Murdoch Mysteries Season 18 Episode 2
Murdoch Mysteries S18 Episode 2 - Only Murdoch in the Building
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00:00F.E. Crabtree, Canada's first female crown attorney.
00:13Clara Britt Martin was the first female attorney in the entire British Empire.
00:17She forged the path that I have followed.
00:19I'm writing a profile on you.
00:21Woman lux into success isn't exactly a headline that will attract readers.
00:25I'm just being honest.
00:27Your first case with the crown is one of the biggest in Toronto's history.
00:31You will argue that a former city councilman should hang for the killing of three people.
00:35That's right.
00:36However, Mr. Alastair Gordon will be lead counsel.
00:39I'll be assisting him.
00:41You're an assistant?
00:43No, I'm a newly appointed lawyer for the crown.
00:46What do you say to those who believe that women are mentally inferior to men and incapable of logical reasoning?
00:52I would say that it is their reasoning that is illogical.
00:55Women are the equal to men in every way.
00:57And if they don't believe that fact, then, well, just watch me.
01:06Tata here.
01:07Safe voyage.
01:12Union Station, sir.
01:26Oh, it must be Mr. Murdoch.
01:28I'm the lad.
01:29Stanley.
01:30Lester.
01:31Oh, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
01:33And thank you for accommodating me on such short notice.
01:37Just moved to town?
01:38No.
01:39I'm living on my own for the first time in quite some time.
01:42And my home is just very empty and quiet.
01:46Well, you won't have that problem here.
01:48Follow me, sir.
01:52You're in 2C?
01:56Make yourself at home.
02:03Detective Murdoch?
02:07Yes.
02:08Do I know you?
02:10No.
02:12Oh, but thank God you're finally here.
02:14There's been a murder.
02:26Jonathan B. Booth.
02:28He lived in this room for about a year.
02:30It was two years.
02:32I only lived here for seven months.
02:34Well, seven and a half.
02:36And you believe this Mr. Booth was murdered?
02:40Yes.
02:41It happened two weeks ago, just after I last saw him.
02:44On Thursday.
02:45He was in the bathroom.
02:47He was in the bathroom.
02:48He was in the bathroom.
02:49He was in the bathroom.
02:50He was in the bathroom.
02:51He was in the bathroom.
02:52He was in the bathroom.
02:53He was in the bathroom.
02:54He was in the bathroom on Thursday at 4.15 p.m.
02:56You saw his body?
02:58No.
02:59Then how do you know he was murdered?
03:01He was gone.
03:03Gone?
03:04Well, he wouldn't just disappear without saying goodbye.
03:07No, no, no, no.
03:09No, sir.
03:10No, not Mr. Booth.
03:11Now, I told all of this to the constables at Station House 4.
03:14McLaren and Crookshank.
03:16Can't remember their Christian names.
03:18It's all right.
03:19I know them.
03:20But you're here now, so I can rest easy.
03:24Actually, I am moving into these rooms.
03:27Because this is to be my home.
03:30For now.
03:32Oh.
03:33So if you don't mind.
03:36Of course.
03:37I beg your pardon.
03:38It was just, what about the murder?
03:41I'll look into it.
03:46So you'll be living here?
03:48With me?
03:51So it would seem.
04:02Didn't know the hallowed halls of power would be quite so dull.
04:06Well, you are causing quite a stir.
04:10I'd hate to see them when they're not stirred up.
04:13So let's go over this once again, Chief Constable.
04:17Chief Constable.
04:19Tell me exactly what Francis Stewart said to you.
04:22I've already told you.
04:24Tell me again.
04:28Chief Constable Stewart admitted to Councilman Vaughan's involvement in the murder of two women almost 20 years ago.
04:35Just a boy.
04:36He was a good family.
04:37I knew the father.
04:39They told me that the burglary was a youthful lark.
04:42Some sort of deer gone terribly wrong.
04:46What about the murders next door?
04:48I believe them to be an accident.
04:50If I'd known, it was murder.
04:52He also admitted to letting Chadwick Vaughan into the cell occupied by Richard Tauber,
04:57a man that was found dead immediately after that visit.
05:00And he'll admit to all of that in open court?
05:03He gave me his word.
05:06Detective Murdock, what are you doing here?
05:18Isn't it your day off?
05:20Something you'll soon learn about me, Inspector, is that I much prefer work to leisure.
05:26Then we have something in common.
05:28What's troubling you?
05:30I'm moving into a rooming house, and the man who rented my rooms before me apparently has disappeared.
