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00:00F.E. Crabtree, Canada's first female Crown Attorney.
00:13Clara Brett-Martin was the first female attorney in the entire British Empire.
00:17She forged the path that I have followed.
00:19I'm writing a profile on you.
00:21Woman locks into success isn't exactly a headline that will attract readers.
00:25I'm just being honest.
00:27Your first case with the Crown is one of the biggest in Toronto's history.
00:31You will argue that a former city councilman should hang for the killing of three people.
00:35That's right.
00:36However, Mr. Alastair Gordon will be lead counsel.
00:39I'll be assisting him.
00:41You're an assistant?
00:43No, I'm a newly appointed lawyer for the Crown.
00:46What do you say to those who believe that women are mentally inferior to men and incapable of logical reasoning?
00:52I would say that it is their reasoning that is illogical.
00:55Women are the equal to men in every way.
00:57And if they don't believe that fact, then, well, just watch me.
01:06Tata here. Same voyage.
01:12Union Station, sir.
01:26Oh, must be Mr. Murdoch. I'm the lad.
01:29Stanley. Lester.
01:31Oh, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
01:33And thank you for accommodating me on such short notice.
01:37Just moved to town?
01:38No. I'm living on my own for the first time in quite some time.
01:42And my home is just very empty and quiet.
01:46Well, you won't have that problem here.
01:48Follow me, sir.
01:52You're in 2C?
01:56Make yourself at home.
02:03Detective Murdoch?
02:07Yes. Do I know you?
02:10No.
02:12Oh, but thank God you're finally here. There's been a murder.
02:26Jonathan B. Booth. He lived in this room for about a year.
02:30It was two years.
02:32I only lived here for seven months. Well, seven and a half.
02:36And you believe this Mr. Booth was murdered?
02:40Yes.
02:41It happened two weeks ago, just after I last saw him.
02:44On Thursday, he was in the bathroom.
02:46He was in the bathroom.
02:48He was in the bathroom.
02:50Yes.
02:51It happened two weeks ago, just after I last saw him.
02:54On Thursday at 4.15 p.m.
02:56You saw his body?
02:58No.
02:59Then how do you know he was murdered?
03:01He was gone.
03:03Gone?
03:04Well, he wouldn't just disappear without saying goodbye.
03:07No. No, no. No. No, sir. No. Not Mr. Booth.
03:11Now, I told all of this to the constables at Station House 4.
03:14McLaren and Crookshank. Can't remember their Christian names.
03:18It's all right. I know them.
03:19But, you're here now, so I can rest easy.
03:24Actually, I am moving into these rooms.
03:27Because this is to be my home.
03:30For now.
03:32Oh.
03:33So, if you don't mind.
03:37Of course. I beg your pardon.
03:39It was just, what about the murder?
03:41I'll look into it.
03:44So, you'll be living here?
03:47With me?
03:51So, it would seem.
04:01I didn't know the hallowed halls of power would be quite so dull.
04:05Well, you are causing quite a stir.
04:10I'd hate to see them when they're not stirred up.
04:13So, let's go over this once again, Chief Constable.
04:17Tell me exactly what Francis Stewart said to you.
04:21I've already told you.
04:23Tell me again.
04:27Chief Constable Stewart admitted to Councilman Vaughn's involvement in the murder of two women almost 20 years ago.
04:34It's the boy. He's a good family. I knew the father.
04:38They told me that the burglary was a youthful lark, some sort of a dare-gonda. Terribly wrong.
04:45And what of the murders next door?
04:47I believe them to be an accident. If I'd known, it was murder.
04:51He also admitted to letting Chadwick Vaughn into the cell occupied by Richard Tauber.
04:56A man that was found dead immediately after that visit.
04:59And he'll admit to all of that in open court?
05:02He gave me his word.
05:09Detective Murdock. What are you doing here? Isn't it your day off?
05:19Something you'll soon learn about me, Inspector, is that I much prefer work to leisure.
05:25Then we have something in common. What's troubling you?
05:29I'm moving into a rooming house, and the man who rented my rooms before me apparently has disappeared.
05:37And?
05:38Well, all of the neighbors seem to agree that the man, Mr. Booth, was planning to move to Hamilton at the end of the week.
05:47But was seen with a blue suitcase in hand, and all of his possessions cleared out.
