WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:34.119 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.719 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:42.039 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.960 Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com 5 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.759 Slash Radio Detectives. Today's episode is brought to you by the financial support of 6 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.719 our listeners. Thank you so much show for your support. You can support 7 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:02.799 the show at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Now it's time for today's 8 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:12.680 episode of Sherlock Holmes with special guest star Orson Wells. The Final Problem The 9 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:23.200 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We present the original stories of the late Sir Arthur 10 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:30.680 Conan Doyle dramatized anew with Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson 11 00:01:30.719 --> 00:02:10.000 as Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty. It is with 12 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.560 a heavy heart that I come before you with the last adventure of my friend 13 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.280 Sherlock Holmes. That I shall be able to relate. I have tried, 14 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:28.599 in my humble way to chronicle some of our exploits together to demonstrate the singular 15 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:35.199 gifts of that most remarkable of men. It lies with me now to tell 16 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:40.439 you what occurred between Holmes and his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, when at 17 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.680 last they came face to face. Mister Sherlock Holmes, your efforts on the 18 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:53.599 side of law and order seriously inconvenienced me. The situation between us is becoming 19 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:59.039 an impossible one, mister Home. It simply cannot go on one or the 20 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:06.240 other of us. Mister must die. Mister. It was in the spring 21 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:10.159 of eighteen ninety one. You will remember, perhaps that, after my marriage 22 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.159 and return to private practice, Holmes and I had drifted apart a little. 23 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.960 I followed the newspaper reports of his cases, of course, and called on 24 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.400 him quite often at the old rooms in Baker Street. Even so, however, 25 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:31.759 many weeks would sometimes elapse between our meetings, and so it was with 26 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:38.439 some surprise one April evening that I looked up and saw him standing before me 27 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:44.840 in my study. Good evening, Watson, Oh, good evening, Holmes. 28 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.719 Have you a cigarette for me? Oh? Is it great? Heavens 29 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.879 man? How ill you look? Oh? I daresay I've been using myself 30 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.719 up rather too freely of late old friend. You've no objection if I close 31 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:01.680 your window shutters? No, of course not. Yeah, they're not afraid 32 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:04.840 of anything, are you. I'll tell you the truth. I am rather 33 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:10.039 but it's not like you, Holmes. What is it? Airguns? Air 34 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.039 guns? What on earth do you mean? There's a new and deadly type 35 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.360 of air gun, Watson, which has been specially designed by an old acquaintance 36 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:23.560 of ours. What, Professor Moriarty, We could only be he from your 37 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.519 tone the same a match? Give me a match with you, my day, 38 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.720 fellow, Yes, of course, oh, thank you? Is a 39 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:34.319 missus Watson at home? Oh no, she's on a visit to an armed 40 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.399 alone. Good good. That makes it easier for me to propose that you 41 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.920 should come away with me for a few days. Delighted? But where, 42 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:49.800 oh the continent? Somewhere abroad? Abroad? Is that whiskey in the decanter? 43 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:55.839 There? Now? Look here, Holmes, what's all this about? 44 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.079 There's something more serious in your man other than you will Never did quite believe 45 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.839 in the iniquities of Moriarty, did you, Watson? You've said so more 46 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:09.160 than once I told you exaggerated a bit, after all, Professor MORIARTI is 47 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.680 a respectable figure in public life, just so, And that's the very genius 48 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.040 of the man. Even you, Watson, knowing me as you do, 49 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.959 can't quite believe me when I tell you that he corrupts all London with his 50 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:24.360 evil influence. Oh, I can't quite believe that. Oh, of course, 51 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:29.800 to the world he's still the professor, a great mathematician. He's respectable. 