Murdoch Mysteries S18E02
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00:00F.E. Crabtree, Canada's first female Crown Attorney.
00:13Clara Brett-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 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, 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.
02:54On 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.
03:02Gone?
03:03Well, 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.
03:13McLaren and Crookshank.
03:16Can't remember their Christian names.
03:17It's all right.
03:18I know them.
03:19But 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 Council Member Vaughan's involvement in the murder of two women almost 20 years ago.
04:35It was 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 a dare-gonda.
04:44Terribly wrong.
04:46What of 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 Murdoch.
05:08What are you doing here?
05:10Isn't it your day off?
05:12Something you'll soon learn about me, Inspector, is that I much prefer work to leisure.
05:18Then we have something in common.
05:20What's troubling you?
05:22I'm moving into a rooming house.
05:24And the man who rented my rooms before me appears to be interested.
05:30I'm moving into a rooming house.
05:32And 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,
05:44was 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 an intentional 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 Number 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.
06:46The 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 with 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.
08:57Knock, knock, knock.
08:59Frances!
09:09Dear God.
09:14Suicide.
09:18Adios, Frances.
09:27The letter was in his handwriting. He said he couldn't bear to testify.
09:31He wanted to see Vaughan hanged as much as anyone.
09:33But he was too much of a coward.
09:35The man is barely cold.
09:37By his own choice. And now he's left our case to fall apart.
09:41If this man was to testify at trial, didn't he provide a statement?
09:46He refused. And I allowed it.
09:49Win the case, Mrs. Crabtree. Because if you don't, then it's on me.
09:55You last saw Mr. Booth two weeks ago on Thursday at 4.15 p.m.
10:00Yet, the landlord, Mr. Lester, heard Mr. Booth here in the room the following morning at 10 a.m.
10:09Walked past door at 10 a.m., heard banging inside, assumed packing his belongings.
10:14Slipped note under door to request final week's rent. No sign of note two days later.
10:19Two days later, Mr. Booth, as well as all of his belongings, were gone.
10:23And the previous evening, quicklime was stolen from the garden shed.
10:27What? There's no mention of quicklime in the police report.
10:31Well, that's because I didn't notice it until after the constable started ignoring me.
10:38Oh, what is that horrible smell?
10:44That?
10:46That?
10:48No, it always smells like that. I don't know what it is, but it's coming from one C.
10:53I'm boiling cabbage.
10:56Yes, I can smell that, but I'm not entirely sure it accounts for all of...
11:03Bye, Frank. Be done in a bit.
11:08Your Honor, the Crown humbly asks that you offer us an adjournment.
11:13A key witness has taken his own life.
11:17Our case was to begin with his testimony and build upon its foundation. We need time to regroup.
11:22Your other evidence and witnesses are available to you?
11:26Yes.
11:28Then present them to the jury. Court will resume at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
11:34Effie, I have some questions.
11:36Now is not the time, Louise.
11:38It will only take a moment.
11:40Tomorrow morning, before court, my office, 8 a.m.
11:46Wipe that smirk off your face.
11:48I beg your pardon?
11:50You killed him.
11:52Stuart, I didn't do a thing.
11:54You manipulated him into covering for you, and now he's dead because of the shame you brought upon him.
11:59Chief Constable, I am an innocent man.
12:01If Francis Stuart 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.
12:15Mr. 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.
12:28Mr. Booth was rather persnickety, too.
12:31He was always in everyone else's business.
12:34Just like yourself.
12:36I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:46Inspector Choi!
12:48I brought you a housewarming gift.
12:50Oh, come in.
12:54Oh, you have a gift.
12:56Oh, you have company?
12:59This is...
13:00Tippy Longfellow.
13:02I live across the hall.
13:04Inspector Albert Choi.
13:08What's this, then?
13:10Ah, 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.
13:22Impress me.
13:32Where 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.
13:40And there's a recording of him confessing to it.
13:43Precisely. The two murders from 1891, I'm not so sure.
13:47There's the original police file, which was adulterated by Stuart on Vaughn's behalf.
13:51But without Stuart to confirm that, they can say Stuart was lying.
13:55There's a witness. The jeweler. He gave a police sketch.
13:58Twenty 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.
14:09Hearsay.
14:11And he got Vaughn's confession.
14:13Only for Tauber.
