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- 0:01Speaker 1: And now I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson's waiting
- 0:03Speaker 1: for us. Let's go in, Joe. There you are, mister
- 0:06Speaker 1: bart good evening, doctor all alone tonight.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Yes, my boys, you can call a man alone when
- 0:12Speaker 2: he's got his pipe, his books, and the glass of
- 0:15Speaker 2: good Port is his elbow.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Take a cut off. We'll enjoy the thanks.
- 0:19Speaker 4: Doctor.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Help yourself to the port.
- 0:21Speaker 2: There's some rather special tobacco in the jar.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Over the fine And now, doctor, are you ready to
- 0:26Speaker 1: tell us tonight's new show?
- 0:27Speaker 5: Like consent?
- 0:28Speaker 2: I am, mister Bartell, and I think you founded the
- 0:30Speaker 2: most unusual story. It began on a winter's night in
- 0:34Speaker 2: eighteen hundred and ninety six. Toms and I had gone
- 0:37Speaker 2: to a theater in the East end of London to
- 0:39Speaker 2: see a performance of a famous old English melodrama called
- 0:42Speaker 2: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
- 0:46Speaker 1: It's a good, bloodthirsty title, docket demon barber. He sounds
- 0:51Speaker 1: as a he specialized in close shaves.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Grageous, mister bart that's almost unforgivable.
- 0:57Speaker 2: He was a murderer of voracious appetite, who plays his
- 1:00Speaker 2: victims and especially constructed barber's chair, cut their throats and
- 1:04Speaker 2: then pressed the lever that would spring the chair over
- 1:08Speaker 2: and decamped the.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Unfortunate victims into a horrible cellar beneath his shop.
- 1:13Speaker 1: This is only a stage player, You're talking about doctors.
- 1:16Speaker 2: As my story begins, we were seated in a private
- 1:18Speaker 2: box watching one of the closing scenes. Holmes was leaning
- 1:22Speaker 2: forward in his chair, following the action on the stage
- 1:25Speaker 2: with an obvious delight, while I set beside.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Him equally in droves.
- 1:30Speaker 2: An actor by the name of Mark Humphreys was playing
- 1:33Speaker 2: the part of Sweeney.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Todd, and no one could deny that he was playing it.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Where are you going, Tobias?
- 1:41Speaker 5: Who is the nearest magistrate?
- 1:43Speaker 6: Sweeney Todd, who'd now to the feebly crew full flooded murder.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Have pronounced chuck olme and the chair with all and
- 1:52Speaker 2: over and down into the captive.
- 1:54Speaker 7: All, ha ha.
- 1:59Speaker 8: There when this comes, this apparition, just the ghost of
- 2:05Speaker 8: another customer of mine, The yawning grave wields up his
- 2:10Speaker 8: ghastly inmates to prove me guilty. That would have DoD.
- 2:14Speaker 3: See he is there.
- 2:16Speaker 9: He comes to accuse me.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Of his murder.
- 2:19Speaker 7: Oh tell me, twas not I that.
- 2:21Speaker 5: Slew You believe it will kill me?
- 2:25Speaker 1: Let me believe ha ha.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Upon myself homes up full of Mark Hamphreys is the
- 2:41Speaker 2: most florid actor that I've ever seen on a stage.
- 2:44Speaker 9: I find him enchanting Watson.
- 2:46Speaker 10: It seems to me he's really caught the flavor of
- 2:47Speaker 10: this murderous monster piece. After all, a restrained performance the
- 2:52Speaker 10: barbers we need, Chad would be unthinkable.
- 2:54Speaker 2: First word, I must say, his makeup seems rather overdone.
- 2:58Speaker 2: No barber, but referch an enormous the most impractical probably
- 3:02Speaker 2: get as a customer's faces. By the way, I know
- 3:06Speaker 2: from the program that Mark Compress, as well as being
- 3:08Speaker 2: the principal actor, is also the owner of the company.
