WEBVTT 00:00:00.049 --> 00:00:15.049 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:08.050 --> 00:01:09.683 You shouldn't do that. 00:01:11.786 --> 00:01:13.286 Tap the glass. 00:01:15.122 --> 00:01:17.082 How did you know I was going to? 00:01:18.657 --> 00:01:21.091 You must forgive my son. He loves bees. 00:01:21.892 --> 00:01:24.026 It isn't a bee. It's a wasp. 00:01:28.197 --> 00:01:29.964 Different thing entirely. 00:02:05.930 --> 00:02:07.463 Was that him? 00:03:12.662 --> 00:03:14.996 Ah, the prodigal returns. 00:03:20.234 --> 00:03:21.400 Ooh. 00:03:26.305 --> 00:03:28.506 Outside, Roger. You know you're not allowed. 00:03:31.576 --> 00:03:34.243 Like having a Welsh pony. 00:03:37.348 --> 00:03:39.308 Will you be going up to your study? 00:03:39.581 --> 00:03:40.814 No, not as yet. 00:04:13.977 --> 00:04:16.411 Ah, yes. Home again. 00:04:19.548 --> 00:04:20.848 Home again. 00:04:28.689 --> 00:04:30.456 Mrs. Munro! 00:04:33.726 --> 00:04:37.195 It would appear we've had a decrease in population. 00:04:38.964 --> 00:04:41.999 Did Mr. Healy not come by 00:04:42.001 --> 00:04:44.334 to take care of the apiary whilst I was gone? 00:04:44.336 --> 00:04:46.576 Yes, but he won't be able to do it next time. 00:04:47.871 --> 00:04:50.639 - Did Mr. Healy say that? - No, his daughter did. 00:04:52.074 --> 00:04:54.141 She's taken him to live with her. Too feeble, she said. 00:04:54.143 --> 00:04:57.677 - Is he too feeble? - Seemed spry enough. 00:04:57.679 --> 00:04:59.578 - Chattier, maybe. - With you? 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.379 With himself. 00:05:02.647 --> 00:05:04.447 Key to the study. 00:05:14.324 --> 00:05:16.057 - Is that lunch? - Mm. 00:05:18.326 --> 00:05:20.627 Hmm... 00:06:38.270 --> 00:06:41.005 Watson had married and I was alone. 00:06:42.440 --> 00:06:44.574 In fact, it was on the very day he left Baker Street 00:06:44.576 --> 00:06:48.678 that the case which was to be my last began to unfold. 00:06:54.351 --> 00:06:57.753 It was almost 30 years ago. The Great War had ended 00:06:57.755 --> 00:07:00.088 and the tourists had come back to Baker Street 00:07:00.090 --> 00:07:02.890 to catch a glimpse of the real Sherlock Holmes. 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.426 Thankfully, in his stories, 00:07:06.428 --> 00:07:08.528 Watson had always published a false address 00:07:08.530 --> 00:07:09.829 for our actual quarters. 00:07:10.664 --> 00:07:12.097 So you found the right address. 00:07:32.851 --> 00:07:35.752 - Why did you do it? - Sir? 00:07:36.487 --> 00:07:38.354 Break into my study. 00:07:38.356 --> 00:07:41.123 My study is my sanctum sanctorum. 00:07:42.158 --> 00:07:43.557 Private place. 00:07:46.527 --> 00:07:50.595 Before you went to Japan, I saw you writing that story. 00:07:51.396 --> 00:07:53.296 I didn't know you wrote stories. 00:07:53.298 --> 00:07:55.931 Oh, Dr. Watson, yes, he was the writer. 00:07:57.366 --> 00:07:59.166 Well, so I borrowed Mum's key and went into your study, 00:07:59.168 --> 00:08:00.167 and there it was. 00:08:00.169 --> 00:08:02.536 And how much did you read? 00:08:02.538 --> 00:08:05.372 Just to where you stopped. It was a good part too. 00:08:05.374 --> 00:08:06.706 A man comes to Baker Street. 00:08:06.708 --> 00:08:08.240 You say, "You've come about your wife." 00:08:08.242 --> 00:08:10.976 How could you tell? Did you do the thing? 00:08:11.744 --> 00:08:13.244 What thing would that be? 00:08:14.412 --> 00:08:16.612 "The cane shows the marks of a dog's teeth. 00:08:17.847 --> 00:08:19.247 The wood is from an island southwest of Madeira." 00:08:19.681 --> 00:08:20.714 That thing. 00:08:21.882 --> 00:08:23.249 And how would you tell 00:08:23.251 --> 00:08:25.551 that a man's visit was about his wife? 00:08:26.252 --> 00:08:27.412 He wears a wedding ring? 00:08:28.186 --> 00:08:31.787 No. The clues are all on that page. 00:08:32.555 --> 00:08:34.756 This sentence, to be exact. 00:08:35.858 --> 00:08:37.925 "One day, into the room came a young man, 00:08:37.927 --> 00:08:41.060 in newly-pressed, albeit inexpensive clothes." 00:08:42.429 --> 00:08:44.163 The clothes are freshly-pressed. He's a young man, though. 00:08:44.165 --> 00:08:46.098 Not expensive clothes. 00:08:47.500 --> 00:08:49.100 Then his wife must press them. Men don't have the talent 00:08:49.102 --> 00:08:51.182 and he can't afford a servant to do so. 00:08:51.836 --> 00:08:53.336 Very good. 00:08:53.338 --> 00:08:54.904 That's how you knew it was about the wife. 00:08:54.906 --> 00:08:55.971 Well, no. 00:08:57.406 --> 00:08:59.806 When you're a detective and a man comes to visit you... 00:09:00.841 --> 00:09:02.141 it's usually about his wife. 00:09:04.177 --> 00:09:06.177 So why did you stop where you did? 00:09:19.925 --> 00:09:21.258 Ahh... 00:09:31.367 --> 00:09:33.527 Ah, did you get the things from the chemist? 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:35.636 On order. Said it would be a few days. 00:09:35.638 --> 00:09:37.104 We'll hold them to that. 00:09:37.905 --> 00:09:39.639 Otherwise, triumphant, were you? 00:09:40.374 --> 00:09:41.974 Like V-E Day. 00:09:42.809 --> 00:09:45.110 Oh. Doctor's here. 00:09:52.150 --> 00:09:54.885 - Did you catch cold in Japan? - Does it sound it? 00:09:56.454 --> 00:09:58.974 I thought you might be coming off the tail end of something. 00:09:59.289 --> 00:10:01.356 Lost some weight as well. Hmm. 00:10:02.458 --> 00:10:05.326 Did you find what you were looking for, 00:10:05.328 --> 00:10:06.894 the mysterious ashy prick? 00:10:06.896 --> 00:10:09.263 Prickly ash. 00:10:09.265 --> 00:10:10.464 Oh, yes, sorry. 00:10:11.966 --> 00:10:14.100 That was the reason the fellow invited you to Japan, wasn't it? 00:10:14.102 --> 00:10:16.469 Dig up a pile of the stuff, smuggle it home? 00:10:16.471 --> 00:10:19.138 It can't interfere with anything you've prescribed. 00:10:20.507 --> 00:10:23.842 - But surely it can't do me ill. - In and of itself, no. 00:10:24.910 --> 00:10:26.343 You mean there might be side effects? 00:10:26.345 --> 00:10:27.544 Perhaps. 00:10:28.145 --> 00:10:29.979 - Such as? - Hope. 00:10:38.154 --> 00:10:42.490 What was the name of the fellow who invited you to Japan? 00:10:45.327 --> 00:10:47.361 You just spent a week with the man, 00:10:48.496 --> 00:10:50.864 corresponded with him for months. 00:10:51.732 --> 00:10:53.132 Do you recall his name? 00:10:56.202 --> 00:11:00.204 There's a flat adjacent to my surgery that's gone to let... 00:11:00.206 --> 00:11:02.039 No! 00:11:02.041 --> 00:11:03.740 What happens when you don't recall where the telephone is, 00:11:03.742 --> 00:11:06.209 or you forget to turn off the gas? 00:11:06.211 --> 00:11:09.378 - You can't live alone. - I don't live alone. 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:11.211 I have the housekeeper. 00:11:13.914 --> 00:11:15.147 Take this diary. 00:11:17.316 --> 00:11:21.152 Each day you don't recall a name or place, 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.988 make a mark on the page for that day's date. 00:11:25.923 --> 00:11:28.824 And if I forget to make the mark? 00:11:50.245 --> 00:11:52.312 Oh... Mm. 00:11:54.682 --> 00:11:56.582 No, no, no. No. No, no, no. 00:11:57.283 --> 00:11:58.750 It's the royal jelly. 00:11:58.752 --> 00:12:00.832 Yes, well, we're not using it anymore. 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.240 Instead, we're going to use this. 00:12:05.156 --> 00:12:07.924 - It's called prickly ash. - Is it food? 00:12:07.926 --> 00:12:09.558 Mm... 00:12:10.826 --> 00:12:12.426 Eurgh. Looks like it came out the down-spout. 00:12:12.428 --> 00:12:13.994 It came from Japan. 00:12:15.429 --> 00:12:16.829 That makes all the difference. 00:12:16.831 --> 00:12:19.264 You add it in as you would the royal jelly, 00:12:19.266 --> 00:12:20.831 in the tea or the coffee. 00:12:23.167 --> 00:12:26.135 And you should try cooking with it 00:12:26.137 --> 00:12:27.870 to enhance your specialities. 00:13:27.493 --> 00:13:28.926 Mr. Holmes? 00:13:30.261 --> 00:13:31.594 Mr. Holmes? 00:13:36.032 --> 00:13:37.465 Tamiki Umezaki. 00:13:39.034 --> 00:13:40.634 Welcome to Japan. 00:13:43.037 --> 00:13:46.104 I am so honoured you have accepted my invitation. 00:13:47.606 --> 00:13:51.241 We spend tonight at my house. Tomorrow we begin our search. 00:14:25.541 --> 00:14:28.175 I have owned your book for 20 years. 00:14:29.477 --> 00:14:31.797 I purchased my copy when it first appeared in print. 00:14:33.780 --> 00:14:36.848 I hope you'll do me the honour of a personal inscription. 00:14:37.983 --> 00:14:40.484 Oh, yes. Of course. 00:14:43.721 --> 00:14:44.787 Um... 00:14:47.924 --> 00:14:51.059 Mr. Umezaki, how close to the city 00:14:51.061 --> 00:14:53.361 does the prickly ash grow? 00:14:54.329 --> 00:14:56.129 It is found mostly near the sea. 00:14:56.131 --> 00:14:57.930 And how far shall we have to go? 00:14:57.932 --> 00:15:00.832 Where I am thinking is two days' journey by train. 00:15:04.136 --> 00:15:05.336 You are very eager? 00:15:06.738 --> 00:15:09.272 I'm in the middle of a project that I'm keen to finish 00:15:09.274 --> 00:15:12.174 and my wits must be at their sharpest. 00:15:12.942 --> 00:15:14.008 I want to be able to benefit 00:15:14.010 --> 00:15:16.010 from the effect as soon as possible. 00:15:16.478 --> 00:15:19.012 - It's that urgent? - I fear it's so. 00:15:21.081 --> 00:15:24.516 You are very great detective! 