1 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:10,620 One Tuesday morning in autumn, at precisely half -past eight, Sherlock 2 00:01:10,620 --> 00:01:15,140 received a mysterious message that two men of great public distinction would be 3 00:01:15,140 --> 00:01:20,520 visiting Baker Street in their private capacity and under circumstances of 4 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,080 complete secrecy. 5 00:02:03,790 --> 00:02:04,790 Holmes, they're here. 6 00:02:42,630 --> 00:02:47,570 In brief, Mr. Holmes, a document has been stolen from my private dispatch 7 00:02:47,730 --> 00:02:50,890 And when I discovered my loss, which was at 8 o 'clock this morning, I at once 8 00:02:50,890 --> 00:02:51,890 informed the Prime Minister. 9 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:54,490 It was of his suggestion that we both come to you. 10 00:02:56,230 --> 00:02:57,590 You have informed the police? 11 00:02:57,870 --> 00:03:01,950 No, sir, we have not done so. Nor is it possible that we should do so. 12 00:03:02,190 --> 00:03:05,910 To inform the police must, in the long run, mean to inform the public. 13 00:03:06,230 --> 00:03:08,610 That is what we particularly desire to avoid. 14 00:03:09,470 --> 00:03:10,470 And why, sir? 15 00:03:11,050 --> 00:03:15,550 Because the document in question is of such immense importance that its 16 00:03:15,550 --> 00:03:20,050 publication might very easily, I might almost say probably, lead to European 17 00:03:20,050 --> 00:03:22,450 complications of the utmost moment. 18 00:03:23,210 --> 00:03:28,310 Unless its recovery is attended by the utmost secrecy, then it may as well not 19 00:03:28,310 --> 00:03:33,770 be recovered at all. For all that is aimed at by those who have taken it is 20 00:03:33,770 --> 00:03:35,990 its contents should be generally known. 21 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,160 Do sit down. 22 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:53,180 Now, Mr Trelawney Hope, I would be much obliged if you would tell me the exact 23 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:56,700 circumstances under which this document disappeared. 24 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:01,760 As Secretary of State for European Affairs, I received the letter six days 25 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:04,620 It was a letter from a foreign potentate, you understand. 26 00:04:05,859 --> 00:04:09,160 It was of such importance that I never left it in my safe, but I have taken it 27 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,840 each evening from my office back to my house in Whitehall Terrace and kept it 28 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,840 my bedroom, locked in my dispatch box. 29 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,980 And you're sure that it was there last night? 30 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,660 Yes, I'm quite certain of that fact. I actually opened the dispatch box whilst 31 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:22,900 was dressing for dinner, and I saw the letter inside. 32 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,480 It then remained upon my bedside table. 33 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:29,480 Both my wife and I are light sleepers and are prepared to swear that no one 34 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,940 could have entered the room during the night, and yet this morning, the paper 35 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:33,940 gone. 36 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:36,860 What time did you die? 37 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:40,020 7 .30. 38 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,920 How long was it before you went to bed? 39 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,480 My wife had gone to the theatre. I had waited up for her. It was 11 .30 before 40 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:48,480 we went to our room. 41 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,040 So, for four hours, the dispatch box had lain unguarded. 42 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:56,700 Mr. Holmes, no one is ever permitted to enter that room, save the housemaid in 43 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:58,400 the morning and my valet during the rest of the day. 44 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,040 They are both trusty servants who have been with us for many years. 45 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,400 Besides... Neither of them could have possibly known that there was anything 46 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,580 more valuable than the ordinary departmental papers in my box. 47 00:05:10,020 --> 00:05:11,200 Surely your wife knew? 48 00:05:11,460 --> 00:05:16,700 Mr. Holmes, I've long known how high is Mr. Hope's sense of public duty. 49 00:05:16,980 --> 00:05:20,680 I'm convinced that in a case of this importance, it would rise superior to 50 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,380 most intimate domestic ties. 51 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,220 You do me no more than justice, Prime Minister. 52 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,540 Until this morning, I have never breathed one word to my wife upon this 53 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,420 Well, who is that in England who did know of the existence of this letter? 54 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:38,160 Each member of the Cabinet was informed of it yesterday, but the pledge of 55 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,840 secrecy which attends every Cabinet meeting was increased by the solemn 56 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:42,880 given by the Prime Minister. 57 00:05:43,780 --> 00:05:44,780 God! 58 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,400 To think that within a few hours I myself should have lost it. 59 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,680 Besides the members of the cabinet, there are two, possibly three, 60 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,080 officials who know the letter. No one else in England, I assure you. 61 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,640 But abroad? 62 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,840 I believe that no one abroad has seen the letter except the man who wrote it. 63 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:11,100 am well convinced that his ministers, that the usual official channels, have 64 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,220 been employed in this case. 65 00:06:16,180 --> 00:06:19,180 Now, sir, I must ask you more particularly what this document is. 66 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,200 And why its disappearance should have such momentous consequences. 