1 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,236 Welcome, Sir George, Lady Stubs. 2 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,509 - Good evening, Sir George. - Good evening. 3 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,477 I'm so thankful you're here at last. 4 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:04,550 A shocking night. 5 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,518 Hattie should get straight to bed or she'll catch a chill. 6 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:08,715 Come along, my dear. 7 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,711 "Come at once, Nasser House, Devon. 8 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,631 Need help. Urgent. 9 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,631 Ariadne Oliver." 10 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,631 - You been here before, sir? - Non. 11 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,632 Take the scenic route along the river, shall I? 12 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,631 Non, mercy. 13 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:20,709 Afternoon, ladies. 14 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,718 You don't mind, do you, sir? Foreigners, see. Can't read a map. 15 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,671 - Burlington. - Mademoiselle. 16 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,633 Thank you. It is most kind, please. 17 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:44,711 - Gracie. - Miles yet to the youth hostel. 18 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,711 Oh, her is not speak English. 19 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,554 We meet first time this morning on the platform at Execrate. 20 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,551 And now we are big friends. 21 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,631 We explore Devon together. 22 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:57,711 I could show you a few beauty spots, if you like. 23 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,556 The hostel's that way. Don't cross Sir George's land, though. 24 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,551 - He don't like it. - Gracie. 25 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:15,630 Thank you, Stan. 26 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,711 If you please, may we hurry? 27 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,517 Welcome to Nasser, monsieur. 28 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,713 I believe Mrs Oliver to be down by the battery, sir, that way. 29 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,553 Help, help! Someone, quick! 30 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,631 Help! Help! 31 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,709 Help! Help! 32 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,711 Someone, quick! 33 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,631 Oh, hello, Poirot. 34 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,551 What is wrong, madame? 35 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,709 Nothing's wrong. 36 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,633 I just wanted to see if someone would come. 37 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,712 How loudly one might have to shout. These woods are frightfully dense. 38 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,633 - I thought you were in danger! - Certainly not. 39 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,631 How are you, Poirot? 40 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,712 Un pee nerve, cher madame. 41 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,711 You telegram med to me that you need help 42 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,712 and for this reason I come by the express from London. 43 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,552 Well... 44 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,552 I do need help. 45 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,551 I'm most awfully worried. 46 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,631 There are some very strange people here. 47 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,631 Very strange indeed. 48 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,712 They're holding a fete tomorrow and thought they'd have a treasure hunt. 49 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,553 Then they thought, "No, that's been done to death." 50 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,552 So they thought they'd have a murder hunt instead. 51 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,552 And they offered me a tidy sum to come and dream it up. 52 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,631 Well, anything's better than writing. 53 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,714 So I've been busily inventing motives and suspects and victims and so forth. 54 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,554 It costs a bob to enter and all you get for that is the first clue. 55 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,709 - Good fun. - Madame... 56 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,630 Poirot, he is arrived to Devon, maid turquoise? 57 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,631 Because there's something amiss. 58 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,631 I think someone's going to die. 59 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,714 If there were to be a real murder tomorrow instead of a fake one, 60 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,597 I shouldn't be in the least surprised. 61 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,553 Whose idea was it, this murder hunt? 62 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,552 - The Warbonnets, I think. - The owners of the property? 63 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,551 No, no, that's Sir George Stubs. 64 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,551 Awfully rich and awfully common. 65 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,632 Bought the place a year or so ago, along with his wife... 66 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,631 who's outrageously beautiful. 67 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,631 But as dumb as a fish. 68 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,711 The corpse will be in here. 69 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,711 Sally Legged was going to do it, 70 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,554 but now they want her to dress up in a turban and tell fortunes. 71 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,712 So it's a Girl Guide called Marlene Tucker. 72 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,631 Hideous child! 73 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,711 Just has to sit here and read comics... 74 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,517 I've written a clue on one of them... 75 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,638 ...and flop down when she hears someone coming with this around her neck. 76 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,553 Hello. I've brought lemonade. 77 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,551 Oh, that is most kind, Miss Brews. 78 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,676 - Good afternoon, sir. - Mademoiselle. 79 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,550 Lady Stubs must be rushed off her feet with all the preparations. 80 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,551 Lady Stubs has one of her headaches. 81 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,551 She's not yet up. 82 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,678 I've planned every detail and it all dovetails nicely. 83 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,711 But things keep changing. 84 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,711 The fortune-tel ling's a good example. 85 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,711 I feel I'm being jockeyed along. 86 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,473 - "Jockeyed along"? - Manipulated. 87 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,711 So someone is making the suggestions? 88 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,711 I just can't stand suggestions. 89 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,552 If you suggest something, we do exactly the opposite. 90 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,551 But I am being jockeyed along. 91 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,551 And I can't figure out how. 92 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,631 To tell the truth, I'm worried. 93 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,553 Perhaps the big suggestion it is put, hen? 94 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,712 To which you, of course, say no, because it is preposterous. 95 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,714 But then an idea most trivial may be found to have been smuggled in. 96 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,711 Yes, yes, something like that. Yes. 97 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,631 Who is making these alterations? 98 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,634 Different people. It would be easier if it were just one, wouldn't it? 99 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,678 And you have told to them that Hercules Poirot, he is coming? 100 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,629 Yes, I said you'd be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt. 101 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,711 Mrs Oliver! Hang on, I'll walk up with you. 102 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,557 All safe, sir. 103 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,551 That's Michael Bogeyman. 104 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,709 An architect. 105 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,559 I'm meant to be designing a tennis pavilion. Do you know 106 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,551 what he's asked for? A Chinese pagoda. 107 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:36,551 Selfmade man! 108 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:40,554 Stinking with money but with no taste whatsoever. 109 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:42,551 For instance, look at this. 110 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:44,551 It's quite nice of its kind... 111 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:46,551 well, in keeping with the house. 112 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,631 But these things are meant to be... 113 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,631 What's the phrase? 114 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:53,631 ...situated on an eminence. 115 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,552 And here's this poor little devil tucked away in the woods. 116 00:08:58,560 --> 00:08:59,709 Perhaps there wasn't anywhere else? 117 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:02,633 What about the grassy bank by the house? It's perfect, but no. 118 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,631 A tree comes down in a gale. 119 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,599 "Right," says the twerp, "We'll put the folly there, tidy up the place." 120 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,558 It's only on a yard of concrete, subsiding already. 121 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:15,552 These people are extraordinary. 122 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,711 That's Amy Folliat. 123 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,711 Here people owned Nasse originally. 124 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,711 Then she lost both her sons and had to sell up. 125 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,711 And yet she lives here still? 126 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,631 Precisely. 127 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,551 Odd or what? 128 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:36,551 Is this the great Monsieur Poirot? 129 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,551 Enchante, Madame Folliat. 130 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:42,554 It is kind of you to help out with our prizes. 131 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,632 This clever lady has contrived a most intricate problem. 132 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:47,631 I have been admiring the house. 133 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:49,709 I thank you. 134 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,630 It was built by my husband's greatgrandfather. 135 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,711 There was an Elizabethan manor before. 136 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,631 But it burnt down. 137 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,632 It must be hard for you to have strangers living in residence now. 138 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,671 So many things are hard, monsieur. 139 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,469 If you'll excuse me, I'll see if they have your room ready. 140 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,471 What do you think? 141 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:13,630 Comment? 142 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,519 It is only one instant since I have arrived! 143 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,597 Well, I've been here three days. 144 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,637 And every time someone says something, 145 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,711 I get the strongest impression they're lying. 146 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,553 My intuition tells me something is wrong. 147 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:26,675 Ah, la. 148 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:28,717 I'm well aware you think me irrational. 149 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,473 Madame, one calls things by different names, hein? 150 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,553 It may indeed be that you have seen something 151 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,710 it may indeed be that you have heard something. 152 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,633 And it may be... if I may so put it... 153 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,553 ...that you do not know what it is that you know. 154 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:46,709 You are aware only of the result. 155 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,519 And that, madame, it is your intuition. 156 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:51,709 Whatever it is, 157 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,473 I feel certain someone is going to die. 158 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,631 We must do something about it. 159 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:26,951 Poirot, is it? 160 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,951 Welcome. Welcome, old man. 161 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,951 - Merci, monsieur. - George Stubbs. 162 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,998 - It's a pleasure to meet you. - Delighted you could come. 163 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,958 Ah, yes. Let me introduce you to some people. 164 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:38,075 The fortunetelling. 165 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,119 Over by the magnolia or at the far end of the lawn by the rhododendrons? 166 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,997 By the magnolia. 167 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,072 My tent can't go by the magnolia, it will cause a bottleneck. 168 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,151 - Rubbish! - Down at the end, please, Captain. 169 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,959 What about the coconut shy? 170 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,954 Not too near the house, Jim. I've just replaced the windows. 171 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,075 Fair point. 172 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,995 Now, may I introduce the famous gent, Hercule Poirot. 173 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,957 Yes, indeed, Monsieur Poirot. 