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Murdoch Mysteries S18 Episode 5 - A Starlet Is Born

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01:00What did you think?
01:11Even better than the last chapter.
01:13You?
01:14Underwhelming.
01:15They left her hanging at the edge of a cliff.
01:17Bit of a cliché, no?
01:19I can't wait to see what happens next.
01:21I'll be rereading this one all week.
01:23What a brilliant idea to publish the story in the papers alongside the serials in the
01:27cinema.
01:29I had that idea ages ago, but they beat me to the punch, and now the sales of the Gazette
01:33have doubled.
01:34Why don't you run your own in the Sentinel?
01:38The script is already written.
01:39I just need a star, and I aim to get one.
01:42I was walking down Yonge Street, and this man stopped me in the middle of the sidewalk,
01:46and he said, you must, you simply must be in the moving pictures.
01:51And the next thing you know, well, you know, here we are.
01:54I also do all of my own studs.
01:58Would you like to ask me about doing my own studs?
02:00I think we have all that we need.
02:02But there is one other thing.
02:04Any idea what the next serial will be?
02:06I can't comment.
02:07I promised my manager, and my lips are locked.
02:09Well, it just so happens that Sentinel is planning to make its own serial.
02:14And I don't mind saying that the script outshines any other action girl serials.
02:21I don't read scripts written by non-scenarists.
02:26I've written a feature film, not to mention a best-selling book, and countless news stories.
02:31Well, serial is a unique format.
02:33Why don't we discuss this over lunch?
02:34I just don't think—
02:35Tamaos?
02:36Tamaos.
02:38You got a table at Tamaos?
02:40I happen to have dirt on the maitre d'.
02:42We'll take my new automobile.
02:45Oh, Cal!
02:47How are the interviews going?
02:48Oh, you know, grist for the mill, chum for the waters.
02:51I don't have to tell you.
02:52I presume you've met Miss Cherry.
02:54Charmed.
02:55I assume you'd like to profile me next?
02:57Actually, we're off to lunch. Perhaps another time.
03:07Miss Newsome!
03:08Uh, could I perhaps bother you for an autograph?
03:11Oh, uh, yes.
03:13Never a moment's peace.
03:17You're welcome. Bye now!
03:26Ahem.
03:31Oh.
03:33Don't start. How annoying.
03:35It is brand new, you know.
03:38Oh! Yoo-hoo! Bellman!
03:41Find a mechanic and see if he can fix this scrap heap, will you?
03:44Yes, ma'am.
03:48Shall we walk?
03:49Let's.
03:55Oh!
03:59Dear God!
04:01Do you think he's all right?
04:25♪♪
04:30Ladies, what's happened?
04:32Well, I tried to start the ignition.
04:35Nothing happened.
04:36Spinned and then... boom!
04:38And you drove the automobile here earlier today without incident?
04:42That's right.
04:43So whoever did this
04:45intended for you to be the victim of the explosion?
04:48Obviously.
04:49Who else here is important enough to try and kill?
04:51Tell him about Chapter Two.
04:53Chapter Two?
04:55From Agnes.
04:57The Adventures of Agnes,
04:59the sensational serial of which I am the star.
05:02I'm not familiar. What of it?
05:04How odd.
05:05Well, in Chapter Two, Agnes, moi,
05:07enters into an auto race.
05:09The villain tries to do away with her
05:11by placing an explosive in the back of the car.
05:13I, of course, find it, throw it into a lake,
05:15and nobody gets hurt.
05:16Which I would have done today if I had known.
05:18Just don't worry about it.
05:20Just don't really expect to get bombed on your way to Tamao's.
05:23Indeed.
05:24Ruth!
05:25Are you all right? What happened?
05:27Someone tried to explode me.
05:29What?
05:30Well, it didn't succeed.
05:31That chance.
05:32A star like mine doesn't just up and die that easily.
05:35I knew something like this would happen.
05:36I beg your pardon?
05:38I told you no good can come from working in the pictures.
05:41Ah!
05:44Henry, what do you mean you knew something like this would happen?
05:47Were you aware that Ruth was in danger?
05:50No.
05:51I never really approved of her working in the serials, sir.
05:54She's always spending time with these unsavory types
05:57that hang around moving picture sets.
05:59Unsavory and debonair.
06:04You're saying I'm jealous?
06:07Well, maybe I am.
06:09But forget about the pictures.
06:10Ruth shouldn't be working at all.
06:11That's not how things are done, sir.
06:13I'm the man of the house.
06:14She should be at home with Jordan.
06:16I don't know, Henry.
06:18She has always been able to balance work and home life.
06:21How did that work out for you?
06:22She moved halfway around the world.
06:24Sheesh.
06:30Miss Hart.
06:31What have you?
06:32Is that Cal Whitman?
