1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: Cary shove capital, My dear Watson, let us return to 2 00:00:11,199 --> 00:00:15,960 our humble abode. Two two one b Baker Streets. Come in. 3 00:00:20,679 --> 00:00:25,399 Speaker 2: From London, we present The Bruce Partington Plans, a play 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,960 for radio based on the short story by Sir Arthur 5 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:32,399 Kernham Doyle, The Bruce Partington Plans. 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: In the third week of November eighteen ninety five, a 7 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:41,439 dense yellow fog settled down upon London from the Monday 8 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:42,200 to the Thursday. 9 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: I doubt whether it was ever possible. 10 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 3: To see from my windows in Baker Street the room 11 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:50,560 of the opposite houses homes paced restlessly about our. 12 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:55,759 Speaker 1: City room in a fever of suppressed energy. Nothing of 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,320 interest in the taper, Watson Well, I told her home, 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,960 there's nothing that would interest you. Then the London criminal 15 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:06,599 is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window. Yeah, 16 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:09,439 see how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and 17 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,519 then blend once more into the cloud bank. A thief 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,799 or murderer could roam London like a tiger in the jungle, 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,719 unseen until he punches. Come in a telegram for you, 20 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:26,400 mister Holmes, by jove something that's last to break them anotingly, 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:38,640 thank you, missus Hudson. Will there be any answer, sir, No, noo, 22 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,920 there won't be a reply. Thank you. Listen to this spot. 23 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:49,400 Must see you over Cadugan West coming at once Microft 24 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:54,280 your brother, well why not? Why not? Seeing Mycroft? Here 25 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:56,280 will be ten to mant a meeting at tramcar and 26 00:01:56,319 --> 00:01:59,239 the country lane. He has his rails and he runs 27 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,799 on them. This is well off his track. You've met him, 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,959 of course. There's any one that affair of the Greek interpreter. 29 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,599 Something under government, isn't he? Occasionally he is the British government. 30 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,520 Microft draws four hundred and fifty a year. Remains us 31 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,919 the bold and it has no ambitions of any kind, 32 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:18,400 were received neither honor nor title, but remains the most 33 00:02:18,439 --> 00:02:22,360 indispensable man in the country. Again and again his word 34 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:25,800 has decided the national policy. I see, but he mentions 35 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:26,840 the Kadugan wish. 36 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: Who ah, wait a minute, homes that's the young man 37 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:33,520 found dead on the underground on Tuesday morning. 38 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: Come in, yes, missus Hudson, mister Microck co is an oh, 39 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,719 come in, come in my car, Thank god, and you 40 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:47,400 let's say thank you to Hermes. 41 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 4: You remember my friend Watson my cut of course, good morning, 42 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:52,599 mister Hermson. 43 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: How are you inspector morning doctor? An unexpected pleasure my 44 00:02:56,479 --> 00:03:00,520 cut or take a chair, thank you, sir lock Eh. 45 00:03:02,759 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 4: And they say I'm lost here that twice I would 46 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,800 extreme dislike of altering my head. It's but the powers 47 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:10,360 that be would take in denial. I cann seen the 48 00:03:10,439 --> 00:03:11,520 prime minister, who have said? 49 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,879 Speaker 1: And as the emerald him read the case kadug and West, Yes, 50 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,280 that's as the mastery. 51 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: Bad newspapers Paris Catchlar thirtis melict and Catleton. The man's 52 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,879 name was Arthur Cadagon West. He was twenty seven, unmarried 53 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:30,439 and a clerk at woolge arsenal Ah, how do be quiet? 54 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,680 Lock West was last seen on Monday night by his 55 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,520 fiance and is Violet Westbury. 56 00:03:36,919 --> 00:03:38,439 Speaker 1: He lift her abruptly in the. 57 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 4: Fog at seven thirty that evening. There have been no 58 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:44,319 quarrel between them, and she can give no motives for rejection. 59 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,919 The next thing heard of him was when his dead 60 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,680 body was discovered just outside all gets stationed on the 61 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:50,479 underground system. 62 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: But all this was in the newspaper. 63 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,759 Speaker 4: Yes, But what is fortunately not emerged is that the 64 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:58,919 Richie youth head in his pocket the plens of the 65 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,680 Bruce Partings submarine belief. 66 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,759 Speaker 1: Yes, it's importance can hardly be saturated. 