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(toy train running)

- Oh.

Turned over the glue

(dramatic music)

("Maigret Theme")

(whistling)

(knocking)

- Belote?

- Patron.

- Good morning, patron.

- No, sit; sit; sit

Finish the game

No customers?

- [Lucas] No

- Where are they all?

- [Lucas] I think they
might be sleeping off

their New Year parties

Ah ha, Belotel

- [Lapointe] Oh nol

- Turn up the fire, it's cold in here.

Lapointe, come in here

Shut the door.

- I see they got snow in the north

(knocking)

- Mm-hm.

- We're in business.

Yes?

- Inspector Maigret.

- Have you filled in a form™

I'll get you one

- I'm in rather a hurry.

- 80 are we.

- No, we're not, Lucas

What does he want?

- I want you, inspector

- Well, here I am.

All right, Lucas.

Lapointe, would you fill that in for me?

- Patron.

- I'm in a hurry because
I have to go to work

- [Maigret] Mm-hm

- I said I was going to the dentist.

I'd be half an hour late.

- Mm-hm, well, let's begin with your name

- Xavier Marton.

- Xavier Marton.

- I follow all the old cases in the paper.

- [Maigret] Mm-hm

- I consider myself the uncrovned king

of the model railway world.

I'm not mad.

- Well, why have you come to see me”?

- I went to a doctor about
it and he says, I'm not mad

- You thought you might be?

- I wasn't sure so I went to
Dr. Steiner, the neurologist

Place Denfert-Rochereau.

- [Maigret] Place Denfert-Rochereau

- His examination lasts an hour.

He says I'm perfectly normal

- [Maigret] Mm-hm

- Don't know where to start.

- Your address?

17 Avenue de Chatillon.

- Avenue de Chatillon

- And I work at the
Grand Magasin du Louvre

Head salesman in the toy department.

But my real work is with
the electric trains.

- Oh yes

- I don't know whether you saws

our window display at Christmas?

La Gare Saint-Lazare
complete in every detail

I think my wife wants to murder me.

You'd be surprised at some of the people

who buy electric trains

- Your wife?

- I make no accusations, mind you

- Simply that she wants to murder?

- Yes.

I've been married 15 years

Hardly ever a quarrel.

Perfectly happy.

- Except that she wants to murder you

- Yes.

- Why?

- Perhaps she's mad?

I mean, I'm not, the doctor says so

- One partner in every marriage
doesn't have to be mad.

- Dr. Steiner says he'd
like to see her, too

but how can I ask Jenny
to go to a neurologist?

- And who's Jenny?

- No, Giselle

Jenny's her sister.

She lives with us.

Did I say Jenny?

I meant Giselle.

- I presume you have some
basis for your suspicions

- Oh yes

Your analysts will tell
you it is zinc phosphide

- Yours having told you that already?

- A friend at the store.

He's an amateur chemist.

He has a quite a little
laboratory at home

Just as I have a railway layout.

That was how it happened, really

I knocked over a pot of glue.

Went to look for a rag

Under all the other cleaning things

there was a jar full of this

- [Maigret] Mm-hm

- Well, what else could she want it for?

It's highly poisonous

I looked it up

- What are its uses?

- It has one or two industrial uses.

And it was once used in
minute doses as a medicine.

There were 50 grammes in that jar

Well, what could she possibly want it for?

- Have you asked her?

- Well, no

I mean, what could I say?

What could she say”

But there's no real need to,

for the last few months
I've been having pains here

- Oh?

- Never before.

- Patron, they want the
Lanier file back in a hurry

- They'll probably prosecute him

- I've got his secretary on the phone now

- Mm-hm.

One moment, monsieur

- My fault, these things happen

I'm overworked.

Right.

- Make sure it's all here.

Yes, yes, yes

Well, you'd better sign
it over to the registry

or else I'll get the blame

- [Lucas] Get this down to the registry

right away, will you?

- Lapointe!

Where's he gone?

Have you seen him?

- He just went out.

Said good morning to me as he went passed

I thought you'd finished with him

- Shall I go after him™

- Yes.

No, no

No, if he doesn't want to talk to me,

I don't want to talk to him.

Hmm.

I'm going to get a glass of beer.

Ng, it's too cold.

- Grog?

- Good idea.

- Shall [ send down for it?

- No, it's always tepid
by the time it arrives

I'll go aver to the brasserie

Well, both go over.

