WEBVTT 00:48.339 --> 00:50.090 Emile my dearest one. 01:35.678 --> 01:36.929 Bien sur, Madame. 01:46.439 --> 01:49.983 "My dearest Emile, my husband has changed his plans." 01:51.653 --> 01:54.071 "There is no other way to say goodbye." 01:56.241 --> 01:57.991 "Remember me in your heart." 03:06.728 --> 03:10.898 Who betrayed me in Paris and why did you wait so long? 03:11.024 --> 03:13.400 I find your ladyship's attitude surprising. 03:13.651 --> 03:17.154 The answers to those questions are no concern of yours. 03:17.363 --> 03:21.408 On my knees l beg you l employ you to show mercy. 03:21.492 --> 03:23.911 I'm not in the business of mercy Madame. 03:24.037 --> 03:26.330 I haven't the money even if I wished. 03:26.497 --> 03:28.749 How could l without my husband knowing? 03:29.167 --> 03:32.920 Oh you'd be exceedingly ill advised not to make an effort. 03:33.004 --> 03:34.379 Do your worst. 03:39.594 --> 03:43.388 You will not have a penny from me, coward! 04:10.124 --> 04:12.960 My grandsons were punished enough. 04:15.380 --> 04:17.881 I hear from them only seldom. 04:19.050 --> 04:21.802 They wish to spare me their misery, l think. 04:25.014 --> 04:28.976 This monster who brought about their downfall? 04:29.852 --> 04:34.564 He lives and breathes, Mr. Holmes, with a smiling face 04:35.149 --> 04:37.317 and a heart of marble. 04:38.987 --> 04:40.570 You should have come to me sooner. 04:41.823 --> 04:43.824 If only I'd known of you sooner. 04:44.784 --> 04:46.827 A friend gave me your name. 04:47.537 --> 04:51.999 He has a high regard, for your sense of justice. 04:53.960 --> 04:55.836 Do you read poetry? 05:00.842 --> 05:02.009 Try a leaf. 05:08.474 --> 05:10.934 CAM devil. 05:11.519 --> 05:14.354 This is the only clue I can offer you. 05:15.356 --> 05:16.857 Maybe it will help. 05:17.859 --> 05:20.819 I wish nothing for Myself, Mr. Holmes. 05:21.946 --> 05:24.281 It is too late for that. 05:25.908 --> 05:31.288 l wish only to save others. 05:43.009 --> 05:44.634 3:45 for London. 05:55.563 --> 05:57.564 I felt great sadness there. 05:57.857 --> 05:59.983 To think that that house must have reverberated 06:00.068 --> 06:02.152 to the sounds of those boys growing up. 06:03.237 --> 06:05.197 Man who preys upon weakness 06:05.323 --> 06:07.657 with a smiling face and a heart of marble. 06:15.416 --> 06:17.042 A master blackmailer. 06:18.127 --> 06:22.255 I've heard whisper of him, yet no one has put a name to him. 06:22.590 --> 06:24.007 Well there's no mention of blackmail. 06:24.217 --> 06:26.218 Even a whisper of a newspaper account. 06:31.307 --> 06:32.599 You have reported it? 06:33.643 --> 06:38.522 Of her two grandchildren, George the elder, 06:39.315 --> 06:42.943 and Vike Kroft was caught in a moment of indiscretion, 06:43.277 --> 06:45.779 referred to the paper as the Badger Game. 06:46.447 --> 06:49.783 It seems to involve a gentleman being lured to the bed of a prostitute 06:50.284 --> 06:53.370 then being discovered Infle Grande Delecto by a third party. 06:53.538 --> 06:55.956 As usual the sensational press has got it wrong. 06:57.875 --> 07:01.294 The lady was an actress that is true but it was no Infle Grande. 07:01.546 --> 07:02.963 Mrs. Hudson. 07:03.256 --> 07:05.799 He was married Holmes into one of the highest family's in the land. 07:05.967 --> 07:06.925 The paper's made plenty of that. 07:07.051 --> 07:07.968 And the younger boy? 07:08.136 --> 07:08.760 Edward. 07:09.470 --> 07:14.808 Now, he revenged for his brother, took a revolver to the footman, 07:15.309 --> 07:17.644 who's name was, uh Veitch, 07:18.771 --> 07:20.814 burst in upon him, shot him in the face. 07:21.190 --> 07:23.984 The man lived but was disfigured for life. 07:24.944 --> 07:26.653 After the trial he disappeared. 07:28.197 --> 07:32.659 It is Veitch we must find to lead us to our prize. 07:33.870 --> 07:35.162 Ms. Hudson are you not well? 07:35.496 --> 07:36.329 Of course I'm well. 07:36.497 --> 07:38.165 Then please you know I hate the smell of cabbage. 07:38.291 --> 07:41.126 Surely the brothers would know they're tormentor. 07:42.670 --> 07:45.338 The older brother fled the country in disgrace. 07:46.299 --> 07:48.175 Edward joined him having served his sentence, 07:48.301 --> 07:49.926 they're now living richly somewhere in France. 07:50.011 --> 07:52.929 Goodbye Mrs. Hudson. Thank you. 07:53.181 --> 07:55.015 There is one curiosity. 08:01.689 --> 08:03.356 CAM Devil. 08:05.026 --> 08:06.985 Read it for clues if you wish. 08:09.113 --> 08:10.697 l do rather like Tennyson. 08:12.366 --> 08:13.366 But later. 08:15.786 --> 08:20.999 I'd prefer you to direct your energies towards the gossip columns. 08:24.962 --> 08:26.129 The Grasslands. 08:27.715 --> 08:29.674 The Grasslands, Watson. 08:31.385 --> 08:33.720 for which our serpent lies. 08:40.394 --> 08:42.145 Do tell us where you're going Charlotte. 08:42.271 --> 08:43.355 Oh yes, do tell. 08:43.481 --> 08:44.898 Lottie where are you going? 08:45.566 --> 08:47.567 Shall l, dearest. 08:48.110 --> 08:49.236 What's that my love? 08:50.863 --> 08:52.989 Tell them where we're going for our honeymoon. 08:53.366 --> 08:54.574 I've no objections. 08:54.867 --> 08:56.493 It's Buddley Solterton. 09:03.793 --> 09:04.918 How romantic. 09:05.086 --> 09:06.378 It is actually very. 09:06.504 --> 09:09.214 I shall have to choose somewhere abroad for a honeymoon. 09:09.632 --> 09:11.424 Paris or Rome. 09:11.592 --> 09:12.592 You may, Daphne. 09:12.760 --> 09:17.180 But if one's fate is to marry a soldier, abroad may well be one's whole life. 09:18.391 --> 09:21.601 And your honeymoon, Lady Eva? Have you and Harry decided yet? 09:23.187 --> 09:29.609 Florence, Naples, Constantinople, I think. 09:30.278 --> 09:31.444 Sounds delightful. 09:31.571 --> 09:33.113 Now you've made him envious. 09:33.406 --> 09:34.281 Not at all. 09:35.825 --> 09:38.743 Charlotte, my dear, I must return to barracks. 09:39.120 --> 09:40.453 Shall I see you this evening? 09:40.830 --> 09:45.458 No, duties forbid. Our regimental dinner, alas. 09:54.051 --> 09:54.634 Ladies. 10:00.057 --> 10:02.142 Lottie, he is gorgeous. 10:02.560 --> 10:03.435 He's divine. 10:04.687 --> 10:06.771 How'd you get so lucky, Charlotte? 10:06.897 --> 10:08.148 But where is Buddley Solterton? 10:08.649 --> 10:11.318 Oh I'm so happy for you, Lottie. 12:59.153 --> 13:00.111 What is this? 13:01.489 --> 13:03.156 It's not in my hand. 13:03.908 --> 13:08.828 My dear Colonel, you don't expect me to give you the original, do you? 13:09.330 --> 13:11.790 Where did you get this? Who gave it to you? 13:13.959 --> 13:18.338 Oh well, who but the object of your affections. 13:20.716 --> 13:24.844 l don't believe it. It's not possible. 13:26.388 --> 13:27.347 What do you want from me? 13:27.598 --> 13:28.515 Two hundred pounds. 13:28.682 --> 13:29.349 What? 13:29.600 --> 13:32.018 For it all to be blown away. 13:32.228 --> 13:37.023 Never. l won't part with a penny. I'll see you in hell first. 13:37.149 --> 13:39.859 Think of your lovely bride, Colonel. 13:57.378 --> 13:58.711 What have you done to me? 14:38.586 --> 14:41.087 One has to ask oneself how much butter can one eat? 14:42.590 --> 14:46.050 Dotty Martian apparently got seventeen salt and pepper parts. 14:46.135 --> 14:46.759 Seventeen? 14:46.927 --> 14:49.888 It's true. l was thinking of a way of dealing with it was so... 14:49.972 --> 14:51.055 Help me. 14:51.765 --> 14:56.603 It was to murmur politely, always useful until the awful day 14:56.770 --> 14:59.939 when always useless, she said to the Duchess. 15:00.024 --> 15:00.440 No. 15:00.524 --> 15:01.900 Yes, it's true. 15:03.235 --> 15:05.361 Lillie overheard her, didn't you, Lillie? 