67 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:07,199 Speaker 4: The plans have been kept in an elaborate safe in 68 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,560 a confidential office adjoining the Arsenal. The office has burglar 69 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:14,599 proof doors and windows, and under no conceivable circumstances were 70 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:15,560 the plans to be taken from it. 71 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: Really, but if they were part of the dead man's pocket, 72 00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:20,160 surely that means you've recovered them. 73 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 4: Ten documents are known to be missing from Woodage. Kiddergan 74 00:04:24,199 --> 00:04:27,360 West was carrying unless seven when he was found. The 75 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:30,560 three most essentul are gone, solem finished. 76 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: I've dotted down one or two facts for you. 77 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,439 Speaker 4: The official guardian of the papers is Sir James Walter, 78 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,519 a man whose patriotism is beyond suspicion. He left the 79 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:44,839 Arsenal at three o'clock on Monday afternoon and was at 80 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:47,439 the house of Edmiral Sinker in London at whole evening. 81 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,040 The papers were in the safe when Sir James locked 82 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:52,680 it before leaving, and the key was never subsequently out 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:53,199 of his position. 84 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:54,439 Speaker 1: Has anyone else the key? 85 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 4: Only one the senior clerk and draftsman Sydney Johnson. According 86 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:03,319 to his own account corroborated only by his wife, he 87 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,000 was at home the whole of Monday evening and is 88 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,160 key never left his watch chain. And the dead man 89 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,920 condug in the West ten years in the service a 90 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,839 good worker. His duties brought him into daily contact with 91 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,720 the plans. No one else had the handling of them 92 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:19,480 except Sidney Johnson, who locked them up night. 93 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 3: Oh then surely it must be in West himself who 94 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:25,439 took them at least so much unexplained doctor Watson in 95 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:27,120 the first place. Why did he take them or they 96 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:29,959 must be valuable? He was taking them to London to sell, 97 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,079 but he was carrying them back to Woollis when he. 98 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,399 Speaker 1: Met his death. Well then he taken to recopied by someone, 99 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:37,360 so they'd never been missed next day. Admirable deduction, But 100 00:05:37,439 --> 00:05:39,360 allowing me to point out that old kit where the 101 00:05:39,399 --> 00:05:42,639 body was found is considerably past London Bridge, which. 102 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: Would have been his route to White Perhaps he got 103 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,160 arguing with someone else in the compartment and got carried 104 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:48,079 past London Bridge. 105 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:50,319 Speaker 1: They had a point and the other chucked it out 106 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:53,079 on the line. Well, suppose the argument's sake that young 107 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,560 West had carried these papers to London to show to 108 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,279 a foreign agent. Even had made an appointment for the 109 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:01,759 agents and get his evening clear Yet I understand Even 110 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,720 was with his fiance and then left her suddenly in 111 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:07,360 the farm. That's quite so Stones They were on their 112 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:11,040 way to the Woolli's theater. Well, Micraft, your traitor is 113 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,240 dead and the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine are 114 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,000 presumably on the continent by now, what is that for 115 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:23,360 us to f very well? Come Martson and you'll come 116 00:06:23,439 --> 00:06:25,959 with this ball get station to lesbrey lesure is the 117 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:34,399 homes I suppose, Micraft? Oh no, I was forgetting very well. 118 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,639 I shall let you have a report before evening, but 119 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:49,160 I warn you not to expect too much. This is 120 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:49,680 just where the. 121 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,639 Speaker 3: Body lay, you see. It couldn't have fallen from above. 122 00:06:52,959 --> 00:06:55,560 They're blent walls. You could only have come from a 123 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:58,000 train man, so if we can trace it, their tray 124 00:06:58,079 --> 00:06:59,959 must have passed about midnight on Monday. 125 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: You said the trains have been searched for food. Have 126 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,879 any signs of violence come to life? Nothing? 127 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,879 Speaker 3: Not even a reportable door being found open train ah homes? 128 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,959 Speaker 1: What have you seen? Points the points just along here? 129 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,560 What about them? I sure there aren't many steps of 130 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,160 points on a street system like this, and a curve too, 131 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:27,279 points and a curve? Bye Joe, what is it, mister Holmes? 