First broadcast 27th April 1988.
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Dr. Watson
Charles Gray ... Mycroft Holmes
Denis Lill ... Inspector Bradstreet
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Jonathan Newth ... Colonel Valentine Walter
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Sidney Johnson
Amanda Waring ... Violet Westbury
Sebastian Stride ... Cadogan West
Robert Fyfe ... Clerk at Woolwich Station
John Rapley ... Underground Official
Simon Carter ... Butler
Derek Ware ... Hugo Oberstein
Stephen Crane ... 1st Platelayer
John Laing ... 2nd Platelayer
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Dr. Watson
Charles Gray ... Mycroft Holmes
Denis Lill ... Inspector Bradstreet
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Jonathan Newth ... Colonel Valentine Walter
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Sidney Johnson
Amanda Waring ... Violet Westbury
Sebastian Stride ... Cadogan West
Robert Fyfe ... Clerk at Woolwich Station
John Rapley ... Underground Official
Simon Carter ... Butler
Derek Ware ... Hugo Oberstein
Stephen Crane ... 1st Platelayer
John Laing ... 2nd Platelayer
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00:00You
00:30You
01:00Evening, mr. West that class London Briggs single or return. Oh, it doesn't matter single
01:17Quickly quickly
01:30I
02:00Must have fallen from the train. Yeah, look at his head. You need back to the station. Tell him what happened. I'll stay
02:30At
02:33Four days
02:45For days
03:00I
03:30It's a real pea souper
03:36Nothing in the paper Watson now, there's a another revolution in South America possible war in Africa nothing of interest to you
03:47The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow
03:51The thief of the murderer could roam London on a day like this as the tiger does the jungle unseen until he pounces
03:58And then ever done only to his victim
04:01There are numerous petty thefts
04:04But this great and somber stage is set for something more worthy than that
04:11It is fortunate for the community that I am NOT a criminal it is indeed
04:16It's as well. They don't have fogs in the Latin countries the countries of assassination
04:21Are you mr. Holmes? Thank you
04:23Mr. Yes, I know. I apologize for the state of my room
04:27like text
04:30My brother Mycroft is coming around
04:33Why not?
04:35This is if you met a tram car coming down a country lane Mycroft has his lines and he runs on them
04:41Palmel lodgings the Diogenes Club Whitehall. That's his cycle once only once has he ever been here
04:46I mean what upheaval can possibly have derailed him
04:50I
04:52Must see you over Kentucky and West coming at once could I can mess up?
04:56I've heard the name. It's of course nothing to my mind
05:00Mycroft breaking out of this erratic fashion. It's extraordinary Watson. You do know
05:05What Mycroft is I seem to remember at the time of that affair the Greek interpreter
05:10You told me that he had some small office under the British government. Oh, I didn't quite say one of those days
05:16His position is unique
05:18He's made it for himself. There's never been anything like it before nor will be again
05:22He is the tidiest and most orderly brain with the greatest capacity for storing facts
05:27of any man living
05:30The conclusions of every government department are passed to him. He is the central exchange
05:35Which makes out the balance all other men are specialists his specialism
05:41his omniscience
05:44Time and time again Mycroft's word has decided national policy
05:49Then Jupiter himself is descending upon us today. Yes, indeed. No trace of Keduggan West
05:56West I
05:58Have it
06:00Yes, Keduggan West
06:03Keduggan West was the young man who was found dead on the underground on Tuesday morning. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes
06:09It was a featureless case as I remember young man killed falling from a moving train. No robbery. No violence
06:15Watson
06:17rather my
06:21That looks like our old friend inspected Bradstreet
06:30Yeah, Keduggan West
06:33Clark at the Woolwich Arsenal
06:3527 unmarried government employee, but all the link with my brother Mycroft
06:42Mycroft ah
06:45Doctor
06:47Watson Watson, you know Bradstreet
06:51Keduggan West the most annoying business Sherlock
06:56Extremely dislike altering my habits, but the powers-that-be would brook. No denial in the present state of Siam
07:04It's most awkward. I should be away from the office
07:07But it is a real crisis Sherlock. I've never seen the Prime Minister so upset and as to the Admiralty
07:15Buzzing like an overturned beehive
07:18Do sit down Bradstreet
07:22Nothing unusual reported in the newspaper I should hope not
07:28The wretched youth had the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine
07:34in his pocket
07:38Well, you must have heard of it only by name its importance can hardly be exaggerated
07:45It has been the most closely guarded of all government secrets. You may take it from me that naval warfare becomes impossible
07:54Within the radius of a Bruce Partington operation
