1 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,812 This is the monastery's accounts dating from the early 15th century. 2 00:01:44,938 --> 00:01:46,313 Oh, precisely what I thought. 3 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:48,816 But surely this has great political significance. 4 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:52,986 A matter of particularly delicacy. 5 00:01:53,488 --> 00:01:54,530 Sorry to disturb you, sir, 6 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:56,657 but Inspector Hopkins would like to see you urgently. 7 00:01:56,825 --> 00:01:58,784 Come in, Inspector Hopkins. 8 00:01:59,035 --> 00:02:01,620 Draw up to the fire and warm your toes. 9 00:02:01,996 --> 00:02:05,457 I hope you've no designs upon us on such a night as this, Inspector. 10 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:07,668 This is my brother, Mycroft. 11 00:02:07,836 --> 00:02:09,378 Maybe you've not met before. 12 00:02:09,504 --> 00:02:11,380 I'm sure. I would have remembered. 13 00:02:12,173 --> 00:02:14,299 May I shake your hand, sir? 14 00:02:14,509 --> 00:02:15,425 Pardon? 15 00:02:16,177 --> 00:02:17,427 Yes, if you must. 16 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,430 Mrs. Hudson knows a prescription 17 00:02:21,766 --> 00:02:23,934 containing hot water and a lemon. 18 00:02:24,060 --> 00:02:26,228 I'll bring some up for you, Inspector. 19 00:02:26,437 --> 00:02:27,896 It will help keep out the chill. 20 00:02:28,022 --> 00:02:29,148 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 21 00:02:29,274 --> 00:02:30,232 Where is Dr. Watson? 22 00:02:30,358 --> 00:02:31,275 Oh in his surgery, 23 00:02:31,401 --> 00:02:34,945 this dreadful weather has produced a queue into the street, I am told. 24 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:36,780 Well, they're wasting their time. 25 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:41,743 Watson's only cure for any ailment is a Linus powder and a grated apple. 26 00:02:42,495 --> 00:02:46,582 Mr. Holmes, you know you only say that because you miss the Doctor. 27 00:02:49,085 --> 00:02:49,960 Cigar? 28 00:02:50,503 --> 00:02:51,378 No, no thank you. 29 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,507 It must be something important to bring you out in such a gale. 30 00:02:55,717 --> 00:02:56,550 It is indeed. 31 00:02:56,885 --> 00:02:59,553 Did you see anything of the Yoxley case in the latest edition? 32 00:02:59,679 --> 00:03:01,597 I've seen nothing later than the 15th century today. 33 00:03:02,098 --> 00:03:05,267 We've been studying a 500 years old palimpsest. 34 00:03:05,643 --> 00:03:06,351 Palimpsest? 35 00:03:06,686 --> 00:03:08,562 Enough of the 15th century. 36 00:03:09,314 --> 00:03:11,231 You bring us news of the 20th. 37 00:03:12,567 --> 00:03:14,610 Well, it's only a paragraph and all wrong at that, 38 00:03:14,736 --> 00:03:16,028 so you've not missed anything. 39 00:03:16,154 --> 00:03:18,322 I'm relieved to hear it, Inspector. 40 00:03:18,573 --> 00:03:20,449 It's down in Kent. 41 00:03:21,242 --> 00:03:25,287 7 miles from Chatham, and 3 from the railway line. 42 00:03:26,372 --> 00:03:28,665 I was wired for at 3:15, 43 00:03:28,917 --> 00:03:32,544 up to Chatham at 5:00, conducted my investigation, 44 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:34,880 was back at Charing Cross by the last train 45 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:36,506 and straight to you by cab. 46 00:03:38,384 --> 00:03:40,344 Which means you're not quite certain of your case. 47 00:03:40,929 --> 00:03:42,846 It means I can make neither head nor tail of it. 48 00:03:43,806 --> 00:03:45,599 There's no motive, Mr. Holmes. 49 00:03:47,602 --> 00:03:48,936 Motive? Inspector, what motive? 50 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:51,480 A man is dead, there's no denying that. 51 00:03:52,273 --> 00:03:54,566 But I can see no reason between heaven and earth 52 00:03:54,692 --> 00:03:56,193 why anyone should wish him harm. 53 00:04:07,163 --> 00:04:08,080 Tell us about it. 54 00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:14,461 A few years ago, Yoxley Old Place was taken by an elderly man 55 00:04:14,587 --> 00:04:16,255 by the name of Professor Coram. 56 00:04:17,006 --> 00:04:19,758 He's an invalid, keeping his bed half the time, 57 00:04:20,009 --> 00:04:22,594 and the other half hobbling about the house on a stick, 58 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,931 or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener, in a bath chair. 59 00:04:26,474 --> 00:04:28,684 Quite stupid, aren't you, Mortimer. 60 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:31,144 Just take it easy, be very careful. 61 00:04:34,857 --> 00:04:35,983 Careful! 62 00:04:45,285 --> 00:04:47,703 Where's my secretary, Mrs. Marker? 63 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:51,331 The Professor is writing a learned book 64 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:54,793 and found it necessary, about a year ago, to take on a secretary, 65 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:56,753 Mr. Willoughby Smith. 66 00:04:57,171 --> 00:04:59,214 A young man straight from the university. 67 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:05,012 And if one can accept the doctrines of Monophysitism, 68 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:08,432 then perforce one must also re-evaluate 69 00:05:09,183 --> 00:05:10,559 Christian theology. 70 00:05:12,895 --> 00:05:14,062 To suggest... 71 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:15,022 Yes. 72 00:05:17,942 --> 00:05:18,859 To suggest... 73 00:05:19,861 --> 00:05:20,861 Or to argue? 74 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:22,988 Which one of us is writing this book? 75 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:24,781 You or me? 76 00:05:24,949 --> 00:05:26,199 You are, of course. 77 00:05:28,036 --> 00:05:28,952 To suggest... 78 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,371 From the first, it appears that Smith was a quiet, 79 00:05:31,539 --> 00:05:34,416 well-educated fellow with hardly any weak spot in him at all. 80 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:39,046 And yet this is a lad who met his death this morning in the Professor's study 81 00:05:39,922 --> 00:05:42,924 under circumstances that can point only to murder. 82 00:05:44,761 --> 00:05:45,886 Murder? 83 00:05:46,721 --> 00:05:49,556 Willoughby Smith was murdered, do you say, Inspector? 84 00:05:50,558 --> 00:05:51,308 Do go on. 85 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:54,102 Your hot lemon drink, Inspector. 86 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:55,395 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 87 00:05:56,105 --> 00:05:58,440 A man without a single enemy in the world. 88 00:05:58,566 --> 00:06:00,692 Mrs. Hudson, you're under foot again. 89 00:06:00,943 --> 00:06:03,070 When you say hardly any weak spot, 90 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:04,279 what exactly do you mean? 91 00:06:04,405 --> 00:06:07,240 We all have vices of some kind or another. 92 00:06:08,076 --> 00:06:10,243 Willoughby Smith has nothing against him, 93 00:06:10,411 --> 00:06:12,371 either as a boy at Uppingham, 94 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:14,664 or later as a young man at Cambridge. 95 00:06:15,333 --> 00:06:17,292 Although I gather he was fond of a drink or two. 96 00:06:17,585 --> 00:06:18,835 Well, nothing wrong in that. 97 00:06:19,003 --> 00:06:20,754 And also had a bit of an eye for the ladies. 