00:15:25.851 --> 00:15:27.484 Thank you very much. 00:15:35.091 --> 00:15:36.758 My mother, she wonders 00:15:36.760 --> 00:15:38.893 if you have brought your famous hat. 00:15:39.594 --> 00:15:41.595 Oh, the deer stalker. 00:15:42.797 --> 00:15:45.832 That was an embellishment of the illustrator. 00:15:47.801 --> 00:15:48.934 I've never worn one. 00:15:49.969 --> 00:15:52.236 - And the pipe? - I prefer a cigar. 00:15:53.471 --> 00:15:56.039 I told Watson, if I ever write a story myself, 00:15:56.041 --> 00:15:58.941 it will be to correct the million misconceptions 00:15:58.943 --> 00:16:01.009 created by his imaginative license. 00:16:02.277 --> 00:16:04.210 Did you write such a story? 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:08.780 But I'm trying to do so now. 00:16:28.231 --> 00:16:32.100 I must finish with you before I die. 00:16:43.178 --> 00:16:45.312 "So you've come about your wife." 00:16:50.150 --> 00:16:52.217 "You've come about your wife." 00:16:52.685 --> 00:16:53.918 "You've come..." 00:17:09.734 --> 00:17:10.834 Roger. 00:17:12.670 --> 00:17:13.903 Here. 00:17:15.272 --> 00:17:16.972 I'll see you after lunch. 00:17:18.107 --> 00:17:20.227 I'm going to need some help with the bees. 00:17:31.853 --> 00:17:33.653 So you found the right address. 00:17:34.621 --> 00:17:37.122 A friendly porter at 221B. 00:17:38.457 --> 00:17:41.325 It's just a minor fiction to mislead the curious. 00:17:43.261 --> 00:17:45.181 Most of them seem to be American. 00:17:46.697 --> 00:17:48.030 Have a seat, Mr. Kelmot. 00:17:52.935 --> 00:17:54.035 So... 00:17:54.903 --> 00:17:56.503 you've come about your wife. 00:17:57.605 --> 00:17:59.572 - How did you know? - It doesn't matter. 00:17:59.574 --> 00:18:01.540 Tell me what you have to say. 00:18:02.241 --> 00:18:03.541 My wife is named Ann. 00:18:04.876 --> 00:18:07.110 Her mother died in childbirth. 00:18:07.778 --> 00:18:09.145 Her father was a colonel, 00:18:09.147 --> 00:18:11.187 killed in that business at Waziristan. 00:18:12.148 --> 00:18:14.268 We wanted very much to have children. 00:18:16.819 --> 00:18:19.053 She lost our first child in her third month... 00:18:21.122 --> 00:18:22.622 Our second in her fourth. 00:18:25.225 --> 00:18:27.545 We were told it was too dangerous to try again. 00:18:28.394 --> 00:18:31.295 Ann was... distraught. 00:18:37.234 --> 00:18:38.934 It was as though each of them lost 00:18:38.936 --> 00:18:40.976 had been a real child, as opposed to... 00:18:44.906 --> 00:18:46.039 Thank you. 00:18:49.109 --> 00:18:50.843 For a time, she even insisted I have 00:18:50.845 --> 00:18:52.010 a pair of headstones carved 00:18:52.012 --> 00:18:53.745 and placed in our cemetery plot, 00:18:53.747 --> 00:18:55.787 as if their bodies were buried beneath. 00:18:55.947 --> 00:18:57.580 She was in desperate need 00:18:57.582 --> 00:18:59.515 of something to soothe this dangerous melancholy. 00:18:59.517 --> 00:19:02.351 She liked music so I suggested the glass armonica. 00:19:02.353 --> 00:19:03.752 The armonica? 00:19:03.754 --> 00:19:05.553 My father's most prized possession. 00:19:05.555 --> 00:19:07.836 He played it constantly till the day he died. 00:19:08.122 --> 00:19:10.223 I had it brought to the house 00:19:10.225 --> 00:19:12.385 and arranged a month's worth of lessons. 00:19:13.060 --> 00:19:14.140 One hour per week. 00:19:14.594 --> 00:19:15.927 Soon Ann asked me if she could 00:19:15.929 --> 00:19:17.929 increase the lessons to twice a week. 00:19:18.296 --> 00:19:20.530 Then three times. Then every day. 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:24.600 So, she took up the avocation you hoped she would. 00:19:25.468 --> 00:19:27.602 Why are you here, Mr. Kelmot? 00:19:27.604 --> 00:19:31.138 Mr. Holmes, my Ann has changed. 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.906 And it isn't just the lessons 00:19:33.908 --> 00:19:35.908 or her obsession with the instrument. 00:19:37.577 --> 00:19:39.110 One day I was outside the room 00:19:39.112 --> 00:19:41.152 and suddenly her playing stopped. 00:19:43.547 --> 00:19:45.747 And I heard her saying, quite clearly... 00:19:46.816 --> 00:19:49.683 Grace? James? 00:19:51.719 --> 00:19:54.320 Those were to be the names of your children? 00:19:55.322 --> 00:19:57.362 When I confronted Ann, she denied it. 00:19:57.557 --> 00:19:58.623 So I forbad her playing the armonica 00:19:58.625 --> 00:20:00.625 and I forbad her taking the lessons. 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:02.659 The woman who teaches them, Madame Schirmer, 00:20:02.661 --> 00:20:04.621 is a person of dangerous beliefs. 00:20:05.495 --> 00:20:06.895 The dangerous beliefs of a music teacher? 00:20:06.897 --> 00:20:08.496 She's put a spell on Ann, 00:20:09.498 --> 00:20:10.831 preying upon her weak frame of mind, 00:20:10.833 --> 00:20:12.065 for what reason I cannot say. 00:20:12.067 --> 00:20:14.133 Have you proof of this? 00:20:14.901 --> 00:20:16.101 Following my instructions, 00:20:16.103 --> 00:20:17.635 she stopped seeing Madame Schirmer. 00:20:17.637 --> 00:20:21.170 I received in the post... three receipts from the woman. 00:20:23.173 --> 00:20:25.474 Each for the payment of one armonica lesson. 00:20:26.242 --> 00:20:27.809 Again Ann denied it. 00:20:28.977 --> 00:20:30.744 Consequently, my wife is no longer permitted 00:20:30.746 --> 00:20:32.378 to withdraw money from the bank. 00:20:33.646 --> 00:20:35.413 Then yesterday, I followed Ann 00:20:35.415 --> 00:20:37.735 to the place where the woman gives her lessons. 00:20:39.150 --> 00:20:41.590 Even on the pavement below I could hear her playing. 00:20:41.918 --> 00:20:44.252 Naturally, I went inside, but the Schirmer woman said, 00:20:44.254 --> 00:20:45.820 "Your wife is not here." 00:20:46.988 --> 00:20:48.822 Last night, I questioned Ann. 00:20:50.324 --> 00:20:53.025 And she said that she hadn't been to Madame Schirmer's rooms. 00:20:53.027 --> 00:20:54.159 Not for weeks. 00:20:57.930 --> 00:20:59.997 Do you have a portrait of your wife? 00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:13.642 I shall take your case if you answer just one last question. 00:21:13.644 --> 00:21:14.776 Certainly. 00:21:15.778 --> 00:21:17.738 What perfume does your wife wear? 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.013 Roger? 00:21:22.816 --> 00:21:25.184 It's late. Lights out like it's the Blitz. 00:21:32.225 --> 00:21:33.591 Look at you. 00:21:36.561 --> 00:21:38.228 Do you remember your dad? 00:21:40.130 --> 00:21:43.131 I remember him holding my hand and taking me to the sea. 00:21:44.833 --> 00:21:48.034 You're not remembering. That's the picture. 00:21:50.303 --> 00:21:52.370 What about the invisible stories? 00:21:53.805 --> 00:21:55.839 Some nights at bedtime, your dad would make up stories. 00:21:55.841 --> 00:21:59.075 He'd... he'd say, "Give me three things." 00:22:00.177 --> 00:22:04.079 And you'd say, "A ball, a cat and Roger." 00:22:05.648 --> 00:22:06.881 So then he'd... 00:22:07.582 --> 00:22:09.215 he'd make up some tale 00:22:09.217 --> 00:22:12.551 about a ball that had a pet cat named Roger. 00:22:13.921 --> 00:22:16.041 Always a something and something and Roger. 00:22:21.393 --> 00:22:23.633 You don't remember any of the invisible stories? 00:22:24.862 --> 00:22:27.830 No. Do you? 00:22:31.834 --> 00:22:33.794 I was never any good at stories. 00:22:41.243 --> 00:22:42.476 Sleep well. 00:22:47.281 --> 00:22:50.116 The first thing to know is there's no danger. 00:22:50.118 --> 00:22:52.718 Bees aren't interested in harming you. 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.320 Their only concern is self-preservation. 00:22:55.788 --> 00:22:57.021 From people? 00:22:57.023 --> 00:22:59.063 They're much too clever for people. 00:22:59.924 --> 00:23:03.693 Their enemies are the weather, disease and predators. 00:23:04.761 --> 00:23:06.528 The wasp is their particular antagonist. 00:23:06.530 --> 00:23:08.596 Did you know that one wasp 00:23:08.598 --> 00:23:11.765 can kill 40 honey bees in under a minute? 00:23:12.800 --> 00:23:15.201 In consequence, we do not like wasps. 00:23:15.203 --> 00:23:16.402 Yes, sir. 00:23:16.404 --> 00:23:18.244 - We do not like wasps. - Ah. 00:23:18.905 --> 00:23:21.006 The queen runs the colony. 00:23:22.541 --> 00:23:24.942 The drones service the queen. 00:23:25.276 --> 00:23:26.376 Hands up. 00:23:28.746 --> 00:23:31.380 Workers do the work. As it should be. 00:23:43.424 --> 00:23:47.827 Of concern is the latest decrease in the bee population. 00:23:49.229 --> 00:23:52.163 We've identified the problem, and now we must solve it. 00:23:53.231 --> 00:23:55.465 Right. There you are. Off you go. 00:23:56.233 --> 00:23:57.333 Have you ever been bitten 00:23:57.335 --> 00:23:59.902 - by a bee? - Stung. 00:23:59.904 --> 00:24:02.070 Bees don't have teeth. Yes, I have. 00:24:02.072 --> 00:24:03.232 Well, not often, though. 00:24:04.072 --> 00:24:06.406 7,816 times. 00:24:06.907 --> 00:24:08.007 I keep a record. 00:24:14.580 --> 00:24:16.546 You're not entirely dreadful. 00:24:18.448 --> 00:24:19.681 You ever been bit? 00:24:23.585 --> 00:24:25.818 No. I have never been bit. 00:24:27.921 --> 00:24:31.156 Well, people work with bees all the time, don't they? 00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:43.367 What is royal jelly? 00:24:44.602 --> 00:24:47.270 It's a special secretion of the worker bees. 00:24:47.272 --> 00:24:50.506 - And it's royal because? - It feeds the queen. 00:24:50.974 --> 00:24:52.174 Bravo. 