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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:37,910 --> 00:00:39,490 Right! Forward! 2 00:01:22,410 --> 00:01:23,330 Aah! 3 00:01:23,540 --> 00:01:25,830 We've left it too late, sir. I said so. 4 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,370 I know, Bob. I know. 5 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,630 Go. 6 00:01:44,930 --> 00:01:46,930 The game is up, I'm afraid, chum. 7 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:49,390 Fair enough. 8 00:01:53,940 --> 00:01:55,570 You did get them out? You're sure of it? 9 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:57,400 Safe as houses. I swear it. 10 00:02:04,740 --> 00:02:06,910 - Ready, then? - Ready. 11 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:23,140 Don't forget my hat box. 12 00:02:25,060 --> 00:02:26,060 Is that your coat? 13 00:02:26,270 --> 00:02:27,220 Very good, madam. 14 00:02:27,430 --> 00:02:29,940 Come along now. Now, this is inviting. 15 00:02:41,740 --> 00:02:43,160 Come on. 16 00:02:43,370 --> 00:02:45,780 We'll not have you showing us up again, Lucian. 17 00:02:45,990 --> 00:02:47,490 Mrs. Hamell says the antimacassars... 18 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:49,200 still reek of Friar's Balsam. 19 00:02:49,410 --> 00:02:51,920 This is Patricia's day, not yours. 20 00:02:52,130 --> 00:02:55,040 Hell's bells, get a move on. 21 00:02:55,250 --> 00:02:57,750 Ruddy people. Blasted school. 22 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,720 I don't know why we have to send the child here. 23 00:03:00,930 --> 00:03:02,340 What's wrong with Saint Winifred's? 24 00:03:02,510 --> 00:03:04,050 Must we got through this again? 25 00:03:04,260 --> 00:03:07,180 It's the best girls school in England. 26 00:03:07,390 --> 00:03:09,600 It's certainly the dearest. 27 00:03:16,690 --> 00:03:18,900 So, Lydia, did you enjoy your Hellenic cruise? 28 00:03:19,110 --> 00:03:20,900 Oh, yes. Thanks awfully, Miss Bulstrode. 29 00:03:21,110 --> 00:03:22,570 Are you going to give us a lecture? 30 00:03:28,130 --> 00:03:29,590 Could you park over there, please? 31 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,970 - Hello, Miss Rich. - Ah, Pamela Price. 32 00:03:45,550 --> 00:03:47,720 I'm afraid you'll find things rather ordinary here... 33 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,180 compared with Switzerland, Princess Shaista. 34 00:03:50,390 --> 00:03:52,810 Oh, you do not know how much I've been looking forward... 35 00:03:52,890 --> 00:03:54,560 to coming to Meadowbank. 36 00:03:54,770 --> 00:03:58,480 The Swiss, they are a very regular people. 37 00:03:58,690 --> 00:03:59,860 I like England. 38 00:04:00,070 --> 00:04:02,070 Things are not so regular. 39 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,030 But there are still rules. 40 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,570 Of course. 41 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:09,620 And may I offer my sincere condolences. 42 00:04:09,830 --> 00:04:12,040 Condolences? 43 00:04:13,210 --> 00:04:16,880 Your fiancé, Prince Ali. I understand he was killed. 44 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:18,750 Well, we never met, of course. 45 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,760 It was arranged years ago. I was just a child. 46 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,140 Perhaps I'll find my husband here in England. 47 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:43,570 Yes. Well, we mustn't run before we can walk, must we? 48 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:53,290 I was looking for Miss Bulstrode. 49 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,500 Oh, you must be Miss Shapland. 50 00:04:56,710 --> 00:04:59,000 I'm Lettice Chadwick, Mathematics. 51 00:04:59,210 --> 00:05:00,590 Call me Ann, please. 52 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,840 Everyone knows me. Been here since before the Ark. 53 00:05:03,050 --> 00:05:05,920 I only hope I can live up to Meadowbank's standards. 54 00:05:06,130 --> 00:05:08,510 Oh, you'll fit right in, my dear. 55 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,220 Look at that desk, a model of efficiency. 56 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:14,100 Vera's used to resemble the Ardennes... 57 00:05:14,140 --> 00:05:16,230 after a heavy German pounding. 58 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,350 - Vera? - You got her job. 59 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,150 Oh, all very irritating. 60 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:23,860 Gave up the post all of a sudden... 61 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:26,990 something to do with a man, apparently. 62 00:05:27,990 --> 00:05:29,240 We'd better be getting along. 63 00:05:33,620 --> 00:05:36,960 We do want you to try as hard as you can. 64 00:05:41,130 --> 00:05:42,790 Oh. 65 00:05:44,090 --> 00:05:46,920 So sorry. No gouache on the galoshes, I trust. 66 00:05:47,130 --> 00:05:48,680 - Fortunately, non. - Good. 67 00:05:48,890 --> 00:05:50,970 Supplies for my budding Michelangelos, do you see? 68 00:05:51,180 --> 00:05:52,800 Miss Blake... 69 00:05:53,010 --> 00:05:54,060 Monsieur Poirot. 70 00:05:54,270 --> 00:05:57,180 Ah, the estimable Mademoiselle Bulstrode. 71 00:05:57,390 --> 00:05:59,730 What a pleasure it is to see you again... 72 00:05:59,940 --> 00:06:02,110 and the day, it progresses as hoped? 73 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,030 Speaking to parents is like feeding dogs. 74 00:06:05,230 --> 00:06:07,320 One simply pops soothing platitudes... 75 00:06:07,530 --> 00:06:09,240 into every waiting mouth. 76 00:06:09,450 --> 00:06:12,780 Platitudes? Surely not, mademoiselle... for your so-wonderful Meadowbank... 77 00:06:12,990 --> 00:06:15,990 does not its fame rest upon how you regard your young ladies... 78 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,080 as individuals? 79 00:06:18,290 --> 00:06:21,460 You're so kind, and thank you once again for coming. 80 00:06:21,670 --> 00:06:22,670 De rien. 81 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,380 The Mayor is blaming his ulcers, but I suspect foul play. 82 00:06:27,590 --> 00:06:28,840 Comment? 83 00:06:29,050 --> 00:06:30,720 Arsenal versus Sheffield United. 84 00:06:30,930 --> 00:06:31,970 Kickoff is at 3:00. 85 00:06:32,180 --> 00:06:34,550 I know where His Worship's loyalties lie. 86 00:06:35,470 --> 00:06:38,640 Impossible. Never, never, never. 87 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,270 Everyone else seems happy. 88 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:42,810 I am not everyone else. 89 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:45,860 I am someone, the Princess Shaista... 90 00:06:46,070 --> 00:06:49,320 and yet you want to imprison me in this mean, little, hovel. 91 00:06:49,530 --> 00:06:51,990 The window is tiny. 92 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:55,240 - The bed is hard as diamonds. - Shaista... 93 00:06:55,450 --> 00:06:59,000 - Princess Shaista. - Now, now. No more of that. 94 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:00,960 All the girls are equal here in Meadowbank. 95 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,620 - But in Switzerland... - Yes. 96 00:07:02,830 --> 00:07:07,500 Well, we're not in Switzerland anymore, are we? 97 00:07:07,710 --> 00:07:10,510 Come along. We mustn't be late. 98 00:07:11,380 --> 00:07:13,680 Alison Whelan, stop being such a silly goose. 99 00:07:13,890 --> 00:07:15,220 Now run along. 100 00:07:15,430 --> 00:07:16,390 - Oop! - Ooh! 101 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:17,680 Steady, miss. 102 00:07:17,890 --> 00:07:19,350 Thank you. 103 00:07:21,690 --> 00:07:24,770 Morning, miss. 104 00:07:24,980 --> 00:07:27,980 I say, froggy, put those peepers back in, why don't you? 105 00:07:28,190 --> 00:07:30,240 Not a done thing over here to ogle the serfs. 106 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:31,820 How dare you touch me? 107 00:07:32,030 --> 00:07:35,870 I'm not used to being treated in this fashion. 108 00:07:38,580 --> 00:07:41,830 Don't worry. This isn't assembly. 109 00:07:43,580 --> 00:07:46,000 Just a few words before our distinguished guest... 110 00:07:46,210 --> 00:07:49,750 presents the Pemberton Shield. 111 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,880 I'm sure pupils and parents alike will be pleased... 112 00:07:53,090 --> 00:07:56,220 to welcome back Miss Rich... 113 00:07:56,430 --> 00:07:59,470 who, we trust, is feeling tiptop again... 114 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,730 and to say hello to Mademoiselle Blanche... 115 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:05,060 our new French mistress. 116 00:08:07,060 --> 00:08:11,320 It now only remains for me to introduce our guest of honor... 117 00:08:11,530 --> 00:08:14,950 a personality of international renown... 118 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,280 Monsieur Hercule Poirot. 119 00:08:29,130 --> 00:08:32,840 Mesdames et messieurs, but, most importantly of all... 120 00:08:34,010 --> 00:08:37,090 ...all of you young ladies... 121 00:08:38,180 --> 00:08:43,180 ...if Poirot has the renown international... 122 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:47,190 then, surely, he shares this honor... 123 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,270 with the great Meadowbank. 124 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,740 - Who's he? - Detective. Oh, you know. 125 00:08:54,950 --> 00:08:57,410 Oh, really, Jennifer, you're an awful wet blanket sometimes. 126 00:08:57,490 --> 00:09:00,240 Oh, how many revolutions have you seen up close? 127 00:09:00,450 --> 00:09:01,910 And Mummy had a burglary last month. 128 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,160 That's nothing. Don't you read the papers? 129 00:09:04,370 --> 00:09:05,790 Mr. Poirot has been caught up... 130 00:09:05,790 --> 00:09:07,830 in some absolutely snorting killings. 131 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,460 And now, to add luster to its name... 132 00:09:12,170 --> 00:09:14,090 ...after the tournament international... 133 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:16,090 which was so thrilling... 134 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:17,590 He looks a bit like a penguin. 135 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,390 ...the winning of the prize most renowned... 136 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,560 the Pemberton Lacrosse Shield. 137 00:09:25,770 --> 00:09:28,690 Was it not the great Dr. Arnold who said... 138 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:31,270 God, I'm desperate for a gasper. 139 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:32,900 Please, Miss Springer. 140 00:09:33,110 --> 00:09:35,240 Some of us are actually listening, you know? 141 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,110 Oh, yes. Must all be on our best behavior, mustn't we? 142 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,820 What has got into you, Miss Springer? 143 00:09:42,030 --> 00:09:44,080 Could ask you the same thing. 144 00:09:44,290 --> 00:09:47,330 ...most of all, prayed for. 145 00:09:50,750 --> 00:09:54,380 Everyone smile, please. Good. 146 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,790 Julia has been dying to know, monsieur. 147 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,090 Oh, go on, monsieur. 148 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,300 Tell us about some of your murders... only the juicy ones, mind. 149 00:10:37,510 --> 00:10:39,510 - The juicy ones? Comment? - Well, of course. 150 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,550 Poison is so passe... 151 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,800 and anything with firearms is positively vulgar... 152 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,640 but smashing in someone's noggin with a blunt instrument now... 153 00:10:46,850 --> 00:10:47,890 Go on. 154 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:50,270 Yes, girls. That will do. 155 00:10:52,190 --> 00:10:53,730 I am obliged to you. 156 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:56,730 I suspected a rescue was in order. 157 00:10:56,940 --> 00:10:58,780 She's a bright girl, Julia Upjohn... 158 00:10:58,990 --> 00:11:00,450 but she's a little wayward... 159 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:02,530 and the friend is a bit of a puzzle. 160 00:11:02,740 --> 00:11:04,280 A puzzle? How so? 161 00:11:04,490 --> 00:11:08,120 Jennifer Sutcliffe, she's deep. 162 00:11:08,330 --> 00:11:10,250 She got caught up in that revolution... 163 00:11:10,460 --> 00:11:12,080 in Ramat just recently. 164 00:11:12,290 --> 00:11:15,750 Ah, yes, the Prince Ali Yusuf. He was killed, was he not? 165 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,800 Dreadful business. 166 00:11:18,010 --> 00:11:20,670 Jennifer was out there visiting her uncle. 167 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,720 He was killed, too, poor man. 168 00:11:23,930 --> 00:11:26,760 She and her mother got out just in time. 169 00:11:26,970 --> 00:11:28,930 Mademoiselle, something, it is troubling you. 170 00:11:30,980 --> 00:11:32,140 No. No. 171 00:11:32,350 --> 00:11:35,770 Come now. We are old friends. 172 00:11:38,730 --> 00:11:43,730 Well, the fact is, I've decided to move on, retire. 173 00:11:44,660 --> 00:11:48,240 Retire? Mademoiselle, you are still so young. 174 00:11:48,450 --> 00:11:51,580 Not because I don't feel up to it physically... quite the reverse. 175 00:11:51,790 --> 00:11:53,500 The school has never been better. 176 00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:57,130 I comprehend. The challenge, it has gone. 177 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,300 And remember, you're not to play tennis if it's too cold. 178 00:12:01,470 --> 00:12:03,300 I'll be just fine, Mummy. Do stop fretting. 179 00:12:03,510 --> 00:12:06,260 I can't help it. I'm a fretter, Julia. 180 00:12:06,470 --> 00:12:10,520 Now, you've got everything you need? Yes. Oh, can I get back now? 181 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:12,020 Of course. 182 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,520 Now must find Miss Bulstrode. 183 00:12:15,730 --> 00:12:18,440 Bye-bye. 184 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:20,730 Who is to be your successor? 185 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:23,860 Well, everyone assumes it'll be Miss Chadwick, of course. 186 00:12:24,070 --> 00:12:26,030 We founded the place together. 187 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,580 She's an absolute brick, dear Chaddy. 188 00:12:28,780 --> 00:12:30,830 But you think... 189 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,750 Meadowbank works because I've taken risks. 190 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,870 It's an unconventional place. 191 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,250 Miss Chadwick will preserve Meadowbank in aspic... 192 00:12:38,460 --> 00:12:41,130 if she could, and I think that would be a great shame. 193 00:12:41,340 --> 00:12:42,710 And what are the other candidates? 