1 00:01:14,783 --> 00:01:17,201 Oh, girls, what'd you want? 2 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:53,195 Mr. Scott Eccles. 3 00:01:53,738 --> 00:01:54,988 Oh, Mr. Garcia. 4 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:57,407 I'm sorry I did not recognize you at once. 5 00:01:57,700 --> 00:01:58,867 Please allow me to carry your case. 6 00:01:58,993 --> 00:02:00,828 That's very civil of you. Thank you very much. 7 00:02:03,039 --> 00:02:05,374 I'm sorry if the weather has been unkind for your visit. 8 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:09,962 Unkind for you perhaps but we British, you know, 9 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:12,047 we're hardy souls. 10 00:02:20,181 --> 00:02:23,600 The county of Surrey is particularly interesting... 11 00:02:33,027 --> 00:02:37,156 I'm looking forward to showing you my entire collection of Surrey maps. 12 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:41,034 I mean there's Moule and Ogivy. I got one or two here I can show you. 13 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:48,542 He used to draw. 14 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:18,906 This is your house is it? 15 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,241 Yes. Please. You are welcome. 16 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:22,534 It's very nice. Very nice. 17 00:03:24,454 --> 00:03:29,249 I suppose Watson we must look upon you as a man of letters. 18 00:03:30,335 --> 00:03:33,545 How do you define the word grotesque? 19 00:03:34,464 --> 00:03:35,422 Grotesque. 20 00:03:37,467 --> 00:03:39,384 Strange. Remarkable. 21 00:03:39,510 --> 00:03:43,388 No, no, no, no. Surely there's more to it than that. 22 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:48,185 Some underlying suggestion of a tragic or terrible. 23 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,104 If you cast your mind back to those narratives 24 00:03:51,231 --> 00:03:53,982 with which you've inflicted a long-suffering public 25 00:03:54,108 --> 00:03:59,488 you will see how often the word grotesque 26 00:04:00,448 --> 00:04:02,115 has deepened into the criminal. 27 00:04:07,455 --> 00:04:11,208 I suppose the affair of the redheaded men 28 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:13,210 was grotesque enough at the outset. 29 00:04:17,131 --> 00:04:20,884 Most grotesque affair of the five orange pips. 30 00:04:21,010 --> 00:04:22,803 Yes, which led straight to a murderous conspiracy. 31 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:26,682 Now the word puts me on the alert. 32 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:28,141 Have you it there? 33 00:04:31,187 --> 00:04:35,983 I've just had the most incredible and grotesque experience. 34 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:38,986 May I consult you Scott Eccles? 35 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:42,572 Post Office, Charring Cross. 36 00:04:44,409 --> 00:04:45,284 A man or woman? 37 00:04:45,410 --> 00:04:46,410 A man. 38 00:04:47,745 --> 00:04:51,164 No woman would send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come. 39 00:04:52,792 --> 00:04:53,667 Will you see him? 40 00:04:55,169 --> 00:04:56,753 Oh my dear Watson, 41 00:04:58,673 --> 00:05:03,176 you know how bored I've been 42 00:05:04,679 --> 00:05:06,972 since we locked up Colonel Carruthers. 43 00:05:08,141 --> 00:05:12,185 Life is commonplace. 44 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:15,897 The newspapers are sterile 45 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:20,360 audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. 46 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:22,529 Of course I'll see him. 47 00:05:22,947 --> 00:05:25,866 Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is our client. 48 00:05:27,452 --> 00:05:28,201 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 49 00:05:28,369 --> 00:05:29,036 Well are you Mr. Holmes? 50 00:05:29,787 --> 00:05:32,331 Yes, Mr. Holmes, I have just had a most singular 51 00:05:32,457 --> 00:05:33,790 and unpleasant experience. 52 00:05:33,916 --> 00:05:37,210 No way in my life have I been subject to... to such embarrassment 53 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:38,920 and been placed in such a position. 54 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:44,009 Please sit down, Mr. Scott Eccles, my friend and colleague Doctor Watson. 55 00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:47,471 In the first place, my I ask, why you have came to me at all? 56 00:05:47,805 --> 00:05:51,683 Well, sin it didn't appear to be a matter which concerned the police, 57 00:05:51,809 --> 00:05:53,226 yet, when you've heard the facts, 58 00:05:53,394 --> 00:05:56,063 you must admit I couldn't just leave it where it was. 59 00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:59,941 Now the private detectives they are a class with whom I'm absolutely, 60 00:06:00,068 --> 00:06:00,901 I have no sympathy. 61 00:06:01,027 --> 00:06:03,070 Sit, Mr. Scott Eccles. 62 00:06:10,703 --> 00:06:13,455 Nonetheless, having heard your name... 63 00:06:13,581 --> 00:06:14,081 Watson! 64 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,251 Now in the second place, why did you not come to me at once? 65 00:06:19,128 --> 00:06:19,628 What do you mean? 66 00:06:19,837 --> 00:06:21,671 Well it is now a quarter-past two. 67 00:06:23,758 --> 00:06:25,258 Your telegram was dispatched about one. 68 00:06:25,426 --> 00:06:28,512 No one could glance at your toilet and attire 69 00:06:28,638 --> 00:06:31,640 without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking. 70 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,103 But you're right, Mr. Holmes. 71 00:06:36,396 --> 00:06:39,731 Yet I never gave a thought to my toilet. 72 00:06:40,358 --> 00:06:43,026 I was only too glad to get out of such a house. 73 00:06:44,028 --> 00:06:46,071 Oh no, no thank you. 74 00:06:46,864 --> 00:06:52,202 You see but I have been running round making inquiries before I came here. 75 00:06:52,495 --> 00:06:55,288 I called the house agents, you know, oh yes, 76 00:06:55,456 --> 00:07:00,502 yes, and they said, they said that Mr. Garcia's rent was paid up all right 77 00:07:00,628 --> 00:07:03,922 and that everything was in order in Wisteria Lodge. 