WEBVTT 02:57.969 --> 03:00.888 You may inform the Secretary of the Royal Society 03:01.556 --> 03:04.141 that I have entitled my lecture 03:05.018 --> 03:08.061 Darwin's Fundamental Error. 03:09.147 --> 03:10.689 That'll raise a few hackles, sir. 03:12.066 --> 03:12.858 Will it not? 03:13.776 --> 03:14.651 I must be off. 03:15.778 --> 03:19.406 You can acknowledge all of these. 03:20.116 --> 03:22.367 There's a good chap. Thanks. 03:23.161 --> 03:23.744 Father? 03:24.037 --> 03:24.578 My dear? 03:25.079 --> 03:29.082 Did you hear how Roy barked last night? It was dreadful. 03:29.876 --> 03:33.086 No, no I didn't. Did you hear him Bennett? 03:33.254 --> 03:34.254 I can't say I did, sir. 03:34.714 --> 03:38.050 He kept on and on. He howled too. 03:39.427 --> 03:41.094 I'm sure someone got into the garden. 03:41.763 --> 03:42.888 An intruder? 03:43.765 --> 03:44.973 Well yes, because... 03:46.309 --> 03:47.434 Oh father. 03:48.603 --> 03:52.397 Someone looked in at me, at my window. 03:52.690 --> 03:57.486 Impossible. You must have been dreaming. 03:58.029 --> 04:01.448 Oh, Edith nobody could reach your window. 04:01.616 --> 04:03.575 It's far too far off the ground. 04:04.160 --> 04:06.536 I'm sure I wasn't dreaming. 04:08.081 --> 04:09.373 Bennett, you take charge 04:09.666 --> 04:11.458 or I shall be late for the faculty meeting. 04:11.960 --> 04:14.294 I leave you in your fiancé's care my dear. 04:14.420 --> 04:15.754 If he proves as good a husband to you as 04:15.880 --> 04:18.715 he has amanuenses to me, you'll be a fortunate woman. 04:20.635 --> 04:22.636 Allay her fears Bennett, I know you can. 04:23.888 --> 04:24.805 Can you believe me? 04:25.807 --> 04:28.183 Not easily, no. I mean as your father said. 04:28.309 --> 04:29.268 Come and look. 04:29.978 --> 04:33.105 I'm awfully busy with these notes on Simia Satyrus to type, 04:33.231 --> 04:34.106 and then the proof of your father's... 04:34.232 --> 04:38.110 Jack, I know I wasn't dreaming 04:38.820 --> 04:40.988 and you know Roy doesn't bark at nothing. 04:41.906 --> 04:46.034 I want you to see for yourself. You must. Please. 04:47.870 --> 04:50.998 And then after the barking woke me I heard another sound 04:51.582 --> 04:52.666 from just below here. 04:53.334 --> 04:54.167 From below? 04:54.377 --> 04:57.838 There and there, do you see? The ivy's pulled away. 04:59.340 --> 05:02.634 I must have fainted. The next thing I knew it was dawn. 05:10.601 --> 05:12.853 You're quite, quite certain you didn't dream this, Edith? 05:13.813 --> 05:14.646 Quite. 05:17.525 --> 05:20.110 Jack, I insist you believe me. 05:22.363 --> 05:22.946 Very well. 05:23.364 --> 05:25.449 And that you inform Sherlock Holmes of the facts. 05:25.575 --> 05:26.616 Oh, darling. 05:27.535 --> 05:29.911 Or I shall reconsider our engagement. 05:30.997 --> 05:31.997 But why? 05:33.458 --> 05:37.127 I could not give my hand to a man who doubts my word. 06:36.187 --> 06:38.647 Watson, come at once if convenient. 06:41.442 --> 06:43.276 If inconvenient come all the same. 06:48.950 --> 06:51.284 Holmes, I got your note 06:52.453 --> 06:55.664 and it is inconvenient. Damned inconvenient. 06:55.790 --> 06:57.249 Your old wound is troubling you. 06:58.459 --> 06:59.126 No. 06:59.252 --> 07:01.628 I prefer to differ, your step was uneven on the stairs. 07:02.839 --> 07:04.339 I have a full surgery Holmes. 07:04.465 --> 07:07.968 You must excuse a certain abstraction of mind, Watson. 07:08.719 --> 07:09.511 I see. 07:09.679 --> 07:10.804 It's a tangled scheme. 07:12.432 --> 07:14.933 I've been looking for the loose end which might unravel it. 07:16.018 --> 07:18.395 One such might reside in the question 07:19.480 --> 07:23.608 does Professor Presbury's daughter wake or dream. 07:26.112 --> 07:28.363 I'm summoned here for no more than this? 07:29.907 --> 07:31.158 You've heard of Presbury? 07:32.577 --> 07:33.785 Of course, who hasn't? 07:34.287 --> 07:37.205 He's our most distinguished natural scientist. 07:37.331 --> 07:38.915 He's a widower with one daughter. 07:39.584 --> 07:42.627 She insists someone appeared at her window last night. 07:46.174 --> 07:49.050 Miss Presbury's bedroom is on the second floor 07:50.136 --> 07:53.555 and is completely inaccessible to even the most agile cat burglar. 07:53.681 --> 07:57.017 Read this. It arrived by the 1:00 post. 08:02.190 --> 08:04.399 The author already arrives ahead of his time, 08:04.525 --> 08:06.151 a most precipitant young man. 08:06.694 --> 08:08.904 Mr. Bennett, my friend and colleague Dr. Watson. 08:09.322 --> 08:10.864 How do you do? Mr. Bennett. 08:10.990 --> 08:11.698 Please sit down. 08:11.866 --> 08:13.116 No, forgive me. 08:13.993 --> 08:16.286 Mr. Holmes, I fear I've made a grave error of judgment. 08:17.079 --> 08:18.580 I should not have been in touch with you at all. 08:19.582 --> 08:21.166 I've wasted your time entirely. 08:21.709 --> 08:24.252 It is not a rational reason for Miss Presbury's fears. 