:47:01
- Would you like a drink?
- Well, this is my brandy hour.
:47:04
- Mrs. Charles, would you like a drink?
- I could stand some sherry.
:47:07
The weapon that killed Tommy Drake...
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seems to have the ballistics experts
rather neatly stumped.
:47:12
That leads to one of two
possible conclusions:
:47:15
Either the gun was handmade,
or it was a pre-ballistics antique.
:47:20
Probably very early 18th century.
Perhaps the property of some collector.
:47:25
Dear me, I'm terribly sorry.
:47:26
- Here, use this.
- Quite all right. Thank you.
:47:30
Well, that's very interesting,
but not interesting enough...
:47:34
to come breaking down doors
at this hour of the morning.
:47:37
My husband is neither a gunsmith
nor an antique collector.
:47:41
No, but wasn't the City Museum...
:47:43
given a million-dollar art collection
by your father?
:47:49
Yes, Father gave the museum his...
:47:53
Elizabethan and Chippendale pieces.
:47:56
His...
:47:59
Georgian silver...
:48:02
and yes, his Flemish paintings,
his Reynolds, and his Rembrandt.
:48:06
Well, that was very generous
of him, indeed.
:48:09
Your father was a collector
of many things, wasn't he?
:48:11
Coral, coins, jade, and, I believe, quite
an assortment of 18th-century firearms.
:48:18
All the weapons my father had,
pistols or guns, went to the museum.
:48:22
Just a minute, Mr. Charles. Just a minute.
:48:25
Your father seems
to have overlooked a few.
:48:28
Am I to understand that the gun that
hung here was given to the museum?
:48:31
No, Mr. Charles.
:48:33
I didn't give that gun to the museum.
:48:36
It was my favorite.
:48:38
Originally owned
by an 18th-century nobleman.
:48:40
He used it only once, to destroy
a brigand who had certain aspirations...
:48:44
toward the gentleman's daughter.
:48:47
You had that gun with you
the night Drake was murdered.
:48:49
Well...
:48:51
Were you perhaps intending to use
it on a brigand...
:48:53
who had certain aspirations
toward your daughter?
:48:55
Perhaps, but he wasn't the man
who was killed.
:48:59
But he and Drake were just about
the same height and build.