78 00:07:04,048 --> 00:07:06,550 Then they you'll come, come, sir Eccles. 79 00:07:07,218 --> 00:07:08,301 You know you're like my friend, Watson, 80 00:07:08,428 --> 00:07:10,720 who has the bad habit of telling his stories wrong end foremost. 81 00:07:10,847 --> 00:07:14,683 Now please, please arrange your thoughts 82 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:17,018 and let me know, in their due sequence, 83 00:07:17,145 --> 00:07:19,771 exactly what those events are, 84 00:07:20,481 --> 00:07:24,359 which have sent you out unbrushed and unkempt 85 00:07:24,610 --> 00:07:27,279 with your dress boots and waistcoat buttoned awry, 86 00:07:27,864 --> 00:07:30,657 in search of advice and assistance. 87 00:07:31,659 --> 00:07:38,415 Well I'm a bachelor and being of a sociable turn 88 00:07:38,791 --> 00:07:41,209 I cultivate a large number of friends. 89 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:46,673 At the table of one of them recently, I met a young fellow named Garcia, 90 00:07:46,883 --> 00:07:49,426 a pleasant chap of Spanish decent, 91 00:07:49,594 --> 00:07:51,887 connected in some way with the Embassy. 92 00:07:52,805 --> 00:07:55,682 We discovered a common interest in cartography 93 00:07:56,184 --> 00:07:59,728 or so I thought, that's the study of old maps. 94 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,981 The plan was to retrace Surrey as Thomas Mould 95 00:08:03,107 --> 00:08:05,150 engraved it some fifty years ago. 96 00:08:05,651 --> 00:08:07,944 Well as soon as I arrived yesterday evening. 97 00:08:08,362 --> 00:08:12,699 I knew something was wrong. The atmosphere of the place, 98 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:16,036 the house was tumbledown, depressing 99 00:08:16,454 --> 00:08:19,372 Garcia told me he had a wonderful cook, 100 00:08:19,707 --> 00:08:22,709 a half breed he had picked up on his travels 101 00:08:23,002 --> 00:08:25,587 but the dinner, well it was so ill-prepared 102 00:08:25,713 --> 00:08:30,091 and served with such bad grace that it was barely edible. 103 00:08:30,676 --> 00:08:35,347 I can assure you that there were many times in the course of the evening. 104 00:08:35,806 --> 00:08:38,642 I wished I could have invented some excuse to leave. 105 00:08:38,768 --> 00:08:39,226 What did you say? 106 00:08:39,393 --> 00:08:42,145 Well the route is fascinating. John Rogglbe. 107 00:08:42,396 --> 00:08:43,813 Across the heathland? 108 00:08:44,398 --> 00:08:47,526 Wasn't just the health and it was all over the county, 109 00:08:49,195 --> 00:08:50,612 I say, you feeling all right? 110 00:08:51,405 --> 00:08:53,448 Yes. Sorry. 111 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:56,535 Luis, Luis. Some more wine for our guest. 112 00:08:56,661 --> 00:08:57,410 Yes. 113 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:24,312 Are we expecting company? 114 00:09:29,944 --> 00:09:32,153 I would like a drink of that if it's possible. 115 00:09:48,462 --> 00:09:51,214 And he made no remark as to the contents of the note? 116 00:09:51,966 --> 00:09:52,632 None. 117 00:09:54,677 --> 00:09:58,513 But for that moment he gave up all pretence at conversation. 118 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:02,142 He just sat there smoking these endless cigarettes. 119 00:10:03,311 --> 00:10:05,145 About eleven I was glad to go to bed. 120 00:10:06,897 --> 00:10:09,649 Two hours later he looked in at my door. 121 00:10:09,775 --> 00:10:10,775 Did you ring? 122 00:10:10,985 --> 00:10:11,943 Did I ring? 123 00:10:12,278 --> 00:10:15,488 Awe, please don't wake up it's nearly one o'clock. 124 00:10:15,823 --> 00:10:18,491 Please go back to sleep. Good night. 125 00:10:19,118 --> 00:10:21,703 And now I come to the amazing part of my tale. 126 00:10:31,047 --> 00:10:35,425 When I woke it was broad daylight, nearly nine. 127 00:10:35,885 --> 00:10:38,178 I had particularly asked to be called at eight, 128 00:10:38,512 --> 00:10:41,222 so I was very much astonished at this forgetfulness. 129 00:10:43,517 --> 00:10:47,020 I say is anybody here? I'd like some hot water. 130 00:10:48,022 --> 00:10:51,399 I rang for the servant. There was no response. 131 00:10:51,859 --> 00:10:52,734 Somebody? 132 00:10:58,282 --> 00:11:00,200 I say is there a servant available. 133 00:11:06,916 --> 00:11:08,249 This is damnable. 134 00:11:17,593 --> 00:11:21,638 I went from room to room, all were deserted. 135 00:11:21,972 --> 00:11:25,058 Even my host room, the bed had never been slept in. 136 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:28,019 Foreign host, foreign footman, 137 00:11:28,479 --> 00:11:32,023 foreign cook, all vanished in the night. 138 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,153 Your experience is so far as I know, perfectly unique. 139 00:11:37,613 --> 00:11:40,281 Now what else can you tell me? 140 00:11:41,325 --> 00:11:43,785 Well, I was furious. 141 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,748 I packed my bags and I banged the front door behind me 142 00:11:48,916 --> 00:11:50,625 and I set out for Esher. 143 00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:55,755 Then I called at Allan Brothers', the land agents, 144 00:11:55,923 --> 00:12:00,135 and found it was from them that the villa had been rented. 145 00:12:00,261 --> 00:12:00,927 Rented? 146 00:12:01,095 --> 00:12:04,639 Well you see, I couldn't believe 147 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:08,643 that they had gone simply to make a fool of me. 148 00:12:09,270 --> 00:12:13,773 I thought, you know, it must be the rent but I was wrong. 149 00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:17,402 See the agent thanked me for my warning 150 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:19,487 but said that the rent had been paid in advance. 151 00:12:19,613 --> 00:12:21,281 By the Spanish embassy I imagine? 