1 00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:02,878 - [Holmes] The thread would've killed me long ago 2 00:00:02,878 --> 00:00:05,631 were I not somehow vital to their successes. 3 00:00:05,631 --> 00:00:07,591 - Mr. Sherlock Holmes, welcome. 4 00:00:07,591 --> 00:00:08,967 - Thank you, Prime Minister. 5 00:00:08,967 --> 00:00:10,928 - Someone at Chief Inspector Witlock's office 6 00:00:10,928 --> 00:00:13,013 immediately rang up Lord Withersea. 7 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:14,806 - Warning him he was about to welcome 8 00:00:14,806 --> 00:00:15,933 Watson and Mrs. Hudson, 9 00:00:15,933 --> 00:00:17,601 not to mention the ambassador's jewels. 10 00:00:17,601 --> 00:00:20,354 - Unless I find the jewels by tomorrow afternoon, 11 00:00:20,354 --> 00:00:23,357 the ambassador collects 50,000 pounds. 12 00:00:23,357 --> 00:00:26,151 - The kidnappers must communicate with each other, 13 00:00:26,151 --> 00:00:28,445 and then, Watson and Mrs. Hudson 14 00:00:28,445 --> 00:00:30,531 will once more be on the move. 15 00:00:30,531 --> 00:00:33,492 Our allies and friends are already strategically placed. 16 00:00:33,492 --> 00:00:36,662 And I will light up the sky with two signals, 17 00:00:36,662 --> 00:00:38,497 one color representing where Watson 18 00:00:38,497 --> 00:00:40,123 and Mrs. Hudson have been kept, 19 00:00:40,123 --> 00:00:43,669 and the other color representing where they are going. 20 00:00:43,669 --> 00:00:45,504 - Prepare to write a warrant for the, 21 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:47,005 what do you call it? 22 00:00:47,005 --> 00:00:48,173 - A wire tap, my Lord. 23 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:50,759 - I can hear and record every conversation 24 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:52,636 from the telephone of the Chief Inspector. 25 00:00:52,636 --> 00:00:55,973 - [Holmes] Now, to go upstairs and provoke your superiors. 26 00:01:04,856 --> 00:01:07,609 (dramatic music) 27 00:01:08,110 --> 00:01:09,278 - No call yet, sir. 28 00:01:09,278 --> 00:01:11,738 - No, the person using the telephone 29 00:01:11,738 --> 00:01:13,991 must wait to be alone in Whitlock's office. 30 00:01:13,991 --> 00:01:14,658 - How long will that take, sir? 31 00:01:14,658 --> 00:01:15,993 - Not long. 32 00:01:15,993 --> 00:01:17,828 The time frame I gave was designed to eliminate 33 00:01:17,828 --> 00:01:20,330 the possibilities of a messenger. 34 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:21,248 - Are you in danger, sir? 35 00:01:21,248 --> 00:01:22,499 - No, no, no, no. 36 00:01:23,458 --> 00:01:24,835 It's not my safety at risk, 37 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:27,337 but the lives of those I hold most dear. 38 00:01:27,337 --> 00:01:28,880 If I am wrong, 39 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,174 if the culprit employing the telephone in Whitlock's office 40 00:01:31,174 --> 00:01:34,720 does not use it again, if we have nothing to record, 41 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,514 then my traps spring shut on the wind, 42 00:01:37,514 --> 00:01:40,392 and my friends, my dearest friends, could die. 43 00:01:41,393 --> 00:01:43,937 (phone rings) 44 00:01:48,692 --> 00:01:50,611 - [Caller] Operator, operator! 45 00:01:50,611 --> 00:01:51,445 - Whitlock? 46 00:01:51,445 --> 00:01:53,196 - [Operator] Not the police. 47 00:01:53,196 --> 00:01:54,406 - This is Scotland Yard. 48 00:01:54,406 --> 00:01:56,950 Ring Belgrave near 483, quickly. 49 00:01:59,578 --> 00:02:01,913 You have a stone in your boot. 50 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:08,211 I believe a cobbler can be found in Kensington, quickly. 51 00:02:09,171 --> 00:02:11,923 (dramatic music) 52 00:02:12,799 --> 00:02:14,843 - The hostages are traveling 53 00:02:14,843 --> 00:02:17,137 from the dowager Duchess of Lincolnshire. 54 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:18,388 Green, which is where Shaw 55 00:02:18,388 --> 00:02:20,182 and the irregulars are stationed. 56 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:24,019 To Kensington, Duke of Leicester, 57 00:02:24,019 --> 00:02:27,606 yellow where they'll have to pass by the batty. 58 00:02:27,606 --> 00:02:30,275 Now, excuse me, I'm sure I haven't a second to lose. 59 00:02:31,151 --> 00:02:32,569 - But sir, what should I do? 60 00:02:32,569 --> 00:02:34,613 - Just continue recording the calls, 61 00:02:34,613 --> 00:02:36,990 and pray that there is no change of plan. 62 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:38,784 Wish me luck, Swann. 63 00:02:38,784 --> 00:02:41,620 (dramatic music) 64 00:02:48,502 --> 00:02:51,880 (door creaks and shuts) 65 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,633 (dramatic music) 66 00:02:56,385 --> 00:02:59,930 (footsteps thump) 67 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:02,641 (dramatic music) 68 00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:09,439 (window creaks) 69 00:03:10,273 --> 00:03:12,859 (Holmes sighs) 70 00:03:16,029 --> 00:03:18,782 (dramatic music) 71 00:03:22,953 --> 00:03:25,747 (flare gun fires) 72 00:03:26,707 --> 00:03:29,126 (dramatic music) 73 00:03:29,126 --> 00:03:30,252 - Green boys. 74 00:03:30,252 --> 00:03:31,920 Look ahead, that's us. 75 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,631 (dramatic music) 76 00:03:37,384 --> 00:03:39,136 (hooves clop) 77 00:03:39,136 --> 00:03:41,304 Two carriages, they may have split them up. 78 00:03:41,304 --> 00:03:42,639 Half and half lights. 79 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:44,015 You two take the second one, all right? 80 00:03:44,015 --> 00:03:45,016 Come on. 81 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:47,477 (hooves clop) 82 00:03:54,526 --> 00:03:57,362 (dramatic music) 83 00:04:00,532 --> 00:04:03,452 (flare gun clicks) 84 00:04:05,704 --> 00:04:08,790 (flare gun fires) 85 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:09,624 (dramatic music) 86 00:04:09,624 --> 00:04:11,293 - That's the one. 87 00:04:11,293 --> 00:04:13,003 Head to the Duke of Leicester. 88 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:14,713 - That's it, Mr. Harrigan, let's go! 89 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:17,632 (driver grunts) 90 00:04:17,632 --> 00:04:20,385 (dramatic music) 91 00:04:44,367 --> 00:04:47,537 (window creaks) 92 00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:50,123 (Holmes pants) 93 00:04:52,834 --> 00:04:55,587 (dramatic music) 94 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:10,477 - Take the yellow road to the Duke of Leicester. 95 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:13,230 (dramatic music) 96 00:05:14,606 --> 00:05:17,192 (wheels clack) 97 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:20,987 Time is of the essence, Dancliff. 98 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:21,822 - Certainly sir. 99 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:27,994 (dramatic music) 100 00:05:30,205 --> 00:05:33,333 - Red thread's carriage, let's go. 101 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:35,126 Get after him! 102 00:05:35,126 --> 00:05:37,838 (horse neighs) 103 00:05:37,838 --> 00:05:40,590 (dramatic music) 104 00:05:47,264 --> 00:05:48,890 - Is this it? 105 00:05:48,890 --> 00:05:51,768 (driver grunts) 106 00:05:51,768 --> 00:05:54,521 (dramatic music) 107 00:05:59,359 --> 00:06:02,112 (dramatic music) 108 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,715 - Come on, keep going! 109 00:06:22,841 --> 00:06:23,925 Almost there! 110 00:06:24,801 --> 00:06:29,681 Keep going, keep going! 111 00:06:29,681 --> 00:06:32,267 (horse neighs) 112 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:35,353 - Don't chase the drivers. 113 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:36,438 Look for the hostages. 114 00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:39,024 - It's my sister! 115 00:06:39,024 --> 00:06:40,692 - Let me in, Missus. 116 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:43,486 Stuck. 117 00:06:43,486 --> 00:06:44,738 It won't budge! 118 00:06:45,614 --> 00:06:47,407 - Let me in there. 119 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:50,160 (dramatic music) 120 00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:55,582 - Ah, Holmes, how kind of you to join us. 121 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:57,751 - Thank you for following my instructions so closely. 122 00:06:57,751 --> 00:06:59,878 Two carriages, my god, 123 00:06:59,878 --> 00:07:02,088 clever but not clever enough. 124 00:07:02,088 --> 00:07:02,923 Come on. 125 00:07:05,175 --> 00:07:06,259 - Is it Mr. Holmes? 126 00:07:07,469 --> 00:07:09,262 I must be dreaming. 127 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:13,433 Everyone seems to be floating, aren't they? 128 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,393 - [Holmes] Steady, Mrs. Hudson, steady. 129 00:07:15,393 --> 00:07:17,395 - Oh sister, dear sister. 130 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:19,147 - Help Mrs. Hudson to my carriage. 131 00:07:19,147 --> 00:07:22,275 Take great care, she's been heavily dosed with opium. 132 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:25,028 (dramatic music) 133 00:07:29,324 --> 00:07:30,241 Ah, Watson. 134 00:07:31,326 --> 00:07:32,911 Come on, Shaw. 135 00:07:32,911 --> 00:07:34,704 Get this open, come on! 136 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:39,542 (Watson laughs) 137 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:40,835 - Holmes. 138 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:42,837 Holmes, Holmes. - Ah, yes. 139 00:07:42,837 --> 00:07:44,339 - Ahh. 140 00:07:44,339 --> 00:07:45,340 - Watson. 141 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:46,007 - You found us. 142 00:07:46,007 --> 00:07:47,008 - Yes, of course. 143 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:48,301 - I knew you would. - Of course. 144 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:49,678 You've been very heavily sedated. 