00:24:53.142 --> 00:24:55.376 It was the jelly's curative powers 00:24:55.378 --> 00:24:57.411 that prompted my monograph, 00:24:58.045 --> 00:25:00.112 The Value of Royal Jelly 00:25:00.881 --> 00:25:02.414 with Further Comments 00:25:02.416 --> 00:25:05.016 on the Potential Health Benefits of Prickly Ash. 00:25:05.984 --> 00:25:08.452 - What's that? - Prickly ash, hmm? 00:25:09.387 --> 00:25:11.554 Well, in Japanese, hire sansho 00:25:11.556 --> 00:25:15.457 is the common word for zanthoxylum piperitum. 00:25:16.725 --> 00:25:19.560 It's used to treat various degenerative diseases. 00:25:19.562 --> 00:25:24.797 Anaemia, circulatory conditions... arthritis and... 00:25:26.733 --> 00:25:28.567 Hmm. What's it called? 00:25:29.068 --> 00:25:30.468 Oh. Senility. 00:25:32.737 --> 00:25:34.404 That was a witticism. 00:25:38.742 --> 00:25:41.844 The newest research suggests that prickly ash 00:25:41.846 --> 00:25:44.980 has far more promise than royal jelly. 00:25:44.982 --> 00:25:47.816 Henceforth, prickly ash is all that we should use. 00:25:47.818 --> 00:25:50.138 Have you written more about the man and his wife? 00:25:50.786 --> 00:25:53.254 - All in good time. - Is it real? 00:25:54.189 --> 00:25:56.069 Of course. Fiction is worthless! 00:25:56.290 --> 00:25:57.757 The place you stopped. 00:25:57.759 --> 00:25:59.919 Why do you want to know the wife's perfume? 00:26:03.262 --> 00:26:06.731 - Cameo Rose, is it? - Yes. 00:26:17.141 --> 00:26:18.841 Always leaves a trace. 00:27:41.218 --> 00:27:43.118 Madame Schirmer. 00:27:44.353 --> 00:27:46.634 Madame Schirmer, this is Thomas Kelmot. Let me in. 00:27:46.854 --> 00:27:48.087 Madame Schirmer! 00:27:49.589 --> 00:27:51.289 Herr Kelmot, I did warn! 00:27:51.291 --> 00:27:53.724 You come, I call the Metropolitan Police! 00:27:53.726 --> 00:27:55.726 Madame, my friend's emotional state 00:27:55.728 --> 00:27:58.161 is such that, if denied entry, 00:27:59.363 --> 00:28:01.563 he might not be able to restrain his passions. 00:28:02.232 --> 00:28:04.066 Allow us both in, and I will take full responsibility. 00:28:04.068 --> 00:28:06.701 - Thank you so much. - Who is this? 00:28:08.303 --> 00:28:10.937 - This gentleman is a detective. - Ja? His badge, please? 00:28:10.939 --> 00:28:12.738 His name is Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:15.973 You don't mind if I close this, do you? Such a draught. 00:28:17.241 --> 00:28:21.877 No. I have seen Sherlock Holmes in the magazines. 00:28:21.879 --> 00:28:24.980 With the hat and the pipe. It was never this person. 00:28:24.982 --> 00:28:27.315 Madame Schirmer, I saw Ann enter this place, 00:28:27.317 --> 00:28:28.716 I demand you produce her. 00:28:29.384 --> 00:28:31.218 Your wife is not here. 00:28:31.220 --> 00:28:34.654 - You said that last time. - You question my truth? 00:28:38.325 --> 00:28:41.293 Oswald, my dear, it is a wish to know 00:28:41.295 --> 00:28:43.295 if you are this man's wife. 00:28:43.297 --> 00:28:46.631 - No. - You could be in disguise. 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.479 - I don't think so. - Voilà! 00:28:53.436 --> 00:28:57.638 It is, I believe, what the English call a water closet. 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.841 She was here! I saw her! 00:29:00.843 --> 00:29:04.244 Mr. Kelmot, if you insist on following your wife 00:29:04.246 --> 00:29:06.366 when you have employed me to do the same, 00:29:07.514 --> 00:29:10.482 one or the other of us will find himself made redundant. 00:29:18.290 --> 00:29:20.524 - He is distraught. - He is a fool. 00:29:25.195 --> 00:29:27.129 The armonica used to be thought of 00:29:27.131 --> 00:29:29.164 as an instrument of the black arts, 00:29:30.199 --> 00:29:32.767 said to be used to call for the dead. 00:29:36.104 --> 00:29:39.272 Something to do with the nature of the glasses. 00:29:40.508 --> 00:29:42.468 You don't believe that, surely? 00:29:43.142 --> 00:29:45.143 What I believe plays no part in this matter. 00:29:45.145 --> 00:29:47.612 When was Mrs. Kelmot last here? 00:29:48.046 --> 00:29:49.613 Weeks now. 00:29:49.615 --> 00:29:52.182 Then the receipts you posted to her address 00:29:52.184 --> 00:29:53.550 were for Oswald's lessons. 00:29:55.185 --> 00:29:58.053 Mrs. Kelmot is paying for them. 00:29:59.455 --> 00:30:03.023 Frau Kelmot is passionate, but an amateur. 00:30:04.058 --> 00:30:06.138 She knew it was Oswald who has the gift. 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.761 - You knew she was not here. - Of course. 00:30:10.562 --> 00:30:11.802 Oswald doesn't wear her scent. 00:30:13.964 --> 00:30:16.699 You are still not Sherlock Holmes! 00:30:33.182 --> 00:30:34.549 How considerate. 00:30:36.151 --> 00:30:37.951 You waited for me. 00:31:03.043 --> 00:31:04.176 What are you doing? 00:31:05.411 --> 00:31:06.344 Trying to see if I can tell where I've been. 00:31:06.878 --> 00:31:07.978 Don't you know? 00:31:09.013 --> 00:31:09.879 Mr. Holmes can tell things like that 00:31:09.881 --> 00:31:11.180 just from looking at a person. 00:31:14.050 --> 00:31:15.750 - Where are you off to? - See to the bees! 00:31:15.752 --> 00:31:17.712 You'll eat your breakfast first! 00:31:25.059 --> 00:31:27.179 Got a letter from your aunt the other day. 00:31:28.194 --> 00:31:29.294 She says there's a couple in Portsmouth 00:31:29.296 --> 00:31:30.495 opening a hotel there. 00:31:31.096 --> 00:31:32.563 Need a housekeeper. 00:31:32.565 --> 00:31:34.398 Why would we want to live in Portsmouth? 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.199 - Can't stay here forever. - Why not? 00:31:36.201 --> 00:31:38.768 - Because we can't. - What's in Portsmouth? 00:31:39.803 --> 00:31:40.435 This couple are opening a hotel there... 00:31:40.437 --> 00:31:41.536 You said that. 00:31:43.071 --> 00:31:44.471 You'll leave the table when you're finished and not before. 00:31:44.473 --> 00:31:45.705 I'm not finished. 00:31:52.312 --> 00:31:54.680 You don't eat that Japanese muck. 00:31:55.381 --> 00:31:56.681 It's hire sansho. 00:32:02.453 --> 00:32:03.953 I know you like working 00:32:03.955 --> 00:32:05.421 - with the hive... - It's an apiary. 00:32:05.423 --> 00:32:06.889 And you like being given responsibility, 00:32:06.891 --> 00:32:08.724 but I shouldn't get too close. 00:32:08.726 --> 00:32:11.459 - Bees don't bite. - I don't mean the bees. 00:32:12.727 --> 00:32:14.647 Mr. Holmes won't be here forever. 00:32:16.063 --> 00:32:19.465 Your aunt says this hotel might even take you on. 00:32:20.567 --> 00:32:23.234 - They got porters and... - Have porters. 00:32:25.237 --> 00:32:26.403 Finished. 00:32:39.683 --> 00:32:41.583 Chemist delivered your things. 00:32:41.585 --> 00:32:43.585 Shall I have Roger open the crate? 00:32:43.587 --> 00:32:46.988 No. I'll see to it when I'm finished. 00:32:46.990 --> 00:32:48.189 Yes, sir. 00:32:51.826 --> 00:32:52.992 Sir? 00:32:56.096 --> 00:32:58.564 I know Roger's been a help to you. He's a good boy. 00:32:59.365 --> 00:33:00.798 He's always been clever. 00:33:00.800 --> 00:33:02.933 His dad and I weren't the sort to know 00:33:02.935 --> 00:33:05.135 the things a boy like Roger takes interest in. 00:33:05.702 --> 00:33:07.202 Exceptional children 00:33:07.204 --> 00:33:10.505 are often the product of unremarkable parents. 00:33:13.442 --> 00:33:16.343 I've got a sister. She lives in Portsmouth. 00:33:17.845 --> 00:33:20.365 A couple of her acquaintants are opening a private hotel there, 00:33:21.248 --> 00:33:22.968 say they're willing to take Roger and me on. 00:33:23.115 --> 00:33:24.515 You have a sister? 00:33:26.050 --> 00:33:27.617 Never would have thought it. 00:33:29.586 --> 00:33:31.486 Is this a matter of wages? 00:33:31.787 --> 00:33:32.987 No. 00:33:38.793 --> 00:33:40.059 Hmm. 00:33:41.227 --> 00:33:43.695 I shall take this under advisement. 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:20.200 My mother was sad to see you leave. 00:34:20.828 --> 00:34:24.163 I'm rather sorry now I didn't bring the deerstalker. 00:34:24.165 --> 00:34:25.964 You said you never wore one. 00:34:25.966 --> 00:34:28.099 Well, yes, but it would've pleased her. 00:34:28.101 --> 00:34:30.334 She wanted the fictional. You are the real. 00:34:31.302 --> 00:34:33.222 Well, I'm not sure that's true. 00:34:34.337 --> 00:34:37.672 I think I was real once until John made me into fiction. 00:34:37.674 --> 00:34:39.754 And then after that, I had little choice. 00:34:40.775 --> 00:34:42.542 Play the part as he'd fashioned it, 00:34:42.544 --> 00:34:44.176 or become its contradiction. 00:34:45.778 --> 00:34:47.445 I'm actually quite fond of a pipe, 00:34:47.447 --> 00:34:49.847 but to smoke it, especially in public, 00:34:49.849 --> 00:34:55.952 after it became so well known a prop, seemed vulgar. 00:34:55.954 --> 00:34:58.954 So, Dr. Watson's imagination changed you? 00:35:00.022 --> 00:35:02.142 I've never had much use for imagination. 00:35:03.057 --> 00:35:05.792 I prefer facts. 00:35:28.815 --> 00:35:32.150 My father would bring me here as a child. 00:35:32.152 --> 00:35:34.452 It was designed as a miniature. 00:35:35.020 --> 00:35:36.987 We walk as giants. 00:35:41.158 --> 00:35:44.293 The stones represent the lives of those he has lost. 00:35:59.675 --> 00:36:00.941 Oh... 00:36:00.943 --> 00:36:02.142 Sherlock-san! 00:36:10.784 --> 00:36:13.752 - Hire sansho? - Prickly ash. 00:36:43.147 --> 00:36:44.981 - Mr. Holmes. - Hmm? 00:36:45.782 --> 00:36:47.062 Too late to check on the bees? 00:36:47.583 --> 00:36:48.949 Not in the least. 00:36:51.285 --> 00:36:52.451 Bee check! 