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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:05:53,834 --> 00:05:56,584 (Indistinct chatter) 2 00:06:07,376 --> 00:06:09,792 (Speaking Turkish) 3 00:06:14,709 --> 00:06:16,751 Madam. Madam. 4 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:19,667 - Madam. - Madam. 5 00:06:19,792 --> 00:06:21,751 (Ship's horn blows) 6 00:06:27,167 --> 00:06:29,417 (Whistles tune) 7 00:06:29,542 --> 00:06:32,792 - Your ticket, please. - Oh, yes. 8 00:06:32,917 --> 00:06:34,626 Welcome aboard, Miss Debenham. 9 00:06:34,751 --> 00:06:35,751 Thank you. 10 00:06:35,876 --> 00:06:40,626 (Man) 'Bosphorus ferry will shortly depart from Istanbul Sirkeci Station, 11 00:06:40,751 --> 00:06:44,042 'connecting with the Orient Express.' 12 00:06:45,917 --> 00:06:48,334 Ah. Here's your ticket, Monsieur Poirot. 13 00:06:48,459 --> 00:06:49,977 I'm afraid you've still got another hour. 14 00:06:50,001 --> 00:06:51,542 Then please do not wait. 15 00:06:51,667 --> 00:06:54,876 Not wait? Huh! After all you've done for us, Monsieur Poirot? 16 00:06:55,001 --> 00:06:56,876 Ha-ha! Oh. 17 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:59,959 Er... my general's orders were to ensure your safe departure. 18 00:07:00,084 --> 00:07:01,484 He also wished me to thank you again 19 00:07:01,584 --> 00:07:05,251 for saving the honour of the British Garrison in Jordan. 20 00:07:05,376 --> 00:07:08,376 The Brigadier's confession was opportune. 21 00:07:08,501 --> 00:07:09,959 I say, how did you do it? 22 00:07:10,084 --> 00:07:12,167 Was it the old thumbscrew? You know, the wrack, huh? 23 00:07:12,292 --> 00:07:15,042 - Hm. - Yes. 24 00:07:15,167 --> 00:07:17,667 Well, you'll be able to rest as soon as you get to Stamboul. 25 00:07:17,792 --> 00:07:19,376 Mm. 26 00:07:19,501 --> 00:07:25,209 The, er... the Church of Santa Sofia is absolutely magnificent. 27 00:07:25,334 --> 00:07:27,292 You have seen it? 28 00:07:27,417 --> 00:07:28,792 No. 29 00:07:31,376 --> 00:07:33,501 Come on. 30 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:37,667 Move! Come on. 31 00:07:37,792 --> 00:07:39,751 Get up. Come on. 32 00:07:41,251 --> 00:07:43,251 Chop-chop. 33 00:07:45,917 --> 00:07:48,792 (Horn blows) 34 00:07:48,917 --> 00:07:52,834 Er... I hope we did the right thing booking you into a hotel 35 00:07:52,959 --> 00:07:56,334 on the European side rather than the Asian side. 36 00:07:56,459 --> 00:07:59,792 I have no prejudice against either continent. 37 00:08:02,917 --> 00:08:05,709 The crossing should be pleasant. 38 00:08:05,834 --> 00:08:08,042 The Bosphorus is always calm. 39 00:08:09,542 --> 00:08:12,376 You have crossed by the ferry? 40 00:08:12,501 --> 00:08:14,292 No. 41 00:08:15,917 --> 00:08:18,292 (Man) Allahu Akbar! 42 00:08:18,417 --> 00:08:21,751 Allahu Akbar! 43 00:08:24,542 --> 00:08:26,917 Welcome, Colonel Arboo... 44 00:08:27,834 --> 00:08:30,042 ...Arboo... Arboo... 45 00:08:30,167 --> 00:08:32,084 Arbuthnot. 46 00:08:35,501 --> 00:08:36,626 (Man) 'The Bosphorus ferry 47 00:08:36,751 --> 00:08:39,459 'will shortly depart from Istanbul Sirkeci Station 48 00:08:39,584 --> 00:08:42,959 'connecting with the Orient Express.' 49 00:08:50,876 --> 00:08:52,834 Not now. 50 00:08:52,959 --> 00:08:56,876 Not now. When it's all over. When it's behind us. Then. 51 00:08:57,001 --> 00:08:58,626 (Poirot sneezes) 52 00:09:03,251 --> 00:09:05,584 What a funny little man! 53 00:09:05,709 --> 00:09:07,917 Obviously a Frog. 54 00:09:10,459 --> 00:09:12,459 (Horn blares) 55 00:09:55,751 --> 00:09:57,709 (Horn sounds) 56 00:10:10,459 --> 00:10:13,126 (♪ Band plays "On The Good Ship Lollipop") 57 00:10:21,042 --> 00:10:22,459 (Indistinct chatter) 58 00:10:28,584 --> 00:10:31,584 Good evening, sir. This way, please. 59 00:10:32,459 --> 00:10:36,417 Ecco finalmente, un amico. 60 00:10:36,542 --> 00:10:38,751 Monsieur Poirot! 61 00:10:38,876 --> 00:10:42,001 (Poirot) Ah! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Bianchi! 62 00:10:42,126 --> 00:10:44,167 How are you, my friend? 63 00:10:44,292 --> 00:10:46,417 Ah, good to see you. 64 00:10:46,542 --> 00:10:49,584 You have saved me from apoplexy. Sit down. 65 00:10:49,709 --> 00:10:53,042 Ah, thank you. You have not dined well. 66 00:10:53,167 --> 00:10:57,876 Ah, no, the skewers are of better quality than the kebab. 67 00:10:58,001 --> 00:11:00,751 The bottle is more distinguished than its wine, 68 00:11:00,876 --> 00:11:04,167 and the... the café... 69 00:11:04,292 --> 00:11:07,667 Fortunately I have been called to London. I leave tonight. 70 00:11:07,792 --> 00:11:09,709 - On the Orient Express? - How else? 71 00:11:09,834 --> 00:11:12,126 Evviva! I have a travelling companion. 72 00:11:12,251 --> 00:11:14,417 Eccellente. 73 00:11:14,542 --> 00:11:16,667 Well, where shall we dine? 74 00:11:20,126 --> 00:11:22,792 (♪ "Red Sails In The Sky") 75 00:11:28,501 --> 00:11:30,876 I am desolate, Monsieur Poirot. 76 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:33,084 There is not one single first-class sleeping berth 77 00:11:33,209 --> 00:11:35,376 on the entire train. 78 00:11:35,501 --> 00:11:38,667 - What? In December? - In December, Signor Bianchi. 79 00:11:38,792 --> 00:11:41,334 Has Bulgaria declared war on Turkey? 80 00:11:41,459 --> 00:11:43,542 Are the aristocracy fleeing the country? 81 00:11:43,667 --> 00:11:44,792 I am a director of the line. 82 00:11:44,917 --> 00:11:47,001 Monsieur Hercule Poirot is not only a detective 83 00:11:47,126 --> 00:11:48,751 of international fame and distinction, 84 00:11:48,876 --> 00:11:50,459 but he is also my personal friend. 85 00:11:50,584 --> 00:11:52,167 Signor Bianchi, Monsieur Poirot, I... 86 00:11:52,292 --> 00:11:54,667 Ah, corragio, my friend. We'll arrange something. 87 00:11:54,792 --> 00:11:56,376 Andiamo! We must go. Come on. 88 00:12:17,334 --> 00:12:19,167 (♪ "Red Sails in the Sunset") 89 00:12:32,334 --> 00:12:33,751 (Whistle blows) 90 00:12:39,459 --> 00:12:44,709 (Man) 'The Orient Express will depart from Platform 1 at 9:00pm 91 00:12:44,834 --> 00:12:47,584 'for Uzonköprü, Sofia, 92 00:12:47,709 --> 00:12:50,584 'Belgrade, Zagreb, 93 00:12:50,709 --> 00:12:52,917 'Brod, Trieste, 94 00:12:53,042 --> 00:12:55,334 'Venice, Milan, 95 00:12:55,459 --> 00:12:57,751 'Lausanne, Basel, 96 00:12:57,876 --> 00:13:00,501 'Paris, Calais, 97 00:13:00,626 --> 00:13:03,292 'with connections for London.' 98 00:13:03,417 --> 00:13:05,959 (Announcement in French over Tannoy) 99 00:13:08,459 --> 00:13:11,001 'Uzonköprü, 100 00:13:11,126 --> 00:13:13,084 'Sofia, Belgrade, 101 00:13:13,209 --> 00:13:17,251 'Zagreb, Brod, Trieste, Venice, Milan, 102 00:13:17,376 --> 00:13:20,376 'Lausanne, Bâle, Paris et Calais...' 103 00:13:24,376 --> 00:13:25,792 (Announcements continue) 104 00:13:33,292 --> 00:13:34,792 Bonsoir, Pierre. 105 00:13:34,917 --> 00:13:37,209 Madame la Princesse, mes hommages. 106 00:13:37,334 --> 00:13:39,542 Numero quatorze. 107 00:13:39,667 --> 00:13:41,102 - Fräulein Schmidt. Willkommen. - Guten Tag. 108 00:13:41,126 --> 00:13:43,626 - Nummer sechs. - Danke schön. 109 00:13:43,751 --> 00:13:46,251 Bitte schön. 110 00:13:47,834 --> 00:13:53,667 (Man) 'Orient Express will depart from Platform 1 at 9:00pm.' 111 00:13:53,792 --> 00:13:55,834 (Clamour of voices) 112 00:13:55,959 --> 00:13:58,001 (Man) 'Belgrade. Zagreb. 113 00:14:01,084 --> 00:14:03,292 'Venice. Milan. 114 00:14:06,001 --> 00:14:08,042 'Paris. Calais.' 115 00:14:26,417 --> 00:14:28,417 (Speaks Hungarian) 116 00:14:43,042 --> 00:14:45,042 (Indistinct chatter) 117 00:14:51,834 --> 00:14:54,126 (Whistle blows) 118 00:15:14,126 --> 00:15:15,542 (Indistinct chatter) 119 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:27,084 Ah, Mrs Hubbard. It's always an honour to greet you. 120 00:15:27,209 --> 00:15:29,584 You have your favourite number 11. 121 00:15:35,334 --> 00:15:37,584 Ecco, Signor Bianchi. 122 00:15:37,709 --> 00:15:40,209 Benvenuto! Numero nove. Come sempre. 123 00:15:40,334 --> 00:15:42,792 Grazie, Pierre. I understand that you are full up. 124 00:15:42,917 --> 00:15:44,376 It's unbelievable, signor. 125 00:15:44,501 --> 00:15:46,584 All the world elects to travel tonight. 126 00:15:46,709 --> 00:15:50,042 Nonetheless, you must find room for Monsieur Poirot here. 127 00:15:52,042 --> 00:15:55,542 Monsieur Hercule Poirot, the... the famous... 128 00:15:55,667 --> 00:15:58,251 Precisely, and he is also a personal friend of mine. 129 00:15:58,376 --> 00:16:03,167 Please be so good as... as to direct... 130 00:16:03,292 --> 00:16:05,334 (Speaks Swedish) 131 00:16:16,251 --> 00:16:17,626 Something is lost? 132 00:16:17,751 --> 00:16:20,501 My little medal of St Christopher 133 00:16:20,626 --> 00:16:24,917 to bring me luck and deliver... deliver me from evil. 134 00:16:27,084 --> 00:16:29,959 Madame, madame, lucky tooth from St Augustine of Hippo. 135 00:16:30,084 --> 00:16:32,126 Lucky Buddha, madame? Madame, lucky Buddha. 136 00:16:32,251 --> 00:16:35,084 - Please! - (Hawkers chatter) 137 00:16:37,084 --> 00:16:41,459 Thank God, my St Christopher. St Christopher. 138 00:16:41,584 --> 00:16:44,376 St Christopher? 139 00:16:44,501 --> 00:16:46,459 (Whistle blows) 140 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:04,584 (Speaks French) 141 00:17:05,626 --> 00:17:07,685 You see, my friend has been urgently called to London 142 00:17:07,709 --> 00:17:09,667 on a matter of international importance, 143 00:17:09,792 --> 00:17:11,393 and I have given him my personal assurance 144 00:17:11,417 --> 00:17:13,501 that you will secure an accommodation for him 145 00:17:13,626 --> 00:17:14,709 on the coach to Calais. 146 00:17:14,834 --> 00:17:17,917 - But I have already... - Hector. 147 00:17:18,042 --> 00:17:19,584 Excuse me, excuse me, gentlemen. 148 00:17:19,709 --> 00:17:21,917 But, uh... Mr Ratchett has reservations 149 00:17:22,042 --> 00:17:24,334 and we'd be grateful if we could board immediately. 150 00:17:24,459 --> 00:17:27,292 Ah, Mr Ratchett. 151 00:17:27,417 --> 00:17:30,001 Welcome to the number ten. 152 00:17:30,126 --> 00:17:33,376 Mr Beddoes, the lower berth in number one. 153 00:17:33,501 --> 00:17:36,459 Mr McQueen, the lower berth in number four. 154 00:17:36,584 --> 00:17:40,042 - The upper berth is... - As arranged. 155 00:17:42,167 --> 00:17:43,959 Now, Pierre, it is cold. 156 00:17:44,084 --> 00:17:46,167 Now we can place Monsieur Poirot in the number 16, 157 00:17:46,292 --> 00:17:48,084 which is always kept vacant. 158 00:17:48,209 --> 00:17:51,042 It is taken, signor, by a Mr Hardman. 159 00:17:51,167 --> 00:17:54,876 Then as a director of the line, I command you to place Monsieur Poirot 160 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:59,376 in what we know to be the empty berth above Mr McQueen's number four. 161 00:17:59,501 --> 00:18:01,459 Monsieur? 162 00:18:03,709 --> 00:18:05,834 At least you can get two tips. 163 00:18:21,126 --> 00:18:24,501 - Pardon, monsieur. - Sorry. 164 00:18:25,626 --> 00:18:27,584 Pardon. 165 00:18:44,167 --> 00:18:47,792 Well, my second husband, Mr Hubbard, would've raised hell. 166 00:18:47,917 --> 00:18:50,709 No place for my make-up bag, no ice in my drinking water, 167 00:18:50,834 --> 00:18:53,167 and the hot water burps as it comes out of the faucet. 168 00:18:53,292 --> 00:18:55,126 Pardon me. 169 00:18:56,167 --> 00:18:58,376 Excuse me. 170 00:19:03,417 --> 00:19:07,292 Have courage, my friend. It is the last compartment but one. 171 00:19:07,417 --> 00:19:08,751 Pardon. 172 00:19:18,292 --> 00:19:22,334 No, I... I think there's... there's a mistake. 173 00:19:22,459 --> 00:19:25,251 Er... je... je crois Que vous avez fait une erreur. 174 00:19:25,376 --> 00:19:27,542 Mr McQueen, there is no other berth on the train. 175 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:29,667 Monsieur Poirot has to come in here. 176 00:19:29,792 --> 00:19:31,459 Voilà, monsieur. All is arranged. 177 00:19:31,584 --> 00:19:33,792 Yours is the upper berth, the number four. 178 00:19:33,917 --> 00:19:35,292 We start in one minute. 179 00:19:35,417 --> 00:19:37,876 I apologise if I have incommoded you here. 180 00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:39,727 However, it is for one night only at Belgrade Station. 181 00:19:39,751 --> 00:19:41,876 Oh, I see, at Belgrade, you're getting off. 182 00:19:42,001 --> 00:19:44,501 (Train whistle drowns speech) 183 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:24,376 (Train whistle blows) 184 00:21:47,751 --> 00:21:49,959 (Train whistle blows) 185 00:22:19,459 --> 00:22:20,709 Better than the hotel, eh? 186 00:22:20,834 --> 00:22:23,334 I shall probably keep the menu as a souvenir. 187 00:22:26,084 --> 00:22:27,584 Hector, I ordered three Islamic 188 00:22:27,709 --> 00:22:30,417 13th-century perforated pottery bowls 189 00:22:30,542 --> 00:22:32,292 and six beakers. 190 00:22:32,417 --> 00:22:34,001 They delivered only five beakers 191 00:22:34,126 --> 00:22:35,917 and one of the bowls arrived chipped, 192 00:22:36,042 --> 00:22:39,667 which it was not when I paid for it through the nose. 193 00:22:39,792 --> 00:22:41,292 Send a telegram from Belgrade. 194 00:22:41,417 --> 00:22:43,542 Yes. Yes, Mr Ratchett. 195 00:22:43,667 --> 00:22:45,667 What's the matter? You look tired. 196 00:22:45,792 --> 00:22:48,126 (Sighs) I slept badly. 197 00:22:48,251 --> 00:22:50,209 Yeah? Why? 198 00:22:51,334 --> 00:22:55,084 The Belgian in the upper berth snored. 199 00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:58,834 Really? Any other unanswered letters on file? 200 00:22:58,959 --> 00:23:01,667 Er... only the anonymous ones. 201 00:23:01,792 --> 00:23:04,292 We can't answer those, can we? 202 00:23:05,667 --> 00:23:08,292 You'd better go catch up on your sleep, 203 00:23:08,417 --> 00:23:12,376 before the Belgian gentleman gets back to your compartment. 204 00:23:13,501 --> 00:23:15,501 Go on. 205 00:23:44,542 --> 00:23:47,709 Hi. My name's Hardman. Call me Dick. 206 00:23:47,834 --> 00:23:50,751 Foscarelli. Call me Gino. 207 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:56,501 Beddoes. 208 00:23:56,626 --> 00:23:58,459 Mr Beddoes. 209 00:24:00,334 --> 00:24:03,084 (Poirot) Ah, for the pen of a Balzac. 210 00:24:03,209 --> 00:24:06,876 For three days, all these people, these total strangers, 211 00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:11,042 meet in a single train whose engine controls their destiny. 212 00:24:13,209 --> 00:24:17,417 Ah, yes, I know. We are both envious of the husband, eh? 213 00:24:17,542 --> 00:24:21,376 Is, er... is the husband as British as his tweeds? 214 00:24:21,501 --> 00:24:23,959 Oh, heaven forbid. He's a hot-blooded Hungarian. 215 00:24:24,084 --> 00:24:27,209 If you but look at his wife, he will cease to be a diplomat. 216 00:24:27,334 --> 00:24:30,626 - Thank God we are not young. - (Chuckles) 217 00:24:41,959 --> 00:24:44,584 My second husband said always to ask for change in dollars, 218 00:24:44,709 --> 00:24:46,417 or at worst sterling. 219 00:24:46,542 --> 00:24:48,417 So, for Pete's sake, what's a drachma? 220 00:24:48,542 --> 00:24:52,084 It is, er... What do you call it? The currency of... 221 00:24:52,209 --> 00:24:54,876 My second husband said, "Take a book of food tickets, Mama, 222 00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:56,881 "and you'll have no problem, no problem at all." 223 00:24:57,001 --> 00:25:00,292 That just isn't so. First there's this ten per cent tip... 224 00:25:00,417 --> 00:25:02,001 I think Miss Ohlsson has a headache. 225 00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:03,126 Would you forgive us 226 00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:05,251 if we went back to the compartment, Mrs Hubbard? 227 00:25:05,376 --> 00:25:06,584 Gladly, if you must. 228 00:25:06,709 --> 00:25:09,292 If you need aspirin, I always carry it on my person. 