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It is with enormous pleasure

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that I give you
our crime writer of the year,

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Mrs Ariadne Oliver!

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Surely you remember her?

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Celia Ravenscroft.

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She's your god-daughter, is she not?

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Is she?
It's just that one has so many.

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Mrs Oliver,
may I have your autograph?

9
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Thank you.

10
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Oh, that Celia! I haven't
seen her in a very long time.

11
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Thank you.

12
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May I confide in you?

13
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There's something
I really must find out.

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Something of great moment.

15
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A mystery.

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Celia Ravenscroft, you see,
intends to marry my son Desmond.

17
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Why is that a mystery? Is there
something wrong with Desmond?

18
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No, there's nothing wrong
with Desmond.

19
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No.

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But it's...
It's all just... very sudden.

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And one has to know about people.

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Especially people one's welcoming
into one's family.

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Mrs Oliver,

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what I want to know is this.

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Did her father kill her mother?

26
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Or did the mother kill the father?

27
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I don't think I heard you properly.
Pardon?

28
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I know it was 12
or 13 years ago now.

29
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But it did cause a fuss at the time.

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You must remember.

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General and Mrs Ravenscroft.

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Of course I remember,
it's just that I

33
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couldn't quite believe
my ears, Mrs...

34
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Burton-Cox.

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Mrs Burton-Cox, it has
been nice meeting you.

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But I must find out the truth.

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I'm at a loss to see how I...

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Ask your god-daughter. Ask Celia.

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Please.

40
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I shouldn't dream
of doing such a thing.

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It was impossible to shake her off.

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And now this frightful woman
wants me to quiz Celia about it.

43
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What do you think she's after?

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- Je sais pas.
- I don't know what I should do.

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What would you do, were you me?

46
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It is a question most difficult,
madame.

47
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I know how I, Hercules Poirot,
would act in any circumstance.

48
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But how you would act, madame,
I do not know that.

49
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I do not know that at all.

50
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Excuse-moi, s'il vous plait.

51
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Hercules Poirot speaks.

52
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Ah, my dear doctor...

53
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If Poirot can be of any assistance...

54
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He comes at once.

55
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Tout de suite.

56
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George! My coat and my hat,
s'il vous plaît!

57
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Yes, sir.

58
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Madame, it is my dear friend
Dr Willoughby. He has... some trouble.

59
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Please to forgive me.
You haven't answered my question.

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What should I do about
the dreadful Burton-Cox?

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The thing that you should do, madame,

62
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and this I advise you
to do most strenuously,

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is nothing, rien.

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Merci.

65
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- Oh, mais oui.
- Poirot, thank God!

66
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I am so sorry. Hello, Poirot.

67
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I heard you were coming.

68
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Ah, Detective Sergeant Beale!

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Detective Inspector.

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Was he still practising,
Dr Willoughby?

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He'd been semi-retired for years.

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In effect, I run the institute.

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But my father kept his office
and continued his research.

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He saw patients?

75
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He hasn't treated anyone
for a long time.

76
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This, it is how he was discovered?

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That's correct.

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- Seen enough?
- Oui.

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- Drain it off.
- Sir.

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In your kind of work, Doctor, is
this kind of contraption normal?

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Hydriatic procedures in
the treatment of insanity

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were quite common

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I was not, I'm afraid, ever
convinced of their efficacy.

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But I was the junior
and he was my father.

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And your father,
he employed this treatment?

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He gave up on it in the end.

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Concluded it was dangerous.

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Looks like he was hit
on the head first.

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Come away, Doctor.

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I hope you don't
mind that I called

91
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for Monsieur Poirot
straight away.

92
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No, I don't.

93
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Poirot and I have worked together
before.

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I hope you don't mind
my asking you

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to vouch for your
movements last night.

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You surely don't regard me
as a suspect?!

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I'm just doing my job, sir.

98
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This was my own father.

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The procedure is quite standard,
cher ami.

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Did you sleep at home?

101
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No.

102
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No. My wife lives in Kent
with the children.

103
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It's not always convenient
for me to travel home at night.

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So I keep an apartment here.

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- In the institute?
- Upstairs. Nothing glamorous.

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And that's where
you stayed last night?

107
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<i>Yes.</i>

108
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Please excuse me.

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Did you know your father
was in the building?

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No, I had absolutely no idea.

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But he keeps strange hours.
I mean... kept.

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Dr Willoughby! Are you OK?

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There's a cop on the door.

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Please don't be alarmed, Marie.

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This is my assistant,
Miss McDermott.

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- Mademoiselle.
- Who are these guys?

117
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What's going on around here?

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It's very good to see you,
Mrs Oliver.

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You should call me Ariadne.

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Thank you for coming.
You said you worked nearby.

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- Yes. A solicitor's office.
- Really?

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We have much to catch up on,
haven't we, Celia?

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Mm-hm.

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It must have seemed odd,
my ringing up out of the blue.

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I haven't been a very conscientious
godmother, I know.

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I don't remember
coming to your confirmation.

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- I don't remember having one.
- Oh, dear.

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But you sent a very nice
cheque on my 21st birthday.

129
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So I would say your
duties are done.

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Bizarre, though. I saw your photo
in the paper this morning.

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Crime writer of the year.
And now we're having tea.

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Yes, well... You see, a woman
came UP and button-holed me.

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She said 'I believe you have a
god-daughter named Celia Ravenscroft.'

134
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Oh. Was she a friend of mine?

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A Mrs Burton-Cox. She
said she thought

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you might be going
to marry her son.

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- Douglas, is it?
- Desmond.

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Desmond. What does Desmond do?

139
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He's a pianist.

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Splendid!

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- Making any money?
- God, no.

142
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He's still at the Academy.
He gets a recital now and then.

143
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It takes quite a while
to become a concert pianist.

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I... I don't know what you know.

145
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But I'm fond of Desmond.
And he's fond of me.

146
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But his mother is
something else entirely.

147
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What did she want?

148
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She thought that,
since you were my godchild,

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I might be able
to ask you something.

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Something quite delicate.

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What she went on to say was...

152
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'Can you find out if her
father murdered her

153
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mother or her mother
murdered her father?'

154
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For God's sake, how dare she?!

155
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She actually said that?! The beast!

156
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She thought I might know
something about it.

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But at the time, I was on a
lecture tour of America.

158
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And you were... What, 14?

159
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I was 12.

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I was good friends with your mother.

161
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We were finished together in Paris.

162
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But then I married
and went somewhere

163
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and she married and
went somewhere.

164
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And then your father
was posted again.

165
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- Was it Rhodesia?
- India.

166
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But I was sent to school in England.

167
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In the holidays, I boarded
with a family in Suffolk.

168
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I hardly saw Mummy and Daddy until
they retired to Eastbourne.

169
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But you weren't at Eastbourne
when it...

170
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No. I was away at school.

171
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What can you tell me, Ariadne?

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- Have you got any inside knowledge?
- No, my dear. I haven't.

173
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I know only what I read
in the papers.

174
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No obvious motive.

175
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No sign of a quarrel. No
evidence of attack from outside.

176
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Nobody knows.

177
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That's just it. Nobody knows.

178
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I was shielded from it
when I was young.

179
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But I think of it constantly.

180
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Please, please find out
what happened.

181
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Not for Mrs Burton-Cox. For me.

182
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I have to know.

183
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Will you help me, Ariadne?

184
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I have to help Celia.

185
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The girl deserves to know.

186
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Yet I can't, for the life of me,
see what to do!

187
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How may one discover anything
years afterwards?

188
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I know you're busy. But will
you help me look into it?

189
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Je suis desole, madame.

190
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I have an affair of consequence
to which I must attend.

191
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The matter of the Ravenscrofts,
it is in the past.

192
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And Poirot, he must march
in the present.

193
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Give me one moment of your time.

194
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My friend Margaret Ravenscroft
died a horrible death.

195
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I have to find out why.

196
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What should I do?

197
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Bien sur.

198
00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,155
Madame, what have you told to me, hm?

199
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A husband and wife who never argue,
who live in complete harmony.

200
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Whoever has heard
of such a thing?!

201
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There was a motive.
There is always a motive.

202
00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,910
And if the police, they could not
find this motive at the time,

203
00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,275
then this motive, it is...
How do you say?

204
00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,317
It is... unorthodox.

205
00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,391
The answer, madame, lies in the past.

206
00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,994
You must delve into the past.

207
00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,350
You say they lived
near to Eastbourne?

208
00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,192
You have acquaintance there?

209
00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,714
Then go! Allez-y! Allez-y!

210
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Drive about, ask the questions.
Be the person with a nose.

211
00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,759
Oh, I see.
Someone will remember something.

212
00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,956
Always someone remembers something.

213
00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,951
You mean elephants.

214
00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,430
Sorry, I was thinking of elephant
s at that dinner last night.

215
00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,477
With hesitation, I ask why.

216
00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,994
Because the meringue
got stuck in my teeth.

217
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I see. The pathway of logic,
it is there somewhere.

218
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Meringue, dentures.

219
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Ivory, elephants.

220
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Must find the elephants.

221
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Elephants can remember.

222
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Then go. Drive about,
ask the questions.

223
00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,957
Be the person with a nose.

224
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If I had to say which was most
likely, I should say my father.

225
00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,718
It's more natural for a man
to shoot someone, isn't it?

226
00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,360
I don't think my mother
would have fired a gun.

227
00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,075
Who else was in the house
when it happened?

228
00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,630
There was an old housekeeper.
She was half blind and a bit deaf.

229
00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,677
Sometimes there was my aunt.

230
00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:46,239
And there was a foreign girl.
An au pair girl.

231
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She'd be my governess
when I was young.

232
00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,279
She'd come back to help Mummy,
who'd been unwell.

233
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Ariadne!

234
00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,751
My Word!

235
00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,031
- Come in!
- Thank you.

236
00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,074
Where did we last meet?
The Llewellyn wedding, was it?

237
00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,914
All the bridesmaids
in a vile shade of apricot!

238
00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,957
Funny, the things one remembers.

239
00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,997
Bridesmaids!

240
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Geldings.

241
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Dogs.

