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00:01:00The game's up, Llewellyn. I arrest you for the murder of John Russell and Mary McClure at 150 Liberal Street, Liverpool, on the night of January the 1st, 1935.
00:01:16I have to warn you that anything you say, etc., etc., etc., I've been after you for five years for this, and I may say that this is a moment that affords me the greatest possible pleasure.
00:01:27Just as I was reaching for the handcuffs.
00:01:28Just a minute, Chief. How many L's are in Llewellyn?
00:01:31Four. But you've determined you've only got as far as Llewellyn.
00:01:35I've only got two fingers.
00:01:36Now, Mr. Pippen, ever fast you out, I'm blowed if I know.
00:01:39Inspector Blow. Inspector Blow, begin.
00:01:41No. Then, throwing caution to the winds, I leapt on him single-handed.
00:01:47Single-handed?
00:01:49Well, go on. You know how to spell single-handed, don't you?
00:01:52Yes, but you weren't single-handed, Chief. I was with you.
00:01:54Well, that's as good as being single-handed.
00:01:56Yes, but it was me that leapt on him. From behind.
00:02:00Look here. Whose life story is this?
00:02:02Well, yours, Chief. I mean, fair's fair. After all, I've given you the best years of my life, and the only time you've mentioned me up to page 298 was that time when the bulldog tore a piece out of my trousers.
00:02:13Well, that showed your true advantage, didn't it? Anyway, will this satisfy you?
00:02:17Ten minutes later, help arrived in the shape of Sergeant Bingham, and the Saffron Gang was finally rounded up.
00:02:23Thanks, Chief.
00:02:24Not that you did make any difference.
00:02:26Well, now we come to the last chapter. We'll leave that blank for the moment, but we'll hit it. The fifth column.
00:02:32The fifth column?
00:02:33That's what I said.
00:02:35But you haven't had anything to do with the fifth column?
00:02:37No, but I'm going to. Listen to this.
00:02:40The Minister of Home Security today assured the government that the best brains in Scotland Yard will shortly be engaged to combat the menace of the fifth column in this country.
00:02:49They are my boy, Inspector Hornley's next case.
00:02:52Yes, but it hasn't even mentioned you, Chief.
00:02:54No, but it says the best brains, and that narrows it down. Let's see, there's Jenkins in Yorkshire, Brown in Ireland. That leaves...
00:03:02Good morning, Inspector Bloom.
00:03:04Good morning. Still working on the life story for Tit Bits, I see. I thought of a good title for it yesterday.
00:03:11Oh?
00:03:12Yes. Whopping Tales of the Yard.
00:03:16I'll treat that remark with the contempt it deserves.
00:03:19Anything else, Chief?
00:03:20No. There's an unsympathetic influence in the room.
00:03:22Well, I'll just head up the new fifth column chapter, and then I'll leave it at that, eh?
00:03:26Fifth column? How does fifth column figure in the fairy tales?
00:03:31It hasn't yet, but it's going to, eh?
00:03:35Oh, and who said you were going to be assigned to the fifth column case?
00:03:39A little Dickie Bird.
00:03:40Oh, I should have written that little Dickie Bird's name, if I were you, because he's singing the wrong tune.
00:03:44I suppose you think you're going to get the job, eh?
00:03:46Never mind, Hornly. Anyway, how could they waste a man like you on a job like that?
00:03:52Why not?
00:03:53Well, who's going to take care of the bottle parties?
00:03:55Well, I'll practically clean those up, you know that?
00:03:57Yeah, with the exception of the one where Bingham goes every night.
00:04:00Well, he hasn't found any evidence yet.
00:04:02No, but he's found a nice little fan dancer.
00:04:04Who?
00:04:06Is that right?
00:04:08No, it's not.
00:04:10Inspector Hornly.
00:04:11Yeah?
00:04:12The Commissioner wants you.
00:04:13Oh?
00:04:14He's got half the army high command with him.
00:04:16Has he, though?
00:04:18Oh.
00:04:19Well, I shouldn't worry blow, old man.
00:04:21You'll have plenty of time to spare.
00:04:23I'll hand over that little joint for you to clean up.
00:04:26And if you talk to Bingham nicely, he might give you her phone number.
00:04:30Oh, Bingham.
00:04:31Sir?
00:04:32You can leave in that bit about the fifth column.
00:04:34Righty-ighty.
00:04:38The fact is, this petty scrounging has reached such proportions that it's costing the army thousands a year.
00:04:43What we've got to do is to set an example.
00:04:45If we can catch one or two of the culprits, it'll have a salutary effect on the others.
00:04:49Now.
00:04:52Who's that for me, sir?
00:04:53Brigadier Lloyd, Major Harvey of the War Office.
00:04:55Inspector Hornly.
00:04:56How do you do, gentlemen?
00:04:57I've got a rather unusual case for you, Hornly.
00:04:59The War Office are concerned over certain army activities which are proving rather more widespread than we imagine.
00:05:05Now, what we thought...
00:05:06I think I know what you mean, sir.
00:05:07Oh?
00:05:08Well, one reads the papers.
00:05:10The papers only touch on the fringe of it, I'm afraid.
00:05:12Quite.
00:05:13But a detective can read between the lanes.
00:05:15I'm glad you appreciate this importance.
00:05:17As I was telling the commissioner, this is not just a case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
00:05:21Eh?
00:05:22This sort of thing's going on in camps all over the country, you know.
00:05:24I beg your pardon?
00:05:25These depredations from army stores.
00:05:27Depred...
00:05:28Scrounging, Hornly.
00:05:30Scrounging?
00:05:31But you've been saying this has nothing to do with the fifth column.
00:05:33Fifth column?
00:05:34Whatever put that into your head?
00:05:36Inspector Blow was assigned to that case last week.
00:05:38Blow?
00:05:39As an ex-officer, it shouldn't be difficult for you to get into the run of things again.
00:05:42Are you listening, Hornly?
00:05:45The idea is that you should join the army.
00:05:47What, me?
00:05:48Yes.
00:05:49What, at my age? After all my years of...
00:05:51Temporarily, of course.
00:05:52We'll do our best to see you're comfortable.
00:05:54Well, it's more than I was last time.
00:05:56Still, if you're offering me a commission...
00:05:58I'm afraid that is hardly the idea.
00:06:00By joining the ranks and mixing with the men, you'll have a better chance of contacting the offenders.
00:06:05The ranks?
00:06:07It's true.
00:06:09Come on.
00:06:20Come on, come on, step out. What's the matter with you?
00:06:22I'm tired out.
00:06:23What, we're all tired out?
00:06:25We're not grumbling about it?
00:06:26Yes, but I've been carrying these things for the last six miles.
00:06:30I claim there was a changeover.
00:06:32All right, we'll have a changeover, OK?
00:06:35Put the gun on your right shoulder.
00:06:37You'll be left hand-free to carry the other stuff.
00:06:39I'm going to resign.
00:06:41You're not.
00:06:42You've been put on this job and you're going to stick it out.
00:06:45So, what have we done in the case?
00:06:47We've been ten days here, marching, drilling and dumping.
00:06:50And all we've got to show for it is blistered heels and fallen arches.
00:06:53Well, you'll have to prop up your arches, my lad.
00:06:55It's Kandahar Day tomorrow.
00:06:58It's Kandahar Day.
00:06:59A field day.
00:07:01A twelve-mile march with full pack.
00:07:03Followed by a three-mile attack over open country.
00:07:06Then some bombing and bayonet work.
00:07:08And if we're lucky, a band of players home to bed.
00:07:12I won't do it. I won't do it.
00:07:14British Army or no British Army.
00:07:16I'm going sick.
00:07:17You'll do nothing of the sort.
00:07:19If you start going soft now, you'll give the game away.
00:07:21Yes, but...
00:07:22If I can stick it, you can.
00:07:23And if you go sick, you'll have more than the British Army to answer to.
00:07:26You'll have to answer to me.
00:07:28I'm going sick.
00:07:36A few blokes to the sick parade.
00:07:38Pile in here.
00:08:02Cool. We're well out of that lock, eh?
00:08:05Gold perish tomorrow with full pack.
00:08:19Come along now. On parade, you. Double up.
00:08:22What's the matter?
00:08:25I don't think I feel very well, Sergeant, in fact.
00:08:28I think I'll go sick.
00:08:30You can't go sick now.
00:08:31Seven o'clock in the morning's the time to go sick.
00:08:33Run along now. You heard what the day sergeant said.
00:08:39Private Lee.
00:08:40Coming.
00:08:46Well, what's the matter with you?
00:08:48It's my blistering feet, sir. I've worn the tread off them.
00:08:52And when Lord Roberts made his historic march to Kandahar,
00:08:56it was a proud boast of this regiment that not a man fell out.
00:09:02Today is the anniversary of that great event.
00:09:05And in view of the excellent march you carried out yesterday,
00:09:09I propose to celebrate today
00:09:12by granting leave to the whole regiment till midnight.
00:09:16Hooray!
00:09:19Salute!
00:09:21Halt!
00:09:24Halt!
00:09:26Halt!
00:09:31Halt!
00:09:40Two beers, please.
00:09:41Two beers?
00:09:42Yes, I'm having one for a sick friend.
00:09:50Here's one to be going on with.
00:09:53Ah, you're not doing too bad.
00:09:54A pound note on a Friday.
00:09:56Gentleman's opinion, sir.
00:09:57What do you think?
00:09:58Well, um, bookie perhaps.
00:10:01Certainly not.
00:10:04I suppose now to tell you that I was one of those chaps
00:10:06that scrounged stuff out of army stores and sell it outside.
00:10:08Go on, you're having me on.
00:10:10I said supposing.
00:10:12Have you been many of them in here?
00:10:13Can't say I've met anyone.
00:10:15Just wondering.
00:10:17There's a lot of scrounging going on, you know.
00:10:18So I hear. Why they don't do something about it beats me.
00:10:21Perhaps they are.
