1 00:02:57,959 --> 00:02:59,083 - I don't know about this, Poirot. 2 00:02:59,375 --> 00:03:00,916 - Oh, but I can assure you, Chief Inspector, 3 00:03:01,209 --> 00:03:02,958 it is of the quality most fine. 4 00:03:03,250 --> 00:03:05,708 - Well, I'm sure, but-- - Yes, sir. 5 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,333 - Have you got a nice bit of scrag end? 6 00:03:08,625 --> 00:03:10,333 - Scrag end, sir? 7 00:03:10,625 --> 00:03:11,708 - Ah, no, no, no, no. 8 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,708 No, Chief Inspector, the scrag end, 9 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,499 it is an animal native to Isleworth, huh? 10 00:03:16,792 --> 00:03:19,124 It does not, I think, habituate here as well. 11 00:03:19,417 --> 00:03:22,458 No, no, no, no, might I suggest the muscle de filet mignon, 12 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:27,374 cooked au poivre avec la sauce b�arnaise? 13 00:03:27,667 --> 00:03:28,708 - All right, then. 14 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,916 - Thank you, sir. 15 00:03:32,375 --> 00:03:34,791 - And the good Madame Japp, she is away for how long? 16 00:03:35,084 --> 00:03:36,333 - Another week. 17 00:03:36,625 --> 00:03:38,749 Should have been my holiday too, you know, Poirot. 18 00:03:39,042 --> 00:03:41,541 - So the, um, how do you call it, then? 19 00:03:41,834 --> 00:03:43,666 The leaving, it has been canceled. 20 00:03:43,959 --> 00:03:45,499 - All leave canceled, yes. 21 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:47,249 It's these men from Jarrow. 22 00:03:47,542 --> 00:03:49,041 We've got 200 of 'em heading for London, 23 00:03:49,334 --> 00:03:52,249 and suddenly the government's reading the Riot Act. 24 00:03:52,542 --> 00:03:54,083 - But even so, Chief Inspector, 25 00:03:54,375 --> 00:03:55,541 it gives you the chance, once again, 26 00:03:55,834 --> 00:03:58,083 to enjoy the life of the single man, n'est-ce pas? 27 00:03:58,375 --> 00:03:59,999 - I'm not sure about enjoy. 28 00:04:00,292 --> 00:04:01,458 - Sir? 29 00:04:01,750 --> 00:04:04,541 That will be six shillings. 30 00:04:04,834 --> 00:04:06,583 - I beg your pardon? 31 00:04:08,459 --> 00:04:10,749 Six shillings for a piece of meat? 32 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:13,208 That's three days of housekeeping, Poirot. 33 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:15,958 - Jarrow marchers, spare some money, sir? 34 00:04:16,250 --> 00:04:18,041 - Hold on a minute, Poirot. 35 00:04:18,334 --> 00:04:20,583 - Can you spare six pence, sir, for the Jarrow marchers? 36 00:04:20,875 --> 00:04:22,041 - Not anymore, I can't. 37 00:04:22,334 --> 00:04:23,166 - Any change? 38 00:04:23,459 --> 00:04:24,874 Jarrow marchers. 39 00:04:25,167 --> 00:04:27,374 Spare some change for the marchers, sir? 40 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:32,999 - Ah, you are reading of Sir Arthur Stanley. 41 00:04:33,292 --> 00:04:34,208 - Yes. 42 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:35,624 - He is a champion, is he not, 43 00:04:35,917 --> 00:04:37,166 of the men marching now to London. 44 00:04:37,459 --> 00:04:38,666 - That's right. 45 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:40,124 I met him once, 46 00:04:40,417 --> 00:04:42,499 about ten years ago. 47 00:04:42,792 --> 00:04:43,999 - You are an admirer of his? 48 00:04:44,292 --> 00:04:47,583 - I wouldn't say that. 49 00:04:47,875 --> 00:04:49,541 Well, I best be getting back, Poirot. 50 00:04:49,834 --> 00:04:51,916 I've got the dusting to do. 51 00:04:52,209 --> 00:04:54,333 - Ah, but, Chief Inspector, 52 00:04:54,625 --> 00:04:56,541 now is the time to consider your dessert. 53 00:04:56,834 --> 00:04:58,083 - That's all right, Poirot. 54 00:04:58,375 --> 00:05:01,416 I think I'll forget about the dessert. 55 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:44,291 - American? 56 00:05:44,584 --> 00:05:46,541 - That's right. Sally Finch. 57 00:05:46,834 --> 00:05:47,874 - On holiday? 58 00:05:48,167 --> 00:05:50,333 - No, I'm studying English literature. 59 00:05:50,625 --> 00:05:53,958 I've just had a week's vacation in Amsterdam. 60 00:06:01,459 --> 00:06:03,874 - It is me, Leonard Bateson. 61 00:06:07,084 --> 00:06:08,249 Thank you. 62 00:06:13,792 --> 00:06:15,583 I should have warned you, Sally. 63 00:06:15,875 --> 00:06:19,041 They don't like young people, students, or foreigners. 64 00:06:19,334 --> 00:06:20,458 - Are you two traveling together? 65 00:06:20,750 --> 00:06:21,708 - Yes. 66 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,874 - Well, let's have a look inside there. 67 00:07:15,459 --> 00:07:17,749 - 68%, Nigel. 68 00:07:18,042 --> 00:07:19,958 That's the number of jobless in Jarrow. 69 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:21,874 - Where is Jarrow? 70 00:07:22,167 --> 00:07:24,999 - Oh! But that's just the point. 71 00:07:25,292 --> 00:07:27,499 That's why they're marching here. 72 00:07:27,792 --> 00:07:28,583 - Hi. 73 00:07:28,834 --> 00:07:30,874 - Welcome back, the weary travelers. 74 00:07:31,167 --> 00:07:32,541 - How was Amsterdam, Sally? 75 00:07:32,834 --> 00:07:34,541 - Oh, it was wonderful. 76 00:07:34,834 --> 00:07:35,916 - It was just the journey back. 77 00:07:36,209 --> 00:07:37,291 It was hell. 78 00:07:37,584 --> 00:07:39,541 Do you know they nearly arrested me for smuggling? 79 00:07:39,834 --> 00:07:40,666 - Smuggling what? 80 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:41,874 - 100 cigarettes. 81 00:07:42,167 --> 00:07:42,958 - Well, maybe that's why 82 00:07:43,250 --> 00:07:44,333 the police are coming here, then. 83 00:07:44,625 --> 00:07:45,624 - The police? 84 00:07:45,917 --> 00:07:47,208 - They're not coming here, are they? 85 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:49,416 - Guilty conscience, Celia? 86 00:07:49,709 --> 00:07:50,583 What do they want? 87 00:07:50,875 --> 00:07:51,833 - I don't know. 88 00:07:52,125 --> 00:07:53,749 Ma Hubbard told me just now. 89 00:07:54,042 --> 00:07:56,249 They're investigating something. 90 00:07:56,542 --> 00:07:58,333 - Maybe it's something to do with all these thefts. 91 00:07:58,625 --> 00:07:59,791 It's about time. 92 00:08:00,084 --> 00:08:02,208 - They wouldn't call the police for that, 93 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:04,333 would they? 94 00:08:04,625 --> 00:08:06,749 - I don't know. 95 00:08:07,042 --> 00:08:09,333 Anyway, I have to make a call. 96 00:08:09,625 --> 00:08:10,874 I'll see you. 97 00:08:13,292 --> 00:08:16,124 - You seem to have rattled our American friend, Patricia. 98 00:08:16,417 --> 00:08:18,416 Maybe she's the one with the guilty conscience. 99 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:22,791 - They're sending a constable this evening. 100 00:08:23,084 --> 00:08:25,708 It's about some poor man shot in Soho. 101 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,166 The police think he was a foreigner, 102 00:08:28,459 --> 00:08:29,541 maybe a student. 103 00:08:29,834 --> 00:08:31,666 - And that's why they're checking here? 104 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:34,749 - Yes, they're visiting all the student hostels, 105 00:08:35,042 --> 00:08:36,999 as if we don't have problems enough. 106 00:08:37,292 --> 00:08:39,333 - It's still happening, then. 107 00:08:39,625 --> 00:08:41,166 - Why, yes. 108 00:08:41,459 --> 00:08:46,041 I mean, a stethoscope, cigarette lighter, bracelet, 109 00:08:46,334 --> 00:08:49,166 box of boracic powder-- the list goes on and on. 110 00:08:49,459 --> 00:08:52,541 - You know, I could have a word with Mr. Poirot. 111 00:08:53,625 --> 00:08:55,416 - Oh, no. 112 00:08:55,709 --> 00:08:56,833 Don't be silly, Felicity, dear. 113 00:08:57,125 --> 00:08:58,999 No, it's our problem. We'll deal with it. 114 00:08:59,292 --> 00:09:01,333 - Ah, there you are. 115 00:09:01,625 --> 00:09:03,499 - Good afternoon, Mrs. Nicoletis. 116 00:09:03,792 --> 00:09:05,166 I don't believe you've met my sister. 117 00:09:05,459 --> 00:09:06,458 - Your sister, no. 118 00:09:06,750 --> 00:09:08,124 It's you I must speak with, Mrs. Hubbard. 119 00:09:08,417 --> 00:09:09,291 These bills! 120 00:09:09,584 --> 00:09:10,916 - I was just about to leave. 121 00:09:11,209 --> 00:09:13,208 - Oh, please, Mrs. Nicoletis, can't this wait? 122 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:15,416 - Well, all right, you can stay. 123 00:09:15,709 --> 00:09:17,291 We can talk tomorrow or the day after, 124 00:09:17,584 --> 00:09:20,291 but soon, before I ruin. 125 00:09:22,667 --> 00:09:25,249 - That was Mrs. Nicoletis. 126 00:09:25,542 --> 00:09:26,874 She owns the hostel. 127 00:09:27,167 --> 00:09:28,166 - Nicoletis. 128 00:09:28,459 --> 00:09:30,416 That's a Greek name, isn't it? 129 00:09:30,709 --> 00:09:31,583 - Yes. 130 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:34,624 - I suppose that explains it. 131 00:11:01,167 --> 00:11:03,583 - Quick, quick! 132 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:05,374 Give it to me. 133 00:11:08,292 --> 00:11:10,374 I go now. 134 00:11:16,625 --> 00:11:19,083 Ah, good evening, Officer. 135 00:11:19,375 --> 00:11:22,374 Go in, go in. 136 00:11:26,375 --> 00:11:28,541 - Ah, good evening, Officer. 137 00:11:28,834 --> 00:11:30,041 Ah, do come through. 138 00:11:30,334 --> 00:11:31,791 The students are waiting for you, 139 00:11:32,084 --> 00:11:34,208 if you'd care to come this way. 140 00:11:52,542 --> 00:11:55,999 - Mm, these are good, 141 00:11:56,292 --> 00:11:57,916 the best yet. 142 00:12:02,667 --> 00:12:07,458 Christina, what's the matter? 143 00:12:07,750 --> 00:12:10,083 - I frightened, Giorgios. 144 00:12:10,375 --> 00:12:12,291 I have enough. 145 00:12:12,584 --> 00:12:13,583 - You're afraid? 146 00:12:13,875 --> 00:12:14,916 What, of the police? 147 00:12:15,209 --> 00:12:18,374 - No, not the police. 148 00:12:18,667 --> 00:12:22,083 I losing control. 149 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,083 - No, no, no, no, no. 150 00:12:34,250 --> 00:12:35,958 No c'est imposible. 151 00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:38,166 Miss Lemon. 152 00:12:49,209 --> 00:12:54,749 Miss Lemon, there are three mistakes in this letter. 153 00:13:04,959 --> 00:13:05,999 - Oh, Mr. Poirot. 154 00:13:06,292 --> 00:13:07,999 - Why, it has never happened before, not once, 155 00:13:08,292 --> 00:13:12,041 and now the three errors of typing on the one page. 156 00:13:12,334 --> 00:13:16,083 - Mr. Poirot, I don't know what to say. 157 00:13:16,375 --> 00:13:17,833 - You are perhaps unwell? 158 00:13:18,125 --> 00:13:19,916 - No. 159 00:13:20,209 --> 00:13:22,166 Yes. 160 00:13:22,459 --> 00:13:25,708 I suppose in a way I am. 161 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,666 I've been very worried, Mr. Poirot. 162 00:13:28,959 --> 00:13:30,708 It's my sister, Florence. 163 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,208 - One moment, if you please, Miss Lemon. 164 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:35,083 You have a sister? 165 00:13:35,375 --> 00:13:36,999 - Yes. 166 00:13:37,292 --> 00:13:39,541 She lived in Singapore, but then her husband died, 167 00:13:39,834 --> 00:13:41,999 and now she's the housekeeper at a hostel, 168 00:13:42,292 --> 00:13:44,708 a student hostel in Hickory Road. 169 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,541 - And it is this sister of yours who has a problem? 170 00:13:47,834 --> 00:13:49,624 - Yes. 171 00:13:49,917 --> 00:13:52,583 Things have been disappearing, odd things, 172 00:13:52,875 --> 00:13:55,874 and in a most unusual way. 173 00:13:56,167 --> 00:13:58,041 She's worried, Mr. Poirot, 174 00:13:58,334 --> 00:14:01,374 and I suppose that's what's worrying me. 175 00:14:01,667 --> 00:14:04,416 - I see. 176 00:14:04,709 --> 00:14:05,874 How would it be, Miss Lemon, 177 00:14:06,167 --> 00:14:11,041 if you and I would have tea with your sister this afternoon? 178 00:14:11,334 --> 00:14:13,916 - Could you, Mr. Poirot? 179 00:14:14,209 --> 00:14:16,583 Would you? 180 00:14:17,625 --> 00:14:19,874 - "Stethoscope, cigarette lighter, 181 00:14:20,167 --> 00:14:24,208 "box of boracic powder, electric lightbulbs, 182 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:25,458 evening shoe"-- 183 00:14:25,750 --> 00:14:27,374 - Only the one shoe? 184 00:14:27,667 --> 00:14:30,041 - Yes. 185 00:14:30,334 --> 00:14:32,708 - Please do continue, Madame Hubbard. 186 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,999 - "Silk scarf, rucksack"-- 187 00:14:36,292 --> 00:14:38,583 We found that cut up in the boiler room, 188 00:14:38,875 --> 00:14:40,208 outside in the backyard. 189 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:44,166 And one of the girls, Patricia, lost a diamond ring. 190 00:14:44,459 --> 00:14:46,333 Well, then, we got that back too. 191 00:14:46,625 --> 00:14:47,999 - And how did you get that back, madame? 192 00:14:48,292 --> 00:14:49,791 - Well, it was the most extraordinary thing. 193 00:14:50,084 --> 00:14:51,333 It turned up in the soup. 194 00:14:51,625 --> 00:14:52,749 - It doesn't make any sense at all, 195 00:14:53,042 --> 00:14:54,291 does it, Mr. Poirot? 196 00:14:54,584 --> 00:14:56,999 - No, it is indeed most unusual, Miss Lemon. 197 00:14:57,292 --> 00:14:59,083 Merci. 198 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,541 I must congratulate you, Madame Hubbard. 199 00:15:02,834 --> 00:15:03,624 - I'm sorry? 200 00:15:03,875 --> 00:15:04,874 - No, I must congratulate you 201 00:15:05,167 --> 00:15:08,291 on having a problem so unique and beautiful. 202 00:15:08,584 --> 00:15:10,874 - Oh. 203 00:15:11,167 --> 00:15:14,458 - Madame Hubbard, are you able to describe for me this shoe? 204 00:15:14,750 --> 00:15:15,541 - Oh, certainly. 205 00:15:15,792 --> 00:15:16,583 It was most distinctive. 206 00:15:16,834 --> 00:15:17,958 - Distinctive? 207 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:21,749 - But what are you going to do about it, Mr. Poirot? 208 00:15:22,042 --> 00:15:23,958 - Et bien, to begin with, I must make the acquaintance 209 00:15:24,250 --> 00:15:26,208 of the students who live at number 26 Hickory Road, 210 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,541 but in a matter that will not, how you say, 211 00:15:29,834 --> 00:15:32,291 wake up the suspicion. 212 00:15:45,084 --> 00:15:46,208 - Mrs. Hubbard, 213 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,541 who is this man, Hercule Poirot? 214 00:15:50,834 --> 00:15:53,666 - Mr. Poirot, Mrs. Nicoletis. 215 00:15:53,959 --> 00:15:55,833 He's a famous private detective. 216 00:15:56,125 --> 00:15:57,708 - A private detective, 217 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,208 here, in my hostel? 218 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:02,291 - Well, the students will be very interested. 219 00:16:02,584 --> 00:16:04,416 You don't have any objection, do you? 220 00:16:04,709 --> 00:16:05,958 - No. 221 00:16:06,250 --> 00:16:10,749 Why should I object to Mr. Poirot? 222 00:16:13,417 --> 00:16:14,999 - You'll be able to come, won't you, Patricia? 223 00:16:15,292 --> 00:16:17,291 - Oh, yes, I'll be here. 224 00:16:17,584 --> 00:16:18,499 - No, no, no. 225 00:16:18,792 --> 00:16:20,916 You don't understand, Celia. 226 00:16:21,209 --> 00:16:24,416 Look, I could murder someone if I wanted to, 227 00:16:24,709 --> 00:16:26,749 but only if there was no motive. 228 00:16:27,042 --> 00:16:30,374 - How can I understand when you don't explain it to me, Colin? 229 00:16:30,667 --> 00:16:34,041 - But I have explained it. 230 00:16:34,334 --> 00:16:35,916 - Have you heard about this great detective 231 00:16:36,209 --> 00:16:37,333 we've got coming to see us? 232 00:16:37,625 --> 00:16:39,416 - Yes, Val, I saw Ma Hubbard just now. 233 00:16:39,709 --> 00:16:41,791 - It certainly got Colin going, 234 00:16:42,084 --> 00:16:43,249 I'm afraid. 235 00:16:43,542 --> 00:16:44,833 - I'm just saying murderers get caught 236 00:16:45,125 --> 00:16:46,541 because they have a motive. 237 00:16:46,834 --> 00:16:49,333 Take away the motive, and they are invisible. 238 00:16:49,625 --> 00:16:51,666 - That's a horrible thought. 