You'll need a coat.

- Oh, I'll be all right.

- You will not be all right.

You will catch a cold

and then someone else
will have to do your job

- Patron, someone else to see you

- Ah, there would be

Madame Xavier Marton.

Hmm, show her in.

- What should I do, patron?

- Go and have that grog, but
don't be too long about it

- [Lapointe] Right.

- [Lucas] Will you come this way, madame?

- I expect you know why I'm here

- Mm-hm.

- My husband has just been to see you

- Did he tell you so?

- No, I saw him come in here.

- [Maigret] You followed him

- Yes.

- You may smoke, if you want to

- Thank you, I smoke far too much

Ought to give it up, really

I don't mind a pipe,
if you really want one

You must think it odd,

two of us coming here together,

as if we were going to confession

It is rather like that, really.

- Do you know what your
husband said to me?

- That I'm trying to poison him

- Are you”?

- No, of course not!

I know why he thinks so

I know him very well.

I've known him for 15 years.

He was a peasant brought up
by foster parents on a farm

He's worked his way up from nothing

to the position he holds today.

He really is an acknowledged
expert on electric trains

I hope you didn't laugh
when he told you that.

After all, nobody makes fun of people

who design corsets and brassieres.

- Do you have something to do with those?

- What woman hasn't?

As a matter of fact, I sell them

But about Xavier, he really
does work terribly hard

And over Christmas, his job
seems to get on top of him

He feels inadequate.

Lately, he's begun to worry about some

of his assistants being
after his position

- [Maigret] Are they?

- No, of course not

I told him he was becoming neurotic

but I didn't realise how bad he was

until he started suspecting me

- Did he tell you of his suspicions?

- As good as, he looked
at me the other day

and said, "You'd make a
beautiful widow, wouldn't you?"

Well, he keeps harping on it.

About the wonderful career
I'd have without him.

He changes his cup for mine.

Makes me eat the first month full of food.

Keeps hunting around the kitchen

And he says, the doctor says he isn't mad

- Dr. Steiner.

- Yes, he went to see him a few days ago

Came back looking very
pleased with himself

Oh, and he said, "Whatever you do,

someone will know all about it."

And that's you

- Mm-hm, well, why have
you come to see me?

And do you want him certified?

- No, certainly not!

Well, I must get to work

- You're at the same shop as he is?

- Oh no, I work at Maison Harris

at the Rue Saint-Honore.

- Maison Harris.

- It's one of the best
lingerie shops in Paris.

- Do you have any staff under you”

- No, there's only me

I work directly under Monsieur Harris

His real name is Schwab.

He gives me a percentage of the profits.

- So, you do quite well?

- Not bad.

- You have a maid at home?

- Why?

- You must be out all day

- Well, my sister looks after the house

She's been living with us
since her husband died

- Her name?

- Jenny.

- Do you love your husband?

- Well, would I be here if I didn't?

- Where'd you meet him?

- At the shop

- His or yours?

- His, of course

I used to work there when
I first came to Paris

- When you came from?

- Rouen.

- Alone?

- What a question, yes

As a matter of fact, I did live with

a young lawyer for some time,

but well, didn't work out.

- Do you make more
money than your husband”?

- Yes, now.

- Does he mind”?

- He's used to it.

We live a quiet life

- Mmm, I see

And you're not prepared to
sign a formal application

to have him examined
by a mental specialist?

- No, certainly not!

- Well, that's all.

Do you use zinc phosphide?

- Yes.

- What for?

- Rats.

- At home?

- No, at the shop

The Rue Saint-Honere is an old street

and they've become a plague

Oh, I did take some home once

because we had some in our backyard.

Is that it”?

Is that what's worrying him?

Oh, how silly.

- You never told him?

- Oh, I don't know

I may have.

Anyway, this explains it all

I'll tell him tonight

Oh, no, then he'll knows
I've been to see you

- Which you also don't
propose to tell him?

- I don't know.

I don't knew anything anymore

I came here to ask for help,

and all you do is ask me questions

as though I were a suspect

- If you were to suspect,
you wouldn't be going now

Good morning, madame.

Lucas, Lapointe

Find me Dr. Steiner,

Place Denfert-Rochereau.

Call and put the call through to me

- [Lucas] Patron.

- Who smells of rum?

