1 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,290 Senor Corlander. 2 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:33,490 No. 3 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:37,530 Have a nice stay. 4 00:01:41,630 --> 00:01:43,390 Good morning, Senor. 5 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,430 Good morning. 6 00:01:46,260 --> 00:01:47,090 You will be thirsty. 7 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:50,060 We can refresh you while the luggage goes to my car. 8 00:01:50,060 --> 00:01:50,830 That one's not mine. 9 00:01:50,830 --> 00:01:51,560 Would you like it? 10 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:52,760 No? 11 00:02:01,890 --> 00:02:02,960 Whisky? 12 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,730 Coffee, black. 13 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:16,260 Ah, just coffee. 14 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:20,790 My name is Grant, Detective Superintendent Grant. 15 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,360 But of course, 16 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,660 you play your part well, Superintendent Grant. 17 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,560 Gracias. 18 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,360 Your uncle Colonel Padro expects me at nine o'clock 19 00:02:30,630 --> 00:02:31,960 at police headquarters. 20 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,730 I'd like to drop my luggage at the hotel first. 21 00:02:33,730 --> 00:02:37,060 You are not in London now, my friend, why hurry? 22 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:39,360 Lieutenant Mora, one of our agents 23 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,960 has been tortured and murdered. 24 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,690 I thought you would want to see this, 25 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,760 a copy of the pathologist's report. 26 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,530 It's most interesting. 27 00:02:47,530 --> 00:02:50,360 All 11 wounds were inflicted in a very short space of time, 28 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:52,430 something like 20 minutes, and then. 29 00:02:54,260 --> 00:02:55,490 That means that Corlander talked quickly. 30 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:58,060 When an agent talks quickly, he talks a lot. 31 00:02:58,060 --> 00:03:00,360 I'm not here only to find out who killed him, 32 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,930 but how much he told them. 33 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:04,530 That makes two. 34 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:06,790 Yeah. 35 00:03:07,060 --> 00:03:10,860 The other was the April before last, James Bancroft. 36 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:12,190 Also one of us? 37 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,690 Yes, mutilated in the same way. 38 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:14,460 And also? 39 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:17,760 Corlander was sent down here to find out 40 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,060 what happened to Bancroft, and now you have been sent down 41 00:03:21,060 --> 00:03:23,930 to find out what happened to Corlander. 42 00:03:23,930 --> 00:03:24,730 And I will. 43 00:03:26,030 --> 00:03:29,160 One of the things M9 sent you out here to do 44 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,660 was to make sure of me. 45 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:33,260 Investigate Lieutenant Mora, 46 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:34,260 they said, but discreetly. 47 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,590 In view of the lack of security you've provided our people 48 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,660 lately, I don't see you have any need to complain. 49 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:43,290 Please impress upon yourself, 50 00:03:43,290 --> 00:03:45,560 if at any time you make me think you can injure 51 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,630 the confidence our department has in me, 52 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:48,930 I need only go to my uncle, 53 00:03:48,930 --> 00:03:50,960 the colonel, 54 00:03:51,230 --> 00:03:52,490 I shall say to him. 55 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:55,060 This superintendent from Scotland Yard is an imposter. 56 00:03:55,290 --> 00:03:57,130 He is a British spy. 57 00:03:57,130 --> 00:03:59,390 Terrible, will say my uncle. 58 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,960 who is the only member of the family who detests the British 59 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,990 having once failed to marry one. 60 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:04,790 Arrest him. 61 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,560 You will then be imprisoned for life. 62 00:04:09,860 --> 00:04:11,960 The matter is impressed? 63 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,760 No, but this is. 64 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,960 If Bancroft doubted your reliability, 65 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,490 you might have silenced him 66 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:19,830 and Corlander for the same reason. 67 00:04:19,830 --> 00:04:22,860 Claro..To remain in confidence 68 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:25,360 with our section, I would silence multitudes. 69 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,560 French. 70 00:04:33,860 --> 00:04:35,660 No, American. 71 00:04:35,660 --> 00:04:36,690 How can you tell? 72 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,460 She sat next to me on the plane. 73 00:04:38,460 --> 00:04:40,560 Que suerte...What name? 74 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:41,590 What hotel? 75 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,860 Forgot to ask. 76 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:43,860 Oh, my. 77 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,960 Two telephone calls, and then we can go. 78 00:04:53,130 --> 00:04:55,230 Police headquarters are a long way out. 79 00:04:55,460 --> 00:04:56,960 We aren't going to police headquarters. 80 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,260 That was my first phone call. 81 00:04:58,260 --> 00:05:00,060 I canceled your appointment. 82 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:02,090 What could you discuss openly with my uncle, the colonel, 83 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:03,360 without compromising him? 84 00:05:03,630 --> 00:05:06,690 You had a bumpy flight, you are air sick, you are excused. 85 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:08,230 I wanted that appointment. 86 00:05:08,230 --> 00:05:10,260 I wanted to get at the official photographs. 87 00:05:10,260 --> 00:05:12,360 My uncle has authorized me to give you all the official 88 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,930 photographs you require without reservation. 89 00:05:15,930 --> 00:05:18,760 Bring them round to my hotel as soon as you can. 90 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:19,760 That was my second phone call. 91 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,060 I canceled your hotel. 92 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:24,130 You will be my guest at my house, 93 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,990 so we can watch one another in comfort. 94 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,590 Is this your house? 95 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,960 No, this is the house where Robert Corlander lived, 96 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:38,760 and to which his body was driven last Friday night 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,990 in his own car, at least that is the immediate theory. 98 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,790 You disagree with it? 99 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,860 It doesn't give my uncle, the colonel, enthusiasm. 100 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:48,930 He is constructing another theory, 101 00:05:48,930 --> 00:05:51,760 that Mrs. Corlander put her husband's body in the car 102 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,090 and waited for his servants to find it when they arrived. 103 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,060 Mrs. Corlander is an American. 104 00:06:03,260 --> 00:06:05,060 My uncle dislikes Americans. 105 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:06,130 Oh, why is that? 106 00:06:06,130 --> 00:06:08,130 He once failed to marry a rich one. 107 00:06:08,130 --> 00:06:11,160 He wishes the murder to have taken place in there. 108 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,990 Could it not have been done in the car? 109 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,830 No, the car did not accommodate violence. 