145 00:07:49,678 --> 00:07:50,762 - Yes. 146 00:07:50,762 --> 00:07:51,805 - [Holmes] We'll get you home. - Yes. 147 00:07:51,805 --> 00:07:52,764 - Where you can have a proper rest. 148 00:07:52,764 --> 00:07:54,432 - No, no, no, no the gold, 149 00:07:54,432 --> 00:07:55,600 the banking, the rob, 150 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:56,810 they're robbing the Bank of England. 151 00:07:56,810 --> 00:07:57,894 - What? 152 00:07:57,894 --> 00:07:58,937 - They may have done it already. 153 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:00,855 - [Holmes] Who? - I'm going to fall. 154 00:08:00,855 --> 00:08:01,856 - [Holmes] What? 155 00:08:01,856 --> 00:08:03,066 - [Watson] I'm falling. 156 00:08:03,066 --> 00:08:03,942 - Let's go. 157 00:08:03,942 --> 00:08:06,695 Clarence, take him, take him. 158 00:08:06,695 --> 00:08:09,447 Take him to my carriage, come on. 159 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:12,409 There we go, careful there boy. 160 00:08:13,702 --> 00:08:16,329 (curious music) 161 00:08:32,095 --> 00:08:33,972 - Lady Violet, how may I help you? 162 00:08:33,972 --> 00:08:35,724 - I must speak with the ambassador. 163 00:08:35,724 --> 00:08:37,350 - Despite the lateness of the hour, 164 00:08:37,350 --> 00:08:38,643 my husband is still at the embassy. 165 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:40,353 Would you care to leave a message? 166 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:42,689 - Sorry for the inconvenience, 167 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:44,524 but I must wait for his return. 168 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:46,443 And may I use your telephone? 169 00:08:46,443 --> 00:08:49,654 I need to make an important call to Scotland Yard. 170 00:08:52,741 --> 00:08:55,285 (phone rings) 171 00:08:59,622 --> 00:09:01,249 - Chief Inspector Whitlock here. 172 00:09:01,249 --> 00:09:02,500 To whom am I speaking, please? 173 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:03,918 - Your betters, that's who. 174 00:09:03,918 --> 00:09:05,336 And I have a serious problem. 175 00:09:05,336 --> 00:09:08,882 - I have already solved quite a few of your problems, 176 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:10,467 Lady Violet, including those related 177 00:09:10,467 --> 00:09:14,262 to the less than accidental death of one of your debutantes. 178 00:09:15,430 --> 00:09:17,265 Your taste for violence is. 179 00:09:17,265 --> 00:09:19,726 - I'm in no mood for a lecture on morality, 180 00:09:19,726 --> 00:09:23,271 especially for a man who's been so handsomely rewarded 181 00:09:23,271 --> 00:09:24,355 for betraying the law. 182 00:09:24,355 --> 00:09:27,567 If you wish to escape with your prize, 183 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:28,985 you will continue to assist me. 184 00:09:28,985 --> 00:09:30,069 - Assist you? 185 00:09:30,069 --> 00:09:31,321 How? 186 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:34,074 - With that awful girl, Amelia Rojas, 187 00:09:34,074 --> 00:09:36,242 who the American ambassador insisted 188 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:38,244 I place in his household. 189 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:41,456 She knows I have the designs to her mother's weapon. 190 00:09:41,456 --> 00:09:43,666 I want her out of the way. 191 00:09:43,666 --> 00:09:46,795 - Your hatred of this girl is a distraction from Holmes 192 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:49,380 who you continue to underestimate. 193 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:52,425 - I have been right about Sherlock so far! 194 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:57,096 But the girl is more unpredictable and so a threat. 195 00:09:57,096 --> 00:09:59,474 - I am presently involved in the most delicate part 196 00:09:59,474 --> 00:10:00,934 of our entire enterprise. 197 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:03,895 And Holmes must not suspect that he has been led 198 00:10:03,895 --> 00:10:05,146 to do our bidding. 199 00:10:05,146 --> 00:10:07,732 - His arrogance won't allow him to suspect, 200 00:10:07,732 --> 00:10:10,985 and as for the girl, have one of your idiot inspectors 201 00:10:10,985 --> 00:10:14,072 pick her up and taken care of in prison, 202 00:10:14,072 --> 00:10:16,032 like you did with Charlie the coachman. 203 00:10:16,032 --> 00:10:18,618 - There is nothing I can do to remove the girl, 204 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,495 while she is at the ambassador's residence. 205 00:10:20,495 --> 00:10:22,914 - Very well! 206 00:10:22,914 --> 00:10:24,582 At my first opportunity, 207 00:10:24,582 --> 00:10:26,793 I will kill her myself! 208 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:29,003 (phone clangs) 209 00:10:29,003 --> 00:10:31,756 (dramatic music) 210 00:10:43,476 --> 00:10:44,936 - Shh, keep quiet. 211 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:49,941 - You scared me half to death. 212 00:10:49,941 --> 00:10:51,651 - I'm sorry, I couldn't go through the front door. 213 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:52,527 - [Clara] Why? 214 00:10:52,527 --> 00:10:53,361 Because it's so late? 215 00:10:53,361 --> 00:10:54,904 - No, it's not the hour, 216 00:10:54,904 --> 00:10:57,031 although I have some explaining to do for the Pinkertons 217 00:10:57,031 --> 00:10:58,074 who'd seen me. 218 00:10:58,074 --> 00:10:59,659 - Does the lateness of your return 219 00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:01,327 have anything to do with Mr. Wiley? 220 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:03,413 - No, no, sh. 221 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:04,289 Not at all. 222 00:11:04,289 --> 00:11:05,748 Actually, it's (Amelia sighs). 223 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:09,335 Clara, listen to me, okay? 224 00:11:10,837 --> 00:11:14,173 The person who planned my kidnapping and yours, 225 00:11:14,173 --> 00:11:17,260 who killed Emma and murdered my mother, 226 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:20,972 is downstairs right now in your father's study. 227 00:11:20,972 --> 00:11:23,725 - Who on earth are you talking about? 228 00:11:23,725 --> 00:11:25,977 - Lady Violet Somerset arrived two hours ago 229 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:27,186 and insisted on waiting for you, 230 00:11:27,186 --> 00:11:28,897 and helped herself to our telephone. 231 00:11:28,897 --> 00:11:30,064 But what could she possibly want? 232 00:11:30,064 --> 00:11:31,566 It's quite nearly morning. 233 00:11:31,566 --> 00:11:34,485 - The sooner I talk with her, the faster she will leave. 234 00:11:35,987 --> 00:11:37,989 - If there's a problem, my darling, 235 00:11:37,989 --> 00:11:40,241 if she's causing you distress. 236 00:11:40,241 --> 00:11:42,952 - Nothing beyond this inexcusable intrusion, 237 00:11:42,952 --> 00:11:44,913 which will soon be over. 238 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:50,376 (dramatic music) 239 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:51,920 (door creaks) 240 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,129 - [Lady Violet] At last. 241 00:11:55,089 --> 00:11:58,301 - Your behavior grows more reckless by the hour. 242 00:11:58,301 --> 00:12:01,137 - And your tone more presumptuous. 243 00:12:01,137 --> 00:12:03,431 - You may rank high in London society, 244 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:07,018 but you hold no position of legitimate power, 245 00:12:07,018 --> 00:12:09,145 whereas I am the United States ambassador 246 00:12:09,145 --> 00:12:12,023 for the court of King James and a legal representative 247 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:13,650 of my nation and Great Britain. 248 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:15,235 - I am well aware of your status. 249 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:16,444 Indeed, I consider you 250 00:12:16,444 --> 00:12:18,988 to be one of my most valuable employees. 251 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:20,365 - Your employee? 252 00:12:20,365 --> 00:12:21,991 - You may not wear my livery, 253 00:12:21,991 --> 00:12:23,493 but of no doubt you are my servant, 254 00:12:23,493 --> 00:12:26,204 and on the verge of receiving an extraordinary reward 255 00:12:26,204 --> 00:12:27,538 for your labors. 256 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:30,166 By this time tomorrow, I will have made you a hero 257 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:33,044 to the public and one of the richest men in the world. 258 00:12:33,044 --> 00:12:35,129 - One of the richest? - Shh. 259 00:12:35,129 --> 00:12:36,798 - May I remind you, 260 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:39,717 that the plan we are about to execute is mine. 261 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:41,719 If not for me, the success of your conspiracy 262 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:45,848 would've at best left the country you wish to dominate 263 00:12:45,848 --> 00:12:47,183 in financial ruin. 264 00:12:47,183 --> 00:12:50,186 - I admit, you've finessed bribing the authorities 265 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:52,772 with genius, and your change in what the robbery 266 00:12:52,772 --> 00:12:55,275 should accomplish was uncommonly clever, 267 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:56,609 but I chose you. 268 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,820 I came all the way to America under the pretense 269 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:00,196 of helping your daughter 270 00:13:00,196 --> 00:13:04,242 because I recognized despite conspicuous failures, 271 00:13:04,242 --> 00:13:07,328 you had the will, the mean, and immunity 272 00:13:07,328 --> 00:13:09,622 to accomplish what none of the rest of us could. 