1 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:07,610 We must act, Inspector. 2 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:11,250 We must act or the good people of Staffordshire will never forgive us. 3 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:14,810 George Edalji, you have been found guilty of some of the most depraved 4 00:00:14,860 --> 00:00:18,130 and bizarre crimes I have ever encountered. 5 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:21,290 ~ A parsee Indian. A parsee clergyman. ~ Yes. 6 00:00:21,340 --> 00:00:23,130 ~ In rural Staffordshire. ~ Remarkable. 7 00:00:23,180 --> 00:00:27,250 So the Crown's contention is that he wrote the poisonous letters himself. 8 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:30,290 ~ They must have entered a motive. ~ To attract attention. 9 00:00:30,340 --> 00:00:32,730 I've never met a shyer man. 10 00:00:32,780 --> 00:00:34,930 Despite the fact your father alerted police 11 00:00:34,980 --> 00:00:37,250 ~ you were treated with suspicion. ~ Yes. 12 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:39,370 A suspicion born of prejudice no doubt. 13 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:44,370 No, I do not believe race prejudice had anything to do with my case. 14 00:00:44,420 --> 00:00:46,740 Who's there?! Stop! 15 00:00:57,580 --> 00:00:59,410 Forgive me, Woodie. I blame myself. 16 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:03,210 It's only a bloody nose, sir. I'm sorry I didn't use the shovel. 17 00:01:03,260 --> 00:01:06,410 We may get a cast of our man's boot print come daybreak. 18 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:08,450 ~ What have you found, Sir Arthur? ~ My doll. 19 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:10,730 ~ Where did you find her? ~ In the woods. 20 00:01:10,780 --> 00:01:14,730 God Satan has worked in these parts all this time. 21 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:19,890 Hidden in plain view. Sharpening his pen and his ripping knife. 22 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:22,970 Our visit has prompted fresh persecution. 23 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:27,330 ~ And there may yet be a benefit to that. ~ What benefit could that be? 24 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:30,690 We've a fighting chance of unmasking him, Reverend. 25 00:01:30,740 --> 00:01:33,890 And in so doing, exonerating your son. 26 00:01:33,940 --> 00:01:36,880 George is innocent and I mean to prove it. 27 00:01:37,820 --> 00:01:40,020 Let's go back in the house. 28 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:48,850 What does it mean? Why would they take my doll and return it 29 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,450 so many years later? 30 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:53,130 Why would they leave dead birds on your lawn? 31 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:56,530 And plague you with letters of the foulest abuse? 32 00:01:56,580 --> 00:02:00,930 Why would they butcher livestock and lay the blame at your brother's feet? 33 00:02:00,980 --> 00:02:04,580 Because they are cruel, pitiless... 34 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:08,370 .. and very patient. 35 00:02:08,420 --> 00:02:10,410 What made us their target? 36 00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:11,890 Maud! 37 00:02:11,940 --> 00:02:15,090 That is a question you are better placed to answer than I. 38 00:02:30,580 --> 00:02:33,450 Who is there? Your name. 39 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:35,900 ~ It's George. ~ George? 40 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:40,960 ~ What brings you here? ~ Common courtesy. 41 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:44,570 You are seeking to clear my name and it was remiss of me 42 00:02:44,620 --> 00:02:47,370 not to accompany you and make the proper introductions. 43 00:02:47,420 --> 00:02:50,090 I thought we agreed it wise you do neither. 44 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:52,610 ~ Strategically speaking. ~ George? 45 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:55,460 George. 46 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:03,100 Mr Wood, I am heartily sorry if I brought you into harm's way. 47 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:05,730 Nothing broken. 48 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:08,250 What do you make of it, Sir Arthur? 49 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:10,690 God Satan lives among you still. 50 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:14,410 But he may have mutated into someone you trust and respect. 51 00:03:14,460 --> 00:03:17,250 A valued member of your congregation even. 52 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:19,930 God Satan does not resemble God Satan? 53 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:22,170 As he wrote in his letters, did he not? 54 00:03:22,220 --> 00:03:27,010 Why rear his head now? After all, in the world's eyes, 55 00:03:27,060 --> 00:03:29,060 I am the Wyrley Ripper. 56 00:03:31,060 --> 00:03:34,410 I have bowled my first ball and they have struck back hard 57 00:03:34,460 --> 00:03:38,540 ~ hoping it will be my last - ~ Sir Arthur, we will miss the Birmingham train. 58 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:44,380 Hm. Yes, I suppose we will. Forgive me. 59 00:03:50,820 --> 00:03:52,810 Sir Arthur, if I may be so bold. 60 00:03:52,860 --> 00:03:55,290 You had your doubts before but now you're struck 61 00:03:55,340 --> 00:03:59,770 by the timing of his arrival so soon after our violent intruder. 62 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:03,290 Compounding this, mud spattered his boots and his trousers 63 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:05,090 as it does mine. 64 00:04:05,140 --> 00:04:07,730 Conclusion - he's the man I chased into the woods 65 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:10,090 ~ and the brute that bloodied your nose. ~ Well? 66 00:04:10,140 --> 00:04:13,010 Three things factor against it - 67 00:04:13,060 --> 00:04:19,170 ~ his poor eyesight, his limping gait and his honest face. ~ His face? 68 00:04:19,220 --> 00:04:22,090 I heard him tell his story, Woodie and I believed it. 69 00:04:22,140 --> 00:04:24,130 Every damn word. 70 00:04:24,180 --> 00:04:27,210 And my lights might be dimmed by the loss of Lady Doyle, 71 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:30,050 but I can still tell a good story from a bad one. 72 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:32,300 And a truth from a fiction. 73 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:36,170 Of course, Sir Arthur. 74 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:38,210 How's your head? 75 00:04:38,260 --> 00:04:41,370 ~ Oh. Nothing a night's rest won't remedy. ~ Good. 76 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:44,220 I want to make a small detour en route. 77 00:04:50,780 --> 00:04:53,010 These were no acts of livestock theft. 78 00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:56,060 Or youthful pranks gone awry. Do take a seat. 79 00:04:57,380 --> 00:05:01,330 Those animals were butchered and their genitals mutilated. 80 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:03,650 Their deaths slow and painful. 81 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:07,490 ~ And a stain on the memory of all who witnessed them. ~ Hm. 82 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:11,290 I'm still uncertain as to how you alighted on George as a suspect. 83 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:14,530 The Chief Constable himself pointed me in his direction. 84 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:16,810 Ah. Chief Constable Anson. 85 00:05:16,860 --> 00:05:19,090 Second son of the second Earl of Lichfield. 