1 00:01:15,792 --> 00:01:19,792 [ Children shouting indistinctly ] 2 00:01:21,917 --> 00:01:24,209 You can pour that cup of tea now, darling! 3 00:01:24,542 --> 00:01:25,750 This is the last bit! 4 00:01:26,251 --> 00:01:28,959 Right you are, dear. 5 00:01:31,792 --> 00:01:34,375 [ Indistinct conversations ] 6 00:01:46,459 --> 00:01:48,625 Wouldn't mind having your job, mate -- 7 00:01:49,292 --> 00:01:52,792 standing there, doing nothing all day. 8 00:01:54,126 --> 00:01:55,334 No, easy, now. 9 00:01:56,334 --> 00:01:57,542 And mind the paintwork! 10 00:01:57,709 --> 00:02:01,042 Oh, you and your bloody paintwork. 11 00:02:24,626 --> 00:02:26,125 Leave it there, thank you. 12 00:02:26,626 --> 00:02:27,500 [ Groans ] 13 00:02:27,667 --> 00:02:29,834 And could we have a signature, please? 14 00:02:30,501 --> 00:02:32,375 Certainly. 15 00:02:34,459 --> 00:02:37,250 [ Music playing ] 16 00:02:58,501 --> 00:03:01,625 [ Sneezing ] 17 00:03:06,417 --> 00:03:07,875 Oh, mon Dieu. Ca suffit. 18 00:03:10,001 --> 00:03:11,209 Ah, Mr. Poirot. 19 00:03:12,917 --> 00:03:14,792 You've only done seven minutes. 20 00:03:15,251 --> 00:03:17,750 You'll never cure your cold if you don't obey the instructions. 21 00:03:17,917 --> 00:03:20,125 I can't imagine a method so undignified 22 00:03:20,917 --> 00:03:22,750 can cure anything, Miss Lemon. 23 00:03:23,084 --> 00:03:25,375 And now once more I have the backache, eh? 24 00:03:25,667 --> 00:03:27,292 Has the post come, Miss Lemon? 25 00:03:27,459 --> 00:03:30,000 Yes, and I'm afraid there was nothing for you. 26 00:03:30,251 --> 00:03:31,125 Oh. 27 00:03:31,292 --> 00:03:33,667 It's only been three weeks since your last case. 28 00:03:33,834 --> 00:03:36,459 Three weeks is an eternity to a brain like mine. 29 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:38,667 Without the constant stimulation, 30 00:03:38,834 --> 00:03:40,875 my little gray cells will starve and die. 31 00:03:41,042 --> 00:03:43,667 Already you can see I am suffering the effects. 32 00:03:44,417 --> 00:03:46,709 [ Whimpers ] 33 00:03:52,251 --> 00:03:55,542 [ Music playing ] 34 00:04:10,251 --> 00:04:13,209 [ Laughter ] 35 00:04:34,417 --> 00:04:36,667 [ Knock on door ] 36 00:04:56,709 --> 00:04:58,167 There's a letter for you. 37 00:04:58,917 --> 00:04:59,917 Read it. 38 00:05:01,917 --> 00:05:04,542 "Dear Miss Matthews, I am the new tenant of 36B, 39 00:05:05,084 --> 00:05:06,292 directly below you. 40 00:05:06,459 --> 00:05:08,917 I wonder if I might have a word at your earliest convenience. 41 00:05:09,084 --> 00:05:10,625 Ernestine Grant, Mrs. " 42 00:05:11,376 --> 00:05:13,709 It sounds a bit ominous. What could she want? 43 00:05:13,876 --> 00:05:14,750 Lord knows. 44 00:05:14,917 --> 00:05:16,459 Have you clapped eyes on her? 45 00:05:16,709 --> 00:05:19,334 Probably a complaint about the gramophone or something. 46 00:05:19,501 --> 00:05:20,834 [ Giggles ] 47 00:05:27,126 --> 00:05:28,334 [ Both laugh ] 48 00:05:28,917 --> 00:05:32,292 [ Music continues ] 49 00:05:37,834 --> 00:05:39,250 [ Vehicles passing ] 50 00:05:40,334 --> 00:05:42,167 [ Horn honks ] 51 00:06:21,917 --> 00:06:23,417 [ Horn honks ] 52 00:06:28,209 --> 00:06:29,584 How's the cold, old boy? 53 00:06:30,751 --> 00:06:33,792 And now also you're trying to give me the heart attack? 54 00:06:34,251 --> 00:06:36,750 I wouldn't be surprised if riding in that car 55 00:06:37,126 --> 00:06:39,250 was not responsible for my present malady. 56 00:06:39,417 --> 00:06:42,167 She's much too much of a lady to give anyone a cold. 57 00:06:42,584 --> 00:06:45,292 She's running like a bird since I fitted those new gaskets. 58 00:06:45,459 --> 00:06:47,084 Birds do not run, Hastings. 59 00:06:48,376 --> 00:06:50,375 When you were little, you should have paid more attention 60 00:06:50,542 --> 00:06:52,167 to your lessons in biology. 61 00:06:52,376 --> 00:06:54,542 You're really in a bad way, aren't you? 62 00:06:55,626 --> 00:06:58,459 Well, my friend [sighs] as one approaches the end, 63 00:07:00,334 --> 00:07:02,375 one begins to see life as it truly is. 64 00:07:03,376 --> 00:07:04,584 [ Chuckles ] Don't worry. 65 00:07:04,751 --> 00:07:06,500 I've got something that'll cheer you up. 66 00:07:06,667 --> 00:07:07,542 Really? 67 00:07:07,709 --> 00:07:08,750 A couple of tickets for "The Deadly Shroud." 68 00:07:08,917 --> 00:07:09,792 Hmm? 69 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:11,792 You know, the new murder mystery at Wyndham's. 70 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:14,084 Oh, my dear Hastings, that is most kind, 71 00:07:14,251 --> 00:07:16,125 but how can a mere stage play be compared 72 00:07:16,292 --> 00:07:18,209 to the real-life cases of Hercule Poirot? 73 00:07:18,376 --> 00:07:19,584 Tell you what -- 74 00:07:19,751 --> 00:07:22,959 I'll wager you 10 quid you can't solve "The Deadly Shroud." 75 00:07:23,126 --> 00:07:24,334 You on? 76 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:27,709 Well, the money, of course, is of no importance. 77 00:07:29,876 --> 00:07:32,167 But I find your challenge irresistible. 78 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:35,959 I accept. 79 00:07:55,167 --> 00:07:58,084 [ Doorbell buzzes ] 80 00:08:01,876 --> 00:08:03,084 Oh, it's you. 81 00:08:04,667 --> 00:08:07,750 You better come in. 82 00:08:38,209 --> 00:08:40,292 POIROT: [ Sneezes ] 83 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:42,707 [ Laughter ] 84 00:08:44,584 --> 00:08:46,667 [ Gasping ] 85 00:08:50,542 --> 00:08:52,167 Mother! Are you all right? 86 00:08:52,751 --> 00:08:53,959 Oh, my God! 87 00:08:54,792 --> 00:08:56,667 Help her, someone! 88 00:08:58,001 --> 00:09:00,459 Lady Muriel? 89 00:09:03,751 --> 00:09:07,084 She's dead. 90 00:09:07,709 --> 00:09:10,792 [ Applause ] 91 00:09:18,126 --> 00:09:20,417 [ Coughs ] 92 00:09:23,042 --> 00:09:24,334 [ Indistinct conversations ] 93 00:09:24,501 --> 00:09:26,042 It was the sherry, of course. 94 00:09:27,251 --> 00:09:28,125 What was? 95 00:09:28,292 --> 00:09:29,834 That killed Lady Muriel. 