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00:01:00The game's up, Llewellyn. I arrest you for the murder of John Russell and Mary McClure at 150 Liberal Street, Liverpool, on the night of January the 1st, 1935.
00:01:17I have to warn you that if you say, etc., etc., etc., I've been after you for five years for this, and I may say that this is a moment that will always be the greatest personal pleasure.
00:01:27Just as I was reaching for the handcuffs.
00:01:28Just a minute, Chief. How many L's are in Llewellyn?
00:01:31Four. But you told me you've only got as far as Llewellyn.
00:01:35I've only got two fingers.
00:01:36Now, Mr. Pippen, ever fast you out, I'm blowed if I know.
00:01:39Inspector Blow. Inspector Blow, begin.
00:01:41Now, then, throwing caution to the winds, I leapt on him single-handed.
00:01:47Single-handed?
00:01:49Well, go on. You know it's more single-handed, don't you?
00:01:52Yes, but you weren't single-handed, Chief. I was with you.
00:01:54Well, it's as good as being single-handed.
00:01:56Yes, but it was me that leapt on him from behind.
00:01:59Look here. Whose life story is this?
00:02:01Well, yours, Chief. I mean, fair's fair. After all, I've given you the best years of my life, and the only time you've mentioned me up to page 298 was that time when the bulldog tore a piece out of my trousers.
00:02:13Well, it showed your true advantage, didn't it? Anyway, will this satisfy you?
00:02:16Ten minutes later, help arrived in the shape of Sergeant Bingham, and the Saffron Gang was finally rounded up.
00:02:22Thanks, Chief.
00:02:23Not that you did make any difference.
00:02:26Well, now we come to the last chapter. We'll leave that blank for the moment, but we'll hit it. The fifth column.
00:02:32The fifth column?
00:02:33That's what I said.
00:02:35But you haven't had anything to do with the fifth column?
00:02:37No, but I'm going to. Listen to this.
00:02:40The Minister of Home Security today assured the government that the best brains in Scotland Yard will shortly be engaged to combat the menace of the fifth column in this country.
00:02:49Here you are, my boy. Expect to horn the next case.
00:02:52Yes, but it hasn't even mentioned you, Chief.
00:02:54No, but it says the best brains, and that narrows it down. Let's see, there's Jenkins in Yorkshire, Brown in Ireland. That leaves...
00:03:02Good morning, Inspector Bloom.
00:03:04Good morning. Still working on the life story for Tit Bits, I see. I thought of a good title for it yesterday.
00:03:11Oh?
00:03:12Yes. Whopping Tales of the Yard.
00:03:16I'll treat that remark with the contempt it deserves.
00:03:19Anything else, Chief?
00:03:20No. There's an unsympathetic influence in the room.
00:03:22Well, I'll just head up the new fifth column chapter, and then I'll leave it at that, eh?
00:03:26Fifth column? How does fifth column figure in the fairy tales?
00:03:31It hasn't yet, but it's going to, eh?
00:03:35Oh, and who said you were going to be assigned to the fifth column case?
00:03:39A little Dickie Bird.
00:03:40Oh, I should have written that little Dickie Bird's name, if I were you, because he's singing the wrong tune.
00:03:44I suppose you think you're going to get the job, eh?
00:03:46Never mind, Hornly. Anyway, how could they waste a man like you on a job like that?
00:03:52Why not?
00:03:53Well, who's going to take care of the bottle parties?
00:03:55Well, I'll practically clean those up, you know that?
00:03:57Yeah, with the exception of the one where Bingham goes every night.
00:04:00Well, he hasn't found any evidence yet.
00:04:02No, but he's found a nice little fan dancer.
00:04:04Who?
00:04:06Is that right?
00:04:08No, it's not.
00:04:10Inspector Hornly.
00:04:11Yeah?
00:04:12The Commissioner wants you.
00:04:13Oh?
00:04:14He's got half the army high command with him.
00:04:16Has he, though?
00:04:18Oh.
00:04:19Well, I shouldn't worry blow, old man.
00:04:21You'll have plenty of time to spare.
00:04:23I'll hand over that little joint for you to clean up.
00:04:26And if you talk to Bingham nicely, he might give you her phone number.
00:04:30Oh, Bingham.
00:04:31Sir?
00:04:32You can leave in that bit about the fifth column.
00:04:34Righty-ighty.
00:04:38The fact is, this petty scrounging has reached such proportions that it's costing the army thousands a year.
00:04:43What we've got to do is to set an example.
00:04:45If we can catch one or two of the culprits, it'll have a salutary effect on the others.
00:04:49Now.
00:04:52Who's that for me, sir?
00:04:53Brigadier Lloyd, Major Harvey of the War Office.
00:04:55Inspector Hornly.
00:04:56How do you do, gentlemen?
00:04:57I've got a rather unusual case for you, Hornly.
00:04:59The War Office are concerned over certain army activities which are proving rather more widespread than we imagine.
00:05:05Now, what we thought...
00:05:06I think I know what you mean, sir.
00:05:07Oh?
00:05:08Well, one reads the papers.
00:05:10The papers only touch on the fringe of it, I'm afraid.
00:05:12Quite.
00:05:13But a detective can read between the lanes.
00:05:15I'm glad you appreciate this importance.
00:05:17As I was telling the commissioner, this is not just a case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
00:05:21Eh?
00:05:22This sort of thing's going on in camps all over the country, you know.
00:05:24I beg your pardon?
00:05:25These depredations from army stores.
00:05:27Depred...
00:05:28Scrounging, Hornly.
00:05:30Scrounging?
00:05:31But you've been saying this has nothing to do with the fifth column.
00:05:33Fifth column?
00:05:34Whatever put that into your head?
00:05:36Inspector Blow was assigned to that case last week.
00:05:38Blow?
00:05:39As an ex-officer, it shouldn't be difficult for you to get into the run of things again.
00:05:42Are you listening, Hornly?
00:05:45The idea is that you should join the army.
00:05:47What, me?
00:05:48Yes.
00:05:49What, at my age? After all my years of...
00:05:51Temporarily, of course.
00:05:52We'll do our best to see you're comfortable.
00:05:54Well, it's more than I was last time.
00:05:56Still, if you're offering me a commission...
00:05:58I'm afraid that is hardly the idea.
00:06:00By joining the ranks and mixing with the men, you'll have a better chance of contacting the offenders.
00:06:05The ranks?
00:06:07It's true.
00:06:09Come on.
00:06:20Come on, come on, step out. What's the matter with you?
00:06:22I'm tired out.
00:06:23What, we're all tired out?
00:06:25We're not grumbling about it?
00:06:26Yes, but I've been carrying these things for the last six miles.
00:06:30I claim there was a changeover.
00:06:32All right, we'll have a changeover, OK?
00:06:35Put the gun on your right shoulder.
00:06:37You'll be left hand-free to carry the other stuff.
00:06:39I'm going to resign.
00:06:41You're not.
00:06:42You've been put on this job and you're going to stick it out.
00:06:45So, what have we done in the case?
00:06:47We've been ten days here, marching, drilling and dumping.
00:06:50And all we've got to show for it is blistered heels and fallen arches.
00:06:53Well, you'll have to prop up your arches, my lad.
00:06:55It's Kandahar Day tomorrow.
00:06:58It's Kandahar Day.
00:06:59A field day.
00:07:01A twelve-mile march with full pack.
00:07:03Followed by a three-mile attack over open country.
00:07:06Then some bombing and bayonet work.
00:07:08And if we're lucky, a band of players home to bed.
00:07:12I won't do it. I won't do it.
00:07:14British Army or no British Army.
00:07:16I'm going sick.
00:07:17You'll do nothing of the sort.
00:07:19If you start going soft now, you'll give the game away.
00:07:21Yes, but...
00:07:22If I can stick it, you can.
00:07:23And if you go sick, you'll have more than the British Army to answer to.
00:07:26You'll have to answer to me.
00:07:28I'm going sick.
00:07:36A few blokes to the sick parade.
00:07:38Pile in here.
00:08:02Cool. We're well out of that lock, eh?
00:08:05Gold perish tomorrow with full pack.
00:08:19Come along now. On parade, you. Double up.
00:08:22What's the matter?
00:08:25I don't think I feel very well, Sergeant, in fact.
00:08:28I think I'll go sick.
00:08:30You can't go sick now.
00:08:31Seven o'clock in the morning's the time to go sick.
00:08:33Run along now. You heard what the day sergeant said.
00:08:39Private Lee.
00:08:40Coming.
00:08:46Well, what's the matter with you?
00:08:48It's my blistering feet, sir. I've worn the tread off them.
00:08:52And when Lord Roberts made his historic march to Kandahar,
00:08:56it was a proud boast of this regiment that not a man fell out.
00:09:02Today is the anniversary of that great event.
00:09:05And in view of the excellent march you carried out yesterday,
00:09:09I propose to celebrate today
00:09:12by granting leave to the whole regiment till midnight.
00:09:16Hooray!
00:09:19Salute!
00:09:21Halt!
00:09:24Halt!
00:09:26Halt!
00:09:31Halt!
00:09:40Two beers, please.
00:09:41Two beers?
00:09:42Yes, I'm having one for a sick friend.
00:09:50Here's one to be going on with.
00:09:53Ah, you're not doing too bad.
00:09:54A pound note on a Friday.
00:09:56Gentleman's opinion, sir.
00:09:57What do you think?
00:09:58Well, um, bookie perhaps.
00:10:01Certainly not.
00:10:04I suppose now to tell you that I was one of those chaps
00:10:06that scrounged stuff out of army stores and sell it outside.
00:10:08Go on, you're having me on.
00:10:10I said supposing.
00:10:12Have you been many of them in here?
00:10:13Can't say I've met anyone.
00:10:15Just wondering.
00:10:17There's a lot of scrounging going on, you know.
00:10:18So I hear. Why they don't do something about it beats me.
00:10:21Perhaps they are.
00:10:22The military police?