273 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,542 so that you should attempt to interfere 274 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:15,211 with selling this weapon when you know 275 00:13:15,211 --> 00:13:18,631 how important it is to my ultimate goal, 276 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:21,384 well, I find it disloyal, to say the very least, 277 00:13:21,384 --> 00:13:25,555 especially as I created a date for your daughter's ball 278 00:13:25,555 --> 00:13:27,056 at the cost of someone's life. 279 00:13:27,056 --> 00:13:31,436 - Which was done without my knowledge or consent. 280 00:13:31,436 --> 00:13:33,438 You promised no murders, 281 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:36,607 and now there have been bodies piling up beyond count! 282 00:13:36,607 --> 00:13:39,610 So no, I will not allow Clara's ball 283 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:43,156 or my embassy to be used as an auction house for weapons. 284 00:13:43,156 --> 00:13:46,200 - There's no more perfect place or occasion 285 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,952 for this sale to take place! 286 00:13:47,952 --> 00:13:50,747 Every foreign diplomat in London may attend the ball 287 00:13:50,747 --> 00:13:52,373 without attracting suspicion. 288 00:13:53,124 --> 00:13:55,585 The actual exchange will be made discreetly 289 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:56,961 in your stables. 290 00:13:56,961 --> 00:14:00,006 Perhaps I misled you a little about killing people, 291 00:14:00,006 --> 00:14:02,300 but I never denied our ultimate aim. 292 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:03,843 - Think, please. 293 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:05,636 This is no ordinary weapon. 294 00:14:05,636 --> 00:14:07,764 It could decide the outcome of this war 295 00:14:07,764 --> 00:14:09,640 you seem so determined to start. 296 00:14:10,141 --> 00:14:13,770 Do you really have so little feeling for your own country? 297 00:14:13,770 --> 00:14:14,854 - Oh, don't be naive. 298 00:14:17,023 --> 00:14:19,400 This war will not be won on a field of battle. 299 00:14:21,069 --> 00:14:23,905 Indeed the victors have already been crowned. 300 00:14:23,905 --> 00:14:27,450 They rule our boardrooms, banks, and foundries. 301 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:29,368 By the day of surrender without knowing it, 302 00:14:29,786 --> 00:14:33,039 London will have been subsumed by industry 303 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:36,542 and the financial system by which I must live a beggar 304 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:40,463 in my own family, will come to an end! 305 00:14:40,463 --> 00:14:42,965 You say I have no feeling for my country. 306 00:14:42,965 --> 00:14:46,177 It is my country that has no feeling for me! 307 00:14:46,177 --> 00:14:49,389 - This is not the future Dan Moriarty espouses. 308 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,349 - Well, he's ridiculous, 309 00:14:51,349 --> 00:14:55,436 and like Holmes, will have soon served his purpose. 310 00:14:55,436 --> 00:14:57,522 The thread can dispense with them both 311 00:14:57,522 --> 00:14:59,941 and the wretched girl too. 312 00:14:59,941 --> 00:15:01,317 - How you start your war 313 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:03,152 and what you hope it will accomplish 314 00:15:03,152 --> 00:15:06,614 is up to you and your other bloody minded accomplices. 315 00:15:07,448 --> 00:15:12,453 But that wretched girl is under my personal protection, 316 00:15:12,453 --> 00:15:14,288 which I will not withdraw. 317 00:15:14,288 --> 00:15:15,373 - Oh really? 318 00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:19,794 Have you forgotten all about Clara's romance 319 00:15:19,794 --> 00:15:21,295 with your former coachman? 320 00:15:21,295 --> 00:15:23,464 - You encouraged his advances. 321 00:15:23,464 --> 00:15:26,592 And taking my daughter hostage was both a betrayal 322 00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:27,760 and an outrage. 323 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,430 - Had you given me the keys when I asked, 324 00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:33,391 your daughter's seduction would've been unnecessary. 325 00:15:33,391 --> 00:15:34,559 You forced my hand. 326 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:37,228 If you do so again, well, 327 00:15:37,228 --> 00:15:40,857 diplomatic immunity might keep you from an arrest, 328 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:45,278 but nothing can protect you from a scandal like that. 329 00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:47,697 - Do you ever wonder, Lady Violet, 330 00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:51,450 if you might be in over your head? 331 00:15:51,450 --> 00:15:54,579 (Lady Violet laughs) 332 00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:59,792 - I have outmaneuvered even Sherlock Holmes. 333 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:02,962 You are no such challenge. 334 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:05,798 Hopefully wealth and universal adulation 335 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:08,009 will soften your outrage. 336 00:16:08,009 --> 00:16:08,843 (dramatic music) 337 00:16:08,843 --> 00:16:10,678 Hide this well! 338 00:16:13,389 --> 00:16:15,516 Bring it with you to Clara's ball. 339 00:16:16,434 --> 00:16:19,979 Or your daughter's introduction to society 340 00:16:21,272 --> 00:16:23,774 will be the last night she appears in public. 341 00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:26,485 (dramatic music) 342 00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:29,697 (door creaks) 343 00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:30,573 - That witch! 344 00:16:31,616 --> 00:16:32,909 Wants to destroy me. 345 00:16:32,909 --> 00:16:34,202 - She can't. 346 00:16:34,202 --> 00:16:35,995 The keys she was talking about, 347 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:38,414 they have to be used at your debut. 348 00:16:38,414 --> 00:16:39,707 What do they unlock? 349 00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:42,585 - Here I am, worried about my own future, 350 00:16:42,585 --> 00:16:44,462 while Lady Violet plots your murder. 351 00:16:44,462 --> 00:16:47,048 - It's not just my life that's being threatened. 352 00:16:47,048 --> 00:16:48,257 It's Mr. Holmes' too. 353 00:16:48,257 --> 00:16:49,050 And a war? 354 00:16:49,050 --> 00:16:50,259 I can't believe it. 355 00:16:50,259 --> 00:16:52,637 - Why would Lady Violet want to start a war? 356 00:16:52,637 --> 00:16:54,514 Amelia, where are you going? 357 00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:56,098 - To get the answers to your questions. 358 00:16:56,098 --> 00:16:58,517 I'm gonna make dead certain that nothing happens to you, 359 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:01,229 Michael Wiley, or to Mr. Holmes. 360 00:17:02,605 --> 00:17:03,898 - Take care. 361 00:17:03,898 --> 00:17:06,192 I now fear Lady Violet more than anything. 362 00:17:06,192 --> 00:17:08,694 - You're not wrong. 363 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:10,279 Wish me luck. 364 00:17:12,323 --> 00:17:14,700 (Amelia groans) 365 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:17,453 (dramatic music) 366 00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:20,414 - Miss Rojas. 367 00:17:21,332 --> 00:17:22,333 - Detective Swann? 368 00:17:22,333 --> 00:17:23,167 - Sorry to startle you. 369 00:17:24,126 --> 00:17:25,253 - What are you doing here? 370 00:17:25,253 --> 00:17:26,420 - I've come to tell you, 371 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:28,214 you're in great danger, 372 00:17:28,214 --> 00:17:31,259 and I must protect you until morning. 373 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:34,053 (Amelia sighs) 374 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:37,223 (dramatic music) 375 00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:39,100 - Effects of the opium will wear off soon. 376 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,185 But they should fully recover. 377 00:17:41,185 --> 00:17:43,938 When they come 'round, I advise fresh water, 378 00:17:43,938 --> 00:17:46,440 some warm soup, and a long hot bath. 379 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:50,319 - Thank you, Doctor Welles. 380 00:17:50,945 --> 00:17:53,281 Mr. and Mrs. Halligan, I will leave our patients 381 00:17:53,281 --> 00:17:56,450 in your care, whilst I follow the scent. 382 00:17:56,450 --> 00:17:57,660 - Not to worry, Holmes. 383 00:17:57,660 --> 00:18:00,079 We'll run these kidnappers aground. 384 00:18:00,788 --> 00:18:02,248 - I'm sure you will, 385 00:18:02,248 --> 00:18:04,458 but I must now turn my attention to the robbery 386 00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:07,420 of a significant amount of gold from the Bank of England. 387 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:09,839 - I don't know how you came to be aware of it. 388 00:18:10,506 --> 00:18:13,092 The transfer of South African gold 389 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:14,510 from the wharfs to the bank 390 00:18:14,510 --> 00:18:17,013 was accomplished in complete secrecy. 391 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:19,348 Bullivant supervised its transfer yesterday. 392 00:18:19,348 --> 00:18:21,517 - And even if thieves could break into the bank, 393 00:18:21,517 --> 00:18:22,935 I mean, how would they escape 394 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:25,229 with 8,000 ounces of solid gold? 395 00:18:25,229 --> 00:18:27,356 - An excellent question, Bullivant. 