All language subtitles for Maigret S02E13 Murder on Monday_Track03-eng

{lips smacking)

- Eight o'clock on the dot

You can set the time by him

And six when he comes back.

- And in-between.

I always know what Monsieur Thouret

is doing every moment of the day

- It's a comfort.

- It's @a marriage

(cheerful music)

(clock chiming)

(foreboding music)

{woman screaming)

{ominous music)

(dramatic foreboding music)

(airy accordion music)

- [Lucas] Louis Thouret, 37
Rue des Peupliers, Juvisy

- It's a Monday.

- Patron?

- We hardly ever have
a murder on a Monday

I don't like it.

This won't tell us much.

Whoever used it, knew
enough to wipe the handle

- They all do nowadays

They read detective stories.

- Hmm, so do I

It doesn't help much.
(knife thuds)

Allright, let's go and
see what he's left behind.

Ah, Dr. Gadelle, have you
finished your autopsy”?

- Not yet, but soon

Simple, simple

- Hmm, well I'l be bringing a relative

to identify the body

- Good, good. He'll be all ready for you

- Good, good

- Jacques, come along

Hurry, we've got work to do

(jaunty instrumental music)

- But what was my husband
doing in the Boulevard?

- We know nothing, Madame,

except that he was found
stabbed in an alleyway

just off the Boulevard

- An alleyway? What time was it?

- Soon after half past four

- Impossible, he's always in his office

- Not on this occasion.

Where did he work, Madame?

- With Kaplan et Zanin

- Mm-hmm.

- He was the Chief Accountant, a Director

- Uh, what did they da?

- Oh, I really couldn't say

It was his work, his business

They're somewhere in the Rue de Bondy,

but I don't know where.

- Oh, we shall find 'em

Now I'm afraid, Madame,

I must ask you to come down to the morgue

to make a formal identification.

- But hows can I go?

My daughter, Monique,
she will be on her way

back from the office by now

- Ah, can't you leave a message?

- Well, I, I could with my sister

I can leave her the key

and she can come here and tell Monique.

Her husband works on
the railways you know,

a superintendent.

- Monique's husband?

- Ch no, my sister's

Monique isn't married

- Hmm.

- I suppose you'll want to see her too?

- In my office, as soon as possible

Now, Madame, if you don't mind

- [Madame Thouret] I shall be 10 minutes.

- 10 minutes?

- My husband is dead

You don't expect me to be seen

in the street without a veil?

- Hmm.
- wouldn't say

she was all that sorry.

- Na. I think you've got something there.

Now, Lucas, I think I'l go down

to see the place where her husband worked.

You take Madam Thouret, uh,
to the morgue in the car

I'll meet you back in the office.

(foreboding music)

{curtain swishing)

- Poor Louis.

Yes, that's him

- You feel satisfied, Madame?

- Satisfied”? Why should I be satisfied?

- Would you come this way please?

{curtain swishing)

- Where are his clothes?

- They're here, Madame.

They'll be returned to you

as soon as the police are
finished their inquiries

- But these are not his.

Louis didn't dress like this.

He liked quiet things, dark colours

- Oh, do you recognise these,
the contents of his pockets?

- Well, that certainly
looks like his watch

and that's his season ticket.

(keys jangling)

That's the key to our front
door, I'm sure of that.

But what are these?

- Two cinema tickets.

- Cinema?

- Mm-hmm.

- Louis would never go to a cinema,

not without me.

- And he hasn't been with you”?

- Not for months.

- I see.

Tell me, did your husband
lead a regular life?

- You could set a clock by him

Ask anyone

Every morning, he took the bus

to the station and caught the 8:17 train

He always sat next to
one of our neighbours,

Monsieur Beaudoin of the tax department

- Beaudoin. And he came back every night?

- Hmm.

- All right, Madame, I don't think

we need keep you anymore

The car will take you home.

Show Madame out, will you please?

Ask the driver to come back for me.

- I suppose you want the
pathologist's report right away?

- If not sooner.

- Wouldn't you, uh,
like a drink, Sergeant”?

