1 00:00:49,968 --> 00:00:51,261 Bring them here. 2 00:00:51,469 --> 00:00:54,681 I want these on the back of that thing. 3 00:00:54,889 --> 00:00:55,807 Right away. 4 00:00:56,015 --> 00:00:57,058 What's he up to? 5 00:00:57,267 --> 00:00:59,310 You two. Get in there. 6 00:00:59,519 --> 00:01:00,854 Hey. Come on. 7 00:01:01,062 --> 00:01:02,981 Get those bricks in that pile there. 8 00:01:03,189 --> 00:01:04,524 Lambie! 9 00:01:05,942 --> 00:01:07,527 We're already behind schedule. 10 00:01:07,736 --> 00:01:09,612 What do you think you're doing? 11 00:01:14,868 --> 00:01:17,162 They look like gargoyles, sir. 12 00:01:17,370 --> 00:01:21,166 The contortions of the bodies would suggest poisoning. 13 00:01:21,374 --> 00:01:23,168 An astute hypothesis, Detective. 14 00:01:23,376 --> 00:01:24,627 Cyanide perhaps? 15 00:01:24,836 --> 00:01:28,381 That would explain the clenched fists. 16 00:01:28,590 --> 00:01:29,966 What about the color of their skin? 17 00:01:30,175 --> 00:01:33,178 Stained by the damp earth, I suspect. 18 00:01:33,386 --> 00:01:35,889 Cyanide is often used in suicides. 19 00:01:36,097 --> 00:01:38,141 Perhaps they killed themselves. 20 00:01:38,349 --> 00:01:41,394 How did they then bury themselves, George? 21 00:01:41,603 --> 00:01:43,772 Point taken, sir. 22 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:44,773 So, murder, then. 23 00:01:44,981 --> 00:01:46,232 Judging by their condition, 24 00:01:46,441 --> 00:01:49,110 I suspect they were killed within the last two weeks. 25 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:50,236 Not likely. 26 00:01:50,445 --> 00:01:54,699 There was a shed built over those piles. 27 00:01:54,908 --> 00:01:57,994 Could someone have cut the floorboards then, to bury them? 28 00:01:58,203 --> 00:02:00,330 No. Lambie or myself would have noticed a thing like that. 29 00:02:00,538 --> 00:02:03,041 When was the shed demolished? 30 00:02:03,249 --> 00:02:04,918 We took up the floor this morning. 31 00:02:06,419 --> 00:02:09,506 So the bodies were buried before the shed was built. 32 00:02:09,714 --> 00:02:11,257 Any idea when that might have been? 33 00:02:11,466 --> 00:02:13,468 About five years ago, as I recollect. 34 00:02:13,676 --> 00:02:15,011 Five years? 35 00:02:15,220 --> 00:02:18,640 So they were lying there in the ground all of this time, 36 00:02:18,848 --> 00:02:20,266 perfectly preserved. 37 00:02:24,562 --> 00:02:25,897 Five years in the ground 38 00:02:26,105 --> 00:02:27,023 and they've not decomposed. 39 00:02:27,232 --> 00:02:28,608 How is that possible? 40 00:02:28,817 --> 00:02:30,860 They were buried in sphagnum moss, sir. 41 00:02:31,069 --> 00:02:32,904 Moss? As in peat moss? 42 00:02:33,112 --> 00:02:33,905 Yes. 43 00:02:34,113 --> 00:02:35,907 Its acidic nature acts as a sort of preservative. 44 00:02:36,115 --> 00:02:38,952 The watery, airless conditions prevent organic matter 45 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,036 from decomposing. 46 00:02:40,245 --> 00:02:42,247 I've never heard of such a thing. 47 00:02:42,455 --> 00:02:45,083 Well, sir, there has been a recorded case just this year. 48 00:02:45,291 --> 00:02:48,545 A young girl was found in a peat bog in the Netherlands. 49 00:02:48,753 --> 00:02:50,338 Yes, Murdoch, I'll take your word for it. 50 00:02:50,547 --> 00:02:53,716 So whoever built this shed did it to conceal the bodies. 51 00:02:53,925 --> 00:02:55,802 That would be the owner of the factory -- 52 00:02:56,010 --> 00:02:56,803 a James Kirkham. 53 00:02:57,011 --> 00:02:58,096 I've asked George to find him 54 00:02:58,304 --> 00:03:00,056 and determine the nature of his business. 55 00:03:00,265 --> 00:03:02,100 I did ask him to be quick about it. 56 00:03:02,308 --> 00:03:04,727 Oh, good. Because with a five-year-old case, 57 00:03:04,936 --> 00:03:07,564 we wouldn't want the trail to go cold, would we? 58 00:03:11,192 --> 00:03:12,026 Remarkable. 59 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:13,444 I'm receiving telegrams 60 00:03:13,653 --> 00:03:15,029 from universities and museums 61 00:03:15,238 --> 00:03:16,781 all but begging for information. 62 00:03:16,990 --> 00:03:18,533 Well, this is a very rare find. 63 00:03:18,741 --> 00:03:20,702 Did you know that earlier this year, 64 00:03:20,910 --> 00:03:22,495 the body of a mummified woman... 65 00:03:22,704 --> 00:03:24,455 Was discovered in the Netherlands. 66 00:03:24,664 --> 00:03:27,166 Preserved in a peat bog just like this. 67 00:03:27,375 --> 00:03:28,626 Yes. 68 00:03:28,835 --> 00:03:30,753 So, what have you learned, Doctor? 69 00:03:30,962 --> 00:03:33,715 Well, they're a male and female, obviously. 70 00:03:33,923 --> 00:03:36,467 Both approximately 40 years of age. 71 00:03:36,676 --> 00:03:38,261 And how did you determine that? 72 00:03:38,469 --> 00:03:41,389 Fine wrinkles where the skin has been folded on itself. 73 00:03:41,598 --> 00:03:43,516 People go gray at different rates, 74 00:03:43,725 --> 00:03:45,727 but skin breakdown is fairly uniform. 75 00:03:45,935 --> 00:03:47,228 Of particular interest, 76 00:03:47,437 --> 00:03:49,981 their internal organs are entirely intact, 77 00:03:50,189 --> 00:03:53,276 as are their stomach contents. 78 00:03:53,484 --> 00:04:00,950 It looks like partially-digested meat, potato, and onion? 79 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:03,202 And cyanide. In both stomachs. 80 00:04:03,411 --> 00:04:05,580 They were definitely poisoned. 81 00:04:05,788 --> 00:04:07,332 Were they husband and wife? 82 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:08,833 Or brother and sister? 83 00:04:09,042 --> 00:04:09,834 Their similar ages 84 00:04:10,043 --> 00:04:11,878 and the fact that they shared the same last meal 85 00:04:12,086 --> 00:04:13,254 would suggest they cohabitated. 86 00:04:13,463 --> 00:04:14,547 Yes. 87 00:04:14,756 --> 00:04:16,132 And there is this. 88 00:04:16,341 --> 00:04:19,260 A dental apparatus I found in the woman's mouth. 89 00:04:19,469 --> 00:04:21,012 Are these teeth human? 90 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:24,015 I'd guess goat or calf. 91 00:04:24,223 --> 00:04:26,100 Clearly, the dentist they visited 92 00:04:26,309 --> 00:04:27,852 employed primitive techniques. 93 00:04:28,061 --> 00:04:29,520 Or they could have been immigrants. 94 00:04:29,729 --> 00:04:30,688 From Eastern Europe perhaps? 95 00:04:30,897 --> 00:04:32,273 Mm. 96 00:04:32,482 --> 00:04:34,692 Well, this is an excellent start. 97 00:04:34,901 --> 00:04:39,822 Yes, well, I may have saved the best for last. 98 00:04:42,241 --> 00:04:44,369 It's like it's staring at me, sir. 99 00:04:44,577 --> 00:04:46,371 Yes, quite realistic, isn't it? 100 00:04:46,579 --> 00:04:48,665 How would one keep it from falling out? 101 00:04:48,873 --> 00:04:51,960 I mean, imagine how embarrassing at a lovely romantic dinner 102 00:04:52,168 --> 00:04:54,337 and your glass eye falls into your soup. 103 00:04:54,545 --> 00:04:57,048 Not this one, George. This one is very well made. 104 00:04:57,256 --> 00:05:00,218 It would have been custom-fitted to the man's eye socket. 105 00:05:00,426 --> 00:05:01,886 There appears to be an identification mark 106 00:05:02,095 --> 00:05:02,887 of some sort. 107 00:05:03,096 --> 00:05:05,390 Something to offer us some insight, sir? 108 00:05:05,598 --> 00:05:08,726 George, there's a very attractive young lady 109 00:05:08,935 --> 00:05:09,811 to see you here. 110 00:05:10,019 --> 00:05:11,521 - Georgie! - Penny. 111 00:05:11,729 --> 00:05:13,898 Oh, my! 112 00:05:14,107 --> 00:05:16,693 Ah, yes, thank you. That will be all, Higgins. 113 00:05:16,901 --> 00:05:18,277 Georgie, how wonderful to see you. 114 00:05:18,486 --> 00:05:20,822 The trip was very long and the railcar had a certain odor, 115 00:05:21,030 --> 00:05:21,864 but it went by very quickly. 116 00:05:22,073 --> 00:05:22,907 And Toronto is much bigger 117 00:05:23,116 --> 00:05:24,200 than I thought it was going to be. 118 00:05:24,409 --> 00:05:27,286 You look so smart in your uniform. 119 00:05:27,495 --> 00:05:29,872 Is that a glass eye? 120 00:05:30,081 --> 00:05:31,749 I do believe it's staring at me. 121 00:05:31,958 --> 00:05:33,251 Relative of yours, George? 122 00:05:33,459 --> 00:05:34,669 Yes, sir. 123 00:05:34,877 --> 00:05:37,046 Please allow me to introduce you to my cousin, 124 00:05:37,255 --> 00:05:38,047 Miss Penny Renton. 125 00:05:38,256 --> 00:05:39,674 Penny, this is Detective Murdoch. 126 00:05:39,882 --> 00:05:41,718 A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Miss Renton. 127 00:05:41,926 --> 00:05:43,553 And you, sir. If you don't mind me saying, 128 00:05:43,761 --> 00:05:45,263 Georgia's always writing home about you 129 00:05:45,471 --> 00:05:47,765 and your brilliant ideas you have and the experiments you do 130 00:05:47,974 --> 00:05:50,101 and how he's so much wishing he'll be like you one day and -- 131 00:05:50,309 --> 00:05:53,104 Penny tends to go on quite a bit, sir. 132 00:05:53,312 --> 00:05:54,856 She came all the way from Belleville 133 00:05:55,064 --> 00:05:56,190 to attend secretarial school. 