WEBVTT 00:53.762 --> 00:55.179 Look, father, we have been through all this before... 00:55.305 --> 00:58.182 Do as I tell you, boy, you damn, disobedient little bastard! 00:58.308 --> 00:59.099 Give me the gun! 00:59.225 --> 01:02.436 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like! 01:02.771 --> 01:03.771 Get off out of it! 01:23.458 --> 01:25.959 Good morning! 01:26.711 --> 01:27.753 Caught anything? 01:29.005 --> 01:29.797 Not yet. 01:31.466 --> 01:34.593 Holmes, what on earth are you doing here? 01:34.761 --> 01:35.803 Looking for you. 01:36.346 --> 01:38.806 Well, carry on my dear fellow, don't let me disturb you. 01:46.314 --> 01:47.981 What on earth are you doing here? 01:49.317 --> 01:51.235 A case has brought me this way. 01:53.613 --> 01:54.947 What sort of case? 01:55.073 --> 01:57.658 The newspapers are calling it the Boscombe Valley mystery. 01:57.784 --> 01:59.493 I expect you've read something of it? 01:59.911 --> 02:02.496 Not a word. I haven't seen a paper for days. 02:02.831 --> 02:05.999 A farmer, Cole McCarthy, Australian by birth, 02:06.626 --> 02:09.128 met his death by a mere at the bottom of his farm. 02:10.255 --> 02:12.131 They seem to have established a very serious case 02:12.257 --> 02:14.091 against the son of the murdered man. 02:16.636 --> 02:19.179 There's a big one just under that rock. 02:21.683 --> 02:22.808 So then it's- 02:24.727 --> 02:25.519 a murder? 02:26.229 --> 02:27.855 Well, it's projected to be so. 02:28.648 --> 02:30.691 Of course, I shall take nothing for granted 02:30.817 --> 02:33.026 until I've had a chance to look into it personally. 02:33.862 --> 02:34.528 Naturally. 02:38.032 --> 02:39.199 I don't wish to spoil your holiday 02:39.367 --> 02:41.702 but I was wondering if I could persuade you to join me 02:41.870 --> 02:42.953 for a couple of days? 02:46.082 --> 02:47.207 Well, of course. 02:49.335 --> 02:50.002 Are you sure? 02:51.004 --> 02:52.171 I shall be delighted. 02:54.507 --> 02:58.886 Then we must move quickly, our local train leaves in 35 minutes. 03:47.101 --> 03:48.101 Your water, sir, 03:48.561 --> 03:50.687 Watson, all of this fresh air will kill me. 03:52.690 --> 03:54.900 Well, the London Press don't seem much interested. 03:55.026 --> 03:57.027 Not very full accounts. 03:57.153 --> 03:59.696 Yes. Useless! 04:01.115 --> 04:02.241 So much for the London Press. 04:02.367 --> 04:03.617 It all seems depressingly simple. 04:03.785 --> 04:05.869 What persuaded you to take an interest in this case? 04:05.995 --> 04:06.578 This. 04:09.499 --> 04:10.958 "Boscombe Valley mystery." 04:11.125 --> 04:13.460 "There has been a grave miscarriage of justice." 04:13.795 --> 04:15.963 "The matter is urgent. We need your help." 04:16.422 --> 04:19.800 "Please come if you can, Alice Turner." Good heavens. 04:20.510 --> 04:21.301 Who is Alice Turner? 04:21.636 --> 04:24.137 She is the daughter of Mr. Turner, also Australian, 04:24.472 --> 04:25.806 who owns this whole estate. 04:26.975 --> 04:29.810 Oh, well, it's a "mystery", not "murder" to Miss Turner. 04:30.478 --> 04:33.105 Note the "we", Watson, "We need your help." 04:33.231 --> 04:36.316 If ever there's a cry from the heart that is it... it leaps from the paper. 04:36.484 --> 04:37.734 Have you seen this lady? 04:37.860 --> 04:40.988 No, not yet. Do you remember a certain Sergeant Summerby? 04:41.155 --> 04:45.492 Summerby? Oh, yes, the case of the counterfeit Spanish dollars. 04:45.660 --> 04:46.451 Mexican. 04:46.953 --> 04:49.413 A pleasant fellow much admired your methods, did he not? 04:50.456 --> 04:52.833 Probably his reason for promotion to Inspector. 04:54.627 --> 04:56.753 He is in charge of the case and it was he who organized- 04:56.879 --> 04:58.171 this accommodation for us. 04:58.673 --> 05:00.841 Us? You presumed that I would come? 05:01.384 --> 05:05.178 No, not presumed, Watson, hoped, very much hoped. 05:07.348 --> 05:09.683 Well, Mr. Holmes. 05:10.393 --> 05:13.270 And you, Doctor, it's a pleasure to see you again. 05:13.396 --> 05:16.023 Congratulations on your promotion, Inspector. 05:17.108 --> 05:17.858 Thank you, Doctor. 05:18.401 --> 05:22.029 It's a quiet district as a rule, but nonetheless, my own. 05:23.031 --> 05:24.031 I have a carriage waiting. 05:38.546 --> 05:39.671 McCarthy, the murdered man 05:39.797 --> 05:42.507 rented a farm called Hatherley from a Mr. Turner 05:42.759 --> 05:45.385 who is one of the largest London proprietors in this part of the country. 05:46.012 --> 05:47.054 He made his money in Australia. 05:47.513 --> 05:51.058 I presume that both being colonials they had much in common. 05:51.225 --> 05:52.059 Old friends, I believe. 05:52.226 --> 05:54.895 Well, Mr. Turner has been in failing health for some time. 05:55.188 --> 05:56.480 He has a daughter called Alice? 05:57.273 --> 06:00.567 An only child and a most charming one. 06:01.319 --> 06:04.237 We surmise that Miss Turner and the McCarthy boy are friends? 06:05.406 --> 06:06.156 Great friends. 06:06.532 --> 06:08.075 It was Miss Turner who brings me here. 06:08.618 --> 06:09.326 Oh, I know, Mr. Holmes, 06:09.452 --> 06:11.661 and to be quite honest with you I'm surprised you came. 06:12.538 --> 06:14.247 The case is as plain as a pikestaff, 06:14.749 --> 06:16.750 and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes. 06:17.377 --> 06:19.252 So I have warned Miss Turner that this time- 06:19.712 --> 06:22.547 not even Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be able to work miracles... 06:27.345 --> 06:28.345 Beautiful countryside. 06:29.430 --> 06:32.057 Yes, yes, indeed. This is Boscombe Valley. 06:32.350 --> 06:34.434 And over there at the bottom is Boscombe Mere 06:34.602 --> 06:35.936 where the murder took place. 06:36.270 --> 06:37.771 A peaceful place for a tragedy. 06:38.272 --> 06:39.272 Any witnesses? 