67 00:06:24,260 --> 00:06:29,920 Mr. Holmes, the envelope is a long, thin one of pale blue color. There is a seal 68 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,460 of red wax stamped with a crouching lion. 69 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:35,480 It is addressed in large, bold handwriting. 70 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:40,100 Interesting, and indeed essential, as these details are. My inquiries must go 71 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:41,160 more to the root of things. 72 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,680 What was the letter? 73 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,660 It is a state secret of the utmost importance, which we cannot tell you. 74 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:50,600 nor do I see that it is necessary. 75 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:56,020 If by the powers which you are said to possess you can find such an envelope as 76 00:06:56,020 --> 00:06:59,800 I have described with its enclosure, then you will have deserved well of your 77 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,960 country and earned any reward which it is within our power to bestow. 78 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,420 Gentlemen, you are two of the most busy men in the country. 79 00:07:15,530 --> 00:07:18,910 And in my own small way, I have a good many calls upon me. 80 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:25,290 I regret exceedingly that I am unable to help you in this matter. 81 00:07:25,690 --> 00:07:29,530 And any continuation of this interview would be a waste of time. 82 00:07:31,770 --> 00:07:33,770 I am not accustomed, sir. 83 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,360 Hey, Mr. Holmes. 84 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:54,300 We must accept your terms. 85 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,440 No doubt you are right, and it is unreasonable for us to expect you to act 86 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,160 unless you have our full confidence. 87 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,280 I agree with you, Prime Minister. 88 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,980 Then I will tell you, relying entirely upon your honor and that of your 89 00:08:08,980 --> 00:08:14,500 colleague, Dr. Watson, I must appeal to your patriotism also, for I cannot 90 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:18,820 imagine a greater misfortune for this country than that this affair... 91 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,080 He should come out. 92 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,520 You are safely trusted. 93 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:28,800 The 94 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:36,460 letter, 95 00:08:36,539 --> 00:08:42,240 then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some 96 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,400 colonial developments of this country. 97 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,360 It is written hurriedly and upon his own responsibility entirely. 98 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,900 At the same time, it is couched in so unfortunate a manner that this 99 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:58,120 would undoubtedly lead to the most dangerous feeling in this country. There 100 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:03,420 would be such firm answer that I do not hesitate to say that within a week of 101 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:07,860 the publication of this letter, this country would be involved in a great 102 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,480 And it is this letter which may well mean the expenditure of a thousand 103 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,200 pounds and the lives... 104 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,880 There were 100 ,000 men. 105 00:09:26,020 --> 00:09:28,480 Have you informed the defender? 106 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,400 A cipher telegraph has been dispatched. 107 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,820 Perhaps he desires the publication of the letter. 108 00:09:37,230 --> 00:09:41,370 No, Doctor, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that 109 00:09:41,370 --> 00:09:45,430 has acted in an indiscreet and hot -headed manner. It would be a far 110 00:09:45,430 --> 00:09:48,970 blow to him and his country than to us if this letter were to come out. 111 00:09:50,270 --> 00:09:54,250 This is so. Whose interest is it that the letter should come out? Why should 112 00:09:54,250 --> 00:09:56,070 anyone desire to steal it and to publish it? 113 00:09:56,570 --> 00:10:00,630 There, Doctor Watson, you take me into the realms of high international 114 00:10:00,630 --> 00:10:01,630 politics. 115 00:10:02,330 --> 00:10:05,670 But if you consider the European situation... 116 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,140 will have no difficulty in perceiving the motive. 117 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:10,700 The whole of Europe is an armed camp. 118 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,780 Great Britain holds the scales. 119 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,380 If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the 120 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:22,800 supremacy of the other, whether they were joined in the war or not. 121 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,880 So it is the enemies of this potentate who want to secure and publish this 122 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,520 letter so as to make a breach between his country and ours? 123 00:10:30,940 --> 00:10:31,879 Yes, sir. 124 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,480 And to whom would the document be sent if it fell into the wrong hands? 125 00:10:35,910 --> 00:10:37,810 To any of the great chancellors of Europe. 126 00:10:38,650 --> 00:10:43,070 It is probably speeding its way there at this present instant as fast as steam 127 00:10:43,070 --> 00:10:44,070 can take it. 128 00:10:44,930 --> 00:10:46,750 It is your misfortune, my dear fellow. 129 00:10:46,950 --> 00:10:48,190 No one can blame you. 130 00:10:49,110 --> 00:10:51,050 There's no precaution which you've neglected. 131 00:10:53,230 --> 00:10:56,970 But now, Mr. Holmes, you are in full possession of the fact. 132 00:10:58,230 --> 00:10:59,970 What call do you recommend? 133 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:04,950 You think that if this document is not recovered... 134 00:11:06,380 --> 00:11:07,380 There will be war? 135 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,280 I think it is very probable. 136 00:11:12,180 --> 00:11:13,620 Then, sir, prepare for war. 137 00:11:14,780 --> 00:11:16,600 That is a hard saying, Mr. Holmes. 