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Aah!

[ Knock on door ]

Hello darling
,.
Managed to slip away
.

But I think I sprained
my bloody wrist.

Oh, John.

How's work?

Fine. Thanks.

I'm doing a big abstract for
the international exhibition.

How's yours?

Might be making some progress
with Ridgeway's disease
.

I have a patient at Hammersmith
Hospital, a Mrs. Crabtree.

She's a drayman's wife
,
I believe.

She's dying of Ridgeway's
,

but she's allowed me to try
some new treatments on her.

By gum, she's got some spirit,

poor frightened old thing
,
that she is.

And all I get from Gerda is
,
"Why are you out so late?"

Well, sometimes you're with me.

Mm-hmm.

But all the time,
I'm married to Gerda
.

,?
It's what you wanted isn't it

Yes.

?
Will I see you this weekend

- Yes. Are you going?
- Yes.

Well, that will be lovely.

Yes.

Henrietta, come here.

LUCY: It's all going to be
a complete disaster.

It's always the same
when I invite Gerda
.

I wish I hadn't
.

The worst thing about it
is she's so terribly nice.

I mean, one has to have her,
of course.

It'd be so terribIy rude
to invite John without her.

It does seem so odd doesn't it
,,

that someone as nice as Gerda

shouId be so devoid
?
of any kind of inteIIigence

[ Moans ]

I often think if she had any
spirit at aII she'd stay away
,.

Henrietta wiII heIp, of course.

It's strange how good Henrietta
is with Gerda
.

What are you taIking about,
Lucy?

The weekend is upon us Midge
,.

The guests wiII be arriving
any minute.

I'm just trusting to Henrietta
to make conversation,

because weII John and Gerda --
,,

Oh, it's a nightmare!

John and Gerda
.

Lucy do you know
,
what time it is?

Hmm? I'm sorry.

I have absoIuteIy no idea
what time it is.

It's a quarter past 6:00.

[ Gasps ]
Oh Midge I am sorry
,,.

?
Why didn't you teII me
Come, come, come.

Go back to repose.
Come on.

[ Sighs ]

There you are, Mrs. Smith.

Thank you very much,
Dr. Christow.

Goodbye
.

You aII right?

I'm tired
.

A weekend in the country
wiII make you feeI better.

Yes.

UnfortunateIy Gerda's driving
,.

Victor.

Mr. Poirot, sir.
?
Have a good trip

Without incident thank you
,.

Victor...

Victor, what is that smeII?

SmeII?
Can't smeII nothing, sir.

Just good country air
.

The teIephone number's
on the pad in the surgery
.

CaII me if there's troubIe.

- Goodbye chiIdren
,.
- Bye Daddy
,.

Be good
.

[ Engine sputtering ]

It won't start.

Switch on the ignition Gerda
,.

[ Engine turns over ]

I'm so stupid
.
I'm sorry.

Let's just get there, shaII we?

I wish we couId stay at home
.

The AngkateIIs frighten
the Iife out of me.

Bye chiIdren!
,

- GIRL: Bye, Mummy.
- BOY: Bye, Daddy.

VICTOR: Weather set fair
for the weekend
.

Everything's spick-and-span
at the cottage.

The wife's seen to that.

I'm sure I shaII be
most comfortabIe.

Be a reIief, I expect.

Escape the fumes
and stink of London
.

[ Speaking indistinctIy ]

[ Speaks French ]

Why must you spend
so many hours at the hospitaI

when you have a perfectIy
?
good surgery at home

It's research Gerda research
,,,
as I've expIained before
.

Why are you sIowing?

It might be about to turn red
.

But it isn't, is it?
It's green.

GERDA:
Oh, sorry.

I've just become convinced
it's suddenIy going to...

Oh.

[ Horn honking ]

[ Engine sputtering ]

Oh God Gerda
,,.

[ Sputtering continues ]

[ Horns honk ]

[ Engine continues sputtering ]

[ Horn honks ]

MIDGE: Gudgeon!

HeIIo Midge
,.
Great to see you.

What a gorgeous car!

He's a Lagonda.
Goes Iike the wind
.

Oh thank you Gudgeon
,,.

HeIIo, Lucy.

Henrietta,
wonderfuI to see you
.

WeII, I suppose in the time

you've taken this magnificent
steed of yours

around to the stabIe give it
,
a rubdown and a nose bag
,

Iunch might be ready
.

[ Both Iaugh ]

- Who's coming?
- The Christows.

And Edward's arriving
after Iunch.

Oh good
,.

VICTOR: Looks Iike you'II
have some company, Mr. Poirot.

Somebody's taken
the cottage next door
.

Mr. Poirot.

Enchanté, madame.

Everything is beautifuI,
as usuaI.

But teII me, someone has taken
up residence in Dovecotes?

FRANCES:
Yes sir A Iady
,..

An actress, they say.

Oh! [ Laughs ]

?
How's the dreaded dress shop

BIoody awfuI
.

HeIIo, there!

MIDGE:
Edward!

EDWARD:
HeIIo Midge
,.

HeIIo, Henrietta.

Parfait.

TeII me, Mme. Simms,

what is this, hmm?

I did not expect any maiI
to this address
.

It's from Lady AngkateII
up at the hoIIow.

For ce soir.

HENRIETTA: How are things
at Ainswick Edward
,?

Is it just as IoveIy as ever?

?
Why don't you come and see

[ Laughs ]

You're aIways weIcome.

Any time.

Any time at aII.

You are sweet.

And Ainswick is the best pIace
in the worId
.

Do you remember
our speciaI tree?

YggdrasiI -- the secret sign
we used to draw everywhere
.

Fancy a breather?

Oh my God
,.
YggdrasiI.

?
Who drew that

You did
.

[ Sighs ]

So what have you been doing
,
since I saw you Iast?

Nothing.

That sounds peacefuI
.

You couId find peace
at Ainswick with me.

I wish I wasn't so dreadfuIIy
fond of you Edward
,.

It makes it so much harder
to go on saying no.

What you reaIIy mean
is you won't marry me

because of John Christow.

Why doesn't the feIIow
?
get a divorce

- Because.
- EDWARD: That's it, isn't it?

If there were no John Christow
in the worId
,

you'd marry me
.

MIDGE:
I used to spend my hoIidays
with Edward at Ainswick.

It seemed so vast
.

LUCY: 14 000 acres is bound
,
to be vast Midge
,.

Oh, how I miss it.

,?
Why didn't you inherit it Lucy

Midge you know very weII
,
girIs don't inherit.

It's the way the worId works
.

Edward isn't even my cousin
.

He's my first cousin
once removed
,

but he's stiII entaiIed
.

Ainswick faIIs Iike ripe
fruit -- pIop -- in his Iap.

Aren't you remoteIy bitter
about that?

Of course not.

I've invited that crime feIIow
for dinner.

Uh, I'm sorry?

That's why I was in your bedroom
so earIy this morning.

I had this premonition you see
,,

that we're aII going to be at
each other's throats at dinner
,

so him being here just
couId be a distraction.

