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Welcome, Sir George, Lady Stubs.
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- Good evening, Sir George.
- Good evening.
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I'm so thankful you're here at last.
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A shocking night.
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Hattie should get straight to bed
or she'll catch a chill.
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Come along, my dear.
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"Come at once, Nasser House, Devon.
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Need help. Urgent.
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Ariadne Oliver."
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- You been here before, sir?
- Non.
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Take the scenic route
along the river, shall 1?
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Non, mercy.
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Afternoon, ladies.
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You don't mind, do you, sir?
Foreigners, see. Can't read a map.
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- Burlington.
- Mademoiselle.
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Thank you. It is most kind, please.
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- Gracie.
- Miles yet to the youth hostel.
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Oh, her is not speak English.
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We meet first time this morning
on the platform at Execrate.
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And now we are big friends.
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We explore Devon together.
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I could show you a few beauty spots,
if you like.
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The hostel's that way. Don't
cross Sir George's land, though.
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- He don't like it.
- Gracie.
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Thank you, Stan.
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If you please, may we hurry?
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Welcome to Nasser, monsieur.
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I believe Mrs Oliver to be down by
the battery, sir, that way.
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Help, help! Someone, quick!
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Help! Help!
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Help! Help!
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Someone, quick!
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Oh, hello, Poirot.
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What is wrong, madame?
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Nothing's wrong.
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I just wanted to see if someone
would come.
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How loudly one might have to shout.
These woods are frightfully dense.
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- I thought you were in danger!
- Certainly not.
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How are you, Poirot?
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Un pee nerve, cher madame.
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You telegram med to me that you need
help
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and for this reason I come by the
express from London.
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Well...
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I do need help.
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I'm most awfully worried.
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There are some very strange people
here.
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Very strange indeed.
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They're holding a fete tomorrow and
thought they'd have a treasure hunt.
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Then they thought,
"No, that's been done to death."
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So they thought
they'd have a murder hunt instead.
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And they offered me a tidy sum
to come and dream it up.
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Well, anything's better than
writing.
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So I've been busily inventing motives
and suspects and victims and so forth.
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It costs a bob to enter and all
you get for that is the first clue.
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- Good fun.
- Madame...
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Poirot, he is arrived to Devon, maid
turquoise?
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Because there's something amiss.
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I think someone's going to die.
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If there were to be a real murder
tomorrow instead of a fake one,
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I shouldn't be in the least
surprised.
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Whose idea was it, this murder hunt?
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- The Warbonnets, I think.
- The owners of the property?
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No, no, that's Sir George Stubs.
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Awfully rich and awfully common.
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Bought the place a year or so ago,
along with his wife...
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who's outrageously beautiful.
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But as dumb as a fish.
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The corpse will be in here.
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Sally Legged was going to do it,
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but now they want her to dress up in
a turban and tell fortunes.
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So it's a Girl Guide called
Marlene Tucker.
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Hideous child!
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Just has to sit here and read
COMICS...
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I've written a clue on one of them...
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..and flop down when she hears someone
coming with this around her neck.
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Hello. I've brought lemonade.
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Oh, that is most kind, Miss Brews.
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- Good afternoon, sir.
- Mademoiselle.
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Lady Stubs must be rushed off her
feet with all the preparations.
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Lady Stubs has one of her
headaches.
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She's not yet up.
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I've planned every detail
and it all dovetails nicely.
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But things keep changing.
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The fortune-tel ling's a good example.
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I feel I'm being jockeyed along.
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- "Jockeyed along"?
- Manipulated.
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So someone is making the suggestions?
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I just can't stand suggestions.
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If you suggest something,
we do exactly the opposite.
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But I am being jockeyed along.
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And I can't figure out how.
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To tell the truth, I'm worried.
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Perhaps the big suggestion it is
put, hen?
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To which you, of course, say no,
because it is preposterous.
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But then an idea most trivial may be
found to have been smuggled in.
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Yes, yes, something like that. Yes.
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Who is making these alterations?
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Different people. It would be easier
if it were just one, wouldn't it?
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And you have told to them that
Hercules Poirot, he is coming?
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Yes, I said you'd be giving away
the prizes for the murder hunt.
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Mrs Oliver! Hang on,
I'll walk up with you.
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All safe, sir.
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That's Michael Bogeyman.
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An architect.
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I'm meant to be designing a tennis
pavilion. Do you know
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what he's asked for?
A Chinese pagoda.
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Selfmade man!
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Stinking with money
but with no taste whatsoever.
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For instance, look at this.
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It's quite nice of its kind...
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well, in keeping with the house.
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But these things are meant to be...
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What's the phrase?
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..Situated on an eminence.
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And here's this poor little devil
tucked away in the woods.
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Perhaps there wasn't anywhere else?
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What about the grassy bank by
the house? It's perfect, but no.
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A tree comes down in a gale.
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"Right," says the twerp, "We'll put
the folly there, tidy up the place."
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It's only on a yard of concrete,
subsiding already.
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These people are extraordinary.
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That's Amy Folliat.
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Here people owned Nasse originally.
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Then she lost both her sons
and had to sell up.
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And yet she lives here still?
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Precisely.
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Odd or what?
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Is this the great Monsieur Poirot?
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Enchante, Madame Folliat.
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It is kind of you to help out with
our prizes.
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This clever lady has contrived
a most intricate problem.
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I have been admiring the house.
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I thank you.
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It was built by my husband's
greatgrandfather.
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There was an Elizabethan manor
before.
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But it burnt down.
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It must be hard for you to have
strangers living in residence now.
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So many things are hard, monsieur.
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If you'll excuse me, I'll see if
they have your room ready.
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What do you think?
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Comment?
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It is only one instant since I have
arrived!
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Well, I've been here three days.
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And every time someone says
something,
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I get the strongest
impression they're lying.
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My intuition tells me something is
wrong.
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Ah, la.
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I'm well aware you think me
irrational.
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Madame, one calls things by
different names, hein?
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It may indeed be that you have seen
something
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it may indeed be
that you have heard something.
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And it may be...if may so put it...
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that you do not know what it is
that you know.
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You are aware only of the result.
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And that, madame,
it is your intuition.
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Whatever it is,
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I feel certain someone is going to
die.
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We must do something about it.
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Poirot, is it?
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Welcome. Welcome, old man.
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- Merci, monsieur.
- George Stubbs.
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- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Delighted you could come.
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Ah, yes. Let me introduce you to
some people.
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The fortunetelling.
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Over by the magnolia or at the far
end of the lawn by the rhododendrons?
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By the magnolia.
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My tent can't go by the magnolia,
it will cause a bottleneck.
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- Rubbish!
- Down at the end, please, Captain.
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What about the coconut shy?
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Not too near the house, Jim.
I've just replaced the windows.
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Fair point.
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Now, may I introduce the famous
gent, Hercule Poirot.
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Yes, indeed, Monsieur Poirot.
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- Captain and Mrs Warburton.
- Captain.
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- Delighted.
- Madame.
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And Alec and Sally Legge
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Monsieur. Madame.
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We'll find you a job later on..
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Watch out, Poirot. Sally can make a
man do anything, what!
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Come and meet the wife.
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- Excuse me.
- Hattie.
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This is Mr Poirot, he's our guest.
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Madame.
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You chat nicely while I go
and locate some coconuts.
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- Bon.
- Right.
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Do you mind if I sit down, madame?
So much walking.
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Merci.
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- It's pretty, isn't it?
- Tres jolie.
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It's an emerald.
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George gave it to me,
he gives me lots of things.
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Devonshire is a county most pleasant,
n'estce pas?
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It is when it isn't raining
but there aren't any nightclubs.
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- Ah, bon, you like the nightclub?
- Oh, yes..
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I love music and dancing
and champagne
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and wearing my nicest clothes
and all my jewels.
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It's best to be rich, isn't it?
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Perhaps if I was not rich,
I should look like her.
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Imagine.
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Tea, my lady.
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Tea is stupid.
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Perhaps our guest would like some,
Hattie.
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Shall I be Mother?
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Is it going to be like Ascot
tomorrow? I can wear a very big hat.
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Not quite like Ascot, dear.
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There's so much to do.
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You should be helping out instead
of staying in bed till after lunch.
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I've got a new dress. Come and see.
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We're just having a cup of tea.
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- Come with me, come now.
- Oh, very well.
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Please excuse us.
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You really must try to be more polite.
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- Beautiful creature, isn't she?
- Oui.
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See that ring that George bought her?
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Whether he spotted she's away with
the fairies, I couldn't say.
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But then he's hardly an intellectual
himself, is he?
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Sir George, he's inside the stocks
and shares, I believe?
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Yes. Not exactly a gentleman's game,
what?
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But still, you are the friends?
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Good grief, no choice.
Not with an election coming up.
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Jim, you've got to settle this.
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We agreed my tent should be at the
far end by the rhododendrons.
