The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Episode 8. The Last Vampyre.

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First broadcast 27th January 1993.  Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.  Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes Edward Hardwicke ... Doctor Watson Roy Marsden ... John Stockton Keith Barron ... Rob Ferguson Yolanda Vazquez ... Carlotta (as Yolanda Vasquey) Maurice Denham ... Reverend Merridew Richard Dempsey ... Jack Juliet Aubrey ... Dolores Jason Hetherington ... Michael Elizabeth Spriggs ... Mrs Mason Peter Geddis ... Mr Gresty Kate Lansbury ... Mrs Gresty Maria Redmond ... Vera Gresty Freddie Jones ... Pedlar Hilary Mason ... Miss Ruddock Stephen Tomlin ... PC Ware Eileen O'Brien ... Mrs Carter Andy Abrahams ... Mr. Carter Marcello Walton ... Tom Carter (as Marcello Marascalchi) Paul Parris ... Albert, The Pageboy Anthony Price ... Ricardo, The Baby Andrea Hessayon ... Villager

Transcript

00:00:00Oh

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00:01:30Free

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00:03:14Thought I persuaded her we'd have the baby baptized here in this church by you

00:03:19Well, you know women. Well, there's a Catholic Church in the next village Carlotta has found it on Sundays

00:03:25We go our separate ways now the child. No, no, no, he stays with me

00:03:29I'm resolved on that

00:03:31most other things your wife was

00:03:34Adapted. Well, I need

00:03:37our climate

00:03:38No, no, not to the climate

00:03:41And your boy Jack, how is he responded? Well, we'll

00:03:46We'll resolve that too in good time. Not easy for you

00:03:49No, but I love my wife Augustus and love conquers all as you've always preached from your pulpit

00:03:55Oh Stockton dinner tonight eight o'clock

00:03:59Eight o'clock

00:04:02Interesting man and you were right he has spent some time in Peru. I've invited him over to make Carlotta feel at home

00:04:25I

00:04:55I

00:05:18Stop if you let me kiss you

00:05:20kiss

00:05:23You kiss me Jack

00:05:28Where

00:05:30Well, you wish on the lips on the neck on the boot

00:05:39You kiss my boots

00:05:47Come on if you want it so bad

00:05:52Oh

00:06:22I

00:06:29Got a guest coming for dinner tonight

00:06:52I

00:07:04Tell him to stop

00:07:22Seattle

00:07:37He frightened the baby I

00:07:39did nothing father I

00:07:42Heard you from the yard boy. Why are you doing this?

00:07:48Why

00:07:52I

00:08:22I

00:08:50Shall die of cold

00:08:52No, you won't a convivial evening will soon warm your bones

00:09:16I'm sorry what happened earlier, but the boy was rude to Dolores very rude. You must leave him to me

00:09:22Even so this is for a new violin

00:09:26Of course why not

00:09:53I

00:10:11Jack my boy your stepmother's guest has arrived father

00:10:22I

00:10:37Wife Carlotta

00:10:42Mucho gusto

00:10:44Clemente

00:10:46my boy Jack

00:10:48the violinist

00:10:49You met each other in the village father

00:10:53We talked about hiding

00:10:55He will play for us after dinner

00:11:01I'm not good enough and our pride and joy my son Ricardo

00:11:22Uh-huh

00:11:46Holmes

00:11:52You're right

00:11:58Sorry to alarm you Watson, but your reaction was instructive

00:12:03So you believe in that existence what

00:12:06vampires

00:12:07No, of course, I don't

00:12:09Your attitudes are just the contrary. Well, one doesn't have to believe in something to be frightened homes. It's two different parts of the brain

00:12:16right

00:12:18So you rule them out

00:12:20Vampires the rational part of you insists upon it. Well, do you believe in them cross your eyes over this?

00:12:3046 old jury April 12th re vampires

00:12:33Our client the Reverend Augustus married you of the vicarage Lamberley has made some inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning

00:12:42concerning vampires as our firm

00:12:46Specializes entirely upon the assessment of machinery the matter hardly comes within our purview

00:13:04What disturbed you

00:13:06We have therefore recommended the reverend married you to call on you and lay the matter before you

00:13:12We have not forgotten your successful action in the case of Matilda Briggs

00:13:16We are says faithfully yours Morrison Morrison and Todd. This cover source has been here for the last three days

00:13:25Matilda Briggs was a ship associated with a giant rat of Sumatra

00:13:29The story for which the world is not yet prepared you consider though that

00:13:34Vampires should come within our purview. No, anything is better than this stagnation

00:13:39Really

00:13:41We seem to be switched on to some Grimm's fairy tale

00:13:45Well, this married you is a man of the cloth the man of Christian belief

00:13:50That is of marginal interest

00:13:53Make a long arm Watson. Let us see what the V has to say

00:14:08Voyage of the Gloria Scott. That was a bad business. I have some recollection that you made a record of it Watson

00:14:15Though I was unable to congratulate you upon the result

00:14:18Victor Lynch and the forger venomous lizard and healer remarkable case there

00:14:23Victoria the circus pearl Vanderbilt and the egg man. I should like some tea Holmes

00:14:28Vipers Vigour and the Hammersmith wonder. Did you say something?

00:14:31Shall I tell you?

00:14:34Vipers Vigour and the Hammersmith wonder. Did you say something?

00:14:37Shall I call down for some tea?

00:14:39Good old index. No, you can't beat it. Listen to this vampirism in Hungary and again vampires in Transylvania

00:14:53My dear friend what has happened?

00:14:55Will you come at once?

00:14:57Yes, of course

00:14:59Rubbish. Rubbish

00:15:02What are we to do with walking corpses that have to have stakes driven to the hearts to keep them in their graves

00:15:07Are we to give serious attention to such things?

00:15:11It's pure lunacy

00:15:13No, no doubt. You're right

00:15:16This agency must stand flat-footed upon the ground and then it was to remain

00:15:22The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply. Ah, well now ghosts need apply

00:15:32Are you prepared to tell me who supplied you with these and to what purpose?

00:15:42Well, I had them made for me by a dentist from Peckham

00:15:47It was a necessary disguise I needed once. I forgot

00:15:54And did you put them to use?

00:15:57Balky, humour again, Watson. You really must guard against it

00:16:01Albert?

00:16:02A man gave me this in the street, sir. Elderly gent. Says he's got to see you urgent

00:16:06It's your man of the cloth. Show up

00:16:10With care

00:16:11Yes, sir

00:16:12Oh, Albert

00:16:13Sir?

00:16:14Do you believe in the existence of vampires?

00:16:16Oh, yeah. Most definitely, sir

00:16:20There speaks the voice of wisdom

00:16:23Non-experience I trust

00:16:28Yes, thank you, young man. I'm not quite in my grave yet

00:16:36Oh, Mr. Holmes. It's so good of you to see me at such notice. I know how busy you are

00:16:43Sit down and settle yourself, Reverend

00:16:44Thank you

00:16:45Will you tell Wiggins where you've hidden the key?

00:16:47Yes, sir

00:16:48Thank you, Albert. This is my friend and colleague

00:16:50Dr. Watson. Yes, yes, I know

00:16:53Now, my solicitors, Morrison, Morrison and...

00:16:58Dodd?

00:16:59Well, in point of fact, they're not really my solicitors

00:17:02No, I had some dealings with them long ago

00:17:06I forget quite what about

00:17:09Machinery

00:17:11Was it?

00:17:12Well, anyway, I'm here on behalf of a friend of mine

00:17:18And myself, too, and I'm very anxious you shouldn't take me for a complete old fool

00:17:25Please

00:17:29You must take your time

00:17:32Well, where to start it all?

