All language subtitles for Maigret S02E04 The Winning Ticket_Track03-eng

(engine rumbles)

(dog barks)

{door slams)

{suspenseful music)

- [ tried to ring you earlier
from the Cafe de la Bastille,

and then from the top of
(indistinct), near your office,

but they caught up with
me, and I had to go

It was the red headed one.

He's the worst.

I am in great danger, Inspector Maigret!

No, I've managed to get them to slip now

Oh, my name wouldn't mean anything to you,

but Nina, Nina, my wife knows you, and-

(bells ring)

{ominous music)

{phone clanks)

{suspenseful music)

(dramatic music)

(match scratches)

{jovial music)

- At 1:33 on the morning of the 18th,

I was patrolling the Eastern side

of the Place de la Concorde
when a yellow Citroen came past

at the speed of about
50 kilometres per hour

The body of a man was flung from it

and it continued in the direction

of the Pont de la Concorde.

I was unable to ascertain his number.

Upon reaching the body. I
discovered it to be that of a man

who had been stabbed in the chest.

- Oh, he would be a detective yet.

(phone rings)

Inspector Maigret's office. Lucas

I see.

Yeah.

Right.

Good. Thank you

Lapointe says the proprietor
of the Cafe de la Bastille

describes the man who
telephoned you yesterday

as being short, dark, and
wearing a foreign raincoat

- I'm sure it's him.

Anyway, when we get a photograph,

we'll be able to check.

Where's Lapointe now?

- On his way to the other
cafes that this man rang from

I see the doctors
estimate the time of death

at about six hours
before he was thrown out.

- Yeah. And he wasn't
wearing this at the time

Look.

The tear in this is much larger
than the one in the jacket

It isn't even in the right place

- What's that mean?

- I don't know.

And these.

- Lucas, what do you do?

What's the first thing you do

when you get home in the evening”?

- Change my jacket?

Put on an old one.

- Yeah.

So let's say that he went home.

What did the doctors say
that they had to eat?

- Pea soup, Brandade
de Morue, and an apple.

He drank white wine.

- Brandade de Morue?

That's a fairly complicated
dish to prepare at home

So let's say that he
ate out at a restaurant.

Tell Torrance to start checking

on all the small restaurants.

Thursday's a busy night for them

There can't be many who
supply Brandade on a Thursday

- Right. What should I do”?

- Well, you better start checking

on all yellow Citroén in the Paris area.

Find out what they were doing last night,

routine, nothing but a routine

It's all we can do.

We don't know who murdered who or why.

- Good morning, Inspector

{door closes)

monsieur Comeliau.

- Maigret, I have been
appointed examining magistrate

on this concorde affair.

- Sit down, monsieur

- No, thank you

I can't stay no time.

Maigret, the Ministry is concerned

A crime of this nature
in the centre of the city

can affect the tourist trade.

- Oh.

- What are your theories”

- Well, he was stabbed
and thrown from a car

- Isn't there some sort of
his ringing you up yesterday?

- Someone rang me up,

but when we have a photo to circulate,

we should know a little more, monsieur.

Yes. Well I wish to be advised

as soon as any developments occur.

- Monsieur.
- Good day

{door closes)

- Sometimes I wish I was
an English policemen

{Maigret coughs)

(Maigret sighs)

- They have to be nicer to their suspects.

In any case, it's only old Comeliau

who puts his nose in

- Yeah. But in England you
don't have a magistrate

with a part to intervene
hanging over your shoulder

the whole time, asking you questions

I've only begun to ask myself.

They make me sick.

{Maigret groans)

But I am sick.

- Pardon?

{Maigret sneezes)

- Lucas. I've got a cold

Yes. I think it's getting worse

I think I'm going to
have to go home at once

- [Lucas] Do you want to
know of any developments?

- Yes, course

And see that Maitre Emilio is kept informed

- [Lucas] But of course, monsieur

The tourist trade.
(phone rings)

Au revoir.

Inspector Maigret's office. Lucas

Ah, Lapointe

Take a look at the other
cafe, and then come back here.

The patron's gone home.

A cold.

Bronchitis, at the very least.

You can take over for me

and check on all the
yellow Citroén in France

It'll keep you out of
mischief for a while.

What's that?

You shouldn't have joined
if you don't like routine

Good boy

(dishes clink)

- Maigret? Oh, go back to bed.

- Oh, I've been in bed long enough

What's the time?

- Nine o'clock.

I let you sleep in

- Any calls?

- Oh, there's a message from Lucas.

- Oh, goed

No restaurants served Brandade
de Morue on Thursday night

Poor Torrance.

No news of the car, but all
the cafes identify the dead man

as the one who made telephone
calls from them on Thursday

That's something

(phone clicks)

Has the paper come yet?

- It's outside.

- Lucas? Maigret

Oh, it's much better

but we can't take chances, you know?

