All language subtitles for Maigret S01E08 My Friend the Inspector_Track03-eng

(upbeat cheerful music)

- [Marcellin] Another bottle,
Bette, another bottle

- Oh, Marcellin, you'll have to wait.

- Not much longer, eh.

Not much longer. (laughing)

Oh, Emile.

- Get out of here.

- Oh, shh, shh, shh

- Be gone now, Marcellin

- Ah, ah, ah, watch out for the queen

- Get lost, will you?

You moran, get lost!

- Oh, Marcellin, there's my friend

(patrons chattering indistinctly)

Get two more drinks, Philippe

(Ellen giggling)

{crowd applauding)

- Marcellin.

(Ellen screaming)

- Marcellin, Marcellin,
you want to be careful

- Nah, it's other people
that wanna be careful

Yeah, I got a friend, I can get him here

Yeah.

Maigret.

Maigret, Chief Inspector Maigret.

Yes, I can prove it!

Maigret is the name
he'll do anything for me

He's my friend

(gentle music)

{car engine roaring)

- Hello?

Hello, Lechat, you're still there?

Hello?

Hello?

Ah, Inspector

- Ah.

- How did it go?

- It was the husband,

came back to cry over her body.

- Huh?
- Yeah.

- Whew, what a day!

- Lechat just phoned you

- Lechat?

Sergeant Lechat”?

- Inspector Lechat now.

- Is he, where?

- Toulon.

He's phoning from some island,

about a friend of yours called Marcellin

- I haven't got a friend called Marcellin,

what's his other name?

- Paco.

He has a boat, but he's
not exactly a fisherman

Seems you wrote him a
letter some time ago,

then the line went dead.

- Ch, well he'll call again

Pardington.

(coughs) Marcellin Paco, hmm?

Hello, George,

have you got anything on
a Paco, Marcellin Paco?

Yeah, thank you

How's your wife?

- [Lucas] Psst, Monsieur!

- Excuse me.

What?

Oh, I'm sorry.

(phone rings)

Maigret.

Fine, put him through

Lechat, he's calling
now from Porguerolles

Hello, Lechat, Maigret, yeah

Congratulations

On your promotion

Yeah, now what's all this
about a friend of mine

called Marcellin Paco?

Can't seem to place him at all.

- That's odd, he was killed last night.

I said killed.

Because he was a friend of yours

Oh, ng, it's not impossible,

there's no other reason.

No, he had no money, no enemies

Everybody liked him until
he mentioned your name

Well, you listen to this,

we found a letter in his pocket

Ginette leaves tomorrow
for the sanatorium.

She sends her love and
says you'll meet again

Sincerely, Maigret.

- Ginette?

Oh, I don't think it's a forgery

Go down there?

Well, I have to ask the chief.

Tell me, is it raining on that island”

The sun's shining?

Remarkable.

{door thuds)

Yes.

I see.

Thanks.

Oh, we've got something on this Marcellin

Yeah, I'll call you back

- Ah, we've lots of friends like that one

- Yeah.

Age 18, assault and battery, Le Havre.

Age 20, assault and battery, Dieppe

And again

- He's done time.

- He came from a family
of school teachers

should have some education.

Living on immoral earnings,
robbery with violence

Yes, I remember him

Oh yes, I got to know him very well.

{Maigret chuckling)

Oh, Ginette was a thin little
girl, up from the country

She adored this Marcellin.

- He treated her that badly?

- Oh, he loved her so much

Whenever he talked about it,
tears came into his eyes

She had TB.

And when she coughed, she
tried to hide it from him

wouldn't go for a cure

Till he stuck a knife in
someone and got four years

And I sent her off to a sanatorium.

Ah. along time ago

- And now?

- Now, well, it's raining here

(gentle music)

(seagulls squawking)

(waves roaring)

- Is this it?

- Mm-hmm.

Mind your head

- This is his home comfort.

What's this, did you do this”

- No, while the local doctor
was trying to puzzle over

the cause of death,

some genius put a line around
the corpse and rolled it over

They found six bullet holes in his back

The gun is almost certainly in the sea.

- What's this?

- That's new, no one seems
to know what that means.

- Well, he wasn't killed for his property

What did he live on?

- Oh, tourists in the season

Out of season, he caught his own fish,

made a few francs here and there.

People were generous.

He was a character, liked
to see him wandering

in and out of their boats and houses,

doing odd jobs and lying about
his great criminal career.

- Hmm, you sure he had no enemies, huh?

- Not until he mentioned your name

Then I think he had an enemy

I believe someone knew you in that cafe.

Maybe hated you too

I made out a list.