00:37:06.263 --> 00:37:07.943 - They're quiet. - Yes. 00:37:10.966 --> 00:37:12.886 What happens when the bees die? 00:37:14.269 --> 00:37:16.229 Is this a metaphysical question? 00:37:16.736 --> 00:37:17.936 I mean, do you mourn them? 00:37:19.070 --> 00:37:21.404 Oh, I can't say that I've ever mourned the dead, 00:37:21.406 --> 00:37:22.505 bees or otherwise. 00:37:22.507 --> 00:37:24.640 I concentrate on circumstances. 00:37:25.642 --> 00:37:27.509 How did it die? Who was responsible? 00:37:27.511 --> 00:37:31.045 Death, grieving, mourning, 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:33.012 they're all commonplace. 00:37:33.014 --> 00:37:35.213 Logic is rare, and so... 00:37:38.083 --> 00:37:39.583 I dwell on logic. 00:37:43.254 --> 00:37:45.054 Well, thank you, kind sir. 00:37:46.489 --> 00:37:47.755 Night, bees. 00:37:47.757 --> 00:37:48.989 Sweet dreams, bees. 00:37:53.794 --> 00:37:56.228 Now, what do you say we go for a dip tomorrow? 00:37:56.929 --> 00:37:58.609 - In the sea? - Yes. 00:37:58.997 --> 00:37:59.763 It'll be brisk. 00:37:59.765 --> 00:38:01.097 Good for the blood! 00:38:01.965 --> 00:38:03.165 All right, then. 00:38:05.301 --> 00:38:08.269 What sort of books do you like, hmm? 00:38:09.671 --> 00:38:14.174 Apart from Dr. Watson's stories and books about bees. 00:38:15.142 --> 00:38:17.102 Those are all the books I have. 00:38:17.443 --> 00:38:20.044 Well, there's a perfectly good library right here, inside. 00:38:20.879 --> 00:38:22.179 You can take any book you like. 00:38:43.165 --> 00:38:44.365 Mr. Holmes? 00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:46.600 Are we going for our swim? 00:38:53.140 --> 00:38:54.706 I've already seen to the apiary. 00:38:57.076 --> 00:38:58.609 Are you all right? 00:38:59.577 --> 00:39:01.144 I'm perfectly... 00:39:02.012 --> 00:39:03.212 I'm quite... 00:39:04.314 --> 00:39:05.447 Perfectly fine. 00:39:13.155 --> 00:39:14.989 All right, Roger. 00:39:19.160 --> 00:39:21.060 You go along. I'll catch you up. 00:39:34.540 --> 00:39:38.075 Roger! Come along or we'll lose the day. 00:39:52.020 --> 00:39:53.120 Well done. 00:40:02.596 --> 00:40:03.929 The photograph is her, isn't it? 00:40:03.931 --> 00:40:05.697 The woman in the story. 00:40:07.066 --> 00:40:08.199 Yes. 00:40:09.401 --> 00:40:10.681 Is she why you're writing it? 00:40:11.602 --> 00:40:13.602 I wouldn't say I was writing it... 00:40:14.270 --> 00:40:16.230 It's more I'm trying to remember it. 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:18.506 Ah, thank you. 00:40:19.574 --> 00:40:23.276 A few months ago, my brother Mycroft died. 00:40:24.878 --> 00:40:27.179 His club, the Diogenes, 00:40:28.714 --> 00:40:31.482 asked that I go up to London to retrieve his things. 00:40:36.921 --> 00:40:42.024 I was given a small chest containing the Watson stories, 00:40:43.292 --> 00:40:45.412 none of which I'd ever actually read. 00:40:47.895 --> 00:40:50.129 They were as John always described them, 00:40:51.431 --> 00:40:53.665 penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style. 00:40:55.168 --> 00:40:57.368 But one of the titles piqued my interest. 00:40:58.203 --> 00:40:59.770 The story was familiar, 00:40:59.772 --> 00:41:02.004 but its ending felt very, very wrong. 00:41:04.607 --> 00:41:07.842 I'd not seen any of the cinematic depictions. 00:41:07.844 --> 00:41:11.111 But by a fortunate chance, an opportunity soon arose. 00:41:12.847 --> 00:41:16.415 It's strange to see a semblance of one's self 40 feet high... 00:41:18.050 --> 00:41:20.684 - I fear for my Ann's sanity. - Fear for her sanity? 00:41:21.852 --> 00:41:23.932 Dear man, you should fear for your life. 00:41:25.121 --> 00:41:26.254 Whatever do you mean? 00:41:28.090 --> 00:41:32.025 Murder, Mr. Kelmot. Murder. 00:41:32.926 --> 00:41:34.192 And played 00:41:34.194 --> 00:41:35.359 as a character out of pantomime. 00:41:35.361 --> 00:41:37.527 Poisoned? 00:41:37.529 --> 00:41:39.262 With what means have I? 00:41:39.264 --> 00:41:41.564 Your armonica, Madame Schirmer. 00:41:43.267 --> 00:41:46.401 - Preposterous! - Or rather, the glasses. 00:41:46.403 --> 00:41:49.436 It is the lead in the crystal that creates the unique tone. 00:41:50.805 --> 00:41:52.539 Absorbed into the blood through the skin, 00:41:52.541 --> 00:41:55.541 small exposure can produce confusion, hallucinations. 00:41:57.076 --> 00:42:02.113 But constant, obsessive contact can end in insanity and death. 00:42:03.582 --> 00:42:04.381 Every plot twist came with a twirl 00:42:04.383 --> 00:42:05.749 of a moustache 00:42:05.751 --> 00:42:07.791 and ended in an exclamation mark. 00:42:10.054 --> 00:42:12.522 Our would-be murderer is ingenious. 00:42:13.724 --> 00:42:15.424 Surely you're not referring to... 00:42:15.426 --> 00:42:17.325 I'm afraid, Mrs. Kelmot, you will have to find yourself 00:42:17.327 --> 00:42:18.447 a new music teacher. 00:42:23.230 --> 00:42:24.296 Oh. 00:42:41.947 --> 00:42:43.681 Absolute rubbish! 00:42:44.482 --> 00:42:46.082 What possible motive 00:42:46.084 --> 00:42:48.684 could that German woman have had to kill Ann? 00:42:50.153 --> 00:42:52.587 That night I searched for something 00:42:52.589 --> 00:42:55.489 to jog my memory of the actual case. 00:42:58.993 --> 00:43:02.995 And there it was... Her picture. 00:43:04.664 --> 00:43:07.632 You know, a few years ago, I could have told you everything 00:43:07.634 --> 00:43:09.634 about the woman in that photograph. 00:43:10.468 --> 00:43:12.368 Certainly I'd recall what had become of her, 00:43:12.370 --> 00:43:14.703 whether she was victim or culprit. 00:43:15.471 --> 00:43:16.704 But that night... 00:43:19.641 --> 00:43:21.241 I couldn't remember any of it. 00:43:22.977 --> 00:43:25.812 All I knew for certain was that the case was my last 00:43:25.814 --> 00:43:28.281 and it was why I left the profession, 00:43:28.815 --> 00:43:29.815 came down here, 00:43:30.349 --> 00:43:32.183 retired to my bees. 00:43:33.351 --> 00:43:38.254 So, I decided to write the story down on paper 00:43:39.122 --> 00:43:42.957 as it was, not as John made it. 00:43:43.692 --> 00:43:45.292 Get it right before I die. 00:43:46.327 --> 00:43:47.794 You're not going to die. 00:43:47.796 --> 00:43:48.861 Roger. 00:43:50.363 --> 00:43:51.529 I'm 93. 00:43:52.664 --> 00:43:54.784 I had a great uncle who lived to be 102. 00:43:55.532 --> 00:43:57.492 Well, then, that seals my fate. 00:43:57.833 --> 00:43:59.233 What are the odds that you would know 00:43:59.235 --> 00:44:01.155 two men who would live that long? 00:44:01.802 --> 00:44:04.569 Well, I didn't actually know him. 00:44:13.910 --> 00:44:15.043 I'll see to the bees. 00:44:20.816 --> 00:44:22.349 Ow! Mr. Holmes! 00:44:22.351 --> 00:44:23.450 Mr. Holmes! 00:44:24.251 --> 00:44:25.551 Aargh. Aargh. 00:44:26.753 --> 00:44:28.386 I've been stung. 00:44:29.654 --> 00:44:32.822 Unlike the wasp, the bee always leaves its sting. 00:44:33.824 --> 00:44:35.224 I must have done 00:44:35.226 --> 00:44:36.658 - something stupid. - Oh, no. 00:44:36.660 --> 00:44:40.961 Sometimes... there's no reason at all. 00:44:41.929 --> 00:44:45.064 Right. Salt water, you drink that. 00:44:46.232 --> 00:44:50.100 Or onion juice to prevent serious consequences. 00:44:51.368 --> 00:44:54.737 And no need to tell your mother about all this. 00:44:54.739 --> 00:44:56.699 We don't want to worry her, do we? 00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:59.440 You going to go back to the story? 00:44:59.908 --> 00:45:01.608 Is that the price for your silence? 00:45:01.610 --> 00:45:03.142 Tight lips. 00:45:54.723 --> 00:45:58.158 How considerate. You waited for me. 00:46:22.483 --> 00:46:23.583 Good afternoon. 00:46:24.585 --> 00:46:26.285 - Sir? - Tea for one in the window. 00:46:26.287 --> 00:46:27.719 Certainly, sir. Mind the step. 00:46:42.968 --> 00:46:44.802 Ill, do you say? 00:46:44.804 --> 00:46:47.284 Took all the strength he had just to write out the cheque. 00:47:09.326 --> 00:47:11.286 - There you are, sir. - Thank you. 00:47:11.861 --> 00:47:13.694 Well, here we are. 00:47:16.297 --> 00:47:18.665 - Have you used this before? - No. I haven't. 00:47:18.667 --> 00:47:23.369 It is highly poisonous. A drop will more than suffice. 00:47:23.371 --> 00:47:24.470 Thank you. 00:47:43.521 --> 00:47:45.555 It's just Thomas is in such a state. 00:47:45.557 --> 00:47:47.523 He insisted I made certain. 00:47:47.525 --> 00:47:49.224 Reassure Mr. Kelmot 00:47:50.392 --> 00:47:51.892 that the particulars of the will have not changed 00:47:51.894 --> 00:47:53.059 since he dictated them. 00:47:54.494 --> 00:47:56.814 Your possessions are bequeathed to him, as his are to you. 00:48:07.839 --> 00:48:11.307 Thank you so much. It was so good to see you. 00:48:13.610 --> 00:48:15.210 - Excuse me. - Yes, miss? 00:48:15.212 --> 00:48:16.844 Is the 8:10 the fast service? 00:48:16.846 --> 00:48:19.006 The 8:10's the slow one, makes local stops. 00:48:19.747 --> 00:48:20.980 And the 9:05? 00:48:22.182 --> 00:48:23.515 That's the fast train, goes right on through. 00:48:23.517 --> 00:48:25.317 - All aboard! - Thank you. 00:48:25.885 --> 00:48:27.352 All aboard. 00:49:42.792 --> 00:49:44.752 Honeybees are attracted to you. 00:49:46.861 --> 00:49:49.262 It's the scent. Cameo Rose. 00:49:50.264 --> 00:49:52.531 - Oh. - She thinks you're a flower. 00:49:55.234 --> 00:49:57.234 Must confuse the little thing no end. 00:49:59.270 --> 00:50:00.370 May I? 00:50:01.638 --> 00:50:02.771 Oh. 00:50:04.273 --> 00:50:05.373 Very kind. 00:50:08.710 --> 00:50:11.144 Ah. The iris. Amazing resilience. 