06:36It is indeed.
06:38Constable Higgins Newsome seems to be very threatened by him.
06:42As he should be.
06:45You are familiar with Mr. Whitman, I take it?
06:47I wish.
06:53The bellman.
06:54Right.
06:55He died in the blast.
06:57The impact came from behind.
07:03Remnants of the bomb.
07:07Well, what's this?
07:09It's a wire of some sort.
07:11Ah, yes.
07:13Method of detonation.
07:17Indeed, it's attached to the ignition.
07:19That is ingenious.
07:21Whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing.
07:26Detective.
07:27That man has been staring at me since I arrived.
07:30He seems odd.
07:36Excuse me.
07:38What are you doing here?
07:40Just minding my own beeswax.
07:43Beeswax?
07:44I was in the area purchasing a tin of beeswax down the way.
07:47I'm a cobbler, you see.
07:48I need it for my owls.
07:50In any event, I saw the explosion and was intrigued.
07:55Did you see anything of interest?
07:57Only Root.
07:59She's magnificent, isn't she?
08:02She is something.
08:04So dynamic and brave and brilliant.
08:12This is bad.
08:13Already headline news across every paper in the city.
08:16Toronto is in love with Ruth Newsom.
08:18I don't get it.
08:20Nor do I, sir.
08:21I don't care much for moving pictures.
08:23Really?
08:24I love them.
08:25But I don't care for these new serials.
08:28One little scenario a week, and then what?
08:30I have to wait.
08:31I'd rather watch them all at once.
08:34Perhaps people enjoy delaying gratification.
08:36And every chapter leaves you wanting more.
08:39She's hanging on a cliff.
08:40But they won't tell you how it ends.
08:43You have to pay another nickel the following week just to find out.
08:45It's a swindle.
08:47What I don't understand is the fanaticism.
08:50Why do people admire actors?
08:53They're charming, funny, exciting.
08:55They don't actually do what their characters do.
08:58They just stand in front of a camera.
09:01Detective, are you jealous of actors?
09:04I'll have you know I was cast in a moving picture once.
09:07I didn't care much for it.
09:09A lot of people standing around complaining.
09:11You think you deserve more attention than actors
09:14because you're the one really stopping the villains out there.
09:18Of course not.
09:19Of course not.
09:21So, what have you found out?
09:23No suspects in custody as yet.
09:25Judging by the state of the wreckage,
09:27I would say the bomb was comprised of TNT.
09:29I've been informed that this bombing
09:32may mirror one of the installments of the serial
09:36in which Ruth knew some stars.
09:39Ruth knew some stars.
09:40Well, then, why would someone watch a moving picture
09:43then decide to kill the star?
09:45Perhaps someone at the moving picture studio
09:47can tell us something.
09:58You're Detective Murdoch.
10:00Do we know one another?
10:01No.
10:02Your reputation precedes you, sir.
10:04Andrew Deverell Deverell.
10:06I am Miss Newsome's manager
10:08and the producer of her cinematic oeuvre.
10:11You mean Mrs. Higgins Newsome.
10:15Yes, yes.
10:16I'm in the habit of discussing her with La Presse
10:19for whom we cultivate a certain image.
10:23Have you apprehended the culprit
10:25in this dastardly scheme?
10:26Not yet.
10:28Well, then, you may find these
10:31very interesting.
10:33Maybe.
10:34What are they?
10:35Let's see.
10:37Oui, letters from viewers of Agnes.
10:40Fanatics, one might say,
10:42but not of the typical ilk.
10:45You are a sinner.
10:47May the Lord punish you
10:48unless you stop showing these films.
10:51I hope you lead a miserable, sickness-filled life
10:54and die lonely and alone.
10:57Who writes such things to an actor?
11:00I don't know,
11:01but it seems some of our viewers
11:04feel that Ruth Newsome's gender
11:06does not conform to their image
11:08of an appropriate hero.
11:11Perhaps the killer is amongst their number.
11:15What have you, Miss Hart?
11:16Found a piece of shrapnel
11:17partially lodged in his body.
11:22There appears to be a lock mechanism of some sort.
11:25There's leather here.
11:26It's not very badly burned.
11:28It must have lodged in his body
11:29before the flames could get to it.
11:31I examined the leather under the microscope.
11:33It appears to be reptilian.
11:35Alligator?
11:36Could be.
11:38This is from a suitcase.
11:46Yah!
11:50Does Jordan always act out like this?
11:54What do you mean?
11:56Isadora!
11:57Isadora!
11:58Yes, Miss Newsome.
11:59Jordan!
12:00Jordan!
12:01Calm down, please.
12:02Get back here!
12:05I believe the bomb was secured
12:06inside of a suitcase.
12:09Does this look familiar?
12:11Of course.
12:12That's from my alligator skin valise.
