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First broadcast 31st August 1988.

Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead with a horrible expression on his face after seeing a mysterious demonic spirit of a gigantic hound that has haunted his family.

Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Dr. John Watson
Raymond Adamson ... Sir Charles Baskerville
Alastair Duncan ... Dr. Mortimer
Ronald Pickup ... Barrymore
Rosemary McHale ... Mrs. Barrymore
Kristoffer Tabori ... Sir Henry Baskerville
Edward Romfourt ... Purser
James Faulkner ... Stapleton
Philip Dettmer ... Pageboy
Stephen Tomlin ... Perkins
Fiona Gillies ... Beryl Stapleton
Bernard Horsfall ... Frankland
Don McKillop ... Vicar of Grimpen (as Donald McKillop)
William Ilkley ... Selden
Myrtle Devenish ... Postmistress
Elizabeth Spender ... Laura Lyons

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00:02:15Piper! Piper!
00:02:39Finished!
00:02:59Oh!
00:03:11What do you make of it, Watson?
00:03:12Huh?
00:03:15I believe you've got eyes on the back of your head, Holmes.
00:03:17Well, I have a well-polished coffee pot in front of me.
00:03:21Mrs. Hudson said it was left last night while we were out. What do you make of it?
00:03:26Ah.
00:03:29By his name, at least, we know.
00:03:33I think Dr. Mortimer is a successful elderly medical man.
00:03:41Well esteemed, since those who know him gave him this mark of their appreciation.
00:03:47Yeah.
00:03:49I think he's a country practitioner, does a good deal of visiting on foot.
00:03:55Friends of C.C.H. Hmm.
00:03:59I should guess that to be the local hunt.
00:04:01Oh, bravo. Bravo, Watson!
00:04:03You know, I am bound to say you habitually underrate your abilities.
00:04:08Hmm.
00:04:11It may be that you are not yourself.
00:04:13Luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
00:04:16Some people, without possessing genius, have a remarkable power for stimulating it.
00:04:23I confess that, my dear fellow, I am very much in your debt.
00:04:28Thank you, Holmes.
00:04:33But I am afraid that most of your conclusions will overloan you.
00:04:38Age.
00:04:40Surely hospital.
00:04:43C.C. suggests cheering cross.
00:04:45I mean, if so, I would postulate a young man, under 30, amiable,
00:04:51absent-minded, unambitious,
00:04:55and the possessor of a dog.
00:04:57Can I see the stick?
00:04:58What? Oh, thank you.
00:05:02Yes.
00:05:08Larger than a terrier.
00:05:12Smaller than a mastiff.
00:05:21Hmm.
00:05:28That's right.
00:05:31A curly-haired spaniel.
00:05:36Dr. Mortimer?
00:05:38Thank you, sir. Thank you.
00:05:40I wasn't sure whether I'd left it here or at the shipping office.
00:05:43The SS had brought it to UC Docks today at Tilbury.
00:05:48Ah.
00:05:50You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes.
00:05:53I'd hardly expected so dolico-catholic a skull,
00:05:56or such well-marked supraorbital development.
00:06:00Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?
00:06:04Please, Dr. Mortimer.
00:06:06I cast of your skull, sir, until the original becomes available.
00:06:09Ha, ha, ha!
00:06:12It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess, I covet your skull.
00:06:18Behave and sit down, Dr. Mortimer.
00:06:21What?
00:06:26Yes, good boy.
00:06:28Well, I presume that it was not your phrenological passion which drew you to Baker Street.
00:06:34Unfortunately, it was not, sir.
00:06:37What?
00:06:40I have here...
00:06:42I have here the statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.
00:06:47Baskerville?
00:06:49Yes, I am an executor of Sir Charles Baskerville's will,
00:06:52and found it amongst his papers.
00:06:54It concerns Hugo de Baskerville,
00:06:56who was lord of the manor at Grimpen on Dartmoor.
00:06:59Dartmoor?
00:07:00Some two hundred years ago.
00:07:02The document is somewhat later.
00:07:08Learn then from this story to be circumspect in the future
00:07:12that those foul passions whereby our family have suffered
00:07:15may not be loosed again to our culpable ruin.
00:07:198th of November, 1742 is an intriguing preamble.
00:07:24I read of Sir Charles Baskerville's death.
00:07:28From a medical point of view, it was a poorly informed article.
00:07:32No, thank you.
00:07:34He died of dyspnea and cardiac exhaustion.
00:07:38Were the conditions linked or were they parallel?
00:07:40Oh, they were linked, in my opinion.
00:07:42There was some...
00:07:44some facial distortion.
00:07:47Caused by the cardiac pain, presumably.
00:07:50Yes.
00:07:52You sound doubtful.
00:07:54It was not merely facial distortion.
00:07:56Well, in the year 1692, Hugo de Baskerville abducted a young girl.
00:08:01But she escaped across the moor that night.
00:08:07Cursing!
00:08:10He uncannelled his pack of hounds
00:08:13and hunted her down like a wild animal.
00:08:17When his three drunken companions followed,
00:08:20they found the girl in a deep dip or goyal,
00:08:27dead from fear and fatigue.
00:08:31They also confronted the cause of her death,
00:08:34a huge, demonic hound.
00:08:38Even as they looked,
00:08:40the hound tore the throat out of Hugo de Baskerville.
00:08:43One companion died that very night of what he saw,
00:08:48and the other twain were broken men for the rest of their days.
00:08:52This hound is supposed to have haunted the family since then,
00:08:55due to the general misfortune of the lie.
00:09:00Well, this may appeal to your lurid taste in fiction, Watson.
00:09:08It's a fairy tale, sir.
00:09:09Of course, Mr. Holmes.
00:09:11But fairy tales would not survive without a kernel of truth, huh?
00:09:16On the night Sir Charles died,
00:09:19I arrived at Baskerville Hall at first light.
00:09:28I shall tell you what I found.
00:09:31No more or less.
00:09:35What do you believe, sir?
00:09:37I had been concerned about him for some time.
00:09:40He had become obsessed with the legend of the hound.
00:09:43By the Somerhaus?
00:09:46He believed he had heard the hound itself upon the moors.
00:09:48He even believed he had seen it.
00:09:54At the time, I took such morbid fancies
00:09:56as part and parcel of Sir Charles's pathological condition.
00:10:00And now?
00:10:03I no longer believe that to be the case.
00:10:06There, sir. We didn't like to move him, sir.
00:10:09Once we knew...
00:10:10Yes. Yes, quite, Barrymore.
00:10:17A sad occasion, Mrs. Barrymore.
00:10:19An unhappy vigil for you.
00:10:21He was our hope, Doctor.
00:10:25Hope of the country hereabouts.
00:10:30He brought the world to us.
00:10:33He was our hope.
00:10:54Before Sir Charles ran up the alley,
00:10:56he had evidently stood at the gate for at least ten minutes.
00:11:00How do you know that?
00:11:02The ash had dropped twice from his cigar,
00:11:04and there were also three spent matches.
00:11:07Impressed by Dr. Mortimer.
00:11:10Was there anything else?
00:11:12Yes.
00:11:14Footprints?
00:11:16A man or a woman's?
00:11:19Mr. Holmes.
00:11:22Oh, the footprints of a gigantic heart.
00:11:26Several people have seen a creature upon the moor,
00:11:28a huge creature, ghastly, spectral.
00:11:31I've cross-examined two of them,
00:11:32hard-headed countrymen both, and their stories tally.
