WEBVTT 01:09.819 --> 01:10.819 Good evening, Mr. West. 01:10.945 --> 01:11.737 Third-class London Bridge. 01:11.863 --> 01:12.780 Single or return? 01:12.906 --> 01:14.406 Oh, it doesn't matter, single. 01:19.788 --> 01:22.456 Quickly, quickly. 02:10.839 --> 02:14.883 He's dead. Must have fallen from the train. 02:15.176 --> 02:16.844 Yeah, look at his head. 02:17.720 --> 02:20.013 You run back to the station and tell 'em what happened, 02:20.140 --> 02:21.056 I'll stay here. 03:38.927 --> 03:41.053 It's a real pea souper. 03:45.058 --> 03:46.767 Nothing in the paper, Watson? 03:47.143 --> 03:50.103 No. There's another revolution in South America, 03:50.271 --> 03:53.273 possible war in Africa nothing of interest to you. 03:56.236 --> 03:58.946 The London Criminal is certainly a dull fellow. 04:00.365 --> 04:03.951 A thief or a murderer could roam London on a day like this 04:04.118 --> 04:07.120 as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, 04:08.289 --> 04:10.165 and then evident only to his victim. 04:11.125 --> 04:13.126 There are numerous petty thefts. 04:14.629 --> 04:18.715 Well, this great and somber stage is set for something more worthy than that. 04:21.636 --> 04:24.721 It is fortunate for the community that I am not a criminal. 04:24.931 --> 04:25.889 It is indeed. 04:26.808 --> 04:29.017 It is well they don't have days of fog in the Latin countries 04:29.143 --> 04:31.019 the countries of assassination. 04:31.813 --> 04:32.562 For you, Mr. Holmes. 04:32.689 --> 04:33.438 Thank you. 04:33.982 --> 04:34.564 Mr. Holmes. 04:34.732 --> 04:37.401 Yes, I know. I apologize for the state of my room. 04:38.486 --> 04:39.903 Well, what next? 04:40.989 --> 04:43.240 My brother Mycroft is coming around. 04:43.366 --> 04:44.157 Oh, why not. 04:44.284 --> 04:45.409 Why not? 04:46.494 --> 04:49.496 As if you met a tram-car coming down a country lane. 04:49.789 --> 04:52.082 Mycroft has his lines and he runs on them. 04:52.959 --> 04:54.334 Pall Mall Lodgings, 04:54.502 --> 04:56.586 the Diogenes Club, Whitehall, that's his cycle. 04:56.713 --> 04:58.338 Once and only once has he ever been here. 04:58.506 --> 05:01.341 I mean what upheaval can possibly have derailed him? 05:04.637 --> 05:08.098 Must see you over Cadogan West. Coming at once... 05:09.183 --> 05:10.183 I've heard the name. 05:10.351 --> 05:12.144 That recalls nothing to my mind. 05:12.520 --> 05:16.356 Mycroft breaking out of this erratic fashion, it's extraordinary. 05:16.566 --> 05:19.860 Watson, you do know what Mycroft is. 05:20.194 --> 05:23.196 I seem to remember about the time of the affair of the Greek interpreter. 05:23.364 --> 05:26.325 You told me that he had some small office under the British government. 05:27.076 --> 05:28.744 He wasn't doing quite so well in those days. 05:29.537 --> 05:32.914 His position is unique. He's made it for himself. 05:33.041 --> 05:35.500 There's never been anything like it before nor will be again. 05:35.710 --> 05:38.211 He is the tidiest and most orderly brain 05:38.504 --> 05:42.299 with the greatest capacity for storing facts of any man living. 05:43.718 --> 05:45.886 The conclusions of every government department 05:46.054 --> 05:48.805 that passed through him. He is the central exchange 05:49.223 --> 05:53.143 which makes out the balance. All other men are specialists. 05:53.269 --> 05:56.897 His specialism is omniscience. 05:58.441 --> 06:03.028 Time and time again, Mycroft's word has decided national policy. 06:03.946 --> 06:07.282 Then Jupiter himself is descending upon us today. 06:07.408 --> 06:10.827 Yes, indeed No trace of Cadogan West. 06:10.953 --> 06:11.745 West 06:13.581 --> 06:17.209 I have it. Yes, Cadogan West. 06:17.794 --> 06:22.547 Cadogan West was the young man who was found dead on the underground 06:22.715 --> 06:23.673 on Tuesday morning. 06:23.800 --> 06:26.760 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was a featureless case as I remember. 06:27.261 --> 06:30.639 Young man killed falling from a moving train, no robbery, no violence. 06:31.057 --> 06:34.142 Watson, Brother Mycroft. 06:37.105 --> 06:39.815 That looks like our old friend Inspector Bradstreet. 06:40.608 --> 06:43.318 Why should he bring a policeman with him? 06:45.613 --> 06:47.364 Ah, here we are. 06:47.490 --> 06:53.036 Cadogan West, Clerk at the Woolwich Arsenal, 27, unmarried. 06:53.162 --> 06:55.956 Government employee. Behold a link with my brother Mycroft. 06:58.459 --> 06:59.501 Mycroft. 07:00.878 --> 07:03.797 Ah, Dr... 07:04.173 --> 07:04.965 Watson. 07:05.383 --> 07:07.384 Watson, you know Bradstreet. 07:07.510 --> 07:08.301 Holmes, Dr. Watson. 07:08.469 --> 07:12.722 Cadogan West, the most annoying business, Sherlock. 07:13.141 --> 07:15.976 I extremely dislike altering my habits 07:16.269 --> 07:21.356 with the powers that be would broke no denial. In the present state of Siam 07:21.482 --> 07:24.401 it's most awkward I should be away from the office. 07:24.944 --> 07:27.154 But it is a real crisis Sherlock. 07:27.321 --> 07:30.031 I've never seen the Prime Minister so upset 07:30.533 --> 07:32.492 and as to the Admiralty 07:33.119 --> 07:36.288 buzzing like an overturned beehive. 07:36.914 --> 07:38.999 Do sit down, Bradstreet. 