1 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:55,179 Look, father, we have been through all this before... 2 00:00:55,305 --> 00:00:58,182 Do as I tell you, boy, you damn, disobedient little bastard! 3 00:00:58,308 --> 00:00:59,099 Give me the gun! 4 00:00:59,225 --> 00:01:02,436 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like! 5 00:01:02,771 --> 00:01:03,771 Get off out of it! 6 00:01:23,458 --> 00:01:25,959 Good morning! 7 00:01:26,711 --> 00:01:27,753 Caught anything? 8 00:01:29,005 --> 00:01:29,797 Not yet. 9 00:01:31,466 --> 00:01:34,593 Holmes, what on earth are you doing here? 10 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:35,803 Looking for you. 11 00:01:36,346 --> 00:01:38,806 Well, carry on my dear fellow, don't let me disturb you. 12 00:01:46,314 --> 00:01:47,981 What on earth are you doing here? 13 00:01:49,317 --> 00:01:51,235 A case has brought me this way. 14 00:01:53,613 --> 00:01:54,947 What sort of case? 15 00:01:55,073 --> 00:01:57,658 The newspapers are calling it the Boscombe Valley mystery. 16 00:01:57,784 --> 00:01:59,493 I expect you've read something of it? 17 00:01:59,911 --> 00:02:02,496 Not a word. I haven't seen a paper for days. 18 00:02:02,831 --> 00:02:05,999 A farmer, Cole McCarthy, Australian by birth, 19 00:02:06,626 --> 00:02:09,128 met his death by a mere at the bottom of his farm. 20 00:02:10,255 --> 00:02:12,131 They seem to have established a very serious case 21 00:02:12,257 --> 00:02:14,091 against the son of the murdered man. 22 00:02:16,636 --> 00:02:19,179 There's a big one just under that rock. 23 00:02:21,683 --> 00:02:22,808 So then it's- 24 00:02:24,727 --> 00:02:25,519 a murder? 25 00:02:26,229 --> 00:02:27,855 Well, it's projected to be so. 26 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:30,691 Of course, I shall take nothing for granted 27 00:02:30,817 --> 00:02:33,026 until I've had a chance to look into it personally. 28 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:34,528 Naturally. 29 00:02:38,032 --> 00:02:39,199 I don't wish to spoil your holiday 30 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:41,702 but I was wondering if I could persuade you to join me 31 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:42,953 for a couple of days? 32 00:02:46,082 --> 00:02:47,207 Well, of course. 33 00:02:49,335 --> 00:02:50,002 Are you sure? 34 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:52,171 I shall be delighted. 35 00:02:54,507 --> 00:02:58,886 Then we must move quickly, our local train leaves in 35 minutes. 36 00:03:47,101 --> 00:03:48,101 Your water, sir, 37 00:03:48,561 --> 00:03:50,687 Watson, all of this fresh air will kill me. 38 00:03:52,690 --> 00:03:54,900 Well, the London Press don't seem much interested. 39 00:03:55,026 --> 00:03:57,027 Not very full accounts. 40 00:03:57,153 --> 00:03:59,696 Yes. Useless! 41 00:04:01,115 --> 00:04:02,241 So much for the London Press. 42 00:04:02,367 --> 00:04:03,617 It all seems depressingly simple. 43 00:04:03,785 --> 00:04:05,869 What persuaded you to take an interest in this case? 44 00:04:05,995 --> 00:04:06,578 This. 45 00:04:09,499 --> 00:04:10,958 "Boscombe Valley mystery." 46 00:04:11,125 --> 00:04:13,460 "There has been a grave miscarriage of justice." 47 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:15,963 "The matter is urgent. We need your help." 48 00:04:16,422 --> 00:04:19,800 "Please come if you can, Alice Turner." Good heavens. 49 00:04:20,510 --> 00:04:21,301 Who is Alice Turner? 50 00:04:21,636 --> 00:04:24,137 She is the daughter of Mr. Turner, also Australian, 51 00:04:24,472 --> 00:04:25,806 who owns this whole estate. 52 00:04:26,975 --> 00:04:29,810 Oh, well, it's a "mystery", not "murder" to Miss Turner. 53 00:04:30,478 --> 00:04:33,105 Note the "we", Watson, "We need your help." 54 00:04:33,231 --> 00:04:36,316 If ever there's a cry from the heart that is it... it leaps from the paper. 55 00:04:36,484 --> 00:04:37,734 Have you seen this lady? 56 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:40,988 No, not yet. Do you remember a certain Sergeant Summerby? 57 00:04:41,155 --> 00:04:45,492 Summerby? Oh, yes, the case of the counterfeit Spanish dollars. 58 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:46,451 Mexican. 59 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:49,413 A pleasant fellow much admired your methods, did he not? 60 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:52,833 Probably his reason for promotion to Inspector. 61 00:04:54,627 --> 00:04:56,753 He is in charge of the case and it was he who organized- 62 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:58,171 this accommodation for us. 63 00:04:58,673 --> 00:05:00,841 Us? You presumed that I would come? 64 00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:05,178 No, not presumed, Watson, hoped, very much hoped. 65 00:05:07,348 --> 00:05:09,683 Well, Mr. Holmes. 66 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:13,270 And you, Doctor, it's a pleasure to see you again. 67 00:05:13,396 --> 00:05:16,023 Congratulations on your promotion, Inspector. 68 00:05:17,108 --> 00:05:17,858 Thank you, Doctor. 69 00:05:18,401 --> 00:05:22,029 It's a quiet district as a rule, but nonetheless, my own. 70 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:24,031 I have a carriage waiting. 71 00:05:38,546 --> 00:05:39,671 McCarthy, the murdered man 72 00:05:39,797 --> 00:05:42,507 rented a farm called Hatherley from a Mr. Turner 73 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,385 who is one of the largest London proprietors in this part of the country. 74 00:05:46,012 --> 00:05:47,054 He made his money in Australia. 75 00:05:47,513 --> 00:05:51,058 I presume that both being colonials they had much in common. 76 00:05:51,225 --> 00:05:52,059 Old friends, I believe. 77 00:05:52,226 --> 00:05:54,895 Well, Mr. Turner has been in failing health for some time. 78 00:05:55,188 --> 00:05:56,480 He has a daughter called Alice? 79 00:05:57,273 --> 00:06:00,567 An only child and a most charming one. 80 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:04,237 We surmise that Miss Turner and the McCarthy boy are friends? 81 00:06:05,406 --> 00:06:06,156 Great friends. 82 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:08,075 It was Miss Turner who brings me here. 83 00:06:08,618 --> 00:06:09,326 Oh, I know, Mr. Holmes, 84 00:06:09,452 --> 00:06:11,661 and to be quite honest with you I'm surprised you came. 85 00:06:12,538 --> 00:06:14,247 The case is as plain as a pikestaff, 86 00:06:14,749 --> 00:06:16,750 and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes. 87 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:19,252 So I have warned Miss Turner that this time- 88 00:06:19,712 --> 00:06:22,547 not even Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be able to work miracles... 89 00:06:27,345 --> 00:06:28,345 Beautiful countryside. 90 00:06:29,430 --> 00:06:32,057 Yes, yes, indeed. This is Boscombe Valley. 91 00:06:32,350 --> 00:06:34,434 And over there at the bottom is Boscombe Mere 92 00:06:34,602 --> 00:06:35,936 where the murder took place. 93 00:06:36,270 --> 00:06:37,771 A peaceful place for a tragedy. 94 00:06:38,272 --> 00:06:39,272 Any witnesses? 95 00:06:39,857 --> 00:06:41,566 I expected that question, Mr. Holmes. 96 00:06:42,276 --> 00:06:44,528 The principle witness is William Crowder, 97 00:06:44,737 --> 00:06:46,363 one of Mr. Turner's gamekeepers. 98 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,456 It was after I had my dinner, last Monday it was, the... 99 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:58,291 the third of June. 100 00:06:59,168 --> 00:07:00,460 Oh, that's right. 101 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:05,132 Now I fed the young pheasants, pullets we call them. 102 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:07,134 You were planting out lettuces. 103 00:07:07,635 --> 00:07:09,970 Oh, that's right. 