Murdoch Mysteries Season 18 Episode 2 - Only Murdoch in the Building
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
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.
01:28I'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.
02:14There's been a murder.
02:26Jonathan B. Booth.
02:28He lived in this room for about a year.
02:30It was two years.
02:32I only lived here for seven months.
02:34Well, 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.
02:45He was in the bathroom.
02:47He was in the bathroom.
02:49He was in the bathroom.
02:51He was in the bathroom.
02:53It happened two weeks ago, just after I last saw him.
02:55On Thursday at 4.15 p.m.
02:57You saw his body?
02:58No.
03:00Then how do you know he was murdered?
03:02He was gone.
03:03Gone?
03:04Well, he wouldn't just disappear.
03:06Without saying goodbye?
03:08No. No, no, no. No, sir.
03:10No, not Mr. Booth.
03:11Now, I told all of this to the constables at Station House 4.
03:14McLaren and Crookshank.
03:17Can't remember their Christian names.
03:18It's all right. I know them.
03:20You're here now, so I can rest easy.
03:25Actually, I am moving into these rooms.
03:28Because this is to be my home.
03:31For now.
03:32Oh.
03:34So if you don't mind.
03:37Of course. I beg your pardon.
03:39It was just, what about the murder?
03:42I'll look into it.
03:47So you'll be living here?
03:49With me.
03:53So it would seem.
04:03Didn't know the hallowed halls of power would be quite so dull.
04:07Well, you are causing quite a stir.
04:11I'd hate to see them when they're not stirred up.
04:15So let's go over this once again, Chief Constable.
04:18Tell me exactly what Francis Stewart said to you.
04:22I've already told you.
04:23Tell me again.
04:28Chief Constable Stewart admitted to Councilman Vaughan's involvement in the murder of two women almost 20 years ago.
04:35It was a boy. He was a good family. I knew the father.
04:38They told me that the burglary was a youthful lark. Some sort of deer had gone 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 Vaughan 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.
05:05Detective 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?
05:30I'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.
06:04The Crown will prove to you that Chadwick Vaughan took distinct and unintentional action to kill Elsie and Nora Haynes in 1891.
06:13To hide the truth of an affair he was carrying on.
06:16Furthermore, the Crown will show you that Mr. Vaughan killed Detective Richard Tauber.
06:22While he was being held in the cells of Station House Number 4 just last year.
06:27To keep quiet the truth of his guilt in those previous murders.
06:31Now, Mr. Vaughan's considerable power and influence in the City of Toronto has allowed him to get away with these heinous acts.
06:38None less than former Chief Constable Francis Stewart was under his sway, and will testify to his guilt.
06:46We best hope Mr. Vaughan is convicted.
06:48Why do you say that?
06:50He won't be long for a job if he isn't.
06:57Meow.
06:59Meow!
07:21Knock, knock, knock.
07:28Yeah?
07:29Beg your pardon?
07:31I'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?
07:58Leave 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.
08:28The King's Council has prepared an expansive case against Mr. Vaughan, with over a dozen witnesses prepared to testify.
08:38And very shortly, we will be calling forth our first witness to the stand.
08:44Your Lordship, the Crown apologizes. Our first witness is not present in the courtroom. We request a brief adjournment.
08:57Knock, knock, knock.
08:59Frances!
09:04Someone's blocking the door.
09:09Dear God.
09:14Suicide.
09:18Adios, Frances.
09:21And there is no sign of foul play.
09:23The letter was in his handwriting. He said he couldn't bear to testify.
09:27He wanted to see Vaughan hanged as much as anyone.
09:29But he was too much of a coward.
09:31The man is barely cold.
09:33By his own choice. And now he's left our case to fall apart.
09:37If this man was to testify at trial, didn't he provide a statement?
09:42He refused. And I allowed it.
09:46He refused. And I allowed it.
09:48Win the case, Mrs. Crutry. Because if you don't, then it's on me.
09:56You last saw Mr. Booth two weeks ago on Thursday at 4.15pm.
10:01Yet, the landlord, Mr. Lester, heard Mr. Booth here in the room the following morning at 10am.