00:11:37I want you to advise me what I should do with Sir Henry Baskerville.
00:11:43Henry Baskerville has spent his life in America.
00:11:46He has come over on the S.S. Gibraltar.
00:11:48I'll send a direct to Baskerville.
00:11:50Very good.
00:11:51Thank you for having me aboard, Sir Henry.
00:11:53Sir Henry.
00:11:55I still haven't gotten used to that title.
00:11:57Was there any other claimant upon Sir Charles' estate?
00:12:00None.
00:12:01His youngest brother, Roger,
00:12:02died in Central America of yellow fever some 30 years ago.
00:12:06Northumberland Hotel, Northumberland Avenue.
00:12:09Sir Henry is the last of the Baskervilles.
00:12:14Why did you not consult me immediately?
00:12:18There is a realm in which the most accomplished detective is helpless.
00:12:22There are certain things here which are impossible to reconcile
00:12:25to the settled order of nature.
00:12:29If you believe this to be supernatural,
00:12:31you'll find more help from a priest.
00:12:35I'm not a priest.
00:12:38If you believe this to be supernatural,
00:12:39you'll find more help from a priest.
00:12:47No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:12:53How can I assist?
00:12:56And I'll have an answer, dammit!
00:12:59He's in his purse, sir.
00:13:01About his boot.
00:13:08I wonder if that fellow can't find my old black boot.
00:13:11Surely it was a new brown boot.
00:13:13No.
00:13:14Last night they took one of the brown ones.
00:13:16Today they've sneaked one of the black.
00:13:18I'm sorry, Mortimer.
00:13:19I'm sorry to trouble you with this nonsense,
00:13:21but this is a first-class hotel, dammit!
00:13:23Oh.
00:13:24Hello.
00:13:25Mr. Sherlock Holmes would you say this?
00:13:28I think it is worth troubling about, as a matter of fact.
00:13:31You do?
00:13:32Why?
00:13:34Because it's inexplicable.
00:13:37Good.
00:13:39That's good.
00:13:51My God!
00:13:52Have you got a cold, Watson?
00:13:54It's this poisonous atmosphere.
00:13:56This is a bit thick, I suppose.
00:13:58Thick?
00:13:59It's intolerable.
00:14:03You've been at your club all day.
00:14:05I know that.
00:14:10Where do you think I've been?
00:14:12Oh, here, clearly.
00:14:13Clearly.
00:14:14Oh.
00:14:16I've been in Devonshire.
00:14:18In spirit?
00:14:19Quite so.
00:14:21I sent out for a man from Stanford.
00:14:24Ah.
00:14:26Now, see here.
00:14:31Baskerville Hall.
00:14:34Grimpen.
00:14:35Just a clutter of cottages.
00:14:38Two moorland houses.
00:14:39Farm houses.
00:14:42Laughter Hall.
00:14:44Merripit House.
00:14:45I mean, that is all.
00:14:47Well, this represents marshland.
00:14:51And these barrels.
00:14:54Some prehistoric settlement or burial ground.
00:14:58A tin mine.
00:15:01Disused, is that.
00:15:04And all the rest...
00:15:07is waste.
00:15:10As far as the great convict prisoner of Princeton.
00:15:18It is a worthy setting if the devil did decide to dabble in the affairs of man.
00:15:24Then you yourself are inclining towards a supernatural explanation.
00:15:33You'd better send word to Dr. Mortimer that we breakfast with him tomorrow.
00:15:40It arrived by post this morning.
00:15:47So you think out little puzzles, Mr. Holmes.
00:15:50This one wants more thinking than I am able to give it.
00:15:53Posted yesterday?
00:15:54Yes.
00:15:57A joke is like it's not.
00:15:58So, Mr. Henry, has anything interesting happened to you since you've been in London?
00:16:01No, I don't think so.
00:16:03Have you been followed?
00:16:05What?
00:16:06I seem to have walked right into a dime novel.
00:16:09Why should anyone follow me?
00:16:11That letter was delivered to the hotel.
00:16:15You are being followed, sir.
00:16:18If you value your life and your reason, keep away from the moor.
00:16:24The issue, I suggest, is whether it constitutes a friendly or an unfriendly warning.
00:16:29That is surely impossible to determine.
00:16:32There are various features which may help.
00:16:34The envelope, for example, if somewhat crumpled, is presentable.
00:16:40Its contents, mostly, are not.
00:16:45The letter has been torn neatly enough along a fold.
00:16:49And the leader article in the Times, the Lady Bourgeois print, is unmistakable.
00:16:54It has been chosen from which to cut the message.
00:16:57But the message is awkwardly cut with inappropriate short-bladed scissors.
00:17:01And the gluing of the print to the paper is smudged and misaligned.
00:17:06Merci.
00:17:16Only half a sheet of paper, and yet the watermark is clear.
00:17:19Huddleston, Quayle.
00:17:22You will find that paper in a hundred middle-grade hotels.
00:17:26But not, I think, here.
00:17:29A first-class hotel would have paper of a greater weight.
00:17:34The ink is institutional.
00:17:40That also suggests a hotel.
00:17:44What can we determine from this?
00:17:50Pocket. Fluff.
00:17:53I infer that the person who wrote this message is staying at a nearby hotel.
00:17:59He is neat of habit, and started the task methodically.
00:18:05But then he began to fear discovery.
00:18:07He rushed it through.
00:18:11And put the result into his pocket until such time as he posted it.
00:18:15It is true that fearful people threaten.
00:18:20But my interpretation is that this is a friendly warning.
00:18:24Because it seems a risk was incurred in its execution.
00:18:29Bravo, Mr. Holmes. You fulfill your reputation, sir, no mistake.
00:18:34But if you're right, this fellow's afraid.
00:18:39Then he's afraid not only for his own skin,
00:18:43but what might happen to me.
00:18:48Quite so.
00:18:50Dr. Mortimer, I think it is time that you explained.
00:19:09Well, now you know the facts, Sir Henry.
00:19:13The question is whether or not you should go to Dartmoor.
00:19:17There's no devil in hell, nor no man on this earth
00:19:20who's going to prevent me from going to the home of my own people.
00:19:24Then we'll see how we can mitigate the danger.
00:19:30You really believe there's danger?
00:19:33I think that if there is, then it is considerable.
00:19:37You certainly cannot go alone.
00:19:40Dr. Mortimer returns with me?
00:19:42He has his practice, and he lives many miles distant.
00:19:45You'll come yourself?
00:19:47I have to stay in London. A blackmail case.
00:19:50I recommend my friend Watson.
00:19:57That's very kind of you, Doctor.
00:20:01And I do hope we shall get to hear from you.
00:20:04I will.
00:20:06Dr. Mortimer, very, very good luck.
00:20:08Thank you.
00:20:10Yes, of course.
00:20:29Watson!
00:20:34This way!
00:20:40This way!
00:21:11Who was that man?
00:21:13I have no idea.
00:21:15Well, how did you know someone had been following Vesperman?
00:21:17How else did they know so immediately where he was staying?
00:21:21At least they will not continue to follow him now.
00:21:29When a crisis comes, Watson,
00:21:32and it will, report to me...
00:21:36Watson, do you know what the residue
00:21:38of Sir Charles Baskerville's estate was?
00:21:41No, I don't.
00:21:43Close on a million.
00:21:45The state for which a man might play a dangerous game.
00:21:52Such a sum has a definite materiality.
00:21:59I have no idea.
00:22:01A definite materiality!
00:22:06And yet...
00:22:08To all things in heaven and earth.