134 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:57,442 Oh, well, in that case, 135 00:05:57,650 --> 00:05:59,652 I wish you all the success in the world. 136 00:05:59,861 --> 00:06:00,903 Now, if you don't mind, 137 00:06:01,112 --> 00:06:03,156 I have a couple of things I need to discuss 138 00:06:03,364 --> 00:06:04,449 with Constable Crabtree. 139 00:06:04,657 --> 00:06:06,993 "Constable Crabtree." 140 00:06:07,201 --> 00:06:08,453 Of course. 141 00:06:08,661 --> 00:06:11,205 Sir, about the letters, she tends to exaggerate. 142 00:06:11,414 --> 00:06:12,582 It's quite all right, George. 143 00:06:14,250 --> 00:06:16,002 I looked into the factory and its owner. 144 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:18,087 And I think you'll be particularly interested 145 00:06:18,296 --> 00:06:19,088 in what they made there. 146 00:06:19,297 --> 00:06:20,131 Very good. 147 00:06:20,339 --> 00:06:21,799 And if you could please find out all you can 148 00:06:22,008 --> 00:06:23,051 about this glass eye. 149 00:06:23,259 --> 00:06:25,094 Where it was manufactured, when, and for whom. 150 00:06:25,303 --> 00:06:26,095 Yes, sir. 151 00:06:26,304 --> 00:06:28,097 I will look into it. 152 00:06:31,851 --> 00:06:33,561 All right. I'm nipping this in the bud. 153 00:06:40,818 --> 00:06:42,695 As I already told your colleague, 154 00:06:42,904 --> 00:06:45,698 there'll be no photographs of the bodies released, 155 00:06:45,907 --> 00:06:47,408 nor any details of this case. 156 00:06:47,617 --> 00:06:50,870 Yes, you can call back later if you wish, 157 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:53,206 but don't expect to hear anything differently. 158 00:06:53,414 --> 00:06:55,458 Thank you. Bye-bye. 159 00:06:55,666 --> 00:06:57,001 Bloody reporters. 160 00:06:57,210 --> 00:06:59,253 That's the third one I've had sniffing around 161 00:06:59,462 --> 00:07:00,546 for your mummies, Murdoch. 162 00:07:00,755 --> 00:07:02,507 Buried treasure I understand. 163 00:07:02,715 --> 00:07:03,841 But buried bodies? 164 00:07:04,050 --> 00:07:04,842 What's this? 165 00:07:05,051 --> 00:07:06,260 Information on James Kirkham, 166 00:07:06,469 --> 00:07:09,180 the factory owner who built the shed over the burial site. 167 00:07:09,388 --> 00:07:11,974 It was an electroplating factory. 168 00:07:12,183 --> 00:07:13,309 Any significance in that? 169 00:07:13,518 --> 00:07:16,270 An electrolyte used in both gold and silver electroplating 170 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:18,314 is a cyanide solution. 171 00:07:18,523 --> 00:07:21,859 The poison responsible for the deaths. 172 00:07:22,068 --> 00:07:23,986 You think the bodies may have been factory workers? 173 00:07:24,195 --> 00:07:27,031 Apparently, Kirkham was very hard on his employees. 174 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,950 Check missing-persons reports from the period. 175 00:07:29,158 --> 00:07:31,285 Already looking into it, sir. 176 00:07:31,494 --> 00:07:32,286 Hmm. 177 00:07:32,495 --> 00:07:34,038 He had quite a violent streak, this fellow. 178 00:07:34,247 --> 00:07:35,957 Kirkham was arrested twice for harassment 179 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:38,042 and three times for assault. 180 00:07:38,251 --> 00:07:40,545 So, he does them in, up goes the shed, 181 00:07:40,753 --> 00:07:42,046 and no one's the wiser. 182 00:07:42,255 --> 00:07:45,550 Am I really here to talk about a shed? 183 00:07:47,260 --> 00:07:49,637 Two people were found buried underneath that shed. 184 00:07:49,846 --> 00:07:52,807 And you think I had something to do with it? 185 00:07:53,015 --> 00:07:55,059 They died of cyanide poisoning. 186 00:07:55,268 --> 00:07:57,812 You used cyanide in your factory. 187 00:07:58,020 --> 00:08:00,565 Yes, but I didn't feed it to anybody. 188 00:08:00,773 --> 00:08:03,568 These people were murdered, Mr. Kirkham. 189 00:08:03,776 --> 00:08:06,612 And then buried beneath a shed you built. 190 00:08:06,821 --> 00:08:09,824 Be that as it may, I didn't murder them. 191 00:08:11,909 --> 00:08:14,579 You owed many people money, did you not? 192 00:08:14,787 --> 00:08:15,580 Still do. 193 00:08:15,788 --> 00:08:18,583 Did any of them ever come to your factory to collect? 194 00:08:18,791 --> 00:08:20,501 I'm afraid I can't answer that. 195 00:08:20,710 --> 00:08:22,503 I beg your pardon? 196 00:08:22,712 --> 00:08:26,090 I'm involved in several disputes of a civil nature. 197 00:08:26,299 --> 00:08:27,633 My lawyer has forbidden me 198 00:08:27,842 --> 00:08:30,761 to discuss any details regarding my debt obligations. 199 00:08:30,970 --> 00:08:33,598 Are you deliberately evading my inquiries, Mr. Kirkham? 200 00:08:33,806 --> 00:08:35,433 I'm doing no such thing. 201 00:08:35,641 --> 00:08:39,604 I'm free to talk at length about my shed. 202 00:08:39,812 --> 00:08:41,355 Two people have been murdered, 203 00:08:41,564 --> 00:08:43,941 and I believe you know something about it. 204 00:08:44,150 --> 00:08:45,443 You will either tell me -- 205 00:08:45,651 --> 00:08:47,028 Sir. 206 00:08:47,236 --> 00:08:48,404 Excuse me. A word? 207 00:08:56,746 --> 00:08:58,456 I am in the middle of an interview, George. 208 00:08:58,664 --> 00:09:00,124 Sir, that's why I felt I had to interrupt you. 209 00:09:00,333 --> 00:09:01,167 What do you mean? 210 00:09:01,375 --> 00:09:03,628 Sir, the glass eye found in our male body 211 00:09:03,836 --> 00:09:06,297 was made by an ocularist named Bryan Winston. 212 00:09:06,505 --> 00:09:10,051 Winston stopped manufacturing glass eyes in 1850. 213 00:09:10,259 --> 00:09:11,427 Almost 50 years ago. 214 00:09:13,179 --> 00:09:14,472 What does that mean? 215 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:17,225 1850 is the last year that our male victim 216 00:09:17,433 --> 00:09:19,018 could have been fitted with the eye. 217 00:09:19,227 --> 00:09:20,561 Now, if he was 18 at the time, 218 00:09:20,770 --> 00:09:22,521 which he would have had to have been 219 00:09:22,730 --> 00:09:24,523 to be fitted with a custom glass eye, 220 00:09:24,732 --> 00:09:26,150 and 40 when he died, 221 00:09:26,359 --> 00:09:29,445 then 1872 is the last year he could have died. 222 00:09:29,654 --> 00:09:31,822 Before the electroplating factory was even built. 223 00:09:32,031 --> 00:09:34,283 Which would exonerate Mr. Kirkham. 224 00:09:34,492 --> 00:09:36,327 And those bodies have remained perfectly preserved 225 00:09:36,535 --> 00:09:37,328 all this time? 226 00:09:37,536 --> 00:09:38,496 Yes, sir. 227 00:09:38,704 --> 00:09:40,414 25 years. 228 00:09:40,623 --> 00:09:41,749 Is this even worth pursuing, Murdoch? 229 00:09:41,958 --> 00:09:44,168 The culprit is probably dead by now. 230 00:09:44,377 --> 00:09:46,045 Age isn't amnesty, sir. 231 00:09:46,254 --> 00:09:48,464 Two people have been murdered. 232 00:09:48,673 --> 00:09:49,632 We owe it to the victims 233 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,342 to find out the truth about their deaths. 234 00:09:51,550 --> 00:09:56,055 If the killer is out there, I'll find him. 235 00:09:58,266 --> 00:10:01,644 This map, dated 1888, clearly shows the Kirkham factory. 236 00:10:01,852 --> 00:10:04,146 The X is where the bodies were found? 237 00:10:04,355 --> 00:10:05,856 That's right. 238 00:10:06,065 --> 00:10:09,860 And this one -- dated 1872... 239 00:10:10,069 --> 00:10:11,070 The last year that we believe 240 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:12,905 our mystery mummies could have been killed. 241 00:10:13,114 --> 00:10:13,948 Right. 242 00:10:14,156 --> 00:10:15,866 It was mostly farmland back then. 243 00:10:16,075 --> 00:10:18,869 But there is a house approximately 20 yards 244 00:10:19,078 --> 00:10:20,454 from where the bodies were found. 245 00:10:20,663 --> 00:10:21,706 When was the house torn down? 246 00:10:21,914 --> 00:10:22,873 1880. 247 00:10:23,082 --> 00:10:24,208 Sirs. 248 00:10:24,417 --> 00:10:25,876 Any luck at city records, Crabtree? 249 00:10:26,085 --> 00:10:28,296 The land and surrounding area was purchased from city hall 250 00:10:28,504 --> 00:10:29,380 in 1852. 251 00:10:29,588 --> 00:10:30,715 Whoever owned that house 252 00:10:30,923 --> 00:10:33,050 must know something about those bodies. 253 00:10:33,259 --> 00:10:34,468 Could well be our killer. 254 00:10:34,677 --> 00:10:37,054 George, were you able to find out who purchased the house? 255 00:10:37,263 --> 00:10:38,973 His name is Horace Mooney. 256 00:10:39,181 --> 00:10:40,558 On the old farm? 257 00:10:40,766 --> 00:10:41,559 Yes. 258 00:10:41,767 --> 00:10:44,520 Well, I wish I knew how I can help you, Detective, 259 00:10:44,729 --> 00:10:48,232 but I haven't lived there since I sold the place in... 260 00:10:48,441 --> 00:10:49,233 1879. 261 00:10:49,442 --> 00:10:50,234 That's right. 262 00:10:50,443 --> 00:10:54,613 The bodies have been there since at least 1872, Mr. Mooney. 263 00:10:54,822 --> 00:10:56,532 And you were living there during that time, were you not? 264 00:10:56,741 --> 00:10:57,533 I was. 265 00:10:57,742 --> 00:10:59,285 Then perhaps you can explain to me 266 00:10:59,493 --> 00:11:00,786 how two people came to be buried 267 00:11:00,995 --> 00:11:02,413 less than 20 yards from your door 268 00:11:02,621 --> 00:11:03,581 without you noticing? 