WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.160 Now, doctor Watson, how about the singular affair of the 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:04.120 babbling Butler. 3 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.839 Well, that adventure began on a November evening many. 4 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:11.800 Years ago, a four days a dense yellow pug and 5 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.800 virtually marooned homes and me and our Baker Street lodgings. 6 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.480 The first day the great man had spent in cross 7 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:21.879 indexing this huge book of references. The second and third 8 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.760 had been patiently occupied upon a subject which he had 9 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.079 recently made his hobby, the music to the Middle Ages. 10 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:30.519 It when on the fourth day we. 11 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.359 Still saw the heavy brown swirl drifting past us and 12 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.119 condensing in oily drops upon the windowpanes, my old friend's 13 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.479 active and impatient nature began to assert itself. He started 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.759 to pace restlessly about our room in a fever of 15 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:45.840 suppressed energy. 16 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:47.479 Confound this far. 17 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.479 Oh, do stop pacing up and down homes. No good 18 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.000 getting angry with the weather. That's one problem even you 19 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:53.960 can't do anything about. 20 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.920 It. Isn't the weather, Watson, It's the infannel dullness of 21 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.960 the London criminals these days. Come over here to the window. 22 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:00.840 Oh what is it? 23 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:01.159 Ah? 24 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:04.920 Look out there? See how the figures loom up our 25 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.400 dimly scene. And then blend once more into the fog. 26 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.200 What am I to put a beef for the murderer? Watson? 27 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:12.920 You could roam London as a tiger does the jungle, 28 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.920 un seeing until he pounces. It's fortunate for this community 29 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.920 that I'm not a criminal. It is indeed, suppose that 30 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.519 I were Brooks or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty 31 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.200 men who have good reason to take my life? How 32 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.760 long could I survive against my own pursuit, A summons, 33 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.359 a bogus appointment, and all would be over? The only 34 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.000 thing that depresses me is an inactivity. Why doesn't something happen? 35 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:40.439 Why doesn't someone come to me with a problem. 36 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.120 It sounds as if your prayers did answered. 37 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:45.079 I hope. So see who it is, Watson? Will you 38 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.040 it'll save missus Udson a trip? 39 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:52.319 Yes, of course, all right, Missus Hudson. Ask the the 40 00:01:52.439 --> 00:02:01.439 gentleman to come up here this matter you would perceived homes. 41 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.079 Yes I do. Then come along in. My name is Watson, 42 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:06.400 Doc Watson, And. 43 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.680 This is how do you do, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, 44 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:11.199 My name is Jenkins. 45 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:17.639 But Sir Rodrick Martin, Sir Roderck Martin, indeed, Sir down Jenkins. 46 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:19.759 Thank you, sir Martin. 47 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:21.680 Isn't he the theatrical producer? 48 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.919 Yes, Watson, and he is quite famous in his own 49 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.960 circle for his cynicism of a certain modern wit. Your 50 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.280 master needs my services, I presume Jenkins. 51 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.919 Yes, mister Homey does. He's in desperate trouble. He'd like 52 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.639 you to come over to. 53 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:36.319 His house of wants. 54 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.520 What kind of trouble is he? 55 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.680 Please don't ask any questions so that just come to 56 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.919 the house and see for yourselves. I have long wanted 57 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:43.719 to meet Sir Rodrick. 58 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.080 I believe it was he who gave currency to that pun, 59 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.840 though he might be more humble. There's no police like Holmes. 60 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.120 That's a funny police like Boom. 61 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:56.319 I'm glad it amuses. Sir Watson. 62 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:59.039 Well, I'm for you to come with Please, gentlemen, come 63 00:02:59.080 --> 00:02:59.360 with me. 64 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.719 Whatever Maske's problems may be. I think I would enjoy 65 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:06.599 a discussion with him, perhaps on the topic of humility. Yes, 66 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:21.879 Jenkins will accompany you at once. This is mister Sherlock 67 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.400 Holmes and Dr Watson. 68 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.159 Sir, how do you do? How do you do? Jenkins? 