All language subtitles for Maigret S01E10 On Holiday_Track03-eng

(cheerful, carefree music)
{engine humming)

(dramatic music)

(brake rattles)
{dramatic music)

{running footsteps)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic, menacing music)

{match snaps)

(dramatic theme music)

{door clicks)

- Let me take those and
put them in water for you

Our dear patient is
getting better and better

- Hm.

(Maigret sighs)

{Rinquet coughs)

Good afternoon Mademoiselle Rinquet.

- [Madame Maigret] Sit down

- Ah.
- Oh.

(Maigret sighs)
(claps hands)

(chuckles) Oh. my poor Maigret

How have you been filling your day”?

- Well I looked into
the cafe by the harbour

Then I walked over to the fish market.

- To another cafe?

(Maigret chuckles)

(sighs) What did you have for lunch?

- Muscles.

- Oh, muscles again?

Oh I'm quiet spoiling your
holiday with my appendicitis

- Nah.
(bell ringing)

{chair rattles)

- Shh, the nuns

The dear nuns are so quiet,

aren't they, Mademoiselle Rinquet?

- The nuns are quiet.
(bell ringing)

- Oh, I've written a
postcard to Madame Jonvie,

it's on there.

It's a postcard of the hospital

(bell ringing)

Oh, thank you

- (whispers) S'cuse me

- Don't forget to post it
- Mmhmm

(bell ringing)

(Maigret sighs)

- May I take your coat, monsieur?

- Dear nuns are not used to shirt sleeves.

- Oh.

Excuse me, I was just
going to put it on again

Merci.

(Maigret sighs)

I wish you wouldn't knit.

- Offer Mademoiselle Rinquet seme grapes

- [Maigret] Mademoiselle?

- No thank you

{paper rattling)

- [Maigret] Ah

- For mercy's sake, see
the patient in number 15.

- Hm?

- Your pockets are always
full of bits of paper.

- This bit of paper wasn't there.

Have you seen it before?

What is number 15?

- It's a private room with only one bed.

- Excuse me, mademoiselle,
but did you by any chance

see anybody try to put
anything in my pocket”?

- Surely no one would dare

to put anything in a detective's pocket

- Excuse me sister, have
you seen this note before?

- What does it say?

- I think you know what it says.

- You will excuse me, Monsieur.

- I'm trying to discover who
put this note in my pocket

- None of our sisters could
have done such a thing

It would be against the rules.

- Then may I have permission

to speak to the patient in number 157

- You are a relation?

- No.

- The doctor would not like

our dear patient to be disturbed

- May I speak to this doctor?

- At the moment that
would not be possible

- May I speak to the Mother Superior?

- If you wish,

I will try to make an
appointment for tomorrow

- Sister,

what is the name of the
patient in number 157?

Please.

- Mademoiselle Gotra, motoring accident.

- Oh.

- The dear nuns are not used te your ways

This isn't your office

It's a convent.

- Dr. Bellamy is related
to our dear patient

- I hear that you want
to see my sister, Lauren,

Inspector Maigret?

- Please believe that I
have a very good reason

- I will gladly give you my permission

if she recovers consciousness.

- Doctor.

- Excuse me, Inspector

- Here.

- She must be worse.

I wonder if they've
sent for her relatives.

- She's dead. (crying)

(gentle, melancholy music)

{doer thumps)

{door rattles)

- [Dr. Bellamy] What
are you doing with that?

- She's gone, let her picture go too

- She's not even buried.

We may hear more about it before she is

Were there any letters for her?

- No.

- [Dr. Bellamy] Has
anyone come to the house?

- No, Phillip

Trust me, my son.

- [Francais] Chief Inspector Maigret

has called to see you, sir.

- Send him away.

- Ask him in.

- If he drinks, don't
give him the vintage wine

{doer thumps)

- Dr. Bellamy, Inspector Mansuy
said you wanted to see me

- Please be seated, Inspector

Francois, bring in a bottle of
(speaking a foreign language)

I knew you would go fo the local police.

I hate wasting time, that's
why I invited you here

You're curious about my
sister-in-law's death.

What questions would you like to ask?

- Well I'm only on holiday,

I haven't really any right
to ask you any questions

- I have nothing to hide
so I give you the right

and you're welcome to
come here at any time

Will you remember that, Francois?

- Yes sir.