52 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.439 But what rell proof have you that he's anything else? None, well, 53 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:41.120 at least not until this last month. And even now the chain isn't 54 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:46.839 quite complete. Three days more, and I shall have him, Watson, 55 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.680 three days more, if I live to see them. You can't seriously suppose 56 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:57.839 that your life's in danger, homes No, you always love to be melodramatic, 57 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.759 melodramatic. Listen, Watson, this this very morning, in those old 58 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.319 rooms of ours in Baker Street, I saw him, face to face. 59 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.560 I spoke to him, Moriarty, your distinguished professor. Within him a criminal 60 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.839 strain of the most diabolical kind, that great white dome of a forehead, 61 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:21.680 those hooded eyes, and the white face pushed forward, oscillating from side to 62 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.399 side like a snake. Well, of course, if you believe the old 63 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.360 heresy of physiognomy is not only that, of course not. I've worked for 64 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.800 years to follow a thousand different threads, and every one of them has led 65 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:38.040 to Moriarty. He's the Napoleon of crime. Watson, the secret organizer of 66 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.560 almost everything evil that goes undetected in this great city of ours. There he 67 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.639 sits and motionless, like a spider, in the center of its web, 68 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:51.120 a web with a thousand strands, and he controls them everyone, but slowly, 69 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.680 very slowly, my own secret plans to expose him a born fruit. 70 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:00.839 Every day my knitt is drawing tighter, and he knows it, Watson, 71 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:04.319 he knows the danger he is in. And that was why today he came 72 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.079 to see me. I was playing my violin, as you know I often 73 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.959 do when I want to think, and suddenly there he was, standing in 74 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.199 the doorway, with his white face swaying in an evil way, peering at 75 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:34.199 me with his hooded eyes. M Good morning, Professor Moriarty. Good morning 76 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:40.839 to you, mister Sherlock Holmes. I believe how very charmingly you play. 77 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.480 How kind of you to say so? Won't you be seated, Professor Moriarty, 78 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.319 I can spare you just five minutes singularly good of you. Thank you. 79 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:54.160 We'll sit down. May I say something personal, mister Homes. Certainly 80 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:01.360 I'm surprised to discover that you are rather less crany development one might have expected, 81 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.800 whereas you won the contrary, have rather more than I had imagined. 82 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.759 Professor, you will recollect. I'm sure, however, that Beethoven's I did 83 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.279 us both. How about our personal characteristics are highly relevant to the present situation. 84 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.240 What have you really got to say to me? Well, perhaps I 85 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.600 only suggested, of course, perhaps it is a dangerous habit to finger loaded 86 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.800 firearms in the pocket of one's dressing guns to Holmes, Ah, even do 87 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.519 you share that dangerous habit? Professor, I see that you keep your hand 88 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.919 in the pocket of your morning coat. Supposing we lay our pistols and our 89 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.080 cards on the table by all means, I was about to suggest it myself. 90 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.279 See you favor the mouser type, mister Holmes, and without a silence, 91 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.000 you must permit me to present you sometimes with one of these small devices 92 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.200 of my own design. They are quite convenient in avoiding unpleasant noise. You 93 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.840 know, how, better kind of your professor, you must ask the hangman 94 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:54.919 to deliver it. To me as your last request. You evidently don't know 95 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.879 me. On the contrary, I think I know you better than you know 96 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.399 yourself. I wouldn't take up your gun again, Professor. I've already got 97 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.480 you covered with mine, so I perceived, But I assure you it was 98 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.320 only to give a harmless demonstration of the silencer of my own small accomplishments as 99 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.440 a marksman. Mister Holmes, I've read in those accounts of doctor Watson that's 100 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.639 somewhat b your part, no doubt, amiable friend of yours, that those 101 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.559 marks on the wall they're made from your indoor revolver practice. Quite so. 102 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:26.120 The initials there VR, Victoria, Regina, God save my majesty. Now 103 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.120 that I see them, it seems they are not quite as symmetrical as they 104 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.159 might be one side of the vis a. Look short, I think, 105 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.440 permit me to correct the slip, Admirable Professor Mariarty. You were perfectly right. 106 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.360 Of course, that little mistake has now been rectified. I would like 107 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.720 how if I may to improve upon it. Your bullet mark is perhaps a 108 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:54.679 shade smaller than my own. Permit me, Admirable mister Holmes's precisely above your 109 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.399 own mark. Professor, the exact spot. I think, no, no, 110 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.399 pray, don't look alarmed. My good l lady is quite accustomed to 111 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.120 that noise. We shall not be disturbed, and dey'rely glad of it, 112 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.080 for what I have to say is not without importance. Mister Holmes, shall 113 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.639 we stop our fencing, and again, by all means, if you will 114 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:16.120 permit me first to correct one statement that you made just now with reference to 115 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:20.639 my friend doctor Watson. I am afraid I can hardly permit the adjective bovine 116 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.559 in his accounts of my humble exploits. He's been good enough to exaggerate my 117 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.960 own achievements, and has always been unduly modest about his own. He is 118 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 a most upright and honorable gentleman, Professor, and very close to my heart. 