239 00:16:51,959 --> 00:16:56,083 - Is there any milk left, or has that been stolen as well? 240 00:16:56,375 --> 00:16:57,999 - I finished it. 241 00:17:00,292 --> 00:17:02,958 - If you ask me, that's what we need here, a detective. 242 00:17:03,250 --> 00:17:04,291 - Oh, come on, Patricia. 243 00:17:04,584 --> 00:17:05,958 - No, I hate it here, 244 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:08,958 always wondering what's gonna vanish next. 245 00:17:09,250 --> 00:17:12,083 Maybe this Mr. Poirot will be able to sort it out. 246 00:17:43,750 --> 00:17:46,041 - Miss Lemon. 247 00:17:50,084 --> 00:17:51,999 Merci. 248 00:18:03,292 --> 00:18:05,416 - I'm Celia Austin, Mr. Poirot. 249 00:18:05,709 --> 00:18:08,291 I'm on a part-time course in chemistry. 250 00:18:08,584 --> 00:18:10,124 - Colin McNabb, psychology. 251 00:18:10,417 --> 00:18:13,374 - I'm Patricia Lane. I'm studying politics. 252 00:18:13,667 --> 00:18:14,708 - I'm Sally Finch. 253 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,541 I'm here on a Fulbright scholarship, 254 00:18:16,834 --> 00:18:18,041 studying English lit. 255 00:18:18,334 --> 00:18:22,624 - Valerie Hobhouse, studying fashion and creating it. 256 00:18:22,917 --> 00:18:27,124 - Leonard Bateson, soon to be Dr. Leonard Bateson, 257 00:18:27,417 --> 00:18:29,249 studying medicine. 258 00:18:29,542 --> 00:18:30,541 - And I'm Nigel Chapman, 259 00:18:30,834 --> 00:18:33,999 studying medieval history and archeology. 260 00:18:34,292 --> 00:18:35,874 Well, if that's the introductions over, 261 00:18:36,167 --> 00:18:37,249 let's have the soup, Ma. 262 00:18:37,542 --> 00:18:39,249 I'm starving. 263 00:18:39,542 --> 00:18:42,458 - Are you going to talk to us about crime, Mr. Poirot? 264 00:18:42,750 --> 00:18:45,083 - After the supper, oui. 265 00:18:45,375 --> 00:18:46,958 That is indeed my intention. 266 00:18:47,250 --> 00:18:50,541 - You know, Colin thinks he'd make a good detective. 267 00:18:50,834 --> 00:18:51,916 - Or a good criminal. 268 00:18:52,209 --> 00:18:53,416 - Well, why not? 269 00:18:53,709 --> 00:18:57,166 If you understood the psychology of a crime the way I do, 270 00:18:57,459 --> 00:18:59,041 then you could disguise it. 271 00:18:59,334 --> 00:19:01,708 And that way, you would never be caught. 272 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,083 - What a frightening thought. 273 00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:07,249 - Yes, indeed, but it is wrong. 274 00:19:07,542 --> 00:19:09,958 - Why? 275 00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:13,249 - Because the little gray cells, they see everything. 276 00:19:13,542 --> 00:19:15,166 It is the clues, always the little mistakes 277 00:19:15,459 --> 00:19:17,458 that the criminal ignores, 278 00:19:17,750 --> 00:19:20,041 that opens the door to the psychology 279 00:19:20,334 --> 00:19:23,249 and so to the crime. 280 00:19:23,542 --> 00:19:25,333 - I still think Colin's right. 281 00:19:25,625 --> 00:19:27,624 - You enjoy your dinner, Mr. Poirot. 282 00:19:27,917 --> 00:19:31,124 We'll have time for making speeches later. 283 00:19:34,959 --> 00:19:38,458 - Retsina, Mr. Poirot. 284 00:19:38,750 --> 00:19:41,666 It come from my hometown. 285 00:19:48,709 --> 00:19:53,499 - You see, always the prevention is better than the cure, 286 00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:56,083 and so we try to prevent the murders 287 00:19:56,375 --> 00:19:59,291 before they are committed. 288 00:19:59,584 --> 00:20:00,666 Thank you. 289 00:20:07,042 --> 00:20:08,958 - Now, has anyone got any questions? 290 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:11,166 - Yes, I have one. 291 00:20:11,459 --> 00:20:14,749 What I'd like to know is, 292 00:20:15,042 --> 00:20:18,208 what's your real motive in coming here tonight? 293 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:19,291 - Really, Len. 294 00:20:19,542 --> 00:20:20,416 - Oh, come on, Ma. 295 00:20:20,709 --> 00:20:22,208 You arranged this dinner at short notice 296 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,791 and with Mr. Poirot, of all people. 297 00:20:26,084 --> 00:20:28,208 You've come to investigate us, haven't you? 298 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:30,083 - There hasn't been a murder here, has there? 299 00:20:30,375 --> 00:20:34,166 - No, it's about all the thefts, isn't it? 300 00:20:34,459 --> 00:20:36,624 That's why he's here. 301 00:20:36,917 --> 00:20:38,916 - Oui. 302 00:20:39,209 --> 00:20:43,874 That is indeed why I am here, mademoiselle. 303 00:20:44,167 --> 00:20:45,249 - Well, I'll be. 304 00:20:45,542 --> 00:20:47,208 - Well, it's either Mr. Poirot or the police. 305 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:48,958 We have to do something. 306 00:20:49,250 --> 00:20:52,666 - Yes, but what can you do, move in and spy on us? 307 00:20:52,959 --> 00:20:54,166 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 308 00:20:54,459 --> 00:20:57,791 but I can begin with the return of something to its owner. 309 00:20:58,084 --> 00:20:59,916 S'il vous pla�t, Miss Lemon. 310 00:21:08,209 --> 00:21:10,833 - That's my shoe, 311 00:21:11,125 --> 00:21:12,416 my lost shoe. 312 00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:14,166 - How the hell did you do that? 313 00:21:14,459 --> 00:21:15,791 - You haven't got my lighter, have you? 314 00:21:16,084 --> 00:21:17,124 - And my stethoscope. 315 00:21:17,417 --> 00:21:18,749 - Where did you find it, Mr. Poirot? 316 00:21:19,042 --> 00:21:22,041 - Oh, Mademoiselle Patricia, it was you, was it not, 317 00:21:22,334 --> 00:21:23,666 who had lost a diamond ring? 318 00:21:23,959 --> 00:21:25,291 - Yes, but I found it again. 319 00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:26,958 - In my soup. 320 00:21:27,250 --> 00:21:28,416 - And the soup, it was served then 321 00:21:28,709 --> 00:21:30,374 in exactly the same manner as it was tonight? 322 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:32,124 - Yes. - Ah. 323 00:21:32,417 --> 00:21:33,583 - To hell with the ring. 324 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:36,749 Tell us about the shoe. 325 00:21:37,042 --> 00:21:39,124 - Miss Lemon. 326 00:21:39,417 --> 00:21:42,583 - Acting on Mr. Poirot's instructions, 327 00:21:42,875 --> 00:21:44,124 I picked it up this afternoon 328 00:21:44,417 --> 00:21:48,083 at the London Transport Lost Property Office. 329 00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:49,999 - How did you know to look there? 330 00:21:50,292 --> 00:21:52,749 - A simple process of deduction, mademoiselle. 331 00:21:53,042 --> 00:21:55,541 One shoe, it cannot be worn, 332 00:21:55,834 --> 00:21:57,666 and it is not possible to sell. 333 00:21:57,959 --> 00:21:59,291 Alors the simplest way-- 334 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,541 - Is to leave it on a bus or a train. 335 00:22:01,834 --> 00:22:02,833 - Oui, c'est �a. 336 00:22:03,125 --> 00:22:05,958 That was my guess, and, of course, I was right. 337 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:10,166 The shoe, it was discovered on the bus with a number 42. 338 00:22:10,459 --> 00:22:13,916 Now, that bus, I believe, passes close by. 339 00:22:14,209 --> 00:22:15,249 - That bus goes to the hospital. 340 00:22:15,542 --> 00:22:18,374 - Ah, well, that narrows the field a bit. 341 00:22:18,667 --> 00:22:19,708 I'm studying medicine. 342 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,541 I take that bus every day. 343 00:22:21,834 --> 00:22:23,333 - Come on, Len, you're not the only one. 344 00:22:23,625 --> 00:22:25,249 - I go on that bus too. 345 00:22:25,542 --> 00:22:27,624 I have an afternoon job in the pharmacy. 346 00:22:27,917 --> 00:22:29,249 - Any one of us could have got on that bus. 347 00:22:29,542 --> 00:22:30,541 It doesn't prove anything. 348 00:22:30,834 --> 00:22:33,749 - I am of your opinion, Monsieur Chapman. 349 00:22:34,042 --> 00:22:35,791 Any one of you could be the thief. 350 00:22:36,084 --> 00:22:39,333 - So what do you advise us to do? 351 00:22:44,542 --> 00:22:48,624 - There is something here at Hickory Road that I do not like, 352 00:22:48,917 --> 00:22:51,666 that causes me to fear. 353 00:22:51,959 --> 00:22:54,666 The rucksack that is cut to pieces-- 354 00:22:54,959 --> 00:22:57,208 that is not nice. 355 00:22:57,500 --> 00:22:58,708 You ask my advice? 356 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,458 It is this: go to the police. 357 00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:05,249 Go now, madame. 358 00:23:05,542 --> 00:23:08,124 No time can be lost. 359 00:23:21,042 --> 00:23:23,749 No more diamonds, 360 00:23:24,042 --> 00:23:27,958 not for a long time. 361 00:23:28,250 --> 00:23:30,374 - This man, Poirot-- 362 00:23:30,667 --> 00:23:32,124 - He's dangerous. 363 00:23:32,417 --> 00:23:33,458 - It's nothing to do with us. 364 00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:34,999 We can go on as usual. 365 00:23:35,292 --> 00:23:37,416 - No, Giorgios. 366 00:23:37,709 --> 00:23:38,916 This is my business. 367 00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:40,624 I make the rules. 368 00:23:40,917 --> 00:23:42,499 - Then tell me who's working for you. 369 00:23:42,792 --> 00:23:44,499 Who are you afraid of? 370 00:23:44,792 --> 00:23:48,499 - No, it's better you not know. 371 00:23:48,792 --> 00:23:50,916 Better for you. 372 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,124 - Mr. Poirot, 373 00:23:56,417 --> 00:23:59,708 Celia Austin and Colin McNabb are here to see you 374 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,833 from Hickory Road. 375 00:24:02,125 --> 00:24:04,083 - Please do show them in, Miss Lemon. 376 00:24:15,584 --> 00:24:19,124 - Mr. Poirot, I had to see you. 377 00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:20,583 After what you said last night-- 378 00:24:20,875 --> 00:24:23,916 - Mademoiselle Celia, Monsieur McNabb. 379 00:24:24,209 --> 00:24:26,583 Asseyez, s'il vous pla�t. 380 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,249 - Mr. Poirot, I'm the thief. 381 00:24:35,542 --> 00:24:37,333 I took those things. 382 00:24:37,625 --> 00:24:39,208 - No, you're not a thief, Celia. 383 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:40,624 It's not the right word. 384 00:24:40,917 --> 00:24:42,458 - I feel terrible. 385 00:24:42,750 --> 00:24:44,083 - Look, she couldn't help it. 386 00:24:44,375 --> 00:24:45,499 It's a medical condition. 387 00:24:45,792 --> 00:24:47,291 It's not a case for the police. 388 00:24:47,584 --> 00:24:49,124 - Ah, so you believe, mademoiselle, that you suffer 389 00:24:49,417 --> 00:24:51,166 from the medical condition known as the kleptomania? 390 00:24:51,459 --> 00:24:52,708 - Yes, yes. 391 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,249 I never meant to take anything, but I couldn't help it. 392 00:24:56,542 --> 00:24:58,083 - Celia's going to return everything. 393 00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:01,124 - I can't return the bracelet or the cigarette lighter. 394 00:25:01,417 --> 00:25:03,791 I put them down a gutter. 395 00:25:04,084 --> 00:25:05,458 But I'll buy new ones. 396 00:25:05,750 --> 00:25:07,499 - And what about the stethoscope, mademoiselle? 397 00:25:07,792 --> 00:25:08,749 Where did you put that? 398 00:25:09,042 --> 00:25:10,333 - I didn't take the stethoscope. 399 00:25:10,625 --> 00:25:12,291 I'd never take anything as expensive as that. 400 00:25:12,584 --> 00:25:13,749 - But you stole the diamond ring 401 00:25:14,042 --> 00:25:16,416 belonging to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, did you not? 402 00:25:16,709 --> 00:25:20,333 - Yes, but it was a mistake. 403 00:25:20,625 --> 00:25:22,749 When I realized it was valuable, I returned it. 404 00:25:23,042 --> 00:25:26,833 - Celia told me everything after you went last night. 405 00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:30,208 I think she's been very brave. 406 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:38,708 - Mademoiselle, for which of these thefts 407 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,124 were you not responsible? 408 00:25:42,417 --> 00:25:44,208 Tell me the truth. 409 00:25:48,625 --> 00:25:49,791 - Not Len's rucksack. 410 00:25:50,084 --> 00:25:54,124 I didn't take that, and I didn't cut it up. 411 00:25:54,417 --> 00:25:57,708 Not the lightbulbs, not the boracic powder-- 412 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:58,958 - Come on. 413 00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:01,999 I hope you're satisfied, Mr. Poirot. 414 00:26:03,625 --> 00:26:05,791 - I'm writing to Mrs. Hubbard to apologize, 415 00:26:06,084 --> 00:26:07,208 and I'm going to tell everyone. 416 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:09,249 - Listen, don't worry. 417 00:26:09,542 --> 00:26:12,499 From now on, I'm going to look after you. 418 00:26:15,917 --> 00:26:19,291 - Mademoiselle, what you have done... 419 00:26:21,417 --> 00:26:23,499 It is good. 420 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,583 - No more talk of the police, then? 421 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:28,874 - As far as you are concerned, mademoiselle, 422 00:26:29,167 --> 00:26:31,499 no. 423 00:26:31,792 --> 00:26:33,749 - Thank you, Mr. Poirot. 424 00:26:34,042 --> 00:26:36,874 Just talking to you, I feel better already. 425 00:26:37,167 --> 00:26:40,249 - Mademoiselle, Monsieur McNabb. 426 00:26:40,542 --> 00:26:41,416 Au revoir. 427 00:26:41,709 --> 00:26:43,666 - Come on, Celia. 428 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,333 - You know, Mr. Poirot, 429 00:27:04,625 --> 00:27:08,333 I think we've just been watching a modern love scene. 430 00:27:08,625 --> 00:27:09,458 - Et bien, Miss Lemon. 431 00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:11,208 Nowadays it is the maladjusted lives 432 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,874 and the complexes that bring together the young people. 433 00:27:15,167 --> 00:27:19,291 - Well, Florence will be glad it's all over. 434 00:27:19,584 --> 00:27:21,791 - All over, Miss Lemon? 435 00:27:22,084 --> 00:27:27,416 No, it is now that I fear that it may begin. 436 00:27:35,792 --> 00:27:39,624 - So you went to see the great Monsieur Poirot. 437 00:27:39,917 --> 00:27:43,083 - Yes, he was very kind to me. 438 00:27:43,375 --> 00:27:45,083 You've all been kind. 439 00:27:45,375 --> 00:27:46,374 I don't deserve it. 440 00:27:46,667 --> 00:27:48,041 - Oh, come on, Cee. 441 00:27:48,334 --> 00:27:49,874 Colin's explained. 442 00:27:50,167 --> 00:27:52,916 It wasn't your fault, and you didn't do any real harm. 443 00:27:53,209 --> 00:27:54,583 - Oh, what about my rucksack? 444 00:27:54,875 --> 00:27:55,833 That wasn't cheap, you know. 445 00:27:56,125 --> 00:27:57,333 - That wasn't me, Len. 446 00:27:57,625 --> 00:27:59,791 And I didn't take your stethoscope either. 447 00:28:00,084 --> 00:28:01,041 I told you-- 448 00:28:01,334 --> 00:28:04,624 - Then who was it? 449 00:28:04,917 --> 00:28:06,708 - That's not up to me to tell you. 450 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,624 But I know who it was, and I've spoken to them, 451 00:28:09,917 --> 00:28:12,041 and they've promised to come forward. 452 00:28:12,334 --> 00:28:13,333 - Here you are, Celia. 453 00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:16,083 - Thank you. 454 00:28:16,375 --> 00:28:17,624 - Anyone else for coffee? 455 00:28:17,917 --> 00:28:20,124 - No, thanks, Colin. 456 00:28:21,959 --> 00:28:25,749 I've got some work to do. 457 00:28:26,042 --> 00:28:28,291 - Where is everyone tonight? 458 00:30:08,625 --> 00:30:09,791 - Hello, Pat. 459 00:30:10,084 --> 00:30:11,374 Where are you sneaking in from? 460 00:30:11,667 --> 00:30:12,666 - I wasn't sneaking. 461 00:30:12,959 --> 00:30:14,749 I was at the cinema. 462 00:31:33,125 --> 00:31:36,083 - This is the national program of the BBC. 463 00:31:36,375 --> 00:31:37,541 Here is the news. 464 00:31:37,834 --> 00:31:40,791 The Jarrow marchers arrived last night in Bedford. 465 00:31:41,084 --> 00:31:43,083 They received a warm welcome from the mayor 466 00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:44,749 on behalf of his town. 467 00:31:45,042 --> 00:31:46,583 And in a special church service, 468 00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:49,416 prayers were said for their cause. 