All language subtitles for Maigret S03E04 The Wedding Guest_Track03-eng

{suspenseful music)

- (laughing) You

(woman laughing)

- If you think it's going
ta rain, take your rubbers

You won't die, unless you
fall in the river. (laughing)

Well, if we're going, we're going

That's enough if you're driving

- I don't think I'll have quite enough

Can you cash me a check, do you think?

- Perhaps.

How much?

- You have blood on your ear.

- Hm, shaving

- Yeah, yeah.

{woman singing)

- She's gay, our Mado, huh?

- Yes, our Mado

(dramatic music)

{sombre accordion music)

(mellow music)

(footsteps approaching)

- Lenoir.

- I know why you're here

- [Maigret] They told you?

- No, but you wouldn't have come

unless the appeal had failed

When is it?

Tomorrow?
- Tomorrovs morning

- So what do you want?
What can you get from me”?

I have nothing to tell you.

It's, it's being alone

- There's plenty others
out there walking about

deserve to be where I'll be.

- What others?

- Why should I tell you?

Why not?

This was about four years ago

Yeah, four years.

I had a pal called Victor,

- Victor?

- No, you don't get his other name.

Anyway, he's in a sanatorium
now coughing his lungs out

We'd been out one evening's drinking

and were on our way home
and we saw these two men.

One of them was holding up the
other as though he was drunk

But he locked all wrong somehow,
the way his feet dragged

Not like a drunk.

- Where was this?

- Somewhere in Paris.

Well, the one who could walk

heaved his friend in
the back and drove off.

With Victor and me, we borrowed
a car and followed them.

- Why?

- We thought there might
be something in it for us.

And there was.

He drove to the Canal Saint-Martin,

stopped on the edge of if,

heaved his friend out, and dropped him in.

There was a splash, that was all

Then we said good evening

- [Maigret] What did he do?

- (chuckling) Nearly followed his friend

We got him back in the car,
made him drive us to his home.

- [Maigret] Where was that”?

- That was in Paris too.

- [Maigret] His name?

- It's always Monsieur
Xin blackmail cases

- [Maigret] Hm. You get much from him?

- No, not really

A few hundred francs at a time.

We had no experience

But it went on for two years.

- Why not forever?

- Oh, he skipped, vanished

I didn't see him again
until three months ago

Just before this little episode

- You spoke to him?

- Only saw him

- Where?

- Just a dancing place on the river.

- The Seine?

- Called the Guinguette a Deux Sous

He didn't even recognise me.

- Whereabouts along the Seine?

- You're a detective.

You find out.

That's your job

All I say is that Monsieur
X will do just as well

in my place on the-

Will, will you be there?

- Yeah.

- [Lenoir] Au revoir

- Au revoir, Lenoir.

{sombre music)

{Lucas whistling "Alouette”)

- Ah, morning, Patron

A bit warmer today

- It was cold earlier.

- Lenoir?

- Yeah.

You ever been to one?

- Once. I used to think one
ought to see everything

{Maigret sighing)

- Well, anything new?

- No. The real crooks are on holiday

- Well, in a week, I shall join them.

- Madame gone already”?

- Yes. She's in Alsace
eating foie gras, coq au vin

- Good for her.

- Oh, Lucas

I want a description of
all bodies fished out

of the Canal Saint-Martin
in the last four years,

and a list of licenced guinguettes.

- The guinguettes? Which area”

- Oh, along the Seine

You know, the sort of
drinking dancing places

they go to in the hot weather

- Up or down river?

- I don't know. You take
upstream, I'll take downstream

- Who owns it?

- Oh, no idea

- Well, do you know the name of the place?

- Yes, of course I do

It's called the Guinguette a Deux Sous

- [Lucas] Does it let rooms”?

- Apart from its name, I knows
nothing whatever about it

except that one murderer said
he saw another murderer there.

{Lucas speaking French)

- Quiet.

{Maigret speaking French)

- [Lucas] Ah, Deux Sous!

- Quiet, I said! What?

- Here, (Lucas speaking French).
They let rooms.