138 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,240 Consider the facts. 139 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,740 There seems no doubt this document was taken between half past seven and half 140 00:11:22,740 --> 00:11:25,740 past eleven yesterday evening, so where can it be, sir? 141 00:11:27,980 --> 00:11:29,760 No one has any reason to retain it. 142 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:33,080 It has been passed from hand to hand rapidly. 143 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,540 To those who need it and who will pay well for it. What chance do we have to 144 00:11:39,540 --> 00:11:42,000 overtake it or even trace it? It is beyond our reach. 145 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,660 What you say is perfectly logical, Mr. Holmes. I feel that the matter is indeed 146 00:11:53,660 --> 00:11:55,020 out of our hands. 147 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:56,920 Meanwhile, hope. 148 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:02,500 We cannot ignore all our other duties on account of this one misfortune. 149 00:12:07,579 --> 00:12:12,200 And should there be any fresh developments during the day, we will 150 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,560 with you. And you no doubt will let us know the results of your own inquiries. 151 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:18,120 Thank you. 152 00:13:05,710 --> 00:13:10,270 The situation is desperate, but not hopeless. 153 00:13:12,010 --> 00:13:16,830 There are only three men capable of playing so bold a game, Oberstein, La 154 00:13:16,830 --> 00:13:18,670 Roffia, and Eduardo Lucas. 155 00:13:18,910 --> 00:13:23,330 Even now, if we could be sure which one of them has taken it, it is just 156 00:13:23,330 --> 00:13:25,690 possible that it does not pass out of their hands. 157 00:13:26,250 --> 00:13:28,370 It's a question of money with these fellows, isn't it? 158 00:13:29,730 --> 00:13:31,650 We have the British Treasury behind us. 159 00:13:31,850 --> 00:13:33,210 Oh, it's on the market. I'll buy it. 160 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,560 If it means another penny on the income tax. 161 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:37,500 Come in. 162 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,680 Excuse me, Mr Holmes. Mrs Hudson, what is it? 163 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:45,240 Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope. 164 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:48,540 Show her in. 165 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:56,480 Has my husband been here, Mr Holmes? 166 00:13:58,180 --> 00:14:03,060 Yes, he has been here. Mr Holmes, I implore you not to tell him I came here. 167 00:14:03,790 --> 00:14:05,990 Your lady puts me in a very delicate position. 168 00:14:06,230 --> 00:14:08,390 I beg of you to sit down and tell me what it is you desire. 169 00:14:08,810 --> 00:14:11,250 But I cannot make you any unconditional promise. 170 00:14:14,170 --> 00:14:18,690 Gentlemen, I will speak frankly to you in the hope that it will induce you to 171 00:14:18,690 --> 00:14:19,810 speak frankly in return. 172 00:14:27,090 --> 00:14:31,650 There is complete confidence between my husband and myself. 173 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,960 In all matters except one, that one is politics. On this his lips are sealed. 174 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:37,960 tells me nothing. 175 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,700 Now, I am aware that there was a most deplorable occurrence in our house last 176 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:48,300 night. I know that a paper has disappeared, but because the matter is 177 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,980 my husband refuses to take me into his complete confidence. 178 00:14:51,380 --> 00:14:57,080 Now, it is essential, essential, I say, that I should thoroughly understand it. 179 00:14:57,380 --> 00:15:01,440 You are the only people, say these politicians, who know the true facts. 180 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,980 At least I presume you do. 181 00:15:03,460 --> 00:15:05,180 You presume correctly, madam. 182 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,480 I beg you, then, tell me exactly what has happened and what it may lead to. 183 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,700 Tell me all, Mr Holmes. 184 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,000 Let no regard for my husband's interests keep you silent, for I assure you that 185 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,340 his interests, if he would only see it, will be best served by taking me into 186 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:24,340 his complete confidence. 187 00:15:25,460 --> 00:15:27,760 What was this paper which was stolen? 188 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:30,520 Madam, what you ask me is really impossible. 189 00:15:31,950 --> 00:15:33,510 You must see that this is so. 190 00:15:37,210 --> 00:15:40,810 I mean, if your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark over this matter, 191 00:15:40,810 --> 00:15:44,150 it for me, who has only learned the true facts under the pledge of professional 192 00:15:44,150 --> 00:15:47,070 secrecy, to tell what he has withheld? 193 00:15:48,490 --> 00:15:49,770 Is it not unfair to ask? 194 00:15:51,090 --> 00:15:53,390 It is he who you must ask. I have asked him. 195 00:15:53,770 --> 00:15:55,310 I come to you as a last resort. 196 00:15:58,690 --> 00:16:03,170 But without you telling me anything definite, You may do me a great service 197 00:16:03,170 --> 00:16:05,390 you would enlighten me on one point. What is it, madam? 198 00:16:09,250 --> 00:16:14,450 Is my husband's political career likely to suffer through this incident? 199 00:16:17,750 --> 00:16:20,590 Well, let me say that if it is not put right, it may have a very unfortunate 200 00:16:20,590 --> 00:16:21,590 effect. 201 00:16:29,420 --> 00:16:31,340 One more question, Mr. Holmes. 202 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,900 From an expression which my husband dropped in the first shock of the 203 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,780 I understood the terrible public consequences might arise from the loss 204 00:16:40,780 --> 00:16:43,000 document. If you said so, I cannot deny it. 205 00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:44,960 Of what nature are they? 206 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,200 There again. 207 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,080 You ask me more than I can possibly answer. 208 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,880 Then I will waste no more of your time. 209 00:16:56,220 --> 00:17:00,570 I... Cannot blame you, Mr. Holmes, for refusing to speak more freely. 