152 00:12:22,032 --> 00:12:26,703 I called at the Spanish embassy. The man is unknown to them. 153 00:12:27,163 --> 00:12:29,330 I also asked my friend who introduced us 154 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:31,708 and he seemed to know less about Garcia than I did. 155 00:12:31,834 --> 00:12:34,461 Now, this house, 156 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:39,424 Wisteria Lodge. 157 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:43,052 I wonder if it's still as you left it. 158 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:46,806 What's troubling you, Watson? 159 00:12:47,975 --> 00:12:51,311 Well I fear some mundane explanation of the events 160 00:12:51,687 --> 00:12:53,438 may await us upon our arrival. 161 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:55,356 It's possible. We can thank our lucky fate, 162 00:12:55,483 --> 00:12:57,317 which will rescue us for a few hours 163 00:12:58,152 --> 00:13:01,488 from the insufferable fatigues of idleness. 164 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,669 This gentleman recommends the Bull in the village, 165 00:13:16,837 --> 00:13:18,296 that's if we're to stay overnight. 166 00:13:23,052 --> 00:13:27,639 I asked him if he knew Garcia or his servants. 167 00:13:28,224 --> 00:13:29,015 Did he? 168 00:13:29,683 --> 00:13:30,183 No. 169 00:13:32,186 --> 00:13:34,145 Nothing unusual about the outside. 170 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:36,773 Let's see what the interior holds for us. 171 00:13:37,858 --> 00:13:40,151 I don't suppose we could be charged with housebreaking can we? 172 00:13:50,412 --> 00:13:52,831 Who on earth could leave such a mess? 173 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:53,998 Yes indeed. 174 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:05,718 Take a glance around the house, Watson. 175 00:14:16,605 --> 00:14:17,897 Mr. Holmes? 176 00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:23,736 Welcome to Wisteria Lodge, Mr. Holmes. 177 00:14:25,072 --> 00:14:28,116 Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. 178 00:14:29,285 --> 00:14:33,496 This is Constable Downing. 179 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:40,253 And you are Mr. John Scott Eccles of Popham House, Lee? 180 00:14:40,504 --> 00:14:41,254 I am. 181 00:14:41,422 --> 00:14:47,260 Mr. Scott Eccles, we've been following you about all the morning. 182 00:14:47,428 --> 00:14:49,929 You traced him through his telegram, I presume? 183 00:14:50,097 --> 00:14:53,266 Exactly, Mr. Holmes. 184 00:14:53,475 --> 00:14:57,103 We picked up the scent at Charring Cross Post-Office. 185 00:14:57,271 --> 00:14:58,438 But what'd you want? 186 00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:00,815 And why did you follow me? 187 00:15:01,609 --> 00:15:04,402 We wish a statement, Mr. Scott Eccles, 188 00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:06,988 as to the events which led up to the death of 189 00:15:07,406 --> 00:15:11,242 Mr. Aloysius Garcia of Wisteria Lodge 190 00:15:11,994 --> 00:15:13,202 near Esher. 191 00:15:14,496 --> 00:15:16,122 Dead did you say? 192 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:18,374 Oh yes sir, he is dead. Yes. 193 00:15:19,293 --> 00:15:21,002 But how? An accident? 194 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:24,505 Murder, sir, if ever there was one on earth. 195 00:15:26,634 --> 00:15:32,639 God! This is awful! 196 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:38,353 You don't mean that I'm suspected? 197 00:15:38,979 --> 00:15:43,858 Well, sir, your note was found on the dead man's body 198 00:15:44,568 --> 00:15:48,321 and from it we learned that you had planned to stay here 199 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:49,989 in this house last night. 200 00:15:50,699 --> 00:15:51,824 So I did. 201 00:15:53,494 --> 00:15:55,036 Oh, you did, did you? 202 00:15:56,497 --> 00:15:57,372 Wait, 203 00:15:57,665 --> 00:16:00,833 Baynes, I mean surely all you need is a simple statement. 204 00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:06,965 Yes, Mr. Holmes, but it is my duty to warn Mr. Scott Eccles 205 00:16:07,716 --> 00:16:10,927 that it may be used against him. 206 00:16:12,846 --> 00:16:16,516 Awe, this is my fellow colleague, Dr. Watson, Inspector Baynes. 207 00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:19,185 Doctor your attention. 208 00:16:22,231 --> 00:16:24,399 Mr. Scott Eccles you look as if you could do with a drink, 209 00:16:24,775 --> 00:16:28,027 I found some brandy in the library if you think... 210 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:31,030 Thank you. 211 00:17:13,073 --> 00:17:16,492 Well I can assure you, Inspector that, you know, 212 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:18,911 every word I've said it is the truth. 213 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:24,083 I'm bound to say, Mr. Scott Eccles, 214 00:17:24,251 --> 00:17:26,919 that everything you've said 215 00:17:27,212 --> 00:17:31,257 does agree with the facts as they've come to our notice. 216 00:17:32,509 --> 00:17:35,970 For example, the note that arrived during dinner. 217 00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:39,140 Mr. Scott Eccles what became of the note? 218 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:43,019 Well, Garcia rolled it up and threw it in the fire. 219 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:45,229 What do you say to that, Baynes? 220 00:17:45,564 --> 00:17:50,443 It was a dog-grate Mr. Holmes, he over pitched it. 221 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:56,741 I found this unburned of the back. 222 00:17:57,117 --> 00:17:58,618 You must have made a very careful 223 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:02,663 examination of the house to find a single pellet of paper. 224 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:06,125 Oh, I did, Mr. Holmes, I did. 225 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:08,294 It's my way. 226 00:18:10,214 --> 00:18:15,301 The note is written on ordinary cream-laid paper with a watermark, 227 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:17,845 It's a quarter-sheet. 