- That's it.

Well, it's a nice day
for a trip up the river

- For me?

- No, for me

- You going nove?

- No, those places are dead until evening

Hm, Saturday

Well, anyone who goes there regularly

should be there tonight

Of course, there may be nothing in it,

but if I'd been Lenoir,
I wouldn't have lied.

(lively music)

All right, don't wait for me

(lively music)

(man and woman laughing)

- Hey! Leave the bride alone
till after the wedding!

(man and woman laughing)

- And he said I'd rather see
the bare facts, do you see?

Listen, tell the lovebirds.
They'd appreciate that

- Excuse me, Madame

- Ch, my pleasure, Monsieur. (laughing)

{crowd laughing)

- Oh, splendid, Feinstein! Splendid!

You took him in! (laughing)

This is the bride's mother.

I am the Lordmayor.

We're having a party
Join us, have a drink

We're all drinking pastis.

One, two, three, four,
five, six pastis all around

- Port for me, port for mel

- Of course, port for my wife,

but pastis for my friend here

This is a wedding.

You do understand, don't you?

- [Woman] How can he understand?

- Oh no, Pierrot, net that
dreadful noise, not now.

You're supposed to be a
village idiot. Behave like one

{blowing raspberry)
(crowd laughing)

Village idiot! He's got
a good start, hasn't he?

- It's only a joke, you know

- To liven up the weekend

- He knows.

- Yes, we come down here
every Saturday, you know

- Yes, but none of us has had a wedding

for such a long time,

we thought we'd have one now for a change.

(car horn honking)

Aha, aha, who's this?

- Oh, I'll go and see

Oh, it's the doctor!

- No, no, no

The father of the bride!

Ah, mon colonel.

A drink for the father of the bride!

- Hello, who's this?

- This? This is a wedding guest.

- Oh, we must give him a part to play.

What about the notary?

- The notary, of course!

I forgot the notary
You must be the notary

- Representative of the law

- Well, that shouldn't be
too difficult. What do I do?

- Ah, I've forgotten

What did the notary do at our wedding?

- Chewed tobacco.

- Chewed tobacco!

(all laughing)

- Qurs had a long, drooping moustache

- Monsieur, the very thing. Voila

And the pince-nez

- All right, perfect!

The very image of a civil servant

- What are you, by the way?

- A civil servant.

(all laughing)

- All we need now is the bride and groom.

Where are they?

Mado!

Louis!

Coo-cool

Bad taste. (laughing)

Mado!

- What are you?

- Ah, he's nothing.

- My wife. Here, have a drink

Ah, the happy couple!

- Papers, papers! The notary
must have some papers

Here we are, this will do

Now, the, the bride's birth certificate

The bridegroom's ditto

Father's discharge from the army.

Mother's discharge from jail.

And the Lordmayor's
certificate of insanity

{crowd laughing)

Now, now, that's enough, that's enough

Will the happy couple please step forward?

(all laughing)

Now, Mado, in the name of the Republic

and the overseas territories,
including Madagascar,

do you undertake the following duties?

Namely, to be a faithful
and ever-loving spouse

to this subhuman ape
standing at your side”?

To cook his food, to clean
his house, to mend his shoes,

and to offer him every comfort
that a wife offers a husband

for 365 days and nights?

(all laughing)

In the year?

- 66 Olympia.

- Silence!

(upbeat dance music)

(mellow music)

- Ah. Ooh, it's cooler out here.

- Yes.

It is a good party.

- Is it like this every weekend?

- Oh, we amuse ourselves.
Bridge, fishing, dancing

I don't dance.

- But it's good to get out
of Paris these hot nights

- You staying?

- If I can find a room.

- Oh, there should be one

I don't stay here.

Mado and I have a villa further up

- Mado?

- My wife, yes.

There she is now.

- Mayor's privilege

- Yes.

- Do you, do you dance”

- No, no.

-Nordol.

My wife does. She's a lively child.

{Mado shouting)

- Come on, we've got to finish the job!

We've got to conduct
them to a bridal chamber!

