WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:18.320 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We present the original stories 2 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:21.839 of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized anew with 3 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.839 Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson as 4 00:00:25.879 --> 00:01:02.119 Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty. 5 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.239 It is with a heavy heart that I come before 6 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.000 you with the last adventure of my friend Sherlock Holmes. 7 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:16.519 That I shall be able to relate. I have tried, 8 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.040 in my humble way to chronicle some of our exploits 9 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:24.480 together to demonstrate the singular gifts of that most remarkable 10 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:29.120 of men. It lies with me now to tell you 11 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.120 what occurred between Holmes and his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, 12 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.040 when at last they came face to face. 13 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.799 Mister Sherlock Holmes, your efforts on the side of law 14 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:46.439 and order have seriously inconvenienced me. The situation between us 15 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:50.239 is becoming an impossible one, mister Holmes. It simply cannot 16 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.400 go on. One or the other of us must die, 17 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.359 must die, mister Holmes. 18 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.439 It was in the spring of eighteen nine one. You 19 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.480 will remember, perhaps that, after my marriage and return to 20 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:07.760 private practice, Holmes and I had drifted apart a little. 21 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.439 I followed the newspaper reports of his cases, of course, 22 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.000 and called on him quite often at the old rooms 23 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:20.439 in Baker Street. Even so, however, many weeks would sometimes 24 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.759 e left between our meetings, And so it was with 25 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.800 some surprise one April evening that I looked up and 26 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:35.439 saw him standing before me in my study. Good evening, Watson, Ah, 27 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.719 good evening, Holmes. Have you a cigarette for me? 28 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:39.719 Homes? 29 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:40.439 It? 30 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.080 Great? Heavens man? How ill you look? Oh? 31 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.400 Yes, I've been using myself up rather too freely of late, 32 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:49.439 old friend. You'n objection if I close your window shutters? No, 33 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:54.520 of course, Now, yeah, you're not afraid of anything, are you? 34 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.599 At truth? I am rather for it's not like you, Holmes. 35 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:02.759 What is it? Yeah? Guns? Air guns? What on earth 36 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:03.240 do you mean? 37 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.560 There's a new and deadly type of air gun, Watson, 38 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.400 which has been especially designed by an old acquaintance of ours. 39 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.000 What, professor Moriarty? We could only be he from your 40 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.560 tone the same A match? Give me a match with you, 41 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.520 my dear fellow. Yes, of course, well, thank you. Is 42 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.919 missus Watson at home? Oh no, she's on a visit 43 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:26.840 to an arm uite alone. Good. 44 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:27.039 Good. 45 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.360 That makes it easier for me to propose that you 46 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.199 should come away with me for a few days delighted. 47 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:39.240 But where, oh the continent, somewhere abroad, abroad is that 48 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:44.840 whiskey in the decanta? Now look here, Pols, what's all 49 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.560 this about? There's something more serious in your man now than. 50 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.639 You never did quite believe in the iniquities of Moriarty, 51 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:53.360 did you, Watson? 52 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.439 You've said some more than once I told you exaggerated 53 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:56.759 a bit. 54 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.840 After all, Professor Moriarty is a respectable figure in public, 55 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.240 just so, And that's the very genius of the man. 56 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.560 Even you, Watson, knowing me as you do, can't quite 57 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.879 believe me when I tell you that he corrupts all London. 58 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.639 With his evil influence. I can't quite believe that. 59 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.159 Oh, of course, to the world he's still the professor, 60 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:16.560 a great mathematician. 61 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:18.319 He's respectable. 62 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:22.839 But what real proof have you that he's anything else? None, well, 63 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:28.680 at least not until this last month, And even now 64 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:33.519 the chain isn't quite complete. But three days more and 65 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.439 I shall have him, Watson, three days more, if I 66 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.920 live to see them. You can't seriously suppose that your 67 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.600 life's in danger homes. No, huh, you always love to 68 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:45.519 be melodramatic. 