104 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:13,932 I was setting out some lettuces, those lettuces over there. 105 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,394 When my little girl, Patience, she comes running up. 106 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,491 Dad, dad, the McCarthy's are fighting. 107 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:33,160 Well, it won't be the first time. 108 00:07:34,078 --> 00:07:34,661 Well, 109 00:07:36,205 --> 00:07:39,332 don't you worry about it, Patience. It ain't no concern of ours. 110 00:07:40,918 --> 00:07:41,668 Go on, in you go. 111 00:07:48,926 --> 00:07:50,177 That, Mr. McCarthy, 112 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:52,846 he has a temper, that one, you know. 113 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:58,018 You know, if he thought another gun had poached his bird out shooting, 114 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:00,270 he'd let fly in a real fury. 115 00:08:00,521 --> 00:08:02,105 Was the boy the same way inclined? 116 00:08:02,231 --> 00:08:03,690 No milk for me, please. 117 00:08:04,692 --> 00:08:08,028 No. No, not that I've noticed anyway. 118 00:08:08,196 --> 00:08:10,780 No, he always seemed a nice enough boy. 119 00:08:11,115 --> 00:08:12,699 I'm surprised him doing such a thing. 120 00:08:13,576 --> 00:08:14,201 But, then again, 121 00:08:15,912 --> 00:08:17,037 he was provoked. 122 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:21,208 No doubt, who's to say. 123 00:08:21,501 --> 00:08:23,502 You tell the gentlemen what happened next. 124 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:28,215 You haven't forgotten what you said in evidence at the inquest. 125 00:08:28,716 --> 00:08:29,466 Forgotten? 126 00:08:30,801 --> 00:08:33,136 I shan't forget that day, not so long as I live. 127 00:08:34,222 --> 00:08:36,848 I, I just sent Patience into her mother, 128 00:08:37,225 --> 00:08:40,018 and I hadn't planted out no more than another half a box, 129 00:08:40,144 --> 00:08:43,563 when Hugh McCarthy come running up looking like he'd seen a ghost. 130 00:08:45,566 --> 00:08:48,485 My father's met with a terrible accident. Please come with me, I need your help. 131 00:08:48,653 --> 00:08:49,319 Where is he? 132 00:08:49,445 --> 00:08:50,237 Down by the mere. 133 00:09:16,931 --> 00:09:17,764 Is he alive? 134 00:09:47,128 --> 00:09:48,128 You just come along with me. 135 00:09:53,509 --> 00:09:54,551 I brought him back here. 136 00:09:54,969 --> 00:09:57,220 And I sent my wife down to the trap for the police. 137 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:58,888 Did the boy say anything? 138 00:09:59,807 --> 00:10:00,974 No, no, not a word. 139 00:10:01,225 --> 00:10:03,727 He just sat there where you are, sobbing and moaning 140 00:10:03,978 --> 00:10:06,771 and I didn't take my eyes off him until they came for him, that's the truth. 141 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:10,233 Did you examine the gun at all, the butt for instance? 142 00:10:11,902 --> 00:10:14,654 Ah... No. No, not especially. 143 00:10:15,364 --> 00:10:16,740 But, there was a bit of mud on it. 144 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:19,492 He wiped it. 145 00:10:21,412 --> 00:10:22,162 He wiped it? 146 00:10:24,123 --> 00:10:24,998 Well, I might've done. 147 00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:27,167 I mean it would've been natural wouldn't it? 148 00:10:27,501 --> 00:10:29,919 There was Mr. McCarthy lying there dead with his head bashed in, 149 00:10:30,046 --> 00:10:32,005 and he hadn't got that way swatting wasps, had he? 150 00:10:32,131 --> 00:10:34,924 And you believe that the boy killed his father? 151 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:39,012 Well, of course, I do, sir. I mean who else could've done it? 152 00:10:40,723 --> 00:10:42,349 I can tell you this much, gentlemen. 153 00:10:43,017 --> 00:10:45,310 All right, now, I'm a gamekeeper, all right? 154 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:48,521 And when a man's got a gun in his hand strange things can happen. 155 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,525 Now I've seen men, quiet law abiding gentleman, 156 00:10:52,693 --> 00:10:55,195 you put a gun in their hands, they turn into near maniacs. 157 00:10:55,321 --> 00:10:56,863 Thank you so much, Mr. Crowder, 158 00:10:57,031 --> 00:10:58,782 for giving so much of your valuable time. 159 00:11:03,329 --> 00:11:05,497 Oh, it's been a pleasure gentlemen. 160 00:11:05,831 --> 00:11:07,957 It's not the first time I've been able to help the cause of justice, 161 00:11:08,084 --> 00:11:09,542 no, not by a long chalk. 162 00:11:09,877 --> 00:11:12,462 Well, last year at Candlemas time, you remember, Inspector? 163 00:11:12,713 --> 00:11:14,005 No, I'm a liar, it were two years ago. 164 00:11:14,131 --> 00:11:15,715 Well, we must be on our way. 165 00:11:16,717 --> 00:11:19,719 Well, I'm on the side of law and order, sir, the Inspector will tell you that. 166 00:11:20,221 --> 00:11:23,056 Indeed you are, Crowder, thank you. 167 00:11:23,557 --> 00:11:24,391 Goodbye. 168 00:11:29,397 --> 00:11:30,897 They're all the same, these country people. 169 00:11:31,315 --> 00:11:33,483 Once they get an audience they'll talk the hind leg off a donkey. 170 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,403 Now if you follow me I'll take you down to the scene of the crime. 171 00:11:36,570 --> 00:11:37,570 No need for the moment. 172 00:11:38,906 --> 00:11:41,533 That's very true, no need in the circumstances. 173 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:44,202 It's a sad case, but a pretty clear one. 174 00:11:44,328 --> 00:11:45,537 The glass is high, 175 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:48,415 weather set fair. 176 00:11:50,459 --> 00:11:52,585 I shall like to call on James McCarthy. 177 00:11:54,296 --> 00:11:55,338 I can arrange it if you wish. 178 00:11:55,464 --> 00:11:56,923 Tomorrow. 179 00:11:58,300 --> 00:11:59,926 One more thing I should tell you, Mr. Holmes. 180 00:12:00,302 --> 00:12:01,928 When the boy was charged with the murder, 181 00:12:02,096 --> 00:12:04,097 he didn't appear in the least surprised. 182 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:07,434 In fact, he said it was no more than his deserts. 183 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:08,935 Those were his very words. 184 00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:10,061 A confession? 185 00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:11,187 You might think so. 186 00:12:11,313 --> 00:12:13,273 Did he also protest his innocence? 187 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:16,568 Yes. But then again, they always do, don't they? 188 00:12:17,069 --> 00:12:18,778 I think we best be getting back to the hotel. 189 00:12:18,904 --> 00:12:20,739 I have some calls to make on the estate. 190 00:12:21,532 --> 00:12:22,282 Until tomorrow, then. 191 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:25,285 Boscombe Arms. 192 00:12:38,424 --> 00:12:40,592 The boy said he got no more than his deserts. 193 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,470 Well, that's a pretty suspicious remark. 194 00:12:43,971 --> 00:12:46,765 I mean, coming after such a damning series of events. 195 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:50,769 On the contrary the brightest rift I can see in the clouds at present. 196 00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,813 Self-approach contrition displayed by his remark 197 00:12:53,981 --> 00:12:57,317 appears to be signs of a healthy mind, rather than a guilty one. 198 00:12:57,902 --> 00:13:00,987 Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence. 199 00:13:01,238 --> 00:13:03,823 So they have and many men have been hanged wrongfully. 200 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:05,658 Oh, look, a pheasant. 