- Yeah, but where?

- We'll find onel Come onl

(all laughing)

- Come on, you two, you're
missing all the fun!

(mellow music)

- Ah.

- Ah, Mr. Notary.

Hey, you want to drink?

Help yourself.

That's my bottle

- Thank you

Can I do anything?

- No thank you. Two cooks are enough

- Ah, it makes a change

I work in a bank all the week.

Is my wife out there?

- I didn't notice her.

- Funny. She's a big girl

Oh, by the way, my name
is James. James Calais.

- My mother was English.
Itry to live upto it

- Maigret.

- Ah, Maigret.

Tell me, what's the name of
the fellow playing the mayor?

- Why, it's Monsieur Basso.
He's a coal merchant.

- In a big way of business

- He's the rich man amongst us

- Richer than Feinstein?

- There's more money in
coal than there is in socks.

- Socks?

- Yeah, he's got a shop on
the Boulevard Poissonniere.

- Ah. Well, this Basso
seems quite a character.

- Yes. He's the leader.

The whole gang would fall
to pieces without him

Well, it's not really a gang, of course

- Tell me, is there any possibility

of my finding a room here tonight?

- Oh, I expect that's all right, yes

- You look at all that postage outside?

Is the room free? It's yours

Why, you like the place?

- It's pleasant.

- Oh, i's a nice informal atmosphere.

Plenty of discreet little
corners if you're feeling lonely

- Oh, I think I'm just a
little too old for that.

- (chuckling) Me too

I drink too much.

Yeah, I know. Much, much too much

I like you.

We'll have another bottle
when we finish this one.

That won't be very long

(gun firing)

Ah, fireworks

{woman screaming)

- Not me.

{sombre music)

- Don't let anybody out.

- Name?

Name.

- Marcel Basso.

- Marcel Basso.

Coal merchant, yeah?

- Quai Bercy 78,

- Quai Bercy 78.

- I didn't shoot him.

- [Maigret] Who did?

- I don't know what happened

- Did he shoot himself?

Whose is this?

- Mado's, I think.

- His wife's? Where was she?

- In the henhouse.

It was the bridal chamber.

Only a joke

Are you going to arrest me?

- This isn't my district.

The examining magistrate
will be along in a moment

- But you are police
- Yes.

- What are you doing here”

- Pure chance.

It's funny

It's almost as if, as if it was a-

- What?

- Trap

Poor old Feinstein.

- You knew him well?

- Off and on for years

- And his wife?

- Of course.

- How did you know this was hers”?

- It's a woman's gun.

- Yes, but you knew it was hers

- She showed it to me once.

- Here?
- No, in the apartment

Boulevard Batignolles

- You used to visit them?

- Of course.
- With your wife”?

- My wife?

- [Maigret] Well?

With your wife?

- Sometimes.

- Was Feinstein there?

- Yes.

- Always?

What, what did you do?

- We played bridge.

- A three-handed game?

- Yes.

- And when neither Feinstein
nor your wife was there

what game did you play?

Stop him!

No. Find a boat, quick.

No, Basso! Come back. you fool!

Where's the telephone?

- Through those doors.

(lively dance music)

- I know it's Sunday

Well, well yes, I did
say we'd go swimming,

but, oh, now, Mimi

Mimi, now look, we can't stop everyone

from murdering gach other
on Saturday night, can we?

- We can try

- Oh, Patron. Hang on

Mimi. I promised her we'd
go swimming this morning.

Oh, Mimi, do be quiet for a minute

- Well, go on

- Well, uh

- Tell her you'll be
free in a few minutes.

- Look, meet me in the
Mas le Deux in 20 minutes.

No, no, no. I'll explain that, all right?

Goodbye, chicken.

Oh, I'm getting too old for that.

No news of Basso?

- He crossed the river. He
was seen on the towpath

All the stations watched,
all the roads watched?

- And the bridges

- That's all we can do.

- Do you think Basso did it?

- He was holding the
gun that shot Feinstein

- It was the widow's?