12:14Ah.
12:15So it belonged to you
12:16and it was in the automobile.
12:18Oh yes, always.
12:19It was gifted to me by my lovely Andrew.
12:22Ruth's manager.
12:23We've met.
12:24Andrew advised me to
12:25always keep the essentials close at hand.
12:28Clothing,
12:29cosmetics, shoes,
12:30autographed portraits
12:31for my admirers.
12:33Admirers.
12:34Admirers.
12:35Admirers.
12:36Admirers.
12:38So you were aware
12:39that it was in the automobile.
12:42When was the last time
12:43you looked inside of it?
12:44This morning.
12:46Yes, I put a new lipstick
12:47into my reticule.
12:49Did you see anything
12:50out of the ordinary?
12:53Like a bomb, dear?
12:55I think I would notice a bomb, Henry.
12:56I'm not a child.
12:58In my last picture
12:59I threw one into the lake.
13:00Remember?
13:03How many people were aware
13:04of this valise of yours?
13:06I don't know.
13:07But what does it matter?
13:08No one could have put
13:09a bomb into that valise.
13:11Why not?
13:12It's always locked.
13:13I have the only key.
13:14And no one has access
13:15to where it's hidden.
13:17Except for Henny Penny.
13:24Ah.
13:25I've gone over
13:26all of the letters
13:27provided by Mr. Devereaux
13:29Devereaux.
13:30And?
13:32They are disturbing.
13:33One even seems
13:34to presage
13:35the bombing itself.
13:37The author,
13:38most definitely,
13:39wants to stop
13:40the continuation
13:41of Miss Newsome's serial.
13:42Why?
13:44They have a moral objection
13:45to a female heroine.
13:47It's one man.
13:49Or a woman.
13:50I suppose.
13:51All of the letters
13:52appear to be written
13:53in the same hand
13:54but they are
13:55from different postmarks
13:56throughout the city.
13:57What exactly
13:58are you doing?
14:00Well,
14:01if Ruth Newsome's
14:02suitcase was locked
14:04and the key never
14:05left her possession
14:06then it's safe to assume
14:07that someone
14:08picked the lock.
14:09I'm trying to establish
14:10how long that would
14:11actually take.
14:12To establish
14:13how long the culprit
14:14needed to plant the bomb?
14:15Yes.
14:16At first,
14:17I believed that
14:18the wiring to the ignition
14:19was a complex mechanism.
14:21But I'm now
14:22of the opinion
14:23that it was quite rudimentary.
14:25As is
14:26this lock.
14:29It would have taken
14:30no time at all.
14:34What's this?
14:37There appears to be
14:38some sticky residue
14:39inside of
14:40the lock cylinder.
14:48What is it?
14:50Beeswax.
14:53Mr. Quint.
14:54We'd like a word.
15:02I don't understand.
15:03You think I wanted
15:04to hurt Ruth?
15:05You were seen
15:06near the hotel
15:07both before
15:08and after the detonation.
15:09But more importantly
15:10we know you
15:11picked the lock
15:12on her suitcase.
15:14How did you know that?
15:15We found beeswax
15:16inside of the
15:17lock mechanism.
15:19Perhaps
15:20from an owl?
15:21What does that have
15:22to do with the bomb?
15:23You put it
15:24in the case.
15:25No.
15:26No, I did pick
15:27the lock last week
15:28but I never
15:29put any bomb inside.
15:30Then why did you do it?
15:35I just wanted
15:36something of hers.
15:38I adore her so.
15:39I know everyone does
15:40but
15:41I'm so very alone.
15:43No one understands me
15:44and
15:45I know no one
15:46ever will
15:47but
15:48sometimes I dream
15:49that
15:51someone
15:52someone wonderful
15:53might love me.
15:57You stole something
15:58from her.
15:59I just wanted to feel
16:00close to her.
16:05I'm sorry.
16:19So
16:20what did you think?
16:21I
16:22liked it.
16:24Oh,
16:25good.
16:26It's just that it's not
16:27really a Ruth Newsome,
16:28is it?
16:29The character's
16:30tall, blonde and fearless.
16:31You'd be perfect.
16:32Of course I would
16:33do my best
16:34to bring the role to life
16:35but for it to really
16:36be a Ruth Newsome picture
16:37it needs
16:38a few changes
16:39but it's easy fix.
16:40Such as?
16:41Well, here
16:42on page one.
16:43What is this?
16:44We meet her
16:45and then she just
16:46doesn't do anything.
16:47The characters
16:48need to be introduced.
16:49What if, you know
16:50what if
16:51oh, I
16:52save the Prime Minister
16:53from being eaten by a lion.
16:54Something like that.
16:55On page one.
16:56Well, not that, obviously
16:57but something like that
16:58do you know what I mean?