07:40.126 --> 07:43.170 Well, there's nothing unusual reported in the newspapers. 07:44.088 --> 07:45.589 I should hope not. 07:47.383 --> 07:50.010 The wretched youth, had the plans 07:50.136 --> 07:54.473 of the Bruce Partington submarine in his pocket. 07:57.810 --> 07:59.186 Well, you must have heard of it. 07:59.353 --> 08:00.103 Only by name. 08:00.354 --> 08:03.940 Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. 08:04.650 --> 08:09.237 It has been the most closely guarded of all government secrets. 08:09.363 --> 08:11.364 You may take it from me that navel warfare 08:11.491 --> 08:17.454 becomes impossible within the radius of a Bruce Partington operation. 08:19.665 --> 08:22.209 So, what sort of plans are we talking about? 08:22.543 --> 08:24.961 Extremely intricate ones, Sherlock. 08:25.379 --> 08:26.922 Some 30 different pages, 08:27.048 --> 08:29.299 each one essential to the working of the whole. 08:29.425 --> 08:31.760 Where are the plans normally kept? 08:31.886 --> 08:34.596 In an elaborate safe in a confidential office 08:34.722 --> 08:39.226 adjoining the arsenal of Woolwich with burglar proof doors and windows. 08:40.478 --> 08:44.189 If the chief instructor of the Navy himself desired to consult the plans, 08:44.315 --> 08:46.608 he would have to go to Woolwich to do so. 08:48.027 --> 08:50.195 To think they should turn up in the pocket 08:50.321 --> 08:54.157 of a dead Junior Clerk in the heart of London is simply awful. 08:54.408 --> 08:55.784 Have you recovered the papers? 08:55.910 --> 08:59.829 No, Sherlock. No. That's the pinch. We have not. 09:00.623 --> 09:03.833 Some ten papers were taken from Woolwich. 09:04.085 --> 09:07.963 Only seven were found in the pocket of Cadogan West. 09:08.297 --> 09:10.757 The other three are missing, gone, vanished, stolen. 09:12.176 --> 09:14.052 You must drop everything, Sherlock. 09:14.178 --> 09:18.640 Never mind your usual petty puzzles of the police courts. 09:18.766 --> 09:24.396 This is a real international crisis that you have to solve. 09:25.856 --> 09:29.609 Well, there are some points of interest in the case, I suppose. 09:32.154 --> 09:33.488 I'll be pleased to look into it. 09:35.408 --> 09:38.910 Bradstreet, now, who held the keys to that safe? 09:39.787 --> 09:41.871 There are two sets of keys. 09:42.415 --> 09:44.082 Sir James Walter holds one set. 09:44.208 --> 09:46.626 He is the actual official guardian of the papers. 09:46.794 --> 09:49.963 A man grown gray in the service of the State, 09:50.339 --> 09:54.926 a favored guest in the most exalted houses. His patriotism is above suspicion. 09:55.595 --> 09:56.636 And the other keys? 09:56.762 --> 09:59.639 A Mr. Sidney Johnson, a Senior Clerk and Draughtsman. 09:59.765 --> 10:03.184 A silent morose man, not popular but a hard worker. 10:03.311 --> 10:05.312 His wife corroborates his account of the matter. 10:05.438 --> 10:06.980 He was at home the whole of Monday night 10:07.106 --> 10:09.316 and the keys never left the watch-chain upon which they hang. 10:09.483 --> 10:12.068 What sort of fellow was this man West? 10:12.194 --> 10:15.488 Hot-headed, rather impetuous, 10:16.032 --> 10:19.075 his duties brought him into daily contact with the plans. 10:19.201 --> 10:20.118 Who locked them up that night? 10:20.244 --> 10:21.286 Johnson, the Senior Clerk. 10:21.454 --> 10:23.580 But yet they were found on the person of the Junior Clerk. 10:23.706 --> 10:24.956 Well, I mean that sounds final, does it not? 10:25.082 --> 10:27.667 Yeah, but why would he take them? 10:27.835 --> 10:31.338 Reason why he should take them up to London except to sell them. 10:31.672 --> 10:32.339 Nope. 10:32.715 --> 10:35.467 Then we must take that as our working hypothesis. 10:36.469 --> 10:39.012 West, could he have done this 10:40.097 --> 10:42.724 with false keys? He opens the safe, takes out the papers, 10:42.850 --> 10:44.976 goes off to London to see a foreign agent. 10:46.187 --> 10:50.023 He has to have 'em back before morning or the loss will be discovered. 10:50.691 --> 10:53.234 He took away ten. Seven were in his pocket, 10:54.403 --> 10:55.987 What became of the other three? 10:56.197 --> 10:58.365 He certainly wouldn't leave them of his own free will. 10:58.491 --> 11:00.575 It all seems perfectly clear to me. 11:01.494 --> 11:02.869 As you say, Mr. Holmes, 11:03.287 --> 11:05.705 West stole the plans in order to sell them. 11:06.666 --> 11:09.918 He met the agent, but they could not agree as to a price. 11:10.920 --> 11:13.213 So West returned home again but the agent followed him. 11:13.964 --> 11:16.257 In the train, the agent murdered him, 11:16.717 --> 11:18.802 took the more essential papers, 11:19.053 --> 11:21.763 and threw the body from the railway carriage. 11:22.682 --> 11:24.140 Now, that would explain everything, would it not? 11:24.350 --> 11:28.269 It's good, that's very good Bradstreet. 11:28.562 --> 11:29.979 Your theory holds together. 11:30.398 --> 11:32.315 But if this is true then the case is at an end. 11:32.566 --> 11:34.401 On the one hand the traitor is dead, on the other, 11:34.527 --> 11:36.903 the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine are presumably 11:37.071 --> 11:38.947 somewhere on the continent. I mean what is there for me to do? 11:39.740 --> 11:42.909 To act Sherlock, to act. 11:44.620 --> 11:47.747 All my instincts are against this explanation 11:48.124 --> 11:52.502 and yours too, I think. We are not brothers for nothing. 