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00:18:21Why have they sent for you about this?
00:18:24It's perfectly simple.
00:18:26A man tries to burgle a bank, is disturbed, kills the watchman and runs away.
00:18:34I find it very interesting.
00:18:41Have you ever heard of Professor Robert Moriarty?
00:18:44No. What's he got to do with it?
00:18:46Oh, he's to do with half the crimes the world over.
00:18:50He started as a mathematical professor.
00:18:54But ugly rumours gathered round him and he resigned.
00:18:59So after that he vanished for ten years or so. I fancy he went abroad.
00:19:04Then he returned to England and things began to happen.
00:19:09What things?
00:19:12For a long time I've been conscious of some power.
00:19:16A deep organisation which stands in the way of the law.
00:19:21Once he made a slip and I was able to deduce that behind that power was Moriarty.
00:19:30But he recovered himself and I could prove nothing.
00:19:35He has hundreds of agents, none of whom have ever seen him.
00:19:39Sometimes an agent is caught.
00:19:41But the man who plans most of the crimes that are committed is never caught.
00:19:45Never even suspected.
00:19:48He knows that I know of his activities.
00:19:51He also knows that up to now I've been unable to reach him.
00:19:55And you think he's connected with this bank murder?
00:19:59I think it highly probable.
00:20:02Yes? Yes, come in.
00:20:04Inspector Lestrade.
00:20:06Oh, Lestrade. Anything fresh?
00:20:08No, Mr Holmes?
00:20:10No, Mr Holmes?
00:20:11Sit down, Lestrade, thank you.
00:20:13I just came in to get that piece of brown paper.
00:20:16Oh, yes, yes, this little piece.
00:20:18You mean I should like to keep it a little longer, if I may?
00:20:21I haven't yet decided what the rest of the label is.
00:20:25Well, I don't see how you ever can.
00:20:29It's just an ordinary shopkeeper's label.
00:20:32There's not enough of it to tell us anything.
00:20:34Well, I disagree, my dear Lestrade.
00:20:37But then, you and I so often disagree.
00:20:40Oh, come, Mr Holmes. I have a great respect for your theories.
00:20:44It's only when you begin about this Professor Moriarty.
00:20:47You don't believe in him.
00:20:49I ask you, is it possible for a man to plan half the crime in this country
00:20:54without the yard knowing who he is, where he lives, or anything about him?
00:20:58He does seem rather strange.
00:21:00I mean, the man can't live nowhere and never be seen by anyone.
00:21:03Of course, lots of people know him, but they don't know that he's Moriarty.
00:21:08You yourself may know him.
00:21:10Jokes are not your strong point, Holmes.
00:21:12No, I'm perfectly serious. He has a hundred disguises and a hundred aliases.
00:21:18And I'm pretty certain he had a hand in this bank robbery.
00:21:21But it wasn't a robbery. The thief got nothing.
00:21:24He broke into the bank and...
00:21:26Have you ever tried to break into a bank, Lestrade?
00:21:29Me? Me?
00:21:31No, I thought not.
00:21:34But do you seriously think it's possible for one man to break into a bank
00:21:38without using anything short of dynamite?
00:21:41There were no signs of a forced entry.
00:21:43Which might point to the fact of his having an accomplice.
00:21:46Or even two.
00:21:48He got inside.
00:21:50Which doesn't necessarily mean you're a professor.
00:21:53The man was interrupted by the watchman, killed him, got frightened and bolted.
00:21:58And yet, inside the safe, we found this piece of brown paper.
00:22:05Three people swear it was not there when the safe was shut last night.
00:22:09Then he was inside when he was disturbed.
00:22:11Or before he went inside.
00:22:13He had this paper wrapped round something.
00:22:17You'll observe that this end here is slightly torn and there is a blood stain on it.
00:22:23I therefore deduce that the struggle with the watchman took place first.
00:22:27He then took his parcel into the safe.
00:22:29It won't work, Mr. Holmes. It won't work.
00:22:33There was £70,000 of note in the vault.
00:22:37Not one of them is missing.
00:22:40How true. How true.
00:22:43But if you remember, a fortnight ago an almost similar thing occurred in Berlin.
00:22:48In Berlin?
00:22:49Yes.
00:22:52You should read your Berliner Tageblatt, my dear Lestrade.
00:22:55The strongroom of the Reichsbank was entered.
00:22:57The watchman was laid out, happily not killed, and nothing was removed.
00:23:01Very strange, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:03Very strange indeed.
00:23:05It looks almost as if there was a connection.
00:23:08I should like time to think it out a bit.
00:23:11When can I have that piece of brown paper?
00:23:13I'll let you have it this evening.
00:23:15In the meantime, would you be good enough to warn all foreign customs officials
00:23:18to be on the lookout for a very large quantity of English banknotes
00:23:22which will be smuggled through in ordinary luggage.
00:23:24What do you think?
00:23:25I think it would be a wise precaution.
00:23:27Very good, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:28I'll get back to the yard now and put the matter in hand.
00:23:31Good morning, gentlemen.
00:23:40The chief has arrived, sir.
00:23:42Oh? What are his orders?
00:23:44He will interview Mr. Adair himself.
00:23:46Right. Send Mr. Adair in.
00:23:54What the devil's the meaning of this?
00:24:24Mr. Adair.
00:24:26Mr. Adair.
00:24:55Adair.
00:25:02Adair.
00:25:07My God, am I drunk or what?
00:25:09I hope not at ten o'clock in the morning.
00:25:14What's all this about?
00:25:16I was seized in a car, blindfolded and driven half round London.
00:25:19I apologize for that.
00:25:22It was just a slight precaution.
00:25:24And you must forgive me concealing my identity behind the sleeping cardinal.
00:25:30Please sit down.
00:25:44Are you Mr... Mr. Klink?
00:25:47Mr. Otto Klink?
00:25:49No.
00:25:50Poor Otto Klink must have been dead a good many years.
00:25:53What the devil's the meaning of this?
00:25:54Only that I have a slight favor to ask of you, Mr. Adair.
00:25:58A favor?
00:26:00Who are you, anyway?
00:26:01I understand that you are leaving on the Golden Arrow at eleven o'clock tomorrow for Paris.
00:26:06And if I am?
00:26:07You are going on foreign office business.
00:26:10And you will have a laissez-passer.
00:26:12Which means that your luggage will not be examined by the customs.
00:26:17I want you to take a suitcase to Paris for me.
00:26:20I'll do nothing of the kind.
00:26:22Why should I?
00:26:23Because you can't help yourself.
00:26:25Don't be ridiculous.
00:26:26Sit down, Adair.
00:26:27You go to hell!
00:26:28Sit down.
00:26:31You have been cheating at cards.
00:26:33What?
00:26:34I repeat, you have been cheating at cards.
00:26:40I should have warned you that this picture is painted on steel.
00:26:46Sit down.
00:26:51All your life you have been interested in sleight of hand.