- She doesn't deny it

She says her husband bought it for her

to shoot burglars with, but
she hasn't seen it for weeks.

Ah, this killing's a nuisance.

- Yes, indeed, Patron.

- Not only because it's a weekend

It's not the one I'm investigating.

They were, they were a jolly party.

Lots of more or less innocent fun.

I thought one of them might be a murderer

Now one of them is a victim.

- Yeah.

- Oh, go on. Go and see your girlfriend

- Ch, you wanted to
know about bodies found

in the Canal Saint-Martin.

- Yes, how many?

- Six.

Two women, one Algerian,
three unidentifiable.

- Enjoy your swim.

Anyone in the finance section on a Sunday?

No, no. there wouldn't be. Thank you

- Inspector Maigret.

- Monsieur Calais.

- Oh, everybody calls me James

- Are you often here?

- One needs somewhere
one can call one's own.

I came back to Paris this morning.

We could hardly fish and play
bridge after what happened

- What did happen?

- Feinstein died.

Waiter, two pastis, please.

- You know, the magistrate
thinks that for some reason

Feinstein attacked Basso,

who snatched the gun
frem him and shot him.

- Which is absurd.

- Why?

- If Feinstein had wanted to
shoot Basso, he'd have done it.

But he had no reason.

- [Maigret] No?

- I know Basso was
messing about with Mado,

but it's hardly a reason.

- Wasn't Feinstein jealous?

- If Feinstein had been jealous,

most of the male members of the gang

would have been dead long ago.

- All of them?

- Well, not quite all, but
Mado's that sort of girl

You start by dancing with her,

and it doesn't quite stop there.

- You too, huh?

- No, I, [ don't dance, remember?

Where are those drinks?

Oh, here we are

- Do you drive a car, James?

- No, no. I, I drink

Besides, I haven't got a car

- Which was you has?

- Well, there's the
doctor. Basso, of course

Not Feinstein?

- No, no. The Bassos always
gave him and Mado a lift

- Hm. He was on good terms with them”

- Feinstein was always on good terms

with his wife's admirers.

He owed them all money.

- Why?

- I don't think Mado knew, but
he'd wander up to her latest,

ask for the loan of a few
hundred francs or cash check.

Oh, nothing said, of
course, it was just a look,

but they always paid

Telephone call, Monsieur.

- Oh, it's my lady wife

- No, Monsieur. A man

- Excuse me, Inspector

(bell ringing)

- Ch, hello, Inspector
- Hello.

- I looked for you after
that telephone call

Why did you leave the cafe?

- Did I miss anything”?

- Several drinks.

- Well, here I am.

-Comein.

I regret my wife is out or
the place would be tidy

Pastis, wasn't it?

Take the sofa, it's the most comfortable.

- Thank you

Busy day?

- Routine.

A lot of our people are on holiday

- Oh yes. So are ours.

- You going away”?

- Holiday? No, no, not this year

Last year we went to Royale

- Good oysters

- Yes. It's decent wine too.

But too many people.

I think I prefer the
weekends by the river

- Will you still go to the Guinguette”

- I don't know what else we'd do.

One carries on, you know how it is

- This is a very nice
place you've got here

Is this the bedroom?

- Why don't you come down next Saturday”

You could call it a business trip

The same old crowd will be there,

except of course Feinstein.

- And Basso.

- Yes. Yes, who knows where he is?

- Don't you?

He telephoned you at the
cafe while I was with you

- Yes.

- You arranged to meet him here?

- Yes.

- He wanted a change of clothes”

- And money. He needed money.

- Which you gave him?

- Yes, of course. He's my friend

It was his own money. He gave me a check.

- I suppose you know I
can arrest you for this

- But you won't.
- Why?

- Because he hasn't done anything

- He's only got the police
of three departments

looking for him

- Yes, but not for anything

Oh, you don't think he murdered Feinstein”

- Who did?

- Well, not me.

You much better come
down with us on Saturday

We'll have a lot of drinks.

We go all over it again

And if you still want to arrest me.

- All right. I will come down

- Oh, we're the first.