14:14He didn't deny the others, but he didn't admit to them either.
14:17Look, this is not how the law is meant to be.
14:20We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Vaughn is guilty, and the defense knows it too.
14:25Yet they will trot out every excuse in the book, every arcane stratagem to sink this case and thwart justice.
14:32That's their job.
14:34It is not their job.
14:36The purpose of our courts is not to win at any cost.
14:40It 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?
14:52That has nothing to do with this.
14:54But yes, that trial is a perfect example.
14:57You lied before king and country to achieve the result you desired.
15:01What I argued was the truth, to the best of my knowledge.
15:04And you were wrong. You were wrong, and you won anyway.
15:07Well, now you're going to feel what it's like to be on the other side.
15:09And of course, there's the quick line, and we know what that's used for.
15:14Speculation. That's all this is.
15:17Now, let's focus on something more important.
15:21Where shall we hang this?
15:24Oh.
15:26Perhaps...
15:35A peephole.
15:37A peephole.
15:39Detective, have you been spying on your neighbors?
15:43I have not.
15:45But 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.
15:59There 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.
16:10The 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 Tippy, no one told me Hamilton was so beautiful this time of year.
16:32Sorry, I did not get a chance to say goodbye. Jonathan 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.
16:49You have been wasting our time. You could be charged with filing a false police report.
16:53No, no. This only arrived today.
16:56So, do you see? It doesn't, it doesn't quite make sense.
17:05Detective, I was just having so much fun working with you.
17:10I'm terribly sorry.
17:14We'll get him for Tauber then.
17:16I'm not prepared to argue the Tauber case. We weren't meant to start till next week.
17:20I know the case.
17:22Well enough to try.
17:23Yes. I can act as lead counsel. I'll review all the details before morning, even if it takes me all night.
17:32Very well.
17:34But write down how you intend to proceed, so that I can step in as necessary.
17:38Of course.
17:46I probably should have maintained my initial skepticism.
17:49Sometimes we see intrigue where there is none, because we need a distraction from our own thoughts.
17:55What thoughts?
17:57Well, I can't answer that.
17:59But surely you could see why a man would concoct a fanciful story, a mystery to embark upon with a cheerful new friend from across the hall,
18:07rather than sitting alone in his rooms, watching films of people halfway around the world.
18:12I wasn't always a bachelor. My life used to be very different. Losing someone is an adjustment.
18:22Well, I haven't lost Julia or Susanna.
18:25Of course not. Not in that sense. But even if their absence is temporary, they're not here.
18:32What is that?
18:41What is that?
18:47It has no odor.
18:51It's a dead animal.
18:53A dead animal?
18:55Yes.
18:57A dead animal.
18:58It has no odor.
19:05Quick line.
19:13I think we may have found Mr. Bluth.
19:15Effie! Effie! Where were you? Eight a.m., remember?
19:19I was working all night. I barely had time to go home and get changed.
19:22Well, you could have let me know. I'm busy, too.
19:25I'll make it up to you.
19:29Counsel, is the Crown prepared to proceed?
19:33We are.
19:35I'm afraid so.
19:37I'm afraid so.
19:39Counsel, is the Crown prepared to proceed?
19:43We are, Your Honor.
19:45The 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.
19:55And the third charge? Talbor?
19:59We intend to proceed.
20:01Very good, then.
20:03Miss Hart, Inspector Shaw, I've heard a great deal about you.
20:09Charmed.
20:11I'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.
20:20Indeed.
20:22Ah, I see the two of you have met. Wonderful.
20:25What 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?
20:35Indeed. Cause of death, on the other hand, is easier, thanks to the quicklime.
20:40He was hit on the head, a heavy object with a sharp edge. There was a lot of blood. His clothing was soaked through. I found this in his pocket.
20:48What?
20:55The truth sins you must know going on in there. Signed J.B. Booth.
21:07He was definitely planning to expose someone's wrongdoings.
21:11Sounds like a motive for murder.
21:13Where were you on the afternoon of December 9th, 1911?
21:16Home, the office, the club.
21:19You also went to Station House Number 4 that afternoon, did you not?
21:22I did.
21:24Constable Tucker allowed you into the cells specifically occupied by Detective Richard Tauber.
21:28That's correct.
21:30A man who had provided information regarding two murders he had investigated in 1891.