- 3:12Speaker 10: It's the current trend towards the actor manager has a
- 3:15Speaker 10: very healthy sign. I think, Karen, excuse me, that is
- 3:19Speaker 10: what of you, gentlemen, mister I was asked to give
- 3:23Speaker 10: you this note thank you. Who knows that you're homes
- 3:27Speaker 10: will find out ah, miss, note is from my comforts
- 3:32Speaker 10: our actor manager, mister Holmes, I.
- 3:35Speaker 9: Recognize you in your box based out of my dressing
- 3:38Speaker 9: room Mark performances.
- 3:41Speaker 10: My sanity and even the safety of London perhaps depends
- 3:45Speaker 10: on your compliance.
- 3:46Speaker 3: My sanity of the safety of London. I wonder what
- 3:50Speaker 3: on earth you mean that, my.
- 3:51Speaker 10: Dear fellow, we can under discover by going backstage to medium.
- 3:54Speaker 10: As it is, the curtain is going up in the
- 3:55Speaker 10: last scene I see for a little longer. We must
- 3:57Speaker 10: possess our souls and patience.
- 4:11Speaker 11: Mister Sherlock Holme, Yes, sir, my name is Lindsay Errick Lindsay.
- 4:15Speaker 12: I'm the business manager.
- 4:17Speaker 11: Mister Humphy has asked me to meet you at the
- 4:18Speaker 11: safe door take you to his.
- 4:20Speaker 12: Busin Thank you very much.
- 4:21Speaker 9: And this is my colleague, doctor Watson.
- 4:23Speaker 11: Oh are you doctor?
- 4:24Speaker 9: Will you?
- 4:25Speaker 3: Will you follow me?
- 4:26Speaker 13: Please?
- 4:27Speaker 10: Excuse me asking mister Lindsay, but surely you must be
- 4:29Speaker 10: related to that distinguished actor of some year's back, Litton Lindsay.
- 4:32Speaker 5: He was my father, mister.
- 4:33Speaker 9: Home resemblance is extraordinary.
- 4:36Speaker 3: It was such a heritage. Mister Lindsay, you must love
- 4:38Speaker 3: the theater.
- 4:40Speaker 9: It'll probably sound like heresy, but I hate it.
- 4:43Speaker 11: However, It's the only thing I was trained for, and
- 4:46Speaker 11: there's good money to be made in it sometimes, and
- 4:49Speaker 11: money is the thing I both like and want.
- 4:52Speaker 12: Mister Holmes.
- 4:53Speaker 9: I do hope you were able to help Mark Humphries.
- 4:56Speaker 11: He certainly needs it.
- 4:57Speaker 3: You know what seems to be his trouble.
- 4:59Speaker 11: He'll have tell you that friends so, but his wife
- 5:02Speaker 11: and I think there's Missus Humphreys now, Marya.
- 5:08Speaker 12: This is mister Sherlock.
- 5:09Speaker 11: Holmes and Dr Watson.
- 5:11Speaker 9: Missus Mark Humphrey.
- 5:13Speaker 7: Holmes.
- 5:14Speaker 4: I'm so grateful that you're going to see Mark.
- 5:16Speaker 5: He's in such a dreadful stay.
- 5:18Speaker 4: There have been times lately when when mister Lindley and
- 5:20Speaker 4: I have been afraid he's going out of his.
- 5:22Speaker 11: Mind, haven't we there we're both dreadfully worried about it.
- 5:26Speaker 9: And in case, I hope I can be of service
- 5:27Speaker 9: in which is his dressing room, number one, next door
- 5:29Speaker 9: to mine?
- 5:30Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it'll be better if mister Holmes and
- 5:33Speaker 4: doctor Watson go in alone. I'm sure Mark will speak
- 5:36Speaker 4: more freely if we're.
- 5:36Speaker 9: Not in the room. I think perhaps that is a
- 5:38Speaker 9: good idea. Missus humpy Is, we'll see you later on.
- 5:40Speaker 12: Come on, fellow, Thank heaven you're here.
- 5:54Speaker 9: Now, mister humph Is and this is doctor Watson Watsney.
- 5:57Speaker 5: Yes, I know of you too.
- 6:00Speaker 9: Sit down, won't you?