469 00:31:49,709 --> 00:31:52,833 The marchers are expected in London in three days' time 470 00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:54,499 for a rally in Hyde Park. 471 00:31:56,084 --> 00:31:57,208 They will also present a petition 472 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,666 with 12,000 signatures. 473 00:31:59,959 --> 00:32:01,166 - Japp here. 474 00:32:01,459 --> 00:32:03,624 - Dead girl down at Hickory Road, sir. 475 00:32:03,917 --> 00:32:05,208 - Right, I'm on my way. 476 00:32:06,834 --> 00:32:08,124 - The marchers are merely exercising 477 00:32:08,417 --> 00:32:11,999 their constitutional right to present a petition. 478 00:32:19,042 --> 00:32:20,249 - What, you here, Poirot? 479 00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:23,916 - Ah, yes, Chief Inspector, I came as soon as I heard. 480 00:32:24,209 --> 00:32:27,166 - Have you been unwell, Chief Inspector? 481 00:32:27,459 --> 00:32:28,583 - What? 482 00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:31,791 No, I'm all right, thank you very much. 483 00:32:32,084 --> 00:32:34,083 Let's go in. 484 00:32:37,084 --> 00:32:39,791 - Who called the police without consulting me? 485 00:32:40,084 --> 00:32:44,374 The police, here in my respectable hostel, is outrage! 486 00:32:44,667 --> 00:32:45,999 - Please, Mrs. Nicoletis-- 487 00:32:46,292 --> 00:32:48,791 - I'm afraid this is a police matter, Mrs. Nicoletis. 488 00:32:49,084 --> 00:32:51,374 - Poirot, you! 489 00:32:51,667 --> 00:32:53,291 It is your fault! 490 00:32:53,584 --> 00:32:55,041 You come here to my hostel. 491 00:32:55,334 --> 00:32:57,499 You frighten my students with your accusation, 492 00:32:57,792 --> 00:32:59,499 and now see the result! 493 00:32:59,792 --> 00:33:00,791 - Come on, now, Mrs. Nicoletis. 494 00:33:01,084 --> 00:33:01,999 Let me take you upstairs. 495 00:33:02,292 --> 00:33:03,124 - No, I not go. 496 00:33:03,417 --> 00:33:04,249 - Now, come along, my dear. 497 00:33:04,542 --> 00:33:06,041 - No. 498 00:33:06,334 --> 00:33:10,291 Why did the detective come here in my hostel? 499 00:33:13,334 --> 00:33:15,333 - Now, this paper, it is of a type used 500 00:33:15,625 --> 00:33:17,916 for the sleeping draft, is it not? 501 00:33:21,417 --> 00:33:23,124 And yet... 502 00:33:25,875 --> 00:33:28,208 - Morphine? - Indeed, sir. 503 00:33:30,792 --> 00:33:33,166 - So Celia Austin was a kleptomaniac. 504 00:33:33,459 --> 00:33:35,416 She admits it to you, and now this. 505 00:33:35,709 --> 00:33:36,666 - Yes. 506 00:33:36,959 --> 00:33:39,208 - Could it have been suicide? 507 00:33:40,750 --> 00:33:42,999 - The sleeping draft exchanged for the poison, 508 00:33:43,292 --> 00:33:45,749 no letter of regret... 509 00:33:46,042 --> 00:33:48,083 No, I think not, Chief Inspector. 510 00:33:48,375 --> 00:33:49,791 - But who would want to kill her? 511 00:33:50,084 --> 00:33:51,999 And why? 512 00:33:52,292 --> 00:33:53,333 Poirot. 513 00:33:53,625 --> 00:33:56,833 - See here, Chief Inspector, there is a fire escape. 514 00:34:01,834 --> 00:34:04,041 It connects also, I see, with the room next door. 515 00:34:04,334 --> 00:34:06,749 - And who has that? 516 00:34:07,042 --> 00:34:09,083 - It belongs, I think, to the American girl, 517 00:34:09,375 --> 00:34:11,583 Mademoiselle Sally Finch. 518 00:34:13,959 --> 00:34:15,999 Mademoiselle Celia, had, as they say, 519 00:34:16,292 --> 00:34:18,999 a room with a view. 520 00:34:22,209 --> 00:34:24,166 I do not believe that Mademoiselle Celia Austin 521 00:34:24,459 --> 00:34:25,541 was a kleptomaniac. 522 00:34:25,834 --> 00:34:26,791 - Well, what was she, then? 523 00:34:27,084 --> 00:34:28,124 - I give it to you as my opinion 524 00:34:28,417 --> 00:34:29,749 that her pilfering of the petty objects 525 00:34:30,042 --> 00:34:30,999 was done with a purpose. 526 00:34:31,292 --> 00:34:32,291 - What purpose? 527 00:34:32,584 --> 00:34:33,583 - Well, let us suppose 528 00:34:33,875 --> 00:34:35,833 that Mademoiselle Celia had the feelings, huh? 529 00:34:36,125 --> 00:34:38,583 The strong feelings for a man whose passion 530 00:34:38,875 --> 00:34:42,041 was for the psychology, but that this man ignored her. 531 00:34:42,334 --> 00:34:43,416 - Ah, you're talking about-- 532 00:34:43,709 --> 00:34:45,249 What'd you say his name was? Colin McNabb? 533 00:34:45,542 --> 00:34:46,541 - Oui. 534 00:34:46,834 --> 00:34:48,374 - Well, let's go see what he has to say. 535 00:34:51,459 --> 00:34:55,249 - So you're telling me that Celia did what she did 536 00:34:55,542 --> 00:34:57,374 just to attract me? 537 00:34:57,667 --> 00:35:00,166 She just wasn't bright enough to think up an idea like that. 538 00:35:00,459 --> 00:35:02,041 - But you yourself were attracted to her, 539 00:35:02,334 --> 00:35:03,374 were you not, Monsieur Colin? 540 00:35:03,667 --> 00:35:05,499 - She was a fascinating case. 541 00:35:05,792 --> 00:35:07,083 Was it suicide? 542 00:35:07,375 --> 00:35:10,624 - No, Mr. McNabb, it would seem that she's been poisoned. 543 00:35:10,917 --> 00:35:11,958 - Poisoned? 544 00:35:12,250 --> 00:35:13,291 - With morphine. 545 00:35:13,584 --> 00:35:15,333 - Morphine? 546 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:18,749 That's not possible. 547 00:35:19,042 --> 00:35:19,999 - Why not? 548 00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:23,708 - I mean, nobody would want to kill her, 549 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,583 not Celia. 550 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:29,333 - You speak, then, of a murder without a motive? 551 00:35:29,625 --> 00:35:33,624 - Well, look, I don't know. 552 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,541 - Monsieur Colin, 553 00:35:36,834 --> 00:35:39,083 you were with Mademoiselle Celia on the evening of her death. 554 00:35:39,375 --> 00:35:40,499 - Yes. 555 00:35:40,792 --> 00:35:42,833 - Did she say anything then which you might now recall 556 00:35:43,125 --> 00:35:44,874 in view of what has occurred? 557 00:35:45,167 --> 00:35:47,249 - Well, there was one thing. 558 00:35:47,542 --> 00:35:51,541 It was to do with the--the thefts. 559 00:35:51,834 --> 00:35:54,333 She said she knew who had taken Len's rucksack. 560 00:35:54,625 --> 00:35:56,833 - I don't suppose she gave you a name. 561 00:35:57,125 --> 00:35:58,083 - No. 562 00:35:58,375 --> 00:36:02,124 She said she'd spoken to someone, but-- 563 00:36:02,417 --> 00:36:04,749 Come on, for heaven's sake. 564 00:36:05,042 --> 00:36:08,666 - Colin, my God, so it's true. 565 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:10,749 I only just heard. - Who are you? 566 00:36:11,042 --> 00:36:11,999 - Nigel Chapman. I live here. 567 00:36:12,292 --> 00:36:14,583 - You're a student? - Yes. 568 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:16,166 How did it happen? 569 00:36:16,459 --> 00:36:18,791 - They're saying she was poisoned, Nigel... 570 00:36:19,084 --> 00:36:22,041 with morphine. 571 00:36:22,334 --> 00:36:24,291 - Poison. 572 00:36:24,584 --> 00:36:26,416 I don't think it's worked out quite as you expected, 573 00:36:26,709 --> 00:36:27,666 has it, Mr. P? 574 00:36:27,959 --> 00:36:28,874 - Do you have any idea 575 00:36:29,167 --> 00:36:31,041 who might have wanted to kill Miss Austin? 576 00:36:31,334 --> 00:36:35,208 - No. You sure it wasn't suicide? 577 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,999 - Monsieur Nigel, who was here at the hostel last night? 578 00:36:38,292 --> 00:36:39,666 - Oh, we all were, I think. 579 00:36:39,959 --> 00:36:42,083 Except Patricia, she must have come in late. 580 00:36:42,375 --> 00:36:43,749 - They think someone got into her room 581 00:36:44,042 --> 00:36:45,791 and put it in her sleeping draft. 582 00:36:46,084 --> 00:36:48,666 - In her room? 583 00:36:48,959 --> 00:36:50,249 Last night? 584 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:54,083 - There is something you wish to tell us, Monsieur Nigel? 585 00:36:54,375 --> 00:36:56,249 - Well, yes. 586 00:36:56,542 --> 00:36:58,208 Look, I don't want to be a snitch. 587 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,166 - This is a murder investigation, Mr. Chapman. 588 00:37:01,459 --> 00:37:04,083 - Yes. 589 00:37:04,375 --> 00:37:06,041 Well, my roommate, Len Bateson, 590 00:37:06,334 --> 00:37:08,791 I saw him go into Cee's room. 591 00:37:09,084 --> 00:37:11,041 - At what time? 592 00:37:11,334 --> 00:37:12,583 - It was about an hour after dinner. 593 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:15,624 I was just having a bath. 594 00:37:15,917 --> 00:37:18,249 Oh, but, look, Len would never hurt anyone. 595 00:37:18,542 --> 00:37:21,583 I'm sure there's a perfectly simple explanation. 596 00:37:23,667 --> 00:37:25,791 - I may be wrong, Poirot, but it seemed to me 597 00:37:26,084 --> 00:37:28,583 that the mention of morphine meant something to those two. 598 00:37:28,875 --> 00:37:30,916 - Chief Inspector, the morphine, 599 00:37:31,209 --> 00:37:33,124 from where do you think it had come? 600 00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:34,499 - You tell me. 601 00:37:34,792 --> 00:37:35,958 - Miss Lemon. 602 00:37:36,250 --> 00:37:39,708 - This girl, Celia Austin, didn't she say she worked 603 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,291 in the pharmacy at the hospital? 604 00:37:43,584 --> 00:37:44,999 - Exactement. 605 00:37:49,834 --> 00:37:51,166 - You're quite right. 606 00:37:51,459 --> 00:37:53,124 I don't understand it. 607 00:37:53,417 --> 00:37:55,874 We are missing a bottle of morphine tartrate. 608 00:37:56,167 --> 00:37:57,374 - When might it have been taken? 609 00:37:57,667 --> 00:37:58,999 - It's impossible to say. 610 00:37:59,292 --> 00:38:02,166 It's not a drug we use very often. 611 00:38:02,459 --> 00:38:04,874 It could've been taken anytime within the last three months, 612 00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:06,416 since our last stock taking. 613 00:38:06,709 --> 00:38:10,708 - But entry to the pharmacy, it is, of course, restricted. 614 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,291 - Absolutely. 615 00:38:12,584 --> 00:38:16,291 It was Celia, two other women dispensers, 616 00:38:16,584 --> 00:38:17,791 myself, of course-- 617 00:38:18,084 --> 00:38:20,541 - And the doctors. 618 00:38:20,834 --> 00:38:23,083 - Some doctors use the pharmacy as a shortcut... 619 00:38:24,667 --> 00:38:26,291 But I know them. 620 00:38:26,584 --> 00:38:30,541 - Could Celia Austin have taken the morphine herself? 621 00:38:30,834 --> 00:38:32,166 - I suppose so, 622 00:38:32,459 --> 00:38:34,791 but Celia was very scrupulous. 623 00:38:35,084 --> 00:38:36,583 It would have been very unlike her. 624 00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:37,916 - How about friends? 625 00:38:38,209 --> 00:38:39,291 Did anyone ever visit her? 626 00:38:39,584 --> 00:38:41,291 - There was one chap who used to come and see her, 627 00:38:41,584 --> 00:38:44,166 as a matter of fact, but he was no outsider. 628 00:38:44,459 --> 00:38:46,166 He was a medical student working here. 629 00:38:46,459 --> 00:38:51,124 - And what was his name, sir? 630 00:38:51,417 --> 00:38:55,583 - Bateson, Leonard Bateson. 631 00:39:00,875 --> 00:39:02,041 - Monsieur Leonard, 632 00:39:02,334 --> 00:39:05,124 you and Mademoiselle Celia were on the terms amicable? 633 00:39:05,417 --> 00:39:06,708 - We were friends, yes. 634 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,541 - And sometimes you visited her in the pharmacy? 635 00:39:09,834 --> 00:39:11,916 - What, and stole the poison while I was there? 636 00:39:12,209 --> 00:39:13,874 Come on, Mr. Poirot, what do you take me for? 637 00:39:14,167 --> 00:39:15,666 - What were you doing in her room last night? 638 00:39:15,959 --> 00:39:17,916 - Who said I was? 639 00:39:18,209 --> 00:39:20,958 - You'd be well-advised to answer my question civilly, 640 00:39:21,250 --> 00:39:22,708 Mr. Bateson. 641 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,083 - You can't intimidate me, Chief Inspector. 642 00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:32,249 Yes, I did go into her room. 643 00:39:32,542 --> 00:39:34,208 I was looking for my stethoscope. 644 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:36,333 - But Celia didn't take the stethoscope. 645 00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:38,416 - Yeah, that's what she said, 646 00:39:38,709 --> 00:39:41,333 but it cost me a packet, and I wanted to be sure. 647 00:39:41,625 --> 00:39:42,916 - You mean you searched her room? 648 00:39:43,209 --> 00:39:44,708 - I had a quick look around. It wasn't there. 649 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,583 - Monsieur Leonard, you have not yet asked 650 00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:48,166 what poison it was that was stolen. 651 00:39:48,459 --> 00:39:51,249 - You tell me. - Morphine tartrate. 652 00:39:54,875 --> 00:39:56,749 - Well, it wasn't me. 653 00:39:59,459 --> 00:40:00,458 Oh, to hell with you. 654 00:40:00,750 --> 00:40:02,166 I didn't take anything! 655 00:40:04,542 --> 00:40:06,541 - Oh, here he is now. 656 00:40:06,834 --> 00:40:09,166 - Just stand back, please, and give him a chance. 657 00:40:09,459 --> 00:40:11,749 Give us room, please. 658 00:40:12,042 --> 00:40:13,249 - Have you examined Sir Arthur yet? 659 00:40:13,542 --> 00:40:14,541 - Not yet, not yet. 660 00:40:14,834 --> 00:40:16,624 - How long will Sir Arthur be staying here, Doctor? 661 00:40:16,917 --> 00:40:17,708 - I have no idea. 662 00:40:17,959 --> 00:40:18,874 - Will he be well enough to meet 663 00:40:19,167 --> 00:40:21,666 the Jarrow marchers next week, Doctor? 664 00:40:21,959 --> 00:40:24,208 - Really, Mr. Poirot, these young people, 665 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:26,124 they have no respect for anyone. 666 00:40:26,417 --> 00:40:28,999 - It is a symptom of the modern age, Miss Lemon. 667 00:40:29,292 --> 00:40:31,041 - My God. 668 00:40:34,625 --> 00:40:36,624 - Ah, the girl, it is Mademoiselle Patricia Lane. 669 00:40:36,917 --> 00:40:40,708 - No, not her, the man she's speaking to, 670 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,499 I know him. 671 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,416 - Mr. Poirot. - Mademoiselle Patricia. 672 00:40:52,709 --> 00:40:55,708 - Miss Lane, that man you were just speaking to... 673 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,666 - He's a friend of Sir Arthur Stanley's. 674 00:40:58,959 --> 00:40:59,999 Well, you must have heard. 675 00:41:00,292 --> 00:41:01,541 He's just been admitted here. 676 00:41:01,834 --> 00:41:03,874 - You know Sir Arthur? 677 00:41:04,167 --> 00:41:06,666 - No, but I'm studying politics. 678 00:41:06,959 --> 00:41:08,583 Sir Arthur Stanley has always been 679 00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,999 something of a hero of mine. 680 00:41:11,292 --> 00:41:14,208 He's changed British politics. 681 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,041 Why do you ask? 682 00:41:16,334 --> 00:41:18,291 - No reason. 683 00:41:20,084 --> 00:41:21,583 - Mademoiselle, you have heard, of course, 684 00:41:21,875 --> 00:41:23,499 about the death of Mademoiselle Celia Austin. 685 00:41:23,792 --> 00:41:25,041 - Yes. 686 00:41:25,334 --> 00:41:27,749 I've just come from Hickory Road. 687 00:41:28,042 --> 00:41:30,999 Mrs. Hubbard told me. 688 00:41:31,292 --> 00:41:32,416 It's ghastly. 689 00:41:32,709 --> 00:41:34,708 - Tell me, mademoiselle, you were not present 690 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,666 at the hostel last night? 691 00:41:36,959 --> 00:41:39,249 - No, I'd been out. I came back late. 692 00:41:39,542 --> 00:41:41,874 - So you didn't see anything that might help us? 693 00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:43,916 - Well, there was one thing. 694 00:41:44,209 --> 00:41:45,374 I don't know if it means anything, 695 00:41:45,667 --> 00:41:47,416 but as I got back, I noticed somebody 696 00:41:47,709 --> 00:41:50,958 coming out of the window onto the fire escape. 