119 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.799 You may say what you will about me, but I can allow no 120 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:41.639 derogatory words about him anywhere. Mister Holmes, I apologize, We who are 121 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:46.799 about to die salute him, at least you do. You are very certain, 122 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.919 aren't you, Professor Moriarty, that it is I who am going to 123 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:56.720 die. There is no other course unless you listen to reason. The situation 124 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.799 between us, mister Holmes is becoming an impossible one. It's if we come 125 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.679 up, go on, it won't, I assure you. For these past 126 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.240 few months, I've been working to put an end to it all at the 127 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.360 earliest possible moment, and you have very nearly undone the careful endeavor of a 128 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.960 lifetime, Sir, at least have seriously threatened it. No, no, 129 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.000 no, no, don't moved your pistol again. I'm only taking out my 130 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.480 memorandum book. I beg your pardon. I find it recorded here. And 131 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.679 you crossed my path on the fourth of genuine homes. From the twenty third, 132 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.320 you incommoded me. At the middle of February, I was seriously inconvenienced 133 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.080 by you. The end of March I was absolutely hampered. And now at 134 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.519 the close of April I find myself place in such a position through your continual 135 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.480 persecution, that I'm in positive danger of losing my liberty, and that was 136 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.919 certainly the end I had in view. Then you must drop it, mister 137 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.440 Holmes, You really must. You know, not till after Monday, Professor. 138 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.320 You know as well as I do that you've made a slip, one 139 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.840 single tiny slip. For years, I've been aware of you Mariarty at the 140 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:05.799 center of your organization. For juries, murder cases, robberies. A thousand 141 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.879 crimes were planned by you. One hundred agents carried them out. Your subordinates 142 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:18.240 were caught sometimes, but you never were. And yet you know you made 143 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:24.679 that slip, that single tiny slip, and you know as well as I 144 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.080 do, that it will destroy you. In three more days, my evidence 145 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:33.720 will be complete. I shall have you exposed, brought to trial, condemned 146 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.120 and hanged, and you can do nothing whatever to prevent it. My will 147 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:46.080 is inflexible, and so is mine. Three days, do you say? 148 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.960 And the further out the end will come. One or the other of us 149 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.000 must die, sir, quite so the five minutes is a professor, and 150 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.320 I must rarely ask you to excuse me in the pleasure of our conversation. 151 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.720 I'm afraid that I've neglected business of importance elsewhere. Very well, then it 152 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:07.639 seems a pity of st Holmes done what I could. I admit that it's 153 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.039 been an intellectual pressure. Need to see the way in which you grapple with 154 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.759 this affair. But I tell you solemnly, Sherlock Holmes, that if you 155 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.399 are clever enough to bring destruction on me. You may rest assured that I 156 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.960 shall do as much to you. You have paid me several compliments during this 157 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.399 indiview, Professor, Let me pay you one in return. When I say 158 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.720 that, if I were assured of the former eventuality, I would most cheerfully 159 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.200 accept the letter. I can promise you the one, but not the other. 160 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.120 Good day, mister Holmes, oh your pistol, professor, you may 161 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:43.039 need it before Monday. Thank you, Good day, Professor. I think 162 00:13:43.480 --> 00:14:11.000 goodbye as the word mister Sherlock Holmes, goodbye. And so it was you 163 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.639 see Watson, that singular interview with the greatest criminal of all time and his 164 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.919 with the greatest detective. Oh thank you, my dear fellow. But but 165 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.559 what are you going to do at home? I told you we leave for 166 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.679 the continent. Mariot is not the man to let the grass grow under his 167 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:31.600 feet. Already one or two accidents and nearly befallen me today upon myself. 168 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.399 The police are gathering all my evidence against him. Everything will be complete in 169 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.519 three short days. Meanwhile, I can only lie low. Are you able 170 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:43.080 to leave your practice to come with me? I have an accommodating neighbor, 171 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.240 Dear Watson. I knew I could count on you all right. Then, 172 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.679 Now these are your instructions. Listen most carefully, instructions, homes, I 173 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.960 assure you they are most necessary. Tomorrow morning, at eight forty five, 174 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.840 you will take a handsome cab. I'll arranged for one to call you, 175 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.759 and it must have baby to the letter Watson. You will leave the house 176 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:07.840 alone tomorrow morning and take neither the first nor the second cab, which presents 177 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.639 itself at the ranks, and the address to the cabman written on a slip 178 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.480 of paper, and tell him not to throw it away, and I drive. 