WEBVTT 02:34.737 --> 02:38.365 Mr. Savage, Sir, I didn't know, Sir. Sir, I didn't know. 02:38.533 --> 02:42.077 It's all right, Benson. Last minute decision. 03:29.167 --> 03:30.083 Oh, there you are. 03:31.711 --> 03:33.670 Adelaide. Good morning. 03:37.258 --> 03:38.258 Where's Victor gone? 03:38.760 --> 03:39.301 Victor? 03:39.510 --> 03:42.971 Victor. Please do not pretend you are ignorant of where he is. 03:43.264 --> 03:44.890 Am I my cousin's keeper? 03:45.058 --> 03:47.017 I should be obliged if you would tell me where he has gone. 03:47.143 --> 03:50.270 I know what he has gone to do. Where has he gone? 03:50.396 --> 03:52.147 You have the advantage of me, my dear. 03:52.273 --> 03:55.442 I was expecting to walk over to Home Farm with him this morning. 03:55.568 --> 03:57.027 Have you no pity for us? 03:57.820 --> 04:00.113 You encouraged him into this nightmarish life. 04:03.159 --> 04:05.827 I? Pity? For you? 04:06.788 --> 04:08.789 At Somerleigh House? With your lovely children? 04:08.957 --> 04:10.332 The love you have for each other? 04:10.708 --> 04:11.959 Where has he gone? 04:13.336 --> 04:17.631 I can see I am unwelcome. Some unwitting fault I fear. 04:18.716 --> 04:21.677 I shall return to town and leave you in peace. 04:31.396 --> 04:32.938 Oh, Mrs. Hudson. 04:33.147 --> 04:34.314 We have been missing you. 04:34.482 --> 04:36.566 Only a... only another ten days. 04:36.693 --> 04:37.651 Yes. 04:40.113 --> 04:40.988 Morning, Holmes. 04:44.534 --> 04:47.286 Don't ask me to comment on your new tie. 04:51.582 --> 04:53.208 Quite heartless, Holmes. 04:59.132 --> 05:01.967 That woman is undoubtedly coming here. 05:03.219 --> 05:05.345 She has been staring up at this window for the past three minutes. 05:05.513 --> 05:07.681 Oh, I do wish she'd make up her mind. 05:08.349 --> 05:10.851 I could ask Mrs. Hudson to bring up an extra cup. 05:12.020 --> 05:13.186 Handsome, isn't she? 05:13.396 --> 05:13.937 Who? 05:16.274 --> 05:20.193 It's obviously something of importance to make her hesitate so long. 05:21.571 --> 05:22.654 A client? 05:49.766 --> 05:52.809 Alright, Polly? There's a good girl. 06:07.950 --> 06:10.744 Mr. Savage? John Gedgrave. 06:11.204 --> 06:12.329 Where the devil have you been? 06:13.915 --> 06:16.666 Two pounds Mr. Savage. In advance. 06:17.168 --> 06:20.253 And three for the establishment, five in total. 06:20.588 --> 06:21.421 Hope it's worth it. 06:21.756 --> 06:24.508 Oh. Anonymous was the word you used. 06:25.176 --> 06:27.969 Where we're going is as anonymous as you'll ever find. 06:28.429 --> 06:32.432 Every compartment has a curtain even. No one will see you. 06:32.600 --> 06:36.895 Oh, Good Lord. You, You're not taking those with you, are you? 06:37.146 --> 06:37.646 No. 06:37.772 --> 06:39.689 Oh, no. Oh, no, no... 06:40.316 --> 06:43.985 May as well tear 'em up and drop 'em in the Thames. 06:44.570 --> 06:47.823 Forty pound. I'll er, I'll give you a receipt. 06:53.746 --> 06:54.287 Holmes! 06:59.502 --> 07:00.836 That'll be our fair visitor? 07:09.470 --> 07:10.637 Please, do sit down. 07:41.794 --> 07:43.003 This receipt, Gedgrave. 07:43.337 --> 07:43.879 What about it? 07:44.005 --> 07:46.423 Well. What are you playing at? You've signed it Carter. 07:46.799 --> 07:50.260 You don't expect me to use my real name doing this sort of work, do you? 07:50.678 --> 07:54.222 Carter's my real name, I could've signed it anything. 07:55.057 --> 07:59.895 I've entrusted you with my real name, Mr. Savage, 08:00.605 --> 08:02.314 please don't complain. 08:14.785 --> 08:15.911 I need your help... 08:19.582 --> 08:20.248 I, erm... 08:22.210 --> 08:25.670 Anything you say here will, of course, be treated in the strictest confidence. 08:25.796 --> 08:28.548 We have kept the secrets of Kings, Madam. 08:30.593 --> 08:34.304 I... my husband... 09:09.840 --> 09:11.424 My husband is a financier. 09:12.093 --> 09:14.261 You have heard of the Oxford & Lombard Bank? 09:14.762 --> 09:18.890 Yes, the chief shareholders are the Conyards? 09:19.517 --> 09:23.103 My husband's family on his mother's side. He is one of the directors. 09:24.272 --> 09:26.606 The job is well within his powers, only... 09:28.359 --> 09:31.069 Victor has found the work increasingly irksome. 09:32.572 --> 09:34.781 He entertains an ambition, you see, 09:35.616 --> 09:38.201 which none of his family would begin to understand... 09:38.494 --> 09:39.202 What is that? 09:40.621 --> 09:42.205 He wishes to be a poet. 09:47.837 --> 09:51.172 He has come to believe that opium heightens his powers, 09:51.299 --> 09:53.967 intensifies the evidence of his senses... 10:17.617 --> 10:20.201 This may be so temporarily, but as I'm sure you know, 10:20.328 --> 10:23.288 the effect only survives the first few times the drug is taken. 