WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.879 And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat 2 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:03.839 little murder and tough little park all right. 3 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.759 As a matter of fact, Holmes and I just missed 4 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.960 being eyewitnesses to the shooting. It was a night when 5 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.839 the century was very young, a night very much like tonight, 6 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:17.280 rain with a bit of mist mixed in for good measure. 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.839 Holmes and I were taking a slight constitutional. 8 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.519 You mean you went walking on a night like this 9 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:24.760 for pleasure? Doctor, Well, you were out. 10 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:28.199 Walking, mister Harris, to relieve the tension. It had been 11 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.839 raining for four days from Monday to Thursday. I doubt 12 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.280 whether it ceased for a moment when, for the fourth time, 13 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.640 after pushing my chair back from the breakfast table, I 14 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:43.000 saw the heavy brown swirl condensing in oily drops on 15 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.079 the window panes. I was ready to jump out of 16 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:46.719 my skin. 17 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:48.640 I can't say I blame you. Holmes. 18 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:52.479 Nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine. He 19 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.240 paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal, 20 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:01.679 cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed. Finally, 21 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.560 as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out 22 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.040 for exercise if he had to swim in the gutters. 23 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.239 We donned caps and ulsters, and after set the. 24 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.879 Amount of acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes 25 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.519 and muffler. For half an hour, we stowed the streets 26 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:24.239 in silence. Little by little, our nerves relaxed and our 27 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.519 pace slackened. By the time we started across Tucknell Park, 28 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:30.680 Holmes was feeling almost amiable. 29 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.400 Nothing of interest in today's papers, I suppose Watson. Only 30 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.920 news of the revolution, the possible war, and an impending 31 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:49.519 change of government commonplace. Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminal 32 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.719 certainly a dull fellow. The thief or murderer could roam 33 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:54.760 London on a night like this as the tiger does 34 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.159 his jungle, unseen to be punches and an evident only 35 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.719 to his victim. 36 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:01.319 Well, there have been a few petty thift. 37 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.719 Pettie thift, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The stage is 38 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.159 set for something somber, sinister, violent. 39 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.759 Oh I do wish you wouldn't run on like that homes, 40 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:11.120 at least until we reached. 41 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:13.960 The other side of the park. It's it's uncommonly dark 42 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.599 in here tonight. Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed 43 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.479 that wantson. There should be a street lamp along here somewhere, 44 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.280 either the lamplight has neglected to light it or Hello, 45 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:28.159 here's a lamp post. There's glass scattered on the pavement. 46 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.520 The light's been put out. What's on? 47 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:33.080 You heard that? 48 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.000 It sounded like someone's shooting, but the accurate ones and 49 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.280 there were two gunshots. The second I think was particular 50 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.120 homes homes. Here comes a woman. She's running along the path. 51 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:42.159 She's terrified. 52 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:45.479 Head someone hill on me, madam? 53 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.039 Can I be assistance? I'm sherlock home. 54 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:52.360 You're just the man I need. It's murder well behead there. 55 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.120 There's an open circular space with a fountain and a 56 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:56.319 you head all around. 57 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:57.719 I was walking. 58 00:02:57.400 --> 00:02:59.520 Towards it when I saw men rise up out of 59 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.280 the push. He shot at someone sitting on a bench 60 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:06.000 in front of the fountain, and then disappeared in which 61 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.560 direction I don't know. Oh, please please see if the 62 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.039 man's hurt, I'll get a doctor. 63 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:11.719 I'd be like this. 64 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.280 It won't be necessary. My friend here is a medical man, 65 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.960 and judging by your cap and cape, you're not unacquainted 66 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:18.280 with the medical profession yourself. 67 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.919 No matron st pan Christian. 68 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.039 Firmily excellent. Come with us. We may need your assistance. 69 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:25.199 That shouldn't someone go for the police. 70 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.680 Mustn't let the murderer get away. My dear missus, Missus Sydney, 71 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.199 My dear missus Sydney. The first thing is to ascertain 72 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:33.719 if it really is murder we're dealing with. 73 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.560 The first thing is homes, if you pardon my saying, 74 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:38.560 so is to save the victim's life if we. 75 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.039 Can, and hear Watson for once, I agree with you. 76 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:52.759 Come along so I'm sure, kiddy is Watson on the 77 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:53.960 ground beside the bench homes. 