WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:03.640 And now it's time to keep the weekly appointment with 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:05.080 our good friend doctor Watson. 3 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:06.879 How I hear the sating doctor. 4 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.439 I never felt better. Thank you, mister Bartell. Draw up 5 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:13.720 your usual churn, make yourself comfortable. Thanks. 6 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:16.879 I see you've had the old ten dispatch box out again. 7 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.559 I suppose you've been going through your notes on tonight's 8 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:20.679 new share like ons advantage. 9 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.160 Yes, mister Boutell, I think you'll find it as pretty 10 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:24.399 a little problem. 11 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:25.480 As we ever encountered. 12 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:28.800 Story began in eighteen hundred and eighty seven, a very 13 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.280 busy year for us, My boy. It was the same 14 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.799 year that Herms solved the case of the Amateur Medican Society, 15 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.240 who held their meetings in a luxuriously furnished vault. 16 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.840 Below a furniture warehouse. 17 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.719 Oh, I remember that story, doctor, And wasn't eighty seven 18 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.479 the year you both escaped from death in the Paradol chamber. 19 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:46.840 It was. 20 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.359 Indeed, you've got a very good memory, mister Bartell. The 21 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:51.479 story I'm going to tell you tonight topped off this 22 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.079 unusually exciting year. It was late in October and the 23 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.920 equinoxial gales that set in with exceptional violence all day. 24 00:00:58.920 --> 00:00:59.880 The wind that howled. 25 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:01.880 The rain had beaten against the windows of our Baker 26 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:02.640 Street lodgings. 27 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.680 Finally, it was midnight, as far as I remember. 28 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.680 The storm grew higher and louder, and the wind in 29 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.519 the chimney sobbed like a child. Suddenly, much to our surprise, 30 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:15.719 the doorbell jangled, and a few moments later our midnight 31 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.560 visitor stood before us. He was a man of about 32 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.319 forty five, and as he looked about him anxiously on 33 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.159 the glare of the lamp, I could see that his 34 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.079 face was pale, and that his eyes heavy, like those 35 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.200 of a man who's weighed down with some great anxiety. 36 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.719 And yet when he spoke, his tone was businesslike and 37 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:33.640 almost aggressive. 38 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:37.920 I've come to you for advice, mister Holmes, that's easily obtained, 39 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.599 and help that is not always so easy. 40 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:42.680 He helped the gentleman off his coat, but he wasn't. 41 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.480 He was let me hang it up, Thank you, sir. 42 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.599 I heard of you, mister Holmes, from Major Prendergast Toylet. 43 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.439 He said that you could solve anything. Aunt Freddy said 44 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.760 too much, that you've never been beaten. I've been beaten 45 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.359 four times, sir, three times by men and once by 46 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.640 a woman that the person you sit down and introduced 47 00:01:58.680 --> 00:01:59.920 yourself my friend. 48 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:01.319 His name is Watson, Dr Watson. 49 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.280 How do you do ter? My name is Lovelace, Edmund Lovelace. 50 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.920 And what brings you to me at this hour of 51 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.400 the night? Mister Lovelace. 52 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.800 I'm in terrible trouble. Mister Holmes, you don't know anything 53 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.360 about me, but if you'll accept my case, you can 54 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:16.479 say four lives. 55 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.120 I wouldn't say that I know nothing about you, sir. 56 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.560 No, it's true that I know little beyond the somewhat 57 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:25.039 obvious fact that well you're single, that you keep. 58 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.400 A dog but not a man servant, and that you are. 59 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.400 Much preoccupied with your business, which I take to be 60 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:31.719 some form of insurance. 61 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.400 Oh, come, come, come now, what is this? Well? I 62 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.400 imagine I'll wait to let my friends write, though, isn't 63 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.199 he mister Lovelace? 64 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:39.680 Perfectly? 65 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.039 But I'll be hanged if I can see how I know. 66 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.000 It's a practical application of logic, sir. The briefcase that 67 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:45.879 you carry it might at first indicate. 68 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.919 A barrister or some other professional man, but. 69 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:51.520 Your brusque, business like manner contacts that suggestion. 70 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:53.800 An insurance broke up, who must. 71 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.360 Visit clients at odd hours is the likeliest man to 72 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.639 combine that manner with a briefcase of midnight that the 73 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.919 white from the man servant, and the fact that I'm 74 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.719 preoccupied with my business. Your couplings don't match her, each 75 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.879 is from a different pair. That would suggest preoccupation. And 76 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:10.680 it's a mistake that neither a wife nor a man 77 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.039 servant would have allowed to pass. 78 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.919 How about the dog that's obvious? Watch I shall let you. 79 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.080 Ponder on that matter while mister Lovelace tells us his problem. 