174 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,076 - Captain and Mrs Warburton. - Captain. 175 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,957 - Delighted. - Madame. 176 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,951 And Alec and Sally Legge 177 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,959 Monsieur. Madame. 178 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,075 We'll find you a job later on.. 179 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,072 Watch out, Poirot. Sally can make a man do anything, what! 180 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,991 Come and meet the wife. 181 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,157 - Excuse me. - Hattie. 182 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,151 This is Mr Poirot, he's our guest. 183 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:27,958 Madame. 184 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,952 You chat nicely while I go and locate some coconuts. 185 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,951 - Bon. - Right. 186 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,958 Do you mind if I sit down, madame? So much walking. 187 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,030 Merci. 188 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,951 - It's pretty, isn't it? - Tres jolie. 189 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,871 It's an emerald. 190 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,030 George gave it to me, he gives me lots of things. 191 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,993 Devonshire is a county most pleasant, n'estce pas? 192 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,958 It is when it isn't raining but there aren't any nightclubs. 193 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,076 - Ah, bon, you like the nightclub? - Oh, yes.. 194 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,952 I love music and dancing and champagne 195 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,076 and wearing my nicest clothes and all my jewels. 196 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,152 It's best to be rich, isn't it? 197 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,073 Perhaps if I was not rich, I should look like her. 198 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,957 Imagine. 199 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,951 Tea, my lady. 200 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:24,951 Tea is stupid. 201 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,076 Perhaps our guest would like some, Hattie. 202 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,037 Shall I be Mother? 203 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,919 Is it going to be like Ascot tomorrow? I can wear a very big hat. 204 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,957 Not quite like Ascot, dear. 205 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,155 There's so much to do. 206 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,870 You should be helping out instead of staying in bed till after lunch. 207 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,996 I've got a new dress. Come and see. 208 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,037 We're just having a cup of tea. 209 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,111 - Come with me, come now. - Oh, very well. 210 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,111 Please excuse us. 211 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,959 You really must try to be more polite. 212 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,076 - Beautiful creature, isn't she? - Oui. 213 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,071 See that ring that George bought her? 214 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,153 Whether he spotted she's away with the fairies, I couldn't say. 215 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,118 But then he's hardly an intellectual himself, is he? 216 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,158 Sir George, he's inside the stocks and shares, I believe? 217 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,076 Yes. Not exactly a gentleman's game, what? 218 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,959 But still, you are the friends? 219 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,952 Good grief, no choice. Not with an election coming up. 220 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,951 Jim, you've got to settle this. 221 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,955 We agreed my tent should be at the far end by the rhododendrons. 222 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,917 My wife doesn't think so. 223 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,070 You're the Member of Parliament. Show her who's boss. 224 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,869 Are you out of your mind? All right, I'll see what I can do. 225 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,991 Have you seen Amy Folliat? 226 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,152 I believe that Madame Folliat is inside with the Lady Stubbs. 227 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,996 She seems to be most solicitous towards her. 228 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,071 Ah, yes, well, she was Hattie's guardian. 229 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,150 Before I walked her up the aisle, of course. 230 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,959 Her people were in sugar in the Caribbean. 231 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,954 But there was a typhus epidemic and both her parents lost their lives. 232 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,951 Rotten bloody luck, actually. 233 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,954 But Amy was a friend of the family and took young Hattie under the wing. 234 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,078 - Oh, that is commendable. - She's a damn good egg, actually. 235 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,079 I want you to go and order some wire fencing straightaway, please. 236 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,152 I don't think you're allowed to pen people in the tea tent, sir. 237 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,037 Not the tea tent, dear, no. 238 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,112 Over in the woods, where they're coming through. They keep wandering in. 239 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,157 - Who are? - Trespassers! 240 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:25,074 Foreigners, cutting through, you see, Poirot, through to the ferry. 241 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,117 Girls in little short trousers. 242 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,954 Oui, d'accord. The trousers of the girls... Exactly are. 243 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,156 I have a gentleman on the telephone with coconuts. 244 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,871 Right, the coconuts, yes. 245 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,038 - Right, so, how many's he got? - As many as you like, sir. 246 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,031 Look at them all buzzing around. 247 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,071 Busy, busy bees. 248 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,152 The world's going to pot and they're holding a garden party. 249 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,071 Une fete de jardin? 250 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,072 But that is an activity honoured by time, monsieur. 251 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,071 The apathy of these people. 252 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,071 They're all feeble-minded. 253 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,072 Do you know what I should like to see done in this country? 254 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,959 I'd like to see every feeble-minded person put out. 255 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,951 Don't let them breed. 256 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,997 Finish them off, all the simpletons. 257 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,071 How would you do that, Monsieur Legge? 258 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,071 Oh, I'm a chemist. 259 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,071 I could do it easily. 260 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:23,115 Any theories? 261 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,078 Everybody seems to me to be completely normal. 262 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,071 Are you trying to be amusing? 263 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,117 Perhaps that is not the right word. 264 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,031 Lady Stubbs, it appears, is subnormal, Alec Legge abnormal. 265 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:33,951 He's all right. He's just having a nervous breakdown. 266 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,156 But everyone seems in a state of agitation, 267 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,993 which, I believe, is characteristic of the preparations 268 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,073 for a fete in England. 269 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,959 Mrs Oliver, your corpse is here. 270 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,951 Ah, hello, Marlene. 271 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,954 Remember, a Guide is honest, reliable and can be trusted. 272 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,031 Can you come and have a look at her costume? 273 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,997 I was going to be stabbed. 274 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,951 Now she says I'm gonna be strangled. 275 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,155 That's not fair. 276 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,998 This gentleman knows all about murder. Why don't you ask him? 277 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,117 Seen a lot of killings, have you? 278 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:11,157 One or two, mademoiselle, oui. 279 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,151 Any sex maniacs? 280 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,071 I like sex maniacs, I've read about them. 281 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,959 I do not think you would like to meet one. 282 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,955 If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on, dead, like... 283 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,997 he's liable to be a sex maniac, ain't he? 284 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,952 That would be an assumption most reasonable, oui. 285 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,075 That's what my granddad said. 286 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,959 But he's daft so no one believes him. 287 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,952 Marlene, come and try your costume. 288 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,951 Hattie, come back! 289 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,951 You're completely mad! 290 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,991 You permit, madame? 291 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,152 I'm so sorry Hattie dragged me off earlier. It was rude of her. 292 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:36,917 Lady Stubbs is a little... 293 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,957 Comment on dit? 294 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:39,995 ...capricious? 295 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,991 Hattie is a dear good child. 296 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,951 I know her very well, you see. 297 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:49,111 Because she was once your ward? 298 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,071 My husband died in Flanders. 299 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,959 My elder son was killed on active service against the Pashtun. 300 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,951 And to cap a sorry tale, 301 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,079 my... younger son took up aviation. 302 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,072 And crashed trying to break the record to Nairobi. 303 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,951 That meant three lots of death duties. 304 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,071 Well... 305 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,071 Nasse had to be sold. 306 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,074 I was very unhappy and I was glad of the distraction 307 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,071 of having a young person to look after 308 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,951 For a time, we lived in Paris. 309 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,951 My, we had fun. 310 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,991 I became very fond of Hattie. 311 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,152 All the more so when I realised that she was not terribly... 312 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,075 ...capable. 313 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,156 Thank heaven there was no money to speak of. 314 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,953 Had she been an heiress, I dread to think how vulnerable she might have been. 315 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,991 Her father died bankrupt. 316 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,074 And we felt ourselves fortunate when George Stubbs came along. 317 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,071 It was most fortunate indeed. 318 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,951 George Stubbs is a good man. 319 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,951 Oh, I know he's a complete vulgarian. 320 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,110 But he is fundamentally decent. 321 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,959 Oui, I think that you have made the arrangement most prudent, madame. 322 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,952 I am not like the English, a romantic about these matters. 323 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,076 Et voici, here you are, still at Nasse House. 324 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,150 Sir George lets me live in the lodge. 325 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:25,951 And I count myself very lucky. 326 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,994 Indeed, you have found for yourself a haven most peaceful, madame. 327 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,951 A haven from the storm. 328 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,871 Yes. 329 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,919 The world is a wicked place, Monsieur Poirot. 330 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,951 There are very wicked people in it. 331 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,037 Thank you. 332 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,959 What do you want me to put on this poster? 333 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,076 Madam Zuleika, or Romany Lee, Gypsy Queen? 334 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,117 No one likes gypsies round here. 335 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,953 Better make it Madam Zuleika. 336 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,951 With a snake around her neck. 337 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:20,995 Snake in the grass. 338 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,911 I had a snake once. 339 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,038 But it swallowed the rabbit. Had to chop it up - quite good fun! 340 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,915 Do you still paint, Michael, like you used to? 341 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:32,990 Sold out, Sally. 342 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,957 30 pieces of silver. 343 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,951 Everyone has to earn a living, what? 344 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,157 In Parliament, Jim? That's not really an honest living, now, is it? 345 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,951 - What? - Waste of time, Parliament. 