10:23.414 --> 10:25.165 That is so, is it not? 10:25.499 --> 10:26.625 Oh yes. Indeed. 10:27.335 --> 10:30.337 Addiction quickly follows, very often for life. The er, 10:30.921 --> 10:33.548 the infernal substance soon offers the addict nothing... 10:33.841 --> 10:37.010 Except relief from the terrible effects of its absence. 10:39.305 --> 10:42.182 I believe Victor stands on the threshold of addiction. 10:43.643 --> 10:47.062 He left a note for me this morning which suggests he knows what danger he's in. 10:48.648 --> 10:49.689 You are going? 10:50.149 --> 10:53.109 Well, clearly Dr. Watson is the person to consult on this matter. 10:53.235 --> 10:55.862 No, Mr. Holmes, no! There is much more to it than that. 10:57.365 --> 10:58.782 There is Mr. Culverton Smith. 11:00.326 --> 11:01.242 Culverton Smith? 11:01.702 --> 11:02.535 Victor's cousin. 11:04.080 --> 11:08.541 He is a malign influence. I am sure he has driven Victor to this, 11:09.377 --> 11:11.878 and I am certain he has done it for his own ends. 11:31.482 --> 11:32.148 Holmes. 11:34.235 --> 11:35.902 The cab's on the corner. 11:39.073 --> 11:41.282 I do hope this is not a wild goose chase. 11:41.409 --> 11:42.534 How can it be? 11:43.077 --> 11:43.743 Well... 11:46.872 --> 11:49.541 I think you've had your head turned by a pretty woman. Thank you. 11:50.126 --> 11:52.001 Oh, yes. What about Culverton Smith? 11:52.128 --> 11:53.128 I have looked him up. 11:53.462 --> 11:57.674 Culverton Smith did some very important medical work while he was in the East. 11:57.800 --> 12:00.593 He pushed back the boundaries of science. However, 12:01.262 --> 12:06.057 he was obliged to publish his findings with his own expense. 12:07.768 --> 12:08.351 Why? 12:09.937 --> 12:14.107 He is an amateur. And the professionals are jealous. 12:14.275 --> 12:17.318 Huh. Well, I can see why he interests you. 12:28.539 --> 12:32.625 Ah. Your mystery guests! Who are they? 12:33.669 --> 12:37.213 I couldn't let Colonel Carnac be the only celebrity. 12:37.965 --> 12:41.342 I don't want him at our table because he's a celebrity my darling. 12:41.469 --> 12:44.804 It's just that he's horribly rich, or rather his wife is, 12:45.139 --> 12:47.640 and they bank with the Oxford and Lombard. 12:48.976 --> 12:50.226 Personally, I can't think of anything 12:50.352 --> 12:52.103 worse than hunting stories all through dinner. 12:52.229 --> 12:53.146 Nor I. 12:53.814 --> 12:57.692 So I've persuaded a rather most interesting hunter to join us. 12:58.819 --> 13:02.071 Who is it? Don't tease, Addy. 13:04.116 --> 13:05.700 Sherlock Holmes. 13:06.535 --> 13:09.329 I say. That is something of a coup. 13:10.206 --> 13:11.289 Well done! 13:13.292 --> 13:15.335 Oh look, Culverton Smith's here too. 13:16.504 --> 13:19.088 I'm so glad you felt able to invite him again, Addie darling. 13:20.049 --> 13:23.843 Look at him. Anyone would think Somerleigh was his. 13:25.012 --> 13:26.346 I do dislike it. 13:40.861 --> 13:42.028 Mr. Sherlock Holmes? 13:42.279 --> 13:43.238 Culverton Smith. 13:44.156 --> 13:46.574 Dear Adelaide promised me a surprise guest. 13:46.951 --> 13:49.994 I feared it might be somebody who was famous for being famous. 13:50.120 --> 13:53.039 Someone of your distinction I'd not expected at all. 13:53.207 --> 13:54.541 Nor I one of yours. 13:54.708 --> 13:58.878 Of mine? I make no claims to distinction, Mr. Holmes. 13:59.505 --> 14:00.880 You are too modest. 14:01.715 --> 14:06.469 Your account of the pathology of the Sumatran River Fever is a masterpiece. 14:07.179 --> 14:09.013 Thank you. Thank you. 14:10.432 --> 14:13.601 For a lure to work, of course, you have to make the animal believe it's safe. 14:13.727 --> 14:15.728 Now, that's all very well. 14:16.230 --> 14:19.649 The animals involved however have a highly developed sense of danger. 14:19.775 --> 14:23.444 I am sure Mr. Holmes must have that sense too. Do you, Mr. Holmes? 14:23.946 --> 14:27.407 Yes. I see it. Yes. 14:28.075 --> 14:30.368 You mean that the detective could be said to move 14:30.494 --> 14:32.704 in a world of predators and victims? 14:32.830 --> 14:36.541 Oh, we all do that Colonel, even humble family solicitors... 14:38.377 --> 14:39.419 Yes. 14:39.837 --> 14:42.130 And you would have enemies, Mr. Holmes, would you not? 14:42.506 --> 14:46.175 Yes, yes. It would take something, I dare say, to bring Mr. Holmes 14:46.302 --> 14:48.720 on to a lure and dispatch him. 14:49.388 --> 14:51.556 It would take careful study of his habits 14:52.474 --> 14:54.934 and a half-light shot or worse. 14:55.686 --> 15:00.523 It might even be necessary to follow him up to his lair even. 15:00.649 --> 15:03.151 Bertram, be quiet. 15:23.672 --> 15:25.465 You're not eating, Mr. Holmes. 15:27.843 --> 15:32.639 With so much to observe, food becomes of secondary importance. 