228 00:18:18,222 --> 00:18:23,976 The paper's cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors. 229 00:18:25,062 --> 00:18:31,150 It's been folded twice and sealed with scarlet wax. 230 00:18:31,819 --> 00:18:37,323 It's addressed to Mr. Garcia, Wisteria Lodge, and it says 231 00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:42,995 "Our own colors, green and white." 232 00:18:43,872 --> 00:18:47,333 "Green open, white shut," 233 00:18:48,085 --> 00:18:51,504 "main stairs, first corridor," 234 00:18:52,005 --> 00:18:56,759 "seventh right, green baize." 235 00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:01,264 "Godspeed. D" 236 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:07,854 It's in a woman's writing done with a very sharp-pointed pen 237 00:19:08,856 --> 00:19:12,942 but the address is either done with a different pen 238 00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:14,777 or by someone else 239 00:19:15,529 --> 00:19:19,699 because it's thicker and bolder, as you may see, Mr. Holmes. 240 00:19:21,368 --> 00:19:22,869 It's a remarkable note. 241 00:19:23,996 --> 00:19:27,456 I really must congratulate you on your attention to detail. 242 00:19:27,916 --> 00:19:32,545 There are a few trifling points which might perhaps be added. 243 00:19:33,213 --> 00:19:38,759 The seal is a sleeve-link what else is of such a shape? 244 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:42,555 The scissors were bent nail scissors. 245 00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:44,932 Short as the two snips are, 246 00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:48,394 you can distinctly see the same slight curve in each. 247 00:19:53,567 --> 00:19:57,361 I thought I had squeezed it dry, Mr. Holmes, 248 00:19:59,406 --> 00:20:02,658 but I see there was some still left over after all. 249 00:20:07,748 --> 00:20:10,666 I'm bound to say that I make nothing of the note 250 00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:18,049 except that there's something's on hand and a woman, as usual 251 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:20,509 is at the bottom of it. 252 00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:30,895 I'm very glad you found the note, Inspector, because 253 00:20:31,104 --> 00:20:32,730 it collaborates my story. 254 00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:35,316 But, you know, I do beg to point out 255 00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:38,694 that I haven't yet heard what has happened to Mr. Garcia, 256 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:41,906 or what has become of his household. 257 00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:46,994 As for Mr. Garcia, that's easily answered, 258 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:52,500 he was found dead on Oxshott Common this morning. 259 00:20:54,544 --> 00:20:59,131 His head had been beaten to a pulp by a sandbag 260 00:20:59,716 --> 00:21:02,343 or some such object, 261 00:21:03,637 --> 00:21:05,972 which had crushed rather than wounded. 262 00:21:06,348 --> 00:21:10,768 Apparently he'd been first struck down from behind, 263 00:21:11,144 --> 00:21:15,064 but his assailant went on beating him long after he was dead. 264 00:21:15,190 --> 00:21:18,734 It was a very furious assault. 265 00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:23,322 Awe, I mean this activity that we saw has to be approached at the highest. 266 00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:25,658 Were there any footsteps or clues as to the criminal? 267 00:21:25,784 --> 00:21:27,868 No, no, as yet. 268 00:21:28,996 --> 00:21:30,496 Had Garcia been robbed? 269 00:21:30,747 --> 00:21:33,207 No. No sign of robbery. 270 00:21:34,918 --> 00:21:38,170 Well our tenants seem to have left little or nothing behind them. 271 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:40,089 Apart from the clothes, 272 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:44,302 some pipes, a few novels two of them in Spanish. 273 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:21,881 One of them is missing. 274 00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:32,808 Yeah. We might assume the "G" stands for Garcia. 275 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,436 Family heirloom perhaps. 276 00:22:36,396 --> 00:22:40,941 The other was not on the body nor has it been found in the vicinity 277 00:22:41,068 --> 00:22:44,362 though my men are still looking. Do you wish to look around the house? 278 00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:45,071 A brief look. 279 00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:10,805 Holmes! 280 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:54,974 Watson! 281 00:23:58,019 --> 00:23:58,686 What have you seen? 282 00:23:58,895 --> 00:24:00,980 Could have been the devil for all I know. 283 00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:02,815 Staring eyes at the window. 284 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:06,318 Negroid features, mulatto like. It's got away across the field. 285 00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:08,863 Maybe just as well. I don't think I could have laid hands on him. 286 00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:11,240 Awe, look at this. 287 00:24:12,534 --> 00:24:15,161 If he is all the same scale as his foot 288 00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:17,830 then he is certainly a giant. 289 00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:24,628 Well whoever he was, whatever he wanted he's gone for the present, 290 00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:28,215 and we have more important things to attend to. 291 00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:38,934 Downing, you stay here. 292 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:42,897 And you sir shall come to the station with me. 293 00:24:43,648 --> 00:24:45,524 And let me have a written statement. 294 00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:46,859 Yes certainly I'd come at once. 295 00:24:47,027 --> 00:24:48,694 I hope you don't my collaborating with you Inspector. 