269 00:11:03,789 --> 00:11:05,833 Well, that's a very good question, Detective, 270 00:11:06,042 --> 00:11:07,251 and I wish I knew the answer. 271 00:11:07,460 --> 00:11:09,378 I believe you do. 272 00:11:09,587 --> 00:11:11,881 And whether you buried them or murdered them as well -- 273 00:11:12,089 --> 00:11:12,882 Murder? 274 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:14,633 Detective, I didn't kill them. I didn't bury them. 275 00:11:14,842 --> 00:11:17,386 And I honestly wish there was something I could do 276 00:11:17,595 --> 00:11:18,387 to help you out. 277 00:11:18,596 --> 00:11:21,474 Perhaps there is. 278 00:11:25,102 --> 00:11:28,022 Do you recognize them, Mr. Mooney? 279 00:11:28,230 --> 00:11:31,108 How can they still be preserved like this? 280 00:11:31,317 --> 00:11:33,194 They're mummified. 281 00:11:33,402 --> 00:11:35,446 Do you recognize them? 282 00:11:35,654 --> 00:11:37,615 No. 283 00:11:37,823 --> 00:11:39,950 Someone who went missing perhaps? 284 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:41,577 Neighbors? Farmhands? 285 00:11:41,786 --> 00:11:43,454 No. 286 00:11:43,662 --> 00:11:47,375 So complete strangers were buried on your property 287 00:11:47,583 --> 00:11:49,251 without your knowledge? 288 00:11:49,460 --> 00:11:52,213 I suppose so. 289 00:11:53,255 --> 00:11:55,883 If that's all... 290 00:11:56,092 --> 00:11:57,760 Yes, Mr. Mooney, that's all. 291 00:11:57,968 --> 00:12:00,096 For now. 292 00:12:03,015 --> 00:12:05,810 What do you make of his reaction to the bodies? 293 00:12:06,018 --> 00:12:06,811 It's hard to say. 294 00:12:07,019 --> 00:12:09,814 He certainly seemed to study them with great interest. 295 00:12:10,022 --> 00:12:11,816 Do you think he's their killer? 296 00:12:12,024 --> 00:12:13,067 I don't know. 297 00:12:13,275 --> 00:12:16,278 But I'm convinced he knows more than he's saying. 298 00:12:16,487 --> 00:12:18,823 But how do I prove it after 25 years? 299 00:12:19,031 --> 00:12:23,452 I think I might have something that will cheer you up. 300 00:12:28,499 --> 00:12:30,835 At first, I thought it was a birthmark 301 00:12:31,043 --> 00:12:34,338 or discoloration from having been in the ground for so long. 302 00:12:34,547 --> 00:12:36,674 Then I realized... 303 00:12:36,882 --> 00:12:38,509 It's a tattoo. 304 00:12:38,717 --> 00:12:42,054 Military perhaps. 305 00:12:42,263 --> 00:12:43,889 You're right, Julia. 306 00:12:44,098 --> 00:12:46,142 This has cheered me up. 307 00:12:49,353 --> 00:12:50,146 Sir. 308 00:12:50,354 --> 00:12:51,355 Ah, Murdoch. 309 00:12:51,564 --> 00:12:54,900 I've just received a telegram from The Times in London. 310 00:12:55,109 --> 00:12:57,319 They want to do a featured article on the mummies. 311 00:12:57,528 --> 00:12:59,155 Word has spread to London, sir? 312 00:12:59,363 --> 00:13:00,156 Can you believe it? 313 00:13:00,364 --> 00:13:01,490 Murdoch, I think these bodies 314 00:13:01,699 --> 00:13:03,868 are considerably more significant than we thought. 315 00:13:04,076 --> 00:13:05,703 You don't say. 316 00:13:05,911 --> 00:13:07,621 What have you got there? 317 00:13:07,830 --> 00:13:11,459 Our male mummy had some kind of military tattoo on his arm. 318 00:13:11,667 --> 00:13:12,710 Can you identify it? 319 00:13:12,918 --> 00:13:15,212 You're not going to believe this, sir, 320 00:13:15,421 --> 00:13:18,215 but the insignia is of the Caldwell Rangers, 321 00:13:18,424 --> 00:13:21,385 a Canadian regiment that last fought in the War of 1812. 322 00:13:21,594 --> 00:13:24,305 1812? 323 00:13:25,639 --> 00:13:27,892 Based on Dr. Ogden's estimate of their ages, 324 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:30,686 and my assumption that he was at least 16 years old 325 00:13:30,895 --> 00:13:32,730 when he joined the regiment in 1812, 326 00:13:32,938 --> 00:13:36,400 the murders had to have occurred before 1836. 327 00:13:36,609 --> 00:13:37,735 That's 60 years ago. 328 00:13:37,943 --> 00:13:40,488 Which puts Horace Mooney in the clear. 329 00:13:40,696 --> 00:13:42,656 I was certain he knew something. 330 00:13:42,865 --> 00:13:44,575 Toronto wasn't much of a city back then. 331 00:13:44,783 --> 00:13:46,035 Less than 10,000 people. 332 00:13:46,243 --> 00:13:47,870 Would have been quiet and safe. 333 00:13:48,078 --> 00:13:49,079 Not this sprawling, 334 00:13:49,288 --> 00:13:51,415 foul-smelling place we live in today. 335 00:13:51,624 --> 00:13:54,293 This is what our murder site would have looked like 336 00:13:54,502 --> 00:13:55,294 back in 1836. 337 00:13:55,503 --> 00:13:56,921 It's all fields west of Spadina. 338 00:13:57,129 --> 00:13:59,215 College Street didn't even exist. 339 00:14:00,299 --> 00:14:01,759 What have you, George? 340 00:14:01,967 --> 00:14:04,595 Sirs, the property was originally owned 341 00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:06,472 by a Samuel and Mary Blake. 342 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:08,766 They built the house there in 1815, 343 00:14:08,974 --> 00:14:10,267 farmed there until 1850 344 00:14:10,476 --> 00:14:13,020 when the land was expropriated by the city. 345 00:14:13,229 --> 00:14:14,438 For what? 346 00:14:14,647 --> 00:14:15,439 An insane asylum. 347 00:14:15,648 --> 00:14:16,774 But then plans changed, 348 00:14:16,982 --> 00:14:18,984 the asylum was built on Queen Street, 349 00:14:19,193 --> 00:14:22,530 and the land was auctioned in 1852. 350 00:14:22,738 --> 00:14:23,948 To Horace Mooney. 351 00:14:24,156 --> 00:14:26,951 Well, that clears things up somewhat. 352 00:14:27,159 --> 00:14:28,619 Uh, one other thing, sirs. 353 00:14:28,827 --> 00:14:30,996 The Blakes had a child. A daughter. 354 00:14:31,205 --> 00:14:32,498 Her married name is Rebecca Hastings. 355 00:14:32,706 --> 00:14:34,375 She's still alive, and I have her address. 356 00:14:46,971 --> 00:14:48,806 Hello. 357 00:14:50,224 --> 00:14:52,810 Mrs. Hastings? 358 00:14:53,018 --> 00:14:55,312 Mrs. Rebecca Hastings? 359 00:14:55,521 --> 00:14:57,481 Yes, how can I help you? 360 00:14:57,690 --> 00:15:00,401 I'm Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto Constabulary. 361 00:15:00,609 --> 00:15:02,152 Oh, dear, has something happened? 362 00:15:02,361 --> 00:15:05,072 Oh, goodness, no. I didn't mean to alarm you. 363 00:15:05,281 --> 00:15:06,365 I just have some questions for you. 364 00:15:06,574 --> 00:15:07,700 Of course. 365 00:15:10,786 --> 00:15:12,162 Are these your grandchildren? 366 00:15:12,371 --> 00:15:13,747 Great-grandchildren, actually. 367 00:15:13,956 --> 00:15:14,999 Charlie Hastings. 368 00:15:15,207 --> 00:15:16,625 Detective William Murdoch. 369 00:15:16,834 --> 00:15:19,295 Now, what can we do for you? 370 00:15:20,754 --> 00:15:21,547 Excuse me, ma'am. 371 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:22,881 Do you teach at the secretarial -- 372 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:24,091 Pardon me. 373 00:15:25,467 --> 00:15:27,011 Excuse me, ma'am, do you -- 374 00:15:27,219 --> 00:15:29,430 Pardon me. Pardon. 375 00:15:29,638 --> 00:15:30,764 Ah, of course. 376 00:15:30,973 --> 00:15:31,807 Pardon me, ma'am. 377 00:15:32,016 --> 00:15:32,933 Yes. 378 00:15:33,142 --> 00:15:34,476 Is there a problem, Constable? 379 00:15:34,685 --> 00:15:35,477 Yes. Well, no. 380 00:15:35,686 --> 00:15:37,688 I'm here to meet my cousin, Penny Renton. 381 00:15:37,896 --> 00:15:40,107 She began her first day of class here today. 382 00:15:40,316 --> 00:15:42,860 She absolutely did not. Classes begin tomorrow. 383 00:15:43,068 --> 00:15:44,236 Are you quite certain, ma'am? 384 00:15:44,445 --> 00:15:46,030 I dropped Penny here this morning. 385 00:15:46,238 --> 00:15:49,158 She must have realized her mistake and left. 386 00:15:52,077 --> 00:15:53,495 Yes, of course. 387 00:15:53,704 --> 00:15:55,372 Good day, ma'am. 388 00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:03,213 Lovely. Thank you, Mrs. Hastings. 389 00:16:03,422 --> 00:16:07,051 I was hoping to speak to you about your parents, 390 00:16:07,259 --> 00:16:08,636 Mr. and Mrs. Blake. 391 00:16:08,844 --> 00:16:11,513 Goodness me. Whatever for? 392 00:16:11,722 --> 00:16:14,558 We recently found two well-preserved bodies 393 00:16:14,767 --> 00:16:17,394 buried on the property they once owned. 394 00:16:17,603 --> 00:16:19,563 That's disturbing news. 395 00:16:19,772 --> 00:16:21,899 It appears the bodies were buried 396 00:16:22,107 --> 00:16:24,652 at a time when your parents still owned the property. 397 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:26,320 Around 1836. 398 00:16:26,528 --> 00:16:28,656 I don't know how I can help you. 399 00:16:28,864 --> 00:16:30,908 I'd left the farm by that time. 400 00:16:31,116 --> 00:16:32,701 And how old were you then? 401 00:16:32,910 --> 00:16:34,286 15. 402 00:16:34,370 --> 00:16:35,162 15? 