- Are we on it?

- Oh, well, well, well

Yes.

- Oh, how exciting!

Philippe, darling, we're
on the list of murderers.

- Mrs. Wilcox, Chief Inspector Maigret.

- How do you do?
- Hello.

- You've made room for many
murderers in here, would there?

- And this is Monsieur de Moricourt.

- lam Mrs. Wilcox's secretary

- Oh.
(Ellen laughing)

- Oh, did he really lie just like that?

- Poor old Marcellin.

- Lie down, Philippe, let's
see what he looked like.

- I certainly will not

Come on, Ellen, it's far
too much for you in here

- Not for me.

- Then tell me about
the scene in the cafe.

- Oh, Marcellin was trying
to make Phillipe jealous

- And were you jealous?

- Not wildly, no, no

He was a bit drunk, had a lot of wine

And so...
- And so?

- Well, several of us intervened.

But we walked back with
Marcellin, very friendly

All blown over,

or so it seemed.

- Did he come back in here?

- No, no, we left him at the harbour

And Ellen...

Mrs. Wilcox, wanted to
go out in the dinghy.

- It was a wild night, the
mist trail was blowing,

we nearly sank, it was ecstatic

- Did you talk to anyone
else, any fishermen?

- No, no, no

The fishermen have a
special safety system here

They put a lighted candle on the roof

and if it blows out, it's
far too rough for fishing

(Ellen laughing)

- What brings you here just now?

- Oh, healthy curiosity.

- Mm-hmm.

Do you know why he put this here”?

- No, I don't

- Perhaps it's a phone number

- Yeah, but come on, Ellen,

I think we ought to be going now

- I want to be arrested.

I'd love to go to prison

Oh, do come and see me

You'll adore my little art gallery,

all mixed up with dirty glasses

- That boy has interesting
psychological type

Unconsciously, he's
searching for a mother

- A rich mother.

- Oh, she's very rich

- Is it true there were no
other boats out that night?

- Yeah, that's perfectly true

You know, I believe this
murderer is still on the island.

- Right, where do we start looking?

- I think you'll find him in the cafe

- The detective sits there,
and the murderer sits here.

You must help Inspector
Maigret in every way you can

But if you have any private information,

keep it to yourself,

We don't want trouble here.

Now fetch a bottle and one glass

Just a minute,

my apron.

- What's all this fuss”?

- For Marcellin's friend, Maigret

- Whole place turned upside
down for this Maigret

I'm not gonna tell him
the story of my life

- Yes, well, he wouldn't want all of it,

just the first 100 years, eh

(Emile sighs)
{Charlot chuckles)

- Oh, Bette, a seltzer
please, with plenty of ice

- Cne moment, Anna

- It's disgusting the way you young people

go about these days, I don't know

- You should take your
hat off for the lady

- This way, Monsieur.

You must allow me to give
you a glass of our wine

It is from a special bottle

It's an honour to meet you

Run along.

Excuse me, but what do
you carry in this bag?

Fingerprinting sets, chemicals”

- Pyjamas and a clean shirt

- They say it is because
he was a friend of yours,

that someone killed him to get at you

- Who said that?

- Word gets around

If you want to speak to anyone,

I prepared a room through there.

- Thank you

- If you need anything else,

for later on,

I could lend you some swimming trunks

- I don't look my best in swimming trunks

- Bette, take the
Inspector's bag to this room

- Monsieur?

- Gautier. Emile Gautier

- I have to talk to everyone, Monsieur

- Oh, yes. of course

- (chuckles) Hello, Paul

(Charlot chatters indistinctly)

- Oh, Monsieur Paul, he's
sitting in the murderer's chair

- You lived a long time on the island?

- 20 years

- It cost a lot to live here?

- Oh, it costs a lot to live anywhere.

Do you know what I have to
pay for milk and for meat?

- Are you a man of private means?

- Well, I have a family business

- On the island?

- Toulon, Marseilles

- Toulon?
- run it, by telephone

- You've been telephoning for 20 years?

- Oh, my mother used to
telephone and then she died

I don't like the telephone

- You always lived with your mother?

- Yes.

- You were here on Tuesday night, huh?

- Yes.

- You knew Marcellin?

- Well, I don't have
many friends, not now

- Hmm.

Who are your friends?

- Well, I don't know.

I come here to keep in touch

I don't want to drop out

- Is she a friend of yours?

- Anna?

I think she's...

And in public too,

some people would wear a dressing gown,

and at night she swims with nothing on

- How do you know?

- I've, I've seen her

- I don't think you've told me
what your family business is

- My mother owned some clubs,
tourists clubs, quite legal

- What do the tourists do in the clubs?