What crime man, Lucy?

He was in Baghdad when Henry
was high commissioner.

He stays in one of
those funny IittIe cottages

down the Iane
.

I remember he wore this
pink fIower in his buttonhoIe,

and he was soIving something
.

I can't quite remember what.

Then of course,

I'm not terribIy interested
in who kiIIed who
.

I mean once you're dead
,,
you're dead
.

,?
It doesn't matter why does it

GERDA:
I'm no good at anything
.

I don't know why
you ever married me
.

You needed taken care of
.
That's why I married you
.

I try to be a good wife John
,.

This may not be the best time
to teII you --

,?
You know I Iove you don't you

Of course oId girI but I
,,
reaIIy have to warn you --

No one eIse, just you.

You'II never make it up
ShoveI Down in third
.

[ Gears grinding ]

[ Gunshots ]

Very fair shooting Edward
,.

Now, then, your turn,
Henrietta.

See if you couId kiII a burgIar
.

- MIDGE: WeII done!
- No You onIy winged him
..

HeIIo, everyone.
HeIIo, Henry.

Oh, it's the Christows.

HeIIo. So sorry we're Iate.

Not at aII. Just in time
for target practice.

Nice to see you, John.
Now then Gerda come aIong
,,,.

Try and put one
in the buII's-eye.

Oh I've never tried
,.

- HeIIo darIing
,.
- DarIing.

I think you may have met
Midge HardcastIe.

And of course you know
,
my second cousin Edward
.

- HeIIo, John.
- What's going on?

Henry's got the artiIIery out.

?
- Has he indeed
- [ Laughs ]

HENRY: Right. Fire away.

Just keep it steady
.

SIowIy squeeze the trigger.
That's it.

I sprained my bIoody wrist
.

HENRY:
Bad Iuck
.

?
Did I miss
I bet I missed
.

My turn, is it?

Gerda how IoveIy to see you
,.

Thank you, Henry.

Come aIong Gudgeon
,.

[ Laughs ]

- I say, Lucy!
- That's nothing.

Once on the Asian side
,
of the Bosporus,

I was jumped
by a coupIe of thugs.

We were roIIing about
in the dirt, we were,

and then before I knew it
,

she'd shot one in the Ieg
and one in the stomach
.

How she didn't hit me
,
God aIone knows.

It's quite simpIe.

You do it very quickIy
,

and you don't think
about it, Henry.

[ Laughter ]

Zena's at baIIet dass now --
pointe shoes, the Iot.

?
And Terrence

Chemistry -- aIways trying
to bIow things up.

He's pIanning to make
nitrogIycerin whiIe we're away.

- Don't teII John, though.
- Oh, I shan't.

?
And you

Oh, I've taken up Ieather craft.

Do you Iike this?

I made it
.

It's so nice taIking to you.

But I suppose it'II soon
be time for dinner
.

Gerda
...

Why do you come here
if you hate it so much?

I want John to be happy.

He couId come without you
.

No he wouIdn't Iike that
,.

He wouIdn't enjoy it without me
.
He said so
.

John is awfuIIy unseIfish.

I'd rather stay
at HarIey Street, to be frank,

but he thinks it's good for me
to get out into the country.

Oh, the country's aII right.

No need to throw in
the AngkateIIs.

We're an odious famiIy
.

Come on. Let's go in
and get changed.

There's some sort of detective
coming, apparentIy.

[ Laughter ]

You wouIdn't have beIieved it
.

M. Poirot has abiIities
that one has to say are...

quite phenomenaI.

Oh, it's true. AbsoIuteIy true.
TaIk of Baghdad, they were.

M. Poirot
and his IittIe green ceIIs
.

Gray madame
,.

Oh pardon me
,.

But we're so awfuIIy fortunate
to have him as a neighbor.

I mean, in case
anything went wrong.

WouId you give it aII up
if I asked you to

?
and come and Iive with me

No.

No?

That's not reaIIy what you want.

CouIdn't you Iie to me
just once?

- Why?
- Because I Iove you, Henrietta.

But you're so -- Damn it aII.

You're so detached
.

Your art your cards
,,

your friends
.

I want you to think onIy of me.

?
Isn't that what Gerda does

Don't teII me you care a damn
about Gerda.

Why not?

I Iike Gerda
.

[ Laughter ]

Dinner my Iady
,.

Oh thank you Gudgeon
,,.

PIease, M. Poirot,
come this way.

Merci.

Has anyone seen John?

[ John Iaughing ]

MIDGE:
WeII, the customers are awfuI.

One has to put up with far more
insoIence in a dress shop

than Gudgeon or Simmons or
any decent domestic does here
.

It must be absoIute heII,
darIing
.

But does one have
?
to be so proud

I mean, earning one's own Iiving

is not the be aII and end aII
of everything, is it?

WeII, it's aII about
seIf-esteem, sureIy.

He'd be the expert on that
.

So how do you do it then
,,
M. Poirot?

,?
I beg your pardon mademoiseIIe

SoIve so many crimes.

[ ChuckIes ]

MereIy, I appIy the process
of the thought Iogic,

and once the process
,
it has been appIied
,

alors,
the mystery becomes édairé

and the criminaI mind
,
it is uncovered
.

HENRIETTA: But that assumes
that you are deverer

than the criminaI doesn't it
,?

I am not sure that it does
,
mademoiseIIe, IogicaIIy.

HENRIETTA:
Oh I think it does
,.

What happens
if you come across one

who is deverer
than you are yourseIf?

This is not the highest
probabiIity mademoiseIIe
,.

[ Laughter ]

Have you ever been to --

Henrietta has
a very sharp tongue.

[ Soft Iaughter ]

After dinner,
we usuaIIy pIay games.

Charades perhaps
or FIip the Kipper.

But tonight I think it
wouId be most appropriate

if we were to assay
the murder game.

Lucy don't you think M Poirot
,.
wouId be rather bored?

Someone has to pretend
to be dead, murdered,

and then we aII have
to find out who did it
.

It's such fun.

And it usuaIIy turns out
to be Gudgeon
.

POIROT: Lady AngkateII
,

it is a proposition
that is most deIightfuI
,

but I am one who retires
earIy to his bed.

Your dinner it was superb
,.

MademoiseIIe
...

I hope that we shaII resume our
conversation at another time.

I'd Iike that M Poirot
,..

Sir Henry, an evening
that was most deIightfuI
.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

I know. You must
come to Iunch tomorrow.

Oh, yes.
He must, mustn't he?

Pardon,
but tomorrow I am engagé.

Nonsense.

There's absoIuteIy nothing
to do around here

for miIes and miIes and miIes
.

No, no. I insist you come
to Sunday Iunch
.

Henry, teII him

I do not take kindIy
to being disobeyed
.

Be very pIeased
to have you oId man
,.

Bien. It wiII be
my pIeasure to attend
.

Thank you.

Bonne nuit.

- Night.
- Good night
.

Good night
.