296 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:52,031 I'd be honored, Mr. Holmes. I'd be honored. 297 00:24:52,657 --> 00:24:55,910 Inspector, is there any clue as to the exact hour of the man's death? 298 00:24:56,036 --> 00:24:56,994 One o'clock. 299 00:24:57,704 --> 00:25:02,082 It rained about that time and the death certainly occurred before the rain. 300 00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:08,881 No, no, no. That's perfectly impossible, Mr. Baynes. 301 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:11,467 No, no, his voice is very unmistakable. 302 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:15,638 I could swear to it that it was he who addressed me in my room 303 00:25:15,764 --> 00:25:17,306 at that very hour. 304 00:25:17,557 --> 00:25:20,226 Well he spoke to me, you know, in that funny accent of his. 305 00:25:20,352 --> 00:25:22,811 He said "Ees nearly one o'clock". 306 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:27,066 Remarkable but we must not confuse the unlikely with the impossible. 307 00:25:30,278 --> 00:25:31,320 What does he mean of that? 308 00:25:32,697 --> 00:25:36,742 Certainly some strange people occupy that house, Mr. Holmes. 309 00:25:37,327 --> 00:25:38,827 One of them is dead. 310 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,081 Did some of his companions follow him and murder him? 311 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:46,585 If so, we should have them for every port is watched 312 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,505 but my views are different, Mr. Holmes. 313 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:52,967 Yes sir, my views are very different. 314 00:25:53,093 --> 00:25:54,260 You have a theory? 315 00:25:54,803 --> 00:25:56,679 And I'll work it myself, Mr. Holmes. 316 00:25:57,514 --> 00:26:00,349 Your name is already made, I have yet to make mine 317 00:26:00,767 --> 00:26:02,768 and I shall like to be able to say afterwards, 318 00:26:03,770 --> 00:26:06,188 that I solved it without your help. 319 00:26:07,607 --> 00:26:09,775 Then you do follow your path and I will follow mine. 320 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:10,985 Goodbye, Mr. Scott Eccles. 321 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:12,945 Scott Eccles. 322 00:26:14,656 --> 00:26:16,115 Let us consider this note. 323 00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:19,285 Is there a woman involved? A jealous husband? 324 00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:24,081 Godspeed. Godspeed D, that must be our guide. 325 00:26:25,959 --> 00:26:30,713 The man was a Spaniard, I suggest that the "D" stands for Delores. 326 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:32,673 It's a common female name in Spain. 327 00:26:34,551 --> 00:26:37,177 A Spaniard would write to a Spaniard in Spanish. Watson. 328 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,207 Henderson, High Gable, George F folliott. 329 00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:06,392 Mr. Holmes? 330 00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:09,228 Look what I've found. 331 00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:11,855 In the bush. 332 00:28:15,193 --> 00:28:16,443 Excellent. 333 00:29:40,695 --> 00:29:43,405 I'm terribly sorry. I've seemed to have... 334 00:29:54,667 --> 00:29:55,375 You are trespassing. 335 00:29:55,585 --> 00:29:57,127 I'm terribly sorry I've seemed to have lost my direction. 336 00:29:57,253 --> 00:29:58,170 Is it your custom to wander... 337 00:29:58,296 --> 00:30:00,964 Awe, Doctor Wakefield 338 00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:05,010 my friend and fellow cartographer. 339 00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:05,969 Yes indeed. 340 00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:10,098 You were so engrossed in trying to chase the bridal path 341 00:30:10,225 --> 00:30:14,478 to a now vanished Hamlet of Ogmore St. Mary. 342 00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:15,979 That we mislaid each other. 343 00:30:16,189 --> 00:30:18,440 And since we're late for Mr. Henderson, I thought, 344 00:30:18,608 --> 00:30:19,691 I'm so glad you found your way here. 345 00:30:19,859 --> 00:30:21,693 Well I very much regret that 346 00:30:21,861 --> 00:30:24,446 Mr. Henderson is too busy to see you today. 347 00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:28,158 No Lucas, I will see them. 348 00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:01,483 Gentlemen. 349 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:13,912 The purpose of our visit is to inquire 350 00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:18,000 into the history of High Gable, 351 00:31:18,251 --> 00:31:22,129 which we believe has an intriguing and blood tested past, 352 00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:25,257 since the days of the English civil war. 353 00:31:25,633 --> 00:31:27,634 I would have no knowledge of that. 354 00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:30,888 I'm only a recent invader. 355 00:31:34,309 --> 00:31:37,352 But there are local records in the library. 356 00:31:39,564 --> 00:31:43,191 There are no records of any past found in this house. 357 00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:51,199 I see. 358 00:31:56,205 --> 00:31:57,497 Then I will detain you no more. 359 00:31:59,709 --> 00:32:00,751 Good day. 360 00:32:14,223 --> 00:32:15,682 I thought you were in London. 361 00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:17,351 For the morning only. 362 00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:20,604 Well with your usual reluctance to confide your thoughts to me. 363 00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,231 I exercised my own mind in the matter. 364 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:27,152 You'd circled two names on your list. Henderson and High Gable. 365 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,114 Well the others are, per say, respectable people. 366 00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:33,075 Far aloof from romance 367 00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:37,871 but this man, Henderson, but he's a very singular creation. 