15:06.030 --> 15:07.071 Yes, my lady. 15:08.574 --> 15:11.451 Harry wanted us to be married at sea 15:11.535 --> 15:13.536 on a pirate ship with only the crew invited 15:14.204 --> 15:15.788 but one really can't, can we? 15:15.873 --> 15:17.540 No, my dear, one really can't. 15:29.553 --> 15:31.804 I made an extremely foolish wager 15:32.097 --> 15:34.974 that l could outbox a young upstart of a dragoon. 15:42.566 --> 15:46.653 And will you mend for the nuptials, my dear fellow, in three days? 15:48.280 --> 15:50.073 You have a small flutter in itself. 15:50.824 --> 15:51.491 Bed socks? 15:52.284 --> 15:53.159 For cold feet. 15:53.452 --> 15:55.161 You can rarely hopes they won't be needed. 16:12.012 --> 16:13.680 Yeah my grandfather fancied himself 16:13.806 --> 16:16.307 as something of a pugilist. He was the fourth Earl. 16:17.184 --> 16:18.685 l remember one summer in Ireland, 16:19.103 --> 16:22.313 l must have been about eight years old l suppose. 16:22.856 --> 16:24.190 He decided to give me a lesson. 16:24.274 --> 16:26.025 I've never been so frightened in my life. 16:26.527 --> 16:27.694 Lottie, what is it? 16:48.674 --> 16:49.215 Lottie? 16:49.883 --> 16:50.550 What's the problem? 16:51.260 --> 16:52.552 There's some letters. 17:04.148 --> 17:04.731 Lottie? 17:25.419 --> 17:29.714 Lover'stiff, or it's goodbye Buddley Solterton. 17:31.675 --> 17:32.258 l must go to her. 17:32.426 --> 17:34.260 No, my angel. 17:54.031 --> 17:57.950 "Prince Muir is about to marry Baroness Haganlod." 17:58.118 --> 18:00.787 "Lost his first wife, Princess Mary Devagram" 18:01.163 --> 18:02.121 "ten years ago." 18:04.374 --> 18:06.626 "Lord Rosebury has accepted an invitation" 18:06.752 --> 18:08.795 "to dine at the Cutler's Feast in Sheffield." 18:08.921 --> 18:10.088 You're not trying Watson. 18:10.172 --> 18:11.130 Well really, Holmes? 18:12.633 --> 18:15.134 I've been reading things out since half past eight this morning. 18:15.260 --> 18:16.969 You haven't reacted to a single article. 18:17.096 --> 18:18.888 l shall react l assure you 18:19.014 --> 18:21.933 the moment you read out something which catches my attention. 18:23.977 --> 18:25.311 Oh, this is interesting. 18:25.979 --> 18:28.314 "Lord Hockstein of English Cricketers" 18:28.774 --> 18:31.984 "are leaving next month for Philadelphia and Toronto." 18:33.570 --> 18:35.988 What on earth does that continent know about cricket? 18:37.825 --> 18:40.493 "The honorable Miss Miles has broken off her engagement" 18:40.619 --> 18:42.995 "to Colonel Dorking two days before the wedding." 18:48.252 --> 18:51.295 "The most important item in a woman's appearance this winter" 18:51.505 --> 18:52.672 "will be her headgear." 20:17.299 --> 20:18.090 Yes? 20:26.642 --> 20:28.392 I've come to light the fire for you, sir. 20:34.483 --> 20:36.400 Not at the moment. thank you. 20:42.491 --> 20:43.449 Go away. 21:06.098 --> 21:07.306 Inspector? 21:42.217 --> 21:43.259 Mr. Sherlock Holmes? 21:44.052 --> 21:44.677 Yes... 22:10.078 --> 22:12.705 It's from Colonel Dorking. Who delivered it? 22:12.831 --> 22:13.539 His batman. 22:15.667 --> 22:17.043 This is Colonel Dorking. 22:18.378 --> 22:21.047 His engagement to the honorable Miss Miles was broken off yesterday. 22:21.214 --> 22:22.631 You see I was listening. 22:30.474 --> 22:31.807 It's Lastrade. 22:37.522 --> 22:40.191 I don't know that he's in. Inspector. 22:41.401 --> 22:43.027 Inspector? 22:47.574 --> 22:50.910 Mr. Holmes, you know what I'm here for. 22:51.078 --> 22:52.244 No, pray tell me. 22:52.412 --> 22:54.246 I've come for the letter, 22:55.499 --> 22:57.500 which arrived in that envelope. 22:57.793 --> 23:00.753 It was stolen from the rooms of Colonel John Dorking 23:00.879 --> 23:04.006 and delivered into the hands of Doctor Watson not twenty minutes ago. 23:04.716 --> 23:06.592 Do you have it? 23:06.885 --> 23:08.427 Delivered, yes but stolen? 23:09.221 --> 23:10.930 It was a postal note to me Lastrade. 23:11.056 --> 23:12.515 It's police evidence. 23:15.685 --> 23:17.269 The Colonel is dead. 23:17.396 --> 23:19.772 Yes, we know. By his own hand. 23:21.483 --> 23:23.192 Foul play is not suspected, is it? 23:23.944 --> 23:25.569 How can you be so sure it isn't? 23:25.654 --> 23:27.071 Because the note made it clear. 23:27.739 --> 23:28.364 So, 23:29.950 --> 23:34.120 why should he write to you, if he's topping himself? 23:36.957 --> 23:38.124 Did you know the man? 23:38.208 --> 23:39.417 l had no knowledge of him. 23:40.335 --> 23:45.464 Oh, answer my question or better still... show me the letter. 23:45.715 --> 23:46.757 It will tell you nothing. 23:59.438 --> 24:03.482 Oh, he seems to me on the point of engaging you, 24:05.527 --> 24:06.819 he must have changed his mind. 24:06.945 --> 24:08.404 And took a soldier's way out. 24:12.409 --> 24:14.076 What does he mean by? 24:15.787 --> 24:17.163 We'll never know, Inspector. 24:18.665 --> 24:21.167 But he was engaged to be married, damn it. 24:23.086 --> 24:25.296 Yes, well... 24:26.423 --> 24:30.176 Wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last. 24:32.929 --> 24:36.849 So it was blackmail, you'd say? 24:37.684 --> 24:38.851 Well done, Lastrade. 24:39.519 --> 24:42.188 No need for sarcasm, Mr. Holmes. 24:43.315 --> 24:46.775 Your as much in the dark, as we are then 24:48.236 --> 24:50.696 about who this blackmailer might be. 24:52.949 --> 24:54.366 You can be sure of one thing. 24:55.660 --> 24:59.497 Colonel Dorking was not his first victim and will not be his last. 25:04.169 --> 25:05.544 Goodbye, Lastrade. 25:06.880 --> 25:09.340 You will let me know if you hear of anything? 25:18.808 --> 25:21.352 "I made a hideous mistake. I need your services." 25:22.646 --> 25:25.231 The only pity is he didn't name the blackmailer. 25:29.778 --> 25:30.736 He did. 25:32.447 --> 25:33.697 This came with the letter. 25:35.951 --> 25:38.244 Charles Augustus Milverton, 25:39.412 --> 25:42.414 Appledore Towers, Hampstead, Art Dealer. 25:42.666 --> 25:43.707 Camouflage. 25:43.875 --> 25:45.167 C.A.M. 25:46.461 --> 25:47.711 CAM devil. 25:59.057 --> 26:01.684 I've had to deal with fifty murderers in my career, 26:04.604 --> 26:07.189 but the worst of them never gave me this sense of- 26:08.149 --> 26:10.776 revulsion that I feel at this moment 26:12.153 --> 26:14.947 towards Mr. Charles Augustus Milverton. 26:19.327 --> 26:21.120 Milverton's lair. 26:29.212 --> 26:30.296 It's a fortress. 26:36.011 --> 26:37.303 Are you surprised? 27:01.620 --> 27:06.165 Charles Augustus. ls he a foreigner? 27:06.750 --> 27:10.753 Roman? Prussian? He's built his own prison. 27:12.839 --> 27:14.840 He's a man who loathes the human race. 27:15.842 --> 27:18.177 What circumstances might bring him to that? 27:18.511 --> 27:23.474 Well, boy brought up in lonely isolation, starved of affection. 27:24.851 --> 27:27.186 Probably in one of London's outer suburbs. 27:28.146 --> 27:30.356 Outer, why not Soho or Lesters Square. 27:30.523 --> 27:32.316 Because, my dear Holmes, those places, 27:32.400 --> 27:36.695 with all there vices team like wolves, generosity of spirit and humanity. 27:37.197 --> 27:38.364 That's interesting. 27:55.840 --> 27:56.965 Milverton. 28:00.595 --> 28:04.640 Tonight I have an assignment for you, if you're willing to visit an art gallery. 28:05.183 --> 28:06.392 What will you be doing? 28:08.895 --> 28:10.979 Don't you think that the honorable Miss Miles 28:11.064 --> 28:13.982 might be more worth a visit since Dorking wrote to you? 28:14.067 --> 28:15.317 That is past, Watson. 28:16.403 --> 28:19.738 What we must do now is fastened ourselves onto his next victim. 28:21.950 --> 28:24.410 So, this evening I'm to discover all l can about Milverton? 28:24.619 --> 28:27.246 His reputation. His background. And how those perceive him. 28:30.625 --> 28:31.750 Do I engage him in conversation? 