229 00:25:09,417 --> 00:25:11,376 I mistrust foreign drugs. 230 00:25:11,501 --> 00:25:14,251 You must excuse me. Mrs Hubbard is upon us. 231 00:25:16,126 --> 00:25:18,459 What's the matter with him? Train-sick or something? 232 00:25:18,584 --> 00:25:21,209 Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, 233 00:25:21,334 --> 00:25:23,209 "want to be alone". 234 00:25:33,917 --> 00:25:35,584 And for dinner this evening? 235 00:25:35,709 --> 00:25:39,042 You will have the goodness to serve me the poached sole, 236 00:25:39,167 --> 00:25:41,417 with one new potato 237 00:25:41,542 --> 00:25:45,167 and a small green salad with no dressing. 238 00:25:45,292 --> 00:25:46,292 Hildegarde. 239 00:25:46,417 --> 00:25:48,542 (Poirot) Who was that majestic lady? 240 00:25:48,667 --> 00:25:50,167 (Attendant) The Princess Dragomiroff. 241 00:25:50,292 --> 00:25:52,376 Ah, I have heard. 242 00:26:10,334 --> 00:26:11,417 - Pardon me, sir. - Mm? 243 00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:13,626 I wonder if you could oblige me with a light? 244 00:26:13,751 --> 00:26:16,709 - Ah, certainly. - Thank you. 245 00:26:16,834 --> 00:26:18,667 My name is Ratchett. 246 00:26:18,792 --> 00:26:21,792 Do I have the pleasure of speaking to Mr Hercule Per-oh? 247 00:26:21,917 --> 00:26:23,417 The pleasure, possibly, Mr Ratchett. 248 00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:26,209 The intention, certainly. You asked me for a light. 249 00:26:26,334 --> 00:26:28,709 I offered you one and you have not used it. 250 00:26:28,834 --> 00:26:31,626 One can deduce that without acute mental exhaustion. 251 00:26:31,751 --> 00:26:34,959 (Laughs) That's wonderful. Sit down, sir, sit down. 252 00:26:35,084 --> 00:26:36,084 (Poirot) For a moment. 253 00:26:36,209 --> 00:26:40,251 Just for a moment. Thank you very much. 254 00:26:40,376 --> 00:26:41,792 - Well, Mr Per-oh... - Er... 255 00:26:41,917 --> 00:26:42,917 - What? - Poirot. 256 00:26:43,042 --> 00:26:45,001 - How's that? - Poirot. 257 00:26:45,126 --> 00:26:47,042 Oh! Per-oh. Right. 258 00:26:47,167 --> 00:26:48,167 I just wanted to say that 259 00:26:48,292 --> 00:26:51,292 in my country we also come quickly to the point. 260 00:26:56,542 --> 00:27:00,376 I want you to take a job on for me. 261 00:27:00,501 --> 00:27:04,042 It means big money, very big money. 262 00:27:04,167 --> 00:27:06,709 What is the case, or, as you put it, the job, 263 00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:08,542 which you wish me to undertake? 264 00:27:08,667 --> 00:27:10,917 Mr Per-oh, I'm a rich man. 265 00:27:12,126 --> 00:27:15,876 Naturally, men in my position have, er... enemies. 266 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:17,126 Only one? 267 00:27:18,376 --> 00:27:20,001 Now, what the hell do you mean by that? 268 00:27:20,126 --> 00:27:23,626 Merely that when a man is in a position to have, as you say, enemies, 269 00:27:23,751 --> 00:27:28,876 it does not usually resolve itself into one enemy only. 270 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:32,251 Oh. Oh, sure. Sure, I appreciate that. 271 00:27:32,376 --> 00:27:36,959 - What is your profession? - I'm retired. 272 00:27:37,084 --> 00:27:39,084 - From what? - Business. 273 00:27:40,084 --> 00:27:42,584 What sort of business? 274 00:27:42,709 --> 00:27:44,917 Baby food. But what does that matter? 275 00:27:45,042 --> 00:27:48,209 - What matters is my safety. - You are in danger? 276 00:27:48,334 --> 00:27:50,542 My life has been threatened, Mr Per-oh. 277 00:27:50,667 --> 00:27:54,834 My secretary can show you two letters on file. 278 00:27:56,167 --> 00:27:58,751 And I... 279 00:27:58,876 --> 00:28:01,251 can show you this. 280 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:04,792 I sleep on it. 281 00:28:06,792 --> 00:28:08,751 Mr Per-oh... 282 00:28:10,042 --> 00:28:11,792 ...$5,000. 283 00:28:13,292 --> 00:28:16,376 No? Ten thousand? 284 00:28:17,876 --> 00:28:19,834 Fifteen thousand? 285 00:28:19,959 --> 00:28:22,376 Mr Ratchett, I have made enough money 286 00:28:22,501 --> 00:28:25,584 to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. 287 00:28:25,709 --> 00:28:28,376 I take only such cases now as interest me 288 00:28:28,501 --> 00:28:32,626 and, to be frank, my interest in your case is, er... 289 00:28:32,751 --> 00:28:34,667 dwindling. 290 00:29:22,209 --> 00:29:23,917 (Man) 'Belgrade Station. 291 00:29:24,042 --> 00:29:27,667 'The Orient Express will depart in five minutes.' 292 00:29:32,876 --> 00:29:34,209 Ah, Monsieur Poirot! 293 00:29:34,334 --> 00:29:37,417 I am transferring Signor Bianchi's luggage to the Pullman. 294 00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:38,893 He's giving you his own compartment. 295 00:29:38,917 --> 00:29:40,751 But you cannot sit up all night! 296 00:29:40,876 --> 00:29:43,959 Ah, my dear friend, do not concern yourself. 297 00:29:44,084 --> 00:29:45,185 Since you are going to England, 298 00:29:45,209 --> 00:29:47,569 it is better for you to stay on the through coach to Calais. 299 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:50,001 Now, Pierre has made me very comfortable. 300 00:29:50,126 --> 00:29:52,751 There is no one in the Pullman but one Greek doctor. Ecco. 301 00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:54,376 Such generosity deserves my thanks. 302 00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:56,584 Buon riposa. 303 00:29:59,709 --> 00:30:01,876 (Whistle blows) 304 00:30:22,959 --> 00:30:25,042 (Hums tune) 305 00:30:26,167 --> 00:30:27,584 - Ah, Monsieur Poirot. - Pierre! 306 00:30:27,709 --> 00:30:28,893 Could I have some clean towels? 307 00:30:28,917 --> 00:30:32,959 - Yes, monsieur. - And who are my new neighbours? 308 00:30:33,084 --> 00:30:36,251 To the left, Monsieur, the Swedish lady, Miss Ohlsson, 309 00:30:36,376 --> 00:30:39,626 shares seven and eight with the English lady, Miss Debenham, 310 00:30:39,751 --> 00:30:42,417 and to the right in number ten is Mr Ratchett. 311 00:30:42,542 --> 00:30:44,102 And where is the loquacious Mrs Hubbard? 312 00:30:44,209 --> 00:30:45,768 I should like to get some sleep tonight. 313 00:30:45,792 --> 00:30:48,167 Beyond Mr Ratchett in the number 11. 314 00:30:48,292 --> 00:30:51,876 - She is still too near. - Good night, Mr Beddoes. 315 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:53,876 Er... ah, pardon. 316 00:31:00,959 --> 00:31:01,959 (Ratchett) Who is it? 317 00:31:02,084 --> 00:31:04,667 It's me, sir, Beddoes, with your sedative. 318 00:31:04,792 --> 00:31:06,376 (Lock clicks) 319 00:31:08,459 --> 00:31:10,292 Come in. 320 00:31:14,751 --> 00:31:16,292 Thank you, Pierre. Good night. 321 00:31:16,417 --> 00:31:20,459 Good night, monsieur, and pleasant dreams in number nine. 322 00:31:22,209 --> 00:31:23,917 (Ratchett) How many drops? 323 00:31:24,042 --> 00:31:26,251 (Beddoes) Of the Valerian? Two, sir, as you said. 324 00:31:26,376 --> 00:31:28,376 (Ratchett) OK. 325 00:31:30,084 --> 00:31:32,292 No, no, put it on the table. 326 00:31:38,042 --> 00:31:39,042 And tell Mr McQueen 327 00:31:39,167 --> 00:31:43,126 I want to see the text of the telegram he sent from Belgrade. 328 00:31:46,251 --> 00:31:48,251 Very well, sir. 329 00:31:57,626 --> 00:31:59,709 He wants you. 330 00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:33,209 - (Knock at door) - (Ratchett) Come in. 331 00:32:40,459 --> 00:32:42,417 (Indistinct voices) 332 00:32:49,126 --> 00:32:52,251 Tiens, tiens, tiens, tiens, tiens, tiens, tiens. 333 00:33:05,042 --> 00:33:07,084 La belle Comtesse. 334 00:33:08,417 --> 00:33:11,876 (♪ Hums "Red Sails in the Sunset") 335 00:33:12,001 --> 00:33:13,417 (Man gargles next-door) 336 00:33:54,792 --> 00:33:56,584 (Man cries out) 337 00:34:01,459 --> 00:34:04,001 (Knocking at door) 338 00:34:08,376 --> 00:34:10,751 (Ratchett) Ce n'est rien. C'était un cauchemar. 339 00:34:10,876 --> 00:34:12,626 (Bell chimes) 340 00:34:12,751 --> 00:34:14,542 Ah, bien, Monsieur Ratchett. 341 00:34:14,667 --> 00:34:16,667 May you now have pleasant dreams. 342 00:34:16,792 --> 00:34:19,126 (Bell chimes) 343 00:34:32,751 --> 00:34:35,042 C'est Le silence de Mort. 344 00:34:51,167 --> 00:34:53,667 Ah, a snowdrift. 345 00:34:53,792 --> 00:34:55,876 Mon Dieu. Quelle nuit. 346 00:34:56,001 --> 00:34:58,084 (Grunts) 347 00:35:01,042 --> 00:35:02,501 So, now there's a man in my room. 348 00:35:02,626 --> 00:35:04,146 I woke up in the dark three minutes ago 349 00:35:04,209 --> 00:35:06,876 and there was a man hiding in this compartment. I sensed it. 350 00:35:07,001 --> 00:35:08,977 What's more, I know who he was, because I absent-mindedly 351 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:11,241 nearly walked through his open door earlier this evening. 352 00:35:11,334 --> 00:35:12,792 "Madame," said this Mr Ratchett, 353 00:35:12,917 --> 00:35:15,167 "if you'd done this 20 years ago, I'd have said come in." 354 00:35:15,292 --> 00:35:17,917 20 years ago? Ha! Why, I'd only have been 15. 355 00:35:19,626 --> 00:35:21,792 If there should be a re-occurrence, 356 00:35:21,917 --> 00:35:24,376 do not hesitate to ring, madame. 357 00:35:29,542 --> 00:35:32,542 - (Knock at door) - Enfin c'est Le comble. 358 00:35:50,251 --> 00:35:53,209 Evidemment, j'ai une crise de nerfs. 359 00:36:18,917 --> 00:36:22,126 It's me, sir, Beddoes, with your pick-me-up. 360 00:36:27,709 --> 00:36:30,084 Your amber moon, Mr Ratchett. 361 00:36:47,751 --> 00:36:50,126 Your passkey. 362 00:36:54,959 --> 00:36:57,042 The chain. 363 00:37:04,709 --> 00:37:06,917 Pierre, touch nothing. 364 00:37:10,959 --> 00:37:13,917 Where are Signor Bianchi and the Greek doctor? 365 00:37:14,042 --> 00:37:15,917 In... in the dining car, monsieur. 366 00:37:16,042 --> 00:37:18,126 Fetch them at once. 367 00:37:37,209 --> 00:37:38,769 Well, can't you tap the telephone wires? 368 00:37:38,876 --> 00:37:41,084 - Or fire a rocket? - This is not a ship, madame. 369 00:37:41,209 --> 00:37:42,334 Where exactly are we? 370 00:37:42,459 --> 00:37:44,417 We are between Vinkovci and Brod. 371 00:37:44,542 --> 00:37:47,209 - But in what country? - In Yugoslavia. 372 00:37:47,334 --> 00:37:49,167 The Balkans. What else can you expect? 373 00:37:49,292 --> 00:37:52,167 Snow is God's will and all is for the best. 374 00:37:52,292 --> 00:37:54,084 Yeah, but how... how long do you think 375 00:37:54,209 --> 00:37:55,310 before we can start getting out of here? 376 00:37:55,334 --> 00:37:57,292 As soon as the stationmaster at Brod 377 00:37:57,417 --> 00:38:00,251 sees that we do not arrive on time, he will send... 378 00:38:02,792 --> 00:38:04,959 Dr Constantine, Monsieur Poirot wants to see you. 379 00:38:05,084 --> 00:38:06,251 Ah. 380 00:38:06,376 --> 00:38:08,917 And you too, Signor Bianchi. 381 00:38:09,042 --> 00:38:11,167 Forgive me, ladies and gentlemen. 382 00:38:11,292 --> 00:38:14,584 Only God's forgiveness is important. 383 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:16,792 (Speaks German) 384 00:38:21,459 --> 00:38:23,751 Signor Bianchi and Dr Constantine. 385 00:38:23,876 --> 00:38:26,709 Mind the broken glass, gentlemen. 386 00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:33,084 Pupils still slightly dilated. 387 00:38:33,209 --> 00:38:35,917 Could've been drugged. Was drugged. 388 00:38:36,042 --> 00:38:38,376 (Poirot) With what? 389 00:38:38,501 --> 00:38:42,501 (Sniffs) Ah, there's a smell of Valerian, which is harmless, 390 00:38:42,626 --> 00:38:44,459 but something must've been added. 391 00:38:44,584 --> 00:38:48,334 - May I close his eyes now? - I wish you would. 392 00:38:50,667 --> 00:38:53,626 Why did he lose so much blood? 393 00:38:53,751 --> 00:38:55,917 Can I pull back the bedclothes? 394 00:38:56,042 --> 00:38:58,042 By all means. 395 00:39:02,584 --> 00:39:05,334 Mr Ratchett has been frontally stabbed... 396 00:39:06,667 --> 00:39:09,542 ...ten, eleven, twelve times. 397 00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:10,667 Dio. 398 00:39:10,792 --> 00:39:13,584 Mon pauvre, if you must go whoop-whoop, 399 00:39:13,709 --> 00:39:16,376 please go whoop-whoop not to windward but to leeward. 400 00:39:16,501 --> 00:39:18,626 Help him, Pierre. 401 00:39:21,001 --> 00:39:22,792 There is something in the pocket. 402 00:39:22,917 --> 00:39:25,334 (Poirot) Permit me. (Doctor) Hmm... 403 00:39:30,126 --> 00:39:31,417 (Poirot) His watch. 404 00:39:31,542 --> 00:39:33,251 (Doctor) The time of death. 405 00:39:33,376 --> 00:39:35,251 I can definitely say that death occurred 406 00:39:35,376 --> 00:39:37,959 between midnight and two in the morning. 407 00:39:38,084 --> 00:39:40,626 That would fit. 408 00:39:40,751 --> 00:39:44,584 I myself heard him cry out and ring for the conductor 409 00:39:44,709 --> 00:39:46,709 at 20 minutes to one. 410 00:39:47,834 --> 00:39:49,501 When Pierre arrived, he apologised 411 00:39:49,626 --> 00:39:52,792 and said he had been having a cauchemar, 412 00:39:52,917 --> 00:39:55,001 a nightmare... 413 00:39:57,542 --> 00:40:01,334 ...and then I heard him use his washbasin... 414 00:40:03,084 --> 00:40:05,834 ...and that is the last thing known. 415 00:40:09,376 --> 00:40:12,292 I beg of you, monsieur. You cannot refuse. 416 00:40:12,417 --> 00:40:14,334 But it is the duty of the Yugoslavian police! 417 00:40:14,459 --> 00:40:16,417 Oh, what, monsieur? 418 00:40:16,542 --> 00:40:19,251 To question my passengers on my line? 419 00:40:19,376 --> 00:40:23,584 Never. Now you must solve the mystery. 420 00:40:23,709 --> 00:40:26,334 When we get to Brod, if we ever do, 421 00:40:26,459 --> 00:40:29,084 we present the police with a fait accompli. 422 00:40:29,209 --> 00:40:32,084 We say that a murder has occurred. 423 00:40:32,209 --> 00:40:34,667 There is the criminal. 424 00:40:34,792 --> 00:40:36,310 I should like the Pullman coach reserved 425 00:40:36,334 --> 00:40:38,167 for the investigation's headquarters. 426 00:40:38,292 --> 00:40:40,751 It will be at your disposal. 427 00:40:40,876 --> 00:40:42,167 And a plan of the Calais coach 428 00:40:42,292 --> 00:40:44,102 with the names and locations of all the people in it... 429 00:40:44,126 --> 00:40:45,126 Yes, it will be there. 430 00:40:45,251 --> 00:40:47,376 ...and the passports of all the passengers concerned. 431 00:40:47,501 --> 00:40:48,834 Yes, you can even have mine. 432 00:40:48,959 --> 00:40:51,459 I go to make a special announcement now. 433 00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:54,584 Grazie. Yes, bring all the passports to Mr Poirot. 434 00:40:54,709 --> 00:40:56,789 (Poirot) Are there any other passengers on the train? 435 00:40:56,876 --> 00:41:00,959 (Doctor) In the Pullman coach, nobody but myself and Mr Bianchi. 436 00:41:08,876 --> 00:41:13,001 Alors. Then we must concentrate on the Calais coach. 437 00:41:13,126 --> 00:41:18,709 Where, in my amateur opinion, the murderer is with us now. 438 00:41:18,834 --> 00:41:20,334 (Indistinct chatter) 439 00:41:20,459 --> 00:41:22,459 Ladies and gentlemen! 440 00:41:22,584 --> 00:41:26,084 Please, please, patience. You must have patience. 441 00:41:26,209 --> 00:41:29,751 Now, you will all get the chance to state your views to Monsieur Poirot 442 00:41:29,876 --> 00:41:31,126 at his own good time. 443 00:41:31,251 --> 00:41:34,084 It is not good time. It is bad time. 444 00:41:34,209 --> 00:41:38,376 God's laws have been bust. Thou shalt not kill. 445 00:41:38,501 --> 00:41:41,876 And why was I not notified at once, Signor... Mr Bianchi? 446 00:41:42,001 --> 00:41:43,227 - I was his nearest associate. - Mr McQueen... 447 00:41:43,251 --> 00:41:47,209 And I was nearest to his murderer. 448 00:41:48,626 --> 00:41:52,042 You mean you saw the man? You can identify the murderer? 449 00:41:52,167 --> 00:41:53,876 I mean nothing of the kind. 450 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:56,584 I mean there was a man in my compartment last night. 