210 00:17:01,130 --> 00:17:05,089 And you on your side will not, I'm sure, think the worst of me because I desire 211 00:17:05,089 --> 00:17:08,890 to share my husband's anxieties, even against his will. 212 00:17:15,710 --> 00:17:19,470 Once more, I beg you will say nothing of my visit. 213 00:17:26,859 --> 00:17:29,560 really remarkable and beautiful woman. 214 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,240 The fair sex is your department, Watson. 215 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,200 What did she really want? 216 00:17:36,580 --> 00:17:40,560 Surely her own statement was clear, and her anxiety very natural. 217 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,780 Think of her appearance, Watson, her manner, her suppressed excitement, her 218 00:17:43,780 --> 00:17:46,620 recklessness, her tenacity in asking questions. 219 00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:50,000 Remember, she is the youngest daughter of the Duke of Belminster and comes in a 220 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,740 cast that does not lightly show emotion. 221 00:17:51,980 --> 00:17:53,360 She was certainly much moved. 222 00:17:54,670 --> 00:17:58,610 And you observed, of course, how she maneuvered to have her back to the 223 00:17:59,150 --> 00:18:02,090 She did not wish us to read her expression too closely. 224 00:18:02,330 --> 00:18:05,670 Yes, she chose that chair and the whole room. And yet the motives of women are 225 00:18:05,670 --> 00:18:06,830 so inscrutable. 226 00:18:07,030 --> 00:18:09,370 I mean, how could you build on such a quicksand? 227 00:18:10,450 --> 00:18:14,730 Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary 228 00:18:14,730 --> 00:18:17,150 may depend upon a hairpin or a curling -tongue. 229 00:18:17,510 --> 00:18:20,370 Good morning, Watson. You off, then? 230 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,600 Eduardo Lucas? Yes. 231 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,040 Of Godolphin Street? 232 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:38,280 Yes. You'll not see him. 233 00:18:38,660 --> 00:18:39,660 Why not? 234 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,600 He was murdered in his house last night. 235 00:18:43,740 --> 00:18:44,280 Murder 236 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:51,600 in 237 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,060 Westminster. A crime of a mysterious character. Eduardo Lucas, unmarried, 34, 238 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,260 well -known in society, circles on account of his charming personality. 239 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:03,220 valet out for the evening. They always are. Elderly housekeeper sleeps at the 240 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:04,460 top of the house, heard nothing. They never do. 241 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:09,280 Just before midnight, police constable Barrett saw a door ajar, found Lucas's 242 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,100 woman in the door, and Lucas stabbed to the heart. 243 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:18,200 Russian military dagger. 244 00:19:19,140 --> 00:19:20,640 Robbery does not appear to be the motive. 245 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,840 Valuable collection untouched. 246 00:19:24,220 --> 00:19:27,280 What do you make of this one? Well, it's an amazing coincidence. 247 00:19:28,750 --> 00:19:29,750 Good evening. 248 00:19:30,590 --> 00:19:34,730 Here is one of the three men we have named as possible actors in this drama. 249 00:19:34,950 --> 00:19:38,450 And it meets a violent end during the very hours we know that drama is 250 00:19:38,830 --> 00:19:41,270 The odds are enormously against it being a coincidence. 251 00:19:42,370 --> 00:19:43,730 The two events are connected. 252 00:19:47,030 --> 00:19:51,730 It is for us to find the connection. 253 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:55,170 By now, the police must know all. No, not at all. 254 00:19:55,450 --> 00:19:56,550 They know all they see. 255 00:19:57,020 --> 00:20:00,080 At Godolphin Street, they know and shall know nothing, Whitehall Terry. 256 00:20:01,020 --> 00:20:04,600 Only we know of both events and can trace the relation between them. 257 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:09,620 It is with the late Eduardo Lucas that the solution to our problem lies. 258 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:16,140 But it is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts. 259 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,660 Do you stay here, my good Watson? 260 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:20,560 I will join you when I am able. 261 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:39,260 What? 262 00:21:39,380 --> 00:21:43,340 They've arrested the valet. The trade has been put in charge of the case. He's 263 00:21:43,340 --> 00:21:46,600 buzzing around like a blue bot. I've got to know him rather well. Would it help 264 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,380 if I spoke to him? No. No, it would not. 265 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,180 The case with the law is as dangerous to us as the criminals are. 266 00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:53,940 We must be patient and wait. 267 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,380 Breakfast, Mr. Holmes. No, no, no. Thank you, Mrs. Thompson. I don't want to. I 268 00:23:19,380 --> 00:23:21,540 don't know. You'll fade away at this rate. 269 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,800 I say, Holmes! 270 00:23:22,980 --> 00:23:24,180 They've found the murderer. 271 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,420 Or rather, murderess. Indeed. 272 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,840 There's a wire from Paris. 273 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,460 Apparently, Lucas was leading a double life. 274 00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:34,360 He had a creole wife in France where he called himself Henri Fournet. 275 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:39,000 The woman was reported to the police yesterday by a servant. He is quite 276 00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:42,080 A mania of a dangerous and permanent fool. 277 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:43,540 Poor woman. But listen to this. 278 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,880 The same woman was seen in the neighbourhood of Godolphin Street on the 279 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,260 the murder and later made an emotional scene at Charing Cross Station. 280 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:52,480 What do you think of that? 281 00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:55,400 Oh, my dear Watson, you are so long -suffering. 