28:31.876 --> 28:33.419 Yes, but with caution. 28:43.513 --> 28:46.014 His lordship has taken ill at lunch my lady. 28:46.266 --> 28:47.933 It is feared he may have suffered a stroke. 28:56.818 --> 28:58.193 Oh, poor Uncle Charles. 28:58.445 --> 28:59.945 Her ladyship is with him now. 29:01.740 --> 29:03.574 He should be pleased that you're back. 30:01.132 --> 30:02.841 Oh, Diana. 30:04.594 --> 30:05.677 May I see him? 30:09.098 --> 30:12.518 He's sleeping. Wait a little. 30:13.686 --> 30:14.686 How bad is it? 30:15.939 --> 30:21.527 Doctor Bainey's not optimistic. If he lives, he'll be paralyzed. 30:24.697 --> 30:28.200 Eva, there's a ceremony that l have to attend this evening. 30:28.451 --> 30:30.953 The unveiling of my portrait by a young artist. 30:31.830 --> 30:34.540 Just a brief appearance but l promised him that I'd be there. 30:34.916 --> 30:36.333 Will you come and take care of me? 30:36.876 --> 30:37.876 Of course. 30:42.549 --> 30:44.007 Wait. 30:47.720 --> 30:48.846 Yes? 31:00.525 --> 31:02.568 Here's a maid. Come about the job, sir. 31:04.946 --> 31:06.238 Well, come in then. 31:12.871 --> 31:15.247 So, what have you got to sell me, my dear? 31:17.709 --> 31:18.750 What is your name? 31:19.252 --> 31:20.252 Lillie, sir. 31:23.214 --> 31:25.674 Awe, Lady Eva Blackwell. 31:29.262 --> 31:35.267 It occurs to me that l might not have been invited to this viewing Holmes. 31:35.894 --> 31:38.520 What if I'm not admitted, huh? 31:40.940 --> 31:41.607 Holmes? 31:51.534 --> 31:52.951 Is that Mr. Holmes just going out? 31:53.411 --> 31:55.621 Not that l recognize, Doctor. 32:26.819 --> 32:29.488 Without more ado ladies and gentlemen 32:30.323 --> 32:33.909 l shall perform the ceremony for which we are gathered. 32:48.591 --> 32:52.803 I think she's gentler and more beautiful than that. 32:53.680 --> 32:55.681 I should insist on Whistler painting you. 33:01.229 --> 33:02.688 Formidable. 33:05.525 --> 33:06.817 It was a great honor. 33:13.449 --> 33:14.950 I would like to go soon. 33:39.517 --> 33:42.853 The boy has caught you to Perfection, Lady Swinstead. 33:44.689 --> 33:46.732 I don't believe we've been introduced. 33:47.817 --> 33:51.570 Charles Augustus Milverton at your service. 33:56.117 --> 33:56.908 Excuse me. 33:58.327 --> 34:01.246 Lady Swinstead, I'm afraid. 34:01.914 --> 34:02.998 My husband? 34:03.791 --> 34:04.541 Eva. 34:04.876 --> 34:05.584 Forgive me. 34:22.351 --> 34:23.769 A most beautiful lady. 34:24.729 --> 34:25.395 What? 34:26.105 --> 34:29.107 Lady Swinstead. I wonder though- 34:30.651 --> 34:32.694 if he's quite got her mouth right. 34:36.032 --> 34:37.115 Disaster. 34:57.637 --> 34:58.428 Do l know you? 34:58.513 --> 34:59.137 Yeah. 34:59.472 --> 35:01.098 You work for Milverton, don't you? 35:02.767 --> 35:03.809 Is he good there? 35:04.102 --> 35:06.103 He would be if weren't for the bloody plumbing. 35:06.187 --> 35:06.770 Plumbing? 35:07.313 --> 35:09.898 Always drippin off the spout and it's always my fault. 35:10.942 --> 35:13.819 Robert, look what you've done. 35:14.654 --> 35:16.113 That's my pint, is it? 35:17.865 --> 35:18.990 Now give us a kiss. 35:20.368 --> 35:21.284 Get off. 35:21.911 --> 35:25.330 Get off, Robert. Get off. 35:32.338 --> 35:33.672 We never sent for the plumber. 35:37.885 --> 35:38.844 Oh hello. 35:44.517 --> 35:45.934 It was Stokes. 35:46.686 --> 35:48.270 Oh was it? 35:57.822 --> 36:00.949 Robert this is... what's your name? 36:01.284 --> 36:05.328 Escott. We plumb the depths, it's my firm's motto. 36:06.622 --> 36:08.039 He says you sent for him. 36:08.207 --> 36:09.124 Where's the trouble? 36:10.042 --> 36:11.168 Awe, l see. 36:21.304 --> 36:22.679 What's going on here? 36:33.482 --> 36:34.983 l asked you what's going on here? 36:35.276 --> 36:36.985 He's come about the plumbing, Mr. Hebworth. 36:37.153 --> 36:39.571 I took the liberty of asking him to come and look at it. 36:40.406 --> 36:41.406 Didn't l, Aggie? 36:41.532 --> 36:44.993 You have no right to take liberties. I'm in charge here. 36:45.161 --> 36:46.745 But we do need it done, Mr. Hebworth. 36:47.079 --> 36:49.915 l mean, Mr. Milverton was only saying yesterday. 36:49.999 --> 36:54.252 that there was a very, ugly smell coming from the piping. 36:56.839 --> 36:59.049 Very well. Carry on then. 37:10.686 --> 37:13.396 He came in late and went out early. 37:14.023 --> 37:15.106 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 37:19.946 --> 37:21.112 Shame, isn't it? 37:25.243 --> 37:27.118 He was a fine statesmen, Watson. 37:28.246 --> 37:32.791 It was his diplomacy, I'm told, which eased Anglo-French relationships 37:32.917 --> 37:35.293 at a most delicate time some year's back. 37:36.254 --> 37:40.465 To think that l was there with his widow when the news was broken to her. 37:40.716 --> 37:42.050 Milverton. 37:42.635 --> 37:44.302 l exchanged a word with him. 37:45.304 --> 37:50.809 A more calculatingly insincere smile. l never hope to see. 37:51.435 --> 37:53.228 Charles Augustus. 37:53.437 --> 37:57.315 And described to me as a connoisseur in art matters. 37:57.775 --> 38:01.987 A businessman who can make or raise the fortune's of any artist 38:02.780 --> 38:03.989 to whom he devotes himself. 38:04.156 --> 38:05.824 Stems of hell. 38:07.159 --> 38:09.995 He's a member of a number of London clubs. 38:11.163 --> 38:15.583 On the basis, l suppose that there are those who do not oppose him. 38:16.627 --> 38:18.003 Not the Diogenes. 38:18.546 --> 38:21.506 l heard my brother Microft that he presented himself, 38:21.841 --> 38:24.009 and was turned away with a flea in his ear. 38:26.345 --> 38:30.849 Your gentleman blackmailer was born in Balum. 38:32.351 --> 38:34.477 The only son of a glazer and his wife. 38:34.812 --> 38:35.854 Your source of information? 38:35.980 --> 38:37.814 Oh a variety of sources. 38:38.733 --> 38:42.319 I applied your methods. How have you faired? 38:43.487 --> 38:44.696 I've entered the fortress. 38:45.323 --> 38:48.033 I'm a plumber of a rising business. Escotts my name. 38:48.826 --> 38:50.827 The butler, who goes under the name of Hebworth, 38:50.911 --> 38:53.538 is none other than Veitch the footman, 38:54.040 --> 38:56.333 who was shot in the face. I'm certain of it. 38:58.127 --> 39:00.211 Perhaps he was employed by Milverton 39:01.047 --> 39:04.299 as a reward for keeping his silence during the Kroft scandal. 39:05.509 --> 39:06.676 l wonder. 39:12.350 --> 39:15.352 You got air compression in your cell pipes, Mr. Hebworth. 39:15.853 --> 39:18.313 That's the cause of the evil smell in this house. 39:20.649 --> 39:24.361 What this warrants is a save all below it 39:25.654 --> 39:28.073 so the dirty water don't get clogged up. 39:46.092 --> 39:47.425 What the devil are you doing here? 39:49.637 --> 39:51.221 It's the plumber sir. 39:52.014 --> 39:55.225 There's no need of a plumber in this room. Get out. 40:01.857 --> 40:04.401 This is master's special room. 40:04.485 --> 40:06.277 And you stay out now... 40:25.381 --> 40:26.131 Aggie. 40:30.636 --> 40:32.637 I'll see you later. It's my plumber. 40:41.230 --> 40:42.147 Aggie? 40:42.606 --> 40:47.110 I don't care if I do make him jealous. Because ideas are... 40:48.279 --> 40:51.656 I don't like your master, Aggie. I think he's a shady character. 40:51.907 --> 40:54.742 You're right, he is. 41:04.503 --> 41:05.670 Oh, God. 41:30.029 --> 41:31.029 Lillie. 41:31.697 --> 41:35.033 She won't come here for that Job. Why would she want to work here for? 41:35.326 --> 41:38.786 She was a real lady's maid, you could tell by her clothes. 41:38.913 --> 41:40.330 What was she after then? 41:41.499 --> 41:45.210 I think you're getting a bit too curious. 