00:10:23Not them.
00:10:25They may catch us drunk.
00:10:26They may catch us drunk.
00:10:28Found this stuff.
00:10:29Did it all over the floor.
00:10:30How much is missing?
00:10:31Can't say yet.
00:10:32But it's all new stuff, though.
00:10:33Only came in yesterday.
00:10:34None of it issued, eh?
00:10:35That should help.
00:10:37Assignment of pants.
00:10:38All sizes.
00:10:40Tinned pilchards.
00:10:41Ever had that brand before?
00:10:42No.
00:10:43What's it got to do with you?
00:10:45Yes, what are you doing here, anyway?
00:10:47The reporter would like you to meet the medical officer.
00:10:49Keep your nose out of things that don't concern you.
00:10:51Count up what's left in those cases.
00:10:52And don't make any mistakes.
00:10:53Very good, sir.
00:10:56Fluent sauce.
00:10:58Right.
00:11:02Did you get any time off?
00:11:03After we close, till we open again.
00:11:05What about taking a punt and having a watercress tea with me up there?
00:11:08You're not backward and coming forward, are you?
00:11:10Oh, what do you say?
00:11:12All right, then.
00:11:13I'll boss two outside.
00:11:14That's a deal.
00:11:15But on one condition.
00:11:16What's that?
00:11:17Would you let me pay my share?
00:11:18Yes?
00:11:19Yes?
00:11:26Come on.
00:11:44What's been to you?
00:11:47I had a marvelous time, chief.
00:11:48I've been out with a wee lassie.
00:11:50Look.
00:11:51Here she is.
00:11:54Not bad, eh?
00:11:55Well, it's six for three.
00:11:58To Baldy.
00:11:59With love from Daisy.
00:12:03I'm taking her to the pictures tomorrow.
00:12:04For half-day.
00:12:06Her father's a Presbyterian, too.
00:12:08Her father keeps an eye out among the shop...
00:12:09Now, listen.
00:12:10I don't want to hear how life is, me.
00:12:11While you've been making yourself ridiculous, I've been getting on with the job.
00:12:14And now you've been helping me.
00:12:15I'm on to something.
00:12:16You are?
00:12:17Yeah.
00:12:18Here's some salvage of stuff that was pinched last night.
00:12:20And if we can find any bit around here, we'll know who knocked it off.
00:12:23Yes, but they might have come by it innocently.
00:12:24Well, the stuff hasn't been issued yet.
00:12:25Now, come on.
00:12:26Step lively before they come back.
00:12:27Now, you know what you're looking for?
00:12:29Gents' underpants, large size.
00:12:30Filtrates and carbolic soap.
00:12:32Now, you take this side.
00:12:33Okay, chief.
00:12:34I've been through the hut next door, but I drew a blank.
00:12:54What if it was understood that we were only pretending to do this?
00:13:07Yes, we understood and the colonel understood.
00:13:09The sergeant made it a bit slow in the uptake.
00:13:11He got what he had to pay, then.
00:13:15Give it a hang, chief.
00:13:16You haven't clumsy flat foot.
00:13:21Come on.
00:13:22There's only eight more.
00:13:24Come on.
00:13:32Morning, Hornly.
00:13:33Still looking for clues, eh?
00:13:39I always said there were no flies on Hornly, but I take all that back now.
00:13:43What are you doing down here?
00:13:45Come away from your clues and I'll tell you.
00:13:47Have you come down here to make trouble?
00:13:49I've come down here to see you two.
00:13:51Us?
00:13:52You mean you want us to help you with your case?
00:13:53I do.
00:13:54Why?
00:13:55Because there are certain things, Hornly, of which you have special knowledge.
00:13:59I never expected you to admit that, Blow.
00:14:01I knew they'd get into a mess as soon as we left the yard.
00:14:04What's your difficulty?
00:14:05We're very busy, you know.
00:14:06I can appreciate that.
00:14:09Well, we've discovered that information is being coded to Germany.
00:14:15Nothing unusual in that, is there?
00:14:17Shortwave transmitter, I suppose.
00:14:19Yes, and what is more, we've discovered the code.
00:14:22And now all that's missing is the shortwave transmitter and the blokes who are running it.
00:14:25That's right, but unfortunately they never broadcast from the same place twice.
00:14:28What do you want us to do? Consult the stars for you?
00:14:31No, I'm not interested in your usual methods of solving crimes.
00:14:35What I want to know is how they got hold of a certain piece of information when there were only half a dozen people in the know.
00:14:40And you were two of them.
00:14:41Us?
00:14:42Yes, listen to this.
00:14:45Among other interesting items broadcast to Germany last night was this tidbit.
00:14:49Two Scotland Yard men named Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham are now carrying out secret investigations at Huplow Camp.
00:14:57What, do you mean to say it's been sent back to Germany?
00:14:59It has, and I want to know who's been doing the unveiling.
00:15:02Now, look here, Blow, let's get this straight.
00:15:04Are you accusing me of a breach of confidence?
00:15:06I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just making inquiries.
00:15:10Well, it amounts to the same thing.
00:15:12If anybody's been talking, it's certainly not me.
00:15:14Well, I'll take your word for it, Hornley. And what about you, Bingham? Have you been talking in your sleep?
00:15:18Did I take exception to that remark?
00:15:20So do I. And what's more, I object to you coming down here criticizing my staff.
00:15:23I'm not criticizing your staff. It's beyond criticism. I'm asking a simple question.
00:15:28Well, you had the answer. Just because some brass head shoots off his mouth in his club, you try to pin it on Bingham.
00:15:33He's worked for me for 15 years, and I know that he's incapable of doing such a thing.
00:15:37All right, all right. I must explore every avenue.
00:15:40Will you explore some avenue down White Hallway?
00:15:42Yes, and don't leave any stones unturned.
00:15:45Okay. Hello?
00:15:51Come on, now. Who did you tell?
00:15:54Me? Oh, now, here, Chief, you don't think that I...
00:15:56Yes, I do think. Come on, now. Out with it. Who was it?
00:16:00Well, it was that wee lassie, Daisy.
00:16:04I might have guessed it.
00:16:05But she's a nice girl, Chief.
00:16:06They're all nice girls. Mata Hari was a nice girl.
00:16:10Well, what did you tell this bird?
00:16:12Nothing, Chief. She guessed.
00:16:14Don't lie to me.
00:16:15But it's true, Chief. She said that I... I looked like a detective.
00:16:18Well, that's the biggest lie of the lot.
00:16:20I don't mind you laughing at my expense, but I tell you that Daisy's absolutely innocent.
00:16:23What, after going out with you in a punt?
00:16:25Well, supposing she's innocent? She can still talk?
00:16:28No, no, no. Not Daisy.
00:16:29Well, what is she?
00:16:30A barmaid.
00:16:31God, Lummi. Why, they're public information bureaus.
00:16:34Oh, by the way, did I hear you say you were taking her to the pictures this afternoon?
00:16:39I was, until you landed me into this mess.
00:16:41Well, you're still taking her. I'll fix it up with the Colonel.
00:16:44You mean that I can... What do you want me to do?
00:16:47Well, ask her who she passed the glad news on to, of course.
00:16:50Oh, dear. That would be very awkward, Chief.
00:16:52It'll be more awkward if you don't.
00:16:55I've been in a dream for so long. How could I hope to be a success in New York?
00:17:00Can't I teach you, Lalo?
00:17:01The bottle become a bo-bo, and Molly the elephant.
00:17:05Every night at the sunset, I can hear a sweet little lullaby.
00:17:09Let's take it now, Lalo.
00:17:13Daisy?
00:17:15Yes, Percy?
00:17:17Gosh, I was longing for you to call the type gentleman, please, this afternoon.
00:17:21Were you really?
00:17:24Don't she look lovely in her saddle?
00:17:28Not half as lovely as you'd look in one, Daisy.
00:17:31You think so?
00:17:32In this picture, bending over the beer pools.
00:17:36Oh, come on. What would the customers say?
00:17:49Daisy?
00:17:51What?
00:17:52Remember when I told you yesterday about me and another chap who bought a vehicle from Scotland Yard?
00:17:57Well?
00:17:59You didn't kind of mention it to anybody, did you?
00:18:03Of course I didn't.
00:18:05What are you getting at?
00:18:07Nothing, Daisy. I know you're not the sort to chat out of it.
00:18:11Somebody's been talking to me.
00:18:13Are you hinting that I've been speaking out of turn?
00:18:18I didn't say you. I said somebody.
00:18:20Well, you meant me.
00:18:21Eerie, a little order, please.
00:18:23You've got no right to go making suggestions like that.
00:18:25Let me tell you, I've got enough to do in my job without gossiping.
00:18:28Yes, yes, I know that, Daisy.
00:18:31But you better pass it on, innocent lady.
00:18:33I did not.
00:18:34Eerie, tell it up, will you? You're not in the ball of the Rosencrantz now, you know.
00:18:38I don't think not.
00:18:39There you are, you see. This is all your fault.
00:18:41Go in.
00:18:42Why?
00:18:43Now, if you'd just give hands off of me, you insulting beast.
00:18:46Why?
00:18:47Quiet.
00:18:50What's going on along here?
00:18:51Don't blame me. Blame him.
00:18:57Hey, you. Come on out.
00:19:00No, none of that there, here.
00:19:02I assure you, there's been none of...
00:19:06Come on, you heard what he said.
00:19:13Can I help it if my sister becomes hysterical?
00:19:15Oh, come on.
00:19:27Good afternoon, Miss Johnson.
00:19:29Good afternoon.
00:19:33I'd like to see Mr. Wilkinson.
00:19:35You didn't make an appointment, did you?
00:19:36No, but one of my back teeth is aching again. Something awful.
00:19:39I think you'll find that quite all right. I shouldn't bite on it for a couple of hours, though.
00:19:42Thank you.
00:19:46Miss Johnson, I don't remember...
00:19:48No, Mr. Wilkinson, it's my back tooth again. You must look at it.
