intend to sleep tonight. 45:55.377 --> 46:00.173 Who is your confederate? 46:01.842 --> 46:03.926 What is your real name Miss Burnet? 46:07.264 --> 46:10.057 My name is Durando. 46:12.144 --> 46:13.478 Durando's widow. 46:30.662 --> 46:32.121 You can kill me now 46:32.498 --> 46:37.251 what is my life worth you have destroyed everything that I love. 46:37.795 --> 46:41.005 Who are you writing to? Tell me. 46:41.507 --> 46:43.257 Senora Durando? Who? 46:43.383 --> 46:47.553 It's a name you fear, He's waiting for you. 46:56.313 --> 46:57.230 He's Garcia. 46:59.358 --> 47:00.525 Garcia? 47:10.702 --> 47:12.245 Wisteria Lodge. 47:13.372 --> 47:17.500 He is waiting to dispatch you to hell. You fiend. 47:18.293 --> 47:19.585 I knew the boy well. 47:20.379 --> 47:22.797 His father was once my dearest friend. 47:24.049 --> 47:25.466 You murdered him. 47:26.426 --> 47:27.885 He betrayed me 47:30.597 --> 47:32.056 and so did your husband. 47:38.397 --> 47:40.857 And now they send the wives and sons. 47:42.025 --> 47:43.568 Will you never learn? 47:45.237 --> 47:47.113 I am indestructible. 48:00.586 --> 48:03.045 At first they were of a mind to let him into the house 48:03.171 --> 48:05.089 and kill him as a detected burglar 48:05.716 --> 48:08.676 but they feared the inquiry might publicly expose them. 50:27.482 --> 50:32.069 Garcia, some day justice will come. 50:33.447 --> 50:36.699 That is as certain as the rise of tomorrow's sun. 50:46.251 --> 50:49.420 I have no doubt that my life too hung in the balance. 50:51.298 --> 50:53.632 Most of the time I was confined to my room. 50:55.427 --> 50:59.847 Terrorized by the most horrible threats to break my spirit. 51:02.601 --> 51:03.768 Occasionally I was allowed out 51:03.935 --> 51:06.353 but only when they had first drugged my food 51:08.482 --> 51:11.650 and it was at this state that you found me at the station. 51:13.403 --> 51:15.112 And thanks to this good man. 51:17.365 --> 51:20.034 I am beyond their power forever. 51:27.334 --> 51:32.505 Well Inspector, our police work is done but our legal work begins. 51:32.631 --> 51:36.133 Exactly, Mr. Holmes, yes. Garcia's death 51:36.259 --> 51:40.971 in the hands of a portable lawyer could look like an act of self-defense. 51:41.098 --> 51:43.224 But I think better of the law than that. 51:43.600 --> 51:47.019 Self-defense is one thing but to entice a man in cold-blood 51:47.145 --> 51:48.395 with the object of murdering him is another. 51:48.522 --> 51:50.481 Whatever danger you fear from him. 51:51.191 --> 51:53.400 I think we shall justice done at the next... 51:53.527 --> 51:55.361 I thought you had released the mulatto. 51:55.487 --> 51:57.446 Yes sir, he's a free man again. 51:57.989 --> 51:59.782 And your man is with the fugitives on the train? 51:59.908 --> 52:02.535 He is, sir, yes, and I've wired Scotland Yard 52:02.661 --> 52:07.081 to have their men at Waterloo Station to receive them, yes. 52:07.707 --> 52:09.834 You know I really must congratulate, Inspector. 52:10.669 --> 52:14.672 Your powers, if I may so, without offense, are superior to your opportunities. 52:15.006 --> 52:17.550 Your right, Mr. Holmes.