41:46.003 --> 41:47.545 Yes, you are. 41:48.380 --> 41:52.050 and I'm getting cold. Snuggling good. 41:58.474 --> 41:59.641 Just a kiss. 42:05.105 --> 42:06.356 I don't know how. 42:14.573 --> 42:16.574 Poor boy. 42:20.579 --> 42:22.914 Holmes, I've had an idea. 42:25.167 --> 42:28.086 A way in which we bring this fellow Milverton within the grasp of the law. 42:31.173 --> 42:33.591 If we could tempt him to blackmail 42:33.717 --> 42:35.927 an innocent person we should have him. 42:37.596 --> 42:38.680 Now suppose... 42:39.056 --> 42:42.433 suppose I was to be the recipient of some indiscreet letters. 42:42.935 --> 42:45.353 You Watson? Who would pray write these letters? 42:45.688 --> 42:47.105 Someone of our acquaintance. 42:48.065 --> 42:50.733 And you and your plumbing persona could offer them for sale. 42:51.819 --> 42:53.278 And at the moment of transaction 42:53.904 --> 42:56.114 Lastrade would be on hand to arrest him. 42:57.074 --> 42:59.617 But legally we cannot move 43:00.786 --> 43:04.080 until some victim is prepared to sacrifice their reputation 43:04.748 --> 43:06.457 by going to the police. 43:08.127 --> 43:10.253 There must be some way we can fight this devil. 43:10.379 --> 43:13.298 There is. 43:29.023 --> 43:31.941 In a mere three weeks, my love, this all will be yours. 43:33.027 --> 43:33.818 l feel unworthy of it. 43:33.986 --> 43:36.487 Nonsense. There's no woman on earth more worthy. 43:39.783 --> 43:40.992 I feel unwell. 43:42.119 --> 43:43.494 l know what it is your feeling. 43:44.997 --> 43:46.831 It's your Uncle Charles, l do understand. 43:49.293 --> 43:50.835 We have our future ahead. 43:51.920 --> 43:53.838 We have each other for the rest of our lives. 44:25.412 --> 44:27.038 Where can I find Monsieur Vetron? 44:45.015 --> 44:46.224 Sherlock Holmes. 44:46.392 --> 44:47.558 Good evening, monsieur. 44:48.977 --> 44:51.562 You see I've tried to bring a little bit of Paris to London 44:53.941 --> 44:55.566 Camille's method is simple. 44:56.902 --> 44:57.568 Camille? 44:57.695 --> 44:59.320 C.A.M. CAM. 45:00.572 --> 45:03.866 Watson, you know sometimes you absolutely amaze me. 45:03.992 --> 45:07.995 He allows it to be known that he is prepared to pay very high sums 45:08.080 --> 45:11.916 for letters, which come from wise people of wealth and position. 45:12.376 --> 45:15.586 Do you receive, do you receive these letters from valets and maids? 45:15.879 --> 45:20.591 Not only them. Sometimes, how do you say, gentile ruffians- 45:20.801 --> 45:24.095 who have the confidence and affection of trusting women? 45:24.722 --> 45:27.849 No one knows where Camille's grip may fall. 45:27.975 --> 45:31.728 You are his agent, his conductor? 45:31.812 --> 45:32.437 Me? 45:33.605 --> 45:35.773 No, no, no, we go back a number of years. 45:36.900 --> 45:39.777 Rarely people are stupid enough to trust their servants. 45:44.074 --> 45:46.617 Did you help conduct a housemaid to him recently? 45:46.785 --> 45:48.453 And what his your interest, monsieur? 45:48.537 --> 45:50.621 l have a friend who may have something to sell. 45:50.873 --> 45:55.126 Oh, yes? Well, come this way. 46:05.637 --> 46:06.888 Tell me about him. 46:07.139 --> 46:08.973 Well he needs to know the procedure. 46:09.808 --> 46:11.058 The matter is delicate. 46:11.643 --> 46:14.312 Of course. It always is. 46:15.355 --> 46:19.275 He's a personal physician to the Duke and Duchess of Landish. 46:27.159 --> 46:30.161 Now this housemaid who came by recently? 46:30.579 --> 46:34.499 She's here tonight celebrating her birthday. 46:37.294 --> 46:40.797 In a year from now, she'll be on the streets. 46:45.052 --> 46:46.844 At whose expense? 47:16.291 --> 47:18.000 Lady Eva Blackwell. 47:19.461 --> 47:22.129 Engaged to the Earl of Dovercourt, said to be married within weeks. 47:22.214 --> 47:25.383 She must submit herself to our care. 47:25.717 --> 47:29.220 Somehow without delay. 47:31.098 --> 47:33.683 How dare you come into this house! 47:34.977 --> 47:36.352 How dare you! 47:37.604 --> 47:42.817 My dear young lady, a show of temper will avail you nothing. 47:50.576 --> 47:51.909 l can't pay you. 47:53.328 --> 47:55.746 I haven't the money to pay you. 47:59.501 --> 48:01.586 Give me back my letters. 48:05.591 --> 48:09.093 Please, leave me alone. 48:11.471 --> 48:15.433 You must be resourceful in finding the money. 48:16.018 --> 48:19.604 You have influential friends. Surely they'll come to your aid. 48:19.938 --> 48:20.605 No, they won't. 48:22.816 --> 48:24.275 Who can l tell? 48:25.611 --> 48:27.361 That's not my concern. 48:31.825 --> 48:33.034 The Earl of Dovercourt, my lady. 48:33.368 --> 48:35.202 Don't fuss. Oh, there's a good fellow. 48:36.496 --> 48:37.955 Oh darling. 48:38.665 --> 48:40.249 This is Mr. Milverton. 48:42.794 --> 48:44.962 I'm honored to meet you, my Lord. 48:45.547 --> 48:46.964 And what is your business here? 48:48.133 --> 48:49.258 Business? 48:51.386 --> 48:55.806 Shall we share with his lordship our little secret, Lady Eva? 48:55.974 --> 48:56.766 No. 48:58.644 --> 48:59.560 As you wish. 49:04.066 --> 49:05.483 My card, sir. 49:05.984 --> 49:06.651 Thank you. 49:14.826 --> 49:16.160 Good day at you both. 49:37.683 --> 49:40.184 Stokes. What time is it? 49:40.352 --> 49:42.019 Twenty past four. 49:44.272 --> 49:45.982 How much longer, Escott? 49:46.692 --> 49:49.527 Well, if you'll forgive me for saying so, Mr. Hebworth, 49:50.696 --> 49:52.780 you're plumbing's in the shocking stage. 49:53.490 --> 49:55.032 It's the worst I've ever seen. 50:01.498 --> 50:04.291 Two more days, then you're out. 50:16.596 --> 50:18.389 Come and see me tonight. 50:22.227 --> 50:23.394 Oh, Aggie. 50:24.938 --> 50:27.565 I have it under authority that she rides this way 50:27.691 --> 50:30.234 every Sunday afternoon. Would you recognize her? 50:31.194 --> 50:34.071 Well, I've seen her likeness in a magazine 50:34.239 --> 50:37.533 if she's with Dovercourt, l might. 50:57.888 --> 50:58.596 Eva? 51:01.266 --> 51:02.099 Boy, get the horse. 51:04.853 --> 51:05.770 I'm a Doctor. 51:06.605 --> 51:08.522 Her godmother lives just over there. 51:08.607 --> 51:10.274 We could carry her if it's safe to lift her, doctor. 51:10.358 --> 51:12.443 Yes. There's no-injury. Just fainted. 51:12.778 --> 51:13.527 Darling? 51:44.976 --> 51:46.811 I'm so sorry to be of so much trouble. 51:46.937 --> 51:49.563 You lay where you are, my dear. You're in safe hands now. 51:59.533 --> 52:00.825 Lady Swinstead. 52:12.170 --> 52:15.965 All England shares in your grief. 52:17.425 --> 52:19.844 My colleague, Doctor Watson, is attending Lady Eva. 52:21.638 --> 52:26.016 Poor child is very disturbed by the death of my husband. 52:27.644 --> 52:29.019 There's nothing serious Lady Swinstead 52:29.104 --> 52:32.523 but l would advise you to make her rest and get her own doctor to see her. 52:32.732 --> 52:34.692 Of course. Thank you, Doctor Watson. 52:35.569 --> 52:38.362 May Lady Eva need my services, please. 52:46.037 --> 52:47.371 Eva? 52:47.539 --> 52:49.790 It was Milverton who caused her fall. 52:50.709 --> 52:52.042 She saw his carriage. 53:09.144 --> 53:11.562 He rings the nerves of his victims 53:11.688 --> 53:14.565 to add to his already swollen moneybags. 53:15.192 --> 53:17.526 He is the worst man in London. 53:18.778 --> 53:20.905 Seething, slithering and sly. 53:22.199 --> 53:26.702 Yes, is there nothing better we can do than spend our time here, Holmes? 53:26.828 --> 53:28.245 You have any suggestions? 53:28.997 --> 53:30.748 Confront him. Challenge him. 53:31.208 --> 53:33.250 The brain before the cudgel rule. 53:34.211 --> 53:37.338 Meanwhile, just like him, 53:37.672 --> 53:41.091 he'll squeeze his victims till he's drained them dry 53:41.384 --> 53:43.260 and we're doing nothing to stop him. 53:45.555 --> 53:46.430 Holmes? 