06:39.857 --> 06:41.566 I expected that question, Mr. Holmes. 06:42.276 --> 06:44.528 The principle witness is William Crowder, 06:44.737 --> 06:46.363 one of Mr. Turner's gamekeepers. 06:52.120 --> 06:56.456 It was after I had my dinner, last Monday it was, the... 06:57.125 --> 06:58.291 the third of June. 06:59.168 --> 07:00.460 Oh, that's right. 07:01.421 --> 07:05.132 Now I fed the young pheasants, pullets we call them. 07:05.675 --> 07:07.134 You were planting out lettuces. 07:07.635 --> 07:09.970 Oh, that's right. 07:10.430 --> 07:13.932 I was setting out some lettuces, those lettuces over there. 07:14.600 --> 07:17.394 When my little girl, Patience, she comes running up. 07:29.115 --> 07:31.491 Dad, dad, the McCarthy's are fighting. 07:31.617 --> 07:33.160 Well, it won't be the first time. 07:34.078 --> 07:34.661 Well, 07:36.205 --> 07:39.332 don't you worry about it, Patience. It ain't no concern of ours. 07:40.918 --> 07:41.668 Go on, in you go. 07:48.926 --> 07:50.177 That, Mr. McCarthy, 07:51.220 --> 07:52.846 he has a temper, that one, you know. 07:54.515 --> 07:58.018 You know, if he thought another gun had poached his bird out shooting, 07:58.311 --> 08:00.270 he'd let fly in a real fury. 08:00.521 --> 08:02.105 Was the boy the same way inclined? 08:02.231 --> 08:03.690 No milk for me, please. 08:04.692 --> 08:08.028 No. No, not that I've noticed anyway. 08:08.196 --> 08:10.780 No, he always seemed a nice enough boy. 08:11.115 --> 08:12.699 I'm surprised him doing such a thing. 08:13.576 --> 08:14.201 But, then again, 08:15.912 --> 08:17.037 he was provoked. 08:18.498 --> 08:21.208 No doubt, who's to say. 08:21.501 --> 08:23.502 You tell the gentlemen what happened next. 08:25.505 --> 08:28.215 You haven't forgotten what you said in evidence at the inquest. 08:28.716 --> 08:29.466 Forgotten? 08:30.801 --> 08:33.136 I shan't forget that day, not so long as I live. 08:34.222 --> 08:36.848 I, I just sent Patience into her mother, 08:37.225 --> 08:40.018 and I hadn't planted out no more than another half a box, 08:40.144 --> 08:43.563 when Hugh McCarthy come running up looking like he'd seen a ghost. 08:45.566 --> 08:48.485 My father's met with a terrible accident. Please come with me, I need your help. 08:48.653 --> 08:49.319 Where is he? 08:49.445 --> 08:50.237 Down by the mere. 09:16.931 --> 09:17.764 Is he alive? 09:47.128 --> 09:48.128 You just come along with me. 09:53.509 --> 09:54.551 I brought him back here. 09:54.969 --> 09:57.220 And I sent my wife down to the trap for the police. 09:57.680 --> 09:58.888 Did the boy say anything? 09:59.807 --> 10:00.974 No, no, not a word. 10:01.225 --> 10:03.727 He just sat there where you are, sobbing and moaning 10:03.978 --> 10:06.771 and I didn't take my eyes off him until they came for him, that's the truth. 10:07.273 --> 10:10.233 Did you examine the gun at all, the butt for instance? 10:11.902 --> 10:14.654 Ah... No. No, not especially. 10:15.364 --> 10:16.740 But, there was a bit of mud on it. 10:18.618 --> 10:19.492 He wiped it. 10:21.412 --> 10:22.162 He wiped it? 10:24.123 --> 10:24.998 Well, I might've done. 10:25.708 --> 10:27.167 I mean it would've been natural wouldn't it? 10:27.501 --> 10:29.919 There was Mr. McCarthy lying there dead with his head bashed in, 10:30.046 --> 10:32.005 and he hadn't got that way swatting wasps, had he? 10:32.131 --> 10:34.924 And you believe that the boy killed his father? 10:35.468 --> 10:39.012 Well, of course, I do, sir. I mean who else could've done it? 10:40.723 --> 10:42.349 I can tell you this much, gentlemen. 10:43.017 --> 10:45.310 All right, now, I'm a gamekeeper, all right? 10:45.728 --> 10:48.521 And when a man's got a gun in his hand strange things can happen. 10:49.440 --> 10:52.525 Now I've seen men, quiet law abiding gentleman, 10:52.693 --> 10:55.195 you put a gun in their hands, they turn into near maniacs. 10:55.321 --> 10:56.863 Thank you so much, Mr. Crowder, 10:57.031 --> 10:58.782 for giving so much of your valuable time. 11:03.329 --> 11:05.497 Oh, it's been a pleasure gentlemen. 11:05.831 --> 11:07.957 It's not the first time I've been able to help the cause of justice, 11:08.084 --> 11:09.542 no, not by a long chalk. 11:09.877 --> 11:12.462 Well, last year at Candlemas time, you remember, Inspector? 11:12.713 --> 11:14.005 No, I'm a liar, it were two years ago. 11:14.131 --> 11:15.715 Well, we must be on our way. 11:16.717 --> 11:19.719 Well, I'm on the side of law and order, sir, the Inspector will tell you that. 11:20.221 --> 11:23.056 Indeed you are, Crowder, thank you. 11:23.557 --> 11:24.391 Goodbye. 11:29.397 --> 11:30.897 They're all the same, these country people. 11:31.315 --> 11:33.483 Once they get an audience they'll talk the hind leg off a donkey. 11:34.360 --> 11:36.403 Now if you follow me I'll take you down to the scene of the crime. 11:36.570 --> 11:37.570 No need for the moment. 11:38.906 --> 11:41.533 That's very true, no need in the circumstances. 11:42.034 --> 11:44.202 It's a sad case, but a pretty clear one. 11:44.328 --> 11:45.537 The glass is high, 11:47.373 --> 11:48.415 weather set fair. 11:50.459 --> 11:52.585 I shall like to call on James McCarthy. 11:54.296 --> 11:55.338 I can arrange it if you wish. 11:55.464 --> 11:56.923 Tomorrow. 11:58.300 --> 11:59.926 One more thing I should tell you, Mr. Holmes. 12:00.302 --> 12:01.928 When the boy was charged with the murder, 12:02.096 --> 12:04.097 he didn't appear in the least surprised. 12:04.557 --> 12:07.434 In fact, he said it was no more than his deserts. 12:07.810 --> 12:08.935 Those were his very words. 12:09.103 --> 12:10.061 A confession? 12:10.396 --> 12:11.187 You might think so. 12:11.313 --> 12:13.273 Did he also protest his innocence? 12:13.691 --> 12:16.568 Yes. But then again, they always do, don't they? 12:17.069 --> 12:18.778 I think we best be getting back to the hotel. 