Well at least we know

that my caller and the dead
man are the same person

Yeah, he said he knew my wife,
and that her name was Nina.

What?

- Yes. He also said that I knew his wife.

{paper rustles)

Yes.

- All right. Let me know if anything else

Au revoir.

(phone clatters)

Thank heaven we're not
living in the north

There's a gang going around,
murdering the occupants

of lonely farm houses with axes

and stealing all the
money that they've hidden

from the tax man.

Look, the butchers of Picardy.

- It's terrible.

- Yeah, especially for the police

Still, keeps us out of the headlines

Here's our man.

{paper rustles)

Page three

- Would anyone recognise him?

- I know. They had to touch
it up a bit to give it life

They've gone too far

You can never tell.
(doorbell buzzes)

I didn't want to see anyone

- [Nina] It'll be the
girl with the laundry

- Oh, well. I'll see her if she's pretty

(Madame Maigret laughs)

- [Comeliau] Is the inspector here”

Comeliau is the name, examining medicine.

Madame Maigret, I presume?

- [Nina] Yes. But-

- Ah, Maigret.

I'm glad to find you at last

- Welcome to my humble home, monsieur

{Maigret sneezes)

- Ch, my poor Maigret

They told me you were ill.

- Oh, nothing, monsieur

Cough or sneeze.

Do sit down.

- Thank you

- Thank you

- Nobody seemed to know
who'd taken over from you

- Taken over what?

- The Place de la Concorde affair.

You haven't forgotten about it?

- Monsieur, I'd never
think of anything else

Only just now I was showing my wife

this picture in the paper

- Which has not yet been recognised

- It's early days yet, monsieur

- Early days?

Here, we have a man killed
in the centre of Paris

and 36 hours later,

we do not know one single thing about him

- Oh, we do. We do

Judging by his clothes,

he was a bit overdressed,

bright socks, bright tie, new shoes.

- Very interesting

- Especially as he had
a plain white shirt on

with a grubby collar and clean cuffs,

and he drank nothing in
all the cafes he visited,

but vermouth cassis.

- Well?

- Well, it's got almost no alcohol

It's used a lot by people
who have to drink it.

Of course, their business,
commercial travellers.

- You think he's a commercial traveller?

- No, monsieur.

I think he ran a small bar,

one of these places where the owner

serves behind the counter,
washing the glasses

has a drink when anyone that comes in

- What are you doing about this bar?

- Well, Lucas' trying
to find and empty one

(phone rings)
You never know.

We may be lucky.

Maigret.

Who? Lapointe?

Yeah.

I see.

Good. Well, carry on as before

- Information?

- Yes. Yellow Citroen was seen by a boy

on the (speaking in a foreign language)

It had broken down

and a man was working on it.

- Maybe a totally different car.

(phone rings)

- Ah, maybe not be

Maigret.

Who?

Ah, Torrance. Oui

Yeah.

I see.

Where was it?

When?

Uh huh.

Now, Torrance. I want you
ta go around the racetracks,

Vincennes, Auteuil, all around Paris, yes.

And ask Lucas to call me, will you?

Yeah.

Au revoir.

(phone clatters)

On the night of the murder, a man was seen

with (speaking in a foreign language)

He made a telephone call
and asked for an envelope

When it came, he put something into if,

sealed it, and addressed it

- Do they know who he is”?

- No.

- [Comeliau] Then, we're
no further forward.

- Well, we know he can write.

(phone rings)

Maigret

- Patron, I found it

It's a little ways just up the

Quai de bercy called Le Petit Albert

The door was open.

I came straight in

The proprietor and his
wife haven't been seen

since the day before yesterday

There's @ woman opposite who
identifies the photograph,

and she says a yellow
Citroen was parked outside

on Thursday evening.

- I see.

So we may expect to see you soon

Goodbye, uncle.

(phone clatters)

Forgive me. Family matter.

Uncle Terfield sends you his love

- Uncle Terfield??

- He's off to Clermont-Ferrand

in the morning.

- Oh.

- May I offer you something
to drink, monsieur?

- Oh, thank you. No

I must go

The public prosecutor wishes to know

how the case is progressing.

I will tell him what you have fold me.

- Well, my compliments, monsieur

- If you wish

- My most respectful complements

- Of course.

- As to yourself, monsieur.

- I thank you

Au revoir, madame.

- AU revoir, monsieur

{Madame Maigret chuckles)

- And remember, Maigret,

this case must be regarded
very seriously indeed

- Oh, very seriously indeed, monsieur

- Good day
{Maigret sneezes)

- AU revoir, monsieur

{door closes)

{Madame Maigret chuckles)

- How could you talk to him like that”?

- I paid him all the respect due to him

- You made fun of him all the time.

- Ah, well

- And who is uncle
Terfield supposed to be”?