00:19:51I see. Would you mind, madam? I won't give you one moment.
00:19:54Quite all right.
00:19:55Very well, please step inside.
00:19:58Charles?
00:20:00I've laid out your dinner jacket.
00:20:02Don't forget, you're dining at the club at eight.
00:20:04Oh, yes.
00:20:05I'm going over to Penrith to have dinner with Mrs. Sherwood.
00:20:07We'll probably pay a bribe, so I may not be back till late.
00:20:09Goodbye, madam.
00:20:10Oh, don't forget to black out. I expect you'll be in first.
00:20:13I won't forget.
00:20:21Why have you come here today? Your next appointment was Tuesday.
00:20:24Do you want that girl to suspect?
00:20:25I had to come. He's rumbled.
00:20:27Who?
00:20:28The guard man, Bingham, that I was telling you about.
00:20:30Did you pass it on?
00:20:31Of course.
00:20:32Well, they found out somehow.
00:20:33He questioned me this afternoon and said someone had been talking.
00:20:36Phew, I'm scared stiff.
00:20:38Where is he now?
00:20:39I left him in the pictures.
00:20:40You sure he didn't follow you?
00:20:41Positive.
00:20:42What am I going to do? Supposing they come and question me?
00:20:44Deny everything. They've no evidence.
00:20:46And don't come here again.
00:20:48I'll contact you as soon as it blows over.
00:20:50Yes, but...
00:20:51Now, look here. Pull yourself together. There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:20:54Come on.
00:20:58It often aches like that after filling, you know.
00:21:00It'll be quite all right tomorrow, believe me.
00:21:02I hope so.
00:21:06Now, madam, if you please.
00:21:07Thank you.
00:21:08Come along, Yvonne.
00:21:15It's nearly six o'clock. Have I an appointment with this gentleman?
00:21:17No, sir, but he was anxious to wait on the off chance of seeing you.
00:21:20My bridge work needs overhauling, and I wondered if...
00:21:22I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't manage it now.
00:21:24My hours are three to six, and I have an engagement this evening.
00:21:27Perhaps I can come back later.
00:21:28I'm sorry. My engagement is for the whole evening.
00:21:31Besides, I never see patients out of hours.
00:21:33Oh, if that's your attitude, I'll take my business elsewhere.
00:21:36There are plenty of other dentists in the town.
00:21:38We'll be only too glad to do a little bridge work after six o'clock.
00:21:41Good day to you, sir.
00:21:48How do you know there's no one at home?
00:21:50He told me he had an engagement.
00:21:52There's also a Mrs. Dentist, but she's out playing bridge.
00:21:55Any servants?
00:21:56One. Female.
00:21:58I went round the back and checked up.
00:22:00You're not the only one who's a success with women.
00:22:03I made an appointment to meet her at the Pelletier Dolls tonight.
00:22:06Yeah.
00:22:07That's got rid of her.
00:22:09Sounds a very mean trick to me.
00:22:10Well, she was married, and so was her right.
00:22:13Ah, this is it.
00:22:27That's certainly it.
00:22:30Now, let's see what's over here.
00:22:38Oh, that's good.
00:22:56There's the part of the book.
00:22:58We'll have a look at that.
00:23:01Still don't see why you should suspect Daisy,
00:23:03just because you got toothache when she left me.
00:23:05I agree, it'll be a natural emotion.
00:23:07What's her surname?
00:23:09Johnson.
00:23:10Johnson.
00:23:11And you shot your mouth off to her yesterday lunchtime.
00:23:13But she couldn't have seen him yesterday.
00:23:15She was on the river with me until five o'clock.
00:23:18And at five-thirty, she visits the dentist.
00:23:20Look for yourself.
00:23:21Every time she sees you, she rushes straight to the dentist.
00:23:24Any number of ways of explaining that, chief.
00:23:26There's only two I know of.
00:23:28Either she's what I think she is,
00:23:30or the way you kiss her knocks her teeth in.
00:23:32Yeah.
00:23:34She was here twice last week,
00:23:36once the week before,
00:23:38three times the week before that.
00:23:40Yes, a fellow called Wetherby sees the company often, too.
00:23:43And Mrs. Crofter.
00:23:46There's your Daisy again.
00:23:48Supposing you're right.
00:23:50You can't prove anything with that book.
00:23:52Well, we might find something in it safe to tie up with it.
00:23:54What safe?
00:23:55Over there.
00:23:59The Twinlock Hector.
00:24:01Easy.
00:24:05There must be a burglar alarm wire running round the rim.
00:24:09Cut it.
00:24:23There you are.
00:24:24That little fellow wouldn't talk.
00:24:30There comes the man who cut the wrong wire.
00:24:33It's a doorbell.
00:24:38It's the dentist.
00:24:39Maybe he's forgotten his keys.
00:24:41I don't know.
00:24:42I don't know.
00:24:43I don't know.
00:24:44I don't know.
00:24:45I don't know.
00:24:46I don't know.
00:24:47I don't know.
00:24:48I don't know.
00:24:49I don't know.
00:24:50I don't know.
00:24:51Maybe he's forgotten his key.
00:24:52Why should he ring?
00:24:53He knows there's nobody at home.
00:24:54Here, go and see who it is.
00:24:56But suppose...
00:24:57Go on, go on, go on.
00:24:58Go on.
00:25:16Is your name Wilkinson?
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Mine's Blankinson.
00:25:19Oh?
00:25:20I want to see Mr. Wilkinson.
00:25:21Why?
00:25:22Why?
00:25:23What do you think I come to dentists for?
00:25:24Have a haircut?
00:25:25I want a tooth out.
00:25:26Eh?
00:25:27Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible.
00:25:29Oh, don't talk so dumb.
00:25:30Sorry, but at this time of night...
00:25:31At this time of night I've been in bed and fast asleep.
00:25:33I'm not raging too big.
00:25:34I said I'm not going until I see a dentist here.
00:25:36Go on, fetch him out.
00:25:42Well, now, if you'll just sit down for a minute, I'll...
00:25:44I'll make some inquiries.
00:25:46All right, but look sharp.
00:25:51Well?
00:25:54It's a patient, chief.
00:25:55Says he wants a tooth out.
00:25:56What, at this time?
00:25:58Perhaps he's one of their agents.
00:26:00Doesn't look like one.
00:26:01Well, how do you know?
00:26:02Take him in the surgery room, numb him.
00:26:04How?
00:26:05Well, say that you're Wilkinson's assistant.
00:26:07That you're in his confidence.
00:26:08Yes, but I think he really does want a tooth out.
00:26:11Well, you never know.
00:26:12Perhaps he's bluffing.
00:26:13Go and find out.
00:26:15Go and find out.
00:26:20Well?
00:26:21Well, I'm sorry, but Mr. Wilkinson's asleep.
00:26:24I can't help it.
00:26:25It's all right, I'm his assistant.
00:26:27And anything you wish to have out, you can have out with me.
00:26:31All right, that suits me.
00:26:32Well, where's surgery?
00:26:34Surgery.
00:26:35Yes, is this it?
00:26:36Here, come on.
00:26:37Yes.
00:26:41Well, come on, don't hang about.
00:26:45Here, take this.
00:26:51Just sit in the chair, sir, please, will you?
00:26:54Let me see.
00:27:01Nice evening, isn't it?
00:27:03Fine for getting shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:06I don't want any shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:08I don't care if it's raining cats and dogs.
00:27:10I want this tooth out.
00:27:12Let me say that I enjoy Mr. Wilkinson's full confidence.
00:27:14Well, I'm very glad to hear it.
00:27:16Shall I open my mouth now?
00:27:17Yes, certainly.
00:27:18You can tell me anything you want.
00:27:24Do you really want it out?
00:27:26Hey, what's the matter with you?
00:27:27Are you an encompassment, as I assume it?
00:27:30You've been here before, haven't you?
00:27:31What's that got to do with it?
00:27:32Well, we just make it a rule only to attend to regular customers after closing time.
00:27:35Oh, dash it all.
00:27:36Do you think I'm going to suffer all night for your silly rules?
00:27:39There.
00:27:40Are you going to take it out or do I have to take it out of you?
00:27:44Your mind's made up.
00:27:45Oh, it's dawned on you.
00:27:47Just wait there a minute, please.
00:27:49Very often I'm...
00:27:51Oh, what is this, a dentist or a madhouse?
00:27:54Are you going to take this thing out?
00:27:55All right, all right, it's coming out.
00:28:00Just a minute.
00:28:02Which tooth did you say it was again?
00:28:05Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
00:28:08Uh-uh.
00:28:11Your top teeth are pretty good.
00:28:13They're false, you fathead.
00:28:15Oh, so they are.
00:28:17I see that now.
00:28:18They quite took me in for a minute.
00:28:20Do you want the plate out?
00:28:21No, no, just the tooth.
00:28:29There.
00:28:32Just open your mouth a little wider, please, will you?
00:28:39Hey, how are you doing it?
00:28:40You're not going to take it out in cold blood, are you?
00:28:41You can't have a local anesthetic.
00:28:43Oh, I'm afraid Mr. Wilkinson always locks up everything like that.
00:28:47Hey, what's that over there?
00:28:48Is that a gas apparatus or not?
00:28:50Yes, that's gas.
00:28:52All right, then I'll have gas.
00:28:54Quite sure.
00:28:55This is after effects, you know.
00:28:57Compared to what I'm suffering, the after effects will be a pleasure.
00:29:02I hope you're right.
00:29:08Oh.
00:29:32Now what's to do?
00:29:33Are you going to give me gas or not?
00:29:36I am.
00:29:37If you don't, so too, I'm sick of sitting here waiting for you.
00:30:07I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:30:37I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:31:08It must have cracked my jaw.
00:31:11No, no, no.
00:31:12Something went, but I don't think it was that.
00:31:14It must have given me too much gas.
00:31:16I feel very faint.
00:31:18Come on, come on.