12:18.904 --> 12:20.739 I have some calls to make on the estate. 12:21.532 --> 12:22.282 Until tomorrow, then. 12:24.285 --> 12:25.285 Boscombe Arms. 12:38.424 --> 12:40.592 The boy said he got no more than his deserts. 12:40.760 --> 12:43.470 Well, that's a pretty suspicious remark. 12:43.971 --> 12:46.765 I mean, coming after such a damning series of events. 12:47.266 --> 12:50.769 On the contrary the brightest rift I can see in the clouds at present. 12:51.187 --> 12:53.813 Self-approach contrition displayed by his remark 12:53.981 --> 12:57.317 appears to be signs of a healthy mind, rather than a guilty one. 12:57.902 --> 13:00.987 Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence. 13:01.238 --> 13:03.823 So they have and many men have been hanged wrongfully. 13:04.158 --> 13:05.658 Oh, look, a pheasant. 13:18.964 --> 13:22.425 Mm, "Witness"- that's James McCarthy. 13:23.469 --> 13:26.596 "I had a conversation with my father, which led to high words" 13:27.223 --> 13:28.848 "and almost to blows." 13:29.809 --> 13:31.810 As his temper was becoming ungovernable, 13:32.520 --> 13:34.312 I left him and went up the hill. 13:35.689 --> 13:38.441 I hadn't gone more than a hundred yards 13:39.443 --> 13:43.696 when I heard a hideous outcry, which caused me to run back again. 13:45.699 --> 13:46.866 I found my father 13:47.743 --> 13:51.496 expiring on the ground with his head terribly injured. 13:53.582 --> 13:56.376 Did you see anyone near your father when you returned? 13:56.877 --> 14:01.214 No, no one. I have no idea how he came by his injuries. 14:02.049 --> 14:03.675 He was not a popular man, 14:04.134 --> 14:06.678 but as far as I know he had no active enemies. 14:07.346 --> 14:09.389 I know nothing further of the matter. 14:09.765 --> 14:12.517 Did your father say anything to you before he died? 14:13.352 --> 14:14.727 He mumbled a few words 14:14.895 --> 14:17.689 but all I could catch was some allusion to a rat. 14:18.399 --> 14:20.400 Silence. Be quiet. 14:24.071 --> 14:27.407 A rat? And what did you understand by that? 14:27.700 --> 14:29.242 It conveyed nothing to me. 14:29.910 --> 14:33.246 I thought, well, I thought he was delirious. 14:34.373 --> 14:37.750 What was the point upon which you and your father had this final quarrel? 14:45.593 --> 14:47.927 I should prefer not to answer that question, sir. 14:48.596 --> 14:50.013 I'm afraid that I must press it. 14:50.139 --> 14:54.058 It really is impossible for me to tell you, but I can assure you that- 14:54.184 --> 14:56.936 it had nothing to do with the sad tragedy that followed. 14:57.104 --> 14:59.230 That is for the court to decide. 14:59.565 --> 15:02.191 I need hardly point out to you that your refusal to answer 15:02.318 --> 15:03.776 will prejudice your case considerably 15:03.903 --> 15:05.945 in any future proceedings which may arise. 15:06.906 --> 15:07.614 You may sit down. 15:14.288 --> 15:17.749 Gentlemen of the jury, you are here to discover the cause of death 15:17.875 --> 15:21.085 of Mr. William McCarthy and thereafter to deliver your verdict. 15:21.670 --> 15:23.463 You have heard the facts of this crime 15:23.964 --> 15:26.132 and I believe they make the situation very clear. 15:26.467 --> 15:29.969 Mr. James McCarthy's account of his father's dying 15:30.137 --> 15:32.138 is singular to say the least. 15:32.765 --> 15:36.100 His refusal to give any details of their last conversation 15:36.393 --> 15:37.977 must go very much against him. 15:39.063 --> 15:41.147 The verdict of willful murder 15:41.482 --> 15:43.942 seemed to me to fit the facts we have heard. 15:45.194 --> 15:47.153 I hope I make myself clear. 15:50.866 --> 15:52.992 So willful murder it was. 15:53.160 --> 15:53.826 Monstrous. 15:55.829 --> 15:57.330 Well the boy did rather ask for it. 15:57.748 --> 15:59.499 My dear Watson, don't you see that both you and the coroner- 15:59.667 --> 16:01.960 have been some pains to single out the strongest points 16:02.086 --> 16:03.336 in the young man's favor? 16:04.463 --> 16:06.130 Don't you see that you're terribly giving credit for 16:06.256 --> 16:08.174 too much imagination or too little? 16:08.342 --> 16:10.176 Too little, if he could not invent a quarrel 16:10.344 --> 16:12.011 which would give him the sympathy of the jury. 16:12.179 --> 16:13.137 Too much, 16:14.014 --> 16:16.766 if he evolved from his own inner consciousness anything so outré 16:16.892 --> 16:19.018 as a dying of reference to a rat. 16:19.520 --> 16:23.022 Well, these country coroners do think they're little tin pot gods. 16:23.607 --> 16:24.774 It's an absolute scandal. 16:26.860 --> 16:27.986 No, no, no. 16:29.697 --> 16:31.364 I shall approach this case from the point of view of 16:31.532 --> 16:34.367 what this young man says is true. 17:08.193 --> 17:09.235 We have a visitor. 17:11.113 --> 17:12.572 Our young client has arrived. 17:26.503 --> 17:27.086 Come in. 17:29.548 --> 17:33.009 I'm so glad you've come, Mr. Holmes. I'm Alice Turner. 17:33.135 --> 17:35.094 And this is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. 17:35.387 --> 17:37.430 Dr. Watson, of course. 17:37.806 --> 17:40.558 It is you who have written down some of Mr. Holmes' cases 17:40.684 --> 17:42.268 in such an interesting way. 17:43.353 --> 17:44.604 You see I know all about you, Mr. Holmes 17:44.730 --> 17:46.397 and your wonderful success. 17:47.232 --> 17:49.275 If you knew how much we need you now, 17:49.777 --> 17:51.611 but do you yet know anything of what happened? 17:51.737 --> 17:53.404 Please sit down, Miss Turner. 17:54.907 --> 17:57.200 Inspector Summerby has told me something of it. 17:57.326 --> 18:00.578 Oh, yes, the Inspector. He gave me your address. 18:01.121 --> 18:02.914 He's quite a kind man, isn't he? 18:03.624 --> 18:07.627 But he doesn't understand. How could he, he's a policeman. 