53:56.191 --> 53:57.942 You must eat, child. 54:04.532 --> 54:05.741 What's troubling you? 54:10.121 --> 54:11.872 Are you expecting someone? 54:12.832 --> 54:13.624 No. 54:15.961 --> 54:17.795 I'm just thinking about my wedding. 54:23.927 --> 54:25.469 Now tell me the truth. 54:53.915 --> 54:54.999 Gotcha. 55:06.428 --> 55:08.804 What time do they go to bed in this house, Aggie? 55:09.848 --> 55:12.933 What do you want to know for? 55:13.059 --> 55:16.020 So I know when it's safe to visit you. 55:17.397 --> 55:20.024 You could always come in over the wall. 55:20.608 --> 55:22.526 Throw pebbles at my window. 55:24.696 --> 55:25.863 Which is your window? 55:27.866 --> 55:30.534 I'll only tell you- 55:32.704 --> 55:34.038 if you marry me, love. 55:34.164 --> 55:35.039 Oh Aggie, I can't. 55:35.206 --> 55:36.123 Then I won't tell. 55:36.207 --> 55:38.500 You have such a way with words. 55:40.962 --> 55:41.712 All right. 55:42.922 --> 55:45.507 I'm at the very, very top on the corner 55:46.718 --> 55:50.721 and Master, he's a floor below but he's next to the garden 55:51.931 --> 55:57.186 and Monsieur Hebworth he's on the ground floor, just across from the study. 55:58.355 --> 56:00.397 Loves his sleep, he does, you can't wake him. 56:00.565 --> 56:02.149 There's a joke in the servant's hall. 56:02.400 --> 56:04.401 Why don't he sleep upstairs? 56:04.611 --> 56:09.198 Because the master wants him on guard. 56:09.366 --> 56:12.242 He's got loads of valuable, valuable stuffs in his study. 56:12.327 --> 56:15.579 Because he's no collector, he's afraid of burglars. 56:17.749 --> 56:19.208 Are you a burglar? 56:32.180 --> 56:36.016 You touched my heart. 56:41.606 --> 56:43.774 l will make you a gift of mine. 56:58.456 --> 56:59.623 Off you go. Off you go. 57:02.961 --> 57:05.379 Maximilian, who let you out. 57:05.463 --> 57:06.755 Stop. Come here. 57:28.278 --> 57:31.155 Stop it. Stop it. 57:34.742 --> 57:36.160 Stop it... 57:57.599 --> 57:59.016 I'll get you, Escott. 58:04.606 --> 58:06.356 He's just around the corner. 58:15.867 --> 58:17.534 What's this bloody racket? 58:17.702 --> 58:19.453 Well, there... 58:23.208 --> 58:26.710 Watson, you'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged to be married. 58:27.170 --> 58:28.879 Oh, yeah. l will. 58:31.090 --> 58:32.883 To the Milverton's housemaid. 58:36.513 --> 58:37.387 Good heavens. 58:37.680 --> 58:39.056 l needed information. 58:40.975 --> 58:42.559 Surely you've gone too far. 58:44.604 --> 58:46.313 It was a most necessary step 58:48.691 --> 58:51.693 I've walked with her, talked with her. 58:53.363 --> 58:54.905 Heaven knows talks. 58:56.574 --> 58:57.407 But the girl? 58:57.784 --> 58:59.076 Can't help it, Watson. 59:00.245 --> 59:01.912 One must play one's cards as best one can 59:01.996 --> 59:03.914 when such a stake is on the table. 59:05.166 --> 59:08.252 However, I rejoice to tell you that I have a hated rival 59:08.795 --> 59:11.255 that will cut me out the moment my back is turned. 59:16.094 --> 59:18.011 What a splendid day it is. 59:22.433 --> 59:23.600 You like this weather? 59:27.647 --> 59:28.855 She's here. 59:33.695 --> 59:36.238 My father died when I was 1 2. 59:36.781 --> 59:38.365 My mother stays in the country. 59:38.992 --> 59:41.410 Lord and Lady Swinstead have made London home to me 59:41.953 --> 59:45.080 but indeed they arranged my season last year. 59:45.832 --> 59:47.040 Give me your gloves. 59:51.462 --> 59:53.630 Oh, Mrs. Hudson, what do you think you're doing? 59:54.090 --> 59:56.300 You haven't been out this morning, Mr. Holmes 59:56.509 --> 59:57.926 and you don't have to be a detective 59:58.052 --> 01:00:01.221 to see that this young lady is recently up from a sick bed. 01:00:01.806 --> 01:00:03.390 Isn't that so, my dear? 01:00:04.517 --> 01:00:07.477 You must put some roses back in those cheeks. 01:00:07.854 --> 01:00:08.478 Thank you. 01:00:08.563 --> 01:00:10.397 The broth is an excellent idea. 01:00:10.690 --> 01:00:12.107 Mrs. Hudson, will you vanish? 01:00:21.117 --> 01:00:21.825 I said vanish. 01:00:26.581 --> 01:00:28.332 He was my first love. 01:00:30.293 --> 01:00:33.003 The son of some neighbors of ours in Suffick 01:00:34.881 --> 01:00:36.840 but we were ill matched. 01:00:37.925 --> 01:00:39.843 He had few prospects. 01:00:41.512 --> 01:00:42.929 When I came down to London 01:00:43.014 --> 01:00:45.015 last year for the season l broke off with him. 01:00:47.226 --> 01:00:49.311 I didn't realize how much I hurt him. 01:00:51.898 --> 01:00:53.523 He returned my letters 01:00:54.067 --> 01:00:56.318 and I put them away in a trunk, which I keep with me. 01:00:58.905 --> 01:01:01.823 Now, the substance of these letters? 01:01:06.120 --> 01:01:07.454 They're just a little foolish. 01:01:07.664 --> 01:01:10.207 But sufficient to cause your fiance misgiving? 01:01:13.544 --> 01:01:15.295 Harry's so proud of me. 01:01:17.757 --> 01:01:20.717 It frightens me sometimes that I cannot live up to 01:01:20.885 --> 01:01:23.553 his expectation of me. 01:01:26.391 --> 01:01:28.183 Was it your maid who found these letters? 01:01:28.935 --> 01:01:30.227 Lillie, yes. 01:01:31.437 --> 01:01:32.646 l trusted her. 01:01:35.566 --> 01:01:38.235 I cannot believe she could have betrayed me like this. 01:01:42.198 --> 01:01:45.367 How would this Lillie know about Milverton? 01:01:45.451 --> 01:01:46.326 I think- 01:01:48.496 --> 01:01:51.331 the idea may have come to her 01:01:51.457 --> 01:01:57.421 through a misfortune that befell a friend of mine, Charlotte, 01:02:01.926 --> 01:02:04.386 who was to have married a Colonel Dorking. 01:02:20.778 --> 01:02:22.112 And Mr. Milverton 01:02:23.281 --> 01:02:24.906 sent her some letters. 01:02:26.659 --> 01:02:28.201 They were very distressing. 01:02:31.789 --> 01:02:34.624 Lillie and I were there when she received them. 01:02:39.380 --> 01:02:41.965 To think the same fate has befallen me. 01:02:42.300 --> 01:02:44.301 It will be all right, Lady Eva. 01:02:44.969 --> 01:02:45.969 What could you do? 01:02:47.388 --> 01:02:50.140 My marriage is on the 1 8th. 01:02:52.643 --> 01:02:54.311 He's demanding that 01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:57.439 the money be paid to him 01:02:58.191 --> 01:03:03.069 four days prior to the wedding on the 1 4th, on the day of the dance. 01:03:03.321 --> 01:03:04.070 Dance? 01:03:04.322 --> 01:03:07.783 Lord Dovercourt has arranged a wedding feast 01:03:08.659 --> 01:03:10.494 and invited half of London. 01:03:15.208 --> 01:03:16.500 I'm dreading it. 01:03:18.252 --> 01:03:20.337 If you will place yourself in my hands, 01:03:21.547 --> 01:03:24.800 I'll inform Mr. Milverton that you've commissioned me to meet him 01:03:25.176 --> 01:03:27.010 to make the best terms that I can, huh? 01:03:27.678 --> 01:03:29.513 I have limited resources, Mr. Holmes. 01:03:29.597 --> 01:03:33.016 But enough for me to bargain with l cannot approach him empty handed. 01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:34.976 Good. Good. 01:03:37.688 --> 01:03:38.605 Thank you. 01:03:41.734 --> 01:03:43.860 My best wishes to your Godmother. 01:03:49.742 --> 01:03:50.492 Lady Eva. 01:03:53.704 --> 01:03:58.041 You must trust Mr. Holmes and his methods. Absolutely. 01:03:58.668 --> 01:04:00.502 Mrs. Hudson will see you out. 01:04:11.764 --> 01:04:15.684 That young lady, Holmes, must be treated with infinite care 01:04:15.977 --> 01:04:17.978 unlike your other recent escapade. 01:04:18.104 --> 01:04:22.399 Oh, Watson, it took some nerve for her to come here alone. 01:04:27.780 --> 01:04:29.739 It is my belief that Lady Eva 01:04:29.907 --> 01:04:32.325 and the Milverton housemaid have something in common. 