1 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:47,254 There's a gentlemen downstairs... 2 00:00:51,426 --> 00:00:52,926 Ask him to wait a moment, Mrs. Hudson. 3 00:00:53,094 --> 00:00:54,928 He's most insistent. 4 00:03:05,101 --> 00:03:06,560 Easy now. Easy. 5 00:03:08,563 --> 00:03:10,105 I must apologize. 6 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:12,482 I have been a little overwrought. 7 00:03:12,609 --> 00:03:16,945 I'm a doctor, sir, and I must insist that you relax yourself and say nothing 8 00:03:17,113 --> 00:03:18,071 until you have eaten. 9 00:03:18,364 --> 00:03:21,992 Thank you. If I might have a biscuit and a glass of milk, 10 00:03:22,118 --> 00:03:23,660 I have no doubt I should soon be better. 11 00:03:23,786 --> 00:03:26,246 Mrs. Hudson is preparing something at this moment. 12 00:03:27,707 --> 00:03:30,417 Please, please, please forgive this weakness. 13 00:03:31,169 --> 00:03:32,044 I really must... 14 00:03:33,546 --> 00:03:34,421 Mr. Holmes. 15 00:03:35,381 --> 00:03:36,757 At your service. 16 00:03:38,676 --> 00:03:42,179 Master of arts. Doctor of Philosophy. 17 00:03:42,931 --> 00:03:44,890 Principal of the Priory School. Is it not everyday, 18 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:48,268 Doctor Huxtable, that so distinguished a castaway as yourself is 19 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:50,437 beached upon on the hearthrug. 20 00:03:51,272 --> 00:03:53,607 In speculating what storm had blown you here 21 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:56,860 I took the liberty of searching your person, I hope you will forgive me. 22 00:03:57,278 --> 00:03:58,737 Oh yes, yes of course. 23 00:03:59,113 --> 00:04:01,198 Please sit down. 24 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:02,866 Your watch. 25 00:04:03,284 --> 00:04:05,077 Unblemished for at least thirty years, 26 00:04:05,203 --> 00:04:08,121 suddenly this morning scratched. 27 00:04:09,123 --> 00:04:10,499 When you thrust those coins, 28 00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:12,584 unthinkingly into your waistcoat pocket. 29 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:16,463 The stern habit of a lifetime trampled under foot. 30 00:04:17,298 --> 00:04:20,175 A small occurrence perhaps but own small think 31 00:04:20,718 --> 00:04:25,180 in a way that a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake 32 00:04:25,974 --> 00:04:30,143 The state of your beard demonstrates a considerable disruption to your routine. 33 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:31,144 Three days ago? 34 00:04:31,938 --> 00:04:33,438 Just so. 35 00:04:34,524 --> 00:04:38,735 Mr. Holmes, I beg you to accompany me north to Mackleton immediately. 36 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,446 A matter of the utmost importance. 37 00:04:42,448 --> 00:04:43,490 I regret. 38 00:04:44,867 --> 00:04:48,495 Doctor Watson and I are extremely pressed just at the moment. 39 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:52,374 I'm retained in the case of the Ferrers Documents, and 40 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,543 Doctor Watson tells me that he's run off his feet 41 00:04:54,669 --> 00:04:56,837 by this recent epidemic of this Scarlet Fever. 42 00:04:57,005 --> 00:04:59,131 And then of course, there's Abergavenny murder coming up for trial. 43 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:02,217 Now, only a very important issue could call us away at the present. 44 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:05,512 Important, sir? Important? 45 00:05:07,181 --> 00:05:09,516 I dare say you've heard of the Duke of Holdernesse? 46 00:05:11,185 --> 00:05:12,728 The former cabinet minister? 47 00:05:13,396 --> 00:05:15,022 More than that, Watson. 48 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:19,526 The letters after his name, huh, almost half the alphabet. 49 00:05:20,528 --> 00:05:24,781 One of the greatest subjects of the crown, hey Doctor Huxtable? 50 00:05:24,907 --> 00:05:28,118 One of the greatest and probably one of the wealthiest, 51 00:05:29,537 --> 00:05:32,205 He is also, I'm proud to say, in my neighbor. 52 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:35,459 Holdernesse Hall, his countryseat, 53 00:05:35,585 --> 00:05:37,544 is across from the valley from the Priory School. 54 00:05:39,047 --> 00:05:41,423 Duke is an intensely solitary man. 55 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:45,135 He appalls the prospect of public scrutiny 56 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:48,555 but such is his anxiety in this matter 57 00:05:48,890 --> 00:05:50,891 that his grace is prepared to write a check for 58 00:05:51,059 --> 00:05:53,935 five thousand pounds to see the business off 59 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:59,441 and another thousand pounds to see justice visited upon the villains. 60 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:04,404 That is how important it is. 61 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:12,913 A princely offer, Doctor Huxtable. 62 00:06:14,499 --> 00:06:16,875 You have failed in describing villainy. 63 00:06:19,420 --> 00:06:20,087 Forgive me. 64 00:06:22,090 --> 00:06:25,133 Lord Saltire, the Duke's son, his only child, 65 00:06:26,010 --> 00:06:27,344 has been abducted. 66 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:32,307 From the Priory School? 67 00:06:32,683 --> 00:06:33,225 Yes. 68 00:06:34,727 --> 00:06:35,894 When he was in your care? 69 00:06:37,605 --> 00:06:38,105 Quite, 70 00:06:39,232 --> 00:06:42,943 And this abduction happened three days ago? 71 00:06:43,277 --> 00:06:44,403 Last Saturday night. 72 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:46,947 Why have you waited so long before consulting me? 73 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:48,949 His Grace has a deep horror 74 00:06:49,117 --> 00:06:51,993 of his family unhappiness being dragged before the world. 75 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:54,788 The police have been requested by the Duke to proceed 76 00:06:54,956 --> 00:06:57,165 with such caution that they... 77 00:06:57,291 --> 00:06:57,999 I see. 78 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:04,005 This affair has been deplorably handled. 79 00:07:04,757 --> 00:07:07,717 I feel it and admit it. 80 00:07:07,844 --> 00:07:09,970 What form of the demand for ransom take? 81 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:11,430 There has been none. 82 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:13,348 No demand for ransom? 83 00:07:13,474 --> 00:07:14,015 None. 84 00:07:15,309 --> 00:07:17,811 It is one of the most perplexing aspects of the business 85 00:07:18,521 --> 00:07:20,981 for the boy was not alone in his flight. 