16:59It's a sort of
17:00fruitful thought
17:01but overall
17:02I
17:03I
17:04I loved it.
17:06I miss you.
17:07Yes, ma'am.
17:08What do you have
17:09in the way of gin?
17:12Oh, no, never mind.
17:13Champagne!
17:14Ruth Higgins Newsome
17:15stated that she did
17:16have a pair of shoes
17:17go missing last week
17:18and that part of Mr. Quint's story
17:19appears to be true.
17:20That doesn't mean
17:21he didn't plant the bomb.
17:22If he picked the lock once
17:23he could have done it again.
17:24Yes, but
17:25why kill someone
17:26that he holds
17:27in such high esteem?
17:29Love can turn to obsession
17:30and obsession to violence.
17:32True.
17:33But something about this case
17:34just doesn't sit right
17:35with me.
17:36He seems
17:37genuinely concerned
17:38for her well-being
17:39and his handwriting
17:40is not a match
17:41for those letters.
17:42Hardly exculpatory.
17:43If you don't think
17:44the cobbler did it
17:45then who?
17:46Perhaps
17:47the man who gave her
17:48the suitcase in question.
17:49Apparently
17:50he was lunching
17:51with an ingenue
17:52at the time
17:53and she believes
17:54that she could be
17:55the next Agnes.
17:56Hmm.
17:57To have a new star
17:58he would have to get rid
17:59of the old one.
18:01Expendable.
18:02Miss Newsome
18:03is a star man.
18:04Her success
18:05is my success.
18:06Then why seek
18:07out a replacement?
18:09A star that burns
18:10as brightly
18:11as Ruth Newsome
18:12cannot be tamed.
18:13I must anticipate
18:14the inevitable
18:15that soon
18:17will leave us behind
18:18for the bright lights
18:19of Los Angeles.
18:20Hollywood.
18:21They call it
18:22the big time.
18:24We believe
18:25the bomb
18:26was placed
18:27inside of a suitcase
18:28that you gifted
18:29to Mrs. Higgins Newsome.
18:31It was?
18:32Hmm.
18:33And you advised her
18:34to keep it on hand
18:35at all times.
18:36Yes.
18:37What of it?
18:38Well,
18:39whoever placed the bomb
18:40was aware of the case
18:41and that it would be
18:42consistently
18:43in the proximity
18:44of Mrs. Higgins Newsome.
18:45Everybody
18:46knew about the case.
18:47It was a very
18:48unique piece
18:49I purchased for her
18:50in New York.
18:51She showed it off
18:52to all around her.
18:53One of my other clients
18:54was terribly jealous.
18:55Oh?
18:56Who?
18:57Just the man
18:58whose stalled career
18:59is the bane
19:00of my existence.
19:01Ruth's co-star,
19:02Cal Whitman.
19:06Oh, Henry.
19:07I'm going
19:08to the hair salon.
19:09Alright,
19:10I'll go with you.
19:11No,
19:12there's really no need.
19:13Someone just tried
19:14to kill you
19:15Are you forgetting
19:16that your own brother
19:17died while escaping
19:18my care
19:19to get a haircut?
19:20This is completely
19:21different.
19:22How?
19:23I'm not getting
19:24a haircut.
19:25You're not going.
19:26I forbid it.
19:29You forbid it?
19:32Yes,
19:33I forbid it.
19:35If it were up to you,
19:36I would never
19:37leave this house.
19:38You,
19:39you want me to be
19:40a prisoner
19:41in my own home.
19:42Oh,
19:43Jordan.
19:44Oh, Mish.
19:45I merely pretended
19:46to be jealous
19:47of that hideous Feliz
19:48I would be caught dead
19:49with that reptilian monstrosity.
19:51So why pretend?
19:53I'm an actor.
19:55An actor's job
19:56is to give gifts
19:57to all around him.
19:58Every scene,
19:59every action
20:00is a gift.
20:01I hold Agnes
20:02in my arms
20:03and with my performance
20:04I give the audience
20:05the gift of love.
20:08Real life
20:09is not a moving picture,
20:10Mr. Whitman.
20:12It is not different
20:13I see Ruth
20:14with the new Belize
20:15I pretend to covet it
20:16and with my performance
20:17I give her
20:18the gift of pride.
20:20So you lie to her
20:21to make her feel
20:22better?
20:24You misunderstand
20:25what it is
20:26to be an actor.
20:27It is a part
20:28of our vocation.
20:30Take Ruth.
20:31She claims in the press
20:32that she performs
20:33her own stunts
20:34because her public
20:35wants to believe
20:36that to be true.
20:37In the hands of an actor
20:38a lie
20:39is not a lie.
20:41It's a gift.
20:43Precisely.
20:45Mrs. Higgins-Newsom
20:46does not perform
20:47her own stunts?