01:04:32.493 --> 01:04:33.660 And what is that? 01:04:33.744 --> 01:04:34.578 Juice. 01:04:35.913 --> 01:04:37.247 Watson, juice. 01:04:38.583 --> 01:04:40.083 In the face of adversity. 01:04:41.544 --> 01:04:42.419 Now. 01:04:43.754 --> 01:04:44.921 Mr. Milverton. 01:05:01.898 --> 01:05:03.106 Well, well, well. 01:05:09.322 --> 01:05:31.259 Eva? 01:05:47.944 --> 01:05:48.944 Lottie. 01:05:58.579 --> 01:06:01.164 I am so glad to see you. 01:06:01.874 --> 01:06:03.291 Paris wasn't the answer. 01:06:05.127 --> 01:06:06.670 You've been hard to find. 01:06:08.923 --> 01:06:09.839 What were you doing? 01:06:10.257 --> 01:06:11.299 I fell asleep. 01:06:12.635 --> 01:06:16.471 Johnson told me about your Uncle Charles. I'm so sorry. 01:06:16.722 --> 01:06:18.515 I stayed here to comfort Diana but 01:06:20.393 --> 01:06:22.018 this house is so sad. 01:06:45.751 --> 01:06:49.379 We'll call again at 6:30 C. A. M. 01:07:27.543 --> 01:07:28.084 You ready? 01:07:28.169 --> 01:07:28.752 Yes. 01:07:39.930 --> 01:07:41.765 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 01:07:50.566 --> 01:07:53.026 This gentlemen, is it discreet? 01:07:53.778 --> 01:07:56.446 Dr. Watson is my friend and partner. 01:07:59.408 --> 01:08:04.287 It is purely in the interest of your client that I protest it. 01:08:05.247 --> 01:08:07.373 The matter is so very delicate. 01:08:08.459 --> 01:08:10.460 Dr. Watson has already thought of that. 01:08:14.048 --> 01:08:14.798 May I? 01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:16.883 Oh, thank you. 01:08:29.647 --> 01:08:31.481 Then we may proceed to business. 01:08:31.649 --> 01:08:36.486 You said in your note that you are acting for the Lady Eva. 01:08:37.530 --> 01:08:41.324 Are you empowered to accept my terms? 01:08:46.831 --> 01:08:48.456 What are your terms? 01:08:58.467 --> 01:09:00.135 Seven thousand pounds? 01:09:01.512 --> 01:09:02.679 And the alternative? 01:09:04.557 --> 01:09:07.684 My dear sir, it is painful for me to discuss it. 01:09:08.144 --> 01:09:11.187 But I can say 01:09:12.189 --> 01:09:16.025 that all of this is done with most careful consideration. 01:09:16.902 --> 01:09:19.028 And if the money is not paid 01:09:19.155 --> 01:09:22.198 on the 1 4th then there certainly will be no marriage on the 1 8th. 01:09:25.870 --> 01:09:29.372 We are, of course, familiar with the contents of these letters. 01:09:30.207 --> 01:09:32.208 We shall advise our client 01:09:32.710 --> 01:09:37.672 to tell her future husband the whole story and trust to his generosity. 01:09:38.465 --> 01:09:41.217 Well, then you evidently do not know the Earl. 01:09:42.887 --> 01:09:44.888 What harm is there in these letters? 01:09:45.764 --> 01:09:46.556 They are sprightly. 01:09:48.684 --> 01:09:49.851 Very sprightly. 01:09:50.477 --> 01:09:52.395 The lady was a charming correspondent. 01:09:53.022 --> 01:09:55.064 But I assure you the Earl of Dovercourt 01:09:55.232 --> 01:09:57.734 will fail to appreciate them. 01:09:58.444 --> 01:10:01.154 However, if you think otherwise, it's purely a matter of business. 01:10:01.322 --> 01:10:04.240 If you think it in the best interests of your client 01:10:04.867 --> 01:10:07.744 then it would indeed be foolish to pay so large a sum of money. 01:10:08.287 --> 01:10:09.746 You go too fast. 01:10:11.040 --> 01:10:12.749 We would certainly make every effort 01:10:12.833 --> 01:10:15.168 to avoid scandal in so delicate a matter. 01:10:16.670 --> 01:10:19.214 I felt sure that you see it in that light. 01:10:31.101 --> 01:10:32.268 Damn you. 01:10:33.938 --> 01:10:36.397 Lady Eva is not a wealthy woman. 01:10:37.358 --> 01:10:40.735 Two thousand pounds would be total drain on her resources. 01:10:41.904 --> 01:10:44.614 The sum you named utterly beyond her power. 01:10:47.117 --> 01:10:49.535 Return the letters at the price we indicate, l assure you 01:10:50.329 --> 01:10:52.080 it is the highest you can get. 01:10:53.707 --> 01:10:56.584 What you say maybe true of the lady's resources 01:10:56.710 --> 01:10:58.795 but surely the occasion of her marriage 01:10:59.505 --> 01:11:01.965 is it not a proper time for her friends and relations to make- 01:11:02.132 --> 01:11:04.467 some little effort on her behalf? 01:11:08.847 --> 01:11:12.100 They may hesitate as to an acceptable wedding present. 01:11:13.477 --> 01:11:16.479 But this little bundle of letters 01:11:16.605 --> 01:11:18.773 would bring more joy than all the candelabras 01:11:18.857 --> 01:11:21.651 and butter dishes in London, wouldn't it? 01:11:24.488 --> 01:11:25.655 It is not possible. 01:11:26.740 --> 01:11:29.826 Oh, dear me then. How very unfortunate. 01:11:29.952 --> 01:11:35.331 l cannot help feeling that ladies are ill advised in not making an effort. 01:11:40.963 --> 01:11:41.838 Look at this. 01:11:43.757 --> 01:11:45.133 This belongs to... 01:11:49.513 --> 01:11:51.431 Well perhaps it's hardly fair to tell you 01:11:51.515 --> 01:11:54.017 to whom it belongs until tomorrow morning 01:11:54.435 --> 01:11:57.103 when it will be in the hands of the lady's husband. 01:11:57.563 --> 01:12:00.857 And all because she will not find a beggarly sum 01:12:00.983 --> 01:12:02.692 which she could easily do 01:12:03.736 --> 01:12:06.362 simply by turning some of her diamonds into paste. 01:12:06.530 --> 01:12:08.031 It is such a pity! 01:12:09.158 --> 01:12:11.159 You may have noticed a small paragraph 01:12:11.243 --> 01:12:13.119 recently in the Morning Post. 01:12:14.246 --> 01:12:15.705 The sudden end of the engagement 01:12:15.873 --> 01:12:18.875 between the Honorable Miss Miles and Colonel Dorking? 01:12:19.209 --> 01:12:22.503 Yes, and it's tragic consequences. 01:12:22.588 --> 01:12:24.172 That was turned to amount to murder. 01:12:24.256 --> 01:12:26.382 How do you answer for that, Mr. Milverton? 01:12:28.552 --> 01:12:30.386 How a man conducts himself 01:12:30.554 --> 01:12:34.223 under such circumstances is a matter for himself alone. 01:12:35.184 --> 01:12:37.060 That is a monstrous accession. 01:12:37.394 --> 01:12:40.563 It was you and you alone Who caused his death. 01:12:41.273 --> 01:12:43.900 And the sum involved niggardly. 01:12:44.985 --> 01:12:47.653 Indeed a mere twelve hundred pounds 01:12:47.738 --> 01:12:50.740 would have settled the whole questions. Pitiful, isn't it? 01:12:52.409 --> 01:12:55.328 And yet l find you Mr. Holmes, a man of sense, 01:12:55.454 --> 01:12:58.247 boggling over terms when the whole future 01:12:58.332 --> 01:13:02.585 and honor of your client is at stake. You surprise me. You do really. 01:13:05.964 --> 01:13:07.423 The money cannot be found. 01:13:09.051 --> 01:13:13.429 Surely it would be better for you to take the substantial sum we offer 01:13:14.098 --> 01:13:15.932 than to ruin this young woman's career, 01:13:16.016 --> 01:13:17.767 which can profit you in no way. 01:13:18.227 --> 01:13:19.227 But you're mistaken. 01:13:21.105 --> 01:13:26.275 An exposure would profit me indirectly to a considerable degree. 01:13:27.069 --> 01:13:31.197 l have eight or ten similar cases materializing. 01:13:32.032 --> 01:13:36.911 If it is circulated that I have made a severe example of Lady Eva. 01:13:37.746 --> 01:13:42.375 I'll shall find the rest much more open to reason. Do you see my point? 01:13:53.178 --> 01:13:55.138 Let us see the contents of those letters. 01:14:05.441 --> 01:14:08.317 Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes I've been expecting you 01:14:08.444 --> 01:14:09.986 to do something original. 01:14:10.571 --> 01:14:13.156 This has been tried so often before. 01:14:13.323 --> 01:14:15.158 Young Edward Kroft for one. 01:14:16.285 --> 01:14:16.993 Kroft? 