- Me, patron, you said I could

- Ah yes, yes

Well, we have a crime tc solve

I can't tell you much about it

because, in fact, there is no crime.

No crime, no motive,
no criminal, no victim

- A murder case?

- Poisoning

Have that analysed

If it turns out to be bicarbonate,

we'd look even sillier than I feel.

Now, Lapointe, I want you to go down

to Maison Harris in the Rue Saint-Honore.

Watch madame at work.

She didn't see you here, did she?

- No.

- Good.

Now, when you get there, try
not to look like a policeman.

Ask to see something

- It's a woman's shop

I mean, underwear that kind of thing.

- Well, pretend you're
buying a night dress

for your fiancee or something

- 1 don't think one would.

I mean, it's a little personal, isn't it?

- Well, be yourself
then, I don't care who

(laughing)

Anyway, don't look like a policeman.

- Keep your mind on your vsork!

- Lucas, you can take
that grin off your face

and go down to the 17 Avenue de Chatillon

Try to sell some life insurance

ta Madame Jenny something or other

Find out her name while you're at it

- [Lucas] Why insurance, patron?

- Because I want to knows
if they have any already

- [Giselle] Monsieur

- I want a night dress.

- Yes, monsieur

- Fora lady

I mean, a young lady

- Please sit, monsieur

- Thank you

- What is mademoiselle's size?

- Oh, well she's a bit shorter than you

and perhaps a little less
broad across the shoulders.

I mean, not that you're too...

Well, perhaps she's a bit narrow, really.

- The shoulders hardly matter, monsieur.

This is the model we designed
for Princess Helen of Greece.

- It looks a little short.

- Mademoiselle is hardly likely
to be wearing shoes with it

- No, I suppose not

How much?

- 450 francs.

- Four hundred and...

Oh, you haven't anything a
little less exotic, have you?

In nylon, perhaps.

- No, nylon here, monsieur,
only pure silk and batiste

This is the least expensive thing

we have in the shop, monsieur.

180 francs.

- Oh, well I think perhaps not

a night dress after all something else

- What, monsieur?

- One of those.

- 50 francs, monsieur.

- Which is Monsieur Marton's
house, can you tell me?

- Over there, monsieur, number 17

- Ah, thanks.

Do you know him?

- Oh, we've done some business together

- More than I have.

He never comes in here.

Doesn't drink.

- Right, thank you.

(knocking)

Ah, Madame Marton?

- That's my sister, she's out.

- My apologies, madame

- She and her husband both work.

I look after the house.

Can I help you?

- Well, a colleague of Monsieur Marton

suggested he might be
interested in some insurance.

- Well, come in

It's cold out.

- Thank you

- Snow on the way

- You're from an insurance company?

- Yes, I don't suppose I can interest you?

- No, thank you

I have a pension from my husband's firm

He was killed in an accident.

- Oh, I'm sorry

- Forgive me working

I have to get lunch.

- They come back for lunch?

- Xavier does, not Giselle

She prefers the Grands Boulevards

If you'd like to wait, he'll be here soon

- Yes, well, I don't think ['ll wait now,

but [ would like to interest him

road accident policy.

You see, if he comes
home for lunch every day

he runs an extra 24% risk

of death or mutilation by road accident.

However, I'll come back this evening

- Oh, I shouldn't, if you have to make

a special journey.

I happen to know they're
both insured already.

- Well, sometimes that
little extra cover makes all

the difference between
anxiety and contentment

- They're policies were quite a lot.

10,000 each.

- 10.000 against accident”

- [Jenny] And death

- I see.

Well, in that case, madame,
thank you for your patience

- You might try the flats next door

- [Lucas] I might indeed

- It seems a pity to come all this way

for nothing on a cold day like this

- Yes, it does

Thank you, madame.

- [Jenny] Not all, monsieur, goodbye

- It's just as cold in here

- Snow coming

- Well, it's the time of year for it.

- As long as it doesn't
stop the Reims-Dijon match

- Calvados, please

- [Barman] Monsieur

- Who'll win?

- [Barman] Reims.

And they'll beat, Lyons

- [Patron] Are you going to it?

- [Barman] Riding on the supporters' bus

(knocking)

- 50 francs!

The cashier won't stand for that.

(phone ringing)

Maigret.

Oh, yes.

Thank you

The analysts say it is zinc phosphide

Go on.

- Well, after that I left
the shop rather quickly

As a matter of fact, I left my hat there.