00:26:55Your trick of farming a whole pack of cards has been very useful to you.
00:26:59Since your trustee absconded and left you and your sister penniless.
00:27:03It's a lie.
00:27:04You have taken to playing bridge for very high stakes.
00:27:08When you deal, you simply change the pack after it has been cut to you.
00:27:14You have a carefully prepared pack in the palm of your hand.
00:27:18You do the same when you cut a pack to your opponent.
00:27:22Now, this procedure, if publicly known,
00:27:26is not likely to lead to an advancement either social or diplomatic.
00:27:32In fact, it means the end of you.
00:27:36Who's been telling you this ridiculous story?
00:27:38Last night you made a slip.
00:27:41You dropped the ace of spades.
00:27:45Now I think I can count on your doing me this very slight service.
00:27:51Go on.
00:27:52A suitcase bearing your initials will be delivered at your flat at 9.30 this evening.
00:27:58You will pass it through the customs with your other luggage.
00:28:01I understand you have engaged a room at the Bristol in Paris.
00:28:05You will take your luggage there.
00:28:08And by 10 o'clock tomorrow night, the suitcase will have vanished from your room.
00:28:13You will make no comment.
00:28:16What's in this precious suitcase?
00:28:18That does not concern you.
00:28:20Yes, but it might be anything.
00:28:22It's stolen jewels, bombs, heaven knows what.
00:28:25No, I'll be damned if I'm made use of in this way.
00:28:28I feel sure that you will change your mind.
00:28:32In the event of your not doing so,
00:28:36you will find the only alternative in the box on the table.
00:28:44What do you mean?
00:28:50Here.
00:28:51Come back whoever you are. What do you mean?
00:28:55The only alternative.
00:28:58Oh, my God.
00:29:16What are you trying to do?
00:29:19What are you trying to do?
00:29:21I'm trying to see how many Bank of England notes will go into a parcel of this size.
00:29:25You see, my dear Watson, that this note should fit into these creases.
00:29:32There you are, as I thought exactly.
00:29:35Here.
00:29:36Were you busy this morning, Watson?
00:29:38No, I kept the morning free.
00:29:40I rather hoped you'd seen Kathleen Adair.
00:29:42She's due here now.
00:29:44I sent her a note on the way home.
00:29:46I sent her a note on the way home from the bank.
00:29:48Oh, that's very kind of you.
00:29:50And then you will have a talk to Ronnie.
00:29:52No, I want to talk about him.
00:29:54He's in the diplomatic service, isn't he?
00:29:56Yes.
00:29:57And what's that got to do with it?
00:29:59What's what got to do with what, Watson?
00:30:03Come in.
00:30:04Mr. Adair to see you, sir.
00:30:08How wonderful of you to have managed it.
00:30:10It's terribly kind of you to see me.
00:30:12Not at all.
00:30:13Won't you sit down?
00:30:15Sit down?
00:30:22The Watsons told me how worried you are about your brother,
00:30:24but I don't quite see what I can do.
00:30:27I've been wondering if you could find out if it's really true.
00:30:31If it is.
00:30:32And I can't believe that it is.
00:30:34Perhaps you could frighten him into giving up, perhaps.
00:30:37Well, whom does he play as a rule?
00:30:39Well, last night there was Tony Rutherford,
00:30:42old Mr. Fisher.
00:30:43What, Thomas Fisher, the millionaire?
00:30:45Yes.
00:30:46And Colonel Henslow, an old friend of ours.
00:30:49Fisher.
00:30:51I wonder...
00:30:57Forgive me, Mrs. Adair,
00:30:58but does your brother travel at all on official business?
00:31:02Quite a lot.
00:31:04In fact, he's off to Paris tomorrow.
00:31:05Ah, I thought so.
00:31:07How long has he known that he would be going tomorrow?
00:31:10Three or four days, I think.
00:31:12Where is your brother at the moment?
00:31:14I don't know.
00:31:15At the foreign office by now, I should think.
00:31:17He went out early this morning.
00:31:19They sent a car for him.
00:31:20Do you happen to know where he had to go?
00:31:23I think he said Hampstead.
00:31:25I know it wasn't far.
00:31:27He should be back at the office by now.
00:31:29Yes.
00:31:31They think a great deal of your brother at the foreign office.
00:31:34They used to.
00:31:36But lately he's been paying so much bridge.
00:31:39I'm afraid he's been neglecting his work.
00:31:41Yes, that's a pity.
00:31:43Yes, I wonder if you'd be good enough to ask your brother
00:31:46to come and see me this afternoon.
00:31:48Of course.
00:31:49I'll go round to the foreign office now.
00:31:51I might just catch him.
00:31:52Why not telephone?
00:31:54He hates being rung up there
00:31:55and I couldn't explain on the telephone.
00:31:57What shall I do if I miss him?
00:31:59Well, when will you be seeing him?
00:32:01Tonight.
00:32:02He's dining out and he's bound to come in to dress.
00:32:04Very well.
00:32:05In that case, would you be good enough to ask him
00:32:06to come and see me in the morning before he starts?
00:32:08That's awfully kind of you.
00:32:10Don't mention bridge to him.
00:32:12As a matter of fact,
00:32:13I shall not say a word on that subject myself,
00:32:16but you may rest assured that after he has seen me,
00:32:20he will never gamble again.
00:32:23I can't tell you how grateful I am.
00:32:26Not at all.
00:32:27It's I am grateful to you.
00:32:36Goodbye.
00:32:38Watson?
00:32:41Yes?
00:32:49What's all this mean, Holmes?
00:32:51It means, my dear Watson,
00:32:52that the foreign office doesn't send a car
00:32:54to take a very unimportant young man to Hepstead.
00:32:58Hello?
00:33:00Hello?
00:33:02Yes, speaking.
00:33:05Who's that?
00:33:07Mrs. Smith.
00:33:09I seem to know that name.
00:33:11Mrs. Annie Smith.
00:33:14Oh, Mrs. Tallboy's put you on to me.
00:33:17I don't think I know a Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:20I don't think I know a Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:23I don't think I know a Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:25I don't think I know a Mrs. Tallboy.
00:33:27Huh?
00:33:29No, you're quite right.
00:33:30It doesn't matter.
00:33:32Do you think it's appendicitis?
00:33:35What's the address?
00:33:36Would you mind taking this down, Holmes?
00:33:401006 Trentonville Road.
00:33:44Yes.
00:33:45Yes, I'll come at once.
00:33:46I'll take a taxi.
00:33:48Goodbye.
00:33:51Here's the address.
00:33:53I've added a note which I want you to read
00:33:55when you've found the taxi.
00:33:56What's it about?
00:33:57You read it when you've found the taxi.
00:34:00I hope your friend Mrs. Tallboy's friend
00:34:02is not as bad as she thinks.
00:34:13Now, what is it?
00:34:14Please, Mother says, can I have Holmes' pyjamas?
00:34:17They've blown us our line into your backyard.