96 00:09:30,209 --> 00:09:31,959 The sherry -- it was poisoned. 97 00:09:32,834 --> 00:09:34,042 Oh. Do you think so? 98 00:09:34,751 --> 00:09:35,542 Mm. 99 00:09:35,709 --> 00:09:38,709 I think that Mrs. Sadler is looking pretty suspicious. 100 00:09:38,876 --> 00:09:40,084 No, no, no. 101 00:09:41,459 --> 00:09:44,500 [ Indistinct conversations ] 102 00:09:45,626 --> 00:09:47,292 Ah. 103 00:09:48,751 --> 00:09:49,959 Whiskey? 104 00:09:50,542 --> 00:09:53,084 No, thank you. 105 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:57,375 Now, don't open this now -- only at the end. 106 00:09:58,459 --> 00:09:59,375 What is it? 107 00:09:59,542 --> 00:10:01,584 The name of the murderer, of course. 108 00:10:01,959 --> 00:10:02,834 Ah. 109 00:10:03,001 --> 00:10:04,042 [ Laughter ] 110 00:10:05,917 --> 00:10:07,334 It's Mlle. Matthews. 111 00:10:09,167 --> 00:10:11,917 Over there, Hastings, the girl in the red dress -- 112 00:10:12,209 --> 00:10:15,250 she lives in the flat below me in Whitehaven Mansions. 113 00:10:15,834 --> 00:10:18,500 An enchanting mademoiselle, n'est-ce pas? 114 00:10:18,834 --> 00:10:20,042 HASTINGS: Yes. 115 00:10:21,417 --> 00:10:22,625 [ Chuckles ] 116 00:10:22,917 --> 00:10:26,084 The question of motive has had me worried, I can tell you. 117 00:10:28,042 --> 00:10:33,417 Why should anyone want to kill Lady Muriel? 118 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:38,417 Who would gain by her death? 119 00:10:40,209 --> 00:10:42,750 The answer, ladies and gentlemen, is nobody. 120 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:44,875 Hmm. 121 00:10:45,042 --> 00:10:46,250 MAN: Why? 122 00:10:47,167 --> 00:10:50,042 Because Lady Muriel was never the intended victim. 123 00:10:52,792 --> 00:10:54,000 No. 124 00:10:55,209 --> 00:10:58,250 The person who should have drunk the poisoned sherry, 125 00:10:59,334 --> 00:11:01,375 the person for whom it was intended, 126 00:11:02,292 --> 00:11:03,792 was the missing son and heir 127 00:11:04,459 --> 00:11:07,000 who stood to inherit Lady Muriel's fortune -- 128 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:12,334 Major Sadler. 129 00:11:14,709 --> 00:11:16,584 Only one other person in this room 130 00:11:18,709 --> 00:11:20,459 knew of this well-kept secret 131 00:11:21,876 --> 00:11:24,750 and stood to gain from the major's death -- his wife. 132 00:11:27,584 --> 00:11:31,000 Am I not correct, Mrs. Sadler? 133 00:11:32,834 --> 00:11:33,709 Oh! 134 00:11:33,876 --> 00:11:35,750 Oh, but that's -- that's absurd. 135 00:11:36,042 --> 00:11:37,542 The writer is an imbecile. 136 00:11:37,834 --> 00:11:40,584 MAN: Oh, yes, Mrs. Sadler, your plan was clever -- 137 00:11:41,251 --> 00:11:43,417 so clever that it almost had me fooled. 138 00:11:44,042 --> 00:11:46,084 But I noticed that... 139 00:11:49,792 --> 00:11:53,709 ...what did happen to the missing glass. 140 00:11:58,251 --> 00:12:00,334 Perhaps it is time I retire, Hastings. 141 00:12:00,501 --> 00:12:03,167 I say, Poirot, you're beginning to make me feel badly 142 00:12:03,334 --> 00:12:04,209 about all this. 143 00:12:04,376 --> 00:12:05,750 No, no, no, no, not at all. 144 00:12:05,917 --> 00:12:07,875 Hercule Poirot is a man of his word, 145 00:12:09,667 --> 00:12:11,292 even if the playwright is not. 146 00:12:12,584 --> 00:12:14,292 We were not given all the facts. 147 00:12:15,542 --> 00:12:17,625 It was only at the end that we discover 148 00:12:18,167 --> 00:12:20,875 that Major Sadler is Lady Muriel's [gasps] son. 149 00:12:21,251 --> 00:12:22,459 [ Sneezes ] 150 00:12:23,751 --> 00:12:27,459 And that theater has made my cold even worse. 151 00:12:29,792 --> 00:12:30,750 [ Laughter ] 152 00:12:30,917 --> 00:12:33,334 Of course I did. I got it at the end of act one. 153 00:12:34,834 --> 00:12:36,875 [ Indistinct conversations ] 154 00:12:37,042 --> 00:12:38,250 [ Laughter ] 155 00:12:40,167 --> 00:12:43,209 I knew it was that Mr. Sadler right from the beginning. 156 00:12:43,501 --> 00:12:45,250 Takes one to know one, I suppose. 157 00:12:45,417 --> 00:12:46,292 [ Laughs ] 158 00:12:46,459 --> 00:12:48,834 It was that dress she wore in the first act. 159 00:12:49,209 --> 00:12:50,417 I mean, it was so -- Ugh. 160 00:12:50,751 --> 00:12:51,917 Oh, I can't find my key. 161 00:12:52,084 --> 00:12:54,417 Perhaps you just forgot to bring it, darling. 162 00:12:54,584 --> 00:12:55,500 Of course I didn't. 163 00:12:55,667 --> 00:12:57,709 I'm not a complete nincompoop, Donovan. 164 00:12:57,876 --> 00:12:58,959 I always bring my key. 165 00:12:59,126 --> 00:13:00,917 Actually, I saw her put it in her bag before we left. 166 00:13:01,084 --> 00:13:01,959 There, you see? 167 00:13:02,126 --> 00:13:03,834 The point is, how are we going to get in? 168 00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:05,792 Well, the night porter will be off duty now. 169 00:13:05,959 --> 00:13:07,167 Donovan, darling, you wouldn't care to be a cat burglar, 170 00:13:07,334 --> 00:13:08,209 would you? 171 00:13:08,376 --> 00:13:09,250 No, Pat. 172 00:13:09,417 --> 00:13:10,625 I think even among cat burglars, 173 00:13:10,792 --> 00:13:12,334 a fourth-floor flat might be regarded 174 00:13:12,501 --> 00:13:13,875 as rather a reckless proposition. 175 00:13:14,042 --> 00:13:15,334 Is there a fire escape? 176 00:13:16,459 --> 00:13:17,959 No, but there's a coal vent. 177 00:13:19,292 --> 00:13:20,167 That's a point. 178 00:13:20,334 --> 00:13:22,042 It's loaded in the basement of the flats 179 00:13:22,209 --> 00:13:24,042 and goes up to a hatch in the kitchen. 180 00:13:24,209 --> 00:13:26,709 We put the dustbins on it, as well, and send them down. 181 00:13:26,876 --> 00:13:28,000 Won't the hatch be bolted? 182 00:13:28,167 --> 00:13:29,667 I never really bother to bolt mine. 183 00:13:29,834 --> 00:13:30,709 It's too stiff. 184 00:13:30,876 --> 00:13:32,792 Well, it's worth a try, wouldn't you say? 185 00:13:32,959 --> 00:13:34,167 Absolutely. 186 00:13:34,626 --> 00:13:36,042 [ Laughs ] 187 00:13:40,459 --> 00:13:42,584 POIROT: [ Coughing ] 188 00:13:51,209 --> 00:13:53,417 Oh, really, my dear chap, it's not necessary. 