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00:00:00 [The End]
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00:01:33 - Hurry up lads, drink up, five minutes to closing time.
00:01:37 - Well, let's have three more beers. - Come on now.
00:01:39 - Five minutes, I'll be with you. - Have your beer. - Five minutes to closing time.
00:01:42 - Five minutes to closing time. - Oh, sweetheart.
00:01:46 - Ask for the tune, eh?
00:01:48 [Chatter]
00:02:01 - You're on luck, that's what you are.
00:02:04 [Crow cawing]
00:02:07 [Chatter]
00:02:12 - You have bad mood, let's have a look at it.
00:02:15 - Blimey. - Hey, what can I get you lad?
00:02:18 - Mother's ruin, make mine the same.
00:02:21 - It'll cost you two bob for the broken glass, matey.
00:02:23 - What's the order here anyway, letting a beast like that fly around loose in the public house?
00:02:27 - He didn't order, let him smell the blood.
00:02:29 - He's very fond of blood, Charlie is.
00:02:32 - Comes by his taste, natural if you ask me.
00:02:35 - Nobody's asking you miss. - Oh.
00:02:37 - Where's he from? - Musgrave Manor.
00:02:40 - What is this Musgrave Manor, a blinking prison?
00:02:43 - It's the worst it's been called. - Not that I want to go about spreading stories.
00:02:47 - But we knows what we knows, don't we Charlie?
00:02:52 [Chatter]
00:02:56 - Blimey.
00:02:58 - Where is this Musgrave Manor?
00:03:00 - Down the road a piece.
00:03:02 - You'll see it when you pass the old iron gates.
00:03:05 - Only don't loiter, you won't be welcome.
00:03:09 - Not by the Musgraves, been sitting there.
00:03:12 - Lords of the Manor ever since time was.
00:03:15 - If those old wolves could speak, they'd tell you things that raise the air on your head.
00:03:21 - Those folks hereabouts, swear they've seen corpse lights.
00:03:26 - Round the old green house.
00:03:29 - And they're wailing, like lost souls in the limewalk.
00:03:34 - Hey, I want no part of it.
00:03:37 - Nor of the Musgraves neither.
00:03:39 - Hard men, like them as was before them.
00:03:42 - Cruel men.
00:03:44 - God pity 'em.
00:03:46 - For the day is coming, when they'll need pity.
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00:04:30 - I don't think you're being quite fair, Geoffrey.
00:04:35 - I assure you I have no wish to be fair.
00:04:41 - Hmm, an excellent specimen of the coppice carolina.
00:04:47 - You are a sweet old soul, aren't you?
00:04:50 - I've no wish to be a sweet old soul.
00:04:53 - No wish to be anything but what I am.
00:04:56 - A disagreeable person who does not intend to let his sister run off with the first cocksure Yankee who makes her pulses jump.
00:05:04 - And I suppose Philip feels the same way about it.
00:05:07 - Oh, Philip has no choice in the matter.
00:05:09 - As my younger brother, Philip feels precisely as I tell him to.
00:05:14 - Eavesdropping again, Branton?
00:05:16 - Oh no, Mr. Philip, I assure you. But I didn't wish to disturb him.
00:05:21 - What did you hear, Branton?
00:05:24 [Clicks tongue]
00:05:26 - Your brother and Miss Sally were going at it emmer and tongs. About Captain Vickery, I mean.
00:05:31 - Really?
00:05:32 - Mr. Geoffrey and Captain Vickery had an horrible row this afternoon over Miss Sally.
00:05:38 - I thought they were coming to blows. Indeed I did.
00:05:41 - Quite. That'll do now, Branton.
00:05:43 - If I catch you snooping again, I shall ask my brother to give you notice.
00:05:46 - Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
00:05:49 - You're not above a bit of snooping yourself, are you, Philip?
00:05:53 - Not in the least, old boy.
00:05:55 [Coughs]
00:06:02 - Branton! Oh, there you are! I've been ringing for you!
00:06:06 - Sorry, Dr. Watson. I was in the upper region.
00:06:10 - The library's in a filthy mess.
00:06:12 - The wind came swishing down the chimney and scattered the ashes everywhere.
00:06:15 - Very well. I'll tidy it up at once, Doctor.
00:06:18 - Ah.
00:06:19 - Room full of smoke, papers all over the floor.
00:06:26 - Foul night, Branton.
00:06:28 - It's customary now, Stanzer.
00:06:30 - Just the sort of night I fancy for the ghost of Lady Clarinda.
00:06:33 - Oh, no, Dr. Watson. Lady Clarinda only walks in the west wing.
00:06:38 - No one ever met a ghost in this part of the house.
00:06:41 - Oh, really? Isn't there some story at all?
00:06:43 - Oh, there was a housemaid claimed that she saw Sir Jervis Musgrave...
00:06:48 - ...with his head on backwards in this very room.
00:06:52 - Who's this man?
00:06:54 - Well, she was just a flighty girl, sir.
00:06:56 - Oh, sounds like it. Very flighty.
00:06:58 - A most.
00:06:59 - Good old man.
00:07:01 - Head on backwards.
00:07:03 - Head on backwards.
00:07:10 - Head on backwards.
00:07:12 - I say, Branton, does the wind always carry on like this here?
00:07:35 - Frequently, sir.
00:07:37 - It's a great pity.
00:07:39 - Makes the gentleman restless.
00:07:41 - More than usual, I mean.
00:07:43 - Well, our patients are all tucked up for the night now, eh, Branton?
00:07:50 - Are they?
00:07:51 - Of course, of course. Well, aren't they?
00:07:54 - Captain Vickery is in his room, sir.
00:07:57 - And it looked like Major Langford I saw going toward the pool.
00:08:01 - And I can't account for left and enclavering.
00:08:04 - Really? That's very odd.
00:08:06 - Very odd, sir.
00:08:09 - Anything else, sir?
00:08:10 - No, thank you. Oh, yes, yes.
00:08:12 - You might tell Dr. Sexton that I'd like to see him for a minute, will you?
00:08:15 - Very good, sir.
00:08:17 - Good night, sir.
00:08:24 - Good night, Branton.
00:08:26 - Bob!
00:08:37 - My Branton!
00:08:39 - Get him up! Let's get him in this chair over here.
00:08:42 - Sorry. Awfully sorry.
00:08:45 - Get my bag, will you, Branton?
00:08:48 - Yes, sir.
00:08:49 - Let's have a look.
00:08:51 - It's a near thing. Just missed the carotid artery.
00:08:54 - Looks like a knife wound.
00:08:56 - Here you are, sir.
00:08:57 - It's like a nightmare.
00:08:59 - Give me some of that cotton wool in that little bottle, please.
00:09:02 - Awful nuisance.
00:09:03 - Oh, no, old fellow. We'll have you patched up in no time.
00:09:05 - You'll be as good as new.
00:09:07 - What happened?
00:09:08 - I hardly know. It...
00:09:10 - It was in Lime Walk just now.
00:09:13 - I was coming up from the village.
00:09:15 - I remember distinctly I was approaching the greenhouse.
00:09:19 - The wind was terrific.
00:09:21 - I had to fight my way.
00:09:23 - I hadn't the slightest warning.
00:09:26 - All I know is that...
00:09:29 - he struck and I went down.
00:09:32 - He must have thought I was done for.
00:09:35 - Any idea who it was?
00:09:37 - No.
00:09:38 - Well, that is, I...
00:09:40 - Yes, yes.
00:09:41 - No, really, I...
00:09:43 - I haven't any right.
00:09:45 - You have every right, Dr. Sexton.
00:09:48 - As head of this house, I shall arrange for an immediate investigation.
00:09:54 - I'd rather not, if you don't mind, sir.
00:09:56 - Dr. Sexton, the fact that my brother and sister and I have opened our home to convalescent patients
00:10:01 - doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.