00:22:11We are men of science, Holmes.
00:22:15And yet...
00:22:24It's an ugly, dangerous business, Watson.
00:22:28Believe me, I shall be very glad
00:22:30to have you back safe and sound in Baker Street once more.
00:22:35Thank you, Holmes.
00:22:57Holmes...
00:23:27My dear Watson, I will not bias your mind
00:23:29by suggesting theories or suspicions.
00:23:32Simply report facts to me
00:23:35in the fullest possible manner.
00:23:38Concentrate your attention upon the following.
00:23:58Above all...
00:24:00Avoid the moor.
00:24:02When, as the old parchment quaintly put it,
00:24:05the powers of evil are exalted.
00:24:27DOOR CREAKS
00:24:57DOOR CREAKS
00:25:27DOOR CREAKS
00:25:57DOOR CREAKS
00:26:12What is this, Perkins?
00:26:14Humbuck. Escaped from Prince Town, sir.
00:26:17Out three days now.
00:26:20I've been watching all over.
00:26:22Ain't seen no sign of him.
00:26:25Farmers don't like it.
00:26:27Who is he?
00:26:29Selden. The Notting Hill murderer.
00:26:32Folk are locking their doors, I can tell you.
00:26:38What'd the man do?
00:26:40He murdered a whole family.
00:26:42With such savagery, they deemed him insane.
00:26:55DOOR CREAKS
00:27:25DOOR CREAKS
00:27:34DOOR CREAKS
00:27:56DOOR CREAKS
00:28:00Welcome, Sir Henry. Welcome to Baskerville Hall.
00:28:03Thank you.
00:28:05Miss Barrymore, yes?
00:28:07At your service, sir.
00:28:09Mrs Barrymore.
00:28:11Madam.
00:28:19If I can be of service, do not hesitate to send for me,
00:28:22day or night.
00:28:24Of course. Thank you.
00:28:27Walk on.
00:28:32This way, Sir Henry.
00:28:54DOOR CREAKS
00:29:11500 years of us.
00:29:14Just as I imagined it.
00:29:17Too much as I imagined it.
00:29:19This place needs the products of Messrs Swan and Edison.
00:29:23But I suppose I can tone down to it.
00:29:53DOOR CREAKS
00:30:24DOOR CREAKS
00:30:34Thank you.
00:30:37Excellent meal, Barrymore. Please thank Mrs Barrymore for us.
00:30:40Thank you, sir.
00:30:42She'll be pleased you enjoyed it.
00:30:45Well, Dr Watson, shall we?
00:30:53DOOR CREAKS
00:31:10WATER RUNNING
00:31:23CLOCK TICKS
00:31:39Sir.
00:31:41Barrymore.
00:31:45What is it?
00:31:53Sir,
00:31:56my wife and I will be happy to stay with you.
00:32:00We'll tell you I've settled in
00:32:03and made your arrangements.
00:32:06But your family's been with us for generations.
00:32:09It's hard to start my life here, breaking an old family connection.
00:32:15Thank you, sir.
00:32:19My wife and I were
00:32:21much attached to Sir Charles
00:32:24and his death.
00:32:28We feel that nothing can be...
00:32:32We feel...
00:32:35We feel we shall never be easy here at the Hall, sir.
00:32:45Right. Well, what do you mean to do?
00:32:48Oh, Sir Charles' generosity has given us the means
00:32:51to set up in business in a small way, sir.
00:32:55Ah. Well, thank you for telling me.
00:32:59Might I look forward to you pulling me a pint in your own house one day?
00:33:04Well, that is the sort of thing, sir. Thank you, sir.
00:33:08Good. Mind you call it Baskerville Arms.
00:33:12Yes, sir.
00:33:14Thank you, sir.
00:33:18Thank you.
00:33:31That man is frightened.
00:33:34Yes.
00:33:36Shop.
00:33:44Shop.
00:33:52Turning into a rough night.
00:33:56I shall walk over to the post office at Grimpen in the morning.
00:34:01Ah.
00:34:03No, Holmes asked me not to let you leave the house without...
00:34:07This shall take care of any dog that I may meet in your absence.
00:34:11Even armed?
00:34:16All right. Tomorrow morning she'll find me at home.
00:34:20I'm safe at home, am I?
00:34:23That's what Holmes believes.
00:34:33Good night.
00:34:55It's an ugly and dangerous business, Watson.
00:34:59I shall be glad to have you back
00:35:01and reconciled in Baker Street once more.
00:35:16It's a realm in which the most accomplished detective is helpless.
00:35:21There are certain things here which are impossible to reconcile
00:35:26to the settled order of nature.
00:35:31I must go.
00:35:40Above all, avoid the moor,
00:35:44where, as the old parchment quaintly puts it,
00:35:48the powers of evil are exalted.
00:36:02Do you know what the residue of Sir Charles Baskerville's estate was?
00:36:06Close on a million.
00:36:09Such a sum has a distinctive materiality about it.
00:36:31Good morning.
00:36:47Good morning.
00:36:49How are you today?
00:36:51Oh, very bad, thank you.
00:36:53Here you are.
00:36:54Thank you, sir.
00:36:55Thank you.
00:36:57Goodbye.
00:36:58Goodbye, sir.
00:37:12Dr. Watson!
00:37:15Excuse my presumption.
00:37:17Dr. Mortimer pointed you out to me,
00:37:20from the window of his surgery as you passed.
00:37:23Possibly he's told you my name.
00:37:24Oh, possibly he's told you my name.
00:37:26Stapleton, of Maryford House.
00:37:27Yes, indeed. How do you do?
00:37:30We were concerned.
00:37:32Franklin, Mortimer and I.
00:37:34Concerned?
00:37:35Lest Sir Henry should not come.
00:37:38You know the legend of the fiend hound.
00:37:41We thought it might seize his imagination,
00:37:43just as it seized poor Sir Charles's.
00:37:47How is Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
00:37:50Dr. Watson, you are here.
00:37:52It follows, then, that Mr. Holmes is interested.
00:37:56I'm afraid I cannot answer your question.
00:38:00Well, may I ask
00:38:02if he is going to honor us with a visit himself?
00:38:04He cannot leave town.
00:38:05Other cases engage his attention.
00:38:08I assure you, I am simply here to visit my friend Sir Henry.
00:38:11I do not need help.
00:38:13I apologize for the intrusion.
00:38:18A moderate walk along this path
00:38:20brings us to Maryford House.
00:38:21I wonder...
00:38:24Perhaps you would spare me an hour, Dr. Watson,
00:38:27that I might have the pleasure of introducing you to my sister.
00:38:30I am expected back at Baskerville Hall.
00:38:32I'm sure an hour will not hurt.
00:38:35Thank you, Mr. Stapleton.
00:38:41It was entomology, was it, that brought you to the moor?
00:38:44Indeed.
00:38:46Although I delight in it for its own sake, it is
00:38:49so vast, so...
00:38:51so barren,
00:38:53so mysterious.
00:38:55Well, there, for instance,
00:38:57what do you make of that?
00:38:59Wouldn't be a rare place for a gallop.
00:39:03That is the great Grimpen Mire.
00:39:07Full step there means death,
00:39:09to man or beast.
00:39:11Only yesterday I saw one of the moor ponies wander into it.
00:39:15Never came out.
00:39:16I could see his head for quite some time,
00:39:19straining out of the bog hole.
00:39:21Sucked him down at last.
00:39:24Even in the dry season, it is a danger to cross it,
00:39:27but after these recent rains,
00:39:29it is an awful place.