05:37And?
05:38Well, all of the neighbors seem to agree that the man, Mr. Booth, was planning to move to Hamilton at the end of the week,
05:47but was seen with a blue suitcase in hand and all of his possessions cleared out.
05:53Perhaps he simply left a couple of days early to save on rent.
05:59Hardly a mystery, then.
06:04The Crown will prove to you that Chadwick Vaughan took distinct and unintentional action to kill Elsie and Nora Haynes in 1891
06:13to hide the truth of an affair he was carrying on.
06:16Furthermore, the Crown will show you that Mr. Vaughan killed Detective Richard Tauber
06:22while he was being held in the cells of Station House No. 4 just last year.
06:27To keep quiet the truth of his guilt in those previous murders.
06:31Now, Mr. Vaughan's considerable power and influence in the City of Toronto has allowed him to get away with these heinous acts,
06:38none less than former Chief Constable Francis Stewart was under his sway and will testify to his guilt.
06:46We best hope Mr. Vaughan is convicted.
06:48Why do you say that?
06:50He won't be long for a job if he isn't.
06:57Meow.
06:59Meow.
07:21Knock, knock, knock.
07:28Yeah?
07:30Beg your pardon? I'm William Murdoch and I just moved in.
07:34What do you want?
07:36There is a tremendous amount of noise coming from your rooms. It's quite loud.
07:41What exactly are you doing?
07:42I'm not making any noise.
07:51What?
07:52Now, see here.
07:55What's that on your hand?
07:58Leave me alone.
08:01So, you are investigating?
08:05I was just complaining about the noise.
08:08Is that so?
08:10Well, just so you know, Mr. Holland there, he is my prime suspect.
08:28The King's Council has prepared an expansive case against Mr. Vaughan,
08:35with over a dozen witnesses prepared to testify.
08:39And very shortly, we will be calling forth our first witness to the stand to…
08:46Your Lordship, the Crown apologizes. Our first witness is not present in the courtroom. We request a brief adjournment.
08:58Frances!
09:08Dear God.
09:13Suicide.
09:17Adios, Frances.
09:20And there is no sign of foul play.
09:22The letter was in his handwriting. He said he couldn't bear to testify.
09:26He wanted to see Vaughan hanged as much as anyone.
09:28But he was too much of a coward.
09:30The man is barely cold.
09:31By his own choice. And now he's left our case to fall apart.
09:35If this man was to testify at trial, didn't he provide a statement?
09:40He refused. And I allowed it.
09:43Win the case, Mrs. Crabtree. Because if you don't, then it's on me.
09:49You last saw Mr. Booth two weeks ago on Thursday at 4.15pm.
09:55Yet, the landlord, Mr. Lester, heard Mr. Booth here in the room the following morning at 10am.
10:04Walked past door at 10am, heard banging on the door.
10:07Assumed packing his belongings. Slipped note under door to request final week's rent.
10:12No sign of note two days later.
10:15And two days later, Mr. Booth, as well as all of his belongings, were gone.
10:20And the previous evening, quicklime was stolen from the garden shed.
10:23What? There's no mention of quicklime in the police report.
10:27Well, that's because I didn't notice it until after the constable started ignoring me.
10:31I'm sorry.
10:32There's no mention of quicklime in the police report.
10:34Well, that's because I didn't notice it until after the constable started ignoring me.
10:41Oh, what is that horrible smell?
10:46That?
10:48No, it always smells like that. I don't know what it is, but it's coming from one C.
10:54I'm boiling cabbage.
10:56Yes, I can smell that, but I'm not entirely sure it accounts for all…
11:04Bye, Frank.
11:06Be done in a bit.
11:10Your Honor, the Crown humbly asks that you offer us an adjournment.
11:15A key witness has taken his own life.
11:19Our case was to begin with his testimony and build upon its foundation. We need time to regroup.
11:24Your other evidence and witnesses are available to you?
11:28Yes.
11:30Then present them to the jury. Court will resume at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
11:38Effie, I have some questions.
11:40Now is not the time, Louise.
11:42It will only take a moment.
11:44Tomorrow morning, before court, my office, 8 a.m.
11:50Wipe that smirk off your face.
11:51I beg your pardon?
11:53You killed him.
11:55Stewart, I didn't do a thing.
11:57You manipulated him into covering for you. And now he's dead because of the shame you brought upon him.
12:01Chief Constable, I am an innocent man.