18:09.129 --> 18:13.132 Mr. Holmes, I know that James didn't do it. 18:14.093 --> 18:18.387 I know it and I want you to start your work knowing it, too. 18:18.889 --> 18:21.099 Never let yourself doubt upon that point. 18:21.850 --> 18:24.060 Have you known James McCarthy a long time? 18:24.311 --> 18:28.981 Yes, all my life. We have known each other since we were children, 18:29.733 --> 18:32.151 but he's too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. 18:33.070 --> 18:35.988 This charge is just absurd to anyone who really knows him. 18:36.448 --> 18:37.824 Well, I hope that we may clear him. 18:39.618 --> 18:40.785 I shall do all I can. 18:41.620 --> 18:44.831 But from what you've heard already, do you not think he's innocent? 18:45.082 --> 18:47.291 I think it is probable. 18:49.336 --> 18:51.337 I don't know my friend is so convinced. 18:52.172 --> 18:55.174 I think that Mr. Holmes is being a little- 18:55.551 --> 18:57.343 a little quick in his conclusions. 18:58.011 --> 19:02.473 But you are right, oh, I know that you are right. James never did it. 19:04.977 --> 19:06.686 This quarrel with his father, 19:07.229 --> 19:08.855 which he would not talk about to the coroner, 19:08.981 --> 19:09.856 do you know anything of it? 19:10.190 --> 19:12.525 I believe it was because I was concerned in it. 19:12.860 --> 19:13.693 In what way? 19:16.321 --> 19:18.156 It is no time to hide anything now. 19:20.284 --> 19:22.869 James and his father had many disagreements about me. 19:23.996 --> 19:25.538 Mr. McCarthy was very anxious 19:25.706 --> 19:27.540 that there should be a marriage between us, 19:28.709 --> 19:31.627 but James and I have always loved each other like brother and sister. 19:32.212 --> 19:34.797 Of course we haven't seen so much of each other lately. 19:35.174 --> 19:37.550 I have been away at boarding school for some years 19:37.718 --> 19:39.719 and James has been studying in Liverpool. 19:40.721 --> 19:43.723 He is only 22 and has seen very little of life and- 19:45.350 --> 19:48.853 well, I suppose he does not wish to do anything like that just yet. 19:49.897 --> 19:54.317 So there were quarrels. And this, I'm sure, was one of them. 19:56.236 --> 19:57.528 How old are you, Miss Turner? 19:59.740 --> 20:02.575 I am 18, quite nearly 19. 20:03.994 --> 20:04.994 As you say, 20:06.622 --> 20:08.581 this isn't a time to hide anything. 20:12.586 --> 20:15.087 Are you in love with James McCarthy? 20:20.761 --> 20:22.220 Yes, I am, Mr. Holmes, 20:25.098 --> 20:26.224 very much in love. 20:29.228 --> 20:33.022 There is no one else and never will be. Even if... 20:34.399 --> 20:35.441 And he with you? 20:36.485 --> 20:37.610 Oh, I think so. 20:38.904 --> 20:40.029 I hope so. 20:41.698 --> 20:46.035 But how should I know for sure? We have never discussed marriage. 20:47.996 --> 20:50.248 Was your father in favor of such a union? 20:51.458 --> 20:54.126 No, he was averse to it, 20:56.338 --> 20:58.798 No one but Mr. McCarthy was in favor of it. 21:01.301 --> 21:04.637 Thank you for being so frank with us. 21:06.181 --> 21:08.766 If I was to visit your father, could I see him, please? 21:09.226 --> 21:12.561 I'm afraid not. The doctor has forbidden any visitors. 21:12.688 --> 21:15.314 Oh, I'm sorry, we did not know he was so ill. 21:15.732 --> 21:19.819 My father has never been strong, but this has broken him completely. 21:20.153 --> 21:21.320 Oh, he has taken to his bed and 21:21.446 --> 21:24.824 Dr. Willow says that he's a wreck and his nervous system is shattered. 21:25.450 --> 21:28.911 I can hardly leave him or I would've been at the railway station to meet you. 21:29.663 --> 21:30.329 Well, you see, 21:30.956 --> 21:33.582 Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad 21:33.709 --> 21:35.459 in the old days in Australia. 21:36.003 --> 21:36.669 Australia? 21:37.129 --> 21:40.089 In Victoria at the mines, the gold mines. 21:40.799 --> 21:42.466 That's where dad made all his money. 21:44.219 --> 21:49.015 You have been of material assistance to me. 21:52.019 --> 21:53.644 Will you be able to see James? 21:53.854 --> 21:54.520 Tomorrow. 21:55.522 --> 21:57.356 Tell him that I know him to be innocent. 21:59.401 --> 22:00.026 I will. 22:04.239 --> 22:05.448 Could you give him this? 22:06.700 --> 22:07.616 Of course. 22:08.076 --> 22:10.202 And if you have any news you will tell me? 22:13.165 --> 22:14.332 I must go home now. 22:14.875 --> 22:17.710 I left my father asleep but if he awakes and I'm not there, 22:17.836 --> 22:18.878 he'll be upset. 22:20.422 --> 22:27.053 Goodbye. 22:28.889 --> 22:30.890 And God help you in your undertaking. 22:56.792 --> 22:57.500 Morning, Inspector. 23:17.646 --> 23:19.438 May I see him alone, please? 23:19.606 --> 23:20.856 As you wish, Mr. Holmes. 23:20.982 --> 23:23.526 But remember this man is on remand accused of willful murder, 23:23.777 --> 23:26.195 and as you well know such a man under such circumstances 23:26.321 --> 23:27.613 isn't likely to speak the truth. 23:27.781 --> 23:29.615 Oh, thank you for your good advice. 23:36.456 --> 23:39.417 James McCarthy, my name is Sherlock Holmes. 23:39.543 --> 23:40.543 I'm here to help you. 23:41.044 --> 23:42.294 How should I know that? 23:42.796 --> 23:45.131 You came with the police Inspector, I saw him out there. 23:45.757 --> 23:49.135 I'm here at the request of Miss Turner. 24:05.318 --> 24:06.819 I am sorry, Mr. Holmes. 24:07.821 --> 24:09.155 Lately I've learned to trust no one. 24:11.199 --> 24:12.575 I'm afraid you've come too late. 24:13.160 --> 24:15.327 They've already made up their minds that I am guilty. 24:15.745 --> 24:16.662 Well, I have not. 24:17.873 --> 24:18.664 The Coroner's court... 24:18.832 --> 24:23.502 The Coroner and the Coroner's jury, only sit to enquire into the facts. 