05:53Perhaps he simply left a couple of days early to save on rent.
05:59Hardly a mystery, then.
06:02The Crown will prove to you that Chadwick Vaughn took distinct and an intentional action to kill Elsie and Nora Haynes in 1891.
06:12To hide the truth of an affair he was carrying on.
06:15Furthermore, the Crown will show you that Mr. Vaughn killed Detective Richard Tauber.
06:21While he was being held in the cells of Station House Number 4 just last year.
06:26To keep quiet the truth of his guilt in those previous murders.
06:30Now Mr. Vaughn's considerable power and influence in the city of Toronto has allowed him to get away with these heinous acts.
06:37None less than former Chief Constable Francis Stewart was under his sway, and will testify to his guilt.
06:45We best hope Mr. Vaughn is convicted.
06:47Why do you say that?
06:49He won't be long for a job if he isn't.
07:00Yeah?
07:28Yeah?
07:29I beg your pardon? I'm William Murdoch, and I just moved in.
07:34What do you want?
07:36There is a tremendous amount of noise coming from your rooms. It's quite loud.
07:40What exactly are you doing?
07:42I'm not making any noise.
07:51What?
07:52Now see here.
07:54What's that on your hand?
07:57Leave me alone.
08:01So, you are investigating?
08:05I was just complaining about the noise.
08:08Is that so?
08:10Well, just so you know, Mr. Holland there, he is my prime suspect.
08:27The King's Council has prepared an expansive case against Mr. Vaughn, with over a dozen witnesses prepared to testify.
08:39And very shortly we will be calling forth our first witness to the stand.
08:45Your Lordship, the Crown apologizes. Our first witness is not present in the courtroom. We request a brief adjournment.
08:57Frances!
09:08Dear God.
09:13Suicide.
09:17Adios, Frances.
09:26There is no sign of foul play.
09:27The letter was in his handwriting. He said he couldn't bear to testify.
09:31He wanted to see Vaughn hanged as much as anyone.
09:33But he was too much of a coward.
09:35The man is barely cold.
09:37By his own choice. And now he's left our case to fall apart.
09:41If this man was to testify at trial, didn't he provide a statement?
09:46He refused. And I allowed it.
09:50Win the case, Mrs. Crabtree. Because if you don't, then it's on me.
09:56You last saw Mr. Booth two weeks ago on Thursday at 4.15 p.m.
10:01Yet, the landlord, Mr. Lester, heard Mr. Booth here in the room the following morning at 10 a.m.
10:10Walked past door at 10 a.m., heard banging inside, assumed packing his belongings.
10:15Slipped note under door to request final week's rent. No sign of note two days later.
10:21Two days later, Mr. Booth as well as all of his belongings were gone.
10:26And the previous evening, quicklime was stolen from the garden shed.
10:29What? There's no mention of quicklime in the police report.
10:33Well, that's because I didn't notice it until after the constable started ignoring me.
10:40Oh, what is that horrible smell?
10:46That?
10:48No, it always smells like that. I don't know what it is, but it's coming from one sea.
10:53I'm boiling cabbage.
10:56Yes, I can smell that, but I'm not entirely sure it accounts for all...
11:04Bye, Frank. Be done in a bit.
11:10Your Honor, the Crown humbly asks that you offer us an adjournment.
11:14A key witness has taken his own life.
11:18Our case was to begin with his testimony and build upon its foundation. We need time to regroup.
11:24Your other evidence and witnesses are available to you?
11:28Yes.
11:29Then present them to the jury. Court will resume at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
11:38Effie, I have some questions.
11:40Now is not the time, Louise.
11:41It will only take a moment.
11:44Tomorrow morning, before court, my office, 8 a.m.
11:50Wipe that smirk off your face.
11:51I beg your pardon?
11:52You killed him.
11:53Stewart, I didn't do a thing.
11:56You manipulated him into covering for you. And now he's dead because of the shame you brought upon him.
12:00Chief Constable, I am an innocent man.
12:04If Francis Stewart killed himself out of shame, any responsibility for his death should fall at the feet of those who accused him and myself of things we did not do.
12:14Mr. Holland in 2E and Miss Fink in 1C, I can say after being here only one day that neither is an ideal neighbor.