- If you're gonna have one, yes

I'll typeverite the report

and let you have it. (sniffs)

There's nothing unusual

- No, no. Just a knife wound in the back

- That's not unusual.

Not here.

Good health.

- And good luck

- Yes?

- was told I'd find my mother here

- Ah, Mademoiselle Monique Thouret.

- Yes, my Aunt told me about my father

and I came straight here.

- I'm afraid your mother
has just gone home

- How was she?

- Well, composed

- And my father's been murdered”?

- Yes.

- With the knife?

- I'm sorry you had to see that.

Yes, would you like to see him”?

- No, I don't think so

- Mademoiselle; sit down

- I shall have to see him
when you bring him home later,

so there's no point

- Tell me, were you fond of your father?

- Well, naturally

- Did you ever meet
him during the daytime?

- Once or twice.

- Did he take you to the cinema”

- Me? No.

To a restaurant sometimes for lunch.

- Today?

- No, not today.

- Recently?

- In the last few weeks.

- Mm-hmm. What sort of
clothes was he wearing”?

- Clothes? I don't remember.

Just clothes.

- Who do you work for Mademoiselle”

- Bachelier Brothers in the Rue la Fayette

- Bachelier, Bachelier,
what, what are they?

- Debt collectors.

They buy up bad debts and enforce payment.

- Are you their secretary”?

- No, I collect the debts

- Oh, must be quite a pleasure
to pay you, Mademoiselle

- It's never a pleasure
to pay anyone, Monsieur

{uneasy instrumental music)

(foreboding music)

{footsteps tapping)

{foreboding music continues)

{doorbell buzzing)

- Coming. Can I help you?

- Yes, Madame, police

- Oh, come in.

- Thank you

Thank you, Madame

Just one or two questions
I'd like to ask you

Uh, is this all that's
left of Kaplan et Zanin?

- Yes, Monsieur

- Ch. Well, when did they close down?

- Oh, three years ago

- Three years ago?

- Yes, the whole lot's coming down

- Ch, what do they make?

- Big heads

- Hmm?

- You know, for carnivals, and masks,

and cardboard trumpets,

and souvenirs of Saint-Malo.

all those sort of things

Why, that place used to
be packed to the ceiling

And they'd have 20 or
30 women working there.

- Hmm.

- I was sorry when it closed down.

Made a bit of life.

- Did you know one of their directors

called, uh, Monsieur Louis Thouret?

- Monsieur Louis?

Oh, I know him well,

but he wasn't a director.

- Wasn't a director?

- No, he was their storekeeper.

He was the only one who
knew where everything was

- [Maigret] Have you seen him lately?

- Yes, about six weeks
ago sitting on a bench

in the Boulevard.

- How did he seem?

- Oh, very well.

Is there something wrong?

- He's been murdered.

- Oh no.

No, not Monsieur Louis

But who would want to?

I mean, well, he had no enemies

He never harmed anyone.

I must get a drink

Oh it isn't true

It isn't true.

After all his troubles
too, he was doing so well

- What were his troubles, Madame?

- Well, losing the job

He'd worked there for 30 years
since he was a boy of 14

Then suddenly, they were
given three months wages

and told to go

- So he was without a job for some time?

- Yes, a long time I think

As a matter of fact,

I lent him some money to keep going.

- Did he repay you?

- Oh yes

Gave me that clock for a present

- When did he give you the clock?

- Two years ago

- So he had found another job by then”

- Yes, he seemed te be doing very well

because last time I saw him

he was wearing a smart new suit,

not at all like the clothes
he wore when he worked here.

I told him he was becoming
quite @ man-about-town

- Did you ever meet his wife”?

- No.

- His daughter?

- No, but I've seen photographs of her

He thought the world of her

- Mm-hmm.

- This is terrible.

So many times he sat
where you are sitting,

drinking a little glass of Calvados

He gave me that bottle

- Hmm.

- Oh, merci-

- No, no thank you

Well, you've been most helpful, Madame.

- Thank you

- I first met Monsieur Louis
on the Boulevard Saint-Michel

about two years ago

I said, "Good evening," to him

He said, "No, thank you," but nicely,

not rude like some of them are.

After that, we always exchanged

a word or two when we met.