451 00:41:56,709 --> 00:41:57,917 It was pitch-dark, of course, 452 00:41:58,042 --> 00:41:59,709 and my eyes were closed in terror. 453 00:41:59,834 --> 00:42:02,084 Then how did you know it was a man? 454 00:42:02,209 --> 00:42:04,459 Because I've enjoyed very warm relationships 455 00:42:04,584 --> 00:42:06,459 with both my husbands. 456 00:42:06,584 --> 00:42:09,501 - With your eyes closed? - That helped. 457 00:42:09,626 --> 00:42:10,834 Excuse me. 458 00:42:10,959 --> 00:42:12,352 (Mrs Hubbard) Anyway, the man smelt of tobacco. 459 00:42:12,376 --> 00:42:14,167 Mr McQueen, Monsieur Poirot would be grateful 460 00:42:14,292 --> 00:42:16,209 for a few minutes of your time. 461 00:42:18,417 --> 00:42:19,417 Excuse me. 462 00:42:19,542 --> 00:42:21,643 Don't you agree the man must've entered my compartment 463 00:42:21,667 --> 00:42:23,334 to gain access to Mr Ratchett? 464 00:42:23,459 --> 00:42:26,917 I can think of no other reason, madame. 465 00:42:27,042 --> 00:42:29,042 (Poirot) Pierre, your passkey. 466 00:42:30,459 --> 00:42:32,334 Voilà, monsieur. 467 00:42:32,459 --> 00:42:37,417 And, er... will you discreetly procure me a lady's hatbox, 468 00:42:37,542 --> 00:42:39,959 one of the big old-fashioned kind, 469 00:42:40,084 --> 00:42:43,501 perhaps from the Princess Dragomiroff's maid? 470 00:42:43,626 --> 00:42:46,584 Mm, give me five minutes, Doctor. 471 00:42:46,709 --> 00:42:48,669 Ah, Mr McQueen, I regret to have kept you waiting, 472 00:42:48,792 --> 00:42:52,084 but there has been much to establish. 473 00:42:52,209 --> 00:42:53,501 Please be seated. 474 00:42:53,626 --> 00:42:56,435 Now, Mr McQueen, I should be grateful for anything you can usefully tell me. 475 00:42:56,459 --> 00:42:57,542 What, for example...? 476 00:42:57,667 --> 00:43:01,167 Let's get just a couple of things straight first, Mr... Mr Poirot. 477 00:43:01,292 --> 00:43:04,834 Who, for example, are you and what is your status here? 478 00:43:04,959 --> 00:43:07,209 Excuse me. 479 00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:09,292 Monsieur Poirot is a detective 480 00:43:09,417 --> 00:43:12,376 officially delegated to investigate this case by me. 481 00:43:12,501 --> 00:43:14,227 (Poirot) Let us proceed with the matter in hand. 482 00:43:14,251 --> 00:43:15,917 Your relationship with Ratchett? 483 00:43:16,042 --> 00:43:17,501 I'm his... I was his secretary. 484 00:43:17,626 --> 00:43:19,501 - For how long? - A year, give or take. 485 00:43:19,626 --> 00:43:21,917 - Where did you meet? - In Persia. 486 00:43:22,042 --> 00:43:24,042 He was... he was collecting Gorgan pottery, 487 00:43:24,167 --> 00:43:26,126 with considerable success, 488 00:43:26,251 --> 00:43:28,352 and I was trying to collect oil concessions, you know, 489 00:43:28,376 --> 00:43:30,626 with so little success that... that I went bankrupt 490 00:43:30,751 --> 00:43:32,584 and he offered me the job and I took it. 491 00:43:32,709 --> 00:43:35,584 - And since then? - Well, we've travelled around. 492 00:43:35,709 --> 00:43:38,292 He was hampered by not knowing any languages. 493 00:43:38,417 --> 00:43:40,667 I acted more as his courier than as his secretary. 494 00:43:40,792 --> 00:43:42,542 It was a pleasant enough job. 495 00:43:42,667 --> 00:43:46,042 What part of America did Ratchett come from? 496 00:43:46,167 --> 00:43:47,459 I don't know. 497 00:43:47,584 --> 00:43:51,376 The fact is, er... he never talked about his background. 498 00:43:51,501 --> 00:43:54,751 - Why, do you think? - Well, I used to... to... 499 00:43:54,876 --> 00:43:57,751 Well, I began to... to believe that he had left America 500 00:43:57,876 --> 00:44:00,376 to escape something or someone, 501 00:44:00,501 --> 00:44:03,542 and until a couple of weeks ago, I think he succeeded. 502 00:44:03,667 --> 00:44:04,834 (Poirot) And then? 503 00:44:04,959 --> 00:44:07,542 Well, he began to get these anonymous letters, 504 00:44:07,667 --> 00:44:10,501 threatening letters, er... like these. 505 00:44:13,209 --> 00:44:15,042 "I kill killers." 506 00:44:15,167 --> 00:44:17,126 Mm-hm. 507 00:44:18,584 --> 00:44:22,376 (Poirot) "Prepare to die." (Bianchi) How brief. 508 00:44:22,501 --> 00:44:24,334 (Poirot) But, in a sense, how complicated. 509 00:44:24,459 --> 00:44:29,667 Last night, I noticed you despatching a telegram from Belgrade Station. 510 00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:31,251 That's right. Er... let's see. 511 00:44:31,376 --> 00:44:35,334 He sent for me to see the text right after we left Belgrade, 512 00:44:35,459 --> 00:44:39,126 and then he went... Yeah, it was the last I ever saw of him. 513 00:44:39,251 --> 00:44:42,167 Were there any other threatening letters? 514 00:44:42,292 --> 00:44:44,376 Yeah, but none that I was allowed to read. 515 00:44:44,501 --> 00:44:46,792 He used to... he used to burn them. 516 00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:49,251 - That explains... - What? 517 00:44:49,376 --> 00:44:50,792 (Knock at door) 518 00:44:52,001 --> 00:44:54,376 ...my interest in hatboxes. 519 00:44:58,626 --> 00:45:00,834 Precisely what I needed. 520 00:45:03,917 --> 00:45:05,209 Doctor, first the wounds. 521 00:45:05,334 --> 00:45:07,542 (Poirot) You counted a dozen? (Doctor) Yes. 522 00:45:07,667 --> 00:45:09,917 Five are deep... 523 00:45:10,917 --> 00:45:13,667 ...of which three are lethal. 524 00:45:15,959 --> 00:45:18,126 The rest are shallow. 525 00:45:18,251 --> 00:45:24,376 And two... are so slight as to be mere scratches. 526 00:45:24,501 --> 00:45:26,501 (Poirot) What does that suggest? 527 00:45:26,626 --> 00:45:28,876 That there were two murderers? 528 00:45:29,001 --> 00:45:32,626 A strong man and a weak man? 529 00:45:32,751 --> 00:45:34,584 (Doctor) Or a weak woman? 530 00:45:34,709 --> 00:45:36,751 (Poirot) Mm, or... 531 00:45:36,876 --> 00:45:41,084 a strong man stabbing the victim both strongly and weakly 532 00:45:41,209 --> 00:45:43,751 in order to confuse us. 533 00:45:43,876 --> 00:45:48,167 At least we know that, by the time of the murder, 534 00:45:48,292 --> 00:45:52,917 Ratchett was too drugged to cry out or defend himself... 535 00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:55,751 ...with this. 536 00:45:55,876 --> 00:45:58,042 - But how did you guess that... - I didn't. 537 00:45:58,167 --> 00:46:00,834 He showed it to me when he offered me $15,000 538 00:46:00,959 --> 00:46:03,417 to be his bodyguard, and I refused. 539 00:46:03,542 --> 00:46:05,501 Ought I to have accepted? 540 00:46:12,834 --> 00:46:17,292 Now, let us consider the ashtray. 541 00:46:17,417 --> 00:46:21,542 Two different matches. A smoked cigar. 542 00:46:21,667 --> 00:46:24,459 - A pipe cleaner. - And this. 543 00:46:24,584 --> 00:46:25,876 Ah. 544 00:46:29,376 --> 00:46:30,376 The initial H. 545 00:46:30,501 --> 00:46:32,001 That should not be hard to identify. 546 00:46:32,126 --> 00:46:35,292 I wonder, Christian name or surname? 547 00:46:35,417 --> 00:46:38,792 We must wait until we examine the passports. 548 00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:40,792 Bianchi. Doctor. 549 00:46:41,792 --> 00:46:43,792 Has it occurred to you 550 00:46:43,917 --> 00:46:48,959 that there are too many clues in this room? 551 00:46:49,917 --> 00:46:52,459 Let us proceed by examining 552 00:46:52,584 --> 00:46:55,876 what I hope will prove to be the last of them. 553 00:46:56,001 --> 00:46:58,709 The burnt paper. 554 00:47:04,709 --> 00:47:06,709 I use it for the moustaches. 555 00:47:06,834 --> 00:47:10,584 - What has that to do with moustaches? - To melt the wax. 556 00:47:35,959 --> 00:47:40,084 Observe. Memorise. You are my only witnesses. 557 00:47:40,209 --> 00:47:43,042 A-I-S-Y, A-R-M-S? 558 00:47:43,167 --> 00:47:45,792 What does that mean? 559 00:47:45,917 --> 00:47:47,584 It means... 560 00:47:48,626 --> 00:47:51,667 ...we know the true identity of Mr Ratchett... 561 00:47:52,834 --> 00:47:56,209 ...and why he had to leave America. 562 00:48:00,876 --> 00:48:04,251 Do you remember the Armstrong case? 563 00:48:04,376 --> 00:48:06,542 Of course. 564 00:48:06,667 --> 00:48:10,126 The kidnapping of that little American girl and the killing. 565 00:48:10,251 --> 00:48:12,251 Ah, who does not? 566 00:48:12,376 --> 00:48:15,376 You remember the name of the child? 567 00:48:15,501 --> 00:48:18,251 Certamente. It was Daisy. 568 00:48:18,376 --> 00:48:20,667 - D... - D... 569 00:48:20,792 --> 00:48:23,126 - ...A... - ...A-I... 570 00:48:23,251 --> 00:48:29,001 S-Y space A-R... 571 00:48:29,126 --> 00:48:30,626 M-S. 572 00:48:30,751 --> 00:48:32,626 Daisy Armstrong. 573 00:48:32,751 --> 00:48:35,751 Ah. And Ratchett was her murderer? 574 00:48:35,876 --> 00:48:36,876 Well, no. 575 00:48:37,001 --> 00:48:41,376 The actual murderer was tried, sentenced and electrocuted. 576 00:48:41,501 --> 00:48:45,001 But he was only the number two, the subordinate of a boss 577 00:48:45,126 --> 00:48:47,834 whom at first he was too terrified to identify. 578 00:48:47,959 --> 00:48:51,084 Only on the eve of his electrocution, did he give the name of the boss, 579 00:48:51,209 --> 00:48:54,917 who by then had disappeared with the ransom money. 580 00:48:55,042 --> 00:48:57,917 I remember feeling ashamed that he had an Italian name. 581 00:48:58,042 --> 00:48:59,876 Cassetti. 582 00:49:00,001 --> 00:49:02,834 Che mostro. He had a child's blood on his hands. 583 00:49:04,042 --> 00:49:06,042 He had worse than that. 584 00:49:06,751 --> 00:49:10,417 After the shock of the body's discovery, 585 00:49:10,542 --> 00:49:14,834 Mrs Armstrong gave premature birth to a stillborn child 586 00:49:14,959 --> 00:49:17,792 and herself died in the process. 587 00:49:17,917 --> 00:49:19,834 Her husband Colonel Armstrong, 588 00:49:19,959 --> 00:49:23,459 once a brave officer in the Scots Guards, shot himself, 589 00:49:23,584 --> 00:49:25,792 and Mrs Armstrong's personal maid, 590 00:49:25,917 --> 00:49:29,709 who came wrongly under suspicion of complicity, 591 00:49:29,834 --> 00:49:32,417 threw herself from a bedroom window and she died. 592 00:49:32,542 --> 00:49:34,792 So five deaths. Five! 593 00:49:34,917 --> 00:49:39,542 Then I thank heaven that Cassetti, who spilt so much blood in his lifetime, 594 00:49:39,667 --> 00:49:41,459 should have his own blood spilt now. 595 00:49:50,459 --> 00:49:51,876 (Speaking French) 596 00:49:56,792 --> 00:49:58,209 Excellent, Pierre. 597 00:49:58,334 --> 00:50:00,292 And could you summon the passengers to me here, 598 00:50:00,417 --> 00:50:03,667 one by one in this order, except for the Princess Dragomiroff, 599 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:08,501 who is not only of royal blood but also much older than she tries not to look. 600 00:50:08,626 --> 00:50:12,542 And, er... Pierre, since you are here already, 601 00:50:12,667 --> 00:50:16,709 we can conveniently start by questioning you. 602 00:50:16,834 --> 00:50:20,751 Your full name is Pierre Paul Michel. 603 00:50:21,876 --> 00:50:25,042 - Correct, monsieur. - (Poirot) Two male saints' names. 604 00:50:25,167 --> 00:50:26,959 You must be greatly blessed. 605 00:50:27,084 --> 00:50:30,001 I've had my share of good fortune, monsieur. 606 00:50:30,126 --> 00:50:32,001 So, and of bad. 607 00:50:32,126 --> 00:50:37,292 I note the cancellation of your wife's photograph nearly five years ago. 608 00:50:37,417 --> 00:50:39,667 She is deceased? 609 00:50:39,792 --> 00:50:44,542 She died, monsieur, of grief at the death of... 610 00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:49,959 ...our only daughter from scarlet fever. 611 00:50:53,084 --> 00:50:55,084 I am truly sorry. 612 00:50:57,084 --> 00:50:58,959 (Sighs) 613 00:50:59,959 --> 00:51:03,292 Let us talk of less distressing matters. 614 00:51:03,417 --> 00:51:06,292 On the night of the murder, after we left Belgrade, 615 00:51:06,417 --> 00:51:09,167 who were the last passengers to retire to their compartment? 616 00:51:09,292 --> 00:51:11,667 Show me on the diagram. 617 00:51:11,792 --> 00:51:14,959 About 1:30, I remember seeing the English colonel 618 00:51:15,084 --> 00:51:20,167 say good night to Mr McQueen outside number three and four. 619 00:51:20,292 --> 00:51:22,876 'I saw him walk back into his compartment, 620 00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:26,376 'number 15, which he did not leave.' 621 00:51:26,501 --> 00:51:29,584 And after that, did no one re-emerge? 622 00:51:29,709 --> 00:51:31,126 No. 623 00:51:31,251 --> 00:51:34,542 But there was one lady who opened a door, 624 00:51:34,667 --> 00:51:38,959 I don't know which, and walked in the direction of the toilet 625 00:51:39,084 --> 00:51:41,542 at the far end of the corridor next to the dining car. 626 00:51:41,667 --> 00:51:44,959 (Poirot) 'Did you see her return?' (Pierre) 'No, monsieur.' 627 00:51:45,084 --> 00:51:47,334 It is possible I was answering a bell. 628 00:51:47,459 --> 00:51:50,459 Mm. Ah, that reminds me of a final point. 629 00:51:50,584 --> 00:51:53,917 Much earlier, soon after 12:30, you and I both heard Mr Ratchett 630 00:51:54,042 --> 00:51:57,834 ring his bell several times and then apologise for having had a nightmare. 631 00:51:57,959 --> 00:51:59,959 (Bell chimes) 632 00:52:02,834 --> 00:52:04,667 (Bell chimes) 633 00:52:07,709 --> 00:52:10,376 (Man) Ce n'est rien! C'était un cauchemar! 634 00:52:10,501 --> 00:52:14,792 Who rang the second bell while you were answering Mr Ratchett's? 635 00:52:14,917 --> 00:52:17,459 The Princess Dragomiroff, monsieur. 636 00:52:17,584 --> 00:52:20,334 She asked me to summon her maid. 637 00:52:21,626 --> 00:52:25,001 Thank you, Pierre. That is all for the moment. 638 00:52:33,376 --> 00:52:37,042 He had the means to do it, the passkey to Ratchett's room. 639 00:52:37,167 --> 00:52:39,167 And a knife borrowed from the chef. 640 00:52:39,292 --> 00:52:40,542 With whom he was in league. 641 00:52:40,667 --> 00:52:43,417 Which he plunged repeatedly and without motive 642 00:52:43,542 --> 00:52:46,126 into the body of his suitably astonished victim. 643 00:52:46,251 --> 00:52:51,459 Anyway, we know the door was not only locked but chained. 644 00:52:51,584 --> 00:52:54,626 Mr McQueen, since our last conversation, 645 00:52:54,751 --> 00:52:58,584 I have learned the true identity of your late employer. 646 00:52:58,709 --> 00:53:00,834 You... you don't say? 647 00:53:00,959 --> 00:53:02,084 Mm. 648 00:53:02,209 --> 00:53:07,167 Ratchett was, as you yourself suspected, merely an alias. 649 00:53:07,292 --> 00:53:08,876 He was, in fact, Cassetti, 650 00:53:09,001 --> 00:53:12,417 the gangster who masterminded the kidnapping and killing 651 00:53:12,542 --> 00:53:14,626 of little Daisy Armstrong. 652 00:53:14,751 --> 00:53:17,251 You had no idea of this? 653 00:53:18,167 --> 00:53:20,251 Oh, no, sir. 654 00:53:20,376 --> 00:53:23,876 If I had, I.. I'd have cut off my right hand 655 00:53:24,001 --> 00:53:26,667 so I couldn't type his lousy letters, 656 00:53:26,792 --> 00:53:28,751 and I'd have killed him with my left. 657 00:53:28,876 --> 00:53:33,501 You feel you, er... could have done the good deed yourself? 658 00:53:33,626 --> 00:53:37,626 It seems like I'm kind of incriminating myself. 659 00:53:37,751 --> 00:53:39,831 I should be more inclined to suspect you, Mr McQueen, 660 00:53:39,917 --> 00:53:44,251 if you displayed an inordinate sorrow at your employer's decease. 661 00:53:44,376 --> 00:53:46,501 Sorrow? 662 00:53:48,042 --> 00:53:51,667 My dad, my father, was the... the District Attorney, yeah, 663 00:53:51,792 --> 00:53:54,751 who handled the Armstrong case. 664 00:53:54,876 --> 00:53:57,584 Mrs Armstrong and her husband came to our house twice 665 00:53:57,709 --> 00:54:00,334 for... for advice about the ransom money. 666 00:54:00,459 --> 00:54:02,959 She was gentle and frightened. 667 00:54:04,417 --> 00:54:07,459 But not... not too frightened to take a... take an interest 668 00:54:07,584 --> 00:54:11,376 in a young man who wanted to go on the stage. 