86 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:23,180 Late of the Royal Artillery. Chief Constable since 1888. 87 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:27,650 ~ The same. ~ I'm sure he had a good reason to point you in the direction 88 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:30,930 ~ of George Edalji. ~ The boy was a suspect in the first campaign 89 00:05:30,980 --> 00:05:32,610 of letters sent to the vicar. 90 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:35,890 And what was the connection between the letters and the rippings? 91 00:05:35,940 --> 00:05:38,450 Some contained dead birds and other animal parts. 92 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:42,210 Also the handwriting on the threatening letter we received 93 00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:43,850 matched Edalji's. 94 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:48,170 Five years ago, there was a campaign of letter writing against the vicar. 95 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:52,650 ~ The parsee? ~ The Reverend Shapurji Edalji. 96 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:55,100 Pranks, hoaxes, petty thefts... 97 00:05:56,140 --> 00:05:58,650 .. and a few dead birds and rabbits. 98 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,450 At the time, I sensed it would grow to something more serious. 99 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:04,250 Now it has. 100 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:06,290 Why was George suspected? 101 00:06:06,340 --> 00:06:10,130 Local police received intelligence he was, in common parlance, 102 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:15,770 ~ 'not a right sort'. ~ Not a right sort? That's not evidence, is it? 103 00:06:15,820 --> 00:06:19,210 We had plenty of evidence linking George Edalji to the rippings. 104 00:06:19,260 --> 00:06:22,610 ~ You refer to the horse hairs recovered from his coat? ~ Principally. 105 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:25,300 But by no means exclusively. 106 00:06:26,620 --> 00:06:29,570 I do hope that's put your mind at rest, Sir Arthur. 107 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:32,410 If I could detain you a moment longer, 108 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:35,760 I'd like to hear how that evidence was recovered. 109 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:38,770 As you wish, Sir Arthur. 110 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:45,370 We visited the Edaljis the morning after the crime. 111 00:06:45,420 --> 00:06:47,690 George wasn't at home. 112 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:50,970 We believe whoever sent you those letters five years ago 113 00:06:51,020 --> 00:06:54,690 and left birds and rabbits on your lawn has now raised their game. 114 00:06:54,740 --> 00:06:58,260 I need to see all your son's clothing. Without exception. 115 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:04,490 ~ This is all his clothing? ~ Apart from what he has on. 116 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:08,020 What a queer thing to say. We didn't think he went to work naked. 117 00:07:08,780 --> 00:07:11,690 ~ I'll need to see his knife. ~ His knife? 118 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:15,370 ~ Every young man has a knife. ~ My son is a solicitor. 119 00:07:15,420 --> 00:07:18,860 ~ He does not whittle sticks. ~ Sir. ~ Those are mine. 120 00:07:20,380 --> 00:07:23,330 ~ And your son, what does he shave with? ~ He uses one of them. 121 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:27,810 ~ You don't trust him with razors of his own? ~ He does not need one. 122 00:07:27,860 --> 00:07:31,360 Then why should he not be allowed razors of his own? 123 00:07:33,580 --> 00:07:35,570 Or indeed a bedroom of his own. 124 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:38,330 Our living arrangements are of no consequence. 125 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:41,170 ~ He was out last night, your son? ~ Yes. ~ How long for? 126 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:44,730 ~ An hour and an hour and a half. ~ I'll need to see his boots. 127 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:47,260 ~ These are wet. ~ Sir. 128 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:51,210 ~ Damp. ~ It was raining last night, sir. 129 00:07:51,260 --> 00:07:54,050 ~ Who does this coat belong to? ~ It's dry. ~ It's damp. 130 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,810 ~ Who does it belong to? ~ George. ~ It's an old house coat he never wears. 131 00:07:57,860 --> 00:08:01,340 I told you to show me all your son's clothes without exception. 132 00:08:06,380 --> 00:08:08,380 Look, sergeant. A hair. 133 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:12,780 ~ And another. ~ Let me see, Inspector. 134 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,570 ~ That's not a hair, it's a roving. ~ A what? 135 00:08:17,820 --> 00:08:21,500 A thread. A loose thread. Anyone can see that who's sewn anything. 136 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:25,530 What do you think of these stains, Sergeant? 137 00:08:25,580 --> 00:08:27,570 Saliva and blood, I'd wager. 138 00:08:27,620 --> 00:08:31,930 As my wife told you, it's a housecoat. He never goes out. 139 00:08:31,980 --> 00:08:34,650 ~ Then why is it damp? ~ It's not damp. 140 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:36,890 It's damp. And blood-stained. 141 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:39,210 And they're not threads but horse hairs. 142 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:41,730 And our Dr Butter will prove it. 143 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:49,370 Nasty cut, Mr Wood. Fresh. What happened? 144 00:08:49,420 --> 00:08:51,730 He collided with the train carriage door. 145 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:54,130 Man's an idiot. Refuses to wear spectacles. 146 00:08:54,180 --> 00:08:57,180 It's total vanity, Inspector. Total vanity. 147 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:03,090 Did we just lie to an officer of the law? 148 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:08,170 There are two aspects to this case that I fail to understand. 149 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:10,170 The first. 150 00:09:10,220 --> 00:09:14,370 Why did Chief Constable Anson so dislike George Edalji? 151 00:09:14,420 --> 00:09:17,490 Hm? Anson is a man of distinction. What's the explanation? 152 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:20,170 ~ I'm not an investigator, Sir Arthur. ~ Woodie. 153 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:23,450 If someone asks me a question, I look for the obvious answer. 154 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:25,330 And what would the obvious answer be? 155 00:09:25,380 --> 00:09:27,890 The Chief Constable dislikes people who are coloured. 156 00:09:27,940 --> 00:09:30,850 That lead is so obvious that it can't be the case. 157 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:32,570 Whatever Anson's faults, 158 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:34,850 he's an English gentleman and Chief Constable. 159 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:37,410 ~ I told you already. I'm not an investigator. ~ All right. 160 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:39,970 Let's not abandon hope quite so fast, Woodie. 161 00:09:40,020 --> 00:09:43,610 The next problem is the coat. The police examined it at the vicarage 162 00:09:43,660 --> 00:09:47,450 and said they were hairs on it and the vicar's wife said there were none. 163 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:50,170 Police surgeon, Dr Butter, testified he found nine hairs 164 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:53,530 similar in length, colour and structure to those of a mutilated horse. 