98 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:21,963 Each to his own. 99 00:06:22,090 --> 00:06:24,049 Perhaps he was hiding a terrible secret. 100 00:06:24,801 --> 00:06:26,259 Smith knew no-one in the neighbourhood 101 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,220 and lived very much as his employer did. 102 00:06:28,971 --> 00:06:31,598 Professor was buried in his work and existed for nothing else. 103 00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:33,934 A man after your own heart, Sherlock. 104 00:06:34,268 --> 00:06:36,395 Apart from the three people you have mentioned, 105 00:06:37,313 --> 00:06:38,980 who else can be found in the house? 106 00:06:39,107 --> 00:06:41,483 An elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Marker. 107 00:06:41,651 --> 00:06:43,902 And a young maid, Susan Talton. 108 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:46,696 So who found the body? 109 00:06:46,948 --> 00:06:48,281 The maid, Mr. Holmes. 110 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:51,701 She says she was working in an upstairs room when she heard a cry. 111 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:54,621 She says by the time she got to the study, 112 00:06:54,789 --> 00:06:57,624 Smith was lying on the floor fatally wounded. 113 00:06:57,917 --> 00:06:58,750 She says. 114 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:38,832 Prof... 115 00:07:40,793 --> 00:07:45,589 The professor... 116 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:48,258 It was- 117 00:07:48,426 --> 00:07:49,176 she... 118 00:07:58,227 --> 00:08:01,605 The maid is prepared to swear that those were his exact words. 119 00:08:04,859 --> 00:08:06,276 "The professor..." 120 00:08:07,195 --> 00:08:08,236 "It was she." 121 00:08:09,947 --> 00:08:11,990 I've drawn up a rough plan 122 00:08:12,116 --> 00:08:13,867 which should give you a general idea 123 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:16,328 of the position of the Professor's study. 124 00:08:16,454 --> 00:08:17,204 And also, 125 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,541 the various points of the case which seem to me to be essential. 126 00:08:22,126 --> 00:08:25,253 As you can see, there are two corridors which lead from the study. 127 00:08:25,755 --> 00:08:28,465 One goes directly to a door at the back of the house. 128 00:08:28,674 --> 00:08:31,593 And the other straight to the Professor's ground floor bedroom. 129 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:35,388 Two corridors at a 90 degree angle, 130 00:08:35,681 --> 00:08:38,558 joined at one end, outside the study. 131 00:08:39,185 --> 00:08:42,979 Now, assuming the assassin entered the house, how did he get in? 132 00:08:43,231 --> 00:08:46,149 Undoubtedly by the garden path and the back door 133 00:08:46,817 --> 00:08:50,612 which gives direct access via the corridor to the study. 134 00:08:50,821 --> 00:08:51,530 Exactly. 135 00:08:52,073 --> 00:08:54,407 And he must have made his escape along the same line, 136 00:08:54,534 --> 00:08:56,409 for of the two other exits from the study, 137 00:08:56,619 --> 00:08:59,162 one was blocked by the maid as she ran downstairs, 138 00:08:59,330 --> 00:09:01,373 and the other goes straight to the Professor's bedroom. 139 00:09:01,832 --> 00:09:03,833 Could not the assassin have made his escape 140 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,627 from the study window? 141 00:09:05,753 --> 00:09:06,920 Locked, sir, from within. 142 00:09:07,088 --> 00:09:08,046 I see... 143 00:09:08,172 --> 00:09:11,758 It was an excellent opportunity to put your theories into practice. 144 00:09:12,134 --> 00:09:13,969 I directed my attention at once 145 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:15,679 to the garden path 146 00:09:15,846 --> 00:09:17,764 which was saturated with recent rain. 147 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:21,309 No footmarks were to be found on the path, 148 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:24,104 but, there could be no question that someone- 149 00:09:24,438 --> 00:09:27,274 had passed along the grass border which lines it. 150 00:09:28,192 --> 00:09:31,069 And that he'd done so in order to avoid leaving a track. 151 00:09:31,362 --> 00:09:32,946 You found footmarks there? 152 00:09:33,447 --> 00:09:34,489 Not exactly. 153 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,533 But the grass was trodden down, 154 00:09:36,701 --> 00:09:37,951 and it could only have been the murderer, 155 00:09:38,077 --> 00:09:41,454 since neither the gardener nor anyone else had been in the area that morning. 156 00:09:41,998 --> 00:09:43,832 And the rain had only begun during the night. 157 00:09:45,209 --> 00:09:46,459 Bravo, Inspector. 158 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:49,879 I knew you'd appreciate my reasoning, Mr. Holmes. 159 00:09:54,385 --> 00:09:56,261 These tracks in the grass. 160 00:09:56,887 --> 00:09:58,138 Were they coming or going? 161 00:09:58,306 --> 00:10:00,432 It was impossible to say. There was never any outline. 162 00:10:02,268 --> 00:10:05,312 Pouring rain and blowing a hurricane ever since. 163 00:10:06,772 --> 00:10:10,066 They'll be harder to read now than the palimpsest. 164 00:10:16,866 --> 00:10:19,159 So, Inspector, what did you do, 165 00:10:20,119 --> 00:10:23,830 after you'd made certain that you'd made certain of nothing? 166 00:10:25,666 --> 00:10:28,710 Well, really Mr. Holmes, I think I made certain of a good deal. 167 00:10:29,587 --> 00:10:33,173 Somebody had entered the house cautiously from without, 168 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:35,842 and then there are the dying man's own words. 169 00:10:36,427 --> 00:10:39,638 And finally, there was a very important piece of evidence 170 00:10:39,764 --> 00:10:41,806 found clasped in his right hand. 171 00:10:46,187 --> 00:10:48,229 Willoughby Smith had excellent sight. 172 00:10:48,564 --> 00:10:51,232 There can be no question that these were snatched from the face 173 00:10:52,568 --> 00:10:54,778 of the person or the assassin. 174 00:11:21,389 --> 00:11:23,640 The person you seek is a woman. 175 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:26,935 Mycroft... 176 00:11:31,565 --> 00:11:34,275 That can be inferred from their delicacy, 177 00:11:34,819 --> 00:11:38,530 and also, of course from the last words of the dying man. 178 00:11:39,323 --> 00:11:41,658 They're handsomely mounted 179 00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:43,284 and solid gold. 180 00:11:45,663 --> 00:11:47,414 And an unusual strength. 181 00:11:48,124 --> 00:11:50,291 She must have appalling eyesight. 182 00:11:50,418 --> 00:11:51,835 The lady whose vision- 183 00:11:51,961 --> 00:11:54,629 has been so extremely contracted 184 00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:57,507 for any great length of time would surely bear- 185 00:11:57,633 --> 00:12:00,760 the physical characteristics of such a vision. 186 00:12:01,804 --> 00:12:03,638 Puckered forehead. 187 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:06,182 Peering expression. 188 00:12:07,351 --> 00:12:09,436 Rounded shoulders. 189 00:12:10,771 --> 00:12:12,939 They've also recently been prepared. 190 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:19,195 Of course, I'd intended to go the round of the London opticians. 191 00:12:19,613 --> 00:12:21,114 There's a train from Charing Cross to Chatham 192 00:12:21,282 --> 00:12:22,615 at 6 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Holmes. 193 00:12:22,742 --> 00:12:23,825 Then I shall take it. 194 00:12:24,410 --> 00:12:27,620 Have you anything more to tell us about the case, Inspector? 