- 6:01Speaker 5: Gentlemen? You're wondering why I ask you to come back
- 6:05Speaker 5: and see me? Of course, naturally their Well, I won't
- 6:07Speaker 5: beat about the bush and waste your time. That comes
- 6:10Speaker 5: stack to the point I'm going mad. I know, I
- 6:14Speaker 5: know it sounds fantastic, but it's true. I've often heard
- 6:17Speaker 5: of actors beginning to live.
- 6:18Speaker 13: Their pasts off the stage they play on it.
- 6:20Speaker 9: Well, it's happened to me.
- 6:22Speaker 5: I'm turning into another Sweeny Todd, the character I'm portraying
- 6:26Speaker 5: on the stage.
- 6:26Speaker 10: Suggesting, sir that you're a potential murderer, Yes, I am.
- 6:30Speaker 10: What reason do you have for holding that belief?
- 6:32Speaker 13: Reason?
- 6:33Speaker 9: Listen to this.
- 6:35Speaker 5: Three times in the past week, I've wakened in the
- 6:38Speaker 5: morning to find my boots covered with mud and my
- 6:41Speaker 5: razor stained with blood.
- 6:44Speaker 9: If I had no recollection of any untoward events during
- 6:46Speaker 9: the night.
- 6:47Speaker 2: None have you ever been addicted to the unfortunate habit
- 6:50Speaker 2: of sleepwalking?
- 6:51Speaker 5: Not to my knowledge, doctor, And if I had been
- 6:53Speaker 5: solely my wife would have told.
- 6:55Speaker 12: Me about your wife.
- 6:56Speaker 9: Where do you live, miss Andre?
- 6:57Speaker 5: We have a flat here about the theater, and mister
- 7:01Speaker 5: Handres you.
- 7:01Speaker 10: Say that on three separate occasions, on wakening in the morning,
- 7:04Speaker 10: you have found a blood stained razor and mudcovered boots.
- 7:07Speaker 9: Can you show us this proof.
- 7:09Speaker 13: No, no, I can't.
- 7:10Speaker 5: I was always so frightened that my wife would see
- 7:12Speaker 5: that I cleaned them before she had the opportunity of
- 7:14Speaker 5: finding them.
- 7:15Speaker 3: It would have been very valuable clues in the case.
- 7:18Speaker 5: Like I couldn't risk my wife seeing evidence like that, doctor,
- 7:21Speaker 5: she'd know the truth that at night times, while she's asleep,
- 7:26Speaker 5: some devilish, unconscious urg has overcome me, an urge that
- 7:30Speaker 5: causes me to tower the streets of London, raised it
- 7:33Speaker 5: in hand, looking for a victim. Mister Holmes, You've got
- 7:35Speaker 5: to help me. I'm certain that, without knowing it, I've
- 7:38Speaker 5: been committing murder and if you don't help me, I'll
- 7:40Speaker 5: go on and on.
- 7:41Speaker 9: Mister Hampers, I want to take the case. It's a
- 7:45Speaker 9: very unique assignment. In effect, I'm being engaged by a.
- 7:48Speaker 6: Possible murderer to prove him guilty. Well, mister Elms, having
- 8:03Speaker 6: through all the records we have here at Scotland, you are.
- 8:05Speaker 9: Found, Inspector Gregson.
- 8:06Speaker 5: In the last two months we haven't had one case
- 8:08Speaker 5: of an unsolved killing with a race.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Any mysterious disappearances inspected pleasure art.
- 8:12Speaker 13: Doctor.
- 8:13Speaker 14: There's never a day that passes without one or two
- 8:14Speaker 14: of them.
- 8:15Speaker 9: Here's a list of mister Elms.
- 8:17Speaker 10: If it's any use to you, thanks, come on Marton
- 8:18Speaker 10: in the morning we can go back to the theater
- 8:20Speaker 10: and set our friend's mind at risk. I'm much obliged
- 8:22Speaker 10: to Gregson there to be a service. We examined the
- 8:33Speaker 10: homicide records at Scotland's yard. I'd have to leave you
- 8:36Speaker 10: last night a timpers.
- 8:37Speaker 9: There have been no unsolved raizor metters in London in
- 8:40Speaker 9: the past fortnight, and.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Therefore I think you may rest easy on that scu
- 8:44Speaker 2: But it proves nothing.