80 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.080 Mister Holmes, are you as interested in preventing a murder 81 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:23.960 as in solving one? 82 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.879 Naturally? I am mister Lovelace's even more so. But please 83 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:28.639 tell me your story. 84 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.199 I live with four cousins of mine and an old person, Camberwell. 85 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.800 My grandfather left the house and a sizeable fortune to 86 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.319 the five of us on condition that we lived together 87 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.360 and maintained the family unity. It probably won't surprise you 88 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:41.919 to know that we've grown to get pretty much on 89 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:42.719 each other's nerves. 90 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.919 What happens if one of you does, mister Lovelace. 91 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.560 His share is divided among the others. Doctor wonder to 92 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.680 me is that not that a murder may take place, 93 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:53.800 but that it does not happened long ago. 94 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.400 Who's responsible for the administration of the estate. 95 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.840 My cousin Gerald. He's much older than the rest of us, 96 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.879 and he's a thoroughly unpleasant, cantankerous man. He gets an 97 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.360 extra share in the estate as administrator, and in consequence 98 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.360 he doesn't work. We feel, of course, that he lives 99 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.400 off of us, and we're continually quarreling. 100 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:09.879 With him about it. 101 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:11.960 Sounds like a jolly househole. 102 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.680 Was going to be trouble, mister Holmes, I know it. 103 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.240 Gerald hates us and he's jealous of our share in 104 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:16.600 the estate. 105 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:18.600 Who spoke of preventing murder just now? 106 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.199 Yet I can see that you selected your cousin Gerald 107 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.959 as the potential murderer. 108 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.079 Am I right? Yes you are. 109 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.759 But don't think it's personal prejudice that makes missus pectin. 110 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.480 I have good reason for doing so. 111 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:30.480 Oh what reason? 112 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.800 This evening, just before dinner, I helped Gerald off with 113 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.759 his topcoat and went to hang it up for him. 114 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.439 As I did so, I heard a strange dunny clink 115 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.000 in one of his pockets. I slipped my hand inside 116 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.079 it and found a hypodermic syringe and a small pile 117 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.399 of liquid. I opened the file and smelled it. Gentlemen, 118 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.560 it reeked of bitter armor. 119 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:53.079 Sana, eh, what did you do? 120 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.480 I thought of destroying it, but I realized that would 121 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:57.120 put him on his guard, so I replaced it in 122 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.439 his pocket. Of course, I warned the others, and we 123 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:01.879 decided that i'd come to you, I have to say, 124 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:03.680 a most important client tonight, or i'd have been here 125 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:04.279 earlier years. 126 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.199 It seems all that you didn't come directed to mister 127 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.920 Helms as soon you'd made the discovery mister Lovelace. After all, 128 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.519 if a potential murderer is walking about with a pocket 129 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.560 full of slide, I should have thought that itself was 130 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.160 more important business. 131 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.639 Well, I yes, I suppose if i'd seem so to you, Doctor, 132 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:21.800 that's the most interesting stick you carry, So may I 133 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:22.199 examine it? 134 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:23.839 Of course? Ye, I thank you. 135 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.160 Now I see how you deduced that mister Lovelace had 136 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.240 dog homes. There are the marks of the dog's teeth 137 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:31.399 on the streetes. 138 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:31.639 My dear Wudson. 139 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.199 But these marks under scrutiny give us the more specific information. 140 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.000 He's a large dog. 141 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:39.920 You had him for some years, mister Lovelace, and he's 142 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.160 now old and feeble. 143 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:42.639 Well, you're perfectly. 144 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:43.959 Right, but I'll be hanged if I can see how 145 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:45.519 you can tell that from looking at a walking stick. 146 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:47.759 The stick is covered with teeth marks. Therefore it has 147 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.959 been carried many times by the dog. Now it's the heaviestick, 148 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:53.639 so only a large dog could have carried it, And. 149 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.079 The teeth marks also indicate a large jaw. 150 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:59.639 The older marks are deep sunk maquare, the fresh ones 151 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.079 where the wood is not yet dark, and a shallow Yes, 152 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:04.720 it's obvious that the jaws. 153 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:05.360 Are losing their string. 154 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.519 That's very clever of you, mister Holmes. But I don't 155 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.040 see what it has to do with the case in hand. 156 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.959 Neither do our homes. I must confers. 157 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.319 Surely it tells us that your story, mister Lovelace, may 158 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.800 bear a less terrifying implication than you think. On the 159 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.839 other hand, it's implication may be even more terrifying. 160 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:23.879 It's late at night. 