403 00:16:35,371 --> 00:16:37,915 That's rather young to be off on your own, isn't it? 404 00:16:38,123 --> 00:16:40,042 Oh, I wasn't on my own. 405 00:16:40,250 --> 00:16:42,002 Charlie left with me. 406 00:16:42,211 --> 00:16:46,006 Mr. Hastings, you lived at the home as well? 407 00:16:46,215 --> 00:16:47,549 Well, I was indentured. 408 00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:49,426 My parents couldn't afford to keep me 409 00:16:49,635 --> 00:16:51,887 so they sent me to the Blake farm to work 410 00:16:52,096 --> 00:16:54,223 in exchange for food and lodging. 411 00:16:54,431 --> 00:16:57,309 Ah, and your parents must not have taken too kindly 412 00:16:57,518 --> 00:17:00,187 to you being courted by an indentured servant. 413 00:17:00,396 --> 00:17:02,106 No, they did not. 414 00:17:02,314 --> 00:17:04,900 When we told them we wanted to marry, 415 00:17:05,109 --> 00:17:08,779 they were very angry. 416 00:17:08,987 --> 00:17:10,114 So we left. 417 00:17:10,322 --> 00:17:12,616 And did you keep in touch with your parents? 418 00:17:12,825 --> 00:17:14,284 Not very much. 419 00:17:14,493 --> 00:17:17,496 My mother died shortly after the sale of the property. 420 00:17:17,705 --> 00:17:19,957 My father followed a couple of years later. 421 00:17:20,165 --> 00:17:22,126 So you have no idea who the people we found buried 422 00:17:22,334 --> 00:17:23,293 might be? 423 00:17:23,502 --> 00:17:25,629 None at all. 424 00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:29,800 I wonder, would you be willing to look at the bodies? 425 00:17:30,008 --> 00:17:32,094 Perhaps it could trigger a memory, however small, 426 00:17:32,302 --> 00:17:34,388 that could help us identify them. 427 00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:38,183 Well, if it'll help. 428 00:17:41,437 --> 00:17:44,148 Oh, those poor people. 429 00:17:44,356 --> 00:17:46,400 They look frozen in time. 430 00:17:46,608 --> 00:17:48,485 Do you recognize them? 431 00:17:48,694 --> 00:17:51,488 I'm trying to think, 432 00:17:51,697 --> 00:17:56,660 but I can't say that I've ever seen them before in my life. 433 00:17:56,869 --> 00:17:58,662 Are you absolutely sure? 434 00:18:00,205 --> 00:18:01,540 Yes. 435 00:18:03,375 --> 00:18:04,918 Thank you both for coming. 436 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:06,795 It's most appreciated. 437 00:18:16,430 --> 00:18:20,559 You don't need to pull on me. I can walk on my own. 438 00:18:20,768 --> 00:18:21,977 I found her in Allan Gardens. 439 00:18:22,186 --> 00:18:23,103 What? 440 00:18:23,312 --> 00:18:25,022 I can't believe you sent the police after me. 441 00:18:25,230 --> 00:18:26,774 She was talking with a young man. 442 00:18:26,982 --> 00:18:27,941 What? 443 00:18:28,150 --> 00:18:30,027 I was merely asking for directions. 444 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:32,362 Penny Elizabeth Harriet Renton, what were you thinking? 445 00:18:32,571 --> 00:18:33,363 You could have been harmed. 446 00:18:33,572 --> 00:18:34,865 - I didn't -- - No, I don't want to hear it. 447 00:18:35,073 --> 00:18:36,992 Do you know, I went to your secretarial school today 448 00:18:37,201 --> 00:18:38,202 to pick you up, only to find 449 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:40,037 that your classes don't begin until tomorrow. 450 00:18:40,245 --> 00:18:42,581 I'm afraid that in all the excitement, 451 00:18:42,790 --> 00:18:43,999 I mixed up the dates. 452 00:18:44,208 --> 00:18:46,001 And you didn't come back to the station because... 453 00:18:46,210 --> 00:18:47,336 I was embarrassed. 454 00:18:47,544 --> 00:18:50,881 My first day in the big city and I get it all wrong. 455 00:18:51,089 --> 00:18:53,383 Georgie, please don't be mad at me. 456 00:18:53,592 --> 00:18:55,344 Constable. 457 00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:57,221 Are you hungry? 458 00:19:07,898 --> 00:19:12,444 I've got some bread and some cheese. 459 00:19:14,071 --> 00:19:16,406 I'll get you something warmer in a little bit. 460 00:19:19,076 --> 00:19:19,868 Sir. 461 00:19:20,077 --> 00:19:22,871 Sir, I found something I believe you'll find very intriguing. 462 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:23,872 Yes, George? 463 00:19:24,081 --> 00:19:25,374 Well, I looked into the Caldwell Rangers 464 00:19:25,582 --> 00:19:27,501 and I found an officers list. 465 00:19:27,709 --> 00:19:29,378 That fellow who used to own the property -- Samuel Blake -- 466 00:19:29,586 --> 00:19:30,379 is on it. 467 00:19:30,587 --> 00:19:32,714 Really? 468 00:19:32,923 --> 00:19:34,967 Sir, it would be my guess that the buried bodies 469 00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:36,760 are those of Samuel and Mary Blake. 470 00:19:36,969 --> 00:19:38,095 Very good, George. 471 00:19:38,303 --> 00:19:40,889 Which means we've identified our mummies. 472 00:19:41,098 --> 00:19:42,391 Rebecca Hastings' parents. 473 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:43,725 Yes. 474 00:19:43,934 --> 00:19:47,437 But it also means Charlie and Rebecca Hastings lied to me. 475 00:19:52,943 --> 00:19:54,945 The bodies you saw in the morgue were those of your parents, 476 00:19:55,153 --> 00:19:56,113 Mrs. Hastings. 477 00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:57,865 There's no way you couldn't have known that. 478 00:19:58,073 --> 00:20:00,075 They looked so different. 479 00:20:00,284 --> 00:20:02,911 And it's been such a long time. 480 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:05,038 I simply didn't recognize them. 481 00:20:05,247 --> 00:20:08,375 You told me your parents died after the sale of the property. 482 00:20:08,584 --> 00:20:11,378 That was in 1850. You lied to me. 483 00:20:11,587 --> 00:20:13,797 Why? Did you murder them? 484 00:20:14,006 --> 00:20:15,632 Murder? No! 485 00:20:15,841 --> 00:20:16,800 Charlie. 486 00:20:17,009 --> 00:20:21,346 Rebecca, we need to tell him the truth. 487 00:20:23,056 --> 00:20:24,725 You were right. 488 00:20:24,933 --> 00:20:26,602 We didn't leave the farm. 489 00:20:26,810 --> 00:20:28,562 It was my parents who left. 490 00:20:28,770 --> 00:20:30,981 At least that's what we thought 491 00:20:31,189 --> 00:20:33,775 until you showed us their bodies. 492 00:20:33,984 --> 00:20:35,944 When did they leave? 493 00:20:36,153 --> 00:20:38,071 Around 1836. 494 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,365 They just disappeared. 495 00:20:40,574 --> 00:20:42,075 We never saw them again. 496 00:20:42,284 --> 00:20:43,911 And you never went to the authorities? 497 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,997 What authorities? 498 00:20:47,205 --> 00:20:50,042 There were no police then the way there are now. 499 00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:52,502 At least, none that you could trust at any rate. 500 00:20:52,711 --> 00:20:54,504 We knew something must have happened to them, 501 00:20:54,713 --> 00:20:56,465 but we never had any idea what. 502 00:20:56,673 --> 00:20:58,842 We impersonated my parents 503 00:20:59,051 --> 00:21:02,638 by forging their signatures on the sales documents. 504 00:21:02,846 --> 00:21:05,724 We always feared this day would come. 505 00:21:07,559 --> 00:21:09,728 Are you going to arrest us? 506 00:21:09,937 --> 00:21:12,856 Not for forgery, no. 507 00:21:13,065 --> 00:21:16,735 But I am conducting a murder investigation. 508 00:21:19,863 --> 00:21:24,034 Oh, sir, according to the House of Industry records, 509 00:21:24,242 --> 00:21:26,203 Charlie Hastings was not the only indentured child 510 00:21:26,411 --> 00:21:28,330 living at the Blakes' when they disappeared. 511 00:21:28,538 --> 00:21:30,123 There were three other children there. 512 00:21:30,332 --> 00:21:32,209 Really? Still living? 513 00:21:32,417 --> 00:21:33,543 All of them, sir. 514 00:21:33,752 --> 00:21:35,128 Including one Horace Mooney. 515 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:36,213 Huh. 516 00:21:36,421 --> 00:21:38,006 Find them and bring them in for questioning. 517 00:21:38,215 --> 00:21:40,092 Sir. 518 00:21:43,095 --> 00:21:45,013 Sir? 519 00:21:45,097 --> 00:21:47,057 Sir? 520 00:21:47,265 --> 00:21:51,186 Sorry to disturb you, sir, but you have a telephone call. 521 00:21:51,395 --> 00:21:52,437 Another reporter? 522 00:21:52,646 --> 00:21:55,357 This one's from The New York Times, sir. 523 00:21:55,565 --> 00:21:57,234 The New York Times. 524 00:21:57,442 --> 00:21:58,735 Put it through. 525 00:21:58,944 --> 00:22:00,153 Right away. 526 00:22:04,282 --> 00:22:05,075 Pardon me. 527 00:22:05,283 --> 00:22:08,078 Excuse me, I received a note at the university 528 00:22:08,286 --> 00:22:10,122 that I should come down here at once. 529 00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,165 My name is Michael Webster. 530 00:22:12,374 --> 00:22:13,583 No. 531 00:22:13,792 --> 00:22:16,461 Excuse me, ma'am? 532 00:22:17,587 --> 00:22:20,215 Why, it is you. 533 00:22:20,424 --> 00:22:22,342 You little turkey. 534 00:22:22,551 --> 00:22:25,303 No one has called me that... 535 00:22:26,972 --> 00:22:28,598 Alice! 536 00:22:28,807 --> 00:22:31,226 I really don't know what more I can tell you people, 537 00:22:31,435 --> 00:22:32,477 Constable. 