WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:04.000 Now for our weekly doctor's appointment. Let's knock on his 2 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:05.440 library door and see if. 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:08.119 There's no point in doing that, Missus Cectra, I'm right 4 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:08.599 behind you. 5 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.359 Hello, doctor Watson. They'll tell me you've been stalking me. 6 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:12.400 Oh my boy. 7 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:14.359 I was on the patio and I heard your footsteps, 8 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.760 so I thought that i'd i'd come in and fetch you. 9 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.239 Let's go back and sit out there, shall way. It's 10 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:20.800 it's a beautiful evening. 11 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:26.920 That's fine with me. Doctor. Ah, here we are. 12 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.559 I'll settle yourself down in a chair and light a 13 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.119 cigarette if you have one. I'll get on with my story. 14 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:36.840 Well, last week you told us a concern and adventure 15 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.079 that you and Sherlock Holmes had in Flanders during the 16 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:39.840 First World War. 17 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:41.439 That's right, Missus Cetry did. 18 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.359 I thought that you and the great man had retired 19 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:44.759 at that period we had my. 20 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:46.640 Boy, but it was only that show. As soon as 21 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.719 the war broke out, we both offered our services in 22 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.359 any capacity that might help our country. 23 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:53.079 Of course, and hot it tonight's story began. 24 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:53.439 Doctor. 25 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.439 It was in the winter of that first year. Things 26 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.840 weren't going very well for the Allies. The Germans were 27 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.320 advancing on Paris, and the picture was looking very black. 28 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.319 It was just twenty four hours before the famous Battle 29 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.760 of the Man began, the battle that changed the early 30 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.359 course of the war. When Holmes told me that we 31 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.640 had to go up to the front lines on a 32 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.359 secret mission, we'd been in Paris for several weeks. The 33 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.560 Homes just solved the case of the missing a deacon. 34 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:21.599 I was anxious to get back to England and my 35 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.840 work in the war hospitals. But of course this new 36 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.359 summons was in the nature of a command, and so 37 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.040 late on a rainy September afternoon, Holmes and I, with 38 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.680 the boom of gunfire and ar ears, found ourselves in 39 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.400 the front seat of a staff car, flushing and jolting 40 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.159 its way towards the battle field. 41 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.640 I drive in too fast to you yetmen, as I 42 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:46.239 do not at all. 43 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:48.599 I know you're doing a splendid job. My man look 44 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.319 out considering the state of the road. Like you said, er, hello, 45 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:54.799 the gunfire is getting nearer. 46 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:58.280 Homes, Yes, o'thor I imagine we haven't much further to go, 47 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:00.000 have his sergeant, No, sou We're nearly there. 48 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.760 Did you notice that two civilians and the back seat 49 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.560 Homes yes, answer woman. 50 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.520 And a distinguished looking man several years a senior. Who 51 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.639 they are, I'll tell you he's a Shakespearean actor of 52 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.919 some note, and we never achieved the fame to which 53 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:18.039 he thinks he's entitled. I shouldn't get all surprised if 54 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.759 he feels that he's been slighted in not receiving a knighthood, Well. 55 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.159 That's amazing. How can you possibly reduce all that from 56 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:24.280 just looking at the man as. 57 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.439 We got into the car Elementary, My dear fellow, I 58 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.960 didn't deduce it. We saw him twice last year in 59 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.039 the London theater. If you wrote, then his name is 60 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.199 Mitchell Morris asked for his biography. He's a friend of 61 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.479 my brother Mycroft's. He told me about him. 62 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.240 What do you suppose he is doing up here near 63 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:39.919 the front line? 64 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:42.599 His brother is General Sirs Stanley Morris, who was in 65 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.960 command of this particular front, and it would seem reasonable 66 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:46.919 to presume that it is brother has come up here 67 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.360 to give a performance for the front line troops. I 68 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.199 suppose this hut is as far as we can drive. 