08:00What sort of plans are we talking about
08:02Extremely intricate one Sherlock some 30 different patents each one
08:07Essential to the working of the home where the plans normally kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office
08:14Adjoining the arsenal at Woolwich with burglar-proof doors and windows
08:19If the chief constructor of the Navy himself desired to consult the plans, he would have to go to Woolwich to do so
08:26Do you think they should turn up in the pocket of a dead junior Clark in the heart of London simply awful
08:33Then he recovered the papers. No Sherlock. No, that's the pinch we have not
08:39Some ten papers were taken from Woolwich
08:42Only seven were found in the pocket of Cadogan West. The other three are missing gone vanished stolen
08:49You must drop everything Sherlock
08:52Nevermind your usual petty puzzles of the police courts. This is a real
08:58International crisis that you have to solve
09:03There are some points of interest in the case, I suppose
09:09I'll be pleased to look at
09:12Bradstreet now who held the keys to that safe
09:16There are two sets of keys
09:19Sir, James Walter holds one set
09:21He is the actual official guardian of the papers a man grown gray in the service of the state a favored guest
09:27And the most exalted houses his patriotism is above suspicion
09:31And the other keys are mr
09:33Sidney Johnson the senior clerk and draftsman a silent morose man not popular but a hard worker his wife
09:40Corroborates his account of the matter
09:41He was at home the whole of Monday night and the keys never left the watch chain upon which they hang
09:45What sort of fellow was this man West?
09:47hot-headed
09:49rather impetuous
09:51His duties brought him into daily contact with the plans who locked them up that night Johnson the senior clerk
09:56I think they were found on the person of the junior clerk. Well, I mean that seems final does it not?
10:00Why would he take me if you think of any reason why did you take him up to London except to sell them?
10:06Nope, you must take that as our working hypothesis
10:11Could only have done this
10:14With false keys. He opens the safe takes out the papers goes up to London to see a foreign agent
10:20He has to have them back before morning or the loss will be discovered
10:24He took away ten seven were in his pocket
10:28What became of the other three he certainly wouldn't leave them of his own free will it all seems perfectly clear to me
10:34As you say, mr. Holmes West stole the plans in order to sell them
10:39He met the agent but they could not agree as to a price
10:44So West returned home again, but the agent followed him in the train. The agent murdered him
10:49took the more essential papers and
10:52Threw the body from the railway carriage
10:55Now that would explain everything would it not?
10:58It's very good Bradstreet
11:00The theory holds together
11:02But if that is so the case is at an end
11:04On the one hand the traitor is dead on the other the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine are presumably somewhere on the continent
11:10I mean, what is there for me to do?
11:11to act Sherlock
11:13to act
11:16All my instincts are against this explanation and yours too. I think we are not brothers for nothing
11:24Use your powers
11:25Go to the scene to question the people concerned leave no stone unturned
11:30In all your career, you'll never have a greater chance of serving your country
11:35If you on your part will be kind enough to send me a complete list of foreign spies and international agents known to be in England
11:41and their full address
11:43Either we on our part can begin our investigation by a visit to Long Beach station. That's
12:00You
12:09When was the body found near enough to six o'clock, sir, Tuesday morning
12:13He must have fallen from a train sometime Monday night now
12:15The carriage has been examined for any signs of violence and such traits of violence has been found
12:21door found
12:24We can tell the approximate time that he entered the train from his ticket
12:28There was no ticket on the body
12:32That is really very singular
12:34In my experience, it is not possible to reach the platform of the Metropolitan line without exhibiting one's ticket. Is that not so?
12:41Quite correct, sir. Surely the the murderer would have removed the ticket before
12:46Throwing West from the train so as not to reveal the name of the station nearest his place of residence
12:50I think the doctor had it. What else did he have in his possession besides the fatal papers and no ticket?
12:56Usual things
12:58pocketbook no case checkbook. Oh and
13:01Two tickets for the dress circle of the Woolwich Theatre for that very evening
13:07It appears that West was to have attended the performance in the company of his fiancee
13:12Miss Violet Westbury. She was the last person to see him alive on the fatal night
13:18They were walking to the theater together in the fog
13:21When he suddenly left her
13:23suddenly without explanation
13:26There appears to be no bleeding on the line. There was hardly any trace of blood to be found.