78 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.280 That's a matchy so I can have a look at him. 79 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:01.879 Good lord, it's Superintendent Jeffers his nick. He's been shot 80 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:02.360 in the neck. 81 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.879 Yes, I'm afraid it's serious. 82 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.439 Matter, don't you. I'm glad? 83 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.479 Have them get me to them firmly. 84 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.120 He's right, we'd have to operate. Hurry, missus Sidney. Tell 85 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:13.680 him to send the ambulance and a stretcher. 86 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:15.240 Rob, What Rob? 87 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:16.199 What's happened? 88 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:19.240 What if they've done to you? 89 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:20.680 Where were you? 90 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:21.600 Oh? 91 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:21.800 Wait? 92 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.639 I came as quickly as I could. They wouldn't let 93 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:24.079 me off to you. 94 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:25.199 To no, never mind, that. 95 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.600 Go get help, tell them to ring the ambulance. No, no, 96 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.639 I want to stay with him. And what good would 97 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:30.000 you be? 98 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:31.199 Just a probation. 99 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:33.000 I'm the one he. 100 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.639 Needs now, the love of Heaven. 101 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.360 Someone go, We've got to get the bullet out of him. 102 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:41.079 He's leading internally, all right, God, no, please. 103 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.759 I think she's a nurse. 104 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:45.000 What does she know? 105 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.680 What does she know about anything? 106 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.759 WA's in many more wounds beside the one on the neck, 107 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.319 Great Scott, No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were 108 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:53.680 two shots. We heard two shots. 109 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.319 Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, Consciously, I'm busy. 110 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:58.639 He was sitting on the bench. The bullet entered from 111 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:00.800 the front. The shot was fire from this direction. 112 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:02.199 That's right, mister Holmes. 113 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.399 The man came out of the bushes from over there. 114 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.399 He took two steps and then I saw the flames. 115 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.199 Spurred out a little bone. 116 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.199 But once or twice, well, I don't well. 117 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:12.439 That is once. 118 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:13.959 I'm sure it was only once. 119 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:22.720 It was George Shotley, Oh, George mcgownparted his cat in 120 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:27.800 the dark over there, h hair doing me all afternoon. 121 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.240 I thought i'd shaken him off, but I wouldn't have 122 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.120 kept the appointment with Nellie. 123 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:34.199 Here. 124 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.839 I was in danger minute I saw his cat come 125 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:38.480 out of the bush. 126 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:39.800 Did he say anything that he's set in? 127 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.959 You didn't say anything, just shot me. 128 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.600 What did his face looked like as he came towards you? 129 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:48.560 Leave him alone? 130 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.240 Can't you leave him alone? 131 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.079 Yes, sir, don't try to talk. 132 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:55.959 Save you. Up Here comes Tom, Thank Heaven for that. 133 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.040 It won't belong now he isn't here. 134 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.519 The little as close as we could, with the path 135 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:02.399 as much too narrow. 136 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.319 Ever, mind the excuse is Nelle bring. 137 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:06.120 The stretcher over here. 138 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:12.279 Yes, down, George, that's right, boys, now, easy, easy, I'll 139 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:13.680 take the shoulders and the head. 140 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:14.959 Oh, I brought a lantern. 141 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.040 You keep away from him then. 142 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:22.720 Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance. Careful, keep out 143 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:23.199 to step. 144 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.079 Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower 145 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:26.720 than his fee. 146 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.360 Watson, when you finished operating, be sure to save me 147 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:29.759 the bullet. 148 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.600 I'm not interested in adding to your grizzly souvenirs. 149 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.319 I'm not asking for a souvenir, Watson. I'm demanding evidence. 150 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:36.480 Be sure I get that bullet. 151 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.839 So my fault. I shouldn't have said i'd meet him 152 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.399 here tonight. I knew Old George. It's threatened doctor Jeffers 153 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:48.519 when he was released today. 154 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.240 Who is old George, miss Nellie? And what did he 155 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.279 have against the superintendent? Well? 156 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.920 Nothing really, George McGown is just a tragic old man 157 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:59.160 who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family. 158 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.680 Daughter stood it as long as she could, and then 159 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:03.959 she had him committed. 160 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:04.639 I see. 161 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.360 The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's, 162 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:08.759 you know, and he kept. 163 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.839 Yelling for his revolver to protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers 164 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:15.399 had taken the gun away from it when all George arrived. 