08:24.378 --> 08:26.087 No, no I can't say that. 08:26.214 --> 08:28.340 Well it's, it's a delicate matter but I, 08:29.050 --> 08:32.928 I must beg you to proceed no further. I can of course recompense you. 08:37.600 --> 08:41.228 Mr. Bennett, your letter was less than frank, was it not? 08:42.104 --> 08:43.230 I set out the facts. 08:44.565 --> 08:45.899 Not all I suspect. 08:46.734 --> 08:49.486 Probably out of loyalty to your fiancé, Miss Presbury? 08:49.904 --> 08:50.737 You're aware of that? 08:50.905 --> 08:54.074 As I am of your employer's engagement to Miss Alice Morphy, 08:55.034 --> 08:57.410 the daughter of the famous comparative anatomist. 08:57.828 --> 09:00.038 She resides next door to the Presburys, does she not? 09:00.665 --> 09:02.082 How do you know of the engagement? 09:02.500 --> 09:05.752 The Times, July the 1 st September the 5th respectively. 09:07.755 --> 09:10.715 Mr. Holmes' memory is of a photographical order. 09:11.133 --> 09:11.758 Quite so. 09:13.719 --> 09:14.386 Oh, dear. 09:16.597 --> 09:18.682 Mr. Bennett, I do appreciate your predicament. 09:19.725 --> 09:21.351 As a scientist and a rationalist yourself. 09:21.477 --> 09:24.145 I dare say you're reluctant to accept the evidence 09:24.397 --> 09:26.189 insisted upon by Miss Presbury. 09:26.315 --> 09:28.525 Further, as a father's trusted assistant 09:28.734 --> 09:31.278 to have recourse to me must smack to you of disloyalty. 09:31.404 --> 09:34.864 Exactly, I'm part of the family except that Edith... 09:35.533 --> 09:37.659 Miss Presbury, she was so upset that she... 09:38.244 --> 09:40.370 Mr. Bennett, who would you prefer to alienate, 09:40.997 --> 09:43.290 your perspective wife or her celebrated father? 09:43.624 --> 09:46.334 You give me a choice of evils, neither. 09:46.752 --> 09:49.462 Then furnish me with the facts and I will see how I can help you. 09:50.965 --> 09:52.882 You may rely on the discretion of both of us. 09:55.845 --> 09:56.428 Well... 09:57.388 --> 10:00.473 Would you for example, describe Miss Presbury, 10:01.475 --> 10:03.768 as an impressionable fanciful girl? 10:06.022 --> 10:07.272 No, quite the reverse. 10:07.773 --> 10:10.650 Miss Alice Morphy? Perhaps Professor Presbury's- 10:10.776 --> 10:12.986 engagement to her came to you as something of a surprise. 10:14.113 --> 10:16.573 He is after all three times her age. 10:17.908 --> 10:18.742 And this velour? 10:20.161 --> 10:22.996 I prefer that one, with the osprey feathers. 10:26.334 --> 10:27.751 Could you ask him, do you think? 10:29.128 --> 10:31.630 Father's extremely proud of his orchids. 10:32.673 --> 10:33.590 I hate them. 10:35.176 --> 10:40.513 They're so, oh I don't know, so impure somehow. 10:42.433 --> 10:44.225 Do please ask him not to send them anymore. 10:44.352 --> 10:46.519 There's a sweet friend, Edith, please? 10:46.646 --> 10:47.604 Can you not ask him? 10:47.730 --> 10:48.855 I couldn't. 10:49.732 --> 10:51.941 I dare not. I'm such a coward. 10:53.611 --> 10:57.072 Oh, please. You've got so much more character than me. 10:57.365 --> 10:58.531 You're as strong as he. 10:58.741 --> 11:03.161 But Alice, if you dare not ask this of my father, 11:03.579 --> 11:05.955 how will you ever manage those deeper conflicts 11:06.082 --> 11:08.750 that occur even in the happiest of marriages? 11:09.377 --> 11:10.210 Oh, I don't know. 11:12.880 --> 11:13.963 I'm so frightened. 11:14.382 --> 11:15.715 Of marrying my father? 11:16.717 --> 11:17.467 I wish... 11:19.053 --> 11:22.389 No, please don't ask. Let's not speak of it. 11:27.186 --> 11:28.478 What do you think of this one? 11:29.438 --> 11:31.564 Neither Miss Presbury nor I consider her father's- 11:31.732 --> 11:35.735 infatuation with Miss Morphy to be entirely appropriate. 11:36.654 --> 11:37.570 Rather excessive. 11:37.988 --> 11:40.198 And her parents have no objections to the marriage? 11:41.617 --> 11:43.702 The professor is a respectable widower. 11:44.120 --> 11:45.203 And a wealthy man. 11:52.002 --> 11:52.919 When may I call? 11:53.587 --> 11:54.421 Call? 11:55.464 --> 11:56.965 To view Miss Presbury's window, 11:57.675 --> 11:59.426 to determine for myself its accessibility 11:59.552 --> 12:02.220 and otherwise to an intruder. Shall we say 11:00 tomorrow morning? 12:02.346 --> 12:04.180 Professor Presbury will be at his college. 12:04.306 --> 12:07.684 That's of no matter. At present my inquiries are purely logistical. 12:07.935 --> 12:10.562 I have never had any secrets from the professor. 12:10.938 --> 12:11.688 Mr. Bennett, 12:13.065 --> 12:16.151 let me refer you to your first question which you have in fact answered. 12:17.361 --> 12:19.738 You're more inclined to Miss Presbury's party 12:19.864 --> 12:21.281 than you are to your employer's. 12:24.577 --> 12:25.869 Yes, yes, I dare say. 12:26.287 --> 12:28.455 Thank you. Good day. 12:31.292 --> 12:31.833 Good day. 12:42.303 --> 12:45.680 Holmes, you're prying into the affairs of a perfectly respectable family. 