69 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:27.599 Oh? How very odd? 70 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:27.759 Now? 71 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.319 Why should Jenkins make such a meteoric exit? I presume 72 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.879 Sir Rodrick, he wished to leave us alone. Indeed, what 73 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.400 a singularly depressing thought. 74 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.120 Well, so, now that he's gone, you can talk quite really, 75 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.080 my dear doctor. 76 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.800 Watson, I've been in the habit of talking freely ever 77 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:42.800 since I had the pleasure of insulting my nurse at 78 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.719 the age of four. She was a peculiarly revolting female 79 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.560 by the name of Pearl. After forty four years, I 80 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:51.080 still can't think of a more inappropriate name for her. 81 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.319 Sir Rodrick, your childhood reminiscences are fascinating, But supposing to 82 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:58.599 get down to business, very well, Holmes, to what do 83 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.599 I owe the well, for lack of a better word, 84 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:05.319 the pleasure of this visit. Your butler came to Fetcho's. 85 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.039 He said that you were in desperate trouble and needed 86 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:08.560 our help. 87 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.319 Jenkins told you that I can only assume that he 88 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.800 stole more than his usual quota of brandy to day. 89 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.399 I noticed in the past that alcohol seems to give 90 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.040 him the quaintest delusions. 91 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:22.160 Then you don't wish to consult me professionally, no, Holmes, 92 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.000 I don't, nor do I wish the services of a doctor. Therefore, 93 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:26.759 I suggest you both retire. 94 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.879 And ask Jenkins for your hats and an explanation. Good evening, gentlemen. 95 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.199 It's one of his stupid jokes, homes the bounders trying 96 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.000 to make a pool order. 97 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.800 I think not Watson. It'd be a singularly pointless joke 98 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.480 and far below his standard. No, I believe there's some 99 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:47.399 other game afoot, though, Sir Roderick dismissed a somewhat unceremoniously. 100 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.360 I think we may still be reasonably certain of a 101 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.439 welcome in the certain squatters. You're going to talk to 102 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:55.120 the butter, Yes, Watson. I'm certain he's neither been drinking 103 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.920 nor suffering from delusions. I'm convinced that. 104 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:08.600 The man is in mortal terror of his life. 105 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.160 Thank Heavens you came to see me, mister Holmes. 106 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.680 How could we resist it when theeradic told us that 107 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.600 your entire story was a lie. 108 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:18.879 Oh, you must forgive me, gentlemen. 109 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.199 And I I was desperate with fear, and I had 110 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:22.279 to attract your attention. 111 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:27.079 But why you've accomplished your purpose. Now you've thoroughly aroused 112 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.959 my curiosity. But I repeat why. 113 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.439 Because I'm in terror of my life, Sir. Someone's trying 114 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:34.000 to murder me. 115 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.839 What reason have you for saying that, Jakin. 116 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:38.759 Last night an attempt was made to kill me? 117 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.160 Oh, please describe the circumstances. 118 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.120 Well, sir, I was carrying a cake of wine down 119 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.040 into the cellar, slipped from my arms and hit the stairs, 120 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.759 and then the stairs collapsed. 121 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.120 When I examined them, I found that they'd been sore. 122 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:52.839 Almost true. 123 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.600 I assume that you are the only member of the 124 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:58.399 household who ever visits the wine cellar. 125 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:01.600 Yes, that was a liberate trap to break my neck. 126 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.839 If I'd step down, would have been the end of me. Oh, 127 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.959 mister Holmes, I'm only a servant. 128 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.040 I couldn't pay this well. 129 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:08.839 Did Jenkins? 130 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.199 Are sure that mister Holmes is as interested in preventing 131 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.639 the murder of a servants ian is in saving the 132 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.040 life of a prime. 133 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.240 Minister Jenkins, have you any idea who might want to 134 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:19.560 kill you? 135 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:19.639 On? 136 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.439 There's only one person on earth for the murder for 137 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.639 killing me, So that's my master, Roderck Martin. 