WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:09.199 And now doctor Watson. To return to the New Year's Eve. 2 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.880 You and Sherlock Holmes celebrated on the good ship Gigantic. 3 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.120 Yes, sir, here's your Tom and Jerry, mister Harris, I'm 4 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.839 not careful, don't burn yourself. Yes, it was probably the 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:23.600 most technic New Year's Eve I ever experienced. Nothing is 6 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.199 as terrifying to a seafaring man as the thought of 7 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:31.039 fire aboard ship. The panic, the isolution. But that's neither 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:31.640 here nor there. 9 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.399 Yes, let me see. 10 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.079 It was the last day of the year nineteen hundred 11 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.079 and twelve. Its inception was sufficiently placid, I must say. 12 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.920 A light snow was falling as homes and I seated 13 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.119 ourselves on either side of a well filled breakfast table. 14 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.719 The flames of our seagull fire reflected themselves cheerfully in 15 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.920 the generous coffee pot. The whole house was filled with 16 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.320 the pleasant aroma of the stuffing. Missus Hudson was preparing 17 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.000 for our New Year's goose. Suddenly there came a frantic 18 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:03.679 jangle in the front doorbell. 19 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:12.079 No, definitely, no, no walk Holmes. Whoever it is that's 20 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.120 pulling our front doorbell out by the roots and whatever 21 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:17.560 his problem is, I'm definitely not interested. Yes, Watson, being 22 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.480 the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People always 23 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:24.040 manage to get into difficulties at the most inopportune moments. 24 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.879 Yes, you should try being a doctor, Holmes. No female 25 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.200 since Eve has ever decided to become a mother at 26 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:30.400 a convenient time. 27 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:37.480 Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, Mister Sherwick Holmes. Naturally, 28 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.560 whatever your problem is, I warn you, it'll have to 29 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:40.480 wait a lot for the holiday. 30 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:41.799 And he can't wait, mister Holmes. 31 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.480 Close to two thousand lives are at state. I pray 32 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:47.120 to Heaven you'll be able to reach them before it's 33 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:47.519 too late. 34 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:51.000 Reach home. Where and what is this disaster you anticipate 35 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.599 with such trepidation The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes. She should 36 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:56.239 be somewhere off the Silly Asles by midnight. 37 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:58.599 We've been reliably. 38 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:00.280 Informed that an attempt will be made to set fire 39 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.680 to her at that time. If successful, it'll be the 40 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.640 greatest disaster in an old maritime history. 41 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.159 Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to 42 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.520 forego the little celebration I'd planned for this evening. 43 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.960 Have to really homes. You are a cold blooded fish. 44 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.919 Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've met my colleague, 45 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:15.520 doctor Watson. 46 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.319 Mister Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke, I'm chairman of the board of Floyd's, 47 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:21.840 the famous insurance company. 48 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:22.159 Oh. 49 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.240 Then your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian. 50 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.520 Not entirely, but neither is it altogether mercenary. 51 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.280 There's more to take them the lives of the passengers 52 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.759 on board the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial 53 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.520 stability of the British Empire goes with her. 54 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.039 Interesting he Watson continues to Pembroke. 55 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:42.840 You may not be aware, mister Holmes, that during this 56 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.639 past year there have been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes. 57 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.759 Holmes knows everything, mister Pembroke. 58 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:49.639 I am quite cognizant of the fact that quite a 59 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:52.080 few of the newest and fastest British liners have been 60 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.719 destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident. 61 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.919 Ah, they weren't accidents, mister Holmes, I assure you quite. 62 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.759 Egyptian Star was destroyed by fire in the Persian Gulf. 63 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.719 Eight hundred lives last the Lord Nelson disappeared in the 64 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:09.400 Typhoon in the Indian Ocean, no survivors. The Southern Cross 65 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.479 exploded and sank off the coast of Brazil one thousand, 66 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.000 two hundred casualties. The Wellington, the Lady Jane Gray, and 67 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.039 the Eldorado all caught fire in different parts of the Pacific. 68 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.599 Total deaths over two thousand. The greatest disaster was last April, 69 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.960 when the Titanic ran into an iceberg, with a loss 70 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:27.599 of over fifteen hundred souls. 71 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.080 The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships. The 72 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.439 ships of out the nationalities are taking all our trade. 73 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.360 Three banks and nearly ten investment concerns were large. Marine 74 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.159 interests have gone to the wall. Even Freud's is not 75 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.759 too secure. But that is not the most serious aspect 76 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:44.360 of the situation. 