396 00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:30,526 And I must ask the Bank of England to open their vault 397 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:32,028 in order to answer it. 398 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:35,823 If you'll excuse me, I fear I may already be too late. 399 00:18:38,075 --> 00:18:40,244 (dramatic music) 400 00:18:40,244 --> 00:18:42,997 (bells toll) 401 00:18:42,997 --> 00:18:45,791 (hooves clop) 402 00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:48,544 (dramatic music) 403 00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:51,589 - Ah, Mr. Holmes, 404 00:18:52,214 --> 00:18:54,759 I hope you'll allow us to accompany you. 405 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:57,428 If your charges are true, we must immediately 406 00:18:57,428 --> 00:18:58,679 join at the pursuit. 407 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:00,348 - [Holmes] Of which I presume the reporter, 408 00:19:00,348 --> 00:19:03,184 the photographer standing behind you are indispensable? 409 00:19:03,184 --> 00:19:04,393 - Well, circumstances allow 410 00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:06,771 we must immediately alert the public. 411 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,439 - The Daily Chronicle was convinced to hold off 412 00:19:08,439 --> 00:19:09,982 on the mid-morning edition 413 00:19:09,982 --> 00:19:12,401 should our news require the front page. 414 00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:13,861 - Well, I would've spared the Yard 415 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:17,406 such a salacious expose, but as you will. 416 00:19:19,116 --> 00:19:22,078 (door creaks) 417 00:19:22,078 --> 00:19:23,287 - Dear me, Mr. Holmes, 418 00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:25,831 your alarms have us terrified and perplexed. 419 00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:30,086 This shipment of South African gold 420 00:19:30,086 --> 00:19:32,421 is essential to the bank's capital reserves. 421 00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:36,759 Without it, markets would collapse across the empire. 422 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:40,096 I must hope you are wrong, Mr. Holmes. 423 00:19:40,096 --> 00:19:41,597 - I assure you, Governor Cavener, 424 00:19:41,597 --> 00:19:43,349 nothing would give me more pleasure. 425 00:19:43,349 --> 00:19:46,394 (door clangs) 426 00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:49,063 (tense music) 427 00:19:49,063 --> 00:19:53,067 - Oh, thank heavens. 428 00:19:53,067 --> 00:19:55,486 (footsteps clack) 429 00:19:55,486 --> 00:19:57,988 (tense music) 430 00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:03,661 - [Photographer] Mr. Holmes, sir, 431 00:20:03,661 --> 00:20:06,580 would you mind posing in front of the gold? 432 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:07,998 - What gold? 433 00:20:08,499 --> 00:20:09,750 (Bullivant laughs) 434 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:11,836 - Well this gold from South Africa, 435 00:20:11,836 --> 00:20:15,589 securely transferred from ship to vault 436 00:20:15,589 --> 00:20:17,675 under my direct supervision. 437 00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:20,553 - May I, inspector? 438 00:20:20,553 --> 00:20:23,180 - Careful, Holmes, it's quite heavy. 439 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:27,309 - Ah, note the fine powder appearing on the bar's exterior, 440 00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:30,604 indicating soluble salts moving to the surface. 441 00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:31,689 The effects of moisture, 442 00:20:31,689 --> 00:20:33,941 possibly related to the recent rains. 443 00:20:33,941 --> 00:20:37,445 - I trust the powder will have no effect on the value. 444 00:20:37,445 --> 00:20:38,654 - No, not at all. 445 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:41,407 The gold will be worth exactly what it was 446 00:20:41,407 --> 00:20:43,993 when it was loaded into your vault. 447 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:46,662 You see, gentleman, these bars. 448 00:20:46,662 --> 00:20:49,373 (bar clangs, governor groans) 449 00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:50,666 Covering bits of lead. 450 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:51,751 (bar clangs) 451 00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:53,419 Painted a persuasive color 452 00:20:53,419 --> 00:20:55,421 and bearing the proper imprint, 453 00:20:56,797 --> 00:20:58,674 are 100 percent. 454 00:20:58,674 --> 00:21:00,843 (bar clangs) 455 00:21:00,843 --> 00:21:03,012 Counterfeit. 456 00:21:03,012 --> 00:21:04,680 - But how? 457 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,350 I saw the gold being broken open out of the crate 458 00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:10,352 and tested and unloaded off the ship 459 00:21:10,352 --> 00:21:11,562 into a convoy of carriages. 460 00:21:11,562 --> 00:21:13,606 - [Holmes] That much is certainly true. 461 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:14,732 - [Bullivant] And I drove alongside these carriages, 462 00:21:14,732 --> 00:21:15,774 all the way from the wharf to the bank. 463 00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:17,234 - I believe you. 464 00:21:17,234 --> 00:21:19,695 - And I observed the gold being carried into the bank. 465 00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:22,364 - Now that is impossible. 466 00:21:22,364 --> 00:21:26,285 The vault was neither opened nor breached. 467 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:30,122 Yet this is not gold, ergo the gold was never here. 468 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:31,665 Now, it was brought from the ships 469 00:21:31,665 --> 00:21:33,834 and walked past you by a group of coachmen, 470 00:21:33,834 --> 00:21:36,754 all of whom were part of a conspiracy to rob the bank. 471 00:21:36,754 --> 00:21:38,547 They arrived at the wharf in vehicles 472 00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:41,509 already filled with counterfeit bars of painted plaster, 473 00:21:41,509 --> 00:21:43,260 and the real gold was placed 474 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,638 in the carriages' false bottoms. 475 00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:49,517 Now you escorted the gold of these thieving coachmen 476 00:21:49,517 --> 00:21:51,519 across London and upon arrival at the bank, 477 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:53,979 the counterfeit bars were loaded into the vault, 478 00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:56,148 and the real gold was driven away. 479 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:58,150 Where it has gone will take some thought, 480 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,819 but that is hardly the most important question. 481 00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:02,154 - The whereabouts of the gold 482 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:03,823 is not the most important question? 483 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:04,949 - No, it is not. 484 00:22:04,949 --> 00:22:07,284 The most pertinent question 485 00:22:07,284 --> 00:22:12,289 is how was I able to envision this crime so quickly 486 00:22:12,873 --> 00:22:15,543 and with such astonishing accuracy? 487 00:22:15,543 --> 00:22:18,504 I am used to making inferences far beyond the scope 488 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:22,258 of untrained minds, but criminals seldom provide me 489 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:26,220 with such flagrant clues such as this plaster dust 490 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,973 flecked with gold paint, left behind in at least 491 00:22:28,973 --> 00:22:31,225 two of the carriages used in the robbery. 492 00:22:31,225 --> 00:22:33,310 - [Bullivant] But how did you come across these carriages? 493 00:22:33,310 --> 00:22:35,354 - Well they were engaged again hours later 494 00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:38,232 in the relocation of Watson and Mrs. Hudson. 495 00:22:38,232 --> 00:22:40,359 Their coats were caked in gold dust, 496 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,986 and we rescued them just in time to be told 497 00:22:41,986 --> 00:22:45,531 their captors were robbing the Bank of England. 498 00:22:45,531 --> 00:22:46,907 Well, what an amazing coincidence. 499 00:22:46,907 --> 00:22:48,242 Here's another. 500 00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:50,452 I was able to have a similar carriage dismantled 501 00:22:50,452 --> 00:22:53,122 right after it had been used in the attempted abduction 502 00:22:53,122 --> 00:22:57,501 of my former mate, so I knew about the false bottoms. 503 00:22:57,501 --> 00:23:00,421 And I assume Scotland Yard contracted these vehicles 504 00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:05,009 from the Green and Crest Asylum for the criminally insane. 505 00:23:05,009 --> 00:23:07,052 - It was an attempt to transport the gold 506 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:10,472 to the vault using unremarkable conveyances. 507 00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:11,265 - Ah. 508 00:23:11,265 --> 00:23:12,725 - No, no, no, no. 509 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:15,060 This cannot be true! 510 00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:16,395 (bar clangs) 511 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:19,148 (dramatic music) 512 00:23:20,941 --> 00:23:23,736 (dramatic music) 513 00:23:32,036 --> 00:23:33,203 - Whoa. 514 00:23:33,203 --> 00:23:34,705 Shouldn't I be taking you to Baker Street? 515 00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:36,916 - [Amelia] No, I need to find where Michael Wiley works. 516 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,667 - Miss Rojas, wait, wait. 517 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:41,670 Um, ladies cannot enter the exchange. 518 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:43,339 I will go in, find this Michael Wiley, 519 00:23:43,339 --> 00:23:44,590 and bring him out to you. 520 00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:45,799 - Yeah, but you don't know what he looks like. 521 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:47,259 - You there! 