69 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.879 Sergeant on fright, So, sir, we're four miles from the 70 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.280 front line. Now you have to clear your papers. 71 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:58.520 Here. 72 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:00.759 See that ruin arm house there. 73 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.120 Sir, you sergeant, is that the general's headquarter? Yes, sir, 74 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:10.520 Come on Watson, old lord, it's pelting with rain. 75 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:11.639 Yeah, let's pike a dash for it. 76 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:19.960 Who goes there? 77 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.960 Friend, give the passwords? Send Crispin past friends and show 78 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:24.960 your papers? 79 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.240 How did you know the past word? At Holmes? 80 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.280 I was given a per popular penisal. Check surelock Holmes 81 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.439 and doctor Watson, isn't it? Here's Captain and Captain Maxwell 82 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.560 for General Morris's age. Can't he asked? People's caught you 83 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.360 up to his headquarters? And by the way, when Nason 84 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.360 Morris and his wife in the car with you? Yes, 85 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.080 there just behind us, well splendid. I'm afraid I'll have 86 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:46.240 to ask to see your papers. 87 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.159 Yes, here's here's my permit. 88 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.280 Captain Maxwell, thanel. I know you're both, of course, but if 89 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.560 we can't afford to take any chances when this close 90 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:59.199 to the enemy lines, let's see. Oh yeah, that's fine, doctor, 91 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:03.800 everything's in order, all yours please, mister Hermes, here you are, thanks? 92 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.360 Who goes there? There's the rescue paw? Oh good, this 93 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:11.000 is quite an order, mister Hermes. Oh there you are 94 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.039 Captain Maxwell. Hello, Missus Murritt. 95 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:14.879 How are you getting next? 96 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.600 Well, well, you've both met mister Shellock Holmes and doctor Watson. 97 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.439 I suppose her No, we haven't, even though we drove 98 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.160 up in the same car Natural Reserve of us British 99 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.680 as I suppose. How are you, miss Hermes? How do 100 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:27.480 you do some o? 101 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.839 Your brother Micraft? Very well? How are you doctor? I'm 102 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.759 there to Meetchell to Morris. I saw you a couple 103 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.480 of times the third last year Georgio performances. 104 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.279 Thank you sir, But then you must know my wife, 105 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:39.040 my leading lady. 106 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:39.879 How do you do? Gentlemen? 107 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.399 Can I see your papers? Mister Morris? Just a matter 108 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:43.800 of reform? 109 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.120 Yes, yes, of course, Missus Morris, I presume you and 110 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.160 your husband are going to give a performance tonight for 111 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:50.399 the men going up the front line. 112 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.399 Yes, doctor, we're very flattered. They've asked us to do 113 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.319 some Shakespearean things, although I should have thought something a 114 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:57.959 little lighter would have been more appropriate. 115 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.399 The General his maintenance brother know anything differency. 116 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.439 Where my dear show Captain Maxwell your papers. 117 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.399 Then we can all go along and see my brother 118 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.360 Stanley very well, Maitland. Mister Morris Eyes will look forward 119 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.120 to hearing your reading of shakespeare sink crispian speech from 120 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.759 Henry the Fifth tonight Press my soul Holmes, how did 121 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:17.120 you know I was planning to do it? 122 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:17.240 Well? 123 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:19.160 The setting is so perfect, in the time, so appropriate. 124 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.360 I can't conceive an English actor who could resist the temptation. 125 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.519 I noticed that your brother appreciated the fact in naming 126 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:28.120 today's password. Yes, it's amazingly appropriate. You know it's almost 127 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.600 five hundred years ago to the day that the Battle 128 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:31.920 of Agencourt took place. 129 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.199 Well, let's hope that the result of the forthcoming battle 130 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:35.439 will be equally successful. 