165 00:09:53,580 --> 00:09:56,650 Are you saying the Edaljis perjured themselves to protect George? 166 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:58,810 Well, that's clearly what the jury believed. 167 00:09:58,860 --> 00:10:00,810 What if the hairs weren't from the coat? 168 00:10:00,860 --> 00:10:03,530 ~ Then they must have been put there afterwards. ~ After what? 169 00:10:03,580 --> 00:10:06,490 ~ After the clothing left the vicarage. ~ Dr Butter put them there? 170 00:10:06,540 --> 00:10:08,570 I don't know but if you want obvious answers, 171 00:10:08,620 --> 00:10:11,770 they got there afterwards somehow. If so, the police are lying. 172 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:13,810 Well, some of the police. 173 00:10:13,860 --> 00:10:15,860 Hm. 174 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:18,080 May we have our room keys? 175 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:22,250 Sir Arthur, I've heard you say that once you eliminate the impossible, 176 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:24,290 then what is left must be the truth. 177 00:10:24,340 --> 00:10:27,370 ~ Not my own formulation. Alas. ~ No? ~ No. 178 00:10:27,420 --> 00:10:30,620 But one that I endorse wholeheartedly. Continue. 179 00:10:31,220 --> 00:10:33,410 I'm not sure that if I'd been on that jury 180 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:35,370 I might have found George Edalji guilty. 181 00:10:35,420 --> 00:10:37,570 He was well placed to steal his sister's doll. 182 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:39,930 George was in the photograph not in Maud's bedroom. 183 00:10:39,980 --> 00:10:42,210 If George harboured ill will towards his sister, 184 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:44,650 it may explain why the vicar and George shared a room 185 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,850 long after such an arrangement could be considered normal. 186 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:50,900 ~ Just give me the key for God's sake, Woodie. ~ Yes, sir. 187 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:57,290 Good Lord! 188 00:10:57,340 --> 00:10:59,900 It's just a bird. 189 00:11:08,260 --> 00:11:10,610 If this window was breached from the outside, 190 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:13,210 there'd be more glass. This glass has been placed. 191 00:11:13,260 --> 00:11:16,940 ~ There's something in its mouth. ~ Let me see. 192 00:11:26,260 --> 00:11:29,650 Honoured Sir, we know it was Edalji killed that horse 193 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:33,450 and wrote those letters for it shall be proven 194 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,570 that he is not a right sort. 195 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:40,290 There was no education to be got at Wyrley's School 196 00:11:40,340 --> 00:11:43,210 when that swine Bostock was the teacher boss. 197 00:11:43,260 --> 00:11:45,290 He got the bullet. 198 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:47,340 Ha-ha. 199 00:11:47,980 --> 00:11:50,500 They're sending US letters now. 200 00:11:55,940 --> 00:11:58,530 Woodie, come on. I want to pay a visit to Harry Bostock, 201 00:11:58,580 --> 00:12:01,090 ~ an old school friend of George's. ~ Bostock? 202 00:12:01,140 --> 00:12:04,340 ~ Any relation to the Bostock who 'got the bullet'? ~ Aye, his son. 203 00:12:07,780 --> 00:12:11,770 The case against George was daft. The police were daft. 204 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:14,690 And the notion of a gang flitting about after dark 205 00:12:14,740 --> 00:12:17,210 under George's orders was the daftest of all. 206 00:12:17,260 --> 00:12:20,290 ~ So you were at school with George? ~ Yeah. When we were little 'uns. 207 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:22,970 My father taught us both. 208 00:12:23,020 --> 00:12:25,610 ~ And what was George like? ~ Clever. 209 00:12:25,660 --> 00:12:28,660 Cleverer than me and I was clever back then. 210 00:12:29,060 --> 00:12:30,930 Not that you'd know it now. 211 00:12:30,980 --> 00:12:34,780 Staring up the backside of a cow does rub away at your intentions. 212 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,490 Did George have any enemies? 213 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:41,410 Anyone dislike him for his colour, say? 214 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:43,660 Not as far as I can recall. 215 00:12:44,420 --> 00:12:48,450 ~ But...? ~ When we were lads, I mean, 11 and 12, 216 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:51,810 there was some business about a servant girl being sacked 217 00:12:51,860 --> 00:12:53,810 by the vicar and not going quietly. 218 00:12:53,860 --> 00:12:56,770 ~ And that business involved George, did it? ~ I think so. 219 00:12:56,820 --> 00:13:01,010 ~ You'd have to ask him. ~ But overall, he was liked despite his race? 220 00:13:01,060 --> 00:13:03,050 Put it this way, if he were disliked, 221 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:04,970 it were more for being clever. 222 00:13:05,020 --> 00:13:07,450 To think, we all thought he were thick as pig's muck. 223 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:09,490 Father would ask him a question... 224 00:13:09,540 --> 00:13:12,130 ~ This plus this... ~ .. and he'd get it wrong. 225 00:13:12,180 --> 00:13:15,610 ~ .. equals? ~ Really wrong. 226 00:13:15,660 --> 00:13:17,650 George. 227 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,090 Eleven and seven-eighths. 228 00:13:24,580 --> 00:13:26,780 N-Nine. 229 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:30,260 ~ Barry. ~ 12½. ~ Correct. 230 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:33,370 Turned out it was his eyesight. 231 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:36,410 Father moved him up the front and he never looked back. 232 00:13:36,460 --> 00:13:39,000 Which give us a grand total of...? 233 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:44,220 ~ George? ~ Eleven and three-quarters, sir. 234 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:47,380 Correct. Very good. 235 00:13:49,660 --> 00:13:51,450 Hm. 236 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:55,570 Aside from George, was there much talk in Wyrley 237 00:13:55,620 --> 00:13:58,370 ~ about who might be the ripper? ~ There's always talk. 238 00:13:58,420 --> 00:14:00,410 It's the same price as rain. 239 00:14:00,460 --> 00:14:04,170 All I say is, it's got to be someone who knows how to handle animals. 240 00:14:04,220 --> 00:14:07,370 You can't just go up to a horse and or a cow and say, 241 00:14:07,420 --> 00:14:10,610 ~ "Hold still, my lovely, while I rip your guts out." ~ Quite. 242 00:14:10,660 --> 00:14:13,690 In your opinion, how would George fair if he were to milk 243 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:16,610 ~ one of your cows? ~ He'd be kicked to death. 244 00:14:16,660 --> 00:14:20,210 ~ Or he'd fall in the shits before he got his stool under her. ~ You see. 245 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:22,890 Will... er... Will that be all, Sir Arthur? 246 00:14:22,940 --> 00:14:25,570 Yes. Thank you very much, Harry. Thank you. 247 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:29,620 ~ Oh, one more thing. Is your father still the schoolmaster here? ~ No, sir. 248 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:33,090 ~ My father passed on eight years ago. ~ Oh, I'm so sorry. 249 00:14:33,140 --> 00:14:37,260 ~ Do you mind me asking how? ~ Mind telling me why you're asking? 250 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:40,100 Forgive me. I'm sorry. 251 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,900 He... erm... 252 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:49,120 He fell to his death. Up at Rugeley Falls. 