1 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:08,397 - Evening. - Good evening. 2 00:03:11,983 --> 00:03:13,568 Thank you. 3 00:03:20,409 --> 00:03:22,744 Oh, good evening, Dr Marlowe. 4 00:03:25,372 --> 00:03:28,750 Hmm... I see that fellow Richards has gone to his maker. 5 00:03:29,084 --> 00:03:31,420 Dispatched this morning by the public hangman. 6 00:03:31,503 --> 00:03:35,048 I am sure that the world's better off without chaps like that. 7 00:03:35,132 --> 00:03:37,008 I read all about the case. 8 00:03:37,092 --> 00:03:40,137 Richards was evil, through and through. 9 00:03:40,262 --> 00:03:42,848 Undoubtedly evil from his very conception. 10 00:03:42,931 --> 00:03:44,349 No man is born evil. 11 00:03:44,433 --> 00:03:48,687 On the contrary, I think with Rousseau that men are basically good. 12 00:03:48,770 --> 00:03:53,525 It is only society and circumstances which makes them evil. 13 00:03:53,608 --> 00:03:55,193 And we have laws to deal with those 14 00:03:55,318 --> 00:03:57,612 who stray from the straight and narrow path. 15 00:03:57,738 --> 00:04:00,115 - Evening, Enfield. - Good evening, Charles. 16 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,370 - Hello, Frederick. Lanyon. - Good evening. 17 00:04:05,454 --> 00:04:08,081 We were talking about good and evil in man. 18 00:04:08,165 --> 00:04:11,877 Enfield maintains that some men are born evil. 19 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,255 Dr Lanyon thinks that men are born fundamentally good, 20 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:17,841 and corrupted only by society. 21 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:19,968 I wonder what you think, my dear fellow? 22 00:04:20,051 --> 00:04:23,096 Every human personality has two sides. 23 00:04:24,014 --> 00:04:26,349 And, what's more, I think that they can be separated. 24 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:29,019 Oh, come, come, now, Dr Marlowe! 25 00:04:29,144 --> 00:04:31,855 Dr Lanyon and I have discussed this matter before. 26 00:04:31,980 --> 00:04:34,608 It's bad enough you practising the ideas of this... 27 00:04:34,733 --> 00:04:36,777 Dr Freud of Vienna. 28 00:04:36,985 --> 00:04:38,945 But your own theories, 29 00:04:39,070 --> 00:04:40,822 they're even more dangerous. 30 00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:15,148 There was no need to wait up for me, Poole. 31 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:17,943 I shall be going to the laboratory for a short while. 32 00:05:18,026 --> 00:05:20,237 - You can lock up for the night. - Very good, sir. 33 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,739 - Good night. - Good night, sir. 34 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:39,774 Suppose that what Dr Marlowe said were true? 35 00:06:39,858 --> 00:06:43,194 Suppose that, just for a while, 36 00:06:43,278 --> 00:06:46,281 we could let loose the reins, 37 00:06:46,615 --> 00:06:48,491 fulfil our desires, 38 00:06:48,575 --> 00:06:50,827 without restriction, 39 00:06:50,910 --> 00:06:52,871 without control. 40 00:06:54,122 --> 00:06:56,875 I think I might choose evil. 41 00:06:56,958 --> 00:07:00,670 But surely the essence of civilisation is the restriction 42 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:03,882 of individual appetites by the individual himself, 43 00:07:03,965 --> 00:07:05,383 for the good of all mankind? 44 00:07:05,467 --> 00:07:09,512 Hmm. Well, for my part, I... I don't know. 45 00:07:09,679 --> 00:07:12,223 In old age, temptations are great, 46 00:07:12,307 --> 00:07:15,894 as we see fulfilment of our desires 47 00:07:15,977 --> 00:07:18,605 slip away from us. 48 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:20,607 But then, let us thank Heaven it is a choice 49 00:07:20,690 --> 00:07:23,860 which none of us here will be called upon to make. 50 00:07:24,194 --> 00:07:27,322 Nor will Dr Marlowe, I fancy. 51 00:10:17,742 --> 00:10:19,661 - Yes? - Poole, sir. 52 00:10:19,744 --> 00:10:23,456 Miss Thomas is in the front hall, sir, and she's most anxious to see you. 53 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:26,626 At this time of night? 54 00:10:26,709 --> 00:10:30,046 I fear, sir, she says she must see you. 55 00:10:33,341 --> 00:10:35,051 Very well, I'll... 56 00:10:35,927 --> 00:10:39,347 - I'll see her in... in the study. - Very good, sir. 57 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:06,499 I'm sorry to disturb you so late, but I had to see you. 58 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:09,252 What can I do for you, Miss Thomas? 59 00:11:09,377 --> 00:11:11,421 I don't know. 60 00:11:11,713 --> 00:11:14,299 I felt an overwhelming sadness. 61 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:16,593 The world seemed... 62 00:11:16,718 --> 00:11:17,718 bleak, 63 00:11:17,802 --> 00:11:19,429 hopeless. 64 00:11:20,221 --> 00:11:21,821 I felt I couldn't live through the night. 65 00:11:21,848 --> 00:11:23,308 That's why I came to see you. 66 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:25,631 I told you when we started that the method that I'm using 67 00:11:25,685 --> 00:11:27,812 is something entirely new. 68 00:11:27,896 --> 00:11:31,399 It was discovered by Dr Freud, some years ago. 69 00:11:31,482 --> 00:11:34,694 The ideas have not yet been fully worked out, and, er... 70 00:11:34,777 --> 00:11:38,156 its efficiency has not as yet been fully proved. 