- 8:45Speaker 5: Remember that in the place we need Todd's victims I
- 8:47Speaker 5: never found thanks.
- 8:49Speaker 9: To his singularly horrible ingenuity in disposing of them. But
- 8:51Speaker 9: this is real life, mister Hunt.
- 8:53Speaker 5: Then how do you account for the blooded racers and
- 8:55Speaker 5: the muddy boots?
- 8:56Speaker 3: Well, now are you sure that they aren't you're a genations.
- 9:01Speaker 3: You admit that your wife's never seen them. The whole
- 9:03Speaker 3: thing could be or till we say, an overdose of
- 9:08Speaker 3: may talk.
- 9:09Speaker 5: I admit that I'm suffering from a surfait of that.
- 9:11Speaker 10: And when I dropped the faith from her repertoire manager
- 9:13Speaker 10: Derek Lindsay won't let me it's the best moneymaker.
- 9:16Speaker 5: He's always got a keen height of business. Mister Holmes,
- 9:20Speaker 5: I can see that you still don't believe my story.
- 9:23Speaker 5: So I've saved some evidence for your evidence that I've
- 9:25Speaker 5: found this morning.
- 9:27Speaker 9: Look at these now, what do you say?
- 9:30Speaker 5: Do you still think it's my imagination?
- 9:32Speaker 3: Cutter, live stained razor and boots covered with mud.
- 9:35Speaker 9: Splendid, At last, some real clues to work. How can
- 9:38Speaker 9: you be so calm?
- 9:39Speaker 5: Homes It happened again last night? Do you realize that
- 9:43Speaker 5: I'm a murderer? I'm a Menaster Society for Heaven's sake,
- 9:46Speaker 5: locked me up before I do some more, mister Hampres,
- 9:50Speaker 5: I should.
- 9:51Speaker 10: Like to take these objects to back to Bate the
- 9:52Speaker 10: Street where I can perform some chemical tests. You have
- 9:55Speaker 10: no objections, I hope objections excellent. You've told no one
- 9:58Speaker 10: of this fresh discovery.
- 10:00Speaker 5: It's no one, not even Derick Clint.
- 10:02Speaker 3: That's your manager, isn't it.
- 10:04Speaker 5: Yes, the best friend I ever had, his father before.
- 10:07Speaker 11: Him, the Eric who helped me back on.
- 10:10Speaker 5: My feet till too. Yes, two years ago when I
- 10:13Speaker 5: put on that disastrous production.
- 10:14Speaker 9: Of Macbeth, I don't know will I be to day
- 10:17Speaker 9: that went to him.
- 10:17Speaker 10: They lost a great deal of money on that production, Sir,
- 10:19Speaker 10: nearly every penny I had.
- 10:20Speaker 9: Indeed, by the way, where is your wife?
- 10:22Speaker 5: To Humper's not dressing room next door?
- 10:26Speaker 9: I'd like to word with her?
- 10:28Speaker 12: Watch no chap, but wait here for me.
- 10:29Speaker 10: We know I won't be a moment, Shark Homes, you
- 10:44Speaker 10: want to talk to me, mister Holmes for a moment?
- 10:47Speaker 12: May I come in?
- 10:48Speaker 4: Missus Humphreys, wouldn't we talk on the stage at tempting?
- 10:52Speaker 10: I should prefer to come into your dressing room if
- 10:54Speaker 10: you don't mind, but I have to say is confidential?
- 10:57Speaker 4: Very well, then come in. The homes Man introduced Senor
- 11:02Speaker 4: Vanilli on musical Director.
- 11:04Speaker 5: He's a great honor to meet the sole great senior Homes.
- 11:09Speaker 12: I have so adviled you, oh often, I have envied you.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Many times.
- 11:14Speaker 5: I say to myself, snifty.
- 11:16Speaker 9: If you don't mind, I wish to speak to Missus
- 11:19Speaker 9: Humphreys alone.
