First broadcast 3rd February 1993.
Sherlock Holmes' problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Doctor Watson
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Geoffrey Beevers ... Inspector Montgomery
Simon Williams ... Lord Robert St. Simon
Paris Jefferson ... Henrietta Doran
Anna Calder-Marshall ... Lady Helena / Agnes Northcote
Mary Ellis ... Lady Florence
Phillada Sewell ... Lady Mary
Elspeth March ... Lady Blanche
Heather Chasen ... Hon. Amelia St. Simon
Bob Sessions ... Aloysius Doran
Joanna McCallum ... Flora Miller
Myles Hoyle ... Thomas Floutier
Bruce Myers ... Gallagher
Tres Hanley ... Alice
Joyce Grundy ... Esther
Robin Hart ... Oswald
Peter Graves ... George Tidy
Peter Warnock ... Moulton
Don Blaylock ... Butler
Aubrey Phillips ... Waiter
Vincent Worth ... Stage Doorkeeper
Sherlock Holmes' problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Doctor Watson
Rosalie Williams ... Mrs Hudson
Geoffrey Beevers ... Inspector Montgomery
Simon Williams ... Lord Robert St. Simon
Paris Jefferson ... Henrietta Doran
Anna Calder-Marshall ... Lady Helena / Agnes Northcote
Mary Ellis ... Lady Florence
Phillada Sewell ... Lady Mary
Elspeth March ... Lady Blanche
Heather Chasen ... Hon. Amelia St. Simon
Bob Sessions ... Aloysius Doran
Joanna McCallum ... Flora Miller
Myles Hoyle ... Thomas Floutier
Bruce Myers ... Gallagher
Tres Hanley ... Alice
Joyce Grundy ... Esther
Robin Hart ... Oswald
Peter Graves ... George Tidy
Peter Warnock ... Moulton
Don Blaylock ... Butler
Aubrey Phillips ... Waiter
Vincent Worth ... Stage Doorkeeper
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00:00:00Help!
00:00:05Help!
00:00:10Help!
00:00:15Help!
00:00:20Help!
00:00:25No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:00:56No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:01:05No, I hate sanitation!
00:01:08No, I'm envy!
00:01:11I hate youtube!
00:01:14I hate Shrive!
00:01:17I hate unlearning!
00:01:19I hate these talkers who follow people wires!
00:01:22This is the asylum at Barnet.
00:01:50The misery that must be behind those walls.
00:01:52There's no escape from the terrors of the mind.
00:01:57Indeed.
00:01:59Well, another case concluded.
00:02:03Pah!
00:02:04I needn't have left Baker Street.
00:02:07An observant child could have solved it.
00:02:20Good luck with the seminar, and thank you.
00:02:44It's a privilege, my dear fellow.
00:02:45It is a successful case, after all.
00:02:48And Holmes, don't be bored.
00:03:18Good luck.
00:03:42Oh, Cass, love, it's so beautiful, Robert.
00:03:51I never expected it to be so beautiful.
00:03:54And it's really always belonged to your family.
00:03:57For about four or 500 years or so.
00:03:59I want to see it.
00:04:12No, Hattie!
00:04:42Why can't I see it?
00:05:06My darling girl, you don't understand.
00:05:08I can't just drop in at Gloucester.
00:05:11Neither can you.
00:05:13You may be utterly divine and impossibly rich, but you can't.
00:05:17But why can't I?
00:05:19You own it. You're Lord St. Simon. It's your house.
00:05:22It's an ancestral home, Hattie, not just mine.
00:05:25You see, it's the servants who really live there.
00:05:27Practically every one of them has spent more of their life in a glover than I have.
00:05:31And I won't have them put up.
00:05:36I see.
00:05:37So, even when we're married,
00:05:40if I want to visit, I have to send on ahead.
00:05:43Yes, preferably a day or two ahead.
00:05:46Oh, I didn't realize.
00:05:50Like royalty.
00:05:52Yes.
00:06:01Will it be all right, Robert?
00:06:02What, my darling?
00:06:04Will they mind about me, what I am and where I come from?
00:06:09The servants, I mean, and your family.
00:06:11They already think of you as being wonderfully exotic.
00:06:14But I'm a miner's daughter from a mining camp.
00:06:17I might have been digging gold out there, but it still makes me a miner's daughter.
00:06:20Doesn't matter. Perfect education for the country life.
00:06:23You'll have the whole country at your feet, as you have me.
00:06:31Oh, my!
00:06:32Will you look at that?
00:06:39What's it doing here?
00:06:40There's always been some sort of zoo at Glovern.
00:06:42And I had a fellow who was interested to keep it going.
00:06:51You know, I have a fancy that cat's from the Americas, like you.
00:06:55Perhaps she's come to welcome you.
00:06:57You wild and beautiful thing.
00:06:59Not half as wild and beautiful as you.
00:07:39No! No! No!
00:07:41No! No!
00:08:08No!
00:08:39BIRDS CHIRP
00:08:52Water.
00:08:54Water into dust.
00:09:09Come on.
00:09:13Amelia, why don't you let Howard give the dog to me?
00:09:16No, no. She stays with me.
00:09:18She might get under the horses.
00:09:20No wonder we got here.
00:09:22It's arrived.
00:09:24And so have they.
00:09:26Harris, did you say?
00:09:28What did you say?
00:09:30They sent the child to Paris.
00:09:32What for?
00:09:34To school.
00:09:36Yes, Americans do send their daughters to Paris.
00:09:40That's what I was given to understand.
00:09:43I doubt it.
00:09:45You know, in my experience,
00:09:47Paris breeds either frivolity or philosophy.
00:09:50Neither a helpful companion in life.
00:09:53No, I suppose not.
00:09:56Well, at least the child is not an actress.
00:09:59Oh, Florence.
00:10:01I'm hungry.
00:10:07Alice, Alice, Alice!
00:10:09Now, now, Hetty.
00:10:11They're your future family. They want to like you.
00:10:14They want to like Lord Robert's future bride.
00:10:16Stop being so silly, Hetty.
