All language subtitles for Maigret S02E12 The White Hat_Track03-eng

(car roars)

(car roars)

- Must you drive so fast?

- I thought we'd try and
make Bouvet for lunch.

- Food?

That's all you ever think about.

(car roars)

It's a very narrow road,
have you lost your way”?

- It's a shortout, trust me

(car roars)

(car roars)

- Stop the car, what's the fool doing”?

{car crunches)

Go and see what's the matter.

- What's the matter?

- I think the starter is
jammed, can you give me a push?

{suspenseful music)

(objects clattering)
{suspenseful music)

{guns blasting)

{car door clatters)
{gentle music)

- You lunatic, you
didn't have to kill her.

- Shut up.
{suspenseful music)

{upbeat music)

(bin clatters)

{suspenseful music)

{bin rattles)

(gentle music)

(car roars)

(feet clatter)
(baby cries)

- Excuse me, is this seat taken?

- No.

- I thought you might
be expecting someone

Oh, hello

He is a darling baby

- He's got he's getting a tooth

- Oh, is he?

I'm just on my way to
have one out. (chuckles)

He's got no troubles, has he?

Ah, is he yours?

- Excuse me, would you watch
him for a minute please?

- Well, I only have a minute.

What's his name?
(baby crying)

(gentle music)
(hammer banging)

(Maigret groans)
(pencil clatters)

- Lucas, what's going on”?

- Last one coming up Patron

- What's that supposed to mean?

- We've been three weeks
on this Steuvals' case

without a break, right?

- Is this gonna help?

- Well, this is an idea that I dreamed up,

to present the facts in exact sequence

- Oh.

- A plan of Steuvals' shop. house,

workshop, (foreign language), right?

- [Maigret] Mm-hmm

- Nowy, the situation at nine o'clock

on the night of the 17th

One, Frans Steuvals is the bookbinder,

with his work room at
the back of his shop,

in (foreign language).

Two, the concierge opposite,

drinking coffee at her front window

Three, the two men seen by the concierge,

ringing the side door of
Steuvals' house, all right?

- Mm-hmm.

- Now midnight, concierge again,
looks up before locking up,

sees four, the two men inside the house,

but never seen again

Five, Frans Steuvals not in his work room,

but six, smoke coming from the chimney,

of Steuvals' furnace room.

- Mm-hmm, next mening”?

- Next moming, six
o'clock concierge again,

starts work early

She sees seven, Steuvals emptying ash

from the furnace into garbage cans

Eight, garbage cans
collected at seven o'clock,

one hour later.

Nine, discovery by collector
of three healthy male teeth

and other human remains in garbage cans

Police informed, Junior
Lapointe visits shop,

discovers 10, pets of
blood in furnace room.

Now next day, 11, Madame Steuvals returns

from short visit to her
mather in Brittany and--

- The attache case”?

- Ah yes, 12, the attaché
case, old attaché case.

Handle mended with
string, seen by Lapointe,

on his first visit, on
the Steuvals (indistinct)

13, devil's number,

when I go to pull Steuvals' in
for questioning, no suitcase

and that's about all.

- Not much for three weeks, is it?

- (chuckles) I thought it was pretty good

Have you seen the papers today?

- Steuvals defence lawyer attacks police.

"Detention of Frans Steuvals,
a front to public conscience",

says defence lawyer, Matron
Liotard, an exclusive interview.

Ha. exclusive interview,

he gets more interviews than a film star

He's out to make his name,

- [Lucas] Over our dead buddies.

- Or his clients, least
bit he cares which,

as long as his name's in the paper.

Well, you stick to your system,

I'll keep on with mine, right?

- What's the next move?

- Next move?

14, Chief inspector has further
talk with Madame Steuvals

- I beg you not to worry about
the cost, Madame Steuvals,

my only thought is to prove
your husband's innocence

- He couldn't have done it,
Frans couldn't kill anybody

- Of course not, only
a corrupt police force

could hold him for a single moment

Have you seen today's Lumiere?

Given a half a page to
my interview with Breeza

{paper rustling)

Don't worry Madame, I
have povrerful friends

I should create a storm,

about this persecution of your husband

Is this for Frans?

- I don't know what they
give him to eat in there

I've got to do something

- [Liotard] Courage Madame, courage.

As my ancestors, the Cun
De Liotard used to say

"My honour is my life".