00:17:35I am Vicar of Lamberley and I've been there longer than I care to think

00:17:40Only time to go, but let me tell you about Bob Ferguson

00:17:44No, not Bob Ferguson of Richmond

00:17:48He remembers you, too, doctor, from the rugby field

00:17:51Possibly the finest three-quarter never to have been capped for England

00:17:55And my sentiments precisely

00:17:58I love the game and if modesty permits

00:18:01I once turned up myself and scrum half-forgottenly

00:18:07Well, Bob has spent most of his working life abroad

00:18:11Cotton-broking

00:18:12Now, his first wife, by whom he has a son, Jack

00:18:16She died of fever some years ago

00:18:21Look, it's absolutely essential that I put you in the full picture

00:18:27Continue just as you are doing, Reverend

00:18:30It is often Holmes' method to absorb all relevant detail with his eyes tight shut

00:18:37Hmm

00:18:39Well, Bob arrived home recently with a new bride and a baby from Peru

00:18:47Difficult transition for all concerned, as you may imagine

00:18:52You ride, Jack?

00:18:54No, of course he rides

00:18:55Wayne Tartan

00:18:57Told you everything, didn't I, Jack?

00:18:59But I must turn your attention to a stranger who came into our midst not long before our Peruvian family

00:19:07His name is John Johnson

00:19:09He's a young man, a young man

00:19:11He's a young man, a young man

00:19:13He's a young man, a young man

00:19:15He's a young man, a young man

00:19:17He's a young man, a young man

00:19:19He's a young man, a young man

00:19:20His name is John Stockton

00:19:22Well, at first I welcomed him as a man of intellect, a writer and stimulus to our little community

00:19:28Oh, thank you

00:19:33I can't say that I warmed to him personally

00:19:36But he did have a certain appeal to someone like myself buried in the backwater

00:19:42Now, he was no threat to me, but he upset the locals

00:19:47Ah, blacksmiths, carters, some argument over a wheel

00:19:52Oh, you come telling me my job, damn you!

00:19:54If you don't like it, you can take it away!

00:19:56Find somebody else!

00:19:58Until you're so privileged and don't come back!

00:20:01We don't want you here in this village! None of us!

00:20:09Money!

00:20:17Oh!

00:20:19Oh!

00:20:21Carter, a lion of a man in the prime of life, stalwart of village life

00:20:26Dead within moments of it

00:20:30Now, Miss Ruddock, spinster of my parish

00:20:34She has the cottage facing Stockton's

00:20:37And she speaks of him as the man who never sleeps

00:20:41She sees a candle in his window many nights through till dawn

00:20:45Well, writer at work, it's not uncommon

00:20:49Possibly, but I myself am something of an insomniac

00:20:53Also, I have seen him twice

00:20:56In my graveyard, at dead of night

00:20:59And his explanation?

00:21:01Hmm?

00:21:02Surely you raised the matter?

00:21:04Explanation? Oh...

00:21:08Plausible, I suppose

00:21:12I believe that I'm related to a family called Sinclair

00:21:17Indeed, my middle name

00:21:19Sinclair?

00:21:21They had a large house, up beyond the village

00:21:24Ah, yes, now you mention it

00:21:28I'm puzzled to find no trace of them

00:21:33Are we not welcome here?

00:21:36The truth was that I knew full well the story of the Sinclairs

00:21:41They were powerful landowners

00:21:43Had the village in their pocket sometime in the last century

00:21:47The Lord Sinclair himself was a cruel monster

00:21:51Those who incurred his displeasure disappeared

00:21:55Or were found with their throats cut

00:21:58Young servant girls, one in particular

00:22:01Was left pregnant and dying at the church door

00:22:05Her child stillborn

00:22:08There's not a Sinclair to be found

00:22:12What did we do to offend?

00:22:15Did you tell him?

00:22:17Oh, the bare bones of it, yes

00:22:19The church incident and...

00:22:21How the villagers exacted their terrible revenge

00:22:26Burnt us out

00:22:28I regret to say...

00:22:30Nothing personal to you, of course

00:22:32And the girl?

00:22:34She's buried over there

00:22:36Buried over there?

00:22:42Well, what I neglected to tell him

00:22:44Because it seemed to be inappropriate

00:22:47Was that the family Sinclair

00:22:49Were deemed to be vampires

00:22:53Oh, this is very interesting

00:22:55Reveled as a piece of history

00:22:56But how does it lead to the present?

00:22:58Well, Sinclair, by his own admission

00:23:01Has returned, hasn't he?

00:23:02But how does that affect the village?

00:23:04And why should they care?

00:23:06All this happened a hundred years back

00:23:08Yes, well...

00:23:10Word gets around, you know

00:23:12You mean the church?

00:23:14Profound of all gossip

00:23:16Answering your second question

00:23:18The girl, the dead girl

00:23:21Her family is still in the village

00:23:25The wife of the landlord of the local inn, for instance

00:23:28She was a borrower

00:23:30So too was the blacksmith's wife

00:23:35Has Stockton, to your knowledge

00:23:37Ever set foot inside the church?

00:23:39Oh, no, not once

00:23:41As far as I'm aware of it, never

00:23:44Even so...

00:23:46I'm unclear how I can be of service to you

00:23:48No crime has been committed

00:23:50No crime?

00:23:52No, no crime, but...

00:23:58You have something more to tell us?

00:24:02Four days ago now

00:24:04It seems a lifetime

00:24:06Bob Ferguson invited Stockton to dinner

00:24:08You see, Stockton had travelled in Peru

00:24:11And I think it was I who suggested

00:24:14That it might be a good thing for his new wife

00:24:16To have some contact again with her native country

00:24:21And the evening?

00:24:23Not a success?

00:24:25All I know is

00:24:27The outcome of it was a tragedy

00:24:31The very next morning

00:24:33The household woke to a terrible discovery

00:24:37The baby, little Ricardo, lay dead in his cot

00:24:42And the doctor's verdict?

00:24:44The doctor, well...

00:24:46He could find no reason for it

00:24:48No...

00:24:50Earthly reason

00:24:54Tragedy indeed

00:24:57But no blame affixed to the dinner guest, surely?

00:25:00Well, he touched the baby's hand

00:25:04Well, so they told me

00:25:07Look, I am a man of God, gentlemen

00:25:10And far be it from me to judge a fellow being

00:25:13On hearsay and superstition

00:25:16But I also have my parishioners to think of

00:25:18And they're frightened and may well take steps

00:25:21Outside the law to drive him out

00:25:23As they once did his forebears

00:25:25You see my dilemma?

00:25:28So you wish us to make an investigation

00:25:31Into this man, his personality, his habits

00:25:36And disprove the common fear?

00:25:38Disprove, disprove what you will

00:25:41Your presence alone would have a steadying effect

00:25:51Well, now I...

00:25:53I must leave you

00:25:54Among my other concerns is sickness in the village

00:25:57And I have the baby's funeral to prepare for tomorrow

00:26:01Your story is complex, Reverend

00:26:05But not without some interest

00:26:09Yet I'm sure there's a rational explanation for it

00:26:18Watson and I will visit your community

00:26:20Oh, I'm so pleased

00:26:22You mentioned an inn?

00:26:23Yes, the Chequers, it's a decently round place

00:26:26Well, thank you

00:26:28I'm so grateful, so grateful to you both

00:26:32So grateful

00:26:54All right

00:26:56Two sudden deaths

00:26:58The blacksmith and the child

00:27:00Shortly after contact

00:27:01Natural causes, as the coroner's report will inform us

00:27:05Stockton's nocturnal habits

00:27:07The light in the window

00:27:09Writer's block

00:27:12His morbid interest in graveyards after dark

00:27:15No, I beg your pardon?