00:10:22The military police?
00:10:23Not them.
00:10:25They may catch us drunk.
00:10:26They may catch us drunk.
00:10:28Found this stuff.
00:10:29Did it all over the floor.
00:10:30How much is missing?
00:10:31Can't say yet.
00:10:32But it's all new stuff, though.
00:10:33Only came in yesterday.
00:10:34None of it issued, eh?
00:10:35That should help.
00:10:37Assignment of pants.
00:10:38All sizes.
00:10:40Tinned pilchards.
00:10:41Ever had that brand before?
00:10:42No.
00:10:43What's it got to do with you?
00:10:45Yes, what are you doing here, anyway?
00:10:47The reporter would like you to meet the medical officer.
00:10:49Keep your nose out of things that don't concern you.
00:10:51Count up what's left in those cases.
00:10:52And don't make any mistakes.
00:10:53Very good, sir.
00:10:56Fluent sauce.
00:10:58Right.
00:11:02Did you get any time off?
00:11:03After we close, till we open again.
00:11:05What about taking a punt and having a watercress tea with me up there?
00:11:08You're not backward and coming forward, are you?
00:11:10Oh, what do you say?
00:11:12All right, then.
00:11:13I'll boss two outside.
00:11:14That's a deal.
00:11:15But on one condition.
00:11:16What's that?
00:11:17Would you let me pay my share?
00:11:18Yes?
00:11:19Yes?
00:11:26Come on.
00:11:44What's been to you?
00:11:47I had a marvelous time, chief.
00:11:48I've been out with a wee lassie.
00:11:50Look.
00:11:51Here she is.
00:11:54Not bad, eh?
00:11:55Well, it's six for three.
00:11:58To Baldy.
00:11:59With love from Daisy.
00:12:03I'm taking her to the pictures tomorrow.
00:12:04For half-day.
00:12:06Her father's a Presbyterian, too.
00:12:08Her father keeps an eye out among the shop...
00:12:09Now, listen.
00:12:10I don't want to hear how life is, me.
00:12:11While you've been making yourself ridiculous, I've been getting on with the job.
00:12:14And now you've been helping me.
00:12:15I'm on to something.
00:12:16You are?
00:12:17Yeah.
00:12:18Here's some salvage of stuff that was pinched last night.
00:12:20And if we can find any bit around here, we'll know who knocked it off.
00:12:23Yes, but they might have come by it innocently.
00:12:24Well, the stuff hasn't been issued yet.
00:12:25Now, come on.
00:12:26Step lively before they come back.
00:12:27Now, you know what you're looking for?
00:12:29Gents' underpants, large size.
00:12:30Filtrates and carbolic soap.
00:12:32Now, you take this side.
00:12:33Okay, chief.
00:12:34I've been through the hut next door, but I drew a blank.
00:12:54What if it was understood that we were only pretending to do this?
00:13:07Yes, we understood and the colonel understood.
00:13:09The sergeant made it a bit slow in the uptake.
00:13:11He got what he had to pay, then.
00:13:15Give it a hang, chief.
00:13:16You haven't clumsy flat foot.
00:13:21Come on.
00:13:22There's only eight more.
00:13:24Come on.
00:13:32Morning, Hornly.
00:13:33Still looking for clues, eh?
00:13:39I always said there were no flies on Hornly, but I take all that back now.
00:13:43What are you doing down here?
00:13:45Come away from your clues and I'll tell you.
00:13:47Have you come down here to make trouble?
00:13:49I've come down here to see you two.
00:13:51Us?
00:13:52You mean you want us to help you with your case?
00:13:53I do.
00:13:54Why?
00:13:55Because there are certain things, Hornly, of which you have special knowledge.
00:13:59I never expected you to admit that, Blow.
00:14:01I knew they'd get into a mess as soon as we left the yard.
00:14:04What's your difficulty?
00:14:05We're very busy, you know.
00:14:06I can appreciate that.
00:14:09Well, we've discovered that information is being coded to Germany.
00:14:15Nothing unusual in that, is there?
00:14:17Shortwave transmitter, I suppose.
00:14:19Yes, and what is more, we've discovered the code.
00:14:22And now all that's missing is the shortwave transmitter and the blokes who are running it.
00:14:25That's right, but unfortunately they never broadcast from the same place twice.
00:14:28What do you want us to do? Consult the stars for you?
00:14:31No, I'm not interested in your usual methods of solving crimes.
00:14:35What I want to know is how they got hold of a certain piece of information when there were only half a dozen people in the know.
00:14:40And you were two of them.
00:14:41Us?
00:14:42Yes, listen to this.
00:14:45Among other interesting items broadcast to Germany last night was this tidbit.
00:14:49Two Scotland Yard men named Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham are now carrying out secret investigations at Huplow Camp.
00:14:57What, do you mean to say it's been sent back to Germany?
00:14:59It has, and I want to know who's been doing the unveiling.
00:15:02Now, look here, Blow, let's get this straight.
00:15:04Are you accusing me of a breach of confidence?
00:15:06I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just making inquiries.
00:15:10Well, it amounts to the same thing.
00:15:12If anybody's been talking, it's certainly not me.
00:15:14Well, I'll take your word for it, Hornley. And what about you, Bingham? Have you been talking in your sleep?
00:15:18Did I take exception to that remark?
00:15:20So do I. And what's more, I object to you coming down here criticizing my staff.
00:15:23I'm not criticizing your staff. It's beyond criticism. I'm asking a simple question.
00:15:28Well, you had the answer. Just because some brass head shoots off his mouth in his club, you try to pin it on Bingham.
00:15:33He's worked for me for 15 years, and I know that he's incapable of doing such a thing.
00:15:37All right, all right. I must explore every avenue.
00:15:40Will you explore some avenue down White Hallway?
00:15:42Yes, and don't leave any stones unturned.
00:15:45Okay. Hello?
00:15:51Come on, now. Who did you tell?
00:15:54Me? Oh, now, here, Chief, you don't think that I...
00:15:56Yes, I do think. Come on, now. Out with it. Who was it?
00:16:00Well, it was that wee lassie, Daisy.
00:16:04I might have guessed it.
00:16:05But she's a nice girl, Chief.
00:16:06They're all nice girls. Mata Hari was a nice girl.
00:16:10Well, what did you tell this bird?
00:16:12Nothing, Chief. She guessed.
00:16:14Don't lie to me.
00:16:15But it's true, Chief. She said that I... I looked like a detective.
00:16:18Well, that's the biggest lie of the lot.
00:16:20I don't mind you laughing at my expense, but I tell you that Daisy's absolutely innocent.
00:16:23What, after going out with you in a punt?
00:16:25Well, supposing she's innocent? She can still talk?
00:16:28No, no, no. Not Daisy.
00:16:29Well, what is she?
00:16:30A barmaid.
00:16:31God, Lummi. Why, they're public information bureaus.
00:16:34Oh, by the way, did I hear you say you were taking her to the pictures this afternoon?
00:16:39I was, until you landed me into this mess.
00:16:41Well, you're still taking her. I'll fix it up with the Colonel.
00:16:44You mean that I can... What do you want me to do?
00:16:47Well, ask her who she passed the glad news on to, of course.
00:16:50Oh, dear. That would be very awkward, Chief.
00:16:52It'll be more awkward if you don't.
00:16:55I've been in a dream for so long. How could I hope to be a success in New York?
00:17:00Can't I teach you, Lalo?
00:17:01The bottle become a bo-bo, and Molly the elephant.
00:17:05Every night at the sunset, I can hear a sweet little lullaby.
00:17:09Let's take it now, Lalo.
00:17:13Daisy?
00:17:15Yes, Percy?
00:17:17Gosh, I was longing for you to call the type gentleman, please, this afternoon.
00:17:21Were you really?
00:17:24Don't she look lovely in her saddle?
00:17:28Not half as lovely as you'd look in one, Daisy.
00:17:31You think so?
00:17:32In this picture, bending over the beer pools.
00:17:36Oh, come on. What would the customers say?
00:17:49Daisy?
00:17:51What?
00:17:52Remember when I told you yesterday about me and another chap who bought a vehicle from Scotland Yard?
00:17:57Well?
00:17:59You didn't kind of mention it to anybody, did you?
00:18:03Of course I didn't.
00:18:05What are you getting at?
00:18:07Nothing, Daisy. I know you're not the sort to chat out of it.
00:18:11Somebody's been talking to me.
00:18:13Are you hinting that I've been speaking out of turn?
00:18:18I didn't say you. I said somebody.
00:18:20Well, you meant me.
00:18:21Eerie, a little order, please.
00:18:23You've got no right to go making suggestions like that.
00:18:25Let me tell you, I've got enough to do in my job without gossiping.
00:18:28Yes, yes, I know that, Daisy.
00:18:31But you better pass it on, innocent lady.
00:18:33I did not.
00:18:34Eerie, tell it up, will you? You're not in the ball of the Rosencrantz now, you know.
00:18:38I don't think not.
00:18:39There you are, you see. This is all your fault.
00:18:41Go in.
00:18:42Why?
00:18:43Now, if you'd just give hands off of me, you insulting beast.
00:18:46Why?
00:18:47Quiet.
00:18:50What's going on along here?
00:18:51Don't blame me. Blame him.
00:18:57Hey, you. Come on out.
00:19:00No, none of that there, here.
00:19:02I assure you, there's been none of...
00:19:06Come on, you heard what he said.
00:19:13Can I help it if my sister becomes hysterical?
00:19:15Oh, come on.
00:19:27Good afternoon, Miss Johnson.
00:19:29Good afternoon.
00:19:33I'd like to see Mr. Wilkinson.
00:19:35You didn't make an appointment, did you?
00:19:36No, but one of my back teeth is aching again. Something awful.
00:19:39I think you'll find that quite all right. I shouldn't bite on it for a couple of hours, though.
00:19:46Miss Johnson, I don't remember...