538 00:22:32,686 --> 00:22:35,063 We just have a few more questions, Mr. Mooney. 539 00:22:35,272 --> 00:22:36,606 Horace? 540 00:22:36,815 --> 00:22:38,775 It's Michael. 541 00:22:38,984 --> 00:22:40,569 And Alice. 542 00:22:40,777 --> 00:22:43,530 Oh, my goodness! 543 00:22:43,739 --> 00:22:44,865 Horace! 544 00:22:45,073 --> 00:22:48,285 It's a strange place for a reunion, but I'll take it. 545 00:22:48,493 --> 00:22:50,620 Now, what in the world 546 00:22:50,829 --> 00:22:54,666 did they drag us all down here for? 547 00:22:58,170 --> 00:23:00,797 Mr. Mooney, you say that you didn't recognize 548 00:23:01,006 --> 00:23:03,175 the bodies of Samuel and Mary Blake, 549 00:23:03,383 --> 00:23:04,718 yet you lived with them. 550 00:23:04,926 --> 00:23:06,261 I didn't recognize them. 551 00:23:06,470 --> 00:23:09,639 The last time I laid eyes on them, I was five years old. 552 00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:11,183 And then they left. 553 00:23:11,391 --> 00:23:14,019 Did you not wonder where they went? 554 00:23:14,227 --> 00:23:15,437 To be honest, not really. 555 00:23:15,645 --> 00:23:16,438 I was glad. 556 00:23:16,646 --> 00:23:19,066 They were horrible. 557 00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:21,610 They just up and left as I recall. 558 00:23:21,818 --> 00:23:24,321 And you never heard from them again, Miss Nugent? 559 00:23:24,529 --> 00:23:25,322 No. 560 00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:28,533 And I didn't care one whit. 561 00:23:28,742 --> 00:23:31,495 That was a -- That was a cold thing to say. 562 00:23:31,703 --> 00:23:34,247 They were, for all intents and purposes, your parents. 563 00:23:34,456 --> 00:23:35,957 My parents died when I was 10. 564 00:23:36,166 --> 00:23:37,501 The Blakes were my keepers. 565 00:23:37,709 --> 00:23:40,128 You felt bitter about having to work for your food and board? 566 00:23:40,337 --> 00:23:43,632 I was bitter about 18 hours of farm work a day 567 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,926 and the beatings to top it off. 568 00:23:46,134 --> 00:23:46,927 Beatings? 569 00:23:47,135 --> 00:23:49,179 They were mean, those Blakes. 570 00:23:49,387 --> 00:23:52,390 Never a smile or a kind word from them. 571 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:55,519 Yet years later you bought the house. 572 00:23:55,727 --> 00:23:58,605 Why would you do that if there were such terrible memories? 573 00:23:58,814 --> 00:24:00,982 Because after the Blakes disappeared, 574 00:24:01,191 --> 00:24:03,360 there were nothing but good memories. 575 00:24:03,568 --> 00:24:07,114 Rebecca and Charlie became like a mother and father to us. 576 00:24:07,322 --> 00:24:09,616 We were family. 577 00:24:09,825 --> 00:24:10,992 Can you tell me anything 578 00:24:11,201 --> 00:24:13,203 about the last time you saw the Blakes? 579 00:24:13,411 --> 00:24:15,831 My last memory is hearing old man Blake 580 00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:18,125 take his belt to Alice's backside. 581 00:24:18,333 --> 00:24:19,709 I didn't deserve it. 582 00:24:19,918 --> 00:24:21,211 He stubbed his toe on a chair 583 00:24:21,419 --> 00:24:23,380 and accused me of pulling it to the hutch 584 00:24:23,588 --> 00:24:25,257 to steal candy from the top shelf. 585 00:24:25,465 --> 00:24:26,633 But I didn't. 586 00:24:26,842 --> 00:24:28,552 The next morning, they were gone. 587 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,470 Who do you think killed them? 588 00:24:30,679 --> 00:24:32,055 I have no idea. 589 00:24:32,264 --> 00:24:33,640 I'm sorry, Detective. 590 00:24:33,849 --> 00:24:35,851 I can't help you with that one. 591 00:24:36,059 --> 00:24:38,520 Don't know. Don't care. 592 00:24:38,728 --> 00:24:41,022 We were just happy they were gone. 593 00:24:42,149 --> 00:24:43,650 So, all their stories match. 594 00:24:43,859 --> 00:24:46,027 They have remarkable memories for old people. 595 00:24:46,236 --> 00:24:48,488 Except for the part about what happened to the Blakes. 596 00:24:48,697 --> 00:24:50,365 Well, they could be telling the truth about that, sir. 597 00:24:50,574 --> 00:24:51,992 I mean, I suppose the Blakes could have enemies 598 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,326 that the children didn't know about. 599 00:24:53,535 --> 00:24:54,536 I don't think so. 600 00:24:54,744 --> 00:24:56,830 I think Alice, Horace, and Michael are lying 601 00:24:57,038 --> 00:24:58,165 to protect the Hastings. 602 00:24:58,373 --> 00:25:00,167 Or perhaps they all did the mean bastards in 603 00:25:00,375 --> 00:25:01,251 to protect each other. 604 00:25:01,459 --> 00:25:03,211 I don't know what's worse to think about. 605 00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:05,172 These sweet old people killing the Blakes 606 00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:07,591 or to think of them as young children doing the same. 607 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:09,926 Either way, I think we're finally getting closer 608 00:25:10,135 --> 00:25:11,970 to finding out what happened in that house 609 00:25:12,179 --> 00:25:13,263 and who was involved. 610 00:25:14,306 --> 00:25:15,390 Off you go, now, ladies. 611 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:16,391 No loitering. 612 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:17,684 All of you, let's go. 613 00:25:17,893 --> 00:25:19,853 Good evening. 614 00:25:20,061 --> 00:25:21,104 Hello, again, ma'am. 615 00:25:21,313 --> 00:25:23,273 Constable, you must be here to meet Miss Renton. 616 00:25:23,481 --> 00:25:24,357 I am. 617 00:25:24,566 --> 00:25:26,443 I have the correct day today, I hope. 618 00:25:26,651 --> 00:25:28,069 Yes, congratulations, Constable. 619 00:25:28,278 --> 00:25:30,280 However, you do not have the correct time. 620 00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,449 Ma'am, if classes end at 4:30, 621 00:25:32,657 --> 00:25:34,576 I'm nearly a full hour early. 622 00:25:34,784 --> 00:25:36,119 Class is over at 3:30. 623 00:25:36,328 --> 00:25:38,788 Something you might have checked first. 624 00:25:38,997 --> 00:25:41,416 Well, I'm certain Penny told me 4:30. 625 00:25:41,625 --> 00:25:44,628 Constable, young girls do not have the capacity to focus. 626 00:25:44,836 --> 00:25:48,089 Their minds wander aimlessly unless given proper instruction. 627 00:25:48,298 --> 00:25:49,090 Yes, ma'am. 628 00:25:49,299 --> 00:25:50,967 Something I fear you are not doing. 629 00:25:51,176 --> 00:25:54,137 Ma'am, I'm sorry. She's usually a very responsible girl. 630 00:25:54,346 --> 00:25:55,889 You must be responsible for her. 631 00:25:56,097 --> 00:25:58,266 You are her guardian, are you not? 632 00:25:58,475 --> 00:25:59,434 I am, ma'am. 633 00:25:59,643 --> 00:26:02,312 I'll look for her straightaway. Thank you. 634 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,356 Constable. 635 00:26:04,564 --> 00:26:07,651 Miss Renton went in that direction. 636 00:26:07,859 --> 00:26:08,860 Ah. 637 00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:10,570 Thanks again, ma'am. 638 00:26:10,779 --> 00:26:12,614 You're too kind. 639 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:13,049 Oh, I don't think so. 640 00:27:13,758 --> 00:27:15,885 Penny, what in God's name is going on here? 641 00:27:16,094 --> 00:27:17,345 - George! - Oh, my gosh. 642 00:27:17,554 --> 00:27:19,014 You get your hands off her. 643 00:27:19,222 --> 00:27:20,807 George, you don't understand. 644 00:27:21,016 --> 00:27:22,058 Oh, I understand. 645 00:27:22,267 --> 00:27:24,936 This randy scoundrel is trying to take advantage 646 00:27:25,145 --> 00:27:26,563 of an innocent young girl. 647 00:27:26,771 --> 00:27:28,732 - I'm 16. - Sir, I was only... 648 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:30,859 Oh, yes, I know what you were "only," you goat. 649 00:27:31,067 --> 00:27:32,736 I should have you penned up in the ram's pasture. 650 00:27:32,944 --> 00:27:33,737 You're coming with me. 651 00:27:33,945 --> 00:27:34,863 What are you doing? 652 00:27:35,071 --> 00:27:37,198 This whatever-his-name-is is under arrest. 653 00:27:37,407 --> 00:27:39,034 For what? 654 00:27:39,242 --> 00:27:41,202 Public indecency. 655 00:27:41,411 --> 00:27:42,203 We're indoors. 656 00:27:42,412 --> 00:27:44,039 The curtains are see-through. 657 00:27:44,247 --> 00:27:45,999 What does that have to do with anything? 658 00:27:46,207 --> 00:27:47,876 Well, it means that any member of the public 659 00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:49,961 could witness this indecency. 660 00:27:50,170 --> 00:27:51,421 Now, get a move on. 661 00:27:51,629 --> 00:27:54,299 George Crabtree, you let him go. 662 00:28:09,606 --> 00:28:11,733 Penny, I'm doing this for your own good. 663 00:28:11,941 --> 00:28:13,443 But Clarence is my true love. 664 00:28:13,651 --> 00:28:14,778 Oh, don't be ridiculous. 665 00:28:14,986 --> 00:28:16,738 You arrived for school two days ago. 666 00:28:16,946 --> 00:28:17,864 You've only just met. 667 00:28:18,073 --> 00:28:19,741 I've known him six months. 