20:50She's a woman, Detective.
20:52Don't be ridiculous.
20:54That's a big part
20:55of her persona.
20:56At least that's
20:57how it's reported
20:58in the newspapers.
20:59And the man
21:00who performs them
21:01for her
21:02has his feathers ruffled
21:03each and every time
21:04a story like that
21:05appears.
21:06She takes all the credit
21:07and he is left
21:08to suffer
21:09in the worst
21:10of all places.
21:11Obscurity.
21:13Henry,
21:14I'm going
21:15to the hair salon.
21:17Bye.
21:37Hello?
21:39What can I do you for?
21:40I'm sorry.
21:41What can I do you for?
21:43You're the man
21:44who performs
21:45all of Ruth Newsom's
21:46stunts
21:47for the screen?
21:48That's right.
21:49Hooter McCoy.
21:50Detective William Murdoch,
21:51Toronto Constabulary.
21:53You'll have to
21:54forgive me,
21:55but you don't strike
21:56much of a resemblance.
21:57Ah.
21:58They all look the same
21:59in a dress and a wig.
22:01Is that so?
22:02Folks who watch
22:03these serials
22:04ain't exactly
22:05the keenest spurs
22:06on the ranch.
22:08Your colleagues
22:09who worked on
22:10The Adventures
22:11of Agnes
22:12with you
22:13have stated
22:14that you don't
22:15much care
22:16for Mrs. Higgins Newsom
22:17and that
22:18you resent her
22:19for taking credit
22:20for all of your performances.
22:22Don't much care
22:23for a liar.
22:24And,
22:25well,
22:26it's hard
22:27to respect someone
22:28who has no respect
22:29to offer in return.
22:30Ruth Newsom
22:31doesn't respect you.
22:33You know,
22:34we made
22:3518 chapters
22:36of that serial.
22:37Worked on
22:38every one together.
22:39I don't believe
22:40she even knows
22:41my Christian name.
22:43Truth is,
22:44nobody who worked
22:45on that picture show
22:46liked her.
22:47You feel
22:48you can speak
22:49for everyone
22:50on the set?
22:51Of course I can.
22:52Ruth Newsom
22:53keeps food on the table.
22:54I'll know
22:55that we can
22:56make those serials
22:57easier without the stars
22:58but then
22:59who would watch them?
23:00Nobody's gonna
23:01pay a nickel
23:02to see an old
23:03chunk of coal
23:04like yours
23:05truly hanging
23:06off the side
23:07of a cliff.
23:08Mr. McCoy,
23:09did you know
23:10that the bomb
23:11that was used
23:12in the attempt
23:13on Mrs. Newsom's life
23:14was comprised
23:15of TNT
23:16and a long
23:17metal ignition wire?
23:19Can't say it was.
23:21It was a device
23:22exactly like the one
23:23I see there
23:24on your shelf.
23:26Mr. McCoy,
23:27you are under arrest.
23:30So,
23:31they decided
23:32they wanted to take
23:33a holiday
23:34but they couldn't
23:35agree on where.
23:36So my brother,
23:38closes his eyes,
23:39points his finger
23:40and do you know
23:41where it landed?
23:42Someplace in Africa
23:43but that seemed
23:44terribly gloomy
23:45so,
23:46you know,
23:47they spun it again.
23:48This time it landed
23:49in Southampton
23:50which I had never
23:51heard of before.
23:55Ruth?
23:58Ruth?
24:01Isadora,
24:02I've got to go.
24:03Look after Jordan.
24:06Anyway,
24:07poor monk.
24:08Can't say that I miss them.
24:09It's not her anyway.
24:10Did you know
24:11she grew up next door to us
24:12and one summer
24:13her brother
24:14threw a brick
24:15over a shrub
24:16and hit her
24:17square in the back of the head.
24:18She couldn't do anything
24:19but clack like a chicken
24:20for a whole year.
24:21That's what I heard anyway.
24:22I don't think
24:23someone recovers
24:24from something like that.
24:25Do you?
24:26Celeste?
24:29Oh!
24:30Oh my!
24:33Oh!
24:35Oh my!
24:37Oh my God!
24:38Oh my God!
24:39Oh my God!
24:40Oh my God!
24:41Oh my God!
24:42Oh!
24:43Just a minute!
24:44Oh!
24:55Oh!
25:00Help!
25:01That's Ruth Newsome!
25:02Help!
25:03Can somebody?
25:04Help!
25:05Please!
25:06I bet she's making a moving picture.
25:08Sue?
25:14Ruth!
25:15Excuse me, excuse me!
25:16Please, please, excuse me.
25:18Ruth!
25:19My God, what happened?
25:20I told you to stay in the house.
25:21Henry Higgins Newsome.