138 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.879 Come, Come, come, my dear man. I'm sure I'm mistaken. 139 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.079 What reason do you have for suspecting him? 140 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:32.519 It's this way, mister Holmes. 141 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.319 A year ago a certain lady killed herself when Sir 142 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:36.199 Roderick jolted her. 143 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:38.279 The affair was all hushed up him. 144 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.600 Nobody knew so Roderick was even involved, but her brother 145 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.399 swore to avenge her death. That brother is a very 146 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.040 close friend of Sir Roderick's that has never suspected him. 147 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:48.279 Complicated situation. 148 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.600 Yes, Watson, I take it. Jenkins. You are the only 149 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.560 person who knows that your master was going to him, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. 150 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:58.040 And if I were dead, his secret would be safe. 151 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.000 Mister Holmes, is what can I do? I know he's 152 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:01.759 planning my death. 153 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.879 You've got to save me, Sir Jenkins. My advice is this, 154 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.319 Write a full statement of the circumstances in this case, 155 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.639 sign and seal it and hand it over to me 156 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.279 for safe keeping. Inform your master that if anything happens 157 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.000 to you, I shall make public the contents of the statements. 158 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:17.959 It's a very good idea. 159 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:19.360 I'll do that, Sir. I'll do that. 160 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:20.920 I'll bring it to you in the morning. 161 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:25.000 Spend it. Come on, Watson. Oh, by the way, Jenkins, 162 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.439 what's the name of your doctor? Doctor? Sir? I never 163 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.639 said that. You never said what doctor? 164 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.240 Yes, yes, Dr David Stanley in Wimpole Street. 165 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.879 Dr David Stanley, I see, well, good night, Jenkins. We 166 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:41.079 shall expect you in the morning. 167 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.720 But why are we going to see Dr Stanley? 168 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.839 Firstly because I want his physician's opinion as to weather 169 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.720 as might be suffering from hysterical delusion. 170 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.399 Well as a doctor myself, I say that's small likely. 171 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:08.680 I must say his actions tonight hard to seem the 172 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.199 behavior of a sane man when. 173 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.319 A man is bad at frightened Watson, and it's sometimes 174 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:17.879 hard to judge his actions by more rational standards. Instantly, 175 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.519 did you notice the way he started when I asked 176 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.079 him the name of his doctor? Almost certainly, doctor David 177 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.000 Stanley is the vengeful killer. 178 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:27.439 Right George, now that you mentioned it. 179 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.959 I do remember hearing some gossip in Harley Street about 180 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:33.559 Stanley's sister killing herself, but nobody seemed to. 181 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:34.200 Know the motives. 182 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.679 Woo, here's the house, Watson. 183 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.120 Well, let's hope the doctor's at home. 184 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.519 If he isn't, we haven't come very far out of 185 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:40.879 our way. 186 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:42.919 We'll beg a wait for your governor. 187 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:50.919 No, thanker, Kevin, here you are, thank you. I can 188 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.240 hear a pana play. 189 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:55.039 Someone is at home. 190 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.679 That seems an eminently logical deduction. 191 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.919 There's no need to be their home. Good evening. 192 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.000 My name is Charlotte Holmes, and this is my colleague, 193 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.320 doctor Watson. How do you do. I'm missus Stanley. 194 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:10.440 Will you wondered if. 195 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:12.840 We might have a few words with your husband? 196 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:14.559 Come in, won't you? 197 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:20.759 Gentlemen, mister Holmes, you are detective. 198 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:20.799 Aren't you? 199 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:22.960 Yes, Missus Stanley, I. 200 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:24.759 Hope you haven't come here to talk to David about his. 201 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.919 Sister's death, not directly, madam. Though my mission is not 202 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.159 unconnected with their tragedy, then I can't let you. 203 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.320 Really, Missus Tanner, my friend only will. 204 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.600 For the sake of his sanity. I daren't let you 205 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.200 talk to him ever since his sister died, and you 206 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.320 seem like a so tormented he spends most of his. 207 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.039 Time in there playing those frightening compositions to be on 208 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:46.600 the piano. 