12:04If Francis Stewart killed himself out of shame, any responsibility for his death should fall at the feet of those who accused him and myself of things we did not do.
12:14Mr. Holland in 2E and Miss Fink in 1C, I can say after being here only one day that neither is an ideal neighbor.
12:25And I have to agree, both are acting rather suspiciously.
12:29Mr. Booth was rather persnickety too. He was always in everyone else's business. Just like yourself.
12:36I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:39I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:48Inspector Choi.
12:50I brought you a housewarming gift.
12:52Oh, come in.
12:56Oh, you have company?
12:59This is...
13:00Tippy Longfellow. I live across the hall.
13:03Inspector Albert Choi.
13:07What's this?
13:09Ah, this is to do with the case I was looking into at the station house. We...
13:15The case of the man who moved out one day early.
13:19All right then, Detective. I have no plans for the time being.
13:24Impress me.
13:33Where do we stand?
13:34We have plenty of evidence to convict Vaughn of the murder of Detective Tauber. Finger marks, eyewitness accounts, including your own.
13:41And there's a recording of him confessing to it.
13:44Precisely. The two murders from 1891, I'm not so sure.
13:48There's the original police file, which was adulterated by Stuart on Vaughn's behalf.
13:53But without Stuart to confirm that, they can say Stuart was lying.
13:56There's a witness. The jeweler. He gave a police sketch.
13:5920 years after events.
14:00The sketch looked exactly like Vaughn.
14:02There's no way such a distant account could be that reliable.
14:05Well, the chief constable's testimony. He knows everything that Stuart was going to say.
14:08Hearsay.
14:10And he got Vaughn's confession.
14:12Only for Tauber. He didn't deny the others, but he didn't admit to them either.
14:16Look, this is not how the law is meant to be.
14:19We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Vaughn is guilty, and the defense knows it too.
14:23Yet they will trot out every excuse in the book, every arcane stratagem to sink this case and thwart justice.
14:30That's their job.
14:32It is not their job.
14:34The purpose of our courts is not to win at any cost.
14:38It is to pursue the truth jointly and in good faith.
14:42It's defense attorneys who choose to pervert justice.
14:45Oh. Still bitter that I won?
14:48I beg your pardon?
14:50The sleepwalking case?
14:51That has nothing to do with this.
14:53But yes, that trial is a perfect example.
14:56You lied before king and country to achieve the result you desired.
15:00What I argued was the truth, to the best of my knowledge.
15:03And you were wrong. You were wrong, and you won anyway.
15:06Well, now you're going to feel what it's like to be on the other side.
15:10And of course, there's the quick line, and we know what that's used for.
15:14Hmm. Speculation. That's all this is.
15:17Speculation. That's all this is.
15:20Now, let's focus on something more important.
15:24Where shall we hang this?
15:27Oh.
15:29Perhaps...
15:37A peephole!
15:39Detective, have you been spying on your neighbors?
15:43I have not.
15:44But perhaps Mr. Booth was. May I?
15:50Oh, this must be Mr. Lester, the landlord's room.
15:54So, this Mr. Booth was a peeping Tom.
15:57Sir, have a look.
16:00There is a blue suitcase matching the description of the one Mr. Booth was seen packing prior to his disappearance.
16:07So, Booth was a peeping Tom.
16:09Booth was a peeping Tom. The neighbor finds out, gets angry, kills him, then hides his suitcase in his bedroom.
16:17Yes! Yes! Yes! That's it, Detective!
16:21We cracked the case!
16:24Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
16:27What's this?
16:29Dear Tiffy, no one told me Hamilton was so beautiful this time of year.
16:33Sorry, I did not get a chance to say goodbye.
16:36Jonathan B. Booth.
16:39You heard from him and you didn't tell me?
16:43No, no, no. You don't understand.
16:45I believe I do understand, Miss Longfellow. You lied to us. You have been wasting our time.
16:51You could be charged with filing a false police report.
16:54No, no. This only arrived today.
16:57So, do you see? It doesn't, it doesn't quite make sense.
17:02Detective, I was just having so much fun working with you.
17:07And I'm terribly sorry.
17:11We'll get him for Tober, then.
17:13I'm not prepared to argue the Tober case. We weren't meant to start till next week.
17:18I know the case.
17:20Well enough to try it?
17:22Yes. I can act as lead counsel. I'll review all the details before morning, even if it takes me all night.
17:29Very well.
17:31But write down how you intend to proceed so that I can step in as necessary.
17:35Of course.
17:43I probably should have maintained my initial skepticism.