668 00:28:19,949 --> 00:28:21,910 You came here to be with a boy? 669 00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:23,453 School was just a ruse? 670 00:28:23,661 --> 00:28:25,580 It was not. I came to do both. 671 00:28:25,789 --> 00:28:27,123 - Oh! - Penny, just calm down. 672 00:28:27,332 --> 00:28:29,292 You know, your cousin has every right to be upset. 673 00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:30,627 Thank you. 674 00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:33,463 Ah, you're not allowed to speak. No more speaking from you. 675 00:28:33,671 --> 00:28:35,924 George, is everything all right? 676 00:28:36,132 --> 00:28:37,634 Sir, forgive me for the disturbance. 677 00:28:37,842 --> 00:28:39,052 I was just making an arrest. 678 00:28:42,514 --> 00:28:44,599 Sir, a man just phoned from the demolition site. 679 00:28:44,808 --> 00:28:46,643 It seems another body's been discovered at that location. 680 00:28:46,851 --> 00:28:47,644 What? 681 00:28:47,852 --> 00:28:50,688 As if two adults aren't bad enough, someone dumps a child, 682 00:28:50,897 --> 00:28:52,732 as though it was a piece of rubbish. 683 00:28:52,941 --> 00:28:54,651 Something's different here, sir. 684 00:28:54,859 --> 00:28:56,986 I don't believe this body was dumped. 685 00:28:57,195 --> 00:28:59,280 The child is dressed in baptismal gowns 686 00:28:59,489 --> 00:29:00,657 and wrapped in blankets. 687 00:29:00,865 --> 00:29:02,242 It was buried with love. 688 00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:06,246 If there's love in that grave, I don't see it. 689 00:29:06,704 --> 00:29:08,832 Perhaps the Blakes had a second child? 690 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,000 That's unlikely. 691 00:29:11,209 --> 00:29:13,002 Mary Blake had undergone a crude hysterectomy, 692 00:29:13,211 --> 00:29:14,921 most likely due to postpartum hemorrhaging 693 00:29:15,130 --> 00:29:16,297 after the birth of Rebecca. 694 00:29:16,506 --> 00:29:18,508 Well, it's no coincidence that the body was buried 695 00:29:18,716 --> 00:29:20,051 just a few yards away from the Blakes. 696 00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:21,928 So, whose baby is it? 697 00:29:23,888 --> 00:29:25,807 I believe I know. 698 00:29:35,358 --> 00:29:36,609 That's enough. 699 00:29:40,363 --> 00:29:42,031 This was your child, then? 700 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,869 We named him Martin. 701 00:29:46,077 --> 00:29:48,872 He was just six months old when he... 702 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,707 He died of congenital heart failure. 703 00:29:50,915 --> 00:29:52,750 There's nothing you could have done. 704 00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:56,796 Why did you bury him like you did? 705 00:29:57,005 --> 00:30:01,301 We were just children ourselves. 706 00:30:03,178 --> 00:30:07,432 Frightened we did something wrong. 707 00:30:09,267 --> 00:30:12,687 Constable, please escort the Hastings back to the station. 708 00:30:12,896 --> 00:30:15,023 They're to be charged with murder. 709 00:30:15,231 --> 00:30:16,316 Oh, no! 710 00:30:16,524 --> 00:30:19,777 No, no, no, no, no. 711 00:30:26,618 --> 00:30:31,581 William, the child died of natural causes. 712 00:30:31,789 --> 00:30:35,001 And was buried less than 10 feet away from the Blakes. 713 00:30:35,210 --> 00:30:36,628 That was no coincidence. 714 00:30:40,131 --> 00:30:42,133 So, if they buried the Blakes... 715 00:30:42,342 --> 00:30:44,177 Then they murdered them as well. 716 00:30:50,808 --> 00:30:54,604 Mr. Hastings, you have lied to me at every turn. 717 00:30:54,812 --> 00:30:58,358 Yes, we buried them, but we didn't kill them. 718 00:30:58,566 --> 00:31:00,610 We were trying to kill ourselves. 719 00:31:00,818 --> 00:31:03,071 I don't understand. 720 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:05,281 Rebecca and I had fallen in love. 721 00:31:05,490 --> 00:31:08,618 We kept it a secret, but when Rebecca became pregnant, 722 00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:10,245 we had to tell the Blakes. 723 00:31:10,453 --> 00:31:12,121 Mother and Father were enraged. 724 00:31:12,330 --> 00:31:14,624 They threatened to have Charlie arrested 725 00:31:14,832 --> 00:31:16,459 on trumped-up charges of theft. 726 00:31:16,668 --> 00:31:18,962 And they wanted Rebecca to take something 727 00:31:19,170 --> 00:31:20,380 to get rid of the baby. 728 00:31:20,588 --> 00:31:22,799 We would have run away, but we had nowhere to go. 729 00:31:23,007 --> 00:31:24,634 Rebecca told me to leave, 730 00:31:24,842 --> 00:31:26,803 but I wasn't going to abandon her to them. 731 00:31:27,011 --> 00:31:29,138 So we saw no way out of the situation. 732 00:31:29,347 --> 00:31:31,724 Except for suicide. 733 00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:33,142 Yes. 734 00:31:33,351 --> 00:31:36,646 And how were you planning to do it? 735 00:31:36,854 --> 00:31:40,483 The Blakes used cyanide on the farm as a pesticide. 736 00:31:40,692 --> 00:31:41,609 I stole some. 737 00:31:41,818 --> 00:31:44,487 We made a draft with the cyanide, 738 00:31:44,696 --> 00:31:46,322 and put it in an old laudanum bottle. 739 00:31:46,531 --> 00:31:48,950 Rebecca's parents had the habit 740 00:31:49,158 --> 00:31:51,786 of taking laudanum every night to help them sleep. 741 00:31:51,995 --> 00:31:55,665 We planned to use some of their laudanum in our poison 742 00:31:55,873 --> 00:31:59,002 with a mind of making our deaths less painful. 743 00:31:59,210 --> 00:32:02,547 We said our goodbyes and fell asleep. 744 00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:07,760 But in the morning, you awoke. 745 00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:11,848 We -- We had no idea why it didn't work. 746 00:32:12,056 --> 00:32:14,434 Until we saw my parents. 747 00:32:18,313 --> 00:32:22,692 That's when I realized I'd made a terrible mistake. 748 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:27,697 I'd inadvertently switched the cyanide with the laudanum. 749 00:32:27,905 --> 00:32:29,365 The bottles were identical. 750 00:32:29,574 --> 00:32:31,367 We were so frightened. 751 00:32:31,576 --> 00:32:34,579 We panicked, buried the bodies in the backyard, 752 00:32:34,787 --> 00:32:38,416 and told the children that the Blakes just up and left. 753 00:32:45,173 --> 00:32:48,051 If Charlie had accidentally switched the bottles, 754 00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:50,887 then the Blakes would have ingested laudanum 755 00:32:51,095 --> 00:32:52,221 as well as cyanide. 756 00:32:52,430 --> 00:32:55,224 Would the laudanum still be in their bodies? 757 00:32:55,433 --> 00:32:57,018 It would be. 758 00:32:57,226 --> 00:32:59,062 But it isn't. 759 00:32:59,270 --> 00:33:01,856 Just cyanide. 760 00:33:02,065 --> 00:33:04,233 I'm afraid they're lying. 761 00:33:04,442 --> 00:33:05,693 Oh. 762 00:33:05,902 --> 00:33:07,904 And I wanted so much to believe them. 763 00:33:08,112 --> 00:33:10,907 Yes, it's a shame. 764 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:12,909 What will happen to the Hastings? Will they hang? 765 00:33:14,994 --> 00:33:16,996 If you'll please excuse me, Julia. 766 00:33:27,465 --> 00:33:30,510 There was no laudanum found in the Blakes' bodies. 767 00:33:30,718 --> 00:33:35,098 You never switched the bottles, and this was no accident. 768 00:33:35,306 --> 00:33:37,266 But what we've told you is... 769 00:33:37,475 --> 00:33:39,018 The truth? 770 00:33:39,227 --> 00:33:42,689 I think one of you had something to do with the Blakes' death. 771 00:33:42,897 --> 00:33:44,941 I'm not sure which one. 772 00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:47,610 And perhaps you never even admitted it to one another. 773 00:33:47,819 --> 00:33:52,156 But don't you think it's time to set the record straight? 774 00:34:00,164 --> 00:34:01,791 Arrest me. 775 00:34:02,959 --> 00:34:04,419 I will not. 776 00:34:04,627 --> 00:34:06,921 George Crabtree, you arrest me right now. 777 00:34:07,130 --> 00:34:08,131 For what? 778 00:34:08,339 --> 00:34:11,300 I, too, was undressed and about to engage in carnal acts! 779 00:34:11,509 --> 00:34:12,802 Penny, you came here 780 00:34:13,010 --> 00:34:16,222 and asked to stay with me under false pretenses. 781 00:34:16,431 --> 00:34:18,474 We plan to be married, George. I love him. 782 00:34:18,683 --> 00:34:20,893 Penny, you're 16. You don't know what love is. 783 00:34:21,102 --> 00:34:22,395 That's practically an adult. 784 00:34:22,603 --> 00:34:24,147 You're behaving like a child. 785 00:34:24,355 --> 00:34:26,566 You're the one who arrested Clarence for no reason, 786 00:34:26,774 --> 00:34:27,817 just because you're angry. 787 00:34:28,025 --> 00:34:28,985 George, I'm begging you. 788 00:34:29,193 --> 00:34:30,111 - Let him go. - I can't. 789 00:34:30,319 --> 00:34:31,779 He put you in a compromising position, 790 00:34:31,988 --> 00:34:33,448 and I have to charge him accordingly. 