{glass clinks)

- Will you tell me about the accident

- Helene lived with us, she was only 19

I looked on her as a sister.

She was a brilliant girl, basically

Two days ago, I drove her
to a concert at La Roche

She was leaning against the car door,

it swung open, she fell
through, her head hit the road

- Did she give her
version of the accident?

- She never recovered consciousness.

- Hm, were you fond of her?

- This is her photograph

And that's my wife, does
that answer your question?

My wife is beautiful

I never loved another woman,

certainly not Helene.

- Was she rich?

- She had no money at all

Do you still believe that I killed her?

- I believe that you may not
have intended to kill her.

- I've asked for postmortem.

I have to try and stop this
gossip for the sake of my wife

- Has your wife heard the gossip?

- My wife is ill, she's seen no one

{doer thumps)

- No one at all?

- 8he sees me, I look after her

- Alone?

- 1 give her all she wants.

- Mother. this is Chief
Inspector Maigret from Paris

- I never go to Paris

- Howr long has your wife
been ill, Dr. Bellamy?

- Three or four days

- And the accident was two days age?

- My wife Is subject to
bouts of nervous depression

- Do you treat her yourself?

- If she gets worse, I may
have to call in another doctor.

- [Maigret] How is she today?

- The same.

I'l go up

She may be missing me.

{doors rattle)

{quiet, dramatic music)

- Who is that”?

{quiet, dramatic music)

- The pathologist reports
(typewriter clicking)

that the girl's head struck the road

with considerable force.

(typewriter clicking)

She then rolled over

at least

twice

receiving medical bruises

Though no sign of a struggle,

no indication

that she--
(typewriter clicking)

Ah, my dear Maigret

- Are you busy?

- No no no, I'm just
finishing off my report

on the Bellamy affair
please, please sit down

- Mm.

- Now where was I, Sergeant?

Uh, no indication
(typewriter clicking)

that she had received a blow.

Conclusion, accidental death.

There, now it's done

- No.

- No?

Well read the pathologist's report.

- Eh.

- Well, what more do you want”?

- I want to know why
the car door was open

And I want te know what you, as a man,

think of Dr. Bellamy's beautiful wife

- Well I only met her once
- mmhmm.

- I was never invited
back to the house again

Maybe Bellamy could see that
I have a certain attraction

for the opposite sex

He was much older than she was.

- He's very handsome.

Eh, has there been any gossip?

- No, he adores her, she adores him,

she was poor, he gave her everything.

- Who are her friends?

- Friends, oh, she doesn't go out at all

- Has anyone set any eyes
on her since the accident?

- Well I don't see how that can--

- I don't see her.

There's something about
this case that puzzles me

A 13 year old thin little girl

She wears a fairly gotten frock

and uh, has straight blend
hair, parted in the middle

I wish you'd say you know her

- Is that all you know about her?

- Well she's been to the doctor's house

and she wears a little shoulder bag.

- Her name?

- I don't know, but we've got to find her

- Oh now look, Les Sables is
a very small town, Maigret--

- Mansuy, I'm very serious

Now I know that officially
I can't ask you to,

but as a friend, will you
find that girl for me?

- Sergeant?

- [Sergeant] I heard, sir.

Thin, blond, hopeless I'd call it

- Have you got any children, Sergeant?

- Yes sir, two little girls, eight and 10

- Yeah?

Well who knows them by sight”?

- Their own friends,

some of the shops around, school teachers

- School teachers, good idea

and have you got a list of girl's schools?

- Yes, sir

It's holiday sir, they're closed

- Eh.

Oh well, maybe she'll turn up again.

At the funeral, perhaps.

Is anything known about
this chap, Francois,

Bellamy's man servant”?

- He's a Belgian, he'll be
in the aliens list, Sergeant

- 1 know him, sir.

- [Inspector] Yeah?

- There's nothing against
him except an eye that

rolls towards a certain
lady who keeps a fish shop

in the (speaking French)

- (speaks French)

Hm.

- [Inspector] Oh, just a minute.

How long can you give
us to find this girl?

- A few hours.

- A few?

A few hours?

{Popine humming)

(knocking at the door)

{doer thumps)

- Hey--
- You're late.

