First broadcast 11th April 1994.
Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Doctor Watson
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Ciarán Hinds ... Jim Browner (as Ciaran Hinds)
Joanna David ... Susan Cushing
Deborah Findlay ... Sarah Cushing
Lucy Whybrow ... Mary Browner
Tom Chadbon ... Inspector Hawkins
Thierry Harcourt ... Marcel Jacottet
Richard Dixon ... Mr Bradbrook
Renny Krupinski ... Murdoch Gull
Andrew Readman ... Postman
Ann Rye ... Mrs Clyde
Rachel Smith ... Lucy
Andy Tomlinson ... Policeman
Hammy Havoc ... Child
Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Doctor Watson
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Ciarán Hinds ... Jim Browner (as Ciaran Hinds)
Joanna David ... Susan Cushing
Deborah Findlay ... Sarah Cushing
Lucy Whybrow ... Mary Browner
Tom Chadbon ... Inspector Hawkins
Thierry Harcourt ... Marcel Jacottet
Richard Dixon ... Mr Bradbrook
Renny Krupinski ... Murdoch Gull
Andrew Readman ... Postman
Ann Rye ... Mrs Clyde
Rachel Smith ... Lucy
Andy Tomlinson ... Policeman
Hammy Havoc ... Child
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00:00This is a production of the United Nations Development Programme in Cooperation with the European Union.
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01:40I will not say that out of uniform, don't you, Miss Cushen?
01:43But it's nice to see you out of it.
01:47Sarah! Sarah!
01:53Oh!
01:55You must be the other Miss Cushen.
01:57It's a snappy day today, for all three of you.
02:01Yes, yes it is. Of course it is.
02:03Of course it is. Of course it is.
02:34Just coming.
02:35Just coming.
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03:16Body snatchers strike in North London.
03:19Are we dealing with a modern version of Birkenhead?
03:22Well, sadly, the anatomy schools don't need the help of body snatchers at this time of the year.
03:27They're well stocked with corpses from the poorhouses.
03:30What do you think, then?
03:32I don't know.
03:34Some outlandish cult, perhaps?
03:37Have you been consulted on a subject, Holmes?
03:40Come in, Hawkins!
03:42Ah, Hawkins.
03:44Make yourself at home. Have a cup of coffee.
03:47Thank you.
03:48Have you brought those descriptions?
03:50Yes, yes I have.
03:53Bodies so far exhumed.
03:55Albert Cotter, 48.
03:57Fish Porter of Shadwell, heart disease.
04:00Martin Rubery, 54, cirrhosis of the liver.
04:03And we don't know much about him, except it was thought he was an amateur pugilist of some sort in his youth.
04:08Jimmy King, 39, Covent Garden porter, cerebral hemorrhage.
04:15You will continue your researches?
04:16If you say so, Mr. Holmes.
04:18I do say so.
04:19And keep your eye on the premises of a certain Murdoch Gull.
04:24Yes?
04:25Murdoch, do you think?
04:27He's the fence for anything out of the ordinary.
04:29He could be our man.
04:32One more thing, Mr. Holmes.
04:34The men and I would be very honoured if you'd drop by Christmas Eve.
04:39We try to get a bit festive at Christmas, and we'd like to invite a few guests.
04:46Christmas?
04:49Christmas?
05:08Mary?
05:13Mary?
05:19There.
05:20It's a start.
05:22Mrs. Hudson.
05:24Mr. Holmes?
05:25How am I supposed to think up yet another person for Watson?
05:28I mean, every year you inflict this agony on me.
05:30Well, it's quite simple, Mr. Holmes. You go to Gammages.
05:33Gammages?
05:34Yes, it's in Holborn, a departmental store.
05:36The people's emporium.
05:38You'll be quite spoiled for ideas.
05:42Gammages.
05:46Mrs. Hudson!
05:47How dare you take my Espinestra?
05:52I do dare.
06:17Afternoon, Miss Cushing. Season's greetings, eh?
06:30Good afternoon, Wilkinson.