00:10:18Oh, Alice, but Alice, have you seen those women?
00:10:20Now, Hetty Doran, I'd like to remind you of a certain incident
00:10:23which occurred in Tompkins Gulch not two years ago.
00:10:25The bear.
00:10:27Alice, I was scared to death.
00:10:29Ah, you faced that bear down, you did.
00:10:31I couldn't move, I tell you.
00:10:33You faced him down.
00:10:35You did it.
00:10:37Now, you kept down those stairs.
00:10:41My dear Henrietta,
00:10:43you cannot live with Clarvin.
00:10:45Why not?
00:10:47Because Clarvin isn't fit for habitation.
00:10:51But it's just perfect.
00:10:53We'll soon get it round.
00:10:55I say it's the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
00:10:58Don't you remember how lovely it was
00:11:01when all the men came with their scythes
00:11:04to the hay in the park?
00:11:06And the summer parties.
00:11:08Every lamp in the house was lit.
00:11:11And outside,
00:11:13the smell of the hay in the moonlight.
00:11:17Do you remember?
00:11:19Yes, yes.
00:11:21I remember.
00:11:34I remember.
00:12:05Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes,
00:12:08my father has run away.
00:12:10Please will you help me find him?
00:12:12Timothy.
00:12:18My cat Boswell
00:12:20is missing.
00:12:22Money, no object.
00:12:34Come on.
00:13:04Come on.
00:13:06Well, I tell you what I actually think.
00:13:33Not me.
00:13:35I think she's extraordinarily pretty.
00:13:38That's what I think.
00:13:40And I think Robert is head over heels in love.
00:13:43I agree.
00:13:44That's what I think.
00:13:46And Bella thinks so too, don't you, my angel?
00:13:50Bella says
00:13:52Miss Dewan is very nearly as pretty as she is.
00:13:56Very nearly.
00:13:58Dear Henrietta,
00:14:00you mustn't take what Amelia says too seriously.
00:14:03I didn't hear a word of all that.
00:14:07Robert so deserves you, my dear.
00:14:10He's been unlucky in love
00:14:12and his business...
00:14:13Hush.
00:14:15Mary, remember.
00:14:17Why can't I finish what I was going to say?
00:14:20When do we dine?
00:14:22Exquisite.
00:14:24Exquisite.
00:14:27Get off me!
00:14:29Come here, you nasty little...
00:14:31Get off me!
00:14:33Get off me!
00:14:35Get off me!
00:14:37Bitch!
00:14:39Get off me!
00:14:56Get off me!
00:15:07Get off me!
00:15:09Get off me!
00:15:27You've merely imagined all these dreadful things.
00:15:31It was your imagination.
00:15:34This agony has been too much for you to bear.
00:15:38Yes, but...
00:15:42Back home.
00:15:44With your own mother, my blessed boy.
00:15:47Everything is yours for the asking.
00:15:50Just like when you were a little child.
00:15:53The fit is over now.
00:15:55Mother, give me the sun.
00:15:57Oswald, what is the matter?
00:15:59Look at me!
00:16:01Oh, do you not know me?
00:16:07The sun.
00:16:09The sun.
00:16:11No.
00:16:13No.
00:16:15No!
00:16:19We're being watched.
00:16:21We're being watched.
00:16:25I will not rehearse in front of strangers!
00:16:51Get out!
00:16:53Go on your way!
00:17:07What are you looking for, then?
00:17:09Mind your own business.
00:17:11It's not Lord Robert's.
00:17:13It's our damned anniversary, isn't it?
00:17:15Seven years.
00:17:17Your damned anniversary, not his.
00:17:19He knows it and the cat knows it.
00:17:21What's the matter with you?
00:17:23Get out!
00:17:25Go and get me another bottle. Go on.
00:17:31I'm not his whore to be paid off.
00:17:39He trusted me.
00:17:50I'm not your whore, my lord.
00:17:55No.
00:17:59Come and use your whore, my lord.
00:18:03You'll never have anyone who'll do what you want, like me.
00:18:19Water, madam.
00:18:27Right away, sir.
00:18:29Thank you.
00:18:33You'll pardon me, ma'am, if I don't join you in drinking that French Chateau wine.
00:18:37I guess it's too refined for my taste.
00:18:39Some would say too civilized.
00:18:41I'll drink your health, but it'll be in Samuel Markulan's rye.
00:18:46A smoky kind of whiskey.
00:18:48I travel it with me all over.
00:18:50How very wise, Mr. Doran. Very wise.
00:18:54If one has an established taste, why then...
00:18:59Just so. Just so.
00:19:07The wine, sir, is magnificent.
00:19:16Merci.
00:19:35You know, don't you, I've settled a considerable amount on Hedy for when she's married.
00:19:41She's very conscious of your generosity, sir.
00:19:44She's mentioned it more than once.
00:19:46Sure. Now, tell me about this house of yours.
00:19:49Great house. Sad-looking, they tell me.
00:19:53Hmm. I'll accept that.
00:19:56But I'm not prepared to lay out more for the time I spend there.
00:20:00Hedy has told me how beautiful it is.
00:20:03I think she'd like it to be one of her homes.
00:20:07I would want to please Hedy in any way I can.
00:20:12But I'm not sure that living at Glavine is possible.
00:20:15Why not?
00:20:23You've always been very frank with me, so I'll admit something to you.
00:20:28When I was much younger and barely had a grasp of affairs,
00:20:33I was very badly advised. Financially, I mean.
00:20:37In what way?
00:20:40I was persuaded to sell off outlying parts of Glavine
00:20:44until there wasn't enough income from the estate to sustain the house.
00:20:48Then mortgages were taken out to repair things, which left even less income.
00:20:52And nobody warned you of the consequences?
00:20:55I trusted my advisors.
00:20:58They were my father's advisors.
00:21:02When you grow up in a place like Glavine,
00:21:07it seems eternal.
00:21:10Sure, I see that.
00:21:19I'll be off then, Miss Miller, and I hope you'll do the same.