- It's not by choice

- Ah, made your hair all wet. (laughs)

Oh, what a lovely smell of fish

{Francois protests)
(laughing)

Nevermind my little darling,
I'l dry it for you with this

- You'll get me a drink

- Owl (laughs)

(door clatters)

So,

you don't like the smell of fish, eh”

- Ah, oh!

{pair laughing)
Yes I do

I do honestly, honestly, stop
it, stop it now, stop it.

Look, we'll both drink to
the smell of fish, all right?

Huh, hm hm? (muttering)
(Popine laughing}

(knocking at the door)

- Someone at the door.

- No no no no, there's not, they've gone,

they've gone, they've gone, they've gone

{Popine laughing)
{chattering playfully)

Here we go
{Popine laughing)

Come on, (muttering)
(Popine laughing)

Inspector Maigret

- Oh.

Oh Inspector, we're just
having a little joke

I'm sure you understand.

- I'm sorry to interrupt

Francois, I saw you at
Dr. Bellamy's today

I think you may be able to help me

- Oh there now, Francois, he
hasn't come about you at all

Sit down Inspector,
I've often seen you pass

on your way to have a
drink, have one with us now

- Thank you, Madame Popine

- Oh, call my Poppy and go on. (laughing)

- Francois, there was a little
girl at that house today

- Yes sir.

- Do you know who she is”?

- No sir.

- Well that's not the way to answer,

he wants to know all about it.

- Have you ever seen her before?

- Yes sir.

- Ch Francois, you'd
better have another drink.

We're going to be married you know

Well he's had enough of that house

Oh the old woman's a terror,

they say it's her that's
made the young woman ill

- Was Madame Bellamy often ill?

- No sir.

- Oh Francois, loosen up

(speaking French)

- That's better, now sit down, Francois

Now, Madame Bellamy was
taken ill on Sunday, yes?

- Yes sir.

- Have you been into her room since?

- Me? (laughs)

Catch the doctor letting
anyone in trousers

into his wife's room.

(Popine laughs)

- The accident to her sister,
Helene, was on Tuesday?

- [Francois] Yes sir

- Now when did this little
girl first come to the house?

- That was Monday, sir

She wanted to see Madame Bellamy.

Well, I told her no, not a chance

and then she said to
tell her it was Lucille

So I sent for the housemaid

and she spoke to Madame through the door

and then she said Lucille was to go up

Well the old woman was
having a doubt for once

- And when did Lucille come again”

- [Francois] It was only today, sir,

and the housemaid was
veaiting on the landing

She told me the child was to go up.

- So she was expected?

- Mmhmm.

- Mm, can I use that telephone”

- Yes, help yourself, Inspector

(phone rattles)

- Police station, please

Does the maid know any more?

- No sir, she told me she
didn't understand it at all.

- Mm.

Police station, Inspector Maigret here

Sergeant, look, I want you to
get ahold of Inspector Mansuy

and tell him that the
name of the little girl

that we're looking for is Lucille

Got that, it's important, Lucille.

Bye.
(phone clicks)

Thank you, Popine

- I'lfind her for you, Inspector

Half the town comes to my shop

Give me 'til tomorrow, lunchtime

- Tomorrow might be too late.

- [Man] Yeah.

- Yes
- Yes, that's the one

- Now look--
- It's Duffieux.

- Look. this is very important

- Duffieux.
- Inspector Mansuy, yes

- D-U-F-F-I-E-U-X,
Duffieux, Lucille Duffieux

Yes. I'll look it up straight away

No no no, it must be immediate

Yes, yes

Yes, I can, the car will
be there in five minutes.

Pick Gaston up on the way.

- Now look--
- Yeah.

- If he isn't up, get him up!

(phone clatters)

(Mansuy slurps)

{cup clinks)
Mm.

{coughs) Cold, of course

Sergeant,

if and when Inspector Maigret turns up,

will you tell him the whole story?

See that he gets a car
to come to me here and,

oh, oh Maigret, you received my message

- I heard you wanted to see me

- Yes, well we've uh, we've
found out her surname for you,

it's uh, Duffieux--

- Good
- Lucille Duffieux.

- Where is she?

- If only we'd managed to
find her for you sooner

- Why, what's happened?

- She's dead.

{Maigret grumbles)
(chair rattles)

- How did it happen”

- She was strangled in her bed last night

whilst her mother was
asleep in the other room

(people chattering)

{car door clatters)

(people chattering)

(woman sobbing)

This is Chief Inspector Maigret

- My wife, she saw Lucille,

but I made the coffee, I
took it into her at 7:00

(crying) and she--

- Come sit down for a minute.

