The Woman in Green (1945)
Approved | 1h 30min | Mystery, Drama | 27 July 1945 (USA)
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Director: Roy William Neill
Writers: Bertram Millhauser (original screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (based on the characters created by) (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
Approved | 1h 30min | Mystery, Drama | 27 July 1945 (USA)
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Director: Roy William Neill
Writers: Bertram Millhauser (original screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (based on the characters created by) (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
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00:00:55I won't forget that morning, not if I lived to be a hundred.
00:00:59I counted the men as they marched out of the yard.
00:01:02They'd hardly slept for weeks.
00:01:04We of the CID had slept even less,
00:01:07but the nightmare that kept us awake was all the same nightmare.
00:01:12That's why we weren't surprised when the commissioner asked us up to the conference room for a bit of a talk.
00:01:17He'd talked to us plenty, we knew that.
00:01:20It didn't help any to know what was ahead of us.
00:01:30Must we have that window open, Gregson?
00:01:33Oh, shut it if you want to.
00:01:35He'll be in enough of a temper without having a ruddy blast down the back of his neck.
00:01:45Gentlemen, the commissioner.
00:01:49Stuffy in here.
00:01:55Be seated, won't you?
00:01:58Gentlemen, if you wish to know what able men you are,
00:02:02read any of the works of popular fiction that glamorize your achievements,
00:02:06but don't, I beg of you, read the daily papers.
00:02:10They might give you an inferiority complex.
00:02:14I hate to mention it,
00:02:17but we're confronted with a series of the most atrocious murders since Jack the Ripper.
00:02:22And in the meantime, the CID might as well be playing at shove, hate me.
00:02:28For all the good we've accomplished.
00:02:30Now look.
00:02:34Here, here and here.
00:02:38Each of these red flags scattered through the city stands for a woman brutally murdered,
00:02:42a woman's terror, a woman's death agony.
00:02:46These are no ordinary crimes.
00:02:49These are the works of a fiend who kills first and mutilates afterwards.
00:02:54A ghoul who hacks off a part of his victim's body and carries it away with him.
00:02:58A loathsome souvenir of his butchery.
00:03:01Three women murdered so far, and you haven't turned in one clue.
00:03:06You haven't given me one lead.
00:03:09Here you sit and wait for news of a fourth victim.
00:03:13With your arms folded.
00:03:21Well, we hadn't long to wait.
00:03:23It was down Lambeth Way where a young woman was hurrying home late last night.
00:03:27She saw something and stopped.
00:03:30It was a constable.
00:03:32He spoke to her and he walked along with her, just in case.
00:03:39He saw her go down the stairway to the basement lodging where she lived.
00:03:43We can only surmise what happened after that.
00:03:58Well, I put my pride in my pocket
00:04:01and went to see the man who so often helped out Inspector Lestrade and myself in the past.
00:04:07Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:04:15If ever a man needed help, I did.
00:04:27This makes four, Inspector.
00:04:30Four defenseless women here in the heart of London.
00:04:33And every one with the right forefinger hacked off.
00:04:35Not hacked, Inspector Gregson.
00:04:40Cleanly, expertly severed.
00:04:42The work of a skilled surgeon.
00:04:44That's her only clue.
00:04:46Much about the age of my sister's girl.
00:04:49Is there no way of stopping this, Mr. Holmes?
00:04:52Yes.
00:04:55There's a way, somehow.
00:04:58The fiend that did this.
00:05:00I promise.
00:05:02I promise.
00:05:03We have nothing to go on. That's the rotten part of it.
00:05:06We can't get far without knowing the motive.
00:05:08Well, at least we know what the motives were not.
00:05:10It wasn't robbery.
00:05:11Nor passion, thanks be, nor yet vengeance.
00:05:13Because they all came of totally unrelated families.
00:05:16Steady, Inspector, steady.
00:05:18I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes.
00:05:21I'm trying to hear when it's a bloke that can look after himself.
00:05:24With a little slip of a thing like that.
00:05:26Yes, it's horrible. Come on, let's get a drink.
00:05:51Good evening, Mr. Holmes.
00:05:52Evening, Vincent. Whiskey and soda, please.
00:05:54And a double for my friend here, Inspector Gregson.
00:05:56Very good, sir.
00:05:57Eggnog and Irish.
00:05:58Decent of you to give me a hand with this thing, Mr. Holmes.
00:06:00Always a pleasure to be of help to Scotland Yard, Inspector.
00:06:02A little out of my line.
00:06:04Looking for a maniac.
00:06:06Murders just for the fun of it.
00:06:09Or perhaps just to get a human finger.
00:06:15In all four cases...
00:06:18You risk capture by stopping to secure a finger.
00:06:25What for?
00:06:26Who knows? He's just a madman.
00:06:29Perhaps there's method in his madness.
00:06:32If we could just trace those missing fingers...
00:06:35See, if we could just drag the English Channel, we might find a penny.
00:06:40Oh, thank you.
00:06:44May I keep those, Mr. Holmes?
00:06:49Hmm.
00:06:50It's a George Fenwick, isn't it?
00:06:51Yes.
00:06:52Is that his daughter with him?
00:06:54Don't be so naive, Inspector.
00:06:58You know everyone, don't you, darling?
00:07:00Well, hardly.
00:07:02A week ago, I didn't know you.
00:07:04A week.
00:07:05How fast it's gone.
00:07:19I collect these things.
00:07:21How very quaint of you.
00:07:23Shall we go?
00:07:24Yes.
00:07:29What are you looking at, Mr. Holmes?
00:07:32Looking at a very handsome woman.
00:07:34Not born to the purple, but giving an excellent imitation.
00:07:38Would you like to come to my flat for a nightcap?
00:07:40Lovely idea.
00:07:41Yes, isn't it?
00:07:44I wonder where she's taking Sir George Fenwick.
00:07:46Don't be so naive, Mr. Holmes.
00:08:13Beep.
00:08:43Beep.
00:08:49Beep.
00:08:58Good evening, ma'am.
00:08:59Hello, Crandon.
00:09:00Any messages?
00:09:01No, ma'am.
00:09:06Er, drinks, Crandon.
00:09:07One of your nice surprises.
00:09:09Yes, ma'am.
00:09:10I say, you don't mean that...
00:09:11Crandon's a marvel, aren't you, Crandon?
00:09:13Yes, ma'am.
00:09:14You wouldn't believe the things she can do.
00:09:17Hmm.
00:09:18Ah.
00:09:19Charming face.
00:09:20Delightful.
00:09:21Really?
00:09:22You think so?
00:09:23I'm so glad.
00:09:25Do sit down.
00:09:27Do you mind?
00:09:28Do I mind?
00:09:30What a question.
00:09:33I don't mind anything, really.
00:09:36Except not being with you.
00:09:38Now, you really don't want me to believe that, do you?
00:09:40Not too seriously.
00:09:41Good.
00:09:42We're both quite grown up, aren't we?
00:09:44Quite.
00:09:53You're a treasure, Crandon.
00:10:00And lower the lights a little as you leave.
00:10:03I prefer a more flattering light.
00:10:06In any light, you'd be...
00:10:07Would I?
00:10:09And don't you know it.
00:10:11Perhaps I do.
00:10:21Oh, that priceless woman.
00:10:23You wouldn't believe it, but she's so beautiful.
00:10:25I know.
00:10:26I know.
00:10:27I know.
00:10:28I know.