Ace of diamonds
.

Why on earth did you Ieave
that diamond, Gerda?

Oh, I -- Was it wrong?

Don't be absurd
.

She had to Ieave the diamond
.
OnIy sane thing to do
.

Game and rubber
.
WeII done.

A Iucky finesse.

You cheated
.

HENRIETTA:
Was it obvious?

So that Gerda wouId win
.

Honesty means nothing
to you, does it?

Good evening
.

?
Who the deviI are you

Veronica Cray, Sir Henry.

PIease forgive me for barging in
upon you Iike this.

I'm in the dinky IittIe
house up the Iane,

and I've had the most
frightfuI catastrophe.

PIease come on in.
Henry dose the window
,.

?
What's happened

I have run out of matches
on a Saturday night,

and I smoke Iike a chimney
.

TruIy, I feeI a compIete fooI,

but there's not a match
to be had at Dovecotes
,

so I've come to beg some
from my onIy neighbors

within miIes and --

Oh my God
,.

HeIIo, Veronica.

My God it's John Christow
,.

Matches, was it?

This is too too extraordinary
,.

HENRY:
Do you know each other?

We did a long time ago
.

VERONICA:
Yes John is an oId friend
,.

Why, he was the first guy
I was ever in Iove with.

Midge wouId you kindIy
,
ring the beII?

I thought you were
just wonderfuI
.

And weren't we heartrendingIy
in Iove?

Veronica, this is my wife.

How IoveIy to meet you.

LUCY: Oh Gudgeon
,.

TeII me do we have pIenty
,
of matches in the house?

A dozen boxes came today
,
my Iady
.

ExceIIent.
?
WouId you kindIy get six

Very good my Iady
,.

And um
,,
?
how do you Iike Dovecotes

Oh I adore it
,.

It's so cute --
so dose to London

and yet one feeIs
so gIoriousIy isoIated
.

We kind of Iost touch

when I went to CaIifornia,
didn't we?

You've been to CaIifornia?

VERONICA:
Oh, I Iive there, actuaIIy.

I just popped over
to do a IittIe pIay.

One has to keep one's hand in
,

say heIIo to Shaftesbury Avenue,
aII that.

Oh my dear Lady AngkateII
,,
sureIy not aII these?

LUCY: We have pIenty
in the house.

Besides I aIways think
,
it's rather tiresome,

onIy having one of a thing,
don't you?

WeII this is very kind of you
,.
Thank you.

WiII you see me back
to my cottage?

I want dreadfuIIy to know
what you've been up to

in the years and years and
years since I've seen you.

I'm so sorry to have bothered
you in this pathetic way.

Good night Lady AngkateII
,.

Night-night.

That was Veronica Cray.

Indeed
.

We must catch one of
her pictures, Henry.

If that IittIe performance
is anything to go by,

why, we wiII certainIy
get our money's worth.

[ Veronica Iaughs ]

You are just incorrigibIe.

No, it's not true.
It's not true.

[ Both chuckIing ]

Come on, John.
Come on.

What time is it?

Um I have no idea
,.

Sorry to wake you.

I had to go in for a drink
with the woman.

Oh.

Good night John
,.

JOHN:
Good night
.

Morning.

- Morning.
- Morning.

We're shooting after breakfast.

Might bag a few pigeon.

You want to come?

No, thanks.

I feeI a bit shattered
,
to be honest.

For me?

It came this morning, sir.

[ Both chuckIe ]

We have to taIk
about our future.

I'm -- I'm sorry?

Our future, John.

We've wasted 12 years
.

I'm not going back
to the States.

I'm going to make my Iife
here with you.

[ ChuckIes ]

You've, um...

You've got this taped out
aII wrong.

We had quite a time
together Iast night,

but, Veronica, you know,

our Iives
are compIeteIy divergent
.

I mean, when we spIit up
12 years ago,

weII, that was just it.

We spIit up.

VERONICA: We didn't spIit up
.
You ditched me.

I was your fiancée,
and you ditched me
.

I couIdn't go with you
to HoIIywood
.

I had to finish med schooI
.

Of course,
so you couId be a doctor
.

WeII, you can go on
being a doctor
.

My dear girI I'm married
,.
I have chiIdren
.

[ Laughs ]

You know I'm married myseIf
,
at the moment.

It's nothing that a good
divorce Iawyer can't fix
.

Oh John I aIways did
,,
want to be your wife.

You see,
I have this passion --

this overpowering passion.

We have to be together.

No, that is not going
to happen!

- Last night --
- JOHN: Last night!

Look you're not a chiId
,.

Last night was a one-off.

Are you saying
?
you don't Iove me

You are a very, very
aIIuring woman, Veronica,

but I don't Iove you no
,.

I came aII this way
to find you,

waiting in this ghastIy hoveI
for the weekend you'd appear
.

You see, I knew
that if we couId be

just once more together,
just once more --

?
You -- You pIanned it

WeII, you beIong to me, John.

You're mine.

When I was a young man,

I wanted you to share my Iife
,
and you wouIdn't do it.

Because my career was so much
more important than yours.

I mean anyone can be a doctor
,.

You're a nasty piece of work.

You Ieave me again and I reaIIy
,
wiII make you sorry.

So be it.

Goodbye
.

I hate you more than I thought
I couId hate anyone!

[ GIass shatters ]

[ Gunshots ]

[ Gunshots ]

[ Sighs ]

[ Gun cocks ]

Good day sir
,.

Lady AngkateII wouId Iike you
to come to the paviIion, sir,

for a gIass of sherry.

?
Out-of-doors

WouId you care
to foIIow me, sir?

Merci.

?
My Iady

POIROT: I see that you are
pIaying the murder game.

Alors. Très bien.

I congratuIate you aII.

Henrietta.

[ Groans ]

AIIow me my Iady
,.

Give that to me Gerda
,.

MademoiseIIe do not --
,

,?
Poirot what's happened

Gerda has mur--
I mean --

John has been shot.

He's dead
.

Isn't reaIIy my Iine murder
,.

But the procedure it has been
,
foIIowed quite correctIy
.

And untiI the poIice arrive
,

aII we can do is to ensure
that the body it is undisturbed
,

and that nobody tampers
with the evidence
.

It's a -- It's a bit chiIIy.

Be aII right if we wait in
,?
the paviIion wouIdn't it

Oui. Bien sûr.

I can offer you a sherry.

Oh, no, no, no.
Merci.

I think it best not to touch.

- I suppose we can smoke.
- Oui.

No, no, no, no.
Merci.

Very abIe feIIow, Christow,
very abIe.

SIightIy too abIe,

if you take my meaning.

I just don't know
what to do about Iunch
.

It seems so heartIess to be
sitting around a tabIe

stuffing oneseIf as though
nothing had happened
.

Don't worry on my account, Lucy.

BIess you dear Edward
,.

Say what you wiII murder
,
is a very awkward thing.

It upsets the servants so.

Puts the whoIe routine out.

And worst of aII,
it was duck for Iunch --

my very, very favorite.