697 00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:52,999 - The fire escape? 698 00:41:53,292 --> 00:41:55,166 - I don't want to get anyone into trouble. 699 00:41:55,459 --> 00:41:57,166 - Miss Lane. 700 00:41:57,459 --> 00:41:59,791 - I know. 701 00:42:00,084 --> 00:42:02,249 It was Sally. 702 00:42:02,542 --> 00:42:04,416 Sally Finch. 703 00:42:04,709 --> 00:42:08,208 I've often thought there was something strange about her. 704 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,666 And it was her. I'm sure. 705 00:42:11,959 --> 00:42:14,541 - Do you know where we could find her? 706 00:42:29,917 --> 00:42:32,541 You were seen, Miss Finch. 707 00:42:32,834 --> 00:42:34,083 - Well, I don't know who told you that, 708 00:42:34,375 --> 00:42:36,249 but it's complete nonsense. 709 00:42:36,542 --> 00:42:37,791 I was in my room all night. 710 00:42:38,084 --> 00:42:40,249 - But your room does open out onto the fire escape. 711 00:42:40,542 --> 00:42:43,458 - What of it? I didn't go anywhere. 712 00:42:43,750 --> 00:42:47,666 - Mademoiselle-- - Shh. 713 00:42:47,959 --> 00:42:49,208 Mademoiselle Sally, 714 00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:52,291 you are on the terms amicable with the other students? 715 00:42:52,584 --> 00:42:53,624 - Some of them. 716 00:42:53,917 --> 00:42:57,208 I've just had a vacation with Len Bateson: 717 00:42:57,500 --> 00:42:58,708 a week in Amsterdam. 718 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,708 - This was before the rucksack was stolen. 719 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,499 - It was taken the same day we got back. 720 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:07,916 That was the day the police came. 721 00:43:08,209 --> 00:43:09,333 - The police? 722 00:43:09,625 --> 00:43:11,124 - Sure, there'd been a murder in Soho, 723 00:43:11,417 --> 00:43:12,833 and they were checking all the hostels. 724 00:43:13,125 --> 00:43:14,458 - If the suspect was young and foreign, 725 00:43:14,750 --> 00:43:15,708 that would have been routine. 726 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,416 - All the same, it is strange, is it not, 727 00:43:17,709 --> 00:43:18,833 that the rucksack should be taken 728 00:43:19,125 --> 00:43:20,208 on the same day of his visit? 729 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:21,499 - And the lightbulbs. 730 00:43:21,792 --> 00:43:24,499 They went at the same time too. 731 00:43:24,792 --> 00:43:26,499 - Huh. 732 00:43:29,625 --> 00:43:31,333 Mademoiselle Sally, you are here, I understand, 733 00:43:31,625 --> 00:43:33,124 on a Fulbright scholarship. 734 00:43:33,417 --> 00:43:34,749 - That's right. 735 00:43:35,042 --> 00:43:35,999 - Hmm. 736 00:43:36,292 --> 00:43:38,416 And, um... 737 00:43:40,375 --> 00:43:45,333 You are studying, I see, John Keats. 738 00:43:45,625 --> 00:43:46,583 - Mm, yes. 739 00:43:46,875 --> 00:43:48,333 He's my speciality. 740 00:43:48,625 --> 00:43:51,249 - Let me see. 741 00:43:51,542 --> 00:43:57,166 "And like a dying lady, lean and pale... 742 00:43:57,459 --> 00:44:02,124 Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil..." 743 00:44:02,417 --> 00:44:04,958 - You know your Keats. 744 00:44:09,334 --> 00:44:11,583 - It is interesting that Mademoiselle Sally-- 745 00:44:11,875 --> 00:44:13,083 - She was lying about the fire escape. 746 00:44:13,375 --> 00:44:14,374 - And there is more. 747 00:44:14,667 --> 00:44:17,208 She professes to be the expert on John Keats, 748 00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:19,124 yet the lines that I quoted to her... 749 00:44:19,417 --> 00:44:22,458 - They were from Shelley. 750 00:45:02,459 --> 00:45:03,999 - Poor Celia. 751 00:45:04,292 --> 00:45:05,999 She wasn't that bright or anything, 752 00:45:06,292 --> 00:45:07,458 but I liked her. 753 00:45:07,750 --> 00:45:08,708 - You were close? 754 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:09,958 - We were friends, 755 00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:11,874 but we're all friends at Hickory Road. 756 00:45:12,167 --> 00:45:13,374 - Tell me, Mademoiselle Valerie, 757 00:45:13,667 --> 00:45:15,541 what is it that you do here in the fashion house? 758 00:45:15,834 --> 00:45:17,249 - At Sabrina Fair? 759 00:45:17,542 --> 00:45:19,999 I'm working with them for a year as part of my course: 760 00:45:20,292 --> 00:45:22,333 fashion and design. 761 00:45:22,625 --> 00:45:25,166 - Ah, well, then you assist in the... 762 00:45:25,459 --> 00:45:26,458 how--how do you say-- 763 00:45:26,750 --> 00:45:28,124 the displays of fashion? 764 00:45:28,417 --> 00:45:32,541 - Yes, and they take me abroad, to Paris, Milan. 765 00:45:32,834 --> 00:45:34,249 I'm having a wonderful time. 766 00:45:34,542 --> 00:45:36,499 - I'm sure. 767 00:45:36,792 --> 00:45:39,666 - And this particular dress, it is of your own design? 768 00:45:39,959 --> 00:45:42,041 - Yes. 769 00:45:42,334 --> 00:45:44,708 - Oh, Miss Lemon, r�garde. 770 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,374 - How beautiful. 771 00:45:47,667 --> 00:45:48,999 Did you make it yourself? 772 00:45:49,292 --> 00:45:50,458 - Yes. 773 00:45:50,750 --> 00:45:54,083 - What unusual stitchwork. 774 00:45:57,667 --> 00:46:00,333 - One final question, if I may, mademoiselle. 775 00:46:00,625 --> 00:46:01,708 - What's that? 776 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,999 - Would it be of significance if I were to tell you 777 00:46:04,292 --> 00:46:07,499 that the cause of death of Mademoiselle Celia Austin 778 00:46:07,792 --> 00:46:09,916 was poisoning by morphine? 779 00:46:11,709 --> 00:46:15,666 - No, not at all. 780 00:46:19,875 --> 00:46:21,749 - Au revoir. 781 00:46:22,042 --> 00:46:24,708 - Right, well, I best be getting home. 782 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:25,916 - No, no, no, no, no. 783 00:46:26,209 --> 00:46:27,999 No, Chief Inspector. 784 00:46:28,292 --> 00:46:30,291 Tell me, the good Madame Japp, she's still not returned? 785 00:46:30,584 --> 00:46:31,624 - No. 786 00:46:31,917 --> 00:46:34,791 - I thought as much. - I also. 787 00:46:35,084 --> 00:46:38,333 Et bien, I have la bonne id�e. 788 00:46:40,125 --> 00:46:41,416 How would it be, Chief Inspector, 789 00:46:41,709 --> 00:46:44,083 if you and I were to have dinner together this evening? 790 00:46:44,375 --> 00:46:45,541 - Oh, I have to say, Poirot, 791 00:46:45,834 --> 00:46:47,124 I could do with a good square meal. 792 00:46:47,417 --> 00:46:49,874 - Mind you, it's a bit of a step back 793 00:46:50,167 --> 00:46:51,833 all the way to Isleworth, Mr. Poirot. 794 00:46:52,125 --> 00:46:53,333 - I have an idea. 795 00:46:53,625 --> 00:46:56,166 Alors, the simplest way is to have the Chief Inspector 796 00:46:56,459 --> 00:46:58,583 stay with me until the good Madame Japp, she returns. 797 00:46:58,875 --> 00:47:01,041 - What, stay with you? 798 00:47:01,334 --> 00:47:04,499 - I can make up the spare bed. 799 00:47:04,792 --> 00:47:09,166 - Well, that's very decent of you, Poirot. 800 00:47:09,459 --> 00:47:11,208 - You accept? 801 00:47:12,959 --> 00:47:15,916 - Yes, with pleasure. 802 00:47:31,375 --> 00:47:32,749 - You are settled in, Chief Inspector? 803 00:47:33,042 --> 00:47:34,041 - Yes, thank you, Poirot. 804 00:47:34,334 --> 00:47:36,416 - I put him in the back room, Mr. Poirot. 805 00:47:36,709 --> 00:47:37,541 - Something smells good. 806 00:47:37,834 --> 00:47:38,916 - Merci. 807 00:47:39,209 --> 00:47:41,333 It is mon assiette de saveur. 808 00:47:41,625 --> 00:47:45,083 It was a speciality of my mother when I myself was a student. 809 00:47:46,667 --> 00:47:47,624 - S'il vous pla�t, Miss Lemon. 810 00:47:47,917 --> 00:47:50,041 - That's very kind of you, Mr. Poirot. 811 00:47:50,334 --> 00:47:51,749 - Chief Inspector. 812 00:47:52,042 --> 00:47:54,208 - What's that thing in the bathroom, Poirot? 813 00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:55,291 - Comment? 814 00:47:55,542 --> 00:47:58,708 - Like a, um, foot bath. 815 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,083 - Uh, the bidet. 816 00:48:00,375 --> 00:48:01,624 - Oh, bidet. 817 00:48:01,917 --> 00:48:03,541 It's got a sort of fountain thing in the middle. 818 00:48:03,834 --> 00:48:04,791 What's that for? 819 00:48:05,084 --> 00:48:08,791 - Ah, it is of no significance. 820 00:48:09,084 --> 00:48:10,874 - Nearly got a squirt in the eye when I turned it on. 821 00:48:13,709 --> 00:48:16,458 - It is best not to tamper with it, Chief Inspector. 822 00:48:16,750 --> 00:48:18,791 It is broken. 823 00:48:20,667 --> 00:48:23,291 I will get the food. 824 00:48:23,584 --> 00:48:25,583 - I must say, I'm looking forward to this, Miss Lemon. 825 00:48:25,875 --> 00:48:26,958 - You look like a man 826 00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:29,999 in need of his dinner, Chief Inspector. 827 00:48:30,292 --> 00:48:32,041 - That thing in the bathroom, though-- 828 00:48:32,334 --> 00:48:33,791 - It is best not to bother Miss Lemon 829 00:48:34,084 --> 00:48:37,291 with the deficiencies of our plumbing, Chief Inspector. 830 00:48:37,584 --> 00:48:40,958 Maintenent, mon assiette de saveur. 831 00:48:41,250 --> 00:48:43,333 Voil�. 832 00:48:52,417 --> 00:48:53,458 - Well, you didn't tell them. 833 00:48:53,750 --> 00:48:54,999 - Of course not. - Nor me. 834 00:48:55,292 --> 00:48:57,374 - Well, you know I didn't. You were there. 835 00:48:57,667 --> 00:48:59,916 - I don't think we can just keep quiet about it. 836 00:49:00,209 --> 00:49:01,916 - Why not? 837 00:49:02,209 --> 00:49:04,416 - We can't. 838 00:49:04,709 --> 00:49:06,499 We're gonna have to tell Mr. Poirot. 839 00:49:06,792 --> 00:49:10,083 - Ah, you here. 840 00:49:10,375 --> 00:49:12,749 Yes, I also. 841 00:49:13,042 --> 00:49:15,874 I have one small drink. 842 00:49:16,167 --> 00:49:17,791 It's for my heart. 843 00:49:18,084 --> 00:49:19,333 - Good night, Mrs. Nicoletis. 844 00:49:19,625 --> 00:49:20,833 - I know. 845 00:49:21,125 --> 00:49:23,249 I know what happened is wrong. 846 00:49:23,542 --> 00:49:24,541 - That's right. 847 00:49:24,834 --> 00:49:28,791 - I go to the police. 848 00:49:29,084 --> 00:49:32,041 I tell the truth before. 849 00:49:32,334 --> 00:49:35,666 No more death. 850 00:49:39,625 --> 00:49:40,583 - What's she on about? 851 00:49:40,875 --> 00:49:42,541 - She's loaded, as usual. 852 00:49:42,834 --> 00:49:44,291 - Colin. 853 00:49:44,584 --> 00:49:46,708 - All right, I had the morphine, 854 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,749 but you all saw what I did. 855 00:49:49,042 --> 00:49:51,666 - Then you've got nothing to worry about, have you? 856 00:49:51,959 --> 00:49:53,916 - Well, I'm not going to tell them. 857 00:49:54,209 --> 00:49:58,083 - Well, if you don't, maybe one of us should. 858 00:49:58,375 --> 00:50:00,208 - I hate to say it, Colin, but I think Nigel's right. 859 00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:02,041 We have to tell Poirot. 860 00:50:02,334 --> 00:50:05,708 - Why, for heaven's sake? 861 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,458 - Well, in case it happens again. 862 00:50:36,792 --> 00:50:38,749 - Oh, it's you. 863 00:50:39,042 --> 00:50:40,624 Come in. 864 00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:49,874 Everything is going wrong! 865 00:50:50,167 --> 00:50:52,249 Why are you doing these things? 866 00:50:52,542 --> 00:50:54,333 It's not part of the plan! 867 00:50:54,625 --> 00:50:56,374 Why you do these things? 868 00:50:56,667 --> 00:51:00,499 That girl Celia, you finish-- I will tell. 869 00:51:22,292 --> 00:51:24,041 - Stabbed through the heart. 870 00:51:24,334 --> 00:51:25,541 - With a precision that is medical, 871 00:51:25,834 --> 00:51:26,874 you might say, Chief Inspector. 872 00:51:27,167 --> 00:51:29,541 - Now, there's a thought. 873 00:51:29,834 --> 00:51:32,083 Leonard Bateson's training to be a doctor, isn't he? 874 00:51:32,375 --> 00:51:33,874 - Yes, indeed. 875 00:51:34,167 --> 00:51:35,458 - What's going on, Poirot? 876 00:51:35,750 --> 00:51:38,624 First Celia Austin pilfers a whole lot of useless things-- 877 00:51:38,917 --> 00:51:41,833 - It wasn't Celia who stole the lightbulbs or the rucksack. 878 00:51:42,125 --> 00:51:43,499 - No, but someone kills her. 879 00:51:43,792 --> 00:51:45,333 And now Mrs. Nicoletis, 880 00:51:45,625 --> 00:51:50,124 who owns the hostel and has got nothing to do with anything. 881 00:52:01,375 --> 00:52:02,874 - There is something here at Hickory Road, 882 00:52:03,167 --> 00:52:05,833 something behind these two deaths, we do not see. 883 00:52:06,125 --> 00:52:07,458 - It's the middle of the night. 884 00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:09,374 The hostel's locked from the inside. 885 00:52:09,667 --> 00:52:12,708 Mrs. Nicoletis opens her door to whoever knocks. 886 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,833 - Then you believe it was one of the students? 887 00:52:15,125 --> 00:52:16,624 - It had to be. 888 00:52:16,917 --> 00:52:20,333 - Yes, but which one? 889 00:52:41,375 --> 00:52:42,333 - You've heard. 890 00:52:42,625 --> 00:52:43,541 - Yes, of course. 891 00:52:43,834 --> 00:52:45,083 Do the others know? 892 00:52:45,375 --> 00:52:47,583 - No, most of them had left before she was found. 893 00:52:47,875 --> 00:52:49,791 - Look, I can't do this anymore. 894 00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:50,874 I've had enough. 895 00:52:51,125 --> 00:52:53,291 - Sally, we can't stop now, 896 00:52:53,584 --> 00:52:54,624 not now, of all times. 897 00:52:54,917 --> 00:52:56,333 - Someone's going to find out, and I-- 898 00:52:56,625 --> 00:53:00,541 - Don't worry. Nobody knows. 899 00:53:00,834 --> 00:53:02,999 - What about this detective, Poirot? 900 00:53:03,292 --> 00:53:04,999 - Don't worry about Poirot. 901 00:53:05,292 --> 00:53:06,916 I'll deal with him. 902 00:53:07,209 --> 00:53:08,749 - You better. 903 00:53:09,042 --> 00:53:10,666 - I promise. 904 00:53:13,917 --> 00:53:15,874 I will. 905 00:53:21,584 --> 00:53:24,291 - I never thought that it would come to this. 906 00:53:24,584 --> 00:53:27,791 First Celia, and then-- 907 00:53:28,084 --> 00:53:30,874 Oh, it's like a world gone mad, Mr. Poirot. 908 00:53:31,167 --> 00:53:32,124 - Come on, Florence. 909 00:53:32,417 --> 00:53:35,416 Mr. Poirot will sort it out, you'll see. 910 00:53:35,709 --> 00:53:38,374 - What can you tell us about your employer, Mrs. Hubbard? 911 00:53:38,667 --> 00:53:39,624 - Not a great deal. 912 00:53:39,917 --> 00:53:41,541 She was a very solitary person. 913 00:53:41,834 --> 00:53:42,874 I rather think-- 914 00:53:43,167 --> 00:53:45,249 Well, I know it's a wicked thing to say, 915 00:53:45,542 --> 00:53:48,374 but I think she may have been a secret drinker. 916 00:53:48,667 --> 00:53:50,333 - After all the bottles we found in her room, 917 00:53:50,625 --> 00:53:51,833 there's no secret about it. 918 00:53:52,125 --> 00:53:54,666 - And you told me, I think, that she had other interests. 919 00:53:54,959 --> 00:53:57,083 - Yes, one or two student clubs 920 00:53:57,375 --> 00:53:58,958 and a shop just across the road. 921 00:53:59,250 --> 00:54:00,874 - Which shop is that? 922 00:54:01,167 --> 00:54:02,624 - It sells luggage. 923 00:54:02,917 --> 00:54:06,124 A lot of our students buy rucksacks there. 924 00:54:06,417 --> 00:54:07,499 - Rucksacks? 925 00:54:07,792 --> 00:54:08,916 Ah, yes, of course, 926 00:54:09,209 --> 00:54:11,541 the rucksack belonging to Monsieur Leonard Bateson. 927 00:54:11,834 --> 00:54:13,291 - The one that was cut up. 928 00:54:13,584 --> 00:54:15,916 - Yes... 929 00:54:16,209 --> 00:54:19,249 On the day that the police came to Hickory Road. 930 00:54:21,209 --> 00:54:23,833 - Sir. 931 00:54:24,125 --> 00:54:26,583 - Excuse me. 932 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,291 - Two of the students have come back 933 00:54:31,584 --> 00:54:33,124 and would like to see you. 934 00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:38,749 - I feel like a rat coming to you. 935 00:54:39,042 --> 00:54:40,249 - We all agreed. 936 00:54:40,542 --> 00:54:42,208 - S'il vous pla�t, Monsieur Leonard. 937 00:54:42,500 --> 00:54:44,583 Proceed, Monsieur Nigel. 