- Oh, well, they drink and
then they watch a show.

A private show, sort of
strip tease, you understand?

- Yes, I do.

- I don't like it, but
my mother left it to me,

and how else am I to live?

- Hmm.

Have you've got a gun?

- I've never used a gun.

- Your own one?

A very easy thing fo find out.

- But I live alone.

I have a right to use a gun, self-defense.

- Yes, to who?

- Criminals.

But [ don't have the gun now

No, it's lost.

- I want you take off your hat.

- But I was just going-

- Take it off.

What hit you?

- I fell down, I had a dizzy spell.

Oh, I went to a doctor

- On the island?

- I don't remember.

- He'll remember.

- Oh no. no, doctors
are always forgetting

I, I feel dizzy now.

- You better go home and lie down

- Do you mean I can go”?

- Certainly.

- Oh.

Oh, wrell, thank you

Thank you

Yeah, I can go

- Ah, two white wines, Paul,
please, quick as you can

Thank you

Ah. Inspector. (chuckles)

- Charlot Zirha?

- That's right, yes.

- Well, well, I have got
friends here, haven't 1?

What was our last meeting
about, gold smuggling?

- No, burgling the Mexican ambassador

I got three years. (chuckles)

- Yes.

What brings you down here”?

- The weather.

- And?

- My investments.

I own 50 of those up and down the coast.

They do my stealing for me

- Don't the police object”?

- Ch, well, now and again, you
know. they're a bit tiresome

but nothing to signify. (chuckles)

- Hmm, you knevr Marcellin?

- Yes.

But he always kept out of my way.

He was always boasting
about his wicked past

But he didn't dare to when I was around,

he knew he was only an
amateur compared to me

I can't abide amateurs, can you”

I mean you get things like
this murder for instance.

- Do you know anything?

- Only that it wasn't me

I don't Kill.

- Howr long you're here for?

- Well, Lechat asked me to stay.

But then of course, he doesn't know me

as well as you. (chuckles)

- You can go whenever you like

- No, no.

No, no, I think I'll stay

- Why?

- Well you never know

I might be able to drop
vou a hint nov and then

For instance, I could tell you

how old Emile got that bruise on his head

Oh, all right.

Thank you

Thank you, Paul

He got it on in a fight with Marcellin

- What were they fighting about?

- A woman.

(suspensful music)

(gentle music)

- He's coming, what de you want me to say”?

- First thing that comes into your head

- You know what that is.

- Hmm?

Leave them.

- But he'll see.
- A detective is trained

to see only what he's looking for

Put it back.

Where it was.

- He's coming

- Give him a chance to display his idiocy.

- [Maigret] Anyone there?

- Yes, come down please

You're Maigret?

- Mm-hmm
- I'm De Greef, this is Anna,

now ask your questions

- Oh, I intend to

Do you sell your pictures”

- When the need arises.

- Has it arisen recently”

- I sold a canvas to Mrs. Wilcox.

- Did she give you a fair price?

- (chuckles) She always
pays as little as possible

- Is she a friend of yours?

- I met her in Paris last summer.

- And here?

- Oh, she asks us to parties.

She gets a bit drunk.

Makes her feel young again.

- What other paintings
have you sold recently?

- None.

- Your family is able to send you money?

- My father is a banker in Rotterdam

- He supports you, hmm?

- No.

I disowned him, I don't like bankers.

- Excuse me, Mademoiselle,
how old are you?

-18
- She's lived with me

for two years

Her father is a stockbroker.

His idea of heaven is
to overeat in silence.

- You knew Marcellin well?

- He helped me paint the boat

- Did he come down here very often?

- Quite often, yes

- Did you like him?

- He was old.

-Oh, 46

Did he enjoy his life here”?

- Yes, I suppose he did

- Do you enjoy yours?

- Yes
- Even now?

- What are you getting at?
- Are you sorry Marcellin

is dead?

- I'm not answering your questions

I don't like police and
I don't believe in them.

- Did you see Marcellin's body?

- I saw it, yes.

I was there when this old fool of a doctor

wanted to move it.

So I, I painted a line around it

as a sort of memorial.

- What did you want to remember?

- The subject for the painting, this one

- What would you call it?

- Uh...

"Map of Death".

- That isn't your usual style of painting?

- I have phases

- Oh.

What do you think of this phase?

- I'm not gonna be
cross-questioned by you about art

I'm going.

(seagulls squawking)

- You quarrelled with Marcellin

the night of the murder, yeah?

- I swore at him, yes, see

he tried to interfere
in a game I was playing

- Did he talk to anyone in particular?