282 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:58,780 If I've told you nothing over these last few days, it's because there is nothing 283 00:23:58,780 --> 00:23:59,780 to tell. 284 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,440 Even now, this report from Paris doesn't help us much. 285 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,520 Well, surely it's final as regards Lucas's death. 286 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,580 A man's death is a mere incident, a trivial episode in comparison with our 287 00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:14,580 task. which is to trace the document and save a European catastrophe. 288 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:21,860 Now, if the letter were loose... No, it cannot be loose. 289 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:25,300 But if it isn't loose, where can it be? 290 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,740 Who has it? Why is it held back? 291 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,520 Well, if Lestrade found it among Lucas's papers, he's not such a fool as to 292 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:33,520 announce it. 293 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,540 He would inform the chief commissioner. 294 00:24:36,380 --> 00:24:39,580 The chief commissioner would inform the Home Secretary, and he in turn the Prime 295 00:24:39,580 --> 00:24:41,380 Minister. No, it's not among Lucas's papers. 296 00:24:44,270 --> 00:24:45,310 But why is it held back? 297 00:24:47,530 --> 00:24:50,710 That is the question which beats in my brain like a hammer. 298 00:24:53,530 --> 00:24:58,350 Was it a mere coincidence that Lucas should meet his death on the night when 299 00:24:58,350 --> 00:24:59,350 letter disappeared? 300 00:24:59,590 --> 00:25:00,650 Did it ever reach him? 301 00:25:01,970 --> 00:25:06,190 Has this mad wife of his taken it with her to Paris? If so, is it in her house 302 00:25:06,190 --> 00:25:07,190 in Paris? 303 00:25:08,250 --> 00:25:09,270 Should I go to Paris? 304 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:14,420 That would alert the French police that every man's hand is against us. 305 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:21,100 And yet... The interest of Degas comes. 306 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:31,020 You know, should I bring this to a successful conclusion, it will certainly 307 00:25:31,020 --> 00:25:33,260 represent the crowning glory of my career. 308 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:00,850 Thank you. 309 00:26:03,590 --> 00:26:05,090 There you go, God. Thank you. 310 00:26:06,450 --> 00:26:07,450 Help, help. 311 00:26:07,930 --> 00:26:08,930 Mr. Holmes! 312 00:26:09,370 --> 00:26:10,370 Dr. Watson! 313 00:26:10,530 --> 00:26:11,530 Help, help. 314 00:26:17,330 --> 00:26:20,470 You've, uh, you've no doubt been following the Lucas case? 315 00:26:20,750 --> 00:26:22,150 Lucas? Lucas. 316 00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:25,330 Ah, yes, the name does seem familiar to me. 317 00:26:25,910 --> 00:26:26,910 Hey, Eduardo, Lucas! 318 00:26:27,470 --> 00:26:30,170 Found murdered last Tuesday night at his house in Godolphin Street. 319 00:26:30,510 --> 00:26:31,990 Rather a distinguished gentleman. 320 00:26:32,370 --> 00:26:35,670 Student of international politics and a remarkable linguist, so they say. 321 00:26:36,450 --> 00:26:38,730 I've been in charge of the case, matter of fact. 322 00:26:39,290 --> 00:26:44,150 Not an easy task by any means. Some delicate problems, you understand. 323 00:26:44,890 --> 00:26:47,910 But, with the aid of our French friends, I've been able to bring the case to a 324 00:26:47,910 --> 00:26:49,010 satisfactory conclusion. 325 00:26:49,590 --> 00:26:51,190 All the loose ends tied up. 326 00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:52,510 Oh, we've got it. 327 00:26:52,670 --> 00:26:53,830 Clear as if we'd seen it. 328 00:26:54,170 --> 00:26:56,590 Congratulations, Lestrade. Another feather in your cap. 329 00:26:57,130 --> 00:26:58,190 Thank you. Yes, you do. 330 00:27:00,350 --> 00:27:05,850 Oh, before you go, Mr. Holmes, it's a mere trifle, but the sort of thing 331 00:27:05,850 --> 00:27:06,850 taken interest in. 332 00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:09,430 Queer, you know, what you might call freakish. 333 00:27:09,930 --> 00:27:12,950 It has nothing to do with the main fact. Can't have on the face of it. 334 00:27:13,210 --> 00:27:14,210 What is it, then? 335 00:27:14,570 --> 00:27:18,050 Well, if you gentlemen could come down to Godolphin Street, I think I could 336 00:27:18,050 --> 00:27:19,210 explain it better on the spot. 337 00:27:20,450 --> 00:27:21,930 For a few minutes, perhaps? 338 00:27:22,210 --> 00:27:23,950 Oh, good. It's only just around the corner. 339 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,880 Thank you, Cubby. 340 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,860 Keep the change. 341 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:32,560 Here 342 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:50,880 it 343 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:51,880 all is. 344 00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:54,420 Now, the woman must have knocked on the door. 345 00:27:54,890 --> 00:27:57,990 After she saw the valet had gone out. Surprise visit, no doubt. 346 00:27:58,770 --> 00:28:02,610 Lucas let her in. He couldn't keep her on the street, could he, his own wife? 347 00:28:03,070 --> 00:28:05,050 She was probably screaming at him, being French. 348 00:28:05,630 --> 00:28:11,350 Saying how she'd traced him and reproaching him and so on. Anyway, they 349 00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:13,910 here and one thing led to another. 350 00:28:14,450 --> 00:28:18,570 And with the daggers being so handy, the end came soon. 351 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,420 It didn't happen in an instant, though, for these chairs were swept over to the 352 00:28:23,420 --> 00:28:27,500 wall and he had this one in his hand as if he'd been trying to hold her off with 353 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:31,800 it. Now tell me about this trifle. 354 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,500 Well, you know, in crimes of this sort, we keep things in their position. 355 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:39,560 Nothing is moved. Officers in charge day and night. I'm always very particular 356 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,940 on that point. Oh, yes, you're meticulous in your investigations, 357 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,400 Well, this morning we thought we could tidy up a bit. 358 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:49,560 Post -mortem over, all the evidence at hand, investigation complete. 359 00:28:50,580 --> 00:28:53,160 However, this carpet. 