938 00:54:44,875 --> 00:54:46,291 - Well, it's like this. 939 00:54:46,584 --> 00:54:49,208 About six weeks ago, we were talking about crime and murder. 940 00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:50,583 - Who were? 941 00:54:50,875 --> 00:54:53,874 - I'm sorry, we all were-- Len, Pat, Celia, me, 942 00:54:54,167 --> 00:54:55,208 the whole hostel. 943 00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:56,708 - Colin had come up with this theory 944 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,416 about how anyone could get away with murder, 945 00:54:59,709 --> 00:55:01,458 and now this has happened. 946 00:55:01,750 --> 00:55:03,791 - Yes, he spoke of some of this to me, 947 00:55:04,084 --> 00:55:05,583 at the dinner, you remember? 948 00:55:05,875 --> 00:55:07,249 - Yes, well, we were ragging him about it, 949 00:55:07,542 --> 00:55:08,416 and then somebody asked him 950 00:55:08,709 --> 00:55:10,624 how he would go about killing someone. 951 00:55:10,917 --> 00:55:11,874 Colin said poison. 952 00:55:12,167 --> 00:55:13,124 - Poison? 953 00:55:13,417 --> 00:55:15,374 - Yes, I said it would be impossible 954 00:55:15,667 --> 00:55:18,541 to get ahold of a lethal poison, but Colin disagreed, 955 00:55:18,834 --> 00:55:20,041 and that was when we made the bet. 956 00:55:20,334 --> 00:55:21,291 - What bet? 957 00:55:21,584 --> 00:55:23,374 - Colin said he could produce enough poison 958 00:55:23,667 --> 00:55:24,624 to kill someone, 959 00:55:24,917 --> 00:55:26,333 and he could do it in a week. 960 00:55:26,625 --> 00:55:29,166 - You mean he stole some poison? 961 00:55:29,459 --> 00:55:30,666 - It was morphine tartrate. 962 00:55:30,959 --> 00:55:31,958 He produced it a week later. 963 00:55:32,250 --> 00:55:33,333 - None of us believed him at first. 964 00:55:33,625 --> 00:55:34,666 It was just white powder. 965 00:55:34,959 --> 00:55:36,666 - I had a look at it. It was what he said it was. 966 00:55:36,959 --> 00:55:38,708 - And this poison, 967 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,833 what happened to it after the bet, it was won? 968 00:55:41,125 --> 00:55:42,333 - Well, Colin kept it for a few days, 969 00:55:42,625 --> 00:55:43,749 but we were all so nervous about it. 970 00:55:44,042 --> 00:55:45,499 In the end, he flushed it down the toilet. 971 00:55:45,792 --> 00:55:46,999 - Did you actually see him do this? 972 00:55:47,292 --> 00:55:49,124 - Yes. - He did it in front of us. 973 00:55:49,417 --> 00:55:51,249 - Now, let me get this straight. 974 00:55:51,542 --> 00:55:54,374 Colin McNabb stole a phial of morphine tartrate 975 00:55:54,667 --> 00:55:55,624 just to prove a point? 976 00:55:55,917 --> 00:55:57,999 - Yes. 977 00:55:58,292 --> 00:56:00,583 I'm sure it's not as bad as it seems. 978 00:56:00,875 --> 00:56:04,249 - Personally, I don't see how it could be worse. 979 00:56:04,542 --> 00:56:07,666 - I was just proving a point, that's all. 980 00:56:07,959 --> 00:56:08,958 - Tell me, Monsieur Colin, 981 00:56:09,250 --> 00:56:10,499 the poison, from where did it come? 982 00:56:10,792 --> 00:56:12,374 - Isn't it obvious? 983 00:56:12,667 --> 00:56:14,416 From the pharmacy at the hospital. 984 00:56:14,709 --> 00:56:16,124 - Celia Austin gave it to you? 985 00:56:16,417 --> 00:56:19,249 - No, I took it myself. 986 00:56:19,542 --> 00:56:21,208 It was easy. 987 00:56:21,500 --> 00:56:24,458 I'd been to the hospital, and I seen how busy it was, 988 00:56:24,750 --> 00:56:27,083 and I knew I just had to wait for the right moment. 989 00:56:27,375 --> 00:56:29,124 - Yes, well, I did date it. 990 00:56:29,417 --> 00:56:32,833 - All it took was a white coat and a stethoscope. 991 00:56:33,125 --> 00:56:35,083 That's human psychology for you. 992 00:56:35,375 --> 00:56:36,624 To anyone who looked, 993 00:56:36,917 --> 00:56:39,833 I was just another doctor passing through. 994 00:56:42,250 --> 00:56:44,208 - And the stethoscope, from where had that come? 995 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:46,124 - I pinched it, if you must know. 996 00:56:46,417 --> 00:56:47,374 It was Len Bateson's. 997 00:56:47,667 --> 00:56:49,791 - Ah, so that, also, was not the work 998 00:56:50,084 --> 00:56:51,166 of Mademoiselle Celia Austin. 999 00:56:51,459 --> 00:56:53,041 - No, as she told you. 1000 00:56:53,334 --> 00:56:54,833 - What happened to the stethoscope? 1001 00:56:55,125 --> 00:56:56,666 - I left it in the hospital. 1002 00:56:56,959 --> 00:56:59,708 I will get him a new one eventually. 1003 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,458 What's all the fuss about? 1004 00:57:01,750 --> 00:57:02,958 I didn't do anything wrong. 1005 00:57:03,250 --> 00:57:05,208 - It was theft, at the very least. 1006 00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:07,333 - I mean, I threw the poison out. 1007 00:57:07,625 --> 00:57:09,083 Ask Nigel or Len. 1008 00:57:09,375 --> 00:57:10,458 They were both there. 1009 00:57:10,750 --> 00:57:13,791 - But you kept it, did you not, for at least one week? 1010 00:57:14,084 --> 00:57:15,333 - Yes. 1011 00:57:15,625 --> 00:57:16,499 - And everyone in the hostel 1012 00:57:16,792 --> 00:57:17,874 knew that it was in your possession. 1013 00:57:18,167 --> 00:57:20,041 - Yes, but-- 1014 00:57:20,334 --> 00:57:21,708 Oh, wait a minute. 1015 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,333 You think somebody might have taken it 1016 00:57:23,625 --> 00:57:24,791 and swapped it with something else? 1017 00:57:25,084 --> 00:57:28,041 - Oui, with the boracic powder, which was harmless. 1018 00:57:28,334 --> 00:57:31,749 That was one of the items that was also stolen. 1019 00:57:32,042 --> 00:57:33,708 - Then I threw away boracic powder. 1020 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,499 - Who had access to your room, Mr. McNabb? 1021 00:57:36,792 --> 00:57:40,208 - Anyone. I don't keep it locked. 1022 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,999 Now, look, I was just proving a point, Chief Inspector. 1023 00:57:43,292 --> 00:57:45,874 I didn't mean any harm. 1024 00:57:49,750 --> 00:57:51,916 - You'll return now to Hickory Road, Chief Inspector? 1025 00:57:52,209 --> 00:57:53,999 - I'm gonna search that hostel from top to bottom. 1026 00:57:54,292 --> 00:57:55,999 Maybe I should have done it from the start. 1027 00:57:56,292 --> 00:57:58,458 - What is it that you expect to find, Chief Inspector? 1028 00:57:58,750 --> 00:57:59,999 - The remains of the poison. 1029 00:58:00,292 --> 00:58:02,666 It only took a small amount to kill Celia Austin. 1030 00:58:02,959 --> 00:58:05,458 I'll wager the killer's hung on to the rest. 1031 00:58:11,417 --> 00:58:13,583 - That interview with Monsieur Colin McNabb, 1032 00:58:13,875 --> 00:58:16,124 it explains, at last, why the boracic powder 1033 00:58:16,417 --> 00:58:18,208 and the stethoscope, they were both stolen. 1034 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:19,499 - Yes. 1035 00:58:19,792 --> 00:58:21,208 - And all that remains is the rucksack 1036 00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:22,958 belonging to Monsieur Leonard Bateson. 1037 00:58:23,250 --> 00:58:24,666 - What, and you think that's more important 1038 00:58:24,959 --> 00:58:26,416 than the poison that killed Celia Austin? 1039 00:58:26,709 --> 00:58:30,624 - No, but I believe it was the reason why she was killed. 1040 00:58:30,917 --> 00:58:33,583 - Hickory Road. 1041 00:58:35,500 --> 00:58:37,708 - Taxi. 1042 00:58:40,334 --> 00:58:41,791 Hickory Road. 1043 00:59:06,625 --> 00:59:08,374 Would you please to wait for me? 1044 00:59:19,792 --> 00:59:20,749 - Good morning, sir. 1045 00:59:21,042 --> 00:59:22,083 - Bonjour. 1046 00:59:22,375 --> 00:59:25,083 If you please, I would like to purchase a rucksack. 1047 00:59:25,375 --> 00:59:26,166 - A rucksack, sir? 1048 00:59:26,417 --> 00:59:27,208 - Oui. 1049 00:59:27,459 --> 00:59:28,291 - Would it be for yourself? 1050 00:59:28,584 --> 00:59:30,624 - Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. 1051 00:59:30,917 --> 00:59:32,583 It is for my nephew. 1052 00:59:35,167 --> 00:59:36,666 - This is the deluxe model. 1053 00:59:36,959 --> 00:59:38,916 The Imperial, sir. 1054 00:59:39,209 --> 00:59:40,749 It's very sturdy but light. 1055 00:59:41,042 --> 00:59:42,458 - C'est vrai. 1056 00:59:42,750 --> 00:59:46,124 And this model of rucksack, it is your most popular? 1057 00:59:46,417 --> 00:59:48,083 - No, sir. 1058 00:59:48,375 --> 00:59:52,208 Our most popular model would have to be this one. 1059 00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:54,499 It's good and stout, and it'll stand a lot of wear, 1060 00:59:54,792 --> 00:59:56,958 and it's half the price of the Imperial. 1061 00:59:57,250 --> 00:59:58,166 - Et bien. 1062 00:59:58,459 --> 00:59:59,708 This is the one I will choose. 1063 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,041 - I'll just get my assistant to wrap it for you. 1064 01:00:02,334 --> 01:00:03,874 - Mr. Casterman. 1065 01:00:20,709 --> 01:00:22,833 - You can't do this. 1066 01:00:23,125 --> 01:00:25,416 - If you'd told me about that stolen poison earlier, 1067 01:00:25,709 --> 01:00:27,833 Miss Hobhouse, I wouldn't have had to. 1068 01:00:28,125 --> 01:00:30,291 - I do have rights, Chief Inspector. 1069 01:00:30,584 --> 01:00:31,749 - So did Celia Austin 1070 01:00:32,042 --> 01:00:33,958 and Mrs. Nicoletis, for that matter. 1071 01:00:34,250 --> 01:00:35,833 Perhaps you should think of them. 1072 01:00:44,667 --> 01:00:46,083 - Val, what's going on? 1073 01:00:46,375 --> 01:00:47,374 - It's the police. 1074 01:00:47,667 --> 01:00:48,833 They're searching the whole place. 1075 01:00:49,125 --> 01:00:50,041 - They can't! 1076 01:00:50,334 --> 01:00:51,541 - They've just finished in my room. 1077 01:00:51,834 --> 01:00:53,833 Now they're in yours. 1078 01:01:02,125 --> 01:01:03,874 - Chief Inspector. 1079 01:01:04,167 --> 01:01:05,416 - Ah, Mr. McNabb. 1080 01:01:05,709 --> 01:01:06,791 Just the man I wanted to see. 1081 01:01:07,084 --> 01:01:08,499 - What? Why? 1082 01:01:08,792 --> 01:01:11,083 - That poison of yours, the morphine tartrate, 1083 01:01:11,375 --> 01:01:13,083 you said you threw it away. 1084 01:01:13,375 --> 01:01:14,958 - I did. 1085 01:01:15,250 --> 01:01:17,083 - Then how do you explain this? 1086 01:01:17,375 --> 01:01:19,083 - What is it? 1087 01:01:19,375 --> 01:01:22,333 - I think you know what it is, Mr. McNabb. 1088 01:01:23,959 --> 01:01:25,583 - No. 1089 01:01:25,875 --> 01:01:27,708 No! 1090 01:01:30,750 --> 01:01:32,916 - Whitehaven Mansions, if you please. 1091 01:02:00,625 --> 01:02:03,208 Bonjour, Chief Inspector. 1092 01:02:03,500 --> 01:02:05,374 How did you sleep? 1093 01:02:05,667 --> 01:02:07,124 - I didn't. 1094 01:02:07,417 --> 01:02:09,749 - But with Monsieur Colin McNabb arrested for the crimes, 1095 01:02:10,042 --> 01:02:12,291 you should have slept to perfection. 1096 01:02:15,750 --> 01:02:18,791 - Actually, Poirot, it's the central heating. 1097 01:02:19,084 --> 01:02:21,333 - But it was on to the full extent, mon ami. 1098 01:02:21,625 --> 01:02:23,541 - Exactly. 1099 01:02:26,625 --> 01:02:28,291 - You have seen the headlines? 1100 01:02:28,584 --> 01:02:30,624 - Ah, the Jarrow marchers, yeah. 1101 01:02:30,917 --> 01:02:32,166 - It says that Sir Arthur Stanley 1102 01:02:32,459 --> 01:02:34,666 is too ill to meet with them. 1103 01:02:34,959 --> 01:02:36,416 - Hmm. 1104 01:02:38,875 --> 01:02:42,916 - You told me once that you met Sir Arthur Stanley. 1105 01:02:43,209 --> 01:02:44,499 - Yes. 1106 01:02:48,459 --> 01:02:52,499 - It was on a matter for the police? 1107 01:02:52,792 --> 01:02:54,666 - Yes. 1108 01:02:57,292 --> 01:02:59,999 Sir Arthur Stanley may be the people's hero, 1109 01:03:00,292 --> 01:03:02,916 the champion of the jobless, 1110 01:03:03,209 --> 01:03:07,541 but ten years ago, he murdered his wife. 1111 01:03:07,834 --> 01:03:08,833 - Comment? 1112 01:03:09,125 --> 01:03:11,374 - Yes, and it was rather similar 1113 01:03:11,667 --> 01:03:14,708 to this Celia Austin business. 1114 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,749 I'll tell you how it happened. 1115 01:03:20,542 --> 01:03:22,499 Sir Arthur Stanley was already famous. 1116 01:03:22,792 --> 01:03:24,249 He'd just become an MP. 1117 01:03:24,542 --> 01:03:25,666 Anyway, his wife was found dead 1118 01:03:25,959 --> 01:03:27,916 from an overdose of her sleeping powder, 1119 01:03:28,209 --> 01:03:30,333 and although I was only an inspector then, 1120 01:03:30,625 --> 01:03:32,166 I was called in to investigate. 1121 01:03:32,459 --> 01:03:34,583 They had a big place over in Richmond, 1122 01:03:34,875 --> 01:03:35,958 and the two of them had lived there 1123 01:03:36,250 --> 01:03:38,749 with their son and a couple of maids. 1124 01:03:39,042 --> 01:03:40,583 It could've been an accident. 1125 01:03:40,875 --> 01:03:42,333 That's what everyone thought, 1126 01:03:42,625 --> 01:03:44,999 but there was something about Sir Arthur that-- 1127 01:03:45,292 --> 01:03:48,458 I don't know-- got my wind up. 1128 01:03:50,250 --> 01:03:52,666 Who was in the house with your wife last night, Sir Arthur? 1129 01:03:52,959 --> 01:03:57,749 - Oh, look, I've already answered all these questions. 1130 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,458 - Please, sir. 1131 01:04:03,584 --> 01:04:07,583 Just myself, the maid, my son. 1132 01:04:07,875 --> 01:04:11,583 - I will have to speak to them, sir. 1133 01:04:11,875 --> 01:04:15,374 - Well, the maid's here, but I've sent my son away. 1134 01:04:15,667 --> 01:04:17,791 He's only 16, for heaven's sake. 1135 01:04:18,084 --> 01:04:19,583 He's upset! 1136 01:04:19,875 --> 01:04:22,541 We're all upset. 1137 01:04:26,250 --> 01:04:28,499 - And who actually gave your wife 1138 01:04:28,792 --> 01:04:32,708 her sleeping powder, Sir Arthur? 1139 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,124 - No one gave it to her. 1140 01:04:34,417 --> 01:04:36,833 She took it herself. 1141 01:04:39,292 --> 01:04:41,374 - She measured the dose? 1142 01:04:44,459 --> 01:04:47,208 - No, I did, 1143 01:04:47,500 --> 01:04:51,708 but it was the correct dose, I'm sure of it. 1144 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:56,333 - Then how do you explain what happened, sir? 1145 01:04:56,625 --> 01:04:58,624 Well, it's simple. 1146 01:04:58,917 --> 01:05:03,124 She, uh--she took the first dose, 1147 01:05:03,417 --> 01:05:06,166 but she took it too early. 1148 01:05:06,459 --> 01:05:07,833 Then she'd forgot she'd taken it, 1149 01:05:08,125 --> 01:05:11,124 and she took another one. 1150 01:05:11,417 --> 01:05:13,624 So... 1151 01:05:13,917 --> 01:05:15,958 It was an accident. 1152 01:05:16,250 --> 01:05:20,541 - I've never heard such a feeble story in all my life. 1153 01:05:20,834 --> 01:05:23,583 He was hiding something, that was for sure, 1154 01:05:23,875 --> 01:05:27,333 but I wasn't gonna be given the chance to find out what. 1155 01:05:27,625 --> 01:05:30,624 - Just what do you think you're doing, chap? 1156 01:05:30,917 --> 01:05:34,499 This is Sir Arthur Stanley we're talking about. 1157 01:05:34,792 --> 01:05:36,541 You don't investigate a man like that 1158 01:05:36,834 --> 01:05:38,374 unless you got a damn good reason, 1159 01:05:38,667 --> 01:05:39,708 and as far as I can see, 1160 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:41,583 you haven't got any reason at all! 1161 01:05:41,875 --> 01:05:44,541 - Sir Arthur Stanley had some pretty powerful friends 1162 01:05:44,834 --> 01:05:47,333 high up in the labor party and in the police. 1163 01:05:47,625 --> 01:05:48,874 I was pulled off the case. 1164 01:05:49,167 --> 01:05:50,083 It was an accident, 1165 01:05:50,375 --> 01:05:52,416 and that was to be the end of it. 1166 01:05:55,084 --> 01:05:56,416 But I knew I was right, 1167 01:05:56,709 --> 01:05:59,416 so I went back to the house one last time. 1168 01:05:59,709 --> 01:06:01,374 I still don't know what I expected to find, 1169 01:06:01,667 --> 01:06:03,458 but I'll tell you this, Poirot: 1170 01:06:03,750 --> 01:06:07,291 I struck gold. 1171 01:06:07,584 --> 01:06:10,208 He was talking with his solicitor, 1172 01:06:10,500 --> 01:06:12,499 a man called Endicott. 1173 01:06:12,792 --> 01:06:15,541 - I had to do it. 1174 01:06:15,834 --> 01:06:18,041 I had no choice. 