00:31:20A fresh air will do you all the good in the world.
00:31:22I'll take you to a taxi that I can see in that car.
00:31:37All right.
00:32:08Shhh.
00:32:10There's nothing to shout about.
00:32:12Do you want to bring that dentist down here?
00:32:14What's happened to the patient?
00:32:16He's gone.
00:32:17Took his tooth out.
00:32:19In fact, two of them.
00:32:20What, did he want two out?
00:32:21No, but I just gave a hefty pull and they're the way out.
00:32:24Two of them.
00:32:26There's nothing in this business.
00:32:27It's money for a job.
00:32:28All you have to do is just have to turn on the gas.
00:32:30What's the matter with you?
00:32:31I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:33I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:34I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:35All you have to do is just have to turn on the gas.
00:32:37Why did you give him gas?
00:32:38Well, he demanded it.
00:32:39Look.
00:32:40Five bob.
00:32:41Half a crown of tooth.
00:32:44Didn't want to pay for the other one,
00:32:45but the poor man was in no condition to argue.
00:32:47I'll bet he wasn't.
00:32:49Have you had any luck, Chief?
00:32:50I have.
00:32:51Yeah.
00:32:54Look at that.
00:32:57Daisy and me in the punt.
00:32:58No, no, turn it over.
00:33:00Sergeant Bingham, CID.
00:33:03Where did you get this?
00:33:04In the safe.
00:33:06I can't believe it.
00:33:09You know, Chief,
00:33:10this sort of thing shatters your faith in women.
00:33:12Well, it could do with a bit of shattering.
00:33:13Here, give it to me.
00:33:15Do you remember to put it back in there?
00:33:16I am.
00:33:17But if you find it,
00:33:18that'll make me look like an accessory.
00:33:20Well, you will, won't you?
00:33:22All right.
00:33:23We're going to leave this place exactly as we found it.
00:33:25Without anyone knowing we've been here.
00:33:29Why, Chief?
00:33:30Aren't you going to arrest Wilkinson?
00:33:32Not yet.
00:33:34You haven't left anything lying around in the surgery, have you?
00:33:37No, no, I've got the teeth in my pocket.
00:33:39I don't want to see them.
00:33:40Talk about a blooming cannibal.
00:33:43Curtains.
00:34:05Oh, I must be dreaming.
00:34:07We've left the light on.
00:34:09That's funny.
00:34:10I could have sworn they put it out.
00:34:21It's truth.
00:34:22What have we done now?
00:34:23It can't be my patients, Chief.
00:34:24Oh, it's got to be.
00:34:25Look.
00:34:28It's the dentist.
00:34:29Look, it's him.
00:34:31It's the dentist.
00:34:32It's the dentist.
00:34:33Wilkinson.
00:34:34The gas is still on.
00:34:43He's a gunner.
00:34:44Dead.
00:34:46This is awful.
00:34:48I was here just a few minutes ago.
00:34:49Must have happened when you were seeing your patient off, obviously.
00:34:53He must have found out that we were here.
00:34:54Decided he couldn't face it and come down and gassed himself.
00:34:59I'd better phone the local police.
00:35:01Wait a minute.
00:35:03Look at these.
00:35:04One shoe is laced across the usual way.
00:35:06On the other shoe, the top three holes are laced crisscross.
00:35:10You can put your own construction in that, I suppose?
00:35:12Well, no man laces shoes different ways.
00:35:15Someone else put that shoe on his foot.
00:35:17Why?
00:35:18I don't know yet.
00:35:19But whoever did it may be still in the house.
00:35:24Wait here.
00:35:33No sign of anybody.
00:35:34I'm going to make a search of Wilkins' bedroom and see if I can find anything.
00:35:37I'll come up with you, Chief.
00:35:38No, you don't.
00:35:39We've got no time to lose.
00:35:40Here, take these.
00:35:43Bring up the yard.
00:35:44Give Blue my kind regards and read that list over to him.
00:35:47What are they?
00:35:48The names, addresses and code numbers of Mr. Wilkinson's so-called patients.
00:35:52Toe blowers,
00:35:53the name of the patient,
00:35:54the name of the patient,
00:35:55the name of the patient,
00:35:56the name of the patient,
00:35:57the name of the patient,
00:35:58the name of the patient,
00:35:59the name of the patient,
00:36:00the name of the patient,
00:36:01the name of the patient,
00:36:02Toe blowers,
00:36:03since he wants to know who's been talking,
00:36:04there's 40 of them.
00:36:33Sorry for the delay, Sergeant.
00:36:34Inspector Blow's just gone out.
00:36:36They're expecting him back in 10 minutes.
00:36:37Shall I ask him to ring you back?
00:36:38Yes, please.
00:36:39And it's very urgent.
00:37:02Oh!
00:37:33Hello?
00:37:35Who's that?
00:37:37This is Mrs. Wilkinson speaking.
00:37:39I want to speak to Dr. Kirbyslaw at once, please.
00:38:02It's all right, it's all right, no need to be alarmed.
00:38:09Who are you?
00:38:10I'm a police officer.
00:38:11What are you doing in this house?
00:38:14I'm here in connection with your husband.
00:38:19He's dead.
00:38:22That's right, you just sit down quietly for a few minutes.
00:38:31I can imagine how you're feeling.
00:38:33Can you?
00:38:34I wonder.
00:38:35I should be awfully upset shouldn't I?
00:38:38Aren't you?
00:38:39No.
00:38:40You, you are Mrs Wilkinson?
00:38:43Yes, but we weren't what is called a happily married couple.
00:38:48You found out that he was a, that he was a...
00:38:52Yes.
00:38:53I told him he'd get caught sooner or later.
00:38:56It was no use.
00:38:58They had some sort of hold on him.
00:39:01Who were they?
00:39:02I don't know.
00:39:04I shouldn't have known anything except that I found a letter of his.
00:39:08What did you do?
00:39:10I texted him with it and
00:39:12he flew into a rage and struck me.
00:39:19He did? Yes.
00:39:20Oh, that was nothing unusual.
00:39:22I said I'd go to the police and he threatened to shoot me.
00:39:25What could I do?
00:39:28What would you have done?
00:39:33Well, I don't know.
00:39:36It's very awkward for you.
00:39:38Could I have a cigarette, Inspector, please?
00:39:40Oh, certainly, certainly.
00:39:44Now, I'm afraid I've got to ask you just a
00:39:47just a few questions.
00:39:51You're not going to be brutal to me, are you?
00:39:54No, no, no, that will hardly be necessary.
00:39:57I'll expect a statement
00:39:59just as a mere matter of formality.
00:40:02Oh, yes, of course. Well, I shan't attempt to hide anything from you.
00:40:11Well, now, do you know what part your husband had in this organization?
00:40:17None, but I'm sure it couldn't have been a very important one.
00:40:20I'm afraid you're wrong there, my dear, Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:40:24As a matter of fact, I'm quite sure you are.
00:40:26Well, what makes you say that?
00:40:27Well, I have here the names and addresses of forty of his patients
00:40:31whom I have every reason to believe supplied him regularly with information.
00:40:35But I can't believe it.
00:40:37Are you positive of that?
00:40:39I found it in a book in his safe.
00:40:41But if he's as important as all that, why did he take his own life?
00:40:48He didn't. Somebody else took it. He was murdered.
00:40:57Mrs. Wilkinson, what's the matter? Oh, pull yourself together. Here, here, Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:41:05Oh, gosh.
00:41:08There. That's better now, isn't it?
00:41:11Here, drink this.
00:41:16I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:41:19It's all right. You'll be feeling better in a minute.
00:41:22I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:41:25It's all right. You'll be feeling better in a minute.
00:41:28I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:41:31I'm sorry.
00:41:32It's all right. You'll be feeling better in a minute.
00:41:35I can't stay the night here alone, Inspector.
00:41:37I'm afraid I'm on duty.
00:41:39But I've got a sister who lives just round the corner. Couldn't I spend the night with her?
00:41:42I'm sorry. I can't allow that.
00:41:45I promise I wouldn't move from there.
00:41:47No, you wouldn't. And if it rested with me, I'd let you do it like a shot.
00:41:50But it does rest with you, doesn't it?
00:41:53No, not exactly. You see, I haven't mentioned it before, but I've got an assistant, an associate.
00:42:00There are two of you?
00:42:01Yes. He's upstairs. I'm afraid he'll want you to come to the police station.
00:42:06Oh.
00:42:07Drink, drink.
00:42:08Oh.
00:42:13I shall be all right.
00:42:16Oh, you answer it, Inspector. Don't worry about me.
00:42:26Hello? Hello? Yes?
00:42:29Oh, Inspector Blue!
00:42:32Yes, this is Bingham.
00:42:34What are you ringing up at this hour for? I decided to confess after all.
00:42:38Certainly not.
00:42:40As a matter of fact, it's not unconnected with your inquiries this morning.
00:42:44Well now, Horley and I decided that as you were floundering about, to give you a bit of help.
00:42:49To put you in the right road, as it were.
00:42:53No, no, no, no.
00:42:54No? No, I must correct you there. My mother and father were married properly at the Kirkwood Paisley.
00:42:59And that remark comes very badly from you, after all we've done.
00:43:04All right. If you'll just keep calm, I'll tell you.
00:43:08Well, I have here the names and addresses of about 40 people who have been passing information.
00:43:15Yes, if you'll just get out your little pencil and paper, I'll read them out to you.
00:43:21You ready?
00:43:24Yes.
00:43:35Just a minute, Blue. I think I've got a hold of the wrong piece of paper or something. Hold on.
00:43:44Oh, God!
00:43:54Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:43:57Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:44:00Mrs. Wil...
00:44:08Hello, Blue. Sorry, there's been a slight hitch here. I'll ring you back.
00:44:15Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:44:20Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:44:24Maybe she's gone to her sister's.
00:44:29Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:44:37Mrs. Wilkinson!
00:44:45Begum!
00:44:47Begum!