I'd say, "Ah, today at
last," and he would laugh

- It was a joke

- Uh-huh.

I never saw him with a girl,

but once in the afternoon
I met him buying waffles

at one of the open-air stalls.

Once I saw him sitting on
a bench with another man.

This man had a sad face

but I can't remember
anything else about him,

Ginette Carpier

Right, Ginette Carpier,
would you sign there please”

- Yeah, well, I've got good news for you.

May be able to come home te lunch today

Yeah? What'll it be?

Blanquette d'agneau. Wonderful

- Pardon
- Hold on a minute.

- A witness who knew Louis Thouret.

- Ah, bring her in.

All right, see you about 12:30 then

Au revoir.

(Maigret whistling)

- Well, I didn't really know him.

- Mm-hmm.

- I don't know anything about his murder

- Waffles?

- He bought three and took them away

- Hmm, another man with a sad face, eh?

- I don't remember.

I didn't take any special notice

- (clears throat) What sort of clothes

did Monsieur Thouret wear?

- Well-
- Flashy?

- Yes, that's right

Very smart

Oh, when he bought the waffles that is,

but not in the evenings
on his way to the Metro

- Mm-hmm. Where's this bench?

- It was on the Boulevard.

- There are lots of boulevards. Where?

- Just by the Place Bitche

- Place Bitche,

that's near the-
- Ah, thank you Mademoiselle

- We got an address, Lucas?

- [Lucas] We got five
addresses, all hotels.

- Oh.

- Well, you know how it is, Inspector.

- Yes, I know how it is

Hmm, bench near the place
where he was killed, eh”?

Anything else”

- Yes, a jeweller on the Boulevard

identifies him as a man

who came in about three
months ago with a woman

and bought a ring

There's a description of the woman

- Lapointe

Not his wife, not his daughter

I wonder if she likes waffles.

- Patron?

- Ah, Lapointe

Here's a photograph of Louis
Thouret, the murdered man

Somewhere off the Boulevard
Saint-Michel he had a room

Find it.

- Uh, will there be anybody else in it?

- 1 don't know, but I'l
tell you what there will be

There'll be a complete
city gent's wardrobe,

uh, black shoes, dark suit, the lot

- A room containing dark shoes, dark suit?

Yes, Patron

(Maigret laughing)

- Why should he change his clothes

every day after he left home?

- That's what we've gotta find out

Where's that statement from the daughter,

the one you took down in the morgue?

- Oh, here

She was obviously lying

when she said she said
didn't notice the clothes.

- Hmm, course she was

Women always notice

Keep an eye on her, Lucas

See you as she goes, at lunchtime

- Right, where will you be?

- Oh, I think I better have lunch

on the Boulevard Saint-Michel

- Good.

- Uh, what about the blanquette d'agneau?

- Hmm? Ch, telephone my wife, Lucas

- Oh, but, but-
- Now you should knows

what to say by now

{cheerful instrumental music)

{ominous music)

- Hey! What do you think you're doing?

(Fred grunting)

How long are you gonna leave me here?

I've been chained to this
thing for half an hour

- Lunchtime, you see, we always lock up

It's not worth keeping anyone on.

And after all, one's got to eat.

He's in there.

- Bring him out

(tense music)

- You needn't have chained me up,

I couldn't have got out.

- You thief.

- Oh, shut up

- He stole my takings

He's a thief.

- Quiet.

- Inspector Maigret.

Well, well, well. I am honoured

Do you remember me?

- I never forget a face

Sad Freddy, isn't it?

You broke into a dentist house at Neuilly

- That's right.

- Hand cuff.

- What?

- Care to tell me what
you're doing in there”?

- Hmm, well I'd hidden
in there while they shut

the shop for lunch

And then I popped out and robbed the till

Hey. you're not doing very well, are you?

- You thief.

- Oh, shut up.
- Take him away

Mm-hmm.

- And my money?

- Evidence. You've been robbed.

(tense music)

- Oh, it's a filthy day.

I got a lead

Hello, hello

Are you quite sure you're comfortable?

- I'm waiting for the Patron

I've got a lead too

- You'll have a thick ear

if he catches you in that chair

Where was that knife made?