- 11:20Speaker 5: Oh I quite understand. Excuse me, senor, are you.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Mister Holmes? I'm really awfully glare of this opportunity to
- 11:29Speaker 4: talk to you. Tell me, truthfully, please, what your opinion
- 11:32Speaker 4: of my.
- 11:33Speaker 9: Husband has informed?
- 11:34Speaker 10: The definite opinion yet except that it's possible that he's
- 11:38Speaker 10: the victim of abroad.
- 11:39Speaker 9: I just wanted to ask you a couple of.
- 11:41Speaker 10: Questions, if you don't mind, of course, not, mister, has
- 11:44Speaker 10: your husband ever shown evidence of being a sleepwalker?
- 11:49Speaker 7: Oh?
- 11:49Speaker 9: No, never, I see. Are you a light sleeper?
- 11:53Speaker 1: Yes?
- 11:53Speaker 4: I am exceptionally sir.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Why?
- 11:56Speaker 13: Oh, I was just curious.
- 11:58Speaker 4: You're being very mysterious, mister. Can't you tell even me
- 12:01Speaker 4: what's going on?
- 12:02Speaker 9: I find your husband the answer to that question before
- 12:04Speaker 9: the night's performance.
- 12:05Speaker 12: I'm afraid I can't tell you any more until then?
- 12:09Speaker 4: And now may I ask the question.
- 12:10Speaker 9: Certainly, though I won't promise to answer it.
- 12:13Speaker 4: You said just now that my husband might be the
- 12:15Speaker 4: victim of a fraud.
- 12:16Speaker 9: What did you mean? Again?
- 12:18Speaker 10: I'm afraid you must wait for the specific answer to
- 12:20Speaker 10: that question. However, there's another fraud being practiced on him
- 12:24Speaker 10: that I can speak of now.
- 12:26Speaker 9: The prod that you are indubting in, missus huntres What
- 12:30Speaker 9: do you mean? Of course, this particular fraud is none
- 12:32Speaker 9: of my business.
- 12:33Speaker 10: But when I almost force my way into your addressing
- 12:37Speaker 10: room and find your musical director a panty of Rice's
- 12:40Speaker 10: power around one children, suggestions of rules on his cheek.
- 12:43Speaker 10: It doesn't take a great deal of intelligence to deduce
- 12:46Speaker 10: that your husband is being deceived.
- 12:48Speaker 4: Get hold of here at once.
- 12:50Speaker 9: That's exactly what I propose doing. Good day to madam,
- 12:53Speaker 9: no doubt I shall see you later on.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Well Holmes, what does the microscope tell you about the
- 13:07Speaker 2: mud on the boots and the blood stains on the razor.
- 13:10Speaker 10: On a bank on the mud, o jab, it's been
- 13:13Speaker 10: the common type that is found in most parts of London.
- 13:15Speaker 2: And the blood examining that now the strange cases of
- 13:20Speaker 2: what I remember homes here. You are trying to prove
- 13:23Speaker 2: a man innocent when he insists in guilty.
- 13:25Speaker 9: Like George Watson.
- 13:27Speaker 7: Here's the answer.
- 13:27Speaker 9: But this blood is definitely not human blood. It's probably canine.
- 13:34Speaker 10: Now at Sweeney Todd mad This would hardly drive its
- 13:36Speaker 10: victim to kill dogs. Therefore, it's obvious that my Countries
- 13:40Speaker 10: is the victim of a devilish.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Plot and he's not a murderer.
- 13:43Speaker 9: No, come on, old hello and still to a care
- 13:45Speaker 9: for at once and give him the good.
- 13:46Speaker 13: News of the answer is a not for the curtain.
- 14:01Speaker 9: Time's blessing him. I'm buck again. Come on, what's let's go.
- 14:06Speaker 3: In Oh look, look he's something of his dressing gable.
- 14:11Speaker 9: I hope I'm not too late here, give me a
- 14:12Speaker 9: hand with him.
- 14:14Speaker 3: Not too late. His folk's been cut.
- 14:19Speaker 12: Wood devil.
- 14:21Speaker 9: I promised him a solution to his troubles before the
- 14:23Speaker 9: night was over.
- 14:25Speaker 12: Little did I think that.