131 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.199 For yes, indeed, Oh, by the way, Homes. This will 132 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.920 probably seem rather silly to you, but I'm an invetered 133 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.600 autograph collector and I have my book Shore with me. 134 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.000 I wonder if you'd minds sign us ply get to 135 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.120 mister Morrows coime in pin Willy Watson. You'll find yourself 136 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.480 among quite distinguished company in that book, sir, so I 137 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:59.199 see Andelina, Patty Brown, Princip Norwick, no Hil Marshall van Toknitz. Oh, yes, 138 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:00.839 he was one of my I admired is when I 139 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.920 played in Munich before the war. I suppose now that 140 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.480 our countries are fighting, I should tear that page out. 141 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.040 You know, I cannot help but feel that art and 142 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.560 the appreciation of art are independent of national hatred. Crito, sir, 143 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.519 I myself still have a medal presented to me by 144 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.279 the University of Leipzig for some trifling services. Nay one, 145 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.199 mister Morris. Oh, thank you very much for the homes, 146 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.720 a notable addition to my collection. 147 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.120 I should be reglad to sign your book poem tomorrows 148 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.040 if you'd like mature. That's very kind of a doctor. 149 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:26.480 Captain Maxwell. 150 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.439 If our permits not all in order, don't you think 151 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.360 we should be moving along? It's just what I was 152 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.519 going to suggest myself. I'll take you all straight to 153 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:49.639 General Morris's headquarters. General Morris, Sir, may, I introduced mister 154 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.560 Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. How do you do so wrong? 155 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:54.279 How do you do know a lot about? 156 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:54.360 You? 157 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.240 Were long way from Baker Street, isn't it Yesizza? Where 158 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.360 is that brother of mine? 159 00:06:59.399 --> 00:06:59.560 Oh? 160 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.319 There you are, Maitland, Cynthia. How nice to see your boat. 161 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:06.240 So it's good to see you against Hello less Stanley. 162 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.160 The men will be glad you arrived. They're looking forward 163 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.720 to your show tonight. We're very flattered that they want 164 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.319 to hear us do some Shakespeare or rubbish. Old boy 165 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:16.600 with you and Cynthia up there on the platform, you 166 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.560 could read the telephone book and they'd love your father. 167 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.959 By the way, you will find the stage very primitive, 168 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.800 just a few trestles in a large tent and a 169 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.720 curtain made of army blankets, and your dressing rooms will 170 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:29.600 be eaten worse. 171 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.600 Oh, don't worry about our comfort, Stanley. As long as 172 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:34.680 we cheer the boys up, that's the important thing. 173 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.959 Yes, of course. The way, what program do you have 174 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.399 mapped out for us? Well, I thought we'd have two shows. 175 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.040 The tent's not large enough to hold everybody at once, 176 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.439 anybody anyway, we have to keep up with alert all 177 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.600 the time. I think you can manage two separate shows. 178 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.079 Of course I can stand it. I may look over 179 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:51.399 and I. 180 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:51.959 Don't feel it. 181 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.560 You don't even look at your scoundrels and thank you. 182 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.800 So you can take a look at the stage and equipment. 183 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.920 Now, certainly, Captain Maxwell, take them over to the tent 184 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.000 and show them what the facilities are. Will you right down? 185 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.319 Will you follow me a yes, of course, see you later. 186 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:10.759 All right, I'm glad you're here, homes. I'm so I 187 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.920 can speak quite freely in front of doctor Watson. Oh, yes, 188 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.199 with perfect freedom, sir. He's my colleague. And there's no 189 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:17.560 darning men himself. Really? 190 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.480 What Regiment fifth Northomland, whose sir later touched the boxers 191 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.079 in Afghanistan and wounded in the Battle of Main One? 192 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:27.000 Really? And then I'm sure I can speak freely and 193 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.839 from homes. You know why you're up here so near 194 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.879 the front line, don't you. I have a very shrewd suspicion, Sir. 195 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.799 I thought you had. That's why I asked for you 196 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.759 to be sent here. You asked for me to be 197 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:44.240 cent here. General, Yes, I think I understand. 