- That's Lucas.

- And what are you
looking so pleased about?

- Well, found the name of the dead man

Albert.

- Just Albert?

- No. Little Albert.

There's a bar of that name.

- Couldn't you have told
that to monsieur Comeliau?

- No.

He doesn't like little bars.

I do.

(engine rumbles)

{door closes)

(indistinct)

(dog barks)

(car engine rumbles)

{powder rustles)

{Lucas spits)

{bell chimes)

- Ah, patron

I wasn't sure you were coming.

- When you telephoned me,
we had Comeliau with us.

Had to be a little careful.

Seen anyone?

- No, nothing.

- Was this here when you came?

- Yes.

- Wonder if anyone drink
straight from the bottle

I'll take this back to fingerprint.

- [Lucas] I found a few bloodstains here.

I've been collecting a
bit of dust for the lab.

(bottle clatters)

- Cognac?

- [Lucas] Thank you

Has your cold”?

- Cold? Oh, much better.

Anyone upstairs?

- Well, two bedrooms

I slept in one

The other was bare.

{bell chimes)

- Home again?

Good. Anather (indistinct)

- What'll it be?

{coin rattling)

- Is Albert gone?

- Why did you knows him?

- Know him?

I have a meal here every day

Au revoir.

- Well
{bell chimes)

- Short and sweet.

- Ring up headquarters.

Asked then to send a girl down here,

someone who can cook.

- What for, patron?

- To be your wife

You going to run this place for a day,

see who else comes in.

- My wife?

What about Mimi?

- All right. Goed

Good idea.

- Trust you not to waste an opportunity

(metal scrapes)

- Mimi?

Your favourite man.

(Lucas chuckles)

Now drop everything, come
down to Le Petit Albert,

just off the Quai de Bercy

I want you to do some
cooking and be my wife

Ah ah, only for the day.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Definitely not a proposal

But keep trying

You never know your luck

{spirited harmonica music)

(Lucas chuckles)

All right, little one. But hurry.

The patron is hungry.

She'll be right down.
(bell chimes)

She'll get something
(indistinct) on the way

What did the woman opposite
say about the yellow Citroen?

- [Lucas] It parked outside
about seven o'clock.

Man got out and spent some time in here,

a little time.

They got in and drove away again.

- Alone?
- Yep,

and carrying nothing

- 827W75.

- Yellow Citroen?

- No. Black Simca.

- Is he interested in us?

- Yep yep

{suspicious music)

- I see.

Can you read right through the?

Good boy

Lapointe's been checking
the licencing records

His name was Albert Rochain,

and he'd been here for four years.

- Anything on his wife?

- No, he held the licence

{bell chimes)
- Morning

Ah!

New faces, hey?

Well, what have you got for us today?

- The plat du jour.

- Yeah, I'll have it

- That's not on the
plat du jour, monsieur

{men speek in a foreign language)

- Third on the left.

- Who's he?

- This gentlemen?

My father-in-law

And that was my wife
you spoke to just now

- I hope she doesn't use
as much garlic as Nina did

Not that I mind,

but, well, you gotta think
of other people, don't you?

- Yes. Of course.

Been coming here long?

- A couple of years.

That's the funny thing about Albert.

Going like that without
saying anything to anyone.

- Well, you know hows people
are when buying and selling

They like to keep things
quiet, under the counter

- Not Albert.

He'd tell the whole
wide world his business.

(man grunts)

- Is that for me?
- Hey!

That's my wife

- Congratulations. Not mad at that

Can she cook?

{man laughs)

But what about it then?

Same again

- [Lucas] What about what”?

- Well, it's the custom

- What custom?

What are you talking about?

- When a new management takes
over, drinks on the house

- But of course, monsieur

No profit new.

Come again, I'l fry an egg

- Pardon
{bell chimes)

- Red hair.

- One of them?

- Albert said he was the worst.

- Come in or go out. There's a draught

- Yes, monsieur?

Cognac.

(gun blasts)

{woman screams)

(dramatic music)

(frantic music)

- What's the matter with you?

I'm sorry, patron

It's my leg

He got away.

- Nevermind.

That car
- What about it?

That's the car we saw here the other day

- Yes.

(dramatic music)

Well, I'm glad you won't be
using these things much longer.

No use to me to chase with these.

- At least you get further.

- Anything in the wallet”?

- Money. Plenty of it

12 100 banknotes and 10 for 500.

- Genuine?

- I think so.

- Nice shooting. Yeah

Fourth vertebrae. I'd say instantaneous

{Maigret speaks foreign language)

What does that make him?

- A Czech?

- Well, let's see what
we have on little Albert.

How is the ankle feeling?

- Fine. Got me a big break at last.

- (indistinct) to you.
That's your trouble

Albert Rochain, born (speaking
in a foreign language)

military service, married
Nina Pejare, Toulouse

Known at the Vincennes race track.