- How should I know?

Anyway, he had nothing to
talk about, except you

- Yes, I wonder if he
had some special friend

he could trust.

- Excuse me.

It's finished.

Now, may I go?

- Certainly.

- Thank you

You can stay and look round, by all means,

if it gives you pleasure.

{footsteps pounding)

- Inspector?

- Yes.
- Oh. (laughing)

Oh, I thought I could smell your pipe

Are they both out?

- Swimming.

- You know, I can't think who
pays for that sort of stuff

Hmm?

- 189, what does it mean?

- Well, I wish I knew.

- And if you did?

- I'd tell you, of course,
I only want to help

- All right, tell me
the name of the woman.

- Anna
- No, not that one,

the one that Emile and Marcellin

quarrelled over.
- Oh, that one, Ginette.

- Ginette?

She's still alive?

- Ch, why wouldn't she be?

- When I last saw her,
she was a bag of bones

- What? (chuckles)

Come and see her now. (laughing)

- She's on the island?

- No, but she soon will be

She's gone over to Toulon for the funeral

She's coming back to see old Emile

She (clears throat)
works for him, you know

- Where will I find her?

- In the cafe, of course

(laughing) Bag of bones?

Yeah, oh wait

- Thank you, dear

I don't know how it is.

I feel the heat.

Have a cake, Emile

- No, no, no, no, thank you

- You don't eat,

it's bad for your stomach

- I don't have much stomach.

- (laughing) It's true, it's
getting smaller every day.

Some men do exercises, it builds them up.

Emile, you didn't come to the funeral

- Oh, I didn't have the heart for it

- Well, what about these accounts?

- Oh no, I don't have the time, now

No, no, later, later tonight

Oh, hello

- I brought you an old friend

- Inspector Maigret.

- Ginette?

- You've put on weight.

- I've put on...
{Ginette laughing)

- They cured me at that sanatorium,

but they killed my figure

A woman my shape's only good for business

There's no more pleasure

- I'm sorry about Marcellin

- Ch yes, poor Marcellin

I gave him a goed send off, flowers,

and a private car for the girls

- Girl?

- Everyone likes to have a
few cars to see them off.

- What girl?

- Whew, this heat.

I have to change into something loose

Come up to my bedroom and
we'll have a quiet talk.

(all laughing)

- Ginette.

- You knew, psychologically speaking,

you are her father figure.

{Charlot chuckles)
- Thank you

- A bag of bones”?

- Oh, I'm not built
for climbing up stairs

Here, take this dear, and this

Oh dear, oh dear.

It's the bones.

It's like being in & boa constrictor

Oh, zip it.

Loosen them, please dear

Oh, oh, that's better.

Oh, now zip me up

There's a dear.

If I stand, can you do it?

- That's better.
{knocking on door)

- Come in, Inspector
- Oh, Madame

- Don't worry about the
Inspector, he's used te life

Oh.

Are you a very cross with me”?

All the trouble you took to get me cured

And now I have to work for a living.

- What as?

- I'm a manageress, I run a club

One of Emile's clubs.

- Clubs.

- Well, I had to send poor Marcellin

a few francs every month

- So you're still in love with him?

- Love, he changed

He let himself go

He'd even lost the heart for stealing

Still, I never wanted anyone else.

- You should have got married

- Facts are facts.

When a woman passes 40,

the future's all wrinkles and grey hairs.

Whew, there's one now, and another.

Marcellin could never
have kept me, he saw that

At my age, one doesn't marry for love

- Why did you come here today?

- To see you

- Ha!

- And old Emile,

I'm going to marry Emile.

- His rich.

- (chuckles) The richest man
who will ever ask me now

We put it off for years
waiting for his mother to die

She lasted out till 96, the old-

- Marcellin knew about this?

- All along

He accepted it.

He knew I had to arrange for my future.

- Marcellin and Emile had
a fight about a woman

- Don't go on about Marcellin

He didn't blame me about Emile.

He knew [ got to live,

- Yes, that's what he knew

So on Tuesday morning

he thought he could keep you

and that night he was murdered

Do you still want to marry Emile?

- If I leave it much longer,
I shall be past my best

- Marcellin wrote some figures in his hut,

189, hmm?

- If I knew anything
about them I'd tell you

I wouldn't keep anything back from you,

not after what you've done for me

- And if you do know anything about them,

don't tell anyone else either, hmm?

- Good morning, Angel.

Any letters for me?

- No, Monsieur de Moricourt,

you've had your walk for nothing

- Oh, not for nothing, darling.

It's always a tremendous
thrill to see you

- There's a telegram for Mrs. Wilcox.