,?
Midgie moo what about Gerda

Oh, perhaps something on a tray
wouId be good.

I've pIaced sandwiches
and some coffee

in the dining room my Iady
,.

Oh Gudgeon thank you
,,.

Gudgeon reaIIy is a jeweI
,
you know.

Proper substantiaI sandwiches
,
are just as good as Iunch.

And there's nothing remoteIy
heartIess about them,

if you know what I mean.

Oh Lucy don't
,,.
It's aII so awfuI.

Oh Midge
,.

EDWARD:
Don't cry LittIe Midge
,.

- That'II do
.
- Good.

HENRY: M. Poirot,
this is Inspector Grange.

I expect you've heard
of M. Poirot.

- I most certainIy have.
- Inspector.

May I ask what brings you
?
to this neck of the woods

WeII, I visit this neck
of the woods Inspector
,,

for the weekends
.

My friends persuaded me
to purchase a cottage.

It is the second one that way
,
aIong the Iane.

Are you fond of the countryside
,
are you, sir?

The paysage is most agreeabIe,

except the trees
have this untidy habit

of dropping their Ieaves
.

[ Laughs ]

That path Ieads
to the Iane you say?

And that path Ieads to the farm
.

That's the way
Lady AngkateII came
.

Edward AngkateII
and Miss Savernake

came out of the woods
separateIy,

and they were standing there
,?
and there yes

Oui. It was Iike a mise
en scène from the theater.

I've given Gerda some brandy
.

Oh, how thoughtfuI of you,
Henrietta.

Yes, I aIways remember
we were given brandy for shock

when I was a IittIe girI
at Ainswick.

Though, of course,

I suppose it's not exactIy shock
with Gerda is it
,?

I mean, personaIIy,
I don't know how one wouId feeI

if one had just murdered
one's husband,

but it wouIdn't exactIy
be shock, wouId it?

That means there wouId have been
no eIement of surprise.

Why are you so sure
?
that Gerda kiIIed John

It seems seIf-evident
.

Why?
?
What eIse do you suggest

Isn't it possibIe that Gerda
came aIong to the pooI,

found John Iying there and had
,
just picked up the revoIver

when we came on the scene?

,?
WeII is this what Gerda says

Yes.

Oh.

WeII, fortunateIy,

duck is quite pIeasant coId
.

I couIdn't Iie down any Ionger
.

I stiII can't beIieve
that it's reaI,

that John is dead
.

?
Who couId have kiIIed him

Who couId possibIy
have kiIIed John?

[ Door opens ]

This is my wife,
Inspector Grange.

GRANGE:
Lady AngkateII
.

I was hoping to have a word
with Mrs. Christow.

WeII, there she is.

- Mrs. Christow?
- GERDA: Yes.

I'm Gerda Christow
.

I shouId just Iike
to ask you a few --

He was a wonderfuI doctor
.

So kind so unseIfish
,.

The best of husbands
.

Who couId have wanted
to kiII him?

What exactIy happened
,
Mrs. Christow?

It was aII so sudden
.

I went out from the house

and aIong the path
to the swimming pooI.

What time was this?

About two minutes to 1:00.

I noticed the dock
.

And when I got there
,

there was John Iying there...
and bIood
.

?
Did you hear a shot

Yes.

No.

Oh I don't know
,.

Sir Henry and Edward
were out shooting.

I just saw John and bIood
and a revoIver
,

and I picked up the revoIver
.

Why?

?
I beg your pardon

GRANGE:
?
Why did you pick it up

I don't know
.

?
ShouIdn't I have

So you have decided that
.?
Mme Christow shot her husband

?
Don't you think she did it

It couId have happened
as she said.

Yes it couId have
,,

but it's a very thin story.

They aII think she did it
.

And you thought she'd done it
,
didn't you
,

when you first
?
arrived on the scene

I am not sure what I thought.

Something was not exactement
as it shouId have been
.

GRANGE:
What's that?

Looks Iike Ieatherwork, sir.

Oh, right.

Sir, we've got the weapon.

GRANGE:
Go ahead Pick it up
..

It's been in the pooI.

Destroyed any fingerprints
that might have been on it.

Yes, it comes
from my coIIection.

It's my hobby, Inspector.

GRANGE:
?
When did you Iast see this one

Yesterday afternoon
.

We were doing
some target practice.

And who actuaIIy fired the gun
on that occasion?

I think we aII had
at Ieast one shot with it.

?
- Induding Gerda Christow
- Induding Gerda Christow.

And after the shooting
,
it was over?

I put the firearm
back in its usuaI pIace.

GUDGEON:
WiII Sir Henry be requiring
a Iate supper, my Iady?

There is some duck Ieft over
.

No Gudgeon
,.

He's driving Mrs. Christow
up to London as we speak
.

He'II be staying at his dub.

Oh Gudgeon about those eggs
,,,

I meant to write the date
on them, as per usuaI,

but because of the carfuffIe,
couId you kindIy ask cook?

I'II see to it myseIf my Iady
,.

Oh bIess you Gudgeon
,,.

MIDGE: Do you think Gerda
wiII be aII right?

Oh, yes.

She'II probabIy send for some
oId schooI friend of hers
.

She's probabIy got
three or four.

I can just see them.

Strapping hockey-pIaying types
from Tunbridge WeIIs
.

What extraordinary things
you do say, Lucy.

Very weII. Eastborne Iacrosse,
if you insist.

I wonder if there are any Ieft
.

?
SchooI friends

No, poIicemen.

Don't they normaIIy Ieave one
hovering in the haII

or outside peeking behind a bush
watching the door

in case another murder
?
is committed in the night

Oh Lucy don't
,,.

I'm so sorry.
How stupid of me
.

Of course Gerda's on her way
,
back to London
.

Oh dear
,.

I didn't mean
...

Tomorrow I think it's best
if you teIephone the shop

and just teII them
about the inquest.

Just say you're staying on here
for a few days
.

I haven't said anything
,
but...

you do know how sorry I am
.

Sorry that John Christow's gone?

You didn't Iike John
.

He and I hadn't much in common
.

You had me in common
.

Henrietta for God's sake
,,
no need to be Iike that.

?
What did you think I'd be Iike

Did you think I'd sit and cry
into a pocket handkerchief

?
whiIe you heId my hand

You're nice enough Edward
,,

but, honestIy, you are...

inadequate
.

[ TeIephone ringing ]

HeIIo? Yes?

[ CIicks tongue ]

M. Poirot,
we couId use your brains
.

,?
- Join us wouId you
- POIROT: Bon.

[ CIears throat ]

So...

which of the Iadies
?
did this wrap beIong to

I take it, sir, you're referring
to the cape of arctic fox.

I noticed it yesterday

when I took the sherry
out to the paviIion,

but it is not the property of
anyone in this estabIishment.

WeII, whose is it, then?

It might possibIy beIong
to Miss Cray,

the motion-picture actress.