00:10:29I know.
00:10:30That priceless woman.
00:10:31You wouldn't believe it, but she's absurdly romantic.
00:10:34She loves dreamy music,
00:10:35and she thinks that we...
00:10:37But we do, don't we?
00:10:39Do we?
00:10:41Well, it's rather soothing,
00:10:43restful.
00:10:44Yes.
00:10:47And we all need rest at times,
00:10:49like tired children who've played too long.
00:10:54You've played with wooden soldiers, I suppose.
00:10:56Hmm. Funny. Hadn't thought of that for years.
00:11:01Toy boats were my special joy.
00:11:04Anything I could set afloat anywhere.
00:11:07Like this.
00:11:09And this.
00:11:12Toy boats sailing into the never-never land.
00:11:16The land of beautiful dreams.
00:11:19Look.
00:11:21Look, odd, isn't it, how the light is reflecting?
00:11:24Little specks of light that move and move.
00:11:29Like stars on a slowly moving stream.
00:11:34You know, Holmes, I'm very sensitive to atmosphere.
00:11:37Yes, I can tell by the feel of this room there's been a murder committed here.
00:11:40It may interest you to know, my dear fellow,
00:11:42it was the other side of that door at the foot of the stairs that the poor girl was murdered.
00:11:45If only I could find it.
00:11:47Find what?
00:11:48The one thing these unfortunate victims have in common
00:11:51that might give us a motive for these murders.
00:11:53There must be something.
00:11:55Another Jack the Ripper, if you ask me. A homicidal maniac.
00:11:57No, Watson. In the case of Jack the Ripper, there was one thing in common.
00:12:00His victims were all from one walk of life, living in the same section of the city.
00:12:03In this case, the murderer chooses his victims
00:12:05from all walks of life and from different sections of the city.
00:12:08No, my dear fellow, this is not the work of a homicidal maniac.
00:12:12It's something infinitely more sinister.
00:12:14You mean the creeps. What on earth are you talking about?
00:12:15Watson, I'm convinced that these murders are only incidental
00:12:19to some larger and more diabolical scheme.
00:12:22That may be, but why the severed fingers?
00:12:24The answer to that question, my dear fellow,
00:12:26is our only hope of solving these mysteries.
00:12:28Dear sister, I am so happy.
00:12:30I had such a lovely holiday at Brighton with you and Alf.
00:12:33And I'm looking forward to being with you again.
00:12:36Poor little thing.
00:12:38Sort of raises a lump in your throat.
00:12:40I can picture sitting here happily writing this letter.
00:12:42And a lot better realizing that she's shortly going to her death.
00:12:46Hello? Gregson?
00:12:53Oh, there you are, Mr. Holmes. I've been looking for you everywhere.
00:12:56What's happened?
00:12:58Murder on Edgeway Road, about half an hour ago.
00:13:00Woman?
00:13:02Yes, and the right forefinger cut off clean.
00:13:43Piper! Horrible murder!
00:13:45Murder on Edgeway Road!
00:13:47Read all about the murder!
00:13:49Horrible murder of a young woman!
00:13:54Get your Piper!
00:13:57Horrible murder, Piper!
00:13:59All about the murder!
00:14:02Morning, Piper!
00:14:04All about the murder!
00:14:06Piper! Horrible murder!
00:14:09Another young woman found murdered, Piper!
00:14:12Yes, sir!
00:14:14Horrible murder, Piper!
00:14:16Piper! Read all about it!
00:14:22Get your Piper!
00:14:24Murder on Edgeway Road!
00:14:26Horrible finger murder!
00:14:31Shocking murder!
00:14:33Murder on Edgeway Road!
00:14:36Horrible murder of a young woman!
00:14:37All about the murder!
00:14:49Only fancy, ma'am.
00:14:51There's been another of those horrible murders.
00:14:53Dear, dear, how shocking.
00:14:55Yes, ma'am.
00:14:57I really don't feel quite safe here myself.
00:15:00Oh, dear.
00:15:08Why, Sir George!
00:15:10I must see Miss Marlowe at once.
00:15:12I don't know if she...
00:15:14I must see her. Where is she?
00:15:18Lydia.
00:15:20Why, Sir George.
00:15:22What is it? What happened?
00:15:24I don't know.
00:15:26You'll have to help me. You've got to help me.
00:15:28But I don't understand.
00:15:30Listen, I woke up a few minutes ago
00:15:32in a cheap boarding house
00:15:34off Edgeway Road.
00:15:35I don't know how I came there.
00:15:37I don't know when.
00:15:39The last thing I remember is being here with you.
00:15:41Calm yourself, Sir George.
00:15:43When did I leave here?
00:15:45Well, it was about...
00:15:48It was 10.45, ma'am.
00:15:50Precisely.
00:15:53You seemed...
00:15:55Forgive me.
00:15:57Just a little distressed.
00:15:59Detached. Not interested.
00:16:01I thought I'd said something to offend you.
00:16:02I don't remember.
00:16:11I can't remember.
00:16:13Tell me.
00:16:15Has this happened to you before?
00:16:17Before?
00:16:19Well, there is such a thing as amnesia, you know.
00:16:23It was 10.45 when I left you.
00:16:26It was 9 this morning when I woke.
00:16:29Over 10 hours later,
00:16:30over 10 hours lost.
00:16:3410 hours that I can't account for.
00:16:37And in my pocket when I woke, I found...
00:16:39Yeah, in my pocket.
00:16:44That isn't...
00:16:46Oh, it's not for you, of course.
00:16:48It can't be.
00:16:50Excuse me, ma'am,
00:16:52but there's a man asking to see the gentleman.
00:16:54Send him away.
00:16:56Yes, ma'am.
00:16:58No, no, no, no, no, please.
00:17:00Please.
00:17:09Well?
00:17:11Delightful room.
00:17:13Not much like the place you woke up in this morning.
00:17:16You followed me here?
00:17:18Yes.
00:17:21Are you a detective?
00:17:23Oh, no.
00:17:25Quite the contrary.
00:17:27Don't be afraid, Sir George.
00:17:28You know my name?
00:17:30Oh, yes.
00:17:32A very old and highly honored name.
00:17:34And being the bearer of such a name,
00:17:36and also a very wealthy man,
00:17:38I thought you might care to possess yourself of this trifle,
00:17:45rather than let it fall into the hands of the police.
00:17:48It is yours, if I'm not mistaken.
00:17:50The initials, G.F.
00:17:55Where did you get this?
00:17:56It came out of your pocket.
00:17:58I saw it fall, but you never noticed.
00:18:04You were very busy
00:18:06bending over something
00:18:08with a knife.
00:18:12Then you put something in your pocket.
00:18:26Come along home, come along, come along.
00:18:28How many more times must I tell you?
00:18:30You're missing a treat. This is delicious.
00:18:32A little jam tarts to follow.
00:18:34Aren't you tempted?
00:18:38You and your flesh pots.
00:18:42You're going to tell me that
00:18:44fish is good for the brain?
00:18:46Brains? I haven't any.
00:18:48Do you realize that a day,
00:18:50a whole day and a night have gone by
00:18:52since that bestial affair in Edgeware Road?
00:18:54I'm as much in the dark as ever.
00:18:56I can't help it.
00:19:04Hello. Here comes a client,
00:19:06if I'm not mistaken.
00:19:16Hello. Attractive.
00:19:18Very attractive.