201 00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:22,425 Mm, "Witness"- that's James McCarthy. 202 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:26,596 "I had a conversation with my father, which led to high words" 203 00:13:27,223 --> 00:13:28,848 "and almost to blows." 204 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:31,810 As his temper was becoming ungovernable, 205 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,312 I left him and went up the hill. 206 00:13:35,689 --> 00:13:38,441 I hadn't gone more than a hundred yards 207 00:13:39,443 --> 00:13:43,696 when I heard a hideous outcry, which caused me to run back again. 208 00:13:45,699 --> 00:13:46,866 I found my father 209 00:13:47,743 --> 00:13:51,496 expiring on the ground with his head terribly injured. 210 00:13:53,582 --> 00:13:56,376 Did you see anyone near your father when you returned? 211 00:13:56,877 --> 00:14:01,214 No, no one. I have no idea how he came by his injuries. 212 00:14:02,049 --> 00:14:03,675 He was not a popular man, 213 00:14:04,134 --> 00:14:06,678 but as far as I know he had no active enemies. 214 00:14:07,346 --> 00:14:09,389 I know nothing further of the matter. 215 00:14:09,765 --> 00:14:12,517 Did your father say anything to you before he died? 216 00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:14,727 He mumbled a few words 217 00:14:14,895 --> 00:14:17,689 but all I could catch was some allusion to a rat. 218 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,400 Silence. Be quiet. 219 00:14:24,071 --> 00:14:27,407 A rat? And what did you understand by that? 220 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,242 It conveyed nothing to me. 221 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:33,246 I thought, well, I thought he was delirious. 222 00:14:34,373 --> 00:14:37,750 What was the point upon which you and your father had this final quarrel? 223 00:14:45,593 --> 00:14:47,927 I should prefer not to answer that question, sir. 224 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:50,013 I'm afraid that I must press it. 225 00:14:50,139 --> 00:14:54,058 It really is impossible for me to tell you, but I can assure you that- 226 00:14:54,184 --> 00:14:56,936 it had nothing to do with the sad tragedy that followed. 227 00:14:57,104 --> 00:14:59,230 That is for the court to decide. 228 00:14:59,565 --> 00:15:02,191 I need hardly point out to you that your refusal to answer 229 00:15:02,318 --> 00:15:03,776 will prejudice your case considerably 230 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,945 in any future proceedings which may arise. 231 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:07,614 You may sit down. 232 00:15:14,288 --> 00:15:17,749 Gentlemen of the jury, you are here to discover the cause of death 233 00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:21,085 of Mr. William McCarthy and thereafter to deliver your verdict. 234 00:15:21,670 --> 00:15:23,463 You have heard the facts of this crime 235 00:15:23,964 --> 00:15:26,132 and I believe they make the situation very clear. 236 00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:29,969 Mr. James McCarthy's account of his father's dying 237 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:32,138 is singular to say the least. 238 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:36,100 His refusal to give any details of their last conversation 239 00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:37,977 must go very much against him. 240 00:15:39,063 --> 00:15:41,147 The verdict of willful murder 241 00:15:41,482 --> 00:15:43,942 seemed to me to fit the facts we have heard. 242 00:15:45,194 --> 00:15:47,153 I hope I make myself clear. 243 00:15:50,866 --> 00:15:52,992 So willful murder it was. 244 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:53,826 Monstrous. 245 00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:57,330 Well the boy did rather ask for it. 246 00:15:57,748 --> 00:15:59,499 My dear Watson, don't you see that both you and the coroner- 247 00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:01,960 have been some pains to single out the strongest points 248 00:16:02,086 --> 00:16:03,336 in the young man's favor? 249 00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:06,130 Don't you see that you're terribly giving credit for 250 00:16:06,256 --> 00:16:08,174 too much imagination or too little? 251 00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:10,176 Too little, if he could not invent a quarrel 252 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:12,011 which would give him the sympathy of the jury. 253 00:16:12,179 --> 00:16:13,137 Too much, 254 00:16:14,014 --> 00:16:16,766 if he evolved from his own inner consciousness anything so outré 255 00:16:16,892 --> 00:16:19,018 as a dying of reference to a rat. 256 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,022 Well, these country coroners do think they're little tin pot gods. 257 00:16:23,607 --> 00:16:24,774 It's an absolute scandal. 258 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:27,986 No, no, no. 259 00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:31,364 I shall approach this case from the point of view of 260 00:16:31,532 --> 00:16:34,367 what this young man says is true. 261 00:17:08,193 --> 00:17:09,235 We have a visitor. 262 00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:12,572 Our young client has arrived. 263 00:17:26,503 --> 00:17:27,086 Come in. 264 00:17:29,548 --> 00:17:33,009 I'm so glad you've come, Mr. Holmes. I'm Alice Turner. 265 00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:35,094 And this is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. 266 00:17:35,387 --> 00:17:37,430 Dr. Watson, of course. 267 00:17:37,806 --> 00:17:40,558 It is you who have written down some of Mr. Holmes' cases 268 00:17:40,684 --> 00:17:42,268 in such an interesting way. 269 00:17:43,353 --> 00:17:44,604 You see I know all about you, Mr. Holmes 270 00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:46,397 and your wonderful success. 271 00:17:47,232 --> 00:17:49,275 If you knew how much we need you now, 272 00:17:49,777 --> 00:17:51,611 but do you yet know anything of what happened? 273 00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:53,404 Please sit down, Miss Turner. 274 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:57,200 Inspector Summerby has told me something of it. 275 00:17:57,326 --> 00:18:00,578 Oh, yes, the Inspector. He gave me your address. 276 00:18:01,121 --> 00:18:02,914 He's quite a kind man, isn't he? 277 00:18:03,624 --> 00:18:07,627 But he doesn't understand. How could he, he's a policeman. 278 00:18:09,129 --> 00:18:13,132 Mr. Holmes, I know that James didn't do it. 279 00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:18,387 I know it and I want you to start your work knowing it, too. 280 00:18:18,889 --> 00:18:21,099 Never let yourself doubt upon that point. 281 00:18:21,850 --> 00:18:24,060 Have you known James McCarthy a long time? 282 00:18:24,311 --> 00:18:28,981 Yes, all my life. We have known each other since we were children, 283 00:18:29,733 --> 00:18:32,151 but he's too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. 284 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:35,988 This charge is just absurd to anyone who really knows him. 285 00:18:36,448 --> 00:18:37,824 Well, I hope that we may clear him. 286 00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:40,785 I shall do all I can. 287 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:44,831 But from what you've heard already, do you not think he's innocent? 288 00:18:45,082 --> 00:18:47,291 I think it is probable. 289 00:18:49,336 --> 00:18:51,337 I don't know my friend is so convinced. 290 00:18:52,172 --> 00:18:55,174 I think that Mr. Holmes is being a little- 291 00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,343 a little quick in his conclusions. 