25:22I just saved the lives of five people,
25:24and that's how you greet me.
25:25If you would just listen to me the minute...
25:26Say one more word, I'm gonna scream.
25:27Ruth!
25:28Ah!
25:31Now if you'll excuse me,
25:33I need to tend to these poor women.
25:36Oh, you're fine.
25:37All right.
25:40The employees and customers of the salon
25:42are all recovering in hospital.
25:44It seems they owe their lives to Ruth Newsome.
25:47So she's earned her headlines after all.
25:49She has.
25:51The gas used in the attack
25:53was a simple combination of bleach and ammonia,
25:55but it could have killed them all.
25:57How was it released?
25:58A device was placed inside of the air vent of the salon.
26:01Hmm.
26:02So whoever did this
26:03must have seen Ruth Newsome enter the salon
26:05and then deploy the gas.
26:07So it would seem.
26:09Sir, this also mirrors a scene
26:12from The Adventures of Agnes.
26:15Of course.
26:16The gas in the mayor's office in chapter six.
26:19So you do watch them.
26:22We all have our vices, detective.
26:26One could be a coincidence,
26:28but both attempts mirroring the serial,
26:31he seems intent on killing Ruth
26:33using one of the methods depicted in her moving pictures.
26:37Oh.
26:38And he's sent another letter.
26:43Same handwriting.
26:44Indeed.
26:45It implies that there will be another attempt
26:48unless The Adventures of Agnes
26:50is completely removed from the cinemas.
26:52And yet our prime suspect
26:54has been sitting in our cells all the while.
26:57Hmm.
26:58We know you could not have executed
27:00the gas attack on Ruth Newsome
27:02earlier this afternoon.
27:04But there is still compelling evidence
27:06that you built the bomb
27:08that caused the explosion she narrowly escaped.
27:10I didn't build this to hurt Ruth Newsome.
27:13Nor anybody else.
27:15Anytime a picture show wants a fire,
27:17a conflagration, an explosion,
27:20they come to Hooter.
27:22You built this for a moving picture?
27:24Naturally.
27:26And I built plenty like it.
27:28We used one in Agnes in Chapter 2.
27:30And I will say I showed every soul working on that picture show
27:33exactly how it worked.
27:35Just because you showed people how it worked
27:37doesn't mean someone had the expertise to recreate it.
27:40Or the supplies to do so.
27:42True enough.
27:43Thing is,
27:45I had some items stolen from myself last week.
27:48Including a device just like this one here.
27:56Believe his story?
27:57Not particularly.
27:58But he didn't release the gas.
28:00And even if he is involved,
28:02someone trying to kill Ruth Newsome is still out there.
28:04And you'll find him.
28:06But you'll have to do it while taking on another job.
28:08What?
28:09Guarding Ruth Newsome.
28:11Round the clock until the killer is caught.
28:13But, sir...
28:14No objections.
28:15Her safety is our top priority.
28:17We'll look like fools if Toronto's sweetheart dies on our watch.
28:28Oh!
28:30Detective.
28:31I understand you're to be my bodyguard.
28:33Apparently so.
28:34Well, can't have you guarding my body in this, uh...
28:38dreary place.
28:40Come.
28:49The house is all clear.
28:51Good night.
28:52Where are you going?
28:53Uh, to review some of these witness statements.
28:56Is there a word to sleep?
28:58Um...
28:59Oh, I was curious.
29:01Are you at all concerned that Mr. Deverell Deverell
29:04is searching for a new starlet to put in his cereals?
29:08Of course not.
29:09Andrew adores me.
29:11Anyway, he couldn't replace me even if he wanted to.
29:13My contract's ironclad.
29:15Oh, Henry, you won't be needed.
29:17The detective will guard me tonight.
29:19Ruru?
29:20You can sleep in the guest room.
29:21Close the door, would you?
29:24Yes, sir.
29:26Henry, I don't want to be involved.
29:31Obviously, I'll be spending the night on the chaise lounge.
29:38Ruru?
29:45Ah, Louise, look at this.
29:48It's the cereal I wrote with Newsome.
29:51It's scribbled with a thousand comments.
29:53How can an actress think she knows more about writing than I do?
29:56She may know more about cereals.
29:59How?
30:00I've written stories and installments,
30:02not to mention a book and a film.
30:04Cereals barely even writing compared to those.
30:07It says here,
30:09Eleanor is a brilliant reporter
30:11with a sharp tongue and effortless beauty?
30:14Yes.
30:16Are you perhaps writing yourself?
30:18Of course not.
30:19So, either I change my story,
30:22which is brilliant, to suit her,
30:24or she refuses to play my cereal,
30:26in which case my brilliant script never gets made.
30:29Can't you just change the character and keep the story?
30:32They're one and the same.
30:36Piece of advice.