Did you hear anything during the night?

- I work, I'm a night watchman.

When I come home, they're all asleep

so I make coffee at 7:00, 7:00. (crying)

- Was Lucille their only child?

- There was a son somewhere I believe.

{doer thumps)

- Has your son been told”?

- Emile, no, he's left us, gone

- Where?

- Paris, he's a good boy, but he's gone

{doer thumps)

- Well Doctor?

- Well she was strangled around midnight,

I'd say between 11:00 and 2:00

I doubt if she even woke up

That's something

I suppose he got in through the window.

- Well it was a hot night,
they were all open, Maigret

- Yes, what else can you tell us, Doctor?

- Well there was no other form of assault,

he simply came, strangled her, went away.

I've done what I can for the mother, but.

Well, you've arranged the personal order?

- We'll get her away now

- Good.

(woman sobbing)

{chair clatters)
(man crying)

{doer thumps)

- The examining magistrate
will be along later.

Are you coming?

- I'll stay for a while.

- Her mother almost died after
she was born. (muttering)

Worse than useless now. (crying)

- Did Lucille ever mention a man's name,

called Bellamy, Dr
Bellamy or Madame Bellamy”

You ever hear the name Bellamy?

Why did your son go away?

- Ch, Emile's a clever boy

- He sent a letter, a
lovely letter it was,

but it broke his mother's heart. (crying)

- Have you got the letter,
can you showy it to me?

- Yes, I think we have got it somewhere

(muttering) (crying) I keep in here

{paper rustling)

- He was a good son, hm?

- Emile is a lovely boy, there

The prettiest little child, he was,

(crying) and then he was a man, so quick

- This town is too
small, trying to get on.

Paris is the only place for me.

Paris, hm?

I understand.

Now he sent this from here on Saturday”?

- Mmhmm.

- Have you heard anything from him since?

- Has Emile sent a letter from Paris?

- It's Lucille's.

- Lottery tickets”

- Mm.

- What for?

- The school fund,

nearly all the boys are
trying to sell them now

- Mmhmm.

One from Matisse,

one from,

one for Bellamy
{dramatic music)

- That's right, thank you.

- Madame, up we get.

- Oh
- There.

That's good

All right

(nun sighs)
{Madame Maigret chuckles)

- I'l manage
- Yes.

There we are.

Will help to keep you warm

- Thank you

- Your husband will be
pleased when he comes today

- Yesterday he didn't come at all

- I'm sorry Mademoiselle, I
didn't quite hear what you said

- It must be a great comfort to you

to know that Monsieur Maigret
is enjoying his holiday

while you're away

- [Nun] Our dear patient has
a little surprise for you

- Huh?

Ah, you're up

Splendid

(Maigret sighs)

{paper rattling)
- Oh lovely, thank you

- Where's that young one?

- Shh.

She's called Sister Marie des Anges.

- Well I want a word with
Sister Marie des Anges

- Oh dear, I don't think
she'll want to be spoken to.

- [Maigret] Hm?

- She's in a very quiet mood

- [Maigret] Since when?

- Since the girl in number 15 died

Oh, offer Mademoiselle Rinquet an orange

- Thank you, orange is
my least favourite fruit

The dear nuns always come when required

- Ch do they?

Have you got a bell?

- Yes, it's by the bed

{bell rings)

{bell rings)

- Ah Sister, I just wanted
a word with you about this

- It's a chart of our
dear patient's progress

- Prepared by you?

- Yes.

- Why did you want me to see
the patient in number 157

I want to speak to you alone.

- Our rule doesn't allow it.

- Can we talk here”?

- Hush.

- Well can you write to me?

- Our rule doesn't allow--

- I suppose your rule
wouldn't let you come down

to the police station--
- Please

- Now you know what I want to ask you--

- I beg you.

Our dear patient is
making excellent progress,

Reverend Mother.

- Reverend Mother,

I would just like to have a few minutes

private conversation with
Sister Marie des Anges

- You know Monsieur, our rule

- There are other things
of importance in the world

- Monsieur, you knows our
rule makes it impossible

for ane of our nuns to speak to you alone

- Do I have to bring an order
from an examining magistrate?