110 00:06:16,830 --> 00:06:18,890 It has been examined with great care. 111 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:20,860 So he had to be carried from the house afterwards, 112 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:23,730 dead weight, all this by a woman. 113 00:06:23,730 --> 00:06:25,960 If she had an accomplice, a lover. 114 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:28,790 My uncle has requested me to expose one. 115 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,330 In the dry cleaning business? 116 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:32,490 Who cleaned up overnight? 117 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:34,190 The police found no traces in the house 118 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,290 of anything consistent with a remarkably savage murder. 119 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,060 No, but that is not surprising. 120 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:40,590 Let me show you. 121 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,960 You know the two killings are impressively similar. 122 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,880 Except that Mrs. Bancroft. is not an American. 123 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,530 Does your uncle suspect her, too? 124 00:06:49,530 --> 00:06:51,590 But of course, she is an Australian. 125 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:52,860 What's he got against them? 126 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:53,860 He married one. 127 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,730 Did your uncle turn up any evidence 128 00:06:56,730 --> 00:06:58,260 that Mrs. Bancroft had a lover? 129 00:06:58,260 --> 00:07:00,560 No, but I did. 130 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,860 It was in none of your reports to M9. 131 00:07:02,860 --> 00:07:05,430 It wasn't in any of my reports to my uncle either. 132 00:07:05,430 --> 00:07:07,490 Similarly on this occasion, I am not reporting, 133 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,030 Oh? 134 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:12,360 That Mrs. Corlander has no more virtue than Mrs. Bancroft. 135 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:13,630 When did you find that out? 136 00:07:13,630 --> 00:07:15,260 Oh, I knew these things 137 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:16,760 some months before. 138 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,060 I am responsible for the security of all our agents 139 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:22,090 on the island, so I investigate continuously. 140 00:07:22,090 --> 00:07:24,160 And you continuously turn up the fact 141 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,990 that the wives had lovers. 142 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,530 Oh, it's not unusual for the wives of English men 143 00:07:28,530 --> 00:07:30,060 in the tropics. 144 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:31,830 Some people say it is the heat, 145 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:35,160 but I believe it is simply the English men. 146 00:07:35,430 --> 00:07:36,960 Nobody appears to be in. 147 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,690 No, therefore -- 148 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,530 As you see, designed for tourists. 149 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,430 Note the style, modern, hideous. 150 00:08:01,460 --> 00:08:03,760 Corlander was a conservative Englishman. 151 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,060 Used a fountain pen. 152 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:17,960 To clean, merely wipe, and it is as bad as new. 153 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:23,330 Note the floor. Terrazo. 154 00:08:23,860 --> 00:08:27,990 There is dirt, there is blood, a bucket of water, forget it. 155 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,330 The Corlander bedroom. 156 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,990 And Mrs. Corlander. 157 00:08:40,790 --> 00:08:44,690 Meet Superintendent Grant of Scotland Yard. 158 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:45,690 This is my bedroom. 159 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:47,490 Would you get out of it, please? 160 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:49,990 Nobody asked you either. 161 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,860 But, Senora, we rang. 162 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:53,360 But I didn't answer. 163 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:54,160 And I'm not answering now. 164 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:55,430 It's a pity. 165 00:08:55,430 --> 00:08:59,030 I've come a long way to talk to you, Mrs. Corlander. 166 00:09:01,830 --> 00:09:04,220 I've been questioned. 167 00:09:04,330 --> 00:09:05,360 In a state of hysteria. 168 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:10,490 Okay, but what I said is all I've got to say. 169 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,030 Get it from the handsome Teniento. 170 00:09:13,030 --> 00:09:14,360 I'm sorry to intrude on your grief, 171 00:09:14,630 --> 00:09:16,890 but I have some questions of my own to ask you. 172 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:18,430 And he must insist, Senora. 173 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,290 In what? 174 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:22,830 I'm an American citizen, remember? 175 00:09:22,830 --> 00:09:24,330 Your husband was British, wasn't he? 176 00:09:24,330 --> 00:09:26,630 Didn't you change your nationality when you married him? 177 00:09:26,630 --> 00:09:30,190 I changed nothing, except my luck. 178 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,730 Senora, the superintendent's here to investigate 179 00:09:32,730 --> 00:09:34,830 the murder of your husband. 180 00:09:34,830 --> 00:09:36,090 Surely you wish to help. 181 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,230 Don't you want to know who killed him? 182 00:09:39,230 --> 00:09:40,990 When your husband traveled so frequently, 183 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,260 did he always buy sugar, invariably? 184 00:09:44,260 --> 00:09:46,630 For instance, can one buy sugar out of season, 185 00:09:46,630 --> 00:09:49,190 or can one merely be unfaithful to one's wife? 186 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,790 I tried to demonstrate how you can help the superintendent, 187 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,760 you see, and yourself. 188 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:56,190 Perhaps you know of a jealous husband? 189 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,490 Perhaps you know of a place to go and leave us. 190 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,130 Perhaps, I shall go and see. 191 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:07,660 May I? 192 00:10:10,060 --> 00:10:14,460 You know there's no habeas corpus in this country, 193 00:10:14,460 --> 00:10:16,690 so that if the police suspect you of withholding information 194 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,530 they can imprison you indefinitely, 195 00:10:20,530 --> 00:10:23,330 even if they find no cause to try you. 196 00:10:23,330 --> 00:10:26,130 In other words, 'til they find the murderer and try him. 197 00:10:29,230 --> 00:10:33,060 Okay, I thought of two things when Bob started 198 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:34,560 buying sugar out of season, 199 00:10:36,060 --> 00:10:37,630 but what Teniento said. 200 00:10:37,630 --> 00:10:38,590 It's possible. 201 00:10:40,130 --> 00:10:43,460 You know how I know he wasn't woman hunting? 202 00:10:43,460 --> 00:10:45,260 You know what it's like to live with a man five years 203 00:10:45,530 --> 00:10:48,290 when he stops being a husband after one lousy month? 204 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:51,360 Unfortunately, I'm biologically handicapped 205 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,960 in that direction, Mrs. Corlander. 206 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,230 Sure you are. 207 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:56,730 What's the other thing? 208 00:10:56,730 --> 00:10:57,730 Smuggling. 209 00:10:57,730 --> 00:10:58,830 Smuggling arms? 210 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:00,530 Does it matter what? 211 00:11:00,530 --> 00:11:03,130 It's not likely to be anything else in this country. 212 00:11:03,130 --> 00:11:04,630 Who were his associates? 213 00:11:04,630 --> 00:11:05,730 I have no idea. 214 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,030 Then how did you come to believe that he was smuggling? 