1175 01:06:18,334 --> 01:06:20,083 - Yes, sir. 1176 01:06:21,500 --> 01:06:24,458 But can you live with it? 1177 01:06:24,750 --> 01:06:28,291 - God help me, I don't know. 1178 01:06:28,584 --> 01:06:32,083 I don't know! 1179 01:06:32,375 --> 01:06:34,541 Endicott, 1180 01:06:34,834 --> 01:06:38,541 promise me you'll never tell. 1181 01:06:38,834 --> 01:06:41,124 - I saw it with my own eyes, 1182 01:06:41,417 --> 01:06:44,416 the two of them in it together. 1183 01:06:47,792 --> 01:06:49,083 - And it was this Monsieur Endicott 1184 01:06:49,375 --> 01:06:50,749 that you saw at the hospital yesterday. 1185 01:06:51,042 --> 01:06:51,999 - Yes. 1186 01:06:52,292 --> 01:06:55,249 That's one face I'll never forget. 1187 01:06:55,542 --> 01:06:57,833 - What do you think was in the letter that passed between them? 1188 01:06:58,125 --> 01:06:59,083 - I don't know. 1189 01:06:59,375 --> 01:07:02,958 Some means of protecting himself, maybe. 1190 01:07:03,250 --> 01:07:05,541 But as sure as eggs is eggs, Sir Arthur killed his wife. 1191 01:07:05,834 --> 01:07:07,083 - But what would have been the motive 1192 01:07:07,375 --> 01:07:08,999 for Sir Arthur to have committed this murder? 1193 01:07:09,292 --> 01:07:10,333 - Money. 1194 01:07:10,625 --> 01:07:12,541 Lady Stanley was a rich woman in her own right, 1195 01:07:12,834 --> 01:07:14,208 and he got everything. 1196 01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:16,083 Endicott knew that, of course. 1197 01:07:16,375 --> 01:07:18,166 - And what did you do? 1198 01:07:18,459 --> 01:07:19,541 - There was nothing I could do. 1199 01:07:19,834 --> 01:07:21,541 I wasn't meant to be there. 1200 01:07:21,834 --> 01:07:23,666 I couldn't prove what I'd seen and heard. 1201 01:07:23,959 --> 01:07:25,499 I was off the case. 1202 01:07:25,792 --> 01:07:27,124 - Hmm. 1203 01:07:27,417 --> 01:07:29,833 - Now, you realize I could get the push for this. 1204 01:07:30,125 --> 01:07:31,333 - Len, it's important to me. 1205 01:07:31,625 --> 01:07:32,458 - Oh, yes, I know, I know. 1206 01:07:32,750 --> 01:07:33,749 You and Sir Arthur Stanley. 1207 01:07:34,042 --> 01:07:35,833 Anyone would think you were related or something. 1208 01:07:36,125 --> 01:07:37,583 - I've read everything he's ever written, 1209 01:07:37,875 --> 01:07:39,499 his whole life's work. 1210 01:07:39,792 --> 01:07:43,874 I have to meet him, just once. 1211 01:07:44,167 --> 01:07:47,583 - I can give you five minutes, Pat, that's all. 1212 01:07:51,375 --> 01:07:53,541 - Thanks, Len. 1213 01:07:55,459 --> 01:07:56,916 He's gonna die, isn't he? 1214 01:07:57,209 --> 01:07:58,999 - He's very sick. 1215 01:08:18,459 --> 01:08:19,458 - Who are you? 1216 01:08:19,750 --> 01:08:22,583 - Please, sir, don't be afraid. 1217 01:08:22,875 --> 01:08:27,708 I suppose I'm an admirer of yours, Sir Arthur. 1218 01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:31,791 I just wanted to see how you were. 1219 01:08:36,875 --> 01:08:39,916 - You've done so much for this country: 1220 01:08:40,209 --> 01:08:44,749 with the labor movement, your stand against Mussolini, 1221 01:08:45,042 --> 01:08:48,249 your support of the Jarrow marchers. 1222 01:08:50,959 --> 01:08:53,249 - Baldwin won't see them, you know, 1223 01:08:53,542 --> 01:08:55,999 won't see them. 1224 01:08:56,292 --> 01:08:57,499 Too scared. 1225 01:08:57,792 --> 01:09:00,208 - They don't need Baldwin. 1226 01:09:00,500 --> 01:09:02,291 They need you. 1227 01:09:02,584 --> 01:09:04,583 You're their voice. 1228 01:09:04,875 --> 01:09:08,583 - No, not now. 1229 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,041 - You'll get better, sir. 1230 01:09:12,334 --> 01:09:15,499 You're needed. 1231 01:09:15,792 --> 01:09:18,916 - I was. 1232 01:09:19,209 --> 01:09:21,166 Yes. 1233 01:09:21,459 --> 01:09:23,541 Great days. 1234 01:09:30,292 --> 01:09:32,958 Behind me now. 1235 01:09:34,209 --> 01:09:36,999 Oh... 1236 01:09:37,292 --> 01:09:39,583 Just... 1237 01:10:19,375 --> 01:10:20,666 - Mr. Poirot? 1238 01:10:26,250 --> 01:10:28,333 - Mr. Poirot! 1239 01:10:28,625 --> 01:10:30,041 - Pardon, Miss Lemon. 1240 01:10:30,334 --> 01:10:32,333 Good afternoon. 1241 01:10:34,334 --> 01:10:36,458 - Are you all right, Mr. Poirot? 1242 01:10:36,750 --> 01:10:38,749 - Yes, thank you, Miss Lemon. 1243 01:10:39,042 --> 01:10:44,124 I am just discovering that to cut up a rucksack 1244 01:10:44,417 --> 01:10:47,041 requires much of the strength. 1245 01:10:50,459 --> 01:10:51,874 Voil�. 1246 01:10:52,167 --> 01:10:54,166 - What is it? 1247 01:10:58,334 --> 01:10:59,958 - The stitchwork, Miss Lemon. 1248 01:11:00,250 --> 01:11:01,708 - You've cut right through it! 1249 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:06,541 - Mm-hmm, and between the base and the inner lining, 1250 01:11:06,834 --> 01:11:08,416 what is it that you see? 1251 01:11:08,709 --> 01:11:10,374 - I don't see anything at all. 1252 01:11:10,667 --> 01:11:11,958 - Uh-huh. 1253 01:11:12,250 --> 01:11:14,666 Pr�cis�ment. 1254 01:11:14,959 --> 01:11:16,333 That is exactly the point. 1255 01:11:16,625 --> 01:11:18,333 Merci. 1256 01:11:18,625 --> 01:11:20,083 - I thought I might make dinner 1257 01:11:20,375 --> 01:11:23,916 for you and the Chief Inspector this evening, Mr. Poirot. 1258 01:11:24,209 --> 01:11:25,874 - Merci beaucoups. 1259 01:11:26,167 --> 01:11:27,041 The Chief Inspector, 1260 01:11:27,334 --> 01:11:28,708 he has an appetite that is most healthy, 1261 01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:29,999 n'est-ce pas? 1262 01:11:30,292 --> 01:11:31,666 - That's what I thought, Mr. Poirot. 1263 01:11:31,959 --> 01:11:32,749 - Ah, merci. 1264 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,291 - Half past 7:00, as usual? 1265 01:11:34,584 --> 01:11:36,666 - I shall return within the hour. 1266 01:11:48,875 --> 01:11:50,041 - Mr. Poirot. 1267 01:11:50,334 --> 01:11:51,416 - Oui. 1268 01:11:51,709 --> 01:11:53,333 - Get in. - Comment? 1269 01:11:53,625 --> 01:11:54,666 - Just get in. 1270 01:11:54,959 --> 01:11:57,749 - What are you doing? What are you doing? 1271 01:11:58,042 --> 01:11:59,624 What is this? 1272 01:12:17,375 --> 01:12:19,958 - Come in, Mr. Poirot. 1273 01:12:25,584 --> 01:12:28,083 - Hi, Mr. Poirot. 1274 01:12:28,375 --> 01:12:29,999 - Sit down. 1275 01:12:36,292 --> 01:12:39,874 My name is John Casterman. 1276 01:12:40,167 --> 01:12:43,291 I'm sorry for the way you were brought here. 1277 01:12:43,584 --> 01:12:45,416 - By assaulting me in the open street? 1278 01:12:45,709 --> 01:12:46,583 - You were about to ruin 1279 01:12:46,875 --> 01:12:51,208 six months undercover investigation... 1280 01:12:53,125 --> 01:12:57,583 Besides putting the life of one of my agents at risk. 1281 01:12:57,875 --> 01:13:00,333 - Mademoiselle Sally. 1282 01:13:00,625 --> 01:13:01,583 - Yes. 1283 01:13:01,875 --> 01:13:03,499 - There was no danger of that, monsieur. 1284 01:13:03,792 --> 01:13:05,291 I was well aware that Mademoiselle Sally 1285 01:13:05,584 --> 01:13:08,499 was not what she claimed to be. 1286 01:13:08,792 --> 01:13:10,083 - How? 1287 01:13:10,375 --> 01:13:13,708 - You should have studied perhaps more of your Keats. 1288 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:15,041 - Keats? 1289 01:13:15,334 --> 01:13:17,416 - Tell me, Monsieur Casterman, this work of yours, 1290 01:13:17,709 --> 01:13:20,333 it involves investigating the smuggling, n'est-ce pas? 1291 01:13:20,625 --> 01:13:22,833 - Ah, yes, diamonds. 1292 01:13:23,125 --> 01:13:24,874 - From Amsterdam and Paris. 1293 01:13:25,167 --> 01:13:26,624 - We know who's buying them, 1294 01:13:26,917 --> 01:13:28,416 but we don't know who's bringing them in, 1295 01:13:28,709 --> 01:13:30,208 and that's our first priority. 1296 01:13:30,500 --> 01:13:32,208 - And it was for this reason that you were working 1297 01:13:32,500 --> 01:13:34,916 in the shop with the rucksacks in Hickory Road. 1298 01:13:35,209 --> 01:13:39,999 - Yes, to keep an eye on the students intending to travel. 1299 01:13:40,292 --> 01:13:43,458 We think it's the students who are bringing them in. 1300 01:13:43,750 --> 01:13:46,708 The trouble is, we don't know who they are. 1301 01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:48,374 - I will suggest that that is something 1302 01:13:48,667 --> 01:13:51,458 of which they themselves are not aware. 1303 01:13:51,750 --> 01:13:53,666 - I don't understand. 1304 01:13:56,292 --> 01:13:58,083 - There is something strange about the rucksacks 1305 01:13:58,375 --> 01:13:59,458 that come to Hickory Road. 1306 01:13:59,750 --> 01:14:01,499 One, they are too cheap. 1307 01:14:01,792 --> 01:14:03,833 Also, I myself cut to pieces one of these rucksacks, 1308 01:14:04,125 --> 01:14:06,499 and I'll tell to you exactly what I found. 1309 01:14:06,792 --> 01:14:07,791 - What? 1310 01:14:08,084 --> 01:14:10,041 - There is hidden beneath the lining 1311 01:14:10,334 --> 01:14:11,708 a compartment which is secret 1312 01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:13,708 into which any amount of diamonds may be placed 1313 01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:17,083 without the owner having any knowledge of the fact. 1314 01:14:17,375 --> 01:14:19,041 - You mean the diamonds are smuggled by people 1315 01:14:19,334 --> 01:14:20,499 who have no idea they're doing it. 1316 01:14:20,792 --> 01:14:22,458 - C'est �a. 1317 01:14:22,750 --> 01:14:24,541 - Leonard Bateson had one of those same rucksacks, 1318 01:14:24,834 --> 01:14:25,624 Mr. Poirot. 1319 01:14:25,875 --> 01:14:26,999 It was stolen and cut up. 1320 01:14:27,292 --> 01:14:29,958 - Oui, and I believe that it was this one event 1321 01:14:30,250 --> 01:14:33,333 that led to both of the catastrophes which followed. 1322 01:14:33,625 --> 01:14:36,458 - The deaths of Celia Austin and Mrs. Nicoletis. 1323 01:14:36,750 --> 01:14:38,291 - Oui. 1324 01:14:38,584 --> 01:14:41,374 - Mr. Poirot, there is something you should know 1325 01:14:41,667 --> 01:14:42,958 about Mrs. Nicoletis. 1326 01:14:43,250 --> 01:14:44,999 - Ah, you suspect that she was the leader 1327 01:14:45,292 --> 01:14:47,249 of the smuggling ring. 1328 01:14:47,542 --> 01:14:50,374 - We don't suspect. We know. 1329 01:14:50,667 --> 01:14:52,833 - It was her cousin, Giorgios Nicoletis, 1330 01:14:53,125 --> 01:14:54,624 who was buying the stuff. 1331 01:14:54,917 --> 01:14:56,208 - C'est parfait. 1332 01:14:56,500 --> 01:14:59,166 Madame Nicoletis, she owns the shop with the rucksacks, 1333 01:14:59,459 --> 01:15:01,291 and with her clubs and the hostel for the students, 1334 01:15:01,584 --> 01:15:03,499 she would have had access to many of the young people. 1335 01:15:03,792 --> 01:15:05,541 - But why did she have to die? 1336 01:15:05,834 --> 01:15:07,916 - Parceque �videmment she knew the identity of the killer 1337 01:15:08,209 --> 01:15:09,416 of Mademoiselle Celia Austin, 1338 01:15:09,709 --> 01:15:12,624 and to murder, it was not in her plans. 1339 01:15:12,917 --> 01:15:16,083 - And she panicked and threatened to tell the police. 1340 01:15:16,375 --> 01:15:18,208 - Mm. 1341 01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:20,166 - But who was it? 1342 01:15:20,459 --> 01:15:22,416 Which one of them is the killer? 1343 01:15:22,709 --> 01:15:25,499 - The killer, ah. 1344 01:15:25,792 --> 01:15:29,291 The killer was the person who felt compelled 1345 01:15:29,584 --> 01:15:32,249 to steal the lightbulbs. 1346 01:15:35,875 --> 01:15:37,458 - Typical Customs and Excise, 1347 01:15:37,750 --> 01:15:39,874 they always have to do everything cloak-and-dagger. 1348 01:15:40,167 --> 01:15:42,958 - But Monsieur Colin McNabb, he's still under arrest? 1349 01:15:43,250 --> 01:15:45,416 - Well, he stole the poison and kept it. 1350 01:15:45,709 --> 01:15:46,833 And he had this bee in his bonnet 1351 01:15:47,125 --> 01:15:49,041 about a motiveless murder. 1352 01:15:49,334 --> 01:15:50,958 - So you believe that Monsieur Colin McNabb, 1353 01:15:51,250 --> 01:15:52,666 he murdered Mademoiselle Celia Austin 1354 01:15:52,959 --> 01:15:54,333 by way of the experiment? 1355 01:15:54,625 --> 01:15:55,666 - Well, these psychologists, 1356 01:15:55,959 --> 01:15:57,999 most of them are barmy themselves. 1357 01:16:03,084 --> 01:16:05,249 - Your health, Chief Inspector. 1358 01:16:05,542 --> 01:16:07,208 - I don't suppose you've got a nice glass of beer, 1359 01:16:07,500 --> 01:16:08,458 have you, Poirot? 1360 01:16:08,750 --> 01:16:10,083 - No, no, no, no, no. 1361 01:16:10,375 --> 01:16:12,249 Besides, the syrup of the banana, 1362 01:16:12,542 --> 01:16:14,499 it is better for the appetite. 1363 01:16:14,792 --> 01:16:16,916 Sant�. 1364 01:16:17,209 --> 01:16:18,791 - Cheers. 1365 01:16:23,334 --> 01:16:25,708 - Are you hungry, Chief Inspector? 1366 01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:27,916 - You can say that again, Miss Lemon. 1367 01:16:28,209 --> 01:16:30,666 I've been looking forward to a healthy meal all day. 1368 01:16:30,959 --> 01:16:34,416 - And I've taken you at your word. 1369 01:16:37,834 --> 01:16:39,333 - What's this? 1370 01:16:39,625 --> 01:16:44,208 - Filet of sole, poached in milk, with boiled vegetables. 1371 01:16:44,500 --> 01:16:48,374 You can't get much healthier than that. 1372 01:16:48,667 --> 01:16:51,333 - Sole, Miss Lemon? 1373 01:16:51,625 --> 01:16:53,208 - Lemon sole. 1374 01:16:59,792 --> 01:17:01,958 Who can that be at this time of night? 1375 01:17:02,250 --> 01:17:04,124 - If you please, Miss Lemon. 1376 01:17:04,417 --> 01:17:09,041 Asseyez-vous, Chief Inspector. 1377 01:17:09,334 --> 01:17:10,541 - You know, it's very kind of you 1378 01:17:10,834 --> 01:17:12,999 to put me up like this, Poirot, but I was thinking-- 1379 01:17:13,292 --> 01:17:14,624 - Not at all, Chief Inspector. 1380 01:17:14,917 --> 01:17:16,833 The pleasure, it is mine. 1381 01:17:17,125 --> 01:17:19,791 And I insist that you stay here with me 1382 01:17:20,084 --> 01:17:24,124 until the good Madame Japp, she has returned. 1383 01:17:24,417 --> 01:17:27,124 - Oh, right. 1384 01:17:29,625 --> 01:17:31,416 - Mr. Poirot, Chief Inspector. 1385 01:17:31,709 --> 01:17:32,791 - Monsieur Nigel. 1386 01:17:33,084 --> 01:17:34,124 - Forgive me for calling so late, 1387 01:17:34,417 --> 01:17:35,374 but I had to see you. 1388 01:17:35,667 --> 01:17:38,458 - Not at all. 1389 01:17:38,750 --> 01:17:40,708 Miss Lemon. 1390 01:17:43,417 --> 01:17:46,166 Please do sit, Monsieur Nigel. 1391 01:17:54,875 --> 01:17:57,791 - Mr. Poirot, you've arrested the wrong man. 1392 01:17:58,084 --> 01:18:01,458 - Ah, it was not I who arrested Monsieur Colin McNabb. 1393 01:18:01,750 --> 01:18:03,041 - What makes you say that, Mr. Chapman? 1394 01:18:03,334 --> 01:18:04,374 - It's not me. 1395 01:18:04,667 --> 01:18:06,749 I've just been talking to Pat, Patricia Lane, 1396 01:18:07,042 --> 01:18:09,833 and she knows who put the poison back into Colin's room. 1397 01:18:10,125 --> 01:18:11,291 - She's saying he's being framed? 1398 01:18:11,584 --> 01:18:13,166 - Yes, and she knows who by. 1399 01:18:13,459 --> 01:18:14,499 - Well, who? 1400 01:18:14,792 --> 01:18:16,083 - She wouldn't tell me. 1401 01:18:16,375 --> 01:18:17,499 She says I'd never believe her. 1402 01:18:17,792 --> 01:18:19,416 - Why didn't she come here herself? 1403 01:18:19,709 --> 01:18:22,583 - She's frightened, very frightened. 1404 01:18:22,875 --> 01:18:24,291 She didn't want me to come, but I said that-- 1405 01:18:26,667 --> 01:18:27,708 - Miss Lemon. 1406 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,374 - What now? 1407 01:18:34,334 --> 01:18:35,791 - I told Pat she had to tell you what she knew, 1408 01:18:36,084 --> 01:18:37,416 if only for Colin's sake, 1409 01:18:37,709 --> 01:18:39,958 but she still wouldn't budge, so I came myself. 1410 01:18:40,250 --> 01:18:42,833 - It's Patricia Lane for you. 1411 01:18:45,584 --> 01:18:47,708 - Maybe she's changed her mind. 1412 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:50,999 Hello, Pat. 1413 01:18:51,292 --> 01:18:52,249 - Why are you doing this, Nigel? 1414 01:18:52,542 --> 01:18:53,749 - I told you I'd come here, Pat. 1415 01:18:54,042 --> 01:18:56,083 If there's something you know, you've got to tell them. 1416 01:18:56,375 --> 01:18:58,541 Don't you see? You could be in danger yourself. 