- That is a matter for your conscious,

Chief Inspector Maigret.

Sister Marie des Anges is
young and easily upset.

She's already unburdened herself to me

I prefer to answer your questions myself.

- I have to remind you, Reverend Mother,

that is was not you, but
Sister Marie des Anges

who asked me to see the
patient in number 15

and that patient also was a young girl

- As you insist, you may speak to her

I will instruct her to
answer your questions.

Sister Marie des Anges

(partition rattles)

You are incurring a grave
responsibility, Monsieur,

I pray you may be granted
wisdom and humility

My child, I give you permission

fo speak to Chief Inspector Maigret alone.

- Reverend Mother, I cannot.

- I order you to do so

- Please stay in the
room, Reverend Mother.

- Thank you

Sister Marie des Anges heard the poor girl

say something in her
delirium before she died.

You may repeat what you heard, Sister

- She was struggling

She tried to sit up

She was muttering, "They
mustn't, they mustn't arrest him

"Do you hear, they mustn't."

- [Maigret] And then?

- You may continue

- Her voice was so faint.

She tried to scream, but she couldn't

She said. "She's a fiend,
you mustn't believe her

"It's her fault, the fiend."

May I go now, Reverend Mother?

- Please, what'd she say then?

- Only something about
a silver paper knife,

she kept saying she had it in her hand--

- You may go now, Sister

- You seem very anxious that
I shouldn't hear anymore

- The patient was delirious

She said things I cannot
possibly ask a nun to repeat

in a man's presence

- What were these things?

- She spoke of the love a
man may feel for a woman

That is a subject our rule
forbids us to discuss

Now, I'm sure you must want
to see our dear patient

- Hm?

Oh, you mean my wife, yes.

Thank you, Reverend Mother

(cork pops)

- [Dr. Bellamy] Two glasses, Francois?

- You told me Inspector
Maigret was coming, sir

- Ah yes, Maigret.

- Excuse me, sir, it's
the housemaid's day out

- Well?

- [Francois] Shall I take
Madame Bellamy her lunch, sir?

- No no, I'll take it myself.

- [Francois] Will you be
lunching with Madame, sir?

- No
(phone rings)

{doer thumps)

{match snaps)
(fire hisses)

{door rattles)

Come in, Maigret.

I hope you're having an aperitif.

- Thank you

- Excuse me, sir?

- What is it, Francois?

- Howry many for lunch downstairs”

- You'll stay to lunch?

- Thank you, no

- Then there's only one, sir

- Your mother doesn't lunch with you”

- She's not in today

- (clears throat) How's your wife today”?

- Slightly better, thank you

- You haven't called
in another doctor yet?

- No, I don't think that
will be necessary now

- Dr. Bellamy,

you invited me to ask you
any questions that I chose,

do you mind if I alsc ask
your wife a few questions?

- I'm sorry, she's not
well enough for that

- Mm.

Then may I ask your servant,
Francois, a question?

- Francois,

oh yes, certainly

You see, I'm willing to
play this game "il the end

- You still think it's a game”?

- Do you want to see Francois alone?

- No, I prefer you to be present.

- Francois, I give you my permission

to answer Inspector Maigret's questions

{doer thumps)

- Monsieur.

- What happened to the paper knife?

- This one, sir?

- No, that's an ivory one,
where's the silver paper knife?

- It's gone, sir

I swear I didn't take it.

- I, I didn't notice it had gone

- It might be in one of the drawers.

{keys clinking)

- How long has it been missing?

- I cleaned the silver on Tuesday, sir,

and I'm certain it
wasn't there on Tuesday

- Tuesday, after the
day of the accident, hm?

Thank you, that's all, Francois.

(draw rattling)

Yesterday, a little girl
called Lucille Duffleux

came to this house.

Today that child is dead

- Oh?

- Why'd she come here”

- To see my wife, I believe,
she's very fond of children.

- How many people have seen your wife

since she was taken ill?

- My mother, she's out today.

The housemaid, but she's not in either.

{door clicks)

- What would you say if I were to insist

on asking your wife a few questions?

- I would have to refuse.

- Huh, and then may I see the
housemaid when she gets back?

- Uh she's gone away for the weekend

- Ah.

Is it Francois then that's
listening outside the door?

- [Dr. Bellamy] Odette!