69 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:47.240 Melodramatic. Listen Watson. 70 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.720 This morning, this very morning, in those old rooms of 71 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.839 ours in Baker Street, I saw him, face to face. 72 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.639 I spoke to him, why aren't you, your distinguished professor? 73 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.920 Within him a criminal strain of the musta bolical. 74 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:05.439 Kind, that great white dome of a forehead, those hooded eyes, 75 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:09.720 and the white face pushed forward, oscillating from sight to 76 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:10.839 side like a snake. 77 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.560 Of course, if you believe the old heresy of physiognomy, 78 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:14.879 and only that, of course not. 79 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.399 I've worked for years to follow a thousand different threads, 80 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:20.199 and every one of them has led to Moriarty. 81 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:22.160 He's a napoleon of crime. 82 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:27.560 Watson, the secret organizer of almost everything evil that goes undetected. 83 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.199 In this great city of ours. 84 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.399 There he sits, motionless, like a spider in the center 85 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.120 of its web, a web with a thousand strands, and 86 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:40.279 he controls them everyone, But slowly, very slowly. My own 87 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.720 secret plans to expose him have borne fruit. 88 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:44.439 Every day. 89 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:46.759 My neit is joining tighter, and he knows it, Watson, 90 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.120 he knows the danger he's in, and that was why 91 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.120 today he came to see me. I was playing my violin, 92 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.639 as you know I often do when I want to think, 93 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.639 and suddenly there he was, standing in the doorway with 94 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:01.720 his white face swaying. 95 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.879 In an evil way, peering at me with his hooded eyes. 96 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:23.240 Good morning, Professor Moriarty, Good morning do you, mister Sherla comsily? 97 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.600 How very charming do you play? How kind of you 98 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.279 to say so? Won't you be seated? 99 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.439 Professor Moriarty, I can spare. 100 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.000 You just five minutes. It's singularly good of you. Thank you. 101 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:39.040 We'll sit down. May I say something personal? Misters, certainly. 102 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.839 Surprised to discover that you are rather less cranial development 103 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.199 one might have expected. 104 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:47.879 Well as you. 105 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.399 On the contrary, I have rather more than I had imagined. Professor, 106 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.800 you will recollect. I'm sure how that Beethoven's I did 107 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:54.240 as both. 108 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:56.319 How about our personal. 109 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.160 Characteristics are highly relevant to the present situation. 110 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.519 What have you rarely got to say to me? Well, 111 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.279 perhaps I only suggested it was. 112 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:07.839 Perhaps it is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms 113 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:08.680 in the pocket of one's. 114 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:09.680 Dressing guns homes. 115 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.360 Evidently you share that dangerous habit, Professor, I see that 116 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.279 you keep your hand in the pocket of your morning coat. 117 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:18.399 Supposing we lay our pistols and our cards on the table. 118 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.399 By all means, I was about to suggest it myself. 119 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.560 I see you favored the mauser attacked, mister Holmes, and 120 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.639 without a silence, serve I must permit me to presentially 121 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:29.920 sometimes with one of these small devices of my own design, 122 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:32.959 quite convenient in avoiding unpleasant noise. 123 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.160 You know, how very kind of your professor, You must 124 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.879 ask the hangman to deliver it to me at your 125 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:37.600 last request. 126 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.519 You evidently don't know me, mister. On the contrary, I 127 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:42.199 think I know you better than you know yourself. 128 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.240 I wouldn't take up your gun again, Professor, I've already. 129 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.319 Got you covered with mine, so I perceived, But I 130 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.519 assure you it was only to give a harmless demonstration 131 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.240 of the silencer of my own small accomplishments as a marksman. 132 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.639 Mister Holmes, I've read in those accounts of doctor Watson 133 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:00.480 that somewhat no doubt anyable friend of yours on the 134 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.360 wall there nat from your indoor revolver practice. 