242
00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,630
Other things one forgets.
I saw my god-daughter the other day.

243
00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,792
Celia Ravenscroft.
Do you remember the Ravenscrofts?

244
00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,837
The Ravenscrofts.

245
00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,834
Wait a minute. That was that
very sad tragedy, wasn't it?

246
00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,071
- Yes. It wasn't far from here.
- I never knew them in Sussex.

247
00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,959
I knew them in Amritsar.
Not in Sussex.

248
00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,759
She used to wear a wig.
Do you remember?

249
00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,797
- Who?
- Margaret? Yes!

250
00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,837
She wore a wig!

251
00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,549
I don't know if she had cancer
if she was just bald.

252
00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,597
She tried to persuade me to get one.

253
00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:58,955
Bit bloody hard in Amritsar!

254
00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,997
Awful business though.

255
00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,559
At the time of the shooting,
I was in America.

256
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,599
- Speaking engagements.
- You're so modern, Ariadne!

257
00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,639
No-one else in my circle
has speaking engagements!

258
00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,676
They only left the house
to take a walk.

259
00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,676
They didn't come back
for their dinner.

260
00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,437
Somebody or other found them dead.

261
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,478
The revolver was lying
by their bodies.

262
00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,518
Bloody hard on the dog, I thought.

263
00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,557
Rotten way to treat an animal.

264
00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,599
- They kept a revolver in the house?
- Military type. They often do.

265
00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,637
Fear of the natives, you see.

266
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,631
Not usually a problem in Sussex.

267
00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,269
Unfathomable things
in everybody's lives.

268
00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,236
- She was neurotic, always.
- Was she?

269
00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,949
Very nervy.
Didn't like India at all.

270
00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,997
Odd girl.

271
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,753
And the other one.
I expect you heard the gossip.

272
00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,036
What was the gossip, Julia?

273
00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,999
He was writing his memoirs.
She was taking dictation.

274
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,469
- Who? Margaret?
- No!

275
00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,471
The French girl!

276
00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,839
She was young. And French.

277
00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,831
There was talk.

278
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,271
People thought he might
have shot his wife

279
00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,351
because he
wanted to marry her.

280
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,874
- Then why shoot himself as well?
- Good point!

281
00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,872
I always thought
it was more about Margaret.

282
00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,713
I can't help thinking
there might have been a man.

283
00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,189
- Why do you think that?
- Oh, the wigs.

284
00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,113
Sexual display. Mating ritual.

285
00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,033
I thought you said she had them
because she was bald.

286
00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,156
Oh, she was pretty too.

287
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,197
Legs.

288
00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,033
All I'm saying is one of them
was having an affair.

289
00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,032
In this part of the world, Ariadne,

290
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,032
one either hunts or one has affairs.

291
00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,836
It is a variation on what the French
call le bain de surprise.

292
00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,877
I should say it's a surprise.

293
00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,633
Hot water followed by cold water.
Is that right?

294
00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,199
Oui. The scalding hot
and the freezing cold.

295
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,511
The principle, it is one of
severe shock to the system.

296
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,356
And is often used in conjunction
with the electro-shock therapy.

297
00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:19,351
Bloody hell.

298
00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,877
I'm quite glad I'm normal.

299
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,791
We may all be thankful,
mon ami,

300
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,711
that we are in possession
of our minds.

301
00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,757
Some of us more so than others.

302
00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,990
But the question, it is this.

303
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,358
Who has brought le professeur
to this place and secured him?

304
00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:38,079
The night watchman said
the door wasn't forced.

305
00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,437
- Is there a key that is missing?
- No.

306
00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,431
Everything is in order.

307
00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:46,999
- No fingerprints.
- And Dr Willoughby himself?

308
00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,037
The man's in shock.

309
00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,998
I let him go back to Kent.
We can interview him later.

310
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,037
Oh. Er... Hi.

311
00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,554
- You mind me coming in?
- It's against regulations.

312
00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,597
No, no, mademoiselle. Pas du tout.

313
00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,477
Levez-vous a l'avance?

314
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,517
Huh?

315
00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,557
No.

316
00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,597
I've never been down here before.

317
00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,591
Creepy, isn't it?

318
00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,675
I have the kettle boiling if you
gentlemen would like a cup of tea.

319
00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,433
- Do you live locally, Miss McDermott?
- James Street.

320
00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,477
It's about a ten-minute walk.

321
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,189
Did you walk home on the night
Professor Willoughby was murdered?

322
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,032
<i>Yes.</i>

323
00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,077
- Do you live alone?
- No.

324
00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,390
I share an apartment
with some other girls.

325
00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,233
Is there someone can vouch for you
being at home all night?

326
00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,358
Did I say I was at home all night?
I don't remember that.

327
00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,716
May I enquire, mademoiselle,
from where do you originate?

328
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,757
Boston area.

329
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,910
But I always wanted
to come to London.

330
00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,833
I guess I just had a yen
to live in England for a while

331
00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,753
and do the things
that English people do.

332
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,594
By which, I do not mean murdering
eminent professors of psychiatry.

333
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,718
So you think it was an English
person who has done this.

334
00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,075
I'd say the stakes are high,
wouldn't you?

335
00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,639
How well did you know
Professor Willoughby?

336
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,677
I didn't know him at all.

337
00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,310
You can't tell us anything about
what he's currently working on.

338
00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,359
I'm a filing clerk. I don't
know anything about psychiatry.

339
00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,397
I do the files from A to Zed.

340
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,997
I just answer the telephone,
make the tea.

341
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,833
If you please to return
to the night of the murder.

342
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,195
At what hour did you leave your work?

343
00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,999
Usual time. Around 5:30.

344
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,037
And where did you go then?

345
00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,077
I went home.

346
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,071
But you just said you didn't.

347
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,117
I don't think so.

348
00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:38,157
It's a murder inquiry, miss.

349
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,197
Yeah.

350
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,237
OK, I'm sorry.

351
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,879
Er... I went home.

352
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,871
I didn't see any of the other girls.

353
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,077
I had sardines on toast.

354
00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,117
And then I went to bed.

355
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,476
So nobody can corroborate
your story.

356
00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,598
I guess not.

357
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,398
It is strange that
Dr Willoughby

358
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,152
also has no alibi for
the night in question.

359
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,039
He doesn't? But surely his wife...

360
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,475
He says he spent the night
here in his flat.

361
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,517
Oh.

362
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,557
I see.

363
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,597
I didn't know that.

364
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,591
I assumed he'd gone home.

365
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,113
Does Nanny Matcham - I mean
Mrs Matcham - live here?

366
00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:35,273
- Who shall I say?
- Say... Miss Ariadne.

367
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,271
- Come in, ma'am.
- Thank you so much.

368
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,437
Well, well, it must be years!

369
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,477
It IS years, Nanny.

370
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,949
What a lot of photographs you have.

371
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,997
Yes, I have, haven't I?

372
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,992
All my little boys and girls.

373
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,037
All over the world I went.

374
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,077
I know, Nanny.

375
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,117
Where were you? In India?

376
00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:01,476
Shimla. Hong Kong. Egypt.

377
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,154
That time I came out to the Punjab,

378
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,515
20-odd years ago.

379
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,750
Was it the Ravenscrofts
you were with?

380
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,797
Service family.

381
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,950
- Did you look after their children?
- No.

382
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,998
Not me. No, I was with the Barnabys.

383
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,071
Here's your tea, Mrs Matcham.

384
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,117
Thank you, my dear.

385
00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,317
Of course, I knew the Ravenscrofts.

386
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,834
They were great friends
with the Barnabys.

387
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,878
- Were they?
- Yes. And the Burton-Coxes.

388
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,839
- I'll finish that.
- I'll get on with the laundry.

389
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,877
Thank you, my dear.

390
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,871
You really are such a help.

391
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,037
Did you say the Burton-Coxes?

392
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,874
Or did I mean the Carter-Foxes?

393
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,271
You know who I mean.
They were great friends.

394
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,272
Everybody was very friendly
out there.

395
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,318
Did you by any chance
meet the Ravenscrofts

396
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,358
when you
were on that visit?

397
00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,397
No, I didn't.

398
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,437
What were they like?

399
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,431
Well...

400
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,757
They had that trouble.

401
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,797
What trouble was that, Nanny?

402
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,837
Oh, an awful thing happened.

403
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,831
Did it?

404
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,877
I heard they were a nice couple.

405
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,157
Oh. Yes, yes, they were
a very nice couple.

406
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,197
And it was a shock.

407
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,477
They said that she'd
always been touched.

408
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:34,476
And then there was that story
of the baby and the river.

409
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,595
Took the babe from its pram.

410
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,035
And threw it into the river.

411
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,431
Just threw it into the river.

412
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,471
What was the trouble
in Amritsar, Nanny?

413
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,553
Well, she was in that mental place.

414
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,631
And they let her out.

415
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,677
It happened all over again.

416
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,717
What happened, Nanny?

417
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,633
They'd let her have them back,
the boy and the girl.

418
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,677
It was the boy this time.

419
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,399
Of course, we all knew it was her.

420
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,437
Who, Nanny?

421
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,431
Well, whichever one of them it was.

422
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,671
It's so lovely to see you again.

423
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,909
I remember you when you had
your little button boots.

424
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,673
You followed me down the lane.

425
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,277
<i>They...</i>

426
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,919
They fell off a cliff.

427
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,957
Didn't they?

428
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,793
Or something of that kind.

429
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,314
Something of that kind, Nanny, yes.

430
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,511
Nanny?

431
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,877
Mrs Buckle, she's fast asleep.

432
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,030
- Perhaps you could...
- She likes her nap.

433
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,077
- Leave her to me.
- Thank you.

434
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,118
Ma'am, was you asking
about the general and his wife?

435
00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:07,033
- Yes. Did you know them?
- Used to char for them, I did.

436
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,678
My day was a Tuesday so I...

437
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,036
Do you mind if I ask you something
direct? I've had a long day.

438
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,998
- Do you think it was a suicide pact?
- No. Not them.

439
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,037
They were happy. She
was a bonny woman.

440
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,031
Always beautifully turned out.

441
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,270
I believe she'd take n
to wearing a wig.