253 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,690 Erm... it was a winter, so bone cold. 254 00:14:52,740 --> 00:14:54,730 Ice under foot. 255 00:14:54,780 --> 00:14:57,250 They think that his dog went over first 256 00:14:57,300 --> 00:14:59,290 and that he was trying to rescue him. 257 00:14:59,340 --> 00:15:01,480 He never saw his grandson. 258 00:15:06,980 --> 00:15:08,980 What are you like? 259 00:15:16,020 --> 00:15:19,690 George, I'd like you to tell me about an incident with your servant girl. 260 00:15:19,740 --> 00:15:24,490 ~ Do you mean when I was a child? ~ Yes. ~ Who told you of this incident? 261 00:15:24,540 --> 00:15:27,620 Er... that's by the by. George? 262 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:32,460 Her name was Elizabeth Foster. 263 00:15:38,820 --> 00:15:42,500 George, Elizabeth Foster complains you look at her strangely. 264 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:48,930 ~ What does she mean, Father? ~ What do you think she means? 265 00:15:48,980 --> 00:15:51,980 Is it something sinful she means? 266 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:56,690 And if it was, what would that be? 267 00:15:56,740 --> 00:16:00,100 My only sin, Father, is that I'm hardly aware of her. 268 00:16:00,780 --> 00:16:03,570 Though I know her to be a part of God's creation. 269 00:16:03,620 --> 00:16:06,490 I haven't spoken to her more than twice on occasions 270 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:10,020 where she has mislaid objects. I have no reason to look at her. 271 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,240 No reason at all, George? 272 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,240 No reason at all, Father. 273 00:16:20,740 --> 00:16:24,050 ~ I was left with only one course of action. ~ You dismissed her? 274 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:26,650 ~ Of course. ~ There was never any doubt in your mind 275 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,930 that your son was telling the truth? 276 00:16:28,980 --> 00:16:33,810 ~ None whatsoever. ~ And then her true nature came to light. 277 00:16:33,860 --> 00:16:36,770 The day she was dismissed from our employ... 278 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:38,370 I didn't... I wasn't... 279 00:16:38,420 --> 00:16:41,210 .. she spat in my face. 280 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:45,290 Did you not consider that Elizabeth Foster might be responsible? 281 00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:47,330 Oh, many years had passed. 282 00:16:47,380 --> 00:16:50,290 She had long since got married and left the parish. 283 00:16:50,340 --> 00:16:53,170 ~ Leaving no relatives? ~ Only her half brother. 284 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:54,940 Sergeant Upton. 285 00:16:57,020 --> 00:17:01,050 Sergeant Upton? Who persecuted and threatened you? 286 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:05,130 He's a vulgar and lazy man but I can't credit that he's involved. 287 00:17:05,180 --> 00:17:07,180 Hm. I agree. 288 00:17:09,820 --> 00:17:12,610 Very good. Let's go and see if the daylight has left 289 00:17:12,660 --> 00:17:14,800 any clue to our intruder. 290 00:17:20,380 --> 00:17:23,890 Hm. It's a pity. Too dry for shoe prints. 291 00:17:23,940 --> 00:17:28,380 When Mr Holmes is investigating, it's never too dry for shoe prints. 292 00:17:30,220 --> 00:17:32,810 There would be an obligement of soft mud. 293 00:17:32,860 --> 00:17:36,050 You think I tilt the playing field in Holmes's favour? 294 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:39,770 On occasion but it's more fun that way, isn't it? 295 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:43,410 Well, his legion of fans certainly seem to think so, young lady. 296 00:17:43,460 --> 00:17:45,970 ~ And Holmes isn't always right anyway. ~ True. 297 00:17:46,020 --> 00:17:49,050 Er... in the Speckled Band, he asked Mrs Hudson 298 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:51,810 to fetch hot coffee for a young lady who was shivering. 299 00:17:51,860 --> 00:17:55,500 But it is not cold that makes her shiver but fear. 300 00:17:56,340 --> 00:17:58,290 Hm. That's right. 301 00:17:58,340 --> 00:18:00,340 Er... Sir Arthur... 302 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,370 .. much as I admire my parents... 303 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:07,890 .. I think they have an exaggerated respect for authority 304 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:10,970 in general and Sergeant Upton in particular. 305 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:13,410 Well, I'm in agreement on the latter. 306 00:18:13,460 --> 00:18:18,130 Upton is not just a thug, he is cruel and devious 307 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:21,120 and he made my brother ill from the start. 308 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:27,530 On your way to Cannock, are you? 309 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,210 ~ I beg your pardon? ~ You heard what I said. 310 00:18:32,420 --> 00:18:36,100 I only wondered why you asked. This is not the way to Cannock. 311 00:18:38,140 --> 00:18:40,810 ~ As we both know. ~ As we both know (!) 312 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:43,700 As we both know. 313 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:47,090 What we both know is that you know the way to Cannock 314 00:18:47,140 --> 00:18:50,730 and I know the way and you've been up to your little tricks. 315 00:18:50,780 --> 00:18:54,090 You've been into Cannock. You've took the key to the school. 316 00:18:54,140 --> 00:18:57,490 You've brought it home and put it on your own front step. 317 00:18:57,540 --> 00:19:01,500 ~ You're hurting me. ~ Oh, no I'm not. I'm not hurting you. 318 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:06,340 If you want Sergeant Upton to hurt you, all you have to do is ask. 319 00:19:08,660 --> 00:19:10,650 I'm going to be a solicitor. 320 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:13,700 Is that what you think? 321 00:19:15,060 --> 00:19:17,050 A so-li-ci-tor. 322 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:20,650 What a big word for a little mongrel like you. 323 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:24,460 You think you'll be a solicitor if Sergeant Upton says you won't? 324 00:19:25,020 --> 00:19:29,130 So you believe Upton targeted George to avenge his sister's dismissal? 325 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:31,180 At the very least. 326 00:19:32,140 --> 00:19:35,210 Maud, what can you tell us of Bostock, the teacher? 327 00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:38,250 Fell to his death while walking his dog. 328 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,290 ~ Poor man. ~ Slipped and fell? 329 00:19:40,340 --> 00:19:45,740 I never heard of a more sinister explanation. Have you? 330 00:19:52,020 --> 00:19:55,100 Sir Arthur, do we really need to go all the way to the top? 331 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:58,300 ~ Buck up, Woodie. ~ Yes, sir. 332 00:20:16,540 --> 00:20:19,130 That swine Bostock was the teacher boss 333 00:20:19,180 --> 00:20:21,170 but he got the bullet. 334 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:24,410 I'd assumed 'the bullet' was a euphemism for dismissal. 335 00:20:24,460 --> 00:20:27,970 ~ Not death. ~ So would I. 336 00:20:35,380 --> 00:20:37,380 What is it, Sir Arthur? 337 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:48,820 God. 338 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,610 Brookes the blacksmith. 339 00:20:56,660 --> 00:20:59,050 He received messages too. 340 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:01,640 But this is not a message for him. 341 00:21:02,420 --> 00:21:04,660 No, this is for us. 342 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:25,180 Mr Brookes? William Brookes? 