165 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.920 That's when he first took a dislike to doctor Jeffers, 166 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.680 and even after he was better, he went on hating him. 167 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.439 Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked? 168 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:24.959 Oh no, he's wonderful. 169 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.240 That is well, I suppose it is tricked, but you 170 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.079 have to be if you're in charge of a. 171 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.879 Place that hits int pancras, you wouldn't buy any chance 172 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:34.759 be prejudiced. 173 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.839 Well, I perhaps I am just a bit. 174 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:40.600 It's a secret. 175 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.800 But well, doctor Jefferson and I are engaged to be married. 176 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.319 Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me miss name. Does 177 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.639 anyone else suspect this attachment? 178 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.279 Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does. 179 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.120 Doctor Jefferson's most particular, None of the other nurses should 180 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:54.600 find out. 181 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.959 He said it would be bad for hospital discipline. 182 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.600 I see. Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with 183 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.240 mister Gowan's revolver when he took it away from him? Oh? 184 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:03.360 He put it in the safe. 185 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.000 That's what they always do with the patient's valuables when 186 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.120 they arrived. They're handed back, of course, when the patient 187 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:09.839 is discharged. 188 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.160 You say, George McGowan was discharged. 189 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:13.800 Today, Yes, sir, at ten o'clock this morning. 190 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.879 Did doctor Jeffers return his revolver? Oh? 191 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.319 No, sir, that was what they had the row about 192 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.240 that and all George's cap. 193 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:34.080 Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this harbor for me discharge. 194 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.200 Well here it is, George. And how many times do 195 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.000 I have to tell you to take that cap off 196 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:38.879 when you're in the house. 197 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.120 Well I'm a bonnet because I'm ready to. 198 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.879 Go very well then, but see you go straight home. 199 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:48.039 No dropping in at any pub on the way mind you? Eh, well, 200 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.039 what are you waiting for? Sell? You yet to give 201 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:50.919 him a pack up? 202 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:51.440 Pistol. 203 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.639 Don't you think you're better off without it? Who's to 204 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:56.759 be the judge of that? I brought it with me 205 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:57.679 from Grasky. 206 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:00.679 Well you're not going to get it, I understand here 207 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:02.600 arguing take off that dirty cat. 208 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:06.519 It's no dirty cup. Here's my fine Scotch bonnet. Here's 209 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.799 the mcgaron Catton it is. I've kept it on in 210 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.320 the presence of better men than you'll pay. 211 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:11.559 That will do, George. 212 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.240 I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that. 213 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:19.240 Oh Matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor, 214 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.120 but he better look out for old George. I'll get 215 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.200 even with mister Superintendent Jeffers if it is the last. 216 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:25.399 Thing at all. 217 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.440 I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughed. 218 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.519 He said, if the doctor was going to worry about 219 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:36.919 all the patients that took a dislike to. 220 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:40.559 Him, he'd better give up medicine. Do you think they'll. 221 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.960 Be able to save his life, doctor Jeffers, I. 222 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.720 Mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much better 223 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:47.879 surgeon than he is a detective. Your friend is in 224 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:48.600 good hand. 225 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:53.480 Doctor Watson. Why then then you must be the great. 226 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.720 Mister Sherlock Holmes, hadn't you guessed? 227 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.840 Well? No, I suppose I was so upset. And then 228 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.559 the light here is so dim to night. All I 229 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.120 can really see is that peak calf of yours. 230 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.679 Yes, Doctor Jeffer says it would mean mister mc gowan 231 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.840 that shot him. That I suspect all he saw in 232 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.559 this lightish bonnet, and rather imagine that was why the 233 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:14.799 street lamp was extinguished. 234 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.039 Of course, old George hoped to get away without being 235 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:18.919 recognized at all. 236 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:22.320 I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holt. 237 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.440 Confound this rain that's drowned my mash. 238 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.360 You'll try another here, I'll hold. 239 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.879 My cape all this, thanks, Yes, that's better. No footprints 240 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.679 on this gravel, confounded here shadow here we are, just 241 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:37.720 as I expected, right here on the ground, under the 242 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:40.360 ew head, from a trifle water on but still recognizable. 243 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.159 Why that's all George's care. He must have lost it 244 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.240 in the excitement. And look down on the grass. Mister Holmes, 245 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:47.600 there's his ruler too. 246 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.519 Don't touch it. Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't 247 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.679 want any unnecessary finger prints. I'll handle it with my muffler. 248 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:54.960 Good thing, Watson, bullet be into wearing it comes in 249 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.919 useful after all, although what finger prints we have are 250 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:03.320 probably badly smeared. The gun has recently been discharged. Yes, 251 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.159 only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting, very interesting. 252 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.720 That, mister Holmes, Doctor jeffer Is is only one moon. 253 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.440 Quite right, two shots were fired, however, I heard. 254 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.240 Them myself, but I don't understand. 255 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.879 I'm not sure I do either. That is not entirely that. 256 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.320 I have a few rather definite suspicions which I shall 257 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.320 endeavor to confirm. 258 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:21.720 How will you do that, mister. 259 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.159 Holmes, by means of some experiments with this revolver and 260 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.360 with a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from 261 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.679 the neighborhood of your fiancees jugular vain. Yes, suppose we 262 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:31.639 get along to St. Pancras's infirmity. I'm counting on you 263 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:33.360 to procure me some rather important information. 264 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.360 Anything I could do, mister Holmes, anything at all. 265 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.039 You can look through the files and get me mister 266 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:38.960 mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his 267 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:53.840 daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules. Seventeen years 268 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.879 here we are dilapidated, little villa. 269 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:04.879 Ah, Well, what do you want. 270 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.120 Miss McGowan, I presume I wonder if I might speak 271 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.039 to your father for a moment. 272 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:08.720 No, you can't. 273 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.080 You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact, 274 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:12.559 I think if you'll let me talk to him now 275 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:14.200 before the authorities arrived. 276 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:16.840 Two later, owns you'll not be playing. 277 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.720 Ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well, 278 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.320 if it isn't Lestrade, the super snooper of Scotland. 279 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.919 Yard, you can laugh, mister Sherlock Holmes, but this is 280 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.960 one time you don't need your assistance. I'm here to 281 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.080 arrest George Bergeron for the murder of Superintendent Jeffers of 282 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:33.240 Saint Patcras Infirmary. 283 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:34.480 You mean to say he's dead. 284 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:36.240 No, but from what the matron tells me, he will 285 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.840 be before morning. So I've come to arrest his murderer. 286 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.600 Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson 287 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.799 and myself. Also, the Superintendent may pull through and it's 288 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.039 just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him. 289 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.399 Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers. 290 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.320 Sign the matron says you found McGowan's cap and revolver 291 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:55.639 a Webley six seminder on the scene of the crime. 292 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.039 What's more, I've got the bullet they took out of 293 00:12:58.120 --> 00:12:58.759 Jeffer's neck. 294 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.279 Possibly, but what makes you think the bullet was fired 295 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:02.360 from that particular revolver. 296 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.879 It's the right size and canniber. That's enough for me. 297 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:07.799 Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with 298 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.080 the guard and the cap I thank you to hand 299 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:10.440 them over. 300 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.840 So sorry, but I can't, you know, not until I've 301 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.039 conducted a few rather important experiments. 302 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.639 So obstruct in the law, that's what it is. You 303 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.679 won't restep yourself this time, earns end or mistake. I'll 304 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.399 have a warrant sworn out for your first thing in 305 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:24.799 the morning. 306 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.919 Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here? 307 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.000 What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister 308 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:30.840 George mcgonne. 309 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.759 I don't need you to remind me of a duty now, then, miss, 310 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:36.320 tell your father I want to see it. 311 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:37.000 He need you? 312 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.200 Well, you can't, But why not? Because it didn't come home? 313 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:41.679 And if you had to sets your. 314 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.440 Bone with you go and look for him laying drunk 315 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.960 and some powers from ailhouse who will be in Texas 316 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.240 for I'd like to know why didn't they keep him. 317 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.320 In the hospital till it was cured. 318 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.159 Me And why don't you smile, tele explain your own 319 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:53.399 business hither bothering you. 320 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:57.639 It seems miss McGowan has put us both in the 321 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.080 same class. Congratulations, was trying. You've been promoted. 322 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.840 You go to blazers and another thing. 