11:52.753 --> 11:55.422 Use your powers. Go to the scene. 11:55.548 --> 11:58.925 Question the people concerned. Leave no stone unturned. 11:59.260 --> 12:00.510 In all of your career, 12:00.845 --> 12:03.930 you'll never have a greater chance of serving your country. 12:04.807 --> 12:06.099 If you on your part 12:06.225 --> 12:07.809 will be kind enough to send me a complete list 12:07.935 --> 12:10.729 of foreign spies and international agents known to be in England 12:11.147 --> 12:12.564 and their full address. 12:13.524 --> 12:15.024 And then we on our part 12:15.151 --> 12:18.194 can begin our investigation by a visit to Longhead Station. 12:18.320 --> 12:19.195 Bradstreet. 12:19.405 --> 12:20.405 Watson. 12:20.865 --> 12:23.199 Mrs. Hudson, we're leaving. 12:39.633 --> 12:41.050 When was the body found? 12:41.177 --> 12:43.636 Near enough to six o'clock, sir, Tuesday morning. 12:44.013 --> 12:46.222 He must have fallen from the train some time Monday night. 12:46.390 --> 12:48.683 Have the carriages been examined for any signs of violence? 12:48.809 --> 12:50.894 No such trace of violence had been found. 12:51.020 --> 12:53.563 No report of a door found open? 12:55.816 --> 12:58.860 We can tell the approximate time that he entered the train from his ticket. 12:59.945 --> 13:01.571 There was no ticket on the body. 13:03.783 --> 13:05.241 That is really very singular. 13:06.368 --> 13:08.203 Then in my experience it's not possible 13:08.370 --> 13:10.163 to reach the platform of the Metropolitan Line 13:10.289 --> 13:13.082 without exhibiting one's ticket, is that not so? 13:13.459 --> 13:14.334 Quite correct, sir, 13:14.460 --> 13:17.170 Surely, the murderer would have removed the ticket 13:17.338 --> 13:20.673 before throwing West from the train so as not to reveal the- 13:20.841 --> 13:23.051 name of the station nearest his place of residents. 13:23.344 --> 13:24.677 I think the doctor has it. 13:24.887 --> 13:29.015 What else did he have in his possession besides the fabled papers and no ticket? 13:29.183 --> 13:32.602 Usual things, pocketbook, notecase, checkbook. 13:32.853 --> 13:36.773 Oh, and two tickets for the Dress Circle 13:36.941 --> 13:39.359 of the Woolwich Theater for that very evening. 13:40.528 --> 13:43.530 It appears that West was to have attended the performance 13:43.656 --> 13:47.283 in the accompany of his fiancee, Ms. Violet Westbury. 13:48.035 --> 13:50.286 She was the last person to see him alive on that fatal night. 13:51.747 --> 13:54.374 They were walking to the theater together in the park, 13:55.292 --> 13:56.751 when he suddenly left her. 13:57.044 --> 13:58.211 Suddenly without explanation. 14:01.048 --> 14:03.341 There appears to be no bleeding on the line? 14:03.467 --> 14:05.468 Well, there was hardly any trace of blood to be found. 14:05.594 --> 14:07.470 As I gather, there was a considerable wound 14:07.596 --> 14:09.764 consistent with a man falling from a moving train. 14:09.974 --> 14:11.724 Well, it was a terrible thing to see. Said the- 14:11.892 --> 14:14.143 head was knocked right in and the bone crushed. 14:14.270 --> 14:16.604 And yet, there was no great external injury. 14:16.856 --> 14:19.190 Well, I would expect some blood. 14:21.485 --> 14:25.238 So the line runs northeast. 14:25.573 --> 14:27.407 Yes, the track divides here sir, 14:27.575 --> 14:29.701 and there's a branch line goes south under the river 14:29.827 --> 14:31.661 to Rotherhive and New Cross. 14:33.539 --> 14:42.130 The points. 14:43.507 --> 14:46.885 I suppose there are no great number of points in the system such as this? 14:47.011 --> 14:48.469 There are very few, sir. 14:50.180 --> 14:50.805 Points 14:53.475 --> 14:58.605 and a curve, oh by Jove, if it were only so. 14:59.523 --> 15:00.315 What is it? 15:03.110 --> 15:04.110 Holmes, do you have a clue? 15:04.278 --> 15:08.156 Well, it's an idea Bradstreet, an indication no more. 15:08.782 --> 15:10.783 But the case certainly grows in interest. 15:12.411 --> 15:16.497 It's unique, perfectly unique. 15:17.333 --> 15:18.708 And yet why not? 15:29.803 --> 15:30.511 Cab! 15:31.889 --> 15:34.766 There is material here, Watson, there is scope. 15:34.934 --> 15:37.435 I was dull indeed not to see it's possibilities. 15:37.561 --> 15:39.103 Well I confess it's dull to me. 15:39.229 --> 15:40.313 And to me also, 15:40.940 --> 15:44.108 but I now have a hold of an idea which may lead us far, 15:46.236 --> 15:47.862 Now I think, Sir James, 15:48.030 --> 15:50.531 the guardian of the plans claims our first attention. 15:51.492 --> 15:52.492 Mumstead Hall. 16:03.087 --> 16:04.128 Well, Holmes? 16:07.299 --> 16:08.216 Your idea? 16:08.550 --> 16:09.342 Oh, yes. 16:11.220 --> 16:12.804 The man West was killed 16:12.930 --> 16:16.516 not by falling or being thrown from a moving train 16:18.018 --> 16:19.727 He met his death elsewhere 16:20.187 --> 16:23.272 and his body was on the roof of the carriage. 16:23.524 --> 16:24.565 On the roof? 16:24.692 --> 16:25.858 Well, consider the facts. 