10:10Walked past door at 10am, heard banging inside, assumed packing his belongings.
10:16Slipped note under door to request final week's rent. No sign of note two days later.
10:21And two 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 of...
11:04Bye, Frank. Be done in a bit.
11:09Your 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.
11:23Your 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.
11:37Effie, I have some questions.
11:39Now is not the time, Louise.
11:41It will only take a moment.
11:43Tomorrow morning, before court, my office, 8 a.m.
11:49Wipe that smirk off your face.
11:51I beg your pardon?
11:52You killed him.
11:53Stewart? I didn't do a thing.
11:55You 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.
12:03If Francis Stewart killed himself out of shame,
12:06any responsibility for his death should fall at the feet of those who accused him and myself of things we did not do.
12:17Mr. Holland in 2E and Miss Fink in 1C,
12:22I can say, after being here only one day, that neither is an ideal neighbor.
12:27And I have to agree, both are acting rather suspiciously.
12:31Mr. Booth was rather persnickety too.
12:34He was always in everyone else's business.
12:37Just like yourself.
12:39I wouldn't consider myself persnickety.
12:49Inspector Choi, I 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.
13:04Inspector 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.
13:25Impress me.
13:30Where do we stand?
13:32We have plenty of evidence to convict Vaughn of the murder of Detective Tauber.
13:36Finger marks, eyewitness accounts, including your own.
13:39And there's a recording of him confessing to it.
13:42Precisely. The two murders from 1891, I'm not so sure.
13:46There's the original police file, which was adulterated by Stuart on Vaughn's behalf.
13:51But without Stuart to confirm that, they can say Stuart was lying.
13:54There's a witness. The jeweler.
13:56He gave a police sketch.
13:5720 years after events.
13:59The sketch looked exactly like Vaughn.
14:01There's no way such a distant account could be that reliable.
14:04Well, the chief constable's testimony. He knows everything that Stuart was going to say.
14:08Hearsay.
14:09And he got Vaughn's confession.
14:11Only for Tauber. He didn't deny the others, but he didn't admit to them either.
14:15Look, this is not how the law is meant to be.
14:18We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Vaughn is guilty, and the defense knows it too.
14:23Yet they will trot out every excuse in the book, every arcane stratagem to sink this case and thwart justice.
14:30That's their job.
14:31It is not their job.
14:33The purpose of our courts is not to win at any cost.
14:37It is to pursue the truth jointly and in good faith.
14:41It's defense attorneys who choose to pervert justice.
14:44Oh. Still bitter that I won?
14:47I beg your pardon?
14:48The sleepwalking case?
14:50I beg your pardon?
14:51The 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.
15:20Now, let's focus on something more important.
15:24Where shall we hang this?
15:27Oh.
15:30Perhaps...
15:38A peephole!
15:40Detective, have you been spying on your neighbors?
15:43I have not.
15:44But perhaps Mr. Booth was. May I?
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.
15:59There 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!
16:23Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
16:27What's this?
16:28Dear Tiffy, no one told me Hamilton was so beautiful this time of year.
16:33Sorry, I did not get a chance to say goodbye.
16:36Jonathan B. Booth.
16:40You heard from him and you didn't tell me?
16:43No, no, no. You don't understand.
16:45I believe I do understand, Miss Longfellow.
16:47You 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.
17:04Detective, I was just having so much fun working with you.
17:09And I'm terribly sorry.
17:13We'll get him for Toba then.
17:15I'm not prepared to argue the Toba case.
17:17We weren't meant to start till next week.
17:19I know the case.
17:21Well enough to try it?
17:22Yes. I can act as lead counsel.
17:25I'll review all the details before morning, even if it takes me all night.
17:29Very well.
17:31But write down how you intend to proceed so that I can step in as necessary.
17:35Of course.
17:44I probably should have maintained my initial skepticism.
17:48Sometimes we see intrigue where there is none.
17:51Because we need a distraction from our own thoughts.
17:54Sometimes we see intrigue where there is none.
17:56Because we need a distraction from our own thoughts.
18:00What thoughts?
18:01Well, I can't answer that.