194 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:43,840 Well, that's the problem. 195 00:12:44,010 --> 00:12:46,010 There doesn't seem to be anyone else. 196 00:12:47,050 --> 00:12:50,890 I wonder, Monsieur Poirot, would it be a great imposition... 197 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,100 for you to stay at the school, get the measure of the staff... 198 00:12:54,310 --> 00:12:57,810 and help me make up my mind? 199 00:12:58,020 --> 00:13:01,070 You're such an excellent judge of character... 200 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,230 and your knowledge of human nature... 201 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,860 it's unsurpassed. 202 00:13:06,070 --> 00:13:08,490 - Oh, Lord. - Mademoiselle? 203 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:11,490 It's Lady Veronica Carlton-Sandways. 204 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:14,620 Ah. 205 00:13:14,830 --> 00:13:16,080 She's a delightful person... 206 00:13:16,210 --> 00:13:19,330 except when she's three sheets to the wind. 207 00:13:20,420 --> 00:13:21,960 Sorry. I'm so sorry. 208 00:13:22,170 --> 00:13:24,510 - Okay. Excuse me. - Oh! Excuse me. 209 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,180 Ah, Miss Bulstrode. So glad I've caught you. 210 00:13:27,380 --> 00:13:28,760 Is there something the matter? 211 00:13:28,970 --> 00:13:32,810 Lady Veronica, Mrs. Upjohn. That's what's the matter. 212 00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:34,720 Yes. I remember her. 213 00:13:34,930 --> 00:13:36,230 Imbibed from the wassail cup... 214 00:13:36,270 --> 00:13:39,060 a mite too freely at the Carol concert, didn't she? 215 00:13:42,570 --> 00:13:47,570 Good Lord. How extraordinary, but it's not possible. 216 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:51,990 Dead, surely. 217 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,620 The mission went brilliant. Russia was... 218 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,590 Now, let's get you a nice... 219 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,130 Dear Chaddy, where would I be without you? 220 00:14:06,340 --> 00:14:09,050 I mean, we knew all the agents from the files, of course... 221 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:13,810 but, really, the most astonishing resemblance... 222 00:14:14,010 --> 00:14:15,850 but it's not possible. 223 00:14:16,060 --> 00:14:18,270 I'm so sorry. I've been wittering on. 224 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,440 Goodbye. See you at Christmas, I expect. 225 00:14:20,650 --> 00:14:22,650 Yes. 226 00:14:40,420 --> 00:14:43,040 - Would you excuse me? - Yes. Of course. 227 00:14:44,380 --> 00:14:46,380 - Monsieur Poirot. - Mademoiselle... 228 00:14:46,590 --> 00:14:48,550 I have nothing on at the present... 229 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,340 and George, my valet, has the time... 230 00:14:50,470 --> 00:14:52,090 to place a suitcase on the train... 231 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:54,850 so Poirot, he will be happy to remain here and advise you. 232 00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:59,680 Oh, thank you. I'm so grateful. 233 00:15:22,670 --> 00:15:25,960 - Oh! Bugger! - What's up? 234 00:15:26,170 --> 00:15:28,590 Oh, I simply can't play with the beastly thing. 235 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:29,800 The balance is all off. 236 00:15:29,910 --> 00:15:32,420 Oh, it's much better than my old thing. It's like a sponge. 237 00:15:32,430 --> 00:15:33,930 I'd rather have yours than mine. 238 00:15:34,140 --> 00:15:36,640 Welcome to it. 239 00:15:42,140 --> 00:15:43,390 Are you all right, Jen? 240 00:15:45,060 --> 00:15:46,940 Just thinking about poor Uncle Bob. 241 00:15:48,110 --> 00:15:49,820 He had so much going for him, you know? 242 00:15:50,030 --> 00:15:51,780 You mean, working for the Prince? 243 00:15:51,990 --> 00:15:53,910 Yes, but there was something else. 244 00:15:54,110 --> 00:15:56,870 He only hinted at it, but you could tell from his smile. 245 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,240 - A girlfriend? - I think so. 246 00:15:59,450 --> 00:16:02,000 Ooh, a pash. 247 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,370 Oh, how sad. 248 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,170 - What's the score? - Love. Love-all. 249 00:16:26,230 --> 00:16:29,980 And arms first to second... 250 00:16:30,190 --> 00:16:33,280 and close and turn... 251 00:16:33,490 --> 00:16:36,610 and begin the side, plie down... 252 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:40,280 relevé up, and turn. 253 00:16:41,450 --> 00:16:43,660 Grand battement front... 254 00:16:45,420 --> 00:16:48,460 ...tendu, and close. 255 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,550 Bonjour, Mademoiselle Shapland. 256 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,050 Hello there. You staying with us, then? 257 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:57,590 Oui, but it's just for a little while. 258 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,220 Poirot is here to observe. 259 00:16:59,430 --> 00:17:01,060 Ah, a spy. 260 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:04,180 Oui, for my so-good friend His Majesty... 261 00:17:04,390 --> 00:17:06,520 King Leopold III of the Belgians. 262 00:17:06,730 --> 00:17:09,190 There is the possibility of the Royal Princess... 263 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:10,520 coming here to the school. 264 00:17:10,730 --> 00:17:12,780 - Quite an honor. - Oui. Bien sûr. 265 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:16,700 And you? You are new here, huh? So, how do you find it? 266 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,950 A bit bewildering, actually. 267 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,040 I suppose starting school is no different... 268 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,910 whether you're five or thirty-five. 269 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:30,840 Plus, well, I used to be... 270 00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:34,340 private secretary to Sir Mervyn Todhunter. 271 00:17:34,550 --> 00:17:37,180 Before that, I was personal assistant to an oil magnate... 272 00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:38,720 before that, a Cabinet minister. 273 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,640 I comprehend. You've worked only for the men. 274 00:17:41,850 --> 00:17:42,750 Yes. 275 00:17:49,350 --> 00:17:50,350 Come on, Forbes. 276 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,520 Put some gumption into it, for Pete's sake. 277 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:00,860 If you weren't stuffing your phizog with buns all day... 278 00:18:00,870 --> 00:18:02,830 you wouldn't be so disgustingly lardy. 279 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,690 Do it again. Health and discipline, Forbes. 280 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:07,370 Health and discipline. Do it again. 281 00:18:07,580 --> 00:18:12,540 "Entrer," "venir," "rester"... 282 00:18:12,750 --> 00:18:17,220 "naître," "arriver"... 283 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:20,470 Uh, uh. "Mourir." You forgot "mourir." 284 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,890 "Mourir"... to die. 285 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:31,190 Great shot. 286 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,860 Cor, where did he pitch up from? What a dish. 287 00:18:35,070 --> 00:18:36,650 Adam Goodman, he's called. 288 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:39,070 - Wonder if he is. - Hmm? 289 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,530 A good man. I hope not. 290 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:44,450 - Julia! - I hope he's thoroughly bad. 291 00:18:45,450 --> 00:18:47,250 He certainly looks it. 292 00:18:47,450 --> 00:18:49,080 Adam, eh? 293 00:18:49,290 --> 00:18:51,410 Maybe he's got some forbidden fruit knocking around. 294 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:52,790 Ha ha! 295 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Oh, no, Forbes. Not on the floor. 296 00:18:56,210 --> 00:18:57,710 Go and get a mop and clean it up. 297 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,630 - Go on. Go and get a mop. - Where's the mop, Miss Springer? 298 00:19:02,970 --> 00:19:05,390 Disgusting. 299 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,430 "Look, Lizzie, look, Lizzie... 300 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,430 "Down the glen tramp little men. 301 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,310 "One hauls a basket, one bears a plate... 302 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,440 "one lugs a golden dish of many pounds weight. 303 00:19:17,650 --> 00:19:21,280 "No," said Lizzie, "No, no, no"... 304 00:19:21,490 --> 00:19:23,950 "Their offers should not charm us... 305 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,870 "Their evil gifts..." 306 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:30,910 "Their evil gifts would harm us." 307 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,250 That's all for now, class. 308 00:19:37,460 --> 00:19:40,050 - Thank you, Miss Rich. - That was lovely. We enjoyed it. 309 00:19:40,260 --> 00:19:42,590 See you tomorrow, Miss Rich. 310 00:19:45,220 --> 00:19:46,930 That was just swell. 311 00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:58,610 Yes? 312 00:19:59,690 --> 00:20:02,280 I merely wish to look over the pavilion. 313 00:20:02,490 --> 00:20:04,910 You had plenty of chance for that at the prize-giving. 314 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:09,540 This place isn't all and sundry to go traipse about in, froggy. 315 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:12,580 Please don't call me that. It offends me. 316 00:20:12,790 --> 00:20:14,040 Pardonnez-moi. 317 00:20:14,250 --> 00:20:16,460 - Is everything all right? - Fine. 318 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:22,470 Afternoon, ladies. 319 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,640 Nice place, isn't it? Must've cost a packet. 320 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,180 They get the best of everything here... 321 00:20:34,190 --> 00:20:36,520 don't they, the young madams? 322 00:20:36,730 --> 00:20:39,520 - They pay for it. - Through the nose, I hear. 323 00:20:39,730 --> 00:20:41,860 Don't you have something to do? 324 00:20:42,070 --> 00:20:44,900 I daresay. Miss Shapland. 325 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:51,790 It's this sort of wire and boned arrangement. 326 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,390 It pushes her up, quite unnecessary. 327 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,280 I see what you mean. You would jab someone's eye out with that. 328 00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:01,250 But, you see, my breasts are not very big... 329 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,440 not nearly big enough. 330 00:21:02,450 --> 00:21:05,800 I don't think your breasts are a proper subject... for conversation. 331 00:21:06,010 --> 00:21:09,640 It is all too much, all this running and jumping... 332 00:21:09,850 --> 00:21:11,470 and I do not like Miss Springer. 333 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,060 - She sweats like a pig. - That will do, Shaista. 334 00:21:14,270 --> 00:21:17,400 - Princess... - Don't. 335 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,400 Oh, there's Miss Chadwick. 336 00:21:19,610 --> 00:21:22,360 - Chaddy? Thank goodness, Chaddy. - Yes, Honoria? 337 00:21:22,570 --> 00:21:24,070 Where are you off to? 338 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,950 Infirmary to look in on Patricia Forbes. 339 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,160 Oh, Miss Springer made her ill. I had to have words. 340 00:21:32,490 --> 00:21:36,710 Dear Miss Springer, not a success, I fear. 341 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,250 I should never have given her a second chance... 342 00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:41,920 after that incident last term. 343 00:21:43,090 --> 00:21:45,970 Haven't been keeping my eye on the ball, have I? 344 00:21:50,550 --> 00:21:52,850 How's the first week going, do you think? 345 00:21:53,060 --> 00:21:55,020 Oh, quite all right, I suppose. 346 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,150 Oh, it's nothing I can put my finger on, Honoria... 347 00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:03,320 just a feeling something is not quite right. 348 00:22:03,530 --> 00:22:06,070 The girls seem a pleasant lot. 349 00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:10,320 I don't care for Mademoiselle Blanche, though. 350 00:22:10,530 --> 00:22:13,990 - Sly. - Oh, I'm sure she'll settle in. 351 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,080 You never liked the French mistresses, Chaddy. 352 00:22:16,250 --> 00:22:18,250 BLAKE: Whereabouts in France are you from? 353 00:22:19,330 --> 00:22:21,710 - Crécy. - Oh, topper. 354 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,380 - As in the battle? - Yes. 355 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,430 You're looking awfully well, Eileen. 356 00:22:29,630 --> 00:22:30,930 Lost a few pounds, haven't you? 357 00:22:30,970 --> 00:22:34,010 Oh, illness, I suppose. 358 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:36,020 Bloody woman. 359 00:22:36,220 --> 00:22:38,060 - Comment? - Chadwick. 360 00:22:38,270 --> 00:22:41,060 She thinks she owns the place. Well, not yet, she doesn't. 361 00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:44,650 She had the temerity to take a pupil out of my class. 362 00:22:44,860 --> 00:22:47,230 Wasn't like this at my last school, I can tell you. 363 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,240 - Non? - No. I turned the place around. 364 00:22:50,450 --> 00:22:51,820 Even so, I expect your ideas... 365 00:22:52,030 --> 00:22:54,990 haven't always been accepted in the way they should have been. 366 00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:03,210 It's scandalous. 367 00:23:03,420 --> 00:23:06,460 Miss Bulstrode is in complete agreement, Miss Springer. 368 00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:08,670 It's not how we do things at Meadowbank. 369 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,010 They're our girls, here to be nurtured, not tortured. 370 00:23:16,930 --> 00:23:20,520 See, you must always prepare for ingratitude. 371 00:23:20,730 --> 00:23:24,110 The trouble is, people are so cowardly, they won't face facts. 372 00:23:24,310 --> 00:23:27,230 They prefer not to see what's going on under their noses. 373 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,650 Well, I'm not like that. I get straight to the point. 374 00:23:30,860 --> 00:23:34,530 More than once, I've unearthed a nasty scandal. 375 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:38,580 Oh? 376 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,710 Well, I never give up... 377 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,170 not until I've pinned my quarry down. 378 00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:17,160 - Amontillado? - Oh, no, no, not for me. 379 00:24:17,370 --> 00:24:19,240 Merci, mademoiselle. 