71 00:11:38,239 --> 00:11:40,783 But, with some of my patients, 72 00:11:40,867 --> 00:11:44,412 I consider it's worth taking the risk of trying this method. 73 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:47,123 May I try to talk to you again? 74 00:11:47,332 --> 00:11:50,919 There's something I feel I must say. 75 00:11:51,502 --> 00:11:53,254 Perhaps tonight? 76 00:11:55,131 --> 00:11:56,799 Very well. 77 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:06,100 Please. 78 00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:09,330 It's no good. There's absolutely nothing. 79 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:13,334 You must think I'm a fool. 80 00:13:13,668 --> 00:13:15,712 There's just nothing. 81 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:19,799 You mustn't worry about it. It happens to lots of people. 82 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:23,261 But it happens all the time with me. 83 00:13:24,887 --> 00:13:27,473 You wait for me to say something. 84 00:13:27,598 --> 00:13:30,643 You expect me to tell you what I'm thinking, 85 00:13:31,102 --> 00:13:33,521 and I can't say anything. 86 00:13:34,856 --> 00:13:37,025 I feel I'm letting you down. 87 00:13:37,859 --> 00:13:39,777 I'm letting my parents down. 88 00:13:39,861 --> 00:13:42,822 They're paying for the treatment. They expect it to help me. 89 00:13:44,574 --> 00:13:47,702 I know you said the result depends on me, 90 00:13:47,952 --> 00:13:50,663 but can't you do anything to help me? 91 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,707 Please? 92 00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:59,088 Miss Thomas, 93 00:13:59,422 --> 00:14:01,716 would you be willing to try something, 94 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:04,469 the result of which cannot be predicted, but... 95 00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:09,557 which I believe sincerely would be of considerable help to us both? 96 00:14:09,766 --> 00:14:11,517 I'll try anything. 97 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:12,346 Do you like me? 98 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:21,397 Yes, I... I like you, Miss Thomas. 99 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:25,484 I mean, really like me? 100 00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:26,819 Say it. 101 00:16:26,944 --> 00:16:28,946 Say that you like me. As a woman. 102 00:16:51,344 --> 00:16:53,346 Mmm... 103 00:17:30,383 --> 00:17:33,177 Do I shock you, Charles? 104 00:17:33,678 --> 00:17:36,555 My dear, respectable doctor. 105 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:39,642 Can you resist 106 00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:41,894 the body of a woman? 107 00:18:22,727 --> 00:18:24,687 How could I? 108 00:18:30,026 --> 00:18:32,069 I feel so ashamed. 109 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,864 Ashamed of what? 110 00:18:38,242 --> 00:18:41,454 Ashamed of having thoughts like that. 111 00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:44,999 I don't have thoughts like that. Believe me, I don't. 112 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:46,542 But you do. 113 00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:48,627 The drug showed us that. 114 00:18:48,711 --> 00:18:51,714 It shows a part of yourself that you try to keep from admitting 115 00:18:51,797 --> 00:18:54,967 is a part of yourself. It shows what you repress. 116 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:56,927 Because it's wicked. 117 00:18:57,011 --> 00:18:58,864 It's because your parents, and others around you, 118 00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:01,098 tell you it's wicked to have such desires. 119 00:19:01,182 --> 00:19:03,309 They disapprove of such feelings. 120 00:19:03,392 --> 00:19:05,144 They're very human desires. 121 00:19:05,227 --> 00:19:07,521 There's nothing wrong with having them at all. 122 00:19:07,605 --> 00:19:09,607 Seeing them in yourself 123 00:19:09,690 --> 00:19:12,818 is the beginning of accepting them in yourself. 124 00:19:14,737 --> 00:19:17,782 You won't use your drug on me again, will you? 125 00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:19,658 No, that won't be necessary. 126 00:19:28,292 --> 00:19:30,252 Are we drinking alone tonight? 127 00:19:30,336 --> 00:19:33,464 If I looked like that, a woman would be sure to have been the cause of it. 128 00:19:33,547 --> 00:19:37,134 But with our Dr Marlowe, it's probably only a patient. 129 00:19:37,218 --> 00:19:40,513 - Not exactly. - What, then? 130 00:19:40,596 --> 00:19:42,890 An idea, really. 131 00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:46,018 Dr Freud maintains that a great deal of illness 132 00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:48,270 is not physical in origin. 133 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:51,399 Rather, the result of a patient 134 00:19:51,482 --> 00:19:53,984 trying to repress in his unconscious 135 00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:58,906 a part of himself that he will not allow his conscious self to admit. 