Went to every meeting
used to win in a small way

That's all we know.

Where are his friends?

He must have some.

(phone rings)

- Inspector Maigret's office. Lucas

Uh huh.

I see.

Right. Thank you very much.

It was the lab, about the latest victim.

They found traces of manure

and chalk in the welts of his shoes.

They suggest he'd been farming
somewhere in the north

- Farming? If that man's a farmer,

I'll eat turnips the rest of my life

- Carrots are better.
You can see in the dark.

- Farming, hey?

We're still trailing that
black Simca, aren't we?

It had mud on its tyres

Did you notice?

See if you can get a piece
of that mud done in the lab.

- [Lucas] Right.

- I want the post (indistinct),

all Metropolitan post offices searched

for a letter addressed to Albert Rochain.

- The envelope we had in the cafe?

- Uh huh.

- That'd be a good job for Torrance

- Yeah.

I want this in their personal columns

of every morning paper.

Might as well try everything.

- Patron, there's something
written on that one

Pharmacy. It's in pencil.

{Maigret speaks a foreign language)

Must have meant a lot to him.

500 Franc note.

Find out where it is.

Here's the book.

- Now, Maigret.

Have you seen this?

- Oh, yes. I know

I was there.

- A man shot down in broad daylight,

and I have to learn
about it from the press.

- I can't keep anything
like that secret with you

- Secret! Who was he?

- A Czech, probably

- Is that all you know”?

- Our murderer also.

I think he was carrying this

It could have killed Albert Rochain.

- And who was he?

- He was the man who was found stabbed

in the Place de la Concorde.

- More information that never reached me.

But what are you doing about this?

- Trying to find the murderer, monsieur.

- As you must have been
within a few feet of him

when he did the murder,

I should have thought you
could've tried earlier.

- Oh, I did, monsieur. I did

I implored him to stay
but he preferred not to

Of course, Lucas left after
him, but as you'll see-

- No parachute, monsieur

- Where did he go”

- Monsieur, if we knew that.

- Oh, patron

Excuse me, monsieur.

There are two Pharmacie Carliers.

One's at Clesse, the
other's at Place Morais.

- Place Morais.

A Czech, could be

Lucas, if you wanted to
find an illegal immigrant,

where would you look?

Clesse or Place Morais?

- In Place Morais.

- A warren of cheap hotels.

They don't ask too many
questions about passports

or anything else

Go down to four district.

Tell them [ went 12 men
for a house to house raid

in the Morais area.

Have them report to you here at 1:00AM

Our raids start at 2:00.

How's the ankles? Feel all right”?

May take all night.

- It'll keep. Will you be there”?

- Yes, later
- Good.

Goodnight.

- Monsieur, I may have the
answer to your question

in the morning.

- Should you make an arrest,

I trust I should be informed.

- Even if you're asleep, monsieur?

- I shall await your call

Goodnight, Inspector.
- Goodnight, monsieur

- I hope your cold is better

- Oh, much better, monsieur.

But of course I may add
a relapse at any time

- Yes, sir. Goodnight

(engine rumbles)

{door closes)

(engine rumbles)

- Ou es Lucas?

{woman screams)

(troubling music)

- Your hand, it's all right?

- Tame your animals
- Well, you know what it is

- Should be locked up.
- We get all sorts

in this place.

She's a wild one.

- What's the matter?

- She did this.

- What's her name?

- Something foreign

I can't pronounce it.

- Who screamed?

- Woman in the back room.

She bit his hand.

- I told her to get out, and she did this

- Oh, you'll live?

- Who are you?

- Why?

- Papers.

- I don't live here.

I was just visiting.

- John Valour.

Czech?

- French citizen.

I heard a scream.

- Let's have a look at this tigress

All right. On your way.

This is a raid.

(footsteps clop)

- Come on out.

Out of it.

{Maria pants)

(Maria screams)

She's in labour.

Bring a stretcher

Now, don't be afraid.

We're going te take you to hospital

You'll be looked after there.

What's your name?

Do you understand me?

{Maria moans)

Pharmacie Carliers.

Take a look around.

Where do you come from”?

What country?

Polish, Italian?

- Czech.

- What's her name?

- Maria.
- Maria what.

{door knocks)

{Maria grunts)

Be careful with her.

{Maria moans)

- There've been lots of men living here.

- Alot living here nowy?

- No.

{Maria moans)

All right, take her to the hospital

Let me know which one it is.

- Right.

Don't be afraid.

You'll be all right.

{Maria moans)

- Take it easy down the stairs, now

{Maria pants)

- [Lucas] Gently, gently, gently

{door closes)

- Well?

- I don't know anything

- You know plenty

Who is he? Who is she?

Who's been living here? How many of them?

- I don't know.

- Are they in your book?