442
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,430
- Yeah, she had several wigs.
- Several?

443
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,195
Four. Proper expensive. One was auburn.
One had little grey curls.

444
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,111
She used to send them
to a place up in London

445
00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,031
to get redressed
. Eugene and something.

446
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,077
- Was she in poor health?
- She was.

447
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,832
I don't know what
was wrong with her,

448
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,592
but she had to
have an operation.

449
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,433
She went up Harley Street.
When she come back, she was better.

450
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,590
- The general?
- A bit of heart trouble.

451
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,716
But he took his pills
and he was fine.

452
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,234
He enjoyed it when the
sister came to visit.

453
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,799
- Sister? Whose sister?
- Lady Ravenscroft's.

454
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,791
I didn't know she had a sister.

455
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,519
Sir, I appreciate
this is a time of loss. But...

456
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,954
You say Professor Willoughby
was retired.

457
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,997
I said semi-retired.

458
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,230
Did he come to the institute
every day?

459
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,074
My father kept to his own timetable.
Which was, I concede, erratic.

460
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,719
He'd work all night and sleep
all day if it suited him.

461
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,358
Was he married?

462
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,510
My mother passed away
some years ago.

463
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,194
- Never remarried? Some gentlemen do.
- No.

464
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,237
No, he did not remarry.

465
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,799
Does the Willoughby Institute
pass to you now, sir?

466
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,791
Not at all. It's run by a trust.

467
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,871
I'm a trustee, that's all.

468
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,236
Are you aware of any
resentment,

469
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,551
any animosity, professional
or otherwise,

470
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,870
which your father
might have incurred?

471
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,996
My father was very highly respected.

472
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,071
And it was last night
that you told me

473
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,674
that it is many years since
your father abandoned

474
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,239
his experiments with
the hydrotherapy.

475
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:00,878
Yes, that's right.

476
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,918
And this is not a technique
that you yourself employ?

477
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,957
No. I talk to my patients.

478
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,873
I prescribe appropriate medication.

479
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,759
Look, the hydro room
has been in disuse

480
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,639
for just about as long
as I can remember.

481
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,870
And yet the murderer
knew how to use it.

482
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,076
So it would seem.

483
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,799
I think you know how to use it too.
Don't you, sir?

484
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,631
I thought you might need some tea.

485
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,711
Thank you, Jacqueline.

486
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,075
Mrs Willoughby,
your house is charming.

487
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,070
Thank you.

488
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,630
I understand you also keep a small
apartment at the institute.

489
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,631
That's not mine. That's his.

490
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,677
I've barely been in it.

491
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,677
Ahem.

492
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,191
Sugar?

493
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,270
Must have been someone quite strong,
or more than one person,

494
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,477
to have manipulated the professor
into the contraption.

495
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,075
Either that or he got
into it voluntarily.

496
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,071
Why on earth would he do so?

497
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,557
Je ne sais pas.

498
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,836
But it seems as though
someone is giving

499
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,070
him back a soupcon
of his own medicine.

500
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,914
Medicine he hasn't used
in nigh on 20 years.

501
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,514
You think it's a patient
with a grievance?

502
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,591
It's possible.

503
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,391
PIANO

504
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,757
Celia, darling, we're rehearsing.

505
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,797
We need to talk.

506
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,191
I've only got this room booked
for an hour. Can you come back?

507
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,397
Hello. Inspector Beale, isn't it?

508
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,710
Good evening, Mrs Oliver.
Are you well?

509
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,870
I'm absolutely jiggered.
I've spent all day

510
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,030
driving round Sussex
chasing elephants.

511
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,475
Right. Well... Good luck.

512
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,915
No, no, you must think
me a complete ninny.

513
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,038
I don't mean real elephants.
I mean people elephants.

514
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,997
I'm trying to find
out if anyone can

515
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,957
recall anything of the
Ravenscroft case.

516
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,599
Eastbourne. The couple
on the clifftops.

517
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,716
- That was a curly one.
- Still is.

518
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,757
I know the officer on the case.

519
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,115
Bill Garroway. Retired now.

520
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,157
May I have his number?

521
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,197
I should have it here somewhere.

522
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,231
Celia?

523
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,271
Ohh!

524
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,271
Are you all right?

525
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,313
Oh! Good, strong black coffee.
Just what I need.

526
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:50,754
Merci, madame.

527
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,070
These are all the people
I interviewed.

528
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,071
I wrote down everything
that seemed pertinent.

529
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,037
But it's such a muddle.

530
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,190
The principal suggestions are these.

531
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,512
That General Ravenscroft was writing
his memoir of his India days.

532
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,034
And that he was smitten
with a young woman

533
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,554
who acted
as his secretary.

534
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,631
The result being that
he shot his wife

535
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,677
because he hoped
to marry the girl.

536
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,753
But then was horror-stricken
by what he had done.

537
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,797
And shot himself.

538
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,509
Or Margaret discovered the affair.

539
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,511
And then shot him.

540
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,157
And then herself.

541
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,197
Oh, and Margaret had been ill.

542
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,237
Possibly cancer.

543
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,277
It appears her hair had fallen out.

544
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,317
Because she had several wigs.

545
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,757
It says here... she had four wigs.

546
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,797
Four.

547
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,279
What do you think, madame?

548
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,118
Do you think that seems
a little excessive?

549
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,634
I do really. You might have one,

550
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,154
and an extra one for when you
sent the other to be dressed.

551
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,754
But why did she have four?

552
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,355
- I haven't got anywhere, have I?
- Mais bien.

553
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,115
I think it will always
remain a mystery, madame.

554
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,430
And now I must set
myself to consider

555
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,716
the case of Professor
Willoughby.

556
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,599
- I bid you good night.
- I even went to see my old nanny.

557
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,877
She knew the Ravenscrofts in India.

558
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,714
She was sure there was
a mental case in the family.

559
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,633
One of them - Nanny wasn't sure which
- was unstable.

560
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,472
- One of whom?
- One of the sisters.

561
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,039
- The sisters?
- Margaret had a sister.

562
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,077
Never heard of her before.

563
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,117
She wasn't at Margaret's wedding.

564
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,157
That's odd in itself, isn't it?

565
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,197
Continuer de parler, madame.

566
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,874
She was in an asylum for years.

567
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,396
It seems possible
that she'd killed children.

568
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,437
Even, perhaps, her own children.

569
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,477
Then she'd had treatment.

570
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:47,236
Then she was cured. Or paroled.
Or released, at any rate.

571
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,034
She went out to Margaret in India,
where there was another incident.

572
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,078
Again connected with children.
Which was hushed up.

573
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,232
But might that explain
what's worrying Mrs Burton-Cox?

574
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,277
- Insanity in the family.
- Non, non.

575
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,238
No, madame, that is conjecture
merely.

576
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,516
What you discovered
in Sussex was merely

577
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,796
the mirrors and the smoke.
Nothing real.

578
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,076
Madame, what is certain
is that they were a couple

579
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,310
who were
devoted to each other

580
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,357
and lived together happily.

581
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,239
So why, on the evening
of the most beautiful day,

582
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,198
should they take a walk together
along the cliffs,

583
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,114
taking with them a revolver
and a dog?

584
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,873
- What's the dog got to do with it?
- Je sais pas.

585
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,599
But all of your elephants,
they mentioned the dog.

586
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:31,635
<i>Yes.</i>

587
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,677
Tell to me something that was said.

588
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,513
One of the elephants
said

589
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,353
that the dog was devoted
to Lady Ravenscroft.

590
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,351
Another said that it bit her.

591
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,117
No, no. It is nothing.

592
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,555
Merely an elephant remembering a dog.

593
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,679
I can help you no further, madame.
Pardonnez-moi.

594
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,237
My name is Desmond Burton-Cox.

595
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,073
Yes. I have heard of the
enquiries of your mother.

596
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,833
Monsieur, please to be brief.
As you can see, I am very busy.

597
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,958
My mother had no right
pestering Mrs Oliver like that.

598
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,519
It's no concern of hers
whether I marry Celia.

599
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,557
Mothers are always concerned.

600
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,870
She's not really my mother.
I'm adopted.

601
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,557
Why are you here, monsieur?

602
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,598
Someone attacked me at the
music school this evening.

603
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,955
- And you do not know who it was.
- No, I don't.

604
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,670
The point is,
my mother's a little... unhinged.

605
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,910
I fear she may have
put someone up to it.

606
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,911
Why should she wish to do that?

607
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,193
When I was a child, let's just say
she did some terrible things.

608
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,635
Now she wants to stop me
getting married.

609
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,598
She's been trying to scare Celia
with awful rumours...

610
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,752
How long have you known
Mademoiselle Celia, monsieur?

611
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,797
All my life.

612
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,837
My people were in India, like hers.

613
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,719
I was boarded for the holidays
in Suffolk. We played together.

614
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,553
But why should your mother
wish to stop you getting married?

615
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,313
Because she's mean, possessive.

616
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,630
If you go against her,
she's vindictive.

617
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,230
When I was 15, she took
me to a psychiatrist.

618
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,277
Pour quoi?

619
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,716
I'd formed an attachment to someone
and I wouldn't give it up.

620
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,996
My mother was livid and marched
me off to Dr Willoughby.

621
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,918
Please to sit.

622
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,477
Oh, darling!

623
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,915
What the goddam hell
have you been saying?

624
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,194
My wife...

625
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,237
I thought you had her under control!

626
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,277
And who saw you that evening?

627
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,999
I can't remember.
I don't know if anyone saw me.

628
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,037
I might have gone for a walk.

629
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,077
I can't remember.

630
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,117
What was your father working on?

631
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,999
Did he have...
a special line of enquiry?

632
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,037
Behaviour patterns in twins.

633
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,077
Genetic characteristics,

634
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,230
similar and dissimilar environments,

635
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:15,516
blood types, pathologies.

636
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,557
What else would you like to know?

637
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,235
The name of someone who could vouch
for your whereabouts, Doctor.

638
00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:27,997
Otherwise, you're in a bit of
a sticky wicket, aren't you?

639
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,517
Hey.

640
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,352
Got a minute?

641
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,351
Pardon?