15:33.140 --> 15:34.807 What have you observed so far? 15:36.060 --> 15:36.809 Courage, 15:38.479 --> 15:39.604 fever, 15:40.981 --> 15:41.689 gluttony, 15:42.983 --> 15:44.359 acute irritation, 15:45.569 --> 15:46.402 envy, 15:48.489 --> 15:51.240 wit, intelligence. I mean just the usual 15:51.784 --> 15:55.745 vices and virtues with any large English country house. 15:56.997 --> 15:58.790 This is very good. 16:07.841 --> 16:12.011 Do you know the game of "shove ha'penny?" Well, 16:12.554 --> 16:17.934 it's similar. I call this one "Rug skatery". 16:18.352 --> 16:22.647 My more serious gambling friends, the stock-broking fraternity that is to say, 16:23.065 --> 16:24.774 have introduced it to their establishments 16:24.900 --> 16:26.776 to the fury of their wives. 16:26.902 --> 16:31.698 It is agreed, however, that the authentic Somerleigh version is best. 16:36.370 --> 16:37.829 And she never wore them at all. 16:40.791 --> 16:43.751 Will the men be mortified if we don't cheer them on at their silly games? 16:43.877 --> 16:45.128 I dare say they will. 16:45.796 --> 16:47.839 It's almost a reason for not doing it. 16:50.092 --> 16:51.843 But for the sake of harmony... 16:52.302 --> 16:54.095 We indulge little boys. 16:55.556 --> 16:56.431 Well done. Well done. 17:07.818 --> 17:10.737 Our host has again out-jumped all estimates. 17:11.113 --> 17:13.614 So, the lawyer takes the pot. 17:14.283 --> 17:16.826 Well done, Charles. My turn now. 17:19.830 --> 17:21.164 Faites vos jeux, gentlemen. 17:21.749 --> 17:24.250 I should halve your estimates of last time. 17:41.685 --> 17:43.603 It's quite alright. My children do that too. 17:47.524 --> 17:48.357 Mama... 17:56.241 --> 17:58.034 What is wrong with Papa? 17:59.620 --> 18:02.622 When he hugged me, he felt horrid. 18:03.332 --> 18:05.708 He felt all cold and shivery. 18:07.586 --> 18:09.378 What do you mean by that, darling? 18:09.922 --> 18:12.090 He felt as if he was dead. 18:17.805 --> 18:18.721 Don't be silly. 19:30.836 --> 19:32.420 Give him to me. Give him to me. 20:27.935 --> 20:28.976 Doctor. 21:06.807 --> 21:07.473 Smith. 21:10.269 --> 21:13.604 Poor fellow. I could do nothing for him, Mr. Holmes. 21:14.815 --> 21:15.648 Not even I. 21:17.859 --> 21:21.070 The nursing was all right too. A tragic business. 21:22.030 --> 21:23.990 Would you satisfy me upon one point? 21:24.866 --> 21:25.366 Of course. 21:25.492 --> 21:27.660 This disease. Do you know what it was? 21:28.954 --> 21:31.789 All the signs point to that class of fevers of 21:31.915 --> 21:34.667 which the Sumatran River Fever is the most deadly. 21:36.128 --> 21:38.212 It was not necessarily that however? 21:38.505 --> 21:39.797 Something very like it. 21:40.632 --> 21:44.593 I have advised that the poor fellow's body is handled with extreme care. 21:45.429 --> 21:47.930 It is a disease transmitted through broken skin, 21:48.056 --> 21:49.890 you see they cannot be too careful. 21:52.394 --> 21:55.396 How did Savage come by such a thing? 21:57.607 --> 21:58.858 I can rely on your discretion? 21:59.026 --> 21:59.859 Of course. 22:00.527 --> 22:04.322 I understand Savage er, sometimes frequented... 22:04.823 --> 22:08.117 Well, that's to say his affairs took him to a part of Rotherhithe 22:08.243 --> 22:10.953 inhabited mostly by Chinese and Lascars. 22:11.330 --> 22:12.830 He must have picked it up there. 22:13.749 --> 22:15.875 The authorities in Rotherhithe must be informed. 22:16.043 --> 22:16.792 Oh they will be. 22:17.377 --> 22:20.463 Whether the measures they take turn out to be appropriate is another matter. 22:20.589 --> 22:24.091 Most institutions, I'm afraid, are run by the criminally lazy. 22:24.217 --> 22:25.593 I know Penrose Fisher 22:26.219 --> 22:28.679 and the Director, a little. I'll do what I can. 22:28.847 --> 22:30.890 I am grateful for your interest Mr. Holmes... 22:31.641 --> 22:34.393 Poor Adelaide. This will hit her very hard. 23:26.488 --> 23:27.530 Leave Somerleigh? 23:30.033 --> 23:31.283 I must leave Somerleigh? 23:32.035 --> 23:33.327 As soon as the will is proved, 23:33.453 --> 23:36.497 Culverton Smith is within his rights to ask you to go. 23:37.541 --> 23:38.791 I'm very sorry Adelaide. 23:40.252 --> 23:43.129 All this has its origins in old Sir Bernard's will. 23:43.588 --> 23:44.797 And partly I blame myself. 23:44.965 --> 23:47.842 This entailment to Victor's eldest cousin of the house 23:47.968 --> 23:48.676 and the rest of it is something that I... 23:48.802 --> 23:49.802 The rest of it? 23:52.097 --> 23:53.764 The income from the Berkshire estate. 23:55.308 --> 23:56.600 That will go to him too? 23:57.352 --> 23:57.893 Yes. 23:59.187 --> 24:01.939 Dear God. What is left? 24:03.567 --> 24:07.611 Enough for you to live modestly, and respectfully. 