- The others will come, I suppose”?

- They're certain to.

Oh, my wife's sharing
a taxi with a couple

Where's Marie?

- She's in the kitchen.

- Good evening, Madame

- Monsieur
- Any beer?

- I'l go and get you some

{Victor coughing)

You want to look out, Victor

I've heard a cough like that before

and I know what it means.

It killed my sister's boy.

{car approaching)

- Oh, hello. It's the doctor's
new car by the sound of it

I must go and see it

He's talked about nothing else for weeks.

- Monsieur James! Oh well.

I suppose he'll have
his out on the terrace.

- Hello, Doctor

And Madame Basso, I'm so glad you've come

Well, how's the new car?

- I'm still running her in

- Let's have a look at it.

- We've seen it. We've
just come from Paris in it

- Yes, I know, but I haven't seen it yet

You, you come and showy it to me

- I'l take you for a
spin in it later, James

- [James] Thank you, Doctor!

- Monsieur James!

- Well, if he's not going to
drink that beer, I'l have it.

- May I see your papers, please?

- Police?

- As if you didn't know

- They're on the road,
locking at the new car

- Victor Gaya.

- So it says

- Last address?

- Municipal sanatorium at Cannes

- There, what did I say?

- When did you leave?

- [Victor] Months ago

- Since then?

- Here and there, living rough

You can pull me in for
vagrancy if you like

but they'll send me back to the hospital

I've only got one lung and that's no good

- Have you seen him often here”

- He's never been before.

He came here asking if
there were any odd jobs

He'd be better off in bed.

- I suppose Lenoir wrote you from prison

- Who?
- Lenoir,

and don't pretend you never heard of him

You were with him one night four years ago

when a body was thrown into
the Canal Saint-Martin.

You know who threw that body in,

and you and Lenoir blackmailed him.

- I know nothing

- I think Lenoir was right.
The man is here somewhere.

But you're not going
to blackmail him again

You're going te point him out to me

- I'm going to finish my drink and go

- Straight to jail?

- Straight to the sanatorium.

There's nothing you can do to me

{car engine revving)

- James, you prat, new carl

James! James, what are
you doing? Come back!

(mellow music)

- Police.

- James, are you mad racing her like that?

She hasn't been run in yet

- Your clutch is a bit stiff.

I'd get it fixed if I were you

(mellow music)

- Hello, Inspector

- Where's Madame Basso?
Where have you taken her?

- I couldn't possibly tell you

- You know where Basso is.

- Well, not exactly

- You've done 150 kilometres!
I've only done 40!

- Very clever.
- Why?

- You took Madame Basso
to her husband's hideout

And then you came here
and raced around the track

for a couple of hours

because you knew the
roads would be watched

and that it would take
time for us to find you

Very well-planned

- Well, it's not really planned, you see

I happened to see the entrance

and I saw it was open
for private speed trials,

and as a matter of fact,

it's something I've always wanted to do

- Well, you might have used your own car!

- I haven't got one

- Do you know him?

- Never seen him.

- Or him?

Right, hold the doctor's car.

- Well, what have I done?

- Nothing, but your car
is a suspect. Come on

- What about me?

- Oh, go and get a drink

- You'd have thought
he'd have wanted me too.

- The crossroads at N 2157 and C 253.

Well, they're all over
the place, aren't they”?

Hang on

Pierre? Your fresh tar on
the wheels is not much help

It might be one of 20 places
within 100 kilometres.

Oh, that might help. And that

Hold on. Michel?

There were eucalyptus seeds
stuck in the tar, and,

wait wait wait, eager beaver!

A dusting of Portland cement
under the chassis, all right?

Quick as you can, the Patron's waiting

All right, Pierre? Au revoir, gentlemen.

{Victor coughing)

- You think I'm putting
it on. I'm not, you know

Doctors give me a year.

I might die in here if you
question me for too long

Then you'd get into trouble

- You tell me who put
the body in the canal

and then you can go

- Back to the hospital? Thank you

I only want to see a bit of life

I haven't got long

- Do you think you're gonna
get some more money out of him?