00:19:48No, Mr. Wilkinson, it's my back tooth again. You must look at it.
00:19:51I see. Would you mind, madam? I won't give you one moment.
00:19:54Quite all right.
00:19:55Very well, please step inside.
00:19:58Charles?
00:20:00I've laid out your dinner jacket.
00:20:02Don't forget, you're dining at the club at eight.
00:20:04Oh, yes.
00:20:05I'm going over to Penrith to have dinner with Mrs. Sherwood.
00:20:07We'll probably pay a bribe, so I may not be back till late.
00:20:09Goodbye, madam.
00:20:10Oh, don't forget to black out. I expect you'll be in first.
00:20:13I won't forget.
00:20:21Why have you come here today? Your next appointment was Tuesday.
00:20:24Do you want that girl to suspect?
00:20:25I had to come. He's rumbled.
00:20:27Who?
00:20:28The guard man, Bingham, that I was telling you about.
00:20:30Did you pass it on?
00:20:31Of course.
00:20:32Well, they found out somehow.
00:20:33He questioned me this afternoon and said someone had been talking.
00:20:36Phew, I'm scared stiff.
00:20:38Where is he now?
00:20:39I left him in the pictures.
00:20:40You sure he didn't follow you?
00:20:41Positive.
00:20:42What am I going to do? Supposing they come and question me?
00:20:44Deny everything. They've no evidence.
00:20:46And don't come here again.
00:20:48I'll contact you as soon as it blows over.
00:20:50Yes, but...
00:20:51Now, look here. Pull yourself together. There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:20:54Come on.
00:20:58It often aches like that after filling, you know.
00:21:00It'll be quite all right tomorrow, believe me.
00:21:02I hope so.
00:21:06Now, madam, if you please.
00:21:08Come along, Yvonne.
00:21:15It's nearly six o'clock. Have I an appointment with this gentleman?
00:21:17No, sir, but he was anxious to wait on the off chance of seeing you.
00:21:20My bridge work needs overhauling, and I wondered if...
00:21:22I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't manage it now.
00:21:24My hours are three to six, and I have an engagement this evening.
00:21:27Perhaps I can come back later.
00:21:28I'm sorry. My engagement is for the whole evening.
00:21:31Besides, I never see patients out of hours.
00:21:33Oh, if that's your attitude, I'll take my business elsewhere.
00:21:36There are plenty of other dentists in the town.
00:21:38We'll be only too glad to do a little bridge work after six o'clock.
00:21:41Good day to you, sir.
00:21:48How do you know there's no one at home?
00:21:50He told me he had an engagement.
00:21:52There's also a Mrs. Dentist, but she's out playing bridge.
00:21:55Any servants?
00:21:56One. Female.
00:21:58I went round the back and checked up.
00:22:00You're not the only one who's a success with women.
00:22:03I made an appointment to meet her at the Pelletier Dolls tonight.
00:22:06Yeah.
00:22:07That's got rid of her.
00:22:09Sounds a very mean trick to me.
00:22:10Well, she was married, and so was her right.
00:22:13Ah, this is it.
00:22:27That's certainly it.
00:22:30Now, let's see what's over here.
00:22:38Oh, that's good.
00:22:56There's the part of the book.
00:22:58We'll have a look at that.
00:23:01Still don't see why you should suspect Daisy,
00:23:03just because you got toothache when she left me.
00:23:05I agree, it'll be a natural emotion.
00:23:07What's her surname?
00:23:09Johnson.
00:23:10Johnson.
00:23:11And you shot your mouth off to her yesterday lunchtime.
00:23:13But she couldn't have seen him yesterday.
00:23:15She was on the river with me until five o'clock.
00:23:18And at five-thirty, she visits the dentist.
00:23:20Look for yourself.
00:23:21Every time she sees you, she rushes straight to the dentist.
00:23:24Any number of ways of explaining that, chief.
00:23:26There's only two I know of.
00:23:28Either she's what I think she is,
00:23:30or the way you kiss her knocks her teeth in.
00:23:32Yeah.
00:23:34She was here twice last week,
00:23:36once the week before,
00:23:38three times the week before that.
00:23:40Yes, a fellow called Wetherby sees the company often, too.
00:23:43And Mrs. Crofter.
00:23:46There's your Daisy again.
00:23:48Supposing you're right.
00:23:50You can't prove anything with that book.
00:23:52Well, we might find something in it safe to tie up with it.
00:23:54What safe?
00:23:55Over there.
00:23:59The Twinlock Hector.
00:24:01Easy.
00:24:05There must be a burglar alarm wire running round the rim.
00:24:09Cut it.
00:24:23There you are.
00:24:24That little fellow won't talk.
00:24:29There it is.
00:24:31Look, come, see what you've got the wrong wire.
00:24:35It's a doorbell.
00:24:39It's the dentist.
00:24:40Maybe he's forgotten his keys.
00:24:43He's a good man.
00:24:44He's a good man.
00:24:45He's a good man.
00:24:46He's a good man.
00:24:47He's a good man.
00:24:48He's a good man.
00:24:49He's a good man.
00:24:50He's a good man.
00:24:51Maybe he's forgotten his key.
00:24:52Why should he ring?
00:24:53He knows there's nobody at home.
00:24:54Here, go and see who it is.
00:24:56But suppose...
00:24:57Go on, go on, go on.
00:24:58Go on.
00:25:16Is your name Wilkinson?
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Mine's Blankinson.
00:25:19Oh?
00:25:20I want to see Mr. Wilkinson.
00:25:21Why?
00:25:22Why?
00:25:23What do you think I come to dentists for?
00:25:24Have a haircut?
00:25:25I want a tooth out.
00:25:26Eh?
00:25:27Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible.
00:25:28Oh, don't talk such nonsense.
00:25:30Sorry, but at this time of night...
00:25:31At this time of night, I've been in bed and fast asleep.
00:25:33I'm not raging too big.
00:25:34I said I'm not going till I see a dentist here.
00:25:36Go on, fetch him out.
00:25:42Well, now, if you'll just sit down for a minute, I'll...
00:25:44I'll make some inquiries.
00:25:46All right, but look sharp.
00:25:51Well?
00:25:54It's a patient, chief.
00:25:55Says he wants a tooth out.
00:25:56What, at this time?
00:25:58Perhaps he's one of their agents.
00:26:00Doesn't look like one.
00:26:01Well, how do you know?
00:26:02Take him in the surgery room, numb him.
00:26:04How?
00:26:05Well, say that you're Wilkinson's assistant.
00:26:07That you're in his confidence.
00:26:08Yes, but I think he really does want a tooth out.
00:26:11Well, you never know.
00:26:12Perhaps he's bluffing.
00:26:13Go and find out.
00:26:15Go and find out.
00:26:20Well?
00:26:21Well, I'm sorry, but Mr. Wilkinson's asleep.
00:26:24I can't help it.
00:26:25It's all right, I'm his assistant.
00:26:27And anything you wish to have out, you can have out with me.
00:26:31All right, that suits me.
00:26:32Well, where's surgery?
00:26:34Surgery.
00:26:35Yes, is this it?
00:26:36Here, come on.
00:26:37Yes.
00:26:41Well, come on, don't hang about.
00:26:45Here, take this.
00:26:51Just sit in the chair, sir, please, will you?
00:26:54Let me see.
00:27:01Nice evening, isn't it?
00:27:03Fine for getting shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:06I don't want any shortwave broadcasts.
00:27:08I don't care if it's raining cats and dogs.
00:27:10I want this tooth out.
00:27:12Let me say that I enjoy Mr. Wilkinson's full confidence.
00:27:14Well, I'm very glad to hear it.
00:27:16Shall I open my mouth now?
00:27:17Yes, certainly.
00:27:18You can tell me anything you want.
00:27:24Do you really want it out?
00:27:26Hey, what's the matter with you?
00:27:27Are you an encompassment, as I assume it?
00:27:30You've been here before, haven't you?
00:27:31What's that got to do with it?
00:27:32Well, we just make it a rule only to attend to regular customers after closing time.
00:27:35Oh, dash it all.
00:27:36Do you think I'm going to suffer all night for your silly rules?
00:27:39There.
00:27:40Are you going to take it out or do I have to take it out of you?
00:27:44Your mind's made up.
00:27:45Oh, it's dawned on you.
00:27:47Just wait there a minute, please.
00:27:49Very often I'm...
00:27:51Oh, what is this, a dentist or a madhouse?
00:27:54Are you going to take this thing out?
00:27:55All right, all right, it's coming out.
00:28:00Just a minute.
00:28:02Which tooth did you say it was again?
00:28:05Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
00:28:08Uh-uh.
00:28:11Your top teeth are pretty good.
00:28:13They're false, you fathead.
00:28:15Oh, so they are.
00:28:17I see that now.
00:28:18They quite took me in for a minute.
00:28:20Do you want the plate out?
00:28:21No, no, just the tooth.
00:28:29There.
00:28:32Just open your mouth a little wider, please, will you?
00:28:39Hey, how are you doing it?
00:28:40You're not going to take it out in cold blood, are you?
00:28:41You can't have a local anesthetic.
00:28:43Oh, I'm afraid Mr. Wilkinson always locks up everything like that.
00:28:47Hey, what's that over there?
00:28:48Is that a gas apparatus or not?
00:28:50Yes, that's gas.
00:28:52All right, then I'll have gas.
00:28:54Quite sure.
00:28:55This is after effects, you know.
00:28:57Compared to what I'm suffering, the after effects will be a pleasure.
00:29:02I hope you're right.
00:29:08Oh.
00:29:32Now what's to do?
00:29:33Are you going to give me gas or not?
00:29:36I am.
00:29:37If you don't, so too, I'm sick of sitting here waiting for you.
00:30:07I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:30:37I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:31:08It must have cracked my jaw.
00:31:11No, no, no.
00:31:12Something went, but I don't think it was that.
00:31:14It must have given me too much gas.
00:31:16I feel very faint.
