1 00:01:41,643 --> 00:01:43,936 Now I won't say as how the uniform don't suit- 2 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:47,815 you, Miss Cushing. But it is nice to see you out of it. 3 00:01:49,984 --> 00:01:52,236 Sarah, Sarah. 4 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:02,871 You must be the other Miss Cushing. 5 00:02:03,748 --> 00:02:06,959 Isn't this a happy day then, eh, for all three of you. 6 00:02:07,085 --> 00:02:09,711 Yes, yes it is, of course it is. 7 00:02:40,535 --> 00:02:41,910 Just coming. 8 00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:26,246 "Body Snatchers Strike in North London." 9 00:03:26,956 --> 00:03:30,375 "Are we dealing with a modern version of Burke and Hare?" 10 00:03:30,752 --> 00:03:33,795 Well, sadly, the anatomy schools don't need the help 11 00:03:33,963 --> 00:03:36,089 of body snatchers at this time of the year. 12 00:03:36,257 --> 00:03:38,550 They are well stocked with corpses from the poor. 13 00:03:38,676 --> 00:03:40,177 What do you think then? 14 00:03:40,678 --> 00:03:44,973 I don't know. Some outlandish cult, perhaps. 15 00:03:46,351 --> 00:03:48,560 Have you been consulted on the subject Holmes? 16 00:03:49,437 --> 00:03:50,938 Come in, Hawkins. 17 00:03:51,105 --> 00:03:52,773 Ah Hawkins. 18 00:03:52,941 --> 00:03:55,234 Make yourself at home. Have a cup of coffee. 19 00:03:56,152 --> 00:03:57,194 Thank you. 20 00:03:57,820 --> 00:03:59,112 Have you brought those descriptions? 21 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,198 Yes, yes I have. 22 00:04:02,825 --> 00:04:07,204 Bodies so far exhumed, "Albert Cotter, forty eight." 23 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:10,040 "Fish porter of Shadwell. Heart disease." 24 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:13,252 "Martin Rubery, fifty four. Cirrhosis of the liver." 25 00:04:13,503 --> 00:04:15,128 We don't know much about him, except it was thought 26 00:04:15,338 --> 00:04:18,465 he was an amateur pugilist of some sort in his youth. 27 00:04:18,841 --> 00:04:22,302 "Jimmy King, thirty nine. Covent Garden Porter." 28 00:04:22,470 --> 00:04:23,887 "Cerebral hemorrhage." 29 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,224 You will continue your researches? 30 00:04:27,350 --> 00:04:28,642 If you say so, Mr. Holmes. 31 00:04:28,726 --> 00:04:29,977 I do say so. 32 00:04:30,645 --> 00:04:34,815 And keep your eye on the premises of a certain Murdoch Gull. 33 00:04:35,733 --> 00:04:38,527 Yes? Murdoch, you think? 34 00:04:38,653 --> 00:04:42,656 Is the fence for anything out of the ordinary? It could be a man. 35 00:04:44,158 --> 00:04:46,159 One more thing, Mr. Holmes, sir. 36 00:04:46,786 --> 00:04:48,412 The men and I would be very honoured 37 00:04:48,538 --> 00:04:51,164 if you'd drop by Christmas Eve. 38 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:54,001 We try to get a bit festive at Christmas, and 39 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:56,169 we like to invite a few guests. 40 00:04:58,298 --> 00:04:59,673 Christmas... 41 00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:27,034 Mary? 42 00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:35,042 There. It's a start. 43 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,085 Mrs. Hudson. 44 00:05:37,211 --> 00:05:38,378 Mr. Holmes? 45 00:05:38,546 --> 00:05:41,256 How am I supposed to think up yet another present for Watson? 46 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:44,009 I mean, every year you inflict this agony on me. 47 00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:46,887 It's quite simple, Mr. Holmes. You go to Gamages. 48 00:05:47,013 --> 00:05:47,554 Gamages? 49 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,515 Yes. It's in Holborn, a department store. 50 00:05:50,641 --> 00:05:55,062 The people's Emporium. You will be quite spoilt for ideas. 51 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,072 Mrs. Hudson, how dare you take my aspidistra? 52 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:08,116 I do dare. 53 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:45,946 Afternoon, Miss Cushing. Season's Greetings, eh? 54 00:06:46,072 --> 00:06:47,322 Good afternoon, Wilkinson. 55 00:06:47,448 --> 00:06:49,324 Looks like we're in for a bit more snow before long. 56 00:06:49,450 --> 00:06:50,992 I do hope not. 57 00:07:26,571 --> 00:07:28,530 What is this Monsieur Jacotett? 58 00:07:28,656 --> 00:07:30,198 Ah, Madame Suzan. 59 00:07:30,324 --> 00:07:34,995 Our arrangement is that you may sit by the parlour fire after dinner. 60 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:36,997 Otherwise, I would be obliged, 61 00:07:37,623 --> 00:07:41,168 when you are in the house, if you would keep to your room. 62 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:43,670 Your sister, Sarah, gave me permission, Madame. 63 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:50,343 This is my house, not my sister's. Even if she said it, which I doubt. 64 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:51,344 You doubt my word? 65 00:07:51,512 --> 00:07:53,180 I would be most surprised if my sister gave 66 00:07:53,306 --> 00:07:55,974 the run of the kitchen to my lodger. 67 00:07:56,309 --> 00:07:58,727 You would be surprised what your sister gives. 68 00:07:59,437 --> 00:08:01,021 Very surprised. 69 00:08:01,939 --> 00:08:05,358 I think I would be obliged if you left the kitchen now, Monsieur. 70 00:08:05,526 --> 00:08:07,027 I don't think you hear what I am saying. 71 00:08:07,195 --> 00:08:08,445 Susan. 72 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:13,909 Marcel... 73 00:08:14,035 --> 00:08:17,287 Oh Susan, it has worked. They have made me warden at the mission. 74 00:08:17,413 --> 00:08:19,206 Now you ask her what she gave me. 75 00:08:19,874 --> 00:08:21,625 Did you give Monsieur Jacotett 76 00:08:21,751 --> 00:08:24,711 permission to help himself in here, in the kitchen? 