00:27:17I don't know

00:27:20His morbid interest in graveyards after dark

00:27:22No, I object to the word morbid

00:27:25It's a motive, not fact

00:27:27Right, never entering the church

00:27:29You raised that point yourself

00:27:30Never seen to enter the church

00:27:31And does that make a man a ghoul?

00:27:33Because he has no interest in religion

00:27:35The evening spent in Ferguson's house

00:27:37Was the vicar there?

00:27:39No, but Maryview tells us that Stockton touched the baby's hand

00:27:42Is that your case?

00:27:44So what is our mission here?

00:27:45Possibly to prevent a crime

00:27:47A man having a stake driven through his heart

00:28:01We have our timing right

00:28:18Bell

00:28:21Bell

00:28:24Bell

00:28:27Holmes, we can scarcely intrude

00:28:29Not intrude, Watson

00:28:32Observe

00:28:33Bell

00:28:36Bell

00:28:39Bell

00:28:42Bell

00:28:45Bell

00:28:48Bell

00:28:52Bell

00:28:55Bell

00:28:58Bell

00:29:01Bell

00:29:03I wonder if Stockton's here

00:29:05He's hardly likely to show his face on this occasion

00:29:07A recent dinner guest? A friend of the family?

00:29:10In the circumstances, no

00:29:12Yes, I'm sure he'll arrive

00:29:15But I know he's not far away

00:29:18Man that is born a woman

00:29:20Hath but a short time to live

00:29:23And is full of misery

00:29:26He cometh up and is cut down like a flower

00:29:30He fleeth as it were a shadow

00:29:33And never continueth in one stay

00:29:37In the midst of life, we are in death

00:29:40Of whom may we seek for succour

00:29:42But of thee, O Lord

00:29:44Who for our sins are justly displeased

00:29:49We meekly beseech thee, O Father

00:29:51To raise us from the death of sin

00:29:54Unto the life of righteousness

00:29:57That when we shall depart this life

00:29:59We may rest in him

00:30:01As our hope is, this our brother doth

00:30:07And that at the general resurrection and the last day

00:30:11We may be found acceptable in thy sight

00:30:14And receive that blessing which thy well-loved Son

00:30:18Shall then pronounce to all that love and fear they say

00:30:22Come, ye blessed children of my Father

00:30:25Receive the kingdom prepared for you

00:30:27In the beginning of the world

00:30:31For this we beseech thee, O merciful Father

00:30:36Jesus Christ, our Lord

00:30:38Amen

00:31:09Jack fell from a tree when he was eight or nine

00:31:12Damaged his spine, poor young chap

00:31:15The father, was he here abroad when it happened?

00:31:18I do believe he was away, yes

00:31:21A boyhood almost without mother or father

00:31:24Well, I was here as his spiritual guardian

00:31:27And Mrs. Mason, the housekeeper from the farm

00:31:30She brought him up with her own boy, Michael

00:31:34These recorded deaths, Holmes, so many of them, so young

00:31:37An influenza epidemic, perhaps

00:31:39As we have now, Apollos

00:31:43If Stockton is perceived as some sort of avenger

00:31:47Why should he lie to Brother Ferguson?

00:31:49I mean, they weren't here a hundred years ago

00:31:52Even now, they're scarcely part of the village life

00:31:55So why?

00:31:57Why is he drawn to them?

00:31:58Well, the women, the connection with Peru

00:32:04Or is it something nearer home?

00:32:07I don't know

00:32:33Did you make friends with the local doctor?

00:32:35Hardly friends, but I was greeted with deep suspicion

00:32:39I had to plead my rugby acquaintance with Ferguson

00:32:41That goes back thirty years

00:32:44He threw me over the ropes into the crowd at the old deer park

00:32:49How are we to explain your presence here?

00:32:51Well, I can't believe that we'll be detained here, sir

00:32:56Another colonel's report?

00:32:59Blacksmith Carter died of a hemorrhage

00:33:02He may have looked robust, but he was overweight and he drank too much

00:33:05And the baby?

00:33:06Put down to pneumonia

00:33:07No sign of violence?

00:33:09No

00:33:10Just as we thought

00:33:12What now? Visit to Ferguson? Pay our respects?

00:33:15No

00:33:18I'm hungry

00:33:25Jack

00:33:32Jack

00:33:50Where's Jack? Is he down with you?

00:33:52No

00:33:53I haven't seen sight nor sound of him since this afternoon

00:33:57He didn't come back here after the funeral?

00:33:59I'll ask Michael if he's seen him

00:34:01Yeah

00:34:02Is that for Mrs. Ferguson?

00:34:04Yes, chicken broth

00:34:05She must eat something

00:34:07I'll take it up to her

00:34:09Thank you, my dear

00:34:24No food

00:34:26She's asleep now, sir

00:34:27No wake her up

00:34:30I'll decide that, Dolores

00:34:32Thank you

00:34:59Don't touch me! Go away!

00:35:29Thank you

00:35:40Hey, get me

00:35:59Thank you

00:36:09Anything more I can get you, gentlemen?

00:36:11This is excellent

00:36:12No, thank you

00:36:13A glass of water, thank you

00:36:15You were seen, Michael

00:36:17Yes, you were, and there's no denying it

00:36:20Oh, clutching your arm right through that service

00:36:22It wasn't my doing, Vera

00:36:24She was grieving

00:36:25She needed the support of a man

00:36:27Just because she's foreign and beautiful

00:36:30Not ride a horse like you

00:36:31Oh, what's it matter, riding horses?

00:36:35I bet you kissed her, knowing you

00:36:36Kissed her?

00:36:37I'd get my jaw broken with that one

00:36:39She's fiery

00:36:40That's just how you like him

00:36:42That's right

00:36:43All ruffled feathers, my dear

00:36:46Come on, let's step outside

00:36:48No, get off!

00:36:49Come on

00:36:50No, Michael!

00:36:51I'm not feeling very well tonight

00:36:58Thank you

00:37:05Thank you

00:37:09This steak and kidney pudding is every bit as good as its reputation

00:37:12Wouldn't you say, Watson?

00:37:14Yes, every bit

00:37:16You're famous in Beggy Street, Mrs. Dresde

00:37:20Our housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, put us on to you

00:37:23Mrs. Hudson?

00:37:24She has a sister who lives nearby

00:37:27Oh

00:37:29Well, it's my husband you have to compliment

00:37:31It's him who does the cooking, mostly

00:37:34So you are Sherlock Holmes

00:37:36At your service

00:37:38On a case, then, are you?

00:37:39Oh, surely

00:37:41There's no crime in this part of the country

00:37:52Drinks for our host, Watson

00:37:54Drinks all round

00:37:57Yes, of course

00:38:00Oh, Dr. Watson is an old rugby-playing friend of Mr. Ferguson

00:38:05It's a tragedy about him and his family

00:38:09You want to talk to Michael about that?

00:38:12He was there when they found the poor Mike

00:38:14And it wasn't no accidental death, neither

00:38:18Whatever else it was

00:38:21It wasn't no accident

00:38:27Jack

00:38:38Jack!

00:38:39Where have you been?

00:38:42I was worried

00:38:44I thought you'd want to be alone with Carlotta

00:38:47I needed you

00:38:49I needed us together

00:38:52Family, this time

00:38:55All of us together

00:38:57All of us

00:39:27All of us

00:39:49You're right, Reverend

00:39:52There is a dangerous mood in the air

00:39:54But no fresh evidence against Stockton

00:39:58So I'm still struck by the coincidence

00:40:03Well, answer me this, Holmes

00:40:05Why is so much being written and recorded on the subject of vampires

00:40:09If there's absolutely nothing in it?