360 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,660 As you can see, it's not been fastened down, it's just been laid there. Now, we 361 00:28:58,660 --> 00:29:00,200 had occasion to raise it. 362 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,160 And we found... Yes? 363 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,900 You'll never guess in a hundred years what we did find, Mr. Holmes. 364 00:29:09,740 --> 00:29:11,000 Now, you see this stain? 365 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,100 A good deal of blood must have soaked through, must it not? 366 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,900 Oh. Undoubtedly it must. 367 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:23,100 Then you'll be surprised to hear that there is no stain on the woodwork to 368 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:24,100 correspond. 369 00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:26,340 No stain? 370 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:29,560 But there must be. 371 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,880 So you would say. 372 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,320 Fact remains. 373 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:41,860 But the underside is 374 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:42,860 as stained as the upper. 375 00:29:43,950 --> 00:29:45,190 It must have left a mark. 376 00:29:46,930 --> 00:29:49,710 Now I will show you the explanation. 377 00:29:50,210 --> 00:29:54,890 There is a second stain, but it does not correspond with this one. 378 00:29:55,850 --> 00:29:58,090 Dr. Watson, will you take that side of the carpet? 379 00:30:00,850 --> 00:30:05,010 Now we will move round in an anti -clockwise direction. 380 00:30:11,350 --> 00:30:16,180 What I want to know is, Mr. Holmes, Who shifted the carpet? 381 00:30:17,260 --> 00:30:18,260 And why? 382 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,600 Mr. Traid, who was on duty the day after the murder? 383 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,120 The day after? 384 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:41,300 McFernan. He's out there now. 385 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,660 Take my advice. Examine him carefully. 386 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:44,920 I'll get him. 387 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:46,760 Don't do it before us. 388 00:30:47,540 --> 00:30:48,680 We'll wait here. 389 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,460 Tell him you know someone has been here. 390 00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:54,979 Press him. 391 00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:57,740 Tell him a full confession is his only chance of forgiveness. 392 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:01,600 Exactly as I tell you. But, George, if he knows, I'll have it out of him. 393 00:31:54,670 --> 00:31:56,130 All my years in the force. 394 00:31:56,930 --> 00:31:57,930 And another thing. 395 00:32:05,030 --> 00:32:06,210 In here, Constable. 396 00:32:09,610 --> 00:32:10,610 Macpherson. 397 00:32:11,470 --> 00:32:12,470 How's the family? 398 00:32:12,910 --> 00:32:14,270 Very well, thank you, sir. 399 00:32:14,630 --> 00:32:17,950 Well, come on out with it. Let these gentlemen hear of your inconceivable 400 00:32:17,950 --> 00:32:18,950 conduct. 401 00:32:19,410 --> 00:32:21,270 Well, I meant no harm, sir, I'm sure. 402 00:32:21,790 --> 00:32:25,910 This young woman came to the door answering an advertisement about 403 00:32:26,470 --> 00:32:28,150 It mistook the house, she said. 404 00:32:28,750 --> 00:32:30,450 Well, we got talking, sir. You know how it is. 405 00:32:31,050 --> 00:32:33,310 It's a bit lonely when you're out there on duty all day. 406 00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,530 What happened, McPherson? 407 00:32:37,470 --> 00:32:40,710 Well, sir, we got talking about the crime. She had read about it in the 408 00:32:40,850 --> 00:32:45,010 she said, and wanted to see what it was done. So I saw no harm in letting her 409 00:32:45,010 --> 00:32:46,010 have a wee keek. 410 00:32:46,510 --> 00:32:48,030 She got just about in the door there. 411 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,960 Spotted that mark in the carpet, and down she dropped on the floor and lay 412 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,220 dead. No wonder. 413 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,280 Go on, Macbeth. 414 00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:01,420 Well, sir, I was away around at the ivy plant for some brandy, and by the time I 415 00:33:01,420 --> 00:33:05,680 had brought it back, the young woman had... Well, she wasn't here any more. 416 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,660 She had recovered and was off. 417 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,000 Ashamed of herself, as luck is not, and dared to not face me. 418 00:33:20,149 --> 00:33:21,790 Macpherson, did you move the carpet? 419 00:33:22,910 --> 00:33:24,490 No, sir, I only straightened it out. 420 00:33:25,190 --> 00:33:28,530 You see, she'd fell on it, and the polished floor being slippery. Let that 421 00:33:28,530 --> 00:33:30,790 lesson to you, constable, that you can't deceive me. 422 00:33:31,430 --> 00:33:34,330 No doubt you thought your breach of duty would never be discovered. 423 00:33:34,570 --> 00:33:38,350 Yet to me a glance at that carpet was enough to convince me that someone had 424 00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:39,450 been admitted to this room. 425 00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:41,710 Luck of you, my man, that nothing's missing. 426 00:33:42,010 --> 00:33:44,130 Otherwise you'd find yourself in Queer Street. 427 00:33:45,470 --> 00:33:46,470 Adeloo. 428 00:33:48,750 --> 00:33:51,650 Watson, what are we doing here? We have work elsewhere. 429 00:33:51,910 --> 00:33:54,910 Not unfailing your cap, Miss Gray. Oh, thank you, Mr. Holmes. 430 00:34:01,910 --> 00:34:06,370 Good Lord, Mr. 431 00:34:06,570 --> 00:34:07,570 Holmes. Hey! 432 00:34:09,170 --> 00:34:12,889 Have you solved it? 433 00:34:13,310 --> 00:34:14,530 Hardly, Watson, hardly. 434 00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:55,139 Two gentlemen wish to speak to you, milady. 435 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,420 They do not have an appointment. 436 00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,260 Who are they, Bates? 437 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,440 Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. 438 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:03,720 Watson, milady. 439 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:10,580 Very well. You may show them in. 440 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,060 Very well, milady. 441 00:35:14,020 --> 00:35:15,020 Mr. 442 00:35:18,220 --> 00:35:18,919 Holmes and Dr. 443 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:19,920 Watson, milady. 