Your husband is safe, trust in me

{door buzzes)

- Ah Madame.

- What do you want”?

Just a short chat.

Thank you

Oh, are you alone?

I'd like think of you
being here by yourself.

Get a friend to come and stay with you?

- What friend?

- Well, a relative, your
mother for instance.

- She is in Brittany

- She has every reason to believe

that her husband will
return very soon indeed

- Ah, Matron Liotard,

you're fighting a good
case, in the newspapers.

- And wait till you bring it into court

- I look forward to your performance,

it's been well advertised.

- I won't disappoint you, I promise you

I presume you wish to
interrogate Madame Steuvals?

- Interrogate”?

I never use the word, just
a few questions, alone

That's if you have no objection.

- No, I'll leave you now

Tell him what you like,
you have nothing to hide

and nothing to fear.

(foreign language) Maigret.

- (sighs) What's this”

{Maigret speaking foreign language)

It's a handsome crest, Venezuelan Embassy

- They ordered three sets.

Frans only finished one
before he was arrested.

- I believe now, you got money?

- Frans left me some, I didn't need much

But poor people (foreign
language), we worked

We were happy

We had enough with each other. (whimpers)

Excuse me.

I was making a cake

- For your husband?

- He can't eat prison food.

Don't worry, I shan't put a file in it.

- You wouldn't be helping him, if you did

Only the truth can do that.

- He's told the truth.

- Not about the furnace.

Tell me, why did he decide to light it,

on that particular night?

The weather wasn't cold.

- He wanted to warm the house for me,

for when I came back, he thinks about me

- Yes, I'm sure he does

Now, this telegram that you
received from your mother

in Concanon Brittany,

saying that she was Ill,

you went up there find out
about it, found it was a hoax

Are you sure that you
don't know who sent it?

Or who the two men were,

calling your husband while you were away?

I suppose you don't know
about the attaché case either.

- Attache case?

- [Maigret] Yes, your husband left it

under his work bench there, an
old one tied up with string

Heard he got tools in it or
something, it's missing now.

- I don't know, I never
touched his workshop,

he didn't like me to.

- All right Madame, I won't
distress you any further

But if you can remember
anything, about the attaché case,

or the telegram, anything at
all, just come and tell me,

and help your husband

- If I do remember anything,

I shall tell (foreign language) Liotard

- Liotard, oh yeah

Tell me, why did your husband
choose him as his lawyer?

He's hardly known.

- Well, Frans knows him.

- How?

How does he know him?

- He came here
- When?

Before all this happened?

Go on, you must tell me

- It was about a month
ago, he came to see Frans

I didn't see him, I was upstairs sewing,

the light's better there.

- How did you know it was Lictard?

- I didnt, it's only now,
that voice is the same.

- What were they talking about?

- I couldn't hear.

- Remember this Madame,

if your husband is innocent,
the truth can't hurt him.

I'll let myself out.

(gentle music)

- She's been gone for over an hour now

{gentle music)
(baby cries)

I'm supposed to be at the dentist

And there's a chicken in the
oven for my husband's lunch

{baby cries)

(gentle music)

(utensils clatter)

(bread crackles)

{Maigret and Madame Maigret sigh)

- Oh, you have started eating

(Maigret laughs)

Oh, don't laugh.

- I'm not laughing

- Don't scold either
(gasps) oh, it's ruined

Oh, on the one day

- Where have you been, the dentist?

- I haven't been near the dentist.

Since half past 11, I've been
in the middle of a gardens,

unable to move.

- Oh, take milk?

- No, of course not. it was this girl

I was in the gardens and
she was here with her baby

Well, we just talked for a
moment about the baby and then,

it looked as if she saw
somebody calling her

- Who's this?

- The girl with the baby in the gardens.

Well, she asked me to mind
the baby for a minute

Oh, it was a sweet little baby,

but she didn't come back for an hour

and the baby started fo cry,

and people began to
look at me, I felt off

- Oh, here have some wine

Oh, never mind about the chicken

- I had to come home in a taxi.

- With the baby”?

- (chuckles) No, it's all
right, in the end she came back.

She just grabbed the child and left,

without any explanation.
{Maigret giggles)

You're laughing at me

- No, no, any chance this
is the only cheese we got?