77 00:08:27,548 --> 00:08:30,383 I believe I did, once. I didn't realize he'd... 78 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:31,510 Ask her. 79 00:08:32,553 --> 00:08:33,512 What do you mean? What is going on? 80 00:08:33,638 --> 00:08:34,679 Ask her. 81 00:08:36,015 --> 00:08:40,143 You English are such hypocrites. Now you tell her what you gave me. 82 00:08:41,062 --> 00:08:44,064 What is all this about? Will someone please tell me what's going? 83 00:08:57,245 --> 00:08:58,328 I see. 84 00:09:00,331 --> 00:09:03,792 I see. Very well. 85 00:09:05,127 --> 00:09:09,089 You are warden now. Go and live there then. 86 00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:12,926 You'll have quarters at the mission. Go there. 87 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:20,350 I don't want you under my roof. Go. I won't have you here, I won't. 88 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:24,521 And as for you Monsieur, you will leave my house immediately. 89 00:09:25,439 --> 00:09:28,692 Immediately. Or I will call the police. 90 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:34,531 Your belongings will be packed and 91 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:37,242 left at the tradesmen's entrance for your collection. 92 00:09:37,952 --> 00:09:39,661 How dare you! 93 00:09:40,788 --> 00:09:42,455 You sound exactly like mother. 94 00:09:42,623 --> 00:09:43,456 What if I do? 95 00:09:43,624 --> 00:09:46,042 I thought I'd heard the last of that sort of thing when she died. 96 00:09:46,168 --> 00:09:47,961 How dare you talk about mother like that! 97 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:50,213 It's just as well I am like her. 98 00:09:50,339 --> 00:09:52,340 I don't know what would happen to this family otherwise. 99 00:09:52,466 --> 00:09:55,594 Oh you hold us all together do you? 100 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,388 How splendid you are! 101 00:10:00,933 --> 00:10:04,394 Do you realize that Mary has gone away without telling anyone? 102 00:10:05,229 --> 00:10:08,690 Good. She's showing some spirit at last. 103 00:10:08,816 --> 00:10:10,817 You call that good? 104 00:10:11,902 --> 00:10:14,487 Sometimes you're not just feckless, 105 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:17,324 I think you're deliberately irresponsible. 106 00:10:17,491 --> 00:10:19,618 Mary is a married woman. 107 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:24,664 Well, no thanks to you. You stood in her way to the last. 108 00:10:25,541 --> 00:10:29,586 Jim Browner was never good enough for our family, was he? 109 00:10:29,837 --> 00:10:33,089 The daughters of Major Cushing RE? 110 00:10:33,382 --> 00:10:36,885 Never mind, he was a gambling wastrel. Our father was... 111 00:10:37,011 --> 00:10:40,388 Be quiet. If anyone has disgraced this family... 112 00:10:40,514 --> 00:10:41,723 It's me? 113 00:10:42,266 --> 00:10:46,353 I warn you, one day this diet of respectability 114 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,730 is going to make you ill. 115 00:10:51,692 --> 00:10:56,154 You are so... horrid. 116 00:11:04,246 --> 00:11:05,038 Ah dear Mrs. Hudson. 117 00:11:05,206 --> 00:11:07,916 Mr. Holmes, the doctor has someone with him. 118 00:11:08,084 --> 00:11:09,459 A Miss Susan Cushing. 119 00:11:09,585 --> 00:11:10,877 Oh well. You'd better hold onto this. 120 00:11:11,045 --> 00:11:12,045 This is... 121 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:25,016 What's that? 122 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:30,480 Ah, that is a Christmas tree, it's a Norway spruce. 123 00:11:31,232 --> 00:11:33,316 This is Miss Cushing. 124 00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:39,948 Miss Cushing is concerned about her sister, Mrs. Browner. 125 00:11:40,116 --> 00:11:41,449 Pray continue. 126 00:11:42,868 --> 00:11:44,494 Miss Cushing's youngest sister, 127 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:48,039 lives not far from her, just east of Camberwell. 128 00:11:49,792 --> 00:11:52,877 Mrs. Browner visits her every Friday for tea, 129 00:11:53,003 --> 00:11:56,047 unless she sends excuses, which is most unusual. 130 00:11:57,633 --> 00:12:00,051 Last Friday, the nineteenth, 131 00:12:00,177 --> 00:12:03,263 Mrs. Browner failed to send excuses or to arrive. 132 00:12:03,389 --> 00:12:06,516 So, Miss Cushing has made inquiries at her lodgings, 133 00:12:06,642 --> 00:12:09,894 but Mrs. Browner has not been seen there since last Thursday. 134 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:12,230 Sounds to me as if she has disappeared. 135 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,023 Evidently, Holmes. 136 00:12:14,316 --> 00:12:16,776 There could be one or two reasons for her disappearance. 137 00:12:16,944 --> 00:12:19,446 Yes, I know. Either because she wished to disappear, 138 00:12:19,613 --> 00:12:22,240 or because somebody else wished her to disappear. 139 00:12:22,366 --> 00:12:26,369 Do you know of any reason why anyone should want her to disappear? 140 00:12:26,495 --> 00:12:28,788 Mary? None. 141 00:12:29,623 --> 00:12:32,876 She's the most loveable of creatures. Everyone loves her. 142 00:12:34,003 --> 00:12:35,462 As to her whereabouts, 143 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:39,466 I mean, I suggest that you try the missing people agency. 144 00:12:39,633 --> 00:12:41,718 I could find you a list of addresses. 145 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:43,386 There, hah. 146 00:12:45,681 --> 00:12:46,973 Charming, isn't it? 147 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,644 Slight improvement on that rather sad pices excelsa. 148 00:13:04,325 --> 00:13:07,202 Sarah. 149 00:13:07,328 --> 00:13:08,661 Marcel. 