06:31Looks like we're in for a bit more stay before long.
06:33I do hope not.
06:47What is this, Monsieur Jacote?
07:11Madame Cézanne...
07:12Our arrangement is that you may sit by the parlour fire after dinner.
07:17Otherwise, I'd be obliged, when you're in the house, if you would keep to your room.
07:23Your sister Sarah gave me permission, Madame.
07:26This is my house, not my sister's.
07:29Even if she said it, which I doubt.
07:31You doubt my word?
07:33I'd be most surprised if my sister gave the run of the kitchen to my lodger.
07:37You'd be surprised what your sister gives.
07:40Very surprised.
07:42I think I'd be obliged if you left the kitchen now, Monsieur.
07:46I don't think you hear what I'm saying.
07:48Susan!
07:53Marcel! Oh, Susan! It has worked! They have made me warden at the mission!
07:58Now you ask her what she gave me.
08:00Did you give Monsieur Jacote permission to help himself in here, in the kitchen?
08:07I believe I did once.
08:09I didn't realize...
08:10Ask her!
08:12What do you mean? What's going on?
08:13Ask her!
08:15You English are such hypocrites!
08:17Now you tell her what you gave me.
08:19What? What is all this about?
08:21Will someone please tell me what's going...
08:35I see.
08:38I see.
08:40Very well.
08:43You are warden now.
08:45Go and live there then.
08:47You'll have quarters at the mission.
08:49Go there.
08:51I don't want you under my roof.
08:53Go!
08:54I won't have you here.
08:56I won't!
08:58And as for you, Monsieur, you will leave my house immediately.
09:02Immediately!
09:04Or I will call the police.
09:08Your belongings will be packed and left at the trademan's entrance for your collection.
09:12How dare you!
09:15You sound exactly like mother.
09:17What did I do?
09:18I thought I'd heard the last of that sort of thing when she died.
09:20How dare you talk about mother like that.
09:22It's just as well I am like her.
09:24I don't know what would happen to this family otherwise.
09:26Oh!
09:27You hold us all together, do you?
09:29How splendid you are.
09:32Do you realise that Mary has gone away without telling anyone?
09:36Good.
09:38She's showing some spirit at last.
09:40You call that good?
09:43Sometimes I think you're not just feckless.
09:46I think you're deliberately irresponsible.
09:48Mary is a married woman.
09:50Well, no thanks to you.
09:52You stood in her way to the last.
09:55Jim Brown,
09:57You stood in her way to the last.
10:00Jim Brown was never good enough for our family, was he?
10:04The daughters of Major Cushing, R.E.
10:07Never mind he was a gambling wastrel.
10:10Our father was...
10:12Quiet!
10:13If anyone has disgraced this family, it's me.
10:16I warn you.
10:18One day this diet of respectability is going to make you ill.
10:22You...
10:26You are so horrid.
10:38Ah, dear Mrs. Holmes.
10:39Mr. Holmes?
10:40The doctor has someone with him.
10:42Miss Susan Cushing.
10:44Follow them in.
10:53What's that?
10:55That is a Christmas tree.
10:58It's a Norway spruce.
11:00This is Miss Cushing.
11:06Miss Cushing is concerned about her sister, Mrs. Browner.
11:12Miss Cushing's younger sister lives not far from her, just east of Camberwell.
11:17Mrs. Browner visits her every Friday for tea,
11:20unless she sends excuses, which is most unusual.
11:24Last Friday, the 19th,
11:27Mrs. Browner failed to send excuses or to arrive,
11:30so Miss Cushing has made inquiries at her lodgings,
11:33but Mrs. Browner has not been seen there since last Thursday.
11:36Sounds to me as though she's disappeared.
11:38Evidently, Holmes.
11:40There could be one or two reasons for her disappearance.
11:43Yes, I know.
11:44Either because she wished to disappear
11:46or because somebody else wished her to disappear.
11:48Do you know any reason why anyone else should wish her to disappear?
11:52Mary?
11:53None.
11:55She's the most lovable of creatures.