642
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,471
May I exchange a word or
two, Detective Inspector?

643
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,517
If you would be so kind.

644
00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:52,634
Inspector Garroway, if you please
to tell us everything you know.

645
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,399
The Ravenscrofts married in 1913.

646
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,518
She was a well-born girl.
Originally from Kent.

647
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,479
She had a sister, Dorothea,
who married a Captain Jarrow.

648
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,632
They were blighted by
misfortune though.

649
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,677
Dorothea's husband died in the war.

650
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,717
Leaving her with two children.

651
00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,553
The youngest, a boy,
fell into a pond and drowned.

652
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,996
At first, they said
the older sister was to blame.

653
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,550
But then it turned out
there was another story.

654
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,114
One of the neighbours said the
mother herself had done it.

655
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,157
Got angry with the boy.

656
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,390
Pushed him in the pond.
Held him under.

657
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,755
She breaks down under questioning.

658
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,878
I mean, she went raving mad.

659
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,917
Had to be hospitalised.

660
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,559
She spends years in treatment.

661
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,837
And then, for some reason,
they pronounce her cured.

662
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,150
And she returns to live
with the family.

663
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,390
So, Mr Garroway, was she
staying with the Ravenscrofts

664
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,596
when they were shot?

665
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,637
- No.
- Are you sure?

666
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,679
Yes. She died three weeks before.

667
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,514
She takes a lot of tranquilisers
and she sleepwalks.

668
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,557
One night, she leaves the house,

669
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,597
wanders along the cliff edge,

670
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,796
loses her footing,
and over she goes.

671
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,149
They don't find her
till the next morning.

672
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,359
Lady Ravenscroft took it very bad.

673
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,715
Had a bit of a breakdown herself.

674
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,315
She spends a fortnight
in a sanatorium.

675
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,153
Then she comes back,
apparently better.

676
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,070
Three days later, she's dead.

677
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,593
No-one has the first idea
of a motive, then or now.

678
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,637
The general has a good record.

679
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,677
The wife is well liked.

680
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,717
They played piquet in the evening.

681
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:40,757
Go for walks.

682
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,797
No money worries.

683
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,474
A bit of poor health,
but time of life.

684
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,750
Were there fingerprints
on the weapon?

685
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,797
Clear prints of the both of them.

686
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,155
But no suggestion
as to who fired it last.

687
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,197
Could there be a third party?

688
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,714
They would have had to
have got ruddy close!

689
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:03,759
No, it all points to a
suicide pact and yet...

690
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,070
With the suicide,
they leave the notes.

691
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,152
- Exactly.
- Could someone have stolen the note?

692
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,471
Who else was in the house
onthatday?

693
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,397
There was...

694
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,153
A Betsy Whittaker.

695
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,596
Cook and housekeeper. Been with
them since the dawn of time.

696
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,638
Didn't see too clearly.
Nor hear too clearly either.

697
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,270
There was a visitor staying.
A Zelie Rouxelle.

698
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,079
Foreign. Don't think
she understood much.

699
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,994
And the gardener.
His alibi stood up. That's it.

700
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,310
Have you interviewed
Betsy Whittaker?

701
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,470
She was more concerned
about the dog.

702
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,517
Le chien.

703
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,034
What do you think happened,
Superintendent?

704
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:51,269
I think old sins have long shadows.

705
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,271
That's what my mother used to say.

706
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,557
Oui.

707
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,712
Madame, do we have the name
of the supplier of the wigs?

708
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:03,554
Why are you suddenly interested?
You didn't care tuppence before!

709
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,315
I've got that. It's Eugene and Rosentelle.
Formerly of Bond Street.

710
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,311
Now Tooting Bec.

711
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,835
Good afternoon.
Have you an appointment?

712
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,877
No, I'm afraid I haven't.

713
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,191
You're in luck. Monsieur Eugene
can do you in 10 minutes.

714
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,237
- Is it a permanent today?
- No, no.

715
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:24,277
That sounds horrible.

716
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,191
I don't think it
could be much worse

717
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,111
than it already is,
do you, madam?

718
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,157
Let us take off the
split ends, at least.

719
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,039
No, thank you. I would
simply like to ask you

720
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,919
some questions about Eugene and
Rosentelle of Bond Street.

721
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,639
- Hairpieces to the gentry.
- Oh, the old days.

722
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,677
Bond Street, Bert. Remember?

723
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,717
That was the life.

724
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,757
But Tooting seems most pleasant.

725
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,797
What does madam want?

726
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,589
I would like to ask you
about a former client.

727
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,513
- I want to know about some wigs.
- I'm terribly sorry.

728
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,557
We do not do wigs no more.

729
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,996
They were for a friend of mine.
A person I went to school with.

730
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,071
Lady Ravenscroft.

731
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,198
You was at school
with Lady Ravenscroft?

732
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,032
Yes. Yes, I was.

733
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,475
Where do you live now,
Buckingham Palace?

734
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,471
Mayfair.

735
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,510
How may we be of assistance,
Your Ladyship?

736
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,514
Perhaps you remember the tragedy
at Eastbourne 13 years ago.

737
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,433
I'm looking into it
on behalf of their daughter,

738
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,319
the Honourable
Celia Ravenscroft.

739
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:31,632
Oh, Lady Ravenscroft.
Yes. She was so nice.

740
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,076
Good-looking too. I remember
reading about it in the paper.

741
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,117
She had four wigs, didn't she?

742
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,999
- Do people often have four?
- Most people have two.

743
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,799
Lady Ravenscroft had two
to begin with.

744
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,837
Then she ordered extra.

745
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,354
Did she come to Bond Street
to collect them?

746
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,557
No. I think it was a young
lady, a French lady, come up

747
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,757
and give us all the sizes
and colours and styles.

748
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,116
There was one with a pretty
grey streak in it for parties.

749
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,317
And one with strawberry-blonde
curls, I recall.

750
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,357
One of Bert's finest.

751
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,398
I remember thinking,
when I read about the business,

752
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,471
'That's bleedin' odd.
It's only three weeks ago

753
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,517
she's bought new wigs.

754
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,989
Now she's gone and shot herself.
Imagine!

755
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,237
Ah.

756
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:23,437
Mademoiselle Ravenscroft.
Hercules Poirot.

757
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:24,510
<i>I...</i>

758
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,511
I thought Mrs Oliver was meeting me.

759
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,279
Ah. I see the Madame
Oliver,

760
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,874
she has been rather vague
with her invitation.

761
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,315
It is I that you are meeting,
mademoiselle.

762
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,311
Please to permit.

763
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,955
I am a private detective.
I assist Madame Oliver

764
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,315
with her enquiries
on your behalf.

765
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,311
Please to sit, mademoiselle.

766
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,791
Thank you.

767
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,677
Mademoiselle, Monsieur Burton-Cox,
he has been to see me.

768
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,990
Oh. I thought
he was rehearsing all day.

769
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,550
There's a concert tomorrow.
Beverley Hall. Quite important.

770
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,837
It was last night that he has
come to see me, mademoiselle.

771
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,471
He cares for you most deeply.

772
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,113
Mademoiselle, may I ask you
a question that is personal?

773
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,872
I don't know who you are so...

774
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,190
Do you wish to marry
Desmond Burton-Cox?

775
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,237
Yes, I do. Satisfied?

776
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,277
Then nothing should prevent it.

777
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,590
If you are in love
with Monsieur Desmond Burton-Cox,

778
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,910
then that
is all that matters.

779
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,232
The rest of your life with
Monsieur Desmond Burton-Cox is all

780
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,198
that you should be concerned with.
N'est-ce pas?

781
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,034
- Is he well provided for financially?
- Excuse me. That's damned rude.

782
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,998
- Pardon.
- He has a rather pitiful allowance.

783
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,435
But I have my own means.
I work for a living.

784
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,477
Bien sur.

785
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,790
This allowance,
mademoiselle,

786
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,076
it is something that his
mother could withhold?

787
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,993
You mean she'd cut off the money
if he marries me?

788
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,037
I hadn't thought of that.

789
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,873
- You know who is his natural mother?
- No, no, I don't.

790
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,917
Does he? I don't think so.

791
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,673
He doesn't worry about it.
He's not a worrying kind.

792
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,796
But you are, mademoiselle. Mais oui?

793
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,791
You are.

794
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,431
Tell to me, if you please,
Madame Burton-Cox,

795
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,353
was she friendly
with your late mother and father?

796
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,397
Did you ever meet her as a child?

797
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,039
I don't think I did.
I know she was out in India.

798
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,590
My people were too. But I was at
school or holidaying in Suffolk.

799
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,752
That's where I met Desmond.
In the care of a French girl.

800
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,559
Yes, yes. Zelie. Lovely Zelie.

801
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,437
Look, whoever you are,
if I'm going to marry Desmond,

802
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,353
and live with him forever,
I need to know the truth.

803
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,557
I don't want dark secrets
in our lives.

804
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,551
I want the truth.

805
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,511
But the truth, mademoiselle...

806
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,791
...she can be cruel.

807
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,077
Hercules Poirot speaks.

808
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,994
Poirot, it's Inspector Beale.
I have that information you asked for.

809
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,994
Desmond Burton-Cox's natural mother
was an actress.

810
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,389
She moved to California,
where she found

811
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,755
considerable success
in moving pictures

812
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,797
under the name Katy Lestrange.

813
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,314
18 months ago, Katy
Lestrange died of

814
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,789
a barbiturate
overdose in Pasadena.

815
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,235
She left her entire fortune,
several million dollars,

816
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:24,629
to her son
Desmond in a trust.

817
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,677
He gets it when he's 25.

818
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,513
- And who administers this trust?
- Who do you think?

819
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,511
Mrs Burton-Cox.

820
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,991
Can you get for me
the deed of covenant?

821
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,719
I'll give it a go. Oh, and
Poirot, could you come over

822
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:40,394
to the
Willoughby Institute?

823
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,950
- There's been something of a turn-up.
- Oui. Tout de suite.

824
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,952
Miss McDermott,
will you come in now, please?

825
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,595
Repeat to Mr Poirot
what you said earlier.

826
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,591
Asseyez-vous, mademoiselle.