198 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:45.039 Oh I did? 199 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.240 You will doctor in due time. In the meanwhile, gentlemen, 200 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.679 I'll have an orderly show you to your quarter. Thank you, 201 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.200 sir and Holmes. Take a look around, will you, and 202 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:59.279 keep your ears where comparatively a little distance from the 203 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.919 German front lines. And yet there's a very puzzling silence 204 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:03.399 just now. 205 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.080 I noticed that half an hour ago, on our way 206 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:07.559 up there was there's quite a lot. 207 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.360 Of shilling exactly. It's unnatural and rather frightening at a 208 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.639 time like this. You see, we're attacking at dawn. The 209 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.159 enemy might be trying to infiltrate spies, and the whole 210 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.879 success of this battle depends on a surprise attack. I 211 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:22.480 quite understand, Sir Colin Watson. 212 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:42.480 Home the first performance starts in a few minutes. You 213 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.960 know they're all there waiting. Why are we trappling about 214 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:47.440 up and here in the mud in the rain? 215 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:48.840 I thought a pipe or two in the open air, 216 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:49.919 But clear our brains. 217 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.159 Yeah, pipe in the open air is one thing, But 218 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.120 a pipe in the downfall. 219 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.000 Of rains and another is it raining? Didn't even notice it. 220 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:59.320 I was listening to the silence. 221 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:00.480 What do you mean? 222 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:06.320 Thousands upon thousands of Germans, armed, Germans full of a blind, 223 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.519 fanatical hatred and desire to kill, are crouched in trenches 224 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.279 only a mile or two from here. Surrounding us are 225 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:16.080 an equal number of English boys, also armed, and for 226 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.159 the will is not the desire to fight, because they 227 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.720 know their cause is the cause of freedom and justice. 228 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.200 All these thousands poised, ready to pounce on each other 229 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:27.080 and fight to the death. 230 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:27.639 And yet. 231 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:34.039 Beyond that patter of rain. There isn't a been a 232 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:38.320 sound to break the stillness of a September evening. Strange 233 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:39.559 world we live in, old chapter. 234 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.399 You will be unusual tollical home, Yes, I am on that. 235 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:45.399 Let's be a little more practical, charwit. I wonder what 236 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:46.519 is wrong with the actors tonight? 237 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:47.120 Oh? 238 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:48.639 Why do you ask? Well? 239 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.440 A little while ago I noticed missus Morris in a 240 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.120 great state of excitement, turning towards the farmhouse where the 241 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:55.279 General is, and she went back to her own quarters. 242 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.919 And now she seems to be headed in our direction, 243 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.799 being wrong, Missus Morris, it's Maitland. 244 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.080 What's wrong with the madam? 245 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.879 He disappears appeared? What's happened? We were in the tint. 246 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.320 Together making up for rapperforms when an orderly came into 247 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.120 the message. Maitland said it was from his brother, slipped 248 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.919 on a raincoat and went out, seeing me back in 249 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.639 a few moments. I waited and waited, and after a 250 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:17.279 while I got worried, and I wouldn't to see the 251 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.399 General myself. He said that he'd said no message, and 252 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.279 that he hadn't seen any sign of Maitland. 253 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:23.919 Good Lord, what can have happened to him? 254 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.759 I don't know, doctor, but I'm frightened. What shall I do? 255 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.360 Mister Holmes, You're a brave woman, Missus Morris, brave. 256 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:31.240 I don't know, mister Holmes. 257 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.799 Why Gus, the show must go on. I shall take 258 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:36.000 your husband's place at home. 259 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.200 Something's happened to Mathil Morris. He's in danger. 260 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.879 I'm not too what's in't true. But a thousand men 261 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.480 inside that tenter in mortal danger too. Tomorrow morning, many 262 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.559 of them maybe copses on the fields of Flanders, but 263 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.840 tonight they've been promised to show you. Think that you 264 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.919 can do it? Home, Oh I think I can with 265 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:53.120 the help of Missus Morris. 266 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:54.279 I can't do it, mister. 