11:57Everyone loves her.
11:59As to her whereabouts,
12:01I suggest that you try the Missing People's Agency.
12:05I could find you a list of addresses.
12:07There.
12:09Charming, isn't it?
12:11Slightly improved on that rather sad Picea d'Excel, sir.
12:24Sarah.
12:26Sarah.
12:27Sarah.
12:31Sarah.
12:33Sarah.
12:35Sarah.
12:38What possessed you?
12:40You've wrecked it all.
12:41The waiting possessed me.
12:43You drive me mad, Sarah.
12:45Sometimes I think I'm possessed.
12:47Where are you now?
12:48Some filthy hole near the hospital.
12:51Thanks to your sister.
12:52I will not let her forget this.
12:56I'll need a reference if you're going to find a decent place to stay.
13:00Are you going to Belgium still for Christmas?
13:02Yes. My aunt called me. I'll stand.
13:04Well, when you come back, I'll write a reference for you.
13:08I'm warden of this place. It'll count.
13:12I love you.
13:17Come to me after Christmas.
13:35DOOR KNOCKS
13:53DOOR KNOCKS
13:57The post, Miss Cushing.
14:00Shall I put the parcels under the tree?
14:02Yes, please.
14:11Nothing from Mrs. Browner yet?
14:13Nothing as yet, no.
14:16Did Sutton's include the Madeira in their delivery today?
14:19Yes, Miss Cushing.
14:21Everything's ready for this evening.
14:23Thank you.
14:33All the best of the season, Mr. Bradbrook.
14:35Thank you very much. And the very same to you.
14:49Miss Cushing.
14:51I say, Miss Cushing.
14:54Mr. Bradbrook.
14:56I dare say your sister, Sarah, will be joining us?
14:59I'm afraid not, Mr. Bradbrook.
15:01She's warden of the Mission Hostel now.
15:04Her duties to her residence will keep her there.
15:07I shall see her only on Sundays now, I fear.
15:13I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Bradbrook.
15:15Oh, no, no, no, you haven't. Not at all.
15:18Come now, Mr. Bradbrook.
15:20It's Christmas Eve.
15:22To make up, we shall open our presents from under the tree
15:25straight after supper instead of at midnight.
15:27What do you say?
15:29Very well, yes. Yes, fine, splendid.
15:31Let's do that.
15:33Gladstone would be pleased at least there's a treat somewhere for him.
15:54Welcome, gentlemen. Very good of you to come.
15:57Has he been arrested? No, Mr. Holmes, he's come to complain.
16:00Has he indeed? Yeah, he's spotted our surveillance of him.
16:03He doesn't like it. You won't go up?
16:05Oh, dear me, no.
16:08Join the party.
16:27Come on.
16:48Come on.
16:50Yes, come in.
16:54Oh, my dear fellow, you're wearing it.
16:56Well, I had to try it.
16:58What's so good about it?
17:00It stretches forward over the handlebars if you need it.
17:03Where else did you find it?
17:05Gamma G's People's Emporium.
17:07Thank you.
17:09Hi. Magnificent.
17:11Oh, yes, do come in, dear fellow.
17:13Please, sit down.
17:16What is the news of the grave robberies?
17:18The Camberwell force have been on to me.
17:21An incident down there. They were wondering if it had any connection.
17:24I don't think it does, myself, but I'd value your opinion, Mr. Holmes.
17:28We need to get this nasty little joke solved and out of the way.
17:32Joke?
17:34Respectable lady, in company, opening her parcels, Christmas Eve.
17:38One of them's a bit odd. It's full of salt.
17:41She empties out the salt. What's in it?
17:43Two freshly severed human ears.
17:46We think it was a medical student. She had a medical student as a lodger.
17:50Post-mortem anatomy can make certain individuals thoroughly callous.
17:54She threw him out just before Christmas. Bit of a row, apparently.
17:57Anyway, knowing your methods, Mr. Holmes,
17:59I've had the ears left quite untouched at the lady's house,
18:03which is... Yes, here it is.