16:26.860 --> 16:29.570 Is it a coincidence that the body was found in the very place 16:29.697 --> 16:33.866 where the train brakes and sways as it comes round on the points? 16:35.035 --> 16:38.037 The sudden slowing would affect no object inside the carriage 16:38.163 --> 16:40.456 but an object such as a body on the roof. 16:42.710 --> 16:44.210 And there's the question of the blood. 16:44.378 --> 16:47.880 Of course, there was no bleeding on the line if the body bled elsewhere. 16:48.549 --> 16:51.801 Each fact is suggestive in itself. Together they have a cumulative force. 16:51.927 --> 16:53.761 Yes, and the ticket too. 16:54.054 --> 16:55.596 That would explain the absence of the ticket. 16:55.723 --> 16:57.432 Watson, it all fits together. 17:06.650 --> 17:07.817 Please wait. 17:19.747 --> 17:22.915 Come in please gentlemen. We were expecting you. 17:40.434 --> 17:41.893 Ah, gentlemen. 17:42.853 --> 17:43.770 Thank you, Baines. 17:43.896 --> 17:44.729 Thank you, sir. 17:45.689 --> 17:48.733 If you follow me the body is upstairs. 17:48.859 --> 17:50.443 But wait, one moment. 17:52.446 --> 17:53.946 Are you not the undertakers? 17:56.575 --> 17:57.992 Excuse me, Sir James. 17:58.202 --> 18:01.788 Uh, I am Dr. Watson and, urn, this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 18:03.165 --> 18:04.123 Good heavens. 18:04.500 --> 18:07.960 We are helping the authorities in the case of the missing papers. 18:09.922 --> 18:13.216 My brother, Sir James Walter, died this morning. 18:14.134 --> 18:16.344 I am Colonel Valentine Walter. 18:18.972 --> 18:21.516 Please gentlemen, come here. 18:35.489 --> 18:37.657 We are very sorry, sir, 18:37.783 --> 18:41.327 Thank you. I'm afraid it has been a great shock. 18:43.288 --> 18:47.166 May I ask how did your brother die? 18:47.501 --> 18:51.212 It was this horrible scandal. My brother is... 18:53.340 --> 18:55.591 my brother was a man of very sensitive honor. 18:56.009 --> 18:59.053 He was fiercely proud of the efficiency of his department. 19:00.013 --> 19:02.598 The theft of the plans was a crushing blow. 19:03.684 --> 19:04.976 It broke his heart. 19:05.352 --> 19:09.147 We were hoping Sir James might have been able to help. 19:09.356 --> 19:12.775 I assure you it was as much a mystery to him as it to all of us. 19:13.735 --> 19:16.779 Naturally he had no doubt that West was guilty, 19:16.905 --> 19:19.490 but why he should have done such a thing. 19:20.701 --> 19:22.535 Now, of course, we shall never know. 19:24.538 --> 19:27.874 So, you can turn a light on the matter? 19:28.167 --> 19:28.833 Me? 19:29.960 --> 19:33.212 I'm afraid I know nothing say what I've read or heard. 19:34.089 --> 19:35.548 And you never meet Cadogan West? 19:35.716 --> 19:39.010 No. No, I have not been back in the country long. 19:39.636 --> 19:42.555 My brother's work was of a very highly-confidential nature. 19:42.723 --> 19:44.390 He did not discuss it with me. 19:47.436 --> 19:49.520 Gentlemen, I do not wish to discourteous 19:49.646 --> 19:52.398 but we are much disturbed at present. 19:53.233 --> 19:55.526 I must ask you to hasten this interview to an end. 19:56.695 --> 19:59.238 Yes, we're sorry to have caused you so much trouble. 20:12.753 --> 20:15.087 That's an unexpected development. 20:15.505 --> 20:16.505 Heart failure. 20:18.425 --> 20:22.011 Or suicide. Now for Miss. Westbury. 20:22.554 --> 20:24.055 Is that the dead man's fiancee? 20:24.223 --> 20:24.764 Yes. 20:47.621 --> 20:50.706 I cannot explain it, Mr. Holmes. 20:51.833 --> 20:54.293 I haven't closed my eyes since the tragedy, 20:55.003 --> 20:59.799 thinking and thinking and thinking what the true meaning of it can be. 21:02.135 --> 21:03.135 Do sit down. 21:11.478 --> 21:18.526 Arthur was the most single-minded, chivalrous, patriotic man on earth. 21:19.444 --> 21:22.655 He would have cut off his right-hand rather than sell a State secret 21:22.781 --> 21:24.031 confided to his keeping. 21:24.658 --> 21:29.287 It's absurd, impossible, preposterous to anyone who knew him. 21:29.413 --> 21:32.123 The facts, Ms. Westbury. 21:32.291 --> 21:33.791 Was he want of money? 21:34.084 --> 21:39.797 No. His needs were very simple and his salary was sufficient. 21:40.257 --> 21:44.176 He'd saved a few hundreds and we were to marry at the new year. 21:44.386 --> 21:48.180 Was there any sign of mental excitement? 21:49.516 --> 21:52.226 Come, Ms. Westbury, be absolutely frank with us. 21:54.521 --> 21:59.150 I had a feeling there was something on his mind. 22:00.277 --> 22:01.068 How long? 22:01.695 --> 22:05.656 Only the last week or two. Once I asked him about it. 22:06.616 --> 22:09.869 It is too serious to speak about even to you, he said. 22:10.370 --> 22:14.206 Go on, Ms. Westbury. Even if it seems to turn against him. 22:15.167 --> 22:17.043 We cannot say where it might lead us. 22:18.712 --> 22:22.548 He spoke one evening about... a secret. 22:24.301 --> 22:25.801 I think he said that no doubt 22:25.927 --> 22:28.679 foreign spies would pay a great deal to have it. 22:29.056 --> 22:31.474 He said that we were slack about such matters 22:31.600 --> 22:35.436 and it would be easy for a traitor to get hold of the plans. 22:37.147 --> 22:43.903 Oh, Mr. Holmes, if you could only, only save his honor. 