24:08.488 --> 24:10.322 You will not be able to continue as you have done. 24:11.074 --> 24:13.492 No. I see. 24:15.704 --> 24:19.665 As I say, I had asked Victor many times to change the terms 24:19.833 --> 24:21.834 of the entail to favour you in your lifetime... 24:22.002 --> 24:25.045 and it, it would have been legal, of course, and easily done. 24:25.172 --> 24:29.175 But ah, Victor was young. 24:29.301 --> 24:29.884 Surely... 24:30.886 --> 24:34.847 Culverton Smith will not exercise his right to evict Mrs. Savage? 24:35.015 --> 24:35.723 He might. 24:36.516 --> 24:37.433 Why do you think that? 24:37.559 --> 24:40.561 He's been in touch. He seems to know the main dispositions of the will. 24:41.563 --> 24:45.191 He talked of the estate income being put to "a proper use." Whatever that meant. 24:46.651 --> 24:49.904 He seemed to think that Adelaide would be able to rely on her family. 24:50.530 --> 24:51.822 They haven't the means. 24:52.365 --> 24:54.283 When he knows that, he must relent? 24:54.409 --> 24:55.201 I doubt it. 24:56.369 --> 25:00.039 He has wanted something like this to happen ever since he came into our lives. 25:01.458 --> 25:05.961 He encouraged all that was weakest in Victor in the hope of some disaster. 25:07.964 --> 25:09.924 This is a triumph for him. 25:12.219 --> 25:14.553 It may be worth talking to him, Adelaide. 25:16.223 --> 25:17.223 I suppose so. 25:18.558 --> 25:21.894 If you could bring yourself to plead with him... 25:26.066 --> 25:28.234 For the children, I will do even that. 25:32.447 --> 25:33.989 Oh, Percy. Do blow your nose. 25:35.158 --> 25:38.285 Now, remember, all this happened nine days ago. 25:38.745 --> 25:43.916 That was the day when the Queen entertained the Sultan of Kallipur 25:44.251 --> 25:47.169 and Frivolous won the Birkenhead Stakes... 25:47.295 --> 25:47.878 At Goodwood. 25:48.004 --> 25:48.629 Right. 25:51.591 --> 25:54.009 Harry, where are your boots? 25:55.262 --> 25:55.844 Oh, I see. 25:56.429 --> 25:57.763 Well then, off to Rotherhithe. 26:00.308 --> 26:02.309 Good luck. Good luck. 26:26.793 --> 26:27.626 There Holmes. 26:28.461 --> 26:31.088 That is a list of every blemish I could find on the skin surface. 26:32.007 --> 26:34.216 I presume you are seeking the means of transmission? 26:34.384 --> 26:35.175 Yes. 26:36.136 --> 26:37.052 Through broken skin. 26:37.387 --> 26:40.639 That is how Culverton Smith believes it was transmitted. 26:42.517 --> 26:44.476 His opinion is worth knowing certainly. 26:49.316 --> 26:50.816 What do you think of him, Fisher? 26:52.986 --> 26:53.736 He is a friend of yours? 26:53.862 --> 26:55.654 Not at all. I hardly know him. 26:56.656 --> 26:59.325 I have read a couple of his papers, that's all. 27:01.494 --> 27:04.913 Well, I think his work, in parts, brilliant. 27:08.251 --> 27:11.587 If he has a fault, it is that he can accept no criticism whatsoever. 27:13.715 --> 27:16.925 I did find an insect bite, but no other puncture of the skin at all. 27:17.844 --> 27:19.178 I even looked inside the mouth. 27:19.721 --> 27:21.972 It seems clear that no human agency was involved. 27:23.683 --> 27:26.352 I assume you are investigating the possibility of this disease 27:26.478 --> 27:28.354 having been passed on deliberately? 27:29.439 --> 27:31.023 Well what a unique delight, 27:31.441 --> 27:34.401 to meet a man with a mind as logical as yours. 27:39.866 --> 27:40.532 Is this him? 27:40.659 --> 27:42.034 Er, yes. Er, Mr. Holmes. 27:42.160 --> 27:45.496 Ah, bravo Ben. You are... 27:45.622 --> 27:48.707 Er, Gedgrave, er, John Gedgrave. 27:48.833 --> 27:49.500 Holmes. 27:52.796 --> 27:53.337 This way. 27:56.383 --> 27:59.885 Recognised him soon as I seen the newspaper. It's him all right. 28:00.720 --> 28:03.013 How did you come to be acting for him? 28:03.556 --> 28:04.181 Advert. 28:04.474 --> 28:08.060 "Gentleman of discretion required with knowledge of dock etiquette". 28:08.269 --> 28:09.144 "Dock etiquette"? 28:09.562 --> 28:11.772 For knowing your way round the poppy houses. 28:12.273 --> 28:16.819 Opium. Well, I knew one or two of the er better places. 28:17.070 --> 28:18.987 Was the advertisement placed by Savage? 28:19.531 --> 28:20.072 No. 28:20.240 --> 28:20.948 Who then? 28:21.574 --> 28:22.533 Huh, don't know. 28:22.742 --> 28:25.744 Mr. Gedgrave. You wouldn't lie to me, would you? 28:25.954 --> 28:29.456 No, no. It was some fellow I met in a rented office. 28:29.708 --> 28:30.958 Describe him for me. 28:31.960 --> 28:36.714 I can't, well, what I mean is, I never saw the fellow, 28:37.382 --> 28:38.424 he, didn't make me do, 28:38.842 --> 28:41.844 he kept a light shining in my eyes all of the time. 28:42.303 --> 28:43.595 Indeed, when was this? 28:44.055 --> 28:48.934 The fourteenth, he paid alright, told me I was to be contacted, 28:49.436 --> 28:51.770 then I was... to meet him. 28:53.189 --> 28:56.233 What happened to him... I don't want any trouble, that's why I came to you. 28:56.443 --> 28:57.609 Where did you take him? 28:58.737 --> 29:02.072 To a house in Duke's alley, it's a good place. 