136 00:19:59,698 --> 00:20:02,952 But supposing a way could be found of accelerating that process, 137 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:05,913 by the use of a drug, physically harmless, of course, 138 00:20:05,996 --> 00:20:09,375 that would break down the barriers of the unconscious? 139 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:14,046 Are you trying to tell us that you have found such a drug? 140 00:20:14,255 --> 00:20:16,382 I'm not entirely sure. 141 00:20:17,383 --> 00:20:22,388 I have experimented with a drug on some of the animals in my laboratory. 142 00:20:22,471 --> 00:20:25,349 Some of them were scared, and shrank back in their cages. 143 00:20:25,433 --> 00:20:26,952 They were frightened of all the other animals, 144 00:20:26,976 --> 00:20:28,811 indeed, of everything around them. 145 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:31,147 If I had not revived them with an antidote, 146 00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:33,441 they would probably have starved to death. 147 00:20:33,524 --> 00:20:35,860 Others that were formerly quite mild in character 148 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:38,988 became bold, aggressive, and ferocious. 149 00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:41,740 And it was impossible to foretell 150 00:20:41,824 --> 00:20:45,453 what the reaction would be with any one particular animal. 151 00:20:45,536 --> 00:20:49,707 Then it doesn't just break down the barriers of the unconscious, 152 00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,835 it does something else? 153 00:20:53,294 --> 00:20:54,670 Yes. 154 00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:56,213 What? 155 00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:59,049 I don't know. 156 00:20:59,133 --> 00:21:01,635 Have you tried it on your patients? 157 00:21:21,864 --> 00:21:23,824 - Yes? - Poole speaking, sir. 158 00:21:23,908 --> 00:21:25,951 Mr Deane is here for his appointment. 159 00:21:26,035 --> 00:21:28,037 Show him in, will you? 160 00:21:32,208 --> 00:21:34,293 I don't know why I come to you. 161 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:36,337 Perhaps it's because no other doctor will admit 162 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,130 that, although your ailments are painful, 163 00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:40,424 they have no physical cause. 164 00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:43,677 You know, you really have a very easy life. 165 00:21:43,802 --> 00:21:46,889 All you do is listen to people talking all day. 166 00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:49,475 I make decisions! Take risks! 167 00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:51,936 Make plans! Tell people what to do! 168 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:54,146 It's a hard job, and it takes a hard man to do it. 169 00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:56,190 So, when are you going to tell me something? 170 00:21:56,315 --> 00:22:00,402 What the hell do you think I pay you for? I want results! 171 00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:05,991 - Don't you think we've been getting them? - No, I do not. 172 00:22:06,116 --> 00:22:07,701 Mr Deane, 173 00:22:08,202 --> 00:22:10,621 there is a way we can get results. 174 00:22:14,917 --> 00:22:16,043 No, no, not again. 175 00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:18,087 Don't hurt me again. 176 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:21,423 Don't hurt me. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... 177 00:22:25,511 --> 00:22:28,138 I know you know what's best for me. 178 00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:30,849 I'll be a good boy. 179 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:32,226 I will! 180 00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:35,104 I promise you I'll be a good boy. 181 00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:40,901 Marlowe! 182 00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:43,487 Come and join us. 183 00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:55,249 A double whisky for our friend. 184 00:22:56,834 --> 00:22:58,585 You look as if you need it. 185 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:03,215 It's... It's this drug I've been telling you about. 186 00:23:03,841 --> 00:23:08,554 I'm absolutely convinced that it has a therapeutic value, but 187 00:23:08,637 --> 00:23:11,807 it turns one person into an angel, 188 00:23:12,308 --> 00:23:14,226 another one into a fiend, 189 00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:15,728 one into a child... 190 00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,855 Does it have the same effect on the same person 191 00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:19,273 a second time? 192 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:21,734 I don't know. I can hardly 193 00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:24,862 subject my patients to endless experiments. 