135 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.519 Quite so the initials there we are Victoria, Regina, God save. 136 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.759 My majesty, now that I see them it's impressed. They're 137 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.720 not quite as symmetrical as they might say. 138 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.079 One side of the the is a little short, I think, 139 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.160 submit me to correct the slip. 140 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.600 Admirable Professor Mariaty, you are perfectly right, of course, that 141 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.199 little mistake has now been rectified. 142 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.079 I'd like, howe if I may to improve upon it. 143 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.920 Your bullet mark is perhaps a shade smaller than my own. 144 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:35.080 Permit me, Admirable mister. 145 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.840 Holmes, Yeah, precisely above your own marked, Professor, the exact spot, 146 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:39.399 I think. 147 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:40.480 No, no play, don't look alarm. 148 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.000 My good landlady is quite a discustomed to that noise. 149 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.399 We shall not be disturbed. I'm very glad of it, 150 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.080 for I have to say is not without importance. Mister Holmes. 151 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.120 Shall we stop off fencing it by all means? 152 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:54.159 If you will permit me first to correct one statement 153 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.919 that you made just now with reference to my friend Dr. 154 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.200 Watson, I am afraid I can go. They permit the adjective. 155 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.600 Though thine, in his accounts of my humble exploits, he's 156 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:08.159 been good enough to exaggerate my own achievements, and has 157 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.399 always been unduly modest about his own. He is a 158 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.840 most upright and honorable gentleman, Professor, I'm very close to 159 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.000 my heart. You may say what you will about me, 160 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.440 but I can allow no derogatory words about him who. 161 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:23.240 As I apologize, we who are about to die, salute 162 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:25.399 him pleased. 163 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:25.679 You do. 164 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.159 You are very certain, aren't you, Professor Moriarty, that it 165 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.000 is I who am going to die? 166 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.799 If it is not, of course, unless you listen to reason, 167 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.600 the situation between us, mister Frans is becoming an impossible one. 168 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:40.960 It simply cannot go on it won't, I assure you. 169 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.879 For these past few months, I've been working to put 170 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.960 an end to it, all of the earliest possible. 171 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.639 Moment, and you have very nearly undone the careful endeavor 172 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.159 of a lifetime, Sir, for at least have seriously threatened it. No, 173 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:56.279 don't moved your pistol again. I'm only taking out my 174 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:57.159 memorandum book. 175 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.639 I beg your pardon. I find it recorded here. 176 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.399 And she crossed my path on the fourth of januine 177 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.879 homes from the twenty third you incnluded me. At the 178 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.799 middle of February. I was seriously inconvenienced for you. The 179 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.639 end of March I was absolutely hampered, and. 180 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:15.559 Not the close of April. 181 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.639 I find us a place in such a position through 182 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:19.960 your continual persecution, that I am in positive danger of 183 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:20.759 losing my liberty. 184 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.320 That was certainly the end I had in view. Then 185 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.600 you must drop it, mister Holmes, You really must. 186 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.320 You not till after Monday, Professor. You know as well 187 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.440 as I do that you've made a slip, one single 188 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.360 tiny slip. For years, I've been aware. 189 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.159 Of you, Mariatti, at the center of your organization. Forgeries, 190 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.679 murder cases, robberies. A thousand crimes were planned by you. 191 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:51.600 A hundred agents carried them out. Your subordinates were caught sometimes. 192 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:56.200 But you never were. And yet you know you made 193 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.480 that slip, that single time you slip, and you. 194 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.879 Know as well as I do that it will destroy you. 195 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.679 In three more days, my evidence will be complete. I 196 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:13.600 shall have you expose, brought to trial, condemned and hanged, 197 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.840 and you can do nothing whatever to prevent it. My 198 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.080 will is inflexible, and so is mine. Three days, do 199 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:25.159 you say, And before that out the end will come. 200 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.960 One or the other of us must die, sir. Quite so, 201 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.440 the five minutes is up, Professor, and I must rarely 202 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.080 ask you to excuse me in the pleasure of our conversation. 