00:21:23There's no point in you doing otherwise.
00:21:26Oh, well, rid me of this trouble for a moment.
00:21:29Oh, you may say. I do say. Get out.
00:21:37Oh.
00:21:44Here. This should kick things off for you to make you start at Glavine.
00:21:49You're very generous, sir.
00:21:53You look after my girl. I'll look after your house.
00:21:58The park club.
00:22:01The park club.
00:22:03Vincent.
00:22:28Get up. Get up!
00:22:36Thank you, yours.
00:22:48Go! Go!
00:22:57Go!
00:22:59Go!
00:23:30See you later.
00:23:40Remember our agreement, my lord.
00:23:43This quarter's payment.
00:23:45Or I foreclose the mortgages.
00:23:48I am to be married later this morning, Callum.
00:23:52The bride's father is the richest man on the Pacific slope.
00:23:56Anything she wants, he'll give her.
00:23:59As long as we keep her happy.
00:24:01Yes, keep her very happy, my lord.
00:24:04My partners and I have no wish to own Glavine.
00:24:08Please don't force us to take it.
00:24:11Rest assured it will never come to that.
00:24:19If you'll excuse me, General.
00:24:26Thank you.
00:24:57Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:24:59Is that look a reproach?
00:25:01No.
00:25:03No, I'm often up at this hour.
00:25:12I don't really sleep these days.
00:25:26Thank you.
00:25:56No!
00:26:26No!
00:26:56No!
00:26:58No!
00:27:21Scale.
00:27:23The scale of the chair.
00:27:25The sense of the scale of the chair.
00:27:53Thank you.
00:28:15I'll leave the goddamn thing alone!
00:28:23Thank you.
00:28:42Thank you for coming, Doctor.
00:28:45Why didn't you call me earlier?
00:28:47Well, I didn't know what to...
00:28:49Oh, dear, oh, dear.
00:28:53Thank you.
00:28:59He won't admit it, of course, but he's not well.
00:29:02I'm very worried about him.
00:29:04You should have called me earlier.
00:29:06But he wouldn't have it.
00:29:08But you know how masterful he is.
00:29:10I didn't dare disobey him.
00:29:18Oh, dear.
00:29:23Thank you.
00:29:33Holmes?
00:29:37Holmes?
00:29:40What do you know about dreams?
00:29:42Why do you ask?
00:29:44Why?
00:29:46I'm walking through infernal territory and you ask why?
00:29:49I only meant...
00:29:51I don't know what I meant.
00:29:55Well, uh...
00:29:57There's a...
00:29:59There's a group in Vienna led by...
00:30:01I don't know.
00:30:03I don't know.
00:30:05I don't know.
00:30:07There's a group in Vienna led by a young doctor called Freud.
00:30:11Psychologist. Mitwoch.
00:30:13Gesselschaft.
00:30:15Please, don't look at them.
00:30:17They're merely scribbles.
00:30:19For reference.
00:30:21Does he seek to explain dreams?
00:30:24To interpret them, I believe so.
00:30:26Their relationship to the life of the dreamer.
00:30:28They aim to be scientific, I gather.
00:30:30The science of dreams.
00:30:32Well, well, well.
00:30:37My dream is horrible.
00:30:42I'm...
00:30:44Fighting with Moriarty at the Falls.
00:30:49And suddenly I'm...
00:30:51Overwhelmed...
00:30:53With a sense of loss.
00:30:56Fear.
00:31:00Yes, fear.
00:31:03Empty rooms.
00:31:05I have no sense of scale.
00:31:08A huge chair, which diminishes.
00:31:11Its upholstery torn to shreds.
00:31:14I'm struggling to escape from a marsh.
00:31:17A mire. A quagmire.
00:31:19The Grimpin Mire.
00:31:23And then appears...
00:31:26An androgynous creature.
00:31:30Witch-like, hag-like.
00:31:33With claws, talons, which reach out to me.
00:31:38Through me.
00:31:41And I'm trapped.
00:31:44In a mesh of cobwebs.
00:31:49And I wake.
00:31:51Hmm.
00:31:54Are you eating?
00:31:59No.
00:32:06You sleep badly. You have bad dreams.
00:32:08You sleep even worse.
00:32:10I don't have bad dreams. I have one dream more than once.
00:32:14Let's see how you really are.
00:32:16Oh, please, don't stop that.
00:32:19And I'll tell you something else.
00:32:22I regret Moriarty's death.
00:32:30How would you describe Moriarty?
00:32:32Evil.
00:32:34A giant of evil.
00:32:36Giant, yes, quite so.
00:32:38Without him,
00:32:40I have to deal with
00:32:42distressed children
00:32:44and cat owners, pygmies!
00:32:46Pygmies of triviality!
00:32:50You see,
00:32:52Moriarty combined science with evil.
00:32:57Organization with precision.
00:32:59Vision with perception.
00:33:01I know of only one person that he misjudged.
00:33:06Me.
00:33:14Put away your medicines.
00:33:16How was your seminar?
00:33:19Lively.
00:33:26Hmm.
00:33:28Hmm.
00:33:54Anna, where are you going?
00:33:59There's something wrong with the child.
00:34:01She's as nervous as a cat.
00:34:03Cat? Oh, yes.
00:34:05Amelia does look curious in a hat.
00:34:07I never thought of it before.
00:34:09Even you were nervous as a bride.
00:34:11What is that?
00:34:13There's something wrong.
00:34:22I was about to announce, milady.
00:34:23Oh, give it two or three minutes, would you?
00:34:25Very well, milady.
00:34:28Get that girl for me.
00:34:30Get her!
00:34:32Right. Get her!
00:34:34Spare your orders, milady.
00:34:44Right.
00:34:46Get her!
00:34:48Get her!
00:34:50Get her!
00:34:52Get her!
00:34:54Get her!
00:34:57Get her!
00:35:03Where is your dignity, Miss Miller?
00:35:05In the cold gutter of your heart, Lord Robert.
00:35:09Trampled in the gutter.
00:35:12Anna.
00:35:22I wish the child joy of you.