18:05Trafalgar Villa, Camberwell.
18:07And Miss Susan Cushing.
18:12Oh, Mr. Holmes!
18:14Have you come to help me find Mary, after all?
18:16I'm afraid not, Miss Cushing.
18:19The inspector has asked me here to look into that other...
18:22unfortunate business.
18:24Oh, that.
18:26Well, I won't have those things in the house, Mr. Hawkins.
18:29If you wish to see them, you must go to the conservatory.
18:33Have you arrested that wretched young man yet?
18:36Just a matter of time, Miss Cushing.
18:40First, by carriage.
18:42Now, this student fellow, Jacketay,
18:44was going home for Christmas to Ostend via carriage.
18:47Yes, I agree with you.
18:49Carriage is persuasive.
18:51The writing is poor, uneducated.
18:54I know the medical profession is notorious for its illegibility,
18:59but this...
19:01Read with a broad nitpan.
19:03Very inferior ink.
19:09Tartwine.
19:11Stockholm tile.
19:13Knots intact.
19:16Knots intact.
19:30Rustled.
19:32And embedded in it...
19:34These very singular enclosures.
19:37What do you think they are, Watson?
19:40A ring has been torn from this ear.
19:43They're not a pair.
19:46I suppose it would be rather easier for Jacketay
19:48to have abstracted the ears from a dissecting room
19:50which were not actually a pair.
19:52To what purpose?
19:54I don't know. Some kind of disgusting practical joke.
19:57Gentlemen, this is no practical joke.
20:02What first strikes you when you enter a dissecting room?
20:08Formaldehyde. Damn it, you should smell of formaldehyde!
20:10And it does not.
20:12This is no practical joke.
20:15This is a serious crime.
20:22Your sister, Miss Cushing.
20:24Mary!
20:26At last!
20:28Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
20:36I thought it was Mary.
20:39I've come to take some more of my things.
20:43I bought you a present before we argued.
20:46You may as well have it.
20:48I don't want it. I don't want it!
20:50What's the matter with you?
20:52It's another disgusting prank.
20:54What?
20:55He was your friend, after all.
20:57Who was?
20:58I don't want your horrid parcel!
21:00Take it. Let's preserve the proprieties, at least, sister.
21:05Proprieties?
21:08You dare to talk about the proprieties?
21:11You've flouted the rules of society all your life.
21:14And you had the effrontery
21:16to accuse me of interfering with Mary's marrying that man.
21:20Didn't you?
21:22What did you do?
21:24What did I do?
21:26I did nothing.
21:27You know what you did.
21:29You introduced Mary to other men,
21:31corrupting her.
21:33Mary has told me in her innocence.
21:35She accused me.
21:37She accuses no one, you know that.
21:40But I see your hand in her unhappiness.
21:43Nonsense.
21:46Why did Jim Browner start drinking again?
21:50He signed the pledge for Mary.
21:52That's what brought them together.
21:54She pinned the blue ribbon to his chest and he was a new man.
21:58So why did he break his pledge?
22:01Why ask me?
22:03Why did you quarrel with him?
22:05You're approved of Jim Browner, that's true.
22:07But he deserved better than being driven back to drink by your meddling.
22:36I'm back.
22:38Jim.
22:39Hello, Sarah.
22:41Mary wasn't expecting you till much later.
22:43I managed to catch the tail end of the flood.
22:45Saved her whole time.
22:47Is she not here, then?
22:49No.
22:50Old Mrs Cooper's not well again.
22:52Mary's with her.
22:57I said I'd help her with the laundry.
23:01She'll be back soon.
23:08You help her a lot, don't you?
23:11That's nice.
23:30You know why I help her, I suppose?
23:33What?
23:36Why I'm always round here.
23:39Well, you're her sister.
23:46Won't you be happy for five minutes without her, Jim?
23:53Here.
23:55Think yourself useful.
24:00Thank you.
24:13You drop the side, then?
24:15What?
24:16You drop this and bring it up the other side.
24:18What do you mean? Mary doesn't do that.