00:19:20Obviously, she left home
00:19:22under the stress of some very great emotion.
00:19:24How do you know that?
00:19:26She wasn't wearing any gloves.
00:19:28A startling omission on a young lady of fashion.
00:19:30No, she didn't put her coat on.
00:19:32Open car, too.
00:19:37Furthermore, there's something
00:19:39in that bag she wants to show me.
00:19:41What makes you say that?
00:19:43The bag doesn't match her dress,
00:19:45indicating it was picked for size
00:19:47rather than style.
00:19:49To accommodate some bulky object.
00:19:51You amaze me, Holmes.
00:19:53What do you mean to me, my dear fellow?
00:20:00Well, that's interesting.
00:20:02What is?
00:20:04A cab turning up the empty house.
00:20:10I wonder why he followed her here.
00:20:12Oh, wouldn't you?
00:20:14I'll pass him a few glasses.
00:20:20Well, we shall soon know.
00:20:22Yes, Mrs. Hudson?
00:20:25It's a young lady, sir.
00:20:27Most urgent.
00:20:29Ask her to come in.
00:20:31Go right in, miss.
00:20:35Mr. Holmes?
00:20:37Yes, this is my friend, Mrs. Hudson.
00:20:39I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you.
00:20:41Oh, it's all right.
00:20:43It's a pleasure to meet you.
00:20:45It's a pleasure to meet you, too.
00:20:46Mr. Holmes?
00:20:48Yes, this is my friend, Dr. Watson.
00:20:50How do you do?
00:20:52Mr. Holmes, I...
00:20:54You must excuse me, please.
00:20:56Yes, well, won't you sit down?
00:20:58Come along.
00:21:00May I?
00:21:02It's quite all right.
00:21:10Now, try to control yourself, Miss Fenwick.
00:21:12You're with friends.
00:21:14You know my name?
00:21:16Yes, in your picture.
00:21:18You're the daughter of Sir George Ferry, aren't you?
00:21:20Yes.
00:21:22It's about my father that I...
00:21:24What about your father, Miss Fenwick?
00:21:26Oh, I don't know what to do.
00:21:28He's always been the nicest, dearest person.
00:21:31Only since Mother died.
00:21:33Yes, yes, we know.
00:21:37So I didn't think anything of it
00:21:39when he was away all night before last.
00:21:41But he didn't come home until yesterday at tea time.
00:21:43Didn't come in for dinner at all.
00:21:44Just paced up and down in the library hour after hour.
00:21:47I begged him to let me in, but he wouldn't.
00:21:50Steady, steady.
00:21:53Now, take your time.
00:21:55I couldn't sleep a wink last night.
00:21:57Then I started hearing things.
00:22:00Hearing things?
00:22:02What sort of things?
00:22:04I heard someone in the garden underneath my window.
00:22:07Then I saw a figure moving down the garden path.
00:22:10And I recognized my father.
00:22:11Stealing through his own garden like a thief.
00:22:21He had a spade in his hand
00:22:23and he stopped by the greenhouse where he started to dig.
00:22:29This morning, at daybreak,
00:22:31I stole out into the garden and found this.
00:22:33A finger.
00:22:35A human finger.
00:22:37Bring up Scotland Yard, Willie Watson.
00:22:40Ask them to get hold of Inspector Gregson
00:22:42and tell him to meet us at once
00:22:44at George Finnick's house in Kingston.
00:22:46Operator, get me Scotland Yard quick.
00:22:52Where's Gregson?
00:22:54I don't know.
00:22:56I don't know.
00:22:58I don't know.
00:23:00I don't know.
00:23:02Where's my father, Norris?
00:23:04He's still in the library, miss.
00:23:06Thank you. We'll see him right away.
00:23:08Will you come with me, please?
00:23:12I got your message, Mr. Holmes.
00:23:14Yes, indeed.
00:23:16Dad, may I come in?
00:23:19Dad.
00:23:21That's funny.
00:23:23He doesn't answer.
00:23:25Do you mind?
00:23:27Please do.
00:23:30Willie Watson, quick.
00:23:32Come along with me.
00:23:34Take charge of Miss Finnick, please.
00:23:36Please come along with me.
00:23:42Dead?
00:23:44Yes.
00:23:47What do you make of it, Doctor?
00:23:49Shot in the back between the second and third ribs.
00:23:51The bullet undoubtedly penetrated the heart.
00:23:53Look at the powder marks on his coat.
00:23:55I was afraid of this.
00:23:57What do you mean?
00:23:58Don't you remember the man in the cab
00:24:00who followed Miss Finnick to Baker Street?
00:24:02You don't think he had anything to do with it, do you?
00:24:04I think it's reasonable to assume
00:24:06that he tipped off someone that I'd been sent for.
00:24:08Sir George has obviously been murdered
00:24:10to keep him from telling me what he knew.
00:24:12What was the weapon used?
00:24:14Small caliber revolver, point-blank range
00:24:16for the look of the wound.
00:24:18The murderer came in through those French windows.
00:24:20The mud from the garden he brought in on his boots.
00:24:23Sir George must have surprised the intruder.
00:24:25Passed the room to him here.
00:24:29What follows, we can't tell.
00:24:31But from the location of the wound,
00:24:33I'd say that he turned his back for a moment
00:24:35and as he turned,
00:24:37the muzzle of the revolver was placed between his ribs
00:24:39and one muffled shot fired.
00:24:41And you mean to say he kept on going
00:24:43even after he was shot?
00:24:45There's no doubt about it. Look there.
00:24:47The trail of blood leads us back to the desk.
00:24:50Something Sir George was after.
00:24:54Something.
00:24:56I know.
00:24:58I don't think so, Watson.
00:25:00There's the bell pulled by the fireplace.
00:25:02No.
00:25:04You'll notice from the trail of blood
00:25:06that Sir George made straight for this desk here.
00:25:08I wonder if it was something
00:25:10he was desperately anxious to get.
00:25:12Hello.
00:25:14His right hand's clenched.
00:25:16That's perfectly natural.
00:25:18Death agony.
00:25:20The left hand lies open.
00:25:22Why only one hand clenched in the death agony?
00:25:24The right hand, the hand nearest the desk.
00:25:26Please note that.
00:25:28Sir George took something off this desk.
00:25:30Something so important
00:25:32that he spilled his last drop of blood to get it.
00:25:34I want to know what it is.
00:25:49Nothing but an ordinary match folder.
00:25:51Where does that lead us?
00:25:54I imagine to something very important, Gregson.
00:25:56This match folder's from Pembroke House.
00:25:58Why shouldn't it be?
00:26:00He was there, you know.
00:26:02We saw him yesterday.
00:26:04Yes, but the effort he made after he was shot
00:26:06to get hold of this match folder.
00:26:08It's just possible
00:26:10he wanted someone to remember Pembroke House.
00:26:14He may have wished to recall it
00:26:16to someone who saw it there.
00:26:18Someone who, like ourselves,
00:26:20saw him with a woman.
00:26:27Come in.
00:26:29Oh, Dr. Watson,
00:26:31this came by hand from Mr. Holmes,
00:26:33not ten minutes ago.
00:26:35Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:26:38That would be the report from Mr. George's bank.
00:26:41The report from Mr. George's...
00:26:43Oh, really?
00:26:45Don't you remember his daughter told us
00:26:47that he'd left a letter for you?
00:26:49Oh, yes, I do.