22:44.780 --> 22:46.405 It was so much to him. 22:49.910 --> 22:50.910 I'll do what I can. 22:52.579 --> 22:54.705 Now, please tell us about that last evening. 22:58.043 --> 22:59.460 It was Monday night 23:01.254 --> 23:04.131 and we were to go to the theater. 23:16.520 --> 23:17.395 Violet, 23:17.896 --> 23:19.355 I'm afraid I've got to leave you. 23:19.898 --> 23:20.689 Leave me? 23:21.191 --> 23:26.779 It's very, very important. I'm sorry. You better go home. 23:27.447 --> 23:29.490 Go home immediately, please. 24:21.877 --> 24:23.586 It was just here, Mr. Holmes. 24:24.671 --> 24:26.922 And he disappeared without any explanation? 24:27.174 --> 24:27.840 Yes. 24:29.509 --> 24:31.802 You are sure this is the exact spot? 24:32.179 --> 24:37.183 Yes. We often used to meet here when we were courting. 24:38.935 --> 24:41.854 You see that's the building where he used to work. 24:45.901 --> 24:47.860 That was the last time I saw him. 24:48.695 --> 24:52.698 Watson, will you be so kind as to take Miss Westbury home in a cab. 25:11.718 --> 25:14.178 Oh, it's bad, it's really bad. 25:14.471 --> 25:15.471 Of course, Mr. Jones. 25:15.597 --> 25:17.431 The whole place is disorganized. 25:18.308 --> 25:23.312 West dead. Now, the Chief dead. Our papers stolen. 25:25.106 --> 25:28.067 And yet, when I closed this office on Monday evening, 25:28.235 --> 25:30.236 we were as efficient as any in the service. 25:30.362 --> 25:32.238 What hour was the office closed on Monday? 25:32.656 --> 25:33.322 At 5:00. 25:33.448 --> 25:34.156 Did you close it? 25:34.407 --> 25:35.824 I'm always the last man out. 25:35.951 --> 25:37.701 Is there a night watchman to the building? 25:37.827 --> 25:41.497 There is. But he has other departments to look after as well. 25:42.290 --> 25:46.794 He's an old soldier, A most trustworthy man. 25:47.546 --> 25:49.004 He didn't see anything that evening. 25:49.172 --> 25:50.005 Thank you. 25:56.429 --> 25:58.430 When you closed the office, where were the plans? 25:58.682 --> 26:01.600 In that safe. I put them there myself. 26:10.277 --> 26:13.070 If Cadogan West was to enter the office after hours, 26:13.863 --> 26:17.199 he would need three keys, would he not, before he could reach these papers. 26:17.325 --> 26:22.371 Yes, a key to the outer door, a key to the office and a key of the safe 26:23.248 --> 26:25.958 And only you and Sir James Walter had those keys. 26:26.501 --> 26:27.459 Yes, indeed. 26:28.295 --> 26:31.964 Sir James kept all three keys on one ring. They never left him. 26:32.132 --> 26:34.174 And, of course, your keys left your possession. 26:34.593 --> 26:35.175 Never. 26:35.552 --> 26:38.846 Sir, Cadogan West is the culprit. He must have had duplicates. 26:39.097 --> 26:40.973 Oh, he's the culprit all right. 26:42.142 --> 26:46.145 It's dreadful to think that West of all people should have done such a thing. 26:46.813 --> 26:48.314 You're sure of his guilt? 26:48.815 --> 26:50.107 I see no other way. 26:50.609 --> 26:52.943 He was getting married. He wanted the money. 26:53.361 --> 26:55.404 Oh yes, he's your man. 26:56.823 --> 26:58.115 Mr. Johnson, 26:58.617 --> 27:05.623 if someone desired to sell the plans surely it would be easier to make copies 27:06.416 --> 27:07.750 than to take the originals. 27:08.001 --> 27:09.960 It would need considerable technical knowledge. 27:10.086 --> 27:11.003 May I see these? 27:15.175 --> 27:18.719 And, of course, you and West and Sir James Walter have that knowledge. 27:19.012 --> 27:22.473 That may be so, but don't try to drag me into this matter, Mr. Holmes. 27:23.058 --> 27:24.600 The plans were found on West. 27:24.726 --> 27:28.562 Well, it is certainly singular that he should risk taking the originals 27:28.688 --> 27:30.439 when he could have safely taken copies. 27:30.607 --> 27:31.982 Perhaps it was a matter of time. 27:32.108 --> 27:33.317 Oh, yes, time. 27:36.905 --> 27:40.908 Now, three plans are missing I understand, they are the vital ones. 27:41.076 --> 27:41.784 That is so. 27:42.702 --> 27:44.912 Now, someone holding those three papers, 27:45.038 --> 27:47.706 I mean, could they construct the Bruce Partington Submarine? 27:51.461 --> 27:54.004 I told the Admiralty that I thought it was possible, 27:54.130 --> 27:56.090 but today I'm not so sure. 27:57.592 --> 28:02.429 These all important double-valves with the automatic self-adjusting slots 28:02.847 --> 28:07.393 are drawn only on this plan which has been returned. 28:07.644 --> 28:09.603 Would you be so kind as to close those window shutters 28:09.729 --> 28:12.064 exactly as they were on Monday night. 28:12.565 --> 28:13.732 Window shutters, certainly. 28:32.419 --> 28:33.585 Thank you so much. 28:43.221 --> 28:44.096 Yes. 28:51.312 --> 28:53.105 I think I'll take a little stroll outside. 28:53.273 --> 28:55.524 Oh, please don't trouble yourself. I can find my own way. 29:26.389 --> 29:27.473 Would you please wait. 29:31.269 --> 29:31.977 Holmes. 29:32.145 --> 29:32.811 Watson. 29:45.158 --> 29:48.577 Look at this. The bushes have been broken. 29:49.829 --> 29:51.663 Now look at the windows behind me. 29:53.500 --> 29:55.501 The shutters don't meet in the center. 29:57.253 --> 29:59.630 As you say, don't meet. 30:00.507 --> 30:02.299 Interesting, don't you think? 