18:03But 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,
18:13watching films of people halfway around the world.
18:18I wasn't always a bachelor.
18:21My life used to be very different.
18:23Losing someone is an adjustment.
18:28Well, I haven't lost Julia or Susanna.
18:30Of course not. Not in that sense.
18:32But even if their absence is temporary, they're not here.
18:44What is that?
18:45What is that?
18:53What is that?
18:58It has no odor.
19:05Quick line.
19:07Oh!
19:12I think we may have found Mr. Bluth.
19:25Effie. Effie.
19:27Where were you?
19:288 a.m., remember?
19:29I was working all night. I barely had time to go home and get changed.
19:32Well, you could have let me know. I'm busy, too.
19:35I'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
19:49relating to the 1891 deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes are being withdrawn.
19:56And the third charge? Talbor?
19:59We intend to proceed.
20:01Very good, then.
20:03Miss Hart. Inspector Short.
20:06I've heard a great deal about you.
20:09Charmed.
20:11I'm wondering how a woman of your background came to hold such a position.
20:15It 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.
20:24What have you discovered, Miss Hart?
20:26He's covered thoroughly in quick lime, as you thought.
20:29Quick lime desiccates the body, limiting decomposition.
20:32Making it difficult to establish a time of death?
20:35Indeed. 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.
20:43There was a lot of blood. His clothing was soaked through.
20:46I found this in his pocket.
20:48What?
20:55The truth sins you must know going on in there.
21:03Signed J.B. Booth.
21:07He was definitely planning to expose someone's wrongdoings.
21:11Sounds like a motive for murder.
21:13Where were you on the afternoon of December 9th, 1911?
21:16Home. The office. The club.
21:19You also went to Station House Number 4 that afternoon, did you not?
21:22I did.
21:23Constable Tucker allowed you into the cells specifically occupied by Detective Richard Tauber.
21:28That's correct.
21:29A man who had provided information regarding two murders he had investigated in 1891.
21:34Your Honor, we object to any discussion of murders for which charges have been withdrawn.
21:37Your Honor, this is pertinent to the circumstances under which the victim was killed.
21:41Proceed, counsel.
21:42You were aware that Tauber was implicating you in the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes, correct?
21:47Yes, I was.
21:48And that is why you entered his cell?
21:50Yes.
21:51It is also why you struggled with him there, leaving your finger mark on his shirt button?
21:54Yes.
21:55And it is the reason you killed him?
21:56No. I did not kill him.
21:58He was found dead less than an hour later.
22:00He was alive when I left.
22:02You said yourself you fought with him, leaving evidence on his dead body.
22:05I fought with him because he was threatening to go to the police about me.
22:09But we came to an agreement.
22:11I paid him money to tell the truth, that I had nothing to do with the deaths of Elsie and Nora Haynes.
22:17You paid him?
22:18Yes.
22:19Then where is the money? No payment was found on him.
22:22Perhaps the killer stole it. All I know is he was alive when I left.
22:27Then why did you confess?
22:28But I didn't.
22:33In December of last year, you questioned Mr. Vaughn at his home. Did you not?
22:37I paid him a visit. We played snooker. I won. We had a conversation.
22:42Did you discuss the murder of Detective Richard Tauber?
22:44Yes, we did.
22:45What did Vaughn have to say?
22:47He said that he never intended to bribe him because he knew that it wouldn't work. So he killed him.
22:53Objection, Your Honor. My client just testified that that never happened.
22:56This is second-hand information that clearly falls under hearsay exclusion.
23:00Thank you, Counsel. The 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.
23:08Objection on the same grounds.
23:10This recording has already been entered into evidence. My 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 Tauber.
23:26The Chief Constable arranged for you to visit the cells.
23:29You already know a great deal, don't you, Inspector?
23:32Francis made arrangements for me to slip in the back door.
23:35He thought Tauber could be silent with the bribe.
23:38I'm delighted to have had this conversation.
23:41It's been recorded for posterity.
23:43Now, wait a minute. That'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. We simply listened to it and submitted it to the court.
23:58Your Honor, foul play is afoot.