292 00:18:58,011 --> 00:19:02,473 But you are right, oh, I know that you are right. James never did it. 293 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,686 This quarrel with his father, 294 00:19:07,229 --> 00:19:08,855 which he would not talk about to the coroner, 295 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:09,856 do you know anything of it? 296 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:12,525 I believe it was because I was concerned in it. 297 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:13,693 In what way? 298 00:19:16,321 --> 00:19:18,156 It is no time to hide anything now. 299 00:19:20,284 --> 00:19:22,869 James and his father had many disagreements about me. 300 00:19:23,996 --> 00:19:25,538 Mr. McCarthy was very anxious 301 00:19:25,706 --> 00:19:27,540 that there should be a marriage between us, 302 00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:31,627 but James and I have always loved each other like brother and sister. 303 00:19:32,212 --> 00:19:34,797 Of course we haven't seen so much of each other lately. 304 00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:37,550 I have been away at boarding school for some years 305 00:19:37,718 --> 00:19:39,719 and James has been studying in Liverpool. 306 00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:43,723 He is only 22 and has seen very little of life and- 307 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:48,853 well, I suppose he does not wish to do anything like that just yet. 308 00:19:49,897 --> 00:19:54,317 So there were quarrels. And this, I'm sure, was one of them. 309 00:19:56,236 --> 00:19:57,528 How old are you, Miss Turner? 310 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:02,575 I am 18, quite nearly 19. 311 00:20:03,994 --> 00:20:04,994 As you say, 312 00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:08,581 this isn't a time to hide anything. 313 00:20:12,586 --> 00:20:15,087 Are you in love with James McCarthy? 314 00:20:20,761 --> 00:20:22,220 Yes, I am, Mr. Holmes, 315 00:20:25,098 --> 00:20:26,224 very much in love. 316 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:33,022 There is no one else and never will be. Even if... 317 00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:35,441 And he with you? 318 00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:37,610 Oh, I think so. 319 00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:40,029 I hope so. 320 00:20:41,698 --> 00:20:46,035 But how should I know for sure? We have never discussed marriage. 321 00:20:47,996 --> 00:20:50,248 Was your father in favor of such a union? 322 00:20:51,458 --> 00:20:54,126 No, he was averse to it, 323 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,798 No one but Mr. McCarthy was in favor of it. 324 00:21:01,301 --> 00:21:04,637 Thank you for being so frank with us. 325 00:21:06,181 --> 00:21:08,766 If I was to visit your father, could I see him, please? 326 00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:12,561 I'm afraid not. The doctor has forbidden any visitors. 327 00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:15,314 Oh, I'm sorry, we did not know he was so ill. 328 00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:19,819 My father has never been strong, but this has broken him completely. 329 00:21:20,153 --> 00:21:21,320 Oh, he has taken to his bed and 330 00:21:21,446 --> 00:21:24,824 Dr. Willow says that he's a wreck and his nervous system is shattered. 331 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:28,911 I can hardly leave him or I would've been at the railway station to meet you. 332 00:21:29,663 --> 00:21:30,329 Well, you see, 333 00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:33,582 Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad 334 00:21:33,709 --> 00:21:35,459 in the old days in Australia. 335 00:21:36,003 --> 00:21:36,669 Australia? 336 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:40,089 In Victoria at the mines, the gold mines. 337 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:42,466 That's where dad made all his money. 338 00:21:44,219 --> 00:21:49,015 You have been of material assistance to me. 339 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:53,644 Will you be able to see James? 340 00:21:53,854 --> 00:21:54,520 Tomorrow. 341 00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:57,356 Tell him that I know him to be innocent. 342 00:21:59,401 --> 00:22:00,026 I will. 343 00:22:04,239 --> 00:22:05,448 Could you give him this? 344 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:07,616 Of course. 345 00:22:08,076 --> 00:22:10,202 And if you have any news you will tell me? 346 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:14,332 I must go home now. 347 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:17,710 I left my father asleep but if he awakes and I'm not there, 348 00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:18,878 he'll be upset. 349 00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:27,053 Goodbye. 350 00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:30,890 And God help you in your undertaking. 351 00:22:56,792 --> 00:22:57,500 Morning, Inspector. 352 00:23:17,646 --> 00:23:19,438 May I see him alone, please? 353 00:23:19,606 --> 00:23:20,856 As you wish, Mr. Holmes. 354 00:23:20,982 --> 00:23:23,526 But remember this man is on remand accused of willful murder, 355 00:23:23,777 --> 00:23:26,195 and as you well know such a man under such circumstances 356 00:23:26,321 --> 00:23:27,613 isn't likely to speak the truth. 357 00:23:27,781 --> 00:23:29,615 Oh, thank you for your good advice. 358 00:23:36,456 --> 00:23:39,417 James McCarthy, my name is Sherlock Holmes. 359 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:40,543 I'm here to help you. 360 00:23:41,044 --> 00:23:42,294 How should I know that? 361 00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:45,131 You came with the police Inspector, I saw him out there. 362 00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:49,135 I'm here at the request of Miss Turner. 363 00:24:05,318 --> 00:24:06,819 I am sorry, Mr. Holmes. 364 00:24:07,821 --> 00:24:09,155 Lately I've learned to trust no one. 365 00:24:11,199 --> 00:24:12,575 I'm afraid you've come too late. 366 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,327 They've already made up their minds that I am guilty. 367 00:24:15,745 --> 00:24:16,662 Well, I have not. 368 00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:18,664 The Coroner's court... 369 00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:23,502 The Coroner and the Coroner's jury, only sit to enquire into the facts. 370 00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:25,671 They do not sit in judgment. 371 00:24:27,507 --> 00:24:28,591 Well, how can I help you? 372 00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,676 I'd like you to tell me exactly what happened. 373 00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:38,517 Let's sit down over here where we can talk quietly and not be overheard. 374 00:24:44,065 --> 00:24:45,149 Where shall I start? 375 00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:46,525 You choose. 376 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:52,198 Well, I've been studying in Liverpool for some three years. 377 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:55,701 My father was most anxious I should have some academic qualifications. 378 00:24:56,912 --> 00:25:00,331 It was on that day June the 3rd that I returned home. 379 00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:03,334 Was your father expecting you? 380 00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:06,712 No, no, not exactly. He knew I was due for a few days holiday, 381 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,214 but not the exact date. 382 00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:11,550 Our local carrier took me up to the farm from the village. 