13:31I gather there was a considerable wound consistent with a man falling from a moving train
13:35It was a terrible thing to see. The head was knocked right in and the bone crushed and yet there was no great external injury
13:42Everyone would expect some blood
13:46The line runs
13:49North East
13:50Yes, the track divides here sir. There's a branch line goes south under the river to Rotherhithe and New Cross
14:05The points
14:08I suppose there are no great number of points in a system such as this. There are very few sir
14:14Points
14:17And a girl. Oh by Jove. If it were only so. What is it?
14:26Do you have a clue? No, it's an idea Bradstreet. An indication. But the case certainly grows in interest
14:40And yet, why not?
14:46Ah
14:53There is material here Watson there is scope I was dull indeed not to see its possibilities now
14:59I confess it's dark to me and to me also
15:02But I now have a hold of an idea which may lead us far
15:07Now I think sir James the guardian of the plans claims our first attention
15:12Plumstead Hall
15:17Oh
15:23Well Holmes
15:27Your idea oh, yes
15:31The man West was killed not by falling or being thrown from a moving train
15:37He met his death elsewhere and his body was on the roof of the carriage
15:44Well consider the facts
15:46Is it a coincidence that the body was found in the very place where the train breaks and sways as it comes round on the points?
15:54The sudden slowing would affect no object inside the carriage, but an object such as a body on the roof
16:01And there's a question of the mind of course there was no bleeding on the line if the body bled elsewhere
16:06Each fact is suggestive in itself together. They have a cumulative force
16:10Yes, and and the ticket to that would explain the absence of the ticket Watson it all fits together
16:16I
16:24Please wait
16:36Come in these gentlemen we were expecting you
16:46Ah
16:57Gentlemen
16:59Thank you Baines. Thank you sir
17:01if you'll follow me the
17:03Body is upstairs wait one moment
17:08Are you not the undertakers
17:11I
17:12Excuse me sir James. I am dr. Watson and this is mr. Sherlock Holmes
17:18Good heavens we are helping the authorities in the case of the missing papers
17:25My brother sir James Walter died this morning I am Colonel Valentine Walter
17:33Please gentlemen
17:40We
17:49Have very sorry sir. Thank you. I'm afraid it has been a great shock, but
17:57mask
17:59How did your brother die it was this horrible scandal my brother is
18:04My
18:06Brother was a man of very sensitive honor. He was fiercely proud of the efficiency of his department
18:13The theft of the plans was a crushing blow
18:16It broke his heart
18:18we were
18:19Hoping sir James might have been able to help I assure you it was as much a mystery to him as it is to all
18:25of us
18:26Naturally he had no doubt that West was guilty, but why he should have done such a thing
18:32Now of course we shall never know
18:36So
18:38You've been through no light on the matter me
18:41I'm afraid I know nothing say what I've read or heard
18:45And you never met Cadogan ways no no I have not been back in the country long
18:51My brother's work was of a highly confidential nature. He did not discuss it with me
18:56Gentlemen I do not wish to seem discourteous, but we are much disturbed at present. I must ask you to hasten this interview to an end
19:05It's their solid to have caused you so much trouble
19:20That's an unexpected development
19:22That's an unexpected development
19:25heart failure
19:28Suicide
19:30Now for miss Westbury is that the dead man's fiance
19:53I
19:57Cannot explain it mr. Holmes I
20:00Haven't closed my eyes since the tragedy
20:03Thinking and thinking and thinking what the true meaning of it can be
20:10Do sit down
20:13I
20:19Thought was the most single-minded
20:23chivalrous
20:24patriotic man on earth
20:26He would have cut off his right hand rather than sell a state secret confided to his keeping
20:31It's absurd
20:33Impossible preposterous to anyone who knew him no
20:37The facts was he in want of money no
20:42His needs were very simple and his salary was sufficient
20:46He'd saved a few hundreds and we were to marry at the new year. What's that any sign of?