189 00:13:53,584 --> 00:13:54,875 Only a bit of fun, you know. 190 00:13:55,042 --> 00:13:56,250 No, no, no, no, no. 191 00:13:56,792 --> 00:13:58,000 �10 we agreed. 192 00:13:59,167 --> 00:14:00,375 �10 it shall be. 193 00:14:01,376 --> 00:14:04,750 [ Metal squeaking ] 194 00:14:06,084 --> 00:14:07,917 Qui est-ce? 195 00:14:11,376 --> 00:14:14,792 The carrier? It is late to put out a dustbin. 196 00:14:25,292 --> 00:14:28,875 Hastings, be so kind as to extinguish the light. 197 00:14:36,126 --> 00:14:37,000 [ Man exhales sharply ] 198 00:14:37,167 --> 00:14:38,459 DONOVAN: This'll be it. 199 00:14:38,626 --> 00:14:39,959 JIMMY: Are you sure? 200 00:14:40,334 --> 00:14:43,250 DONOVAN: Of course I'm bloody sure. 201 00:14:44,001 --> 00:14:46,084 [ Doors creak ] 202 00:14:50,459 --> 00:14:51,917 JIMMY: Put the light on. 203 00:14:52,126 --> 00:14:53,959 DONOVAN: No, they won't work. 204 00:14:54,626 --> 00:14:56,375 JIMMY: Try the sitting room. 205 00:14:57,251 --> 00:14:58,709 DONOVAN: All right. 206 00:15:05,542 --> 00:15:06,959 Looks like burglars. 207 00:15:07,126 --> 00:15:08,625 No, no, no, I do not think so. 208 00:15:09,376 --> 00:15:11,417 They are wearing the evening dress. 209 00:15:12,167 --> 00:15:13,625 A moment. 210 00:15:15,417 --> 00:15:17,250 of cherries 211 00:15:18,584 --> 00:15:19,875 212 00:15:20,626 --> 00:15:22,084 213 00:15:22,292 --> 00:15:24,167 you worry so 214 00:15:26,209 --> 00:15:28,959 when you go, go, go 215 00:15:30,417 --> 00:15:32,500 it's the berries 216 00:15:33,334 --> 00:15:35,209 must fall 217 00:15:37,126 --> 00:15:39,875 to you were just loaned 218 00:15:41,084 --> 00:15:43,625 what you've never owned? 219 00:15:44,959 --> 00:15:46,792 of cherries 220 00:15:48,001 --> 00:15:49,500 221 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:52,375 [ Both laugh ] 222 00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:55,125 [ Thudding ] 223 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:01,167 What on earth's Pat been up to? 224 00:16:01,959 --> 00:16:04,250 Everything's in the wrong bloody place. 225 00:16:05,209 --> 00:16:06,584 This isn't Pat's flat. 226 00:16:07,126 --> 00:16:09,792 Jeepers. 227 00:16:10,459 --> 00:16:12,125 "Mrs. Ernestine Grant. " 228 00:16:12,959 --> 00:16:14,667 Oh, Lord, we're in 36B, not 46B. 229 00:16:16,334 --> 00:16:18,750 I suggest we get out of here before she finds us. 230 00:16:18,917 --> 00:16:20,125 [ Snoring ] 231 00:16:20,584 --> 00:16:22,500 [ Both laugh ] 232 00:16:26,084 --> 00:16:28,334 Look. 233 00:16:33,667 --> 00:16:36,125 Good God. 234 00:16:48,542 --> 00:16:50,375 of cherries 235 00:16:51,584 --> 00:16:52,792 236 00:16:53,042 --> 00:16:54,500 237 00:16:55,167 --> 00:16:57,042 you worry so 238 00:16:58,042 --> 00:17:00,792 when you go, go, go 239 00:17:02,667 --> 00:17:03,959 240 00:17:04,126 --> 00:17:05,334 What are we going to do? 241 00:17:06,126 --> 00:17:07,167 I don't know. 242 00:17:07,334 --> 00:17:09,209 must fall 243 00:17:10,417 --> 00:17:11,625 DONOVAN: Pat! Mildred! 244 00:17:11,792 --> 00:17:13,500 Something's happened. 245 00:17:13,834 --> 00:17:15,042 What is it? 246 00:17:15,459 --> 00:17:17,625 JIMMY: There's a dead woman down here. 247 00:17:17,834 --> 00:17:19,459 PAT: Oh, my God. 248 00:17:21,709 --> 00:17:24,334 [ Footsteps ] 249 00:17:40,626 --> 00:17:41,834 Jimmy? 250 00:17:42,376 --> 00:17:44,542 Uh, this is Jimmy Faulkner, M. Poirot. 251 00:17:46,501 --> 00:17:48,000 Ah, good evening, Mr. Faulkner. 252 00:17:48,792 --> 00:17:50,000 Not the M. Poirot? 253 00:17:50,542 --> 00:17:51,750 Well... 254 00:17:52,167 --> 00:17:53,917 Yes, he lives in the flat above me. 255 00:17:54,084 --> 00:17:56,167 Oh, gosh, I didn't know. This is an honor, sir. 256 00:17:56,334 --> 00:17:57,542 Well, thank you. 257 00:17:58,959 --> 00:18:00,209 You see, Hastings? 258 00:18:00,751 --> 00:18:04,000 I am still a force to be calculated. 259 00:18:07,459 --> 00:18:12,250 So, the doors were unbolted. 260 00:18:16,917 --> 00:18:18,584 You walk across the kitchen. 261 00:18:20,042 --> 00:18:22,209 And you say the light did not switch on. 262 00:18:23,959 --> 00:18:26,334 JIMMY: No, the bulb had gone or something. 263 00:18:27,459 --> 00:18:28,959 Ah. 264 00:18:38,042 --> 00:18:39,084 How very odd. 265 00:18:39,251 --> 00:18:41,334 Maybe there's a loose connection. 266 00:18:42,126 --> 00:18:44,292 Or perhaps the bulb has been replaced. 267 00:18:44,959 --> 00:18:45,959 [ Snoring ] 268 00:18:48,917 --> 00:18:52,417 We heard that sound before, sir. 269 00:19:25,584 --> 00:19:27,125 It is the domestic, the maid. 270 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:30,625 We will let her sleep for the moment. 271 00:19:31,167 --> 00:19:33,709 [ Alarm ringing ] 272 00:19:45,459 --> 00:19:47,334 You better watch your step, lads. 273 00:19:47,626 --> 00:19:50,042 This is where the famous private detective 274 00:19:50,334 --> 00:19:51,750 Mr. Hercule Poirot lives. 275 00:19:51,917 --> 00:19:53,542 So, Donovan and I came in here. 276 00:19:53,834 --> 00:19:56,917 I mean, we still thought we were in Miss Matthew's flat. 277 00:19:57,334 --> 00:20:00,209 And then we put the light on and realized we weren't, 278 00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:01,959 and then we saw the body. 279 00:20:02,334 --> 00:20:03,209 POIROT: Ah. 280 00:20:03,376 --> 00:20:05,084 She has been dead for some time. 281 00:20:06,042 --> 00:20:07,500 What, hours, do you mean? 282 00:20:08,167 --> 00:20:09,542 What is that on your hand? 283 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:11,750 What? 284 00:20:11,917 --> 00:20:13,125 Oh. What's that? 285 00:20:14,626 --> 00:20:16,042 My God, I think it's blood. 286 00:20:16,667 --> 00:20:18,542 HASTINGS: Did you touch the body? 287 00:20:18,751 --> 00:20:19,750 No! 288 00:20:22,417 --> 00:20:24,834 So, the crime was committed at the table... 289 00:20:29,417 --> 00:20:32,625 and then the body was moved to the window. 290 00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:35,667 DONOVAN: It is blood. 