150 00:13:10,956 --> 00:13:13,333 What possessed you? You've wrecked it all. 151 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:16,836 The waiting possessed me. You drive me mad Sarah. 152 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:19,297 Sometimes I think I'm possessed. 153 00:13:19,548 --> 00:13:20,632 Where are you now? 154 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:23,092 Some filthy hole near the hospital. 155 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:26,554 Thanks to your sister. I will not let her forget this. 156 00:13:29,225 --> 00:13:32,477 You'll need a reference if you're going to find a decent place to stay. 157 00:13:32,728 --> 00:13:34,354 Are you going to Belgium still for Christmas? 158 00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:36,898 Yes. My uncle in Ostend. 159 00:13:37,107 --> 00:13:40,151 Well, when you come back, I'll write a reference for you. 160 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:43,696 I'm Warden of this place. It'll count. 161 00:13:45,241 --> 00:13:46,282 I love you. 162 00:13:50,496 --> 00:13:52,372 Come to me after Christmas. 163 00:14:32,454 --> 00:14:34,122 The post, Miss Cushing. 164 00:14:36,166 --> 00:14:38,126 Shall I put the parcels under the tree? 165 00:14:38,252 --> 00:14:39,627 Yes, please. 166 00:14:47,845 --> 00:14:49,470 Nothing from Mrs. Browner, yet? 167 00:14:49,638 --> 00:14:51,389 Nothing as yet, no. 168 00:14:52,683 --> 00:14:55,935 Did Sudgen's include the Madeira in their delivery today? 169 00:14:56,103 --> 00:14:59,689 Yes, Miss Cushing. Everything's ready for this evening. 170 00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:01,107 Thank you. 171 00:15:10,618 --> 00:15:12,660 Compliments of the season, Mr. Bradbrook. 172 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:14,954 Thank you very much, and the very same to you. 173 00:15:27,551 --> 00:15:30,637 Miss Cushing. I say Miss Cushing. 174 00:15:32,681 --> 00:15:33,848 Mr. Bradbrook? 175 00:15:34,183 --> 00:15:37,060 I dare say your sister, Sarah, will be joining us? 176 00:15:37,186 --> 00:15:39,437 I'm afraid not, Mr. Bradbrook. 177 00:15:39,647 --> 00:15:42,148 She's Warden now of the Mission Hostel now 178 00:15:42,441 --> 00:15:44,817 her duties to her residents will keep her there. 179 00:15:44,985 --> 00:15:48,404 I shall see her here only on Sundays, now I fear. 180 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,160 I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Bradbrook. 181 00:15:54,286 --> 00:15:56,955 No, no, no you haven't, not at all. 182 00:15:57,289 --> 00:16:00,667 Come now, Mr. Bradbrook. It is Christmas Eve. 183 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,836 To make up, we shall open our presents from the tree 184 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:06,339 straight after supper instead of at midnight. 185 00:16:06,507 --> 00:16:07,674 What do you say? 186 00:16:07,841 --> 00:16:11,469 Very well. Yes. Yes, fine. Splendid. Let's do that. 187 00:16:11,595 --> 00:16:13,846 Well, Gladstone will be pleased at least. 188 00:16:14,014 --> 00:16:16,015 There is a treat somewhere for him. 189 00:16:33,742 --> 00:16:36,661 Welcome gentlemen, very good of you to come. 190 00:16:36,787 --> 00:16:38,204 Gull? Has he been arrested? 191 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,206 No, Mr. Holmes. He's come to complain. 192 00:16:40,374 --> 00:16:41,040 Has he indeed? 193 00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:43,751 He has spotted our surveillance of him. He doesn't like it. 194 00:16:43,877 --> 00:16:45,211 You won't give up? 195 00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:46,671 Dear me, no. 196 00:16:49,049 --> 00:16:50,383 Join the party. 197 00:17:32,134 --> 00:17:33,092 Come on. 198 00:17:33,635 --> 00:17:35,428 Yes. Come in. 199 00:17:38,348 --> 00:17:40,141 Oh, my dear fellow, you are wearing it. 200 00:17:40,267 --> 00:17:44,312 Well, I had to try it. What's so good about it is- 201 00:17:44,438 --> 00:17:47,899 it stretches forward over the handlebars if you need it. 202 00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:49,859 Where on earth did you find it? 203 00:17:49,985 --> 00:17:52,445 Gamages, the people's Emporium. 204 00:17:52,571 --> 00:17:55,656 Thank you. Pipe. Magnificent. 205 00:17:55,783 --> 00:18:00,244 Hawkins, do come in, dear fellow. Please, sit down. 206 00:18:01,622 --> 00:18:03,831 What is the news of the grave robberies? 207 00:18:03,957 --> 00:18:06,542 The Camberwell force have been on to me and 208 00:18:06,668 --> 00:18:10,213 incident down there. They were wondering if it had any connection. 209 00:18:10,547 --> 00:18:14,675 I don't think it does myself, but I'd value your opinion Mr. Holmes. 210 00:18:15,135 --> 00:18:19,388 We need to get this nasty little joke solved and out of the way. 211 00:18:19,515 --> 00:18:20,348 Joke? 212 00:18:20,974 --> 00:18:25,269 Respectable lady, in company opening her parcels, Christmas Eve. 213 00:18:25,562 --> 00:18:29,148 One of them's bit odd, full of salt. She empties out the salt. 214 00:18:29,316 --> 00:18:33,569 What's in it? Two freshly severed human ears. 215 00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:37,615 We think it was a medical student. She had a medical student as a lodger. 216 00:18:37,991 --> 00:18:41,911 Post-mortem anatomy can make certain individuals thoroughly callous. 217 00:18:42,329 --> 00:18:45,206 She threw him out just before Christmas. Bit of a row. Apparently. 218 00:18:45,332 --> 00:18:47,375 Anyway, knowing your methods, Mr. Holmes, 219 00:18:47,501 --> 00:18:51,963 I've had the ears left quite untouched at the lady's house. 220 00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:53,089 Which is, 221 00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:57,218 yes. Here it is. Trafalgar Villa, Camberwell, A Miss Susan Cushing. 