827
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,517
On the night of the murder,

828
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,399
Dr Willoughby was with me.

829
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,956
Here in his flat.

830
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,237
In bed.

831
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:27,277
He's a decent man.

832
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,794
He's trying to save my reputation.

833
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,110
But I can't stand by and see him
swing for something he didn't do.

834
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,111
And he was with you all of the night?

835
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,117
Till dawn.

836
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,157
We slept a little.

837
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,800
Then I went home. Had a bath.

838
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:49,231
And came back to work again.

839
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,631
It must have been
at that time

840
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,631
that the night watchman
raised the alarm.

841
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,677
David...

842
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,717
Dr Willoughby...

843
00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:03,759
...elected to keep his mouth shut
for my sake.

844
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,551
But he is a fool.

845
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,759
It is a brave thing that you do,
ma petite.

846
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,718
My reputation was shot
in the States.

847
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:27,711
Might as well be shot here too.

848
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,157
I have a question.

849
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,357
It was last summer
that you arrived in England?

850
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,915
Yes. Six months ago.

851
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,957
On the SS "France".

852
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,237
So you were still living in Boston
in March of this year.

853
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,155
<i>Yes.</i>

854
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,879
Can you remember what you
were doing on the 17th?

855
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,917
The 17th of March?

856
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,911
Oui.

857
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,636
- How am I expected to remember that?
- You do not recall this day?

858
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,359
No. I don't.

859
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,351
No idea.

860
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,397
Bon.

861
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,077
Do you know a Mademoiselle
Celia Ravenscroft?

862
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,436
Never heard of her. Who is she?

863
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,034
Oh, it is of no consequence.

864
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,793
Detective Inspector,
may I have the use of your car?

865
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,511
Merci.

866
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,830
I'm not exactly proud of myself,
Poirot.

867
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,150
Things are pretty awkward
around here.

868
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,390
Somehow Jacqueline seems
to have found out

869
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,596
about the whole
wretched business.

870
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,275
You asked her to perjure herself
in court and she would not?

871
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,751
I'm afraid that is correct.

872
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,355
Mademoiselle Marie McDermott,
she provides you with the alibi

873
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,397
and you are no longer the suspect.

874
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,151
She said something about the
dictates of her conscience.

875
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,197
She's quite religious, you know.

876
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,636
- She is Catholic?
- Irish background, I believe.

877
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,631
Nice girl.

878
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,592
Tell to me more about the
patients of your father.

879
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,195
Do you recall a Dorothea Jarrow?

880
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,238
Of course. He treated her
for quite a long time.

881
00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:24,756
- My father took a special interest.
- Merci.

882
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,195
- She's dead now, isn't she?
- Oui, d'accord.

883
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,669
What can you tell to me
about her treatment?

884
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,236
Mrs Jarrow was considered to be
one of my father's triumphs.

885
00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:37,631
Her husband had died
on the Western front.

886
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,109
That left her rather fragile,
I'm afraid.

887
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,509
So she was disturbed mentally.

888
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,353
No. No, that this point,
she was not thought to be.

889
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,431
But her GP had called in my father

890
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,636
because she didn't
seem to be getting

891
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,790
over her bereavement
in the normal way.

892
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,837
Whatever that may be.

893
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,798
To my father's eyes,
Dorothea's condition

894
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,758
presented very decided dangers.

895
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,752
She was prone to mood swings
and acts of violence.

896
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,559
He thought she should be kept
under observation.

897
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,349
And he was proved right. Because
then the first incident happened.

898
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,351
Oui. A boy, he has drowned.

899
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,431
Yes. How did you know?

900
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,954
According to Mrs Jarrow,
her elder child, a girl,

901
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,474
had attacked the
younger, a little boy.

902
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,710
She said she hit him
with a spade

903
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,916
and he fell into an
ornamental pond and drowned.

904
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,559
At first, Mrs Jarrow's version
was believed.

905
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,712
And then other stories
started to emerge.

906
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:30,757
Housemaid, telegraph boy.

907
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,434
Both said they saw
Mrs Jarrow push her son

908
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,079
into the water
and hold him under.

909
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,639
The court ruled that Mrs
Jarrow should be committed

910
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,200
to secure psychiatric care.
And she was.

911
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:46,711
But you see,
my poor late father subscribed

912
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:49,712
to a new school
of treatment.

913
00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:53,918
Which held that once certain
rehabilitation targets had been reached,

914
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,436
targets attainable by hydrotherapy
and electro-shock,

915
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,829
the patient could resume
a normal life.

916
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:05,199
And this treatment of hydrotherapy,
it was administered to Dorothea?

917
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,716
Yes. And in due course, two
or three years, home she went.

918
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,678
She was considered
to be completely recovered.

919
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,110
Shortly afterwards,
she went to India.

920
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,839
Stayed with her twin sister
who was in Amritsar...

921
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,911
Excuse me, mon ami.

922
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,911
- Did you say her twin sister?
- Yes.

923
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,237
- They were twins.
- Yes.

924
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:30,356
Madame Jarrow and Lady Ravenscroft.

925
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,796
Margaret and Dorothea were twins?!

926
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,837
Why has no person told to me this?

927
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,196
But this was my father's
special area of research.

928
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,271
- I thought you knew.
- No.

929
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,271
He was an authority on twins.

930
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,114
So perhaps Margaret suffers
from the same malady as Dorothea.

931
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,430
No, no, she was perfectly sane.

932
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,558
And devoted to looking after
her unfortunate sibling.

933
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,996
General Ravenscroft had throughout
paid for his sister-in-law

934
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,435
to receive the best treatment
in England.

935
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,431
He was on good terms with my father.

936
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,479
When they returned from India,
they often had Dorothea to stay.

937
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,517
Why was he so kind to her?

938
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,638
Well, I think I can tell you that.

939
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,439
When he was a young subaltern,

940
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,637
Dorothea was considered
a fabulously beautiful woman.

941
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,354
Alistair Ravenscroft
fell in love with her.

942
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,239
And then, I think,
he caught a glimpse.

943
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:27,710
Saw behind the eyes the danger zone.

944
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:31,429
And so he proposed to Margaret
instead.

945
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,958
He marries the sister
but he is in love with them both!

946
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:37,995
The devil!

947
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,436
Poirot, he owes to you an apology,
madame. He is imbecile.

948
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,875
I see now that the two cases
are connected.

949
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,633
There is a point of conversion
which links them.

950
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,995
- What is that?
- The Willoughby Institute.

951
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,713
Morning.

952
00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:00,279
Ah, Poirot. I forgot you'd be here.

953
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,271
- One word if I may, Doctor.
- Please.

954
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,911
Mademoiselle.

955
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,476
In your files, mon ami,
there are many histories

956
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,596
that are
very absorbing.

957
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,319
But you know there is a patient
that is missing?

958
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,596
I ask about the boy who
has 15 years of age.

959
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,830
A certain Desmond Burton-Cox.

960
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,831
Where is his case file?

961
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,557
<i>Um...</i>

962
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,313
There is no case file, Poirot.

963
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,879
The boy, he has been
brought to you many times.

964
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,032
Yes, he was.
But I saw him unofficially.

965
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,720
I took no payment and
so there is no file.

966
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,717
You took no payment?

967
00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:43,950
Well, not in the usual way.

968
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:48,397
- I'm sorry, I do not understand.
- She had no money, Poirot.

969
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,155
Look, self-control is not one
of my stronger qualities.

970
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,151
I just have to live with it.

971
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,437
I see.

972
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,273
But I only ask about the boy Desmond.

973
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,271
What was he like?

974
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,835
Remarkable power of recall.

975
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,236
The smallest details of his
childhood were easy to surface.

976
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,277
But lacking in self-confidence.

977
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,989
I believe that he had an interest
that was almost obsessional.

978
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,356
In... I do not know who.
A woman or an older man?

979
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,431
A French woman, I believe.

980
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,477
Zazie. Susie.

981
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,835
She was 25 or so at the time
and he 15.

982
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,232
Would you say he was in love?

983
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:35,711
I would say so, yes.

984
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,357
Not that I know very much
about that particular emotion.

985
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,556
I've spoken to my god-daughter
Celia.

986
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,473
Have you?
Oh, good. What did she say?

987
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,438
First, there's someone
I wish you to meet.

988
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,751
Mrs Burton-Cox,
this is Monsieur Poirot.

989
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,752
Monsieur Poirot is... my assistant.

990
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,397
Enchante, madame.

991
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,630
Is he French?
I can't stand the French.

992
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,677
Non, madame. I am Belgian.

993
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,399
You have concerns about
the marriage of your son Desmond

994
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,119
with Mademoiselle
Celia Ravenscroft.

995
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,157
That is so.

996
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,516
Young people today,
they rush into things!

997
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,911
But it's important to know
the background, don't you think?

998
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,397
The psychological background.

999
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:31,236
Well, there are certain... risks
that one might not wish to take.

1000
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:33,436
But the persons taking
these risks

1001
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,636
are Celia and Desmond,
not you, madame.

1002
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,472
399 your pardon?

1003
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,517
Desmond, he is not your son by birth.

1004
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,352
What's that got to do with anything?

1005
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,397
When he was young,
did you take care of him?

1006
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,676
Of course I did! Mrs Oliver, I...

1007
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,832
- You must have had some help.
- Help? Why would I need help?

1008
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,195
- I'm his mother!
- Perhaps in the holidays.

1009
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,555
Oh... Yes, of course.
In the holidays, he went to stay

1010
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,915
with some
people in Suffolk.

1011
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,196
And in Suffolk, he was in
the care of a French girl.

1012
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,476
Zelie. Zelie Rouxelle.

1013
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:05,277
I've had quite enough of this!

1014
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,317
Goodbye!

1015
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,711
What occurred between Desmond
and Zelie Rouxelle, madame?

1016
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:15,429
Do either of you have the
faintest idea what it's like?!

1017
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,673
When your own child takes one look
at you and starts to scream?

1018
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,796
And after a few months
with that beloved nanny,

1019
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,916
I could do
nothing with him!

1020
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,709
She's a...
She's a devious little baggage!

1021
00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:31,395
And I made jolly sure to intercept
her letters later on.