12:25And I have to agree, both are acting rather suspiciously.
12:29Mr. Booth was rather persnickety too. He was always in everyone else's business. Just like yourself.
12:36I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:39I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:48Inspector Choi.
12:50I brought you a housewarming gift.
12:52Oh, come in.
12:56Oh, you have company?
12:59This is...
13:00Tippy Longfellow. I live across the hall.
13:02Uh, Inspector Albert Choi.
13:08What's this then?
13:10Ah, this is to do with the case I was looking into at the station house. We...
13:15The case of the man who moved out one day early.
13:19All right then, Detective. I have no plans for the time being.
13:24Impress me.
13:33Where do we stand?
13:35We have plenty of evidence to convict Vaughn of the murder of Detective Tauber. Finger marks, eyewitness accounts, including your own.
13:42And there's a recording of him confessing to it.
13:45Precisely. The two murders from 1891, I'm not so sure.
13:49There's the original police file, which was adulterated by Stuart on Vaughn's behalf.
13:54But without Stuart to confirm that, they can say Stuart was lying.
13:57There's a witness. The jeweler. He gave a police sketch.
13:5920 years after events?
14:02The sketch looked exactly like Vaughn.
14:04There's no way such a distant account could be that reliable.
14:07Well, the chief constable's testimony. He knows everything that Stuart was going to say.
14:10Hearsay.
14:12And he got Vaughn's confession.
14:14Only for Tauber. He didn't deny the others, but he didn't admit to them either.
14:18Look, this is not how the law is meant to be.
14:21We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Vaughn is guilty, and the defense knows it too.
14:25And yet they will trot out every excuse in the book, every arcane stratagem to sink this case and thwart justice.
14:32That's their job.
14:34It is not their job.
14:36The purpose of our courts is not to win at any cost.
14:40It is to pursue the truth jointly and in good faith.
14:44It's defense attorneys who choose to pervert justice.
14:47Oh. Still bitter that I won?
14:50I beg your pardon?
14:52The sleepwalking case?
14:53That has nothing to do with this.
14:55But yes, that trial is a perfect example.
14:58You lied before king and country to achieve the result you desired.
15:02What I argued was the truth, to the best of my knowledge.
15:05And you were wrong. You were wrong, and you won anyway.
15:08Well, now you're going to feel what it's like to be on the other side.
15:12And of course, there's the quick line, and we know what that's used for.
15:17Speculation. That's all this is.
15:19Now, let's focus on something more important.
15:23Where shall we hang this?
15:26Oh.
15:29Perhaps...
15:37A peephole.
15:39Detective, have you been spying on your neighbors?
15:43I have not. But perhaps Mr. Booth was.
15:47Really?
15:50Oh, this must be Mr. Lester, the landlord's room.
15:54So, this Mr. Booth was a peeping Tom.
15:57Sir, have a look.
16:00There is a blue suitcase matching the description of the one Mr. Booth was seen packing prior to his disappearance.
16:07So, Booth was a peeping Tom.
16:10The neighbor finds out, gets angry, kills him, then hides his suitcase in his bedroom.
16:16Yes! Yes! Yes! That's it, detective!
16:21We cracked the case!
16:24Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
16:27What's this?
16:29Dear Tiffy, no one told me Hamilton was so beautiful this time of year.
16:33Sorry, I did not get a chance to say goodbye. Jonathan B. Booth.
16:39You heard from him? And you didn't tell me?
16:43No, no, no. You don't understand.
16:44I believe I do understand, Miss Longfellow. You lied to us. You have been wasting our time.
16:50You could be charged with filing a false police report.
16:53No, no. This only arrived today.
16:58So do you see? It doesn't, it doesn't quite make sense.
17:07Detective, I was just having so much fun working with you.
17:11And I'm terribly sorry.
17:15We'll get him for Tauber then.
17:18I'm not prepared to argue the Tauber case. We weren't meant to start till next week.
17:22I know the case.
17:24Well enough to try it?
17:26Yes. I can act as lead counsel. I'll review all the details before morning, even if it takes me all night.
17:35Very well. But write down how you intend to proceed so that I can step in as necessary.
17:41Of course.
17:45I probably should have maintained my initial skepticism.
17:53Sometimes we see intrigue where there is none. Because we need a distraction from our own thoughts.