669 00:54:12,917 --> 00:54:15,501 She even said she'd write to... 670 00:54:15,626 --> 00:54:17,751 She died before she got around to that. 671 00:54:17,876 --> 00:54:23,001 She was as helpful to me as, er... well, a mother. 672 00:54:23,126 --> 00:54:25,501 Forgive a Freudian question. 673 00:54:25,626 --> 00:54:28,667 Do, er... do you love your mother? 674 00:54:28,792 --> 00:54:30,376 Er... I did. 675 00:54:30,501 --> 00:54:34,084 She died when I was, er... eight, an impressionable age. 676 00:54:34,209 --> 00:54:35,459 Why... why do you ask? 677 00:54:35,584 --> 00:54:38,185 (Poirot) We shared a compartment on the first night of our journey. 678 00:54:38,209 --> 00:54:42,542 You cried out, "Mother!" twice in your sleep. 679 00:54:42,667 --> 00:54:44,876 Did I? 680 00:54:45,001 --> 00:54:47,709 I still dream about her. 681 00:54:47,834 --> 00:54:49,959 Go on, tell me. 682 00:54:50,084 --> 00:54:52,584 I'm emotionally retarded. Tell me that's why I never married. 683 00:54:52,709 --> 00:54:55,042 I am not here to tell you anything, Mr McQueen. 684 00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:57,584 You are here to tell me. 685 00:54:57,709 --> 00:55:00,792 Yeah. I'm sorry. 686 00:55:00,917 --> 00:55:03,792 Yeah, there... there's just, er... one thing. 687 00:55:03,917 --> 00:55:08,709 How did you, er... figure out, um... Ratchett's identity? 688 00:55:08,834 --> 00:55:12,709 By a message found in his compartment. 689 00:55:12,834 --> 00:55:16,167 Ah, he'd have... he'd have burnt that, though, as I told you. 690 00:55:16,292 --> 00:55:17,959 Mm, he did. 691 00:55:18,084 --> 00:55:20,126 Oh. Yeah, he did. 692 00:55:20,251 --> 00:55:23,126 Er... then how did you decipher...? 693 00:55:23,251 --> 00:55:27,084 With the help of a hatbox. Thank you, Mr McQueen. 694 00:55:32,751 --> 00:55:34,292 He did it. 695 00:55:34,417 --> 00:55:37,251 He murdered Cassetti. He practically confessed as much. 696 00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:40,709 No, I... No, the psychology is wrong. 697 00:55:40,834 --> 00:55:44,667 A sensitive, motherless boy conceives a passion for a lady 698 00:55:44,792 --> 00:55:47,876 whom he admires above all for her gentleness. 699 00:55:48,001 --> 00:55:51,334 Now, could McQueen, admiring the gentleness, 700 00:55:51,459 --> 00:55:55,209 commit so foul a murder without betraying the gentleness 701 00:55:55,334 --> 00:55:58,501 of what we might call his fairy godmother? 702 00:55:58,626 --> 00:56:01,209 Ah! Godmother! 703 00:56:02,251 --> 00:56:05,876 Now you have accidentally said something valuable. 704 00:56:06,001 --> 00:56:07,792 Come! 705 00:56:11,209 --> 00:56:15,959 Mr Beddoes, this is not an inquisition only an inquiry. 706 00:56:16,084 --> 00:56:18,584 When you took Mr Ratchett his Valerian drops 707 00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:21,251 about 9:40 yesterday evening, 708 00:56:21,376 --> 00:56:23,251 was he already in bed? 709 00:56:23,376 --> 00:56:25,917 That is so, sir. Mr Ratchett always retired early on trains. 710 00:56:26,042 --> 00:56:29,209 (Poirot) What were your duties before leaving him for the night? 711 00:56:29,334 --> 00:56:31,667 To place the Valerian drops within reach, sir. 712 00:56:31,792 --> 00:56:33,459 - Beddoes. - Sir? 713 00:56:33,584 --> 00:56:35,709 Did you put this on my table during dinner? 714 00:56:35,834 --> 00:56:38,417 - No, sir. - Then who the hell did? 715 00:56:38,542 --> 00:56:42,542 I have no idea, sir. May I ask what it is? 716 00:56:42,667 --> 00:56:44,709 What it is, is none of your damn business. 717 00:56:44,834 --> 00:56:47,792 I want to know how it got here. 718 00:56:50,542 --> 00:56:52,917 - Will there be anything more, sir? - There will. 719 00:56:53,042 --> 00:56:55,334 Tell Mr McQueen I want to see him now. 720 00:56:55,459 --> 00:56:57,459 Very well, sir. 721 00:56:59,334 --> 00:57:01,268 At what time would you like to be called in the morning, sir? 722 00:57:01,292 --> 00:57:04,626 - Not before ten. - Very good, sir. 723 00:57:04,751 --> 00:57:07,667 - (Poirot) Was that usual? - Oh, quite, sir, yes. 724 00:57:07,792 --> 00:57:09,917 His breakfast was his amber moon. 725 00:57:10,042 --> 00:57:12,084 He never rose until it had had its full effect. 726 00:57:12,209 --> 00:57:15,626 So, you instructed, er... Mr McQueen 727 00:57:15,751 --> 00:57:18,001 and then returned to your own compartment, 728 00:57:18,126 --> 00:57:19,376 the number one and two, 729 00:57:19,501 --> 00:57:23,667 whose upper berth was occupied by, er... Signor Foscarelli? 730 00:57:23,792 --> 00:57:25,376 Oh, yes, sir, the Italian person. 731 00:57:25,501 --> 00:57:27,501 (Poirot) Er... does he speak English? 732 00:57:27,626 --> 00:57:29,084 A kind of English, sir. 733 00:57:29,209 --> 00:57:31,501 I think he learnt it in a place called Chicago. 734 00:57:31,626 --> 00:57:33,834 (Poirot) Do you talk together much? 735 00:57:33,959 --> 00:57:36,334 Oh, no, sir. I prefer to read. 736 00:57:41,459 --> 00:57:45,126 Hey, what are you reading, Mr Beddoes? 737 00:57:45,251 --> 00:57:48,792 "Love's Captive" by Mrs Arabella Richardson. 738 00:57:48,917 --> 00:57:50,667 (Foscarelli) Is it about sex? 739 00:57:50,792 --> 00:57:54,626 No, it's about 10:30, Mr Foscarelli. 740 00:57:56,501 --> 00:57:57,834 (Laughs) 741 00:57:57,959 --> 00:58:00,709 I like that. "It's about 10:30!" 742 00:58:02,751 --> 00:58:04,709 And after that you went to sleep? 743 00:58:04,834 --> 00:58:08,584 No, sir, not until four in the morning. Unfortunately, I had the toothache. 744 00:58:08,709 --> 00:58:11,626 Ah, and your companion? 745 00:58:11,751 --> 00:58:13,626 - He snored incessantly. - (Poirot) Ah. 746 00:58:13,751 --> 00:58:15,334 One final point. 747 00:58:15,459 --> 00:58:18,917 How did you come to be employed by Mr Ratchett? 748 00:58:19,042 --> 00:58:21,042 Through Maibaums, sir, the big agency in New York. 749 00:58:21,167 --> 00:58:22,501 You'll find me on their books. 750 00:58:22,626 --> 00:58:24,251 (Poirot) And before then? 751 00:58:24,376 --> 00:58:26,376 I was in the Army, sir, as a private soldier. 752 00:58:26,501 --> 00:58:29,167 - (Poirot) Where? - Troon, sir. 753 00:58:29,292 --> 00:58:31,501 - In the Far East? - Oh, no, sir, in Scotland. 754 00:58:31,626 --> 00:58:33,917 Oh, Scotland! Ha-ha-ha-ha! 755 00:58:34,042 --> 00:58:36,626 Oh, forgive me. I am only an ignorant Belgian. 756 00:58:36,751 --> 00:58:39,292 Oh, a Belgian, sir? I always thought you were French. 757 00:58:39,417 --> 00:58:41,292 (Poirot) Belgian. 758 00:58:41,417 --> 00:58:44,959 Did you know that Mr Ratchett was of Italian extraction? 759 00:58:45,084 --> 00:58:47,501 Ah, so that accounts for his hot temper. 760 00:58:47,626 --> 00:58:49,667 (Poirot chuckles) 761 00:58:49,792 --> 00:58:54,209 His real name was Cassetti. The name means nothing to you? 762 00:58:55,542 --> 00:58:58,917 You remember the Armstrong case? 763 00:58:59,042 --> 00:59:01,417 No, sir. Oh. Yes, yes. 764 00:59:01,542 --> 00:59:04,292 Er... the little girl. 765 00:59:04,417 --> 00:59:09,334 Cassetti was responsible for her murder. 766 00:59:09,459 --> 00:59:11,792 How does that strike you? 767 00:59:11,917 --> 00:59:13,459 I've often thought, sir, 768 00:59:13,584 --> 00:59:16,126 that instead of our employers requiring references from us, 769 00:59:16,251 --> 00:59:17,834 we should require references from them. 770 00:59:17,959 --> 00:59:19,834 (Laughs) 771 00:59:20,959 --> 00:59:22,251 Thank you, Mr Beddoes. 772 00:59:22,376 --> 00:59:24,876 Oh, please don't get up, sir. Will there be anything else? 773 00:59:25,001 --> 00:59:27,001 (Poirot) No, that is all. 774 00:59:30,417 --> 00:59:32,501 He did it. The butler did it. 775 00:59:32,626 --> 00:59:35,209 He had constant access to Ratchett. 776 00:59:35,334 --> 00:59:37,542 He himself could have poisoned the Valerian 777 00:59:37,667 --> 00:59:39,084 before bringing it to his master. 778 00:59:39,209 --> 00:59:41,709 As for the psychological, 779 00:59:41,834 --> 00:59:44,834 well, who knows what boils and bubbles beneath that stiff shirt 780 00:59:44,959 --> 00:59:46,834 to which his profession has called him? 781 00:59:46,959 --> 00:59:49,584 Did he not read "Love's Captive", hm? 782 00:59:49,709 --> 00:59:52,834 At a time when you suggest he should have been stabbing Mr Ratchett? 783 00:59:52,959 --> 00:59:55,792 (Engine whistle) 784 01:00:07,334 --> 01:00:09,542 (Whistle blows) 785 01:00:15,376 --> 01:00:18,542 I fear that help is at hand. 786 01:00:18,667 --> 01:00:21,459 Even if it only a working party with picks and shovels, 787 01:00:21,584 --> 01:00:25,584 we must make haste to complete this enquiry before we reach Brod. 788 01:00:25,709 --> 01:00:28,751 If it is an engine with a snowplough, our troubles will really begin. 789 01:00:28,876 --> 01:00:30,516 (Doctor) Who's next? (Poirot) Mrs Hubbard. 790 01:00:30,584 --> 01:00:32,501 Oh, my God. 791 01:00:33,584 --> 01:00:35,501 The whistle means that help is near, madame. 792 01:00:35,626 --> 01:00:36,751 And high time, too. 793 01:00:36,876 --> 01:00:38,209 Time is what counts, Mrs Hubbard, 794 01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:40,626 if we are to complete this enquiry before reaching Brod. 795 01:00:40,751 --> 01:00:43,792 I will make my questions as brief as I hope you will make your answers, 796 01:00:43,917 --> 01:00:46,768 and the more often you confine yourself to a simple yes or no, the better. 797 01:00:46,792 --> 01:00:48,292 Don't waste time yammering. Begin. 798 01:00:48,417 --> 01:00:51,292 Your full name is Harriet Belinda Hubbard? 799 01:00:51,417 --> 01:00:52,810 Yes, I was called Harriet after my... 800 01:00:52,834 --> 01:00:55,626 By now, Mr McQueen has doubtless informed you 801 01:00:55,751 --> 01:00:57,501 of the true identity of Mr Ratchett? 802 01:00:57,626 --> 01:00:58,709 Yes, that low-down... 803 01:00:58,834 --> 01:01:00,917 (Poirot) Were you acquainted with the Armstrongs? 804 01:01:01,042 --> 01:01:02,922 Of course not. They were a very social family... 805 01:01:02,959 --> 01:01:05,917 Mrs Hubbard, I overheard the whole of your conversation with Pierre 806 01:01:06,042 --> 01:01:07,709 about there being a man in your room 807 01:01:07,834 --> 01:01:10,126 soon after one o'clock on the night of the murder. 808 01:01:10,251 --> 01:01:11,584 Tell me one thing more. 809 01:01:11,709 --> 01:01:13,792 Wasn't the door locked on your side of the door 810 01:01:13,917 --> 01:01:16,834 that communicated with Mr Ratchett's compartment when you went to bed? 811 01:01:16,959 --> 01:01:18,639 Yes, so far as I know. My second husband... 812 01:01:18,751 --> 01:01:20,917 What do you mean, as far as you know? 813 01:01:21,042 --> 01:01:23,626 Could you not see the bolt from the bed? 814 01:01:23,751 --> 01:01:26,126 - No. - Why? 815 01:01:26,251 --> 01:01:28,876 It was masked by my make-up bag on the hook above. 816 01:01:29,001 --> 01:01:30,721 Pierre checked the bolt after I rang my bell 817 01:01:30,792 --> 01:01:33,126 and told him there had been a man hiding in my compartment. 818 01:01:33,251 --> 01:01:35,917 Yes, yes, we know all about that. 819 01:01:36,042 --> 01:01:39,126 - Oh, no, you don't. - I beg your pardon? 820 01:01:39,251 --> 01:01:41,709 You don't know what I found this morning 821 01:01:41,834 --> 01:01:44,584 on top of the magazine I'd been reading to send myself asleep. 822 01:01:44,709 --> 01:01:46,834 What? 823 01:01:55,876 --> 01:01:58,167 Dio mio. 824 01:01:58,292 --> 01:02:03,667 This is a button from the tunic of a Wagons-Lits conductor. Ah... 825 01:02:03,792 --> 01:02:07,667 Doctor, would you kindly enquire whether Pierre has lost a tunic button? 826 01:02:07,792 --> 01:02:09,917 Gladly. 827 01:02:17,084 --> 01:02:19,084 Your handkerchief, Mrs Hubbard. 828 01:02:19,209 --> 01:02:21,542 Oh, that's not mine. I have mine right here. 829 01:02:21,667 --> 01:02:25,584 Oh, I, er... I thought the initial H... 830 01:02:25,709 --> 01:02:29,376 H for Harriet. H for Hubbard. But it's still not mine. 831 01:02:29,501 --> 01:02:34,126 Mine are sensible things, not expensive Paris frills. 832 01:02:34,251 --> 01:02:36,042 What good's a hanky like that to anybody? 833 01:02:36,167 --> 01:02:38,667 One sneeze and it has to go to the laundry. 834 01:02:38,792 --> 01:02:40,167 (Both chuckle) 835 01:02:40,292 --> 01:02:43,501 Mrs Hubbard, you have afforded me a great deal of help 836 01:02:43,626 --> 01:02:45,959 in this difficult case. 837 01:02:46,084 --> 01:02:49,459 Thank you, if I may so express it, for playing your part. 838 01:02:51,376 --> 01:02:54,626 If you need me again, I'll be around. 839 01:02:54,751 --> 01:02:56,584 Not one of Pierre's buttons is missing 840 01:02:56,709 --> 01:02:59,417 and all his buttons are sewn on with old thread. 841 01:02:59,542 --> 01:03:01,167 (Poirot) As I suspected. 842 01:03:01,292 --> 01:03:03,667 - I'm frightened. - Have no fear, mademoiselle. 843 01:03:03,792 --> 01:03:05,552 They all come out looking much more peaceful. 844 01:03:05,626 --> 01:03:07,459 Only God can give peaceful. 845 01:03:07,584 --> 01:03:09,501 God dag, fröken Ohlsson. 846 01:03:09,626 --> 01:03:11,626 Nej, talar Ni svenska. 847 01:03:11,751 --> 01:03:14,751 Alas, mademoiselle, that is the extent of my Swedish. 848 01:03:14,876 --> 01:03:16,542 Forgive me if I am personal, 849 01:03:16,667 --> 01:03:19,417 but most Scandinavians of my acquaintance 850 01:03:19,542 --> 01:03:22,834 are well educated in other languages, 851 01:03:22,959 --> 01:03:25,834 and yet you have difficulty. 852 01:03:25,959 --> 01:03:29,292 I... I was born backwards. 853 01:03:29,417 --> 01:03:30,542 Oh? 854 01:03:30,667 --> 01:03:35,459 That is why I work in Africa as missionary, 855 01:03:35,584 --> 01:03:40,001 teaching little brown babies more backward than myself. 856 01:03:40,126 --> 01:03:41,751 Mm. Hm. 857 01:03:41,876 --> 01:03:46,251 But I... I see that you have spent three months in America. 858 01:03:46,376 --> 01:03:49,292 Were you not able to improve? 859 01:03:49,417 --> 01:03:52,084 I was in a mis... 860 01:03:52,209 --> 01:03:54,459 international group 861 01:03:54,584 --> 01:03:58,959 for getting money for African mission 862 01:03:59,084 --> 01:04:01,167 from American rich. 863 01:04:01,292 --> 01:04:04,126 Erm... I... I speak Swedish, 864 01:04:04,251 --> 01:04:07,459 er... to big audiences 865 01:04:07,584 --> 01:04:13,626 in... in Swedish-American institution in Minneapolis 866 01:04:13,751 --> 01:04:16,251 and other big cities. 867 01:04:17,334 --> 01:04:20,292 In ten weeks we make, erm... 868 01:04:20,417 --> 01:04:24,792 14,000 dollars and 27 cents. 869 01:04:24,917 --> 01:04:27,542 - (Bianchi) Wonderful. - Wonderful. 870 01:04:30,376 --> 01:04:35,417 Miss Ohlsson, how long have you been interested in religion? 871 01:04:35,542 --> 01:04:38,209 From five years. 872 01:04:40,709 --> 01:04:45,376 In summer, I had been sick, as always, 873 01:04:45,501 --> 01:04:48,751 and I sat in the grass in the garden 874 01:04:48,876 --> 01:04:53,084 and I... I saw Jesus in the sky, 875 01:04:53,209 --> 01:04:57,209 mit many little children... 876 01:04:58,209 --> 01:05:01,876 ...but all the children were brown. 877 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:07,251 So, it was a sign for me to look after little brown babies. 878 01:05:07,376 --> 01:05:09,292 Yes. 879 01:05:09,417 --> 01:05:12,209 Were your parents religious? 880 01:05:12,792 --> 01:05:13,959 Nej. 881 01:05:14,084 --> 01:05:16,459 They had no respect for God. 882 01:05:16,584 --> 01:05:22,042 No, so it was not just a sign. 883 01:05:23,251 --> 01:05:25,542 It was also a punishment. 884 01:05:27,792 --> 01:05:30,251 Oh, there, there, there, there. 885 01:05:30,376 --> 01:05:32,751 I'm sure that God will forgive you, Miss Ohlsson, 886 01:05:32,876 --> 01:05:35,542 and perhaps, which is more important, 887 01:05:35,667 --> 01:05:37,876 so will your father and mother. 