195 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:31,416 I think you know as much as I do, sir. 196 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:32,625 Perhaps more. 197 00:12:35,379 --> 00:12:36,296 Perhaps. 198 00:12:38,632 --> 00:12:39,340 Perhaps... 199 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:47,640 What puzzles me is the utter want of all object in the crime. 200 00:12:47,975 --> 00:12:50,018 A man has been cruelly murdered, Mr. Holmes, 201 00:12:50,144 --> 00:12:52,479 and not a ghost of a motive can anyone suggest. 202 00:13:17,588 --> 00:13:19,255 Who alerted the local police? 203 00:13:19,423 --> 00:13:21,758 Mortimer, the gardener, an innocent. 204 00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:24,886 As soon as it became clear that it was a matter for Scotland Yard, 205 00:13:25,012 --> 00:13:26,638 the Chief Constable sent for me. 206 00:13:49,703 --> 00:13:50,411 Sorry, sir. 207 00:13:50,621 --> 00:13:51,204 You can't go in there. 208 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:53,540 Just walk this way, please. 209 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:58,753 It's all right, Constable, these gentlemen are with me. 210 00:14:04,593 --> 00:14:08,763 Apart from this lethal paper knife and the pince-nez, 211 00:14:08,889 --> 00:14:11,891 has anything been re-arranged or removed in this room since yesterday morning? 212 00:14:12,017 --> 00:14:14,227 No, Mr. Holmes, everything is exactly as it was. 213 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:15,770 And the body? 214 00:14:16,814 --> 00:14:18,565 The body fell here. 215 00:14:19,233 --> 00:14:22,360 The wound was in the right side of the neck, 216 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:24,153 from behind, 217 00:14:24,572 --> 00:14:25,363 forwards. 218 00:14:25,906 --> 00:14:27,532 Excellent, Inspector. 219 00:14:29,952 --> 00:14:31,119 And this bureau? 220 00:14:31,328 --> 00:14:33,454 The Professor assures me that nothing is missing. 221 00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:35,915 I'm satisfied that no robbery has taken place. 222 00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:41,629 Why did you not tell me about this scratch, Hopkins? 223 00:14:41,922 --> 00:14:43,256 Well I'd noticed it, of course, 224 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,383 but you'll always find scratches around a keyhole. 225 00:14:47,761 --> 00:14:49,429 It looks recent. 226 00:14:49,930 --> 00:14:51,014 Very recent. 227 00:14:51,432 --> 00:14:53,182 There's the varnish too, 228 00:14:53,350 --> 00:14:56,144 like earth on either side of the furrow. 229 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,731 Is it significant? 230 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:03,109 That's father's magnifying glass. 231 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:04,444 Yes. 232 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:06,779 He gave it to you? 233 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:13,661 How ironic, excuse me. 234 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:17,957 Who was the last person who entered this room 235 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:19,459 before Willoughby Smith and his murderer? 236 00:15:19,627 --> 00:15:20,251 I was. 237 00:15:21,295 --> 00:15:22,295 Mrs. Marker. 238 00:15:23,130 --> 00:15:24,130 The housekeeper. 239 00:15:24,298 --> 00:15:25,089 Yes. 240 00:15:25,841 --> 00:15:26,758 Please sit down. 241 00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:28,593 Thank you, I prefer to stand. 242 00:15:30,804 --> 00:15:32,972 You've probably heard of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 243 00:15:34,183 --> 00:15:34,766 No. 244 00:15:36,644 --> 00:15:37,977 It's really not important. 245 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:42,398 You were in this room before Willoughby Smith was murdered? 246 00:15:43,067 --> 00:15:44,400 About a quarter of an hour before. 247 00:15:44,568 --> 00:15:45,151 Why? 248 00:15:45,319 --> 00:15:47,320 I am the housekeeper, Mr. Holmes. 249 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:50,657 I try to keep the study as clean and as tidy as possible. 250 00:15:51,408 --> 00:15:52,659 Not that you'd notice the difference. 251 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,036 Were you alone in here? 252 00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:56,496 I was alone. 253 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:58,831 I never come in here when the Professor's at work. 254 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,294 As far as I know, Mr. Smith was upstairs in his room at the time. 255 00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:05,296 So you didn't see him at all. 256 00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:06,798 Not until after he'd... 257 00:16:07,299 --> 00:16:09,676 he was, been... 258 00:16:14,181 --> 00:16:16,599 I'd finished my housework in here 259 00:16:17,226 --> 00:16:19,978 and I was preparing the Professor's lunch... 260 00:16:20,521 --> 00:16:21,604 when I heard... 261 00:16:22,773 --> 00:16:24,524 By the time I reached the study, 262 00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:28,277 Mr. Smith was dead. 263 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,533 Then you were obviously too late to hear his last words. 264 00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:36,035 I heard nothing except that dreadful cry. 265 00:16:36,203 --> 00:16:37,453 Wake up, Constable! 266 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:38,913 What did you do then? 267 00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:40,957 I went straight to the Professor's room. 268 00:16:41,625 --> 00:16:43,251 He was horribly agitated. 269 00:16:43,627 --> 00:16:46,212 He'd heard enough to know that something terrible had happened. 270 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:52,218 Did you dust this bureau this morning? 271 00:16:53,762 --> 00:16:54,345 I did. 272 00:16:54,471 --> 00:16:57,098 Did you observe the scratch by the lock? 273 00:16:57,516 --> 00:16:58,224 I did not. 274 00:16:58,559 --> 00:17:00,393 Of course you didn't, Mrs. Marker. 275 00:17:00,811 --> 00:17:03,688 Your duster would have swept away those scraps of varnish. 276 00:17:04,189 --> 00:17:05,189 And where is the key? 277 00:17:06,233 --> 00:17:07,900 The Professor keeps it on his watch chain. 278 00:17:08,068 --> 00:17:08,609 At all times? 279 00:17:08,736 --> 00:17:09,694 At all times. 280 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:12,321 Good, good, good, good, good, good... 281 00:17:12,573 --> 00:17:13,656 We're making progress. 282 00:17:13,782 --> 00:17:15,033 Yes, thank you, Mrs. Marker. 283 00:17:15,242 --> 00:17:17,869 Would you be so good as to ask the housemaid to come along to the study? 284 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:19,162 Certainly, Inspector. 285 00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:21,205 Let us see... 286 00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:24,083 what this- 287 00:17:24,668 --> 00:17:26,711 desk reveals. 288 00:17:31,091 --> 00:17:33,092 Ah, Mycroft, this is interesting. 289 00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:34,010 What is it? 290 00:17:34,511 --> 00:17:37,680 An entry for the day in Willoughby Smith's handwriting. 291 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:40,600 Abbey, 292 00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:42,018 seven-thirty? 293 00:17:42,519 --> 00:17:43,644 How curious. 