291 00:20:38,126 --> 00:20:40,334 Hastings, be so kind as to go downstairs 292 00:20:40,667 --> 00:20:42,084 and ask M. Dicker what time 293 00:20:42,292 --> 00:20:44,209 the last post was delivered this evening. 294 00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:45,292 Right. 295 00:20:45,459 --> 00:20:46,667 Hastings. 296 00:20:46,959 --> 00:20:47,875 Japp. 297 00:20:48,042 --> 00:20:49,917 Ah, my dear Chief Inspector Japp. 298 00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:53,542 You'll be having murders in your back bedroom next, Poirot. 299 00:20:55,834 --> 00:20:57,375 Right. Who's the victim? 300 00:20:57,542 --> 00:20:59,000 Mrs. Ernestine Grant. 301 00:21:00,417 --> 00:21:02,417 Apparently, she only moved in to the flat today. 302 00:21:02,584 --> 00:21:04,792 And how was the body found? 303 00:21:06,292 --> 00:21:09,042 Well, I'm afraid that's rather a long story, Chief Inspector. 304 00:21:09,209 --> 00:21:10,417 It would be. 305 00:21:10,667 --> 00:21:14,709 I shall want statements from everybody. 306 00:21:23,376 --> 00:21:24,542 Omelet for you, Mildred? 307 00:21:24,709 --> 00:21:25,625 Oh, I couldn't. 308 00:21:25,792 --> 00:21:28,542 I suppose you're inured to this sort of thing, M. Poirot? 309 00:21:28,709 --> 00:21:31,542 No, no, no, on the contrary. I think it is very nice. 310 00:21:32,126 --> 00:21:33,750 You know, Mlle. Patricia, 311 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:36,750 I once loved a very young, beautiful English girl 312 00:21:37,626 --> 00:21:39,334 who resembled you greatly. 313 00:21:39,501 --> 00:21:41,125 But, alas, she could not cook. 314 00:21:41,584 --> 00:21:42,792 [ Light laughter ] 315 00:21:42,959 --> 00:21:44,917 And the relationship withered. 316 00:21:45,084 --> 00:21:48,500 No, I meant -- Well, you know, poor Mrs. Grant and everything. 317 00:21:51,542 --> 00:21:53,917 Mlle. Patricia, a little bread, perhaps? 318 00:21:54,626 --> 00:21:55,500 Mm. 319 00:21:55,667 --> 00:21:57,750 It is essential to keep up the strength 320 00:21:57,917 --> 00:21:58,834 of my little gray cells. 321 00:21:59,001 --> 00:21:59,875 [ Chuckles ] 322 00:22:00,042 --> 00:22:01,500 You seem a little better, sir. 323 00:22:01,667 --> 00:22:03,334 Thank you. I am feeling better. 324 00:22:03,501 --> 00:22:04,959 Doesn't seem real at all. 325 00:22:05,584 --> 00:22:07,334 It's like a little play or something. 326 00:22:07,501 --> 00:22:10,250 A better play, I trust, than the farrago we saw this evening. 327 00:22:10,417 --> 00:22:11,375 Oh, didn't you like it? 328 00:22:11,542 --> 00:22:13,375 Oh, we all thought it was terrific. 329 00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:15,500 Ah, I beg to differ -- on the contrary. 330 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,375 We were not given all the facts. 331 00:22:17,584 --> 00:22:20,792 The facts, as presented, pointed to Chivers, the butler. 332 00:22:20,959 --> 00:22:22,250 Oh, do you think so, sir? 333 00:22:22,459 --> 00:22:23,542 There's no question. 334 00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:24,584 Consider his position. 335 00:22:24,751 --> 00:22:28,000 He was the only person who had the motive and the opportunity 336 00:22:28,167 --> 00:22:29,292 to poison the sherry. 337 00:22:29,459 --> 00:22:30,500 And then the writer 338 00:22:30,667 --> 00:22:33,417 has this character of a simple, plodding policeman 339 00:22:33,584 --> 00:22:35,625 speaking a windbag of the summing up 340 00:22:35,792 --> 00:22:38,000 and resting his whole case on the infantile subplot -- 341 00:22:38,167 --> 00:22:39,375 [ Knock on door ] 342 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:40,875 The door was open. 343 00:22:41,042 --> 00:22:42,917 Come in, Inspector. 344 00:22:45,417 --> 00:22:47,792 Well, it looks like a pretty cut-and-dried matter. 345 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:50,000 Not worth your while, I'm afraid, Poirot. 346 00:22:50,167 --> 00:22:52,125 But that woman's Mrs. Grant, all right. 347 00:22:52,292 --> 00:22:53,375 The maid identified her. 348 00:22:53,542 --> 00:22:54,750 She was shot at the table 349 00:22:54,917 --> 00:22:56,959 with a small-caliber automatic pistol. 350 00:22:57,126 --> 00:22:59,834 She fell forward, which accounts for the blood on the cloth. 351 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:02,292 JIMMY: So, somebody actually shot her in cold blood? 352 00:23:02,459 --> 00:23:04,334 That's the way it looks, sir, yes. 353 00:23:04,667 --> 00:23:05,792 How dreadful. 354 00:23:05,959 --> 00:23:07,209 And the time of death? 355 00:23:07,876 --> 00:23:10,250 The doctor estimates between five and six hours ago. 356 00:23:10,417 --> 00:23:12,584 None of you noticed anyone unusual in the flats 357 00:23:12,751 --> 00:23:13,917 around that time, I suppose? 358 00:23:14,084 --> 00:23:15,584 Mildred arrived just after lunch, 359 00:23:15,751 --> 00:23:18,459 and we didn't go out until Jimmy and Donovan came to collect us 360 00:23:18,626 --> 00:23:19,709 for the theater at about 7: 00, wasn't it? 361 00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:20,709 Mm. 362 00:23:20,876 --> 00:23:22,167 And you got back at what time? 363 00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:23,709 JIMMY: Oh, 10: 30 or so. 364 00:23:24,251 --> 00:23:25,542 What does the maid say? 365 00:23:27,084 --> 00:23:28,292 Ah, Miss Trotter. 366 00:23:29,292 --> 00:23:30,500 Excuse me. 367 00:23:31,917 --> 00:23:33,750 I assume she had the evening off. 368 00:23:34,042 --> 00:23:36,542 She went out at 5: 00 and got back about 10: 00, 369 00:23:36,876 --> 00:23:38,834 letting herself in with her own key. 370 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:40,584 She noticed nothing unusual? 371 00:23:40,751 --> 00:23:42,542 She thought her mistress was in bed -- 372 00:23:42,709 --> 00:23:44,875 never thought to look behind the packing cases. 373 00:23:45,042 --> 00:23:46,459 That's very curious. 374 00:23:48,626 --> 00:23:49,834 Curious? 375 00:23:50,042 --> 00:23:51,334 To try and hide the body. 376 00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:56,834 Didn't want the crime discovered until he made his getaway. 