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00:00London, November 16, 1903, early evening, typical English autumn weather, rain, cold, fog.
00:25When Big Ben hits the sixth hour, what happens in the hotel Savoy at the Victoria Embankment is as follows.
00:32A waiter, in his hand a tablet with a sparkling wine cooler, a bottle and a glass, falls into the office of the hotel director, pale as death.
00:42Mr. Director, Mr. Bunny, sir!
00:44What is that supposed to mean?
00:46Since when is it in Savoy to enter the office of the director without a notification and without knocking?
00:52But, but, Mr. Director!
00:54You are a waiter here, as I see it. Name?
00:57Max, Max Nicholas. Room waiter on the fourth floor. But, but, listen, Mr. Director!
01:03And you are, as I also see it, on duty. You go on the spot now and serve the guest who ordered the champagne.
01:10And we'll talk about your scandalous behavior later.
01:13I'm just coming from the guest, Mr. Director. He can't do anything with the champagne anymore.
01:19Why? Did he complain? An incident? I don't want to hope that...
01:25He can't complain either, Mr. Director.
01:28Why? What does that mean?
01:30The guest is dead, Mr. Director.
01:33What?
01:35Murdered, most likely.
01:38What? Murdered?
01:41A guest. In my hotel.
01:45And you tell me that now? Man!
01:48But, Mr. Director, I've been trying all the time...
01:51Shut up! Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
01:55A murder. In Savoy. Police. Press.
02:00I can't even think about it. Who is it?
02:04Do you mean the dead, Mr. Director?
02:06But who else? So, who? Who is it?
02:10Room 412. A Mr. Dixon from America.
02:14Room 412. Please. A 10 shilling room, of course.
02:18I always say, the cheapest guests cause the most trouble.
02:22But does it have to be murder?
02:24Can't it be a small accident? Or a heart attack or something?
02:29I don't think so, Mr. Director.
02:31When I opened the door, he was lying in the middle of the room.
02:34A big wound on the back of the head, blood everywhere.
02:36And then everything was in disorder. The bed, the closet...
02:39Didn't you call a doctor?
02:41Not necessary, Mr. Director. I was in South Africa in the Boer War.
02:44I know what a corpse looks like.
02:46That's why I came to you right away, Mr. Director.
02:48To me, of course. I'm always welcomed like this.
02:52If only I knew...
02:53There's one more thing I have to tell you, Mr. Director.
02:56Yes?
02:57When I went to room 412 with my tablet over the hallway,
03:02I saw a man coming out of room 412...
03:07During this, as I said, in the Savoy Hotel,
03:10and while Big Ben struck 6 o'clock,
03:12a droschka rolled through the wet streets of London.
03:16Two men were sitting in it.
03:18My little one and Professor Doctor Doctor Doctor Augustus Van Dusen.
03:24On all five continents and seven seas, known as the thinking machine.
03:30Space, time and their relation.
03:35That, my dear Hedge, is the core problem of modern natural science.
03:40If we continue to pursue the aforementioned ideas...
03:44Bless you, my dear Hedge.
03:46Don't put me on.
03:48If we continue to pursue the aforementioned ideas,
03:51we will be able to formulate a theory
03:55that can systematically represent the innermost being of nature.
04:00A theory, my dear Hedge, that we could call the theory of relativity.
04:07Behind us lay a well-spoken scientific afternoon.
04:12We were in Cambridge with Professor Thomson,
04:15the famous discoverer of cathode rays.
04:18The two professors had a brilliant conversation
04:22about electric and magnetic fields, ions and electrons,
04:26alpha, beta and gamma rays.
04:29And I sat quietly and didn't understand a word.
04:33I didn't expect that either, my dear Hedge.
04:37Don't worry about it.
04:39At home, I will explain everything to you slowly and in simple words.
04:44And then write an article about it for your newspaper.
04:48Writing articles is my profession.
04:51I am a journalist, if that's right.
04:53Hutchinson Hedge, from the good old Daily New Yorker.
04:57At the moment, however, not at my desk in New York,
05:00but with Professor Van Dusen on a world tour.
05:03Station, for a quarter of a year, Hotel Savoy, London.
05:07And we just returned to the hotel.
05:10I dreamed of a good dinner, of a cozy evening by the fireplace,
05:15with a whiskey or several,
05:18especially to fight my severe cold.
05:22I had no idea.
05:27Suite 4.
05:28Suite 4, please.
05:30Your key, Professor.
05:33Oh, just a moment, Professor.
05:35Yes, please.
05:36Our director, Mr. Bunny, is asking for permission
05:39if you could give him a few minutes of your precious time.
05:43In confidence.
05:44In confidence?
05:46Hedge, did you forget about the bill?
05:49Never, Professor.
05:51I'll take care of it.
05:52You like to joke, Professor.
05:55Mr. Bunny urgently needs your invaluable advice.
05:58Very, very urgently, Professor.
06:00In a criminological matter.
06:02Ah, criminological.
06:05In that case, I'm at Mr. Bunny's disposal.
06:09Where?
06:10Mr. Bunny is asking for you in his office, Professor.
06:12Back there, right next to the elevator.
06:14Ah, yes.
06:15Come with me, Hedge.
06:17Strangely, wherever the Professor stops,
06:20sooner or later, there's murder, death, and similar unhappy things.
06:24Criminologists seem to attract crimes magnetically,
06:28and Professor Van Dusen is, as we know,
06:31the most important amateur criminologist in the world.
06:34It was a cozy evening, at least he thought.