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My wife doesn't think so.
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You're the Member of Parliament.
Show her who's boss.
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Are you out of your mind?
All right, I'll see what I can do.
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Have you seen Amy Folliat?
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I believe that Madame Folliat
is inside with the Lady Stubbs.
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She seems to be most solicitous
towards her.
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Ah, yes, well,
she was Hattie's guardian.
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Before I walked her up the aisle,
of course.
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Her people were in sugar in the
Caribbean.
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But there was a typhus epidemic and
both her parents lost their lives.
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Rotten bloody luck, actually.
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But Amy was a friend of the family
and took young Hattie under the wing.
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- Oh, that is commendable.
- She's a damn good egg, actually.
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I want you to go and order some
wire fencing straightaway, please.
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I don't think you're allowed to pen
people in the tea tent, sir.
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Not the tea tent, dear, no.
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Over in the woods, where they're coming
through. They keep wandering in.
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- Who are?
- Trespassers!
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Foreigners, cutting through, you
see, Poirot, through to the ferry.
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Girls in little short trousers.
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Oui, d'accord. The trousers of the
girls... Exactly are.
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I have a gentleman on the telephone
with coconuts.
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Right, the coconuts, yes.
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- Right, so, how many's he got?
- As many as you like, sir.
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Look at them all buzzing around.
247
00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,080
Busy, busy bees.
248
00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,160
The world's going to pot
and they're holding a garden party.
249
00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,080
Une fete de jardin?
250
00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,040
But that is an activity honoured by
time, monsieur.
251
00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,040
The apathy of these people.
252
00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,080
They're all feeble-minded.
253
00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,080
Do you know what I should like to
see done in this country?
254
00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,960
I'd like to see every feeble-minded
person put out.
255
00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,960
Don't let them breed.
256
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,960
Finish them off, all the simpletons.
257
00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,080
How would you do that, Monsieur
Legge?
258
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,080
Oh, I'm a chemist.
259
00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,080
I could do it easily.
260
00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:23,080
Any theories?
261
00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,080
Everybody seems to me
to be completely normal.
262
00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,080
Are you trying to be amusing?
263
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,080
Perhaps that is not the right word.
264
00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,000
Lady Stubbs, it appears,
is subnormal, Alec Legge abnormal.
265
00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,920
He's all right. He's just having a
nervous breakdown.
266
00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,120
But everyone seems in a state of
agitation,
267
00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,960
which, I believe, is characteristic
of the preparations
268
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,040
for a fete in England.
269
00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,960
Mrs Oliver, your corpse is here.
270
00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,960
Ah, hello, Marlene.
271
00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,920
Remember, a Guide is honest,
reliable and can be trusted.
272
00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,000
Can you come and have a look at her
costume?
273
00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,000
I was going to be stabbed.
274
00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,960
Now she says I'm gonna be strangled.
275
00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,160
That's not fair.
276
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,000
This gentleman knows all about
murder. Why don't you ask him?
277
00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,080
Seen a lot of killings, have you?
278
00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:11,120
One or two, mademoiselle, oul.
279
00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,160
Any sex maniacs?
280
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,080
I like sex maniacs,
I've read about them.
281
00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,920
I do not think you would like to meet
one.
282
00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,920
If someone leaves a woman's body in the
woods with no clothes on, dead, like...
283
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,000
he's liable to be a sex maniac,
ain't he?
284
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,960
That would be an assumption
most reasonable, oul.
285
00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,080
That's what my granddad said.
286
00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,960
But he's daft
SO no one believes him.
287
00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,960
Marlene, come and try your
costume.
288
00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,920
Hattie, come back!
289
00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,960
You're completely mad!
290
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000
You permit, madame?
291
00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,160
I'm so sorry Hattie dragged me off
earlier. It was rude of her.
292
00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,880
Lady Stubbs is a little...
293
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,920
Comment on dit?
294
00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:40,000
...capricious?
295
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000
Hattie is a dear good child.
296
00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,960
I know her very well, you see.
297
00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:49,120
Because she was once your ward?
298
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,080
My husband died in Flanders.
299
00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,920
My elder son was killed on active
service against the Pashtun.
300
00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,960
And to cap a sorry tale,
301
00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,080
my...younger son took up aviation.
302
00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,080
And crashed trying
to break the record to Nairobi.
303
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,960
That meant three lots of death
duties.
304
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,040
Well...
305
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,080
Nasse had to be sold.
306
00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,080
I was very unhappy
and I was glad of the distraction
307
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,080
of having a young person to look
after.
308
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,960
For a time, we lived in Paris.
309
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,960
My, we had fun.
310
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000
I became very fond of Hattie.
311
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,160
All the more so when I realised
that she was not terribly...
312
00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,080
...capable.
313
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,160
Thank heaven there was no money to
speak of,
314
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,960
Had she been an heiress, I dread to
think how vulnerable she might have been.
315
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000
Her father died bankrupt.
316
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,040
And we felt ourselves fortunate
when George Stubbs came along.
317
00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,080
It was most fortunate indeed.
318
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,960
George Stubbs is a good man.
319
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,960
Oh, I know he's a complete
vulgarian.
320
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,120
But he is fundamentally decent.
321
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,960
Oui, I think that you have made
the arrangement most prudent, madame.
322
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,920
I am not like the English,
a romantic about these matters.
323
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,080
Et voici, here you are, still at
Nasse House.
324
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,160
Sir George lets me live in the
lodge.
325
00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,960
And I count myself very lucky.
326
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,000
Indeed, you have found for yourself
a haven most peaceful, madame.
327
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,920
A haven from the storm.
328
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,880
Yes.
329
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,920
he world is a wicked place,
Monsieur Poirot.
330
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,960
There are very wicked people in it.
331
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,040
Thank you.
332
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,920
What do you want me to put on this
poster?
333
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,080
Madam Zuleika, or Romany Lee,
Gypsy Queen?
334
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,080
No one likes gypsies round here.
335
00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,920
Better make it Madam Zuleika.
336
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,960
With a snake around her neck.
337
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,000
Snake in the grass.
338
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,880
I had a snake once.
339
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,040
But it swallowed the rabbit.
Had to chop it up - quite good fun!
340
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,880
Do you still paint, Michael,
like you used to?
341
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,000
Sold out, Sally.
342
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,960
30 pieces of silver.
343
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,960
Everyone has to earn a living, what?
344
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,160
In Parliament, Jim? That's not really
an honest living, now, is it?
345
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,960
- What?
- Waste of time, Parliament.
346
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,040
Don't be such a rotten old sulk!
347
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,880
Alec has a point. What do you think,
Mrs Oliver?
348
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,960
Should all politicians be
eliminated?
349
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,960
Eliminated?
350
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,000
I don't know.
351
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,920
They make ever such good suspects,
as arule.
352
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,960
They certainly do.
I mean, just look at my husband.
353
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,080
You couldn't get more shifty
if you tried.
354
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,120
- Excuse me, I'm going to bed.
- Hattie?
355
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,080
- I feel strange.
- Darling? Darling, we're at dinner!
356
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,880
Oh, Lady Stubbs has gone early to
bed.
357
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,960
Malheureusement, oui.
358
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,920
She suffers, perhaps,
from the mental confusion?
359
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,960
Oh, no.
360
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000
She knows exactly what she's doing.
361
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,000
What do you think?
362
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,160
I think, madame, that I take the
little walk.
363
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,000
Monsieur?
364
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000
Do you want the ferry, sir?
365
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,960
Oh, non. Non, merci.
366
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,160
I stay at Nasse.
367
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000
- 'Tis up at Nasse, you are?
- Oui.
368
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,960
I worked for the Folliats
many a year.
369
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,960
None them left now, of course,
except old Mum at up the lodge.
370
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,960
Met her, have 'ee?
371
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,960
Madame Folliat? Oui.
372
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,880
Bad luck, her's had.
373
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,080
Trouble with her husband,
trouble with her sons.
374
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,080
They were all right when they was
boys, always down here crabbing.
375
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,080
But when they grows up... pah!
376
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,920
Master Henry, he died for his
country, fair dos.
377
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,920
But Master James?
378
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,960
He was wild!
379
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,120
One of they as couldn't go straight.
380
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,160
By, he was vexing, Master James!
381
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,080
Aeroplanes, flying.
382
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,880
- That's no way to die.
- No.
383
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,920
No, indeed.
384
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,080
What is your opinion of Sir George?
Pardon, Monsieur...?
385
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000
John Murdle.
386
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000
...Monsieur Merdell?
387
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000
Oh, non. Non, merci.
388
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,960
Gentleman be powerful rich,
wife's a fine lady from London.
389
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,000
Yeah, I remember the night they
arrived.
390
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,040
Worst gale we ever had.
391
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,120
Big tree down in the woods made a
rare mess.
392
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,080
- Where the folly it now stands?
- Ah.
393
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,080
Damn silly place for it too.