377 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:58,209 Perhaps. 378 00:23:59,084 --> 00:24:00,292 Well, mm, but... 379 00:24:02,334 --> 00:24:03,375 Oh, pardon. 380 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:04,667 Please continue, Chief Inspector. 381 00:24:04,834 --> 00:24:06,667 Well, we found this on the floor, 382 00:24:07,792 --> 00:24:09,500 dropped in his haste, I expect. 383 00:24:09,959 --> 00:24:12,459 Take a look at the corner, Poirot. 384 00:24:14,584 --> 00:24:15,459 "J.F." 385 00:24:15,626 --> 00:24:17,084 That's right-- "J.F." 386 00:24:17,959 --> 00:24:19,167 Now take a look at this. 387 00:24:19,584 --> 00:24:23,084 This was found in the pocket of the dead woman's dress. 388 00:24:27,834 --> 00:24:30,209 "If it suits you, I will come this evening. 389 00:24:31,167 --> 00:24:32,375 Shall we say 6: 00? 390 00:24:33,501 --> 00:24:34,709 Frazer." 391 00:24:35,542 --> 00:24:38,042 An incriminating document for this Frazer. 392 00:24:38,376 --> 00:24:39,667 Oh, I think we may take it 393 00:24:40,084 --> 00:24:42,375 that J.F. and Frazer are one and the same. 394 00:24:42,917 --> 00:24:44,292 A John Frazer, perhaps. 395 00:24:44,459 --> 00:24:46,500 We'll get a line on him in due course. 396 00:24:47,209 --> 00:24:48,125 [ Knock on door ] 397 00:24:48,292 --> 00:24:49,375 Chief Inspector, sir? 398 00:24:54,084 --> 00:24:56,667 Miss Trotter here was wondering if she can go home now, sir. 399 00:24:56,834 --> 00:24:59,125 I'm going to stay at my sister's, if that's all right. 400 00:24:59,292 --> 00:25:01,417 I couldn't sleep here, not tonight. I couldn't. 401 00:25:01,584 --> 00:25:02,584 Yes, that'll be all right for now. 402 00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:03,959 Oh, thank you, sir. 403 00:25:04,959 --> 00:25:06,292 Excuse me, mademoiselle. 404 00:25:06,459 --> 00:25:07,542 Yes, sir? 405 00:25:07,709 --> 00:25:09,792 Permit me, if I may, to ask you the question. 406 00:25:09,959 --> 00:25:11,167 TROTTER: Yes, sir. 407 00:25:11,334 --> 00:25:12,542 When you returned to the flat 408 00:25:12,709 --> 00:25:14,417 belonging to Mrs. Grant this evening, 409 00:25:14,584 --> 00:25:16,084 did you enter the sitting room? 410 00:25:16,251 --> 00:25:17,125 Oh, yes, sir. 411 00:25:17,292 --> 00:25:19,584 I collected the evening post on my way up, 412 00:25:20,126 --> 00:25:23,667 and I left the letters for Mrs. Grant on the sitting-room table. 413 00:25:24,167 --> 00:25:26,709 And you noticed nothing strange in that room? 414 00:25:27,417 --> 00:25:29,334 No, sir, nothing. 415 00:25:30,626 --> 00:25:32,000 Thank you very much, mademoiselle. 416 00:25:32,167 --> 00:25:33,209 Thank you, sir. 417 00:25:33,376 --> 00:25:35,625 Good night. 418 00:25:36,709 --> 00:25:37,917 Ah, Poirot. 419 00:25:40,084 --> 00:25:42,959 Apparently, the last post arrived at 9: 00 this evening. 420 00:25:43,126 --> 00:25:44,084 Thank you, Hastings. 421 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:45,459 And according to Dicker, 422 00:25:45,626 --> 00:25:47,542 nobody out of the ordinary came in and out of the building 423 00:25:47,709 --> 00:25:48,792 all night. 424 00:25:48,959 --> 00:25:49,875 Uh-huh. 425 00:25:50,042 --> 00:25:53,292 Inspector, please. 426 00:25:55,709 --> 00:25:57,000 A little favor, if I may. 427 00:25:57,626 --> 00:25:58,500 Here we go. 428 00:25:58,667 --> 00:26:01,834 I would like to examine the flat belonging to Mrs. Grant. 429 00:26:02,917 --> 00:26:04,625 There's nothing there, Poirot. 430 00:26:04,792 --> 00:26:06,000 Well... 431 00:26:07,126 --> 00:26:09,334 I've put out a call for this John Frazer. 432 00:26:09,626 --> 00:26:11,459 We find him, that's the end of it. 433 00:26:11,751 --> 00:26:12,959 As you say. 434 00:26:15,501 --> 00:26:17,125 Well, then. 435 00:26:19,917 --> 00:26:22,000 Oh, examine it as much as you like. 436 00:26:37,542 --> 00:26:38,750 You all right? 437 00:26:40,209 --> 00:26:42,459 I'm all right. 438 00:26:44,667 --> 00:26:46,709 You're shivering. You must be cold. 439 00:26:48,001 --> 00:26:52,292 It's just this terrible thing with Mrs. Grant. 440 00:26:53,376 --> 00:26:55,167 I know. 441 00:26:57,417 --> 00:26:59,500 We were having such a lovely evening. 442 00:27:00,959 --> 00:27:03,334 And we'll have lots more lovely evenings. 443 00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:07,541 [ Engine turns over ] 444 00:27:09,626 --> 00:27:10,834 Do you see that? 445 00:27:11,126 --> 00:27:12,000 Hmm? 446 00:27:12,167 --> 00:27:14,584 They're taking her away. 447 00:27:15,626 --> 00:27:17,042 Shocking business. 448 00:27:17,376 --> 00:27:20,709 And she only moved in this morning. 449 00:27:32,167 --> 00:27:34,375 Let us, my friends, consider the facts. 450 00:27:35,584 --> 00:27:38,875 First, the letter, which was found at the scene of the crime 451 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:42,875 and with the name John Frazer written on the bottom. 452 00:27:43,876 --> 00:27:45,334 Then the handkerchief 453 00:27:45,834 --> 00:27:48,459 with the monogram "J.F." marked on one corner. 454 00:27:49,959 --> 00:27:52,709 So, it would appear -- Would it not, my friends? -- 455 00:27:53,084 --> 00:27:56,250 that this man, John Frazer, was careless, n'est-ce pas? 456 00:27:56,459 --> 00:27:59,292 Mm. 457 00:28:06,834 --> 00:28:10,375 Poirot, why are you rummaging around in the dustbin? 458 00:28:12,751 --> 00:28:13,959 POIROT: Aha. 459 00:28:14,792 --> 00:28:16,000 I thought so. 460 00:28:18,751 --> 00:28:19,959 Voil�. 461 00:28:21,459 --> 00:28:22,667 [ Sniffing ] 462 00:28:24,126 --> 00:28:25,417 Pardon. I have a cold. 463 00:28:26,251 --> 00:28:28,084 Would you be so kind, M. Donovan? 464 00:28:29,209 --> 00:28:30,417 Thank you. 465 00:28:30,626 --> 00:28:32,042 [ Sniffs ] 466 00:28:33,751 --> 00:28:34,792 Oh, no, no, no! 467 00:28:34,959 --> 00:28:37,334 Why did he take off the lid? That is stupid! 468 00:28:38,084 --> 00:28:39,292 [ Sighs ] 469 00:28:40,417 --> 00:28:42,792 Jimmy, fetch some brandy, if you please -- 470 00:28:43,501 --> 00:28:45,042 in the sitting room, I think. 