77 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.080 Really, good Lord, don't tell me that's worse to come, 78 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:48.719 much worse stock to Utson. 79 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.680 Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They 80 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.840 were sunk by diverse methods. One factor, however, was the 81 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.919 same in each disaster, and that was the cargo carried 82 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.439 by each ship was gold, English gold. If it ever 83 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.960 became known how much British bullion lies at the bottom 84 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:06.960 of the Seven Seas. 85 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.520 British credit would be badly crippled. 86 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.520 As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has 87 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.000 been forced to import a large shipment of gold from Canada. 88 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.000 And it's not the Gigantic. Good Lord, no wonder you're 89 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:17.759 upset the. 90 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.720 Whole economic structure of the British empires at state, mister Holmes. 91 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.160 Nothing must happen to the Gigantic. What makes you think 92 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:24.560 anything will? A cable was. 93 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.720 Sent shortly after the Gigantic left Queenstown. She makes a 94 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.240 stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage. You know 95 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.519 she sailed shortly before dawn this morning. The gang planks 96 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:36.879 have been drawn in the last line have been cast off, 97 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.639 and the great propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly, the 98 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:44.399 dock master noticed someone sliding down the ship's side. 99 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:49.480 On a rope. 100 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.439 Hi, look up, there s some fools climbed over the site. 101 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:57.639 He's coming down on a rope. 102 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:58.160 Novack. 103 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.720 If we'll go backti hill. He want to make the dock. 104 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.759 He'll follow the water and be swept out of the ship. 105 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.720 No, no, he's pushing the rope away from the ship 106 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.120 with his feet. He's swinging out. He's going to jump. 107 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:10.439 He made it. Someone upon the bridge has seen him. 108 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:11.360 He's calling to the. 109 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:17.560 Chat to pick himself up, he shouting back, are. 110 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:19.279 In hell? 111 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.800 Good lord, I know the manswer. It's smoky Joe the firebug. 112 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.920 If a gigantic don't catch fire between him south Hampton. 113 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:38.040 I'm a Dutchman smoking and Joe seems to me we've 114 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.199 heard of him before, A Watson, not merely as an 115 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.920 expert arsonist, but a dangerous pyromaniac as well. They caught him, 116 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.759 I hope, mister Pembroke. 117 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.120 No, no, mister Holmes. 118 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:47.879 Unfortunately he is too quick for them. 119 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.480 He crawled down a ladder and disappeared among the pilings 120 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:51.120 under the docks. 121 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.480 So the gigantic is headed for Southampton with a nice 122 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:54.800 bit of Joe's handiwork aboard. 123 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.879 Do you think it's a firebomb he homes? 124 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.680 Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting 125 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.519 a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to 126 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.480 have it happen went out to see I imagine, I 127 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:05.639 thought exactly. 128 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:06.120 Mister Holmes. 129 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.519 We wireless Captain Brooks to make a search, of course, 130 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.040 but on a shift the size of the Gigantic. 131 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:12.720 It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. 132 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.079 You are our one hope, mister Holmes. If only you 133 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:18.519 couldn't get on board in time? 134 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.000 And how do you suggest I go about that little assignment? 135 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.120 The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the 136 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.240 Royal Trains your disposal all out. The traffic will be 137 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.040 cleared off the tracks. Now you should reach Land's End 138 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.319 shortly after lunch. My art, the Albatrass will be waiting 139 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:35.399 for you in the harbors and ives very speedy little 140 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.199 crafton with any luck, you should cite the Gigantic around 141 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:39.079 eleven o'clock tonight. 142 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:42.639 Yes, eleven o'clock, was it? Smoky Joe called out, Happy 143 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.480 New Year? In hell, it won't be New Year, little midnight. 144 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:47.959 If we reach the Gigantic by eleven, we may just 145 00:06:48.040 --> 00:07:06.120 possibly be in time. Six spells, it's eleven o'clock. Confound 146 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.040 this fark. We've had to reduce our speed to half. 147 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.480 Oh, we'll never catch up to the gigantig now homes nonsense. 148 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.480 She's had to slow down too. I only hope you 149 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:14.879 don't miss out entirely in this fark. 150 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.800 I don't really care. 151 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.399 You don't sound any fit Onson, what's up? 152 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.720 Do you have to use that unfortunate expression and tell 153 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:24.959 me you're feeling squeamish? 154 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.879 Is this confounded or role? I can stand a good risk. 155 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.399 See but this bobbing up about in a tea cup. 156 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.879 It's pitty guy didn't bring them mother sims seasick pills. 157 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.120 There's only one remedy for this sort of thing. 