203 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:36.000 I'm afraid that I've. 204 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.799 Neglected business of importance elsewhere. Very well, then seems a 205 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:44.320 pity done what I could. I admit that it's been 206 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.759 an intellectual pleasure. Need to see the way in which 207 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.000 you grapple to this affair. 208 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.039 But I tell you solemnly, shore our Holmes, that if 209 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.320 you are clever enough to bring destruction on me, you 210 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:56.600 may rest assured that. 211 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.720 I shall do as much to you. You have paid 212 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.960 me several compliments during this indigue, Professor. Let me pay 213 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.480 you one in return. When I say that, if I were. 214 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:08.120 Assured of the former eventuality, I would most cheerfully accept 215 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:08.559 the latter. 216 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.000 I can promise you the one, but not the other. 217 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.879 Good day, mister Holmes. Oh your pistol, professor, you may 218 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:15.919 need it before Monday. 219 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:21.039 Thank you, good day, Professor. I think good bye is 220 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:36.240 the word, mister Sherlock Holmes. Good bye. 221 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.840 And so it was you, see Watson, that singular interview 222 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.639 with the greatest criminal of all time and his with 223 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.519 the greatest detective. Oh thank you, my dear fellow. But 224 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:55.279 but what are you going to do? Holmes? I told 225 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:56.200 you where we leave. 226 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.399 For the continent Mariot is not the man to let 227 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.240 the grass grow under his feet. Already one or two 228 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.960 accidents have nearly befallen me to day upon myself. 229 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.799 The police are gathering all my evidence against him. Everything 230 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.360 will be complete in three short days. Meanwhile, I can 231 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.399 only lie low. Are you able to leave your practice 232 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.960 to come with me? I've an accommodating neighbor. Ah, Dear Watson, 233 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.200 I knew I could count on you. All right. Then, 234 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:25.240 Now these are your instructions. Listen most carefully. Instruction at homes. 235 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.120 I assure you they are most necessary. 236 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.639 To morrow morning, at eight forty five, you will take 237 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:31.480 a handsome cab. 238 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:32.639 I'll arrange for one to call. 239 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.960 No, No, you really mustter baby to the letter Watson, 240 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.320 you will leave the house alone to morrow morning and 241 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.240 take neither the first nor the second cab, which presents 242 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.399 itself at the rank very well Holmes, and the address 243 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.440 to the cabman written on a slip of paper, and 244 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.799 tell him not to throw it away, and I'll drive I. 245 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.039 Take it to Victoria Station. 246 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.399 On the contrary, you drive to the strand end of 247 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.159 the Lauda arcade I see, and then have your fare 248 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.279 ready and the instant your cab stops, pay him, and 249 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.320 dash through the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other 250 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.799 side at exactly a quarter past nine. 251 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.480 Yes, but my dear, no man, listen carefully. It's vital. 252 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:10.200 Our lives depend upon it. 253 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.639 When you get there, you'll find a broom standing close 254 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.200 to the curb, driven by a fellow with a black 255 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.600 cloak tipped with red. Say nothing, simply jump in and 256 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.559 he'll drive you to Victoria in time for the Continental Express. 257 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.080 And where shall I meet you, Holmes, The. 258 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.120 Second coach from the front of the train of first 259 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:30.000 class carriage reserved for us. Good night, Watson, and as 260 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.720 you value our lives, don't forget a single word. 261 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.799 Of my instructions. No, no, no, of course, not home 262 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.360 until we meet tomorrow. Then until we meet. 263 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.360 I was infected myself with something of his own inner 264 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.879 excitement and sense of menace. I took the hansom and 265 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.200 then the broom with its massive hooded driver. I said 266 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.960 nothing to him, as I was instructed, and he never 267 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.720 spoke to me. A moment later, we were rattling to 268 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:00.440 the station. There he left me and drove off without 269 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:10.960 a further glance, his face still hidden. There was no 270 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:14.240 sign of homes, and my heart sank miserably. 