29:02.198 --> 29:02.740 Good? 29:03.158 --> 29:05.993 Well, never had any problems there. Good place. 29:07.454 --> 29:08.245 What happened to him? 29:08.371 --> 29:09.121 Holmes. 29:09.789 --> 29:11.331 Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... 29:12.375 --> 29:14.710 Thank you, Mr. Gedgrave for your trouble. 29:14.836 --> 29:17.087 Any time, Mr. Holmes. Any time. Oh. 29:17.630 --> 29:20.507 Generous, that is er, generous. 29:20.633 --> 29:24.219 I will need a guide in Rotherhithe. 29:24.637 --> 29:27.222 You want the best places? I'm your man. Look no further. 29:27.348 --> 29:30.517 Tomorrow morning? Ten thirty? 29:31.352 --> 29:31.894 Done. 29:34.731 --> 29:37.524 The er, The Red Slipper Club. 29:38.151 --> 29:42.362 Ask for er Carter, Frank Carter. 29:43.740 --> 29:46.158 Will that be you, Mr. Gedgrae? 29:50.830 --> 29:54.833 Mrs. Hudson. Dr. Watson may be staying for dinner. 29:57.921 --> 29:58.879 Now, Watson. 29:59.005 --> 30:02.049 Culverton Smith means to throw Mrs. Savage and her children 30:02.175 --> 30:03.175 out of Somerleigh House. 30:03.343 --> 30:04.301 How is he able to do that? 30:04.427 --> 30:07.638 The house is entailed to him. An old will which was has never been revised. 30:07.764 --> 30:08.889 Well, that is interesting. 30:09.015 --> 30:10.015 You know what this means. 30:10.183 --> 30:14.228 It means that Culverton Smith had a motive for doing away with his cousin. 30:15.522 --> 30:16.730 Savage is dead. 30:16.856 --> 30:21.151 Killed by a disease in which Culverton Smith was the acknowledged expert. 30:23.613 --> 30:24.947 No, no, no, no, no. 30:25.073 --> 30:27.366 Are you deliberately trying to misunderstand me? 30:27.742 --> 30:30.869 You have pointed out a remarkable coincidence, that is all. 30:32.539 --> 30:34.832 No inferences can be drawn from it. 30:34.958 --> 30:38.126 They cannot allow Mrs. Savage to be thrown into the street by this fellow! 30:38.253 --> 30:39.211 We may have to. 31:27.552 --> 31:30.137 It must have been Culverton Smith, who rented the office. 31:30.930 --> 31:32.764 I dare say, but it proves nothing. 31:32.891 --> 31:35.767 But... There must be a way of stopping him, Holmes. Surely? 31:35.935 --> 31:39.396 Oh, I doubt it more and more. 31:41.941 --> 31:45.944 Suppose, you were convinced of his guilt, what would you do then? 31:46.112 --> 31:48.614 You know my methods. I would gain entry to the house. 31:48.948 --> 31:51.909 Then that's what I shall do. You don't have to come. 31:52.744 --> 31:56.788 Nevertheless, I shall. You've already had your head turned. 31:57.123 --> 32:00.292 I must make sure you don't get your neck broken as well. 32:04.589 --> 32:08.300 Once poor Savage had been convinced that opium would open the door to the, 32:08.760 --> 32:10.802 mysteries of the poetic craft, 32:11.137 --> 32:13.472 Culverton Smith would have had him in his power, wouldn't he? 32:14.724 --> 32:16.975 He traded on Savage's sense of guilt. 32:17.477 --> 32:20.562 He knew that Savage would want to continue experimenting with the drug 32:20.688 --> 32:21.980 far away from Somerleigh. 32:23.691 --> 32:26.318 What you have to face, Watson, is that Savage's 32:26.527 --> 32:30.364 catching the disease in Rotherhithe, is entirely plausible. 32:32.492 --> 32:38.330 The coincidence that Smith's expertise of the matter is exactly that, 32:39.082 --> 32:42.668 a coincidence. You can't hang a man on coincidence. 33:03.648 --> 33:06.191 Ma'am, Ma'am... 33:07.193 --> 33:10.696 We have reason to believe that erm, 33:11.406 --> 33:15.158 well, as a matter of fact, you are trespassing. 33:21.749 --> 33:25.711 Sergeant, I'm sure you are as aware as I am, that- 33:25.878 --> 33:29.673 the laws of trespass in this country are most curious, not to say odd. 33:31.509 --> 33:32.384 I should know, 33:34.679 --> 33:37.848 I have responsibility for hundreds of acres 33:38.725 --> 33:42.894 which are about to be stolen from me through legal trickery 33:45.106 --> 33:47.607 by that man, 33:49.694 --> 33:55.282 a man who preyed on my husband like some bloated parasite... 33:56.451 --> 34:01.455 Corrupted him, and drove him to his death, and now... 34:02.623 --> 34:06.918 now he will not speak to the woman he has widowed. 34:09.255 --> 34:10.714 Of course he won't. 34:12.592 --> 34:15.635 He knows he has no justice on his side. 34:17.221 --> 34:19.347 Merely cold legality... 34:24.228 --> 34:28.106 Benson, Mrs. Savage should now return to Somerleigh House. 