179 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.360 I take it to Victoria Station. On the contrary, you drive to 180 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.200 the strand end of the Lauda arcade I see, and then have your fare 181 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.120 ready, and the instant your cab stops, pay him, and dash through 182 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:31.720 the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other side at exactly a quarter past 183 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.840 nine. Yes, but my dear, listen and listen carefully. It's vital. 184 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.720 Our lives depend upon it. When you get there, you will find 185 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.799 a broom standing close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a black 186 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.840 cloak tipped with red. Say nothing, simply jump in and he'll drive you 187 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.759 to Victoria in time for the Continental Express, where till I meet you homes 188 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.159 the second coach from the front of the train, a first class carriage reserved 189 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.039 for us. Good night, Watson, and as you value our lives, 190 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:02.000 don't forget a single word of my instructions. No, no, no, 191 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.480 of course, not home until we meet tomorrow. Then until we meet. 192 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.559 I was infected myself with something of his own inner excitement and sense of menace. 193 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.799 I took the hansom and then the brom with its massive hooded driver. 194 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.879 I said nothing to him, as I was instructed, and he never spoke 195 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.600 to me. A moment later we were rattling to the station. There he 196 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.759 left me and drove off without a further glance, his face still hidden. 197 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:44.600 There was no sign of Holmes, and my heart sank miserably. I found 198 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.639 our reserved carriage, but through some confusion, a decrepit old Italian priest was 199 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:55.600 sitting there. A moment came for departure. Still I waited by the window, 200 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:03.200 in a chill of fear. Schools A senior prey goals, I don't 201 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:11.160 speak at tell him, nor do I walk up. But Holmes, man, 202 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:17.319 this is no laughing matter, not yet anyway, you see, stop, 203 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:21.680 stop the train. It's Moriarty himself, the tall man. He'll never 204 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:37.119 do it the train, I say, even the great Moriarty himself is helpless 205 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.119 against the British railway system. Watson, Well, well, it gives us 206 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.519 an hour's respite at least. But how did he know where we were? 207 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.920 By watching you? I expect, But I did everything you told me. 208 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.839 Wait Holmes, the driver of the broom. But what about him? He 209 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.119 was muffled. I didn't see his face. It must have been one of 210 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.400 Moriarty's men, right, dear Watson, there's nothing of the sort. It 211 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.799 was my brother Mycroft, shaken for one side of his arm chair at the 212 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.400 Diogenes Club. Or heavens the thing is here then, of course. But 213 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.079 at least we have an hour, and I can use it to take off 214 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:15.960 this disguise and think things over. But we've escaped him altogether, surely since 215 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.039 the train connects with the boat. My dear fellow, you webb and they 216 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:22.559 don't realize even now, but Moriarty is an opponent on practically the same intellectual 217 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:26.440 plane as myself. Do you really imagine that if I were the pursuer, 218 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.920 I will permit myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle as an express 219 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.559 training. What will he do? Then? What I should do? Engage 220 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.799 a special But it'll be too late even then, I know. Means we 221 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.759 stop at Canterbury, do forget, and then there's always a delay of a 222 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.119 quarter of an hour when the train gets to Dover. Ah. I so 223 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.319 you'd almost think we were the criminals to be chased like this. You mean 224 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.960 he'll catch us after all that? I hope not. We shan't be there, 225 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.880 I Watson, Look, look here, Holmes. I hate to grumble 226 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.640 out all this time, but really I do think you ought to tell me 227 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.960 what you mean. Heaven bless you for a startant, faithful friend. Watson. 228 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.519 I'm sorry, it's only that. Well, well, I don't want 229 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.880 to expose you to danger too. That's why I'm being so mysterious, which 230 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.559 very simple really. We shall just get out at Canterbury. Indeed, and 231 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.319 I've gone the continent after all. I suppose, yes, we must do 232 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.319 that. We've no choice but to hide away until after Monday, when the 233 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.480 evidence will have been completed. You've not seen the papers this morning, I 234 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.240 suppose what time to think I've had for there. One must try to make 235 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.599 time for everything. Watson, you really should have read about Baker Street. 236 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.799 What Baker Street? Yes, they set fire to our rooms last night. 