86 00:07:22,316 --> 00:07:26,445 Herr Heidegger, the German master, is also missing 87 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,573 as indeed, by the way, is his bicycle. 88 00:07:30,491 --> 00:07:34,327 If he has abducted the boy why has no demand for money been received? 89 00:07:34,495 --> 00:07:38,290 Heidegger came to me from Switzerland with the very best references. 90 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:40,417 Was any other bicycle missing? 91 00:07:41,836 --> 00:07:42,919 Oh no. 92 00:07:43,421 --> 00:07:43,962 You're certain? 93 00:07:44,088 --> 00:07:46,548 Quite Mr. Aveling checked all the bicycles. 94 00:07:46,674 --> 00:07:48,675 Doctor Huxtable do you really mean to suggest 95 00:07:48,843 --> 00:07:52,179 that this German master rode off upon his bicycle 96 00:07:52,346 --> 00:07:54,806 in the dead of night bearing the boy in his arms? 97 00:07:55,433 --> 00:07:56,057 No. 98 00:07:56,684 --> 00:07:58,852 Then what is this theory in your mind? 99 00:07:59,187 --> 00:08:01,521 The bicycle may have been a blind. 100 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,484 He may have hidden it somewhere, and the pair gone off on foot. 101 00:08:05,651 --> 00:08:07,861 Surely he would have hidden a couple of bicycles 102 00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:09,738 if he desired to give that impression. 103 00:08:10,781 --> 00:08:11,948 Yes I suppose he would. 104 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:14,201 Of course he would Doctor Huxtable, 105 00:08:14,577 --> 00:08:17,245 this blind theory of yours will not do. 106 00:08:25,254 --> 00:08:27,881 It is an admirable starting point for an investigation. 107 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:33,303 Watson, would you send for the cab immediately? 108 00:08:34,055 --> 00:08:35,013 Now Holmes? 109 00:08:35,264 --> 00:08:36,056 Set, 110 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:38,725 and pack. 111 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:42,395 We got just enough time to catch the overnight train. 112 00:08:43,397 --> 00:08:46,024 Doctor Huxtable I shall do a little work at your doors. 113 00:08:46,275 --> 00:08:47,776 Perhaps the train is not so cold 114 00:08:47,902 --> 00:08:51,238 but the two old hounds like Watson and myself make get a sniff on it. 115 00:08:52,156 --> 00:08:55,408 I imagine the arrival of Lord Saltire at your school must have been 116 00:08:55,576 --> 00:08:56,993 quite a feather in your cap. 117 00:08:57,203 --> 00:08:59,037 My proudest moment, Mr. Holmes. 118 00:08:59,455 --> 00:09:02,832 Ever since Blackwell's published Huxtable's Sidelights on Horace, 119 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,794 a notable little success in his day. You may have heard of it. 120 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:07,837 No. How old is the boy? 121 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:09,130 Nine. 122 00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:10,924 And he's been with you how long? 123 00:09:11,425 --> 00:09:13,301 Oh since the beginning of the winter term. 124 00:09:14,428 --> 00:09:18,640 An unusual boy, he seemed to be fitting in well. He um... 125 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:22,143 Yes? 126 00:09:23,646 --> 00:09:27,399 I was about to say he was not entirely happy at home. 127 00:09:28,276 --> 00:09:30,443 The Duke's marriage has not been a peaceful one. 128 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:33,947 It ended in separation by mutual consent last year. 129 00:09:34,615 --> 00:09:37,701 The Duchess has returned to her father's palazzo in Venice. 130 00:09:38,494 --> 00:09:41,288 This picture, of the Duke's marriage, 131 00:09:42,081 --> 00:09:44,457 how did you come by it? Is it common knowledge? 132 00:09:45,501 --> 00:09:48,044 I've had some confidential talks with Mr. Wilder, 133 00:09:48,379 --> 00:09:50,547 the Duke's secretary. He's been most helpful. 134 00:09:51,299 --> 00:09:53,675 And I suppose it has been established 135 00:09:54,135 --> 00:09:56,803 that the boy has not returned to his mother in Italy? 136 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:58,263 Oh yes. Yes it has. 137 00:09:59,557 --> 00:10:02,058 I cannot tell you, Mr. Holmes, what a relief it is to me... 138 00:10:02,184 --> 00:10:02,934 Watson? 139 00:10:03,644 --> 00:10:05,020 Your picnic, sir. 140 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:06,896 Mrs. Hudson, 141 00:10:07,315 --> 00:10:08,565 How did you guess? 142 00:10:08,816 --> 00:10:11,026 Experience, Mr. Holmes. 143 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,485 Well that means the two doctors can 144 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:15,155 picnic away to their hearts content on the train. 145 00:10:16,324 --> 00:10:19,284 Even I may find my appetite is keener for a few days 146 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:22,245 in the bracing atmosphere of the peat country. 147 00:10:28,502 --> 00:10:31,504 I think I will do myself no injustice when I say that 148 00:10:31,672 --> 00:10:35,050 the Priory School is the most select preparatory school in England. 149 00:10:35,843 --> 00:10:36,885 Lord Leverstoke, 150 00:10:38,095 --> 00:10:41,181 the Earl of Blackwater, Sir Cathcart Soames, 151 00:10:42,141 --> 00:10:44,225 they all have entrusted their sons to me. 152 00:10:46,354 --> 00:10:48,855 You can't see Holdernesse Hall from here 153 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:51,733 but there's a very fine view from the chapel tower. 154 00:10:55,363 --> 00:10:57,447 I will begin with the boy's room. 155 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:27,227 From his father? 156 00:11:27,812 --> 00:11:29,979 It arrived on the morning of his disappearance. 157 00:11:34,151 --> 00:11:35,402 Had he received one from Italy? 158 00:11:35,569 --> 00:11:36,444 Not recently. 159 00:11:37,238 --> 00:11:38,196 Where is the letter now? 160 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:40,407 It cannot be found. 161 00:11:41,325 --> 00:11:43,660 It must have been on the boy's person when he was abducted. 162 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:47,205 Who sleeps in the adjoining room? 163 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:52,711 It's all right, just keep it in. 164 00:11:52,837 --> 00:11:54,921 I know this sort of chap I dare say. 165 00:11:55,798 --> 00:11:57,424 He could sleep through a thunderstorm. 166 00:11:59,176 --> 00:12:00,427 I don't think he would sir. 167 00:12:00,594 --> 00:12:02,804 Really, And why is that do you suppose? 