343 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:28,650 My name's Arthur Conan Doyle. 344 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:31,980 I wonder if I could ask some questions about the rippings? 345 00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:37,570 I understand from Reverend Edalji that you had letters 346 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:40,690 from the same individual that was plaguing his family. 347 00:21:40,740 --> 00:21:43,280 Wouldn't know anything about that. 348 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:46,820 Ernest, just make yourself scarce. I'm all right for the moment. 349 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:49,730 Mr Brookes, did you receive any letters or not? 350 00:21:49,780 --> 00:21:54,460 Mr Brookes, it strikes me that I'm in need of a boot scraper. 351 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,570 I'm very taken with this handsome brute. 352 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:04,690 ~ How much would a thing like that cost? ~ Oh. 353 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:10,530 Let's see. Let's say 10 shillings and sixpence, please, sir. 354 00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:12,610 10 shillings and sixpence, Woodie. 355 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:15,370 Right. So we were talking about these letters. 356 00:22:15,420 --> 00:22:18,930 Not so much letters. Crudely written scraps of paper. 357 00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:21,450 It was blackmail pure and simple. 358 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:24,610 Once you got past all that Satan gibberish. 359 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:28,330 Some nonense about Fred and another boy throwing stones 360 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,170 at a pregnant woman outside Cannock Town Hall. 361 00:22:31,220 --> 00:22:34,170 I was supposed to send money if I wanted to keep him out of trouble. 362 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:36,690 ~ You did nothing about it? ~ Of course not. 363 00:22:36,740 --> 00:22:39,770 ~ Did you think about talking to the police? ~ Not for a moment. 364 00:22:39,820 --> 00:22:42,210 Not for a tenth of a moment. 365 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:44,690 I ignored it and it went away. 366 00:22:44,740 --> 00:22:48,240 ~ Did you keep any of the letters? ~ You must be joking. 367 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:52,090 So why do you think the blackmailer targeted your son and George Edalji? 368 00:22:52,140 --> 00:22:54,770 Did they have a common enemy at school, say? 369 00:22:54,820 --> 00:22:56,810 They didn't go to the same school. 370 00:22:56,860 --> 00:22:59,650 ~ What school did your son go to? ~ Cannock. 371 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:01,690 Cannock School. Over the hill. 372 00:23:01,740 --> 00:23:04,840 It's where we lived till I took on this place. 373 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:08,620 And might Fred have come across George in the village? 374 00:23:09,180 --> 00:23:11,250 Were they connected in any way at all? 375 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:15,050 It's been 10 years now. Better to ask my son. 376 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:18,610 ~ Does he live locally? ~ Who? Fred? Nah. No. 377 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:20,660 He's long left. 378 00:23:21,820 --> 00:23:25,130 He's... er... in Birmingham. On the canals. Working there. 379 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:27,720 Doesn't want to take on this shop. 380 00:23:28,260 --> 00:23:30,140 Little bastard! 381 00:23:35,860 --> 00:23:38,010 And what did you think of today's work, Alfred? 382 00:23:38,060 --> 00:23:41,450 To be perfectly honest, Sir Arthur, I think we've made not much progress. 383 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:43,930 It's better than that. We've made not much progress 384 00:23:43,980 --> 00:23:46,410 in several directions and we did need a boot scraper. 385 00:23:46,460 --> 00:23:49,970 ~ No, we didn't. We've got one at Undershaw. ~ Don't be a spoilsport. 386 00:23:50,020 --> 00:23:52,970 In later years, we shall remember this as the Edalji scraper. 387 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:56,620 Every time we wipe our boots on it, we'll think of this adventure. 388 00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:09,980 George! 389 00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:15,730 Sir Arthur. I must return to London. 390 00:24:15,780 --> 00:24:19,450 Please accept my apologies. 391 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:22,410 I do greatly appreciate all that you are doing for me. 392 00:24:22,460 --> 00:24:25,740 ~ Very good. And we shall meet again in London. ~ Yes. ~ And soon. 393 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:32,010 Are you thirsty, Woodie? 394 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:20,100 Thanks, John. 395 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:24,420 ~ Are we still the subject of local interest? ~ We are. 396 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:30,170 Hard to imagine George Edalji growing up in a place like this. 397 00:25:30,220 --> 00:25:32,210 Yes. Yes, it is. 398 00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:36,900 He's an admirable fellow with a lucid brain and resilient character. 399 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:40,570 But if one merely looks at him... 400 00:25:40,620 --> 00:25:43,690 looks at him with the eyes of a dimwit village policeman 401 00:25:43,740 --> 00:25:46,290 or a narrow-minded juror then you'd be hard pressed 402 00:25:46,340 --> 00:25:50,380 to get beyond a dark skin and an ocular peculiarity. 403 00:25:51,580 --> 00:25:54,930 It would seem queer and then if queer things started happening, 404 00:25:54,980 --> 00:25:57,610 what passes for logic in an unenlightened village 405 00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:01,770 ~ would glibly ascribe those events to that person. ~ Yes. Sir Arthur... 406 00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:05,130 When reason... When reason, Woodie, gets left behind, 407 00:26:05,180 --> 00:26:09,170 a man's virtues become faults. Self-control presents as secretiveness. 408 00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:15,450 And so, a respectable lawyer, bat blind and slight of physique 409 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:18,810 becomes a degenerate flitting through fields in the dead of night. 410 00:26:18,860 --> 00:26:23,740 ~ It's so utterly topsy-turvy, it's to seem logical. ~ Yes, Sir Arthur... 411 00:26:26,780 --> 00:26:29,250 Well, you must be Sergeant Upton. 412 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:31,330 And you must be Sherlock Holmes. 413 00:26:31,380 --> 00:26:35,330 Oh. My mistake. He only exists in stories. 414 00:26:35,380 --> 00:26:39,780 Yet you're here, large as life, sticking your beak into constabulary business 415 00:26:39,860 --> 00:26:41,970 and making a nuisance of yourselves. 416 00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:44,010 Now that's what I call 'topsy-turvy'. 417 00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:46,050 Sergeant Upton, may I remind you... 418 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,970 What happened, Sir Arthur? Tired of making up stories? 419 00:26:50,020 --> 00:26:52,010 Has the well run dry? 420 00:26:52,060 --> 00:26:55,170 What happened is a travesty of justice 421 00:26:55,220 --> 00:26:57,410 in which you played a leading role 422 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:01,610 and which I am soon to expose on the most public stage imaginable. 423 00:27:01,660 --> 00:27:04,290 Where would that be then? London? 