323 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.799 You bring that cap and that revolver out of the 324 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.000 ard first thing in the morning. Elms, and I'll see 325 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:09.080 you put behind bars. 326 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.799 You've made your little aultimatum, Lestrade. Now I'll make mine. 327 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.480 You bring that bullet they took out of doctor Jeffer's 328 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.799 neck around a two twenty one B Baker Street before 329 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.759 midnight tonight, or I'll make you the laughing stock of London. 330 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.519 Oh that's bluff, your bluff. 331 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.840 Possibly the caless trade. I'll stake my reputation that that 332 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.159 bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You can 333 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.440 bring a warrant with the bullet. If I'm wrong, you 334 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.120 can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence. 335 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.120 Pretty sure of yourself, arch All right, it's a deal. 336 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:43.960 I'll bring the warrant and the handcuff, all right. 337 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.679 George the coast clear. You can come out from behind 338 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.279 the rain barrel. 339 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.200 Thank you, sir, willill your bee. No turning me. 340 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.200 In, don't mention it. Oh, just one thing, Tell me 341 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.720 the truth, George. Did you shoot Superintendent Jeffers tonight in 342 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.559 Tufno Park? So help me, sir, I don't. I followed 343 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.159 him all afternoon, but it was that wet and Aurora 344 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:06.639 had to stop. 345 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.600 In and again for a wheed trap, and pretty soon 346 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:11.759 I was in a bit of a fog, as you 347 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:13.039 might say, So I. 348 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.519 Don't rightly remember what happened. When I come to, I 349 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.080 was lying in the gut with my bonnet gun and 350 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.120 my hand here covered with blood. Hey, it could be 351 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:24.919 me in blood. So I've got a nasty cut over 352 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.960 my left eye. Let's hope it is your own blood, George. 353 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.759 If it's not, you should both end up in jail. 354 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.600 Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you 355 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.759 think you're doing? Shooting? 356 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:49.320 That's obvious? 357 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:51.600 I may say it was obvious the moment I turned 358 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.080 the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target 359 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:56.639 practice this hour of the night. 360 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.919 This is not target practice, Watson. You'll notice I'm shooting 361 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.759 into a large cylinder filled with cotton wool. It's a 362 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.639 little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect to Lestrad 363 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:09.279 that Baker Street is more sapient than Scotland Yard. Oh that, 364 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.360 if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of the law 365 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.720 in person. I'll go down, mother Watson. I told missus 366 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.200 Hudson we were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes, 367 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:23.519 twelve o'clock. Come in, Lestrade, come in your promptest itself. 368 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:28.159 Well, Holmes, I've brought the bullet and the handcuffs. 369 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.440 Fair enough, now here, take this chair here by the microscope. 370 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.960 I'll turn the lamp up a little higher. Now, then 371 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.440 if you'll give doctor Watson the bullet he extracted from 372 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.360 doctor Jeffer's neck and allow him to place it under 373 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:40.840 the lens. 374 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:46.039 All right, but you thank you mind really, by the way, 375 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.720 Dr Watson, now is the victim? 376 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:49.080 Did you pull him through? 377 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:49.759 And I'm dead? 378 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:54.759 Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's resting quietly. Thank you, Holmes, 379 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.559 never thought to inquire. 380 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.399 My dear Watson. I have every confidence in your medical ability. No, 381 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:02.440 what I'm really curious about is the pattern of the 382 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:07.279 marks on this bullet. Pardon me, what I've focused the lens? Yes, 383 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:13.240 Let's see I thought so. I thought, so he may know. 384 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.680 What you're talking about, Dr Watson, but I'm completely in 385 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:16.160 the dark. 386 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.960 How about you, I confessed the Stard, I am quite frequently. 387 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.559 In your predicament. But it's all so childishly simple. This 388 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.759 bullet could not possibly have been fired from George McGowan's revolver. 389 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.599 The bore patterns are entirely different. What's he raving about here? 390 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.079 Look in the microscope while I explain in words of 391 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.720 one syllable, I'm looking. Go ahead, Notice the pattern of lines, 392 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.599 walls and scratches on that bullet. Fix them well in 393 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:40.079 your mind. 394 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:41.720 All right, I'm doing it. 395 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.559 A few years ago, Astard, I've persuaded Scotland Yard to 396 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.359 take up the science of finger printing. Fingerprints are now 397 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.119 recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets 398 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.200 of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Granted, I'd like to 399 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.200 introduce you to the science of ballistic spull What's that? 400 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.279 Every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leave on 401 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.759