158 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:36.680 What's that? 159 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:40.680 Staying on shore? It's jolly way to spend New Year's Eve? 160 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.800 This is who do you suppose? Is this possible for 161 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:45.360 these confounded sinkings? 162 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:45.800 Anyway? 163 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.279 The Pembroke seems to feel it's a foreign plot. The 164 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.639 Middle eat European shipping industry is benefit the most. 165 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:56.279 Of course, palms. Did you hear that? I jove yes, 166 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:05.040 sounds like an oce liner right enough? Yes, we're signal. 167 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:12.160 This Scott. 168 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.800 This he is the gigantic glooming out of the fog. 169 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.000 Looks like a mountain coming at us. 170 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.759 Oh yeah, yes, Sharlock Holmes and Dr Watson coming aboard. 171 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:37.840 Let down a ladder. Here's the lad of Watson. 172 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.120 I think you can manage it and climb up the 173 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.559 Eiffel Tower on a clothes line if it could get 174 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:44.519 me off this bouncing coffee shell. 175 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.000 Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here 176 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.000 on the bridge, Captain Brooks. Here's mister Holmes on a Gigantic. 177 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.159 We have the latest of everything, and none of it's 178 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:07.080 any real use. 179 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:07.720 In case of fire. 180 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.559 I'd sooner face a typhoon, or a shipwreck, or a 181 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.039 mutiny even dot rat than a fire on board ship. 182 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.679 Surely a ship this size should be fairly fireproof. 183 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.360 That's what you might think, doctor Watson, But that our 184 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:20.559 three factors that make a fire on a luxury line 185 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.039 are dangerous. First, there's all the confounded ornamental woodwork that's 186 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:25.360 used in a passenger construction. 187 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:27.360 Second, there's the fact that. 188 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.799 Once a fire gets a firm hold, it's fed by 189 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:33.360 drafts that rush through the ventilating system. M Third, there 190 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.480 is the element of pen Nothing makes people behave more 191 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.759 like wild beasts quicker than the cry of fire. In 192 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.000 case of fire, you have, of course an alarm system. 193 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.000 We have the old fashioned system of bells, and also 194 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.080 something rather recent. The Gigantic is one of the first 195 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.759 ships to install it. You see that glass case over there. 196 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.159 Gentlemen, they're wrong with a lot of tubes entering from 197 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.360 below looks rather like a giant honeycomb, Mayholmes. 198 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:59.600 Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of 199 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.000 the ship. The instant of fire breaks out anywhere, smoke 200 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.080 is immediately drawn up into the glass case. I've stationed 201 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.600 a sailor to watch that case. Believe me, gentlemen, the 202 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.559 first wisp of smoke please will know it. Yes, undoubtedly 203 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.480 very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the case of an ordinary conflagration, 204 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.159 I assure you, a fire set by smoky Joe is 205 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.679 not ordinary. He's a master arsonist. Ten seconds after one 206 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:23.960 of his fires breaks out, you're dealing with a raging inferno. Confounded, 207 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.080 they tell me the man deserted the ship at Queenstown. 208 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:27.399 That'd us this morning. 209 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:31.039 Why that's more than eighteen hours ago. If he'd set fire, 210 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.840 it seems to me that we'd be inflamed by this time. 211 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.320 Not necessarily. There are many methods by which a fire 212 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.679 can be made to break out long after the pyromaniac 213 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.879 has left the scene of his crime. You say you've 214 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:44.240 found no time bombs, no infammable assets, no, mister Holmes. 215 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.559 Ever since I received word that we were in danger, 216 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:49.879 I've had my men searching high and low. They found nothing, 217 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:53.559 absolutely nothing. It's been a systematic search, I promise you, yes, 218 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.799 but you've drawn a blank. That's what comes of using 219 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.159 system instead of brains and initiative. Oh and how do 220 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.240 you propose to locate whatever it is we can't find? 221 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.919 By using a little logic? I shall credit smoky Joe 222 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.720 with having the intelligence to place his fire's starting device 223 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.639 in a place where it will do the most damage. 224 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.480 The man's no amateur, Captain, he knows his business. Then 225 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.559 I shall investigate that place and remove his handiwork. 226 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.200 Ooms, you're bagging again. 227 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.080 At all, my dear Watson. I think I may promise 228 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.399 I shall have discovered the menace inside of half an hour. 229 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.159 I only hope Joe's little device doesn't do its nasty 230 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:29.759 job before then. Half an hour now, level thirty exactly? 231 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.840 Do you think you can solve this problem by midnight? Yes, Captain, 232 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:34.440 With any luck, I think I can promise you a 233 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.120 placid and uneventful new year, Captain Brooks. Yes, mister Brown 234 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:39.360 would seem to be the trouble. 235 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.399 The wireless engineers who wished to report something's wrong with 236 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.240 the apparatus both as sending and receiving equipment have suddenly 237 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:45.039 gone out of commission. 