![]() ![]() Watson shows Holmes and Weizmann Constances' translation of the Protocols, which Weizmann says were originally published in a Russian newspaper. Weizmann tells them that such realities are the reason Herzl organized the Zionist Congress to create a Jewish homeland, which he insists has the covert support of the British government. Weizmann fears the blame will fall on the Jews, as the government has encouraged anti-Semitism to deflect blame for Russia's backwardness. Weizmann informs them that the situation in Russia continues to deteriorate a mutiny of sailors has taken place in Odessa. He returns to Baker Street to reunite with Holmes, and is surprised to find Professor Weizmann there. The word "Jew" has been substituted liberally however, Watson also notices other word changes to no obvious effect. ![]() Watson leaves the Protocols with Constance, which seem curiously familiar to her.Ĭonstance meets Watson the next day, and informs him that the Protocols are plagiarized from an old French monarchist polemic. ![]() Watson and Constance briefly discuss the unfolding, disastrous war between Russia and Japan. Holmes then leaves for Manchester to meet Dr Weizmann, and Watson pays a visit to his sister-in-law. She was killed with a kosher butcher's knife, which Holmes dismisses as an obvious bit of theatrics. Holmes and Watson make a brief visit to the morgue to view Lippman's corpse. Watson, meanwhile, offers to ask his sister-in-law, the translator Constance Garnett, to finish translating the tract. ![]() Mycroft asks Holmes to question Dr Chalres Weizmann, a chemist who was present at the Zionist Congress and is currently in England. Mycroft sent agents to interview its leader, a journalist named Theodor Herzl, but he died suspiciously before the interview could take place. The document purports to contain a secret plan for Jewish world domination, but Holmes tells Mycroft that he believes it is fraudulent after all, if Lippman was killed for the documents, why would they be left on her person? However, Mycroft informs him that for six years a global congress of Jews has been held in Switzerland calling themselves "Zionists", their stated intention is to create a Jewish homeland. Mycroft admits he is correct, and that the woman, named Manya Lippman, was a government agent. Though Mycroft refuses to tell him where the documents were found, Holmes deduces they were recovered from the corpse of a woman reported found dead in the Thames two days ago. The packet contains one original sheet, on which Holmes notices dried blood and a woman's hair.Īt Baker Street, Holmes works to translate the document, and Mycroft soon arrives. Holmes opens the packet on the cab back home, which contains a copy of a work called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. There, he presents Holmes with a sheaf of documents in French, which he asks him to examine. Mycroft arrives unexpectedly, and stays just long enough ask Holmes to meet him the following day at the Diogenes Club. In January 1905, Watson takes Holmes to dinner to celebrate the detective's fiftieth birthday, and Holmes laments the recent dearth of interesting crime. ![]()
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