00:35:27Look, Bella.
00:35:29There's the famous Flora Miller.
00:35:31She used to be a friend of Robert's.
00:35:33But I don't think she likes him anymore.
00:35:41I can explain everything.
00:35:43It was, um...
00:35:45It was a long time ago.
00:36:02Who are you?
00:36:11Who are you?
00:36:41She's not upstairs.
00:36:54Go away.
00:37:05The house has been searched now, top to bottom.
00:37:07Not a sign of Hedy anywhere.
00:37:09Nothing.
00:37:12Alice.
00:37:13One of Mr. Ant's cloaks is missing, sir.
00:37:16Nothing else?
00:37:17No, sir. Not even a purse.
00:37:20Thank you, Alice.
00:37:22Sir.
00:37:29We must call the police.
00:37:31What about this woman of yours?
00:37:33This actress?
00:37:35Could she have anything to do with it?
00:37:37I don't know.
00:37:39I don't know.
00:37:41I'll get the police.
00:37:43Do you have any objection?
00:37:47No.
00:37:55Where are you?
00:37:59Oh, my darling.
00:38:01Hey!
00:38:17Hey!
00:38:27Well, well, well.
00:38:29Hmm.
00:38:32I've told you what you should be doing is eating properly.
00:38:37Come in.
00:38:40This has come.
00:38:42It is, Mark, most urgent.
00:38:44Mrs. Hudson, I can still see.
00:38:46Are you all right, Mr. Holmes?
00:38:48You know, I wish I'd never unlocked the door.
00:38:51No.
00:38:53Laurie's got a crest and a monogram.
00:38:55That's an improvement.
00:38:57This mail was from a fishmonger and a tidewaiter.
00:39:00Ah.
00:39:02It's a fashionable epistle, indeed.
00:39:04My dear Sherlock Holmes,
00:39:06Lord Blackwater tells me that I may place implicit reliance
00:39:10upon your judgment and discretion.
00:39:12Scotland Yard is already acting in this matter,
00:39:15and there is no objection to your...
00:39:17It's about that Lord St. Simon wedding.
00:39:19Yes, dowl, dowl, dowl.
00:39:28SHOUTING
00:39:39As you are.
00:39:41Three cowtrops in chief over a fest sale.
00:39:45That's him, all right.
00:39:53It's Lord St. Simon. He's early.
00:39:55Oh, please, Watson, I'm trying to sleep.
00:39:59You know my methods.
00:40:03Leave the door open.
00:40:08Where is Holmes?
00:40:10Mr. Holmes is indisposed, my lord.
00:40:13He has entrusted the preliminaries to me.
00:40:17I know his methods.
00:40:19Very well.
00:40:22Very well.
00:40:25Apart from the...
00:40:27distress this has caused me,
00:40:29you understand the...
00:40:31delicacy.
00:40:33Indeed.
00:40:34Indeed.
00:40:35Lord Blackwater said that Mr. Holmes
00:40:37has handled cases of this sort before.
00:40:40Though hardly, I imagine, from the same class of society.
00:40:47He would, in fact, be descending.
00:40:50Sir,
00:40:52Mr. Holmes' last client of the sort
00:40:55was a king.
00:40:57Oh, Watson.
00:40:59Oh, I had no idea.
00:41:02Which king?
00:41:04You can understand, my lord,
00:41:06that he extended to the affairs of other clients
00:41:09the same secrecy which he's promised you in yours.
00:41:13Of course.
00:41:18How are we to find her, sir?
00:41:21How can she have disappeared?
00:41:25Where is she?
00:41:28I must have her back.
00:41:37A woman obscured.
00:41:50It was after the ceremony outside the church
00:41:52that I first noticed that something was wrong.
00:41:55As you came out, and not before?
00:41:58No.
00:42:00And as she came in?
00:42:02She appeared a little apprehensive.
00:42:06But she...
00:42:08looked quite lovely.
00:42:10And very happy.
00:42:21If I remember rightly,
00:42:23the newspapers implied that Miss Miller was drunk
00:42:26when she made the scene at your front door.
00:42:28As far as I could judge, yes, it was likely.
00:42:31My lord, would it be in order to ask
00:42:33the nature of your relationship with Miss Miller?
00:42:36Yes.
00:42:38If somewhat naive, she was my mistress.
00:42:40We parted some months ago.
00:42:42I was, I believe, generous.
00:42:45And that is when you met Miss Duran.
00:42:48Before, in fact.
00:42:50Miss Miller's drinking had already led to some scenes.
00:42:53She was becoming very unreliable.
00:42:56Do you think...
00:43:00Do you think Miss Miller the sort of person
00:43:02to seek revenge on you?
00:43:04Beyond embarrassing, I mean.
00:43:06Drink affects people unpredictably.
00:43:10The Trappers' Cottonyard also believes Miss Miller
00:43:13to be implicated in Hetty's disappearance.
00:43:17Hadn't you better answer the door, sir?
00:43:25I know, I know, Mr. Holmes, but the circumstances are odd, though.
00:43:28I felt you should see this.
00:43:35The woman was a lady. No doubt about it.
00:43:38And there was something about her.
00:43:40Compelling, I'd call it. Most compelling.
00:43:43Really? Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:43:45Never mind her clothes and her veil.
00:43:47It was her voice.
00:43:49She was a lady.
00:43:52Did you say she wore a veil?
00:43:54Yes, sir.
00:43:58Mrs. Hudson, I have a...
00:44:01faint, cold fear runs through my veins.
00:44:06Oh, sir.
00:44:08Would you put a match to the fire?
00:44:10Of course.
00:44:13Thank you.
00:44:44Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:44:47Now, Lord Robert,
00:44:49if I were to mention the names Maud and Helena to you,
00:44:53would they mean anything?
00:44:55Certainly they would.
00:44:58They are the names of the two women
00:45:00to whom Lord Robert was previously married.
00:45:04Married?
00:45:08You are married?
00:45:10You are married?
00:45:13Forgive my French surprise, my lord.
00:45:15Why didn't you tell me?