She paid a visit after dinner
the night before Iast

for the purpose of borrowing
some matches, sir.

?
Did she take away six boxes

That is correct, sir.

Servants.
,?
They're the deviI aren't they

StiII,
Sir Henry identified the gun
,

which means that aII
Mrs Christow had to do
.

was to get it from the study
.

Don't you agree?

?
And her motive
What is that?

Motive?
JeaIousy I'd say
,.

La jalousie.

Peut-être.

WeII, you know
these fancy doctors
.

He's probabIy giving one
of his rich Iady patients

a good see-to
.

Lady AngkateII mentioned
some troubIe with a nurse,

but she was a bit vague.

Yes she wouId be vague
,.

I'm taking the train
up to London
,

drop into HarIey Street.
Do you care to join me?

I don't remember
any quarreIs, no.

Mrs Christow was devoted
.
to her husband,

quite sIavishIy so.

TyrannicaI, was he?

No but he was what I wouId caII
,
a seIfish man.

He took it for granted
that Mrs. Christow

wouId aIways faII in
with his ideas
.

You organized his appointments
,
Miss CoIIins.

Any difficuIty with patients --
Iady patients?

He had an exceIIent manner
with patients.

Yes, but any hanky-panky?

MISS COLLINS:
CertainIy not.

What about MIIe. Veronica Cray?

Veronica Cray?

WeII, we beIieve she was
a friend of Dr. Christow.

Do you mean the actress?
I had no idea he knew her
.

Have you any theories as to who
.?
might have kiIIed Dr Christow

AbsoIuteIy none at aII,
Inspector.

When the body was discovered
,

Mme Christow was standing
.
beside it

with a revoIver in her hand
.

Look I don't know who you are
,,

but if you think Gerda Christow
kiIIed her husband
,

you are categoricaIIy wrong.

[ Knock on door door opens ]
,

It's the inspector,
Mrs. Christow.

Oh, thank you, CoIIy.

Good afternoon
.

My friend EIsie --
I mean, Mrs. Patterson.

Ma'am.

This is M. Poirot.

Have you found out
?
who kiIIed him

No, not yet, ma'am.

Was it you, Mrs. Christow?

PATTERSON:
That's unfair!

Why must you persecute
the poor woman?

Excusez-moi,
but perhaps Mme. Christow

wouId prefer
to speak for herseIf.

It was not me.
No.

It is a hard thing to kiII
the one you Iove, n'est-ce pas?

A very hard thing
,
I shouId imagine
.

I couIdn't do it
.

[ Train wheeIs screech ]

BaIIistics report, sir.

Thought you'd want it
right away.

Have a Iook at that, Poirot.

Merci, madame.

GRANGE: So the baIIistics report
proves that the gun in the pooI

was not the one
that kiIIed John Christow
.

I've spoken to Sir Henry.

He says that there is a gun
missing from his coIIection.

A.38 Smith & Wesson,
brown hoIster.

I think this whoIe thing
couId be a frame-up

set to impIicate Gerda Christow
.

But if that was so,

why not Ieave the right revoIver
?
Iying by the body

But she might not
have picked it up
.

And it is possibIe Inspector
,,

that the murderer
might be someone

who wanted to kiII Dr Christow
.,

but did not want to impIicate
Gerda Christow.

Hmm. WeII, they're going
a funny way about it.

I mean we suspected her
,
right from the start.

Oui, mon ami, very swiftIy,
you suspected her.

Oh, now, Iook, Poirot,
you were an eyewitness.

You saw everything.

Oui, I saw, but the eyes are
witnesses most unreIiabIe.

Sometimes the eyes, they see
what they are meant to see.

?
You saying it was arranged

There was something about

the tabIeau of the peopIe
around the pooI.

It was faIse and I cannot
,
pIace my finger on what.

There were three peopIe.

Lady AngkateII
,

M Edward AngkateII
.,

and Henrietta Savernake
.

Henrietta.

POIROT: And any one of
these three peopIe

couId have shot Dr Christow
.
before Mme Christow arrived
.,

couId have retreated
up one of the paths

and turned around and returned
.

BIimey. You're right.

But there is aIso another
possibiIity, Inspector.

Someone couId have come aIong
the path from the Iane,

then fired the shot
...

and gone back the same way
.

You're dead right
.

And that couId have been
Miss Veronica Cray.

A crime of passion.
Bingo.

?
- You have interviewed her
- GRANGE: Yes, I have.

Christow went to visit her
that morning.

They had a fight
.
I spoke to the maid
.

Cray said to him
,

"I hate you more than I ever
thought I couId hate anyone "
.

Very interesting.

And it was her fur coat
in the paviIion?

Yes, it was.

She must have Ieft it there

when she went in
to borrow the matches.

But I do not beIieve she went
there to borrow the matches.

She couId have had the matches
from me and saved the waIk.

No, no, she was nervous on
account of you being foreign.

Eh bien.

Santé.

Oh, santé. [ GiggIes ]

You know something about
human nature, don't you?

I know a IittIe
about human nature.

Inspector Grange
has got it into his head

that I quarreIed
with John Christow

on the day he died
.

?
And did you

I hadn't seen John for 12 years
.

But the reaI truth
is so fantastic

that I'm certain a guy
Iike Grange won't beIieve it.

But I think
you might understand
.

I am fIattered mademoiseIIe
,.

ActuaIIy I'm married
,.

Madame
.

12 years ago, John was very much
in Iove with me,

even obsessiveIy so.

Wanted me to give up acting
,

give up having a Iife of my own,

even a mind of my own
.

Oh, he was so possessive
and domineering
,

I feIt I couIdn't
go through with it,

and I broke off the engagement
.

I'm afraid he took that
rather hard.

When we came back here
on Saturday night,

the whoIe thing bIew up again.

He went mad.
Quite IiteraIIy mad
.

He wanted to Ieave his wife
and chiIdren.

He wanted me
to divorce my husband
.

He wanted us
to get back together.

He'd carried a torch for me
aII these years.

Oh we argued and argued
,,
and in the end
,

I had to send him back
to the hoIIow.

Next morning he returned
,.

I toId him it was impossibIe
.
He insisted
.

I said I didn't Iove him
,
I couId never Iove him
,

and I begged him not to ruin
my Iife a second time.

I had to be brutaI
.

Yes, I --

I did say that I hated him
.

So we parted in anger and
...

now he's dead
.

It is a tragedy
.

Oh undoubtedIy
,.

Do you think I shouId say
any of this at the inquest?

I mean, his wife...

I cannot see that it has
any bearing on the inquest.

It is private,

and perhaps it shouId remain so
.

Got something out of the
kitchen maid sir Simmons
,,.

She says that on
Sunday afternoon
,

she saw the butIer
waIk across the haII

with a revoIver in his hand
.

I'm very sorry, sir.

I suppose I ought to have
mentioned the occurrence
.

At about 5:30 p.m.,

I noticed a revoIver
Iying upon the haII tabIe.

I picked it up
and brought it in here
.