00:10:05 - I mean, under the peculiar circumstances.
00:10:08 - Come along, Bob. There's no need to shield anyone.
00:10:11 - Thirteen.
00:10:19 - Thirteen? That's curious.
00:10:22 - What's got into the old clock?
00:10:24 - Nothing, nothing at all.
00:10:26 - Oh, sir.
00:10:28 - Don't you remember the last time it did that?
00:10:31 - Your father was killed the next day.
00:10:34 - The End
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00:10:39 (Gunshots)
00:10:51 (Gunshots)
00:10:55 (Gunshots)
00:10:58 (Gunshots)
00:11:01 (Knocking)
00:11:03 - Mr. Holmes! Mr. Holmes!
00:11:05 (Knocking)
00:11:07 - Oh, Mr. Holmes, I... Oh, I...
00:11:14 - A purely scientific experiment, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:16 - Oh, frightening the wits out of honest people.
00:11:19 - Permit me, ma'am.
00:11:21 - Oh, dear. So now it's bullet holes in me plaster.
00:11:26 - Oh, Mr. Holmes, this is the last straw.
00:11:30 - The last straw, Mrs. Hudson.
00:11:32 - The one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dill.
00:11:34 - It proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, even bound as he claims he was,
00:11:38 he could still have fired the shot in his own defense that killed his wife's lover.
00:11:42 - But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
00:11:45 - Come in, Watson.
00:11:54 - My dear fellow, I'm glad to find you in.
00:11:57 - I didn't even knock. How did you know it was me? I?
00:12:01 - Me is acceptable, Watson, unless, of course, you're a purist, which I doubt.
00:12:04 - And may I add that your step is like no other in London.
00:12:07 - You're just in time for breakfast.
00:12:09 - Good. I rather count it on that.
00:12:11 - Mrs. Hudson, dear, how are you?
00:12:13 - Oh, it's good to see you again, sir. I think there'll be enough there for two.
00:12:16 - Splendid!
00:12:18 - You're a sight for sore eyes, Watson.
00:12:20 - Thanks, old boy. And so are you.
00:12:22 - Sit down. - Good. Thank you.
00:12:24 - All right. Let's have it.
00:12:26 - What brings you from Northumberland at this early hour?
00:12:29 - Bad business, Holmes. Very bad business.
00:12:32 - How do you know that I came from Northumberland?
00:12:34 - Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:12:36 - Your overnight bag carried a fresh Houston label.
00:12:39 - The only train arriving at Houston station at this hour is the Newcastle Express from Northumberland.
00:12:44 - Ergo, sir knight, thou comest from Northumberland.
00:12:46 - Oh, of course. Obvious, isn't it?
00:12:48 - Quite. Now tell me, what dark deed was done at Hurston Towers last night?
00:12:52 - That's what I came to see about, Holmes.
00:12:54 - About 10 o'clock last night, I was sitting in the lab.
00:12:57 - How do you know that I came from Hurston?
00:13:00 - You wrote me that you'd volunteered for medical service within the realm.
00:13:03 - With your experience, what post could have been offered you,
00:13:06 - other than to put you in charge of a home for convalescent officers?
00:13:09 - Only one such home has been opened in Northumberland in the last month,
00:13:12 - and that's Musgrave Manor at Hurston.
00:13:15 - Simple reasoning. A child could do it.
00:13:18 - Not your child, Watson. - Of course.
00:13:21 - Well, I never had a child. I very nearly did, though.
00:13:24 - Did I ever tell you about that widow at Twickenham?
00:13:27 - Very narrow escape.
00:13:29 - I just found out in time she had a most horrible little squirt at about 3½.
00:13:32 - Yes, Watson, I think we'd better stick to Hurston.
00:13:34 - Oh, sorry, Ober. Oh, Hurston!
00:13:36 - It's a grim old pile. Very spooky.
00:13:39 - Don't tell me that you met a ghost.
00:13:41 - No, not so spooky as that.
00:13:43 - Ghosts don't stab people in the neck, do they?
00:13:46 - Or do they?
00:13:48 - Not well-bred ghosts, Watson.
00:13:52 - Who was stabbed in the neck?
00:13:54 - My young assistant, Dr. Sexton.
00:13:56 - When? - Last night.
00:13:58 - Any idea who did it? - No idea.
00:14:01 - You reported it? - No, no, I didn't.
00:14:03 - Why not? - Well, see, it was a...
00:14:05 - My dear fellow, what you're trying to say is
00:14:07 the officers in your care are all fine fellows.
00:14:10 - Wonderful war records and so on. Is that it? - Precisely.
00:14:13 - So you thought perhaps a private investigation.
00:14:16 - Exactly. - Very right and proper thinking, Watson.
00:14:18 - We've just time to catch the 9.30 train to Hurston.
00:14:21 - But my dear fellow, there's no immediate hurry.
00:14:23 - Isn't there? Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.
00:14:27 Any one of them might go over the edge at any moment.
00:14:29 And from what you've told me, there's a killer loose at Hurston.
00:14:33 - Great Scott, you may be right.
00:14:35 - Come on, Watson. We haven't a moment to lose.
00:14:38 I only hope we shan't be too late.
00:14:41 (door slams)
00:14:43 - You were right, Watson, about Musgrave Manor.
00:14:53 Houses like people have definite personalities.
00:14:55 And this place is positively ghoulish.
00:14:58 - It certainly is.
00:15:00 - Hello. What's that?
00:15:03 - You steal greenhouse? - No, no, no. A pile of leaves.
00:15:06 - Just an ordinary pile of leaves. Why?
00:15:08 - Doesn't it strike you as odd, Watson,
00:15:10 that a pile of leaves should be raked up in front of a greenhouse door?
00:15:14 No gardener in the world would do that.
00:15:17 - Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:15:30 (birds chirping)
00:15:32 (Groans)
00:15:49 - That's all very interesting, Inspector Lestrade.
00:15:54 (snaps fingers)
00:15:56 But what, may I ask, does it prove?
00:15:59 - What I'm trying to prove is this.
00:16:01 That Dr. Sextonere went down... - Twice now, Inspector.
00:16:04 - You were stunned. - Naturally.
00:16:06 - He went out longer than you thought. That's the point.
00:16:08 - What point? - Just this.
00:16:10 The man who attacked him had time to get back into the house
00:16:12 before Dr. Sextonere came to. - Yes?
00:16:14 - Yes. And this here glove...
00:16:17 Oh. And this here glove,
00:16:20 what I picked up at the scene of the crime,
00:16:23 belongs to a certain party right here in this house.
00:16:26 - I see. - Why, that glove belongs to my brother.
00:16:29 - Huh? - Do you suggest that he attempted to murder Dr. Sextonere?
00:16:32 - Who knows?
00:16:34 The man whose hand fits this here glove will bear talking to.
00:16:37 - Very well. My brother's down at the stables.
00:16:40 I'll take you to him myself. - Thank you.
00:16:42 - It's the quickest way to put a stop to this blithering nonsense. Come on.
00:16:45 - Oh, Mr. Philip. - Yes?
00:16:47 - Better not go out in the night air without a coat.
00:16:49 Here, take mine. - Thanks.
00:16:54 - Well, I won't need this. No. Oh, uh...
00:16:57 Nor this. - Well, shall we go?
00:17:00 - Why, if it ain't Mr. Holmes. - Good evening, Lestrade.
00:17:05 - Come to give us an hand, have you? - Always happy to help, Inspector.
00:17:08 - Thanks, but I don't think I should be needing any.
00:17:10 - Huh. Hm. Why, if it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:17:14 - Gentlemen, this is my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:17:18 Mr. Philip Musgrave and Dr. Sextonere.
00:17:20 - How do you do? - How do you do?
00:17:22 - I just brought him up to spend a few days with us.
00:17:24 - Well, that's very good of you.