215 00:11:09,030 --> 00:11:10,260 I was told. 216 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:11,030 I see. 217 00:11:12,330 --> 00:11:13,330 Who was he working with? 218 00:11:14,630 --> 00:11:17,160 Look, you go to Scotland Yard with a bunch of smugglers, 219 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,760 they'll carve you first, then me. 220 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,990 Bob was tortured, didn't you know? 221 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,290 They'd stretch you out and do the same 222 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:25,330 until you yelled my name. No Thanks. 223 00:11:26,330 --> 00:11:28,890 They did it to another Englishman called Bancroft, too. 224 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:29,860 See his wife. 225 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,490 The police still won't let her off this island. 226 00:11:32,730 --> 00:11:35,290 She makes one move, she's in a cell. 227 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,760 Yes, I am, how charming of you to recognize my voice 228 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,330 upon so slight acquaintance. 229 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,360 Would you get off my phone? 230 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,930 It's Mrs. Dorset. 231 00:11:48,930 --> 00:11:50,190 Hello, Stella, honey? 232 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:53,060 Oh, the place is lousy with police. 233 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:57,360 Oh, do you think so? 234 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:57,930 No kidding. 235 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,230 They're just about getting ready to leave. 236 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:04,530 No, I'm glad you called, Sweetie, 237 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,060 I was just sitting around here wondering 238 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:08,360 whether or not you'd like to come over or something. 239 00:12:10,130 --> 00:12:11,660 No, I can't go out. 240 00:12:11,660 --> 00:12:13,460 You know what black does to me. 241 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:19,560 Mrs. Dorset is the wife of our Mr. Dorset, M9, 164, 242 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,890 When, tonight? 243 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:23,890 I tell you what, Stella, you do that. 244 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,990 Yeah, you reserve a table, honey. 245 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,290 The night Corlander was killed, 246 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:30,590 he was supposed to see Mr. Dorset. 247 00:12:32,860 --> 00:12:35,230 And the night Bancroft was killed, 248 00:12:35,230 --> 00:12:37,560 he was supposed to see Mr. Dorset, too. 249 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:40,090 No, sure, listen I'm crazy about that voodoo bit. 250 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:42,390 You kidding? 251 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,230 Hey, hey, what about Louise? 252 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:45,730 Louise being Mrs. Bancroft. 253 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:48,860 Have you anything more to ask her? 254 00:12:48,860 --> 00:12:50,830 Oh, not her. 255 00:12:51,130 --> 00:12:52,090 Yeah, you know, the merry widows 256 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:53,960 and all that jazz. 257 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,160 You. 258 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:07,990 My wife. 259 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,030 Muy guapa. 260 00:13:09,030 --> 00:13:10,290 That picture was taken eight years ago. 261 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:11,890 No woman is beautiful at that age. 262 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:16,190 It takes a man to make a woman beautiful, and children. 263 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,260 You should see her now, 264 00:13:18,260 --> 00:13:19,790 We have five. 265 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,590 Were we not having the sixth, she would be here to greet you. 266 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,860 She is at the house of her mother. 267 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:26,460 This time it will be a boy. 268 00:13:26,460 --> 00:13:27,760 It must be after so many daughters. 269 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,060 You don't look like the father of a large family, 270 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:33,330 Teniento 271 00:13:33,330 --> 00:13:34,460 A man who does not look like a father, 272 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:37,660 is a man most often invited to become one. 273 00:13:37,930 --> 00:13:40,960 Now, less pleasant things to look at. 274 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,260 The photographs you wanted. 275 00:13:43,530 --> 00:13:45,060 Bancroft, Corlander. 276 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:50,430 Mrs. Corlander was able to tell you anything? 277 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:51,790 She thinks her husband was mixed up in smuggling. 278 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:52,990 She thinks her husband was mixed up in smuggling. 279 00:13:53,230 --> 00:13:55,760 Oh, yes, she got that from Mrs. Bancroft, 280 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,030 who got it from me. 281 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:58,830 Rum? 282 00:13:58,830 --> 00:14:00,090 No, explanations. 283 00:14:01,430 --> 00:14:05,990 It is how I make the police serve M9 without knowing. 284 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,790 When I wish to screen an agent's security, 285 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,090 I tell my uncle, the colonel, that I suspect 286 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:14,160 that the man is smuggling guns. 287 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,460 He details police, who discover that the man 288 00:14:16,460 --> 00:14:18,790 is not smuggling guns, and I get a dossier 289 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,330 regarding him and his contacts. 290 00:14:21,330 --> 00:14:24,660 How did Mrs. Bancroft hook onto the smuggling idea? 291 00:14:24,860 --> 00:14:26,160 Some months before they moved here, 292 00:14:26,430 --> 00:14:29,260 I discovered that Mrs. Bancroft had imported 293 00:14:29,260 --> 00:14:32,060 a private detective to follow her husband. 294 00:14:32,060 --> 00:14:33,860 I went to her very promptly. 295 00:14:33,860 --> 00:14:37,460 I questioned her most severely and officially. 296 00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:40,030 I made it plain to her that we of the police 297 00:14:40,030 --> 00:14:43,560 suspected Mr. Bancroft of smuggling. 298 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,360 So, she then realized that his movements were unconnected 299 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,430 with women, and she sent the detective home. 300 00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:50,660 And after her husband's murder, 301 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,730 she confided in Mrs. Corlander. 302 00:14:52,730 --> 00:14:54,260 Claro 303 00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:56,330 Mrs. Bancroft's lover, who is he? 304 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,030 A man who has never committed murder, that is enough. 305 00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:02,990 For your uncle, perhaps, but not for me. 306 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:03,760 I want his name. 307 00:15:04,260 --> 00:15:05,530 It will not help you, and it would be indelicate 308 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,330 of me to didulge it because his every movement 309 00:15:07,330 --> 00:15:09,090 can be accounted for satisfactorily, 310 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:10,630 Comprende? 311 00:15:10,630 --> 00:15:12,690 Including the night of Bancroft's murder? 312 00:15:12,690 --> 00:15:14,760 Particularly including the night Bancroft was murdered. 313 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:15,730 Where was he then? 314 00:15:15,730 --> 00:15:16,790 With Mrs. Corlander. 315 00:15:18,060 --> 00:15:20,360 During a convenient absence of her husband. 316 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:23,460 And the night that Corlander was killed? 317 00:15:23,460 --> 00:15:24,730 With Mrs. Dorset. 318 00:15:24,730 --> 00:15:27,530 During the convenient absence of her husband. 319 00:15:27,530 --> 00:15:28,290 Si. 320 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:30,060 Also one of our agents. -Si. 321 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:32,160 So when do you expect Dorset to be killed? 322 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,260 And which one of the wives of our few remaining agents 323 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:38,260 do you expect Don Juan to be with that night? 324 00:15:38,260 --> 00:15:39,330 Amigo mio. 325 00:15:39,330 --> 00:15:42,160 this man you call Don Juan is nothing. 