394
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,000
Never happened in t'Squire's day,
London nonsense.
395
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,960
It is sad, is it not, that the time
for the Folliat family, it is finished?
396
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,960
Always be Folliats at Nasse.
397
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,000
Monsieur?
398
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,960
Old Mum still be here, b'aint she?
399
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,960
Good night, sir.
400
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,960
Bonne nuit.
401
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,040
Now...
402
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,080
here are some new ideas for the
pagoda.
403
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,960
What do you think?
404
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,000
See?
405
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,960
- Oh, no.
- What is it, darling?
406
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,200
It's from my cousin Etienne.
He's coming in his yacht!
407
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,080
Oh, no!
408
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,080
Oh, may I see?
409
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,960
Who is this Etienne De Souza?
410
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,120
A distant cousin.
411
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,120
He says he's coming here today!
412
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,160
Pity he's dropping by on the afternoon
of the fete but we'll make him welcome.
413
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,080
- No, we can't! I need to lie down!
- We can.
414
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,160
- I have a headache!
- Hattie, dear...
415
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880
Take some aspirin
and then it will go away.
416
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,080
- Shall I bring you some?
- No!
417
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,080
Sweetheart... Excuse me.
418
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,080
- Hattie, darling...
- I don't want to see Etienne!
419
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,160
I don't like him, he's wicked,
he does foreign things!
420
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,960
No, Rogers, put the urn on the left!
421
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,960
- Righto, ma'am.
- The left!
422
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,120
Oh, the left?
423
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,160
Hello, Poirot.
424
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,160
Bonjour, madame.
What a beautiful day!
425
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,960
Yes.
426
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,960
And isn't it nice to have Nasse
lived in again?
427
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,080
We were all so afraid it would
become an hotel.
428
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,080
So many houses have.
429
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,120
"AA: three stars",
and what have you.
430
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,000
Ghastly.
431
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,080
I must say, George Stubbs
has done wonders for the place.
432
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,040
He's got good blood in him
somewhere.
433
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
Father a gent and mother a barmaid,
that's my guess.
434
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,400
I see she got her way
with the fortuneteller's tent.
435
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,040
No, no, no!
436
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,080
No, you're trespassing!
You can't come through here?
437
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,960
The youth hostel is that way!
438
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,120
This is private land! Hop it!
439
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,160
This won't do!
440
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,960
Er...Poirot?
441
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,080
Might I meet you in the study?
442
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,080
What's that, Hattie?
Yes, I'll shut it.
443
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,960
I put a padlock on the gate
but they come through the wood.
444
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,480
They don't understand a word I'm
talking about. They jabber on in
445
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,000
Dutch or French or whatever.
446
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,120
One of them was, I think, Italian.
447
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,160
Precisely, yes, foreign.
448
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,040
Will you answer me a question with
the benefit of all your experience?
449
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,080
Most certainly, monsieur, I will try.
450
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,080
Is Michael Weyman after my wife?
451
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,080
Monsieur?
452
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,080
Well, she's behaving damn oddly.
453
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,960
All these headaches
and this constant lying down.
454
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,960
Every time I look at her, there's
Michael bloody WWeyman hovering nearby.
455
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,160
Sorry, I'm just being...pathetic.
But...
456
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,920
If you should see her getting up to
anything,
457
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,960
I mean, anything at all...
458
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,040
...you will let me know?
459
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,920
You look ridiculous.
460
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,880
Everybody, this way.
461
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,880
Come along. Gather round, please.
462
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,960
Now, I declare the garden fete open.
463
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,160
Bravo!
464
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,960
Madame, let us separate.
465
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,080
We shall watch with the peeled eye.
466
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,920
Mr and Mrs Hopper!
467
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,880
This is just like old times!
468
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,960
Isn't it the greatest success?
I've restocked with floribundas.
469
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,000
Just one small bomb would do it.
470
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,000
What about you, ladies?
Would you like to have a go?
471
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,880
Here, sir! It's for charity, sir.
472
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,920
Children's fancy dress!
473
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,080
Form up, please.
474
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,000
You've won! Well done.
Congratulations, sir.
475
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,960
Here's the first clue.
476
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,880
It's a photograp
477
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,080
Work out what it is
and you'll get the second clue.
478
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,040
Good luck.
479
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,080
I see you're enjoying yourself.
480
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,120
It is most horrible, is it not?
481
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,000
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have a new champion!
482
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,000
Little girl?
Un petit cadeau pour toi, hein?
483
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,160
Thank you.
484
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:47,920
Anything?
485
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,960
Non.
486
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,080
As far as I can tell, they're just
enjoying themselves.
487
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,080
How are you?
Good to see you.
488
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,080
Bonjour, mademoiselle.
You come also to the fete?
489
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,920
It is so fun!
490
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,920
My friend comes later
and then we go by bus to Torquay.
491
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,120
You remember my friend?
Oui, I saw her this morning.
492
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,160
Yes, the man was rude.
493
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,160
Now he is polite.
494
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,000
Mademoiselle Brewis.
495
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,080
Someone's made a speedy recovery.
496
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,960
Look, some ice cream!
497
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,040
Madame.
498
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,960
That which you wear on your head,
it is a creation most beautiful.
499
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,040
Like something from the Royal Ascot,
n'estce pas?
500
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000
You will make a long journey.
501
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,040
Possibly by train.
502
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,080
I see a luxurious train.
503
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,960
And great riches will be yours
at the end of your quest.
504
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,920
Madame Oliver told to me that
originally you were to be the victim.
505
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,960
But that you had been snatched from
her by the occult.
506
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,040
I wish I was the body.
507
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,040
Ah, this is exhausting!
508
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,960
Is it four o'clock yet?
509
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,120
I want my tea.
510
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,120
What do you think?
511
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,080
Je crois que vous avez raison. There
is something that is uncomfortable.
512
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,960
A murder hunt is awfully convenient
if you wanted to conceal a murder.
513
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,040
But a murder, madame, requires
a victim. So who is this victim?
514
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,040
This is what we must discover.
515
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,000
I say, seen Lady Stubbs?
516
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,880
She's meant to be judging the
fancy dress. Non.
517
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,080
What's the woman playing at?
I'll have to get someone else.
518
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,080
Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
519
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,000
Sally.
520
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,080
Thank you.
521
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,960
Excuse me!
522
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,000
Is this the house of
Sir George Stubbs?
523
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,080
Oui, d'accord.
524
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,080
I am Etienne De Souza.
525
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,960
Enchante, monsieur.
526
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,960
I am Hercule Poirot.
527
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,000
De Souza, is it?
528
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,960
- George Stubbs.
- Good day to you.
529
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,080
A jolly busy one, actually.
Welcome to Nasse.
530
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,960
And delighted...
delighted to meet you.
531
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,000
- My cousin Hattie is here?
- Yes.
532
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Yes, she is.
533
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,160
You will dine with us this evening,
I hope? Can we put you up?
534
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,080
I will sleep on my yacht,
The Esperance.
535
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Now, where the devil is my wife?
536
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,080
You hang on here
and I'll be straight back.
537
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,920
So it is some time
since last you saw your cousin?
538
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,960
I have not seen her since she was
14 years old.
539
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,080
Then her parents suddenly died
and she was sent abroad.
540
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,920
As a child,
she promised to have good looks.
541
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,080
She is a woman most beautiful,
monsieur.
542
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,080
And...that is her husband?
543
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,960
Oui.
544
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,960
Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
Have you seen my wife, Lady Stubbs?
545
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,080
Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
546
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,960
You haven't seen Lady Stubbs,
have you? Big hat and sunglasses?
547
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,960
She seems to have completely
disappeared.
548
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,080
I feel certain that someone
is going to die.
549
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,040
Lady Stubbs? No?
550
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,040
I saw her last over there.
551
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,960
The world is a wicked place,
Monsieur Poirot.
552
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,120
Have you seen Lady Stubbs? Hattie?
553
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,160
Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
554
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,080
Lady Stubbs, you haven't seen her?
We don't know where she is.
555
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,080
She has disappeared. They look
everywhere. Where can she be?
556
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,080
Did anyone think of the boathouse?
557
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,960
Bon.
558
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,160
It's locked, to make sure
nobody finds the body by accident.
559
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,880
Rather brilliant, don't you think?
560
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,920
Marlene, it's Mrs Oliver.
I'm coming in.
561
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,080
Marlene, you can get up.
It's only me.
562
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,160
Marlene?
563
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,960
Marlene?
564
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,080
That which you have feared
has happened, madame.
565
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,080
Elle est morte.
566
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,080
You don't mean...
567
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,920
You don't mean... Oh!
568
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,120
Marlene!
569
00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:01,720
Marlene Tucker, local girl.
570
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,520
Lift, I got it.
571
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,560
Garrotted with a length of rope.
572
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,720
The doctor says she's still warm.
573
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Dead no more than an hour.
574
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,720
So the killer isn't far away?