24:20There are plenty of things Mary doesn't do, I dare say.
24:24Look.
24:25I'll show you how to do it, shall I?
24:30Now.
24:32Now, come on.
24:34You take this corner.
24:36Right.
24:37Now.
24:38You drop this.
24:42And...
24:45You bring it up the other side.
24:54You do it yourself.
24:56That's not for me, I want no part of that.
25:02Who should women's work at me? You keep that to yourself.
25:06Mr. Holmes, any other gentlemen to see you, madam?
25:25As long as they don't bring those things near me.
25:37And where is he now?
25:39Mr. Browner was on the South American line when he and Mary married.
25:43But he was so fond of her that he found himself a berth in the North Sea Boats,
25:49the London Den Helder line.
25:53And is Mary fond of him?
25:56It was a love match.
25:58Love?
25:59Although...
26:01Yes?
26:03Yes?
26:05I was loath to acknowledge it at the time.
26:09Why was that?
26:11I didn't think a sister of mine should be marrying a steward.
26:15And now? How do you feel now?
26:18I think Jim and Mary could be happy.
26:22You mean they weren't?
26:24Well, they were at first.
26:26What happened?
26:29Perhaps you should ask Sarah.
26:31She practically lived there for a while.
26:34Sarah?
26:35Sarah?
27:06The May morning.
27:08She sailed on the 17th for Belgium and Holland.
27:12They were in Rotterdam over Christmas.
27:15The crews draw lots and Jim was unlucky this year.
27:19Mary was to have spent Christmas with Sarah and me.
27:23And now Sarah, of course, is warden at the mission.
27:27Are you sad not to have her living with you still?
27:30Yes, I am.
27:33To tell you the truth, Mr. Holmes,
27:36things are not well between us.
27:39You've quarrelled?
27:41What about?
27:43It may have a bearing on what has happened to your sister, Mary.
27:46I know that.
27:48Of course it does. Do you think I don't know that?
27:51I blame her for everything.
27:53Sarah?
27:54Of course.
27:56Sarah.
27:58She spent far more time than was necessary at Mary's lodgings.
28:03Jim and Mary were just married,
28:06making their own life, making their own friends.
28:10Then Sarah introduced Alec Fairbairn to them.
28:14I know it was not generously done.
28:18Sarah seemed to want to shame Jim Browner.
28:22I don't know what Jim had done to Sarah,
28:25but she seemed to hate him.
28:28I believe that...
28:32You believe what?
28:34Ask her.
28:36Ask Sarah. She's here in the house collecting her things.
28:39Ask her if she did not mean Mary to go off with Alec Fairbairn.
28:44That is what she wanted.
28:47I know it.
28:50Ah!
28:52The message has been received then.
29:20A coffee, sir?
29:28Thank you for your help, Inspector.
29:30It's very difficult, Mr. Holmes. We can't ignore the evidence.
29:33What have we got?
29:35Two severed ears in a parcel.
29:37We've got the medical student, Jackete,
29:39who's been thrown out of the lady's house.
29:41Strong motive.
29:42Parcel. Postmarked carriage on the 19th.
29:45He was in carriage on the 19th.
29:47That's as good as you get.
29:49Your logic seems foolproof, Hawkins.
29:51Thank you.
29:53I just regret that I haven't been able to keep it out of the newspapers.
29:56They're running the story in tomorrow morning's first edition.
29:58They've also managed to get hold of Miss Susan Cushing's name.
30:01She won't like that.
30:02Poor woman.
30:05This other matter then, Mr. Holmes,
30:07you've clearly got some thoughts on that, haven't you?
30:11It is my belief
30:13that a member of Dr. Watson's profession,
30:15possibly of some distinction, has ever stepped the mark.
30:19The corpses all belong to pugilists, amateur or otherwise.
30:24What is the unfortunate characteristic
30:26of boxers
30:28who have fought too long?
30:31Well, there can be such scarring of the brain
30:34that they behave as if they're drunk.
30:36Slurred speech, loss of memory, and so on.