222 00:19:01,390 --> 00:19:05,518 Oh, Mr. Holmes, have you come to help me find Mary after all? 223 00:19:05,644 --> 00:19:07,603 I'm afraid not, Miss Cushing. 224 00:19:08,188 --> 00:19:12,775 The Inspector has asked me to look into that other, unfortunate business. 225 00:19:13,318 --> 00:19:17,738 Oh, that. Well, I won't have those things in the house, Mr. Hawkins. 226 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:21,617 If you wish to see them, you must go to the conservatory. 227 00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:25,121 Have you arrested that wretched young man yet? 228 00:19:25,247 --> 00:19:27,540 Just a matter of time, Miss Cushing. 229 00:19:30,085 --> 00:19:33,713 Postmarked Harwich. Now this student fellow Jacotett 230 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:37,341 was going home for Christmas to Ostend via Harwich. 231 00:19:38,093 --> 00:19:39,302 Yes, I agree, 232 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:45,558 Harwich is persuasive. The writing is poor. Uneducated. 233 00:19:45,684 --> 00:19:50,229 I know the medical profession is notorious for its illegibility, 234 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:56,861 but this, written with a broad nibbed pen, very inferior ink. 235 00:20:00,949 --> 00:20:02,408 Tarred twine. 236 00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:06,370 Stockholm tar. Knots intact. 237 00:20:19,927 --> 00:20:21,093 Rough salt... 238 00:20:22,137 --> 00:20:23,638 and embedded in it... 239 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:27,183 These very singular enclosures. 240 00:20:27,935 --> 00:20:29,435 What do you think of it, Watson? 241 00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:32,939 A ring has been torn from this ear. 242 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:36,108 They are not a pair. 243 00:20:37,736 --> 00:20:40,905 I suppose it would be rather easier for Jacotett to have abstracted ears 244 00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:44,325 from a dissecting room which were not actually a pair. 245 00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:45,660 To what purpose? 246 00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:49,121 Some kind of disgusting practical joke. 247 00:20:49,831 --> 00:20:52,333 Gentlemen, this is no practical joke. 248 00:20:54,795 --> 00:20:58,130 What first strikes you when you enter a dissecting room? 249 00:21:00,509 --> 00:21:03,094 Formaldehyde. Dammit, it should smell the formaldehyde. 250 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:07,014 And it does not. This is no practical joke. 251 00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:10,434 This is a serious crime. 252 00:21:14,898 --> 00:21:16,649 Your sister, Miss Cushing. 253 00:21:17,484 --> 00:21:24,490 Mary. At last, Mary, Mary, quite contrary. 254 00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:31,956 I thought it was Mary. 255 00:21:34,084 --> 00:21:36,335 I've come to take some more of my things. 256 00:21:38,171 --> 00:21:42,425 I bought you a present before we argued. You may as well have it. 257 00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:44,927 I don't want it. I don't want it. 258 00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:46,846 What's the matter with you? 259 00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:49,181 Is it another disgusting prank? 260 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:52,143 Well, he was your friend, after all. 261 00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:55,062 I don't want your horrid parcel. 262 00:21:55,188 --> 00:21:58,941 Take it. Let's preserve the proprieties at least, sister. 263 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:01,861 Proprieties? 264 00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:06,073 You dare to talk about the proprieties? 265 00:22:06,450 --> 00:22:09,535 You have flouted the rules of society all your life. 266 00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:13,205 And you had the effrontery to accuse me 267 00:22:13,373 --> 00:22:15,708 of interfering with Mary's marrying that man? 268 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:16,876 Didn't you? 269 00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:19,337 But what did you do? 270 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:22,298 What did I do? I did nothing. 271 00:22:22,424 --> 00:22:27,178 You know what you did. You introduced Mary to other men. 272 00:22:27,304 --> 00:22:31,182 Corrupting her. Mary has told me in her innocence. 273 00:22:31,308 --> 00:22:32,558 She accused me? 274 00:22:32,684 --> 00:22:35,227 Mary accuses no one. You know that. 275 00:22:35,729 --> 00:22:38,606 But I see your hand in her unhappiness. 276 00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:40,816 Nonsense. 277 00:22:42,527 --> 00:22:45,112 Why did Jim Browner start drinking again? 278 00:22:46,281 --> 00:22:50,076 He signed the pledge for Mary. That's what brought them together. 279 00:22:50,744 --> 00:22:53,954 She pinned the blue ribbon to his chest and he was a new man. 280 00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:56,999 So why did he break his pledge? 281 00:22:57,584 --> 00:22:58,918 Why ask me? 282 00:22:59,419 --> 00:23:01,295 Why did you quarrel with him? 283 00:23:02,005 --> 00:23:05,341 I never approved of Jim Browner, that's true, but he deserved- 284 00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:09,011 better than being driven back to drink by your meddling. 285 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:42,711 I'm back. 286 00:23:42,963 --> 00:23:43,921 Jim. 287 00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:45,589 Hello Sarah. 288 00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:48,092 Mary wasn't expecting you till much later. 