00:44:49Ah, there you are. There's been some pretty rum going on in this house, I'm telling you.
00:44:54You're telling me.
00:44:56What, did your phone blow?
00:44:57Yes, I phoned him.
00:44:59What did he say?
00:45:00Well, he didn't say anything, Chief, because...
00:45:03Because what?
00:45:05Look, you're quite sure you gave me that list, aren't you?
00:45:08What are you blathering about?
00:45:11That's all I've got, Chief. There's nothing on it.
00:45:14Begum, what the blaze have you been doing while I've been upstairs?
00:45:17I had it in my hand when I first phoned Blue.
00:45:20Well, go on.
00:45:21Well, he wasn't in, and so I put it back in my pocket.
00:45:24I know it was there when she came in, because...
00:45:26She?
00:45:27Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:45:28So she's here.
00:45:30Well, she was here.
00:45:32Was?
00:45:33Yes, I'm afraid she was.
00:45:35She was?
00:45:36Well, she was here.
00:45:38Was?
00:45:39Yes, I'm afraid she's gone too.
00:45:41Gone where?
00:45:43Just through that French window.
00:45:45Look here, are you drunk as well as incapable?
00:45:48I told her to stop here, but she must have slipped out when I was on the phone.
00:46:03She's pinched the evidence.
00:46:05But I think I know where we can find her.
00:46:08Where?
00:46:09At her sister's.
00:46:10What's the address?
00:46:12Now listen to me, you big dome vacuum.
00:46:15Hasn't it dawned on you yet that that woman was simply playing you for a sucker?
00:46:20Well, what happened then?
00:46:22Well, I had just phoned Blue when the front door opened, and I hid behind the curtains.
00:46:28Yeah?
00:46:29Well, she came in, saw the body, and rushed to the telephone.
00:46:31She dialed the number and asked for the doctor.
00:46:33What doctor?
00:46:34Kerbishley.
00:46:35Or maybe Tarbishley.
00:46:40And then?
00:46:41Well, she must have seen me behind the curtains because she screamed.
00:46:44So I stepped out.
00:46:46And what did she tell you?
00:46:47That her husband was a spy, and that he used to beat her.
00:46:50And you sympathized with her?
00:46:52Well, in a way.
00:46:53Good Lord.
00:46:54The woman hasn't been a widow five minutes, but she's still a game to you.
00:46:58Then I suppose you told her about that list.
00:47:01I did mention it.
00:47:02I knew it.
00:47:03She fainted.
00:47:04Yeah, and then you helped her out of the settee?
00:47:06Yes.
00:47:07And she pinched the list from your pocket.
00:47:08You went to fetch her for some brandy.
00:47:10Water.
00:47:11And she switched the blank sheets back on you.
00:47:13It's as pale as a pie, Staff.
00:47:15And there's no Kerbishley or Corbishley in the book.
00:47:18But I'm sure it was Kerbishley.
00:47:20You've made about as big a hash of this as anything you've done in the whole of your misbegotten career.
00:47:24Here we are, working on a case which has nothing to do with us.
00:47:26You get hold of the staff witness and let her go with all the exhibits.
00:47:30Look, couldn't we just slip out like and not tell anybody we were here?
00:47:35Well, after you phoned the yard with the murdered man in the other room?
00:47:38He may not have been murdered.
00:47:40He was murdered.
00:47:41While you were mucking things up down here, I've been busy.
00:47:44Wilkinson was planning to run away to South America.
00:47:47Passports, permits, all in order.
00:47:49But somebody or other didn't want him to go.
00:47:51So they waited for him upstairs.
00:47:53He came in, was just chained to his slippers,
00:47:56and then nipped up behind him, laid him out,
00:47:58slipped his shoe on again,
00:48:00brought him downstairs,
00:48:01bunged him to that chair and tried to make it look like suicide.
00:48:04How does that sound?
00:48:06There doesn't seem to be anything missing.
00:48:08No, except the clue to the murderer,
00:48:10that list of agents,
00:48:11and Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:48:13Apart from that, it's all sewn up.
00:48:15Well, I suppose there's nothing else to do but hand it over to Blow and we go back to the gent's underpants.
00:48:19Now look here, I don't want to hear that defeated stalk.
00:48:21We're going to search this house from cellar to roof.
00:48:23Now go on, you start outside.
00:48:24I'll start in here.
00:48:26And if there's a whiff of a clue, we'll smell it out.
00:48:40Uh, what's this?
00:48:46March the 12th, no address.
00:48:48My dear Wilkinson,
00:48:50I am sorry to hear you propose taking a holiday.
00:48:52I feel strongly that a journey would not be good for your health at the present moment.
00:48:56I must therefore urge you to cancel it.
00:48:58Yours, A.K.
00:49:00Sounded like a letter from his doctor.
00:49:02Sounds like. Of course it is.
00:49:04A.K.
00:49:05Curbishley.
00:49:06The doctor she rang up.
00:49:07Yeah, and he doesn't exist.
00:49:09At least not in the phone book.
00:49:11He might be in another district, Chief.
00:49:13He might.
00:49:14But this letter was posted at Upper Ellingford.
00:49:17And that's in this phone area.
00:49:19So that doesn't help.
00:49:22Hmm.
00:49:23Continuation sheet.
00:49:25Now, who uses continuation sheets?
00:49:28Officers.
00:49:29Yeah, it doesn't look like office paper to me.
00:49:31No, more like hotel stuff.
00:49:35How many printers would there be at Upper Ellingford?
00:49:37There can't be many. It's only a market town.
00:49:39Good. Well, we're going to knock them up.
00:49:42There may be only half a dozen printers in the town, but a more bad-tempered lot I never saw.
00:49:46You can't expect them to dance for joy when you get them up out of their beds in the middle of the night.
00:49:50Don't feel very happy myself.
00:49:52Dragging a man from his rest at three in the morning to rake through a lot of notepaper?
00:49:56I ought to be compensated for this.
00:49:58Oh, well, it's not your paper.
00:49:59Yes, it is.
00:50:00Oh?
00:50:01Yes, I printed it for the Westgate Manor Hotel.
00:50:03Westgate Manor Hotel, eh?
00:50:05Yeah, I told you it was hotel paper.
00:50:09Yes, it's the same, all right.
00:50:10Of course it's the same.
00:50:12I printed him a brochure at the same time.
00:50:16Now you can clear out and I'll go back to me rest.
00:50:18I sympathize with you.
00:50:19Terms in season.
00:50:20Hello, it's a fishing hotel.
00:50:22Yeah, pretty posh from the prices.
00:50:25Bingham, we're going to get up early in the morning.
00:50:27Eh?
00:50:28We're taking a fishing holiday.
00:50:29It's time we got our hooks into something.
00:50:32Well, thank you very much, sir.
00:50:33You're welcome.
00:50:44Morning, boy.
00:50:45Good morning, sir.
00:50:46You two gentlemen after the same vacancy?
00:50:48Vacancy?
00:50:50What, are you full up?
00:50:51Well, one day we are, the next day we're not.
00:50:53If I had my way, I'd give them mistresses and stop all this chopping and changing.
00:50:59Hey, what about our luggage?
00:51:00We brought your luggage with you.
00:51:03Optimists, aren't you?
00:51:06You don't look very busy.
00:51:08No, we're not now.
00:51:09They're all out on a paper chase.
00:51:13You did say paper chase.
00:51:15Yes.
00:51:16Got me up at 6.30 this morning.
00:51:18It's his new Mr. Rolfeside here.
00:51:20He started all these capers.
00:51:22Mr. Jenkins was much more sensible, but he joined up three weeks ago along with Mr. Smart, the science master.
00:51:28I tell you, there have been so many changes here since the war started, I can't keep pace with them.
00:51:33You wait in here.
00:51:35But I might as well tell you, you're not the only ones after this history master's job.
00:51:39There's another old bloke in there already.
00:51:43So it's not a hotel anymore?
00:51:46They've evacuated a blooming school here.
00:51:53You know, Chief, I didn't like to mention it before, but, well, I never did think much of that crew of yours.
00:51:59Once in a way, you were right.
00:52:03Gable College, Muswell Hill, London.
00:52:06Notice the prefects.
00:52:07All prefects must be responsible for the blackout of the dormitories.
00:52:10Dr. Alfred Kirbishly, headmaster.
00:52:13He came.
00:52:15We thought it was a medical doctor she rang up last night.
00:52:17But it was this fellow, a doctor of literature or something.
00:52:20Hmm.
00:52:21This puts a new face on it that the doctor said when she had her dial lifted.
00:52:24Yes, but I still don't see anything very sinister in that.
00:52:27Well, it hadn't occurred to you, I suppose, that a woman who's just found her husband dead doesn't rush to ring up a schoolmaster?
00:52:32Yes, it is a bit peculiar.
00:52:33Now, this is where you earn your own spellet.
00:52:36Put that luggage back into the car and drive down to the town.
00:52:38Put up at the local hotel and find out all you can about the doctor.
00:52:41It's a small place in the boundary and nobody's business.
00:52:44What about you, chief? Somebody's bound to ask what you're doing here.
00:52:46Oh, I'll say I'm a new boy who's a bit backward.
00:52:48Now, go on, off you go.
00:52:50And don't forget, if there's a barmaid there, when she pours out your beer, don't pour out your soul.
00:53:15Good morning.
00:53:16Good morning.
00:53:18Are you an applicant?
00:53:19Yes.
00:53:20So am I.
00:53:21Really?
00:53:23My name's Mackenzie, Professor Alec Mackenzie.
00:53:27How do you do?
00:53:28My name is Nuttall, uh, Forrest Nuttall.
00:53:31How do you do?
00:53:33You may have heard of Mackenzie's History of Europe for schools.
00:53:36Oh, yes, of course.
00:53:37I wrote it.
00:53:38Really?
00:53:40You haven't actually met Dr. Carvajal yet, I take it?
00:53:43No, but I rather fancy that's just a formality.