346 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,076 Don't be such a rotten old sulk! 347 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,913 Alec has a point. What do you think, Mrs Oliver? 348 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,957 Should all politicians be eliminated? 349 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,950 Eliminated? 350 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,997 I don't know. 351 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,958 They make ever such good suspects, as a rule. 352 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,952 They certainly do. I mean, just look at my husband. 353 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,078 You couldn't get more shifty if you tried. 354 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,151 - Excuse me, I'm going to bed. - Hattie? 355 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,074 - I feel strange. - Darling? Darling, we're at dinner! 356 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,873 Oh, Lady Stubbs has gone early to bed. 357 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,957 Malheureusement, oui. 358 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,952 She suffers, perhaps, from the mental confusion? 359 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,995 Oh, no. 360 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,991 She knows exactly what she's doing. 361 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,037 What do you think? 362 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,156 I think, madame, that I take the little walk. 363 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,995 Monsieur? 364 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,991 Do you want the ferry, sir? 365 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,957 Oh, non. Non, merci. 366 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,155 I stay at Nasse. 367 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,991 - 'Tis up at Nasse, you are? - Oui. 368 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,991 I worked for the Folliats many a year. 369 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,958 None them left now, of course, except old Mum at up the lodge. 370 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,951 Met her, have 'ee? 371 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,951 Madame Folliat? Oui. 372 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,871 Bad luck, her's had. 373 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,072 Trouble with her husband, trouble with her sons. 374 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,072 They were all right when they was boys, always down here crabbing. 375 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,071 But when they grows up... pah! 376 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,958 Master Henry, he died for his country, fair dos. 377 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,951 But Master James? 378 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,951 He was wild! 379 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,151 One of they as couldn't go straight. 380 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,151 By, he was vexing, Master James! 381 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,071 Aeroplanes, flying. 382 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,917 - That's no way to die. - No. 383 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,911 No, indeed. 384 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,072 What is your opinion of Sir George? Pardon, Monsieur...? 385 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,991 John Murdle. 386 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,991 ...Monsieur Merdell? 387 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,991 Oh, non. Non, merci. 388 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,949 Gentleman be powerful rich, wife's a fine lady from London. 389 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,031 Yeah, I remember the night they arrived. 390 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,031 Worst gale we ever had. 391 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,111 Big tree down in the woods made a rare mess. 392 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,076 - Where the folly it now stands? - Ah. 393 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,071 Damn silly place for it too. 394 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,993 Never happened in t'Squire's day, London nonsense. 395 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,959 It is sad, is it not, that the time for the Folliat family, it is finished? 396 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,951 Always be Folliats at Nasse. 397 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,991 Monsieur? 398 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,957 Old Mum still be here, b'aint she? 399 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,951 Good night, sir. 400 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,951 Bonne nuit. 401 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,069 Now... 402 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,071 here are some new ideas for the pagoda. 403 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,957 What do you think? 404 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:33,990 See? 405 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,952 - Oh, no. - What is it, darling? 406 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,191 It's from my cousin Etienne. He's coming in his yacht! 407 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,072 Oh, no! 408 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,071 Oh, may I see? 409 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,997 Who is this Etienne De Souza? 410 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,149 A distant cousin. 411 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,151 He says he's coming here today! 412 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,154 Pity he's dropping by on the afternoon of the fete but we'll make him welcome. 413 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,076 - No, we can't! I need to lie down! - We can. 414 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,151 - I have a headache! - Hattie, dear... 415 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,917 Take some aspirin and then it will go away. 416 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,069 - Shall I bring you some? - No! 417 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,071 Sweetheart... Excuse me. 418 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,077 - Hattie, darling... - I don't want to see Etienne! 419 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,152 I don't like him, he's wicked, he does foreign things! 420 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,959 No, Rogers, put the urn on the left! 421 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,951 - Righto, ma'am. - The left! 422 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,109 Oh, the left? 423 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,151 Hello, Poirot. 424 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,156 Bonjour, madame. What a beautiful day! 425 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,950 Yes. 426 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,952 And isn't it nice to have Nasse lived in again? 427 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,076 We were all so afraid it would become an hotel. 428 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,071 So many houses have. 429 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,151 "AA: three stars", and what have you. 430 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,992 Ghastly. 431 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,074 I must say, George Stubbs has done wonders for the place. 432 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,037 He's got good blood in him somewhere. 433 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,992 Father a gent and mother a barmaid, that's my guess. 434 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,396 I see she got her way with the fortuneteller's tent. 435 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,071 No, no, no! 436 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,074 No, you're trespassing! You can't come through here? 437 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,951 The youth hostel is that way! 438 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,156 This is private land! Hop it! 439 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,151 This won't do! 440 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,957 Er... Poirot? 441 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,071 Might I meet you in the study? 442 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,071 What's that, Hattie? Yes, I'll shut it. 443 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,949 I put a padlock on the gate but they come through the wood. 444 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,474 They don't understand a word I'm talking about. They jabber on in 445 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,994 Dutch or French or whatever. 446 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,149 One of them was, I think, Italian. 447 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,151 Precisely, yes, foreign. 448 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,079 Will you answer me a question with the benefit of all your experience? 449 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,071 Most certainly, monsieur, I will try. 450 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,072 Is Michael Weyman after my wife? 451 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,075 Monsieur? 452 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,071 Well, she's behaving damn oddly. 453 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,959 All these headaches and this constant lying down. 454 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,955 Every time I look at her, there's Michael bloody Weyman hovering nearby. 455 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,152 Sorry, I'm just being... pathetic. But... 456 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,959 If you should see her getting up to anything, 457 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,951 I mean, anything at all... 458 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,031 ...you will let me know? 459 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,911 You look ridiculous. 460 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,879 Everybody, this way. 461 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,871 Come along. Gather round, please. 462 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,958 Now, I declare the garden fete open. 463 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,155 Bravo! 464 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,951 Madame, let us separate. 465 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,071 We shall watch with the peeled eye. 466 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,951 Mr and Mrs Hopper! 467 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,871 This is just like old times! 468 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,949 Isn't it the greatest success? I've restocked with floribundas. 469 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,998 Just one small bomb would do it. 470 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,991 What about you, ladies? Would you like to have a go? 471 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,913 Here, sir! It's for charity, sir. 472 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,957 Children's fancy dress! 473 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,075 Form up, please. 474 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,998 You've won! Well done. Congratulations, sir. 475 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,951 Here's the first clue. 476 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,871 It's a photograp 477 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,076 Work out what it is and you'll get the second clue. 478 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,030 Good luck. 479 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,117 I see you're enjoying yourself. 480 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,157 It is most horrible, is it not? 481 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,039 Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new champion! 482 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,998 Little girl? Un petit cadeau pour toi, hein? 483 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,150 Thank you. 484 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:47,950 Anything? 485 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,950 Non. 486 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,078 As far as I can tell, they're just enjoying themselves. 487 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,071 How are you? Good to see you. 488 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,072 Bonjour, mademoiselle. You come also to the fete? 489 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,957 It is so fun! 490 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,918 My friend comes later and then we go by bus to Torquay. 491 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,152 You remember my friend? Oui, I saw her this morning. 492 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,151 Yes, the man was rude. 493 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,154 Now he is polite. 494 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,992 Mademoiselle Brewis. 495 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,071 Someone's made a speedy recovery. 496 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,957 Look, some ice cream! 497 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,075 Madame. 498 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,959 That which you wear on your head, it is a creation most beautiful. 499 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,031 Like something from the Royal Ascot, n'estce pas? 500 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,991 You will make a long journey. 501 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,071 Possibly by train. 502 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,071 I see a luxurious train. 503 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,950 And great riches will be yours at the end of your quest. 504 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,959 Madame Oliver told to me that originally you were to be the victim. 505 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,952 But that you had been snatched from her by the occult. 506 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,069 I wish I was the body. 507 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,071 Ah, this is exhausting! 508 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,957 Is it four o'clock yet? 509 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,109 I want my tea. 510 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,155 What do you think? 511 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,119 Je crois que vous avez raison. There is something that is uncomfortable. 512 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,956 A murder hunt is awfully convenient if you wanted to conceal a murder. 513 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,078 But a murder, madame, requires a victim. So who is this victim? 514 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,071 This is what we must discover. 515 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,991 I say, seen Lady Stubbs? 516 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,879 She's meant to be judging the fancy dress. Non. 517 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,076 What's the woman playing at? I'll have to get someone else. 518 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,076 Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs? 519 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,992 Sally. 520 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,071 Thank you. 521 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,951 Excuse me! 522 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,997 Is this the house of Sir George Stubbs? 523 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,070 Oui, d'accord. 