267 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.039 Home and Missus Molls, and you will if only to 268 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.799 uphold that great tradition of the pitter. But the show 269 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.480 must go on. 270 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:12.360 Where the rest of Dr Watson's story in just a 271 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.679 few seconds time. I'd like to take to tell you 272 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.559 that if you've got a butcher who has meat, and 273 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.960 you've got the points to get that meat, don't forget 274 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.799 to bring home a bottle of Petree California burgundy. Tell 275 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.840 you why that Petro Burgundy is a rich, red meal 276 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.360 time wine that's wonderful with any meat or meat dish. 277 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:28.000 That's a fact. 278 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.039 Petro Burgundy can make a banquet out of a hamburger, 279 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.240 and boy, petfree Burgundy and old fashioned iris stew are 280 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.879 bosom companions. Just get yourself some petfree Burgundy and share 281 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.000 it with your family. Petre Burgundy is the best friend 282 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:55.720 a good meal ever had. And now back to tonight's 283 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:59.080 new Sherlock Holmes adventure. It is just before the Battle 284 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.039 of the Marne and the First World War, and Sherlock 285 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.440 Holmes and doctor Watson are at headquarters a few miles 286 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:04.240 behind the front line. 287 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:04.720 Tranches. 288 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.159 I am a Shakespearean actor who was to give a 289 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.320 performance for the troops, has mysteriously disappeared, and the great 290 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.200 Detective has taken his place at the last minute. As 291 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.960 we rejoin our story, Sherlock Holmes, alone on the improvised stage, 292 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.840 is delivering a Shakespearean speech before a spell bound body. 293 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:25.879 Happy. This little world, this precious stone, set in a 294 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:28.799 silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall, 295 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.519 orders a most defensive to a house against the envy 296 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:37.159 of less happier lambs, This blessest loot, this earth, this rome, 297 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:39.600 this England. 298 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:46.720 Holmes that shot. 299 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:47.279 Are you all right? 300 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.080 Yes, o Chap. Fortunately I started to leave the stage 301 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:52.840 as the shot was fired. The bullet just missed me. 302 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.080 I heard its sprinters and wood nearby. 303 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:56.440 But who on earth would want to shoot you? 304 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.000 That's what we've got to find out, And I think 305 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.519 it more likely that the shot was intended for me. 306 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.559 He was not intended for me, but for Mickland Morris, 307 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:04.960 the man for whom I'm substituto, even sir, who'd want 308 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.279 to shoot him? Don't ask me so many questions, author, 309 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.039 Let's see what clues we can find now. The shot 310 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:12.399 was fined from outside the tent, from behind me. Yes, 311 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.159 we're there. Give a hole in the tent. 312 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:17.559 There by show vis the footlights without climbing your shadow 313 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.679 on the back of the tent. Whoever it must have 314 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:21.639 a fire at your silhouette. 315 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:26.279 The question is where did the bullet embed itself? Look here, Watson, 316 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.960 We've got a pen knife here. They shouldn't be hard 317 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:37.240 to extract this splintered tent pole. A minute. Yeah, here 318 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:42.080 we are excellent. H very interesting. 319 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:43.440 What's so interesting about him? 320 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.440 Just a revolver bullet, isn't Watson? It's far from just 321 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.320 a revolver bullet. This bullet was fired from a German 322 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:51.840 Luca pistol, the German pistol. 323 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.120 There must have been a spy here behind our lines. 324 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.559 That's a reasonable enough his assumption. Yes, we may be 325 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.240 sure that no English soldier would carry such a from 326 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:09.840 a face inspection. Come on, I once talked to missus Morris, 327 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.799 Missus Morris, I want you to be very frank with me. 328 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.559 What a cause? 329 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.360 Mister Holmes, you know why your husband's missing, don't you? 330 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.519 No, No, I don't have you found out about my madam? 331 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.120 Why I keep up this pretense any longer? I know 332 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.799 that your husband is a spy, or at least a 333 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.240 great sympathizer with the German cause, the General's brother spy. 334 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:31.360 Good luck? 335 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:32.519 How dare you say that? 336 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.480 Because it's true? While an office has been suspicious of 337 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.240 his sympathies for some time, his own brother knew it. 338 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.399 That's why I asked to have me sent up here 339 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.080 to keep an eye on him during his visit. 