- Saint-Etienne, du Lac and Company

- Take it round to their Paris office.

It may tell them more than it tells us

- What, now?

- Why not?

- I've got some
information for the Patron.

- Well, you tell me, I tell him. Teamwork.

- Oh, that's all very well.

I'm the one who does all-

{Maigret groans)

- When does it ever

stop raining?
- Uh, Patron, I found the room

Thouret rented.

- The daughter has another-

- But the house is in the Rue d'Angouleme

- The lover's on the run.

- And I found a burglar, all right?

Now, one at a time, eh? Lucas?

- I followed Monique Thouret
to a cafe off the Boulevard.

She waited there for
someone who never turned up

One of the waiters told me
she lunched there every day

with a young man who worked in
a bookshop round the corner

I went to the bookshop

Young man's name is Albert Jorisse,

and he hasn't been seen since Saturday

After she'd waited about an hour,

Monique went back to work.

- Mm-hmm. Lapointe?

- Well, I've been around the whole quarter

looking for furnished rooms

Never stopped raining

But then-
- And our intrepid

hero's shoes were letting in the water

All right, where is it?

27 Rue d'Angouleme

- Hmm.

- It's a peculiar sort of house

It's-
{hand thuds)

- Show me.

{doors clicking)

{brake creaks)

- Patron.

- Here?

(cheerful bouncy music)

- Yvette, turn that thing off.

And put some clothes on. Police

- Madame?

Lapointe

Careful what you touch

We'll let the fingerprint
boys loose up here later.

- [Lapointe] Right.

- Lucas.

Is that him?

- Yes, I've seen the papers.

- When was he last here?

- Yesterday morning

- What time?

- Oh, came in about half past 10,

went out at lunchtime.

He was had over that.

It's a female. They don't sing.

- Oh. How long had he had this room?

- Oh, two years

- What'd he do all day”?

- Came in, went out.

I don't know.

- Patron?

- Who's she?

- [Mariette] His friend

- [Maigret] Name”?

- Mademoiselle Antoinette.

- Your name?

- Mariette Gibon.

- You don't like the police, do you?

- I don't like the rain
either, but it rains

{Josette laughing)

Oh, get to your room, Josette

{Josette laughing)

- Nothing there.

- All right, cupboard

How many lodgers are there here nowy?

- Three now.

- All girls?

- Well, they've gotta live somewhere

- Was Monsieur Louis interested?

- Huh? No.

He used to play belote with Lucille

- Patron, look

He's got a better wardrobe than I have.

- Yeah. How often did she visit him?

- Three or four times a week

in the afternoons.

- Any other visitors?

- A girl. Twice

Oh, dark, about 25 or so

- All right.

- [Mariette] I can go?

- Yes, for the moment.

Well, it's not a bad place

- Reeks of garlic

- Oh, she comes from Marseille

They live on it down there

Patron, something here

Square patch without
dust, about that size

- Cash box?

- Could be.

- All right.

- [Lapointe] Well, he
didn't keep much here.

- Any bird seed?

- [Lapointe] Packet.

- All right.

See if you can find some water

- All right.

(Maigret whistling)

- Pity you're not a parrot

(bird seed rattling)

(Maigret chirping)

It's funny, he left his home each morming

like a good little breadwinner.

But instead of going
to work, he came here,

changed his clothes, sat around all day,

and what else?

- Her?

- Ah, yeah.

Funny, she's a bit like his wife.

{Josette velps)

- There's a girl in the bath.

- Oh, well did you find the water?

- No.

(Lucas chuckles)

- Lucas!

- A police officer must be prepared

for all eventualities, Patron.

- Six o'clock comes and he goes back again

to his little suburban home,

a good little breadwinner once more

This? This came from the Rue de la Paix

He bought a damn sight
more than bread. How?

{Josette and Lucas laughing)

We better rescue Lucas.

{Josette and Lucas laughing)

- I'll, uh, just give this to the bird

- Yeah, leave it at that, eh?

Lapointe

{jaunty music)

Come on, Lapointe, I'll buy you a drink.