575
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:17,560
I daresay. But who'd want to murder
a 14-year-old child?
576
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,560
"Johnny goes with Kate.
577
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,640
Georgie pinchers hikers in the
wood."
578
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,560
Sir George Stubbs.
579
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,560
I'll need a room, sir. And I want to
question both yourself and Lady Stubbs.
580
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,640
Yes, of course, but my wife seems
to have disappeared from view.
581
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,560
I'll find her eventually,
but I doubt she'll be much help.
582
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,560
I feel awful.
583
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,560
Put that in capital letters. Awful!
584
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,720
Because, you see, it's my murder.
585
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,600
I organised it.
586
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,560
I don't usually drink but Poirot
gave me this for the shock.
587
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:56,720
Did you say Poirot?
588
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,720
I don't suppose you remember me,
Monsieur Poirot.
589
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,480
Most assuredly.
590
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,520
It is the young Sergeant Bland,
whom I met...
591
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,560
it is now since 14, 15 years.
592
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,720
In...Gloucestershire.
593
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,640
What a memory.
594
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,640
I cannot for the life of me remember
why I should have wanted
595
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,520
the Yugoslavian wife of a biochemist
to be the victim.
596
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,560
And I wasn't expecting a man in a
yacht.
597
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,560
What man in a yacht?
598
00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,680
He sent a letter to Lady Stubbs
and she was frightened.
599
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,480
- Frightened of what?
- Frightened of him.
600
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,520
And now she's disappeared.
601
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,720
Can you tell me anything
about a man and a yacht?
602
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,560
Oui, bien sur. Etienne De Souza.
603
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,640
The cousin of Lady Stubbs.
604
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,640
Who was afraid of this Etienne
De Souza. Do you know why?
605
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,720
I heard her say he was a bad man.
606
00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,680
Oh. Do you think her fear was real?
607
00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:04,560
If it was not,
she is an actress very clever.
608
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,720
You came ashore in a launch
at Nassecombe Quay.
609
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:12,640
Did you see a small wooden boathouse
on your way?
610
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,720
Yes, had I known it belonged to Nasse
House, I should have come ashore there,
611
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,560
but I didn't.
612
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,560
Did you see any signs of activity?
613
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:22,680
In the boathouse?
614
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:24,560
No.
615
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:28,640
Originally, the part of the victim was
to have been played by Sally Legge.
616
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,720
But one evening, Sally told all our
fortunes
617
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:32,720
and she was thought to be
strikingly good at it.
618
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,520
Someone suggested one of the Girl
Guides could be the corpse instead,
619
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,560
so Sally became Madam Zuleika.
620
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,680
Was Marlene Tucker happy to be the
victim?
621
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,520
Oh, she was thrilled.
622
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,680
I noticed a plate and a glass.
623
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,560
Yes, she had some jam tarts
and a fruit drink.
624
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,560
I took the tray down myself,
Lady Stubbs asked me to.
625
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,560
What time, exactly?
626
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,720
Oh, let's see...I'd say about
quarter past four.
627
00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,560
Where were you between a quarter
past four and five o'clock?
628
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,560
How do you pin it down so exactly?
629
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,640
Miss Brewer saw Marlene at 4.15.
630
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,680
Lady Stubbs asked her to take down
some food and drink to the boathouse.
631
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:13,480
Lady Stubbs asked her?
Hardly think so.
632
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,640
Lady Stubbs's mind revolves
entirely around herself.
633
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,720
Marlene could die of malnutrition
for all she'd care.
634
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,600
At a quarter past four,
Marlene Tucker was alive and well?
635
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Oh, yes. I called out and she opened
the door. She was fine.
636
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,720
Moronic, but fine.
637
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,640
Do you enjoy working for Sir George?
638
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,640
I can't imagine doing anything else.
639
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,600
You listen here, Bland.
640
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,560
You've simply got to do something.
641
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,600
My wife has been missing for two
hours!
642
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,720
I am going half mad with worry.
643
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:48,480
I've got men looking into it. We do
have a murder to deal with, sir.
644
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,720
Let's hope it's not two, then!
645
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:54,640
This is a murder investigation, so
would you answer my question, please?
646
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,560
Where were you this afternoon?
647
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,560
I went to the pub across the river.
648
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,560
Working for these lunatics
has driven me to drink.
649
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,560
How well do you know your cousin?
650
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,600
My second cousin.
I don't know her well.
651
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,480
Yet you just thought you'd pay her
a surprise visit?
652
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,640
Hardly a surprise visit, Inspector.
653
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,640
I wrote to her three weeks ago from
St Malo.
654
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:22,600
I said I hoped to arrive in Nascombe
around about today.
655
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,640
It is hard to be specific on a
sailboat.
656
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,640
Did she reply?
657
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,720
To be frank with you, gentlemen,
658
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:33,480
I don't think Cousin Hattie has the
mental capacity for writing letters.
659
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,720
Though I understand she has grown
into a lovely woman.
660
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,720
- Haven't you seen her?
- No, I have not.
661
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:41,680
Where is she?
662
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,640
She's probably just gone for a walk.
She's a grown woman.
663
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,600
Rather a helpless one,
by all accounts. Yes.
664
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,640
When she wants to be.
665
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,560
Tell me everything you know
about Lady Stubbs.
666
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,560
How would you describe her?
667
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,720
I'd describe her as...ornamental.
668
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:02,560
Like a trefoil or a crocket,
pretty, but...
669
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,640
useless.
670
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,640
- Backward?
- "Backward"?
671
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,600
No. Cunning little minx.
672
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,520
She didn't leave by boat.
673
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,480
The road was closed. I reckon she's
still on the property somewhere.
674
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,720
Why? Nothing to stop her hopping across
the fence and making off across country.
675
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,640
Madam was wearing
"a biascut chiffon dress,
676
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,560
with double rouleau
straps"...whatever that is,
677
00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:34,680
"..a large red hat
and shoes with three-inch heels."
678
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,520
I don't think she'll be doing no
crosscountry run.
679
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,520
She could have changed her clothes.
680
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,520
Her maid says nothing's missing.
681
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:43,680
No suitcase packed.
682
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,560
Nothing.
683
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,720
Lady Stubbs?
684
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,680
- Lady Stubbs?
- Lady Stubbs?
685
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,480
Hoskins, stand the men down.
686
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,480
Uh-huh, very well, sir.
687
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:22,720
Inspector Bland.
688
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,600
Poirot, he should have prevented
the murder of Marlene Tucker.
689
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,680
The least he can do is to find the
killer.
690
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,720
Si vous permettez,
I would like to help.
691
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,640
- Anything?
- Er...no, sir.
692
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,680
I'm sorry.
693
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,720
Sir George, there is something
I should like to ask you.
694
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,680
Did your wife receive a letter
from Mr De Souza three weeks ago,
695
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:47,680
saying he was coming to this
country?
696
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,480
No, we only heard the man was
arriving this morning.
697
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,560
Well, why did she dread seeing him
SO much?
698
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,720
- Blessed if I know.
- Monsieur.
699
00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,560
Exactly what did she say?
700
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,560
She said...
701
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,560
he Kills people.
702
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,560
She couldn't actually say who De Souza
was supposed to have killed, where or why.
703
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,080
But don't tell me he arrives off his
yacht and immediately strangles
704
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,560
a girl in my boathouse.
705
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,640
The door to the boathouse,
it has the Yale lock, oui?
706
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,640
So no one may enter without a key.
707
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,600
So if you permit me to ask,
there are how many keys?
708
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:28,600
Well, three.
709
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,520
One was a clue in a murder hunt,
concealed in foliage at the garden.
710
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,560
The second key was in the possession
of Mrs Oliver. Where's the third key?
711
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,640
It's here.
712
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:43,640
Where...
713
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:46,720
It always is.
714
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:48,720
Do you see what that means?
715
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:51,640
The only people who could
have got into the boathouse,
716
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,640
were, firstly, whoever completed
the murder hunt and found the key
717
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,640
which didn't happen,
718
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,720
secondly, Mrs Oliver or someone
to whom she gave her key
719
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:02,720
which she says didn't happen
and Poirot was with her.
720
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,560
Or thirdly, someone whom Marlene
herself admitted to the room.
721
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,480
But that could be anyone out
of 200 or 300 people, couldn't it?
722
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,560
No, Sir George, because when the girl
heard someone to approach,
723
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,640
she was to lie down and pretend to be
dead.
724
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,720
She was to be discovered by the person
who had found the final clue - the key.
725
00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:23,720
The only other people she could have
admitted when they called to her
726
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,480
from outside were those people
who had organised this murder hunt.
727
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,520
Yourself, Lady Stubbs, Miss Brewis,
Mrs Oliver...
728
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,560
Who else did Marlene know,
Sir George?
729
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,560
Ah, right, erm...
730
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,520
Alec and Sally Legge...
731
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,560
Michael Weyman...