424 00:27:04,340 --> 00:27:05,930 Oh, most certainly. 425 00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:08,490 Why don't you go running there and get your stage ready? 426 00:27:08,540 --> 00:27:11,540 If you hurry, you'll catch the four o'clock. 427 00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:15,300 Did Inspector Campbell forewarn you of my arrival? 428 00:27:16,780 --> 00:27:19,090 No, I have my own sources, thank you. 429 00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:22,260 Oh. Tell the inspector we're making great strides. 430 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,380 Ernest? That you? 431 00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:37,980 Ernest?! 432 00:27:46,020 --> 00:27:48,250 Ernest! 433 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,300 Oh! 434 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:16,260 Oh, no. 435 00:28:20,380 --> 00:28:22,380 Er-nest! 436 00:28:26,460 --> 00:28:29,060 Help me! Anybody! 437 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,110 ~ Who is that? ~ William Brookes, the blacksmith, sir. 438 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,160 What? 439 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,720 Hi. 440 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,710 ~ William Brookes? ~ It's awful. 441 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,700 I was just with him less than an hour ago. 442 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,910 ~ Was he well liked in the village? ~ Up to a point. 443 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,150 He was Cannock born and bred. Not Wyrley. 444 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,870 So I see you missed the four o'clock. 445 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,280 Chief Inspector Campbell, this man has been murdered. 446 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,430 ~ Humpf. ~ And by the Wyrley Ripper. 447 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,150 If you're not going to contact Chief Constable Anson and tell him, 448 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,870 ~ I'll do so myself. ~ Willy Brookes murdered? 449 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,990 Oh, dear me. That's good. That's very good. 450 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,510 Go and calm your wife, Sergeant. 451 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,070 By all accounts, Brookes liked a drink and a smoke. 452 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,110 Usually at the same time. 453 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,590 So he takes a break after a hard day, 454 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,150 has a drink, lights his pipe, has another drink, 455 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,340 and falls asleep. Whoosh. 456 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,310 Or is that too simple for you? 457 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,750 ~ Too absurd. ~ Careful. ~ Brookes received letters from the same vile entity 458 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,590 that persecuted the Edalji family. 459 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,830 Thank you, Sir Arthur. If we need any more amateur speculation, 460 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,630 we will be in touch. Good day. 461 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,990 Those speculations will soon take the form of a report in the Telegraph. 462 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,390 ~ I'll look forward to reading it. ~ I doubt it. 463 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,510 This case has reeked of race prejudice from the start. 464 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,110 Your professional future might not be as you imagined it 465 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,710 ~ when I've finished with you. ~ I'd guard against turning this into a vendetta. 466 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,040 Aye, you would. 467 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,270 Get these people out of here! 468 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,390 This is our doing. It's our meddling. 469 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,150 No, Woodie. This is tragic evidence that we are getting near the truth. 470 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,910 ~ A man is dead. ~ Yes, and we shall avenge his death 471 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,950 by unmasking the true ripper. 472 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,670 This is no time to lose our nerve, Woodie. 473 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,720 Right, sir. 474 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,150 Look. This is burnt on this side here. 475 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,070 This has been put up against the door to trap the poor man in. 476 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,280 These are lime barrels. 477 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,240 Lime. 478 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,230 Aye. He stood here observing his grizzly handiwork. 479 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,950 God Satan is nothing if not stealthy. 480 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,620 An obligement of soft mud. 481 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,270 Boot prints of a man, who for some reason, 482 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,520 put more weight on his right foot than his left. 483 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,950 ~ George Edalji... ~ He's served his sentence, Woodie. 484 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,750 Why on earth would he seek me out to clear his name if he was guilty? 485 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,910 ~ Well, I think his mother answered that question rather eloquently. ~ Oh. 486 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,950 She said, "Now he is in a state of limbo, 487 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,990 the Law Society cannot readmit him 488 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,470 until the taint is washed from his name." 489 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,600 It's almost worse for him now then when he was in prison. 490 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,790 May I speak frankly, sir? 491 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,520 I offer no guarantees. 492 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,940 When you first took this up... 493 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,200 .. I was heartened by the effect it had on your mood. 494 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,020 I was delighted, in fact. 495 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,150 The whole challenge seemed to raise your spirits and invigorate you. 496 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,190 And... 497 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,790 Well, I... I just think it's time to go home now, sir. 498 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:01,640 But not until we've brought this to the Inspector's attention. 499 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,620 We saw much death in Pretoria. 500 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,990 One occasion following the Vet River north, 501 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,790 a Basuto came and told us of an English soldier lying wounded 502 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,580 some two hours journey into the Veldt. 503 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,680 The wounded Englishman turned out to be a dead Australian. 