There was a gap on the sheIf,

so I repIaced it
where it beIonged
.

,?
Which one Gudgeon

GUDGEON:
Uh...

this one, sir.

POIROT:
But that is not a revoIver.

That is an automatic pistoI.

I'm very sorry, sir.

I'm afraid I'm not fuIIy
cognizant with firearms.

Sir Henry, I'II have to have it
checked for fingerprints
.

Oh I doubt there wiII be
,
any fingerprints, sir.

Why not?

Because I poIished it
with my handkerchief

before repIacing it, sir.

?
Why the deviI did you do that

I fancied it might be dusty
,
sir.

LUCY: Oh!

How nice to see you, M. Poirot.

But oh dear me there's
,,,
a poor girI in the kitchen

simpIy sobbing her heart out.

What have you been teIIing them
,?
about a pistoI Gudgeon

Never mind
.
It doesn't matter
.

I'II expIain everything.
You may go.

Dear poor Gudgeon
,.

He tries so hard to protect us

from any kind of troubIe
or annoyance.

It's reaIIy quite
,?
feudaI here do you know

But he didn't find the pistoI
in the haII at aII.

No, no, no, no.

He found it
when he took out the eggs.

Eggs? What eggs?

You see I went down to the farm
,
to coIIect the eggs.

I put the pistoI
in the egg basket,

and then I put the new eggs
on top of the pistoI.

When I came back and saw
John Iaying there,

weII -- unweII --

I had a bit of a shock and
aImost dropped the Iot of it
.

Dear sweet Gudgeon as per
,,
usuaI, sprang to my rescue.

Later on I wanted to write
,
the date on the eggs.

Otherwise, you see,

you tend to eat the fresher eggs
before the oIder ones
,

and that simpIy wiII not do
.

And then Gudgeon toId me
he had taken care of everything
.

And which pistoI was that
,
Lady AngkateII?

That was the Mauser.25.

And why did you put it
into the basket?

Oh, I knew you were going to
ask me that, M. Poirot.

Of course,
I must have had a reason
,

mustn't I, Henry?

I mean, there must have been
some idea

whirring about in my head
in order for me

to have put the Mauser into the
egg basket in the first pIace.

My wife
is extremeIy absentminded
.

Sir Henry, if I may
ask you a question,

how many peopIe in generaI know

that the poIice
can identify a gun

by the IittIe marks
on the buIIet?

Oh, I think that's pretty weII
common knowIedge nowadays
,
Poirot.

[ Dog barking ]

I was just taking the dog
for a waIk.

I Iove peeking
in peopIe's houses.

?
Do you mind if I take a Iook

CertainIy mademoiseIIe
,.
Enter, if you pIease.

I wouId be most gratefuI
,
however,

if the dog might be
kept outside.

[ Dog barking ]

How beautifuIIy tidy
.

You'd hate my studio
.

There's day aII over the pIace
and gIaze and paint pots.

Oh but I understand
,.
You're an artist.

Aren't you an artist, too,
M. Poirot?

On the whoIe I wouId say
,...

No.

I have known crimes
that were artistic,

supreme exercises
of the imagination,

but the soIving of them, no.

No, the creative power
is not what is needed.

What is required is a passion
for the truth.

And once you have the truth
,

once you have knowIedge
,
is that enough,

or do you have to go
a step further

and transIate knowIedge
into action?

Why did you come here
,
MIIe. Savernake?

As I said I was taking the dog
,
for a waIk.

It is odd that I have not
noticed a dog

on my visits to the AngkateIIs.

Ah.

That might be because
they haven't got one.

I borrowed the gardener's
.

Don't actuaIIy Iike
animaIs much.

Dogs, horses --
horribIe smeIIy things.

[ Sighs ]

I'm not, M. Poirot,

terribIy truthfuI.

No.

But I think
that you have integrity.

The inquest is tomorrow.

Is it necessary do you think
,,

the poIice shouId know that I
was John Christow's mistress?

POIROT:
You were Iovers?

I do not think that the poIice

wiII have any difficuIty
in discovering this
.

I suppose not.

But why shouId Gerda bear
?
the added burden

She adored John,
and now he's dead
.

I didn't break up
his married Iife
.

I was one of a procession,

aIong with Veronica Cray
and aII the others
.

- So he was Iike that?
- HENRIETTA: No.

He was a nobIe man.

A fine man.

He was doing vitaI research
into a debiIitating disease.

It's caIIed Ridgeway's
.
There's no known cure.

He'd been working on it
night and day for months
.

His curiosity,

his determination
.

Oh I wish I couId
,
make you understand
.

But I do understand
.

- ReaIIy?
- Mmm.

You mentioned Veronica Cray
.

She was aIways a friend
of Dr. Christow?

They were engaged to be married
12 years ago.

- Were they?
- Look, I'II make it simpIe.

Veronica was and is

a bitch of the first order
.

She wanted John
to give up medicine

and go and Iive with her
in CaIifornia,

so he broke off the engagement

and subsequentIy married Gerda
.

He had a number of affairs
,

which Gerda knew nothing about
,

but he never reaIIy
got over Veronica.

And Iast Saturday night
,

they met for the first time
in 12 years.

He went out to see her home,

and he returned to the hoIIow
at 3:00 a.m.

.?
Yes How do you know

The housemaid had a toothache
.

Lucy has far too many servants.

?
And how is it that you know

I was watching out my window
.

With a toothache mademoiseIIe
,?

Quite another kind of ache
,
M. Poirot.

If you see me with a pistoI
in my hand Simmons
,,

the proper thing to do
is to come to me and say
,

"Mr Gudgeon
.,
wouId you be so kind

as to give me an expIanation?"

[ Crying ]
Yes Mr Gudgeon
,..

The improper thing to do is
to go babbIing to the poIice.

That is common.

[ Sobbing ]

Now where wouId her Iadyship be

if we aII ran around doing
things Iike that, hmm?

Lucy why did you take
,
the pistoI?

I'm not entireIy sure, Henry.

I do recaII, though,
waking up that morning

with some sort of a premonition
that there might --

just might -- be some
kind of accident
.

?
Who might have had an accident

WeII, obviousIy, John Christow.

One does feeI awfuI sorry
,
of course,

and one does tend
to bIame oneseIf.

- Good God Lucy
,.
- Oh, Henry.

Oh, Henry.

Oh, Henry,

I am so dreadfuIIy worried
about Ainswick.

If Edward never marries --

And he won't you know
,,
if Henrietta turns him down --

it'II aII die out
.

It wiII.

They'II break it up

and seII it off
in IittIe, tiny pieces.

Lucy.

Does it reaIIy, honestIy matter?

Of course it matters.

Ainswick is my home.

It's aII our Iand
.

No somebody had
,
to get rid of him.

Lucy you didn't
,.

Don't be such a fooI.

Do you reaIIy beIieve
for one moment

?
that I wouId have shot him

I invited him here Henry
,.

One doesn't ask guests down
for the weekend

and then start
bumping them off.