24:00This is not the complete recording as obtained by the police
24:03and shared with the defense by the Crown.
24:05What are you suggesting? We all heard the conversation with our own ears.
24:09They've adulterated it.
24:10Is that possible?
24:12A portion of the recording has simply been excised.
24:14It's easily done when making a duplicate.
24:16This is a damning charge.
24:18It certainly is, but we are prepared to prove it.
24:21The Crown has the original recording in our files.
24:23I can have it to you in 20 minutes.
24:25So I was right. Mr. Booth is dead.
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 and the great Detective Murdoch had it wrong.
24:44There you go.
24:46Thank you, Miss Longfellow. We'll let you know if we need anything further.
24:49Well, Detective, I made you something.
24:59What are these?
25:01They're pillowcases.
25:03The linens provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lester are always somewhat threadbare.
25:07Well, I only have one pillow. I don't need both.
25:12No, no, no. I already monogrammed both.
25:15Perhaps you'll have company one day.
25:18No, I don't think so.
25:20But, uh, thank you.
25:29It's not here.
25:31What do you mean it's not here? It's in our case file.
25:34I listened to it last night.
25:36So you had it last night and now it's gone?
25:38It can't just have disappeared.
25:40Maybe you just misplaced it.
25:42I don't understand. This can't be.
25:44So you've lost it. Wonderful.
25:47You spent the night before the trial losing our key piece of evidence.
25:50Boyd Gordon, easy.
25:52She was alone here when we left her last night.
25:55Was anyone else in the building?
25:57No. I only left at 7.30 this morning. There was no one else here.
26:00We'll ask the staff.
26:02But it certainly appears no one else has been in here, Mrs. Crabtree.
26:05Your negligence may have just lost us this case.
26:13The handwriting on this postcard is similar to the letter found on Mr. Booth's body.
26:18But it's not the same.
26:20Not the real McCoy, then.
26:22The killer must have traveled to Hamilton to send that postcard yesterday.
26:26Maybe because he knew you were looking into the case.
26:29Start with the landlord.
26:31Booth's letter threatened to expose a secret.
26:34I think it was whatever he saw while looking through that peephole.
26:37When I first arrived, I saw Mr. Lester helping his wife into a coach and see her off.
26:44When you paid me a visit, I saw a much younger woman walking down the hall toward Mr. Lester's room.
26:51An affair?
26:52Possibly.
26:55And then there's Miss Fick. Whatever she's up to is causing that horrible smell.
27:00What smell?
27:01That smell I'm smelling right now.
27:04It's cabbage.
27:06Some shade and marijuana.
27:10Marijuana?
27:11I guess I've heard of it, but I've not come across it just yet.
27:14It's becoming popular in California.
27:16Your neighbor would surely be evicted if anyone found out she was smoking dope.
27:20Dope?
27:21That's what they're calling it now. Apparently it makes one fuzzy-headed.
27:24Why would anyone want that?
27:28This neighbor, making all of the noise, he's the one I find the most suspicious.
27:32Maybe so, but when we were here yesterday, I heard that same sound.
27:37Right.
27:38There's no way he could have gone all the way to Hamilton and back.
27:42Well, that's odd.
27:44This obliterator mark has no letter or number.
27:47The... I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
27:51Every postmark in Canada has this circle with information.
27:55Time, date, location.
27:57And these wavy lines are used to mark a stamp as used or cancelled.
28:04Hence, obliterator.
28:05All right.
28:06Inside, there is often a letter or a number, depending on which machine was used at that particular post office.
28:12The fact that there is no number means...
28:14Well, some postal locations only have one machine, so there is no need for a letter or a number.
28:20But I happen to know that Hamilton has two such machines.
28:24So any postmark coming out of Hamilton would bear the number one or two.
28:29How do you know that?
28:31I subscribe to a quarterly publication on postal innovations.
28:37At any rate, this postmark is a forgery.
28:42Meaning, the killer did not have to travel to Hamilton.
28:45After all, it could still be your neighbour.
28:47That's the secret he's been hiding.
28:50And the marks on his hand.
28:53It wasn't blood.
28:55It was a stamp.