00:26:51It says,
00:26:53Mr. Holmes,
00:26:54Oh, really?
00:26:56Don't you remember his daughter told us
00:26:58that he'd just closed his account?
00:27:00Had it looked into at once.
00:27:04Hmm.
00:27:06He drew out his entire balance in cash,
00:27:08nearly 10,000 pounds,
00:27:10yesterday,
00:27:12just after that young woman was murdered.
00:27:14What does that suggest to you, Watson?
00:27:16That he paid it out to someone.
00:27:18Precisely.
00:27:20I smell the faint, sweet odor of blackmail.
00:27:22You don't think he paid it out to someone
00:27:24but he did have that woman's finger
00:27:26and he evidently did have a lot of...
00:27:28and pay out a lot of cash.
00:27:30That's the terrifying part about blackmail, Watson.
00:27:32The victim is afraid to fight the accusation
00:27:34no matter how false.
00:27:36Once the accusation is made,
00:27:38his name is smeared
00:27:40and sometimes his life is ruined.
00:27:42Well,
00:27:44if Mr. George didn't commit these murders,
00:27:46what fiend did?
00:27:48I rather think they're not the work of any one man.
00:27:50Oh, come, Holmes.
00:27:52You don't expect me to believe
00:27:54that he's guilty of killing people
00:27:56and chopping off their fingers?
00:27:58No, it's possible, quite possible.
00:28:00Well, whoever's behind all this thing
00:28:02must be out of his mind.
00:28:04On the contrary, my dear fellow.
00:28:06If my assumptions are correct,
00:28:08this little scheme has behind it
00:28:10the most brilliant and ruthless intellect
00:28:12the world has ever known.
00:28:14You don't mean Professor Moriarty?
00:28:16I do.
00:28:18Well, steady, Holmes, you've got him on the brain.
00:28:20This is the third time in as many months
00:28:22you've suspected him of unsolved crimes.
00:28:24Well, I know that someone was hanged
00:28:26in Montevideo under that name,
00:28:28but I'll stake my reputation
00:28:30that Moriarty is alive
00:28:32and here, now, in London.
00:28:38Hello?
00:28:40Yes, Dr. Watson, wait a minute.
00:28:42Who, me?
00:28:45Oh, yes.
00:28:47This is Dr. Watson speaking.
00:28:49No, no, I'm afraid I've retired.
00:28:51I don't practice anymore.
00:28:52What?
00:28:54Oh, that's a different thing.
00:28:56An emergency case.
00:28:58Where? Just a minute.
00:29:02Yes, yes, well, see that she's not moved.
00:29:05Remember that.
00:29:07Don't touch her till I get there.
00:29:10Fractured case in McArdle's Mews.
00:29:12Heavy woman.
00:29:1414 stone.
00:29:1914 stone.
00:29:20Just the sort of person
00:29:22who would hoist herself up on a stool
00:29:24to feed the canary.
00:29:26There ought to be a law against fat people
00:29:28keeping little dicky birds.
00:29:31So long, old man.
00:29:33Haven't used that bag
00:29:35since I bought little Amelia.
00:29:37What's her name in the world?
00:29:39Grew up to be a very unattractive child.
00:29:41Who wouldn't with a name like Amelia?
00:29:43Amelia.
00:29:51I don't know, Bubba.
00:29:53People are so stupid about X's.
00:30:20Hey.
00:30:51Oh, Professor Moriarty.
00:30:53Not that I wish to appear inquisitive,
00:30:55but do what am I indebted
00:30:57for the pleasure of this visit?
00:30:59Scotland Yard will be interested.
00:31:01It's very convenient for me
00:31:03to have Scotland Yard think
00:31:05that I'm still dead in Montevideo.
00:31:08I never dreamed of fooling you.
00:31:12The thought occurs to me, Mr. Holmes,
00:31:14that there are some advantages
00:31:16in living in a country
00:31:17that there are some advantages
00:31:19in living within the law.
00:31:22You're very comfortably fixed here, aren't you?
00:31:26As I get on in life,
00:31:28the little comforts
00:31:30appeal to me more and more.
00:31:32Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:31:34Won't you sit down?
00:31:48And now, Professor Moriarty,
00:31:50what can I do for you?
00:31:52Everything that I have to say to you
00:31:54has already crossed your mind.
00:31:57And my answer has no doubt crossed yours.
00:31:59That's final.
00:32:01What do you think?
00:32:03I shall not rest until you are hanged
00:32:06for the finger murders.
00:32:08You have no proof, you know.
00:32:09No, not a shred.
00:32:11But I have you.
00:32:13I could turn you over to the police here and now.
00:32:16You could.
00:32:18But if you did,
00:32:20you'd never see Dr. Watson again.
00:32:22Oh, the telephone call.
00:32:24Quite.
00:32:26I rather assumed you had taken some such precaution,
00:32:29or I should have snatched up a revolver
00:32:32and shot you in the head.
00:32:34I'm sorry.
00:32:36I'm sorry.
00:32:37Or I should have snatched up a revolver
00:32:40and indulged in a fit of heroics when you came in.
00:32:43Very smart, aren't you?
00:32:46Not smart enough.
00:32:48Or I should have anticipated you.
00:32:50But,
00:32:52if any harm comes to Dr. Watson, I shall seek you out.
00:32:55I shall not rest until I find you, and when I do...
00:32:58No harm will come to Dr. Watson this time.
00:33:00But I can't answer for the future.
00:33:03Mr. Holmes, I should strongly advise you to drop this case.
00:33:07Don't be silly.
00:33:09Think it over.
00:33:11We've had many encounters in the past.
00:33:13You hope to place me on the gallows.
00:33:15I tell you I shall never stand up on the gallows.
00:33:17But,
00:33:19if you are instrumental in any way in bringing about my destruction,
00:33:23you will not be alive to enjoy your satisfaction.
00:33:26We shall walk together through the gates of eternity, hand in hand.
00:33:29What a charming picture that would make.
00:33:31Yes, wouldn't it?
00:33:33I really think it might be worth it.
00:33:38Shoelaces, Governor?
00:33:40Tattens up here.
00:33:42End strong enough to end yourself.
00:33:44How many more times must I tell you
00:33:46I don't want your filthy shoelaces or your company.
00:33:49Shoelaces, Governor?
00:33:51Rusted impertinence.
00:33:53Run along, my good man, or I'll give you in charge.
00:33:55Shoelaces, Governor?
00:33:59Shoelaces, Governor?
00:34:01You're a poor bloke.
00:34:03What's only got one arm?
00:34:05Any luck with Mr. Holmes?
00:34:07Read his obituary in tomorrow's papers.
00:34:21Oh, hello Watson, come in.
00:34:23How's that?
00:34:25Just going out to look for you.
00:34:27Look for me, what for?
00:34:29Suppose you don't think I know my way about.
00:34:31When you're right, I don't.
00:34:33Blast all practical jokers anyhow.
00:34:35Know where I've been?
00:34:37There's no such number in McArdle's Mews.
00:34:39Some fool's idea of a joke.
00:34:42Did you, um...
00:34:44Did you see anyone?
00:34:46No, nobody especially.
00:34:48Only a whining old idiot selling bootlaces.
00:34:50Persistent beggar, wasn't he?
00:34:52Stuck to you like grim death.
00:34:54How do you know?
00:34:56He finally left you for someone who looked like Vera Pickings.
00:34:58Someone, my dear Watson, was Professor Moriarty himself.