368 00:32:38,122 --> 00:32:39,081 Yes indeed. 369 00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:41,500 As you may have noticed... No tea for me. 370 00:32:41,834 --> 00:32:46,004 The house is double winged. One side the servants the other side the family. 371 00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:51,510 There is one single connecting door for the Henderson family meals. 372 00:32:51,844 --> 00:32:54,346 I'm sure you couldn't have observed all all that in the short time we were there, Holmes. 373 00:32:54,472 --> 00:32:55,889 Nobody's instruments for gossip and 374 00:32:56,015 --> 00:32:59,518 discharged servants and I was lucky to enough to find one 375 00:32:59,769 --> 00:33:00,477 who had been sacked 376 00:33:00,603 --> 00:33:04,815 by his imperious master Henderson and a victim of violent temper. 377 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:10,362 Now the Henderson girls who we encountered, have a governess. 378 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:14,950 A Miss Burnet, an English woman. Here is the very singular fact. 379 00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:17,828 She has not been seen since the night of the murder. 380 00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:19,913 She has utterly vanished. 381 00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:20,914 I've seen her. 382 00:33:22,625 --> 00:33:25,711 Of course, I've seen her and she is alive. 383 00:33:25,878 --> 00:33:27,629 I saw her at the window at High Gable. 384 00:33:29,215 --> 00:33:30,549 My God a prisoner. 385 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:33,552 She slipped my mind. 386 00:33:35,054 --> 00:33:37,597 The moment those awful girls descended upon me. 387 00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:39,975 She is alive, I've seen her. 388 00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:48,400 That's the man I saw and chased. 389 00:33:48,776 --> 00:33:50,652 Baynes has arrested the wrong man. 390 00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:53,488 Now Watson, quickly, we must stop him. 391 00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:09,921 Is he the murderer? Did he kill a Spaniard? 392 00:34:10,339 --> 00:34:11,965 Where did you capture him? 393 00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:16,636 This man is the murdered man's cook 394 00:34:16,763 --> 00:34:18,638 who disappeared on the night of the crime. 395 00:34:18,765 --> 00:34:22,017 We believe there were valuables left in the house 396 00:34:22,226 --> 00:34:24,519 and that there abstraction was the motive. 397 00:34:24,645 --> 00:34:28,190 The man had been seen in the vicinity of the house once before. 398 00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:29,733 The second time, 399 00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:34,571 subdue him Higgins Blenkins... 400 00:34:36,532 --> 00:34:40,202 The second time we let a man escape for him 401 00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:42,871 we shall be applying for remand 402 00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:45,248 when the prisoner's brought before the magistrate. 403 00:34:45,374 --> 00:34:48,001 That will be all for now, gentlemen. Thank you very much. 404 00:34:48,419 --> 00:34:49,086 Was it on the way? 405 00:34:49,212 --> 00:34:50,921 Where did you capture him? 406 00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:54,716 Baynes, I am not convinced that you're on the right line. 407 00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:58,095 Mr. Holmes doesn't want you to commit yourself too far unless you're sure. 408 00:34:58,638 --> 00:35:02,516 Oh, you're very kind gentleman 409 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:08,980 but we did agree to work on our own lines didn't we? 410 00:35:10,066 --> 00:35:11,942 And that's what I'm doing. 411 00:35:12,819 --> 00:35:15,821 You're welcome always to my news. 412 00:35:17,073 --> 00:35:21,451 This fellow is as strong as a carthorse and fierce as the devil. 413 00:35:22,036 --> 00:35:24,913 He nearly bit off Constable Downing's thumb 414 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:27,499 before they managed to master him. 415 00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:29,543 He speaks hardly any English 416 00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:32,504 and we can get nothing out of him but grunts. 417 00:35:34,841 --> 00:35:40,011 And you think that you have evidence that he murdered his late master? 418 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,348 I didn't say so, Mr. Holmes. 419 00:35:44,767 --> 00:35:46,560 I didn't say so. 420 00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:51,898 We all have our own little ways. 421 00:35:53,192 --> 00:35:54,943 You will go yours 422 00:35:55,653 --> 00:35:58,697 and I will go mine. That was the agreement. 423 00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:00,866 So be it. 424 00:36:04,287 --> 00:36:06,621 I think Baynes is riding for the fall. 425 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:08,665 I would have to agree with you there. 426 00:36:29,061 --> 00:36:31,188 You appreciate our difficulty, Watson. 427 00:36:31,439 --> 00:36:34,232 There's nothing upon which we can apply for a warrant. 428 00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:37,569 And with our worthy Inspector making his arrests 429 00:36:37,987 --> 00:36:40,906 our theory would seem fantastic if laid before the magistrate. 430 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:43,325 Yet you think the lady's in danger of her life? 431 00:36:43,451 --> 00:36:46,161 Yes. I'm sure of it Watson, 432 00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:50,874 therefore we must take the law into our own hands. 433 00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:01,551 Top left bay. 434 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:04,721 We could reach it from that outhouse. 435 00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:53,687 Run. 436 00:38:08,577 --> 00:38:11,621 They're making for the station. We'll follow the coach to London. 