380 00:24:19,450 --> 00:24:21,450 The Spanish wine and the digestion of Poirot... 381 00:24:21,620 --> 00:24:23,290 are not on the terms most friendly. 382 00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:26,920 I hope you're enjoying your little sojourn with us. 383 00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:29,840 Monsieur, I'd hate to think you were bored. 384 00:24:30,050 --> 00:24:34,260 Bored? Pas du tout, mademoiselle. 385 00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:36,470 There does not need to be present a crime... 386 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,310 for the investigator to thrive. 387 00:24:41,270 --> 00:24:42,310 Heh. 388 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,520 This school, it is like the world in miniature. 389 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,150 It is like the... What is the word? 390 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,780 - Microcosm. - Just so. 391 00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:01,120 Just as in the outside world. 392 00:25:03,660 --> 00:25:08,660 Hopes, dreams, fears, secrets. 393 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,380 This place, so full of the promise of youth... 394 00:25:16,590 --> 00:25:19,800 the future of the nation. 395 00:25:23,390 --> 00:25:28,390 And yet how lonely and silent are its corridors at night... 396 00:25:35,070 --> 00:25:38,070 ...lonely and silent as the chambers of the heart... 397 00:25:44,250 --> 00:25:47,080 The daily struggles of human life... 398 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:56,840 ...as fascinating as the blood stain or the fingerprint. 399 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,060 Pardon, mademoiselle. 400 00:26:06,270 --> 00:26:09,600 Poirot, he drifts and digresses... 401 00:26:12,570 --> 00:26:17,030 ...and I think it is time that I say good night. 402 00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:30,080 Miss Chadwick. Miss Chadwick. 403 00:26:30,290 --> 00:26:32,750 Oh, what is it, matron? What's wrong? 404 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,590 Christina Breen has earache. 405 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,800 Oh, really, Miss Johnson, what has that got... 406 00:26:37,010 --> 00:26:38,760 No. You don't understand. 407 00:26:38,970 --> 00:26:40,380 I was just putting her to bed... 408 00:26:40,590 --> 00:26:43,680 when I noticed someone out in the sports pavilion. 409 00:26:43,890 --> 00:26:47,310 I saw the light when I was closing the curtains. 410 00:26:53,060 --> 00:26:56,070 You're right. Looks like a flashlight. 411 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,530 Burglars, do you think? 412 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,530 More likely, a girl meeting a wastrel boy. 413 00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:03,870 Come on. 414 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,680 Aah! 415 00:27:32,940 --> 00:27:36,690 Moment. Moment s'il vous plaît. Moment. 416 00:27:38,860 --> 00:27:42,360 Mademoiselle Bulstrode, what is the matter? 417 00:27:42,570 --> 00:27:43,820 It's Miss Springer. 418 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:01,760 - Follow me inside. - Yes, sir. 419 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:20,110 Bad business, this. 420 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,780 We shall weather it, no doubt, as we've weathered many storms. 421 00:28:23,990 --> 00:28:26,700 Death of a games mistress in a sports pavilion. 422 00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:28,990 Sounds like a highly athletic crime. 423 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,830 Discretion, Inspector, is the key, don't you think? 424 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,080 Which is where our Continental friend comes in? 425 00:28:34,290 --> 00:28:37,540 Monsieur Poirot has an international reputation. 426 00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:40,090 Oh. So does Mussolini. 427 00:28:42,130 --> 00:28:43,590 We haven't been properly introduced. 428 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,630 Detective Inspector Kelsey. 429 00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:50,100 Je vous emprie, Inspector. Hercule Poirot. 430 00:28:50,310 --> 00:28:52,930 I understand Miss Bulstrode has requested your involvement. 431 00:28:53,140 --> 00:28:56,350 Yes, but I do not wish to step on the toes, Inspector. 432 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,610 Thank you. Seen anything useful, have you? 433 00:28:59,820 --> 00:29:01,570 One or two points, I think. 434 00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:03,740 So, do you think we should... 435 00:29:03,950 --> 00:29:08,620 First, I think, perhaps, we should view the body. 436 00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:10,870 Yeah. 437 00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:31,470 Such disarrangement. 438 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,600 Lock forced, so there's no mystery about how they got in. 439 00:29:41,110 --> 00:29:43,190 Javelin went right through her. 440 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,530 Death must have been pretty well instantaneous. 441 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,660 Dead a couple of hours. 442 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:50,490 You came out here with Miss Johnson... 443 00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:52,830 and discovered the body, Miss Chadwick? 444 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,620 What time was that? 445 00:29:54,830 --> 00:29:57,660 I looked at my watch when Miss Johnson roused me. 446 00:29:57,870 --> 00:29:59,920 It was ten minutes to 1:00. 447 00:30:00,130 --> 00:30:01,590 Right. Good. 448 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,500 Dead woman's prints on the torch. 449 00:30:03,710 --> 00:30:05,960 She came out here with it. Why? 450 00:30:06,170 --> 00:30:08,300 No idea at all. I... 451 00:30:08,510 --> 00:30:13,010 She might have forgotten something and come to fetch it. 452 00:30:13,220 --> 00:30:15,930 It seems rather unlikely in the middle of the night. 453 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:17,640 But, perhaps, she saw the light on... 454 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,060 as did Mademoiselle Johnson. 455 00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:22,270 She came out here to investigate... 456 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,610 and whoever was here was surprised. 457 00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:27,780 There was a struggle. Springer was a game 'un. 458 00:30:27,990 --> 00:30:31,030 Hey, presto, stabbed through the chest. 459 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,620 Seem right to you? 460 00:30:32,830 --> 00:30:33,780 I suppose so. 461 00:30:33,990 --> 00:30:36,330 But it does not seem right to Poirot. 462 00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:40,960 That Mademoiselle Springer should see the light... 463 00:30:41,170 --> 00:30:45,090 and be intrigued, bon... 464 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:49,090 but that the person she disturbed should kill her... 465 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:52,340 and in a manner so brutal, non. 466 00:30:55,010 --> 00:30:57,020 No. It is all wrong. 467 00:30:58,310 --> 00:30:59,980 Right through her, apparently. 468 00:31:00,190 --> 00:31:01,940 - No. - Oh, gosh, that's awful. 469 00:31:01,950 --> 00:31:03,640 Who would want to do something like that? 470 00:31:03,650 --> 00:31:04,820 Oh, who wouldn't, more like. 471 00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:07,360 Fatty Forbes could have squashed her to death... 472 00:31:07,570 --> 00:31:09,820 but I don't think she could even pick up a javelin. 473 00:31:10,030 --> 00:31:12,280 Oh, God, I'm getting the screaming meemies. 474 00:31:12,490 --> 00:31:14,570 I swear someone has been rooting 'round in my room. 475 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,740 Shh. 476 00:31:25,130 --> 00:31:27,750 I've just heard. It is terrible. 477 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,380 Yes. Poor Miss Springer. 478 00:31:30,590 --> 00:31:32,260 I do not mean that. 479 00:31:32,470 --> 00:31:36,640 Don't you see? They meant to kill me. 480 00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,980 I'm so sorry you feel this way, Mrs. Forbes. 481 00:31:48,190 --> 00:31:50,690 Oh, I'm sorry, too, but you must understand. 482 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:52,530 The very idea of my little Patricia... 483 00:31:52,610 --> 00:31:55,070 in the same school where a murderer... 484 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,660 I quite understand. Goodbye, Patricia. 485 00:32:02,290 --> 00:32:05,130 I do hope we'll see you next term. 486 00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:07,590 Saint Winifred's, then? 487 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,960 Yes, Harry, Saint Winifred's. 488 00:32:13,430 --> 00:32:15,590 This is very serious... 489 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,060 most serious thing Meadowbank has ever faced. 490 00:32:29,190 --> 00:32:30,860 Just a moment. 491 00:32:31,070 --> 00:32:33,400 The Emir Ibrahim is in London, Miss Bulstrode. 492 00:32:33,610 --> 00:32:36,240 He wants to take the Princess Shaista out tomorrow. 493 00:32:36,450 --> 00:32:37,820 To take her out of the school? 494 00:32:38,030 --> 00:32:39,700 No, just out for lunch. 495 00:32:39,910 --> 00:32:44,910 Oh. Yes, by all means, but she must be back by 8:00. 496 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,790 Hello? Yes. That's quite all right. 497 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,420 Goodbye. 498 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,800 Hello? Meadowbank School. 499 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:10,480 The psychology, Inspector, it is fascinating, is it not? 500 00:33:10,980 --> 00:33:12,530 A pupil with a loathing most deep... 501 00:33:12,650 --> 00:33:13,900 for Mademoiselle Springer... 502 00:33:14,110 --> 00:33:17,950 a colleague who was jealous, or a lover thwarted. 503 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,700 Well, even games mistresses have their love lives. 504 00:33:23,250 --> 00:33:24,830 We shall see. 505 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,590 Nobody has got an alibi except the two who found her... 506 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,500 Miss Johnson and Miss Chadwick. 507 00:33:32,710 --> 00:33:35,590 Theoretically, everyone else was asleep in bed... 508 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,470 but there's no one to vouch for them. 509 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,720 The girls and the staff have separate rooms. 510 00:33:41,930 --> 00:33:45,140 Any one of them could've gone out to the gymnasium... 511 00:33:45,350 --> 00:33:48,900 and met Miss Springer or could've followed her there. 512 00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:50,980 Then, having done her in... 513 00:33:51,190 --> 00:33:53,360 they could dodge back quietly through the bushes... 514 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,320 to the side door and be nicely back in bed... 515 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,900 when the alarm was given. 516 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,370 - Sir? - Well, best get on. 517 00:34:06,250 --> 00:34:10,750 Miss Blake first... arts and dance. 518 00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:15,800 Oh. I'm sorry about this. 519 00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:20,010 One of the girls, she insists on seeing you. 520 00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:23,220 There have been people watching this place. 521 00:34:23,430 --> 00:34:25,220 Oh, they do not show themselves clearly... 522 00:34:25,390 --> 00:34:27,140 but they are there. 523 00:34:27,350 --> 00:34:29,850 And why should they do that? 524 00:34:30,060 --> 00:34:32,520 Because of me. They want to assassinate me. 525 00:34:32,730 --> 00:34:36,030 Miss Springer, she must have found out about them. 526 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:40,660 Perhaps they promised to pay her money if she said nothing. 527 00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:42,410 So, she goes to the sports pavilion... 528 00:34:42,450 --> 00:34:45,200 where they say they'll pay her, and they kill her. 529 00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:47,740 Now look, young lady, I don't have time for this nonsense. 530 00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:49,710 It is not nonsense. 531 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,590 My cousin was the Prince Ali Yusuf of Ramat. 532 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,710 I am next in line to the throne. 533 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,510 These butchers, they do not want me to be the focus of rebellion. 534 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:03,970 Perhaps there is something in what she says, Inspector. 535 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,480 Oh, I'm so sorry. 536 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,730 Forgive my clumsiness. 537 00:35:37,090 --> 00:35:40,090 Everything you've told me so far... 538 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,010 points to Miss Springer being very sure of herself. 539 00:35:43,220 --> 00:35:44,430 Too sure. 540 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,600 She hinted at people being not what they seemed. 541 00:35:46,810 --> 00:35:47,760 Did she now? 542 00:35:47,770 --> 00:35:50,650 She mentioned that at her last school... she had unmasked someone... 543 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,770 but that the staff had been against her. 544 00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:54,690 You see what that means... 545 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,230 the beginnings of a persecution complex. 546 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,190 - Naturellement. - More psychology, eh? 547 00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:04,700 Well, someone certainly had it in for Miss Springer... 548 00:36:04,740 --> 00:36:06,120 with a vengeance. 549 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:08,450 And a javelin. 550 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:11,710 Can't say I cared for her. Brusque. 551 00:36:11,910 --> 00:36:15,830 As for her treatment to the girls, sadistic. 552 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,130 Of course, I know this is a horrible business. 553 00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:22,260 I say, could I have a glass of water, please? 554 00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:29,060 Thank you. 555 00:36:32,980 --> 00:36:36,650 I have my own sitting room and don't see much of the staff. 556 00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:38,980 The whole thing is unbelievable. 