383 00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:15,721 Welcome home, nice to see you back, Master James. 384 00:25:15,889 --> 00:25:17,723 Oh, it's nice to be back, George. 385 00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:19,058 Hey, Stan, Stan? 386 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:20,476 Is my father in the house? 387 00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:23,312 No, no, went off about five minutes ago, 388 00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:25,231 looked as though he had something on his mind. 389 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:27,191 All right, George. 390 00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:29,735 Will you be wanting pony later? 391 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:32,738 No, no, I'll ride tomorrow. 392 00:25:33,406 --> 00:25:35,658 I might have a gun, see if I could pot a few rabbits. 393 00:25:36,034 --> 00:25:40,079 They need shooting- the place is crawling with them. Welcome. 394 00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:56,929 Hello, father. 395 00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:02,434 James? What are you doing here? 396 00:26:03,645 --> 00:26:05,271 I'm just back for a few days, that's all. 397 00:26:07,023 --> 00:26:08,274 Well, I don't want you down here. 398 00:26:08,775 --> 00:26:10,943 So get off out of it. Keep away from it, do you understand? 399 00:26:11,778 --> 00:26:13,445 Yes, why? 400 00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:15,447 None of your damn business! Just do as you're told. 401 00:26:18,451 --> 00:26:19,118 James. 402 00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:22,955 Look, 403 00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:26,709 now you are here, 404 00:26:27,794 --> 00:26:30,296 get over the Turner's place and tell that girl you'll marry her. 405 00:26:30,547 --> 00:26:32,464 I'll do no such thing. Look, father, we have been... 406 00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:35,467 Do as I tell you boy, you damn, disobedient, little bastard! 407 00:26:39,347 --> 00:26:39,930 Give me the gun. 408 00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:43,809 Give me the gun! 409 00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:46,645 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like. 410 00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:54,987 All right, damn you! 411 00:26:55,905 --> 00:27:00,075 I'll throw you out, I'll ruin you. You'll see. 412 00:27:01,494 --> 00:27:02,828 Now get off out of it! 413 00:27:09,002 --> 00:27:14,006 I had hardly gone any distance at all when I heard a terrible scream. 414 00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:18,010 I ran back down and found my father lying on his side. 415 00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:20,095 Did you see anyone else? 416 00:27:20,388 --> 00:27:20,971 No one. 417 00:27:21,097 --> 00:27:22,181 No movement anywhere? 418 00:27:22,349 --> 00:27:24,683 No, my attention was entirely on my father. 419 00:27:24,893 --> 00:27:26,477 He was terribly wounded. 420 00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:32,191 You would not tell the coroner about this quarrel with your father. 421 00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:36,695 It was something private. It was no business of his. 422 00:27:37,447 --> 00:27:39,156 Was it not because this confrontation with your father 423 00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:40,866 might seem to incriminate you? 424 00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:45,871 No, no, it was because it concerned Alice. 425 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:49,541 It was no business of the coroners or anyone else's. 426 00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:52,544 I wasn't going to have her name bandied about in the courtroom. 427 00:27:55,715 --> 00:28:00,052 You do know this... Alice loves you, James. 428 00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:03,055 And believes you to be innocent. 429 00:28:04,307 --> 00:28:05,057 Yes, I know. 430 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,228 The thought of her love and her faith in me 431 00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:13,482 has kept me in some sort of sanity in this horrible place. 432 00:28:13,983 --> 00:28:17,403 And yet you had no wish to marry her as your father so clearly wished? 433 00:28:19,489 --> 00:28:21,240 Perhaps you did not share her love? 434 00:28:23,076 --> 00:28:29,248 I did. I do, Mr. Holmes. I love Alice Turner. 435 00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:33,669 I, I adore her, I worship the very ground she treads on, 436 00:28:34,921 --> 00:28:35,504 but... 437 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:38,257 And yet? 438 00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:43,846 I could not ask her to marry me because, 439 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:48,058 because I was married already. 440 00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,567 Don't you think you'd better tell me about it? 441 00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:04,366 When, when I first started studying in Liverpool, 442 00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:07,745 my father gave me a very generous allowance. 443 00:29:07,996 --> 00:29:09,913 Perhaps too generous for my own good. 444 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:14,793 I became very wild and fell in with a bad set of people. 445 00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:19,631 And in a fit of drunken madness 446 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:23,427 I went through a form of marriage in a register office 447 00:29:23,553 --> 00:29:25,804 to a woman much older than I was. 448 00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:29,308 A barmaid. 449 00:29:31,811 --> 00:29:33,771 I hardly ever saw Alice at that time. 450 00:29:34,481 --> 00:29:35,481 Of course, I couldn't tell my father. 451 00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:38,275 He would certainly have thrown me out as he'd so often threatened. 452 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:39,443 Yes, I'm sure he would. 453 00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:43,781 Have you any idea- 454 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,784 who would've killed your father so brutally? 455 00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:48,160 None whatsoever. 456 00:29:49,954 --> 00:29:55,667 Do you know I go over the scene day after day after day in my mind? 457 00:29:57,837 --> 00:30:00,339 But, I am as puzzled as everyone else is. 458 00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:03,759 Don't give up hope. 459 00:30:04,719 --> 00:30:05,928 Thank you, Mr. Holmes. 460 00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:08,972 Oh, oh, Mr. Holmes... 461 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:12,935 It hardly concerns all this business but perhaps I should tell you. 462 00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:15,813 Some good has come out of this evil. 463 00:30:18,107 --> 00:30:21,360 Since I've been in here I received a message from the woman I married 464 00:30:21,861 --> 00:30:23,195 who has read in the newspapers 465 00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:26,615 that I am in serious trouble and likely to be hanged. 466 00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:31,703 She wrote that she had a husband already in the Bermuda dockyard. 467 00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:32,704 Good heavens! 468 00:30:33,706 --> 00:30:37,209 So, there is no legal tie between us. 469 00:30:39,045 --> 00:30:41,547 If only I had known before. 