168 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:05,974 There's a mouse sir, In the wainscot, sir. 169 00:12:06,767 --> 00:12:09,853 And it wakes us both up sir, Sometimes sir. 170 00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:13,732 Mouse? So any noise from Lord Saltire's room... 171 00:12:13,858 --> 00:12:16,651 Well the door creaks sir. You always hear the door. 172 00:12:16,777 --> 00:12:21,197 On the night of the disappearance, did you hear anything then? 173 00:12:21,949 --> 00:12:25,118 No sir. You couldn't even hear the crying. 174 00:12:29,039 --> 00:12:29,706 Crying? 175 00:12:30,458 --> 00:12:35,128 Yes sir. He sometimes cries sir. Sometimes sir. 176 00:12:41,969 --> 00:12:42,844 Thank you boys. 177 00:13:45,616 --> 00:13:47,200 You have found nothing in the grounds? 178 00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:54,666 There's no knowing what I have found. The trail is cold. 179 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:56,084 Headmaster! 180 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:02,632 Headmaster! The Duke of Holdernesse is here headmaster. 181 00:14:02,883 --> 00:14:03,925 Thank you, Mr. Aveling. 182 00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:10,014 Mr. Holmes? 183 00:14:11,392 --> 00:14:12,016 Yes. 184 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:14,519 The Duke is waiting, Mr. Holmes. 185 00:14:16,230 --> 00:14:17,397 That will never do. 186 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:39,711 Your Grace. Mr. Wilder. 187 00:14:39,837 --> 00:14:41,588 I called yesterday, Doctor Huxtable, 188 00:14:42,423 --> 00:14:44,465 but I was too late to prevent your starting for London. 189 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:49,596 His Grace is surprised, Doctor Huxtable, that you should of invited Mr. Holmes 190 00:14:49,763 --> 00:14:53,224 to undertake an investigation without consulting him first. 191 00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:54,934 Well I thought that the police had failed. 192 00:14:55,102 --> 00:14:57,478 It is by no means certain that the police have failed. 193 00:14:57,605 --> 00:14:58,688 Yes, but surely, Mr. Wilder... 194 00:14:58,814 --> 00:15:00,523 You're well aware, Doctor Huxtable, 195 00:15:00,774 --> 00:15:03,484 how anxious his Grace is to avoid all public scandal. 196 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:07,614 He prefers to take as few people as possible into his confidence. 197 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:11,117 I'm sorry, Mr. Wilder. The matter is easily remedied. 198 00:15:11,243 --> 00:15:13,912 Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train. 199 00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:17,332 Hardly that Hardly that 200 00:15:18,375 --> 00:15:21,169 I enjoy your invigorating northern air. 201 00:15:22,129 --> 00:15:25,298 I shall spend, at any rate, a few days upon your moors. 202 00:15:25,633 --> 00:15:29,177 Who knows I may at least find Herr Heidegger's bicycle if nothing else. 203 00:15:29,303 --> 00:15:32,138 This is not a trivial matter, Mr. Holmes. 204 00:15:35,476 --> 00:15:39,020 I am gratified that you think not, your Grace. 205 00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:43,858 If there was meaning in that remark, Mr. Holmes, 206 00:15:44,485 --> 00:15:46,319 I'm afraid it escaped me. 207 00:15:47,488 --> 00:15:51,199 Your only child has disappeared. Your hopes, your future, 208 00:15:51,575 --> 00:15:54,827 your noble family itself is threatened with disillusion. 209 00:15:54,954 --> 00:15:56,829 Your point, sir? 210 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:58,373 I ask your Grace, 211 00:15:59,833 --> 00:16:04,379 what is modesty to this to your child's life? 212 00:16:07,174 --> 00:16:08,216 Or his reputation? 213 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,848 Not then it might be replied what is continuance 214 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,352 without honor? 215 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,190 However, I believe you are largely in the right, Mr. Holmes. 216 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:29,529 If you refer to the constraints I have placed upon the activities of the police 217 00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:32,740 then perhaps I have imposed too much. 218 00:16:34,368 --> 00:16:37,996 I have a morbid fear of the public gaze. 219 00:16:40,374 --> 00:16:44,252 It would be foolish not to avail ourselves of Mr. Holmes services, James, 220 00:16:44,378 --> 00:16:45,545 now that he is here. 221 00:16:47,006 --> 00:16:47,922 Mr. Holmes? 222 00:16:49,425 --> 00:16:50,341 Your Grace? 223 00:16:51,051 --> 00:16:53,678 Perhaps you would like to come and stay with us at Holdernesse Hall. 224 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:58,182 I thank your Grace but I think for the purposes of my investigation 225 00:16:58,726 --> 00:17:02,895 it would be wiser for me to remain here at the scene of the mystery. 226 00:17:04,231 --> 00:17:05,064 As you wish 227 00:17:05,733 --> 00:17:09,318 Mr. Wilder or myself will be available to provide you with 228 00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:11,571 any assistance that you might require. 229 00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:14,991 Might I ask whether you have formed any explanation 230 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:17,910 as to the mysterious disappearance of your son? 231 00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:24,333 No sir, I have not. 232 00:17:35,637 --> 00:17:37,513 He is a fine boy, Mr. Holmes. 233 00:17:38,348 --> 00:17:40,183 And how long has he been in your class? 234 00:17:40,517 --> 00:17:41,601 Since his arrival here. 235 00:17:42,519 --> 00:17:43,978 Did he speak much of his family? 236 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:45,021 Not much. 237 00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:50,610 It's my belief that he missed his mother this is something of his father's doing. 238 00:17:50,778 --> 00:17:53,613 The separation between the Duke and the Duchess, did he talk about that? 239 00:17:53,947 --> 00:17:55,782 Not really. It's a little mysterious. 240 00:17:55,949 --> 00:17:57,825 The boy insisted that they loved each other very much. 241 00:17:57,951 --> 00:18:00,828 You don't think that he'd be whistling in the wind to cheer himself up? 242 00:18:01,038 --> 00:18:02,997 No he is a very realistic child. 243 00:18:03,123 --> 00:18:05,208 Awe, but not a very realistic family. 244 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:08,544 I was told that they were once members of the Hellfire Club. 245 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,380 You wouldn't know, I suppose, 246 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:14,509 what time Herr Heidegger retired to his room on the night of the disappearance? 