00:40:11Man's need, Watson

00:40:13Is need to explain fear

00:40:15Then you do admit to the inexplicable

00:40:17Oh, yes, there's plenty of evidence for that

00:40:20But do we believe in dragons and fairies and ghosts

00:40:23Because much has been written about them?

00:40:26Ghosts?

00:40:28Watson has a ghost story

00:40:30Not now, man

00:40:32No, carry on, Watson

00:40:34I was in Afghanistan

00:40:36Long nights of fatigue

00:40:38In a field hospital

00:40:40The young Subbleton who had died

00:40:42Virtually in my arms

00:40:44Appeared some weeks later

00:40:45Quite unmistakably

00:40:47When I was on leave in Constantinople

00:40:49Fascinating

00:40:53Gentlemen

00:41:15Gentlemen

00:41:16Mr. Sherlock Holmes

00:41:17Yes, of course, Mr. Holmes

00:41:19And Dr. Watson, I believe you know him

00:41:20Watson, my dear fellow

00:41:21Come inside, come inside

00:41:23My good chap, our sincere congratulations

00:41:25Thank you

00:41:27Thank you

00:41:29Coffee for our guests, Miss Mason

00:41:31It's ready and waiting, sir

00:41:34My treasured housekeeper

00:41:36At last, without you

00:41:39Oh, sit down, please

00:41:42Augustus has explained your presence here

00:41:45And I heartily endorse his initiative

00:41:47This has been a wretched time

00:41:49Not just for me and my family

00:41:51But for the whole community

00:41:54The sooner we make sense of it, the better

00:41:56And your dear wife

00:41:58Yes, I would have liked her to be here

00:42:00But she's upstairs in her room

00:42:05Have you met Stockton yet?

00:42:07We have not had that pleasure, Mr. Ferguson

00:42:10Pleasure?

00:42:12Yes, it seemed he was pleasant enough

00:42:14On my first acquaintance

00:42:16May I ask you

00:42:17May I ask you

00:42:19Ask anything, Mr. Holmes

00:42:21Anything

00:42:25Are you in some way holding Stockton

00:42:27Responsible for your child's death?

00:42:31Perhaps we're all responsible to some degree

00:42:35Certainly my wife holds me responsible

00:42:39For bringing her here to England

00:42:42A child not a year old

00:42:44The climate

00:42:46Europe

00:42:49Perhaps I'm looking to alleviate responsibility

00:42:52By directing it at another

00:42:54Please, you must excuse my frankness

00:42:59But it is necessary that we confront

00:43:02The truth about ourselves

00:43:04If we are to reach the heart of this matter

00:43:06You're absolutely right, Mr. Holmes

00:43:08The truth of the matter

00:43:10Could you bring yourself to tell us

00:43:12About the evening Stockton came over to dinner?

00:43:15Which I understand was the start

00:43:17Of your misgivings about him

00:43:19Yes

00:43:21That night I didn't see it clearly myself at the time

00:43:24Dinner had passed

00:43:26Uneventfully

00:43:28Though I confess

00:43:30I was somewhat disappointed by our guest

00:43:32His demeanor

00:43:34The real nature of the soul

00:43:41Well, what is it?

00:43:43To some

00:43:45A sensation of the will

00:43:47But the soul returns to God

00:43:52Like a sound that vanishes in the air

00:43:55So thought the Greeks

00:43:57Life is death

00:44:00Said the philosophers

00:44:02But I'm afraid I don't follow that

00:44:04Are you saying you don't believe in God?

00:44:06The Incas, of course, were sun worshippers

00:44:08As you, Signora, know well

00:44:10The reason was meteorological

00:44:12Without sun at night

00:44:14Being mountain dwellers

00:44:16They shiver

00:44:18They freeze

00:44:20What about those on the coast?

00:44:23The sun was constant

00:44:26A tyrant in the sky

00:44:29So it was the lesser god they worshipped

00:44:32The moon

00:44:34Cyan

00:44:36The house of the moon

00:44:38Where young children were sacrificed

00:44:41Lying on beds of coloured wool and cotton

00:44:44Why?

00:44:46Why must the children be sacrificed?

00:44:50Well, not just the children, Jack

00:44:53When a chieftain died

00:44:55It was customary to bury him

00:44:57With the most beautiful and best-loved women

00:44:59Good God

00:45:01His wife?

00:45:03His wife

00:45:05His favourite concubines

00:45:07And a considerable number, more or less, of his servants

00:45:12His jewels, wrought silver

00:45:15Llamas, weapons

00:45:17Food and clothing

00:45:20So in his philosophy, death was life

00:45:25Of course, why not?

00:45:29It continued in that vein for hours

00:45:32All kinds of mysticism

00:45:34Oh, all kinds of mysticism

00:45:37Mostly beyond my comprehension

00:45:39The widows of Malabar

00:45:42Burnt themselves in the blaze of the remains of their husbands

00:45:45As a demonstration of fidelity

00:45:50What I can't describe

00:45:52Is the effect it had on the company

00:45:54The ladies in particular

00:45:56It was as if he had them

00:45:58Mesmerised

00:46:01And yet, after he left

00:46:05Carlotta

00:46:07He was repulsive

00:46:09You found him?

00:46:11Repulsive

00:46:13You'd rather we didn't see him again?

00:46:15He's your friend

00:46:18Come to me

00:46:22The following morning

00:46:25And subsequently

00:46:28I became the object of her pain

00:46:31But the connection with Stockton

00:46:34And your baby's death

00:46:36I mean, as you described the evening

00:46:38It's hard to forge a link

00:46:40I know

00:46:42But it all went wrong, Watson

00:46:44From that evening

00:46:46This house was as if there was a

00:46:48A black cloud

00:46:50I can't describe it

00:46:52I wish to God I could

00:46:54There's so many coincidences

00:47:00Ah, Jack

00:47:02My son Jack

00:47:04Mr Sherlock Holmes

00:47:06I'm interrupting

00:47:08Jack, you're not interrupting at all now

00:47:11Come and sit down and talk to us

00:47:13How's the music, Jack?

00:47:15You still practising the violin?

00:47:18Jack's been given a new violin

00:47:20A gift from his stepmother

00:47:22The old one plays rather, well, rustily

00:47:25Holmes plays the violin

00:47:27I look forward to meeting your stepmother, Jack

00:47:29When she's sufficiently recovered

00:47:31Indeed

00:47:32Well, let us see if now is not the moment

00:47:35Mrs Mason, would you go upstairs?

00:47:38Oh, she's not in her room, sir

00:47:40She went out early

00:47:42Not?

00:47:44Well, why didn't you tell me this?

00:47:46Well, I thought you knew

00:47:48They both went out, father

00:47:50Alone?

00:47:52Mr Stockton came for them

00:47:54He came to pay his respects, sir

00:47:56When you were out riding, father

00:47:58And you saw them leave with him

00:48:00My wife and the maid

00:48:02Just for a short drive, they said

00:48:04To take the air, put colour in their cheeks

00:48:16I really should have been informed of this

00:48:18My wife is not herself

00:48:20Was it Mrs Stockton who persuaded her on this foolish drive?

00:48:23Who instigated it?

00:48:25Why does it worry you, father?

00:48:27All's well, Mr Ferguson, they're coming home

00:48:33Oh

00:48:50Stockton

00:48:52Good morning

00:48:54I didn't realise you'd come by

00:48:56I wish you'd told me

00:48:58How are the ladies?