12:46.098 --> 12:48.391 Why is Bennett so reluctant to tell the truth? 12:48.684 --> 12:50.643 Loyalty. It is as plain as a pack staff. 12:50.770 --> 12:53.855 Let us hope so. Yet he wrote to me under duress. 12:54.690 --> 12:55.982 You notice his handwriting, 12:56.901 --> 12:59.194 the crossing of the T's with such deep indentation? 12:59.653 --> 13:02.113 And then upon his arrival his endeavors to call the whole thing off, 13:02.239 --> 13:03.782 no, there's more to this than meets the eye. 13:03.991 --> 13:07.160 I do not agree. This case is unworthy of you. 13:10.539 --> 13:11.998 I must return to my surgery. 13:13.584 --> 13:14.876 Maybe I'll see you tomorrow. 13:54.667 --> 13:55.250 Father? 13:56.335 --> 14:00.046 My dear. I trust you slept better? 14:00.297 --> 14:03.383 Oh, yes. Last night I moved to the guest bedroom. 14:03.884 --> 14:07.804 Oh, no need surely. It was but an ugly dream. 14:08.848 --> 14:11.558 Father, Alice has asked me... 14:12.810 --> 14:13.393 Yes? 14:14.895 --> 14:17.438 The truth is she does not care for orchids. 14:19.859 --> 14:21.067 She doesn't? 14:23.279 --> 14:25.071 Well, why did she not say so? 14:25.364 --> 14:26.906 Well, she was afraid to. 14:27.741 --> 14:30.410 You forget how formidable you are father. 14:32.496 --> 14:33.872 The silly girl. 14:34.748 --> 14:39.752 Well, then she shall have roses. Yes, two dozen red roses. 14:47.511 --> 14:49.345 Roy was quiet enough last night. 14:50.431 --> 14:51.723 Not to rouse him, sir. 14:52.016 --> 14:53.391 Docility itself... 14:56.937 --> 15:00.773 Aye, he's grown accustomed to his shackles. 15:01.859 --> 15:02.775 The poor beast. 15:12.786 --> 15:13.494 Shall we go up? 15:14.121 --> 15:15.914 If Miss Presbury has no objection. 15:16.123 --> 15:17.665 I understand the necessity. 15:18.500 --> 15:19.792 Let us lead the way my dear. 15:24.298 --> 15:26.674 I'm glad you're more yourself today, Watson. 15:27.009 --> 15:29.135 You were a veritable bear yesterday. 15:29.553 --> 15:31.262 A touch liverish perhaps. 15:37.144 --> 15:38.311 This is where the figure appeared? 15:38.437 --> 15:38.978 Yes. 15:39.647 --> 15:42.148 There's no ladder on the premises that could reach this height? 15:42.524 --> 15:43.107 No. 15:44.485 --> 15:45.568 Was the window ajar? 15:45.694 --> 15:47.862 Yes, I keep the door locked. 15:50.366 --> 15:51.824 Did the hand touch the windowpane? 15:52.785 --> 15:54.744 I don't know. I fainted. 15:55.663 --> 15:56.996 Of course you did. Of course you did. 16:01.710 --> 16:03.586 Well, that's a formidable elevation, 16:06.382 --> 16:12.887 yet the ivy's strong, heders alegriensis, torn away just here. 16:18.936 --> 16:21.187 Miss Presbury, your father has returned prematurely. 16:21.438 --> 16:24.107 Oh, no. He mustn't know you're here Mr. Holmes. 16:24.233 --> 16:27.652 That can scarcely be avoided. However, let us go down. 16:27.903 --> 16:28.903 The backstairs? 16:29.363 --> 16:30.196 Certainly not. 16:36.370 --> 16:39.706 Bennett, what did you do with my lecture? 16:42.084 --> 16:44.544 Who the devil are you, sir? 16:45.337 --> 16:47.296 Father, I'm sorry. 16:47.548 --> 16:48.756 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 16:49.591 --> 16:50.258 Who? 16:51.510 --> 16:52.176 The detective. 16:52.302 --> 16:55.930 Professor Presbury, my card. 17:01.228 --> 17:04.689 221 B, 17:05.607 --> 17:08.151 hardly an address to inspire confidence. 17:09.862 --> 17:11.738 I have never sought to inspire confidence in others. 17:11.905 --> 17:13.156 I have quite enough of my own. 17:13.282 --> 17:14.782 May I introduce my colleague Dr. Watson? 17:14.908 --> 17:16.659 Certainly not, you may leave at once the pair of you. 17:16.785 --> 17:19.203 Father, they are here at our request. 17:19.538 --> 17:22.415 But not mine, Edith. And you Bennett, 17:23.250 --> 17:25.877 you should have consulted me before resorting to such methods, 17:26.462 --> 17:30.089 a common detective and his accomplice, really. 17:31.050 --> 17:34.052 Now, sir, allow me to escort you from the premises. 17:36.346 --> 17:37.597 My assistant had no authority 17:37.765 --> 17:40.433 to engage you in this matter. Kindly inquire into it no further. 17:40.934 --> 17:43.936 Should you persist I shall have no hesitation in calling the police. 17:44.229 --> 17:46.314 Lestrade of Yard is well known to me so beware. 17:46.440 --> 17:48.816 I would hesitate in calling Lestrade, professor, 17:48.942 --> 17:50.443 if you wish to have the mystery solved. 17:51.111 --> 17:53.654 There is no mystery, sir, none. 17:54.656 --> 17:57.533 Now be gone with you or would you have me release my dog? 17:58.327 --> 17:59.702 Believe me he'll not distinguish 17:59.828 --> 18:03.289 between a hired snoop and an intruder. 18:05.417 --> 18:07.293 Will you be gone, sir, will you? 18:07.586 --> 18:09.462 We shall, sir, we shall but you are over the mark. 18:09.630 --> 18:10.880 Kindly watch your words. 18:11.548 --> 18:12.465 As a breed. 