326 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,230 I always know where he is. 327 00:15:44,230 --> 00:15:46,230 Invariably the surveillance is total. 328 00:15:46,230 --> 00:15:48,030 What makes him move to the next wife 329 00:15:48,030 --> 00:15:49,560 before each husband dies? 330 00:15:50,330 --> 00:15:51,060 Clairvoyance? 331 00:15:52,130 --> 00:15:54,130 As you see, in the killing of each, 332 00:15:54,130 --> 00:15:55,960 there are enormous similarities. 333 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,330 Is that not a monumental coincidence? 334 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,860 There is a monumental coincidence concerning you, too. 335 00:16:03,860 --> 00:16:05,630 Coincidence and innocence are partners. 336 00:16:06,690 --> 00:16:08,290 Normally, you know our agents, 337 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:09,790 but you don't know who you are, is that correct? 338 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,860 Si, I break cover only if London orders. 339 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:14,160 London ordered you to break cover with Bancroft. 340 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,730 And London ordered me to break cover with Corlander. 341 00:16:16,730 --> 00:16:18,230 Is this a coincidence? 342 00:16:18,230 --> 00:16:21,030 No, the coincidence is that they both died the next night. 343 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:24,090 I can give you another. 344 00:16:25,430 --> 00:16:28,230 On both occasions, Bancroft and Corlander asked me 345 00:16:28,230 --> 00:16:29,730 to do something for them. 346 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,560 To get them false papers to cross the border. 347 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,060 I therefore, referred Bancroft, and then Corlander, 348 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,660 to a British agent who could help them, Dorset. 349 00:16:38,660 --> 00:16:40,730 Yes, we have that on record in London from your reports, 350 00:16:40,730 --> 00:16:41,760 but not from Dorset's. 351 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,760 Now which of you am I to believe? 352 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,130 First you must find out whether he is lying 353 00:16:46,130 --> 00:16:48,330 before you conclude that I am. 354 00:16:48,330 --> 00:16:50,890 That means I must break my cover with him. 355 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:53,190 Yes, that is a pity. 356 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:56,260 It means that you are treading the same path 357 00:16:56,260 --> 00:16:58,360 as Bancroft and Corlander. 358 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,590 And you know where that led. 359 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,660 Arrange for me to meet him right away, would you? 360 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,030 But if Dorset and I are accomplices. 361 00:17:07,030 --> 00:17:08,560 It'll be all the worse for you. 362 00:17:10,090 --> 00:17:12,190 Tonight our three charming gringo ladies 363 00:17:12,460 --> 00:17:14,530 go to watch the voodoo dance. 364 00:17:14,530 --> 00:17:17,360 I have no doubt Mr. Dorset will be there. 365 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:20,130 I leave the rest to you. 366 00:17:20,130 --> 00:17:22,460 That is Dorset. 367 00:17:22,460 --> 00:17:24,990 The name of the club is La Calavera. 368 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,260 Stella, your husband hardly seems to be enjoying it. 369 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,130 Not feeling well? 370 00:19:29,130 --> 00:19:29,860 Fine, thanks. 371 00:19:38,330 --> 00:19:39,560 How's the travel business? 372 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,930 I know who you are. 373 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,730 You represent World Travel out here. 374 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:47,290 Do I? 375 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:48,290 And who are you? 376 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:50,630 Oh, I move around keeping an eye 377 00:19:50,630 --> 00:19:53,460 on World Travel representatives. 378 00:19:53,460 --> 00:19:54,960 You had a cable from London today. 379 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,760 Shall I tell you how it read? 380 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,560 Bill, what happened to you? 381 00:19:58,560 --> 00:19:59,560 I was bored. 382 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:00,590 Well, you look ill. 383 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:01,430 I hate that stuff. 384 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:02,960 Really, but it's only a dance. 385 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,690 And a phony one, too. 386 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,490 Hello there, we haven't met. 387 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:08,560 I'm John Grant. 388 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:09,660 Louise Bancroft. 389 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,430 Well, voodoo is a profound and fascinating subject, 390 00:20:13,630 --> 00:20:15,190 but how you can get so steamed up 391 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,530 about this commercialized vulgarity I can't imagine. 392 00:20:17,530 --> 00:20:18,530 Don't try. 393 00:20:18,530 --> 00:20:19,790 Oh, Bill, really. 394 00:20:20,060 --> 00:20:21,830 Forgive me, Louise, but profound and fascinating's 395 00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:22,890 a bit of an overstatement. 396 00:20:23,130 --> 00:20:24,890 I was talking about the genuine article. 397 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,190 An excuse for sordid orgies of bloodletting. 398 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,490 Well, that's a flip way of describing an ancient 399 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:30,790 and vital religious belief. 400 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,130 We can do without religions that strangle birds 401 00:20:33,130 --> 00:20:34,630 and cut animals' throats. 402 00:20:34,630 --> 00:20:36,660 Well, there's nothing like that gonna happen here. 403 00:20:36,660 --> 00:20:38,230 Oh, come on, Louise darling. 404 00:20:38,230 --> 00:20:39,760 He's in one of his moods. 405 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,790 Well, goodbye, Mr. Grant. 406 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,290 Will you be staying long in Topeka? 407 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:43,330 That depends. 408 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:44,860 Oh, well, perhaps we'll meet again. 409 00:20:44,860 --> 00:20:46,630 Perhaps, goodbye. 410 00:20:47,630 --> 00:20:48,930 Sorry about that, Grant. 411 00:20:48,930 --> 00:20:50,490 You were saying something about a cable. 412 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:51,730 Oh, yes, it was addressed to you. 413 00:20:51,730 --> 00:20:56,060 It read, Our representative 65/L322 414 00:20:56,330 --> 00:20:57,090 will contact you. 415 00:20:57,100 --> 00:20:59,130 Appreciate you would give him usual cooperation, 416 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,230 signed Hobbs World Travel. 417 00:21:02,230 --> 00:21:03,460 So that's who you are. -Mm-hmm. 418 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,530 I can't imagine why London ordered us to break cover. 419 00:21:06,530 --> 00:21:07,290 Perhaps you'll be good enough 420 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:08,590 to tell me what it's all about. 421 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:10,360 It concerns two of our associates, 422 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:12,930 or rather our ex-associates. 423 00:21:12,930 --> 00:21:14,690 I don't imagine it had anything to do with voodoo, 424 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,560 but they were certainly involved in orgies of bloodletting. 425 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,590 They ended up with their throats cut. 426 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:27,460 We can't talk here. 427 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:29,290 Let's go around to my place. 428 00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:30,830 Stella won't be back for some time yet. 429 00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:39,460 How do you like your drink? 430 00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:41,030 Plenty of rum? 431 00:21:41,030 --> 00:21:42,330 Without in this heat. 432 00:21:43,860 --> 00:21:45,990 How long have you had that? 433 00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:50,090 Oh, rather splendid, isn't it? 434 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,090 Actually, a rich, young oil man shipped it out here. 435 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:53,590 Smashed it up late one night driving 436 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,390 with a film starlet, hitherto unknown. 