557 00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:40,150 How so, mademoiselle? 558 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,110 Well, first that Miss Springer should get killed at all. 559 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,990 Say someone broke into the gymnasium... 560 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,490 and she went out to see who it was. 561 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,830 That's all right, I suppose, but who'd want to break into there? 562 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,200 Local children who wanted... 563 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:53,860 to help themselves to the sports equipment. 564 00:36:53,940 --> 00:36:55,470 If that's so, I can't help feeling... 565 00:36:55,470 --> 00:36:58,180 Miss Springer would've given them a clip around the ear... 566 00:36:58,290 --> 00:36:59,630 not get herself stabbed to death. 567 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,670 And you noticed nothing unusual recently? 568 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,130 - Well... - Yes, miss? Out with it. 569 00:37:05,340 --> 00:37:07,510 It's nothing, really... 570 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,470 but one of the gardeners, the young one... 571 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:11,720 Which young one? 572 00:37:11,930 --> 00:37:13,520 His name is Adam Goodman, Inspector. 573 00:37:13,730 --> 00:37:15,770 He arrived only this term. 574 00:37:15,980 --> 00:37:18,400 Well, he seemed very interested in the pavilion... 575 00:37:18,610 --> 00:37:22,360 probably just curious or slacking off work, but... 576 00:37:22,570 --> 00:37:24,900 But? 577 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:28,870 His manner was a little odd, defiant. 578 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,370 He sneered at all the money that was spent on the girls. 579 00:37:31,410 --> 00:37:33,500 I see. 580 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,580 My first term, yes. 581 00:37:36,790 --> 00:37:38,880 I do not think I wish to remain for another. 582 00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:41,130 No? 583 00:37:41,340 --> 00:37:44,050 It is not nice to be in a school where people are murdered. 584 00:37:44,260 --> 00:37:46,880 Mademoiselle Springer, did you know her well? 585 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:48,970 Practically not at all... 586 00:37:49,180 --> 00:37:50,800 a rude and ugly woman... 587 00:37:51,010 --> 00:37:54,220 like a caricature of an English woman. 588 00:37:54,430 --> 00:37:55,680 She was rude to me. 589 00:37:55,890 --> 00:37:58,770 She didn't like me going to her sports pavilion. 590 00:37:58,980 --> 00:38:00,190 Her sports pavilion. 591 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,400 But... forgive me, mademoiselle... 592 00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:07,570 ...what reason did you have for entering in there? 593 00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:09,200 I was interested in the building. 594 00:38:09,410 --> 00:38:11,280 That is all. 595 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,700 Last term, mademoiselle, you were unwell? 596 00:38:15,910 --> 00:38:17,460 Yes. 597 00:38:19,630 --> 00:38:21,500 And the nature of this illness? 598 00:38:21,710 --> 00:38:24,210 Well, that's private. 599 00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:27,420 Mademoiselle, we are here to investigate a murder. 600 00:38:27,630 --> 00:38:30,050 Everything, it must be brought out into the light. 601 00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:33,680 - Really? And what about you? - Moi? 602 00:38:33,890 --> 00:38:36,600 Well, all that guff about looking 'round the school... 603 00:38:36,810 --> 00:38:39,140 on behalf of the King of Belgium. 604 00:38:40,810 --> 00:38:44,400 So, you penetrated the little deception of Poirot, hein? 605 00:38:44,610 --> 00:38:48,240 Not too hard. No offense. 606 00:38:48,450 --> 00:38:49,950 Anyway, I'm not surprised... 607 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,870 something like this has happened. 608 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,290 Ever since I've come back, it was as though... 609 00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:00,290 there was someone among us who didn't belong... 610 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:03,250 a cat among the pigeons. 611 00:39:12,970 --> 00:39:15,810 - Well, hello there. - Hello. 612 00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:19,020 - Do you mind if I join you? - It's a free country. 613 00:39:21,310 --> 00:39:22,270 Ahh. 614 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,400 I hope you've brought your own hard-boiled egg. 615 00:39:24,570 --> 00:39:25,980 I'm afraid I've only enough for me. 616 00:39:26,110 --> 00:39:28,530 That's okay. 617 00:39:28,740 --> 00:39:30,070 How appropriate. 618 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,860 Hmm? 619 00:39:32,070 --> 00:39:33,240 Adam, isn't it? 620 00:39:33,450 --> 00:39:36,620 Oh. Yes. 621 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,500 Adam. 622 00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:42,000 Hmm. 623 00:39:45,290 --> 00:39:48,170 Excuse me, Miss Shapland. 624 00:40:15,370 --> 00:40:18,120 Just doesn't seem like your thing, that's all... 625 00:40:18,330 --> 00:40:19,700 shut away in a girls school. 626 00:40:19,910 --> 00:40:21,700 How would you know what my thing was? 627 00:40:21,910 --> 00:40:24,460 Just don't seem the type. 628 00:40:24,670 --> 00:40:26,380 I like variety. 629 00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,420 Anyway, I could say the same thing about you. 630 00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:29,550 Yes? 631 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,840 - Good-looking young man... - Ah, good-looking, eh? 632 00:40:33,050 --> 00:40:36,010 ...spending his days planting chrysanthemums... 633 00:40:36,220 --> 00:40:38,350 - in a girls school. - Angelicas. 634 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,180 Chrysanths won't take. It's the soil. 635 00:40:42,810 --> 00:40:45,230 In case you hadn't noticed, there's a depression on. 636 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,060 I get work wherever I can. 637 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,030 I'm sorry if I've given offense. 638 00:40:54,110 --> 00:40:55,610 None taken. 639 00:40:59,620 --> 00:41:01,040 I don't mind. 640 00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:02,750 Honestly, you can have it back. 641 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,250 No, no. We swapped fair and square. 642 00:41:05,460 --> 00:41:07,460 I'll just have to ask Mummy for a new one. 643 00:41:07,670 --> 00:41:09,590 It is funny, isn't it? 644 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,630 Now they've finished searching the pavilion, your racket... 645 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,420 Well, your racket, really. 646 00:41:14,630 --> 00:41:17,430 ...Is the only thing to go missing. 647 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,590 Oh, to think that's all the killer got away with. 648 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,020 I don't think anyone would kill poor, old Springer... 649 00:41:22,220 --> 00:41:23,640 for a tennis racket. 650 00:41:23,850 --> 00:41:26,770 I don't know anything about any murder. I told you. 651 00:41:26,980 --> 00:41:30,150 All right. All right. Thank you, constable. 652 00:41:31,980 --> 00:41:34,110 Now then, Mr. Goodman... 653 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,820 Um... 654 00:41:36,030 --> 00:41:38,950 before we go any further, sir... 655 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,870 Blimey. 656 00:41:48,580 --> 00:41:50,170 Well, Monsieur Goodman... 657 00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:53,100 ...perhaps you would be good enough to tell us... 658 00:41:53,110 --> 00:41:55,980 what an agent in His Majesty's Secret Service... 659 00:41:56,090 --> 00:41:58,930 is doing here at the Meadowbank School. 660 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,770 No sense dwelling on it, Chaddy. 661 00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:15,570 We'll be all right if we keep our heads. 662 00:42:15,780 --> 00:42:17,990 There's... 663 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,700 There's something you should know. 664 00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:36,170 You are here because of the death... 665 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:40,050 of Prince Ali Yusuf of Ramat, are you not, Monsieur Goodman? 666 00:42:40,260 --> 00:42:41,430 Yes, sir. 667 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,430 He was killed attempting to flee his country. 668 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:46,680 Damned shame, really. 669 00:42:46,890 --> 00:42:48,770 Prince Ali would've made an enlightened ruler. 670 00:42:48,980 --> 00:42:50,310 He was a democrat... 671 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,110 which is probably what did the poor chap in. 672 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,480 Anyway, just before all hell broke loose out there... 673 00:42:55,530 --> 00:42:58,070 we'd been picking up some interesting bits of chatter. 674 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,530 Seems someone was trying to get close to the Prince... 675 00:43:01,740 --> 00:43:03,240 through an English friend of his... 676 00:43:03,410 --> 00:43:04,530 name of Bob Rawlinson. 677 00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:06,660 To get close to him with what purpose? 678 00:43:06,870 --> 00:43:10,420 To destabilize the regime, we supposed. 679 00:43:10,620 --> 00:43:13,040 There was actually very little to go on... 680 00:43:13,250 --> 00:43:16,710 just a name... Angel... 681 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,920 and now the next in line to the throne is here at Meadowbank. 682 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,470 The Princess? Ruddy hell. 683 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,560 She said she was being watched. Maybe she was right. 684 00:43:27,770 --> 00:43:30,690 Maybe that's why Miss Springer was murdered. 685 00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:32,440 But that is not the only reason... 686 00:43:32,650 --> 00:43:35,320 you are here at Meadowbank school. 687 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:40,520 Jennifer Sutcliffe, non, the niece of Bob Rawlinson? 688 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,030 You're very well-informed, sir. 689 00:43:47,290 --> 00:43:51,120 Ah, mademoiselle. You depart? 690 00:43:51,330 --> 00:43:55,790 I go for lunch with my Uncle at Claridge's. 691 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,550 At least there I will not die a horrible death. 692 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,090 Well, that rather depends, I think, mademoiselle... 693 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:04,760 on the quality of the cuisine. 694 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,250 George? C'est moi... Poirot. 695 00:44:37,460 --> 00:44:39,630 I have for you the little task. 696 00:44:44,180 --> 00:44:46,640 Is he going to continue to be my gardener? 697 00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,470 If you don't object. 698 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,270 Puts him right in the center of things. 699 00:44:50,350 --> 00:44:51,970 Hope you're not expecting more murders. 700 00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:54,140 I'm sure not. 701 00:44:54,350 --> 00:44:56,560 Good, because I doubt if the school... 702 00:44:56,770 --> 00:45:00,020 could survive two homicides in one week. 703 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,990 Now, Miss Rich has told us... thank you... 704 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,820 she felt that there's been a strange sort of atmosphere. 705 00:45:08,030 --> 00:45:09,240 Yes. I'd concur. 706 00:45:09,450 --> 00:45:11,990 Miss Chadwick said the same thing. 707 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,330 And... no, thank you... and you, mademoiselle? 708 00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:18,420 Have you noticed anyone behaving in a way bizarre? 709 00:45:18,630 --> 00:45:23,590 It's just a feeling, really, unless... 710 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,380 Yes? 711 00:45:25,590 --> 00:45:27,590 Something happened on the first day of term... 712 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,080 when you presented the Pemberton shield. 713 00:45:30,090 --> 00:45:31,590 It was when that dreadful creature... 714 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:32,930 Lady Veronica rolled up. 715 00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:35,230 I'm so sorry. 716 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,150 No, no. Excuse me. Excuse me. 717 00:45:37,350 --> 00:45:39,440 Ah, Miss Bulstrode, so glad I've caught you. 718 00:45:39,650 --> 00:45:41,480 Is there something the matter? 719 00:45:41,690 --> 00:45:43,110 I wasn't really listening. 720 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:47,160 One develops a method of tuning out, like a wireless, you see... 721 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:48,700 and I was far too concerned... 722 00:45:48,740 --> 00:45:50,620 with what Lady Veronica was getting up to... 723 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:54,620 but when Mrs. Upjohn left me, I couldn't shake off... 724 00:45:54,830 --> 00:45:58,330 the feeling that I'd missed something very important. 725 00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:02,380 She'd seen someone, someone she thought was dead. 726 00:46:02,590 --> 00:46:05,630 Gosh, that really takes me back. 727 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,390 We knew all the agents from the files, of course. 728 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:14,560 Really, the most extraordinary resemblance. 729 00:46:14,770 --> 00:46:17,020 It was espionage she was talking about... 730 00:46:17,230 --> 00:46:19,980 had to be, but it seemed so absurd. 731 00:46:20,190 --> 00:46:23,570 I suppose the Secret Service recruits from all walks of life. 732 00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:26,320 It's quite possible Mrs. Upjohn worked for them... 733 00:46:26,530 --> 00:46:29,450 without being some sort of female Bulldog Drummond. 734 00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:33,120 I'll get Goodman onto it. 735 00:46:33,330 --> 00:46:37,160 There was a word, a name. 736 00:46:37,370 --> 00:46:40,830 Think, mademoiselle. This may be of vital importance. 737 00:46:43,250 --> 00:46:48,010 Good Lord, how extraordinary, but it's not possible. 738 00:46:48,220 --> 00:46:50,090 The Angel. 739 00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:54,930 Angel. The Angel. That was it. 740 00:46:55,140 --> 00:46:58,100 Someone she recognized... 741 00:46:58,310 --> 00:47:03,310 a parent or a relation of one of the pupils or a teacher. 