18:12.800 --> 18:16.052 Despite their ferocious appearance these dogs are seldom vicious. 18:17.888 --> 18:19.931 I'm surprised that Roy needs chaining at all 18:21.141 --> 18:23.309 unless it is for your safety as much as ours. 19:03.684 --> 19:06.394 The dog reflects family life Watson. 19:06.937 --> 19:08.062 Does it indeed. 19:10.315 --> 19:12.316 Whoever heard of a frisky dog in a gloomy home 19:13.235 --> 19:14.652 or a sad dog in a happy one? 19:16.613 --> 19:18.698 Snarling people have snarling dogs. 19:20.242 --> 19:23.286 You observed the Presbury's Irish wolfhound as well as I. 19:23.412 --> 19:25.788 He growled quite as much at his master as it did at us, 19:25.914 --> 19:27.081 two complete strangers. 19:27.207 --> 19:30.668 That animal did not reserve its animosity solely for the professor. 19:30.878 --> 19:33.880 We'll seek verification from young Bennett when he arrives. 19:34.506 --> 19:36.382 I sent word by way of Jock MacPhail 19:36.717 --> 19:38.509 after our meeting at the Goat and Compasses. 19:40.220 --> 19:41.804 Another of your agents Holmes? 19:41.930 --> 19:45.308 The Presburys' coachman. He has charge of Roy. 19:46.935 --> 19:49.604 I joined him last night for what he calls a wee Goldie. 19:49.730 --> 19:52.523 Here's Bennett, precipitous as ever. Come in. 19:54.484 --> 19:55.234 Good morning. 19:57.905 --> 19:59.822 Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson, 20:00.741 --> 20:04.952 I must apologize for your unfortunate encounter yesterday, but also... 20:05.078 --> 20:06.078 There's no need. 20:06.622 --> 20:10.458 In fact, it has provided the very first clue to this odd affair. Do sit down. 20:11.335 --> 20:11.918 Thank you. 20:13.754 --> 20:16.589 Mr. Holmes, I cannot pretend that I am happy to have answered your summons. 20:16.757 --> 20:21.302 Of course and I continue to appreciate the division of your loyalties. 20:21.428 --> 20:24.305 It's no small wonder that you've withheld so much. 20:30.103 --> 20:32.021 Roy first attacked his master on the evening 20:32.147 --> 20:33.898 of September the 2nd, did he not? 20:34.775 --> 20:35.608 How can you know that? 20:35.734 --> 20:39.195 As the professor came from his study into the hall, he restrained the dog. 20:39.863 --> 20:42.031 On this occasion he was merely shut up in the scullery. 20:42.783 --> 20:45.534 The next morning he was as right as rain or so MacPhail informs me. 20:46.745 --> 20:47.495 MacPhail? 20:47.788 --> 20:48.913 Who better than the family coachman 20:49.039 --> 20:51.374 to advise me how matters might truly stand? 20:54.294 --> 20:56.504 Forgive me Mr. Holmes, I should have told you myself but... 20:56.630 --> 20:57.630 But you didn't. 20:58.632 --> 21:01.175 The second attack occurred 13 days later. 21:01.927 --> 21:03.594 Again, the professor was in the hall. 21:03.720 --> 21:06.138 Fortunately this time he was able to put the study door between himself 21:06.306 --> 21:08.057 and the altered animal, was he not? 21:08.725 --> 21:10.685 Edith wanted Roy chained from that moment. 21:11.019 --> 21:12.561 But her father overruled her. 21:13.230 --> 21:15.773 He insisted that he was still a dear affectionate dog, 21:16.149 --> 21:17.650 that he wasn't congenially vicious. 21:17.985 --> 21:19.652 But not after the third attack? 21:20.862 --> 21:23.239 No, he did agree then that he had to be restrained. 21:23.699 --> 21:26.826 And Roy was banished to the chain in the stable yard. 21:27.494 --> 21:28.077 Yes. 21:28.203 --> 21:30.496 MacPhail believes that the change in Roy's behavior 21:30.664 --> 21:32.331 stems from about two months ago? 21:33.417 --> 21:35.876 I think it may have. I, I didn't keep a straight note of it, 21:36.044 --> 21:38.212 Consult your fiancé Bennett and MacPhail. 21:38.630 --> 21:41.507 A precise log of these events may yet prove pertinent, 21:41.675 --> 21:46.012 I observed that the professor lectures at the university at 2:00 this afternoon. 21:46.263 --> 21:47.221 I shall call then. 21:48.181 --> 21:51.100 No, I couldn't possibly agree, no. 21:51.310 --> 21:54.854 Bennett, Miss Presbury did not dream. 21:55.939 --> 21:58.107 Someone or something looked in upon her. 21:59.026 --> 22:02.028 It is my conviction that your fiancé is in grave danger. 22:03.488 --> 22:04.196 From whom? 22:04.906 --> 22:09.368 No, sir, from whom or from what. 22:16.376 --> 22:19.045 As secretary you handle the professor's correspondence. 22:19.212 --> 22:21.422 Oh yes, it's my responsibility to open every letter. 22:23.050 --> 22:24.759 Has it always been Miss Presbury's habit 22:24.885 --> 22:26.635 to lock her bedroom door at night? 22:29.598 --> 22:34.185 Urn, no, well it, well she told me that... 22:34.936 --> 22:35.728 Yes? 22:36.355 --> 22:38.564 It was after Roy began to behave so strangely. 22:39.107 --> 22:40.983 That she too became afraid of the dog? 22:41.818 --> 22:43.277 Mr. Holmes, you mustn't touch his desk. 22:43.403 --> 22:44.028 Bennett! 