161 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.040 I feel that any further delay in this matter would 162 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.240 be extremely dangerous. I suggest that we get a cab 163 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:45.519 and come to your house in Camberwell at once. Alice Randolph, 164 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.240 I'm glad you're still up. I was able to persuade 165 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.279 mister Sherlock Hoates and doctor Watson to come back with me. Gentlemen, 166 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:52.839 this is my cousin, Alice Harley. 167 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:53.680 How do you do? How do you do? 168 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:54.439 Miss har How do you? 169 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.480 And my cousin Randolph Lovelace? I told him about the 170 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.160 whole business, Randolph, so we can speak perfectly freely. 171 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.160 Let's begin by sitting down, shall we. Randolf and I 172 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.079 had just finished a little cold supper. We've been to 173 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:06.879 the theater tonight. 174 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:11.040 Well, mister Holmes, I suppose Edmund told you about finding 175 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.800 the hypodermic strange and the cyanide in Gerald's coat pocket. Yes, indeed, 176 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.000 may I ask where your cousin, Gerald Lovelace is now. 177 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:20.920 We left the house at seven, but I imagine Gerald 178 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.439 went upstairs at eight as usual, didn't he on the 179 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:24.040 stroke of eight? 180 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:24.360 Alice? 181 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:26.680 He's very fixed in his habits, mister Holmes. He goes 182 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:28.920 up to his room every night at eight. There he 183 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.439 reads or works on his accounts, and eventually goes to 184 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:32.879 bed any time between ten and one. 185 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:34.040 But he might still be up. 186 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:35.839 I should like to speak to him a little later 187 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.480 in the meanwhile, May I ask you, two young people, 188 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.120 tell me, quite honestly your feelings about your cousin Gerald, 189 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.600 and you might as well be frank. I've kept nothing back. 190 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.680 All right, Randolph and I hate him first of all, 191 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:49.839 were sure he's jealous of our shares in the estate. 192 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.759 And then we Alice and I want to get married. 193 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.839 Mister Holmes and Gerald won't hear of it. 194 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.319 But you're your cousins, aren't you? 195 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.879 Only second cousins, Doctor Watson. Gerald is dreadfully convined. He's 196 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:02.879 threatensus that if we do get married, he'll go to 197 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.639 court and try to have our shares in the estate. 198 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:05.680 Annull and from. 199 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.519 The way the will is worded, I wouldn't be surprised 200 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.720 he could do it. So you can see why we 201 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.680 have no great love for him, why we're afraid of him. 202 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.079 He turns an extremely unfilled person to you. 203 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:18.680 You mentioned there were five cousins in the house. Three 204 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.680 of you are here, mister Gerald's lovelace is upstairs. Who 205 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.079 and where is the fifth cousin. The fifth cousin is 206 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:29.360 my brother Gilly. He's something of the tragedy, I'm afraid 207 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:34.360 you see. Gilly is twenty, but he he never developed 208 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.159 mentally beyond the age of it. He had a bad 209 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:38.879 fall in the hunting field when he was a kid. 210 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.559 He's been like this ever since. I'm sorry to hear that, sir, 211 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:42.159 but he's. 212 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.320 The dearest, most gentle boy you've ever met. 213 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.679 And incidentally, the one person in this house who doesn't 214 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:47.279 hate Gerald. 215 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.120 Fellow doesn't understand the conditions of the will last Verson, No, but. 216 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.039 If he did, I don't think it'd make any difference. 217 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.360 I swear that Gilly loves every living thing, especially Gladstone. 218 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:00.240 Gladstone is the name of his dog. 219 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.240 Yes, the dog may be the key to this whole matter. 220 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.240 Dog makes you say that home. 221 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.639 When a man brings a quick and painless poison home 222 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.799 to a househole containing an old and people dog, it's 223 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.080 more than possible that he has obtained that poison quite legitimately, 224 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.519 to give the dog a mercial death, to kill Gladstone. 225 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.039 Oh no, after all, I was dear. He is old 226 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:22.480 and almost blind. 227 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:24.600 But mister Holmes, if you think Gerald brought home the 228 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.720 poison put Gladstone out of the way, and I admit 229 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.360 it sounds perfectly logical, what made you decide to come 230 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.960 here tonight? Because I dare not even guess what you 231 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.360 may have done by including the thought of murder in 232 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.600 this situation. Where is your brother Gilly in his room 233 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:40.960 upstairs asleep? I wonder if we might go up to him. 234 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.639 I should like to talk to him, if you don't mind. 235 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.440 And after that I want a few words with your 236 00:09:45.519 --> 00:10:06.080 cousin Gerald Lovelace. He's asleep, mister Hells, with a dog 237 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:07.000 in his arm. 238 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:13.200 M I'm afraid you left awaken him, Killy, Killy, that's 239 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.919 all right, Lester. We're not going to hurt him. 240 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.440 Gilly. 