24:24.171 --> 24:25.671 They do not sit in judgment. 24:27.507 --> 24:28.591 Well, how can I help you? 24:28.717 --> 24:30.676 I'd like you to tell me exactly what happened. 24:35.432 --> 24:38.517 Let's sit down over here where we can talk quietly and not be overheard. 24:44.065 --> 24:45.149 Where shall I start? 24:45.609 --> 24:46.525 You choose. 24:49.446 --> 24:52.198 Well, I've been studying in Liverpool for some three years. 24:52.324 --> 24:55.701 My father was most anxious I should have some academic qualifications. 24:56.912 --> 25:00.331 It was on that day June the 3rd that I returned home. 25:01.750 --> 25:03.334 Was your father expecting you? 25:03.752 --> 25:06.712 No, no, not exactly. He knew I was due for a few days holiday, 25:06.880 --> 25:08.214 but not the exact date. 25:09.007 --> 25:11.550 Our local carrier took me up to the farm from the village. 25:13.386 --> 25:15.721 Welcome home, nice to see you back, Master James. 25:15.889 --> 25:17.723 Oh, it's nice to be back, George. 25:17.891 --> 25:19.058 Hey, Stan, Stan? 25:19.559 --> 25:20.476 Is my father in the house? 25:20.602 --> 25:23.312 No, no, went off about five minutes ago, 25:23.647 --> 25:25.231 looked as though he had something on his mind. 25:26.358 --> 25:27.191 All right, George. 25:28.318 --> 25:29.735 Will you be wanting pony later? 25:31.279 --> 25:32.738 No, no, I'll ride tomorrow. 25:33.406 --> 25:35.658 I might have a gun, see if I could pot a few rabbits. 25:36.034 --> 25:40.079 They need shooting- the place is crawling with them. Welcome. 25:56.263 --> 25:56.929 Hello, father. 25:59.349 --> 26:02.434 James? What are you doing here? 26:03.645 --> 26:05.271 I'm just back for a few days, that's all. 26:07.023 --> 26:08.274 Well, I don't want you down here. 26:08.775 --> 26:10.943 So get off out of it. Keep away from it, do you understand? 26:11.778 --> 26:13.445 Yes, why? 26:13.613 --> 26:15.447 None of your damn business! Just do as you're told. 26:18.451 --> 26:19.118 James. 26:22.414 --> 26:22.955 Look, 26:25.792 --> 26:26.709 now you are here, 26:27.794 --> 26:30.296 get over the Turner's place and tell that girl you'll marry her. 26:30.547 --> 26:32.464 I'll do no such thing. Look, father, we have been... 26:32.591 --> 26:35.467 Do as I tell you boy, you damn, disobedient, little bastard! 26:39.347 --> 26:39.930 Give me the gun. 26:42.642 --> 26:43.809 Give me the gun! 26:43.977 --> 26:46.645 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like. 26:52.319 --> 26:54.987 All right, damn you! 26:55.905 --> 27:00.075 I'll throw you out, I'll ruin you. You'll see. 27:01.494 --> 27:02.828 Now get off out of it! 27:09.002 --> 27:14.006 I had hardly gone any distance at all when I heard a terrible scream. 27:14.966 --> 27:18.010 I ran back down and found my father lying on his side. 27:18.845 --> 27:20.095 Did you see anyone else? 27:20.388 --> 27:20.971 No one. 27:21.097 --> 27:22.181 No movement anywhere? 27:22.349 --> 27:24.683 No, my attention was entirely on my father. 27:24.893 --> 27:26.477 He was terribly wounded. 27:28.730 --> 27:32.191 You would not tell the coroner about this quarrel with your father. 27:33.068 --> 27:36.695 It was something private. It was no business of his. 27:37.447 --> 27:39.156 Was it not because this confrontation with your father 27:39.282 --> 27:40.866 might seem to incriminate you? 27:42.035 --> 27:45.871 No, no, it was because it concerned Alice. 27:46.998 --> 27:49.541 It was no business of the coroners or anyone else's. 27:50.043 --> 27:52.544 I wasn't going to have her name bandied about in the courtroom. 27:55.715 --> 28:00.052 You do know this... Alice loves you, James. 28:01.554 --> 28:03.055 And believes you to be innocent. 28:04.307 --> 28:05.057 Yes, I know. 28:07.560 --> 28:09.228 The thought of her love and her faith in me 28:09.396 --> 28:13.482 has kept me in some sort of sanity in this horrible place. 28:13.983 --> 28:17.403 And yet you had no wish to marry her as your father so clearly wished? 28:19.489 --> 28:21.240 Perhaps you did not share her love? 28:23.076 --> 28:29.248 I did. I do, Mr. Holmes. I love Alice Turner. 28:29.416 --> 28:33.669 I, I adore her, I worship the very ground she treads on, 28:34.921 --> 28:35.504 but... 28:37.340 --> 28:38.257 And yet? 28:41.428 --> 28:43.846 I could not ask her to marry me because, 28:46.266 --> 28:48.058 because I was married already. 28:54.482 --> 28:56.567 Don't you think you'd better tell me about it? 29:00.405 --> 29:04.366 When, when I first started studying in Liverpool, 29:04.909 --> 29:07.745 my father gave me a very generous allowance. 29:07.996 --> 29:09.913 Perhaps too generous for my own good. 29:11.499 --> 29:14.793 I became very wild and fell in with a bad set of people. 29:16.629 --> 29:19.631 And in a fit of drunken madness 29:20.884 --> 29:23.427 I went through a form of marriage in a register office 29:23.553 --> 29:25.804 to a woman much older than I was. 29:28.224 --> 29:29.308 A barmaid. 29:31.811 --> 29:33.771 I hardly ever saw Alice at that time. 29:34.481 --> 29:35.481 Of course, I couldn't tell my father. 29:35.648 --> 29:38.275 He would certainly have thrown me out as he'd so often threatened. 29:38.443 --> 29:39.443 Yes, I'm sure he would. 29:41.488 --> 29:43.781 Have you any idea- 29:44.783 --> 29:46.784 who would've killed your father so brutally? 29:47.076 --> 29:48.160 None whatsoever. 29:49.954 --> 29:55.667 Do you know I go over the scene day after day after day in my mind? 29:57.837 --> 30:00.339 But, I am as puzzled as everyone else is. 30:02.842 --> 30:03.759 Don't give up hope. 30:04.719 --> 30:05.928 Thank you, Mr. Holmes. 30:07.764 --> 30:08.972 Oh, oh, Mr. Holmes... 