194 00:23:25,446 --> 00:23:26,864 But I'll... 195 00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:28,949 I'll find out. 196 00:28:14,735 --> 00:28:16,820 What's been happening recently has so disturbed me 197 00:28:16,903 --> 00:28:19,865 that I felt I had to come and see you. 198 00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:23,035 Here am I, practising as a healer of minds, 199 00:28:23,118 --> 00:28:25,996 and I'm beginning to discover things I didn't even know existed. 200 00:28:26,121 --> 00:28:28,290 It's almost as if it were true. 201 00:28:29,291 --> 00:28:31,293 - What is? - The common factor, 202 00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:33,462 between the drugs that I'm giving my patients, 203 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:36,548 and the animals in my laboratory. 204 00:28:36,632 --> 00:28:39,509 It didn't do different things to them. 205 00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:42,137 It did the same thing. 206 00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:45,182 Or almost the same. 207 00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:50,312 - And it fits. - Fits what? 208 00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:53,190 The theories I've been using with my patients. 209 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:55,400 The ideas of Dr Freud. 210 00:28:56,485 --> 00:29:00,530 What are the three elements into which he divides the human psyche? 211 00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:01,657 First, 212 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:04,743 the primitive drive, the id, as he terms it. 213 00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:09,039 The part of us that is unconscious, amoral, unrestricted. 214 00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,916 And then, the ego. 215 00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:15,629 Conscious, logical, and realistic. 216 00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:20,384 And finally, the superego. 217 00:29:21,468 --> 00:29:25,222 Moral, critical, 218 00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:27,432 guilt-forming. 219 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,020 Now, suppose the drug destroyed 220 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:34,898 all but one part of the personality? 221 00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:36,483 If it destroyed the primitive part... 222 00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:38,151 He would be all superego. 223 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:40,112 Docile, compliant, 224 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:42,823 afraid of offending, well-behaved. 225 00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:45,492 A conscience-ridden child. 226 00:29:45,992 --> 00:29:48,078 And if it destroyed the superego? 227 00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:51,581 Then he would have no conscience, no guilt, no shame. 228 00:29:51,665 --> 00:29:54,668 He would give way to every blind impulse, 229 00:29:54,751 --> 00:29:58,880 every repressed desire, every secret wish. 230 00:29:59,005 --> 00:30:02,759 He would be the most dangerous human being on Earth. 231 00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:04,845 A monster. 232 00:31:48,114 --> 00:31:49,825 What's the idea, mister? 233 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:10,739 I want a room. 234 00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:12,532 Come back tomorrow. 235 00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:15,076 I want a room. 236 00:33:15,911 --> 00:33:17,537 Now. 237 00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:19,706 For how long? 238 00:33:20,206 --> 00:33:22,042 For a night. 239 00:33:22,167 --> 00:33:23,293 For a week. 240 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:24,502 For... 241 00:33:26,463 --> 00:33:27,589 longer. 242 00:33:54,658 --> 00:33:58,411 It's four shillings a week, paid in advance. 243 00:33:59,663 --> 00:34:01,539 A month in advance. 244 00:34:12,926 --> 00:34:14,594 Oi! 245 00:35:21,244 --> 00:35:23,246 He's all right. 246 00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:04,245 This is strange. 247 00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:07,957 Here's a report on a series of mysterious crimes 248 00:36:08,083 --> 00:36:10,210 committed recently in Soho. 249 00:36:10,335 --> 00:36:14,380 Robberies, in which the items were not taken, 250 00:36:14,923 --> 00:36:16,758 but destroyed, 251 00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:20,386 and assaults with no apparent motive. 252 00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:25,141 Crimes, so far as the police can see, 253 00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:28,895 committed solely for the joy of committing them. 254 00:36:29,062 --> 00:36:30,772 There are no such crimes. 255 00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:32,899 I saw something the other day 256 00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:35,235 that I'd call a crime of... 257 00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,153 pure evil. 258 00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:50,416 Now, this is where it happened, 259 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:52,168 three nights ago, 260 00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:55,630 and it's a story with a very strange ending. 