238 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.600 And I don't like that. What did he thinks? 239 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:48.200 Can you come here a minute? 240 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:49.720 Excuse me a moment, gentlemen. 241 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:51.159 The wildman is calling me. 242 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.159 What the trouble, Jerry? It's the compassation. 243 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:54.200 It's pretty like a top. 244 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.440 I can't figure out what's got into it. Never see 245 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.440 the light except once in some magnetic stall. 246 00:11:58.840 --> 00:11:59.960 Scott, this is incredible. 247 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.240 Now heart is the engine room calling, Captain. 248 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:10.799 I'll take it hello, Yes, Captain Brooks speaking the places 249 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:14.080 you say, well, do the mess you can seem to 250 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:14.960 be the difficulty, Captain. 251 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:16.080 The dynamoes are slowing down. 252 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:17.080 They can't figure out why. 253 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.360 Good lords, So that's why the lights are getting dim 254 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.320 places were the lights Without dynamos, We've no false drought 255 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:23.039 for the furnaces. 256 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:24.960 We'll never keep up enough steam pressure to. 257 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:25.559 Drive the ship. 258 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.840 In no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in. 259 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.399 The Atlantic, in the middle of the reefs. 260 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:31.240 That's around the city aisles. 261 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:32.840 And the only way to spend New Year's Eve homes. 262 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:35.039 It could be worse, you know how. The ship could 263 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.320 be on fire. That's the real menace. To which these 264 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.360 other threats are. But the prelude I fancy. For the 265 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.480 love of Heaven, what are we to do? Keep calm 266 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.720 and use whatever intelligence the Lord has endowed us with, 267 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:46.919 Captain Brooks, I suggest you and as many officers as 268 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.200 you can spare, join the holiday celebration that's undoubtedly going on, 269 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.679 in order to keep discipline in case there's any disturbance. 270 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.519 Very good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going 271 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:57.960 on in the large ballroom, John Seed Deck. And meanwhile, 272 00:12:57.960 --> 00:12:59.759 if you could spare us someone to guide Watson and 273 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.559 my Of course, mister Brown here is our pursa. 274 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.399 He knows the ship as well as anyone on board. 275 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:06.679 I'm sure he does. But when, mister Brown, if you'll 276 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.440 lead the way, I think doctor Watson and I would like. 277 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:10.559 To go below and investigate the engines. 278 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.000 No, mister Brown, even lower than that. What we're looking 279 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.080 for is that to be rather close to the furnaces. 280 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:29.919 I imagine these. 281 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:33.440 Iron stairs to go round and round and make me dizzy. 282 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.480 Maybe it's the heat down here. 283 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.720 Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room. If you listen, 284 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:40.360 you can hear the men stocky. 285 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.320 Him way to a living home. 286 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.759 To stop a minute, where does that lead, mister Brown? 287 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.039 That small corridor with a heavy metal door at the 288 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:48.600 far end. 289 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.120 That's the brilliant room though, where the gold is kept. 290 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:52.240 Very interesting. 291 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:55.440 Suppose we take a look, Kay, Watson, and I've always 292 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.200 wrothy to see those gold boss, you hear so much about. 293 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.159 I'm afraid that won't be PASSI to Watson, why not? 294 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.600 But as you can see, the door is locked and sealed. 295 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.879 It was done by the port authorities before we left 296 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:10.000 New York. That door won't be opened until the port 297 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.200 authorities unseal it when we reached Southampton. 298 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.919 You mean that room in there wasn't opened when the 299 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.159 captain ordered the ship searched for incendiary material. 300 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.399 No, mister Holmes, but it's quite impossible for any want 301 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:21.360 to place a fire barmb or anything of the sort 302 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:21.840 in there. 303 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:23.960 As you can see, the seals are still intact. 304 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.240 Quite these seals are intact. But are they the ones 305 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:33.440 put on in New York? I doubt its hell look yes, interesting, 306 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.080 very interesting. These are not the original seals, So how. 307 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.320 Can you tell homes? They look in tech to me exactly? 308 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.320 They are intact, But here in the crack of the 309 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.080 door sill are bits of broken seals. But these seals 310 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:46.639 are not even. 311 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.480 Chipped by Jervius. 312 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:51.600 Of course, the original seals were hacked off and then 313 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.399 replaced after someone had finished picking the lock and robbing 314 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:55.279 the room inside. 315 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:57.200 I doubt if robbery was the mote at Watson. 316 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.679 For what other reason would anyone want to break into. 317 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.000 A room full of gold bullion? 318 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:04.720 It all depends what lies directly below that from mister Brown. 