- 14:26Speaker 9: The solution would be death.
- 14:38Speaker 1: We'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
- 14:40Speaker 1: a second. So I'm going to ask you if you're
- 14:42Speaker 1: one of those people who just eats to live, or
- 14:45Speaker 1: whether you really enjoy good food. If you love good eating,
- 14:48Speaker 1: you've just got to know about Petrie wine. Petrie wine
- 14:52Speaker 1: makes good food taste wonderful. For instance, if you're having
- 14:55Speaker 1: steak or a rost, or any meat or meat dish,
- 14:58Speaker 1: you'll love it served with Petrie California Burgundy. Patrick Burgundy
- 15:02Speaker 1: is the last word and delicious red wine.
- 15:05Speaker 5: Now with chicken or fish, you.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Can't beat the delicate Petrie California so Turned a really
- 15:10Speaker 1: extraordinary white one. Just to make sure you don't miss
- 15:13Speaker 1: either Petri wine, don't buy one.
- 15:16Speaker 9: Buy two.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Buy both Patrick Burgundy and Petrie so Turned. They both
- 15:21Speaker 1: swell because they're both Petris. Well, doctor Watson, what happened next?
- 15:27Speaker 3: Don't pick up the story exactly where I left off.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Holmes and I were standing mark Company's ession, looking with
- 15:35Speaker 2: horror the flesh throat.
- 15:37Speaker 3: The ex manager. There was a bit of self accusing.
- 15:40Speaker 9: Note I'm missing the solution to his troubles before tonight
- 15:46Speaker 9: was over this that I think.
- 15:48Speaker 3: That solution would be just worry over his supposed madness.
- 15:54Speaker 3: Murder the razor cups in his hand?
- 15:57Speaker 9: Did they say by the murder before we Mortis had
- 15:59Speaker 9: a chance to sit in any case scrutinized the wound?
- 16:02Speaker 12: Does that look as if it had been done by the.
- 16:04Speaker 10: Hand of a suicide Don't see why not, Chap The
- 16:07Speaker 10: depth of the wound is even that as a suicide
- 16:10Speaker 10: cut always waivers towards the end.
- 16:13Speaker 9: Oh, this is murder, Watson, and I think I know
- 16:15Speaker 9: who did it. I have little ever understands left track.
- 16:18Speaker 3: What kind of a trap home?
- 16:19Speaker 10: I'm time to kill you an ourflow every moment comes
- 16:22Speaker 10: off of your p Scotland Guard and get Inspector Gregson
- 16:24Speaker 10: bringing back here as fast as you can and watch them. Yeah,
- 16:27Speaker 10: he'll absolutely no one except Gregson of my company's death
- 16:30Speaker 10: and say that he's still alive and well, and that
- 16:32Speaker 10: his problems are solved the performance of the player.
- 16:34Speaker 12: An't worry about that old job.
- 16:35Speaker 9: Off of your per Scotland job.
- 16:48Speaker 3: I'm sorry it took so longer.
- 16:49Speaker 13: Fire me, doctor Watson.
- 16:50Speaker 9: I was out on another ocasion.
- 16:51Speaker 2: That's all inspect performance if there is one that's been
- 16:55Speaker 2: nearly over the Now here's the stage doors, Yeah, here
- 16:57Speaker 2: we are.
- 17:00Speaker 7: You can't come on this, Tay who says I can't?
- 17:03Speaker 3: I'm inspected. Gregson of Scotland yard wonderfo the Devil's plays
- 17:09Speaker 3: when it turns come.
- 17:10Speaker 2: On, come and just stand here in the wind is possible,
- 17:18Speaker 2: there's my comforts on the stage. I saw him in
- 17:20Speaker 2: the spot cut. I don't believe in ghost doctor, great heavens,
- 17:23Speaker 2: it's homes.
- 17:37Speaker 7: You revenge you while you put him down there and
- 17:39Speaker 7: hell yry you revel Here here he comes.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Now Gregg's amazing disguise.
- 17:55Speaker 5: I'm never recognized both here Holmes and what.
- 17:59Speaker 9: Are you up to? Surely that's apparent. I disguise myself
- 18:01Speaker 9: as the dead man, helping to cost the murderer's hands.