00:17:25 But as you see, Scotland Yard's already taken charge.
00:17:28 - Oh, really? That's most unfortunate.
00:17:30 - If you don't mind, Dr. Watson, I'd like to have that little talk with your brother, sir.
00:17:34 - I'm afraid you can't have that pleasure, Inspector.
00:17:36 - Oh, now? - I've got bad news for you, Mr. Musgrave.
00:17:39 We've just found your brother in the Lime Walk.
00:17:42 He's dead.
00:17:44 - You can't mean it.
00:17:46 No.
00:17:51 - Look here, Holmes. If this is one of your little jokes...
00:17:53 - Murder's no joke, Inspector.
00:17:55 - That's right, Mr. Holmes. No good saying it ain't.
00:17:58 - Murder? Well, let's get going. - I'll take charge now.
00:18:01 - What? - It's quite within my rights as a local justice of the peace.
00:18:04 - I'll come with you.
00:18:06 (footsteps)
00:18:08 (phone buzzes)
00:18:23 - Wait a minute, you fool. Don't go barging in like that.
00:18:30 - Don't warn me.
00:18:35 - Surgical instruments.
00:18:37 You know, Watson, the instruments that save life are hardly more pleasant to look at than those that take it.
00:18:42 - Hmm. Greasily thought, Holmes.
00:18:45 - You rang, Dr. Watson?
00:18:50 - Yes, Brunton. I want you to take some men and go down to the Lime Walk.
00:18:53 - Me, sir? Oh, I can't, sir. I'm sorry, but I simply can't.
00:18:56 My stomach, you know.
00:18:58 I really couldn't...
00:19:00 look at a corpse.
00:19:02 - A corpse?
00:19:04 Well, I, uh...
00:19:05 - How did you know that there was a corpse?
00:19:07 - Obviously, he was listening at the door.
00:19:09 - I'll take care of the matter, Doctor.
00:19:11 I was listening too.
00:19:13 Come along, Brunton.
00:19:15 - Remarkable woman. Housekeeper, I suppose.
00:19:24 - She's very efficient.
00:19:26 - Same type as Mary Ann Carpenter, the trunk murderess.
00:19:29 Extraordinary house.
00:19:33 - Yes, it is indeed.
00:19:35 - Now, Watson, if you don't mind, I'd like to have a word with your extraordinary patients.
00:19:39 - Let me remind you, Holmes, that my patients are just, uh...
00:19:42 just, uh, patients. - Quite so.
00:19:44 - All normal men.
00:19:46 Sound in mind and body.
00:19:48 No sign of psychoneurosis. - I quite understand.
00:19:50 - Then, Holmes, even... even normal people are sometimes a little...
00:19:54 - Precisely.
00:19:59 - Hello, Mac. - Eh?
00:20:01 - Oh, I must have taken a wee nap.
00:20:05 - Mac, I want you to meet a very old friend of mine, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Captain McIntosh.
00:20:08 - How do you do? - I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.
00:20:11 - Sorry to have wakened you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:13 - See you later. - Yes.
00:20:15 - Sit down, Mac, and go on with your sleep.
00:20:17 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:25 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:28 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:31 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:34 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:37 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:40 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:43 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:46 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:49 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:52 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:55 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:20:58 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:01 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:04 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:07 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:10 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:13 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:16 - I'm sorry to have woken you. - Oh, that's quite all right.
00:21:19 - I hope so. - I hope so. I hope so.
00:21:22 Excuse me. Excuse me.
00:21:25 Poor chap was at Singapore. Escaped from a Japanese prison camp.
00:21:29 - A ghastly experience. - He's suffering from...
00:21:32 - A scape complex, obviously. - Yes, he's a very nice chap, though.
00:21:35 The next fellow I want you to meet is young Clayweem.
00:21:38 Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.
00:21:40 Saw a lot of men blown to bits by Nazi booby traps.
00:21:43 - He's a bit on edge. - Not unnaturally.
00:21:46 (Knock on door)
00:21:48 Coming.
00:21:53 Well, Dr Watson, come in, won't you?
00:21:59 Sorry to keep you so long.
00:22:01 You see, I, uh... I was lying down. Resting.
00:22:05 This is my friend, Mr Holmes, who's here for a few days.
00:22:08 - Mr Clavering. - Glad to meet you.
00:22:10 - How do you do? Sorry to disturb you. - Not at all.
00:22:13 You don't have to have cigarettes about you, do you?
00:22:16 That's one of the reasons I came. I brought you some of those American cigarettes.
00:22:20 That's all right. Open it up.
00:22:23 No hurry. No hurry at all.
00:22:26 No, no, no. Of course there isn't.
00:22:28 - Shall we go? - Yes. We must be off. We've got a lot to do.
00:22:31 - See you later. - Yes, I'll be back. Good night.
00:22:34 He seemed afraid there might be a bomb in that package.
00:22:41 Well, this isn't that, poor chap.
00:22:43 The man in this room is an American flying officer, Captain Vickery.
00:22:46 - Nothing very much the matter with him. - What's he here for, then?
00:22:49 Spot arrest. Had a pretty long go of it. Worn out. Needs all the rest he can get.
00:22:53 Vickery? Vickery?
00:22:56 Doesn't seem to be in.
00:22:58 No one at home.
00:23:04 Hmm. Apparently not.
00:23:09 Not since tea time, at any rate.
00:23:12 Well, what's this?
00:23:14 "Captain Vickery, here's your tea. If it's cold, don't blame me."
00:23:18 That sounds like Brunton's work.
00:23:21 - The butler? - He fancied himself a poet.
00:23:24 - But only when he's drinking. - I see.
00:23:26 Wasn't that an American killer given to verse?
00:23:28 Holmes, you don't think that Brunton...
00:23:30 Excuse me.
00:23:32 I merely stated...
00:23:34 it was an American killer given to verse.
00:23:37 Dr. Watson, where are you?
00:23:39 Oh, there you are.
00:23:41 Steady, my dear. Steady.
00:23:43 Please make me wake up, won't you?
00:23:45 It's just a bad dream, I know. Jeff and Pat...
00:23:48 No, no, no, my dear. You've got to get a grip on yourself.
00:23:50 Come on. Come. Come sit down.
00:23:53 My brother Jeff. Murdered.
00:23:56 Poor old Jeff.
00:23:59 And I hadn't spoken to him since we had the fight yesterday on Pat...
00:24:02 I mean, Captain Vickery's account.
00:24:04 - And now he's dead. - Now, now, my dear.
00:24:07 You must... You must pull yourself together.
00:24:09 But you don't understand.
00:24:11 They're trying to say that Pat...
00:24:13 They're trying to prove that Pat killed Jeff.
00:24:15 - No, no, no. - Yes!
00:24:18 Funny, isn't it?
00:24:20 Awfully funny.
00:24:22 Awfully funny. Awfully funny.
00:24:24 Stop it!
00:24:25 - Who are you? - My name is Holmes.
00:24:27 - Sherlock Holmes? - Yes.
00:24:29 Then you'll help us, won't you, Mr. Holmes? Pat and me.
00:24:32 I'll try to. Now, tell me.
00:24:34 Wasn't there bad blood between your brother Jeffrey and Captain Vickery?
00:24:37 - That's got nothing to do with it. - It may have everything to do with it.
00:24:39 If you think Captain Vickery ever murdered anyone,
00:24:41 you're no more of a detective than... than... than Dr. Watson.
00:24:44 - Oh, dear. - Oh, I'm sorry.
00:24:47 - You're very much in love, aren't you? - I'm out of my mind, Mr. Holmes.
00:24:53 I'm out of my mind.
00:24:56 Oh, please forgive me and please... please help me.
00:24:59 Of course. Of course. I understand.
00:25:01 But you don't understand.
00:25:03 That appalling man from Scotland Yard is questioning Pat at this very moment.