888 01:05:38,001 --> 01:05:40,542 No, no, no. 889 01:05:40,667 --> 01:05:42,667 Now. 890 01:05:46,667 --> 01:05:50,167 Here is the compartment you share with... 891 01:05:50,292 --> 01:05:54,001 Ja, here is my number seven bed. 892 01:05:54,126 --> 01:05:58,667 Yes, your number seven. Tell me about number eight. 893 01:05:58,792 --> 01:06:03,501 Is filled with, er... Miss, er... Debenham, 894 01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:07,334 a very nice young lady from Baghdad, 895 01:06:07,459 --> 01:06:11,084 where she teach English shorthand to children, 896 01:06:11,209 --> 01:06:13,417 to forward children. 897 01:06:13,542 --> 01:06:17,251 Er... after the train left Vinkovci, 898 01:06:17,376 --> 01:06:20,376 did she leave her berth? 899 01:06:20,501 --> 01:06:23,167 Nej, er... she sleep just like me. 900 01:06:23,292 --> 01:06:25,251 Ah, if you were fast asleep, 901 01:06:25,376 --> 01:06:29,209 how can you be so sure she did not leave? 902 01:06:29,334 --> 01:06:33,251 In Shimoga Mission, I can hear snake breathe. 903 01:06:33,376 --> 01:06:35,667 - Hm. Hm. - I would know. 904 01:06:35,792 --> 01:06:39,751 Good. And did you leave your room? 905 01:06:39,876 --> 01:06:44,626 Nej, not till morning in my bed gown. 906 01:06:44,751 --> 01:06:48,751 Er... is your bed gown white with red animals? 907 01:06:48,876 --> 01:06:51,251 Nej, is Jaeger. 908 01:06:51,376 --> 01:06:55,292 A-ha, and Miss Debenham's bed gown? 909 01:06:57,292 --> 01:07:00,542 Den var em Lila. 910 01:07:00,667 --> 01:07:05,667 - Like the French lilas, lilac? - Ja, just det Lila. 911 01:07:05,792 --> 01:07:07,417 Ah, good. 912 01:07:07,542 --> 01:07:11,292 And why are you making this trip, Miss Ohlsson? 913 01:07:11,417 --> 01:07:15,084 Er... just as always, money, money for mission. 914 01:07:15,209 --> 01:07:17,084 Mm, good, good. 915 01:07:17,209 --> 01:07:20,209 When this is all over, mademoiselle, 916 01:07:20,334 --> 01:07:24,126 I promise that I shall make you an emolument. 917 01:07:24,251 --> 01:07:26,584 God will find you a reward. 918 01:07:29,459 --> 01:07:31,584 Tack så mycket. Tack, tack. 919 01:07:33,376 --> 01:07:35,376 (Kisses her hand) 920 01:07:37,292 --> 01:07:39,834 Monsieur, she did it. 921 01:07:44,876 --> 01:07:45,876 Merci, Pierre, 922 01:07:46,001 --> 01:07:48,084 and could you please inform the Princess Dragomiroff 923 01:07:48,209 --> 01:07:50,626 that Signor Bianchi and I will attend on her and her maid 924 01:07:50,751 --> 01:07:52,334 shortly in her compartment? 925 01:07:52,459 --> 01:07:53,667 Oui, monsieur. 926 01:07:53,792 --> 01:07:55,459 Ah. 927 01:07:55,584 --> 01:07:57,584 That is very proper. 928 01:08:00,834 --> 01:08:03,667 Monsieur le Comte, this is a Hungarian diplomatic passport. 929 01:08:03,792 --> 01:08:07,001 It gives you and your wife the right to refuse interrogation. 930 01:08:07,126 --> 01:08:09,667 In the circumstances, we waive that right. 931 01:08:09,792 --> 01:08:11,667 You are most kind. 932 01:08:11,792 --> 01:08:13,376 As you know, Madame la Comtesse, 933 01:08:13,501 --> 01:08:16,876 it is a joint passport which sets out your husband's name and titles, 934 01:08:17,001 --> 01:08:19,417 but requires no particulars about yourself 935 01:08:19,542 --> 01:08:22,126 except your signature and your maiden name. 936 01:08:22,251 --> 01:08:25,042 Your maiden name is clearly Grunwald. 937 01:08:25,167 --> 01:08:28,501 That is correct, monsieur, my family is of German extraction, 938 01:08:28,626 --> 01:08:31,167 though I now hold Hungarian citizenship. 939 01:08:31,292 --> 01:08:35,292 Unfortunately, the first letter of your marriage signature 940 01:08:35,417 --> 01:08:40,292 has been almost obliterated by a grease spot. 941 01:08:40,417 --> 01:08:44,376 I must say, I find immigration officials are often less than clean. 942 01:08:44,501 --> 01:08:47,459 They sit in their little box eating a buttered roll with one hand 943 01:08:47,584 --> 01:08:50,626 and stamping the spilt butter into your passport with the other. 944 01:08:50,751 --> 01:08:54,126 Precisely, therefore I would be greatly obliged 945 01:08:54,251 --> 01:08:59,709 if you could duplicate the mutilated entry of your passport. 946 01:08:59,834 --> 01:09:01,876 There. 947 01:09:05,084 --> 01:09:08,334 Elena Andrenyi 948 01:09:08,459 --> 01:09:11,542 née Grunwald. 949 01:09:21,501 --> 01:09:24,167 Allowing for the difference in pens, 950 01:09:24,292 --> 01:09:26,376 the duplication seems exact. 951 01:09:27,376 --> 01:09:29,751 There would be little point, then, in asking 952 01:09:29,876 --> 01:09:32,459 whether this handkerchief is yours. 953 01:09:34,126 --> 01:09:38,126 Since it contains neither of my initials, no point whatsoever, monsieur. 954 01:09:38,251 --> 01:09:42,417 And even less point in asking the colour of your dressing gown. 955 01:09:43,251 --> 01:09:46,501 None, unless monsieur takes a professional interest 956 01:09:46,626 --> 01:09:48,292 in apricot silk. 957 01:09:48,417 --> 01:09:51,334 I take a professional interest in crime, madame. 958 01:09:51,459 --> 01:09:54,542 Have you and your husband ever visited America together? 959 01:09:54,667 --> 01:09:58,501 No. We first met in Wiesbaden much later. 960 01:09:58,626 --> 01:09:59,834 Later than what? 961 01:09:59,959 --> 01:10:04,084 Later than the days of my youth when I was on post in Washington. 962 01:10:04,209 --> 01:10:05,751 You lived in Washington? 963 01:10:05,876 --> 01:10:09,792 Oh, what diplomat of promise has not? 964 01:10:09,917 --> 01:10:12,459 You did not sleep well last night? 965 01:10:12,584 --> 01:10:16,876 On the contrary, apart from one of Mrs Hubbard's customary outbursts, 966 01:10:17,001 --> 01:10:18,542 I slept very soundly. 967 01:10:18,667 --> 01:10:20,001 And you, madame? 968 01:10:20,126 --> 01:10:22,501 Oh, even more soundly. 969 01:10:22,626 --> 01:10:24,834 We neither of us woke till after eight. 970 01:10:24,959 --> 01:10:27,042 As is my custom on night trains, I took Trional. 971 01:10:27,167 --> 01:10:30,126 Diethyl sulfone dimethyl methane. 972 01:10:30,251 --> 01:10:32,042 One dilutes the white crystals with water. 973 01:10:32,167 --> 01:10:33,834 It is a strong hypnotic. 974 01:10:33,959 --> 01:10:36,542 Ha-ha! He makes it sound like a poison. 975 01:10:36,667 --> 01:10:38,459 As with most sleeping draughts, 976 01:10:38,584 --> 01:10:41,709 if taken in sufficient quantities, it is a poison. 977 01:10:41,834 --> 01:10:44,501 - You are not accusing... - Ah-ah! You are not accused. 978 01:10:44,626 --> 01:10:46,709 You are excused. 979 01:10:46,834 --> 01:10:51,084 Thank you both for your help and co-operation. 980 01:11:00,459 --> 01:11:05,792 (Hildegarde) Kennst due das Land, wo die Zitronen blühen? 981 01:11:05,917 --> 01:11:11,709 Im dunklen Laub die Gold-Orangen glühen, 982 01:11:11,834 --> 01:11:16,917 Ein sanfter Wind vom Blauen Himmel weht, 983 01:11:17,042 --> 01:11:23,501 Die Myrtle still und hoch der Lorbeer steht... 984 01:11:26,917 --> 01:11:30,292 ...Kennst du es wohl? 985 01:11:32,626 --> 01:11:35,376 Why have you stopped reading? 986 01:11:37,751 --> 01:11:39,501 Dahin! Dahin! 987 01:11:39,626 --> 01:11:41,834 Möcht ich mit dir, O mein Gelieb... 988 01:11:41,959 --> 01:11:43,667 (Knocking) 989 01:11:50,084 --> 01:11:52,084 (Insistent knocking) 990 01:11:59,584 --> 01:12:02,084 - Altezza. - Signor Bianchi. 991 01:12:03,001 --> 01:12:05,792 Èpermesso presentare I'investigatore distinto... 992 01:12:05,917 --> 01:12:07,459 Monsieur Hercule Poirot. 993 01:12:07,584 --> 01:12:12,584 Ah, Hildegarde has read me many of your cases in the newspapers, 994 01:12:12,709 --> 01:12:15,251 but I have had to stop her. 995 01:12:15,376 --> 01:12:18,667 Nowadays they are the only form of literature 996 01:12:18,792 --> 01:12:20,917 that keeps me awake 997 01:12:21,042 --> 01:12:24,459 and I need what I defiantly continue to call 998 01:12:24,584 --> 01:12:26,459 my beauty sleep. 999 01:12:26,584 --> 01:12:27,876 Oh. 1000 01:12:28,001 --> 01:12:30,667 You would care for a little cognac? 1001 01:12:30,792 --> 01:12:32,459 - Thank you, no. - Yes, please. 1002 01:12:32,584 --> 01:12:36,459 Now, you wish me to confess 1003 01:12:36,584 --> 01:12:40,376 to the murder of Mr Whatshisname? 1004 01:12:40,501 --> 01:12:41,821 Au contraire, Madame la Princesse, 1005 01:12:41,876 --> 01:12:44,292 it is I who wish to make a confession. 1006 01:12:44,417 --> 01:12:46,917 You pay me the compliment of having read about me. 1007 01:12:47,042 --> 01:12:52,709 I return the compliment by admitting that I have read about you. 1008 01:12:52,834 --> 01:12:53,917 Continue. 1009 01:12:54,042 --> 01:12:56,834 I have been accidentally reminded 1010 01:12:56,959 --> 01:12:59,084 that you were the godmother of Mrs Armstrong, 1011 01:12:59,209 --> 01:13:02,667 who was herself the mother of the kidnapped child Daisy. 1012 01:13:02,792 --> 01:13:06,209 How did you become Mrs Armstrong's godmother, madame? 1013 01:13:06,334 --> 01:13:09,292 I was the friend and admirer of her mother, 1014 01:13:09,417 --> 01:13:12,667 the great American actress Linda Arden. 1015 01:13:12,792 --> 01:13:16,084 "Why did you bring these daggers from the place?" 1016 01:13:16,209 --> 01:13:19,334 Is that a quotation or a question? 1017 01:13:19,459 --> 01:13:23,376 A quotation. I saw her twice as Lady Macbeth in London. 1018 01:13:23,501 --> 01:13:28,042 She was the greatest tragic actress of her day. 1019 01:13:28,167 --> 01:13:31,126 (Poirot) Was? Surely she is still alive, madame? 1020 01:13:31,251 --> 01:13:34,167 Alive but bedridden. 1021 01:13:35,667 --> 01:13:39,542 Did she not have a second daughter, younger than Mrs Armstrong? 1022 01:13:39,667 --> 01:13:42,042 There was, but I do not recall her name. 1023 01:13:42,167 --> 01:13:45,376 When I paid a visit, she was always away at school. 1024 01:13:45,501 --> 01:13:47,834 What became of the younger daughter? 1025 01:13:47,959 --> 01:13:51,876 She married a Turk or some such. 1026 01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:54,167 We never spoke of it. 1027 01:13:54,292 --> 01:13:56,876 (Poirot) What was Mrs Armstrong's maiden name? 1028 01:13:57,001 --> 01:14:02,459 Mrs Armstrong's maiden name was Greenwood. 1029 01:14:02,584 --> 01:14:07,292 May I tax your memory and indeed your patience a little longer? 1030 01:14:07,417 --> 01:14:11,417 There are other names in the Armstrong household that I cannot recall. 1031 01:14:11,542 --> 01:14:15,251 - Was there not a secretary? - Of course there was a secretary. 1032 01:14:15,376 --> 01:14:18,834 - (Poirot) Her name, madame? - Her name? 1033 01:14:18,959 --> 01:14:21,334 Oh, my memory... 1034 01:14:21,459 --> 01:14:24,001 She was a Miss Freebody. 1035 01:14:24,126 --> 01:14:27,084 (Poirot) Hm. Was there not a gallant chauffeur? 1036 01:14:27,209 --> 01:14:29,334 (Princess) 'There was.' 1037 01:14:29,459 --> 01:14:32,167 I never used him. I had my own. 1038 01:14:32,292 --> 01:14:34,876 Surely he was not the only male servant? 1039 01:14:35,001 --> 01:14:36,768 (Princess) 'I seem to remember one other there.' 1040 01:14:36,792 --> 01:14:41,917 He was, I think you would say, the Colonel's Indian orderly. 1041 01:14:42,042 --> 01:14:46,251 Hm. And Mrs Armstrong's personal maid. 1042 01:14:46,376 --> 01:14:48,251 The one who was wrongly suspected 1043 01:14:48,376 --> 01:14:50,310 of complicity in the kidnapping and killed herself? 1044 01:14:50,334 --> 01:14:53,917 I always travel with my own personal maid. 1045 01:14:54,042 --> 01:14:57,792 There was no need to speak with Mrs Armstrong's. 1046 01:14:57,917 --> 01:15:02,126 Doubtless Fräulein Schmidt will remember her name. 1047 01:15:02,251 --> 01:15:04,792 Surely, Fräulein, as one lady's maid to another, 1048 01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:06,876 you conversed as equals below stairs? 1049 01:15:07,834 --> 01:15:11,001 Ja, ja, natürlich. 1050 01:15:11,126 --> 01:15:14,376 But ladies' maids were often called only by their Christian names. 1051 01:15:14,501 --> 01:15:18,459 - (Poirot) And what was hers? - Paulette. 1052 01:15:18,584 --> 01:15:23,959 Hildegarde, you will be so kind as to give me two aspirin 1053 01:15:24,084 --> 01:15:27,126 and you will ask the dining-car attendant to bring me a glass of Russian tea 1054 01:15:27,251 --> 01:15:30,459 and then you may retire to your own compartment. 1055 01:15:30,584 --> 01:15:32,834 I will ring when I need you. 1056 01:15:32,959 --> 01:15:35,542 Jawohl, meine Prinzessin. 1057 01:15:39,917 --> 01:15:42,126 Finally, there was the nurse. 1058 01:15:44,084 --> 01:15:48,376 I had... no need 1059 01:15:48,501 --> 01:15:50,667 of a nurse. 1060 01:15:50,792 --> 01:15:54,167 That is an ordeal still to come. 1061 01:15:57,001 --> 01:15:59,501 You never smile, Madame la Princesse. 1062 01:15:59,626 --> 01:16:05,126 My doctor has advised against it. 1063 01:16:18,417 --> 01:16:21,167 Excuse me, Countess. 1064 01:16:26,459 --> 01:16:29,084 There is no need for us to fatigue you further. 1065 01:16:29,209 --> 01:16:32,542 You have been of the utmost help. 1066 01:16:32,667 --> 01:16:36,042 Go back and tell Pierre to summon Colonel Arbuthnot in five minutes. 1067 01:16:36,167 --> 01:16:38,876 - I want a word with the maid. - Yes, Poirot. 1068 01:16:40,292 --> 01:16:41,876 Fräulein Schmidt. 1069 01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:44,227 I wonder if I may have a word with you about a small matter 1070 01:16:44,251 --> 01:16:45,834 in the privacy of your compartment? 1071 01:16:45,959 --> 01:16:50,001 - I have to take these aspirins... - We will leave the door ajar. 1072 01:16:54,167 --> 01:16:55,709 I observed how moved you were 1073 01:16:55,834 --> 01:16:58,959 at the mention of Mrs Armstrong's maid Paulette. 1074 01:16:59,084 --> 01:17:02,209 She had a sweet nature, mein Herr. We were deep friends. 1075 01:17:02,334 --> 01:17:04,792 Have you a photograph of her in your possession? 1076 01:17:04,917 --> 01:17:07,501 Ja. I never travel without my photo box. 1077 01:17:07,626 --> 01:17:10,334 It helps to pass the evenings. 1078 01:17:11,584 --> 01:17:14,251 No, please, mein Herr. I am strong. 1079 01:17:22,376 --> 01:17:24,376 - (Screams) - Be calm! 1080 01:17:26,001 --> 01:17:29,917 This could be your salvation and that of every passenger in the Calais coach, 1081 01:17:30,042 --> 01:17:31,917 including your mistress. 1082 01:17:37,834 --> 01:17:40,792 When did you last open the suitcase? 1083 01:17:40,917 --> 01:17:44,042 After Belgrade, when Pierre summoned me to the Prinzessin, 1084 01:17:44,167 --> 01:17:46,501 I took out a volume of Goethe 1085 01:17:46,626 --> 01:17:49,001 in case she wished me to read her to sleep. 1086 01:17:49,126 --> 01:17:51,709 Too stout for Pierre. 1087 01:17:52,626 --> 01:17:56,626 And, yes, there is a button missing from the tunic. 1088 01:17:56,751 --> 01:17:59,959 A button found by Mrs Hubbard. 1089 01:18:02,959 --> 01:18:07,126 And a passkey in the trouser pocket. 1090 01:18:09,042 --> 01:18:11,417 Here is the photo, mein Herr. 1091 01:18:12,292 --> 01:18:14,126 Hmm... 1092 01:18:15,209 --> 01:18:17,709 And this pretty innocent girl 1093 01:18:17,834 --> 01:18:21,084 threw herself from a window? 1094 01:18:22,542 --> 01:18:24,834 Ah, use this, Fräulein. 1095 01:18:24,959 --> 01:18:26,167 I found it in the corridor 1096 01:18:26,292 --> 01:18:28,477 and thought it must be yours because it bears the initial H. 1097 01:18:28,501 --> 01:18:32,417 No, no, that is the handkerchief not of a maid but of a great lady. 1098 01:18:32,542 --> 01:18:33,959 Like your mistress? 1099 01:18:35,792 --> 01:18:38,667 It is her style, ja, 1100 01:18:38,792 --> 01:18:41,751 but, er... not her handkerchief. 1101 01:18:41,876 --> 01:18:44,376 I know all her linen. 1102 01:18:44,501 --> 01:18:47,626 Besides, the initial is wrong. 1103 01:18:47,751 --> 01:18:50,417 What is the Princess's first name? 1104 01:18:50,542 --> 01:18:53,459 Natalia, mein Herr. It is a Russian name. 1105 01:18:53,584 --> 01:18:56,584 Then I must keep it until I find the rightful owner. 