00:39:31And yet,
00:39:34I can find my way to the very heart of it,
00:39:37and return alive.
00:39:40But why should you wish to visit such a horrible place?
00:39:43You see the low hills there, beyond it?
00:39:47They're really islands.
00:39:49Flora there is undisturbed,
00:39:51which means, of course, that rare species can breed there,
00:39:54and one of them, a subspecies, like Haenody,
00:39:57is unique to the place.
00:39:59In fact, I...
00:40:02I'm credited with its discovery.
00:40:04Really?
00:40:06The moor is full of noises.
00:40:08The moor? What was it?
00:40:11The peasants say it is the hound of the Baskervilles,
00:40:14calling for its prey.
00:40:16You don't believe such nonsense, surely?
00:40:19Did you ever hear the boom of a bittern?
00:40:21No.
00:40:23A bird is said, not heard,
00:40:26to be a bittern.
00:40:28A bittern?
00:40:30Yes.
00:40:31A bittern?
00:40:33No.
00:40:35A bird is said, now, to be confined to
00:40:38certain Norfolk fens, but why not here?
00:40:41I've heard its cry described as being something between
00:40:44a foghorn and a soul in torment.
00:40:47What do you think?
00:40:50Ah.
00:40:52Hayali.
00:41:01Hayali.
00:41:23Go back.
00:41:25Go straight to London, instantly.
00:41:28For God's sake, do as I ask.
00:41:31The moor again.
00:41:33Shh, my brother is coming.
00:41:35Misstep?
00:41:37Get away from this place at all costs.
00:41:40Do you see that orchid?
00:41:43Um...
00:41:45Yes, yes, I do.
00:41:47It's a pity you came so late.
00:41:49Our best orchids are nearly over.
00:41:51Jack!
00:41:54You have introduced yourselves, I see.
00:41:56Yes.
00:41:58I was telling Sir Henry it's a pity he has missed
00:41:59the beauties of the moor.
00:42:01Oh.
00:42:03Were I Sir Henry, Miss Stapleton, I...
00:42:05I'm sure I would not miss your beauty,
00:42:07but I'm afraid I'm not.
00:42:09Sir Henry, that is.
00:42:11Merely his friend, my...
00:42:13Dr. John Watson, at your service.
00:42:16Did you catch your butterfly?
00:42:18No.
00:42:20Hayali flies like a witch, I'm afraid.
00:42:24Ah, there.
00:42:27Oh, yes.
00:42:29You must forgive and forget
00:42:31my foolish outburst, Dr. Watson.
00:42:33I cannot forget, Miss Stapleton.
00:42:35You must!
00:42:37Sir Henry is my friend.
00:42:39His welfare is a very close concern of mine.
00:42:41Tell me why you are so eager
00:42:43that he should return to London.
00:42:45You know the story of the hound.
00:42:47I do not believe such nonsense.
00:42:49But I do!
00:42:51If you have any influence with Sir Henry,
00:42:53take him away!
00:42:55I fear that unless you can give me
00:42:57more definite information than this,
00:42:59I will not say anything definite.
00:43:01For I do not know anything definite.
00:43:03Miss Stapleton,
00:43:05I would ask you one more question.
00:43:07If you meant no more than this
00:43:09when you first spoke to me,
00:43:11why were you so eager that your brother
00:43:13should not overhear what you said?
00:43:15There is nothing to which he or
00:43:17anybody else could object.
00:43:19My brother is very anxious
00:43:21to have the hall inhabited.
00:43:23He thinks it's for the good
00:43:25of the poor folk upon the moor.
00:43:27He would be very angry
00:43:29if I said anything which might
00:43:31induce Sir Henry to go away.
00:43:39Any luck?
00:43:41Afraid not.
00:43:43Flies like a witch
00:43:45and so beautiful.
00:43:47Pale clouded yellow.
00:43:49I have a number of them, of course.
00:43:52I must show you my collection.
00:43:59The English Lepidoptera are my field.
00:44:04I have made a particular study
00:44:06of those insects which inhabit
00:44:08the margins of heath and marsh.
00:44:15A magnificent collection
00:44:17and the work of a serious scientist.
00:44:20Even the Exotica,
00:44:22I must mention a brilliant creature
00:44:24called Morpho Pellidaes Limpida,
00:44:27was dated and catalogued
00:44:29with the care he applies
00:44:31to his personal field,
00:44:33the British Lycanidae.
00:44:37One of which
00:44:39is unique to the moor.
00:44:42I must also report
00:44:44that the new brown boot
00:44:46has turned up.
00:44:48Barrymore found it amongst
00:44:50Sir Henry's luggage
00:44:52when he unpacked.
00:44:54Miss Stapleton is very handsome
00:44:57and on Tuesday
00:44:59he is going to the basketball hall
00:45:01with all our neighbours.
00:45:03So Sir Henry,
00:45:05who chafes a little
00:45:07at the restrictions you have imposed upon him,
00:45:09will have a chance
00:45:11to judge her beauty for himself.
00:45:23We are also to meet
00:45:25Dr Mortimer's wife
00:45:27and the old vicar of Grimpen
00:45:29and Mr Franklin,
00:45:31an amateur astronomer of some note
00:45:33who has a reputation of being litigious
00:45:35to a fault.
00:45:37Law is law
00:45:39and I need to teach them.
00:45:41I have established a right of way
00:45:43slapped through the middle
00:45:45of old Middleton's Park.
00:45:47Case decided today.
00:45:49We must teach these magnets
00:45:51they cannot ride roughshod
00:45:53over the rights of commoners.
00:45:55Case decided today.
00:45:57Today, Mr Franklin?
00:45:59They are saying in Fernworthy
00:46:01that you had the wood there
00:46:03closed to the villagers.
00:46:05Also today.
00:46:07A red letter day, as I said.
00:46:09True, sir.
00:46:11I shall be burnt in effigy
00:46:13tonight in Fernworthy
00:46:15but I have the case against them.
00:46:17Infernal people seem to think
00:46:19there are no rights of property.
00:46:21They can swarm where they like
00:46:23with their picnic papers and bottles
00:46:25but why should they complain?
00:46:27No one goes to the wood now.
00:46:29I've heard.
00:46:31The hound walks abroad upon the moor
00:46:33the hound of the Baskervilles, sir Henry.
00:46:35I've heard.
00:46:37Is it a phenomenon
00:46:39you believe in yourself, Mr Franklin?
00:46:41Ask the vicar.
00:46:43Astronomic and forensic matters
00:46:45are my domain.
00:46:47Demonic matters are his.
00:46:50Is it a hound of hell, vicar?
00:46:52Or what?
00:46:55Yes.
00:46:57An interesting question.
00:47:00Whatever it is that has been seen
00:47:02it is undoubtedly something.
00:47:06Our farrier Thomas Chubb
00:47:08is not a man given to visions
00:47:11and he saw something out there.
00:47:14A dog, he said
00:47:16but the size of a calf
00:47:18and
00:47:20I do not think
00:47:22local hysteria
00:47:24is an adequate explanation
00:47:26myself.
00:47:29I pray nightly
00:47:31that it remove itself from us
00:47:34whatever it is
00:47:37that we all may sleep the more soundly.
00:47:42Yes.
00:47:45I believe it is seldom the murderer
00:47:47who frightens the folk.
00:47:49In Grimpen they believe
00:47:51he is still upon the moor.