261 00:36:55,713 --> 00:36:57,132 Indeed? 262 00:36:57,507 --> 00:36:59,092 I was coming home from... 263 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:01,219 oh, some place at the end of the world, 264 00:37:01,302 --> 00:37:05,348 about three o'clock of a black winter's morning. 265 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,518 The streets were as silent as a tomb. 266 00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:12,438 Street after street, empty. Everyone asleep. 267 00:37:12,522 --> 00:37:14,524 Then, all at once, 268 00:37:14,816 --> 00:37:16,609 I saw two figures. 269 00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:18,820 One was a man, 270 00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:20,780 coming from this direction. 271 00:37:20,864 --> 00:37:24,075 The other a girl, of perhaps six or seven, 272 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:26,202 who was running as hard as she was able, 273 00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:28,329 from the doorway of that church over there. 274 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:31,624 The two of them ran into one another, naturally enough, 275 00:37:32,208 --> 00:37:33,835 at this corner. 276 00:37:34,419 --> 00:37:37,922 But, then came the horrible part of the thing. 277 00:37:38,715 --> 00:37:41,426 For, having knocked the child down, 278 00:37:41,509 --> 00:37:44,971 the man trampled calmly over her body, 279 00:37:45,096 --> 00:37:47,140 and left her lying on the ground. 280 00:37:47,223 --> 00:37:48,850 Good Lord! 281 00:37:49,726 --> 00:37:51,603 Of course, I chased after him, 282 00:37:51,686 --> 00:37:53,730 collared the gentleman, and brought him back 283 00:37:53,813 --> 00:37:55,356 to where there was already 284 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,567 quite a group round the injured child. 285 00:37:57,650 --> 00:37:59,986 Well, we ran him up to a hundred pounds 286 00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:01,654 for the sake of the child's family. 287 00:38:01,738 --> 00:38:04,282 But, at the hundred he stuck. 288 00:38:04,908 --> 00:38:07,493 The next thing was to get the money. 289 00:38:07,577 --> 00:38:09,287 And where do you think he carried us, 290 00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:13,958 but to some grimy back door just round that corner, 291 00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:16,502 whipped out a key, went in, 292 00:38:16,586 --> 00:38:20,715 and presently came back with a matter of ten pounds in gold, 293 00:38:20,798 --> 00:38:23,635 and a cheque for the balance on Coutts, 294 00:38:23,718 --> 00:38:25,553 drawn "payable to bearer". 295 00:38:26,554 --> 00:38:29,557 I was curious to see how the situation would turn out, 296 00:38:29,641 --> 00:38:32,018 particularly for a reason that I'll tell you in a moment. 297 00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:34,646 So we all went to the home of the child's parents, 298 00:38:34,729 --> 00:38:36,231 and waited till morning. 299 00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:38,316 Then, we went to the bank, 300 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:40,318 where the man signed the back of the cheque, 301 00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:43,488 and it was cashed without question. I was amazed. 302 00:38:43,571 --> 00:38:44,739 Well, why? 303 00:38:45,573 --> 00:38:48,534 Because the signature on the cheque 304 00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:51,663 was that of none other than our friend 305 00:38:51,746 --> 00:38:53,831 Dr Charles Marlowe. 306 00:38:58,878 --> 00:39:02,131 What was the name of the man who trampled on the child? 307 00:39:02,298 --> 00:39:05,176 Er... Blake. Edward Blake. 308 00:39:05,301 --> 00:39:07,011 Does it mean anything to you? 309 00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:09,597 - Do you know where Marlowe lives? - No. 310 00:39:09,681 --> 00:39:10,890 There. 311 00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:14,644 But that's the door I was telling you about! 312 00:39:14,727 --> 00:39:17,647 Yes, and it must lead into Marlowe's house. 313 00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:19,857 And this Mr Blake? 314 00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:21,859 Well, obviously, he's a blackmailer. 315 00:39:21,943 --> 00:39:24,696 Otherwise, why should Marlowe give him money? 316 00:39:24,779 --> 00:39:27,156 If we should inform the police? 317 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,617 That is exactly what Marlowe must be trying to avoid, 318 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,953 or he would have gone to them himself. No. 319 00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:33,788 No, not the police. 320 00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:35,832 Dr Lanyon. 321 00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:38,584 I'm afraid Dr Marlowe and I 322 00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:40,670 haven't spoken for some weeks. 