289 00:23:48,218 --> 00:23:51,470 I managed to catch the tail end of the flood. Saved a whole tide. 290 00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:53,889 She not here then? 291 00:23:54,015 --> 00:23:58,310 No. Old Mrs. Cooper's not well again. Mary's with her. 292 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:06,485 I said I'd help her with the laundry. She'll be back soon. 293 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:14,618 You help her a lot, don't you? 294 00:24:16,746 --> 00:24:17,830 That's nice. 295 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,345 You know why I help her I suppose? 296 00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:35,556 What? 297 00:24:37,392 --> 00:24:39,185 Why I'm always round here. 298 00:24:40,187 --> 00:24:41,645 You're her sister. 299 00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:51,405 Can't you be happy for five minutes without her, Jim? 300 00:24:54,868 --> 00:24:58,120 Here, make yourself useful. 301 00:25:15,263 --> 00:25:16,639 Drop the side then. 302 00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:20,434 Well you drop this and bring it up the other side. 303 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:22,645 What do you mean? Mary doesn't do that. 304 00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:25,606 There are plenty of things Mary doesn't do, I dare say. 305 00:25:30,487 --> 00:25:33,447 Look, I'll show you how to do it, shall I? 306 00:25:36,576 --> 00:25:37,493 Now... 307 00:25:38,578 --> 00:25:42,289 No, come on. You take this corner. 308 00:25:42,958 --> 00:25:46,752 Right now, you drop this, 309 00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:55,261 and you bring it up the other side. 310 00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:03,102 You do it yourself. That's not for me. I want no part of that. 311 00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:10,067 Pushing women's work at me. You keep that to yourself. 312 00:26:28,378 --> 00:26:30,963 Mr. Holmes and the other gentlemen to see you, madam. 313 00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:33,424 As long as they don't bring those things near me. 314 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,022 And where is he now? 315 00:26:48,398 --> 00:26:50,941 Mr. Browner was on the South American line 316 00:26:51,067 --> 00:26:55,279 when he and Mary married. But he was so fond of her, 317 00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,616 that he found himself a berth in the North Sea boats. 318 00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:00,743 The London - Den Helder line. 319 00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:05,122 And is Mary fond of him? 320 00:27:06,249 --> 00:27:07,541 It was a love match. 321 00:27:07,709 --> 00:27:08,751 Love? 322 00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:10,002 Although... 323 00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:12,504 Yes? 324 00:27:13,506 --> 00:27:16,842 I was loath to acknowledge it at the time. 325 00:27:17,802 --> 00:27:19,053 Why was that? 326 00:27:19,763 --> 00:27:22,514 I didn't think a sister of mine should be marrying a steward. 327 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:26,477 And now? How do you feel now? 328 00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:29,355 I think Jim and Mary could be happy. 329 00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,566 You mean they weren't? 330 00:27:32,734 --> 00:27:34,610 They were at first. 331 00:27:35,695 --> 00:27:36,862 What happened? 332 00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:40,407 Perhaps you should ask Sarah. 333 00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:43,452 She practically lived there for a while. 334 00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:16,193 Which ship is Mr. Browner serving with at present? 335 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:17,778 The "May Morning". 336 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:22,324 She sailed on the seventeenth for Belgium and Holland. 337 00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:25,244 They were in Rotterdam over Christmas. 338 00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:29,832 The crews draw lots and Jim was unlucky this year. 339 00:28:30,291 --> 00:28:33,669 Mary was to have spent Christmas with Sarah and me. 340 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:37,715 And now Sarah, of course, is now Warden at the mission. 341 00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:41,427 Are you sad not to have her living with you still? 342 00:28:41,636 --> 00:28:42,720 Yes I am. 343 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:48,225 Well to tell you the truth, Mr. Holmes, 344 00:28:49,102 --> 00:28:50,978 things are not well between us. 345 00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:55,107 You have quarreled? What about? 346 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:58,736 It may have a bearing on what has happened to your sister, Mary. 347 00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:03,115 I know that. Of course it does. Do you think I don't know that? 348 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:05,701 I blame her for everything. 349 00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:07,286 Sarah? 350 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:10,372 Of course. Sarah. 351 00:29:11,207 --> 00:29:15,127 She spent far more time than was necessary at Mary's lodgings. 352 00:29:16,212 --> 00:29:18,088 Jim and Mary were just married, 353 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:22,843 making their own life, making their own friends. 354 00:29:23,803 --> 00:29:27,139 Then Sarah introduced Alec Fairbairn to them. 355 00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:30,642 I know it was not generously done. 356 00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:35,439 Sarah seemed to want to shame Jim Browner. 