132 00:07:27,759 --> 00:07:30,879 An idea? Nothing more? Tell me it was the much 133 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,439 blood here when the body was found? Hardly idiot? No 134 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:34,399 external wound? 135 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: Oh yes, one big word, but no blood, And yet 136 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:40,319 one would have expected some bleating this trade. 137 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,279 Speaker 1: Would it be possible for me to examine the train 138 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:44,079 which is said to have passed the spad at midnight 139 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,120 on Monday? Afraid not, mister Holmes. 140 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,439 Speaker 3: We gave permission for the train to be broken up 141 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,680 and the carriage is put back into service separately. 142 00:07:51,399 --> 00:07:54,519 Speaker 1: Ah. In this case, Watson, We've done all we can here. 143 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:04,600 We need in trouble you further Lestrade see some lights 144 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,879 in the darkness, but it may possibly tecker out. Meanwhile, 145 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,120 please send to await my return to Baker Street, a 146 00:08:12,279 --> 00:08:16,360 complete list of all foreign spires or international agents known 147 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:21,439 to be in England with palls addresses. 148 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 4: S H. 149 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,279 Speaker 1: There wasn't that'll do My pos should get it within 150 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,680 the hour. Are we going back to Baker Street now? No? 151 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:35,200 To wooldge, I have built up one idea which may 152 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,600 lead this far. The man made his death elsewhere, and 153 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:41,879 his body was on the roof of a carriage. No 154 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,159 roof isn't a coincidence. But the body is found at 155 00:08:45,159 --> 00:08:47,840 the very point where the train pitches and sways as 156 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:50,279 it comes around on the point, isn't that the place 157 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,399 for an object on the roof might be expected to 158 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:56,000 fall off? Showbi's an idea. And you think he was 159 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,360 killed elsewhere because there was no blood beside the line. 160 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,440 Both facts are suggested themselves together. They have accumulative for us. 161 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:07,759 But homes doesn't always make the whole business more perhaps perhaps, 162 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:11,000 But come along, we mustend this telegram in and make 163 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:13,840 our way to Woolich. We have quite a little roundab 164 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,799 afternoon calls to make, and I think Sir James Walter, 165 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:34,960 James our first direction. Good afternoon, gentleman, good afternoon. We 166 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:37,600 should be paidful if Sir James Walter could stare us 167 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,720 a few moments, Sir, Sir James, Sir, yes, he passed 168 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,000 away this morning, great Heaven. Would you kindly tell me 169 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:51,360 how he died? Perhaps you would care to step in, 170 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:57,519 sir and see his brother, Colonel Valentine Walter. Yes, yes, 171 00:09:57,639 --> 00:09:58,559 we're best, do, sir. 172 00:10:01,279 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 3: It was this horrible scandal, mister Holmes. My brother was 173 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:07,879 a man of very sensitive honor. You could not survive 174 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,039 such an affair. He would also proud of his apartment, 175 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,200 and this was a cracking blow. 176 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,039 Speaker 1: It broke his heart. I quite understand, Colonel. We had 177 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,000 hoped that he might have been able to tell us 178 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,200 something which would have helped to clear the matter up. 179 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:24,000 I'll show you it was as much a mystery to 180 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,759 him as to you toward us. Can you throw any 181 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,000 new light on this affair yourself, Colonel, I. 182 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: Only know what I've read or heard. My brother had 183 00:10:32,039 --> 00:10:35,080 no doubt that Cadugan west was guody, and neither have I. 184 00:10:36,399 --> 00:10:39,480 And now, gentlemen, I have no desire to be discourteous, 185 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,600 but you will appreciate that I have many matters for tendle. 186 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: I do not distress yourself, Miss Westby, but you were 187 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,639 the last person known to have seen your fiance alive, 188 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,279 and we must look to you for any too. 189 00:10:58,159 --> 00:11:01,519 Speaker 5: I cannot explain it, mister Holmes. I haven't shot an 190 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,399 ey sence the tragedy, thinking, thinking, thinking, night and day, 191 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:08,440 what the true meaning of it can be? My Arthur 192 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,360 was the most single minded, chivalrous, patriotic man on earth. 193 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: Was he in need of money, not at all, Doctor, His. 194 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 5: Salary was ample. We were to marry him the new year. 195 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: No signs are any mental excitement. 196 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 5: Well, I had a feeling there. 