:04:04
- Burn it.
- Yes, sir.
:04:08
Just a moment.
We do not yet know the cause of death.
:04:11
When you find them in the river,
cause of death is drowning.
:04:14
Possibly so, if there is water
in the lungs. But by pathology,
:04:17
we might be able to determine
whether or not he was dead...
:04:19
before he went into the river.
:04:20
I will need to examine the body.
:04:22
Cut him up.
Are we heathens?
:04:25
What happened to him?
:04:28
Nothing, sir.
Arrested for burglary.
:04:34
[Screaming]
:04:36
- [Trap Door Slams Shut]
- Good work.
:04:39
[Crane]
The millennium is almost upon us.
:04:42
in a few months, we will be
living in the 19th century.
:04:45
Yet our courts continue to rely
on medieval devices of torture.
:04:49
- Stand down!
- I stand up for sense and justice.
:04:53
Our jails overflow with men and
women convicted on confessions...
:04:56
- worth no more than this one.
- Constable Crane!
:05:00
This is a song we have heard
from you more than once.
:05:03
Now, there are two courses
open to me.
:05:07
First, I can let you cool
your heels in the cells...
:05:11
until you learn respect
for the dignity...
:05:14
- of my office.
- I beg pardon.
:05:15
But why am I the only one
who sees that to solve crimes,
:05:19
to detect the guilty,
we must use our brains...
:05:23
to recognize vital clues...
:05:25
using up-to-date
scientific techniques?
:05:27
Which brings me
to the second course.
:05:31
There is a town upstate,
two days' journey to the north...
:05:35
in the Hudson highlands.
:05:37
It is a place called
Sleepy Hollow.
:05:40
Have you heard of it?
:05:42
I have not.
:05:44
An isolated farming community,
mainly Dutch.
:05:47
Three persons have been murdered there,
all within a fortnight.
:05:52
Each one found
with the head...
:05:55
- lopped off.
- Lopped off?
:05:58
Clean as dandelion heads,
apparently.