17:59What thoughts?
18:01Well, I can't answer that. But surely you could see why a man would concoct a fanciful story,
18:06a mystery to embark upon with a cheerful new friend from across the hall,
18:10rather than sitting alone in his rooms, watching films of people halfway around the world.
18:18I wasn't always a bachelor. My life used to be very different.
18:23Losing someone is an adjustment.
18:27Well, I haven't lost Julia or Susanna.
18:30Of course not. Not in that sense. But even if their absence is temporary, they're not here.
18:40What is that?
18:49What is that?
18:54It has no odor.
19:01Quick line.
19:10Oh, I think we may have found Mr. Bluth.
19:25Effie. Effie. Where were you? Eight a.m., remember?
19:30I was working all night. I barely had time to go home and get changed.
19:33Well, you could have let me know. I'm busy too.
19:36I'll make it up to you.
19:40Counsel, is the Crown prepared to proceed?
19:44We are, Your Honor.
19:46The Crown would like to inform the court that the charges of murder relating to the 1891 deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes are being withdrawn.
19:56And the third charge? Talbor?
20:00We intend to proceed.
20:02Very good, then.
20:03Miss Hart, Inspector Short. I've heard a great deal about you.
20:08Charmed.
20:10I'm wondering how a woman of your background came to hold such a position. It must be quite the story.
20:17The same must be true of you, sir.
20:19Indeed.
20:21Ah, I see the two of you have met. Wonderful. What have you discovered, Miss Hart?
20:26He's covered thoroughly in quick lime, as you thought. Quick lime desiccates the body, limiting decomposition.
20:31Making it difficult to establish a time of death?
20:34Indeed. Cause of death, on the other hand, is easier, thanks to the quick lime.
20:39He was hit on the head, a heavy object with a sharp edge. There was a lot of blood.
20:44His clothing was soaked through. I found this in his pocket.
20:48The truth, sins, you must know, going on in there. Signed, J.B. Booth.
20:59He was definitely planning to expose someone's wrongdoings.
21:03Sounds like a motive for murder.
21:06Where were you on the afternoon of December 9th, 1911?
21:10Home.
21:11The office. The club.
21:13You also went to Station House Number 4 that afternoon, did you not?
21:16I did.
21:18Constable Tucker allowed you into the cells specifically occupied by Detective Richard Tauber.
21:23That's correct.
21:25A man who had provided information regarding two murders he had investigated in 1891.
21:29Your Honor, we object to any discussion of murders for which charges have been withdrawn.
21:33Your Honor, this is pertinent to the circumstances under which the victim was killed.
21:36Proceed, Counsel.
21:38You were aware that Tauber was implicating you in the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes, correct?
21:42Yes, I was.
21:44And that is why you entered his cell?
21:46Yes.
21:48It is also why you struggled with him there, leaving your finger mark on his shirt button?
21:50Yes.
21:52And it is the reason you killed him?
21:54No. I did not kill him.
21:56He was found dead less than an hour later.
21:58He was alive when I left.
22:00You said yourself you fought with him, leaving evidence on his dead body.
22:03I fought with him.
22:04Because he was threatening to go to the police about me.
22:06But we came to an agreement.
22:08I paid him money to tell the truth.
22:11That I had nothing to do with the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
22:15You paid him?
22:17Yes.
22:19Then where is the money? No payment was found on him.
22:21Perhaps the killer stole it.
22:23All I know is he was alive when I left.
22:25Then why did you confess?
22:27But I didn't.
22:31In December of 1891,
22:32you questioned Mr. Vaughn at his home.
22:34Did you not?
22:36I paid him a visit.
22:38We played snooker.
22:40I won.
22:42We had a conversation.
22:44Did you discuss the murder of Detective Richard Topper?
22:46Yes, we did.
22:48What did Vaughn have to say?
22:50He said that he never intended to bribe him because he knew that it wouldn't work.
22:52So he killed him.
22:54Objection, Your Honor.
22:56My client just testified that that never happened.
22:58This is second-hand information that clearly falls under hearsay exclusion.
23:01Thank you, Counsel.
23:03The jury will disregard the Chief Constable's last comment.
23:05Your Honor, the Crown would like to play a recording of the conversation in question.
23:09Objection on the same grounds.