323 00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:42,255 Not spoken? 324 00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:44,841 But he's always looked up to you, admired you. 325 00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:47,051 You're not only his mentor, but his friend. 326 00:39:47,135 --> 00:39:50,930 Yes, I was. I was. But we had a quarrel. 327 00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:52,890 Not one, several. 328 00:39:53,308 --> 00:39:55,727 - May I ask...? - Over that unscientific balderdash 329 00:39:55,852 --> 00:39:57,562 on which he's wasting his time. 330 00:39:57,645 --> 00:39:59,397 A drug, 331 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,734 which he claims can turn a person into someone totally good, 332 00:40:02,817 --> 00:40:05,820 in the way the world looks at "good", 333 00:40:05,903 --> 00:40:08,031 or totally evil. 334 00:40:09,032 --> 00:40:11,951 Have you ever come across a protégé of his? 335 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:14,454 A man called Edward Blake? 336 00:40:16,289 --> 00:40:19,042 No, I... I don't think I have. 337 00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:22,378 - Why do you ask? - Oh, it was nothing important. 338 00:40:22,462 --> 00:40:24,047 I just wondered. 339 00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:41,124 "In the case of my disappearance," 340 00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:46,045 "or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," 341 00:41:46,129 --> 00:41:50,967 "all my possessions will pass into the hands of my friend and benefactor," 342 00:41:51,134 --> 00:41:55,513 "Edward Blake, of number 6, Fleet Chambers, London." 343 00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:13,966 Took your time, didn't you? 344 00:43:28,814 --> 00:43:31,234 - Is Dr Marlowe at home? - I'll see, Mr Utterson. 345 00:43:31,317 --> 00:43:34,362 - Will you come in, sir? - Thank you. 346 00:43:36,531 --> 00:43:38,449 Will you wait here by the fire, sir, 347 00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:40,576 or shall I give you a light in the dining room? 348 00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:42,954 - I'll wait here. - Yes, sir. 349 00:43:57,385 --> 00:44:00,805 I'm sorry, sir, but Dr Marlowe's gone out. 350 00:44:01,514 --> 00:44:02,890 - Poole? - Yes, sir? 351 00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:05,560 Is there another door to Dr Marlowe's laboratory? 352 00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:07,770 Er... yes, sir. It leads to the garden. 353 00:44:07,853 --> 00:44:10,147 And is there another entrance to the garden? 354 00:44:10,231 --> 00:44:13,192 Yes, sir. There's a door which leads to the street. 355 00:44:13,943 --> 00:44:16,988 I saw a man go through that door just a few moments ago. 356 00:44:17,071 --> 00:44:20,199 Why, Mr Utterson, sir, it must have been Mr Blake. 357 00:44:20,283 --> 00:44:24,370 - You know him? - Yes, sir. Mr Blake has a key. 358 00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:27,582 Your master seems to repose a great deal of trust in him. 359 00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,500 He does indeed, sir. 360 00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:31,836 We all have orders to obey him. 361 00:44:32,503 --> 00:44:35,840 He told me that everyone in the house had orders to obey Blake. 362 00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:39,885 - Really? - This blackmailer has gone too far. 363 00:44:39,969 --> 00:44:43,055 There must be some way to help Marlowe. 364 00:44:43,139 --> 00:44:44,807 There must be. 365 00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:26,932 Good evening. 366 00:46:05,388 --> 00:46:06,597 Mr Blake? 367 00:46:29,995 --> 00:46:31,872 I've been wanting to speak to you, Charles, 368 00:46:32,289 --> 00:46:34,500 about that will of yours. 369 00:46:35,710 --> 00:46:39,797 You must think of me as a most inconsiderate client. 370 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,967 I never knew a man so disturbed as you were about that will. 371 00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:43,608 Thank you. 372 00:46:43,620 --> 00:46:45,803 Unless it was that hide-bound pedant Lanyon, 373 00:46:45,886 --> 00:46:49,098 at what he terms my "scientific heresies". 374 00:46:49,306 --> 00:46:53,436 But, I can assure you, I knew what I was about when I made it. 375 00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:57,189 I have never approved of your will, and I'll tell you so again. 376 00:46:57,481 --> 00:47:00,484 You don't understand my position, Frederick. 377 00:47:01,861 --> 00:47:04,238 You don't understand it at all! 378 00:47:05,364 --> 00:47:07,366 It's a very strange one. 379 00:47:08,075 --> 00:47:10,077 Very strange indeed. But, I can assure you, 380 00:47:10,161 --> 00:47:12,580 that I can be rid of Mr Blake any time I choose. 381 00:47:12,705 --> 00:47:14,915 Then get rid of him, I beg you, for your own sake. 382 00:47:14,999 --> 00:47:17,585 You led a happy life until you became involved with this man. 383 00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:19,003 Happy? 