00:34:19You've no right to hang out your washing
00:34:21and your whatnots in a respectable neighborhood like this.
00:34:25Mother said if you started carrying on about the washing,
00:34:28I wasn't to tear any of your lip.
00:34:30Your mother said that?
00:34:32Yes, she did.
00:34:33Well, I've never uttered impudence in all my born days.
00:34:36You go and I'll give your mother lip.
00:34:38You wait.
00:34:39Mother says I should take that pyjama
00:34:41and not to talk to you.
00:34:42She doesn't think you're respectable.
00:34:44What's that?
00:34:45She says it's disgraceful,
00:34:47a widow living in a house full of nothing but men.
00:34:49Oh, you wait a minute.
00:34:51I'll give her respectable.
00:34:52Go on, up it.
00:34:53Go on, up your bell.
00:34:54Oh, my word, respectable.
00:35:01Yes?
00:35:02Come in.
00:35:03Hello.
00:35:04Yes?
00:35:05Sir.
00:35:06I'm just going to step around for that Mrs. Freeman.
00:35:09I've got a few things I want to say to her.
00:35:11Yes, Mrs. Hudson.
00:35:13But what has upset you?
00:35:15Well, she just told me.
00:35:16She sent her daddies round to say that I...
00:35:18Well, I won't demean myself for saying what she did say,
00:35:21but I want you to know I shall be out 20 minutes.
00:35:25So take me that time to tell her what's here.
00:35:27Yes.
00:35:28Well, I wouldn't be too violent if I were you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:35:31Violent?
00:35:32Indeed, I'll set about her good and proper.
00:35:35Indeed, I would if it wasn't for my chronic arthritis.
00:36:44Come in, Professor.
00:36:47You think you know me, Mr. Holmes?
00:36:51Why not?
00:36:53You've called upon me once before.
00:36:56On that occasion, your face was completely covered with surgical bandages.
00:37:00But your arrival coincided with the same removal of Watson and Mrs. Hudson.
00:37:07You were a little more original in your methods last time.
00:37:10Today, I recognize these symptoms.
00:37:13I was expecting you, Moriarty.
00:37:17How clever are you, Holmes?
00:37:21Yes, indeed.
00:37:23Won't you take off your scarf, Professor?
00:37:30Yes, perhaps you're right.
00:37:31This room is rather draughty.
00:37:33Shall we sit down?
00:37:35I'm afraid my method of getting rid of Watson and Mrs. Hudson was a trifle crude.
00:37:40But I had a sudden impulse, and anyhow, it served its purpose.
00:37:44Except that our interview will be a brief one.
00:37:47Watson will have read my note in the taxi,
00:37:49telling him to ignore the call and come back here in five minutes.
00:37:53In that case, I will be brief.
00:37:55On the 4th of May, 1928, you crossed my path.
00:38:02A dangerous thing to do, Holmes.
00:38:06Eight months later, to be exact, the 20th of January, 1929,
00:38:12you incommoded me seriously.
00:38:16Eight months later, to be exact, the 20th of January, 1929,
00:38:23you incommoded me seriously.
00:38:26Yes, you made a bad slip in 1929, didn't you?
00:38:30Nearly had you, Professor.
00:38:31And now I find you so constantly in my way
00:38:35that it would be better for me if you were removed.
00:38:40Perhaps what I have to say has already crossed your mind.
00:38:45Possibly my answer may have crossed yours.
00:38:48You stand fast.
00:38:49Absolutely.
00:38:50A great pity, Holmes.
00:38:53I have a great respect for your mentality.
00:38:57A great pity.
00:39:01You are getting in the way of a great organization,
00:39:05the full extent of which even you, with all your cleverness, cannot realize.
00:39:12You wish to put me in the dock.
00:39:16You never will.
00:39:20If you destroy me, rest assured I shall do as much for you.
00:39:26That's very interesting, Professor, but your five minutes are up.
00:39:31I fancy I hear the arrival of Watson.
00:39:36May I offer you a piece of advice?
00:39:38Never give way to sudden impulses.
00:39:41They're even more dangerous to you than I am.
00:39:46I read your note, Holmes.
00:39:48Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:39:50Did you come to see me?
00:39:53Your friend is in great danger.
00:40:01Great danger.
00:40:09What's the matter with him?
00:40:11It is the draft, Watson.
00:40:13He's feeling the draft very badly at this moment.
00:40:16But who was it?
00:40:18Well, that was Mrs. Smith of 1006 Trentonville.
00:40:23Mrs.?
00:40:24Or shall we say Professor.
00:40:27Oh, the mythical Moriarty.
00:40:30What does he look like?
00:40:31Well, I know no more than you do,
00:40:34except that the first molar in the left side of the upper jaw is very badly filled with gold.
00:40:42Have you a mathematical mind, Watson?
00:40:46I think so, fairly.
00:40:48Well, never give way to sudden impulses.
00:40:50They're not good for mathematicians.
00:40:53Moriarty has made the worst slip he's made since January 1929.
00:41:01And you think you've found out how to get him?
00:41:03No.
00:41:04No, I've found out where he gets his boots.
00:41:07I wish you'd be serious.
00:41:08The professor's boots are made by Mr. J.J. Godfrey, bootmaker.
00:41:14Yes, here we are.
00:41:16502 Ponce Street, Southwest 1.
00:41:20Godfrey, Ponce Street?
00:41:22Yes.
00:41:23But that's where I have mine made.
00:41:26You do surprise me.
00:41:28Mr. Godfrey's a perfectly respectable tradesman with a high-class clientele.
00:41:32Well, obviously.
00:41:33Obviously.
00:41:34You and Moriarty, you share a bootmaker with the professor.
00:41:38And for all I know, he may be a great friend of yours.
00:41:42Does, uh...
00:41:44Does Mr. Godfrey make his boots on the premises?
00:41:48Yes, in the basement.
00:41:50He showed me over his workshop once.
00:41:52Yes.
00:41:54I think I'd like to see over that workshop.
00:41:58Hmm?
00:41:59We'll arrange with Lestrade to call there.
00:42:02Yes.
00:42:03Well, Mr. Godfrey, if you don't mind,
00:42:07Hmm?
00:42:09We'll arrange with Lestrade to call there about 8 o'clock tonight.
00:42:13But how can it possibly matter where Moriarty buys his boots?
00:42:18Only that this piece of brown paper,
00:42:22which was found in the strongroom of the bank,
00:42:25bears a piece of the label of Mr. J.J. Godfrey, bootmaker.
00:42:31Holmes, you're marvelous.
00:42:34Oh, elementary, my dear Watson.
00:42:37Elementary.
00:42:59Well, that's that.
00:43:01Now what am I to do with it?
00:43:03There will be a down-street tube station at 9 o'clock precisely.
00:43:06You'll take the suitcase with you.
00:43:08Oh, it's all right. There's heaps of time.
00:43:10It isn't 8 o'clock yet.