- She didn't thank me or anything

She had a taxi waiting
and she just rushed off,

it was most extraordinary

- I thought we had camembert.
(utensils clatter)

- She might never have
seen that child again

Well, what would make a
woman do a thing like that?

- What was she like?

- She worn a white hat.

- Is that all?
{Madame Maigret sighs)

- And a cheap blue suit,

but very expensive handmade shoes,

that didn't belong somehow

- Yeah, this ain't really
ready, it needs a few more days

- She was quite young,
dark, Italian I think,

she spoke with an accent.

Maigret, I think you cught
to do something about this

(phone rings)

- Maigret, yes Lucas

- Patron, a breakthrough in
the Steuvals case at last.

A taxi driver remembers
picking up two men,

on the corner of (foreign language},

on the night of the 17th

- Good, put out a flag for him.

Can he describe them?

- Only the one who paid,
dark, provincial, about 40

The other, he thinks was foreign,

but he doesn't knows why he thinks so

- Why has he been so long coming forward?

- [Lucas] Appendicitis, (indistinct).

- Well then,
(MadaM Maigret whispers)

hold on a minute Lucas.

- What about the girl?

- Oh, you really think
I will investigate it?

- Well, if you don't think
it's odd for the mother

to leave her baby with
a complete stranger.

- All right, if it will
set your mind at rest.

Lucas, get some more flags out.

Madame Maigret reports
that, at 11:30 this morning,

she observed an Italian
girl behaving very oddly,

in the Antwerp Gardens

- Italian looking about 307?

Five foot three, white
hat, blue suit, ah good

Well, if we can find the
driver of her taxi then--

- Use your system,

it shouldn't take you
more than three weeks.

(phone clatters)

- Well, if there isn't
something funny going on,

why did she rush off like that?

- How do you think I felt
leaving him just like that?

She could have run off with him.

- [Moss] She didn't

- She didn't?

She didn't?

What sort of an answer is that?

You come there, you pull me into taxi,

and leave him there, and why?

Because you don't feel safe.

Suddenly, the hotel is not
safe, we must move again,

and where will you be safe?

{woman sighs)
(baby crying)

Sweet sweet Carluto, (foreign language)

baby, baby (indistinct)

I will tell you one thing,
I will not move again,

I must have peace, peace

{woman speaking in foreign language)

{paper rustling)

To bring up a child like this,
like a dog, like a criminal

(Moss giggles)

- Come on my little Carlo.

Drink my little bambino.

Ah ah ah.

That's better.

There's a good boy

(gentle music)

{Lapointe speaks indistinctly)

- Any luck”?

- Some, at your end?

- Not yet.
{paper rustling)

(exclaims) Listen to this, Madame Maigret,

wife of Chief Inspector Maigret,
of the Palais de Justice,

was the centre of the curious incident,

in the Antwerp Gardens yesterday.

- Can I see that?
(paper rustling)

Oh no.

- What have you been up to?

- I swear, all I did was to--

{door bangs)
- [Maigret] Lucas!

- He's seen it too.

- What damn fool gave this to the press?

- Oh well...

- Well, didn't do a handle it yourself?

- Oh no, I was busy
chasing up the taxi driver

- Patron, I think I might be
able to explain what happened

- Come in here.

Well?

- I didn't tell the press Patron,

I only just happened to
mention it to my sister.

Well, I thought it might amuse her.

You see, she's only 19,

she's just come up from the
country for her first job,

she's a typist, in the Lumiere office.

- Does she know this fella
Breeza (indistinct) Breeza

who wrote this thing?

- I suppose she must Patron,

but well, I never thought
she was going to go and

- Get out of here.

- Yes, Patron

- No, wait a minute.
(door rattles)

Lucas?

Well, what's new with this
girl with the white hat?

- Well, that's what I came in to report,

we've had some luck with the taxi driver.

- Has Terrence rang
through from Brittany yet?

- Not yet.

(Maigret sighs)

- Damn, join with Judge
Goudart in five minutes.

He's interviewing Steuvals
again this morning

- At least it's not the Cavelio.

- Small mercies.

Well, what driver?

What taxi?

- The taxi driver who
drove your wife's friend,

with the baby

He was picked up outside the
Hotel (foreign language),

by this girl in a white hat,

who came rushing up in a tearing hurry,

and told him to drive--
(phone rings)

- Maigret, go on. (sighs)

- To drive to the Antwerp Gardens

But then she got out for a minute,

and came back with a
baby in a carrying cart

- Hello?

