All language subtitles for Maigret S01E04 The Revolver_Track03-eng

(buzzer buzzes)

- Oh, excuse me

I thought-

Can I speak to Mr. Maigret?

I mean the police inspector.

- He's not at home.

- Oh, well, it's very important.

I wonder if you could ask someone

when he's likely to be back”

It's a private matter.

Perhaps his wife would know

- Well, I'm afraid even his
wife doesn't always know

when the inspector will be home

Come in.

I'll see if I can find out for you.

- Say, I didn't realise

It's very geod of you, madam

- Well, who shall I say it is?

- Ch, I'm afraid my name
won't mean anything

- Well, if it's urgent,

I could run round to headquarters.

- Oh no, no, no.

It's not urgent.

Well it is

But it's really quite private, personal.

- Well, I'll ring the office

Perhaps you'd like to
walt in here, would you?

- It's very good of you
to take all this trouble.

- Smoke if you want to.

{suspenseful music)

- [Mrs. Maigret] Inspector
Maigret's office, please

It's Madame Maigret

(dramatic music)

Sergeant Lapointe, I didn't
recognise your voice

How are you?

Yes, I will, thank you

Oh he's not there?

Do you know when he'll be back?

No, no, it's not important,

but I wonder whether you'd
ask him to give me a ring

as soon as he gets in, will you?

(dramatic music)

(match flickers)

{lively accordion music)

{door slams)

Is that you?

- It's me.

Oh, forgot the flowers.

- Oh shoot.

Gh you.

Oh, they're lovely

I'd have to put them in just as they are

Your coat's on the bed.

- [Maigret] Right

- Be quick and wash because
they'll be here any moment.

- [Maigret] I washed it the morgue

- Ah.

I'm going to give them artichoke
hearts for hors d'oeuvres,

and brandade de Morue,

salade Nicoise before the strawberries.

Do you think that'll do”?

{soft music)

- Here.

- Now, Dr. Pardon will sit here

The baron on my right.

Oh here, let me do that

- I don't see why we have to dress up

for a general practitioner
we've known for 20 years

even if he is bringing a baron to dinner.

- Well, Dr. Pardon has changed
the last time we went there.

There we are.

Now do you think we ought
to have the candles?

- Ah, what for?

We got a new shade on
the lamp, haven't we?

- wonder if I ought to put
the truffles in the blanquette

as some people don't like it

- Oh, I think you ought
te put this thing away

(dramatic music)

Have you seen my revolver?

- [Mrs. Maigret] The presentation one?

- I haven't any other

- It's in the case.

You left it on the mantelpiece last night

- It's not in the case.

- But you showed it to Maitre
Connaught after dinner

- Yes.

I didn't put it back in the case

I left it up here.

- I haven't taken it.

No one else has been in here.

Unless, well, only the young man

- What young man?

- A young man who wanted to see.

He didn't say his name

I left him in here when I went
to ring you at headquarters

When I came back, he'd gone

- Well, fancy

leaving a stranger
- Don't be cross.

- Well, it'll be a fine thing

if he's gone and murdered
someone with my revolver

- This boy wouldn't murder anyone

He seemed a sweet boy

He said it was absolutely essential

that we kept it a private matter.

It was personal

I rang you, but you were out.

- Yes, I had an appointment.

- So they told me

The Brasserie Dauphine

- It's no time for jokes

Look, what did this nice
young man say he wanted?

- He didn't say he wanted anything,

but he looked as if he needed help.

Well you know after that
article in the magazine

lots of people write you for advice

- Yeah.

He looks as if he's come for my revolver

- He couldn't know that it
was on the mantelpiece now

Could he?

- True, I suppose.

(buzzer buzzes)

- Ch they're here

{soft music)

- Good evening.
- Good evening, Dr. Pardon

You're alone”?

- Yes, unhappily

Unfortunately, the baron can't
really come this evening

- [Mrs. Maigret] Let me take your hat

Do go inside, my
husband's waiting for you

- [Doctor] May I go in?

- [Mrs. Maigret] Just
a few things to see to

- Thank you very much

Madame has gone into the kitchen

How are you, my dear friend?

- Well, I don't suppose I've
aged much in a fortnight

- You look a little pale

I have an apology to make

Baron Lagrange isn't coming

- Huh, well, at least we
didn't wait for an aperitif

- You know he's an odd chap.

He suddenly turned up in
my surgery a few weeks

I hadn't seen him since our school days

- I didn't knowr you were at
school with the nobility

- Ch he's not really a baron

Thank you

At least I don't think so.