271 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.120 I found our reserved carriage. 272 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.399 But through some confusion, a decrepit old Italian priest was 273 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:25.519 sitting there. The moments came for departure, still I waited 274 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.759 by the window, in a chill of fear. 275 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.600 Schools a signor pray girls. I'm sorry partly I don't 276 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:40.840 speak Italian nor th I was up him. Oh for stones. 277 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.799 Man, this is no laughing matter, not yet anywhere death 278 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.480 you see. 279 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:51.399 Stop the tray. It's Moriarty himself, the tall man. He'll 280 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:57.159 never do it. Stop the train, I said, you pull jewel. 281 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.679 Even the great Moriarty himself is helpless against the British Railway. 282 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:12.279 Sister Watson, well, well it gives us an hour's respite 283 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:12.679 at least. 284 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.360 But how how did he know where we were? By 285 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:15.840 watching you? 286 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.120 I expect, but I did that thing you told me. 287 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.639 Wait Holmes, the driver of the brone. 288 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.519 But what about him? He was muffled. 289 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.039 I didn't see his face. It must have been one 290 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.559 of Moriarty's men. My dear Watson, it is nothing of 291 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.480 the sort. It is my brother Micraft, shaken for once 292 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.240 out of his arm chair at the Diogenes Club, gore. 293 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.799 Heavens the thing is serious then, of course, but at least. 294 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.320 We have an hour and I can use it to 295 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.679 take off this disguise and think things over. But we've 296 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.960 escaped him altogether, surely since the train connects with the boat. 297 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.519 My dear fellow, you evidently don't realize even. 298 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.279 Now that Moriarty is an opponent on practically the same 299 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:52.840 intellectual plane as myself. 300 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.120 Do you really imagine if I were the pursuer, I. 301 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.759 Will permit myself to be baffled by so slight an 302 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.159 obstacle as an express training What'll he do? 303 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.600 Then? What I should do? Engage a special But. 304 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.759 It'd be too late even then by no means we 305 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:08.240 stop at Canterbury, don't forget, And there was always a 306 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:09.839 delay of a quarter of an hour when the train. 307 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:10.319 Gets to Dover. 308 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.519 Oh, I so you'd almost think we were the criminals 309 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:14.720 to be chased like this. You mean that he'll catch 310 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:15.559 us after all them? 311 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:20.200 I hope not. We shan't be there, Watson. Look look here, Holmes. 312 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.039 I hate to grumble after all this time, but well there, 313 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:24.680 I do think you ought to tell me what you mean. 314 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.359 Heaven bless you for a start, and faithful friend, Watson, 315 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:31.759 I'm sorry, it's only a well, well, I don't want 316 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.400 to expose you to danger too, That's why I'm being 317 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:35.200 so mysterious. 318 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:36.920 It's very simple, really. 319 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.720 We shall just get out at Canterbury, indeed, and not 320 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:41.960 go on the continents after all, I suppose, yes, we. 321 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:42.440 Must do there. 322 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.680 We've no choice but to hide away until after Monday, 323 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:46.440 when the evidence will have been completed. 324 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.599 You've not seen the papers this morning, I spoke. 325 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.319 Oh really, Holmes, what time do you think I've had 326 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.119 for the one must try to make time for everything, Watson. 327 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:58.319 You really should have read about Baker Street. What Baker Street? 328 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.880 If they set fire to our rooms loud night, missus 329 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.279 Hudson was away from home, fortunately, and no one was 330 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.480 hurt iled there to say they thought I was there, 331 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:10.599 of course, so the thing's intolerable. Yes, only till Monday, Watson. 