524 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,071 I am Etienne De Souza. 525 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,951 Enchante, monsieur. 526 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,951 I am Hercule Poirot. 527 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,991 De Souza, is it? 528 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,951 - George Stubbs. - Good day to you. 529 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,076 Ajolly busy one, actually. Welcome to Nasse. 530 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,959 And delighted... delighted to meet you. 531 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,997 - My cousin Hattie is here? - Yes. 532 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,991 Yes, she is. 533 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,152 You will dine with us this evening, I hope? Can we put you up? 534 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,071 I will sleep on my yacht, The Esperance. 535 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,991 Now, where the devil is my wife? 536 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,072 You hang on here and I'll be straight back. 537 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,958 So it is some time since last you saw your cousin? 538 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,952 I have not seen her since she was 14 years old. 539 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,072 Then her parents suddenly died and she was sent abroad. 540 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,913 As a child, she promised to have good looks. 541 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,071 She is a woman most beautiful, monsieur. 542 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,072 And... that is her husband? 543 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,957 Oui. 544 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,952 Have you seen Lady Stubbs? Have you seen my wife, Lady Stubbs? 545 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,075 Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs? 546 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,960 You haven't seen Lady Stubbs, have you? Big hat and sunglasses? 547 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,953 She seems to have completely disappeared. 548 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,072 I feel certain that someone is going to die. 549 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,071 Lady Stubbs? No? 550 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,071 I saw her last over there. 551 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,959 The world is a wicked place, Monsieur Poirot. 552 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,149 Have you seen Lady Stubbs? Hattie? 553 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,151 Have you seen Lady Stubbs? 554 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,072 Lady Stubbs, you haven't seen her? We don't know where she is. 555 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,075 She has disappeared. They look everywhere. Where can she be? 556 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,071 Did anyone think of the boathouse? 557 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,957 Bon. 558 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,157 It's locked, to make sure nobody finds the body by accident. 559 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,871 Rather brilliant, don't you think? 560 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,913 Marlene, it's Mrs Oliver. I'm coming in. 561 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,071 Marlene, you can get up. It's only me. 562 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,150 Marlene? 563 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,957 Marlene? 564 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,076 That which you have feared has happened, madame. 565 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,117 Elle est morte. 566 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,077 You don't mean... 567 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,951 You don't mean... Oh! 568 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,109 Marlene! 569 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:01,711 Marlene Tucker, local girl. 570 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,552 Lift, I got it. 571 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,551 Garrotted with a length of rope. 572 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,711 The doctor says she's still warm. 573 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,471 Dead no more than an hour. 574 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,709 So the killer isn't far away? 575 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:17,556 I daresay. But who'd want to murder a 14-year-old child? 576 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,551 "Johnny goes with Kate. 577 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,631 Georgie pinchers hikers in the wood." 578 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,551 Sir George Stubbs. 579 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,559 I'll need a room, sir. And I want to question both yourself and Lady Stubbs. 580 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,632 Yes, of course, but my wife seems to have disappeared from view. 581 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,555 I'll find her eventually, but I doubt she'll be much help. 582 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,551 I feel awful. 583 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,552 Put that in capital letters. Awful! 584 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,710 Because, you see, it's my murder. 585 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,631 I organised it. 586 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,554 I don't usually drink but Poirot gave me this for the shock. 587 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:56,711 Did you say Poirot? 588 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,710 I don't suppose you remember me, Monsieur Poirot. 589 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,474 Most assuredly. 590 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,553 It is the young Sergeant Bland, whom I met... 591 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,552 it is now since 14, 15 years. 592 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,710 In... Gloucestershire. 593 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,629 What a memory. 594 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,632 I cannot for the life of me remember why I should have wanted 595 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,553 the Yugoslavian wife of a biochemist to be the victim. 596 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,551 And I wasn't expecting a man in a yacht 597 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,551 What man in a yacht? 598 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,712 He sent a letter to Lady Stubbs and she was frightened. 599 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,519 - Frightened of what? - Frightened of him. 600 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,557 And now she's disappeared. 601 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,712 Can you tell me anything about a man and a yacht? 602 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,551 Oui, bien sur. Etienne De Souza. 603 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,631 The cousin of Lady Stubbs. 604 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,632 Who was afraid of this Etienne De Souza. Do you know why? 605 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,709 I heard her say he was a bad man. 606 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,712 Oh. Do you think her fear was real? 607 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:04,553 If it was not, she is an actress very clever. 608 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,710 You came ashore in a launch at Nassecombe Quay. 609 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:12,633 Did you see a small wooden boathouse on your way? 610 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,713 Yes, had I known it belonged to Nasse House, I should have come ashore there, 611 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,597 but I didn't. 612 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,557 Did you see any signs of activity? 613 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:22,709 In the boathouse? 614 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:24,552 No. 615 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:28,634 Originally, the part of the victim was to have been played by Sally Legge. 616 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,711 But one evening, Sally told all our fortunes 617 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:32,711 and she was thought to be strikingly good at it. 618 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:37,554 Someone suggested one of the Girl Guides could be the corpse instead, 619 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,551 so Sally became Madam Zuleika. 620 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,711 Was Marlene Tucker happy to be the victim? 621 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,518 Oh, she was thrilled. 622 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,711 I noticed a plate and a glass. 623 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,553 Yes, she had some jam tarts and a fruit drink. 624 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,552 I took the tray down myself, Lady Stubbs asked me to. 625 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,551 What time, exactly? 626 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,710 Oh, let's see... I'd say about quarter past four. 627 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:01,554 Where were you between a quarter past four and five o'clock? 628 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,551 How do you pin it down so exactly? 629 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,631 Miss Brewer saw Marlene at 4.15. 630 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,712 Lady Stubbs asked her to take down some food and drink to the boathouse. 631 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:13,473 Lady Stubbs asked her? Hardly think so. 632 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,678 Lady Stubbs's mind revolves entirely around herself. 633 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,718 Marlene could die of malnutrition for all she'd care. 634 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,632 At a quarter past four, Marlene Tucker was alive and well? 635 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,678 Oh, yes. I called out and she opened the door. She was fine. 636 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,709 Moronic, but fine. 637 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,631 Do you enjoy working for Sir George? 638 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,631 I can't imagine doing anything else. 639 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,631 You listen here, Bland. 640 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,551 You've simply got to do something. 641 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,632 My wife has been missing for two hours! 642 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,711 I am going half mad with worry. 643 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:48,475 I've got men looking into it. We do have a murder to deal with, sir. 644 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,709 Let's hope it's not two, then! 645 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:54,635 This is a murder investigation, so would you answer my question, please? 646 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,551 Where were you this afternoon? 647 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,551 I went to the pub across the river. 648 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,552 Working for these lunatics has driven me to drink. 649 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,552 How well do you know your cousin? 650 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,637 My second cousin. I don't know her well. 651 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,473 Yet you just thought you'd pay her a surprise visit? 652 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,676 Hardly a surprise visit, Inspector. 653 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,638 I wrote to her three weeks ago from St Malo. 654 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:22,634 I said I hoped to arrive in Nascombe around about today. 655 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,631 It is hard to be specific on a sailboat 656 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,631 Did she reply? 657 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,711 To be frank with you, gentlemen, 658 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:33,510 I don't think Cousin Hattie has the mental capacity for writing letters. 659 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,716 Though I understand she has grown into a lovely woman. 660 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,712 - Haven't you seen her? - No, I have not. 661 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:41,711 Where is she? 662 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,633 She's probably just gone for a walk. She's a grown woman. 663 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,632 Rather a helpless one, by all accounts. Yes. 664 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,631 When she wants to be. 665 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,553 Tell me everything you know about Lady Stubbs. 666 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,551 How would you describe her? 667 00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,712 I'd describe her as... ornamental. 668 00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:02,553 Like a trefoil or a crocket, pretty, but... 669 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,631 ...useless. 670 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,631 - Backward? - "Backward"? 671 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,596 No. Cunning little minx. 672 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,551 She didn't leave by boat. 673 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,474 The road was closed. I reckon she's still on the property somewhere. 674 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,711 Why? Nothing to stop her hopping across the fence and making off across country. 675 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,634 Madam was wearing "a biascut chiffon dress, 676 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,558 with double rouleau straps"...whatever that is, 677 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:34,678 "..a large red hat and shoes with three-inch heels." 678 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,553 I don't think she'll be doing no crosscountry run. 679 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,551 She could have changed her clothes. 680 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,551 Her maid says nothing's missing. 681 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:43,709 No suitcase packed. 682 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,552 Nothing. 683 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,711 Lady Stubbs? 684 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,671 - Lady Stubbs? - Lady Stubbs? 685 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,471 Hoskins, stand the men down. 686 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,471 Uh-huh, very well, sir. 687 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:22,711 Inspector Bland. 688 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,638 Poirot, he should have prevented the murder of Marlene Tucker. 689 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,677 The least he can do is to find the killer. 690 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,711 Si vous permettez, I would like to help. 691 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,633 - Anything? - Er... no, sir. 692 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,675 I'm sorry. 693 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,718 Sir George, there is something I should like to ask you. 694 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,712 Did your wife receive a letter from Mr De Souza three weeks ago, 695 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:47,711 saying he was coming to this country? 