00:53:47Oh, well, I suppose there's no objection to my waiting.
00:53:50No, no, not in the least.
00:53:52If it isn't a rude question, what was your last school?
00:53:56Borstal.
00:53:57Borstal. Oh, yes.
00:53:59Borstal. I beg your pardon?
00:54:02Borstal.
00:54:03Yeah, but isn't that a penitentiary?
00:54:05Yes.
00:54:06But surely a qualification for a master at Borstal would hardly be a recommendation to this school.
00:54:11On the contrary, my dear sir.
00:54:12I'm just a man for this school.
00:54:14Why?
00:54:15But they mentioned it in the advertisement, didn't they?
00:54:17The school times gave me to understand that this was an establishment for the sons of gentlemen.
00:54:21Is that what they said they were sons of?
00:54:23Well, I hope I'm not here under any misapprehension.
00:54:27Well, it's not as bad as Borstal, if that's what you mean.
00:54:29As a matter of fact, they frequently send their good conduct lads here.
00:54:32But you seriously tell me this is a corrective school?
00:54:36Oh, didn't you know?
00:54:38I certainly did not.
00:54:39Oh, there's nothing to be worried about, my dear professor.
00:54:42You may find it a trifle alarming for the first two years, but you'll get used to it.
00:54:46Well, bless my soul, look who's here.
00:54:49If it isn't John Bingham.
00:54:51Now, there's a fine example of the good conduct lads they send here.
00:54:55Oh, but they shouldn't let him have a knife.
00:54:57Why not?
00:54:58Well, he's a nice enough lad, but he has fits of violence.
00:55:01As a matter of fact, I remember once at Borstal, he attacked a carpentry instructor with a chisel.
00:55:05Good heavens.
00:55:07Do you see?
00:55:09Oh, I'm sorry, sir, I didn't know there was anyone in here.
00:55:11That's quite all right, my boy.
00:55:12What do you want?
00:55:13A book, sir.
00:55:14A book?
00:55:15Yes, sir.
00:55:16Help yourself, my son.
00:55:17Thank you, sir.
00:55:18Excuse me, sir.
00:55:20Oh, let me help you.
00:55:21This one?
00:55:22Yes, please, sir.
00:55:23There we are.
00:55:25Thank you, sir.
00:55:26Not at all.
00:55:28You, all this greatly perturbs me.
00:55:31Hey, hey, you!
00:55:33Hey!
00:55:35Now give me that back.
00:55:37And don't ever get me to do anything like that again.
00:55:41You rascal.
00:55:42What's happened?
00:55:44Have you missed anything?
00:55:45I beg your pardon?
00:55:47This is yours, isn't it?
00:55:49That's my watch, good gracious me.
00:55:51Ah, well, boys will be boys, you know.
00:55:53Do you mean that he actually...
00:55:55Oh, this is dreadful.
00:55:57Well, you get used to that sort of thing here, you know.
00:55:59Used to it, sir.
00:56:00That's why you're mistaken.
00:56:02I wouldn't teach in this class of school
00:56:04for any consideration whatever.
00:56:06What, you don't mean to say you're going to turn it up?
00:56:08Yes, I am.
00:56:09Oh, my.
00:56:10And I'm very grateful to you for enlightening me.
00:56:12Cerio.
00:56:14Professor McKenzie?
00:56:15Who?
00:56:16Who?
00:56:17At your service.
00:56:19Will you come this way, please, Professor?
00:56:21Dr. Kirbyshley will see you now.
00:56:23With pleasure.
00:56:26Thank you.
00:56:29What's the matter with you?
00:56:31Oh, nothing.
00:56:33Nothing.
00:56:35Nothing at all.
00:56:37Nothing at all.
00:56:39Nothing at all.
00:56:41Nothing at all.
00:56:43We should be very pleased to have you here, Professor.
00:56:45Weston, the last man, was rather old-fashioned in his method.
00:56:47Oh, really?
00:56:49Well, you won't find anything like that about me.
00:56:52Professor McKenzie, sir.
00:56:54Dr. Kirbyshley.
00:56:56How do you do, Professor?
00:56:57Welcome to Gable College.
00:56:58How do you do?
00:56:59You'll find us in strange surroundings, but...
00:57:01Temporo mutanta.
00:57:02Nos et mutamare nilles.
00:57:04Yes, yes, very apt.
00:57:06Please sit down.
00:57:07Yes.
00:57:09I feel very honored that a man of your scholastic reputation
00:57:11should consider my little establishment worthy of his services.
00:57:13Not at all, not at all.
00:57:15How long were you at Heartburn?
00:57:17Well, let me see now. It must be, what?
00:57:19Fifteen years, yippity.
00:57:21Ah, see, it says twenty, huh?
00:57:23Twenty, was it?
00:57:24Oh, time does play.
00:57:26Dr. Swan speaks of you in the most glowing terms.
00:57:28Yes, we got on very well together.
00:57:30I was very fond of the old...
00:57:32Swan.
00:57:34Well, I don't think we need discuss it any further.
00:57:36It seems most satisfactory to me.
00:57:37I take it the salary I mentioned in my letter
00:57:39is acceptable to you?
00:57:40Under the circumstances, yes.
00:57:42Oh, there is just one other thing,
00:57:44and it's rather important.
00:57:45Can you start at once?
00:57:46Oh, absolutely.
00:57:48As a matter of fact, I've got my luggage with me.
00:57:50Very.
00:57:51Well, that removes that obstacle.
00:57:52Great.
00:57:54Well, I think you'll find it very pleasant here.
00:57:56Professor?
00:57:57Here, Mr. Jennings?
00:57:58Oh, yes, indeed, sir.
00:57:59I'm sure I shall.
00:58:01It will be an honor to have you teaching with us, Professor.
00:58:03Hello, yes, Dr. Kerbichler speaking.
00:58:04Who?
00:58:08Well, I'm afraid I can't discuss it now.
00:58:10I'm engaged.
00:58:11I'll send you a school prospectus.
00:58:13But I must see you.
00:58:15I've been trying to get you since last night.
00:58:17Just a minute.
00:58:19Well, I think that's all for the moment, Professor.
00:58:21Mr. Jennings will show you to your study.
00:58:23This way, please, Professor.
00:58:35I've told you before not to ring me here.
00:58:37What is it?
00:58:38I had to get in touch with you.
00:58:40Something dreadful has happened.
00:58:42I can't very well tell you on the phone.
00:58:45I'm at the angler's rest in the town.
00:58:47Well, you shouldn't have left Farnsworth without letting me know.
00:58:52Oh, I'm so sorry, Doctor.
00:58:54But I wonder if you would let me have my testimonials back.
00:58:57I know you wouldn't mislead them, but I'd rather treasure them.
00:59:00Yes, of course.
00:59:01Thank you.
00:59:02Yes.
00:59:05Thank you.
00:59:07Thank you.
00:59:12You must realize it's impossible to talk now.
00:59:14I'll be down there at nine this evening.
00:59:16Until then, stay in your room.
00:59:18Goodbye.
00:59:28Could I have number eight, please?
00:59:32Yes.
00:59:46Good morning, sir.
00:59:47Good morning.
00:59:49I want a room, please.
00:59:51Certainly, sir.
00:59:54Good to see the sun again, isn't it?
00:59:56Yes, it is.
00:59:58Will you be staying here long?
00:59:59A few nights, maybe.
01:00:00You'll want a single room, I suppose.
01:00:02That's right.
01:00:04I've got a very nice room facing the river.
01:00:07Yes, but I think I'll have the single room.
01:00:10Very good, sir.
01:00:13Will you read it to me, or shall I read it to you?
01:00:16You read it, Doctor, sir.
01:00:18Oh, very well.
01:00:20Here we are.
01:00:22Evolution of the Corn Laws.
01:00:25The effect of the Industrial Revolution
01:00:27connected with the mechanical invention
01:00:28and the utilisation of steam
01:00:30transformed Great Britain
01:00:32from an agricultural to a manufacturing
01:00:34and commercial country.
01:00:37Everybody understand that?
01:00:39Yes, sir.
01:00:43The opposition to the Corn Laws steadily increased.
01:00:49At length, the Conservative Premier,
01:00:51Sir Robert Peel,
01:00:53became a convert to free trade
01:00:55and in 1846,
01:00:56carried a measure
01:00:58to put a name to the Corn Laws.
01:01:00By this end,
01:01:02the duty on corn
01:01:04was at once greatly reduced.
01:01:09And it ceased altogether in 1848
01:01:12with the exception of a registration duty
01:01:14of one shilling per quarter
01:01:16which terminated in 1869.
01:01:20I don't know about you,
01:01:22but I find this a trifle dry.
01:01:24So do we, sir.
01:01:26Well, now,
01:01:28but it does mention one very interesting man,
01:01:30Sir Robert Peel,
01:01:32the founder of our modern police force
01:01:34and a very good job he made of it too.
01:01:36As a matter of fact,
01:01:38if it hadn't been for him,
01:01:40we should never have had
01:01:42the highly efficient organisation
01:01:44with its network of detectives,
01:01:46plainclothes men and cobbers,
01:01:48I mean informers that we have today.
01:01:50But still,
01:01:52I dare say that many of you boys
01:01:54at one time or another
01:01:56could tell you
01:01:58that it requires more than muscle
01:02:00to make a detective nowadays, oh yes.
01:02:02I mean you have to have powers
01:02:04of observation and deduction.
01:02:06Now take observation for instance.
01:02:08I very much doubt if there's a single boy here
01:02:10that could tell me whose car it was
01:02:12that went down the drain just now.
01:02:14It's the head's car, sir.
01:02:16How do you know that?
01:02:18Because he always goes out at this time.
01:02:20That's right.
01:02:22Well, now,
01:02:24if he always goes out at the same time,
01:02:26that is 2.30,
01:02:28and he's only gone for half an hour,
01:02:30it follows that wherever he goes
01:02:32can only be a quarter of an hour's car ride away,
01:02:34probably less,
01:02:36since he must spend some time at his destination.