30:39About once a month,
30:40the bass player comes in with new ideas for the band.
30:43We have the piano player argue for days,
30:45the band nearly breaks up.
30:47We call it creative differences.
30:49How do they resolve them?
30:51It's simple.
30:52The bass player does what the piano player says.
30:55People come to see the piano.
30:58They don't come to see the bass.
31:00They come to see the piano.
31:03So I need to convince Ruth to do what I say?
31:07Please.
31:09You are not the piano player.
31:11Ruth is.
31:13But I came up with everything.
31:16It doesn't matter.
31:18You got it.
31:28What was that?
31:30I have no idea.
31:41Henry?
31:42Sir!
31:43Someone was trying to break into the house.
31:45Look, never fear, I rustled the knife away from him
31:47and I've scared him off.
31:49Did you see who it was?
31:50He was wearing a mask.
31:52Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, you are so brave.
31:55You know that all I want in this life
31:57is for you to be safe, my darling dimple dumpling.
32:03Henry?
32:05May I have a word?
32:08It's all right.
32:16Is there something you'd like to tell me, Henry?
32:20Um, no.
32:25The broken glass landed outside of the house,
32:28which tells me you broke it from inside.
32:31And that knife appears to be from your set in the kitchen.
32:36I swear I was going to tell you, sir.
32:39I would never have let you pursue all this as actual evidence.
32:41I swear.
32:43Even if I believed you, it wouldn't make things any better.
32:46What were you thinking?
32:48I had to do something, sir, don't you see?
32:50I had to impress Ruth somehow.
32:52I feel like I'm losing her.
32:54No, I'm sure that's not true.
32:56It is true, sir.
32:58It all started when that producer discovered her.
33:01I don't actually want her to stay in the house all the time.
33:03I love her pictures.
33:05I love her.
33:07But ever since she's been working all the time,
33:09she doesn't need me for anything anymore.
33:11Please, don't tell her.
33:14Henry, isn't this our knife?
33:18Um, no.
33:42Why does Henry have a suitcase?
33:45I threw him out.
33:47Where are we going?
33:49To the station house.
33:51I've asked Mr. Deverell Deverell to come in for further questioning.
33:54I scarcely see the point.
34:00This isn't the way to the station house.
34:03Driver!
34:05Driver!
34:07Oh!
34:09Oh!
34:12I'm not going anywhere.
34:14I live here.
34:29Isadora?
34:31Isadora, call the police!
34:34It's him.
34:46The doors are locked.
34:47What do you mean they're locked?
34:49We're trapped.
34:50What do you mean we're trapped?
34:52You're the great detective, so just untrap us.
34:56It must be Deverell Deverell.
34:58He subdued the carriage driver, and he intends to kill you.
35:01Oh, my lord.
35:04Really, detective, now is not the time.
35:11Detective?
35:13That won't work.
35:15All right.
35:17Maybe now is the time.
35:19I'm going to call the police.
35:21All right.
35:23Maybe now is the time.
35:25Purse.
35:36You really know how to handle yourself.
35:39All right.
35:43Are you ready?
35:44What do we do now?
35:46We jump.
35:47I have a confession to make. I don't actually do my own stunts.
35:50I know, but now is an excellent time to start.
35:53Are you ready?
35:54One, two, three.
36:00Sorry.
36:17Sir!
36:19Where's Ruth?
36:20Henry, we need to catch that carriage before Deverell kills Ruth.
36:24But, sir, the killer is not Deverell Deverell.
36:27Look.
36:29It's Whitman.
36:30I found the carriage driver tied up. Whitman must have dropped it, sir.
36:33I've got to find Ruth.
36:34Wait, wait, wait. If it's Whitman...
36:37Yes, that all makes sense.
36:39What?
36:40The automobile bomb. The gas attack.
36:43In the moving pictures, both were instances where Agnes herself was not in danger.
36:48Whitman was in danger.
36:49And Agnes saved him.
36:51Those letters, they were written by him.
36:53His career has stalled and he's embittered because she's become the hero and he is the helpless victim.
36:59So where is he taking her now?
37:01Let me think.
37:02He wants to make her death meaningful.
37:05What are some other ways that Agnes saved him in the films?
37:08From pirates? From mountain lions?
37:10From her own evil twinster. That was a great one.
37:14Railway tracks.
37:15I know exactly where they are. Give me the bicycle.
37:17What? Why?
37:18Henry, he took the carriage that way.
37:20It takes exactly ten minutes to the lakeshore line by carriage.
37:24Even longer by bicycle.
37:25But if you run straight south from here, you'll be there in five minutes.
37:29I can't.
37:31All right, sir.
37:38Stop it! What do you think you're doing?
37:40Oh, quiet down, woman!
37:41Do not tell me what to do!
37:43No?
37:44I am the one who tells you exactly what to do.