696 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:50,473 No, we only heard the man was arriving this morning. 697 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,551 Well, why did she dread seeing him so much? 698 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,709 - Blessed if I know. - Monsieur. 699 00:42:57,720 --> 00:42:59,552 Exactly what did she say? 700 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,551 She said... 701 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,551 he kills people. 702 00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,555 She couldn't actually say who De Souza was supposed to have killed, where or why. 703 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,074 But don't tell me he arrives off his yacht and immediately strangles 704 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,549 a girl in my boathouse. 705 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,632 The door to the boathouse, it has the Yale lock, oui? 706 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,631 So no one may enter without a key. 707 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,598 So if you permit me to ask, there are how many keys? 708 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:28,630 Well, three. 709 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,554 One was a clue in a murder hunt, concealed in foliage at the garden. 710 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,554 The second key was in the possession of Mrs Oliver. Where's the third key? 711 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,631 It's here. 712 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:43,630 Where... 713 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:46,715 ...it always is. 714 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:48,711 Do you see what that means? 715 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:51,633 The only people who could have got into the boathouse, 716 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,632 were, firstly, whoever completed the murder hunt and found the key 717 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,631 which didn't happen, 718 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,712 secondly, Mrs Oliver or someone to whom she gave her key 719 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:02,712 which she says didn't happen and Poirot was with her. 720 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,599 Or thirdly, someone whom Marlene herself admitted to the room. 721 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,514 But that could be anyone out of 200 or 300 people, couldn't it? 722 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,558 No, Sir George, because when the girl heard someone to approach, 723 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,631 she was to lie down and pretend to be dead. 724 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,713 She was to be discovered by the person who had found the final clue - the key. 725 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:23,714 The only other people she could have admitted when they called to her 726 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,475 from outside were those people who had organised this murder hunt. 727 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,553 Yourself, Lady Stubbs, Miss Brewis, Mrs Oliver... 728 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,551 Who else did Marlene know, Sir George? 729 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,551 Ah, right, erm... 730 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,557 Alec and Sally Legge... 731 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,551 Michael Weyman... 732 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,637 ...the Warburtons... 733 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,711 oh, and er... Mrs Folliat. 734 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,631 Sorry. 735 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,473 It is as you said to me yesterday, madame. 736 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,631 A world that is very wicked. 737 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,471 Well, it's true. 738 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,519 This morning Lady Stubbs, she also spoke of wickedness. 739 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,638 I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says. 740 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,551 So everyone tells to me. 741 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,710 She has always had the mental age of a child. 742 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:30,714 As you know such people are not always accountable for their actions. 743 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:32,711 In a fit of rage... 744 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,551 - ...they might even kill. - No! 745 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,596 Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl. 746 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,716 She would never have killed anyone. Never. 747 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,712 Then can you think who might have killed Marlene Tucker? 748 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,597 No, I can't. 749 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,637 What can you tell me about the local people? 750 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,634 - Captain Warburton? - He was working hard at the fate. 751 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:55,710 Mrs Warburton? 752 00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,712 Enid Warburton runs the Girl Guides and the gymkhana. 753 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:00,631 She's clearly beyond reproach. 754 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,553 And the Legges? What do you know about them? 755 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,631 They're just holidaying here. 756 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:09,633 Madame Legge, she's a lady most attractive, n'estce pas? 757 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,631 - Vivacious. - Oui. 758 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,635 Do you think, Sir George Stubbs felt the attractions to Madame Legge? 759 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:22,555 Good heavens, no. Sir George is extremely fond of his wife. 760 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,630 Was it you or Lady Stubbs 761 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,712 who asked Miss Brewis to take jam tarts down to the girl in the boathouse? 762 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,552 Goodness. All these questions. 763 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,598 I remember Miss Brewis collecting some cakes 764 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,638 but I don't recall that anyone asked her to do so. 765 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,710 You were serving in the tea tent between four and five o'clock. 766 00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:40,712 I believe Mrs Legge came in there at that time for her tea? 767 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,711 No, she didn't. 768 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,710 She was dressed as Madame Zuleika, remember? 769 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,551 She never set foot in the tea tent. 770 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,631 Sorry it's so late, Mrs Legge. 771 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:57,634 Please, tell me when you last saw Lady Stubbs. 772 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,711 I think when I came out of my tent to go and have tea. 773 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,471 I remember her hat. 774 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,551 Massive, wasn't it? 775 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,671 When did you take your tea? 776 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,551 Four o'clock. 777 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,711 In the tea tent? 778 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,551 Was it crowded? 779 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,630 Yes, awfully. 780 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,631 A coach party from Torquay. 781 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:22,709 Did you see anyone you knew there? 782 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,631 Not a soul. 783 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,871 - Good morning, sir. - Bonjour. 784 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,713 Is there any sign of Lady Stubbs? 785 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,871 No, I do not believe so. 786 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,792 Oh, Monsieur Henden, tell to me if you please, 787 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,870 for how long a time have you been here the butler? 788 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,793 Just over a 12-month, sir. 789 00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,791 Bon. 790 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,791 Merci. 791 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:06,712 It's an invitation from the Lord Lieutenant of the county. 792 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:07,875 Mademoiselle. 793 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,918 And Hodgson's written about the state of the milking sheds. 794 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,799 Damn the milking sheds to hell! 795 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,791 Where is my wife? 796 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,957 Women don't just disappear, do they? 797 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,877 Utter, utter fool! 798 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,713 What on earth possessed him to marry her? 799 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,870 Eh bien, it has been a marriage unfortunate. 800 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,791 Disastrous. 801 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,791 All she ever does is spend his money. 802 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,918 Why, this year alone she's bought two minx and a Russian ermine. 803 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,911 He's such a... 804 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,711 He's such an innocent. 805 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,918 And she's a sly, scheming clever cat. 806 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,714 You say "is" and not "was". 807 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,711 She isn't dead. 808 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:07,711 She's gone off with another man. 809 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:08,949 She likes men. 810 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,951 She's already made a fool of Michael Weyman. 811 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:13,870 But Monsieur Weyman, he designs her tennis court. 812 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,714 Tennis! She wouldn't know a double fault from a fruit cake. 813 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,714 Weyman tried it on. She gave him the heave-ho 814 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:22,790 because she's found some one else, so he has too. 815 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,950 If Monsieur Weyman no longer pursues Lady Stubbs, 816 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:27,870 what is it about her that makes you so suspicious of her? 817 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,872 She meets someone on the sly, Poirot. 818 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,871 She slips out of the house and into the woods. 819 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,791 She was out the night before last. 820 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,950 All the yawning and saying she's too tired for dinner... 821 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,793 Half an hour later she slips out by the kitchen door. 822 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,791 She's an alley cat, Hattie Stubbs. 823 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,713 It's an unpleasant thing to have to face. 824 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,791 I'd say we've some kind of psychological lunatic wandering freely in Devon. 825 00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,711 He won't be local. 826 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:00,755 Somerset, perhaps. 827 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,751 Peutetre. 828 00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:05,711 Therefore a question, if you please. 829 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:10,874 How is it possible for a strange man to have gained access into the boathouse? 830 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,871 EaSY- 831 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,837 She came out. 832 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:16,875 She got bored. 833 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,871 Girls do. Trust me. 834 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,953 The most likely thing is that Marlene saw Hattie Stubbs being murdered, 835 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:26,791 so she had to be disposed of too. 836 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,790 Crush her windpipe, drag her back inside, flick the Yale. Easy. 837 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,873 Oui. Sir George Stubbs believes that his wife she is still alive. 838 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,791 Men will believe anything. 839 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,871 Look, I like George Stubbs. 840 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,793 He and his wife have done wonders for Nasse. 841 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:46,871 Amy Folliat has sponsored them, of course. 842 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,871 And she has influence in the county. 843 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,792 Why, there have been Folliats here since Tudor times. 844 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:55,871 "Always been Folliats at Nasse". 845 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,711 Oh, Marlene, Marlene. 846 00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,871 Alors, she spies. 847 00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:38,710 Oui. 848 00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:40,711 She looks and she learns. 849 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,791 But something it is not... en point. 850 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,871 Poirot. 851 00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:55,870 Your brain, it is so slow. 852 00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,791 They've found something. 853 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:04,712 Is it hers? 854 00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:05,949 Let me see. 855 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,792 Christ, it's her hat. 856 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,792 - Where is she? Where's my wife? - I don't think we'll find her here. 857 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,794 I'll tell you where you will find her. 858 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:15,870 And where's that, sir? 859 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,794 On that fellow's... that fellow's yacht, Etienne De Souza. 860 00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,795 Damn coincidence, isn't it? He turns up and all bloody hell breaks loose. 861 00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,871 I've got a warrant to search your vessel. 862 00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,872 Do you think I'm hiding my little cousin on board? 863 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,714 I don't think anything, sir. Rather as I suspected. 864 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,871 You have lost something, madame? 