- 1, I heard voices

Who are you”?

Why are you here?

- You must come back to bed.

- [Odette] What's he doing here?

Is it about Helene?

- Yes, it's about Helene,
but it's all settled now.

They know it was an accident.

Now--
- Please,

tell me about the accident.

- No, I'm too ill.

Too ll.

All the same, she loved him.

I know it was an accident.

- Now come to bed--

- Please Madame Bellamy,

what made you ill?

- I was,

I was tired.

- Yesterday, a little
girl came to this house

She sent up her name, Lucille,
and you agreed to see her

- Yes, I agreed

- Why did she come?

- She, she came to sell me
lottery tickets for the school

- She was selling lottery tickets twice”

- Yes! (sighs)

(dramatic, gentle music)

- Lucille, Lucille, Emile's
little sister, dead

One of the best boys we
ever had on the paper,

his little sister gets killed

It's a scoop!

One of the best we ever had.

Oh, (sighs) I wish we
did not have this scoop

I continue.

I am hard.

So what will Emile say?

Ah, my poor Emile.

Continue.

- Continue?

- Please.

- Oh yes, well the murderer left no trace,

no one saw him and no
one knows the motive.

- He was mad. he's a maniac,

I will expose him in my paper, eventually.

- Oh sure.

Well just put down that we
expect to make an early arrest

and that's all.

- Well your statement
will be given prominence,

I assure you, full prominence

Uh, ah Maigret

Ah, at last

- Who's he?

- That is the editor of the local paper.

Lucille's brother, Emile, worked for him

- [Maigret] Call him back, please

- Oh Georget!

- Huh?

- [Mansuy] Just a minute.

Inspector Maigret would like
a word with you, Georget

- Enchanted, Monsieur

- Did Emile Duffleux
leave you without warning?

- He sent me a letter, admirably written,

graceful handwriting, a model of its kind

Ah, that boy will tum
out well, you'll see

- Let's hope that I do

- Oh, but you don't understand, Inspector,

he's a good boy, honest,

and absolutely determined to get on

Already, at 19, he has
had little pieces accepted

by the Paris papers.

Ah, what talent, and looks too

I was once just such a
young man, just like Emile

- Did he like women?

- Who can say?

But they liked him, I can tell you that.

Whenever he used to come into the office,

the little girls would
carry on like film stars,

but Emile never even
noticed them. (chuckles)

He'll get on

- What was his daily routine?

- Well he'd spend all the
morning collecting news

He'd be in here say at 11:00,
at the town hall at 12:00.

- Mansuy, could you find out from them

if he every came in here
at a different time?

Ill try

- I could write and ask him,

but he only left a Poste Restante address.

- Thank you, Monsieur,
you gave me a good idea

- Ah, Monsieur.

(Maigret sighs)

- Ah, I want Paris,
please, criminal justice.

Allright, call me back

(phone clatters)

I asked for Paris, did you get anything?

- Oh they're trying,
but the secretary's out

- Maybe the town hall would know

if he always came in at 12:00

We've got to know.
(phone rings)

- Wish I knew why

Sergeant, try the town hall, will you?

See if they have anything on--

- Paris?

- Emile--
- Criminal justice.

Maigret here, is that Torrance?

Ah, Luca, good

Look listen, I want you to
go over to Poste Restante 26

Ah, (mutters) I think

And see if there are any
letters for an Emile Duffleux.

If there are, have the place watched.

Yes, it's about a murder

Yeah, now listen,

at 5:00, take the letters anyway,

call me back here at
police headquarters, south

Yeah.

Yes, oh, I'm having a marvellous holiday

Yes, my wife's getting
better all the time.

It'll be over soon.

Au revoir.

- We'll keep trying, Sergeant.

Are you having Emile Duffleux arrested?

- Mansuy, scmeone else in this
town is gonna be murdered

- Someone else, who?

- I don't know.

God, it could be happening now,

if it hasn't happened already.

(dramatic, gentle music)

(fish thumps)
(plate clatters)

- Did you find the brute?

Oh the poor child

Oh, that man who did
it, I'd like to skin him

and feed him to the cat.

- Popine, do you know Madame Bellamy?

- Oh, I do--
- Speak, yeah”

- Trout, she's in here everyday,

searching for fish eggs
to feed the servants with.