- If I tried to you
you'd follow me, I know

- Good. So you admit you knows him

- Perhaps.

- His name?

- Is it worth money to you?

After all, it's been a valuable secret

Why should I give it away?

3000 francs.

2500.

- You can go

- Do you think I'm bluffing?

That I don't really knowy?

- Get out of here.

- I'l shows you

I'll give you a name

Ulrich, there's a name for you

- Who's he?

- You go and look for
him in his slop shop

Rue des Blancs-Manteaux.

You won't find him.

- Put a tail on the man
that's just left my office

And don't lose him.

- Patron. We've narrowed it down.

There are three places where the car

could have picked up
tar and Portland cement.

(speaking French)

- They're all small places

Check on the hotels
and the local visitors.

- Right.

- Any news yet on a Feinstein's accounts”?

- Yes. They've done an analysis

- Mm-hm.

Oh, I hate these things. It
doesn't tell us anything

- Only that he was always in debt

- No, I knew that

- He had one of those little tax fiddles.

- I guessed that.

- Nething much else

He was borrowing heavily
about seven years ago

- From Basso?

- No, a man called Ulrich
- What?

Where?
- Right here.

Rue des Blancs-Manteaux.

- Victor just mentioned Ulrich

And the same address.

Why did he say that I
wouldn't find him there?

Check missing persons

- There is an Ulrich.

Yakov Ephraim, 29 the Rue de Blumenthal.

Secondhand clothes dealer

suspected of infringing the usury laws

disappeared March 22nd

- Four years ago

- No clues found in
house, no sign of robbery.

Legal presumption of death
after statute is six months.

- Yeah, now. Bodies in the canal

July the first of the same year,

a body found by bargees near the lock.

Male, height one metre 17.

- That tallies.

- Age, between 60 and 65

- He was 62.

- Uh-huh.

No further identification possible

Or necessary.

Feinstein and Ulrich, two
dead men who knew each other.

{sombre music)

- Look, you know where he is

Now why don't you tell me

instead of just sitting
there like @ dummy?

I only want to help him.

- You mean help yourself to him”

- Funny.

- He's got his wife

- That dull thing.

- If that's all you
wanted me for, I'm going

- [Maigret] Thank you

- Hello, James

- Inspector, you've come
at just the right time

- I'm glad to hear it.
Why is it the right time?

- Because James is being stupid

He knows where Basso is
and he won't tell me.

- Shut up, Mado

- Do you, James”?
- No idea

- You see”? Stupid and unhelpful

Basso loves me. He needs me.

He loves his wife.

- Someday we're going to be married

I have a right to know where he is

- All right. He's over
the frontier by now.

- So you did know!

- James, did Feinstein
ever borrow money from you?

- From me? Now where would I get money”

- What are you suggesting?

- That your husband
sometimes borrowed money

Did you know a man called Ulrich”

- No.

- Did you?

(phone ringing)

- Magron 2384

Just a minute.

It's for you.

- Thank you

Maigret.

Yes, Lucas

Good. Yes.

We found your Basso for you

Into the car, James.

{suspenseful music)

- You can't do this to
me. I know my rights

- I wish I knew mine.

- I want to see a doctor
too. I demand a doctor.

- You'll have to do with
me for the time being.

Sit down.

- Hello, Marcel

- Sit down, James

Now, Basso

How did Feinstein die?

I knows that he was
discreetly blackmailing you

as his wife's lover.

- Hardly blackmail

More like a series of forced loans.

Well, I got tired of it.

I mean, me and Mado,

I never meant it to be
anything serious anyvray

So I decided to break it off,

and I told him he had
nothing more to come

And that night he said
he was in trouble. Debt.

He needed 5,000. I said no

And he took out a gun and
swore he'd shoot himself.

- But he'd never have done that.

- I know that, but you
don't think like that

when a man is holding
a pistol to his head

So I tried to wrench it away
from him and it went off.

That's the simple truth.