00:45:16You said you wanted to sleep.
00:45:17Well, I'm wide awake now.
00:45:25But you are known.
00:45:27Even celebrated as one of the most eligible bachelors in the country.
00:45:33I never chose to be celebrated, Mr. Holmes.
00:45:37I have always been very contented
00:45:39that my marriages be kept from the public gaze, Mr. Holmes.
00:45:43Why?
00:45:46They were not comfortable experiences.
00:45:50Comfortable?
00:45:52Painful, indeed.
00:45:53Painful.
00:45:55That is what I said, Mr. Holmes.
00:45:59They have no bearing on the matter in hand.
00:46:02Would you oblige me then by telling me how your marriages ended?
00:46:09The first ended in my wife's death.
00:46:14The second, by annulment.
00:46:16Excellent.
00:46:33Come on, now.
00:46:46I see.
00:46:49And the grounds of the annulment?
00:46:55It was annulled, Mr. Holmes.
00:47:02I see.
00:47:19Watson, will you fetch Mrs. Hudson?
00:47:23Mr. Bronson!
00:47:27Mr. Bronson!
00:47:32Mrs. Hudson?
00:47:34Sir?
00:47:37I want you to describe to me the lady who delivered the note.
00:47:40Thank you.
00:47:41Try, sir.
00:47:42No, you must do more than try, Mrs. Hudson.
00:47:44You must succeed.
00:47:46Well, she...
00:47:48Look.
00:47:50Look, sir.
00:47:51On the other side of the street.
00:47:53That's her.
00:48:03Come, Watson!
00:48:22Drive on!
00:48:32Stop!
00:48:33Stop! Stop!
00:48:35Stop!
00:48:38Stop!
00:48:52I despair.
00:48:55What is it?
00:48:56A tram ticket.
00:48:58And an accounts book.
00:49:00It's just figures.
00:49:02No dress.
00:49:07Lady Hettygon.
00:49:09What of more than Helena?
00:49:13Out of the way, Mrs. Hudson!
00:49:15Oh, Doctor!
00:49:17That name, Dr. Wilde's latest play.
00:49:20Something about losing a relative.
00:49:23Yes, to lose...
00:49:25To lose one parent may be considered unfortunate.
00:49:28Yes, that's it, you see.
00:49:29I think that's what the veiled lady was trying to imply.
00:49:31To lose one wife may be considered unfortunate.
00:49:35But to lose three...
00:49:37Begins to look like carelessness.
00:49:39Grand carelessness, Watson!
00:49:41Ricky, who is this woman?
00:49:44I must need your notes on Lord Robert.
00:49:58Oh, be reasonable, Watson.
00:50:26wait. we are not leaving this room. you need rest. rest? well then you'll have to
00:50:33interview Duran tomorrow morning. all right. the science of dreams. what is that
00:50:42undiscovered language? like our ancestors thought of them. prophetic. yes you may
00:50:49look. pre-cognizance. this little book we must wait until it dries. the woman with
00:51:06the veil.
00:51:11she must be found.
00:51:49I'm sorry to disturb you sir. inspector Montgomery. I wonder if you could identify
00:51:54this. I understand the young lady was wearing her wedding dress when she left
00:52:01the house. yes that's Hattie's wedding dress.
00:52:20I'm grateful to you Inspector for your time. not at all. I'm told a visit to mr.
00:52:25Holmes is always entertaining if nothing else.
00:52:29Levington spa? what's Lestrade doing at Levington spa? taking the waters. I'm
00:52:38sorry to see you laid up mr. Holmes. must cramp your style no end. never mind we've
00:52:44not been idle. I've arrested miss Flora Miller for questioning. but miss Miller's
00:52:49playing a leading role in the West End. why? Flora Miller was seen at the wedding.
00:52:56then she came looking for the victim. she attacked Lord Robert and then she was
00:53:02seen with mr. Rand shortly after she left her house but she'll tell us
00:53:05nothing about it. nothing. and there's this mr. Holmes. you know where to come
00:53:11as soon as you can. I will wait all day and it's signed FM. fairly conclusive
00:53:19wouldn't you say? where'd you find this? in the pocket of the wedding dress. you're
00:53:24looking at the wrong side. I know what's on the other side. excuse me what is your
00:53:27name? Montgomery. inspector. oh an inspector. this is to want my hotel bill.
00:53:35rooms eight shillings breakfast two and six cocktails a shilling luncheon two and
00:53:41saves a glass of sherry eight pence. I have looked at that there's nothing in
00:53:44it. I know a very few hotels that would dare to charge eight pence for a glass
00:53:50of sherry. however inspector I would like to interview please. miss Miller.
00:53:59you're welcome to. good day mr. Holmes. dr. Watson. inspector. oh and good luck.
00:54:06good luck to you. the thought of the strayed loose in Leamington Squire. I do hope his wife will be there.
00:54:16I need your hip flask and a small bottle of gin. gin?
00:54:26that hotel bill. the message. it must have been passed somehow to mr. Rammond
00:54:33at the church. question one how? question two by who? clearly by the person she went to
00:54:42meet. the initials FM. hmm I wonder.
00:54:51mr. Holmes the evidence is looking increasingly good. it's miss Miller. I now
00:54:57have this gentleman's evidence. may I introduce mr. George Tidy. how do you do
00:55:01sir? he's the senior porter at the park club. he's prepared to testify that miss
00:55:05Miller took a shot with a pistol at Lord St. Simon on the night before his
00:55:10wedding. if true it's most intriguing. oh it's true all right.
00:55:16it's true all right. mr. Tidy has the proof.
00:55:31the bullets. there? a pocket gun wouldn't you say? but not miss Miller's. not miss
00:55:48Miller's? no certainly not. the gun has yet to be invented that can shoot round
00:55:54corners inspector. someone took a shot. of course they did. now mr. Tidy who do you
00:55:59think attempted this murder? I've no idea sir but there were several other
00:56:03people about. but I noticed that the door of his lordship's carriage banged at the
00:56:11same time as the gun went off. but what really alerted me was the chips coming
00:56:17out of the stone. well naturally after that I had to turn and there she was.