384 00:47:22,590 --> 00:47:24,008 How well did you know my father? 385 00:47:24,091 --> 00:47:27,219 Well, I hardly knew him at all. My father and he were friends. 386 00:47:27,344 --> 00:47:29,472 Like all fashionable doctors, 387 00:47:29,555 --> 00:47:33,058 my father carried a gold-headed cane. 388 00:47:35,186 --> 00:47:39,231 He used it for other things besides walking. 389 00:47:40,441 --> 00:47:43,152 Your friend Blake carries such a cane. 390 00:47:43,611 --> 00:47:45,654 My friend Blake 391 00:47:45,738 --> 00:47:50,576 has discovered the pleasures of what the world calls "evil", 392 00:47:50,701 --> 00:47:53,120 of doing what one wants to do, without restraint, 393 00:47:53,204 --> 00:47:55,247 without conscience, without penalty. 394 00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:58,209 Or rather, without any penalty but one. 395 00:48:02,922 --> 00:48:05,174 The face of evil is... 396 00:48:05,508 --> 00:48:07,551 ugly to look upon. 397 00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:11,472 And, as the pleasures increase, 398 00:48:11,806 --> 00:48:14,016 the face becomes... 399 00:48:14,099 --> 00:48:15,726 uglier. 400 00:50:36,784 --> 00:50:38,035 Gin. 401 00:50:38,369 --> 00:50:39,620 One for her. 402 00:50:39,912 --> 00:50:43,624 It's not anyone who can buy me a drink, you know. 403 00:50:47,670 --> 00:50:50,965 Oh, sure, I'm having a hard time. 404 00:50:51,924 --> 00:50:54,343 Only with me it's worse. 405 00:50:55,344 --> 00:50:57,221 It's my head, you see. 406 00:50:57,304 --> 00:50:58,597 It hurts. 407 00:50:59,723 --> 00:51:01,558 I used to work. 408 00:51:01,642 --> 00:51:03,185 Used to earn money. 409 00:51:04,812 --> 00:51:08,774 You try brushing enamel sixteen hours a day. 410 00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:15,155 Harriet still does. 411 00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,448 She's my sister. 412 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,369 She doesn't mind my having visitors. 413 00:51:20,452 --> 00:51:23,706 Just so long as we don't make too much noise. 414 00:51:25,666 --> 00:51:29,545 But then you're not one of the noisy type, are you? 415 00:51:31,630 --> 00:51:32,923 Hey, Annie! 416 00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:35,592 I thought you was walking out with me? 417 00:51:36,802 --> 00:51:39,013 This lady's with me. 418 00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:41,181 - Oh, is she? - Yes. 419 00:51:41,390 --> 00:51:45,519 What would I be doing with an ugly thing like you? 420 00:52:57,883 --> 00:53:00,052 Bye! 421 00:53:20,823 --> 00:53:23,283 Oh, it's you! 422 00:55:45,342 --> 00:55:47,052 All right! 423 00:55:47,135 --> 00:55:48,679 All right! 424 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:55,519 Well, 425 00:55:55,602 --> 00:55:57,437 what are you waiting for? 426 00:57:01,918 --> 00:57:03,587 Excuse me. Move back. 427 00:57:16,683 --> 00:57:18,101 Murder! 428 00:57:18,185 --> 00:57:21,855 Dockland murder! Read all about it! 429 00:57:22,314 --> 00:57:27,069 Dockland murder! Read all about it! Vicious killing! 430 00:57:27,361 --> 00:57:30,447 Read all about it! Dockland murder! 431 00:57:30,530 --> 00:57:33,325 Vicious Dockland murder! Read all about it! 432 00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:35,577 Read all about it! 433 00:58:07,567 --> 00:58:11,696 - I must see Dr Marlowe. - I'm afraid... but, sir... 434 00:58:14,366 --> 00:58:18,745 He's in his laboratory, sir, but he said he wasn't to be disturbed. 435 00:58:21,415 --> 00:58:23,708 Tell him it concerns Mr Edward Blake. 436 00:58:27,671 --> 00:58:29,297 You've heard the news? 437 00:58:29,381 --> 00:58:33,176 I heard them crying it in the street. I was in my dining room. 438 00:58:35,345 --> 00:58:37,180 Poor child. 439 00:58:37,264 --> 00:58:39,891 I have reason to believe that the murderer was Edward Blake. 440 00:58:39,975 --> 00:58:41,393 What reason? 441 00:58:41,476 --> 00:58:43,520 The gold-headed cane found near the body. 442 00:58:43,603 --> 00:58:45,706 It was exactly the same as the one Blake was carrying, 443 00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:47,065 the night I confronted him. 444 00:58:47,149 --> 00:58:49,025 There are many such canes, no doubt. 445 00:58:49,109 --> 00:58:51,820 Not so many men capable of committing such a murder. 446 00:58:51,903 --> 00:58:53,655 All men are capable of committing crimes. 447 00:58:53,738 --> 00:58:55,031 Please, Charles. 448 00:58:55,115 --> 00:59:00,078 Provided they are not restrained by the good that is in them. 449 00:59:00,328 --> 00:59:04,374 That is not the way you spoke the last time we discussed the subject. 450 00:59:04,458 --> 00:59:05,709 I've... 451 00:59:06,126 --> 00:59:07,794 changed my mind. 452 00:59:09,754 --> 00:59:13,300 As for Edward Blake, 453 00:59:15,635 --> 00:59:17,471 I have done with him. 454 00:59:18,096 --> 00:59:19,931 I give you my word that 455 00:59:20,015 --> 00:59:22,058 we shall never set eyes on him again. 456 00:59:23,226 --> 00:59:25,020 You seem very sure of him? 457 00:59:25,103 --> 00:59:26,938 Oh, I am... 458 00:59:27,397 --> 00:59:28,732 quite sure. 459 00:59:30,484 --> 00:59:33,153 I received a letter from him this morning, 460 00:59:33,737 --> 00:59:35,989 thanking me for all I'd done for him, 461 00:59:36,072 --> 00:59:39,451 and telling me that he was leaving the country 462 00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:41,244 for ever. 463 00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:49,211 Do you have the envelope? 