504 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,840 Short, muscular, with a yellow waxen face. 505 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,480 Bled to death from a stomach wound. 506 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,190 Set his pocket watch in front of him. 507 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,560 Must of watched his life tick away with every minute. 508 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,150 A fair fight, open air and a good cause. 509 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,230 There's no better death. 510 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,950 Life should be more like that. 511 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,400 Perhaps you need a change of environment. 512 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,590 Why don't you ask Woodie to arrange something? 513 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,430 A golfing tour? A spot of skiing? 514 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,230 Oooh. Woodie's already sent me to Coventry. 515 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,310 Then Woodie needs to remember which side his bread is buttered. 516 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,550 ~ He thinks me intemperate, corrupt and entirely beyond redemption. ~ Nonsense! 517 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,600 Right now, I'm not sure I'd go to war to prove him wrong. 518 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,990 What does your instinct tell you? 519 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:42,990 My instinct tells me that George Edalji is innocent. 520 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,350 But effectively, I've only met him twice. 521 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,390 Then meet him again. 522 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,350 ~ See if your feelings have changed. ~ On what pretext? 523 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,230 You are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and you're seeking to clear his name. 524 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,990 It's a surfeit of pretext, if you ask me. 525 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,510 You're a remarkable woman, Jean Leckie. 526 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,500 I have a drawer of your letters saying so. 527 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,510 ~ I don't have long, do I? ~ No. 528 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,550 Not too long. 529 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,550 ~ Once this Edalji business is behind - ~ Arthur... 530 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,600 go and see him. 531 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,350 You think this a fool's errand? 532 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,070 If the truth could be divined by looking in a man's eyes, 533 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,430 the world would be a very different place. 534 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,440 ~ Whoa! ~ There he is. 535 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,350 Come on, Woodie. 536 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,680 Just a moment, Sir Arthur. 537 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,740 Perhaps we might see where he's going? 538 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,790 A shilling to follow that carriage. 539 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,750 Two if you can do it without being noticed. 540 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,800 Come on. 541 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,640 That is him. Right on time. 542 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,740 ~ Welcome, Mr Edalji. ~ Good evening. 543 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,750 What is this place? 544 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,870 Turn right or you'll be... 545 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,790 They've got guns. Sir Arthur, we shouldn't be here. 546 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,070 Look, they're going. Now's our chance. 547 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,470 ~ Come on. ~ Hang on, Sir Arthur. 548 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,520 ~ What? It was your idea. ~ It was not my idea. 549 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,270 It's Hayden Price. 550 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,990 ~ I thought he was still residing at His Majesty's Pleasure. ~ You know him? 551 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,030 Only by reputation. And inspiration. 552 00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,950 He's Moriarty. 553 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,830 Oi, you two! Where you going with them? 554 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,920 Leave them. You will help me here. 555 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,350 Hayden Price is the worst kind of criminal. 556 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,790 He's a murderer who's never wielded a knife 557 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,940 and a thief who's never stolen a ha'penny bit. 558 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,710 ~ Perhaps I got it wrong. ~ What, Sir Arthur? 559 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,590 If this were a story, I'd change the beginning or change the end 560 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,280 or try something else but it's not. 561 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,480 And I'm not its author. 562 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,520 Come on. 563 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,340 Nice shot, Doyle! 564 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,280 Tea, gentlemen. 565 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,510 The bowlers have no secrets from you today. 566 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,790 Well, I was jousting for my lady. 567 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,230 And I should have worn your ribbon in my cap. 568 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,280 ~ If I had a cap. ~ Hmm. 569 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,990 Hello. It's your sister and Willie. 570 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,040 So it is. Connie! 571 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,270 Good afternoon. 572 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,320 Connie! 573 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,680 Arthur, please. 574 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,960 Thank you. 575 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,070 Explain your rudeness today. 576 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:31,230 You know how Connie loves you and you know my enormous admiration. 577 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,150 How proud I am to say that Arthur Conan Doyle is my brother-in-law. 578 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,400 Get to your point, Hornung. 579 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,710 ~ Your behaviour is compromising. ~ Too whom? 580 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,870 To your children. To your lady friend. 581 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,070 ~ To yourself. ~ Oh, and what about the Marylebone Cricket Club, 582 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,470 the readers of my books and the staff at Gamages Emporium? 