00:47:53We are too ready to condescend
00:47:54and attribute superstition
00:47:56to these poor people
00:47:58when they are in fact subject
00:48:00to a natural and sensible fear.
00:48:04Bravo, Miss Stapleton.
00:48:06Bravo.
00:48:08This hellhound's existence
00:48:10would not survive a court of law.
00:48:12Mere hearsay.
00:48:14Bring the thing before the bench
00:48:16in a full blaze of jurisprudence, say I
00:48:18then I will believe in it.
00:48:24Thank you.
00:48:27Thank you.
00:48:29Thank you.
00:48:31Thank you.
00:48:33Thank you.
00:48:36Thank you for a lovely evening.
00:48:38Good night, Doctor.
00:48:40It was very good to see you.
00:48:42It was very good to see you.
00:48:44Oh, my God.
00:48:46Oh, my God.
00:48:48It's very nice to see you here.
00:48:50Get you to a much better place.
00:48:51Sir Henry.
00:48:52Sir Henry.
00:48:53Sir Henry.
00:48:54Sir Henry.
00:48:55Sir Henry.
00:48:56Sir Henry.
00:48:57Sir Henry.
00:48:58Sir Henry.
00:48:59Sir Henry.
00:49:00Sir Henry.
00:49:01Sir Henry.
00:49:02Sir Henry.
00:49:03Sir Henry.
00:49:04Sir Henry.
00:49:05Sir Henry.
00:49:06Sir Henry.
00:49:07Sir Henry.
00:49:08Sir Henry.
00:49:09Sir Henry.
00:49:10Sir Henry.
00:49:11Sir Henry.
00:49:12Sir Henry.
00:49:13Sir Henry.
00:49:14Sir Henry.
00:49:15Sir Henry.
00:49:16Sir Henry.
00:49:17Sir Henry.
00:49:18Sir Henry.
00:49:19Sir Henry.
00:49:20Sir Henry.
00:49:21Sir Henry.
00:49:22I need your quatro.
00:49:23Ejano.
00:49:24It-s A-night Get her in to!
00:49:29Get her in!]
00:49:33Careful.
00:49:34Ejano!
00:49:35Ejano!
00:49:36What happened?
00:49:37Did you get hurt?
00:50:41
00:50:56
00:51:01Hey!
00:51:04Paramore?
00:51:05Yes.
00:51:07He's been there half an hour.
00:51:17What's he doing?
00:51:18I don't know.
00:51:22Look!
00:51:25Out of the mall.
00:51:35No.
00:51:37No.
00:51:40No.
00:51:54It was Adam, Sir Henry.
00:51:56He must not go on for more in darkness.
00:51:58When the powers of evil are exalted, Doctor,
00:52:00bogeys to frighten children, man.
00:52:02Come on.
00:52:03We have the chance of getting to the bottom of this business tonight.
00:52:32There.
00:52:39There.
00:52:49Watch it.
00:53:03You all right?
00:53:04Yeah.
00:53:06I thought to shoot, but I couldn't.
00:53:09Come on.
00:53:14My God.
00:53:22Do you believe there's any truth in these words?
00:53:25No.
00:53:27No.
00:53:29No.
00:53:32There's truth.
00:53:37Look!
00:53:41Yes.
00:53:42Paramore?
00:53:45But it's not seldom, at any rate.
00:53:49We were followed in London, or we're followed still.
00:53:53Come on.
00:53:54Let's get back to the house.
00:54:02Come on.
00:54:18What's this all about, Barrymore?
00:54:20Sir, it may...
00:54:21It may seem that we have betrayed your trust.
00:54:24See?
00:54:25Damn it, Barrymore, you have!
00:54:27Sir, Sir, it's no fault of his, Sir.
00:54:29He didn't want it, it's me.
00:54:31It's me and mine.
00:54:33The poor creature came to me for help, Sir.
00:54:36How could I refuse after what they have done to him?
00:54:41Seldom, Mrs. Barrymore.
00:54:42I don't understand.
00:54:43Why should he come to a respectable woman?
00:54:48He's her brother, Sir.
00:54:51What?
00:54:52It's true, Sir.
00:54:55He dragged himself here, half-starved.
00:54:59And what would you expect?
00:55:01We fed him.
00:55:03We took food out for him, Sir, no more than you would for a dog.
00:55:08We hoped he'd go.
00:55:10But the light has been there, night after night.
00:55:14Is this true, Barrymore?
00:55:16Yes, Sir.
00:55:18Have you any conception what this man did, Barrymore?
00:55:21Yes, Sir.
00:55:23But he... he's a broken man.
00:55:25He's a broken man.
00:55:27They done surgery, Sir, to tame him.
00:55:32He's like a child, Sir.
00:55:33Please.
00:55:36Oh, please, Sir.
00:55:38Please, please, Sir, please.
00:55:40Mrs. Barrymore, please.
00:55:41Oh, please, Sir.
00:55:42This is not dignified, please.
00:55:47By your leave, Sir,
00:55:49arrangements have been made.
00:55:52He'll be out of the country in a few days.
00:55:55I beg you, Sir, say nothing to the police.
00:56:03What do you think, Doctor?
00:56:05You say he's harmless now, Barrymore.
00:56:08Yet he threw a rock at us.
00:56:09As a child might throw a stone, Sir.
00:56:12The murderous heart has gone out of him.
00:56:16He's but a frightening baby now, Sir.
00:56:21This is an apt description.
00:56:23Please.
00:56:24He will be harmless.
00:56:31Very well.
00:56:33Please take your wife to your room.
00:56:36We'll say nothing about this matter.
00:56:43Thank you, Sir.
00:56:44Thank you, Sir.
00:56:53Thank you.
00:57:09I thought we had a chance of getting to the bottom of this business.
00:57:13All we seem to have done is compound a felony.
00:57:24I'm glad, though, that you heard that sound on the moor.
00:57:29I was beginning to think I'd dreamt it.
00:57:33I was in the territories once.
00:57:34I heard wolves up there.
00:57:38But nothing to freeze the blood like that sound tonight.
00:57:42Are you convinced it's a hound?
00:57:44I am.
00:57:46I would to God Holmes was here.
00:57:50When has he not come?
00:57:54And yet, Holmes, when daylight and birdsong return,
00:57:59the black imaginings of the night evaporate.
00:58:04Even Dr. Mortimer's assiduous visits, accompanied as they are
00:58:08by constant talk of bones, our mortal residue,
00:58:12fail to sour the beauties of the moor in autumn.
00:58:16We are, however, still far from the heart of the mystery.
00:58:20The question which most persistently nags at me
00:58:24is who is the man on the tall?
00:58:29With his identity known, I feel we should have the key to the mystery.
00:58:34And if he is, we should have the key to the mystery.
00:58:38And if he is, we should have the key to the mystery.
00:58:41With his identity known, I feel we should have the key
00:58:45to this fatal riddle within our grasp.
00:58:52Meanwhile, I have discovered a streak of amiable tenderheartedness in my host.
00:58:59So guilty did he feel at nearly shooting his servant's murderous brother-in-law
00:59:04that he has given Barrymore many of his excellent American clothes.
00:59:08Determined, as he now is, to play the role of English squire,
00:59:12in dress as in anything else.
00:59:15Too much too American. I'm turning over a new leaf. You take him.
00:59:19Thank you kindly, sir.
00:59:38Very smart, sir, Henry.
00:59:40Oh, yeah.
00:59:42Well, I'm going to stroll over to Merripit House.