Tell Sergeant Lucas I'll be in that bar

{slow uneasy music)

{speaking French), yes?

- Mm-hmm.

- Three.

Oh, Lapeinte.

Damn, I've left my pipe behind.

Would you mind going back to look

for it?
- Yes, Patron

- Using these

Do you know him?

Do you know her?

{door clicks)

- Interesting place up there

- Hello, Lucas

Get me a Jeton, will you

Call headquarters

Have the listening desk
tap the phone over there

Then go along to the
concierge at Kaplan et Zanin

and show her this.

See if she knows Antoinette.

- Three fin.

- And may they choke us, hmm?

What's the matter, don't
you like customers?

- What customers”?

(Lapointe sighs)

- No pipe

- Hmm? Ah, well, well
here it is all the time.

Got it.

Well? What were they doing?

- Talking

- On the telephone?

- To each other.

- Good. Now stay here and watch the house

If anyone leaves, follow them

- Well what if they all leave”

- Well follow them all.

Don't make difficulties.

I'm going down te Juvisy again

- What about the knife?

I was supposed to check with the makers

- Torrence can do that.

Ah, at this moment,

I wanna have another look
at Louis' other home.

- Ah! I've lost drinks that way before

(Lapointe sighs)

Where's the Patron?

Has he taken the car?

- I think so, yes.

- Ch well, just round the corner

- I better stay here.

I'm supposed to watch the house.

- What more could you want?

Wine? Women?

You can provide the song. (chuckling)

Who won the big fight?

{Lapointe chuckles)

Friendly people, too.

{uneasy music)

- Well, what have you got to say to that?

- Have you na heart, Inspector,

pestering me with with questions

with my poor father lying
there in his coffin?

- Would you rather come
up to headquarters?

Perhaps you'd rather that
your mother was present?

- There's nothing I can tell you.

- Oh yes, there is

First place,

that young man that you were looking

for at lunchtime
yesterday, Albert Jorisse

He's a friend?

- Yes.

- Close?

- Yes.

- Where do we find him?

- Well he can't help you

He'd never murder anybody

- He can still help me

So might you

- Please, Inspector, must you smoke”?

Have you no respect for the dead?

- Was your father alone when you went

to see him in the Rue d'Angouleme™?

Well, the woman there'll
identify you, won't she?

- He was my father

Anything that passed
between us was personal

- Mm-hmm. How did you know he was there?

(Monique sighs)

- I followed him.

- Why?

- Well it's natural to want to know

what your father's doing

- Did you find out?

- That he had this room, yes.

- Mm-hmm, and what else?

Surely there's something else”

- That he had someone.

- Yeah, so you watched the house?

Or did Albert?

- We're going to be married

- I don't care. I wanna
know what your father did

Where did he go when he went out?

- To sit on a bench in the Boulevard.

- Thank you

Who did he meet there?

- A man sat and talked to him, twice.

- You saw him?

- Once. Albert saw him the other time.

- What was he like, this man?

- Thin and small, with a sad face.

He looked as if he'd
never smiled in his life.

- Sad face.

{uneasy music)

- You, stand up

Now, Mademoiselle, is this the man

you saw talking to your father?

- Yes.

- Bring him to my office

- I can go”?

- No.

- I wouldn't have thought
you'd have been interested

in my bit of larceny.

- Larceny? Murder.

- Murder? Me?

Don't be silly
- Get In there.

- Torrence, go down to records

See if they have anything
on Mariette Gibon, age 35

Probably from Marseille

- Oh, you again?

You'll be on the staff soon.

- Uh-huh. All right, take him in there

Keep him away from the window

- Well can I smoke?

- Here.

- Full of interest, these murder cases,

aren't they?
- Come on, Freddy

- The name's Machere,
Police Sargeant's widow

- Ah, is she?

- Used to work for Kaplan et Zanin

The concierge there
recognised her immediately

- Well that's a bit of luck, Lucas

Bring her in

(Maigret whistling)

- Madame Machere.

- Sit down, Madame.

Ah, Madame Machere,

I'm very sorry to trouble
you at a time like this,

but we think that you
might be able to help us

Now tell me, do you like waffles?

- Yes.