- 18:03Speaker 14: You'll run in a terrible Christmastres out of.
- 18:05Speaker 9: My profession, Gregs. There come singer van Elle, the musical director.
- 18:10Speaker 7: My dear fellow.
- 18:11Speaker 5: I had to leave the awker to come and congratulate you.
- 18:15Speaker 9: Never have you given a final performance.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Provis or provis But think he's true. You've hardly seem
- 18:23Speaker 3: the same person.
- 18:24Speaker 7: Your performance, Gee is in comparable.
- 18:28Speaker 9: Keep it up much, keep it up. I think he
- 18:31Speaker 9: spotted you home, Yes, sir, I didn't like.
- 18:33Speaker 3: His look as he said that.
- 18:34Speaker 9: Well, whoever it is, they've got to show their hands
- 18:36Speaker 9: soon going up in the last scene, keep your eyes
- 18:38Speaker 9: open and suspect everyone. My Lord.
- 18:54Speaker 7: Fow sign ha ha, really can't what do he.
- 19:05Speaker 10: The doc odeed but he's not want to hear Lord
- 19:09Speaker 10: dock know what to see you there?
- 19:13Speaker 7: I get excuse to the name.
- 19:16Speaker 2: I could, but that the dead rise from their tentlements
- 19:19Speaker 2: to prove Sweeney Todd a murderer?
- 19:32Speaker 7: Why George?
- 19:33Speaker 10: What an actor?
- 19:34Speaker 13: E the made doctor?
- 19:35Speaker 2: That's what an actor is, Gregson. I'll be hanged if
- 19:37Speaker 2: I know how he remember the lines though, even.
- 19:39Speaker 3: If he has seen the play half a dozen times
- 19:41Speaker 3: till he comes up other homes splendidness.
- 19:45Speaker 9: But he didn't work and it didn't work on it
- 19:48Speaker 9: murderer still hasn't dipped his hand. Have I underestimated him?
- 19:52Speaker 14: Looks as if you have, sir, And if you don't
- 19:53Speaker 14: mind my saying so, I think you'd have been a
- 19:55Speaker 14: lot riser to let me handle the case as soon
- 19:57Speaker 14: as you found his body, instead of going in for
- 19:59Speaker 14: all this.
- 20:00Speaker 9: Dressing up stuff. But of course, now I see it
- 20:04Speaker 9: only one person who could have killed my Coumphreys fume?
- 20:07Speaker 9: Who was I saying?
- 20:08Speaker 10: I'll show you and then Humphrey's dressing room now alone,
- 20:11Speaker 10: give me a few moments, start and then follow me
- 20:13Speaker 10: out of sight but within their shot.
- 20:15Speaker 14: Doctor Watson, Why does mister Elms always have to be
- 20:17Speaker 14: so bloomy mysterious? Why can't he just say who the
- 20:20Speaker 14: murderer is and take us to her?
- 20:22Speaker 3: Mister Holmes and a great many cases, Gregson, and yet
- 20:25Speaker 3: I can't answer that question. Come along, you've got to
- 20:28Speaker 3: big enough to start.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Now, let's follow him.
- 20:29Speaker 14: I'm really fond of mister Elams and our doctor, and
- 20:31Speaker 14: yet there are times when I.
- 20:32Speaker 3: Get so angry with him.
- 20:34Speaker 9: He shouldn't risk his life right then?
- 20:35Speaker 3: You know, mister Holmes, he will never change if he don't.
- 20:38Speaker 14: One of these days he's going to wake up and
- 20:40Speaker 14: find himself.
- 20:40Speaker 9: Did someone inside him?
- 20:48Speaker 3: Great Cottage tetle into the business man. You come on, Gregson,
- 20:52Speaker 3: nor is it who was succeeded in killing Humphress.
- 20:54Speaker 13: But you won't kill me?
- 20:54Speaker 9: Like as I look up for that brace, I hear
- 20:56Speaker 9: you let go, you go, Ah.
- 21:02Speaker 10: Very neat Gregson, you are right home perfectly, thanks old chapter.