23:11This recording has already been entered into evidence.
23:13My learned friend submitted it just yesterday,
23:15believing it to be exculpatory in the cases of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
23:20Francis helped me once, so I helped him in turn.
23:23And you both helped each other out with Richard Topper.
23:26The Chief Constable arranged for you to visit the cells.
23:28You already know a great deal, don't you, Inspector?
23:31Francis made arrangements for me to slip in the back door.
23:34He thought Topper could be silent with the bribe.
23:37I'm delighted to have had this conversation.
23:40It's been recorded for posterity.
23:42Now, wait a minute.
23:44That's not right. That's not what happened.
23:46That's how I remember it.
23:48You confessed. Someone's altered the recording.
23:50Sit down, Mr. Brackenreid. It remains silent.
23:53The Crown provided the recording, Your Honor.
23:55We simply listened to it and submitted it to the Crown.
23:58Your Honor, foul play is afoot.
24:01This is not the complete recording as obtained by the police
24:04and shared with the defense by the Crown.
24:06What are you suggesting?
24:08We all heard the conversation with our own ears.
24:10They've adulterated it.
24:12Is that possible?
24:14A portion of the recording has simply been excised.
24:16It's easily done when making a duplicate.
24:18This is a damning charge.
24:20It certainly is, but we are prepared to prove it.
24:22The Crown has the original recording in our files.
24:24I can have it to you in 20 minutes.
24:26So I was right.
24:28Indeed.
24:30We'll need to have another look at that postcard.
24:33It was obviously a fake sent by the killer.
24:36Of course.
24:38Oh, this is very exciting.
24:40To think that I had it right
24:42and the great Detective Murdoch had it wrong.
24:44There you go.
24:46Thank you, Miss Longfellow.
24:48We'll let you know if we need anything further.
24:50Well, Detective, I made you something.
24:59What are these?
25:01They're pillowcases.
25:03The linens provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lester
25:05are always somewhat threadbare.
25:08Well, I only have one pillow.
25:10I don't need both.
25:12No, no, no.
25:14I already monogrammed both.
25:16Perhaps you'll have company one day.
25:18No, I don't think so.
25:20But thank you.
25:29It's not here.
25:31What do you mean it's not here?
25:33It's in our case file.
25:35I listened to it last night.
25:37So you had it last night and now it's gone?
25:39It can't just have disappeared.
25:41Maybe you just misplaced it.
25:43I don't understand.
25:45This can't be.
25:47So you've lost it.
25:49Wonderful.
25:51You spent the night before the trial
25:53losing our key piece of evidence.
25:55Boyd Gordon, easy.
25:56You lost it last night.
25:58Was anyone else in the building?
26:00No, I only left at 7.30 this morning.
26:02There was no one else here.
26:04We'll ask the staff,
26:06but it certainly appears no one else
26:08has been in here, Mrs. Crabtree.
26:10Your negligence may have just lost us this case.
26:16The handwriting on this postcard
26:18is similar to the letter
26:20found on Mr. Booth's body,
26:22but it's not the same.
26:24Not the real McCoy, then.
26:26I found that postcard yesterday.
26:28Maybe because he knew
26:30you were looking into the case.
26:32Start with the landlord.
26:34Booth's letter threatened to expose a secret.
26:36I think it was whatever he saw
26:38while looking through that peephole.
26:40When I first arrived,
26:42I saw Mr. Lester helping his wife
26:44into a coach and see her off.
26:46When you paid me a visit,
26:48I saw a much younger woman
26:50walking down the hall
26:52toward Mr. Lester's room.
26:54An affair?
26:56And then there's Miss Fick.
26:58Whatever she's up to
27:00is causing that horrible smell.
27:02What smell?
27:04That smell I'm smelling right now.
27:06It's cabbage,
27:08some shame,
27:10and marijuana.
27:12Marijuana?
27:14I guess I've heard of it,
27:16but I've not come across it just yet.
27:18It's becoming popular in California.
27:20Your neighbor would surely be evicted
27:22if anyone found out she was smoking dope.
27:24Dope?
27:26Why would anyone want that?
27:28This neighbor,
27:30making all of the noise,
27:32he's the one I find the most suspicious.
27:34Maybe so,
27:36but when we were here yesterday,
27:38I heard that same sound.