POIROT: Did your aunt
Iike John Christow?

Lucy?
Lucy's a cousin, not an aunt.

Yes she Iiked him very much
,.

And your aIso cousin
,
M Edward AngkateII
.,

.?
did he Iike Dr Christow

Not particuIarIy.

.?
And do they Iike Mme Christow

It's not a matter of Iiking her.

- She's famiIy.
- Is she?

We're not aII rich, you know.

Gerda's from a branch
of rather humbIe AngkateIIs.

She's toIerated,
I think it's fair to say,

because she's one of us.

And your understanding
of toIerance,

that wouId be to sIeep
with her husband?

Why did you take the revoIver

out of the hand
of Mme. Christow

?
and drop it into the pooI

Gerda's very dumsy
.

She might have fired it
and hurt someone
.

But you are not dumsy, are you?

Yet you dropped it
.

If there were fingerprints
on that revoIver --

That is to say
fingerprints made on it

before Mme. Christow
handIed it --

it wouId have been interesting
to know whose they were.

Meaning that you think
they were mine.

You're suggesting
that I shot John

and then Ieft the revoIver
beside him

so that Gerda couId
come aIong and pick it up
.

But if I'd done that give me
,
credit for enough inteIIigence

to have wiped
my own prints off first.

MademoiseIIe you have
,
enough inteIIigence to know

that if there were
no fingerprints on the revoIver

other than those
of Mme. Christow,

it wouId have been
très remarquable

because you were aII shooting
the revoIver the day before.

And there is something eIse
that we have just discovered
.

We now know that the revoIver
that was dropped into the pooI

was not the revoIver
that kiIIed John Christow
.

He was shot
with a quite different gun
.

And you think that I shot him
.

When he was dying,
John Christow said "Henrietta "
,.

I toId you we were Iovers
.

Ah, yes, of course.
He was your Iover.

So as he is dying,
he says, "Henrietta."

Very touching.

I don't think
there is any need to sneer
.

I am not sneering but I do
,
not Iike being Iied to
.

I've admitted
that I'm not very truthfuI.

But I don't kiII peopIe
,
M. Poirot.

?
Gerda

?
Gerda

Poor dear Gerda
,
I am so sorry.

Not getting too IittIe sIeep,
I trust.

?
What is an adjournment
You must be famished.

Why not come back to the hoIIow
for Iunch?

I'm taking Gerda directIy home
.

She needs rest and quiet
,
not this.

[ Engine turns over ]

EDWARD: What did they see
in Christow?

That wretched woman Iooks
compIeteIy heartbroken.

Poor deviI
.

?
Are you aII packed

I'm getting a Iift up to town.
AII set.

Come on Midge
,.
Bye, Edward.

Bye.

?
HENRY: Edward

Ooh! Damn coId!

It is, rather.

What's this one?

It Iooks a bit Iike Gerda
,
cowed and hunched.

She modeIed for me
.

Don't you dare teII her
that's what I ended up with
.

I caII it "The Worshipper."

MIDGE:
WeII, who's she worshipping?

John.

Do you understand aII that
?
business with the second gun

No, but it Iets Gerda
off the hook doesn't it
,?

Let's have some tea and toast

and I'II run you back
to your digs.

♪ I'II be content ♪

♪ In the gIoaming,
by the fireside ♪

♪ Every hour
wiII be weII spent ♪

♪ We'II see our... ♪

MademoiseIIe do not --
,

LUCY: Gerda has mur--
I mean --

GERDA:
John has been shot.

He's dead
.

Edward, Midge,
how wonderfuI to see you both
.

LUCY: My, my, my.

He rescued me
.

It was frightfuIIy romantic.

I was whisked out of the shop

and taken to Iunch
at the Conord.

?
And do you know what

I never went back.

EDWARD: I'm a duII dog I know
,.
I'm not much good at anything.

I just read books putter about
,.

Midge has agreed to come
to Ainswick and be my wife
,

and nothing
couId make me happier
.

Off-white satin, I think.
Don't you?

And an ivory prayer book
.
What about bridesmaids?

I don't want a fuss.
Just a quiet wedding
.

I quite agree with you.
,?
They never match do they

There's aIways one
rather pIain one

who seems to ruin
the whoIe effect.

AbsoIuteIy dozens of them

out there poking about
in the woods,

making merry havoc
with aII the pheasants.

MIDGE:
Why are they stiII here?

They're searching for the
missing revoIver Midge
,.

Bonjour, mademoiselle.

Good morning M Poirot
,..

,?
WiII they find it do you think

POIROT:
Oh quite soon I shouId say
,,.

You have returned very suddenIy
from London, mademoiseIIe.

There's a party
for Midge and Edward
,

who, beIieve it or not,
are getting married
.

?
Why Did you think the murderer

was returning
to the scene of the crime?

[ ChuckIes ]

You know it has seemed to me
,
from the very beginning

that either this crime
was very simpIe --

so simpIe that it was
very difficuIt

to beIieve in its simpIicity --

or eIse it was very compIex.

And that is to say

that we are contending
against a mind

that is capabIe of inventions

that are intricate
and ingenious
,

so that every time we seem to be
heading towards the truth
,

we are actuaIIy being
Ied away from it.

A mind that is subtIe
and yes very ingenious
,,,

which is pIotting against us
the whoIe time and succeeding
.

?
What is that to do with me

It is a creative mind
,
mademoiseIIe
.

This is a strange tree.

HENRIETTA:
It's YggdrasiI
,

a memento of my chiIdhood
.

I draw it everywhere --
just doodIing, you know.

But I have seen it before
in the paviIion by the pooI.

In the paviIion?

POIROT: Where it must have been
drawn on Sunday morning
.

Oh, yes, on a IittIe tabIe.

That was on Saturday afternoon
.

No, no, no.

It was not there when Gudgeon
brought out the sherry gIasses.

Must have been Sunday afternoon
.

No.

Because Grange's men did not
Ieave the area untiI dusk
.

Oh, yes, I remember.
It was after dinner on Saturday
.

No, no, no, MIIe. Savernake.

PeopIe do not doodIe
in the dark.

No, I think that you were there
in the paviIion on Sunday

when Gudgeon brought out
the sherry gIasses.

I think you stood by the tabIe
,
watching someone,

waiting for someone,
and you doodIed.

I didn't go down to the pooI
untiI 1:00,

just after John Christow
had been shot
.

But YggdrasiI
testifies against you.

You were there,
and you shot Dr Christow
.,

or you were there,
and you saw who did
.

This is outrageous.

Do you think you are
deverer than I?

GRANGE: And the inquest
resumes tomorrow,

and aII I've got is vague
suspicions Ieading nowhere
.

Uh-huh.
Nowhere instead of somewhere
.

That is it.

Do you know, haIf the time,

I think those AngkateIIs
know aII about it.

Oh they do know aII about it
,.

Henrietta Savernake?

Nothing from her either.

She went straight back
to CheIsea.

I've been through her studio
with a fine-tooth comb,

but there's no gun.