06:38Instead, we moved into Mr. Bunny's office,
06:41and this elegant garment, quite small and quite bare,
06:45made us aware of the facts
06:47we had learned half an hour ago from the waiter.
06:50Interesting.
06:52Of course, you immediately called the police, Mr. Bunny.
06:55Well, you know, Professor,
06:58to tell the truth, no.
07:01Mr. Bunny?
07:02Not yet.
07:03Then it's about time.
07:06You're right, Professor, but
07:08can you imagine
07:10what a police investigation in a luxury hotel looks like?
07:13Scars of brutal criminals
07:15nestle in here for days,
07:17trample with their coarse boots in all rooms and corridors,
07:20make a mess everywhere, and scare the guests.
07:23Nevertheless, as a citizen of the state,
07:27I had to inform Scotland Yard,
07:29but I...
07:31I wondered
07:33if you, Professor,
07:37maybe
07:40in a friendly way
07:43before...
07:47Yes, Mr. Bunny?
07:50I mean,
07:52if you would take the case into consideration beforehand,
07:56not only as a esteemed guest of our hotel,
07:58but above all as an amateur criminologist,
08:01as THE amateur criminologist,
08:03as I would like to call him.
08:06You see more and more than the police.
08:09They are always a few steps ahead of you,
08:11and if the men of Scotland Yard attack you,
08:14they will withdraw very quickly.
08:16With the murderer,
08:18whom you, Professor, have now determined
08:20and confirmed,
08:22because there is only one thinking machine,
08:25and her name is Van Dusen.
08:28Bravo!
08:31Very nicely expressed, Mr. Bunny.
08:35Good.
08:37I will take care of the matter a little.
08:40The victim is after all a countryman.
08:43The Savoy thanks you, Professor.
08:46What do you want to do first?
08:48Visit the crime scene, or...
08:50There is still time, Mr. Bunny.
08:51Before that, I would like to know the room
08:53of the speaker who found the dead.
08:55Is that necessary?
08:56I told you everything.
08:58No question, Mr. Bunny,
08:59but I would like to hear his story again.
09:01With my own ears.
09:03So be right away.
09:06Well, get him here.
09:08That was no problem.
09:10The room waiter, Max Nicholas,
09:12with a name, as you may remember,
09:15was waiting in the next room
09:17and just needed to be called.
09:19He was around 30,
09:21in leather and lacquer shoes, as it should be.
09:23He had a pale face,
09:25pomade in the hair,
09:27and a stiff, pointed moustache,
09:29a la Kaiser Wilhelm.
09:31You have already heard what he told us.
09:33Up to one.
09:35Oh.
09:36Of course I do not know
09:38if it was really the murderer.
09:40He was too far away,
09:42and to be honest,
09:43I did not pay much attention to him.
09:45I could not guess what was happening.
09:47I understand that.
09:48Try to remember anyway.
09:50Every detail is important.
09:53Come on, listen, think about it.
09:55Leave it to me, Mr. Bunny.
09:56So you came along the corridor with your tablet.
09:59Yes.
10:01First over the back stairs to the fourth floor
10:04and then around the corner in the corridor.
10:07Yes, and there he stood,
10:08at the door to 412.
10:11As if he had just come out of the room.
10:13How far away was he from you?
10:15Well, about 20 meters.
10:17Good.
10:19Go on.
10:20When I got closer,
10:22he went pretty fast in the opposite direction
10:25and then around the corner to the main staircase
10:27or to the elevator.
10:28Aha.
10:29Yes, that was actually all.
10:30What did the man look like?
10:32Pretty big.
10:33Not conspicuous.
10:35I only saw him from behind.
10:36How was he dressed?
10:38Cape, stick, cylinder.
10:40What a gentleman wears in the evening.
10:41Ah, a gentleman.
10:43Maybe a hotel guest?
10:45It could have been a visitor.
10:47Possibly.
10:48Thank you, Mr. Nicholas.
10:50That's all I wanted to know from you.
10:51You can go.
10:53But keep yourself available.
10:54We will still need you.
10:55We and the police.
10:58But I'm free now.
11:00So what?
11:01It doesn't matter.
11:02You go now and stay in your room.
11:04But I...
11:05And don't you dare to leave Savoy.
11:07There are enough unemployed waiters.
11:09Off with you.
11:10Very well, Mr. Barney.
11:22Well, gentlemen.
11:24That's the life of the hotel director.
11:26Always trouble with the staff.
11:29What now, Professor?
11:31Now Van Dusen wanted to visit the crime scene and the victims.
11:35So we drove with the elevator to the higher regions of the big hotel,
11:39where the rooms were small and only cost 10 shillings per day,
11:43and went along the long corridor on the fourth floor.
11:47This Mr. Dixon apparently had a good taste.
11:51Down in your office, Mr. Barney,
11:53I looked at what he ordered before his death.
11:56A bottle of Moet Chandon, Don Perignon.
11:58Not bad.
11:59Did he often come to such expensive champagne rooms?
12:03No, never, Professor.
12:04I checked.
12:05Although he has been living with us for four weeks.
12:08The highest of the feelings was every now and then half a bottle of red wine, house brand.
12:12But if it didn't come on time, or if the service didn't work 100%,
12:16then he complained immediately.
12:18Very loud and very long.
12:19Ah, an attractive contemporary, as it seems.
12:22Attractive is not an expression, Professor.
12:24A real old stinger.
12:27But let's forget it.
12:28One should not speak ill of the dead.
12:30Demortuise, Mr. Barney.
12:32Nil Nisibin.
12:33Room 412.
12:35Ah yes, here we are.
12:41So, please.