437 00:21:55,660 --> 00:21:57,430 You bought the wreck and fixed it up? 438 00:21:57,430 --> 00:22:00,060 No, my wife did. -Get rid of it. 439 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:01,560 My dear fellow, why? 440 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,390 Your cover depends on people thinking 441 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,930 that you're the employee of a travel agency, 442 00:22:05,930 --> 00:22:07,490 not a millionaire. 443 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:09,290 Oh, I hope you find this flat appropriate. 444 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:10,560 My wife detests it. 445 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,590 The rent's quite negligible as it ought to be. 446 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,930 Do you pay it to your wife, or does she pay it to you? 447 00:22:15,930 --> 00:22:17,160 I beg your pardon? 448 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,960 According to the local police, she owns this flat. 449 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,030 Under island law, that's as good as saying 450 00:22:21,030 --> 00:22:22,290 it belongs to you. 451 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:23,260 I'm not with you. 452 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,090 And it's not only the flat that you own, 453 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,360 but the entire block. 454 00:22:29,430 --> 00:22:30,430 Oh, my dear fellow, I'm quite positive 455 00:22:30,430 --> 00:22:31,730 the police have misinformed you. 456 00:22:31,730 --> 00:22:33,290 I'm quite positive they haven't. 457 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:35,060 I've checked registers, I've spoken to the estate agents 458 00:22:35,060 --> 00:22:36,090 who made the sale. 459 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,160 They showed me documents signed by your wife. 460 00:22:38,430 --> 00:22:39,490 But you must know a foreigner 461 00:22:39,730 --> 00:22:41,490 can't go into business on his own here. 462 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,860 Not unless he takes an islander as a partner. 463 00:22:44,860 --> 00:22:47,690 By custom, a sleeping partner. 464 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,790 She's never said anything about this? 465 00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:58,960 Nothing. 466 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,790 Ask her about it. -I can't. 467 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,060 I'm ordering you to. 468 00:23:04,330 --> 00:23:05,330 Look here, I won't accept an inquisition 469 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,360 about my domestic affairs. 470 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:09,430 Because I'm in M9, it prevents my bettering myself. 471 00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:11,230 It's hard lines on my wife, you know, 472 00:23:11,230 --> 00:23:12,760 because I can't explain it to her. 473 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,860 So, you didn't give her the money for the car, the flat, 474 00:23:18,860 --> 00:23:20,430 or the whole block? 475 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:22,490 You're quite aware that I haven't got that sort of money. 476 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:23,760 Who has then? 477 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,060 I've no intention of finding out. -Why not? 478 00:23:27,330 --> 00:23:30,930 Because my wife's 25 years younger than I am. 479 00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:31,960 I'm very fond of her. 480 00:23:33,260 --> 00:23:36,130 The only way I can keep her is by not caging her. 481 00:23:36,130 --> 00:23:37,390 You understand? 482 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,930 But someone's been giving her that much money. 483 00:23:38,930 --> 00:23:40,760 Don't you think you ought to find out who it is 484 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,530 before he buys you out altogether? 485 00:23:42,530 --> 00:23:43,790 Nobody's concern but my own. 486 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,130 You can't be in M9 and have a private life, you know. 487 00:23:47,130 --> 00:23:48,190 Then I shall leave M9. 488 00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:50,960 I'm quite serious, Grant. 489 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,330 How would you like to go, by resignation or liquidation? 490 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:55,360 Liquidation? 491 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:56,860 What do you know about Bancroft? 492 00:23:56,860 --> 00:23:58,190 Bancroft? 493 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,460 You mean the man who was murdered a year ago last April? 494 00:24:00,460 --> 00:24:01,990 Yes. 495 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,360 Well, I know that he was in fruit. 496 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:10,190 And Corlander who died three days ago? 497 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,930 Well, I know he was in sugar. 498 00:24:12,230 --> 00:24:13,730 To me they were both crashing bores. 499 00:24:14,030 --> 00:24:17,290 And yet your wife is great friends with their widows. 500 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:20,130 Topico Bay is a collection of small communities. 501 00:24:20,130 --> 00:24:22,390 The British is the most clannish of all. 502 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,930 One tends to meet willy-nilly. 503 00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:25,490 But you learned they were in M9 504 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,030 only shortly before they died. 505 00:24:28,030 --> 00:24:29,590 M9? 506 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,160 No, I didn't know that. 507 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,460 Didn't you? 508 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,030 Do you know who the agent in charge 509 00:24:36,030 --> 00:24:37,560 of security is over here? 510 00:24:37,830 --> 00:24:41,160 No, anonymity is the essence 511 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,460 of his security, too, isn't it? 512 00:24:43,460 --> 00:24:45,760 He arranged a break of cover between you and Bancroft, 513 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,760 also between yourself and Corlander. 514 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,830 No, nothing like that ever happened. 515 00:24:51,130 --> 00:24:52,190 Then he lied to me. 516 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,990 You might spend your time more profitably questioning him. 517 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,790 I'm only small fry. 518 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,560 London hasn't asked me to do anything for over a year. 519 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,360 Unfortunately, you have information that is of value 520 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,260 to the wrong people at the moment. 521 00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:07,290 Oh? 522 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:08,830 What's that? 523 00:25:08,830 --> 00:25:09,860 You know who I am. 524 00:25:11,930 --> 00:25:15,260 I didn't seek that information. You imposed it on me. 525 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,630 Going? 526 00:25:21,630 --> 00:25:23,160 Can I drive you? 527 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,730 No thanks, I'll take a cab. 528 00:25:38,060 --> 00:25:39,890 Drive on, stop further down the road. 529 00:28:58,830 --> 00:29:00,330 Hello again, Mrs. Dorset. 530 00:29:00,330 --> 00:29:02,130 Hmm, hot. 531 00:29:02,130 --> 00:29:03,160 Is the Teniente in? 532 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,260 No. -Good, then we can talk. 533 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:08,330 Came to see me? -Who else? 534 00:29:08,330 --> 00:29:10,090 Drink? -Thanks. 535 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,890 How did you know I was staying here? 536 00:29:11,890 --> 00:29:13,660 My husband told me. 537 00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:14,690 So you've been home? 538 00:29:16,260 --> 00:29:18,830 How much are you a Scotland Yard detective? 539 00:29:18,830 --> 00:29:21,160 And how much are you a man I can trust? 540 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,460 In what connection? 541 00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:25,690 In connection that the local police may chuck my husband 542 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:28,790 out of the country if they find out that he's a smuggler. 543 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,490 You sound as if you think they will. 544 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:31,790 Well, they're bound to. 545 00:29:32,060 --> 00:29:34,190 Unless he's murdered first like the others. 546 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,260 Look, my husband made a lot of money. 