732
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,600
..the Warburtons...
733
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,720
oh, and er...Mrs Folliat.
734
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,640
Sorry.
735
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,480
It is as you said to me yesterday,
madame.
736
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,640
A world that is very wicked.
737
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,480
Well, it's true.
738
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,480
This morning Lady Stubbs,
she also spoke of wickedness.
739
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,640
I shouldn't pay too much attention
to the things Hattie says.
740
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,520
So everyone tells to me.
741
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,720
She has always had the mental age of
a child.
742
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:30,680
As you know such people are not
always accountable for their actions.
743
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,720
In a fit of rage...
744
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,560
- ..they might even Kill.
- No!
745
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,560
Hattie was a gentle,
warm-hearted girl.
746
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,720
She would never have killed anyone.
Never.
747
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,720
Then can you think who might have
killed Marlene Tucker?
748
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,560
No, I can't.
749
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,640
What can you tell me about the
local people?
750
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,640
- Captain Warburton?
- He was working hard at the fete.
751
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:55,680
Mrs Warburton?
752
00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,680
Enid Warburton runs the Girl Guides
and the gymkhana.
753
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:00,640
She's clearly beyond reproach.
754
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,560
And the Legges?
What do you know about them?
755
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,640
They're just holidaying here.
756
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:09,600
Madame Legge, she's a lady most
attractive, n'estce pas?
757
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,640
- Vivacious.
- Qui.
758
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,640
Do you think, Sir George Stubbs felt
the attractions to Madame Legge?
759
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:22,560
Good heavens, no. Sir George is
extremely fond of his wife.
760
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,640
Was it you or Lady Stubbs
761
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,680
who asked Miss Brewis to take jam tarts
down to the girl in the boathouse?
762
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,560
Goodness. All these questions.
763
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,600
I remember Miss Brewis collecting
some cakes
764
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,640
but I don't recall that
anyone asked her to do so.
765
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,720
You were serving in the tea tent
between four and five o'clock.
766
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:40,720
I believe Mrs Legge came in there at
that time for her tea?
767
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,720
No, she didn't.
768
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,720
She was dressed as Madame Zuleika,
remember?
769
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,560
She never set foot in the tea tent.
770
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,640
Sorry it's so late, Mrs Legge.
771
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:57,640
Please, tell me when you last saw
Lady Stubbs.
772
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,720
I think when I came out of my tent
to go and have tea.
773
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,480
I remember her hat.
774
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,560
Massive, wasn't it?
775
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,680
When did you take your tea?
776
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,560
Four o'clock.
777
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,720
In the tea tent?
778
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,560
Was it crowded?
779
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,600
Yes, awfully.
780
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,640
A coach party from Torquay.
781
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:22,720
Did you see anyone you knew there?
782
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,640
Not a soul.
783
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,840
- Good morning, sir.
- Bonjour.
784
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,720
ls there any sign of Lady Stubbs?
785
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,880
No, I do not believe so.
786
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,800
Oh, Monsieur Henden,
tell to me if you please,
787
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,880
for how long a time
have you been here the butler?
788
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,800
Just over a 12-month, sir.
789
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,760
Bon.
790
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,800
Merci.
791
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:06,720
It's an invitation from the
Lord Lieutenant of the county.
792
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:07,840
Mademoiselle.
793
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,880
And Hodgson's written about the
state of the milking sheds.
794
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,800
Damn the milking sheds to hell!
795
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,800
Where is my wife?
796
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,960
Women don't just disappear, do they?
797
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,840
Utter, utter fool!
798
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,720
What on earth possessed him to marry
her?
799
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,880
Eh bien, it has been a marriage
unfortunate.
800
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,760
Disastrous.
801
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,800
All she ever does is spend his
money.
802
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,880
Why, this year alone she's bought
two minx and a Russian ermine.
803
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,920
He's such a...
804
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,720
He's such an innocent.
805
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,920
And she's a sly,
scheming clever cat.
806
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,720
You say "is" and not "was".
807
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,720
She isn't dead.
808
00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,720
She's gone off with another man.
809
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:08,920
She likes men.
810
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,960
She's already made a fool of
Michael Weyman.
811
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:13,880
But Monsieur Weyman,
he designs her tennis court.
812
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,720
Tennis! She wouldn't know
a double fault from a fruit cake.
813
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,720
Weyman tried it on.
She gave him the heave-ho
814
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:22,760
because she's found some one else,
so he has too.
815
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,960
If Monsieur Weyman
no longer pursues Lady Stubbs,
816
00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:27,880
what is it about her
that makes you so suspicious of her?
817
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,880
She meets someone on the sly,
Poirot.
818
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,880
She slips out of the house and into
the woods.
819
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,800
She was out the night before last.
820
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,920
All the yawning and saying
she's too tired for dinner...
821
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,760
Half an hour later
she slips out by the kitchen door.
822
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,800
She's an alley cat, Hattie Stubbs.
823
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,720
It's an unpleasant thing to have to
face.
824
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,800
I'd say we've some kind of psychological
lunatic wandering freely in Devon.
825
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,720
He won't be local.
826
00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:00,720
Somerset, perhaps.
827
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,760
Peutetre.
828
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:05,720
Therefore a question, if you please.
829
00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:10,880
How is it possible for a strange man to
have gained access into the boathouse?
830
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,840
Easy.
831
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,800
She came out.
832
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:16,880
She got bored.
833
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,880
Girls do. Trust me.
834
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,960
The most likely thing is that Marlene
saw Hattie Stubbs being murdered,
835
00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:26,800
so she had to be disposed of too.
836
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,800
Crush her windpipe, drag her back
inside, flick the Yale. Easy.
837
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,880
Oui. Sir George Stubbs believes that
his wife she is still alive.
838
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,800
Men will believe anything.
839
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,880
Look, I like George Stubbs.
840
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,760
He and his wife have done wonders
for Nasse.
841
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:46,880
Amy Folliat has sponsored them,
of course.
842
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,880
And she has influence in the county.
843
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,800
Why, there have been Folliats here
since Tudor times.
844
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,880
"Always been Folliats at Nasse".
845
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,720
Oh, Marlene, Marlene.
846
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,880
Alors, she spies.
847
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:38,720
Oui.
848
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:40,720
She looks and she learns.
849
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,800
But something it is not...en point.
850
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,880
Poirot.
851
00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:55,880
Your brain, it is so slow.
852
00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,800
They've found something.
853
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,720
Is it hers?
854
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:05,920
Let me see.
855
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,760
Christ, it's her hat.
856
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,760
- Where is she? Where's my wife?
- I don't think we'll find her here.
857
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,800
I'll tell you where you will find her.
858
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:15,880
And where's that, sir?
859
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,800
On that fellow's... that fellow's
yacht, Etienne De Souza.
860
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,800
Damn coincidence, isn't it? He turns up
and all bloody hell breaks loose.
861
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,880
I've got a warrant to search your
vessel.
862
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,880
Do you think I'm hiding my little
cousin on board?
863
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,720
I don't think anything, sir.
Rather as I suspected.
864
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,880
You have lost something, madame?
865
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:52,760
Oh, you made me jump.
866
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:53,880
Yes, I have.
867
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,880
Or must one rendezvous when one can?
868
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,720
I don't know what you mean.
869
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,960
Poirot is not a husband, alas,
870
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,960
but...he knows that they can be
jealous.
871
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:14,720
I doubt mine is.
872
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,800
I hoped, when I came down here,
that everything would get better.
873
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:24,720
But it hasn't.
874
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,880
Alec's just...
875
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:30,720
Well...
876
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,960
He's still Alec.
877
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,880
I don't want to live like this.
878
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,720
Non.
879
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:42,800
Have a look here, sir.
880
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,760
- Got something?
- Yes, sir.
881
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,720
This is the jacket
the gentleman was wearing yesterday.
882
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,800
And look what I found in the pocket.
883
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:51,880
What is it?
884
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,720
It is the ring worn by Lady Stubbs
at the time of her disappearance.
885
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,880
It matches Sir George's description.
886
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,720
How do you come to have this,
Mr De Souza?
887
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:02,720
I have no idea.
888
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,840
I've never seen it before.
889
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,760
Maybe you have, maybe not, but it's
grounds enough for me to arrest you.
890
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,760
For what, may I ask?
For being foreign?
891
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,720
For the murder of Harriet Stubbs.
892
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:15,720
For the...
893
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,880
You have no proof at all.
894
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,720
This is meant to be a civilised
country.
895
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,800
We like to think so, sir.
896
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:25,720
Hoskins.
897
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,720
Is this what you were looking for,
madame?
898
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,720
Oh, yes.
899
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,720
Thank you, Monsieur Poirot.
900
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,800
- I must have dropped it.
- Oui.
901
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:50,880
We've got him, Poirot.
902
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,800
Her ring is in the pocket of his
blazer.
903
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,920
That and all the hearsay evidence,
I reckon I can get a conviction.