241 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.080 Who who is it? Oh? 242 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:26.679 Hello, Alice? Who are these men? They've come to take 243 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.120 Bladston away? 244 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.279 We haven't, of course, not Killy. We've just come to 245 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.840 admire him. Your brother has been telling us what a 246 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:37.639 fine dog he is. That's different he isn't he beautiful? 247 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.360 I just had such a wonderful dream about him, such 248 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:43.440 a wonderful dream. 249 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:44.519 What was it, Gilly? 250 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.000 Well, he was all young again. 251 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:49.480 It's just a puppy. 252 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.799 He was chasing a rabbit across a cliff top, and 253 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.480 and I was running with him. Oh, Glaston looked so beautiful, 254 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:58.759 didn't you, old boy? 255 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:01.600 Of course he did, And and you. 256 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:04.639 Know the rabbit went down a hole, and Gladston went 257 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:08.240 down after him, and I went down after Gladstone. And 258 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.440 we've all had tea with the rabbits. 259 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:12.120 H so funny. 260 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:16.440 You all had little green hats on hats with feathers. 261 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.360 I wanted Glaston to try one on, but he wouldn't. 262 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:23.960 So sleepy. 263 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.799 Come on, Gladston, let's go back to the tea party. 264 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:30.440 OK. 265 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:33.799 This world may be a great. 266 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.120 Deal more pleasant than ours, Watson, that's what I'd like 267 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:37.080 to thank, mister Holmes. 268 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:38.879 Now I'd like to have a few words for their 269 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:43.840 cousin Gerald. His runs at the end of his corridor. 270 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.519 I'm afraid Gilly wasn't much help to you, mister Harmon 271 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:46.759 on the. 272 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.559 Country, young lady. He told me exactly what I wanted 273 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:49.840 to know. 274 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:50.919 Here we are. 275 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.200 This is Gerald from There's no light under the door. 276 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.000 He must have gone to sleep, and I'm afraid we 277 00:11:55.039 --> 00:12:02.240 miss waking him too. Must be a sleeper, but he isn't. 278 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:05.039 He's a remarkably like one. 279 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:10.600 Come on, lest twin stack a mat. The guests man 280 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:11.320 is at the head. 281 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:14.960 Of his dead doc to Watson, while he's lying on 282 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:15.960 the outside of his bed. 283 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.200 He must be there's blood on the pillow. 284 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.200 Great Scott Holmes, the back of his car smashed in. 285 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:22.720 He's been murdered. 286 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:27.120 Oh no, horrible, yes, Watson. The blows on his head, 287 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:28.399 looking on the table by. 288 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.639 His bed, hypodermic syringe, and a broken file. 289 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.240 Yes, a broken file, wreaking of bitter almonds. 290 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:38.279 Poor devil. 291 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.519 Well, I won't pretend I like him, but what a 292 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.279 ghastly way to die. All they that take the sword 293 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.960 shall perish with the sword, so the scripture say, mister Laplace. 294 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:53.000 There is suspicion that the killing has brought murder to pass. Well, 295 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.320 it's too late to prevent it. Our job now is 296 00:12:55.399 --> 00:13:00.159 to find the killer and see that he's brought to justice. 297 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.200 Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story 298 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.840 in just a few seconds. Just time enough for me 299 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:14.759 to tell you that if there's one wine that's perfect 300 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:19.600 for any occasion, it's Petrie California's sherry. With a bottle 301 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.080 of that rich amber colored Petrie Sherry on hand, you 302 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:26.399 can make that time before dinner a main event. And 303 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.039 Patrick Sherry is the perfect answer to the question of 304 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:33.279 what to serve when company comes, Sir Patrick Sherry alone 305 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.879 and let its full wonderful flavor speak for itself, or 306 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.799 serve Patri Sherry with thor Dev's or party sandwiches. And 307 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.279 remember you can serve Patrie Sherry proudly because Patrie is 308 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:50.279 the proudest name in the history of American wine. Well, 309 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.440 doctor Watson, so you found Gerald Lovelace dead in one 310 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.480 of the bedrooms of the house in Camberwell, what did 311 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:56.759 you do? 312 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:57.559 Send for the police? 313 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.559 Not at once, just about sherlock home the remainder of 314 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.080 the household, to give him the opportunity of examining the 315 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.879 scene of the crime carefully before the police was sent for. 316 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.320 And so a few minutes before one o'clock that October night, 317 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.440 Holmes and I stood alone. 