294 00:17:43,979 --> 00:17:45,938 I think I can answer that one for you, sir. 295 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,151 Professor Coram is writing a book about early Christian heretics 296 00:17:50,527 --> 00:17:52,278 and there are a number of abbey ruins 297 00:17:52,404 --> 00:17:54,572 within reasonable traveling distance of the house. 298 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:56,741 But, abbey, seven-thirty. 299 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,868 Why seven-thirty? 300 00:17:59,036 --> 00:18:01,120 Miss Dalton, please come in. 301 00:18:09,505 --> 00:18:10,546 Please sit down. 302 00:18:12,466 --> 00:18:15,218 Mr. Holmes is a detective from London. 303 00:18:15,844 --> 00:18:19,055 Would you tell him everything you saw and heard yesterday morning? 304 00:18:26,021 --> 00:18:27,647 It was between 11:00 and 12:00. 305 00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:30,066 Professor Coram was still in bed. 306 00:18:30,692 --> 00:18:33,569 When the weather is poor, he seldom rises before midday. 307 00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,990 Mrs. Marker was busy with some work in the kitchen. 308 00:18:38,158 --> 00:18:38,741 So... 309 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:56,884 Now, you can look at me. 310 00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:00,638 So where were you? 311 00:19:02,641 --> 00:19:05,601 I was hanging some curtains in one of the bedrooms upstairs. 312 00:19:08,272 --> 00:19:10,148 Mr. Smith had been in his own room. 313 00:19:12,025 --> 00:19:15,570 At that moment, I heard him walk along the passage and descend to the study. 314 00:19:16,238 --> 00:19:18,030 How can you be sure it was Willoughby Smith? 315 00:19:21,869 --> 00:19:23,744 Because he had a familiar tread, sir. 316 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,209 I didn't hear the study door close. 317 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,672 And a minute or so later, 318 00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:37,717 there came a dreadful cry. 319 00:19:39,970 --> 00:19:42,096 It was a wild, raw scream. 320 00:19:45,058 --> 00:19:46,809 So strange and unnatural. 321 00:19:48,103 --> 00:19:50,062 It could have come either from a man or a woman. 322 00:19:52,816 --> 00:19:54,400 I ran down to the study, 323 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:59,864 found Willoughby lying on the floor, 324 00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:03,534 saw the blood. 325 00:20:04,578 --> 00:20:06,370 I didn't realise... 326 00:20:10,959 --> 00:20:12,668 He must be dead. 327 00:20:21,136 --> 00:20:22,178 And then he spoke. 328 00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:23,554 "It was she..." 329 00:20:26,433 --> 00:20:28,017 "Professor, it was she..." 330 00:20:30,187 --> 00:20:30,895 Yes. 331 00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:33,231 Curious words. 332 00:20:36,109 --> 00:20:37,151 Do you know what they mean? 333 00:20:37,945 --> 00:20:38,653 No, sir. 334 00:20:39,404 --> 00:20:40,404 Are you sure? 335 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:42,949 No, sir. 336 00:20:46,161 --> 00:20:47,745 Could anyone have left 337 00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:52,041 by the rear exit after the time you'd heard the scream? 338 00:20:54,211 --> 00:20:57,505 Even before I got down the stairs, I'd have seen him in the passage. 339 00:20:58,715 --> 00:21:01,384 And the backdoor never opened for I would have heard it. 340 00:21:01,843 --> 00:21:03,052 Thank you, Miss Dalton. 341 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:04,762 Mycroft, Inspector? 342 00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:09,475 Perhaps he was the victim of a lover's quarrel. 343 00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:11,477 How very tiresome for the man. 344 00:21:15,065 --> 00:21:18,317 It's nearly midday. Will the Professor still be in his room? 345 00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:20,611 Yes, he hasn't left it since yesterday morning. 346 00:21:21,071 --> 00:21:22,488 Then you must introduce me. 347 00:21:24,658 --> 00:21:25,449 Ah... 348 00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:28,202 What is it, Mr. Holmes? 349 00:21:28,328 --> 00:21:30,997 Both corridors are lined with coconut matting. 350 00:21:34,334 --> 00:21:35,293 Thank you, sir. 351 00:21:37,212 --> 00:21:38,004 What of it? 352 00:21:40,757 --> 00:21:43,175 It seems to me to be suggestive. 353 00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:44,468 Indeed. 354 00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:14,040 Close the door, Hopkins. 355 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:17,626 The cold air won't help my bronchial condition. 356 00:22:20,547 --> 00:22:23,215 One of you gentlemen must be Sherlock Holmes. 357 00:22:24,801 --> 00:22:26,844 This is my brother, Mycroft. 358 00:22:31,224 --> 00:22:33,142 You a smoker, Mr. Holmes? 359 00:22:33,268 --> 00:22:35,019 I have few other vices. 360 00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:38,564 Ah! 361 00:22:39,232 --> 00:22:40,399 Alexandrian. 362 00:22:40,567 --> 00:22:42,360 Yes. Pray, take a cigarette. 363 00:22:42,486 --> 00:22:43,402 Thank you. 364 00:22:43,653 --> 00:22:46,447 I have them especially prepared by Ionides. 365 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:48,574 Sends me a thousand at a time. 366 00:22:49,701 --> 00:22:53,621 I grieve to say that I have to arrange a fresh supply every fortnight. 367 00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:56,207 You, sir? 368 00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:59,168 I thank you, no, I prefer this. 369 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:16,936 Tobacco and my work. 370 00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:19,230 That's all there is left to me. 371 00:23:20,023 --> 00:23:21,690 Tobacco and my work... 372 00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:23,275 Now... 373 00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:27,071 Only tobacco. 374 00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:30,866 Who could have foreseen such a terrible catastrophe? 375 00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:34,161 I assure you, Mr. Holmes, that after what, 376 00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:35,955 just a few months' training he was, 377 00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,499 he was an admirable assistant. 378 00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:41,252 What do you think of the matter? 379 00:23:43,046 --> 00:23:44,672 I've not yet made up my mind. 380 00:23:50,804 --> 00:23:53,806 I would indeed be indebted to you if you could throw a light 381 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:55,850 where all is dark to us. 382 00:23:56,351 --> 00:23:57,476 Such a blow, 383 00:23:58,311 --> 00:24:00,604 quite paralyzing to a poor old bookworm, 384 00:24:01,064 --> 00:24:02,773 invalid, like myself. 385 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:06,527 Could you not continue with your work, Professor? 386 00:24:07,404 --> 00:24:09,864 Alas, Mr. Holmes, I seem to have lost 387 00:24:10,031 --> 00:24:11,198 the faculty of thought. 388 00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:16,996 My magnum opus. 389 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:20,291 My analysis of the documents found in the- 390 00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:22,293 Coptic monasteries of Syria 391 00:24:22,836 --> 00:24:23,794 and Egypt. 