319 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:08.639 Let me see nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes, 320 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.120 just the coal piles. 321 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.320 The coal piles. Good lord, I think we shall have 322 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:14.399 to break the seals again. Mister Brown. Here WA's and 323 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:14.679 help me. 324 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.960 But the door is not mister Holmes. 325 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.080 Now the seals have been removements have to get the 326 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:20.960 key from the captain. 327 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.519 No time for that. Hand me my burglar tools, Watson. 328 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.120 Good kenns. You mean you could actually take a lock 329 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:27.960 with those things? 330 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.000 Homes ever turned thief, mister Brown, even the Bank of 331 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:32.200 England wouldn't be safe. 332 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.519 Yes, that should do the trick. Now, if you'll help 333 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:36.840 me draw the bars, Watson. 334 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:41.120 That's good pleasure. 335 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.320 There you are, homes Now, let's. 336 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.639 See see lacking there isn't it? 337 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.360 Is there a light inside, mister Brown. No, mister Holmes, 338 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.960 I have a trade not and we shall have to 339 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.840 prop the door open. The light from the corridor will 340 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.200 have to do for our investigations. Come on, Watson, Holmes. 341 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:01.639 That smell hue strong and accreate like sulfer, only with 342 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:02.240 more bite. 343 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:05.320 Seems to be coming from this large tin. Suppose I 344 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:06.000 like a match. 345 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:06.679 This is fillish. 346 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.080 Stop don't be alarmed. I know better than to light 347 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.279 a match around a tin which is leaking start philic acid. 348 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.799 I only wanted to know how much you knew about 349 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.919 Smoky Joe's and send your a device. Mister Ludwig Brown 350 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.759 spelled b r a U N if I'm not mistaken, 351 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.159 so you recognize me? Yes, that dueling is card over 352 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:24.799 your left eye. It's rather a giveaway, don't you know. 353 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.080 So you have found how we are going to set 354 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.799 fire to the ship by having the acid drip. 355 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.399 Through a hole in the floor under the. 356 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:35.360 Coal beneath the first shovelful of that acid. So coal 357 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.519 that goes in the furnace and the whole of a 358 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.480 ship will be a blazing inferno. Nothing but put out 359 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.759 that fire. Don't you mean that's how you were going 360 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.039 to start the fire. My dear mister Holmes, you do 361 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.360 not think we will let a small obstacle like the 362 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.360 famous Sherlock Holmes stand in our way. 363 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.440 Listen to me, don't raise your fist to me. I'll 364 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.080 let you have it. 365 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.519 Never argue with a lugar pistol, Watson. 366 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:58.960 That's the first sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I 367 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.960 am sorry to leave, but the stokers should reach the 368 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.200 sulfuric acid impregnated coal in about ten minutes, I believe, 369 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.799 so I must be going. This room will be a 370 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:14.519 roaring oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone. 371 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:15.079 Gentlemen. 372 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:20.039 Goodbye then, so sorry, I cannot say I'll feed us in. 373 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.240 The door. He's bolted. Even you can't open it. 374 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:28.759 Now, Homes, Shut up, Watson, and help you look for 375 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.400 the opening. What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the 376 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.440 feats to the tube that ends on the Captain's new 377 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:36.200 fire detecting machine. It should be somewhere, never seeing what homes. 378 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.839 I can't see a thing in this black hole of Calcutter. 379 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:39.839 You can feel, can't you? 380 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.039 Not a thing homes? The wall on this side of 381 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:00.880 the room. It's a who there's an egg. 382 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.839 Can't found it? If we could see for half a minute, hullo, 383 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.519 I've got something there, Yes, a small grating here in 384 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.279 the upper corner. This must be it. Now, if we 385 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.640 can make a smudge of some sort, Watson, bring me 386 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:12.599 a piece of paper. 387 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.240 Paper, whoeverd I find a piece of paper? 388 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.039 Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth, 389 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.440 a piece of Yes, by jove, rope, bring me a 390 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.000 piece of the rope that's tied around one of the 391 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.200 boxes that contain the bullion. 392 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:24.400 Very well, if I can find a box, now what 393 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:25.839 I found it? 394 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:27.720 Found it? 395 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.799 They're not for tight so tight places with nuts. 396 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.359 Cut the rope. What's and use your pocket knife? 397 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:36.200 Oh very well, m. 398 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.319 Hey, homes, it's a short length. I'm afraid I. 399 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:42.759 Only want enough for a smudge. Nothing like a bit 400 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:43.519 of hempen. 401 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:44.000