22:45.405 --> 22:45.988 Thank you. 23:01.088 --> 23:02.254 Inform me of the correspondence 23:02.422 --> 23:07.051 the professor had with someone called Dorak 23:09.429 --> 23:13.265 inhabiting Cornmead. 23:15.394 --> 23:16.227 No, no, no, 23:17.521 --> 23:20.231 Commercial Road of course E.C. 23:22.275 --> 23:23.984 It would appear that the professor answers 23:24.111 --> 23:25.945 such correspondence himself. 23:27.447 --> 23:28.656 Well, again... 23:28.782 --> 23:31.158 Again, you've been reluctant to speak. 23:32.369 --> 23:32.993 Yes. 23:34.538 --> 23:37.081 Some eight weeks ago he told me that 23:37.207 --> 23:39.083 certain missives might arrive from East Central 23:39.209 --> 23:41.043 marked by a cross under the stamp. 23:41.545 --> 23:42.336 A code? 23:44.965 --> 23:47.133 And did they regularly? 23:47.592 --> 23:48.509 Irregularly, 23:49.010 --> 23:51.220 I was to leave them unopened and speak of them to no one. 23:51.388 --> 23:53.806 You said missive. They were not letters. 23:54.307 --> 23:56.183 Well, some were, others were small packets. 23:56.935 --> 23:58.936 And did you observe Professor Presbury's replies? 23:59.062 --> 24:01.355 No. They didn't pass through my hands. 24:01.648 --> 24:03.858 Yet the evidence would suggest that he did respond. 24:05.152 --> 24:08.446 To the Hindu the dog is a traditional enemy of the monkey. 24:09.072 --> 24:10.156 What was that Watson? 24:11.491 --> 24:13.159 What? Nothing. 24:13.535 --> 24:14.452 Jack? 24:16.288 --> 24:18.747 Oh, I, I wasn't aware. 24:19.499 --> 24:21.750 No, I couldn't tell you, you'd already gone out. 24:22.002 --> 24:22.626 I see. 24:24.546 --> 24:26.672 I've invited Alice to take tea with us. 24:26.882 --> 24:29.675 Do not be too severe upon your fiancé Miss Presbury. 24:29.968 --> 24:31.510 He has acted for the best. 24:32.345 --> 24:35.890 And please will you continue to lock your door at night. 24:36.516 --> 24:39.018 The prowler who looked in upon you is no ordinary creature. 24:39.186 --> 24:39.852 Good day. 24:44.816 --> 24:47.359 Jack, you shouldn't have brought him in here. 24:47.527 --> 24:51.363 I didn't want to but he insisted. He says there's grave danger. 24:52.032 --> 24:53.782 Was that Sherlock Holmes? 24:54.743 --> 24:56.535 The Sherlock Holmes? 24:58.497 --> 25:00.956 Your observation goes to the very heart of this business Watson. 25:01.082 --> 25:01.832 Observation? 25:01.958 --> 25:03.959 Considering the monkey and the dog, the very heart of it. 25:04.085 --> 25:05.044 Oh, you think so? 25:05.170 --> 25:07.838 Now if you'd be so kind as to accompany me to the university, 25:07.964 --> 25:11.800 you can drive on to the Commercial Road, inquire after Dorak. 25:12.219 --> 25:13.802 That's not an address Holmes. 25:13.929 --> 25:16.138 The Commercial Road is a mile long from Aldgate east to Limehouse. 25:16.264 --> 25:18.557 We'll ask a custom monger where Dorak's shop. 25:18.725 --> 25:19.391 Shop? 25:19.559 --> 25:21.727 Come on Watson, I'm going to be late. 25:27.817 --> 25:34.490 The equatorial rain forests of Africa, Asia and Southern America 25:34.616 --> 25:35.407 are filled with the sound and movement 25:35.575 --> 25:39.286 of a multitude of species from the primate family. 25:42.040 --> 25:46.585 ...therefore, this physical activity the swinging amongst branches, 25:46.753 --> 25:52.758 the flying leaps from treetop to treetop and loud raucous calling 25:52.968 --> 25:57.763 not only defines territorial rights in the forest. 25:57.931 --> 25:59.765 For example for food gathering, 26:00.100 --> 26:04.687 the tender shoots of tree and shrub are particularly prized 26:04.813 --> 26:11.402 but also is frequently among the males a ritual display 26:12.445 --> 26:15.614 either to ward off unwelcome intruders 26:15.740 --> 26:18.659 or to impress a particular female 26:19.035 --> 26:22.121 with a sexual potential of the performer. 26:23.415 --> 26:24.873 Thank you, gentlemen. 27:35.862 --> 27:38.113 Good afternoon, looking for somebody are ya? 27:38.657 --> 27:41.450 I believe there's some livery stables here or nearby. 27:41.618 --> 27:44.870 No, no, we got a knacker's Yard next door, that's all. 27:44.996 --> 27:46.580 Oh, right, right you are. 27:48.416 --> 27:49.875 It's a dead end. 27:50.001 --> 27:51.835 Oh, I could see a way through, yes. 27:52.045 --> 27:53.420 You're a nark or what? 27:53.546 --> 27:54.421 Not at all. 27:55.674 --> 27:56.465 Out. 27:57.509 --> 27:58.092 I'm sorry. 27:58.218 --> 27:59.885 I said out. 28:12.232 --> 28:14.483 You just can't take it in, can you? 28:14.609 --> 28:15.567 I beg your pardon? 28:15.735 --> 28:20.322 I said out and I meant out. No admittance, mate. 28:20.907 --> 28:22.157 These are commercial premises. 28:22.283 --> 28:23.409 What do you mean by that? 28:23.535 --> 28:24.952 I mean it's a shop. 28:25.412 --> 28:27.871 It must be early closing day. 28:28.415 --> 28:29.915 This is ridiculous. 