00:35:01What?
00:35:03He's just called on me.
00:35:05Moriarty here and you let him go?
00:35:07Well, he bluffed me into believing
00:35:09that he was holding a friend of mine as hostage.
00:35:11Friend of yours, who?
00:35:13Oh, nobody very important, just a fat, lazy fellow.
00:35:15Medical man, I believe.
00:35:17Medical man, do I know him?
00:35:19Yes, I think you do, a fellow by the name of Watson.
00:35:21Watson, Watson, never heard...
00:35:23Who, me?
00:35:25I'm afraid so, old fellow.
00:35:27Your street hawker's job
00:35:29was to do away with you
00:35:31in a certain contingency.
00:35:33And you let Moriarty go because of me?
00:35:35I had no choice.
00:35:37Well, that's very decent of the old chap, I must say.
00:35:39But...
00:35:41Well, I wish you'd nabbed him.
00:35:43We shall never fear.
00:35:45I know the motive for the finger murders.
00:35:47All I have to find out now
00:35:49is the method used with the blackmail victims.
00:35:51Method?
00:35:53Yes.
00:35:55How does Moriarty get them to the scene of the crime?
00:35:57How does he plant those severed fingers on them?
00:35:59And how does he scare them into believing
00:36:01that they may have committed
00:36:03those atrocious murders themselves?
00:36:05Curious.
00:36:12Very curious.
00:36:15Curious? What's curious?
00:36:18That window in the empty house across the street.
00:36:24First floor front.
00:36:26What? What's wrong with it?
00:36:28It's open.
00:36:30Why, shouldn't it be open?
00:36:32Well, it wasn't open half an hour ago.
00:36:33I'll stake my life on that.
00:36:35Well, it's not our business.
00:36:37Let it stay open.
00:36:39I wonder if you'd go over, old fellow,
00:36:41and see what's the matter.
00:36:43Trespassing against the law.
00:36:45Very well, I'll go myself.
00:36:47Well, if you're going to put it like that.
00:36:49Ridiculous waste of time
00:36:51going about shutting windows at this hour of the night.
00:36:53You'd better take this torch.
00:36:55Take what?
00:36:57Dignified job for a doctor.
00:36:59Dr. Watson, the torchbearer.
00:37:01And what do you propose to do?
00:37:03I propose to read a good book.
00:37:05That's a very good idea.
00:37:07Well, I play night watchman.
00:37:09You have a nice read.
00:37:11Good night, have a good time.
00:37:34What are the nurses for?
00:37:37Oh, a birth certificate.
00:37:40Pretty little thing to keep about the house.
00:37:43Must have been a pet.
00:38:04What's that?
00:38:12Oh, crap, Barbara.
00:38:15This must be a note.
00:38:33Well, he sits comfortably reading a book.
00:39:04Stop it!
00:39:08He killed Holmes!
00:39:10He killed Sherlock!
00:39:12Watson.
00:39:14You?
00:39:16But I saw him shoot you a second ago.
00:39:18Not me, my dear fellow.
00:39:20Merely the bastard Julius Caesar.
00:39:22Incidentally, you may have noticed
00:39:24that I'm not the only one
00:39:26who's been involved in this case.
00:39:28I'm not the only one.
00:39:30I'm not the only one.
00:39:31I'm not the only one, Julius Caesar.
00:39:33Incidentally, you may have noticed
00:39:35that all through the ages,
00:39:37prominent men have prominent noses.
00:39:43Oh, I'm afraid we're in for terrible trouble again
00:39:46with Mrs. Hudson, window smashed,
00:39:48plaster all over the floor.
00:39:50Get up, you.
00:39:55Corporal Williams, Middlesex Regiment.
00:39:58Discharged from the army as physically unfit.
00:40:01Sir?
00:40:06Now, Corporal Williams,
00:40:08you've seen service in the Far East, haven't you?
00:40:11The East?
00:40:13I thought so.
00:40:15Look at his complexion, Watson.
00:40:17Yellow as saffron.
00:40:19He's been taking atabrine, a cure for malaria.
00:40:21Sniper, aren't you?
00:40:23Sniper.
00:40:25Why did you try to kill me?
00:40:28I had to kill him.
00:40:31Had to.
00:40:32Oh, snap out of it.
00:40:33Stop it, Watson.
00:40:34He's shamming.
00:40:35No, he isn't.
00:40:36Who told you to kill me?
00:40:39She told me.
00:40:41She told you?
00:40:43She told me.
00:40:45I couldn't miss.
00:40:47Well, luckily you did miss, you murderer.
00:40:49She isn't a murderer, Watson.
00:40:52Listen, Corporal Williams.
00:40:55She told you you had to do it, didn't she?
00:40:59I had to do it.
00:41:01I've got it, Watson. I've got it.
00:41:02Got what?
00:41:03The meth I'd used in the finger murders.
00:41:05Well, what is it?
00:41:06Hypnotism, my dear fellow. Hypnotism.
00:41:11And it wasn't against his nature.
00:41:12That's the devilish part of it.
00:41:14They picked a man for their purpose
00:41:15whose job was sniping.
00:41:17Who were they?
00:41:18Professor Moriarty and his finger murderers?
00:41:21Williams spoke of a woman.
00:41:23I think you'll find
00:41:24that she asked him home tonight for a drink.
00:41:28Nice, quiet rooms.
00:41:29Soft lights, music.
00:41:31You've got it all packed, Mr. Holmes.
00:41:33What's the lady look like?
00:41:35Oh, uh...
00:41:36About 30. Nice figure.
00:41:38Blonde. Lustrous eyes.
00:41:40Oh, really? Got her phone number?
00:41:43Oh.
00:41:46Williams will give us her address.
00:41:49Look after him, Gregson.
00:41:51Don't let anyone come near him.
00:41:53He's our key witness in the finger murders.
00:41:55Well, I hope you're guessing right, Mr. Holmes.
00:41:57Get up, Williams.
00:42:00Now,
00:42:02go with Inspector Gregson anywhere he tells you.
00:42:05Come on.
00:42:09Here.
00:42:11Ring me as soon as he comes to himself, will you?
00:42:13I will.
00:42:15Good night, gentlemen.
00:42:16Good night.
00:42:18Well, if you believe that fellow Williams was hypnotized,
00:42:20I suppose you think Sir George Fenwick was hypnotized, too.
00:42:23Yes, I'm quite sure of it.
00:42:24Have a cup of tea?
00:42:25Thanks, old boy. Nothing to eat.
00:42:27Why didn't these people make Sir George do the murder himself?
00:42:30Because they didn't want to get him hanged.
00:42:32They, uh...
00:42:35They wanted to blackmail him.
00:42:36Well, who do you think the actual murderer is?
00:42:39One of Moriarty's gang.
00:42:41A diabolically simple technique.
00:42:43Kill a woman...
00:42:44Yes, yes, yes.
00:42:45But why cut off the fingers?
00:42:47My dear fellow, don't you understand?
00:42:49The severed finger is what links the blackmail victim to the murder.
00:42:52He wakes.
00:42:53Finds the grisly thing in his pocket.
00:42:56Doesn't know how he got there.
00:42:57He's no idea that he's been hypnotized.
00:42:59For all he knows,
00:43:01he may have committed the atrocious crime
00:43:04during some dreadful lapse in sanity.
00:43:07In that state, when he's utterly demoralized,
00:43:09the blackmailers take over, is that it?