00:25:07 Now, this here rake,
00:25:09 it's the identical one you got from the gardener this afternoon, now, ain't it?
00:25:12 Smells like it.
00:25:16 Hey, what is this? Are you trying to prove that Jeffrey Musgrave was killed with a rake?
00:25:19 No, I'm trying to...
00:25:21 Never mind what I'm trying to prove.
00:25:23 Just incriminate yourself, Captain Vickery. That's all the Stroud wants.
00:25:26 I'll thank you to keep out of this, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:28 - This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes. - How do you do?
00:25:30 I promised to help you, dear. There's nothing to worry about now.
00:25:32 Only his neck, miss.
00:25:34 Now, this here rake, what did you say you were using it for?
00:25:37 I told you, I got it to fish my cap out of the pond. It blew in.
00:25:40 Oh, so you were using it down at the pond, were you?
00:25:43 For the tenth time, yes.
00:25:44 And how did it happen to turn up alongside Musgrave's body, eh?
00:25:47 - I don't know. - Uh-huh. Well, that's that.
00:25:49 Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:51 Any fingerprints on the rake, Inspector?
00:25:53 No, Mr. Holmes. That's the point.
00:25:55 If Vickery was only using it to fish his hat out...
00:25:57 Well, no. He wouldn't bother to wipe his fingerprints off, now, would he?
00:26:00 It's beyond imagination, I suppose, that somebody else could have used the rake...
00:26:02 and wiped off both sets of fingerprints.
00:26:04 Highly interested, but very unlikely.
00:26:06 Now, you admit that you had a regular set, too, with Geoffrey Musgrave yesterday, didn't you?
00:26:10 You threatened to bash his head in.
00:26:12 I merely made the offer. He didn't accept it.
00:26:14 - Who told you so? - He did. No, he did.
00:26:16 I only stated what I heard.
00:26:18 Captain Vickery did threaten my brother.
00:26:20 That's right, Mr. Holmes, and it's no good saying it ain't.
00:26:23 This Yankee lad had motive and opportunity.
00:26:26 And the rake ties him right up tight to the corpse.
00:26:29 All right. Come along.
00:26:31 You really think he killed old Musgrave?
00:26:37 - You know very well he didn't. - He doesn't.
00:26:39 Stop clicking those needles.
00:26:41 - Oh, Pat. - Take it easy, Sally.
00:26:43 Now, look, don't worry a bit.
00:26:45 I'll tell you where everything's gonna be all right.
00:26:47 Let's go, Inspector.
00:26:54 - Mr. Holmes. - Steady, steady.
00:26:57 - Aren't you on our side? - Yes, Sally.
00:26:59 Then why don't you do something?
00:27:01 Because Captain Vickery will be much safer in the local police station tonight...
00:27:04 than he would be in this house.
00:27:06 Oh, Mr. Holmes, what am I going to do?
00:27:08 - Watson, go set it in. - What am I going to do?
00:27:10 - I'll get it at once. - Come along, Sally.
00:27:23 She's a bit upset, but she'll get over it.
00:27:25 You think so?
00:27:27 She'll have to. She's got an ordeal ahead of her.
00:27:29 She has to go through that tiresome ritual tomorrow.
00:27:32 Ritual?
00:27:34 This is no family ceremony, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:37 Sally's next in line now that I'm head of the household.
00:27:40 Blast this thing.
00:27:44 - Miss Helpe? - Oh, yes, thanks.
00:27:48 - Knitting needle, isn't it? - Yes.
00:27:52 Handy little things.
00:27:54 It says, "My heir, Sally, has to recite a sort of formula over Jeff's body...
00:27:59 in front of the fireplace and the library...
00:28:01 in the presence of the entire household."
00:28:03 Well, that's better.
00:28:05 Just what sort of formula?
00:28:07 Oh, it's not meaningless words.
00:28:09 Musgrave ritual, they call it.
00:28:11 It's an old family custom. It's been handed down for generations.
00:28:14 - You remember the words? - No. No, not at all.
00:28:18 But you had to speak them when your brother Jeffrey took over.
00:28:21 Yes. If that's right, I did.
00:28:24 Let me see now.
00:28:27 "Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:30 Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:33 The last to find it defies dark powers."
00:28:37 "Who first shall find it were better dead.
00:28:41 Who next shall find it perils his head.
00:28:46 The last to find it defies dark powers.
00:28:50 And brings good fortune to Hurlstone Towers.
00:28:53 Where was the light on the face of the messenger?
00:28:57 Where did he speed? To guard the queen's page.
00:29:01 What foeman advanced? The bishop's page, rashly.
00:29:12 And who to repel? The king's cautious page.
00:29:18 What then the...
00:29:20 disaster?
00:29:27 Queen...
00:29:29 Slaughter's...
00:29:31 page.
00:29:33 No, no. Sorry, Miss Sally.
00:29:35 Page. Slaughter's page.
00:29:38 Thank you, Branton.
00:29:46 "Who came then to slay him? The bloodthirsty bishop.
00:29:50 Where shall he go? Deep down below.
00:29:54 Away from the thunder.
00:30:01 Let him dig under.
00:30:05 (THUNDER)
00:30:07 (SCREAMS)
00:30:09 Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more.
00:30:24 Happy day.
00:30:33 You drunken sod. The master's been ringing you for the past ten minutes.
00:30:37 Why don't you answer it? Fly away, little gremlin.
00:30:41 You're the one who'll fly away if he ever catches you in this state.
00:30:44 (KNOCKING) Oh, I sold my tin. Hurry, hurry.
00:30:47 Coming, sir. Coming.
00:30:50 One moment, sir.
00:30:56 (DOOR OPENS)
00:30:58 Mr. Holmes.
00:31:04 Come in, sir. Come in.
00:31:06 This is indeed an honor.
00:31:12 I don't often have visitors.
00:31:18 What can I do for you, sir?
00:31:20 Might stop that squeaking to begin with.
00:31:22 Yes, sir.
00:31:24 Perhaps you can tell me how you come to know the Musgrave ritual by heart.
00:31:27 - Me, sir? - Yes, you.
00:31:29 When Miss Sally forgot the lines today, you were the one who prompted her.
00:31:33 Well, sir, I memorized it.
00:31:36 Obviously. But why?
00:31:38 Because it has no meaning.
00:31:40 I love things that have no meaning.
00:31:44 Thank you, Brunton. But supposing it did have a meaning.
00:31:49 And suppose that meaning were tied up with the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave.
00:31:53 Oh, what a lovely idea.
00:31:55 If I may see, sir.
00:31:57 You may, Brunton.
00:31:59 You may also sit down.
00:32:01 Thank you, sir.
00:32:03 Oh, stop it!
00:32:09 And look at me.
00:32:12 Now, here.
00:32:14 You know the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:32:16 - Do I? - Well, don't you?
00:32:18 You'd be surprised at all the things I know.
00:32:22 - I know? - What things?
00:32:24 - No, you don't. - About the Musgraves?
00:32:27 That'd be telling.
00:32:29 But here's to them anyway.
00:32:31 All the Musgraves, past and present.
00:32:34 Some of them were murderers, and some of them worse.
00:32:38 But they all knew how to keep a secret.
00:32:41 And so do I.
00:32:43 Brunton.
00:32:49 I've been ringing for you for the past ten minutes.
00:32:52 Sorry, sir, but the buzzer doesn't buzz.
00:32:56 That'll do, Brunton.
00:32:59 You have your notice, do you understand?
00:33:01 Yes, sir.
00:33:02 - Is that advisable, Mr Musgrave? - Let me be the judge of that.
00:33:05 - He leaves Hellstown in the morning. - The morning's a long way off.
00:33:08 Farewell.
00:33:12 A long farewell to all my greatness.
00:33:16 You've done it now, Alfronton.
00:33:18 After all we've been through.