583 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,830 Your involvement with Miss Leckie pre-dated Lady Doyle's passing 584 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,550 ~ by some years. ~ Define involvement. 585 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,200 Only your popularity deterred the hints in the gossip columns. 586 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,790 Now you must keep your end of the bargain. 587 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,230 A bargain I never struck. Define involvement. 588 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,550 Anyone can see that if you stroll around town with a grin on your face 589 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,470 and your mistress by your side... 590 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,870 Jean Leckie is a woman of the utmost virtue and our relationship was... 591 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,260 and remains one of friendship. 592 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,070 You think me a liar as well as a scoundrel now, do you? 593 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,910 In these matters, perception counts for more than reality. 594 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,830 ~ Then to hell with perception. ~ If a man is discreet, 595 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,550 ~ society will allow him all the mistresses - ~ For the LAST time! 596 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,110 Jean Leckie has never been my mistress. 597 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:39,310 Then why don't you marry her for God's sake? 598 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,550 Choose a date and announce it in The Times. 599 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,310 Treat her with the respect and feeling you expect us to 600 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,230 and be done with it. 601 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,740 ~ Good evening. ~ Sir Arthur! 602 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,790 ~ Sir Arthur, Ma'am. ~ Jean. ~ Arthur. 603 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,670 I apologise for the lateness of the hour. 604 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,710 Erm... 605 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,760 I would like to ask for your hand in marriage. 606 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,510 ~ What is your answer? ~ I didn't hear you ask me a question, Arthur. ~ Ah. 607 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,560 Nor did I. 608 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,760 Will you marry me, Jean? 609 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,150 No. 610 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,960 ~ No? ~ You've been to see your sister seeking an apology. 611 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,000 And judging by the look on your face, you didn't get it. 612 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,310 You're not asking for my hand in marriage, you're saying, 613 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,390 "To hell with you all." You're flouncing, Arthur. 614 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,630 ~ Flouncing? ~ Don't go blaming Connie and Willie. It's nothing to do with them. 615 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,790 Just as your busybodying in Staffordshire had scant to do 616 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,350 with George Edalji. 617 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,560 Did you ever once ask yourself why you took up this case? 618 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,910 Because I judged him to be innocent. 619 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,950 Because you judged yourself guilty and in dire need of redemption. 620 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,070 Whoa. That's a rather tortured connection. 621 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,230 ~ After Louise died, I visited you - ~ Not to say melodramatic! 622 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,630 You were attempting to answer your copious letters of condolence. 623 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,390 Attempting and failing. 624 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,710 Well, I doubt if many widowers find that an easy task. 625 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,230 You found it an unbearable one! 626 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:31,350 What had you done to deserve such heartfelt sympathy, you wondered. 627 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,470 ~ I confess to certain misgivings, yes. ~ Misgivings?! 628 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,550 You felt like a perfect hypocrite! 629 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,630 I think you're rather close to overplaying your hand, my dear. 630 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,920 Two summers after we met, we spent an afternoon in Regent's Park. 631 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,470 As we sat in the rose garden, 632 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,320 you said you were thinking about your wife at home in Undershaw. 633 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,000 Of her goodness and her patience and her fortitude. 634 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,320 And yet, you couldn't hand on heart, swear that you'd ever loved her. 635 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,200 You said you'd always loved her as best you could. 636 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,960 But now she's gone... 637 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,200 .. you're gripped by a fear, a horror... 638 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,840 .. that she knew all along. 639 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,630 And you can't forgive yourself. 640 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,470 How dare you presume to have knowledge of my heart 641 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,640 ~ where Louisa is concerned? ~ Nothing I've said is presumed, Arthur. 642 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,830 Witnessed. 643 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,880 Experienced. Endured. Would be nearer the mark. 644 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,040 One day... One day I hope you'll make your peace with her. 645 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,990 Seven years. 646 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,760 Seven years and all I had to sustain me were your snowdrops. 647 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,830 But it was plenty. 648 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,800 A feast. 649 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,590 Look me in the eye and tell me you're innocent. 650 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,630 I'm innocent. 651 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,270 Why would a respectable young man with no previous history 652 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,550 of a violent nature, suddenly sneak out in the night 653 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,840 and attack a pit pony in the most cruel and violent fashion? 654 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,950 Why does human society everyone abhor the half cast? 655 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,870 As sharp as sharp can be. 656 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,260 Sir, what do you want from me? 657 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,470 I want to find out who killed your father. 658 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,360 George!