392 00:24:26,256 --> 00:24:29,592 It is a work that I hoped to have cut deep at the very foundations 393 00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:31,260 of revealed religion. 394 00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:34,346 And this looks impressive. 395 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:39,185 But with my enfeebled health, I don't know that I shall- 396 00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:41,479 ever be able to complete it 397 00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:43,481 without my assistant. 398 00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:52,907 I don't want to trouble you 399 00:24:53,533 --> 00:24:55,534 with a lengthy examination. 400 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:58,996 Simply- 401 00:25:01,583 --> 00:25:04,335 to ask you what Willoughby Smith 402 00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:06,629 meant by his last words. 403 00:25:08,381 --> 00:25:10,341 "The Professor, it was she..." 404 00:25:13,470 --> 00:25:14,053 Susan. 405 00:25:15,889 --> 00:25:18,682 A country girl, Mr. Holmes. 406 00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:22,228 You must be aware of the incredible stupidity of that class. 407 00:25:24,231 --> 00:25:27,399 I fancy the poor fellow murmured some incoherent words and 408 00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:30,736 she twisted them into her meaningless message. 409 00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:39,828 You've no explanation yourself for the tragedy? 410 00:25:41,623 --> 00:25:42,498 Possibly. 411 00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:45,376 I breathe this only- 412 00:25:45,710 --> 00:25:47,127 among ourselves. 413 00:25:48,338 --> 00:25:49,880 Possibly suicide. 414 00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,423 Suicide. 415 00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:55,761 Young men have their hidden troubles, Mr. Holmes. 416 00:25:56,304 --> 00:25:58,222 An affair of the heart perhaps, 417 00:25:58,807 --> 00:26:00,140 which we have never known. 418 00:26:02,477 --> 00:26:05,312 Is it more probable supposition than murder? 419 00:26:05,772 --> 00:26:07,064 And what of the pince-nez? 420 00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:10,609 A fan. 421 00:26:11,361 --> 00:26:12,152 A glove. 422 00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:13,445 Eye glasses. 423 00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:17,992 Who knows what article may be carried as a token or 424 00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:20,452 treasured, 425 00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:23,247 when a man puts an end to his life? 426 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:27,334 I must get out of here. 427 00:26:28,753 --> 00:26:30,379 Possibly, I speak as a child. 428 00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:33,591 Seems to me Willoughby Smith met his fate, 429 00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:35,301 by his own hand. 430 00:26:35,802 --> 00:26:39,013 Willoughby Smith was murdered. He did not commit suicide. 431 00:26:39,139 --> 00:26:40,055 Good afternoon, sir. 432 00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:41,348 Yes, I agree. 433 00:26:41,808 --> 00:26:44,852 So, the Professor's theory has no bearing on the case? 434 00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:58,449 Would you be good enough to arrange 435 00:26:58,575 --> 00:27:02,328 carriage and escort for me as far as the railway station? 436 00:27:02,495 --> 00:27:03,329 Of course, sir. 437 00:27:03,496 --> 00:27:05,372 I have to get back to town, so I'll take you there myself. 438 00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:07,291 You're very kind. 439 00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:14,048 I think you might find this more beneficial 440 00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:17,259 than Alexandrian tobacco. 441 00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:23,599 You remember what papa used to tell us when we were young? 442 00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:27,353 Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, 443 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,273 however improbable, must be the truth. 444 00:27:32,859 --> 00:27:34,985 I forget his exact words. 445 00:27:35,695 --> 00:27:37,321 But those are near enough. 446 00:27:38,073 --> 00:27:38,989 See you in London. 447 00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:40,991 Ionides. 448 00:27:47,582 --> 00:27:50,793 I'm overlooking something that is staring me in the face. 449 00:27:56,883 --> 00:27:58,550 Oh, thank you, my dear. 450 00:28:01,888 --> 00:28:03,055 Bad news, I'm afraid, sir. 451 00:28:03,181 --> 00:28:05,599 There isn't another train for Charing Cross until late this evening. 452 00:28:05,809 --> 00:28:08,018 You should have double-checked the railway timetable 453 00:28:08,144 --> 00:28:10,145 before dragging me to this wretched place. 454 00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:11,730 I'm most certainly sorry, sir. 455 00:28:12,065 --> 00:28:13,691 Just a minute, inspector. 456 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,859 London can wait. 457 00:28:16,611 --> 00:28:20,531 I think we should postpone our trip for a little while 458 00:28:21,032 --> 00:28:22,908 to attend a political meeting. 459 00:28:23,326 --> 00:28:25,994 We hear of reform after reform... 460 00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:29,581 You shouldn't encourage these women, Mr. Holmes. 461 00:28:29,749 --> 00:28:31,750 They're troublemakers, no better than criminals. 462 00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:35,587 Organiser, Miss Abigail Crosby 463 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,676 Meeting, held in church hall, half past seven o'clock. 464 00:28:40,802 --> 00:28:42,761 Think back, inspector. 465 00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:45,431 Willoughby Smith's diaries. 466 00:28:45,765 --> 00:28:47,641 "Abby, seven-thirty." 467 00:28:47,767 --> 00:28:48,934 Do you mind? 468 00:28:49,185 --> 00:28:52,104 Thank you gentlemen for your sensitivity. 469 00:28:53,314 --> 00:28:55,983 We hear of reform after reform, 470 00:28:56,526 --> 00:29:00,904 and yet still nothing is done to improve the position of women in society. 471 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:07,453 The fate of our country is still being decided by men alone and yet women, 472 00:29:07,912 --> 00:29:11,582 who are subjected daily and equally to the laws of the land, 473 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:13,834 are not permitted to vote. 474 00:29:20,008 --> 00:29:23,218 That must be Miss Abigail Crosby. 475 00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:25,637 Formidable. 476 00:29:26,014 --> 00:29:27,681 Votes for women indeed. 477 00:29:27,974 --> 00:29:29,266 Whatever next? 478 00:29:29,392 --> 00:29:30,601 Women police? 479 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:32,686 Women politicians? 480 00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:34,605 I'm not gonna tell you again. 481 00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:38,275 The struggle for female enfranchisement has so far been a peaceful one. 482 00:29:38,401 --> 00:29:39,651 God forbid. 483 00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:42,154 But the time has come when we must ask ourselves, 484 00:29:42,363 --> 00:29:45,157 how much longer this state of affairs can continue, 485 00:29:45,575 --> 00:29:47,951 How much longer we should allow ourselves 486 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,496 to be treated like second-class citizens. 