1022
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,392
He's my son and I will say
what happens to him!

1023
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,715
Ladies and gentlemen! Five minutes
till the start of the recital!

1024
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,677
- Mademoiselle Celia.
- Poirot.

1025
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:51,311
Mademoiselle, do you know,
and please to forgive me,

1026
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,357
how it was that Aunt Dorothea died?

1027
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,273
- Yes, I do.
- And your cousins.

1028
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,113
The little girl and the little boy
who was drowned?

1029
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,111
We tended not to speak of them.

1030
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,350
But perhaps they were
also looked after

1031
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,670
during the holidays by
your au pair Zelie.

1032
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,830
No, no. Zeliejust had me
and Desmond.

1033
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,673
But she returned to assist
your mother at the end.

1034
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,389
And she also takes dictations from
your late father, does she not?

1035
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:16,435
<i>Yes.</i>

1036
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,511
So what was the involvement
of your late father

1037
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,591
with the
Willoughby Institute?

1038
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,559
- What is the Willoughby Institute?
- It was where your aunt was treated.

1039
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,597
- I don't know anything at all.
- I see.

1040
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,637
<i>Um...</i>

1041
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,235
Mademoiselle, please to
think very carefully.

1042
00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:36,552
Is it possible that there was
anyone else staying at Overcliff

1043
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,393
at the time of the deaths
of your parents?

1044
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,438
Anyone perhaps whom the police
did not know about.

1045
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,909
I don't know how because
if there had been,

1046
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,389
Zelie would have mentioned
it, wouldn't she?

1047
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,437
Oui.

1048
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,398
Have you remained in contact
with Zelie?

1049
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,836
I wrote to her countless times.
But all my letters were sent back.

1050
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:57,877
She simply disappeared.

1051
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:01,191
I'd love to have seen her.
She was a marvellous character.

1052
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,839
- And Desmond, does he write to her?
- How could he?

1053
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,877
We don't know where she lives.

1054
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,998
And you yourself, have you ever
returned to Overcliff?

1055
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,037
No.

1056
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,077
Why? Why, do you think I should?

1057
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,390
Drive out my demons,
that sort of thing?

1058
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,437
Ladies and gentlemen!

1059
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,431
Please take your seats!

1060
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,837
Madame Oliver! I'm so sorry.

1061
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:28,877
- They are seated.
- I'm so sorry.

1062
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,917
- Is Celia there?
- Yes, she is.

1063
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,150
- Good. That's very good.
- No, monsieur!

1064
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,197
Merci.

1065
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,759
The key, it is Zelie.
Of this I am sure.

1066
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,751
But how do we find her?

1067
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,793
Miss Ravenscroft,
good of you to come.

1068
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:48,791
Look at all those diamonds!

1069
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,233
He's playing without music.
Clever chap.

1070
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,677
There was a foreign girl. She'd

1071
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,671
be my governess
when I was young.

1072
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,717
She'd come back to help Mummy.

1073
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,393
I'd formed an attachment to someone

1074
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,073
and I
wouldn't give it up.

1075
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:33,832
After that beloved nanny,

1076
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,592
I could do
nothing with him!

1077
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,750
All my letters were sent back.

1078
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,751
She simply disappeared.

1079
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,671
Very good.

1080
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,879
- How long is the interval?
- That is it!

1081
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,917
That is it!

1082
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,036
How could I be so stupid?!

1083
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,231
Enjoying it, Ariadne?

1084
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,314
Please to forgive the intrusion,
monsieur.

1085
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,516
Poirot. I really can't
talk to you now.

1086
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,670
We're about to go on
for the second half.

1087
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,751
Non! It will not be
possible for you

1088
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,797
to play the remainder
of this concert.

1089
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,270
Unless you give to me the address
of Mademoiselle Zelie Rouxelle.

1090
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,556
- I don't know it.
- Yes, you do know it.

1091
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,550
I can't remember it.
We have to go on.

1092
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,597
Monsieur, you play
Bach from memory.

1093
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,591
You have the memory
of an elephant.

1094
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,557
I demand to know the address

1095
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,517
of Mademoiselle Zelie
Rouxelle, tout de suite!

1096
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,399
Mr Burton-Cox! It's time, gentlemen!

1097
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,831
Merci, monsieur.

1098
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,391
Taxi!

1099
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,277
Mr Poirot!

1100
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,510
- It's Bill Garroway.
- Superintendent.

1101
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:34,229
This is Sprat. Wife named him that.

1102
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,153
She died. I'm stuck with him!

1103
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,278
Oh, Inspector Beale
told me you'd be here.

1104
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,317
Asked me to deliver this. Ah.

1105
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,436
- He's been called out on a case.
- Merci.

1106
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,193
I am so sorry you have been put
to so much trouble.

1107
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,714
No trouble at all, sir.
I bid you good night.

1108
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,757
Come on, Sprat!

1109
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:53,797
Superintendent.

1110
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,837
Tell to me about Sprat.

1111
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,877
Does he bite?

1112
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,269
He bites his own backside mainly.

1113
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,317
Not exactly clever.

1114
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,994
And please to recollect,
the dog

1115
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,674
that lived with the General and
Lady Ravenscroft, did it bite?

1116
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,194
It's a funny thing
you mentioned that, sir.

1117
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,759
The housekeeper said
the dog had turned

1118
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,319
on its mistress a
couple of days before.

1119
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,029
And sure enough, when we did
the autopsy on Lady Ravenscroft,

1120
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:23,034
there's a couple of dog bite marks
maybe a week or two old.

1121
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,429
So that dog, it was clever, huh?

1122
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:27,715
Merci.

1123
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:29,757
Taxi!

1124
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,797
Where are you off to
in such a hurry?

1125
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,871
Paris! Whitehaven
Mansions

1126
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,951
and then Victoria station
for the boat train!

1127
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,951
- Vite!
- Right you are, guvnor.

1128
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,195
I will be with you in one moment,
monsieur.

1129
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,191
Merci.

1130
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:39,791
Hercules Poirot.

1131
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,631
Do I have the honour to address
Mademoiselle Zelie Rouxelle?

1132
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,959
As I said to you in my
telegram, I wish to ask you

1133
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,519
about the General and
the Lady Ravenscroft.

1134
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:04,830
I believe
that you are employed by them.

1135
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,719
Yes. I was an au pair for Celia.

1136
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,111
You knew also the boy Desmond.
Desmond Burton-Cox.

1137
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,397
- Yes, we still correspond.
- But you do so in secret, I think.

1138
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:17,717
His mother disapproves.

1139
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,951
There is nothing of which to disapprove.
We are friends.

1140
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:22,997
He and Celia intend to marry.

1141
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,799
He has told me.
I am pleased for them.

1142
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,359
But difficulties are being put
in their way.

1143
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:31,193
Mademoiselle Celia is being asked
to tell to the Desmond family

1144
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,999
exactly what
happened at Overcliff.

1145
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,833
- It is now since 13 years.
- But she can not do that.

1146
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,877
For she does not know.

1147
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:41,519
It was thought advisable
to tell her nothing.

1148
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,478
She accepted it.
She was too young to understand.

1149
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,517
She is old enough now to understand.

1150
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,955
But what is there to understand,
monsieur?

1151
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:50,997
It was a double suicide.

1152
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,435
And you have found no reason
to doubt that?

1153
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,636
The police found no reason
to doubt it.

1154
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,916
So there is nothing more you can
tell to me, Mademoiselle Rouxelle?

1155
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,957
I fear I cannot.

1156
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:05,951
It was a very long time ago.

1157
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:16,430
For how long were you living
at Overcliff before their deaths?

1158
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,398
- For two months.
- And the sister of Lady Ravenscroft,

1159
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,234
Dorothea Jarrow, she was also living
there at this time, was she not?

1160
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,390
How much do you know?

1161
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,677
It has to end. You understand that.

1162
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,717
Yeah.

1163
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,711
It always ends.

1164
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,157
I'm so sorry, my darling.

1165
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,197
Guys like you are always sorry.

1166
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:50,352
But guess what. I'll be OK.

1167
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,676
- May I help you?
- Yes, thank you.

1168
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,671
I wonder if you can.

1169
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,594
I wanted to see if there
was anything in your files

1170
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,114
pertaining to the treatment
of Dorothea Jarrow.

1171
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,236
Can I ask what business
this is of yours?

1172
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:08,550
She was my aunt.
I'm Celia Ravenscroft.

1173
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,119
- I think something funny is going on.
- Sure.

1174
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,157
OK.

1175
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,151
Why don't we take a look?

1176
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:22,031
Dorothea Jarrow had been treated
for the mental illness.

1177
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,554
But had shown some improvement,
n'est-ce pas?

1178
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:26,597
<i>Yes.</i>

1179
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,035
And it was so beneficial
for her to spend some time

1180
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,475
in a
normal family home.

1181
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:34,677
And Dorothea and Margaret,
they were fond of each other?

1182
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:39,311
There was a bond between them.

1183
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,671
A bond of dependence and love.

1184
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,031
And in many ways, they were alike.

1185
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,477
Pardon.

1186
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:54,951
But in twins, although
there is this bond of love...

1187
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:59,115
...if something should
occur to break it,

1188
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,555
then it is
shattered forever.

1189
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,551
Oh yes, I know.

1190
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,551
And love, it may easily turn to hate.

1191
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:10,910
And it is easier to
hate

1192
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:13,070
what you have once loved
than to remain indifferent.

1193
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:18,911
Do you speak from experience?

1194
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:22,511
Tell to me about Dorothea Jarrow.

1195
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,190
She lived in a state
of terrible strain.

1196
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,192
She had had some advanced therapy.

1197
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,191
But it seemed not to do much good.

1198
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,311
She was never happy.

1199
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,035
And she had a great aversion
to children.

1200
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,919
Oui. And that led to incidents
most serious, n'est-ce pas?

1201
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:43,911
I heard what happened
in her early life.

1202
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:45,877
I heard what happened in India.

1203
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,190
I have no first-hand knowledge
of that.

1204
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,237
No, but there are
events

1205
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:52,231
of which you do have the
first-hand knowledge.