247 00:18:14,968 --> 00:18:17,136 Not really but quite late. 248 00:18:17,262 --> 00:18:19,597 After eleven. He was duty round master that night. 249 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:22,475 And a cyclists I believe? 250 00:18:22,976 --> 00:18:24,894 Yes, oh yes. 251 00:18:25,395 --> 00:18:27,313 Did Lord Saltire ever accompany him. 252 00:18:28,023 --> 00:18:30,691 No he is not yet able to retain his balance. 253 00:18:32,402 --> 00:18:34,695 You wouldn't, I suppose, 254 00:18:34,822 --> 00:18:38,491 happen to know the make of tires on Herr Heidegger's bicycle? 255 00:18:39,701 --> 00:18:42,954 Certainly. A lovely bicycle by the way made in Bramen. 256 00:18:43,622 --> 00:18:44,997 The tires were Palmer, 257 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,833 you know the ones with longitudinal tread. 258 00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:51,170 I know the ones. Thank you. Doubly helpful. 259 00:18:51,421 --> 00:18:52,463 Pleasure, Mr. Holmes. 260 00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,137 Dinner will be at eight. 261 00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:12,859 I beg your pardon. 262 00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:18,072 Holmes? 263 00:19:22,035 --> 00:19:25,872 This case grows upon me, Watson. 264 00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:29,375 There are decidedly points of interest in connection with it. 265 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:30,668 Here look at this map. 266 00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:34,338 There are certain geographical features, 267 00:19:34,464 --> 00:19:36,883 which may have a good deal to do with our investigation. 268 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:40,887 This dark square is the Priory School. 269 00:19:41,889 --> 00:19:45,516 This, the main road with no side turning for a mile either way. 270 00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:49,061 To the north of the school the land rises slowly. 271 00:19:49,646 --> 00:19:52,732 To the south, a large district of arable land with 272 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:56,402 high walls and hedgerows, impossible territory for a bicycle. 273 00:19:57,029 --> 00:19:58,863 Oh what did you discover at Oakborn? 274 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:01,741 Well the police had reports from all over the place 275 00:20:02,826 --> 00:20:05,244 on a man and a boy seen together. 276 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:08,331 They completed their investigation on the site early this morning. 277 00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:08,956 What result? 278 00:20:09,082 --> 00:20:09,624 Useless. 279 00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:13,252 None bore the slightest resemblance of the boy or the German master. 280 00:20:14,004 --> 00:20:14,754 Excellent. 281 00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:19,634 This mass of mistaken sightings, Watson, it confirms my suspicion. 282 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:22,970 I don't believe they used the road. 283 00:20:23,639 --> 00:20:28,392 That path of curiosity of quiet places will surely find the light. 284 00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:30,561 I don't think they used the road at all. 285 00:20:30,729 --> 00:20:32,939 But the bicycle? 286 00:20:33,106 --> 00:20:35,107 A good cyclist does not need a road, Watson. 287 00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:40,446 The moor is intersected with paths. I remember the moons that were full. 288 00:20:41,448 --> 00:20:44,492 Now it is to the north that our quest must lie. 289 00:20:44,826 --> 00:20:46,118 You have done well, Watson. 290 00:20:46,703 --> 00:20:48,246 Dinner's soon, you'll be happy to hear 291 00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:52,124 but I have do just have one point on which I need to be satisfied. 292 00:20:53,543 --> 00:20:56,128 Herr Heidegger's room. Ten minutes. 293 00:20:58,465 --> 00:21:02,969 Doctor Holmes is being delving into the origins of the Holdernesse family. 294 00:21:03,887 --> 00:21:06,931 Like many ancient lines it sprang from a very muddy source. 295 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:08,140 Muddy Doctor? 296 00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:12,353 Well not to be too delicate about it, they were cattle thieves. 297 00:21:14,815 --> 00:21:18,734 A worrier class, ingenious, daring but the basis of their wealth 298 00:21:19,194 --> 00:21:21,529 was running off with other people's cows. 299 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,868 Holmes even tells me that Holdenesse has furnished 300 00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:30,788 one of the madder members of the Hell Fire Club. 301 00:21:39,756 --> 00:21:41,340 What is the matter Doctor Huxtable? 302 00:21:43,343 --> 00:21:44,260 It is nothing. 303 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,178 But it's clearly something. 304 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:52,560 I expect too much I'm sure. It is a part-time job. 305 00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:54,687 Tell us your expectations? 306 00:21:56,356 --> 00:21:58,149 I do not expect miracles. 307 00:21:59,026 --> 00:22:01,694 I think I am not a man who demands the miraculous... 308 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:04,363 but you have discovered nothing. 309 00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:09,869 We haven't found not a jot since the moment we left London. 310 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:12,204 Although indeed that is not true. 311 00:22:12,873 --> 00:22:15,291 You have discovered two things, both falshoods. 312 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:18,127 One, a squalid piece of gossip 313 00:22:19,129 --> 00:22:22,381 and the other an apocryphal and insulting fancy 314 00:22:22,549 --> 00:22:24,342 about the origins of my great patron. 315 00:22:26,553 --> 00:22:28,554 I did not employ you to come here 316 00:22:28,722 --> 00:22:31,223 to blacken the name of the Holdernesses, Mr. Holmes. 317 00:22:32,893 --> 00:22:34,852 Calm yourself, Doctor Huxtable. 318 00:22:37,564 --> 00:22:39,774 We have in fact, found some way. 319 00:22:41,068 --> 00:22:44,779 I can describe to you in some detail what took place in this school 320 00:22:44,905 --> 00:22:46,238 on that fateful night. 321 00:22:47,657 --> 00:22:52,286 Also the behavior of your excellent and faithful German master. 322 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:56,749 Faithful, Heidegger? What sir? 323 00:23:01,129 --> 00:23:04,298 Herr Heidegger retired to his room soon after eleven o'clock. 324 00:23:04,841 --> 00:23:06,592 He was the duty master that night. 