444 00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:28,650 Mr. Holmes, this is surely most unfair and ungenerous on your part. 445 00:35:28,930 --> 00:35:33,030 I have desired, as I have explained, to keep my visit to you a secret, and yet 446 00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:35,970 you compromise me by coming here and so showing there are business relations 447 00:35:35,970 --> 00:35:39,170 between us. Unfortunately, madam, I have no possible alternative. 448 00:35:40,570 --> 00:35:43,650 I've been commissioned to recover an immensely important document. 449 00:35:45,910 --> 00:35:50,850 I must ask you, therefore, to be kind enough to place it in my hands. 450 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,080 You insult me, Mr. Holmes. Do not ring, Lady Hilda. 451 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,580 If you work with me, I can arrange everything. 452 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:03,180 If you work against me, I must expose you. 453 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:08,880 You're trying to frighten me. 454 00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:13,880 It's not a very manly thing, Mr. Holmes, to come here and browbeat a woman. 455 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,280 You say you have something to tell me. Very well, I give you five minutes. 456 00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:21,540 One is enough. 457 00:36:23,850 --> 00:36:27,970 I know of your visit to Eduardo Lucas, of your giving him this letter, of your 458 00:36:27,970 --> 00:36:32,230 ingenious return to the room on the evening after the murder, and of the 459 00:36:32,230 --> 00:36:35,070 in which you took this letter from his hiding place under the carpet. 460 00:36:37,650 --> 00:36:40,110 I have kept this because I thought it might be useful. 461 00:36:48,410 --> 00:36:50,190 The policeman recognized you. 462 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,240 Once again, Mr. Holmes, I tell you you're under some absurd illusion. 463 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,600 Oh, I am so sorry, Lady Hilda. I have done my best. 464 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,720 But I see that I'm in vain. 465 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,860 Ah, is Mr. Trelawney Hope at home? He'll be back at half past twelve, sir. 466 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,200 Then we have a quarter of an hour. 467 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,660 We will wait here. 468 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,000 Spare me, Mr. Holmes, spare me. 469 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,300 For heaven's sake, don't tell him. 470 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,300 I love him so. I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know 471 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:08,480 break his noble heart. We have not an instant to lose. Where is the letter? 472 00:38:14,780 --> 00:38:15,780 Here it is. 473 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,380 With the heaven I'd never seen it. 474 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,560 And the dispatch, what? 475 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:23,100 With my husband. Wherever he goes, he takes it with him. 476 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,120 We have only a few minutes left. 477 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,620 Lady Hilda, I'm going far to screen you. 478 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:43,820 In return, you'll spend the time telling me frankly the real meaning of this 479 00:38:43,820 --> 00:38:44,820 extraordinary affair. 480 00:38:51,180 --> 00:38:54,040 It was on the afternoon of that day. 481 00:38:54,510 --> 00:38:55,790 That terrible day. 482 00:38:56,350 --> 00:38:58,190 The day Eduardo Lucas was murdered? 483 00:38:58,430 --> 00:38:59,408 Yes. 484 00:38:59,410 --> 00:39:03,330 I was just going out to pay some calls when a confidential note arrived for me. 485 00:39:03,710 --> 00:39:09,230 It was from Lucas, asking me to visit him urgently, as he had important and 486 00:39:09,230 --> 00:39:11,550 private information for my ears alone. 487 00:39:43,470 --> 00:39:50,410 He had obtained, in some way, a letter of mine, Mr Holmes, an indiscreet 488 00:39:50,410 --> 00:39:51,950 letter written before my marriage. 489 00:39:53,030 --> 00:39:58,990 Foolish letter, the letter of an impulsive, loving girl. I meant no harm, 490 00:39:58,990 --> 00:40:01,270 husband would have thought it criminal. 491 00:40:01,930 --> 00:40:05,010 Had he read that letter, his confidence would have been forever destroyed. 492 00:40:05,570 --> 00:40:07,990 It's years since I wrote it, I thought the whole matter was forgotten. 493 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,200 No doubt you remember the content very well. 494 00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:19,360 Very sprightly, I must say. 495 00:40:20,220 --> 00:40:23,560 Very sprightly. You make a charming correspondence. What do you want with 496 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:24,379 Mr. Lucas? 497 00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:26,040 May I have my letter back, please? 498 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,200 Of course you may, Lady Hilda. 499 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:33,140 But this is a very valuable piece of paper. Would you not agree? 500 00:40:34,020 --> 00:40:38,300 I'm sure if it was laid before your husband, he would hardly fail to 501 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:39,300 the contents. 502 00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:41,320 You're a blackmailer. 503 00:40:41,670 --> 00:40:42,730 A businessman, Lady Hilda. 504 00:40:43,510 --> 00:40:48,330 This is purely a business transaction on my side. I can assure you I wish no ill 505 00:40:48,330 --> 00:40:49,990 to you or your husband. 506 00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,530 How much money do you want for that letter, Mr. Lucas? 507 00:40:54,110 --> 00:40:58,610 Let's not speak of money, madam. My business is not so simple as that. 508 00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:05,710 Well, the matter is an easy one. 509 00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:23,450 Every evening, when your husband returns from his ministry, he brings with him 510 00:41:23,450 --> 00:41:25,010 his private dispatch box. 511 00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:27,130 Is that not so? 512 00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:29,110 Yes. 513 00:41:29,910 --> 00:41:35,410 When he comes home tonight, this box will contain a long blue envelope sealed 514 00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:38,430 a red box with a crouching lion stamped on it. 515 00:41:39,790 --> 00:41:43,070 Bring me that long blue envelope with its contents. 