17:48Sometimes we see intrigue where there is none.
17:51Because we need a distraction from our own thoughts.
17:53What thoughts?
17:55Well, I can't answer that.
17:57But surely you could see why a man would concoct a fanciful story,
18:01a mystery to embark upon with a cheerful new friend from across the hall,
18:05rather than sitting alone in his rooms, watching films of people halfway around the world.
18:13I wasn't always a bachelor.
18:15My life used to be very different.
18:17Losing someone is an adjustment.
18:21Well, I haven't lost Julia or Susanna.
18:24Of course not. Not in that sense.
18:27But even if their absence is temporary, they're not here.
18:39What is that?
18:41What is that?
18:49What is that?
18:54It has no odor.
19:01Quick line.
19:11I think we may have found Mr. Bluth.
19:25Effie. Effie.
19:27Where were you? Eight a.m., remember?
19:30I was working all night. I barely had time to go home and get changed.
19:33Well, you could have let me know. I'm busy, too.
19:35I'll make it up to you.
19:40Counsel, is the Crown prepared to proceed?
19:44We are, Your Honor.
19:46The Crown would like to inform the court that the charges of murder relating to the 1891 deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes are being withdrawn.
19:56And the third charge? Talbor?
20:00We intend to proceed.
20:02Very good, then.
20:04Miss Ike, Inspector Short. I've heard a great deal about you.
20:08Charmed.
20:10I'm wondering how a woman of your background came to hold such a position. It must be quite the story.
20:17The same must be true of you, sir.
20:19Indeed.
20:21Ah, I see the two of you have met. Wonderful.
20:24What have you discovered, Miss Hart?
20:26He's covered thoroughly in quicklime, as you thought. Quicklime desiccates the body, limiting decomposition.
20:32Making it difficult to establish a time of death?
20:34Indeed. Cause of death, on the other hand, is easier, thanks to the quicklime.
20:39He was hit on the head. A heavy object with a sharp edge. There was a lot of blood. His clothing was soaked through.
20:46I found this in his pocket.
20:48The truth, sins, you must know, going on in there. Signed, J.B. Booth.
20:59He was definitely planning to expose someone's wrongdoings.
21:03Sounds like a motive for murder.
21:06Where were you on the afternoon of December 9th, 1911?
21:10Home.
21:11The office. The club.
21:13You also went to Station House Number 4 that afternoon, did you not?
21:16I did.
21:18Constable Tucker allowed you into the cells specifically occupied by Detective Richard Tauber.
21:23That's correct.
21:25A man who had provided information regarding two murders he had investigated in 1891.
21:29Your Honor, we object to any discussion of murders for which charges have been withdrawn.
21:33Your Honor, this is pertinent to the circumstances under which the victim was killed.
21:36Proceed, Counsel.
21:38You were aware that Tauber was implicating you in the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes, correct?
21:42Yes, I was.
21:44And that is why you entered his cell?
21:46Yes.
21:48It is also why you struggled with him there, leaving your finger mark on his shirt button?
21:50Yes.
21:52And it is the reason you killed him?
21:54No. I did not kill him.
21:56He was found dead less than an hour later.
21:58He was alive when I left.
22:00You said yourself you fought with him, leaving evidence on his dead body.
22:03I fought with him.
22:04Because he was threatening to go to the police about me.
22:06But we came to an agreement.
22:08I paid him money to tell the truth.
22:11That I had nothing to do with the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
22:15You paid him?
22:17Yes.
22:19Then where is the money? No payment was found on him?
22:21Perhaps the killer stole it.
22:23All I know is he was alive when I left.
22:25Then why did you confess?
22:27But I didn't.
22:31In December of 1891,
22:32you questioned Mr. Vaughn at his home.
22:34Did you not?
22:36I paid him a visit.
22:38We played snooker.
22:40I won.
22:42We had a conversation.
22:44Did you discuss the murder of Detective Richard Topper?
22:46Yes, we did.
22:48What did Vaughn have to say?
22:50He said that he never intended to bribe him
22:52because he knew that it wouldn't work.
22:54So he killed him.
22:56Objection, Your Honor.
22:58My client just testified that that never happened.
22:59He simply falls under hearsay exclusion.
23:01Thank you, Counsel.
23:03The jury will disregard the Chief Constable's last comment.
23:05Your Honor, the Crown would like to play a recording
23:07of the conversation in question.
23:09Objection on the same grounds.
23:11This recording has already been entered into evidence.