21:34Your Honour, we object to any discussion of murders for which charges have been withdrawn.
21:38Your Honour, this is pertinent to the circumstances under which the victim was killed.
21:41Proceed, counsel.
21:42You were aware that Tauber was implicating you in the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes, correct?
21:47Yes, I was.
21:49And that is why you entered his cell?
21:51Yes.
21:52It is also why you struggled with him there, leaving your finger mark on his shirt button?
21:55Yes.
21:56And it is the reason you killed him?
21:58No, I did not kill him.
22:00He was found dead less than an hour later.
22:02He was alive when I left.
22:04You said yourself you fought with him, leaving evidence on his dead body.
22:07I fought with him because he was threatening to go to the police about me.
22:09But we came to an agreement.
22:11I paid him money to tell the truth, that I had nothing to do with the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
22:17You paid him?
22:19Yes.
22:20Then where is the money? No payment was found on him.
22:23Perhaps the killer stole it. All I know is he was alive when I left.
22:27Then why did you confess?
22:29I didn't.
22:33In December of last year, you questioned Mr. Vaughn at his home. Did you not?
22:37I paid him a visit.
22:39We played snooker. I won. We had a conversation.
22:42Did you discuss the murder of Detective Richard Tauber?
22:45Yes, we did.
22:46What did Vaughn have to say?
22:48He said that he never intended to bribe him because he knew that it wouldn't work. So he killed him.
22:53Objection, your honor. My client just testified that that never happened.
22:57This is second-hand information that clearly falls under hearsay exclusion.
23:01Thank you, counsel. The jury will disregard the chief constable's last comment.
23:05Your honor, the crown would like to play a recording of the conversation in question.
23:09Objection on the same grounds.
23:11This recording has already been entered into evidence.
23:14My learned friend submitted it just yesterday, believing it to be exculpatory in the cases of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
23:20Francis helped me once, so I helped him in turn.
23:24And you both helped each other out with Richard Tauber.
23:27The chief constable arranged for you to visit the cells.
23:30You already know a great deal, don't you, inspector?
23:33Francis made arrangements for me to slip in the back door.
23:36He thought Tauber could be silent with the bribe.
23:39I'm delighted to have had this conversation.
23:42It's been recorded for posterity.
23:44Now, wait a minute. That'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.
23:54The crown provided the recording, your honor. We simply listened to it and submitted it to the court.
23:59Your honor, foul play is afoot.
24:01This is not the complete recording as obtained by the police and shared with the defense by the crown.
24:06What are you suggesting?
24:07We all heard the conversation with our own ears.
24:10They've adulterated it.
24:12Is that possible?
24:14A portion of the recording has simply been excised. It's easily done when making a duplicate.
24:17This is a damning charge.
24:19It certainly is, but we are prepared to prove it.
24:22The crown has the original recording in our files. I can have it to you in twenty minutes.
24:26So I was right. Mr. Booth is dead.
24:29Indeed. We'll need to have another look at that postcard.
24:34It was obviously a fake sent by the killer.
24:38Oh, this is very exciting.
24:40To think that I had it right and the great Detective Murdoch had it wrong.
24:44There you go.
24:46Thank you, Miss Longfellow. We'll let you know if we need anything further.
24:50Whoa, Detective. I made you something.
25:01What are these?
25:02They're pillowcases. The linens provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lester are always somewhat threadbare.
25:09Well, I only have one pillow. I don't need both.
25:13No, no, no. I already monogrammed both.
25:16Perhaps you'll have company one day.
25:19No, I don't think so. But, uh, thank you. Thank you.
25:32It's not here.
25:34What do you mean it's not here? It's in our case file.
25:37I listened to it last night.
25:39So you had it last night and now it's gone?
25:41It can't just have disappeared. Maybe you just misplaced it.
25:45I don't understand. This can't be.
25:47So you've lost it. Wonderful. You spent the night before the trial losing our key piece of evidence.
25:53Wait, Gordon. Easy.
25:55She was alone here when we left her last night. Was anyone else in the building?
25:58No. I only left at 7.30 this morning. There was no one else here.
26:02We'll ask the staff, but it certainly appears no one else has been in here, Mrs. Crabtree.
26:07Your negligence may have just lost us this case.