1106 01:18:56,709 --> 01:18:59,667 Might I also keep the photograph until this evening? 1107 01:18:59,792 --> 01:19:03,334 - I promise to return it. - Ja, ja. That does not worry me. 1108 01:19:03,459 --> 01:19:05,709 But this... this does. 1109 01:19:06,751 --> 01:19:09,209 Am I to be accused of hiding it in my suitcase? 1110 01:19:09,334 --> 01:19:13,959 Fräulein, I am as sure you did not hide the uniform 1111 01:19:14,084 --> 01:19:17,959 as I am sure you are a good and loyal friend to your mistress. 1112 01:19:18,084 --> 01:19:21,084 Not only a good maid but also a good cook. 1113 01:19:21,209 --> 01:19:25,376 Not merely a good cook but a companion, a comfort, a solace. 1114 01:19:25,501 --> 01:19:28,376 You see? You are a good cook, are you not? 1115 01:19:28,501 --> 01:19:30,626 All my ladies have said so. I... 1116 01:19:32,917 --> 01:19:35,001 (Chuckles) 1117 01:19:36,126 --> 01:19:37,584 Auf Wiedersehen. 1118 01:19:39,876 --> 01:19:42,876 ♪ Animal crackers in my soup 1119 01:19:43,876 --> 01:19:47,459 ♪ Lions and tigers loop the loop... ♪ 1120 01:19:49,292 --> 01:19:51,501 (Hums tune) 1121 01:20:03,292 --> 01:20:05,167 (Chuckles) 1122 01:20:05,292 --> 01:20:07,709 (Laughs) 1123 01:20:24,626 --> 01:20:26,667 You opening a dress shop? 1124 01:20:37,001 --> 01:20:38,792 No. 1125 01:20:38,917 --> 01:20:41,834 We are closing an enquiry. Where is Shimoga? 1126 01:20:41,959 --> 01:20:44,501 - I beg your pardon? - Shimoga. Where is it? 1127 01:20:44,626 --> 01:20:47,334 It's a bit off my track. I'm a North-West Frontier man myself. 1128 01:20:47,459 --> 01:20:50,626 But Shimoga's down south in Mysore. Why? 1129 01:20:50,751 --> 01:20:51,792 Does it possess a mission? 1130 01:20:51,917 --> 01:20:55,334 How the hell should I know? India's pustular with missions. 1131 01:20:55,459 --> 01:20:58,542 You are returning from leave from India to England? 1132 01:20:58,667 --> 01:21:01,001 - Yes? - Why overland? 1133 01:21:01,126 --> 01:21:02,501 Why not? 1134 01:21:02,626 --> 01:21:05,626 Because the sea route by P&O is more usual. 1135 01:21:07,001 --> 01:21:09,542 I chose to come overland for reasons of my own. 1136 01:21:09,667 --> 01:21:11,292 Colonel Arbuthnot, in a murder enquiry, 1137 01:21:11,417 --> 01:21:14,126 no suspect's reasons are exclusively his own. 1138 01:21:16,209 --> 01:21:19,667 I stopped for one night to see Ur of the Chaldees, 1139 01:21:19,792 --> 01:21:22,834 and for three days in Baghdad with the AOC, 1140 01:21:22,959 --> 01:21:24,876 who happens to be a friend of mine. 1141 01:21:25,001 --> 01:21:29,876 The English Miss Debenham also has travelled from Baghdad. 1142 01:21:30,001 --> 01:21:33,167 It is possible the murder was committed by a woman 1143 01:21:33,292 --> 01:21:37,876 or by a... a man and a woman in collaboration. 1144 01:21:38,001 --> 01:21:41,626 From your acquaintanceship with Miss Debenham, 1145 01:21:41,751 --> 01:21:44,584 would you have thought that she was, er... capable 1146 01:21:44,709 --> 01:21:46,126 physically or emotionally? 1147 01:21:46,251 --> 01:21:48,459 That's a bloody irregular question. 1148 01:21:48,584 --> 01:21:50,292 I know, but I ask it. 1149 01:21:50,417 --> 01:21:52,751 Miss Debenham is not a woman. 1150 01:21:55,542 --> 01:21:56,959 She's a lady. 1151 01:21:57,084 --> 01:21:59,334 (Poirot) Which precludes her from being a murderess? 1152 01:21:59,459 --> 01:22:01,167 Damn it, the man was a perfect stranger. 1153 01:22:01,292 --> 01:22:04,376 - She'd never seen him before. - You feel warmly in the matter. 1154 01:22:10,084 --> 01:22:12,001 I don't know what you're driving at. 1155 01:22:12,126 --> 01:22:14,143 (Poirot) Then let us be practical and drive at facts. 1156 01:22:14,167 --> 01:22:16,459 Did you know Colonel Armstrong? 1157 01:22:17,709 --> 01:22:19,876 (Arbuthnot) 'Not to speak to.' 1158 01:22:20,001 --> 01:22:22,959 You see, his outfit and mine wouldn't have mixed much. 1159 01:22:23,084 --> 01:22:26,042 I'm Indian Army. He was British Army, serving in India. 1160 01:22:26,167 --> 01:22:29,292 - Royal Scots. - How did you know? 1161 01:22:29,417 --> 01:22:33,417 It was in the papers when he shot himself after the kidnapping. 1162 01:22:33,542 --> 01:22:35,834 Hm. Rotten show. 1163 01:22:37,376 --> 01:22:39,917 Thought he'd have been tougher than that. 1164 01:22:40,042 --> 01:22:43,376 After all, he got a DSO and an MC in France. 1165 01:22:47,334 --> 01:22:49,834 Distinguished Service Order. 1166 01:22:52,042 --> 01:22:53,417 Military Cross. 1167 01:22:53,542 --> 01:22:55,959 Mon colonel, 1168 01:22:56,084 --> 01:23:00,334 Ratchett was responsible for five deaths. 1169 01:23:00,459 --> 01:23:05,209 The suicide of the falsely accused maid. 1170 01:23:05,334 --> 01:23:08,792 The murder of the Armstrong child. 1171 01:23:10,001 --> 01:23:12,667 The death of Mrs Armstrong 1172 01:23:12,792 --> 01:23:17,792 while giving premature birth to a stillborn baby. 1173 01:23:17,917 --> 01:23:21,084 And the ultimate suicide of Colonel Armstrong 1174 01:23:21,209 --> 01:23:25,459 in the face of multiple and intolerable bereavements! 1175 01:23:25,584 --> 01:23:30,667 I would have understood his action, if in addition to the DSO and MC, 1176 01:23:30,792 --> 01:23:33,626 he had been awarded the VC, 1177 01:23:33,751 --> 01:23:36,626 which stands, as you may know, for Victoria Cross 1178 01:23:36,751 --> 01:23:38,334 and is awarded for valour. 1179 01:23:40,126 --> 01:23:44,334 Then, in my opinion, Ratchett deserved what he got. 1180 01:23:45,667 --> 01:23:49,001 Though I'd sooner have seen him properly tried by jury. 1181 01:23:49,126 --> 01:23:53,709 Trial by 12 good men and true is a sound system. 1182 01:23:57,042 --> 01:23:59,209 Hm. 1183 01:23:59,334 --> 01:24:02,917 We believe the murder was committed at 1:15. 1184 01:24:03,042 --> 01:24:04,834 What were you doing then? 1185 01:24:05,792 --> 01:24:08,292 I was yarning with young... What's his name? McQueen. 1186 01:24:08,417 --> 01:24:10,209 In his compartment. 1187 01:24:10,334 --> 01:24:13,876 He was interested in the future of India, a bit impractical. 1188 01:24:14,001 --> 01:24:16,792 He thought the British ought to move out. 1189 01:24:16,917 --> 01:24:20,126 How long did you stay yarning after that? 1190 01:24:20,251 --> 01:24:22,584 Till, er... 1:30. It's... 1191 01:24:22,709 --> 01:24:27,417 (Laughs) It's what I call a three-pipe yarn. 1192 01:24:27,542 --> 01:24:32,084 Colonel Arbuthnot, you are the only passenger in the Calais coach 1193 01:24:32,209 --> 01:24:34,251 who smokes a "peep". 1194 01:24:35,876 --> 01:24:37,292 So it would appear. 1195 01:24:37,417 --> 01:24:42,334 Then this must, er... be your "peep" cleaner. 1196 01:24:43,626 --> 01:24:45,209 Same brand. 1197 01:24:45,334 --> 01:24:48,251 (Poirot) It was found in an ashtray by the dead man's bedside. 1198 01:24:48,376 --> 01:24:50,542 Then someone planted it there. 1199 01:24:50,667 --> 01:24:52,917 It's a used "peep" cleaner! 1200 01:24:54,626 --> 01:24:56,709 Or are you suggesting that I'm fool enough 1201 01:24:56,834 --> 01:24:59,209 to have entered Ratchett's cabin, murdered him, 1202 01:24:59,334 --> 01:25:02,709 cleaned my "peep" and dropped it in the ashtray before leaving? 1203 01:25:02,834 --> 01:25:04,959 No, Colonel Arbuthnot. 1204 01:25:06,667 --> 01:25:08,626 Miss Debenham! 1205 01:25:10,001 --> 01:25:13,876 - Er... can I stay? - No, Colonel Arbuthnot. 1206 01:25:19,626 --> 01:25:22,334 Please be seated. 1207 01:25:22,459 --> 01:25:25,167 (Train toots) 1208 01:25:26,001 --> 01:25:27,935 (Poirot) Forgive me, Miss Debenham. I must be brief. 1209 01:25:27,959 --> 01:25:31,459 You met Colonel Arbuthnot and fell in love with each other in Baghdad. 1210 01:25:31,584 --> 01:25:35,959 Why must the English conceal even their most impeccable emotions? 1211 01:25:36,084 --> 01:25:40,667 To answer your observations in order, of course, yes, 1212 01:25:40,792 --> 01:25:43,709 yes, and I don't know. 1213 01:25:43,834 --> 01:25:45,751 (Poirot) Then let me tell you what you do know, 1214 01:25:45,876 --> 01:25:47,167 that on the Bosphorus ferryboat 1215 01:25:47,292 --> 01:25:50,126 I overheard a part of your conversation with the Colonel. 1216 01:25:50,251 --> 01:25:54,626 Not now, not now. When it's all over. When it's behind us. Then. 1217 01:25:54,751 --> 01:25:59,459 When what was all over, Miss Debenham? 1218 01:25:59,584 --> 01:26:01,459 When what was behind you? 1219 01:26:01,584 --> 01:26:05,959 Was it some task that had to be performed? 1220 01:26:06,084 --> 01:26:08,209 Some ordeal that had to be endured? 1221 01:26:08,334 --> 01:26:10,834 Some dark deed that had to be dispatched? 1222 01:26:10,959 --> 01:26:14,417 Mr Poirot, I'm not at liberty to answer any of those questions. 1223 01:26:14,542 --> 01:26:17,876 Not here on this train perhaps, but when the Yugoslav police 1224 01:26:18,001 --> 01:26:20,084 take over an unsolved murder case at Brod, 1225 01:26:20,209 --> 01:26:23,042 you will not remain at liberty unless you answer the questions! 1226 01:26:23,167 --> 01:26:25,292 I can always call my lawyers long-distance. 1227 01:26:25,417 --> 01:26:28,292 This is a private matter between the Colonel and myself. 1228 01:26:28,417 --> 01:26:30,768 (Poirot) Miss Debenham, in a murder case no matter is private 1229 01:26:30,792 --> 01:26:33,334 and evasion breeds suspicion so answer my question! 1230 01:26:33,459 --> 01:26:35,584 When what was all over? When what was behind you? 1231 01:26:35,709 --> 01:26:37,251 Please answer the question! 1232 01:26:37,376 --> 01:26:39,626 You will remain here until I get an answer from you! 1233 01:26:39,751 --> 01:26:40,751 Mon colonel, please! 1234 01:26:40,876 --> 01:26:42,959 Monsieur Poirot has expressly forbidden... 1235 01:26:43,084 --> 01:26:45,084 Poirot has no right. He's out of order. 1236 01:26:45,209 --> 01:26:46,417 This is a private matter. 1237 01:26:46,542 --> 01:26:47,834 Je vous en prie, mon colonel. 1238 01:26:47,959 --> 01:26:49,334 - Mon colonel! - Get out of my way. 1239 01:26:49,459 --> 01:26:51,518 (Poirot) So answer my question. When what was all over? 1240 01:26:51,542 --> 01:26:54,251 - Answer my question! - Get your hands off Miss Debenham! 1241 01:26:54,376 --> 01:26:57,667 I was not aware that I was keeping my hands on Miss Debenham. 1242 01:26:57,792 --> 01:26:59,072 I asked her a simple question... 1243 01:26:59,167 --> 01:27:01,126 - So I heard. - ...which she refused to answer. 1244 01:27:01,251 --> 01:27:05,334 Then perhaps you can answer it for her. 1245 01:27:13,542 --> 01:27:17,209 Can you give me your solemn oath, as a foreigner... 1246 01:27:19,751 --> 01:27:22,751 ...that if the answer has nothing to do with the murder, 1247 01:27:22,876 --> 01:27:24,709 you'll treat it confidentially? 1248 01:27:24,834 --> 01:27:26,792 (Poirot) I will. 1249 01:27:35,459 --> 01:27:39,542 Six months ago, before I'd even met Miss Debenham, 1250 01:27:39,667 --> 01:27:42,209 - my memsahib... - (Bianchi) Come? 1251 01:27:42,334 --> 01:27:45,667 My wife expressed herself bored 1252 01:27:45,792 --> 01:27:49,959 not only at living in India but, er... at living with me, 1253 01:27:50,084 --> 01:27:54,001 and, er... asked me to provide her with a divorce. 1254 01:27:54,126 --> 01:27:56,459 In view of my position, Commanding Officer, 12th Gurkhas, 1255 01:27:56,584 --> 01:27:58,709 I refused. 1256 01:27:58,834 --> 01:28:02,334 Well, had I not, I should have lost my command. 1257 01:28:02,459 --> 01:28:04,751 My wife returned to England, 1258 01:28:04,876 --> 01:28:06,626 where there is irrefutable evidence 1259 01:28:06,751 --> 01:28:11,167 that she has been persistently unfaithful to me. 1260 01:28:12,917 --> 01:28:16,126 I have therefore instituted divorce proceedings 1261 01:28:16,251 --> 01:28:20,501 in which she is cited as the guilty party, 1262 01:28:20,626 --> 01:28:24,751 and when those proceedings are behind us, 1263 01:28:24,876 --> 01:28:31,042 when those proceedings are all over, I propose to marry Miss Debenham. 1264 01:28:32,834 --> 01:28:38,084 Meanwhile, it is of vital importance under English law 1265 01:28:38,209 --> 01:28:40,167 that, er... our... 1266 01:28:41,292 --> 01:28:45,292 ...behaviour should not provide evidence 1267 01:28:45,417 --> 01:28:48,584 for counter-proceedings by my wife. 1268 01:28:54,376 --> 01:28:56,917 Does that answer your question? 1269 01:29:02,834 --> 01:29:04,501 (Poirot) Hm. 1270 01:29:08,376 --> 01:29:10,334 Well, er... 1271 01:29:12,959 --> 01:29:15,417 ...it is certainly an answer. 1272 01:29:17,292 --> 01:29:19,959 Doctor, is Pierre sufficiently recovered? 1273 01:29:20,084 --> 01:29:22,209 - Fully. - May we go? 1274 01:29:22,334 --> 01:29:27,001 You may with my assurance that our foreigners' lips shall be sealed. 1275 01:29:27,126 --> 01:29:30,459 Sorry if I hurt the lad. Provocation. 1276 01:29:33,084 --> 01:29:34,709 They could've done it together. 1277 01:29:34,834 --> 01:29:36,394 She has hidden fire. She is very strong. 1278 01:29:36,501 --> 01:29:38,959 Why did you not ask her if she'd been to America? 1279 01:29:39,084 --> 01:29:42,084 (Poirot) Because I did not need to. 1280 01:29:43,792 --> 01:29:46,459 Pierre, le colonel s'excuse de son geste. 1281 01:29:46,584 --> 01:29:48,209 Merci, monsieur. 1282 01:29:48,334 --> 01:29:51,001 Signor Foscarelli. 1283 01:29:54,792 --> 01:29:56,376 You are a naturalised American subject? 1284 01:29:56,501 --> 01:29:57,667 You bet. 1285 01:29:57,792 --> 01:29:59,584 - For how long? - Seven years. 1286 01:29:59,709 --> 01:30:01,292 Mi ricordo del giorno preciso quando... 1287 01:30:01,417 --> 01:30:04,792 Faccia di rispondere alle domande. 1288 01:30:04,917 --> 01:30:07,917 Otherwise, he will detain you longer than you would detain him. 1289 01:30:08,042 --> 01:30:10,459 - You are a motorcar salesman. - You bet. 1290 01:30:10,584 --> 01:30:12,834 American automobiles to Italians. 1291 01:30:12,959 --> 01:30:14,751 (Poirot) Did you know Cassetti? 1292 01:30:14,876 --> 01:30:17,417 Not on your sweet life. Era Mafioso. 1293 01:30:18,542 --> 01:30:20,584 Ah, he says he was Mafia. 1294 01:30:20,709 --> 01:30:22,751 - Really? - Vero. 1295 01:30:22,876 --> 01:30:25,334 Who do you, er... who do you think killed him? 1296 01:30:25,459 --> 01:30:27,709 Un altro Mafioso. 1297 01:30:27,834 --> 01:30:28,834 He says another Mafia. 1298 01:30:28,959 --> 01:30:31,459 They are always killing each other with a knife or a gun. 1299 01:30:31,584 --> 01:30:33,292 Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa... 1300 01:30:47,501 --> 01:30:50,417 Why did you bring this dagger from the place? 1301 01:30:50,542 --> 01:30:52,167 Because I found it in my make-up bag. 1302 01:30:52,292 --> 01:30:54,167 Ecco, what did I say? Knives or guns. 1303 01:30:54,292 --> 01:30:56,209 It's a vendetta between two Mafiosi. 1304 01:30:56,334 --> 01:30:58,459 Give me the dagger. 1305 01:31:04,959 --> 01:31:07,626 When did you last open your make-up bag? 1306 01:31:07,751 --> 01:31:09,477 Yesterday evening, when I took everything out. 1307 01:31:09,501 --> 01:31:12,334 If you took everything out, why did you need to reopen it? 1308 01:31:12,459 --> 01:31:16,001 Because I was putting something back in. 1309 01:31:16,126 --> 01:31:19,751 You may set your mind at rest, er... Mrs Hubbard. 1310 01:31:21,001 --> 01:31:22,084 The missing button. 1311 01:31:22,209 --> 01:31:23,584 Precisely, and I can assure you 1312 01:31:23,709 --> 01:31:26,626 the owner of the tunic is not now on the train. 1313 01:31:28,376 --> 01:31:30,542 Are you going back to the dining car? 1314 01:31:30,667 --> 01:31:31,667 I'll say I am. 1315 01:31:31,792 --> 01:31:34,251 Do you think I could face my compartment so soon after that? 1316 01:31:34,376 --> 01:31:36,876 Would you kindly ask the chief attendant 1317 01:31:37,001 --> 01:31:38,751 to arrange the tables and chairs 1318 01:31:38,876 --> 01:31:42,751 so that Signor Bianchi, Dr Constantine and myself 1319 01:31:42,876 --> 01:31:45,751 can confront the passengers with the solution of the murder? 