23:13My learned friend submitted it just yesterday,
23:15believing it to be exculpatory
23:17in the cases of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
23:20Francis helped me once,
23:22so I helped him in turn.
23:24And you both helped each other out with Richard Topper.
23:26The Chief Constable arranged for you to visit the cells.
23:29You already know a great deal, don't you, Inspector?
23:32Francis made arrangements for me to slip in the back door.
23:35He thought Topper could be silent with the bribe.
23:38I'm delighted to have had this conversation.
23:41It's been recorded for posterity.
23:43Now, wait a minute.
23:45That's not right. That's not what happened.
23:47That's how I remember it.
23:49You confessed. Someone's altered the recording.
23:51Sit down, Mr. Brackenreid. It remains silent.
23:53The Crown provided the recording, Your Honor.
23:55We simply listened to it and submitted it to the court.
23:57Your Honor, foul play is afoot.
23:59This is not the complete recording
24:01as obtained by the police
24:03and shared with the defense by the Crown.
24:05What are you suggesting?
24:07We all heard the conversation with our own ears.
24:09They've adulterated it.
24:11Is that possible?
24:13A portion of the recording has simply been excised.
24:15It's easily done when making a duplicate.
24:17This is a damning charge.
24:19It certainly is, but we are prepared to prove it.
24:21The Crown has the original recording in our files.
24:23I can have it to you in 20 minutes.
24:25So I was right.
24:27Mr. Booth is dead.
24:29Indeed.
24:31We'll need to have another look at that postcard.
24:33It was obviously a fake sent by the killer.
24:36Of course.
24:38Oh, this is very exciting.
24:40To think that I had it right
24:42and the great Detective Murdoch had it wrong.
24:44There you go.
24:46Thank you, Miss Longfellow.
24:48We'll let you know if we need anything further.
24:50Whoa, Detective.
24:52I made you something.
24:58What are these?
25:00They're pillowcases.
25:02The linens provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lester
25:04are always somewhat threadbare.
25:07Well, I only have one pillow.
25:09I don't need both.
25:11No, no, no.
25:13I already monogrammed both.
25:15Perhaps you'll have company one day.
25:17No, I don't think so.
25:19But thank you.
25:28It's not here.
25:30What do you mean it's not here?
25:32It's in our case file.
25:34I listened to it last night.
25:36So you had it last night and now it's gone?
25:38It can't just have disappeared.
25:40Maybe you just misplaced it.
25:42I don't understand.
25:44This can't be.
25:46So you've lost it.
25:48Wonderful.
25:50You spent the night before the trial
25:52losing our key piece of evidence.
25:54Boyd Gordon, easy.
25:55You were down here when we left her last night.
25:57Was anyone else in the building?
25:59No, I only left at 7.30 this morning.
26:01There was no one else here.
26:03We'll ask the staff,
26:05but it certainly appears no one else
26:07has been in here, Mrs. Crabtree.
26:09Your negligence may have just lost us this case.
26:15The handwriting on this postcard
26:17is similar to the letter
26:19found on Mr. Booth's body,
26:21but it's not the same.
26:23Not the real McCoy, then.
26:25Why did Mr. Hamilton
26:27send that postcard yesterday?
26:29Maybe because he knew
26:31you were looking into the case.
26:33Start with the landlord.
26:35Booth's letter threatened to expose a secret.
26:37I think it was whatever he saw
26:39while looking through that peephole.
26:41When I first arrived,
26:43I saw Mr. Lester helping his wife
26:45into a coach and see her off.
26:47When you paid me a visit,
26:49I saw a much younger woman
26:51walking down the hall
26:53toward Mr. Lester's room.
26:56And then there's Miss Fick.
26:58Whatever she's up to
27:00is causing that horrible smell.
27:02What smell?
27:04That smell I'm smelling right now.
27:06It's cabbage,
27:08some shame,
27:10and marijuana.
27:12Marijuana?
27:14I guess I've heard of it,
27:16but I've not come across it just yet.
27:18It's becoming popular in California.
27:20Your neighbor would surely be evicted
27:22if anyone found out she was smoking dope.
27:23I'm calling it now.
27:25Apparently, it makes one fuzzy-headed.
27:27Why would anyone want that?
27:29This neighbor,
27:31making all of the noise,
27:33he's the one I find the most suspicious.
27:35Maybe so,
27:37but when we were here yesterday,
27:39I heard that same sound.
27:41Right.
27:43There's no way he could have gone
27:45all the way to Hamilton and back.
27:48Well, that's odd.