00:33:20 How come I've managed to do it all alone?
00:33:23 What are you going to do?
00:33:25 What am I going to do?
00:33:29 (Bell tolling)
00:33:32 (Bell tolling)
00:33:34 (Bell tolling)
00:33:36 (Door creaks)
00:33:52 (Bell tolling)
00:33:54 Thirteen again.
00:34:12 Yes.
00:34:17 (Train whistle)
00:34:19 # Blow gently, sweet afternoon among thy green haze
00:34:32 # Blow gently, I'll sing thee...
00:34:34 Mrs Hall's attitude confuses me, Watson.
00:34:36 She swears she hasn't set eyes on Brunton since last night
00:34:39 and yet she seems completely unwilling to help us find him.
00:34:42 And so? She knows where he is as well as we do.
00:34:44 - I mean as well as we don't. - I wonder.
00:34:46 You said that he was drinking last night.
00:34:48 Wouldn't it be a good idea to try the pub?
00:34:50 Exactly where we're headed, poor Watson.
00:34:52 I'm glad we thought of this. Even if we don't find Brunton.
00:34:55 Well...
00:34:57 I was afraid we shouldn't find him here.
00:35:00 Don't worry, old boy. I can do with a drink.
00:35:03 Your information, so could I.
00:35:05 - Gentlemen. - Hello, Doctor.
00:35:07 - Not looking for us, are you? - Are you?
00:35:09 Well, no. As a matter of fact, we're looking for...
00:35:12 Brunton.
00:35:14 - You haven't seen him, have you? - Have we, Clavering?
00:35:17 - Have we. - Why should we?
00:35:19 - Morning, Gracie. - Morning, Doctor.
00:35:21 - What do you have? - A bottle of bass and what's yours?
00:35:24 - A pint of bitter, please. - And a pint of bitter.
00:35:26 - I'm a kettle. I'm a kettle. - Oh, really?
00:35:30 Oh, a tame raven.
00:35:33 You're a devil, are you? A kettle, are you?
00:35:36 I'm a devil. I'm a devil.
00:35:38 Birds of prey, aren't they?
00:35:40 Yes, in a way. Scavengers, rather.
00:35:42 They can smell a carcass half a mile off.
00:35:44 That they can and all.
00:35:46 You should see Charlie here when there's a tasty bit outside in the street.
00:35:50 Shall we go and sit down?
00:35:53 (quacking)
00:35:55 - Gracie, have you seen Dr. Watson? - He's over there, lass.
00:36:15 Thank you.
00:36:17 - May I speak to you a moment, Mr. Holmes? - What's wrong, Sally?
00:36:21 - We can't find my brother, Philip. - Did you look in his room?
00:36:23 That's the trouble. We had to force the door. It was locked on the inside.
00:36:26 - Really? - Yes. Oh, you must come, Mr. Holmes.
00:36:28 Certainly, Sally. At once.
00:36:30 Do be quick. Something ghastly has happened. I know it.
00:36:38 Oh, that dreadful bird. Please drive it away.
00:36:40 Watson, take her away.
00:36:42 - Away? Where to? - Anywhere.
00:36:44 Into the pub. Just take her away.
00:36:49 (quacking)
00:36:51 Philip Musgrave.
00:36:57 What are they doing now?
00:37:05 - Doing now? - I don't know.
00:37:07 They've stopped talking.
00:37:09 Somebody's walking about in the upper hall.
00:37:12 Heavy footsteps.
00:37:16 (footsteps)
00:37:18 There's no doubt about it, Watson.
00:37:25 Philip Musgrave had a visitor here last night.
00:37:27 His footprints were made either by a very heavy man...
00:37:29 or a man carrying a very heavy burden.
00:37:31 That's right, Mr. Holmes. It's no good saying it ain't.
00:37:34 The burden was Philip Musgrave's body...
00:37:36 and these here footprints were made by Alfred Brampton.
00:37:39 - It doesn't necessarily follow. - Oh, don't it.
00:37:44 (sniffing)
00:37:46 Here. Try that on your footprint.
00:37:48 And that's Alfred Brampton's shoe.
00:37:54 - Fits perfectly, Inspector. - Uh-huh.
00:37:56 But the fact that these prints were made by Brampton's shoes...
00:37:59 doesn't prove that Brampton's feet were in them.
00:38:01 Why not? Where should Brampton's feet be if not in his own shoe?
00:38:04 Well, they're not in them now, are they?
00:38:06 - Look here, Holmes. Let's use our intellect. - You what?
00:38:09 What's wrong with that? Let's stick to motive.
00:38:11 That's my strong point. Now, this here Brampton had motive.
00:38:13 My spade gave him the sack, didn't it?
00:38:15 - Did Geoffrey Musgrave also give him the sack? - What's that got to do with it?
00:38:18 Everything. The similarity of method in both murders...
00:38:20 shows they were the work of one man.
00:38:22 Well, that has Fickery out. He was in jail at the time of this murder.
00:38:25 - All right, Watson. All right. - Then Alfred Brampton's our man.
00:38:27 - Just what I said. - What possible motive could Brampton have had...
00:38:30 for the murder of Geoffrey Musgrave?
00:38:32 Motive? Oh, bother. Motive? Who cares about motive?
00:38:34 - This case is as simple as A-B-C. - Is it?
00:38:36 Then perhaps you could explain to us why these footprints lead up to a blank wall...
00:38:39 and never return.
00:38:41 You didn't figure that, did you, Inspector?
00:38:43 - There's just one possible explanation. - I've got it!
00:38:46 Brampton murdered Musgrave right up against the wall.
00:38:50 He oystered the body over his shoulder like this, you see.
00:38:54 Walked backwards, clean out of the room.
00:38:56 That's a very undignified position, Mr. Arnott.
00:39:01 Upset, is it?
00:39:03 In a house as old as this, it's not unusual to find secret passageways...
00:39:07 that lead down through the walls.
00:39:09 Hello. Here we are.
00:39:11 No, you don't. Come out of there.
00:39:13 - What are you doing in there? - None of your business.
00:39:23 - Answer me. - Obviously. She was looking for Brampton.
00:39:26 That's right. He hasn't left Musgrave Manor. I'm certain of that, sir.
00:39:29 His clothes are still hanging in the wardrobe.
00:39:31 Don't you lie to me, woman. You've got him hidden in there somewhere.
00:39:34 - Don't go in there. - Why not?
00:39:36 - You'll get lost. - Me, lost? I like that.
00:39:38 - He will get lost, sir. - Let him. Now listen to me.
00:39:41 Where did you enter that passageway?
00:39:43 Through the old greenhouse in Lymork, sir.
00:39:45 - Did Brampton know that? - No, he didn't.
00:39:47 Mrs. Brampton, then why were you looking for him in there?
00:39:50 - We... I... - Yes, we've known all along that you were married to Brampton.
00:39:54 You know Philip Musgrave was murdered, don't you?
00:39:56 - No. - Yes, you do, and you think Brampton did it.
00:39:58 - No. - You think he carried him down through the greenhouse?
00:40:00 - No, no. - Over to the garage? - No, he never.
00:40:02 And crammed his body in the rumpled seat of that roadster?
00:40:04 - Don't you try and put the blame on Alche. - I'll put the blame on both of them.
00:40:07 I'll put the blame on both of you. You're in this together.
00:40:10 You were in his room last night. I saw you there.
00:40:12 Only to talk about the ritual, sir.
00:40:14 He... We... He thought that he'd got it all worked out.
00:40:18 - Did he leave any notes, any record? - No. That is...
00:40:21 Oh, come on, come on. Out with it.
00:40:23 Only this, sir. I found it this morning under the soap dish on his washstand.
00:40:28 - Hmm. He's still a-written. - Another jingle?
00:40:31 Yes. Obviously in some agitation.