- I told you, they couldn't convict him

- Not with a good lawyer

So why did you run away?

- Oh, you started asking
me all those questions

in the Guinguette that night

I suddenly saw what it was gonna be like,

all dragged out in court

Me and Mado. Shame, scandal.

I'd have come forward,

but I had to get away for a bit

I wanted to see my wife,

make sure that she knew I still loved her.

She knows it all now.

- That deals with Feinstein,
as far as I'm concerned.

- I'l arrange a lawyer at once

- Wait.

And now tell me about Ulrich.

- You know about Ulrich?

- [Maigret] I know that he was killed

one night four years ago

and that his body was dumped
into the Canal Saint-Martin.

- Nothing to say

- Now, Feinstein knew Ulrich

And you knew Ulrich

And someone who went to the Guinguette

for weekends killed him.

Only one person knows who that was

It's Victor here.

Would you believe it, James?

He's asking 3000, no
2.500 for the information

How did you know Ulrich?

- This is 10 years ago

I needed some money and a
friend put me on to him

- [Maigret] What was his rate of interest?

- 45%

- 45%. You paid him back”

- Every penny

- And you introduced Feinstein to him

- Yes.

- Well, as you'd paid him back,

you had no motive to kill him

And on the other hand,
we know that Feinstein

couldn't pay him back

So if he killed Ulrich,
the case is closed.

Well, Victor? Did you
want to say something?

- Tell him.

Why don't you tell him?
You've got nothing to lose

- It was Feinstein.

It was him we saw throw the old man in.

- There, Maigret. There's your answer.

- What, did you expect the truth?

- No.

- Well, go on. Tell him

No, tell him the truth

- Oh, I killed the goose
that laid the golden eggs

- Shut up, James!

- That's Victor's motto.
Keep the victim alive

Keep the victim alive
and wring him, wring him

- James.

- I'm, I'm sorry, Marcel

I know you paid Feinstein

and sent Victor to say it was Feinstein,

but it's not worth it.

This life I've been leading

Drink and lies. It's not worth a sous.

I want done with it.

You want the truth, Inspector?

I killed Ulrich.

- Get their statements, Lucas

Here.

Thank you
- Sit down.

Basso has been a very good
friend to you, hasn't he?

- Yes, one of the best.

And we had a lot in common.

- Mado.

- Yes.

You knew about me a long
time age, didn't you?

- Yes.

When you told me that
you didn't drive a car,

it wasn't true.

- Yes, I knew I'd slipped up there.

Oh, it's like a bad novel

There I was, comfortably married,

leading the same quiet sort
of life as anybody else

until I ran into Mado.

That was my big moment

That was life.

I was mad about her.

Secret meetings, hotel rooms,

all that, it sounds so squalid now

It wasn't cheap

Oh my word, no

And Feinstein borrowing
money on top of it all

- He introduced you to Ulrich

- Yes. Yes, so that I could pay him

I didn't borrow very much, but
it was more like a payback

But once in, you don't
know what it's like.

What it does to a man to be squeezed,

and squeezed again by a filthy rat

until I felt I was choking.

One day he came to the flat. Mado was out

He threatened to tell the
bank if I didn't pay up.

- [Maigret] What did you do”?

- Just, just to frighten him, 1,

I put my hands on his throat.

I wanted him to feel
what he was doing to me,

what it felt like to be squeezed

And I, I. (sobbing)

- [Maigret] And then?

-I, I hired a car.

I put the body in it.

I took it to the Canal Saint-Martin.

And you know the rest

- [Maigret] Two years of blackmail

- And drinking away my
marriage, and my life

- Here.

- No.

No, that was my last.

{sombre music)

If you see my wife

- will.

- Will you tell her it's not
too bad? That I don't mind?

I really don't mind

Do you know what I'm gonna miss most?

Our little chats together down
by the river, by the cafe

I was ready to confess several times,

but I didn't want them to end.

Will you do something for me?

Ask them to drink a toast to
me down at the Guinguette

Well, that's where it all started

- It started here.

- Au revoir, Maigret.

- Au revoir, James