27:50This obliterator mark
27:51has no letter or number.
27:53The...
27:55I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
27:57Every postmark in Canada
27:59has this circle with information,
28:01time, date, location,
28:03and these wavy lines
28:05are used to mark a stamp
28:07as used or canceled,
28:09hence obliterator.
28:11All right.
28:13Inside, there is often a letter
28:15or a number, depending on which machine
28:17was used at that particular post office.
28:19The fact that there is no number means...
28:21Well, some postal locations
28:23only have one machine,
28:25so there is no need for a letter or a number,
28:27but I happen to know that Hamilton
28:29has two such machines,
28:31so any postmark coming out of Hamilton
28:33would bear the number one or two.
28:35How do you know this?
28:37I subscribe to a quarterly publication
28:40on postal innovations.
28:43At any rate,
28:45this postmark is a forgery.
28:48Meaning,
28:49the killer did not have to travel
28:51to Hamilton after all.
28:53It could still be your neighbor.
28:55That's the secret he's been hiding.
28:57And the marks on his hand,
29:00it wasn't blood,
29:02it's ink.
29:04He's a forger.
29:06Yeah?
29:13Mr. Holland,
29:15Toronto Constabulary.
29:17Stand back.
29:22Plates,
29:24dyes, pulp stock,
29:26everything needed to print counterfeit money.
29:28And cut it to size.
29:31Booth?
29:33Who's Booth?
29:35Your former neighbor,
29:372C.
29:39Oh, him.
29:41What about him?
29:43We found his body hidden in the wall
29:44in one of the rooms.
29:46I don't know nothing about that.
29:48Where were you on the 18th
29:50between the hours of 4 p.m.
29:52and the following morning?
29:54What day was that?
29:56Thursday.
29:58Oh,
30:00that's the day that they locked me up
30:02for passing a bad banknote.
30:09It's not here.
30:11So what?
30:12You heard him, the judge won't allow it.
30:14There's other evidence.
30:16Enough to argue the case, maybe,
30:18but to get a conviction?
30:20I don't think so.
30:22I shouldn't think so either.
30:24I've spoken to defense counsel and the judge.
30:26We'll make it official tomorrow,
30:28but the Crown is dropping all charges.
30:30So Vaughn goes free.
30:32I'm afraid so.
30:34And I am sorry, Mrs. Crabtree,
30:36but I have no choice
30:38but to recommend you for termination.
30:50One of the metal counterfeiting plates
30:52found in Mr. Holland's room
30:54could be the murder weapon,
30:56but no traces of blood were found on any of them,
30:58so there's no way to prove it.
31:00Hardly matters.
31:02He was booked at Station House 1
31:04the afternoon of March 18th,
31:06and they let him out late that evening.
31:08So he couldn't have done it.
31:09What about the postmark?
31:11Someone else forged it,
31:13or had it forged,
31:15or went to Hamilton to send it,
31:17and your little magazine was wrong.
31:20It's been a considerable amount of work
31:22to scrape away the quicklime
31:24without damaging the body.
31:26I need to be particularly careful with the hands,
31:28for example,
31:30in case there are any defensive wounds
31:32or scrapings under the fingernails.
31:34Anything?
31:36No, but he had a small object
31:37in his hand,
31:39a metal trinket of some kind.
31:41May I?
31:43Of course.
31:45This appears to be
31:47an ornate thimble
31:49that's been engraved.
31:52A thimble?
31:54That's odd.
31:56I know of at least one person
31:58at the Regent Arms
32:00that does a great deal of sewing,
32:02and this thimble bears her monogram.
32:04Tippi Longfellow.
32:05You admire her.
32:13Do you recognize this?
32:16Yes.
32:18It's yours?
32:20No. No.
32:22But I saw it in a shop window once.
32:24Is that my monogram? Of course.
32:26I stopped to admire it one day
32:28when I was out walking with Mr. Booth.
32:31Maybe he bought this for me
32:33as a parting gift.
32:35Perhaps he was on his way
32:37to give it to me?
32:39Why would he give you
32:41a parting gift?
32:43Unless the nature of your relationship
32:45was more intimate
32:47than you let on?
32:49No, but
32:51I always suspected
32:53that he was sweet on me.
32:55It's why I was so sure
32:57he would say goodbye,
32:59and why I was quite worried about him.
33:01Or it's yours and you killed him.
33:03What? No. Why would I?
33:06You killed Mr. Booth
33:08to lure him in,
33:10to see if he was smart enough
33:12to solve your crime.