20:53mental excitement
20:55Come miss Westbury be absolutely frank with us. I
21:00Had a feeling
21:03There was something on his mind
21:05For long only the last week or two
21:09Once I asked him about it
21:12It is too serious to speak about even to you. He said
21:15Go on miss Westbury. I mean even if it seems to tell against him
21:20We cannot say what it may lead us
21:23He spoke one evening about him a
21:26secret I
21:29Think he said that no doubt foreign spies would pay a great deal to have it
21:33He said that we were slack about such matters and they would it would be easy for a traitor to get hold of the plans
21:41Oh
21:43If you could only only save his honor it was so much to him
21:56Now, please tell us about that last evening
21:59It was Monday night and we were to go to the theater
22:16Violet I'm afraid I've got to leave you leave me. It's very very important. I'm sorry
22:24Very important, I'm sorry. You'd better go home go home immediately, please
22:54It was just him mr. Holmes
22:56It was just him mr. Holmes and he disappeared without any exception
23:21It was just him mr. Holmes
23:24And he disappeared without any explanation, yes
23:29You are sure this is the exact spot yes
23:33We often used to meet here when we were courting
23:38You see that's the building where he used to work
23:44That was the last time I saw him
23:47What's the witness a kindness to take this Westbury home in the car?
23:53Oh
24:10It's very bad
24:13The whole place is disorganized
24:15West dead now the chief dead our paper stolen
24:21And yet when I close this office on Monday evening we were as efficient as any in the service
24:27What hour was the office closed on Monday at 5? Did you close it? I'm always the last man out
24:33Is there no night watchman to the building? Yes, he has other departments to look after as well
24:39He's an old soldier the most trustworthy man. He didn't see anything that evening
24:51When you close the office, where were the plans in that safe I put them there myself
25:05If could I can West wish to enter the office after hours
25:09He would need three keys would announce before he could reach these papers
25:12Yes key to the outer door key to the office at the key of the safe
25:18And only you answer James Walter had those keys yes indeed
25:23Sir, James kept all three keys on one ring
25:25They never left him and of course your keys never left your possession never sir
25:30Cadogan West is the culprit. He must have had duplicates. Oh, he's the culprit. All right
25:36It's dreadful to think that West of all people should have done such a thing
25:40You're sure of his guilt. I see no other way
25:44He was getting married. He wanted the money
25:47Oh, yes
25:48He's your man
25:50Mr. Johnson if someone desired to sell the plans
25:55surely
25:57It'd be easier to make copies
25:59Than to take the originals it would need considerable technical knowledge. May I see these?
26:07And of course you and West and so James Walter had that knowledge that may be so but don't try to drag me into this
26:14matter. Mr. Holmes the plans were found on West. It is certainly singular
26:18That he should risk taking the originals when he could have safely taken copies. Perhaps it was a matter of time. Oh, yes
26:28Now
26:30Three plans are missing. I understand. They are the vital ones. That is so
26:34Now someone holding those
26:36Three papers. I mean could they construct a Bruce Partington submarine?
26:39I
26:43Told the Admiralty that I thought it was possible. Yeah, but today I'm not so sure
26:48These all-important double valves with the automatic self-adjusting slots are drawn only on this plan
26:56Which has been returned. Which was the kind as the closed those window shutters exactly as they were on Monday night
27:03window shutters certainly
27:09I
27:22Thank you so much
27:39I think I'll take a little stroll outside. Oh, please don't trouble yourself. I can find my own way
28:09Oh
28:13Would you please wait
28:18Holmes Watson
28:31Look at this bushes have been broken dialogue with the windows behind me
28:39The shutters don't meet in the center
28:43As you say don't meet interesting don't you think?