He's called that because
he's always talking

about his distinguished friends

- A snob, in fact.

- But an amusing one

You know he was telling me the other day

about Andre Delteil the young deputy

who made his name by exposing scandals.

- I know him.

I, Delteil, accuse

- According to Lagrange, he
invents the scandal first

and then looks round

for somebody who might be guilty of it,

and they nearly always are.

- Tell me, why is Lagrange
so keen to meet me?

- Ch, a lot of people
are after that article.

Chief Inspector Maigret turns out

to be a humanistic philosopher.

A man who asks himself the question,

who is the real criminal in the case.

- Sentimental rubbish.

Well now.

- Thank you

- Yes.

Oh you can skip that.

He's only interested in ammunition

for a 45 Smith and Wesson.

You have?

Huh-uh.

Young

Blonde.

Wearing a blue suit and a striped tie

What colour?

I bet your 10 francs he
wants to know what colour.

Huh-uh.

Well, you better get further
details as soon as you can

Yes, he's on the warpath a bit

This is vital.

Let us know as quick as you can, right?

- Patron.

I may be 10 minutes late,

but what's wrong with the duty room?

- You asked that the inquiries

for the purchase of 45
ammunition should be secret.

In there, we're at full strength
on the Algerian murders

- Delteil again?
- Uh-huh.

- Who's he accusing this time?

- Who?

- Well now what about the 45 ammo?

- I'm afraid the young man has bought some

at a gunsmith's in the Boulevard
Bonne Nouvelle yesterday

- Get his name.

- No, all we've got is
he's quite young, blonde,

wearing a blue suit and a striped tie

- Colour?

- Not known. (telephone rings)

- Nonsense.

They notice the stripes,
they notice the colour

Find out.

Maigret.

Ah, hello doctor

No, I'm feeling fine.

Why, aren't you?

- Ch yes, yes, an excellent dinner

No, I thought you might like to knows

why the baron didn't turn up last night.

I went to see him this morning.

He's a sick man,

but apparently the reason
why he didn't come to dinner

was because of his son.

The boy's disappeared

- Oh, well, is he seriously worried”

Oh, I see

Well, can you give me a
description of the boy?

Yeah.

Age, shape, colour, et cetera

19.

Fair.

Medium height

I suppose you know what he's wearing?

- Yes, yes, I asked that.

He only has one suit, a dark blue one

The baron wasn't quite sure about the tie,

but he thinks it was
red and blue, striped

- Red and blue.

- Hello? Hello?

Are you there?

- Yes, I'm very much here

- Where did you say Lagrange lives”?

12 Rue Popincourt.

Right you are, doctor.

Thank you very much

Yes, I will

Good-bye, doctor.

Lucas.

- [Lucas] Yes, sir.

- Do you believe in coincidences?

- They can happen

- This isn't one of them.

I believe that the young man with a gun

is wearing a red, blue striped tie.

- Red and blue?

- Keep looking for him

You'll find me at Rue Popincourt

A man called Francois Lagrange

- Hmm-hmm.

{ominous music)

(bell dings)

(bell dings)

- But he must be in.

The doctor came to see him this morning

I'll have a look.

Ohl

- What's that?

- An eye

{Maigret knocks)

- Baron Lagrange?

Chief Inspector Maigret here

I believe you wanted to see me

-Comein.

- Thank you

Please go back to bed

- Thank you, I will

I haven't been at all well.

You should have sent
up a card or something

I'd have tidied up

- Hmm.

- Please sit down.

Oh, put them anywhere

- Thank you

Well, I believe we should
have had the pleasure

of meeting yesterday

- I had hoped so yes, but

- You were in bed.

- Exactly, I was in bed

- When did you begin to feel ill?

- Yesterday, but I haven't
felt well for a long time

- Yes. Dr. Pardon telephoned me.

I believe you're worry about your son.

He hasn't come back yet?

- No.

Pardon shouldn't have bothered you.

It's unimportant

He's probably chasing some girl

- Oh, I see

So you're not seriously anxious

- I'd forgotten that
he's 19 and it's spring

- But you did want to
see me about something

You asked Dr. Pardon to arrange a meeting

- I like meeting people that's all

and I was interested
in an article I'd read.

- Oh yes

That was just some silly
write up by a young man

who wanted a story.

- Please make your
apologies to your good wife

I don't generally behave like
this, but I'm ill. very ill

Please go

See what a mess everything is?