325 00:23:07,302 --> 00:23:10,262 Now my friend and colleague, Doctor Watson, will impersonate. 326 00:23:13,892 --> 00:23:18,646 Heidegger has still two hours work ahead of him and it's been a long day. 327 00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:22,441 He allows himself the comfort of removing his jacket. 328 00:23:23,944 --> 00:23:26,445 He moves across to the chest by the door 329 00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:29,907 and pours himself a glass of sherry. 330 00:23:33,703 --> 00:23:36,914 Badly needed fortification of the task that lies ahead. 331 00:23:44,798 --> 00:23:48,342 He collects the candle and moves to his desk 332 00:23:48,718 --> 00:23:51,804 to correct twenty-two exercise books, 333 00:23:53,473 --> 00:23:58,394 which contain not only Grammatik exercises but also a lengthy composition. 334 00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:03,566 You see my point, Doctor Huxtable, 335 00:24:04,234 --> 00:24:06,944 it would have been well after midnight if he had done nothing else, 336 00:24:08,321 --> 00:24:10,030 when his candle fails him. 337 00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:15,661 The candles are kept in the chest by the door. 338 00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:20,541 He arises from the desk to fetch another one but he cannot see to find them, 339 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:26,172 so he turns to the windows to draw the curtains to see better by the moonlight. 340 00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:32,344 Across the rooftops on the gate tower 341 00:24:33,388 --> 00:24:35,347 the boy has been waiting for darkness, 342 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,392 knowing that his flight must not be observed. 343 00:24:40,854 --> 00:24:45,107 Herr Heidegger watches as the boy hurries across the ledge 344 00:24:45,525 --> 00:24:47,985 to keep his prearranged meeting by the river. 345 00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:55,034 Sensing the enormity of what was taking place, 346 00:24:55,994 --> 00:24:57,786 Heidegger runs to the door, 347 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,043 knocking over what remains of his glass sherry as he goes. 348 00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:08,547 I see. 349 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:11,050 Thank you. 350 00:25:12,969 --> 00:25:14,178 It seems I misjudged you. 351 00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:17,598 The wisdom of his choice to pursue the boy is questionable. 352 00:25:17,974 --> 00:25:20,059 I believe his fate may be sealed. 353 00:25:22,062 --> 00:25:25,064 You'll allow me, Mr. Holmes? Do you mean... 354 00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:28,400 I hope not but if my reasoning is correct then I do fear for him. 355 00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:31,695 And the boy? 356 00:25:35,075 --> 00:25:38,077 The key to that, Doctor Huxtable, remains out there. 357 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:42,706 Beyond the Drover's Bridge. 358 00:26:02,894 --> 00:26:03,769 Poor beast. 359 00:26:07,774 --> 00:26:09,024 Carrying crows. 360 00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:11,151 They ruin their name. 361 00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,408 So were assuming the boy was taken away on horseback are we not? 362 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:18,284 Certainly. 363 00:26:18,827 --> 00:26:21,745 Otherwise Heidegger would not have needed a bicycle to pursue them. 364 00:26:21,871 --> 00:26:24,582 But the only tracks we've found are cattle, Holmes. 365 00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:30,879 Holmes? 366 00:26:32,465 --> 00:26:33,966 A track, Watson! 367 00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:35,801 A track. 368 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:43,350 A bicycle? 369 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:47,313 Certainly a bicycle but not the bicycle. 370 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,816 I'm familiar with forty-two different impressions left by tires. 371 00:26:52,485 --> 00:26:56,655 This is a Dunlop with a patch upon the outer cover. 372 00:26:57,741 --> 00:26:59,950 Heidegger's tires were Palmers. 373 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,329 This is not Heidegger's track. 374 00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:06,081 Who's then? 375 00:27:06,207 --> 00:27:07,166 Who's indeed? 376 00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:11,879 Watson! 377 00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:16,216 These are Palmer tracks Heidegger has been this way. 378 00:27:22,557 --> 00:27:23,891 Absolutely extraordinary. 379 00:27:27,437 --> 00:27:31,982 Dunlop tracks for a hundred fifty yards, they vanish 380 00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:37,112 and Palmer tracks quite clear leading to these rocks, 381 00:27:37,739 --> 00:27:38,697 they vanish too. 382 00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:43,410 Not a sign of a horse anywhere. 383 00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:47,289 Watson, you have a blazing talent for observing the obvious. 384 00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:53,420 I should have brought some luncheon. 385 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:59,343 Anyway what was Herr Heidegger cycling after, cows? 386 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:04,223 Presumably they didn't abduct the child on the back of a cow. 387 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:12,773 All traces of horses obliterated. 388 00:28:13,733 --> 00:28:17,486 In much evidence the two bicycles have vanished into thin air. 389 00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:18,570 Impossible. 390 00:28:18,988 --> 00:28:19,822 Precisely. 391 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,740 It is impossible as we have mistaken it, 392 00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:25,119 therefore, in some respect, we must have mistaken it wrong. 393 00:28:29,874 --> 00:28:33,669 There's a hostelry mark on the further edge of the moor. 394 00:28:34,879 --> 00:28:35,462 Holmes, 395 00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:39,007 there's a hostelry on the Chesterfield Road. 396 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,307 Yes if he we keep on this line we should come up to it, 397 00:28:51,980 --> 00:28:55,774 Well that's where I'm going to try my luck. I'm hungry. 398 00:29:03,783 --> 00:29:04,324 Holmes? 399 00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:10,622 Lunch, of course my dear fellow you must be starving. 