00:43:11Undoubtedly.
00:43:12You see, they swear that they saw him commit the murder.
00:43:14And, being human,
00:43:16the victim will pay anything
00:43:17rather than stand trial on a charge
00:43:19that will make his very name known.
00:43:20Oh, it all fits in,
00:43:22if you believe in hypnotism.
00:43:24The only possible explanation.
00:43:26You think the hypnotist is that
00:43:28woman with the blonde hair,
00:43:30the illustrious eyes,
00:43:32the woman you invented?
00:43:33I didn't invent her.
00:43:34I saw her.
00:43:36What on earth are you talking about?
00:43:38That woman, my dear Watson,
00:43:41was with Sir George when he left Pembroke House.
00:43:44I saw her there.
00:43:45I shall see her again,
00:43:47and Williams will be my witness.
00:43:48That's why it's so important to keep him safe.
00:43:50He will identify her.
00:43:57Hello?
00:43:58Yes?
00:43:59Inspector Gregson?
00:44:03What?
00:44:05I'll get every constable in the district.
00:44:07Yes, I'll be over at once.
00:44:09What's happened, Holmes?
00:44:10Williams is missing.
00:44:11Great Scott!
00:44:12Come on.
00:44:14Laurie crashed into Gregson's car.
00:44:16During the confusion,
00:44:17Williams disappeared.
00:44:18Escaped, eh?
00:44:19No, kidnapped.
00:44:20Had to keep him from talking when he came to.
00:44:22You don't think that Moriarty...
00:44:24Moriarty?
00:44:25Anything is possible.
00:44:31Williams!
00:44:33Dead.
00:44:34You see?
00:44:35Anything is possible.
00:44:38He's dead.
00:44:40He's dead.
00:44:41Anything is possible.
00:45:06Oh, good morning, Professor Moriarty.
00:45:08You startled me.
00:45:09I'm dressing another dolly.
00:45:11A dear little nurse.
00:45:15Is there anything wrong with your finger?
00:45:18Just a splinter.
00:45:19Nasty things, splinters.
00:45:21Most trying.
00:45:23One can't be too careful.
00:45:25But I'll get it out for you.
00:45:27I have the very instrument to help you.
00:45:34Sharp enough to split a hair.
00:45:36Put those tools away.
00:45:37But they're not tools, sir.
00:45:39They're instruments.
00:45:40Put them away.
00:45:42Is Lydia in?
00:45:43Yes.
00:45:46But really, you should let me...
00:45:50Get dressed.
00:45:52Holmes and Watson,
00:45:53just at Baker Street, the Mesmer Club.
00:45:55Mesmer Club?
00:45:56The meeting place
00:45:57of all the top hypnotists in London.
00:45:59Do you suppose that Mr. Holmes
00:46:00is on to our method?
00:46:02If he suspects,
00:46:04it's no use.
00:46:05If he suspects,
00:46:07it's merely a suspicion.
00:46:09It's our business to see that it ends there.
00:46:11I hope you're right.
00:46:13William has passed away
00:46:14before he could talk, remember?
00:46:17What do you want me to do?
00:46:19Go to the Mesmer Club,
00:46:20meet Holmes,
00:46:21and induce him to come back here.
00:46:24Isn't that a bit dangerous?
00:46:27Every meeting with Sherlock Holmes
00:46:28is potentially dangerous.
00:46:31However, you say
00:46:32he didn't see your face at Pembroke House.
00:46:35And how would you suggest
00:46:37I get Mr. Holmes to accompany me here?
00:46:40Kidnap him?
00:46:41Oh, no.
00:46:42Holmes has one weakness,
00:46:44his insatiable curiosity.
00:46:46If you can arouse that,
00:46:47you can lead him anywhere.
00:46:49It's up to you to take advantage
00:46:51of any opportunity that may arise.
00:46:54This way, please, gentlemen.
00:46:56I'll tell Dr. Onslow that you're here.
00:47:00This is the Mesmer Club.
00:47:03If you ask me,
00:47:04hypnotism is a lot of mumbo-jumbo.
00:47:06Oh, come now, Watson.
00:47:07As a medical man,
00:47:08you must admit that hypnotism
00:47:09has its place in modern science.
00:47:11That may be,
00:47:12but 90% of hypnotists
00:47:13are crooks of the worst kind.
00:47:15Nothing more than a lot of charlatans
00:47:16exploiting weak-willed morons.
00:47:18Ah, Dr. Onslow, I believe.
00:47:20Happy to meet you, Mr. Holmes.
00:47:22Your brother Mycroft suggested
00:47:24I might be of help to you.
00:47:26He's a valued member
00:47:27of our little group
00:47:28of charlatans and crooks.
00:47:30Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
00:47:31I didn't know you were listening.
00:47:32Oh, behind the curtain.
00:47:33My friend, Dr. Watson.
00:47:34Ah, delighted.
00:47:35How do you do?
00:47:36I wonder now.
00:47:37You see, we're in the midst
00:47:38of a little experimental session
00:47:39at this very moment.
00:47:41If you'd, uh, care to join us?
00:47:43Oh, certainly.
00:47:44I'll be very instructive.
00:47:45Oh, well, will you follow me?
00:47:50...in treating his patients.
00:47:52But today, the therapeutic value
00:47:54of hypnotism,
00:47:55as we now call it,
00:47:57is conceded by innumerable physicians,
00:48:00especially as a value
00:48:01in surgical cases
00:48:03where the administration of local
00:48:04or of general anesthetic
00:48:06is inadvisable.
00:48:07Inadvisable poppycock.
00:48:09Who's that?
00:48:10For the sake of latecomers,
00:48:11I may say
00:48:12that I have placed this subject
00:48:14under profound hypnosis.
00:48:16In this condition,
00:48:17he can feel no pain,
00:48:19even under applications
00:48:20which normally would be excruciating.
00:48:22Excruciating.
00:48:24Will you excuse me, please?
00:48:27Carter,
00:48:28you were having a peaceful sleep.
00:48:29You feel nothing.
00:48:31Your arms and your hands
00:48:33are without sensation.
00:48:35Mowbray, the long needle.
00:48:43Carter, give me your right hand.
00:48:54As you observe,
00:48:55the needle has been thrust
00:48:57completely through his body
00:48:58and the needle has been thrust
00:48:59completely through the subject's hand.
00:49:01No feeling, no pain.
00:49:03This lack of feeling
00:49:04is the one infallible test
00:49:06of profound hypnosis.
00:49:08Nonsense.
00:49:09The fellow's full of drugs.
00:49:11Oh, isn't he?
00:49:12Definitely not, doctor.
00:49:18Wake up, Carter, wake up.
00:49:20You feel well and rested, remember?
00:49:22No pain anywhere.
00:49:23Wake up, wake up.
00:49:28I say, when are you going to begin?
00:49:29All through, Carter, stand up.
00:49:34This way, sir.
00:49:37And, uh,
00:49:38are these all the people that come here?
00:49:40Oh, no, no, no.
00:49:41Others keep dropping in all the time.
00:49:43I suppose it's all right
00:49:44for those who believe in it,
00:49:45but of course,
00:49:46I'm a professional man myself.
00:49:47Then you don't believe
00:49:48in hypnotism, Dr. Watson.
00:49:50Oh, I don't deny
00:49:51that there are certain types
00:49:52of hysterical people,
00:49:53minded people,
00:49:54who go under
00:49:55if you point a finger at them.