00:49:00Very well

00:49:02They're out in the countryside

00:49:04The air is fresh this morning

00:49:06Walk on

00:49:08A nerve of the fellow

00:49:33You keep an open mind, then

00:49:35Against all logic

00:49:37I suppose, yes

00:49:39And Sherlock Holmes?

00:49:41Such things do not happen

00:49:43In criminal practice in England

00:49:45The notion of the undead

00:49:47Walking this earth

00:49:49Feasting off innocent females

00:49:51Offends

00:49:53Against all his reasoning

00:49:55I suppose, yes

00:49:57And Sherlock Holmes?

00:49:59Such things do not happen

00:50:00Against all his reasoning

00:50:03What is your own view, Reverend?

00:50:05As a man of the church

00:50:09Life and death are mysterious states, Doctor

00:50:12We know little of the resources of either

00:50:18Carlotta, my darling, open the door

00:50:26Carlotta, open the door, please

00:50:27Carlotta, open the door

00:50:57Jack?

00:51:20Jack?

00:51:23Jack?

00:51:27Jack?

00:51:50Holmes

00:51:52The local doctor has taken to his bed

00:51:54It seems my service is a call for him

00:51:55He's not catching

00:51:57No, I never catch anything

00:51:59What are you up to?

00:52:01My first call's the daughter at the inn

00:52:03She's not at all well

00:52:05He took the crippled boy into his house

00:52:07After the funeral, all afternoon in his house

00:52:10Boy didn't come back till six o'clock

00:52:26She's not going to die, is she, Doctor?

00:52:29No

00:52:31But she will pass through a crisis

00:52:33And needs the greatest care

00:52:35She should sleep now

00:52:38This village is plagued

00:52:40Like many another at this time of the year

00:52:42With influenza

00:52:50I'm going to bed

00:52:52I'm going to bed

00:52:53I'm going to bed

00:53:07You dirty filthy beast

00:53:09I'll leave her free to it

00:53:11You think I couldn't see you

00:53:13Have Vera lying at death's door

00:53:15Vera?

00:53:17Don't pretend you didn't know

00:53:19She's your girl, Michael

00:53:21Don't that foreign trash

00:53:24No, ma'am

00:53:26Ma'am, don't cry

00:53:28Ever since he come here, nothing but trouble

00:53:30And what with him now, that man

00:53:32What man, Mr Stockton?

00:53:34He's killing everyone

00:53:36Michael

00:53:54Mr Holmes

00:53:58This is a privilege

00:54:08A stroll out, I think, on such a balmy evening

00:54:11In the village?

00:54:14I have my carriage

00:54:16The countryside, how delightful

00:54:54So why are you?

00:54:56Here, for my health

00:54:58In a village riddled with death and rumour

00:55:00But no cry

00:55:02You will lay your hand on your heart

00:55:04And say you're not investigating me

00:55:06Why, what have you done?

00:55:08There are several who will tell you

00:55:10What I'm alleged to have done and what I am

00:55:12Bad angel, precursor of death

00:55:14No truth in the rumour

00:55:16I'm living my life, Holmes

00:55:18What more does a man do?

00:55:20You teach the violin

00:55:21Jack?

00:55:23Yes

00:55:25But that is not...

00:55:27My main occupation, no

00:55:29I study antiquities, religious cults and customs

00:55:31Among the South American Indians

00:55:33I have a modest reputation in that field

00:55:35Published?

00:55:37Two books

00:55:39You're familiar with my subject?

00:55:41My travels took me east

00:55:44Tibet

00:55:45And now the quiet of the English countryside

00:55:47I'm tracing a little family history

00:55:49This is your family home?

00:55:51The seat of Lords and Clare

00:55:56The villagers believe my forebears were vampires

00:55:59Some incident involving one of their maidens

00:56:02Janet Burroughs

00:56:04Whose grave you honoured with a rose

00:56:06Observant of you

00:56:09They burnt this house

00:56:11And left me here

00:56:13They burnt this house

00:56:15An act of unbridled revenge

00:56:18And now they suffer from a guilty fear

00:56:20That I've come back to punish them

00:56:22Is that your purpose?

00:56:25What a pointless exercise

00:56:27Come, let me show you round

00:56:33I am like yourself, an investigator

00:56:36May I share your findings?

00:56:38No

00:56:40I want your opinion

00:56:43Do vampires exist in your philosophy?

00:56:47In human terms, perhaps

00:56:50And are you looking at one now?

00:56:55From this house must have emanated

00:56:57One's warmth and conviviality

00:57:01I may come back to restore it

00:57:06Life in the village holds few delights for me

00:57:12Why did you bring Mrs Ferguson here?

00:57:43Oh my God

00:58:01Janet!

00:58:03No!

00:58:05No, please!

00:58:07Please, no

00:58:09No

00:58:11No, no, no

00:58:29What is it?

00:58:31I...

00:58:34I...

00:58:37I...

00:58:38I...

00:58:40To what?

00:58:42Are you a friend?

00:58:44Yes, a good friend

00:58:46I cannot tell a living soul

00:58:48I cannot, I cannot, I cannot

00:58:50What don't you tell?

00:58:52Mistress

00:58:54Yes

00:58:56She is with us

00:59:00Say no more!

00:59:04Keep her away from me!

00:59:08What?

00:59:36Watson

00:59:38My wife has bolted her door

00:59:40My boy Jack has banished me

00:59:43I'll face the village

00:59:45Oh, medicine should cure variables

00:59:47Does your wife have a fever?

00:59:49Let me visit

00:59:51What she has is beyond medicine

00:59:53It's taken charge of her soul

00:59:55Her very bones

00:59:57Is it not grief?

00:59:59No, I recognise grief

01:00:01I understand grief

01:00:04This is some other poison

01:00:06And we know it

01:00:08We know its source

01:00:10You and I

01:00:13What am I to do, Watson?

01:00:15Just stand aside and let it destroy us all?

01:00:17Easy, old man

01:00:20What does Holmes make of it?

01:00:23Do you think we're all mad?

01:00:39I've seen a ghost

01:00:41That I don't believe

01:00:43You?

01:00:45They don't appear to you

01:00:48This one did

01:00:51Appear to

01:00:54It seems I got too close

01:00:56Too close to what?

01:00:58I'll explain later

01:01:00How's the girl?

01:01:02She's fine

01:01:04She's fine

01:01:05I'll explain later

01:01:07How's the girl?

01:01:09Oh, she'll recover

01:01:11It's nothing more sinister than influenza

01:01:13Which seems to have struck the young in particular

01:01:15The young?

01:01:17Half a dozen young girls in the village

01:01:19Influenza?

01:01:21All the usual symptoms

01:01:23Night sweats, drowsiness, lethargy

01:01:25Oh, Ferguson's downstairs

01:01:27We'll join him

01:01:33First we must understand this

01:01:35Is she surviving?

01:01:37Yes, thank you

01:01:42The vampire

01:01:44Even if legend

01:01:46Was not necessarily a dead man

01:01:48A living person might attempt such behaviour

01:01:51Are you saying Stockton is one of these creatures?

01:01:54There are people we know

01:01:56Who suck up the energies of others

01:01:58Like a sponge

01:02:00Draw out their resources

01:02:02And pocket them, leaving them fatigued

01:02:03No longer master of their wills

01:02:06It's a psychological phenomenon

01:02:08Doctors have acknowledged it

01:02:10Yes, they exist

01:02:12What you say does describe in some measure

01:02:15That night he came to dinner

01:02:17And the effect he had on Carlotta

01:02:20And the maid

01:02:22I had a taste of it myself just now

01:02:24And your ghostly experience?