516 00:41:44,670 --> 00:41:46,250 And I will return you this. 517 00:41:46,710 --> 00:41:47,710 But... 518 00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:49,330 My husband. 519 00:41:49,450 --> 00:41:51,410 No harm will come to him, I can assure you. 520 00:41:53,690 --> 00:41:55,170 Put yourselves in my position. 521 00:41:55,550 --> 00:41:56,590 What was I to do? 522 00:41:58,270 --> 00:42:03,270 Take your husband into your confidence. I could not, Dr. Watson, I could not. 523 00:42:04,910 --> 00:42:06,910 On the one side seemed certain ruin. 524 00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:12,390 On the other, terrible as it seemed to take my husband's paper, in a matter of 525 00:42:12,390 --> 00:42:13,990 politics, I could not understand it. 526 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,580 while in a matter of love and trust it was only too clear to me. 527 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,200 I did it, Mr. Holmes. 528 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:26,880 I did it. 529 00:42:27,780 --> 00:42:30,080 I invented a story about going to the theatre. 530 00:44:30,090 --> 00:44:32,330 I knew it! I knew it! 531 00:44:32,550 --> 00:44:35,730 So it's you, you little bitch! Marianne, what are you doing here? 532 00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:40,330 Marianne! You know you can't leave the hospital! I'm his wife! Marianne, that's 533 00:44:40,330 --> 00:44:43,590 enough! I told you not to touch me! Don't touch me! 534 00:44:43,850 --> 00:44:44,850 You're going to stop! 535 00:44:45,610 --> 00:44:49,970 I have enough! I'm sorry! 536 00:44:50,390 --> 00:44:51,390 I'm sorry! 537 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,180 The next morning, I realised I'd only exchanged one trouble for another. 538 00:45:02,420 --> 00:45:05,680 I followed my husband to Baker Street and then came to you myself in order to 539 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,800 understand the full enormity of the offence. 540 00:45:08,620 --> 00:45:11,320 I alone in the world knew where the paper was hidden. 541 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,680 My whole mind was turned to the one thought of getting it back. 542 00:45:16,460 --> 00:45:17,460 What I did. 543 00:45:18,540 --> 00:45:19,540 Here he is now. 544 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,480 Any news, Mr Holmes, any news? 545 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:23,720 I have some hope. 546 00:45:25,859 --> 00:45:28,320 This is a matter of politics, my dear. We shall not be long. 547 00:45:34,140 --> 00:45:38,500 The Prime Minister is lunching with us. May he share your hopes? He has nerves 548 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:42,040 of steel, and yet I know that he's hardly slept since this terrible event. 549 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:44,760 Mr. Holmes has some news for us, sir. 550 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,080 Ah. 551 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,200 What have you to report, Mr. Holmes? 552 00:45:48,860 --> 00:45:50,180 Purely negative, as yet. 553 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,320 I've made inquiries at every point where it might be. 554 00:45:53,690 --> 00:45:55,730 And I'm sure there's no danger to be apprehended. 555 00:45:56,550 --> 00:45:58,010 That's not enough, Mr. Holmes. 556 00:45:59,290 --> 00:46:02,590 We cannot live on this volcano. We must have something definite. 557 00:46:03,930 --> 00:46:06,070 I have high hopes of getting the letter back. 558 00:46:06,350 --> 00:46:07,350 That is why I'm here. 559 00:46:07,850 --> 00:46:12,070 The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the letter has never left 560 00:46:12,070 --> 00:46:15,850 this house. But why should anybody take it in order to keep it in this house? 561 00:46:15,950 --> 00:46:19,350 I'm not convinced that anybody has taken it. Mr. Holmes, this joking is very ill 562 00:46:19,350 --> 00:46:21,010 -timed. You have my assurance it was taken. 563 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,520 Have you examined the box carefully since last Tuesday morning? 564 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,820 No, not thoroughly. I did not consider it necessary. 565 00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:34,380 You could conceivably have overlooked the letter. That is impossible, sir. I 566 00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:35,580 have heard of such things happening. 567 00:46:35,860 --> 00:46:39,220 You have other papers in the... Yes, all my confidential papers. It could have 568 00:46:39,220 --> 00:46:42,120 got mixed with that. It was on the top. The box could have been shaken. I had 569 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:43,920 everything out. It's easily settled. 570 00:46:44,420 --> 00:46:45,420 Let's go and look. 571 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,500 This is a farcical waste of time. 572 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:52,600 Still. 573 00:46:53,070 --> 00:46:55,210 Nothing else will satisfy you. It shall be done. 574 00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:05,350 Here are all my confidential papers, as you can see. 575 00:47:08,050 --> 00:47:09,570 It's a letter from Lord Merrill. 576 00:47:10,670 --> 00:47:12,190 Report from Sir Charles Hardy. 577 00:47:12,930 --> 00:47:15,590 Memorandum from Belgrade. That's the one we were discussing this morning. 578 00:47:15,910 --> 00:47:19,170 Note on the Russo -German grain taxes. 579 00:47:19,430 --> 00:47:20,430 Letter from Madrid. 580 00:47:20,990 --> 00:47:22,230 Note from Lord Flowers. 581 00:47:38,110 --> 00:47:39,110 This is it. 582 00:47:44,070 --> 00:47:46,150 And the letter is intact. 583 00:47:48,110 --> 00:47:49,890 Remarkable. This is inconceivable. 584 00:47:50,750 --> 00:47:51,950 Impossible, Mr. Holmes. 585 00:47:52,310 --> 00:47:53,310 Hilda! 586 00:47:53,990 --> 00:47:55,170 How did you know it was here? 587 00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:59,410 Because I knew it was nowhere else. 588 00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:02,190 I cannot believe my eyes. 589 00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:04,310 Hilda, we have found the letter. 590 00:48:04,940 --> 00:48:09,920 I know it is difficult for you to understand, but it is the most wonderful 591 00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:13,300 It's quite extraordinary. 592 00:48:14,020 --> 00:48:17,460 I went through every paper in here. I checked and I rechecked. 593 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,760 It's incomprehensible that I should have overlooked it in this manner. 594 00:48:39,150 --> 00:48:41,050 But there's more in this than meets the eye. 595 00:48:42,750 --> 00:48:46,890 Our Prime Minister, we too have our diplomatic secrets.