28:55815 to London Bridge. I'm sure you definitely recognized him as Cadogan West. Oh, yes, definitely. I knew him well
29:03He was an old acquaintance
29:06The week went by but we didn't pass the time of day together
29:10It's hard to believe isn't it? Yeah, I was saying to the wife only on Sunday night. No, I'm a liar
29:16It was Saturday. I said there's no safer railway than the London Metropole
29:24Did mr. West
29:26Seem to be following anyone
29:28Not that I saw her. Mr. Holmes, but then I don't see everything there was really thick fog
29:36But one thing I will say
29:39Mr. West wasn't his usual self. He was nervous excited
29:43I tell you this gentleman his hand was shaking so bad. I even had to open pick up his change
29:49Well, I mean that speaks for itself
29:52Ah Trey
30:06Oh
30:11Mr. Holmes
30:17Mr. Holmes, yes
30:19Whilst you were away a message came for you from the government an official gentleman in a special carriage
30:27He said I wasn't to let this out of my sight until I placed it into your own hands
30:32mrs. Hudson you are a
30:34Most faithful watchdog
30:39That's my brother Mycroft
30:42He writes like a drunken crab. You'd better read it
30:46Doctors are more used to hieroglyphics than normal human beings. Oh
30:52Can't read the first bit something about small fry and very big affair. Ah, here we are only men worth considering
30:59Adolphe Meyer 13 great George Street
31:10Louie Louie La Rochere
31:13Camden Mansions, Notting Hill, and that's another old friend. This is Hudson. You're hideously in the way
31:18I'm sorry, sir, but I only have one pair of please disappear
31:23Ah
31:26Hugo Oberstein 13 Caulfield Gardens Kensington
31:32Known to be in town on Monday now reported to have left the cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety
31:39The whole force of the state is at your back if you should need it
31:44Mycroft all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men cannot avail us in this matter
31:52I
31:55Feel gardens
32:01Well
32:04What have you found things are turning a little in our direction
32:10Now I really believe that we're going to bring it off after all
32:18I'm going out
32:20When will you be back I've no idea but I promise I will do nothing serious without my trusted comrade and biographer at my elbow
32:50I
33:05Want me to meet him in a restaurant off the Gloucester Road
33:09Just hope you'll be careful. That's all
33:12Not as young as you were
33:15You know what mr. Holmes is like once he gets the bit between his teeth do indeed
33:21Good night, mrs. Hudson
33:23night doctor
33:36Thank you
33:50I
34:04Have you the tools
34:07Had something to eat yes indeed and have a coffee in a kiosk so senior Goldini
34:13Another coffee in a kiosk so please my friend
34:16Try one of the proprietor's cigars nothing like his poisonous as one would expect. Oh, thank you
34:25But our plan of action
34:28It is evident to you Watson that the body was placed on the roof the cat will drop from a bridge
34:33No, that's impossible placed
34:35The carriage roofs are rounded with no rails
34:38How could he be placed there in some areas?
34:42The Lunton underground
34:44Runs clear of tunnels and past the backs of houses when I found that a leading international agent lived in just such a house
34:52Yeah, I was so pleased that you were a little astonished at my sudden frivolity
34:56Hugo Oberstein 13 Caulfield Gardens, of course
35:00Exactly. I was able to satisfy myself, but not only to the backstay windows open on the line
35:07But that owing to the intersection of the Richmond and Wimbledon lines with the circle line near Gloucester Road station
35:14The trains are frequently held motionless
35:19But that's splendid you you've got it the house appears to be unoccupied
35:23Oberstein obviously having gone abroad to dispose of his booty
35:26He has no reason to feel a warrant and a spot of amateur burglary would never occur to him
35:30But that is precisely what we are about to do
35:33Why for what purpose?
35:35We cannot tell what correspondents may be there
35:38No, no, no, I don't like it Holmes. You can keep watch. I'll do the criminal part
35:44This is no time to stick at trifles
35:47Think of the Admiralty, think of the cabinet
35:50Think of the exalted person herself who waits for news
35:55We're bound to go
36:03I knew you wouldn't stick at the last
36:33Ah
36:38Serious proposition locked and bolted we may do better in the area
36:59Ah, this is better Jimmy
37:03Oh
37:33So
37:35So
38:02Don't touch this
38:06Look where they rest at the bottom
38:15Blood
38:20But again
38:36Peace
38:39Peace
38:41Peace
38:44What do you think of that masterpiece
38:47You've never risen to a greater height. No, I cannot agree with you
38:50The moment I conceived the idea of the body on the roof of the train the rest was inevitable
38:54And major difficulties unfolded
39:05So
39:36Oh fresh blotting paper Cunningfellow, he's covered his tracks
39:53Holmes
40:06I mean there's nothing
40:23It seems to be burning old newspapers
40:28I see. Oh, yeah
40:30Why would a man so obviously
40:33Untidy in his habits take the trouble to burn
40:36Old newspapers probably trying to start a fire
40:39There's no
40:40There's no wood cold
40:45Let me see
40:51Thank you
41:03Ah
41:08Well done well done indeed, I think we have our man
41:13Would you look in the agony column of the two remaining copies of the daily telegraph?