197 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 1: Was something on his mind for long, well. 198 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,799 Speaker 5: Only for the last week or so. 199 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,399 Speaker 1: He was thoughtful and worried. 200 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 5: Once I pressed him about it, and he admitted it 201 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,360 was something official. 202 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,519 Speaker 1: He said, it's too. 203 00:11:36,519 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 5: Serious for me to speak about. 204 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: Given to you something official. Did he make any reference 205 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:42,960 to plans to secrets? 206 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,399 Speaker 5: Well, he did remark how much some people would be 207 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,159 glad to pay to read some of the papers he 208 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:51,120 used in his work. He said there was a slackness 209 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,559 about guarding them, that it would be easy for a traitor. 210 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,639 Speaker 1: To get them. I see now, you were on your 211 00:11:58,679 --> 00:11:59,559 way to the theater. 212 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 6: Oh yes, But the fog was so thick that a 213 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,080 cab would have been useless. So we were walking oh way. 214 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,159 It took us quite close to his office at the Arsenal, 215 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,159 and suddenly he darted away into the fog. I waited, 216 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,879 but he never returned, so I walked home. About twelve 217 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,639 the next day, we heard the terrible news. Oh, mister Holmes, 218 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,879 if you could only only save his honors, it was. 219 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:29,399 Speaker 1: So much to mister Sherlock Homes. You wish to see 220 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,679 me as senior clerk of the Submarine Department, Mister Johnson, 221 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,480 I thought you might be able to enlighten us on 222 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 this matter. Oh it's bad, mister Jones, very bad. The 223 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,080 place is disorganized, the chief dead, kattack at West dead, 224 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:45,480 and our paper's terror. Mister Johnson, I understand that only 225 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:47,840 you and Sir James Walter had a key to the 226 00:12:47,879 --> 00:12:49,960 safe for the secret papers we'll get at. That is so, 227 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,320 and you can take it as gospel, mister Dows, that 228 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,159 neither of us ever left that key out of our possession. 229 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 3: Then good. 230 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,519 Speaker 1: Even West, if he is the COVID must have headed Vietnam, 231 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,440 was found on his body. Another point, mister Johnson, if 232 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,240 a clerk in this office desired to sell the plans, 233 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,840 wouldn't it be simple to copy them here rather than 234 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:14,279 remove the ovidual. Well, it would take considerable technical knowledge 235 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,600 to copy the plan's profitly, whether I supposed the James 236 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,080 or West or you all had that knowledge. Now that 237 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,840 don't try to break me into it, mister Holmes. The 238 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,200 plans were found on West to run things that he 239 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,679 should take the originals that he could have made copies. 240 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:35,559 Every inquiry in this case reveals something inexplicable. Now, mister Johnson, 241 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,600 there are three papers still missing. Do I understand that 242 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,559 someone holding these three alone and without the seven others 243 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:48,639 could constructor bruce Partington the submarine? Well, not entirely, unless 244 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,080 that someone had invented some essential mechanism for himself. But 245 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,679 he'd be able to overcome the difficulty entire So the 246 00:13:54,759 --> 00:13:58,200 missing drawings are the three most important. Oh, undoubtedly I 247 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:05,960 reported to that effective the Admiralty coffee Please missus Hudson 248 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:11,200 for two suffocated wanderers. The fog is still as dead, 249 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:14,240 then as dense as ever. Oh, he has an urgent 250 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,799 message brought by hand a few minutes ago, sir, Oh, 251 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:23,399 thank you, I'll fetch the coffee director. Ah. It's investigation 252 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,279 like a fog itself. Every few paces forward reveals the 253 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:34,639 pressure obstacle ahead. What you got there? Home? Ah? My 254 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,200 brother Micraft has been doing his duty. The list of 255 00:14:38,279 --> 00:14:43,320 agents you asked for, yes, most of them small flies. 256 00:14:44,679 --> 00:14:48,799 But listen, the only men worth considering our Adolph Meyer 257 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:54,320 Louis la Rafier and Hugo Oberstein. The letter lives at 258 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,240 thirteen Corfield Gardens, Kensington, and is known to have been 259 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,000 in town on Monday, though he is now reported as 260 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,759 having left. The cabinet. Awaits your final report with the 261 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:08,120 atmost anxiety. The whole force of the stage is at 262 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,679 your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that 263 00:15:12,799 --> 00:15:16,240 all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men can 264 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,120 very little in this net. But wait, what is it? 265 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,000 Things are turning a little in our direction at last? 266 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,720 What's I do? Honestly believe? But I going to pull 267 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:32,080 it off? After all, I don't pretend to follow you home. 268 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,720 I'm going out now. Oh no, no, it's only a reconnaissance. 