- You just wanted an excuse ta go back

Oh, well we may have to

What did you think of them?

Well, I wouldn't swear to anything,

but they make a good pair

They don't have to speak
to understand each other.

They had lunch together in a restaurant

in the Boulevard des Capucines

- Just as her sister said she would.

- What was the sister's name by the way?

- Jenny Sorel, according to
the barman at the bistro.

- And you say she opened the door

to Xavier and he kissed her.

- Oh well, there was nothing to it

Just as a man might kiss his sister.

- Which she is.

- Oh no, his wife's sister

- Yes, well, I mean there's no-

- If you're going to
say it's the same thing,

it is not.

Well, I seem to have spent all day doing

nothing and getting nowhere.

Let's all go have a drink, and go home

(phone ringing)

I only have to say those words

Maigret.

Hmm, oh, he is?

All right, bring him in.

Our friend is back again

- Xavier?

- Yes, to see me

Now, Lapecinte, I want you in there

with the door ajar

I want this interview taken down.

- Right, patron

- Have someone downstairs ready to follows

him when he leaves.

(knocking)

Come in.

- Do forgive me for coming so late

I couldn't get away earlier

- Will you take your coat off?

- Ch yes, thank you, I suppose I will

I'm a bit hot, I've been running.

Sorry about this morning

They're strict at the shop

I was afraid I might be late.

I'd have rung you up only we're not

allowed to make private calls

I think I'm getting a cold.

My wife's been to see you, hasn't she?

- Yes.

- [Xavier] What did she say”?

- Here, Monsieur Marton,
we ask the questions

- I'm sorry

- Are you lodging a
complaint against your wife?

- No, what good would that do?

Where's my proof?

You don't believe a word I say, do you”?

- [Maigret] I wish you'd
stop asking questions

- It's no use my answering them

if you're not going to believe me

I don't supposed you've
even analysed that powder

- Yes, we have

- Zinc phosphide?

- Rat poison

- Which she brought home from the shop

because I complained about rats.

Absolutely true

But that doesn't make any difference

Why didn't she tell me
she brought it back?

- Perhaps she forgot”?

- Oh, she seldom ever forgets anything

No, mind you, I can see
it's awkward for you

I might be lying.

She might be lying.

We both might by lying

- You might, indeed

- This business of my
going to a neurologist

of my own accord is hardly the act

of an entirely sane man

Or am I just trying to create
an impression of neurosis

It's so hard for you to know

- Well, make it easier

- And she must have told you
all about how neurctic I am.

How I suspect the assistants at the store

and all that sort of thing.

- Do you?

- Yes, and rightly too

Oh, and I do more than that.

When I can't find something at home

I stamp my feet and
burst into tears, often

Did you tell Dr. Steiner that?

- Of course, I told him everything

He asked me questions
you'd never dream of.

- Well?

- And I'm still not mad.

- But still convinced that
your wife wants to murder you

- Utterly.

- And you don't want an inquiry?

- Useless.

- Or protection

- How would you do that?

Hide in the teapot?

- Hide in the...

Do you drink tea?

- No.

- Then, why should I hide in the teapot?

- You couldn't.

- But why a tea pot?!

- Because we drink a tisane at night

An infusion of Chinese Anise.

You make it in a teapot

I think that's where the poison will be.

- Oh.

Well, if you don't want us
to do anything about it,

would you mind telling me why
you came here the first place?

- So, that you'll know

So, that if anything happens to me,

you won't think that it was
an accident or natural causes.

- Very obliging, monsieur

- 1 shall be more obliging than that.

I'm going to save you a trial

- Mmm?

- I shall mete out justice myself

- Meaning that you're proposing to kill

your wife in advance?

- Yes, after I'm poisoned,
but before I die

You see, there are very few poisons

that cause instant death.

Certainly not zinc phosphide.

Though, I don't suppose
she'll use that now

I have a loaded revolver at home.

- Licenced?

- Yes, ask at the town hall

She still knows I've got if,

but she doesn't know where I keep it.

At the moment I feel I've been poisoned,

and I shall know,

I will shoot my wife through the heart.

(phone ringing)

- Hmm, sit down there, will you?

- Yes.

- Maigret.

- Patron, she's out here waiting for him

- Who the wife?

- No Jenny, the other one

- Don't talk so loud.

You're making the speaker vibrate

- She didn't come with him.