547 00:29:36,260 --> 00:29:38,590 And it isn't through the travel business. 548 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,630 I know, because he puts everything in my name. 549 00:29:40,630 --> 00:29:41,990 Lucky for you. 550 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,260 Makes no difference. Under these local laws, 551 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,130 anything belongs to a wife belongs to her husband, as well. 552 00:29:47,130 --> 00:29:48,860 And you think he's making his money out of smuggling? 553 00:29:48,860 --> 00:29:50,230 What else? 554 00:29:50,230 --> 00:29:52,460 We live rather uncomfortably as if he's trying to hide 555 00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:53,960 what he's made. 556 00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:56,490 I see. Have you told Mrs.Bancroft 557 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:58,560 and Mrs. Corlander about this? 558 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,290 Well, they're my only real friends out here. 559 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,330 Although I think, perhaps, you might be. 560 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,660 What makes you think that? 561 00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:09,990 All right it's like this. When Jim Bancroft died, 562 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,560 they wouldn't allow his wife out of the country, 563 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,060 and now the same thing's happening to Lorna. 564 00:30:13,060 --> 00:30:14,860 So if my husband's going to be in trouble, 565 00:30:14,860 --> 00:30:17,190 I want to know in time so that I can get out of this 566 00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:20,260 ghastly little island before the trouble starts. 567 00:30:20,260 --> 00:30:24,590 Mrs. Dorset, one could hardly accuse you 568 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,690 of being infatuated with your husband. 569 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,990 No. So this is my proposition. 570 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,290 I'll help you find out about my husband. 571 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:34,590 I wouldn't do it for the local police, 572 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,630 but I'll do it for Scotland Yard. 573 00:30:36,630 --> 00:30:39,890 And in return, you tell me when I should start running. 574 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:43,490 It sounds an interesting proposition. 575 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:44,760 I'll have to think about it. 576 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,060 Well, you do that, Mr. Grant, good night. 577 00:30:48,060 --> 00:30:49,390 Good night. 578 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,630 Oh, by the way, where can I get in touch with you tonight 579 00:30:52,930 --> 00:30:53,730 if I have to? 580 00:30:55,530 --> 00:30:56,290 At home? 581 00:30:57,060 --> 00:30:59,090 No, no, not at home. 582 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:00,390 At Mrs. Corlander's? 583 00:31:00,390 --> 00:31:02,430 I said I'd give you information about my husband, 584 00:31:02,430 --> 00:31:04,490 Mr. Grant, not about myself. 585 00:31:44,460 --> 00:31:45,460 Thank you. 586 00:31:51,060 --> 00:31:52,860 Why don't you have a drink? 587 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:54,430 Yes. 588 00:31:54,430 --> 00:31:55,690 Did you have a pleasant evening? 589 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:56,690 Yes, thank you. 590 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,760 Are you interested in voodoo? 591 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,790 Oh, yes, I used to be. 592 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,060 You've got quite a collection on the subject. 593 00:32:03,330 --> 00:32:05,090 I have sometimes been to watch their rites. 594 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,190 Unfortunate goats have been sacrificed, but never a man. 595 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:09,930 At least, not so far. 596 00:32:11,230 --> 00:32:13,290 Am I still under your suspicion in some way? 597 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:14,330 In many ways. 598 00:32:15,330 --> 00:32:16,860 It's too hot for generalities. 599 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,760 Did you manage to meet Dorset? 600 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,330 Yes, he says you lied to me. 601 00:32:22,330 --> 00:32:23,590 You broke my cover to him? 602 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:24,630 No, of course not. 603 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,730 You are a man to be trusted. 604 00:32:28,730 --> 00:32:30,260 I wish you were. 605 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:31,790 I am. 606 00:32:32,030 --> 00:32:33,490 Dorset says that you never arranged a meeting 607 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,060 between him and the other two. 608 00:32:36,060 --> 00:32:37,560 I find if deeply significant 609 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,460 that he finds it necessary to lie. 610 00:32:40,460 --> 00:32:43,490 I find it equally significant that perhaps he did not lie. 611 00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:48,360 And did you see the lovely gringo ladies at the club? 612 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,230 Of course, and there have been a couple of visitors here 613 00:32:51,230 --> 00:32:51,990 since I got back. 614 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:52,730 So late? 615 00:32:52,730 --> 00:32:53,260 Who were they? 616 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:54,790 One was a stranger. 617 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,030 He was in the house when I arrived searching my room. 618 00:32:57,030 --> 00:32:58,030 What did he look like? 619 00:32:58,030 --> 00:33:01,360 I've got a photograph of him here. 620 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,660 The brilliant superintendent, 621 00:33:02,660 --> 00:33:04,690 it will not take us long to find him. 622 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,560 How did they both know I was staying here? 623 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,060 Why should anyone know you are here? 624 00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:12,390 We police have many enemies. 625 00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:14,460 Perhaps he was an Obeah man. 626 00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:16,760 He may have been searching for a shirt I had worn, 627 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,830 some of my hair, a paring of my nails, 628 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,060 something I had cast off. 629 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:21,390 What for? 630 00:33:21,630 --> 00:33:23,930 Obeah men believe that the possession of things cast off 631 00:33:23,930 --> 00:33:25,960 gives them power over the owner. 632 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,290 Interesting, but he didn't come here to find nail parings 633 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:30,630 or dirty shirts. 634 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:32,060 When we bring him in, 635 00:33:32,060 --> 00:33:34,630 we'll soon find out what he did want. 636 00:33:34,630 --> 00:33:36,590 And who was your second caller? 637 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:37,990 Mrs. Dorset. 638 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,530 That is a surprise. -She's a liar, too. 639 00:33:40,530 --> 00:33:42,060 In what way? 640 00:33:42,060 --> 00:33:43,890 I asked her how she knew I was staying here, 641 00:33:43,890 --> 00:33:45,390 she said her husband had told her, 642 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:46,390 but he couldn't have done. 643 00:33:46,390 --> 00:33:47,690 I didn't tell him. 644 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,260 Ah, si, an enigma, insisting the question, 645 00:33:50,260 --> 00:33:51,490 who did tell her? 646 00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:53,790 There is another question. 647 00:33:55,060 --> 00:33:56,590 Whom did she really come to see? 648 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:04,430 I love my wife, believe me. 649 00:34:04,430 --> 00:34:06,930 It grieves me deeply that my method of investigating 650 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,760 the domestic security of our agents 651 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,090 forces me so often to deceive her. 652 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:13,390 I confess only because you know already. 653 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,630 Comprende, I am Don Juan. 654 00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:21,560 I rely upon you to guard my secret. 655 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:22,890 Are you meeting Mrs. Dorset tonight? 656 00:34:23,130 --> 00:34:24,390 Si. -Where? 