I can't even offer you a drink.

- I'l ask the concierge
ta bring you up some food

(traffic hums)

You know, you ought to be in a hospital

- No, no, no, I'm not as bad as all that

Just. (Lagrange coughs)

- Is this your son?

- Yes, that's Alain

I have two sons and a daughter.

The others don't come to see me.

- Alain lives here with you?

- It's convenient.

He works in an advertising agency.

- Ch you've telephoned them, of course”

- Oh, what's the point?

He'll come back when he wants to do.

It's just that.

- What. that he doesn't
usually go with women?

- He had to start sometime.

- Yeah.

Do you mind if I take this”

I'll bring it back.

- Yes.

But promise not to
publish it in the papers

All right.
- All right.

I'll bring it back today or tomorrow

- No, no, no

No hurry, don't bother.

I may not be at home.

- I don't think you'll be
out of bed for a few days.

No. no, don't disturb yourself.

Goodbye, Monsieur Lagrange

Interesting, wasn't it?

Why didn't you go in?

Tidy up occasionally

Here, I want you to get him some food

Soup and fruit and so on.

He's a very sick man.

- He wasn't so ill last night

- What's that?

- I thought he was doing
the moon night flit

- He went out last night?

- Yes.

He was fit enough to help the taxi driver

carry his big trunk downstairs.

- What time was this?

- About 10.

I saw them from my little
window in the courtyard

- Did you see him come back?

- Of course.

- Of course.

Tell me, why isn't his
son here helping him?

- That's what I'd like to know.

He hasn't been here for two days

- Thank you, madame

(landlady knocks)

{ominous music)

- [Lucas] For general circulation”

- [Maigret] No, police stations only

- [Lucas] He doesn't lock like
a boy who'd steal a revolver.

- No, my wife's very worried,

very upset this precious young man

might go and commit suicide.

- That wouldn't be too good, patron.

- No, it wouldn't

Whatever he does, I'm
going to look a fool

The FBI of America present
me with a special revolver

with a speeded up trigger release

and now it's at large
in Paris fully loaded

with my initials on the butt.

- I got to man watching
the Lagrange apartment

We should hear about the taxi soon.

There was a rank close
by on the Rue Popincourt

He must have caught the
cab there (phone rings)

otherwise there was no way of him getting-

- Maigret.

Yeah.

Oh yes?

I see.

Huh, won't he.

All right

Well, you stay right where you are

and tell that tin guard
attendant I'm coming right down

One of the railway police traced the trunk

to the cloak room at the Gare du Nord.

- Oh.

- They wouldn't let him
have it without a warrant.

Come on.

We'll give them a warrant

{ominous music)

{car revs)

This the trunk?

- It's a trunk, but you can't
have it without a warrant.

- No labels, huh?

Grab the side.

(train bell dings)

{ominous music)

- What's that, blood?

- You still want to keep it?

(locks clang)

Andre Delteil.

Shot through the head

(dramatic music)

(bell dings)
(knocking)

- [Man] Francois, Francois, open up

- [Maigret] In the name of the law

- It isn't locked.

- Get up and dressed

You're coming to headquarters.

- But I'mill.

- He's your doctor.

Examine him.

- But you examined me this morning.

What's this about?

- We've found the trunk.

So you'll be examined again

- Now, then uncover your chest, will you?

That's right.

Now then, breathe in.

Out.

In again.

Out.

Once more.

Deeper.

Out.

Another one.

Again

Out.

Yes.

- Well?

- Well, he can answer your questions

- Can he come to headquarters”

- I shouldn't like him to.

- Neither would he.

Did you kill Andre Delteil?

{Lagrange gasps)

Did your son?

Are you fond of your son?

(Lagrange whelps)

What?

Because if you are fond of your son,

you better start talking

because he's running around
Paris with a loaded revolver

and the body of Andre Delteil

was removed from this
apartment last night

Removed by you

We have witnesses.

- Against me.

You're all against me

Nobody understands

Don't hit me.

I don't want to be hit.

- What did you burn in the
stove half an hour ago?

- won't say anything, I won't

- All right, l'll tell you.

Your burnt letters and
notebook, didn't you?

Didn't you?

{Lagrange shrieks)

He'll have to come to
the police infirmary

Have you got clothes?

- won't go with you, I won't, I won't

- He'll need a shirt.

- I bet he hasn't got any

{Lagrange weeps)

- Don't open that drawer!