1417 01:18:58,834 --> 01:18:59,791 The Chief Inspector's here. 1418 01:19:00,084 --> 01:19:02,749 Why don't you talk to him, Pat? 1419 01:19:03,042 --> 01:19:04,624 - All right. 1420 01:19:04,917 --> 01:19:06,333 - Chief Inspector. 1421 01:19:12,750 --> 01:19:13,833 - Miss Lane. 1422 01:19:14,125 --> 01:19:15,624 - Is that Chief Inspector Japp? 1423 01:19:15,917 --> 01:19:16,916 - Yes, this is Japp. 1424 01:19:17,209 --> 01:19:19,833 - Chief Inspector, I know who killed Celia. 1425 01:19:20,125 --> 01:19:22,624 You see, I saw them with the poison. 1426 01:19:22,917 --> 01:19:23,999 - And who was that, Miss Lane? 1427 01:19:24,292 --> 01:19:27,166 - I was going past Colin's room, and-- 1428 01:19:27,459 --> 01:19:29,291 It's impossible, Chief Inspector. 1429 01:19:29,584 --> 01:19:33,458 - Just tell me what you saw, Miss Lane. 1430 01:19:33,750 --> 01:19:35,249 Miss Lane? 1431 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,499 - Why didn't she come with me? 1432 01:20:06,792 --> 01:20:08,041 I told her it wasn't safe staying here 1433 01:20:08,334 --> 01:20:11,708 if she knew something. 1434 01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,791 This is my fault. 1435 01:20:14,084 --> 01:20:15,458 I should have persuaded her. 1436 01:20:15,750 --> 01:20:19,124 - There's no point blaming yourself, Mr. Chapman. 1437 01:20:23,709 --> 01:20:25,833 She wouldn't tell Nigel Chapman what she knew, 1438 01:20:26,125 --> 01:20:27,624 but maybe she told somebody else. 1439 01:20:27,917 --> 01:20:29,708 - Sir. 1440 01:20:32,250 --> 01:20:33,791 - The murder weapon. 1441 01:20:34,084 --> 01:20:35,999 - Yes. 1442 01:20:36,292 --> 01:20:40,374 A paperweight in a sock: simple but effective. 1443 01:20:40,667 --> 01:20:42,874 - Yes, indeed. 1444 01:20:53,917 --> 01:20:54,916 Regardez, Chief Inspector. 1445 01:20:55,209 --> 01:20:55,999 Mais fait attention. 1446 01:20:56,292 --> 01:20:59,208 There is on it some blood. 1447 01:20:59,500 --> 01:21:01,416 - That's Sir Arthur Stanley. 1448 01:21:01,709 --> 01:21:03,208 - With his wife and with his son. 1449 01:21:03,500 --> 01:21:07,666 - Yes, but what's it doing here? 1450 01:21:07,959 --> 01:21:10,041 - And there is something else. 1451 01:21:14,542 --> 01:21:20,291 There is trapped in the fingernail a hair... 1452 01:21:23,584 --> 01:21:25,916 A red hair. 1453 01:21:27,459 --> 01:21:29,958 - Leonard Bateson. 1454 01:21:30,250 --> 01:21:32,291 - Yes, I was here. 1455 01:21:32,584 --> 01:21:34,541 No, I didn't hear anything. 1456 01:21:34,834 --> 01:21:36,333 - Who else was in the hostel, Mr. Bateson? 1457 01:21:36,625 --> 01:21:39,083 - I don't know. 1458 01:21:39,375 --> 01:21:40,874 Ma Hubbard was upstairs, I think, 1459 01:21:41,167 --> 01:21:42,624 and Valerie was somewhere around. 1460 01:21:42,917 --> 01:21:44,166 - Tell me, Monsieur Leonard, 1461 01:21:44,459 --> 01:21:47,291 when was the last time you saw Mademoiselle Patricia? 1462 01:21:47,584 --> 01:21:48,999 - Funnily enough, it was this morning. 1463 01:21:49,292 --> 01:21:50,791 She was at the hospital. 1464 01:21:51,084 --> 01:21:53,708 - Do you know why? 1465 01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,333 - Yes, she was trying to see Sir Arthur Stanley. 1466 01:21:56,625 --> 01:21:58,249 - Stanley? 1467 01:21:58,542 --> 01:22:02,499 - Were you able to assist her? 1468 01:22:02,792 --> 01:22:07,624 - Yes, I sneaked her in for five minutes. 1469 01:22:07,917 --> 01:22:11,499 She'd always admired him, and... 1470 01:22:11,792 --> 01:22:16,333 She just wanted to see him, that's all. 1471 01:22:16,625 --> 01:22:19,291 - Chief Inspector, without doubt, 1472 01:22:19,584 --> 01:22:21,874 it was from Sir Arthur Stanley that came the photograph. 1473 01:22:22,167 --> 01:22:24,166 - Wait a minute, Poirot, you're not saying that all this 1474 01:22:24,459 --> 01:22:26,249 has got something to do with Stanley, are you? 1475 01:22:26,542 --> 01:22:28,499 - But it was you who said the same thing. 1476 01:22:28,792 --> 01:22:29,791 The death of Lady Stanley, 1477 01:22:30,084 --> 01:22:31,499 the murder of Mademoiselle Celia Austin, 1478 01:22:31,792 --> 01:22:32,999 there were similarities, no? 1479 01:22:33,292 --> 01:22:36,833 - Don't tell me, then, is he on your list of suspects? 1480 01:22:37,125 --> 01:22:38,833 - Sir Arthur Stanley? 1481 01:22:39,125 --> 01:22:41,416 He can't be. 1482 01:22:41,709 --> 01:22:46,791 Oh, of course, there's no way you would have heard. 1483 01:22:47,084 --> 01:22:52,458 Sir Arthur Stanley, he passed away this afternoon. 1484 01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:15,583 Ah, so that's what it's for. 1485 01:24:58,375 --> 01:24:59,499 Bonjour, Chief Inspector. 1486 01:24:59,792 --> 01:25:00,583 Vous avez bien dormir? 1487 01:25:00,875 --> 01:25:01,749 - Mm? 1488 01:25:02,042 --> 01:25:03,124 - Oh, pardon, you have slept well? 1489 01:25:03,417 --> 01:25:05,458 - Barely a wink, Poirot, if you want the truth, 1490 01:25:05,750 --> 01:25:09,583 until I cooled myself down in that contraption of yours. 1491 01:25:09,875 --> 01:25:10,874 - The bidet? 1492 01:25:11,167 --> 01:25:12,874 - Mm, mind if I join you? 1493 01:25:13,167 --> 01:25:15,749 I'm starving. 1494 01:25:16,042 --> 01:25:18,249 - You hunger, I think, for the truth, Chief Inspector. 1495 01:25:18,542 --> 01:25:19,666 But concern yourself not. 1496 01:25:19,959 --> 01:25:22,333 The little gray cells, they also did not sleep. 1497 01:25:22,625 --> 01:25:24,916 The case, it is solved. 1498 01:25:25,209 --> 01:25:26,249 - Is it? - Oui. 1499 01:25:26,542 --> 01:25:29,166 You must release at once Monsieur Colin McNabb. 1500 01:25:29,459 --> 01:25:31,583 - He's the only one who couldn't have killed Patricia Lane. 1501 01:25:31,875 --> 01:25:32,666 He was in prison. 1502 01:25:32,959 --> 01:25:34,166 - Well, what about Nigel Chapman? 1503 01:25:34,459 --> 01:25:35,708 He was with us. 1504 01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,708 - You'll forgive me, Chief Inspector, but your tie, 1505 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,166 it has on it a spot of grease. 1506 01:25:44,459 --> 01:25:47,666 - Well, it's the only one I've got. 1507 01:25:47,959 --> 01:25:50,583 - I could lend you one of Mr. Poirot's. 1508 01:25:50,875 --> 01:25:54,374 - Ah, no, no, I can manage. 1509 01:25:54,667 --> 01:25:56,499 Haven't got any bacon and eggs, have you, Poirot? 1510 01:25:56,792 --> 01:25:59,374 - Uh, no. At this hour of morning? 1511 01:25:59,667 --> 01:26:00,583 No. 1512 01:26:00,875 --> 01:26:03,291 There is no time for the egg and the bacon. 1513 01:26:03,584 --> 01:26:06,208 It is time now to close in the net. 1514 01:26:37,834 --> 01:26:40,083 There is no mystery as to who was stealing 1515 01:26:40,375 --> 01:26:45,958 most of the objects from number 26 Hickory Road or why. 1516 01:26:46,250 --> 01:26:48,208 Mademoiselle Celia Austin confessed herself to me 1517 01:26:48,500 --> 01:26:50,583 in the presence of Monsieur Colin McNabb. 1518 01:26:50,875 --> 01:26:54,749 She pretended to be the kleptomaniac, but, in fact, 1519 01:26:55,042 --> 01:26:56,333 it was only to attract the attentions 1520 01:26:56,625 --> 01:26:59,374 of Monsieur Colin McNabb that she embarked on this exercise. 1521 01:26:59,667 --> 01:27:01,249 - I still think that's nonsense. 1522 01:27:01,542 --> 01:27:02,833 - It's true. 1523 01:27:03,125 --> 01:27:05,416 Cee would never have thought up an idea like that on her own. 1524 01:27:05,709 --> 01:27:08,541 - No, and I believe that the idea, it was suggested to her. 1525 01:27:08,834 --> 01:27:11,291 - Suggested to her? Who by? 1526 01:27:11,584 --> 01:27:13,708 - By the very same person who arranged for the safe return 1527 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:18,124 of the diamond ring belonging to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane. 1528 01:27:18,417 --> 01:27:19,749 - But the ring turned up in Val's soup. 1529 01:27:20,042 --> 01:27:21,083 Anyone could have put it there. 1530 01:27:21,375 --> 01:27:22,708 - Uh, no, no, no, no, no. 1531 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:24,374 No, for I will tell you what I observed 1532 01:27:24,667 --> 01:27:27,041 when I came here to the dinner. 1533 01:27:27,334 --> 01:27:30,749 Madame Hubbard prepared and brought to the table the soup, 1534 01:27:31,042 --> 01:27:32,874 and I saw then that for the diamond ring 1535 01:27:33,167 --> 01:27:34,958 to be found in the soup of Mademoiselle Valerie, 1536 01:27:35,250 --> 01:27:37,624 only two people could possibly have placed it there: 1537 01:27:37,917 --> 01:27:41,958 Madame Hubbard or Mademoiselle Valerie herself. 1538 01:27:42,250 --> 01:27:44,749 - And if it was me? 1539 01:27:45,042 --> 01:27:46,791 - Then you must have received the diamond ring 1540 01:27:47,084 --> 01:27:48,999 from Mademoiselle Celia. 1541 01:27:49,292 --> 01:27:50,916 - You're right. - What? 1542 01:27:51,209 --> 01:27:52,333 - Oh, Colin, 1543 01:27:52,625 --> 01:27:54,749 Celia was mooning after you like a little ghost. 1544 01:27:55,042 --> 01:27:56,749 You never even looked at her. 1545 01:27:57,042 --> 01:28:00,374 So I said to her, "Become a case, 1546 01:28:00,667 --> 01:28:02,499 "something he can study, 1547 01:28:02,792 --> 01:28:04,791 then maybe you'll have more luck." 1548 01:28:05,084 --> 01:28:06,583 - It certainly worked. 1549 01:28:06,875 --> 01:28:09,124 - Oui, but was it not the idea to steal items 1550 01:28:09,417 --> 01:28:10,666 only of the little worth? 1551 01:28:10,959 --> 01:28:12,208 - Yes, but then she went 1552 01:28:12,500 --> 01:28:14,291 and pinched that ring from Pat's room. 1553 01:28:14,584 --> 01:28:16,541 I could see at once how much it was worth 1554 01:28:16,834 --> 01:28:19,583 and thought the police might be called in. 1555 01:28:19,875 --> 01:28:21,166 - Huh. 1556 01:28:21,459 --> 01:28:23,291 And so Mademoiselle Celia gave you the ring 1557 01:28:23,584 --> 01:28:25,583 to return to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane? 1558 01:28:25,875 --> 01:28:27,208 - That's right. 1559 01:28:27,500 --> 01:28:30,958 That business about the soup was my idea. 1560 01:28:31,250 --> 01:28:32,708 - This is all very well, Mr. Poirot, 1561 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,999 but is this going to tell us who killed Cee 1562 01:28:35,292 --> 01:28:36,874 and Mrs. Nic and Pat? 1563 01:28:37,167 --> 01:28:38,374 - Have patience, Monsieur Chapman. 1564 01:28:38,667 --> 01:28:40,333 Je vous en prie. 1565 01:28:40,625 --> 01:28:41,708 When she came to visit me, 1566 01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:44,166 Mademoiselle Celia Austin claimed responsibility 1567 01:28:44,459 --> 01:28:48,416 for only some of the thefts from number 26 Hickory Road. 1568 01:28:48,709 --> 01:28:50,833 S'il vous pla�t, Miss Lemon. 1569 01:28:51,125 --> 01:28:54,333 - She admitted taking the shoe, 1570 01:28:54,625 --> 01:28:58,624 the bracelet, the silk scarf, 1571 01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:02,624 the cigarette lighter, the cookery book, 1572 01:29:02,917 --> 01:29:03,999 and the ring. 1573 01:29:04,292 --> 01:29:07,333 - And we can also eliminate the stethoscope, 1574 01:29:07,625 --> 01:29:12,499 which was removed by Monsieur Colin. 1575 01:29:12,792 --> 01:29:14,166 - What? 1576 01:29:14,459 --> 01:29:16,333 - Len, I can explain. 1577 01:29:16,625 --> 01:29:18,083 I was going to pay you back. 1578 01:29:18,375 --> 01:29:20,166 - He used it most ingeniously, 1579 01:29:20,459 --> 01:29:23,666 when he took from the pharmacy also the poison. 1580 01:29:23,959 --> 01:29:26,749 - That just leaves three. 1581 01:29:27,042 --> 01:29:27,874 Oui, 1582 01:29:28,167 --> 01:29:31,083 the last three. 1583 01:29:31,375 --> 01:29:32,499 And at this point, 1584 01:29:32,792 --> 01:29:35,708 I would like to introduce you to Monsieur Casterman, 1585 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:40,541 who, for many months, has been investigating this hostel. 1586 01:29:40,834 --> 01:29:42,749 - Investigating us? 1587 01:29:43,042 --> 01:29:44,041 But why? 1588 01:29:44,334 --> 01:29:45,958 - I've been in charge of an investigation 1589 01:29:46,250 --> 01:29:48,333 into a smuggling ring, ma'am, 1590 01:29:48,625 --> 01:29:49,791 and I had a strong belief 1591 01:29:50,084 --> 01:29:52,791 that the late Mrs. Nicoletis was a part of it. 1592 01:29:53,084 --> 01:29:54,583 - Mrs. Nic? 1593 01:29:54,875 --> 01:29:58,791 - Oh, you must be making a mistake. 1594 01:29:59,084 --> 01:30:01,458 - I don't think so. 1595 01:30:06,084 --> 01:30:07,083 - It's true, Ma. 1596 01:30:07,375 --> 01:30:08,583 - Sally? 1597 01:30:08,875 --> 01:30:11,749 - I work for Mr. Casterman. 1598 01:30:12,042 --> 01:30:13,791 - Sally. 1599 01:30:14,084 --> 01:30:15,999 - I'm sorry. 1600 01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:19,791 - Mademoiselle Sally was seen leaving the hostel 1601 01:30:20,084 --> 01:30:21,958 by the fire escape, and she used this means 1602 01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:24,124 to report on the smuggling to Monsieur Casterman. 1603 01:30:24,417 --> 01:30:25,916 - What was being smuggled? 1604 01:30:26,209 --> 01:30:28,749 - Diamonds. 1605 01:30:29,042 --> 01:30:31,208 - The smuggling operation involved the use 1606 01:30:31,500 --> 01:30:33,374 of a certain type of rucksack, 1607 01:30:33,667 --> 01:30:36,458 and this rucksack had in it a compartment that was secret 1608 01:30:36,750 --> 01:30:40,333 and was unknown even to the person who might be wearing it. 1609 01:30:40,625 --> 01:30:43,041 And it was this rucksack which set off the events 1610 01:30:43,334 --> 01:30:47,541 which led to the death of Mademoiselle Celia Austin. 1611 01:30:49,625 --> 01:30:50,874 For on this day, 1612 01:30:51,167 --> 01:30:53,708 a new assignment of diamonds had arrived from Amsterdam 1613 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:57,458 in a rucksack belonging to Monsieur Leonard Bateson. 1614 01:30:57,750 --> 01:30:58,958 Perhaps the policeman, 1615 01:30:59,250 --> 01:31:00,958 he's coming to Hickory Road to investigate, 1616 01:31:01,250 --> 01:31:06,874 using the death in Soho as an excuse to make a visit. 1617 01:31:07,167 --> 01:31:10,708 The diamonds, they are quickly retrieved, 1618 01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:16,041 and the rucksack disposed of. 1619 01:31:16,334 --> 01:31:20,124 But our smuggler had also a fear. 1620 01:31:20,417 --> 01:31:22,916 It is essential not to be seen, 1621 01:31:23,209 --> 01:31:27,291 so instead, simplicity. 1622 01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:32,791 Lightbulbs are removed from certain points in the hostel. 1623 01:31:33,084 --> 01:31:35,541 - Oh, good evening, Officer. 1624 01:31:35,834 --> 01:31:37,958 - So our smuggler is passed by unnoticed by the policeman. 1625 01:31:38,250 --> 01:31:42,249 - Students are waiting for you, if you'd care to come this way. 1626 01:31:48,334 --> 01:31:53,458 - But for all this care, our perpetrator had been seen. 1627 01:31:56,834 --> 01:31:58,041 Mademoiselle Celia Austin had a room 1628 01:31:58,334 --> 01:32:01,249 which overlooked the boiler room in which the rucksack was found. 1629 01:32:01,542 --> 01:32:06,041 She had seen everything. 1630 01:32:06,334 --> 01:32:09,749 And I assume that she believed that the person she saw 1631 01:32:10,042 --> 01:32:11,874 was also responsible for the other thefts. 1632 01:32:12,167 --> 01:32:13,249 - That's right. 1633 01:32:13,542 --> 01:32:15,541 The night she died, she told us. 1634 01:32:15,834 --> 01:32:18,124 She said she was sure they'd come forward. 1635 01:32:18,417 --> 01:32:21,499 - Hmm, and so, you see, mesdames et messieurs, 1636 01:32:21,792 --> 01:32:23,499 that Mademoiselle Celia Austin was killed 1637 01:32:23,792 --> 01:32:27,749 because she had to be silenced, 1638 01:32:28,042 --> 01:32:30,416 and the easiest way to ensure that silence 1639 01:32:30,709 --> 01:32:33,208 was for the killer to take advantage of the morphine 1640 01:32:33,500 --> 01:32:35,249 that had been stolen from the hospital 1641 01:32:35,542 --> 01:32:38,083 by Monsieur Colin McNabb. 1642 01:32:42,084 --> 01:32:44,874 It was a simple task for the killer to enter her room 1643 01:32:45,167 --> 01:32:47,208 and to exchange her sleeping draft 1644 01:32:47,500 --> 01:32:52,416 for a dose of morphine that would be fatal. 