657 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:25,890 At the beach. 658 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:26,930 It's a bit late for swimming. 659 00:34:27,130 --> 00:34:28,430 I have a bungalow down there. 660 00:34:28,660 --> 00:34:31,260 It is small, but convenient. 661 00:34:31,260 --> 00:34:33,330 You sure she'll turn up? 662 00:34:33,330 --> 00:34:35,360 You think she would break an appointment with me? 663 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,530 I wouldn't know, but I intend to tell Dorset about it. 664 00:34:39,530 --> 00:34:40,830 I refuse to believe it. 665 00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:42,560 She's with him now. 666 00:34:42,860 --> 00:34:44,160 I won't listen to any of this. 667 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,160 Do you expect her home tonight? 668 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,230 What? 669 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:47,230 Do you expect her home? 670 00:34:47,230 --> 00:34:48,990 No, she is with Louise Bancroft. 671 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,560 Louise has a bungalow down on the beach. 672 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:51,830 Stella often-- She's at a bungalow 673 00:34:51,830 --> 00:34:53,830 on the beach, but not at Mrs. Bancroft's. 674 00:34:53,830 --> 00:34:55,660 She'll be at the bungalow to which this man 675 00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:58,960 first took Mrs. Bancroft, and before that Mrs. Corlander. 676 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,990 Now look, I want you to understand this very clearly, 677 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,560 Dorset, either this man found out from their wives 678 00:35:03,830 --> 00:35:06,130 that Bancroft and Corlander were in M9, or you did 679 00:35:06,130 --> 00:35:07,460 when they broke their cover to you. 680 00:35:07,460 --> 00:35:08,730 Look, if you're really innocent, 681 00:35:08,730 --> 00:35:11,060 you'll do this tomorrow when she comes home. 682 00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:12,290 You'll blow yourself to her. 683 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:13,630 You'll tell her that you're in M9. 684 00:35:13,630 --> 00:35:15,390 You'll turn yourself into a piece of cheese, 685 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,730 and place yourself firmly in the middle of the trap 686 00:35:17,730 --> 00:35:18,730 waiting to be eaten. 687 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:44,060 Hello. 688 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:45,860 This is Louise Bancroft. 689 00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:47,660 Good morning, Mrs. Bancroft. 690 00:35:47,930 --> 00:35:49,760 You do remember who I am? 691 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,560 Yes, of course, we met last night. 692 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:52,830 Well, that's something. 693 00:35:52,830 --> 00:35:55,130 You are interested in voodoo. 694 00:35:55,130 --> 00:35:58,430 Huh, am I? 695 00:35:58,430 --> 00:35:59,660 Oh, I thought you were. 696 00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:01,490 Oh, perhaps I am. 697 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,290 Well, you either are or you're not, Mr. Grant. 698 00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:05,830 What's your interest in the subject? 699 00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:07,360 I've been writing a book on the islands. 700 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,160 Voodoo plays a part. 701 00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:10,160 I thought you might be interested 702 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,490 in visiting a local museum. 703 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:15,030 The curator, Papa Camille, is the great expert. 704 00:36:15,030 --> 00:36:17,290 He'd like to meet you. 705 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,090 The voodoo cult originally came from the land of Africa. 706 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,460 As you know, Mr. Grant, our people were imported from there. 707 00:36:25,460 --> 00:36:27,330 And as they left in a hurry, 708 00:36:27,330 --> 00:36:30,060 there was no time to bring much with them. 709 00:36:30,060 --> 00:36:32,890 But there was one thing your European ancestors 710 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:37,030 could not stop them from bringing, their religion, 711 00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:41,090 of which ophiolatrie was the most distinguished feature. 712 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:41,860 Ophiolatrie? 713 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,760 Mrs. Bancroft, I see your friend, 714 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,030 Mr. Grant, is no scholar. 715 00:36:48,030 --> 00:36:48,830 Ophiolatrie is? 716 00:36:48,830 --> 00:36:50,330 Snake worship. 717 00:36:50,330 --> 00:36:53,390 Yes, the voodoo sect, they obey the command of the serpent. 718 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,660 Excellent. 719 00:36:54,660 --> 00:36:56,760 How does the snake convey its wishes? 720 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,590 His commands are interpreted by the mamaloi, 721 00:37:00,830 --> 00:37:03,130 that is the mama or priestess. 722 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:06,960 You smile, Mr. Grant. 723 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,760 I'm not smiling. 724 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,090 The whites are always ready to sneer. 725 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,160 But the religion of the primitive peoples 726 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,730 is as vital to them, as yours is to you. 727 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:25,330 The voodoo drums, the papa, the boula or baby, the mama. 728 00:37:26,630 --> 00:37:28,690 You see, the mother is the largest, 729 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,460 for in the practice of voodoo, 730 00:37:30,460 --> 00:37:33,760 the ladies take the most important parts. 731 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,330 There is no more powerful way of calling 732 00:37:35,330 --> 00:37:37,360 on the gods than dancing. 733 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,760 They drum, they dance, they drum, they dance, they drum, 734 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,260 they dance, they drum, and they dance 'til the priestess 735 00:37:41,260 --> 00:37:44,060 is seized with convulsions and she lifts her head 736 00:37:44,330 --> 00:37:46,630 and she speaks, but not in her own voice, 737 00:37:47,930 --> 00:37:48,960 but that of the gods. 738 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,590 Is there still any form of blood sacrifice? 739 00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,230 Oh, there is indeed. 740 00:37:59,230 --> 00:38:00,230 Sacrifice is their expression 741 00:38:00,230 --> 00:38:03,030 of the deepest sentiment and emotion. 742 00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:05,590 If the gods are angry, they must be appeased. 743 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,690 Blood is caught, some drunk, 744 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:11,290 some sprinkled over the devotees. 745 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:13,260 But the blood of what, in particular? 746 00:38:15,060 --> 00:38:17,090 There are those who delight in the flesh 747 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:21,190 of the spotless white goat. But on great occasions, 748 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,260 they will call for the blood of the goat without horns. 749 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,530 What's that? 750 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,860 Goat without horns was their name for a human sacrifice, 751 00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:31,690 Mr. Grant, but that was in the past, of course. 752 00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:34,460 And that form of sacrifice was soon discouraged 753 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:39,060 by their white masters who considered it a wanton waste 754 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,090 of slave labor. 755 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,490 By the way, Mr. Grant, your interest in voodoo, 756 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:45,490 it is sincere? 757 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,630 I've been most interested in all you've told me. 758 00:38:49,630 --> 00:38:52,190 Then if you are interested, perhaps you'd like 759 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,290 to be present at a meeting of the sect? 760 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:55,260 I could arrange it. 761 00:38:56,530 --> 00:38:58,060 It isn't everyone who gets the opportunity, 762 00:38:58,060 --> 00:38:59,360 is it, Mrs. Bancroft? 