00:56:25miss Miller I mean. staring at furious. and so you thought it was she who had
00:56:29fired the shot. very natural. however it was not. person or persons unknown.
00:56:37I am acutely aware that you should not be here. I'm glad to hear it. I am sure
00:56:58a colonel is at your service. only service you could do me is to be
00:57:04carrying a bottle. what's that?
00:57:24well well what an extraordinarily civilized citizen you turn out to be
00:57:32then. I am here to investigate the disappearance of lady St. Simon. child
00:57:42simply had the common sense to see what she was letting herself in for. and what
00:57:46was she letting herself in for? a life with Lord Robertson Simon. can you
00:57:53describe what that might entail? I told the child all about it.
00:58:00been a long day. I was very tired.
00:58:25God knows what I said to her.
00:58:30I don't remember.
00:58:38dear mr. Holmes. I Agnes Northcott. being of sound mind and body.
00:59:08you observed miss Hetty Duran leave the house. you introduced yourself to her.
00:59:24you walked together in the park. you warned her against Lord St. Simon. yes.
00:59:30did she try to defend St. Simon to you? no. not at all? all she said was thank you.
00:59:38that has decided me. ah go on. you took her back to the theater and sent out for
00:59:46some clothes. yes. had she money with her? no I bought the clothes and I gave her a
00:59:51couple of sovereigns. that's very good of you. not at all. she told me her father
00:59:57would reimburse it all. she wrote a note to him for me. now can you tell me
01:00:03anything about Lord St. Simon's previous marriages? nothing. nothing? nothing. I live
01:00:11for the present. anything else is a waste of time. you know nothing about his
01:00:15first wife's death? nothing. the second marriage was annulled. do you know why?
01:00:22no. annulment usually takes place when there is unfitness in one of the
01:00:28partners. do you know what that might be? no. no? nothing? you're not prepared to
01:00:38discuss anything? no. may I ask why? no.
01:00:43that any man should be worthy of such love. is it passion? fear?
01:00:59oh I see miss Miller. it's both.
01:01:06I shall do my best to see that you are released from this nonsensical confinement.
01:01:16miss Miller.
01:01:36I'll do it.
01:02:06this is nearly ready. you know the disappearance of Durand's daughter ought
01:02:25to be a simple matter. should solve itself without further assistance.
01:02:31well what about Lord Robert? what has he done to warrant three avenging angels?
01:02:37witches. witches? well a woman obscured. perhaps time is shaped. we cannot dream
01:02:51the future. oh maybe the future is all around us. I'm ready. coming.
01:03:01it's a pity there's so little in this. just a few figures and initials. no doubt
01:03:16you'll find more. oh look. it's like the delicate membranes of a butterfly.
01:03:26or the poor woman's destitute.
01:03:37father's rage on this page. look how she's torn the paper with the nip.
01:03:43what have we here? a thread. a seamstress. lace maker. web maker.
01:04:14ah she reads. Bronte, Jane, Austin and Sophocles. come in.
01:04:26woman with the veil. she's back.
01:04:31mr. Sherlock Holmes. yes I am here. we've met before. I am Agnes Northcott. miss
01:04:48Northcott. what are you to say to me? before I can tell you that I must know
01:04:54your connection with Lord St. Simon. none. Watson? we are investigating his wife's
01:05:01disappearance. he must not find her. such an edict requires justification ma'am. no
01:05:08woman with a fortune is safe from him believe me. believe me. really? well I am
01:05:14afraid I am burdened with a rational turn of mind. I need proofs.
01:05:18well miss Northcott I need proofs. I have no proofs. only my conviction and
01:05:27experiences not just my own. conviction? well that's a luxury that I've almost
01:05:31forgotten. you clearly have much to tell us miss Northcott. please please sit down.
01:05:41I have. about my sister. shall I tell you what happened to her? that is why I came.
01:05:50Helena was more alive than anyone I've ever met. she had her fortune. she was in
01:05:58charge of her fate as few women are until she met Lord Robertson Simon. he
01:06:05destroyed her. he took her fortune. he married her and he destroyed her. how?
01:06:20he had her committed to a madhouse. it required only the signature of two doctors and the
01:06:30deed was done. when was this? it could not happen today. we have the lunacy act.
01:06:34oh could it not? well that's as maybe. but the act came too late for my sister and
01:06:43the lunacy act became enforced. he still had her put away. people can't just be
01:06:52put away. they can if your uncle is a Duke. if you're handsome and plausible.
01:07:00under the terms of your precious act I demanded that conditions of her
01:07:06confinement were inspected. so they were. a small but learned committee went to
01:07:14Glavin eventually. knowing what they wanted to find and of course they found
01:07:21it. charmed by the compassionate Lord Robert who had kept his wife a profoundly
01:07:28depressed person. once beautiful now sadly distracted in conditions that can
01:07:34only be wondered at for their cleanliness, their orderliness, their
01:07:39quality of nursing and so on. only one thing was amiss. it was not my sister.
01:07:47Helena was not mad. it was not her. he'd hired someone. Flora Miller. Robert!
01:08:00it was not my sister. it was not her.
01:08:08and where is she now?
01:08:17I went to Glavin myself. I had to fight the truth.
01:08:25my reward was this.
01:08:55Miss Northcote. did you discover the truth?
01:09:12no.
01:09:16I didn't know how to.
01:09:18I was blind with anger and grief. I have no recollection of even how I got there.
01:09:31I only know that I found myself one day walking through the gates of that cursed place.
01:10:19I'm sorry.
01:10:29we thought that it was time that we spoke of this today.
01:10:33and that we began the route of the Holy Ghost.
01:11:18I'm sorry.
01:11:48I'm sorry.
01:12:19I was left in part of the wood where the animals are kept.
01:12:28so it might look as though I've been attacked by one of them.
01:12:32after ignoring notices not to.
01:12:42I was found by some cottagers and kept alive.
01:12:47I would have begged you to find out whether my sister was alive or not.