00:31:18Come on, come on.
00:31:20A fresh air will do you all the good in the world.
00:31:22I'll take you to a taxi that I can see in that car.
00:31:37All right.
00:32:08Shhh.
00:32:10There's nothing to shout about.
00:32:12Do you want to bring that dentist down here?
00:32:14What's happened to the patient?
00:32:16He's gone.
00:32:17Took his tooth out.
00:32:19In fact, two of them.
00:32:20What, did he want two out?
00:32:21No, but I just gave a hefty pull and they're the way out.
00:32:24Two of them.
00:32:26There's nothing in this business.
00:32:27It's money for a job.
00:32:28All you have to do is just have to turn on the gas.
00:32:30What's the matter with you?
00:32:31I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:33I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:34I'm sick of waiting for you.
00:32:35All you have to do is just have to turn on the gas.
00:32:37Why did you give him gas?
00:32:38Well, he demanded it.
00:32:39Look.
00:32:40Five bob.
00:32:41Half a crown of tooth.
00:32:44Didn't want to pay for the other one,
00:32:45but the poor man was in no condition to argue.
00:32:47I'll bet he wasn't.
00:32:49Have you had any luck, Chief?
00:32:50I have.
00:32:51Yeah.
00:32:54Look at that.
00:32:57Daisy and me in the punt.
00:32:58No, no, turn it over.
00:33:00Sergeant Bingham, CID.
00:33:03Where did you get this?
00:33:04In the safe.
00:33:06I can't believe it.
00:33:09You know, Chief,
00:33:10this sort of thing shatters your faith in women.
00:33:12Well, it could do with a bit of shattering.
00:33:13Here, give it to me.
00:33:15Do you remember to put it back in there?
00:33:16I am.
00:33:17But if you find it,
00:33:18that'll make me look like an accessory.
00:33:20Well, you will, won't you?
00:33:22All right.
00:33:23We're going to leave this place exactly as we found it.
00:33:25Without anyone knowing we've been here.
00:33:29Why, Chief?
00:33:30Aren't you going to arrest Wilkinson?
00:33:32Not yet.
00:33:34You haven't left anything lying around in the surgery, have you?
00:33:37No, no, I've got the teeth in my pocket.
00:33:39I don't want to see them.
00:33:40Talk about a blooming cannibal.
00:33:43Curtains.
00:34:05Oh, I must be dreaming.
00:34:07We've left the light on.
00:34:09That's funny.
00:34:10I could have sworn they put it out.
00:34:21It's truth.
00:34:22What have we done now?
00:34:23It can't be my patients, Chief.
00:34:24Oh, it's got to be.
00:34:25Look.
00:34:28It's the dentist.
00:34:29Look, it's him.
00:34:31It's the dentist.
00:34:32It's the dentist.
00:34:33Wilkinson.
00:34:34The gas is still on.
00:34:43He's a gunner.
00:34:44Dead.
00:34:46This is awful.
00:34:48I was here just a few minutes ago.
00:34:49Must have happened when you were seeing your patient off, obviously.
00:34:53He must have found out that we were here.
00:34:54Decided he couldn't face it and come down and gassed himself.
00:34:59I'd better phone the local police.
00:35:01Wait a minute.
00:35:03Look at these.
00:35:04One shoe is laced across the usual way.
00:35:06On the other shoe, the top three holes are laced crisscross.
00:35:10You can put your own construction in that, I suppose?
00:35:12Well, no man laces shoes different ways.
00:35:15Someone else put that shoe on his foot.
00:35:17Why?
00:35:18I don't know yet.
00:35:19But whoever did it may be still in the house.
00:35:24Wait here.
00:35:33No sign of anybody.
00:35:34I'm going to make a search of Wilkins' bedroom and see if I can find anything.
00:35:37I'll come up with you, Chief.
00:35:38No, you don't.
00:35:39We've got no time to lose.
00:35:40Here, take these.
00:35:43Bring up the yard.
00:35:44Give Blue my kind regards and read that list over to him.
00:35:47What are they?
00:35:48The names, addresses and code numbers of Mr. Wilkinson's so-called patients.
00:35:52Toe blowers,
00:35:53the name of the patient,
00:35:54the name of the patient,
00:35:55the name of the patient,
00:35:56the name of the patient,
00:35:57the name of the patient,
00:35:58the name of the patient,
00:35:59the name of the patient,
00:36:00the name of the patient,
00:36:01the name of the patient,
00:36:02Toe blower, since he wants to know who has been talking,
00:36:04tome blower, since he wants to know who has been talking,
00:36:05there's 40 of them.
00:36:06There's 40 of them.
00:36:07Wait.
00:36:32Sorry for the delay Sergeant, Inspector Blow's just gone out.
00:36:43They're expecting him back in ten minutes.
00:36:45Shall I ask him to bring you back?
00:36:46Yes please, and it's very urgent.
00:37:18Hello?
00:37:19Who's that?
00:37:20This is Miss Wilkinson speaking.
00:37:21Oh!
00:37:41Hello?
00:37:43Who's there?
00:37:44This is Mrs. Wilkinson speaking. I want to speak to Dr. Kirbyshlaw at once, please.
00:37:52It's all right, it's all right. No need to be alarmed.
00:37:56Who are you?
00:37:57I'm a police officer.
00:37:59What are you doing in this house?
00:38:01I'm here in connection with your husband.
00:38:05He's dead?
00:38:09Yes, he's dead.
00:38:11He's dead?
00:38:13Yes, he's dead.
00:38:15He's dead?
00:38:17Yes, he's dead.
00:38:19He's dead?
00:38:21Yes.
00:38:27That's right. You just sit down quietly for a few minutes.
00:38:31I can imagine how you're feeling.
00:38:33Can you? I wonder.
00:38:35I should be awfully upset, shouldn't I?
00:38:37Aren't you?
00:38:39No.
00:38:41You are Mrs. Wilkinson?
00:38:43Yes, but we weren't what is called a happily married couple.
00:38:47You found out that he was a... that he was a...
00:38:51Yes.
00:38:53I told him he'd get caught sooner or later. It was no use.
00:38:57They had some sort of hold on him.
00:39:00Who were they?
00:39:02I don't know. I shouldn't have known anything except that I found a letter of his.
00:39:07What did you do?
00:39:09I texted him with it and he flew into a rage and... and struck me.
00:39:17He did?
00:39:19Yes. Oh, that was nothing unusual.
00:39:22I said I'd go to the police and he threatened to shoot me.
00:39:25What could I do?
00:39:28What would you have done?
00:39:32I really don't know.
00:39:35It's very awkward for you.
00:39:37Could I have a cigarette, Inspector, please?
00:39:40Oh, certainly, certainly.
00:39:42Now...
00:39:44Now, I'm afraid I've got to ask you just a... just a few questions.
00:39:50You're not going to be brutal to me, are you?
00:39:53Oh, no, no, no. That will hardly be necessary.
00:39:56But they'll expect a statement and just as a mere matter of formality.
00:40:00Oh, yes, of course. Well, I shan't attempt to hide anything from you.
00:40:08Well, now...
00:40:10Do you know what part your husband had in this organization?
00:40:15None. But I'm sure it couldn't have been a very important one.
00:40:19I'm afraid you're wrong there, my dear, Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:40:23As a matter of fact, I'm quite sure you are.
00:40:26Well, what makes you say that?
00:40:28Well, I have here the names and addresses of 40 of his patients,
00:40:31whom I have every reason to believe supplied him regularly with information.
00:40:35But I can't believe it. Are you positive of that?
00:40:37I found it in a book in his safe.
00:40:40But if he's as important as all that, why did he take his own life?
00:40:44He didn't.
00:40:46Somebody else took it.
00:40:49It was murdered.
00:40:52Oh.
00:40:54Now, here, here, Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:40:56So, what's the matter? Oh, pull yourself together.
00:40:58Here, here. Missy.
00:41:00The waters.
00:41:08Gosh.
00:41:10Dear.
00:41:12That's better now, isn't it?
00:41:14Here, drink this.
00:41:18I'm sorry.
00:41:20I'm sorry.
00:41:22It's all right. You'll be feeling better in a minute.
00:41:24I can't stay the night here alone, Inspector.
00:41:27Well, I'm afraid I'm in duty.
00:41:29I'm sorry.
00:41:31I'm sorry.
00:41:33I'm sorry.
00:41:35I'm sorry.
00:41:37I'm in duty.
00:41:39But I've got a sister who lives just around the corner.
00:41:41Couldn't I spend the night with her?
00:41:43I'm sorry. I can't allow that.
00:41:45I promise I wouldn't move from there.
00:41:47No, you wouldn't.
00:41:49And if it rested with me, I'd let you do it like a shot.
00:41:51But it does rest with you, doesn't it?
00:41:53No, not exactly.
00:41:55You see, I haven't mentioned it before,
00:41:57but I've got an assistant, an associate.
00:42:00There are two of you?
00:42:02Yes. He's upstairs.
00:42:04I'm afraid he'll want you to come to the police station.
00:42:06Drink, drink.
00:42:12I shall be all right.
00:42:15Will you answer it, Inspector? Don't worry about me.
00:42:25Hello?
00:42:27Hello, yes.
00:42:29Oh, Inspector Blue.
00:42:32Yes, this is Bingham.
00:42:33What are you ringing up at this hour for?
00:42:35I decided to confess after all.
00:42:37Certainly not.
00:42:39As a matter of fact, it's not unconnected
00:42:41with your inquiries this morning.
00:42:43Well, now, Horley and I decided
00:42:45that as you were floundering about
00:42:47to give you a bit of help,
00:42:49to put you in the right road, as it were.
00:42:52No, no, no, no.
00:42:54No, I must correct you there.
00:42:56My mother and father were married properly
00:42:58at the Kirk of Paisley.
00:43:00And that remark comes very badly from you
00:43:01when you say that.
00:43:03All right.
00:43:05If you'll just keep calm, I'll tell you.