{Lagrange weeps)

- Who's are these?

- My children's

- But they're grown up now

{Lagrange weeps)

I'll fetch an ambulance.

- Hmm, well, yes

Yes, of course, monsieur.

I'll tell him the moment he gets in

Do sit down.

- Thank you

- I'll take a statement in
case the inspector's late.

Name?

- Gaston Grimal.

- Born?

- 23rd of August, 1916

- Where?

Clermont, Ferrand.

- Ah, patron

The major's secretary
would like you to ring him

- I'm sure he would.

- Ch Monsieur Grimal.

This afternoon he was held up

and robbed near the Gare du Nord.

- Next door, please, Lucas

- By a young man with a revolver

whom he now identifies as Alain Lagrange.

- Delighted to meet you, monsieur

Tell me all about it.

- Well, I was in the Rue du Chemin Vert

about five o'clock this evening

when suddenly a young man
rushed out of the side street

and pointed a pistol at me.

- What sort of pistol?

- I didn't look at it very closely

You don't when it's painting at you

He said, "Your wallet, please."

- Please?
- A gentlemen.

- As a matter of fact, he was so shaky

that I thought the thing
might go off by accident

And so I-
- So you gave him your wallet?

- What else could I do?

There wasn't a gendarme
anywhere, of course

- And then?

- He ran off towards the boulevard.

- What was in your wallet?

- About 800 francs and
some very important papers

- 900 francs, huh?

Papers.

Thank you, monsieur

- Is that all?

- Yes.

Your wallet and the papers
will certainly be found

- And not the money”?

- Not the money

- This way, monsieur.

- And this is what we pay taxes for?

- All cars and districts
have been alerted.

- Good.

Have you seen this
Delteil medical report?

- Yes, shot with a 635

So it wasn't your gun

-635.
-Um.

- Well.

It wasn't the boy either.

Oh, my wife will be pleased about this

- Pardon?

- If he had a 635, he
wouldn't have pinched mine.

Right?
- No.

What's this?
- Maigret

- Scrapbook of all your cases?

Yours?
- Of course, it isn't mine

It was found in the Lagrange's apartment

By the way, it isn't all my cases

It's only the ones where I seem
to be defending the accused

- It looks at though some
might have made up their mind

that you were the detective
they wanted on their case

- Yes, it does, doesn't it?

Lucas, take this over to Rue Popincourt

and see if you can find
the gun that fired it

- Right.

Oh, there's another report here

about some girl having
seen the boy earlier today

in the Marais district.

-Soagir, eh?

Oh yes, it's spring and he's 19.

- L'Amour.

- Oh, who is she?

She's a housemaid to a Madame Debul,

who has an apartment there

- Not very romantic

Oh, it seems he called her this afternoon

Madame Debul left for London this marning.

Why, why, why.

Well, that's one thing I'm sure of.

You know, Lucas, this is not political

- No.

- Lucas, before you start
looking for the gun, two things

Find out Madame Debul's address in England

and circulate Alain's
Lagrange's description

to all ports and airfields

Tell them to hold him if he comes through.

- Right
- I'm gonna go over

to see this maid.

Oh and Lucas, do your stuff
with the ministry and the press

You know, cool them off

- Right away.

- Janvier.

Janvier.

Get through to the ministry and show them

that the Delteil murder is
not political, will you?

Better hurry or we'll have a
lot of frightened old women

wanting to call out the Republican guard

Yeah.

Let the press know too, will you?

Good.

(buzzer buzzes)

(buzzer buzzes)

- Whois it?

- Police.

Good evening

- You woke me up

- It's important.

You go to bed very early

- Haven't got up vet

- Huh, what's your name?

- Georgette Reynaud

What's yours”?

- Chief Inspector Maigret

Your mistress?

- Jeanne Debul.

Must have a cigarette

- Have you been here long?

- Ever since she came here.

Two years.

- Hmm-mm.

Where was she before?

- Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette.

She's moved up in the world,

- You don't like her?

- 1 couldn't like her.

She doesn't know you're there
unless she wants something

- Does she have many friends”?

- Lots.

Not many come here

She rings them up and meets them in bars

- Who does come here?

- Well, her lawyers, Maitre Chebon,

and a man from the bank who
discusses her investments

- Is she rich?

- You've gotta be to live here

- Any other men visit her?

- Not the way you're thinking

The landlords don't allow it.

- The young man come here this afternoon?