28:57And the marks on his hand.
29:00It wasn't blood.
29:02It's ink.
29:04He's a forger.
29:13Yeah?
29:14Mr. Holland?
29:15Toronto Constabulary.
29:18Stand back.
29:21Plates, dyes, pulp stock.
29:24Everything needed to print counterfeit money.
29:26And cut it to size.
29:30Booth?
29:31Who's Booth?
29:32Your former neighbour.
29:34Toosie.
29:35Oh, him.
29:37What about him?
29:38We found his body hidden in the wall between his room and yours.
29:42I don't know nothing about that.
29:44I don't know nothing about that.
29:46Where were you on the 18th between the hours of 4pm and the following morning?
29:51What day was that?
29:53Thursday.
29:57Oh, that's the day that they locked me up.
30:00Passing a bad banknote.
30:08It's not here.
30:09So what? We have my word.
30:12You heard him. The judge won't allow it.
30:14There's other evidence.
30:15Enough to argue the case, maybe, but to get a conviction?
30:18I don't think so.
30:20I shouldn't think so either.
30:22I've spoken to defence counsel and the judge.
30:25We'll make it official tomorrow, but the Crown is dropping all charges.
30:29So Vaughan goes free.
30:31I'm afraid so.
30:33And I am sorry, Mrs. Crabtree, but I have no choice but to recommend you for termination.
30:49One of the metal counterfeiting plates found in Mr. Holland's room could be the murder weapon,
30:54but no traces of blood were found on any of them, so there's no way to prove it.
30:58Hardly matters.
30:59He was booked at Station House 1 the afternoon of March 18th, and they let him out late that evening.
31:05So he couldn't have done it.
31:09What about the postmark?
31:11Someone else forged it, or they had it forged, or went to Hamilton to send it and your little magazine was wrong.
31:21It's been a considerable amount of work to scrape away the quicklime without damaging the body.
31:25I need to be particularly careful with the hands, for example, in case there are any defensive wounds or scrapings under the fingernails.
31:32Anything?
31:33No, but he had a small object clutched in his hand, a metal trinket of some kind.
31:40May I?
31:41Of course.
31:43This appears to be an ornate thimble that's been engraved.
31:51A thimble? That's odd.
31:55I know of at least one person at the Regent Arms that does a great deal of sewing, and this thimble bears her monogram.
32:03Tippi Longfellow.
32:05You admire her.
32:11Do you recognize this?
32:15Yes.
32:16It's yours?
32:18No. No, but I saw it in a shop window once.
32:22Is that my monogram? Of course.
32:25I stopped to admire it one day when I was out walking with Mr. Booth.
32:30Maybe he bought this for me as a parting gift.
32:33Perhaps he was on his way to give it to me.
32:35Why would he give you a parting gift, unless the nature of your relationship was more intimate than you let on?
32:44No, but I always suspected that he was sweet on me.
32:50It's why I was so sure he would say goodbye, and why I was quite worried about him.
32:54Or it's yours and you killed him.
32:56What? No. Why would I?
32:58Because you're obsessed with Detective Murdoch.
33:01You killed Mr. Booth to lure him in, to see if he was smart enough to solve your crime.
33:05No.
33:07How else would you have known about the tarp and the quick line?
33:10Both were identified by you as being relevant to the murder, before the body was found.
33:15How did you know?
33:17Well, just go hang on to your horses there.
33:19If all that was true, why would I beg the world's greatest detective to take on the case,
33:23and then lead him to the very evidence that would expose him?
33:26Why would I beg the world's greatest detective to take on the case,
33:29and then lead him to the very evidence that would expose my guilt?
33:34To meet your hero.
33:35And hang by the neck forthwith?
33:39Sir, though it is true, people have killed in order to get close to me.
33:45The fact that I moved into the Regent Arms was pure happenstance.
33:50Miss Longfellow here did not lure me in.
33:52Nevertheless.
33:54Put her in the cells.
33:57It's a bloody hatchet job, but you'll be back on your feet in no time.
34:01Maybe. Maybe not.
34:03I highly doubt the Crown Attorney's Office will hire another woman any time soon.