00:43:08Well, I have here the names and addresses
00:43:10of about 40 people
00:43:12who have been passing information.
00:43:15Yes, if you'll just get out
00:43:17your little pencil and paper,
00:43:19I'll read them out to you.
00:43:21You ready?
00:43:32Just a minute, Blow.
00:43:34I think I've got a hold of the wrong
00:43:36piece of paper or something.
00:43:38Hold on.
00:43:52Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:43:55Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:43:58Mrs. Wil...
00:44:00Mrs. Wil...
00:44:07Oh, hello, Blow.
00:44:09Sorry, there's been a slight hitch here.
00:44:11I'll ring you back.
00:44:15Oh, Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:20Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:24Maybe she's gone to her sister's.
00:44:26Gosh, the books.
00:44:27Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:29Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:37Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:44:45Pick up.
00:44:48Pick up.
00:44:50Oh, there you are.
00:44:52There's been some pretty rum going on in this house,
00:44:54I'm telling you.
00:44:55What, did your phone blow?
00:44:57Yes, I phoned him.
00:44:59What did he say?
00:45:01Well, he didn't say anything, Chief, because...
00:45:03Because what?
00:45:05Look, you're quite sure you gave me that list, aren't you?
00:45:08What are you blathering about?
00:45:16That's all I've got, Chief.
00:45:18There's nothing on it.
00:45:20The gear.
00:45:22What the blazes have you been doing while I've been upstairs?
00:45:23It was when I first phoned Blow.
00:45:25Well, go on.
00:45:27Well, he wasn't in, and so I put it back in my pocket.
00:45:29I know it was there when she came in, because...
00:45:31She?
00:45:33Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:45:35So she's here.
00:45:37Well, she was here.
00:45:39Was?
00:45:41Yes, I'm afraid she's gone too.
00:45:43Gone where?
00:45:45Just through that French window.
00:45:47Look here, are you drunk as well as incapable...
00:45:49I told her to stop here, but she must have slipped out when I was on the phone.
00:45:54She's pinched the evidence.
00:45:56But I think I know where we can find her.
00:45:58Where?
00:46:00At her sister's.
00:46:02What's her address?
00:46:04Now, listen to me, you big dome vacuum.
00:46:06Hasn't it dawned on you yet that that woman was simply playing you for a sucker?
00:46:10Well, what happened then?
00:46:12Well...
00:46:14I don't know.
00:46:16I don't know.
00:46:18I don't know.
00:46:20I don't know.
00:46:21Well...
00:46:23I had just phoned Blow when the front door opened and I hid behind the curtains.
00:46:27Yeah?
00:46:29Well, she came in, saw the body and rushed to the telephone.
00:46:31She dialed the number and asked for the doctor.
00:46:33What doctor?
00:46:35Kerbishley.
00:46:37Maybe Kerbishley.
00:46:39And then?
00:46:41Well, she must have seen me behind the curtains because she screamed.
00:46:44So I stepped out.
00:46:46And what did she tell you?
00:46:48That her husband was a spy and that he used to beat her.
00:46:49Yeah, and you sympathized with her.
00:46:51Well, in a way.
00:46:53Good, let me...
00:46:55The woman hasn't been a widow five minutes but she's still a game to you.
00:46:58Then I suppose you told her about that list.
00:47:00I did mention it.
00:47:02I knew it.
00:47:04She fainted.
00:47:06Yeah, then you helped her out of the settee.
00:47:08Yes.
00:47:09And she pinched the list from your pocket.
00:47:11You went to fetch her for some brandy.
00:47:13Water.
00:47:15And she switched the blank sheets back on you.
00:47:16I'm sure it was Kerbishley in the book.
00:47:18But I'm sure it was Kerbishley.
00:47:20You've made about as big a hash of this as anything you've done in the whole of your misbegotten career.
00:47:23Here we are, working on a case which has nothing to do with us.
00:47:26You get hold of the star witness and let her go with all the exhibits.
00:47:30Look, couldn't we just slip out like and not tell anybody we were here?
00:47:35Well, after you phoned the yard with the murdered man in the other room?
00:47:38He may not have been murdered.
00:47:40He was murdered.
00:47:42While you were mucking things up down here, I've been busy.
00:47:44Wilkinson was planning to run away to South America.
00:47:46Passports, permits, all in order.
00:47:49But somebody or other didn't want him to go.
00:47:51So they waited for him upstairs.
00:47:53He came in, was just chained to his slippers,
00:47:56and they nipped up behind him, laid him out,
00:47:58slipped his shoe on again,
00:48:00brought him downstairs,
00:48:02bunged him to that chair and tried to make it look like suicide.
00:48:04How does that sound?
00:48:06There doesn't seem to be anything missing.
00:48:08No, except the clue to the murderer,
00:48:10that list of agents,
00:48:12and Mrs. Wilkinson.
00:48:14Apart from that, it's all sewn up.
00:48:16You pretend it over at the blow,
00:48:18and we go back to the gent's underpants.
00:48:20Now look here, I don't want to hear that defeated stalk.
00:48:22We're going to search this house from cellar to roof.
00:48:24Now go on, you start outside. I'll start in here.
00:48:26And if there's a whiff of a clue, we'll smell it out.
00:48:40Hello, what's this?
00:48:42March the 12th, no address.
00:48:44My dear Wilkinson,
00:48:46I'm sorry to hear you propose taking a holiday.
00:48:48I feel strongly that a journey would not be good
00:48:50for your health at the present moment.
00:48:52I must therefore urge you to cancel it.
00:48:54Yours, A.K.
00:48:56Sounded like a letter from his doctor.
00:48:58Sounds like. Of course it is.
00:49:00A.K.
00:49:02The doctor she rang up.
00:49:04Yeah, and he doesn't exist.
00:49:06At least not in the phone book.
00:49:08Well, I'm afraid so.
00:49:09He's not in the phone book.
00:49:11He might be in another district, chief.
00:49:13He might.
00:49:15But this letter was posted at Upper Ellingford.
00:49:17And that's in this phone area.
00:49:19So that doesn't help.
00:49:22Hmm.
00:49:24Continuation sheet.
00:49:26Now who uses continuation sheets?
00:49:28Officers.
00:49:30Yeah, it doesn't look like office paper to me.
00:49:32No, more like hotel stuff.
00:49:35How many printers would there be at Upper Ellingford?
00:49:37There can't be many. It's only a market town.
00:49:39I'll knock them up.
00:49:42There may be only half a dozen printers in the town,
00:49:44but a more bad-tempered lot I never saw.
00:49:46You can't expect them to dance for joy
00:49:48when you get them up out of their beds in the middle of the night.
00:49:50Don't feel very happy myself.
00:49:52Dragging a man from his rest at three in the morning
00:49:54to rake through a lot of notepaper?
00:49:56I ought to be compensated for this.
00:49:58Oh, well, it's not your paper.
00:50:00Yes, it is.
00:50:02Oh?
00:50:04Yes, I printed it for the Westgate Manor Hotel.
00:50:06Westgate Manor Hotel, eh?
00:50:08Yes, it's the same, all right.
00:50:10Of course it's the same.
00:50:12I printed them a brochure at the same time.
00:50:15Now you can clear out and I'll go back to my rest.
00:50:17I sympathize with you.
00:50:19Terms in season.
00:50:21Hello, it's a fishing hotel.
00:50:23Yeah, pretty posh from the prices.
00:50:25Bingham, we're going to get up early in the morning.
00:50:27Eh?
00:50:29We're taking a fishing holiday.
00:50:31It's time we got our hooks into something.
00:50:33Well, thank you very much, sir.
00:50:35You're welcome.
00:50:38Morning, boy.
00:50:40Good morning, sir.
00:50:42You two gentlemen after the same vacancy?
00:50:44Vacancy?
00:50:46What, are you full up?
00:50:48Well, one day we are, the next day we're not.
00:50:50If I had my way, I'd give them mistresses
00:50:52and stop all this chopping and changing.
00:50:55Eh, what about our luggage?
00:50:57We brought your luggage with you.
00:50:59Optimists, aren't you?
00:51:02You don't look very busy.
00:51:04Oh, no.
00:51:05You don't look very busy.
00:51:07No, we're not now.
00:51:09They're all out on a paper chase.
00:51:12Who did say paper chase?
00:51:14Yes.
00:51:16Got me up at 6.30 this morning.
00:51:18It's this new Mr. Rolfside here.
00:51:20He started all these capers.
00:51:22Mr. Jenkins was much more sensible,
00:51:24but he joined up three weeks ago
00:51:26along with Mr. Smart, the science master.
00:51:28I tell you, there have been so many changes here
00:51:30since the war started, I can't keep pace with them.
00:51:32You wait in here.
00:51:33Well, I might as well tell you,
00:51:35you're not the only ones after this history master's job.
00:51:37There's another old bloke in there already.
00:51:41So it's not a hotel anymore.
00:51:43They've evacuated a blooming school here.
00:51:50You know, Chief,
00:51:52I didn't like to mention it before,
00:51:54but, well, I never did think much of that crew of yours.
00:51:56For once in a way, you were right.
00:51:57Gable College, Muswell Hill, London.
00:51:59Notice the prefects.
00:52:01All prefects must be responsible
00:52:03for the blackout of the dormitories.
00:52:05Dr. Alfred Kerbishley, headmaster.
00:52:07He came.
00:52:09We thought it was a medical doctor
00:52:11she rang up last night,
00:52:13but it was this fellow,
00:52:15a doctor of literature or something.
00:52:17Hmm.
00:52:19This puts a new face on it,
00:52:21as the doctor said when she had her dial lifted.
00:52:23Yes, but I still don't see anything
00:52:25very sinister in that.
00:52:27It doesn't occur to you, I suppose,
00:52:29that a woman who just found her husband dead
00:52:31doesn't rush to ring up a schoolmaster?
00:52:33Yes, it is a bit peculiar.
00:52:35Now, this is where you earn your own spellet.