- [Georgette] Yes, but not to see me

- Have you ever seen him before”

- [Georgette] No, who was he?

- His name is Alain Lagrange.

- Something to do with
her carpet slippers?

- [Maigret] Her who?

- Carpet slippers

That was her name for Baron Lagrange

- The baron comes here?

- About once a week, but it varies

Could you pass me the ashtray?

Last week he came twice in the same day

I can just empty it out when it gets full.

Good idea, don't you think?

- Tell me, what does she
and Lagrange talk about?

- Oh, I don't know

They went into her bedroom

Oh, to talk.

Would you like to see it?

- Howr do you know it was to talk?

- From the way she usually treats him

Like dirt.

Even on the telephone this morning

- He phoned her this morning”?

- Early, I took the call

It must've been important.

She started packing straight away.

- Do you know her address in England

- The Somerset Hotel, London

- Good.

- [Georgette] Is she in trouble?

- Would it worry you if she were?

- No.

I feel about her like she feels about me.

- Uh-huh.

Nice picture.

You interested in pictures?

- There's a safe behind that one.

It shouldn't be open.

- It's empty.

- Empty?

I haven't touched it, I swear.

- All right, all right

- There is one thing
I've done wrong though

- Oh dear.

- Well, you see, her bed's
much more comfy than mine

So when she's away, I sleep in it.

- Does she go away very often”

- Every few months

- To London?

- And Rome and Madrid and Brussels.

Her cases are covered with labels.

- Uh-hmm.

Does she always empty the safe?

- Well, she take her jewels,

but she leaves the other stuff.

- Papers?

- Yes, and a box full of cards

with letters of the alphabet on top

- Hmm, card index

- sit?

She's got a desk in her bedroom too,

but it's always locked

Should I show you?

- I suppose I better see it

(buzzer buzzes)

- Mademoiselle.
- Ah Lucas.

- Patron.
- Wait in the bedroom.

There's a good girl

Georgette

- Georgette

- News.

This was found in the guttering

outside Lagrange's bedroom window

- Hmm, good
- Quarter round fired.

- Good.

- And L'auberge say Lagrange

got the seven o'clock plane to London

- Bad.

- They hadn't been told to stop him then

- He's in England now

- Mm-hmm.

- Lucas, does a mother keep
her children's clothes?

- [Lucas] My mother kept
my first pair of shoes

- For sentiment?

- No, for my little brother.

- Hello, headquarters

Maigret.

Yeah, I want a booking on
the first plane to England

I want some English money
and I'll be putting a call

through to Scotland Yard, Inspector Pyke.

I'll be back in my office in 20 minutes.

- Wanted some cigarettes

- What'll I do, patron?

- Well light it for her

Fingerprint the gun

Telephone me in England as
soon as Lagrange comes to

- Right.

- Oh, perhaps you better look
through Madame Debul's desk

Georgette will show you where it is

Good luck.

(lively music)

- After you, mademoiselle

{soft music)

(plane engine roars)

- Excuse me inspector.

My name's Grimes.

Glad to meet you sir

- Oh Grimes.

- Did you have a nice trip?

- Yes, thank you
- Good.

The car's waiting over here

Your luggage is being sent
on later to your hotel

This way, sir.

{soft music)

This is it, inspector

I hope you'll be comfortable

- [Maigret] Thank you, monsieur

- So I'l call around later.

Pick you up as arranged

- Au revoir.
- All right, sir.

- Right
- Goodbye, sir

- Moming, sir, may I take your hat?

- Thank you

I'm looking for Inspector Pyke.

- Yes, I'll see if I can
find him for you, sir

- Maigret.

- Pyke.
- Welcome to London.

- How are you?
- Very well.

Well, did you have a good flight?

- Very good, thank you.

- Well, then, it must be all of six years

- Yes, yes.

How is Moira”?

- Oh, she's in a terrible state.

She just sitting for a GCE

- What?

- They're the school leaving examination.

- Your wife is still at school?

- Moira is my daughter

Margaret sends her regards.

- Margaret, of course

- Madame Maigret is well, I hope?

- Yes, very well, thank you

Well now, I understand you're not asking

for my official help.

- Yes, I want this visit
to be quite unofficial

and above all, I want no publicity

for personal reasons

- Yeah.

Well, we've located your
man, Alain Lagrange

- Bon.
- He's booked in

at the Gilmore Hotel near Victoria.

He got up this morning, had
breakfast and then went out.

- Went out?