00:49:56But anyone
00:49:57with an ounce of character...
00:49:59How right you are.
00:50:01You see right through
00:50:02our little artifices,
00:50:03don't you, doctor?
00:50:04Right through, my dear sir.
00:50:05Right through.
00:50:06Quite so.
00:50:07But with the feeble-minded,
00:50:09as you say...
00:50:11Excuse us, Mr. Holmes.
00:50:12Oh, certainly.
00:50:13Step over here, won't you?
00:50:14Certainly, sir.
00:50:15Anything to oblige?
00:50:16Let me show you
00:50:18how easily we charlatans
00:50:20take advantage of them.
00:50:22Now, sit down, doctor.
00:50:28Now, we set a thing
00:50:29like this in motion.
00:50:34It's wonderful,
00:50:35the attraction
00:50:36on the feeble-minded,
00:50:37of course.
00:50:39The continuous motion
00:50:42if they just let
00:50:43themselves follow it.
00:50:46Of course,
00:50:47you could stare at it
00:50:48till doomsday,
00:50:49Dr. Watson,
00:50:51with no effect at all.
00:50:54Still,
00:50:55it might make you
00:50:56a little drowsy,
00:50:58like the white ribbon
00:51:00of road at night
00:51:02when you're driving.
00:51:04The rhythm
00:51:06is smooth,
00:51:08unbroken,
00:51:10and the road
00:51:12goes on and on,
00:51:14round and round,
00:51:16always the same,
00:51:18winding and winding.
00:51:21And you're drowsy,
00:51:23you're tired,
00:51:24let the road
00:51:25come into you
00:51:27as it were,
00:51:29the long road,
00:51:31the smooth road,
00:51:34the road to sleep.
00:51:38Sleep.
00:51:47Open your eyes.
00:51:50Stand up.
00:51:51Stand up.
00:51:56Turn around.
00:51:59And now, Dr. Watson,
00:52:01you're on a holiday
00:52:02in Scotland.
00:52:04The country is
00:52:05amazingly beautiful.
00:52:07We're coming to a stream.
00:52:10It isn't deep.
00:52:13Better take your
00:52:14shoes and socks off.
00:52:22Roll up your trouser.
00:52:29That will do.
00:52:30The other leg is waterproof.
00:52:34Turn around.
00:52:36Mind the pebbles.
00:52:44Sit down.
00:52:46Sit down.
00:52:52Wake up now.
00:52:59There you are, you see?
00:53:00What did I tell you?
00:53:01It didn't work with me.
00:53:02Why, nobody with
00:53:03an ounce of character...
00:53:10I think you'll need these.
00:53:16Dr. Watson,
00:53:17she's here.
00:53:18Who?
00:53:19The woman you're looking for?
00:53:20Yes, I'm going to meet her.
00:53:22Perhaps I can induce her
00:53:23to take me to Moriarty.
00:53:24Do you think it's wise, Holmes?
00:53:25It may not be wise,
00:53:26but it's essential.
00:53:27After all, I've held my own
00:53:28with Moriarty in the past.
00:53:29But isn't it dangerous?
00:53:30She might be a hypnotist.
00:53:31If my will isn't
00:53:32stronger than hers,
00:53:33I deserve to be hypnotized.
00:53:34Shh.
00:53:35I feel I must
00:53:36protest, Dr. Onslow.
00:53:37I was told this was a gathering
00:53:38of serious students
00:53:39of a great science.
00:53:40I don't think
00:53:41it's a good idea
00:53:42to go to Moriarty.
00:53:43It's a gathering
00:53:44of serious students
00:53:45of a great science.
00:53:46And I find myself
00:53:47in a company of buffoons.
00:53:48Oh, my dear madam, I...
00:53:49Elliotson as dear brain.
00:53:50Were those men
00:53:51modest for the truth
00:53:52that you may laugh
00:53:53over your childish,
00:53:54cruel tricks?
00:53:55I must say I'm in
00:53:56complete agreement
00:53:57with you, madam.
00:53:58This was the most
00:53:59unnecessary performance,
00:54:00Dr. Onslow.
00:54:01Beg your pardon, sir.
00:54:02My name is Holmes,
00:54:03Sherlock Holmes.
00:54:04At your service, madam.
00:54:05Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
00:54:06I'm afraid I've created
00:54:07a rather embarrassing situation.
00:54:08But you see,
00:54:09I'm interested
00:54:10in the serious study
00:54:11of hypnotism.
00:54:12Perhaps we have
00:54:13something in common,
00:54:14Mr. Holmes.
00:54:15Perhaps we have.
00:54:16Do you join me
00:54:17for a cocktail at Pembroke House?
00:54:18I should be delighted.
00:54:19Good.
00:54:35I didn't know
00:54:36there was such
00:54:37a pleasant place in London.
00:54:38It was so nice of you
00:54:39to suggest our coming here.
00:54:40I thought a little pick-me-up
00:54:41would do us good.
00:54:42You mean you thought
00:54:43I looked, uh...
00:54:44I like the way you look.
00:54:50I suppose I did lose
00:54:51my head a little
00:54:52at the Mesmer Club.
00:54:53But you see,
00:54:54hypnotism is almost
00:54:55a religion with me.
00:54:56I know so well
00:54:57what it can do
00:54:58to help, heal,
00:54:59and I can't bear
00:55:00to see it used
00:55:01for trivial purposes.
00:55:02I know very little about it.
00:55:03That's why I went
00:55:04to the Mesmer Club.
00:55:05You see,
00:55:06I'm rather puzzled just now
00:55:07with the case
00:55:08that I'm working on.
00:55:09How fascinating.
00:55:10It's the murder
00:55:11of Sir George Fennick.
00:55:12Fennick?
00:55:13Who is he?
00:55:15Quite a well-known figure.
00:55:17Hard now I come
00:55:18to think of it.
00:55:19Last time I saw Sir George
00:55:20was here at Pembroke House.
00:55:23Strange.
00:55:24Yes, isn't it?
00:55:25He was sitting, um...
00:55:28I believe he was sitting
00:55:29at this very table.
00:55:31Cigarette?
00:55:33Thanks. Do go on.
00:55:35There was a charming lady
00:55:36with him.
00:55:37He was, uh...
00:55:38He was lighting
00:55:39a cigarette.
00:55:46Charming.
00:55:47Did you see her face?
00:55:49No, worse luck.
00:55:51Merely her back.
00:55:53How unenterprising of you.
00:55:54Yes, wasn't it?
00:55:56I'm afraid I'm getting
00:55:57a little older.
00:55:58I shouldn't say so.
00:55:59That's nice of you.
00:56:00Still,
00:56:02the first time in my life
00:56:03I've got hold
00:56:04of a case that's beyond me.
00:56:05I'm actually losing
00:56:06sleep over it.
00:56:07You know, Mr. Holmes,
00:56:08I believe I could help you.
00:56:10Really?
00:56:11I should be very grateful.
00:56:12You're amused.
00:56:14No.
00:56:15Merely skeptical.
00:56:16How would you go about it?
00:56:18I've used hypnotism
00:56:19more than once in healing.
00:56:21Not for profit.
00:56:22I'm not a professional.
00:56:24But I do think
00:56:25I could help you
00:56:26if you cared to...
00:56:28I can't think
00:56:29of a pleasanter experience.