27:40Right.
27:42There's no way he could have gone
27:44all the way to Hamilton and back.
27:47Well, that's odd.
27:49This obliterator mark
27:51has no letter or number.
27:53The...
27:54I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
27:56Every postmark in Canada
27:58has this circle
28:00with information,
28:02time, date, location,
28:04and these wavy lines
28:06are used to mark a stamp
28:08as used or canceled,
28:10hence obliterator.
28:12All right.
28:14Inside, there is often a letter
28:16or a number,
28:18depending on which machine
28:20was used at that particular post office.
28:22The fact that there is no number means...
28:24I don't need for a letter
28:26or a number,
28:28but I happen to know that Hamilton
28:30has two such machines,
28:32so any postmark coming out of Hamilton
28:34would bear the number one or two.
28:36How do you know this?
28:38I subscribe to a quarterly publication
28:40of postal innovations.
28:42At any rate,
28:44this postmark
28:46is a forgery.
28:48Meaning the killer
28:50did not have to travel to Hamilton.
28:52After all,
28:54that's the secret he's been hiding.
28:56And the marks
28:58on his hand,
29:00it wasn't blood,
29:02it's ink.
29:04He's a forger.
29:12Yeah?
29:14Mr. Holland,
29:16Toronto Constabulary.
29:18Stand back.
29:20Plates,
29:22dyes,
29:24pulp stock,
29:26everything needed to print counterfeit money.
29:28And cut it to size.
29:31Booth?
29:33Who's Booth?
29:35Your former neighbor.
29:37Toosie?
29:39Oh, him.
29:41What about him?
29:43We found his body hidden in the wall
29:45between his room and yours.
29:47I don't know nothing about that.
29:49He died at 4 p.m.
29:51and the following morning.
29:53What day was that?
29:55Thursday.
29:58Oh,
30:00that's the day that they locked me up
30:02for passing a bad banknote.
30:09It's not here.
30:11So what?
30:13We have my word.
30:15You heard him. The judge won't allow it.
30:17There's no other evidence.
30:19I don't think so.
30:21I shouldn't think so either.
30:23I've spoken to defense counsel and the judge.
30:25We'll make it official tomorrow,
30:27but the Crown is dropping all charges.
30:30So Vaughn goes free.
30:32I'm afraid so.
30:34And I am sorry, Mrs. Crabtree,
30:36but I have no choice
30:38but to recommend you for termination.
30:49One of the metal counterfeiting plates
30:51found in Mr. Holland's room
30:53could be the murder weapon,
30:55but no traces of blood were found on any of them,
30:57so there's no way to prove it.
30:59Hardly matters.
31:01He was booked at Station House 1
31:03the afternoon of March 18th,
31:05and they let him out late that evening.
31:07So he couldn't have done it.
31:10What about the postmark?
31:12Someone else forged it,
31:14or they had it forged,
31:16or went to Hamilton to send it
31:17and your little magazine was long.
31:21It's been a considerable amount of work
31:23to scrape away the quicklime
31:25without damaging the body.
31:27I need to be particularly careful with the hands,
31:29for example, in case there are any defensive wounds
31:31or scrapings under the fingernails.
31:33Anything?
31:35No, but he had a small object
31:37clutched in his hand,
31:39a metal trinket of some kind.
31:41May I?
31:43Of course.
31:44It appears to be
31:46an ornate thimble
31:49that's been engraved.
31:51A thimble?
31:53That's odd.
31:55I know of at least one person
31:57at the Regent Arms
31:59that does a great deal of sewing,
32:01and this thimble bears her monogram,
32:03Tippi Longfellow.
32:05You admire her.
32:07Do you recognize this?
32:10Yes.
32:12It's yours?
32:14No, no,
32:16but I saw it in a shop window once.
32:18Is that my monogram?
32:20Of course.
32:22I stopped to admire it one day
32:24when I was out walking with Mr. Booth.
32:27Maybe he bought this for me
32:29as a parting gift.
32:31Perhaps he was a little jealous
32:33that I had a thimble.
32:34A parting gift?
32:36Perhaps he was on his way
32:38to give it to me?
32:40Why would he give you
32:42a parting gift
32:44unless the nature of your relationship
32:46was more intimate
32:48than you let on?