437 00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:12,372 Right. 438 00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:32,202 Stop the train. Stop the train. 439 00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:34,079 Stop it. 440 00:39:57,436 --> 00:40:01,564 Why, Mr. Holmes, you have given me the very evidence I wanted. 441 00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:04,776 We were both on the same scent from the start. 442 00:40:04,944 --> 00:40:06,486 Were you after Henderson too? 443 00:40:06,821 --> 00:40:11,658 Quite so well, you first and then Doctor Watson here 444 00:40:11,784 --> 00:40:14,786 came crawling through the under growth at High Gable, 445 00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:17,789 I was up a tree observing you both. 446 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:20,708 It was just a question of who got the evidence first. 447 00:40:23,003 --> 00:40:24,796 Why did you arrest the mulatto? 448 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:29,092 Well I was sure that Henderson, as he calls himself 449 00:40:29,301 --> 00:40:32,762 felt he was suspected and he would make no move 450 00:40:32,888 --> 00:40:34,848 so long as he thought he was in danger 451 00:40:35,057 --> 00:40:37,183 so I arrested the wrong man. 452 00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:41,771 You know you will rise high in your profession, Inspector. 453 00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:43,940 You have instinct and intuition. 454 00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:45,984 Thank you, Mr. Holmes, 455 00:40:46,485 --> 00:40:51,322 but we can't arrest without Miss Burnet's evidence can we? 456 00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:54,117 Oh she'll be able to give you that in a moment but, 457 00:40:54,827 --> 00:40:56,661 tell me who is this man, Henderson. 458 00:40:56,829 --> 00:41:01,166 He's Don Murillo known as the Tiger of San Pedro. 459 00:41:01,375 --> 00:41:05,128 One of the most dangerous men out of Central America. 460 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:09,466 Oh indeed. Most elude and blood thirsty tyrant. 461 00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:14,345 Who imposed his earliest vices upon a caring people for almost twelve years. 462 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:23,813 Was it the San Pedro colors green and white that first put you onto it? 463 00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:27,192 That and my visit to London, to the Spanish embassy in the foreign office. 464 00:41:27,359 --> 00:41:30,069 Now please this is your case, Inspector, 465 00:41:33,365 --> 00:41:38,536 Five years ago there was a rising against the tyrant 466 00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:41,831 but it was an empty palace they stormed on Murillo, 467 00:41:41,957 --> 00:41:45,835 his secretary, two children and all the wealth 468 00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:48,963 had escaped by ship 469 00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:53,468 and from that moment they disappeared from the face of the earth. 470 00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:59,015 His identity has been a subject of constant comment in the European press. 471 00:41:59,725 --> 00:42:02,227 We discovered him a year ago. 472 00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:04,687 Miss Burnet? 473 00:42:06,732 --> 00:42:09,025 How came you into this matter Miss Burnet? 474 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:12,904 An English lady in such a murderous affair. 475 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,741 Because there is no other way in the world by which justice can be gained. 476 00:42:19,495 --> 00:42:23,623 What does the law of England care about the rivers of blood 477 00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:26,376 shed so many years ago in San Pedro 478 00:42:27,878 --> 00:42:30,630 or the shipload of treasure that this man has stolen from us? 479 00:42:32,758 --> 00:42:36,719 To you, they're like crimes committed on some other planet. 480 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,598 We know. 481 00:42:44,853 --> 00:42:47,772 My real name is Senora Victoria Durando. 482 00:42:49,275 --> 00:42:52,735 My husband was the minister of San Pedro in London. 483 00:42:52,861 --> 00:42:54,654 He met and married me there. 484 00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:03,121 A nobler man never lived upon the earth. 485 00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:10,670 Unhappily, Murillo heard of his excellence 486 00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:15,508 and recalled him on some pretext, 487 00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:19,137 and shot him 488 00:43:20,514 --> 00:43:23,641 by a stroke of... of premonition. 489 00:43:24,476 --> 00:43:26,978 My husband had refused to take me with him. 490 00:43:29,231 --> 00:43:34,152 Then came the downfall of the monster. He escaped as you have described. 491 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,321 But the many whose lives he had ruined, 492 00:43:36,488 --> 00:43:39,032 whose loved ones had suffered torture and death at his hands 493 00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:42,493 would not let the matter rest. We banded ourselves into a society, 494 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:45,496 which should never be dissolved until the work was done. 495 00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:48,916 It was my part to attach myself to his household 496 00:43:49,043 --> 00:43:50,877 and keep the others in touch with his movements. 497 00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:53,796 I secured the position as governess. 498 00:44:00,721 --> 00:44:03,348 He little knew that the woman who faced him at every meal 499 00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:06,267 was the woman whose husband he had hurried to eternity. 