742 00:47:03,980 --> 00:47:05,360 Hardly a teacher. 743 00:47:05,570 --> 00:47:07,650 - But it is possible. - Well, that's easily solved. 744 00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:09,780 We'll get Mrs. Upjohn down here right away. 745 00:47:09,990 --> 00:47:12,620 - Ah. - There is a problem? 746 00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:16,910 Mrs. Upjohn has gone to Anatolia on a bus. 747 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,410 Where on a bus? 748 00:47:21,750 --> 00:47:23,170 Excuse I, Miss B. 749 00:47:23,180 --> 00:47:26,690 The Emir's car has just arrived, and we can't find... the wretched Princess Shaista. 750 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,300 There must be some mistake. 751 00:47:28,510 --> 00:47:30,470 The Emir's car called for her an hour ago. 752 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,760 Oh. Well, probably a double booking. 753 00:47:32,970 --> 00:47:35,930 I'll go down and give them a flea in their ear. 754 00:47:41,230 --> 00:47:43,650 Monsieur Poirot, could I have a word with you? 755 00:47:43,860 --> 00:47:45,060 But of course, mademoiselle. 756 00:47:57,870 --> 00:48:00,710 I just found it. I swear. 757 00:48:00,910 --> 00:48:02,580 Found it where, Hsui Tai? 758 00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:05,590 In the flowerbeds. I thought... 759 00:48:05,790 --> 00:48:06,840 Yes? 760 00:48:07,050 --> 00:48:09,380 Well, it does look a lot like Miss Springer. 761 00:48:09,590 --> 00:48:12,340 I thought it might be, you know, a clue. 762 00:48:12,550 --> 00:48:15,850 Indeed it might. You permit? 763 00:48:16,050 --> 00:48:17,680 Merci. 764 00:48:17,890 --> 00:48:20,190 Now the face of the unfortunate Mademoiselle Springer... 765 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,870 it has been well-captured, you would say? 766 00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:23,440 Very. 767 00:48:37,530 --> 00:48:38,700 Bon. 768 00:48:38,910 --> 00:48:41,040 - Honoria. - What is it? 769 00:48:41,250 --> 00:48:43,540 Princess Shaista. 770 00:48:43,750 --> 00:48:45,210 No. She's gone. 771 00:48:45,220 --> 00:48:47,140 The Emir rang from Claridge's and everything... 772 00:48:47,250 --> 00:48:48,710 and Shaista never turned up. 773 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,210 Crumbs. I think I might swoon if anything else happens. 774 00:48:52,420 --> 00:48:54,760 It's just too, too thrilling. 775 00:48:54,970 --> 00:48:56,180 You reckon she's been nabbed? 776 00:48:56,350 --> 00:48:57,930 Must've been. White slavers, you think? 777 00:48:58,100 --> 00:48:59,220 Oh, hardly. 778 00:48:59,430 --> 00:49:00,390 Why not? 779 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,480 Well, she's not white, for one thing. 780 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,270 Come on. Better get to bed before Chadwick spots us. 781 00:49:09,690 --> 00:49:12,820 A word, Mr. Goodman. 782 00:49:13,030 --> 00:49:15,400 Kidnapped from under your nose? 783 00:49:15,610 --> 00:49:18,240 Yes. 784 00:49:18,450 --> 00:49:21,200 The last thing you need is more publicity. 785 00:49:21,410 --> 00:49:23,500 We're going to put it about that the girl... 786 00:49:23,710 --> 00:49:25,960 is staying with her uncle at Claridge's. 787 00:49:26,170 --> 00:49:28,960 Thank you. 788 00:49:29,170 --> 00:49:30,840 I'll speak to you first thing. 789 00:49:31,050 --> 00:49:34,510 Miss Chadwick will be in charge for a while. 790 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,590 I have to go to town tonight. 791 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,800 There's a meeting of the Governors. 792 00:49:40,010 --> 00:49:41,350 It's unavoidable, I'm afraid. 793 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,680 They're very worried. 794 00:49:44,890 --> 00:49:48,440 Does Poirot have any theories about the missing Princess? 795 00:49:48,650 --> 00:49:49,900 It's very odd... 796 00:49:50,110 --> 00:49:53,860 but he didn't seem concerned about her at all. 797 00:51:16,650 --> 00:51:18,320 No sense in denying it, I suppose. 798 00:51:18,490 --> 00:51:20,570 No, mademoiselle. 799 00:51:20,780 --> 00:51:23,870 - How did you... - It was the straw. 800 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,160 It smelled of the oily paint... 801 00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:30,210 and I would suggest that this oil paint... 802 00:51:30,420 --> 00:51:32,000 came from one of the packing cases... 803 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,880 that I observed when first I arrived. 804 00:51:35,090 --> 00:51:39,920 Also your skill, it gave you away. 805 00:51:40,130 --> 00:51:43,720 Such artistry lavished upon an object of such hate. 806 00:51:43,930 --> 00:51:46,010 Oh, I did hate her... 807 00:51:46,020 --> 00:51:47,730 and, by God, I let off a lot of steam... 808 00:51:47,740 --> 00:51:50,490 stabbing that thing, I can tell you, thinking of her. 809 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:55,400 I had to get rid of it, of course, when she died. 810 00:51:55,610 --> 00:51:56,820 Thought I had. 811 00:51:56,830 --> 00:51:59,840 But, tell me, Mademoiselle Blake... what had Mademoiselle Springer done... 812 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,620 to you to be deserving of such an effigy? 813 00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:05,570 It was just a bit of nonsense. That's all. 814 00:52:05,780 --> 00:52:07,790 She was a bully and a vulgarian. 815 00:52:07,990 --> 00:52:09,240 I can't bear people like that. 816 00:52:17,130 --> 00:52:20,260 I made it for fun, Mr. Poirot. 817 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:22,120 I didn't know she was gonna go... 818 00:52:22,130 --> 00:52:25,050 and get herself skewered, did I? 819 00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:41,280 JENNIFER: Julia? 820 00:52:41,490 --> 00:52:45,320 Oh, it's you. Thank goodness. 821 00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:51,450 What's up? 822 00:52:52,460 --> 00:52:56,960 As if murder weren't enough, now kidnapping. 823 00:52:57,170 --> 00:53:00,090 Has anyone looked in Shaista's room, in her things? 824 00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:02,800 The police must have, I suppose... 825 00:53:03,010 --> 00:53:05,180 but if she's anything like the rest of the girls... 826 00:53:05,340 --> 00:53:08,180 she wouldn't leave love letters or anything lying about. 827 00:53:08,390 --> 00:53:12,890 No. She'd want them well away from prying eyes. 828 00:53:15,690 --> 00:53:16,850 See you later. 829 00:53:22,690 --> 00:53:24,490 Have you got a pen knife, Jen? 830 00:53:24,700 --> 00:53:26,490 What are you doing that for? 831 00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:28,820 You thought someone had been in your room, right? 832 00:53:29,030 --> 00:53:29,990 Yes. 833 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,370 Looking for something... 834 00:53:34,620 --> 00:53:36,370 Something they didn't find. 835 00:53:47,010 --> 00:53:49,010 Corks. 836 00:53:49,220 --> 00:53:51,720 - Ha ha ha! - Ha ha! 837 00:53:51,930 --> 00:53:54,270 I've had a wonderful evening. 838 00:53:57,020 --> 00:53:59,360 Sorry. Sorry. Two left feet. 839 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,980 At least. 840 00:54:02,190 --> 00:54:05,400 - You're smashing, though. - Natural grace, darling. 841 00:54:05,410 --> 00:54:07,350 What do you think about Miss Springer, then? 842 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,490 Oh, I'm staying well out of it. 843 00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:10,950 Something to hide? 844 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,280 Curiosity killed the cat. 845 00:54:12,490 --> 00:54:13,730 I wonder if it did. 846 00:54:13,740 --> 00:54:15,200 You know, I've never had chance... 847 00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:18,080 to display my talents as a sleuth. 848 00:54:18,290 --> 00:54:20,380 I think I might be rather good at it. 849 00:54:20,590 --> 00:54:25,590 Go on, then. Test your skills on me. 850 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:30,840 Oh, I'm sure you're hiding something. 851 00:54:31,100 --> 00:54:33,390 Then again, aren't we all? 852 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,230 You all right? 853 00:54:36,430 --> 00:54:38,850 There's something I want to tell you. 854 00:54:51,990 --> 00:54:54,450 Entree. 855 00:54:54,660 --> 00:54:57,200 Forgive me, Monsieur Poirot. 856 00:54:57,410 --> 00:55:01,710 It is Mademoiselle Upjohn, is it not? 857 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,750 How may I be of help, mademoiselle? 858 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,130 You know this is very late to call upon Poirot. 859 00:55:21,060 --> 00:55:24,190 Nom d'un nom d'un nom. 860 00:55:27,150 --> 00:55:28,280 No one likes to brag... 861 00:55:28,490 --> 00:55:30,360 about having a mother in the booby hatch. 862 00:55:30,570 --> 00:55:32,780 I'm sure no one would hold it against you. 863 00:55:32,990 --> 00:55:34,780 Wouldn't they? 864 00:55:34,790 --> 00:55:36,780 Some of the high flyers I've worked for, Adam... 865 00:55:36,790 --> 00:55:38,660 they certainly would. 866 00:55:38,870 --> 00:55:41,120 Even here at Meadowbank... 867 00:55:41,330 --> 00:55:44,080 imagine the whispering if it got out. 868 00:55:47,420 --> 00:55:50,720 Poor Mum. 869 00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:54,800 - Your turn. - Waah! 870 00:55:55,010 --> 00:55:56,140 Waah! 871 00:55:56,350 --> 00:55:58,640 - Come on. - Waah! 872 00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:01,640 Oh! 873 00:56:01,850 --> 00:56:06,850 Aah! 874 00:56:08,940 --> 00:56:12,240 Uh... uh... uh... 875 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,000 Blimey. That's something. 876 00:56:28,510 --> 00:56:30,090 I mean, the wife has paste ones... 877 00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:32,170 wears them at Christmas and so on... 878 00:56:32,380 --> 00:56:33,760 all very pretty, but... 879 00:56:33,970 --> 00:56:38,560 But nothing when compared to the real thing, eh, Inspector? 880 00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:44,190 Yes. This gem, it is, indeed, most glorious... 881 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,190 part of the treasure of Prince Ali Yusuf... 882 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,940 that was smuggled out of Ramat at the time of the revolution. 883 00:56:50,150 --> 00:56:54,110 Is that what all this is about? Someone is after the gems? 884 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:57,660 But what would that have to do with Miss Rich? 885 00:57:02,750 --> 00:57:04,540 It's not as bad as we feared. 886 00:57:04,750 --> 00:57:07,500 They say she'll pull through. 887 00:57:07,710 --> 00:57:10,880 Obviously, she can't tell us anything at the moment. 888 00:57:11,090 --> 00:57:12,510 She was struck from behind? 889 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:15,880 Yes, with a sandbag from one of the fire buckets. 890 00:57:16,090 --> 00:57:17,970 What was she doing out in the pavilion? 891 00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:22,890 Miss Chadwick found her in front of Princess Shaista's locker. 892 00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:25,560 Poor Chaddy. She's very shaken. 893 00:57:25,770 --> 00:57:29,020 It happened on her watch, so she's blaming herself. 894 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,360 Murder, now this... 895 00:57:32,570 --> 00:57:34,570 and a kidnapping on top of everything else. 896 00:57:34,780 --> 00:57:37,070 But I expect developments at any moment... 897 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,240 on that matter, mademoiselle. 898 00:57:39,450 --> 00:57:41,030 Tell to me, if you please... 899 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,910 did you ever notice the knees of Princess Shaista? 900 00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,040 - Knees? - Oui. 901 00:57:46,250 --> 00:57:49,330 No. Why should I? 902 00:57:49,540 --> 00:57:53,170 Poirot noticed. 903 00:57:53,380 --> 00:57:55,800 The Ramat Rubies... 904 00:57:56,010 --> 00:57:59,300 worn by ten generations of the royal family. 905 00:57:59,510 --> 00:58:02,390 It's like something out of "Arabian Nights." 906 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,730 And hidden in the handle of a tennis racket? 907 00:58:04,930 --> 00:58:07,270 Jennifer said the balance was all wrong, didn't you, Jen? 908 00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,480 I can see now why that was. 909 00:58:09,690 --> 00:58:12,730 So, you conject, perhaps, that someone knew what was inside? 910 00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:15,610 Yes, but, of course, we'd swapped... 911 00:58:15,820 --> 00:58:18,110 so they ended up with the wrong one. 912 00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:20,280 Isn't it thrilling? 913 00:58:20,490 --> 00:58:21,930 Most thrilling, indeed. 914 00:58:21,940 --> 00:58:23,740 And then I remembered that Jen's parents... 915 00:58:23,750 --> 00:58:26,620 had been burgled just before term started... 916 00:58:26,830 --> 00:58:29,000 so maybe whoever it is... 917 00:58:29,210 --> 00:58:31,710 was already looking for the tennis racket. 918 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,710 Excellent, mademoiselle. You think like a detective. 919 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,010 Oh. Hee hee! 920 00:58:37,220 --> 00:58:39,630 It has to have been someone who was out there in Ramat... 921 00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,550 someone who saw the jewels being hidden. 922 00:58:43,930 --> 00:58:46,140 Uncle Bob had a girlfriend. Maybe it was her. 923 00:58:46,350 --> 00:58:47,480 A girlfriend? 924 00:58:47,690 --> 00:58:52,690 Apparently. Spanish or French, some sort of belly dancer. 925 00:58:54,150 --> 00:58:56,190 Angelica. That was it. 926 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,570 Mademoiselles, we need to detain you no longer. 927 00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:04,660 Oh, I don't mind. 928 00:59:04,870 --> 00:59:06,990 Most of the girls have been taken out of school... 929 00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,540 the sainted parentals panicking. 930 00:59:09,750 --> 00:59:11,830 Poor Jen is off this afternoon, aren't you? 931 00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:13,290 Yes. Worse luck. 932 00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:14,800 Just when it was getting interesting. 933 00:59:14,810 --> 00:59:15,980 Mademoiselles. 934 00:59:18,630 --> 00:59:21,430 Angelica? The Angel? Coincidence? 935 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,850 Is there such a person... an agent, perhaps... 936 00:59:24,060 --> 00:59:25,510 in your files, Monsieur Goodman? 937 00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,770 I checked when that nickname first came up. 938 00:59:27,980 --> 00:59:29,850 There was an agent named The Angel... 939 00:59:30,060 --> 00:59:33,230 but she was killed ten, fifteen years ago. 940 00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:34,690 Was there a photograph? 941 00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:38,650 Probably. There was a fire. Records destroyed, I'm afraid. 