357 00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:38,484 I don't know what Jim had done to Sarah, 358 00:29:38,985 --> 00:29:43,197 but she seemed to hate him. I believe that... 359 00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:47,034 You believe what? 360 00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:49,036 Ask her. 361 00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:52,998 Ask Sarah. She is here in the house collecting her things. 362 00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:58,170 Ask her if she did not mean Mary to go off with Alec Fairbairn. 363 00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:00,672 That's what she wanted. 364 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:03,175 I know it. 365 00:30:09,015 --> 00:30:13,018 Ah, the message has been received then. 366 00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:37,626 Cafe, Monsieur. 367 00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:45,759 Thank you for your help, Inspector. 368 00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:50,097 It's very difficult, Mr. Holmes. We can't ignore the evidence. 369 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:53,475 What've we got? Two severed ears in a parcel. 370 00:30:53,601 --> 00:30:54,852 We've got the medical student, 371 00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:57,563 Jacotett who's been thrown out of the lady's house. 372 00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:01,650 Strong motive. Parcel postmarked Harwich on the nineteenth. 373 00:31:01,776 --> 00:31:05,696 He was in Harwich on the nineteenth. That's as good as you get. 374 00:31:05,822 --> 00:31:08,031 Your logic seems foolproof Hawkins. 375 00:31:08,157 --> 00:31:09,741 Thank you. Well... Yes. 376 00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:12,828 I just regret that I haven't been able to keep it out of the newspapers. 377 00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:15,581 They're running the story in tomorrow morning's first editions. 378 00:31:15,748 --> 00:31:18,417 They've also managed to get hold of Miss Susan Cushing's name. 379 00:31:18,585 --> 00:31:19,459 She won't like that. 380 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:20,627 No. Poor woman. 381 00:31:22,505 --> 00:31:24,006 This other matter then, Mr. Holmes. 382 00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:26,717 You've clearly got some thoughts on that, haven't you? 383 00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:33,307 It's my belief, that a member of Dr. Watson's profession, 384 00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:36,602 possibly of some distinction, has overstepped the mark. 385 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:41,440 The corpses all belong to pugilists, amateur or otherwise. 386 00:31:43,192 --> 00:31:49,114 What is the unfortunate characteristic of boxers who have fought too long? 387 00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:53,577 Well, there can be such scarring of the brain 388 00:31:53,828 --> 00:31:56,914 that the men behave as if drunk, slurred speech, 389 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,168 loss of memory and so on. They become punch drunk. 390 00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:02,461 Precisely. 391 00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:06,548 You mean somebody is studying the pathology of brain tissues? 392 00:32:06,674 --> 00:32:08,759 For all the best reasons, I dare say. 393 00:32:08,885 --> 00:32:12,763 And their passion of the subject has outrun their judgment. 394 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,225 Sir Marcus Lanyon, I'll wager a month's salary on Sir Marcus. 395 00:32:17,352 --> 00:32:19,353 That is precisely his specialty 396 00:32:19,479 --> 00:32:21,730 and he is impatient to a fault, ruthlessly impatient. 397 00:32:21,856 --> 00:32:23,857 There you have it, Inspector. 398 00:32:56,933 --> 00:32:58,308 She is very down. 399 00:32:58,434 --> 00:33:01,478 Like this ever since she got back here this afternoon. 400 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:06,984 Miss Cushing. 401 00:33:09,028 --> 00:33:12,114 Why did you quarrel with your brother-in-law, Mr. Browner? 402 00:33:13,616 --> 00:33:16,451 What? Who are you, what are you doing here? 403 00:33:16,577 --> 00:33:17,661 This is Sherlock Holmes, 404 00:33:17,787 --> 00:33:20,998 he is investigating the disappearance of your sister, Mary. 405 00:33:24,210 --> 00:33:27,546 She's gone off with Alec Fairbairn, that's all. 406 00:33:28,047 --> 00:33:28,964 Why? 407 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:33,385 She had become frightened of her husband. 408 00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:34,428 Why? 409 00:33:37,807 --> 00:33:39,683 Jim Browner was a drunkard. 410 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,271 He offered her violence. He was beneath contempt. 411 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,941 What is your explanation for the severed ears, Miss Cushing? 412 00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:52,237 You saw the cardboard box. At your sister's house. 413 00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:55,073 Those severed ears were meant for you, were they not? 414 00:33:56,826 --> 00:34:01,538 The message was for you. You understood what they meant. 415 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,916 Marcel Jacotett sent them. 416 00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:08,503 He told me he might do something. 417 00:34:09,756 --> 00:34:12,758 I didn't realize he would do anything so disgusting. 418 00:34:21,517 --> 00:34:23,268 She is lying, Watson. 419 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:26,772 She's lying through her teeth. 