1206
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,197
Isn't it better to
leave things

1207
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:56,111
when at least they have
been accepted?

1208
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:01,873
Mademoiselle, what happened
on that day at Overcliff,

1209
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,430
it could have been a double suicide,
it could have been a murder,

1210
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,592
it could have been... one of
a number of possibilities.

1211
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:12,150
But from what you have just said,
from that one little sentence,

1212
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:16,154
I consider that you know
what happened on that day.

1213
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,119
And you know what happened
in the weeks before.

1214
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:24,917
I cannot tell you anything.

1215
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:26,911
I'm sorry.

1216
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,396
Was there someone else at Overcliff?

1217
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,755
Someone of whom
the police know nothing?

1218
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:36,751
No.

1219
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:40,797
I think that you lie.

1220
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,236
The General Ravenscroft was
at first in love with Dorothea.

1221
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,277
Then his affections, they change.

1222
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:48,590
And he marries her twin sister
Margaret.

1223
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,672
What do you suppose that...
that has done to Dorothea?

1224
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,439
I suppose that it has
destroyed her, monsieur.

1225
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:57,477
And the general, he has realised.

1226
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:00,632
Yes. He knew.

1227
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:02,631
He had a good heart.

1228
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,755
And you were also in love with him,
I think.

1229
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,797
You may not speak to me like that.

1230
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:12,634
No, no, mademoiselle. I do not
say that you had a love affair.

1231
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,154
I say only that you loved him.

1232
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,119
One can love and serve
and still be happy.

1233
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,471
Even if one is not loved in return.

1234
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:28,071
You did serve him, mademoiselle.

1235
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:32,391
You served him loyally in the
great crisis of his life.

1236
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:43,157
Tell to me what happened.

1237
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:45,197
I know that you know.

1238
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:48,909
You pretended to the police that
you had only the little English.

1239
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,719
Then you left Overcliff at once.

1240
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:53,950
But you were there.
And I need you to tell me

1241
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,236
who else
was in the house.

1242
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,277
Why should I tell you anything?

1243
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,271
My life ended that day.

1244
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,431
It was as if I had been shot.

1245
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,077
I have hidden myself away.

1246
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,913
Here, in a back street in Paris.
Look at me!

1247
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:11,957
I've had no life at all.

1248
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:13,951
Why must I speak now?

1249
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,235
Because you have a heart, Zelie.

1250
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,077
And because Celia and Desmond,
they need to know.

1251
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:33,634
Mademoiselle, neither you nor I
are married.

1252
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:37,791
We may never be married.

1253
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,511
But they should be.

1254
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,350
I do hope you had a nice time
in Paris.

1255
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:07,069
I've been to the shipping office.
Here are the records you wanted.

1256
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,071
Merci, madame.

1257
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,357
Bon.

1258
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,670
And Poirot, he has also
a document for you.

1259
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:23,470
This is the deed of
covenant for the legacy

1260
01:09:23,480 --> 01:09:25,756
left to Desmond by
his natural mother.

1261
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:32,192
The trust, it is to be administered
by Madame Burton-Cox

1262
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:36,319
and her solicitor as trustees...

1263
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:38,357
...until...

1264
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,919
Until he reaches
the age of 25 or

1265
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,479
until he marries,
whichever is the earlier.

1266
01:09:43,480 --> 01:09:46,313
So if he marries Celia,
he'll come into a fortune.

1267
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,311
Oui.

1268
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,639
But how does this fit in
with Mrs Burton-Cox wanting

1269
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,393
to know about the deaths
of the Ravenscrofts?

1270
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,836
She is not concerned with the deaths
of the Ravenscrofts, non.

1271
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,399
Her sole concern
is to prevent the marriage.

1272
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,437
Why?

1273
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:04,759
Because...

1274
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:06,956
She is stealing the
money of Desmond

1275
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,190
and needs to pay it back
before he notices.

1276
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:11,714
So if he marries Celia now...
Fin de partie.

1277
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,599
I say, excuse me!
I've lost Celia.

1278
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:18,150
I'm worried. She said something
about going to Eastbourne.

1279
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:20,595
Exorcising ghosts
or some such nonsense.

1280
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:24,309
This was straight after she came
back from the Willoughby Institute.

1281
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,755
She has been
to the Willoughby Institute?

1282
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:28,797
Now she has gone to Eastbourne?

1283
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,996
Alors, she is in danger.
We must hurry!

1284
01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:26,431
Hello.

1285
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:38,717
Excuse me.

1286
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:41,030
Excuse me.
What are you doing here?

1287
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,077
Why are you...

1288
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,071
Aagh!

1289
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:52,837
Up there, sir! Ravenscroft!

1290
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:54,877
Miss Ravenscroft!

1291
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:56,871
Help! Help!

1292
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,830
Come on. It's all right.
We've got you.

1293
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,831
You're under arrest!

1294
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,120
All safe. All safe.

1295
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:29,191
Monsieur, mademoiselle.

1296
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,596
The question to be put, it is this.

1297
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:40,231
Was the deaths of the Ravenscrofts
a suicide?

1298
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,277
Or was it murder?

1299
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:46,114
Because one or the other
must be true.

1300
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:50,391
But Poirot, he says to you

1301
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,437
that both are true.

1302
01:12:52,440 --> 01:12:54,670
And I fear, Mademoiselle Celia,

1303
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,832
it is a tragedy of two people
who loved each other,

1304
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,831
and who died for love.

1305
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,437
And it will be hard for you to hear.

1306
01:13:03,440 --> 01:13:05,431
- I'm ready.
- Bon.

1307
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:12,236
When Madame Oliver set out on
her visit to old acquaintances,

1308
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,595
Poirot at first
seemed to take no notice.

1309
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,750
Alors, he had another
case

1310
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:18,910
which seemed to him
infinitely more important.

1311
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:21,036
For that, I apologise to you, Madame.

1312
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,873
For what you found out
in your visits into Sussex,

1313
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,599
it was vital for the
solving of both mysteries.

1314
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,114
You know who killed
Professor Willoughby?

1315
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,157
I have my little theory.

1316
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,197
But we shall see.

1317
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,510
When I learned that
everything,

1318
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,830
it was pointing
to the Willoughby Institute,

1319
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:41,196
I looked at the evidence in the
notebooks of Madame Oliver.

1320
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:43,191
The recollections of these...

1321
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:46,191
...elephants.

1322
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,794
At first, they seemed
to have no value.

1323
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,837
But everything has a value.

1324
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:55,515
Everyone remembers something.

1325
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:00,714
And so I take from one informant
one detail, from another - another.

1326
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:04,998
And so we have first of all
the evidence of the wigs.

1327
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,037
Wigs?

1328
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:12,239
Oui. We learned that Lady
Ravenscroft, she had four wigs.

1329
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,154
Four! Now this, for Poirot,
was a puzzle, huh?

1330
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,197
Thank you, Zelie.

1331
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:20,237
We know that, on the day
that she died,

1332
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,311
Lady Ravenscroft was wearing
the wig with the curls

1333
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,391
of the colour of
the strawberry blonde.

1334
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:27,631
Why is that significant? She might
have been wearing any of them.

1335
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,995
Oui, but we also have the
evidence of the dog.

1336
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:33,550
- Dog? What dog?
- No. Please, be patient.

1337
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:37,554
This dog, it is devoted
to its mistress.

1338
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,597
But in the last few weeks of her
life,

1339
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,035
this dog, it has bitten her
more than once.

1340
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,759
You mean the dog knew
she would commit suicide?

1341
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:48,309
Non, it is much more simple
than that.

1342
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,834
This dog, it knew
what no-one else knew.

1343
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:53,639
It knew that she was not
his mistress.

1344
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:59,196
She looked like his mistress
in the clothes of Margaret.

1345
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,237
In the wig of Margaret.

1346
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:05,154
But a dog only recognises
what its nose tells to him.

1347
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:08,312
And this dog recognised
that this was not his mistress.

1348
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,391
So who could it be, this woman?

1349
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,469
Could it be her twin sister Dorothea?

1350
01:15:15,480 --> 01:15:17,596
But that's impossible. She was dead.

1351
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,955
But now I come to
something else

1352
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:22,315
that was brought to my attention
by Madame Oliver.

1353
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,789
The knowledge that
Lady Ravenscroft

1354
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,235
had recently been in a hospital
or a nursing home.

1355
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,879
It is believed
that she suffered from cancer.

1356
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,110
This I learned from the
evidence of Julia Carstairs

1357
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:34,316
in your
notebook, madame.

1358
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,039
So her visits to the hospital
pass unremarked.

1359
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,998
I don't think Julia Carstairs
knew what she was talking about!

1360
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,550
It does not matter. Because the
General Alistair Ravenscroft,

1361
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:46,393
once he rejects Dorothea
and marries her sister,

1362
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,516
Dorothea, she becomes very jealous.

1363
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:53,037
Her life, as you say,
it goes from the rails.

1364
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,350
And we have reason to
believe that one and

1365
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,670
and possibly two children
died at her hands.

1366
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,991
And the general, having the feelings
of guilt so terrible,

1367
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:04,436
pays for her to have treatment
at the Willoughby Institute.

1368
01:16:04,440 --> 01:16:06,431
Are you saying, sir,

1369
01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:08,397
that the mad aunt shot
the Ravenscrofts?

1370
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,710
Non, monsieur.
That is not my solution.

1371
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:18,149
Mademoiselle Celia, I hope you will
not be too dismayed by the truth.

1372
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,718
It was Dorothea
who killed your mother.

1373
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:28,032
Often, they would go for a walk
together in the evenings.

1374
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,714
But one evening, she returned alone.

1375
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,758
- She must have run off.
- She doesn't run off, Dorothea!

1376
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:36,354
She's my wife!
What have you done with her?

1377
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:40,037
- We should look.
- You're right.

1378
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:43,510
- Where were you walking?
- Where we always walk.

1379
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:45,636
Something has happened to Margaret.

1380
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,631
Come on, Zelie!

1381
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,109
- Lady Ravenscroft! Where are you?
- Margaret!

1382
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:58,879
Margaret!

1383
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,917
Margaret! Come on.