32:50No, but
32:52I always suspected
32:54that he was sweet on me.
32:56It's why I was so sure
32:58he would say goodbye
33:00and why I was quite worried about him.
33:02Or it's yours and you killed him.
33:04You killed Mr. Booth
33:06to lure him in
33:08to see if he was smart enough
33:10to solve your crime.
33:12No.
33:14How else would you have known
33:16about the tarp and the quick line?
33:18Both were identified by you
33:20as being relevant to the murder
33:22before the body was found.
33:24How did you know?
33:26Well, just hang on to your horses there.
33:28If all of that was true,
33:30why would I beg the world's
33:32greatest detective to take on the case
33:34to meet your hero?
33:36And hang by the neck forthwith?
33:38Sir, though it is true,
33:41people have killed in order
33:43to get close to me.
33:45The fact that I moved into the Regent Arms
33:47was pure happenstance.
33:49Miss Longfellow here
33:51did not lure me in.
33:53Nevertheless,
33:55put her in the cells.
33:58It's a bloody hatchet job,
34:00but you'll be back on your feet in no time.
34:02Maybe. Maybe not.
34:04The Crown Attorney's office
34:06will hire another woman anytime soon.
34:08A recording can't just vanish.
34:10It's impossible that Vaughn's lawyer
34:12or anyone hired by them could have broken in.
34:14I was there all the way until after daybreak.
34:16There wasn't a sign of anyone.
34:18No sign of a break-in.
34:20Maybe they got your keys somehow
34:22and waited for you to leave.
34:24If they did,
34:26someone would have seen them.
34:28What's all this?
34:31We've been focusing
34:32on our suspects' alibis
34:34for the time of the murder itself.
34:36Now, the killer engaged
34:38in a series of complex steps
34:40to cover up the crime.
34:42Interviews with
34:44neighbors, gardeners, witnesses,
34:46all narrowed down
34:48who could have performed each of the steps
34:50and their cover-ups.
34:52The murderer obtaining the tarp from the basement,
34:54stealing the quicklime
34:56and hiding the body in the wall.
34:58All right. And?
35:00As you can see,
35:02it's inconclusive.
35:04No one person could have performed
35:06all of the steps required of the killer.
35:08I fear we may be looking
35:10in the wrong direction.
35:12Well, we know it's not Holland.
35:14He was at Station House One.
35:16You seem decided it was not Miss Longfellow.
35:18The simplest explanation, then,
35:20is someone is either mistaken
35:22or lying on behalf of the killer
35:24who has to be either Fink or Lester.
35:26Let's bring them in.
35:28Right.
35:30I told you to clean your hands.
35:32You've got a couple days to come off.
35:34Anyway, you're just putting more on them.
35:36Fine. Index finger.
35:44Mr. Holland,
35:46when did your hand become stained with ink?
35:48A couple days ago.
35:50The evening before last,
35:52your other hand was stained with red ink.
35:55How were you able to wash
35:57one hand clean and not the other?
35:59I don't know what you're talking about.
36:02Come on.
36:04Off to the cells.
36:10Am I mistaken?
36:12I could have sworn I saw something red on his hand
36:15that I even mistook for blood at the time.
36:17Maybe it was blood.
36:20Maybe.
36:23No.
36:25It wasn't.
36:27The first time Mr. Holland answered the door,
36:29his left hand was clean.
36:30The second time,
36:32his left hand was stained with red.
36:34Meaning he spilled something.
36:37Meaning Mr. Holland could have done
36:39each of the steps required of the killer.
36:41He just didn't do them alone.
36:52Miss Cherry,
36:54when you were waiting for me this morning
36:56at the Crown Attorney's office,
36:58did you see Mr. Vaughn's lawyer?
37:00Why would I?
37:02Are you sure?
37:04Maybe someone he sent to break into the place?
37:06I was there for nearly an hour.
37:08Waiting.
37:10And I didn't see Vaughn's attorney
37:12or any other hired goons.
37:14Did you see anyone at all?
37:16It was early in the morning.
37:18The place was nearly empty.
37:20One person came and went inside.
37:22Who?
37:24Can't say.
37:26What do you mean you can't say?
37:28This person was one of my sources.
37:30He was more than likely
37:32sabotaged the Crown's case.