522 00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:50,888 Move this carriage away from the door of the exchange. 523 00:23:50,888 --> 00:23:52,097 - Scotland Yard! 524 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:53,724 (dramatic music) 525 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:55,517 - [Amelia] Your badge could get me inside. 526 00:23:57,186 --> 00:23:58,437 - Police business! 527 00:23:58,437 --> 00:23:59,521 (dramatic music) 528 00:23:59,521 --> 00:24:01,815 Scotland Yard, out of the way please. 529 00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:03,400 Police business, Scotland Yard, police business! 530 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,110 Scotland Yard! - Officer, officer! 531 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:07,655 Amelia, what are you doing here? 532 00:24:07,655 --> 00:24:10,199 Excuse me, officer, but I respectfully ask 533 00:24:10,199 --> 00:24:11,575 you release Miss Rojas immediately. 534 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,202 - Well, I can assure you, Mr. Wiley, 535 00:24:13,202 --> 00:24:16,246 that my holding of Miss Rojas' wrist was necessary 536 00:24:16,246 --> 00:24:17,831 to keep her on the floor of this exchange, 537 00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:19,750 where she insisted upon hunting for you. 538 00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:20,584 - It's okay. 539 00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:24,630 I overheard Lady Violet tell the ambassador 540 00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:27,007 that she wants to get rid of you and me. 541 00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:29,009 - What does Lady Violet have against us? 542 00:24:29,009 --> 00:24:30,260 Did she say? 543 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:31,887 - Maybe it has something to do with your support 544 00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:32,763 of home rule? 545 00:24:32,763 --> 00:24:34,098 - How would she know about that? 546 00:24:34,098 --> 00:24:38,310 - Don't ask me, but she also wants to start a war. 547 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,311 - What, how? 548 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:40,479 That's impossible. 549 00:24:43,857 --> 00:24:45,192 Stock market's crashing. 550 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:48,737 Stay away from Lady Violet. 551 00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:50,280 Let Sherlock Holmes deal with her. 552 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,032 I've gotta get back to work. 553 00:24:52,032 --> 00:24:53,033 - What is going on? 554 00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:54,076 - An epic crime. 555 00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,912 The Bank of England has been robbed, 556 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:57,913 and will probably fail. 557 00:24:57,913 --> 00:24:59,456 We must go now. 558 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:02,209 I'll take you back to Baker Street on the way to the Yard. 559 00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:04,670 - No, if this is really an epic crime, 560 00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:06,672 there's only one place Sherlock Holmes will be. 561 00:25:06,672 --> 00:25:09,383 (dramatic music) 562 00:25:15,848 --> 00:25:18,684 - So this conversation you overheard 563 00:25:18,684 --> 00:25:20,144 between Lady Violet and the ambassador 564 00:25:20,144 --> 00:25:21,603 is most revealing. 565 00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:24,440 Now I know for certain why the jewels are so important 566 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,774 and where they've gone. 567 00:25:25,774 --> 00:25:26,650 - [Amelia] Where? 568 00:25:26,650 --> 00:25:27,943 - To Chief Inspector Whitlock, 569 00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:31,196 for whom they were always intended as a bribe. 570 00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:33,115 He took over the search of them himself. 571 00:25:33,115 --> 00:25:35,909 And before Lord Withersea shot himself, 572 00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:37,536 he must've told Whitlock where the gems 573 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,163 were to be found. 574 00:25:39,163 --> 00:25:41,123 But what part does the ambassador play in the bank robbery, 575 00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:43,459 and how does he become a public hero? 576 00:25:43,459 --> 00:25:44,293 - No, I don't know, 577 00:25:44,293 --> 00:25:46,211 but I can tell you who does. 578 00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:47,212 Chief Inspector Whitlock. 579 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:48,422 I mean, he told you himself. 580 00:25:48,422 --> 00:25:50,758 - Every day the home office sends me a list 581 00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:53,677 of potential revolutionaries, misfits, and former felons. 582 00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:55,387 - He must've hired some of them as drivers 583 00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:57,097 to steal the gold. 584 00:25:57,097 --> 00:25:59,224 - Whitlock brought a reporter and a photographer 585 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:00,601 with him today inside the vault. 586 00:26:00,601 --> 00:26:01,477 - Well, maybe he didn't think 587 00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:03,061 you'd figure out what happened. 588 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:05,773 Maybe he wanted to prove he's smarter than Sherlock Holmes. 589 00:26:05,773 --> 00:26:08,025 - That's a mistake many have made to their regret, 590 00:26:08,025 --> 00:26:10,652 but consider this, the red thread gave me the means 591 00:26:10,652 --> 00:26:12,488 to lay bare the robbery so. 592 00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:13,864 - [Amelia] So? 593 00:26:13,864 --> 00:26:16,450 - So should I not also know where the gold has gone? 594 00:26:16,450 --> 00:26:17,993 - Why would they want you to find the gold? 595 00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:19,953 - Why would they want me to know about the robbery at all? 596 00:26:19,953 --> 00:26:23,207 - Okay, this is, it's, 597 00:26:23,207 --> 00:26:25,501 it's what you'd call a theory of the crime. 598 00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:28,295 So how do we prove it? 599 00:26:28,295 --> 00:26:31,423 - By locating the gold without looking for it. 600 00:26:32,966 --> 00:26:34,510 - Make Whitlock tell us. 601 00:26:34,510 --> 00:26:36,595 He's not only involved with the robbery, 602 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,722 but he's also working for Lady Violet. 603 00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:43,227 Swann has a recording of a telephone conversation. 604 00:26:43,227 --> 00:26:45,896 - [Lady Violet] I will kill her myself. 605 00:26:45,896 --> 00:26:47,606 - Except I promised the prime minister 606 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:49,858 nothing from the wiretap would be used in evidence. 607 00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:51,693 - Well, Whitlock doesn't know that. 608 00:26:53,028 --> 00:26:54,404 - Yes. 609 00:26:54,404 --> 00:26:55,614 Yes, very good idea. 610 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:56,990 And I will follow up on Whitlock's ignorance 611 00:26:56,990 --> 00:26:57,866 of the prompt. 612 00:26:57,866 --> 00:26:59,243 And not just yet, if I am right, 613 00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:00,994 we should be able to deduce the gold's whereabouts 614 00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:03,622 based on the clues we already have. 615 00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,874 - Remember I overheard Lord Withersea in the stables 616 00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:08,585 say that the coffins were about to become more valuable. 617 00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:10,879 - And worth less than they will be, a week or two hence. 618 00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:13,924 - But Withersea's needs were more immediate. 619 00:27:13,924 --> 00:27:15,425 And besides, you overheard that conversation 620 00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:16,927 without his knowledge. 621 00:27:16,927 --> 00:27:21,932 If my theory is correct, all clues left by the red thread 622 00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:24,643 must be deliberate. 623 00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:26,061 - The telephone calls 624 00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:27,396 between Whitlock and the coffin factory. 625 00:27:27,396 --> 00:27:29,481 - [Holmes] No, Whitlock called everyone. 626 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:30,858 No, it needs to be something more specific. 627 00:27:30,858 --> 00:27:33,193 (dramatic music) 628 00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:34,403 - Ugh. 629 00:27:34,403 --> 00:27:35,696 What about this? 630 00:27:38,574 --> 00:27:42,369 - The coffin's screw from the ambassador's carriage. 631 00:27:42,369 --> 00:27:43,662 (Holmes laughs) 632 00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:45,414 Why do you carry this with you? 633 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,166 - I guess as a keepsake? 634 00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:49,626 From the first day we started working together. 635 00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:54,381 - Amelia, if I had known back then when we first met, 636 00:27:54,381 --> 00:27:56,466 if I understood. 637 00:27:56,466 --> 00:27:59,011 - If I had made a better breakfast. 