209 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.720 I can't let be subjected any more questioning about his sister. 210 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:59.000 Even though I don't miss you, Sylvia, I had voices. Oh, gentlemen, 211 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.919 it's miss to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. I hope 212 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.840 we're not intruding, Sir the Great Sharlock Holmes this friend, 213 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.679 Doctor Watson, intruding, but cost not. I'm flattered. Come in, 214 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:15.759 Come in, gentlemen. Don't wry missus Stanley, we will. 215 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:18.480 Come. 216 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.240 I believe you're something of a musician. I like your 217 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.840 opinion of this, David, Dear. They haven't come here and listen. 218 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.679 I don't care what they came here for. This is 219 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:39.720 what they're going to hear. Well, do you like it? 220 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.960 A strange savage melody? Doctor Stanley is? 221 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.519 And it's a rather depressing if you. 222 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.559 No, I shouldn't it be when it's finished? I call 223 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:54.120 it a frenity for dead sister. That's what you've come 224 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:57.519 to see you about, isn't it? Mister Sherlock comes, David, 225 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:58.080 you much. 226 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:09.519 I should prefer that you leave us alone. Dead alone, Sylvia, Sylvia, 227 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:14.720 the girl can't face up the facts. I can tell me, Holmes, 228 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.559 what have you found out about my sister's death? 229 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.000 Doctor Stanley, I'm afraid you're laboring under a misapprehension. I 230 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.559 know nothing of your sister. I came here to talk 231 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.320 about Jenkins, Sir Robert Martine. 232 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.360 Tells us that you were his physician. 233 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.720 Jenkins, Eh, what you want to know about him? 234 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.200 Has he been ill? 235 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:36.240 Recently a few months ago, he had a bad attackive 236 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:37.559 in Kerrick fever right. 237 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.000 Your eyes, and Keerik sometimes leaves that after fact, would 238 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.519 you say, doctor the Jenkins has suffered no lasting damage 239 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:47.639 hallucinations for listener. 240 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.120 At the time, he was out of his head for 241 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:53.919 a while. But I'd say he's perfectly south now, Thank you, 242 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.799 doctor Stanley. That's all we wanted to know. 243 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:00.080 You mean to say that you came here simply to 244 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.960 find out about the state of jenkins sanity. 245 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.919 Just that, sir, Good evening, Good. 246 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:06.799 Night, doctor Furner. 247 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.279 I think you had something else on your mind before 248 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:11.960 you talk. 249 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:13.080 Of Sylvia. 250 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.480 Jenkins may be saying, but that man's on the edge 251 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.639 of a mental collapse if I ever saw one. 252 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:25.200 I quite agree, Watson, missus Kenny seems to have gone upstairs. 253 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:26.600 I think they let ourselves out. 254 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.600 Well, Holmes, that was rather a fruitless trip. 255 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.039 We didn't learn much there except that Jenkins is compass 256 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:41.480 mentis I disagree? 257 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:41.879 O Chap. 258 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.440 We'll learn to great new more than that tomorrow morning. 259 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.600 I shall do no time in calling on Sir Roderick 260 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.120 again that horrible follow say why because he's the focal 261 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:55.080 point in a grim Fangedy. Inevitably, either he will kill 262 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.440 Jenkins or doctor Stanley will kill him. 263 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:11.519 O idea, Homes, I am accustomed to facing two brown 264 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.759 eggs at breakfast, two brown eggs lightly boiled, followed by 265 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.480 a leisurely a perusal of the times. 266 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.759 I see no reason why this day should commence any differently. 267 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.240 So Roderck, I've explained you'll explain nothing, including your own presumption. 268 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.039 Homes, I can see no cause for your meddling, even 269 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.480 if I understood precisely what you were driving at, which 270 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:29.200 I don't. 271 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:31.960 Herodic, you must see that my friend is trying to 272 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:32.399 protect you. 273 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.639 Doctor Watson, I once had the acute misfortune to read 274 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.559 one of your shockingly florid stories. 