269 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,200 I sha't do anything serious without my trusted comrade and 270 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:42,679 biographer my elbow. Thank you now, stay here, and the 271 00:15:42,759 --> 00:15:44,440 odds are that you will see me again in an 272 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:49,240 hour or two, if time. Thanksbe get full step from 273 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:53,039 then and begin your narrative of how we saved the state. 274 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,240 Oh and long November evening. I waited, filled with impatience 275 00:15:59,240 --> 00:15:59,879 for his return. 276 00:16:00,679 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 3: In last, shortly after nine o'clock to arrivee a messenger 277 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:06,799 with a note which said, am dining at Goldie's. 278 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,159 Speaker 1: Restroom across the road. Please come at once and join 279 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,840 me there. Bring with you a jimmy, a dark lad 280 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:22,000 and a chisel and a roof bolter. It's sick. I've 281 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:26,039 one of the propatos cigars man. You oh hangout the 282 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:31,759 least poisonous that one would expect. Hag have you built 283 00:16:31,919 --> 00:16:32,440 the tools? 284 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:33,039 Speaker 7: Oh? 285 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: Sir? Now here am I overcurtain nice equipment? Were respectable citizens? 286 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,240 And carry back in the falls. Let me give you 287 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,759 a short sketch of what I've done, with some indication 288 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,879 of one we are about to do. Yes, carry on now? Then? 289 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:51,960 It must be evident here that this young man's body 290 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,120 was placed on the roof of the train faced. But 291 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,519 couldn't you have been dropped from a breach? I should 292 00:16:58,519 --> 00:17:01,799 say impossible. I found that the roofs are mightly rounded, 293 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,400 and there are no railings on them to keep anything 294 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,319 from falling off. But how could he be placed there? 295 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,480 There's only one possible life. You know that the underground 296 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:14,480 runs clear of tunnels at some points in the west End, 297 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,240 that some of the house windows immediately overlook the line 298 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,960 now supposedly halted under such a window. Would there be 299 00:17:23,039 --> 00:17:25,599 any differently in laying a body on a carriage? No, 300 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,960 but it sounds highly improbable. When I was told that 301 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:32,759 the leading international agent who had just left London lived 302 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:35,039 in a row of houses, which my knowledge of London's 303 00:17:35,079 --> 00:17:39,480 topography reminded me of butts upon the underground, I was 304 00:17:39,599 --> 00:17:42,319 so pleased that you were a little astonished at my 305 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:47,480 sudden frivology hopes. You don't say, hair hugo Oberstein. Are 306 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:53,240 thirteen Coffield Gardens become my objective? I've already ascertained not 307 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,000 in that the backstair windows of his house open onto 308 00:17:56,039 --> 00:17:58,839 the railway line, but also that, owing to the intersection 309 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,680 of one of the larger rail is the underground trains 310 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,359 are frequently held out at the plenty homes. You got it. 311 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,559 We advance, but the girl is distant. However, the bird 312 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,319 has indeed farned no doubt of a consonant to dispose 313 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,440 of his booty leaving the way. He cared for us 314 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,920 to pay a visit to his house. We'll not get 315 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,000 a warrant to make it legal, hardly on the evidence, 316 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:26,920 sadad Come on, let us go. We'll walk to CORTI 317 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,039 of guards. But I beg you not to drop the 318 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,160 instruments on the way. What's your arrest is a suspicious character? 319 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:41,400 Would be enough? Fortunate of conflict. Well, he didn't leave 320 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,519 a servant here in his house. This is the window. Yes, 321 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:53,240 look at these discolourations blood, without a doubt. This is 322 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,960 where they rested the body. Quickly, a train's coming. Now 323 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:11,680 for a demonstration the window. Why see what happens? Look 324 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:15,200 what the carried roofs are not four feet below us? 325 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,680 What do you think a masterpiece? You've never risen of 326 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:25,160 greater items? Oh, I cannot agree. From the moment I 327 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,200 can see the idea of the body being on the roof. 328 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,680 All the rest is inevitable, or you can say so. 329 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:32,960 But we must get on. A search of every private 330 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:38,960 paper we can find might turn up something else. No, 331 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,680 the cunning, darkest company's tracks, he's left nothing to incriminate him. 332 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,880 Homes What is it? Uh, take a look at me? 333 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:55,240 What have you got? The clippings from a newspaper any color? 