00:43:12In the main entrance, you'll see a man with a scar on his left temple.
00:43:16He will take the suitcase from you.
00:43:18Yes, sir.
00:43:19The keys.
00:43:23Hello, sir.
00:43:25Looks a good bit of work.
00:43:27Yes, sir. I'm a good workman.
00:43:30Moriarty.
00:43:32Ah, the chief's here.
00:43:34I have just been informed that Inspector Lestrade
00:43:38has left Scotland Yard in a powerful car
00:43:41with police constables number 47, 54, and 83,
00:43:46all of the C Division.
00:43:48They will doubtless call for Sherlock Holmes
00:43:51and that great detective, Dr. Watson.
00:43:55Don't attempt to hide the suitcase.
00:43:58It would look suspicious.
00:44:00And see that everything is tidy.
00:44:03If the police detain you,
00:44:06I have arranged for someone else to take the suitcase.
00:44:10Don't talk, and then come in here, Moran.
00:44:13You heard?
00:44:14Yes, sir.
00:44:30Put this right, Godfrey, will you?
00:44:32All right, sir.
00:45:31Which of you is Mr. Godfrey?
00:45:33I am.
00:45:36Here's my search warrant.
00:45:38Search warrant?
00:45:40What are you searching for?
00:45:42You'll know when I've found it.
00:45:44Why?
00:45:46If it isn't Dr. Watson.
00:45:48I hope the last pair of shoes I made were satisfactory.
00:45:52I see you're wearing them now.
00:45:54Yes, quite, thank you.
00:45:56I say, Holmes, this does seem rather absurd.
00:45:59You know, Godfrey's made my shoes for years.
00:46:02Yes, your shoe last is in that cupboard over there now.
00:46:06Over there?
00:46:07Yes.
00:46:08I'll go and find it.
00:46:14I suppose, Godfrey, you know what we've come for.
00:46:17I haven't the slightest idea.
00:46:20Hello.
00:46:22Starting out a new branch, eh?
00:46:24Oh, that?
00:46:26Yes, that's an experiment.
00:46:28Special order for a new customer.
00:46:30Thought I might as well try my hand at it.
00:46:32Glad to see you look after your work, people, Godfrey.
00:46:35I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:37I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:39I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:41I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:43I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:45I'm glad to see you too.
00:46:47You look after your work, people, Godfrey.
00:46:50Oh.
00:46:51Well, I've only got three of them.
00:46:55There's Roberts and Williams and his brother here.
00:46:58Yes.
00:46:59Well, you look after them.
00:47:01This place is properly ventilated.
00:47:05Ventilated?
00:47:11Oh, that.
00:47:13Yes, sir.
00:47:14Yes.
00:47:18Oh, yes.
00:47:20A ventilator.
00:47:32Where's that door lead?
00:47:35To the area.
00:47:37But, as you can see, it hasn't been open for years.
00:47:40Well, I should like you to open it.
00:47:42I haven't anyone who knows where the key is.
00:47:45I haven't anyone who knows where the key is.
00:47:47That door hasn't been open since I...
00:47:49I don't know when.
00:47:51Oh.
00:47:56Godfrey, this is a curious looking...
00:47:57What are you using it for?
00:47:59It's used for special work.
00:48:01Oh.
00:48:07So, you wanted to know what I was looking for, Godfrey.
00:48:12Well, you know now.
00:48:14I was looking for a press that made perfect Bank of England notes.
00:48:19Take them all away.
00:48:25What are you doing?
00:48:27Quick, follow this wire.
00:48:29Let's go.
00:48:30What for?
00:48:36Oh, and quickly, let's go and help me get this door down.
00:48:40What was that?
00:48:58What's that?
00:49:10Oh, have another drink, my dear Watson.
00:49:13You'll feel better.
00:49:14Thanks, I'm all right.
00:49:16I haven't a scratch.
00:49:18It was a bit of a shock being seized in truss up like that.
00:49:21You saw nobody?
00:49:23Nothing.
00:49:24I was standing in the cupboard, and the shelves swung round.
00:49:27I was seized from behind and blindfolded.
00:49:29Well, anyway, we've done a good night's work.
00:49:32My theory of the bank robbery is proving correct.
00:49:35What is your finding of Forger's outfit?
00:49:38In a bootmaker's basement got to do with a bank robbery,
00:49:41which wasn't a robbery at all.
00:49:43Well, I'll try to explain.
00:49:47Within a fortnight, the strongrooms of two banks are entered by unauthorized persons,
00:49:52and nothing is removed.
00:49:54But in each case, something is taken into the strongroom.
00:49:58In the case of the Reichsbank, a cardboard box.
00:50:03In the case of the commercial, a piece of brown paper.
00:50:06Well, they wanted to take the notes away from them.
00:50:09The brown paper had been creased and folded round something.
00:50:13Well, Mr. Godfrey's printing press makes perfect Bank of England notes.
00:50:20Now, supposing they have an accomplice who gives them the numbers of the notes in stock.
00:50:25They make duplicates, probably perfect duplicates,
00:50:28if my friend Moriarty has anything to do with it.
00:50:31They change these for the real ones.
00:50:35Now, the forgeries have to arrive at the bank uncreased and spotless,
00:50:41hence the brown paper.
00:50:43The real ones can be taken away anyhow,
00:50:45stuffed in the pockets, anything,
00:50:47and the paper discarded.
00:50:49The robbery will not be discovered until two notes of the same number
00:50:54arrive at the Bank of England.
00:50:56And the longer that event is postponed, the better.
00:51:00So what does my learned friend do?
00:51:03Well, uh, holds them up.
00:51:05Oh, no, my dear Watson, no, no.
00:51:07It's no use having 70,000 pounds worth of notes if you don't use them.
00:51:11Then he must start circling.
00:51:12Well, or send them abroad.
00:51:14Ah, that sounds difficult.
00:51:16You see, customs officials might ask questions
00:51:19if they opened a trunk full of Bank of England notes.
00:51:22How true, Watson, how true.
00:51:24In any case, I don't feel I've been trussed up for nothing.
00:51:27It was worth it to find that printing press.
00:51:30The printing press, my dear Watson,
00:51:31was valuable to get your friend Mr. Godfrey
00:51:33a turn of penal servitude.
00:51:36But the really important discovery was the suitcase.
00:51:39Suitcase?
00:51:40Yes.
00:51:41You probably didn't observe that on the lid were the initials R.A.
00:51:45I didn't, but what does that signify?
00:51:47Ronald Adair is leaving tomorrow morning for Paris
00:51:50on foreign office business.
00:51:52He will have a diplomatic passport and a laissez-passer,
00:51:55which means that his luggage will not be examined.
00:51:59Will you?
00:52:00You can't connect him with...
00:52:02Good heavens, you don't think he's one up again?
00:52:05Supposing Moriarty were to threaten to expose his bridge exploit?
00:52:09How should Moriarty know?