- Oh, very well, I'll take it

{Philippe laughs)

- Ah, what's in your telegram, darling?

- Oh, your telegram, dear.

-Oh
- It's from your son, Thomas

- I wish you wouldn't.

(Ellen sighs)

- Nowy, now, now

Don't get temperamental, darling.

Remember, Cleopatra was a grandmother too

- That's a lie.

- Yes, I know, but it
was carefully chosen

- You're a most delightful liar, darling.

Don't you think so, Inspector.

- Oh, he's too busy
thinking about murderers

to think about me, aren't you?

- We shall have a talk soon or later.

- Mademoiselle, would you please

get me a priority call to Paris?

- Police headquarters”

- Yeah.

- Toulon?

Toulon?

Ah, Violette, get me
Paris, there's a dear

Police headquarters, priority.

Reverse charge?

I think so, reverse charge.

I knew that a phone at the cafe

would be too public for you

Mrs. Wilcox is a grandmother now

Not that it seems to make
much difference to her

- How do you know that?

- She had a telegram

- I suppose you know
most of the local gossip?

- Well, one can't help hearing things.

Mind you, I'm very discreet.

- And sometimes, I suppose,

you can't help overhearing
telephone calls?

- One has to be sure
that they're connected

- Of course.

- Is there a local number 1897

- No, we did go beyond 62.

- Do you keep a list of calls?

- Hmm, to the mainland, yes

- Thank you

Porquerclles, 36 seems
a very popular number

- Yes, that's the cafe

Most of the phone calls come from there.

It's the only public phone

- So you don't always know who's calling?

- Well, not officially, but I do

That call to Paris yesterday,

was that little crooked
white, Monsieur Charlot.

He was ringing up another crook
about Phillipe de Moricourt

- Saying what?

- That he was onto something big

and he wanted to knows
all the dirt about him.

- Hmm.

Later in the day, there's
another call from Paris

- Yes, they rang him back,

but I didn't hear what they said

because the doctor's wife
came in to post a parcel

- Yeah.

- Ah, number 17,

now that's Monsieur Emile's house.

The number he rings in
Marseilles is that Ginette.

- He calls her every day”?

- It's an over taking

- Someone else rings the same number

- Ah, that was poor Marcellin

- 10 days ago.

Did you do listen”

- I don't listen.

- Did you overhear?

- Well, as a matter of fact, it was funny,

she thought he was drunk, but he wasn't,

not any more than usual

He asked her to get an encyclopaedia,

and she couldn't find one.

So he said, "Well, go to an art gallery

"and find out about a
painter called Vincent

"and where he lived.”

- Vincent, are you sure?

- Certain, there are lots
of painters around here

and I tried to think of one
of that name, but I couldn't

I asked that Dutch painter too

- De Greef, what did he say”

- Oh, rude as usual

"Who wants to know?"

I told him but he wasn't of any help.

(telephone ringing)

- Your call to Paris.

- Hello, Maigret.

Lucas, what's the weather like your end?

Bad luck, it's very hot here.

Yeah, now, I want all you
can find on three people

Yeah, Philippe de Maricourt,
try the smart bars

around the Etoile and the bogus art crowd.

Then Mrs. Ellen Wilcox,
very rich, very English,

very divorced, very desperate, about 50

Oh no, i's no use ringing Scotland Yard

The things that she does

aren't a crime in England either.

And the last one is a young
Dutch painter, called De Greef

I know there are 25,000 painters in Paris,

you'll just have to start at
the Rue de Seine and work out.

And want you to find out what you can

about another painter called Vincent.

Yeah.

That's all, just that, no Christian name

Call me back at Porquerolles, 36.

Au revoir.

Mademoiselle, did Ginette
call Marcellin back

about this Vincent?

- I think so.

She did ring him, but I
didn't hear what they said

because someone came in
to register a letter

But he must have asked us something else

because the next day
she sent him a telegram

I have a copy of it.

- Mm-hmm.

-Hereitis.

- 1890, Ginette

{gentle suspensful music)

Merci.

- Ah, Monsieur Duval

I'm Sergeant Lucas.

- Oh.

- I'm told you know a
painter called De Greef

I said I'm told you know
a painter called De Greef

- Oh, a police officer at the modernist,

let's have your view on this painting

Eh?

It's a question of
interlocking spacial pressures

- You reckon?

Well now, what about De Greef?

- The man or the painter?

- The man.

- Ah, De Greef, (laughing)

he hates the rich for having money,

and he hates the poor
for not having money,

and he hates the middle
classes because, uh,

because they carry briefcases.

He once accused me for
being a bourgeoisie

Me!