34:06A recording can't just vanish.
34:08It's impossible that Vaughn's lawyer or anyone hired by them could have broken in.
34:12I was there all the way until after daybreak. There wasn't a sign of anyone.
34:16And no sign of a break-in.
34:18Maybe they got your keys somehow and waited for you to leave.
34:20If they did, someone would have seen them.
34:25What's all this?
34:28We've been focusing on our suspect's alibis for the time of the murder itself.
34:35Now, the killer engaged in a series of complex steps to cover up the crime.
34:40Interviews with neighbours, gardeners, witnesses,
34:44all narrowed down who could have performed each of the steps and their cause.
34:48The murderer obtaining the tarp from the basement,
34:51stealing the quicklime and hiding the body in the wall.
34:54All right. And?
34:57As you can see, our results are inconclusive.
35:00No one person could have performed all of the steps required of the killer.
35:05I fear we may be looking in the wrong direction.
35:08Well, we know it's not Holland. He was at Station House One.
35:11You seem decided it was not Miss Longfellow.
35:14The simplest explanation, then, is someone is either mistaken or lying on behalf of the killer,
35:19who has to be either Fink or Lester.
35:22Let's bring them in.
35:24Right.
35:25Told you to clean your hands.
35:27It's ink. It takes a couple of days to come off.
35:30Anyway, you're just putting more on them.
35:32Fine. Index finger.
35:40Mr. Holland.
35:42Mr. Holland, when did your hand become stained with ink?
35:46A couple of days ago.
35:48The evening before last, your other hand was stained with red ink.
35:53How were you able to wash one hand clean and not the other?
35:57I don't know what you're talking about.
36:00Come on. Off to the cells.
36:08Am I mistaken?
36:10Am I mistaken?
36:12I could have sworn I saw something red on his hand that I even mistook for blood at the time.
36:17Maybe it was blood.
36:20Maybe.
36:23No, it wasn't.
36:26The first time Mr. Holland answered the door, his left hand was clean.
36:30The second time, his left hand was stained with red.
36:34Meaning he spilled something.
36:36Meaning Mr. Holland could have done each of the steps required of the killer.
36:41He just didn't do them alone.
36:51Miss Cherry.
36:53When you were waiting for me this morning at the Crown Attorney's office, did you see Mr. Vaughn's lawyer?
36:59No. Why would I?
37:01Are you sure? Maybe someone he sent to break into the place?
37:04I was there for nearly an hour.
37:06Waiting.
37:08And I didn't see Vaughn's attorney or any other hired goons.
37:11Did you see anyone at all?
37:13It was early in the morning. The place was nearly empty.
37:16One person came and went inside.
37:18Who?
37:19Can't say.
37:20What do you mean you can't say?
37:22This person was one of my sources.
37:24They spoke to me with the promise of complete anonymity.
37:26Listen to me, young lady.
37:28This isn't about protecting a source.
37:30Whoever it was more than likely sabotaged the Crown's case.
37:33And my career along with it.
37:34Sabotage?
37:36Yes. Tell us who it was.
37:38I can't. My sources are confidential.
37:41You'll tell us or I'll throw you in a cell.
37:44And I'll publish my feelings about the new Chief Constable from behind bars.
37:47Goodbye.
37:54Wait.
37:56Sir, the article.
37:58There are very few people with intimate knowledge of the case.
38:01If the culprit was a source...
38:02We could probably figure out who it is.
38:04Stuart's suicide.
38:06It says he was wearing his kilt.
38:08But there was no one else there except us.
38:11And Gordon.
38:13He claimed I was the only one at the office this morning.
38:15But if he's Louisa's source...
38:17Bloody hell.
38:19He scuppered his own case.
38:24I hear something.
38:26Should we knock?
38:28There shouldn't be anyone in there.
38:33As I suspected.
38:35The reason Mr. Holland only had red ink on his hand the second time he answered the door...
38:40Was because the first time was his twin.
38:43Two Mr. Hollands.
38:45Both under arrest.
38:50Mr. Booth was planning to expose your counterfeiting scheme.