- Ch good, that's one problem solved

Now, let's see if we
can solve another one.

Who killed Louis Thouret?

- I don't know. Really, I don't.

Must have been some brute

who was after his money.

He was the kindest, mildest man

Everybody liked him

- You met him when you were both working

at the Kaplan et Zanin, huh?

- Yes, but not, not so
that I knew him well

When the firm closed
down, I met him again

I'd taken a job at the
Chatelet Theatre as an usher.

I still work there.

I shouldn't like to be late.

- Hmm, well, you better
tell me everything

- About two years ago,

he came to a matinee
there, "Arabian Nights."

I showed him to his seat.

He asked me to meet him afterwards.

- Did he have his room in the
Rue d'Angouleme at this time?

- Yes.

- Why did he have it?

- He wanted a place of his own

- He had a house at Juvisy

- (puffs) But he was nothing there

You see, his brothers-in-lavs
worked on the railways

They had jobs that carried state pensions

His wife would never
allow Louis to forget it

- And when the firm closed down,

what sort of job did he have then?

- I don't knows. I didn't like to ask.

- Not in two years?

- If he'd wanted me to
know, he'd have told me

- But he had money, huh?

- Yes.

- Did he give you any?

- No.

- Jewellery?

- This ring

- Hmm.

- And this.

We were friends.

I wouldn't have taken any more

- He ever talk about divarce?

- He was frightened of his wife

{Maigret coughs)

- And his daughter?

- He adored her. He'd have
done anything for her

But late-

- Yeah?

- Lately he seemed disapointed in her

Oh, he didn't say anything,

he just seemed...

- Yeah, how often did you visit him?

- Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Fridays

And a matinee Wednesday.

- As often as you could, hmm?

- You must understand.

It wasn't a passionate relationship.

It was as though that room was our home

Often, we'd just go for
a walk or to a cinema

- What'd you do yesterday?

- Yesterday? Monday

We lunched together at our usual cafe.

Then we went to a news cinema.

I had some shopping to
do, so I left him then.

- What time?

- About half past three.

When did it happen?

- Within the hour.

{Machere crying)

- [ loved him.

- [Albert] Where she
is? I wanna get through!

Let me go

- [Officer] Just relax.
Hold the line out here.

- [Lapointe] Come on,
break it up. Break it up!

- [Maigret] What's all the row”?

- Albert Jorisse, Monique's boyfriend.

Picked up at the Passport Bureau

- Well why have you got
her here? She's innocent.

- You're guilty”?

- No, I'm innocent too.

- Keep an eye on them both

Don't let 'em talk.

Ah now, Madame, thank you very much.

Would you mind waiting”

- [Lucas] Madame

- We need some more rooms.

(Lucas chuckles)

- Who do you want to see first?

- Uh, well let's start
with a professional, eh?

- Right. All right, Renee?

Let's have him. No hardware.

- [Renee] All right.

- I'll take a statement
from Albert Jorisse.

- Yes, thank you, Lucas

Sit there.

You're all right. Renee

- Right.

(Maigret sighs)

- Thief.

- Hey, you don't want them.

You've got your pipe

- Where did you first meet Louis Thouret?

- On a bench on the Boulevard.

- When?

- Two years ago

-Goon.

- Well, we used to talk

He was a nice little chap. I liked him

- I don't care whether you liked him

Did you kill him?

- No.

- I can stay here all night you know.

- Well I'm not going anywhere.

- Several people might've killed Louis

You are the only known criminal,

so don't you be too sure

Hmm? How many times you've been inside?

- Five.

- So two more will put
you in the big league?

- A life sentence?

- Assistance to the police can help

- Oh, I'd never live that down

Allright. But can I have a drink?

I know you've got some
in that cupboard there

Betting you know, that's been my trouble

The government ought to put a stop to it.

You can't bet without money, you know.

That's why I'd never have killed Louis

Look at the spot that I've got myself

into now without him.

Sante.

- You two worked together?

- Yeah, I met him one day
sitting on this bench, see,

and we got talking

And there was a shop across the road

And he said, "Nowy if
someone went into that shop

before lunch as a customer,
he could hide quite easily,

rob the till while the
shop was shut for lunch,

and then walk out again as a customer

after it had reopened."