She must've followed him
when he left the shop

Shall I tail them when he comes out?

- Yes, do that.

- My wife?

- No, no.

- Hmm, I wonder if that the truth?

I shouldn't think so.

It's funny

I can't believe a word you say

and you won't believe what I say

- Would you agree to another examination?

- [Xavier] By a neurologist?

- Yes, our own man

He's very good

- [Xavier] When, now?

- No, it's too late now

Tomorrow morning?

- If I have time to
tell them at the store.

- We'd ask for your signature to a paper

stating that it's of your own free will.

- If you want me to

- After all, you came here
of your own free will

You don't even have to
answer my questions

Will you?

- Will you believe the answers?

- [Maigret] I'l try

Do you love your wife?

- No.

- [Maigret] Did you ever love her?

- I thought I did.

- Do you mind explaining
just what you mean by that?

- No, not at all

You see, there was very little time

for company when I was a young man

There was so much reading to be done,

if I was to better myself.

- So, that you really had nothing to do

with women until you met your wife,

Only what you can imagine

More disgust than pleasure.

- [Maigret] Mm-hm

- Well, when I met Giselle
I saw her as the ideal woman.

And that was what I loved.

The word couple

The marvellous, marvellous feeling for me

in those days to be one
of the halves of a couple

It was what I dreamed of.

- Did she love you?

- I thought she did for a time

When did you finally decide

that you'd made a mistake?

- About two years ago

- Just about the time
that your sister-in-law

came to visit you

- That's so.

- Why should her arrival change your mind”?

- Well, until she came I had
no standards of comparison

- [Maigret] Mm-hm, go on

- Oh, I wasn't always happy at home,

but I told myself I was
as happy as anyone else

And Giselle was a woman and
that all women were like that.

- Like what?

- Greedy, selfish, false, cold

Oh, I persuaded myself
that women who weren't

were just putting on an act.

You see, like everyone
else I'd always dreamed

of a certain kind of
love, of union, fusion

But I decided it didn't exist.

- Mm-hm, so what have
you against your wife”?

- This is really in very
bad taste, isn't it?

Still never mind.

I don't want you to draw
the wrong conclusions

Giselle's eye has always been

on the next rung of the ladder.

First, on the young man who was

to bring her from Rouen to Paris.

And then, when she found life
difficult as a single girl,

she decided to become a married woman.

Now, she'd like to be a rich widow

I suppose you know all
about the 10,000 insurance

And about Monsieur Schwab at Harris's.

He's her lover.

- Are you sure”?

- I followed them to
a hotel one afternoon.

Three hours.

- But you never asked for a divorce

And all this situation existed

before your sister-in-law came to visit?

- Yes.

Ah, but my eyes weren't open

- What opened them?

- The knowledge that there are women

of the kind I'd always dreamed of.

- Do you love your sister-in-lav¢?

- Yes.

- Is she your mistress?

- No.

- Does she love you?

- I think she will.

- Not yet?

- She loved her husband.

They were a real couple

When he died, she tried to kill herself

- How?

- Gas.

They found her just in time.

When she first came to us,

she was still in full mourning

Giselle laughs at her.

Tells her she ought te
get out and enjoy herself

- I've been trying to give
her back her taste for life.

- Have you succeeded”?

- I think, perhaps, I am succeeding.

Do you see now why she isn't my mistress?

I love her and respect her.

- Does she know about you and your wife?

- No.

Why, I've never told her

Why, Giselle and I never quarrel

- This insurance policy, it's a joint one”

- Yes.

- So, that you have as much interest

in your wife's death as she has in yours

- More.

- Because you love your sister-in-law”?

- Exactly

- Did you know that she was
vraiting for you downstairs?

- Oh no, she shouldn't have come

- Did she know you were coming here”?

- No, of course she didn't

I must go

- You've nothing else to tell me?

- No, nothing.

- Mm-hm, 11 o'clock tomorrow. then?

- What, for the examination?

Yes, all right.

But I'm not mad, you know

Good night

- What an interview.

Do you want all this typed?

- No, not yet.

Let's hope we never need it

What did you think?

- I think he was lying at the end

- When he said that
she wasn't in the know.

- Yeah.

- I wonder.

- You're late.

Busy?

- Oh, no

I don't know.

N, N-O, N-E, neurcsis

2-3-5.