00:52:37Put that luggage back into the car
00:52:39and drive down to the town.
00:52:41Put up at the local hotel
00:52:43and find out all you can about the doctor.
00:52:45It's a small place,
00:52:47and they're bound to know everybody's business.
00:52:49What about you, Chief?
00:52:51Somebody's bound to ask what you're doing here.
00:52:53Oh, I'll say I'm a new boy who's a bit backward.
00:52:55Now, go on, off you go.
00:53:15Good morning.
00:53:17Good morning.
00:53:19Are you an applicant?
00:53:21Yes.
00:53:23So am I.
00:53:25Really?
00:53:27How do you do?
00:53:29My name is Nuttall.
00:53:31Porras Nuttall.
00:53:33How do you do?
00:53:35You may have heard of McKenzie's
00:53:37History of Europe for schools.
00:53:39Oh, yes, of course.
00:53:41I wrote it.
00:53:43Really?
00:53:45You haven't actually met Dr. Carvajal yet, I take it?
00:53:47No, but I rather fancy that's just a formality.
00:53:49Ah, well, I suppose there's no objection to my waiting?
00:53:51No, no, not in the least.
00:53:53If it isn't a rude question,
00:53:55what was your last school?
00:53:57Yes.
00:53:59I beg your pardon?
00:54:01Borstal.
00:54:03But isn't that a penitentiary?
00:54:05Yes.
00:54:07But surely a qualification for a master at Borstal
00:54:09would hardly be a recommendation to this school.
00:54:11On the contrary, my dear sir,
00:54:13I'm just a man for this school.
00:54:15Why?
00:54:17But they mentioned it in the advertisement, didn't they?
00:54:19The school times gave me to understand
00:54:21that this was an establishment for the sons of gentlemen.
00:54:23Is that what they said they were sons of?
00:54:25Well, I hope I'm not here under any misapprehension.
00:54:27It's not as bad as Borstal, if that's what you mean.
00:54:29As a matter of fact,
00:54:31they frequently send their good conduct lads here.
00:54:33But you seriously tell me this is a corrective school?
00:54:35Oh, didn't you know?
00:54:37I certainly did not.
00:54:39Oh, there's nothing to be worried about, my dear professor.
00:54:41You may find it a trifle alarming for the first two years,
00:54:43but you'll get used to it.
00:54:45Well, bless my soul, look who's here.
00:54:47If it isn't young Bingham.
00:54:49Now there's a fine example
00:54:51of the good conduct lads they send here.
00:54:53Oh, but they shouldn't let him have a knife.
00:54:54Why not?
00:54:56Well, he's a nice enough lad,
00:54:58but he has bits of violence.
00:55:00As a matter of fact, I remember once at Borstal,
00:55:02he attacked a carpentry instructor with a chisel.
00:55:04Good heavens.
00:55:06Do you see?
00:55:08Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
00:55:10I didn't know there was anyone in here.
00:55:12That's quite all right, my boy.
00:55:14What do you want?
00:55:16A book, sir.
00:55:18A book?
00:55:20Yes, sir.
00:55:22Help yourself, my son.
00:55:24Thank you, sir.
00:55:26Not at all.
00:55:28You know, all this greatly perturbs me.
00:55:30I don't...
00:55:31Hey, hey, you!
00:55:35Hey!
00:55:37Now give me that back.
00:55:39And don't forget to do your thing like that again.
00:55:43You rascal.
00:55:45What's happened?
00:55:47Have you missed anything?
00:55:49I beg your pardon?
00:55:51This is yours, isn't it?
00:55:52Oh, gracious me.
00:55:54Ah, well, boys will be boys, you know.
00:55:56Do you mean that he actually...
00:55:58Oh, this is dreadful.
00:56:00Well, you get used to that sort of thing here, you know.
00:56:02Used to it?
00:56:04That's why you're mistaken.
00:56:06I wouldn't teach in this class of school
00:56:08for any consideration whatever.
00:56:10What, you don't mean to say you're going to turn it up?
00:56:12Yes, I am.
00:56:14And I'm very grateful to you for enlightening me.
00:56:16Cerio.
00:56:23Professor McKenzie?
00:56:25Who?
00:56:27At your service.
00:56:29Will you come this way, please, Professor?
00:56:31Dr. Kirbyshley will see you now.
00:56:33With pleasure.
00:56:39We should be very pleased to have you here, Professor.
00:56:41Weston, the last man,
00:56:43was rather old-fashioned in his methods.
00:56:45Oh, really?
00:56:47Well, you wouldn't find anything like that about me.
00:56:49Professor McKenzie,
00:56:50Dr. Kirbyshley.
00:56:52How do you do, Professor?
00:56:54Welcome to Gable College.
00:56:56How do you do?
00:56:58You'll find us in strange surroundings,
00:57:00but tempera mutanta,
00:57:02nos et mutamare nilis.
00:57:04Yes, yes, very apt.
00:57:06Please sit down.
00:57:08Yes.
00:57:10I feel very honoured that a man of your scholastic reputation
00:57:12should consider my little establishment
00:57:14worthy of his services.
00:57:16Not at all, not at all.
00:57:18How long were you at Hargrove?
00:57:20As you perdy.
00:57:22Ah, see, it says 20, eh?
00:57:2420, was it?
00:57:26Oh, tame does claim.
00:57:28Dr. Swan speaks of you in the most glowing terms.
00:57:30Yes, we got on very well together.
00:57:32I was very fond of the old Swan.
00:57:34Well, I don't think we need discuss it any further.
00:57:36It seems most satisfactory to me.
00:57:38I take it the salary I mentioned in my letter
00:57:40is acceptable to you?
00:57:42Under the circumstances, yes.
00:57:44Oh, there is just one other thing,
00:57:46and it's rather important.
00:57:48Can you start at once?
00:57:50Well, that removes that obstacle.
00:57:52Good.
00:57:54Well, I think you'll find it very pleasant here, Professor.
00:57:56Eh, Mr. Jennings?
00:57:58Oh, yes, indeed, sir.
00:58:00I'm sure I shall.
00:58:02It will be an honour to have you teaching with us, Professor.
00:58:04Hello, yes, Dr. Kerbishly speaking.
00:58:06Who?
00:58:10Well, I'm afraid I can't discuss it now.
00:58:12I'm engaged.
00:58:14I'll send you a school prospectus.
00:58:16But I must see you.
00:58:18I've been trying to get you since last night.
00:58:20Well, I think that's all for the moment, Professor.
00:58:22Mr. Jennings will show you to your study.
00:58:24This way, please, Professor.
00:58:33I've told you before not to ring me here.
00:58:35What is it?
00:58:37I had to get in touch with you.
00:58:39Something dreadful has happened.
00:58:41I can't very well tell you on the phone.
00:58:43I'm at the angler's rest in the town.
00:58:45Well, you shouldn't have left Farnship
00:58:47without letting me know.
00:58:48Oh, I'm so sorry, Doctor.
00:58:50But I wondered if you would let me
00:58:52have my testimonials back.
00:58:54I know you wouldn't mislead them,
00:58:56but I'd rather treasure them.
00:58:58Yes, of course.
00:59:10You must realize it's impossible to talk now.
00:59:12I'll be down there at nine this evening.
00:59:14Until then, stay in your room.
00:59:15Goodbye.
00:59:25Could I have another eight, please?
00:59:45Good morning, sir.
00:59:47Good morning.
00:59:49I want a room, please.
00:59:51Certainly, sir.
00:59:54Good to see the sun again, isn't it?
00:59:56Yes, it is.
00:59:58Will you be staying here long?
01:00:00A few nights, maybe.
01:00:02You'll want a single room, I suppose.
01:00:04That's right.
01:00:06I've got a very nice room facing the river.
01:00:08Yes, but I think I'll have the single room.
01:00:10Very good, sir.
01:00:12Will you read it to me, or shall I read it to you?
01:00:15You read it, Doctor, sir.
01:00:17Very well.
01:00:19Here we are.
01:00:21Evolution of the Corn Laws.
01:00:23The effect of the Industrial Revolution
01:00:26connected with the mechanical invention
01:00:28and the utilization of steam
01:00:30transformed Great Britain
01:00:32from an agricultural to a manufacturing
01:00:34and commercial country.
01:00:36Everybody understand that?
01:00:38Yes, sir.
01:00:40The opposition to the Corn Laws
01:00:42steadily increased.
01:00:46At length, the Conservative Premier,
01:00:48Sir Robert Peel,
01:00:50became a convert to free trade
01:00:52and in 1846,
01:00:54carried a measure
01:00:56to put a name to the Corn Laws.
01:00:58By this end,
01:01:00the duty on corn
01:01:02was at once greatly reduced.
01:01:04And it ceased altogether in 1849
01:01:07with the exception of a registration duty
01:01:10of one shilling per quarter
01:01:12which terminated in 1869.
01:01:16I don't know about you,
01:01:18but I find this a trifle dry.
01:01:20So do we, sir.
01:01:22I thought so.
01:01:24Well, now,
01:01:26but it does mention one very interesting man,
01:01:28Sir Robert Peel,
01:01:30the founder of our modern police force
01:01:31and a very good job he made of it, too.
01:01:33As a matter of fact,
01:01:35if it hadn't been for him,
01:01:37we should never have had
01:01:39the highly efficient organization
01:01:41with its network of detectives,
01:01:43plain-clothes men,
01:01:45and cobbler's nocks,
01:01:47I mean informers,
01:01:49that we have today.
01:01:51But still,
01:01:53I dare say that many of you boys
01:01:55at one time or another
01:01:57have wanted to be detectives.
01:01:59Yes, I thought so.
01:02:01It's a matter of observation and deduction.
01:02:03Now, take observation, for instance.
01:02:05I very much doubt
01:02:07if there's a single boy here
01:02:09that could tell me whose car it was
01:02:11that went down the drain just now.
01:02:13It's the head's car, sir.
01:02:15How do you know that?