33:14No. I...
33:16How else would you have known
33:18about the tarp and the quick line?
33:20Both were identified by you
33:22as being relevant to the murder
33:24before the body was found.
33:26How did you know?
33:28Well, just hang on to your horses there.
33:30If all that was true,
33:32why would I beg the world's
33:34to meet your hero?
33:36And hang by the neck forthwith?
33:39Sir, though it is true,
33:41people have killed in order
33:43to get close to me.
33:45The fact that I moved into
33:47the Regent Arms was pure happenstance.
33:49Miss Longfellow here
33:51did not lure me in.
33:53Nevertheless,
33:55put her in the cells.
33:58It's a bloody hatchet job,
34:00but you'll be back on your feet in no time.
34:01Maybe.
34:03Maybe not.
34:05I highly doubt the Crown Attorney's Office
34:07will hire another woman anytime soon.
34:09A recording can't just vanish.
34:11It's impossible that Vaughn's lawyer
34:13or anyone hired by them could have broken in.
34:15I was there all the way until after daybreak.
34:17There wasn't a sign of anyone.
34:19No sign of a break-in.
34:21Maybe they got your keys somehow
34:23and waited for you to leave.
34:25If they did,
34:27someone would have seen them.
34:29What's all this?
34:31We're focusing on our suspect's alibis
34:33for the time of the murder itself.
34:36Now, the killer engaged
34:38in a series of complex steps
34:40to cover up the crime.
34:42Interviews with neighbors,
34:44gardeners, witnesses,
34:46all narrowed down who could have performed
34:48each of the steps and their cover-ups.
34:50The murderer obtaining the tarp
34:52from the basement,
34:54stealing the quicklime,
34:56and hiding the body in the wall.
34:58All right. And?
34:59As you can see,
35:01our results are inconclusive.
35:03No one person could have performed
35:05all of the steps required of the killer.
35:07I fear we may be looking
35:09in the wrong direction.
35:11Well, we know it's not Holland.
35:13He was at Station House One.
35:15You seem decided it was not Miss Longfellow.
35:17The simplest explanation, then,
35:19is someone is either mistaken
35:21or lying on behalf of the killer
35:23who has to be either Fink or Lester.
35:25Let's bring them in.
35:27Right.
35:29I told you to clean your hands.
35:31It's ink. It takes a couple days to come off.
35:33Anyway, you're just putting more on them.
35:35Fine, index finger.
35:43Mr. Holland,
35:45when did your hand become stained with ink?
35:47A couple days ago.
35:49The evening before last,
35:51your other hand was stained with red ink.
35:54How were you able to wash
35:56one hand clean and not the other?
35:59I don't know what you're talking about.
36:02Come on. Off to the cells.
36:10Am I mistaken?
36:12I could have sworn I saw something red on his hand
36:15that I even mistook for blood at the time.
36:17Maybe it was blood.
36:20Maybe.
36:23No, it wasn't.
36:26The first time Mr. Holland answered the door,
36:27his left hand was clean.
36:29The second time,
36:31his left hand was stained with red.
36:33Meaning he spilled something.
36:36Meaning Mr. Holland could have done
36:38each of the steps required of the killer.
36:40He just didn't do them alone.
36:51Miss Cherry,
36:53when you were waiting for me this morning
36:55at the Crown Attorney's office,
36:57did you see Mr. Vaughn's lawyer?
36:59No. Why would I?
37:01Are you sure?
37:03Maybe someone he sent to break into the place?
37:05I was there for nearly an hour.
37:07Waiting.
37:09And I didn't see Vaughn's attorney
37:11or any other hired goons.
37:13Did you see anyone at all?
37:15It was early in the morning.
37:17The place was nearly empty.
37:19One person came and went inside.
37:21Who?
37:22Can't say.
37:24What do you mean you can't say?
37:25It's a matter of anonymity.
37:27Listen to me, young lady.
37:29This isn't about protecting a source.
37:31Whoever it was more than likely
37:33sabotaged the Crown's case.
37:35And my career along with it.
37:37Sabotage?
37:39Yes. Tell us who it was.
37:41I can't. My sources are confidential.
37:43You'll tell us or I'll throw you in a cell.
37:45And I'll publish my feelings
37:47about the new Chief Constable from behind bars.
37:49Goodbye.
37:55Sir, the article.
37:57There are very few people
37:59with intimate knowledge of the case.
38:01If the culprit was a source...
38:03We could probably figure out who it is.