30:10.058 --> 30:13.018 8:15, the London Bridge. Yes, I'm sure. 30:13.144 --> 30:15.103 You definitely recognize him as Cadogan West? 30:15.230 --> 30:17.856 Oh, yes, definitely. I knew him well, sir, 30:18.566 --> 30:20.400 He was an old acquaintance. 30:20.985 --> 30:24.196 Hardly a week went by that we didn't pass the time of day together. 30:24.989 --> 30:26.865 It's hard to believe, isn't it? 30:27.242 --> 30:29.701 Yeah. I was saying to the wife early on Sunday night. 30:30.245 --> 30:31.995 No, I'm a liar, it was Saturday. 30:32.497 --> 30:37.501 I said there is no safer railway than the London Metropolitan. 30:40.213 --> 30:43.674 Did Mr. West seem to be following anyone? 30:44.217 --> 30:49.054 Not that I saw, Mr. Holmes, but then I don't see everything. 30:49.347 --> 30:51.557 There was really thick fog that night. 30:52.725 --> 30:54.184 But one thing I will say. 30:54.936 --> 30:59.731 Mr. West wasn't his usual self. He was nervous, excited. 31:00.400 --> 31:03.235 I tell you this gentleman, his hand was shaking so bad. 31:03.361 --> 31:05.445 I had to open up his change. 31:05.780 --> 31:08.323 Well, I mean that speaks for itself. Doesn't it? 31:09.075 --> 31:11.618 Our train. Forgive us. 31:12.912 --> 31:13.745 Come Watson. 31:25.675 --> 31:26.758 Come in. 31:28.595 --> 31:35.934 Mr. Holmes. 31:36.102 --> 31:36.768 Yes. 31:37.145 --> 31:41.106 Whilst you were away, a message came for you from the government. 31:41.274 --> 31:41.815 From the government? 31:41.941 --> 31:44.776 An official gentlemen in a special carriage. 31:45.236 --> 31:47.821 He said "I wasn't to let this out of my sight" 31:47.947 --> 31:49.990 "until I placed it into your own hands." 31:50.617 --> 31:54.828 Mrs. Hudson, you are a most faithful watchdog. 31:58.666 --> 32:00.167 It's from my brother Mycroft. 32:01.169 --> 32:04.963 He writes like a drunken crab. You better read it, 32:05.340 --> 32:08.508 Doctors are more used to hieroglyphics than normal human beings. 32:10.345 --> 32:13.847 Oh, can't read the first bit. Something about "small find", 32:14.140 --> 32:15.307 "very big affair". 32:15.892 --> 32:18.310 Ah, here we are. "Only men were considering" 32:18.561 --> 32:19.853 "Adolph Mayer"... 32:19.979 --> 32:24.566 Great George Street. Doubt it's him, it's not his style. 32:24.901 --> 32:26.360 Oh, Mrs. Hudson. 32:30.281 --> 32:35.202 Louis... Louis La Rothiere. Campden Mansion, Notting Hill. 32:35.328 --> 32:38.664 And that's another old friend. Mrs. Hudson, you're hideously in the way. 32:38.831 --> 32:41.833 I'm sorry sir but I only have one pair of hands... 32:42.001 --> 32:43.293 Please disappear. 32:44.587 --> 32:45.921 Right, Watson. 32:46.839 --> 32:52.135 Ah, "Hugo Oberstein, 13 Coffield Gardens, Kensington." 32:52.929 --> 32:56.974 Uh, "known to be in town on Monday. Now reported to have left." 32:57.392 --> 33:00.602 "The Cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety." 33:01.312 --> 33:05.065 "The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it." 33:05.692 --> 33:06.400 "Mycroft." 33:06.776 --> 33:11.238 All the queens' horses and all the queens' men cannot avail us in this matter. 33:17.537 --> 33:18.829 Coffield Gardens. 33:23.501 --> 33:25.168 Well, well. 33:26.963 --> 33:28.088 What have you found? 33:29.173 --> 33:31.425 Things are turning a little in our direction. 33:33.136 --> 33:35.971 Now I really believe we're going to pull it off after all. 33:41.519 --> 33:42.769 I'm going out. 33:43.896 --> 33:44.563 When will you be back? 33:44.731 --> 33:47.357 I have no idea but I promise I will do nothing serious 33:47.483 --> 33:50.777 without my trusty comrade and biographer at my elbow. 34:30.151 --> 34:33.403 He wants me to meet him in a restaurant off of Gloster Road. 34:34.447 --> 34:36.823 I just hope you'll be careful, that's all. 34:37.742 --> 34:39.534 You're not as young as you were. 34:40.703 --> 34:44.623 You know what Mr. Holmes is like once he gets the bit between his teeth. 34:44.874 --> 34:45.832 I do indeed. 34:46.751 --> 34:48.168 Goodnight Mrs. Hudson. 34:48.795 --> 34:50.045 Goodnight doctor. 35:02.850 --> 35:03.767 Thank you. 35:05.228 --> 35:06.269 Thank you, sir. 35:31.838 --> 35:33.046 Have you the tools. 35:34.924 --> 35:36.007 Have you had something to eat? 35:36.175 --> 35:37.175 Yes, indeed. 35:37.385 --> 35:40.178 Then have a coffee or a curacao. Signor Glodini! 35:41.514 --> 35:43.890 A coffee and a curacao please, for my friend. 35:44.016 --> 35:46.143 Try one of the proprietor cigars. 35:46.352 --> 35:48.603 They're nothing like as poisonous as one would expect. 35:48.729 --> 35:49.896 Oh, thank you. 35:50.273 --> 35:54.609 Now, now, for our plan of action. 35:56.696 --> 35:59.865 It was evident to you Watson that the body was placed 36:00.199 --> 36:00.991 on the roof of the carriage. 36:01.117 --> 36:02.242 Or dropped from a bridge. 36:02.535 --> 36:04.327 No, that's impossible, placed. 36:04.871 --> 36:06.913 The carriage roofs are rounded with no rails. 36:07.498 --> 36:09.749 But how could he be placed there? 36:10.042 --> 36:13.378 In some areas, he London underground 36:13.713 --> 36:17.174 runs clear of tunnels and past the backs of houses. 