638 00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:01,555 - Oh, that wretched breakfast. 639 00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:03,140 I shall never forget it. 640 00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:04,224 (cloche clangs) 641 00:28:04,224 --> 00:28:05,726 - But to be fair, you didn't taste it. 642 00:28:05,726 --> 00:28:08,437 - I chose life was the sensible solution. 643 00:28:08,437 --> 00:28:10,314 But you're quite right, 644 00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:15,319 this, this screw is so specific to Withersea's factory. 645 00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:18,864 Yes. 646 00:28:18,864 --> 00:28:19,948 Yes, yes. 647 00:28:21,825 --> 00:28:24,369 That's why Wims and Maggot were executed. 648 00:28:24,369 --> 00:28:27,331 To cover their escape, they set fire to the very place 649 00:28:27,331 --> 00:28:29,082 the gold was to be hidden. 650 00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,335 The thread must have been furious. 651 00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:32,419 - [Amelia] You certainly were. 652 00:28:32,419 --> 00:28:34,504 Do you think they left the screw there 653 00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:35,047 for you to find on purpose? 654 00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:36,298 - Yes. 655 00:28:36,298 --> 00:28:38,884 Yes, someone brilliantly anticipated by actions, 656 00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:40,469 but they could never have foreseen yours. 657 00:28:40,469 --> 00:28:45,265 So, let us prove the theory by finding the gold. 658 00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:47,434 - What if the coachmen are all still there at the factory? 659 00:28:47,434 --> 00:28:49,311 I mean, there are a lot of them. 660 00:28:49,311 --> 00:28:51,146 Do we need the police? 661 00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,941 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 662 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:57,069 We can't afford to have Whitlock warning them by telephone. 663 00:28:57,069 --> 00:29:00,072 Wait, I have the perfect solution, yes. 664 00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:03,617 (dramatic music) 665 00:29:03,617 --> 00:29:07,329 Swann, I have an idea where we might find the stolen gold 666 00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:08,956 and with not a second to lose. 667 00:29:08,956 --> 00:29:10,123 - But sir, I should really report this. 668 00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:11,500 - Well, I could be wrong. 669 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,419 If it has happened, and perhaps we should make sure 670 00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:15,295 the gold is where we think it is 671 00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:16,588 before informing your superiors 672 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:19,633 and having this case snatched from your hands. 673 00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:20,717 - Yes, sir. 674 00:29:20,717 --> 00:29:21,969 (dramatic music) 675 00:29:21,969 --> 00:29:23,178 Where to? 676 00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:25,055 - Withersea coffin factory, on the double. 677 00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:25,889 - Whoa. 678 00:29:28,976 --> 00:29:31,728 (dramatic music) 679 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,446 - [Holmes] Ah, this place is more heavily guarded 680 00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:43,073 than I'd hoped. 681 00:29:43,073 --> 00:29:45,993 - An observation I was on the verge of making myself. 682 00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:47,244 - [Amelia] I bet they'd chase someone 683 00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:48,578 into the coffin factory. 684 00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:51,581 - I hope by chasing someone, you don't mean you. 685 00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:53,709 - [Amelia] I'll get the guards to follow me inside. 686 00:29:53,709 --> 00:29:55,544 - [Clarence] I can cut off their exit from the roof. 687 00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:56,628 - Trust me, Mr. Holmes. 688 00:29:56,628 --> 00:29:57,963 This will work. 689 00:29:59,339 --> 00:30:01,883 Don't follow me until they're all inside. 690 00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:04,011 (dramatic music) 691 00:30:04,011 --> 00:30:05,721 (Amelia sighs) 692 00:30:05,721 --> 00:30:08,473 (dramatic music) 693 00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:17,149 Hey, there's robbers and murderers in here! 694 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:18,900 (worker grunts) 695 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,194 (dramatic music) 696 00:30:21,194 --> 00:30:22,529 (worker grunts) 697 00:30:22,529 --> 00:30:24,031 - [Worker] Get back! 698 00:30:24,031 --> 00:30:26,742 (dramatic music) 699 00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:30,954 - Easy! 700 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:32,956 (dramatic music) 701 00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:34,791 - Good day, gentlemen. 702 00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:37,085 We ask that you remain here quietly 703 00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:40,172 until suitable arrangements can be made. 704 00:30:40,172 --> 00:30:41,715 - What do you think you're playing at? 705 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:42,924 You a copper? 706 00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:44,718 - No, I'm not, but allow me to introduce. 707 00:30:44,718 --> 00:30:46,678 - Detective Swann of Scotland Yard, 708 00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:49,389 and I'm arresting you all in the name of the Queen! 709 00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:50,724 - Not to worry, Mr. Holmes, 710 00:30:50,724 --> 00:30:53,060 we've locked the doors from up here. 711 00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,395 The only place these blokes are going is prison. 712 00:30:55,395 --> 00:30:56,730 - Thank you, Clarence. 713 00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,940 You have done more than I could have ever asked. 714 00:30:58,940 --> 00:30:59,858 - Game's up, gentlemen. 715 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,485 Now up against the wall. 716 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:02,486 Come on. 717 00:31:02,486 --> 00:31:03,653 - Well this is all well and good, 718 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:06,198 but do they have my stolen jewels? 719 00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:07,532 - No, no, Bertie. 720 00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:09,409 For now we shall have to satisfy ourselves 721 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:12,704 with all this gold but the gems will be back 722 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:13,538 in your hands soon enough. 723 00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:14,790 I know where they are. 724 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:16,625 Now Shaw, if you and the rest of the Irregulars 725 00:31:16,625 --> 00:31:18,752 could please find Inspector Bullivant 726 00:31:18,752 --> 00:31:19,836 and tell him the happy news. 727 00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:22,381 Then we need some reinforcements. 728 00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:24,633 - Did we just save England again, Mr. Holmes? 729 00:31:24,633 --> 00:31:25,634 - We did indeed. 730 00:31:25,634 --> 00:31:27,302 - I've never saved England before. 731 00:31:27,302 --> 00:31:28,678 - How does it feel? 732 00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:30,138 - Well, not bad, considering. 733 00:31:30,138 --> 00:31:32,307 Much worse for dear Mrs. Hudson than I. 734 00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:34,267 How is she faring? 735 00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:35,435 - She's coming along. 736 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:37,312 Helps being tended by her twin sister. 737 00:31:37,312 --> 00:31:40,482 Oh, I have a small gift for you. 738 00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:43,860 Your buttons, I believe. 739 00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:46,238 (Watson laughs) 740 00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:47,781 - I'm glad to see that I did not destroy 741 00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:48,740 my waistcoat in vain. 742 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,909 At least you knew we were alive. 743 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:54,579 Now come, I am anxious to hear the whole story. 744 00:31:54,579 --> 00:31:55,956 Crime of the century. 745 00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:57,374 - Oh, hardly that. 746 00:31:57,374 --> 00:31:58,875 - Nonsense, you've recovered the gold, 747 00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:02,587 caught an entire factory filled with thieves, rescued us. 748 00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:06,508 - About which I am most happy. 749 00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:07,801 Never think otherwise. 750 00:32:09,177 --> 00:32:11,513 But before Lord Withersea kill himself, 751 00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:14,057 he implied a crime beyond my imagination, 752 00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:15,392 and that is not happened. 753 00:32:15,392 --> 00:32:18,562 There are so many orphaned pieces to this puzzle. 754 00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:21,356 Why steal plans for a weapon in California? 755 00:32:21,356 --> 00:32:23,441 Why demand keys of the American ambassador? 