37:34And my career along with it.
37:36Sabotage?
37:38Yes. Tell us who it was.
37:40I can't.
37:42My sources are confidential.
37:44You'll tell us or I'll throw you in a cell.
37:46And I'll publish my feelings
37:48about the new Chief Constable from behind bars.
37:50Goodbye.
37:55Wait.
37:57Sir, the article.
37:58There are very few people
38:00with intimate knowledge of the case.
38:02If the culprit was a source...
38:04We could probably figure out who it is.
38:06Stuart's suicide.
38:08It says he was wearing his kilt.
38:10But there was no one else there except us.
38:12And Gordon.
38:14He claimed I was the only one
38:16at the office this morning.
38:18But if he's Louise's source...
38:20Lydiel.
38:22He scuppered his own case.
38:25I hear something.
38:26A knock.
38:28There shouldn't be anyone in there.
38:34As I suspected.
38:36The reason Mr. Holland
38:38only had red ink on his hand
38:40the second time he answered the door
38:42was because the first time was his twin.
38:44Two Mr. Hollands.
38:46Both under arrest.
38:51Mr. Booth was planning
38:53to expose your counterfeiting scheme.
38:54He'd even written a letter to the police
38:56detailing your operation.
38:58But before he could send it,
39:00you killed him.
39:02But not before one of you
39:04got himself arrested
39:06in order to create the perfect alibi.
39:08But why keep him in the wall?
39:10We wanted to move him.
39:12Mr. Lester, he was in the room
39:14trying to rent it straight away.
39:16He even took the man's suitcase
39:18as recompense for last week's rent.
39:20How long were you planning it?
39:22You lived in that rooming house
39:24for three years.
39:26None of your neighbors knew
39:28that there were two of you.
39:30Mr. Lester charges by the head.
39:33How did Vaughn get to you?
39:35I beg your pardon?
39:37Bribery? Blackmail?
39:39I have no idea what you're talking about.
39:41We know you were here this morning.
39:43We know you lied about it.
39:45You stole that recording to sink our case.
39:47Typical.
39:49A woman blaming a man for her own failings.
39:51We will prove what you did.
39:52You know full well
39:54I have the ear of the Attorney General.
39:56We'll see what he has to say about it.
40:08Effie.
40:11I'm not here to apologize.
40:13I didn't ask you to, Miss Cherry.
40:15I was just doing my job.
40:17At the expense of mine.
40:19Would you prefer I didn't report the news?
40:20I would prefer that you show
40:22some decency to a friend.
40:24And if you were referred a case
40:26in which a friend was accused of a crime,
40:28would you turn your back on your job?
40:30I would recuse myself.
40:32If I didn't protect my sources,
40:34I wouldn't be writing about how Gordon
40:36is preparing to submit his resignation.
40:38Due in part to the swirling rumors
40:40of bribery reported in my newspaper.
40:42If it's information you want from me,
40:44you won't be getting it.
40:46Not about that.
40:48But there is one claim I need verified.
40:50I'll make a comment.
41:00Chadwick Vaughn.
41:02Look at you.
41:04A free man.
41:06Justice chooses its own path.
41:08Everyone in this room knows the truth.
41:10They might smile at you in public.
41:12But believe me,
41:14they know.
41:16You'll be hearing the word killer
41:18whispered behind your back
41:21I don't much care what people whisper.
41:23In fact, if they think I'm a ruthless killer,
41:25I may end up being to my benefit.
41:27We'll see about that.
41:29Not everyone in this city is a coward.
41:32Good luck to you in your career,
41:34Chief Constable.
41:37Just remember,
41:39the man who put you there
41:41is dead.
41:43And you've made more enemies
41:45than friends.
41:51I apologize for locking you in ourselves,
41:53Miss Longfellow.
41:55Are you kidding me?
41:57I was arrested for murder
41:59by Detective Murdoch.
42:01Oh.
42:03What a story.
42:05Well, if we hadn't discovered
42:07the Holland twins' ruse,
42:09it might not have had a happy ending.
42:11Were you not worried about
42:13possibly facing the noose?
42:15No.
42:17No, not at all.
42:18No.
42:20No, not for a minute.
42:22The great detective always gets his man.
42:27And to think,
42:29I live right across the hall from him.
42:48♪
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