- 21:05Speaker 10: I'm a little tired, Gregson, my dear fellow, will you
- 21:08Speaker 10: take over from here? I think I've had enough melodrama
- 21:10Speaker 10: for one day.
- 21:22Speaker 9: Ah.
- 21:24Speaker 10: A person Watson is the deck of Baker Street again,
- 21:26Speaker 10: A cracting farm, I dressing gown and your company combined
- 21:29Speaker 10: to make a soothing ending were somewhat violent day.
- 21:33Speaker 3: Unusual case, homes. I still didn't darly understand it.
- 21:37Speaker 2: The original part, of course, was to try and drive
- 21:39Speaker 2: my company's mad.
- 21:40Speaker 3: By making him think that he was a murderer, had
- 21:42Speaker 3: a courage for the boots and the bloodstain.
- 21:44Speaker 10: Raisor precisely, my dear fellow, and the killer, having conditioned
- 21:47Speaker 10: his victim by this trickery, then murdered him, trying to
- 21:49Speaker 10: make it appear of suicide.
- 21:51Speaker 9: Now, who had a motive?
- 21:53Speaker 2: Three people Humphreys, a lover signor Vanilla and Derek Lindsay.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I must say that I suspected the wife, go did.
- 21:59Speaker 9: I for a while, and yet it was illogical.
- 22:01Speaker 12: She knew, and we may therefore presume that her.
- 22:03Speaker 9: Love I knew, and that I was suspicious of her.
- 22:05Speaker 2: And she must have known that you promised her husband
- 22:07Speaker 2: a solution to his troubles before that night was out.
- 22:09Speaker 2: It seemed highly improbable that she or Senior Vanella would
- 22:13Speaker 2: have faked this suicide at that point, right my evenant.
- 22:17Speaker 10: So I investigated Derek Lind's affairs, and I found that
- 22:20Speaker 10: what Comforts had referred to as the kindly act of
- 22:23Speaker 10: a friend in helping him back onto his feet was
- 22:26Speaker 10: in reality the mortgaging of his entire theaptical effects then
- 22:30Speaker 10: she stood to inherit the theore on Humphrey's death.
- 22:32Speaker 9: Therefore, I was convinced that he was the killer.
- 22:34Speaker 2: And then after he'd murdered him, he saw that he
- 22:36Speaker 2: thought to be my Comforts on the stage.
- 22:39Speaker 9: Ah, That's where I was slow and stupid, old jab.
- 22:42Speaker 9: I couldn't imagine what motive gave the cold clear.
- 22:45Speaker 10: Nerve to suppress all reactions when he saw his supposed
- 22:48Speaker 10: victim revived on the stage.
- 22:50Speaker 12: Only at that moment did I realize what.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Was the motive that made him hold his hand.
- 22:54Speaker 9: The characteristic that ruled his life was from avarice, a
- 22:58Speaker 9: morbid love of money.
- 22:59Speaker 10: You see attacked me during the performance. You'd have had
- 23:01Speaker 10: to refund the money to the audience. He's red conquered
- 23:05Speaker 10: all other pets. It made him wait until the performance
- 23:07Speaker 10: was finished before he attempted my life.
- 23:09Speaker 2: You know how the case is solved. I'll tell you
- 23:12Speaker 2: something in confidence. At the end of the play tonight,
- 23:16Speaker 2: I was afraid that you made a mistake, that you
- 23:19Speaker 2: the tough on the case.
- 23:20Speaker 3: Uh. Gregson thought so too, and I Watson will tell.
- 23:25Speaker 12: You something in confident. There were three of us that
- 23:29Speaker 12: felt the same way.
- 23:30Speaker 10: Being monist, I assure you I'm not, my dear chap.
- 23:35Speaker 10: In fact, in the future, if it should strike you
- 23:38Speaker 10: that I'm more well.
- 23:39Speaker 9: Getting a little over confident of my powers, or perhaps
- 23:42Speaker 10: A giving less pains to a case than it deserves,
- 23:45Speaker 10: kindly whisper sweety tard in my ear, will you, I
- 23:49Speaker 10: shall be infinitely obliged to you.