00:50:11.979 --> 00:50:13.546 Enough light and they will grow 00:50:13.548 --> 00:50:14.947 in the most uninhabitable regions, 00:50:14.949 --> 00:50:17.548 desert, cold, rock. 00:50:18.950 --> 00:50:20.717 Why do you suppose it is 00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:23.079 that something as small and insignificant as the iris 00:50:23.553 --> 00:50:25.593 should be so much stronger than we are? 00:50:27.089 --> 00:50:29.569 Perhaps they're less affected by what goes on around them. 00:50:30.291 --> 00:50:31.391 Hmm. 00:50:32.426 --> 00:50:35.527 - Are you a botanist? - Amateur only. 00:50:36.495 --> 00:50:38.462 I am, by disposition, a hobbyist. 00:50:39.597 --> 00:50:42.732 In fact, if I may, there is one particular 00:50:42.734 --> 00:50:45.634 hobby of mine that might amuse you. 00:50:48.938 --> 00:50:50.305 I can see the future. 00:50:54.342 --> 00:50:56.343 Shall I read your palm? 00:50:56.345 --> 00:50:58.812 I promise I'll find nothing dreadful. 00:51:06.420 --> 00:51:07.553 What about our friend? 00:51:18.197 --> 00:51:19.330 Oh. 00:51:23.434 --> 00:51:24.500 Oh. 00:51:32.975 --> 00:51:35.009 Hmm. Hmm. 00:51:41.149 --> 00:51:42.516 Your parents are gone. 00:51:44.218 --> 00:51:48.387 Your mother long ago, your father more recently. 00:51:49.489 --> 00:51:51.569 You had love in your heart for someone... 00:51:52.624 --> 00:51:56.026 No, for more than one person. 00:51:57.128 --> 00:51:59.162 But they have left you, 00:51:59.164 --> 00:52:02.931 and your love for them has nowhere to go. 00:52:04.233 --> 00:52:05.399 You're in pain. 00:52:06.734 --> 00:52:09.094 But you must not allow your pain to guide your actions. 00:52:10.337 --> 00:52:14.639 Where that leads... The lines are not so distinct. 00:52:15.407 --> 00:52:17.241 - Why? - I beg your pardon? 00:52:17.809 --> 00:52:18.875 You see so much. 00:52:20.811 --> 00:52:22.811 Why can't you see what happens next? 00:52:23.646 --> 00:52:25.526 - The lines... - Yes, you said. 00:52:31.653 --> 00:52:34.254 Ply your parlour tricks elsewhere, Mr. Holmes. 00:52:40.427 --> 00:52:41.560 Wait. 00:52:50.936 --> 00:52:52.069 I can't... 00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:57.773 I can't remember. 00:53:50.323 --> 00:53:52.490 Mum! Mum! 00:54:00.264 --> 00:54:01.530 Mr. Holmes! 00:54:15.442 --> 00:54:16.775 Was it the smoke knocked him out? 00:54:16.777 --> 00:54:18.009 Could have done. 00:54:18.977 --> 00:54:20.310 Most likely he stood up too quickly 00:54:20.312 --> 00:54:21.432 and lost consciousness. 00:54:21.945 --> 00:54:23.065 It isn't the first time. 00:54:24.113 --> 00:54:26.233 The last housekeeper didn't know what to do. 00:54:30.785 --> 00:54:33.553 He must have decided to take it subcutaneously. 00:55:14.027 --> 00:55:15.360 Well, now we can't leave. 00:55:16.362 --> 00:55:18.563 No. Made sure of that, didn't he? 00:55:34.877 --> 00:55:36.243 Where's the hire sansho? 00:55:38.379 --> 00:55:39.846 The prickly ash. 00:55:39.848 --> 00:55:41.968 If it's not there, I'm sure I don't know. 00:55:42.682 --> 00:55:45.250 - Did you throw it out? - Why would I do that? 00:55:46.018 --> 00:55:47.151 For spite and malice. 00:55:50.522 --> 00:55:52.089 Where'd you get words like that? 00:55:52.091 --> 00:55:53.824 The dictionary. 00:55:54.892 --> 00:55:56.325 Like as not, he took the muck himself. 00:55:56.327 --> 00:55:58.026 Got burnt up with the rest of it. 00:55:58.028 --> 00:55:59.188 Those can go on the fire. 00:56:00.228 --> 00:56:02.228 Did Mr. Holmes say you were to do this? 00:56:03.163 --> 00:56:04.897 He always disposes of that sort. 00:56:04.899 --> 00:56:06.832 How do you know what sort these are? 00:56:06.834 --> 00:56:08.500 You want to know who writes to him? 00:56:08.502 --> 00:56:10.822 Pensioners who think they've solved Jack the Ripper. 00:56:11.536 --> 00:56:13.103 Widows who've lost their cats 00:56:13.105 --> 00:56:15.585 and just know he's the only man on Earth who can find them. 00:56:16.172 --> 00:56:18.412 He's the last resort for every lunatic out there. 00:56:18.507 --> 00:56:20.507 - It's not your decision. - It is... 00:56:20.575 --> 00:56:22.242 If I'm to be a full-bore medical staff at cook's wages. 00:56:22.244 --> 00:56:25.712 He's an invalid. Needs a nurse, not a housekeeper. 00:56:25.714 --> 00:56:27.246 All he did was took a fall. 00:56:27.248 --> 00:56:28.547 Your granddad was hale and hearty 00:56:28.549 --> 00:56:30.115 60 summers then he took a fall. 00:56:30.117 --> 00:56:32.157 It was three weeks to the day he died. 00:56:33.218 --> 00:56:35.499 Should be in hospital. That or one of them places. 00:56:35.686 --> 00:56:37.386 He'll get better! 00:56:37.388 --> 00:56:39.488 And the day he does is the day we go. 00:56:39.956 --> 00:56:40.956 Is that clear? 00:57:01.974 --> 00:57:03.274 Hmm. 00:57:05.043 --> 00:57:06.977 - Oh. - Got a letter from Japan. 00:57:08.112 --> 00:57:09.612 It's from Mr. Umezaki. 00:57:11.715 --> 00:57:14.683 - Have you read it? - No. Wanted to. 00:57:15.618 --> 00:57:17.952 Sin of desire. You're a Catholic. 00:57:30.465 --> 00:57:32.599 Mum says you throw out most of the letters you get. 00:57:32.601 --> 00:57:34.100 And why do you think that is? 00:57:34.102 --> 00:57:36.342 The people who write want you to solve things. 00:57:37.337 --> 00:57:38.503 If you read their letters, you'd want to help. 00:57:38.505 --> 00:57:41.372 Oh, no. You give me too much credit. 00:57:42.307 --> 00:57:43.941 It's just if I were to read them, 00:57:43.943 --> 00:57:45.842 I'd feel obliged to respond. 00:57:47.377 --> 00:57:50.178 Perhaps Mr. Umezaki's asking you to go back to Japan. 00:57:51.180 --> 00:57:54.815 Oh. I'll never go back to Japan. 00:57:55.750 --> 00:57:58.151 - Why not? - Long journey, old man. 00:57:59.353 --> 00:58:01.987 - You made it before. - That was before. 00:58:05.791 --> 00:58:07.871 Maybe you could get more prickly ash. 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:09.892 The prickly ash hasn't made 00:58:09.894 --> 00:58:12.227 a bit of difference to my memory, 00:58:12.229 --> 00:58:14.189 any more than the royal jelly did. 00:58:14.863 --> 00:58:15.963 Yes. 00:58:17.298 --> 00:58:18.865 The only inspiration 00:58:18.867 --> 00:58:21.027 for any sort of recollections has been you. 00:58:24.070 --> 00:58:25.603 Go on. You open it. 00:58:26.705 --> 00:58:28.785 He's writing to say his mother is dead. 00:58:34.145 --> 00:58:35.745 How could you tell? 00:58:35.747 --> 00:58:38.314 Mr. Umezaki swore that he would never contact me again. 00:58:39.549 --> 00:58:41.416 The only thing that would make him change his mind 00:58:41.418 --> 00:58:44.018 would be a deathbed instruction from his mother. 00:58:45.220 --> 00:58:48.455 A good son always does what his mother asks. 00:58:52.292 --> 00:58:53.625 Mr. Holmes! 00:58:55.094 --> 00:58:56.828 You're not to be out of bed! 00:58:58.063 --> 00:59:00.164 Mrs. Munro, I have counted the steps 00:59:00.166 --> 00:59:03.500 from the bed to the window, from the window to the... 00:59:03.502 --> 00:59:05.969 You're not to do anything on your own. 00:59:05.971 --> 00:59:07.070 You're to ring. 00:59:08.972 --> 00:59:10.572 I thought it was an imposition. 00:59:10.574 --> 00:59:12.340 It will be an imposition if you lose your bearings 00:59:12.342 --> 00:59:14.308 and end up on the floor for me to collect! 00:59:14.310 --> 00:59:17.177 I hadn't realised that this had become 00:59:17.179 --> 00:59:18.477 an industrial dispute. 00:59:49.774 --> 00:59:52.175 I've been trying to calculate the likelihood 00:59:53.110 --> 00:59:55.311 that we should find hire sansho 00:59:55.313 --> 00:59:57.780 in a place so utterly devoid of life. 00:59:57.782 --> 01:00:00.349 Perhaps it is life reasserting itself. 01:00:04.687 --> 01:00:05.887 Hire sansho. 01:00:15.563 --> 01:00:16.963 How does it taste? 01:00:19.166 --> 01:00:21.400 It isn't for the taste that we sought it. 01:00:34.844 --> 01:00:36.678 Ah, now, before we leave, 01:00:36.680 --> 01:00:39.414 there's something that I mustn't forget. 01:00:40.749 --> 01:00:43.883 I've signed it, as you requested. 01:00:44.184 --> 01:00:45.317 Oh. 01:00:46.552 --> 01:00:50.220 Not certain you can read my scrawl. 01:00:52.189 --> 01:00:56.892 "To Mr. Umezaki, who has not owned this book for long." 01:00:58.027 --> 01:00:59.894 You haven't had this book for 20 years. 01:00:59.896 --> 01:01:01.395 It came from the library. 01:01:02.430 --> 01:01:04.364 The glue mark shows where you removed 01:01:04.366 --> 01:01:05.431 the card jacket. 01:01:06.866 --> 01:01:10.567 You know nothing about bees or royal jelly or prickly ash. 01:01:11.335 --> 01:01:12.735 Enough to bring you here. 01:01:14.070 --> 01:01:16.738 During our correspondence over the last few months... 01:01:17.873 --> 01:01:19.907 was my name not familiar to you? 01:01:19.909 --> 01:01:22.242 - No. - My father's, then? 01:01:22.943 --> 01:01:24.410 Masuo Umezaki? 01:01:25.178 --> 01:01:26.545 I never knew your father. 01:01:26.547 --> 01:01:28.647 He was a diplomat in London, years ago. 01:01:30.016 --> 01:01:32.083 He loved all things English. 01:01:33.785 --> 01:01:36.586 The first gift he gave to me was a cricket bat. 01:01:38.355 --> 01:01:40.189 The second was this. 01:01:41.558 --> 01:01:46.261 In English, so as to "assist my education." 01:02:00.141 --> 01:02:01.741 "After consulting 01:02:01.743 --> 01:02:03.943 "with the very great detective Sherlock Holmes, 01:02:05.211 --> 01:02:07.745 "I realise it's in the best interests of us all 01:02:07.747 --> 01:02:10.280 "that I remain in England indefinitely. 