30:09.933 --> 30:12.935 It hardly concerns all this business but perhaps I should tell you. 30:13.478 --> 30:15.813 Some good has come out of this evil. 30:18.107 --> 30:21.360 Since I've been in here I received a message from the woman I married 30:21.861 --> 30:23.195 who has read in the newspapers 30:23.321 --> 30:26.615 that I am in serious trouble and likely to be hanged. 30:28.910 --> 30:31.703 She wrote that she had a husband already in the Bermuda dockyard. 30:31.871 --> 30:32.704 Good heavens! 30:33.706 --> 30:37.209 So, there is no legal tie between us. 30:39.045 --> 30:41.547 If only I had known before. 30:43.967 --> 30:45.175 You were right to tell me. 30:55.103 --> 30:56.019 Poor fellow. 30:57.021 --> 30:59.565 Must've been maddening to be upbraided by his father 31:00.275 --> 31:02.901 for not doing something he would give his very eyes to do. 31:04.779 --> 31:07.406 If he's innocent, who did it? 31:07.574 --> 31:08.323 Indeed. 31:08.658 --> 31:12.327 Well perhaps I can help I've not been entirely idle in your absence. 31:12.996 --> 31:16.081 Now in the surgeon's deposition of the inquest it states 31:16.416 --> 31:19.418 that "the posterior third of the left parietal bone, 31:19.919 --> 31:22.254 and the left half of the occipital bone were shattered 31:22.380 --> 31:24.923 by blows from a blunt weapon". 31:25.091 --> 31:27.593 Now that's here, now behind. 31:29.137 --> 31:31.388 But the evidence states that they were quarreling- 31:32.765 --> 31:33.682 face to face. 31:34.434 --> 31:36.727 That's a very nice piece of deduction, Watson. 31:37.312 --> 31:37.895 Thank you. 31:38.980 --> 31:40.397 But hardly a valid one. 31:40.940 --> 31:43.609 McCarthy could've easily turned his back the moment the girl had run off. 31:44.235 --> 31:47.029 But I'm so glad that you're coming around to my way of thinking, 31:47.864 --> 31:49.364 and Miss Turner's. The boy is innocent. 31:49.490 --> 31:52.367 Now, Holmes you're putting words in my mouth, I didn't say that. 31:52.619 --> 31:54.453 But you're thinking it just a little. 32:01.878 --> 32:03.795 These boots were the ones the master was wearing 32:03.922 --> 32:06.131 at the time he was murdered, sir. 32:07.967 --> 32:09.968 I've cleaned them off since, of course. 32:11.471 --> 32:14.431 Those, those are a pair of Master James'. 32:15.308 --> 32:16.808 He bought them new last Michelmass 32:18.311 --> 32:20.479 Thank you, George, now let's get onto the mere. 32:28.237 --> 32:31.949 This is the place, Mr. Holmes. You can still see traces of the blood. 32:35.078 --> 32:36.578 Please, would you keep clear of this area? 32:46.255 --> 32:48.006 Why did you enter the mere, Inspector? 32:51.219 --> 32:52.302 Fished them out with a rack, 32:52.512 --> 32:54.930 thought there might be some weapon thrown there or some other trace. 32:55.598 --> 32:57.307 If only I'd been here before they came 32:57.433 --> 33:00.018 like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. 33:01.062 --> 33:03.647 This must be the gamekeeper and his gang. 33:04.607 --> 33:06.525 These tracks are young McCarthy's. 33:08.569 --> 33:12.447 And these. Twice he walked. 33:19.205 --> 33:20.205 He turned. 33:22.000 --> 33:22.874 Once he ran, 33:25.420 --> 33:29.172 so the soles of the feet are deeply marked, the heels are hardly visible. 33:30.425 --> 33:34.052 That would bear out his story he ran when he saw his father on the ground. 33:34.762 --> 33:36.221 He does work at it, I'll say that. 33:38.474 --> 33:40.976 The father paced up and down right here. 33:44.856 --> 33:45.397 What have we here? 33:47.400 --> 33:51.903 Tiptoes. 33:53.031 --> 33:56.908 Square toes, most unusual boots. 33:58.077 --> 34:00.328 Where did mister square toes come from? 34:13.176 --> 34:15.093 He'd a made a rare bloodhound, Mr. Holmes. 34:26.481 --> 34:29.441 It has been a case of considerable interest. Come. 34:35.948 --> 34:36.698 Thank you, George. 34:37.992 --> 34:38.784 Thank you, sir. 34:39.827 --> 34:41.119 Would you deliver this note? 34:43.456 --> 34:45.624 Yes, sir, indeed. Right away. 35:00.598 --> 35:01.932 This may interest you, Inspector. 35:05.686 --> 35:07.312 The murder was done with it. 35:10.566 --> 35:11.942 I can see no marks. 35:12.068 --> 35:12.734 There are none. 35:13.194 --> 35:14.152 Well, how do you know then? 35:14.320 --> 35:15.904 The grass was growing under it. 35:16.656 --> 35:19.658 It had only been there a few days. It corresponds with the injuries. 35:20.034 --> 35:20.909 And the murderer? 35:21.953 --> 35:25.122 He's a tall man, left handed, limps with the right leg, 35:25.456 --> 35:28.458 wears thick-soled shooting boots with square toes, 35:28.668 --> 35:31.336 smokes Indian cigars, uses a cigar holder, 35:32.213 --> 35:34.422 and carries a blunt pen knife in his pocket. 35:42.348 --> 35:45.684 You're a brilliant man, Mr. Holmes, and I wish I had your brains. 35:46.519 --> 35:48.186 Your theories are all very well, 35:48.896 --> 35:51.022 but I'm still not convinced. Not this time. 35:52.024 --> 35:54.025 We have to deal with a hardheaded British jury. 35:55.444 --> 35:57.362 Well, you've had your chance, Inspector. 35:58.698 --> 36:00.365 I'm a practical man, Mr. Holmes. 36:01.033 --> 36:02.534 I cannot undertake to go around the country 36:02.702 --> 36:05.871 looking for a left-handed gentleman with the gamey leg 36:06.956 --> 36:08.623 unless I become the laughing stock of Cheshire. 36:09.876 --> 36:10.709 We shall see. 36:12.044 --> 36:14.796 You work your method, I shall work mine. 36:20.595 --> 36:23.638 Now, let us take this morning's work. 36:25.600 --> 36:27.184 From my examination of the ground, 36:27.310 --> 36:30.353 I gained details as to the personality of the criminal. 36:30.855 --> 36:31.563 But how? 36:31.856 --> 36:36.067 You know my method. It's founded upon the observance of trifles. 36:36.652 --> 36:38.195 Well, his height I know you might roughly judge 36:38.321 --> 36:41.239 by the length of his stride, his boots by his traces, 36:41.407 --> 36:42.574 but the man's nameless. 