00:52:11Well, how do I know, Steve?
00:52:13Here.
00:52:14What time is it, Watson?
00:52:16It's a quarter to eleven.
00:52:18Oh.
00:52:19Well, I wonder if we could get hold of Adair now.
00:52:21Oh, I forgot to tell you.
00:52:22Huh?
00:52:23Miss Adair sent a message to say that she'd missed her brother
00:52:25at the foreign office and that she'd sent him round in the morning.
00:52:28Ah, well, will you ring up now, Watson,
00:52:30will you, and see if we can get hold of him right away?
00:52:32Yes, certainly.
00:52:33If I'm right, that young man is the one weak spot in Moriarty's armour.
00:52:37If I can get hold of him, Moriarty's wrong.
00:52:41He will stand in the dock tomorrow,
00:52:43and not long after, on the gallows.
00:52:55Yes, sir.
00:53:11Mr Adair?
00:53:12Mr Adair?
00:53:25Yes, sir, yes, yes, sir, yes, yes.
00:53:36Hello, yes, yes, you can't, sir, you can't, he's killed.
00:53:42Yes, I've just found him shot through the head.
00:53:49Is it usual for you to go to bed as early as 10 o'clock?
00:53:52Yes, sir.
00:53:53When there's no company.
00:53:55And you heard nothing at all?
00:53:57No, sir.
00:53:58You see, our bedrooms are all at the back of the building,
00:54:01completely cut off from the rest of the flat.
00:54:04I see.
00:54:05Yes, sir.
00:54:07Would you send the butler to me?
00:54:08Yes, sir.
00:54:09You can go too.
00:54:14But surely, Lestrade,
00:54:15considering what I've told you about the bridge party,
00:54:18it was obviously a case of suicide.
00:54:21Then where is the revolver?
00:54:23He must have thrown it out of the window.
00:54:25The bullet didn't penetrate the brain.
00:54:27He may have been conscious for a few seconds after the shot.
00:54:31And his fireplace shows that he'd been burning his correspondence.
00:54:34A good deal of correspondence.
00:54:37Then what about the letter he was writing?
00:54:39I can't make that out.
00:54:42The sleeping cardinal forced me to...
00:54:47I can't think what it means.
00:54:49Oh, Mr. Holmes.
00:54:52Would you care to examine the servants?
00:54:56The cook and the housemaid
00:54:59neither saw nor heard anything.
00:55:01No, no, no, Lestrade.
00:55:02No, no, no.
00:55:03You carry on.
00:55:04No, I'm just amused myself.
00:55:06And we found this on the table in front of him.
00:55:09The sleeping cardinal.
00:55:13The sleeping cardinal, now.
00:55:16Where have I heard that name before?
00:55:19I don't know.
00:55:29You're the butler here.
00:55:30Yes, sir.
00:55:31Have you been with the family long?
00:55:32Three years, sir.
00:55:33Then you know their ways.
00:55:35Did anything unusual occur here this evening?
00:55:37No, sir.
00:55:38Miss Adair dined alone at home
00:55:41and Mr. Adair came in at the quarter past nine
00:55:44with Colonel Henslope.
00:55:45Who is Colonel Henslope?
00:55:46Oh, he's an old friend of the family.
00:55:48He knew Ronnie Adair's father in India.
00:55:50Sir Henry Adair was governor general of Bengal, you know.
00:55:53They used to hunt tigers together.
00:55:55Did you gather at all what they were talking about
00:55:57when they came in?
00:55:58Well, sir, Mr. Adair was saying
00:56:01and you think Fisher means trouble.
00:56:04That was all I heard, sir.
00:56:06How long was the colonel here?
00:56:08Barely half an hour, sir.
00:56:09Was Miss Adair with them?
00:56:11No, sir.
00:56:12She was in her room.
00:56:13Was anyone else in the practice?
00:56:15No, sir.
00:56:16You're positive that there was no one else at all?
00:56:20No, sir.
00:56:21Oh, a man came about half past nine
00:56:24with a new suitcase that Mr. Adair had ordered.
00:56:27What kind of a man?
00:56:29I didn't notice him particularly, sir.
00:56:32He wasn't actually inside the flat.
00:56:34He just handed me the case and I signed for it.
00:56:37Where did the case come from?
00:56:38I really didn't notice, sir.
00:56:41I just told Mr. Adair it was here
00:56:43and he told me to put it with the other luggage
00:56:45in his bedroom.
00:56:46Oh.
00:56:50Which one?
00:56:52That's the odd thing, sir.
00:56:54It isn't here.
00:56:56And I can't find it anywhere,
00:56:58so I've searched the flat.
00:57:00It was quite an ordinary sort of case.
00:57:03Can't think where it could get hidden.
00:57:05But it must be somewhere.
00:57:07Unless Mr. Adair took it out.
00:57:09He didn't go out, sir.
00:57:11He went straight to his room
00:57:13after the colonel had left.
00:57:15Why didn't Mr. Adair come and see the colonel?
00:57:17Wasn't she friendly with him?
00:57:19Oh, yes, sir.
00:57:20She was quite friendly with him.
00:57:22Wasn't she friendly with her brother?
00:57:24They were devoted to each other.
00:57:26They were, sir.
00:57:27But there was a bit of a shindy last night, sir.
00:57:30Well, she never mentioned anything about it to me.
00:57:32No, sir.
00:57:33It was after you and the other gentleman had left.
00:57:36I can't think it was a serious quarrel.
00:57:39I beg pardon, sir.
00:57:40It was.
00:57:41I brought in a note for Mr. Adair
00:57:43and I don't think they heard me come in.
00:57:45What were they saying?
00:57:46Well, sir,
00:57:47Miss Adair was very excited
00:57:49and she said,
00:57:50I'd rather put a bullet through your head
00:57:52than own a brother who...
00:57:54And then she saw me and stopped.
00:57:57Directly afterwards,
00:57:58Mr. Adair left the room.
00:58:00And tonight?
00:58:02How did you know he'd been killed?
00:58:04The phone bell was ringing in this room
00:58:06which was locked
00:58:07and I got no answer to my knocking.
00:58:09What did you do?
00:58:10I broke down the door
00:58:12and then I found Mr. Adair in that chair
00:58:15lying across the table
00:58:17dead
00:58:18and the window open.
00:58:19How long had he been in his room?
00:58:21About half an hour, sir.
00:58:23And you heard nothing?
00:58:24Not a sound, sir.
00:58:25And I was in my pantry,
00:58:27which is on this side of the flat.
00:58:29Thank you, master.
00:58:30Would you ask Mr. Adair to come here?
00:58:32Yes, sir.
00:58:33I think if I were you,
00:58:34I should see Colonel Henslow first.
00:58:36I understand he's with Mr. Adair.
00:58:39And after all,
00:58:40he was the last person to see Adair alive.
00:58:42Yes.
00:58:43Will you ask the Colonel to come here?
00:58:45Very good, sir.