471 00:28:45,959 --> 00:28:48,459 Hastings... 472 00:28:55,667 --> 00:28:57,375 [ Groans ] What happened? 473 00:28:58,626 --> 00:29:00,709 POIROT: Here. Drink this, my friend. 474 00:29:01,251 --> 00:29:02,667 You are fortunate, M. Bailey. 475 00:29:02,834 --> 00:29:05,584 It could have been worse -- even poison, perhaps. 476 00:29:05,959 --> 00:29:07,417 You must be more careful. 477 00:29:08,917 --> 00:29:10,667 [ Groans ] It kicked like a mule. 478 00:29:11,376 --> 00:29:12,667 Feeling any better? 479 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:14,209 I think so, thanks. 480 00:29:15,959 --> 00:29:16,834 Ohh. 481 00:29:17,001 --> 00:29:18,209 Oh, mon Dieu. 482 00:29:19,126 --> 00:29:21,667 Hastings, take him upstairs to the flat, huh? 483 00:29:22,459 --> 00:29:24,334 Perhaps prepare for him some coffee. 484 00:29:24,501 --> 00:29:26,250 I'm sure I'll be fine now, thanks. 485 00:29:26,417 --> 00:29:28,167 No, no, no, no, no, no, I insist. 486 00:29:28,542 --> 00:29:29,834 You are still weak, yes? 487 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:32,042 I suppose I do feel a bit wonky still. 488 00:29:32,292 --> 00:29:35,125 Better come along, old chap, take it easy for a bit. 489 00:29:35,334 --> 00:29:36,209 Ohh. 490 00:29:36,376 --> 00:29:38,209 Hastings, make sure M. Bailey is very comfortable, 491 00:29:38,376 --> 00:29:41,209 because, Hastings... I am anxious for his health. 492 00:29:43,917 --> 00:29:46,459 Right. 493 00:30:03,126 --> 00:30:04,917 So, what now, sir? 494 00:30:06,959 --> 00:30:08,167 Now, Jimmy? 495 00:30:09,876 --> 00:30:11,084 Nothing. 496 00:30:12,042 --> 00:30:13,375 The case is finished. 497 00:30:14,542 --> 00:30:15,667 Finished? 498 00:30:15,834 --> 00:30:18,459 Oh, yes, my friend. 499 00:30:19,959 --> 00:30:23,334 I now know everything. 500 00:30:47,709 --> 00:30:49,375 JIMMY: I don't understand, sir. 501 00:30:49,542 --> 00:30:52,000 Have they arrested this Frazer chap already? 502 00:30:52,167 --> 00:30:53,542 There is no Frazer chap. 503 00:30:56,834 --> 00:30:58,042 He is the name only, 504 00:30:59,084 --> 00:31:01,625 the name carefully marked on a handkerchief, 505 00:31:04,334 --> 00:31:06,709 the name written on the bottom of a letter, 506 00:31:06,917 --> 00:31:09,584 which was placed in the pocket of the dead woman, 507 00:31:09,751 --> 00:31:10,667 where we would find it. 508 00:31:10,834 --> 00:31:11,709 Good lord. 509 00:31:11,876 --> 00:31:14,750 But who changed the light bulb in the kitchen, then? 510 00:31:15,167 --> 00:31:17,584 No one. The light -- it works to perfection. 511 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:21,542 It was a ruse to get you into this sitting room. 512 00:31:22,751 --> 00:31:25,584 Come. I show you. 513 00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:29,875 You see, Jimmy, with the light on, 514 00:31:30,459 --> 00:31:31,667 it is obvious at once 515 00:31:31,917 --> 00:31:34,542 that this is not the kitchen of Mile. Patricia. 516 00:31:35,126 --> 00:31:36,250 You would have had no reason 517 00:31:36,417 --> 00:31:37,625 to go into the sitting room, would you? 518 00:31:37,792 --> 00:31:38,834 � No. � No. 519 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:40,250 Jimmy, what is this? 520 00:31:42,084 --> 00:31:43,292 The key to this flat? 521 00:31:44,042 --> 00:31:45,250 [ Chuckles ] No. 522 00:31:45,917 --> 00:31:47,792 It is the key to the flat upstairs, 523 00:31:48,542 --> 00:31:50,417 the key to Mile. Patricia's flat. 524 00:31:52,417 --> 00:31:54,709 M. Bailey stole this key, Jimmy, from her bag, 525 00:31:54,876 --> 00:31:57,000 and I presume sometime during the evening. 526 00:31:57,167 --> 00:31:58,084 Donovan stole it? 527 00:31:58,251 --> 00:31:59,125 Yes. 528 00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:00,375 What on earth for? 529 00:32:00,542 --> 00:32:02,334 To prevent you all from going into her flat 530 00:32:02,501 --> 00:32:03,542 when you came back from the theater. 531 00:32:03,709 --> 00:32:04,625 But why would he want -- 532 00:32:04,792 --> 00:32:05,667 Mon Dieu! 533 00:32:05,834 --> 00:32:07,875 To drive you into this flat instead! 534 00:32:09,126 --> 00:32:11,750 To drive you, my friend, into the service lift. 535 00:32:13,167 --> 00:32:14,792 But where did you find the key? 536 00:32:16,876 --> 00:32:19,959 Where I expected to find it -- in the pocket of M. Bailey. 537 00:32:23,876 --> 00:32:26,750 You see, Jimmy, I only pretended to find this bottle 538 00:32:28,376 --> 00:32:29,584 in the rubbish bin. 539 00:32:30,167 --> 00:32:32,000 I had it in my pocket all the time. 540 00:32:33,376 --> 00:32:34,750 But I hand it to M. Bailey. 541 00:32:35,876 --> 00:32:37,167 He sniffs it and -- Pff! 542 00:32:38,167 --> 00:32:40,042 In this bottle is ethyl chloride, 543 00:32:42,084 --> 00:32:44,334 a most powerful instant anesthetic. 544 00:32:46,209 --> 00:32:49,042 So, for the few moments, M. Bailey is unconscious. 545 00:32:50,626 --> 00:32:51,875 But it is time enough, 546 00:32:52,876 --> 00:32:55,625 while you are in this room, to fetch the brandy... 547 00:32:57,792 --> 00:33:00,625 for me to take the two items from M. Bailey's pocket 548 00:33:01,126 --> 00:33:02,417 that I knew I would find there. 549 00:33:02,584 --> 00:33:03,792 Yes, but -- 550 00:33:03,959 --> 00:33:06,250 Now, now, now, now, patience, my friend, 551 00:33:06,626 --> 00:33:08,375 and you will learn everything. 552 00:33:08,542 --> 00:33:09,750 I ask myself, 553 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:13,542 "Why hide the body behind the packing cases?" 554 00:33:17,001 --> 00:33:18,209 To gain time? 555 00:33:19,459 --> 00:33:20,667 Yes. 556 00:33:21,042 --> 00:33:24,375 But for the very special reason. 557 00:33:25,376 --> 00:33:27,542 You see, Jimmy, earlier this evening, 558 00:33:27,876 --> 00:33:31,417 the murderer entered this flat in order to take something, huh? 559 00:33:31,834 --> 00:33:34,250 But that something was nowhere to be found, 560 00:33:34,709 --> 00:33:36,792 so it was necessary for him to return, 561 00:33:37,584 --> 00:33:40,000 but only after the last post was delivered. 