400 00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:12,541 Now observe that map. 401 00:29:12,959 --> 00:29:17,171 You will see that there's a hostelry about three miles in this direction. 402 00:29:19,674 --> 00:29:22,634 We'll need some food if we're going to face the Duke of Holdernesse later. 403 00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:42,780 Nothing? 404 00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:47,159 Nothing. I must tell his Grace. 405 00:29:59,923 --> 00:30:00,589 Nothing? 406 00:30:02,926 --> 00:30:05,052 Nothing. I'm sorry. 407 00:30:21,611 --> 00:30:22,194 I'm sorry. 408 00:30:45,718 --> 00:30:46,552 It's locked. 409 00:30:50,306 --> 00:30:54,726 Primitive but forceful as sporting portraits go. 410 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:05,195 Mr. Reuben Hayes? 411 00:31:05,905 --> 00:31:07,239 How do you know my name? 412 00:31:07,407 --> 00:31:09,074 It's printed over the door. 413 00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:12,286 We were looking for some refreshment. 414 00:31:13,204 --> 00:31:13,871 Were ya? 415 00:31:14,414 --> 00:31:16,498 And would be obliged if you could furnish it. 416 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:17,916 Would ya? 417 00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:20,252 We would. 418 00:31:21,754 --> 00:31:22,880 You must ask the woman. 419 00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:31,847 Insufferable lout. 420 00:31:34,601 --> 00:31:37,060 If were going all the way to Holdernesse Hall this afternoon, 421 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:41,857 let us try to hire those unpreconditioned beasts. What do you say? 422 00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:57,289 How far are you taking them? 423 00:31:57,624 --> 00:32:01,126 Just to the Hall and back, You know the way, I dare say? 424 00:32:02,128 --> 00:32:03,712 I worked there for fifteen years. 425 00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:11,470 Yeah, you can take them. 426 00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:14,890 My word, Mr. Hayes, you have injured yourself. 427 00:32:19,646 --> 00:32:20,270 It's nothing. 428 00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:24,358 I am a Doctor sir, and assure you it is. You should have it attended. 429 00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:26,777 How did you come by it? 430 00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:28,654 One of my dogs did it. 431 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,283 Those scratches. 432 00:32:34,911 --> 00:32:35,535 What about them? 433 00:32:35,912 --> 00:32:39,331 Well at a gentler glance they were that far apart. 434 00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:43,210 What animal would make such a scratch? 435 00:32:44,253 --> 00:32:46,755 Probably a descendent of the champion jack. 436 00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:51,426 Cockfighting is forbidden by law and has been for fifty years. 437 00:32:51,844 --> 00:32:55,597 Many things are forbidden by law. What law is there in such places as these? 438 00:32:57,016 --> 00:33:01,603 Excellent, Mrs. Hayes, thank you. What have you cooked? 439 00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:06,608 Blood pudding, sweets and... 440 00:33:13,074 --> 00:33:14,074 How is it, Watson? 441 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,536 It is disgusting, Holmes. 442 00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:20,914 That woman, 443 00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:26,044 she's frightened of something and more than that husband of hers. 444 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:30,298 Deception upon deception. 445 00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:33,385 What was it intended to hide? 446 00:33:36,014 --> 00:33:36,763 Deception? 447 00:33:57,201 --> 00:34:00,495 Oh, Watson, my horse is lame. 448 00:34:09,338 --> 00:34:10,047 That's odd. 449 00:34:18,931 --> 00:34:21,767 Old shoes, new nails. 450 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,677 Gentlemen. His Grace will see you now. 451 00:35:10,817 --> 00:35:13,068 Awe, Mr. Wilder. 452 00:35:13,694 --> 00:35:16,988 Mr. Holmes, Doctor Watson, welcome to Holdernesse Hall. 453 00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:19,282 His Grace will be joining us shortly. 454 00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:24,329 We are placing high hopes on your skills Mr. Holmes. Did you bring news? 455 00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:27,165 There is just one point in which I need to be satisfied. 456 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:28,625 Yes Mr. Holmes? 457 00:35:29,544 --> 00:35:32,170 It concerns the Duke's private concerns. 458 00:35:34,048 --> 00:35:37,384 As his Grace's private secretary perhaps I can be of some assistance. 459 00:35:37,718 --> 00:35:40,178 I believe his Grace wrote to his son 460 00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:42,347 upon the day this incident occurred. 461 00:35:42,849 --> 00:35:44,474 No I believe he wrote on the day before. 462 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,102 Yes but he would have received it upon that day. 463 00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:48,520 Yes, quite probably. 464 00:35:49,355 --> 00:35:51,106 Might there have been anything in that letter 465 00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:53,567 which would have prompted the boy to run away? 466 00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:55,193 Oh, I hardly think so. 467 00:35:56,070 --> 00:35:58,446 Anyway he would have run here if anywhere. 468 00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:01,032 Or to his mother in Italy? 469 00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:02,200 No sir. 470 00:36:04,537 --> 00:36:05,871 Lord Saltire would 471 00:36:06,664 --> 00:36:09,708 realize the impossibility of achieving such a goal. 472 00:36:11,085 --> 00:36:14,754 Even if abetted by this German, 473 00:36:16,048 --> 00:36:19,551 he is an intelligent and practical child. 474 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,261 And yet he cries in his sleep. 475 00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:26,391 Did his Grace post the letter himself? 476 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:29,394 His Grace is not in the habit of posting letters. 477 00:36:30,062 --> 00:36:32,439 The letter was laid with others upon the study table 478 00:36:33,065 --> 00:36:34,608 and I, myself, put them there. 479 00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:38,862 The only other person who would handle them would be Rivers 480 00:36:39,238 --> 00:36:41,323 who delivers the Daily Post to the lodge. 