1320 01:31:56,334 --> 01:31:59,001 I, er... I help with the risoluzione. 1321 01:31:59,126 --> 01:32:02,292 Yes, if you will briefly answer two more questions. 1322 01:32:02,417 --> 01:32:03,667 Shoot. 1323 01:32:03,792 --> 01:32:05,209 On the night of the murder, 1324 01:32:05,334 --> 01:32:08,042 did Mr Beddoes leave the compartment? 1325 01:32:08,167 --> 01:32:12,042 No. No, he grunt like a pig with the pain in his teeth. 1326 01:32:12,167 --> 01:32:15,959 And, er... have you ever been in private service? 1327 01:32:16,084 --> 01:32:17,167 No. 1328 01:32:17,292 --> 01:32:19,584 Ah. Thank you. That is all. 1329 01:32:19,709 --> 01:32:22,501 - Excuse me, sir. - Yes. 1330 01:32:24,334 --> 01:32:26,501 Enfin, Doctor? 1331 01:32:26,626 --> 01:32:27,792 This blood is human. 1332 01:32:27,917 --> 01:32:31,292 This dagger could, in two different hands, 1333 01:32:31,417 --> 01:32:33,584 have inflicted all the wounds. 1334 01:32:33,709 --> 01:32:35,959 And you know who inflicted them, huh? 1335 01:32:36,084 --> 01:32:40,209 Our last interrogation will be something of a gamble. 1336 01:32:41,417 --> 01:32:43,417 But if it succeeds... 1337 01:32:44,459 --> 01:32:46,459 ...we'll know. 1338 01:32:47,084 --> 01:32:48,917 (Chuckles) 1339 01:32:49,042 --> 01:32:51,876 Ah, come in, come in, please. 1340 01:32:52,001 --> 01:32:54,459 - Be seated. - Thanks. 1341 01:32:54,584 --> 01:32:59,167 You are Cyrus B Hardman, a theatrical agent. 1342 01:32:59,292 --> 01:33:01,501 No. 1343 01:33:01,626 --> 01:33:03,917 I mean, I... I'm not a theatrical agent. 1344 01:33:04,042 --> 01:33:05,792 That's a phony, 1345 01:33:05,917 --> 01:33:08,001 issued to me under licence by Pinkerton's. 1346 01:33:08,126 --> 01:33:11,251 - (Poirot) The detective agency? - Stamboul Branch. 1347 01:33:11,376 --> 01:33:14,751 Ratchett asked them for an American bodyguard. They sent me. 1348 01:33:14,876 --> 01:33:16,917 I didn't do so hot. 1349 01:33:17,042 --> 01:33:19,001 (Chuckle) 1350 01:33:19,126 --> 01:33:22,209 Can you prove this was the reason for your journey? 1351 01:33:46,417 --> 01:33:49,209 (Hardman) 'It's Paulette. Paulette.' 1352 01:33:51,834 --> 01:33:54,126 Paulette Michel. 1353 01:33:57,626 --> 01:34:00,584 Now I can stop pretending to be anything. 1354 01:34:40,626 --> 01:34:44,751 Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? 1355 01:34:44,876 --> 01:34:47,876 May I respectfully suggest that there should be no talking 1356 01:34:48,001 --> 01:34:49,401 while Monsieur Poirot addresses you? 1357 01:34:49,501 --> 01:34:51,709 If anyone wishes to make a statement, 1358 01:34:51,834 --> 01:34:55,209 he or she can do so at the meeting's end. 1359 01:34:55,334 --> 01:34:57,334 Thank you. 1360 01:34:59,292 --> 01:35:02,792 (Poirot) Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that a repulsive murderer 1361 01:35:02,917 --> 01:35:07,376 has himself been repulsively and perhaps deservedly murdered. 1362 01:35:07,501 --> 01:35:11,167 How and why? Here is the simple answer. 1363 01:35:11,292 --> 01:35:13,084 There is evidence supporting the theory 1364 01:35:13,209 --> 01:35:15,751 that the murderer was a stranger to us all. 1365 01:35:15,876 --> 01:35:19,001 Mrs Hubbard was conscious of a man in her compartment 1366 01:35:19,126 --> 01:35:21,126 soon after 1:15 am. 1367 01:35:21,251 --> 01:35:24,209 She later found near her bedside 1368 01:35:24,334 --> 01:35:26,792 the button of a Wagons-Lits conductor. 1369 01:35:26,917 --> 01:35:30,834 Fräulein Schmidt discovered, planted in her suitcase, 1370 01:35:30,959 --> 01:35:33,042 the uniform of a conductor 1371 01:35:33,167 --> 01:35:36,001 which could not possibly have fitted Pierre 1372 01:35:36,126 --> 01:35:39,334 and from which in fact there was a button missing, 1373 01:35:39,459 --> 01:35:42,292 and in the trouser pocket of the uniform 1374 01:35:42,417 --> 01:35:45,334 was a conductor's passkey. 1375 01:35:45,459 --> 01:35:51,042 Later still, Mrs Hubbard discovered this bloodstained dagger, 1376 01:35:51,167 --> 01:35:53,626 which Dr Constantine confirms 1377 01:35:53,751 --> 01:35:57,209 could have been the murderer's weapon. 1378 01:35:57,334 --> 01:35:59,876 The obvious implication is 1379 01:36:00,001 --> 01:36:03,126 that the murderer, disguised as a conductor, 1380 01:36:03,251 --> 01:36:05,251 boarded the train at Belgrade, 1381 01:36:05,376 --> 01:36:08,126 made his way, by means of the convenient passkey, 1382 01:36:08,251 --> 01:36:09,876 to Ratchett's compartment, 1383 01:36:10,001 --> 01:36:13,501 stabbed him to death, planted the dagger and the uniform, 1384 01:36:13,626 --> 01:36:18,459 and then departed, since the train was now halted in a snowdrift. 1385 01:36:18,584 --> 01:36:23,292 Who was he? I am inclined to agree with Mr Foscarelli, 1386 01:36:23,417 --> 01:36:26,167 who believes that he was a rival member of the Mafia, 1387 01:36:26,292 --> 01:36:28,584 exacting private vengeance for a vendetta 1388 01:36:28,709 --> 01:36:33,876 whose precise nature the Yugoslav police will undoubtedly identify. 1389 01:36:36,042 --> 01:36:38,376 But is that all? 1390 01:36:38,501 --> 01:36:41,042 No. No, no, no, no. 1391 01:36:41,167 --> 01:36:43,001 No, it is not. 1392 01:36:43,126 --> 01:36:47,251 I said, er... here is the simple answer. 1393 01:36:49,792 --> 01:36:54,292 There is also a more... complex one. 1394 01:36:57,292 --> 01:37:01,292 But remember my first solution when uh... 1395 01:37:01,417 --> 01:37:03,876 when you've heard my second. 1396 01:37:05,209 --> 01:37:07,792 Let us for the moment assume what is perfectly possible, 1397 01:37:07,917 --> 01:37:11,292 that the mysterious stranger did not exist. 1398 01:37:11,417 --> 01:37:15,084 The murder must then have been committed by some person 1399 01:37:15,209 --> 01:37:17,542 or persons in the Calais coach 1400 01:37:17,667 --> 01:37:21,876 and therefore at present in this dining car. 1401 01:37:22,001 --> 01:37:25,709 Let us not for the moment ask the question how, 1402 01:37:25,834 --> 01:37:29,626 but the question why, which will tell us how. 1403 01:37:30,876 --> 01:37:33,751 I was not surprised that every single one of you should have heard 1404 01:37:33,876 --> 01:37:36,751 of the notorious Armstrong case. 1405 01:37:36,876 --> 01:37:38,959 But I confess to a mild surprise 1406 01:37:39,084 --> 01:37:41,709 when the first passenger I interrogated, 1407 01:37:41,834 --> 01:37:44,126 Mr McQueen, 1408 01:37:44,251 --> 01:37:46,584 admitted under emotional stress 1409 01:37:46,709 --> 01:37:50,959 that he had actually known Mrs Armstrong, albeit very slightly. 1410 01:37:51,084 --> 01:37:53,042 She was gentle and frightened. 1411 01:37:53,167 --> 01:37:55,876 But not too frightened to take an interest in a young man, 1412 01:37:56,001 --> 01:37:57,959 who wanted to go on the stage. 1413 01:37:58,084 --> 01:38:02,001 Was Mr McQueen lying when he denied ever having known 1414 01:38:02,126 --> 01:38:04,626 that Ratchett was Cassetti? 1415 01:38:04,751 --> 01:38:08,709 Or did he become Ratchett's secretary as part of a deliberate plan 1416 01:38:08,834 --> 01:38:11,584 to avenge Mrs Armstrong's death? 1417 01:38:12,667 --> 01:38:14,751 Only by interrogating the other passengers 1418 01:38:14,876 --> 01:38:18,959 could I hope to see the light, but when I began to question them, 1419 01:38:19,084 --> 01:38:23,001 the light, as, er... Macbeth would have said, 1420 01:38:23,126 --> 01:38:25,292 thickened. 1421 01:38:25,417 --> 01:38:26,959 When I told the Princess Dragomiroff 1422 01:38:27,084 --> 01:38:30,459 that I knew she was Mrs Armstrong's godmother, 1423 01:38:30,584 --> 01:38:32,501 her answers to my subsequent questions 1424 01:38:32,626 --> 01:38:36,959 smelt strongly of inaccuracy and evasion. 1425 01:38:37,084 --> 01:38:41,334 Even I knew more from reading the newspaper reports 1426 01:38:41,459 --> 01:38:45,876 than she from her frequent visits. 1427 01:38:46,001 --> 01:38:47,709 Was there not a chauffeur? 1428 01:38:47,834 --> 01:38:52,209 There was, monsieur, but I had my own. I never used him. 1429 01:38:52,334 --> 01:38:56,292 Evasion. What was the name of Mrs Armstrong's personal maid? 1430 01:38:56,417 --> 01:39:01,001 I always travel with my own maid, monsieur. 1431 01:39:01,126 --> 01:39:04,917 There was no need to speak with Mrs Armstrong's. 1432 01:39:05,042 --> 01:39:08,584 Evasion. I asked for particulars of the manservant. 1433 01:39:08,709 --> 01:39:13,876 He was, I think, the Colonel's... Indian, how you would say, orderly. 1434 01:39:14,001 --> 01:39:15,709 Inaccuracy. 1435 01:39:15,834 --> 01:39:18,542 Colonel Armstrong was an officer of the British Army in India. 1436 01:39:18,667 --> 01:39:23,459 He would've had a British batman, like, er... Private Beddoes, 1437 01:39:23,584 --> 01:39:26,917 to serve his personal needs. 1438 01:39:27,042 --> 01:39:30,876 Only officers of the Indian Army, like Colonel Arbuthnot, have Indian orderlies. 1439 01:39:31,001 --> 01:39:34,334 I asked her the name of Mrs Armstrong's younger sister. 1440 01:39:34,459 --> 01:39:36,084 I do not recall her name. 1441 01:39:36,209 --> 01:39:37,959 Unbelievable evasion! 1442 01:39:38,084 --> 01:39:41,876 I asked her the name of Mrs Armstrong's secretary. 1443 01:39:42,001 --> 01:39:44,626 Yes, a Miss Freebody. 1444 01:39:44,751 --> 01:39:46,959 Non, c'est impossible ça! 1445 01:39:48,126 --> 01:39:51,167 The Princess, it seems, is playing the psychological game 1446 01:39:51,292 --> 01:39:53,167 of word association. 1447 01:39:53,292 --> 01:39:57,209 Ha-ha! Freebody is the name of the junior partner 1448 01:39:57,334 --> 01:40:01,167 of one of London's most famous and most opulent ladies' stores 1449 01:40:01,292 --> 01:40:05,376 of the sort perhaps patronised by the Princess herself. 1450 01:40:05,501 --> 01:40:09,959 The name of the senior partner is Debenham, 1451 01:40:10,084 --> 01:40:12,417 Debenham and Freebody. 1452 01:40:13,876 --> 01:40:16,792 Was the Princess covering up for our Miss Debenham, 1453 01:40:16,917 --> 01:40:19,959 who taught shorthand in Baghdad? 1454 01:40:21,542 --> 01:40:25,501 Can she tell us the name of Mrs Armstrong's younger sister? 1455 01:40:25,626 --> 01:40:30,667 Then I will tell you her Christian and her maiden name. 1456 01:40:30,792 --> 01:40:32,626 When I asked the Princess Dragomiroff 1457 01:40:32,751 --> 01:40:36,209 if she could tell me the maiden name of her goddaughter, 1458 01:40:36,334 --> 01:40:38,792 Mrs Armstrong, 1459 01:40:38,917 --> 01:40:41,792 she could not possibly, as a godmother, plead ignorance of this, 1460 01:40:41,917 --> 01:40:42,917 she replied... 1461 01:40:43,042 --> 01:40:45,334 Greenwood. 1462 01:40:45,459 --> 01:40:46,917 (Poirot laughs) 1463 01:40:47,042 --> 01:40:51,209 Grunwald is the German for Greenwood! 1464 01:40:51,917 --> 01:40:54,876 The Princess's hesitation persuades me 1465 01:40:55,001 --> 01:40:58,084 that Grunwald was the true maiden name of her goddaughter, 1466 01:40:58,209 --> 01:41:00,084 Mrs Armstrong, 1467 01:41:00,209 --> 01:41:02,251 and that the Countess Andrenyi 1468 01:41:02,376 --> 01:41:06,501 is Mrs Armstrong's surviving younger sister. 1469 01:41:10,959 --> 01:41:14,792 The Christian name is Helena, not Elena. 1470 01:41:14,917 --> 01:41:17,376 No, no, no. But Helena. 1471 01:41:18,959 --> 01:41:22,959 And where did she lose her Christian name's initial H? 1472 01:41:23,084 --> 01:41:26,376 She lost it under a convenient grease spot 1473 01:41:26,501 --> 01:41:29,459 in her husband's passport. 1474 01:41:29,584 --> 01:41:33,001 And why was the grease spot purposely applied? 1475 01:41:33,126 --> 01:41:36,001 Because she and her husband were afraid 1476 01:41:36,126 --> 01:41:41,292 that this handkerchief bearing the initial H 1477 01:41:41,417 --> 01:41:44,209 might lead me to suspect her of complicity in the murder. 1478 01:41:44,334 --> 01:41:47,209 I swear before God, and on my word of honour as a gentleman, 1479 01:41:47,334 --> 01:41:49,459 that this handkerchief does not belong to my wife. 1480 01:41:49,584 --> 01:41:51,584 No. No, no, no, no, no. 1481 01:41:51,709 --> 01:41:54,959 No, no. No, no, no. It does not. 1482 01:41:55,084 --> 01:41:59,209 No, nor does it belong to Mrs Harriet Belinda Hubbard. 1483 01:41:59,334 --> 01:42:03,584 Nor to Fräulein Hildegarde Schmidt, 1484 01:42:03,709 --> 01:42:06,751 whose finest quality is her loyalty. 1485 01:42:06,876 --> 01:42:08,501 The initial is wrong. 1486 01:42:08,626 --> 01:42:11,417 What is the Princess's first name? 1487 01:42:11,542 --> 01:42:15,001 Natalia, mein Herr. It is a Russian name. 1488 01:42:15,126 --> 01:42:18,251 Ah, in the Russian or Cyrillic alphabet, 1489 01:42:18,376 --> 01:42:20,501 their capital N 1490 01:42:20,626 --> 01:42:25,167 is written like our capital H. 1491 01:42:25,292 --> 01:42:27,501 Madame la Princess, 1492 01:42:27,626 --> 01:42:30,751 should this costly handkerchief cease to remain an exhibit, 1493 01:42:30,876 --> 01:42:34,251 it will be returned to your loyal maid for laundering. 1494 01:42:34,376 --> 01:42:37,709 Or is Hildegarde Schmidt really your maid? 1495 01:42:37,834 --> 01:42:41,292 I have perhaps a nose for the aura of fine food 1496 01:42:41,417 --> 01:42:42,751 and laid a trap. 1497 01:42:42,876 --> 01:42:44,667 (Poirot) You are a good cook, are you not? 1498 01:42:44,792 --> 01:42:47,709 All my ladies have said so. I... 1499 01:42:47,834 --> 01:42:48,917 (Poirot chuckles) 1500 01:42:49,042 --> 01:42:51,376 If you are a lady's maid, 1501 01:42:51,501 --> 01:42:55,209 your ladies never have a chance of discovering if you are a good cook, 1502 01:42:55,334 --> 01:42:57,792 as good a cook as Hildegarde Schmidt must have been 1503 01:42:57,917 --> 01:43:00,251 to the Armstrong household. 1504 01:43:02,584 --> 01:43:05,126 Enfin... 1505 01:43:05,251 --> 01:43:09,251 Whom do we now have here in this car 1506 01:43:09,376 --> 01:43:14,626 that could have known or could have been involved 1507 01:43:14,751 --> 01:43:17,501 with the Armstrong household? 1508 01:43:18,792 --> 01:43:20,459 We have, one, Mr McQueen, 1509 01:43:20,584 --> 01:43:23,417 who became boyishly devoted to Mrs Armstrong 1510 01:43:23,542 --> 01:43:25,709 at the time of the kidnapping. 1511 01:43:25,834 --> 01:43:27,376 Two, the Princess Dragomiroff, 1512 01:43:27,501 --> 01:43:30,042 who was Mrs Armstrong's devoted godmother. 1513 01:43:30,167 --> 01:43:31,917 Three, the Countess Andrenyi, 1514 01:43:32,042 --> 01:43:34,376 who was Mrs Armstrong's devoted younger sister. 1515 01:43:34,501 --> 01:43:37,376 Four, the Count Andrenyi, who is Helena's devoted husband 1516 01:43:37,501 --> 01:43:40,834 and Mrs Armstrong's devoted brother-in-law. 1517 01:43:40,959 --> 01:43:41,959 Five, Hildegarde Schmidt, 1518 01:43:42,084 --> 01:43:44,459 who was Mrs Armstrong's devoted cook. 1519 01:43:44,584 --> 01:43:46,917 Six, Mary Debenham, 1520 01:43:47,042 --> 01:43:49,501 who was Mrs Armstrong's devoted secretary. 1521 01:43:49,626 --> 01:43:51,626 Miss Debenham's inclusion is pure conjecture. 1522 01:43:51,751 --> 01:43:53,792 I did not have to ask Miss Debenham 1523 01:43:53,917 --> 01:43:56,501 if she had ever lived in America... 1524 01:43:57,584 --> 01:44:00,376 ...because during her interrogation she said... 1525 01:44:00,501 --> 01:44:02,542 I can always call my lawyers long-distance. 1526 01:44:04,251 --> 01:44:06,751 An Englishwoman who had never lived in America 1527 01:44:06,876 --> 01:44:08,376 would have said, 1528 01:44:08,501 --> 01:44:13,001 "I can always make a trunk call to my solicitors." 