01:13:03I live only a half-life of not knowing.
01:13:09nothing seems to break the gray circle I live in.
01:13:16nothing I do.
01:13:27nothing.
01:13:29I walk the streets at night.
01:13:35am I looking for danger?
01:13:38sometimes I think I'm asking the world to hurt me.
01:13:45so I can feel alive.
01:13:48good God.
01:13:50what else may I have dreamt?
01:13:54the laundry.
01:13:56Miss Northcote will you satisfy me upon one point?
01:14:00if I can.
01:14:02your meanderings.
01:14:04nocturnal meanderings. did they ever take you past the park club?
01:14:10Lord St. Simon was shot at on the night before his wedding.
01:14:16that was you.
01:14:18couldn't bear to see another life destroyed.
01:14:25Lord Robert's wife.
01:14:28first wife was murdered.
01:14:31murdered?
01:14:33she also had a fortune. she was robbed and killed shortly after their honeymoon in France.
01:14:39by who?
01:14:40a man called Thomas Flutier.
01:14:42was he convicted? yes but he escaped.
01:14:47and where is he now?
01:14:52where do you think he is?
01:14:57any idea?
01:14:59Glavine.
01:15:01no I don't know I don't know.
01:15:03I have no proof.
01:15:05just the strength of your convictions? yes.
01:15:09Miss Northcote
01:15:11I'm afraid the sound of your shot never reached the ears of our noble bachelor.
01:15:17the thrice married Lord St. Simon.
01:15:21I cannot expect you to understand how much I envy you.
01:15:31the delight it must be to face an opponent of some worth.
01:15:40excuse me.
01:15:42Hudson!
01:15:44is he really going to help?
01:15:53oh yes.
01:15:55he already is.
01:15:57I was in church. weren't we much sweetness.
01:16:01I smuggled Bella in. she was as good as gold.
01:16:05did anything occur?
01:16:07oh nothing occurred out of the ordinary.
01:16:11I assure you.
01:16:13try to remember.
01:16:15sweet little Hetty dropped her bouquet you know.
01:16:19and had it picked up for her.
01:16:21he was quite an oddity the one that picked it up I mean.
01:16:25one of the two hands I suppose.
01:16:28he looked American at any rate.
01:16:30thank you.
01:16:40Hewitt!
01:16:44you don't I suppose have another heiress up your sleeve.
01:16:54damn you.
01:16:56the newspapers you see reported a scene of disgusting vulgarity on your father-in-law's doorsteps.
01:17:02I wonder how do you explain that to him?
01:17:05Doran doesn't think me an innocent.
01:17:07he accepted my story.
01:17:10it was clear to everyone that miss Miller was drunk.
01:17:15I managed to obtain from my partners a temporary stay of execution.
01:17:23that's all.
01:17:25a day or two.
01:17:27we must have proof.
01:17:31proof of what for God's sake?
01:17:33proof that the Californian goose remains willing to lay its golden eggs at Glarvin.
01:17:37that's all.
01:17:39nothing must jeopardize that. nothing.
01:17:41no of course not.
01:17:43what about miss Miller?
01:17:45if she's capable of a scene like that.
01:17:48what else is she capable of?
01:17:51I hope she's nothing else to reveal.
01:17:53trust me.
01:18:01not an inch my lord.
01:18:04I just discovered that a certain mr. Francis Hay-Moulton is in room 26.
01:18:10an American gentleman whose wife only joined him yesterday.
01:18:14his initials are FHM.
01:18:16FM?
01:18:18excuse me one moment please sir.
01:18:26now can I assist you sir?
01:18:28how much is a glass of sherry?
01:18:30that would be eight.
01:18:32thank you.
01:19:02I personally promised mr. Moulton that you will both be free to return to California.
01:19:12it will be as if your wife had never entered that church.
01:19:22how did you find us?
01:19:24that is unimportant.
01:19:26if I may give you my opinion I think there's been a little too much secrecy already.
01:19:28may I speak to mrs. Moulton?
01:19:30not before you tell me who the devil you are.
01:19:32we've engaged my lord sir Simon to find his wife.
01:19:48mr. Moulton her father will take it very hard I think that she did not communicate with him.
01:19:54but she did damn it. she did.
01:19:56there's the note for Flora Miller. he will receive it by now.
01:20:00good. her father never approved of me.
01:20:02really?
01:20:04you see up in the Gulf...
01:20:06surely these are explanations for her father.
01:20:12you made criticism of Henrietta's duties towards her father.
01:20:16you hear me out.
01:20:18I promised old man Duran I'd go away and not trouble Henrietta.
01:20:22until I'd made my way.
01:20:24but we got married in secret before I went.
01:20:28then I was reported dead up in the high northwest.
01:20:32so Henrietta told him then about our secret marriage.
01:20:38he sent someone out to check I was dead like they said.
01:20:42that man never found me.
01:20:44so Henrietta gave me up for dead.
01:20:48so mr. Francis Hay Moulton presumably you have made your way.
01:20:54I'm in hotels sir.
01:20:56hotels?
01:20:58really?
01:21:00really?
01:21:02how much do you charge for a glass of sherry?
01:21:04the same as this hotel eight pence.
01:21:18Robert?
01:21:44Robert?
01:21:48Laura?
01:22:00Laura?
01:22:06my darling.
01:22:18my darling.
01:22:32it's too late Robert.
01:22:36I told the child everything.
01:22:46anyway Lord st. Simon may as well have saved his money from employing you.
01:22:50why do you say that?
01:22:52because Henrietta has gone to see him.
01:22:54I wish she had not done that!
01:22:56I wish she had not done that!
01:22:58I wish she had not done that!
01:23:00I wish she had not done that!
01:23:02I wish she had not done that!
01:23:04I wish she had not done that!
01:23:34I wish she had not done that!
01:24:04I wish she had not done that!
01:24:34I wish she had not done that!
01:24:36I wish she had not done that!
01:24:38I wish she had not done that!
01:25:04I wish she had not done that!