00:58:51Well,
00:58:52make disposes of your suicide theory.
00:58:55What do you mean?
00:58:57You're not suggesting that Mr. Adair...
00:58:59At any rate, she threatened.
00:59:01But the door was locked on the inside.
00:59:03Ah, Colonel.
00:59:05I don't think you know Inspector Lestrade
00:59:08and my friend, Sherlock Holmes.
00:59:10Delighted to meet two such famous people.
00:59:13I also am delighted to meet
00:59:15such a distinguished big-game hunter.
00:59:18Oh, my hunting days are over.
00:59:22Yes.
00:59:23It must be a great trial to you,
00:59:25of all people.
00:59:27Was it the war?
00:59:28No.
00:59:29A tiger.
00:59:31No.
00:59:32A tiger mauled my arm.
00:59:35It turned septic
00:59:36and had to be taken off at the shoulder.
00:59:39I'm lucky to be alive at all.
00:59:41Yes, I'm immensely ignorant about tiger hunting.
00:59:44Tell me,
00:59:45you go out on elephants with beaters,
00:59:47don't you?
00:59:48Pardon me, Mr. Holmes,
00:59:50but I must ask the Colonel a few questions.
00:59:52Yes, all right, Lestrade.
00:59:53Just a minute.
00:59:54I'm very interested in tiger hunting.
00:59:57Well, elephants and beaters are used
01:00:00when royalty and rajahs hunt tigers,
01:00:03but they're expensive.
01:00:05Oh, very.
01:00:08You can always tether a goat
01:00:11and wait till the tiger comes for it.
01:00:14Really, Mr. Holmes,
01:00:15I'm pressed for time
01:00:17and I must ask the Colonel a few questions.
01:00:19Yes, well, fire ahead, Lestrade.
01:00:21Fire ahead.
01:00:22You were the last to see the deceased alive.
01:00:24Yes.
01:00:25He's been very nervous since last night.
01:00:28He came round this evening
01:00:30and asked me to come back with him for a chat.
01:00:33I suppose you all know what happened at the bridge party.
01:00:37Yes.
01:00:38One of the players looked like being unpleasant
01:00:42and a dare wanted my advice.
01:00:44And what was your advice?
01:00:46To do nothing at all.
01:00:48Even if it were true, nobody could prove it.
01:00:51And he was less worried when you left?
01:00:53I think he was, a little.
01:00:56I understand the new suitcase
01:00:58was brought to the house last night.
01:01:00Were you there when it arrived?
01:01:02I believe so.
01:01:04I never saw it,
01:01:05but I heard Ronnie tell Marston
01:01:07to take it into his bedroom.
01:01:09What time did you leave?
01:01:11About a quarter to ten.
01:01:14And within three quarters of an hour,
01:01:16he was found dead.
01:01:18Surely it's obvious he shot himself.
01:01:21I disagree, my dear Watson.
01:01:23He was murdered.
01:01:25Of course.
01:01:26You don't really think so.
01:01:28Yes, my dear Colonel.
01:01:32I'm certain of it.
01:01:34And what is more,
01:01:35I'm sure you'll all be glad to hear
01:01:37that within 24 hours,
01:01:39I shall not only be in a position to prove it,
01:01:42but I shall have the murderer
01:01:44under lock and key.
01:01:46I'm delighted to hear it.
01:01:48Not that it can bring the poor lad back.
01:01:51You know,
01:01:53Ronnie, with all his faults,
01:01:55was extraordinarily lovable.
01:01:58I feel rather as if I had lost a son.
01:02:01Thank you, Colonel Henslow.
01:02:03I shan't need you anymore.
01:02:05Would you mind asking Mr. Dayer
01:02:08to come to me a moment?
01:02:09Certainly.
01:02:11Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
01:02:13Goodbye, Colonel.
01:02:15Hello.
01:02:21I'm sorry I interrupted you, Mr. Holmes,
01:02:24but you seem so interested in tigers
01:02:26that I thought you were never going to stop.
01:02:28They interest me.
01:02:30The stark ferocity.
01:02:32The cold cruelty.
01:02:35They're human beings, rather like tigers, you know.
01:02:38Now I suppose you're back to your Moriarty theory.
01:02:41You're not going to try and tell me
01:02:43this is his handiwork?
01:02:44Who knows?
01:02:47That man has become an obsession with them.
01:02:49He is.
01:02:54Mr. Dayer,
01:02:56I want to offer you my very sincere sympathy.
01:03:02It was a ghastly shock to me.
01:03:04I can imagine what it must have been to you.
01:03:08I won't keep you a minute, Mr. Dayer.
01:03:10Won't you sit down?
01:03:13When did you last see your brother?
01:03:15At half past six.
01:03:17He came into dress and I came in here to give him a message.
01:03:20What was the message?
01:03:22I told him that Mr. Holmes wanted to see him
01:03:24before he went to Paris.
01:03:26You see, I'd asked Mr. Holmes to interview him.
01:03:28What did he say?
01:03:30He was upset.
01:03:32In fact, we had rather a quarrel about it.
01:03:34Another quarrel?
01:03:35You had one the night before.
01:03:37Yes.
01:03:38But this was not a quarrel.
01:03:40He was merely annoyed that I had spoken to Mr. Holmes.
01:03:42He was very annoyed?
01:03:44Well, rather.
01:03:46He seemed more frightened than annoyed.
01:03:49I couldn't understand.
01:03:51And so you quarreled again?
01:03:53Well, yes.
01:03:55He said I had no business to interfere in his affairs.
01:03:58And did you again threaten to shoot him?
01:04:03Shoot him?
01:04:05Yes.
01:04:07Shoot him?
01:04:09What do you mean?
01:04:11The night before, your butler heard you threatening him.
01:04:15Oh, no.
01:04:17I never did anything of the kind.
01:04:20I didn't shoot Raleigh.
01:04:22You said you would rather put a bullet through his head
01:04:26than own a brother who...
01:04:28Oh, that was only a figure of speech.
01:04:30I was accusing Mr. Holmes...
01:04:32A most unfortunate figure of speech,
01:04:34considering that within 24 hours
01:04:36he was found with a bullet through his head.
01:04:38But you don't think that I...
01:04:40No, miss.
01:04:42But I must ask you to come along with me
01:04:44after I finish my investigation.
01:04:46I see, Lestrade.
01:04:48This is grotesque.
01:04:50Holmes, listen.
01:04:52Here's Lestrade suggesting that Miss Adair...
01:04:54No, Dr. Watson, I didn't.
01:04:56All I want is her to come along and make a statement.
01:04:58I'm sure Miss Adair will be delighted
01:05:00to go with you, Lestrade.
01:05:02It is quite a warm night.
01:05:04Anything you say, of course.
01:05:06Thanks, miss.
01:05:08I shall be ready in a minute.
01:05:10Then I'll go and put on my things.
01:05:12If you have no more questions...