28:31.292 --> 28:32.042 Is it? 28:38.341 --> 28:40.843 My dear Lestrade, I'm astonished that you- 28:40.969 --> 28:44.263 a man of your standing should call upon so petty an errand. 28:44.431 --> 28:46.932 Professor Presbury objects most strenuously 28:47.058 --> 28:49.059 to your investigations, Mr. Holmes. 28:49.436 --> 28:53.147 His complaint is that of unjustified harassment. 28:53.648 --> 28:55.566 The justification has yet to be proved. 28:55.984 --> 28:57.693 Has Presbury informed you of the facts? 28:57.944 --> 28:58.777 Of course. 28:58.945 --> 29:00.112 And your conclusions? 29:01.823 --> 29:03.824 A girl half asleep, 29:04.325 --> 29:08.162 mistook a cat or a bird or both for an intruder. 29:08.872 --> 29:10.456 That's all. It's trifle. 29:12.751 --> 29:14.293 Such a simple explanation, 29:15.420 --> 29:18.630 however, it begs the question of the family dog, does it not? 29:19.758 --> 29:21.925 Does it? What dog? 29:22.343 --> 29:25.679 Presbury did not mention Roy's part in this affair is strange. 29:25.972 --> 29:28.807 Clearly a partial witness. I suggest you ask him. 29:28.933 --> 29:31.727 You're not in full possession of the facts of this complex case. 29:31.853 --> 29:35.105 Trust you to say there's more to it than meets the eye, Mr. Holmes. 29:35.231 --> 29:37.816 I never concern myself in anything without that stimulus. 29:38.985 --> 29:41.612 If you persist you may find yourself at the wrong end 29:41.738 --> 29:43.447 of a private prosecution you know. 29:44.324 --> 29:46.784 Professor Presbury is a determined man. 29:47.577 --> 29:49.411 Then we're fairly matched, are we not? 29:50.622 --> 29:55.918 I knew it. Well, I've said my say. Mr. Holmes. 29:56.377 --> 29:57.169 Lestrade. 30:17.941 --> 30:18.690 Right, you can do it? 30:18.817 --> 30:20.776 Yeah, easier than Maidstone, 30:22.153 --> 30:23.153 poor old fellow. 31:00.108 --> 31:01.733 144, 31:04.487 --> 31:05.696 Commercial Road. 31:05.905 --> 31:07.614 Oh, you located, Dorak, good. 31:08.616 --> 31:11.285 He appears to run a general store as far as I can tell. 31:12.412 --> 31:14.913 Sells everything from flatirons to fishhooks. 31:15.415 --> 31:16.540 Can you be more specific? 31:16.666 --> 31:20.252 Well, can't be a very prosperous business. 31:20.628 --> 31:21.211 Why not? 31:21.379 --> 31:23.255 Because the general public are not allowed in. 31:25.884 --> 31:27.050 Did you discover anything else? 31:28.428 --> 31:30.429 Apart from being threatened by an unhelpful brute 31:30.555 --> 31:32.264 in an alley at the side, very little. 31:33.308 --> 31:35.058 He obviously works there because he followed me back 31:35.184 --> 31:36.518 to the shop and threatened me again. 31:37.145 --> 31:39.271 Oh, there was another fellow sharply dressed, 31:39.439 --> 31:41.773 a waistcoat with a mustache. 31:42.609 --> 31:43.358 A Cheroot? 31:44.611 --> 31:46.278 Yes, yes, he did. 31:46.404 --> 31:47.821 Sounds like Harry Wilcox, 31:48.531 --> 31:51.575 more usually of Soho Square than the East End. Anything further? 31:52.035 --> 31:55.829 Not really except the smell. 31:57.540 --> 31:59.124 There was a very odd smell about the place. 31:59.667 --> 32:00.375 Of what? 32:00.793 --> 32:04.963 Well it's not easy to say. It belonged to the animal kingdom. 32:05.465 --> 32:07.215 Straw or stables? 32:08.801 --> 32:09.843 More like a zoo. 32:30.365 --> 32:31.156 You're still up. 32:31.324 --> 32:33.992 Yes, sir, I thought I might finish these proofs. 32:34.661 --> 32:37.412 Very conscientious of you but no, no, you get to bed. 32:37.747 --> 32:39.581 I'd rather not, sir, I should like... 32:39.707 --> 32:42.584 Get to bed. Go on with you. 32:45.338 --> 32:47.589 Yes, sir, very well. 32:56.474 --> 32:57.057 Good night, sir. 32:58.184 --> 32:58.850 Good night. 33:45.023 --> 33:46.356 Darling wake up, it's me. 33:49.402 --> 33:50.068 Edith? 33:50.486 --> 33:51.069 Who is it? 33:51.195 --> 33:52.237 It's me, open the door. 33:57.285 --> 33:57.909 What is it? 33:58.202 --> 34:00.996 I saw. I can't describe. 34:01.664 --> 34:02.581 Oh, the intruder. 34:02.707 --> 34:03.915 We must rouse your father. 34:10.757 --> 34:11.798 Professor Presbury? 34:13.217 --> 34:13.925 Father? 34:16.262 --> 34:17.512 Sir, sir. 34:20.266 --> 34:21.183 Both of you, what is it? 34:22.560 --> 34:23.435 Jack thought he saw... 34:23.603 --> 34:26.396 I fancied I, I heard an intruder, sir. 34:26.647 --> 34:27.314 You did? 34:28.816 --> 34:33.070 Yes, Roy too was exercised but when I looked out just now there was- 34:33.196 --> 34:35.322 nothing and he since quieted down. Listen. 34:38.785 --> 34:40.077 But you thought you saw... 34:40.203 --> 34:41.745 Yes, I thought I saw... 34:42.997 --> 34:43.580 Yes? 34:46.167 --> 34:46.917 An animal. 34:49.587 --> 34:50.337 An animal? 34:52.715 --> 34:55.133 No, it must have been a trick of the light, sir. 34:55.551 --> 35:01.640 Must have been, yes, sir, I was mistaken. My apologies. 35:04.102 --> 35:04.643 Good night. 35:07.605 --> 35:08.271 Bennett. 