Hello?

What?

Try and get a better line, will you?

And then?

- And then she told him to drive back

ta the Hotel (foreign language)

- Yes, speaking.

All right

It's Terrence from Brittany

Hello, Terrence

Yeah, yes I can hear
you, just, speak closer

Closer, not louder.

What?

She what?

What, wore a hat?

Oh, a white hat.

Yes, I've got that.

No, no, I didn't get that, Terrence?

Hello?

Hello?

(Maigret groans)
(phone clatters)

It's like we use pigeons

Well, it seems Terrence has
turned up another white hat,

in Brittany this time

Ah this hoax telegram, went
to Madame Steuvals' house,

the postmistress at Concanon
remembers that it was sent off,

by a young woman, wearing a
blue suit and a white hat.

- This girl was wearing a blue suit

- You get back to the taxi ranks.

- But Patron, [ found the driver

- Yes, find the driver,

who picked her up when
she first left the park.

- All right.

- Keep your sister away from journalists.

- Yes Patron.

- Blue suit and a white hat,

there must be thousands
of girls like that,

shouldn't be too hard to find her.

- This young woman who sent the telegram,

also spoke in a foreign accent.

- What if it is the same girl?

- Well, suppose it were,

and she read this paper this moming

- And leans that Madame
Maigret minded her baby

in the Antwerp Gardens,

she'll be out of the Hotel
{foreign language) in the flash

- Get down there right away. Lucas,

let me know at once, I'll
be in with Judge Goudart

- [Lucas] All right

- You know, unless every woman in France

is wearing a white hat,

this should be the break
we were waiting for

- Hmm.

{door creaks)

- Thank you Officer, sit down Steuvals

Do you wish a private conference
with your client first?

- No, that will not be necessary

- Good.

Now, Steuvals, I don't feel we know enough

about this furnace, so I propo...

Ah, Chief Inspector,
we've only just started,

find yourself a chair

- Is this customary Judge”

- There is no regulation

against a police officer being present.

- Providing he doesn't attempt
te intimidate my client

- At the moment, I'm
just looking for a chair

- [Goudart] Yeah

- May we proceed, I was
talking about the furnace

The concierge, who has no reason to lie,

testifies that during the Sunday
that your wife was absent,

you carried ashes out to
the dustbins, seven times.

- I object to the way that is put,

as if the absence of Madame Steuvals,

made the ordinary unnecessary
clearing of the ashes

a suspicious act

- It was only necessary, because
the furnace had been lit,

but we'll come to that later.

Let me just ask you, did you
carry out seven buckets of ash”?

- I may have done.

- It was exactly because
his wife was away,

that he was cleaning out the old ashes

- Judge, may I just
ask one small question?

- [Goudart] By all means

- Steuvals, you had an
old brown attaché case,

with a mended handle, it
was under your work bench,

when the police first visited you.

When they arrested you, it was missing.

Where is it now?

Who could've known about it?

- My wife,

- No, it was gone before your
wife returned from Brittany,

who called in the end of all.

- Only customers

- What was in the case?

- Some tools, engraving plates

- What is this story of the attaché case?

- I must confess, I don't quite see you--

- Did Matron Liotard call?

- Yes.

- You said any customer.

- Oh, I see, I assume this is an example,

of the Chief Inspector's methods.

And for you information, Judge,

my client was telling the exact truth.

I did visit (foreign language)
Steuvals, as a customer.

It may interest you to know
Maigret,

that I come of the old
family of the Cun De Liotard,

and we're entitled to the family crest.

Steuvals was engraving one for
me, to use as a book plate

It was to bear my
family, arm's and mantra,

"In my honour is my life".

- (clears throat} Well, does that answer

your one small question, Chief Inspector?

- You will find the
engraving in the workshop.

unless it has conveniently disappeared

- That is an improper remark Matron

- I withdraw it.

- No need Matron.

If it exists, we shall find it.

- Shall we proceed?

Chief inspector, I
believe that neither of us

is satisfied with the accused's
explanation of his reasons

for lighting this furnace, while
the weather was still warm

(phone rings)

Judge Goudart's office.

Yes, he is, it's for you Maigret

- I beg your pardon Judge,
shall I have it transferred?