01:14:17.494 --> 01:14:18.828 The footman Veitch 01:14:19.830 --> 01:14:21.998 who took the bullet that was rightfully yours. 01:14:22.166 --> 01:14:23.666 You've done some work on me. 01:14:24.376 --> 01:14:26.961 So you must know that nothing ever came 01:14:27.045 --> 01:14:32.508 of an attack on my person. I'm armed to the teeth at all times. 01:14:33.177 --> 01:14:35.511 And I'm perfectly prepared to use my weapons 01:14:35.596 --> 01:14:37.597 and knowing that the law will support me. 01:14:40.893 --> 01:14:43.519 You may well have your chance to test your assumption. 01:14:50.736 --> 01:14:52.778 Mrs. Hudson l am not to be disturbed. 01:14:53.447 --> 01:14:53.863 Go. 01:14:58.827 --> 01:15:00.369 Mr. Holmes, surely you don't believe 01:15:00.454 --> 01:15:04.207 I'd be so foolish to carry my livelihood here in my pocket? 01:15:04.333 --> 01:15:06.042 Just making sure, Mr. Milverton. 01:15:10.047 --> 01:15:11.506 Well, now gentlemen, 01:15:12.591 --> 01:15:16.302 I have one or two little interviews this evening 01:15:17.221 --> 01:15:19.472 and it's a long drive to Hampstead. 01:15:46.542 --> 01:15:51.254 Now someone has dealt Milverton a blow. 01:15:56.260 --> 01:15:57.760 An outraged husband? 01:15:59.221 --> 01:16:02.014 Just as there are thousands in this great city 01:16:02.558 --> 01:16:04.433 who crave Milverton's destruction 01:16:06.270 --> 01:16:07.770 and may yet beat us to it. 01:16:13.235 --> 01:16:17.613 Holmes? I'm as fond of art as any man 01:16:18.282 --> 01:16:20.741 but don't you think after yesterday's encounter... 01:16:20.909 --> 01:16:23.286 Art is bond to the brain 01:16:24.663 --> 01:16:26.872 especially in moments of decision. 01:16:28.292 --> 01:16:30.459 So we've learned something about Milverton. 01:16:30.919 --> 01:16:33.421 That he's ruthless is hardly a revelation. 01:16:33.922 --> 01:16:38.801 And that of his vanity and to a certain his vulnerability. 01:16:39.469 --> 01:16:41.929 I can see that the damage to his carriage 01:16:42.306 --> 01:16:43.639 might have unsettled him. 01:16:43.890 --> 01:16:45.641 We must exploit such things. 01:16:46.393 --> 01:16:47.476 Wanton vandalism. 01:16:47.603 --> 01:16:48.978 Any chink in the armor. 01:16:51.690 --> 01:16:52.481 Mr. Holmes. 01:16:53.817 --> 01:16:56.235 This is my friend the Honorable Charlotte Miles. 01:16:57.070 --> 01:17:00.156 Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Mr. Watson. 01:17:00.657 --> 01:17:03.075 Lady Eva, may I speak privately to you? 01:17:12.628 --> 01:17:16.922 Mrs. Miles, please accept our sympathy. 01:17:17.341 --> 01:17:20.593 Mr. Holmes and I are fully aware of your situation. 01:17:20.886 --> 01:17:22.678 That is most kind of you Doctor Watson, 01:17:22.763 --> 01:17:25.348 but one has to live with one's mistakes. 01:17:28.352 --> 01:17:29.852 He was unyielding. 01:17:36.610 --> 01:17:40.821 Now the next move requires your delicate cooperation. 01:17:41.531 --> 01:17:42.823 I'll do anything you say, Mr. Holmes. 01:17:42.949 --> 01:17:44.533 The dance in your honor? 01:17:45.369 --> 01:17:46.452 On the 1 4th. 01:17:55.379 --> 01:17:57.713 Good afternoon, Mr. Stokes? 01:18:03.637 --> 01:18:06.389 l told you l was not to be disturbed girl, what is it? 01:18:07.224 --> 01:18:09.475 It's Mr. Sherlock Holmes to see you, sir. 01:18:11.353 --> 01:18:15.064 Oh Aggie, you've touched my heart. 01:18:15.482 --> 01:18:16.565 Mr. Holmes? 01:18:16.900 --> 01:18:20.403 I'm here to inform you that my client accepts your terms. 01:18:21.822 --> 01:18:24.657 She's acted with perspicacity. 01:18:25.450 --> 01:18:27.243 She begs one small favor. 01:18:27.744 --> 01:18:28.577 What is it? 01:18:28.829 --> 01:18:30.913 That the exchange be delayed until the 1 5th. 01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:34.083 The Earl has arranged a dance for the previous night 01:18:34.710 --> 01:18:36.711 and she is somewhat preoccupied with that. 01:18:37.087 --> 01:18:38.421 The dance, yes. 01:18:39.297 --> 01:18:43.926 So, 1 0 o'clock the following morning we can do business? 01:18:44.553 --> 01:18:45.678 Seven thousand pounds? 01:18:46.012 --> 01:18:46.929 As agreed. 01:18:47.764 --> 01:18:50.599 Here or at Baker Street? 01:18:50.767 --> 01:18:52.017 Here, Baker Street. 01:18:52.269 --> 01:18:54.353 Neutral ground perhaps. 01:18:56.398 --> 01:18:59.275 The Diogenes club You are a member? 01:19:02.738 --> 01:19:03.529 May I? 01:19:05.907 --> 01:19:10.536 Tell me, this sudden turnabout, was it on your advice? 01:19:12.122 --> 01:19:15.791 I could not abandon my client to her fate. 01:19:15.959 --> 01:19:17.793 Mr. Milverton, you are the victor. 01:19:23.925 --> 01:19:25.468 What a divine fragrance. 01:19:35.812 --> 01:19:38.898 My late husband and l were something of a second family to her 01:19:38.982 --> 01:19:40.816 so you see my concern? 01:19:43.779 --> 01:19:45.905 This man who is blackmailing her? 01:19:46.740 --> 01:19:51.285 Charles Augustus Milverton, he's an arts dealer. 01:19:51.828 --> 01:19:54.163 Yes. I've heard of him. 01:19:55.248 --> 01:19:58.751 He's well placed to hear the gossip and do his worst. 01:20:00.003 --> 01:20:02.004 What view does Mr.Holmes take of it? 01:20:02.506 --> 01:20:06.175 Well, I'm sure he has something in mind 01:20:06.510 --> 01:20:09.512 but he seldom confides in me till the last minute. 01:20:09.846 --> 01:20:11.096 Awe Holmes. 01:20:12.098 --> 01:20:14.475 Lady Swinstead is fully primed for the situation. 01:20:17.312 --> 01:20:19.480 Time is running out. 01:20:21.191 --> 01:20:22.525 Mr. Holmes. 01:20:23.860 --> 01:20:25.945 If it is a question of paying the money... 01:20:26.696 --> 01:20:28.155 That will not be necessary. 01:20:28.490 --> 01:20:29.990 You can give assurance then? 01:20:31.034 --> 01:20:33.536 That would be unwise in me, Lady Swinstead. 01:20:33.954 --> 01:20:35.037 But I assure you 01:20:36.957 --> 01:20:38.624 l will give it my best. 01:20:40.043 --> 01:20:42.211 l shall have to be satisfied with that then. 01:20:47.717 --> 01:20:48.884 Mr. Holmes? 01:20:51.847 --> 01:20:55.391 This man must be silenced. 01:21:05.318 --> 01:21:07.736 Does she know about Milverton? A name? 01:21:08.321 --> 01:21:11.532 Yes, l told her. Was that wrong of me? 01:21:14.661 --> 01:21:18.414 Oh, Watson these bills. They must be paid. 01:21:19.040 --> 01:21:20.416 Oh, incidentally l managed to secure 01:21:20.542 --> 01:21:23.377 an invitation for us both to the Dovercourt dance. 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:26.255 The house is some miles from London 01:21:26.381 --> 01:21:28.424 but in reach for my purposes. 01:21:30.176 --> 01:21:31.010 What purposes? 01:21:31.136 --> 01:21:35.431 I intend to burgle the Milverton house that night. 01:21:37.183 --> 01:21:39.351 For heaven sakes Holmes, think what you're doing. 01:21:45.275 --> 01:21:47.860 Well let us look at it fairly and clearly. 01:21:48.528 --> 01:21:53.115 You will admit that the cause is morally justifiable. 01:21:53.283 --> 01:21:55.284 Yes. Technically criminal. 01:21:56.536 --> 01:21:59.455 No more than raiding his pockets 01:22:00.206 --> 01:22:02.458 a cause which you were perfectly willing to help me. 01:22:02.792 --> 01:22:05.586 That was on the spurt of the moment not on the coal light of reason. 01:22:05.670 --> 01:22:06.587 Reason? 01:22:09.215 --> 01:22:11.133 Is there reasoning to be done, Watson? 01:22:12.093 --> 01:22:15.471 Nothing to test my brain. That's the curse of it. 01:22:16.097 --> 01:22:17.056 Think. 01:22:21.519 --> 01:22:22.478 If you're caught, 01:22:23.730 --> 01:22:27.274 an honored career ending in failure and public disgrace. 01:22:27.567 --> 01:22:29.818 What failure? What disgrace? Against defeat. 