340 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.000 It is true. Why should I keep up the pretense 341 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:52.080 any longer? You see? Maitland was a disciple of Stuart Houston, Chamberlain, 342 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:53.559 who was his stuard. 343 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.840 Houston Chamberlain, an Englishman who married one of Richard Wagner's 344 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.399 daughters and became a German citizen and an arch enemy 345 00:15:59.399 --> 00:15:59.879 of England. 346 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.399 I'm trying to dissuade Maitland. I implored him to consider 347 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.559 his British heritage, his brother's name and mind. But Mathon 348 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.600 was a strange man. His life was one of frustration 349 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.000 and envy, envy of his babadized bose Yes. When Stanley 350 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.120 was knighted, it hurt Maitland terribly. He said, it was 351 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.720 typical if the English would knight a soldier and yet 352 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.039 leave a great artist like himself unrecognized that in Berlin 353 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:25.080 they really understood and rewarded the artist. 354 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.039 Well, if the thoughts knew that. It's amazingly allowed him 355 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:29.960 to come so close to the front lines at a time. 356 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.600 Like this, which was at the general's request. He wanted 357 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:34.240 to plead with my husband to warn him that his 358 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.080 secret was known. And now Maitland gone over to the 359 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:37.879 German line. 360 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:39.120 Oh, it's terrible. 361 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.799 Worse than that, it's disastrous. He can give them information. 362 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.519 This is strength of our troops here. He knows the password. 363 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.000 He might even know. The army attacked his time to. 364 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:48.559 Start, How did your husband expect to went of the 365 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:50.200 German lines in safety, missus, Mrris, he. 366 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.720 Speaks fluent German, Mister Holmes, I fancy the autographs will 367 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.480 keeps carrying containing his signature a field Marshal von Totnitz 368 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.759 with In reality he's passed through the German. 369 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:01.399 Line all the general that his brother was gone. 370 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.119 Of course I haven't been able to He moved up 371 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.559 to the front line position immediately after the first performance, 372 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:08.920 though I had warned him what I thought Matan was 373 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.720 planning to do. I think he intended to give his 374 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.839 performance first, then cross the lines immediately afterwards. But something 375 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.200 must have made him change his mind. Perhaps he suspected 376 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:22.119 I'd warned the general. Anyhow, as you know, when I 377 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.599 got back to our quarters he'd gone. 378 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.359 Did he leave any note, Madam? Yes he did. 379 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.400 Here it is thank you all I have done. My dear, 380 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:34.519 I understand and forgive if you can. It wouldn't come 381 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.039 with me, and so I am taking what is left 382 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.279 of my heart and my hopes where they belong among 383 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.559 the friends that understand and appreciate me. It is something 384 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.759 stronger than love and blood and country that makes me 385 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:50.279 do this. It is something dearer to me than life itself. 386 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.440 Here it's mean than life itself. 387 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:57.359 Oh, how cold, how goodly it's the shame of this 388 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.039 will kill for Stanley Litter. Come will you break the 389 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.440 news to him? I know it's cowardly of me, but 390 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.039 I just can't tell him myself. 391 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.920 Missus Morris, I'll tell him, Dr Watson, I will ask 392 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:11.519 Captain Maxwell to a scott as to the General's front 393 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.000 line headquarters. In the meantime, try and keep calm. 394 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:49.519 We'll tell him. 395 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.000 If you were waiting in the dug art, Mister Holmes, 396 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:36.519 I'll tell the General that you're here, thank you, and 397 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:41.319 be sure to let him know the urgency of the matter. Homes. 398 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:44.920 This is a dreadful business, Yes it is, Watson. If 399 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.400 my plans work out correctly, I think the success of 400 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:55.759 tomorrow's battle may not be impeddled. Listen, no, Holmes. 401 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.480