942 00:59:38,860 --> 00:59:41,780 I see. 943 00:59:41,990 --> 00:59:44,870 And the files concerning the revolution in Ramat... 944 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:46,540 I may be permitted to see them? 945 00:59:46,740 --> 00:59:51,250 Yes, of course. I'll see to it at once. 946 00:59:51,460 --> 00:59:52,710 Merci. 947 00:59:57,260 --> 01:00:00,220 How goes the search for Madame Upjohn, Inspector? 948 01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:05,430 Well, when Miss Bulstrode said she was on a bus, I imagined... 949 01:00:06,260 --> 01:00:09,560 some sort of Thomas Cook's tours or what have you. 950 01:00:09,770 --> 01:00:11,180 But? 951 01:00:11,390 --> 01:00:13,560 It seems that Mrs. Upjohn... 952 01:00:13,770 --> 01:00:15,440 is what you might call a free spirit... 953 01:00:15,610 --> 01:00:18,070 took off on her own with only a carpetbag... 954 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:19,900 determined to see the world. 955 01:00:20,110 --> 01:00:22,820 We're doing our best, but finding a lone Englishwoman... 956 01:00:23,030 --> 01:00:25,740 in a country where they probably use chickens for currency... 957 01:00:28,790 --> 01:00:33,000 News from the hospital. Miss Rich is coming 'round. 958 01:00:40,470 --> 01:00:44,430 Miss Johnson says you were searching for clues... 959 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:46,390 to the Princess' disappearance. 960 01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,560 Is that why you were in the sports pavilion? 961 01:00:48,770 --> 01:00:50,720 Yes. I had an idea. 962 01:00:50,930 --> 01:00:52,770 I thought maybe she'd arranged to meet a boy. 963 01:00:52,780 --> 01:00:55,440 There are lockers in the school, of course, but the pavilion... 964 01:00:55,450 --> 01:00:58,460 would be the perfect place to hide anything confidential. 965 01:00:58,570 --> 01:01:01,610 I mean, it's locked most of the time... 966 01:01:01,820 --> 01:01:04,110 and what with all the... 967 01:01:07,580 --> 01:01:10,540 ...police activity... 968 01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:12,250 You all right? 969 01:01:12,460 --> 01:01:15,370 I'm tired, just tired. 970 01:01:18,670 --> 01:01:20,920 I don't suppose you could say who you think may have... 971 01:01:22,170 --> 01:01:24,630 Well, Miss Chadwick's out of it because she found you... 972 01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,140 and then Miss Shapland and Mr. Goodman found her. 973 01:01:28,350 --> 01:01:30,970 They'd spent the whole evening together. 974 01:01:31,180 --> 01:01:32,970 Miss Blake was with Mr. Poirot. 975 01:01:33,180 --> 01:01:35,600 Miss Bulstrode was with the school governors. 976 01:01:35,810 --> 01:01:39,310 - Non. - Beg pardon? 977 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:40,820 Poirot has checked. 978 01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:43,400 The meeting with the governors was not until this morning. 979 01:01:43,610 --> 01:01:46,780 Mademoiselle Bulstrode left the school at 7:30 last night. 980 01:01:46,990 --> 01:01:50,910 Very well. Excuse me. 981 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,230 What of the French Mistress? 982 01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,130 She says she went to bed and heard nothing... 983 01:01:59,140 --> 01:02:00,600 until the alarm was given. 984 01:02:00,710 --> 01:02:02,250 We've no evidence to the contrary... 985 01:02:02,380 --> 01:02:05,090 but Miss Chadwick says she's sly. 986 01:02:05,300 --> 01:02:07,130 She's got a thing about the French. 987 01:02:07,340 --> 01:02:09,220 Look, aren't we missing the obvious? 988 01:02:09,430 --> 01:02:13,640 Bob Rawlinson's girlfriend, this Angelica... French. 989 01:02:13,850 --> 01:02:15,480 Oui... 990 01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:17,940 but the identity of this Angelica... 991 01:02:20,270 --> 01:02:22,150 ...well, there is more than one possibility. 992 01:02:30,370 --> 01:02:33,830 What are we going to do? It's like a blasted exodus. 993 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,500 And who will lead us into the promised land? 994 01:02:37,710 --> 01:02:39,000 What? 995 01:02:39,210 --> 01:02:42,880 Who will you name as your successor, Honoria? 996 01:02:43,090 --> 01:02:44,920 That's rather an academic question, isn't it? 997 01:02:45,050 --> 01:02:47,050 Meadowbank won't survive this scandal. 998 01:02:52,180 --> 01:02:53,640 Why do you ask? 999 01:02:53,850 --> 01:02:57,890 I saw the note, the one you drafted. 1000 01:02:58,100 --> 01:03:01,400 It was on Miss Shapland's typewriter. 1001 01:03:01,610 --> 01:03:03,190 I shouldn't have looked. 1002 01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,490 Oh, Chaddy, I haven't made up my mind. 1003 01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,860 I was just checking Eileen Rich's references. 1004 01:03:11,070 --> 01:03:14,240 I have given everything to this school, Honoria... 1005 01:03:14,450 --> 01:03:17,120 my whole life. 1006 01:03:17,330 --> 01:03:20,290 I've given everything. 1007 01:03:20,500 --> 01:03:21,710 Chaddy, wait. Let me speak. 1008 01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:23,250 Miss Bulstrode? 1009 01:03:23,460 --> 01:03:25,300 I'll take the afternoon off now, as arranged. 1010 01:03:25,460 --> 01:03:29,010 Oh, yes. Yeah. It hardly matters. 1011 01:03:29,220 --> 01:03:30,380 There are so few girls left. 1012 01:03:30,510 --> 01:03:34,260 Chaddy! Wait! I must speak to you. 1013 01:03:57,950 --> 01:04:02,210 Mademoiselle, where were you during the last term? 1014 01:04:02,420 --> 01:04:04,790 I told you, I was ill. 1015 01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,340 But, once again, I ask the nature of this illness. 1016 01:04:07,550 --> 01:04:09,380 Well, that's none of your business. 1017 01:04:09,590 --> 01:04:12,300 Poirot knows all, mademoiselle. 1018 01:04:12,510 --> 01:04:13,840 How? 1019 01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:21,810 It does not tax the little gray cells very much, mademoiselle... 1020 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:23,940 ...to connect the loss of weight, 1021 01:04:24,110 --> 01:04:25,480 the sudden emotion expressed... 1022 01:04:25,690 --> 01:04:28,820 at the reading of the beautiful little poem. 1023 01:04:30,610 --> 01:04:32,650 "Look, Lizzie, look..." 1024 01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:36,830 ..."down the glen tramp the little men..." 1025 01:04:37,030 --> 01:04:39,240 "Their evil gifts..." 1026 01:04:40,710 --> 01:04:43,540 "Their evil gifts would harm us." 1027 01:04:45,540 --> 01:04:48,250 Courage, mademoiselle. 1028 01:04:48,460 --> 01:04:52,170 I so wanted to have the child... 1029 01:04:52,380 --> 01:04:55,180 but I didn't want to lose my job. 1030 01:04:55,390 --> 01:04:58,100 I love Meadowbank. 1031 01:04:58,310 --> 01:05:01,100 So, I went away, out of the country... 1032 01:05:01,310 --> 01:05:03,600 where no one would know. 1033 01:05:07,060 --> 01:05:09,360 - And what became? - He died. 1034 01:05:12,950 --> 01:05:16,780 Miss Springer found out somehow. 1035 01:05:17,950 --> 01:05:22,910 She tormented me with it like she enjoyed it. 1036 01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:26,000 Ah, it is over now. 1037 01:05:28,420 --> 01:05:30,170 KELSEY: What's going on, Poirot? 1038 01:05:30,380 --> 01:05:34,170 You're hiding something, keeping me in the ruddy dark. 1039 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,890 Au contraire, Inspector. 1040 01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:43,020 I only wish to illuminate matters. 1041 01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:45,850 There is a certain car whose number... 1042 01:05:46,060 --> 01:05:47,690 Poirot took the care to note. 1043 01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:50,820 The car, it has been found and the owner traced... 1044 01:05:51,030 --> 01:05:54,490 and so Poirot would like to propose a little excursion... 1045 01:05:54,700 --> 01:05:58,200 to a nightclub known as The Glass Slipper. 1046 01:06:01,870 --> 01:06:06,120 This is Maison Blanche again. You understand me? 1047 01:06:06,330 --> 01:06:09,790 I have to speak of an account that is owed. 1048 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,500 You have until later tonight. 1049 01:06:12,710 --> 01:06:16,260 Non. You have had plenty of time to settle this. 1050 01:06:16,470 --> 01:06:20,180 If the money is not paid, it will be necessary for me... 1051 01:06:20,390 --> 01:06:23,430 to report what I observed on the night of the sixteenth. 1052 01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,560 You understand me? 1053 01:06:26,770 --> 01:06:29,810 Very well. Where? 1054 01:06:47,670 --> 01:06:50,790 Good evening, Princess Shaista. 1055 01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,920 Clammed up like a Scotsman's wallet, haven't you, love? 1056 01:06:56,130 --> 01:07:01,130 I can't believe it. She looks so different, mature. 1057 01:07:02,180 --> 01:07:04,810 - Precisement. - You've lost me, Poirot. 1058 01:07:05,020 --> 01:07:06,520 Was she kidnapped, or wasn't she? 1059 01:07:06,730 --> 01:07:09,520 Yes and no, Inspector. 1060 01:07:09,730 --> 01:07:12,980 The real Princess Shaista was abducted in Switzerland. 1061 01:07:13,190 --> 01:07:15,650 I would imagine that she is still there. 1062 01:07:15,860 --> 01:07:17,740 The revolutionaries of Ramat... 1063 01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:21,280 sent a substitute to the Meadowbank School. 1064 01:07:21,490 --> 01:07:24,120 - What the hell for? - Oh, I think I get it. 1065 01:07:24,330 --> 01:07:27,000 If the Prince's jewels left Ramat in friendly hands... 1066 01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:31,170 then sooner or later, they'd be brought to the Princess. 1067 01:07:31,380 --> 01:07:32,920 Her Uncle, the Emir, was in Egypt... 1068 01:07:33,130 --> 01:07:35,170 and had no plans to visit this country... 1069 01:07:35,380 --> 01:07:39,670 so the imposter could await the arrival of a certain package. 1070 01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,470 However, I did ask Mademoiselle Bulstrode... 1071 01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,430 if she noticed the knees of the Princess. 1072 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,640 - Knees? - Ah, oui. 1073 01:07:47,850 --> 01:07:50,690 Knees are a very good indication of age, Inspector. 1074 01:07:50,900 --> 01:07:54,310 Par example, the knees of a woman of twenty-four... 1075 01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,690 or twenty-five can never be mistaken for those... 1076 01:07:57,900 --> 01:08:00,740 belonging to a young girl of fourteen or fifteen. 1077 01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:12,500 But nobody, alas, except Poirot noticed her knees... 1078 01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,840 but the plan, it did not work, did it, mademoiselle? 1079 01:08:16,050 --> 01:08:17,210 Nobody tries to contact you. 1080 01:08:17,340 --> 01:08:19,300 There are no letters, no telephone calls. 1081 01:08:19,510 --> 01:08:21,930 The Emir could arrive at any moment... 1082 01:08:22,130 --> 01:08:27,100 and then he would realize that this Princess to be an imposter. 1083 01:08:27,310 --> 01:08:29,640 When the fatal moment arrives... 1084 01:08:29,850 --> 01:08:32,310 the well-laid plan was put into action. 1085 01:08:37,530 --> 01:08:39,480 Shaista was officially kidnapped. 1086 01:08:39,690 --> 01:08:41,070 And went where? 1087 01:08:43,610 --> 01:08:46,950 You work for the revolutionaries. 1088 01:08:48,830 --> 01:08:49,910 Yes? 1089 01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:51,660 You might as well admit it. 1090 01:08:51,870 --> 01:08:53,520 You burgled Mrs. Sutcliffe's place... 1091 01:08:53,530 --> 01:08:56,750 and when there was nothing there... you turned your attention to the school. 1092 01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:00,420 You can't hold me here. I got bloody rights. 1093 01:09:01,630 --> 01:09:03,050 We'll see about that. 1094 01:09:03,260 --> 01:09:06,430 The false Shaista could, of course... 1095 01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,680 have killed Mademoiselle Springer... 1096 01:09:08,890 --> 01:09:11,430 but I do not think she had the motive to kill anyone. 1097 01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,560 No. Her role was simply to receive... 1098 01:09:13,770 --> 01:09:16,350 a package most valuable that never arrived... 1099 01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:18,230 and the reason? 1100 01:09:18,440 --> 01:09:20,360 Because nobody knew exactly how the jewels... 1101 01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:24,400 of Prince Ali Yusuf were smuggled out of Ramat... 1102 01:09:24,610 --> 01:09:29,610 nobody, that is, except for one person. 1103 01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:55,600 You would be ill-advised to play games with me. 1104 01:10:01,940 --> 01:10:06,240 Give me what I need, and I will return to France. 1105 01:10:06,450 --> 01:10:09,120 No one will ever hear from me again... 1106 01:10:09,330 --> 01:10:12,160 or hear what I know. 1107 01:10:21,670 --> 01:10:24,630 This cat-and-mouse game is tiresome. 1108 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:27,260 I am growing angry. 1109 01:10:29,510 --> 01:10:32,510 Give to me what is owed, and I promise that I... ooh! 1110 01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:03,540 There you are, sir. 1111 01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:08,880 Light in the darkness. 1112 01:11:09,090 --> 01:11:10,640 She has arrived? 1113 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,470 Yeah. Now maybe we'll get somewhere. 1114 01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:15,640 Non, non, Inspector. 1115 01:11:15,850 --> 01:11:17,850 This is insurance, merely. 1116 01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:22,810 The case, it is solved. 1117 01:11:33,700 --> 01:11:38,620 It must have seemed that there was a sort of vendetta... 1118 01:11:39,620 --> 01:11:42,580 ...against the mistresses of Meadowbank. 1119 01:11:44,090 --> 01:11:46,710 But I can assure you that this was not so. 1120 01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:48,420 Could've fooled me. 1121 01:11:48,630 --> 01:11:53,630 There have been here two murders, an attempted murder... 1122 01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,510 and what appeared to be a kidnapping... 1123 01:11:59,620 --> 01:12:01,610 but I understand from Mademoiselle Bulstrode... 1124 01:12:01,620 --> 01:12:02,660 that this kidnapping... 1125 01:12:02,690 --> 01:12:04,690 it has already been explained to you, oui? 1126 01:12:04,900 --> 01:12:06,400 I said, didn't I? 1127 01:12:06,610 --> 01:12:08,190 That whole business with the brassiere. 1128 01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,280 All through this affair, the problem... 1129 01:12:11,490 --> 01:12:14,780 it has been to clear out of the way... 1130 01:12:14,990 --> 01:12:16,450 all the extraneous matters... 1131 01:12:16,660 --> 01:12:18,660 which, though criminal in themselves... 1132 01:12:18,870 --> 01:12:21,960 obscure the thread most important... 1133 01:12:22,170 --> 01:12:27,170 the thread that leads us to a killer who is determined... 