- No no, not that one,
the young one, the wife

- They say she's beautiful

Ha, yes, I know her.

- To speak to”?

- Ne, but I've seen her pass

- Often?

- Oh not every day, about
once or twice a week.

- Which way does she go?

- Well sometimes that way, sometimes this

- Mmhmm.

She doesn't do the household shopping?

- (laughs) That's the old witch's job

- (sighs) I wonder if she
ever goes to a public library

along here, do you ever
see her carrying any books?

- Never seen her carry anything at all

- Yeah, she wouldn't leave
that house without a reason

and the reason is
somewhere In this street.

In the laundry, they've seen her pass

The chemist, they know well by sight

Around the corner, she's not known at all

Do you ever see her come past
here and then go back again”?

- Yes.

Yes!

- Has she gone back right away?

- Oh, I couldn't put a time to it,

about an hour, I'd say.

- Let me use your phone again, huh?

- Yes.

Yes sir.

It's Inspector Maigret,
sir, about Emile Duffleux.

- I don't know how he knew.

Thank you

Hello, Maigret, yes”?

Yes, you were quite right
about Emile Duffleux.

His time to get here was 11:00.

Yes, he always came at that time

whether there was anything doing or not.

Mmhmm.

Except sometimes, they're
not quite sure how often,

he'd come after lunch.

Yeah.

Mmhmm.

Yes, if there's a call from Paris,

where will you be?

(phone clatters)

If he's not at Dr. Bellamy's,
he'll be at the fish shop

- Oh lovely little bream, little beauty,

you wouldn't get them fresher

if you dived to the bottom
of the sea yourself for them

Oh, what clothes

If I've got the time
the shape and the money,

I'd wear clothes just like that.

- Popine, what sort of clothes
does Madame Bellamy wear”?

- Oh the best.

- What shop does she go to?

- Shop, she doesn't go to
a shop, she has a maid

- Does she?

Is there a dress maker
shop on this street?

- That's it!

That's where she goes, to Madame Olga's!

{Lucas whistling)

{Lucas knocking)

(Lucas whistles)

- Well, what is it?

- Remember me?

- I can't be expected to remember

everyone that comes in here

- Ch come come, you disappoint me,

concentrate then perhaps you will.

- Oh yes, yes you're the police officer.

Well I'm not working for the police,

I've got other things to do

- They'll have to wait

What about the letters?

- For DuPont?

- For Duffleux, Emile Duffleux

- No, they haven't been collected

Duffleux or no Duffleux
I'm closing in 10 minutes

- Where did you say the
telegram phones were?

- Hm, over there

- [Maigret] Thank you

- I have a paper, signed,
giving me authority

ta collect some letters for my son

- Letters, for Emile Duffleux?

- No, for L'Gaugh, Antoine L'Gaugh

- There are nothing for
L'Gaugh, no L's at all

- You prized pumpkin,
why did you say Duffleux?

If you did that to obstruct the police,

you're in real trouble!

- It's a slip of the tongue

- Slip of the tongue, come on,
give me the Duffleux letters

Come on come on, I'm in a hurry

- Two letters and a telegram

- There's your receipt.

Watch that tongue of yours,

I'll come back and tie a knot in it.

{bell rings)

- Monsieur?

- Mademoiselle Olga?

- Yes, but--

- Inspector Maigret, criminal justice

- I'm sarry, but I don't know the name.

- Is Dr. Bellamy's wife
a customer of yours?

- Why ves, but actually I
regard her more as a friend

- Comes here twice a week?

- I have no idea.

I'll look it up in the morning

- Look it up now

- But I told you already,
Odette and I are friends,

she comes here whenever she feels like it.

- Does she feel like it twice a week?

- Very possibly

You smoke?

I'm afraid I've only got Black Russian.

- Thank you, no

(lighter clicks)

Why does she come here so often?

- She orders clothes.

- She doesn't come here
only to see about clothes

- Delicious smell. don't you agree”

- Mademoiselle Olga, there
have been two sudden deaths

in this town, I'm anxious
to prevent a third

- Bit of dramatic, aren't you”

Two, who was the second?

- Lucille Duffleux.

- That little girl, oh no

- You knew her?

- No, no I didn't know
her, I'd just seen her

- How did you know her name?

- Well I must have heard it.

- From her brother, Emile?

- Brother?

I don't know a brother.