01:02:11.048 --> 01:02:12.815 "You will see from this book 01:02:12.817 --> 01:02:15.717 "that he is a very wise and intelligent man, 01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:18.986 and that his say in this matter should not be taken lightly." 01:02:20.054 --> 01:02:21.888 We never heard from him again. 01:02:22.823 --> 01:02:25.224 - I'm sorry. - My mother is dying. 01:02:26.593 --> 01:02:29.794 She grew old without a husband. All because of you. 01:02:37.235 --> 01:02:38.335 I understand. 01:02:39.437 --> 01:02:41.237 The last time you heard from your father 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:43.505 was the first time you heard about me. 01:02:44.406 --> 01:02:47.107 Masuo vanished from your life 01:02:47.109 --> 01:02:50.309 and I arrived... in the form of a book. 01:02:51.311 --> 01:02:53.311 One replaced the other, as it were. 01:02:55.114 --> 01:02:57.281 I suggest you and your mother take whatever time you have 01:02:57.283 --> 01:02:59.816 to come to terms with the facts of the case. 01:03:01.151 --> 01:03:04.052 A man abandoned his family and wrote his son a story. 01:03:05.421 --> 01:03:06.954 He wouldn't be the first 01:03:06.956 --> 01:03:09.356 to cloak his cowardice in a flag of sacrifice. 01:03:13.593 --> 01:03:14.593 I'm sorry. 01:03:17.696 --> 01:03:19.496 But I never knew your father. 01:03:26.937 --> 01:03:29.838 I shall not bother you any longer with my questions. 01:03:31.173 --> 01:03:35.109 But if the prickly ash succeeds, you will let me know? 01:04:03.671 --> 01:04:04.971 Aargh, argh! 01:04:04.973 --> 01:04:06.639 Aargh! 01:04:10.043 --> 01:04:12.411 Help. 01:04:12.712 --> 01:04:13.712 Help. 01:04:21.353 --> 01:04:22.486 Thank you. 01:04:23.321 --> 01:04:25.322 I look like I've been attacked 01:04:25.324 --> 01:04:27.423 by the Hound of the Baskervilles. 01:04:29.259 --> 01:04:30.492 Can't let Mum 01:04:30.494 --> 01:04:32.560 - see you wearing that top. - No. 01:04:32.562 --> 01:04:34.595 - It's evidence. - Yes. 01:04:35.163 --> 01:04:37.364 What of? A murder? 01:04:40.834 --> 01:04:43.669 Oh... I've something for you. 01:04:47.339 --> 01:04:48.439 No. 01:04:51.509 --> 01:04:53.943 Apis cerana japonica. 01:04:55.578 --> 01:04:58.513 - They have bees in Japan? - Yes. Just like our bees. 01:04:58.515 --> 01:04:59.914 Only they're Japanese. 01:05:01.349 --> 01:05:03.083 No, it's for you. It's a gift. 01:05:04.051 --> 01:05:06.352 Oh. Thank you. 01:05:06.354 --> 01:05:08.520 Arigato, as they say in Japan. 01:05:13.525 --> 01:05:15.125 Something the matter? 01:05:18.363 --> 01:05:20.363 You lost another dozen bees today. 01:05:21.065 --> 01:05:23.065 - A dozen? - What do you think it is? 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:25.367 An outbreak of mortality. 01:05:26.469 --> 01:05:29.671 Could be a disease we've not seen before, 01:05:29.673 --> 01:05:31.439 or a sudden mutation. 01:05:32.707 --> 01:05:34.988 You bring up some corpses and we'll examine them. 01:05:35.676 --> 01:05:38.310 - Yes, sir! - And my glass. 01:05:39.345 --> 01:05:41.385 Study. Should be in one of the drawers. 01:06:25.589 --> 01:06:26.689 Roger? 01:06:40.570 --> 01:06:41.670 Roger? 01:06:51.046 --> 01:06:54.714 - Mr. Holmes feels better today. - Is that so? 01:06:55.215 --> 01:06:56.315 Hmm. 01:06:57.283 --> 01:06:59.217 Mr. Holmes feels so much better, 01:06:59.219 --> 01:07:01.285 we're about to start an investigation. 01:07:02.954 --> 01:07:04.154 Of what? 01:07:04.156 --> 01:07:06.289 The crime wave that has done away 01:07:06.291 --> 01:07:09.291 with a number of our apiary's most prominent residents. 01:07:10.726 --> 01:07:14.194 Well. If you need suspects, you know where to find me. 01:07:14.628 --> 01:07:16.195 Mum, wait. 01:07:17.564 --> 01:07:20.231 I bet if we asked, Mr. Holmes would... do his thing. 01:07:21.900 --> 01:07:23.500 The thing he does where he tells people 01:07:23.502 --> 01:07:25.862 who they are and where they've been, just from looking. 01:07:27.404 --> 01:07:28.604 Do Mum for her. 01:07:28.606 --> 01:07:30.005 I'm sure your mother 01:07:30.007 --> 01:07:32.307 doesn't need to be told where she's been. 01:07:33.609 --> 01:07:35.142 Let's not bother Mr. Holmes with any foolishness. 01:07:35.144 --> 01:07:37.010 It's not foolishness. Here. 01:07:38.579 --> 01:07:41.647 You come and stand in front of Mr. Holmes. Just like that. 01:07:42.682 --> 01:07:44.722 And he will tell you where you've been. 01:07:46.585 --> 01:07:47.685 Do it. 01:07:49.654 --> 01:07:51.488 You want her to turn in a circle? 01:07:51.490 --> 01:07:53.223 No, that won't be necessary. 01:07:54.024 --> 01:07:55.157 Turn in a circle. 01:08:19.214 --> 01:08:21.174 You've been away most of the day. 01:08:21.482 --> 01:08:22.882 The soot on your dress attests 01:08:22.884 --> 01:08:25.217 that you went by train to Portsmouth, 01:08:26.619 --> 01:08:28.979 as all other nearby rail lines which might accommodate 01:08:30.155 --> 01:08:33.523 a return trip of this length are under repair or beyond it. 01:08:34.858 --> 01:08:37.226 In Portsmouth, you met the couple who run the hotel. 01:08:38.628 --> 01:08:40.495 Your hair and nails are evidence that you wished to make 01:08:40.497 --> 01:08:42.063 a favourable impression. 01:08:43.131 --> 01:08:45.171 They made you an offer, you accepted. 01:08:45.332 --> 01:08:47.492 You declined tea, and did not see the sister 01:08:48.034 --> 01:08:49.401 for whom you have no particular fondness, 01:08:49.403 --> 01:08:54.572 using my indisposition as an excuse to hurry back. 01:08:55.874 --> 01:08:58.442 - It wasn't an excuse. - You accepted? 01:09:01.579 --> 01:09:02.712 Start a week Monday. 01:09:04.081 --> 01:09:05.214 Both of us? 01:09:06.182 --> 01:09:07.182 - We're both going. - She wants me 01:09:07.184 --> 01:09:08.184 to be a bootblack! 01:09:08.650 --> 01:09:09.916 Roger! 01:09:09.918 --> 01:09:11.878 She wants me to do what she does! 01:09:12.552 --> 01:09:13.885 There is no shame in what I do! 01:09:13.887 --> 01:09:15.553 You complain enough about it! Always going on 01:09:15.555 --> 01:09:17.855 about how hard things are. And you wish you had it better! 01:09:17.857 --> 01:09:19.857 She can barely read! 01:09:29.533 --> 01:09:30.666 Go after her. 01:09:32.001 --> 01:09:34.402 Apologise for saying things that were meant to hurt. 01:09:35.270 --> 01:09:36.603 You were cruel! 01:09:37.771 --> 01:09:40.772 If you don't apologise, you will regret it. 01:09:41.940 --> 01:09:43.674 - People always say that. - Because it's true. 01:09:43.676 --> 01:09:46.043 Moi, je regrette tellement. 01:09:46.045 --> 01:09:49.246 - You regret... - So much! 01:10:11.201 --> 01:10:13.321 Your dad hated what he did for a living. 01:10:14.404 --> 01:10:16.638 Mechanic in a garage, like his dad before him. 01:10:17.640 --> 01:10:19.874 When he got called up, he said to me, 01:10:19.876 --> 01:10:21.542 "My love, I'll not spend this war 01:10:21.544 --> 01:10:23.710 "underneath the oil pan of some toff's jeep. 01:10:24.745 --> 01:10:26.612 I'm gonna put in for the RAF." 01:10:28.114 --> 01:10:29.214 So he did. 01:10:30.783 --> 01:10:31.883 He trained. 01:10:33.485 --> 01:10:37.621 Scored high marks, got assigned to a Bristol Blenheim, Mark IV. 01:10:38.623 --> 01:10:42.325 Blown out of the sky. First time up. 01:10:45.629 --> 01:10:47.730 All his mates who worked the motor pool 01:10:47.732 --> 01:10:49.131 came home without a scratch. 01:10:51.434 --> 01:10:53.434 I shouldn't have said what I said. 01:10:55.436 --> 01:10:56.636 Lesson there, then. 01:10:58.171 --> 01:10:59.571 Don't say everything you think. 01:11:15.418 --> 01:11:16.518 Look. 01:11:22.991 --> 01:11:25.558 - How did you find that? - In your desk. 01:11:28.094 --> 01:11:30.662 - Couldn't have. - The one in the corner. 01:11:31.797 --> 01:11:33.297 Didn't know it was a desk until I opened it. 01:11:33.299 --> 01:11:36.266 Oh, that's not my desk, it's John's. 01:11:36.268 --> 01:11:39.534 He left it at Baker Street when he went off to get married. 01:11:40.669 --> 01:11:42.503 Yes, and there's a secret compartment 01:11:42.505 --> 01:11:44.825 containing the very glove you've been writing about. 01:11:46.107 --> 01:11:47.640 I know you say Dr. Watson didn't always 01:11:47.642 --> 01:11:49.108 get things right, but in the story... 01:11:49.110 --> 01:11:51.110 I am not working on that story anymore. 01:11:51.112 --> 01:11:54.179 Yes, but in Watson's story, he does have the armonica in it. 01:11:54.181 --> 01:11:56.181 And the German lady. And that glove. 01:11:56.982 --> 01:11:57.781 So maybe he did get things right. 01:11:57.783 --> 01:11:59.482 No, that's not possible. 01:11:59.484 --> 01:12:01.217 John had gone from Baker Street by then. 01:12:01.219 --> 01:12:02.785 Well, then why was it in there? 01:12:02.787 --> 01:12:04.019 I don't know! 01:12:05.121 --> 01:12:07.241 And if I ever did know, I don't remember. 01:12:07.489 --> 01:12:08.789 If you can't remember, 01:12:08.791 --> 01:12:10.223 then why couldn't the case have been a success 01:12:10.225 --> 01:12:12.959 - like Dr. Watson wrote it? - Because it was my last case. 01:12:12.961 --> 01:12:15.328 And if I'd brought it to a successful conclusion, 01:12:15.330 --> 01:12:17.196 I wouldn't have left the profession 01:12:17.198 --> 01:12:21.567 and spent 35 years here, in this place, away from the world! 01:12:27.373 --> 01:12:30.808 I chose exile for my punishment, but what was it for? 01:12:31.976 --> 01:12:34.136 I must have done something terribly wrong... 