904
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,800
For the murder of Lady Stubbs,
whose body has never been found?
905
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,880
Well, it was dumped in the river.
It floated out to sea.
906
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:06,880
It'll turn up in time.
907
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,720
No, I'm sure she was killed here at
Nasse.
908
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,240
I closed the roads,
put a man at the quay,
909
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:14,760
checked all the buses and trains.
910
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,800
There was never a sign of her.
911
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,880
No, she was dumped in the river
near where we found her hat.
912
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,760
And Marlene Tucker saw it happening.
913
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,880
So, probably,
De Souza fixed her too.
914
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:28,880
No. It is not Etienne De Souza.
915
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:31,920
Why not?
916
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,760
How did he know where to find her
when his boat, it had only just arrived?
917
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,720
Non.
918
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:39,720
It does not make any sense.
919
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,880
Bonjour, Monsieur Merdell.
920
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,760
Do 'ee want the ferry, sir?
921
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,720
Non, merci. I return today to London.
922
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,880
Poor fella.
923
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,880
Why must 'ee do that?
924
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,800
Because Poirot, he has failed.
925
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:01,880
Because...
926
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,840
Poirot is an imbecile.
927
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,920
Did Hattie Stubbs ask
Mademoiselle Brewis
928
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,960
to take the jam tarts to
Marlene Tucker in the boathouse?
929
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,960
If not, why does she say that
she did?
930
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,960
Is it possible that Mademoiselle Brewis
found Marlene Tucker already dead?
931
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:09,800
In which case,
why does she not report this?
932
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,840
- She is a woman most sensible.
- Unless she killed her, of course.
933
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:14,880
Non. Pas de motive.
934
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,720
Why did Etienne De Souza
lie about writing to his cousin
935
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,720
three weeks before his arrival at
Nasse House?
936
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:28,720
Is it perhaps an attempt to make his
visit appear natural or expected?
937
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,880
Certainement,
Sir George receives him amicably.
938
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,960
Although he does not know him.
939
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,800
Attendez.
940
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,880
Sir George does not know
Etienne De Souza, oui?
941
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,720
But his wife who does know him
does not see him.
942
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,720
So is it conceivable...
943
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:56,800
that the Etienne De Souza who arrives
at the fete is not the real Etienne De Souza?
944
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:02,760
When is his trial?
945
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:03,800
In three weeks.
946
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,720
The jury will take one look at
De Souza and they will convict him.
947
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:09,720
This man will hang.
948
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:10,920
Usually the villains the husband.
949
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,720
Oui. Je sais.
950
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:14,720
This husband, he has the alibi.
951
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,880
There are 200 people willing to testify
that Sir George never left the fete.
952
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,880
But there is someone who knows
what happened to Hattie Stubbs.
953
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,720
Do you think the body's still there?
954
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,720
It appears that she has been thrown
into the river.
955
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,880
But it is possible that
she is in the grounds.
956
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,920
There isn't a priest's hole or
anything like that, is there?
957
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,960
No, I asked this question to
Monsieur Weyman.
958
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,800
He tells to me that the house
is not of the correct period for this.
959
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,960
All the same,
there might be something...
960
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,800
..In the structure
that only the family know about.
961
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,800
But the only member of the family
who is left is Madame Folliat.
962
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,720
Well, she knows everything there is
to know about Nasse, doesn't she?
963
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,800
It is a true thing that you say.
964
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,800
She knows everything.
965
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,880
Par exemple, she knows straight away
that Hattie Stubbs is dead.
966
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,920
She knows even before
the death of Marlene Tucker
967
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,800
that the world it is a place most
wicked.
968
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,720
What is there that she does not know?
969
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,880
Monsieur Legge...
970
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,880
You are leaving Nasse House?
971
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:07,800
Yes.
972
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,800
- Sally's cleared out.
- Non.
973
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,800
With that bastard Weyman.
974
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,880
I do not think she will be as happy
with him as she would be with you.
975
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,720
- You think so, do you?
- Yes, I do, Monsieur.
976
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:19,920
And shall I tell you what else
I think?
977
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,960
I think that your opinions so extreme
have made you impossible to live with!
978
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,920
Your wife, Sally Legge,
she is a woman of loyalty,
979
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,800
but you have pushed her too hard,
monsieur.
980
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,800
You are a man who is very lonely,
very desperate,
981
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,880
and if you had told your wife, Madame
Sally, just how you are so lonely
982
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,800
and how you are so desperate,
983
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,760
she would never have left you
for Michael Weyman.
984
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:44,880
- You don't know how right you are.
- Oui.
985
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,840
- I've been an absolute dummy.
- Oui.
986
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,800
It's politics, eh, Poirot?
987
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:52,840
It's hardly worth losing your wife for.
988
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,840
Non, I do not think they are,
monsieur.
989
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:55,880
Non.
990
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:56,960
What shall I do?
991
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,840
I think what you should do, monsieur,
is to find Madame Sally immediately.
992
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,880
Ask her to forgive you
and beg her to come back.
993
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,840
And Hercule Poirot,
he is always right, monsieur.
994
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,720
- Do you know, I think I will.
- Bon.
995
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,800
And I'll go to the bloody Chelsea Arts
Club and I'll get hold of Michael Weyman
996
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,880
and I'll throttle the ponce with
his ridiculous tie.
997
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:16,880
And if you please, Monsieur Legge,
998
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:19,880
do not actually kill him, hein.
999
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:39,880
Bonjour, madame.
1000
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,720
I feel very sorry for George.
The strain's been very great.
1001
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,880
So Sir George still believes that
his wife, she is alive?
1002
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:02,720
I think he's given up hope.
1003
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,800
He does not say so but...
1004
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:08,720
Of course,
I've hardly seen him lately.
1005
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,800
Spends most of his time in London.
1006
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,960
He's drinking too much.
1007
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,800
I am very tired, Monsieur Poirot.
1008
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,800
I have not much to live for.
1009
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,880
But you have your home.
1010
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,760
Monsieur, I am grateful to George
Stubbs for renting me the lodge
1011
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,840
but I do rent it.
I pay him a yearly sum for it
1012
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,880
with a right to walk in the grounds.
1013
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,920
- The grounds of my ancestral home.
- Oh, je suis desole.
1014
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:43,800
Madame, I do not mean to offend.
1015
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,800
I mean only to say
that this is a place so beautiful.
1016
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,760
It is in fact one of the most beautifu
places I have seen in England.
1017
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:55,760
It has about it the great peace
and the great serenity.
1018
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:58,760
Yes.
1019
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,800
But is there still the same peace
and serenity now, madame?
1020
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:02,840
Why shouldn't there be?
1021
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:06,720
Because a murder, it has gone unavenged
and blood, it has been spilled.
1022
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,880
And here is the smell of it,
drifting across the lawn on the breeze.
1023
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,680
- I think that is quite enough.
- Madame...
1024
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,880
Until the curse is lifted, there will be no
peace at Nasse. You know this is true.
1025
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,800
You know a great deal, perhaps
everything, about the murder.
1026
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,840
You know who killed the girl.
You know why.
1027
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:25,880
You know who killed Hattie Stubbs and
perhaps where the body it now lies.
1028
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:28,880
I have only my suspicions.
1029
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,800
And to speak out on mere suspicion
would be wrong.
1030
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:33,840
Wicked.
1031
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,760
As wicked as what was done here,
it is not since five weeks.
1032
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,760
As wicked as the killing of the girl
who was only 14 years of age.
1033
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,840
Don't talk about it.
It's over and done. It's finished.
1034
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,800
No, madame.
It is never finished with a murder.
1035
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:46,960
Jamais.
1036
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,800
Mademoiselle,
where is Monsieur Merdell?
1037
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:55,880
Grandad?
1038
01:06:56,720 --> 01:06:58,720
He's dead.
1039
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,800
Grandad?
1040
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,840
So Monsieur Merdell was your
grandfather?
1041
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,720
Your grandfather, he was very old.
1042
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:11,720
He didn't die cos he was old.
1043
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,720
He died cos he was drunk.
1044
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,800
He slipped when getting off the boat
one night and fell in.
1045
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,800
Washed up two days later at
Helmouth.
1046
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:21,880
And how do you call yourself?
1047
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:23,920
Gertie Tucker.
1048
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,920
A relation to Marlene Tucker?
1049
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:28,960
Her was my sister.
1050
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,800
So Monsieur Merdell was her
grandfather also.
1051
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:34,800
He got cross at her
when she got the makeup.
1052
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,880
- The makeup, Gertie?
- Loads of lipstick she had.
1053
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,720
And scent.
Hid 'em in her knicker drawer.
1054
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:43,800
Lovely, they was.
1055
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,800
Tell to me, Gertie, how did Marlene
get the money to buy these things?
1056
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,880
- Her see goings-on in the woods.
- Gertie...
1057
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,880
Marlene'll promise not to tell
and they give her money.