470 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:45,175 You were right to tell me. 471 00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:56,019 Poor fellow. 472 00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:59,565 Must've been maddening to be upbraided by his father 473 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:02,901 for not doing something he would give his very eyes to do. 474 00:31:04,779 --> 00:31:07,406 If he's innocent, who did it? 475 00:31:07,574 --> 00:31:08,323 Indeed. 476 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:12,327 Well perhaps I can help I've not been entirely idle in your absence. 477 00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:16,081 Now in the surgeon's deposition of the inquest it states 478 00:31:16,416 --> 00:31:19,418 that "the posterior third of the left parietal bone, 479 00:31:19,919 --> 00:31:22,254 and the left half of the occipital bone were shattered 480 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,923 by blows from a blunt weapon". 481 00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:27,593 Now that's here, now behind. 482 00:31:29,137 --> 00:31:31,388 But the evidence states that they were quarreling- 483 00:31:32,765 --> 00:31:33,682 face to face. 484 00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:36,727 That's a very nice piece of deduction, Watson. 485 00:31:37,312 --> 00:31:37,895 Thank you. 486 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:40,397 But hardly a valid one. 487 00:31:40,940 --> 00:31:43,609 McCarthy could've easily turned his back the moment the girl had run off. 488 00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:47,029 But I'm so glad that you're coming around to my way of thinking, 489 00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:49,364 and Miss Turner's. The boy is innocent. 490 00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:52,367 Now, Holmes you're putting words in my mouth, I didn't say that. 491 00:31:52,619 --> 00:31:54,453 But you're thinking it just a little. 492 00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:03,795 These boots were the ones the master was wearing 493 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:06,131 at the time he was murdered, sir. 494 00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:09,968 I've cleaned them off since, of course. 495 00:32:11,471 --> 00:32:14,431 Those, those are a pair of Master James'. 496 00:32:15,308 --> 00:32:16,808 He bought them new last Michelmass 497 00:32:18,311 --> 00:32:20,479 Thank you, George, now let's get onto the mere. 498 00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:31,949 This is the place, Mr. Holmes. You can still see traces of the blood. 499 00:32:35,078 --> 00:32:36,578 Please, would you keep clear of this area? 500 00:32:46,255 --> 00:32:48,006 Why did you enter the mere, Inspector? 501 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:52,302 Fished them out with a rack, 502 00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:54,930 thought there might be some weapon thrown there or some other trace. 503 00:32:55,598 --> 00:32:57,307 If only I'd been here before they came 504 00:32:57,433 --> 00:33:00,018 like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. 505 00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:03,647 This must be the gamekeeper and his gang. 506 00:33:04,607 --> 00:33:06,525 These tracks are young McCarthy's. 507 00:33:08,569 --> 00:33:12,447 And these. Twice he walked. 508 00:33:19,205 --> 00:33:20,205 He turned. 509 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:22,874 Once he ran, 510 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:29,172 so the soles of the feet are deeply marked, the heels are hardly visible. 511 00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:34,052 That would bear out his story he ran when he saw his father on the ground. 512 00:33:34,762 --> 00:33:36,221 He does work at it, I'll say that. 513 00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:40,976 The father paced up and down right here. 514 00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:45,397 What have we here? 515 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,903 Tiptoes. 516 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:56,908 Square toes, most unusual boots. 517 00:33:58,077 --> 00:34:00,328 Where did mister square toes come from? 518 00:34:13,176 --> 00:34:15,093 He'd a made a rare bloodhound, Mr. Holmes. 519 00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:29,441 It has been a case of considerable interest. Come. 520 00:34:35,948 --> 00:34:36,698 Thank you, George. 521 00:34:37,992 --> 00:34:38,784 Thank you, sir. 522 00:34:39,827 --> 00:34:41,119 Would you deliver this note? 523 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:45,624 Yes, sir, indeed. Right away. 524 00:35:00,598 --> 00:35:01,932 This may interest you, Inspector. 525 00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:07,312 The murder was done with it. 526 00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:11,942 I can see no marks. 527 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:12,734 There are none. 528 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:14,152 Well, how do you know then? 529 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,904 The grass was growing under it. 530 00:35:16,656 --> 00:35:19,658 It had only been there a few days. It corresponds with the injuries. 531 00:35:20,034 --> 00:35:20,909 And the murderer? 532 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:25,122 He's a tall man, left handed, limps with the right leg, 533 00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:28,458 wears thick-soled shooting boots with square toes, 534 00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:31,336 smokes Indian cigars, uses a cigar holder, 535 00:35:32,213 --> 00:35:34,422 and carries a blunt pen knife in his pocket. 536 00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:45,684 You're a brilliant man, Mr. Holmes, and I wish I had your brains. 537 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:48,186 Your theories are all very well, 538 00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:51,022 but I'm still not convinced. Not this time. 539 00:35:52,024 --> 00:35:54,025 We have to deal with a hardheaded British jury. 540 00:35:55,444 --> 00:35:57,362 Well, you've had your chance, Inspector. 541 00:35:58,698 --> 00:36:00,365 I'm a practical man, Mr. Holmes. 542 00:36:01,033 --> 00:36:02,534 I cannot undertake to go around the country 543 00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:05,871 looking for a left-handed gentleman with the gamey leg 544 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:08,623 unless I become the laughing stock of Cheshire. 545 00:36:09,876 --> 00:36:10,709 We shall see. 546 00:36:12,044 --> 00:36:14,796 You work your method, I shall work mine. 547 00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:23,638 Now, let us take this morning's work. 548 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,184 From my examination of the ground, 549 00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:30,353 I gained details as to the personality of the criminal. 550 00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:31,563 But how? 551 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:36,067 You know my method. It's founded upon the observance of trifles. 552 00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:38,195 Well, his height I know you might roughly judge 553 00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:41,239 by the length of his stride, his boots by his traces, 554 00:36:41,407 --> 00:36:42,574 but the man's nameless. 555 00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:44,242 The impression of his right foot 556 00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:45,911 was always left distinct than that of the left. 557 00:36:46,078 --> 00:36:47,412 Why? Because he limped. 