30:39They become punched drunk.
30:41Precisely.
30:43You mean somebody is studying the pathology of brain tissue.
30:47For all the best reasons, I dare say.
30:49And their passion for the subject has outrun their judgment.
30:53Sir Marcus Lanyon.
30:55I'll wage a month's salary on Sir Marcus.
30:57That's precisely his speciality.
30:59And he's impatient to a fault, ruthlessly impatient.
31:02There you have it, Inspector.
31:13Thank you.
31:35She's very down.
31:37Liked this ever since she got back here this afternoon.
31:43Miss Cushing.
31:46Why did you quarrel with your brother-in-law, Mr. Browner?
31:50What?
31:52Who are you? What are you doing here?
31:54This is Sherlock Holmes.
31:55He is investigating the disappearance of your sister, Mary.
32:01She's gone off with Alec Fairbairn, that's all.
32:04Why?
32:07She had become frightened of her husband.
32:10Why?
32:14Jim Browner was a drunkard.
32:17He offered her violence.
32:19He was beneath contempt.
32:21What is your explanation for the severed ears, Miss Cushing?
32:24You saw that cardboard box at your sister's house.
32:28Those severed ears were meant for you, were they not?
32:32The message was for you.
32:35You understood what they meant.
32:38Marcel Jacquet sent them.
32:41He told me he might do something.
32:44I didn't realize he'd do anything so disgusting.
32:55She's lying, Watson.
32:58She's lying through her teeth.
33:10She's lying.
33:26Galf's outside.
33:27Excellent.
33:28I've been to the shipping line offices, too.
33:30And?
33:31It's as you thought.
33:32The main morning set sail from London for Den Helder on the 17th.
33:36But a hog's head got loose in a hole.
33:39It broke the gear plate and had to put in for repairs.
33:42To Harwich?
33:43To Harwich.
33:45The crew were given leave on the 18th.
33:47The main morning left late on the 19th, the day the parcel was posted.
33:52Excellent, Watson.
33:53We have it!
34:06Mr. Holmes?
34:07Mr. Galf.
34:09They have telegraphed.
34:11Jim Browner came off the ferry at Ramsgate at 7 o'clock this evening.
34:14Good.
34:16I knew I could rely on you.
34:18And I can rely on you, can't I?
34:21Oh, you can.
34:23Does the name Sir Marcus Lanyon mean anything to you?
34:27It might.
34:29He will be warned off.
34:33And the orders from which you have been profiting will dry up.
34:36And so will the police interest in you.
34:39I'll be satisfied with that.
34:43We've acquired a bargain, Mr. Galf.
34:59Holmes!
35:01The knots on the parcel were a bowline and a sheet bed.
35:04Yes, sailors' knots.
35:07You know the sailors deliberately do not sharpen their knives?
35:10No, in case of... accident.
35:13Hence the crude amputations.
35:17Harwich was the key.
35:19And Browner was there, now.
35:22I suppose.
35:26Browner...
35:28returned unexpectedly.
35:30Found his wife with Fairbone.
35:34He followed them.
35:36He murdered them both.
35:38He severed an ear from each...
35:41and sent them, as he thought, to Sarah Cushing.
35:45Of course...
35:47he would go there immediately.
35:50He would be desperate...
35:53for her to know that the seven ears were for her and not for her sister.
35:58Well, that being the case...
36:01the railway is operating as if it were a Sunday.
36:06Why?
36:07Because the Christmas holiday is still on.
36:10Do you realize Browner could have caught a much earlier train?
36:14No, I did not know.
36:31Oh, God.
36:45Barry!
37:00What is this, Mr. Holmes?
37:02A unique experience for you, Inspector.
37:05You may apprehend a murderer...
37:07before you have even acknowledged there has been a murder.
37:31I...
37:33well, you may stare.
37:37Look at me, Sarah Cushing.
37:39This is your handiwork.
37:41What have you done, Jim?
37:43What have I done?
37:46Jim, I...
37:48I...
37:50I...
37:52I...