00:40:35 "If any harm should come to me, fleshly or spiritual,
00:40:38 "seek and you will find the key in the Musgrave ritual."
00:40:41 - The old ritual. There it is again. - Watson, we've got to find that ritual.
00:40:43 - It's the key to the whole business. - Just a minute.
00:40:45 - You can't talk to Sally. - Why not?
00:40:46 - She was in such a state, I had to give her a hypo. - All right, come along.
00:40:49 Draw the curtains, Watson.
00:40:55 There must be a copy of that ritual somewhere in this room.
00:41:01 - She had to learn it, you know. - Yes, you're right.
00:41:03 - Here it is. - I doubt it.
00:41:05 - Empty. - Quite.
00:41:08 - There's only one thing to do. Search the room. - Not the room, Watson.
00:41:11 Her mind. We must search her mind.
00:41:13 Obviously, she took great pains to hide that paper.
00:41:17 But why should she hide it?
00:41:19 Put yourself in her place. Her brother Jeffrey was murdered.
00:41:22 The man she loves is accused of that murder and thrown into jail.
00:41:25 On top of that, she finds her brother Philip murdered.
00:41:28 - What would your reactions be? - Naturally, I should be terribly upset.
00:41:31 Obviously. Excuse me.
00:41:33 She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on hysteria.
00:41:36 She comes through that door, goes to that desk, throws down her gloves.
00:41:40 The first thing her eye lights on is the Musgrave ritual.
00:41:43 In her mind, it's tied up with all the disasters that have befallen Halston.
00:41:47 She herself may be the next victim. She must hide that paper.
00:41:50 Quite right, but where?
00:41:52 Excuse me, sir.
00:41:57 Was she alone in this room at any time before you gave her the hypo?
00:42:00 Certainly not. Nora was here.
00:42:02 She helped her into bed while I went for my bag.
00:42:04 Good.
00:42:05 - Nora. - Yes, sir?
00:42:07 When you were alone with Miss Sally, what was the first thing she did?
00:42:09 Well, sir, she asked me to turn down her bed and lay out her nightdress.
00:42:13 - What was she doing in the meantime? - Let me think, sir.
00:42:16 Oh, yes. She went over to her desk.
00:42:18 That was when she took the ritual from this envelope. What then, Nora?
00:42:21 Then she asked me to step over and draw the curtains.
00:42:24 - Why, someone's pulled them open. - Yes, I know.
00:42:26 When you drew the curtains, you turned your back on her?
00:42:28 Sure, and it wasn't more than two shakes of a lamb's tail.
00:42:31 Long enough.
00:42:33 When you were at the window, where was she?
00:42:35 She was sitting over here.
00:42:37 Sitting right here, taking off her stockings.
00:42:40 But she never left the chair. I kissed the book on it.
00:42:43 I've got it.
00:42:45 She must have tucked that paper under this cushion.
00:42:47 - Must have changed her mind. - Obviously.
00:42:52 Well, she could have hidden it anywhere here.
00:42:55 Nora?
00:42:57 What time is it when you brought her in here, Watson?
00:43:03 From the fence, sir, dear.
00:43:05 The clock was striking the quarter hour when I came in, sir.
00:43:07 - I definitely heard it. - This clock?
00:43:09 - The same, sir. - Thank you, Nora. You may go.
00:43:11 Obviously, this clock was running at 12.15.
00:43:14 Just as obviously, it stopped at 12.20.
00:43:16 Huh?
00:43:18 When Nora turned her back, Sally reached across, opened the clock...
00:43:22 and hid the ritual in here.
00:43:24 - Amazing, Holmes. - Elementary, my dear Watson.
00:43:26 "Where fell the light on the face of the messenger?"
00:43:33 "Where did he speed to guard the Queen's page?"
00:43:40 Gibberish, that's what it is.
00:43:42 Hokey-pokey, penny along.
00:43:44 A thing like this, Watson, that's been handed down for centuries...
00:43:46 can't be mere gibberish.
00:43:48 "Who had entered the lists?"
00:43:51 - "The King's pale knight." - "Pale poppycup."
00:43:54 I say, Watson, "King, Queen, knight, bishop."
00:43:57 - Sounds like a game of chess to me. - Precisely.
00:44:00 "Where fell the light?"
00:44:03 The light, Watson.
00:44:05 Follow the light.
00:44:08 "On the face of the messenger."
00:44:12 Look at it, Watson. Look at it.
00:44:14 Like a giant chessboard.
00:44:16 This is no gibberish.
00:44:18 These are chess terms, and that's the chessboard.
00:44:20 The secret of Musgrave murder is locked up in that floor.
00:44:23 And by Jove, we've got the key to it.
00:44:25 "Who had entered the lists?"
00:44:30 "The King's pale knight."
00:44:32 "White king's knight to white king's bishop three."
00:44:36 Your move, Dr. Sexton.
00:44:38 I really know nothing about the game.
00:44:40 Come on, Bob, it's great fun. You start from over here.
00:44:43 Here. I'll show you. I'll show you.
00:44:46 All right.
00:44:48 One, two, three, one.
00:44:55 Page into black king three.
00:45:00 Your move, Cleavering, into black king three, please. Over there.
00:45:03 There's not to reason why.
00:45:13 Page slaughters page.
00:45:16 Your move, Watson.
00:45:20 I take you, my dear. It's a good game, isn't it?
00:45:23 Stop it, Philly. You mustn't giggle.
00:45:31 You must be serious.
00:45:33 Your move, Cleavering. You take Dr. Watson.
00:45:40 Too bad, Doctor.
00:45:43 "Who came then to slay him?
00:45:46 "The bloodthirsty bishop."
00:45:48 "White queen's bishop to white king's knight five."
00:45:53 That's my move.
00:45:55 One, two...
00:46:05 I say, Doctor, you moved, didn't you?
00:46:08 Did I? I don't think so.
00:46:10 Yes, I'm afraid you did.
00:46:12 Well, where was I? King bishop three?
00:46:14 That's right. Oh, yes, of course. So sorry.
00:46:17 Three, four, five.
00:46:21 Captain, it looks bad for you.
00:46:24 Aye, but where shall I go?
00:46:27 Where shall he go?
00:46:30 Deep down below.
00:46:32 Mrs. Howells, what's underneath this floor?
00:46:35 Well, it's only an old cellar, sir.
00:46:38 The entrance goes down behind that stair,
00:46:41 but it's been locked up for centuries.
00:46:44 One of the old Musgraves murdered his own brother down there.
00:46:48 Shh! Listen.
00:46:50 Hello, what's that?
00:46:54 It's Brunton!
00:46:56 Alf! Alf!
00:46:58 He's in that passageway over the fireplace.
00:47:01 Are you there, Brunton?
00:47:03 Get me out! It's me, Lestrade!
00:47:06 I'm lost! I'm all turned around!
00:47:10 You have been for years.
00:47:12 Get him out of there, Mrs. Howells, and give him a saucer of milk.
00:47:15 Come here, Jenny. Stand on the square for me.
00:47:18 - Stamp on it. Keep stamping. - Clevering. Get your sound detector.
00:47:21 Gentlemen, deep down below.
00:47:25 (Footsteps)
00:47:27 There's no been a soul here in a couple of hundred years.
00:47:47 Someone's been here. And in the last 24 hours.
00:47:50 - Yeah. Clean as a new pin. - Precisely.
00:47:53 The dust of 200 years is on the walls.
00:47:56 The floor's been swept clean.
00:47:58 Obviously, in an attempt to remove footprints.
00:48:01 Shh! Listen.
00:48:03 That's Jenny in the hall upstairs.
00:48:07 Clevering.
00:48:12 Let me have your sound detector.
00:48:20 Sorry, sir.
00:48:22 You must find the exact spot under that square I marked in the hall.
00:48:32 Don't move anyone.