1384
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,957
We'll take the cliff path.

1385
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:11,951
Margaret!

1386
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,991
Margaret!

1387
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:20,357
Margaret, what happened?

1388
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:22,397
Was it your sister?

1389
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,710
- It isn't her fault, Alistair.
- Damn her!

1390
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:26,757
What did she do?

1391
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:28,751
She pushed me.

1392
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,351
She doesn't know what she's doing.

1393
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,797
I know it's bad, Zelie.

1394
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:37,837
- I know I'll die.
- No.

1395
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,639
- I'll get a doctor.
- There's no time for a doctor.

1396
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:42,677
Please don't let her suffer for it.

1397
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,359
Don't let them give her
that treatment again.

1398
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,273
Promise me, Alistair.
Promise me you'll save her.

1399
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,317
- Zelie.
- Yes?

1400
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:53,311
Make him do as I ask.

1401
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,957
I promise, Margaret.

1402
01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:02,474
- I promise.
- Thank you, my darling.

1403
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:06,391
Thank you.

1404
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,397
Oh, Margaret.

1405
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:13,437
Margaret!

1406
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:22,277
Zelie wanted to go for help.

1407
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,317
But the general, he said no.

1408
01:18:24,320 --> 01:18:27,517
'I made a promise. I must keep it.'

1409
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:30,831
He decided what he would do.

1410
01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:34,637
And he asked Zelie to help him.

1411
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:36,631
Forgive me, my darling.

1412
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:40,511
Forgive me.

1413
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:04,710
Celia, are you all right?

1414
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:06,711
It's better to know.

1415
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,037
Go on.

1416
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,077
They made a plan.

1417
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:15,198
They agreed to say it was
Dorothea who walked in her sleep

1418
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:18,318
and fell to her
death, not Margaret.

1419
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:22,239
They hid her in a cottage
for a week or ten days.

1420
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,629
The General Ravenscroft
put it about

1421
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:26,995
that his wife had suffered
a nervous collapse.

1422
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,958
And was in a sanatorium, recovering.

1423
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:33,396
Zelie, she had gone to London
and bought wigs to fit Dorothea

1424
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,835
from Eugene and Rosentelle
of Bond Street.

1425
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,831
Then they brought her back.

1426
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:43,232
Good morning, Mrs Whittaker.
Have we something nice for lunch?

1427
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,277
Yes, madam.

1428
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:48,238
Everyone accepted that
this was Lady Ravenscroft.

1429
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:50,550
And thought
that she was behaving oddly

1430
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:52,233
because she was still
suffering

1431
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:53,878
from shock at the death
of her sister.

1432
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,519
How could she keep it up?
It must have been difficult.

1433
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:59,079
Non, madame. It was not difficult.

1434
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,959
Because, at last, she had achieved
what she wanted.

1435
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:05,873
She was married to General
Alistair Ravenscroft.

1436
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,917
But how could my father bear it?

1437
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:11,595
As I said, he made a plan.

1438
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,513
Zelie, today is your last day
of work.

1439
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,989
I am sending you back to Paris.

1440
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,037
You cannot do that.

1441
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:21,077
I can, my dear, and I will.

1442
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,435
You have given sterling
service but I do not want

1443
01:20:23,440 --> 01:20:25,795
you mixed up in this.
Not any more.

1444
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,791
Enough is enough.

1445
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,591
There, there.

1446
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:36,151
Zelie.

1447
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:44,237
Stop here.

1448
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:46,834
Hold this. Why?

1449
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:48,831
Because I want to kiss you.

1450
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,955
- Goodbye, Dorothea.
- Where are you going?

1451
01:20:57,960 --> 01:20:59,997
Hell, I expect.

1452
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,037
This is for Margaret.

1453
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:09,957
And this is for me.

1454
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,079
He had to keep his promise
to his wife.

1455
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,151
And he did.

1456
01:21:27,480 --> 01:21:29,471
I am so sorry, Mademoiselle Celia.

1457
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:34,871
Bring her in.

1458
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,674
Just who are you?
And why did you try to kill me?

1459
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:52,671
Please to take off her cap.

1460
01:21:55,440 --> 01:21:57,431
This is Marie Jarrow.

1461
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,991
The daughter of your aunt Dorothea.

1462
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,079
- You're my cousin?
- How did you work it out, Poirot?

1463
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,151
The Boston-Irish, mademoiselle.

1464
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,039
They venerate the 17th of March.

1465
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:12,998
- St Patrick's Day.
- Oui. There is always a big parade.

1466
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:16,118
Everyone knows what they were doing
on the 17th of March.

1467
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,277
Also, your accent, mademoiselle.

1468
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:21,954
If you are from Boston,
as you say that you are,

1469
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:23,997
in the state of Massachusetts,

1470
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,469
then you would pronounce
the last letter of the alphabet zee,

1471
01:22:26,480 --> 01:22:28,949
but
you pronounced it zed.

1472
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:30,997
You are Canadian, mademoiselle.

1473
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:34,072
And Poirot, he has heard
this immediately.

1474
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:36,993
Also, you say that you arrived here
on the SS "France".

1475
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:40,959
But non, Poirot, he has examined
the list of passengers.

1476
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:44,919
And there is no Marie McDermott
on the "France".

1477
01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,957
But there is a Marie Jarrow.

1478
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,270
- Your mother killed mine!
- Celia! Please!

1479
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,999
And it is you, Mademoiselle Jarrow,

1480
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:56,991
who killed Professor Willoughby.

1481
01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:00,470
He deserved it. Did you
see what they did to her?

1482
01:23:00,480 --> 01:23:03,074
Those appalling machines?
No wonder she went crazy.

1483
01:23:03,080 --> 01:23:05,719
But how did you know?
She was long gone.

1484
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,075
When I was at school,
she sent me letters.

1485
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:11,237
I still got them.

1486
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:13,277
She told me what they did to her.

1487
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:16,159
She knew I was too young
to understand.

1488
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,790
But one day, I would understand.

1489
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:25,072
And one day, I'd come back.

1490
01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:27,151
Why have you waited so long?

1491
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,595
I had no money.
I was just a poor secretary.

1492
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:31,716
I had to earn enough
to get to England.

1493
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,599
Where you take a job
at the Willoughby Institute.

1494
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:36,637
To be honest, it was too easy.

1495
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:39,871
I knew the professor
came to work late at night.

1496
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,839
So I crawl into David's bed.

1497
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,354
And he likes a little sleep
after pleasure.

1498
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:51,358
His little sleeps
turn into longer sleeps.

1499
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:53,556
It was very clever, that.

1500
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,598
To pretend to provide an alibi
for the Dr Willoughby.

1501
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,911
Whereas, in fact, you were providing
an alibi for yourself.

1502
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:02,799
- That is clever.
- Cleverer than you think, madame.

1503
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:05,952
Then she goes to Jacqueline,
the wife of Dr Willoughby,

1504
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:07,997
and confesses her affair.

1505
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:11,356
So that this wife will not provide
the alibi for her husband.

1506
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,990
Meanwhile, she has become friendly
with Professor Willoughby.

1507
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,559
No doubt you take a great
interest in his work.

1508
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,597
I told him I was writing a book.

1509
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,114
I told him the Willoughby
Institute was going

1510
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,634
to go down big in the
history of psychiatry.

1511
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:29,794
And then you persuade the professor
to show to you the hydro room.

1512
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,837
You hit him.

1513
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:33,877
You gag him.

1514
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:35,917
And then you drown him.

1515
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:37,957
Also, mademoiselle,

1516
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,474
I know that on the day
that your mother died,

1517
01:24:40,480 --> 01:24:42,517
you were here at Overcliff.

1518
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:44,557
You don't know that, Poirot.

1519
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:46,597
Mais oui, mademoiselle.

1520
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,591
Attendez.

1521
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:55,191
Here is my proof.

1522
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,511
Ohh. Zelie!

1523
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:07,757
Oh, my children.

1524
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:09,797
I was listening.

1525
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,314
I have heard everything
that was said.

1526
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:14,675
You know it is true, Marie.

1527
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,956
You were here.
Your mother sent for you.

1528
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:20,237
You arrived the day she died.

1529
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:23,917
You do remember.

1530
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:26,753
You arrived just in time
to hear this.

1531
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,751
What are you going to do?

1532
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:32,791
I am going to shoot her.

1533
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:36,357
And then I'm going to shoot myself.

1534
01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:42,035
You know what? lhave this
overpowering feeling

1535
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,429
that... that's
against the law.

1536
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:48,269
Just shooting someone.
Just killing them.

1537
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,434
If I could have killed him
over again, I would!

1538
01:25:52,440 --> 01:25:54,477
Was it you who tried to strangle me?

1539
01:25:54,480 --> 01:25:56,517
All I wanted was to punish her.

1540
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,511
Ruin her.

1541
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:00,557
Why should her life be happy?

1542
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,111
Mine wasn't.

1543
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,311
Mademoiselle Rouxelle.

1544
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,516
As soon as I knew what
the general was about to do,

1545
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:12,670
I took Marie
away very quickly.

1546
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,672
I thought her life would be
intolerable if she stayed.

1547
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:19,036
I sent her to relations of mine
in Montreal. I told no-one.

1548
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,031
And I returned to Paris.

1549
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:23,919
I swore I would never speak of this.

1550
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,030
I have broken my vow.
Forgive me, Marie.

1551
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:32,112
Non, mademoiselle.
You have done the right thing.

1552
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,311
Please to take her away.

1553
01:26:52,480 --> 01:26:55,313
Desmond? Desmond, where are you?

1554
01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:59,598
Desmond! If you're with that girl,
I'll skin you alive!

1555
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,831
Ah, there you are.
Come home at once!

1556
01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:13,949
I hope you do not blame me,
mademoiselle, for asking for your help.

1557
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:18,269
Non, monsieur. I am glad.

1558
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:22,111
Look.

1559
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:24,111
Now they will have their future.

1560
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:42,591
You and I are elephants, you know.

1561
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:45,592
- We're good at remembering.
- Non, non, madame.

1562
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:47,671
We are the human beings.

1563
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:52,072
And human beings, mercifully,
they can forget.