- No, no, by all means

I assume it's vital.

- It may be.

Maigret.

Yes, Lucas

- I am at the Hotel (foreign language),

a man, a woman around 30,
and a baby called Carlo,

gave the name Moss

The woman corresponds white
hat, blue suit and all,

the man dark, about forty, provincial,

sounds very much like one of the two,

who visited Steuvals' shop
on the night of the 17th

- [Maigret] Where are they now?

- Skipped, nine o'clock this morning,

luggage, baby. the lad

- You know Lucas, they read the papers.

- They read the papers.

{suspenseful music)

- No, well it might be
one of these dark ones.

- How's it going”?

- Patron, slowly.

Madame Salazar, manageress
Hotel (foreign language)

- Madame.

(Madame Salazaar speaks
in foreign language)

- Not much luck with the girl,

wanna do possibles with a man,

we're gonna check back on them later.

- I've sent for Madame Maigret,

if she can help with the girl's.

Is he one?

- No.

Now him.

No, no, his hair's wrong

- Patron, Madame Maigret is here

- Oh.

Hello Madame.

- I found her
- What?

- The girl with the white hat

Look, you know I don't
very often buy a hat,

but I do like to look
at the advertisements,

so I thought, there

- It's a black hat.

- Yes, I know.

- Ch you mean it's the same shape”

- No.
- What then?

- It's the same shop

Well, don't you see”

Very smart, I had to try six
shops before I had any luck

- And they remembered serving a white hat?

- Yes, I said that I wanted
to have like my friend's,

only I hadn't liked to ask
her where she bought it,

and the sales woman said,

"Oh you know, Countess Panetti?",
in a surprise sort of way

- Countess Panett.

- You know, she's that awful woman,

that's always getting
herself in the newspapers

{paper rustling)

Oh, they sent the hat
to the Hotel Clarance,

"Where she always stays", they say

- All right.

Maigret, can you get me Hotel Clarance,

{foreign language) Benoit?

- Will you want me to stay?

- [Maigret] Yeah, sit down

(Maigret speaks indistinctly)

All right, I'l hold on.
(door rattles)

Lapointe, see if we got
anything on Countess Panett,

foreign visitors section

- Right.

- Italian, probably

(chair creaks)
- Hello Claude, Maigret

- Nice to hear from you Inspector.

And what can I do for you?

- Have you got a Countess
Panetti staying there?

- Panetti?

She was, yeah, she left two weeks ago,

for London I think, let me see

Yes, the 12th
- [Maigret] 12th

Was there a man around?

- Around Panetti?

(chuckles) Very much so

A fellow called Krynker,
Lazlo Krynker, Hungarian

- Hungarian?

Can you recollect if the
Countess had a white hat?

- Ch yeah, she did

I remember I thought it a bit much,

I mean, for one of her age

In the end, Krynker persuaded
her to let him give it away

No, I den't know who to

- This Krynker, was he dark and about 40.

- No, fair, and (chuckles) much younger

- Sounds like a case of mistaken identity,

thank you very much Claude

- [Madame Maigret] I'm trying to remember,

that (indistinct) Krynker,

there was something in
the newspapers about

not the papers you read

- All right, don't tax your
memory anymaore with if,

it's all here.

Countess Panetti, on a
yacht with Berdo Samizin,

what names they have,
{Madam Maigret giggles)

whose new film is being backed
by the Panetti millions

Countess Panetti opens
a one man exhibition,

by Felix Fon Korva, whose
new portrait of the Countess.

Here we are, Lazlo
Krynker, Hungarian playboy,

dines with Countess
Panetti by candle light

You know, these men all
have one thing in common,

they're all about 40 years
younger than the Countess

- Oh Madame.

- Oh (foreign language) Lucas

- Any luck”?
- I think se.

{Madam Maigret and Madame
Salazaar speak indistinctly)

(chair creaks)

- Hallo Madame, can you identify that,

as a man who stayed at
your hotel last night?

- Without doubt it is
{foreign language) Moss

- Moss or Moss Leon near enough

Two sentences for false
pretences, one for forgery

- Shouldn't be too difficult to find.

- 10 years out. (sighs)

Hmm, what sort of a man was he Madame?

How did he behave?

- He was in and out.