38:05Stuart's suicide.
38:07It says he was wearing his kilt.
38:09But there was no one else there except us.
38:11And Gordon.
38:13He claimed I was the only one at the office this morning.
38:15But if he's Louise's source...
38:17Bloody hell.
38:19He scuppered his own case.
38:20I hear something.
38:22Should we knock?
38:24There shouldn't be anyone in there.
38:31As I suspected.
38:33The reason Mr. Holland
38:35only had red ink on his hand
38:37the second time he answered the door
38:39was because the first time was his twin.
38:41Two Mr. Hollands.
38:43Both under arrest.
38:45Mr. Booth was planning
38:47to expose your counterfeiting scheme.
38:49He'd even written a letter to the police
38:51detailing your operation.
38:53But before he could send it,
38:55you killed him.
38:57But not before one of you
38:59got himself arrested
39:01in order to create the perfect alibi.
39:03But why keep him in the wall?
39:06We wanted to move him.
39:08Mr. Lester, he was in the room
39:10trying to rest his mind.
39:11Mr. Lester, he was in the room
39:13trying to rent it straight away.
39:15He even took the man's suitcase
39:17as recompense for last week's rent.
39:19How long were you planning it?
39:21You lived in that rooming house
39:23for nearly two years.
39:25None of your neighbours knew
39:27that there were two of you.
39:29Mr. Lester charges by the head.
39:32How did Vaughn get to you?
39:34I beg your pardon?
39:36Bribery? Blackmail?
39:38I have no idea what you're talking about.
39:39We know you were here this morning.
39:41We know you lied about it.
39:43You stole that recording to sink our case.
39:45Typical.
39:47A woman blaming a man for her own failings.
39:49We will prove what you did.
39:51It's only a matter of time.
39:53You know full well I have the ear
39:55of the Attorney General.
39:57We'll see what he has to say about it.
39:59Ethie.
40:02I'm not here to apologize.
40:04I didn't ask you to, Miss Cherry.
40:06I was just doing my job.
40:08At the expense of mine.
40:10Would you prefer I didn't report the news
40:12that I hung my sources out to dry?
40:14I would prefer that you show some decency
40:16to a friend.
40:18And if you were referred a case
40:20in which a friend was accused of a crime,
40:22would you turn your back on your job?
40:24No.
40:25If a friend was accused of a crime,
40:27would you turn your back on your job?
40:29I would recuse myself.
40:31If I didn't protect my sources,
40:33I wouldn't be writing about how Gordon
40:35is preparing to submit his resignation.
40:37Due in part to the swirling rumors
40:39of bribery reported in my newspaper.
40:41If it's information you want from me,
40:43you won't be getting it.
40:45Not about that.
40:47But there is one claim I need verified.
40:49Is it true that you've been reinstated
40:51from the Crown Attorney's office?
40:53No comment.
40:56Chadwick Vaughn.
40:58Look at you.
41:00A free man,
41:02just as chooses its own path.
41:04Everyone in this room knows the truth.
41:07They might smile at you in public,
41:09but believe me,
41:11they know.
41:13You'll be hearing the word killer
41:15whispered behind your back
41:17for the rest of your life.
41:19I don't much care what people whisper.
41:22In fact, if they think I'm a ruthless murderer,
41:23they end up being to my benefit.
41:25We'll see about that.
41:27Not everyone in this city is a coward.
41:30Good luck to you in your career,
41:32Chief Constable.
41:35Just remember,
41:37the man who put you there
41:39is dead.
41:41And you've made more enemies
41:43than friends.
41:54I apologize for locking you in ourselves,
41:56Miss Longfellow.
41:58Are you kidding me?
42:00I was arrested for murder
42:02by Detective Murdoch.
42:04Really?
42:06What a story.
42:08Well, if we hadn't discovered
42:10the Holland twins' ruse,
42:12it might not have had a happy ending.
42:14Were you not worried about
42:16possibly facing the noose?
42:18No.
42:20No, not for a minute.
42:21The great detective always gets his man.
42:27And to think,
42:29I live right across the hall from him.
42:52I'm sorry.
42:54I'm sorry.
42:56I'm sorry.
42:58I'm sorry.
43:00I'm sorry.
43:02I'm sorry.
43:04I'm sorry.
43:06I'm sorry.
43:08I'm sorry.
43:10I'm sorry.
43:12I'm sorry.
43:14I'm sorry.
43:16I'm sorry.
43:18I'm sorry.
43:19I'm sorry.