00:48:41 (Footsteps)
00:48:43 Someone's moving about. Interfering with what I'm trying to do.
00:48:55 Stand perfectly still, everybody.
00:49:00 (Footsteps)
00:49:02 - This is the spot. Lend me a hand. - Of course.
00:49:27 - Here, sir. I'll take that. - Thank you.
00:49:30 - How's it going? - Great, sir.
00:49:34 Here lies the body of Ralph Musgrave.
00:49:38 Knight, Lord of the Manors of Holston.
00:49:41 This place used to be known as Holston Towers.
00:49:44 Netherfield and King's Hargrave.
00:49:47 Anno Domini, 1539.
00:49:50 What we're looking for is underneath here.
00:49:52 That's what the ritual meant by "deep down below". It's a burial crypt.
00:49:55 Up with it.
00:49:57 I say, there's somebody down there. Who is it?
00:50:09 - Is it Brenton? - Is it Brenton?
00:50:11 I don't know. Stay where you are.
00:50:14 (Footsteps)
00:50:16 - Who is it, Holmes? - It's Brenton, all right.
00:50:33 - Is he dead? - Yes.
00:50:36 He's been dead for hours. Murdered.
00:50:41 Hello? What's this?
00:50:44 "Henry, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain.
00:50:59 "France and Ireland, defender of the faith."
00:51:02 - What have you found? - Any clue? Any clue?
00:51:09 Uh, no. Uh...
00:51:12 Just an old document.
00:51:18 Hello? What's this?
00:51:21 Looks like some sort of writing. Watson, come here.
00:51:28 Hold this for me, will you? Steady. There, on the floor, by his right hand.
00:51:35 See those marks in the dust? Like pin scratches made with his fingernail.
00:51:39 Yes. Yes. See that stuff under his nail?
00:51:46 He was trying to write something. By Jove!
00:51:49 - He did write something! - What is it?
00:51:52 Aye, tell us, man. What did he write?
00:51:55 I can't make it out. It's too faint.
00:51:58 Here. I've got good eyes. Let me... Let me...
00:52:03 Stay where you are. All of you.
00:52:06 These marks... must not be erased.
00:52:14 What are you going to do, Holmes?
00:52:16 I'm going to leave this just as it is...
00:52:18 until I can get the proper chemicals to bring out the words.
00:52:21 Have you no notion of what he tried to write?
00:52:25 Yes, I have.
00:52:27 I think that Bunton, with his last strength...
00:52:31 wrote the name of his murderer on that floor in his own blood.
00:52:35 - There you are, Lestrade. - 12 o'clock.
00:52:59 I was just saying, Lestrade, that I should get into Newcastle...
00:53:02 pick up my chemicals and be back here not later than noon tomorrow.
00:53:05 - Yes, Mr. Holmes. - Meanwhile, you all have your work cut out for you.
00:53:08 - Watson. - Yes?
00:53:10 - You'll guard this door with your life. - Of course I will. With my what?
00:53:14 - I said, with your life. - Anything you say, Holmes.
00:53:17 There's no entrance to this cellar except through that doorway.
00:53:20 But, Holmes, what I feel about...
00:53:24 Bunton's murderer's in this house.
00:53:26 He's bound to make one last effort to get down there to erase those marks.
00:53:29 Naturally. The Stroudsmen are posted outside.
00:53:31 - They'll see to it that nobody leaves this house. - Concentration camp.
00:53:34 My men have orders to shoot, if necessary.
00:53:36 - I'll be outside myself, keeping watch. - Good.
00:53:38 Sixth, your post will be at Miss Sally's door.
00:53:40 And remember, she's in more danger than anyone here.
00:53:42 - Don't worry. I'll look after her, Mr. Holmes. - Good night.
00:53:44 - Good night, Holmes. - Good night. Good luck.
00:53:46 Oh, Dr. Watson, if you want any help, sing out.
00:53:49 I don't mind saying I'd feel a lot safer if I had a gun on me.
00:53:52 I always keep mine ready.
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00:53:57 Oh, good night, Bob. Keep awake, old man.
00:54:03 I will.
00:54:05 Oh, Mr. Bellop.
00:54:14 (BELL TOLLING)
00:54:16 That's funny. Striking 12 again.
00:54:26 (FOOTSTEPS)
00:54:43 (DOOR OPENS)
00:54:45 (DOOR CLOSES)
00:54:50 (FOOTSTEPS)
00:54:57 (FOOTSTEPS)
00:55:06 (FOOTSTEPS)
00:55:08 What's that?
00:55:19 Get me out of here, you hear?
00:55:34 (FOOTSTEPS)
00:55:36 Let me out of here! Someone blocked this door!
00:55:39 - What on earth's all this monkey business? - I didn't lock you in.
00:55:49 - Well, doors don't lock themselves. - They do in this house.
00:55:52 - What are you doing down here, anyway? - I'm worried. It's about Langford.
00:55:55 - Langford? - Yes, he's got it into his head that this is a Jap prison camp.
00:55:58 He's got that filthy rope and he's bound and determined to go out the window.
00:56:01 - He can't do that. The Strahd's men will shoot him. - He may be out already.
00:56:05 - I'll head him off. - Then again, he may not be.
00:56:08 - I'm sure I am. - Let me go.
00:56:10 No, no, no. You'll be shot. I'll go.
00:56:13 - No, you'll be shot. - Oh, really?
00:56:16 Let's both go.
00:56:18 I can't leave him.
00:56:20 You stay where you are. I'll go and call the Strahd.
00:56:28 Remember, Clavering, stay where you are.
00:56:31 - Here! - Look here, Counselor. I'm Dr. Watson.
00:56:42 Are you now?
00:56:44 Well, I'm Mrs. Miniver.
00:56:47 - Come along to the inspector. - Grosso, partners.
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00:56:53 Useless. Quite useless, I assure you.
00:57:18 There's nothing written on the floor.
00:57:21 It was just a ruse of mine to bring Brunson's murderer here.
00:57:24 Permit me, as the most ruthless killer in England, you deserve some of the light.
00:57:29 Killer? I?
00:57:31 Oh, I say, you seem to forget that my life was also attempted.
00:57:34 And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself.
00:57:37 But it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves with such a sure hand...
00:57:41 should have missed so badly in your case.
00:57:44 Unless, of course, you yourself were the murderer.
00:57:49 Oh, that's ridiculous.
00:57:51 Then, too, it seemed curious that you were doctor,
00:57:56 examined both bodies, and failed to report the real cause of death.
00:58:01 And that was?
00:58:03 A cisternal needle thrust up into the brain between the base of the skull and the first cervical vertebra.
00:58:08 I had the unpleasant duty of removing this piece of needle...
00:58:11 from Philip Musgrave's head.
00:58:14 It couldn't be yours by any chance, could it?
00:58:16 I never owned one.
00:58:18 Oh, yes, you did.
00:58:20 I saw it in your case...
00:58:23 the night I came into this house.
00:58:25 Just after Geoffrey Musgrave was found murdered.
00:58:29 It wasn't broken then.
00:58:31 It was only when you killed Philip Musgrave that you lost a piece of it.
00:58:34 Nonsense. Why should I go around sticking needles into people?
00:58:37 A fair enough question, doctor.
00:58:39 Among nice people, murder, like matrimony, generally has a motive.
00:58:43 And in this case, the motive was matrimony.
00:58:46 Oh, you mean Miss Sally?
00:58:48 I do.
00:58:49 Oh, I see. So you think it's a case of murder for profit, do you?
00:58:52 Precisely.
00:58:53 My dear Holmes, that won't do.
00:58:55 The Musgraves are land poor. Everybody knows that.
00:58:57 Exactly. But everybody didn't know what you knew.
00:59:01 You worked out the meaning of the Musgrave ritual.
00:59:04 I have?
00:59:06 Oh, yes, you have.