275 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.039 I can only assume that your gross imagination has infected 276 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.960 your daily life. Since your own safety seems to be 277 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.360 a matter of indifference to you, So Rodric, I may 278 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.240 point out that I know too much if you plan 279 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.039 on being a danger yourself. 280 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.799 Homes, you're impertinent, a quality which is attractive only in 281 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.559 a younger person and of a different sex. 282 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.600 What is even more unpardonable, you're boring. Leave and take 283 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:05.320 this bumbling veterinary surgeon with you excremin before one thing, 284 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.799 Where is your butler, Jenkins? A new man opened the 285 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.720 door just now Jenkins? 286 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.279 Oh, yes, yes, yes, I omitted to tell you Jenkins 287 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.679 has left my service. You discharge you must well, not exactly, 288 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.639 though it is my invariable rule to discharge any certain 289 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:21.960 time guilty of a crime. 290 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:27.399 A crime, and what was Jenkins's crime? He committed suicide. 291 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.679 Just a moment we shall hear more about this ironic 292 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:46.120 crime of suicide. But first, man, nice looking, attractive hair 293 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.919 means so much to a man's appearance, and one of 294 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.720 the first requisites of handsome, healthy looking hair as a 295 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:55.720 hygienic scalp. So start at once, take better care of 296 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:59.559 the hair you've got. Change to Crammel hair timing. No 297 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:02.480 other hair tonic keeps the hair more neatly in place 298 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.799 without looking or feeling greasy. But men, Kremmel does lots 299 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.000 more than keep hair looking handsome. It's light oil to 300 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.720 have a fine lubricating effect on. 301 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:12.559 A dry scalp. 302 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.440 At the same time it removes itchy, loose dandru Notice 303 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.320 how alive, how invigorated your scalp feels. And men, you 304 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.879 like to massage Kremel on your scalp because it's such 305 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:26.799 a clean hair tonic never feels greasy or sticky. And 306 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.960 if your hair is so dry that it breaks and 307 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.320 falls when you comb it, Kremel actually helps condition the 308 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.480 hair in that it makes it feel softer, more pliable, 309 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.399 and look as if it had some body to it. 310 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:42.200 So men for handsome, groomed hair and a more hygienic scalp, 311 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.720 use Cremo daily. Buy a bottle of Cremel at any 312 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:49.440 drug store, ask for an application at your barbers k 313 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:55.320 R E. M. L. Kremmel hair tonic, that famous modern 314 00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:06.559 hair tonic preferred among America's most successful men. Well, doctor Watton, 315 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.120 and this story really has me on the edge of 316 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.039 my chair. So the butler Jenkins had committed suet. 317 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.960 Oh, that's what Sir Roderick turlus, mister Bell, though we 318 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.399 had great difficulty in persuading him to let us examine 319 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:17.879 the dead man's room. 320 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:21.360 Finally, after Sherlock Holmes had pointed out that if we 321 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:25.480 couldn't handle the case and Scotland Yards certainly would, we 322 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:29.039 were allowed to visit that room of death. 323 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.759 The evidence of suicide was apparent. After brief examination, Holmes 324 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.440 turned to me and. 325 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.320 Said, what do you make of it, Watson. 326 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:44.000 Obvious signs of strict and poisoning homes. Quite clearly a suicide. 327 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.399 Yes, the other servants told us that they had to 328 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.759 break the door down to get in. It was locked 329 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.399 and bolted from the insign. 330 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.840 Your examination proved that there was no sign of the 331 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.440 lock having been tampered. 332 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.120 With precisely, and he drank the poison from this glass 333 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.159 here by the bed. Yes, I'd say that there's been 334 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.880 nothing in this glass but strychnine and water. Hello, what's 335 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:08.640 this on the carpet? 