756 00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:25,694 No, the robbery and the kidnappings 757 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:26,987 are not the whole story. 758 00:32:26,987 --> 00:32:28,238 There's something worse. 759 00:32:28,238 --> 00:32:32,659 What awful crime binds these disparate members 760 00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:33,952 of the red thread together? 761 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,663 - Red thread, it'll make a terrific title. 762 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:37,914 (Holmes sighs) 763 00:32:37,914 --> 00:32:39,749 Dammit, I tire so easily. 764 00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:42,210 - The aftereffects of too much opium, dear boy. 765 00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:43,712 It'll soon wear off. 766 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:47,257 - Who on earth is that? 767 00:32:47,257 --> 00:32:48,925 - Oh uh, Miss Rojas. 768 00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:54,097 Allow me to present Miss Amelia Rojas. 769 00:32:54,097 --> 00:32:54,973 She is my, 770 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:57,517 my, 771 00:32:58,727 --> 00:33:00,061 my, my, my, look at the time. 772 00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:01,438 Enough of these questions. 773 00:33:01,438 --> 00:33:04,149 The doctor is here to measure your progress. 774 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:06,193 A little peace and quiet will do you good. 775 00:33:06,193 --> 00:33:07,027 Amelia. 776 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,198 (footsteps clack) 777 00:33:14,868 --> 00:33:17,120 (Holmes sighs) 778 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,455 - [Amelia] He's better. 779 00:33:18,455 --> 00:33:20,665 You'll have your old stalking partner back soon. 780 00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:21,958 - Not soon enough. 781 00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:23,543 Clara's ball is two days hence 782 00:33:23,543 --> 00:33:25,545 and by then all our riddles must be answered. 783 00:33:25,545 --> 00:33:27,714 - I've solved a lot of them already. 784 00:33:28,882 --> 00:33:29,758 - Oh, which ones? 785 00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:31,843 - Why you weren't murdered, 786 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:33,929 why we were meant to find the gold, 787 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:38,516 and how the American ambassador will become a national hero. 788 00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:40,602 - Well your deductive powers 789 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:42,395 have shown sensational progress. 790 00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:43,813 How did you manage all that? 791 00:33:44,898 --> 00:33:46,358 - The evening paper. 792 00:33:46,358 --> 00:33:47,943 You're mentioned too. 793 00:33:47,943 --> 00:33:51,238 As the greatest detective in the world. 794 00:33:51,238 --> 00:33:52,781 - Well Amelia, that is not news, 795 00:33:52,781 --> 00:33:54,032 that is not news. 796 00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:57,452 Fortunately, I am immune to flattery, 797 00:33:57,452 --> 00:33:59,120 though we should always be grateful 798 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,916 whenever the press elect to be precise. 799 00:34:03,917 --> 00:34:05,543 Oh for goodness sake. 800 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:06,962 After hearing of the robbery, 801 00:34:06,962 --> 00:34:10,131 the American ambassador hurriedly put together 802 00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:12,467 a consortium of investors. 803 00:34:12,467 --> 00:34:14,261 The purchase of the bank's plummeting shares 804 00:34:14,261 --> 00:34:15,595 stopped the panic 805 00:34:15,595 --> 00:34:19,891 and brought stability to the chaotic markets. 806 00:34:22,102 --> 00:34:25,438 In his speech to reporters later, he explained. 807 00:34:27,023 --> 00:34:28,733 - When I heard the Bank of England's governor 808 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:30,485 has engaged the brilliant Sherlock Holmes, 809 00:34:31,152 --> 00:34:32,862 I knew the gold would be found. 810 00:34:33,655 --> 00:34:36,491 My broker, Sir Nigel Parks, helped me to find others 811 00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,451 who would intervene, and together, 812 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:40,745 we were able to halt the Bank of England's slide 813 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:44,332 toward bankruptcy by the purchase of a majority 814 00:34:44,332 --> 00:34:45,417 of its shares. 815 00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:47,627 But nothing we did would've mattered, 816 00:34:47,627 --> 00:34:49,796 without the greatest detective on earth 817 00:34:49,796 --> 00:34:53,425 exercising his miraculous abilities. 818 00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:57,470 The real victory belongs to Sherlock Holmes. 819 00:34:58,888 --> 00:35:01,558 - Yes, by bringing the press with him into the vault, 820 00:35:01,558 --> 00:35:03,977 Whitlock made sure the world would know about the robbery 821 00:35:03,977 --> 00:35:05,186 and launched a financial panic, 822 00:35:05,186 --> 00:35:07,147 allowing the thread to buy the bank 823 00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:09,441 for pennies on the pound. 824 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:10,275 (newspaper thuds) 825 00:35:10,275 --> 00:35:11,568 - Just this afternoon, 826 00:35:11,568 --> 00:35:13,194 Ambassador Anderson made ten million 827 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:15,822 off an investment of 50,000 pounds. 828 00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:17,240 - Yes, yes, yes, yes. 829 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,660 In the meantime, the coachmen are carted off to jail 830 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,829 without knowing how or why they were betrayed. 831 00:35:22,829 --> 00:35:26,666 - Guess we didn't solve the crime of the century. 832 00:35:26,666 --> 00:35:27,959 - We will make it possible. 833 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:33,256 Therefore, the greatest crime is yet to come. 834 00:35:33,256 --> 00:35:35,717 (dramatic music) 835 00:35:35,717 --> 00:35:37,469 This broker, Sir Nigel Parks, 836 00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:40,430 is he not Dan Moriarty's employer? 837 00:35:40,430 --> 00:35:42,057 Did Dan also invest in this scheme? 838 00:35:42,057 --> 00:35:43,308 - Where would he get the money? 839 00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:46,019 - By muscling in on his father's organization, 840 00:35:46,019 --> 00:35:49,314 about which he may have known more than he let on. 841 00:35:49,314 --> 00:35:52,525 (dramatic music) 842 00:35:52,525 --> 00:35:53,360 Yes. 843 00:35:54,861 --> 00:35:56,154 Let me see. 844 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:57,947 - I have both my profession as a mathematician 845 00:35:57,947 --> 00:35:59,991 and my greater enterprise to maintain. 846 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,409 - Greater enterprise? 847 00:36:01,409 --> 00:36:04,079 By which you mean the exploitation of human weakness 848 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,374 through opium dens, gambling, and houses of ill repute, 849 00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:09,542 run by men for whom loyalty is a vice 850 00:36:09,542 --> 00:36:11,961 best remedied by greed? 851 00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:16,216 - And at Lady Violet's party was the young Moriarty, 852 00:36:17,092 --> 00:36:18,385 who lured me outside. 853 00:36:18,385 --> 00:36:20,720 - What do you mean Amelia was denied entry? 854 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:22,555 That's unacceptable. 855 00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:25,016 Excuse me. 856 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,351 Excuse me, Mr. Holmes. - I just spoke to her. 857 00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:27,352 Wait, Mr., wait. 858 00:36:29,604 --> 00:36:30,939 - [Amelia] Holmes! 859 00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:34,651 - And if I hadn't been lured outside, 860 00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:37,195 I would never have seen the carriage, 861 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:39,989 nor known how the gold went missing 862 00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:41,825 on its journey from the ship to the bank. 863 00:36:41,825 --> 00:36:44,202 Were it not for that wretched boy. 864 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:46,996 (dramatic music) 865 00:36:46,996 --> 00:36:48,957 Of course, that's why the other coach was waiting 866 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:51,292 for your sham abductors. 867 00:36:51,292 --> 00:36:53,211 Kidnappers don't need getaway vehicles. 868 00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:54,796 They take their crime with them. 869 00:36:55,964 --> 00:36:58,550 All of this makes perfect sense 870 00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:01,094 if we change but one conclusion. 871 00:37:01,094 --> 00:37:02,887 - What's that? 872 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:04,681 - I'm surprised to find someone of your intellect 873 00:37:04,681 --> 00:37:08,101 mistaking current circumstances for future prospects. 874 00:37:08,101 --> 00:37:10,061 - Dan Moriarty 875 00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:12,439 did not kill the coachman to save you. 876 00:37:12,439 --> 00:37:13,690 - Perhaps time will reveal 877 00:37:13,690 --> 00:37:16,443 just how much you understated my abilities. 