487 00:29:50,663 --> 00:29:52,206 You tell them, Abigail. 488 00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:53,081 Poppycock. 489 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:54,541 I'd like to read to you a letter 490 00:29:54,667 --> 00:29:58,003 which I received two days ago from Mrs. Garrett Fawcett, 491 00:29:58,171 --> 00:30:02,466 urging us to continue the fight until we achieve our aims. 492 00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:08,138 That should interest you, inspector. 493 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:13,811 Well, well, well. 494 00:30:28,159 --> 00:30:29,785 Mycroft. 495 00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:31,453 On every side, 496 00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:35,165 those in a position to help, are stricken by deafness. 497 00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:38,043 We are told that the country has more important things 498 00:30:38,169 --> 00:30:39,920 to worry about than votes for women. 499 00:30:40,213 --> 00:30:41,421 But tell me, 500 00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:45,592 what can be more important than the rights of half of the population? 501 00:30:46,177 --> 00:30:48,512 Was the late queen not also a woman? 502 00:30:57,063 --> 00:31:01,316 I have had quite enough of the criminal classes for one day, Inspector. 503 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,735 Where's that carriage you promised me? 504 00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:19,126 I don't know nothing about nothing, sir. Honest. 505 00:31:22,130 --> 00:31:24,047 Then why are you crying, Miss Dalton? 506 00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:28,010 Tonight I wanna be in no trouble. 507 00:31:28,595 --> 00:31:31,221 I lose my situation if I do. 508 00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:33,181 I'll ask you one more time. 509 00:31:33,308 --> 00:31:37,936 Was Willoughby Smith acquainted with the school teacher, Miss Abigail Crosby? 510 00:31:38,104 --> 00:31:39,313 I don't know. 511 00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:43,275 You do know Miss Dalton. It's useless to lie. 512 00:31:44,611 --> 00:31:47,237 Yes, he was. 513 00:31:48,114 --> 00:31:50,324 Oh, they knew each other all right. 514 00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:52,618 And they had a blazing row. 515 00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:56,288 Abby, will you listen to me, please. 516 00:31:56,789 --> 00:31:58,123 The day before yesterday. 517 00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:01,585 You're wasting your time on these suffragettes. 518 00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:03,086 Can't you see that? 519 00:32:03,212 --> 00:32:06,548 Thank you, Willoughby. Your support is as overwhelming as ever. 520 00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:09,092 He said he loved me, 521 00:32:13,473 --> 00:32:14,806 take care of me. 522 00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:21,521 And I believed him. 523 00:32:21,731 --> 00:32:22,856 Don't you touch me. 524 00:32:23,650 --> 00:32:24,691 Abby, Abby. 525 00:32:24,817 --> 00:32:25,817 Don't touch me! 526 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,069 All right, all right. 527 00:32:28,863 --> 00:32:32,324 I'm just trying to make you see reason. 528 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:34,952 You're spending your time with these people you barely know 529 00:32:35,078 --> 00:32:36,662 when you should be building a life with me. 530 00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:38,246 Take your hands off. 531 00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:39,998 God knows, half of them are the lowest of the low. 532 00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:43,168 These are not the sort of people that you should be mixing with. 533 00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:46,505 This is my life. What I choose to do with it- 534 00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:48,924 and who I choose to do it with, is my business. 535 00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:52,511 No one is going to stand in my way. Do I make myself clear? 536 00:32:54,013 --> 00:32:55,138 If that's what you want. 537 00:32:55,264 --> 00:32:59,351 I know exactly what I want, and at the moment it doesn't include you. 538 00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:06,942 And that's what emancipation does for a woman, is it? 539 00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:08,777 Ah, you've been drinking. 540 00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:11,279 I've told you not to come near me when you've been drinking. 541 00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:14,241 Makes you turn down a good offer of marriage. 542 00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:16,743 A chance to be really happy... 543 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:20,539 Instead of- 544 00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:22,791 a miserable bluestocking. 545 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:35,220 You'd better leave. 546 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:39,850 It's empty. 547 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:44,312 I think you might find this more beneficial 548 00:33:44,897 --> 00:33:47,274 than Alexandrian tobacco. 549 00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:09,648 Nothing wrong with her sight. 550 00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:13,276 Miss Abigail Crosby. 551 00:35:14,445 --> 00:35:15,362 Miss Crosby. 552 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:18,448 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 553 00:35:20,159 --> 00:35:23,453 The Inspector has no doubt explained the state of things to you. 554 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:26,998 But you know the seriousness of your position. 555 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:30,669 Do you have anything to say in your defence? 556 00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:34,089 Only that I am innocent of the crime of which I am accused. 557 00:35:35,341 --> 00:35:37,134 But you did know the deceased. 558 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:39,094 Is that also a crime? 559 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,432 We were close friends, 560 00:35:45,518 --> 00:35:46,184 until... 561 00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:47,894 Until... 562 00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:54,901 I meant more to him than he did to me. 563 00:35:55,653 --> 00:35:57,195 I realise that now. 564 00:35:57,989 --> 00:36:01,199 But for all the world, I would not have wished him any harm. 565 00:36:02,451 --> 00:36:04,870 The Inspector informed me that you had a violent quarrel 566 00:36:05,037 --> 00:36:07,873 with Willoughby Smith the day before he died. 567 00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:10,876 There were harsh words spoken on both sides, 568 00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:13,378 but with good reason. 569 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:15,714 You probably know that I am an active member- 570 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,883 of the women's suffrage movement. 