00:59:09 You claimed you knew nothing about the game of chess.
00:59:12 When I suggested you'd moved off your proper square,
00:59:15 you promptly named King's Bishop Three and what's more, moved back onto it.
00:59:19 Nonsense. Why should I have stepped out of my square in the first place?
00:59:22 Break up my move, spoil my game, and prevent me from finding what you had already found.
00:59:26 And that was?
00:59:27 The old land grant I took from Miss Box.
00:59:30 Which would have made Sally Musgrave, upon the death of her brothers,
00:59:33 the richest woman in England.
00:59:36 Well, what's that?
00:59:40 Don't tell me you've found another needle.
00:59:43 No, no. Just a button.
00:59:47 Wouldn't be yours, would it?
00:59:50 Mine?
00:59:52 Give it to me.
00:59:56 Thank you.
00:59:59 Would you mind telling me why you think I was down here with Brunton?
01:00:02 No, not at all.
01:00:04 As I see it, you killed Philip Musgrave in his own room.
01:00:07 Carried his body down through the secret passageway,
01:00:10 out through the greenhouse, into the garage,
01:00:13 where you crammed it into the rumble seat of that roadster.
01:00:16 But unfortunately for you, you had a witness.
01:00:19 A witness?
01:00:21 Brunton was there, sleeping off his drunk,
01:00:25 nursing a grudge against Philip Musgrave.
01:00:28 Brunton became your accessory.
01:00:31 But you didn't want an accessory,
01:00:33 so you lured him down here with the promise
01:00:36 to share the Musgrave treasure with him,
01:00:39 and, uh, exit Brunton.
01:00:42 Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.
01:00:45 You seem to have everything you need.
01:00:48 Except perhaps the negligible item of proof.
01:00:51 Suppose we leave that to the jury.
01:00:53 Suppose we do.
01:00:55 Shall we go?
01:00:56 After you.
01:00:58 Oh, by the way, don't forget your torch.
01:01:02 Oh, thanks.
01:01:05 I don't suppose it occurred to you
01:01:09 that you were taking a bit of a chance
01:01:11 coming down here all alone with a suspected murderer?
01:01:15 One has to take chances in my profession, Doctor.
01:01:18 You see, I couldn't possibly risk
01:01:20 sharing my little plot with anybody.
01:01:22 Not even with Dr. Watson?
01:01:23 No, particularly not with Dr. Watson.
01:01:25 If he'd known what was up tonight,
01:01:26 he'd have been so elaborately mysterious,
01:01:28 he'd have given the whole show away.
01:01:29 As a matter of fact, I had the devil's own time
01:01:31 luring him away from that door upstairs,
01:01:33 so that, uh, we could be alone.
01:01:35 That's all I wanted to know.
01:01:38 (Grunting)
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01:02:23 Stay where you are.
01:02:24 I'm afraid I have no choice, Dr. Sexton.
01:02:27 Look here.
01:02:32 You're not really going to kill me, are you?
01:02:35 They'll hear you.
01:02:37 Who will?
01:02:39 That was a bad slip you made,
01:02:40 letting me know you were so completely alone.
01:02:44 And you're really going to kill me?
01:02:46 I'm afraid I have no choice, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:52 But as you said,
01:02:54 I've no evidence against you.
01:02:56 No proof, no proof at all.
01:02:58 You forget the needle and the button.
01:03:02 Bring them here, please.
01:03:05 Not too close.
01:03:19 Now put them in my pocket.
01:03:22 Thank you.
01:03:27 Curious about that button.
01:03:29 It is off my coat, of course.
01:03:31 Can't think how I never missed it.
01:03:34 Poor old Brunton.
01:03:36 He didn't struggle much.
01:03:38 Now, Phil Musgrave was different.
01:03:40 The needle broke off,
01:03:41 and I didn't have time to probe for it.
01:03:43 But you've got both of them now,
01:03:45 the button and the needle.
01:03:47 Why kill me?
01:03:49 Now step back just a bit.
01:03:52 Against the wall.
01:03:57 Now if you stand perfectly still,
01:04:01 I think I can manage this with one shot.
01:04:05 (gunshot)
01:04:07 (gunshot)
01:04:11 (gunshot)
01:04:22 (gunshot)
01:04:27 Put him up.
01:04:33 Did you hear his confession, Watson?
01:04:35 Every word, Holmes.
01:04:37 And I heard all the rest, sir.
01:04:39 Good.
01:04:40 Let me congratulate you on an extraordinary catch.
01:04:42 That's right, Mr. Holmes.
01:04:43 It's no good saying it, ain't it?
01:04:45 I'm afraid I underestimated you, Holmes.
01:04:47 Pity.
01:04:48 Yes.
01:04:49 Those blank cartridges were a cheap sort of trick,
01:04:51 I grant you.
01:04:52 But it wasn't easy to let you take my gun away from me
01:04:54 without seeming to hand it to you.
01:04:56 That's why I let you take the torch first.
01:04:58 I knew you'd snap it off.
01:04:59 Yes, we told you we were taking an awful risk.
01:05:02 Well, we had to have a confession.
01:05:04 And these egomaniacs are always so much more chatty
01:05:06 when they feel they have the upper hand.
01:05:08 Shall we go?
01:05:09 I can't make head nor tail of it.
01:05:13 Can you, Pat?
01:05:14 Well, it looks like an old land grant.
01:05:17 It's really a crown grant.
01:05:19 What I don't understand is why the Musgraves
01:05:21 didn't claim the land ages ago.
01:05:23 Obviously, Watson, one of them died
01:05:24 before passing on the meaning of the ritual to his heir.
01:05:27 The words remained, but the sense was lost.
01:05:29 I wonder why he left the grant down there where he found it.
01:05:31 What good would it have done him?
01:05:33 So long as your brothers lived.
01:05:34 Once they were out of the way and you came into the property,
01:05:36 he expected to marry you.
01:05:38 I like that.
01:05:39 Whatever made him think--
01:05:40 He thought himself irresistible.
01:05:42 Precisely.
01:05:43 It's not unheard of in cases of egomania.
01:05:45 I suppose then he meant to rediscover the crown grant.
01:05:47 At the proper time, yes.
01:05:48 And then enjoy his wife's millions.
01:05:50 Did you say millions?
01:05:51 I did.
01:05:52 Look here.
01:05:58 About 80,000 acres of the richest soil in England.
01:06:01 But aren't there people on it?
01:06:03 Yes, farms, villages, even a factory town
01:06:05 with hundreds of workmen's cottages.
01:06:07 Is this thing legal?
01:06:08 Perfectly.
01:06:09 Of course, it'll drag on through the courts.
01:06:10 Just a moment.
01:06:11 The people on this land, they put their money into it.
01:06:14 Their life work.
01:06:16 It's their homes I'll be taking.
01:06:17 Yes.
01:06:18 Do you think I'm going to kick these people out?
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01:06:28 Just to save homes, you let poor little Sally
01:06:37 throw away a fortune.
01:06:38 My dear fellow, I had nothing to do with it.
01:06:40 The girl, more power to her.
01:06:41 Acted on her own.
01:06:43 Grand gesture, one she may regret.
01:06:46 I don't think so, Watson.
01:06:49 There's a new spirit abroad in the land.
01:06:52 The old days of grab and greed are on their way out.
01:06:55 We're beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow,
01:06:58 not just what we're compelled to give him.
01:07:01 The time's coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill
01:07:04 our bellies in comfort while other folk go hungry,
01:07:07 or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold.
01:07:12 When we shan't be able to kneel and thank God
01:07:14 for blessings before our shining altars,
01:07:17 while men anywhere are kneeling in either physical
01:07:21 or spiritual subjection.
01:07:23 You may be right, Holmes.
01:07:25 I hope you are.
01:07:27 And God willing, we'll live to see that day, Watson.
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