36:17.466 --> 36:18.508 When I found 36:18.843 --> 36:22.012 that a leading international agent lived in just such a house. 36:22.221 --> 36:25.557 I was so pleased that you were a little astonished at my sudden... 36:25.766 --> 36:29.853 Hugo Oberstein. 13, Coffield Gardens, of course. 36:30.146 --> 36:34.232 Exactly. I was able to satisfy myself that not only 36:34.400 --> 36:36.526 do the backstairs windows open over the line 36:37.361 --> 36:39.196 but the bowing to the intersection 36:39.405 --> 36:42.115 of the Richmond and Wyndam lines were the Circle Line. 36:42.575 --> 36:43.825 Near Gloster road Station. 36:44.577 --> 36:49.122 The trains are frequently held motionless at that very spot. 36:50.249 --> 36:52.250 That's splendid. You got it. 36:52.376 --> 36:54.002 There house appears to be unoccupied. 36:54.253 --> 36:57.088 Oberstein obviously has gone abroad to dispose of his booty 36:57.506 --> 36:59.090 has no reason to fear a warrant. 36:59.342 --> 37:01.718 And to spot an amateur burglary would never occur to him 37:01.844 --> 37:04.346 but that is precisely what we're about to do. 37:06.265 --> 37:07.933 Why, for what purpose? 37:08.267 --> 37:10.018 We cannot tell what correspondence they may have. 37:11.229 --> 37:13.772 No, no, I... no, I don't like it, Holmes. 37:13.940 --> 37:16.983 You can keep watch. I'll do the criminal part. 37:17.568 --> 37:19.361 This is no time to stick to trifles. 37:20.905 --> 37:22.572 Think of the Admiralty, think of the cabinet. 37:23.783 --> 37:26.785 Think of the exalted person herself who waits for news. 37:29.288 --> 37:30.664 We're bound to go. 37:36.462 --> 37:38.338 I knew you wouldn't shrink at the last. 38:12.832 --> 38:16.334 Serious proposition, locked and bolted. 38:17.378 --> 38:19.170 We may do better down area. 38:34.770 --> 38:37.105 Ah, this is better. Jimmy. 38:48.409 --> 38:49.200 Holmes. 39:40.503 --> 39:41.669 Don't touch Watson. 39:45.174 --> 39:46.883 Look where they've rested the body. 39:54.266 --> 39:54.933 Blood. 39:59.814 --> 40:00.730 Blood again. 40:24.547 --> 40:25.630 Well, what do you think of that? 40:25.881 --> 40:28.675 Masterpiece. You've never risen to a greater height. 40:28.801 --> 40:30.009 No, I cannot agree with you. 40:30.761 --> 40:32.303 The moment I conceived the idea of the body 40:32.430 --> 40:34.889 on the roof of the train the rest was inevitable, 40:35.349 --> 40:37.100 and major difficulties to perform. 41:19.393 --> 41:22.687 Hmm, fresh blotting paper. Cunning fellow. 41:23.439 --> 41:24.939 He's covered his tracks. 41:35.784 --> 41:36.534 Holmes. 41:50.549 --> 41:52.050 Means nothing. 42:08.192 --> 42:11.361 Seems to have been burning old newspapers. 42:13.030 --> 42:14.072 I say Holmes. 42:14.240 --> 42:15.073 Yes. 42:15.491 --> 42:16.991 Why would a man so obviously 42:17.660 --> 42:22.372 untidy of his habits take the trouble to burn old newspapers? 42:22.581 --> 42:24.249 Probably trying to start a fire. 42:24.375 --> 42:27.585 Yeah, but there's no, no wood or coal. 42:31.090 --> 42:31.756 Let me see. 42:51.652 --> 42:52.485 What is it? 42:54.863 --> 42:57.490 Well done, well done. 42:57.616 --> 42:59.450 Indeed, I think we have our man. 43:00.286 --> 43:01.411 Would you look in the agony column 43:01.537 --> 43:03.121 of the two remaining copies of The Daily Telegraph. 43:03.247 --> 43:06.624 I think you will find a message from someone calling himself Piero. 43:06.875 --> 43:08.126 Piero, Piero, Piero. 43:08.294 --> 43:09.419 Ah, here we are. 43:09.962 --> 43:12.380 "Hope to hear soon the terms agreed but must have full report" 43:12.506 --> 43:13.840 "matter pressing signed Piero." 43:20.514 --> 43:21.472 Yes, by Jove. 43:21.640 --> 43:25.101 "Monday night after 9:00, two taps, only on sills," 43:25.227 --> 43:27.145 "payment in hard cash when goods delivered," 43:27.479 --> 43:28.771 signed Piero just like the other one. 43:28.897 --> 43:31.816 Every paper has a message from someone calling himself Piero. 43:32.568 --> 43:35.945 It's an odd name for the villain like Oberstein to use. 43:36.071 --> 43:38.072 If only we could get the man at the other end 43:39.241 --> 43:40.700 Watson, quickly. 43:41.076 --> 43:43.202 We haven't a moment to loose. Bring the papers. 43:48.167 --> 43:49.042 Where we going? 43:50.085 --> 43:53.338 The offices of the Daily Telegraph. We're just time. 44:01.096 --> 44:04.223 Splendid, Sherlock, splendid. 44:04.683 --> 44:09.187 I always said you'd the make best cat burglar in London 44:09.313 --> 44:10.855 if you put your mind to it, 44:13.025 --> 44:14.692 Can't do these things on the force, Mr. Holmes. 44:14.818 --> 44:17.320 No wonder you get results that are beyond us. 44:18.030 --> 44:19.530 Some of these days you'll go too far 44:19.907 --> 44:21.908 and you and your friend will find yourselves in trouble. 44:22.117 --> 44:26.120 England home and duty, Watson. Motto and the oath of our country. 44:26.789 --> 44:29.082 The agony column of The Daily Telegraph. 44:29.208 --> 44:30.917 What use would you make of those? 44:31.210 --> 44:33.795 Have you seen the advertisement from Piero today? 44:40.552 --> 44:45.765 "Tonight, same hour, same place, two taps, most vitally important," 44:46.016 --> 44:49.936 "your own safety at sake", signed Piero. 