481 00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:43,200 And you're sure this letter was among them? 482 00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:45,285 Oh yes. I observed it, 483 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:48,705 And what have you observed, Mr. Holmes? 484 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:52,250 How does your investigation progress? 485 00:36:53,419 --> 00:36:54,753 Are you to disappoint me? 486 00:36:56,130 --> 00:37:00,425 I hope still to render your greater happier and myself a richer man. 487 00:37:00,676 --> 00:37:01,885 And what have you discovered? 488 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,597 It is mostly a matter of clarification. 489 00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:10,018 My belief is that the boy was tempted out of the school by a prearrangement 490 00:37:10,144 --> 00:37:14,648 and I suspect that his mother may have been the bait. 491 00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:21,112 The German master observed his departure and set off in pursuit. 492 00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:28,286 We tracked the passage of his bicycle across the moors with much difficulty. 493 00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:34,709 It is almost as if the tracks were deliberately sponged by someone... 494 00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:38,880 Mr. Holmes? 495 00:37:41,133 --> 00:37:44,719 Someone driving cattle. You don't happen to know if the cattle on the moor... 496 00:37:44,971 --> 00:37:48,056 What about them? I hope you have seen none. 497 00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:52,644 We cannot winter cattle outside in our upland climate. 498 00:37:53,479 --> 00:37:57,315 They will not be out of the yard for, oh at least another two weeks. 499 00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:03,154 Then I've been as blind as the beetle. 500 00:38:05,992 --> 00:38:07,158 I thank you, Grace. 501 00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:15,083 Old shoes and new nails! Old shoes and new nails! 502 00:38:15,209 --> 00:38:16,835 Holmes there's something you should see! 503 00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:20,171 It is a remarkable... 504 00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:21,840 Do you see those horseshoes? 505 00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:22,465 I saw them. 506 00:38:22,591 --> 00:38:26,886 Whoever took Lord Holdernesse shoed their horses with different horseshoes 507 00:38:27,013 --> 00:38:28,513 to escape detection. 508 00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:34,811 Reuben Hayes took advantage of a piece of local history? 509 00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:46,156 It's bad Watson, bad. 510 00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:52,454 Those vultures of the north mark the spot. 511 00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:09,637 German master. 512 00:39:15,394 --> 00:39:16,394 What's left of him? 513 00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:36,998 Hello! 514 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:41,127 Hello, hello! 515 00:39:49,345 --> 00:39:53,139 Skin and blood. Only a microscope would tell if it's human. 516 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:56,059 A consistent no doubt to the scratch on Hayes neck. 517 00:39:56,602 --> 00:39:57,435 Cause of death? 518 00:39:57,895 --> 00:40:00,855 Strangulation. The larynx is quite crushed. 519 00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:03,358 That shepherd can be our messenger to the priory school 520 00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:05,485 with the news of this tragedy. 521 00:40:06,445 --> 00:40:09,364 We must proceed on foot, Watson. I was warm! 522 00:40:10,616 --> 00:40:14,536 At that Inn, warm as the children say. 523 00:40:15,162 --> 00:40:18,790 The trail grows colder every step I take away from it. 524 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:27,048 How was I supposed to know where to put the body... 525 00:40:37,643 --> 00:40:38,977 It's all over now, Arthur. 526 00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:50,905 Reuben Hayes. Let's hope we're not too late. 527 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,870 A Dunlop with a patch on the outer cover. 528 00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:10,675 What happened here, Mrs. Hayes? 529 00:41:11,927 --> 00:41:14,012 I'm satisfied that you have no liking for this business 530 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:15,722 and that you acted under coercion. 531 00:41:16,682 --> 00:41:19,642 Someone came for the boy. 532 00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:24,022 The Duke's secretary, Mr. Wilder? 533 00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:31,696 Which way did they go? 534 00:41:33,949 --> 00:41:35,033 Across the moor? 535 00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:39,537 Aboard the Chesterfield Road where... 536 00:41:39,788 --> 00:41:41,206 Excellent, Mrs. Hayes. 537 00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:46,461 I must alert the Duke's household, Watson. 538 00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:49,839 You are now the boy's guardian angel. 539 00:42:39,890 --> 00:42:42,433 I fancy I see your Grace's checkbook upon your desk. 540 00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:46,437 I would be glad if you would make me out a check for six thousand pounds. 541 00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:48,606 Perhaps it would be best if you were to cross it. 542 00:42:49,024 --> 00:42:52,610 The Capital and counties Bank, Oxford Street branch, are my agents. 543 00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:55,029 I do not possess a temperament, Mr. Holmes 544 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:57,615 that appreciates the kind of acidulous pleasantry 545 00:42:57,741 --> 00:42:59,158 that clearly amuses you. 546 00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:02,745 I am sorry, but I do not see how James, 547 00:43:02,997 --> 00:43:05,832 Mr. Wilder could possibly be implicated in this business 548 00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:07,500 and you average not proof of it. 549 00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:09,877 But I possess the proof It is beyond debate. 550 00:43:11,171 --> 00:43:14,424 The mud is scarcely dry on the cloven horseshoes in your casements. 551 00:43:14,633 --> 00:43:16,009 Why do you doubt my word? 552 00:43:16,885 --> 00:43:18,636 You seem to suffer from a blindness. 553 00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:21,139 Your own interest, which borders on madness. 