763 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:00,630 It is not. 764 00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:02,230 I think it's most disloyal of you. 765 00:39:02,230 --> 00:39:04,190 You've never invited me. 766 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,730 Well, Mr. Grant? 767 00:39:05,730 --> 00:39:08,560 That's very kind of you, Mr. Camille. 768 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,330 Unfortunately, I have a very heavy schedule of appointments. 769 00:39:12,330 --> 00:39:13,860 So, you're not serious. 770 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,530 You have been wasting my time, Mr. Grant. 771 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,930 And in ordering Dorset to reveal to his wife 772 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,760 that he is an agent working for M9, 773 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,290 on whom are you checking? 774 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:31,790 All of you. 775 00:39:32,060 --> 00:39:34,860 Then let us consider the lady first. 776 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,490 Mrs. Dorset is the longest shot. 777 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:41,830 The theory is that now she knows her husband is working 778 00:39:41,830 --> 00:39:46,090 for M9, she'll sell him to the man we're looking for. 779 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,690 In which case, after she sells her husband, 780 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:51,760 the counter agent will contact him to arrange a rendezvous. 781 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,260 At a convenient place to kill him, 782 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:56,290 as he killed the other two. 783 00:39:57,860 --> 00:40:00,190 I find your theory concerning Stella Dorset unconvincing. 784 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,190 I find your theory concerning Stella Dorset unconvincing. 785 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,730 So do I, but it's the one that Dorset wants me to believe. 786 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:05,760 Why? 787 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,290 To clear himself. 788 00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:08,530 He was only too ready to establish 789 00:40:08,530 --> 00:40:10,060 that she had been receiving money 790 00:40:10,060 --> 00:40:12,890 from a mysterious stranger, and to make it more convincing, 791 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:18,260 that she is promiscuous, which she puts across very well. 792 00:40:18,260 --> 00:40:18,990 So do you. 793 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,860 I find your incessant suspicion of me depressing. 794 00:40:24,860 --> 00:40:26,960 Now that I've ordered Dorset to reveal his cover 795 00:40:27,230 --> 00:40:28,760 to his wife, if nothing comes of it, 796 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,290 then she's in the clear. 797 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,860 But if Dorset is the murderer, he will have to make sure 798 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:34,890 that something does come of it. 799 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,860 He cannot afford to let you think that his wife is innocent. 800 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,530 And he will contact me to say that a mysterious stranger 801 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,930 wishes to arrange a rendezvous. 802 00:40:45,930 --> 00:40:48,990 And he will ask you to go along with him as his protector? 803 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,290 And I will find myself in a trap. 804 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,930 Then who is the cheese, you or Dorset? 805 00:40:56,930 --> 00:41:00,490 What if you and Dorset are accomplices? 806 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,590 Tsk, tsk, you really must learn to trust me, amigo. 807 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,460 I'd like to, but if I'm wrong. 808 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:14,090 In that case, you will be a piece of cheese, 809 00:41:14,330 --> 00:41:16,060 consumed to the last morsel. 810 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:28,890 It's Dorset. 811 00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:39,260 Grant speaking. 812 00:41:39,530 --> 00:41:41,560 Is it all right to speak? 813 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,330 Perfectly. 814 00:41:42,330 --> 00:41:44,660 You were right, it's come. 815 00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:46,230 An unstamped letter - in the mailbox. 816 00:41:46,230 --> 00:41:47,730 What does the message say? 817 00:41:47,730 --> 00:41:51,560 Information for sale concerning the death of Corlander. 818 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,830 When do they want to meet you? 819 00:41:52,830 --> 00:41:54,360 Half past 11 tonight. 820 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,660 I'll give you cover. 821 00:41:55,660 --> 00:41:57,460 I'm supposed to go alone. 822 00:41:57,460 --> 00:41:59,230 Don't worry, they won't see me. 823 00:41:59,230 --> 00:42:00,160 Where is it? 824 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:41,330 Grant, are you here? 825 00:44:15,630 --> 00:44:17,890 Well, Dorset, thanks for standing by me. 826 00:44:33,260 --> 00:44:35,560 So, you changed your mind. 827 00:44:35,830 --> 00:44:37,930 You decided to come along after all, huh? 828 00:44:37,930 --> 00:44:39,390 Are you laying on some voodoo rites? 829 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:40,460 Oh, no, not tonight. 830 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,790 You took the wrong path. The drums are in the next valley. 831 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,860 We have other business tonight. 832 00:44:49,130 --> 00:44:51,130 You see, I know now that you're not really 833 00:44:51,130 --> 00:44:54,730 a Scotland Yard superintendent, just as I am not really 834 00:44:54,730 --> 00:44:56,290 a museum curator. 835 00:44:56,300 --> 00:44:58,590 We work on opposite sides of the fence. 836 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,360 And my people are very interested 837 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,160 to know what goes on on your side. 838 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,960 So perhaps you'll start telling me all about it, huh? 839 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,260 Nothing doing. 840 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:19,530 What's the matter, Dorset? 841 00:45:19,530 --> 00:45:21,830 Grant, for heaven's sake, tell him what he wants to know. 842 00:45:21,830 --> 00:45:23,590 Had to watch this sort of thing before, have you? 843 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:24,890 Tell him now and get it over. 844 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:27,190 That's why you couldn't take the dancing? 845 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,530 Brought back ugly memories, Bancroft and Corlander, eh? 846 00:45:31,530 --> 00:45:35,590 Now, please, you will tell me everything eventually anyway, 847 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,690 so to save Mr. Dorset too much distress, 848 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,960 it would be a kindness to him to tell us now. 849 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,660 If you find it so repulsive, why do you work for him? 850 00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:54,690 Good pay master? 851 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:57,560 He works for me because he has to. 852 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,330 And now, you are going to tell me all about your friends 853 00:46:00,330 --> 00:46:02,860 in London because you have to. 854 00:47:29,330 --> 00:47:31,360 You took your time, didn't you? 855 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,130 You were getting anxious? 856 00:47:33,130 --> 00:47:35,490 Caramba caramba. 857 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,290 When you get back to London, you'll be able to tell them 858 00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:41,860 what a splendid man they have out here. A man to be trusted. 859 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,460 Of course, and now you will tell your uncle, 860 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:46,960 the colonel, that Mr. Dorset and Papa Camille 861 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,760 were involved in gun-running. 862 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,030 But of course. 863 00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:52,090 In that case, you will need the evidence. 864 00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:04,560 Gracias. 865 00:48:05,830 --> 00:48:09,890 And if Mr. Dorset is wise, he will stick to our story. 866 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:10,660 Yup.