1529 01:44:16,542 --> 01:44:20,626 Tout de même, I must thank the pipe-smoking Colonel Arbuthnot 1530 01:44:20,751 --> 01:44:24,542 for a remark which finally resolved all my confusions 1531 01:44:24,667 --> 01:44:28,751 about this... this extraordinary case. 1532 01:44:28,876 --> 01:44:31,959 I prefer to set aside the fact 1533 01:44:32,084 --> 01:44:36,667 that he denied ever having spoken to Colonel Armstrong in India, 1534 01:44:36,792 --> 01:44:39,376 and yet he remembered in great detail 1535 01:44:39,501 --> 01:44:42,959 the decorations which Colonel Armstrong had won 1536 01:44:43,084 --> 01:44:45,167 years earlier in France. 1537 01:44:47,084 --> 01:44:51,126 I prefer to remember his views on the British jury system. 1538 01:44:51,251 --> 01:44:55,126 Trial by twelve good men and true is a sound system. 1539 01:44:58,001 --> 01:45:05,376 The iron tongue of midnight hath told... twelve. 1540 01:45:06,626 --> 01:45:11,542 Suddenly, the number twelve began to ring in my head 1541 01:45:11,667 --> 01:45:14,001 like a great bell. 1542 01:45:15,084 --> 01:45:16,626 Twelve. 1543 01:45:16,751 --> 01:45:19,626 Doctor, how many wounds were there in Ratchett's body? 1544 01:45:19,751 --> 01:45:20,751 Twelve. 1545 01:45:20,876 --> 01:45:23,001 Mr McQueen, how many capital letters, 1546 01:45:23,126 --> 01:45:25,126 each inscribed by a different hand, 1547 01:45:25,251 --> 01:45:27,876 were contained in each of the two threatening messages 1548 01:45:28,001 --> 01:45:30,417 you showed me on Ratchett's correspondence file? 1549 01:45:30,542 --> 01:45:33,209 Er... twelve. Twelve. 1550 01:45:33,334 --> 01:45:36,209 Colonel Arbuthnot, how many persons in a jury? 1551 01:45:36,334 --> 01:45:38,084 Twelve. 1552 01:45:38,209 --> 01:45:40,667 Hm. 1553 01:45:40,792 --> 01:45:42,501 Pierre Paul Michel. 1554 01:45:42,626 --> 01:45:44,334 How many passengers in the Calais coach, 1555 01:45:44,459 --> 01:45:47,792 excluding myself and the murdered man? 1556 01:45:47,917 --> 01:45:49,959 Twelve, monsieur. 1557 01:45:50,917 --> 01:45:52,251 - Show me your wallet. - No! 1558 01:45:52,376 --> 01:45:56,251 Votre portefeuille. Mr Hardman, you may not speak! 1559 01:45:57,834 --> 01:46:00,459 Ratchett never asked you to be his bodyguard. 1560 01:46:00,584 --> 01:46:05,501 He asked me, and I, perhaps to my discredit, refused. 1561 01:46:07,542 --> 01:46:10,501 Before you joined Pinkerton's as a private detective, 1562 01:46:10,626 --> 01:46:14,459 you were an ordinary policeman, were you not? 1563 01:46:14,584 --> 01:46:16,292 Eh? 1564 01:46:16,417 --> 01:46:18,834 A, er... cop. 1565 01:46:18,959 --> 01:46:24,126 Mm, who, as is customary with cops, fell in love 1566 01:46:24,251 --> 01:46:29,292 with a pretty housemaid on his beat. 1567 01:46:30,209 --> 01:46:32,459 Hm... 1568 01:46:32,584 --> 01:46:36,917 Yes, and would have married her, if, er... 1569 01:46:41,209 --> 01:46:42,542 Hm... 1570 01:46:42,667 --> 01:46:47,542 Your daughter Paulette never died of scarlet fever, did she? 1571 01:46:49,167 --> 01:46:51,501 No, she killed herself, 1572 01:46:51,626 --> 01:46:55,501 when falsely accused of complicity 1573 01:46:55,626 --> 01:47:01,584 in the kidnapping and killing of little Daisy Armstrong. 1574 01:47:14,626 --> 01:47:16,042 They, er... 1575 01:47:17,751 --> 01:47:21,709 They could not have done it without you, could they? 1576 01:47:22,584 --> 01:47:27,167 You, the procurer of this disguise 1577 01:47:27,292 --> 01:47:31,459 for the mysterious member of the Mafia, who never existed, 1578 01:47:31,584 --> 01:47:36,167 any more than the owner of this kimono existed as a real character 1579 01:47:36,292 --> 01:47:38,334 and not as a red herring to confuse and deceive me, 1580 01:47:38,459 --> 01:47:42,501 although I think I was not deceived. 1581 01:47:43,876 --> 01:47:47,042 I have... How shall I put it? 1582 01:47:47,167 --> 01:47:51,751 ...an eye for the figure of a receding woman. 1583 01:47:51,876 --> 01:47:57,501 Countess, your cosmopolitan accent showed an inherited ability... 1584 01:47:58,917 --> 01:48:01,209 ...from your actress mother. 1585 01:48:03,751 --> 01:48:08,167 But God knows from what implausible source 1586 01:48:08,292 --> 01:48:14,667 Miss Greta Ohlsson learned her English vocabulary, 1587 01:48:14,792 --> 01:48:17,001 too ludicrous to be credited. 1588 01:48:17,917 --> 01:48:19,167 Hm? 1589 01:48:19,292 --> 01:48:21,542 I was born backwards. 1590 01:48:21,667 --> 01:48:25,376 That is why I work in Africa as missionary, 1591 01:48:25,501 --> 01:48:29,084 teaching little brown babies more backwards than myself. 1592 01:48:29,209 --> 01:48:32,084 You coined words like "bed gown" 1593 01:48:32,209 --> 01:48:35,584 and yet you understand words like "emolument". 1594 01:48:36,459 --> 01:48:38,792 I truly believe you did look after little brown babies 1595 01:48:38,917 --> 01:48:42,542 at your mission in Shimoga, which is in India, by the way. 1596 01:48:42,667 --> 01:48:45,001 It's not Africa, huh? 1597 01:48:45,126 --> 01:48:46,751 But I believe you were covering up, 1598 01:48:46,876 --> 01:48:49,584 for once, years earlier, when you were in America, 1599 01:48:49,709 --> 01:48:54,417 having looked after a little white baby called Daisy, whose death, 1600 01:48:54,542 --> 01:48:57,334 though you could do nothing to prevent it, so preyed on your mind 1601 01:48:57,459 --> 01:48:59,917 that you sought refuge in a vision of Jesus 1602 01:49:00,042 --> 01:49:04,667 and your future as a missionary looking after little brown babies was sealed. 1603 01:49:05,667 --> 01:49:08,751 You... you were lucky 1604 01:49:08,876 --> 01:49:13,709 only to be bound and gagged, not coshed like the manservant. 1605 01:49:13,834 --> 01:49:15,626 - Mr Beddoes. - Sir. 1606 01:49:15,751 --> 01:49:18,334 You served with the British Army in Scotland. 1607 01:49:18,459 --> 01:49:20,209 Colonel Armstrong was in the Royal Scots. 1608 01:49:20,334 --> 01:49:24,292 Would you kindly give Dr Constantine your deepest butler's bow? 1609 01:49:27,959 --> 01:49:29,834 Yes, there is an old contusion. 1610 01:49:29,959 --> 01:49:32,751 The result of a slight fracas in the mess, sir, 1611 01:49:32,876 --> 01:49:37,542 with regard to the quality of a pudding known as Spotted Dick. 1612 01:49:37,667 --> 01:49:40,667 Thank you. But I think you've been spotted too. 1613 01:49:42,126 --> 01:49:46,042 Mr Foscarelli is very knowledgeable about automobiles. 1614 01:49:46,167 --> 01:49:50,959 I suspected that perhaps he had once been the Armstrongs' chauffeur. 1615 01:49:51,084 --> 01:49:53,167 I asked if he had ever been in private service. 1616 01:49:53,292 --> 01:49:54,667 No. 1617 01:49:54,792 --> 01:49:57,626 I think Mr Foscarelli's appalling English 1618 01:49:57,751 --> 01:50:00,626 is more genuine than Miss Ohlsson's, but I think he meant yes. 1619 01:50:00,751 --> 01:50:02,834 - Think, monsieur? - Think, think. Yes, think. 1620 01:50:02,959 --> 01:50:06,584 What else can be done on a train isolated by a snowdrift? 1621 01:50:06,709 --> 01:50:09,042 If all these people are not implicated in the crime, 1622 01:50:09,167 --> 01:50:12,126 then why have they all told me under interrogation 1623 01:50:12,251 --> 01:50:15,084 stupid and often unnecessary lies? Why? Why? Why? Why? 1624 01:50:15,209 --> 01:50:19,542 (Doctor) Doubtless, because they did not expect you to be on the train. 1625 01:50:19,667 --> 01:50:23,459 They had no time to concert their cover story. 1626 01:50:23,584 --> 01:50:28,376 I was hoping someone other than myself would say that. 1627 01:50:30,542 --> 01:50:32,459 Ladies and gentlemen, 1628 01:50:32,584 --> 01:50:35,626 we now come to my own reconstruction 1629 01:50:35,751 --> 01:50:38,459 of the night of the murder... 1630 01:50:39,584 --> 01:50:40,834 ...or, er... 1631 01:50:40,959 --> 01:50:42,459 (Chuckles) 1632 01:50:42,584 --> 01:50:45,542 ...the night of the red herrings. 1633 01:50:48,167 --> 01:50:51,417 I... I only wish, er... 1634 01:50:57,292 --> 01:50:59,334 Mm... 1635 01:50:59,459 --> 01:51:03,667 I only wish I could describe it with the, er... 1636 01:51:05,751 --> 01:51:08,751 ...incomparable panache, 1637 01:51:08,876 --> 01:51:10,709 the consummate verve, 1638 01:51:10,834 --> 01:51:12,959 the enthralling cadences, 1639 01:51:13,084 --> 01:51:16,209 the delicate gestures, the evocative expressions, 1640 01:51:16,334 --> 01:51:20,167 of America's greatest tragic actress, Harriet Belinda... 1641 01:51:20,292 --> 01:51:23,542 Miss Linda Arden. 1642 01:51:25,084 --> 01:51:27,167 I've always heard she wanted to play comedy parts, 1643 01:51:27,292 --> 01:51:29,209 but her husband wouldn't have it. 1644 01:51:29,334 --> 01:51:33,834 Which husband? Your second husband, Mr Hubbard? 1645 01:51:33,959 --> 01:51:37,542 Or your first husband, Mr Grunwald? 1646 01:51:38,626 --> 01:51:40,334 Linda Arden, the actress, 1647 01:51:40,459 --> 01:51:43,751 never played as difficult a role as Mrs Hubbard, 1648 01:51:43,876 --> 01:51:47,959 the organiser of this extraordinary revenge. 1649 01:51:50,459 --> 01:51:52,876 Dare I deduce that the great Linda Arden 1650 01:51:53,001 --> 01:51:58,292 has been cured of her incurable disease and is no longer bedridden, hm? 1651 01:51:59,459 --> 01:52:02,417 It is I who should be committed to a bed in a mental home. 1652 01:52:02,542 --> 01:52:05,584 It is I who need a cure for being so slow 1653 01:52:05,709 --> 01:52:08,084 to notice the tricks that were being played on me 1654 01:52:08,209 --> 01:52:10,751 with regard to the time of the murder. 1655 01:52:15,501 --> 01:52:18,167 - Will there be anything more, sir? - (Ratchett) There will. 1656 01:52:22,751 --> 01:52:25,751 Tell Mr McQueen I want to see him now. 1657 01:52:25,876 --> 01:52:27,626 (Beddoes) Very good, sir. 1658 01:52:28,292 --> 01:52:31,251 (McQueen) And six beakers. Stop. 1659 01:52:31,376 --> 01:52:34,376 Only five, repeat, five beakers were delivered. 1660 01:52:34,501 --> 01:52:37,792 One, repeat, one, badly chipped, 1661 01:52:37,917 --> 01:52:40,709 which will be returned on receipt of replacement 1662 01:52:40,834 --> 01:52:43,376 to my Paris address, signed... 1663 01:52:43,501 --> 01:52:45,542 (Clears throat) Ratchett. 1664 01:52:47,584 --> 01:52:49,751 OK, Hector, that's all. 1665 01:52:54,709 --> 01:52:57,709 - (McQueen) Good night, Mr Ratchett. - Good night, Hector. 1666 01:53:07,834 --> 01:53:09,751 (Ratchett gargles) 1667 01:53:11,584 --> 01:53:13,709 (Spits and sighs) 1668 01:53:59,209 --> 01:54:00,959 (Groans) 1669 01:54:09,792 --> 01:54:11,209 (Groans) 1670 01:55:05,501 --> 01:55:08,001 (Cries out) 1671 01:55:16,251 --> 01:55:18,042 (Knocking at door) 1672 01:55:25,751 --> 01:55:27,584 Ce n'est rien. 1673 01:55:27,709 --> 01:55:29,709 C'était un cauchemar. 1674 01:55:29,834 --> 01:55:32,084 (Bell rings) 1675 01:55:32,209 --> 01:55:36,417 Ah, bien, Mr Ratchett. May you now have pleasant dreams. 1676 01:56:04,792 --> 01:56:07,167 At 1:15 came Mrs Hubbard's announcement 1677 01:56:07,292 --> 01:56:09,459 that there was a man in her room, 1678 01:56:09,584 --> 01:56:13,334 who had, for reasons which I dare not even guess, shed a button. 1679 01:56:13,459 --> 01:56:15,751 The next morning, the murder was discovered. 1680 01:56:15,876 --> 01:56:19,501 Dr Constantine sets the time of the murder 1681 01:56:19,626 --> 01:56:22,917 anywhere between midnight and 2:00am. 1682 01:56:23,042 --> 01:56:27,042 Now, I came to various conclusions. 1683 01:56:27,167 --> 01:56:33,084 The clumsy cliché of the smashed watch registering 1:15 1684 01:56:33,209 --> 01:56:37,417 had been done deliberately to excite my disbelief. 1685 01:56:37,542 --> 01:56:38,584 Hm... 1686 01:56:38,709 --> 01:56:42,167 And since Mr McQueen had over-emphatically said 1687 01:56:42,292 --> 01:56:44,876 that Ratchett spoke no languages, 1688 01:56:45,001 --> 01:56:47,542 I was being deliberately manoeuvred into believing 1689 01:56:47,667 --> 01:56:50,167 that Ratchett was already dead 1690 01:56:50,292 --> 01:56:53,709 when a voice cried out from his room in French. 1691 01:56:53,834 --> 01:56:57,459 In other words, I was being forced into the theory 1692 01:56:57,584 --> 01:57:01,459 that the murder was committed before 1:15, 1693 01:57:01,584 --> 01:57:07,126 a period for which every single one of you had an unshakeable alibi. 1694 01:57:08,417 --> 01:57:11,334 But supposing that 1695 01:57:11,459 --> 01:57:15,667 the crime had not been committed earlier, 1696 01:57:15,792 --> 01:57:18,626 but later than 1:15, 1697 01:57:20,084 --> 01:57:23,792 when all the noises and incidents designed to confuse me 1698 01:57:23,917 --> 01:57:26,126 had died down 1699 01:57:26,251 --> 01:57:29,959 and I had, er... lapsed into sleep, 1700 01:57:30,084 --> 01:57:36,209 because the train was now silent and at peace. 1701 01:57:39,084 --> 01:57:41,167 Silent, yes. 1702 01:57:42,917 --> 01:57:44,876 At peace, no. 1703 01:57:45,834 --> 01:57:48,001 By two o'clock, 1704 01:57:48,126 --> 01:57:50,542 the murder was afoot. 1705 01:57:52,376 --> 01:57:53,959 Envisage it. 1706 01:58:25,209 --> 01:58:27,251 For my daughter. 1707 01:58:27,376 --> 01:58:29,209 My granddaughter. 1708 01:58:42,751 --> 01:58:45,251 In memory of Colonel Armstrong, 1709 01:58:45,376 --> 01:58:49,709 a great soldier and an even greater friend. 1710 01:58:49,834 --> 01:58:51,834 (Stab) 1711 01:58:55,626 --> 01:58:57,626 And for Mrs Armstrong. 1712 01:58:57,751 --> 01:58:59,917 They took me into their home and their hearts. 1713 01:59:04,459 --> 01:59:06,667 (Sobs) 1714 01:59:08,376 --> 01:59:10,792 For their Daisy and mine. 1715 01:59:13,042 --> 01:59:15,542 God forgive me. 1716 01:59:15,667 --> 01:59:18,084 (Greta sobs) 1717 01:59:29,834 --> 01:59:33,292 For my... my sister and my niece. 1718 01:59:36,501 --> 01:59:40,959 Cassetti, for the grief you brought to my beloved wife. 1719 01:59:50,042 --> 01:59:51,667 Vigliacco. 1720 02:00:01,959 --> 02:00:04,042 Schweinhund. 1721 02:00:07,834 --> 02:00:10,001 (Sobs) 1722 02:00:10,126 --> 02:00:12,917 For my beloved goddaughter. 1723 02:00:26,167 --> 02:00:29,959 For Mother Armstrong from Hector. 1724 02:00:39,542 --> 02:00:41,792 For my gentleman. 1725 02:00:53,084 --> 02:00:55,876 To Paulette with love. 1726 02:01:04,751 --> 02:01:06,876 And with mine. 1727 02:01:07,001 --> 02:01:12,459 God rest the soul of my dear dead daughter. 1728 02:01:23,501 --> 02:01:24,917 (Lock clicks) 1729 02:01:43,042 --> 02:01:45,334 I repeat... 1730 02:01:46,959 --> 02:01:50,126 ...a repulsive murderer 1731 02:01:50,251 --> 02:01:57,167 has himself been repulsively and perhaps deservedly murdered. 1732 02:01:59,167 --> 02:02:03,459 But in which of the two ways that I have suggested? 1733 02:02:04,542 --> 02:02:07,376 In the simpler way by the Mafioso, 1734 02:02:07,501 --> 02:02:10,584 disguised as a Wagons-Lits conductor? 1735 02:02:12,084 --> 02:02:16,626 Or in the more complex way that I have just outlined, 1736 02:02:18,542 --> 02:02:21,417 which involves many questions 1737 02:02:21,542 --> 02:02:26,626 and of course... considerable scandal. 1738 02:02:29,167 --> 02:02:33,251 Signor Bianchi, it is for you, as a director of the line, 1739 02:02:33,376 --> 02:02:36,417 to choose the solution that we shall offer to the police at Brod, 1740 02:02:36,542 --> 02:02:41,167 though I confess I am in two minds. 1741 02:02:43,584 --> 02:02:45,584 Though I, er... 1742 02:02:47,376 --> 02:02:50,042 ...I think the police at Brod would, er... prefer 1743 02:02:50,167 --> 02:02:54,959 the simplicity of the first solution. 1744 02:03:09,334 --> 02:03:14,542 We have the uniform to show the police. 1745 02:03:16,209 --> 02:03:18,584 If we have the uniform, 1746 02:03:18,709 --> 02:03:22,001 there must have been a man in it. 1747 02:03:22,126 --> 02:03:26,292 So, therefore, I elect the first solution. 1748 02:03:27,292 --> 02:03:29,209 Hear, hear. 1749 02:03:54,417 --> 02:03:58,084 Hercule, I thank you. 1750 02:04:00,084 --> 02:04:01,751 My friend. 1751 02:04:01,876 --> 02:04:05,001 Now I must go and wrestle with my report to the police 1752 02:04:05,126 --> 02:04:07,667 and, er... with my conscience. 1753 02:04:15,209 --> 02:04:16,834 Mama? 1754 02:05:46,501 --> 02:05:48,542 (Whistle blows) 136471

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