37:47You have no say in the matter.
37:49And I've decided that you are going to die.
37:52Why are you doing this?
37:53Cal, you adore me.
37:55Oh, I detest you, Ruth Newsome.
37:57You make a fool of me in every chapter of that damn serial.
37:59What? In the serial?
38:01Yes, the serial.
38:03The serial that was meant to be The Adventures of Arthur starring Cal Whitman.
38:07Until you stole it from me.
38:09Oh, no. I didn't do anything.
38:12I wrote those letters.
38:14I thought it would talk some sense into you.
38:16It's not a woman's place to star in the pictures, much less in a role meant for a man.
38:20But no, your insidious ambition could not be curtailed.
38:24Cal, please, just untie me.
38:27No longer will I sit helplessly by whilst a woman saves me.
38:31Now I am in control of my own fate.
38:35And yours.
38:37Please, just untie me.
38:40Please, Cal!
38:43Ruth!
38:47Help me!
38:48Ruth!
38:49Henry!
38:50Ruth!
38:52Ruth!
38:53I'm coming!
38:59Time to join your insufferable wife.
39:13Henry, you came for me.
39:15Well, of course.
39:16Now we're both gonna die.
39:18Ruth, we are not going to die.
39:19Listen to me. There is a knife in my pocket.
39:21You just have to reach for it.
39:22I can't see anything.
39:24Feel for it. It's right by your hand.
39:25No, Henry, I can't. I'm not a real heroine.
39:29Oh, I don't believe that.
39:30You're a hero to me.
39:31You're brave and you're courageous.
39:33And I've seen you accomplish everything you ever set your mind to.
39:36You're incredible, Ruth.
39:38You're so incredible that you don't even need me anymore.
39:40You're so incredible that you don't even need me anymore.
39:44Oh, my God! Oh, God!
39:46Hurry! Get the knife!
39:58Stop! Police!
40:02Sorry, detective.
40:03This is my story.
40:11Unfortunately, Mr. Whitman,
40:13your story will not be ending the way you'd hoped.
40:19Just a little more. You can do this.
40:21No, Henry, Henry, we're gonna die.
40:23No, no, no. Focus on the knife. It's almost there.
40:26All right. Ah! But yes!
40:29No, Henry, Henry, Henry, you need to save yourself.
40:31Please. I'm not leaving you.
40:33Please get off the truck.
40:34No!
40:41Oh, my God!
40:42It wasn't even gonna hit us!
40:45Henry!
40:46You saved me.
40:48Well, I would have, I suppose.
40:50What was all that nonsense about me not needing you?
40:53Of course I need you.
40:55You're my hero, Henry Higgins.
40:57Ruth.
41:07Congratulations, detective.
41:09You got your man.
41:10Yes.
41:11Although, actually, it was Constable Higgins-Newsom
41:14who discovered the true identity of the killer.
41:16Oh. So you didn't solve the case.
41:19And you didn't successfully guard Toronto's sweetheart, either.
41:23She's an onerous charge, sir.
41:27That train was scheduled to run her over.
41:30And no one seems to know how
41:32the train ended up going down the other track.
41:36Divine intervention, perhaps.
41:38Or someone was familiar with that stretch of track,
41:42knew the schedule of the train,
41:44and deduced the location of the switch
41:46which, when thrown, would send the train off its course.
41:50Anything is possible, I suppose.
41:53Stop right there.
41:55I'm all right.
41:58Thank you, everyone. Thank you.
42:00I think they're applauding me.
42:02Never mind. It's all right.
42:04Where exactly were you?
42:06What kind of a bodyguard goes missing in action
42:08at the most important moment?
42:10I could have been killed.
42:12Thankfully, Henry was there to save me.
42:16Well, not everyone can be the hero.
42:34Oh.
42:40You were right about everything.
42:42What's this?
42:43The script for my serial.
42:45I've completely rewritten it. You're going to love it.
42:48Oh. I don't want to tell that story anymore.
42:51Why not?
42:52I want a new story.
42:53One in which I have a husband who's almost, almost
42:56as heroic as I am.
42:58Huh? Really?
42:59You should tell our story.
43:01The dangerous dealings of a dynamic duo.
43:04Husband and wife. Constable and heroine.
43:07I would even share top billing.
43:10With me?
43:12It would be you, Henry, but it would actually be you.
43:16You're not an actor.
43:17Write this down.
43:18Chapter one, we open on the North Pole.
43:22Agnes is endeavoring to become the first woman
43:24to conquer the Arctic.
43:26She befriends a group of penguins who are guiding her.
43:29You know that penguins don't actually live in the Arctic.
43:31Shh, shh, shh, shh. Just listen.
43:33Whose story is this anyway?
43:35Deep in the background on an ice floe.
43:59You

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