420 00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:57,761 Gull is outside. 421 00:34:57,887 --> 00:34:58,637 Excellent. 422 00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:00,639 I've been to the shipping line offices too. 423 00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:01,389 And? 424 00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:03,308 It's as you thought. The "May Morning"- 425 00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:06,686 set sail from London for Den Helder on the seventeenth, 426 00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:09,564 but a hogshead got loose in her hold. 427 00:35:09,690 --> 00:35:12,400 She sprang a plate and had to put in for repairs. 428 00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:13,568 To Harwich? 429 00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:17,864 To Harwich. The crew were given leave on the eighteenth. 430 00:35:18,157 --> 00:35:19,866 The "May Morning" left late on the nineteenth, 431 00:35:19,992 --> 00:35:22,452 the day the parcel was posted. 432 00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:25,413 Excellent Watson. We have it. 433 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:38,844 Mr. Holmes. 434 00:35:39,846 --> 00:35:41,972 Mr. Gull. 435 00:35:42,473 --> 00:35:45,976 They have telegraphed. Jim Browner came off the ferry at Ramsgate at 436 00:35:46,102 --> 00:35:47,310 seven o'clock this evening. 437 00:35:47,436 --> 00:35:50,939 Good. I knew I could rely on you. 438 00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:54,359 And I can rely on you, can I? 439 00:35:54,527 --> 00:35:55,402 You can. 440 00:35:56,362 --> 00:36:00,991 Does the name Sir Marcus Lanyon mean anything to you? 441 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,200 It might. 442 00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:04,327 He will be warned off. 443 00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:09,374 The orders from which you have been profiting will dry up 444 00:36:10,251 --> 00:36:12,586 but so will the police interest in you. 445 00:36:13,504 --> 00:36:15,213 I'll be satisfied with that. 446 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,553 We've acquired a bargain, Mr. Gull. 447 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:34,983 Holmes. 448 00:36:36,319 --> 00:36:39,196 The knots used on the parcel were a bowline and a sheet bend. 449 00:36:39,322 --> 00:36:41,072 Yes, sailor's knots. 450 00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:45,410 You know that sailors deliberately do not sharpen their knives? 451 00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:48,038 Ah, in case of accidents. 452 00:36:48,414 --> 00:36:50,248 Hence the crude amputations. 453 00:36:52,418 --> 00:36:59,007 Harwich was the key and Browner was there. Now, I suppose... 454 00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:08,516 Browner, returned unexpectedly, found his wife with Fairbairn. 455 00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:14,147 He followed them. He murdered them both. 456 00:37:15,107 --> 00:37:17,150 He severed an ear from each 457 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:20,487 and sent them as he thought to Sarah Cushing. 458 00:37:22,406 --> 00:37:26,618 Of course, he will go there immediately. 459 00:37:27,286 --> 00:37:28,912 He will be desperate 460 00:37:30,289 --> 00:37:35,001 for her to know that the severed ears were for her, not for her sister. 461 00:37:35,461 --> 00:37:37,379 Well, that being the case... 462 00:37:39,382 --> 00:37:42,634 The railway is operating as if it were a Sunday. 463 00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:45,136 Why? 464 00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:47,639 Because the Christmas holiday is still on. 465 00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:51,810 Do you realize, Browner could have caught a much earlier train. 466 00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:55,272 No, I did not know. 467 00:38:24,051 --> 00:38:25,051 Mary. 468 00:38:40,526 --> 00:38:41,568 What is this, Mr. Holmes? 469 00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:44,279 A unique experience for you, Inspector. 470 00:38:45,531 --> 00:38:47,198 You may apprehend a murderer 471 00:38:47,366 --> 00:38:50,368 before you have even acknowledged there has been a murder. 472 00:39:26,113 --> 00:39:30,075 Aye. Well you may stare. 473 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:36,915 Look at me Sarah Cushing, this is your handiwork. 474 00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:39,209 What have you done, Jim? 475 00:39:39,418 --> 00:39:40,877 What have I done? 476 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,214 Nay, it's what you've done. 477 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:50,428 I beg you, Jim. Look on me kindly. 478 00:39:52,014 --> 00:39:55,225 Whatever I did, I did for you. 479 00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,062 It was you. 480 00:40:03,859 --> 00:40:05,777 You poisoned her mind. 481 00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:08,113 I did it for you. 482 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:14,619 They have arrested the lodger. I told them he did it. 483 00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:19,874 They suspect nothing of you, Jim. You can get away. 484 00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:24,546 Get away? You think I can get away? 485 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,926 Put it all behind me, do you think? Do you? Well, you're mad. 486 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:36,516 It is me. It's in here. Every last moment of it. 487 00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:39,811 Comes out of the daylight at me. Goes on and on. 488 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:42,230 I tell you, I dare not shut an eye and sleep since I did it. 489 00:40:42,356 --> 00:40:45,316 I'm never without one or the other before me. 490 00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:49,571 May the blood rot in your veins, Sarah Cushing. 