- One only, the one who
took the room's name.

Serge Madok

- Red hair?

- No, that one's name was Victor

- You do know something

Come on, come on. Talk

You want to come down
to police headquarters?

- I've done nothing

- No, you haven't

Nothing at all about a group of illegal

- Well, how was I to know what they were?

Madok had a passport

The rest just moved in.

- Try again.

How many of them”

- Three men and the woman.

- When did they leave?

This afternoon.

- How?
- One called Carl

came back in a hurry

Had a bit of an argument
and went out the back way

- Howr long had they been living here?

- Six months.

- Did any of them do any work”?

- No.

- What did they do?

- Sat around, played cards,

drank quite a lot

Sometimes they'd sing to the harmonica

- Whose?

- Victor's, the one with red hair.

- Did he have any visitors?

- One man.

- Who?

- Well dress, smart, not French.

He talked their language

- What do they all live an?

- That wasn't my business

- Well it is now, see

I expect they went out
all in a bunch sometimes.

- Yes.

- How often?
- Four or five times.

- For the night?
- Once for two nights.

When they came back, they paid you”

- Yes.
- How much?

- The rent.
- For one person?

- A bit more.
- A bit more. Yeah.

And I dare say you were
told to hold your tongue

By who?
- Madok.

- So you took that money
and you held your tongue

- I was afraid.

- Were you threatened?

- Yes.

Once, when I came in here
just to have a look around,

see if the sheets needed
changing, that sort of thing,

the woman was washing
her shirt in the basin

It had blood on.

- Was this after one of their outings”

- The first

- Now, my friend, the
dates of those outings?

- I don't remember.

- Listen. Two men have been killed.

You know what happens to murderers

It can happen to their accomplices, too

An early morning walk, and a sharp lesson

- I had nothing te do with them.

- Very sharp

- I don't know what they did

- But you know when they did it.

- Oh, can I remember?

The first time was October, I think

- Early or late October?

- I don't remember. It's a long time ago

- The second?

- Maybe it was a month later.

No, it was less.

- It was the end of
October, my anniversary.

I remember now. The 28th.

- The others?
- About every four

or five weeks like that.

Sometimes less.

Always for one night,

except the last time

- When was that?
- The week before last,

Friday and Saturday

- Two nights?
- I'd hoped they'd gone,

but they came back on Sunday moming

- Why did you hope they'd gone?

- Because they were devils

(dramatic music)

- 15 Italians, nine Spaniards,
12 Hungarians, one Albanian,

all without passport

- No importance

- One elicit still, and
two disorderly houses

- I want murderers.

- We may have them.

- May, may, may

We must have them.

- When then inquiry's complete,

we shall know more, monsieur.

- And how long will that take?

- Oh, three, four hours.

- And am I expected to
wait here all that time?

- No, of course not, monsieur

You could always go home

We can telephone you
if we have information

- That would make an interesting change.

And where is Inspector Maigret nowy?

I want to see him.

- Lucas, have the chairs
been dusted this evening”?

We mustn't soil monsieur's clothes.

- I don't want a chair.
I want information.

Have you found the murderer?

- At least three, monsieur

- And where are they?

- I don't know, monsieur

- All this time wasted.

- Not wasted, monsieur

We have their girl

- Ah, and questioned her?

- No, not yet.

Well, she's having a baby at the moment

- I got here into Saint-Antoine

They will tell us when she can talk

- Good.

Excuse me, monsieur.

Lucas, I want you to check
on all unsolved crimes

on these dates.

- In Paris”?

- Anywhere, especially in the north.

- All right.

- And you, where will you go”?

- I think I'l go home to
bed til the hospital calls

- And are you sure that this
girl will lead us to the man

who threw the body out of the car?

- Oh, no.
- What?

- I don't think so.

I think something entirely different.

I don't think it had anything
to do with the murder at all.

- Maigret, do you know anything?

- Yes, monsieur

For instance, I think I know
why the second man died

- Yes?

- Well, he must've known
that we were police

when we were in the cafe.

They thought that he was
going to give them away

So they shot him

Actually, all he wanted was this

{cheerful harmonica music)

- Maigret, I shall be
in my office all day

Should any further developments occur,

kindly report them to me without music

- Monsieur.

(engine rumbles)

- All right. You can come in.

- Thank you.
- But only for a short time

No, not you

- Well, how are you?

Oh, a fine boy

Now, we know that your name is Maria

and that you are a Czech

What else have you got to tell us?

Does she understand what I'm saying?

- Yes. She understands.

Answer him, my dear.

Then, we can send him about his business

- Where are Serge and Carl Madok?

They had to leave you behind, didn't they,

because you were too ill to move?

Well, where'd they go?

Where did they go?

All right

Maybe anywhere except there.

Now, who's the other man,

the well-dressed man who came to see you”

We have the number of his car.