41:16I think you will find a message from someone calling himself Pierrot
41:21Ah, here we are hope to hear sooner terms agreed but must have full report matter presses sign pure and the last
41:33Yes by joke monday night after nine two taps only ourselves payment in hard cash when goods delivered
41:40Signed period just like the other one. Every paper has a message from someone calling himself Pierrot
41:44It's an odd name for a villain like Oberstein to use if only we could get the man at the other end
41:51Watson quickly. We haven't a moment to lose read the papers
41:59Where are we going
42:01the offices of the daily telegraph
42:03We've just time
42:12Splendid
42:14Splendid. I always said you'd make the best cat burglar in london if you put your mind to it
42:23Can't do these things in the force. Mr. Holmes. No wonder you sometimes get results that are beyond us
42:28Some of these days you'll go too far
42:30You and your friend will find yourselves in trouble. England home and beauty eh Watson?
42:34Martyrs on the altar of our country
42:37The agony column of the daily telegraph. What use will you make of those? Have you seen the advertisement from Pierrot today?
42:50Tonight same hour same place two taps most vitally important your own safety at stake
42:57Signed Pierrot. By George if he answers that we've got him
43:27So
43:34He's here
43:57So
44:14You can write me down as an ass Watson, this is not the bird I was expecting
44:19Who is he? Colonel Valentine Walter. Sir. James's younger brother
44:24I'll begin to see how the cards fall now
44:26What is this? I came here to visit Mr. Oberstein. I know you surely. Sherlock Holmes
44:38Everything is known Colonel. How an English gentleman could behave in such a manner is beyond comprehension
44:46We know of your relations and correspondence with Oberstein. You stole your brother's keys and had them duplicated
44:52We know you went to admiralty office on Monday night and was seen by Cadogan West
44:56Leaving all his private concerns being the good citizen that he was
45:00He followed you closely in the fog halfway across London until you reached this very house. It was then Colonel Walter
45:07That to treason you added the terrible crime of murder
45:11I did not I did not before God I swear I did not. Then tell us how Arthur Cadogan West met his end
45:17Before you placed his body on the roof of the railway carriage
45:22He followed me as you describe
45:24But until I was at the very door of this house, I did not know it
45:29So
45:47What are you gonna do with those papers
45:59All right
46:14He hit his head on the marble floor he was dead in a matter of minutes
46:20It was Oberstein's idea to stuff the less important plans in West's pocket and put him on the roof of the train
46:28I
46:33What made you turn traitor colonel
46:37A stock exchange debt had to be paid
46:41I needed the money badly Oberstein offered me five thousand
46:47It was to save myself from ruin and disgrace
46:53My brother used to discuss matters with me which he probably should not have done
46:58This submarine for instance
47:00How could he ever guess his own brother would betray him
47:07That was the worst of all he suspected me I know he did I read it in his eyes
47:14And after this West business he never held up his head again
47:19Hmm
47:21Can you not make reparation to ease your conscience and possibly your punishment
47:28What reparation can I make where is Oberstein with the papers? I do not know
47:33He said that letters to the hotel du Louvre in Paris would reach him
47:37Ah, well, then it is possible for you to help us
47:41Yes
47:47Come and sit down and write to my dictation
47:59Dear sir
48:02In regard to our transaction you have now observed that
48:06One essential detail is missing, but I have a tracing that will make it complete. Is that true Sherlock?
48:11Quite true
48:13What essential detail is missing?
48:15The double valves
48:17And automatic self-adjusting slots
48:20Good heavens. How on earth did you know that? I've become quite a submarine expert brother boy
48:27Now colonel
48:31What would be your terms
48:33I must ask you for a further 500 pounds English notes, please
48:45I shall expect to meet you
48:47No, we can hardly say here. I wish I would suspect a trap
48:51the foyer of the chairing cross hotel
48:54Its proximity to the railway station renders it extremely popular amongst the international spy fraternity
49:00Did you get that colonel?
49:04Noon saturday next
49:07I should be very much surprised if that does not fetch our man
49:30So
49:40That's our man
50:00So
50:30What
50:44Splendid Bradstreet
50:47But our traitor has flown
50:50Well, i'll be damned the cheek of the fella
50:53the right gentleman
50:55We're keeping him on a long lead
51:01There's an R in the month
51:03And the diogenes club has the most excellent oysters. I should like both you gentlemen to be my guests
51:14Come along Sherlock
51:30So
52:00So
52:30You