500 00:44:06,977 --> 00:44:10,563 I smiled on him, did my duty to his children, 501 00:44:11,357 --> 00:44:12,982 and bided my time. 502 00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:20,031 An attempt was made in Paris and failed. 503 00:44:20,949 --> 00:44:24,494 We zigzagged here and there swiftly over Europe 504 00:44:24,703 --> 00:44:29,040 to throw off our pursuers and finally returned to High Gable. 505 00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:33,878 Garcia had been waiting there for nearly a year with two trusted companions, 506 00:44:34,004 --> 00:44:36,673 all fired with the same reasons for revenge. 507 00:44:37,716 --> 00:44:39,133 Who was Garcia? 508 00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:43,429 The son of Fernando Garcia. 509 00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:48,434 One of the former highest dignitaries of San Pedro who was murdered... 510 00:44:50,729 --> 00:44:51,854 like your husband. 511 00:44:54,149 --> 00:44:58,194 This note you sent, you say it was intercepted. 512 00:44:59,029 --> 00:45:02,073 During the day Murillo took every precaution 513 00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:05,535 and never went outside without his satellite Lucas. 514 00:45:06,453 --> 00:45:09,330 Even at night the man was forever on the alert 515 00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:11,416 and continually changed his room. 516 00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:15,795 We had arranged that I would send Garcia final instructions. 517 00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:17,505 The doors would be opened 518 00:45:17,631 --> 00:45:19,966 and the signal of a green or white light in a window 519 00:45:20,092 --> 00:45:22,927 which faced the drive, was to give notice if all was safe 520 00:45:23,429 --> 00:45:25,263 or if the attempt had better be postponed. 521 00:45:46,076 --> 00:45:47,493 To whom are you writing this letter? 522 00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:53,124 Which describes the room in which I intend to sleep tonight. 523 00:45:55,377 --> 00:46:00,173 Who is your confederate? 524 00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:03,926 What is your real name Miss Burnet? 525 00:46:07,264 --> 00:46:10,057 My name is Durando. 526 00:46:12,144 --> 00:46:13,478 Durando's widow. 527 00:46:30,662 --> 00:46:32,121 You can kill me now 528 00:46:32,498 --> 00:46:37,251 what is my life worth you have destroyed everything that I love. 529 00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:41,005 Who are you writing to? Tell me. 530 00:46:41,507 --> 00:46:43,257 Senora Durando? Who? 531 00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:47,553 It's a name you fear, He's waiting for you. 532 00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:57,230 He's Garcia. 533 00:46:59,358 --> 00:47:00,525 Garcia? 534 00:47:10,702 --> 00:47:12,245 Wisteria Lodge. 535 00:47:13,372 --> 00:47:17,500 He is waiting to dispatch you to hell. You fiend. 536 00:47:18,293 --> 00:47:19,585 I knew the boy well. 537 00:47:20,379 --> 00:47:22,797 His father was once my dearest friend. 538 00:47:24,049 --> 00:47:25,466 You murdered him. 539 00:47:26,426 --> 00:47:27,885 He betrayed me 540 00:47:30,597 --> 00:47:32,056 and so did your husband. 541 00:47:38,397 --> 00:47:40,857 And now they send the wives and sons. 542 00:47:42,025 --> 00:47:43,568 Will you never learn? 543 00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:47,113 I am indestructible. 544 00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:03,045 At first they were of a mind to let him into the house 545 00:48:03,171 --> 00:48:05,089 and kill him as a detected burglar 546 00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:08,676 but they feared the inquiry might publicly expose them. 547 00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:32,069 Garcia, some day justice will come. 548 00:50:33,447 --> 00:50:36,699 That is as certain as the rise of tomorrow's sun. 549 00:50:46,251 --> 00:50:49,420 I have no doubt that my life too hung in the balance. 550 00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:53,632 Most of the time I was confined to my room. 551 00:50:55,427 --> 00:50:59,847 Terrorized by the most horrible threats to break my spirit. 552 00:51:02,601 --> 00:51:03,768 Occasionally I was allowed out 553 00:51:03,935 --> 00:51:06,353 but only when they had first drugged my food 554 00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:11,650 and it was at this state that you found me at the station. 555 00:51:13,403 --> 00:51:15,112 And thanks to this good man. 556 00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:20,034 I am beyond their power forever. 557 00:51:27,334 --> 00:51:32,505 Well Inspector, our police work is done but our legal work begins. 558 00:51:32,631 --> 00:51:36,133 Exactly, Mr. Holmes, yes. Garcia's death 559 00:51:36,259 --> 00:51:40,971 in the hands of a portable lawyer could look like an act of self-defense. 560 00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:43,224 But I think better of the law than that. 561 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,019 Self-defense is one thing but to entice a man in cold-blood 562 00:51:47,145 --> 00:51:48,395 with the object of murdering him is another. 563 00:51:48,522 --> 00:51:50,481 Whatever danger you fear from him. 564 00:51:51,191 --> 00:51:53,400 I think we shall justice done at the next... 565 00:51:53,527 --> 00:51:55,361 I thought you had released the mulatto. 566 00:51:55,487 --> 00:51:57,446 Yes sir, he's a free man again. 567 00:51:57,989 --> 00:51:59,782 And your man is with the fugitives on the train? 568 00:51:59,908 --> 00:52:02,535 He is, sir, yes, and I've wired Scotland Yard 569 00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:07,081 to have their men at Waterloo Station to receive them, yes. 570 00:52:07,707 --> 00:52:09,834 You know I really must congratulate, Inspector. 571 00:52:10,669 --> 00:52:14,672 Your powers, if I may so, without offense, are superior to your opportunities. 572 00:52:15,006 --> 00:52:17,550 Your right, Mr. Holmes. 573 00:52:17,717 --> 00:52:23,681 In the province as we stagnate a case like this gives a man a chance.