I know we can find him.

- Hal
- Who is he?

- You mustn't speak to her like that.

- She must be made to speak

I'll take her down to the police
infirmary, if necessarily,

and the baby

- Oh, you monster.
(baby cries)

- Maria, for the sake of the child,

will you please tell me
anything you have to?

It'll be less trouble for both of you

{door knocks)

- You can't come in.

- Sorry, I must.

- Did you hear what I said”?

I said you-
- Patron.

I got plenty of news about the crimes

committed on those dates.

- Yeah?
- Outside, please

- No, stay here.

- The first was on October
the third, last year,

a farmhouse near Peron.

It was rifled by a gang
who killed the farmer

and his wife with an axe.

The next was at Montdidier
on October the 28th

where they did the same
thing to a whole family,

including two children

- The butchers of Picardy

- Six raids and all in which
17 people were cut the pieces

- The last one?

- Last Friday week

Again, an isolated farm near
the village of Goderville

The farmer and his wife,

his mother, and the servant
girl were cut the pieces

But you missed the farmer's
daughter, the child

She was hiding in the loft.

She got to the top of the ladder.

She saw her father and her
grandmother laying dead

and the woman, if you
can call her a woman,

was holding a lighted cigarette
against her mother's face

to make her tell where
the money was hidden

- [Maigret] Where's the child nowy?

- Outside.

I got her into a home in Saint-Denis

I brought her along, but-

- Bring her in.

- She's in a very bad
state of shock, Patron

- She won't see anything
worse than she's seen already

{door closes)

- You be a brave girl

No one's going to hurt you.

Patron.

- Nowy, listen, my dear

I want you to look at the lady in the bed

and tell me if you've seen-

{girl screams and cries)

(dramatic music)

{walking stick clatters)

- Ah, monsieur Comeliau.

- Sergeant Lucas, it
should not be necessary

for the mountain

perpetually to come to my habit

- A thousand apologies, monsieur

Ah, the Patron had a message for you.

Well, what a nice stick,
a fine stick, monsieur

- Presentation. What was this message”

- The message. The message.

Oh, yes. That the apprehension
of the remaining members

of the gangs should only
be a matter of hours,

days, or weeks.

- You are not addressing the press

Now, where is the Inspector
Maigret right now?

- On the trail, monsieur.

Hot on the trail.

- With bloodhounds, no doubt

- Probably.
(phone rings)

Excuse me.

Inspector Maigret's office

No, the patron is out.

I see.

Right. Thanks very much

- Well, something new?

- No. An important call about
a stolen motor car, monsieur.

No consequence

- Sergeant?

Oh, my apologies, monsieur.

I assure you, the moment
we have information,

we'll let you know

- That I seem to have heard before.

(phone clatters)

- Get me Chief Inspector
Maigret's home, will you?

Quick as you can.

(phone rings)

- Hello? Madame Maigret

Oh. Hello, monsieur Lucas

Yes.

Yes. I'll tell him.

It can wait until he
wakes up though, can't it?

One moment, please

About a what?

Yes.

Yes. He'll be told as soon as he wakes.

And monsieur Lucas, he told me to tell you

that if you should ring,

you should go home and get some sleep

Au revoir.

(phone clatters)

- Thought I heard the phone

- It was Lucas.

Oh, you've had no sleep at all last night

Why don't you get undressed
and go to bed properly?

- No, I'm going to have a glass of beer

Well, what did Lucas have to say”?

- It was about the black Simca you wanted

Belenged to a girl called Francine Latour

- Who's she?

- She's a dancer at
the Cabaret Mozambique

- Ch. What was her car doing

outside of Petit Albert yesterday marming?

{doorbell buzzes)

If it's Comeliau, you
haven't seen me for years

{glass clinks)

- [Madame Maigret] Monsieur?

- [Man] (indistinct)

- On moment, please

It's a little man, something
about the newspaper.

- Ch, bring him in quick
before he goes away

- [Madame Maigret] Would
you come in, please?

{door closes)

- Hi.

Wait a minute. Let me see.

We've met before.

Fair. Do you know something?

- Lumere.

- Lumere, that's it

You were held on a charge of stealing,

a suspicion of stealing
an English tourist's car

two years ago, right?

- But it wasn't me.

- No, it was your cousin

Well, do you still keeping
a garage at Porte Maillot?

- 1 do. Yes.

- Good. Sit down.

Tell me all about it.

- In this paper, you say you
want to see all the friends

of Albert Rochain at
your house in confidence

- Yes. Complete confidence

- Do you mean that?

- Of course I do.

- Well, I've always kept out
of the way of the police,

and they keep out of my way,

but Albert was a nice little fellow.

I don't see why anybody should rub him out

and get away with it

- Or another 17 innocent people

- Hey?

- The butchers of Picardy

- It wasn't them?