36:42.825 --> 36:44.242 The impression of his right foot 36:44.368 --> 36:45.911 was always left distinct than that of the left. 36:46.078 --> 36:47.412 Why? Because he limped. 36:47.747 --> 36:49.080 He's left-handed. 36:49.540 --> 36:51.208 The blow was delivered from immediately behind him, 36:51.334 --> 36:52.334 yet he was on the left-hand side. 36:52.460 --> 36:53.168 Watson. 36:53.586 --> 36:56.171 He must've been a left-handed man, of course. 36:56.297 --> 36:57.422 He stood behind that tree 36:57.590 --> 37:00.342 during the confrontation between father and son. 37:01.969 --> 37:02.928 He even smoked. 37:03.095 --> 37:04.012 Smoked? 37:05.473 --> 37:06.431 Cigar ash. 37:08.768 --> 37:10.018 An Indian cigar. 37:10.811 --> 37:12.854 You will remember my little monograph- 37:12.980 --> 37:17.108 on the subject of ashes from pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. 37:17.985 --> 37:20.779 One hundred different varieties if I remember. 37:21.072 --> 37:22.781 One hundred and forty, thank you, Watson. 37:23.449 --> 37:24.950 Having discovered the ash- 37:26.118 --> 37:28.286 I discovered this stump, 37:29.330 --> 37:32.290 which the man had thrown among the moss. 37:32.708 --> 37:34.876 An Indian cigar rolled in Rotterdam. 37:36.963 --> 37:39.798 You'll notice that the end has not been in his mouth, 37:39.966 --> 37:41.716 so he used a cigar holder. 37:42.468 --> 37:45.595 The tip has been cut off, not bitten, 37:46.889 --> 37:50.767 but the cut is not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt penknife. 37:53.813 --> 37:54.646 You're amazing. 37:56.440 --> 37:58.650 Among the words mumbled by the dying man, 38:00.444 --> 38:04.656 the only word that young McCarthy could understand was the word "rat". 38:07.368 --> 38:08.952 Rat, hmm. 38:12.081 --> 38:13.331 Most curious. 38:16.419 --> 38:17.168 Come with me. 38:30.099 --> 38:31.099 Now, 38:33.352 --> 38:34.144 what do you read? 38:34.395 --> 38:34.978 A rat. 38:35.104 --> 38:35.854 And now? 38:36.355 --> 38:39.190 Balla-rat..."Ballarat". 38:39.567 --> 38:41.109 That is the word the man uttered. 38:41.235 --> 38:42.527 Australia. 38:43.029 --> 38:44.863 Someone from Ballarat, what is Ballarat known for? 38:45.031 --> 38:45.530 It's the "Goldfield". 38:45.698 --> 38:49.367 Miss Turner said that her father had met McCarthy on the Goldfield. 38:49.660 --> 38:51.328 I see the direction which all this points. 38:51.454 --> 38:54.706 An Australian from Ballarat and one who is at home in the district. 38:57.084 --> 39:00.045 Unless I'm very much mistaken, he's here. 39:02.673 --> 39:03.882 Mr. John Turner. 39:13.059 --> 39:13.892 Mr. Holmes. 39:15.561 --> 39:16.394 Dr. Watson. 39:17.938 --> 39:19.856 My daughter told me you were lodging here. 39:20.149 --> 39:21.232 Did you get my note? 39:21.359 --> 39:25.653 Yes, yes, something about coming here to avoid a scandal. 39:26.072 --> 39:29.741 Better than meeting up at the hall, people might talk. 39:30.826 --> 39:32.243 Why do you wish to see me? 39:44.006 --> 39:48.718 Oh, yes. I know all about you and McCarthy. 39:52.098 --> 39:54.432 My friend Watson will jot down a few facts. 39:56.310 --> 39:59.396 I promise it will not be used unless it is absolutely needed. 40:01.857 --> 40:02.565 Do sit down. 40:13.661 --> 40:15.620 You didn't know the dead man McCarthy. 40:17.039 --> 40:18.748 He was a devil incarnate. 40:20.835 --> 40:23.628 God keep you out of the clutches of a man such as he. 40:24.171 --> 40:26.464 His grip has been upon me these many years 40:26.590 --> 40:28.133 and he's blasted my life. 40:31.470 --> 40:33.471 I'll tell you first how I came to be in his power. 40:36.475 --> 40:38.560 It was in the early 60's at the diggings. 40:39.979 --> 40:43.731 I was a young chap then, hot blooded and reckless. 40:43.941 --> 40:47.152 Well, I had no luck with my claim, 40:47.695 --> 40:50.822 took to the bush and became what you'd call a highway robber. 40:52.324 --> 40:55.994 There was a little gang of us who lived a wild free life of it. 40:56.662 --> 40:58.997 Sticking up a station from time to time, 40:59.415 --> 41:01.666 or stopping the wagon on the road from the diggings. 41:02.543 --> 41:04.919 They called me Black Jack of Ballarat. 41:06.338 --> 41:10.425 I believe they still remember the Ballarat gang in the colony. 41:32.907 --> 41:36.034 The wagon driver was McCarthy and I spared him. 41:36.202 --> 41:36.951 Get out of it! 41:37.870 --> 41:41.039 Go on, shift! Do a Botany! Fast! 42:04.021 --> 42:05.396 We got away with the gold. 42:07.816 --> 42:11.152 And Mac and I were wealthy men beyond the dreams of Everest. 42:13.239 --> 42:19.410 There was... 42:26.460 --> 42:27.835 There was a price on our heads. 42:30.506 --> 42:32.090 I decided to make for England. 42:34.176 --> 42:38.555 I determined to settle down to a quiet and respectable life. 42:40.182 --> 42:42.100 I bought this estate that included the whole village, 42:42.268 --> 42:43.434 even this inn is mine. 42:44.603 --> 42:46.896 I set myself to do a little good with my money 42:47.022 --> 42:49.357 to make up for the way in which I'd earned it. 42:51.151 --> 42:55.196 I married and then my darling wife died young. 42:55.948 --> 42:57.949 She left me my dear little Alice. 43:01.453 --> 43:06.541 I was a happy man you might say, until McCarthy laid his grip upon me. 43:08.752 --> 43:11.963 He followed my trail. When he first came here, 43:12.131 --> 43:15.425 he'd hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot. 43:16.802 --> 43:18.469 "Here we are, Jack!" he said. 43:19.221 --> 43:22.974 "You can have the keeping of us, me and my little boy." 43:23.726 --> 43:24.809 "And if you don't," 43:25.978 --> 43:28.813 "England is a fine law-abiding country," 43:29.273 --> 43:31.232 "and there's always a policeman handy." 