1134 01:12:28,590 --> 01:12:33,550 ruthless, and in your midst. 1135 01:12:35,970 --> 01:12:38,850 A cat among the pigeons. 1136 01:12:41,690 --> 01:12:46,650 The threads of this case begin in Ramat, where, as you know... 1137 01:12:46,860 --> 01:12:48,780 a revolutionary coup d'etat took place. 1138 01:12:48,980 --> 01:12:52,070 It is now a few months ago. 1139 01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:57,280 At the same time as this coup, the jewels most fabulous... 1140 01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,000 that belonged to the late Prince Ali Yusuf... 1141 01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:02,710 were spirited out of the country... 1142 01:13:02,710 --> 01:13:05,750 and certain persons were most anxious to get hold of them. 1143 01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:10,960 I now know from the files in your Secret Service... 1144 01:13:11,470 --> 01:13:13,420 that the great friend of the Prince... 1145 01:13:13,630 --> 01:13:15,840 a Monsieur Bob Rawlinson... 1146 01:13:16,050 --> 01:13:20,260 was under the observation most secret. 1147 01:13:20,470 --> 01:13:25,470 He was observed to spend twenty minutes in the hotel room... 1148 01:13:26,940 --> 01:13:30,980 of his sister, Madame Sutcliffe, who was visiting from England... 1149 01:13:31,190 --> 01:13:34,360 but she was not there in the room. 1150 01:13:34,570 --> 01:13:38,410 So, why spend twenty minutes in a room that was empty? 1151 01:13:39,740 --> 01:13:44,740 Because he was seeking most desperately the means... 1152 01:13:45,500 --> 01:13:50,340 of smuggling these jewels out of the country until a safer time. 1153 01:13:50,550 --> 01:13:55,550 So, he places the valuables in the luggage of his sister. 1154 01:13:59,890 --> 01:14:03,390 But the revolutionaries eventually determine... 1155 01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,100 that Madame Sutcliffe brought the jewels back to England... 1156 01:14:06,190 --> 01:14:10,480 and, in consequence, her house, it is ransacked... 1157 01:14:10,690 --> 01:14:14,400 but Poirot says someone else knew... 1158 01:14:14,610 --> 01:14:17,160 exactly where were these jewels. 1159 01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:20,740 En effect, they were concealed... 1160 01:14:20,750 --> 01:14:22,360 within the handle of a tennis racket... 1161 01:14:22,370 --> 01:14:25,040 that belonged to the daughter of Madame Sutcliffe... 1162 01:14:25,250 --> 01:14:27,830 Jennifer Sutcliffe... 1163 01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,630 ...and it was she who brought this tennis racket... 1164 01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:37,800 to Meadowbank School, but someone within this school... 1165 01:14:38,010 --> 01:14:41,600 knew the location of these jewels... 1166 01:14:41,810 --> 01:14:43,310 for the room of Jennifer Sutcliffe... 1167 01:14:43,310 --> 01:14:45,270 it had already been searched, but now... 1168 01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:47,770 they turned their attention to the sports pavilion. 1169 01:14:47,780 --> 01:14:49,390 This person assumes that everybody... 1170 01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,400 would be in bed asleep, hein... 1171 01:14:54,190 --> 01:14:56,690 ...but this was not the case... 1172 01:14:56,900 --> 01:15:01,900 for Mademoiselle Springer is watching, and she follows. 1173 01:15:05,250 --> 01:15:07,080 She confronts this person... 1174 01:15:07,290 --> 01:15:09,750 in much the same way as she has in the past. 1175 01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:11,610 She intends to have her amusement... 1176 01:15:11,620 --> 01:15:13,530 and for the character of Mademoiselle Springer... 1177 01:15:13,540 --> 01:15:15,700 it is sadistic, non? 1178 01:15:16,010 --> 01:15:18,380 Already she has warned the staff of Meadowbank School... 1179 01:15:18,380 --> 01:15:20,840 in terms most unsubtle that she enjoys... 1180 01:15:21,050 --> 01:15:24,060 to sniff out the scandal, and already, she has her claws... 1181 01:15:24,060 --> 01:15:25,980 in more than one teacher because she knows... 1182 01:15:25,990 --> 01:15:28,330 of their little weaknesses or foibles... 1183 01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:32,600 ...although, naturellement, she knows nothing... 1184 01:15:32,770 --> 01:15:35,730 of the rubies of the Prince. 1185 01:15:35,940 --> 01:15:40,110 Non. She is safe. She is smug. 1186 01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,160 Quite the dark horse, aren't you? 1187 01:15:43,370 --> 01:15:48,250 She will enjoy watching her new victim squirm... 1188 01:15:49,250 --> 01:15:52,500 ...like the worm on the end of the fishing hook. 1189 01:15:54,210 --> 01:15:56,000 But she has failed to take into account... 1190 01:15:56,130 --> 01:15:58,380 the character of her victim... 1191 01:16:00,090 --> 01:16:05,090 ...a person who is cold, ruthless, a killer. 1192 01:16:16,860 --> 01:16:20,280 Who wished to silence her? 1193 01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:31,460 Mademoiselle Blake, per example, she who lavished such care... 1194 01:16:31,670 --> 01:16:33,670 on creating an effigy of straw... 1195 01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:36,170 of the games mistress so hated... 1196 01:16:36,380 --> 01:16:39,130 and derived the pleasure of stabbing at it... 1197 01:16:39,340 --> 01:16:43,470 again and again and again? 1198 01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:47,140 Why should she do this? 1199 01:16:47,350 --> 01:16:48,560 Mademoiselle? 1200 01:16:54,350 --> 01:16:59,350 At my last school, there was a boy, a pupil. 1201 01:17:03,610 --> 01:17:05,240 It was inappropriate. 1202 01:17:07,030 --> 01:17:11,080 Hardly amounted to anything, but I had to leave. 1203 01:17:11,290 --> 01:17:13,210 It was a wretched mess. 1204 01:17:15,170 --> 01:17:19,920 I don't know how Springer found out, but she made my life hell. 1205 01:17:20,130 --> 01:17:24,010 I could gladly have stuck that javelin in her, Mr. Poirot... 1206 01:17:25,970 --> 01:17:27,720 ...but I didn't. 1207 01:17:30,310 --> 01:17:31,850 I didn't kill her. 1208 01:17:32,060 --> 01:17:34,140 Non. 1209 01:17:34,350 --> 01:17:36,150 Non, for the psychology, it tells to me... 1210 01:17:36,150 --> 01:17:39,190 that your instincts, they are creative, not destructive, hein? 1211 01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:41,400 Non. 1212 01:17:41,610 --> 01:17:43,570 Non. It was not Mademoiselle Blake... 1213 01:17:43,780 --> 01:17:46,610 who killed Mademoiselle Springer. 1214 01:17:46,820 --> 01:17:50,280 So, let us return now to the night of the murder. 1215 01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,540 The killer must act rapidly because at any moment... 1216 01:17:54,750 --> 01:17:56,790 they might be disturbed. 1217 01:17:57,000 --> 01:17:59,670 So, the tennis racket belonging to Jennifer Sutcliffe... 1218 01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:04,470 it is found, grabbed, and the killer disappears... 1219 01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:08,240 pfft, into the night... 1220 01:18:08,250 --> 01:18:10,150 but what, of course, the killer cannot know... 1221 01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,740 is that a short while before, Jennifer Sutcliffe... 1222 01:18:12,850 --> 01:18:16,100 had exchanged the rackets with Julia Upjohn... 1223 01:18:17,440 --> 01:18:20,400 ...and swapped the tapes that bore their names. 1224 01:18:23,530 --> 01:18:27,110 And now we come to the second incident... 1225 01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:32,320 the attack on Mademoiselle Rich which came so near to tragedy. 1226 01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:33,900 Why were you in the sports pavilion... 1227 01:18:33,910 --> 01:18:35,660 that night, mademoiselle? 1228 01:18:35,870 --> 01:18:40,130 I wanted to search Princess Shaista's locker... 1229 01:18:40,340 --> 01:18:42,670 to see if there were any clues as to where she'd got to. 1230 01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:47,340 Bon, but someone followed you there... 1231 01:18:47,550 --> 01:18:51,180 and struck you on the back of the head with a sandbag... 1232 01:18:51,390 --> 01:18:54,810 as you knelt down in front of the locker of Princess Shaista. 1233 01:18:58,440 --> 01:19:01,060 Who could this have been? 1234 01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:08,740 And again, this crime was discovered almost at once... 1235 01:19:08,950 --> 01:19:10,870 because... 1236 01:19:12,830 --> 01:19:15,240 Mademoiselle Chadwick... 1237 01:19:15,450 --> 01:19:18,290 you saw the light on in the pavilion, hein, 1238 01:19:18,500 --> 01:19:20,040 and hurried out there, hein? 1239 01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,210 Many of you have the alibi most strong... 1240 01:19:25,420 --> 01:19:27,840 but where was Mademoiselle Bulstrode? 1241 01:19:30,440 --> 01:19:33,270 The meeting with the governors... was not until the next morning... 1242 01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:35,320 and she left the school at 7:30 that evening... 1243 01:19:35,430 --> 01:19:37,140 so could it be Mademoiselle Bulstrode... 1244 01:19:37,230 --> 01:19:39,890 that struck down Mademoiselle Rich? 1245 01:19:41,940 --> 01:19:43,480 Non. 1246 01:19:43,690 --> 01:19:45,320 Non, because Mademoiselle Bulstrode... 1247 01:19:45,440 --> 01:19:48,530 was on a mission most delicate... 1248 01:19:48,740 --> 01:19:52,490 the discovery that la pauvre maman... 1249 01:19:52,700 --> 01:19:55,700 of one of her colleagues lives out her days... 1250 01:19:55,910 --> 01:19:57,700 in a lunatic asylum. 1251 01:19:57,910 --> 01:19:58,950 You knew? 1252 01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:03,920 Yes, my dear. Someone alerted me. 1253 01:20:04,130 --> 01:20:07,840 "For the care of A. Shapland." Same initial, you see. 1254 01:20:08,050 --> 01:20:09,890 I had to look into it... 1255 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,670 especially with all the whispering... 1256 01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:15,970 about somebody being not quite right in our midst. 1257 01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:20,520 So, there now remains to consider... 1258 01:20:20,730 --> 01:20:23,270 the murder of Mademoiselle Blanche. 1259 01:20:23,480 --> 01:20:25,020 I believe that Mademoiselle Blanche... 1260 01:20:25,070 --> 01:20:27,610 knew the identity of this killer... 1261 01:20:27,820 --> 01:20:32,110 but nothing, rien, is more dangerous... 1262 01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:34,110 than to levy the blackmail on a person... 1263 01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:36,740 who has killed at least once. 1264 01:20:40,410 --> 01:20:43,040 Mademoiselle Blanche, she makes an appointment... 1265 01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:45,790 with the murderer, and, of course... 1266 01:20:49,210 --> 01:20:50,340 ...she is killed. 1267 01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,890 And there, mes amis, you have an account of this whole affair. 1268 01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,140 And now what? 1269 01:21:06,020 --> 01:21:08,730 Eh bien, let us to consider. 1270 01:21:10,530 --> 01:21:14,450 The knowledge that these jewels were concealed... 1271 01:21:14,460 --> 01:21:16,190 within the handle of a tennis racket... 1272 01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:17,870 could only have been acquired in one way. 1273 01:21:17,910 --> 01:21:20,200 Someone must have seen them put in there. 1274 01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:29,080 Any one of you could have been in Ramat over the summer. 1275 01:21:39,010 --> 01:21:40,560 You, par example, Mademoiselle Rich. 1276 01:21:40,770 --> 01:21:44,230 No. I was ill. I was away for a term. 1277 01:21:44,440 --> 01:21:46,100 For a term, yes, but over the summer... 1278 01:21:46,190 --> 01:21:47,400 you could have been in Ramat. 1279 01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:50,940 But you know where I was. You promised... 1280 01:21:51,150 --> 01:21:55,860 Look here. Hasn't the poor girl suffered enough? 1281 01:21:56,070 --> 01:21:58,990 Why do we have to go through these wretched theatricals? 1282 01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:00,160 I must protest. 1283 01:22:00,370 --> 01:22:01,990 Oui d'accord. 1284 01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:05,160 Mademoiselle Rich was not in Ramat... 1285 01:22:05,370 --> 01:22:07,670 that has been ascertained. 1286 01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,050 But someone was there. 1287 01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:23,310 The Angel was there... 1288 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:27,630 and here Poirot must present to you a person most significant... 1289 01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:30,010 a person that many of you have never before encountered... 1290 01:22:30,020 --> 01:22:35,020 Madame Upjohn, oui, la maman of Julia Upjohn... 1291 01:22:37,780 --> 01:22:39,910 and in the years past, she was a member... 1292 01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,410 of the British Secret Service. 1293 01:22:42,620 --> 01:22:45,200 - Secret Service? - Oui. 1294 01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:50,540 On the day that Poirot presented the Pemberton Shield... 1295 01:22:50,750 --> 01:22:54,090 Madame Upjohn recognizes a face in the crowd... 1296 01:22:54,300 --> 01:22:59,300 the face of an agent most dangerous, a killer... 1297 01:23:00,220 --> 01:23:05,220 a person known as The Angel whom she thought long dead. 1298 01:23:08,310 --> 01:23:09,600 Oh, she dismisses the idea. 1299 01:23:09,810 --> 01:23:12,190 It is a resemblance, no more. 1300 01:23:14,070 --> 01:23:16,440 But a member of the staff was watching most closely... 1301 01:23:16,650 --> 01:23:20,570 and we now know that Mademoiselle Springer realizes 1302 01:23:20,780 --> 01:23:22,740 that The Angel has been identified... 1303 01:23:22,950 --> 01:23:25,620 and is very much alive. 1304 01:23:25,830 --> 01:23:28,410 I suspect that this Angel was working... 1305 01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,660 for the revolutionaries in Ramat... eating away at the very foundations... 1306 01:23:31,670 --> 01:23:33,290 of the government of Prince Ali Yusuf... 1307 01:23:33,290 --> 01:23:36,050 and in so doing, she forms a relationship most intense... 1308 01:23:36,260 --> 01:23:38,300 with the great friend of the Prince... 1309 01:23:38,510 --> 01:23:39,550 Bob Rawlinson... 1310 01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,510 and then one day, purely by chance... 1311 01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,890 she sees something extraordinaire... 1312 01:23:47,270 --> 01:23:52,150 ...a treasure so magnifique, she will be secure all her life. 1313 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:54,480 She determines to retrieve these jewels herself... 1314 01:23:54,690 --> 01:23:58,190 in her own identity as a free agent... 1315 01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:02,490 not as a paid lackey of the revolutionaries. 1316 01:24:04,990 --> 01:24:07,370 Who could this be? 1317 01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:24,850 You, Mademoiselle Shapland. 