01:25:34I wish she had not done that!
01:25:48hello Henrietta my darling.
01:25:50where have you been?
01:25:52where did you disappear to?
01:25:54where is she?
01:25:56where is your wife?
01:25:58you're my wife.
01:26:00I don't know what I am anymore.
01:26:04what are you saying?
01:26:06Robert, why didn't you tell me?
01:26:08tell you what?
01:26:10everything. everything about your wives.
01:26:18that's the past.
01:26:20unimportant.
01:26:22I don't want to relive the past.
01:26:26the past is dead.
01:26:30you, you are the future.
01:26:32who? your wife.
01:26:34I have only you.
01:26:36my darling, the marriage was annulled.
01:26:38have you been talking to Flora Miller?
01:26:40I know you have.
01:26:42oh my darling, I beg you not to listen to that woman.
01:26:44she is a drunk.
01:26:46she has no sense of decency or truth left.
01:26:48where is Lady Helena now?
01:26:50how should I know?
01:26:52being careful.
01:26:54do you care for her, Robert?
01:26:56what?
01:26:58I pay for her care.
01:27:00seeing her
01:27:02is too painful.
01:27:04the poor creature is afflicted with
01:27:06self persecution and
01:27:08delusions every time I appear.
01:27:10the authorities
01:27:12have asked me not to go anymore.
01:27:16the authorities?
01:27:20is she alive, Robert?
01:27:22what are you saying?
01:27:26I don't believe you.
01:27:30I believe Flora Miller.
01:27:32I believe what she told me
01:27:34and it makes me ill to think it.
01:27:36and I thought she was a drunk.
01:27:38just another drunk, but it didn't mean anything.
01:27:40you took Lady Helena
01:27:42away from a private hospital.
01:27:44you took her away. where is she, Robert?
01:27:46and you brought her here. where is she, Robert?
01:27:48please, Robert, oh god damn it!
01:27:50oh god.
01:27:52what does it matter?
01:27:54why did the murder
01:27:56of your first wife escape, Robert?
01:28:00why did the murder
01:28:02of your first wife escape?
01:28:04where to?
01:28:06do you have a servant here, Robert?
01:28:08is his name Thomas Blow?
01:28:10is he here?
01:28:12what do you think
01:28:14we do?
01:28:16don't say.
01:28:25when?
01:28:27when I let you go?
01:28:29Hattie, Hattie,
01:28:31what I did, I did for you.
01:28:33with you, the world's changed.
01:28:35Hattie, Hattie, you must believe me.
01:28:37say you believe me!
01:28:42never!
01:28:44not this side of hell!
01:28:46I will.
01:28:48that's it.
01:28:50it's over.
01:28:55no.
01:29:05yes.
01:29:07yes.
01:29:09Thomas Flottier is the man who works for me here.
01:29:13amongst other things he looks after the needs
01:29:16of lady Helena.
01:29:18it may give you some satisfaction to know that your
01:29:22stubbornness will be the inevitable cause of her death now.
01:29:28yours too of course.
01:29:31Flottier will arrange an accident for you.
01:29:36money will revert to me.
01:29:40after a
01:29:42period of mourning
01:29:46I'll leave.
01:29:53and you think Paul would let you just walk off with my money?
01:30:00you can't argue with law.
01:30:03you're my wife.
01:30:07no.
01:30:09I'm not.
01:30:11what do you think happened to me in the church, Robert?
01:30:14when I dropped my bouquet.
01:30:17I saw the man I married.
01:30:19a ghost.
01:30:21I thought he was dead.
01:30:26but that's where I've been.
01:30:29with my husband.
01:30:49come on.
01:31:19no.
01:31:49empty rolls.
01:32:19no.
01:32:49no.
01:33:15her scent.
01:33:20oh.
01:33:22Thomas Flottier.
01:33:49ah!
01:34:02ah!
01:34:04ah!
01:34:16what's in her?
01:34:18take care of her.
01:34:34oh.
01:34:36oh.
01:34:38ah.
01:34:40oh.
01:34:42ah.
01:34:44oh.
01:34:46oh.
01:34:48ah!
01:34:50ah!
01:34:52ah!
01:35:04ah!
01:35:34oh.
01:36:04oh.
01:36:34oh.
01:37:04ah!
01:37:15ah!
01:37:17ah!
01:37:22ah!
01:37:27laughing
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01:39:03ah
01:39:18Who are you?
01:39:21emissaries of your sister Agnes
01:39:26tell me
01:39:29How did you do it?
01:39:33I spent seven long years ensuring the chapel's utter instability.
01:39:43Any attempt I made at escape was thwarted.
01:39:49So, I recreated the entrance, brick by brick, timber by timber.
01:40:02I made a science of instability.
01:40:07And I succeeded.
01:40:10Seven years.
01:40:12It was unique in my experience to have served the sentence before committing the crime.
01:40:20Nurse.
01:40:23And so it was that we discovered the true mistress of Glavine.
01:40:28A woman so far from madness who had survived so...
01:40:32No.
01:40:33Ah, who had so triumphantly, triumphantly survived seven years of captivity
01:40:41that Holmes was pleased to call her one of the finest minds he had ever encountered.
01:40:47In meeting her, I believe Holmes solved the riddle of his dream.
01:40:52It only troubles him now, insofar as he cannot deny the possibility that it was prophetic.
01:40:58That the new owner of Glavine was none other than Lady Helena St. Simon.
01:41:04Lady Helena wisely decided to sell it and redeem the mortgages upon it.
01:41:08I cannot conceive of a happier prospect than to imagine Glavine
01:41:13restored for the enjoyment of the Moultons and their future family.
01:41:17How dare you?
01:41:21How dare you make a record of this case?
01:41:23Oh, a record? Oh, no, no, no, no.
01:41:26I'm merely answering an invitation to another seminar.
01:41:31Really?
01:41:33We'll be quick.
01:41:34We leave in an hour.
01:41:36What for?
01:41:37For heaven's sake, what's on the performance?
01:41:47Thank you.
01:43:17Thank you for watching.
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