He seemed very fond of
the baby, and the woman

- He must be to stick with them,

with the police on his tail

All right, thank you very much Madame,

you have been a great help

- Isn't there a reward?

- Reward?
- Why not?

- Doing your duty?
- Ch.

- Only a good conscience Madame

Now Lucas, see that Madame's gotten a car,

take her back to her hotel
- Oh

- On the other hand, my dear,
you do deserve a reward

I think you found out other unknown,

the body in the furnace, Lazlo Krynker

{Lucas speaks in foreign language)

If you're right I'll buy you
the best white hat in Paris.

- [Lucas] Bravo Madame, if you
ever feel like signing up--

- Well, it's just a question
of keeping one's eyes open,

and not letting people talk
you out of things. (chuckling)

Goodbye Mr. Lucas

{Lucas speaking in foreign language)

{Maigret and Madame Maigret
speaking in foreign language)

Oh wait, but don't forget
it's chicken panini tonight,

so don't be--
- I'l be early

don't burn it this time.
(door rattles)

Ah, we want four people: put
the net out for Mosso Mos Leon,

try and trace the Countess Panett,

she might be in London by
now, also Lazlo Krynker,

and Moss' wife or girlfriend
or whatever she is.

She would have got rid of that hat by now

- But not the baby.

- No, not the baby, fond of the baby

(sighs) I wonder how fond.

You know, a man fleeing for his life,

doesn't generally lumber
himself with a wife and child.

- They seem to have stuck together so far

- Which means that, he hasn't
felt in serious danger yet

I knows we can give him
enough fright somehow

Lapointe, come in

It worked once, might work again.

- Patron?

- All right, off you go.
(windows rattling)

- Patron?
- Ah Lapointe!

What's your sister's name?
- Mary Louise

- And, boyfriend?

- She has not a boyfriend

- Oh, this Breeza
(indistinct) the journalist

- I have instructed Mary
Louise to give a week's notice

- Oh don't do that, you might upset her.

Ring her up now, tell her you're sorry,

it's all been a mistake, she is forgiven.

And, tell her, that Inspector Maigret,

is confident that by tomorrow,

he will secure a complete
confession from Steuvals,

naming all his confederates,

in the body in the furnace case

- But she'll tell Breeza.

- We must take that risk.

- Ah but Patron?

- And, if this story
gets into night's edition

of the Lumiere.

- Oh, yes Patron

- I expect he's not such a bad chap,

this (indistinct) Breeza,
just misunderstood, huh?

Go make friends with him.
(paper rustling)

{utensils clattering)

{Madame Maigret humming)

- The Lumiere? (chuckles)

I didn't know we read that.

- (laughs) It's my favourite
gd Y
paper, listen to this

Matron Paul Liotard,
counsel for Frans Steuvals,

protested tonight against
the game of bluff,

and intimidation, played by
the police against his client

He asserts, there is no truth

in Chief Inspector Maigret's claim,

that Steuvals is ready
to make a confession,

and name his confederates in
the body in the furnace case

- Well, is there?
{paper rustling)

- How is the chicken?

(gentle music)

{door crackles)

{door crackles)

(phone rings)
{Man speaks foreign language)

(Maigret sighs)

Hello, Maigret?

Who?

Long distance, all right, put him on

Who's there, Jonvier?

You're up late.

Eh. where was that?

Lanier, on the mountain?

Have you identified yet?

That's very interesting

Oh, all right, I'l send
someone up in the morning

I may come up myself.

Mm-hmm, good night Jonvier.
(telephone clattering)

(phone rings)
(Maigret sighs)

Hallo, Maigret
{calm jazz music)

Who, Lapointe?

- Patron, I've done it

- [Maigret] Done what?

- I've done what you said

- [Maigret] What are you talking about?

- I've made friends with
(indistinct) Breeza,

I'm at his party.

- [Maigret] Who are you?

Is it a good party, I'm delighted.

- Terrific.

- Then you want to ring me up

at one o'clock in the
morning to tell me about it

- No, no Patron, it's the suitcase

You remember the suitcase?

- [Maigret] Steuvals' suitcase”

- Yes, well, I'm locking at it now

{gentle jazz music)
{woman giggles)

It's under Breeza's bed.

- Can you get hold of it,
without anyone seeing”?

- I think so.
{calm jazz music)

Yes, it's that kind of a party

Is it all right just to take it?

- Yeah, I think we can stretch a point.