I never knew that.

- Sit down and tell me what you do know.

- If I'd know that,

I wouldn't have had
anything to do with it

That's right.

The news of their murderer at Goderville.

It came out that day we
were af the races, a Sunday

- In Vincennes?

- Yes.

Well, there we were

We hadn't had to good a day,

but I'd want a bit on the last race,

and Albert came up with me to the tote

to collect my winnings

He kept his eyes on the
ground, as he always did

- What for?

- In case anybody had
dropped a winning ticket

Well, there's this man
ahead of us in the queue

with his back to us,

and when he took out his tote ticket,

something else fell on the ground

Albert picked it up.

I said to him, "Is that a winner, Albert?"

He said, "It might be,"

but it wasn't a tote ticket at all.

- What was it?

- Well, I don't know.

Albert didn't let me see it.

But when this man had
collected his winnings,

he followed him off into the crowd.

- Was he alone, this man?

- No, had a girl with him

Ch, she was enough to take
any man's eyes off the ground

Well, that was the last I heard
from Albert for four days

and then on Thursday evening, he rang me

- What time?

- About five o'clock.

Seemed in a bit of a panic

Said somebody was after him

He'd sent Nina, that's
his wife, to the cinema,

and he had to get out of Paris

Would I drive him?

Well, I didn't have a car of my own

- No?

- Well, no, not at the time

But I had got this old yellow Citroen

I'd done it up for resale, you knows?

And although it looked
all right on the outside,

the engine wasn't any good

You know, that's business

Never dreamt I'd have to drive it myself.

- So you broke, yeah?

- Yeah, the petrol pump packed in

Took me two hours to mend it.

- Yeah, that was on

the Quai Henri IV wasn't it?

- Yes, it was

- Yeah. Goon.

- Well, then I went down to the cafe

and there was Albert, laying dead.

- Nowy, telling me exactly
what you did then

- Well, I did what anybody else would do,

finding themselves alone
in a bar with a dead body

I fixed myself a strong drink.

- Did you drink straight from the bottle?

- 1 did.

- Yeah.

All right. Go on

- Well, you know, you wonder

how you're going to get
out of a thing like this

You don't want to get
yourself into any trouble

- Tell me what you did

- Well, the first thing
I did was I found Nina

when she came out of the cinema,

and I told her what had happened

I arranged for her to go to a little place

I know of at Corbeil.

It's on the river, very quiet

- Did she go?

- She did, yes, after she'd cried a bit

Then, I went back to the cafe

Now, look, I know this is going
to seem a bit funny to you,

but it seemed to me the
best way to stop anybody

linking me with Albert's death

was to make it seem as if it
had happened somewhere else

So I put him in the
car and drove off home.

Half way, I pushed him out.

Well, he didn't mind

He was dead.

- Was he wearing a raincoat at the time”

- No, I put that on him to make it seem

as if he was attacked in the street.

I even made a slit in it

so that it'd seem more natural.

- All right.

Thank you for coming along.

- You did mean what you said about this

being in confidence, didn't you?

- Yes, I'm really grateful to you

It solved a lot of problems for me

All I need now is the murderer.

{suspenseful music)

(nurse screams)

(gunshot blasts)

{man shouts)

(gunshots blast)

{baby cries)

{whistle blows)

{baby cries)

(gunshots blast)

{whistle blows)

(gunshots blast)

{whistle blows)

(gunshots blast)

(dramatic music)

- I see.

All right. Thank you

(phone clatters)

- What happened?

- They came to the hospital for her.

Nowy, they're dead

- Is she alive?

- Still alive.

- Will she be tried?

- Yeah.

- The baby?

- That poor baby.

They say that she would have
thrown it out of the window

if the nurse hadn't stopped her.

What are these people,
beasts or something?

If there was a kind of love,

I thought they'd come for her.

{doorbell buzzes)

- Lucas.
- Patron.

- You heard?

- Yes, at the office

Ah, good evening, madame.

- Monsieur Lucas.

- Patron, I brought this

Addressed to Albert Rochain.

Found in the Post in Charenton

- Good.

{paper rustles)

Return half of a first-class ticket

from Goderville to Paris.

- Goderville? In Picardy?

- Yeah Where the last
murders were committed.

Same date, too

- I suppose whoever ever had
that ticket came back by car

- This must be what Albert picked up

at the Vincennes racetrack.

He must've wondered why the
smart man in front of him

should wantto goto a
tiny village in Picardy

Then, he remembered the Picardy murders.

- And he was right. The
ticket was too hot to hold.

- Yes. So he put it in an envelope

and addressed it to himself

so that the gang wouldn't
find him with it.

What was he after?

Blackmail from them or reward from us?

Either way, he was onto a winner

- Either way, he lost

- What sort of creature
employs these butchers?

- There's the answer.