01:12:34.978 --> 01:12:37.145 And I've no evidence of what it was. 01:12:37.746 --> 01:12:40.647 Only pain, guilt... 01:12:41.415 --> 01:12:44.083 Useless, worthless feelings! 01:12:45.385 --> 01:12:49.153 I wish to God I'd never even taken Umezaki's case! 01:12:50.522 --> 01:12:52.756 - Kelmot's. - What? 01:12:54.158 --> 01:12:56.759 Kelmot's case. You said Umezaki. 01:13:00.897 --> 01:13:04.299 Roger. Tea's ready. 01:13:12.574 --> 01:13:14.074 Best clear this up. 01:13:27.254 --> 01:13:30.823 Mr. Holmes. Would you like your tea now? 01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:41.365 Mr. Holmes? 01:13:46.470 --> 01:13:49.706 If you die... what'll happen to the bees? 01:13:53.343 --> 01:13:55.043 I haven't a clue. 01:13:59.815 --> 01:14:02.249 One can't solve everything. 01:14:11.690 --> 01:14:14.058 Said to be used to call for the dead. 01:14:24.233 --> 01:14:26.634 Death, mourning, grief... 01:14:32.506 --> 01:14:34.006 They're all commonplace. 01:14:44.450 --> 01:14:46.517 Logic is rare. 01:14:49.187 --> 01:14:51.588 The dead are not so very far away. 01:14:52.723 --> 01:14:55.024 They're just on the other side of the wall. 01:15:00.362 --> 01:15:03.197 Now, whenever did you say that? 01:15:15.376 --> 01:15:18.110 Ply your parlour tricks elsewhere, Mr. Holmes. 01:15:19.745 --> 01:15:21.378 My husband could never succeed at deception 01:15:21.380 --> 01:15:23.279 so long as I do his laundry. 01:15:24.314 --> 01:15:25.874 I don't know much about your profession, 01:15:25.948 --> 01:15:27.148 but I doubt predicting 01:15:27.150 --> 01:15:28.215 the future of women you're engaged to follow 01:15:28.217 --> 01:15:29.482 is common practice. 01:15:30.383 --> 01:15:32.150 It was intended only as a means 01:15:32.152 --> 01:15:33.352 to achieve a desired result. 01:15:34.253 --> 01:15:36.373 - That being what? - To delay your actions. 01:15:36.421 --> 01:15:37.320 To keep you from this appointment 01:15:37.322 --> 01:15:39.054 you seem so eager to make. 01:15:41.724 --> 01:15:43.684 Even before I glimpsed you today, 01:15:44.258 --> 01:15:45.291 I'd gleaned some of the passionate 01:15:45.293 --> 01:15:47.293 feelings you have for your husband. 01:15:47.927 --> 01:15:50.047 The man who took away the music you loved, 01:15:50.462 --> 01:15:52.229 denied you the pleasures of your lessons, 01:15:52.231 --> 01:15:54.631 even refused even to mark a child's grave. 01:15:55.633 --> 01:15:57.633 All these predicted your antipathy. 01:15:58.501 --> 01:16:00.461 And then I witnessed your actions. 01:16:01.070 --> 01:16:02.236 Forging his signature, 01:16:03.271 --> 01:16:04.971 drawing down his account, 01:16:06.306 --> 01:16:08.466 purchasing poison, consulting his will, 01:16:09.108 --> 01:16:10.108 planning an escape with a mystery man 01:16:10.110 --> 01:16:11.390 who was paid a handsome fee. 01:16:12.610 --> 01:16:14.177 And all for my benefit. 01:16:15.078 --> 01:16:16.445 A convincing set of circumstances, 01:16:16.447 --> 01:16:20.549 signalling your intention to murder your husband. 01:16:24.686 --> 01:16:26.553 But for two errors. 01:16:30.491 --> 01:16:33.392 We must place blame on your husband for the first. 01:16:34.260 --> 01:16:36.461 If Mr. Kelmot had not blundered 01:16:36.463 --> 01:16:38.383 into Madame Schirmer's atelier... 01:16:38.963 --> 01:16:40.897 and so taken me from my course, 01:16:42.366 --> 01:16:43.833 you wouldn't have had to loiter on the street 01:16:43.835 --> 01:16:46.202 for such a suspiciously long period of time. 01:16:46.204 --> 01:16:49.171 But you had no choice, so loiter you did. 01:16:51.307 --> 01:16:52.440 I would also make the observation 01:16:52.442 --> 01:16:54.175 that there is nothing about you 01:16:54.177 --> 01:16:56.777 that signifies the type of woman who enjoys window shopping, 01:16:57.845 --> 01:17:00.012 especially the window of a taxidermist. 01:17:01.447 --> 01:17:02.880 Was that the second error? 01:17:02.882 --> 01:17:05.048 No, merely confirmation of the first. 01:17:05.050 --> 01:17:08.517 The second was unavoidable, and all the more damning. 01:17:09.185 --> 01:17:10.718 The man at the station. 01:17:11.352 --> 01:17:12.785 Everything about him, 01:17:12.787 --> 01:17:14.653 his clothes, the patches on his trousers, 01:17:14.655 --> 01:17:18.622 his hands, scarred and burned with acid, 01:17:18.624 --> 01:17:20.323 announced his profession. 01:17:20.325 --> 01:17:21.624 Stonemason. 01:17:26.295 --> 01:17:28.795 Money must have been a dire necessity, 01:17:31.064 --> 01:17:33.932 else you would never have forged your husband's signature. 01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:36.834 The money was to pay for the headstones 01:17:36.836 --> 01:17:38.035 your husband would not allow. 01:17:38.037 --> 01:17:39.869 For Grace. For James. 01:17:41.638 --> 01:17:42.704 For you. 01:17:47.242 --> 01:17:49.643 Was arranging things to make it look 01:17:49.645 --> 01:17:52.411 as if Mr. Kelmot was the intended victim 01:17:53.679 --> 01:17:55.645 simply to keep me off the trail? 01:17:57.848 --> 01:18:02.317 When I found the card... I was furious. 01:18:03.986 --> 01:18:05.820 That Thomas should know me so little 01:18:05.822 --> 01:18:09.322 that he had need to employ a detective to uncover the truth. 01:18:10.490 --> 01:18:11.923 Then it struck me, 01:18:13.091 --> 01:18:17.493 if anyone could understand, it would be you. 01:18:20.330 --> 01:18:23.397 Thomas thinks I'm mad because I speak to my children. 01:18:24.599 --> 01:18:26.299 He doesn't understand. 01:18:27.567 --> 01:18:30.901 The dead are not so very far away. 01:18:33.571 --> 01:18:34.671 They're just... 01:18:36.674 --> 01:18:38.808 on the other side of the wall. 01:18:41.678 --> 01:18:44.079 It's us, on this side, who are, all of us so... 01:18:44.380 --> 01:18:45.413 Alone? 01:18:50.852 --> 01:18:52.184 I have been alone... 01:18:55.054 --> 01:18:56.320 all my life. 01:18:58.222 --> 01:19:00.590 But with the compensations of the intellect. 01:19:01.558 --> 01:19:04.459 - And is that enough? - It can be. 01:19:07.396 --> 01:19:11.031 If one is so fortunate as to find a place in the world. 01:19:13.367 --> 01:19:16.935 And another soul with whom one's loneliness can reside. 01:19:18.871 --> 01:19:24.141 Do you know a place where two such souls might reside? 01:19:34.117 --> 01:19:37.720 It was an offer unlike any I had ever received. 01:19:39.189 --> 01:19:41.889 She wanted to share her solitude with me. 01:19:44.158 --> 01:19:45.691 It was only later I realised 01:19:45.693 --> 01:19:48.393 how fateful my decision would be. 01:19:55.166 --> 01:19:57.167 You have a husband who loves you. 01:20:01.238 --> 01:20:02.671 Go home to him. 01:20:38.772 --> 01:20:40.639 Mr. Holmes... 01:20:41.407 --> 01:20:42.774 You have my thanks. 01:20:44.143 --> 01:20:46.310 What more, madam, could I do? 01:21:09.166 --> 01:21:11.834 She had poured out the contents of the bottle 01:21:12.969 --> 01:21:14.269 and, with no malice aforethought, 01:21:14.271 --> 01:21:16.638 poisoned the innocent witness. 01:21:20.075 --> 01:21:22.242 If it had been one of John's stories, 01:21:22.244 --> 01:21:24.444 he would have called it a foreshadowing. 01:21:45.129 --> 01:21:47.763 Our time together was fleeting. 01:21:48.931 --> 01:21:51.999 Less than an hour, really. 01:21:57.104 --> 01:22:00.773 Yet her death made me see that human nature was a mystery 01:22:00.775 --> 01:22:03.208 that logic alone could not illuminate. 01:22:13.785 --> 01:22:16.853 I had successfully deduced the facts of her case, 01:22:16.855 --> 01:22:19.355 but I had failed to grasp their meaning. 01:22:21.324 --> 01:22:23.224 Never had I felt 01:22:23.226 --> 01:22:26.227 such an incomprehensible emptiness within myself. 01:22:29.698 --> 01:22:32.666 Only then did I begin to understand 01:22:32.668 --> 01:22:34.934 how utterly alone I was in the world. 01:22:41.240 --> 01:22:43.307 Mrs. Hudson wrote to Watson. 01:22:43.975 --> 01:22:45.475 He came at once. 01:22:47.144 --> 01:22:49.945 He stayed with me, in our old rooms, for a month more. 01:22:59.989 --> 01:23:03.591 I told him about the case, everything in great detail. 01:23:08.162 --> 01:23:10.202 He brought me back from the brink. 01:23:11.532 --> 01:23:14.834 And then Watson wrote the story. 01:23:14.836 --> 01:23:16.168 He made me the hero. 01:23:17.503 --> 01:23:19.663 It was his way of bestowing a kindness. 01:23:21.073 --> 01:23:22.773 He knew no other manner 01:23:22.775 --> 01:23:25.509 in which to write the character he had created. 01:23:27.078 --> 01:23:31.080 After all those years, John didn't know me at all. 01:23:32.449 --> 01:23:34.649 Why he took the glove I can only surmise, 01:23:36.052 --> 01:23:38.053 was it to prevent it becoming too powerful a reminder, 01:23:38.055 --> 01:23:40.221 to keep it from being a well of sadness 01:23:40.223 --> 01:23:42.289 to which I might return? 01:23:43.624 --> 01:23:46.425 But he could not bring himself to destroy it either. 01:23:47.693 --> 01:23:49.853 After that, John and I were estranged. 01:23:50.695 --> 01:23:52.962 Three years later, he too was gone, 01:23:52.964 --> 01:23:55.631 without us ever having said goodbye. 01:24:11.948 --> 01:24:14.049 And thus concludes the true story 01:24:14.051 --> 01:24:16.885 of a woman who died before her time, 01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:19.821 and a man who, until recently, 01:24:19.823 --> 01:24:22.489 was certain he had outlived his. 01:24:31.396 --> 01:24:33.029 Roger with the bees? 01:24:33.730 --> 01:24:35.063 Like as not. 01:24:35.065 --> 01:24:37.065 Must tell him something important. 