865 00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:52,791 Oh, you made me jump. 866 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:53,870 Yes, I have. 867 00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,872 Or must one rendezvous when one can? 868 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,711 I don't know what you mean. 869 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,951 Poirot is not a husband, alas, 870 00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:09,951 but... he knows that they can be jealous. 871 00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:14,711 I doubt mine is. 872 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,795 I hoped, when I came down here, that everything would get better. 873 00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:24,711 But it hasn't. 874 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,871 Alec's just... 875 00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:30,711 Well... 876 00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,951 He's still Alec. 877 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,871 I don't want to live like this. 878 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:41,712 Non. 879 00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:42,790 Have a look here, sir. 880 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,791 - Got something? - Yes, sir. 881 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,713 This is the jacket the gentleman was wearing yesterday. 882 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,793 And look what I found in the pocket. 883 00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:51,870 What is it? 884 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,714 It is the ring worn by Lady Stubbs at the time of her disappearance. 885 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,871 It matches Sir George's description. 886 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,711 How do you come to have this, Mr De Souza? 887 00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:02,711 I have no idea. 888 00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,871 I've never seen it before. 889 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,794 Maybe you have, maybe not, but it's grounds enough for me to arrest you. 890 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,792 For what, may I ask? For being foreign? 891 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,711 For the murder of Harriet Stubbs. 892 00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:15,711 For the... 893 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,871 You have no proof at all. 894 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,713 This is meant to be a civilised country. 895 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,791 We like to think so, sir. 896 00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:25,711 Hoskins. 897 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,711 Is this what you were looking for, madame? 898 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,711 Oh, yes. 899 00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,712 Thank you, Monsieur Poirot. 900 00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,793 - I must have dropped it. - Oui. 901 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:50,870 We've got him, Poirot. 902 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,793 Her ring is in the pocket of his blazer. 903 00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,918 That and all the hearsay evidence, I reckon I can get a conviction. 904 00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,792 For the murder of Lady Stubbs, whose body has never been found? 905 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,872 Well, it was dumped in the river. It floated out to sea. 906 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:06,871 It'll turn up in time. 907 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,712 No, I'm sure she was killed here at Nasse. 908 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,233 I closed the roads, put a man at the quay, 909 00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:14,799 checked all the buses and trains. 910 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,791 There was never a sign of her. 911 00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,872 No, she was dumped in the river near where we found her hat. 912 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,757 And Marlene Tucker saw it happening. 913 00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,872 So, probably, De Souza fixed her too. 914 00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:28,871 No. It is not Etienne De Souza. 915 00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:31,949 Why not? 916 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,749 How did he know where to find her when his boat, it had only just arrived? 917 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,717 Non. 918 00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:39,711 It does not make any sense. 919 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,917 Bonjour, Monsieur Merdell. 920 00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,797 Do 'ee want the ferry, sir? 921 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,713 Non, merci. I return today to London. 922 00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,871 Poor fella. 923 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,871 Why must 'ee do that? 924 00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,791 Because Poirot, he has failed. 925 00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:01,871 Because... 926 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,831 Poirot is an imbecile. 927 00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,953 Did Hattie Stubbs ask Mademoiselle Brewis 928 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,952 to take the jam tarts to Marlene Tucker in the boathouse? 929 00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,951 If not, why does she say that she did? 930 01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,951 Is it possible that Mademoiselle Brewis found Marlene Tucker already dead? 931 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:09,791 In which case, why does she not report this? 932 01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,872 - She is a woman most sensible. - Unless she killed her, of course. 933 01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:14,871 Non. Pas de motive. 934 01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,759 Why did Etienne De Souza lie about writing to his cousin 935 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,718 three weeks before his arrival at Nasse House? 936 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:28,715 Is it perhaps an attempt to make his visit appear natural or expected? 937 01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,872 Certainement, Sir George receives him amicably. 938 01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,951 Although he does not know him. 939 01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,791 Attendez. 940 01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:40,873 Sir George does not know Etienne De Souza, oui? 941 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,713 But his wife who does know him does not see him. 942 01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:49,711 So is it conceivable... 943 01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:56,796 that the Etienne De Souza who arrives at the fete is not the real Etienne De Souza? 944 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:02,791 When is his trial? 945 01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:03,835 In three weeks. 946 01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,719 The jury will take one look at De Souza and they will convict him. 947 01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:09,711 This man will hang. 948 01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:10,949 Usually the villain's the husband. 949 01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,712 Oui. Je sais. 950 01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:14,711 This husband, he has the alibi. 951 01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,872 There are 200 people willing to testify that Sir George never left the fete. 952 01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,873 But there is someone who knows what happened to Hattie Stubbs. 953 01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,711 Do you think the body's still there? 954 01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,713 It appears that she has been thrown into the river. 955 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,870 But it is possible that she is in the grounds. 956 01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,950 There isn't a priest's hole or anything like that, is there? 957 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,951 No, I asked this question to Monsieur Weyman. 958 01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,792 He tells to me that the house is not of the correct period for this. 959 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,951 All the same, there might be something... 960 01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,793 ...in the structure that only the family know about. 961 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,792 But the only member of the family who is left is Madame Folliat. 962 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,714 Well, she knows everything there is to know about Nasse, doesn't she? 963 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,791 It is a true thing that you say. 964 01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,791 She knows everything. 965 01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,878 Par exemple, she knows straight away that Hattie Stubbs is dead. 966 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,950 She knows even before the death of Marlene Tucker 967 01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,793 that the world it is a place most wicked. 968 01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,711 What is there that she does not know? 969 01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,871 Monsieur Legge... 970 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,871 You are leaving Nasse House? 971 01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:07,790 Yes. 972 01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:10,797 - Sally's cleared out. - Non. 973 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,837 With that bastard Weyman. 974 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,878 I do not think she will be as happy with him as she would be with you. 975 01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,759 - You think so, do you? - Yes, I do, Monsieur. 976 01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:19,955 And shall I tell you what else I think? 977 01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,954 I think that your opinions so extreme have made you impossible to live with! 978 01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,951 Your wife, Sally Legge, she is a woman of loyalty, 979 01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,793 but you have pushed her too hard, monsieur. 980 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,794 You are a man who is very lonely, very desperate, 981 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,872 and if you had told your wife, Madame Sally, just how you are so lonely 982 01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:39,791 and how you are so desperate, 983 01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,792 she would never have left you for Michael Weyman. 984 01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:44,871 - You don't know how right you are. - Oui. 985 01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:48,871 - I've been an absolute dummy. - Oui. 986 01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,837 It's politics, eh, Poirot? 987 01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:52,877 It's hardly worth losing your wife for. 988 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:54,871 Non, I do not think they are, monsieur. 989 01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:55,870 Non. 990 01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:56,950 What shall I do? 991 01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,872 I think what you should do, monsieur, is to find Madame Sally immediately. 992 01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,871 Ask her to forgive you and beg her to come back. 993 01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,838 And Hercule Poirot, he is always right, monsieur. 994 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:08,757 - Do you know, I think I will. - Bon. 995 01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,798 And I'll go to the bloody Chelsea Arts Club and I'll get hold of Michael Weyman 996 01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,872 and I'll throttle the ponce with his ridiculous tie. 997 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:16,871 And if you please, Monsieur Legge, 998 01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:19,871 do not actually kill him, hein. 999 01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:39,875 Bonjour, madame. 1000 01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,714 I feel very sorry for George. The strain's been very great. 1001 01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,873 So Sir George still believes that his wife, she is alive? 1002 01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:02,711 I think he's given up hope. 1003 01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,791 He does not say so but... 1004 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:08,711 Of course, I've hardly seen him lately. 1005 01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,791 Spends most of his time in London. 1006 01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,951 He's drinking too much. 1007 01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,838 I am very tired, Monsieur Poirot. 1008 01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,797 I have not much to live for. 1009 01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,871 But you have your home. 1010 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,794 Monsieur, I am grateful to George Stubbs for renting me the lodge 1011 01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,872 but I do rent it. I pay him a yearly sum for it 1012 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,871 with a right to walk in the grounds. 1013 01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,918 - The grounds of my ancestral home. - Oh, je suis desole. 1014 01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:43,791 Madame, I do not mean to offend. 1015 01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,792 I mean only to say that this is a place so beautiful. 1016 01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,799 It is in fact one of the most beautifu places I have seen in England. 1017 01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:55,749 It has about it the great peace and the great serenity. 1018 01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:58,790 Yes. 1019 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,792 But is there still the same peace and serenity now, madame? 1020 01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:02,870 Why shouldn't there be? 1021 01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:06,714 Because a murder, it has gone unavenged and blood, it has been spilled. 1022 01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,872 And here is the smell of it, drifting across the lawn on the breeze. 1023 01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,713 - I think that is quite enough. - Madame... 1024 01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,872 Until the curse is lifted, there will be no peace at Nasse. You know this is true. 1025 01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,838 You know a great deal, perhaps everything, about the murder. 1026 01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,877 You know who killed the girl. You know why. 1027 01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:25,874 You know who killed Hattie Stubbs and perhaps where the body it now lies. 1028 01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:28,871 I have only my suspicions. 1029 01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,838 And to speak out on more suspicion would be wrong. 