878 00:37:16,443 --> 00:37:17,735 - He did it to save me. 879 00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:23,908 (dramatic music) 880 00:37:26,161 --> 00:37:28,872 (dramatic music) 881 00:37:29,581 --> 00:37:30,790 - [Michael] Michael Wiley, here to visit 882 00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:32,292 with Professor James Moriarty. 883 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:36,463 (door clangs) 884 00:37:36,463 --> 00:37:39,174 (dramatic music) 885 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:43,178 (door creaks) 886 00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:46,264 Father. 887 00:37:49,142 --> 00:37:50,059 - Dear boy. 888 00:37:53,563 --> 00:37:54,022 Dear boy. 889 00:37:56,941 --> 00:38:00,028 Go, I will call you if I need you. 890 00:38:00,028 --> 00:38:02,363 - I apologize for my previous behavior. 891 00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:05,783 It was necessary to deceive that pompous fool Holmes. 892 00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,869 - I'm so relieved, dear boy. 893 00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:09,579 But do not be dismissive. 894 00:38:09,579 --> 00:38:12,540 My most persistent adversary, pompous, oh yes, 895 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:13,875 but Holmes is no fool. 896 00:38:13,875 --> 00:38:15,585 Not only did he rescue his friends, 897 00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:17,754 he foiled a perfect robbery of the Bank of the England. 898 00:38:17,754 --> 00:38:19,214 - Now, I assure you, father, 899 00:38:19,214 --> 00:38:21,758 in no way did Holmes foil anything. 900 00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:24,260 Almost his every move in solving these crimes 901 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,970 was designed by me. 902 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:27,305 - [James] What? 903 00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:28,223 But surely you did not. 904 00:38:28,223 --> 00:38:29,307 - I robbed the Bank of England, 905 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,976 and it went even better than hoped. 906 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,020 - But Holmes recovered the gold 907 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,605 and the perpetrators have been arrested. 908 00:38:35,605 --> 00:38:38,191 - Only because these actions were vital to my success. 909 00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,818 You see, by purchasing the stock in the bank 910 00:38:40,818 --> 00:38:42,445 when it seemed almost certain to fail, 911 00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:46,449 I gained a great fortune when Holmes saved the day. 912 00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:48,243 - I wonder where a broker's clerk 913 00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:50,161 found enough pounds to invest 914 00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:52,372 during an unexpected market panic. 915 00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:53,623 - From you, of course. 916 00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:54,958 - From me? 917 00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:56,793 - More specifically, those elements of the Moriarty 918 00:38:56,793 --> 00:38:58,294 criminal syndicate I acquired 919 00:38:58,294 --> 00:39:00,797 through your less loyal henchmen. 920 00:39:00,797 --> 00:39:05,218 Accomplished by approving a more equal split in profits 921 00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:07,470 and long denied promotions. 922 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:08,721 - But you never took my businesses! 923 00:39:08,721 --> 00:39:10,014 That was the red thread. 924 00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,766 - Do you still not understand? 925 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:13,059 I am the red thread. 926 00:39:14,477 --> 00:39:16,729 Well, the most important part of it. 927 00:39:16,729 --> 00:39:18,273 And tonight, we achieve a far greater ambition 928 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:19,649 than stupendous wealth. 929 00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:21,776 - There is no greater ambition than wealth. 930 00:39:21,776 --> 00:39:24,362 That is the locus around which our entire empire revolves. 931 00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:25,488 - Before the sun rises tomorrow, 932 00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,740 I will bring that empire to its knees. 933 00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:30,702 And I'll be well on my way to setting its colonies free, 934 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,412 now and forever. 935 00:39:33,621 --> 00:39:36,082 We have the financial means. 936 00:39:36,082 --> 00:39:37,500 We have the weapon. 937 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,043 Now all we need 938 00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:42,297 is the inciting incident. 939 00:39:42,297 --> 00:39:45,717 You said yourself, you could leave whenever you wanted. 940 00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:47,260 A ship awaits you even now, 941 00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:49,846 as does a villa in Rivanna where you can. 942 00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:51,180 - Hold a moment. 943 00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:53,975 There is much here to consider. 944 00:39:53,975 --> 00:39:55,685 First, what do you mean, 945 00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:57,520 bring the empire to its knees? 946 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,898 Surely you intend no harm to her Majesty. 947 00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:01,983 - What, kill the queen 948 00:40:01,983 --> 00:40:05,320 with so many princes to take her place? 949 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,154 No. 950 00:40:07,113 --> 00:40:08,489 I will settle for nothing less 951 00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:11,826 than freeing the Crown's colonies from British rule. 952 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,872 In order to achieve that, I require war. 953 00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:17,582 - Against England? 954 00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,460 - Against all nations that would subjugate free people. 955 00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:21,669 I'm pressed for time. 956 00:40:21,669 --> 00:40:23,588 We can explain this. - Dan, Dan, Dan! 957 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:27,300 Are you planning to sacrifice yourself 958 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:30,845 for some transient political course? 959 00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:32,013 - It's hardly transient. 960 00:40:33,306 --> 00:40:35,308 But do not worry, I am no martyr. 961 00:40:35,308 --> 00:40:36,809 - Oh but you are. 962 00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:39,562 To steal from me and boast of it to my face 963 00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:41,397 and then in recompense for your impudence, 964 00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:43,483 offer me a life as a fugitive! 965 00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,818 Or were you planning to use my escape as a distraction 966 00:40:45,818 --> 00:40:47,654 to mislead the authorities into thinking 967 00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:50,114 that I was the author 968 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,492 of your inciting incident?! 969 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:57,372 - Very good, Father, very good. 970 00:40:57,372 --> 00:41:01,417 Yes, yes, that had been what I'd hoped, 971 00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:02,794 to achieve the evening's work 972 00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:05,046 and have all eyes trained on the disappearance 973 00:41:05,046 --> 00:41:07,674 of Professor Moriarty, 974 00:41:07,674 --> 00:41:12,095 the world's most famous criminal maniac. 975 00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:14,972 - And as the search became more frantic, 976 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:17,725 would I ever arrive at this villa, 977 00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:22,188 or would my body be a better answer for your treason? 978 00:41:22,188 --> 00:41:24,941 (dramatic music) 979 00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:29,487 Dancliff! 980 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:30,613 - [Dancliff] Yes, your Professorship, sir. 981 00:41:30,613 --> 00:41:33,574 - Show this young, unnatural man out 982 00:41:33,574 --> 00:41:36,244 and see that he never returns. 983 00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:38,871 - Admit it, Father, 984 00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:41,457 you're a little proud of me, aren't you? 985 00:41:41,457 --> 00:41:43,084 - Moriartys do not overthrow empires. 986 00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:44,627 We corrupt them to our advantage. 987 00:41:44,627 --> 00:41:46,129 And I can feel little pride in a criminal 988 00:41:46,129 --> 00:41:47,755 who when given the chance, 989 00:41:47,755 --> 00:41:50,800 fails to kill Sherlock Holmes. 990 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,844 - You mean like you? 991 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:54,679 (dramatic music) 992 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:57,557 (footsteps thud) 993 00:41:57,557 --> 00:42:00,810 (dramatic music) 994 00:42:01,394 --> 00:42:04,272 (door clangs) 995 00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:10,445 (dramatic music) 996 00:42:14,323 --> 00:42:17,910 (dramatic music) 997 00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:25,084 (dramatic music)