01:24:37.832 --> 01:24:40.113 You continue with whatever it was you were doing. 01:24:42.969 --> 01:24:45.570 You might ask him where the watering can's got to! 01:25:41.190 --> 01:25:43.958 Ambulance? Yes, this is Headly House. 01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:45.326 - Headly? - Yes, quickly! 01:25:45.328 --> 01:25:47.368 And bring some supplies of adrenaline. 01:25:48.529 --> 01:25:50.609 - Headly House? - That's right, Headly! 01:26:18.590 --> 01:26:19.723 Roger? 01:26:20.991 --> 01:26:22.124 Roger! 01:26:23.226 --> 01:26:24.426 Roger? 01:26:25.995 --> 01:26:29.931 Oh, Roger. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no, no! 01:26:29.933 --> 01:26:31.799 Roger. Oh, Roger! 01:26:55.521 --> 01:26:56.654 Mr. Holmes? 01:26:59.057 --> 01:27:00.824 It's Inspector Gilbert. 01:27:04.294 --> 01:27:05.494 Mr. Holmes? 01:27:08.898 --> 01:27:10.465 Yes, Inspector? 01:27:11.767 --> 01:27:13.901 They're giving the boy injections of adrenaline, 01:27:13.903 --> 01:27:15.469 as you said to, but... 01:27:17.238 --> 01:27:18.438 he's not looking good. 01:27:19.273 --> 01:27:21.373 He was fleeing his attackers. 01:27:23.542 --> 01:27:24.975 His footprints. 01:27:26.377 --> 01:27:29.612 Their pattern shows that his flight was disorientated. 01:27:30.780 --> 01:27:33.020 The swarm must have followed him in their attack. 01:27:33.382 --> 01:27:34.215 And before he lost consciousness, 01:27:34.217 --> 01:27:35.583 his skin would have flushed, 01:27:35.585 --> 01:27:38.318 accompanied by burning pain... 01:27:39.553 --> 01:27:41.987 A drop in blood pressure, weakness. 01:27:43.723 --> 01:27:45.724 His throat and mouth would be swollen 01:27:45.726 --> 01:27:47.958 which explains why he didn't call for help. 01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:51.661 Then a drop in heart rate... 01:27:52.896 --> 01:27:54.996 Inability to breathe... 01:27:57.299 --> 01:27:58.732 Shock. 01:27:59.767 --> 01:28:01.807 Did you know he was allergic to bees? 01:28:08.741 --> 01:28:10.875 I was certain he wasn't. 01:29:33.823 --> 01:29:35.924 No, no! No, Mrs. Munro, no! 01:29:36.525 --> 01:29:37.892 You mustn't do that! 01:29:38.994 --> 01:29:41.961 My son... won't wake. 01:29:44.664 --> 01:29:46.064 He may never wake. 01:29:46.899 --> 01:29:48.799 They sent me away till morning. 01:29:49.834 --> 01:29:51.201 You didn't even have the decency 01:29:51.203 --> 01:29:53.163 to tell me what'd happened to him! 01:29:54.437 --> 01:29:56.939 I didn't think it would make a difference. 01:29:56.941 --> 01:29:58.340 I'm his mother! 01:29:59.608 --> 01:30:01.108 I'm his mother... 01:30:02.610 --> 01:30:04.544 And you stole him from me! 01:30:04.546 --> 01:30:06.045 He's all I had! 01:30:06.780 --> 01:30:08.280 And I've lost him now. 01:30:09.515 --> 01:30:11.883 Why wasn't it you they did it to? 01:30:13.218 --> 01:30:15.652 - It should've been you! - The bees were not to blame. 01:30:15.654 --> 01:30:16.986 They're all you care about! 01:30:16.988 --> 01:30:18.721 No! I care about Roger. 01:30:19.489 --> 01:30:21.823 I care about him very much. 01:30:34.233 --> 01:30:37.301 The bees... didn't do it. 01:30:38.736 --> 01:30:41.270 The bees were not to blame. 01:30:50.713 --> 01:30:52.879 It was the wasps! 01:30:52.881 --> 01:30:55.581 Roger was trying to find out what was killing the bees. 01:30:55.583 --> 01:30:58.550 And he did. He found the wasps' nest. 01:30:58.552 --> 01:31:01.019 He had to stop them wiping out the bees. 01:31:01.021 --> 01:31:03.421 And so he did the worst possible thing. 01:31:03.423 --> 01:31:06.257 He tried to drown them with water from his can. 01:31:07.058 --> 01:31:09.092 How do you know it was them? 01:31:09.094 --> 01:31:11.894 Bees leave their stings. Wasps don't. 01:31:11.896 --> 01:31:14.396 There were no stings left in Roger's face. 01:31:14.398 --> 01:31:16.698 And when they attacked, he dropped the watering can 01:31:16.700 --> 01:31:18.499 and ran up to protect the bees. 01:31:18.501 --> 01:31:21.434 There are his footprints from the apiary to the nest and back. 01:31:22.402 --> 01:31:24.269 He was trying to save the bees. 01:31:24.271 --> 01:31:25.469 Yes. 01:31:27.605 --> 01:31:28.938 Yes. 01:32:11.046 --> 01:32:13.147 There was a woman, once. 01:32:13.915 --> 01:32:15.882 I knew her less than a day. 01:32:16.917 --> 01:32:18.917 A quarter of an hour's conversation. 01:32:20.386 --> 01:32:22.053 She needed my help. 01:32:23.588 --> 01:32:26.356 She needed so desperately to be understood by someone... 01:32:28.125 --> 01:32:29.658 Me. 01:32:31.127 --> 01:32:33.628 So, I laid out the particulars of her case as I saw them... 01:32:34.463 --> 01:32:36.297 To her satisfaction, I thought. 01:32:37.265 --> 01:32:39.332 I watched her walk away. 01:32:40.567 --> 01:32:42.800 And within hours she'd ended her life. 01:32:45.603 --> 01:32:48.905 By identifying the cause of her despair with such clarity, 01:32:48.907 --> 01:32:52.508 I'd given her carte blanche to do just as she intended. 01:32:54.844 --> 01:32:57.978 I should've done whatever it took to save her. 01:32:59.280 --> 01:33:01.814 Lie to her, make up a story. 01:33:03.483 --> 01:33:07.285 Take her by the hand and hold her as she wept, 01:33:07.287 --> 01:33:09.520 and said, "Come live with me." 01:33:11.022 --> 01:33:13.089 "Let us be alone together." 01:33:17.360 --> 01:33:20.729 But I was fearful. 01:33:24.099 --> 01:33:25.365 Selfish. 01:33:29.936 --> 01:33:32.304 She's the reason... 01:33:32.306 --> 01:33:34.339 I came here to my bees, 01:33:35.474 --> 01:33:38.175 so that I couldn't harm anyone ever again. 01:33:42.446 --> 01:33:44.512 I'm leaving you the house. 01:33:46.314 --> 01:33:48.014 You and Roger. 01:33:49.383 --> 01:33:54.853 House, grounds, apiary, everything within and without. 01:33:54.855 --> 01:33:56.521 And as I shan't change my mind 01:33:56.523 --> 01:33:58.489 on this point, you will see, I trust, 01:33:58.491 --> 01:34:02.559 that it will be greatly less complicated for all concerned 01:34:02.561 --> 01:34:04.160 if the two of you 01:34:04.162 --> 01:34:05.794 don't go off... 01:34:05.796 --> 01:34:09.364 to somewhere like... Portsmouth. 01:34:13.468 --> 01:34:14.868 Mrs. Munro? 01:34:15.402 --> 01:34:16.869 Roger's awake. 01:34:59.378 --> 01:35:02.446 Dear Mr. Umezaki, 01:35:03.781 --> 01:35:06.749 I write to tell you that I have at last 01:35:06.751 --> 01:35:08.950 recalled my meeting with your father. 01:35:11.186 --> 01:35:15.087 A woman had died because I failed to solve her case. 01:35:16.622 --> 01:35:19.790 Guilt and recrimination having taken their toll on me, 01:35:19.792 --> 01:35:22.425 my powers were far from at their best 01:35:23.627 --> 01:35:25.667 when I received an urgent message 01:35:26.762 --> 01:35:28.195 summoning me to the Diogenes Club 01:35:28.197 --> 01:35:30.696 to meet with my brother Mycroft. 01:35:32.532 --> 01:35:35.200 This gentleman has made an offer of service. 01:35:36.035 --> 01:35:37.634 He wishes to work for the Crown. 01:35:39.937 --> 01:35:42.104 I'm here to be tested, Mr. Holmes. 01:35:42.972 --> 01:35:44.839 I very much want to be of use. 01:35:45.640 --> 01:35:46.940 Do you think that I am suited? 01:35:47.408 --> 01:35:48.641 I'm sure, sir. 01:35:49.576 --> 01:35:51.944 Good. There is one minor issue. 01:35:51.946 --> 01:35:54.813 Mr. Umezaki has a wife and child in Japan. 01:35:55.915 --> 01:35:57.995 He wonders what would be the best course. 01:36:07.459 --> 01:36:11.195 Write a letter saying you plan to stay on in England. 01:36:12.297 --> 01:36:14.377 Could be a long while until your return. 01:36:16.332 --> 01:36:17.832 Your father went on to serve 01:36:17.834 --> 01:36:20.935 the British Empire for many years 01:36:20.937 --> 01:36:24.504 in absolute secrecy and with the greatest distinction, 01:36:25.439 --> 01:36:26.572 from... 01:36:36.482 --> 01:36:40.751 the Malay... Straits... 01:36:40.753 --> 01:36:45.655 to the Arabian Sea. 01:36:48.258 --> 01:36:50.959 He was a man of courage, heart and dignity, 01:36:50.961 --> 01:36:53.695 of whom a beloved wife and cherished son 01:36:53.697 --> 01:36:57.098 may be deservedly proud. 01:36:58.133 --> 01:37:01.168 Sherlock Holmes. 01:37:07.007 --> 01:37:08.207 Hmmm. 01:37:21.720 --> 01:37:23.087 My friend John. 01:37:32.730 --> 01:37:34.464 My brother Mycroft. 01:37:37.701 --> 01:37:39.034 Mrs. Hudson. 01:37:39.902 --> 01:37:41.803 Masuo Umezaki. 01:37:42.771 --> 01:37:45.906 Maya... Umezaki. 01:37:51.611 --> 01:37:53.044 Ann. 01:37:57.415 --> 01:37:59.215 And who is that one for? 01:38:00.016 --> 01:38:01.983 Me. You. 01:38:03.752 --> 01:38:05.885 Well, not yet awhile, surely? 01:38:08.421 --> 01:38:10.421 Did you finish what you had to do? 01:38:10.789 --> 01:38:12.389 Yes, I did. 01:38:13.491 --> 01:38:15.571 My first foray into the world of fiction. 01:38:17.027 --> 01:38:19.895 One shouldn't leave this life without a sense of completion. 01:38:25.100 --> 01:38:27.834 You can use this in one of your stories. 01:38:30.270 --> 01:38:32.671 A glass, a bee... 01:38:34.206 --> 01:38:35.705 and Roger. 01:38:38.442 --> 01:38:40.009 Show me how to knock them out. 01:38:44.147 --> 01:38:45.347 Go on. 01:38:50.519 --> 01:38:52.720 - The queen runs the colony. - Mm-hmm. 01:38:52.722 --> 01:38:54.822 The drones service the queen. 01:38:54.824 --> 01:38:56.890 The workers do the work. 01:38:56.892 --> 01:38:58.892 Isn't it true? 01:38:58.916 --> 01:39:14.916 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.