464 00:59:50,295 --> 00:59:54,549 I... I burnt it before I knew what I was at. 465 00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:59,513 It... It bore no postmark, should you wish to trace it. 466 00:59:59,638 --> 01:00:01,932 It was delivered by messenger. 467 01:00:02,015 --> 01:00:03,409 You... You may show it to the police, 468 01:00:03,433 --> 01:00:05,644 or not, as you will. 469 01:00:09,189 --> 01:00:12,609 Was it Blake who dictated the terms of your will? 470 01:00:16,363 --> 01:00:17,697 I knew it. 471 01:00:18,532 --> 01:00:20,534 He meant to murder you. 472 01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:22,994 You've had a lucky escape. 473 01:00:23,662 --> 01:00:25,705 I've had what is 474 01:00:25,789 --> 01:00:27,999 more to the purpose. 475 01:00:28,959 --> 01:00:31,044 I've had a lesson. 476 01:00:35,131 --> 01:00:36,424 Charles... 477 01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:44,266 Goodbye, Charles. 478 01:01:31,187 --> 01:01:32,981 - By the way, Poole... - Yes, sir? 479 01:01:33,064 --> 01:01:35,567 A letter was delivered by hand today. 480 01:01:35,650 --> 01:01:38,361 Could you describe the messenger? 481 01:01:38,737 --> 01:01:40,447 A letter, sir? 482 01:01:40,572 --> 01:01:43,491 There was no letter delivered by messenger today, sir. 483 01:01:43,617 --> 01:01:45,493 Nothing came except by post, 484 01:01:45,577 --> 01:01:47,871 and only circulars with that. 485 01:02:40,256 --> 01:02:41,549 Very similar. 486 01:02:44,511 --> 01:02:46,304 Is Dr Marlowe at home? 487 01:02:46,388 --> 01:02:49,557 No, sir. He went out about half an hour ago. 488 01:02:49,641 --> 01:02:52,644 - Did he say where he was going? - No, sir. 489 01:02:52,727 --> 01:02:55,355 - I'll wait for him. - Very good, sir. 490 01:04:52,722 --> 01:04:54,265 Ugh! 491 01:05:28,967 --> 01:05:30,468 - Poole. - Yes, sir? 492 01:05:30,552 --> 01:05:34,055 - I cannot wait any longer. - Very good, sir. 493 01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:50,905 When Dr Marlowe returns, tell him I must see him. 494 01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:53,384 Ask him if he'd be good enough to call on me later this evening. 495 01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:55,910 - Yes, sir. - And if Mr Blake should appear, 496 01:05:55,994 --> 01:05:58,162 bar the doors, and inform the police. 497 01:05:58,246 --> 01:06:02,166 - Yes, sir. Good night, sir. - Good night. 498 01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,036 Who is it? 499 01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:57,782 "If you value the friendship we once had for each other," 500 01:07:59,993 --> 01:08:02,328 "you must help me." 501 01:08:06,290 --> 01:08:08,543 I received this letter from Dr Marlowe. 502 01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:10,753 It asks me to get some items from his laboratory. 503 01:08:10,837 --> 01:08:12,755 Will you show me where it is? 504 01:08:12,839 --> 01:08:14,882 - Where is Dr Marlowe? - I don't know. 505 01:08:14,966 --> 01:08:17,010 He says in the letter that he'll come to see me 506 01:08:17,093 --> 01:08:19,846 after I have obtained the items. 507 01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:23,433 - Will you come this way, sir? - Thank you. 508 01:09:33,669 --> 01:09:35,338 Who are you? 509 01:09:39,842 --> 01:09:41,677 Where is Dr Marlowe? 510 01:09:42,929 --> 01:09:44,680 What has happened to him? 511 01:09:49,102 --> 01:09:51,687 For God's sake, let me go! 512 01:09:53,356 --> 01:09:54,356 Please. 513 01:09:54,565 --> 01:09:56,192 If you try to leave... 514 01:09:58,027 --> 01:10:00,279 I will try to prevent you. 515 01:10:00,947 --> 01:10:02,657 And, in the struggle, 516 01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:06,494 that bottle you hold so precious, 517 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,413 might easily get broken. 518 01:10:10,706 --> 01:10:11,874 Come, now. 519 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:15,545 Where is Dr Marlowe? 520 01:10:16,963 --> 01:10:18,464 Very well. 521 01:10:20,466 --> 01:10:24,762 I've pleaded with you to let me leave in peace, 522 01:10:26,430 --> 01:10:28,516 but you refused. 523 01:10:29,559 --> 01:10:34,021 Just as you refused to believe Dr Marlowe. 524 01:10:35,398 --> 01:10:38,359 Now, look! 525 01:11:44,592 --> 01:11:46,010 Oh, God! 526 01:11:47,345 --> 01:11:48,763 God! 527 01:12:31,555 --> 01:12:33,224 - Sir... - Yes? 528 01:12:33,307 --> 01:12:35,101 Mr Utterson was here earlier this evening, 529 01:12:35,184 --> 01:12:36,519 and Dr Lanyon was here. 530 01:12:36,602 --> 01:12:38,121 - He had a letter, which is... - Did he give it to you? 531 01:12:38,145 --> 01:12:39,605 - Yes, sir. - Well, burn it! 532 01:12:39,689 --> 01:12:41,691 As for Mr Utterson, tell him I'm out. 533 01:12:41,774 --> 01:12:43,335 Whenever he calls in future, tell him I'm out. 534 01:12:43,359 --> 01:12:46,237 I'm going to the laboratory. I don't want to be disturbed! 535 01:14:45,106 --> 01:14:46,607 Utterson.