571 00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:21,011 Willoughby believed, selfishly, I think, 572 00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:25,223 that my future way of life and my liberty were at great risk. 573 00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:28,602 I reassured him that our campaign here 574 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,855 was as peaceful as may be. 575 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:37,944 I have no wish to break the law in order to change it. 576 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:40,447 Unless... 577 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:43,867 Regarding your bureau in the study, 578 00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:48,496 does it contain anything which someone might wish to steal? 579 00:36:49,749 --> 00:36:51,833 Nothing of value that I know of. 580 00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:55,086 Family papers and letters from my poor wife, 581 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:58,924 diplomas from universities that have done me honour... 582 00:37:00,509 --> 00:37:02,552 Have the key, you can look for yourself. 583 00:37:17,693 --> 00:37:18,485 Snuff... 584 00:37:32,833 --> 00:37:34,292 Your lunch, Professor. 585 00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,220 Not hungry, Mr. Holmes? 586 00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:49,808 Those cigarettes don't help the appetite. 587 00:37:52,895 --> 00:37:54,980 For the same reason, no doubt that the Professor- 588 00:37:55,106 --> 00:37:57,649 returns to the kitchen more often than he eats. 589 00:38:17,086 --> 00:38:21,214 Am I to assume there have been further developments, Inspector? 590 00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:22,674 So I'm told, Professor. 591 00:38:22,883 --> 00:38:24,718 I fail to see, Mr. Holmes, 592 00:38:25,011 --> 00:38:27,512 how I can be of any further assistance to you. 593 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,223 I have forged and tested- 594 00:38:30,599 --> 00:38:33,518 every link of my chain, Professor Coram. 595 00:38:33,936 --> 00:38:35,770 And I am sure that it is sound. 596 00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:39,858 What on earth is he talking about? 597 00:38:40,026 --> 00:38:41,526 Two days ago, 598 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,945 a woman entered your study. 599 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:47,073 She came with express intention 600 00:38:47,366 --> 00:38:50,994 of taking certain papers which were held in your bureau. 601 00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:54,831 She had a key of her own. 602 00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:29,824 Your own key does not have that slight- 603 00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:32,035 discoloration, 604 00:39:33,913 --> 00:39:37,582 which the scratch made upon the varnish would produce. 605 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,795 She came, as far as my evidence can tell me, 606 00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:43,713 without your knowledge. 607 00:39:44,673 --> 00:39:45,673 To rob you. 608 00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:52,472 But surely, 609 00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:54,933 having traced this lady so far, 610 00:39:55,768 --> 00:39:57,811 you can also say what has since become of her. 611 00:39:57,978 --> 00:39:59,938 I shall endeavour to do so. 612 00:40:00,523 --> 00:40:03,316 In the first place, she was seized by your secretary. 613 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:06,569 She stabbed him in order to escape. 614 00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:09,447 It was an unhappy accident, 615 00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:12,117 for I am convinced that the lady had no intention 616 00:40:12,284 --> 00:40:14,786 of inflicting so grievous an injury. 617 00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:19,040 Horrified by what she had done, 618 00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:22,043 she rushed wildly away from the scene of the tragedy. 619 00:40:22,211 --> 00:40:23,795 Unfortunately for her, 620 00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:27,424 she lost her pince-nez in the scuffle. 621 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:29,968 She ran down the corridor 622 00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:32,887 which she imagined to be that by which she had come. 623 00:40:33,013 --> 00:40:35,598 Both were lined with coconut matting. 624 00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:39,394 Only when it was too late 625 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,814 did she understand that she had taken the wrong passage, 626 00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:45,525 and that her retreat was cut off. 627 00:40:47,778 --> 00:40:49,028 What was she to do? 628 00:40:49,321 --> 00:40:50,738 She could not go back. 629 00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:52,824 She could not remain where she was. 630 00:40:52,992 --> 00:40:54,117 She must go on. 631 00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:55,410 She went on. 632 00:40:59,874 --> 00:41:01,458 All very fine, Mr. Holmes. 633 00:41:01,750 --> 00:41:04,335 You mean to say that I could lie in that bed, 634 00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:07,755 and not be aware that a strange woman had entered my room? 635 00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:09,716 Of course you were aware of her, Professor. 636 00:41:09,925 --> 00:41:11,676 You recognised her through this- 637 00:41:11,969 --> 00:41:14,846 haze of your existence. You spoke with her. 638 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:15,597 You're mad. 639 00:41:15,764 --> 00:41:17,932 You helped her to elude the police. 640 00:41:18,684 --> 00:41:21,394 I helped her to elude the police? 641 00:41:21,687 --> 00:41:22,353 Huh! 642 00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:23,771 Where? 643 00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:25,773 Where is she now? 644 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:26,858 Here! 645 00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,235 Where she has been all along. 646 00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:41,039 You were right. 647 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:42,207 Well, I'll be damned. 648 00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:43,666 I am here. 649 00:42:00,935 --> 00:42:02,602 I could hear everything. 650 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,231 And I know that you have learned the truth. 651 00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:09,275 But you were right, to say it was an accident. 652 00:42:09,735 --> 00:42:12,612 I did not know it was a knife in my hand. 653 00:42:13,113 --> 00:42:14,864 For in my despair, 654 00:42:14,990 --> 00:42:17,200 I snatched at anything, 655 00:42:17,409 --> 00:42:20,078 and struck at him to make him let me go. 656 00:42:25,084 --> 00:42:27,544 I have only a little time here 657 00:42:28,254 --> 00:42:31,589 and I would have that you know the whole truth, 658 00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:48,398 that l- 659 00:42:48,524 --> 00:42:49,983 am this man's 660 00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:51,025 wife. 661 00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:53,403 He is not an Englishman. 