Mmm, in author's opinion the
starting point of neurcsis

is an alarming feeling of
inferiority and insecurity.

A defensive reaction against this feeling

leads the patient to identify himself

with an imaginary ideal.

What do you think?

- I really couldn't say.

- Neither can I.

I suppose Freud has another opinion,

And Jung another

Which shall I hold?

- Well, why don't you have an aperitif,

and then, I'l bring the dinner in

- Good idea, we'll both have aperitifs

- Oh no, no, no.

- For a change

A couple of aperitifs

A couple.

When did you first take my arm?

- Your arm?

- Mmm, walking around as
though we belong to each other?

When?

Or don't you remember?

- Ch yes, I remember

I remember exactly

We'd known each other for three months.

It was a week before you kissed me,

and after that you kissed me
every night at the same place

And one Tuesday night you took me

to the Opera-Comique,

they were doing "Carmen"

I wore a blue taffeta dress.

On the way to the car,

you didn't hold me and
you only gave me your hand

to help me into the taxi

After the theatre, you
asked me if I was hungry

We walked towards the Grande Boulevard

to find somewhere to eat.

And I pretended to stumble
because my heels were so high

And I put my hand in your arm

I felt I'd been so bold,

I began to tremble

But you were very sensible and pretended

not to notice anything

- When was the next time?

- When we came out of the restaurant.

I did it without thinking

I've done it ever since.

- Became a habit?

- Yes.

- Mmm.

- But a very nice one.

I'll go and get the dinner

- Excellent coffee, my dear.

- Jenny made it.

- Ah, very good.

- More?

- No, thank you

The pitcher only makes one
journey to the well at a time

I've eaten well today.

- Mmm, so have I

What about you, Jenny?

- Yes, thank you.

- Did you lunch here”?

- Mm-hm.

- Oh, you ought to go out more.

There's no point in hanging around

the house when there's
nothing to keep you

You'll never find & man in this place

- I suppose you lunch
somewhere on the Boulevard?

- Yes, at Vasquiers

- No shortage of men an the Boulevard

- No shortage of men anywhere

Shall we clear?

Are you going on playing trains?

- I'm working on the modification

of one of the German models to enable

it to be run on our lines.

- Hardly patriotic

- Ah, but it's reversible

We'll be able to sell ours to them.

The patent will be valuable

- Tous?

- To the firm.

- Oh.

- That is fair.

I couldn't afford to do the work

without their equipment.

- Besides it all helps
your position, doesn't it?

- Ah, exactly.

Yes, that's the point

I'm expected to be creative,

not just a hack worker.

- [Giselle] Jenny, would
you bring the glasses.

I want to do them first.

- Coming

- Well, there it is

There's nothing to go on, really

The public prosecutor certainly
won't back us up over this,

but I just feel uneasy all night,

if someone isn't watching that house

- We'd better split the watch

- You do the first half.

- What?

- Well, you're older than I am.

- All right, sonny, relieve me at two

What are we watching for?

- Anyone leaving singly or otherwise?

Sounds of quarrelling

Anything unusual

- If we hear anything, do we go in?

- No, telephone me

I'l be at home.

- And if anyone comes
out, do we stop them?

- No, follows them, and again, phone me

My pension's safer than yours.

I wish I hadn't told Marton
that his wife had been here.

Still, we can only wait

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.
- Goodnight, patron

- I hope I don't hear from you

(tapping loudly)

- Xavier, no.

- What?

- I can't work with you
making a row like that

- I can't work without making it

- Work?

- Yes, work

- Bo you know we stand to make

50,000 francs from this order?

- We?

- The firm.

- You and him?

- And you, after all, I
pay my share here, don't [?

- Yes.

- You said yourself that yours would

only profit your firm's shop

So, I think mine has priority

Don't you Jenny?

- I don't know.

- Oh, you must have seme apinion

- No.

- Oh, you're getting dull, my dear.

You ought to go out more

Like you did this evening

Yes, Jenny went out for
a walk this evening

Her coat was wet.

Didn't you knows?

(dramatic music)

(banging)

- You could almost watch from here.

- Not after a few of these.

- Where will you wait?

- There's a small yard around the side.

You can see the main room,

the two bedrooms, and the
bathroom upstairs from there

That's where you'll find me.

There or here.

- Right.

- What time do you shut?

- [Barman] When I like.

Are you police?

- Yeah.

- I thought you were earlier

Is it Marton?