554 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:23,349 Your Grace, 555 00:43:25,144 --> 00:43:28,938 those portraits in the hall 556 00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:31,316 of you and your father as young men, 557 00:43:33,068 --> 00:43:35,653 there your family liniments are very clear, 558 00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:39,574 How long has Mr. Wilder been in your service? 559 00:43:39,908 --> 00:43:44,537 What is your meaning? How dare you sir! 560 00:43:44,830 --> 00:43:47,790 You do not understand! You are a barbarian! 561 00:43:47,916 --> 00:43:51,753 You will never... please leave me immediately. I won't... 562 00:43:53,213 --> 00:43:53,838 I... 563 00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:04,515 Then it is as I suspected. 564 00:44:11,065 --> 00:44:13,358 Mr. James Wilder is your son. 565 00:44:24,745 --> 00:44:28,206 When I was a very young man, Mr. Holmes, 566 00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:31,250 I loved 567 00:44:33,712 --> 00:44:37,590 with such a love that comes only once in a lifetime. 568 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,970 I offered the lady marriage 569 00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:49,227 but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might 570 00:44:50,729 --> 00:44:52,522 mar my career. 571 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:59,320 Had she lived I would certainly never had married anyone else 572 00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:00,321 but... 573 00:45:02,825 --> 00:45:08,037 she died and left with one child, 574 00:45:09,456 --> 00:45:15,378 James, whom for her sake I have tended and cared for. 575 00:45:17,214 --> 00:45:20,550 I could not acknowledge paternity to the world 576 00:45:20,676 --> 00:45:24,846 but in all other ways I have treated him like my son. 577 00:45:28,142 --> 00:45:31,436 He has required, but not warranted, 578 00:45:31,603 --> 00:45:35,231 a father's forgiveness many times 579 00:45:37,317 --> 00:45:41,112 and I have forgiven. I have forgiven. 580 00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:46,784 I have forgiven much. 581 00:45:50,164 --> 00:45:52,832 Awe your Grace you have done all you can for Mr. Wilder. 582 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,295 You must realize that he is lost to you. 583 00:45:59,465 --> 00:46:01,340 He's conspired to abduct Lord Saltire. 584 00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:03,843 He's an accessory to a murder, however unwittingly. 585 00:46:05,137 --> 00:46:06,763 He must be found 586 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,975 before he's attempted to a crime even more terrible. 587 00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:14,771 He must be found 588 00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:19,066 before you loose the son that is left to you. 589 00:46:35,667 --> 00:46:39,837 Rivers. You are to organize a search of the moor. 590 00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:42,548 West Woods in a line from the temple to the pavilion. 591 00:46:43,717 --> 00:46:46,594 You are to employ the entire staff without exception. 592 00:46:48,597 --> 00:46:52,558 You are looking for my son, Lord Saltire. 593 00:46:55,312 --> 00:46:57,021 If you find Mr. Wilder, 594 00:46:58,690 --> 00:47:00,650 please see that he is detained 595 00:47:02,402 --> 00:47:03,361 and brought to me. 596 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,668 Wilder intercepted your letter and substituted a note 597 00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:21,921 which deceived your son into believing that he was to see his mother. 598 00:47:23,090 --> 00:47:25,424 The murderous Hayes was his paid accomplice 599 00:47:25,551 --> 00:47:27,969 but the police have been alerted. Hayes will not escape... 600 00:47:28,095 --> 00:47:28,719 Watson? 601 00:47:31,598 --> 00:47:34,225 I tracked them over to the moor but they disappeared. 602 00:47:34,601 --> 00:47:35,560 I searched the area 603 00:47:36,895 --> 00:47:38,729 but it's as if the earth just swallowed them up. 604 00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:41,983 With my research into your family history 605 00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:47,697 I've seemed to recall mention of a huge limestone cavern 606 00:47:47,823 --> 00:47:49,699 where the stolen cattle were penned. 607 00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:52,076 The cathedral. 608 00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:56,747 Come on. 609 00:48:00,043 --> 00:48:00,835 Come on! 610 00:49:45,190 --> 00:49:46,399 Hand him over. 611 00:49:46,942 --> 00:49:50,361 No! You shall not have him! 612 00:49:51,863 --> 00:49:53,531 Father! 613 00:49:53,657 --> 00:49:54,740 Come Father! 614 00:49:55,033 --> 00:49:59,870 Father! Father! 615 00:50:01,206 --> 00:50:02,707 James! 616 00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:33,529 I was disposed to love Francesca 617 00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:37,908 and not with a boy's passion but with a man's love. 618 00:50:42,581 --> 00:50:47,585 My marriage to her founded on James jealousy. 619 00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:58,554 As long as I could see, his mother's face and manner in him, 620 00:50:59,347 --> 00:51:02,016 James knew he could keep me from the love 621 00:51:03,268 --> 00:51:04,518 I owed my wife. 622 00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:11,984 Even his cruelty to Arthur, 623 00:51:14,279 --> 00:51:16,655 I could not send him away even for that. 624 00:51:19,451 --> 00:51:21,368 So I sent Arthur away instead. 625 00:51:22,871 --> 00:51:25,873 What did he hope to achieve by kidnapping his brother? 626 00:51:27,125 --> 00:51:27,625 Money? 627 00:51:30,879 --> 00:51:31,754 Legitimacy? 628 00:51:33,215 --> 00:51:34,215 And power. 629 00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:37,051 Power over me. 630 00:51:38,970 --> 00:51:42,223 He delighted in exercising power over me, 631 00:51:44,309 --> 00:51:48,604 for me and you were to have denied him power. 632 00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:51,857 But you suspected that he was behind the abduction? 633 00:51:52,859 --> 00:51:55,152 In my darkest moments, yes. 634 00:51:57,531 --> 00:51:59,949 Yet somehow I hoped to... 635 00:52:02,786 --> 00:52:03,619 save him. 636 00:52:06,873 --> 00:52:10,709 Well, a long penance it had seemed. 637 00:52:13,338 --> 00:52:19,510 I can only hope that Francesca will forgive me. 638 00:52:34,526 --> 00:52:35,860 Thank you, Mr. Holmes. 639 00:52:38,530 --> 00:52:39,280 Your Grace? 640 00:52:44,286 --> 00:52:45,703 This is a king's ransom. 641 00:52:47,914 --> 00:52:49,707 You have given me back my future.