What are you accusing me of?

Odette comes here to
order clothes, that's all

Please leave me now.

- Leave you?

Lucille knew less than you and she's dead

I found you just in time

- Would you mind going out the back way,

I can't have a scandal.

- But you're gonna have a
scandal and a very big one

{bell rings)

You expecting anyone?

- No.

- Still want me to leave?

- No.

- Open it then.

- But where--
- I'll be in there.

- Are you Olga?

- [Olga] Yes

- I've come to pay a bill

Do I have to tell you what it is?

- For Madame Bellamy's new clothes?

- Yes, i's for Madame Bellamy

- I've, I made it out.

It's for 3,000 franks

(Olga gasps)
- Your charges

are too moderate for
the service you offer

- Ch but Madame Bellamy--
- But you don't

call her Madame Bellamy

- [Olga] No, I call her Odette.

- Howr long have you known each other?

- [Odette] We've been friends for years.

- So it wasn't to have her
clothes made that she came here.

- [Olga] Well sometimes we like to talk--

- To talk,

a woman like you would be sure to talk

I can't deny it.

Talk now, tell me everything

and then we'll have no more words.

Go on, talk!
- Maigret!

- I haven't touched her, Maigret.

And now you'll have more questions

- [Clga] Don't answer
anything, he doesn't know

We needn't have a scandal.

- Call me Paris please, headquarters.

(phone rings)

How many more have you had to kill?

- No more.

These are all that knew.

- There's always one more, you know

What about your mother,
where is she today?

- My mother, no, she
knew, but she loves me

- Maybe one day you would
have thought she knows,

but does she love me enough, and then?

- I haven't done anything

There's nothing you can prove

- Inspector.

- We'll see.

Lucas, I want Lucas.

- Thank you, Lucas

Ah, patron, I've been
trying to contact you

Yes, there was mail for Emile Duffleux,

a letter from his sister,
telegram from his father

to say his sister had been murdered,

and one other letter from
a woman named Odette.

The letter from Odette, yes,
it's here, I'll read it.

Gh darling Emile,

I couldn't believe you'd
gone to Paris without me

It wasn't possible, but yesterday,

your little sister came, she told me too

My head kept saying
all that too were lies,

but my heart says Emile loves me

and I still believe my heart.

I'll skip the next section,
it's rather personal,

then it goes on, you there?

- Yeah, these mornings in
Olga's were all too short

I need a thousand minutes in every hour.

Yeah, anything else?

Anything with names?

- Names, uh here we are, Philip, as usual,

keeps me locked up

I've asked Lucille to come back today

She's gonna post this letter.

That's the lot that you've sent for me

and I'll escape and come, Odette

- Yes, it's quite true,
they used to meet here

Nowhere else to go

It was so innocent.

Used to stand on the
street to watch her pass

For months, she wouldn't speak or look

and then they met

They knew at once

- So poor Lucille posted a letter

and you killed her, why?

- My wife's good name

- You wouldn't kill a child
to save your wife's good name

But you might,

(phone ringing)

police station please

Would Emile go to Paris
and leave Odette here?

- l can't believe it.

-Nordol.

Police station?

Mansuy, Maigret.

Mansuy, I want you to search
the house of Dr. Bellamy

for the body of Emile Duffleux.

(phone clatters)

You'll have to come with me now.

- Give me a minute,

just one minute

- [Maigret] You killed him

with a silver paper knife, didn't you?

- I found his letters.

He was meeting her that
night to take her away

I gave her a drug

When he came, I brought him in

What could I do?

I thought that was all I had to do,

I didn't know about the rest.

- [Maigret] So first your
sister-in-law heard something?

- When she found the paper knife,

I put it in the car straight away

I don't know who opened
the door of the car.

I don't remember now.

You can tell 'em, Emile's
body is under the stones,

in the cellar.

(Bellamy sighs)

- Come on
- No!

I want to say goodbye to Odette

I love her.

Just to tell her that.

- I don't think she'd want to see you now

(dramatic, gentle music)

- Well it's been nice here.

- Mm.

- But I'm glad you were busy

That poor little girl in number 15

- She loved him, you know

His mother loved him foo.

As it turned out, even
the housemaid loved him..

And he didn't have the
one thing he needed

- And what was that?

- His wife didn't love him.

(pair chuckles)

{gentle, twinkling music)