791 00:34:33,656 --> 00:34:35,783 But that will go on his permanent record. 792 00:34:35,992 --> 00:34:37,660 He wants to attend medical school. 793 00:34:37,869 --> 00:34:39,203 It will destroy his life. 794 00:34:40,705 --> 00:34:42,999 If I go home and promise not to see him again, 795 00:34:43,207 --> 00:34:44,417 will you please let him go? 796 00:34:44,625 --> 00:34:46,127 What about your schooling? 797 00:34:46,335 --> 00:34:48,463 I'll make other arrangements. I love him. 798 00:34:48,671 --> 00:34:51,299 I won't let you ruin his life just because of me. 799 00:34:51,507 --> 00:34:53,801 Please, George. Let him go. 800 00:35:01,058 --> 00:35:03,019 Either they both did it or one of them did it. 801 00:35:03,227 --> 00:35:04,187 So charge them both. 802 00:35:04,395 --> 00:35:06,189 We don't have enough evidence, sir. 803 00:35:06,397 --> 00:35:08,858 And no jury would ever convict either one of them. 804 00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:10,318 Sweet old couple like that. 805 00:35:10,526 --> 00:35:12,779 Age is no reason for amnesty, Murdoch. 806 00:35:12,987 --> 00:35:13,863 You said it yourself. 807 00:35:14,071 --> 00:35:15,865 I'm aware of that, sir. 808 00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:18,701 But let's say one of them did switch the bottles 809 00:35:18,910 --> 00:35:20,536 and the other one is innocent. 810 00:35:20,745 --> 00:35:21,704 That's reasonable doubt. 811 00:35:21,913 --> 00:35:23,790 And if they stick to their story, well... 812 00:35:23,998 --> 00:35:25,291 So break their story. 813 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:26,501 Interrogate them separately. 814 00:35:26,709 --> 00:35:27,960 Get one of them to confess. 815 00:35:28,169 --> 00:35:29,921 By what means? 816 00:35:30,129 --> 00:35:31,714 You'll figure it out. 817 00:35:31,923 --> 00:35:34,050 You can solve this, Murdoch. 818 00:35:34,258 --> 00:35:35,885 I know you can. 819 00:35:38,054 --> 00:35:39,055 Thank you, sir. 820 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:41,349 Sir, that reporter from The New York Times 821 00:35:41,557 --> 00:35:42,391 is on the line. 822 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,684 He wants to confirm your interview 823 00:35:43,893 --> 00:35:44,769 at the Rossin House Hotel at 8:00. 824 00:35:44,977 --> 00:35:46,729 Excellent, good. 825 00:35:46,938 --> 00:35:47,897 An interview, sir? 826 00:35:48,105 --> 00:35:49,232 With a reporter? 827 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,984 He came all the way from New York to pursue this story. 828 00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:53,820 Which story would that be? 829 00:35:54,028 --> 00:35:56,364 The discovery of mummified remains 830 00:35:56,572 --> 00:35:57,657 or the subsequent murder investigation. 831 00:35:57,865 --> 00:35:58,908 Both. 832 00:35:59,116 --> 00:36:01,077 Well, you can't tell one without the other, can you? 833 00:36:01,285 --> 00:36:02,078 Ah. 834 00:36:02,286 --> 00:36:04,413 So you would like a satisfactory outcome. 835 00:36:04,622 --> 00:36:06,415 Of course. Don't you? 836 00:36:06,624 --> 00:36:09,418 The eyes of the world's press are upon us, Murdoch. 837 00:36:09,627 --> 00:36:12,088 Well, sir, given your distaste for the press, 838 00:36:12,296 --> 00:36:15,174 perhaps I should take this interview off your hands. 839 00:36:15,383 --> 00:36:16,634 That's very kind of you, 840 00:36:16,843 --> 00:36:18,970 but I think this case needs you more. 841 00:36:19,178 --> 00:36:20,388 Excuse me, sirs, 842 00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:24,058 Charlie Hastings would like to speak with you. 843 00:36:24,267 --> 00:36:26,018 Ah. 844 00:36:28,437 --> 00:36:32,441 I killed the Blakes. 845 00:36:32,650 --> 00:36:35,611 I switched the bottles on purpose. 846 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:39,699 I didn't put any laudanum in, 847 00:36:39,907 --> 00:36:42,952 just went in and switched the two bottles. 848 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,288 I meant to do it. 849 00:36:45,496 --> 00:36:47,164 I wanted them dead. 850 00:36:51,335 --> 00:36:54,213 Are you willing to put your confession to paper? 851 00:36:54,422 --> 00:36:55,423 Yes. 852 00:36:55,631 --> 00:37:00,469 Just as long as you understand I did this alone. 853 00:37:00,678 --> 00:37:03,931 Rebecca had nothing to do with it. 854 00:37:11,939 --> 00:37:14,400 George, can you join me with a pen and paper? 855 00:37:14,609 --> 00:37:16,777 We need to draw up a confession for Mr. Hastings. 856 00:37:16,986 --> 00:37:17,904 Uh, sir. 857 00:37:18,112 --> 00:37:20,072 Rebecca Hastings is asking for you. 858 00:37:20,281 --> 00:37:22,450 I've put her in the interview room. 859 00:37:27,038 --> 00:37:28,831 I killed my parents. 860 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,458 You did? 861 00:37:30,666 --> 00:37:33,836 I couldn't go along with the suicide. 862 00:37:34,045 --> 00:37:37,506 I wanted to live with Charlie, not die with him. 863 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:40,635 But I knew he would never have gone along with my new plan. 864 00:37:40,843 --> 00:37:42,178 Which was? 865 00:37:42,386 --> 00:37:45,681 I switched the cyanide with the laudanum. 866 00:37:45,890 --> 00:37:47,558 I killed my parents. 867 00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:51,562 I see. 868 00:37:53,648 --> 00:37:56,984 So, if they both switched the bottles, 869 00:37:57,193 --> 00:37:59,528 the second switch would have canceled out the first one. 870 00:37:59,737 --> 00:38:01,864 So they can't both be telling the truth. 871 00:38:02,073 --> 00:38:04,700 That means one of them gave a false confession. 872 00:38:04,909 --> 00:38:06,202 If Rebecca switched the bottles 873 00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:08,913 and Charlie mixed the two concoctions, 874 00:38:09,121 --> 00:38:11,040 then they would have also gotten a dose of the cyanide. 875 00:38:11,248 --> 00:38:13,334 They would have died along with the Blakes. 876 00:38:15,294 --> 00:38:17,922 But if Charlie alone switched the bottles, 877 00:38:18,130 --> 00:38:20,341 then they live and the Blakes die. 878 00:38:20,549 --> 00:38:21,801 So Charlie's our man. 879 00:38:23,427 --> 00:38:26,639 Unless what if they're both lying? 880 00:38:26,847 --> 00:38:29,308 I mean, what if Charlie is confessing to save Rebecca, 881 00:38:29,517 --> 00:38:31,477 Rebecca is confessing to save Charlie? 882 00:38:31,686 --> 00:38:34,689 Maybe they're making that sacrifice for each other. 883 00:38:34,897 --> 00:38:36,607 But if they're both lying... 884 00:38:36,816 --> 00:38:38,192 It means they're both telling the truth. 885 00:38:38,401 --> 00:38:40,736 About the suicide, that is. 886 00:38:40,945 --> 00:38:43,406 But then the Blakes would have had laudanum in their stomachs. 887 00:38:43,614 --> 00:38:44,615 Which they didn't. 888 00:38:47,785 --> 00:38:49,996 What if one of the other children made the switch? 889 00:38:50,204 --> 00:38:51,247 Aw, bloody hell, Crabtree. 890 00:38:51,455 --> 00:38:53,332 We've solved it. It's Charlie. 891 00:38:53,541 --> 00:38:54,709 What did you say? 892 00:38:54,917 --> 00:38:55,918 I don't know. 893 00:38:56,127 --> 00:38:57,837 What if one of the other children switched the bottles? 894 00:38:58,045 --> 00:39:01,173 Sir, he has a point. 895 00:39:01,382 --> 00:39:03,426 George, bring everyone back in here. 896 00:39:06,429 --> 00:39:10,474 Mrs. Hastings, you claim that you switched the laudanum bottle 897 00:39:10,683 --> 00:39:12,435 unbeknownst to anyone else, 898 00:39:12,643 --> 00:39:15,521 but I believe that you're simply protecting your husband. 899 00:39:15,730 --> 00:39:16,605 That's not true. 900 00:39:16,814 --> 00:39:17,773 It is. 901 00:39:17,982 --> 00:39:19,025 And I also believe 902 00:39:19,233 --> 00:39:21,861 that Mr. Hastings is doing the same on your behalf. 903 00:39:24,488 --> 00:39:26,115 He's right. 904 00:39:27,283 --> 00:39:29,243 That leaves the other children in the household. 905 00:39:29,452 --> 00:39:33,456 All of you had both motive and opportunity. 906 00:39:33,664 --> 00:39:34,790 The Blakes were so awful 907 00:39:34,999 --> 00:39:37,460 that you can barely speak of it, Mr. Webster. 908 00:39:38,502 --> 00:39:40,963 Mrs. Nugent, you suffered a beating 909 00:39:41,172 --> 00:39:43,632 on the evening that the Blakes died. 910 00:39:43,841 --> 00:39:46,218 Then there's little Horace Mooney, 911 00:39:46,427 --> 00:39:50,514 who claims to barely remember a thing because he was only five. 912 00:39:50,723 --> 00:39:53,392 You were the youngest and also the smallest. 913 00:39:53,601 --> 00:39:55,853 Now, can anyone tell me on this diagram 914 00:39:56,062 --> 00:39:58,105 where the laudanum bottle was kept? 915 00:39:58,314 --> 00:40:00,149 Right here in the hutch. 916 00:40:00,357 --> 00:40:01,817 - On the shelf. - Which shelf? 917 00:40:02,026 --> 00:40:03,903 The middle shelf. 918 00:40:05,071 --> 00:40:07,490 The middle shelf. 