01:02:38Now,
01:02:40can any boy deduce
01:02:42where he goes in that time?
01:02:44The village, sir.
01:02:46The village?
01:02:48Yes, the village.
01:02:50The village?
01:02:52Yes.
01:02:54Well,
01:02:56what makes you think that?
01:02:58Because I've seen his car there, sir.
01:03:00That's right, parked outside the post office.
01:03:02I see.
01:03:04Still, that is observation,
01:03:06not deduction.
01:03:08Now let us try to deduce
01:03:10what he does in the post office.
01:03:12Excuse me, sir,
01:03:14but isn't that the headmaster's business?
01:03:16I beg your pardon?
01:03:18May you take that as being tantamount or above?
01:03:20Well, sir, I really meant that...
01:03:22Don't apologize.
01:03:24You're quite right, my boy.
01:03:26If I take my nose out of the headmaster's business,
01:03:28perhaps you'll stick yours in that book
01:03:30and read from where we left off.
01:03:34What they're doing is they're butting in on a case
01:03:36that doesn't concern them.
01:03:38My case?
01:03:40If you're right, I shall have something to say
01:03:42to Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham
01:03:44laying down on this job without my permission.
01:03:46They better have a pretty good reason for this.
01:03:48Hello.
01:03:50Oh, is that you, Chief?
01:03:52Well, I've stumbled across something very interesting.
01:03:54Ah.
01:03:56Had to do with a scouting case, but...
01:03:59Yes, I know, Chief, but...
01:04:02Yes, Chief.
01:04:06How much would your pension be worth
01:04:08if you retired tomorrow?
01:04:10I don't know. Why?
01:04:12Well, you'd better start working it out.
01:04:14Yes, that's quite true, Chief, but...
01:04:16But, Chief...
01:04:18That's my last word,
01:04:20and I don't want any arguments.
01:04:22So you can just take the first train
01:04:24straight back to London.
01:04:26Who's been murdered?
01:04:28It says that dentist didn't commit suicide.
01:04:31Now, have you any clues to who's the murderer?
01:04:33You know?
01:04:35Then why didn't you arrest him?
01:04:37Now, that's got nothing to do with it.
01:04:39I told you before, that's Blow's case.
01:04:41And tell him I resent his interference.
01:04:43Who's talking to him, you or me?
01:04:45You, sir.
01:04:47Very well, then. Don't interrupt.
01:04:49Registered letter?
01:04:51What registered letter?
01:04:53A registered letter is posted every day
01:04:54on 121 Wessex Street, London.
01:04:56And I want to find out what is going on there.
01:04:59Tell them we think it's the headquarters of the whole outfit.
01:05:01Alakia, what with two of them jabbing at one end of the line
01:05:03and you hissing in my ear,
01:05:05it'd be quicker if I went to London after all.
01:05:07The Wessex Street is SW1, you know.
01:05:09Don't you shove your oar in.
01:05:11Four policemen's enough on one line
01:05:13without the help of the post office.
01:05:15No, Chief.
01:05:17Lord, let me...
01:05:19Now, all I want you to do
01:05:21is to get somebody competent
01:05:22to watch 121 Wessex Street
01:05:25until the registered letter arrives
01:05:27and then pounce and catch the lot of them.
01:05:29And afterwards,
01:05:31ask them to ring up Bingham at Allingford 69
01:05:34and I'll beg the murderer.
01:05:37Fine.
01:05:39Good night, Chief.
01:05:45I can do with a drink after that.
01:05:47What about the post office?
01:05:49Well, it's a bit late at night
01:05:50but it is an exciting day.
01:05:52I think I'll have a small whiskey and soda.
01:05:54Bingham, order two small whiskeys, will you?
01:05:56I'll have a double.
01:05:58Hello, miss.
01:06:00Ask the waiter to send up two double whiskeys
01:06:02and one small one.
01:06:04Sam, one whiskey and two doubles for number two.
01:06:07Right.
01:06:09Oh, and find out what they want to eat.
01:06:18Good evening, sir.
01:06:20I believe you have a Mrs. Sutton staying here.
01:06:22Would you be good enough to send up my card?
01:06:24Yes, sir.
01:06:28Sam!
01:06:30Take that card to number eight on your way up, will you?
01:06:33Very good, sir.
01:06:47The gentleman downstairs handed that in, miss.
01:06:48Oh, thank you.
01:07:03You said you'd be here at nine o'clock.
01:07:05It's nearly ten.
01:07:07I know.
01:07:15It's Carlson.
01:07:17It's Carlson. He's dead.
01:07:19I know. He was murdered.
01:07:21So it was you who killed him.
01:07:23You reported to me that he was about to clear off to South America.
01:07:26A man like that's not only useless but dangerous.
01:07:29Well, all I can say is you might have been a little more careful about it.
01:07:33In what way?
01:07:35It may interest you to know that whilst you were disposing of Carlson,
01:07:37there were two detectives in the house.
01:07:39You're sure?
01:07:41I met one of them.
01:07:43Did you find anything?
01:07:44No.
01:07:46Well, I'll be getting along.
01:07:48I should have closed out my cucumber frame a couple of hours ago.
01:07:50Well, thank you very much for your assistance, Mr. Tomboy.
01:07:52A pleasure.
01:07:54Good night, Inspector.
01:07:56Good night.
01:07:58Good night, sir.
01:08:00Good night, Mr. Tomboy.
01:08:02Hello?
01:08:04Is that you, Hornley?
01:08:06It's Blow here.
01:08:08I say, what sort of game are you playing?
01:08:10Oh, listen, I'm in Wessex Street now and there is no one-two-one.
01:08:12The highest number on the street is seventy-five.
01:08:14You wouldn't talk...
01:08:16Here, hang on a minute, will you?
01:08:18Bring back the post office, will you? Quick.
01:08:20Mr. Tomboy!
01:08:22Just a minute.
01:08:24Where's your registered letter book?
01:08:26Here it is.
01:08:28Oh, you know what I want.
01:08:30Yes.
01:08:32Ah, here we are.
01:08:34Now, this can't lie.
01:08:36I've got the post office registered letter book here.
01:08:38Now, there's been a registered letter sent to Mr. E. Knight,
01:08:40one-two-one, Wessex Street,
01:08:42practically every day for three months.
01:08:44That can't count up to one-twenty-one.
01:08:46And I don't want any insults.
01:08:48You ask for someone to check up on this and I've done it.
01:08:50Yes, but ask for somebody competent.
01:08:52We are competent at the yard since you left
01:08:54and I'm telling you there's no one-two-one, Wessex Street
01:08:57and there won't be till they pull down the houses of Parliament
01:08:59and make the street a bit longer.
01:09:01Why on earth don't you stick your strawberry jam instead of...
01:09:03Hello?
01:09:05There's no such place as one-twenty-one, Wessex Street.
01:09:09But he sends a letter there every day.
01:09:11There's no such place, I tell you.
01:09:12But why would he send a letter to a place that isn't there?
01:09:14It doesn't make sense.
01:09:16But look, one-hundred-and-twenty-one, Wessex Street,
01:09:18written by me own hand.
01:09:20Well, I don't care if you wrote it with your elbow.
01:09:22There are only seventy-five houses in Wessex Street
01:09:24and one-hundred-and-twenty-one isn't one of them.
01:09:26But if registered letters are not delivered, they come back to me.
01:09:28Have you never had any of them back?
01:09:30Never. That's why I say if it's written there...
01:09:32Oh, take that one away.
01:09:34Now, that letter was handed in your post office this afternoon.
01:09:36Now, where would it be at this moment?
01:09:38In a sealed bag at Northby waiting for the night mail.
01:09:40And where does the bag join the train?
01:09:42Ten miles before that, it's caught up by the automatic arm.
01:09:44And where does the night mail start from?
01:09:46Carlisle.
01:09:47What time?
01:09:48Ten-forty-five.
01:09:49Ten-five.
01:09:51Big'un, we're going to Carlisle.
01:09:53What about the luggage, Chief?
01:09:55Leave it.
01:09:59I'll get you a passport, Helen, and you can go abroad to a neutral country.
01:10:02There must be one left somewhere.
01:10:06Wait a minute.
01:10:08There's a detective who's in the house.
01:10:10Which one?
01:10:12The little fellow who they've got in tow is the village postmaster.
01:10:16And I was under the impression that the man with him was my new history master,
01:10:19and I appear to have made a mistake.
01:10:21Suppose it was just a nominal charge for the room,
01:10:23you're saying I haven't slept in it?
01:10:25I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay the full price
01:10:27as you've used the room.
01:10:29You're charging me for bed and breakfast,
01:10:31and I haven't had either.
01:10:33Go on, pay up and don't argue.
01:10:35If it was my own money, I'd be adamant.
01:10:37You're saying it's for good and expenses,
01:10:39or can you see the point?
01:10:40They must have found out I was here.
01:10:42If they had, they'd hardly be leaving.
01:10:44No, I fancy they have something else on their minds.
01:10:47Oh, can't you pocket it without counting the change for once?
01:10:49Come on, come on.
01:10:51Good night, Mr. Tomboy. Really, thanks again.
01:10:55Oh, good evening, Mr. Tomboy.
01:10:57I wonder if you'd mind obliging me.
01:10:59I know it's after post office hours and all that,
01:11:01but I should be very grateful if you'd break the rules
01:11:03and cash a money order for me.
01:11:05Well, I...
01:11:07Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the bank today.
01:11:08Well, certainly, Dr. Kirbyshley,
01:11:10with the greatest of pleasure.
01:11:12Oh, thank you very much.
01:11:14I'll run you down to the post office now, shall I?
01:11:16Oh, thanks.
01:11:18Well, it's one of the registered letters for London.
01:11:20I made a mistake about the receipt.
01:11:22It got the addresses mixed up.
01:11:24If I could have it back,
01:11:26I could put it right in a few minutes.
