:04:00
It was ten days
:04:02
before Raeburn's battered
body was recovered.
:04:05
Hum, tell Mr. Chalmers
:04:06
what do these
envelopes contain?
:04:08
In the first case,
:04:10
seven orange
pips, or seeds.
:04:11
In the second case six.
:04:13
And the number
of orange pips
:04:15
refer to the
surviving members,
:04:16
a grim warning,
hey Holmes?
:04:18
Looks like murder.
:04:20
Not necessarily, Watson.
:04:22
A moment ago
:04:23
you referred to this club
as extraordinary, why?
:04:25
All of the members
are past middle age,
:04:28
retired and
without near kin.
:04:31
Six months ago
:04:32
they formed this
club here in London
:04:33
and promptly left
for Driercliff,
:04:35
the ancestral home of
a Mr. Bruce Alastair,
:04:37
their eldest member.
:04:39
Nothing there
remarkable about that,
:04:41
sounds rather friendly
as a matter of fact.
:04:44
The remarkable fact is
:04:45
that all seven
of these men
:04:47
appear to have but
one thing in common.
:04:49
Huh, well what's that?
:04:50
Elementary, my
dear Watson,
:04:51
each is worth a great
deal more dead than alive.
:04:53
That's right Mr. Holmes.
:04:55
How did you guess?
:04:56
My dear Mr. Chalmers,
you represent
:04:58
the Association of
Insurance Underwriters,
:05:00
you're worried about
the untimely deaths
:05:01
of these two
Good Comrades.
:05:03
Ergo these men must carry
:05:05
rather large
insurance policies.
:05:06
Yes, but that's not all.
:05:08
Shortly after
forming this club
:05:11
all these seven men
changed their policies
:05:13
making the other members
their beneficiaries.
:05:16
The policy's total
:05:17
are over a hundred
thousand pounds.
:05:19
Oh, it's very
enlightening.
:05:21
You've paid the five
surviving members
:05:22
on the policies of
King and Raeburn?
:05:24
Oh yes, we always
pay promptly
:05:25
but what worries
me, Mr. Holmes, is...
:05:27
Whether these two deaths
:05:29
were accidental or not.
:05:30
Exactly.
:05:31
Of course I may be wrong,
:05:33
I have no proof
:05:34
but it seems to me
to be just possible
:05:35
that one of these men
:05:37
plans to murder the
others one by one.
:05:38
And collect on
all the policies.
:05:40
I see the whole
thing, Holmes.
:05:42
Bravo Watson but
why the orange pips?
:05:43
Oh yes, the orange pips.
:05:45
Pips Watson?
:05:46
Bit of a puzzler,
hey Holmes?
:05:47
Quite.
:05:48
Most intriguing feature.
:05:50
Any tobacco
around this place.
:05:51
After all Mr. Holmes,
:05:53
several lives
may be at stake.
:05:54
The temptation of
sudden wealth could...
:05:56
Could,
:05:57
could possibly
turn one of these
:05:58
seemingly harmless men
:05:59
into a ruthless killer.