- At the moment, it's nobody

I'll see you at two

- [Lapointe] Right.

(yawns)

(yawns)

- Well, it's time for our tisane, Jenny

- I'll make it.

- Mustn't keep Xavier out of his bed

That would never do, would it?

You like your sleep, don't you”?

- I get tired

- Wonder what it is that makes you tired?

Life?

Love?

- [Xavier] Work

{Giselle laughs)

- Oh, your trains.

- Where are my spectacles”

- [Giselle] I don't know

- Did I leave them in the kitchen?

Yes, I think I did.

- [Giselle] Jenny would know, I dare say

(dramatic music)

- Come on, come on

Come on, puss

Come on.

{cat meowing)

{Lucas meowing)

- Did you find them?

- Yes.

- [Giselle] Ah, are there any of

my cigarettes in the kitchen?

- By the cupboard.

- [Giselle] Will you fetch them?

- You might say please

- She's my sister

You don't have to be
polite in family life

But of course, you'd
hardly know, would you?

Your tisane.

It's all right

You supervised the
making of it, didn't you?

- Yes, I did

- Thank you

- Yours.

- Cigarette”

- No, thanks.

- Jenny?

- No.

- Mm, funny taste

What do you think, Xavier?

- As usual.

- Jenny?

- Shall I pour you out some more”

- No, no, this suits me very well

- You know, I feel awful about this

You ought to have my room

I should sleep down here.

- I don't think that's the
way it should be at all

- It can be no other way

- Jenny, my darling, it
will, it will, it will

(dramatic music)

- You're early

- I couldn't sleep

- You'd better go and get
a grog, you'll need it

- Right, anything happened?

- No, they're all asleep

Lights are all out.

No, they're not.

Something's happening.

The bathroom.

- If anyone looks out.

- Yeah.

(toilet flushing)

(groaning)

(groaning)

- Yes.

Oh, oh, oh, yes.

(groaning)

Ohl

(groaning)

(dramatic music)

(phone ringing)

- Yeah?

Hmm?

(dramatic music)

{Jenny crying)

{car drives up)

{car door closes)

- Where's the doctor?

- Lucas's telephoning for him

- [Giselle] Poison?

- Yes, madame, poison

Will go upstairs and dress,

you'll be coming to headquarters?

You too, madame

Go up and dress

- Oh, Xavier, Xavier.

- What happened?

- Well, the lights went on

Down here first, then upstairs

Madame Marton's room.

For a long time nothing happened

Then she came out.

She was going to telephone, she said

Well, I came in,

got a man off his beat
to call you and Lucas,

and held them here.

- Have you questioned them?

- No
- Good.

- The sister-in-law cries all the time.

The wife looks at his
body as If it were a rug

(dramatic music)

- If only they'd bring us some coffee?

- Inspector Maigret will
see you nov, madame

No, Madame Marton.

- Oh, but I must-

- Will you wait here, please?

Madame Marton, will you
come this way, please?

- Coffee?

- Oh, I'm dying for some.

- Your husband is dead.

- You think I killed him, don't you?

- Tell me what happened?

- What do you want to know?

- Everything.

What time did you come
in yesterday evening?

- Eight o'clock, I was the last home

We had dinner.

- What did you eat?

- Ham, salad, pears, cheese, coffee

- Did you notice anything unusual”?

- My sister had been out

Her coat was wet.

- [Maigret] Whe did the washing up”?

- I did the glasses

- [Maigret] She did the plates and so on”?

- Yes, it's her way of paying her share.

Once I'd started her off,

I came back into the sitting room

and got on with my book.

- What are you reading?

- My order book

Xavier was playing about with his trains,

as usual, making a fearful noise

Jenny came in, she read for a bit,

then she went out to the kitchen,

Xavier followed her.

- Why?

- Oh, he followed her
everywhere like a dog

- Was he her lover?

- I shouldn't think so.

-Goon.

- Xavier came back,

and Jenny with the three cups of tisane,

she put them down in front of me.

- What was your husband doing”?

- Playing with these trains as usual.

- With his back turned to you?

- Yes.

- And Jenny went into the
kitchen te get my cigarettes

and I changed my cup for Xavier's.

- You did what?

- Changed cups

Oh, I often did

I never knew what he might get up to.

- But yesterday marmning
you utterly refused

to have him certified.