01:05:14No, nothing else, thanks.
01:05:22This is outrageous.
01:05:24Well, Mr. Holmes,
01:05:26what do you think?
01:05:28It's really remarkable
01:05:30how many varieties of trees
01:05:32there are in the London parks.
01:05:34Have you ever noticed
01:05:36what remarkably fine specimens...
01:05:38Really, Mr. Holmes,
01:05:40you're a most extraordinary man.
01:05:42In the middle of an investigation like this,
01:05:44you begin talking about trees.
01:05:46Holmes, you've heard
01:05:48Lestrade's ghastly accusation.
01:05:50Surely it was suicide.
01:05:52He burnt his correspondence.
01:05:56I don't think he did.
01:05:59These are the ashes
01:06:01of, I should say,
01:06:03at least a dozen packs of playing cards
01:06:05because he was afraid
01:06:07Fisher was going to expose him.
01:06:09My dear Watson,
01:06:11as I've already told you,
01:06:13this was murder
01:06:15and it was committed from outside this room.
01:06:17What?
01:06:19Shot through the keyhole.
01:06:21Ronald Adair burnt
01:06:23those playing cards
01:06:25and they caused a great deal of smoke.
01:06:27He opened
01:06:29the window and sat down
01:06:31to write that confession.
01:06:33The moment he
01:06:35sat down, he was shot from outside.
01:06:37But how?
01:06:43From this height,
01:06:45you can hardly see the street.
01:06:47He would have had to have been hanging out of the window
01:06:49and he wasn't.
01:06:51He was sitting in that chair
01:06:53and you're suggesting
01:06:55that somebody stood
01:06:57in the middle of Park Lane
01:06:59between ten and a half past
01:07:01and fired a rifle.
01:07:03It had to have been a rifle to carry as far as this.
01:07:05And that nobody
01:07:07saw or heard anything
01:07:09though there must have been hundreds of passers-by.
01:07:11Yes, passers-by there undoubtedly
01:07:13were, but as you've doubtless already
01:07:15ascertained, there were no police
01:07:17about. I beg your pardon,
01:07:19Mr. Holmes, there are always police
01:07:21about. There were a couple on point
01:07:23I find
01:07:25on inquiry that three
01:07:27separate disturbances occurred
01:07:29at precisely 10.15
01:07:31in this neighborhood tonight.
01:07:33A lot of ruffs
01:07:35who are not accustomed to frequent the
01:07:37public house around the corner
01:07:39refused to leave and were ejected
01:07:41by the police.
01:07:43A young woman drove a car into a lorry
01:07:45about a hundred yards up the road
01:07:47and there was a false alarm of fire
01:07:49in Harford Street.
01:07:51It's curious that
01:07:53all these things should have been
01:07:55absolutely simultaneous.
01:07:57But even supposing the police
01:07:59were occupied, you can't
01:08:01stand and fire a rifle
01:08:03into a park lane window
01:08:05without somebody having seen
01:08:07and heard something?
01:08:09How true.
01:08:13Do you know
01:08:15a hornbeam when you see one?
01:08:17A hornbeam?
01:08:19There are some remarkably
01:08:21fine specimens in the park.
01:08:23What is a hornbeam?
01:08:25The Latin name is carpinus.
01:08:27They're common
01:08:29in the temperate zones of Asia and some parts
01:08:31of southern England.
01:08:33It looks like a beech
01:08:35but it isn't.
01:08:41You know, Dr. Watson,
01:08:43in spite of the fact that I've known Holmes
01:08:45for some years,
01:08:47I sometimes wonder
01:08:49if he's all there.
01:08:59Put this in your mouth for a few minutes.
01:09:01What are you on for?
01:09:03I don't think you're at all well.
01:09:05Nonsense, my dear Watson.
01:09:07I'm in the very best of health
01:09:09in spite of a couple of nasty shocks.
01:09:11When did you have a shock?
01:09:13I said two.
01:09:15I was going to cross the Marylebone Road.
01:09:17The police were on point duty
01:09:19and were holding up the traffic.
01:09:21When a two-horse van, apparently out of control,
01:09:23whizzed around the corner
01:09:25and was on me in a flash.
01:09:27I sprang to the pavement and saved myself
01:09:29by a fraction of a second.
01:09:31Ten minutes later,
01:09:33a brick fell from the roof of the house
01:09:35and was shattered at my feet.
01:09:37They were repairing the roof at the time
01:09:39but the police proved it was an accident.
01:09:41I know better.
01:09:43Very nasty indeed.
01:09:45But these things happened this afternoon.
01:09:47I was worrying about you
01:09:49in the early hours of the morning.
01:09:51What did I do?
01:09:53Do?
01:09:55In the middle of a terribly serious conversation,
01:09:57you started talking about trees in the park
01:09:59and the difference between a hornbeam and a beach.
01:10:01Altogether disconnected.
01:10:03And I thought a little delirious.
01:10:05Yes, I did ramble a bit, didn't I?
01:10:07And I'm sorry you made
01:10:09what Lestrade called a bombastic statement
01:10:11that within 24 hours,
01:10:1312 of which, by the way, have already gone,
01:10:15you would have the murderer.
01:10:17It wasn't at all like you, Holmes.
01:10:19No, it did look as if I were very ill, didn't it?
01:10:21It gives Lestrade such a chance to crow.
01:10:23He thinks he's done a frightful lot
01:10:25and knew nothing.
01:10:27He's disposed of my suicide theory
01:10:29and made an arrest.
01:10:31Who?
01:10:33I wonder he hasn't arrested you or Mrs. Hudson.
01:10:35And he never stops talking
01:10:37about this mythical Moriarty.
01:10:39Now listen, my dear Watson.
01:10:43I have established
01:10:45to my own satisfaction
01:10:47that in both the Reichsbank
01:10:49and the commercial bank cases,
01:10:51forged notes were substituted
01:10:53for real ones.
01:10:55I have also established
01:10:57to my own satisfaction
01:10:59and through the missing suitcase
01:11:01that Ronald Adair was to have
01:11:03taken those English notes to Paris
01:11:05and the same brain that planned that scheme
01:11:09planned the removal of Ronald Adair.
01:11:11But why should they remove their means
01:11:13of getting the notes safely out of the country?
01:11:15Because Ronald Adair refused at the last minute.
01:11:17Why should he?
01:11:19He was still open to exposure as a cheat.
01:11:21That's what frightened him.
01:11:23Yes, but I frightened him still more.
01:11:25When his sister told him
01:11:27that I wanted to see him,
01:11:29he was panic-stricken,
01:11:31because he realized that his cheating
01:11:33and the other meant certain jail.
01:11:35I see.
01:11:37And what did you make of that letter
01:11:39he was writing about the sleeping Cardinal?
01:11:41Now that, my dear Watson,
01:11:43is the most significant
01:11:45aspect of the case.
01:11:47Do you remember
01:11:49eight months ago
01:11:51when Trimble the Forger
01:11:53was found on the embankment
01:11:55dying from terrible injuries?