- With the money on him”

- No, that'd be much too risky.

- Hmm.

- There was a small window

that looked out onto an
alleyway at the back

And it was just right for passing

the money through to a friend

- And he was the friend?

- Yeah, we did about one a month

- Always on the Boulevard”?

- Yeah, mostly

That's what he was doing
in that alleyway yesterday,

making a final checkup.

But I didn't knows that
he'd been killed, you see

So I went on with my part of it today.

That's how you came to catch me

- Hmm, where did he keep
his share of the money?

- How should I know?

- Did you ever go to his room?

- No, never.

- And if I told you that your prints

were all over his furniture-

- I'd beg your pardon and call you a liar

- Anything else you knows”?

- Oh yeah, that daughter
of his and the young man

He took to following Louis

Now they were up to something

- Hmm, Renee!

I've finished with him.

- Au revoir.

- Take him as cooperative,
but in handcuffs.

(handcuff snaps)

- Come on, Freddy

- Albert's statement.

- Good. Let's see it now.

Oh, uh, Lucas, wait until Monique

is gone and then let Madame Machere go

- Ch, don't you want a statement?

- No, not at the moment

She might lose her job

You know what a police widow's pension is

- Hmm. All right, Monsieur.

- Sit, Monsieur

Albert Jorisse is 24,
bookseller's assistant, hmm?

Hmm, where do you want a passport for?

- South America.

- You were going together?

- Well, why not?

- Mm-bmm. Whe was paying the fare?

- We had savings

- Whose?

- Ours.

- How much was the fare?

- I haven't bought the tickets yet

- Well, how much do you imagine?

- A few thousand francs.

- Mm-hmm, and, uh, your wages are?

- 100 Francs a week.

- 100 Francs a week.

- (chuckles) How long
have you been saving”?

- Look, Monique has savings too

- Answerl

- Well, since we first
met. It was last May.

- Six months you've been
saving to go abroad, eh?

- Yes.

- Why did you follow her father?

- No, I didn't.

- She says you did

- Well, look, then you knows why

- You admit that you followed him?

- I shan't say anymore

- Where were you Saturday afternoon”

Where? Where?

All right

{switchboard clicks)

Bring her in

- Mademoiselle.

{door bangs)

- Sit, Mademoiselle.

{door clicks)

Where were you yesterday afternoon?

- With him.

- Where?

- At his place

- Didn't you tell him?

- No.

- Well, why not?

We haven't done anything wrong

The concierge will confirm the time

We were there for about two hours.

- Hmm, I understand that you were hoping

ta go to South America

- I'm hoping to go anywhere

that isn't Juvisy

- Where was the money to come from?

- My father.

I told him I'd tell
mother about his mistress

if he didn't pay up.

- Monique-

- What does it matter, Albert?

- Where did your father keep his money?

- In a cash box on top of
the wardrobe in that room.

- Did you know that?

- No, Albert knows nothing

- Now look, I take full

responsibility-
- Shut up, you fool.

If you don't shut up he'll think

we've done something wrong

- All right. You can go.

Not you.

(Maigret sighs)

Come in.

Sit down.

Well, do you still wanna
go to South America?

Yeah, that's better

Now look, here's a nice empty room.

I suggest you sit down here and think

about it all for a little while.

And next time, pick a girl
who knows the difference

between right and wrong, eh”?

(tense music)

Marseille, right.

Thank you, Torrence

That knife was sold at
a shop in Marseille

- Mars-
- Five years ago

- Marseille?
- Yeah.

- Mariette Gibon was born
in Marseille, in 1922.

- Yeah?

- Came to Paris, 1958

- Four years ago. Convicted?

- (chuckling) About 20 times

Started 1941, associate Philippe Natali,

see relevant file.

- Philippe Natali, who?

Oh, well. You better get it up

- Philippe Natali

Patron, there's no need

There's a picture of them both

- The barman!

Lucas, I believe that all the time

we've been questioning suspects,

the murderer's been right under our noses

Go on. Go pick him up

(jaunty band music)

(Maigret sighs)

Must have skipped out when
you went out to telephone

- He wanted to shut the bar,

I had to use the telephone
round the corner.