01:02:27I don't for a moment believe what I saw

01:02:29But I do accept hallucination

01:02:31The mind

01:02:33Forced by another to play tricks

01:02:35Hypnosis?

01:02:37Stockton has spent much time

01:02:39With the South American Indians

01:02:41Studying their ancient mysteries

01:02:44It's quite possible

01:02:46That he learned something out there

01:02:49Or was affected by an experience

01:02:52But you don't exonerate him for that, surely?

01:02:55No, but he could be suffering from a mental illness

01:02:57Which may respond to treatment

01:02:59And meanwhile we let him run amuck

01:03:01The man is destructive

01:03:03Holmes, you're not denying that?

01:03:05He's only destructive if we let him be

01:03:08If we believe too many tales

01:03:11Or use him

01:03:13As nothing more or less than a depository

01:03:15For our own ills

01:03:17Are you suggesting that I'm doing that?

01:03:19I think there's a danger of it

01:03:21In this village

01:03:23I stand with this village, Holmes

01:03:25I live here

01:03:27And I'm doing this over people

01:03:29Loved ones

01:03:31A defenceless, innocent baby is dead

01:03:33Now, if you can justify that

01:03:36Weep our company

01:03:39Good night, Watson

01:03:45It's one thing to diagnose a problem, Watson

01:03:47It's quite another, often, to resolve it

01:03:58Here, your ladyship, here

01:04:00Is a charm that cannot fail

01:04:02Pin this to your pillow

01:04:04And you can laugh

01:04:06Laugh in the face of vampires

01:04:08And hippogriffs

01:04:10That visit in the night

01:04:12Your safety

01:04:14Sixpence

01:04:18There's a jackal at work

01:04:20I'm off to London

01:04:22London?

01:04:24Till nightfall, will you hold the fort?

01:04:25I thought a visit to Carlotta Ferguson might be useful

01:04:27As a doctor, I might get in to see her

01:04:29Interesting

01:04:31Also, patch things up with her husband

01:04:33No point in having him against us

01:04:35Why so?

01:04:37Saint Sebastian

01:04:39You will protect your heart

01:04:41From vampires

01:04:43And prevalent malignants

01:04:45Such as wolves, bats

01:04:47And bloodsuckers

01:04:49Yours

01:04:51For nine pennies only

01:04:55For your loved one, sir

01:04:59Ah, take him back, Hershey

01:05:05This will beat the devil and his night visits

01:05:11It was smuggled in the habit of a nun

01:05:13All the way from Rome

01:05:15And was forged

01:05:17In this holiness-owned smithy

01:05:19Oh

01:05:21He's so beautiful

01:05:25Now I am safe

01:05:27From all bad people

01:05:31Silence, Quaker

01:05:33Silence

01:05:47To the station

01:05:49See you later, Watson

01:05:56Oh

01:05:58Oh

01:06:17Michael

01:06:19I got you this

01:06:21Help you get better

01:06:22What's that, Michael?

01:06:24What?

01:06:26You've been with her?

01:06:28No, Vera

01:06:29Get out

01:06:30Vera

01:06:31Go on, get out

01:06:32Leave me

01:06:33Don't touch me

01:06:34Vera

01:06:35Get out

01:06:52Get out

01:06:54Get out

01:07:22Get out

01:07:53In here, Dr. Watson

01:07:55How is she faring?

01:07:57She doesn't tell me

01:08:02I'm sorry

01:08:04I'm sorry

01:08:06I'm sorry

01:08:08I'm sorry

01:08:10I'm sorry

01:08:12I'm sorry

01:08:14I'm sorry

01:08:16I'm sorry

01:08:18I'm sorry

01:08:20I'm sorry

01:08:22I'm sorry

01:08:27Dr. Watson, madam

01:08:28Thank you

01:08:29Mrs. Ferguson

01:08:31I'm standing in locum for the village doctor who's sick

01:08:34Yes, I know who you are

01:08:36You were here yesterday

01:08:38Please, sit down

01:08:43So, what is it you wish to say to me?

01:08:46To ask how you are after your tragic loss

01:08:49If you need anything

01:08:50For sleeping

01:08:52There are no remedies in the world that would make me sleep at night, doctor

01:08:56Yes, I understand

01:08:58But the day's different

01:08:59I sleep

01:09:01At least hours fly by without me

01:09:07You wish for something to drink?

01:09:08Oh, no, no, no, thank you

01:09:11Your friend the detective is not with you today

01:09:13Gone to London

01:09:15Your husband told you that Sherlock Holmes was in the village?

01:09:17Not my husband, no

01:09:18Oh, then it was Mr. Stockton

01:09:20Stockton

01:09:22It was Stockton, yes

01:09:24He was kind enough to take me out yesterday

01:09:26For a drive with my maid

01:09:28Do you know Stockton?

01:09:29No, I haven't met him

01:09:31Holmes knows him

01:09:32He too went for a ride yesterday to an old ruined house

01:09:36Oh, yes

01:09:37The house

01:09:39You've been there?

01:09:40It's just a burnt out house

01:09:42No interest to me

01:09:44No ghosts?

01:09:45Many, I should think

01:09:46But none came out to play

01:09:49What do you make of Stockton?

01:09:50He seems to arouse strong feelings in people

01:09:53Why should that be?

01:09:55I couldn't tell you

01:09:56It's only what I've heard

01:09:59You want my opinion on Stockton

01:10:01Well

01:10:02At first I disliked him

01:10:04Then he was interesting about my country

01:10:07He speaks my language

01:10:08And so I welcome him

01:10:09The village

01:10:10I know nothing of the village

01:10:13Strong feelings, you say

01:10:14Peasants

01:10:15English peasants

01:10:18And Stockton

01:10:20Offered you some consolation

01:10:22He understands

01:10:25The dead

01:10:28What happens to us

01:10:30Where we go

01:10:32Where my little Ricardo has gone

01:10:34Is the only solace I have

01:10:36You have none with your husband?

01:10:38None

01:10:39Why did he bring me here to this terrible place?

01:10:41I tell you

01:10:42Because he wanted my little baby to be an Englishman

01:10:45Like Jack

01:10:47He wanted another boy like Jack

01:10:49Is that so wonderful

01:10:51To end up buried in an English grave?

01:10:55I'm sorry if I caused you pain

01:10:58Why not?

01:11:00You're a doctor

01:11:02It is better to bring the truth out

01:11:04Indeed

01:11:05And now you will stay for lunch

01:11:09Thank you

01:11:13Stayed for lunch, tea

01:11:15We had tea in the garden

01:11:17She's a remarkable woman

01:11:19Most cultured person

01:11:21I think even you would enjoy her company

01:11:23And the maid?

01:11:24Ah, no, the maid

01:11:25Well

01:11:27She's a good woman

01:11:29She's a good woman

01:11:31She's a good woman

01:11:33She's a good woman

01:11:35But I still love marks on Michael's neck

01:11:39I'm only recording the details

01:11:41Since you asked for them

01:11:42And Ferguson's part in all this?

01:11:43Ferguson returned mid-afternoon

01:11:45And Jack?

01:11:46Jack?

01:11:47Jack hadn't returned

01:11:48He wasn't missed?

01:11:50Referred to once or twice

01:11:52But missed, I couldn't tell you

01:11:54And the girl here?

01:11:56Unchanged since this morning

01:11:59Your trip to London?

01:12:01I thought a visit to Stockton's ruin

01:12:03Might be all useful

01:12:06Did anything happen?