44:50.604 --> 44:52.897 By George, if he answers that we've got him. 45:24.888 --> 45:28.015 Wake up. He's here. 46:08.932 --> 46:10.641 You can write me down as an ass, Watson. 46:10.809 --> 46:12.643 This is not the bird I was expecting. 46:13.353 --> 46:14.145 Who is he? 46:14.271 --> 46:17.982 Colonel Valentine Walter, Sir James' younger brother. 46:18.525 --> 46:20.651 I'm beginning to see how the cards fall now. 46:21.403 --> 46:25.364 What is this? I came here to visit Mr. Oberstein. 46:27.034 --> 46:28.367 I know you, surely... 46:28.869 --> 46:30.161 Sherlock Holmes. 46:33.123 --> 46:34.999 Everything is known, Colonel. 46:36.043 --> 46:37.168 How an English gentlemen 46:37.294 --> 46:40.463 could behave in such a manner is beyond comprehension. 46:42.216 --> 46:44.926 We know of your relations and correspondence with Oberstein. 46:45.093 --> 46:47.345 You stole your brothers' keys and had them duplicated. 46:48.514 --> 46:49.722 We knew you went to Admiralty Office 46:49.848 --> 46:52.058 on Monday night and was seen by Cadogan West. 46:53.352 --> 46:56.687 Only his pride to concerns being the good citizen that he was. 46:57.523 --> 46:58.815 He followed you closely in the fog 46:58.941 --> 47:01.692 halfway across London until you reached this very house. 47:01.860 --> 47:05.279 It was then Colonel Walter that to treason 47:05.405 --> 47:08.491 you added the terrible crime of murder. 47:09.243 --> 47:13.037 I did not, I did not. Before God, I swear I did not. 47:13.205 --> 47:15.039 Then tell us how Arthur Cadogan West 47:15.207 --> 47:19.001 met his end before you placed his body on the roof of the railway carriage? 47:19.503 --> 47:21.254 He followed me as you described 47:21.755 --> 47:25.883 but until I was at the very door of this house I did not know it. 47:45.529 --> 47:47.238 What are you gonna do with those papers? 48:13.765 --> 48:16.350 He hit his head on the marble floor. 48:16.560 --> 48:18.811 He was dead in a matter of minutes. 48:19.938 --> 48:22.523 It was Oberstein's idea to stuff the less important plans 48:22.649 --> 48:25.151 in West's pocket and put him on the roof of the train. 48:32.993 --> 48:35.328 What made you turn traitor, Colonel? 48:37.664 --> 48:40.291 A stock exchange debt had to be paid. 48:42.044 --> 48:45.212 I needed the money badly. Oberstein offered me five thousand. 48:48.133 --> 48:51.719 It was to save myself from ruin and disgrace. 48:54.306 --> 48:56.015 My brother used to discuss matters with me 48:56.141 --> 48:58.559 which he probably should not have done 48:59.061 --> 49:00.811 This submarine, for instance. 49:01.980 --> 49:06.567 How could he ever guess his own brother would betray him? 49:08.612 --> 49:10.071 That was the worst of all. 49:11.031 --> 49:13.991 He suspected me. I know he did. I read it in his eyes. 49:16.578 --> 49:20.998 And after this West business he never held up his head again. 49:23.460 --> 49:25.336 Can you not make reparation, 49:25.921 --> 49:29.548 to ease your conscious and possibly your punishment? 49:30.175 --> 49:32.093 What reparation can I make? 49:32.219 --> 49:33.761 Where is Oberstein with the papers? 49:33.887 --> 49:35.137 I do not know. 49:36.056 --> 49:39.475 He said that letters to the Hotel Delu in Paris would reach him. 49:40.352 --> 49:44.313 Ah, well then it is possible for you to help us. 49:50.112 --> 49:53.614 Come and sit down and write my dictation. 50:03.083 --> 50:04.000 "Dear sir," 50:06.211 --> 50:08.879 "in regard to our transaction you have now observed" 50:09.006 --> 50:11.257 "that one essential detail is missing" 50:11.383 --> 50:13.467 "but I have a tracing that will make it complete." 50:13.719 --> 50:15.344 Is that true, Sherlock? 50:15.721 --> 50:16.554 Quite true. 50:17.472 --> 50:18.973 What essential detail is missing? 50:20.183 --> 50:23.978 The double-valves, the automatic self-adjusting slots. 50:24.646 --> 50:27.231 Good heavens. How on earth did you know that? 50:27.357 --> 50:30.234 I've become quite a submarine expert brother of mine. 50:31.737 --> 50:32.903 Now Colonel, 50:36.033 --> 50:37.867 what would be your terms? 50:41.288 --> 50:45.583 "I must ask you for a further 500 pounds..." 50:45.751 --> 50:47.209 English notes please. 50:52.507 --> 50:54.425 I should expect to meet you- 50:55.260 --> 50:58.596 well, we can hardly say here or Oberstein will suspect a trap. 50:59.264 --> 51:02.099 The foyer of the Charring Cross Hotel. 51:02.476 --> 51:04.435 Its proximity to the railway station 51:04.603 --> 51:08.981 renders it extremely popular amongst the international spy fraternity. 51:09.191 --> 51:10.274 Did you get that Colonel? 51:12.903 --> 51:15.279 Noon, Saturday next, 51:16.698 --> 51:19.742 I should be very surprised if that does not flush our man out. 51:48.480 --> 51:50.147 That's our man. 52:55.380 --> 52:56.714 Splendid Bradstreet. 52:58.508 --> 53:00.050 But our traitor has flown. 53:01.219 --> 53:03.596 What a damn cheat of a fellow. 53:04.514 --> 53:05.472 Goodbye, gentlemen. 53:06.975 --> 53:08.684 I'm keeping him on a long lead. 53:12.689 --> 53:14.899 There's an R in the month 53:15.150 --> 53:19.987 and the Diogenes Club has the most excellent oysters. 53:20.155 --> 53:23.991 I should like both you gentlemen to be my guests.