919 00:40:07,698 --> 00:40:10,117 Now, Mrs. Nugent, 920 00:40:10,326 --> 00:40:12,787 you suffered a beating on that fateful evening 921 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:15,831 because Mr. Blake thought you had been stealing candy. 922 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,000 Where was the candy kept? 923 00:40:18,209 --> 00:40:20,169 On the top shelf. 924 00:40:20,377 --> 00:40:23,380 The top shelf. 925 00:40:26,717 --> 00:40:28,969 And why was it kept on the top shelf? 926 00:40:29,178 --> 00:40:31,430 Because I could reach the others. 927 00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:32,807 You could reach the others. 928 00:40:33,015 --> 00:40:35,184 Including the shelf where the laudanum was kept? 929 00:40:35,392 --> 00:40:36,602 Yes. 930 00:40:36,811 --> 00:40:38,938 So, in that case, you didn't need a chair 931 00:40:39,146 --> 00:40:41,357 to reach the laudanum bottle and switch it. 932 00:40:41,565 --> 00:40:42,691 No. 933 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,529 But there was a chair there that evening, wasn't there? 934 00:40:46,737 --> 00:40:48,364 Yes. 935 00:40:48,572 --> 00:40:49,573 Was the chair there 936 00:40:49,782 --> 00:40:52,284 when you changed the bottle, Mr. Hastings? 937 00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:54,537 I don't recall. 938 00:40:54,745 --> 00:40:55,621 No. 939 00:40:55,830 --> 00:40:58,999 If it was, I would have put it back. 940 00:40:59,208 --> 00:41:02,628 So, what was the chair doing there? 941 00:41:02,837 --> 00:41:06,507 The only person who would have needed the chair 942 00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:10,719 to reach the lower shelf where the laudanum was kept 943 00:41:10,928 --> 00:41:13,347 was little Horace Mooney. 944 00:41:16,267 --> 00:41:17,810 But how could you say that? 945 00:41:18,018 --> 00:41:20,396 That's a ridiculous notion. 946 00:41:20,604 --> 00:41:22,314 He's right. 947 00:41:29,113 --> 00:41:33,075 I don't remember much about that age, 948 00:41:33,284 --> 00:41:36,328 but I do remember that night. 949 00:41:37,913 --> 00:41:40,082 I overheard Charlie and Rebecca. 950 00:41:40,291 --> 00:41:43,169 They were talking about going away. 951 00:41:43,377 --> 00:41:45,629 You overheard them planning their suicide. 952 00:41:49,133 --> 00:41:53,012 They saw how scared I was, so they told me they were 953 00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:55,598 just taking a magic disappearing potion 954 00:41:55,806 --> 00:41:58,267 that would make them go away for a while. 955 00:41:58,475 --> 00:42:01,312 We told him it was similar to the "happy potion" 956 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,105 the Blakes drank each night. 957 00:42:03,314 --> 00:42:04,106 The laudanum. 958 00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:05,691 Yes. 959 00:42:07,401 --> 00:42:09,445 But you didn't want them to disappear, did you? 960 00:42:09,653 --> 00:42:11,363 No. 961 00:42:12,656 --> 00:42:17,536 That night, I stole into their room 962 00:42:17,745 --> 00:42:19,914 with a fresh bottle of "happy potion" from the cellar, 963 00:42:20,122 --> 00:42:21,081 which I -- 964 00:42:21,290 --> 00:42:23,500 Well, I put in place of the -- 965 00:42:23,709 --> 00:42:27,046 what I presumed to be the disappearing potion. 966 00:42:27,254 --> 00:42:31,008 So when I switched the laudanum with the cyanide, 967 00:42:31,217 --> 00:42:32,259 I was only... 968 00:42:32,468 --> 00:42:34,929 Adding laudanum to laudanum. 969 00:42:35,137 --> 00:42:38,557 I made sure that Charlie and Rebecca didn't disappear. 970 00:42:38,766 --> 00:42:41,268 But that wasn't enough, was it, Mr. Mooney? 971 00:42:41,477 --> 00:42:44,480 I was afraid that as long as the Blakes were around, 972 00:42:44,688 --> 00:42:47,483 Charlie and Rebecca would try to disappear again. 973 00:42:47,691 --> 00:42:50,152 So you gave the Blakes 974 00:42:50,361 --> 00:42:52,780 Charlie and Rebecca's disappearing potion. 975 00:42:52,988 --> 00:42:54,990 The one that contained cyanide. 976 00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:56,492 After Charlie left, 977 00:42:56,700 --> 00:43:01,080 you replaced the laudanum bottle with the disappearing potion. 978 00:43:01,288 --> 00:43:04,458 But to reach it, you had to drag a chair over. 979 00:43:04,667 --> 00:43:06,502 And that's where you left it. 980 00:43:06,710 --> 00:43:10,631 I was too young to understand what "disappearing" meant. 981 00:43:12,466 --> 00:43:16,178 The next day, Charlie and Rebecca told us 982 00:43:16,387 --> 00:43:18,847 that the Blakes had gone. 983 00:43:19,056 --> 00:43:23,227 They were going to be taking care of us. 984 00:43:23,435 --> 00:43:25,104 I guess the potion worked. 985 00:43:25,312 --> 00:43:28,190 Horace, you kept this secret all this time? 986 00:43:29,441 --> 00:43:32,361 That must have been a heavy load for such a young man. 987 00:43:32,569 --> 00:43:34,280 I never gave it much thought. 988 00:43:34,488 --> 00:43:38,742 It was years before I understood what I'd done. 989 00:43:38,951 --> 00:43:42,371 And I can't say I regret it. 990 00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:45,416 What's going to happen to Horace, Detective? 991 00:43:48,544 --> 00:43:52,214 Well, we can't very well convict a man 992 00:43:52,423 --> 00:43:53,799 for misunderstanding the meaning of a word 993 00:43:54,008 --> 00:43:55,175 when he was five years old, can we? 994 00:43:55,384 --> 00:43:57,636 No, sir, we can't. 995 00:43:57,845 --> 00:43:59,763 Truly? 996 00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:02,808 You mean I'm free to go? 997 00:44:03,017 --> 00:44:05,060 You are. 998 00:44:05,269 --> 00:44:08,147 You all are. 999 00:44:22,286 --> 00:44:23,746 Sir, it's almost 8:00. 1000 00:44:23,954 --> 00:44:25,622 You asked me to remind you. 1001 00:44:25,831 --> 00:44:26,623 Bloody hell. 1002 00:44:26,832 --> 00:44:29,168 What will I tell The New York Times now? 1003 00:44:29,376 --> 00:44:32,379 That we've solved the case but not made any arrests? 1004 00:44:32,588 --> 00:44:34,298 Well, sir, you could always dazzle them 1005 00:44:34,506 --> 00:44:35,591 with scientific information 1006 00:44:35,799 --> 00:44:37,509 about the details of mummification. 1007 00:44:37,718 --> 00:44:39,303 Murdoch, when have you ever heard me 1008 00:44:39,511 --> 00:44:41,096 use a scientific term in a sentence? 1009 00:44:41,305 --> 00:44:42,556 You'll be fine, sir. 1010 00:44:42,765 --> 00:44:44,224 Just stick to the facts. 1011 00:44:44,433 --> 00:44:46,060 You should get a move on, sir. 1012 00:44:46,268 --> 00:44:47,061 How do I look? 1013 00:44:47,269 --> 00:44:48,771 Really? 1014 00:44:48,979 --> 00:44:50,439 You look very handsome, sir. 1015 00:45:08,499 --> 00:45:09,625 - Penny! - Clarence! 1016 00:45:09,833 --> 00:45:11,293 All right, not so fast. 1017 00:45:11,502 --> 00:45:13,212 Now, listen, you two. I know you say you're in love. 1018 00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:14,797 We are in love. In fact -- 1019 00:45:15,005 --> 00:45:15,964 Uh, I believe you. 1020 00:45:16,173 --> 00:45:18,634 I just don't want you to rush into anything. 1021 00:45:18,842 --> 00:45:21,011 So I've written a list of conditions. 1022 00:45:22,513 --> 00:45:26,141 Until you should decide to get married, 1023 00:45:26,350 --> 00:45:30,646 you have to agree to be chaperoned at all times. 1024 00:45:30,854 --> 00:45:32,648 Is that all? 1025 00:45:32,856 --> 00:45:33,982 I think that's a sacrifice 1026 00:45:34,191 --> 00:45:35,901 that two people who are in love would be willing to make. 1027 00:45:36,110 --> 00:45:37,111 Do you agree? 1028 00:45:37,319 --> 00:45:38,070 I do. 1029 00:45:38,278 --> 00:45:39,321 I do, too. 1030 00:45:39,530 --> 00:45:41,031 Thank you, Georgie. 1031 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:43,367 I'll treat her well, sir. 1032 00:45:47,663 --> 00:45:49,415 All right, that's enough now. 1033 00:45:49,623 --> 00:45:51,125 This is my workplace. 1034 00:45:56,422 --> 00:45:59,633 I wonder how the inspector's interview is faring. 1035 00:45:59,842 --> 00:46:01,718 Very well, I should think. 1036 00:46:01,927 --> 00:46:03,303 He's surprisingly sentimental 1037 00:46:03,512 --> 00:46:05,180 about romantic stories like this. 1038 00:46:05,389 --> 00:46:06,348 He'll do it justice. 1039 00:46:06,557 --> 00:46:07,683 You find this romantic? 1040 00:46:07,891 --> 00:46:10,018 Certainly. 1041 00:46:10,227 --> 00:46:13,522 Out of adversity grew a family of sorts. 1042 00:46:13,730 --> 00:46:15,357 That's important to you, isn't it? 1043 00:46:15,566 --> 00:46:16,483 Family. 1044 00:46:16,692 --> 00:46:18,652 Oh, yes. 1045 00:46:18,861 --> 00:46:21,613 My family life was so erratic, 1046 00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:26,285 I suppose it made me crave my own close-knit family someday. 1047 00:46:26,493 --> 00:46:29,121 You deserve such happiness. 1048 00:46:31,081 --> 00:46:32,374 As do you. 1049 00:46:32,583 --> 00:46:33,542 Yes. 1050 00:46:33,750 --> 00:46:37,171 If that's what you want. 1051 00:46:37,379 --> 00:46:38,797 Is that what you want? 1052 00:46:40,215 --> 00:46:41,008 Yes. 1053 00:46:41,216 --> 00:46:43,385 Yes, of course.