334 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,759 Did it? Telegraph? Judging by the print of the paper, 335 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,720 hoped to here sooner? Terms would be too rightfully to 336 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:07,519 a rescuing on card pierro matter presses must have draw 337 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:11,920 offer unless contract completed, make appointment by letter Piero. 338 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:16,799 Speaker 3: And this one says, Monday night after nine two taps 339 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,200 payment in hard cash when. 340 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,839 Speaker 1: Goods delivered Piero Monday night, homes Monday night, the night 341 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,440 of the murder. It's jes a dart, wasn't These kippings 342 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,359 are very recent, and that one appears to be the 343 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,480 last of the secrets. Piero hey Oberstein's pseudonym for this 344 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:36,599 his business. I don't die. Oh if only we could 345 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:39,720 find who the messages are four homes. Well, perhaps it 346 00:20:39,839 --> 00:20:42,720 won't be so difficult, after all, I think we might 347 00:20:42,839 --> 00:20:45,240 drive round to the offices of the Daily Telegraph on 348 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:48,079 our way home, and thus bring a good day's work 349 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,200 to a conclusion. Well, how, mister Holmes. 350 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 3: It's all right for you breaking into people's houses while 351 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,000 they're away. We can't do these things in the portion now, 352 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:00,480 No wonder you get results of the beyond us. 353 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: The results justify the means, in other words, But let's 354 00:21:03,759 --> 00:21:05,039 hear what you think about achievement. 355 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,799 Speaker 7: My first in what use will you make in the discovery? 356 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:15,480 See in today's telegraph, Pierre has advertised again, Oh tonight, 357 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:20,599 same are same place two taps most vitally important your 358 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,920 own safety stake, Piero, Why Georgia, we've got it. 359 00:21:25,079 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: That was my idea. When I put it in into 360 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:30,799 danger to himself will make him set into obey. It's brilliant. So, gentlemen, 361 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,920 if you can make it quite convenient to come at 362 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,079 about eight o'clock to Corfield Gardens, we might possibly get 363 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:44,400 a little nearer to a souse just as well oversteps 364 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,440 and really decided to come back. We shouldn't been able 365 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,960 to make him feel with his house. Keep your voice 366 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,079 down on any minute they bring on there. We've been 367 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,240 saying that for three hours of times. Something tells me 368 00:21:56,519 --> 00:21:59,279 your little schemes fizzled out, not at all as trade 369 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,200 I put same are in the message, but that ah 370 00:22:02,319 --> 00:22:05,359 could be anything between eight and midnight. But it's gonna live. 371 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:09,680 Mouse somewhere outside the door. I can see his shadow 372 00:22:09,799 --> 00:22:17,279 on the glass. Or still here he comes, Eddie M. Watson. 373 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:26,240 Keep in the shadow and see nothing very well right, 374 00:22:26,319 --> 00:22:34,079 spread it down. I turned up my cross. Great, he 375 00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:38,319 look who it is? Well you can write me down 376 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,079 and f this time Watson, this isn't the bird I 377 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:46,440 was looking for. Sis. Colonel Valentine Walter younger brothers for 378 00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:49,759 James Walter the late end of the submarine departure. I 379 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,000 demand on explanation, what is all this? I can here 380 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,960 to predict OVERTI everything is known, Colonel Walter, how an 381 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,599 English gentleman could behave in such a manner as beyond 382 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,000 my com I don't know what you're baddling about. For 383 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:07,119 some reason, possibly financial, you entered into a correspondence that Oberstein. 384 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:10,039 You no doubt took an impression of your brother's keys. 385 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,799 You went down to the office in the fog on 386 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,359 Monday night and was seen and followed by young cadug 387 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,000 and West. He saw you steal the Bruce parkins and plans, 388 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,559 and like the good citizen that he was, he followed 389 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:23,599 you closely and the fog and kept at your heels 390 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:28,359 until you reached this stady house. Here he intervened. And 391 00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:31,559 then it was Colonel Walter that to treason you added 392 00:23:31,599 --> 00:23:34,720 a more terrible crime of murder. No, no, I didn't, 393 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,319 I swear I didn't. Then tell us how kadug and 394 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,000 West met his end before you laid his body on 395 00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:42,279 the roof of a railway cabbage. I will, I will, 396 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,240 I did. 397 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 3: The rest of the competitor, a stock of staged death 398 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,240 had to be repaid. 