Another grape juice Grayson,
you can't have too many vitamins I always say.
Thank you Senator
but if you don't mind
I'll have a whiskey and soda.
Why sure.
George bring them over will you?
Let's get a chair.
I was built for comfort.
Solid little beggars.
Kept some myself for the lad
till mother got a cat.
Shhhh.
Don't say C-A-T.
Oh sorry.
Permit me.
Oh thank you, you're very kind I'm sure.
Beg your pardon sir.
Here we are.
Porter?
Yes sir.
Are we on time?
Yes sir.
We'll be in Washington in twenty-minutes.
By the way Grayson what's your line?
Line?
Yeah, what business you in?
What's your racket?
Oh I represent a London legal firm.
Farlow, Nash and Farlow.
Farlow?
I used to know a man named Farlow.
No, no it was Marlow.
Couldn't have been the same fellow.
Well I suppose not.
I've been making a tour of my state
getting the opinions of the home folks.
Taking a lot of their ideas back to Washington.
I'd like to hear more of your activities Senator.
Give me your address Sir
and I'll have all my speeches mailed to you.
You're quite to kind sir.
Sorry I have no card.
Oh Porter?
Yes Miss?
Permit me.
Thank you very much.
Not at all.
I'll be at this address
for the next week or so,
I hope.
Thank you.
I'll get my papers together.
Pleasant meeting you my friend.
Better look me up in Washington.
I'll just get my bag.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh I forgot to pay George.
Excuse me sir.
This is a blackout.
Keep your seats.
This is a blackout.
Keep your seats.
Mice!
Oh dear, all gone.
Peter!
Peter.
Nancy darling.
I didn't dream you'd be able to meet me.
I got leave.
Oh darling, that's wonderful.
Just three days.
Oh that's awful?
We haven't a second to lose.
First thing I did...
Was get this.
This finger?
Well I haven't had much experience.
Look, day after tomorrow
your aunt's giving us a reception
until then you and I
are going to be a couple of busy people.
Oh I beg your pardon.
Goodbye.
Who's your boyfriend?
You needn't worry.
He just lit a cigarette for me.
This is the BBC News Bureau
broadcasting from London.
At this time we present
our regular morning summary of the news.
A British subject has disappeared
under curious circumstances.
John Grayson,
senior clerk in the firm
of Farlow Nash and Farlow,
solicitors,
Chancery Lane,
has not arrived at his firm's
representatives in Washington.
Foul play is suspected.
Deplorable,
simply deplorable.
It's the sort of thing
that shakes your faith by George.
I say, Holmes, shake your faith in everything.
You alarm me Watson.
I've never seen you affected by the news
however startling.
Startling, my dear fellow, it's devastating.
Seen the scores?
The Navy got four hundred and twenty-eight
for six wickets.
Against the Army at Lords.
May I draw your attention to the fact
that really momentous things
are happening in the world today?
I know all about that.
I'll get to them later on.
Excuse me.
Mind my egg old boy.
Oh I'm sorry.
With your consuming interest in the game
I'm surprised that you've changed your mind
about running up to Lord's cricket grounds this afternoon.
Well it can't be helped.
I had to put it off...
how did you know I'd changed my mind?
Elementary my dear Watson.
Invariably when you go to a cricket match
you fill your flask with my best whiskey.
Just now I noted in passing
that the flask was empty.
A single whiff informed me
that it had been recently filled,
obviously after filling it,
you would pour the contents
back into the bottle,
therefore you would have changed your mind
about a cricket match.
You amaze me Holmes.
You're positively amazing.
Come in Mrs. Hudson.
Oh excuse me, Mr. Holmes,
there's a gentleman
and he's very insistent.
Well I do declare
he followed me right up the stairs.
Didn't I ask you to wait?
My good woman you may ask me to wait
but not the British Empire.
Mr. Holmes, I must talk to you immediately.
How are you Mr. Ahren?
That will be all now thank you Mrs. Hudson.
My good woman indeed.
Ahren?
I seem to know that name.
Don't tell me, my dear Watson,
that you don't recognize
Mr. Ahren of the home office.
Why yes of course.
I knew you the moment you came in.
How are you Ahren?
Did you see what the Navy did to the Army
at Lords yesterday?
All right Watson, go on with your breakfast.
Mr. Holmes, I am here on a matter
of the utmost secrecy.
I assure you Mr. Ahren
that Doctor Watson is the very sole of discretion.
Won't you sit down?
By the by Watson
please be so good as to keep
tapping on the table with your knife.
Tapping on the table with a knife?
It will break the wavelength
if by any chance there's a dictograph in the walls.
All really.
Cigarette?
No thank you.
You can stop now Watson.
Well Mr. Ahren
I take it you have called on me
in connection with the kidnapping
of John Grayson in America last night.
Why yes.
Yes exactly.
Grayson was carrying a document
of a very confidential nature.
Indeed.
It's contents were of such
great international importance
that I am not at liberty to reveal them
but if that document
falls into the hands of the enemy,
I can only say
it will be absolutely disastrous
for this government and our allies.
For that reason
we did not wish to transport it
to Washington in the usual way.
So a regular King's messenger,
Sir Henry Marchmont, was dispatched.
Not carrying the document of course?
That's right.
Sir Henry was the sort of...
A decoy shall we say?
Precisely.
The document was actually entrusted
to a reliable but insignificant man
in our secret service.
On his arrival in Washington
he was to make himself known to Sir Henry