- Oh, there was nothing
we could do to stop him

Oh, by the way, I put the
reception manager wise

as to who you are and
I booked you in here

Room 604
- Thank you

And Madame Debul?

- Room 605.
- Magnifique

- Well, now, what's the form?

- Well, now, the important thing is this.

The Lagrange boy must not be
allowed to meet Madame Debul.

- What's the problem?

Can't I arrest one of them for you?

- No, no.

I want them to be at liberty

because I must know that
he wants to meet her.

- Yes, we've got pretty
good evidence that he does

He's been phoning all the
principal hotels in London

asking for her

He started with the As.

When I left, he'd got as
far as D for Dorchester

It'll take him least an hour
to get down to Somerset

- Why so long?

- Well, by the time he gets
four pennies for each call

- Ah ves, I know

And when you got your four pennies

someone else has got your phone

- Exactly

Yeah, well, I must get back to my desk

Oh look, why don't we have lunch together?

- I would like that.

- Well, one o'clock

- Ah oui.

- All right, I'l pick you up.

- Splendid

There's just one other thing.

- Yes?

- This is a very delicate case

- Of course, I understood that.

- You did.

- Well, beautiful French woman,

Inspector Maigret himself

- Beautiful?

- Well, all French women are beautiful

- Have you seen her?

- Well, one of my men took up
her breakfast this morning

{ominous music)

- Oh pardon

- Have you registered, sir?

- Oh no, 604 I believe?
- Yes, surely.

604
- Thank you

- Here we are, sir.

604
- Thank you

(knocking)

-Comein.

I finished with the tray.

How long does it take to do laundry?

Who are you”?

- Chief Inspector
Maigret, criminal justice

- Does that give you the
right to walk into my room?

- Alain is here.

- Alain who?

- Alain Lagrange

He's armed.

- Did you cross the Channel
just to tell me that?

- Yes.

He's searching for you

- Oh, how exciting.

I hope he's good looking

- He's the son of Baron Lagrange

The son of little carpet slippers

who visit you weekly in your apartment

- I see you're well informed

- Andre Delteil is dead.

- Yes.

It was in the English papers this morning

- Did Delteil visit you?

- [Miss Debul] Never.

I may have seen him in restaurants,

probably spoken with him.

- [Maigret] He was killed
in Lagrange's apartment.

- Is there anything else
you wish to tell me?

- What made you come to London?

- The shopping, inspector

My passport will tell you I
make frequent trips to London

and if you care to inquire,

you'll find I always stay at this hotel.

- How well do you know Lagrange”

- Ask at any bar on the Champs Elysee

Lagrange was a regular buttonholer.

You couldn't escape him

- Was he your lover?

- If he was, it was 12 or 15 years ago.

- That'd be just about the
time that his wife died.

- I don't see the point
of this conversation.

- [Maigret] Do you knows why
his son wants to kill you?

- Does he?

- [Maigret] Hmm

You didn't know that?

Might it be because you ruined his father?

- Ch, the baron never had any money

I even paid for his drinks.

- There are other ways of ruining a man

You did business with him.

- [Jeanne] Business, with carpet slippers?

- So you're not interested

in knowing why he wants to kill you?

- Why you've just told me

For ruining his father,

apparently for paying for his drinks.

- [Maigret] You're not alarmed

- Not in the least.

Now if you excuse me, I wish to dress

{telephone rings)

I shall put on my smartest costume

for this exciting young man

- Very well, I warned you

- Hello?

Yes, he is.

For you, inspector

- Thank you

Maigret.

Yes?

No.

No, I'l be coming right down

Thank you Madame.

For the use of your telephone

{soft music)

Yes?

- Is the call you were
expecting a foreign gentlemen

asking if Madame Debul
is staying at the hotel?

- You can tell him that she is.

- Yes, I'm very sorry to
have kept you waiting

Yes, she is staying here

Shall I put you through?

- No, thank you

Just tell her that a friend rang.

- He's gone

You know, I think that young
man was in a bit of a state.

Took a long time to put the receiver down

I have your permission?

- Oh yes, surely, of course.

Scotland Yard, please.

Inspector Pyke

No, Pyke.

Scotland Yard.

What?

- What message?

I cannot lunch today

- Give me a line, please, would you?

- Give me a line please

Give me a line please

Gargon, gargon

Waiter.