00:56:39Low lights, music,
00:56:40is that all there is to it?
00:56:42You must relax, Mr. Holmes.
00:56:43I'm afraid you're
00:56:44a rather difficult subject.
00:56:49So I thought perhaps
00:56:50a little help.
00:56:53Materia Medica
00:56:54might be advisable.
00:56:56Drugs?
00:57:01I'm afraid
00:57:02I can't help you.
00:57:04I'm afraid
00:57:05I can't help you.
00:57:07No, I'd rather not
00:57:08if you don't mind.
00:57:09As a matter of fact,
00:57:10I'd rather not myself.
00:57:12But Schrink-Knautsing,
00:57:13he practiced in Munich, you know.
00:57:15Believed it the best means
00:57:16for difficult subjects.
00:57:18Do you mind?
00:57:20Well, as a matter of fact,
00:57:21I don't approve of sedatives.
00:57:23Just as you wish.
00:57:24We don't have to go on
00:57:25with this at all, you know.
00:57:26Wait a minute.
00:57:30Wait a minute.
00:57:36All right.
00:57:37I'll take a chance.
00:57:39It's really quite harmless.
00:57:41What is it?
00:57:42Cannabis japonica,
00:57:43an oriental soporific.
00:57:45You'll need water.
00:58:04Now sit down, Mr. Holmes.
00:58:07You'll feel yourself
00:58:08growing drowsy.
00:58:10Don't fight it.
00:58:12Give in to it.
00:58:14Because you do want to sleep,
00:58:15you know.
00:58:19Just fix your eyes
00:58:20on this one white flower
00:58:24floating on the water.
00:58:27Empty your mind
00:58:28of every other thought.
00:58:31Follow the motion
00:58:32of the water.
00:58:33So smooth.
00:58:35Not a ripple.
00:58:38Waters of forgetfulness.
00:58:43Steady.
00:58:46Deep.
00:58:49Strong.
00:58:52Strange, isn't it?
00:58:54How the light is reflected.
00:58:57Little specks of water
00:58:58floating on the water.
00:59:00How the light is reflected.
00:59:03Little specks of light
00:59:04that move and move.
00:59:12It's restful here.
00:59:16It's peaceful.
00:59:21It's friendly.
00:59:24And you're very close
00:59:25to finding what you're looking for.
00:59:28You'll find them soon now.
00:59:31The guilty ones.
00:59:35When you're rested.
00:59:38Gentle waters
00:59:39closing over you.
00:59:43Steady.
00:59:45Deep.
00:59:48Strong.
00:59:51Drawing you down.
00:59:53Down.
00:59:56Down.
00:59:59Down.
01:00:09Sleep.
01:00:13Sleep.
01:00:16Sleep.
01:00:23Sleep.
01:00:25Sleep.
01:00:28Sleep.
01:00:30Sleep.
01:00:32Sleep.
01:00:34Sleep.
01:00:36Sleep.
01:00:38Sleep.
01:00:40Sleep.
01:00:42Sleep.
01:00:44Sleep.
01:00:46Sleep.
01:00:48Sleep.
01:00:50Sleep.
01:00:52Sleep.
01:00:54Sleep.
01:00:56Sleep.
01:00:58Sleep.
01:01:00Sleep.
01:01:02Sleep.
01:01:04Sleep.
01:01:06Sleep.
01:01:16Here he is, Professor Moriarty.
01:01:18Open your eyes.
01:01:21Face this way.
01:01:27Are you satisfied?
01:01:30We are dealing with a clever man. He may be shamming.
01:01:34There's just one infallible test for profound hypnosis.
01:01:39You ready, Dr. Seminor?
01:01:43That will do, doctor.
01:01:45He couldn't fake insensibility to the knife.
01:01:49I congratulate you, Lydia.
01:01:52Turn around, Mr. Holmes.
01:01:55Now walk to the desk.
01:01:58Now walk to the desk.
01:02:01Now walk to the desk.
01:02:04Now walk to the desk.
01:02:07Now walk to the desk.
01:02:10Now walk to the desk.
01:02:18Sit down.
01:02:21Take that pen and write what I tell you to write.
01:02:25I have at last found a case which I cannot solve.
01:02:33I have outlived my usefulness.
01:02:38Therefore I have decided to end my life.
01:02:47Sign your name.
01:02:51Now blot it.
01:02:58Fold it up.
01:03:01And put it in your pocket.
01:03:04Come, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
01:03:07Go out onto the terrace.
01:03:10But it won't look like suicide, sir.
01:03:13I'm sorry, but Mr. Holmes' injuries must all be self-inflicted.
01:03:19Let's walk a little, Mr. Holmes.
01:03:22It's so pleasant here in the garden.
01:03:29Just step up here onto the terrace.
01:03:34It's a nice, broad terrace.
01:03:39Now turn to the left and walk slowly to the end of the terrace.
01:03:57Don't stop. You must walk to the end, you know.
01:04:05The end leads to an open doorway. You can pass through it in perfect safety.
01:04:09In the room beyond the doorway, you'll find what you've been looking for.
01:04:13Must you drag this on?
01:04:15This is the moment I've been anticipating for a long time, my dear.
01:04:18Go on, Mr. Holmes.
01:04:26Through the open doorway, you will find the man responsible for the finger murders...
01:04:30and the death of Sir George Fenning.
01:04:33Professor Moriarty.
01:04:35Holmes!
01:04:38Stand still!
01:04:40What a beautiful view, Watson. I'm quite enjoying it.
01:04:43No, you're not. You're hypnotized. You're under a spell.
01:04:47Stand still. Don't move. Steady, Holmes. Steady does it.
01:04:50Stand perfectly still where you are. Nonsense, Watson.
01:04:53You don't know what you're doing. Of course I know what I'm doing.
01:04:56You mean you're not hypnotized? Certainly not.
01:04:58Then get off the wall, you idiot.
01:05:01Holmes!
01:05:03What were you doing up there?
01:05:05Holding the fort until you arrived. What kept you?
01:05:08I ran into a spot of trouble on my way to Scotland Yard.
01:05:11I was arrested for exceeding the speed limit.
01:05:13Your luck seems to hold, Mr. Holmes.
01:05:16I'd hardly call it luck, Professor.
01:05:18I substituted a drug of my own for the one that this dear lady pressed on me.
01:05:22You are clever, aren't you?
01:05:24A drug that, although it leaves the subject conscious, renders him quite insensitive to pain.
01:05:28That accounted for my lack of reaction to Dr. Simmel's knife.
01:05:32Well, Gregson, quite an impressive haul.
01:05:34Even Inspector Lestrade himself couldn't have done any better.
01:05:37Thanks, Mr. Holmes. Take him away.
01:05:39All right. Put her in the van.
01:05:42I was right, Mr. Holmes. You are a difficult subject.
01:05:50And now, Professor, our score is settled.
01:05:54Au revoir until I see you on the gallows.
01:05:56The rope has not been made that will go around my neck.
01:05:58Come on.
01:06:13I'll take care of things, Mr. Holmes.
01:06:15Thank you, Inspector.
01:06:16Come on.
01:06:18An evil man, Holmes, but what a horrible death.
01:06:22Better than he deserved.
01:06:26What are you thinking of?
01:06:28I'm thinking of all the women who can come and go in safety in the streets of London tonight.
01:06:33The stars keep watching their heavens.
01:06:36And in our own little way, we too, old friend, are privileged to watch over our city.
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