34:28.232 --> 34:28.774 Yes, sir. 34:32.445 --> 34:37.407 Ma'am. You have my assurance I will pursue Culverton Smith. 34:38.367 --> 34:42.579 I will not rest until he has renounced his plans to ruin you. 34:42.997 --> 34:44.164 And Mr. Holmes? 34:45.041 --> 34:49.211 Oh, I see. I do not blame him. 34:50.755 --> 34:52.798 He only sees it as the world sees it. 34:53.966 --> 34:57.552 Unfortunate and cold-hearted on Mr. Smith's part perhaps. 34:59.430 --> 35:00.764 But no case to answer. 35:02.517 --> 35:04.142 No case to answer. 35:08.856 --> 35:14.319 Smith! 35:19.075 --> 35:22.786 It is a singular coincidence, is it not? 35:23.663 --> 35:26.164 That you should inherit so much 35:27.625 --> 35:30.335 from a man who dies of a disease 35:31.295 --> 35:33.922 upon which you are the sole expert? 35:35.508 --> 35:36.007 What... 35:40.805 --> 35:44.683 coincidence bordering upon the unbelievable. 35:45.309 --> 35:47.060 Let me tell you. 35:48.813 --> 35:51.231 The doors of your profession 35:53.234 --> 35:55.235 which have been closed to you, 35:55.862 --> 36:00.031 will now be locked and bolted against you. 36:04.579 --> 36:05.954 It is my mission! 36:31.439 --> 36:32.314 Yes. 36:34.901 --> 36:36.568 The post, Mr. Holmes. 36:49.207 --> 36:52.918 "Rhodesian tobacco, Jeremiah Carlisle" 37:06.265 --> 37:07.224 Mrs. Savage, 37:07.808 --> 37:10.977 I know you will be sensible enough not to come to rely on this, 37:11.103 --> 37:13.897 but it will help you through these difficult days. 37:14.065 --> 37:14.940 Thank you, doctor. 37:23.282 --> 37:26.785 Doctor. You must come quickly. It's Mr. Holmes! 37:26.911 --> 37:27.661 Mr. Holmes? 37:30.331 --> 37:32.040 Why didn't you call me sooner? 37:32.166 --> 37:36.753 But he wouldn't not give me leave. So I said permission or no I am, 37:37.255 --> 37:40.048 and, and he said well, let it be Watson then... 37:40.633 --> 37:43.635 Oh, Doctor, I, I think he's dying. 37:43.761 --> 37:45.303 Now, now, Mrs. Hudson, I... 37:45.596 --> 37:48.473 I'm sure it's not as bad as you fear. 37:48.641 --> 37:52.477 But he won't let me near him. He hasn't eaten a scrap. 37:52.979 --> 37:55.397 He has had plenty to drink I, I trust? 37:55.523 --> 37:58.692 Not, not a drop has passed his lips these three days. 37:58.818 --> 38:02.195 And he's been to Rotherhithe. He thinks he caught the fever there. 38:02.863 --> 38:05.198 He's dying, Doctor. 38:11.289 --> 38:11.997 Holmes? 38:17.837 --> 38:18.503 Holmes! 38:22.800 --> 38:25.218 Watson. We have fallen upon bad times. 38:25.344 --> 38:26.011 My dear fellow... 38:26.137 --> 38:27.846 Stand back! Please, stand right back, 38:28.681 --> 38:29.889 or I'll have you thrown out of the house. 38:30.016 --> 38:31.182 I only wish to help. 38:31.517 --> 38:34.436 The best thing you can to do help is to do as you are told. 38:34.562 --> 38:35.353 Of course. 38:35.479 --> 38:36.688 We were wrong. 38:37.356 --> 38:38.857 About Culverton Smith. 38:39.900 --> 38:42.485 We may not like the man, but he is no murderer... 38:42.862 --> 38:45.447 The river fever is abroad in Rotherhithe... 38:45.573 --> 38:47.824 Holmes, we must get you to hospital at once... 38:47.950 --> 38:48.867 No. Now, keep your distance! 38:48.993 --> 38:52.037 Please! Don't you see. This thing is contagious. 38:52.204 --> 38:54.247 Do you think such a consideration weighs with me? 38:54.874 --> 38:56.207 Keep your distance. 38:58.085 --> 39:00.420 This could run through London. 39:01.672 --> 39:09.220 If there are bi-valves, 39:10.222 --> 39:12.682 presumably there are mono-valves... 39:18.814 --> 39:19.814 It's cramps... 39:20.399 --> 39:21.191 Holmes? 39:22.651 --> 39:23.276 Well... 39:26.238 --> 39:30.367 give a man a doctor, at least let me have someone in whom I have confidence. 39:31.035 --> 39:32.035 You have none in me? 39:32.620 --> 39:33.578 Your friendship, yes. 39:33.704 --> 39:37.791 But I mean you're only a general practitioner with mediocre qualifications. 39:38.584 --> 39:40.585 That remark is unworthy of you, Holmes. 39:41.087 --> 39:43.088 Shows me very clearly the state of your nerves. 39:43.214 --> 39:47.175 That demonstrates your ignorance. What do you know of Tapanuli fever? 39:47.593 --> 39:49.886 What do you know of The black Formosa corruption? 39:50.012 --> 39:51.221 I have never heard of either. 39:51.347 --> 39:55.100 They're very strange, pathological disorders in the East. 39:55.267 --> 39:57.394 If you have no faith in me let me fetch Jasper Meek, 39:57.520 --> 40:00.271 Penrose Fisher. Ainstree I hear is in London. Let me fetch him. 40:01.023 --> 40:03.775 No, there is only one man who can help me. 40:05.152 --> 40:06.861 The man we have maligned. 40:08.155 --> 40:10.365 Culverton Smith. Do you believe he would help? 40:10.491 --> 40:11.408 He must. 40:13.494 --> 40:15.078 It is my only chance. 