1030 01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:33,875 Wicked. 1031 01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,793 As wicked as what was done here, it is not since five weeks. 1032 01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,792 As wicked as the killing of the girl who was only 14 years of age. 1033 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,871 Don't talk about it. It's over and done. It's finished. 1034 01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,793 No, madame. It is never finished with a murder. 1035 01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:46,951 Jamais. 1036 01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,793 Mademoiselle, where is Monsieur Merdell? 1037 01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:55,870 Grandad? 1038 01:06:56,720 --> 01:06:58,711 He's dead. 1039 01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,837 Grandad? 1040 01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,832 So Monsieur Merdell was your grandfather? 1041 01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,713 Your grandfather, he was very old. 1042 01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:11,711 He didn't die cos he was old. 1043 01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,711 He died cos he was drunk. 1044 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,792 He slipped when getting off the boat one night and fell in. 1045 01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,791 Washed up two days later at Helmouth. 1046 01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:21,871 And how do you call yourself? 1047 01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:23,949 Gertie Tucker. 1048 01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,952 A relation to Marlene Tucker? 1049 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:28,951 Her was my sister. 1050 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,793 So Monsieur Merdell was her grandfather also. 1051 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:34,791 He got cross at her when she got the makeup. 1052 01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,918 - The makeup, Gertie? - Loads of lipstick she had. 1053 01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,719 And scent. Hid 'em in her knicker drawer. 1054 01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:43,791 Lovely, they was. 1055 01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:47,792 Tell to me, Gertie, how did Marlene get the money to buy these things? 1056 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,872 - Her see goings-on in the woods. - Gertie... 1057 01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,872 Marlene'll promise not to tell and they give her money. 1058 01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,713 - Gertie. - But who would give her... 1059 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:07,719 At last, at last. 1060 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,713 Poirot, he begins to see. 1061 01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,791 "Come at once. 1062 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,791 Nasse House, Devon." 1063 01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:24,835 Mais pourquoi? 1064 01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,878 Because it is important, madame. 1065 01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,837 I should hope so. 1066 01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,958 I was due to give a talk. That's why I'm dressed in this ridiculous outfit. 1067 01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,951 Instead, I ran for the Express train. 1068 01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:36,951 What was the subject of your talk? 1069 01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,870 My writing. Pleased not to have to give it as a matter of fact. 1070 01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,759 I mean, what does one say about how one writes books? 1071 01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:45,793 You just think of an idea and force yourself to write it. 1072 01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:48,719 What am I going to say for the other 59 minutes? 1073 01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,791 Madame, your hat... 1074 01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:53,710 C'est magnifique. 1075 01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:55,711 Oh, thank you. 1076 01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:56,949 Jolly expensive. 1077 01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,713 Hats are really a symbol nowadays, aren't they? 1078 01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,872 They don't keep your head warm or shield you from the sun 1079 01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,555 or hide your face from people you don't want to meet. 1080 01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,717 I mean, they're just ornamental. 1081 01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:10,711 Always you give to me the ideas. 1082 01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:18,880 Madame, in your murder hunt you have as one of your suspects a biochemist. 1083 01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:21,871 Do you know a biochemist personally? 1084 01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:23,712 Yes, I know Alec Legge. 1085 01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,759 And you also know his wife Sally Legge but she is not Yugoslavian, is she? 1086 01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:32,716 So what gives to you the idea of having a wife who is Yugoslavian for the victim? 1087 01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:34,870 Oh, I don't know. All those youth hostellers perhaps. 1088 01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,871 All those girls in shorts. 1089 01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:39,872 But, madame, I am most interested in how you write. 1090 01:09:40,840 --> 01:09:42,877 You are a woman who is most sensitive. 1091 01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:46,794 You are affected by the atmosphere, by the personalities that surround you. 1092 01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,840 These are the inspirations for your brain that is so fertile. 1093 01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,872 So tell to me, madame, when you first designed your murder hunt, 1094 01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,872 did you intend for the body to be discovered in the boathouse? 1095 01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,871 No, I did not. 1096 01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:05,710 I intended it to be found in that pavilion. Tucked away among the rhododendrons. 1097 01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,711 But then someone... 1098 01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:08,869 I can't remember who. 1099 01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:11,838 ...began insisting it should be found in the folly. 1100 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,870 Well, that was obviously bonkers. 1101 01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,712 I mean, anyone could have strolled in there quite casually. 1102 01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:19,869 - I couldn't agree to that. - Non. 1103 01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:21,951 So you accepted the boathouse instead. 1104 01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,918 And that was the technique that you described to me on that first day. 1105 01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:28,751 The jockeying along. 1106 01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,870 One last thing, madame. 1107 01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,918 Do you remember telling me that there was a final clue 1108 01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:37,950 on one of the comics that was given to Marlene Tucker to read? 1109 01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,759 Was it something like "Biddy Fox has a secret den"? 1110 01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,797 Good gracious me, no. 1111 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,711 Nothing silly like that. 1112 01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:48,870 No, it was a perfectly straightforward clue. 1113 01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,871 "Look in the hiker's rucksack." 1114 01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:52,869 Epatant. 1115 01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,872 The comic on which that was written would have to be taken away. 1116 01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:56,870 Why? 1117 01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:58,951 Because immediatement it points to the murderer. 1118 01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,794 Inspector Bland, you must telephone to Scotland Yard tout de suite. 1119 01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:09,714 - Why? - Because Etienne De Souza is innocent. 1120 01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:11,711 He is a man of great wealth. 1121 01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:13,871 - So what? - So... 1122 01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:15,871 What is his motive? 1123 01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,791 - Let me put to you the facts. - Facts? 1124 01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:19,870 What facts? 1125 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,794 The fact that old John Merdell was the grandfather of Marlene Tucker. 1126 01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,794 The fact that Lady Stubbs always wore those particular types of floppy hat. 1127 01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:31,794 The fact that Marlene Tucker had cosmetics hidden in the back of her drawer 1128 01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,917 and the fact that Mademoiselle Brewis 1129 01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:38,710 maintains it was Lady Stubbs who asked her to take refreshments to the boathouse. 1130 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:41,791 You call those facts, do you, in London? 1131 01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:43,791 You prefer the hard evidence? 1132 01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:45,791 Such as the body of Lady Stubbs? 1133 01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,793 I know where it is hidden and who hid it there. 1134 01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:52,712 So, if you please to make that telephone call to Scotland Yard. 1135 01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,631 Why did you ask me to come here? 1136 01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:28,709 I think that you know, madame. 1137 01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,637 Good evening, sir. 1138 01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,671 There have now been three murders. 1139 01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:52,709 Hattie Stubbs. 1140 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,711 Marlene Tucker. 1141 01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,551 And John Merdell. 1142 01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,551 Merdell? 1143 01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:03,599 That was an accident. He fell from the quayside. He was drunk. 1144 01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,638 No. No, it was not an accident, madame. 1145 01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,631 He knew too much. 1146 01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:12,715 He knew all about the Folliat family. 1147 01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:17,635 He knew about your husband. He knew about your two sons who died abroad. 1148 01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,551 Only they did not, did they? 1149 01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,634 Henry was indeed killed in action on the Northwest frontier but James... 1150 01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:30,551 No, he did not die as you said. 1151 01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:36,556 James... who was so brilliant, so wild. 1152 01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:40,719 James, who was also to you so shaming. 1153 01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:46,633 John Merdell told me of him, madame, and the records have been checked. 1154 01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:52,553 What did he do to that young dairy maid when he was only, what, 14 years of age? 1155 01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,551 - You know? - Oui. 1156 01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:58,551 And where did you send him, madame? 1157 01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:07,518 South Africa. 1158 01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:08,555 Oui. 1159 01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,710 You said you never saw him again. 1160 01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,631 You heard that he had died in an aeroplane crash. 1161 01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:17,711 You mourned, you said your prayers, but... 1162 01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,511 What then has happened, madame? 1163 01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,711 - He came back. - Oui. 1164 01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,712 Because your son, he made the pretence of his own death. 1165 01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:32,632 And then you learned that he is pursued by the police in several countries. 1166 01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:36,712 And you agree, and he must have been so persuasive... 1167 01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:38,711 You agree to give him one more chance. 1168 01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,631 - Just one. - Oui. 1169 01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,598 I believe that you are a woman most sincere. 1170 01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,631 And most moral. 1171 01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,553 And I believe that it was from the best of your intentions 1172 01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:58,474 that you did everything you could to give to your son, who was wayward, 1173 01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,551 a new life. 1174 01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,715 At that time you had in your charge a young girl who was sadly subnormal. 1175 01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:12,559 But she was rich. So rich. She was worth a fortune. 1176 01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,552 But you gave it out that her parents had lost all their money. 1177 01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,713 And you were advising her to marry a man who was wealthy and older than herself. 1178 01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,631 And who could disbelieve you? 1179 01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:30,634 Your lawyers in Paris where you were living at that time handled everything. 1180 01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,712 And Hattie Stubbs, when she came of age... 1181 01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,633 ...would sign whatever you put in front of her. 1182 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,554 And so in the end, Sir George Stubbs, 1183 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,632 the new identity assumed by your son James, 1184 01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,631 became a man who was very rich. 1185 01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:51,553 Rich enough to buy Nasse House. 1186 01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,631 And there your plans, they ended, madame. 1187 01:15:56,640 --> 01:16:00,554 Your son, he was a wealthy man. He had his ancestral home. 1188 01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,551 And Hattie Stubbs, well... 1189 01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,551 You could take care of her. 1190 01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,711 Ca marche. 1191 01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,552 I never dreamed... 