Whisky soda

- Yes, sir

- Sandwich, roast beef

- Ah yes

Whiskey and soda and
a roast beef sandwich

- Thank you

- Good morning.
- Good morning Madame Debul

- My key.
- Thank you so much

- Lovely moming
- Thank you. (phone rings)

- Yes, hello?

Yes, just one moment, please.

Inspector Maigret, a
call for you from Paris.

- Maigret.

- Hello, patron

How's the roast beef?

We checked on the gun.

It belonged to Deltell, not Lagrange

But both of them handled it.

Fingerprints everywhere

Yes, the public prosecutor
wants to charge Lagrange,

but the doctors won't let anyone near him.

They say he's out of his mind.

Just cries all the time and
says he doesn't want to be hit

Yes, he's in a bad way.

By the way, Georgette showed me the desk

in Madame's bedroom.

Huh?

(Lucas chuckles)

nothing else, patron, I'm too old.

A lot of dossiers on various people

Photographs that the press
would give their eyes for

Everything's held up now

We're waiting for you to come back

- Lucas, you there?

What's it like in Paris?

- Raining

My lunch?

Ooh, well, veal in wine with breadcrumbs,

fried potatees, coffee, half
a dozen oysters before that

And, of course, my usual
chocolate mousse with cream.

- Au revoir, Lucas

- Your order, sir.

{soft music)

(Big Ben chimes)

{telephone rings)

- Hello?

Oh ves, Monsieur Maigret, please

Inspector Pyke

Yes, I would like to, thank you

Oh Maigret, oh good

Look, I'm afraid my men
lost track of your boy

Yeah, but we've got the woman taped

She's shopping in Bond Street.

I'm sorry you couldn't manage lunch.

Perhaps we could have a drink together

- In England, in the afterncon, but where?

- Well, good Lord, you
can drink the clock round

if you belong to enough clubs.

I'll pick you up

Well, so long then.

Hmm?

Oh, au revoir.

- Will you get me the
manager of the Gilmore Hotel

- Yes, certainly.

Gilmore Hotel, please

They're putting me through.

- Thank you

- Hello, reception Somerset Hotel here.

We have a guest, a Mr. Maigret,

chief inspector of police from Paris.

He would like a word with your manager.

Oh, I see you speaking, sir

Just a moment, please

He's on the line for you

- Thank you

Maigret.

You have a guest, Alain Lagrange

Has he returned yet”?

No, I ask has he returned yet”?

- Monsieur Maigret didn't quite get that.

A Scotsman
- Ah.

- Would you mind repeating it?

Oh yes, yes, thank you

No, no, I don't think you need worry

Apparently the person you inquired about

went up to his room after lunch,
but didn't stay very long

And after he'd left,

a chambermaid discovered
her passkey was missing

They want to know if they should report it

ta the police or not

- Monsieur Maigret asked me to say

the matter will be taken care of.

Yes, thank you, gocdbye

- Tell me, would a passkey
from the Gilmore Hotel

fit the doors of this hotel?

- No, it's most unlikely

- Unlikely also that the
passkey will be stolen

- Well, I'm afraid sometimes
the maids leave them

in the doors while they're
cleaning the rooms

They're not supposed to, of course,

but you know what staff are

We catch them at it,
it's instant dismissal.

- Very interesting

604.

- Yes, certainly 604

There we are Mr. Maigret

- Thank you

{vacuum hums)

Ah!

- Anything wrong, sir?

- I'm sorry to stop you

I left my key la bas.

- La bas?

- Downstairs.

Could you let me in?

- Of course, sir

What a nuisance for you

- Thank you
- Not at all, sir

{Maigret knocks)

{chair crashes)

{key clangs)

- Well.

Here we are at last.

We're going to have a little chat

If you're holding the gun,
just lower the muzzle

I want to talk to you

I'm sorry I wasn't in yesterday

when you called to see me for advice

I'm not going to offer you any advice now

You know what you're up to

I just want to tell you a story

Once upon a time, one summer evening,

I was coming home.

You've been there, so you know
the trees on the boulevard.

There's a crowd around one of the trees.

I didn't know who'd seen the cat first.

Probably some little girl

who should have been at home in bed.

The cat was crouched down
at the end of a branch.

Didn't dare turn round.

It didn't dare jump.

It was quite astonished to
find itself where it was.

Tricky situation for the pussy

Didn't know that people
were only trying to help it

They poked at it with sticks

They shook the branch.

They fetched ladders.

Cat was out on a limb and it was scared.

No-one wished it any harm.

I don't wish you any harm either.

I know that you didn't kill Andre Delteil.