35:09.357 --> 35:09.981 Yes, sir. 35:10.691 --> 35:13.318 Get some sleep. There's a good chap. 35:14.278 --> 35:14.861 Yes, sir. 36:20.136 --> 36:21.678 Of course. 36:22.972 --> 36:30.729 Watson. 36:48.456 --> 36:50.290 Unofficially a gang is at work. 36:50.583 --> 36:53.084 Other zoological gardens have reported similar thefts? 36:53.252 --> 36:56.463 Oh, yeah, my colleagues in Driscoll are investigating the theft of- 36:56.589 --> 37:00.550 two rhesus monkeys and a baboon removed only last week. 37:01.677 --> 37:05.931 A traveling menagerie in Oxfordshire lost a prized chimpanzee 37:06.140 --> 37:08.266 and Maidstone, their finest gorilla. 37:09.101 --> 37:11.853 Big Charlie? Delightful chap. I knew him well. 37:13.689 --> 37:16.149 Well, they've all disappeared without a trace. 37:16.275 --> 37:18.735 And Mr. Holmes, what's his interest? 37:19.612 --> 37:21.947 He insisted to me that this may have relevance 37:22.114 --> 37:23.698 to another case he has in hand. 37:23.908 --> 37:25.992 We like to indulge him when we can. 37:27.286 --> 37:29.162 Find anything to the purpose, Mr. Holmes? 37:29.288 --> 37:30.080 Nothing much. 37:30.790 --> 37:33.583 I warned you, my men have been through it with a tooth comb. 37:34.252 --> 37:36.753 The lock was released by Jenkins of Stepping Green. 37:37.546 --> 37:40.840 The primate was quieted with a pad of chloroform 37:40.967 --> 37:43.134 administered by someone who lavishes their hair 37:43.803 --> 37:46.471 with Mr. Brewster of Jermyn Street's Pomade. 37:47.598 --> 37:50.475 This would suggest that he also sports a waxed mustache, 37:50.810 --> 37:53.853 Mr. Brewster being celebrated for his cosmetic wax for gentlemen. 37:53.980 --> 37:55.647 If this was so Lestrade, 37:56.440 --> 37:59.567 you could do worse than have a word with Harry the Tech Wilcox of Soho. 38:00.569 --> 38:01.653 Good lord Holmes, 38:01.821 --> 38:04.406 you're nothing much would be anyone else a great deal. 38:04.532 --> 38:06.366 Yes, well I'm sure my men will arrive 38:06.492 --> 38:08.910 at the same conclusion once their reports are in hand. 38:09.036 --> 38:10.829 You will also naturally have noticed Lestrade 38:10.997 --> 38:12.831 that this is the sixth reported theft 38:12.957 --> 38:15.166 of a mature male primate in as many weeks. 38:15.334 --> 38:18.837 Is it six? Good lord, exceptional. 38:19.338 --> 38:23.425 The gender of the animals removed is I suggest of the essence. 38:24.844 --> 38:25.552 Good day. 38:45.698 --> 38:46.698 Come in. 38:51.370 --> 38:53.538 My dearest Alice. 38:54.623 --> 38:56.124 I'm not interrupting your work? 38:56.250 --> 38:59.544 No, no. I wasn't seriously engaged, 38:59.837 --> 39:02.464 just some notes of future inquiry, nothing more. 39:04.050 --> 39:05.717 Shall we go to the drawing room? 39:06.344 --> 39:08.386 This is hardly the place to entertain a young lady. 39:08.512 --> 39:09.179 No. 39:11.974 --> 39:12.849 Oh, dear. 39:13.893 --> 39:16.227 My dear child, what is the matter? 39:17.605 --> 39:19.189 I ought to have said before. 39:20.232 --> 39:22.484 Ought to what? 39:24.612 --> 39:27.238 There, you must take it back. 39:30.242 --> 39:31.618 But Alice... 39:31.952 --> 39:33.328 I can't marry you. 39:34.080 --> 39:36.539 I shouldn't have said I would, but I was afraid to say no. 39:38.000 --> 39:39.084 Please take it back. 39:40.252 --> 39:41.586 Nonsense, this is simply... 39:41.712 --> 39:44.005 No, you must take it. 39:44.298 --> 39:46.299 There, I'm sorry. 39:48.219 --> 39:49.010 Alice. 39:49.136 --> 39:54.557 No, you're old. You're too old. 40:00.856 --> 40:03.983 So, Bennett actually saw the intruders shadow inside the house. 40:05.277 --> 40:07.320 But upon investigation could find no further trace. 40:07.446 --> 40:09.447 You must get this to him by way of the butcher's boy. 40:09.615 --> 40:10.490 Are you coming? 40:11.242 --> 40:11.825 Where to? 40:11.951 --> 40:14.244 Dorak's Emporium, especially those parts 40:14.370 --> 40:17.997 where Jenkins took such pains to guard against you. Are you game? 40:18.124 --> 40:18.957 Delighted. 40:20.960 --> 40:21.835 You go armed? 40:22.795 --> 40:25.380 Always carry a firearm east of Aldgate, Watson. 41:44.084 --> 41:45.376 It's as I feared. 41:57.765 --> 41:59.682 He was reckoning on a visit, Mr. Holmes. 41:59.808 --> 42:00.475 Wilcox! 42:05.105 --> 42:06.189 And Jenkins. 42:33.008 --> 42:35.176 By heavens Holmes, this is what I smelt. 42:35.844 --> 42:39.264 These are Dorak's patients, poor abused creatures. 42:40.182 --> 42:42.767 Have you observed the experiments that Dorak performs on them? 42:42.893 --> 42:44.894 Oh, no that's none of our business he says. 42:45.020 --> 42:46.396 Well count yourself fortunate 42:46.772 --> 42:48.773 that the process has been kept from you. 42:51.735 --> 42:54.279 Now gentlemen in you go. 42:54.405 --> 42:56.239 In there with him? Why? 42:56.365 --> 42:58.866 To await the police. In gentlemen. 