562 00:33:40,792 --> 00:33:43,334 So, he had to hide the body behind the curtain. 563 00:33:46,751 --> 00:33:49,167 Then Mlle. Trotter, the domestic, enters, 564 00:33:49,626 --> 00:33:52,792 sees nothing unusual, places the last post on the table, 565 00:33:53,376 --> 00:33:54,584 and retires to bed. 566 00:33:56,251 --> 00:33:58,125 And what's that letter then, sir? 567 00:33:59,334 --> 00:34:00,792 Ah, this letter, Jimmy? 568 00:34:02,584 --> 00:34:05,667 This was the second item I took from M. Bailey's pocket. 569 00:34:07,251 --> 00:34:12,167 It was this letter that he was so desperate to find. 570 00:34:14,751 --> 00:34:17,250 Are you saying, then, that Donovan murdered Mrs. Grant? 571 00:34:17,417 --> 00:34:18,625 Exactement. 572 00:34:19,334 --> 00:34:20,417 But why? 573 00:34:20,584 --> 00:34:22,084 He didn't even know Mrs. Grant. 574 00:34:22,251 --> 00:34:23,875 Why should he want to kill her? 575 00:34:24,417 --> 00:34:26,334 Ah. 576 00:34:29,626 --> 00:34:31,084 Jimmy, before I tell you, 577 00:34:34,334 --> 00:34:35,959 allow me to ask you a question. 578 00:34:37,209 --> 00:34:38,584 It is a most personal one. 579 00:34:40,501 --> 00:34:42,542 Are you in love with Mile. Patricia? 580 00:34:43,792 --> 00:34:46,167 Oh, come on, come on, come on. Don't be shy. 581 00:34:46,917 --> 00:34:48,459 If I were your age, monsieur, 582 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:52,375 without doubt, I, too, would be in love with her. 583 00:34:53,959 --> 00:34:56,917 Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I care for Pat damnably, 584 00:34:57,084 --> 00:34:59,209 but of course she's engaged to Donovan. 585 00:34:59,376 --> 00:35:02,042 Well, she will need you once his trouble is known. 586 00:35:02,209 --> 00:35:03,084 How do you mean? 587 00:35:03,251 --> 00:35:05,417 Once this case becomes public, Jimmy, 588 00:35:05,959 --> 00:35:07,292 it will be very difficult 589 00:35:07,459 --> 00:35:09,417 to keep her name out of it entirely. 590 00:35:09,751 --> 00:35:12,792 You see, Mlle. Patricia was the motive for the murder. 591 00:35:15,126 --> 00:35:17,500 � [ Metal clangs ] � HASTINGS: Poirot! 592 00:35:17,667 --> 00:35:18,667 Vite! 593 00:35:18,834 --> 00:35:21,874 Poirot, he's made a dash for it! 594 00:35:25,792 --> 00:35:28,292 Constable, stop that man in the lift. Hurry. 595 00:35:29,167 --> 00:35:30,375 And you, Jimmy. 596 00:36:39,959 --> 00:36:42,292 Well, there's not a sign of him out there, sir. 597 00:36:42,459 --> 00:36:44,542 That's dashed odd. He can't have got far. 598 00:36:44,709 --> 00:36:47,084 Ah, your friend is not a fool, M. Faulkner. 599 00:36:47,792 --> 00:36:49,959 He presses the button inside the lift, 600 00:36:50,251 --> 00:36:52,417 but does not descend himself -- voil�. 601 00:36:52,751 --> 00:36:54,125 [ Metal squeaking ] 602 00:36:56,417 --> 00:36:59,209 Quick -- the basement! 603 00:37:18,876 --> 00:37:20,250 MAN: He's down there. 604 00:37:20,459 --> 00:37:22,000 [ Footsteps approaching ] 605 00:37:42,292 --> 00:37:44,750 [ Grunts ] 606 00:37:48,209 --> 00:37:49,417 Nothing here. 607 00:37:50,459 --> 00:37:53,250 Must have been something else we heard, M. Poirot. 608 00:37:53,417 --> 00:37:55,875 I think we'd better go back upstairs, eh? 609 00:39:22,042 --> 00:39:23,792 Nothing around the back, sir? 610 00:39:24,126 --> 00:39:25,000 Not a thing. 611 00:39:25,167 --> 00:39:28,084 He just disappeared, disappeared altogether. 612 00:39:28,376 --> 00:39:30,917 Grown men do not vanish into thin air, mon ami. 613 00:39:31,459 --> 00:39:32,709 HASTINGS: Well, he did. 614 00:39:32,876 --> 00:39:33,917 [ Engine turns over ] 615 00:39:39,542 --> 00:39:41,667 [ Tires screech ] 616 00:39:44,501 --> 00:39:46,375 No! 617 00:39:54,251 --> 00:39:55,459 [ Steam hissing ] 618 00:39:56,334 --> 00:39:57,584 Oh, my God, Donovan! 619 00:39:58,876 --> 00:40:01,834 M. Bailey! M. Bailey! 620 00:40:05,376 --> 00:40:07,792 I'd better call an ambulance, sir, I think. 621 00:40:08,084 --> 00:40:09,584 POIROT: Is he badly hurt? 622 00:40:09,917 --> 00:40:13,792 Oh, my God. 623 00:40:32,709 --> 00:40:35,334 That front axle's just sheered right through. 624 00:40:36,209 --> 00:40:37,750 Oh, mon pauvre Hastings. 625 00:40:38,084 --> 00:40:39,375 But you must not brood. 626 00:40:39,959 --> 00:40:41,709 You must occupy yourself, eh? 627 00:40:42,209 --> 00:40:44,584 Go and telephone the Chief Inspector Japp 628 00:40:45,376 --> 00:40:48,334 and tell him we have caught his fish, eh? 629 00:40:53,459 --> 00:40:54,625 What's happened to Donovan? 630 00:40:54,792 --> 00:40:58,542 It'll need a whole new front end. 631 00:41:16,417 --> 00:41:19,084 M. Bailey, please give me the letter you have just taken 632 00:41:19,251 --> 00:41:20,250 from the table. 633 00:41:28,959 --> 00:41:32,167 Thank you, monsieur. 634 00:41:36,626 --> 00:41:37,834 Jimmy, be so kind 635 00:41:38,376 --> 00:41:41,000 as to read us this letter written to Mrs. Grant. 636 00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:47,292 Well, it looks as if it comes from a solicitor's. 637 00:41:48,376 --> 00:41:51,542 "Dear Madam, we return the document you forwarded to us. 638 00:41:53,334 --> 00:41:54,542 It is quite in order, 639 00:41:54,751 --> 00:41:57,792 and the fact of the marriage having taken place abroad 640 00:41:58,084 --> 00:41:59,959 does not invalidate it in any way. 641 00:42:00,376 --> 00:42:02,917 Yours truly, " et cetera, et cetera. 642 00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:07,167 So, Jimmy, you ask why Mrs. Grant, huh? 643 00:42:10,751 --> 00:42:13,334 Et bien -- voil�. 644 00:42:14,459 --> 00:42:16,167 The marriage certificate 645 00:42:17,042 --> 00:42:20,417 between Donovan Grant and Ernestine Trapshaw, dated 1930. 646 00:42:22,876 --> 00:42:24,292 Who's Donovan Grant? 647 00:42:26,792 --> 00:42:32,209 He now calls himself Donovan Bailey. 648 00:42:35,834 --> 00:42:37,042 I wanted a divorce. 