1058
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,720
- Gertie.
- But who would give her...
1059
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:07,720
At last, at last.
1060
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,720
Poirot, he begins to see.
1061
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,800
"Come at once.
1062
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,800
Nasse House, Devon."
1063
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:24,800
Mais pourquoi?
1064
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,840
Because it is important, madame.
1065
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,800
I should hope so.
1066
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,920
I was due to give a talk. That's why
I'm dressed in this ridiculous outfit.
1067
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,920
Instead,
I ran for the Express train.
1068
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:36,960
What was the subject of your talk?
1069
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,880
My writing. Pleased not to have to
give it as a matter of fact.
1070
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,760
I mean, what does one say
about how one writes books?
1071
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:45,800
You just think of an idea
and force yourself to write it.
1072
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:48,720
What am I going to say
for the other 59 minutes?
1073
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,800
Madame, your hat...
1074
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:53,720
C'est magnifique.
1075
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:55,720
Oh, thank you.
1076
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:56,920
Jolly expensive.
1077
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,720
Hats are really a symbol nowadays,
aren't they?
1078
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,880
They don't keep your head warm
or shield you from the sun
1079
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,560
or hide your face from people
you don't want to meet.
1080
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,680
I mean, they're just ornamental.
1081
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:10,720
Always you give to me the ideas.
1082
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:18,880
Madame, in your murder hunt you have
as one of your suspects a biochemist.
1083
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:21,840
Do you know a biochemist personally?
1084
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:23,680
Yes, I know Alec Legge.
1085
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,760
And you also know his wife Sally Legge
but she is not Yugoslavian, is she?
1086
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:32,680
So what gives to you the idea of having
a wife who is Yugoslavian for the victim?
1087
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:34,880
Oh, I don't know.
All those youth hostellers perhaps.
1088
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,880
All those girls in shorts.
1089
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:39,880
But, madame, I am most interested in
how you write.
1090
01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:42,840
You are a woman who is most
sensitive.
1091
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:46,800
You are affected by the atmosphere,
by the personalities that surround you.
1092
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,840
These are the inspirations for
your brain that is so fertile.
1093
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,880
So tell to me, madame, when you first
designed your murder hunt,
1094
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,840
did you intend for the body
to be discovered in the boathouse?
1095
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,880
No, I did not.
1096
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:05,720
I intended it to be found in that pavilion.
Tucked away among the rhododendrons.
1097
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,720
But then someone...
1098
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:08,880
I can't remember who.
1099
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,840
..began insisting it should be found
in the folly.
1100
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,880
Well, that was obviously bonkers.
1101
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,680
I mean, anyone could have strolled
in there quite casually.
1102
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:19,880
- I couldn't agree to that.
- Non.
1103
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,960
So you accepted the boathouse
instead.
1104
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,920
And that was the technique that you
described to me on that first day.
1105
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:28,760
The jockeying along.
1106
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,840
One last thing, madame.
1107
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,920
Do you remember telling me
that there was a final clue
1108
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:37,960
on one of the comics that was given
to Marlene Tucker to read?
1109
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,720
Was it something like
"Biddy Fox has a secret den"?
1110
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,760
Good gracious me, no.
1111
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,720
Nothing silly like that.
1112
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:48,840
No, it was a perfectly
straightforward clue.
1113
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,880
"Look in the hiker's rucksack."
1114
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:52,880
Epatant.
1115
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,840
The comic on which that was written
would have to be taken away.
1116
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:56,840
Why?
1117
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:58,960
Because immediatement
it points to the murderer.
1118
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,800
Inspector Bland, you must telephone
to Scotland Yard tout de suite.
1119
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:09,720
- Why?
- Because Etienne De Souza is innocent.
1120
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,720
He is a man of great wealth.
1121
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:13,880
- So what?
- So...
1122
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:15,880
What is his motive?
1123
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,760
- Let me put to you the facts.
- Facts?
1124
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:19,840
What facts?
1125
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,800
The fact that old John Merdell
was the grandfather of Marlene Tucker.
1126
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,760
The fact that Lady Stubbs always wore
those particular types of floppy hat.
1127
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:31,800
The fact that Marlene Tucker had
cosmetics hidden in the back of her drawer
1128
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,880
and the fact that Mademoiselle Brewis
1129
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:38,720
maintains it was Lady Stubbs who asked her
to take refreshments to the boathouse.
1130
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:41,800
You call those facts, do you,
in London?
1131
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:43,760
You prefer the hard evidence?
1132
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:45,800
Such as the body of Lady Stubbs?
1133
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,800
I know where it is hidden
and who hid it there.
1134
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,720
So, if you please to make that
telephone call to Scotland Yard.
1135
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,640
Why did you ask me to come here?
1136
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:28,720
I think that you know, madame.
1137
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,640
Good evening, sir.
1138
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,680
There have now been three murders.
1139
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:52,720
Hattie Stubbs.
1140
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,720
Marlene Tucker.
1141
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,560
And John Merdell.
1142
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,560
Merdell?
1143
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:03,560
That was an accident. He fell from
the quayside. He was drunk.
1144
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,640
No. No, it was not an accident,
madame.
1145
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,640
He knew too much.
1146
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:12,680
He knew all about the Folliat family.
1147
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:17,640
He knew about your husband. He knew
about your two sons who died abroad.
1148
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,560
Only they did not, did they?
1149
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,640
Henry was indeed killed in action
on the Northwest frontier but James...
1150
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:30,560
No, he did not die as you said.
1151
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:36,560
James...who was so brilliant,
so wild.
1152
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:40,720
James, who was also to you
so shaming.
1153
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:46,640
John Merdell told me of him, madame,
and the records have been checked.
1154
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:52,560
What did he do to that young dairy maid
when he was only, what, 14 years of age?
1155
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,560
- You know?
- Oui.
1156
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:58,560
And where did you send him, madame?
1157
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:07,480
South Africa.
1158
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:08,560
Oui.
1159
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,720
You said you never saw him again.
1160
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,600
You heard that he had died
in an aeroplane crash.
1161
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:17,720
You mourned, you said your prayers,
but...
1162
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,520
What then has happened, madame?
1163
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,720
- He came back.
- Oui.
1164
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,720
Because your son, he made the
pretence of his own death.
1165
01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:32,640
And then you learned that he is
pursued by the police in several countries.
1166
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,720
And you agree, and he must have been
SO persuasive...
1167
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:38,720
You agree to give him one more
chance.
1168
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,640
- Just one.
- Oui.
1169
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,600
I believe that you are a woman most
sincere.
1170
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,640
And most moral.
1171
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,520
And I believe that it was from the
best of your intentions
1172
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:58,480
that you did everything you could
to give to your son, who was wayward,
1173
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,560
a new life.
1174
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,720
At that time you had in your charge
a young girl who was sadly subnormal.
1175
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:12,560
But she was rich.
So rich. She was worth a fortune.
1176
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,560
But you gave it out that her parents
had lost all their money.
1177
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,720
And you were advising her to marry a man
who was wealthy and older than herself.
1178
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,600
And who could disbelieve you?
1179
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:30,640
Your lawyers in Paris where you were
living at that time handled everything.
1180
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,720
And Hattie Stubbs,
when she came of age...
1181
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,640
..would sign whatever you put in
front of her.
1182
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,560
And so in the end, Sir George Stubbs,
1183
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,640
the new identity assumed by your son
James,
1184
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,640
became a man who was very rich.
1185
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,560
Rich enough to buy Nasse House.
1186
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,640
And there your plans, they ended,
madame..
1187
01:15:56,640 --> 01:16:00,520
Your son, he was a wealthy man.
He had his ancestral home.
1188
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,560
And Hattie Stubbs, well...
1189
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,560
You could take care of her.
1190
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,720
Ca marche.
1191
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,560
I never dreamed...
1192
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,720
No, you never dreamed that your son
James, he was already married.
1193
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,720
He was married to a girl he met in
Trieste.
1194
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:17,720
A girl of the criminal underworld
1195
01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:20,560
who is determined
not to be parted from your son.
1196
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:22,600
She's a wicked, wicked creature.
1197
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:27,720
But your Hattie knew no-one in
England.
1198
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,480
Good evening, Hattie.
1199
01:16:32,480 --> 01:16:34,480
Come along, my dear.
1200
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,560
When they arrived back at Nasse House
after their marriage,
1201
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,680
all of the servants,
who were new, including the butler,
1202
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,520
barely caught sight of her that first
evening.
1203
01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:49,120
And the following morning, the woman
that they met was not Hattie Stubbs,
1204
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:55,000
non, but this Italian made up to look
like Hattie, behaving as Hattie.
1205
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:56,840
But Hattie, the real Hattie,
1206
01:16:58,160 --> 01:16:59,400
was dead.
1207
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:00,560
She was killed the first evening
she arrived here by your son.
1208
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,560
Oui. By your son, madame,
James Folliat.