43:33.527 --> 43:35.486 I was a sitting duck for blackmail. 43:36.155 --> 43:39.657 There was no shaking him off, there was no rest, no peace, 43:39.825 --> 43:41.826 no forgetfulness. Turn where I would- 43:41.952 --> 43:44.454 there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow. 43:45.331 --> 43:47.498 Whatever he wanted he must have, and whatever it was- 43:47.625 --> 43:52.754 I gave him without question. Land, money, houses... 43:55.507 --> 43:58.009 until at last he asked the thing I could not give. 43:59.386 --> 44:00.511 He asked for Alice. 44:03.599 --> 44:08.353 His son and my girl had grown up. He knew I was in weak health. 44:08.687 --> 44:10.647 It seemed a fine stroke to him that his- 44:10.773 --> 44:13.107 son should step into the whole property. 44:14.276 --> 44:16.152 There I was firm. 44:17.112 --> 44:20.448 I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine. 44:20.574 --> 44:22.950 Not that I had any dislike for the lad, 44:23.285 --> 44:26.037 but his father's blood was in him and that was enough. 44:27.790 --> 44:33.169 I stood firm. McCarthy threatened, I braved him to do his worst. 44:34.922 --> 44:36.547 We arranged to meet at the mere, 44:36.715 --> 44:40.468 halfway between our two houses to talk it over. 44:43.722 --> 44:46.057 As I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter 44:46.225 --> 44:47.558 seemed to come upper most, 44:48.352 --> 44:50.228 and he was urging his son to marry my daughter, 44:50.396 --> 44:52.563 with as little regard for what she might think 44:52.940 --> 44:54.565 as a slut from off the streets. 44:54.775 --> 44:56.234 Look, father, we have been through all this before... 44:56.360 --> 44:59.404 Do as I tell you, boy, you damn, disobedient, little bastard! 44:59.738 --> 45:02.240 It drove me mad to think that I and all that I held dear 45:02.408 --> 45:04.200 should be in the power of such a man. 45:04.868 --> 45:07.870 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like. 45:08.163 --> 45:09.914 I was a dying and desperate man. 45:10.541 --> 45:13.251 If I could silence that foul tongue, I could still save me 45:13.419 --> 45:15.753 and my family's reputation in this valley. 45:15.921 --> 45:17.046 Get off out of it! 45:58.672 --> 46:02.550 I did it, Mr. Holmes, and I would do it again. 46:04.219 --> 46:07.972 Deeply though I've sinned, I've lived a life of martyrdom to atone for it. 46:09.892 --> 46:13.311 If my girl should become entangled in the same meshes which held me 46:13.479 --> 46:14.812 was more than I could suffer. 46:16.648 --> 46:18.983 I struck him down with no more compunction 46:19.109 --> 46:21.819 than if he'd been some foul and venomous beast. 46:28.243 --> 46:30.119 That is the true story, gentlemen- 46:34.291 --> 46:35.500 of all that occurred. 46:43.509 --> 46:44.926 It is not for me to judge you, 46:45.177 --> 46:48.304 but I hope that we may never expose to such temptation. 46:50.140 --> 46:51.182 I pray not, sir. 46:53.852 --> 46:54.977 I'm a dying man. 46:57.981 --> 47:00.024 I've had the diabetes for years. 47:01.443 --> 47:04.529 My doctor says it's a question of whether I shall live a month, 47:06.073 --> 47:09.283 and I'd rather die under my own roof than in a jail. 47:09.701 --> 47:11.619 No, McCarthy must be got off, however. 47:12.204 --> 47:16.040 Oh, God help me, but I wouldn't let that young man come to harm. 47:17.501 --> 47:19.460 I'll give you my word that I'd have spoken out 47:19.586 --> 47:21.462 if it went against him at the assizes. 47:21.588 --> 47:23.172 I'm very glad to hear you say so. 47:23.882 --> 47:27.051 I'd have spoken now if it had not been for my dear girl. 47:29.513 --> 47:30.721 It would break her heart. 47:35.310 --> 47:37.854 It'll break her heart when she hears that I'm arrested. 47:38.230 --> 47:39.522 It may not come to that. 47:43.235 --> 47:44.360 We're not the police. 47:46.655 --> 47:48.573 I am no official agent. 47:50.784 --> 47:52.577 I'm here at your daughter's request. 47:55.706 --> 47:56.414 Alice? 47:56.540 --> 47:57.081 Alice. 48:00.711 --> 48:02.545 Then what do you intend to do? 48:04.339 --> 48:06.424 In view of your health, nothing. 48:07.426 --> 48:09.427 You are yourself aware that you'll have to answer for your deed 48:09.595 --> 48:11.554 at a higher court than the assizes. 48:14.850 --> 48:17.935 If young McCarthy's condemned I shall be forced to use this confession. 48:18.770 --> 48:19.604 If not, 48:21.690 --> 48:23.441 it will never be seen by mortal eye, 48:23.609 --> 48:26.903 and your secret, whether you be alive or dead, shall be safe with that. 48:49.676 --> 48:50.468 Farewell then. 48:56.558 --> 48:58.476 Your own deathbeds when they come 48:59.811 --> 49:05.066 a little bit easier for a thought of the peace that you've given to mine. 49:28.799 --> 49:30.466 Oh God, help us. 49:41.395 --> 49:43.187 "Turner, John Stewart," 49:43.355 --> 49:46.941 "16th of August, Boscombe Hall Cheshire." 49:47.609 --> 49:51.654 "After a long illness, bravely born, beloved father of Alice." 49:53.490 --> 50:00.037 Well, we're free to use that confession at young McCarthy's trial. 50:00.372 --> 50:01.706 No, by no means. 50:03.083 --> 50:06.210 My promise was it would not be used unless McCarthy is condemned, 50:06.336 --> 50:09.046 and I think I've given enough objections to the charge 50:09.214 --> 50:10.381 to ensure his acquittal. 50:10.632 --> 50:11.882 Well, I hope so. 51:29.461 --> 51:30.086 I love you. 51:31.213 --> 51:32.213 I love you, too. 51:33.965 --> 51:34.799 Will you marry me? 51:36.635 --> 51:37.468 Yes, I will. 51:48.313 --> 51:50.564 A happy ending to a brilliant case. 51:52.150 --> 51:53.484 I congratulate you, Holmes. 51:53.985 --> 51:56.821 I thank you. I must admit there are certain aspects to this case,