00:59:45I thought I'd invite Stapleton and his sister,
00:59:48or rather, I should say,
00:59:50Miss Stapleton and her brother to luncheon on Monday.
00:59:54Well,
00:59:56I know you won't want me to come with you there,
00:59:59but Holmes insisted that...
01:00:01Now look here, my friend. Holmes could not have foreseen certain developments.
01:00:06You'd make a very civil gooseberry.
01:00:08But no.
01:00:10I'm afraid I have to go alone.
01:00:32London next stop.
01:00:35London next stop.
01:01:05London next stop.
01:01:35London next stop.
01:02:06Baskerville!
01:02:08Baskerville!
01:02:10How dare you, sir,
01:02:12make advances to my sister in such a fashion?
01:02:14Jack!
01:02:16I'm sure the lady gave you no reason to presume upon her good intentions.
01:02:19We welcome you into our circle, sir,
01:02:21and you repay the hospitality by forcing your disgusting attentions upon her.
01:02:25No, but I assure you, sir, my intentions...
01:02:27Away, sir! Away to the hall!
01:02:29Beryl!
01:02:35Beryl!
01:02:37Beryl!
01:02:39Beryl!
01:02:41Beryl!
01:02:43Beryl!
01:02:45Beryl!
01:02:47Beryl!
01:02:49Beryl!
01:02:53Beryl!
01:02:55Beryl!
01:02:57Beryl!
01:02:59Beryl!
01:03:01Beryl!
01:03:03Beryl!
01:03:06Hello, Watson.
01:03:08Where have you dropped from?
01:03:10I took it upon myself to follow you.
01:03:12I'm afraid my duty to Holmes overrode my tact.
01:03:19I see.
01:03:21Well,
01:03:23I hope they're not selling tickets in Grimpen.
01:03:28I assume you saw what happened?
01:03:30Mm-hm.
01:03:32Did he ever strike you as a bit crazy, this brother of hers?
01:03:37Not particularly.
01:03:39Oh, why does me?
01:03:41What's he getting so heated about?
01:03:43What objection can he have to me as a brother-in-law?
01:03:45I mean, he can't object to my worldly position, sir.
01:03:48It's got to be me myself.
01:03:51Oh, I don't know.
01:03:53Do you see it?
01:03:55Not at all.
01:03:57Oh, me.
01:03:58Oh, thanks.
01:04:00He won't let us be together, not for a moment.
01:04:04You must realize...
01:04:08Oh, I don't understand.
01:04:10There's a light in her eyes
01:04:12that speaks louder than words.
01:04:15I know it. I know it in my heart.
01:04:18But he treats me as if I was a...
01:04:21as if I was a mad seducer in an old melodrama.
01:04:24No, it's absurd.
01:04:27Perhaps...
01:04:30What?
01:04:32I was just thinking that
01:04:34this business with the hound and the family curse and so on,
01:04:39if Stapleton partly believes it's true,
01:04:43perhaps he might want his sister not to be...
01:04:46Yes, I know.
01:04:51Just till the business is resolved.
01:04:58Yes, of course.
01:05:00Well, shall we walk home together?
01:05:02The Royal Observatory, please.
01:05:32I am forever in your debt.
01:05:35Oh, no, not at all.
01:05:37Well, good day.
01:05:39Good day, Sir Henry.
01:05:46I'm sorry.
01:05:48I'm sorry.
01:05:50I'm sorry.
01:05:52I'm sorry.
01:05:54I'm sorry.
01:05:56I'm sorry.
01:05:58I'm sorry.
01:06:00I'm sorry.
01:06:02I'm sorry.
01:06:21Well, well.
01:06:23What happened?
01:06:25Stapleton.
01:06:27He still thinks Fowler's crazy,
01:06:29but he's just given me the most complete apology
01:06:31a man's ever likely received in his life,
01:06:33and he's invited us to dinner tomorrow.
01:06:36Friday, indeed.
01:06:37Good.
01:06:39I look forward to it.
01:06:42Ah, the post at Grimton.
01:06:45Just so.
01:06:59Thank you, Sir.
01:07:29Thank you.
01:08:00May I have a word, Sir?
01:08:03Of course.
01:08:07You...
01:08:08You've been very good to us, Sir,
01:08:10and I should like to do the best I can for you.
01:08:15There's something I found out, Sir.
01:08:17Yes?
01:08:19We found it after the inquest.
01:08:22What was it?
01:08:24I don't know.
01:08:26We found it after the inquest,
01:08:29and told a mortal soul.
01:08:30Didn't know how.
01:08:33About Sir Charles's death, Sir.
01:08:40You know how he died?
01:08:42No, Sir.
01:08:44Well, what then?
01:08:46I do know why he was at the gate at that hour.
01:08:49Why?
01:08:51To meet a woman, Sir.
01:08:53A woman?
01:08:54Are you sure?
01:08:55Oh, yes, Sir.
01:08:57What was her name?
01:08:59I can only give you her initials, Sir.
01:09:03Yes, it was something my wife found.
01:09:05She was cleaning out this very room,
01:09:07Sir Charles's study, Sir,
01:09:08and in the grate there,
01:09:09she found this scrap of paper,
01:09:11all twas old, burnt, but...
01:09:14Well, it could still be read.
01:09:17From the shine in the writing,
01:09:19if you know what I mean, Sir.
01:09:21Of course, I understand.
01:09:22Please go on.
01:09:24Well, she called to me, and...
01:09:27I wrote it down.
01:09:31Please.
01:09:33Please, as you are a gentleman,
01:09:36burn this letter,
01:09:38and be at the gate by ten o'clock.
01:09:43Then the initials,
01:09:45L. L.
01:09:54L. L.
01:10:24L. L.
01:10:25L. L.
01:10:26L. L.
01:10:27L. L.
01:10:28L. L.
01:10:29L. L.
01:10:30L. L.
01:10:31L. L.
01:10:32L. L.
01:10:33L. L.
01:10:34L. L.
01:10:35L. L.
01:10:36L. L.
01:10:37L. L.
01:10:38L. L.
01:10:39L. L.
01:10:40L. L.
01:10:41L. L.
01:10:42L. L.
01:10:43L. L.
01:10:44L. L.
01:10:45L. L.
01:10:46L. L.
01:10:47L. L.
01:10:48L. L.
01:10:49L. L.
01:10:50L. L.
01:10:52Good afternoon, Dr. Watson!
01:10:58Mr. Franklin?
01:10:59Come along up! I shall order you tea.
01:11:03Thank you.
01:11:04You're here to solve the Baskerville mystery, are you not?
01:11:07Well, I have a telescope.
01:11:09I see things on the moor. Surely you should know about them.
01:11:14I see things on the moor. Surely you should know about them.
01:11:16I see things on the moor. Surely you should know about them.
01:11:18I see things on the moor. Surely you should know about them.
01:11:31A striking portrait.
01:11:36Laura.
01:11:38Your daughter, Mr. Franklin.
01:11:39Yes.
01:11:41Yes, that is my daughter.
01:11:44The woman she has become is not.
01:11:47This way, Doctor.
01:11:49Ah, that.
01:11:50Disinherited her.
01:11:52I'm sorry to hear it.
01:11:53You are. What do you suppose such a thing does to a father?
01:11:56This way.
01:11:58Married her, seduced her, sir.
01:12:01An artist.
01:12:03So-called.
01:12:04Not that artist. That artist earned his living.
01:12:07Her artist was too grand to earn his living.
01:12:09Artist? Wasteful!
01:12:10Lyons. A fellow called Lyons.