- That's why the bar was shut

{Josette squealing)

- Leave me.

You're the filthy police

- One of them.

- I hate police

- Where are the others?

- Odette's in the bath.

Lucille's upstairs.

- Mariette Gibon?

- Out. That makes you three and us three

- Hey, she's the one

who was in the-
- All right,

take a look around downstairs, Lucas

You, upstairs

- Patron.

- Who fed the bird?

- Me.

- Huh. Who are you?

- Josette Vaudier.

- From?

- Clermont-Ferrand. Do
you want my Identity Card?

- No, not at the moment

Do your parents know what you're doing?

- No, of course not

- What do they think you're doing”?

- Working in a hairdressers.

I was, too

- Hmm, where's Philippe Natali?

- Who?

- Him.

- Don't know.

(doors clacking)

- Now, try again

- Perhaps he's in his bar

- You know that's shut.

- Well, perhaps he's in another bar.

- You know what he did, don't you?

He killed Louis Thouret.

Took a knife and killed him,

then he came here and took his money

You know that, don't you?

- I don't.

I don't knows anything

- Monsieur Louis ever harm you?

- No, he was always polite and kind

He, he treated us as
though we were ladies

He'd never harm anyone

- And he was killed.

- I'm afraid.

- Of who?

- He said that if any of us talked,

he'd come back and see
that we never talked again

{footsteps tapping)

{Josette whimpering)

- Oh, I'm sorry. Patron

- All right. Come in and shut the door.

Now look, you're in no danger.

This man will be arrested and
you'll never see him again

- He's not arrested yet

- With your help, he can be

- Yes, and then you go off after him,

for all I know he gets away from you

and comes back here.

He's a devil.

- You shall have protection
until he's under lock and key.

- What sort of protection?

- A police officer with you all the time.

- Can I have him?

- Yes, certainly.

Now, was there a car?

- Well, he had a car

They were making for
Marseille where he could hide.

- Yeah? Make and number of the car?

- Big, black American convertible

I don't know the number.

- All right, Lapointe,

you will take Mademoiselle to a hotel

There's one down the road.

You will book two single rooms
with & communicating door

which you will open,

and you will remain there
(Lapointe stammering)

until I telephone with news of the arrest.

All right, get going.

- Yes, Patron.
- You will do what

he says, won't you, because
I'm very frightened indeed

- Yes, Mademoiselle, if you'll
just come this way please

{Lapointe chuckling)

- Some police officers are
lucky police officers, hmm~

- And some get all the glory

Now, Lucas, we gotta stop that car

before they get too far.

Call headquarters, tell
‘em to put out the net.

- Right.

{door clicks)

- Black Buick American convertible,

believed heading South
from Paris to Marseille

on Route National six or seven.

{suspenseful music)

Estimated time of departure from Paris,

16:00 hours.

{suspenseful music)

- [Radio] The occupants of the car,

one man and one woman.

They are dangerous and may be armed

{suspenseful music)

{motor roaring)

{sirens blaring)

(engines rewving)

- Why don't you go faster?

- Have every policeman
on the route chasing us”?

{horn honking)

{suspenseful music continues)

{machines whirring)

- Any news?

- Yes, Sir

We've just had a report that their car

has passed through Auxerre

There's a roadblock here.

- If they're still on this road,

they won't be long now

Keep me informed

(Officer speaks in French)

(engine roaring)

{suspenseful music)

{whistles shrieking)

{ominous music)

(whistle shrieking)

- Come onl!

{suspenseful music)

(Mariette gasping)

(foreboding music)

{melancholy music)

- Poor little devil.
(bird tweeting)

You know, he wanted to get out too.

- Thouret?

- Yeah, he became a crook

just to have a place of his own

Well, I think we better
give it to Madame Machere

in the morning.

And now, onion soup and bed

- Good.

Oh, Patron

- Hmm?

- What about Lapointe”

Should I phone him?

- Oh, no. No, no.

(Maigret sniffs)

No, I think that's another thing

that can wait till the moming

Come on, Lucas