26:14The handwriting on this postcard is similar to the letter found on Mr. Booth's body, but it's not the same.
26:21Not the real McCoy, then.
26:23The killer must have traveled to Hamilton to send that postcard yesterday.
26:26Maybe because he knew you were looking into the case.
26:30Start with the landlord. Booth's letter threatened to expose a secret.
26:34I think it was whatever he saw while looking through that peephole.
26:37When I first arrived, I saw Mr. Lester helping his wife into a coach and see her off.
26:44When you paid me a visit, I saw a much younger woman walking down the hall toward Mr. Lester's road.
26:50An affair?
26:52Possibly.
26:53Possibly.
26:56And then there's Miss Fick. Whatever she's up to is causing that horrible smell.
27:01What smell?
27:03That smell I'm smelling right now.
27:05It's cabbage, some shade, and marijuana.
27:12Marijuana? I guess I've heard of it, but I've not come across it just yet.
27:16It's becoming popular in California. Your neighbor would surely be evicted if anyone found out she was smoking dope.
27:21Dope?
27:23That's what they're calling it now. Apparently it makes one fuzzy-headed.
27:26Why would anyone want that?
27:29This neighbor, making all of the noise, he's the one I find the most suspicious.
27:34Maybe so, but when we were here yesterday, I heard that same sound.
27:38Right. There's no way he could have gone all the way to Hamilton and back.
27:43Well, that's odd. This obliterator mark has no letter or number.
27:48The... I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
27:52Every postmark in Canada has this circle with information. Time, date, location.
27:59And these wavy lines are used to mark a stamp as used or cancelled. Hence, obliterator.
28:07All right.
28:08Inside, there is often a letter or a number, depending on which machine was used at that particular post office.
28:14The fact that there is no number means...
28:17Well, some postal locations only have one machine, so there is no need for a letter or a number.
28:23But I happen to know that Hamilton has two such machines.
28:27So any postmark coming out of Hamilton would bear the number one or two.
28:32How do you know this?
28:33I subscribe to a quarterly publication on postal innovations.
28:39At any rate, this postmark is a forgery.
28:44Meaning the killer did not have to travel to Hamilton. After all, it could still be your neighbour.
28:50That's the secret he's been hiding.
28:52And the marks on his hand.
28:56It wasn't blood. It's ink.
28:59He's a forger.
29:09Yeah?
29:10Mr. Holland, Toronto Constabulary.
29:14Stand back.
29:19Plates, dyes, pulp stock, everything needed to print counterfeit money.
29:24Plates, dyes, pulp stock, everything needed to print counterfeit money.
29:29And cut it to size.
29:32Booth? Who's Booth?
29:35Your former neighbour. Toosie.
29:38Oh, him. What about him?
29:41We found his body hidden in the wall between his room and yours.
29:45I don't know nothing about that.
29:47Where were you on the 18th between the hours of 4pm and the following morning?
29:51What day was that?
29:52Thursday.
29:56Oh, that's the day that they locked me up. Passing a bad banknote.
30:07It's not here.
30:09So what? We have my word.
30:11You heard him. The judge won't allow it.
30:13There's no other evidence.
30:15Enough to argue the case, maybe, but to get a conviction? I don't think so.
30:19I shouldn't think so either.
30:20I've spoken to defence counsel and the judge.
30:23We'll make it official tomorrow, but the Crown is dropping all charges.
30:28So Vaughn goes free.
30:30I'm afraid so.
30:32And I am sorry, Mrs Crabtree, but I have no choice but to recommend you for termination.
30:39One of the metal counterfeiting plates found in Mr. Holland's room could be the murder weapon,
30:44but no traces of blood were found on any of them, so there's no way to prove it.
30:48Hardly matters. He was booked at Station House 1 the afternoon of March 18th,
30:53and they let him out late that evening.
30:56So he couldn't have done it.
30:58No, he couldn't have done it.
31:00I'm afraid so.
31:01He was booked at Station House 1 the afternoon of March 18th, and they let him out late that evening.
31:06So he couldn't have done it.
31:10What about the postmark?
31:12Someone else forged it, or had it forged, or went to Hamilton to send it and your little magazine was wrong.
31:21It's been a considerable amount of work to scrape away the quick line without damaging the body.
31:25I need to be particularly careful with the hands, for example, in case there are any defensive rules or scrapings under the fingernails.