332 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:13.240 And by then we will be in Switzerland. We'll make 333 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.839 a cross country journey from Canterbury and take the other 334 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.880 boat from New headon to Dieppe. Unless, of course, right 335 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.680 our friend the Professor deduces what I would deduce and 336 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:25.400 gets off at Canterbury himself. 337 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.960 Ah, that would truly be a Koude. 338 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:31.400 Met he surely never would well, I rather doubted there 339 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.319 are limits even to his intelligence. No, no, I think 340 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.559 we are safe enough, old friend, And now there's time 341 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:38.000 for a pipe. 342 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:39.640 I fancy won't you join me? Watson? 343 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:59.000 And thus it befell. As we hid behind the pile 344 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.200 of luggage at Canton, we saw the single carriage of 345 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.839 the Special Gulf thundering past us, And so we made 346 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.880 our way across country and at last reached Switzerland. It 347 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:19.599 seemed we had luded him. To fill in every detail 348 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.079 of the final scene is hardly possible, since there was 349 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:24.119 no witness to it. 350 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.319 Yet from a certain. 351 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.359 Source that I cannot yet divouge, I do know something 352 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:31.759 of that last encounter. 353 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.200 We wondered at. 354 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.640 Our will through the lovely valley of the Rhone, and 355 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.480 made our way by way of Interlaken to the little 356 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:41.960 township of Milligan among the Alps. 357 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:43.799 The fatal Monday. 358 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:47.000 Came and went, and yet I was still aware of 359 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.119 a strange feebi of excitement in my companion. 360 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:51.720 He was at. 361 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:56.839 Times feverishly on the alert, then sinking into reverie, and 362 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.480 would smile strangely to himself. I went with him on 363 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:05.119 that last day of all on a visit to the 364 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:09.079 Falls of Reichenbach, for ever hallowed and yet cursed in 365 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:13.359 my memory, it's a fearful place, indeed, with a torrent 366 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:18.880 plunging far below into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined 367 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.400 by cold, black, glistening rock high above. 368 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:24.960 A pathway has been cut in the cliff face. 369 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:27.920 To afford a better view, but it ends abruptly in 370 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:30.920 mid air, and the traveler has to return as he came. 371 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:35.200 We stood there gizsily, marveling at the great spectacle, and 372 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:37.720 on the instant came a message for me by a 373 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:40.440 village lad to say that an English lady back at 374 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:42.559 the hotel was seriously ill and. 375 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.880 Needed my immediate attention. I turned to go. 376 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:50.079 I looked back, and I saw Holmes leaning against a 377 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:53.640 rock with his arms folded, gazing down at the rush 378 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:54.279 of the waters. 379 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:56.839 It was the last I saw. 380 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:12.880 Is that you Watson back already, Moriarty well sherlack Cobs. 381 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:18.559 You see, I found you after all, and alone alone, 382 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:19.920 as indeed you must be two. 383 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:21.519 How if your. 384 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.799 Confederates are all under lock and key I've heard from 385 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:25.559 Scotland yard skipped. 386 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:27.960 I was too clever for them, Holmes. 387 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:32.319 I don't doubt it, but I'm afraid your occupation's gone, Professor, 388 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:35.799 with your organization destroyed, unless you care to return to 389 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:36.680 your mathematics. 390 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.880 It was not my intention. I have another, more immediate intention, 391 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:46.960 Sherlock Holmes. Are you prepared? But before we discuss that, 392 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:51.440 perhaps you extend me one small courtesy, Professor, most certainly, 393 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:57.240 what is it? My friend Watson? Professor, no doubt he 394 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:00.759 will be somewhat concerned. May I just take a moment 395 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:02.240 to scribble a note to him? 396 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:06.000 Certainly we can fix the paper beneath my help and 397 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.799 stuff there, since it does not blow away, if they 398 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:10.799 take as long as you wish. 399 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:12.160 That's very good of you. 400 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:16.119 Please don't stop talking, Professor. I mastered long ago the 401 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:17.920