You see Lapointe, the body
of the Countess Panetti,

has been found in a car,
in the River Mont, shot.

- [Lapointe] Will
Steuvals be able to talk?

He's what?

Could you get the doctor to
come to the phone, please?

Thank you

- Is this the cake?

- They think so, they're
analysing a piece of it now

Hello?

Yes, yes,

I see.

All right, thank you.
{telephone clatters)

- How is Steuvals?

- Very sick.

He's been pumped out, he'll
be all right they say.

- He better be, how did he get the cake?

- [Lapointe] His wife brought it.

- When?

- First thing this moming,
about eight, to the prison

the way she always does

You think she is trying
to get rid of him, Patron?

- No, not her.
(door rattles)

- I took Madame Steuvals
down to the infarmary

to see her husband,
she's almost hysterical

Here's your culprit, I
think, from her kitchen

What she used to bake the cake.

- No taste
- Arsenic?

- Get it down to the lab, they'll know

And bring Madame Steuvals here.

- All right.

- Lapointe, I want you to
telephone the infirmary

and tell the doctor, that I want Steuvals,

fit to see Judge Goudart this morning,

he's got one hour.
- All right

{door rattles)
{people chatter indistinctly)

Patron, it's Matron
Liotard, can you see him?

- Yes.

- This is an outrage Maigret

- [agree

- An innocent man, three
weeks in your cells,

and now martyred through
police incompetence

- Not martyred, somebody
underestimated the dose

- [Liotard] He's not dead then?

- No, he's just been sick

(phone rings)

Hello, lab

Yeah.

Yes, that's what we thought.

Thank you
{phone clatters)

(chair creaks)

Have you any idea, how much
arsenic it takes to kill a man?

- 1?

- Not many people knevr
that Madame Steuvals,

used to bring food to
her husband in prison,

you were one of them.

- I should report this to the bar council.

- [Maigret] Yes, do

And tell them about, the
attaché case you left

with your journalist
friend (indistinct) Breeza

Yes, we've got it

Do you wanna talk about it now?

Or wait until we see Judge Goudart?

{Liotard speaks indistinctly)

Yes. I can understand your reluctance

Perhaps you ought to consult
yourself, over your defence.

- (foreign language) Maigret,
you are in a position to do,

a great deal of harm.

- Oh you don't doubt it

We'll meet in Judge Goudart's office

(chair creaks)

- Madame Steuvals.

- Come in Madame.

Sit down Madame Steuvals.

Thank you Lucas.

Oh Madame,

I think that you have not
been entirely frank with us,

you see where it's led?

Now, whoever tried to
poison your husband's food,

didn't break into your house,
they must've had a key

Did you give anyone a key?

- No
- Not Matron Liotard?

- No.

- But you know someone who's got one

- Frans made me swear.

- Was he called Moss or Moss Leon?

You know him, don't you?

- Yes, but it's not his real name.

- [Maigret] Not his real name?

Who is he then?

- He's Frans' brother, Alfred.

- Oh I see.

Did your husband give him a key”?

- He always had one

He used to come visit Frans,

anytime he'd come late at
night, after I'd gone to bed

- [Maigret] What did he want?

{Madame Steuvals sobs)

- I don't know. (sobs)

I don't know. (sobs)

Frans said it was business,
he wouldn't tell me. (sobs)

But always, after he'd
gone he'd work late,

sometimes all night. (sobs)

He said it was a special order, (sobs)

Alfred was a devil. (sobs)

Frans was terrified of him.

(Maigret sighs)

- You were foolish to
hide that truth Madame,

this might've cost your husband his life

- He made me, made me swear

He said Alfred will kill me. (sobs)

- Where's his brother now?

{Madame Steuvals sobs)

(sighs) All right, you can go.

{Madame Steuvals sobs)

{door rattles)
Lucas?

Don't tell anyone about this
attempt to poison your husband

Do you understand?

His life might depend on it.
(Madam Maigret sniffles)

(Maigret sighs)

I'll be the Judge Goudart

{Steuvals coughs)
(paper rustling)

- Can you identify this
photograph Steuvals”?

- [Steuvals] Yes, he's my brother

- And this attaché case?