31:32Anything?
31:34No, but he had a small object clutched in his hand, a metal trinket of some kind.
31:40May I?
31:42Of course.
31:44This appears to be an ornate thimble.
31:48And it's been engraved.
31:51A thimble? That's odd.
31:54I know of at least one person at the Regent Arms that does a great deal of sewing, and this thimble bears her monogram.
32:03Tippi Longfellow.
32:05You admire her.
32:13Do you recognize this?
32:16Yes.
32:18It's yours?
32:19No. No, but I saw it in a shop window once.
32:24Is that my monogram, of course?
32:27I stopped to admire it one day when I was out walking with Mr. Booth.
32:32Maybe he bought this for me as a parting gift.
32:36Perhaps he was on his way to give it to me?
32:39Why would he give you a parting gift?
32:43Unless the nature of your relationship was more intimate than you let on?
32:47No.
32:49But I always suspected that he was sweet on me.
32:54It's why I was so sure he would say goodbye, and why I was quite worried about him.
32:58Or it's yours and you killed him.
33:00What? No. Why would I?
33:02Because you're obsessed with Detective Murdoch.
33:06You killed Mr. Booth to lure him in, to see if he was smart enough to solve your crime.
33:11No, I...
33:13How else would you have known about the tarp and the quick line?
33:15Both were identified by you as being relevant to the murder before the body was found.
33:20How did you know?
33:22Well, just go hang on to your horses there.
33:24If all of that was true, why would I beg the world's greatest detective to take on the case
33:29and then lead him to the very evidence that would expose my guilt?
33:33To meet your hero.
33:35And hang by the neck forthwith?
33:38Sir, though it is true, people have killed in order to get close to me.
33:43The fact that I moved into the Regent Arms was pure happenstance.
33:48Miss Longfellow here did not lure me in.
33:51Nevertheless.
33:53Put her in the cells.
33:56It's a bloody hatchet job, but you'll be back on your feet in no time.
34:00Maybe. Maybe not.
34:02I highly doubt the Crown Attorney's Office will hire another woman any time soon.
34:06A recording can't just vanish.
34:08It's impossible that Vaughn's lawyer or anyone hired by them could have broken in.
34:11I was there all the way until after daybreak. There wasn't a sign of anyone.
34:15No sign of a break-in.
34:17Maybe they got your keys somehow and waited for you to leave.
34:21If they did, someone would have seen them.
34:26What's all this?
34:29We've been focusing on our suspect's alibis for the time of the murder itself.
34:36Now, the killer engaged in a series of complex steps to cover up the crime.
34:42Interviews with neighbours, gardeners, witnesses, all narrowed down who could have performed each of the steps and their cover-ups.
34:51The murderer obtaining the tarp from the basement, stealing the quicklime and hiding the body in the wall.
34:57Alright. And?
34:59As you can see, our results are inconclusive.
35:02No one person could have performed all of the steps required of the killer.
35:07I fear we may be looking in the wrong direction.
35:10Well, we know it's not Holland. He was at Station House One.
35:14You seem decided it was not Miss Longfellow.
35:17The simplest explanation, then, is someone is either mistaken or lying on behalf of the killer, who has to be either Fink or Lester.
35:25Let's bring them in.
35:27Right.
35:29I told you to clean your hands.
35:30It's ink. It takes a couple days to come off.
35:34Anyway, you're just putting more on them.
35:36Fine. Index finger.
35:43Mr. Holland, when did your hand become stained with ink?
35:48A couple days ago.
35:50The evening before last, your other hand was stained with red ink.
35:55How were you able to wash one hand clean and not the other?
35:58I don't know what you're talking about.
36:01Come on. Off to the cells.
36:09Am I mistaken?
36:11I could have sworn I saw something red on his hand that I even mistook for blood at the time.
36:16Maybe it was blood.
36:19Maybe.
36:22No. It wasn't.
36:24No. It wasn't.
36:26The first time Mr. Holland answered the door, his left hand was clean.
36:30The second time, his left hand was stained with red.
36:34Meaning he spilled something.
36:37Meaning Mr. Holland could have done each of the steps required of the killer.
36:41He just didn't do them alone.
36:52Miss Cherry?
36:54When you were waiting for me this morning at the Crown Attorney's office, did you see Mr. Vaughn's lawyer?