01:02:17Because he always goes out at this time.
01:02:19That's right.
01:02:21Well, now,
01:02:23if he always goes out at the same time,
01:02:25it's probable that he always returns at a certain hour.
01:02:27Has any boy observed what time that is?
01:02:29Three o'clock, sir.
01:02:31That's more than I thought.
01:02:33Well, now, let us see if you're as good at deduction.
01:02:35I'll give you a start.
01:02:37Now, if he always goes out at the same time,
01:02:39that is, 2.30,
01:02:41and he's only gone for half an hour,
01:02:43it follows that wherever he goes
01:02:45can only be a quarter of an hour's car ride away,
01:02:47probably less,
01:02:49since he must spend some time at his destination.
01:02:51Now, can any boy deduce
01:02:53where he goes in that time?
01:02:55The village, sir.
01:02:57What makes you think that?
01:02:59Because I've seen his car there, sir.
01:03:01I see.
01:03:03Still, that is observation,
01:03:05not deduction.
01:03:07Now, let us try to deduce
01:03:09what he does in the post office.
01:03:11Excuse me, sir,
01:03:13but isn't that the headmaster's business?
01:03:15I beg yours.
01:03:17May you take that as being tantamount to rebut?
01:03:19Well, sir, I really meant that...
01:03:21Don't apologize.
01:03:23You're quite right, my boy.
01:03:25There's no concern about what he does in the post office.
01:03:27So, as a quid pro quo,
01:03:29if I take my nose out of the headmaster's business,
01:03:31what I'm doing is
01:03:33they're butting in on a case
01:03:35that doesn't concern them.
01:03:37My case.
01:03:39If you're right,
01:03:41I shall have something to say
01:03:43to Inspector Hornley and Sergeant Bingham
01:03:45laying down on this job without my permission.
01:03:47They better have a pretty good reason for this.
01:03:49Hello.
01:03:51Oh, is that you, chief?
01:03:53Well, I've stumbled across something very interesting.
01:03:55No, no, no.
01:03:57It's nothing to do with a scouting case, but...
01:03:59Yes, I know, chief, but...
01:04:01Yes, chief.
01:04:05How much would your pension be worth
01:04:07if you retired tomorrow?
01:04:09I don't know.
01:04:11Why?
01:04:13Well, you'd better start working it out.
01:04:15Yes, that's quite true, chief, but...
01:04:17But, chief...
01:04:19That's my last word.
01:04:21And I don't want any arguments.
01:04:23So you can just take the first train
01:04:25straight back to London.
01:04:27Murdered?
01:04:29Who's been murdered?
01:04:31Now, have you any clues to who's the murderer?
01:04:33You know?
01:04:35Then why didn't you arrest him?
01:04:37Now, that's got nothing to do with it.
01:04:39I've told you before, that's Blow's case.
01:04:41And tell him I resent his interference.
01:04:43Who's talking to him, you or me?
01:04:45You, sir.
01:04:47Very well, then, don't interrupt.
01:04:49Registered letter?
01:04:51What registered letter?
01:04:53A registered letter is posted every day
01:04:55to 121 Wessex Street, London.
01:04:57And I want to find out what is going on there.
01:04:59Tell them we think it's the headquarters
01:05:01What with two of them jabbing at one end of the line
01:05:03and you hissing in my ear,
01:05:05it'll be quicker if I went to London after all.
01:05:07Wessex Street is SW1, you know.
01:05:09Don't you shove your oar in.
01:05:11Four policemen's enough on one line
01:05:13without the help of the post office.
01:05:15No, chief.
01:05:17No, no.
01:05:19Now, all I want you to do
01:05:21is to get somebody competent
01:05:23to watch 121 Wessex Street
01:05:25until the registered letter arrives.
01:05:27And then pounce and catch the lot of them.
01:05:29And afterwards,
01:05:31I'll have Bingham at Allingford 69
01:05:33and I'll beg the murderer.
01:05:36Fine.
01:05:38Good night, chief.
01:05:44I can do with a drink after that.
01:05:46What about the post office?
01:05:48Well, it's a bit late at night,
01:05:50but since it's been such an exciting day,
01:05:52I think I'll have a small whiskey and soda.
01:05:54Bingham, order two small whiskeys, will you?
01:05:56I'll have a double.
01:05:58Hello, miss.
01:05:59I've asked the waiter to send up
01:06:01two double whiskeys and one small one.
01:06:04Sam, one whiskey and two doubles for number two.
01:06:07Right.
01:06:09Oh, and find out what they want to eat.
01:06:18Good evening, sir.
01:06:20Good evening.
01:06:22I believe you have a Mrs. Sutton staying here.
01:06:24Would you be good enough to send up my card?
01:06:26Yes, sir.
01:06:27Sam!
01:06:29Take that card to number eight on your way up, will you?
01:06:32Very good, sir.
01:06:46A gentleman downstairs handed that in, miss.
01:06:48Oh, thank you.
01:06:53Emily!
01:06:58You said you'd be here at nine o'clock.
01:07:00It's nearly ten.
01:07:02I know.
01:07:12It's Carlson.
01:07:14He's dead.
01:07:16I know.
01:07:18He was murdered.
01:07:20So it was you who killed him.
01:07:22You reported to me
01:07:24that he was about to clear off to South America.
01:07:25A man like that's not only useless but dangerous.
01:07:27Well, all I can say
01:07:29is you might have been a little more careful about it.
01:07:31In what way?
01:07:33It may interest you to know
01:07:35that whilst you were disposing of Carlson
01:07:37there were two detectives in the house.
01:07:39You're sure?
01:07:41I met one of them.
01:07:43Did you find anything?
01:07:45Only a list of our agents in the safe.
01:07:47You needn't be alarmed.
01:07:49I played the prostrate widow very successfully.
01:07:51Well, I'll be getting along.
01:07:53I should have closed out my cucumber frame
01:07:55a couple of hours ago.
01:07:57Well, thank you very much for your assistance, Mr. Tomboy.
01:07:59A pleasure.
01:08:01Good night, Inspector.
01:08:03Good night.
01:08:05Good night, Mr. Tomboy.
01:08:07Hello? Is that you, Hornley?
01:08:09It's Blow here.
01:08:11I say, what sort of game are you playing?
01:08:13Oh, listen, I'm in Wessex Street now
01:08:15and there is no 121.
01:08:17The highest number on the street is 75.
01:08:19You wouldn't talk...
01:08:21Here, hang on a minute, will you?
01:08:23Bring back the post office, will you? Quick.
01:08:25Yes.
01:08:29Ah, here we are.
01:08:31Now, this can't lie.
01:08:33I've got the post office registered letter book here.
01:08:35Now, there's been a registered letter
01:08:37sent to Mr. E. Knight, 121 Wessex Street,
01:08:40practically every day for three months.
01:08:43I suppose you can count up to 121?
01:08:45And I don't want any insults.
01:08:47You asked for someone to check up on this and I've done it.
01:08:49Yes, but I asked for somebody competent.
01:08:51We are competent at the yard since you left
01:08:53and I'm telling you there's no 121 Wessex Street
01:08:56and there won't be till they pull down the houses of Parliament
01:08:58and make the street a bit longer.
01:09:00Why on earth don't you stick your strawberry jam instead of...
01:09:02Hello.
01:09:05There's no such place as 121 Wessex Street.
01:09:08But he sends a letter there every day.
01:09:10There's no such place, I tell you.
01:09:12But why would he send a letter to a place that isn't there?
01:09:14It doesn't make sense.
01:09:16But look, 121 Wessex Street, written by me own hand.
01:09:18Well, I don't care if you wrote it with your elbow.
01:09:20There are only 75 houses in Wessex Street
01:09:21and 121 isn't one of them.
01:09:23But if the letters are not delivered, they come back to me.
01:09:25Have you never had any of them back?
01:09:27Never, that's why I say if it's written there...
01:09:29I'll take them all away.
01:09:31Now, that letter was had in your post office this afternoon.
01:09:33Now, where would it be at this moment?
01:09:35In a sealed bag at Northby waiting for the night mail.
01:09:37Where does the bag join the train?
01:09:39Lancaster?
01:09:41No, about 10 miles before that.
01:09:43It's caught up by the automatic arm.
01:09:45Where does the night mail start from?
01:09:47Carlisle.
01:09:49What time?
01:09:51What about the luggage, Chief?
01:09:53Leave it.
01:09:58I'll get you a passport, Helen,
01:10:00and you can go abroad to a neutral country.
01:10:02There must be one left somewhere.
01:10:05Wait a minute.
01:10:07There's a detective who's in the house.
01:10:09Which one?
01:10:11The tall one.
01:10:13The little fellow who they've got in tow
01:10:15is the village postmaster.
01:10:17And I was under the impression that the man with him
01:10:19was my new history master,
01:10:21and that's why I'm here.
01:10:23I suppose it was just a nominal charge for the room,
01:10:25seeing as I haven't slept in it.
01:10:27I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay
01:10:29the full price as you've used the room.
01:10:31You're charging me for bed and breakfast
01:10:33and I haven't had either.
01:10:35Go on, pay up and don't argue.
01:10:37If it was my own money, I'd be adamant.
01:10:39Seeing as it will go down in expenses,
01:10:41I'll concede the point.
01:10:43They must have found out I was here.
01:10:45If they had, they'd hardly be leaving.
01:10:47No, I fancy they have something else on their minds.
01:10:49Oh, can't you pocket it
01:10:51and put it away?
01:10:55Oh, good evening, Mr. Tomboy.
01:10:57I wonder if you'd mind obliging me.
01:10:59I know it's after post office hours and all that,
01:11:01but I should be very grateful if you'd break the rules
01:11:03and cash a money order for me.
01:11:05Well, I...
01:11:07Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the bank today.
01:11:09Well, certainly, Dr. Kerbishley, with the greatest of pleasure.
01:11:11Oh, thank you very much.
01:11:13I'll run you down to the post office now, shall I?