399 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:52,599 Speaker 1: I needed the money desperately, obustein of at May five thousand. 400 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:57,359 It must have saved myself from ruining. Don't see what murder? 401 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 3: I'm not innocent of you. Then West already had his 402 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,920 suspicions on me. Yes, he followed me as you described. 403 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,839 For I no one knew it, and that's falled until 404 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:07,960 I was at this very door. 405 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: I'd give them two taps, and Oversteide had come to 406 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,519 the door as arranged. The young man rushed up and 407 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:16,640 demanded to know what we were going to do with 408 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:24,160 the pans. Overstegn just fuck him. West was dead in 409 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:26,240 five minutes. Now, well, then what did you do? 410 00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:30,079 Speaker 3: Overstein had this idea about the trains halting under his window, 411 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,559 But first he examined the papers I brought. 412 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:34,839 Speaker 1: He said that three of them were a central and 413 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,200 that he must keep them. You can't keep them, I said, 414 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:40,319 everything will be discovered at woolage if they aren't returned, 415 00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:42,480 but he said he must keep them. They were too 416 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:43,920 technical to copy quickly. 417 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 3: And then he had this idea to put the others 418 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:50,440 heaven on West's body, so that they would certainly be 419 00:24:50,559 --> 00:24:52,799 found and the whole pest would be put. 420 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,559 Speaker 1: Down to him. Where is this overstrine with the papers? Now? 421 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,200 I don't know he he said the letter to the 422 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:01,400 Ordi'll do the rule and Paddis will reach me. 423 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 3: Anything else. There has nothing to tell you. How many 424 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,440 if I could believe me? Oh a fellow, nothing. He's 425 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:09,079 been my dumbfall and ruined. 426 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,519 Speaker 1: Colonel Walter, it is within your power to ease your 427 00:25:12,599 --> 00:25:17,599 conscience and perhaps your punishment. It is how I'm going 428 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,720 to place pen and paper before you, and you are 429 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:22,440 going to write. At my dictation. You will be writing 430 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,440 to Oberstein care the hotel you move to tell him 431 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,359 that you've discovered one more document which is of vital 432 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,319 importance to the assembly of a Bruce Partington submarine. For 433 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:35,400 this you will ask for a further payment of five 434 00:25:35,519 --> 00:25:39,759 hundred pounds. Well, I don't understand you will not trust 435 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:42,559 the document to the post, but it would cause too 436 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,799 much comment if you were to go abroad at this time. Therefore, 437 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,200 you will tell Overstein that you will expect him to 438 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,319 be in the smoking room of the Sharing Trust Hotel 439 00:25:51,799 --> 00:25:57,160 at noon on stable there. I think that will do 440 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,400 very well. I shall be very much supply if it 441 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:04,519 doesn't quite masterly. 442 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 3: It is a matter of history that overstim did come 443 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,759 eager to complete the core of a lifetime. He fell 444 00:26:17,799 --> 00:26:21,079 into the trap and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in. 445 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: A British prison. 446 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 3: In his trunk were found the invaluable Bruce Partington Plans. 447 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:29,119 Some weeks afterwards, I learned that Holmes had spent the 448 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,960 day at Windsor. Whence he returned with a remarkably fine 449 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:36,960 emerald type in When I asked him if he bought it, he. 450 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:40,599 Speaker 8: Answered that it was a prison from a certain gracious 451 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:44,920 lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough 452 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,880 to carry out a small commission. 453 00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:55,799 Speaker 2: That was The Bruce Partington Fans by Michael Hardwick, based 454 00:26:55,839 --> 00:27:00,000 on a short story by Sararthaca and Doyle Sherlock. Holmes 455 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:04,160 was played by Carlton Hobbs and Doctor Watson by Norman Shelley. 456 00:27:05,319 --> 00:27:08,640 Production for the DBC was by Graham Gould.