01:11:28It's gone.
01:11:30Oh, oh, very well.
01:11:32The registered letters have already left Northwick
01:11:34for the mail train.
01:11:36It's too late to stop them now, Dr. Kirbyshley.
01:11:38I'll see to it.
01:11:47You've no reason to suspect any of your sorters,
01:11:49have you, Joe?
01:11:51No.
01:11:52Of course, I can't say for certain.
01:11:54We keep getting new ones on as the young ones are called up.
01:11:56But it wouldn't surprise anybody
01:11:58if somebody new came on tonight.
01:12:00I don't follow you, Inspector.
01:12:02For me, for instance.
01:12:04Sorting isn't an easy job, you know.
01:12:06It's years before you're any good at it.
01:12:08It might work, Joe.
01:12:10What do you think?
01:12:12I don't know. It's got to work.
01:12:14Now, come on, you're the place master.
01:12:16Who can you substitute me for?
01:12:18When's young Runcorn due for the call-up?
01:12:20Any day.
01:12:22Well, if we can stop him before he gets here,
01:12:24we can tell the rest he's had it.
01:12:26But with me, can't I be a sorter, too?
01:12:28No, you can't.
01:12:30You're going to be what you've always been, a passenger.
01:12:32Oh, no. Send George in here, will you, please?
01:12:34Runcorn's been called up.
01:12:36He'll take his place.
01:12:38Job's the name?
01:12:40He hasn't been on sorting for five years.
01:12:42Seven.
01:12:44He'll be as good as some of you, I hope.
01:12:46Train's coming in now. Look lively, there.
01:12:48Sorry you're late for dinner, Job.
01:13:02Hello.
01:13:04Foster.
01:13:06You wanted on the phone.
01:13:08Better hurry.
01:13:10Hello?
01:13:14Yes?
01:13:16I have to warn you, two detectives will be on the train tonight.
01:13:19No, if you're careful, it'll be all right.
01:13:22One of them's tall, bald, looks intelligent and isn't.
01:13:26The other one's short, with a sour face, doesn't look intelligent and is.
01:13:29Has he got a heavy load on him?
01:13:31Oh, I've seen him.
01:13:33He's the new sorter.
01:13:35They're working fast.
01:13:36Listen, whatever you do, don't let him get hold of that letter.
01:13:39No, leave that to me.
01:13:41Why don't I have the sound of it?
01:13:43I've got to go.
01:14:07Here we are.
01:14:09Ready?
01:14:11Ready.
01:14:13All right.
01:14:15Let's go.
01:14:17Come on.
01:14:19Come on.
01:14:21Come on, let's go.
01:14:23Come on.
01:14:25Come on.
01:14:27Come on.
01:14:29Come on.
01:14:31Come on.
01:14:33Come on.
01:14:35Registered.
01:14:39Beats me what people find to write about.
01:14:42No consideration for others, that's what it is.
01:15:04Oh, my God.
01:15:35You?
01:15:37What are you doing here?
01:15:39Good evening, Sergeant.
01:15:41Perhaps I should introduce myself.
01:15:43I'm the principal of your colleague's school.
01:15:45It was smart of you both to discover that I'd posted a registered letter this afternoon
01:15:48and catch the train at Carlisle.
01:15:50But I've an idea.
01:15:52The inspector won't find that letter.
01:15:54Why not?
01:15:56Because you're going to write him a little note
01:15:58and ask him to come along here and see me first.
01:16:00And you think I'd fall for a thing like that, eh?
01:16:01Well, I'm hoping, Mr. Major.
01:16:04I suppose you know it's a very serious thing
01:16:06to point a gun at me like that.
01:16:08For you or for us?
01:16:10For you, of course.
01:16:12I know all about you.
01:16:14You've both got to answer a few questions.
01:16:16I'm sorry, Sergeant, but as a schoolmaster,
01:16:18I prefer to put the questions.
01:16:20And at the moment, I'm asking you to write that note to Hornlade.
01:16:22Do you think I'd do that?
01:16:24I should if I were you.
01:16:27Oh, but my dead body.
01:16:29Isn't that rather embarrassing?
01:16:31That's an unfortunate way of putting it.
01:16:33I think we can avoid that unpleasantness for the moment.
01:16:35Helen, would you mind relieving the Sergeant of his wallet?
01:16:38Oh.
01:16:40Careful, Sergeant.
01:16:44I'll throw caution to the wind in a minute.
01:16:46That would be very foolish of you.
01:16:48And his heart and hand, please.
01:16:51What are you going to do?
01:16:53I spent a considerable period of my youth
01:16:55practicing the art of forgery
01:16:57or suffering the penalties for it.
01:16:59Helen, would you mind?
01:17:02I imagine we shall find an example of your handwriting
01:17:05on your identity card.
01:17:19Mr. Busby.
01:17:23Got a new sorter on tonight?
01:17:25Well?
01:17:27Look along the train there.
01:17:29Says he's his brother.
01:17:31Well, it's against regulations.
01:17:33Still, we'll let it go this time.
01:17:41You still on that luck?
01:17:43Well, let me tell you,
01:17:45if everybody here worked at the speed you're going,
01:17:47this post would arrive in about three years' time.
01:17:49Here.
01:17:51Talk about a nagger.
01:17:53I seem to be at home with my wife.
01:18:02I've got to go along and see my sergeant.
01:18:04The letter I am after is in the SWO number 20.
01:18:06It's addressed to Knight.
01:18:08121 Wessex Street.
01:18:10Keep your eyes glued to it while I'm gone, will you?
01:18:12OK.
01:18:32Oh, God.
01:18:34I'm a CID man.
01:18:38I wonder if you'd go in that next compartment
01:18:40and examine the tickets.
01:18:42Certainly, sir.
01:18:48Tickets, please.
01:18:52Thank you.
01:18:55What tickets, please?
01:18:57I don't think I've got mine on me.
01:18:59Inspector, I think I'll come with you.
01:19:01It's not yours, Edward.
01:19:03Thank you, madam.
01:19:05Thank you, madam.
01:19:07There you are, dear.
01:19:10Who's in there?
01:19:12A tall, bald lady, gentlemen, sir.
01:19:14Looks rather pale.
01:19:15Anybody else?
01:19:17A well-dressed man with a long nose and a red-headed woman.
01:19:19Rather pretty.
01:19:21Thank you very much.
01:19:23Anything else I can do for you, sir?
01:19:25No, not just now, thank you.
01:19:27Very good, sir.
01:19:32Excuse me.
01:19:34What do you think he's doing?
01:19:53The inspector's rather a long time.
01:19:55I hope the Aussie sergeant's been no hitch.
01:19:57Don't move!
01:20:00Good-bye, sir, good-bye.
01:20:05Well, Dr. Carbisley,
01:20:07I think you've had my credentials.
01:20:10Go on, watch him, Bingham.
01:20:12I'll be back in a moment.
01:20:14There.
01:20:16And don't let this redhead try any more of her tricks.
01:20:18Yes, sir.
01:20:20It's just an example of the way we work, you know.
01:20:23Now I hope I find some pain back.
01:20:27Here you are, corporal.
01:20:29Look after those two.
01:20:31It's what is known as a matter of national importance.
01:20:33All right, inspector.
01:20:34And I, into corporal.
01:20:35Well, you will be.
01:20:36Come along, Bingham.
01:20:37I may need your help.
01:20:39So long, doctor.
01:20:40See you later.
01:20:50Here, where's that registered letter?
01:20:52Which registered letter?
01:20:53The one that was in there.
01:20:54Well, what do you want with it?
01:20:55That's my business.
01:20:56What have you done with it?
01:20:57Are you accusing me of pinching it?
01:20:59I'm asking you what you've done with it.
01:21:01Well, I'm not going to be talked to like that by an extra man.
01:21:03I'm going to have this out with the head-sorter.
01:21:08Well, it's lovely.
01:21:10Well, it's lovely.
01:21:12Well, it's lovely.
01:21:14Well, it's lovely.
01:21:16Well, it's lovely.
01:21:18Well, it's lovely.
01:21:19Well, it's lovely.
01:21:20Well, it's lovely.
01:21:25I should take it easy, if I were you.
01:21:31All right, fellas.
01:21:33We're from Scotland Yard.
01:21:34This is Inspector Holman of the CID.
01:21:36Look out for him, will you?
01:21:37He's a fifth columnist.
01:21:38Come on, out of it.
01:21:47Come on, out of it.
01:22:08There you are.
01:22:09The little fellow that never broadcasts from the same place twice.
01:22:12And within 24 hours of laying my hands on the mystery transmitter,
01:22:15I had the whole organisation behind bars.
01:22:18Why all that?
01:22:19What a blow.
01:22:20Still on the last chapter?
01:22:21Making the most of it, I suppose.
01:22:23I am?
01:22:24Oh, I mentioned that you had some connection with the case.
01:22:26You still haven't mentioned my connection with it.
01:22:29I haven't finished yet.
01:22:31In conclusion, I would like to pay tribute to a man
01:22:34without whose help I could never have achieved this good.
01:22:37Mr. Tomboy, the postmaster of Upper Alleyford.
01:22:40Now, look here, Chief.
01:22:41I've given you the best years of my life.
01:22:43Hello?
01:22:44Oh, bonnet, sir.
01:22:46Commissioner for you below.
01:22:49Morning, Chief.
01:22:51But Hornley's on the scrounging case, sir.
01:22:53Since when?
01:22:54Oh.
01:22:56What, me?
01:22:57My age?
01:22:59That's right.
01:23:00I suppose I'll get a commission.
01:23:01No, no, private.
01:23:03Very good, sir.
01:23:05And don't think this is a petty job, lower men,
01:23:07because this isn't just the case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
01:23:09No, no, no, it's costing the country a thousand a year.
01:23:11And here's a few clues to be going on with.
01:23:14One pair of gents under bendy's large size,
01:23:16one tin of pilchards,
01:23:18and one bar of carbolic syrup.