Renault held me in his
arms when I was a babe.

- Some baby

- My mother told me.

But he's a good painter.

- Does he sell many pictures?

- With his talent?

He won't sell pictures until he's dead

then he'll get a good price

- What kind of price would he get now?

- Once I put an exhibition
of his paintings on here,

the critics came and then no one,

until the last day,

an English woman bought
a picture for 200 francs

When I told him, he tore all
the paintings off the board

and took them out into the court yard,

and made a bonfire.

He would have burnt the
English woman as well

if he had a chance.

200 francs, and she's rich.

- What was her name?

- He could have burnt the whole place

We had fireman here, engines-

- I said, what was her name?

- Her name?

Oh, her name is Wilcox.

- Wilcox.

Was there a man called
Philippe De Moricourt

with her when she last came?

- Moricourt, wait, wait, wait.

There was somebody here with Ellen

But I'll take a look, I'll take a look,

wait a minute.

M, m, m, m, m, m.

Philippe de Maricourt,
introduced by Mrs. Wilcox.

He admires living painters.

- All of them?

- Yeah, because he can
take 10% on the side,

if Madame buys their work

You can't squeeze
anything from a dead man

- Which brings me to the
point, Monsieur Duval

I'm investigating murder,
I think you can help us

I've got a proposition to make

(gentle music)

(Ginette screams)

(gentle music)
(Ginette breathing sharply)

- Oh, God!

- Is that all, Lucas?

All right

No, no, no, every little helps.

Au revoir.

Oh, Mademoiselle,

I'll be making another
call to Paris later.

Thank you

- Huh, any news?

- Some.
- You were a long time

- Drink?

- White wine.

What did you find out
from your friends in Paris

about Philippe de Moricourt?

- Oh, nothing much

He sponges on old women,

takes their dogs for walks,
buys pictures for them,

you know, that sort of thing.

- Mm-hmm.

You know a painter called Vincent?

- No, do you know him, Paul?

- No, De Greef's the only one

we've had in so far this season.

- Have he and the girl
gone back to the boat?

- Ch, I shouldn't think so yet,

Mrs. Wilcox asked them both
back to her house for drinks

Oh, crumbs here comes that old-

- Ginette, Ginette won't open her door

- She came in early this evening,

rushed straight up to her
room and locked herself in.

I begged her to come
out, but she wouldn't

- She's a fool.

- I forbid you to say that

- Oh, go and eat a bun

- Why is she a fool?

- ‘Cause she knows something
- Charlot.

- Do you know something”?

- No, no.

- You know why Marcellin hit you?

- Because he was drunk.
- Not especially

- Well, he said he was
going to marry Ginette

because he was going to be a rich man.

And then I laughed at him and he hit me

- He was going to be a rich
man because he knew something

but he became a dead man.

- Oh.

Now Ginette knows something

and there are two things she
can do to prevent herself

from being a dead woman

She can tell the police

or she can tell a professional like me

Well, if it's a secret worth
killing for, there must

be money in it

Maybe I could help her
there, but oh, but no,

instead of that, she locks herself

in her room and shakes like a jelly.

Another drink, Paul, please.

(dramatic music)

(glass shatters)

{Ginette screaming)

- Help!

Help!

Help!

(men shouting)

- Help!

Help!

Help!

He was there, his hand
came through the window

He's trying to kill me.

Ohl

Oh nol

- Who was it?

- It's my heart

- All right, outside, please, and you

- Oh, but she's ll

- ll see to it.

Now, Ginette, the truth.

- It's my heart

My pills, there.

- It won't hurt your heart
to tell me who it was

that tried to come through that window

- Thank you

- Nowy, Ginette, where did you go?

- To Emile's, that's all

By the path, around by the rock,

someone tried...

I tripped up.

- What do you know, Ginette?

- Only what Marcellin
asked me to find out.

- About a painter called Vincent?

- Yes, it was so silly

I spent hours searching through books.

And then in the gallery, I
saw a picture painted by him,

signed by him.

But it turned out it
wasn't his Christian name,

it was his surname.

Vincent, just like that.

- What was his surname?

- Van Gogh

He's famous.

- Vincent van Gogh

Tell me about the figures, 1880

- [Ginette] 1890.

- 18907

- [Ginette] The year of his death.

(dramatic music)

(gentle music)

- Oh.

Philippe, bring me a
cigarette, for heaven's sake.

- One of these?

De Greef must have left them.

- Oh, no, not those, they make me cough.

Go down onto the tabac and
get me some proper ones

- You're dressed, why don't you go?

- Oh, you do have such charm
in the mornings, don't you?