01:12:13Ever heard of him?
01:12:14No, actually.
01:12:15Laura Lyons.
01:12:16Nobody has. After her money. My money.
01:12:20I was burned in effigy in Fernworthy last week.
01:12:23You predicted that, I remember.
01:12:25Exactly so, because I know the slackness of authority hereabouts.
01:12:28The case of Franklin V. Regina will bring the matter before the attention of the public.
01:12:33I told the police they would have occasion to regret their treatment of me, and already my words have come true.
01:12:38How so?
01:12:40I could tell them what they are dying to know.
01:12:43But you're not going to.
01:12:44Certainly not.
01:12:45It's a case of poaching.
01:12:47Poaching? Fiddlesticks!
01:12:49The convict, sir. Selden the mad stabber.
01:12:53You don't mean to say you know where he is?
01:12:55Near enough.
01:12:57It has never occurred to the police that the way to catch the man was to find out where he got his food, and so trace it to him.
01:13:04Barry.
01:13:05His food is taken to him by a child.
01:13:07A child?
01:13:08Why not? I have observed the child for more than a week.
01:13:15It is in the nature of children to form perverse allegiances.
01:13:19Surely it's more likely to be the child of a moorland shepherd taking him his lunch.
01:13:25Flocks, move! Quick!
01:13:28Dr. Watson, quick!
01:13:32Yes, I see him.
01:13:45Ah!
01:14:00Dr. Mortimer!
01:14:02Dr. Watson!
01:14:03I have something marvelous to show you.
01:14:06Isn't it beautiful?
01:14:10Splendid.
01:14:11The most complete of its kind I have yet found.
01:14:13I found it myself once more. The laborers aren't here today.
01:14:16It is quite, quite beautiful.
01:14:36Ah!
01:14:38If there's one animal on this planet which I cannot abide, it is a rabbit.
01:14:42Really?
01:14:43Rabbits burrow.
01:14:45Have you any conception of what a family of rabbits can do to the chronology of a dick in a single night?
01:14:52You are on your way to the necropolis.
01:14:54I could show you round, if you like.
01:14:56The necropolis?
01:14:58Most people think that the necropolis is a place where rabbits live.
01:15:02The necropolis?
01:15:04Most people think it a Neolithic village, but I have reason to believe it a burial ground.
01:15:09Some most interesting features.
01:15:11Ah, I should be glad of your company. There's someone bivouac near there.
01:15:16Who is it?
01:15:17It's the man who's been at Sir Henry's heels since he landed here.
01:15:20I can't think his motives are benevolent.
01:15:23So, if you come, I should be obliged if you bring that gun you handle so well.
01:15:29There may be some danger.
01:15:31If there's to be danger, then two guns will be better than one.
01:15:36Yes.
01:15:39Do you know Laura Lyons?
01:15:41Old Franklin's daughter. Yes, she's a patient of mine.
01:15:44She lives in Coombe Tracey. He's cut her off, you know, without a penny.
01:15:48Do you know if she was acquainted with Sir Charles?
01:15:51It's possible.
01:15:53After her marriage went wrong, she was able to set up for herself in a small way, as a typist.
01:15:58Sir Charles may have made that possible.
01:16:00He was a man who fostered many good causes.
01:16:03She may have been one of them.
01:16:05What sort of a painter was Lyons?
01:16:07Oh, brilliant.
01:17:31Doctor Watson is a laughter whore.
01:17:34Perhaps it is you who's been dogged by this secret man.
01:17:37And not Sir Henry at all.
01:17:41What do we do?
01:17:44I intend to wait.
01:17:49I'm afraid I can't wait.
01:17:51I'm afraid I can't wait.
01:17:53I'm afraid I can't wait.
01:17:55I'm afraid I can't wait.
01:17:57I'm afraid I can't wait.
01:18:00Shhh.
01:18:02That's enough.
01:18:04Come on.
01:18:29It's a lovely evening, Doctor. I really think you would be more comfortable outside than
01:18:46in. When I see a cigarette stub marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know my friend Watson is
01:18:57in the neighbourhood. Be careful with that gun. I thought you were in Baker Street working
01:19:04out that case of blackmail. That is what I wished you to think. I deserve better at your
01:19:16hands, Holmes. You use me and do not trust me. My presence would have warned our very
01:19:20formidable opponents and put them under our guard. It was essential that you and Sir Henry
01:19:25believe me to be London all the time and behave accordingly. Doctor Mortimer. Mr. Holmes,
01:19:29how long have you been in Devon? I fancy you saw me on my second night when I was foolish
01:19:36enough to show myself against the moon. All my reports have been wasted. No, no, no. Here
01:19:44they are. And very well thumbed, I assure you. I had to subvert the local post office.
01:19:54Brilliant, my dear fellow. Brilliant. You must, I know, have much to discuss and I must be getting
01:20:03home. Please, one question, Mr. Holmes. Are you any closer to discovering what, if anything,
01:20:09the hound is? I am. Does it exist? It does. Thank you, Doctor Mortimer. Mr. Holmes. Good day,
01:20:29Doctor Woodson. Thank you for your help. Now let me see what meagre refreshment I can provide.
01:20:40Cartwright, the little chap from the express office. I brought him down with me to look
01:20:48after my simple wants. A loaf of bread and a clean collar. I've discovered that there's a
01:20:54woman living in Cootracey with the initials LL. Ah, yes, Franklin's daughter. Lord Alliance. Our
01:21:01researchers have been running along the same lines. Did you know that she's seeking a divorce
01:21:07from her husband? But she lacks the means to carry it through. It is a costly business. Do try my
01:21:12steels. Ah, Doctor Mortimer thought that Sir Charles might have been a discreet benefactor.
01:21:18Really? That's interesting. Please, Watson. It's quite disgusting, Holmes. Yes. Yes, it is.
01:21:37Well, it's better when it's hot. Did you know there was a close intimacy between Lord Alliance
01:21:42and the entomologist, Stapleton? No, I did not. Yes, they meet, they write. She's no doubt
01:21:50counting on becoming his wife. That is the most powerful weapon in our hands. How? I don't
01:21:57understand. Because Miss Stapleton is in reality Stapleton's wife, not his sister. His wife? Yes,
01:22:03it was she who sent us that morning to the Northumberland Hotel. Why this elaborate deception?
01:22:09Don't ask me for particulars, Watson, but it is murder. Refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
01:22:16What made you do it? He is a genuine entomologist, but that mention of his sole claim to fame, his
01:22:27discovery of a subspecies like Canidae, that was his fatal moment. There can only be one
01:22:34discoverer of a species. That pinpointed him. It has been a hard trail.
01:22:57It's Sir Henry!
01:23:27It's Selden. Sir Henry's clothes were the poor devil's death. Poor devil, indeed. It was only a half-life in truth. No one
01:23:51must know for the moment. We must hide the body. Sir Henry must know nothing of hearing the hound. He'll have a
01:24:20better nerve for the ordeal he must undergo tomorrow. Sir, this is Baskerville Hall. One moment, Watson.
01:25:20It's Stapleton. He's at Baskerville. Sir Charles's brother, who died of yellow fever in Costa Rica, did not die childless. We have him, Watson, we have him. And I dare swear that by tomorrow night, he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies.
01:25:50I fear that Watson and I must go to London. London? I think we will be more useful there at this present juncture.
01:26:09Excuse me. Might I have some fresh coffee? Certainly, sir. But I thought you were going to see me through this business.