37:54I...
37:56I...
37:59There, it's what you've done.
38:02I beg you, Jim.
38:05Look on me kindly.
38:08Whatever I did...
38:10I did for you.
38:14It was you.
38:20You poisoned her mind.
38:22I did it for you.
38:24It was you.
38:26They have arrested the lodger.
38:29I told them he did it.
38:32They suspect nothing of you, Jim.
38:34You can get away.
38:36Get away?
38:39You think I can get away?
38:42Put it all behind me and think, do you?
38:44Are you mad?
38:47It is me!
38:48It's in here!
38:50Every last moment of it...
38:52comes out of the daylight like me.
38:54It goes on and on.
38:55I tell you, I dare not shut an eye and sleep since I did it.
38:57I'm never without one or the other before me.
39:01May the blood rot in your veins, Sarah Cushing.
39:04No!
39:06No!
39:08I love you.
39:10I love you.
39:12I love you.
39:14I love you.
39:16I believe you do.
39:18I'll tell you something.
39:20I'd rather have one kind word
39:22from her I've killed than all your love.
39:25I'd rather see her breathe in one minute more
39:28than a lifetime of what you could give me.
39:30Don't say that! Don't say that!
39:43She loved me.
39:47That's the root of the business.
39:50But she knew...
39:53She knew...
39:55She knew I...
39:57I thought more of my wife's footprint in the mud
40:00than I did of her body and soul.
40:06Whoever would have dreamt it?
40:16Andrew.
40:20After her trajectory, Sarah's advances?
40:24I never said a word to Mary for I thought it would grieve her.
40:29Then I began to see a change in Mary herself.
40:32My wife had always been
40:34so understanding.
40:38She was suspicious of everything I did.
40:43We began to row about nothing.
40:46Nothing at all.
40:48It maddened me.
40:51And this was Sarah's word?
40:53Aye.
40:55I didn't see it then, mind.
40:58I just saw it all go wrong.
41:04She and Mary were inseparable and...
41:07And then...
41:11Well, then I broke my blue ribbon and began drinking again.
41:14And then I saw Mary had some reason to be disgusted with me now.
41:22And then this Fairbairn fella chipped in.
41:26He was a dashing, swaggering sort of a chap.
41:31Smart and cold, educated too, I reckon.
41:33He could talk, he could...
41:37Blind I was.
41:40It was a little thing put me on to him.
41:45I came into the parlour, unexpected one day,
41:48and as I came in, I saw the light of welcome in my wife's eyes, but...
41:54When she saw it was me,
41:57she turned away with a look of disappointment.
42:03There was no one but Alec Fairbairn whose step shook a mistake for mine.
42:07I tell you, from that moment on, my peace was gone.
42:11Sarah was in the kitchen and I went straight through and I told her that
42:15if Fairbairn ever set foot in my place again,
42:22I'd send her his ears for a keepsake.
42:30I believe I could wish you had committed this deed of yours in France.
42:36They acknowledge the crime of passion there.
42:42You won't let them leave me alone, will you, sir?
42:49No.
42:52I won't.
42:56When I leave, I'll send an officer in.
43:00I don't like to be alone, see.
43:05I love you too.
43:35I love you too.
44:05I love you too.
44:36I love you too.
44:49Your turn.
44:58Won't be a minute.
45:05No.
45:21She made it go wrong, didn't she?
45:27And you never thought of anyone but me,
45:31did you, Jim?
45:35She loved you and she made me hate you.
45:46Yeah.
45:49It was as if you had a secret, you see.
45:53She made me think the worst.
45:56The secret was her love of me.
46:00You should have got rid of her from our lives, Jim.
46:06I know.
46:09But I thought it would hurt you.
46:13Look at us now.
46:17How we're stupid.
46:19Like this of people.
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49:02What is the meaning of it, Watson?
49:05What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear?
49:13It must have a purpose, or our universe has no meaning and that is unthinkable.
49:20But what purpose?
49:23That is humanity's great problem, for which reason so far has no answer.
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