1192 01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,712 No, you never dreamed that your son James, he was already married. 1193 01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,711 He was married to a girl he met in Trieste. 1194 01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:17,709 A girl of the criminal underworld 1195 01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:20,596 who is determined not to be parted from your son. 1196 01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:22,591 She's a wicked, wicked creature. 1197 01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:27,715 But your Hattie knew no-one in England. 1198 01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,477 Good evening, Hattie. 1199 01:16:32,480 --> 01:16:34,471 Come along, my dear. 1200 01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,558 When they arrived back at Nasse House after their marriage, 1201 01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,710 all of the servants, who were new, including the butler, 1202 01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,519 barely caught sight of her that first evening. 1203 01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:49,110 And the following morning, the woman that they met was not Hattie Stubbs, 1204 01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:54,991 non, but this Italian made up to look like Hattie, behaving as Hattie. 1205 01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:56,833 But Hattie, the real Hattie, 1206 01:16:58,160 --> 01:16:59,389 was dead. 1207 01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:00,590 She was killed the first evening she arrived here by your son. 1208 01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,558 Oui. By your son, madame, James Folliat. 1209 01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,712 And this plan, it was so clever. 1210 01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:14,679 The false Hattie Stubbs over the years would respond to treatment. 1211 01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,638 She would get better and better and make a full recovery. 1212 01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,552 But this Italian did not convince Mademoiselle Brewis. 1213 01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,551 I have a headache! 1214 01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,598 Who was herself in love with Sir George. 1215 01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:33,632 But then something unforeseen occurs. 1216 01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,632 A cousin of Hattie, Etienne De Souza, 1217 01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,631 writes to her a telegram... 1218 01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,630 Oh, no. 1219 01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,553 ...telling her he is visiting England on a yachting trip. 1220 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:46,595 What is it, darling? 1221 01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,513 Alors, he would not be deceived by an imposter. 1222 01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:54,713 It is strange, is it not, that although the thought, it did cross my mind 1223 01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:57,553 that this Etienne De Souza may not be Etienne De Souza, 1224 01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:04,511 it never occurred to Poirot that Hattie Stubbs was not Hattie Stubbs. 1225 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,473 And there was a further complication. 1226 01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:13,474 John Merdell used to... 1227 01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,551 What is the word? 1228 01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:18,709 ...chatter 1229 01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,553 to his granddaughter Marlene Tucker. 1230 01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:25,714 If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on, 1231 01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:28,633 he's liable to be a sex maniac, isn't he? 1232 01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:32,509 Well, nobody else would listen to him because they thought he was a little daft. 1233 01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:39,636 But he told to his granddaughter Marlene that Sir George was in fact Master James. 1234 01:18:43,720 --> 01:18:49,511 Alors, Marlene Tucker blackmailed Sir George for her silence. 1235 01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,598 But in so doing, she signs her death warrant. 1236 01:18:56,480 --> 01:19:01,714 They arrange it so that Marlene Tucker is killed and Hattie Stubbs goes missing 1237 01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:08,636 in such a way, the suspicion it is thrown onto her cousin Etienne De Souza. 1238 01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,554 Hence the references to him being a man most wicked. 1239 01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:14,631 Delighted to meet you at last. 1240 01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:18,634 And Sir George, he plants the evidence. 1241 01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:25,556 This Lady Stubbs was to disappear permanently. 1242 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:30,633 After a period of mourning, Sir George would rejoin her in Italy 1243 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:32,711 where they would again be married. 1244 01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,631 All that was necessary for her now 1245 01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:40,555 was to double the parts for a little more than a period of, what, 24 hours. 1246 01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:46,555 When Hercule Poirot, he arrives, Hattie Stubbs takes the bus to Exeter. 1247 01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:47,630 Afternoon, ladies. 1248 01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:52,555 And travelled back in the company of a youth hosteller she meets on the train. 1249 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,551 You don't mind, do you, sir? 1250 01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:56,710 She books into the hostel with this Dutch girl. 1251 01:19:59,480 --> 01:20:04,475 But by teatime, she is here, back at her window. 1252 01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,633 After dinner she retires early to bed. 1253 01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:11,631 I feel strange. 1254 01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:15,552 But Mademoiselle Brewis sees her slip out of the back door. 1255 01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,631 She spends the night in the youth hostel, 1256 01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,710 returns to Nasse for breakfast, 1257 01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:29,556 after which she spends the rest of the morning in her room with her headache. 1258 01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,711 She then stages her appearance... 1259 01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:36,551 ...as a trespasser. 1260 01:20:37,480 --> 01:20:39,630 You can't come through here! 1261 01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,712 Sir George shouts to her from the window of his wife. 1262 01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:45,472 What's that, Hattie? 1263 01:20:45,480 --> 01:20:48,552 He turns and even pretends to speak to her inside. 1264 01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:51,551 But she is not there. 1265 01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:55,634 No-one would ever dream that these two women were the same person 1266 01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,551 and no-one did. 1267 01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,552 And so the final act of this drama, it is staged. 1268 01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,633 A little before four o'clock on the day of the fete 1269 01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:10,713 Hattie Stubbs tells to Mademoiselle Brewis to take the jam tarts to Marlene 1270 01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,634 because she is afraid that Mademoiselle Brewis may do this independently 1271 01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,551 and that would be fatal to their plans. 1272 01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:22,716 She slips into the tent of the fortune teller while Sally Legge is out. 1273 01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:26,554 And she has a secret rendezvous with Michael Weyman. 1274 01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:32,713 She goes through the back into the pavilion where she changes into the 1275 01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:34,711 costume of a hiker, which she kept in her rucksack. 1276 01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,710 Poirot, he has found the buckle from the strap. 1277 01:21:44,480 --> 01:21:47,552 And that is why the pavilion, it was not used for the murder. 1278 01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,639 She then goes down to the boathouse, calls to Marlene to let her in. 1279 01:21:57,560 --> 01:21:59,551 And she strangles her. 1280 01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:10,553 She leaves her big floppy hat by the riverside 1281 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,712 and hastily joins her Dutch friend on the lawn. 1282 01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,712 A little before five, they take the bus to Torquay. 1283 01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:22,718 And a little after five, the police, they arrive. 1284 01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:28,553 Where she is now I do not know. 1285 01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,631 But I am convinced that the police, they will find her. 1286 01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,598 Remember, madame, before they were not looking 1287 01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:37,638 for an Italian confidence trickster. Non. 1288 01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:39,631 They were looking for Hattie. 1289 01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,552 Simple, subnormal. 1290 01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:48,551 And dead. 1291 01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:50,631 And this you have always known, madame. 1292 01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,631 You revealed your knowledge to me 1293 01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,598 when you spoke to me in the dining room on the evening of the fete. 1294 01:22:56,600 --> 01:23:00,719 You revealed most clearly, although Poirot he did not see it at the time, 1295 01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:02,677 that when speaking of Hattie Stubbs... 1296 01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,718 I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says. 1297 01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:09,554 You were speaking of two different people. 1298 01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:14,555 Hattie was a gentle, warmhearted girl. She would never have killed anyone. Never. 1299 01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,632 There remained one problem to be dealt with. 1300 01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,513 The man who knew the truth about yourson. 1301 01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,472 John Merdell. 1302 01:23:29,480 --> 01:23:31,710 His death is made to look like an accident. 1303 01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,632 As if he had fallen into the water while he was drunk. 1304 01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,552 But in fact it was murder, madame. 1305 01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:44,677 Murder committed by your son. 1306 01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:46,709 James Folliat. 1307 01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,711 Alors, if you please to come with me, madame. 1308 01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,631 It is a good place to bury a body. 1309 01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:09,553 A tree, it is uprooted in a storm. 1310 01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:11,711 The soil, it is disturbed. 1311 01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:16,554 And very soon, a young lady, she is covered with concrete. 1312 01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:24,710 And on the concrete, a folly it is built. 1313 01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:28,551 The folly of the owner of Nasse. 1314 01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:33,713 Monsieur Poirot, I will face my punishment, I assure you of that. 1315 01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:39,713 But before I do, will you give me a few moments with my son? 1316 01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,632 As a courtesy to an old lady. 1317 01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:50,636 As a courtesy from an old gentleman, madame, 1318 01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,551 I will allow it. 1319 01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,551 Bless you. 1320 01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,551 Right, let's bring in Sir George. 1321 01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,631 If you please to wait. 1322 01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,473 I have allowed Madame Folliat a few moments. 1323 01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,551 You've no authority to do that. 1324 01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,711 Domage. 1325 01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,671 It is done. 1326 01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:43,638 Mother. And what are you doing here? 1327 01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:50,631 They're digging up the folly. 1328 01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:55,711 You know what they will find. 1329 01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,597 Ruddy good scheme. 1330 01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,677 Almost worked. 1331 01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,553 It was like every one of your schemes. 1332 01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:18,471 It was cruel and criminal. 1333 01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,631 And it failed. 1334 01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,712 You have brought disgrace to the family name. 1335 01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:28,711 The name of Folliat. 1336 01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:33,631 Oh, dear God. 1337 01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,631 What am I to do? 1338 01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,712 You will do, James, 1339 01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:49,631 exactly what I tell you. 1340 01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,552 For once, just for once, 1341 01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,551 you will obey your mother. 1342 01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,551 What put you onto them? 1343 01:27:05,480 --> 01:27:07,471 Intuition perhaps? 1344 01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:10,551 Non, madame. 1345 01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,711 The deduction. 1346 01:27:14,480 --> 01:27:18,713 When old John Merdell told to me there will always be Folliats at Nasse, 1347 01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:21,717 it was his little private joke. 1348 01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:25,634 And Poirot, he has realised this very late. 1349 01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,551 You see, madame, 1350 01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:32,711 he knew. 1351 01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,671 So now will you release De Souza? 1352 01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:39,551 Yes, all right. 1353 01:27:40,480 --> 01:27:42,471 Time's up. Come on. 1354 01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:49,631 What's he done? Quick! 1355 01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,551 Follow me! 1356 01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:03,630 Bon.