He was killed by a 635, 12
hours before you came to see me

You found his body in
your father's apartment

and that's what you came to see me about

(dramatic music)

Do be careful with my gun

It's a special model and the
trigger's very sensitive

I know you're there.

I know all that you've been doing today

You borrowed a passkey
from the Gilmore Hotel

hoping it would fit this door, didn't you?

You stole another one here.

I've got that now

But I can hand it back.

No harm done.

Now let's pretend it's yesterday,

and that you found me at home

You wanted to tell me that
whatever your father had done

he was driven to it by Madame Debul.

They had an affair after your mother died

and then she dropped him
because he wasn't rich enough

But she could always get
him to do what she wanted.

We know a little about that lady

She lives a luxurious life,
but no one's keeping her

She's a blackmailer.

You know that, don't you?

I imagine that she made your
father do the dirty work

of collecting the money while
she sat back and spent it

That sort of thing could
make a man desperate

You know it's not entirely true

what they wrote about me in that magazine?

Your father's in the police infirmary

and I can't promise anything

It won't help him to have
a murderer for a son.

(dramatic music)

it's rather warm in here.

I think I'll just go and open a window.

By the way, I should have
told you I'm not armed

Stay where you are.

- You again

Stand still.

All right, Alain, she's here now.

My room is number 604

It's next door to this one.

Go along there and tidy yourself up

and we shall have some dinner.

- But?
- Have you got a comb?

- No
- Here.

You can borrow this one.

Go on.

- Well, he must be as mad as his father

- [Maigret] Maybe too mad to be charged

- Oh?

- Or to give evidence against you

Tell me, what did you
and Lagrange talk about

when he phoned you yesterday morning?

- 1 don't have to tell you.

- No
- Not that it matters to me.

He was in a terrible panic

Delteil had been around to
see him and drawn a gun

There was a struggle, it went off

At least that was his story.

- Probably true.

- If it was, it was the first time

carpet slippers ever told it.

- Why should a promising
young deputy pay a visit

on a broken down old wreck like that?

- Perhaps you'll tell me

- Yes, I will

Because you'd find out
some scandal about Deltell.

- That wouldn't have been difficult.

He was so good at exposing
other people's scandals,

he would have to have had some of his own.

- You put the squeeze on him

for just how much you knew
he'd paid, didn't you?

You're a business woman,
but you made one mistake

You underpaid your staff.

The baron thought he'd like
to have something for himself

And he charged too much

- The man's a fool.

- He's a simple man

It takes a clever person to
be a successful blackmailer.

Not too hasty, not too greedy.

Capable of weighing up
exactly how much anyone's name

is worth to them.

Isn't that so?

That means paperwork, and
paperwork means evidence

- You've got nothing against me.

- Not enough to apply for
an extradition warrant.

- I know.

- But when you come back to
Paris, I'll be waiting for you

- If I come back.

- You will.

You're like that suitcase
over there, labelled

Rome, Madrid, Florence, London,

but you belong te Paris

You'll be back.

Au revoir, madame.

(lively music)

- You know we can go on
doing this until 11 o'clock

After that, we have to sit on
our beds if we want to drink.

That's the law.

And the law is very important

I took @ man's money

- Yes, you'll have to
go to prison for that

- How long?

- Oh, with the right explanations

not more than a month or two.

By the way, was it you who made
that scrapbook on my cases”?

- No, my father.

He was so wretched, you see

She'd driven him to
this life of blackmail.

I think he thought of killing her.

And then when this other thing happened,

well, I thought at least
I could do that for him.

- Did you owe him so much”?

- He's a fool and a rogue, I know,

but when my mother died I was only five

and he looked after me.

Not well.

We were always moving
into large apartments

and then having to move out again

because we couldn't afford them.

Sometimes it came down to one room even,

but he tried.

He got me up in the moming,
dressed me and cooked,

and washed my clothes.

When I came out of school,
he'd be there waiting for me

One man among the women

My brother and sister, well,
they were 10 years older

They hated him and they left
him as soon as they could

But I just couldn't hate him.

Do you see?

- Yeah, I see

(footsteps tap)

Oh, excuse me.

I found this passkey in the passage

- Thank you

- And this is a passkey
of the Gilmore Hotel.

Oh, and this belongs to Madame Debul

I hope no one's gonna be dismissed

- Oh no, no.

Of course not.

- Well, you hungry?
- Yes, very

- Right.

Let's go and have some roast beef.