1318 01:24:25,060 --> 01:24:27,180 What? 1319 01:24:27,390 --> 01:24:29,720 You have lived the life most dangerous, mademoiselle... 1320 01:24:29,890 --> 01:24:32,850 but you have never been suspected in your own identity. 1321 01:24:33,060 --> 01:24:35,520 All the jobs you have taken have been most genuine, yes... 1322 01:24:35,650 --> 01:24:37,360 but all with a purpose singulaire... 1323 01:24:37,570 --> 01:24:38,980 the obtaining of information. 1324 01:24:38,990 --> 01:24:42,130 Ever since you were seventeen, mademoiselle... you have been a secret agent. 1325 01:24:42,140 --> 01:24:44,060 You have worked for many different masters... 1326 01:24:44,070 --> 01:24:46,210 in many different guises, but it was in the guise... 1327 01:24:46,220 --> 01:24:49,800 of Angelica de Buque, the cabaret dancer francaise... 1328 01:24:49,910 --> 01:24:51,870 that you spent the summer in Ramat. 1329 01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:53,210 Oh, come on. 1330 01:24:53,420 --> 01:24:55,000 Monsieur Poirot, that's impossible. 1331 01:24:55,210 --> 01:24:57,110 Impossible? Non. 1332 01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:59,450 There was no opportunity of taking the tennis racket... 1333 01:24:59,460 --> 01:25:01,790 there and then because of the evacuation most sudden... 1334 01:25:01,790 --> 01:25:03,000 of the British people... 1335 01:25:03,010 --> 01:25:05,140 and to obtain a secretarial position here... 1336 01:25:05,350 --> 01:25:07,010 it was not difficult. 1337 01:25:07,220 --> 01:25:09,310 I propose that you paid a sum most substantial... 1338 01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,730 to the former secretary of Mademoiselle Bulstrode's... 1339 01:25:11,850 --> 01:25:14,390 - Vera? - Oui. To vacate her post. 1340 01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:17,400 Now everything is easy, is it not, hein? 1341 01:25:17,610 --> 01:25:20,190 If a tennis racket of a child went missing, what of it? 1342 01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:22,900 And simpler still, you could now gain access... 1343 01:25:23,110 --> 01:25:28,110 to the sports pavilion at night and abstract the jewels... 1344 01:25:29,910 --> 01:25:34,160 but you had failed to take into account Mademoiselle Springer. 1345 01:25:34,370 --> 01:25:37,250 - This is crazy. - Oh. 1346 01:25:37,460 --> 01:25:40,340 Miss Bulstrode, you can't honestly... 1347 01:25:42,300 --> 01:25:44,420 Anyway, where's your proof? 1348 01:25:44,630 --> 01:25:47,800 - You haven't a shred of... - Now, Inspector! Now! 1349 01:25:51,310 --> 01:25:54,600 There. That's her. I was right. I was right. 1350 01:25:54,810 --> 01:25:56,350 Oh! 1351 01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:58,520 Put it down, Ann. 1352 01:25:58,730 --> 01:26:02,110 No, Miss. Shan't. 1353 01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,610 No! 1354 01:26:04,820 --> 01:26:07,200 Get moving. 1355 01:26:07,410 --> 01:26:10,080 Oh, what's happening? 1356 01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:11,790 Get a doctor, quickly. 1357 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,960 - I'll go. - Bad. It's very bad. 1358 01:26:15,170 --> 01:26:19,330 It was for the school. 1359 01:26:20,590 --> 01:26:22,460 For the school. 1360 01:26:22,670 --> 01:26:26,090 She was only a slip of a thing, but lethal. 1361 01:26:26,300 --> 01:26:28,300 Bitch. You bitch. 1362 01:26:28,510 --> 01:26:31,260 I recognized her face from the files. 1363 01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:38,100 But she was dead... 1364 01:26:38,310 --> 01:26:40,310 killed on a mission in Silesia. 1365 01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:41,820 Or so you thought. 1366 01:26:42,030 --> 01:26:43,150 Ambulance is on its way. 1367 01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:44,900 I'll get her straight to the hospital. 1368 01:26:45,110 --> 01:26:46,650 Christ Almighty. 1369 01:26:46,860 --> 01:26:48,820 - I thought... - What, lover boy? 1370 01:26:49,030 --> 01:26:51,490 You thought you'd made a pretty good catch? 1371 01:26:51,700 --> 01:26:54,750 I've eaten better fellas than you for breakfast. 1372 01:26:54,750 --> 01:26:57,070 You were just a bit of fluff until the fuss died down... 1373 01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:59,330 and I could get away. 1374 01:27:01,710 --> 01:27:05,260 It was that gorgon Springer who started to unravel it all. 1375 01:27:08,890 --> 01:27:10,550 Aha. 1376 01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:19,100 What the hell do you want? 1377 01:27:19,310 --> 01:27:23,190 Oh, don't worry. Your secret's safe with me... 1378 01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:25,030 for now. 1379 01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:26,610 I said, what do you want? 1380 01:27:26,820 --> 01:27:28,110 Fun. 1381 01:27:34,830 --> 01:27:36,910 Oh, God... 1382 01:27:38,870 --> 01:27:40,750 Uh! Oh! 1383 01:27:42,420 --> 01:27:43,670 Oh! No! 1384 01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,550 Uh! Uh! 1385 01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:48,050 Uh! 1386 01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,060 I wiped the smile off her face. 1387 01:28:00,270 --> 01:28:02,480 But still you could not find the jewels, hein... 1388 01:28:02,690 --> 01:28:04,270 and then later, Mademoiselle Blanche... 1389 01:28:04,270 --> 01:28:06,820 she tries to blackmail you, and you kill her. 1390 01:28:07,030 --> 01:28:11,110 It comes so natural to you, does it not, to kill? 1391 01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,030 Natural as breathing, darling. 1392 01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,200 - Sir? - Let's get her out. 1393 01:28:16,410 --> 01:28:18,500 Ann Shapland, I'm arresting you for the murder... 1394 01:28:18,620 --> 01:28:21,420 of Grace Springer and Elise Blanche. 1395 01:28:21,620 --> 01:28:23,250 Miss Chadwick... 1396 01:28:26,130 --> 01:28:29,510 Monsieur Poirot, I don't understand. 1397 01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,380 That still leaves the attack on Miss Rich. 1398 01:28:32,590 --> 01:28:35,180 She couldn't have done it. We... 1399 01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,020 We were together all evening. 1400 01:28:39,230 --> 01:28:41,140 Oui, d'accord. 1401 01:28:41,350 --> 01:28:43,850 No, it was not she who tried to kill Mademoiselle Rich. 1402 01:28:44,060 --> 01:28:46,230 Then who did try to kill me? 1403 01:28:52,450 --> 01:28:54,910 She loved Meadowbank too much, I think. 1404 01:28:57,450 --> 01:28:59,240 And when I spoke of retiring... 1405 01:28:59,450 --> 01:29:03,040 She regarded herself as the only person who could take over. 1406 01:29:03,250 --> 01:29:05,960 But she was too old. She must have known that. 1407 01:29:06,170 --> 01:29:08,960 She could not think clearly, I fear. 1408 01:29:09,170 --> 01:29:11,880 Something in her mind must have snapped. 1409 01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:25,810 Once again, she sees the light in the pavilion. 1410 01:29:26,020 --> 01:29:29,650 She thinks she can prove herself by catching the killer. 1411 01:29:29,860 --> 01:29:33,320 She picks up a sandbag from a fire bucket... 1412 01:29:33,530 --> 01:29:35,490 and what does she find? 1413 01:29:35,700 --> 01:29:38,830 Eileen Rich, her rival... 1414 01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:42,660 and all the resentment, all the mounting pressure... 1415 01:29:42,870 --> 01:29:46,460 of the last few weeks, suddenly, it breaks. 1416 01:29:48,290 --> 01:29:51,000 Rrgh! 1417 01:29:54,010 --> 01:29:56,680 But this was a moment of madness. 1418 01:29:56,890 --> 01:30:00,100 Mademoiselle Chadwick is not a killer by nature... 1419 01:30:00,310 --> 01:30:03,520 and what she told to the police was the truth exactly... 1420 01:30:03,730 --> 01:30:07,190 except for the fact that it was she who struck the blow. 1421 01:30:09,610 --> 01:30:14,360 At once, her mind rebels at what she has done. 1422 01:30:14,570 --> 01:30:18,740 Oh. .aah! 1423 01:30:20,700 --> 01:30:24,620 Aah! Aah! 1424 01:30:24,830 --> 01:30:27,870 That's why Ann Shapland used a sandbag... 1425 01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:29,540 to kill Mademoiselle Blanche? 1426 01:30:29,750 --> 01:30:34,750 Precisement. Ann Shapland, hein? 1427 01:30:35,260 --> 01:30:39,470 A young woman who is very clever. 1428 01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:41,510 Out of the blue comes this second attack... 1429 01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:43,930 for which, of course, she has the alibi... 1430 01:30:44,140 --> 01:30:46,690 and later, she thinks she can tie up the murder... 1431 01:30:46,890 --> 01:30:49,730 of Mademoiselle Blanche with this... 1432 01:30:49,940 --> 01:30:52,980 but, of course, it is only natural to assume... 1433 01:30:53,190 --> 01:30:56,030 that it was the work of the same person. 1434 01:30:58,570 --> 01:31:00,280 Hello, Chaddy. 1435 01:31:02,950 --> 01:31:07,620 I want to tell you something. 1436 01:31:07,830 --> 01:31:11,000 Eileen Rich... 1437 01:31:11,210 --> 01:31:16,090 - It was... - Yes. I know. 1438 01:31:16,300 --> 01:31:19,380 Jealous. I... 1439 01:31:19,590 --> 01:31:21,930 I know. 1440 01:31:23,930 --> 01:31:26,930 I can't... 1441 01:31:27,140 --> 01:31:30,940 I'll never forgive myself. 1442 01:31:31,150 --> 01:31:33,770 You saved my life, Chaddy. 1443 01:31:33,980 --> 01:31:36,610 My life and the life of Mrs. Upjohn. 1444 01:31:36,820 --> 01:31:40,280 That counts for something, doesn't it? 1445 01:31:40,490 --> 01:31:45,490 Only wish I could have given my life for both of you. 1446 01:31:46,660 --> 01:31:48,120 No, no. 1447 01:31:48,330 --> 01:31:52,830 That would have made it all right. 1448 01:32:00,340 --> 01:32:02,260 You did, my dear. 1449 01:32:05,260 --> 01:32:07,180 You did. 1450 01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,920 Would you like me to leave now... 1451 01:32:34,130 --> 01:32:36,840 or would you prefer I waited until the end of term? 1452 01:32:37,050 --> 01:32:39,170 I beg your pardon? 1453 01:32:39,380 --> 01:32:42,340 I presume you know the reason why I was away. 1454 01:32:42,550 --> 01:32:44,970 You'll stay till the end of term... 1455 01:32:45,180 --> 01:32:48,180 and if there is a new one here, which I still hope... 1456 01:32:48,390 --> 01:32:50,310 you'll come back. 1457 01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:51,640 You mean you still want me? 1458 01:32:51,770 --> 01:32:52,980 Of course I still want you. 1459 01:32:52,990 --> 01:32:54,610 You haven't murdered anyone, have you? 1460 01:32:54,620 --> 01:32:55,870 Oh, no. 1461 01:32:55,980 --> 01:32:59,860 Teaching is your vocation. I know it is. 1462 01:33:00,070 --> 01:33:03,450 Well, we'll need three or four years... 1463 01:33:03,660 --> 01:33:05,410 to put Meadowbank back on the map. 1464 01:33:05,620 --> 01:33:07,620 We? 1465 01:33:07,830 --> 01:33:10,290 I'm offering you a partnership. 1466 01:33:11,500 --> 01:33:13,160 Oh. 1467 01:33:13,370 --> 01:33:15,630 You'll have different ideas, of course. 1468 01:33:15,740 --> 01:33:17,010 That's the way it should be. 1469 01:33:17,020 --> 01:33:18,930 I don't suppose we'll agree about everything. 1470 01:33:18,940 --> 01:33:20,400 No. I don't suppose we shall. 1471 01:33:20,510 --> 01:33:22,630 Monsieur Poirot, I've made the right choice, have I? 1472 01:33:22,630 --> 01:33:25,970 Oui. Poirot had come to the same conclusion... 1473 01:33:26,180 --> 01:33:31,180 about Mademoiselle Rich some time before, alas... 1474 01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:35,520 and now it is time for Poirot to excuse himself. 1475 01:33:37,770 --> 01:33:39,900 Au revoir, mademoiselle. 1476 01:33:40,110 --> 01:33:41,150 Thank you for everything. 1477 01:33:41,360 --> 01:33:42,900 Oh, de rien... 1478 01:33:43,110 --> 01:33:45,070 and you, mademoiselle... 1479 01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:47,950 the challenge, it has returned, non? 1480 01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:49,910 Oh, yes. 1481 01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,910 Always at my best when I'm up against it. 1482 01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:57,710 Meadowbank will once again be the finest school in England. 1483 01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:07,140 Well, I'm, glad we sorted all that out, monsieur. 1484 01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:11,770 - Au revoir, Inspector. - Au revoir, monsieur. 1485 01:34:16,150 --> 01:34:18,440 - Madame Upjohn. - Oh, Monsieur Poirot. 1486 01:34:18,650 --> 01:34:20,570 You should be very proud of your little one. 1487 01:34:20,780 --> 01:34:22,400 She has shown the great courage. 1488 01:34:22,610 --> 01:34:25,610 Oh, never mind that, Mr. P. What about Mummy here? 1489 01:34:25,820 --> 01:34:28,820 A secret agent all this time, and I never knew. 1490 01:34:29,030 --> 01:34:30,280 Well, not really. 1491 01:34:30,290 --> 01:34:32,030 She's told me all about the shooting... 1492 01:34:32,040 --> 01:34:34,450 and Miss Shapland, and I think it is bloody exciting. 1493 01:34:34,660 --> 01:34:35,870 - Julia. - Helas. 1494 01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:38,200 Sorry, but it is. 1495 01:34:38,410 --> 01:34:40,460 I suppose school is going to be awfully dreary... 1496 01:34:40,470 --> 01:34:43,620 now people aren't getting bumped off all over the place. 1497 01:34:43,630 --> 01:34:45,130 Are you heading back to town? 1498 01:34:45,340 --> 01:34:46,970 Alas, oui. 1499 01:34:47,180 --> 01:34:49,930 I have an appointment with your Foreign Office. 1500 01:34:50,140 --> 01:34:53,560 There is a little matter of a king's ransom in rubies... 1501 01:34:53,770 --> 01:34:54,930 that must be returned. 1502 01:34:55,140 --> 01:34:57,980 Oh, yes. Oh, they were rather smashing. 1503 01:34:58,190 --> 01:35:02,150 No chance they could be regarded as, whatchamacallit... 1504 01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:03,320 Treasure Trove? 1505 01:35:03,530 --> 01:35:04,480 Non, mais non. Non. 1506 01:35:04,490 --> 01:35:05,990 The jewels, they must be returned... 1507 01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:08,760 to their rightful owner... the real Princess Shaista... 1508 01:35:08,860 --> 01:35:11,030 who has been found to live a life quite pleasant... 1509 01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:16,200 in a Swiss chalet, but in recognition... 1510 01:35:16,660 --> 01:35:20,630 of your assistance so great in this affair so dangerous... 1511 01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:25,550 I have been authorized to present to you un petit cadeau. 1512 01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:29,970 What are they? 1513 01:35:30,180 --> 01:35:32,890 I believe they are called the gobstoppers. 1514 01:35:33,100 --> 01:35:36,640 Oh, super. 1515 01:35:36,850 --> 01:35:38,730 Say thank you to Monsieur Poirot, Julia. 1516 01:35:38,940 --> 01:35:40,480 Thank you. 1517 01:35:40,690 --> 01:35:42,860 Je vous emprie, mademoiselle. 1518 01:35:45,610 --> 01:35:48,110 Oh, and, mademoiselle, please to take care... 1519 01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:50,360 when eating the red one, hein? 1520 01:35:50,570 --> 01:35:53,240 It has the center most hard. 1521 01:36:11,300 --> 01:36:14,300 SubRip: HighCode 115968