662 00:42:53,612 --> 00:42:54,779 He's a Russian. 663 00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:59,534 Why should you cling so hard to that wretched life of yours, Sergei? 664 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,662 It has done harm to so many, 665 00:43:02,913 --> 00:43:04,414 and good to none. 666 00:43:04,790 --> 00:43:06,583 Not even yourself. 667 00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:16,467 You were fifty, 668 00:43:16,969 --> 00:43:19,387 and I, a young girl, 669 00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:21,889 when we married in St. Petersburg. 670 00:43:22,474 --> 00:43:25,018 I loved you so much. 671 00:43:26,437 --> 00:43:27,812 More than that, 672 00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:30,231 I idolised you. 673 00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:33,234 I would have done anything for you. 674 00:43:33,819 --> 00:43:35,278 And I did. 675 00:43:37,197 --> 00:43:41,326 Because then, you were everything to me. 676 00:43:43,537 --> 00:43:45,371 But we were reformers, 677 00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:47,165 nihilists. 678 00:43:47,499 --> 00:43:50,460 And soon there came a time of great trouble. 679 00:44:14,276 --> 00:44:19,947 Sergei. 680 00:44:30,167 --> 00:44:32,126 No, Sergei. No more deaths. 681 00:44:32,294 --> 00:44:33,127 No more. 682 00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:38,091 Sergei! 683 00:45:31,311 --> 00:45:32,145 Where is Sergei? 684 00:45:32,312 --> 00:45:33,521 Forget your husband. 685 00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,106 He has betrayed us all. 686 00:45:35,232 --> 00:45:35,773 No! 687 00:45:35,941 --> 00:45:37,108 Yes, Anna. 688 00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:40,194 We are betrayed. 689 00:45:40,612 --> 00:45:43,531 We were all arrested upon your confession. 690 00:45:44,158 --> 00:45:47,118 Some of us went to the gallows, 691 00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:50,121 and some of us to Siberia. 692 00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:53,958 After 20 years, I was released. 693 00:45:54,918 --> 00:45:55,835 You- 694 00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:58,463 came to England with your blood money 695 00:45:58,672 --> 00:46:01,591 and lived in quiet ever since, 696 00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:03,134 knowing well- 697 00:46:03,302 --> 00:46:06,137 that if the brotherhood every found out where you were, 698 00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:09,974 not a week could pass before justice would be done. 699 00:46:11,477 --> 00:46:13,186 I'm in your hands, Anna. 700 00:46:17,858 --> 00:46:19,150 You were always good to me. 701 00:46:21,069 --> 00:46:23,154 My brother, Alexey, 702 00:46:23,530 --> 00:46:25,990 was noble, unselfish. 703 00:46:26,241 --> 00:46:27,909 He hated violence, 704 00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:31,829 and wrote many letters trying to dissuade us from such a course. 705 00:46:32,164 --> 00:46:34,832 His letters would have proved his innocence. 706 00:46:35,250 --> 00:46:36,167 But you- 707 00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:38,795 stole them from me and hid them. 708 00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:41,756 So, Alexey was sent to Siberia, 709 00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:45,551 where he is even now. 710 00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:54,685 As soon as my time of imprisonment is over, 711 00:46:55,771 --> 00:46:59,482 I determined to get a letter that would procure my brother's release. 712 00:46:59,858 --> 00:47:02,693 I knew that my husband had come to England, 713 00:47:03,362 --> 00:47:05,196 and after many months of searching, 714 00:47:05,697 --> 00:47:08,324 I determined where he was. 715 00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:15,540 So at last, 716 00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:18,167 I determined to get the letters for myself. 717 00:47:18,669 --> 00:47:21,587 I had just removed them from the bureau 718 00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:23,589 when the young man- 719 00:47:24,007 --> 00:47:25,049 seized me. 720 00:47:25,717 --> 00:47:28,970 The same young man I had met earlier that morning. 721 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,597 I'd asked him where Professor Coram lived, 722 00:47:32,015 --> 00:47:34,642 not knowing that he worked for him. 723 00:47:35,018 --> 00:47:37,270 And he must have told the Professor about you. 724 00:47:37,396 --> 00:47:39,355 "The Professor, it was she..." 725 00:47:39,898 --> 00:47:41,274 When he had fallen, 726 00:47:42,234 --> 00:47:44,735 I ran blindly to the wrong door, 727 00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:48,573 and found myself in this room. 728 00:47:50,158 --> 00:47:50,950 You, 729 00:47:51,743 --> 00:47:55,580 you talked of giving me up 730 00:47:56,290 --> 00:47:57,915 I showed you- 731 00:47:58,083 --> 00:47:59,750 that if you did so, 732 00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,670 your life was in my hands. 733 00:48:03,088 --> 00:48:05,464 If you gave me to the law, 734 00:48:06,008 --> 00:48:09,302 I could give you to the Brotherhood. 735 00:48:13,348 --> 00:48:18,436 That as our lives had once been bound together in marriage, 736 00:48:19,062 --> 00:48:24,901 so our destinies would forever be entwined. 737 00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:29,572 It is finished. 738 00:48:30,782 --> 00:48:32,199 It never began. 739 00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:39,790 You had your meals served in here, so you could share your food. 740 00:48:40,292 --> 00:48:42,209 It was agreed that when the police left, 741 00:48:42,336 --> 00:48:45,338 that you should slip away into the night and never be seen again. 742 00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:51,636 These are the letters that will save my brother's life. 743 00:48:52,054 --> 00:48:55,306 Take them to the Russian Embassy. 744 00:49:07,819 --> 00:49:08,694 Poison. 745 00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:46,774 A letter by hand, Mr. Holmes. 746 00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:55,241 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 747 00:49:55,701 --> 00:49:56,867 Sleep well. 748 00:49:59,329 --> 00:50:02,540 It was clear to me from the strength of the spectacles 749 00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:06,293 that the wearer must have been almost blind without them. 750 00:50:06,461 --> 00:50:08,546 And I therefore considered the hypothesis 751 00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:11,090 that she'd remained within the house. 752 00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:14,468 You might say it was elementary. 753 00:50:14,928 --> 00:50:19,140 Oh, by the way, don't mention the snuff to Watson. 754 00:50:19,766 --> 00:50:24,020 Tell him you dropped cigarette ash or something. Leave me out of it. 755 00:50:24,312 --> 00:50:26,897 But why on earth did the wretched woman 756 00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:29,525 feel compelled to take her own life? 757 00:50:30,444 --> 00:50:32,278 She'd achieved her purpose. 758 00:50:35,407 --> 00:50:37,950 Past hope and in despair. 759 00:50:40,245 --> 00:50:42,413 And the death of love. 760 00:50:43,373 --> 00:50:44,582 Of course. 761 00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:49,462 Ah, Professor... 762 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:54,508 Be sure your sin will find you out.