01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:32.821 You know me well enough 01:22:33.531 --> 01:22:36.617 that l would never adopt so objectionable a course 01:22:36.993 --> 01:22:39.787 if another were possible l must have those letters. 01:22:40.997 --> 01:22:42.998 And have the house in the palm of my hand. 01:22:43.917 --> 01:22:45.834 The cudgel before the brain. 01:22:50.507 --> 01:22:51.840 What of the odious Milverton? 01:22:52.008 --> 01:22:55.344 Do you think he's just going to open his gates and invite you to stroll in? 01:22:56.262 --> 01:23:00.140 Milverton will be at the dance as the guest of Lady Eva's. 01:23:01.351 --> 01:23:03.310 That's monstrous, Holmes. 01:23:04.521 --> 01:23:07.940 My self-respect and reputation are at stake, it's the only way. 01:23:08.984 --> 01:23:11.276 Well l don't like it, any of it. 01:23:26.042 --> 01:23:27.626 You have nothing to fear. 01:23:47.856 --> 01:23:49.023 Eva? 01:23:55.155 --> 01:23:58.157 Mrs. Hudson, why don't you tidy for me? 01:23:58.908 --> 01:24:01.076 Where the hell are my shoes? 01:24:30.106 --> 01:24:31.106 Shoes? 01:24:31.316 --> 01:24:31.899 Yes. 01:24:31.983 --> 01:24:32.775 Masks? 01:24:33.276 --> 01:24:34.401 Black silk handkerchief. 01:24:34.486 --> 01:24:36.445 l see you have a natural turn for this sort of thing. 01:24:36.613 --> 01:24:37.946 l wonder where l learned it. 01:24:50.043 --> 01:24:52.628 Take the usual precautions tonight. 01:24:53.755 --> 01:24:54.588 Hebworth. 01:24:56.382 --> 01:24:57.132 I will. 01:24:58.802 --> 01:24:59.968 Enjoy your evening. 01:26:31.936 --> 01:26:33.395 The people are at risks here, Holmes. 01:26:33.605 --> 01:26:35.814 Yes indeed. We leave in eight minutes. 01:26:39.986 --> 01:26:43.322 Excuse me sir, her ladyship would like to see you upstairs. 01:26:50.747 --> 01:26:51.413 Harry. 01:26:53.458 --> 01:26:54.583 That man- 01:26:56.753 --> 01:26:58.587 is he an invited guest? 01:26:59.714 --> 01:27:00.714 Milverton. 01:27:01.966 --> 01:27:05.260 Yes, it's something Eva schemed. The painting. 01:27:05.845 --> 01:27:06.762 The old girl is probably trying to 01:27:06.930 --> 01:27:08.847 whittle down the price by inviting him here. 01:27:10.892 --> 01:27:14.269 Don't worry yourself, Diana. It's all right. 01:27:52.809 --> 01:27:53.934 How strange- 01:27:56.771 --> 01:27:58.772 to see you here Mr. Holmes. 01:28:02.944 --> 01:28:04.987 Mixing business with pleasure? 01:28:06.489 --> 01:28:07.823 There's no doubt you are. 01:28:09.158 --> 01:28:11.827 Purely pleasure this evening, Mr. Holmes. l assure you. 01:28:13.997 --> 01:28:15.497 You will be keeping our appointment. 01:29:17.935 --> 01:29:18.643 Sir. 01:29:20.229 --> 01:29:22.689 I am expecting a visitor in half an hour. 01:29:22.774 --> 01:29:23.482 Sir. 01:30:52.864 --> 01:30:55.157 Servants are playing while the master's away. 01:31:20.183 --> 01:31:20.932 Holmes? 01:31:26.022 --> 01:31:29.024 That's strange. No time to lose the door. 01:35:42.695 --> 01:35:44.946 You made me curtail my evening's entertainment. 01:35:45.114 --> 01:35:46.614 I hope you prove worth it. 01:35:48.033 --> 01:35:50.577 You couldn't have come at a more sociable time? 01:35:51.245 --> 01:35:52.746 Well if you couldn't, you couldn't. 01:35:55.416 --> 01:35:58.418 If the Countess is a hard mistress, 01:35:58.794 --> 01:36:01.296 you have a chance now to get even with her. 01:36:02.256 --> 01:36:04.924 Bless the girl, what are you shivering about? 01:36:06.635 --> 01:36:10.430 That's right. Pull yourself together. 01:36:11.348 --> 01:36:13.141 Now then, let's get down to business. 01:36:15.811 --> 01:36:19.439 You save you have five letters, which compromise- 01:36:21.025 --> 01:36:23.109 the Countess D'Albert? 01:36:26.489 --> 01:36:28.239 You want to sell them. I want to buy them. 01:36:28.532 --> 01:36:32.076 So far, so good. So it remains to fix the price. 01:36:33.579 --> 01:36:36.331 Of course l shall want to examine the letters. 01:36:36.457 --> 01:36:40.001 If they prove to be good specimens then... 01:37:03.526 --> 01:37:05.360 Great heavens, it is you? 01:37:10.032 --> 01:37:13.701 A woman whose life you have ruined. 01:37:17.248 --> 01:37:20.708 You were so very obstinate. 01:37:20.835 --> 01:37:22.794 Paris twelve years ago. 01:37:22.920 --> 01:37:25.672 Why did you drive me to such extremities? 01:37:25.756 --> 01:37:27.882 An episode long closed. 01:37:28.050 --> 01:37:30.718 l wouldn't hurt a fly of my own accord. 01:37:30.886 --> 01:37:35.056 You waited for the moment when the stakes was most worth winning. 01:37:35.558 --> 01:37:36.724 What was I to do? 01:37:37.643 --> 01:37:40.019 Instead you sent the letters to my husband. 01:37:41.188 --> 01:37:44.524 A man whose boots I was never worthy to lace. 01:37:45.985 --> 01:37:49.737 You broke his gallant heart. 01:37:51.323 --> 01:37:53.575 Vial creature! 01:37:55.870 --> 01:38:00.707 That day l came here. l prayed, l begged you for mercy. 01:38:00.875 --> 01:38:05.253 And you laughed in my face as you are trying to laugh now. 01:38:05.337 --> 01:38:08.256 Your coward heart cannot keep you lips from trembling. 01:38:08.382 --> 01:38:10.258 Don't imagine that you can bully me. I'm only to raise my voice. 01:38:10.384 --> 01:38:15.763 You will ruin no more lives. You will wring no more hearts... 01:38:16.265 --> 01:38:20.018 I will make allowance for your natural anger. 01:38:20.102 --> 01:38:24.105 Leave the room at once and I'll say no more about it. 01:38:25.441 --> 01:38:28.192 l will free the world of a poisonous thing. 01:38:49.340 --> 01:38:51.215 You've done me. 01:40:01.537 --> 01:40:02.370 The fire. 01:40:30.607 --> 01:40:32.025 Lady Swinstead, 01:40:33.569 --> 01:40:34.902 you're free. 01:40:45.497 --> 01:40:47.582 Run! Run! 01:41:23.243 --> 01:41:24.243 Now gentlemen. 01:41:24.995 --> 01:41:28.456 The sale of the property of Charles A. Milverton Esquire, deceased. 01:41:28.791 --> 01:41:34.295 Lot one, a box of miscellaneous objects, trinkets, correspondence. 01:41:35.214 --> 01:41:36.464 Do I hear five pounds? 01:41:39.259 --> 01:41:39.801 Thank you, sir. 01:41:43.138 --> 01:41:46.808 The steward from the Vetron household, making sure. 01:41:51.772 --> 01:41:52.814 Lot two, 01:41:54.441 --> 01:41:58.611 bust of Athena, ancient Goddess of wisdom, industry and war. 01:41:59.154 --> 01:42:01.322 Now what do I have for this fine marble statue? 01:42:01.990 --> 01:42:02.740 Ten pounds? 01:42:03.951 --> 01:42:04.784 Twenty? 01:42:05.994 --> 01:42:06.661 Twenty pounds. 01:42:07.246 --> 01:42:07.662 Thirty? 01:42:09.123 --> 01:42:09.997 l have thirty pounds. 01:42:12.084 --> 01:42:13.960 Fifty. l have fifty pounds, sir. 01:42:20.843 --> 01:42:21.634 Sixty? 01:42:23.762 --> 01:42:24.512 Eighty? 01:42:25.973 --> 01:42:26.764 Eighty pounds. 01:42:29.101 --> 01:42:29.851 Ninety? 01:42:30.519 --> 01:42:31.811 Ninety pounds against you, sir. 01:42:32.604 --> 01:42:33.187 At ninety? 01:42:35.149 --> 01:42:36.190 One hundred pounds. 01:42:38.152 --> 01:42:38.693 More, sir? 01:42:42.030 --> 01:42:44.991 Sold to the gentleman over there for one hundred pounds. 01:42:55.794 --> 01:42:57.378 Mr. Holmes. 01:43:05.512 --> 01:43:09.974 Bought it in an auction, Mrs. Hudson. It cost a hundred pounds. 01:43:10.475 --> 01:43:12.518 Why has he smashed it? 01:43:14.521 --> 01:43:16.397 l thought there might be something in it. 01:43:18.150 --> 01:43:20.318 I'm more than happy to say that I was wrong. 01:43:20.944 --> 01:43:22.486 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 01:43:32.748 --> 01:43:36.584 Why is a point of interest, Holmes. Did the Frenchman want it? 01:43:39.087 --> 01:43:40.588 Sentimental reasons? 01:43:44.218 --> 01:43:45.509 Just making sure. 01:44:11.411 --> 01:44:12.620 No, Watson. 01:44:20.462 --> 01:44:22.713 There are certain aspects in which I am not proud. 01:44:25.550 --> 01:44:26.300 Please.