237 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.119 Missus Hudson was away from home, fortunately, and no one was hurt. 238 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.119 I'm glad to say they thought I was there. Of course, on my 239 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.640 soul. The thing's intolerable. Yes, only till Monday, Watson and I. 240 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.079 Then we'll be in Switzerland. We'll make a cross country journey from Canterbury 241 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.400 and take the other boat from New Heaven to the app unless, of course, 242 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.559 what our friend the professor deduces what I would deduce and gets off at 243 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:03.240 Canterbury himself. Ah, that would truly be a couda matre. He surely 244 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.400 never would. Were I rather doubted that our limits even to his intelligence. 245 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.079 No, No, I think we are safe enough, old friend. And 246 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.200 now there's time for a pipe. I fancy won't you join me? Watson? 247 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.839 And thus it befell. As we hid behind a pile of luggage at 248 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.640 Canterbury, we saw the single carriage of the Special Gulf thundering past us, 249 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.319 And so we made our way across country and at last reached Switzerland. It 250 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:56.400 seemed we had eluded him. To fill in every detail of the final scene 251 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.359 is hardly possible, since there was no witness to it. Yet, from 252 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:06.720 a certain source that I cannot yet divulge, I do know something of that 253 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:11.440 last encounter. We wondered at our will through the lovely valley of the Rhone, 254 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.839 and made our way by way of Interlachm to the little township of Mirgan 255 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:22.640 among the Alps. The fatal monday came and went, and yet I was 256 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.839 still aware of a strange, feebrile excitement in my companion. He was, 257 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:33.240 at times feverishly on the alert, then, sinking into revere, would smile 258 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:41.119 strangely to himself. I went with him on that last day of Wall on 259 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.240 a visit to the falls of Reichenbach, forever hallowed and yet cursed in my 260 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:52.359 memory. It's a fearful place, indeed, with a torrent plunging far below 261 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:59.279 into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined by coal, black glistening rock high 262 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.440 above. Pathways been cut in the cliff face to afford a better view, 263 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.799 but it ends abruptly in mid air, and the traveler I had to return 264 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.839 as he came. We stood there guildily marveling at the great spectacle, And 265 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.920 on the instant came a message for me by a village lad to say that 266 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:21.839 an English lady back at the hotel was seriously ill and needed my immediate attention. 267 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:26.640 I turned to go. I looked back, and I saw Holmes leaning 268 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.920 against a rock with his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the 269 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:41.839 waters. Which was the last I saw? Is that you Watson back already? 270 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:52.200 Well, Moriarty, Well, sir Lacas, you see I found you 271 00:22:52.279 --> 00:23:00.319 after all, and alone alone, as indeed you must be too. Your 272 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.599 confederates are all under lock and key. I've heard from Scotland yard I escaped. 273 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.920 I was too clever for them. Holmes, I don't doubt it. 274 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:14.160 But I'm afraid your occupation's gone, Professor, with your organization destroyed. Unless 275 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.200 you care to return to your mathematics. It was not my intention. I 276 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:25.359 have another, more immediate intention, Sherlock Holmes. Are you prepared? But 277 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.920 before we discussed that, perhaps you extend me one small courtesy, Professor, 278 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:36.960 no surgeony, what is it? My friend Watson? Professor? No doubt 279 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:41.640 he will be somewhat concerned. May I just take a moment to scribble a 280 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.359 note to him. Certainly we can fix the paper beneath my help and stuff 281 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:49.680 there so it does not blow away. Pray, take as long as you 282 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:55.039 wish. That's very good of you, peas, don't stop talking. Professor 283 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.279 I mastered long ago the art of writing and conversing at the same time. 284 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.799 Thank you. Know, of course it's a message to write it up to 285 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:03.279 Watson as a falseman. Oh, yes, of course I knew it at 286 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.119 once, and that it could only come from one source. And yet you 287 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.480 let him go. Yes, Professor I let him go. I am not 288 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:14.839 without some affection for him. I did not wish to put his life in 289 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:19.079 danger too. Besides, he says, I have looked forward for a long 290 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:26.480 time that this final duel between us. I believe at Holmes, you're a 291 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:33.039 very remarkable man in many ways, many many ways, sir. I'm proud 292 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:38.599 to have known you. Oh and I you, Professor There. My letters 293 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:41.400 done, then, perhaps you will be kind enough to place it as you 294 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:48.960 suggested. Now, how shall it be, moriarty, I did not bring 295 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:55.519 a pistol, Holmes, Thank you. Your courtesy puts me to shame. 