336 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.039 It's like a piece of clay. 337 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:16.319 It is, and it bears the imprint of a heel from. 338 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.119 A man's boot. 339 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.519 The size and observe the color of the clay, Watson, 340 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.920 This particular specimen is quite rare. I shall take it 341 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:25.279 back to Baker Street and examine it. 342 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:27.400 I can't see any logic in this case, Holmes. 343 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.480 After all, people terrified of murder don't go committing suicide. 344 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.440 Patience, old fellow. I'm convinced that this is one case 345 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.519 where an armed laboratory may aid the solution more than 346 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.759 all the logic in the world. 347 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:56.200 O Well, Holmed, what do your tests through the microscope tell. 348 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.960 You, first of all, that the glass contained nothing but strychnine. 349 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.759 Nobody could drink that without knowing it. That proves that 350 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:05.119 if the suicide. 351 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:09.519 Not necessarily Watson, I've also tested the clay. In addition 352 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.559 to being a very rare clay, it's oddly impregnated with 353 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:16.079 certain acids and chemicals, exactly as it might be if 354 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:17.920 a doctor picked it up on his heel outside his 355 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.079 house and later went into his laboratory. Doctor, that will 356 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.200 explain the poison exactly. Jenkins was under his doctor's care. 357 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.960 Supposing the physician prescribed a draft to be taken on retiring, 358 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:35.200 why question its peculiar bitter taste. Jenkins was a frightened man. 359 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:37.640 Undoubtedly he bolted and locked his door last night and 360 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.000 then trustingly drank the fatal poison. 361 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.960 All of which points to doctor Stanley quite but I 362 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.559 don't understand it. He had a motive for murdering Sir Rodrick, 363 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.519 and Sir Roderick had a motive for murdering Jenkins. With 364 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.440 all the evidence points to the effect that. 365 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:57.119 Doctor Stanley murdered Jenkins, it does make any sense, But 366 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:01.079 it does, Watson precise, accurate, and terrifying sense. 367 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:03.759 We must return to so Rodrick's house once. There's not 368 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.880 a moment to be lost. 369 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.880 Holmes, you and your friend here are positively pack of dermeters. 370 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.079 Twice I've told you to mind your own business, and 371 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.799 yet you come back for more insults. Am I to 372 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.119 assume that you find my personal charm so utterly irresistible? 373 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.359 On the contra, Sir, you can assume that your personal 374 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:29.759 charm utterly escapes. 375 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.640 Sir Roderick, the only reason we've returned is because I'm 376 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:33.960 convinced you're engraved danger. 377 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.559 As I told you before, Holmes, I'm eminently capable of 378 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.759 taking care of myself in any case. I'm expecting doctor Stanley, 379 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:41.119 my physician, here, in a few minutes. 380 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.200 So Roderick, by all you hold safe, I hold nothing. 381 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.720 Sacred homes save human life, by which of course I 382 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:48.480 mean my home. 383 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.599 Then, for the sake of your own life, Sir, allow 384 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.960 us to slip behind that tapestry while your doctor visits you, 385 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:56.440 behind the ardor say, the proper place for rats, if 386 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.839 I remember them, I hamlet correctly, Oh that's undoubtedly the doctor. 387 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.759 Then please let us hide. You won't regret it. I 388 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.880 promise you very well. You may hide cutry away. Come 389 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:06.319 on once. 390 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:09.680 Murch your home, Come in, Roderick. 391 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:10.799 I had to. 392 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:14.480 See you, yes, so it would appear, Sylvia. 393 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.720 If you have to come making dramatic entrances in my 394 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.839 house at an hour that virtually represents the crack of dawn, 395 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.000 I do we should take a little more pains with 396 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.200 your enhumble Your dress is only suitable for tea and 397 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.200 crumpets with a vicar's wife at tooting back. 398 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:29.960 Oh, Roderick stopped trying to be facetious. 399 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.039 I came here because I had to talk to you 400 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:33.160 before David got well. 401 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.160