01:11:15Oh, thanks.
01:11:17Well, it's one of the registered letters for London.
01:11:19I made a mistake about the receipt.
01:11:21The address is mixed up.
01:11:23If I could have it back, I could put it right
01:11:25in a few minutes.
01:11:27It's gone.
01:11:29Oh, very well.
01:11:31The registered letters have already left Northwick
01:11:33for the mail train.
01:11:35It's too late to stop them now, Dr. Kerbishley.
01:11:37There's nothing I can do...
01:11:46You've no reason to suspect any of your sort,
01:11:48have you, Joe?
01:11:49Of course, I can't say for certain.
01:11:51We keep getting new ones on as the young'uns are called up.
01:11:53But it wouldn't surprise anybody
01:11:55if somebody new came on tonight.
01:11:57I don't follow you, Inspector.
01:11:59For me, for instance.
01:12:01Sorting isn't an easy job, you know.
01:12:03It's years before you're any good at it.
01:12:05Well, you're short-handed and I'm no good at it.
01:12:07You can keep telling me so.
01:12:09Say you've got to give me the second in the morning.
01:12:11That'll fool them.
01:12:13It might work, Joe.
01:12:15What do you think?
01:12:17I don't know.
01:12:19Well, if we can stop him before he gets here,
01:12:21we can tell the rest he's had it.
01:12:23What about me?
01:12:25Can't I be a shorter too?
01:12:27No, you can't.
01:12:29You're going to be what you've always been, a passenger.
01:12:31Hello. Send George in here, will you, please?
01:12:33Runcall's been called up.
01:12:35He'll take his place.
01:12:37Evening all.
01:12:39Job's the name?
01:12:41He hasn't been on sorting for five years.
01:12:43Seven.
01:12:45He'll do as good as some of you.
01:12:47I hope the train's coming in now.
01:12:50Hello.
01:12:52Foster.
01:12:54You wanted on the phone.
01:12:56You'd better hurry.
01:12:58Hello?
01:13:01Yes?
01:13:03I have to warn you,
01:13:05two detectives will be on the train tonight.
01:13:07Two detectives?
01:13:09Yes, two detectives.
01:13:11I've got to warn you,
01:13:13two detectives will be on the train tonight.
01:13:15I've got to warn you,
01:13:17two detectives will be on the train tonight.
01:13:19No, if you're careful, it'll be all right.
01:13:21One of them's tall, bald, looks intelligent, and isn't.
01:13:25The other one's short, with a sour face,
01:13:27doesn't look intelligent, and he is.
01:13:29Has he got a heavy load?
01:13:31Oh, I've seen him.
01:13:33He's the new sorter.
01:13:35They're working fast.
01:13:37Listen, whatever you do, don't let him get hold of that letter.
01:13:39No, leave that to me.
01:13:41I don't like the sound of it.
01:13:43I've got to go.
01:13:49I've got to go.
01:14:20Here we are.
01:14:22Registered.
01:14:26Beats me what people find to write about.
01:14:29No consideration for others, that's what it is.
01:14:38I've got to go.
01:14:40I've got to go.
01:14:42I've got to go.
01:14:44I've got to go.
01:14:46I've got to go.
01:14:47I've got to go.
01:15:18Oh.
01:15:38You?
01:15:39What are you doing here?
01:15:40Good evening, Sergeant.
01:15:41Perhaps I should introduce myself.
01:15:43I'm the principal of your colleague's school.
01:15:45It was smart of you both to discover that I'd posted a registered letter this afternoon
01:15:48and catch the train at Carlisle.
01:15:51But I've an idea.
01:15:52The inspector won't find that letter.
01:15:54Why not?
01:15:55Because you're going to write him a little note and ask him to come along here and see me first.
01:16:00And you think I'd fall for a thing like that, eh?
01:16:02Well, I'm hoping to persuade you.
01:16:06I suppose you know it's a very serious thing to point a gun at me like that.
01:16:09For you or for us.
01:16:11For you, of course.
01:16:12I know all about you.
01:16:14You've both got to answer a few questions.
01:16:16I'm sorry, Sergeant, but as a schoolmaster, I prefer to put the questions.
01:16:20And at the moment, I'm asking you to write that note to Hornley.
01:16:23Do you think I'd do that?
01:16:25I should if I were you.
01:16:28Oh, but I'm a dead body.
01:16:30Isn't that rather an unfortunate way of putting it?
01:16:32I think we can avoid that unpleasantness for the moment.
01:16:34Helen, would you mind relieving the Sergeant of his wallet?
01:16:39Careful, Sergeant.
01:16:40I'll throw caution to the winds in a minute.
01:16:42That'll be very foolish of you.
01:16:44And his father, then, please.
01:16:48What are you going to do?
01:16:50I spent a considerable period of my youth practicing the art of forgery or suffering the penalties for it.
01:16:54Helen, would you mind?
01:17:00I imagine we shall find an example of your handwriting on your identity card.
01:17:04Mr. Busby.
01:17:09Got a new sorter on tonight?
01:17:11Well?
01:17:13Look along the train there.
01:17:15Says he's his brother.
01:17:17Asked me to give him this note.
01:17:19Well, it's against regulations.
01:17:21Still, it's a good note.
01:17:23Well, it's a good note.
01:17:25Well, it's a good note.
01:17:27Well, it's a good note.
01:17:29Well, it's a good note.
01:17:31Well, it's a good note.
01:17:33Well, we'll let her go this time.
01:17:40You still on that lot?
01:17:42Well, let me tell you, if everybody here worked at the speed you're going, this post would arrive in about three years' time.
01:17:47Here.
01:17:50Talk about a nagger.
01:17:52I seem to be at home with my wife.
01:18:03I've got to go along and see my sergeant.
01:18:05The letter I am after is in the SWO, number 20.
01:18:07It's addressed to Knight.
01:18:09121 Wessex Street.
01:18:11Keep your eyes glued to it while I'm gone, will you?
01:18:13OK.
01:18:34I'm a CID man.
01:18:38I wonder if you'd go in that next compartment and examine the tickets.
01:18:42Certainly, sir.
01:18:48Tickets, please.
01:18:55What tickets would you like?
01:18:57I don't think I've got mine on me, Inspector.
01:18:59I think I'll come with you.
01:19:01I think I've got yours, Edward.
01:19:03Thank you, madam.
01:19:05Thank you, sir.
01:19:07There you are, dear.
01:19:10Who's in there?
01:19:12A tall, bald lady, gentlemen, sir. Looks rather pale.
01:19:14Anybody else?
01:19:16A well-dressed man with a long nose and a red-headed woman.
01:19:18Thank you very much.
01:19:20Anything else I can do for you, sir?
01:19:22No, not just now, thank you.
01:19:24Very good, sir.
01:19:34What do you think he's doing?
01:19:53The Inspector's rather a long time.
01:19:55I hope for your sake, Sergeant, there's been no hitch.
01:20:00Don't move!
01:20:04Good work, sir, good work.
01:20:09Well, Dr. Carbisley.
01:20:11I think you've had my credentials.
01:20:14Go on, watch him, Bingham. I'll be back in a moment.
01:20:16There.
01:20:18And don't let this redhead try any more of our tricks.
01:20:20Yes, sir.
01:20:26It's just an example of the way we work, you know.
01:20:29Now I hope I find some pain back.
01:20:33Here you are, Corporal.
01:20:35Look after those two.
01:20:37It's what is known as a matter of national importance.
01:20:39All right, Inspector.
01:20:41Well, you will be.
01:20:43Come along, Bingham. I may need your help.
01:20:45So long, Doctor. See you later.
01:21:00Here, where's that registered letter?
01:21:01Which registered letter?
01:21:03The one that was in there.
01:21:05Well, what do you want with it?
01:21:07That's my business. What have you done with it?
01:21:09Are you accusing me of pinching it?
01:21:11I'm asking you what you've done with it.
01:21:13Well, I'm not going to be talked to like that by an extra man.
01:21:15I'm going to have this out with the head-sorter.
01:21:18Oh, Mr. Busby!
01:21:20You're burying me and accusing me of...
01:21:25I should take it easy if I were you.
01:21:31All right, fellas.
01:21:33We're from Scotland Yard. This is Inspector Holman of the CID.
01:21:35Look out for him, he's a fifth columnist.
01:21:37Come on, out of it.
01:22:01There you are.
01:22:03The little fellow that never broadcasts
01:22:05from the same place twice.
01:22:07And within 24 hours of laying my hands
01:22:09on the mystery transmitter,
01:22:11I had the whole organization behind bars.
01:22:13Why all that?
01:22:15What a blow.
01:22:17Still on the last chapter?
01:22:19Making the most of it, I suppose.
01:22:21I am.
01:22:23Oh, I mentioned that you had some connection with the case.
01:22:25You still haven't mentioned my connection with it.
01:22:27Well, I haven't finished yet.
01:22:29In conclusion, Mr. Busby,
01:22:31I would like to pay tribute to a man
01:22:33without whose help I could never have achieved this good.
01:22:36Mr. Tomboy.
01:22:38The postmaster of Upper Alleywood.
01:22:40Now, look here, Chief.
01:22:42I've given you the best years of my life.
01:22:44Hello? Oh, bonjour, sir.
01:22:46Commissioner of Hublot.
01:22:49Morning, Chief.
01:22:51But Hornley's on the scrounging case, sir.
01:22:53Since when?
01:22:55Oh.
01:22:57What, me at my age?
01:22:59All right, I suppose I'll get a commission.
01:23:01Have it.
01:23:03Very good, sir.
01:23:05And don't think this is a penny job, lower men,
01:23:07because this isn't just the case of a few tins of strawberry jam.
01:23:09No, no, no, it's costing the country a thousand a year.
01:23:11And here's a few clues to be going on with.
01:23:13One pair of gents underpenny's large size,
01:23:15one tin of pilchards,
01:23:17and one bar of carbolic soap.