01:12:07Nothing

01:12:09Neither the living nor the dead appeared

01:12:12But it was instructive, nonetheless

01:12:24Where is he?

01:12:26Curse the boy

01:12:29With your friend?

01:12:35Stay here

01:12:41Stay here

01:12:50Get inside

01:12:52Stockton, I want to talk to you

01:12:54Get in

01:12:56Get in

01:13:00Stay here

01:13:02Your work

01:13:03My boy, my wife

01:13:05My maid

01:13:07You have them all

01:13:09And we're not part of your village vendetta

01:13:12I'm sorry, what are you talking about?

01:13:14What do you want from us?

01:13:17You introduced me to your wife

01:13:20Speak English, Tammy

01:13:22Speak English

01:13:25How dare you insult me?

01:13:31Now take her

01:13:32Take your creature

01:13:34But leave my wife and my boy

01:13:36For God's sake

01:13:38Jack, stay

01:13:40Stay, Jack

01:13:42Leave him

01:13:44Let him go

01:14:02Leave him

01:14:13Don't hit me, please don't hit me

01:14:32Don't hit me

01:14:50Curse you, Stockton

01:15:02Stay here

01:15:32Stay here

01:15:43Came round that bend

01:15:46Travelling too quick

01:15:48It's wet

01:15:50An accident, Mr. Holmes

01:15:52That'll be my report

01:15:55Subject closed

01:15:57Not hard as you say, constable

01:15:59Very good, then

01:16:00You'll be leaving the village now, then, will you?

01:16:03Now our problem's gone

01:16:05No reason for me to stay

01:16:07And I gather the village doctor is better this morning

01:16:10So you won't be needing Dr. Watson's services either

01:16:13No

01:16:15But his help was appreciated

01:16:17Well, come on, lads

01:16:19Let's get over with

01:16:21Accident

01:16:23You have a deeper mystery

01:16:30Where will they put him?

01:16:32Graveyard, where else?

01:16:34He can't go there

01:16:36In my country, sometimes they burn the body

01:16:38Well, this isn't your country

01:16:40We're civilised here

01:16:42So you will throw him out to be eaten by wolves?

01:16:48Where would you bury him, Jack?

01:16:50It's your friend Stockton we're talking about

01:16:54You hungry, dear?

01:16:57No

01:16:59Why do you look at me like that?

01:17:01Nothing

01:17:11Well, I've got to work

01:17:14The tree that he hit was my tree

01:17:16The one that I fell from

01:17:18You've been to see it?

01:17:20No, your tree, Jack

01:17:22It wasn't down that way

01:17:24It was

01:17:25The very same tree where I had my accident

01:17:29Must have a curse on it

01:17:31I want to see it

01:17:33Would you take me, Michael?

01:17:35Not now

01:17:37You afraid?

01:17:39No, of course not

01:17:44I'll take you

01:17:48Michael?

01:17:51Later, if you must

01:17:56For man walketh in a vain shadow

01:17:59And disquieteth himself in vain

01:18:02No, Christian, bury him

01:18:04And cannot tell who gathers them

01:18:06Cast him out

01:18:08And now, Lord, what is my hope?

01:18:10Truly, my hope is even in thee

01:18:13Deliver me from all my defences

01:18:17And make me not a fool

01:18:19Voicing a protest

01:18:21I became dumb and opened not my mouth

01:18:23For it was thy doing

01:18:25Take thy plague away from me

01:18:28I am even consumed

01:18:30By means of thy heavy hand

01:18:33When thou with rebukes

01:18:35Dost chasten man for sin

01:18:38Thou makest his beauty to consume away

01:18:41Like it was a moth

01:18:43Fretting away a garment

01:18:45Every man, therefore, is but vanity

01:18:49Hear my prayer

01:18:50O Lord

01:18:52And with thine ears

01:18:54Consider my calling

01:18:56Hold not thy peace at my tears

01:18:59For I am a stranger with thee

01:19:01And a sojourner

01:19:03As all my fathers were

01:19:07O spare me a little

01:19:09That I may recover my strength

01:19:11Before I go there

01:19:13And meet no more

01:19:15John!

01:19:21Go to him

01:19:32O spare me a little

01:19:34That I may recover my strength

01:19:51No!

01:19:58Well, I think it was claustrophobia

01:20:00Nothing worse

01:20:02Some people get it in churches

01:20:04Yeah, but he used to sing in my choir every Sunday

01:20:08Well, he and Stockton have become quite close

01:20:10It must have been a terrible shock

01:20:12What a business

01:20:14The village up in arms

01:20:17But I couldn't deny the man

01:20:18A Christian burial

01:20:20I mean, how could I?

01:20:22What has he done?

01:20:24Did he have any relatives?

01:20:26Heirs?

01:20:28Well, no one as far as anyone knows

01:20:30That's another problem, you see

01:20:32What to do with his cottage, his possessions?

01:20:35I shall look over the premises

01:20:39Shouldn't we ask the police?

01:20:41Holmes will know what to look for

01:20:49In the business of house clearing now, eh, Holmes?

01:20:52It may be instructive

01:21:18Come in

01:21:46What's that smell in here?

01:21:48Heliotrope

01:21:50It's the smell of decay

01:21:52Will you light that lamp, Watson?

01:21:54We must set to work

01:22:16Ghost?

01:22:18Don't shake him down, if you like

01:22:20If he's up there, he doesn't frighten me

01:22:23You can't frighten me, Stockton

01:22:25You're under the sod, where you belong

01:22:29You won't bother nobody now

01:22:32Nor never again

01:22:37Dolly?

01:22:41Come on now, don't play silly games

01:22:45Dolly!

01:22:48Dolly!

01:23:08Here's one by Stockton

01:23:10Religions in Peru

01:23:12Fish god, crab god, fox god in flight

01:23:20Taboos, witchcraft, sorcery

01:23:24Is there nothing this man hasn't dabbled in?

01:23:32Vampires

01:23:34There's a book here on vampires, Holmes

01:23:36My God

01:23:38She's been attacked

01:23:40Down by the tree

01:23:42It was him

01:23:45Persons who turn vampire generally wizards, suicides

01:23:50And those who come to a violent end

01:23:53Will have been cursed for life

01:23:55I'm not a vampire

01:23:57I'm not a vampire

01:23:59I'm not a vampire

01:24:01I'm not a vampire

01:24:03I'm not a vampire

01:24:05Tonight

01:24:07Two perfect specimens

01:24:09Whence I draw my strength

01:24:11My two Peruvian ladies

01:24:13Revived me

01:24:15Vampire will bring his victim to the point of death, but not beyond

01:24:19He will nurse her back to health

01:24:21With all the outward appearance of love

01:24:23And yet, am I not also possessed?

01:24:27When I visit the house

01:24:29Is she not commanding me to relinquish?

01:24:31To hand my mantle on to another?

01:24:34Indeed it may be love to devour her again

01:24:37Whereby he is forever nourished

01:25:01How is my little girl?

01:25:31I had a strange dream

01:25:35A kiss

01:25:39He called to me

01:25:41Tell me your dream

01:25:45She wanted me to take her there, so I did

01:25:48She was standing there, then she was gone

01:25:51I couldn't see her

01:25:53Then she appeared again by the tree and fell into my arms

01:25:56On her neck were bites and blood

01:25:58Did you make these marks?

01:25:59No, no sir, not I, it was Stockton

01:26:02You saw him?

01:26:04Well no, but he was there right enough

01:26:06Stockton is dead

01:26:08No sir, he is not

01:26:10Or if it is, it's the living dead, as God's my witness

01:26:12See the mark on her, see for yourself

01:26:15Vampires don't exist

01:26:18Michael, look at me!