40:19.166 --> 40:20.166 Oysters. 40:23.504 --> 40:24.796 They do breed, don't they? 40:26.549 --> 40:31.302 I cannot think but the whole bed of the ocean is one solid mass of oysters. 40:34.140 --> 40:37.016 Homes, can you hear me? 40:39.979 --> 40:42.981 I'm going for Culverton Smith this instant. 40:43.858 --> 40:44.774 Then go. 40:46.068 --> 40:47.986 I'm to bring him back here with me. 40:48.487 --> 40:52.866 Oh, he is the Emperor of River Fevers. 40:52.992 --> 40:56.286 Of course you must persuade him, but you must return alone. 40:57.246 --> 41:01.833 Make any excuse not to come with him. 41:02.001 --> 41:03.501 Tell him I apologise. 41:04.670 --> 41:08.131 I do! Don't fail me, Watson. 41:09.008 --> 41:09.924 Of course not. 41:15.139 --> 41:16.556 And what of Rivers? 41:19.310 --> 41:23.229 Are there no natural enemies to limit the increase of these creatures? 41:26.525 --> 41:27.817 It's horrible. 41:29.570 --> 41:30.695 Horrible... 41:43.584 --> 41:45.502 It's essential that I see Mr. Culverton Smith. 41:45.628 --> 41:46.669 Mr. Culverton Smith, Sir, 41:46.795 --> 41:49.547 does not appreciate being disturbed during his hours of study. 41:49.715 --> 41:51.216 Just a minute, sir. You can't just... 41:51.383 --> 41:54.093 Smith! 41:54.303 --> 41:55.345 Please! Sir! 41:56.096 --> 41:56.930 Smith! 41:57.181 --> 42:00.350 Sir, you can't just... You can't just walk in. Sir. 42:07.566 --> 42:08.650 Ah. Smith. 42:09.235 --> 42:11.152 What the devil do you mean by this, sir? 42:11.737 --> 42:13.404 I have come from Sherlock Holmes. 42:14.490 --> 42:17.909 He is desperately ill and he begs you to come to him. 42:18.077 --> 42:21.037 Why? You are a physician. Tend him yourself. 42:21.789 --> 42:24.415 He believes that you are the only man who can save him. 42:25.417 --> 42:26.376 Save him? 42:27.086 --> 42:28.336 I beg you to come. 42:29.380 --> 42:30.547 What has he contracted? 42:31.173 --> 42:33.466 He thinks it is the fever which killed your cousin. 42:34.051 --> 42:35.176 How did he come by it? 42:35.678 --> 42:37.220 He has been in Rotherhithe. 42:39.765 --> 42:44.102 I am sorry to hear this. I hope you are wrong. 42:45.062 --> 42:47.272 Despite his insulting behaviour the other day, 42:47.439 --> 42:49.274 I have every respect for his talents. 42:50.192 --> 42:53.361 He is an amateur of crime as I am of disease. 42:54.446 --> 42:58.283 For him, the villain, for me the microbe. 42:59.952 --> 43:01.244 Here are my prisoners. 43:02.413 --> 43:04.789 Among these gelatine cultivations, 43:04.957 --> 43:07.959 some of the worst offenders in the world are doing time. 43:08.252 --> 43:10.962 Please, please. There is no time to lose. He is desperately ill. 43:11.088 --> 43:12.964 Of what consequence is that to me? 43:15.217 --> 43:16.884 He maligned me in the most outrageous manner. 43:17.011 --> 43:19.846 He, he regrets it. He was most insistent upon that point. He, 43:19.972 --> 43:22.640 he knows that the fever was abroad in Rotherhithe. 43:26.145 --> 43:27.186 How long has he been ill? 43:27.354 --> 43:28.229 Three days. 43:29.148 --> 43:30.064 Is he delirious? 43:30.399 --> 43:31.983 Sometimes seriously so. 43:32.651 --> 43:33.651 I will come with you at once. 43:34.153 --> 43:35.653 I, I have another appointment. 43:35.779 --> 43:36.821 Very well. I shall go alone. 43:36.947 --> 43:40.158 Staples! You can rely upon my being there in half an hour at most. 43:43.495 --> 43:44.495 Did you see him? 43:44.663 --> 43:45.580 Yes, he's coming. 43:45.706 --> 43:49.709 Ah. You're the best of messengers. You can disappear from the scene now. 43:50.252 --> 43:52.337 But I should stay to hear his opinion Holmes. I really should. 43:52.504 --> 43:56.174 No. He's morbidly sensitive. We must let him practise his arts alone. 43:57.301 --> 44:00.678 That's the front door. It's him. Hide. 44:00.846 --> 44:01.471 Hide? 44:02.139 --> 44:03.348 Quick, if you love me. 44:12.358 --> 44:13.775 Please come in... Please. 44:28.207 --> 44:29.207 Holmes... 44:52.231 --> 44:52.855 Holmes? 44:54.566 --> 44:56.901 Oh, Smith? I hardly dared to hope. 44:57.069 --> 45:00.488 I should imagine not. Yet you see, I am here. 45:01.031 --> 45:03.533 Coals of fire, Holmes, coals of fire. 45:03.659 --> 45:04.867 It's noble. 45:05.828 --> 45:09.038 You know what is wrong with you? You recognise the symptoms? 45:09.164 --> 45:10.248 Yes. Quite well. 45:10.374 --> 45:11.582 Three days with you, then? 45:11.709 --> 45:12.291 Yes. 45:12.418 --> 45:15.586 You have lasted well. With Victor, it was all over by now. 45:16.213 --> 45:20.466 I have noticed this. The more mature coolies seemed to last longer. 45:20.592 --> 45:22.093 Water... Please, could I have some water? 45:22.261 --> 45:23.678 Ah. The final thirst. 