- Well, he was alive then

- Oh, and your insurance policy is invalid

in the case of insanity.

- Yes, as a matter of fact, it is

So, I wouldn't want him certified

- Yeah, you'd want him

Oh, never mind

You changed cups and then?

- [Giselle] Drank, said
goodnight, went to bed

- You drank his and he drank yours.

- Yes.

- Do you know who entered
the bathroom at 12:15?

- 1 did.

To be sick, I'd been poisoned

- You'd been poisoned”?

- Yes, I woke up feeling dreadful

so I went to the bathroom
put a finger down my throat

- After drinking from his cup?

- Yes.

- Has your sister complained of sickness?

- [Giselle] No.

- And she drank all her tisane”

- Yes, every drop

- Have you anything else to tell me?

- I saw him die.

- You saw him die?

Tell me about it.

- Well, I heard him, actually.

It was after I had gone to bed

I heard him moaning and thrashing about,

then I heard a loud thump so I came down.

There he was lying on the floor

Trying to reach the pistol.

I think he meant to come and shoot me

but the poison aver came
him and he'd fallen

- And what did you do?

- Nothing.

He was trying to reach for the gun

and mouthing things at me,

but he couldn't really speak.

And he gave a sort of
moan, went rigid, died

- And then?

- Well, I had to think things out.

I knew what you might say.

In the end, I decided to go for help

and found your detective on the doorstep

- Where was your sister?

- In her room.

- All the time?

- Yes.

He made an awful noise.

She must've heard.

- Yes.

You did not love your husband?

- No, I quite liked him

- Do you love Monsieur Harris”

- Oh, you keep using that word

It doesn't mean anything

We get on together

- But you never thought of
getting a divorce to marry him?

- Of course not, he's got a rich wife.

We need her money in the business

- So no divorce.

Did you ever think of
killing your husband?

- If I had, I wouldn't be here now

- You might've been

Unfortunately, you didn't kill him

Lucas.

- [Lucas] Patron.

- Stay with madame for a moment.

I may need a word with her later.

- Will you come this way, madame, please”

- Would you come in here?

You want to tell someone, don't you?

- I don't know what to say or what to do

I don't even know what happened

- But you know what you did?

Tell me.

Or do you want a lawyer?

- What'd be the use?

- I'l help you

First, you meant to poison your sister

- Yes.

- [Maigret] Because you were
in love with her husband.

- Because she was trying to drive him mad

He was mad when he was with her.

Only with me was he all right

- When he met you outside
here, yesterday evening,

did he tell you that he was coming in

for an examination in the morning?

- Yes, it frightened him

He felt she'd won.

- [Maigret] You mean, he
thought we wouldn't let him go?

- Well, would you have?

- No, I don't think we would.

Now, that meant that he
only had one evening left

in which to deal with her
the way he thought out

Tell me, last evening, when
Xavier came into the kitchen

the tea was already in the cups, huh?

And then?

- He went to the drawer
where the knives are kept

I had my back to him.

He made a clatter as though
he was looking for something

Then, he went out without a word

- So, you took the poison-

- But I thought sure he
was going to be put away

- But you put a good dose into her cup,

making sure that it was
on her side of the tray

Did you?

- Yes.

Oh, if you knew what a night ['ve had

- You heard everything upstairs”

- Everything.

- And you didn't come down?

- I was too frightened

- Yes, that's what made me
sure that you had done it

- But how did it happen?

- Xavier, should have told you everything

that was in his poor breaking mind

You see, he'd planned to shoot his wife,

if ever he were sure
that he'd been poisoned

He made sure that I knew of this.

Then, last night he put some poison

into his own cup

Not much, just enough to make him ill,

enough to give him the
excuse that he needed.

After all, the poison would be diagnosed,

he had warned us that she would do it,

she'd be dead and couldn't contradict him.

Might even have worked,

if your sister hadn't changed the cups

- She...

- [Maigret] Yeah, she changed them over.

So, he'd got the one

She got the one that he meant for himself,

and he got the one that you meant for her.

- Ch god, oh god, I killed him

(crying)

- Lapointe

Stay with her for a moment.

You may go

- Oh, you don't want me anymore?

- You will be wanted, madame

Thank heaven not by me

{door slams)

Take her down.

Gently.

{melancholy music)

- And Giselle goes free

- Unfortunately, Lucas,
we can only arrest people

for what they do not for what they are.