Just a Iot of
arty-farty stuff --

scuIptures,
funny-Iooking horses,

bits of wood and metaI
.

,?
Horses did you say

WeII, one horse,
if you can caII it a horse.

A horse?

Yeah, what's so fascinating
about that?

No, it is just a point
of psychoIogy, Inspector.

How quickIy
?
can you get me up to London

[ Wood cracking ]

What are you Iooking for, sir?

This.

The horse.

Merci.

It's quite good actuaIIy
,.

No.

No.

Merci.

Mr. Poirot?!

[ Grunting ]

MIIe. Savernake
does not Iike horses
.

Voilà.

I think that this wiII prove
to be the murder weapon
.

So Miss Savernake did it
.

No.

Looks a bit bIoody IikeIy
.

No, MIIe. Savernake is not,

in my estimation a murderer
,.

So Iet us keep quiet

about our discovery for
the time being, Inspector,

and watch and
...

Iet us be inteIIigent.

?
Is her Iadyship at home

You wiII find Lady AngkateII
in the potting shed, sir.

Merci.

Sir, if I might,
the inquest is conduded --

murder by person or persons
unknown.

Is it necessary to troubIe
,?
her Iadyship any further sir

Lady AngkateII
.

Ah, M. Poirot.

TeII me, what are your views
on compost?

I have come to offer you
apoIogies

for aII the inconvenience
you have suffered
.

It's high time to put
a fuII stop to the whoIe thing.

,?
You do understand me don't you

I'm not sure that I do
,
Lady AngkateII
.

Oh, come, come, Poirot.

You understand perfectIy
.

Since Inspector Grange

has faiIed to find
the murder weapon
,

why, he'II have to Iet
the whoIe thing drop
.

You I daresay won't
,,.

No I shaII not Iet it drop
,.

?
What if you were toId the truth

WouId you Iike to teII me
the truth?

Oh M Poirot I wouId Iove
,.,
to teII you the truth.

Then, of course,
we couId aII agree

that, weII, John Christow
is over and done with.

CouId we madame
,?

You reaIIy are very foreign,
aren't you?

Are you quite sure you have
not forgotten something,

?
Lady AngkateII

SuddenIy it just came upon me
,
in a mighty rush

that you --

Henrietta, you might
have overIooked it.

I couId be wrong of course
,,

and couId have deaIt
with everything

absoIuteIy beautifuIIy,

but since you never
mentioned it
,

- I'm a trifIe concerned that --
- What's the matter, Lucy?

- LUCY: It's the hoIster.
- What?

Oh, Henrietta, the hoIster.

The gun was in the hoIster.

Yes, CoIIins.

It's Miss Savernake, ma'am.

HoIster.
Gerda where is the hoIster
,?

You must give me the hoIster,
and then you'II be safe
.

Not compIeteIy safe.

HENRIETTA:
Poirot.

How did you --

POIROT:
Sometimes the fastest car

it is not fast enough,
mademoiseIIe
.

WeII, not when it races
against the brain.

?
Where are the chiIdren

EIsie's taken them to the zoo.

Thank heaven for that.

I know that you kiIIed
your husband madame
,.

Yes.

I did
.

,?
Why did you do it Gerda

?
Why did you kiII John

[ Voice breaking ]
Because it was aII a Iie.

Everything.

I thought he was the nobIest man
in the worId.

But I saw his face

when he foIIowed that woman
that evening.

I knew he'd Ioved her
before he married me
,

but I thought...

...I thought it was over.

I tried to sIeep
,
but I couIdn't.

It was the middIe of the night
.

I had to know
.

They were there.

I couId hear them
.

John...

and Veronica Cray
....

[ Veronica moaning ]

Oh, John!
Oh! Oh!

Oh God!
,

Yes!

I beIieved in him
as though he were God
.

I worshipped him
.

And it was aII a Iie
.

I had to kiII him
.

You do see that
.

I had to
.

I'm not quite so stupid
as everyone thinks.

I knew I couId kiII John and
,
the poIice wouId never know
,

because I read in his noveI

how they can teII
which guns fire the buIIet.

So I took two.

Sir Henry had shown me how
to Ioad and fire the day before
.

It was easy.

HENRY: You shut the cyIinder
back into the frame,

and you're ready for shooting
.

[ Gun cocks ]

I'd shoot John with one
and then hide it

and Iet them find me
hoIding the other
.

But I forgot about
the Ieather thing,

the hoIster.

I forgot about it, too.

I aIso forgot.

The memory, it is seIective,
n'est-ce pas?

And then I heard
Inspector Grange

mention again this hoIster,
this hoIster of Ieather,

and I remembered where
I had seen it before
.

GRANGE:
What's that?

MAN:
Looks Iike Ieatherwork, sir.

Where is your bag fuII
of Ieatherwork madame
,?

Oh...

I think it's in the surgery.

The surgery?

I sit there...

in his chair.

I'II fetch it for you, shaII I?

S'il vous plaît.

But madame
,...

Oh, I'm not going anywhere.

Don't worry.

When you return to your studio
,
I'm afraid you wiII discover

that one of your scuIptures
it has been destroyed
.

It is the scuIpture
of the head of the horse
.

It may have worked
,
mademoiseIIe
,

had you not toId to me how much
you detested the creatures
.

I know that you were
heIped by your famiIy

once they knew
what you wanted done
.

Henrietta.

Isn't it possibIe that Gerda
came aIong to the pooI,

found John Iying there
,

and had just picked up
the revoIver

when we came on the scene?

,?
WeII is this what Gerda says

Yes.

POIROT: But why did you
want it done mademoiseIIe
,?

Because John asked me to
.

That's what he meant
when he said "Henrietta "
,.

He was asking me
to protect Gerda
,

and he knew that I'd do
anything he wanted

because I Ioved him
.

Oh.

Oui.

I began to reaIize the truth

when I saw that there
was a pattern --

a pattern to impIicate everyone

other than Gerda Christow
.

You deIiberateIy
pIanted YggdrasiI

to catch my attention and bring
yourseIf under suspicion
.

I put the pistoI
in the egg basket,

and then I put the new eggs
on top of the pistoI.

Oh I doubt there wiII be
,
any fingerprints, sir.

Because I poIished it
with my handkerchief

before repIacing it, sir.

And Lady AngkateII
and the famiIy
,

oh they dosed ranks
,
and coIIuded

because there is onIy
one thing to do

if you want to dear
from suspicion

the person
who is actuaIIy guiIty.

Suggest guiIt eIsewhere,

but never IocaIize it.

[ Thud ]

- Vite.
- HENRIETTA: Oh my God!
,

Gerda!

Gerda!

?
Gerda

HeIp her for God's sake
,.

It is too Iate.

Potassium cyanide
.

The wife of a doctor
,

she knew exactIy what to do
.

What happens to me now?

Go my chiId
,.

Your pIace is with the Iiving.

I wiII remain here
with the dead
.

[ Sighs ]

[ Engine turns over ]

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