1209
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,720
And this plan, it was so clever.
1210
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:14,640
The false Hattie Stubbs over the
years would respond to treatment.
1211
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,640
She would get better and better
and make a full recovery.
1212
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,520
But this Italian
did not convince Mademoiselle Brewis.
1213
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,560
I have a headache!
1214
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,600
Who was herself in love with
Sir George.
1215
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:33,640
But then something unforeseen occurs.
1216
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,640
A cousin of Hattie, Etienne De Souza,
1217
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,640
writes to her a telegram...
1218
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,600
Oh, no.
1219
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,520
telling her he is visiting England
on a yachting trip.
1220
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:46,560
What is it, darling?
1221
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,520
Alors, he would not be deceived
by an imposter.
1222
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:54,680
It is strange, is it not, that although
the thought, it did cross my mind
1223
01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:57,560
that this Etienne De Souza
may not be Etienne De Souza,
1224
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:04,520
it never occurred to Poirot that
Hattie Stubbs was not Hattie Stubbs.
1225
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,480
And there was a further complication.
1226
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:13,480
John Merdell used to...
1227
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,520
What is the word?
1228
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:18,720
..Chatter
1229
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,560
to his granddaughter Marlene Tucker.
1230
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,720
If someone leaves a woman's body
In the woods with no clothes on,
1231
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,640
he's liable to be a sex maniac,
isn't he?
1232
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:32,520
Well, nobody else would listen to him
because they thought he was a little daft.
1233
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:39,640
But he told to his granddaughter Marlene
that Sir George was in fact Master James.
1234
01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:49,520
Alors, Marlene Tucker blackmailed
Sir George for her silence.
1235
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,600
But in so doing,
she signs her death warrant.
1236
01:18:56,480 --> 01:19:01,720
They arrange it so that Marlene Tucker
is killed and Hattie Stubbs goes missing
1237
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:08,640
in such a way, the suspicion it is
thrown onto her cousin Etienne De Souza.
1238
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,560
Hence the references
to him being a man most wicked.
1239
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:14,600
Delighted to meet you at last.
1240
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:18,640
And Sir George,
he plants the evidence.
1241
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:25,560
This Lady Stubbs
was to disappear permanently.
1242
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:30,640
After a period of mourning,
Sir George would rejoin her in Italy
1243
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,720
where they would again be married.
1244
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,640
All that was necessary for her now
1245
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:40,560
was to double the parts for a little more
than a period of, what, 24 hours.
1246
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:46,560
When Hercule Poirot, he arrives,
Hattie Stubbs takes the bus to Exeter.
1247
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:47,600
Afternoon, ladies.
1248
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:52,560
And travelled back in the company of
a youth hosteller she meets on the train.
1249
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,560
You don't mind, do you, sir?
1250
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:56,720
She books into the hostel with this
Dutch girl.
1251
01:19:59,480 --> 01:20:04,480
But by teatime, she is here,
back at her window.
1252
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,600
After dinner she retires early to
bed.
1253
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:11,640
I feel strange.
1254
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:15,560
But Mademoiselle Brewis sees her
slip out of the back door.
1255
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,640
She spends the night in the youth
hostel,
1256
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,720
returns to Nasse for breakfast,
1257
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:29,560
after which she spends the rest of the
morning in her room with her headache.
1258
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,720
She then stages her appearance...
1259
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:36,560
..as a trespasser.
1260
01:20:37,480 --> 01:20:39,640
You can't come through here!
1261
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,720
Sir George shouts to her
from the window of his wife.
1262
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:45,480
What's that, Hattie?
1263
01:20:45,480 --> 01:20:48,560
He turns and even pretends to speak
to her inside.
1264
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:51,560
But she is not there.
1265
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:55,640
No-one would ever dream that these
two women were the same person
1266
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,560
and no-one did.
1267
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,560
And so the final act of this drama,
it is staged.
1268
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,600
A little before four o'clock on the
day of the fete
1269
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:10,720
Hattie Stubbs tells to Mademoiselle
Brewis to take the jam tarts to Marlene
1270
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,600
because she is afraid that Mademoiselle
Brewis may do this independently
1271
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,560
and that would be fatal to their
plans.
1272
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:22,680
She slips into the tent of the fortune
teller while Sally Legge is out.
1273
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,560
And she has a secret rendezvous
with Michael Weyman.
1274
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:32,680
She goes through the back into the
pavilion where she changes into the
1275
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:34,720
costume of a hiker,
which she kept in her rucksack.
1276
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,720
Poirot, he has found the buckle from
the strap.
1277
01:21:44,480 --> 01:21:47,560
And that is why the pavilion,
it was not used for the murder.
1278
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,640
She then goes down to the boathouse,
calls to Marlene to let her in.
1279
01:21:57,560 --> 01:21:59,560
And she strangles her.
1280
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:10,560
She leaves her big floppy hat by the
riverside
1281
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,720
and hastily joins her Dutch friend
on the lawn.
1282
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,720
A little before five,
they take the bus to Torquay.
1283
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:22,720
And a little after five, the police,
they arrive.
1284
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,520
Where she is now I do not know.
1285
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,640
But I am convinced that the police,
they will find her.
1286
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,600
Remember, madame, before they were
not looking
1287
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:37,600
for an Italian confidence
trickster. Non.
1288
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:39,640
They were looking for Hattie.
1289
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,560
Simple, subnormal.
1290
01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:48,560
And dead.
1291
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:50,640
And this you have always known,
madame.
1292
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,600
You revealed your knowledge to me
1293
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,560
when you spoke to me in the dining
room on the evening of the fete.
1294
01:22:56,600 --> 01:23:00,680
You revealed most clearly, although
Poirot he did not see it at the time,
1295
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:02,640
that when speaking of
Hattie Stubbs...
1296
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,680
I shouldn't pay too much attention
to the things Hattie says.
1297
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:09,560
You were speaking of two different
people.
1298
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:14,560
Hattie was a gentle, warmhearted girl.
She would never have killed anyone. Never.
1299
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,640
There remained one problem to be
dealt with.
1300
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,520
The man who knew the truth about
your son.
1301
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,480
John Merdell.
1302
01:23:29,480 --> 01:23:31,720
His death is made to look like an
accident.
1303
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,640
As if he had fallen into the water
while he was drunk.
1304
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,560
But in fact it was murder, madame.
1305
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:44,680
Murder committed by your son.
1306
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:46,720
James Folliat.
1307
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,720
Alors, if you please to come with me,
madame.
1308
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,640
It is a good place to bury a body.
1309
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:09,560
A tree, it is uprooted in a storm.
1310
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:11,720
The soll, it is disturbed.
1311
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:16,560
And very soon, a young lady,
she is covered with concrete.
1312
01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:24,720
And on the concrete,
a folly it is built.
1313
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:28,560
The folly of the owner of Nasse.
1314
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:33,720
Monsieur Poirot, I will face my
punishment, I assure you of that.
1315
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:39,720
But before I do, will you give me
a few moments with my son?
1316
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,640
As a courtesy to an old lady.
1317
01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:50,640
As a courtesy from an old gentleman,
madame,
1318
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,560
I will allow it.
1319
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,560
Bless you.
1320
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,560
Right, let's bring in Sir George.
1321
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,640
If you please to wait.
1322
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,480
I have allowed
Madame Folliat a few moments.
1323
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,560
You've no authority to do that.
1324
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,720
Domage.
1325
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,680
It is done.
1326
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:43,640
Mother. And what are you doing here?
1327
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:50,640
They're digging up the folly.
1328
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:55,720
You know what they will find.
1329
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,600
Ruddy good scheme.
1330
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,680
Almost worked.
1331
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,560
It was like every one of your
schemes.
1332
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:18,480
It was cruel and criminal.
1333
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,640
And it failed.
1334
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,720
You have brought disgrace to the
family name.
1335
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:28,720
The name of Folliat.
1336
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,640
Oh, dear God.
1337
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,640
What am I to do?
1338
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,720
You will do, James,
1339
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:49,640
exactly what I tell you.
1340
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,560
For once, just for once,
1341
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,560
you will obey your mother.
1342
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,560
What put you onto them?
1343
01:27:05,480 --> 01:27:07,480
Intuition perhaps?
1344
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:10,560
Non, madame.
1345
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,720
The deduction.
1346
01:27:14,480 --> 01:27:18,720
When old John Merdell told to me
there will always be Folliats at Nasse,
1347
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:21,680
it was his little private joke.
1348
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:25,640
And Poirot,
he has realised this very late.
1349
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,560
You see, madame,
1350
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:32,720
he knew.
1351
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,680
So now will you release De Souza?
1352
01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:39,560
Yes, all right.
1353
01:27:40,480 --> 01:27:42,480
Time's up. Come on.
1354
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:49,600
What's he done? Quick!
1355
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,560
Follow me!
1356
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:03,640
Bon.
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