01:11:59He, uh...
01:12:01Yes.
01:12:04Yes.
01:12:10Yes.
01:12:12Yes, yes, now we mustn't forget
01:12:14your appointment.
01:12:16Appointment?
01:12:18Yes, it's necessary for me to remain alone
01:12:20a little while.
01:12:22So you, my dear Watson, are going to Houston.
01:12:24Houston?
01:12:26Whatever for?
01:12:28I don't know.
01:12:42What's the idea?
01:12:44You'll see.
01:12:58You're going to have a busy night.
01:13:00Now I want you to put on your coat and hat,
01:13:02take a suitcase,
01:13:04you needn't pack anything,
01:13:06get a taxi,
01:13:08and make a great fuss about getting it.
01:13:10Call Houston to the driver
01:13:12and tell him if he doesn't hurry
01:13:14you'll miss the Scotch Express.
01:13:16The Scotch Express?
01:13:18Yes.
01:13:20You'll be followed.
01:13:22The moment you get to Houston,
01:13:24pay off the taxi,
01:13:26and rush round to the booking office.
01:15:26Really, Mr. Holmes, this is a bit too thick.
01:15:28My apologies, Mrs. Hudson.
01:15:30Once again, you've proved yourself
01:15:32far above ordinary women.
01:15:34Well, Mr. Holmes, I did as you told me to.
01:15:36I move the statue every few minutes
01:15:38when cunningly
01:15:40the whole blooming thing falls on top of me.
01:15:42But you've done very well, Mrs. Hudson.
01:15:44Very well.
01:15:46Lestrade,
01:15:48bring in the prisoner.
01:15:58Oh, may I see that, Lestrade?
01:16:00Take that. That's an admirable
01:16:02and unique weapon.
01:16:04Absolutely noiseless,
01:16:06and a tremendous power.
01:16:08And you've unheard of the German mechanic
01:16:10who constructed it to the order
01:16:12of Professor Moriarty.
01:16:14I've known of its existence for some time,
01:16:16but I've never handled it before.
01:16:18Ah, Watson, I've just been murdered.
01:16:22Perhaps you'd like to see
01:16:24who my assailant is.
01:16:26As I thought.
01:16:28But, Holmes,
01:16:30that's Colonel Henslow.
01:16:32And what are you charging me with?
01:16:34Aye, for the attempted murder
01:16:36of Sherlock Holmes, of course.
01:16:38No, no, Lestrade, I shall not appear in this.
01:16:40To you, and you alone
01:16:42belongs the credit for this remarkable
01:16:44arrest.
01:16:46With your usual happy mixture of cunning
01:16:48and audacity,
01:16:50you've got him.
01:16:52Got him? Got whom?
01:16:54I found a tree in the park last night.
01:16:56A hornbeam, to be correct.
01:16:58And shot Ronald Adair
01:17:00through the open window of this flat
01:17:02in Park Lane.
01:17:04Has it occurred to you, Mr. Holmes,
01:17:06that it must be rather difficult
01:17:08to climb a tree and shoot anyone
01:17:10when one only has one arm?
01:17:12Ah, yes, yes, I'd forgotten.
01:17:14Your left arm must be causing you
01:17:16great inconvenience.
01:17:18Lestrade, I wonder if you'd be good enough
01:17:20to free it for the Colonel.
01:17:22Let me introduce you
01:17:24to Professor Robert Moriarty.
01:17:26The mythical Moriarty.
01:17:28My obsession.
01:17:30I warned you
01:17:32when you called upon me yesterday
01:17:34that sudden impulses were dangerous.
01:17:36I observed that the first
01:17:38molar in your left upper jaw
01:17:40was very badly filled with gold.
01:17:42And when Colonel Henslow
01:17:44was feeling as if he'd lost a son,
01:17:46I observed the same bad workmanship
01:17:48in the same tooth.
01:17:50You clever, cunning swine.
01:17:52You think you've got me
01:17:54and you're safe.
01:17:56But you're up against an organization, Holmes.
01:17:58They'll get you.
01:18:00They'll destroy you.
01:18:02I might even do it myself.
01:18:14Take him to the station, Lestrade.
01:18:16I think you'll find
01:18:18most of your organization
01:18:20waiting for you there.
01:18:22Also a brand new seating,
01:18:24£70,000 of good English bank notes.
01:18:26Take him away.
01:18:28We shall meet again, Mr. Holmes.
01:18:30And next time...
01:18:32Come on.
01:18:36Are you all right?
01:18:40I am, except my fittings
01:18:42and my tie, which is
01:18:44quite disorganized.
01:18:46Well, we've proved our Moriarty theory,
01:18:48all right, Mr. Holmes?
01:18:50It's not easy to throw
01:18:52dust in your eyes, my dear Lestrade.
01:18:56Doesn't do to trifle with Scotland Yard.
01:18:58Quite true, Mr. Holmes.
01:19:00Quite true.
01:19:02Well, now, Watson, what about a drink?
01:19:06You'd like one, wouldn't you?
01:19:08Thanks.
01:19:14I can't think
01:19:16how you managed to discover these things, Holmes.
01:19:18I saw nothing that could have put you
01:19:20on the track of the murderer.
01:19:22On the contrary, my dear Watson,
01:19:24you've seen everything, except the tree,
01:19:26which I told you about,
01:19:28but you were unable to make the necessary deductions.
01:19:30I knew
01:19:32about the existence of that air gun.
01:19:34I found evidence
01:19:36that the tree opposite
01:19:38the flat had been climbed.
01:19:40By issuing a threat in front of
01:19:43Colonel Henslow, I made certain
01:19:45that during the 24 hours he'd try
01:19:47to silence me as he'd silence
01:19:49a deer.
01:19:51Hence your little trip to Houston, Watson.
01:19:53And by placing
01:19:55a bust of myself in the window,
01:19:57which Mrs. Hudson moved occasionally
01:19:59to make it appear lifelike.
01:20:01I knew that Moriarty couldn't resist
01:20:03such an opportunity.
01:20:05But what gave you the idea, Mr. Holmes?
01:20:07Colonel Henslow himself.
01:20:09Yes, in the conversation
01:20:11I had with him, the irrelevant one
01:20:13about tigers, Watson.
01:20:15You can always tether a goat as a bait
01:20:17and wait till the tiger
01:20:19comes. Of course.
01:20:21But what about the sleeping
01:20:23Colonel?
01:20:27A Godfrey's made a state
01:20:29of the sleeping Cardinal.
01:20:31That's the painting in the room in which you were tied up,
01:20:33Watson, and through which Moriarty
01:20:35used to speak, unseen by his duties.
01:20:37And
01:20:39only one regret, that the bust
01:20:41of myself by Angelo Palazzini
01:20:43has been irretrievably
01:20:45ruined.
01:21:03Really,
01:21:05Mr. Holmes?
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