36:59No. Why would I?
37:01Are you sure? Maybe someone he sent to break into the place?
37:04I was there for nearly an hour. Waiting. And I didn't see Vaughn's attorney or any other hired goons.
37:10Did you see anyone at all?
37:12It was early in the morning. The place was nearly empty.
37:15One person came and went inside.
37:17Who?
37:19Can't say.
37:21What do you mean you can't say?
37:22It was one of my sources. They spoke to me with the promise of complete anonymity.
37:26Listen to me, young lady. This isn't about protecting a source.
37:30Whoever it was more than likely sabotaged the Crown's case.
37:33And my career along with it.
37:35Sabotage?
37:37Yes. Tell us who it was.
37:39I can't. My sources are confidential.
37:41You'll tell us or I'll throw you in a cell.
37:44And I'll publish my feelings about the new Chief Constable from behind bars.
37:47Goodbye.
37:53Wait.
37:55Sir, the article.
37:57There are very few people with intimate knowledge of the case.
38:00If the culprit was a source...
38:02We could probably figure out who it is.
38:04Stuart's suicide.
38:06It says he was wearing his kilt.
38:08But there was no one else there except us.
38:10And Gordon.
38:12He claimed I was the only one at the office this morning.
38:15But if he's Louise's source...
38:17Bloody hell. He scuppered his own case.
38:23I hear something.
38:25Should we knock?
38:27There shouldn't be anyone in there.
38:33As I suspected.
38:35The reason Mr. Holland only had red ink on his hand the second time he answered the door...
38:40Was because the first time was his twin.
38:43Two Mr. Hollands.
38:45Both under arrest.
38:46Mr. Booth was planning to expose your counterfeiting scheme.
38:50He'd even written a letter to the police detailing your operation.
38:54But before he could send it...
38:56You killed him.
38:58But not before one of you got himself arrested.
39:01In order to create the perfect alibi.
39:04But why keep him in the wall?
39:07We wanted to move him.
39:09Mr. Lester, he was in the room.
39:11Trying to rent it straight away.
39:13Even took the money.
39:14Rent it straight away.
39:16Even took the man's suitcase as recompense for last week's rent.
39:20How long were you planning it?
39:22You lived in that rooming house for nearly two years.
39:25None of your neighbors knew that there were two of you.
39:28Mr. 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.
39:40We know you were here this morning.
39:41You lied about it. You stole that recording to sink our case.
39:44Typical.
39:46A 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 of the Attorney General.
39:55We'll see what he has to say about it.
40:08Effie.
40:11I'm not here to apologize.
40:13I didn't ask you to, Miss Cherry.
40:15I was just doing my job.
40:17At the expense of mine.
40:19Would you prefer I didn't report the news? That I hung my sources out to dry?
40:21I would prefer that you show some decency to a friend.
40:24And if you were referred a case in which 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, I wouldn't be writing about how Gordon is preparing to submit his resignation.
40:35Due in part to the swirling rumors of bribery reported in my newspaper.
40:38If it's information you want from me, you won't be getting it.
40:41Not about that.
40:43But there is one claim I need verified.
40:45Is it true that you've been reinstated from the Crown Attorney's Office?
40:48No comment.
40:58Chadwick Vaughn.
41:00Look at you. A free man.
41:03Justice chooses its own path.
41:05Everyone in this room knows the truth.
41:08They might smile at you in public, but believe me, they know.
41:13You'll be hearing the word killer whispered behind your back for the rest of your life.
41:19I don't much care what people whisper.
41:22In fact, if they think I'm a ruthless killer, I may end up being to my benefit.
41:26We'll see about that.
41:28Not everyone in this city is a coward.
41:30Good luck to you in your career, Chief Constable.
41:35Just remember, the man who put you there is dead.
41:40And you've made more enemies than friends.
41:53I apologize for locking you in ourselves, Miss Longfellow.
41:56Are you kidding me? I was arrested for murder by Detective Murdoch.
42:02Really?
42:04What a story.
42:06Well, if we hadn't discovered the Holland twins' ruse, it might not have had a happy ending.
42:11Were you not worried about possibly facing the noose?
42:15No. No, not for a minute.
42:18The great detective always gets his man.
42:20And to think, I live right across the hall from him.
42:50To be continued...