491 00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:52,240 No, no. 492 00:40:53,242 --> 00:41:00,832 I love you. I love you. 493 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,961 I believe you do. I tell you something, 494 00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:10,008 I'd rather have one kind word from her I've killed than all your love. 495 00:41:10,843 --> 00:41:13,052 I'd rather see her breathing one- 496 00:41:13,179 --> 00:41:15,513 minute more than a lifetime that you could give me. 497 00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:19,350 Don't say that. Don't say that. Don't say that. 498 00:41:30,029 --> 00:41:31,279 She loved me, 499 00:41:33,949 --> 00:41:35,783 that the rule of the business. 500 00:41:37,369 --> 00:41:39,204 But she knew, 501 00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:43,625 she knew, she knew I, 502 00:41:44,251 --> 00:41:47,378 I thought more of my wife's footprint in the mud 503 00:41:47,671 --> 00:41:50,131 than I did of her, body and soul. 504 00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:55,470 Whoever would have dreamt it? 505 00:42:04,396 --> 00:42:05,480 And, 506 00:42:08,692 --> 00:42:11,402 after you'd rejected Sarah's advances? 507 00:42:12,696 --> 00:42:16,032 I never said a word to Mary for I thought it would grieve her. 508 00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:20,328 Then I began to see a change in Mary herself. 509 00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:25,124 My wife had always been so understanding. 510 00:42:27,044 --> 00:42:29,587 Now she was suspicious of everything I did. 511 00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:36,928 We began to row about nothing, nothing at all. 512 00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:39,639 And it maddened me. 513 00:42:41,308 --> 00:42:42,976 And this was Sarah's work? 514 00:42:44,853 --> 00:42:46,729 I didn't see it then mind. 515 00:42:48,607 --> 00:42:53,236 I just saw it all go wrong. 516 00:42:54,863 --> 00:42:57,282 She and Mary were inseparable and then, 517 00:42:58,284 --> 00:43:05,248 well then I broke my blue ribbon and began drinking again. 518 00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:09,502 So Mary had some reason to be disgusted with me now. 519 00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:16,301 And then this Fairbairn fellow chipped in. 520 00:43:16,969 --> 00:43:21,264 He was a dashing, swaggering sort of a chap. 521 00:43:22,141 --> 00:43:26,311 Smart and curled, educated too I reckon. He could talk he could. 522 00:43:28,272 --> 00:43:29,564 Blind I was. 523 00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:35,486 It was a little thing put me on to him. 524 00:43:37,364 --> 00:43:41,659 I came into the parlor unexpected one day and as I came in 525 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:45,330 I saw the light of welcome in my wife's eyes, but 526 00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:53,212 when she saw it was me, she turned away with a look of disappointment. 527 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:59,844 There was no one but Alec Fairbairn whose steps she could mistake for mine. 528 00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:02,680 I tell you, from that moment on my peace was gone. 529 00:44:04,850 --> 00:44:08,519 Sarah was in the kitchen and I went straight through and I told her that 530 00:44:08,937 --> 00:44:14,233 "if Fairbairn ever set foot in my place again" 531 00:44:16,528 --> 00:44:19,822 "I'd send her his ears for a keepsake". 532 00:44:24,078 --> 00:44:28,956 I believe I could wish you had committed this deed of yours in France. 533 00:44:30,959 --> 00:44:33,920 They acknowledge the crime of passion there. 534 00:44:37,549 --> 00:44:42,095 You won't let them leave me alone, will you sir? 535 00:44:44,014 --> 00:44:44,889 No. 536 00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:47,975 I won't. 537 00:44:51,230 --> 00:44:53,564 When I leave I'll send an officer in. 538 00:44:55,901 --> 00:44:57,902 I don't like to be alone, see. 539 00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:50,807 Your turn. 540 00:46:58,315 --> 00:46:59,524 Won't be a minute. 541 00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:24,549 She made it go wrong, didn't she? 542 00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:30,555 And you never thought of anyone but me. 543 00:47:32,224 --> 00:47:33,474 Did you, Jim? 544 00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:39,522 She loved you and she made me hate you. 545 00:47:48,782 --> 00:47:53,661 There. It was if you had a secret, you see. 546 00:47:55,581 --> 00:47:57,498 She made me think the worst. 547 00:47:59,418 --> 00:48:01,711 The secret was her love with me. 548 00:48:03,547 --> 00:48:06,924 You should have got rid of her from our lives, Jim. 549 00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:13,890 I know. But I thought it would hurt you. 550 00:48:17,019 --> 00:48:18,311 Look at us now. 551 00:48:20,564 --> 00:48:24,609 I was stupid. Blind as a pickle. 552 00:51:12,527 --> 00:51:14,445 What is the meaning of it, Watson? 553 00:51:16,114 --> 00:51:23,037 What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear? 554 00:51:24,998 --> 00:51:26,582 It must have a purpose 555 00:51:28,126 --> 00:51:33,255 or our universe had no meaning and that is unthinkable, but what purpose? 556 00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:42,598 That is humanity's great problem 557 00:51:44,142 --> 00:51:47,937 for which reason so far has no answer.