296 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:04.759 Professor There, it is my pistol. It goes into the falls hand to 297 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:42.759 hand. Yes, goodbye, Professor Moriarty, goodbye su Lack Homes the end, 298 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.519 the end. When I returned to that broken pathway, it was only 299 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:55.400 too clear what had happened. It needed no great application of Holme's own methods 300 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:00.720 of deduction. Two sets of footsteps to the verge, and none returning, 301 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.599 locked in each other's arms as they fought. They had gone down to the 302 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:14.799 abyss. Only the letter the last greeting from my friend and comrade, my 303 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:21.160 dear dear Watson, he wrote, My dear dear Watson, I scribble this 304 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:26.319 through the courtesy of Professor Moriarty, who awaits my convenience for the final discussion 305 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:33.359 of those eternal questions which lie before us. There can be but one outcome, 306 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.720 although I fear that it is as the cost if you will give pain 307 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:41.680 to my friends, and especially my dear Watson to you. I think, 308 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.480 however, that I may go so fast to say that I have not lived 309 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.519 entirely in vain pray. Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs for 310 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:56.960 a full conviction of the Moriarty gang are in Pigeonhole m Before leaving England, 311 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:00.680 I made every disposition of my property, and handed it over to my brother 312 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:07.319 Mycroft. Pray give my affectionate greetings to missus Watson, and remember me as 313 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.440 I used to be in our old days at Baker Street, pacing to and 314 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:17.720 fro with my violin and driving you to a point of sad distraction. With 315 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:22.759 that theme, he still were good enough to say you loved believe me to 316 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:33.319 be my very dear good fellow, yours most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes, Yours 317 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:40.119 most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes. And so he punished whom I shall ever regard 318 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:55.960 as the best and wisest man that I have ever known. The Adventures of 319 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.559 Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of the late Sir Arthur and Doyle, 320 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:06.279 dramatized anew by John ker Cross, stars Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes, 321 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:11.599 Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson, and Today Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty. 322 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:57.079 Produced by Harry Ellen Towers Welcome Back. I have to be honest that 323 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.839 I'll listen to. The episode actually is one of the first ones when I 324 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:14.680 was considering whether we would do this particular Sherlock Holmes series and I almost decided 325 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:21.079 not to do it, And trying to think of what I don't like about 326 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:29.960 this story, I think the big thing that that was an issue to me 327 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:37.119 is this feels this feels more stage. It could be the lack of lack 328 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:42.640 of a supporting a cast at all. You basically throughout the whole thing, 329 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:52.480 you've got Holmes, Watson and Moriarty, and as the feeling of three man 330 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.680 play rather than a typical radio drama. And I don't know. The other 331 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:07.160 thing I think that did was that Holmes and Moriarty were just ridiculously polite to 332 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.720 one another. Now some of this comes from the book, but you know, 333 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.440 when you're hearing it on the radio, it was a pleasure to know. 334 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.440 It was a pleasure to know you to Moriarty. Of course, the 335 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:25.640 Sherlock Holmes story it's based on is uh in many ways, far from perfect. 336 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:32.720 The main throst of the story was to simply kill off Sherlock Holmes and 337 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:37.680 in the demand for new stories on Sir Arthur coded Doyle. This attempt, 338 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:42.599 of course, was ultimately unsuccessful, but that was the basic point of the 339 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:48.000 story as such. A Moriarty was originally written as a sort of plot device. 340 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:56.400 I will say that I enjoyed the original story Despotish Flaws and the Granada 341 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:03.880 Television adaptation more. But we have one more week for the series, the 342 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:10.319 final episode. You'll want to be sure and tune in next Thursday as we 343 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:17.079 wrap up the Gilgood Richardson series and our performance of Sherlock Holmes Radio Place. 344 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:22.279 On the bright side, we should have plenty of Sherlock Holmes video specials in 345 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:27.000 the future, but last two radio plays. Next week's the last one, 346 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.160 so I want to be sure and listen to that. In the meanwhile, 347 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:34.359 I'll send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detactives dot net, follow us 348 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:38.960 on Twitter, Radio Dettactives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, 349 00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:45.440 Facebook dot com. Slash Radio Detectives from Boise Idahome. This is your host, 350 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:45.960 Adam Graham's son and Off