A lab report on the Citroen tyres

The mud in the manure is
the same as they found

in Victor's shoes.

- Do we know where the
black Simea is right now?

- Outside the Club Mozambique

where Francine Latour works.

- Come on.
(phone rings)

All right. Go on

- Hello. Maigret.

It's Judge Comeliau. Where
shall I say you've gone?

- Mozambique

- I'm afraid they've just
left for the Club Mozambique

(engine rumbles)

(gentle music)

- Janine.

(gentle music)

Clear that away ‘cause
they'll be coming in soon

Oh, is that a new hairstyle”

- Yes. Do you like it?

- It's very nice

It's what I always say

Around here, everyone
should look beautiful,

except me. I look smart.

Oh.

Good evening, Inspector Maigret.

- Monsieur.

- House manager.
- Sergeant Lucas

- Hello, monsieur Lucas

Janine, quickly, their
hats and coats, please

A drink. Inspector

I would ask you to eat,

but the house will be in in a minute,

Should we walk to the bar?

The doctor say the
exercise is good for me

Josette, cognac

Well now, Inspector.

Business, I imagine, not pleasure?

- Business.

- To do with my establishment?

- Not really.

- Ah, my cognac, Josette.

- Do you know a girl
called Francine Latour?

- She's on the programme.

- What's she like?

Talent?

- Talent.

What would you do with talent, hey”

She's 21.

She has a mink stool,

motorcar, and some diamonds

- And a lover?

- Like all of them.

- Do you know him?

- I know them all.

- What's she like? Foreigner?

- Like all of them.

- His name?

- Jean Bronsky.

He's a Czech.

About 40, played about in
the film world for awhile,

been inside once or
twice, false pretences,

that sort of thing.

Seems to be doing pretty
well at the moment.

- Hows does he make his money?

- Oh.

Now, Inspector.

That's hardly a question one
gentleman asks another, huh?

In any case, you can ask
him yourself in a minute

He brings the girl to her
dressing room every evening,

and then comes up here and a drink with me

before the show.

Are you taking him?

- For murder?

- Oh.

Well, please do it discreetly and quickly

because house will be in at any moment.

- We could go backstage

- That's a very good idea, Sergeant

Too late.

Good evening, monsieur Bronsky

Good evening, monsieur Marchand

- Monsieur Bronsky

We've met before.

- Oh, yes

Moras.

Moraise
- Yes.

Down there, your name was Varner

- It varies.

- Un armagnac.

- Did you wish to see me?

- Yes. Yes, we have something
that we think belongs to you

We thought you might like to have it back

- No, I don't think so

- You were seen to drop it
at the Vincennes racetrack.

- Seen by whom?

- Two men.

One of them is now dead.

The other will testify that
it came out of your pocket,

fell to the ground, like that,

and then, the dead man bent
down, picked it up, like that

{man whistles)

{men grunt)

- Take him to headquarters.

(Bronsky grunts)

- Filth!

(Bronsky speaks a foreign language)

- Get him out. Get him out.

Come on. Hurry up

(Bronsky speaks a foreign language)

- Let him talk.

Let him get it off his chest.

Isn't very long.

(people chatter)

- Maigret.

(people chatter)

Your wife told me you were here.

I have come to protest
formally against your scandals,

neglecting your duty.

Instead of pursuing this
case with all your images,

all your resources as instructed,

I find you here enjoying yourself.

- Yes, monsieur, very much

- Monsieur.

{upbeat music)

- May I offer you a drink, monsieur.

{upbeat music)

{brush scratches)

{water drips)

(bucket clatters)

{bell chimes)

- Nina, I presume?

- Yes, Inspector?

- You do know me.

- Oh, yes

It's funny. Albert said that
his wife, Nina, knew me,

but I didn't remember.

- Why should you?

I was only 14 at the time.

- Oh.

- I spent a summer holiday with my mother

at the Hotel Beausejour at Dieppe

You and madame Maigret were staying there

- 15 years ago?

- You played table tennis
with me one afternoon.

- I remember. You won.

- Oh, no You let me

So when Albert told me of his trouble,

I remembered you

- Did he tell you everything?

- No, only that there was trouble

- You know it all now.

- Oh, yes

Albert was foolish.

I suppose he'd lost at the races.

Then, he picked up that ticket.

Well, it was a chance

But I don't think he'd
have blackmailed the man.

Albert was very nice, you know

He was too nice to do a thing like that

I can't believe he's gone

- What will you do now?

- Oh, I'l go back to Toulouse, get a job

it'll be all right.

I have some money.

What's the point of it all

with no one to look after?

- No children?

- No.

- You could adopt one

- Would I be allowed to?

- Oh, yeah. I think so.

- A baby?
- Yeah.

As a matter of fact,

I know one who's going to
need a mother very soon

Write to me.

{curious music)