01:26:21They don't exist

01:26:30What's the matter with the dog?

01:26:33It's some form of paralysis

01:26:36Did it come on suddenly?

01:26:38Yesterday

01:26:40Remarkable

01:26:42And suggestive

01:26:44What do you mean? What's the dog got to do with anything?

01:26:47I can't tell you at this instant

01:26:49May Watson be pleased to see you

01:26:52I'll be pleased to see you

01:26:54I'll be pleased to see you

01:26:56I'll be pleased to see you

01:26:58May Watson be permitted to examine the maid

01:27:01Of course

01:27:07The man's death, perhaps in part I caused it

01:27:11I don't deny that I lost my temper, Holmes

01:27:14But that's nothing to the suffering that's been brought on this family

01:27:17My wife, the baby boy

01:27:19And continues to be brought, now, on the maid

01:27:23Explain that to me, Holmes

01:27:28Good morning, Jack

01:27:30Mr. Holmes

01:27:32The detective

01:27:36Dolores is feeling better, father

01:27:46It's a slight fever, nothing worse

01:27:49She was out with Michael last night

01:27:51They were caught in a storm

01:27:53Lovers marks?

01:27:57No

01:27:59Then what?

01:28:03This is also the tree that Jack fell from as a boy

01:28:06That caused his injury

01:28:09Or so told Michael

01:28:11Stockton and Jack?

01:28:14Now that's too much to swallow

01:28:16Jack was lying

01:28:18I asked Ferguson

01:28:19Jack's tree is in quite another part of the woods

01:28:22Why should he lie about that?

01:28:24Why indeed

01:28:32Out of my hands, it was the constable, he decided

01:28:36He can't, it's outside the law, it's a violation

01:28:39What will the spirits make of it?

01:28:40The law is a violation

01:28:42What will the spirits make of it?

01:29:10Where are we taking him, Mr. Gresthig?

01:29:18Back to where he belongs, where he can do this village no harm.

01:29:28He tried to strangle me.

01:29:41It's a mortal case, Mrs. Gresthig.

01:29:42It was like a big, black animal, a cat or a spider, and it had air on the inside of

01:29:49its hands, and they come at my throat.

01:30:09It was just a bad dream, Vera.

01:30:18It was just a bad dream.

01:30:29I don't like it here, Mr. Gresthig.

01:30:31Let's drop him and get out fast.

01:30:33Down here.

01:30:34Are we going to do the other thing?

01:30:36What's that, Michael?

01:30:37You know.

01:30:38What you do with their hearts?

01:30:39You've got a mind to it, boy.

01:30:41I haven't, no.

01:30:43I'm not going down there.

01:30:44I won't.

01:30:45What's that?

01:30:46It's from in here.

01:30:47I don't care if it is.

01:30:48There's been a desecration, Watson.

01:30:49Stockton has been returned to the home of his forebears, I would imagine.

01:30:50It's a matter for the police or the bishop.

01:30:51No concern of ours for the moment.

01:30:52How's the girl?

01:30:53Oh, she's calm, sleeping now.

01:30:54Marked?

01:30:55Not a scratch.

01:30:56Window?

01:30:57No scratch.

01:30:58No scratch.

01:30:59No scratch.

01:31:00No scratch.

01:31:01No scratch.

01:31:02No scratch.

01:31:03No scratch.

01:31:04No scratch.

01:31:05No scratch.

01:31:06No scratch.

01:31:07No scratch.

01:31:08No scratch.

01:31:09No scratch.

01:31:10No scratch.

01:31:11No scratch.

01:31:12No scratch.

01:31:13No scratch.

01:31:14Not a scratch.

01:31:15Window?

01:31:16Bolted from the inside.

01:31:17It's a case of hysteria, then.

01:31:18But the Ferguson made Holmes.

01:31:19I swear to you.

01:31:20Yes, that we must take seriously.

01:31:21Are you coming?

01:31:22Of course.

01:31:44♪♪

01:31:54John.

01:31:55♪♪

01:32:05♪♪

01:32:15♪♪

01:32:20-♪♪

01:32:27She had blood on her mouth.

01:32:29He saw it.

01:32:30She and that man Stockton,

01:32:32both of them vampires.

01:32:34Where is your mistress now?

01:32:35Locked in a room.

01:32:36She is a monster.

01:32:37Would she see me?

01:32:38Oh, see the devil first.

01:32:39The maid, ma'am.

01:32:40Where is the boy?

01:32:41Jack?

01:32:42Oh, he's in this room, I think.

01:32:43Mr. Ferguson, I don't know where he is.

01:32:45♪♪

01:32:55♪♪

01:33:05♪♪

01:33:15♪♪

01:33:25♪♪

01:33:35♪♪

01:33:45♪♪

01:33:55♪♪

01:34:05♪♪

01:34:12It was poison.

01:34:14Curare, I think.

01:34:16Does she live?

01:34:17Yes.

01:34:18Carlotta discovered it

01:34:19and was attempting to suck the venom out.

01:34:21You knew.

01:34:22Stolen from Stockton,

01:34:23or perhaps Stockton gave it to him.

01:34:26An arrow dipped in curare.

01:34:29Two small incisions into the neck.

01:34:33Tried it on the dog first.

01:34:37Jack.

01:34:38I knew it couldn't be Jack in the ruin.

01:34:41I heard him playing the violin at Stockton's house.

01:34:44And what about the ghost?

01:34:46Trigger the light.

01:34:48But the ruin had become Jack's playground.

01:34:50I saw him there on my second visit, and now here.

01:34:55His inspiration hidden away in cupboards,

01:34:58a dark world of imagination,

01:35:00brought to life by a disturbed adolescent boy.

01:35:03But to pretend to be a vampire.

01:35:05No, Watson, believe.

01:35:07Believe he is a vampire.

01:35:09Remember his behaviour in the church,

01:35:11his fear of the cross?

01:35:13And Stockton, too?

01:35:15Why not?

01:35:16He saw Stockton's effect upon people,

01:35:18his control over women.

01:35:20What better thing to be?

01:35:22To win respect, affection, love, perhaps.

01:35:26We must find him.

01:35:28He'll be at the ruin with his master.

01:35:58Come on.

01:36:28Get thee to hell.

01:36:31Burned.

01:36:33Heaven to death.

01:36:36Let thy foul carcass be food for jackals.

01:36:42Let thy blood be drink for...

01:36:46Cryotoxin.

01:36:58It's a blow to the head.

01:37:20See that he lives, Watson.

01:37:28Jack!

01:37:44Jack!

01:37:58Jack!

01:38:28Jack!

01:38:43They're returning to her country.

01:38:45They have nothing in this village to keep them.

01:38:48And neither have you, my good friends.

01:38:50But I, for one, shall remember your efforts with gratitude.

01:38:54This business with Stockton...

01:38:56Oh, remove to another parish.

01:38:58Quietly, no fuss.

01:39:00May he rest in peace.

01:39:02Goodbye.

01:39:21A baby house. You don't think...

01:39:23I respect the verdict of your profession.

01:39:25Pneumonia, wasn't it?

01:39:28And Stockton's death?

01:39:30Accident, fate, who knows?

01:39:32For Jack was no murderer.

01:39:35Stockton's face in the locket.

01:39:37Cut from a photograph. A clever touch.

01:39:40Will you be making a record of these events?

01:39:44The vampire of Lamberley.

01:39:47No.

01:39:49Perhaps the world is not yet prepared.

01:40:17The Vampire of Lamberley.

01:40:47The Vampire of Lamberley.

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