43:00.786 --> 43:03.871 I should advise Inspector Lestrade at once. 43:03.998 --> 43:05.623 You can't leave us in here. 43:06.125 --> 43:08.626 Remember the gorilla is a social animal 43:09.253 --> 43:12.338 and if you both mind your manners you will do well enough I dare say. 43:29.023 --> 43:30.815 Mr. Bennett and Miss Presbury. 43:31.150 --> 43:31.691 Yes. 43:31.817 --> 43:33.484 I decided I had to accompany Jack, Mr. Holmes. 43:33.652 --> 43:35.695 I'm delighted. Have you brought the list of missing dates? 43:36.155 --> 43:40.366 Yes, Roy also barked on these nights. 43:40.659 --> 43:42.535 Please never mind that Mr. Holmes. 43:42.703 --> 43:44.704 We have far more urgent matters to impart. 43:44.830 --> 43:45.663 Is that so? 43:45.998 --> 43:47.999 Miss Morphy has renounced my father. 43:49.001 --> 43:50.335 She's returned his ring? 43:50.461 --> 43:53.212 Today. Since when he has remained locked in his study. 43:53.339 --> 43:56.174 Every time I've knocked he's shouted abuse at me, we fear... 43:56.300 --> 43:59.427 The logic of it Watson, of this progression, do you see it? 43:59.595 --> 44:00.345 Please. 44:00.679 --> 44:02.764 The first three occasions are self-evident. 44:03.140 --> 44:05.266 We know of those. What happened on the 5th of October? 44:06.769 --> 44:10.146 Roy barked all night, on the 12th too. 44:11.523 --> 44:12.982 They're also days upon which the professor 44:13.108 --> 44:14.942 received packages from London East Central. 44:15.069 --> 44:17.070 This is the date on which the face appeared 44:17.196 --> 44:18.821 at the window four nights ago? 44:18.947 --> 44:19.614 Yes. 44:19.740 --> 44:23.034 And this is where the shadow appeared last night. 44:24.244 --> 44:25.703 Of course! 44:27.498 --> 44:32.251 The common factor is two. Always the gap decreases by two days. 44:32.378 --> 44:33.878 Numskull, Holmes. 44:34.963 --> 44:38.925 And today is the 21 st of October. 44:43.055 --> 44:43.763 Did? 44:45.265 --> 44:48.893 Yes, a package arrived this morning. 44:51.480 --> 44:55.650 And the crisis is upon us. Last night was but the precursor. 44:56.402 --> 44:57.735 Come, we must go at once. 44:58.320 --> 45:00.488 Come along, come along, I'll explain on the way. 45:13.419 --> 45:14.627 The front door is open. 45:20.050 --> 45:21.426 Bennett, examine upstairs. 45:21.552 --> 45:22.260 Watson. 45:37.359 --> 45:38.526 I thought as much. 45:41.822 --> 45:42.613 Did you hear Mr. Holmes? 45:42.740 --> 45:44.824 Too well, Miss Presbury, too well. 45:50.164 --> 45:51.456 Up there, look. 45:57.463 --> 46:00.631 My heavens Holmes, you were right. 46:30.496 --> 46:32.330 He's headed across to Miss Morphy's house. 46:32.456 --> 46:34.874 Bennett stay here and protect Miss Presbury. 47:11.286 --> 47:12.703 He's aiming for that balcony. 47:15.791 --> 47:16.415 It's locked. 47:16.542 --> 47:17.708 Then, we must housebreak. 47:33.809 --> 47:35.226 The dog Watson, the dog. 47:46.280 --> 47:49.657 Stay away. Please keep away. 48:10.804 --> 48:14.599 It was a close thing. Just missed the carotid artery. 48:15.017 --> 48:15.892 Is he all right? 48:16.560 --> 48:17.310 He'll live. 48:18.687 --> 48:22.106 A reformed man I have no doubt after his experience. 48:24.484 --> 48:26.986 My dear Lestrade. I quite intended you to have the credit 48:27.112 --> 48:30.448 but to complete the case against Dorak, Wilcox and Jenkins, 48:30.908 --> 48:32.116 you'll need this. 48:32.367 --> 48:34.452 Here is the incontrovertible proof 48:35.203 --> 48:37.121 that those animals you've rescued from degradation 48:37.289 --> 48:40.124 were stolen for the sake of their glands. 48:40.667 --> 48:42.960 The animal extract was sold at an enormous profit 48:43.086 --> 48:46.464 to those foolish or desperate enough to imagine that a course of serum 48:46.590 --> 48:50.551 could restore their lost vitality without any other effects. 48:51.136 --> 48:52.970 I am grateful to you Mr. Holmes. 48:53.430 --> 48:56.057 Thanks to you we've traced the evil to its source. 48:56.183 --> 48:58.434 Perhaps, but poor Presbury. 49:00.145 --> 49:04.273 When one tries to rise above nature, one is liable to fall below it. 49:05.400 --> 49:08.986 The highest type of man may revert to the animal 49:09.154 --> 49:11.489 when he leaves the straight road of destiny. 49:13.075 --> 49:16.410 Yes, well I'll leave the philosophy to you Mr. Holmes. 49:16.536 --> 49:18.663 Quite the best Lestrade, I always do. 49:19.957 --> 49:21.540 Is the wolfhound to be destroyed? 49:21.667 --> 49:22.249 Oh, no. 49:23.627 --> 49:25.795 No it was the monkey that Roy attacked, not the man. 49:25.921 --> 49:28.547 But the dog will be himself again quite as much as his master. 49:30.592 --> 49:34.720 Well, thank you both. Good day, gentlemen. 49:34.846 --> 49:36.305 Good day Lestrade. 49:39.351 --> 49:40.643 If I my say so Holmes 49:40.769 --> 49:44.105 I think you went a little too far in allowing Lestrade all the credit. 49:44.314 --> 49:45.272 Not all Watson. 49:46.692 --> 49:48.818 You can file it away in our archives.