318 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.879 In the room of death, Old Chap. 319 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:19.039 You know, Holmes, I think you should have sent the 320 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:20.440 police right away in a case like this. 321 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.120 Wats and I prefer to be my own police, and 322 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.120 I have spun the web. They may take the flies, 323 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.440 but not before what are the results of our medical examination, 324 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:29.840 Old Chap. 325 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:32.200 It's exactly as you reconstructed it, Homes. 326 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.759 He was first beaten on the head with that poker 327 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.440 lying on the floor. Then he had the full file 328 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.440 of cyanide injected into. 329 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.399 His left wrist, and you estimate the time of death 330 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:42.120 toll accurately. 331 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:43.960 No, his rooms confinedly hot. 332 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.840 He might have died any time from one to five 333 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:47.399 hours ago. 334 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.519 Yes, it's now one o'clock, and we know that he 335 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:54.639 was alive at eight. Statemund Lovelace saw him leave for 336 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.840 his room at that hour, if he was telling the truth. 337 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:59.879 One thing we do know for a fact is that 338 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.159 this man was murdered at the exact moment he was 339 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:02.759 going to bed. 340 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:06.320 He's wearing his nightgown and nightcap, but his bed has 341 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:07.039 not been slept in. 342 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:07.960 Impossible. 343 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.720 The murder might have killed him shortly after eight and 344 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.080 then dressed him in his nightclothes to confuse us. 345 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:13.799 No chap. 346 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.720 He will notice that the hypodermic neil trusts on the 347 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.159 sleeve of his night shirt. Here also the nightcap is 348 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.120 crushed in bloodstained from the blows of the poker. 349 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.039 No, Generald Lovelace had prepared the bed. 350 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.360 With a glass of water on the night table, and 351 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.320 the prayer book of the watch. 352 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:34.759 Yes, signs of a prosperous and meticulous man. They fine 353 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:36.919 gold watch and in excellent condition. 354 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.799 Ah, there's the answer, Watson, What do you mean? 355 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.200 There's the answer Watson. 356 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.200 I just wound this watch one turn and then it 357 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.200 was fully wound. That provides us with the time schedule 358 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.600 for armorer. Come on, well, send a serven. 359 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.240 For the police, and while they're on the way. 360 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.000 If you'll call everyone together, I should like to put 361 00:15:54.000 --> 00:16:08.799 a few more questions to this family before the police arrive. 362 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:11.000 I should like to carry your statements again very carefully, 363 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.799 if you don't mind, mister Edmund Lovelace, what with your 364 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:20.360 exact movements tonight? I left here shortly before ten, from 365 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.240 ten o'clock until the time I came to Baker Street 366 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.679 House with my clent. His name and address Peace, Derek 367 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.399 Waterlowty nine on snow squares off KENSI. 368 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.320 Thank you making note of these. 369 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.559 Willie Watson, you, miss Harley, and you, mister Randolph Lovelace 370 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.720 went to the theater together. Can any independent witness testify 371 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:37.799 as to your movements? 372 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.600 Yes, mister Holmes, we went with friends, the grant More's days. 373 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.399 They live at the Clarendon Hotel of charing Cross. 374 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.759 What time did you leave this house? Well, it was 375 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.279 about a quarter to eight, wasn't it als. 376 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.799 Yes, and after the play we went to the Cafe 377 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.080 Royal for a little refreshment with our friends, and then 378 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:54.759 came back here. 379 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.600 I see. And what time did you arrive back at 380 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:57.039 this house? 381 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.960 Just a few minutes before midnight? I remember the grand 382 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.159 clock in the hall striking just as we went into 383 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.920 the drawing room. And your brother Gilly Sair. I hate 384 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.160 to waken him again. Have you any idea of his 385 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.279 movements night? But he never goes out after darkness, Morris. 386 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:12.640 But I spoke to the cook as we came in tonight. 387 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.319 She says that he played cards with her until just 388 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:16.160 after ten o'clock. 389 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.000 He was fast asleep, and I looked in on him 390 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:19.039 shortly after midnight. 391 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.319 Thank you you've made a note of all these facts, Watson, Yes, 392 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:23.079 I got them. 393 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.599 Alder good. Then let's be on our way to Baker Street. 394 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.839 But the police, mister Holmes, there on their way, I know. 395 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:29.960 Please give them my regards. 396 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.200 Will you apologize for my informality and tell them that 397 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.559 I'll have the answer to this matter probably in a 398 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:46.359 little over twenty four hours. 399 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.359 Holmes, here it is well after midnight. You haven't done 400 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.720 a thing on the camera world case. 401 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.000