558 00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,080 He's left-handed. 559 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:51,208 The blow was delivered from immediately behind him, 560 00:36:51,334 --> 00:36:52,334 yet he was on the left-hand side. 561 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:53,168 Watson. 562 00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:56,171 He must've been a left-handed man, of course. 563 00:36:56,297 --> 00:36:57,422 He stood behind that tree 564 00:36:57,590 --> 00:37:00,342 during the confrontation between father and son. 565 00:37:01,969 --> 00:37:02,928 He even smoked. 566 00:37:03,095 --> 00:37:04,012 Smoked? 567 00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:06,431 Cigar ash. 568 00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:10,018 An Indian cigar. 569 00:37:10,811 --> 00:37:12,854 You will remember my little monograph- 570 00:37:12,980 --> 00:37:17,108 on the subject of ashes from pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. 571 00:37:17,985 --> 00:37:20,779 One hundred different varieties if I remember. 572 00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:22,781 One hundred and forty, thank you, Watson. 573 00:37:23,449 --> 00:37:24,950 Having discovered the ash- 574 00:37:26,118 --> 00:37:28,286 I discovered this stump, 575 00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:32,290 which the man had thrown among the moss. 576 00:37:32,708 --> 00:37:34,876 An Indian cigar rolled in Rotterdam. 577 00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,798 You'll notice that the end has not been in his mouth, 578 00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:41,716 so he used a cigar holder. 579 00:37:42,468 --> 00:37:45,595 The tip has been cut off, not bitten, 580 00:37:46,889 --> 00:37:50,767 but the cut is not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt penknife. 581 00:37:53,813 --> 00:37:54,646 You're amazing. 582 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,650 Among the words mumbled by the dying man, 583 00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:04,656 the only word that young McCarthy could understand was the word "rat". 584 00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:08,952 Rat, hmm. 585 00:38:12,081 --> 00:38:13,331 Most curious. 586 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:17,168 Come with me. 587 00:38:30,099 --> 00:38:31,099 Now, 588 00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:34,144 what do you read? 589 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:34,978 A rat. 590 00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:35,854 And now? 591 00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:39,190 Balla-rat..."Ballarat". 592 00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:41,109 That is the word the man uttered. 593 00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:42,527 Australia. 594 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:44,863 Someone from Ballarat, what is Ballarat known for? 595 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:45,530 It's the "Goldfield". 596 00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:49,367 Miss Turner said that her father had met McCarthy on the Goldfield. 597 00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:51,328 I see the direction which all this points. 598 00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:54,706 An Australian from Ballarat and one who is at home in the district. 599 00:38:57,084 --> 00:39:00,045 Unless I'm very much mistaken, he's here. 600 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:03,882 Mr. John Turner. 601 00:39:13,059 --> 00:39:13,892 Mr. Holmes. 602 00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:16,394 Dr. Watson. 603 00:39:17,938 --> 00:39:19,856 My daughter told me you were lodging here. 604 00:39:20,149 --> 00:39:21,232 Did you get my note? 605 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:25,653 Yes, yes, something about coming here to avoid a scandal. 606 00:39:26,072 --> 00:39:29,741 Better than meeting up at the hall, people might talk. 607 00:39:30,826 --> 00:39:32,243 Why do you wish to see me? 608 00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:48,718 Oh, yes. I know all about you and McCarthy. 609 00:39:52,098 --> 00:39:54,432 My friend Watson will jot down a few facts. 610 00:39:56,310 --> 00:39:59,396 I promise it will not be used unless it is absolutely needed. 611 00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:02,565 Do sit down. 612 00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:15,620 You didn't know the dead man McCarthy. 613 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:18,748 He was a devil incarnate. 614 00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:23,628 God keep you out of the clutches of a man such as he. 615 00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:26,464 His grip has been upon me these many years 616 00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,133 and he's blasted my life. 617 00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:33,471 I'll tell you first how I came to be in his power. 618 00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:38,560 It was in the early 60's at the diggings. 619 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:43,731 I was a young chap then, hot blooded and reckless. 620 00:40:43,941 --> 00:40:47,152 Well, I had no luck with my claim, 621 00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,822 took to the bush and became what you'd call a highway robber. 622 00:40:52,324 --> 00:40:55,994 There was a little gang of us who lived a wild free life of it. 623 00:40:56,662 --> 00:40:58,997 Sticking up a station from time to time, 624 00:40:59,415 --> 00:41:01,666 or stopping the wagon on the road from the diggings. 625 00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:04,919 They called me Black Jack of Ballarat. 626 00:41:06,338 --> 00:41:10,425 I believe they still remember the Ballarat gang in the colony. 627 00:41:32,907 --> 00:41:36,034 The wagon driver was McCarthy and I spared him. 628 00:41:36,202 --> 00:41:36,951 Get out of it! 629 00:41:37,870 --> 00:41:41,039 Go on, shift! Do a Botany! Fast! 630 00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:05,396 We got away with the gold. 631 00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:11,152 And Mac and I were wealthy men beyond the dreams of Everest. 632 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:19,410 There was... 633 00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:27,835 There was a price on our heads. 634 00:42:30,506 --> 00:42:32,090 I decided to make for England. 635 00:42:34,176 --> 00:42:38,555 I determined to settle down to a quiet and respectable life. 636 00:42:40,182 --> 00:42:42,100 I bought this estate that included the whole village, 637 00:42:42,268 --> 00:42:43,434 even this inn is mine. 638 00:42:44,603 --> 00:42:46,896 I set myself to do a little good with my money 639 00:42:47,022 --> 00:42:49,357 to make up for the way in which I'd earned it. 640 00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:55,196 I married and then my darling wife died young. 641 00:42:55,948 --> 00:42:57,949 She left me my dear little Alice. 642 00:43:01,453 --> 00:43:06,541 I was a happy man you might say, until McCarthy laid his grip upon me. 643 00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:11,963 He followed my trail. When he first came here, 644 00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:15,425 he'd hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot. 645 00:43:16,802 --> 00:43:18,469 "Here we are, Jack!" he said. 646 00:43:19,221 --> 00:43:22,974 "You can have the keeping of us, me and my little boy." 647 00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:24,809 "And if you don't," 648 00:43:25,978 --> 00:43:28,813 "England is a fine law-abiding country," 649 00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:31,232 "and there's always a policeman handy." 