- Me?

Why don't you take a look in the mirror?

- What?

- [Philippe] Granny

- Get out.

Take your things and get
out of my house, now!

- Very well,

- All you ever wanted from me is money,

that's all of you, money

Just because I'm alone.

I hate you

- And what did you want from
me that you've never had, uh?

- You're cruel.

{doorbell ringing)

And the servants are the
same, take, take, take

And now someone comes in the morning

and no one's turning up

and the whole place is filthy

- Ah, it's probably De Greef
coming back for his cigarettes

{doorbell ringing)

- And no one will answer
it, I tell you that nowy.

I'll sell this house today
and go somewhere else

{Philippe laughing)

For heaven's sake, dress
yourself and shave

you look disgusting

- May I come in, Madame”?

- Oh, it's very early.

- It's very urgent

- Oh, I'm afraid, the whole
place is rather upside down

We had a little bit of a party last night

and the servants never do
anything unless you chase them

Oh, you don't happen to have
a cigarette by any chance?

- I'm sorry, Madame, I only smoke this

- Oh, then do

Please do, I like the smell of a pipe.

- Philippe

- Yeah.
- For heaven's sake, hurry up

- [Philippe] All right

- That is his room?

- Our room.

If you want something
done well, do it yourself,

if you want it done at all down here.

- Monsieur de Moricourt was
here, the night of the murder?

- Yes.

- And you're prepared to swear

that he never left the premises, hmm?

- Yes, but, but 1, I
wouldn't have to, will I?

Mot in court, I mean

Well, you know

- I know.

I know.

- You think I'm an old fool?

When you're alone and you have money,

vou try to have all
the fun you didn't have

when you were young.

And you aren't young anymore

and the money goes on nothing,

except pictures

I do buy pictures.

Do you like them?

- Hmm
- That's a Toulouse-Lautrec.

{doorbell ringing)

- Mm-hmm
- Oh, no, not someone else

- De Greef, I think

- Coming here at this time in the morning?

- I sent for him
- Well, he doesn't

usually come when he's sent for

- Oh, he's been brought

You mind if I let him in?

- Philippe

- Huh?

- What is it?

What does he suspect”?

- Oh, police always suspect everybody,

except the criminal

Don't worry, you can always
order him out of the house.

Or, shall I do it for you?

- Well, that's rather awkward
for a woman on her own.

- Oh, now don't worry.

You'll sit down there and
I bring you a nice drink

- Philippe, you're such a comfort

You won't leave me, will you?

- Leave you?

Oh, don't be silly, darling

- You said such cruel things

- Oh, yes, but you must allow a Frenchman

to have some temperament, you know

- Not who we expected, Madame

- Monsieur Duval, what on
earth are you doing down here?

- My dear Madame, I came
down on an early plane

- On a holiday?

- No professionally,
you're a wicked woman

- What?

- Buying pictures without my advice

Lautrec, he was a very sick
man when he painted this one

Now let me see.

It was (speaking in French).

I forget his name.

And then it was sold to
a Mr., Mr. Meyer, Meyer,

Rothenmeyer of Chicago.

I'm glad to see it back in France.

How much?

-12,000

- Oh, I would have got
it for less, but not bad.

Nice little Cezanne, you know when he

painted it
- Isn't it rather early

for an art lecture, Monsieur Duval?

- Ch Madame, I, I do apologise

- No, Monsieur, do go on.

Very interesting

- De Greef, my dear fellow,

are you working yourself hard”?

I was just looking at Madam's paintings.

Have you seen this Degas?

- Yes, I have.

- Marquis de Toit had it at one time,

where did you get it?

- Levalier.

- Oh, oh, he's a rouge

But still, I like it

Oh.

Oh, beautiful.

Where did you find this?

- Oh, Philippe ran into it

- Yes, in Toulon.

Will you have a drink, Monsieur Duval”?

- No, no.

It really might be

a Vincent van Gogh

-Butitis a Van Gogh

- Oh, no, no, no

No, this one has been
painted a few months ago

and Van Gogh died in 1880

- But I gave 20 000 for it

- You shouldn't buy
pictures without my advice

- I gave you 20 000

- And you painted it. (laughing)

- Did you try to trap us?

- Oh, he doesn't have to tell
me anything, I know, don't I?

- Yes, you know

And you know also how many paintings

Van Gogh sold in his lifetime

- One.

- Hmm, and died mad

- Frau Wilcox wouldn't
have had him in the house.

Now rich men receive
thousands from even richer men

for every little thing he did

He'd laugh to think that
one artist, at any rate,

made a bit of money from his name

- Oh, he's boasting, there's
not a word of truth in it.