01:26:24Trust me, my dear fellow. I do. Tell Stapleton that I would have been happy to come with you, but that urgent business required me to be in town. I don't understand. Should I not come with you to London? Why should I stay here alone?
01:26:50No, you must stay. And do exactly as I tell you. Of course I will. Drive to Merripit House, send the truck back, and let it be known that you intend to walk home. Across the moor? At night?
01:27:14If I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage, I would not suggest it. It is essential that you do this. Then I will do just what you say. Take a path, exactly on the path from Merripit House to the Grimpen Road. It is your natural way home.
01:27:37And when do you intend to leave?
01:27:43Immediately after breakfast.
01:27:47Thank you very much. Sir.
01:28:06Thank you.
01:28:36Thank you.
01:29:02Mrs. Lyons?
01:29:03Yes?
01:29:07So, you admit that you asked Sir Charles to meet you at the gate at ten o'clock, but you say that you did not keep the appointment.
01:29:17I did not.
01:29:18You do realize that was the very art of his death?
01:29:23Is that an accusation, sir?
01:29:27I'm only asking if you can forge a connection between the two events.
01:29:32There is no connection.
01:29:35Mrs. Lyons, we believe this to be a case of murder.
01:29:40And the evidence may implicate not only your friend, Mr. Stapleton, but his wife as well.
01:29:46His wife?
01:29:49Mrs. Lyons, the person who has passed for his sister is really his wife.
01:29:59His wife?
01:30:05Yes.
01:30:35Thank you.
01:31:05Mr. Holmes.
01:31:11Mr. Stapleton offered me marriage on condition I could obtain a divorce from my husband.
01:31:21He told me he...
01:31:25Oh, he has lied.
01:31:29He has lied and lied and lied.
01:31:35Why should I preserve faith with him who never kept any with me?
01:31:44Ask me what you will. There is nothing I shall hold back.
01:31:49You have said Sir Charles helped you to set yourself up as a professional typist.
01:31:54Presumably that was after your husband deserted you.
01:31:58Yes.
01:32:00Sir Charles knew my father would not help me.
01:32:04One thing I swear to you.
01:32:06When I wrote the letter, I never dreamed of any harm to the old gentleman who had been my kindest friend.
01:32:16I entirely believe you, madam.
01:32:19And Sir Charles used Stapleton as an intermediary?
01:32:24He did not like to be seen to be doing good.
01:32:28And the letter that you sent to Sir Charles on the day of his death?
01:32:34I needed money for my divorce.
01:32:38I had heard he was leaving for London.
01:32:40And the sending of the letter was suggested by Stapleton?
01:32:45He dictated it.
01:32:49The reason he gave was that Sir Charles would help with the legal expenses of my divorce.
01:32:57And he dissuaded you from keeping the appointment?
01:33:00And swore me to silence concerning it.
01:33:03He said that the death had been a very mysterious one,
01:33:06and that I should certainly be suspected were the facts to become known.
01:33:12He frightened me into silence.
01:33:17You have had a very fortunate escape, Mrs Lyons.
01:33:24You have been near the edge of the precipice.
01:33:27You have been near the edge of the precipice.
01:33:37Students of criminology will remember the incidents in Grodno in Little Russia in the year 66.
01:33:43And of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina.
01:33:47But this case...
01:33:50possesses features which are entirely its own.
01:33:54Dr Watson tells me that you handle a gun.
01:33:57I am fairly proficient.
01:33:59Well it was you who first brought this case to our attention.
01:34:03It is only right that you be with us at the climax.
01:34:10Thank you.
01:34:23Thank you.
01:34:33While Dr Mortimer and I guard the path, you watch the house, Watson.
01:34:54I don't like it.
01:34:57There's fog in the air.
01:34:59It's in the hollows already.
01:35:06Be careful, Watson.
01:35:24I'm so pleased you could come.
01:35:27It's a pity Dr Watson had to return to London.
01:35:30Nevertheless, I'm sure we'll have a pleasant evening together.
01:35:54If you'd excuse me for a moment, Sir Henry.
01:35:58I shan't be long.
01:36:08Help!
01:36:11Help!
01:36:13Please!
01:36:16Help me!
01:36:23Help me!
01:36:46Sir Henry was still inside the house when I left.
01:36:50It's getting late.
01:36:53You say Beryl Stapleton was not there?
01:36:54No.
01:36:55I cannot think where she might be.
01:36:57And there were only two places laid for dinner.
01:37:00The fog is getting thicker all the time.
01:37:03Courage, Sir Henry.
01:37:06Brave it.
01:37:24Please.
01:37:38Please come.
01:37:46Dr Watson!
01:37:53Help!
01:37:54Help!
01:37:56Help!
01:38:22You're a brave man.
01:38:23Doctor.
01:38:26It's all right, Seth.
01:38:28It's all right.
01:38:31The hound got past us.
01:38:34Now, if you can manage it,
01:38:37we must get back to the house as soon as possible.
01:38:44Phosphorus?
01:38:54No!
01:38:59No, Sir! No!
01:39:01Sir!
01:39:03I protest, Sir!
01:39:05It's out, Sir!
01:39:06Sir, you are not allowed!
01:39:07Watson!
01:39:11Stop, Sir! Stop!
01:39:24The door is locked.
01:39:26Help!
01:39:28Help, please!
01:39:30Help!
01:39:31Please, help!
01:39:33In here!
01:39:35Help!
01:39:37Help!
01:39:39Help!
01:39:41Help!
01:39:43Help!
01:39:45Help!
01:39:47Help!
01:39:49Help!
01:39:51Help!
01:39:54Help!
01:40:06She's badly hurt.
01:40:15The brute.
01:40:23All right.
01:40:54I thought this man loved me.
01:40:58He loves nothing.
01:41:02Where is he?
01:41:04The police have...
01:41:05He escaped.
01:41:10He will go to his island in the mire.
01:41:24I must take care.
01:41:27Take care.
01:41:54No.
01:41:59No.
01:42:01No!
01:42:08Help me!
01:42:10Please!
01:42:12Somebody help me!
01:42:13Help me!
01:42:26Help me!
01:42:44Holmes had established that Stapleton had bought the dog from Mangles of the Fulham...
01:42:49Ross!
01:42:50Mangles of the Fulham Road in London.
01:42:54Ross and Mangles of the Fulham Road, London.
01:43:02He took it on the North Devon line and walked a great distance over the moor to his home.
01:43:06As we know, he eventually kenneled it at the heart of the Grimpen Mire.
01:43:10The Grimpen Mire.
01:43:11The Grimpen Mire.
01:43:13How on earth did he expect to claim the inheritance if this creature had mauled Sir Henry to death?
01:43:18Mauled.
01:43:19Very good word, Watson.
01:43:21Through intermediaries, Beryl Stapleton said that he intended to return to Central America...
01:43:26and conduct his claim upon the estate from the depths of Costa Rica.
01:43:30Having established his identity as a basketball through the British authorities there.
01:43:35Of course, he had no interest in the estate. He simply wanted the money.
01:43:38What about the boot?
01:43:39He stole the boot presumably to have an after of Sir Henry's clothes.
01:43:43To set the hound on him.
01:43:44That is why the new boot would not do.
01:43:47Sir Henry had not worn it.
01:43:49Watson, we are late.
01:43:55I have tickets for the Hubenhoe Cover Garden.
01:43:59A little dinner at Marcini's on the way.
01:44:02Wonderful homes.
01:44:04Piper! Piper!
01:44:06Who wants an evening Piper?
01:44:33Piper!
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