649 00:42:38,876 --> 00:42:40,167 I begged Ernestine, 650 00:42:40,792 --> 00:42:42,000 but she refused, 651 00:42:42,501 --> 00:42:45,292 said she'd never let me free. 652 00:42:47,501 --> 00:42:50,917 After I fell in love with Pat, Ernestine started hounding me, 653 00:42:52,084 --> 00:42:54,375 telephoned me every day, held it over me, 654 00:42:54,876 --> 00:42:57,167 threatening to tell Pat everything. 655 00:42:59,334 --> 00:43:02,667 Drove me mad. 656 00:43:06,501 --> 00:43:09,167 And she suddenly announced she'd taken a flat here, 657 00:43:09,334 --> 00:43:10,625 right underneath Pat's. 658 00:43:12,501 --> 00:43:13,875 I couldn't believe it. 659 00:43:15,584 --> 00:43:18,417 By then, I knew she was crazy enough to do anything. 660 00:43:20,042 --> 00:43:23,792 So, what happened yesterday, monsieur? 661 00:43:28,084 --> 00:43:30,125 Ernestine called me in the afternoon... 662 00:43:32,542 --> 00:43:34,209 ...said she'd written to Pat 663 00:43:35,126 --> 00:43:37,959 to arrange to see her to tell her the truth about us. 664 00:43:39,917 --> 00:43:42,000 Well, I naturally assumed the worst. 665 00:43:43,626 --> 00:43:46,042 I knew I had to do something once and for all. 666 00:43:46,542 --> 00:43:47,917 [ Doorbell buzzes ] 667 00:43:49,126 --> 00:43:51,667 I called around to her flat around about 6: 00. 668 00:43:52,876 --> 00:43:54,042 Oh, it's you. 669 00:43:54,209 --> 00:43:56,125 You'd better come in. 670 00:44:08,667 --> 00:44:09,875 Drink? 671 00:44:11,667 --> 00:44:14,292 You've absolutely no right to go hounding Pat. 672 00:44:14,792 --> 00:44:16,875 But I'm not hounding her, my darling. 673 00:44:17,459 --> 00:44:20,417 I'm simply telling her what a rotten bounder you are, 674 00:44:20,626 --> 00:44:23,709 promising to marry her when you're already married to me. 675 00:44:23,876 --> 00:44:27,125 We got married in Switzerland, Ernestine, if you remember. 676 00:44:27,292 --> 00:44:29,084 It doesn't count under British law. 677 00:44:29,251 --> 00:44:32,084 So you keep telling me. 678 00:44:34,001 --> 00:44:36,375 But I thought I'd test your little theory, 679 00:44:36,917 --> 00:44:40,125 so I sent my solicitor a copy of our marriage certificate. 680 00:44:40,834 --> 00:44:43,584 He's telephoned me to say it's completely valid. 681 00:44:44,167 --> 00:44:46,459 And he's written back to me to confirm it. 682 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:48,209 Show me. 683 00:44:49,251 --> 00:44:51,209 I haven't received his letter yet. 684 00:44:51,459 --> 00:44:53,875 It'll arrive in the evening post, I expect. 685 00:44:55,834 --> 00:44:58,792 It's going to be quite a shock for poor Miss Matthews. 686 00:44:59,167 --> 00:45:00,917 I'm warning you, Ernestine, 687 00:45:01,834 --> 00:45:03,417 if you approach Pat, so help me God, I'll kill you. 688 00:45:03,584 --> 00:45:04,584 I swear it. 689 00:45:04,751 --> 00:45:06,459 [ Laughing ] Oh, Donovan. 690 00:45:07,501 --> 00:45:08,750 Don't make me laugh. 691 00:45:09,542 --> 00:45:10,750 [ Laughs ] 692 00:45:11,126 --> 00:45:14,417 Now, run along and try and impress somebody else, will you? 693 00:45:14,834 --> 00:45:16,042 [ Chuckles ] 694 00:45:17,292 --> 00:45:18,584 Poor Miss Matthews. 695 00:45:20,667 --> 00:45:22,834 You really have let her down, Donovan. 696 00:45:23,459 --> 00:45:24,334 [ Chuckles ] 697 00:45:24,501 --> 00:45:26,375 [ Gunshots ] 698 00:45:40,626 --> 00:45:42,459 [ Thud ] 699 00:45:43,459 --> 00:45:47,375 DONOVAN: I warned her, you see. 700 00:45:48,542 --> 00:45:51,417 But she wouldn't listen. 701 00:45:53,626 --> 00:45:58,292 Afterwards, I went back home and changed for the theater. 702 00:46:00,626 --> 00:46:06,000 I couldn't let her hurt Pat like that, could I? 703 00:46:11,667 --> 00:46:13,167 Ah, my dear Chief Inspector. 704 00:46:13,334 --> 00:46:15,167 I came as fast as I could, Poirot. 705 00:46:15,584 --> 00:46:17,792 No, no, my friend, you came just in time. 706 00:46:18,167 --> 00:46:20,959 The case is closed. 707 00:46:55,001 --> 00:46:56,667 Jimmy, go to Mile. Patricia. 708 00:46:59,376 --> 00:47:00,625 She doesn't want me. 709 00:47:01,167 --> 00:47:02,375 She wants him. 710 00:47:02,542 --> 00:47:04,834 No, no, no, no, no, mon ami. She needs you. 711 00:47:06,292 --> 00:47:09,917 Go on. Go to her. 712 00:47:30,417 --> 00:47:32,459 Hanging's too good for some people. 713 00:47:33,042 --> 00:47:34,792 Basically, what you've got here, Hastings, 714 00:47:34,959 --> 00:47:37,000 is some very expensive scrap metal. 715 00:47:39,042 --> 00:47:42,209 Hastings, my friend, Poirot is as magnanimous in defeat 716 00:47:44,042 --> 00:47:45,459 as he is modest in victory. 717 00:47:46,501 --> 00:47:47,375 Ah, yes? 718 00:47:47,542 --> 00:47:48,750 In view of the fact 719 00:47:49,084 --> 00:47:51,792 that you are going to need every penny you can get 720 00:47:52,834 --> 00:47:55,375 to restore this beautiful machine to health, 721 00:47:56,251 --> 00:48:00,250 I have decided to pay up... 722 00:48:02,751 --> 00:48:04,000 ...and be content. 723 00:48:04,417 --> 00:48:05,625 I say. 724 00:48:07,292 --> 00:48:08,500 Thanks, old boy. 725 00:48:09,251 --> 00:48:12,292 Think nothing of it...old boy. 726 00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:41,875 Good morning, Miss Lemon. 727 00:48:42,042 --> 00:48:43,667 Good morning, Mr. Poirot. 728 00:48:44,376 --> 00:48:46,334 And what a beautiful morning it is. 729 00:48:47,251 --> 00:48:48,459 Lovely. 730 00:48:48,709 --> 00:48:51,792 I hear you've been having all sorts of excitement here. 731 00:48:52,167 --> 00:48:54,542 No, it was nothing -- a case like any other. 732 00:48:55,001 --> 00:48:56,875 I got your friar's balsam for you. 733 00:48:57,709 --> 00:48:58,625 My what? 734 00:48:58,792 --> 00:49:00,459 Your inhalant for your cold. 735 00:49:00,834 --> 00:49:02,750 Poirot does not have colds, Miss Lemon. 736 00:49:02,917 --> 00:49:03,792 It is well known 737 00:49:03,959 --> 00:49:06,500 that Poirot scorns all but the gravest afflictions. 738 00:49:06,667 --> 00:49:08,209 But yesterday you were -- 739 00:49:08,751 --> 00:49:11,084 Miss Lemon, yesterday was yesterday. 740 00:49:13,709 --> 00:49:16,834 My tisane, if you please.