(De Greef laughing)

- Philippe de Maricourt, Jack de Greef,

you are jointly charged with defrauding

Mrs. Ellen Wilcox of 20,000 francs.

- You dirty little sponge

(De Greef laughing)
- Please Madame,

may I have a word with him in here alone?

- You can do what you like with them,

so long as I never see them again

- Madame, you must show me
the rest of your collection

- Sit down,

and you

Take off your tie, remove your shoelaces

- Why?

- Do as you're told

- Well, what about him?

- He has none.

I'll have that.

And the packet, have
you got any cigarettes”

- Only these

- From now on you'll be
told when you can smoke

- Is this supposed to
induce a sense of guilt?

- That wouldn't do either of you any harm

- Well, I admit nothing,

and I refuse to say a word
vithout a lawyer present

I've been charged with
fraud and it's my right

- You may be charged with murder.

- Well, I can't be.

You know I was here that whole evening.

- Hows do I know?
- Mrs. Wilcox has told you

- She may change her mind
under cross-examination

- Even so, there'd be no proof

- But you had a very strong motive though

- To kill Marcellin?

- Yeah.

Because he knew that you had just sold

Mrs. Wilcox that picture,

supposedly painted by
a man who died in 1890.

And he'd just been aboard De Greef's boat,

in time to see him sign
van Gogh's signature

to a picture that he had
just painted, that one

He has another painting
waiting for a signature

- Then why, why question me?

Why not question him?

- Because he knows that you are a weakling

and a coward who will break before I will.

- Okay, then surely I
wouldn't have killed him.

I'd have bought him off.

- Perhaps he asked too much

- Oh, he'd have kept quiet

for 3,000 in cash put under his nose

I told him that, but he

- Oh.

You were so right, Inspector

However, I have an alibi also

- Yes, Anna

I should say she's a truthful girl.

- She will tell the truth, yes.

- Most people do in the end

You ask Charlot, we questioned
him once for 48 hours.

In the end, he told us everything.

- You needn't think you can torture us

- Ne one will touch you

Question, questions, questions

to which you know the answers

That's all, but it's enough

You'll talk first.

- Before him?

- Yes.

- Oh, come on

- Because you don't care what
happens to you or anyone else?

I think you will enjoy
telling me about him

From the moment when he
first approached you,

to your attempt to silence
Ginette last night.

- Mrs. Wilcox will testify

that I was here the whole evening

- And that you're a crawling
little louse, shut up

I think the part that
you'll enjoy telling me most

is how you went to Marcellin's hut

and found him carving the date

of Van Gogh's death on the wall
as indestructible evidence

Then how you drew your
gun and how you shot him,

not once but six times,

for the sheer pleasure
of destroying a man

{door thuds)

- Here, from the harbour master

- I wonder if you do care for anyone

- Anna.

- What?

- Dead
- The doctor is down

in the boat now.

- You've killed her too.

- No, you fool.

- He says it's probably viranol

- She, she had some tablets, yes

- Yes, she must have taken them

when they brought you up here.

- She was afraid of being truthful

Do you want to see her?

- If I can paint her, yes

- Take him to the mainland.

He's charged with the
murder of a Marcellin Paco.

- Well, what about me?

- Yes, you too, come on

Get moving

(gentle dramatic music)

(man laughing)
(cheerful music)

- Ohl

- Ooh, jackpot!

- Oh, that won't do, there
was one 20 minutes ago

Oh, it's being too generous

Oh, no, we can't have that.

Oh, no, no, no

I must stop that.

Oh, Inspector!

- Oh, Inspector, come and join us

- Allow me to buy you a drink, Inspector,

with the money I won for myself

- No, no, it's for you
to buy him one, Emile

- Oh, well, I-

- After all, he saved my life, twice

- Paull
- And what will you do

with your life this time™

- Marry Emile.

- Good luck.

- You really should have a reward.

- Policemen are not
allowed to accept presents

- Unless very tactfully offered

- Inspector.

- Ah, Monsieur Duval

- A small matter, which
I have been entrusted

by Mrs. Wilcox, I have
here De Greef's forgery

He's a painter of very real talent.

Under any name, this would
be a magnificent picture

Do you agree?

- Magnificent
- Now, Mrs. Wilcox

was most impressed by
your courtesy and tact,

and she wonders whether you
would consider taking this

And as you certainly will
see De Greef tomorrow,

she would be most tapered

if you asked him to sign
it and return it to her.

It will increase it's value enormously

So kind of you to accept it

Thank you so much.

- Ah, that's better.

That's how it should be, nothing at all

- Nothing at all.