1645 01:32:52,709 --> 01:32:54,249 - God, it's all my fault. 1646 01:32:54,542 --> 01:32:55,541 I should never have taken it. 1647 01:32:55,834 --> 01:32:56,916 - No, but you threw it away. 1648 01:32:57,209 --> 01:32:58,249 We all saw it. 1649 01:32:58,542 --> 01:33:00,041 - No. 1650 01:33:00,334 --> 01:33:02,916 It was the harmless boracic powder which was thrown away, 1651 01:33:03,209 --> 01:33:06,541 for the morphine, that had already been taken away 1652 01:33:06,834 --> 01:33:09,041 from Monsieur Colin McNabb by someone who believed 1653 01:33:09,334 --> 01:33:10,791 they might have reason to use it one day. 1654 01:33:11,084 --> 01:33:12,708 - But you found the poison in Colin's room. 1655 01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:14,208 - Ah, yes, but that was after the death 1656 01:33:14,500 --> 01:33:15,666 of Mademoiselle Celia Austin. 1657 01:33:15,959 --> 01:33:18,666 You see, the poison was returned to his room 1658 01:33:18,959 --> 01:33:21,083 in an attempt to incriminate him. 1659 01:33:21,375 --> 01:33:24,583 - I'm sorry, Mr. Poirot, but I can't bear this any longer. 1660 01:33:24,875 --> 01:33:27,083 Who is the killer? 1661 01:33:30,917 --> 01:33:37,041 - We have here two crimes: the smuggling and the murder. 1662 01:33:37,334 --> 01:33:41,291 And it is with the smuggling we must begin. 1663 01:33:41,584 --> 01:33:43,083 When I purchased the rucksack 1664 01:33:43,375 --> 01:33:45,749 from the shop owned by Madame Nicoletis, 1665 01:33:46,042 --> 01:33:49,499 I found in it a secret compartment 1666 01:33:49,792 --> 01:33:52,999 which was used to conceal the diamonds. 1667 01:33:53,292 --> 01:33:54,749 - What is it? 1668 01:33:58,375 --> 01:33:59,541 - The stitchwork, Miss Lemon. 1669 01:33:59,834 --> 01:34:02,083 - You've cut right through it. 1670 01:34:02,375 --> 01:34:04,291 - The stitchwork, it was very distinctive, 1671 01:34:04,584 --> 01:34:06,041 and it was the good Miss Lemon 1672 01:34:06,334 --> 01:34:09,083 who had previously drawn it to my attention. 1673 01:34:09,375 --> 01:34:12,291 - What unusual stitchwork. 1674 01:34:12,584 --> 01:34:16,291 - I saw at once that the stitchwork on the rucksack 1675 01:34:16,584 --> 01:34:20,458 was the work of the same hand, 1676 01:34:20,750 --> 01:34:25,249 your hand, Mademoiselle Valerie. 1677 01:34:25,542 --> 01:34:27,124 Your work in the fashion house 1678 01:34:27,417 --> 01:34:30,124 allows you to travel abroad most frequently, n'est-ce pas? 1679 01:34:30,417 --> 01:34:32,666 You also displayed a certain knowledge of diamonds, 1680 01:34:32,959 --> 01:34:34,291 which I found most revealing. 1681 01:34:34,584 --> 01:34:37,208 For example, you knew at once the value of the diamond ring 1682 01:34:37,500 --> 01:34:39,124 belonging to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane. 1683 01:34:39,417 --> 01:34:41,249 - No, it's all wrong. You've got it all wrong. 1684 01:34:41,542 --> 01:34:42,666 - Why don't you leave her alone? 1685 01:34:42,959 --> 01:34:43,958 - I didn't kill anyone. 1686 01:34:44,250 --> 01:34:47,374 - No, not on your own, no. 1687 01:34:47,667 --> 01:34:49,708 And I do not believe that you have the nature to kill, 1688 01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:52,041 but you were not acting alone, were you, mademoiselle? 1689 01:34:52,334 --> 01:34:53,166 - She had an accomplice? 1690 01:34:53,459 --> 01:34:54,958 - Oh, yes, Chief Inspector. 1691 01:34:55,250 --> 01:34:57,166 Madame Nicoletis, she was head of the smuggling ring, 1692 01:34:57,459 --> 01:34:58,874 as was suspected by Monsieur Casterman, 1693 01:34:59,167 --> 01:35:01,874 but she had more than one young person engaged in the business. 1694 01:35:02,167 --> 01:35:03,291 - So who else was it? 1695 01:35:03,584 --> 01:35:05,166 - Hmm, there was a little clue left for us, 1696 01:35:05,459 --> 01:35:06,958 Chief Inspector, with the third killing. 1697 01:35:07,250 --> 01:35:09,458 The hair that was trapped in the fingernail of the dead girl, 1698 01:35:09,750 --> 01:35:11,124 what was the color of that hair? 1699 01:35:11,417 --> 01:35:12,458 - It was red. 1700 01:35:12,750 --> 01:35:14,124 - Ah. 1701 01:35:18,875 --> 01:35:20,541 - You think it was me? 1702 01:35:24,584 --> 01:35:28,458 I never went near her. 1703 01:35:28,750 --> 01:35:30,374 - It is of no matter. 1704 01:35:30,667 --> 01:35:33,291 Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, she was struck down from behind, 1705 01:35:33,584 --> 01:35:35,541 so it would not have been possible physically for her 1706 01:35:35,834 --> 01:35:38,083 to even reach the hair of her attacker. 1707 01:35:38,375 --> 01:35:41,166 - So what are you saying? 1708 01:35:41,459 --> 01:35:44,333 - I have said it to you once before, Monsieur Colin, 1709 01:35:44,625 --> 01:35:45,874 that it is always the little mistakes 1710 01:35:46,167 --> 01:35:48,583 that the criminal ignores that opens the door to the psychology 1711 01:35:48,875 --> 01:35:52,833 and so to the crime, and so it is here. 1712 01:35:53,125 --> 01:35:55,958 The hair that was found in the hand of the dead girl, 1713 01:35:56,250 --> 01:36:00,749 it was an act of a killer who is too clever, too daring. 1714 01:36:01,042 --> 01:36:04,916 And this killer has spent most of his life hiding a secret 1715 01:36:05,209 --> 01:36:07,291 he will do anything to conceal, 1716 01:36:07,584 --> 01:36:10,624 and this secret drives him to acts even more daring, 1717 01:36:10,917 --> 01:36:12,333 even more dangerous, 1718 01:36:12,625 --> 01:36:16,541 that he cannot stop, no, not even at murder. 1719 01:36:16,834 --> 01:36:18,499 - Yes, but who, Poirot? 1720 01:36:18,792 --> 01:36:20,458 Who are you talking about? 1721 01:36:24,125 --> 01:36:28,708 - I am talking about the young man in this photograph, 1722 01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:30,041 Chief Inspector. 1723 01:36:30,334 --> 01:36:33,374 - What photograph? 1724 01:36:33,667 --> 01:36:35,041 - A photograph that I took from the body 1725 01:36:35,334 --> 01:36:39,374 of Mademoiselle Patricia Lane yesterday, 1726 01:36:39,667 --> 01:36:42,041 and the reason why she had to die. 1727 01:36:46,084 --> 01:36:47,166 Mademoiselle Patricia Lane 1728 01:36:47,459 --> 01:36:50,791 was a fanatical admirer of Sir Arthur Stanley, 1729 01:36:51,084 --> 01:36:53,208 and it was when she visited him in the hospital 1730 01:36:53,500 --> 01:36:54,708 that she found the family album 1731 01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:57,333 from which she removed a photograph. 1732 01:36:59,584 --> 01:37:01,791 But why did she remove this photograph, huh? 1733 01:37:02,084 --> 01:37:04,874 Because she saw to her amazement 1734 01:37:05,167 --> 01:37:08,499 the son of Sir Arthur Stanley, 1735 01:37:08,792 --> 01:37:10,749 who was living at number 26 Hickory Road 1736 01:37:11,042 --> 01:37:13,333 under a name that was assumed. 1737 01:37:13,625 --> 01:37:16,416 - What name? 1738 01:37:16,709 --> 01:37:18,791 Who is he? 1739 01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:23,708 - Et bien, now that I have removed the bloodstain 1740 01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:25,416 from the photograph, 1741 01:37:25,709 --> 01:37:28,833 which obscured the identity of his son... 1742 01:37:32,459 --> 01:37:35,374 It is plain for all to see... 1743 01:37:38,292 --> 01:37:42,291 For it is you, 1744 01:37:42,584 --> 01:37:44,833 Monsieur Chapman. 1745 01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:55,874 Do you deny that your true name is Nigel Stanley? 1746 01:37:56,167 --> 01:37:57,249 - Come on, Mr. Poirot, it's not a crime 1747 01:37:57,542 --> 01:37:58,499 to change your name, you know. 1748 01:37:58,792 --> 01:38:00,458 - No, Monsieur Stanley, that was not your crime. 1749 01:38:00,750 --> 01:38:01,708 - And besides, you've got it all wrong, 1750 01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:02,916 or have you forgotten? 1751 01:38:03,209 --> 01:38:04,291 I was with you when Pat was killed. 1752 01:38:04,584 --> 01:38:06,916 - No, when you were with me, 1753 01:38:07,209 --> 01:38:10,708 Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, she was already dead. 1754 01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:12,624 You come to us with a story that, to me, 1755 01:38:12,917 --> 01:38:15,083 is a concoction of the most obvious. 1756 01:38:15,375 --> 01:38:18,374 You mentioned the name Patricia three times 1757 01:38:18,667 --> 01:38:21,583 to convince us that it is her with whom you speak. 1758 01:38:21,875 --> 01:38:22,874 - Hello, Pat. 1759 01:38:23,167 --> 01:38:24,791 - Why are you doing this, Nigel? 1760 01:38:25,084 --> 01:38:26,833 - I told you I'd come here, Pat. 1761 01:38:27,125 --> 01:38:28,166 The Chief Inspector's here. 1762 01:38:28,459 --> 01:38:30,708 Why don't you talk to him, Pat? 1763 01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:32,958 - All right. - Chief Inspector. 1764 01:38:33,250 --> 01:38:36,291 - But it is not with Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, 1765 01:38:36,584 --> 01:38:37,999 for that pauvre mademoiselle 1766 01:38:38,292 --> 01:38:40,041 lies dead upon the floor in her room. 1767 01:38:40,334 --> 01:38:41,666 - Yes, this is Japp. 1768 01:38:41,959 --> 01:38:45,166 - Chief Inspector, I think I know who killed Celia. 1769 01:38:45,459 --> 01:38:47,999 - But it is easy, is it not, to imitate her voice. 1770 01:38:48,292 --> 01:38:51,249 - You see, I saw them with the poison. 1771 01:38:51,542 --> 01:38:54,708 - So who is it at the other end of the line? 1772 01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:57,458 - I was going past Colin's room, and-- 1773 01:38:57,750 --> 01:39:00,916 It's impossible, Chief Inspector. 1774 01:39:06,500 --> 01:39:09,124 - It is your accomplice, 1775 01:39:09,417 --> 01:39:12,083 Mademoiselle Valerie Hobhouse. 1776 01:39:22,500 --> 01:39:25,291 - I never wanted any part in it, 1777 01:39:25,584 --> 01:39:27,208 not the killing. 1778 01:39:27,500 --> 01:39:28,416 That was him. 1779 01:39:28,709 --> 01:39:29,833 - Shut up, you little fool. 1780 01:39:30,125 --> 01:39:32,791 - I'm sorry, Nigel, but I can't go on anymore. 1781 01:39:33,084 --> 01:39:34,499 - He's got nothing on you, see? 1782 01:39:34,792 --> 01:39:36,083 It's all just talk. He's got nothing. 1783 01:39:36,375 --> 01:39:37,874 - No. 1784 01:39:42,084 --> 01:39:45,583 I want to tell you everything, Mr. Poirot. 1785 01:39:45,875 --> 01:39:47,624 I want to make a statement. 1786 01:39:52,584 --> 01:39:55,333 A mouse! 1787 01:40:02,500 --> 01:40:04,374 - After him! 1788 01:40:04,667 --> 01:40:06,333 - Go! 1789 01:40:12,375 --> 01:40:14,458 - Don't let him get away! 1790 01:40:33,334 --> 01:40:35,208 - All right, fan out, lads. 1791 01:40:35,500 --> 01:40:37,333 Don't let him double back. 1792 01:41:07,250 --> 01:41:08,833 - Hey! 1793 01:41:19,417 --> 01:41:21,999 - All right, son, you've got nowhere to go. 1794 01:41:30,875 --> 01:41:31,791 No! 1795 01:41:32,084 --> 01:41:34,083 - No! 1796 01:41:41,625 --> 01:41:44,833 - We gather together on this sad day 1797 01:41:45,125 --> 01:41:49,166 to bury a man whose tragic death has foreshortened a life 1798 01:41:49,459 --> 01:41:53,708 that promised so much to those who believed in him. 1799 01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:57,208 But in their long quest for justice, 1800 01:41:57,500 --> 01:42:01,083 I know Sir Arthur lives on. 1801 01:42:01,375 --> 01:42:04,499 Will you all please rise? 1802 01:42:33,334 --> 01:42:34,666 - Ah, Monsieur Endicott. 1803 01:42:34,959 --> 01:42:36,291 - Mr. Poirot. 1804 01:42:36,584 --> 01:42:38,249 - You have reflected on what I've said? 1805 01:42:38,542 --> 01:42:43,124 - Yes, and I have no objection to your having this, 1806 01:42:43,417 --> 01:42:44,958 Chief Inspector. 1807 01:42:45,250 --> 01:42:46,208 - What is it? 1808 01:42:46,500 --> 01:42:49,041 - It is a confession, is it not? 1809 01:42:49,334 --> 01:42:50,749 - That's right, 1810 01:42:51,042 --> 01:42:53,624 the confession of that man, Nigel Stanley, 1811 01:42:53,917 --> 01:42:58,749 to the murder of his mother, Lady Stanley, by poison. 1812 01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:04,416 - Merci, monsieur. 1813 01:43:05,500 --> 01:43:07,874 - He killed his mother? 1814 01:43:08,167 --> 01:43:10,541 - Don't look so shocked, Ma. 1815 01:43:10,834 --> 01:43:13,083 - But why? 1816 01:43:13,375 --> 01:43:15,333 - I stole money from her, 1817 01:43:15,625 --> 01:43:18,708 not once, quite a few times. 1818 01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:20,624 Eventually she threatened to call the police, 1819 01:43:20,917 --> 01:43:25,708 and when she caught me again, well, I had to stop her. 1820 01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:28,208 She really was going to turn me in. 1821 01:43:28,500 --> 01:43:31,541 - And your father knew it was you. 1822 01:43:31,834 --> 01:43:33,833 - He made me write a confession, 1823 01:43:34,125 --> 01:43:36,666 and if my name ever appeared in connection with any crime, 1824 01:43:36,959 --> 01:43:38,666 no matter how trivial, 1825 01:43:38,959 --> 01:43:40,874 that confession would be delivered to the police. 1826 01:43:41,167 --> 01:43:42,333 - And that was why it was so important 1827 01:43:42,625 --> 01:43:45,291 to keep your identity unknown. 1828 01:43:49,209 --> 01:43:53,291 - I think you'd better go and pay your respects. 1829 01:43:53,584 --> 01:43:56,583 - It was very nice of you to bring me, Chief Inspector, 1830 01:43:56,875 --> 01:43:58,416 but I've really no respects to pay. 1831 01:44:05,709 --> 01:44:09,583 - It is most kind of you to invite me here, Chief Inspector. 1832 01:44:09,875 --> 01:44:12,874 - After staying with you for a whole week, Poirot, 1833 01:44:13,167 --> 01:44:15,666 the least I could do is offer you a spot of lunch, 1834 01:44:15,959 --> 01:44:18,499 wean you away from that-- 1835 01:44:18,792 --> 01:44:22,416 Well, let you taste some proper English cooking. 1836 01:44:22,709 --> 01:44:25,374 - And the good Madame Japp, it is today that she returns? 1837 01:44:25,667 --> 01:44:28,124 - Yes, about 3:00. 1838 01:44:29,459 --> 01:44:35,083 - There, now, that is what I call food. 1839 01:44:35,375 --> 01:44:37,333 That's your mashed potato. 1840 01:44:37,625 --> 01:44:40,833 This is your peas-- mushy peas, we call 'em. 1841 01:44:41,125 --> 01:44:42,083 You'll love 'em. 1842 01:44:42,375 --> 01:44:45,999 And this, the pi�ce de r�sistance: 1843 01:44:46,292 --> 01:44:48,708 faggots. 1844 01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:50,083 - Faggots? 1845 01:44:50,375 --> 01:44:52,124 - Faggots. 1846 01:44:52,417 --> 01:44:56,291 And there's spotted dick for afters. 1847 01:44:56,584 --> 01:44:57,666 - Dick? 1848 01:44:57,959 --> 01:45:01,416 - Yes, it's called that because... 1849 01:45:05,750 --> 01:45:07,416 - This is tragic, Chief Inspector. 1850 01:45:07,709 --> 01:45:09,333 - No, no, it's fine. 1851 01:45:09,625 --> 01:45:12,124 - I can eat none of this wonderful food. 1852 01:45:12,417 --> 01:45:14,999 - What? Why? 1853 01:45:15,292 --> 01:45:19,583 - Because I have an allergy of the faggot. 1854 01:45:19,875 --> 01:45:20,833 - An allergy? 1855 01:45:21,125 --> 01:45:22,124 - Oui. 1856 01:45:22,417 --> 01:45:23,999 I-I do not know how you say it in English, 1857 01:45:24,292 --> 01:45:27,999 but in Belgian it is known as... 1858 01:45:28,292 --> 01:45:30,124 la phobie de faggot. 1859 01:45:30,417 --> 01:45:31,708 - I never heard of that. 1860 01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:34,791 - I'm so sorry, Chief Inspector. I should have warned you. 1861 01:45:35,084 --> 01:45:37,874 - Well, this is a blessed upset, I must say. 1862 01:45:38,167 --> 01:45:41,624 Still, you can have some spotted dick. 1863 01:45:41,917 --> 01:45:44,499 You haven't got a phobie de dick, have you? 1864 01:45:44,792 --> 01:45:46,208 - No. 1865 01:45:51,334 --> 01:45:53,583 Some cheese? 1866 01:45:53,875 --> 01:45:55,333 - I'll have a look. 1867 01:45:57,792 --> 01:46:01,083 - Just some camembert, a little brie, perhaps? 1868 01:46:06,125 --> 01:46:07,708 Bon. 1869 01:46:09,917 --> 01:46:12,541 - Nothing like a nice bit of mousetrap.