38:54He'd even written a letter to the police detailing your operation.
38:58But before he could send it, you killed him.
38:59You killed him.
39:01But not before one of you got himself arrested.
39:04In order to create the perfect alibi.
39:06But why keep him in the wall?
39:09We wanted to move him.
39:11Mr. Lester, he was in the room.
39:13Trying to rent it straight away.
39:15He even took the man's suitcase as recompense for last week's rent.
39:19How long were you planning it?
39:21You lived in that rooming house for nearly two years.
39:24None of your neighbors knew that there were two of you.
39:26Mr. Lester charges by the head.
39:30How did Vaughn get to you?
39:32I beg your pardon?
39:34Bribery. Blackmail.
39:36I have no idea what you're talking about.
39:38We know you were here this morning.
39:40We know you lied about it. You stole that recording to sink our case.
39:43Typical.
39:45A woman blaming a man for her own failings.
39:48We will prove what you did.
39:50It's only a matter of time.
39:52You know full well I have the ear of the Attorney General.
39:54We'll see what he has to say about it.
39:57Okay.
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?
40:21That I hung my sources out to dry?
40:23I would prefer that you show some decency to a friend.
40:24If I referred a case in which a friend was accused of a crime,
40:27would you turn your back on your job?
40:29I would recuse myself.
40:31If I didn't protect my sources,
40:33I wouldn't be writing about how Gordon is preparing to submit his resignation.
40:36Due in part to the swirling rumors of bribery reported in my newspaper.
40:39If it's information you want from me, you won't be getting it.
40:42Not about that.
40:44But there is one claim I need verified.
40:46Is it true that you've been reinstated from the Crown Attorney's office?
40:49No comment.
40:55Chadwick Vaughan.
40:57Look at you.
40:59A free man.
41:01Justice chooses its own path.
41:03Everyone in this room knows the truth.
41:06They might smile at you in public,
41:08but believe me,
41:10they know.
41:12You'll be hearing the word killer whispered behind your back for the rest of your life.
41:17I don't much care what people whisper.
41:20The fact of the matter is,
41:21I don't much care what people whisper.
41:24In fact, if they think I'm a ruthless killer,
41:26I may end up being to my benefit.
41:28We'll see about that.
41:30Not everyone in this city is a coward.
41:33Good luck to you in your career, Chief Constable.
41:38Just remember,
41:40the man who put you there
41:42is dead.
41:44And you've made more enemies
41:46than friends.
41:52I apologize for locking you in ourselves, Miss Longfellow.
41:56Are you kidding me?
41:58I was arrested for murder by Detective Murdoch.
42:02Oh.
42:04What a story.
42:06Well, if we hadn't discovered the Holland twins' ruse,
42:09it might not have had a happy ending.
42:11Were you not worried about possibly facing the noose?
42:15No.
42:17No, not for a minute.
42:18The great detective always gets his man.
42:25And to think, I live right across the hall from him.
42:27And to think, I live right across the hall from him.
42:57Oh.
42:58Oh.
42:59Oh.
43:00Oh.
43:01Oh.
43:02Oh.
43:03Oh.
43:04Oh.
43:05Oh.
43:06Oh.
43:07Oh.
43:08Oh.
43:09Oh.
43:10Oh.
43:11Oh.
43:12Oh.
43:13Oh.
43:14Oh.
43:15Oh.
43:16Oh.
43:17Oh.
43:18Oh.
43:19Oh.
43:20Oh.
43:21Oh.
43:22Oh.
43:23Oh.
43:24Oh.
43:25Oh.
43:26Oh.
43:27Oh.
43:28Oh.
43:29Oh.
43:30Oh.
43:31Oh.
43:32Oh.
43:33Oh.
43:34Oh.
43:35Oh.
43:36Oh.
43:37Oh.
43:38Oh.
43:39Oh.
43:40Oh.
43:41Oh.
43:42Oh.
43:43Oh.
43:44Oh.
43:45Oh.
43:46Oh.
43:47Oh.
43:48Oh.
43:49Oh.
43:50Oh.
43:51Oh.
43:52Oh.
43:53Oh.
43:54Oh.