45:25.556 --> 45:26.514 You're near the end. 45:33.647 --> 45:36.858 Please help me! Help me if you can... can... 45:38.485 --> 45:40.361 I would champion your cause. 45:40.946 --> 45:41.738 My cause? 45:41.864 --> 45:46.617 Your work, it deserves to be trumpeted. I cou... I could be of service. 45:46.785 --> 45:47.660 I doubt it. 45:48.454 --> 45:52.623 Thanks to you the damage done to my reputation is irreparable. 45:53.041 --> 45:58.129 You mean Victor Savage your cousin. Ah, I'd forgotten that. 45:59.256 --> 46:02.800 Did you? Were you involved? I couldn't be sure. 46:08.724 --> 46:11.142 The great detective couldn't be sure. 46:12.644 --> 46:14.979 Well, it doesn't matter to me if you know how Savage died. 46:15.147 --> 46:18.733 I don't see you in the witness box. Quite another sort of box. 46:24.865 --> 46:29.327 I put an infected mosquito to his neck while he was in a opiate stupor. 46:31.663 --> 46:32.205 There. 46:35.125 --> 46:38.795 But you, how did you come to contract it? 46:39.880 --> 46:44.008 That fellow who came for me told me you thought you'd caught it in Rotherhithe. 46:44.176 --> 46:46.511 Oh, I, I could only account for it so. 46:46.678 --> 46:47.970 Cast your mind back. 46:48.847 --> 46:49.555 Cramps? 46:49.932 --> 46:52.099 Yes. Cramps! Help me! 46:52.226 --> 46:52.892 I will. 46:53.977 --> 46:55.269 The pain! 46:55.479 --> 46:59.357 Yes, the coolies used to do some squealing before the end. 47:01.026 --> 47:01.651 Well now. 47:06.031 --> 47:08.324 A few days before your symptoms began, 47:08.700 --> 47:10.493 did you receive anything by post? 47:11.328 --> 47:12.328 I can't think 47:12.538 --> 47:13.371 A parcel? 47:14.498 --> 47:15.164 You did. 47:15.916 --> 47:17.667 Only some samples of tobacco. 47:17.793 --> 47:21.671 That's right. Did you notice the construction of the box, 47:22.214 --> 47:25.383 under the tobacco. Two small tacks stuck out. 47:26.552 --> 47:27.677 You didn't see them? 47:31.974 --> 47:33.140 They were infected? 47:35.060 --> 47:36.352 You fool. 47:37.604 --> 47:40.106 You would tangle with me and now you are finished. 47:44.027 --> 47:45.027 The box? 47:47.573 --> 47:52.910 Where is it? 48:00.544 --> 48:01.586 Turn up the gas? 48:02.629 --> 48:06.132 The shadows begin to lengthen do they? Yes, I'll do that. 48:12.180 --> 48:14.432 I prefer to see you die in the light. 48:25.611 --> 48:26.652 There it is. 48:28.530 --> 48:32.617 Your last shred of evidence. Well, well. 48:33.785 --> 48:36.579 Is there any other little service I can do you, my friend? 48:36.663 --> 48:40.124 A match and a cigarette would be most welcome. 48:55.724 --> 48:58.017 Three days without food and water is one thing. 48:59.603 --> 49:02.855 But to be without tobacco I have found most irksome. 49:03.357 --> 49:04.649 Come in Inspector. 49:08.487 --> 49:09.987 By turning up the gas, 49:10.822 --> 49:14.408 Smith was good enough to give our signal himself. 49:15.535 --> 49:18.996 This is the self-confessed murderer of Victor Savage. 49:19.122 --> 49:20.748 You may lie as you like, Holmes. 49:20.874 --> 49:23.876 You have no corroboration for your insane suspicions. 49:24.336 --> 49:24.919 Watson. 49:26.338 --> 49:28.297 He has a box behind his back. 49:29.257 --> 49:32.760 Treat it very gingerly. And don't open it! 49:33.887 --> 49:34.720 Damn you! 49:34.930 --> 49:35.429 Stop him! 49:35.555 --> 49:36.764 Damn you! 50:01.498 --> 50:04.667 The best way of acting a part successfully, is to be it. 50:05.377 --> 50:06.502 What was the vaseline for? 50:06.628 --> 50:07.294 For the forehead. 50:08.714 --> 50:10.047 Belladonna in the eyes? 50:11.883 --> 50:12.925 Beeswax? 50:13.218 --> 50:15.136 Encrustation around the lips. 50:16.638 --> 50:20.808 Why, why wouldn't you let me near you when in truth, there was no infection? 50:21.852 --> 50:24.437 Do you imagine that I have no respect for your medical talents? 50:24.896 --> 50:27.440 At six feet I could deceive you, 50:28.316 --> 50:33.446 but any closer, with your astute judgement? No, no, no, no, no. 50:34.573 --> 50:35.740 No, it was essential 50:36.908 --> 50:41.120 that you and Mrs. Hudson believed me to be at death's door, otherwise, 50:41.413 --> 50:43.164 Smith would have smelt a rat. 50:43.582 --> 50:45.583 Rats! Beeswax! 50:46.251 --> 50:50.588 Mr. Holmes, you are the very worst tennant in London! 50:59.890 --> 51:02.224 Georgie says he's going to guard the house. 51:02.768 --> 51:04.435 Oh, they're find children, Mrs. Savage. 51:04.603 --> 51:05.853 They're little angels. 51:06.021 --> 51:08.689 We're usually known As little Savages. 51:14.613 --> 51:17.782 Thank you, Doctor Watson for letting us keep our home. 51:17.908 --> 51:21.285 Ah, thank you my dear. I'd like to take the credit, but, 51:21.995 --> 51:23.621 it belongs to Mr. Holmes. 51:37.177 --> 51:39.345 We are very grateful to you, sir.