650 00:43:33,527 --> 00:43:35,486 I was a sitting duck for blackmail. 651 00:43:36,155 --> 00:43:39,657 There was no shaking him off, there was no rest, no peace, 652 00:43:39,825 --> 00:43:41,826 no forgetfulness. Turn where I would- 653 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:44,454 there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow. 654 00:43:45,331 --> 00:43:47,498 Whatever he wanted he must have, and whatever it was- 655 00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:52,754 I gave him without question. Land, money, houses... 656 00:43:55,507 --> 00:43:58,009 until at last he asked the thing I could not give. 657 00:43:59,386 --> 00:44:00,511 He asked for Alice. 658 00:44:03,599 --> 00:44:08,353 His son and my girl had grown up. He knew I was in weak health. 659 00:44:08,687 --> 00:44:10,647 It seemed a fine stroke to him that his- 660 00:44:10,773 --> 00:44:13,107 son should step into the whole property. 661 00:44:14,276 --> 00:44:16,152 There I was firm. 662 00:44:17,112 --> 00:44:20,448 I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine. 663 00:44:20,574 --> 00:44:22,950 Not that I had any dislike for the lad, 664 00:44:23,285 --> 00:44:26,037 but his father's blood was in him and that was enough. 665 00:44:27,790 --> 00:44:33,169 I stood firm. McCarthy threatened, I braved him to do his worst. 666 00:44:34,922 --> 00:44:36,547 We arranged to meet at the mere, 667 00:44:36,715 --> 00:44:40,468 halfway between our two houses to talk it over. 668 00:44:43,722 --> 00:44:46,057 As I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter 669 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:47,558 seemed to come upper most, 670 00:44:48,352 --> 00:44:50,228 and he was urging his son to marry my daughter, 671 00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,563 with as little regard for what she might think 672 00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:54,565 as a slut from off the streets. 673 00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:56,234 Look, father, we have been through all this before... 674 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,404 Do as I tell you, boy, you damn, disobedient, little bastard! 675 00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:02,240 It drove me mad to think that I and all that I held dear 676 00:45:02,408 --> 00:45:04,200 should be in the power of such a man. 677 00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:07,870 It's my life and I'm going to run it the way I like. 678 00:45:08,163 --> 00:45:09,914 I was a dying and desperate man. 679 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:13,251 If I could silence that foul tongue, I could still save me 680 00:45:13,419 --> 00:45:15,753 and my family's reputation in this valley. 681 00:45:15,921 --> 00:45:17,046 Get off out of it! 682 00:45:58,672 --> 00:46:02,550 I did it, Mr. Holmes, and I would do it again. 683 00:46:04,219 --> 00:46:07,972 Deeply though I've sinned, I've lived a life of martyrdom to atone for it. 684 00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:13,311 If my girl should become entangled in the same meshes which held me 685 00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:14,812 was more than I could suffer. 686 00:46:16,648 --> 00:46:18,983 I struck him down with no more compunction 687 00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:21,819 than if he'd been some foul and venomous beast. 688 00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:30,119 That is the true story, gentlemen- 689 00:46:34,291 --> 00:46:35,500 of all that occurred. 690 00:46:43,509 --> 00:46:44,926 It is not for me to judge you, 691 00:46:45,177 --> 00:46:48,304 but I hope that we may never expose to such temptation. 692 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:51,182 I pray not, sir. 693 00:46:53,852 --> 00:46:54,977 I'm a dying man. 694 00:46:57,981 --> 00:47:00,024 I've had the diabetes for years. 695 00:47:01,443 --> 00:47:04,529 My doctor says it's a question of whether I shall live a month, 696 00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:09,283 and I'd rather die under my own roof than in a jail. 697 00:47:09,701 --> 00:47:11,619 No, McCarthy must be got off, however. 698 00:47:12,204 --> 00:47:16,040 Oh, God help me, but I wouldn't let that young man come to harm. 699 00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:19,460 I'll give you my word that I'd have spoken out 700 00:47:19,586 --> 00:47:21,462 if it went against him at the assizes. 701 00:47:21,588 --> 00:47:23,172 I'm very glad to hear you say so. 702 00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:27,051 I'd have spoken now if it had not been for my dear girl. 703 00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:30,721 It would break her heart. 704 00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:37,854 It'll break her heart when she hears that I'm arrested. 705 00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:39,522 It may not come to that. 706 00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:44,360 We're not the police. 707 00:47:46,655 --> 00:47:48,573 I am no official agent. 708 00:47:50,784 --> 00:47:52,577 I'm here at your daughter's request. 709 00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:56,414 Alice? 710 00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:57,081 Alice. 711 00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:02,545 Then what do you intend to do? 712 00:48:04,339 --> 00:48:06,424 In view of your health, nothing. 713 00:48:07,426 --> 00:48:09,427 You are yourself aware that you'll have to answer for your deed 714 00:48:09,595 --> 00:48:11,554 at a higher court than the assizes. 715 00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:17,935 If young McCarthy's condemned I shall be forced to use this confession. 716 00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:19,604 If not, 717 00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:23,441 it will never be seen by mortal eye, 718 00:48:23,609 --> 00:48:26,903 and your secret, whether you be alive or dead, shall be safe with that. 719 00:48:49,676 --> 00:48:50,468 Farewell then. 720 00:48:56,558 --> 00:48:58,476 Your own deathbeds when they come 721 00:48:59,811 --> 00:49:05,066 a little bit easier for a thought of the peace that you've given to mine. 722 00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:30,466 Oh God, help us. 723 00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:43,187 "Turner, John Stewart," 724 00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:46,941 "16th of August, Boscombe Hall Cheshire." 725 00:49:47,609 --> 00:49:51,654 "After a long illness, bravely born, beloved father of Alice." 726 00:49:53,490 --> 00:50:00,037 Well, we're free to use that confession at young McCarthy's trial. 727 00:50:00,372 --> 00:50:01,706 No, by no means. 728 00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:06,210 My promise was it would not be used unless McCarthy is condemned, 729 00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:09,046 and I think I've given enough objections to the charge 730 00:50:09,214 --> 00:50:10,381 to ensure his acquittal. 731 00:50:10,632 --> 00:50:11,882 Well, I hope so. 732 00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:30,086 I love you. 733 00:51:31,213 --> 00:51:32,213 I love you, too. 734 00:51:33,965 --> 00:51:34,799 Will you marry me? 735 00:51:36,635 --> 00:51:37,468 Yes, I will. 736 00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:50,564 A happy ending to a brilliant case. 737 00:51:52,150 --> 00:51:53,484 I congratulate you, Holmes. 738 00:51:53,985 --> 00:51:56,821 I thank you. I must admit there are certain aspects to this case, 739 00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:59,156 which even I did not anticipate.