- Yes, it's mine. (coughs)

- This appears to contain metal plates,

of the kind used in book binding

But these all represent the
seals of sovereign states,

Venezuela, Brazil, even the United States

(metal plates clatter)

At the moment I can't go
into the circumstances

in which this attaché case was missing,

and then subsequently found,
but if you're prepared--

- (indistinct) my client
will make a statement,

he will make a clean breast of everything

- Well Steuvals--
- (indistinct) court

will temper justice with mercy

- Well.

- It's true, I made the seals

- For the purpose of forgery?

- Mm-hmm, passports chiefly.

- Is that why Moss brought
Krynker to see you?

- Yes, he said Krynker had
to get out of the country

- [Maigret] Why?

- He told me, they killed
an old woman for her jewels

- Killed what old woman?

- The Countess Panetti, Judge

She had a taste for gigolos,
and Krynker was the latest

It's my guess that his brother
Moss, got hold of Krynker,

and put him up to the idea
of stealing her jewels

Did you know that he planned
to kill Krynker as well?

- No, no, I swear, no

I was working on the passport
when I heard the shot,

Alfred told me afterwards
that, Krynker was soft,

he was afraid he'd talk if
the police got hold of him

- [Goudart] Nevertheless, you helped

to dispose of Krynker's
body in the furnace

- Yes I did, with a gun at my head

Well, this is true, Alfred
would've shot me if I'd refused.

Oh ves, my own brother, he'd
have killed me all right

- Why didn't you tell the police this,

at your first interrogation?

- Yes, I should've done, I know that now

(whimpering) I couldn't, I was frightened

Passports, they'd have
arrested me for forgery.

I thought I'd, what I'd stand
a chance if I said nothing,

Krynker was dead, there's
nothing I could do about...

{Steuvals coughs)

- You will be charged with forgery,

and complicity in conceding a murder,

there may be other charges

The interrogation, this is an end.

{paper rustling)

Matron Liotard, there is another,

and to me, even graver
charge involving yourself.

- I reject the insinuation
made by the police

- It is not an insinuation.

Breeza has already admitted,

that you took this attaché case to him,

on the day that Steuvals was arrested,

there can be ne doubt
as to your intention

It was to conceal evidence,

that would have got your client
out of a charge of forgery

- He had enough to face,
it was a charge of murder.

- You are an officer of the law,

bound by your oath to
uphold the law, the truth

I'm sorry, Matron.

- Liotard, in my honour is my life

(crest clatters)

- I'd have to win it
all back, the estates,

the title, Cun De Liotard,

a brilliant career.

- I regret as much as
you do Matron Liotard,

that this should come ta
a member of my profession,

wait outside.

- Just one moment.

Aren't we rather losing
sight of the point, Judge”

This man Moss, has
killed Countess Panett,

he's also killed Krynker,

today, he had a go at his own brother

He's a cold-blooded killer,

and he gotta be brought in quickly.

Now, with your cooperation, Judge,

and that of Matron Liotard--

- What are you suggesting?

Are you suggesting--
- I'm suggesting Judge,

something that has worked
twice in this case already,

and might work again.

{paper rustling)

(floor creaks)
{paper rustling)

- It says, they had to let him go,

there wasn't enough evidence.

Oh Alfred, he hasn't said anything,

he won't
- No.

He won't.

{suspenseful music)

- How long do I have to
be the cheese in the trap?

- He is no mouse.

{suspenseful music)

- Patron?

- Yeah.

- That black Fiat has come
out of the (indistinct)

looks as if it's making a ricky

- Is it Moss?

- No, it's a woman

- The Fiat stopped

- I don't want any car stopped

If Moss wants to take a shot at someone,

he'll have to get out,

then you get right up
to the door of the shop

- Someone's getting out, it's
Moss, he was in the back

- Patron, we could jump him now

- Lethim go

- He's starting to walk,
{suspenseful music)

he's approaching, now.
(suspenseful music)

- Stand by the dark
{suspenseful music)

(car roars softly)

- There's another car coming

Clear off, blast you.

- [Man] Moss
{suspenseful music)

{guns blasting)

{suspenseful music)
(Moss thuds)

(feet clattering)

- Call an ambulance.
(suspenseful music)

- Only for a moment

- Liotard?

- I got him?

- You did, shoulda left it
to us, we get paid for it

- In my honour is my life,
(coughs) without (indistinct)

{bedsheets rustling)

(Maigret sighs)

- Not without honour.